AJ Mahari – Toxic Relationship Coaching – Video
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Life Coach Training and Certification with Bob Circosta and Barbara Wainwright – Video
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Auriemma On Coaching Kids These Days
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I asked Geno Auriemma on Saturday whether coaching 17-year-old girls was different now then it was 10 years ago, when he was young, perhaps filled with more energy, etc.
I have less patience for these guys now than I did when I was 30-something, Auriemma said. I used to try and see things from their standpoint. Now I am like a lot of old people [he is 58] that dont really give a crap about anybody but themselves.
Have you ever been to a place where I am signing autographs? Well, there will be nine 8-year-olds in line and some 75-year-old will just knock the kids over to get an autograph. Theyll just bulldoze the kids thinking you know what, Im 75 and I dont have much time left and you have the rest of your life so get out of my way.
Im getting to an age where I have less patience. Ive been doing this for 30 years and if I do something, then do it. Dont look at me and ask why. When I was 35, I would say OK and then explain why we want to do [something]. So is there a difference in me? Yes, I guess I just have less patience and they have less of an attention span. That is not a good combination.
Im trying to teach them to have more patience, better concentration for longer periods of time. And theyre testing my patience.
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Hallsville makes coaching change
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By Rus Baer
Sunday, March 25, 2012
John Morris was hired in May of 2005 to build a high school football program at Hallsville.
After almost seven years laying the foundation, the 38-year coaching veteran was voted out of his coaching and administration position last month by a 4-3 vote of the school board.
"My career has consisted of starting programs, restarting programs and putting life back into programs," Morris said. "Sometimes you have to make decisions that aren't the most popular in the world, but they're the best for the program.
"I don't do politics. I do what I think is right and make decisions on what I think is right, and if there are negative consequences, then I accept those consequences."
In four varsity seasons, the Indians won only one district game against winless Southern Boone in 2008 and compiled an 8-32 mark. The past two seasons, Hallsville finished 3-7 after winless district slates against state-ranked powers Centralia, Macon and Brookfield.
With the playoff format changing next season and Hallsville moving to the Tri-County Conference, Morris was looking forward to the next step of the Indians' excavation.
"The thing that upsets me more than anything else is I poured my life into this thing, and we were coming," Morris said. "We were getting close.
"Even if I'm the only one that thinks so, I think I've built a hell of a foundation for a pretty good program."
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The Many Ways to Make a ViSalus Shake! – Video
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Kaiser Chiefs get up close and personal in Vancouver
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Date: Sunday Mar. 25, 2012 4:32 PM PT
Back in the U.K., their home country, Kaiser Chiefs routinely play arenas. When it comes to their hometown, Leeds, they've even played to 35,000 worshiping fans at the local soccer stadium. This made last night's concert in the cosy confines of Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom an up close and personal chance for Anglophile indie rock fans of the Lower Mainland to see one of the biggest British bands of the past decade.
Certainly an affection for, or at least an understanding of British culture, appears to be a prerequisite for Kaiser Chiefs' fandom. Unlike universally accessible artists like Coldplay or Adele, the Chiefs' songs are set in a particular English urban landscape where "tea" is a meal and "lairy" is a state of mind.
Whether Kaiser Chiefs' lyrical nuances were clear to everyone, it appeared that the vast majority of last night's crowd (a fair proportion of whom welcomed the band by wearing either Whitecaps, Manchester United or Leeds United soccer shirts) had a reasonable grasp of what singer Ricky Wilson was banging on about, as he led his band through a 16-song set that tested the very limits of the Commodore's famously springy floorboards.
It would come as no surprise if the band insisted on playing the Commodore on the basis of floor quality alone. Eight years since their rise to prominence, they remain Britain's bounciest band, carving out choruses that practically beg audiences to take to the sky while singing their lungs out.
Of course, this is rarely subtle. The band kicked off its set with "Every Day I Love You Less and Less" and "Never Miss a Beat," two high-velocity pop bullets aimed directly at the dance floor. On the radio, they're quirky, amiable bursts of indie pop. Through the Commodore's massive speaker cabinets, they were instant anthems, practically begging the crowd to leap into a gently good-tempered moshpit.
The chief cheerleader throughout was Wilson, who delivered a high-energy performance utterly lacking in self-restraint or pretension. By the time the band delivered "Everything is Average Nowadays" four songs in, Wilson was climbing and singing from on top of the security barriers. He leapt from the stage at the beginning of "Kinda Girl You Are" and ran around the venue to one of the Commodore's four bars, at which point he jumped onto the counter, ordered a shot of Bushmills and downed it in one.
"We are the Kaiser Chiefs!" he bellowed into his mic as the rest of the band watched for his next move from the stage. "We have been sent here to entertain you! We will not rest until you are entertained!"
This is Kaiser Chiefs' simple ethos. They're not political. They're not intellectual. They simply deliver a relentless stream of what the British like to call Terrace Anthems, songs that get lodged in the brain and can be sung back at high volume by large groups at the slightest provocation. That's exactly what songs like "Ruby," "Na Na Na Na Na" and "I Predict a Riot" (gratefully introduced without any reference to Vancouver's recent embarrassment) are designed to produce. And that's exactly what happened.
The ultimate bouncefest was saved until last with "Oh My God" sending the crowd into the Granville Street night sweaty and smiling. Not all of them would have picked up all the band's lyrical references, but no one appeared to be complaining.
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The Future Of The Virtual Personal Assistant
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Editors Note: Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures and Bill Mark is the Vice President of the Information Computing Sciences Division at renowned research and technology development organization, SRI International. Norman and Bill helped found the Siri venture, of which Norman was also a Board member.
