Jim Lawlor is a football scout, currently employed as the Chief Scout at Manchester United. Before joining the Red Devils, Lawlor previously worked in South African football, and has also held the position of Senior Lecturer in Sports Science at Liverpool John Moores University, where he worked on a tracking system for use in football matches.
During his time in South Africa, Lawlor got to know South African national team coach Stuart Baxter, who would go on to become Helsingborg manager in 2006. It was Lawlor's relationship with Baxter that opened the door for Manchester United to sign Henrik Larsson for 10 weeks in 2007.
During his time in South Africa, Lawlor got to know South African national team coach Stuart Baxter, who would go on to become Helsingborg manager in 2006. It was Lawlor's relationship with Baxter that opened the door for Manchester United to sign Henrik Larsson for 10 weeks in 2007.
Potential Gunners Selection Course came into effect on 01 January 2010. Formally known as the Potential Gunners Acquaintance Course (PGAC), the Potential Gunners Selection Course (PGSC) is a 4 day course that requires mandatory attendance for all young men wishing to be selected to train as a Gunner in the Royal Air Force Regiment.
Potential Gunners Selection Course
Potential Gunners Selection Course came into effect on 01 January 2010. Formally known as the Potential Gunners Acquaintance Course (PGAC), the Potential Gunners Selection Course (PGSC) is a 4 day course that requires mandatory attendance for all young men wishing to be selected to train as a Gunner in the Royal Air Force Regiment.
Candidates
Only men aged 16 - 36 can attend. Candidates do not need to hold any formal qualifications. The candidates must be a Citizen of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or a Commonwealth citizen since birth.
Changes from PGAC to PGSC
The new system will allocate four PGSCs to each Trainee Gunner (TG) Course intake. Under the new system an individual who passes all of the minimum standards on physical assessments will become eligible for selection. After four PGSC all those candidates will boarded and the top sixty selected for the TG intake ensuring that the best sixty candidates are selected.
Location
The course is held at RAF Honington in East Anglia. However transit to other Stations may occur.
Contents of the course
The course is designed to assess the candidate’s suitability for training i.e. can they follow instruction or can they apply what they have learnt? Secondly, it gives candidates the experience of the day-to-day activities of a Gunner, so they can see how well they are suited to the job. Also determination and attitude towards training comes into account. Self discipline, respect for others and self integrity. It also tests their physical fitness which all RAF Regiment Gunners must be at all times.
All of the above is determined by the following:
Gym Sessions
*Multi stage fitness test
*Sit - ups
*Push-ups
*3 Mile assessment
Swimming
The candidates are required to swim four lengths of a 25 meter pool followed by treading water for 2 minutes. All of this must be done in succession, without touching the sides or the bottom of the pool. They must then exit the pool unaided.
Assault course
Here the candidates are taken through the Royal Air Force Regiment assault course. Firstly all the candidates will do a “walk through, talk through” at each obstacle under the direction of the physical Education staff. This allows candidates to familiarize them selves with each part of the course and the obstacles prior to testing. The course then begins and ends with a 100 meter sprint around 4 markers. The course is timed and every obstacle must be completed to pass. (Some candidates have difficulty getting over the nine-foot wall; to avoid this problem it is important candidates practice over-grip pull ups.)
Typical course structure
Day 1
*Pick from Bury St Edmunds Train Station and transit to RAF Barnham
*Administration Briefing
Day 2
*Opening Address
*RAF Regiment Presentation
*Introduction to Weapons
*Fitness test and Swim test
*Skirmish lesson
*Trainee Gunner Course Brief
Day 3
*3 mile Assessment
*Assault Course
*Kit Sizing
*Education Centre
*Question and Answer session with current Trainee Gunners
Day 4
*Interview
*Physical Training programme
*End of course de-brief
Candidate guidance
It is in the best interest all candidates to give a best effort on all physical exercises and at all times on the course. It is important to stress that achieving minimum standard by no means ensures a candidate will be selected, it merely ensures they are eligible for selection.
Potential Gunners Selection Course
Potential Gunners Selection Course came into effect on 01 January 2010. Formally known as the Potential Gunners Acquaintance Course (PGAC), the Potential Gunners Selection Course (PGSC) is a 4 day course that requires mandatory attendance for all young men wishing to be selected to train as a Gunner in the Royal Air Force Regiment.
