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Installing a swing set in your yard can provide a safe, supervised area for your children to play. Before you install your swing set, you will need to make sure the ground is level. This helps ensure that the swings operate properly, and helps prevent the swing set from falling over. The process of leveling the ground for a swing set is much the same as for a pool or patio. Depending on the size of your swing set, you should be able to accomplish this task in a weekend.
Step 1
Measure a rectangle the size of your swing set. Place a small wooden stake at each corner and tie strings between the stakes to form the outline of the swing set area.
Step 2
Dig out the area inside the rectangle with a shovel. The hole should be 3 to 4 inches deep to accommodate the pea gravel and sand. Place a carpenter's level in several locations along the hole to make sure the base is level.
Step 3
Fill the hole with 2 inches of pea gravel. This will promote drainage so water will not stand beneath the swing set. Drag a piece of 2-by-4 lumber along the surface of the pea gravel, and check it with a carpenter's level.
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Fill the remaining 2 inches of the hole with playground sand. Pack the sand down with the end of a 2-by-4. Drag the long end of the lumber across the surface to level the sand. Check the surface of the sand with a carpenter's level.
Step 5
Dig the holes for the swing set posts at the corners of the rectangle and install the swing set.
Things You'll Need
Tape measure
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Carpenter's level
Pea gravel
2-by-4 lumber
Playground sand
If you are installing the swing set on sloping ground, start digging the hole at the highest point. This will help reduce the need for additional digging to level the hole.


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Pol Roger has an unrivalled reputation for its Vintage Champagnes; produced only in the best years and from the best vineyards. This pedigree is evident in the 2004 Vintage, which has earned its place in an historic line of champagnes.
To mark the release of the 2004 Vintage, Pol Roger teamed up with Jaguar in order to deliver the first bottles of the newly released cuvée to their top customers in fitting style. Two Jaguar F-Type Convertibles wound their way through the busy streets of London ensuring the bottles' safe delivery. Jaguar, as fellow Royal Warrant Holders, is a brand which shares many characteristics with Pol Roger and it was thus a marriage of elegance, style and unfaltering excellence.
The 2004 Brut Vintage from Champagne Pol Roger is made from the traditional house vintage blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from 20 Grands and Premiers crus vineyards in the "Montagne de Reims" and the "Côte des Blancs". Produced only in limited quantities the Brut Vintage 2004 has been aged for 8 years in our cellars before being disgorged and released onto the market.
The wine displays a very attractive pale straw colour. The nose is mineral and elegant with complex aromas of white flowers, quince and subtle brioche overtones. On the palate the wine is intense yet retains a sense of delicacy with balanced notes of stone fruit, acacia honey and citrus underpinned by a fine thread of acidity. Excellent freshness and persistence, with ample concentration and richness to develop over the next 3-7 years.
Commenting on the latest release, James Simpson MW, Sales and Marketing Director of Pol Roger Ltd said:
This is a pure delight of a Champagne to be savoured by itself or as an aperitif. The much acclaimed 2002 Vintage was a daunting wine to follow, however the 2004 acquits itself admirably; delicious now and will continue to improve over the next decade.
Champagne Pol Roger has been producing exceptional champagne for over 160 years. To this day the house remains small, family-owned, fiercely independent and unrivalled in its reputation for quality. Indeed, it is this quality which brought about Sir Winston Churchill's lifelong attachment to Pol Roger, who famously insisted "In defeat I need it, in victory I deserve it".

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Copperfield is a 42,621 square feet 3-story brick office building. Copperfield is located in the northwest area of Houston on Highway 6 with easy access to I-10. The office building has a multitude of retail in the surrounding area. Copperfield's interior and exterior has been extensively renovated. Copperfield is truly an outstanding property ahead of its class!
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Regulation 7 of the Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2010 (UPSS Regulations) requires that a landowner, in respect of a storage system, must ensure that the Director is notified in the approved form within 30 days after a person becomes an infrastructure owner, or a system operator, of the storage system. A link to the form is available under Related Documents on the right of this web page.
This requirement only applies to storage systems that were in use on or after 31 March 2010.
Regulation 37 of the UPSS Regulations required that a landowner notify the Director, EPA of the storage systems on their land that were in use on 31 March 2010. The Director should have received this information by 30 September 2010. If this information was not supplied to the Director by this date the landowner is in non-compliance with the UPSS Regulations and significant penalties can apply. If the UPSS on your land have not been registered please complete and submit the UPSS Registration Form as soon as possible.
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Your journey is in safe hands with Luckies. We are well travelled and understand what makes smooth travel. It is the small things that matter, that can lead to big problems if you haven't considered the must have travel accessories. Humans have been travelling and moving around since the dawn of time, we see spectacular countries in the movies and programmes like Hairy Bikers road trips and David Attenborough Planet Earth and the dream of travel is ignited.
If you are looking for the perfect gift for a man that has everything then a gift that creates experience is the way to go. Once you have your Scratch Map the planning begins, and it is time to prepare and what could be a more thoughtful birthday gift or fathers day present than the great range of luckies functional travel accessories to simplify travel for a " No Stress" journey. Stand out from the crowd, personalise your luggage and avoid loosing your belongings with the Happy Flight tags by designer "Alfie", in classy enamel finish and a choice of 6 striking colours, and match this up with travel organiser and passport cover.
We have so much to offer you in travel gifts, we have it covered for all budgets with gifts starting from just £5 and many under £10. We have tech gifts like the Pocket Tin Speaker, our best seller gadget gift, The undercover phone, i pod or laptop sleeve, and the ultimate in packing gifts for the tidy suitcase with no mess. The Happy Flight by Alfie pouch range for t shirts, shoes and first aid items.
When buying a present for that special someone who's been bitten by the travel bug, it can be a daunting task to whittle down the endless gift possibilities to just one or two. The pressure of finding something that will make the cut into the 23kg baggage allowance can be all consuming. That's why, in a bid to find the most unusual gifts for the men and women that have everything, we've curated some of the best travel accessories known to the wandering world.
If you're struggling to find something suitable for that first time traveller, the First Aid Pouch is a sure fire win. When you're in an unfamiliar terrain and concentrating on having fun rather than looking where you're walking/paragliding/surfing, you're bound to encounter a minor scrape or two.
Or if you know your friend is an avid journal keeper, try our Waterproof Notebook – perfect for jotting down thoughts mid-waterfall hike or during the monsoon season, this handy notebook was given a smudge free superpower.
