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Bruce Lietzke would have noticed a banana inside the cover of his long putter.
One of the famous stories about Lietzke, a 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, is that he never touched a club when he wasn"t on tour. His caddie didn"t believe him, so at the end of the 1984 season, he put a banana inside the head cover of Lietzke"s driver before zipping up the travel bag. Some 15 weeks later at the Bob Hope Classic, the caddie excitedly unzipped the travel bag.
The stench should have been the first clue.
"Sure enough, he pulled off that head cover and the banana … it was not yellow," Lietzke said Monday. "It was black, nasty, fungus. He said he"d never doubt me again."
Lietzke confessed to breaking his own rules when it came to the broom-handled putter that he picked up at the Phoenix Open in 1991 and used the rest of his career. Even in his down time, he would tinker with the length of the putter and practice with it. And he wonders what the conversation would have been like today if that 1991 PGA Championship had turned out differently.
Lietzke was the runner-up at Crooked Stick behind a big-hitting rookie named John Daly. Imagine if Lietzke had won that major.
Would the USGA have banned the putter he anchored against his chest?
"I think so," Lietzke said. "Judging by their reaction to major successes, I guess they were just waiting for this to happen. The USGA should have made a statement then. If I had won the PGA Championship, they might have tried to outlaw it. And if you look back on it, most people would have gone along with it."
That was one of the arguments PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem put forth Sunday when he said the tour was against the proposed rule that would ban the anchored stroke primarily used for long putters and belly putters.
Without any empirical evidence that an anchored stroke is easier, why ban it?
And after all these years, why now?
The faces in this discussion — and that"s all it is right now — are Keegan Bradley and Tim Clark, for vastly different reasons.
It was Bradley"s win at the PGA Championship that prompted serious talk about the future of anchored strokes. Bradley now is lumped in with three of the last five major champions using a belly putter, but he was the catalyst.
European Tour chief executive George O"Grady said the conversations between golf"s administrators and the governing bodies about the future of the long putters began last year at the Masters.
That was before Webb Simpson won the U.S. Open and Ernie Els won the British Open, which ramped up the attention.
As for Clark?
It was his dignified speech at Torrey Pines that led even the staunch opponents of long putters to look at them differently. More than one person in the room that night has described his presentation as a game-changer.
That much was reflected in the overwhelming support from the Player Advisory Council and player-directors on the tour"s policy board that the PGA Tour should oppose the USGA on this rule.
The tricky part is figuring out where this will lead.
The PGA Tour sent the USGA a letter last week spelling out its opposition to Rule 14-1(b), and the PGA of America and its 27,000 club pros are also against the ban.
One reason Finchem decided to speak about the letter — a small distraction during the final of the Match Play Championship — was his concern that the discussion was being portray as a showdown. Right now, it"s a matter of opinion.
If it becomes a showdown, high noon is not until the USGA and R&A decide whether to go ahead with the rule. And that decision won"t come until the spring.
It"s a polarizing topic. If not, the governing bodies would not have offered a 90-day comment period that ends on Thursday. They simply would have announced a new rule and been done with it.
For now, the tour has not said it will go against the USGA. It has only said it disagrees with the USGA.
Finchem chose not to show his hand when he brushed off questions about whether the tour would ever allow an anchored stroke even if the governing bodies adopt a rule that bans it starting in 2016.
But he has made clear on at least three occasions that while slightly different rules could work for the PGA Tour, this rule would not be one of them.
This is not where golf needs to go. The buzz word coming out of the USGA annual meeting earlier this month was not "bifurcation" but "unification."
Go anywhere in the world and golf effectively is played by the same set of rules. This is something that should never change.
The USGA and R&A know they don"t have evidence to show that using an anchored stroke is easier. Frankly, they don"t need any evidence. This is not about equipment, rather a new rule that attempts to define the golf stroke as the club swinging freely.
The mistake by the USGA was waiting until someone won a major before acting — or believing that winning a major should even make a difference.
The majors are the biggest events to win. They define careers. But if the belly putter was an issue when Simpson won the U.S. Open, why wasn"t it an issue when he won the Deutsche Bank Championship? Did the putter work differently at Olympic?
Lietzke can think of several occasions when nerves made him miss with his long putter. And if the belly putter is the cure, don"t just look at Ernie Els kissing that claret jug last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Look at those two putts Els badly missed on the last few holes of the Match Play Championship to lose in the opening round.
If the USGA decides that a ban on anchored strokes is best for the game, the PGA Tour should go along with it.
And if the USGA was serious about that 90-day comment period, the hope is that it was serious about listening.
And why now?
Doug Ferguson is a golf writer for The Associated Press.
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Creating Heat and Light
A Canadian program tests the efficiency and future potential of residential combined heat and power systems at its residential building test center.
Combined heat and power systems (CHP), which jointly produce heat and electricity from a single fuel source, can be up to 90% efficient, compared with conventional U.S. power production, which converts only 35% of fuel energy into delivered electricity. The rest of the fuel energy is normally lost in the form of heat. By using this heat to produce space heat and hot water,CHPs can decrease energy costs and increase fuel use efficiency.
Currently, CHP units in the United States are used almost exclusively for commercial and industrial buildings.However, there is tremendous potential for using this technology in residences as well. Recently, the Department of Energy (DOE) assembled a team of appliance industry leaders to develop a CHP system to provide more reliable and less costly energy for residential use. Projects like this show that residential CHP systems are a likely reality in the future of home heating and power.
Advancing the Home CHP Cause
CHP isn't just a future reality—residential systems already exist. One such system for individual residences was recently tested through a joint effort of Natural Resources Canada, National Research Council Canada, and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation at their Canadian Centre for Housing Technology (CCHT). Prototype Canadian fuel cell CHP plants are currently undergoing laboratory testing by manufacturers. Discussions with several fuel cell companies have indicated that field testing of first-generation prototypes in a well-controlled but realistic residential setting such as the CCHT would significantly accelerate development and residential integration of these systems (see "Canadian Centre for Housing Technology," p. 37).
The CCHT offers an intensively monitored real-world environment, with simulated occupancy, to assess the performance of residential CHP systems in secure premises. Simulated occupancy included such measures as turning lights, showers, and appliances on and off daily. Separate lights in several locations were also turned on to simulate heat from occupants.
Residential CHP systems that are currently available or are being developed are based on internal combustion engines (ICE), on Stirling engines, or on fuel cells. ICE is a proven technology, but it creates noise, odors, and pollution. Fuel cells hold great promise, but they are still in the prototype stage. For this project,we integrated into a residential building and tested a near-commercially available, natural gas fired, Stirling engine CHP that is sized for individual residences.
