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Welcome to Eclectic Selections... our newest fire prevention product, The Dryer Lint Brush, is taking households by storm. This simple yet effective tool for home safety removes the lint from dryer crevices and helps prevent dryer fires. This is a multi-purpose must have brush. See additional uses at the bottom.
VALPO COUPLE DECLARES WAR ON LINT
Bergers hope their product stops some of the hundreds of fires reported each year.
By Julia Versau
Times correspondent
It's great to have Paul Newman on your side when you're hawking a new invention. In his latest film, Newman plays a handyman who exchanges household know-how for room and board. When he tackles the dryer, he pulls out a wad of lint and debris that would choke a horse and chastises his host, "no wonder your dryer caught fire."
A small part of the movie, but a big deal to Thomas and Linnea Berger. The Valparaiso couple, owner of Eclectic Selections Inc., have invented a dryer lint brush they hope will eliminate many clothes dryer fires. There were 3,800 caused specifically by lint accumulation between 1990 and 1994, according to the National Fire Protection Association, and these dryer detonations caused one death, 51 injuries and $9.3 million in property damage.
Tom Berger is a self proclaimed tinkerer who recently received patent on a golf ball holder, but it was Linnea who was the driving force for the dryer tool.
"My wife was trying to get the gunk out of the lint trap and said,'Why don't you invent something I can use to clean this out?'" Thomas said. "So I got to work and I figured out what we'd need to do the job."
The solution was a 27-inch long pliable plastic pole with nylon bristles at the end- a sort of stretched out bottle brush capable of reaching down into a lint trap and flexible enough to bend along the way.
"You can find brushes that aren't long enough and poles that are long but have no bristles to catch the lint." Thomas explained. "It seems obvious, really, but there was nothing on the market for the task."
Linnea and Thomas Berger of Valparaiso have invented and hold the patent for a lint brush for cleaning clothes dryers and other household areas. Thousands of household fires per year are caused by lint build up in dryers.
The Bergers contracted with an Ohio company for the bristles and turned to CoTronics in Logansport for manufacturing. The brush retails for $10.00 which includes shipping and handling. Indiana and Florida residents pay applicable sales tax.
Tough Cleaning Jobs
While some households ignore the lint traps of their dryers for long periods, most people routinely clean the extractable lint trap in the top or front panel. But reaching the debris buried deep down in the crevice, under the lint screen and around the dryer drum is problematic.
That's a job usually tackled by appliance service people who take the panels off the dryer and use a vacuum cleaner to suck out the lint. If a dryer is a good performer-and all consumers hope for that- panels don't come off very often.
"A homeowner can do a lot of it with the proper tool," Thomas said. "Our product helps with routine cleaning, and will hopefully mean fewer fires in clothes dryers." Valparaiso fireman Tom Steindler was impressed. When the Bergers approached him about the dryer lint brush, he not only nodded his approval but also bought one on the spot.
"I was impressed with the simplicity and knew it would fill a need," Steindler said. "You should have seen the stuff we pulled out of our dryer at the fire station."
The tool is handy for other jobs, too. Thomas said his customers have used the long handled brush to clean cold air returns, narrow window tracks, refrigerator coils and other hard -to- get- to spots.
At the moment, the Bergers have a garage loaded with boxes of the dryer lint brushes. But they're hoping more stores stock the invention soon. In between shifts as a Northern Indiana Public Service Co. stockman, Thomas trudges from retailer to retailer extolling the benefits of the brush.
"You can build a better mousetrap, but consumers have to see it in the stores," he said. "If it prevents just one clothes dryer fire, we'll consider ourselves successful."
©Copyright 1999 Eclectic Selections, Inc. All rights reserved. The Dryer Lint Brush is protected under U.S. Patent No. 5,560,069.
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As a result The Fused Wireless Programme became deFused – as it does on these occasions when there's little chat and more music in the mix, unmistakably so to anyone viewing via the studio webcam as I do a mix session (or attempt to do a mix session).
So last night's show was just that, a mix of dark ambient, down tempo, drone, experimental, avant-garde, witch house, etc., loosely strung together by way of segueing and mixing, all independent electronic artist from various corners of the planet – here's the playlist.
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We seem to have a significant number of commonalities in our thinking. Jargon is getting in the way.
I can demonstrate that light is not waves, and it's not hard to logicize why it can't be corpuscular. Tell me more about what you visualize light is doing across a vacuous expanse of space.
for me light seems to be specially designed to carry energy without power losses through the void over extreme distances. Neither gravity nor magnetism can do this as well as light. It is unique in this respect.
if it takes time to do anything, and it appears that it does, it cannot act instantly over a distance. That's not to say it doesn't have the pressure you think it does. It just means that that pressure is not continuous. The sun doesn't seem to know where the light went. It is just dispersed.
the suns magnetic field know about everything within its limits. Any disturbance can be detected by the sun. It doesn't disperse. It feeds back.
so if you think about it from my perspective. Light (including all EM, free strands, electrons etc) is thrown out and is then aligned. The alignment didn't come before the light because there would be nothing there to align. The action at a distance occurs once the substrate has been dispersed.
Your thinking is so close to several elements of the Centropic Pressure Field theory [CPFT].
In order to leap the small gap between our conceptualizations, try to shift your pressure from "going out" [eg. from the sun] to directed towards it as the field centroid. Vectored in this manner, the alignment you are seeing pre-exists the light action. Alignment is radiant, but not emitted, it is vectors [rays] radiating from the outside [universe] toward the local centroid. Not rays in the strict geometric sense which are infinitesmal in cross-section [so non-phenomenal] but visualize them as beams of small but finite diameter [my concept of non-corpuscular "photons"]; consider it a "planck diameter" if you wish, as the pressure is exerted in finitely measurable amounts against small areas, like atoms for example. As an atom undergoes electrical stress [a pervasive phenomenon in the universe] electrons tend to "jump around" with the net effect [in every case -- 2nd law of thermodynamics] of dropping or lowering the energy level of the system [due to centropic pressure]. This energy reduction "jump" is both the result of and results in a [minute] system compression, which if you happen to be looking in that direction appears to your retina as light. Rather than waiting as in standard theory for the photon or wave front to get to you after being emitted, eg. by the sun, the field compression is a unified effect pressing the peripheral field receptor/detector [your rods/cones] at the same time as the centroid agent [the jumping electron]. IAAD occurs as a result of the fact [in my view] that the field is unified. A very rough analogy would be holding a yardstick with one end in your hand against the side of a chair at the other end and giving it a quick punch. If your mind requires that a compression wave travel from your end to the other before the action is able to take place, then you're not thinking IAAD. But if you're thinking there is a momentary time delay in the overcoming of inertia due to the chair mass relative to the force of your push, then you are thinking in terms of IAAD. It's a subtle but essential paradigm shift that takes some getting used to.