But if you really want to get into the good books of a traveller, it's all about keeping them entertained during the less talked about travelling moments. We're talking about three hour bus ticket queues, thirty-six hour coach journeys, four day stomach bug moments. For these not-so-glamourous moments, try OMY's Pocket Map or Pocket Tin Speaker – small enough to fit in their bag but fun enough to pass some time.


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Traveling can be some of the most fun you're ever had, or some of the most painful miles you can log. With the Summer season winding down and Fall hot on its heels, the travel schedule is still in full swing. Whether you're heading across state lines for a killer backpacking trip, trying to squeeze in that last vacation overseas, or heading out on the road to school tournaments and activities, we have a few suggestions to keep travel time to your destination a good time for everyone.
1. Listen to Something Good
No matter how you travel – be it by plane, train, car, bike or by foot – nothing improves travel time like listening to something good in your headphones. Put together a killer playlist on your iPod, turn up your thumbprint station on Pandora, or download a few podcasts to entertain your brain. If you don't remember to do anything else before you head out on your trip, definitely put a little thought into what you're going to listen to when you're racking up the miles. When the day gets long all you can always lose yourself in a little music.
2. Don't Skip on Soundproof
Just as important as what you're listening to, is what you're listening to it through. If you're someone who travels a lot it's definitely worth it to drop a little coin on some smooth sounding headphones. If bikepacking is your thing, consider a great pair of wireless headphones that you won't have to fidget with on the trail. If you're traveling a mile-high, definitely invest in a pair of noise cancelling headphones. HEAR US, not noise-lessening, noise cancelling. Try taking a flight from the Southeast to Asia with a screaming baby and only those airline headphones as a barrier. You will be shelling out every dime you brought to Sky-mall to save your brain! The good ones come with a warranty, so they will be your saving grace for many miles to come.
3. Take Breaks when you Can
We know you can't exactly pull the plane over when you need to stand up and stretch your legs, but travel can be exhausting and stressful, so you should definitely take breaks when you can. If it's a road trip and you aren't on a super strict schedule, pull over at a rest stop, overlook or even a quirky side of the road stand. As awesome as your destination is, you don't have to wait until you get there to start enjoying your trip. Pack a picnic lunch, stop for an impromptu fitness class, or even a quick photo op. No matter what, do your best not to let the stress of travel weight heavy on your trip.
4. Junk Stops are a Must
If you logging a lot of miles in a vehicle or on foot, get snacks and meals that you don't get any other time. As much as we want you to pack smart on a long thruhiking trip, we have a hunch that your body wouldn't mind a couple of extra ounces in your pack for your favorite gas station sweets as a half-day snack. Giving yourself a treat that you don't normally get, can give you an extra boost during a long haul, and something else to look forward to.
5. Be Comfortable
We are all about looking good, but during travel time we put the emphasis on feeling good. We don't necessarily mean you have to be in sweats the whole way, but dress appropriately for what you're headed into. No new shirt or great shoe is worth freezing to death on an overnight flight, or burning up in a hot car train. Dress for success, with success being as comfortable as you can possibly imagine.
6. Bring a Portable Chair
This may be a no-brainer for us, but travel takes a toll on your body and so sometimes you just need a little taste of home to give you a much needed break along the way. Luckily for you, comfortable, portable chairs are just a quick away. With the HEX 2.0, you can stash your chair wherever convenient and pull it out anywhere from the airport lobby to a random rest stop on Highway 240!
As much time as we spend commuting, planning trips and broadening our horizons it's important to consider travel just as important as the rest of our trip. That means paying attention to all the details that will give us the most enjoyable trip possible. What are some of your favorite way to make travel time more fun?


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Lish (Life Is With People, 2012) makes his fiction debut with a love story set in the sewers of the American dream.
Undocumented immigrant Zou Lei lands in the U.S. and enters a wrestling match with her new country, trying to hold a job and evade deportation. Meanwhile, a scarred (physically and emotionally) veteran named Skinner struggles with nightmares of war in a nation that claims to support his service but doesn't know where he fits now. When these two people meet each other in a dingy stairwell, there's an instant connection—a palpable sense of need. Together, they negotiate the streets of a tough city in an even tougher country that, perhaps, doesn't care about them at all. Lish's novel is angry but compassionate; he sees his characters clearly without romanticizing them or their impoverished experiences. His version of New York is garish, the accumulation of detail—the scum of forgotten food courts, people streaming from subways—becoming surreal. The prose feels in constant motion, and without quotation marks around any of the dialogue, the reader strains to hear the characters above the din. Nevertheless, Lish often avoids gloominess; there's a velocity to his writing and moments of mundane, fleeting beauty, as when a cellphone "lit up indigo in [Zou Lei's] hands for several moments shining through her fingers." The book feels, perhaps, a little too long, a little too overwhelming—in ways both intentional and not—but it also shows the scary truth about who's allowed to prosper in this country, ultimately making clear the irony underlying one of the novel's early descriptions of the U.S.: "You don't have to be rich. If somebody wants it, it will be theirs."
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SecDev is a venue for presenting ideas, research, and experience about how to develop secure systems. It focuses on theory, techniques, and tools to "build security in" to existing and new computing systems, and does not focus on simply discovering the absence of security.
The goal of SecDev is to encourage and disseminate ideas for secure system development among academia, industry, and government. It aims to bridge the gap between constructive security research and practice and to enable real-world impact of security research in the long run. Developers have valuable experiences and ideas that can inform academic research, and researchers have concepts, studies, and even code and tools that could benefit developers. Great SecDev contributions could come from attendees of industrial conferences like AppSec and RSA; from attendees of academic conferences like IEEE S&P, IEEE CSF, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PLDI, ICSE, FSE, ISSTA, SOUPS, HOST, and others; and from newcomers.
We solicit research papers, position papers, systematization of knowledge papers, and "best practice" papers. All submissions should present novel results, provide novel perspectives and insights, or present new evidence about existing insights or techniques.
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We also seek posters and tool demos, and abstracts from practitioners to share their practical experiences and challenges in security development.
