In an effort to draw attention to employer-sponsored health promotion and chronic disease prevention, the American Heart Association is calling on employers across the country to establish health and physical activity initiatives such as walking during “National Workplace Wellness Week” (April 5-11, 2009).  This year the association’s National Start! Walking Day, which aims to get Americans up and moving for 30 minutes on April 8, will take place during the week.

“National Workplace Wellness Week” serves to encourage private and public employers across the country to invest in the health of their employees by creating worksite health promotion programs and to share their best practices with other employers. The week was initiated by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about the importance of wellness programs like Start! and to address the nation’s soaring healthcare costs, rising obesity rates, sedentary behavior and increasing prevalence of chronic disease.  It was introduced last year by U.S. Representatives Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) and Charles Boustany (R-LA) and established by the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Workplace wellness programs are critical to improving employee health, increasing productivity, reducing absenteeism and lowering health care costs,” said Craig Thorne, M.D., MPH, American Heart Association spokesperson.   “National Workplace Wellness Week” is an ideal time for employers to start investing in their employees by joining free programs like Start! and participating in National Start! Walking Day.”

More than a third of the working-age population in the United States is at risk for chronic illnesses due to physical inactivity and the nation’s obesity epidemic. The estimated cost of obesity and overweight related health conditions is $117 billion per year.  Just three chronic conditions, asthma, diabetes and hypertension, are associated with 164 million lost work days per year at a cost to employers of $30 billion.

The Start! initiative works with employers and the 135 million Americans in the workplace to create a culture of walking before, during or after work. It offers resources for employers to implement a walking program in the workplace and track employees’ progress in the program.  Start!’s Fit -Friendly Companies program recognizes companies for meeting criteria for employee fitness. More than 1,000 US companies have been recognized for demonstrating their commitment to promoting exercise and good nutrition in the workplace.

“Getting your employees to walk briskly for just 30 minutes a day can help lower chronic disease risk factors such as high blood pressure,” said Dr. Thorne.  “Educating them about basic cardiovascular disease prevention and developing health education programs that focus on lifestyle behavior change is a huge investment that will increase any company’s bottom line.”

For more information, visit www.americanheart.org/workplacewellness or www.startmidlandssc.org.

About the American Heart Association

Founded in 1924, we’re the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of heart disease and stroke.  To help prevent, treat and defeat these diseases — America’s No. 1 and No. 3 killers — we fund cutting-edge research, conduct lifesaving public and professional educational programs, and advocate to protect public health.  To learn more or join us in helping all Americans, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit americanheart.org.

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Safety Distance Learning Masters is the path chosen by working engineers to specialize in this rewarding career, and both the demand for Safety Engineers, as well as the role they play in design teams have increased. Safety Engineering, a specialization of Systems Engineering, has matured during the past few decades, to become an independent branch in its own might, mainly due to the development of unimaginably complex systems in military, industry, and civilian infrastructure, which hold the potential to cause massive catastrophe to human life and property, as well as serious financial damage.

The field of Safety Engineering should not be confused with the related but clearly distinct field of Occupational Health and Safety, sometimes called as just Health and Safety. To add to the confusion, Safety Engineering is often titled Health and Safety Engineering, by some institutions and industry segments. Academically, the most distinguishing factor between the two allied fields is that while Occupational Health and Safety might have Applied Science, Engineering, and Management components, Safety Engineering is purely an engineering branch.

What it Involves

Safety Distance Learning Masters involves taking a Master of Science (M.S.) or Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Safety Engineering, or Health and Safety Engineering, or in Systems Engineering with emphasis on Safety Engineering, from Universities or Colleges offering these courses through the online or distant mode. Generally, Safety Distance Learning Masters is attempted by working engineers with a Bachelor Degree in branches like Mechanical, Production, Industrial, Chemical, Electrical, or Civil, who can put Safety Engineering to use in their domains.

Due to the shorter history of the subject, the available courses in Safety Distance Learning Masters are somewhat limited in number, and it might be necessary to also look at Systems Engineering courses with main or partial emphasis on Safety Engineering, to find a suitable degree in this subject. Membership in the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), and the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), can also be attempted by working engineers opting for Safety Distance Learning Masters.

Why Safety Engineering?

The majority of Safety Engineers with a Master Degree get an average salary of more than US $63,000, which can go up to more than US $92,000 depending upon on experience, expertise, and certifications like CSP. However, it is not financial prospects alone that are attracting more and more engineers to take up Safety Engineering – it has more to do with the increasingly important role these professionals have come to assume in design teams, during the past several years.