I think the real point of action at a distance is that there is no action at a distance. There is always something there. If you can see a star in the night sky there is something there between you and the star. That's only a small narrow band of what's actually there.
it may appear empty from a visual matter perspective but might not be empty from a light or electromagnetic perspective.
I think the bridge here is the various em that fills up the empty space in all its forms, not so dense that light cant move through it, but dense enough that magnetism can align it.
the reason why I think the aether is a mess is because we can align it with magnets/currents. This means that it must of been less orderly before we aligned it, so it cannot be a perfect matrix as there would be nothing to align. Higher structures generate alignments from their current flows. I cant see how everything would start off perfect.
I don't see any grand unified field, just a mess that can be transformed in various ways. The energy flows where it wants to and the nature of this flow is to ironically sustain inequality of the flow by trying to equalize itself by way of electron formation.
You say EM and light fill the gap twixt source and observer. I agree. but I don't see EM or light fields as corpuscular, and it sounds as though perhaps you don't either. Your EM dynamics suggest a "randomness" to the aetheric EM mess. That is ok to an extent, but maybe the randomness is only situational? If you look about, the alignments of fields in nature are pervasive, not due to our manipulation of them. We manipulate on a small scale to simulate the larger natural order.
There's the main paradigm difference between our views I think. For example, all I have to do to see starlight or feel the sun's heat on my face is to look in that direction. I manipulated myself, but the EM/light field was already "aligned".


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With a total of 2588 m², the Bedford offers one of the largest spaces in downtown Brussels to welcome conferences from 10 to 1000 people. The 17 fully-equipped meeting rooms can also be used for breakout rooms.
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At The Hyde Hotel, when you check-in, our friendly front desk team will authorize your credit card for any incidental extras. We will do this by putting a pending charge onto your account of R200 per night and never more than R2000. This is called an authorization hold.
The Hyde releases this hold within hours after your check out, however, banks and credit card companies may take a few business days to release the funds back into your account.
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Georgia Farm Bureau's (GFB) representatives in the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) competitive events represented the state well, and one brought home a prize.
State winners Steven and & Tara Green (YF&R Achievement Award), Jessica Lance (YF&R Excellence in Agriculture Award) and Cleve Jackson (YF&R Discussion Meet) all competed for national honors.
Lance, from Morgan County, finished fourth in the competition for the Excellence in Agriculture Award, which recognizes young farmers and ranchers who do not derive the majority of their income from farming, but who actively contribute to agriculture and grow through their involvement in agriculture, leadership ability and participation in Farm Bureau and other organizations.
Lance and the other Excellence in Agriculture Award contestants gave individual presentations to teams of three judges. The presentations detailed their biographical backgrounds, agricultural involvement and issues facing agriculture.
Lance claimed the fourth-place prize of a Case IH 40" Combination Roll Cabinet and Top Chest and a $500 Case IH parts card, courtesy of Case IH.
Brady Revels from Nebraska won the Excellence in Agriculture Award, which featured 27 state winners.
Jackson, from Floyd County, advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the YF&R Discussion Meet, which features committee-style conversations focusing on topics important to agriculture. In the first round, the discussions centered on how farmers and ranchers can increase efficiency and transition to green energy sources. In the second round, contestants talked about how to ensure economic viability for small animal processing facilities while maintaining a healthy work environment. In the Sweet 16 round, the discussion centered on what can be done to create a preventative approach to farm safety.
Malarie Thompson from North Carolina won the Discussion Meet, which drew entries from 31 states.
The Greens, from Spalding County, represented Georgia in competition for the Achievement Award, which recognizes young farmers and ranchers who earn the majority of their income from production agriculture.
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Q: How to add Newline in the detail message of a Shiny Progress bar? Is there any way to write add a newline character in a Shiny Progress bar message? \n or <br> does not seem to work.
I am trying to convert one of my old codes into a shiny app. The code basically calls a number of functions one after another, all of which take some time to execute. From the app, I would like to know which functions have already executed and the amount of time each of them took. I am trying to achieve this using the progress bar feature. Do let me know if there are better ways to do this.
Below is my dummy code. \ns are where I want to add a newline character. Let me know if what I am trying to do is not clear.
library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  tags$head(tags$style(
      HTML(".shiny-notification {position:fixed;top: 30%;left: 0%;right: 0%;}"))),
  actionButton(inputId = "go", label = "Launch long calculation")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  observeEvent(input$go,{
    withProgress(message = "doing task 1",value = 0,{
      Sys.sleep(1.5)#task 1
      setProgress(0.3,message = "doing task 2",detail = "\n task 1 done")
      Sys.sleep(1.5)#task 2
      setProgress(0.6,message = "doing task 3",detail = "\n task 1 done \n task 2 done")
      Sys.sleep(1.5)#task 3
      setProgress(0.9,message = "Almost done",detail = "\n task 1 done \n task 2 done \n task 3 done")
      Sys.sleep(1.5)
    })
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

This is what I am trying to achieve
Thanks in advance!

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Arsenal defender Calum Chambers is tipped to sign a new four-year deal with the club.
Arsenal defender Calum Chambers will reportedly sign a new contract with the club this summer.
According to BBC Sport, new Gunners boss Unai Emery sees huge potential in the 23-year-old and is ready to offer him a fresh four-year deal.
Chambers has found himself in and out of the Arsenal first team since joining the club from Southampton in 2014.
The centre-back made 24 appearances for Arsenal in all competitions during the 2017-18 campaign, but just 12 of those came in the Premier League.