Home CHP Basics
A residential CHP system must be integrated into the house's electrical, space-heating, and domestic hot water (DHW) systems.The most common space heating system in homes is a natural gas furnace with forced air. For the CHP project, an air handler (fan plus heat exchanger) was used to supply heated air through the same ductwork.
Other issues that were raised included sizing the CHP system relative to average and peak electrical and thermal loads; deciding whether the CHP system is controlled by demands for electricity (electrical lead) or heat (thermal lead); dealing with the simultaneous production of heat and electricity; optimizing CHP system operation and run time; determining the need for, and the sizing of, thermal and electrical storage (especially for off-grid systems); dealing with the handling and use of possible excess heat in summer; and specifying grid connection techniques.
The primary objective of our project was to develop and demonstrate a test facility at the CCHT that could assess residential CHP systems, and their integration into houses, under real-world conditions.A secondary objective was to assess the performance of various residential CHP systems under realworld conditions.
To integrate the CHP system into the house's various existing systems,we made numerous modifications to accommodate residential CHP systems. These included electrical modifications to integrate the CHP system into the house's electrical system and to allow the CHP to export electricity to the grid; the design and installation of a thermal utilization module (TUM) to integrate the CHP system into the house's spaceand water-heating systems; the design and installation of a combined monitoring and control system for the CHP and TUM;and the installation and connection of the CHP unit.The electrical modifications accommodated the installation of CHP systems with a generating capacity of up to 40 kW for either griddependent operation or stand-alone, grid-independent operation.Although only one of the two CCHT houses was used in this project, the electrical modifications were made to both of them, so that in the future, two CHP units can be tested simultaneously.
The cost of these wiring modifications was $5,068 (CAN $6,450) for each house. Because these houses were modified to allow for various types of CHP system, both connected and offgrid, and sized up to 40 kW, the wiring scheme is more elaborate than would be the case for a normal residential installation. It is estimated that the cost to retrofit a typical residence would range from $1,500 to $2,500 (CAN$2,000 to CAN$3,000).This cost could be lower if simpler installations, such as the elimination of the external disconnect switch, were acceptable to electrical authorities.
The Stirling Engine Combined Heat and Power System
Natural Resources Canada purchased the natural gas-fired Stirling engine before the start of this project for $12,000 (current models are $7,500).A Stirling engine is an externalcombustion device, which can burn many different fuels—diesel, natural gas, propane, biogas, kerosene, and solid fuels—provided that the heat exchanger is specifically designed for the selected fuel. It has an induction motor/generator that automatically synchronizes the frequency of its alternating-current output to the grid, and cannot operate unless it is connected to an active grid. The Stirling CHP unit is a heat-led device; it is turned on when there is a need for heat in the TUM.
The TUM controls turn the circulation pump on and off according to the temperatures in the storage tank and the hot water tank.The pump is turned on if the hot water tank needs heat and can get it from the storage tank, and if the bottom of the hot water tank is between 116º and 158ºF.The house thermostat controls the operation of the air handler pump and fan, and the demand for hot water is controlled by the house's simulated- occupancy system.
Each heat transfer loop of the TUM has two thermocouples and a flowmeter. As shown in Figure 2, the loops run from the CHP unit to the storage tank; from the storage tank to the hot water tank; from the hot water tank to the air handler; and from the hot water tank to hot water taps. Data were collected, and heat flows were calculated, every ten seconds. These heat flows were averaged and saved every minute.Two existing natural gas meters were used to monitor the gas consumption of the CHP unit and that of the hot water tank backup burner.
Reviewing the Data
Monitoring took place between March 13 and June 10, 2003. During the review and analysis of results,we realized that the amount of heat required by the house for space and water heating would affect each component of the CHP system.Accordingly, each of the efficiencies was plotted against the thermal output of the TUM (see Figures 3 and 4).The performance of the CHP unit and the performance of the TUM both depend, to varying degrees, on the TUM output.The same daily pattern of hot water demand (260 liters per day) was used for all 27 runs monitored.When there was no demand for space heating, (hot water demand only), the average demand on the TUM is 0.48 kW. For the ten runs with no space heating, thermal utilization module output varied from 0.39 to 0.62 kW. This variation was due to different start and end times caused by hot water demands, and to different CHP unit run time patterns.All curves in Figures 3 and 4 are projected to reach close to the TUM output capacity of 4.40 kW.
Emerging Trends
CHP unit efficiency increased only slightly with system output.The two factors that could affect unit efficiency are the temperature of the inlet water and the length of time the unit runs. Inlet water should have been cooler, on average, when demand for space heating and hot water was higher, but we did not analyze inlet water temperature, and apparently the unit is not very sensitive to it. Internal temperatures are around 750ºF, so a difference of a few tens of degrees in the inlet should not make much difference.
As the length of time that the unit runs before shutting off decreases, the efficiency of the unit should drop, due to the use of electricity and natural gas in start-up and of electricity in shutdown. But even with no space heating, the runs were at least 70 minutes long, so the efficiency drop was not significant. It might be greater in a unit with a smaller storage capacity.
CHP unit heating efficiency varied from 74% for hot water only to about 79% at system capacity. CHP unit electrical efficiency varied from 5.5% to about 9% at system capacity, and the unit's total efficiency varied from 79.5% to about 88% at system capacity (see Figure 3).
System energy efficiency depends significantly on thermal load (see Figure 4).This is because the standby losses from the TUM are relatively constant, while the useful heat varies mainly with space heat load. System efficiency varies from 41% for hot water only to over 70% at CHP capacity. System efficiency compares favorably with the efficiency (energy factor) of domestic water heaters, while generating by-product electricity. These efficiencies could be improved by improving the design of the TUM.As shown in Tables 1 and 2, there were only small differences between the two setups investigated, although setup 2 appeared to generate a slightly better electrical efficiency than setup 1.
Improvements to the TUM efficiency could be based on modeling to determine whether two tanks are needed, or whether one larger one would do. If two are needed for some applications, one tank could be left unheated during seasons when no heating is needed, thus reducing heat losses by approximately one-half. Similarly, a single stratified tank could have only its top half heated during warm seasons. Control of the hot water tank burner should be integrated into the TUM control, rather than being left to the aquastat on the original tank.