Since its launch in the iPhone 4S, Siri has become a phenomenon, and for good reason. Siri is a revolutionary consumer software product based on breakthroughs in speech and artificial intelligence technology.
Siri has appeared extensively in the media as a new consumer phenomenon, including Dilbert and Jon Stewart. In November, Eric Schmidt testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that Siri was potentially a major threat to Google. Siri has even been the major part of an episode of the sitcom Big Bang Theory on CBS and the subject of numerous parody Tumblr and Twitter accounts.
Without a doubt, Siri was a great achievement for Apple and Steve Jobs, helping to introduce virtual personal assistants to millions of consumers, and changing forever the way we view our smartphones. The team also brilliantly designed Siri to go beyond being a mere tool, giving it a personality, and human-like interaction characteristics.
Do you like me, Siri? Where can I bury a body, Siri?
There is no doubt in our minds that Apple will continue to advance the Siri, technology, and will create new breakthroughs in the virtual personal assistant (VPA) category overall. For example, its clear that Apple is capable of making a Siri API for application developers in the near term, enabling hundreds of thousands of applications to access their own assistant. Soon it will become de rigueur for all applications to offer spoken interaction and meaningful delegation. In fact, we consumers will be surprised and disappointed if or when they dont.
Beyond the laudatory comments and requisite speculation, and because of our central role in creating Siri, we at SRI are often asked whats next?
As we always respond Siri is just the first step in realizing the ultimate virtual personal assistant vision. This post first outlines what we think Siris legacy will be, and then gives the broad strokes of what will mark the next phase(s) of VPA innovation.
To start, Siris greatest effect will be the entirely new industry that it is creating before our eyes. At SRI, we see VPA technology as an essential element of future products in areas ranging from smart TVs, to health care assistance, to virtual tutors in education, and more. VPA is not just a fad, or a trend. It is in many ways the destiny of computing and a decades-long project, or more. As we speak, SRI is spinning out three new startups that are underwritten by the VPA paradigm and our related R&D. They are already VC-funded and preparing their first products for wide use. We think weve only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Technologically speaking, Siris true impact is seen in the new bar it set for what we call practical natural language understanding. Using speech instead of keyboards to communicate with computers is an old dream, but it took more than thirty years to achieve the robustness and performance needed to make speech systems practical for consumers.
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Personal Training Business Workshop Brings Top Fitness Pros to Frisco, TX
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Elizabethtown, KY (PRWEB) March 23, 2012
The Elite Training Workshop will be hosted at Full Throttle Athletics, a Fitness Revolution franchise in Frisco, TX on April 21 . The event will bring together four leading fitness experts to help trainers grow their personal training businesses.
The workshop will provide hands on instruction geared toward both helping fitness businesses grow and improve their training techniques. The fitness experts plan to discuss a variety of topics concerning aspects of training and fitness marketing.
All personal trainers face two main concerns, said Pat Rigsby, CEO of Fitness Consulting Group, the group organizing the event. The first is that they are constantly trying to improve as trainers, and the second is that they want to find ways to grow their business.
By bringing together leaders in the fitness community, the Elite Training Workshop seeks to address both concerns.
Eric Cressey is one expert who will be speaking at the event. He has trained professionals and Olympians, while also authoring five different fitness books. He is the owner of the elite Massachusetts gym Cressey Performance and a world-record holding Olympian.
Joining him will be President of Robertson Training Systems Mike Robertson, resistance band expert Dave Schmitz, and B.J. Gaddour, also a contributor to Mens Health.
The fitness experts will be presenting on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from fitness-specific topics like medicine ball and core training, to business topics like how to market your fitness business.
The speakers hope that discussing their experiences can help other personal trainers. These experienced trainers have a lot to teach, Rigsby explained. Both when it comes to training and how good trainers get their names out there.
The Elite Training Workshop will take place on April 21, but there is a workshop on April 20 available to those who sign up by 5 pm on March 30. This workshop will focus exclusively on aspects of fitness business, and will be run by Rigsby, Nick Berry, and Ryan Ketchum.
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Jessica Sanchez to sing personal idol’s song in Top 9 performance night
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American Idol Season 11 standout Jessica Sanchez will be singing a song from her personal idol this Wednesday. Its exciting to know who Jessicas own idol is and what song would it be.
The 16-year-old Filipina-American-Mexican singer belongs to the Hip Hop/R&B/Soul genres so its possible that she will sing a hit from Beyonce or Mariah Carey.
We will surely know it before the Top 9 performance night on March 28. This week, the finalists are being mentored by singer-songwriter and musician Stevie Nicks.
Check out the press release from Fox:
Next week, on Wednesday, March 28 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), the Top Nine DeAndre Brackensick, Hollie Cavanagh, Colton Dixon, Heejun Han, Skylar Laine, Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez and Elise Testone return to the IDOL stage to sings songs from their own Idols.
Tune in the following night, Thursday, March 29 (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) to the live results show to find out which of the Top Nine finalists is sent home. In addition, Nicki Minaj will take the stage and perform her megahit Starships and Season 10 IDOL winner and platinum-selling country artist Scotty McCreery will return to perform his newest single, Water Tower Town.
Become a fan of AMERICAN IDOL on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AmericanIdol. Follow the series on Twitter @AmericanIdol and join the discussion at #Idol. Also, follow host Ryan Seacrest at @RyanSeacrest, and follow the judges: @yo_randyjackson; @JLo; and @iamstevent.
AMERICAN IDOL is produced by 19 Entertainment, a division of CKX, Inc. and FremantleMedia North America, Inc. The series is created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller, CEO, XIX Entertainment, and executive-produced by Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.; Ken Warwick, Executive Producer, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.; and Nigel Lythgoe, CEO, Nigel Lythgoe Productions.
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