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So enthusiastic about his maths and physics. Got 6A's in honours maths and 5A's in honours physics last year from only 20 students in all of 6th year. Miles above the natonalaverage. A top level teacher eh really knows vs stuff. Just dont mess. Wont suffer fools. Creates a great working athmosphere. Yeah still does handstands.
He is a funny teacher and his advice of life are good. He wants the best for his students and his story's are interesting. He never gave out to me once and to most of the students which shows he isn't strict nor nervous. There are some negative sides thus. Its very scary to ask him questions , his storys are interesting and funny but most of them are lies , He's not the best teacher at mathematics and he has two or three people which he picks on but i guess they deserve it mostly but still.
i always hated maths but he made me like it all round cool guy but should have been a green berae from Conor Hulgraine!
Never liked maths but he pulled me through the leaving cert. Loved going for runs with him, real adventurer. Does he still do hand stands?! Great teacher..just dont mess!
He is a great teacher, with an amazing knowledge of maths. His jokes and sense of humor are painfully unfunny and uncool though. He loves his coloured chalk.
best moment of my six years was seeing this man try to kick a football
Delighted to see that he is still with Rock. If you listen to this guy he will get you through anything. XR3I only has 2 doors !!
sometimes he says he feels like a lighthouse in a bog, brilliant but useless!!!!!
how does he know so much? And still they gazed and still their wonder grew that one small head could carry all he knew!
a martered anti-smoker good teacher alyhough slightly uppity sometimes
Unbelivable teacher.in all my years as being a student i have never had such a great teacher
how can he draw such amazingly straight lines????????????????????????
Up the tree's on the watch during lunch! SMOKERS BEWARE!!! gr8 teacher! go on well with him!
mr o boyle loves catching smokers in the barn. and hides up trees.
Infectious enthusiasm. And hand stands. I wish he was actually better at Maths than he is.
great teacher...enjoys his hand stands,but other then that a great teacher
Very good teacher and very helpful but absolutely hates me for some reason
a really good maths teacher. you know where you stand with him.has no favourites and is very fair.
really well organised. helps me a lot. easy to ask him questions but at the right time
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Mrs. Manervia Gray
Greenmount Po
Drew County
Bournsvill, Miss March 26, 1862
Dear sister, I brace this present oppertunity for the pirpis of riting you afew lines to let you no that I am infoying good helth at this time. Hoping these few lines will find you and famly aul infoying the same blessing and also Dempsey and his famly.
Well Manervia, I have nothing of much importence to rite to you. I rote Dempsey a leter afew days sence, but I don't no whether he will git het or not. So now I will drop you afew lines which I think you will git.
Well, we ar now at Burnsvill, Tishamingo County, Miss but I don't no how long we will stay here. We have got orders to keep two days rashen cucked aul the time, and I supose the yankes is marchen on Corinth, which is about ten miles from this place. They ar cuting out a rode to that plase, so if they attact that plase we will be in the batle, but I an't attaul friten to go into abatle for I don't think the yankes can hit me no how, and I have got asplended musket and I can use hit as well as enybody.
So I expect to git sum of them if I git in abatle. I understood yestarday that our men captured six peces of artilary from the yankes at Corinth.
Well sister, Jenril Boin has just ben here sence I comence this leter and made a spech to our Comision oficers and ses that their is no dout but we will be in to abatle sun. So when you hear from me again, you may expect to hear from my being in to abatle. Our brigade is composed of four regt and two batris. The Regt in this brigade is one Miss Regt and one Misoury and the tenth and ninth Arks Regts. I think they ar aul fiting stock.
Well sister, I am so sory to tel you that James Gill is ded. Died afew days sence. And also Thomas Rogers is ded, and I recken John Hudshon is ded as we han't herd from him sence we left him sick be tween Nashville and Bolinggreen.
Marin Whitecar was taken prisner by the yankes at Bolinggreen. It is in the papers. The paper ses he is in good helth. I think he is aul they got out of this regt.
Well, we have seen avary hard time sence we left Bolinggreen. We ar driling four ours aday now, mosly scrunis driling. Well Alen and severel of our boys has got back in Country again. They ar aul well. Jack is also here. Spers and four or five of our boys is at Atlanter Gorgia yet.
Well, tell Miss J F Thomas that I will ancer her leter as sun as I can. I han' got eny papor nor I can't git eny here. I will rite as often as I can, and I want you to do the same. Tell Dempsey their is nothing to hender him from riting once aweek and I would be glad to here from him sum time. Give my love to P...nelia(hole in paper) and tel her I would be glad to git aleter from her. Tell Marthia An and Dick and sis and Henry and aul of the rest of the children houdy for me and tel them that I want to see them aul very bad.
Well, I must close for want of rume. Rite sum. Remain yours truly.
Goodby, J. R. Touchstone to Manervia Gray.
Driect your leters to
Bournsvill, Miss
I have got the socks you sent me by Thomas. I was flad to git. J.R. Touchstone
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So, I'm sat in a cafe in Berlin. There's a baby stood in front of me, clutching his mother's knee. He (perhaps she) is staring straight at me while his mother takes a breather. I wonder if he wants me to engage and then notice him look at the wall paper behind me, then the stuff on my table, and then finally across the room.
I'm incidental; just part of the decor.
I'm also incidental to the 20 or so folks in the cafe. I'm just a punter with a coffee and a Greek yoghurt. This feels good. It's perhaps a feeling that white people in Europe never have. It's the feeling of just being accepted, not having to explain my presence as a non-white person. It's a rare feeling and it's something I'm thankful to Berlin for.
I've just done a workshop at the Poverty & Health Congress. I also felt accepted there. Just another person there to share his work. Not a brown person. Not an Indian person. Just a person. Ahead of the workshop, I wondered whether I'd have to explain myself, work on being accepted. I didn't. It felt good.
I'm not deluded. It's not the same throughout Germany, I'm sure. It's not the same through England, I know (especially in the more well to do areas) . But it's still an amazing feeling. Just being able to walk from my hotel to the congress venue, a walk of 40 minutes or so, and not have to think about my ethnicity is amazing. That's not to say that I didn't think about it, at first. I did. But then I didn't. And I realised I wasn't. And that - that realisation - was amazing.
The kid's playing with some painted bricks now. A bloke has appeared, perhaps the woman's partner, and the kid's busy being entertained. He's forgotten me. The Incidental Man. The thing that was in front of the wall paper. Perhaps in the kid's mind I was part of the wall paper or something. Either way, it feels good to be incidental, to be irrelevant.
Thank you, Berlin.
Pritpal S Tamber
I explore why health systems fail low-income communities. In the US, I do what I do as the CEO and Co-Founder of Bridging Health & Community (BH&C), a Seattle-based nonprofit. In the UK, I do what I do as part of the group behind Beyond Systems. In the US, my speaking agent is Executive Speakers Bureau. Elsewhhere I'm represented by MFL and London Speaker Bureau. This is my personal blog.
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The Government has recently published its long awaited guidance ("the Guidance") on how the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Regulations ("the Regulations") are expected to operate for non-domestic private rental properties when they come into force in 2018.
For the background and scope of the Regulations please see our MEES Information Sheet. To access the Guidance published by the Government on 23 February 2017 please click here: Government guidance on MEES Regulations.