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Up for auction: Jerry Seinfeld's handwritten corrections to his 1989 PR bio
"'I'm a hookless act. I have absolutely no hook. There's nothing physically odd about me, no screaming or profanity, no props, nothing ethnic, no strange clothes—and my name isn't catchy either. If I don't have the jokes, I'm dead'…With an intelligent and subtle style, Jerry Seinfeld has gone against the trend of stand-up comedians who favor style over substance. Instead, Seinfeld has chosen to concentrate on his material, and by using that deceptively simple approach to comedy has quietly become one of America's top salaried night club performers." That's how Jerry Seinfeld directed Jonas Public Relations to pitch his...Read More


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A PRF Strategy that Covers the Mountains and the Plains
Ranch Manager Duane Daskam oversees two Colorado ranches that have little in common other than being in the same state. More than 1,000 head of cattle travel 150 miles twice a year between the Stirrup Ranch at 9,000 feet in altitude and the Golden Stirrup Ranch at 4,500 feet in altitude. One of the most challenging aspects of his job is navigating the weather extremes at the alpine ranch and occasional drought through the prairieland at the other.
Though Daskam had more than 20 years of ranch management experience when he came to the ranches five years ago, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Coverage (PRF) insurance was new to him and he was introduced by Silveus Insurance Group (Silveus) Agent Aaron Tattersall to a program already in place at the ranch.
"Understanding the ins and outs of PRF was a learning experience and something I was excited to be a part of," said Daskam. "Aaron navigated us through each weather extreme to make this a profitable program for us. As a result, risk management is a really important part of our business plan now."
Daskam relies on Tattersall's expertise and superior customer service to help him fine tune the PRF program every year. The pair meet in the fall to go over both historical and predicted climate data and come up with a plan for the upcoming year, which must be in place by November. "The weather changes year in and year out, so I talk to Duane to understand his goals and how he wants to adjust his plans every fall to work best for his operations," said Tattersall. "We'll begin talking about updates for the following year over the summer including long range forecasts."
"It gives me peace of mind knowing that when one or both of the ranches are experiencing drought and are producing less grass we have this program in place and it will compensate us for those losses," said Daskam. "We then have the money to buy hay if needed; it just gives us more options."


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by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths
Today's Jewish super-ultra-charedi newspaper in Israel published a front page report from one of the Torah leaders of the generation…
(Yeshiva World News) "HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita (one of the Torah leaders of Israel) has spoken out regarding talmidei torah (elementary and high school) and the ongoing effort to introduce a "foreign curriculum" into the schools. The Gadol Hador (Torah leader of the generation – per those who wrote the article) instructs us to distance ourselves from such schools."
No doubt we will quickly hear from a variety of U.S. based and/or English speaking ultra-orthodox pundits shouting about the destructive influence of secular subjects on ultra-orthodox Jewish youth. (Look for it to show up this week or next week in Ami magazine, Mishpacha magazine and on the Cross Currents blog.)
The hypocrisy will be difficult to deal with. If these words are truly from Rav Kanievsky (who specifically said previously that if you didn't directly hear it from him or see it written in his hand, don't believe it came from him – and this would not be the first instance of published words of a Torah leader either not being from him or being a private answer for a single individual and his given situation) they would be a perfectly reasonable response for a community that has been operating without these subjects for generations. What will be hypocritical will be that the majority of U.S. ultra-orthodox yeshivas DO teach secular subjects.
Therefore the responders WILL have attended received such subjects supplementing their Torah education. And most likely their children will be attending yeshvas where they are receiving them as well. And they will be writing their articles in English, not in Yiddish or Loshon Kodesh.
The model fully works in the U.S. for the U.S. based ultra-orthodox community. The secular subjects are focused (math, English, science – no art, music, sport) and confined to 25% of the school day. And it's enough that the graduates can qualify for college and/or vocation programs if they wish. They can pass state skills examines to certify their education. And with that they can fully enter the job market at whatever level their abilities and personal directions take them.
What will be outrageous is NOT the Israeli ultra-orthodox community position. What will be outrageous will be the U.S. punditry jumping up to support it…while their ABILITY to act as pundits will be based on them having received that little secular educational boost.
…On a side note, it might be worth parts of the public school system looking at how the U.S. Jewish yeshivas are able to operate at 1/2 the cost of the public school system AND achieve full secular outcomes investing only 25% of the time on the subjects.


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The good people over at the Central Valley Business Journal let me write another column for them in their May issue. This time, I discus how city and economic development officials can attract businesses by providing walkable communities for their young and educated workforces. More and more companies are abandoning suburban office parks in favor of urban areas, and Stockton should take advantage of this migration. Click on the link below to give it a read!
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Jerome, AZ
Jerome is like one of those old sepia-toned photographs come to life…. then killed in a tragic mining accident, then come back to life. In its hay day, it was a thriving copper mining community known as "The Wickedest Town in The West." Four fires, a mining tragedy, a few murders and 100 years later, its now "The Largest Ghost Town in America." Population: 450. (Though, I think I saw 3.)
Locals have transformed the ghost town into… well, a ghost town. The truth is, it hasn't been transformed at all, which is great. It is a tourist destination, but don't expect one of those cheesy traps with reenactments and fake storefronts with "distressed" wood they sandblasted a few months prior. Jerome is the real deal. Souls of the early 1900s mix with artists, hermits, chefs, musicians, writers, photographers, and historians to form a very unique vibe. It's eerie, gritty, peaceful, lonely, thriving, inspirational and funky all at the same time. So saddle up for some hauntings with a side of turquoise sculpture and don't forget a slice of homemade pie on your way out.
There are several tours available (ghost, wine, historical), but I took a self-guided tour of Jerome's 25 galleries and studios, meandering through the narrow streets with the whistling desert wind. I was waiting for the sound of spurs and gunshots as I looked over the golden valley toward Sedona. I yearned for my motorcycle and a harmonica.
There is some cool shit being made up in them there mountains. Now, all of the shops sorta look like crazy thrift stores from the outside… but I assure you, it is their 19th century window panes warping the truth. In actuality, they are really unique boutiques that could sell their treasures for 4x as much if they were located in Los Angeles or NYC. It's as if Etsy jumped out of the cyber world and manifested itself on a hilltop. Ladies, you must check out The Fool on the Hill, Christy Fisher Studio & Magpie for some beautiful handcrafted jewelry and clothing that you can actually afford: Modern bubble skirts with saloon girl twists, earthy rings that rock, and pieces that have actually graced the runways of NYC's fashion week. I lifted the photos below from their Facebook pages to illustrate the amazingness!
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Is Proxy War About to Erupt in Bahrain?
