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History of Badminton

2010-05-10T18:10:00.000-07:00

The history of badminton shows that it had its roots in an old children’s game in England known as battledore and shuttlecock. British Army officers in India played a grown up version of this game. Known in its early days as ‘poona’, it was played with many people who tried to keep the ‘bird’ in air. A net came to be added later and badminton in its present form was born. This sport derived its name from Badminton House in Gloucestershire where the game was played at a lawn party. The International Badminton Federation (IBF) that was started in 1934 now has more than 130 member countries. The Asian countries now dominate the badminton scene and they continue to rule the roost as far as tournaments go. Badminton matches draw thousands of spectators in Malaysia, Indonesia and China.

Badminton in the U.S. began as a weekend meeting place for New York’s society leaders with the formation of the Badminton Club of New York in 1878. Clubs and YMCAs and educational institutions began to offer training in badminton. Several Hollywood personalities like James Cagney, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were avid badminton players. The United States Badminton Association (USBA) has its national office in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This body focuses on promoting badminton within the country and developing players.

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History of cricket

2010-05-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The History of Football

2010-05-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

The contemporary history of the world's favourite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing body.

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History Of Volleyball

2010-05-10T17:15:00.000-07:00

1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head.
During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport.

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2010-05-02T18:29:00.000-07:00

Wellness System, our state-of-the-art technology, makes working out more satisfying and more fun for members. It allows members to view their progress even before they can see it in their bodies. When members can see how far they've come and how much they've worked, they feel a sense of accomplishment that brings them back to the club again and again. At the same time it motivates your members, the Wellness System increases your profit margin in many ways - at the top of that list is attracting and retaining members.

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Assessing a bear hunt situation

2010-04-29T04:16:00.000-07:00

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Knowing how to handle a bear hunt situation can be crucial to success or possible going home empty handed. If you haven't had a lot of experience with black bear hunting, this type of situation could cost you a beautiful trophy bear. Usually, it is a senior adult male bear that will stand up inspect a suspicious situation. The young black bears are careless, and like all species haven't adapted yet.

You are sitting there motionless on your bear stand, the last time you shuffled yourself around was an hour ago (in reality it was 10 - 15 minutes ago), you see the head and shoulders of a black bear slowly appear, as if on a hydraulic post.

When a bear can't smell you, but knows something is wrong, he will often react in this way. The black bear and most other species of bears as well will stand up and try to smell while looking straight at you, piercing a hole straight through you. The bear's senses seem to work this way. If he can't smell you, he seems to need more than one sense to back up the danger element.

When a bear stands up and pierces a whole right through you he couldn't have smelt you and seems to have a delayed reaction in his brain to take action and go this delayed action last for 15 - 20 seconds. During this time a bear hunter can get away with a action of slight movements without inserting instant fear and the bear bolting.

The correct procedure, would be to slowly deliberately, take deadly aim and fire. If one was to wait much longer than 20 seconds the bear and especially a trophy bear would slowly drop out of sight in the thicket and 99 times out of 100 you would never see it again.

Another bear hunting situation that could arise is encountering a bear about to cross a trail in front of you and gets scared back. Knowing how to handle this situation correctly can bring success to your bear hunting trip. Here again, black bears are a creatures of habit and constant action to a danger element.

The normal reaction for a bear when, it encounters the bear hunter when crossing a trail and providing the bear did not make the intend crossing and bolted back. What he will do is scamper up along side the trail in the cover to the first corner or if it is a straight trail with no bends he will cross on the narrowest place but preferably if there is a bend he will be sure to cross there.

It seems, that if a bear has got it in his mind to cross a trail or road he is going to cross. The bear hunter knowing this, will hurry to the likely spot, get down on one knee and get ready, one thing for sure, when he crosses it will be soon ( within a minute or so) and he will be moving at full speed so it gives you little time to check for trophy quality and the type of shooting should be only done by well experienced sharp shooter.

This next bear hunting opportunity to get your trophy bear is common, but here again if not handled properly can end up in total disgust with oneself. The situation that I am referring to is a bear coming strolling down the trail and not aware of a hunter present. The time to shoot a bear is when you have a good opportunity, do not wait until it gets to the feed destination, bear bait or walks into a specific clearing where it will be broadside like the centerfold of Outdoor Life Magazine. But don't of course, hasten a careless shot because there is plenty of time to get the job done right.

Quite often I hear a bear hunter say "I was waiting for the bear to go to the feed and it just disappeared and I never seen him again, I wished I had taken him earlier, when I had plenty of time". Again, I will say, the time to shoot a bear is when you have a good opportunity.

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