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Move of the Week: Slide and Press
Why should just one area of your body get all the attention at a given time? This Move of the Week comes to the rescue and works both your lower and upper body for a great two-for-one special that tones and tightens.
Quads, hamstrings, and shoulders all get some love here.
The Slide and Press is part of our brand new at-home, do-anywhere, no-gym workout, and it’s true—you really can do this move just about anywhere.
Here’s how it works: Start in left lunge, with right foot on a gliding disc and 5- to 8-lb dumbbell in right hand. As you lift to standing, slide right leg toward left and curl dumbbell to chest. When right foot meets left, press dumbbell overhead.
Return to start. Do 3 sets of 6 reps per side.
Dumbbells and gliding discs are both inexpensive purchases that will transform your idea of what an at-home workout can be. Don’t have access to this equipment where you are? Try this move with a big, full water bottle (tightly sealed, of course), and on a smooth surface with socks.
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Intermediate Software Developer – Century City
Join the C# team at this Global Powerhouse that provides solutions for the online gaming industry as an Intermediate Software Developer. You will need to reside Cape Town, near to Century City. This is a close-knit company that takes care of their employees and the environment is pure synergy.
Please Note:
If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.
Software Packages:
C#; ASP.NET, XML, SOAP, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Stored Procedures, Visual Studio
Primary Requirements:
- 3-5 years’ experience hands-on development experience.
- Computer Science related degree, diploma or similar qualification.
- Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.
Understanding of the following will be an added advantage:
- MVC pattern
- Message Queues (RabbitMQ)
- NoSql (Mongo)
- Out of Memory Caching (Couchbase)
- Real time evaluations (SignalR/XSockets)
- Source control concepts (Merging, Branching, Publishing)
- Continuous Integration
Secondary Requirements:
- Proven experience in internet technology and web development.
- Proven experience in coding
- Willing to research, learn and apply new technologies and languages.
- Knowledge of OO, development methodologies and patterns.
Knowledge of the following:
- Databases: MS SQL Server
- C#; ASP.NET, XML, SOAP, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Stored Procedures, Visual Studio
Duties will include, but not limited to:
- Develop cutting-edge software using the latest development tools and frameworks.
- Unit-test all software artifacts.
- Maintain current systems (web/other) and develop new systems (web/other) using the latest technologies.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Test Analysts in developing, testing and deploying systems components.
- Research and develop new technologies.
- Provide second/third line support to IT for software deployed into company eco system.
- Analyse and resolve complex and high impact production issues.
- Monitor systems performance and ensure all SLA’s are met.
Applicants must reside in Cape Town or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za
Internal Sales Representative (durban)
OUR CLIENT IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY AN INTERNAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE IN DURBAN
Please Note:
If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.
Requirements:
- Maths and Science (Matric Certificate)
- Engineering/Sales qualification
- Trade qualification advantageous
- Knowledge of an ERP system advantageous
- Knowledge of Gaskets and Sealing products will be an advantage
- 5 years Internal Sales experience and Account management experience
- Good Working knowledge of MS Excel
Applicants must reside in DURBAN or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za
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News24.com | Cape Town man dies after being shot multiple times in the head
A man died in Kensington, Cape Town, on Saturday morning after being shot multiple times in the head, Western Cape police said.
Officers found the body of the man, 34, on the corner of Ventura and Vliegtuig Avenue, in the early hours of the morning, said Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana.
She said no arrests had yet been made and police were following up on leads to bring those responsible to book.
Kensington Community Policing Forum (CPF) Secretary Cheslyn Steenberg said it looked like gang-related violence.
The CPF condemned the incident and conveyed condolences to the man’s family and friends.
“We note with sadness the manner in which the male victim was killed, shot multiple times in his head. It draws our attention to the anger and frustration that rests in our space.”
He urged residents with information to approach the police.
Sport24.co.za | Golden oldie leaves Lions licking S15 wounds
Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer
Cape Town – You can’t keep a good man down … even if he is a nearly 38-year-old rugby player.
Schalk Brits’s awesome display for the Bulls at hooker, and up against Springbok first-choice strongman Malcolm Marx, arguably provided the major talking point after Saturday’s double dose of South African derbies in Super Rugby.
Certainly the well-travelled figure’s beautifully rounded showing at Ellis Park, where he once served home outfits the Golden Lions and Cats between 2004 and 2005, was a better source of feel-good factor than much of the later action in the supposed headline clash of the day between the Sharks and Stormers in Durban.
