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There is no swimming at the college tonight (Monday 27th August). Back to normal Wednesday.
Midnightman race report
Thanks to Neil Wickes for submitting his report on this race which took place on Saturday 18 / Sunday 19 August. An excellent third-place finish – well done Neil!
I had planned to do 3 Ironman-distance events this year and after choosing Forestman and Ironman Wales, I decided I wanted a potentially fast course to set a PB on. Midnightman, set in Dartford, was a flat course with the bike on mostly closed roads. The race was also through the night so overheating should not have been a problem – unless it is held on the hottest day of the year.
With the mercury touching 33 degrees it was with some relief that we jumped into the lake for the 4-lap swim. However, a water temperature of 23 soon saw competitors overheating in the water. This might have contributed to some slightly slower times and I exited the water in a disappointing 1:06. A quick minute in transition and it was out onto the 18 lap bike course.
Basically it was up and down a closed dual carriageway followed by a loop around the industrial estate. Although very fast on the main road, the smaller loop included a number of speed humps and chicanes which allowed athletes to stretch but slowed times. As the sun slowly set, bike lights were turned on but temperatures remained high and the feed station was hard at work throughout the night. My first full lap was a rather speedy 17 minutes and I soon began to pay for the early pace. After a couple of uncomfortable laps, I settled into an 18-minute lap rhythm. This gave me a bike split of 5:27. This was a little behind my target but my legs felt great for 12:30am.
I've never managed to 'nail' the Ironman run so far but the 6-lap course was flat with some vocal support. There were some funny looks from the late-night workers at the Sainsbury depot as a multitude of runners jogged around the industrial estate. My opening lap was again a bit quick and would have put me on an unrealistic sub-3 hour. Fortunately some common sense return and I eased back; nevertheless I still found myself pouring cups of cold water over my head. The final lap was a real battle but I knew at that point that I would go sub-10. I fell across the line with a 3:10 run and an overall time of 9:43. Throughout the night I had no idea where I was in the race but it turned out that I finished 3rd overall.
Marlborough Fast Twitch Triathlon
Concept Sport have been organising the Fast twitch Triathlon at Marlborough Leisure Centre since 1984 and so it is probably one of the oldest UK triathlon events still on the racing calendar. It is an interesting race because the distance of each of the three disciplines is non-standard in terms of not being a typical sprint or Olympic distance. Three Evesham based members of Worcester Triathlon Club went to take part in the event and Michelle Parsons once again claimed a superb victory having never completed this race before.
The race starts with a 400 metre pool swim where the competitors are set off in waves of 10/12. Once the swim is completed it is a quick dash out of the pool to the transition area where the athletes mount their bikes to take on a challenging 20 mile bike course around the surrounding area before retuning back to the transition area for a final 5 mile out and back run.
Michelle, as usual knew her swim would leave her having to make up a deficit on the bike and run but this time she was only chasing down a 2 minute gap to Swindon Tri's Cathy Cook on the bike. This she did with ease recording the fastest female bike split of the day by almost 6 minutes at 57 minutes and 25 seconds. Onto the run and although the run course had been shortened slightly because the amount of rain had rendered one of the paths impassable, she still managed an incredibly impressive 29 minutes and 42 seconds. That gave her a total time of one hour 35 minutes and 16 seconds and a margin of victory of 3 minutes over the fast finishing Cook (1.38.17).
On the Men's side it was Evesham Running Club member Iain Jennings who led the Worcester Tri Club members home recording an excellent swim time of under 6 minutes for the 400m swim. He then put in the 9th quickest bike split of the day before rounding off the race with a superb 25.26 run split to finish in a total time of 1.25.48 in 5th place overall and first in his age category.
In a very tight team Worcester Tri Club edged out the Army Tri association thanks to Michelle out-pacing the third counter in the Army team by 34 seconds. Worcester's team was Michelle, her husband Phil and Iain Jennings, the first time a mixed team have won the team event beating the three male Army team members
Outlaw Triathlon 2012 Race Report
Thanks to Ben Martin for the report below on his first Ironman distance race – and congratulations on the achievement!
Below is my race report from the Outlaw triathlon which I raced on the 1st July. I am in white in the photo.
After months of long bike rides getting frost bite on fingers & toes, long runs in the rain and constant lengths of the pool the time had come to see if all that hard work would pay off and that I could become an Outlaw (aka Ironman).
With arriving a couple days before race day it gave me plenty of time to pop down to the course on the Friday, get registered check out where everything is come race morning on the Sunday and also gave me an extra day to pack my race kit up and not rush around on the Saturday.