The TUM includes three pumps that consume between 73 and 86 watts each.The CHP pump uses an average of 1.19 kWh per run, or 7.8% of the CHP net electrical output, per run.All three pumps together average 1.95 kWh, per run, which is 12.4% of the CHP net output, or 0.4% of the system output (heat plus net CHP electric).The pump energy is therefore low compared to CHP electrical generation, and insignificant compared to total output. Furthermore, pump energy could be reduced if the pumps were optimized in terms of size, efficiency, and control, and would be even lower if the electrical output of the CHP were higher, as it would be with a fuel cell sized for a house.
Two examples were selected to highlight how much electricity the CHP generates relative to house electricity demand, and to show where that electricity goes.The first example represents one of the colder periods of testing, while the second run represents a milder day (see Figure 5 and Table 3). Figure 5 shows house demand, supply by the CHP unit, and net house demand from the grid.The reduction in electrical requirements from the grid due to the CHP unit is apparent, as are periods of electricity being exported to the grid (negative grid supply).Table 3 summarizes the electricity balance for these two runs. While most of the electricity produced by the CHP unit goes to the house (94% and 98% in these examples), there are still instances of export to the grid (6% and 2%), even with this small heat-led generator.The CHP unit supplies important percentages of the house's electricity requirement (43% and 25% in these examples).
The Future of CHP Use
We believe that this technology has a high potential for use both in new houses and as a retrofit in existing houses.That's why we will soon be starting a demonstration project that will test the ability of a newer version CHP to run unattended for a year.The project will monitor the new unit's gas use and its heat and electrical output. The high initial cost for homeowners may require utility sponsorship, as is happening in the United Kingdom. Utilities should be interested, because having large numbers of CHP units in their area would reduce their peak demands, at least in the winter. Restaurants and cafeteria, with their large, more or less continuous, and yearround demand for hot water for dishwashing, represent another potential market for CHPs.
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How to apply Vietnam visa for citizens of Madagascar in Singapore
This section explains how citizens of Madagascar who currently travel or do businesses in Singapore want to get a Visa to visit Vietnam.
If you hold passport of Madagascar, you have two options to apply for Vietnam visa in Singapore.
1. Apply Vietnam Visa Online for the approval letter to pick up the Visa at Vietnam airport (Vietnam visa on arrival).
This method is very convenience, fast, reasonable and secure. You just stay at home, access the Internet, apply Online and it is done in couple of minutes!
- Issuing unit: Vietnam Immigration Department in Vietnam
- Processing time: 1 – 3 working days
- No original passport send-off
We are pleased to inform that Madagascar is listed in the special nation list of the Vietnam Immigration Department. It takes more time for Vietnam Immigration Department to check carefully and process visa.
To apply Vietnam visa online and get the visa upon arrival, please send us some important documents to the email address email@example.com, including:
- Passport scan (personal informative page)
- Date of arrival and exit
- Purpose to enter Vietnam: business invitation letter or booking tour voucher of travel agency in Vietnam
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You can also click here to fill the Vietnam visa application form and proceed the payment online. And send the required documents to us by email after that.
The cost for Vietnam visa on arrival includes:
- Visa service fee (we charge you for the service fee) and,
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After submitting your Visa Application, what you do is:
- Wait for some working days as confirmation to receive the visa approval letter by email.
- Print the visa approval letter out together with the Vietnamese Visa application form (You may download it here).
- Get your visa stamped at "Visa landing Office" at the airport before you come to the stamp check-in counter by presenting your visa approval letter, passport, 02 passport-sized photos, Vietnamese Visa application form (already filled out), and stamping fee to the Immigration Officer.
Note that: Visa on arrival works for air travel only. And it is available in 4 international airports in Vietnam, including Noi Bai airport (Ha Noi city), Tan Son Nhat airport (Ho Chi Minh City city), Cam Ranh airport (Nha Trang city) and Da Nang airport (Da Nang city).
2. Apply for Vietnam Visa at Vietnam Embassy in Singapore
Citizens of Madagascar can also come to Vietnam embassy in Singapore to apply Vietnam Visa by yourselves. You may click here to find the address of Vietnam embassy in Singapore
What you need to get the visa at Vietnam embassy in Singapore?
- The Vietnam visa code
- Original Passport (with at least 06 months validity from the date of leaving Vietnam)
- One completed application form for a Vietnam visa (Contact the embassy or consulate for this form)
- One passport sized photo of 4×6 cm (attached to the application)
- Visa stamping fees (contact the embassy to know the how much for the stamping fee)
How to apply Vietnam Visa code?
To apply Vietnam Visa code (using to get the visa at Vietnam embassy in Singapore), please prepare some documents as below and send to us by email email@example.com. We will help you with all procedures.
- Passport scan (personal informative page)
- Date of arrival and exit
- Purpose to enter Vietnam: business invitation letter or booking tour voucher of travel agency in Vietnam
- Flight return ticket reservation (if any)
- Hotel booking reservation or staying address in Vietnam
You apply Visa at Vietnam embassy in Singapore, it means you have the visa in your passport already. Therefore you can enter Vietnam by any ports such as by air (airplane), by land (bus) or by sea (ship)…


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A super-intelligent, fast-talking creature, ALF (the Alien Life Form) crash-landed at a Southern California garage. His ship is beyond repair; he is ugly, short, he has a nasty temper and he is, well, fairly unique. So what is a concerned family to do? Why, accept the alien meat out of an airtight box, of course, and enjoy the crude humor that accompanies this oddball.
They both started doing their own humorous writing and sketch comedy shows so as to put food on the table for their families. It all began with a live comedy show in a bar in Van Nuys, but their unique spin on live television is unique in that it takes you right into the center of the action – or as some might say," in the know."
The assumption of the ALF TV show is that a bald, middle-aged scientist, played by Baer, implants artificial intelligence in the mind of an unsuspecting citizen. The"body" then starts to ramble while also exploring strange, alternate worlds. In each episode, new characters are introduced and old characters we encounter from the series join the fun. It is like being part of an all-star group of Marvel comic book writers and TV producers! There is something for everyone here, people, from twists with major characters to humorous one-liners aimed at everyone.
I've seen some folks compare the ALF TV series to an Orphan Ship, which is of course a humorous science fiction concept that has nothing to do with this production. However, that comparison would be somewhat misleading. The assumption of Orphan Ship was that an unidentified boat crashed on a planet and hundreds of its passengers were left stranded with no way of travel. In the ALF TV series, the boat landed on ground before being salvaged and later found to be possessed by an eccentric billionaire (based on the novel Beneath the Fall by Stephen King). Thus, this rich but bizarre character started a company to mine for artifacts in various lost civilizations.