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is said to have already dispatched armed operatives to Bahrain undercover as air marshals on Iran Air flights. On March 27, Qatar seized two Iranian ships loaded with weapons near Bahrain. These incidents have caused a rupturing in diplomatic ties between Iran and Bahrain. Secretary of Defense Gates confirms that "we already have evidence that the Iranians are trying to exploit the situation in Bahrain. We also have evidence that they are talking about what they can do to try to create problems elsewhere as well." On April 11, Ruhollah Hosseinian, a pro-Ahmadinejad member of the Majiles, explicitly called for Iranian military intervention. "I believe that the Iranian government should not be reluctant to prepare the country's military forces at a time that Saudi Arabia has dispatched its troops to Bahrain," he said.
If Iran does intervene, it will work closely with its Shiite allies like Hassan Mushaima, the secretary-general of the al-Haq party. Mushaima openly says that if the Saudis came to the aid of the Bahraini royal family, then the Shiite opposition has "the right to appeal for help from Iran." Mushaima, Iran, and Hezbollah will work hard to paint this as a sectarian struggle because of the demographics of the country, but as the Iraqi Shiite hostility to Iran shows, the Arab Shiites cannot be put in the same league as the Iranian government.
Luckily, senior members of the Democratic Alliance, which is an umbrella organization of three opposition parties, have issued a statement condemning Iranian involvement in Bahrain. The country's largest political party, al-Wefaq, has also demanded that Iran keep out. A spokesman for its leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, said: "We have our own identity and we don't want the Islamic Republic of Iran meddling in Bahrain. We don't want the Velayat-e-Faqih in Bahrain," referring to the system of governance in Iran. Remarkably, he responded to a question about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with, "Let the Palestinians solve their own problems." The Bahraini opposition has tried to dispel the notion that it is motivated by sectarianism and the chairman of the Bahrain Transparency Society says, "We want genuine democracy, not clerical."
This rejection of Iranian involvement is encouraging, but that doesn't mean that Iran won't use the calls for help from Hassan Mushaima as an excuse to repeat what it did in Yemen in 2009. The language and actions of the Iranian government strongly indicate it is preparing for war in Bahrain. And if war happens, then the instability we've seen this year so far will pale by comparison.


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Labour's Lord Peter Mandelson, the man with more titles to his name than strands of hair on his head (except 'Prime Minister', but we're sure that's coming too), appears to have ignored the conclusions of Lord Carter's recent Digital Britain report (here) by promising to get even tougher with illegal broadband downloader's.
The Daily Mail newspaper reports that Mandy's plan involves disconnecting those suspected of piracy from their broadband ISP and imposing fines of up to £50,000. Parents could also face strong punishment even if it is the fault of their children and not them.
The Daily Mail said:
The controversial new laws, set to be announced in a 'Digital Britain' bill to be published next month, would target broadband users who persistently download music and films for nothing.
But former digital engagement minister Tom Watson is leading a campaign against the legislation, which is due to form a key plank of this autumn's Queen's Speech.
Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Mr Watson called for people who upload illegal content should be targeted, rather than downloaders.
It's interesting that the rather sudden move should come only days after Mandelson had dinner with David Geffen, a Hollywood critic of illegal file sharing, at the Rothschild family villa in Corfu (Greek Island). Sounds like a nice way to make policy, albeit more in keeping with dictatorships than democracy, but we suppose those two D's are easily confused.. by some.
Regular readers will recall that the controversial disconnection idea was ruled out of the final Digital Britain report in favour of warnings and technical measures (e.g. speed or website access restrictions etc.). That followed several years of unproductive wrangling between consumer groups, ISPs and Rights Holders.
Quite how he intends to impose something based on a report that has already ruled it out we do not know, but then politicians always were crafty bas..
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I have known ever since I first opened my eyes,
One man, who would always be the most wise,
Whose bubbly effervescence never ceases to surprise,
Like the unfailing clockwork of the tireless daily sunrise.
One man, whose hairline although constantly receding,
Shall never lose the born appetite for always succeeding,
To make all of us happy, is your every effort dedicated,
Only upon its fulfillment, is your anxiety vindicated.
You taught us that worrying doesn't improve the situation,
And only a step forward will take you to the destination,
You showed us that a mountain is too small an aspiration,
And for that matter you shall always be an inspiration.
The more we grow, the greater is the world's expectation,
So for each little deed, you showed the greatest appreciation,
Over the years, I may be able to surpass you in height,
But I can never ever become as large as your heart.
God made Fathers' to lead us all with a guiding hand,
And put us on their feet across the burning sand,
And fulfill our unreasonable wishes with their smiling wand,
For, without fathers' we would all be in no man's land.
Dearest DAD, I may not get another chance tomorrow,
And today I don't have anyone else's words to borrow,
I have always been trying everyday to somehow tell you,
That no matter what, I shall always continue to LOVE You.


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LHS Winterguards at WGI) Power Regional in South Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Prelims: JV at 10:14 AM and Varsity at 3:10 PM
Our JV and Varsity Winter Guards will compete in a Winter Guards International (WGI) Power Regional competition in South Brunswick, New Jersey. Prelims are all day, Saturday, February 23rd with Finals competition Sunday, February 24th. The JV competes in the "Scholastic Regional A" class while the Varsity in the "Scholastic A."
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I traced down another original Dubrovnik II set, owned by a retired friendly chess player in Ljubljana. I checked it out up close and confirmed it was made in Jakopović workshop in the fifties, all the details match. Sadly, the set is missing both black rooks and they were replaced. The black side chessmen are a bit faded, but overall it is a beautiful set with no damages. If only those rooks were original ...
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The sense that you get when you walk into Garry Trinh's studio at the Parramatta Artists Studios is that this is a man oozing with creativity and ideas. The large table in the centre of the room is covered with piles of printed photos and large tubes of paint and is scattered with brushes, scissors and other tools. The walls of the room are decorated with his own work, and a range of skateboard decks hanging vertically. Trinh sits near the windows of the studio quietly working.
A photographer by trade with 15 years practice in social documentary and street photography, Trinh has been a resident at the Parramatta Artists Studios since December 2016.
"I happily did photography for a long time until I reached a point where I wanted to broaden my art practice. I wanted to do new things but was restricted by the medium; my ideas didn't lend themselves to photography."
"I wanted to start incorporating painting, collage and other mediums into my practice to be able to express the ideas I had. And that's why I'm here at the Studios now as a resident - to grow my art."
