During any typical Bucks practice, you might hear a whistle blow and a muffled groan from players, then you'll hear four dreaded words: "Get on the line."

That would be new coach Jason Kidd, stopping the action and putting his players on the baseline to run sprints as a sort of punishment for a collective or individual mistake. Before he does, he will ask the offending party about the error, wait till he gets the answer, then send his players on their way, sprinting up and down.

For those who played high school basketball, this arrangement probably sounds familiar. But in the NBA?

"It kind of reminds you of a backyard coach just because he will stop practice and say, 'Get on the line, let's get some lines in. Let's get some ups and downs,'" veteran guard O.J. Mayo said. "It's a little different because the NBA is not like that, but he takes it back to how he would have liked it when he played."

There is no doubt it is an effective weapon for Kidd. Nothing punctuates a directive better than putting it with some physical exertion.

"It gets the point across," point guard Brandon Knight said. "Sometimes a coach can say, 'Don't do this, don't do that.' But guys will continue to do it. When you have got to run up and down, you have got to sprint seven or eight times, and you've got a game the next day, you'll figure it out."

Kidd, of course, is in his first year in Milwaukee, following a messy and bizarre breakup after just one season in Brooklyn, in which his team won 44 games and reached the second round of the playoffs. He shocked many not only by contorting his way out of the Nets job in late June, but making the leap to the Bucks, a group that won just 15 games last season.

Now, Kidd is heading up a team that features two 19-year-old starters (Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jabari Parker) and only one player (Zaza Pachulia) older than 30. That's a stark contrast against the team he coached last year which, at different times, featured seven players 32 or older.

But Kidd said it's all still basketball to him.

"It's just the age difference," Kidd said. "They're basketball players. This is a younger team, the team I had last year was vets. They knew how to play, a couple of them won championships so they knew what it took to win. We won a Game 7 on the road, so experience, time and minutes are probably the only thing that's different."

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Britain has the higher levels of obesity and overweight people than anywhere in Western Europe except for Iceland or Malta, with almost two thirds now classed as overweight.

Mrs Nokes said: One of the biggest barriers to physical participation is a cultural one. I always use the example of golf club where actually walking through the door you are almost inevitably going to be told that you are wearing the wrong thing, on your instant arrival, and the same is true for many gyms.

Its imperative to be wearing the right kit and wherever you go there are mirrors on every wall so people who feel somewhat nervous, anxious about making that first step, and I firmly believe that it is that first step that is the most important one, can sometimes be put off instantly on arrival and I have long said that the hardest thing about keeping girls in sport is that wonderful substance Lycra that everyone will be wearing in a gym.

Yet those who feel slightly self-conscious those who might be overweight can look in the mirror at themselves clad in Lycra and decide that this is not for them and they are never coming back.

So it is critical that we have welcoming environments and it is critical that those environments are accessible both in terms of cost and to the physical structure of the buildings but what I think it absolutely imperative is that you have a culture of welcome enthusiasm encouragement from the instructors.

Miss Ellison gave her support to Miss Noakes telling MPs: Like the honourable member of Romsey and Southampton North [Mrs Nokes] I too remember the Lycra shame of the 80s and the feel the burn movement and we dont want people to do that, we dont want people to give up on it we must remove those barriers to entry, I heard about wonderful initiatives at local government level like T-Shirt swimming days for people who dont want to go swimming in a swimsuit and all sorts of clever things that local Government is doing.

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Senior Theater-History double major Andrew Harvey stars in Talk Radio as part of his Comprehensive Excercise. Directed by Ethan Ramsay 17, the cast takes to the Weitz rehearsal room this weekend.

Talk Radio, written by Eric Bogosian, gives a brief peek into the life of the semi-fictional 80s talk radio personality Barry Champlain, a part burn-out, part sage, All American quick talker.

We are talking about America tonight, Champlain announces, and he sure did - all the homophobia, racism, sexism, and indifference forms a churning foam above which Champlain mistakenly believes himself to be.

Perhaps because of increased funding, perhaps because of a longer rehearsal period, or perhaps because of artistic maturation, Talk Radio soars far above Harveys Experimental Theater Board staging of Suburbia, also written by Eric Bogosian, last winter. Harvey brought along many Suburbia vets, including Owen Solis 17, Erik Sorenson 17, and Dana Spencer 16, who remembered how to make stage gold out of log cabins of fake cigarettes and handles full of apple juice.

Harveys whole cast magnified his stage presence; his rapport with Sorenson, playing Stew the call-screener, pulsed with history and dissatisfaction, while his generational clash with Solis was as wrenching as watching someone punch a mirror. Almost more impressively, the 13 callers, many of whom never stepped on stage, managed to develop a believable and energized back-and-forth with Champlain simply over the phone.

Ramsay employed various stage-crafts to compliment the enlivened cast. Harvey cuts callers off with tactful swoops, all the while supported by the sound equipment equivalent of the big guns, as operated by sound designers Aaron Sala 16 and Michael Wheatman 15. Sala and Wheatman, seated, with their equipment, on stage, assumed especially dynamic roles, shooting looks of sympathy and amusement at Sorenson without a lapse in the performance of their main job.

