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		<title>How to prevent trampoline injuries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rectangle trampoline]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When buying a trampoline there are many things to consider.Â  Aside from the size of the trampoline and the make and model of the trampoline, one of the most important questions is, how can I keep my children safe in them?Â  According to the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission hundreds of kids get injured each year.Â  Most of these injuries could easily be prevented.Â  Hereâ€™s a list of things to consider when buying a trampoline.</p>
<p>Over 75% of all injuries can be prevented simply by having a safety net.Â  The safety nets purpose it to break any fall that may occur should the child fall awkward and have any chance of falling to the ground.Â  While some owners feel that they put the trampoline into the ground they do not need a net enclosure.Â  This is absolutely false!Â  With the net enclosure the child will fall back into the jumping mat which has a little bit of give and the kid will bounce right back up.Â  When you have no net enclosure they will fall either to the grass or the concrete.Â  When having small kids it is imperative you must have a net enclosure.</p>
<p>Next thing is to read the manual.Â  Understand the exact specs of you trampoline.Â  If it said 250 then itâ€™s 250.Â  It does not mean 250 each person.Â  Itâ€™s 250 total weigh of all the people in the trampoline.Â  Having too much weight on the trampoline will put added pressure on the springs and also the frame.Â  Once this happens there is always potential the frame could collapse and cause injury or even death.</p>
<p>The third thing is to make sure the trampoline is put together correctly.Â  All the nuts and bolts are as tight as they can be and no springs are missing or damage.Â  Even over stretch springs can cause injury.Â  Make sure the trampoline is completely up and fully assembled before anyone hops on for a test jump.Â  There are many parents who put just the frame and the spring mat up and the kids already jumping.Â  While we understand you are very anxious to have your kids jump and few more minutes will not hurt.</p>
<p>The last thing is to make sure this is only one person jumping at once.Â  Most injuries occur with people jump and fall on the next.Â  Heads bumping, leg getting twisted.Â  Once you are up in the air it is almost impossible to control your fall.</p>
<p>So while a trampoline can be a fun toy to have at home at the same time it can be dangerous without the proper supervision.Â  Most of the items mentions can easily be prevented.</p>
<p>Athletes who most commonly train on rectangular trampolines are cheerleaders, wake boarders, gymnasts, basketball players and divers.</p>
<p>When choosing a rectangular trampoline, make sure the frame and springs are thick enough.Â  The frame has to be at least 3.0 mm thick and springs should be close to 9 inches long and slightly tapered at ends for more strength.Â  Weak frame and springs will give a weak bounce.Â  Always call your trampoline store before making your purchase, so you can understand all the specifications of the trampoline.</p>
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		<title>Best way to set up your round trampoline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicageller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rectangle trampoline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>First time installer should take less than 2 hours to install, provided the pieces are laid out correctly and orderly.  [ &#8230; ]</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First time installer should take less than 2 hours to install, provided the pieces are laid out correctly and orderly.</p>
<p>Before attempting to install your trampoline, always lay out the pieces and make sure all the pieces are complete.  Recommended to have at least 2 person install.  First, connect the top frame.  Some trampolines come with t-joints and some come with welded joints.  T-joints are always better than welded joints, because welded joints, after jumping and vibration over time will eventually crack.  As for t-joints, there is no cracking.  As soon as top rails are connected, work on the legs next.  Connect the leg extensions to the w-legs.  Raise the leg extensions and connect to the top rail frame.  Now, the frame should be fully completed.  Next, install the jumping mat.  Start by hooking the jumping mat at 12 oâ€™clock, then 6 oâ€™clock, then 3 oâ€™clock, then 9 oâ€™clock.  As soon as the four corner springs are on, work your way around the trampoline.  Make sure to not overload the springs on one side over the other.  Try to evenly work your way around the trampoline with the springs.  Overloading the springs on one side before the other can put a lot of stress on the other side.</p>