Though many aspects of Safety Engineering have been in practice since the early 1900s, it was only very recently that Safety Engineering gathered prominence and momentum in the industry as an engineering branch in its own might. The problem was that though Safety Engineers were always part of the engineering team, their role was limited to inspecting completed projects for possible hazards, and recommending additional modules to overcome the detected safety problems. Such an ad-hoc approach to Safety Engineering – often called ‘Industrial Safety’ – is followed even to this day in industries like Chemical Manufacturing. The real revolution in Safety Engineering happened when the US Military realized that ‘Industrial Safety’ is not enough for complex mission-critical applications like Aerospace, Space Shuttles, Nuclear Reactors, Submarines, and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM). The newly developed Systems Approach – as in Systems Engineering – was applied to Safety Engineering, to come up with what is today termed as System Safety, and is the main reason behind Safety Engineering’s prominence, today.

In contrast with the earlier ‘Industrial Safety’ methods, System Safety procedures ensure the Safety Engineer’s role in the design team from the preliminary design phase itself. No stage of the design passes to the next stage without the Safety Engineer’s approval, and it is often half-jokingly told that Safety Engineers say the last word in design!

Today, Safety Engineering’s Systems Approach is found not only in military or mission-critical applications, but throughout the industry, and in various civilian infrastructure projects like undersea tunnels and earthquake resistant high-rises, thereby fuelling the demand for Safety Engineers.

Why Safety Distance Learning Masters?

Since the subject is less intensive on hands-on lab work, and more intensive on engineering mathematics, decision making structures, predictive models, and specialized Safety Engineering software packages (like, CAFTA used for Nuclear Reactors, and SAPHIRE used for Space Shuttles), Safety Distance Learning Masters is very much deliverable using current distance or online technologies.

The fact that the majority of aspirants for Safety Distance Learning Masters, are working engineers, adds to its attraction as the preferred mode for this subject.

What to Expect from Safety Distance Learning Masters, in the Future?

Federal Government and various R&D oriented Government Agencies like NASA, DOE, USAF, etc. continues to be the major employers of Safety Engineers in the USA. However, this is rapidly changing with the private sector industries going for Safety Engineering in a big way. This demand will see more and more courses and options coming up in Safety Distance Learning Masters.

-Introduction to Soccer betting
Why should we use Paid services for sport betting tip ?
As we all know , now a days , many peoples do gambling.
One of the most prevalent gamblings is : Soccer Betting.

When you start to betting on soccer fixtures , it’s possible that you will be lucky and win some money at the begining.
But after many bets , loosing will begin.
All the time you will lose more than amount you will win.

For example:
One of the most prevalent markets in soccer betting is Asian Handicap.
In Asian Handicap most of the time you will bet on Odds lower than @2.00

For example:
when odds=1.75 you will loose 100$ or you will win 75$
Then you should have a strike rate bigger than 65% so you will make a profit.
If you have a strike rate less than 60% then you will lose.

For example:
Average odds you bet on = 1.75
number of settled bets= 100
number of wins= 58
number of lose= 42
Strike rate= 58%
then the profit = ( 58 x (1-1.75) ) – 40 = +3.5

So you made only 3.5 points profit after 100 bet and it’s very very little.

There are many paid soccer tip services.
Some of them are cheaters and they just want your money.
But there are little group of real tipsters. Most of them are proffesional handicapers and expert soccer analysers.
These services will help you to win and they showed good results in the past.
They could help you to have a Strike Rate bigger than 65% in 10 to 20 Bets.
And that’s a perfect result.

-Why should we use a Soccer betting tip service ?
If you ask yourself “These peoples can make huge amount of money with gambling , so why they are selling tips and picks ?”
The answer is very simple : When you , yourself want to make a bet with your own money , then you can not make the best or the correct decision.
So you will lose your Concentration , and ability of making a good decision.
So in most of cases you will pick a loser inplace of a winner.
But if you are a professional gambler or an expert soccer analyser , and if you do not bet on your own money , then you can find a good pick with the most chance of win.
So that’s why these service will work for you and can help you to win.

-Which Soccer betting tip , Pick , Prediction service should we choose ?
Please beware paid tips sites below :

- Show picks after match finished or show picks when score is leader only and
show picks nearly match end must beware.
Don’t believe in Testimonials comments, They can make up and 99% fake.

- Don’t show how many paid tips in the day , They will show winning tips only but if lost they will not show it . *** very important.

- If you interest to join which site please continuously visit them for 1 month at least, don’t hurry because paid sites are 90% cheat on the net.
Warning !!!
How do you know which paid site is cheating or not ?
Stay away from paid site which show picks after match finished 100% Fake.

- Ask them for paid tips after match started (1 month at least) if they don’t reply for 2-3 times .. Yes, 100% Fake records and they are cheating site.

- Stay away from paid site which show picks later than half-time, They are waiting for high percentage of winning or show it nearly match end *****

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