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Health drive pairs fitness with nature
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By Ian DunstanTHE first Copeland Health Week has been hailed a success.
TEACHING: Bill Shaw, centre left, Cumbria officer for amphibian and reptile conservation, leads a talk at Ironworks Local Nature Reserve, Millom, during a nature walk as part of Copeland Health Week JOE RILEY REF: 50034203B001
From dancing in the streets to walking through a nature reserve, members of the Millom community enjoyed the week-long scheme to promote a healthier lifestyle in the borough.
On Tuesday morning, Cumbria amphibian and reptile officer, Bill Shaw, led a walking group from the Bradbury Centre to the Ironworks Local Nature Reserve.
Mr Shaw showed the eight participants around the nature reserve, pointing out its many wildlife, including natterjack tadpoles, smooth newts and butterflies.
The group also discovered the first northern marsh orchids of the season.
After a brief talk on the reserves history, Mr Shaw led the group back in to the town centre.
On Wednesday, an outdoor zumba class was held in Milloms Market Square.
Dance teacher Teresa Dixon led the class.
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Retirement Coach Announces New Retirement Readiness Assessment Designed to Create Unique Retirement Experience for …
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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 02, 2012
When Baby Boomers retire from their full time work world, they leave behind their familiar identity, structure and community. As a Retirement Coach, Janice Williams provides a free retirement readiness assessment at http://www.welcomingretirement.com/ to help retiring Baby Boomers prepare for the next chapter of their life with clarity and confidence.
Retiring Baby Boomers often feel overwhelmed about their unknown future and hate the word retire. "Retiring Baby Boomers are likely to live longer, healthier lives than previous generations and they cant imagine living the traditional retirement lifestyle, nor do they want to," says Janice Williams.
The short, 10-question Retirement Readiness Assessment will get Baby Boomers on the verge of retirement started planning whats next when they retire. "When retiring Baby Boomers create a concrete plan for how they will spend their time, what their identity will be and how they will make their transition with ease, they will thrive with the best retirement strategies for their life," adds Retirement Coach, Janice Williams.
Welcoming Retirement at http://www.welcomingretirement.com/ was created by Certified Retirement Coach, Janice Williams, to serve Baby Boomers on the threshold of retirement who feel overwhelmed by the thought of retiring and who want to make the most out of their future. At this time of life, retiring Baby Boomers can leverage their knowledge, wisdom, and expertise to live a retirement lifestyle of fulfillment and contribution, leaving a full and powerful legacy of their choice.
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Phil Jackson Restless in Retirement, Lakers’ Buss Says
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By Andy Fixmer - 2012-06-02T00:13:31Z
Retirement isnt suiting Phil Jackson a second time any better than it did the first.
The 66-year-old former coach, who won a record 11 National Basketball Association championships with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, has mended physically since his final season in 2011 and misses the game, according to Jeanie Buss, the Lakers executive who oversees business operations and is Jacksons girlfriend.
When a player leaves the game, its just such a loss in their life, Buss said in an interview. Phils in that situation. Hes not a good person to be retired. He doesnt build ships in a bottle.
Jackson has spent most of his adult life in the sport. Drafted in 1967, he played 12 years with the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets, then coached the Michael Jordan-led Bulls to six championships in the 1990s, retiring for a first time after the 1997-98 season. He came back a year later to coach the Lakers, gathering five trophies with Kobe Bryant.
Jackson turned down an offer to return to the NBA in a front-office role with the Orlando Magic, the Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday, citing an intermediary, former player and coach Sam Vincent. He has decided on another opportunity, the newspaper reported.
Todd Musburger, who represents Jackson, didnt respond to a phone call seeking comment after business hours in Chicago.
The physical ailments that slowed Jackson in his final seasons with the Lakers shouldnt be an obstacle to his return, Buss said in the interview at the teams practice facility in El Segundo, California.
Jackson, whose medical past includes back problems, a 2003 heart angioplasty and two hip replacements, had a knee ailment that caused him to gain weight in his final season, she said. The knee was replaced and he has lost weight, she said.
Is he driving me crazy? Yes, Buss said. Physically hes probably better than he was in the last few years. Physically I think he could, but does he want to? I have no idea.
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Retirement Isn’t All Fun And Games
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BOSTON (CBS) The reality is you need to plan for the soft side of retirement as well as the financial side. I have heard from many listeners who have flunked retirement.
Retirement Isnt All Fun And Games
Many people fantasize about leaving their jobs and having the good life, a better life in retirement than what they have now! This is the biggest myth of all.
Like so many of our other fantasies we want this time in our life to be perfect. We will have retirement 24/7. That is like living a month of Saturdays. So what are you going to do with all of your Saturdays?
What about your spouse? If youre heading into the sunset coupled, what does your spouse want to do in retirement? According to Sara Yogen, author of For Better or For Worse but Not for Lunch, retirement 24/7 with your spouse may actually be a marriage wrecker.
Long before retiring, 5 to 10 years out, start talking about what you really would like to do. Its a process and should be fluid and you should be flexible as well. Communication is key to surviving retirement with a spouse.
How do you want to spend your time and where do you want to spend your time? Get a calendar and fill in the days with what you want to do. Playing golf three times a week may not be financially possible. Babysitting the grandkids is not what you signed up to do either.
Build a social network outside of work. Find a new reason to get up every morning. When you worked you had a reason to get up. Now what do you want to do with the rest of your life? Volunteer? School? Travel? Play? Garden?
If you are coupled, look to do things independent of each other, pursue different interests. Dinner conversations will be oh so much better. I know at times its hard if you have just one car. But set up a schedule and be sure you honor each others need of independence and the car keys.