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Berkley is giving Coolidge a 'Road Diet' by adding left turn and bike lanes
By: Kim Russell
Do you WANT to go on a diet? Most people will say no. Diets are not fun. Now the city of Berkley is planning what transportation industry insiders call a road diet. That is when you eliminate a lane of traffic.
BERKLEY, Mich. (WXYZ) — Do you WANT to go on a diet? Most people will say no. Diets are not fun. '
Now the city of Berkley is planning what transportation industry insiders call a road diet. That is when you eliminate a lane of traffic.
The area we are talking about is Coolidge between Eleven Mile and Twelve Mile Road. Right now in that area there are four lanes of traffic, with intermittent left turn lanes.
The plan is to change that to one lane of traffic in each direction, a continuous left turn lane, add parking and a bike lane.
The Transportation Improvement Association says the change will likely improve safety in the area.
"There are models that say this works. There are case studies that say this works. There are experiences in all sorts of weather that say this works, but nothing has been performed in Berkley yet," said Matthew Baumgarten, Berkley City Manager.
City Manager Matthew Baumgarten says city leaders have been talking about doing this for years, but many have concerns about consequences: Could it lead to an increase in traffic in nearby neighborhoods? Are there enough bikers to warrant a bicycle lane? Will it be safe for bicyclists?
So, they have agreed to make this change for one year and study what happens.
It will cost approximately $120,000 to repaint the lanes for the changes. The funding will be provided by the Downtown Development Authority.


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Supporting Tablet Configuration, Tracking, and Infection Control Practices in Digital Health Interventions: Study Protocol
Robert D Furberg, PhD, MBA ;
Alexa M Ortiz, MSN ;
Brittany A Zulkiewicz, BS ;
Jordan P Hudson, BA ;
Olivia M Taylor, MPH ;
Megan A Lewis, PhD
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
Alexa M Ortiz, MSN
3040 E. Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC,
Email: amortiz@rti.org
Background: Tablet-based health care interventions have the potential to encourage patient care in a timelier manner, allow physicians convenient access to patient records, and provide an improved method for patient education. However, along with the continued adoption of tablet technologies, there is a concomitant need to develop protocols focusing on the configuration, management, and maintenance of these devices within the health care setting to support the conduct of clinical research.
Objective: Develop three protocols to support tablet configuration, tablet management, and tablet maintenance.
Methods: The Configurator software, Tile technology, and current infection control recommendations were employed to develop three distinct protocols for tablet-based digital health interventions. Configurator is a mobile device management software specifically for iPhone operating system (iOS) devices. The capabilities and current applications of Configurator were reviewed and used to develop the protocol to support device configuration. Tile is a tracking tag associated with a free mobile app available for iOS and Android devices. The features associated with Tile were evaluated and used to develop the Tile protocol to support tablet management. Furthermore, current recommendations on preventing health care–related infections were reviewed to develop the infection control protocol to support tablet maintenance.
Results: This article provides three protocols: the Configurator protocol, the Tile protocol, and the infection control protocol.
Conclusions: These protocols can help to ensure consistent implementation of tablet-based interventions, enhance fidelity when employing tablets for research purposes, and serve as a guide for tablet deployments within clinical settings.
JMIR Res Protoc 2016;5(2):e136
tablet computers;
mHealth;
infection control;
clinical research protocol;
The proliferation of tablet technologies has ushered in a new realm of connected health care and research-based interventions in the clinical setting. According to the Pew Research Center, 64% of American adults own a smartphone, and of those, 53% also own a tablet [1]. Advancements in policy, health information technology adoption by providers, mobile/social technology adoption by consumers, and development of health-focused mobile apps have created ideal conditions to enable the expansion of tablet-based interventions. According to the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Mobile Technology Survey, 47% of responding organizations labeled mobile service implementation to access information as a top priority, and 57% indicated already having a mobile technology policy [2]. Further, as noted by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, more than 165,000 mobile health (mHealth) apps are currently available for consumer download through Google Play and the Mac App Store [3].
The use of electronic tools and services has created new opportunities for individuals to actively participate in monitoring and directing their health care through digital health interventions. The body of evidence that supports the use of such strategies to improve health outcomes continues to expand [4]. However, insufficient guidance exists on deployment methods that could be used to support replication or subsequent scaling. To address this gap, we describe protocols relevant to three major phases of digital health intervention activities using tablets: initial device configuration, remote management of deployed technologies, and the ongoing maintenance of tablets deployed within clinical environments. The protocols are intended for use by three major audiences: (1) public health investigators responsible for the design of a digital health intervention, (2) research technologists seeking guidance on deployment methods, and (3) clinical staff responsible for monitoring tablets and carrying out infection control procedures in a health care setting.
There is scant literature describing the implementation of tablet-based public health interventions and the management of tablets. Tablet use takes place across multiple populations and settings including urban ambulatory care practices, grocery stores, pediatric practices, and primary care practices [5-8]. Several interventions describe the use of Web-based material optimized for delivery via tablets, whereas others used operating system–specific tablet-based interventions [7-13]. Irrespective of the mode of content delivery (eg, native app, hybrid app, or responsive Web application), proper configuration, management, and maintenance of the tablet computer is essential to ensure technical fidelity and control of participant exposure to intervention materials. To the best of our knowledge, no studies describe these procedures, and there are no predeveloped protocols surrounding the use of tablets in digital health interventions. We describe protocols to address the gap within the literature that can serve as a basic guide for configuration, management, and maintenance of tablet-based interventions.
Tablet Configuration
Characteristics of Configurator
The mobile device management software, known as Configurator, is a resource that may improve the reliability and enhance the reproducibility of digital health interventions. Configurator is a free utility available from the Mac App Store. It is designed to configure and deploy multiple iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, or Apple TV devices [14]. Configurator users have the ability to push images, settings, apps, and security profiles across groups of iPhone operating system (iOS) devices [15]. These devices can be configured using an XML configuration file or by using the backup of a master iPad [16,17], which is configured by hand. The configuration can include all network and security settings as well as installs for the selected free or in-house apps. Once set, the master iPad is imaged using Configurator's backup function [16]. Remaining iPads are connected to the Mac OS device via universal serial bus (USB), and the image of the master iPad is restored to the remaining iPads. This can be done with up to 30 iPads [15]. Using Configurator to set up and maintain iOS devices gives administrative control over every aspect of the device, including wallpaper and lock screen settings, virtual private network and Wi-Fi (wireless local area network) settings, mail and calendar accounts, iOS version and upgrades, documents, and application access [16]. The end result is a number of identical, incrementally identified iOS devices. Subsequent alterations, including software updates, can only be made using Configurator by connecting the devices via USB to a Mac OS computer.