The Guidance is intended for landlords, enforcement authorities, letting agents and property management agencies. The Guidance sets out when the Regulations apply, how to identify what improvement works can be carried out to a sub-standard property, the exemptions a landlord can rely on for non-compliance and the penalties that may be imposed.
In some respects the Guidance provides helpful clarification on how the Regulations will apply to commercial properties. However, there are still some outstanding questions the Guidance fails to address which leaves landlords in a somewhat uncertain position.
Key points:
EPC voluntarily obtained
The Guidance suggests that where a building owner voluntarily obtains an Energy Performance Certificate ("EPC") in relation to a building which is not legally required to have an EPC (e.g. properties without heating, air conditioning and ventilation equipment, certain listed buildings (see below), temporary buildings, places of worship etc), the obtaining of an EPC should not trigger compliance.
Listed buildings
The Guidance makes it clear that listed buildings are not necessarily exempt from the requirement to obtain an EPC. It states that there is a common misunderstanding that a listed building does not require an EPC. This stems from the exception in EPC regulations that they do not apply to "buildings officially protected as part of a designated environment or because of their special architectural or historical merit." However, the EPC regulations also state that this exception only applies "in so far as compliance with certain minimum energy performance requirements would unacceptably alter their character or appearance." Hence, not all listed buildings are excluded from the requirement for an EPC and those that are required to have an EPC will fall within the regime.
It remains to be seen whether this approach will be challenged but until then, you should consider assessing listed buildings on a case by case basis, seeking advice from a surveyor on whether improving the energy efficiency of the building to comply with the Regulations would alter the character or appearance of the building. If not, the granting of a lease of the building will trigger a need for an EPC, which will bring the property within the scope of the Regulations.
Lease renewals
The restrictions on letting in the Regulations apply to the extension or renewal of an existing tenancy, as well as to the grant of a new tenancy. The Guidance reminds landlords that renewal leases will be caught by the Regulations whether the tenant is entitled to a renewal lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the "1954 Act") or otherwise. A landlord may therefore be in breach of the Regulations by granting a renewal lease of a sub-standard property and cannot avoid liability by virtue of the lease being required to be granted under the 1954 Act.
Licences, agreements for lease, tenancies at will & periodic tenancies
The Guidance suggests that permitting a third party to occupy a sub-standard property under a licence (as opposed to a lease), or under an agreement for lease, is not likely to trigger a requirement to comply with the Regulations. However, permitting occupation under tenancies at will and periodic tenancies does appear to be caught.
Exemption: 7 year payback test
In respect of the "no relevant improvements" exemption detailed in our information sheet (a link to which is above), the Guidance has clarified that a landlord is expected to do energy improvement works that would pay for themselves over 7 years or less through savings on energy bills, even if the landlord has no available monies to do the works and no ability to borrow sufficient funds to pay for them at the relevant time.
The Guidance also provides information on the application of the 7 year payback test and clarifies that, when considering the test, a landlord can measure improvement measures individually as opposed to in packages. Therefore, a landlord is exempt from installing a particular improvement (A) if, assessed alone, it fails the 7 year payback test. If carrying out improvement (A) in conjunction with another improvement (B) would mean the combined improvements (A and B) would satisfy the test, this does not matter and the exemption would still apply for improvement (A). The Government would prefer landlords to assess improvements on a package basis but they do not have to and landlords will only have to implement as many improvements as individually satisfy the test.
Exemption: third party consent
Landlords should note that where they wish to register an exemption for lack of third party consent, the Guidance states that a copy of any correspondence and/or relevant documentation demonstrating that consent was required, sought, refused, or granted subject to a condition that the landlord was not reasonably able to comply with, should be lodged on the exemption register.
Exemptions are generally valid for 5 years but the Guidance makes it clear that, where the unobtained consent was that of the tenant, the exemption only applies for as long as that party remains the tenant. If the Guidance is correct on this point, after 2023 Landlords will need to take note of assignments of the lease and apply for consent from the assignee and re-register the lack of third party exemption, if still applicable.
The Exemptions Register
The exemptions register is open from 1 April 2017 and the Guidance sets out the information that needs to be included in the register if landlords wish to register an exemption. The Guidance makes it clear that exemptions are personal and do not pass to a successor in title on the sale of a commercial property. The buyer will therefore need to register its own exemption following the purchase of the property. If the buyer wishes to rely on a lack of third party consent exemption, it seems that it will need to apply for the consent itself once it becomes the owner of the property, even if the third party had previously been approached for consent by the previous owner and refused to grant it.
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This is the second time I've loaded this post today. Earlier my right hand menu system overlapped the image. Even though it was a bit hazy you can begin to see the transformation to the fall foliage. A couple of the trees have orange leaves. By the end of the month this entire Woodland will have burst forth with beautiful yellows, reds, crimsons, and oranges. I will shoot the area again at that time.
This shot was taken from above the valley floor on our Grandview Drive. It snakes its way a number of miles before terminating at, on one end, the river road, and on the other the main roadway through Peoria Heights. There are numerous vantage points to get great images.
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I found a hotel in a small town near a beautiful lake. It was pretty mellow.
The days of switching busses and trekking though towns were pretty fun. There were a few stretches where I was too impatient to wait for the bus, so I hitched. I have put out the thumb about a half dozen times, and either the first or second car has picked me up. I guess I look pretty unintimidating. I cheat a little. As roads enter the small towns they have speed bumps. If you wait at the speed bumps, the folks have already slowed down so it's easier to get a ride. Four of the people who picked me up either studied English or had visited the states.
When I found myself short on cash, I realized ATM's are far and few between in this area. I needed to change my plans and make a side trip for cash in the other direction. It was about a three hour, $8 mistake. I figured would jump a bus, hit an ATM, and head back to Pena Blanca. I had three hours to make the round trip voyage before my phone interview with the city of Lindon.
On my way back, I took a mini-van during part of the voyage. The mini-van full of 22 people stopped on the side of the road. The driver motioned me to get out and said, "Santa Barbara is about 60 kilometers that way." I was in the middle of nowhere. 60 kilometers is about 30 miles, and I had forty minutes to get there. I was screwed. Not only was I forty minutes away, but I needed to wait for a bus and find an internet café to call from. (Internet cafes usually allow international calls for about 15 cents a minutes.) I began to sweat.
After the first two cars passed, I put out my thump coupled with the international sign/prayer for please. The next car stopped. I explained my situation, and my drama quickly became his mission. We jammed down the winding mountain roads to Santa Barbara, and he dropped me in front of an internet café which was run by his cousin.
As I got out of the car, I saw an ATM out of the corner of my eye. The entire three hour trip was not even necessary! I had three minutes to gather my sweaty, dirty, frazzled self together.
I don't think it was a coincidence that guy passed at that time and that he had a cousin who managed an internet café.
I think I did well on the interview and actually think they enjoyed the fact I was in Honduras. I fielded the normal interview questions and inserted a little joke here and there—will cross my fingers. They are installing a quarter of a million dollar simulated surfing machine. That would be pretty cool to manage.
Who would have thought that I could pick up a wireless internet signal in the middle of Honduras???
I met a cool couple from Australia today on the bus and bumped into a pair of girls from Europe that I had bumped into three times before. When you use the same guide book, you usually end up in the same hostels, restaurants, and attractions as some of the same people.