Studying photography at Western Sydney University (formerly the University of Western Sydney) and growing up around Auburn, Trinh's return to Western Sydney for his residency at Parramatta Artists Studios has been an opportunity for him to realign himself, work with new mediums and discover a new side of himself as an artist.
"Working with a new medium is like changing from a mindset that you know really well into one that is totally foreign and new. Finding a new identity in painting is exciting but scary at the same time."
A series of collages Trinh has coined his 'Zen garden series' lines one of the walls of his studio. Inspired by the idea of a Japanese Zen garden with its white rocks and minimal, well-placed plants, the works incorporate photography and drawing to create a new perspective with patterns and shapes, giving the original photographs a new lease of life. His hope is to one day produce the series of 50 works into a book.
"It made sense when I started exploring new mediums to include what I knew well (photography) into my painting and drawing."
Along with his photographic background, another influence on Trinh throughout his creative practice has been skateboarding, and the skateboards mounted on the walls of the studio remind him of the stories of people he admired growing up and still draws inspiration from.
In particular, the story of Brian Anderson, whose name is emblazoned across a deck behind his workspace, inspires Trinh as he creates. Anderson, an American and prominent figure in the world of pro-skateboarding, made headlines when he came out as gay in 2016. The surprise announcement signalled a much-needed shift towards a more inclusive and affirming culture within the pro-skateboarding industry.
"Brian Anderson transformed the world of skateboarding in such a unique way. When I think about what he's done it reminds me that you don't have to be the very best 'skateboarder' in your industry but you can change things and be brave in your own way."
When it comes to creating his art, Trinh believes that bravery and taking risks is an important part of the process.
"Sometimes I wonder to myself, "What am I trying to achieve by doing this?" and that's something for artists that doesn't have a simple answer."
"The other week I heard a quote from someone that really made sense to me. He said that "the only job of an artist is to make other people fall in love with art".
"I feel like that's all I want to do, make people fall in love with art - motivate them to be involved, take it up, experiment, go to galleries, support artists. If I can do that, then my work here is satisfying."
Trinh calls the Parramatta Artists Studios "an oasis" for enabling him to grow and experiment as an artist through the community and use of its space.
"It's given me the time and the room to think and try new things. It's also opened my eyes to a whole new way of looking at and understanding art. It's so much more than photography; it has the power to be deeper and more colourful."
"I was very much set in the mind of a photographer. Now when I go to a gallery I wonder, "What was the artist thinking when they created that? What paint did they use? Why did they make that?"."
The set-up of the studios, with 14 individual rooms as well as communal space and a hallway for exhibits has also allowed Trinh both down time and time in artistic community.
"If I'm busy and need time to myself I can have that but if I want to talk and ask questions and learn from the other artists, there's always someone here who can talk things through with me. It feels really great to be supported."
On the studios and what they have done for Parramatta, Trinh becomes even more enthusiastic.
"The Artists Studios and the network that surrounds it…it's the leading artist studio in Sydney. It's the one everyone wants to have a studio in because it's got such a great reputation and such a good team running it. I love being a part of it."
Upon considering the future of art in Parramatta beyond the studios, Trinh tells a story about walking into The Guitar Factory, a music shop a few blocks over on Church Street, for the first time.
"When I went in there I was completely blown away; it felt like I'd walked into Aladdin's Cave for people who loved music. Instantly I wanted to start playing music and learning guitar, that's how I felt. Everyone who worked there seemed to be so passionate about music, it was contagious."
"I hope that Parramatta in a way continues to transform itself so it feels like what I felt when I walked into The Guitar Factory but for art; that when people come to Parramatta and get off the train they know instantly that this is a centre for the arts, to create and engage."
"These studios are a great hub for art and an amazing way to start that."
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Main image: Garry Trinh in his studio. Parramatta Artists Studios. Photo: Jacquie Manning


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SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - November 10, 2010) - NVIDIA today announced the appointment of three research and academic leaders to the CUDA Fellows Program, which recognizes individuals who are committed to leading the use and adoption of the CUDA™ architecture and GPU computing.
With interests in the fields of supercomputing, computation biophysics and mechanical engineering, the new CUDA Fellows are:
"Each of these individuals has demonstrated a passion and commitment to leveraging CUDA and the power of GPU computing to help solve some of the worlds' most challenging computational problems," said Bill Dally, chief scientist at NVIDIA. "I look forward to working with them to continue spreading the word about the industry-changing impact GPU computing offers to developers, researchers and academics worldwide."
The CUDA Fellows Program was established last year to recognize, reward and assist researchers engaged in exceptional work in utilizing the CUDA™ architecture within their disciplines or geographies. CUDA Fellows have demonstrated the benefits of GPU computing to advance their fields of research, and have been instrumental in introducing GPU computing to their peers.
The new CUDA Fellows announced today were selected by NVIDIA's research team and join an exclusive group of current Fellows: Mike Giles of Oxford University and P.J. Narayanan of IIIT.
Each CUDA Fellow receives a number of benefits, including the latest NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs, a travel stipend, access to NVIDIA technical staff, and priority in receiving early releases of NVIDIA GPU hardware and software. CUDA Fellows receive continued support for their leading GPU computing research, and are invited to share their expertise at universities and technical conferences around the world.
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Dan Negrut, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Negrut leads the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab (http://sbel.wisc.edu) at the University of Wisconsin. His ongoing projects focus on large-scale multibody dynamics, uncertainty quantification, numerical integration methods for dynamic systems, and reduced order modeling and metamodeling. For his research and educational initiatives, Negrut received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009. Previously, he worked at Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and served as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
John Stone, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stone is a senior research programmer in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and associate director of the NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois. Stone is the lead developer of VMD, a high-performance molecular visualization tool used by researchers all over the world. His research interests include molecular visualization, GPU computing, parallel processing, ray tracing, haptics, and virtual environments. He also provides consulting services for projects involving computer graphics, GPU computing and high performance computing.
Ross Walker, San Diego Supercomputer Center & University of California, San Diego
Walker is an assistant research professor at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and an adjunct assistant professor in the departments of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. He runs the Walker Molecular Dynamics Lab in San Diego, leading a team that develops advanced techniques for molecular dynamics simulations aimed at improved drug and biocatalyst design. He is a key developer of the molecular dynamics engine, AMBER, and has hosted numerous international workshops on molecular dynamics. Walker's work includes improved quantum mechanical, molecular mechanical models, development of new force fields for simulation of lipid membranes, and the development of a GPU-accelerated version of the AMBER molecular dynamics engine, PMEMD.