Applying Configurator to Tablet Deployment
Presently there is limited guidance available regarding tablet configuration for digital health interventions. However, with reported sales of more than 4.5 million iPads to educational institutions within the United States and almost twice that worldwide, Configurator is extensively used within the field of education [18,19]. Recommendations from Configurator's application in education can be applied to digital health interventions deployed for research or clinical purposes.
The Configurator application is widely used in education for configuring multiple iOS-based devices at scale, whether it be for a single classroom, school, or district. Consequently, a considerable amount of guidance is available about Configurator's setup and use in schools. Additionally, the Configurator education deployment model provides institutions with flexibility to manage multiple deployment scenarios, such as one-to-one, shared-use, and student-owned devices. Schools may choose to deploy iPads in one specific scenario or all three scenarios. However, Configurator is ideally used to set up one-to-one or shared-use devices, which gives educational IT staff the ability to customize and be flexible in addressing the school's specific needs.
The iOS education Configurator deployment model can easily be transposed to other domains, such as deployment within clinical settings or health research studies. The example provided in Figure 1 outlines how the educational infrastructure is similar to the health care infrastructure, as can be seen by changing the nomenclature from schools to clinics, teachers to clinicians, and students to patients.
Figure 1. Education and healthcare comparative configurator infrastructure.
Configurator Protocol
As the use of tablets continues to expand within clinical settings and tablets become more commonplace components in digital health interventions, a consistent method for configuring devices will become increasingly necessary. The protocol, as shown in Multimedia Appendix 1, provides a generic outline for iPad deployment using Configurator within research or clinical settings. The protocol reviews the requirements associated with Configurator's use and provides the steps for setting up an iPad using Configurator.
Tablet Management
Characteristics of Tile
The ability to track tablets (or other mobile devices) is an investment in the retention of the digital health intervention. Tile is a small tracking tag (see Figure 2 for dimensions) associated with a free app compatible with iOS and the Android operating system [20-23]. The primary purpose of Tile is to assist users in locating lost items. While Tile was not designed for mobile device management, its capabilities and small size offer a unique method of tracking mobile devices in clinical settings to augment native management features, such as Find My iPhone, where a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal may not be available.
The Tile app is free and the cost of Tile's hardware is relatively low—usually less than $25 per device [24]. Tile locates items by using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) 4.0 [22,23]. BLE works optimally at a range of 30 feet but can extend to a maximum range of 100 feet [22,23]. If an item is lost but is in the range of the BLE, Tile can be triggered to play a short tune by selecting the Find option within the app to assist the user in locating the lost device [23,25]. If Tile is unable to track an item via BLE, the user can select the app's Mark as Lost option to report a missing Tile [23]. The app can also inform users about the last place their lost device was seen. As noted in the Tile informational material [23], "Tile maps the last place you had it."
Additionally, multiple Tiles can work together. While an individual Tile is only visible to its registered user, each Tile can be used in a Community Find, which allows any Tile to assist in communicating the location of a lost item to its registered owner [22,25,26]. Separate from the Community Find feature, the Tile app can share a Tile's location with another Tile app user [27]. The Share feature allows two different app users access to the same Tile [23,28].
Figure 2. Entity relationship diagram: option 1 and tile dimensions.
Applying Tile to Tablet Deployment
There are two approaches to applying Tile technology to tablet deployments. The first option, as outlined in Figure 2, displays three devices that each track one other device within the diagram. Since each Tile's BLE can only connect to one device at a time [27], each tablet is limited to tracking only one other tablet. That is, tablet 1 is used to track the location of tile 2 (attached to tablet 2); tablet 2 is used to track the location of tile 3 (attached to tablet 3); tablet 3 is used to track the location of tile 1 (attached to tablet 1).
The second option for applying Tile technology to tablet deployments is outlined in Figure 3, which displays four devices, three with Tiles attached and one device that is solely used for tracking the deployed Tiles. Because one Tile app can simultaneously track multiple individual Tiles, a single tablet can track the three deployed Tiles via BLE; that is, tablet 1 can track tablets 2, 3, and 4.
Figure 3. Entity relationship diagram: option 2.
Tile Protocol
Considering the compact nature of many tablets, the risk of theft, misplaced devices, or loss is a concern. Consequently, enhanced use of tablet technology in digital health interventions must be accompanied by innovative methods of device management. Multimedia Appendix 2 provides a protocol outlining the requirements for deployment as well as how to set up and use the various features offered by the Tile tracking device.
Tablet Maintenance
Characteristics of Infection Control
As tablets continue to proliferate the health care setting, the risk of device-based pathogen transmission increases [29]. In a 2009 study, the mobile phones of 200 intensive care and operating room health care workers were tested, and 94.5% showed some form of bacterial contamination [30]. Although the study does not discuss tablets, the same concerns of bacterial contamination and infection surrounding mobile phones are applicable to tablets.
Presently, Apple recommends using a soft, lint-free cloth for cleaning mobile devices, avoiding liquids, solvents, or spraying cleaners directly onto the device [31]. However, a plain cloth will not remove contagious pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) from a mobile device [29]. A study by Howell and colleagues [29] compared six different wipes (Sani-Cloth CHG 2%, Trigene, Clorox, Tristel, soap and water, and a plain cloth) and found that the Sani-Cloth CHG (chlorhexidine gluconate 2%/alcohol 70%) wipes were the most effective cleaning agent for tablets, with very low risk to the tablet's functional capabilities or accessories.
Infection Control Protocol
Proper disinfection is an important component to consider as tablets are increasingly integrated into both research studies and patient care. The infection control protocol is reviewed in Multimedia Appendix 3 and provides a list of the required supplies as well as an outline of the steps needed to disinfect tablet devices using CHG 2% wipes.