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Consumer spending edges up in April; personal income growth slows
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Consumer spending edged up modestly in April but personal income growth was the slowest in five months, raising concerns about the ability of Americans to keep spending in the future.
Consumer spending increased 0.3 percent in April following a revised 0.2 percent gain in March, the Commerce Department said Friday.
Americans' income grew 0.2 percent in April, the poorest showing since incomes fell 0.1 percent in November. The April gain was just half the 0.4 percent March rise.
Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. Economists hope consumers will keep spending to support further economic growth. But the concern is that incomes have been lagging in this sub-par recovery, meaning households have less to spend. The small April income gain will add to those worries.
Worries about income growth will likely increase in light of a separate report Friday showing that the nation created just 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year. The unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent in April, the first increase in 11 months. Weak job growth translates into weak income growth.
For April, after-tax income adjusted for inflation rose 0.2 percent, extending a string of weak increases of 0.2 percent or less that stretch back more than a year.
With consumers spending more in April at the same time their earnings growth slowed, they financed the difference by tapping savings. The savings rate as a percent of after-tax incomes dipped to 3.4 percent, matching a low hit in February. The 3.4 percent rate was the lowest since the savings rate stood at 2.6 percent in December 2007, just as the recession was beginning. The deep downturn and high unemployment prompted Americans to save more. The annual savings rate climbed to 5.4 percent in 2008 after dipping to a low of 1.5 percent in 2005, a year when soaring home prices made Americans feel less of a need to save.
For the January-March quarter, consumer spending rose at an annual rate of 2.7 percent, the strongest performance since the last quarter of 2010. But there was concern because Americans are receiving little or no pay raises. After-tax income adjusted for inflation rose at an annual rate of just 0.4 percent in the first three months of this year and that followed an even smaller 0.2 percent increase in the final three months of 2011.
The overall economy expanded at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the January-March quarter, helped considerably by the solid gain in consumer spending.
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Scary Lasers
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June 1, 2012: Editor Note: The U.S. military is backing off from efforts to deploy combat lasers because none of the development efforts has produced a practical weapon. The following is a personal account of how the search for a combat laser began half a century ago because of an unexpected early success, followed by bizarre complications.
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This is how the U.S. Army developed the first combat laser in the 1960s and 70s, but refused to deploy it because it was considered too cruel. It all started with the Advanced Propulsion Technology Branch of the Propulsion Directorate in the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal in the 1960's. Their mission was the development of advanced propulsion concepts such as liquid monopropellants, bipropellants, hybrids, air breathing, etc. for application to Army missiles.
One morning, after a staff meeting with the army generals Dr. Walter Wharton, our supervisor, announced, "Men I've got a new and unusual project for you. It's not propulsion but needs all the technology and skills of propulsion. Here's the pitch: Over the past two years one of our army contractors has failed to demonstrate chemical lasing in a hardware device. The general asked us to take over the effort. And, if we achieved a satisfactory demonstration of the chemical laser, we would be the nucleus of a new laboratory and weapons effort. I told the general the problem was a natural fit to our skills. With the chemists, physicists, engineers, and technicians on our staff and our background in hardware development and testing we could do the job expeditiously."
The basic problem with using a laser as a weapon is power. A laser is focused light energy, being sent from the laser to the target in a short burst. Using batteries or generators and capacitors are too heavy for this to be practical. But the right combination of chemicals can provide the needed energy, at least in theory. The solution is a bit more complex.
Dr. Wharton led us in the analysis and evaluation of the contractor's effort and data. Their device used gaseous hydrogen and gaseous fluorine. The attempt at lasing was through the kinetic reaction states in the laser cavity to form the end product HF. Dr. Wharton, a skilled chemist, immediately determined the critical issue. To allow the intermediate activated molecules the time and space to lase to ground states in the laser cavity, would require supersonic injection by the mixing nozzles and very low cavity pressure. That environment would slow down the kinetics and stretch out the reaction zone allowing the species to lase.
Wharton designated me (Joe Connaughton, a chemical engineer) as team leader for chemist Tony Duncan, laser device operator, physicist Bill Friday, cavity optics and power, and mechanical engineer, Ben Wilson, facility design and development. We had top priority in obtaining hardware, shop, and other support services. In a matter of weeks we had the device set up and ready for operation. The big day came when we were ready to test. Dr. Wharton said, "Get that machine cranked up and don't stop till you get it to lasing. I'll be in the office, so call me if you have any problems or when it starts lasing."
We spent most of the day adjusting the flow of the gases and setting our liquid nitrogen trap and pumping speed. But near the end of the day, Bill Friday held a piece of strip recorder paper three feet from the cavity optics and yelled, "Hey! Look guys at me burn holes in this paper by that invisible laser beam!" We probably didn't project more than a hundred watts of power but it worked. We had an operating HF chemical laser, and we were in business. The next day was show time, which included all day demonstrations to various levels of management including the Commanding General.
We were off and running to build a ten kilowatt HF laser that would define the operating parameters for scale up to weapon grade hardware. It was a large modular boilerplate device designed for research studies. Calorimetric cavity mirrors for precise power measurements and ports for optical flow field visualization were included. The modular design allowed the evaluation and development of laser components to advance the technology of high-energy lasers.
The group quickly expanded to include PhD level scientists, who began to study all aspects of the chemical laser and extrapolate data to weapon system needs. Dr. Barry Allen, with contractor support, researched solid sources for the reactants. He found hydrides and fluorides that had reactant densities greater than the cryogenics were appropriate. He also worked on the successful development of chemical pumps that would replace the huge vacuum blow down system required to pump the boilerplate laser.
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