I went to an amazing waterfall today. I was there pretty early and shared the view with a couple from Orlando. They were with a guide. Guides don't like solo travelers, because if it were not for the language barrier their entire job can be relapsed by a simple $10 travel book: $6 on e-bay.
Tomorrow I will get up early and visit one of the poorest and highest in elevation places in the country. Hopefully, I will get some handicrafts for my girls and see more of the countryside. It is strikingly beautiful here.
I received an e-mail from a cousin who was seriously considering joining me. I have been a bit disconnected from him, but I think we would mess well. I would love a running buddy.
Kerrie, the Canadian, once said that the places you love while traveling are a combination of beautiful, amazing places coupled with the people you meet there. I can't agree more.
If anyone is actually reading this, leave a comment or let me know.
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On January 25th, ULI Baltimore presented its annual real estate trends and forecast meeting, featuring insights from leading experts both nationally and locally. The event featured a presentation on the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2018 report – a publication from PwC and ULI – as well as a session on the outlook for Baltimore area real estate, including a panel of leading area real estate investors and experts.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate is a trends and forecast publication with a 38-year history and is the most highly regarded and widely-read forecast report in the real estate industry. Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2018, undertaken jointly by PwC and ULI, provides an outlook on U.S. Investment and development trends, real estate, finance and capital markets, property sectors, metropolitan areas, and other real estate issues. The report draws on formal and informal surveys of real estate executives, investors, developers and market experts around the U.S. including survey responses from over 1,500 real estate executives and personal interview with over 350 industry leaders. Survey results relating to our local market were included in the presentation. More information on the event HERE.
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Translation Studies
Discussions of class on 15th Nov 2012.
Expectations of the class:
· The class to share with each other translations of Indian forms which they come across.
· Every student to read the essay and share their understandings which helps all to get different prespectives of the same essay.
· To collect everyone's prespective of the essay and threading everything together (by teacher) to evolve a framework.
· Discission in the class should be able to help in translations.
· To learn: why and how to translate? – linguistic, legal and social aspects.
· Balance between theory and practical.
· To learn aesthetics of translation and translation review.
· The essays to be completed in time.
· Key concepts of the essays to be given (by teacher) and a class discussion on that, prior to reading the essay so that it's esaier to understand the essays and saves time too
[discussion: if key points are given in advance to our reading we may miss out on other points which we would otherwise make a note of. Also, it'll make us think on one particular line and not give space enough for our own understanding.]
· To find the relevance of 'theories' of translation and to develop practical ability.
· Whole class as one to locate points in essays.
· Being able to relate to the essays.
· Reading essays at home and discussing it in class.
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How One Can Run a Successful Independent Dojo
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Dojo: Senshin Center
Location: Dojo Address: 193 Turnpike Rd. Santa Barbara, CA.
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Reflections on Operating/Owning an Aikido Dojo.
Part II (Fallacies)
The following commonly held Aikido dojo business fallacies are not listed in any priority. All fallacies listed below are being looked at from the point of view of developing a comprehensive business model as described in Part I of this essay.
Fallacy: You should model your dojo after a more senior dojo or a hombu dojo.
The underlying mindset supporting this fallacy is, "There's no point to reinventing the wheel," or "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," or even "They must know what they are doing." Only the reality is that "it" is likely broken since their mats are often empty and low-energy (i.e. not a commercial draw), "they" don't know what they are doing because they never thought things through from a business perspective, and you might not want a "wheel" in the first place.
The first unsaid and negative consequences of this fallacy that I would like to point out is that its adoption very often guarantees that one's dojo will contain business and cultural aspects not consciously selected. As such, one loses the market viability of having their dojo be unique (i.e. one of a kind), and one may end up struggling to reconcile unreconcilable and contradictory combinations of business strategy and dojo culture. A good example of the latter would be one of overemphasizing the philosophical and academic aspects of the art while wanting to cater to law enforcement, or younger males, combat effectiveness, and/or wanting a crowded and energetic mat during class. Another example would be running a walk-in teen program while wanting to cater toward people looking at Budo as a life-practice. My point: Every aspect of your dojo should be consciously selected. Every aspect not in your dojo should be consciously rejected. A consultant should be able to walk through your dojo and point to any aspect of your model or even any item in your dojo, etc., and ask, "Why is that there?" and you should be able to tell them exactly why it is there and also why something else is not there.
By doing this, this allows us to gain one of the most basic sound business practices (already briefly mentioned above): Your dojo should be one of a kind. Having your dojo run or be like everyone else's or even like somebody else's requires you by default to seek a smaller share of somebody else's market. This can only be lucrative if you are in early on said market and if said market is still in its growth phase, and only if you are able to organize the market according to a pyramid shape. This is exactly what we saw with the Japanese shihan that started the USAF and the other federation movements. Today, even those schools, whether the shihan is still alive or not, are a former shadow of what they once used to be in terms of dojo membership. As was mentioned in Part I, it makes no sense to try and enter the BJJ/MMA commercial markets this late in the game, and it therefore makes even less sense to try and do so in the Aikido federation commercial markets.
Rather than following this fallacy, one should follow this mantra: If your ideal dojo could exist or does exist someplace else, you should go and train there. This is how unique your dojo should be instead! It must be nowhere else! Again, it needs to be one of kind, and it must be this even if someone tries to copy element-for-element what you are doing. Your dojo must be so unique that it cannot even be copied! This is the only way you can find your own market, and finding your own market is one of the easiest ways of successfully dominating a market, of being successful, and, in this case, of having a sustainable and growing dojo membership.
How do you create a dojo that cannot be found anywhere else? Start by using your wants and likes, your experiences, your interests, your personality, the information YOU have accumulated, the lessons you've learned, the mistakes you've made, and the mistakes you've seen others make, etc., to, so to speak, sculpt the image of your ideal dojo -- YOUR dojo. Your dojo should be YOUR ideal dojo. Look at every aspect of your current dojo, and note if it is contributing to your ideal dojo. Make sure there is no aspect of your dojo that is doing nothing toward your ideal dojo. Make sure there is no aspect of your dojo that is working against your ideal dojo.
Once you have this shape in mind, work, and dream, and aim everything you have to make that ideal dojo manifested in reality. You must be like an artist painting a painting, a sculptor sculpting, like a composer composing a piece of music -- you must work, work constantly, to generate the shape you are picturing in your mind, in your heart of hearts. Bring that into existence! Do not settle for anything else. Do not compromise. Do not veer. Only allow yourself necessary delay, the practice of patience, and the strategy of sequencing. Everything else is about uniting you, who you are, with your dojo, and manifested reality.
This is important not only from the point of view that training in your own vision is central to your own quality of life, but more importantly regarding student body size is that dojocho must be able to capitalize upon contagion (see Go Rin no Sho). Allow me to explain: The dojocho must be charismatic, for example, and to be charismatic the dojocho must him/herself be drawn to his/her dojo. It is by this drawing, this gravitational force, that you draw others to your dojo. And, this gravitational force cannot exist between deshi and dojo or between dojocho and dojo if the dojo is not unique and not uniquely desired for by the dojocho.
You must remember: If the dojocho would rather be training elsewhere, if training at another dojo even exists as a possibility for the dojocho, then it is also so for the deshi. If the dojocho is willing to go and train somewhere else, then why should the deshi not go and train somewhere else?