<p>While there are lots of different round trampoline manufacturers out there, most of the installation jobs are pretty similar.  Follow the manual to set up the frame according to the manufacture.  Some trampolines may have more legs then others.  16, 15 and 14ft trampolines should have a minimum of 6 U-Legs.  It may seem like a lot but itâ€™s good for the stability of the trampoline.  Any size below 12 normally has about 4 U-Legs.  Once you have the frame all set up, it is time to put on the jumping mat.  This is the most important part.  If you do it incorrect you may end up over stretching a spring, or even hurt yourself.  Make sure you lay the mat down on the ground inside the frame.  Next attached all the springs to the jumping mat.  16 ft trampoline should have 120 springs, 15 ft trampoline; 100 springs, and 14 ft trampoline; 96 springs.  Make sure you have a trampoline spring tool.  You will not be able to setup the mat without it.  The spring will potentially pop up and hit you in the face if you do without the spring tool.  And please make sure you wear gloves.  Hook the first spring on.</p>
<p>The next spring you hook on should be the one in the opposite side.  So look at it as if itâ€™s a clock.  The 12 first then the 6.  Then the 3 and 9.  2 and the 7, and so on and so forth.  This is very important to put the spring in like this because it does not over stretch the springs.  If you go from one spring to the next it will make it almost impossible to put in the very last spring.  Once you hook up the springs in the opposite clock formation, put in every 3 springs.  Count 3 spots and one spring, and another 3 spots.  Once thatâ€™s finish then you can go ahead and put in the springs in whatever order you like.</p>
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		<title>Gradebook Software â€“ Study in Global Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicageller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[classroom grading software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>World infiltrates competitive era, in each and every sector challenger increase. These entire scenarios directly affect education. To come through  [ &#8230; ]</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>World infiltrates competitive era, in each and every sector challenger increase. These entire scenarios directly affect education. To come through future competition, education with latest update and technique become more crucial. Education with new and good method will give vantage to student to study easily and understand all subjects.</p>
<p>There should be lots of grandness of this technology and itâ€™s vital and it helps parents to know about the progress of their child and keep up to date information about their child. In earlier, there was rare interaction between parents and children. So parents might not know actual progress and same as problem face by tutors also.</p>
<p>Now, Technology grows rapidly and same as education system also changes a lot. Online study also becomes very popular among educatee and nurtures. Some online gradebook or online gradebook software becomes very popular. These are different then typical and old education system, here pupil can learn all subject with very easy and interesting methods. They can found all kind of study material and can share with all other student worldwide. Student can get cognition from clear quarries from subject expert worldwide. Because of such web based gradebook software or grading system software classroom become global.</p>
<p>It is not only very helpful to student but also helpful for parents also. Parents can trace and can find their childâ€™s study record, can analysis it and understand their growth. Parents can interact with teachers and can discuss problem with them also. Grading system software, student management system is effective way to interact with parents and teachers.</p>
<p>Web based gradebook software in which the system totally will be online and itâ€™s a very attractive system and student will attract and will try to learn themselves. There are lots of advantages of classroom grading software. Itâ€™s a user interface software so it could be very easy to learn and with less complexity. The key of effective education for children, interaction between different group and share the different ideas in between each other. Student, Teacher and Parents can share the views and can make suggestion to each other through gradebook software.</p>
<p>Free gradebook programs and gradebook software for teachers is providing all new technology feature and Gradebook software are really easy to operate and plus the main advantages is that there has a safe, secure and spam free environment for communication with educators. Grade book portal company doing research about the education system and how to make easy of grade book software and if required they are adding certain features. So that complexity will be less and student, teachers and parents can take maximum advantage of the system and get maximum features and there are expert persons are involved in these procedures. There are expert persons are involved in these procedure so to be sure about its quality level.</p>
<p>To come through future competition, education with latest update and technique become more crucial. Education with new and good method will give vantage to student to study easily and understand all subjects.Student, Teacher and Parents can share the views and can make suggestion to each other through <a href="http://www.gradebookportal.com/" target="_blank">gradebook software.</a></p>
