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Burnout isn't just something that happens when you do too much. (Photo: Tobias MacPhee/Tandem)
How Perfectionism Leads to Athlete Burnout
Setting high goals is great, but how you deal with falling short determines how long you're willing to keep chasing them
Overtraining syndrome is one of the great mysteries of modern sports science. No one is exactly sure what goes wrong or how to fix it. But there's a general consensus about what causes it: too much training, not enough recovery. It's basically a math problem, and if the dawning age of sports technology ever delivers a perfect way of measuring training load and recovery status, we'll one day be able to balance the books and eliminate overtraining for good.
At least, that's the theory. But sports psychologists have been studying a parallel condition they call athlete burnout since at least the 1980s, which carries some different assumptions. In this view, burnout is influenced not just by the physical stress of training and competition, but by the athlete's perception of their ability to meet the demands placed on them. Burnout isn't exactly the same as overtraining, but there's plenty of overlap: chronic exhaustion, a drop in performance, and in many cases a decision to eventually walk away from the sport. This perspective doesn't get as much attention among athletes—which makes a new paper in the European Journal of Sport Science worth exploring.
The study, from a group at York St. John University in Britain led by Luke Olsson, looks at the links between perfectionism and burnout in a sample of 190 competitive athletes ranging from university to international level. The new hook compared to previous research on this topic is that they also explore whether having a perfectionist coach makes athletes more likely to burn out (spoiler: it does)—but to me, as someone who hadn't encountered that previous research, the study was most interesting as a general introduction to the concept of athlete burnout and the role that personality traits might play in it.
Let's start with some definitions. Athlete burnout, Olsson explains, is a psychological syndrome with three planks: emotional and physical exhaustion; a reduced sense of accomplishment; and more negative feelings about your sport. There's lots of debate about what causes it, but a common view is that it results from the chronic stress of feeling that the load placed on you—hard training, competitive expectations, other aspects of life—is more than you can handle.
This is why personality traits matter: to some extent, you're the one who decides what demands to put on yourself. Even the demands that others place on you will be filtered through your perceptions of what they expect. And your level of self-belief will influence how well you think you can handle those demands.
Perfectionism, too, has (in one widely used definition) three key elements. One is how you see yourself: "I put pressure on myself to perform perfectly." The second is how you think others see you: "People always expect me to perform perfectly." And the third is how you see others: "I am never satisfied with the performance of others." The first two are presumably most relevant to the risk of burnout for athletes; the third, you'd expect, is most relevant in coaches.
For the study, athletes in 19 different sports including track, tennis, and golf who trained an average of just over ten hours per week filled out a set of questionnaires on burnout and perfectionism. The perfectionism questionnaires were modified to focus specifically on athletic performance, and one of them was modified to assess how the athletes perceived the perfectionism of their coaches, with whom they'd been working for an average of 3.4 years. Then the researchers did a bunch of statistical analysis to figure out which facets of perfectionism, if any, predicted the various elements of burnout.
For the athletes, socially prescribed perfectionism—how you think others see you—was the best predictor of feeling elements of burnout. This was expected, and consistent with previous research. Self-oriented perfectionism—what you expect of yourself—was also linked to some elements of burnout. This may seem obvious, but in previous research it's been the expectations of others, rather than of yourself, that seem most problematic.
In fact, self-oriented perfectionism seems to be a double-edged sword. Setting high goals and holding yourself to high standards can have lots of positive effects; it's beating yourself up when you fall short of those standards that is most associated with negative outcomes like depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Some researchers distinguish between "perfectionist strivings," characterized by the pursuit of ambitious goals, and "perfectionist concerns," which focuses on obsessing over the ways in which you fall short. You can guess which category is better for both performance and happiness. (For example, I wrote about a previous study in which collegiate cross-country runners with high levels of perfectionist concerns were 17 times more likely get injured.)
Athletes who felt their coaches had perfectionist expectations of others were also more vulnerable to burnout. Since the coaches weren't surveyed directly, you might wonder if that perception is as much about the athletes as the coaches. After all, you'd expect athletes who score high on socially prescribed perfectionism ("People always expect me to perform perfectly") to assume that their coaches expect them to perform perfectly. But the statistical analysis confirmed that there were two separate effects: perfectionist coaches raise the risk of burnout regardless of the athlete's personal characteristics.
There's actually a very large and complex body of literature on perfectionism, both in sports and in other areas like academic performance, which I'm just scratching the surface of here. Olsson and his colleagues point to mindfulness, self-compassion, and cognitive behavioral therapy as approaches that have been shown to help rein in the negative sides of perfectionism. The big takeaway for me is the idea that burnout isn't just something that happens when you do too much—and I suspect the same thing is true of overtraining. There's no objective threshold that defines "too much." The stresses of training, and of life, are partly a function of how you respond to them.
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Spiridon Belokas (gr. Σπυρίδων Μπελόκας; ur. w 1878 w Atenach, data i miejsce śmierci nieznane) – grecki maratończyk, olimpijczyk z Aten (1896).

Podczas Igrzysk w Atenach Belokas wystartował w biegu maratońskim. Początkowo został sklasyfikowany na trzecim miejscu wyprzedzając o 5 sekund Węgra Kellnera. Jak się później okazało część trasy pokonał powozem, co spowodowało jego dyskwalifikację i przyznanie trzeciego miejsca reprezentantowi Węgier.

Dziesięć lat później ponownie wystartował w biegu maratońskim podczas Olimpiady Letniej w Atenach, tym razem nie kończąc biegu.

Informacje o jego życiu są nieznane.

