Dear Coach,
- Scholastic All-American Teams Posted.
- 2007 ISHOF Inductees.
- Start with a full tank.
- Professional Image
- Unique Aquatic Training
- How to keep the tax man from a knockin’
- Countdown code that was imbedded.
HELLO EVERYONE:
This is just amazing! I can honestly share with you the offices of USA-S buzz. From the start of everyday to its close, everyone here has one item on their agenda, are great sport. Currently the “rookie” on staff, you can all imagine the “fun” I am experiencing at the hands of my fellow zone consultants. Some days they are ruthless! As I begin to become familiar with all of the materials available, I am even more excited with how beneficial, when applied, it can be for all. I am returning to Lancaster to close on my home and make the final move to Colorado with my wife. I know many of you will be attending the Eastern Clinic, as will I. Hopefully we can touch base with each other at that time. November 4th I am scheduled to attend a CLBMS in Sekoonk MA. Some business: I have a list of about 24 new teams/ individuals that need to attend CLBMS as required. I know you have all been notified so I know you are all making plans to attend one of these clinics. Please make every effort! Peter
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USA
Swimming announces Scholastic All-American Team
(9/28/2006)
USA Swimming announces the 2005-2006 Scholastic
All-American Teams. The Scholastic All-American Team is comprised of high
school student-athletes, who have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher,
and have competed in an individual event in the 2005 US Paralympics Swimming
National Championships, 2005 Open Water National Championships, 2005 Summer
Speedo Championships Series (summer sectionals), 2005 ConocoPhillips
Nationals, 2005 Junior Swimming Championships, 2005 U.S. Open, 2006 Speedo
Champions Series (spring sectionals), and 2006 Spring Championships. The
award is based on a point system for grades and competition.
Mens Team |
Womens Team
For questions regarding Scholastic All-American Team
lists, contact
hhass@usaswimming.org.
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CLASS OF 2007 ANNOUNCED FOR
INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING
The prestigious class includes: Honor Swimmers, Penny Heynes of South Africa, Amy van Dyken of the USA; Honor Diver, Sun Shuwei, from China; Mikako Kotani, Honor Synchronized Swimmer of Japan; Manuel Estiarte, Honor Water Polo Player of Spain; Ratko Rudic, Honor Water Polo Coach, representing Yugoslavia, Italy, USA and Croatia; Debbie Muir, Honor Synchronized Swimming Coach from Canada; Bob Helmick of the USA, will be inducted, posthumously, as an Honor Contributor; as will Sydney Battersby of Great Britain as an Honor Pioneer.
These 9 honorees will be joined by a Gold Medallion recipient, who is yet to be confirmed.
The International Swimming Hall of Fame has inducted over 600 athletes and aquatic greats since its inception in 1965.
This year’s honorees join an elite group of the greatest aquatic athletes ranging from Buster Crabbe, Greg Louganis, and Johnny Weissmuller to Donna deVarona and Mark Spitz.
Criteria for selection include:
--No participating swimmer shall be chosen unless retired from competition at least four years, or at least one Olympic quadrennial. "Swimmer" and "Swimming" refer to swimmers, divers, water polo players and synchronized swimmers. A swimmer's international career record is of most importance.
--A coach must have a significant international record and have been coaching at least 25 years.
--A contributor must have been in swimming not less than 25 years and have had a significant international impact.
--Milestones: Achievements and innovations that have had a profound effect on swimming and/or its administration should be recorded.
The International Swimming Hall of Fame induction caps three days of activities ranging from receptions with the International Business Council, the FINA Diving Grand Prix, an Australian Barbeque and the Induction ceremony.
Tickets for
the International Swimming Hall of Fame events range from sponsorship levels
of $50,000 to $500 for the induction ceremony, down to $200 to $45 for
ticket packages to selected events. For additional information, call Meg
Keller-Marvin at the International Swimming Hall of Fame at
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This article was from a score member.
