By Saj Chowdhury BBC Sport

Supporters involved in tasteless chants at football matches should be banned for life, according to former Manchester United player Joe Jordan.

His comments came after a minority of United fans took part in anti-Liverpool taunts during the 4-0 win against Wigan, days after the report into the Hillsborough disaster was made public.

What they come out with has nothing to do with a football match. Neither they nor I can imagine the pain those people have gone through

"I can't quite get my head around why people come to football matches with that first and foremost on their minds," Jordan told BBC Sport.

"You have to eliminate it."

The former striker added that anyone found guilty of tasteless chants on Saturday should be "banned for life".

United released a statement after the Premier League match against Wigan saying they "deplored" the chants from fans at Old Trafford.

Earlier in the week, United manager Sir Alex Ferguson called for both United and Liverpool fans to end the terrace barbs against each other.

The teams meet next Sunday at Anfield.

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Over the last decade or so, the kettlebell has enjoyed a successful reintroduction into the fitness industry. Kettlebell exercises are usually fast-paced, relatively simple, and tend to involve the whole body.

The foundational kettlebell exercise, the swing, provides an excellent example of this. The swing exercise is initiated by driving the hips backward in a hip-hinging motion, loading the hamstrings while maintaining correct alignment of the head and spine. The motion is then powerfully reversed squeezing the glutes and driving the kettlebell forward.

However, despite the popularity of kettlebells, limited research appears to have been done regarding the metabolic demand of kettlebell swing exercise routines. Leading research from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., and tests the kettlebell swing against a time honored fat loss favorite; running on a treadmill.

Thirteen subjects, 11 male and two females, completed a 10-minute kettlebell swing routine consisting of 35-second swing intervals followed by 25-second rest intervals.

Men used a 35-pound kettlebell, and women used an 18-pound kettlebell. After 48 hours of rest, the same subjects completed a 10-minute treadmill run at same equivalent rate of perceived exertion, or intensity, as measured during the swing workout. The researchers observed if running or swinging would be more metabolically demanding and in turn burn more energy for fat loss.

The authors stated that, according to the American College of Sports Medicine standards, this kettlebell drill could provide sufficient exercise stress to produce gains in aerobic capacity. Swings are proven to increase cardiovascular health, Therefore, on days when a subject wanted an alternative to treadmill running or stationary cycling, kettlebell swings might be substituted to maintain cardiovascular training levels.

While swings may be good for heart health, they may be even better at helping you lose body fat.

In the same study, the authors notes that, The current caloric expenditure was 1.7 times greater than a modified ACSM single-set resistance training routine and required 60 percent less time to achieve.

It got the heart rate up in less time than weight training and burned more calories. The swing is similar to sprinting, as there is a large demand on the cardiovascular system. In fact, it challenges the body so much it surprised researches.

The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Health and Exercise department tested the kettlebell snatch. The Kettlebell snatch is a total body move that swings the kettlebell overhead; it is very similar to the swing. The results of the study were interesting, So (the subjects) were burning at least 20.2 calories per minute, which is off the charts. That's equivalent to running a 6-minute mile pace.

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Tablets are transforming the way content is consumed and challenging the usage patterns for personal computers in the USA, according to J.D. Power and Associates.

The inaugural Tablet Satisfaction Study finds that tablet owners spend 7.5 hours per week browsing the Internet, watching videos, listening to music, and reading books on their device, compared with spending 9.6 hours per week on a personal computer for the same activities.

Overall satisfaction is 857 (on a 1,000-point scale) among owners who view three or more hours of video per week on their tablet, which is 45 points higher than among those who do not. In addition, those who spend three or more hours viewing video content are more likely to purchase another tablet from their current manufacturer in the future than are those who do not watch as much video content (90% vs. 81%, respectively).

"As tablet computing, multimedia, display, and application offerings continue to evolve, their impact on usage patterns will continue to grow," said Dr. Uma S. Jha, senior director of mobile devices at J.D. Power and Associates. "Tablets are a force in the marketplace that offer a great alternative to laptops and netbooks."

The study measures tablet owner satisfaction among those who have owned their tablet for less than two years. Satisfaction is measured across five key factors. In order of importance, they are: performance (26%), ease of operation (22%), styling and design (19%), features (17%), and price (16%).