If you already have a dojo, then practice to counter this fallacy like this:
- Ask, what is your ideal dojo? Describe it in minute detail.
- What bothers you about your current dojo? Describe it in minute detail, but also include causations, supports, and correlations for those aspects you list here.
- Go through your business practices and ask and explain, "Why is that aspect there?"
- Go through your dojo space itself and point to everything and ask and explain, "Why is that there?"
Working in the martial arts business since 1986, I have to point out here something that I have commonly seen when people try to adopt their own ideal dojo. It is part of a fallacy I will explain in a following segment, but simply put it is this: People by nature and out of fear often come to misidentify the arbitrary and the subjective as the objective and the universal. Restructuring a business, just like structuring a business, requires acts of commitment and bravery. Commitment and bravery is what keeps one from misidentifying the subjective and the arbitrary.
Most times, dojo are filled with arbitrary and subjective aspects that are wrongly considered to be vital to a dojo's operation. During the restructuring phase, a dojocho may think that this or that aspect cannot be done without, that it cannot be discarded, thrown away, etc., even though it is at odds with the overall idealized business strategy or even though it is doing nothing for the business. In truth, there is almost nothing of popular current commercial dojo practices or of popular federation business practices that you need or that you should want. And, you're going to have to be brave and committed to your ideal dojo to figure that out in real life.
If you are going to go through the above-listed question and practices and say more often than not, "We've always done it that way" or "It is just how it is," all markers of arbitrariness and misidentified subjectivity, you are going to be like someone suffering from hoarding, like a person that cannot throw away one of the thousand boxes in their bedroom because they might need it for returning an item in the future. Meaning, your house is going to stay a mess, your dojo is going to stay a mess, and it is your fault. Don't be a hoarder. Clean your house. Make your ideal dojo. Trust -- almost anything can be thrown away!
More fallacies to discuss in the next segment of Part II
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A crazy weekend it was. One that started out with beautiful sunshine and soon enough ended with some of the wildest storms Brisbane has seen in many years. By the end of it all it went down as one of the best I have had on record.
Things started swimmingly with a fun run known as the "Budgie Bolt", a 5 km fun run in, you guessed it, budgie smugglers through the inner dwellings of Brisbane's south bank and river front. As nervous as I might have been about running the streets in next to nothing it was all for a good cause. Over $70,000 was raised for for Young Care Australia by the 250 runners on the day.
So there we have it. The first part of the running was over. Saturday made a light 7 km run before work then some rest before the madness of Sunday.
The day is a bit of a blur now. However I do know that Sunday included 31 km's in running over two games of football and a half marathon that ended due to a nasty little storm at the 16 km mark. Frustratingly I was on my way for a time of around 1 hour 35 minutes when they pulled the pin.
One can understand though. This has to be the worst weather I have ever run in. It rolled in and out within half an hour before leaving a heavy trail of destruction and a man in critical condition after a tree fell on him during the race. Fingers are tightly crossed he makes a speedy recovery.
I would do it all again in a heartbeat though. Minus the horrid weather of course.


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5575 Highway 431S near Hampton Cove, AL 256-270-8570
Birthday Parties, Kids Only Nights, After School Care, & Adventure Seeker Summer Day Camp!
Up a Creek Indoor Family Adventures
5575 Highway 431S near Hampton Cove, AL 256-270-8570
Up a Creek After School Adventures (After School Care)
to New and Returning Families!
Enrollment Process
1) Pay Registration $35 and Week 1 $70 Dues Online for each child. This reserves their place(s).
2) Complete 2018.AfterSchoolCare.pdf and ChildPre-Admission3PagePacket.pdf.
3) Return via Email to firstname.lastname@example.com or in person at the center.
*Payment is what secures your child's place in the program and can be made before forms are turned in. Once all places are full, the payment link will be deactivated. Please call 256-270-8570 to be placed on the waiting list.
Program Overview
Up a Creek's After School Adventures (After School Care) is a unique After School Program at our Hampton Cove location in Huntsville, Alabama. Our primary focus is on the safety, well-being, and happiness of each child. We seek to nurture their inquisitive personalities, stimulate their imaginations with our creative play and work environments, and give kids an outlet to by physically active and challenged daily. We support each child in our care academically by providing daily homework and reading assistance. We strive to provide an outstanding, safe, reliable service to each child and their family.
Program Availability
This program is now available to Pre-K through 5th grade Goldsmith-Schiffman Elementary students and Kindergarten through 5th grade Hampton Cove Elementary students. We do accept a small number of Hampton Cove Middle School students who are returning Up-a-Creekers or siblings of currently enrolled elementary-aged participants.
Transportation from school in our newer model Up a Creek vans or shuttle is included. Every Up a Creek vehicle is fully insured and equipped with rear air-conditioning, heat, as well as over-the-shoulder seatbelts (vans) or lapbelts and highback seats (shuttle) providing comfort and safety during the ride.
Upon arrival, children must wash their hands, use the restroom if needed, and settle in for 45-60 minutes of quiet homework/reading time and homework assistance. Free WIFI is throughout the center. A working snack is provided during homework time. At 4:00p.m., we put the books and homework away and start to play! We have indoor and outdoor play spaces with big fun inflatables, a wooden treehouse, and other games. In 2016 we expanded our outdoor play area with a new state-of-the-art play center. Wednesdays and Fridays, weather permitting, we go to the nature preserve for a great time outside on the natural playground.
Staffing Requirements
Our caring and energetic staff is certified in CPR, AED, and Pediatric First Aid by the American Heart Association. Each staff member 19 years and older has been digitally finger-printed, cleared against the National Child Abuse and Neglect Registry, undergone an FBI background check, and obtained a negative TB-test from a physician's office. Our staff also completes various continuing education courses and certifications throughout the year.
Care is provided Monday-Friday at a rate of $70 per week per child. We do not offer a daily or drop-in rate.
There are no charges during school holidays; including, but not limited to Spring Break, Fall Break, Thanksgiving Break, and Christmas Break. Alternate day camps are available.
A two-week written notice is required to withdraw your child from the program.
Behavior Policy
For the well-being of all participants, Up a Creek maintains a strict behavior policy. Disruptive, rude, disrespectful, and aggressive behavior is not tolerated. Dismissal is at the discretion of the Program Director.