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Underwhelming functionality was among the factors that ruled out SAP for Old Dominion Freight Line's operational dashboard project.
By all accounts, Old Dominion Freight Line's recent operational dashboard deployment has been a success.
Workers in the field now have timely access to operational data via Web-based dashboards to make better, quicker decisions, according to Teresa Wilhelm, dashboard analyst at the Thomasville, N.C.-based shipping firm.
But the keys to success were non-technical factors, namely financial considerations and internal communication, Wilhelm said.
Consider licensing. Old Dominion is an SAP customer, using the vendor's Business Warehouse to store and manage employee data. Naturally, the company decided to include SAP's dashboarding technology as part of its evaluation.
While there were technical factors for not going with SAP – such as limitations around integrating data from non-SAP sources -- Old Dominion decided against SAP primarily because of its expensive licenses, according to Wilhelm.
Old Dominion planned to roll out dashboards not to a small group of executives but to more than 2,000 workers at locations spread across the nation. The company also wanted the flexibility to expand the deployment to even more users in the future, including senior executives, without taking a huge hit on licensing.
That ruled out SAP, according to Wilhelm. "Their licenses are quite expensive," Wilhelm said, though she declined to give specific figures. "We needed something that gave us unlimited licensing."
But Kenneth Erdner, Old Dominion's vice president of information system and technology, disputes Wilhelm's version of events. Erdner said at the time of the evaluation, "SAP's dashboard product was limited."
It lacked features and functionality that Old Dominion required, he said. SAP has since upgraded its dashboard product via its acquisition of Business Objects.
Whatever the reason, Old Dominion passed on SAP's dashboard product. Enter Corda Software. The small, independent data visualization vendor based in Lindon, Utah, offered not just superior dashboarding software, according to Wilhelm, but an unlimited user license model that Old Dominion was looking for.
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With the vendor chosen, Wilhelm got down to the difficult job of architecting the deployment and designing the actual dashboards. It wasn't a job she could do alone.
"You have to have a group with lots of different types of people," she said.
So she helped put together a working group that included a variety of stakeholders, including Web designers with solid graphic design capabilities and developers with experience with Java, SQL and HTML.
But it was also important to include Old Dominion workers from the business side of the table, Wilhelm said. Workers with data domain expertise and others who had a firm grasp of the business logic that would underlie the dashboards were also included in the dashboarding group.
"Then you have to find a person who knows how to talk to business," she said.
With the group in place, they got to work. Designers and developers listened to business workers, incorporating their suggestions and experimenting with different visuals. By the end of last year, the dashboards were ready for deployment.
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Of course, even with a diverse group of workers from throughout the company designing the dashboards, there was no guarantee that users would be happy with the results.
Wilhelm wanted to know what users thought -- so she just asked them. And, as simple as it sounds, she listened to what they had to say.
She conducted an anonymous survey of dashboard users throughout the company, soliciting feedback on a number of topics. The survey asked workers which dashboards they used most, how often, and whether they provided all the data they wanted.
She also asked about performance issues -- whether the dashboards were taking too long to load or refresh, for instance -- and included an open-ended section where workers could make their own suggestions for improving the dashboards.
When the results came in, a significant number of respondents reported that they felt they had not received enough dashboard training. "So we scheduled more training," Wilhelm said, both online and in-person sessions.
A number of survey respondents also requested new functionality to make the dashboards more useful. But the dashboards already had much of the functionality being requested. Users just didn't know it was there, she said.
Wilhelm put together a frequently-asked-questions document for users to consult and recorded a number of videos showing them how to access the features they were looking for.
Wilhelm did her best to accommodate those suggestions for new features that the dashboards did indeed lack, adding new check boxes here and additional columns there.
As a result, she said, user adoption has steadily climbed, proving that the success or failure of business intelligence (BI) application deployments often depends as much on smart negotiating skills and a willingness to listen to end users as it does on the technology itself.


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How do you make learning math fun – especially for preschool aged kids? Well if they've got a dad (or mom) who is passionate about cars, using toy vehicles is the way to go. If you're in kid mode and are looking for some great and mutually engaging activities to do with your children, here are eight great excuses to play with your preschooler's toy cars today.
1. Ready To Become Race Car Drivers? (Ordinal Numbers)
Take a wooden puzzle and turn it upside down leaning the top of it against a raised surface so that it tilts down. Line your cars up at the top and let them race down. You can award winners based on (1) which car goes that fastest and (2) which car goes the furthest. Bonus points: Create your own trophies and write words 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on them. Allow your child(ren) to practice number/word recognition by letting them pick out the correct trophy according to how their car performed.
2. Sorting Mystery: Which Sorting Rule Did I Use?
Take your vehicles and divide them up into different groups based on your chosen "sorting rule." Then let the sorting detectives figure out which rule you used. Here are some ideas to start with:
* Sort using color
* Sort using size
* Sort using vehicle type (trucks, cars, camper vans, diggers)
* Where are the vehicles used (air, sea, land)?
* Sort by purpose (emergency vehicles vs. family wheels)
3. Equal Groups (Division)
Give your preschooler an even number of toy cars and ask him or her to share them equally. Notice what strategies your child(ren) use as the initial pile gets bigger. Ask them helping questions like, "How many do each of us get if we divide eight cars by two people? How about four people?" This is a no-stress way to introduce the idea of division.
4. Where's My Parking Spot? (Subitizing, Number Recognition And Counting)
Create a parking with ten spots. Allocate each parking space a set of stars from 1 to 10. Then place numbered stickers on the toy vehicles. Now help your toddler or preschooler to put its automobile in its assigned parking spots.
FYI, the definition of subitizing is knowing how many items there are without having to count the items one by one. Depending on the age of your child(ren), you may find that they will do great up until a certain number and then will find the groups too large to just "know."
5. Patterns, Patterns Everywhere
This is a super easy activity to set up. Start by making a pattern and allowing your child to continue the pattern. Or, you can identify a pattern that your child has created. Use these ideas to get started:
* Colors (blue, green, red, blue, green, red, …)
* Types (train, fire truck, train, fire truck, …)
* Size (small, big, small, big, …)
6. Where's My Parking Spot? (Advanced)
This game is for two players. Gather two groups of cars that can be easily distinguished (e.g. a red group and a blue group, or motorcycles and race cars). Take turns rolling the dice and add up the sum for each roll. If the spot that matches the total of your roll is vacant, then put one of your cars in that spot. To cover the parking spot that was assigned the number one, you'll have to switch to using a single die. Whichever person/team has more of their vehicles on the board at the end of the game wins (if you want to play for wins!). This numbers game came from Discover Play Learn.