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Greccy olimpijczycy
Greccy długodystansowcy
Lekkoatleci na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 1896
Uczestnicy Olimpiady Letniej 1906
Urodzeni w 1878
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Brenton Legal
1070 E Indiantown Road Ste 400, Jupiter, FL 33477-5150
Brenton Legal is a law practice that provides representation and counsel to Port St. Lucie clients facing job-related issues. Its founding lawyer, Ryan Brenton, is committed to advocating for clients who claim to have been unfairly treated. He guides clients with complaints about discrimination, incorrect overtime and wage payment, and all forms of workplace harassment. Brenton also enforces the law on whistleblower protection by defending the rights of employees against employer retaliation. Brenton Legal also renders legal assistance to employers.
Chane Socarras
759 Southwest Federal Highway, Stuart, FL 34994
Chane Socarras is a law firm that handles employment cases for workers and businesses. It advises businesses on a full assortment of legal matters involved in hiring and terminating employees, employee agreements and contracts, and workplace policies. The firm helps clients to avoid lawsuits by implementing management strategies and using educational materials to train employees on sexual harassment and hostile work environments. Chane Socarras regularly defends clients in state and federal courts when they face litigation by employees.
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
11780 U.S. Highway One Suite N500, North Palm Beach, FL 33408
Cohen, Milstein, Sellers, & Toll PLLC was founded in 1969 and provides legal representation to businesses and individuals in Port St. Lucie and surrounding areas. Its employment attorneys represent employees who have experienced workplace discrimination or been denied payment for the work they performed. The firm pursues class action lawsuits on behalf of seasonal workers who were denied access to proper accommodations or housing. Cohen, Milstein, Sellers, & Toll also handles antitrust, consumer protection, and whistleblower cases.
Crary Buchanan Attorneys at Law
759 SW Federal Hwy Ste 106, Stuart, FL 34994
Crary Buchanan, Attorneys at Law, is a law firm with a team of experienced employment lawyers near Port St. Lucie who have been serving clients since 1927. The firm fights for the rights of clients in employment disputes involving discrimination, sexual harassment, and retirement benefits. Its lawyers quickly resolve a wide range of business disagreements through trial, mediation, or arbitration. Crary Buchanan also represents individuals in personal injury, family law, bankruptcy, and estate planning cases.
HR Law
603 North Indian River Dr, Ste 200, Ft. Pierce, FL 34950
HR Law has been serving clients in the Port St. Lucie metro and its surrounding areas since 1992. It provides legal representation for individuals filing claims for retaliation, wrongful termination, and workers' compensation. In addition, the firm practices subrogation and liability defense, appellate, and community associations. Co-founder and shareholder William H. Rogner is board certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in both appellate practice and workers' compensation. He also served as chair of the Workers' Compensation Section of the Florida Bar.
Law Office of David Miklas, P.A.
101 U.S. 1 Suite 208, Fort Pierce, FL 34950
The Law Office of David Miklas PA is a firm of employment lawyers near Port St. Lucie who exclusively represent private and public employers in all aspects of employment law. Its services include advising employers on their hiring and firing practices, creating and auditing employee handbooks, and defending clients in state and federal courts against accusations of wrongful termination, discrimination, and harassment. The Law Office of David Miklas PA also operates from offices in Vero Beach.
Scott Wagner and Associates, P.A.
250 South Central Boulevard Suite 104-A, Jupiter, FL 33458
Scott Wagner and Associates, P.A., practices employment law in Port St. Lucie. Its lawyers walk clients through the process of finding resolutions for wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination, and harassment. They deal with matters involving minimum wage and overtime disputes. They educate employees about their workplace rights and responsibilities, including their role in reporting unfair practices fearlessly. Scott Wagner and Associates is among the companies in the country that advocates efficiency and sustainability by being a Florida-registered benefit corporation that follows eco-friendly business practices.
Welch Law
110 Front Street, Jupiter, FL 33477
Welch Law provides legal services to companies and individuals throughout the Port St. Lucie area. The firm serves small and midsize businesses and their owners, corporate officers, and directors. It focuses on the litigation process and handles a variety of employment law-related issues, including drafting and reviewing nondisclosure, non-solicitation and other types of agreements. Additionally, Welch Law can assist clients in negotiating, mediating, and arbitrating a variety of business disputes.
Wright, Ponsoldt, & Lozeau Trial Attorneys, L.L.P.
1002 Southeast Monterey Commons Boulevard, Stuart, FL 34996
Wright, Ponsoldt, & Lozeau Trial Attorneys LLP handles all matters involving employer-employee relationships. Its team of employment and labor attorneys near Port St. Lucie focuses on litigation. The firm ensures that clients' businesses are compliant with all essential state and federal acts and laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It represents clients in state and federal courts and handles appeals if necessary.
What does an employment attorney do?
Employment attorneys represent workers, companies, unions, and advocacy groups. Their primary job is preventing and resolving disputes related to state and federal employment regulations as well as civil rights. They assist with the development of policies, including laws and employee handbooks, and they represent clients in court and during administrative hearings overseen by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state-level labor agencies.
How much should I ask for in a discrimination lawsuit?
Employment-related claims are among the most complex and time-consuming lawsuits heard in the civil court system. Before workers can file a lawsuit, they must file a claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Every year, the EEOC recovers $505 million for victims of workplace discrimination. When cases proceed to court, the average settlement is approximately $40,000. However, roughly 10% of claimants receive at least $1 million.
How do I prove discrimination in the workplace?
Discrimination lawsuits are typically based on an established pattern of behavior in the workplace. Employment attorneys who handle these claims generally advise clients to gather evidence and document all instances of discrimination, harassment, or abuse, as they occur. The following documents are often vital for proving workplace discrimination:
Personnel files
Payroll records
Diary or journal entries
Medical or mental health records
Reports from witnesses
Photos or video footage
Can I sue my company for a hostile work environment?
Yes, offensive or unwelcome conduct that creates a hostile work environment and affects your terms of employment may give you reason to take legal action. However, rude or abusive behavior on its own isn't illegal. It must also be tied to other legal issues, such as retaliation for reporting harassment or discrimination directed at members of a protected group.
What is the EEOC?
The EEOC is the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It's a federal agency tasked with helping to enforce laws concerning discrimination in the workplace. Not all employers are covered under the EEOC. Typically, you have to work for an organization with at least 15 employees or for a labor union or agency to be covered by EEOC protections.
How do I report an abusive boss?
If you believe you're being discriminated against, you have several options. First, follow internal reporting procedures with human resources or other leadership. You can also file a charge of discrimination with the EEOC. Talking to an employment attorney can help you understand your options and protect your interests.
What laws protect employees from job discrimination?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides employees with protection against discrimination based on a wide variety of factors, including national origin, sex, religion, race, and color.
The Age Discrimination Act of 1967 applies age to the protected class.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 forbids sex-based compensation discrimination.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 makes it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of disability in terms of employment decisions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1991 adds more protection and power to the federal government to enforce some of these laws.
How do I file a wrongful termination claim?
You can file a wrongful termination claim with the EEOC online, via mail, or in person at various EEOC branch offices. You may be able to file a complaint with a state agency. To determine an appropriate plan of action and which organizations you can file with, speak to an employment lawyer.
What is unfair treatment at work?
Unfair treatment is not the same as unlawful treatment. There aren't laws against unfair treatment, which can include a boss who generally bullies people into action or someone who doesn't make fair decisions about time off because of nepotism or mood. Such issues may not constitute a claim for a court argument or allegation, unlike unjust judgments made on the grounds of race or age. An employment attorney can clarify if unfair treatment is also unlawful.
What are some workers\' rights related to injury and illness?
Employees have a variety of rights related to time off if they're injured or fall ill. For example, in workplaces covered by the Federal Medical Leave Act, workers are allowed to take up to 12 weeks off without losing their position in a company. The leave is unpaid unless PTO time can be used to cover it. Employees may also have rights to file a workers' comp claim if they're injured on the job. All of these laws cover different situations and types of employers, and an employment attorney can help you understand what rights you have.
Can an employer force you to work?
This is a gray area in some cases, which is why it may be a good idea to consult an employment lawyer if you have concerns about your workplace. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , workers have a right to refuse to work in dangerous situations. But the burden of proof that this is, in fact, the case, can weigh heavily on the employee.
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Our regional network of service providers plays a vital role in the quality of life of older adults of the High Country. Community based services are accessible through our network of contracted service providers and offer a low cost way to help keep individuals at home and in their community as long as possible. The funding for these services are offered through the Home and Community Care Block Grant (HCCBG) and administrated through the NC Division of Aging and Adult Services. The HCCBG was established in 1992 under NCGS 143B-181.1(a) (11) and was devised as a "common funding stream" for a comprehensive and coordinated system of home and community based services for older adults. Learn more about the HCCBG.
The High Country AAA's regional service provider portfolio of services includes, but is not limited to: general and medical transportation, in-home aide, nutrition services, health promotion, respite, housing and home improvement, adult daycare, information and assistance, insurance counseling and legal services.
View a regional contact list of the High Country Area Agency on Aging service providers (PDF).
Additional resources for Community Based Sevices can be found on our Information and Assistance page.
For additional information on any of the Community Based Services or Providers, contact Nicole Hiegl, Regional Health Promotion Coordinator, at nhiegl@regiond.org or 828-265-5434 ext. 113.