Apple ranks highest, achieving a score of 848, and performs well in four factors: performance; ease of operation; styling and design; and features. Amazon (841) closely follows Apple in the rankings and performs particularly well in the price factor.

The study also finds the following key tablet usage patterns and purchase trends:

The 2012 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study is based on experiences reported by 1,985 tablet owners. The study was fielded in July 2012.

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Datuk Seri Najib Razak greeting Umno delegates at the opening of Pekan Umno delegates meeting at Dewan Konvensyen Sultan Ahmad Shah in Pekan, Pahang, yesterday.

He said like a strong building, Umno must have a well-built structure that could withstand internal and external threats.

Being Muslims, Najib said, Umno members must also remember that the party could only succeed with the blessings of Allah.

"As long as we continue to fight in a united front and follow the true teachings of Islam, we will always have love and compassion from Allah," he said when opening the Pekan Umno delegates' meeting.

Najib said Umno members should also focus on the party rather than their personal interests or other petty matters that could affect the party's strength and unity.

He reminded party members that the country's success was also due to Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders' ability to understand the needs and aspirations of the people, which was in line with the parliamentary democracy concept.

"I believe that ours is the most successful party in the world but we should never be boastful as our success is due to God's permission. We are also willing to fight and face all the challenges ahead and, as party members, we must always be loyal to our party leadership," he said, adding that past and present BN leaders had also contributed to the country's success.

Among others, said Najib, the people's per capita income had now increased to US$9,700 (RM30,070) from only US$300 in the 1950s, while the poverty rate had been reduced to 3.6 per cent from more than 70 per cent when the country first gained independence.

Najib, who is Pekan member of parliament, also cautioned his constituents on the opposition's efforts to deny the development that had taken place in the area.

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Brown community members expressed a mixture of excitement and wariness in response to the Universitys announcement that it will commence two online education pilot projects next year. Many lauded the decision, first announced Sept. 5 in an email from Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, as an appropriate modernization and expansion of access to higher education, but some voiced concern that the courses could represent shoddy imitations of the classroom experience.

Next summer, the University will offer a few for-credit courses online only for Brown summer session students. The University will also join the online course platform Coursera, which offers free, not-for-credit classes to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.

I think its very much in line with the kind of philosophy that we had with the New Curriculum and that Brown has sort of been a leader in, said Ira Magaziner 69 P06 P07 P10, an architect of the Universitys distinctive curriculum. Expanding access would, he added, put more educational control in the hands of students. Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, whose class COLT 1420T: The Fiction of Relationship will be one of the first three Brown classes offered on Coursera, considered the development in the context of the broader timeline of higher education, noting that in medieval universities, only professors were allowed access to libraries and books.

This is part of that same trajectory or story of increasingly empowered students, Weinstein said.

The instantaneous public relations boost that accompanies a Coursera partnership will benefit the University, said Provost Mark Schlissel P15. We can use the Coursera platform to, in effect, advertise the quality of Browns educational efforts to the broader world, he said. So were not thinking of Coursera as eventually becoming part of a Brown students education. Were thinking of it as a way to show the broader world what a Brown education is like. Others worried the resources necessary for such an endeavor would distract from the Universitys mission of serving students on campus.

I think it does distract away from those faculty members core involvement, if you will, with the curriculum at hand and with the students at hand, said Stephen Nelson, higher education expert and senior scholar in the Leadership Alliance at Brown. Theres no free lunch.

Not-for-credit courses To make time for Coursera preparations, each of the three involved faculty members will teach one fewer in-person class at Brown this year, though Schlissel said the University is providing each affected department with additional funding to compensate for the lost course. Weinstein said he would retire teaching The Fiction of Relationship after teaching it online.

But Professor of Computer Science Philip Klein, who will be transferring CSCI 0530: Directions: The Matrix in Computer Science to Coursera, said working with so many students on an online platform would help him identify teaching areas that require improvement more easily than if he were in a Brown classroom.

We have a chance to collect data at a much greater scale than ever before, and thats going to have a big impact on education, Klein said. Thats a really important thing for people to realize that Brown education will be improved as a consequence of this. But not everyone is convinced that the education through Coursera will measure up to Brown standards. Iman Jenkins 14 said she is worried about the loss of the student-teacher relationship in in-person lectures. Critics outside the University have previously raised concerns about Courseras system of peer-grading and about the platforms retention rate in many courses, fewer than half the students who sign up actually complete the class.