In the show, the character of Malory (Malorieff) is an archaeologist who works with a ragtag crew of scientists, politicians, thieves, and such. This team of misfits becomes the unlikely heroes of this series, battling the evils that threaten to overwhelm the world. Season 1 featured a few diverse characters than have been featured in every subsequent season.
It features some very exciting story elements that keep you interested in what is going on in each episode. Most of the content is written in a script and filmed with the same effects and special effects as regular films, making it feel like a valid science fiction program.
In addition to incorporating a ragtag group of unlikely heroes, the ALF TV series also offers some of the best actors from television now. Two of the main characters, Jay and Paul, are played with the incredible Kevin Pollack and Brian Price. They have superb roles as the two chief characters, in addition to memorable supporting casts such as Maya Rudolph, Kaya Scodelario, and Michael Chiklis. The supporting cast is also fantastic, including the likes of Kate Beckinsale, John Hartley, Craig Bierko, and Dexter Darden. These great actors easily steal the show, as each character is brilliantly portrayed.
As you can see, there's a good likelihood that you might enjoy the ALF television series premier. If you have not seen the first season, you may choose to catch up on it whenever possible. The first episodes feature some great twists and turns which fans will surely be talking about for years to come.


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U.S. manufacturing shrank in November to its weakest level since July 2009, one month after the Great Recession ended. Worries about automatic tax increases in the New Year cut demand for factory orders and manufacturing jobs.
The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its index of manufacturing conditions fell to a reading of 49.5. That's down from 51.7 in October.
Readings above 50 signal growth, while readings below indicate contraction. Manufacturing grew in October for only the second time since May. The ISM is a trade group of purchasing managers.
A gauge of new orders dropped to its lowest level since August, a sign that production could slow in the coming months. Manufacturers also sharply reduced their stockpiles, indicating companies expect weaker demand.
"Today's report suggests that the manufacturing sector is likely to remain a weak point in the recovery for a few months yet," Jeremy Lawson, an economist at BNP Paribas, said in a note to clients.
Stocks declined after the survey was released, giving up early gains. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 12 points in midday trading. Broader indexes rose only slightly.
The weak manufacturing survey overshadowed other positives economic reports. Greater home building boosted U.S. construction spending in October by the most in five months. Manufacturing activity in China grew in November for the second straight month. And U.S. auto sales rebounded last month after Superstorm Sandy held sales back in October.
U.S. manufacturers are concerned about the "fiscal cliff," the ISM survey noted. That's the name for sharp tax increases and government spending cuts that will take effect in January if Congress and the Obama administration fail to strike a budget deal before then.
Worries about the fiscal cliff have led many companies to pull back this year on purchases of machinery and equipment, which signal investment plans. The decline could slow economic growth and hold back hiring in the October-December quarter.
A measure of hiring in the ISM survey fell to 48.4, the lowest reading since September 2009.
Companies "are just backing off and not making any moves until things clear up a bit," Bradley Holcomb, chairman of the ISM's survey committee, said.
Consumers also appear nervous about higher taxes. Economists cited the fiscal cliff as a key reason consumer spending fell in October by the most since May.
When consumers cut back on spending, businesses typically reduce their pace of restocking. Both trends are expected to slow economic growth at the end of the year.
The economy grew from July through September at an annual rate of 2.7 percent, largely because of strong growth in inventories. Most economists predict growth is slowing in the current October-December quarter to a rate below 2 percent.
Superstorm Sandy had little impact on factory activity last month, according to the ISM survey. The storm hit the East Coast on Oct. 29 and affected businesses in 24 states.
A gauge of production in the ISM survey rose in November for the third straight month. That's a sign that Sandy didn't force many factory shutdowns.
A slowdown in global growth has weighed on U.S. manufacturers. New export orders slipped in November for the second straight month.
Surveys show consumers remain upbeat about the economy, despite the looming taxes and spending cuts. A measure of consumer confidence reached a five-year high in November.
If lawmakers and President Barack Obama can work out a budget deal that averts the tax increases, most economists predict a good year for the economy.


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Feingold: Is facial expression the best indicator of a person's emotions?
The results of a recent study showed that facial expressions are not the main indicators of a individual's emotional state. The results showed that body language, not facial expressions, was a better indicator of a person's emotions.
In this study, photographs of professional tennis players were shown after they won or lost a point. The subjects or participants in the study were shown three types of pictures of the tennis players and were asked to determine if the player won or lost the point. One photograph was of the face and body; another just the body; and the third, just the face.
The subjects had no difficulty determining the tennis player's emotional state by just observing the body image alone. It was the player's body image that was important.
Although the subjects determined that the facial expressions were different, they were not always able to decide if the expressions were positive or negative. The more severe the emotion, joy or sadness, the more the face contorted, thus making it even more difficult to determine what emotion was present.
However, when judging just the body image, or the body and the face, it could be determined if a negative or positive reaction was taking place.
The researchers believe that shrieks of joy and shrieks of fear are many times difficult to differentiate. But, when adding body image to the shrieks, the determination is much easier to make.
Interpreting body language has almost become a science. How a person positions his or her body may have many indications. A person who is slouching indicates one thing, while an individual who is ram-rod straight tells another picture.
Some lawyers utilize body image experts to help them choose a juror who would be more helpful to their client.
Although body image is important, don't dismiss the significance of also looking at the face. Sometimes, just the eyes tell the story.
If the results of this study are correct, when gambling playing cards and your opponent has a "poker" face, take a glance at his body image before you raise the ante.
Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president of the Genesis Fund. The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that funds the care of children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.


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For our 50-unit project in the Milwaukee area, we assembled a team and made our plan. La Casa auditors had already been through the building, but we checked it out again to note critical features: the layout of doors and stairs, the location of power outlets, and the connections between utility spaces (boiler room, crawl spaces, and so on) and the core of the building. The test was completed in April 2010. I am not sure about the exact age of the building, but I'd guess it dates from the mid-1970s.
Testing multifamily buildings is typically done with multiple standard blower doors working in tandem. Examples are Minneapolis DG-700 systems from The Energy Conservatory or Retrotec's Q4E or Q5E systems. Both can be set up with two fans in a single pedestrian entry, so one technician can manage two fans at a time. In most multifamily buildings we test, two fans can be mounted at the fire exit at each end of the building, leaving the main center entry open for the inevitable tenant traffic in and out of the building. This four-fan setup will generally achieve useful (greater than 60 Pa) test pressures in buildings of up to about 40 units.