This article provides three protocols within the multimedia appendices that can be applied to support the configuration, the management, and the maintenance of mobile devices employed in digital health interventions: the Configurator protocol, the Tile protocol, and the infection control protocol.
This article addresses the literature gap on tablet protocols used in digital health interventions and describes three protocols supporting tablet configuration, management, and maintenance. The protocols discussed are furnished as generalized instructions or as a foundation for further enhancements, allowing for customization to further optimize tablet adoption. While these protocols can be used to support a single intervention, the resources may be used individually or bundled, at the discretion of investigators or clinicians, depending on the methodological requirements and deployment environment.
The availability and utilization of tablets is advancing the way researchers work, clinicians provide health care, and patients receive health care. However, along with the proliferation of tablets comes the need to advance tablet-focused protocols. The goal of this paper was not to test the effectiveness of Configurator, Tile, or the proposed infection protocol. Rather, we sought to review various options available to augment consistent tablet configuration, management, and maintenance. Further research is necessary to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the developed tablet-focused protocols.
Funding for this work was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Camilla Harshbarger and Carla Galindo, MPH. The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the CDC, the companies responsible for the production and distribution of Tile and Configurator, or the authors' employer, RTI International.
Configurator Protocol.
Tile Protocol.
Infection Control Protocol.
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BLE: Bluetooth low energy
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CHG: chlorhexidine gluconate
GPS: Global Positioning System
iOS: iPhone operating system
mHealth: mobile health
MRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
OS: operating system
PPE: personal protective equipment
USB: universal serial bus
VRE: vancomycin-resistant enterococcus
Wi-Fi: wireless local area network technology
Edited by G Eysenbach; submitted 01.12.15; peer-reviewed by R Shaw, B Green; comments to author 30.01.16; revised version received 26.02.16; accepted 31.03.16; published 27.06.16
©Robert D Furberg, Alexa M Ortiz, Brittany A Zulkiewicz, Jordan P Hudson, Olivia M Taylor, Megan A Lewis. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 27.06.2016.


"Do you want me to read to you?" my oldest asked his almost 2-year old sister recently. She nodded eagerly. "How about this one?" He was holding up one of her current favourites, a sturdy Usborne book entitled Where Do Babies Come From? My heart warmed as they snuggled on the couch together. "A tiny seed from the father, called a sperm, joins with a tiny egg from the mother," he read, while she lifted the flap to see a small human growing in-utero. I couldn't help but chuckle. Can you tell we're pro-life?
Raising our children in a pro-life way is the theme of many questions I receive from parents, especially after presentations. "How do we start?" they ask. "What do we tell them? What do you tell your kids?" I've spoken to thousands of teenagers, engaged in countless sidewalk conversations, and done several formal debates on university campuses, but I'm still stunned at times about how many people possess such little (accurate) information about human development. Surely there are multiple factors at play—one could blame public education, the media, and the abortion lobby—but what if we start at home?
This is not to say that providing children with a proper upbringing will guarantee a perfect outcome. My oldest is only eight, but I'm under no illusion that a certain kind of parenting warrants a certain kind of outcome. That's not all. I know young women from solidly pro-life homes who've had abortions and the reason is not because their parents failed to teach them about the value of human life before birth.
But what if pro-lifers begin to speak about children before birth in the same way as we do about children after birth? What if we recognize that parenthood begins not at birth, but as soon as a child exists? Could it be that we'll begin to value pre-born lives as much as born lives?
What if children learn from a young age that their lives began at fertilization? What if the facts about our first nine months are seen as fun, fascinating, and awe-inspiring ways to build a solid, scientific base which informs the belief that all human beings have human rights? Could it be that they'll be less susceptible to the soothing voice that says an early, unintended pregnancy is just a bunch of tissue?
What if children in pro-life homes feel, hear, and see that abortion weighs on their parents' hearts, something they're seeking to address in whichever way they can? Could it be that they'll grow up thinking that inaction in response to injustice is simply not an option?
What if teens and pre-teens learn about pro-abortion arguments—and how to refute each—before they come across them? Could it be that fewer young people will be confused or convinced by catchy slogans, faulty philosophical theories, and straight-up lies?
What if teens and pre-teens know for a fact that their home is a place of unconditional love and support to turn to, especially when one's in trouble? Could it be that they'll bring their pregnant friend home or reject abortion in their own lives because mom or dad will be there, no matter what?
While we seek to reach the culture and engage young people who never had or perhaps rejected a pro-life upbringing, we must also build from the ground up. Otherwise, a dozen years or so from now, we can start street outreach all over with the next generation. At stake, however, aren't only the choices and consciences of our children. If pro-life values are not passed on, the increasing number of corpses of aborted babies will, without a doubt, include our grandchildren.
The alternative and the solution is that those who recognize the very lives that are at stake become invested and actively involved in instilling pro-life values. This may mean educating ourselves first—by reading Love Unleashes Life, for example. There are also helpful children's books (to use with discretion), such as Wonderfully Made and The Baby Tree, but especially with little ones, it doesn't have to be difficult.
Imagine a pre-teen who has recently met identical twins and thinks this is so cool. "Isn't it?" you say. "Do you know how that happens?" After exploring this process during prenatal development together, you introduce the pro-abortion idea that an embryo is not a full-fledged human being until the moment that twinning can take place. "What do you think?" you ask. I remember being stunned by this argument in university and doing my research afterward. I also remember the moment that I read the flatworm analogy. Each flatworm can be cut in half, after which there will be two, living organisms. (The same is true for starfish, by the way.) Does that mean there wasn't one beforehand? Of course not. How great if a young person knows this analogy before potentially being stunned.
There are endless opportunities to incorporate this into every-day moments rather than long or boring lessons—in fact, most of it will be through the way we speak and what we pass on in tiny tidbits. From there, let the kid take the lead. If they move on, so do we, but if they want to learn more, let's dig deeper. This doesn't need to include information about human reproduction or sexuality, if children aren't ready yet. Case in point: All my (born) kids know about sperm and egg, but only the oldest has thought to recently ask how the two actually get to each other. That's a good question too, which deserves an age-appropriate answer.