The Universitys decision to try out Coursera via a pilot program offers Brown the flexibility of investigating different methods of instruction, Bergeron told The Herald.

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Even as she went through high school, Katherine Stoltenberg had a pretty good idea of what she eventually wanted to do with her life.

I would like to be physical education teacher and coach, I knew that probably before I even went to college, said Stoltenberg, a Montgomery High graduate who has taken over as the new head tennis coach at Stuart Country Day School. I was an Education Studies major in college.

Stoltenberg, who graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut in 2011, is working as a pre-school aide at Stuart. Last year she was an assistant tennis coach at Montgomery and also coached middle school basketball at Stuart which she is planning to do this year as well.

After a strong athletic career in high school and college, Stoltenberg is well prepared for a career in coaching.

She played two years of soccer at Montgomery, followed by two years of tennis. She also played basketball and softball all four years for the Cougars. Following a softball career that saw her named the Princeton Packet Player of the Year as a senior, she started for four years at Trinity as well.

The reason I got into tennis was my assistant softball coach at Montgomery, Matt Vahrly, was an assistant tennis coach at time, Stoltenberg recalled. He was only my coach for one year and he was great. Now he coaches at Westfield and they were in the Tournament of Champions last year so he has become a great tennis coach.

That was great. And so were the softball coaches I had at Montgomery Johnny Rooney, Suzanne Trautwein and Tom Wain they were excellent coaches and learned a lot from them. And at Stuart, Missy. Bruvik has been such a great help to me. I have known the Bruviks a long time. Kelly and I played sports together growing up and having Missy at school helped me so much in basketball and has already helped me so much with tennis. It has been so nice being new to Stuart and knowing someone who has been there and can help me whenever I have questions about anything.

This will be Stoltenbergs first high school head coaching opportunity. She coaches a travel softball team in Montgomery, but coaching tennis has a different feel than basketball or softball.

It is a lot different coaching tennis in general than most sports, she said. In softball you are right there on field coaching at third base or first base or in the dugout. In basketball you are subbing and calling out plays. Tennis is different. You get a ladder, the girls are in place and you can only talk to them at certain times during a match.

It is a lot more sitting and watching and picking out small things. Maybe you can pick out a strength or a weakness of their opponent. But there is subbing once team is set. So it is a lot different than coaching the other sports.

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George Curry was enjoying life away from coaching.

He finally had a chance to take extended vacations with his wife, Jackie. He had more time to spend with his six grandchildren. And his high school football fix was eased by his work as a radio and television analyst.

In mid-June, Gary Campbell, who had replaced Curry at the Northeastern Pennsylvania school, announced that he was stepping down and taking a position in his home state of Massachusetts.

"The other coaches wanted me to take it, the school board wanted me to take it, and the players wanted me to take it," Curry said. "It was a whirlwind, to be honest with you. I was totally retired."

Life as a retiree was nice, but not good enough to keep Curry away from his beloved Dawgs. He took the job on June 17, ending a three-year sabbatical.

"I told my wife I'd see her at Christmas," the 68-year-old joked. "That's just the way it is."

This is Curry's second return to the sideline. When the coaching bug hit him almost immediately after he stepped down at Berwick in 2005, he coached for three years at nearby Wyoming Valley West.

So far, his second stint with the Dawgs has been a major success. The squad has won its first three games by a combined 139-35. It routed visiting Dallas, 50-14, Friday night.

"Once I got in it, it was like I never left," said Curry, a part-time driver's education instructor. "I love it. I love what I'm doing."

All but two of Curry's coaching assistants have played for him. And many of the 72 varsity players are second-generation Dawgs.

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When we're laying the groundwork for our retirement plans, many of us spend hours noodling on optimal asset allocations, withdrawal rates, and income-replacement rates.

But another metric tends to receive far less scrutiny even though it's a far bigger determinant of whether we can retire when and how we'd like to: how much of our income we're able to save while we're working.

