Monthly Archives: March 2011

Lance Franklin

Posted on March 18, 2011 by cintaduapuluh

Introduction and Early Life

Lance Franklin is a professional Australian Rules football player that currently plays for the Hawthorn Hawks Football Club. He was born on January 30, 1987 in Perth, West Australia; and is of indigenous Australian descent. Lance is about 1.96 meters tall, has a large frame and weighs about 101 kilograms. He is a very versatile utility player that plays in the centre half-forward positions as well as the midfield position too. He wears the jersey number 23 and is fondly called “Buddy”. He used to play for Perth in Western Australia in his early football days from where he was drafted with the number 4 pick into the Australian Football League (AFL) by the Hawthorn Hawks F.C in the 2004 national AFL draft.

Early Professional Career

Before beginning his professional football career, Lance had played his early days representing Western Australia at the National Under 18 Carnival. Lance made his debut appearance in the first round of the 2005 season. He played extremely well that year especially considering the fact that this was his first season in the AFL. He finished the season playing 20 games out of the total 22 games and contributing 27 goals. This can be considered as a good performance for his first season. He had a serious setback to his performance the following season as a result of injuries he sustained on his ankle and hand early in the 2006 season. he made it back during the 9th round. During the 12th round, Lance displayed a great performance that saw him kick 6 goals in the match against Richmond.

Before the end of the 2006 season, Lance renewed his contract and extended his stay at Hawthorn Hawks by another two years. Prior to this, he was widely speculated to be a subject of attraction by clubs like Essendon, West Coast, and Fremantle. The 2007 season was a great one for Lance. He finished the season with 63 goals placing him third in the Coleman Medal in the entire AFL that season. He also finished the season in the number three position in the club’s Best and Fairest Awards, as well as the leading goal kicker for Hawthorn Hawks.

Professional Career Achievements

Lance Franklin kept improving consistently and in 2008 he won the Coleman Medal for kicking a total of 102 goals during the season. He also featured in the Dream Team where he kicked four goals during the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match. He was the first Aboriginal player to reach this feat in the AFL. He won the AFL premiership this year with Hawthorn Hawks and also won the Peter Cummins Medal which is the Best and Fairest Award in the club. The 2009 season was not particularly a good one for him as he had to undergo surgery for injury on his thumb and shoulder, as a fall out of the previous season. After returning to play, his performances were not the same as that of the previous season. he lost one of his teeth during a ball contest in a match and was also suspended for two games as a result of rough play against a Richmond player in a match.

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Mount Kinabalu Climbing: Adventure and Fascination at the Highest Level

Posted on March 14, 2011 by cintaduapuluh

If you think that Mount Kinabalu climbing activities stand for some extreme actions that you could not cope with, it is highly recommended to first of all take into consideration several important details. Irrespective of the fact that Mount Kinabalu is known to be the tallest mountain in South-East Asia, it is not necessary for you to be an experienced mountain climber in order to conquer it. More than that, you only need two days to make your dream come true.

This impressive mountain is situated in the Kinabalu National Park, in the province of Sabah, Malaysia and is known all over the world for its unique flora and fauna. We need to add that, year by year, more and more tourists show a vivid interest in visiting Kinabalu National Park. In fact, their visit here is closely connected to incredibly exciting Mount Kinabalu climbing perspectives. If deciding to discover Mount Kinabalu, you will definitely not regret it, as there are so many wonderful things you can take advantage of.

There is no doubt that you are about to feel nothing else but joy and happiness during your special adventure that will turn out to be the most beautiful experience of your life. However, it is good to know that every little step you make needs to be thoroughly calculated. The truth is that you are supposed to take part in a very strict (but unbelievably pleasant) “ritual” connected to Mount Kinabalu climbing.

It is imperative to be careful about the order of things so that you could be completely satisfied with your unique adventure. On a general basis, the Timpohon Gate (right near park headquarters) is considered to be the “key element” from this point of view, as it represents the place where the whole adventure begins. Take your time, relax and admire the view from the Timpohon observatory platform, since you have a long trip ahead and you need your strength.

You need to keep your climbing enthusiasm at a moderate level and try to get some sleep (when the night falls) at one of the numerous guest houses at Laban Rata. This way, you will feel completely reinvigorated and able to go on with your climbing plans early in the morning. Otherwise said, it takes a lot of discipline to participate in a Mount Kinabalu climbing trip.