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I didn't know anything about IT. But when I worked on the assembly line at a Nissan factory, I met someone who would spark my interest. Every time we'd have the assembly line stop, they'd have a guy we called "Dr. Robot" come out and work on the computer.
I would often pick his brain about what made the assembly line work. Though I often had no idea what he was talking about, it was these conversations that spurred my interest in potentially getting into IT.
I started with web development, but realized it wasn't something I enjoyed. Next, I tried coding, which I liked, but I couldn't see myself doing one specific thing all day. So that led me to pursue other avenues.
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What's so exciting about Cybersecurity?
I became interested in cybersecurity because I fell victim to an email phishing attack. I didn't want that to happen again, but also I wanted to help ensure that something like that wouldn't happen to anyone else.
Dealing with the repercussions first-hand was tough. It was my own personally-built system. I had to completely reboot my windows OS among other things. It was a mess.
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I'm also proud to announce I recently accepted a job as a Cyber Systems Engineer at BDO, a global professional services firm, where I'll be helping to build a brand new data center for the public sector practice.
I always try to debunk the idea that you can't get a job without experience or a degree.
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Dangerous Climate Change Denial Still Going Strong
Go Green Go
'Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't and Why it Matters,' is the title of a new book by physicist Steven Koonin, a former under-secretary for science in the Obama Administration. Therein, Koonin argues that the impact of human influence on the climate is too small and uncertain to merit any costly action to reduce fossil fuel use. We humans, he says, will be able to adapt to any warming that does occur.
Marc A. Thiessen of The Washington Post writes about Koonin and his book in a May 17 article, 'An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers.' Thiessen interviewed Koonin, who dug through U.N. and U.S. government reports to present some 'inconvenient truths.' He says the facts do not support the 'doom mongering' of climate alarmists.
Koonin was hired into his position by Obama's first secretary of energy, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu precisely because he was willing to challenge conventional wisdom. Since leaving the administration, Koonin has gone on to argue that the impact of human influence on the climate is too uncertain, and probably too small, to merit costly action to reduce fossil fuel use. Humanity, he says, will adapt to any warming that occurs.
For context, it should be pointed out that Mr. Thiessen, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has written articles supporting climate science denial in the past. Mr. Koonin has now appeared on Fox News and its ilk to provide some scholarly sounding arguments to support their point of view. Some of those scholarly sounding arguments are:
"The warmest temperatures in the U.S. have not risen in the past fifty years." Yes, they have. It's true that if you cherry-pick data from 2014 government reports as Mr. Koonin has done, you may be able to twist the truth around enough to make a statement such as this. But the EPA Climate Indicators Report states that "Some parts of the United States have experienced more warming than others. The North, the West, and Alaska have seen temperatures increase the most, while some parts of the Southeast have experienced little change." And data for the U.S. is not as important for the understanding of the impact of climate change as that for the entire planet. Here, the EPA states that "Worldwide, 2016 was the warmest year on record, 2020 was the second-warmest, and 2011–2020 was the warmest decade on record since thermometer-based observations began."
"Instead of droughts, the past fifty years have been slightly wetter than average" in the United States. This may be true in some parts of the U.S., but not others. The drought in California and other western states is fairly unprecedented. Historic western wildfires have many causes, but the underlying origin is climate change. Climate change does not apply itself evenly across the globe; there will always be areas that experience more or less heat, and more or less precipitation. But those dryer and hotter areas will be more extreme than ever.
The planet is warming, Koonin tells Thiessen, partly due to natural phenomena and partly due to growing human influences. Koonin says that scientists can't untangle the two. But, Koonin argues, the terrifying predictions of increasingly violent weather and coastal cities drowned beneath rising seas are overblown. Yet the Union of Concerned Scientists stated in 2009 (and updated in 2021) that global warming is caused mainly by human activity. Despite Koonin's assertions, scientists working on climate change compare the climate patterns they observe with patterns developed using sophisticated models of Earth's systems. By comparing the observed and modeled patterns, scientists can positively identify "human fingerprints" and attribute a proportion of observed warming to human activities. Regarding increasingly violent weather and rising seas, they're happening, and they're happening big. The UCC says, "While some types of events are more readily attributable to global warming than others, attribution science is becoming increasingly robust. Several authoritative scientific institutions and government agencies have confirmed both the rigor and the validity of attributing individual extreme events to human-caused climate change." Sea level rise is well documented and is also directly attributable to human-caused climate change.
Koonin also argues that predictions of climate-induced economic devastation are delusional as well. Since this is an economic argument instead of a scientific one, Mr. Koonin is out of his realm. Even if the U.S. experiences less economic impact from climate change than expected, it will still be severe. Moreover, the effect will be uneven, with some developing countries – those that can ill-afford it – will absorb most of the economic impact. Ultimately, some will be able to adapt, and others will not. Regardless, it's not a good thing for the U.S. to survive in an increasingly desperate world.
Koonin believes that it will be impossible to stop the climate from changing. "If we stop emitting CO2 today, it would still be there in the atmosphere for hundreds of years," he tells Thiessen. "If we manage to reduce emissions a little bit, it'll just accumulate at a slower rate but it'll still go up." Here, he is correct. But we have to try. How can we not?
We need to not just slow our climate-changing emissions, we have to halt them completely; we need to get to zero emissions. Although it will be complicated and difficult, this must be our goal. We will need to set the stage for possible innovative breakthroughs, and we need to work to use the technologies currently available to bring our net impact on the climate to zero. If we do so, we will not only save our planet, we will save our economy and position the U.S. to maintain its economic, technological, and moral leadership.
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Game - Purp & Patron: Single Shot
Even before Jeff Weiss offered his challenge and HL submitted his EP-worthy selections, I knew I'd have to whittle Game's Purp & Patron mixtape down to a workable length. I tried synching-up my iPod with the original twenty-nine track playlist but iTunes kept on giving me the "c'mon son" error message. So with that I present to you Purp & Patron: Single Shot – my favorite, carefully chosen tracks off the new mixtape (plus a cut from Ghostface's new album… sorry, I cheated). Pay attention, Interscope. Best of all it's a "No DJ" mixtape (eat a dick up 'til you hiccup, Flex). Enjoy… and turn it up!!