We have also conducted tests using the Infiltec G54 blower door system. This trailer-mounted, 60,000 CFM unit, with its 54-inch fan driven by a 25 HP gasoline engine, puts a lot of power in the hands of one technician. (A new upgrade package uses a 35 HP motor to develop 75,000 CFM50!) The G54 is admirably suited to testing open-plan commercial buildings, such as warehouses and factory buildings. In a number of tests with the G54, we have found that apartment buildings often do not have an exterior door large enough to accept the unit's 60-inch tunnel connector. Only some multifamily buildings have enough interior doors to distribute pressure and airflow evenly through the building. But if "big toys for big boys" is your mantra, the G54 certainly fills the bill!
Because so many technicians had never seen a large-building blower door test, we had more people than we needed. A typical crew would have been composed of six or seven blower doors, four technicians, and three management staff. In this case, we could only fit five blower doors easily, but we had six technicians, and those two additional techs saved us a lot of time. We started at 8 a.m. For our 50-unit, two-story apartment building, with 22,000 square feet of second-floor ceiling and 16,000 square feet of above-grade wall, 30,000 CFM of blower door capacity seemed about right. We could only find good placements for five Minneapolis 3 fans, each with its own digital gauge. If we could have found five higher-capacity Retrotec 3000 fans, the added capacity would have been useful. (For more on the technology, see "The Equipment.") Our building had four walk doors; we mounted a pair of fans, each with its own digital gauge (in double-hole capes) in the fire escape doors at each end of the building and a single-fan blower door in the back door. This left the main entrance open for traffic in and out of the building. One operator can control two fans at once so three fan locations required three operators. In the interest of getting the best precision (though with a slight risk of less accuracy) we connected all five digital gauges to a common outdoor pressure reference. We wanted to complete a multipoint test at a variety of pressures to get the most accurate results, and that requires careful coordination of everyone's work. So we distributed handheld radios to each operator and to the building manager at the front door. With all radios set on the same frequency, all operators were on a common communications system.
The blower door operators assembled and secured the blower doors. Two ¾ HP fans make a lot of noise and generate a lot of torque. Popping two fans out of the door, both running at full power—that's not a mistake you make twice! The techs also ran outdoor reference tubes to every digital gauge, keeping them near the hallway walls to minimize the possibility of pressure spikes caused by people stepping on the tubes.
A ¾ HP TEC fan running at full power pulls 5-7 amps. Retrotec 3000 fans can pull 15-20 amps. So whenever possible, our crews plugged every fan into a different building circuit. Using heavy-duty (10-gauge) power cords reduces the voltage drop to fan motors, keeping them running cooler and further reducing the likelihood of popping a fuse or breaker. If the auditor notes that the building wiring is on fuses rather than breakers, it is useful to note their size, and to have spare fuses on hand. These precautions reduce the delays from tripped circuit breakers or blown fuses in the middle of a test.
A team of two techs got onto the roof and sealed the air intake for the hallway supply furnace. Then they put the boilers and water heaters on standby (and left my car keys on the water heater!). They wedged the boiler room door closed, and secured the doors leading into the two crawl spaces under the building. The building managers opened every unit door and checked to see that all windows were closed and latched. They then dropped a door wedge at every apartment, leaving the door cracked just an inch or two, to be sure that it didn't lock when they left.
Once we had everything set, we reviewed our strategy and emphasized important details. Every technician had to be clear on what signal would be used in the event of a fire emergency, so they could rip their hardware out of the fire doors to allow for a speedy evacuation. Managers needed to be clear on how to manage tenant traffic in and out of the building.
With these last details reviewed, we went to work. Two building managers opened all the unit doors, and then took their stations—one in each hall—to maintain security in the building. The site manager took control of the front-door traffic. The test manager personally inspected every digital gauge, to be sure they were all set up the same (pressure and flow, five-second averaging, no baseline correction). We took three baseline pressures to gauge the strength of the wind, and then threw the juice to the fans and started testing.
The distributed-fan setup allowed us to get clean airflow through this large building. Air moves only to low pressure, but it is important to minimize pressure drops from the core of the building to the fans. A standard pedestrian door, with 20 square feet of area, allows about 10,000 CFM50 to flow with minimal pressure drop. So the open doors from the fire stairs into the halls on both floors allowed plenty of open area to move the air volumes needed. Retrotec 3000 fans move up to 8,000 CFM50, so mounting two fans in a single walk door may cause undesirable pressure drops unless there are two exit doors connecting the fans to the rest of the building.
We pulled the building to maximum pressure and then did a hasty survey. One tech walked the outside of the building, looking for open windows. (I don't believe that tenants do everything they can to screw up a blower door test, but it sure seems that way some days!) Two other techs surveyed the halls, looking for unusually large airflows that might indicate open windows, or doors to service areas that had pulled open.
Once we were sure we had proper control of the intended pressure boundary, we started testing. With all the fans balanced, we sent a call out on the radio, and the three technicians simultaneously pressed the hold buttons on all five gauges. Then they called in their results by radio to the test manager. With the gauges taken off hold, the test manager called out information to adjust fan speeds as needed to reduce the building pressure slightly, while keeping the building pressures the same throughout the entire building. We waited for a gust of wind to pass, and then captured another data point. In between data points, tenants were allowed in and out of the front door as needed.
Since we had two techs to spare, they spent their time in the attic and in the crawl spaces, with an IR camera and smoke pencils. They confirmed the leakage locations we knew about and found some other construction flaws, too.
On a calm day, accurate and precise results can be attained with 5 or 6 data points. TECTite will accept a maximum of 10 points, so a typical test will take 11 or 12 points. This makes it possible to delete 1 or 2 points badly affected by wind, while still maximizing the data analysis capabilities of the software. The leakage in this particular building was far greater than we expected, but we still got useful data at three pressures.
By 11 am, we had a number: 85,000 CFM50. This gave us an air-sealing goal of getting the building down to 20,000-25,000 CFM50. By noon, we were all packed and on the road.
Evaluating our effort, I estimated that our morning's work cost around $6,000, or $120 per unit. On a per-unit basis, testing those 50 units cost significantly less than testing the same number of houses. Doing that test again today (using new software and fan systems now available) would probably cost 10-25% less. (See "Software Improvements Are the Game Changer.")