So, can playing with cars really help your kid's IQ?
Evidence shows increasingly that play is actually one of the most effective means of learning for children. For example, the Pine Manor College Child Study Center in Brookline, MA uses play intensively as part of their preschool curriculum. They even state on their website that, "Activities are planned and teachers interact with the children guiding them through exploratory play and discovery."
As you can see, there are loads of ways to get preschoolers engaged in learning basic math skills, and bringing toy cars into the mix is a great starting point. And, just a warning… The ramp will probably be a big hit with mom and dad as well – we all need to let out our inner child sometime!


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In England's Green and Pleasant Land
Every so often I feel obliged to try loving something that, through long neglect, prejudice or the unthinking incorporation of someone else's poor opinion, I've come to believe I don't, can't or shouldn't love. Twenty-five years ago I did this with the novels of Jane Austen, which I knew mostly from English television adaptations, generally distinguished by their wanton disregard for good lighting design. And of course after a few pages of Pride and Prejudice I was hooked. Now the old spinster's novels are on a perpetual agricultural rotation system, each one lying fallow for two to three years until I've forgotten enough of the plot to give it another whirl.
Today, it's the late Victorian and Edwardian Anglican choral masters of England—the men who wrote music for the grandchildren of Austen's characters. A new disk, by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen (Decca) has softened my initial resistance. The Sixteen are one of the finest choral groups out there, and if you think of them (as I too often do) as an early music group, then you've missed their frequent forays into later repertoire. "A New Heaven" includes music of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Charles Wood, Charles Villiers Stanford, John Stainer, Herbert Howells, among others, and concludes with John Rutter, who is known to almost anyone who has sung in a Christmas pageant or service.
I dislike the grandeur of the music and its smugness, and I don't trust the piety. There is a difference between simple, direct expression of religious belief, and expressions that aim at coaxing simple or lazy minds into passive reception of religious ideology. I think this music very often falls into the latter category. This is not religious afflatus naturally expressed in a grand, collective way, it is the soundtrack for a religious pageant, meant to wow the senses, dull skepticism and leave the listener feeling good about something: The Church? The State? Both, perhaps, in some disturbing confusion of God and England.
Americans know the sentiment that pervades most of these pieces from the slow, stately trio from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, the obligatory processional for every high school graduation ceremony. It isn't a particularly military march, more of an old man's march, old men carrying too much regalia and feeling good about their accomplishments. This is the essential mood of so many of the works on this disk.
But they are addictive. The recording includes two works by Parry which rise above the others in their seductive pomposity: "I was glad," a coronation anthem originally for Edward VII, and "Jerusalem," a crowd-pleasing paean to England that is de rigueur at the Proms festival, music so sumptuously certain in its equation of England with God's Own Chosen Land that old ladies hyperventilate when it's played. I can make you wet yourself in three notes, Parry seems to say with his admittedly infectious melody.
Both pieces are more familiar from grander settings, including Elgar's 1922 recasting of "Jerusalem" from a choral bonbon to something that compares well with the best passages of John Williams's score to "Star Wars." I like both works in their smaller settings and the larger versions would be out of place on this recording, which is often remarkably intimate in scale.
Consider, for instance, Howard Goodall's setting of Psalm 23, "The Lord is my shepherd." It floats along and rocks its gentle head from side to side like some mildly sozzled occupants of a rowboat after finishing a picnic of wine and cucumber sandwiches. Granted, Goodall first wrote this tune as the theme music to the BBC hit sitcom, "The Vicar of Dibley," but never mind. Why not add television to the Church-State nexus of good feelings?
So why have I played this damn fool disk twenty times over the weekend? It is beautifully sung, especially the soprano solos of Elin Manahan Thomas. And for every quibble above, there is a quibble with the quibble. The origins of a good tune have never disqualified it from religious use. The medieval song L'homme armé was secular in origin, before it colonized Renaissance settings of the mass. And as for the general equation of Church and State, well, that's problematic, but the State in these pieces is very often imagined as landscape, or a beautiful place. The general sentiment that pervades the poem of Jerusalem (based on Blake) is clear from the first verse:
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark satanic mills?
Dark satanic mills? That's for another essay. The point is, the poem (as appropriated by Parry) is self-satisfied, but not aggressive. Even the stately marches heard in so many of these pieces are at least not bloody-minded, forward-driving, off-to-war marches. I'd rather see a slow procession of "Bald heads, forgetful of their sins,/ Old, learned, respectable bald heads," than an animated parade of idle young men put to sinister uses.
It's also important to give the disk its due as an historical statement. I found this from the program notes very interesting:
Modernity and the intellectual challenges of modernism were not the chief concerns of men such as Hubert Parry, Stanford and Howells, at least in their sacred choral works and other music for church use. The same can be said for John Rutter and Howard Goodall. Rather, they have all combined eloquent musical invention with a level of craftsmanship analogous to the skills that helped to build and decorate Britain's great cathedrals, parish churches and college chapels.
So this is backward looking, decorative music, a remarkable admission in the booklet of a CD. But it's also music that does indeed grow out of a tradition, a garden separate from the more general course of music history, and not an unpleasant garden to linger in. I can't seem to leave it, perhaps because it seems to me if you can figure out this music, its appeal and its danger, you have penetrated to something very important about the very best and worst of living a civilized life.
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hipages, Australia's go-to app and website for finding and hiring trusted tradies, has today announced the release of a new creative campaign by VCCP Sydney.
The 'Tradie Choir' is a celebration of what makes Australian tradies unique and diverse. The TVC, set to debut this Sunday, 23 October, features a host of tradies singing a tune that offers home improvement solutions to Australians.
The light-hearted scenes display a clear need for qualified tradie help around the home. From plumbing to electrical problems, landscaping to renovating and tiling to plastering, the hipages Tradie Choir displays the breadth of challenges that Australian tradies solve everyday.
Tracy Richardson, CMO of hipages, says "At the heart of our new brand campaign is the celebration of Australian tradies. Tradies are central to everything we do and so it was natural to place them at the centre of our communications. It's a salute to their everyday great work."