Not that the Capetonians will care that it was a tepid, uninspiring contest for the most part: the underdogs were worthy 16-11 winners, playing a disciplined, conservative and physicality-conscious game that knocked the supposedly reinvented Sharks right off their stride.
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Robbie Fleck’s charges now enter a well-earned bye week off having recovered dramatically – at least in scoreboard terms, rather than for any special rugby dynamism – from their opening-round thumping at Loftus to bag respective narrow triumphs over the Lions and now Sharks.
They are yet to create a properly well-executed try this season, and only produced two in total from the trio of matches (Saturday’s lone dot-down was an alert intercept by Damian Willemse) but have at least served up a reminder over the last two rounds that a certain pride in the brand remains embedded in the players’ hearts despite the boardroom strife and financial instability at Newlands.
The result – eked out in typical KwaZulu-Natal humidity at this time of year which, John Smit reminded in the SuperSport studio, is simply not conducive to ball-in-hand fluency – meant a blow to the Sharks’ prior, highly encouraging two-match start to the 2019 campaign.
What’s more, they now face an equally punishing all-domestic fixture again next up: the Bulls at Loftus.
The Stormers, meanwhile, will relish the thought of a bit of feet-up time for some of their gnarly pack figures: Springbok stalwarts like Eben Etzebeth and Pieter-Steph du Toit were colossal in Durban for work-rate and “grunt”, with younger players like JD Schickerling and late call-up at No 8 Jaco Coetzee not far behind.
They also have the good likelihood of seeing Bok loose-head prop Steven Kitshoff declared fit for a return to action from injury (and his first Super Rugby involvement of the year) soon after the bye; their next game will be at home to the Jaguares on the Friday night of March 15.
But the story of the day came out of Johannesburg, where Brits was hugely inspirational in the Bulls – now a third SA team to be “two from three” – seeing off the Lions, the country’s premier side for each of the last three years and losing finalists each time, with some startling daylight between them (30-12) in the Highveld derby.
It was two tries all, but that was a very deceptive statistic, given how majestically the Bulls bossed the clash strategically, territorially and in terms of possession.
In age-old Bulls fashion, they built plenty of scoreboard pressure by electing to bang over penalties via the red-hot boot of flyhalf Handre Pollard rather than go for the attacking lineout or quick tap too often.
But the visitors also played plenty of constructive rugby, with danger virtually ever-present from their lively back three of fullback Warrick Gelant and wings Cornal Hendricks and Rosko Specman.
While another established “yster” in Duane Vermeulen was also a routine menace in the collective bullying of a lightweight Lions pack, Brits performed with astonishing zeal in the No 2 jersey, involved in all areas of play.
His hooker “basics” were superb, including contributing to the Bulls determinedly not going backwards at scrum-time – sometimes a weaker area of their make-up – but he busied himself additionally at the breakdown, and stepped and sprinted at times with trademark, almost BaaBaas-like spirit.
He earned an approving nod on Twitter from Bok tearaway loose forward legend Rob Louw, who said (@roblouw6): “To all those people who attacked Rassie (Erasmus) on why he had the ‘old’ Schalk Brits in his Bok squad, I hope your questions have been answered. Smiley an incredible presence today in this tough derby!”
The Lions have been left suddenly rather on the back foot, with successive defeats undoing their opening-round fine work in beating the Jaguares for the first time in Buenos Aires …
Next weekend’s fixtures (home teams first, all kick-offs SA time):
Friday: Hurricanes v Highlanders, 08:35; Rebels v Brumbies, 10:45. Saturday: Crusaders v Chiefs, 06:15; Blues v Sunwolves, 08:35; Waratahs v Reds, 10:45; Lions v Jaguares, 15:05; Bulls v Sharks, 17:15. Bye: Stormers.
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Health24.com | How flu may up the odds of a stroke or a rupture in your neck arteries, a new study shows
Flu can make you deathly ill, but it could also trigger a stroke or a rupture in your neck arteries, two new studies suggest.
The findings prompted an urgent reminder from the researchers: Getting a flu shot will not only protect you against infection but may also reduce your risk for these serious complications.
Researchers in the first study found that flu can increase your odds for having a stroke by almost 40% – and that added risk remains for a full year.
“The risk is highest in the 15 days of influenza and starts to decrease as time goes on,” said lead researcher Amelia Boehme. She’s an assistant professor of epidemiology at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City.
For the study, Boehme and her colleagues identified nearly 31 000 patients from a New York state database, average age 72, who had a stroke in 2014. As a group, they tended to have had more severe cases of flu, since all were seen in an emergency room or admitted to the hospital.