The lights shone proudly, establishing the stage without relying upon strong delineating architectural features. The stage had its own sort of house lights when Champlain's show cut to a measured micro-break, each of which squeezed the humanity out of the cast with Sorenson's authoritative count down.

Costumes, while rather day-to-day, fit the chic, transformed rehearsal room. A dichotomy between well-cut suits and well-picked sweats established the tension between loose cannonry and the big bucks. But Champlain reigned above all, dressed in stage black attire reminis- cent of Louis CK, albeit one dangerously clogged on Americana.

Talk Radio sourced its stageware from amusingly nearby - the CAMS department apparently did not trust Ramsay enough to not Sharpie their initials on various pieces of borrowed equipment, and Sayles cups littered the sound designers desk like a campus activists nightmare.

The show runs a constant pace, cutting from life crisis to exotic fetish with moments only to breath. When silence, rendered so valuable, finally comes, the audiences ears roar and ring like a bell choir encore.

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Celebrity chef, Donal Skehan paid a courtesy visit to Roche's SPAR in Mitchelstown last Monday as part of his Kitchen Hero tour. Later that evening, the popular young television star hosted a cookery evening in Cork's Opera House.

Thanks to boyish good looks and natural charm, Donal is a big hit with young people and Monday's in-store crowd was boosted by the presence of excited young females. Donal had a word for everyone, posed for countless photographs, facilitated the aforementioned girls with 'selfies' (them and himself), engaged in good humoured banter and surprised us all with the revelation that as a former band member, he was managed by Mitchelstown musical promoter, James Hyland.

He didn't put a foot wrong and after this smooth bit of PR, he slipped away. Donal's presence certainly gave a boost to this famous shop, which for decades was run by husband and wife team, Tom and Ann Roche. Their legacy lives on as daughters, Esther (Kenneally) and Noreen Roche, are now overseeing matters. The revamp of the store has been very impressive and the cafe area in the corner is proving a popular meeting place. Patrons are also glowing in their praise of the shop's coffee (the best around we were told). On investigation we learned the beautiful blend was 'Tim Horton'.

Complementary food was served by staff during Donal's visit and Cuisine de France representatives were also on hand with some very tasty confectionery - a successful excercise for Roche's SPAR, some good publicity for Donal Skehan and plenty of happy customers, you couldn't go wrong!

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MoDot reminds drivers to be extra careful on the roads this weekend, as the first snow of the season is expected to fall Saturday. /file

JEFFERSON CITY -- Snow is forecast for much of central Missouri Saturday, and officials at the Missouri Department of Transportation are reminding drivers to excercise caution on area roads.

Between two and four inches of snow are expected Saturday, with heavier snows to the west and north.

MoDot says it will have nearly 600 employees and 225 trucks on the roads treating and plowing as needed. But, motorists are urged to take their own precautions, especially since drivers' winter driving skills haven't been tested for awhile.

MoDot says the best way to prepare for winter travel is to check road conditions before you leave. The agency has a Traveler Information Map on its website that provides current road conditions for interstates and major highways.

MoDot offers these tips when driving in inclement weather: Slow down; steer and brake gently; accelerate slowly at intersections; stay back 100 feet from snow plows, and avoid passing snow plows even on multi-lane roads; and be aware that bridges and overpasses freeze up faster than other surfaces.

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The trust vote for the BJP led minority government in Maharashtra slated in a while has been reduced to a mere academic excercise with the Nationalist Congress Party declaring that it will vote for Devendra Fadnavis' government. The BJP has the strength of 122 seats. 41 members of NCP will take its total tally to 163, which will be 19 votes more than the majority figure of 144.

After BJP's Haribhau Bagde got elected unopposed as the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly some time ago, the congratulatory speeches of various prominent leaders have begun. Former Home Minister R R Patil reportedly said in his speech that the political situation in the State is very peculiar. Everyone is showing willingness to support the new government without any conditions, Mr Patil said, adding that the peculiar political conditions are confounding for the political scientists too. The NCP had earlier said that it was likely to abstain from voting the confidence motion. It then came out in support of the government and decided to support it.

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ACT News

The thought of a terrorist event in Canberra is terrifying but one ACT emergency services personnel are ready for.

As Canberra gears up for a number of high-profile sporting events early next year the ACT Government has held an emergency preparedness exercise at GIO Stadium in Bruce.

Firefighters, paramedics, SES workers, police and school volunteers participated in the mock Asian Cup game explosion.

The mass casualty scenario enabled various government sites to practise co-ordinating and managing a major emergency.

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The training session is part of a wider exercise program aimed at observing how the territory responds to an incident at a place of mass gathering. The program will continue until December.

Canberra will host seven AFC Asian Cup 2015 football matches and three ICC Cricket World Cup matches between January and March, 2015.

Minister for Police and Emergency Services Simon Corbell said the government decided to conduct a series of exercises to practise and evaluate the whole-of-government response to an emergency incident ahead of the events.

"The ACT Government has recognised the need to be well co-ordinated and practiced ahead of the major world sporting events that will come to the nation's capital in 2015," he said.

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