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Known for their creative work on Fitness First, ING and Ancestry, VCCP Sydney won the account for hipages' creative in July earlier this year.
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The company boasts over 100 years of malting heritage. Grant has 40 years experience in the production of malt in Australia, North America and Europe. His father, two uncles and his great uncle were all Maltsters. Grant's first visit to a maltings was at the age of four to visit his dad, Ern, at work at the "Flinders Lane Maltings" (Melbourne), where he was Head Maltster and Manager. This was the beginning of a childhood spent around a number of Melbourne's Malthouses, and also the beginning of an education in Malting and Brewing.
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Grant is a well recognised Beer Judge, and has judged beers nationally and internationally for more than 20 years. He has also been the Brewers and Maltsters Representative on The Australian Barley Board, a Member of The Barley Research Council, various GRDC committees and a representative on both the Victorian and South Australian Barley Quality Advisory Committees.
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General Description of the bus service
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List of names of bus drivers ans supervisors
The transport service is provided by way of contracts with the following bus companies:
- • Eurobussing/Keolis
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- • Voyages Stars
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- • Hermès Lines
Around 2250 pupils of the School are registered with the bus service on a yearly basis.
Almost every commune in Brussels (within a reasonable radius from the School) is covered by the service.
Morning service
There is a single bus service collection every morning to bring the children to school. Pick-up time is communicated to the parents by mail and the routes are organised so that all buses should normally arrive at the school between 8:00 and 8:20 at the latest.
Normal afternoon service
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, there are two departures at the end of the school day to bring the children home. The 1st departure from Kindergarden to S2 leaves at 15h35 and the 2nd departure for Secondary at 16h30.
The 1st afternoon departure gives priority to pupils from nursery, primary, S1, and S2. Pupils from higher secondary years are accepted on the 1st departure subject to availability. If there is no space on the 1st departure, older pupils will be required to wait in the étude for the 2nd departure.
There are limited places on the 2nd bus departure:
Please note that buses are limited and that Secondary students have priority.
Based on requests received up until 15 September, the order of priority for places on the 2nd bus departure is as follows:
- all Secondary pupils
- Périscolaire pupils (i) maternelle pupils; (ii) siblings of maternelle pupils; (iii) others.
- Others (i) to the parent's place of work; (ii) to the grand parent's house
- Change of normal bus to go to an activity outside the school
- Exceptional cases on request
After 15 September, all new requests for 2nd bus departure places are treated as exceptional cases, with no claim to priority.
If, exceptionally, during the transitional period at the beginning of the school year, a second departure bus is oversubscribed, the transport office will take care of all the children and will send home any students who cannot find a place by taxi. Students should arrive on the parking area early enough to allow the transport office to establish which buses require attention. Parents will be kept informed.
The 2nd departure gives priority to Secondary pupils. Younger children attending périscolaire activities may use the 2nd bus departure subject to availability, and at the stops used by the Secondary pupils.
Please note: The 2nd departure bus service stops around the 20th of June, when there are no more lessons for the students of the Secondary school.
Wednesday only one departure at 13h
On Wednesdays there is a lunchtime departure at 13h00 to take the children home. Note that because there is a different combination of children on the buses, the Wednesday bus will likely follow a route with different stops to the other afternoon services and will normally use the same stops as the morning (possibly on the other side of the road). In case of doubt about the precise location of the Wednesday stops, please contact the transport office.
Friday lunchtime service
On Fridays, in addition to the normal two afternoon departures, there is an extra lunchtime service at 12h30 to the EC garderies/child minding facilities ONLY. This garderie service is provided by the Commission, and is open to children of parents working for the EU institutions. For further information, parents should consult the intranet of their institution.
Children in nursery, P1 and P2 finish school at lunchtime and must be collected from school by the parents unless the children are going to the EC garderie, or unless they have a périscolaire activity which keeps them at school until the first afternoon departure at 15h35.
EC Garderie/ after-school child minding bus service
The bus service to the EC garderie/after-school child minding service runs as follows:
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 1st departure at 15h35 only
- Wednesday lunchtime departure at 13h30 after lunch in the canteen, under supervision of monitors from the garderie service
- Fridays, extra service to the garderie at 12h30 after lunch in the canteen, under supervision of class teachers (nursery, P1 and P2 only), as well as the 1st afternoon departure at 15h35


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The noise around me, scary and loud
No escape, no respite
Or so it would have me believe.
And yet my soul whispers a different tune
Soft and confident, the whisper tells me there's more.
More to this life than noise and chaos,
More to this life than drive and performance,
More to this life than success and desire,
More to this life than money and greed.
Alarm clock rings and off I go to yet another round,
Watching the clock tick, I ready myself for yet another rat race.
Rush out the door, beat the clock to my destination,
Urge the traffic on, tap my steering wheel in frustration
Hurry into work, punch the clock,
Go, go, go all day long.
Slave to the clock, mistress of time and accomplishment.
Hour after hour, day after day my soul breathes less.
My heart beats slower and life passes me by:
The dance of my dog when I walk in the door,
The whinny of my horse when I enter the barn,
The smell of hay and shavings, the velvet kiss of a horse
The call of birds, the rustle of leaves
The blue of the sky and the howl of the wind,
The sunrise pink and the purple of sunset
The wafting scent of coffee and the comfort of a bowl of soup
The melt of chocolate in my mouth, the cool of ice cream rich on my tongue
The soft warmth of blankets as I sleep,
The lyrics and beat of the music,
All these little things, day by day, I barely sense.
I rush and run and stress until my senses dull and my life is a mess.
But then…
I dare to stop.
I dare to be.
And I dare to listen.
I come to The Space
Where mercy and love breathe gently on me
And I remember.
My soul remembers who it is created to be
And there with my Creator, my Lover, I am the me I'm meant to be.
Not the me who keeps up with society
But the me who comes and sits with the Trinity.
Me, the image of God,
Who breathes in the miracle of living, playful and peaceful,
Who feels freedom and is set free:
Free from the demands, the rules
Free from expectations, from religion
Free from performance and approval, decorum and tradition.
In this Space I'm free to just be.
No judgment, no threat of rejection.
Here, where Jesus sits and welcomes me home.
This Space, home to my soul and refuge for my heart.
This Space…
My people,
My journey,
My hope and vulnerability,
Mercy and grace gifted to my soul,
Honesty, brutal and raw, messy and real,
Forgiveness for failures and Love extended to all,
Found here.
Here in this Space.