With a bit of training on the Saturday to get the stiffness out of my legs and bags & bike all racked up it was time to head back to the hotel for an early night and the dreaded 4am wake up.
Come 4am on race morning it was time to get up force some food down me for the long day ahead, and then head over to the race start. While also bumping into another couple more athletes in the hotel some saying "what the hell are we doing?" for my reply "I haven't got a clue".
Once over at race start I made some last minute checks to my kit, checked my bike out, slipped into my wetsuit snd got to the race start. This was a mass swim start with nearly 1000 people split up into different bays depending on their expected swim finish time with a straight up & down course. I positioned myself in the second bay expecting a 60-80 minute swim time. With a bit of friendly banter between each bay (4 bays altogether) mainly directed at the sub 60-minute swimmers the countdown began and it was time to start the long day ahead.
The first 500-1000 metres were manic; I ended up getting caught in the middle of a scrap. Got hit on the back of the head a few times, getting pulled back with flaying arms, swam over, fighting my way through swimmers. Once I got into some open space and could relax into my stroke I started to power my way through the swim finding feet to draft off. On the way back swimming into a headwind with the lake creating waves was a struggle at times but with a tropical 18 degree lake temperature I could see the swim finish in the distance and finished the 2.4 mile swim in 1:16:58.
Taking my time in transition making sure I got some food down me, got all my kit and a quick toilet stop before the 112 mile bike ride (the longest I have ridden a bike in one go). I started off the bike leg not going hell for leather in the first few miles but trying to pace myself. With a revised bike course due to Channel 4 filming the day it was split up into two sections with a west loop and an east loop, which you did twice. The first loop was quick and very fast with only one major hill on the course and not much of a headwind but a tailwind. With a bit of friendly banter between other riders on the course I was looking at a sub 6-hour ride the way I was going. But once on the second loop on the east side that's when it started to become a real struggle at times. The tailwind turned into a horrible headwind all around the two loops. I took some shelter behind groups of cyclists which were going past which almost gave me a second wind on the bike and unfortunately 40km to the end the heavens opened up and only wearing a white tri-suit I got drenched all the way to the end. I ended up doing a 6:30:29 bike which given conditions I was happy with.
Having completed the bike and took my time again in transition to make sure food got down me, and a toilet break, I started the run. To my surprise my legs were feeling great and I quickly got into a comfortable pace doing the first lap of the lake and headed off to start the 3 out & back loops up to Nottingham Forest football club & around the lake. With the pace I was going I didn't know if I was going too fast or too slow as pacing myself over long distance is not my strong point of running. The first lap seemed to fly by with great support along the whole run course and plenty of feed stations to get enough nutrition at. My plan was simple, run to each aid station, which were roughly every 2 miles apart, walk through & run again. With starting the second lap and having a camera crew follow me for a short time I ended up getting roughly half way round when cramp started to creep in. At this point I knocked off my pace massively & had to walk parts to get to the next aid station. While running I bumped into another athlete who I was chatting to on the first lap of the lake and he too was struggling with his knee and we both decided that we should pretty much fartlek run the last 10 miles, picking out points on the course to stop, run, stop making sure we got enough food & drink down us as we went along. While doing this another runner asked to join us as he too was suffering and for the last out & back loop we stuck together and pulled each other through. Even though my cramp had gone half way through the last loop I decided to stick with these guys as we were all helping each other through & at that point the finish time didn't matter – it was just about getting to the end.
Heading back to the lake for the last few miles and collecting my 4th wristband felt amazing, knowing in the next few miles I would complete the longest distance I have ever raced. Running down the finish shoot with two other guys who were also first timers arms raised felt amazing and worth all those long hours training. I did a 5:26:01 marathon but that didn't bother me. I finished in a time of 13:27:31 & finished 610 out of nearly 1000 people who entered and only 890 finished.
The support, volunteers, race organizers & the two other runners who managed to help me & I helped them to get to the end – everything was amazing. I would definitely recommend this race to anyone who is looking to take on an Ironman distance race. I will definitely be heading back in the future to tackle this race again
Swim coaching at Sansome Walk Saturday 18th Aug
Our swim coach, Arran Stevens, will be at Sansome Walk Saturday 18th August. Usual cost and time
Swim coaching August
Arran (our swim coach) will be at Sansome Walk session this Saturday August 11th.
Droitwich Sprint
The Droitwich Sprint Triathlon on Sunday 29th July was a huge success, even a shower didn't dampen competitors spirits. A big thanks to members of the club were out in force making sure everything ran smoothly
Alex Thorley (Junior) (Triks/Cardiff Uni) was the overall winner in 00.51.57
Sam Boswell (F40) was 1st Lady in 1.00.38
Worcseter Tri won the Team prize for fastest three athletes
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The Galaxy Tab continues to make the rounds to all the major U.S. carriers and the wheel of destiny has landed on Big Red today.
