According to runningusa.org, around 20 million people participate in “running events” in the U.S. every year. That number would likely more than double if one were to also include every casual jogger and others who abstain from timed competition. By virtue of its simplicity, and the way it lends itself to training regimens for almost every other athletic endeavor, from boxing to soccer, running may be the most widely practiced sport in the world.
It is perhaps all the more notable, then, that aside from recent doping allegations, most people don’t have a clue about professional running. Is there another sport that is so ubiquitous, yet obscure on the elite level? Play a game of pickup basketball anywhere in the country and your fellow hoopsters can probably reel off enough NBA player names to fill a phonebook. But ask a random person at your local Turkey Trot 5K to name the top three American 5000-meter runners and they’ll look as though you’ve just asked them to explain Newton’s law of gravitation.
The worldwide governing body for the sport, both for track and field and road racing events, is the International Association of Athletics Federations, or the IAAF. Founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the organization is the central authority on everything from Olympic qualifying times, athlete rankings and world records, to equipment and course requirements. It is because of IAAF standards on net elevation gain/loss, for instance, that the Boston Marathon course is ineligible for world record times.
The IAAF also stages a bevy of international meets, including cross-country championships, indoor championships, and major competitions at the “Youth” (under 17) and “Junior” (under 19) levels. For the layman, however, the two most significant IAAF competitions are the World Championships and the Diamond League Series.
The biennial World Championships in Athletics always occur in non-Olympic, “odd” years; this year they are taking place in Beijing during the last week of August. The competition typically attracts the crème de la crème of the sport. For a professional track athlete, the prestige of the World Championships is rivaled only by that of the Olympic Games.
The Diamond League is an annual series of 14 one-day track and field meets that take place on three continents during the outdoor season from May until September.
Until recently, all major annual IAAF meets were in Europe. The majority of them still are, but this year also featured Diamond League events in Eugene, Ore., New York City, Shanghai, and Doha, Qatar. As we’ve written before, the Diamond League series can be considered the “regular-season” of professional track and field, though not every season will culminate in a major international championship.
In this country, track and field national championships are held every year and are organized by USA Track & Field (USATF), the governing body of the sport in the United States. As participation is limited to U.S. citizens, the outdoor national championship itself may not be as competitive as Diamond League meets that often draw the best in the world. The event has an important distinction however: in Olympic and World Championship years, the U.S. national championships double as the official qualifying event for the U.S. national team, with the top three finishers in each event being offered a spot. (Well, an athlete will get a spot on the Olympic team as long as he or she finishes in the top three and has run the entry standard for the Olympic Games, which is determined by the IAAF.)
Which brings us to the Olympics, the only competition the vast majority of non-track and field fans watch. Track athletes like Michael Johnson and Usain Bolt, who have transcended the realm of anonymity that is the fate of most professional oval runners, have done so largely because of the marketing muscle behind the summer Olympic Games. For a runner, there is no bigger stage.
Besides clear skies and shooting stars, here's what else you'll need for a perfect night under the Milky Way
This past weekend, the Perseid meteor shower lit up skies around the United States. During the shower’s peak, nearly 60 meteors were visible every hour. If you missed it, don’t fret—the Quadrantid meteor shower will be visible in early January. For optimum viewing, visit one of the best stargazing spots in North America and outfit yourself with this gear.
A cocktail will keep you warm and happy on a chilly night, and this kit will help you make some great ones. The stainless-steel kit won’t break if you knock it over and includes two rocks glasses, a shaker, and a citrus reamer, all nested together for easy transportation.
Made from the same parachute nylon as Eno’s iconic hammock, this ground cover has four stake-out points to secure your spot in the dirt or sand. The blanket stuffs down to the size of an apple and includes a zippered stash pocket to store essentials like keys.
Give your charcuterie board a safe place to rest on this bamboo table. The low height makes it easy to reach while sitting. When not in use, the table easily folds up and stores in the included carrying case.
