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Alex Enumah writes on the recent Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) and the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA's) efforts to sensitise young people to embrace entrepreneurship as an antidote to the menace of unemployment
Apart from the monster called corruption that has assumed a larger-than-life dimension in Nigeria, the issue of unemployment is another time bomb, which, if promptly tackled, has the potential to unleash terror on the entity called Nigeria.
However one of the ways to change all that is through the development and sustenance of Entrepreneurship.
Nigeria recently joined the rest of the world in celebrating the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) an annual event that recorded over 100 participating nations to celebrate entrepreneurship; inspire aspiring entrepreneurs to start their businesses and share emerging thoughts on enterprise management to policy influencers.
FCT Participation
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was not left out in the celebrations as the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA), the body, saddled with the responsibility of organising the FCT to participate at this year's GEW 2012, played a major role.
Acting in conjunction with some independent organisers, the agency keyed into another aspect of the Week, the 'Technology, Entertainment and Design' (TED) to sensitise young people to embrace entrepreneurship as an antidote to the menace of unemployment.
Setting the Tone
Unemployment has been attributed to be responsible for a number of crimes in the society, particularly in a country like Nigeria where a greater population of the country constitutes of youths, most of them with at least a first degree and no means of livelihood commensurate with the number of years and money invested in acquiring the degrees.
Although there is no available or rather accurate and reliable data of unemployed persons in the country, but with the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC's) earlier claim that no less than 250,000 graduates are mobilised by the scheme annually, with most of them ending up in the labour market only to join their 'senior colleagues', then this calls for genuine concerns from all quarters.
While on the one hand, the recent recession that hit the entire world, particularly the banking sector which resulted to a high loss of jobs coupled with other factors, are attributable to the high rate of unemployment globally, the educational sector is becoming visible, particularly in Nigeria, as one of the major factors promoting unemployment.
According to a UNESCO projection more people worldwide in the next twenty four years would be graduating from schools since the beginning of history. The situation, which is described as a process of academic inflation, tends to make degrees of little or no value.
For example, in the seventies and early eighties in Nigeria a potential graduate had choices of jobs with attractive incentives even before graduation. But as time passed things began to change and today the possession of a second degree, MBA inclusive, is not a guarantee of employment not to talk of a choice job.
Also, the schools have been blamed for both breeding graduates without appropriate skills needed to fit into and survive in the contemporary work environment, as well as churning out graduates with a 'Job Seeker' mentality instead of that of a job creator.
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According to an author and one of the speakers at the AEA occasion, Mr. Okechukwu Ofili, parents toe the line of the educational system when they start by asking their little wards "What do you want to become in the future?" instead of asking what difference they want to make in society when they grow up.
He noted that answers to such questions are always tilted towards a particular occupation rather than towards rendering a specific service to meet the needs of society.
Arguing that a degree is not proportional to the GDP or economic growth of a nation, Ofili pointed out that Nigeria, in spite of her large army of educated persons both in the private and public sector, still ranks among the poorest and least developed countries of the world.
He argued that "our educational system only teaches us to get the answer to the question, what, and not to answer the question, why and how", and stressed that only those who can ask the question why and how are capable of bringing change and transformation in any society.
Speaking in the same vein, a writer and a consultant, Mr. Omojuwa Japheth, stated that he is happy to be an entrepreneur. However, he expressed regret that the system does not encourage one to be an entrepreneur. "When you get into the university, the system is training you to go and get a job and not to go and create one. So the entrepreneurs we have today are people who actually left the box to do something different", he said.
Maintaining that entrepreneurship is a necessity for any nation that cares about development, Omojuwa added that the beauty of entrepreneurship is that it has a doubling effect on the economy.
He said, "Assuming two of us create different jobs and you employ five while I employ another five we have succeeded in creating ten jobs. But if two of us have to look for job, then that is just two jobs created. And if we have such entrepreneurs that are able to train more people to be entrepreneurs the numbers are going to be geometric and the effect on the economy would be outstanding because at the end of the day we are not going to have people on the street looking for jobs, but those creating employers of labour, which is what every nation desires".
Inclusive Process
On his part, Manager, Training, Research and Services, AEA, Mr. Wale Ajiboye, said unemployment in Nigeria was not a government issue alone but one that involves everybody.
According to him, one of the means of tackling the menace is the development of entrepreneurship, which he emphasised must be backed with innovation.
"We cannot continue to say it forever; we have to start thinking of how to allow young people to be creative. This is one way to get out of unemployment a platform where young people can aggregate together and create a venture that can change the statistics of the country", he said.
Ajiboye stated that the average Nigerian youth has commitment and has the passion of Nigeria but what is lacking are examples that can influence them, role models that can influence their thinking.
He said, "We needed to find people who are like them, people who have the same background, who have gone through the same hassles, share the same problems of the country and despite the fact that there are issues they have been able to succeed. People, who are innovators, people who are researchers, people who have done one thing or the other to influence change in our society".
Corroborating the enterprise and creativity of the average Nigerian, Miss Aisha Atta recommended that people should start by asking themselves what they think they can do. "It starts from those little things. What do you have, what you can do now, how can you use it now, and who do you know?, she stressed.
Atta advised further that people should look beyond the money and just be creative, explore the options, start something, be aware of trends, where the world is going and how, what they have that can contribute to that, learn new things and learn from people, do something but should not just sit down, writing application after application.
She claimed that in the nearest future people who have professional career are going to be a minority, while entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs will become the majority. Atta noted that it would be easy for the nation to key into this development because Nigerians are innovative and hardworking.
"An average Nigerian has entrepreneurial skill; we don't just rely on one income stream. There are things that we already know how to do but we just haven't seen the potentials of making it bigger because our mindset is on white collar job. People should strive, make effort and not be discouraged. When they fall or fail, they should get up and press on. They should take advantage and explore their potentials, be confident, believe in themselves, and learn skills in the area they think they are lacking", she concluded.