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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE The truth is that inviting any one to become a mushroom-eater is tantamount to asking that person to become some what of a botanist, assuming, of course, that one has no ulterior motives on his or her life. How WE MAY ACQUIRE THIS KNOWLEDGE The preceding paragraphs are likely to dampen the ardor of those who would be pleased to learn how to collect and select their own mushrooms, but who are not sufficiently interested to go to the length of acquiring the necessary knowl edge that will enable them to do this with safety. Those who are so affected had better do without mushrooms for the rest of their lives, bearing in mind that, so far, there is no "player attachment" to the study of mushrooms. The most expeditious way of acquir ing this knowledge is to join a mushroom club, if there happens to be such an or ganization in the city of one's residence. Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Detroit have, or have had, such clubs. MUSHROOMS ARE THE FRUIT OF FUNGI The removal of the bark from a rotting tree-trunk or the disturbance of the dense mat of decaying leaves on the floor of the forest will reveal fine threads, usually white in color. These threads may be loosely scattered and mould-like, com pacted into a dense meshwork of cords, or spread out in flat sheets of the texture of white kid leather. In old mines the timbers are often festooned with long streamers of this soft substance, which to botanists is known as "mycelium," to mushroom growers as "spawn." As every one who has cultivated these plants knows, mushrooms grow from these threads, not, however, as the apple tree grows from its roots, but rather as the apple grows on the tree, for the mycelium is the olant, the mushroom the fruit. TIE MARVELOUS SPORES Every mushroom species arises from a mycelium of its own; yet, to distinguish between species, students rely exclusively on the forms, colors, and microscopic characters of the fruit-body (the mush room), the mycelium rarely presenting characters sufficiently distinct for identi fication purposes. The forms of mushrooms are ex tremely varied, but all have in common the ripening and liberation of the micro scopic spores ("seeds" or reproductive bodies), by means of which the species are enabled to spread over wide areas. Some of the remarkable qualities of these spores are told on pages 402 and 415. The mushroom collector can make some interesting experiments with the spores, as follows: If the expanded cap of the common pasture mushroom (Agaricus campester) (see Plate I) be removed from its stem and placed upon a sheet of white paper, gill side downward, and left there under cover of a finger-bowl for an hour or two, there will be formed a beautiful de posit ("spore-print") of the microscopic, purple-brown spores. If an Amanita (Plates II, V, IX, X, XV, and XVI), a Lepiota (Plate XIV), a Tricholoma (Plate VII), a Clitocybe (Plate III), or an Armillaria (Plate VI) be treated in the same way, a white spore print will result. With a Volvaria (Plate V) the deposit will be reddish or pink ish. Pholiotas (Plates VIII and XIII) and Cortinarii (Plate VII) will throw down spores of some shade of brownish yellow, rusty brown, or cinnamon. Cop rinus (Plates VIII and XII) and Pane olus (Plate VIII) species precipitate black or blackish spores. Similar experiments may be made with other varieties. FUNGI IN NATURE'S ECONOMY The Fungi, a class of plants of which mushrooms are the most familiar exam ples, play an important role in their influ ence on the higher forms of life. As parasites on plants, animals, and man, they cause destruction on an almost in calculable scale. As scavengers and as rock-disintegrators, on the other hand, they accomplish work that is basic for the very existence of all life. Rock is the raw material of the farmer's soil; but before the farmer can have this soil it must first be made. How is it made ? Violent weather changes-heat, cold, rain, snow, and ice-start the breaking up process. Associated with these agen cies, the lichens begin their work. Dry, crusty things, these plants produce an 392
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- The L.A. River Recreation Zone will be open an additional four weeks this year to year to allow more schools time to participate in kayaking and other programs. KCET
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Passport application fee can now be made via DFA ePayment portal
MANILA Applicants can now pay for their passport application or passport renewal through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ePayment Portal, DFA Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano announced Thursday.
The DFA ePayment Portal is an upgrade to their online appointment system, enabling passport applicants to pay their passport processing fees through selected payment centers nationwide.
The ePayment portal will initially apply for applications submitted at the DFA Aseana Consular Office beginning June and would be rolled out in Metro Manila in July and nationwide by August.
During the system's launch at Market! Market! in Taguig, Cayetano expressed optimism this will further "maximize" the capacity of their consular offices.
With ePayment, we expect that noshows in our consular offices will be significantly reduced, if not totally eliminated. By prepaying, applicants are encouraged to show up lest they forfeit their passport processing fee, he said.
The official revealed that only 60 to 65 percent of applicants appear at DFA consular offices on their date of appointment under the old system.
He said ePayment tests at DFA Aseana in ParaAaque City posted a showup rate of 9497 percent compared to the current 6065 percent.
With near 100 percent showup rates and quicker turnaround of applicants at our consular offices, the DFA through ePayment will be able to serve more applicants daily, particularly those who need it the most, he noted.
In addition, DFA expects that the ePayment will help nix fixers and scammers since the scheme requires applicants to pay the fee prior to their personal appearance at their consular office of choice. The appointment made is nontransferable.
The ePayment portal has safeguards in place that will discourage and prevent unscrupulous individuals from hoarding passport appointment slots, Cayetano said.
At present, the official said the ePayment system does not allow for a refund, but he assured that should there be a concern and the problem falls on the DFA's part, the agency "will address it in favor of the customer."
Accredited payment centers are the following: Bayad Center; EcPay; Pera Hub; Robinsons Business Center and Department Store; Walter Mart Department Store; 7Eleven; USCC Western Union; and Villarica Pawnshop. Other payment centers as well as credit/debit card payment facility will be made available soon.
The passport application fees are PHP1,200 for expedited and PHP900 for regular processing. With the ePayment system, a PHP50 convenience fee will be charged by the authorized payment centers.
Basic information on DFA's ePayment Portal may be viewed at dfa.gov.ph/dfanews/statementsandadvisoriesupdate/16832basicinformationonthedfaepaymentportal and dfa.gov.ph/dfanews/statementsandadvisoriesupdate/16834mgaimpormasiyonsadfaepaymentportal. (PNA)
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Multifunctional electronic device hooks to any telephone and produces a beeping sound audible to both parties. Great gimmick for informing unwanted callers or girlfriends that your phone is tapped for some nefarious reason. Use to fake out your buddies that the law is "on to the caper" you all pulled last night!
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It is also available as a kit with plans and all parts, requiring assembly.
Or as plans (paper or downloadable versions), with parts and assembly required.
Also note that telephone monitoring devices without all parties knowledge may require this BEEPING ALERTER. This board level device requires 9 to 12VDC and is connected to phone system via a splitter jack. Circuit allows adjustment of "beep tone" duration and repetition rate. It automatically produces alerting "beeps" when phone is used.


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I first found Busters Bisquits on Instagram and was intrigued by the natural ingredients Romana uses to bake the treats. Named in memory of her beloved Buster, these treats are hand baked with love and attention in small batches in her kitchen. I was so excited when Romana offered to send Ember a trial pack of their classic treat and their new Vegan biscuits.
Busters Bisquits currently have a few variety of treats, including the mini vintage bags with heart shaped treats, cute jars filled with the biscuits and tiny bites for smaller breed dogs. You can also buy large heart shaped biscuits which are perfect for special occasions for your dog. Busters Bisquits also offer a monthly subscription box which contain a large bag of treats, an 'I woof you' heart biscuit and a large bag of the tiny bites. You can get that here for only £12.
These treats are so cute, the vintage packaging is so on brand and the jars are especially cute for storing the treats. The treats themselves are lovingly hand made and you can see the care and attention taken for every biscuit. I also love how they are heart shaped and easy to break, to prevent Ember from gobbling the whole treat at once.
These smell amazing, even through the packaging Ember and I were drooling at the smell. You can definitely smell the peanut butter and I bet Romana's house smells amazing when she is cooking the treats. As for the taste, it's safe to say it's a 10 out of 10 from Ember. She gobbled it up and checked the floor to make sure there were no crumbs left and came straight to me for more.
The ingredients of these treats are perfect, especially for dogs with allergies. The treats are all gluten free, hyperallergic and organic and you can choose between two delicious flavours. The original which contains organic, gluten free oats, organic honey, organic raw coconut oil, organic peanut butter and free range eggs. The eggs are replaced by bananas in the bananalicious treats, which are Embers favourite as you can imagine. This also means that the bananalicious treats are vegan too!