The Verizon flavored Galaxy Tab will ring up for $599 without contract and for those that would like a subsidized price you can apparently keep dreaming or take your business to T-Mobile or Sprint. If you want to make use of the 3G radio you can sign up for a month to month contract starting at $20 for 1GB. From there you can step up your data with $35 for 3GB, $50 for 5GB and $80 for 10GB.
With the iPad+MiFi bundle hitting Verizon stores on October 28th for $630 (matching the 3G iPad on AT&T) the Galaxy Tab is managing to eke out a slight price advantage, but certainly not enough to sway a buyer on price alone.
I'm surprised that Verizon isn't at least offering the option of going on contract with the Tab and I can't help but feel that it may be in deference to Apple as there can't be an on contract iPad for Verizon at the moment. A Verizon spokesperson has responded to such questions saying that the no contract model is the direction they have chosen to take for tablets, but we'll just have to see if they stay on message once other 3G enabled tablets start launching next year.
What are your opinions on the pricing strategy for the Galaxy Tab. Is $599 retail too much? Would you have preferred a subsidized contract option? And is 1GB going to cut it for your tablet data consumption or does 3GB seem more like the bare minimum?
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Engineering launches student internship scheme
Press release issued: 28 January 2013
A new scheme that aims to help first year students find relevant work experience and insight into the world of engineering and related technology companies has been launched by the University of Bristol's Faculty of Engineering.
The Faculty's Industrial Liaison Office (ILO) has been working with companies to encourage them to offer first year students paid work experience placements. It is one of a set of enterprises launched by ILO that seek to build on the Faculty's strong links with industry to benefit home and overseas students from across the Faculty.
Traditionally companies offer internships to older year groups of students, so the scheme is innovative in developing opportunities for newer students.
One of the earliest students to be placed highlighted this: "As a first year, I would have never thought it would be possible to be chosen for an internship, however, the scheme has given me this great opportunity to develop and put in practice my skills in industry."
Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, said: "We encourage and support our students in gaining experience of working and to enhance their employability to help their chances of finding suitable jobs upon graduation.
"The fact that so many companies are so keen to work with our first years demonstrates the high regard that companies hold for Bristol engineering students."
Grenville Hill, Deputy Chief Engineer for Emerging Business at QuEST Global Engineering, noting the quality of the student applications, said: "Selecting the students for placement was very difficult as all the applicants were of a very high calibre. Our internship programme gives students a taste of working at an aerospace engineering consultancy and QuEST is keen that it will encourage them to pursue a career in engineering once they graduate."
Max Brown, Head of Engineering at GKN Aerospace's Filton Engineering Centre, added: "As part of the continuing development of the strategic relationship between GKN and Bristol University, we are very pleased to be supporting the engineering internship scheme. GKN continues to be extremely impressed with the calibre and enthusiasm of the undergraduate population in the Faculty and is delighted to be providing placements across multiple aerospace sites and technical disciplines."
Wyc Slingsby, Head of Product Development and Product Management at Propagator, commenting on his company's involvement with the scheme: commented: "Propagator is very much looking forward to working with the University to give engineering undergraduates real-world work experience in a local high-tech company.
"Propagator is a young, rapidly growing technology company with a need to recruit top-quality graduates. As well as giving students useful experience (and money!) during the summer vacation, the internship scheme offers a way for both the student and the company to get to know each other.
"We are hopeful that through the internship scheme we will find some "stars of tomorrow" who will go on to join our company and help us to continue to innovate and grow the business. We have been greatly encouraged by the quality of the students we have already interviewed and have high hopes for the future."
A first year MEng Mechanical Engineering student, said: "Doing an internship in a renewable energy company next summer is a fantastic opportunity. It will allow me not only to gain experience in a field where I'd love to work, but also be a great asset on my CV."
A Computer Science and Electronics student, commented: "As I had never had a job before, or even a formal interview. I thought that in order to increase my chances of employment after university it would be a good idea to take advantage of the help the scheme provided."
Another successful student, studying Aerospace Engineering, added: "The wide range of internships available meant I could choose one that was suited to what I wanted experience in, and gave me opportunities to apply to places I otherwise would not have heard of. Being selected was very exciting, and going through the interview process successfully has really boosted my confidence in professional communication."
Recent reports indicate that a significant proportion of graduate entry level positions will not even reach the wider jobs market. Instead they will be filled by graduates who have already worked for the recruiting company, through vacation work for example. This scheme, and other initiatives being run in the Faculty, will assist students to make that all important first step into the world of work.