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Saxophone history through
great jazz saxophone players starts with a look at the
history of the instrument.
Saxophone history begins with a Belgian instrument maker. Adolphe Sax created the saxophone in Paris in 1842. He put a clarinet-like mouthpiece onto a metal body with a conical shape similar to an oboe and came up with an instrument louder than traditional woodwinds and suitable for military music. Early music for the saxophone included limited classical compositions and martial music. However it did not become widely popular in the 19th century.
At the turn of the century, the saxophone was used in vaudeville mostly as a novelty instrument - emulating chicken calls and played with a slap-tongued technique. Early brass bands in New Orleans had clarinet players who doubled on the sax, but it was not a major instrument at that time. These early clarinetists were playing counterpoint against a melody which was typically played by a cornet.
As big bands and swing music developed in the 1930s, clarinets became prominent as lead instruments. In the 1040s Bop music developed and clarinets became scarcely used solo instruments. They were replaced by saxophones. From that time until this day the two leading solo instruments in jazz have been the trumpet and the saxophone.
Great Jazz Sax Players
One of the most prominent clarinet players in New Orleans at the beginnings of jazz was Sidney Bechet. The cornet was much louder than the clarinet and Bechet did not like being unable to compete in volume with the brass melody instrument. He began to use the soprano saxophone for more volume than he could get from the clarinet. With the increased volume he was able to make the soprano saxophone a solo instrument. In saxophone history, Sidney Bechet became the first great jazz soloist.
Coleman Hawkins, (November 21, 1904 - May 19, 1969) was the first great jazz tenor sax player. His professional career began in 1920. In 1924 he was the original lead tenor in the famous Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. His playing was still old school stacatto and slap tongue until shortly after Louis Armstrong joined Fletcher Henderson. Hawk's playing was greatly influenced by the legato style and originality of Armstrong's playing. Hawkins became the indisputable leading saxophone player and almost every other sax player began sound similar to him. Coleman Hawkins remained one of the leading saxophonists in jazz into the mid 1960s.
Ben Webster (March 27, 1909 - September 20, 1973) was an early follower of the Coleman Hawkins' type of jazz saxophone. Ironically, he actually played in the Young family band with Lester Young early on. Webster took Hawkins place in the Fletcher Henderson band and later became the star tenor in Duke Ellington's best loved band. His warm, powerful, growling sound and intense vibrato influenced many later players. He is the second great swing sax player in saxophone history. Ben Webster is one of my personal favorites.
Lester Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959) was the second great pioneer on the tenor saxophone. He had a lighter and airier tone than Coleman Hawkins and his playing was less forceful. Rather than attacking a song, his sax floated over the song. In fact, "Prez" replaced Hawk in the Fletcher Henderson Band for a few months until Henderson reluctantly fired him because the other band members wanted a tenor sax that sounded like Hawkins. They got Ben Webster. Young starred in the great Count Basie Band and make numerous recordings with others, including beautifully backing Billie Holiday on many recordings. Both his tone and his harmonic ideas were precursors to Charlie Parker's revolutionary playing. His is a bright star in the saxophone history pantheon. Lester Young was also a master on the clarinet.
Charlie "Bird" Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955) is one of the truly great giants of jazz saxophone history and all jazz history. He played alto sax in in a revolutionary way. In early jazz, players embellished the melody when they soloed. In swing jazz improvising went further than mere embellishment and the solo was based on the chord structure of the song. Charlie Parker played solos using the 9th, 11th and 13th intervals of the chords. In other words he used notes in the scale of the chord but not in the primary triad and 7th. And he did this at an extremely rapid pace. Along with Dizzy Gillespie, Bird was the first great jazz player to establish the be-bop or bop style of jazz. He played in unison with other horns at breakneck speed and then soloed also extremely fast using the intervals mentioned above. Although panned by jazz critics and criticized by established jazz players, the bop innovations came to affect all of jazz. Charlie Parker truly changed all of jazz after him.
John Haley (Zoot) Sims (October 29, 1925 - March 23, 1985) was another great swing style tenor saxophonist. He played with many of the leading bands of his time, including Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. He also played frequently with Gerry Mulligan and led a number of his own small bop combos. Zoot Sims did not change the way other sax players played, but nobody swung more. He played with a warm tone, fluid style, and consistent melodic inventiveness. I always enjoy listening to Zoot Sims.
Cannonball Adderley is one of the greats in alto saxophone history. He got popular just after Charlie Parker's death and at first was called the "new Bird". He was not a new Bird, but was a great sax player in his own right. His hard-edged tone and blues and soul influenced playing presaged the development of hard bop. Listening to Cannonball Adderley play his joyful, soulful sax is always rewarding.
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Women Development Cell of the college organised a lecture delivered by Dr Manoj Virmani on the topic," The Significance of Ayurveda in the Maintenance of Health," on 20.9.2017. Dr Virmani Spoke exhaustively on the need of promoting Ayurveda, our ancient medical system. His Lecture was followed by a long session of interaction with the students.
A state-level Inter College Essay Writing Competition was arranged. A large number of entries were received in English, Hindi, and Punjabi. The following students bagged prizes.
Samridhi (Arya Kanya Mahavidyalya, Shahbad)-Ist Prize and Sonali Mehla (Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Karnal)- IInd Prize.
Jyoti (I. G. Mahila Mahavidyalya, Kaithal)-Ist Prize, Archana Sharma(Dyal Singh College, Karnal)-IInd Prize and Neha (D. A. V. College, Ambala (Lahore)-IIIrd Prize.
Harjeet Singh (Dyal Singh College, Karnal)-Ist Prize, Jayveer Kaur (Arya Girls College, Ambala Cantt)-IInd Prize and Simranjeet Kaur (Arya Kanya Mahavidyalya, Shahbad)-IIIrd Prize.
An Inter College Mehandi Competition was organised on 18.10.2017. 44 Students participated in the competition. The winners were: Neha; Sonia; Nidhi and Vishu got Ist Prize, IInd Prize and IIIrd Prize respectively.
A Quiz on "Great Women of the World : Past and Present' was organised on 9.2.2017. The following students bagged prizes: Akanksha and Niksha (Ist Prize), Prerna and Ritu (IInd Prize) and Ambika and Rohit (IIIrd Prize).
Mrs. Sarita Ganotra presented a paper in one day National Seminar held at Indira Gandhi National College, Ladwa on 30th Jan. 2017 on the topic "Role of Education in Women Empowerment".
A lecture by Dr. Meenu Thakur was organised on " The Cervical Cancer : Precautions and Challenges" on 9.2.2017. Dr. Thakur answered the queries of the students at length.


FOSS.in Day 1 - Hell Oh World!
So I made it to what apparently is the last FOSS.in. It was late as usual and so I did not miss much by reaching late. There was a bit of confusion about big grown men like myself coming in as student delegates, but that was cleared out fairly quickly when one of the organizers explained to the volunteers that miniconf speakers were to be admitted as student delegates. I am to conduct a workout today on bugzapping in Fedora today (day 2).
The beginning of FOSS.in was definitely less emphatic than before. Kishore Bhargava had replaced Atul Chitnis with the kick-off ceremony. That was quickly compensated however, by a really interesting talk by Danese on Wikipdia and its technical architecture. There was talk of an Indian mirror. That will be a very cool thing if it materializes. I'm sure one of the IITs can set aside bandwidth and hardware for them.
The wikipedia talk was followed by two completely technical talks; on page cache optimization in VMs by balbir Singh and the other by Lennart Poettering on his latest interest -- systemd. Balbir Singh's talk was quite interesting, where he ex[plained the problem of page cache duplication between guests and hosts in a VM environment. He went on to explain a few possible approaches to solving this. Lennart's talk didn't give anything new for me since I had been following the Fedora devel discussions.
Me, Shreyank and Rahul Sundaram then spent some time pulling artagnon's leg. We went back to the main hall in time to see Philip Tellis finish his talk. Rahul then followed that with his talk on failures in Fedora and what we learned from them.
We finally moved on for our Fedora dinner. Dimitris Glezos wanted to have kababs and we were told of a place where we could get good kababs. That was good, except for the fact that we didn't know where it was. After running around Forum mall looking for the place, we finally settled for Firangi Pani inside Forum mall. All that most of us ended up having was drinks and starters (kababs of course). Lots of them. That accompanied with Lennart and Dimitris discussing how they could get translations from Transifex to systemd with all of the commit log intact. We'll probably hear more about it once they actually reach a conclusion on that.
Now I'm sitting in the bus writing this post and preparing for the workout that I will be doing today. I hope I get a few bugzappers interested today.


It is an easily recognisable, serious insect pest damaging a wide variety of garden and indoor plants: ornamental plants and fruits, especially those grown in containers. The beetles are about 1 cm long, dull matt black in colour, with a pronounced 'snout'. Adult weevils are active from spring to late summer, grubs from summer to spring. Adult vine weevils eat leaves, and the grubs eat roots.


Each year 850 cold chain and life science executives come together to network, learn how to best optimize their business practices to reduce costs, increase efficiency and overall grow profits for their business. By limiting the number of solution providing companies, this unique environment provides sponsors a rare platform to engage in an open conversation with potential buyers that are actively seeking solutions. We take the time to get to know our customer so that we can help you navigate through the audience in order to find the best match in terms of need and buying power.
At IQPC, we focus on delivering the best value possible to our clients as we aim to help them overcome their most pressing challenges and reach their highest priority business development objectives. Our prospective sponsors traditionally tell us that sales slow or stall for one of 5 obvious reasons: They are engaging at the wrong level, there is no explicit need for the product or service, budgets are not readily available, timelines are undefined, or finally, they already have a working supplier in place with whom they are satisfied.
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Upload your White Paper/Technical Article to Our full Database – IQPC will host a one page marketing kit (brochure, white paper, case study, YouTube Video, etc.) on the conference web page, as well as the IQPC resources page.
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A bigger payday for ISOs and MLSs
How much can ISOs and merchant level salespeople (MLSs) expect to earn when they promote value-added products that help merchants prosper? Tranzlogic LLC claims its payments-oriented data, analytics and customer engagement tools can boost margins on merchant accounts by 30 to 50 percent.
Business owners willingly pay that premium because the company uses big data to help them identify and stay in contact with their best customers, said Charles Hogan, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westlake Village, Calif.-based Tranzlogic. It's a matter of providing small and midsize merchants the sophisticated powers that the big guys employ, he stated.
So far, approximately 50,000 merchants nationwide are getting to know their shoppers through the service, and that number will double in the next year, Hogan predicted. Such prodigious growth means opportunities for resellers, he added.
Flying on autopilot
Shoppers don't have to sign up for loyalty programs to get into the loop of a merchant's communications, Hogan pointed out. Tranzlogic automatically captures the clientele's names, addresses and habits, enabling merchants to reach their best customers with emails, text messages and postcards, while also targeting them with Internet advertising, he said.
In addition to helping to refine marketing and growth plans, the product can assist in healing wounds a company suffers when its affairs go awry, Hogan stated. Take the example he provided of a Florida business that experienced a 20 percent decline in sales over a six-month period because management had made serious mistakes.
Tranzlogic helped that company send apologies to alienated shoppers and provide "welcome back" coupons to entice them into the stores, Hogan said. At the same time, the company added to its customer base by expanding the marketing push to include potential customers with characteristics matching those of its best, lapsed customers.
Tranzlogic uses wholesale and retail approaches. First the company compiles information from payment transactions through integrations with larger ISOs, acquirers, gateways and POS companies. In its wholesale approach, the company sells the data back to those same entities, and they can mark it up and make it available to merchants. Information is gathered in the same way for the retail approach, but agents and smaller ISOs market a Tranzlogic-branded version to merchants. Resellers receive either residuals or an upfront payment. Merchants pay for the service in various ways determined by the companies that sell it, Hogan noted. "There are a number of flavors in the market – as you can imagine," he said, adding that resellers most often charge merchants a licensing fee of about $30 per month for each merchant identification number.
The technological precipice
Tranzlogic entered the market in earnest in 2013, Hogan said. He foresees change in his company and the industry overall. "We are looking for additional ISOs and acquirers, although we've penetrated that market deeply," he said. "We're beginning to expand beyond that to focus on point of sale companies, gateways, VARs – even loyalty companies because we're complementary to traditional loyalty." Meanwhile, some payment companies have become more tech-savvy in the last three to five years; others continue to lag, Hogan stated. "We're at the precipice of this big transformation of payments to value-add, technology and big data," he said. "But it's very difficult for a zebra to change its stripes."
At one end of the spectrum, acquirers have purchased tech companies and greatly expanded their product offerings; at the other, companies have stayed on the sidelines or tried to develop their own technology with limited success, Hogan noted. But it's not just a matter of finding the right technology. ISOs and MLSs should make the cultural shift required to learn how to promote the technology to merchants, Hogan said. He cautioned that "the barriers are many and large to making that transition" but emphasized it is imperative to make the effort.
Anthony Aker
aaker@tranzlogic.com
www.tranzlogic.com


