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This book provides goaltenders, coaches and parents with a practical resource to develop superb rebound control. Rebound control is a lost art of goaltending. Ian Clark has established ten essential improvements that can be made to your game without excessive intervention or teaching required. These are simple self-help ideas that will generate more saves and prevent more rebounds. This book is easy to understand and, most importantly, puts the reader in control of enhancing performance and stopping more pucks. Rebounds are the greatest source of high-level scoring chances. This book uncovers the complete array of rebound-control techniques and strategies and is designed to provide rapid improvement to your game. Ian Clark, along with contributing writer Leo Luongo, uses his 25 years of goaltender-coaching experience, from all levels of play and including many of today''s leading netminders, to assemble this practical resource. Roberto Luongo writes the Preface to this book and provides a testament to these game-improving approaches.

William Le Souëf was the fifth and final person to be appointed an assistant protector in the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate when he replaced James Dredge in the Goulburn River District in July 1840. Despite some procrastination by the Chief Protector, George Augustus Robinson, but with the urging of the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, Charles Joseph La Trobe, Le Souëf filled the vacancy created by Dredge''s resignation. Yet by the end of the year, Le Souëf''s superordinates were in agreement that he was unfit for service. This book is the first detailed biography of William Le Souëf and, amongst other things, explores his relationships with Aboriginal people and with his superiors - Robinson and La Trobe - when he was employed as assistant protector. It does this using the qualitative research methodologies of interpretive biography and thick description. It makes use of contemporary publications, protectorate records, personal diaries, family records, and newspaper articles. Michael Christie''s assessment of Le Souëf is that he was a failed protector, who had been poorly chosen, whose lack of expertise, and personal failings adversely affected his work and led to friction within the Protectorate. He considered that Le Souëf did not share Dredge''s missionary zeal, and saw his job more as that of protecting settler interests than caring for Aboriginal people. Susan Priestley, in her history of South Melbourne, noted that ''William Le Souef was always uneasy in his role of Assistant Protector, his fear giving rise to unwarranted harshness''. In attempting to understand William Le Souëf, as a person, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he had a tendency towards superciliousness and arrogance, and that he had lordly pretensions, as seen in his quip that he should have been the superintendent of the Port Phillip District, and not La Trobe. Some contemporary observers suggested he suffered from some kind of mental illness, with the Goulburn protectorate station''s medical officer, Neil Campbell, considering that on one occasion he was ''unfit to have charge of his own affairs''. Le Souëf''s behaviours and interpersonal relationships reveal that he was a difficult man to get along with - one newspaper editor described him as ''peculiarly minded''. Descriptions such as disputatious, bellicose, and truculent, seem to be fitting epithets of his character and personality. Yet, when his application to manage the Victorian Industrial Society was successful, one contemporary, Edward Wilson, the editor of the Argus, lauded the appointment and described Le Souëf as ''a gentleman of great natural ability, of very considerable attainments, of an active and energetic temperament, and of gentlemanly manners''. These strengths were best demonstrated in his public commitment to animal welfare, ornithology, and zoology. Nevertheless, a consideration of his statements and those of his superior officers and his employees, about his attitudes towards and treatment of Aboriginal people, William Le Souëf''s unsuitability for the role of Assistant Protector is starkly obvious. Le Souëf would certainly have been better suited to a different part of the public service, where his aggressive behaviour and lack of interpersonal skills would not have been called into play - perhaps in the office of births, deaths, and marriages, given his earlier interest in civil registration. Perhaps he ought to have pursued a career in journalism, as he regularly demonstrated a penchant for writing. William Le Souëf never achieved the social recognition in Victoria that he desired - indeed, it was his youngest son, Albert Le Souëf, who was feted in Melbourne''s scientific community as an authority on Aboriginal people based on his personal experiences in the Protectorate and the pastoral frontier.

The fate of the World hangs in the balance when it is discovered that meteors have been aimed at the planet. The entire race is held to ransom. All non-indigenous life must leave the planet but the most important person is missing and has plans of his own for us.The tale comes full circle in the final installment of the trilogy. - Salvation

Concentrates specifically on basic comminution research and novel technology development, including the mechanics associated with fracture, and excludes conventional incremental engineering improvement and circuit optimisation. Includes a summary of the definitive report on comminution published in 1980, prepared by a committee of the US National Academy of Sciences.

This paper addresses the issue of ''reverse diffusion'' of employment practices in multinational companies, which is defined as the transfer of practices from foreign subsidiaries to operations in the country of origin. It adds to the literature by examining the influence of the parent business system in multinationals. Specifically, it addresses how the dominant institutions and established organizational structures and practices in the home country affect the extent and impact of reverse diffusion of employment practices. Drawing on fresh evidence from American-owned multinationals in the UK we argue that there is considerable potential for reverse diffusion to occur among this group of firms. However, we highlight a number of barriers to reverse diffusion that the American business system presents, demonstrating that these constrain both the prevalence and the impact of it in practice.

The United Kingdom has over 10,000 hand car washes (HCWs). This article examines two research questions: what do HCWs reveal about the informalization of employment? and what is the prospect of regulation of them? Setting HCWs in a theoretical framework shows that they are part of a growing industry which is becoming an increasingly familiar and visible part of the economy, where control of labour costs is a key factor. Employers make a strategic choice to engage precarious and vulnerable, usually migrant, labour securing further competitive advantage at the cost of pronounced labour exploitation and long hours -- the tendency towards informalization. Therein a low-cost business model disciplines competition to usurp higher productivity mechanized car washing.

A work by UNITEC design students in the year 1999?

On entering administration, British Home Stores owed its pension scheme £571 million--a significant employment relations issue of historical wage theft by investor-owner managers. The article locates ''lawful'' looting of business assets in a framework that builds on Ackerlof and Romer''s theory of bankruptcy for profit and connects this to an empirical narrative on business re-structuring at British Home Stores towards administration.

Study discusses beam shear theory, construction and testing procedure, and mode of failure of reinforced concrete masonry.