Further informationAbout the Industrial Liaison Office
The Industrial Liaison Office manages and develops relationships with the Faculty of Engineering's many industrial partners across a range of activities.
If you would like your company to get involved in this scheme, please contact John McWilliams, Industrial Liaison Manager on email email@example.com
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Can't remember where I found this one, but an interesting (?) read.
https://0patch.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/d ... their.html
Didn't think anyone was still doing patching like this (takes me back to defeating simple protection schemes on the BBC B with a few NOPs in place of a JMP or whatever.)
It appears that there was a problem with the Equation Editor, and someone patched the binary because the source was unavailable. There wasn't much room so they were clever enough to fix the problem within the space available.
In the days of multi-core tremendously fast computers where everything is made easier for the programmer, this definitely feels old skool.
Manually patching Windows EXE
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Prince Harry required urgent medical attention during his gruelling trek to the South Pole last year (13) after suffering severe altitude sickness, exhaustion and dehydration.
The British royal joined actors Alexander Skarsgard and Dominic West and teams of wounded soldiers to tackle the challenge as part of the Walking With the Wounded charity mission, and they managed to reach the Antarctic on 13 December (14).
However, video footage shot for a U.K. TV documentary of the expedition reveals the 29 year old struggled through the trek and required help from doctors after his efforts left him in crippling pain.
In an upcoming episode of Harry's South Pole Heroes, which will air in the U.K. on Sunday (23Mar14), he admits, "Antarctica jumped up and bit me on the a**."
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In A Charlie Brown Christmas Charlie Brown is struggling to find out why Christmas is so depressing. He seeks advice from this local psychiatrist, Lucy, who gets him to direct the school Christmas play.
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As the name implies, the Doors Open festival opens the doors to Pittsburgh buildings normally closed to the public.
Making its Pittsburgh debut October 1-2, Doors Open invites you inside Pittsburgh's iconic architecture. The festival offers a full, free weekend of unique sightseeing in downtown Pittsburgh. Whether you're a life-long resident, an adopted Pittsburgher, or taking your first Pittsburgh excursion, Doors Open will give you an entirely new perspective on the city!
Plan your adventure with the list of participating sites on the Doors Open website. Because the event is self-paced, you choose what locations you want to explore. Most places will be open both days but a few will only be open on October 1 so be sure to note the specific days and hours for each site. Tour options will also differ with some locations offering structured, fully guided tours, others providing partial tours, and some offering completely self-guided access.
When you arrive, put your car in park because each site is located within Pittsburgh's comfortably walkable downtown! Walk or rent a bike with ease from Pittsburgh's Healthy Ride bike stations to travel to each location. After you've explored Doors Open, stick around and grab a bite to eat in Market Square or bike along the river to Point State Park. With so much to see and do, you'll fall in love with Pittsburgh all over again and likely want to spend the weekend!
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Explore unique gallery spaces and the visual masterpieces located within. Wood Street Galleries is located above Pittsburgh's light rail system (affectionately called "The T") and SPACE is an airy building with large windows located in the heart of the Cultural District. You'll also find 707-709 Galleries, two connected structures, on the list.
Spanning across religions, Pittsburgh's many impressive churches are open to all during Doors Open, including First Lutheran Church, First Presbyterian Church, Smithfield United Church of Christ, and the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
Pittsburgh is renowned for its dedication to environmentalism so don't miss the city's innovative, environmentally conscious spaces. A gem on the list is the spacious, LEED-certified, David L. Lawrence Convention Center with a scenic water walkway leading to a bike and walking trail.
You can tour these architectural wonders and stay in their impressive accommodations. The hotels on the list range from new, modern structures to historic buildings. The Embassy Suites, located inside the Oliver Building, is a new property within downtown that features a Sky Lobby, while the Omni William Penn Hotel is a long-loved Pittsburgh institution that hosted John F. Kennedy. Hotels open to tours also include the ornate Renaissance Hotel and the modern Fairmont Pittsburgh, conveniently located by Market Square.
Peek inside the life of a Pittsburgh government official. Take an hour-long tour of the Pittsburgh Mayor's Office, which features 1916 original furnishings, stories of past mayors, and more. Located in the City-County Building, a general space open during Doors Open, you'll also explore the City Council Chambers.
No tickets required during Doors Open! Head to the 14-square-block Cultural District to explore ornate theaters like Heinz Hall, home to the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Benedum Center, host to Broadway productions and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Also on the list is the August Wilson Center that features both gallery and theater spaces and the beautiful Byham Theater, located close to the Roberto Clemente Bridge.