However, for entrepreneurship to be sustained in Nigeria, Chief Coordinator, Creative Entrepreneurs Club of Nigeria, Mr. Charles Egwuba, said apart from government creating an enabling environment and making funds available for entrepreneurs, support from the society is crucial.
According to him, "There is need for us to support the younger businesses that are springing up every day. Nigerian business environment is experiencing a lot of boom. However one of the biggest challenges is that the society doesn't encourage it. It means we need to look into the fact that we must start patronising some of our local ideas, our local businesses.
"One of the presenters Saheed Adepoju invented an I-tablet, so we should not rely on the Samsung and other tablet, we should begin to look at something from Nigeria. Society should encourage the drive of these local businesses," Egwuba added.
At the end of the day, the major focus should not be on how many thousands of graduates are churned out through the university system on a yearly basis, but on how each of these bright young minds can carve a useful niche in the fabric of the larger society, irrespective of the graduate's discipline or course. That is a worthy venture.


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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in adults, yet many do not experience symptoms before a major CHD event. Traditional risk factors such as age, sex, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking, and diabetes, can help predict future CHD events but do not explain all excess risk. Some argue that adding resting or exercise electrocardiography (ECG) to screening examinations could improve the identification of individuals at high risk for heart disease. Yet, in 2004, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found insufficient evidence to support adding resting or exercise ECG to screening assessment and recommended against screening ECG in adults at low risk for CHD. In preparation for an update to the Task Forces 2004 recommendation, this review considers randomized, controlled trials and prospective cohort studies published between 2002 and 2011. While some abnormalities on ECG are risk factors for CHD events, the authors did not identify any studies that evaluate how ECG screening affects clinical outcomes compared with no screening. The most recent evidence review reaffirms the original recommendation. The author of an accompanying editorial explains that the idea behind screening is that early detection and treatment will improve life expectancy and quality of life, and prevent major clinical events. However, in some instances such as ovarian cancer, neuroblastoma, or patients with CHD and diabetes -- screening does not prevent adverse outcomes. In other words, prediction does not imply prevention.


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Introduction by J. Hruby, Director of Marketing
Learning and development, like any other business, has its trends, innovations, success stories, bubbles, and busts. As we begin a new year, it's fun and interesting to look at the landscape and take stock of the trends and technology.
And who can resist thinking about and trying to predict where these trends and technologies might take us in 2011?
Making predictions is fun, but predictions can also be informative. In trying to determine where a trend might take us, one has to look at the reasons why it might take us there. A lot can be learned from listening to the give-and-take conversation that weighs both the promised benefits and the foreseeable hurdles.
As anyone who has ever looked at futurist articles like the ones that were a mainstay of Popular Science in the last century knows, it's notoriously difficult to correctly predict the future. In fact, it's tough to even get close. Anyone commute to work today using a jetpack? Unfortunately, I think not. Setting aside the fact that it would have been a pretty chilly commute (presumably, the future was supposed to be warm), there just aren't many jetpacks out there compared to what was predicted. Most of us aren't using personal helicopters or hovercraft either. Now that we're in the future, we just don't fly as much as we were supposed to.
It's good for us to remember that the future is slippery because today's logic and limitations don't apply to tomorrow. We also tend to forget that adopting and adapting to new things takes time even today. This fact alone seems to provide a stark (and perhaps ironic?) contrast to our 21st century expectation that most things should happen instantly. Or sooner.
Here are a few trends that some of my fellow Fredcommers and I are watching in 2011.
Prediction by J. Hruby, Director of Marketing
Prediction: Despite a lot of talk about the potential, adoption of the iPad as a learning delivery platform will be slow in 2011. It's not all gloomy for learning professionals who want to harness the advantages of the tablet computer, however. Tablet competitors to the iPad will rush into the market in 2011, bringing more choices and lower cost.
Of course there's been lots (and lots, and lots) of talk about the iPad's potential as a slick portable delivery platform for learning. Beyond talking about it, though, I think actual enterprise learning adaptation will be very slow in 2011. No doubt, the iPad is a cool tablet computer, but as an enterprise learning platform it has many hurdles to overcome.
First, there's the iPad's current inability to fully utilize Flash. Apple must have reasons for this anti-Flash direction, but introducing the iPad with what I'll charitably call a glaring omission makes it especially unattractive as a business learning platform. At the very least, existing content that uses Flash components would need to be carefully tested and parts that don't work would need to be re-developed specifically for the iPad. Developing new learning content destined for the iPad will also have an added layer of complexity due to Apple's Flash-unfriendly stance. All of this adds up to a hassle factor that most learning content owners and developers don't need.
Second, there's the cost. As of this writing, the iPad starts at $499 and rises rapidly to a stratospheric $829 for the 64 gig version with 3G WiFi. Ouch! The iPad's pricing obviously hasn't presented a barrier for individual consumers, but that's not a great benchmark. In a more conservative corporate environment, a proposal to buy numerous mid-range iPads at a cost of $600 each to deliver mobile learning to, say, field salespeople will likely receive close scrutiny to say the least.
The broader trend in 2011 seems to be the emergence of tablet computing alternatives to the iPad. If a learning initiative is hung up by the cost of the iPad, how about a very capable $300 Archos 70, running the Android OS instead? This emergence of the Android tablet PC is one of the biggest trends of 2011 and CNET's portable electronics correspondent, Donald Bell, correctly predicted a blizzard of new Android-powered tablet launches at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in January. The New York Times also has covered this Android tablet invasion.
This introduction of lower-cost iPad competitors can only be a good thing for cost-constrained learning groups eyeing the possibilities that these portable devices offer. I can see the iPad featuring in high-profile or high-ROI learning initiatives where the iPad does double duty as a reward or incentive. This approach seems to leverage the best feature of the iPad: the cool toy factor.