Usually, it is best to test a large apartment building after the rest of the audit has been completed. The auditor should take special care to note the location of every exterior door and to identify multiple sheltered locations for outdoor references suitable for different wind directions. It works best if enough fan power can be fitted into doors in different parts of the building, leaving the main entrance open for the inevitable tenant traffic in and out.
It's important to have enough fan capacity. Based on the dozens of tests that we have completed to date, it appears that wood-frame low-rise apartment buildings in Wisconsin are pretty leaky. The infiltration rate averages 0.75 CFM50 per square foot of above-grade envelope, so it's best to have fan capacity of 1 CFM50 per square foot of envelope. (Curiously enough, preliminary—unpublished—data from a Focus On Energy program suggest that new-construction apartment buildings in Wisconsin are about as leaky as 40-year-old buildings in our weatherization program.) For testing a wood-frame apartment building, I usually try to have fan capacity sufficient to achieve pressures of at least 60 Pa. More is better, if the building has enough walk doors to hold more fans. (Apartments with patio doors make it easy to get plenty of fans distributed around a building.)
In large buildings, it is possible to get reasonably accurate (+/- 2-7%) data from a single-point test at 50 Pa on a calm day. However, even a moderate breeze can have significant effects on a large building. In those conditions, higher pressures (more fan power) can help overcome wind effects. However, the real secret to getting good results on windy days is to complete a multipoint test. Given the work involved to secure the building and set up the systems, it takes only a small amount of extra time to test at several different pressures. The best data for large buildings usually come from a multipoint test at 6 to 12 pressure levels.
With a test completed at 12 pressure points, multipoint test software simplifies the data analysis. Two good choices are The Energy Conservatory's TECTite software and Retrotec's MultiFanTestic program. Graphing the raw data in one of these tools helps to determine the effects of wind gusts, so that bad data can be removed from the analysis. (I frequently complete this preliminary inspection with an Excel spreadsheet.) Computer analysis also simplifies the chore of correcting for baseline pressures and stack effects. This greatly improves the accuracy and precision of a large-building test. The result is that careful tests can yield precision of better than +/- 1% at 50 Pa. Some new-construction programs require higher pressures and utilize 12-point tests in both directions (depressurize and pressurize) to achieve incredible precision (+/- 0.25% flow error at 50 Pa).
As in any energy efficiency project, the most important thing about testing multifamily buildings is to decide first what you want to accomplish. That will guide your testing and air-sealing work and will indicate what test method will be most useful.
In existing buildings, the most important goal is to align the pressure boundary of the building with the thermal boundary. This means that the most obvious way to test and treat these buildings is to close all the exterior doors and windows, open all the interior doors to create a single large zone, and test the building as a whole. The air-sealing work is then completed at that pressure boundary. Given that the goal is to reduce air leakage as much as possible, the goal of testing is to get accurate infiltration measurements, and to identify as many bypasses as possible.
How much can apartment buildings be improved? Teams that I have worked with have run six buildings (ranging from 30 to 50 units) through a full cycle of test/air seal/test again. From these pilot buildings, we have come to conclude that the average wood-frame apartment building in Wisconsin can be air sealed to reduce its infiltration rate by roughly 18%. The range was 11-33% reduction in CFM50. (Looking at the data from 3,600 single-family homes weatherized in Wisconsin in 2007, I found that the CFM50 reduction averaged 19.05%.)
Most of the infiltration sites we find in wood-frame buildings will be familiar to single-family technicians. They include plumbing and wiring penetrations, open soffits, open can lights, and vented crawl spaces.
However, air-sealing crews will have to learn a few new tricks to treat apartment buildings. Multifamily auditors learn to be wary of "tiger traps" in apartment attics, concealed under the insulation. In some wood-frame buildings (maybe 25% of them) some weird design irregularity will leave behind large openings in the top-floor ceiling, 1 foot or more square. They are often found near masonry boiler flue chases and next to elevator shafts. (A colleague of mine found a 6-foot x 10-foot tiger trap next to the elevator shaft in a four-year-old luxury condo building. It extended from the attic above the third floor all the way to the ceiling above the parking garage in the basement!) If you find any odd-shaped garbage chute closets or utility closets, it's very likely that the little triangular space beside them never got ceiling drywall when the building was built. The insulator frequently just throws a fiberglass batt over the top, to keep the rest of the insulation from falling into the chase.
Since these spaces already have the appropriate fire separation from the living space, they can often be treated just like balloon-frame house walls—filled in with expanded polystyrene (EPS) board foamed into place. However, it's wise to check with your local fire marshal before going to work. He or she may have a different opinion about the need for air-sealing materials that also serve as a fire barrier.
Skilled auditors will always find and assess the party walls in wood-frame apartment buildings. One common feature is what we know in Wisconsin as the split top plate party wall. (It is not unique to Wisconsin or the Midwest; I have talked to colleagues in the southeastern United States and in the Northwest who report identical construction in similar buildings.) Starting in the early 1970s, architects succeeded in greatly reducing noise transmission from unit to unit by building two separate walls to divide units, leaving an air gap between the two top plates. This bypass can be ½ inch to 2 inches wide, and can extend the entire length of every party wall.
In some buildings, the party wall is also a "wet wall." Apartment buildings are frequently built with the kitchens and bathrooms against the party wall and back-to-back from each other, so that two units can share electrical feeders, sewer lines, and supply plumbing. These wet walls can be 1 foot across. And yes, they often have no ceiling, except for the insulator's batt thrown over the top. The 1-foot x 8-foot bypass just doesn't do the building a whole lot of good!
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INDIANAPOLIS - George Hill scored 26 points and Paul George added 18 points and 14 rebounds Tuesday night, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 93-82 victory over the New York Knicks and a 3-1 lead in the second-round series.
Indiana needs one more win to reach the conference finals for the first time since 2004. Game 5 will be Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.
NBA scoring champ Carmelo Anthony fouled out with 24 points. J.R. Smith had 19 on another dreadful night for the Knicks.
The game followed a familiar pattern. New York's shooting was off, Indiana had a huge rebounding edge and the Knicks couldn't challenge in the second half.
New York didn't hang around long, either. Indiana closed the first quarter on a 9-2 run to break a 14-14 tie. New York never got closer than five the rest of the way.
Indiana improved to 5-0 at home in the playoffs and has won each time by double digits. The Pacers and Memphis Grizzlies are the only teams that haven't lost at home during the postseason.
But this was not just another off night for New York, which lost for the fifth time in seven games.