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		<title>What makes a voting system fair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicageller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Most will agree that â€œfairnessâ€ of the vote is the most important criteria for a voting system whether paper voting  [ &#8230; ]</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most will agree that â€œfairnessâ€ of the vote is the most important criteria for a voting system whether paper voting or online voting.  â€œFairestâ€ vote could be defined as the vote which best represents the wish of the majority of the electorate.</p>
<p>Many things can affect fairness of the vote. For example:</p>
<p>* the openness of the contest to willing candidates</p>
<p>* the ease with which people can vote and gain access to information on candidates</p>
<p>* the vote counting method</p>
<p>* the integrity of the vote harvest, vote counting and result reporting</p>
<p>* the existence and transparency of an audit trail</p>
<p>* ease with which voters can confirm that their vote was recorded and counted correctly, and</p>
<p>* the time, cost and resources required to run a vote.</p>
<p>The choice between an online voting system, paper voting system or hybrid voting system can affect all these aspects of the vote fairness.  As the manager of BigPulse.com, a firm that has specialized in high security online voting for ten years, my bias is clearly declared towards online voting and in some cases hybrid voting.</p>
<p>Security and protection of anonymity are the hardest to get right in any voting system, requiring many years of testing in electronic voting systems.  However a properly tested online voting system can offer many advantages for security, transparency, accessibility, flexibility and cost.</p>
<p>A flexible online voting system will cater for many vote counting methods. The choice of vote counting method is an important consideration in fairness, for example first-past-the- post voting (FPTP) , Single Transferable Vote (STV), Instant-runoff voting (IRV) or range voting â€“ and each method can produce different winners.</p>
<p>However it is not always clear which voting counting method provides the best measurement of majority opinion as there is not always a definitive mathematical answer to this question.</p>
<p>For example a single round vote FPTP contest with three or more candidates can produce a winner which never wins in a paired contest with any other candidate, while it is possible that a losing candidate in a FPTP vote contest may win in any paired contest.  Most people will agree that in this case the FPTP result is not fair and an alternative voting method that comes closer to emulating the paired result is fairer. Preferential voting, that is, ranked voting methods and FPTP with multiple rounds of voting tend to reduce this risk of eliminating candidates that do better in paired contests.</p>
<p>Maximizing the degree of proportional representation and minimizing the incentive for strategic voting are two important measures of fairness. Proportional representation means the elected candidates represent the natural divisions within the electorate.  Strategic voting means voting for what you think is the best possible or likely outcome even if it means not voting according to your true preferences â€“ for example in a contest with three or more candidates, voters can be tempted to guess how others will vote and attempt to vote in a manner that gives the best likely result, rather than voting their true preferences.</p>
<p>A degree of proportional representation is possible in contests with more than one winner, the more winners the more proportional it can be.  In this case the form of preferential or ranked voting known as Single Transferable Vote is fairer than FPTP because the Single Transferable Vote is much better than FPTP at producing proportional representation.  However in a single winner contest (known as instant-runoff in the case of Single Transferable Vote), neither system can produce proportional representation, although Single Transferable Vote may be considered fairer in the sense that it leaves the door open to proportional representation.</p>
<p>If elimination of strategic voting is the criteria of fairness then the fair choice between FPTP and instant-runoff is not quite so obvious as it depends on the number of candidates and how many rounds of voting can be tolerated with FPTP voting.  For example, if only one candidate is eliminated after each round of voting then, from the perspective of strategic voting, the FPTP vote is just as fair as instant run off and also allows people to simply vote their first preference in each round of voting.</p>
<p>However FPTP is inferior to instant-runoff when more than one candidate is eliminated after any round of FPTP voting.  Also with multiple round FPTP voting, voter fatigue, cost and time delay may all impact on fairness.  For example a contest with 10 candidates can require up to nine rounds of voting using FPTP if it is to match the fairness of an instant runoff vote. The instant-runoff vote requires only one round of voting.</p>
<p>Learn more about <a href="http://www.bigpulse.com/" target="_blank">electronic voting system</a>.</p>
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