I also recently had a conversation with a forward-thinking learning professional who successfully justified the purchase of iPads for a learning initiative based on a combination of cost savings and environmental benefits. I took this anecdote as a sign that even in the current business climate, there will be some room for learning use of the iPad and increasingly for other tablet computers, but I think the real shift will occur as people acquire tablet computers for other business uses and learning can then just focus on developing learning products .
Prediction by John Wooden, Director of Usability Services
Prediction: 2011 will see the continuation of a multi-year trend toward more widespread adoption of online social learning in corporate enterprises. Organizations that have not yet implemented tools to allow for online social learning will do so, and those that have will begin to confront some of the technical, cultural, and behavioral challenges these tools pose.
Social learning is usually understood to mean social media applied to organizational learning, either independent of formal learning content (a company-wide wiki or employee knowledge-networking site, for example), or integrated into formal eLearning and instructor-led training (a course blog, wiki, or discussion forum, for example).
One reason why more enterprises will enable online social learning is the enormous popularity of social media and the expectation of many younger employees that they will be able to use social networking tools in the enterprise to ask questions, share their perspectives, and post profiles. But a more important reason for the rise of enterprise social learning is that organizations will want to increase the speed of knowledge transfer – among employees, between employees and suppliers, and between customers and employees.
The competitive advantage of rapid knowledge transfer is only going to become more important in the coming years, and enterprise social media will play a critical role in this, amplifying and extending learning beyond the classroom or eLearning course, allowing employees, suppliers, and customers to learn by connecting with each other in a wider circle than would otherwise be easily possible.
Because of this perceived business value, more organizations will begin to implement or further develop their social learning infrastructures in 2011. More organizations will also begin to confront the technical, cultural, and behavioral challenges posed by social learning. We will see a shift from the excitement – and perhaps inflated expectations – that come with initial adoption, to a problem-solving attitude.
If Step 1 in implementing a social learning infrastructure is to get the tools out there, Step 2 involves helping employees become effective social learners – and this step has been overlooked by a good number of organizations. While many people understand the basic mechanics of how to use social networking tools – because many are already using Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn – a lot of employees understand much less about using enterprise social networking tools to support business and learning objectives.
The next few years will see more Learning and Development departments realize that they need to take charge of "engagement training" to help employees – and help their organizations – better understand what social learning is and how it can work. It's perhaps ironic that L&D departments will employ some old-fashioned training techniques to get people to understand how to effectively use the new-fashioned stuff, but this will happen. For example, employees need to learn what makes for an effective online community, a compelling blog post, a useful profile, and so on. They will need to learn when information is better shared on an internal forum or a community site than through e-mail, or posted on a wiki rather than saved to a folder on a shared drive.
Another issue that organizations will begin to confront is how to reconcile various social tools with each other, with their respective enterprise learning management systems, and with their enterprise search capability. For two interesting perspectives on this issue, see Dave Wilkins' lengthy but interesting blog post "A Defence of the LMS (and a Case for the Future of Social Learning)" and Dan Pontefract's reponse, "Standalone LMS is Still Dead (rebutting & agreeing with Dave Wilkins)."
All I will venture to predict here is that this issue will heat up over the next year – fueled by LMS vendors and social software vendors – but it will be far from resolved in 2011.
Prediction by J. Hruby, Director of Marketing
Prediction: 2011 will be looked back on as the year where the concept of learner-generated reviews takes hold in enterprise learning.
Almost every website where you can buy something also offers the chance to both create and read customer-generated reviews. Why can't we have the same function for enterprise learning products as well? The ability to choose courses by reading what others think of them and then leave our own review comments would certainly provide a wealth of useful information.
Good question! I've heard of several forward-thinking learning professionals who are trying to do just that — offer their learners the ability to leave reviews about the courses they take that can be seen by other learners.
I think 2011 will be the point where this trend starts to go mainstream. This is a very useful and relevant technical direction for both learners and learning development professionals and I think 2011 will be looked back on as the year it really took hold for a number of reasons.
First, let's look at this from the "consumer perspective," i.e. from the learner's viewpoint. Reading online reviews has become a major step in the consumer buying process. We value the opinions of people whom we perceive to be our peers and this certainly applies to the process of trying to decide which learning products are worth consuming and why. Even in the case of mandatory courses, learners want to know what to expect.
Now, looking at the other side, there's a certain fear factor on the part of the learning professionals that learners will abuse their newfound ability to leave reviews by trashing every course they take. In reality, this fear never seems become a reality for a simple reason: in a corporate learning setting, people understand that their comments aren't anonymous. Reviewers will keep it in-bounds because they know they're still at work and work rules still apply. So if we get beyond the fear in 2011, we can move on to the benefits.
And there are benefits. The benefits to L&D professionals should be clear: honest feedback is useful, or at least it should be useful. In reading online reviews of all sorts, I'm inclined to think that when people think of their review as helping people who are essentially just like themselves, they tend to leave more in-depth and meaningful feedback. This, of course, is more useful to anyone who wants to use feedback to make improvements.
There is also the case of user/learner expectation to consider. As my fellow Fredcommer John Wooden often points out, people develop their expectations of technology not just from what they experience at work, but from their much broader experiences outside of work. Over time, disconnects between these experiences become especially obvious. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that you can leave user feedback and read user reviews for practically every product on the web…so why not for learning products at work?
Prediction by Tony Tao, Instructional Designer and eLearning Developer
Prediction: mLearning will continue to move ahead in 2011. User expectations and mobile device capabilities will start to narrow the gap between mLearning and eLearning, but the gap won't go away entirely.
We first started hearing about mLearning about eight years ago. Given the name, it was easy to assume that this trend would eventually lead to the ability to offer eLearning-style courses delivered over our phones.
