Sentences with phrase «headgear in»

The Wedding Veil is a special headgear in Dragon Quest V.

Platinum Helm (also known as Lode Helm in the SNES / PS version) is headgear in Chrono Trigger.

The Triceratopper (also known as Cera Topper in the SNES / PS version) is headgear in Chrono Trigger, able to be worn by anyone.

Most remember her aluminum foil headgear in Signs, and here she is simply magnificent as the ever - optimistic girl who is so looking forward to the pageant.

Peter Bone donned the dodgy headgear in a bid to promote his local charity, «Crazy Hats», which raises money for Northamptonshire breast cancer care services.

Whether headgear in the women's game will actually make the game safer will still be open to debate, at least until studies can be done to compare injury rates among girls and women wearing helmets and those who don't (similar to those done comparing injury rates for girls wearing goggles playing lacrosse versus those that didn't - which showed that the goggles were effective in reducing injury rates.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

Whether headgear in the women's game will make the game safer, of course, is open to debate.

As a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, I had the privilege of voting on a proposed helmet standard, in this case a new standard developed for headgear in women's lacrosse.

Not exact matches

There are dozens of sleep devices on the market, ranging from myriad headgear and a shirt that monitors breathing during sleep to an iPhone app that turns your cellphone into a sleep - tracking device (already a bestseller in parts of Europe and Asia).

This season, Florida is the first and only state in the U.S. to require girls lacrosse teams to wear protective headgear, thanks to a new requirement by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

In the late 18th century and early 19th, turbans became fashionable headgear for women.

[5] Costumes worn by singer Carmen Miranda in several World War II - era Hollywood films featured turbans, including increasingly outrageous and oversized piles of fruit - as - headgear, supposedly modelled on those worn by Brasilian market ladies.

While a dignified Nelson Mandela addressed the heads of state, many viewers wondered about the man dressed in leopard skins, standing directly behind him with a little flag stuck quaintly in his headgear.

Simcha Goldman, an Orthodox Jew and ordained rabbi serving as a clinical psychologist in an Air Force hospital, wore a yarmulke at all times and contended that an Air Force dress code regulation which forbade the wearing of «headgear» (such as a yarmulke) while indoors infringed upon his First Amendment right to free exercise of his religious belief.

A phone call was placed to Fort Worth, and a load of quality headgear was flown to the O6 in time to be passed out at the postgame cookout.

Each of the three rounds in a bout lasts two minutes, and the boxers wear headgear and thumbless, thickly padded gloves.

The goalie has worn the protective headgear since suffering a serious head injury against Reading in 2006.

The Chelsea striker, resembling a bank robber in the headgear protecting his broken nose, was clearly offside when he scored their second against Norwich City at Carrow Road this evening.

Before Sunday's Rangers - Tigers game at Comerica Park, Prince Fielder and Derek Holland, who both were in Ann Arbor Saturday meeting with the football team and chatting with Jim Harbaugh, ran some routes on the field while rocking the Michigan headgear.

Bradshaw is a ruddy - faced, 45 - year - old Dubliner whose round face, rounder figure and style in headgear are reminiscent of Jackie Gleason.

Corso started making the headgear picks in 1996.

The debate over whether helmets should be mandated in girl's lacrosse, which has been raging for several years, reached a new level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring season.

My hat is off to US Lacrosse (which, by the way, is an organization that I highlighted in my book, Home Team Advantage, for having a Board of Directors, unlike almost all other sports governing bodies, comprised equally of men and women), for providing the funding needed to design testing protocols and conduct the testing which yielded the data and measurements used in shaping the new headgear standard.

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

«It's our hope that developing a women's lacrosse - specific headgear standard that reflects the significant rule and culture differences between boys» and girls» lacrosse will mitigate the focal impact forces that occur from stick - to - head contact in the girl's game while maintaining the integrity of girls» lacrosse.

The appropriate process for developing sports safety policy was summed up nicely in an email I got this week from Ann Carpenetti, vice president of lacrosse operations at US Lacrosse and co-chair of the women's lacrosse headgear task group at ASTM:

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

The new standard is likely more a function of the fact that, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

From the numerous conversations (both on the telephone and via email) that MomsTEAM's Senior Health and Safety Editor, Lindsey Barton Straus, and I have had over the years with our friends at US Lacrosse, especially CEO, Steve Stenersen (who I started talking to way back in 1999 - 2000), director of health and sport safety, Bruce Griffin (who was one of the principal authors of the draft standard), and Ann Carpenetti, vice president of lacrosse operations and co-chair of the women's lacrosse headgear task group, I am confident that the draft standard is based on sound science.

The McGill study is the first «to say that soft protective headgear for soccer significantly decreased the number of concussions for those athletes,» said lead researcher, Dr. Scott Delaney in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

According to an article published by Dr. Sears, more often than not, breastfed babies have better jaw alignment, reducing the need for things like braces or headgear later in life.

options in braces and retainers; I wore bulky headgear to sleep for years to address my overbite, and when I accidentally threw away my retainers on my lunch tray as a freshman in high school, my parents decided I was done with treatment.

Many of my constituents have contacted me to say that when they visit Muslim countries they respect the dress codes in those countries and wear appropriate headgear.

The drivers, clad in red arm bands and headgears drummed and chanted war songs while they paraded the streets of the northern regional capital.

The traders are into selling T - shirts, scarves, wrist watches, headgear, key holders, umbrellas, calendars, handkerchiefs, belts, clothes, necklaces and beads branded in NDC's colours and symbols or embossment of President John Dramani Mahama's portrait.

Also participating were the Green Party and its gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, delegations from several colleges, environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, indigenous dancers in traditional garb and headgear, a number of out - of - state liberal organizations, activists from several foreign nations and a large complement of radical socialist and communist parties — all marching to the usual protest accompaniment of acoustic guitars, drums, horns and whistles.

Cowboy hats were not popular in the Western American frontier, with derby or bowler hats being the headgear of choice.

Even Lady Gaga has applied for an internship to learn professional skills in something she is passionate about — designing improbable headgear.

Amateur boxers, wearing headgear, still suffered insult to the brain in some cases equivalent to a small stroke.

Force sensors in headgear could signal whether a hit is strong enough to cause concern should the player receive a second serious blow.

In football, hockey and other contact sports, protective headgear seems to have increased the risk of concussion by providing a false sense of security that encourages athletes to hit harder with their head.

Isaac Newton, meanwhile, was offered various types of protective headgear, several Apple computers and a couple of cider presses, while another popular recipient of gifts was Leonardo da Vinci, who was offered model aircraft kits, flying lessons, trips in Concorde, a computer - aided design system and the address of a good patent lawyer.

• Headgear is a must in the summer!

The helmet equivalent of a convertible, this snazzy headgear lets you feel the wind in your hair (well, you can feel the air circulating).

Found my favorite color in the form of my favorite headgear at Topshop and uhh this Proenza Schouler beauty is making me really (like, really really) want a PS1.

It also results in our hero being threatened by Hela the Goddess of Death, played by a deliciously depraved Cate Blanchett — love the antler headgear — and who wants to end Asgard's patriarchal reign.

She isn't the most complex of baddies, but she looks fabulous in her range of black catsuits and her chandelier - shaped headgear, and Blanchett relishes playing her as a bored, drawling, English aristocrat.