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The number of drug stores in the U.S. has declined by more than 2,000 in the last 7 years (to 37,700 outlets), as independent pharmacies close. And in the last decade, the percent of U.S. households shopping in drug stores has dropped from 89 percent to 81 percent. But the drug store channel generates more than $43 billion in sales, excluding prescriptions, and the nation's leading chains are continuing to innovate to grow their share of the consumer's spend.
So what are the top selling categories in the drug channel? Six of the top eleven categories are outside the health and beauty care category. Tobacco leads the way with almost $3 billion in sales, an increase of 18 percent from last year. Cold/allergy remedies, nutritional supplements, headache remedies and chocolate candy round out the top five. In terms of growth leaders, pet care products posted a 67 percent increase from last year, followed by depilatories and peanut butter. Of the eleven categories showing the strongest growth, eight are foods.
But the leading chains such as Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid are stepping up their efforts to innovate and bring more customers through their doors. As with grocery stores, private label products are increasing their share of sales, with store branded cold/allergy remedies, nutritional supplements and headache remedies leading the way. Meanwhile, private label pet care, laundry detergent and antacids have shown the most growth. Some of the chains are establishing in-store medical clinics, where customers can receive services such as blood pressure screenings, treatment for common maladies and flu shots. Others are making the shopping experience more efficient by re-designing stores and reducing SKUs.
"Drug retailers are feeling the heat from mass merchandisers and other retail channels. Look for drug stores to innovate and evolve with more in-store clinics, competitive store brands, and expansion beyond traditional health & beauty categories," said Tom Pirovano, Director of Industry Insights at Nielsen.
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Tracking for Schutzhund
Early beginnings
Tracking on dirt
Tracking on grass
Schutzhund requires a deep nose
Tracking for Schutzhund is, like the "blind search" more of an obedience exercise than a true search. Certainly the dog uses his senses to complete the exercise, but he has to do it in a prescribed way. If you watch your dog searching for a dropped toy, you will see that he might first lift his head to scent the wind, and begin circling, only when he gets closer and the scent gets stronger will he drop his head. Some dogs are naturally inclined to air scent, others you will see naturally explore their surroundings with their noses very close to the ground from a young age. For Schutzhund, the dog is expected to follow a footstep trail with a "deep" nose (nose very close to the ground) and to indicate articles along the way.
Before you get started, you will need some equipment. When you start with your puppy you can begin on a flat collar with an ordinary light-weight leash. Place the leash under one front leg. Once you move on to straight tracks, you may find that two leashes and a fur saver help you to steer the pup, and keep him straight on the track. The leashes can be attached to separate links on the collar, and passed under each front leg. For this, I use 15' tubular climbing webbing from REI. A pup up to 6 months should fit a 17-19" 3.0mm chrome fur saver. When the pup is almost full grown, I splash out on stainless steel. Once you get to competition level, you will need a regulation 33' line. I love my Super Leash from International Canine Equipment. It is made of Biothane and doesn't get clogged with dirt or heavy when it is wet, and it does not slip through my hands.
It is never too early to begin tracking training. Pups are always hungry and they can be fed their meals on a scent pad with a flag placed in the ground. A scent pad is created by stepping in a 2 feet diameter circle for small pups, step Arawen, 8 weeks all over the circle and drop food within it. Small pieces (about the size of a quarter) of thawed frozen Bil Jac, dampened kibble, hot dogs chopped small or dehydrated meats work well. We have also found that some of the foods that come in chub format are easy to cut into small pieces for tracking. Natural Balance chubs work very well, and are available from most pet stores. Make sure puppy is hungry. The first few times he may not be fully focused and may play with the flag or look around, but it won't be long before he is pulling and maybe even squeaking to get to that flag! You can make the scent pad larger as he grows, and when he is showing lots of intensity to find the food, you can begin small tracks.
I usually track puppies 3-4 days a week for about 4 weeks, then if the pup is showing good interest in tracking and is doing well, we take a break for a week or two, do something else and then come back. For adult dogs, much of our tracking training is done through the winter, preparing for trials, the only time the dog gets food, is on the track, so we track 6 days a week until we are getting good results, and then take a rest for a while. You need to be tracking enough to allow the pup to learn from session to session, but not so much, that he gets bored. Create a scent pad at the start of each track and ensure your pup stays on it until the food is gone so he gets in to a good habit of soaking up the scent he has to follow before starting. Step a track with the heels and toes touching and a piece of food in the heel and in the toe for each step. Put a smaller scent pad at the end and the rest of the food. This marks the end for now, later that last scent pad will contain an article. Tracking with 2 lines is the easiest way to help a pup learn to search both right and left footprints. Use a fursaver and clip the lines 3-4 links apart and pass under each front leg.
Puppy Track
Tracking on 2 lines, Arawen is on a prong collar
because she pulled quite hard by the age of 6 months
Note how the lines are slack while she eats.
As the pup grows you can gradually begin to stretch the steps apart, hide the food in the grass so he cannot locate it with his eyes. Stetching the steps also makes him search more carefully and slow down. If he is rushing the track reduce the amount of food at the end and put more in the footprints so the reward is for tracking and not for getting to the end.
There is no substitute for mileage and experience. Track your puppy on all kinds of terrain and across pathways, introduce corners and serpentines and get a friend to lay cross tracks. While your puppy still has food in every step, this is an excellent time to introduce all the possibilities he may meet later in his tracking career. Once your pup is eagerly running to the flag, searching well for the food, and you have done at least 50 scent pads or tracks you can begin to insist that he keeps his head down while on the pad or track. If his head comes up more than a couple of inches, he gets removed from his track and Ariel, 20 weeks put up. You can give him another try in a few minutes. This helps to teach the pup that keeping his head down gets food, and responding to distractions does not. Be careful that he has plenty of drive for the food before you do this, otherwise he will not have any impetus to work it out. A lower drive puppy needs patience and creativity, initially help him out by pointing to food if he gets stuck. Try new food items, hot dogs, bil jac pieces, pieces of cooked chicken or beef, dehydrated meats etc. Try to ensure that he is hungry before tracking, by feeding a smaller meal the night before.
Different styles of corners (from easiest to most difficult):
Another important part of the schutzhund track is the articles (most people use a down or platz to mark their location). This can be taught with the clicker very easily. Place an article on the ground, a piece of leather which you have kept in your pocket for a while is a good one to start with. I use pieces about 2 inches by 3 inches with 1/8 inch thickness. Place the article on the ground, and if the pup looks at it, click and treat him. Gradually shape the behavior to treat him for taking a step towards it. When he reaches the article start feeding him on top of it, to reinforce staying with the article. If you have already taught the "platz" command, he may offer it, or you can help him by using that command. Reward him for going up to and laying down near the article and then begin to ask for the article to be between the paws before clicking. Move articles around, take them outside on grass and dirt, place them in a different room of the house and ask the pup to "find it" so that he learns that articles with your scent on them are a good trade for food. You can pair the correct behavior with the word "article", by saying "good article" before the click. Then you are ready to use it on your track. If you use 2 lines to track, it is easier to stop him turning towards you when you give the article command. Make sure you are right up beside him as he gets to the article so you can help.