The reality, so far, seems to be quite a way from that vision. It appears that the technology and other factors have so far steered the main use of mLearning toward performance support. I want to add that there's nothing wrong with performance support materials, and offering them on a mobile device is often a very good way to increase overall job performance. It's just that so far the content and experience continue to make mLearning and eLearning very different media that, so far, serve different purposes.
Mobile phone technology has played a big role in determining exactly how, and how quickly, mLearning grows. The problem is that mobile phones have many different operating systems and capabilities. Some phones offer touch-screen navigation, some rely on keypad navigation. Some devices support Flash, some don't. Some devices handle web content in ways that make it display and work better on a small screen and some don't. Beyond the actual device, the capabilities of the mobile phone networks also vary widely.
This lack of common capabilities that the learning developer can rely on makes it very difficult to develop mLearning content that goes beyond text content because it's almost impossible to know how it will work on the vast number of devices that are in use. This problem is even more apparent to me when I visit my family and friends in China. In China, people change mobile phones very often and the technology infrastructure in China makes it easy to do so.
Of course, one of the things that make people want to change phones is that they see other phones with more features than those on their current phone. In recent years, more and more people in China have switched to smartphones, with the capability of a wireless internet connection. This is mainly because these devices are quickly becoming very affordable. This rapid change makes the feature gap between new and old phones widen very quickly, which keeps the mobile phone application designers busy because the capabilities are always changing.
But in enterprise learning this lack of common device capabilities, I think, has been a big barrier to bringing mLearning closer to eLearning. But will the gap narrow at all in 2011? I think it will.
As anyone can see, there are more and more smartphones in people's hands these days. Here in the US, it looks to me like we are moving to a point where it will soon be difficult to buy anything but a smartphone. The web browsing experience on these smartphones is getting better and that leads me to think that it will become easier to offer richer learning content that will not be heavily impacted by the individual device. At the same time, faster 3G and even 4G networks allow the developer to building more media-rich mLearning rather than just using basic text.
As J. Hruby touches on in one of his predictions, there's a new angle to consider in 2011: "m" isn't just about mobile phones anymore. Options for mLearning now include tablet computers, and another thing to keep an eye on is the arrival of new eBooks that feature wireless internet browsing capabilities and color screens.
Comments on our predictions? Want to make your own predictions on the trends you see in learning and development? We'd love to hear your feedback.
Head over the the Fredcomm Blog where we've started a discussion.


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Georgi Milanov scored midway through the second half to secure a 2-2 draw for Bulgaria in their opening Group B 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifier against Italy in Sofia tonight.
Stanislav Manolev had struck a magnificent opener to put the Bulgarians in front after half an hour, but a lightning double from Pablo Osvaldo just before the break looked to have swung the game the Italians' way.
The Italians had travelled to the Bulgarian capital with plenty of confidence and it appeared well-founded when they came close to opening the scoring after seven minutes, with Osvaldo heading a Sebastian Giovinco cross just over the bar.
More Italian pressure saw a succession of fouls by the Bulgarians, who were struggling to get the ball out of their own half until they had a mighty chance to sneak a shock lead in the 23rd minute.
Following a free-kick from Emil Gargorov, Ivan Ivanov hit a shot from 18 yards which Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon did brilliantly to tip round the post, while Vladimir Gadzhev's resulting corner was hacked clear by Andrea Barzagli.
It was just the boost the Bulgarians needed, and they enjoyed their best spell of the game with Buffon again called upon to punch away an inswinging corner from Gargorov just before the half-hour mark.
Two minutes later Manolev drilled home his spectacular opener from long range, blazing the ball past Buffon into the bottom-right corner of the goal. However, the visitors responded well to Bulgaria's opener and it took them only six minutes to get back on level terms when Osvaldo finished off Leonardo Bonucci's cross by firing home left-footed from close range.
Just three minutes later, Osvaldo had turned the match on its head with his second, a header from 12 yards after he met a pinpoint cross from Emanuele Giaccherini. Osvaldo should have completed his hat-trick on the stroke of half-time, though, when his shot from 18 yards was tipped over the bar by Nikolay Mihailov in the Bulgarian goal.
Mihailov was in action again early in the second half, parrying an effort from Giovinco as the Italians went in search of their crucial third, but it was the Bulgarians who looked more likely. Popov saw a shot blocked in the box by Barzagli, while both Milanov and Manolev had dangerous balls into the box beaten away by Giaccherini and Bonucci.
Bulgaria surge late
The Bulgarians grabbed their equaliser in the 66th minute when Iliyan Mitanski delivered a cross into the box and Milanov pounced with a left-footed shot high in the centre of Buffon's goal. The equaliser inspired the Bulgarians to launch a storming finish, Mitsanski heading just over the bar in the 69th minute and Mitsanski prodding a golden chance wide from close range two minutes later.
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I don't blog at all to be honest but seen as WrestleMania was last night and I stayed up till 4am to watch it (From the UK) I thought it would be a god opportunity to make my debut in the wrestling business (so to speak). I will give a brief rundown as to my views of each match and a rating out of 10.
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Another year is upon us and I was just looking at who carried the two big titles in the WWE this year from people to the Miz to the obvious John Cena. This year also saw the people get what they wanted as Daniel Bryan is the current World Heavyweight Champion but for how long remains to be seen. Hopefully, they will give him a lengthy run and show the title some prestige that it actually deserves.
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Saturday afternoon was the annual Canucks for Kids Fund SuperSkills event at Rogers Arena, which gave the Canucks a chance to get loose and relax for a little while before heading out on the road on Monday. As always, it was a great event for families and kids, who got a chance to see their hockey heroes up close and personal, without the stress of winning a hockey game clouding their interactions.
