Lucas_jiggles. Dhaines23. Child labour: the tobacco industry's smoking gun | Global development. At the height of the tobacco harvest season, Malawi's lush, flowing fields are filled with young children picking the big green-yellow leaves. Some can count their age on one hand. One of them is five-year-old Olofala, who works every day with his parents in rural Kasungu, one of Malawi's key tobacco growing districts. When asked if he will go to school next year, he shrugs his shoulders.
One thing is clear to Olofala already: work comes first, education second. His sister, Ethel, 12, is only in year three. She attends school irregularly because she has to work, or because she is sick. "I cough," she says. Such complaints are not uncommon. Since the handling of the leaves is done largely without protective clothing, workers absorb up to 54 milligrams of dissolved nicotine daily through their skin, equal to the amount of 50 cigarettes, according to 2005 research by Prof Robert McKnight, of the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
The tobacco giants disagree. Sharktocat. Sports Benefits and Dangers. Title 9. Maine Student Book Awards. New Beginnings. Kevin Pearce has come a long way since his accident on December 31, 2009. He credits the support of his family, friends and fans for helping him to get back on his feet. Kevin Pearce, 23, has no memory of the crash that brought his snowboarding career to a grinding halt. On December 31, 2009, he was training for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Park City, Utah, when he fell and hit his head on the edge of the halfpipe.
The athlete had been practicing one of the sport's most difficult tricks, a soaring double-cork move. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet. Doctors say it saved his life. But he suffered a traumatic brain injury that affected his vision, balance and memory. What he does remember is watching the Olympics on TV from his hospital bed, and seeing rival snowboarder Shaun White grab the gold. Moving Forward Today, Pearce's focus is getting his health back to 100%. Pearce says he owes his speedy recovery to the support of his fans, his friends and mostly, his family. On the Road Again. Taking the Pressure Off Sports Competition. Listen Sports are a great way to have fun and stay active. Kids have lots of choices about which sports to do and whether to compete in sports or just play them for fun. One kid might be happy to shoot baskets at the park, whereas another kid may prefer being on a basketball team that competes against other teams.
Competition can make sports more exciting. But because somebody wins and somebody loses, competition also can make kids feel pressure. Does your mom or dad yell from the sidelines? What Is Competition? There are different kinds of competition in sports. What all sports competitions have in common is that all of the competitors want to win. Listen Why Do I Feel Pressure? Do you ever have "butterflies" in your stomach? Feeling a little excited or nervous is OK, though. What Can I Do to Ease Pressure? When you're competing in sports, you need a lot of energy.
One way to chase the butterflies away is by being ready to play. Try to find a way to relax right before the game. Listen Back. Mrsshepherd. Scottish power: rich in green energy but light on green revenues | Politics. So Scotland could be the Saudi Arabia of renewables. It has natural energy resources the envy of Europe, with 25% of the EU's offshore wind and tidal power potential and 10% of its wave power potential, and some 90% of the UK's hydro capacity. Alex Salmond was keen to stress how significant those resources could be for Scotland, and for his case for independence, when he addressed the Bloomberg Future of Energy Summit in New York on Tuesday: Our energy resources can power much of Europe; our energy innovation can power the world.
It's a time for Scotland - working with nations and companies from across the planet – to become the intellectual powerhouse of green energy. But does that mean Scotland's citizen will enjoy the luxuries of a Saudi prince, fat on the revenues and proceeds of that natural bonanza? While Scotland wind and wave resources are amongst the richest in the world, the tax take is not.
That means the Saudi Arabia analogy can only be stretched so far. Livestrong. As many as 59 percent of adolescents can identify a role model in their lives, according to research published in the January 2011 issue of the "Journal of Adolescent Health. " Of the adolescents with role models, those that looked to athletes were more likely to make positive health-related decisions.
The fact is, not all athletes are positive role models. Unfortunately some athletes engage in negative behavior, but overall, the athletic lifestyle lends itself to a position of positive role modeling for adolescents. To stay on top of their game, athletes have to engage in regular, vigorous activity. In a relatively sedentary culture where much of life revolves around TV shows and video games, athletes model the benefits of physical activity to children and adolescents in a very real way.
Athletes make a living from being fit, healthy and strong. Just by hitting the field or the court, athletes give children the opportunity to see that physical activity has the ability to pay off. Listening to a Sons Concern About a Concussion. “Dad, I’m scared. I only have one brain, and I don’t want to hurt it playing football.” My son Will, his 10-year-old eyes filling with tears, was trying to decide whether to play quarterback in his peewee game against Roosevelt Elementary.
Ten days earlier, he’d taken a helmet-to-helmet hit during practice and possibly, although we really don’t know, sustained a concussion. Now I wanted to help him make the right choice — if only I knew what that was. For several years, I have been following the furor over football and head injuries. I’ve become all too familiar with accounts of N.F.L. veterans exhibiting Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in their 40s, of teenagers dying after playing too soon after a concussion. I wasn’t there, but he told me afterward that he went to the sideline to lie down. He fell asleep? Was this a concussion? Will spoke clearly, and his memory seemed intact. I don’t know why, at this crucial moment, I didn’t remember all I’d read. Photo. Assemblies. _tommyvic_ Football, dogfighting, and brain damage. One evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends. It was one of the countless little places in the city that play live music. He’d ordered a beer, but was just sipping it, because he was driving home.
He had eaten an hour and a half earlier. Suddenly, he felt a sensation of heat. They picked him up. Turley is six feet five. “Lately, I’ve tried to break it down,” Turley said. “Then, there was the time when I got knocked unconscious. “They sat me down on the bench. “They cleared me for practice that Thursday. Turley said that he loved playing football so much that he would do it all again. In August of 2007, one of the highest-paid players in professional football, the quarterback Michael Vick, pleaded guilty to involvement in a dogfighting ring. “I probably considered every alternative that I could think of,” Goodell told reporters, when he finally allowed Vick back into the league.
Nowinski found her another ex-football player. Apple. Fair Trade. LMS. DAWG. Unique study explores cumulative effect of hits in prep football - David Epstein. Chris East of Jefferson High School (Lafayette, Ind.) wears evidence of repeated blows to the head. Andrew Hancock/SI Last November I wrote an article for Sports Illustrated about a unique study on brain injuries in high school football players conducted by a group of researchers at Purdue University. The reason I honed in on this particular study was that, rather than dissecting the brains of deceased players to look for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), this group was following young players over the course of a season to see if they could document brain impairment in real time.
In other words, as opposed to a "cross-sectional" study -- in which observations are made at a single point in time, but the cause/effect relationship cannot be definitively established -- this study was longitudinal, meaning that it would track players over the course of the season. On the bright side, so far kids in the study have returned to normal brain functioning after the season. Slimjillyjoyce. Yonik. Racing-ahead-with-chemistry. Hwestphal33. Ava4s. Free2Work: End Human Trafficking and Slavery.
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