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Boehme’s team expected to find differences in stroke risk between men and women, urban and rural dwellers and blacks and whites. Instead, researchers found their risk of stroke after fighting the flu was similar.
Other studies have found that stroke risk rises after any major infection. It could be that in people who are already at risk for stroke, flu triggers one, Boehme said. But this study did not prove that flu causes stroke risk to rise.
Still, patients need to be closely monitored after having the flu, said Dr Salman Azhar, director of stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
“What’s interesting here is the flu not only increases the risk of stroke, but that the risk is actually a prolonged risk, which goes on for several months,” he said. “People need to get vaccinated.”
Azhar suspects the inflammation that goes along with an infection like flu leaves the body vulnerable to strokes and heart attacks.
“The flu puts your immune system into overdrive and you’ve got a lot of inflammation, and it persists,” he said. “It’s not a one-and-done risk — the risk is there for several months.”
May be a trigger
In the second study, another group of Columbia University researchers found that in the month following a bout with flu, patients had a higher likelihood of tearing neck arteries.
“Previous studies have shown that non-traumatic cervical artery tearing is a leading cause of stroke in patients 15 to 45 years old,” said lead researcher Madeleine Hunter, a medical student. “However, how dissections of the neck’s arteries occur without major trauma remains unclear.”
Using the same data as in the first study, Hunter’s team reviewed nearly 3 900 cases of cervical artery tearing among men and women, average age 52.
They also identified more than 1 700 cases of flu and found 113 cases where patients had flu during the three years before suffering a torn neck artery. Flu was most likely to have occurred within the 30 days before the tear.
“The fact that our study found an association between flu and cervical artery tearing and that the association fades with time suggests that influenza may be a trigger,” Hunter said.
Flu opens door to other diseases
Dr Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, reviewed the findings.
“Flu causes a hyperimmune response and can increase clotting and wear-and-tear on the arteries,” he said. But the problem with flu isn’t just the flu itself, Siegel pointed out. Rather, it opens the door to other life-threatening diseases.
One of the under-appreciated aspects of the flu shot is that, if you get flu, it will likely be a milder case, Siegel said. “I would expect complications like these, which are extreme, to be less with flu shots.”
The findings were presented in February at the American Stroke Association annual meeting, in Honolulu. Research presented at meetings is typically considered preliminary until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
News24.com | FF+ manifesto calls for smaller Cabinet, AA-free economic zones, community councils
The Freedom Front Plus proposed privatising state entities, reducing Cabinet to 16 ministers, not letting the government go over budget, and opening affirmative action-free economic zones in its election manifesto which was launched in Pretoria on Saturday.
The party also reiterated its opposition to expropriation of land without compensation in favour of redistributing unused state-owned land and failed land reform projects, and speeding up land claims.
Led by MP Pieter Groenwald, the party’s manifesto said it would protect heritage, conservation and social care under community councils, and schools and other institutions can choose if they want to be part of a community council system, or fall directly under the government.
It wants to do away with race-based affirmative action, in favour of a merit-based system.
The party also wants to reduce salary increases and bonuses to public office bearers and increase VAT if government spending reaches a pre-set cap then reduce it once spending is under control again.
It wants municipalities to comprise of a single town, instead of the current mega-municipalities which are struggling, and believes local government and provincial governments should have more power.
It also submits that self-determination to recognise diversity is becoming accepted world-wide and should be introduced in South Africa.
It wants personal and company tax lowered to stimulate investment in the economy and create jobs, and to decrease the fuel levy significantly.
The Road Accident Fund must be done away with and every motor vehicle owner must be compelled by legislation to take out third-party insurance. It is also calling for aboloshing e-tolls in Gauteng.
The party wants the policing and prosecution of violence against women and children to be prioritised and an increase in state funding of non-profit organisations, like children’s homes and homes for the elderly and disabled people.
It will abolish transformation targets and black economic empowerment to encourage the private sector to appoint the best person for the job, to promote economic growth.
Strikes and particularly illegal strikes that lead to job losses must be prohibited, there should be no protests near schools, and trade unions’ power must be restricted.
The party also proposes that teachers who are willing to work at less affluent schools must receive higher remuneration and higher bonuses, and proposes a system of parent- and community-driven mother-tongue education, expressing concern about the anglicising of education in South Africa.
The FF Plus supports greater state expenditure on agricultural research and protection against international dumping. It says it is in support of private property rights and food security, and believes that if there is expropriation, it must be market-related and should go through a court.
The provincial and national elections have been set for May 8.