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Sealed Air dumps EY & hires PwC, as SEC investigates
By Tammy Whitehouse2019-08-20T13:35:00+01:00
Under both criminal and civil investigations over how it appointed its auditor, Sealed Air decided to cut ties with EY and appoint PwC as its new independent auditor, even while disclosing close calls with the firm's independence.
Sealed Air is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and a U.S. Attorney's Office in North Carolina over how it appointed EY in November 2014. The large accelerated filer's audit committee said it terminated EY on Aug. 7, a few days after issuing its second-quarter 10-Q. That's when the company disclosed it was under subpoena related to the termination in June of CFO William Stiehl as well as the process by which the company selected EY as its auditor beginning with the 2015 fiscal year.
In its recent Form 8-K filing, the audit committee says it terminated EY due in part to its "dissatisfaction with information it learned about the process by which EY was selected as auditor." The uncertain outcome of the SEC investigation and the desire for an orderly transition also weighed on the audit committee, which said it wanted to "minimize the risk of disruption that could arise in the event of an unplanned change in independent auditors at an undetermined time in the future."
EY says it respects the company's decision to select other auditors but stands by its work and its independence. "We remain confident that EY performed its work with rigor, objectivity, impartiality and skepticism, in full compliance with all applicable professional standards," the firm said.
In appointing PwC, Sealed Air also disclosed some lengthy discussion and analysis of the firm's independence, asserting ultimately that the audit committee believes the firm can provide independent assurance on its 2019 financial statements. With 2018 net sales of $4.7 billion and 100 manufacturing facilities in nearly 50 countries, the company said it identified audit firms it believed were qualified to serve as its auditor—no doubt a short list—and identified possible independence issues with all of them.
Sealed Air says it and PwC identified certain non-audit services that PwC or one of its global network affiliates had provided for the company that are not permitted under the SEC's rules governing auditor independence. "The committee and PwC discussed the services, which are no longer being performed, and concluded that the provision of the services will not affect PwC's objectivity or its impartiality and will not impair its ability to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm," the company disclosed in its filing.
The disclosure lists services provided to Sealed Air by PwC or its affiliates, including some reverse sales and use tax audits in 2016, 2017, and 2018, initially paid on a contingent fee basis until converted to a fixed payment based on hourly rates. PwC firms also provided payroll and benefits administration for a Singapore business in 2018 and 2019 and sub-consolidation workpapers for units in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2018 and 2019.
Fees across the firms in 2019 cost Sealed Air $223,000. "PwC and the other firms in the global network of firms ceased providing these services to the company and its subsidiaries prior to PwC being engaged as the company's auditor," Sealed Air says.
As a comparison, the company paid EY $7.15 million for audit services in 2018, along with $405,000 in audit-related fees, such as general accounting matters, employee benefit plan audits, and any merger or acquisition work, and $2.16 million in tax fees, for a total bill of some $9.7 million.
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INAIR: Places Web Content Inline With The Consumers' TV Viewing Experience
A new way to watch TV debuts. InAiR from SeeSpace uniquely places Web content inline with the consumers' TV viewing experience, creating a completely new dynamic medium. Further, there is no second screen to juggle. InAiR combines Emmy-award-winning design expertise and next generation technology to create a rich, dynamic, animated viewer interface using the main TV screen and the space between the screen and the viewer. A demonstration video is available bellow. "Viewers don't want to watch TV in isolation any more. They want context: graphics, information and social engagement. Today, there is no easy way to display this content without the second screen," said Nam Do, co-founder and CEO of SeeSpace. "We had to crack both the design and the technical challenges to deliver InAiR, a completely new kind of viewer interface. InAiR makes use of the entire viewing space in front of the TV, and creates a new medium of combined media like nothing people have interacted with before."
The InAiR experience is designed to work with any existing TV, including regular 2D, 3D and 4K Ultra HD. The only hardware needed is the InAiR Smart HDMI Adapter. Consumers simply plug this extension cable into their TV and set top box and can start enjoying InAiR Augmented TV straight away. Turn any iOS or Android mobile device – including smartphones, tablets and smartwatches – into a track pad type controller by downloading the free InAiR app. With no menus to navigate or buttons to press, viewers intuitively use their thumbs to swipe and scroll through content overlaid on the screen. InAiR also supports gesture control through Kinect or Leap devices, giving viewers a true "Minority Report" experience. The SeeSpace patented InAiR Engine intelligently identifies relevant Internet and social content based on what the viewer is watching on TV and deliver it to the TV screen in real time. InAiR uses the vast amount of readily available free content to enrich the viewing experience today, and plans to make additional premium content available in the future via media partnerships. Leading up to the product availability announcement, an API developer's kit will also be made available, further extending the possibilities of InAiR's user experience.
InAiR has been developed by SeeSpace, a start-up founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Hollywood entertainment experts. The founding team comprises Nam Do, founder of neuro-technology pioneer Emotiv, and Dale Herigstad, four-time Emmy-award-winning designer and veteran creative director in television for 35 years. The founding team is completed by Jerry Gramaglia, President of eTrade, CMO at Pepsi and chairman at Acxiom; and Anne-Marie Roussel, former Microsoft and Sharp TV executive and Gartner VP.
InAiR will be available for preorder for $99 via a Kickstarter campaign launching this month, with ship dates expected in the second half of 2014. For a live InAiR demo, come by SeeSpace booth #75007 in the Eureka Park area of the Venetian. SeeSpace was founded in 2013 by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Hollywood entertainment experts to reinvent the way we watch TV. The company's flagship product is InAiR, a multi-dimensional viewer interface for Augmented TV. InAiR is the first viewer interface to blend TV and video content with relevant content from the Web, displaying it inline, in a completely intuitive way. There is no second screen to juggle – InAiR uses the main TV screen and layers in additional sources of content to enrich the connection between the screen and the viewer. Visit SeeSpace.co to sign up for more API information.
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard, född 8 november 1922 i Beaufort West, Västra Kapprovinsen, Sydafrikanska unionen, död 2 september 2001 i Pafos, Cypern, var en sydafrikansk hjärtkirurg.

Barnard utförde världens första hjärttransplantation på en människa, på Groote Schuur-sjukhuset i Kapstaden i Sydafrika den 3 december 1967. Patienten hette Louis Washkansky och var en 53-årig specerihandlare. Donatorn var Denise Darvall, en 25-årig banktjänsteman som avlidit av sviterna efter en trafikolycka. Hennes far gick med på att hennes organ fick doneras. Washkansky avled 18 dagar senare till följd av infektion och avstötning.
Darvalls njurar donerades till en tioårig mörkhyad pojke och det var kontroversiellt i dåtidens Sydafrika med dess apartheidregim, vilken Barnard kritiserade hårt (hans bror Marius (1927–2014) invaldes 1980 i parlamentet för det apartheidfientliga Progressive Federal Party) då donatorn var vit.

Det andra fallet var den 58-årige tandläkaren Philip Blaiberg, som fick ett nytt hjärta den 2 januari 1968; han levde i då häpnadsväckande 19 månader. Den av Barnards patienter som klarade sig längst levde i 24 år efter transplantationen. Barnard tvingades 1983 sluta som kirurg på grund av svår ledgångsreumatism i händerna. Trots att Barnard överlevde Washkanskys hjärttransplantation med nästan 34 år tilldelades han aldrig Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin, vilket han själv tillskrev sin status som boer och vit sydafrikan.