Candidates
Only men aged 16 - 36 can attend. Candidates do not need to hold any formal qualifications. The candidates must be a Citizen of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or a Commonwealth citizen since birth.
Changes from PGAC to PGSC
The new system will allocate four PGSCs to each Trainee Gunner (TG) Course intake. Under the new system an individual who passes all of the minimum standards on physical assessments will become eligible for selection. After four PGSC all those candidates will boarded and the top sixty selected for the TG intake ensuring that the best sixty candidates are selected.
Location
The course is held at RAF Honington in East Anglia. However transit to other Stations may occur.
Contents of the course
The course is designed to assess the candidate’s suitability for training i.e. can they follow instruction or can they apply what they have learnt? Secondly, it gives candidates the experience of the day-to-day activities of a Gunner, so they can see how well they are suited to the job. Also determination and attitude towards training comes into account. Self discipline, respect for others and self integrity. It also tests their physical fitness which all RAF Regiment Gunners must be at all times.
All of the above is determined by the following:
Gym Sessions
*Multi stage fitness test
*Sit - ups
*Push-ups
*3 Mile assessment
Swimming
The candidates are required to swim four lengths of a 25 meter pool followed by treading water for 2 minutes. All of this must be done in succession, without touching the sides or the bottom of the pool. They must then exit the pool unaided.
Assault course
Here the candidates are taken through the Royal Air Force Regiment assault course. Firstly all the candidates will do a “walk through, talk through” at each obstacle under the direction of the physical Education staff. This allows candidates to familiarize them selves with each part of the course and the obstacles prior to testing. The course then begins and ends with a 100 meter sprint around 4 markers. The course is timed and every obstacle must be completed to pass. (Some candidates have difficulty getting over the nine-foot wall; to avoid this problem it is important candidates practice over-grip pull ups.)
Typical course structure
Day 1
*Pick from Bury St Edmunds Train Station and transit to RAF Barnham
*Administration Briefing
Day 2
*Opening Address
*RAF Regiment Presentation
*Introduction to Weapons
*Fitness test and Swim test
*Skirmish lesson
*Trainee Gunner Course Brief
Day 3
*3 mile Assessment
*Assault Course
*Kit Sizing
*Education Centre
*Question and Answer session with current Trainee Gunners
Day 4
*Interview
*Physical Training programme
*End of course de-brief
Candidate guidance
It is in the best interest all candidates to give a best effort on all physical exercises and at all times on the course. It is important to stress that achieving minimum standard by no means ensures a candidate will be selected, it merely ensures they are eligible for selection.
The IRMOS Project (Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures) is a European research project partially funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011 under grant agreement n° 214777.
The objective of IRMOS is to enable real-time interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI), where processing, storage and networking needs to be combined and delivered with guaranteed levels of service.
Innovations
The following innovations will be contributed by the IRMOS
project:
* A platform of services that enables real-time interaction between people and applications
* An intelligent network infrastructure supporting the provisioning of Quality of service guarantees, through automated negotiation and monitoring of Service Level Agreements (including network terms such as bandwidth, delay and jitter), as required by interactive real-time applications
* An integrated optimisation approach at various levels from inter-organisation business processes and SLAs to intelligent networking and virtualisation techniques that enable real-time interaction and concurrency at all points of value chains
* Software tools and associated modelling environments that support engineering real-time interactive applications for SOIs
* Specification languages that unify various parameters and characteristics used to describe real-time applications on SOIs, and allow value chain participants to collaborate in the design, deployment and execution of networks of services
Expected Impact
The expected impact is envisaged to be significant in multiple sectors. More precisely IRMOS will:
* Advance the business models of interactive real-time multimedia applications with the benefits that come from SOAs
* Increase competitiveness of involved players due to low cost implementation and broader market accessibility
* Lower the entry level for SMEs to participate in the market of real-time interactive services (such as multimedia processing)
* Strengthen efficiency and productivity of organisations by advancing resilience of SOIs
* Work on standardisation and extend the state of the art with the provision of open APIs to be used in the development of real-time interactive applications
* Provide tools to write software with predictable performance, resilient to the changes of the environment in SOIs
* Provide management interfaces between service providers and network operators opening up new opportunities for all stakeholders
Demonstrators
IRMOS results will be independent from applications but, nonetheless, they will be validated through three different application scenarios (demonstrators): Digital Film Postproduction, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Interactive Real-time eLearning.