Gradually stretch out your tracks and your steps and begin to remove food from the track. Try not to stick to a pattern, sometimes put more food on the first leg, sometimes more on the final leg, and sometimes evenly throughout. When your dog has plenty of energy left at the end of the track, you can stretch it out. Vary the difficulty and keep in mind that environmental conditions may result in more difficult or easier tracking, there are several variables to take in to account when tracking:
We began Bodeus tracking on dirt because it was easy for me to see the track, but soon we realized he was using his eyes more than his nose, and we began to really teach him to track, on grass. Tracking can be a little daunting to teach since we humans have no knowledge of the dogs experiences as he tracks. Gradually you begin to see body language subtleties which tell you how your dog is doing, whether he is finding it difficult or easy, whether he is on the track or not. Fire-ants made Bodeus vomit, so I stopped tracking him in the summer months. He soldiered on though, he has good drive for tracking particularly if there is rabbit meat waiting at the end! I have to be careful he doesn't smell it on an earlier part of the track, he naturally air-scents quite a lot.
In Bode's IPO3, we tracked in January in 8 inch deep Dallas black mud, good for seeing the track, not good for someone with asthma trying to walk 800 paces in. Just before the final leg, my lungs felt like they were about to burst, and I knew I could not lift another foot. I dropped the line, knowing that Bodeus would find the next article, and said "Mummy loves you, Such!". He looked back a couple of times but kept going to the finish and stopped at the last article, waiting patiently for me to get enough breath to move! The judge said he'd never seen anything like it!!


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Intercollegiate Athletics Has Lost a Giant and the SEC a Legend
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Mike Slive, the man who almost single-handedly changed the face of intercollegiate athletics, has passed away. He was commissioner of the Southeastern Conference from 2002 to 2015, but his influence reached further than just the footprint of the 14-member league.
He set the standard for other leagues when he negotiated huge television contracts for the conference and closed the deal with ESPN on the launching of a new SEC Network. In conjunction with that move, he led the league in expanding to 14 members with the additions of Texas A&M and Missouri, a move emulated by the rest of the nation. And during his tenure the conference won 81 national championships in 17 of its 21 sports, including seven straight Crystal Balls.
It was the slight of SEC member Auburn from the BCS National Championship in 2004 that motivated him to take action to change how the NCAA recognized Division 1 National Champions.
Auburn's football team went 13–0, finished No. 2 in the nation, and had four 1st round NFL Draft picks in 2004. Yet, the Tigers were denied the chance to play for the national championship. Instead Oklahoma was pitted against USC, and the Sooners were blown out 55–19 by the Trojans.
Many thought Auburn would have been a better opponent for Southern Cal. After all, the Tigers had won the toughest football conference in the nation and had beaten four Top 10 teams that year.
Mike Slive took the slight personally. "It was incomprehensible," Slive said. "Knowing what this league is like, that somehow Auburn could not play for the national championship. That was a great football team."
From that day forward, Mike Slive worked tirelessly to see the formation of a four-team playoff to prevent the same thing from happening to any other team. It was an uphill battle. Only ACC Commissioner John Swofford agreed with Slive. The Big 10 and the Pac-12 commissioners were vehemently against the playoff idea.
That didn't deter Slive, who finally got the other three conferences to come around. Because of his efforts, no top-four team would be left out in the cold again. And all of college football was better off for it. That achievement is just one of the monumental accomplishments in his 13 years as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
He indisputably was the most powerful and influential man in college athletics. He stood up to Mark Emmert and the NCAA in 2013 and demanded more autonomy for what has since been called the "five power conferences." The result of that showdown?—The NCAA bowed to his will.
Bill Hancock, the old Director of the BCS and the new Director of the College Football Playoff, said Slive was not a tyrant but rather an artful negotiator. "With Mike, it's not about the problem, it's about the solution," Hancock said at the time. "He's remarkable. I'm not sure we'll ever see another Mike Slive in our industry."
After all of his accomplishments, he was asked at the end of 2013 if he had any plans for retirement. He said he didn't have any thoughts of leaving his post. "I told you a long time ago" said Slive, "that I can't conceive of having any other job." However, life has a way of changing our plans, and he announced his retirement in July 2015.
A cancer survivor back in the1990's, the dreaded disease had returned. Doctors said his prognosis looked good when he retired. But, today at the age of 77 he passed away in his home in Birmingham.
Intercollegiate athletics has lost a giant and the SEC a legend. But his family has lost a husband, a father, and a grandfather. A memorial service will be held Friday at Temple Emanu-El at 11:30 a.m. in Birmingham. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife and family.


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Data publicació2013-07-15
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Numerical techniques for the computation of strict bounds in limit analyses have been developed for more than thirty years. The efficiency of these techniques have been substantially improved in the last ten years, and have been successfully applied to academic problems, foundations and excavations. We here extend the theoretical background to problems with anchors, interface conditions, and joints. Those extensions are relevant for the analysis of retaining and anchored walls, which we study in this work. The analysis of three-dimensional domains remains as yet very scarce. From the computational standpoint, the memory requirements and CPU time are exceedingly prohibitive when mesh adaptivity is employed. For this reason, we also present here the application of decomposition techniques to the optimisation problem of limit analysis. We discuss the performance of different methodologies adopted in the literature for general optimisation problems, such as primal and dual decomposition, and suggest some strategies that are suitable for the parallelisation of large three-dimensional problems. The propo sed decomposition techniques are tested against representative problems.
CitacióMuñoz, J.J. [et al.]. Computation of bounds for anchor problems in limit analysis and decomposition techniques. A: "Direct methods for limit states in structures and materials". Springer, 2013, p. 79-100.