Barnard avled i september 2001 till följd av ett kraftigt astmaanfall under en semester i Cypern.

Han författade förutom vetenskapliga artiklar tre böcker; självbiografin Ett liv - en hjärtläkare berättar (1969), Kirurgen - en roman (1975) och Att leva med kronisk ledgångsreumatism (1986).

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Man goes on shoplifting spree: University Heights Police Blotter
University Heights police, after a traffic stop, detained a Missouri man whose car had fictitious plates and who was in possession of a defaced handgun.
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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio
Theft: Cedar Road
At 4:30 p.m. Nov. 30, an employee of the Goodwill store, 13908 Cedar Road, reported that a man who had stolen items from the store had left and gone to the neighboring CVS/Pharmacy store.
Police found the man inside CVS and cited him for theft.
He was found to have on his person $93.27 worth of goods from Goodwill and another $223.75 worth of merchandise from the Dollar Tree store, 13934 Cedar Road.
Police cited the man, 47, of Richmond Heights, a second time for possessing the Dollar Tree merchandise.
Abandoned vehicle: Saybrook Road
At 8:10 a.m. Nov. 28, police located a truck, without a front wheel, parked in the street in the 2500 block of Saybrook Road. Police could not find the owner and had the truck impounded.
Later that day, police located the owner, a Cleveland man, 39, and warned him about abandoning a vehicle on a city street. The truck was released to the man.
Auto theft: Claver Road
At 5:45 a.m. Dec. 1, the owner of a 2020 Honda Accord reported that the vehicle had been stolen from their driveway. The car had been left unlocked with its keys inside. The owner last saw the car at 10 p.m. the previous night.
Theft from auto: Wrenford Road
At 8:10 a.m. Dec. 1, a woman, 34, reported that someone had entered her car, which had been parked overnight in her driveway. Stolen was the woman's wallet, which contained credit and debit cards.
Warrant arrest: Thayne Road
At 11:55 a.m. Dec. 1, police were dispatched to assist a man who had locked himself out of his car. At the scene, police learned that the University Heights man, 71, was wanted on a North Royalton police warrant. The man was arrested and turned over to North Royalton police.
Disturbance: Milton Road
At 1:50 p.m. Dec. 1, police were told of a disturbance in the street involving several women and one man. When police arrived, the man was no longer present.
The disturbance involved a woman, 24, and her boyfriend, 20, as well as the boyfriend's sister, 24. The incident stemmed from a broken cell phone and relationship issues.
Statements were taken. The detective bureau is investigating.
Criminal investigation: Warrensville Center Road
At 2:50 p.m. Dec. 3, an officer stopped a car for an equipment violation. It was then found that the car was not registered and bore a fictitious Missouri license plate.
In addition, a defaced firearm was found in the car.
Police detained the driver, a Missouri man, 36, as an investigation was undertaken.
Open burning: Warrensville Center Road
At 1:20 a.m. Dec. 4, a man approached police to state that someone was lighting a fire on the first floor of the parking garage at 2203 Warrensville Center Road.
Officers found that a South Euclid man, 25, who appeared to have mental health issues, had started a small fire to keep himself warm. Police extinguished the fire and took the man home to his mother.
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Song of the Day: Sophie's Choice ("Love Theme") [YouTube link], composed by Marvin Hamlisch, is a soft, loving theme that cushions the blow of an utterly devastating film. I only saw this film about a year ago, and was deeply affected by the horrors it depicts during the years of the Nazi holocaust. Without referring to the "choice" that Sophie must make in the film, I can say that it reminded me of Ayn Rand's novel, We the Living, which depicts the horrors of Soviet communism, in one important sense: the insanity of totalitarian political systems that allow no choices except among forms of death and decay. It is all the more fitting to remember that nightmare on this day, which is a "day of remembrance" for those who were the subject of Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, allowing the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps within the United States during World War II. Ironically, it was film that first made me aware of those camps, when I first saw "Hell to Eternity," as a child, a 1960 movie with Jeffrey Hunter (who played Christ in the 1961 film, "King of Kings") and David Janssen (who was "The Fugitive" in that remarkable television series of the 1960s). Those camps certainly were not extermination camps, but they are a symbol of what happens during wartime, when individual rights are abrogated both at home and abroad. In any event, the 1982 film gave Meryl Streep a much-deserved Oscar award for Best Actress, and Hamlisch received a much-deserved nomination for Best Original Score, losing out to the iconic John Williams score for "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." It is difficult to find a moment of joy or laughter in films of this nature, but I will never forget Sophie's admiration of Stingo's seersucker jacket [YouTube link]. The film's house was situated in Brooklyn, New York, and it stands still on Rugby Road in Flatbush.
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NAIAS 2017: Nissan Vmotion 2.0 gets award for Best Concept Vehicle
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When Nissan introduced the Vmotion 2.0 concept at this year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), we knew that it will be an attention grabber. As a testament to its striking design, it won the 2017 EyesOn Design Award for Best Concept Vehicle in NAIAS.
The Vmotion 2.0 concept essentially previews the future design of Nissan's sedans, such as the Altima. It shows a more aggressive and angular exterior design, a layout that could pose a challenge to its fellow Japanese competitors such as Toyota and Mazda.
Furthermore, the vehicle also won the award for Best Innovative Use of Color, Graphics and Materials.
This prestigious award, earned from top design leaders from around the world, exemplifies the enormous potential of Nissan's newest design direction. We're honored to be here and excited to continue to show the world the limitless capability of Nissan design." said Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. executive design director for Nissan Global Design Strategy Mamoru Aoki.
The Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept features the revolutionized "V-motion" front design signature evident on many Nissan products today. The Silver Copper finish, a combination of copper and other metals, added the distinct layered effect of the concept car.
As previously reported, if the new Altima will look similar with the concept, we think that it has a good chance to surpass its rivals in the midsize sedan segment.
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Loren wrote: As of today, this event is half-full.
...we've bumped our registration limits to 60 drivers and 20 guests!
That will be full of awesomeness as long as we don't have to reduce the number of runs to accommodate the extra drivers.
Ah, you say that... unless you're one of the ones that didn't get in before. Then it's "0 runs and zero championship points vs. 4 runs", which isn't so bad.
4 runs has always been our norm for Open events. We try to do 5 when we can. It has less to do with the number of entries, more to do with the course design (how much run overlap it allows), and with how much the drivers are slowing things down (DNF's, multiple cones, going off, and otherwise just being slow).
We've added 6 entries. That's 3 per run group. If we do 5 runs, that's 15 runs, 30 seconds each. +/- 7 minutes per run group. Encourage people to not slow the event down with their shenanigans, and we'll likely be able to do 5 runs!
Let me be the first to say it then.
NO SHENANIGANS YOU DARN WHIPPERSNAPPERS! (And stay off my lawn while you're at it!) Hur-umpf. Double hur-umpf.
Racing... because golf only requires one ball.
Drives: S2000, Miata, your car?
Autox Car: S2000, Miata, your car?
I'm with Ron and Dave!
I've got to make one final edit and I don't have time to do it right now. So, it will be super-late tonight.
BigBlue wrote: NO SHENANIGANS YOU DARN WHIPPERSNAPPERS! (And stay off my lawn while you're at it!) Hur-umpf. Double hur-umpf.
Wait...I've seen your house. You have a lawn?
Blue_Heron wrote: That will be full of awesomeness as long as we don't have to reduce the number of runs to accommodate the extra drivers.
In my FL memory the number of runs has normally been determined by how long a human can run after cones in 90F heat. No more than 1.5hrs the very limit. Less is better.
Think about it. If we had one event of 75 divided into 3 run groups of 25 you aren't going to get more than 4 runs as that's 100 minutes. You will ONLY get 5 if the course is laid out to release a car every 20 seconds and no one screws up. At least every group gets to rest/hydrate before driving that way.
With 50 drivers running in two heats like we do now the bad part is the 1st heat workers have very little time to rest/hydrate before driving. BIG disadvantage for cone chasers in the 2nd heat.
With 60 drivers 3 heats of 20 cars is actually doable giving each group a chance to rest before driving. That is awesome. Also provides more time for chatting each other up in the shade.
twistedwankel wrote: With 60 drivers 3 heats of 20 cars is actually doable giving each group a chance to rest before driving. That is awesome. Also provides more time for chatting each other up in the shade.
We're not planning on splitting our Open events into 3 heats of 20 per session. You've touched on some of the reasons why we might or might not want to. This gets wordy, but if you want do understand why we do things the way we do, read on.
Course Work - 90 minutes is the absolute max, but we don't like to do the max except for occasional special events, preferably not in the heat of summer. Normally, we try to cap it at about 70-75 minutes. Just a little over an hour if we can.
The other thing we do at an Open event is limit it to two run groups to avoid the second worker change between groups 2 and 3. A worker change kills 15-20 minutes easily. 20 minutes = 40+ runs! You want to commit to 4 runs EVERY time? Sure, we could break into 3 groups. We're not going to do that for Open events. We usually do for Classic events... and that's part of the "Classic vibe".
Doing 3 groups is cool, it does allow for some casual "social time" and more ride-alongs and such. But, in addition to costing us some group-change time, it also gives us a smaller grid. 20 cars on the grid, that means a max of about 10 minutes between runs. And if you're in a 2-driver car, which we get a lot of, it's no more than 5 minutes between runs. Makes for a hectic grid. With our previous 54-driver limit, a full event gives us a 27-car grid. More like 13 minutes between runs, and 6.5 minutes for a 2-driver car. I little less frantic. Going to 60 drivers and a 30-car grid just pads that time a little more. More time for drivers to check their times, tire pressures, engine oil, busted exhaust valves, arrange to ride with other drivers, etc.
And if we had a 30-second start interval, 5 runs for 30 cars = 75 minutes. Right on the mark. We usually strive for about a 25-28 second start interval. Even better.
One more thing that a lot of people who aren't me don't think about. It hasn't happened in a while, but there are those occasions where we have had a 40 driver session at an Open event. That gives us the smaller 20 car grid, which requires a lot of hustle from the drivers to keep up. But, the other aspect is... now we have a pool of 20 workers to work the other group! Sounds like plenty, but take away 2 for timing, 2 for grid, 1 for start, and at least two for setup, tech or registration. Now you're down to 12. 6 worker stations... you've got just enough. Now, throw in the novices and first-timers that we often get at an Open event. You're going to need some instructors! Now you're short course workers, or at least short experienced corner captains. If we did 3 groups of 20... that would be a CONSTANT problem. 30-car groups? Easy peasy! Extra people to handle instructing, extra workers, people to do teardown, etc. I even added a 7th worker station on the course for this event because I knew we could cover it.
I think station 1 and 7 are going to be busy, and 7 needs to be very alert.
1 shouldn't be as bad as it looks. It's 50-foot spaced, yes. But, it's very easy offset. Just a wiggle.
7... first runs will be messy. Once people realize how much they need to brake and where, it should settle down. You're likely going to need to be braking and initiating turn-in at least 50 feet before the end of that walled straight.
Loren wrote: It hasn't happened in a while, but there are those occasions where we have had a 40 driver session at an Open event.
Yep. If it weren't for the many FN stay overs we'd be pretty SOL for workers in the late sessions sometimes.
jbrannon7 wrote: I think station 1 and 7 are going to be busy, and 7 needs to be very alert.
jaball77 wrote: Going to miss this one, sadly. The kiddo's birthday party takes precedence!
This means I might have a shot at another S4 sticker.
There is now an afternoon opening get it FAST.
Yeah, that one didn't last too long!
But, now there's been an Early cancel. If anyone needs to get in, or wants to flip to the Early Session, go get it!