1. Bad Intentions (3:21)
2. Dead (3:44)
3. Children's Story (3:54)
4. Taylor Made (feat. Wiz Khalifa) (3:49)
5. Soft Rhodes (feat. Ashanti) (3:54)
6. Khaki Suit (feat. T-Pain) (2:44)
7. 187 (feat. Lil Boosie) (4:05)
8. L.A. Times (4:07)
9. R.I.P. Story (4:17)
10. I Just Wanna Fuck (feat. Kurupt & Mr. Porter) (3:12)
11. Supastar (feat. Ashley Cole & Mike Epps) (5:36)
12. Drama (feat. Ghostface Killah & Joell Ortiz) (4:26)
13. History (feat. Doug E. Fresh, KRS-One & Big Daddy Kane) (6:09)
14. The Kill (feat. La Roux) (4:33)
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With Much Ado has Digital Theatre come of age?
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We get fleeting glimpses of quality plays, critically-acclaimed musicals which close before their time, and all-star casts engaged for 12-week West End seasons.
This has always bothered me, living in a world surrounded by screens and recorded media - DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray discs - why were the great shows of the West End (which were a long away when I was growing up in an admittedly culture rich Edinburgh or studying in Liverpool) not recorded for posterity and distributed to a broader audience?
I was brought up on frequent weekend viewings of the Les Miserables tenth anniversary concert, filmed at the Royal Albert Hall, and an increasingly worn VHS copy of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1998 recording of Cats. They probably played a formative part in the person I am now. So I was aware that capturing the magic of the stage for the screen was not impossible, just not often done.
That same question, "can you really capture live theatre for the screen?" and a step further, "can you apply the language of film to the theatre?" also occupied Digital Theatre co-founders Robert Delamere and Tom Shaw. At the time the pair were working for Amnesty International, bringing Monty Python and friends in The Secret Policeman's Ball to just such a broader audience on the big and small screen. They went on to establish Digital Theatre in 2009.
One of the major technological advances which has made Digital Theatre possible are the video cameras available. Far from the days of invading an auditorium with an army of camera men and their rigs, Digital Theatre films productions without taking any seats off sale, using remotely controlled cameras which are distributed throughout the auditorium.
"I think there's something very unique about not taking physical cameras into space," Delamere tells me, "Not taking seats out, or having technical staff, camera men and women in a theatre auditorium.
There's something about the fact that it's all remote controlled that allows the relationship between the audience and the experience to remain pure and unadulterated."
It also means that instead of relying on a single take of a chosen night, Digital Theatre can mix shots from multiple performances. "We tend to shoot subsequent performances," Delamere continues, "we might do a matinee and evening or two nights on the run - and then we basically apply filmic editing techniques and use film language to try and recover the moment by moment reality of the live theatre experience."
And here we encounter one of the most common objections theatregoers have watching theatre on screen, large or small: when you use a camera to capture the traffic of the stage, it stops being theatre and starts being something else entirely. That's something Digital Theatre work to conquer by engaging with production's original creatives.
"When you're in the auditorium you can kind of choose where you're looking; at the guy falling over, or the woman cooking, you get to choose. We get to choose, in conjunction with the directors, where you're looking, but whether it's Howard Davis, Ian Rickson or Gemma Bodinetz, we work alongside them to follow their original directorial intentions."
Which brings my conversation with Delamere round to how he has gone about signing up Digital Theatre's raft of theatre partners. Common consensus within the commercial theatre industry says that if audiences had the opportunity to see shows without having to go to the theatre, then that viewing would cannibalise potential theatregoers.
Delamere is dismissive of the idea when I put it to him. "People do say that, but I can't see that's true. It's a bit like saying, 'I'm into Coldplay or Jessie J or Mumford & Sons. I've bought the albums, so I'm not going to see them live,' or 'I've seen to them live, so I'm not going to buy the album or listen to them on the radio'. I just think we want to experience culture in multiple ways in different moments for different reasons."
But it's not just music industry examples that he draws from, looking back at the national sport almost two decades ago. "That's initially what was said about football, everyone thought the terraces would empty with BskyB broadcasting games. Yet it totally reinvented football in the '90s."
The impact of All My Sons and Much Ado
So how have these arguments gone over with commercial and subsidised theatre producers? "At the beginning, we call it the 'belief hurdle'," Delamere tells me. But then things changed. "Something happened in the middle of last year when we worked with Stephen Sondheim on Into The Woods and Kim Poster, who was our first commercial producer, on All My Sons.
Something happened when David Suchet, Zoe Wanamaker and a very well known and successful West End producer and director of the scale of Howard Davis all say 'yes'. It changes things and makes it much easier. We are approached regularly now, instead of us going round with calling cards, which is fantastic."
Digital Theatre worked with another commercial producer, Sonia Friedman, last summer to capture Josie Rourke's sell-out staging of Much Ado About Nothing, reuniting Dr Who David Tennant and his assistant Catherine Tate at the Wyndham's.
The Digital Theatre recording of Much Ado was released just before Christmas (Why the lack of warning? "We couldn't really announce it," Delamere advises, "until we had completed our work.") and by the CEO's own admission it's had a "transformative" effect on the organisation.
When Much Ado was first released it was announced only through PR and social media; Digital Theatre admit they had done "zero marketing", but suddenly the company had gained 10,000 visitors a day to their website. The Much Ado effect didn't stop there, "our visits, the unique visitors and page views have just shot through the roof. I just think it proves that there is an audience and it's a global audience. It's had a pretty incredible effect on the rest of the catalogue."
So where next for the Digital Theatre? "There's something very pertinent right now about the economy meets culture, meets the arts, meets digital," Delamere says when I ask. "We have an extraordinary global reputation for our creative arts. This is one way we can promote that and also return income to the artists and the producers and the venues who create the material in the first place. It just means people can witness what's going on in the centre of excellence, which is London, and now we're shooting in Liverpool and elsewhere."