Arthur L. Aikin Jr. ("Tuck")
(719) 473-9384
START WITH A FULL TANK
Paul Sherwen, the OLN TV Tour de France commentator, described the arduous three week bicycle race as something like a bank. "You start out with an energy deposit," he said, "and over the duration of the race you make withdrawals. If you take out too much early on, you haven’t enough left to finish, but if you and your team strategically pace yourselves, your leader can win.". The trick of course is judging how much to take out and when. Knowing each of the competitive riders, their strengths and weaknesses, and the specifics of each day’s race stage terrain is critical to deciding how much energy to spend. In other words, as salesman Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man" said, "You gotta know the territory", and a lot more.
Initial survival for new business startups is pretty much the same. You start out with a business plan projection of how much business you’ll do each month for the first year, calculate your early monthly losses (and there surely will be some), and hope to get to the break even point before your "energy" - cash - runs out. Therein lies one of the most perplexing and yes, frustrating dilemmas for the entrepreneur/founder: even with the most thorough research, initial demand and consequent revenue for the early stages of a business startup are virtually impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy. As they say, it’s a WAG (uh, a wild guess). Since initial cash is always in short supply, just how much should a new business have on hand in order to survive the race to break-even?
Unfortunately too many new business owners neglect to calculate what they’ll need in the bank, their working capital, to establish their business in the continuous brawl of the marketplace. In particular, founders fail to realize that their initial operating losses aren’t just "paper" losses, they’re real, and must be funded with cash, or they’ll be out of business in short order. There are other demands for cash too, such as initial inventory, supplies, advance payments for rent and insurance, security deposits and the like. Also there’s a need to accommodate the ebbs and flows of revenue too (in the form of cash), which may be the most important component of all. So, on startup, just how much cash is needed in the bank?
The "rules of thumb" range all over and are heavily dependent on the type of business being initiated. If you’re going to operate a distillery whose initial product will be twelve year old scotch, for instance, you’ll need a lot more than a neighborhood convenience store, a life insurance agency, or a restaurant. Nonetheless a good starting point would be to calculate your full monthly operating costs, including a reasonable salary for yourself and any employees you plan to hire, and multiply by two. In this scenario you are assuming you need enough cash to operate for two full months without any revenue at all! Now go back over all of your assumptions in your financial projections, re-examine your cash flow statement, and adjust - probably upward. More likely than not, your revenue projections are too optimistic and it will take you twice as long as you thought to achieve break-even. This unfortunate circumstance is much more common than the reverse. Err on the side of pessimism is the usual advice. Or, you could embrace Clint Eastwood’s philosophy, who has been pretty successful: "I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will." Hmm - but with a new business "garden", you just might need the moisture!
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Your Work is a Snapshot of your Professional Image |
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Back in my facility management days I
would process up to 120 time sheets every two weeks. It wasn't my
favorite task especially when Dave's time sheet came through. You
see Dave didn't understand that his paperwork was a reflection of
his professional image and it didn't appear that he really cared
about the perception he left with me every two weeks. Dave just couldn't seem to complete his time sheet accurately. It was either added up incorrectly or information was missing. I would frequently send it back to him to get it corrected but to no avail ... the same oversights would appear the next round. |
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To make it worse, Dave usually completed his
time sheet over his lunch break so almost every time sheet had at least one
'scratch and sniff' on it, sometimes peanut butter and sometimes jelly -
occasionally I was lucky enough to get a combination of the two. You can
imagine my frustration trying to straighten a pile of 120 time sheets when
one of them stuck out crooked because of the sticky substance on it.
In one of my counseling sessions with Dave, I asked if he realized that at
least 8 people saw his time sheet every two weeks. Apparently he didn't
understand that his paperwork was leaving an indelible 'but almost edible'
impression with many people in our organization about his professional
image.
It's no surprise that Dave barely lasted one summer and wasn't considered
for rehire. Yes there were other things that he needed to learn but that one
thing was his biggest demise. That leads me to the questions for your
today...
What kind of impression does your work leave with your organization?
Is the snapshot of your work a positive professional image or one that could
use some sprucing up?
Your reputation is based on the impressions you leave everyday, what you say
and don't say, in meetings, in the hall and in simple conversations. Your
communication, whether it is in writing or in voice mail, leaves an
unforgettable perception with your co-workers.
Remember - it's not your boss who promotes you...everyone you work with will
contribute to your success based on the impression they have of you.