first step... figure out what you want it to look like.
I made mine to have 6 chime thingies with a hexagon mount.
On the piece of wood you're going to want to draw out the shape of the top mount, the middle piece that chimes the aluminium and the bottom wind catcher thing.
Once drawn out on wood cut them out. i used a jig saw for this.
Once you have all your holes driller grab your sand paper and sand everything down, round all the edges/corners.The smoother and nicer the finish you have the better it will look in the long run, so take your time.
Next wipe down all the wood with a lint free rag to take care of any saw dust. i like to vacuum the pieces too.
Grab a stain that tickles your fancy and stain the pieces. brush on, wait, wipe off.
I gave each piece two coats and let them dry overnight.
Once the stain is dry give the pieces a few coats (I did 3) of clear coat and again let it sit overnight to dry.
While your pieces are drying take the time to cut the aluminium tubing.
Not sure where i got mine from bu its basically an aluminium shower curtain rod. It is about and inch in diameter, thin walled so it has a nice chime.
Cut it into 6 pieces at different lengths. My longest one is 20" long and each piece is 1" shorter than the previous.
Once you have all the pieces cut, mark them all at equal distances from the end of each pipe. I did 4" from the end.
Now come putting it all together.
I started with the strings that will hang the wind chime. I cut 3 pieces of string each about 10" long.
Tie a knot on one end and thread the string through the top piece of wood and also through opposite corner and tie a knot to secure it. (see picture) Repeat for the other two strings.
Now on a new piece of string tie a know on one end and thread it through the wood catcher piece.
Then about 18' up from that tie a knot in the string and slide on the piece that chimes.
About 12' from the piece that chimes tie another knot and slide the top mount on.
Once on tie another know to keep it all in place.
Sorry its kinda hard to explain, i hope the pictures help.
Let me know if you have questions!!
On each piece of string tie a knot on one end and feed it through one of the holes in the corner, through the hole you drilled in the aluminum pipe, back up and through the top piece again and tie another knot to secure it all.
Again see pictures to help clear it up and let me know if you need something explained better.
Hang it up and enjoy the sounds!
So does this mean the longer tubes will have a longer string, and the shorter tubes a shorter string? Does it make a big difference?
The string length doesn't matter except to determine the location/height of the tube.
Usually chimes are made so the tops are at the same level, but that is up to you.
I am not aware of any striker height importance.
I was just wondering about your 22,4% length comment for the suspension holes. So on a 10 cm chime the hole for the string should be drilled 2,24 cm from the top, but on a 20 cm chime the hole should be 4,48 cm from the top, to result in the least dampening of the sound? Sorry my previous comment was a bit less clear (the different lengths for the holes mean different lengths for the strings to get them hanging on the same level).
That's correct. I like to make my wind chimes line up at the bottom, that way, the striker hits the edge, which is a recommended spot. The BEST part to drill the suspension would be the center, but gravity will make that impossible and/or impractical, so the next best percentage is 22.4%. It will dampen the overtones, giving it a caressing sound.
You're not clear about how to determine lengths. What note system is this supposed top be? There are online calculators to determine lengths by which note you want each tube to be. Then you cut a bit long, test it, then file shorter until it matches. There are android apps for guitar tuning that will help.
Years ago I bought gorgeously-toned large wind chime which weathered the weather year round for a couple of decades before the strings started to fail. Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be to hear it again and that I really ought to figure out how to fix it -- and now thanks to you I can!
Sweet chimes! We made similar chimes in 8th grade pre-algebra. We even used a guitar tuner to calibrate each tube. Can't resist commenting on your wind catcher; it looks like a coffin :) Great job!


A month ago we've reported that Enzysurge out of Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel was working toward getting FDA approval for its SilverStream wound therapy system. And in no time the company is already announcing regulatory clearance to sell both its prescription and over-the-counter systems in the US.
The patent pending DermaStream CST device provides the mechanism for EnzySurge's proprietary Continuous Streaming Therapy™ (CST). CST is a modality based on continuously streaming of fresh therapeutic solutions to the wound bed while removing exudates by vacuum assisted drainage throughout the treatment cycle. The combination of the DermaStream CSTdesign and the CST action produces negative pressure above the wound without the need for external equipment.
DermaStreamCST vacuum assisted drainage continuously removes exudate and infectious material from the wound environment.
DermaStream CST is a disposable, single patient use device. It is designed to provide negative pressure above the wound bed without expensive external equipment.