Does Delamere see a future in which every West End production is given the Digital Theatre treatment? "I think it's something that Dominic Cavendish said in his summary of 2011, he said there may be a time toward the end of this decade where watching theatre online is a mass market experience. As a lot of people say to me, 'it's not like you're selling automatic weaponry, Robert. It is a good thing.'"
But it's not just the headline figures of website traffic or download numbers that make Delamere tick, "There's something very exciting about having a school in Ho Chi Minh City emailing you and saying they're watching Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song or a school in Malawi going, 'we just watched the RSC's Comedy of Errors.'"
So Digital Theatre appears to have set its course on a very global mission, but there are also projects underway closer to home, particularly Digital Theatre's education offerings. Delamere says these were mainly developed in response to customer demand. "We had conceived it in the early days, when I look back on the project planning we did. Template number seven: Education. Number eight: Sponsorship."
"I think that's phenomenal," he continues, "because there are school children who really aren't going to be dragged down from the North West to London, even possibly to the Manchester Royal Exchange, they're just not going to have that cultural arts access. To be able to deliver to them what everyone else is able to see, is really quite motivating and moving. Makes you feel like you can turn around and say, 'look at this and see what it does to your imagination.'"
Having first met Robert Delamere to conduct this interview, I was lucky enough to join Digital Theatre four months later and work as their Sales and Marketing Manager for two years to May 2014.
It was during that time that I commissioned and project managed the creation of the 90-second Digital Theatre sizzle reel embedded above.
Originally published by Whatsonstage.com on 1 February 2012.
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Q: Delete multiple rows from multiple tables in mysql using single value I have a number of mysql tables with different table structures and all they have the followings table names and fieldnames (the ones of the left are table names and on the right are field names)
I want to be able to delete the values of the rows using a single variable (example $id = somename) in a single query
    user  id,
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Also, a particular userid may not be present across all tables.
I am not sure at all on how to delete them all at once. Any tips would be appreciated, i looked at a couploe of similar questions but couldn't find a proper answer.

A: You want to create a foreign key constraint, and specify "ON DELETE CASCADE".  You'll need this for each of your tables that has a foreign key to user.  For example,
ALTER TABLE user_image
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_user_image_user FOREIGN KEY (user)
    REFERENCES user(id)
    ON DELETE CASCADE;

A: You can use the multi-table DELETE syntax. You need to use a LEFT JOIN in case any of the related tables do not have a corresponding row.
DELETE user, user_image, user_interest, ...
FROM user
LEFT JOIN user_image ON user.id = user_image.user
LEFT JOIN user_interest ON user.id = user_interest.user
...
WHERE user.id = $id

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However, if you relate the tables using a foreign key constraint, with ON DELETE CASCADE, you can just delete the row from the user table, and all the related rows will be deleted.


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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Geoff Blake, a personal trainer and inquisitive mind that is always finding ways to challenge himself and become a better version so he can help other reach their goals in life. Recently, I saw he helped a few women achieve their goals of competing in a Powerlifting competition and wanted to learn more about his views on fitness training. Plus it was also great to catch up with a good friend because he has helped me with my own strength and conditioning program in the past.
How do you motivate women in fitness?
A lot of times motivation comes from curiosity, such as seeing their friend (male or female) involved in fitness, or they know they want to make a change in their life. It may be easier if the woman is already involved in a fitness routine or activity (such as yoga, rock climbing, lifting, etc.) and wants to improve her current abilities. However, for women that are not currently exercising, I want to show them how they can better their lives through the solid choices they make in regards to activity, diet, and their thought of mind. They have to believe there is benefit in my services before I even show them an exercise routine.
Short answer: Slowly and with a high success rate. Don't give them something that is past their current ability because then they are going to fail, and that discourages them to come back, which in the end does not get results.
What common themes do you see between a man and a woman in training?
Stereo-typically, and this is so stereotypical because not all men will train like this, and not all women will train like this: Early on, men will try to do more than what they are capable of while women will try and do less than they are capable of doing. Regardless of the activity, I've just seen with my experience, that men will jump in a little too fast and women will jump in a little too slow. That being said, all of my clientele come to me looking for good form. Both men and women are interested being safe and efficient with their form. Both will thrive on a good community of support, but don't confuse that with hand-holding. Overall, I've only noticed small differences between men and women training because everyone comes with different goals yet an open mind.
Talking about good form in exercise, how would a beginner find a good trainer, like yourself?
Luckily, I am in a good "bubble" and hardly see any "bad" trainers. It is within this social circle and work environment, I get to see some amazing people do incredible things, in regards to the other trainers at my gym, and their clients. The big difference I see between a good trainer and a bad trainer is the focus. A good trainer will focus on doing the basics doing really really well. A bad trainer is going to focus on entertaining their client. To an extent, we all like to be entertained, so I understand that, but if the trainer is just giving them new exercises because the client claims they are bored or the trainer thinks they will leave because of doing the same thing over and over, it creates instability in their training and usually doesn't lead to success. A good trainer asks what the client wants, a bad trainer just assumes that they know what the client wants.
I once read or heard this saying that you're doing a good job if you're hosting a BBQ and you have 1/3 friends, 1/3 family, and 1/3 clients there, you can't tell the difference between the groups. You know you're building a good relationship when it is built on mutual respect and trust. Communication is also key as I am very question-driven trainer. I am asking about other factors, such as diet, stress, social life and choices, and other areas of their life that will affect their fitness and well being, before an exercise demo has even begun. It also helps that we genuinely like the company of one another and realize that the relationship is a two way street of communication.
That's interesting in regards to that previous question because as I'm going through my Yoga Therapy training, we have learned about not treating the symptom but seeing the person as a whole using the pancamaya model. When adjusting their physical output you have to take into consideration what is going on inside their head.
So, what is your next upcoming exciting event?
I'm running another Goal Setting Seminar. This is a place where we will focus on exactly what they want to do and getting them on to the path of success. The last one I hosted earlier in 2015 was a huge success with over 20 attendees. This will be a smaller version because I also learned that so many people had their "lightbulb" moments and I want to make sure everyone has ample time to share their moments with the rest of the group. I work with them one-on-one to set up their plan of action through my process. They will walk away and be able to implement their plan that very moment they leave my seminar. It's going to be March 28, 2015.