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The Canucks' 2012 Stanley Cup run may have ended after only 5 games, but the Ryan Kesler tumbleweed meme is still going strong. If you're unfamiliar with it, here's what you need to know: in Game 1 of the Canucks' series with the Los Angeles Kings, Kesler perpetrated perhaps the greatest dive of the post-lockout era. He fell to the ice, he flailed, he lost his stick, and he bounced lightly like a tumbleweed. It was amazing.
The photoshop wizards over at the HF Boards latched onto Kesler's ever-so-slightly embellished tumble in a big way, splicing him into all sorts of scenes. We featured our six favourites about a week ago, but the guys have clearly yet to run out of ideas. With that in mind, we thought it only right to put together a second gallery. Enjoy.Continue Reading —›
Ryan Kesler is hardly the only player to resort to embellishment in this year's NHL playoffs. Every team has been accused of diving at least once, with two clubs even being penalized for it: the Pittsburgh Penguins, for a Kris Letang dive, and the Detroit Red Wings, for some Jiri Hudler acting. Furthermore, Brad Marchand's performance in Game 3 versus the Washington Capitals was like an interactive museum exhibit on embellishment.
Still, Kesler's dives have stood out. He may not be the worst diver, but he's definitely the best. You're going to be hard-pressed to find a dive as ostentatious as the one he pulled in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinal, for instance, when he attempted to draw a penalty on Mike Richards by engaging the Kings' forward skating backwards, then doing a full-on, flailing, stick-throwing barrel roll as the two exited the Canucks' zone. It bordered on performance art.
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BASRA, Iraq: Demonstrators took to the streets in Iraq's second largest city Tuesday to show support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which has weathered over two weeks of angry protests.
The rally in the mostly Shiite port city of Basra appeared to be the largest display of support for the government since primarily Sunni protests erupted last month. Sunni grievances include the detention of prisoners and perceived second-class treatment.
An Associated Press journalist at the Basra demonstration said more than 2,000 people participated, some holding pictures of the Shiite prime minister. At one point, they burned a picture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime still at large. He recently voiced support for the Sunni anti-government protests.
The state-run Iraqiya television channel showed smaller demonstrations in other cities in Iraq's Shiite-dominated south.
The channel has not provided extensive coverage of the anti-government protests that have gripped the western city of Ramadi and other Sunni-dominated parts of the country. They follow the arrest of bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, one of the central government's most senior Sunni officials.
The anti-government demonstrators' anger runs deeper than the arrests, tapping into Sunni Muslim feelings of discrimination and unfair application of laws against their sect by the government, which is dominated by Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority but also includes ethnic Kurds.
In Baghdad, most Sunni and Kurdish government ministers boycotted a Cabinet session Tuesday. A member of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, parliament member Haider al-Mulla, said the officials opted to stay away to protest what they see as a refusal by the government to tackle the political crisis and consider the demands of protesters rallying against the government.
Later in the day, a car bomb exploded near the town of Khan Bani Saad, killing five people and wounding 11, according to police and hospital officials. The town is about 35 kilometers (20 miles) north of Baghdad.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A new study finds women invest more conservatively than men, start saving later and are more likely to be in and out of the work force for family reasons.
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The study by Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm, found women live an average of 22 years after retirement versus 19 years for men. And it says with medical costs rising, women will need to save 2 percent more than men every year over 30 years to maintain their standard of living upon retirement.
A study author says "Women tend to be a little more risk averse, more fearful of losing money." And Alison Borland says women's saving habits haven't improved significantly over the past several years.
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Montana State (4-2, 2-0) running back Cody Kirk rushed for 156 yards and a score on 27 carries, and Shawn Johnson added 92 yards and a score on 13 carries. Quarterbacks DeNarius McGhee and Jake Bleskin combined to complete just 9 of 21 passes for 87 yards and an interception.
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Beginning in 2008, Wal-Mart will introduce a "scorecard" to provide statistics on the eco-friendliness of its electronics products, with criteria that include energy efficiency, durability, the amount of packaging, potential for recycling, and levels of hazardous substances. Electronics suppliers will be asked to fill out this scorecard, which will then be made available to Wal-Mart customers.
Wal-Mart's announcement came as part of the "Take It Back" conference held this week in Annapolis, Md. The conference focused on environmental responsibility and recycling issues for product manufacturers.
"The scorecard encourages improvements that are good for business as well as for the environment," said Ross Farnsworth, divisional merchandise manager of home electronics for Wal-Mart, in his keynote speech at the Take It Back event, "reflecting Wal-Mart's view that being a profitable and efficient business goes hand in hand with being a good steward to the environment."
In an attempt to reshape its image to fit a more environmentally conscious mold, Wal-Mart has initiated a number of green-tech efforts. Late last year, for instance, the company put out a request for proposals to suppliers to install solar panels at its stores, but it has not yet made a decision on a purchase.
But Wal-Mart has other environmental initiatives in the works, too: among them are promotions of energy-conserving compact fluorescent lightbulbs, and electronics waste recycling days at its stores around the country. As part of its electronics scorecard program, the chain will also be sponsoring a design contest, in conjunction with the nonprofit Green Electronics Council, for the development of a new sustainable electronics product that implements its scorecard metrics.
The store chain, virtually synonymous with middle America, has been aiming for a more tech-savvy image in addition to a green-savvy one. In the past few months, it has taken steps to improve its Web infrastructure thanks to a partnership with Microsoft and Novell, instituted a store pickup program for online orders, and explored the growing digital movie download market.
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- The usual liberal environmental crap.
- Boy, you can sure tell Wal-Mart is under a lot of political pressure. Sustainable electronics is a joke. It makes as much sense as trying to make biodegradeable TVs.
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- It makes a ton of sense.
- You don't have to make them Bio Degradeable, just repairable.