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Sr. Project Showcase
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Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Location: Noble Recital Hall, Choir Room, Room 125: Jenson-Noble Hall of Music
Senior Project Showcase Schedule
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:30 – 10:00 p.m.
7:30 – 8:00 p.m. (Choir Room)
Alexander Lapinski, "Music for Play: An Analysis of Koji Kondo's Soundtracks for the Super Mario Series" (Advisor: Prof. Batoff)
This presentation examines the compositional style and lasting impact of Nintendo composer Koji Kondothrough his soundtracks for the Super Mario franchise, one of the most influential video game series in history. Following the presentation, an exhibit will be available in JN 125 from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. to engage with the games themselves.
8:10 – 8:40 p.m. (NRH)
Sarah Lodge, "Why Do We Tour?" (Advisor: Prof. Batoff)
This presentation analyzes Luther College's current tour planning procedures and argues that student experience should be the top priority. I will present my plan for a Concert Band tour to the East Coast that maximizes the student experience.
Lauren Bennati, "Beyond Bach and Handel: A Case for Expanding the Flute Canon"
(Advisor: Prof. Engelsdorfer)
As it stands, eighteenth-century flute music is mostly represented by the works of Bach and Handel. My presentation will explain why that is, what other composers from the time period should also be represented, and what musicians should do to integrate these composers into what is being taught to students. There will be a performance of underrepresented flute works, with Emily Riley accompanying on piano.
Mitchell Gage, "Reimaging Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: A Study on Modernizing Opera" (Advisors: Prof. Engelsdorfer and Prof. Gover)
This presentation will examine the importance of reimagining opera through a case study on Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. A comparison will be made through a staging and restaging of the Act II Duel Scene and will feature performers Nathan Baldwin, tenor, and Anne Wilson, pianist.
Brady Pierce, "Building a Guitar: An Exploration of Tone" (Advisor: Prof. Borter)
I intend to present the guitar that I built over the course of the semester. I will also compare it with other guitars to demonstrate how differences in the construction and materials affect the sound, and to help explain the decisions that I made in building my guitar.
Benjamin Ostrem, "Charlie Parker with Strings: An Analysis of Charlie Parker's Style"(Advisor: Prof. Hart)
This presentation will examine Charlie Parker's album Charlie Parker With Strings, which features a fusion of classical and jazz idioms that was previously unseen in his day. Other topics that will be covered include Parker's unique style of improvisation and those that influenced him, such as Lester Young and Buster Smith.
Green Card: Please pick up, fill out, and hand in a Green Card for each presentation that you attend, if you
require recital attendance. You must attend 2 senior project presentations to equal 1 recital attendance. The
video game exhibit does not count toward Green Cards.
Questions? Contact [email protected]
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Autumn Boyle – Blogger Success Profile – It's a Lovely Life!
We are so excited to share the wonderful success story of Autumn Boyle, the proud owner of Lectin Free Mama. After being diagnosed with a debilitating chronic health condition called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Autumn started her blog in June of 2017 to document her health journey.
For her, it started out as a creative outlet and release to talk about the ups and down of dealing with her illness. Not long after starting the blog, however, she discovered the Start a Money Making Blog Facebook group and realized she could reach (and help) many more people if she took her blog from a hobby to a professional business. Her timing was perfect, because the very first Blogging Blastoff started in July of 2017, just one month after starting her blog!
She added a lead magnet to incentivize people to sign up for her email list (a weekly meal plan consisting of her own recipes) and now has 6000 (!!!) subscribers with exclusive access to that content.
She chose to focus on Affiliate programs and used the strategies outlined in the course, giving her the ability to quit her part-time job, and enroll her child in part-time daycare so she could have more time to work on her blog!
She utilized the information in the course to establish a business entity and manage the legalities of being a business owner.
Despite being so successful with Affiliate programs, she is now pursuing sponsored post opportunities outlined in the course, and utilizing the tips for "getting your name out there".
Perhaps most notably, Autumn's blog has become the biggest unaffiliated resource for people attempting to use the same diet she uses to REVERSE her condition. She now has nearly 60,000 unique visitors a month, many hoping for their own health success story. She also created a Facebook community of over 5000 people who, through her blog, support each other in this emotional journey of chronic disease.
What an inspirational story! By utilizing all of the tools and concepts we teach in our group and courses, Autumn was able to be successful in making money with her blog (enough to quit her day job, in fact!). But also, she is helping thousands of people through her successful business! Talk about a win-win!
We can't wait to see what's next for Autumn!
Make sure to follow Autumn on her blog and social media platforms to follow her success!
We'd love to feature YOU as a success profile!
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Working on deepening my soul and building up my home. A couple of decent people are putting time in on the strings to help support the touring of 2019. A big part of this tour, the 'all' part to me, is the development of change in the self. Putting out good medicine, teaching my mind about my soul, and putting fuel to fire and working that 'self-metal' into a proper functioning tool for making life living good life lived.
What progress almost looks like!
Once in a while, a project comes along that just seems too big to handle. That's when we isolate the matter and pick one thing off at a time. Every time I sit down with the idea of 'fixing' my webpage I get a little short of breath and enter into 'HULK HATE – SMASH' mode.


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Experts: Ukraine should prepare for extreme defense
2014/09/19 - 21:02 • Archive
Article by: Yevhen Solonyna
Source: Radio Liberty
Translated by: Mariya Shcherbinina
Kyiv – The Ukrainian armed forces should prepare for extreme defense and the possible advance of the prevailing Russian army and mercenaries, note Ukrainian military experts. They approve of the fact that Ukrainian forces have retreated from Lutuhino in Luhansk oblast and based themselves along Siversky Donets. The NSDC and ATO Headquarters assure that Ukrainian troops maintain defense in Donetsk airport, near Mariupol and other directions.
On September 19, the Ukrainian army retreated from Lutuhino and smaller localities to the west of Luhansk and based themselves along the Siversky Donets banks. meanwhile the Ukrainian special ops troops continue holding Donetsk airport under their control; combat broke out to the west of the city on September 19.
"Citizens of Petrovsky, Kirovsky, Kuybyshevsky and Leninsky districts report that they can hear shots being fired from heavy weaponry, and explosions," says the message on the website of the Donetsk City Council. The Ukrainian side rebuked yet another attempt to storm the airport, reports ATO speaker Vladyslav Selezniov.
"At 6 a.m. on September 19, the mercenaries tried to take the airport in Donetsk, which is under ATO control. All attacks were rebuffed," he noted.
Melnyk: The biggest problem is that the limits of the conflict are not fixed
The situation in Donbas is threatening and does not accord totally with the information provided by the NSDC and the General Headquarters, thinks co-director of international security programs Olexiy Melnyk. Under such conditions we can only hope that the straightening of the front in several directions is a decision made by the Ukrainian government, and not a result of retreat under pressure from the mercenaries, Olexiy Melnyk said to Radio Liberty.
"We have already seen optimistic statements of the Ukrainian government. And we have heard more worrisome information (about battles in Donbas), and then later this alternative information turned out to be true. I want to hope that the front line was straightened along Siversky Donetsk due to a decision made by the General Headquarters, and not as a result of retreat under pressure of the mercenaries. We see that the separatists and the Russian army are not adhering to the ceasefire, and they are using the ceasefire on our part to reinforce their positions, regroup, and sometimes, shift our units to other borders. The biggest problem is that the borders of the conflict are not fixed, and it is unclear how we are to do so now," explained Olexiy Melnyk.
As to Debaltsvo, which is surrounded by pro-Russian and Russian forces, Olexiy Melnyk thinks that the threat of the Ukrainian units being surrounded here is the biggest, and thinks that the best decision here would be to retreat and straighten the front line. Mercenaries claim that they have already surrounded two groups of Ukrainian soldiers in Debaltsevo and Zhdanivka, however the ATO press center denies this. The NSDC's combat map shows that the Ukrainian troops have shifted the separatists and Russian troops, having made a new corridor from the east towards Debaltsevo, and continue to maintain the old corridor from the north. Information Resistance group on their part explain that the decision of maintaining Debaltsevo should be approved by the General Headquarters depending on what they want to use it for later.
Leader of Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk emphasized in his conversation with Radio Liberty that the invasion of significant troops of the regular Russian army, which is bigger than the Ukrainian troops in the eastern region, forces them to build powerful defense borders and avoid epicenters similar to Ilovaisk.
"Since the approval of the 'law regarding individual Donbas districts,' the government aims to solve the problem peacefully, it is an objective necessity. It became impossible to carry out successful operations like the ATO troops did in August after the invasion of regular Russian troops. The Russian army is bigger. Under conditions when Ukraine has fewer resources, we need to draw a defense line on location, and not on the map, and go into extreme defense. And straighten the front line where needed."
Tymchuk and most experts emphasize that Russian troops and mercenaries disregard the ceasefire in Donetsk, and it only has political significance: as a testament to peaceful intent on part of Ukraine for the global community. Experts call to continue mobilization, train volunteers, create defense lines around the conflict zone and prepare for the fact that even ghostly ceasefire may end soon. One of the most probable directions of the extremists and Russian army's attacks is Mariupol, as well as the shore of the Azov Sea, experts think. Locals are creating a multilevel defense system in Mariupol, and Azov volunteer battalion, which is maintaining defense there, is teaching locals and their own volunteers to fight (recently this battalion was expanded into a regiment).
Tags: Donbas war (2014-present), Military analysis, Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcaster funded by the U.S. government that provides "news, information, and analysis" to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East "where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed."
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Open-air farmers markets connect local farmers with city residents by delivering fresh healthy produce to all five boroughs. New Yorkers can purchase fresh fruit, vegetables, and other locally produced products straight from regional farmers. Here is a list of Farmers Markets in Queens NY and tips on how to be a savvy greenmarket shopper.
Shop around and get to know your farmers. Ask questions about prices, growing standards and quality. You can then decide who are your favorites and frequent them.
Go to the greenmarket with no expectations and be ready and open to anything. Supermarkets usually have thick skinned fruit and veggies which have little flavor but are better for shipping. At the market however you will see many varieties of produce like tomatoes and apples that you have never tried before. Be adventurous and give them a try.
The early birds will get the best pick so try to get there early if you are looking for something specific.
Toward the end of the day, farmers who have not sold out may drop their prices so if you are looking for a deal, the later the better.
You are going to a greenmarket after all. Try to remember to bring your own bags, and maybe an ice pack for eggs or milk.
At farmers markets, food is available only when it is in season. Savvy farmers market shoppers make sure to load up on seasonal fruits and vegetables and feast year round on jams, pesto, salsas, and fresh frozen corn.
This is a great weekday market with an excellent selection of fruits and vegetables that draws a large number of shoppers. Angel's Farm has vegetables along with a huge variety of Mexican hot peppers, specialty greens and tomatillos, and Alex's Tomato Farm rounds out the market with more vegetables and fruits.
Located on 48th Avenue between Vernon Blvd and 5th St in Long Island City, this Saturday Greenmarket is the perfect place for residents and Gantry Park/Pier visitors to stock-up on a bounty of fresh locally grown produce like Nolasco Farm's large selection of vegetables and specialty Mexican produce; just-picked apples, fruits, berries and juices from Red Jacket Orchards and Breezy Hill Orchards; fresh pasta, eggs and chicken from Knoll Krest Farm and baked goods from Meredith's Bakery and Not Just Rugelach.
This new greenmarket is situated by Corona Plaza at the foot of the103rd St at the Roosevelt stop on the N train and 7 train. This market will serve the diverse surrounding community with farm-fresh offerings and fun activities.
This market sells Fruit, Herbs, Plants, and Vegetables.
This is a youth run market which is coming back to Ridgewood again this summer.
Location: 34 Avenue between 77 & 78 Streets, and on 78 St between 34 Avenue and Northern Blvd.
Located in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city, the recently expanded Jackson Heights Greenmarket is the largest and busiest market in Queens. Beautifully sited along the edge of Travers Park, this bustling Sunday market draws a large crowd of families, long-time residents and young couples who come out to shop, enjoy the lively scene, and meet and greet their neighbors. The 78th Street playstreet is right nearby and they host family-friendly events each Sunday adjacent to the market, making this market a real destination.
Going into its 4th season and set on a shady, tree-lined avenue near Lou Lodati Park. On hand are a selection of vegetables, eggs, fruit, cider, baked goods and fish. Cheese, pickled vegetables, grass fed beef, locally produced wines, and Asian specialty produce are also available.
This Greenmarket is in its first year and hopefully going to find a successful home in Forest Hills. Started by a Queens mother, you can come and get your local produce close to home.


