[PDF] Its A No Brainer eBook

Author : Rob Stolker
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2020-10
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It's a No-Brainer: An Entrepreneur's Battle to Reduce Concussions in Girls' Lacrosse is the story behind the heart of Hummingbird Sports and why Rob Stolker and his family and friends created the first-ever ASTM-approved girls'/women's lacrosse headgear. Throughout the book, you will hear stories from girls who have suffered life-changing head injuries while playing lacrosse, most often from a single ball or stick to their unprotected heads. Rob also shares the science behind why all girls who play lacrosse need to be wearing head protection today. It's a No-Brainer tells the story of how Rob Stolker and his team at Hummingbird Sports struggled through the ups and downs of making state-of-the-art headgear. But that was just the beginning. They were dumbfounded by the venomous resistance they often encountered from US Lacrosse and other long time members of the lacrosse community who were vehemently opposed to the introduction of headgear despite the large number of head injuries sustained in girls' lacrosse. Backed by science and inspired by the courageous girls who shared their heartbreaking experiences of dealing with traumatic brain injuries, Rob and the team continue to fight for change to protect girls now and in the future. US Lacrosse will eventually mandate headgear in girls' lacrosse, but how many more girls will have to suffer unnecessarily until that happens? The company soon became a groundbreaking girls' lifestyle and sports equipment brand. The story of Rob Stolker and his team's journey through successes, grueling failures, relationships made with industry leaders, the patent process, and the fight to make positive change is an inspiration for anyone passionate about taking chances and having a meaningful, long-lasting impact on the world. Author's BIO: Rob Stolker began his career in day trading, moved on to develop real estate, and eventually started and ran a successful solar panel installation company. Creating the innovative Hummingbird headgear has been his life's second greatest achievement and has become the legacy he wants to leave for his wonderful daughters, the raising of whom is his proudest achievement. To learn more visit: RobStolker.com and HummingbirdSports.com

Author : Mike Amos
Publisher : Haythorp Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1914487230

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"A heart-breaking but still inspiring insight into the real-life impact of the biggest issue facing the world’s biggest sport.” Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter, The Telegraph 'It is beautifully written, immaculately researched and pulls no punches.' Ian Herbert, Daily Mail This is the story of the ‘real’ Bill Gates. A famous footballer, a successful millionaire and a global philanthropist. This is the story of an incredible man and his remarkable wife, who in his final years made a commitment to use his brain to save the next generation of football players. Bill was Britain’s first £50 a week teenage superstar who played 333 games for Middlesbrough, where he was the PFA representative. He was the first entrepreneur/businessman to make sports shops the centre of high-street fashion. He was a philanthropist who travelled the world using football to change the lives of millions of children in over 100 countries. But in 2017 his life changed when he was diagnosed with football’s best-kept secret, probable Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, caused by repetitive head impacts including headers, a brain disease with no cure. Author Mike Amos perfectly captures the incredible life of Bill and Judith, from a coal mining village in Ferryhill in the 1950s, a brilliant 13-year professional career in the 60s and 70s, a chain of sports shops in the 80s, to a millionaire’s lifestyle on 7 mile beach on Grand Cayman in the 90s, to their most difficult journey together to ensure the future of the beautiful game. He shares Judith’s work, designing the Billion Pound Game of Football that captured the attention of media around the globe and highlighted the need for changes in sport. Their ground-breaking Head Safe Football charity has led to research and education, and supported families of players with CTE. Designed to protect the future of the game, Head Safe Football educates players, coaches, sports scientists, and parents to recognise that CTE begins in young footballers and can be prevented with common sense Head Safe Football policies and training. No-Brainer explains how one man and his family have galvanised the football world around facts and science to impact player care and child safeguarding policies for both males and females. If you have ever headed a football, if your child or grandchild are heading footballs, then this is the one book that you need to read. Reviews "A heart-breaking but still inspiring insight into the real-life impact of the biggest issue facing the world’s biggest sport. But does football care enough about its former heroes to take sufficient action?” Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter, The Telegraph "What a brilliant read. Took me through every emotion from laughing and smiling to tears of true sadness. A great insight into the dark and oh so sad side of the beautiful game. A must-read, not only for the light-hearted reminiscing of football anecdotes and memories, but to learn the startling truth behind a game touching so many lives, and the devastation it can cause." Hilary Maddren, widow of Willie Maddren, Middlesbrough player and manager who died of neurodegenerative disease "Not just an important read for football fans, but for anyone whose life has been touched by the slowly unfolding despair of dementia." Harry Pearson, author of The Far Corner "No Brainer is a meticulous and moving read that exposes the cost of football’s collective failure to protect players. One day, football will thank women like Dr Judith Gates who fought to spare future generations the pain they suffered as they watched their loved ones slowly succumb to diseases like CTE." Warren Manger, Daily Mirror “Bill and Judith Gates are the opposites who stayed attracted for more than 60 years together, but both in their very different ways have become titans in the world of football. This book is a vivid and vital account of their work together to improve the lives of footballers, young and old” Michael Aylwin, sportswriter, The Guardian

Author : John Blakey
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey International
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857889509

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A real-world, timely, and provocative book which provides a wakeup call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching

Author : Leslie Savan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0375702423

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In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as “no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a “slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.

Author : David Nytra
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1935179187

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Siblings Leah and Alan wake one morning in the middle of an enchanted forest and encounter a strange and spectacular world filled with foppish lions, giant rabbits, and a talking stone frog for a guide.

Author : Bishop J. A. Tolbert 1St
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1477277242

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It has been recorded by some astute observer of life that " Knowledge is power! " If that is the truth, then ignorance is impotence! Nowhere is this reality of greater consequence than in the arena of the classic battle between good and evil; right and wrong; holiness and unholiness! No one can live what one has never known nor can one know what one has never heard. This book, "It's all in the Knowing," puts to rest every excuse that the Child of the King has for living beneath the privileges of the sons of God! Read this book! Study this book! Examine it with your Bible in your hand and you will see that your prayer life will be revolutionized! You will rejoice because your expectations of God will be those that will cause Him to smile at His sons who are living as His sons! If you allow this book to become a Knowing in your heart; a Revelation in your spirit - you will walk as a son of God among men! "It's all in the Knowing!" Bishop J. A. Tolbert 1st

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9780739062524

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Open up your mind, and make playing piano a no-brainer! Start with the basics, like sitting at the piano, and then move on to playing folk, rock, blues, classical, and other styles. In addition to reading sheet music, you will learn to improvise and solo over great play-along tracks. With this book, you won't just learn to play piano, you'll learn about playing in a band.

Author : Christopher M. Branson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1350159654

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This book provides a timely and comprehensive response to the widely acknowledged serious failings in our current knowledge of organizational leadership and culture, providing an ecologically inspired approach which unifies knowledge and practice across all of the pivotal organisational elements of leadership, culture, teamwork, creativity, complexity and wisdom. Drawing on case studies from Australia and New Zealand, Branson and Marra argue that just as ecosystems are systems of connected elements through which the energy needed to maintain the health of the system must readily flow, an organisation is also a connected system that equally requires a healthy flow of energy in order to achieve its core purpose. Their theory of organizational ecology describes how organizational connectivity, as revealed by the quality of the relationships among the people and the parts of the organization, provides the conduit through which the essential energy (in the form of knowledge, information, ideas, innovation, and support sharing) must flow. Through the application of the theory of organizational ecology, Branson and Marra illustrate how a leader must grow their leadership knowledge and wisdom in order to develop the organization's people and culture so that it is fully able to accomplish the desired vision, mission and core purpose.