Warmth and compressibility make this down blanket one of the best on the market. It packs down to the size of two grapefruits in the included stuffsack, and the 600-fill down keeps you toasty while gazing at meteors.
If you don’t want to lie on the ground, this chair is a great choice because it allows you to lean back and get a great look at the sky without straining your neck. The back mesh pocket is big enough to hold an extra layer.
i want to ask. i have a condition (membercode = getlistpersonal.membercode) when true it's update and when false it's insert. i use looping (for each) to determine whether it is true or not. i want to when already exist looping is stop. how to make it ?
put your loop inside a different action (ex: CheckIfMemberExists). when the condition is true, exit the action.
For a different approach, you could use a ListFilter and use the first record in the new List. Performance-wise that won't differ much, and it makes for much cleaner code.
You need to be more informative on the error, showing also what you have done, what you are trying to accomplish and what you get.
The idea would be to add a link between the Action/Screen and the definition of the user story on whatever PM system being used. This would open a browser window which would allow you to view the details.
The problem being that especially in older systems, one action or screen will have dozens of modifications, each with their own user story...
You are able to create stories/issues from the ECT with the ECT-Connector. Then I will link to the ECT screen capture. Have links between screens and PM systems doesn't seem like a good idea. You can always set an url in the PM system.
Delidding tools for Intel's latest X299 series CPUs are uncommon, making home CPU deliding a difficult task. Combine this with the fact that delidding is risky when attempted by novices and it is understandable why many opt to purchase pre-delidded CPUs to save them the hassle and worry of modifying a £300+ CPU.
Some consumers also want to bypass the silicon lottery by purchasing a proven chip, one that overclocks highly to offer top tier performance levels, often paying well over a product's MSRP to achieve a 1st class overclock.
Overclockers UK is now offering a selection of pre-binned and delidded X299 CPUs on their storefront, offering i7 7740X CPUs with clock speeds of up to 5.4GHz, i7 7800X processors with clock speeds of up to 4.9GHz and i9 7900X CPUs with clock speed of up to 4.9GHz.
These chips have been pretested by Overclockers UK and are proven to be able to run at these clock speeds on their own hardware, though bundles are also available for those who want all the motherboard overclock settings to come pre-configured.
At this time no specialised X299 delidding tools have been released onto the consumer market, giving end users very limited options when it comes to delidding their own CPUs. These tools will likely be released at a later date, leaving builders today in a tricky position. Do you pay extra for a pre-delidded and pre-tested CPU, or do you risk it all on your own delidding skills and on the silicon lottery?
You can join the discussion on Overclockers UK's pre-delidded and tested i7 and i9 X299 CPUs on the OC3D Forums.
Those crap ones have to go somewhere and I bet they aren't being clear about those nor selling them at a discount since they are making profit on top of these ones.
I wouldn't be buying a regular CPU from them that's for sure with no chance of getting a "good"one.Quote
ive never thought of it that way before good point, they do sell cpus that are in retail boxes and ones that arnt, im guessing they are the "reject" cpusQuote
ive never thought of it that way before good point, they do sell cpus that are in retail boxes and ones that arnt, im guessing they are the "reject" cpus
The chips OCUK sell that aren't cherry picked are just your average run of the mill chips, You could get lucky and get an amazing clocker but these actual chips that overclock like crazy, OCUK buy specific batches from Intel and then speed bin them so you aren't getting a reject if you buy a standard chip, You're just getting one that hasn't been tested.Quote
The 'rejects', for want of a better term, for Kaby Lake could be ones that top out at 4.8Ghz or 4.9Ghz. For a gaming chip—and let's face it that's all the i7 is good for these days—4.8 or 4.9Ghz is all you need. So, OK, you won't be able to hit 5.1Ghz or more, but you don't need to. 5.4Ghz is pointless. Your pushing enormous amounts of voltage into your CPU just for the sake of it. Performance will go up in all applications, but in gaming you'll be hitting a wall. And for the price of a 5.4Ghz 7740K I'd rather a Silicon Lottery 1700X or a 7800X.Quote