I recently surveyed Morningstar.com users about their own savings rates. Posting in the Investing During Retirement forum of Morningstar.com's Discuss forums, I asked readers if they had stuck with the old rule of thumb and saved 10% of their salaries, or if they had nudged their own savings rates higher. I also asked them whether in hindsight their savings rate was too high, too low, or just about right?

Responses, not surprisingly, ran the gamut, and many posters noted that they hadn't saved a fixed percentage throughout their pre-retirement years. Rather, many readers said that they saved somewhat half-heartedly in their younger years, then kicked up their savings rate aggressively when they started to get "real" about retirement, often in their 40s and 50s. "I wish I had started saving more aggressively earlier on!"--or some variation of that statement--was a frequently echoed refrain. To read the complete thread or share your own retirement-savings rate, click here.

'I Have Been Making Up for Lost Time'Although some readers advocated for a flat savings rate, many posters noted that their savings rate trended up as they aged, no doubt the result of a confluence of factors, including higher absolute levels of income, which makes it easier to save, and a greater sense of urgency about retirement, which naturally increases as we age.

The savings pattern laid out by Keith999, who expects to embark on a financially secure retirement soon, will ring true for many investors. "In my 20s I spent, in my 30s I spent more, then in my 40s began saving about 6% of salary, early 50s about 12%, and the last 10 years I/we saved 20% of two salaries. The last 10 years probably represent over 50% of the total saved and indeed has put us over the top of what we need."

ColonelDan's savings rate moved up in stairstep fashion: "I managed to save/invest 5%-10% of my early meager military pay; 10%-15% of military pay in the latter half of those 24 years; 20%-25% of my regular civilian salary plus 100% 401(k) catch-up amount, 100% employer's 401(k) match, and 100% of all bonuses."

Cterry notes that increasing one's savings rate as retirement approaches can have the salutary effect of preparing a pre-retiree to live on a lower income during retirement. "The advantage to ramping up savings so much in the nine years before I retired was that I didn't have to worry about 'Some advisors recommend 90%-100% of current income for retirement--do I need that much?' because I already was living on 70% of my gross."

Playing catch-up is the name of the game for many pre-retirees. For FidlStix, running the numbers on in-retirement income needs was a wake-up call. "About eight years ago I did my first estimate of how much income I might need during retirement. That was a shocker. I was 10s of thousands [of dollars] behind where I needed to be at that point. Since then, I have been making up for lost time. I jumped my percentage of salary saved to 22% including a 5% company match. I also started a Roth IRA five years ago, contributing about 10% additional on average. My total saved this year will be about 38% counting the Roth."

'I Was Finally Able to Really Do Some Saving'Family matters also figured heavily into many posters' savings-rate patterns. Not surprisingly, many readers noted that helping to defray college costs for their children had put a strain on their savings, but with college over, they were able to sock much more away. Juris2 wrote, "I've saved a bit more since my kids ended college in 2003 when I started a supplemental retirement account (SRA). I'm currently putting about 25% per year in my retirement account and SRA combined, including employer contribution, as I approach retirement in two years. (Almost all savings accumulated beyond the RA and SRA were wiped out by college costs for my kids.)"

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By Yasmine C. Hidalgo Philippine Daily Inquirer

Overseas Filipinos dream of success. They want to earn a lot of money to care for their families and also to achieve self-actualization in the process.

The United Arab Emirates is a top choice for many overseas workers, especially professional and skilled workers. Salaries are tax free in the UAE.

But its easy to lose sight of ones goals therewhat with the wide array of luxury brands on display in shopping malls, and the many leisure activities in swanky hotels and dining places.

Jeffrey Ramos, a Human Resources professional, discovered this the hard way. He had landed a good job as a personnel officer with a prestigious hotel chain in Dubai. He enjoyed his upscale lifestyle. He indulged, you might say. Then one day he lost his job.

Losing ones job is an eye opener, he shares, adding that it sent him through a wrenching personal crisis.

In the UAE, as in many Middle East countries, ones working visa depends on the sponsorship of an employer. A foreign worker is given one month after losing his employersponsored visa to find another job or leave.

When you lose your job, your whole life crumbles because you put everything in your career. You dont know what to do. Success went to my head, he admits. He realized that he had wasted time and opportunity. Time is a gift of God, he adds.

Painful loss

Losing a job is totally demoralizing. Grieving about this situation is not the solution, he goes on.

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