In order to do things properly, you are supposed to reach the top of Mount Kinabalu in time to watch the sunrise. This is something that you really cannot miss (because you would be terribly sorry if something like this happened). The truth is that people do not have the chance of witnessing such a miracle of nature everyday.

Afterwards, it is time for you to return to Laban Rata for having a well-deserved breakfast. Once this “mission” has been accomplished as well, it is time for you to descend the mountain.

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Why You Should Invest in a Kids Wetsuit This Summer

Posted on March 13, 2011 by cintaduapuluh

As a parent, you should be concerned about protecting your child’s young skin, not necessarily from becoming dirty, but protecting against harmful sun and colder water. Children love the water, and in the summer especially it can be difficult to keep them away from the wet stuff. This is true whether it is for a mud puddle, a pool, lake or ocean.

In order to help protect your child’s skin many parents will look to invest in a childs wetsuit. A quick internet search will yield many different brands who produce kids wetsuits and a well-fitting children’s wetsuit is a great security and peace of mind option for outdoor activities. But when you think of buying kids wetsuit there are a number of factors that are needed to be recognised in order to get the most out of protection and the money you are spending on this new watersports equipment.

Begin with thinking about the warmth of the water in which your wetsuit will need to be worn, and especially in relation to outside temperature. An appropriate fitting kids wetsuit works by allowing water flowing into it and build a thin layer between the skin and the suit. This layer is heated by the heat of the child’s own body and keeps it warm and comfortable. If the suit is too loose, a constant flow of water through the wetsuit will drag away the body heat and your child will start to get cold, even in water that seems to be fine. If the kids wetsuit is too small, it is not only unpleasant but also a serious risk to reduce blood flow to your children and can cause respiratory problems. Therefore, make sure your children are not crammed into a kids wetsuit.

As far as thickness of neoprene, it is often suggested that 1.5 millimeters or 2 millimeters kids wetsuits should provide enough heat for most of the hot pools and lakes. For cooler water from lakes and open, choose a kids wetsuit of 3mm or more to protect your children or infants. For especially cold waters, you could investigate purchasing a winter kids wetsuit which should offer 5mm of neoprene thickness at least.

The length of the children’s wetsuit is also an important consideration. What wetsuit length does your children need? In a calm pool for swimming training, where the space around the arms and legs are restricted for a children’s pool, a kids shorty wetsuit will offer more room to move while maintaining body heat and if putdoors UV protection. To play and swim in pools and waters of fresh water and colder, where the extra heat and sun protection you want to choose a full body kids wetsuit.

The material composition of children is also an important consideration. The best kids wetsuits are ones with stretchy lycra neoprene and give children the freedom of activity and dynamism amplified, while offering all the warmth and protection required.

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2012 Olympic Games

Posted on March 1, 2011 by cintaduapuluh

Are you planning on going to the London 2012 Olympics? Well if you are then you need to get a ticket and at the minute that may not be so easy.

The first wave of tickets that were issued allowed you to bid for tickets over a six-week window. You could bid for as many sessions and as many tickets as you liked. The only stipulation being that if you got all of the tickets that you applied for you were legally obliged to buy them all. So if you applied for £5,000 worth of tickets and by some lucky chance managed to get them all then you needed to have £5,000 on hand when it came to paying.

The problem and the thing that most people have found most annoying was that the money was not taken off of your Visa card straight away; it was only taken several weeks later, and even then you had to wait several more weeks after the money was taken out in order to find out what tickets you had actually got.

This led to a somewhat annoying situation of people having money taken out of their accounts without a clue as to what tickets that they had been successful in getting.

Many people applied for far more tickets than they needed on the assumption that they would only get a fraction of the ones they wanted, and indeed this has proved to be true with many people applying for around £2,000 of 2012 tickets only to get just £120 worth.

The opening ceremony and closing ceremony, as well as the major athletics finals were massively oversubscribed resulting in many people missing out. Indeed over 250,000 people that applied got no tickets at all in the first ballot.

There was then a second chance to buy tickets but only open to those who had got none in the first wave. However this second wave of tickets was released on a first come first served basis, this time however people only had to wait 48 hours to know what tickets they had got, and they could only apply for three sessions, which seems much fairer and has left many people asking the question why no limit was put on the number of applications in the first wave.

Overall this process has left many people frustrated and ticketless, with stories of some people getting all the allocation they wanted including opening ceremonies as well as 100m finals, leaving many people questioning how fair the process was. London 2012 now faces a battle to win back public credibility.

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