This would require actually shipping enough spare parts to North America to sustain repairs over an increasingly long life cycle, actually training the technicians on your products, and providing service materials (such as service manuals and hardware), and perhaps making the units themselves more modular and upgradable.
Money can be made from selling parts for out-of-warranty repairs, just as the automotive industry does. However, this will never happen as long as we allow companies to dump electronics goods in our countries at such low prices.
Electronnic goods need to have a longer life cycle, especially at the low end of the price scale.
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- This is a good start
- I work in an electronics repair shop.
I see or hear of tons of electronics either being thrown in the land fills or being sent "for recycling".
A big part of the problem is that electronics have gotten so cheap. We see people throwing away ink and laser multifunction units and printers all the time.
We need some kind of laws to force the prices up on these devices (and other electronic products) to make them worth repairing.
Every day I hear the old refrain "cheaper to buy a new one".
It's understandable that as devices evolve people would want to update, but as device technology matures and is not very upgradable any more, they should be made to last and be repaired.
New tech toys are usually expensive, and the price declines as the technology ages, but it should never go down so low as to not be worth repairing.
Part of the problem is all the no name brand devices that are dumped into North America at rock bottom prices. None of those companies have the R&D costs, or the costs of maintaining service facilities and actually (God forbid) employing people in our countries. These slash throat companies are a big part of the problem, and force the name brand companies to lower prices unreasonably. Lets be real. I can buy a new colour inkjet printer for about $50 CDN. You know that's a pretty ridiculous price, and I've had people tell me when they're buying them that when the ink runs out, they will throw the printer away and buy another one. There is no way this is good for anyone. If the companies raised the price of their printers enough to actually make a decent profit, maybe we could buy those $30 ink cartridges for the $5 they're actually worth.
As a comsumer, I like low prices too, but enough is enough.
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Miles Harrison on Saturday's Heineken Cup final between Clermont and Toulon
Miles Harrison believes Clermont and Toulon will serve up a thriller in the Heineken Cup final.
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The two sides have been the dominant forces in this season's Top 14, with just one point separating them at the top of the regular season table.
Clermont know how to win at the home of Irish rugby, having defeated back-to-back Heineken Cup champions Leinster at the venue during this season's pool stages.
Vern Cotter's side are so hell-bent on claiming European club rugby's top prize that they have even fielded second-string sides in their domestic league, something that would have been unheard of in the past.
Clermont have produced some stunning rugby this season but it remains to be seen if they can repeat that against a powerful Toulon side that have outmuscled both Leicester and Saracens en route to the final.
Will the metronomic boot of Jonny Wilkinson lead Toulon to a first European trophy? Miles Harrison will be in Dublin and he cannot wait to watch the action unfold...
After a long season of intense Heineken Cup competition, do you believe these are the best two sides in European rugby?
MILES REPLIES: I think many will make that case - they are in the final - so it's a pretty strong case. But my own opinion is that there is another 'best side' in Europe, when they get it right on their day and with everybody fit, and they are actually playing in the Amlin Challenge Cup final, in their own city: Leinster.
I always thought that the team to beat in this season's Heineken Cup would emerge from that Clermont/Leinster pool. However, as soon as Leinster had gone, Toulon were always going to be another tough one to encounter, as Saracens and Leicester found to their cost. It is certainly a worthy final and I am looking forward to it with immense anticipation.
So, what type of game are you anticipating from the final? And will the fact that it is an all-French final affect the atmosphere and match in Dublin?
MILES REPLIES: I think it will be a good game to watch and not one of those French affairs where there is a lot of 'cancelling out'. That anticipation I was talking about stems, I have to say, mainly from the presence of Clermont. They have, at times, been majestic this season - a privilege to commentate on and see up close.
Okay, they stuttered at the end against a magnificently gutsy Munster but I firmly believe, or maybe hope, that this was their moment of stage-fright, the fear of losing for a second year running in their own country to an Irish team in the semi-final.
Now Clermont have got that out of the way, I am hopeful that they will bring their 'A' game to the whole of this final and express themselves, just as they did in the first half against Munster and much as they did against Leinster at the Aviva Stadium pre-Christmas.
As for the atmosphere - well, I don't think we are going to see a repeat of 2003 when Toulouse met Perpignan at a half-empty Lansdowne Road. The competition, European rugby and club rugby in general have moved on an awful lot in the last 10 years.
How wary will Clermont Auvergne be of Jonny Wilkinson and how big a factor could he be in the match?
MILES REPLIES: They will be extremely wary of the great man. He hasn't missed a kick at goal in the knockout stages and his accuracy could be the decisive factor if Clermont play into Toulon's hands and show a lack of discipline when put under pressure.
If we want a great game, then it will take two to tango and the Toulon power game, with all their stars, is a genuine threat to Clermont's ambitions and the feeling that this could well be their time.
Toulon can win this - there are too many world beaters in their team not to allow some to reach that conclusion and to respect it.
How important will the rest of Toulon's English contingent, such as the Armitage brothers, Nick Kennedy and Andrew Sheridan, be to their hopes?
MILES REPLIES: They've all been big for Toulon this season, playing major roles. Steffon Armitage didn't make the starting line-up in the semi-final but he's got his hands full with so many world class back-rowers fighting for these spots.
Whether Steffon starts or is on the bench, and we don't know at the time of this hitting the website, he should have a significant role to play, as indeed, will his fellow countrymen. Both sides' bench talent is amazing, which is always the sign of a high class game.
Who do you think will be the key players for Clermont Auvergne? Do you expect them to produce the scintillating rugby that has taken them to the final or could they crack under the pressure?
MILES REPLIES: If I had to pick out key players for Clermont, I would say Wesley Fofana, Sitiveni Sivivatu and Napolioni Nalaga because, if those three produce their best rugby, they can be almost unstoppable - in fact, strike that, they are unstoppable at their best.
