Realising the Benefits of Sports and Physical Activity: The Human Capital Model by Daniel Parnell- Academia.edu

http://kch.illinois.edu/Research/Labs/neurocognitive-kinesiology/files/Articles/Bailey_2013_PhysicalActivityAnUnderestimated.pdf

Abstract:

Despite the fact that physical activity is universally acknowledged to be an important part of healthy functioning and well being, the full scope of its value is rarely appreciated.  This paper introduces a novel framework for understanding the relationships between physical activity (and specific forms of activity like sports) and different aspects of human development.  It proposes that the outcomes of physical activity can be framed as differential 'capitals' that represent investments in domain-specific assets – Emotional, Financial, Individual, Intellectual, Physical, and Social. 

These investments, especially when made early in the life course, can yield significant rewards, both at that time and for years to come.  The paper also outlines some of the conditions necessary for the realization of Human Capital growth through sports and physical activity, focusing on the social factors that influence participation for children and young people.

Research Interests: 

Health Sciences, Health Promotion, Children and Families, Physical Activity, Public Health, and 4 more

DownloadBookmark Realising the Benefits of Sports and Physical Activity: The Human Capital Model (Materializando los beneficios del deporte y la actividad física: El modelo de capital humano) by Daniel Parnell Despite the fact that physical activity is universally acknowledged to be an important part of healthy functioning and well being, the full scope of its value is rarely appreciated. This paper introduces a novel framework for understanding the relationships between physical activity (and specific forms of activity like sports) and different aspects of human development. It proposes that the outcomes of physical activity can be framed as differential 'capitals' that represent investments in domain-specific assets – Emotional, Financial, Individual, Intellectual, Physical, and Social. ...

Giants receive residual dividend from Zito signing

I didn't always feel this way, but he was worth every penny and then some. Great story.

from MLB Trade Rumors:
Quick Hits: Ramirez, Hitting Coaches, Hudson, Zito – MLB Trade Rumors:

Barry Zito‘s seven-year contract with the Giants didn’t turn out so well, but he did help them land Tim Hudson, Ryan Hood of MLB.com writes. When both pitchers were free agents last winter, Hudson called his former Athletics teammate to see what he thought of playing in San Francisco. “I said it’s a first-rate organization, from the top down,” says Zito, who assured Hudson that Giants fans had changed since the two pitchers had played together in Oakland. “Giants fans had a little more of a rep of just coming out for baseball games and not really having a die-hard presence and creating an intimidating atmosphere. It was very light. I told him 2010 changed everything.” Hudson posted a 3.57 ERA with 5.7 K/9 and 1.6 BB/9 in 189 1/3 innings for the Giants this season. Zito, meanwhile, says he determined in August 2013 that he would “take some time away from the game and focus on family.” He did not pitch this season.

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I suppose the issue of whether Zito's contract turned out well or not depends on your perspective and on what it is specifically that you value in life. If you're purely measuring W-L's versus dollars and cents, then you know what, maybe you're right, it a was a horse-shit signing. The ESPN tag line used to be be "The games aren't played on the field, they're played inside a little TV box". Well, dad-gum it, you can't measure everything in life inside an excel spreadsheet.

Moneyball be damned!!!

Proof that Jamie Dimon is a whore with a twisted worldview of value

A LETTER FROM JP MORGAN CEO TO GOLD DIGGERS

Both that gal and the JPM CEO need to get their heads out of their respective arses. So much about what is wrong with this country is displayed in her superficially stupid question and his equally vapidly stupid reply. 

In a sense, these two idiots are made for each other, they are just negotiating the price.

Posted originally by a friend on Facebook, the original article is from March 2012. Another reason I love Facebook, you can have dozens of eyeballs finding articles of interest that you are not able to stumble upon, Oops that's another useful app. 

from laluttecontinue:

http://laluttecontinue.tumblr.com/post/20069287160/a-letter-from-jp-morgan-ceo-to-gold-diggers

This might be the best thing I’ve seen in a while:

A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here.
I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.
You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.
My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?
I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?
Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.
If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.
I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty

A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:

Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.
My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty" and “money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.
Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position".
If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased".
Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps.

signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO

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It bears repeating....Chicago Values SUCK....This just in!!! NY, not much better

Where are the race-baiters when the time comes to point the finger at their own? Or just take the time to take a long, hard look in the mirror? Great jobs you guys are doing there Herrs Emanuel and Bloomberg. GREAT EFFORT.

Let's do the math, shall we?
--- NY, CHI and Wash DC
--- all strict gun control areas
--- all cesspools of violence
--- all led for years by demonstrably failed political, sociological ideologues
--- and the solution is MORE gun control laws?
--- and not turning away from the demonstrably failed ideology?