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text: I Was Diagnosed With Bone Cancer At 14: Here's What I Learned About Survival I Was Diagnosed With Bone Cancer At 14: Here's What I Learned About Survival My name is Kirra Wyatt. I am 17 years old and I am from Gold Coast, Australia. However, I now live in Hervey Bay. When I was 14 years old, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. I am eager to share my story with others to not only raise awareness and let others going through the same journey know they aren't alone but to also share the positive message, I need everyone to know, that I got out of my experience. Photo Courtesy of @kirrawyatt Growing up, I wasn't a very athletic kid. My life revolved around my friends and looking my best. At that point in my life, I had no idea what the world was about nor did I care. During this time in my life (at 14 years old), I was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer named Osteosarcoma, which affects one percent of the population. Treatment for Osteosarcoma includes one year of chemotherapy as well as a massive surgery to replace my normal bone with a titanium bone. I was not assured that I would even keep my leg, there was a possibility that they could amputate my leg if the surgery didn't go as expected. There was also a possibility I would lose my life, with only a 70 percent chance of survival. I remember the day of diagnosis I was in complete shock. I didn't know what to think. Being so young and trying to comprehend you have cancer is almost impossible. Before going to the hospital, I had been on multiple visits to the local doctor and after hour doctors. They all told me I had growing pains or would say 'you could have just pulled something' but as I said, I was never a sporty kid so the pain was quite suspicious. The pain was almost exactly the same as growing pains although it would get worse with movement and when I put weight on my leg. My leg was also very swollen. 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I suffered from blood transfusions, infections, being poked with needles almost all the time, brutal pain, surgeries, chemotherapy, hair loss, nausea all the time, not being able to walk, seizures, epilepsy, not being able to breathe and more drugs in my body than I could count. Mentally I suffered from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and loneliness. The worst experience going through it was the time I got told the cancer had spread, and I had a five percent chance of survival. It was extremely difficult to see my family having to deal with such a small chance of me surviving. Although miraculously, the next scans revealed the spread of cancer was gone. My good days were the days when I was off chemo for a week or two. It was so amazing to spend time with family and friends and not feel sick. My mum and dad made my experience so much easier and did everything in their power to get me whatever I wanted. They truly are superheroes. I don't think I could have gotten through it without them. My bad days were chemo days. Some chemo's I would barely be able to lift my head of the pillow, I was that sick. What was even harder was staying in the hospital for weeks on end receiving chemotherapy, not even being able to feel the sun on my skin, it was horrible. My family gave me strength, especially my mother. She was the rock in my life and still is. We would have fun chemo days and watch our favorite TV shows, thanks to her I can actually look back and have some good memories. Being in denial helped me gain some sense of normality. I would constantly wear a wig, and I would only go to the hospital and home without makeup, even then it was hard to do. I never looked at myself in the mirror and saw a cancer patient. I made sure I didn't to help me cope. 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I should have been proud of myself and loved myself more. It is so important to be grateful for your life every single day. If anyone needs any advice or needs to talk you can contact me on my Instagram which is @kirrawyatt. Kirra Wyatt Kirra Wyatt is 17 years old and from Gold Coast but now lives in Hervey Bay. When she was 14 years old she was diagnosed with bone cancer she is eager to share her story with others to raise awareness and let others going through the same journey know they aren't alone.


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There's always been something so delightfully self-aware disco-camp about Gossip, which makes their fashionable videos all the more joyful to watch. The band's 's newest single "Perfect World" goes into deeper, shark-jumpier territory as the trio dons sepia tones in a church, and I'm OK with that.
Frontwoman Beth Ditto has fun with her vocal runs all over the amp-cranking tune. Her styling goes between nun-chic to goth-chick, vampiric baby bangs and stupid-long wigs. It starts dark, but gets a big splash of dorky color by the end.
The band was under the direction of Price James, who also helmed "Heavy Cross."
"Perfect World" is on "A Joyful Noise," due May 22. It's their first album since 2009's "Music for Men."
"I spent the whole year listening to ABBA and not listening to the radio," Ditto said in a statement on "A Joyful Noise." Oh brother — and oh boy!
The band will be promoting it release-day with a show at New York's Terminal 5. I prefer them live, so do that, even though Terminal 5 is questionable at best.
Tracklist below the video.
Here is the tracklist for "A Joyful Noise":
- Melody Emergency
- Perfect World
- Get A Job
- Move In The Right Direction
- Casualties of War
- Into The Wild
- Get Lost
- Involved
- Horns
- I Won"t Play
- Love In A Foreign Place


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In the wee hours of the morning, a filly was born to a rescued mare named Star. An Easter story of new life took place within the animal world.
A few months ago, Star came to live at Carolina Equine Rescue & Assistance in Wingate. She was eight months pregnant, had a heart condition, was hungry, malnourished and due to deliver in three months.
Darlene Kindle, who started the 14-acre retreat for neglected, abused and abandoned horses four years ago, took Star in, the way she takes in the other animals on the rolling hillside tucked a few miles off of U.S. 74. Horses graze through green fields scattered with buttercups. A hog named Bruno is so friendly he expects to sit in your lap. And a goat named George behaves like a dog.
"I have loved animals my whole life," Darlene said. "My dad did this to me. If it was hungry or homeless, we took it in."
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Darlene grew up in Erie, Penn. Her family tended to all kinds of animals including raccoons.
All types of animals roam freely on her farm. A sign calls the farm "gifted acres." Bruno, at 700-plus-pounds, shares a house with Matilda, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig. Roosters crow nearby, while George the goat follows as we meander around the pasture. Dogs, cats, peacocks and a few caged birds add to the menagerie.
All of the horses have names. A blind, 30-year old horse is named Chestnut. There's Princess and Pumpkin and the list goes on.
"Each one has a story," Darlene said.
There is a vegetable garden and the chickens provide about a dozen eggs a day. Manure fertilizes the garden that is surrounded by a fence made of cedar twigs to keep George from getting in.
"My farm is the old way we used to live," Darlene said. "I am natural. These are working hands."
Some moms bring their kids to the farm to visit. The children play tug of war, jump rope, play with the animals and see what farm life is all about. Various groups provide volunteer support to the farm, where they clean the pastures, groom the 10 horses, weed and rake leaves. Funding for the nonprofit farm is provided through donations and "my husband's pockets," Darlene said.
A fundraising yard sale is slated for April 30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The sale will be at the farm, 1107 Summerlin Dairy Road in Wingate. Visit their website: www.cero-inc.com for details.
For now, this Easter finds a filly named Jules gaining strength in her long, wobbly legs. While Star, Jule's mother, finds a new life on this farm where she can graze freely and run through fields.


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Andy and I were out on the trail when the NeoAir was finally released. I remember seeing it at the Outdoor Retailer show that year, and was really excited for it to come out. To put it into perspective, I started the trail with a 3/4 length pad that was just over an inch of padding, and it weighed 13 ounces. When I finally got this, it was 2.5 inches of padding, full length, and only 14 ounces! I must say, once I got the full length pad, I realized what I was missing. It really was much much more comfortable to have my feet level with my body, and have my heels resting on something soft. Not to mention when it was cold out, if the bottom of my legs were just on the tent floor, the temperature of the ground would chill me. One thing many are worried about when it comes to air-only sleeping pads, is heat transfer. With your body on a balloon, and that balloon on the cold ground, your temperature lowers fairly quickly. However, with this, there is a divider inside the pad which allows the warm air form your body and the cold air from the ground to stay separate, keeping you nice and toasty. It packs down to the size of a Nalgene, and was almost perfect. I really did love it, however, I eventually returned it (got to love backcountry.com 's return policy).
Here were my issues. After a long 25 mile hike, you plop down in the shelter or campground and relax for a minute. Then, before you get too lazy to pitch the tent and just want to curl up in a corner and sleep, you get to unpacking. The tents up, packs outta the way, and now you start with your pad. You huff and you puff and you keep on going. By the time its fully inflated, you're incredibly light headed. Not going to lie though, sometimes it was nice to be light headed and have the pain in our feet go away for a few minutes! That, I could have lived with. What I could not live with, however, is it deflating on me.
At first, I thought my pad may have had some micro-leaks, so I sent it back for a replacement. Still, I would wake up some mornings with my bum on the ground. I'm assuming it had to do with temperature and pressure change which would change the pressure in the pad and make it seem as if it were losing air. That paired with the fact that the ribs on Andy's popped so it looked like a large tumour on one end, was the reason for me sending it back and replacing it with a more comfortable, reliable, albeit heavier, pad.
All in all, its a great concept. The material was more durable than I would have thought (some new spaceage material and glue) and it was extremely comfortable -- when it was working properly. Unfortunately, since it didn't always stay inflated, and Andy had the issue with his, I'm going to have to rate this a 2.5 out of 5. It's a bummer, but thats what happens when my bum hits the ground!