With players of that ilk, Clermont would be foolish not to use them so, yes, I do expect them to try and produce the scintillating rugby they have played in the competition this season as it is their best route to victory - a style that arguably no other side in Europe can live with.
Whether they crack, time will tell as finals do funny things to people but I stand by my point that they are in a better place mentally than they were in their nervous semi-final conclusion.
Stick your neck on the block for us. Who do you think will be crowned champions of Europe on Saturday?
MILES REPLIES: I said here right at the start of the competition that the winner would come out of that Clermont pool and that, this year, I did always feel it was Clermont's time. They got past Leinster, they've seen off Munster's fighting spirit; it is now Toulon that stands in their way.
Toulon are, of course, no small matter but I'll stick with Clermont to become European Champions for the first time. Either way, we will have a new name on the trophy on Saturday night and I sincerely hope you will join us to see the coronation. Speak to you from Dublin.


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Crawley's subcommittee also came out strongly in favour of creating fuel depots in space as a way to facilitate exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. Without fuel depots, rockets heading for the moon or beyond must be powerful enough to haul up all the fuel they need from Earth's surface, in addition to any useful payload they intend to carry. That means only very large and expensive rockets can carry out human missions to the moon.
But smaller, cheaper rockets could get the job done if they could fuel up in low-Earth orbit before continuing to their final destination. The fuel could be delivered to the depots by relatively small rockets – a process that advocates say would provide a market to stimulate commercial development of new and perhaps cheaper launch vehicles.
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Season 4 is coming to a close for the sassy Southern belles of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" on Sunday. Kandi launches her new sex-toy line, NeNe's decision about her marriage is weighing on her, Kim surprises Kroy with a fancy birthday present, and Cynthia hosts a model call at her agency to find Atlanta's new "it" girl.
Check out Kandi's casting call of a different sort for her Bedroom Kandi launch party in the clip above. Kandi, Sheree and Phaedra get to sample the goods with complimentary foot massages from some of the hunky male models, while Kandi wonders aloud, "Do we get a happy ending?"
And see the sneak peek below of NeNe's chat with Cynthia about the fate of her relationship with Gregg. After a season's worth of wooing from her "business partner" John, is NeNe second guessing her decision to divorce?
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Rockville is located in Charleston County at the end of SC 700 – also known locally as Maybank Highway – which runs from James Island, through Johns Island, and finally through Wadmalaw Island. Rockville is located at the tip of Wadmalaw but is its own municipality.
The village of Rockville is situated on a stretch of Bohicket Creek where the current is unusally strong. Legend has it that Indian tribes raced their canoes here.
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In 2002 the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing and sale of Medtronic Infuse. Infuse is also referred to as bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) and was used in spinal surgeries to grow bone and help fuse vertebrae.
In an early clinical trial it was found that 70% of the subjects developed unwanted bone growth. The bone overgrowth causes painful impingement on nerve roots and a second surgery is needed to correct the problem.
More recently, The Spine Journal reports that, "…investigations shows actual patient risk is 10-50 times more than reported in original industry sponsored studies." Adverse events includes but are not limited to abnormal bone growth, severe pain, burning sensation, severe numbness and tingling, cyst formation, neck swelling, respiratory problems, cyst formation, and cancer.
Medtronic is now the subject of a U.S. Senate panel probe that will investigate reports that doctors with financial ties to the medical device company were aware of serious complications with a lucrative spine surgery product yet failed to reveal those problems in medical journal articles.
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Below is a listing of our Fall 2014. Check back for updates.
- Bank Street Approach to Early Childhood Education
Online: November 3 - December 8 (No workshop meeting Thanksgiving week)
- Behavior Management Strategies for the Classroom Teacher
December 5 and 6
- Child Development in the Context of Camp and Afterschool
Online: November 3 - December 8 (No workshop meeting Thanksgiving week)
- Constructing a Democratic Classroom: Focus on Routines, Rules and Transitions
December 5 and 6
- Designing Assessments
November 3-December 3
- The Essential Orton-Gillingham
November 14,15,21,22 and December 5
- Fractions, Decimals and Percent Looking at Models, Big Ideas, Strategies and Content
November 21 and 22
- Motor Play to Enhance Growth in the Classroom
November 15
- The Reggio-Emilia Approach: Interpreting Theory and Practice for Schools in the United States
November 21 and 22
- Supporting Boy's Learning: Strategies for Working in Pre-K through Grade 3
Online: October 18th in person, with online synchronous and asynchronous follow up work ending November 22nd.
- State Mandated Training in Child Abuse Identification and Reporting
Online: November 14
- State Mandated Training on School Violence Prevention
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- Unleashing the Power of Writing Using Self-Regulated Strategy Development
December 5 and 6
- The Youngest Scientist: Hands-on Adventures
November 14 and 15
Digital Technologies and the Early Childhood Environment Certificate
This online certificate is designed for educators of children, ages four through eight, who wish to learn more about technology and its authentic use in the early childhood environment. The methods and technologies introduced emphasize culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate practices for a variety of early childhood settings.
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Bro I've not decided to leave yet like I said I don't want to leave bw behind I was just letting you know my feelings I dnt care if toak won the titles or not and it means heaps that you would have stickied my e fed listen ill pm you soon and see if you want me to stay cause I got the impression you didnt
hey bro when you are on i need you to pm me cause im stuck between a rock and a hard place.... need to talk
Dude, check out my last post in the Jabe thread.
do you mind if i ask the jabe sters to look at my tournament show and review the show?
yeah was god to catch up with family and just relax with little one
It wasn't too bad... Slept for most of the evening.
Nice to spend some time with the family, though.
yeah pretty good bruva just spent with my mums side of family then partners dads side what about your xmas
How was your Christmas, bruv?!
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Uliose... Heel and the younger one, right?