Hmmmm........why can't I figure this out?

Don't tell me the problem is with the failure of the "value systems" of some of the folks that have consistently LED (and I use the term loosely) these areas -- where the preponderance of these cesspools are located -- down the wrong path politically (and have for decades)?

No, that can't be it. Could it?

from Godfather Politics:
Did Targeting the 1% by Occupy Wall Street Movement Lead to NY Shootings? - Godfather Politics:

 "Let’s not forget what’s going on in Chicago, the city led by Mayor Rahm Emanuel who served as the White House Chief of Staff to President Obama. It’s now the murder capital of the world. But since the victims and perpetrators don’t fit the liberal, anti-conservative narrative, the liberal media can’t and won’t make an issue of the city’s violence."

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It should be great theatre to see how Bloomberg spins the recent Empire State Building shooting after this "army that couldn't shoot straight" (NYPD) nearly turned the apprehension of a lone gunman into a mass-killing field. Maybe now he can advocate for less guns in the hands of the NYPD.

from Foxnews.comhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/24/multiple-people-shot-near-empire-state-building-in-manhattan-police-say/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews

 NYPD: 9 shooting bystander victims hit by police gunfire

NEW YORK –  All nine bystanders caught in the crossfire of a shooting outside New York City's iconic Empire State Building were wounded by two police officers who had never fired their weapons on duty, authorities confirmed Saturday.

Officer Craig Matthews fired seven times and Officer Robert Sinishtaj fired nine times at Jeffrey Johnson on a busy Friday morning in the highly touristed area after Johnson shot a former co-worker to death and then pointed his pistol at them

WWJD? IDK it seems so hard to figure out, right?

It seems pretty clear what he "would" do, based on what he "did" do. The whole chasing the money changers out of the temple thing. Multiple times, it seems, because like cockroaches they kept coming back.

It actually seems silly to ponder WWJD as a question anymore when we live in a world that ever increasingly seems more inclined to answer the question more along the lines of  "What would Judas do?"

Seems as if Herr Emanuel has an interesting perspective we may all want to model. You've come full circle Rahm-bo. Spinning like a freaking top. Good job, good effort!!! You should be so proud of your choices. There's no hate in that crowd of yours, right?

Here's the kind of results you get from implementing these highly vaunted "Chicago values".

from nbcchicago.com
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/The-Deadliest-Global-City-163874546.html

Among what are considered Alpha world cities, Chicago has the highest murder rate -- higher even than the Third World metropolises of Mexico City and Sao Paolo.

Here’s how we rank in murders per 100,000 among cities we consider our peers, based on a projected murder total of 505 for this year.

Singapore 0.4
Tokyo 0.5
Hong Kong 0.6
Berlin 1.0
Sydney 1.0
London 1.4
Toronto 1.7
Amsterdam 1.8
Paris 4.4
New York 6.0
Los Angeles 7.5
Mexico City 8.0
Moscow 9.6
Sao Paulo 15.6
Chicago 19.4

We could be doing worse: Caracas, Venezuela has a murder rate of 130 per 100,000. But its undeniable that the Windy City is under seige.

WOW!!! We're comforted by the fact that we aren't Caracas, Venezuela. Yet!!! Because Emanuel and Company read from the same play-book as Hugo Chavez. Chavez must just be better at executing the plays.

Yes, WWJD indeed. It's pretty clear in many ways WWJD, we just have a consistent listening and comprehension problem to deal with. Too much "political correctness" shit in our ears and our heads.

It's not too difficult to understand folks.

Chicago Values.....

Chicago values suck. At least those that Rahm-bo seems to embrace. A cesspool of corruption continues it's proud, storied history.

Monty Pelerin's World » Chicago Values:

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Allen West and Rick Santelli on CNBC:

Allen West On Chick-Fil-A

Here is another demonstration of why West should be the next POTUS. Unfortunately, in the current system / environment, we are left with a party too dumb to even want to include him as VP on the ticket. Maybe he would overshadow the #1. from PJ Media: The PJ Tatler » Allen West Doesn’t Always School CAIR Apologists, But When He Does…:

"Allen West Doesn’t Always School CAIR Apologists, But When He Does…" The cuddly-named CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. It’s executive director, Nezar Hamze, tried to trap Rep. Allen West at a recent public meeting. That, as you’ll see in the video, was a mistake. Exit question: Is the Romney campaign sure that a “boring white guy” is really the way to go on the veep pick? h/t MRCTV

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