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Alcatel's Plus 10 is a 2-in-1 tablet powered by Windows 10
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BARCELONA — Looking for a portable Windows 10 tablet 2-in-1 that isn't as large or expensive as the Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book?
At Mobile World Congress, Alcatel unveiled the Plus 10, its first 2-in-1 Windows 10 tablet, with 10-inch screen and keyboard dock for productivity.
The Plus 10 is powered by a 1.92GHz quad-core Intel Atom processor and 2GB of RAM. It comes with 32GB of internal storage. There's a microSD memory card slot for storage expansion up to 64GB if that's not enough.
The 10.1-inch screen isn't going to compete with the Retina displays of the world; it's only 1,280 x 800, but at least it's an IPS screen so viewing angles are better than non-IPS displays.
There are two front-facing speakers flanking the screen. For cameras, there's a 5-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera on the back.
A separate keyboard dock with a 2,580 mAh battery that doubles the tablet's internal 5,830 mAh battery for a combined 8,410 mAh capacity. It also has a built-in 4G LTE modem with CAT 4 (up to 150Mbps) that works as a mobile hotspot as well.
You'll also find a full-sized USB port on the keyboard dock to connect external accessories like a mouse or a hard drive.
The Plus 10 will be available in several colors, including silver, white, black and a "warm gray leather finish."
Alcatel didn't announce pricing for the Plus 10. It'll be released in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa this June. No word on if it'll ever come to the U.S.
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Evaluating the Uncertainty in Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Electricity Generation
Because 40% of U.S. CO2 emissions come from electricity generation and distribution, the ability to calculate CO2 emissions per unit of electricity consumed is crucial in order to perform a life-cycle analysis (LCA), be it of a product or process. However, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with an individual entity's electricity consumption is nearly impossible to calculate given the nature of electricity grids. For this reason, LCA practitioners often employ emissions factors, or estimated average quantity of CO2 emitted per unit of energy consumed. Unfortunately, emissions factors vary greatly both spatially and temporally due to different energy sources used for generation, as well as differing plant efficiencies. The authors point out that in addition to electricity coming from varying sources (for example, hydroelectric power provides much of the Pacific Northwests's electricity due to the natural availability of that resource), electricity systems are quite complex because deregulation in the 1990s connected more remote customers with more remote generators, making it even more difficult to trace the source and associated greenhouse gas emissions of one's electricity. In this study Weber et al. (2010) calculated the variability in emissions factor estimates and demonstrated the uncertainty in using these estimates for LCA and policymaking. The authors also made suggestions for how to deal with this uncertainty.—Lucy Block
Weber, C., Jaramillo, P., Marriott, J., and Samaras, C., 2010. Life Cycle Assessment and Grid Electricity: What Do We Know and What Can We Know? Environmental Science & Technology 44, 1895-1901.
Christopher Weber, Paulina Jaramillo, Joe Marriott, and Constantine Samaras examine the uncertainty of emissions factors at various geographic levels of the U.S. and in different locales by collecting different emissions factors for CO2, SO2 and NOx (though CO2 contributes primarily to global warming and is thus the main focus of the paper). The authors acknowledge that they did not take into account the emissions of upstream supply chains for electricity generation, noting that accounting for upstream emissions would only slightly increase uncertainty. The authors calculated emissions factors along several potential regional delineations of the electric grid. The emissions factor with the largest geographical area was the U.S. continental average (0.69 kg CO2/kWh), followed by three regions based on electrical grid connectivity—the Eastern, Western, and Texas Interconnects. At a smaller level, Weber et al. used the 24 subregional grid delineations as defined by the EPA's eGrid and used in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a tool for conducting LCAs. Finally, the authors used data collected by the U.S. Energy Information Administration through voluntary greenhouse gas reporting since 1992. The different datasets considered form seven independent estimates of electricity emission factors for every combination of U.S. state, eGrid subregion, and grid operator (whether independent system operators or regional transmission operators).
For their dataset, the authors calculated a coefficient of variation (COV), or the normalized standard deviation. A higher COV meant more variation between different estimates for electricity emissions factor, and therefore a higher uncertainty of amount of CO2 emitted per unit of electricity generation in the region. The average CO2, COV for all delineations, or districts, considered out of 101 total was 0.19 (an average uncertainty of ±40% at two standard deviations) and ranged from a maximum of 0.70 to a minimum of 0.08. The districts with highest associated uncertainty were those that had smaller or larger than average local or regional emissions factors. Since electricity grids do not correlate closely with state borders, emissions factors estimated along state lines had higher variation than those estimated according to eGrid delineations.
The authors conclude that LCA practitioners and policymakers generally do not have access to the data required in order to calculate a specific consumer's electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, for practical purposes, Weber et al. recommend that standards organizations provide clear guidelines for conducting LCA calculations, and by standardizing these calculations reduce overall comparative uncertainty between different LCAs. The authors suggest that standards organizations should discourage the use of political borders in calculating emissions intensity for a particular area, as this unnecessarily increases uncertainty. Furthermore, researchers should report kWhs consumed alongside the assumed grid emissions factor within an appropriate electricity system delineation, in order to increase transparency and allow for normalized comparisons of a specific product. If estimating indirect CO2 emissions is required, Weber et al. suggest that researchers provide a range for the emissions factor. In that case, if an entity wants to guarantee an emissions reduction or carbon neutrality, it can use the highest range of emissions factors.
In public policy decisions, choosing a set of emissions factors will raise issues of equity. If too general a set of emissions were to be used and an emissions trading market were to be set up, local distribution companies buying lower-carbon electricity would obtain an advantage, and local distribution companies buying higher-carbon electricity would be at a disadvantage. Additionally, using more locally specific emissions factors could potentially penalize energy users in areas that have higher-carbon electricity simply due to natural resources. For example, electricity in the Pacific Northwest will be lower-carbon because of the regional hydroelectric resources. An industry located in the Pacific Northwest stands to lose less from policies to reduce carbon emissions than industries in other regions.
The authors note that while it may be possible, depending on required level of accuracy for the investigation, to choose an appropriate emissions factor (e.g., if an industry operates in many locales throughout the country and the investigation does not require a particularly high level of accuracy in emissions calculations, one could use the national average emissions factor), consistency in calculating the indirect emissions of electricity consumption is of highest importance, along with transparency and reproducibility of methods.
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