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Preston Hardge
After following media reports on the Troy Davis case and witnessing the social injustice of this case, Preston could not help but imagine how many other individuals were innocently locked up or even executed. Wanting to join the fight for social justice, Preston began volunteering for the Illinois Innocence Project in Fall 2011.
In working with the Project, Preston gained more insight and understanding into wrongful convictions so that he can become an advocate for those affected by criminal injustice.
Preston received his undergraduate degree in Journalism and Communications at Hampton University where President Obama served as his commencement speaker for graduation. Preston graduated with his MPA at UIS in the Spring of 2013 and is considering pursuing a Ph.D.


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El Salvadoran Sentenced For Immigration Violation
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, May 13, 2010, that William Guerrero, of El Salvador, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to time served followed by one year supervised release. Guerrero was remanded to the custody of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") after his conviction of violating federal immigration laws.
United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed sentence on Guerrero, age 30.
According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney A. Elliot McLean, Guerrero, an alien from El Salvador, was removed from the United States on April 19, 2002, and then reentered the United States and was found in Mercer County on or about February 19, 2010, without having applied for and received permission from either the Attorney General of the United States or the Secretary.
Mr. Cessar commended the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Pittsburgh Police Department for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Guerrero.
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As the new year begins, you can make a bet on one thing: Nineteen ninety-five will be the Year of the Gambler in Maryland. Everywhere you look, folks are trying to expand legalized gambling.
Many of the state's biggest lobbyists have signed up high-powered gambling companies interested in getting permission to line the Chesapeake Bay and all its tributary shoreline with casinos containing roulette wheels, craps games, blackjack and halls filled with slot machines. They are expected to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to win over the legislature and the governor.


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ONE of the body's greatest blunders in the fight against cancer is to repair tumour cells that would otherwise succumb to chemotherapy. Now chemists in Virginia have discovered plant extracts that could deliver a killer blow to wounded cancer cells by blocking such repairs.
Sidney Hecht and his colleagues in the departments of chemistry and biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville screened extracts from several plants to see if they could block the action of DNA polymerase. This is the main enzyme that repairs damage inflicted on cancer cells' DNA by bleomycin, cisplatin and neocarzinostatin, chemotherapy's "heavy guns".
Hecht discovered five substances in the roots of a rare Californian plant,
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Yes, being a student and an elder at the same time has it's challenges! I am halfway through an undergraduate program at Naropa University. If you have an interest in reading my school writings, I invite you to check this out. You might especially enjoy the interview I did with a veteran about healing PTSD with horses. You'll find that under the "Peace Inquiry and Action Project."
For now, the Heart Pujas are on hold. I'd like to think I can someday gather the right people around me (one of them an angel investor) who will assist me in bringing Heart Puja to a bigger audience. I so love and appreciate all the puja dancers that have come to play with me. I have learned so much about conducting groups with exquisite safety as we explore the realm of sacred sexuality. Thanks to all.
Please visit my main website, Sensual Wisdom, to learn more about my evolving work.
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The Louvre and the Tuileries are close by, as well as the Opéra Garnier and the Place de la Concorde, making this an ideal setting for walking, the best way to discover the City of Lights.
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Sally Pipes? The Canadian woman who goes around bashing her home country?
She gets totally ripped apart in debates with Canadians on health care.
She basically got ran out of intellectual circles in Canada. No respectable Canadian expert would even entertain her false premises, cherry picked facts and awkward delivery.
I saw her in a debate or some kind of a talk once in Toronto. She tried arguing that everyone goes to the U.S. to get health care. She used Italian president Sylvio Berlusconi as an example. As if every single Italian is as wealthy and has the same resources as him.
I never seen a crowd laugh at someone before. But laugh they did, considering her example was beyond ridiculous and so far flung from reality.
Her facial expression was priceless.
Last I heard, she's going around making the same speeches now - only in the U.S for the CATO institute.
No one with serious credentials even listens to her in Canada.


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Press Release
April 9, 2012
Norcross, GA (April 9, 2012) – Mizuno USA, Inc.,a leader in high-performance running footwear and apparel, announced today that they have signed an endorsement deal with renowned triathlete, and notable speaker, Dr. Amanda Stevens. Dr. Stevens, a former Ironman 70.3 USA Pro Champion, is yet another elite name added to the Mizuno Racing Team, joining such notables as Serena Burla, 3rdPlace finisher at the 2012 Seoul International Marathon; and Clara Grandt, 7thPlace Finisher at the 2012 US Olympic Marathon Trials.
"Not only is Amanda a fantastic athlete with an impressive resume and serious work ethic, but her commitment to encouraging people to live healthier is something Mizuno greatly admires," said Ron Wayne, Running Promotions Manager, Mizuno USA. "We're excited to have her character and talent competing under the Mizuno Brand."
Dr. Stevens earned her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in 2006, and is also a graduate of Texas Christian University, where she was an All-Conference swimmer and USA Swimming Senior National Qualifier. As a professional, her career highlights include winning the Ironman 70.3 USA Pro Championship, earning Fastest Female Swimmer in the 2011 Ironman World Championships at Kona, and placed in the top 10 in 2008, 2009 and 2010 at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. Dr. Stevens also reached the Olympic Trials Qualifier in both 2004 and 2008.
"Joining Mizuno seemed like a perfect fit given we have similar philosophies that focus on continually improving yourself, and striving to reach the next level, no matter how far you've already come," said Dr. Stevens. "I've always considered Mizuno to be a premium brand, and it's great to know I will be competing as a representative of their longstanding traditions."
Mizuno USA, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mizuno Corporation, one of the largest specialty sporting goods manufacturers in the world. Mizuno USA, Inc. manufactures and distributes baseball, golf, softball, running, track & field, and volleyball equipment, apparel and footwear for North America. Mizuno USA, Inc., is based in Norcross, Georgia.
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