New York shot just 35.6 percent from the field, 28.6 percent on 3-pointers and was outrebounded this time 54-36.
And, at times, the Knicks lost their composure, too.
Tyson Chandler, Kenyon Martin and Amare Stoudemire combined to play 42 minutes in the first half and had a grand total of seven points, nine rebounds and nine fouls -three apiece. Chandler and Stoudemire each drew technicals and Smith was fortunate not to get another after being called for a charge.
Coach Mike Woodson complained multiple times with the officials and backup Quentin Richardson even smacked the press table with his hand after a non-call late in the first quarter.
Indiana, which has won five of its last six, could have cared less in a game it dictated for the final three quarters.
New York tied the score at 14 with 3:38 left in the first quarter, then allowed the Pacers to go ahead 23-16 lead after one.
The Knicks never led in the game, and never tied it again.
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Language groups: Gurindji, Fitzmaurice region, Mudpurra, Fitzmaurice region, Malngin, Fitzmaurice
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'In My Father's House' is a memorial not only to my father and brother but a memorial to all those children stolen from their families and denied knowledge of their heritage. This work is about chasing and catching those memories as they fall.' Brenda L. Croft, 1998
Croft began working on the series 'In My Father's House' during a residency at the Greene Street Studios in New York in 1996-97 and later at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University in 1998, exhibiting the work at the Australian Centre for Photography in 1998. In this series, Croft juxtaposes religious imagery, language and family photos to comment on her experience of growing up in the suburbs with a white mother and an Aboriginal father who was taken from his family at less than two years of age under the government policy that allowed the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. Growing up in institutions, often with religious affiliations, with little or no knowledge of their parents and culture, these children are now known as the 'Stolen Generations'.
The constructed layers of memory in Croft's work reflect the fragmented lives of these children and the ongoing effects of this through generations as families reconnect. In this process memories become distorted and disparate elements inform one's sense of self, while questioning the validity of one's thoughts.
Other works by Brenda L Croft
Sue Ingram, Botany Road/Regent Street, Redfern Brenda L Croft 1992 166.2000.1 On display – 20th-century galleries (lower level 1)
Bonny Briggs and Matthew Cook, Aboriginal Community Health Services, Pitt Street, Redfern Brenda L Croft 1992 166.2000.3
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firstname.lastname@example.com HILLS — Jarret Wolford and Carter Ballinger put fitting caps on their strong wrestling seasons.Both the Reading senior and the Jonesville junior earned state medals, while two other county wrestlers competed at the Individual State Wrestling Tournament over the weekend at The Palace of Auburn Hills.Wolford capped his career for the Reading High School wrestling team by placing fifth in the 160-pound Division 4 bracket. Ballinger earned his state medal by placing sixth in the 125-pound Division 4 bracket.Hillsdale sophomore Kevin Curby wrestled in the 160-pound Division 4 bracket with Wolford, while Jonesville sophomore Jonathan Rodriguez competed in the 189-pound Division 4 bracket.Wolford went 4-2 on the weekend to place fifth. The Reading senior opened with a 10-2 major decision over Shane Aney (Rudyard) before falling to Taylor Krupp (New Lothrup) in the second round. Wolford pinned Bradley Lautenschlager (Bad Axe) in 4:49, then beat Tommy Reed (Constantine) 12-9. After a loss to Hesperia's Lee Siersema, Wolford closed the tournament with a 15-0 technical fall over Logan Burns.Wolford finished the season with a 41-7 record.Ballinger got off to a strong start in the 125-pound bracket with pinfall victories over Cayleb Winkler (3:43) and Tristan Viglianco (1:14). After falling to Mio's Zach Mack by an 11-9 decision, Ballinger lost to Decatur's Hunter Bell and Bronson's Hunter Machus to clinch sixth place.For the season, the Jonesville junior went 43-4.Curby finished the weekend with a 1-2 record for Hillsdale. He opened with a loss to Manton's Tristin Rosted, but came back by pinning Lincoln Burnham (Carson City) in 2:36. Curby was eliminated with a loss to Logan Burns in his third match.Curby posted a 34-9 record for the season.Rodriguez had two tough matches in the tournament, falling to New Lothrup's Cody Symons in the opening round and dropping a close 4-3 decision to Bronson's Brett Burtrum. For the season Rodriguez finished with a 25-11 record for Jonesville.The Division 4 state wrestling champions were Roddy Hamdan (Hudson, 103), Logan Griffin (Erie Mason, 112), Zack Yates (Hesperia, 119), Zach Mack (Mio, 125), Cole Weaver (Hudson, 130), J.D. Waters (Hudson, 135), Jacob Perrin (New Lothrup, 140), Josh Wendling (New Lothrup, 145), Jared Bruner (Addison, 152), Jacob Cooper (Springport, 160), Galloway Thurston (St. Ignace, 171), Steven Malloy (Morley Stanwood, 189), Joe Ostman (St. Ignace, 215) and Ryan Prescott (Whittemore-Prescott, 285).


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Leader Rips 10 Pieces on El Cap, Falls 80 Feet
On May 23, British climbers John Beckwidth and Rob Ellender woke up on Long Ledge, 31 pitches up El Capitan, to damp, whiteout conditions. The Brits had spent the last five days climbing the Salathe Wall (VI 5.9 C2) and were eager to summit, a mere three pitches away.
On May 23, British climbers John Beckwidth and Rob Ellender woke up on Long Ledge, 31 pitches up El Capitan, to damp, whiteout conditions. The Brits had spent the last five days climbing the Salathe Wall (VI 5.9 C2) and were eager to summit, a mere three pitches away.
Beckwidth and Ellender spent the morning monitoring the weather, and decided to go for the top before the weather got even worse. At about 1 p.m., the clouds broke slightly and the two began climbing. Immediately off the belay Beckwidth clipped a bolt with a long runner and began aiding a steep crack, placing eight offset nuts and clipping them with shoulder-length slings to avoid rope drag.
Soon after, Beckwidth encountered a section of 5.8 slab. Unable to locate a crucial fixed pin, he placed a marginal cam in a pin scar and a good nut before committing to the wet face.
Beckwidth, a 5.12 slab climber, had climbed 15 or 20 feet above the nut when he attempted to match his feet on a wet foothold, and slipped. As he fell he had the sensation of my gear zippering from the bottom up®and then my top piece pulling.