What snapshots did you leave today?
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Publication:The Colorado Springs Gazette; |
Date:Sep 18, 2006; |
Section:Business; |
Page Number:48 |
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BIZNET
How to keep the tax man from knockin’
JIM
BAINBRIDGE Online resources for the business professional
This week: How to
steer clear of Internal Revenue Service audits.
- Most people would rather hike Pikes Peak during an electrical storm
than sit down with an Internal Revenue Service auditor.
AllBusiness.com offers 12 tips to avoid that particular pleasure —
focusing on the small businesses most likely to be targeted — and also has a
series of links to help you prepare for an audit should your best efforts
not prevent you from becoming one of the 1.5 percent of taxpayers audited
each year.
www.tinyurl.com/jxqqx
c Louise Banks proposes 10 ways to stay clear of an audit at LegalZoom.
com. Although this list is more general, meant for individuals as well as
business owners, you may find it has insights that apply to your situation.
Pay particular attention to tip No. 5, “Use your home office just for
business.”
www.tinyurl.com/kwalk
- Red flags and how to avoid them is the focus at 1099.com, advising
that incomplete returns, round numbers and drastic changes in income are
among the signals that will arouse IRS suspicion every time.
www.1099.com/c/ar/ta/redflags_t027.html
c Will it Fly? deals with the question of avoiding IRS trouble a little
differently.
It has a detailed online questionnaire about the nature of your return
and your readiness for the government inquiries that may result from it.
The Q&A takes about 10 minutes to complete and, based on your responses,
Will It Fly? provides modules in the areas that seem to be of the most use.
tinyurl.com/k74dr
c IRS statistics posted at WorldWideWeb Tax show the types of returns
most likely to attract attention and how best to stay under the radar. There
are also links to pages dealing with the best ways to prepare for an audit,
your rights of appeal and a taxpayer’s bill of rights.
www.wwwebtax.com/audits/audit_avoiding.htm
c There is always the option of going right to the source.
The Internal Revenue Service has a wide-ranging section on tax
information for businesses large and small.
Its section on small businesses and the self-employed claims to be a
“One-Stop Resource,” with industry/profession-specific information for
self-employed entrepreneurs, employers and businesses.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/index.html
CONTACT THE WRITER:
636-0126 or jim.bainbridge@gazette.com. Looking for a local business online?
The Gazette’s Peak Links is an extensive Web directory of local companies’
URLs. Find a business or submit your own. Go to ColoradoSprings.com and
click on “PeakLinks.”
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Here is the code that was imbedded with the countdown timers.
Good morning. I was asked
to supply a count down clock for club development club sites. I sent two
files, one for trials and one for Beijing. If sent to the person maintaining
a site, they should know that you have to actually open an HTML file in an
editor or at least with notepad to actually see the code. I have received
some emails about this saying that instructions were not in the file.
Instructions are in the file if you open it with an HTML editor.
BUT, just to clarify, below is the code again for Trails. If you have any
questions, please let me know. Lindsay
<P align=center><INPUT id=countdowntoAthens size=30 value=" " name=countdowntoAthens></P>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
<!--
var now = new Date();
var then = new Date("August 9, 2008");
var left = then.getTime() - now.getTime();
var days = Math.floor(left / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
// var hours = Math.floor(left / (1000 * 60 * 60));// var minutes = Math.floor(left / (1000 * 60));// var seconds = Math.floor(left / 1000);
var ct = document.getElementById('countdowntoAthens')
if (days > 1)
ct.value=("Only " + days + " days left until Beijing!")
else if (days == 1)
ct.value=("Only one day left until Beijing!")
else if (days == 0)
ct.value=("Less than a day left until Beijing!")
else // days < 0
ct.value=("USA is making history in Beijing!");
ct.disabled = true;
// -->
</SCRIPT>
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The material in this e-mail is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement with respect to any company or product. One of the objectives of the USA Swimming Coach’s Blast e-mails is to make coaches aware of potential resources available.
Peter C Clark
Sport Development Consultant
Eastern Zone
719-866-3561 (direct office)
719-330-0743 (cell)
719-866-4669 (Fax)