The IRMOS Platform
The IRMOS platform adds a unique set of Real-Time features to service-oriented infrastructures by providing Quality of Service Guarantees with real-time attributes at all levels (network, processing, storage, application, workflow and business).
Applications and Business Processes are deployed on virtualized Cross-Organisational Infrastructure using advanced modelling methodologies, tools and management services to plan, predict and monitor both application and business performance.
The IRMOS platform consists on three predominant blocks, namely the Infrastructure Services, the Framework Services and the Applications Services which are realized by different business actors in the IRMOS Value Chain.
The objective of IRMOS is to enable real-time interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI), where processing, storage and networking needs to be combined and delivered with guaranteed levels of service.
Innovations
The following innovations will be contributed by the IRMOS
project:
* A platform of services that enables real-time interaction between people and applications
* An intelligent network infrastructure supporting the provisioning of Quality of service guarantees, through automated negotiation and monitoring of Service Level Agreements (including network terms such as bandwidth, delay and jitter), as required by interactive real-time applications
* An integrated optimisation approach at various levels from inter-organisation business processes and SLAs to intelligent networking and virtualisation techniques that enable real-time interaction and concurrency at all points of value chains
* Software tools and associated modelling environments that support engineering real-time interactive applications for SOIs
* Specification languages that unify various parameters and characteristics used to describe real-time applications on SOIs, and allow value chain participants to collaborate in the design, deployment and execution of networks of services
Expected Impact
The expected impact is envisaged to be significant in multiple sectors. More precisely IRMOS will:
* Advance the business models of interactive real-time multimedia applications with the benefits that come from SOAs
* Increase competitiveness of involved players due to low cost implementation and broader market accessibility
* Lower the entry level for SMEs to participate in the market of real-time interactive services (such as multimedia processing)
* Strengthen efficiency and productivity of organisations by advancing resilience of SOIs
* Work on standardisation and extend the state of the art with the provision of open APIs to be used in the development of real-time interactive applications
* Provide tools to write software with predictable performance, resilient to the changes of the environment in SOIs
* Provide management interfaces between service providers and network operators opening up new opportunities for all stakeholders
Demonstrators
IRMOS results will be independent from applications but, nonetheless, they will be validated through three different application scenarios (demonstrators): Digital Film Postproduction, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Interactive Real-time eLearning.
The IRMOS Platform
The IRMOS platform adds a unique set of Real-Time features to service-oriented infrastructures by providing Quality of Service Guarantees with real-time attributes at all levels (network, processing, storage, application, workflow and business).
Applications and Business Processes are deployed on virtualized Cross-Organisational Infrastructure using advanced modelling methodologies, tools and management services to plan, predict and monitor both application and business performance.
The IRMOS platform consists on three predominant blocks, namely the Infrastructure Services, the Framework Services and the Applications Services which are realized by different business actors in the IRMOS Value Chain.
Pauline Nordin (born July 23, 1982) is an IFBB fitness competitor, Pro Figure athlete, fitness model, actress, Certified Fitness Trainer and journalist. She was born in Ystad, Sweden and began training in 1999 and competing in 2002.
Pauline has appeared in several large circulation magazines, including a cover on and the Swedish bodybuilding publication Body Magazine. She has been sponsored by Better Bodies, Optimum Nutrition Inc., and is a writer for Bodybuilding.com.
Pauline was the Swedish trainer in the TV-show The Biggest Loser, in which her protégé won that season thanks to losing 90 lbs in ten weeks under Pauline's supervision.
She lives and trains in Venice Beach, California with her husband, the photographer and director of photography, Pavel Ythjall. They own the fitness and wellness company Conforce.
Stats
* Height: 5'2"
* Contest Weight: 117 lbs
* Offseason Weight: 117 lbs
Pauline has appeared in several large circulation magazines, including a cover on and the Swedish bodybuilding publication Body Magazine. She has been sponsored by Better Bodies, Optimum Nutrition Inc., and is a writer for Bodybuilding.com.
Pauline was the Swedish trainer in the TV-show The Biggest Loser, in which her protégé won that season thanks to losing 90 lbs in ten weeks under Pauline's supervision.
She lives and trains in Venice Beach, California with her husband, the photographer and director of photography, Pavel Ythjall. They own the fitness and wellness company Conforce.
Stats
* Height: 5'2"
* Contest Weight: 117 lbs
* Offseason Weight: 117 lbs