With all 10 pieces of gear yanked from their placements, Beckwidth dropped as if he hadn't protected the pitch at all. I remember falling upside down with the rope whipping next to me, he says. After Beckwidth dove 80 to 100 feet, his fall was stopped only when his left ankle became tangled in the static haul line, which trailed from his harness and was tied off to the belay. I came to an abrupt halt 30 feet below the belay, he says, and I heard my ankle snap. Beckwidth was then forced to ascend the rope to the belay.
Concerned that his partner might go into shock, Ellender helped Beckwidth into a sleeping bag and bivy sack. The two were bag-bound for the next four days, as a week-long storm settled into Yosemite Valley. With dwindling food and water reserves, they waited for the weather to clear. On May 26, Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) established contact with the climbers by shouting through a megaphone. The climbers responded with hand signals. On May 27, YOSAR dropped a fixed line from the summit of El Capitan, and Ellender and Beckwidth jugged to the top. Beckwidth was taken by helicopter to Yosemite's medical clinic. Days later, he was hobbling around Camp 4 in good spirits.
Before leaving the belay, Beckwidth had clipped one of the bolts by the anchor. This common practice prevents factor-two falls and usually serves as a multi-directional first piece. However, in spite of the fact that Beckwidth had placed long runners on all of his gear, the pitch wanders, and the fall exerted multi-directional forces on the passive pro, causing it to zipper out of the crack.
While it is easy to say that Beckwidth should have placed more cams early in the pitch, climbers are limited by the available crack systems. Sometimes only uni-directional nut placements are available.
Jesse McGahey, Yosemite's lead climbing ranger, adds, This was a prime example of how useful a cell phone would be for emergency purposes. Even if you just have a little signal you can still send text messages. All we could establish with Ellender and Beckwidth was that they were hurt, needed a rescue, and could ascend fixed lines.
In any trad-climbing setting you must anticipate the direction of pull on your gear. Most climbers are able to visualize what will happen while falling on a top piece, but it takes experience to predict how the belayer's end of the rope will pull on lower pieces. Whenever possible, position your belayer directly under your first piece and place cams early in the pitch. When using passive protection, like nuts, consider placing an oppositional piece. A nut slotted upside down and clipped to the piece above it might have prevented this accident. Finally, storms can roll in at any time®May 15 through June 15 can be very temperamental in Yosemite. No matter how pleasant the Valley floor is, pack warm clothes, bivy equipment, extra food and water, and a cell phone or two-way radio.


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Conversion therapy program Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), which claims that "being gay is a mental disorder that could be reversed with therapy," faces a consumer fraud lawsuit contending that therapists made false promises to turn gay teens straight. The suit also states that JONAH therapy — which can cost up to $10,000 a year — put gay teens at risk of "depression, anxiety, and self-destructive behavior."
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Q&A: V15 Maestro Nacho Sanchez Unleashed
Nacho Sanchez goes against the grain. Hailing from Spain, best known for its sport climbing, Sanchez prefers his country's boulders to its in-vogue sport crags. He is not only leading the charge to explore the overlooked blocks of Spain, but he is also pioneering his country's first and only V15s.
Nacho Sanchez goes against the grain. Hailing from Spain, best known for its sport climbing, Sanchez prefers his country's boulders to its in-vogue sport crags. He is not only leading the charge to explore the overlooked blocks of Spain, but he is also pioneering his country's first and only V15s, first with Entropia in 2011, and most recently, Insomnio.
"When I first started, there was no bouldering tradition in my area," writes Sanchez, who is from Murcia, Spain. "But now there are many people bouldering in my country."
The 28-year-old Sanchez took a year and a half to piece together the steep and acrobatic Entropia (V15), located at the granite boulders of Castilla de Bayuela. He has since added the cobbled Insomnio (V15) to Crevillente, and has recently made headlines with the aesthetic first ascent of Zarzafar (V14) at Zarzalejo. Though climbing at the world standard, Sanchez is not a full-time climber, and currently divides his time between climbing and finishing a Masters degree for Industrial Engineering in Madrid.
Rock and Ice contacted Sanchez to learn more about Spain's strongest boulderer.
Where did you grow up? Were your parents climbers?
I am from Murcia, a small city in southeast Spain. I lived there until I was 18 years old. It is not the best place for bouldering, but there are some small areas around. My parents are not climbers, but they supported me when I decided to climb (after convincing them it was not dangerous). This is something I always wanted to do since I saw it on TV when I was very young. I have been climbing for 15 or 16 years.
Why do you prefer bouldering to sport climbing?
There are many very good sport-climbing crags near Murcia, but I started bouldering because I prefer its style. I like to solve very complicated sequences and try to climb moves near my limit. I do not really enjoy getting pumped while linking many easy moves.
Tell us about the process of doing a V15 first ascent?
Having done some V14s, I started trying a hard project (Entropia) for a long time and trained hard to be able to do it. When I succeeded, I thought it was much harder than any other problem I had done, so I proposed it V15. This year I managed to do a harder project, Insomnio, with the same process; a lot of patience and training very hard.
Have you traveled to try any of the already established V15s in Europe?
I have done quite a few short trips through Europe and I have been to Rocklands. I have tried briefly some V15s, but I have never had enough time to work seriously any hard problem far from home. Hopefully, it will, yes, change soon…
Can you tell us about Zarzafar (V14)?
I was shown the project by Ivan Luengo a long time ago, and I was psyched to try it, but I was not strong enough. Recently, I started trying it again, solved all the moves and finally linked them. It is a very aesthetic line, with some athletic moves at the beginning and a very hard mantle.
Are you sponsored?
I would like to be a professional climber, but it is hard in Spain. I get some money from sponsors but not enough to live. Meanwhile, I am finishing a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering in Madrid. I decided to live in Madrid mainly because of the great amount of rock around. There are many granite areas within 50 minutes' drive. If I want to climb on sandstone, Albarracin or Santa Gadea are not too far, so I can go for the weekend.
What's next?
I have too many projects in Spain. I am going to Varazze (Italy) in a couple of weeks. I want to start working on Gioia (V16), which is an amazing problem!
All photos by Rebeca Morillo.
Check out this video of Sanchez sending Entropia (V15).
Nacho Sánchez climbs Entropía 8c boulder from Ignasi Tarrazona Gasque on Vimeo.
Here is another cool video of Sanchez climbing Insomnio (V15).
Nacho Sánchez. Insomnio 8C (FA). from Boreal Video on Vimeo.
Also, here is some footage of Sanchez on his latest FA, Zarzafar (V14).
Zarzafar, 8B+ (FA) from Nacho Sánchez on Vimeo.