History and innovation expands to Pittsburgh's offices. Check out unique corporate spaces like BNY Mellon's Executive Floors and Innovation Center. Tour the homes of architectural firms like Perkins Eastman, STRADA ARCHITECTURE, and The Design Alliance Architects.
Gain members-only access to Pittsburgh's exclusive clubs including the Penn Society, the Rivers Club, the Allegheny HYP Club, and the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania.
More spaces on display include the Museum Conservation Center at the Senator John Heinz History Center, the historic Dollar Bank decked out in old-school banking accessories, a former train station that now operates as a residential building, and more.
The Pittsburgh premier of Doors Open is a must-experience for the architecturally savvy, those interested in visual arts, history buffs, and people just looking for a unique fall adventure! With free admission and so much to explore, the festival makes for a great Pittsburgh getaway!
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SALT LAKE CITY — With 8:33 remaining in its first Pac-12 Conference game of the season, the Utah women's basketball team had a 52-44 lead. A debut victory seemed certain.
But as the buzzer sounded, Utah head coach Anthony Levrets was shaking his head in disbelief.
Colorado scored 14 unanswered points in the remaining time and thwarted Utah any chance of redemption, handing them a 58-52 loss on Saturday at the Huntsman Center.
"This is what we're going to face week in and week out now," Utah center Taryn Wicijowski said. "Grinding to the end of games. It's something we're welcoming but we're just not used to it yet. We're pretty tired."
The Utes did have scoring opportunities down the final stretch but they were unable to convert — something Levrets attributed to a tiring first half and nine offensive rebounds for the undefeated Colorado Buffaloes.
"It turned into really long possessions for them offensively and we spent a long time on the defensive end of the floor," Levrets said. "It takes your legs out of you. That's what we want to do to other people but that was a little reversed today."
Utah jumped out to an early 7-2 lead in the first half but experienced a scoring drought minutes later as Colorado went on a 10-0 run. The lead would change four more times throughout the well-matched contest, with the Utes unable to hold on.
"I thought we did a good job getting the ball inside to Taryn (Wicijowksi)," Levrets said. "But I thought there were a couple possessions where we weren't patient enough. We put the ball on the floor too soon when we were about to get Taryn or Plouffe inside."
When the Utes were able to feed Wicijowski, she delivered. The talented center earned yet another double-double, leading with 16 points and pulling down 11 rebounds in the narrow loss.
Although the Buffaloes' hounding defense hindered Utah's outside shooting, Michelle Plouffe and Iwalani Rodrigues were able to combine for an additional 26 points for the Utes, putting in 13 each.
Colorado's speedy guards, Julie Seabrook and Brittany Wilson, were too much for the Utah defense at times as they combined for 30 points in the win. The Utes shot just 14-percent from beyond the 3-point arc, going 2-14, compared to Colorado's 47-percent.
Despite the loss, Coach Levrets believes in a bright future.
"It (the loss) will be turned into a positive," he said. "This is a long season. We'll learn from it and get better."
Wicijowski agreed.
Colorado remains unbeaten, while Utah falls to an overall record of 7-5. Utah returns to action with a pair of Pac-12 road games next weekend, playing Washington State (Thursday, Jan. 5) and Washington (Saturday, Jan. 7).
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The Resident Assistant (RA) position is a unique student leadership opportunity to get involved at the University of Southern California. RAs serve as resources, role models, and peer educators to residents and work collaboratively as members of a residence hall staff to create a vital and engaged living-learning community. Together, the RAs provide programs and services that foster the holistic development of members within our USC residential community. This is a live-in position. Click above for more details about the position and how to apply.
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As 2014 winds down, you're no doubt thinking ahead to the New Year and how you'll reach out to your donors in 2015—and maybe even wondering how many will be back. But before you work to secure repeat donors, it's important to understand why many supporters leave.
Based on research we've done, here are six common reasons.
1. "I'm not able to afford supporting the organization."
There aren't many supporters who say that, but lack of resources is certainly one reason a donor may stop giving.
2. "I don't feel connected to the organization anymore."
This is the, "it's not you, it's me" scenario, and it happens in all types of relationships, not just romantic ones. Sometimes people lose the connection to a cause they once embraced. There could be several reasons for this—maybe they're looking for new people to connect with or and a new place to plug in and or their interests are evolving.
3. "I have no memory of ever supporting that organization."
You'd be surprised how often this happens. People may donate to a peer-to-peer campaign of some sort and easily remember the person that they supported, but have no recollection of the organization behind the campaign.
4. "They ask me for too much money."
Actually, I'd venture to say that many organizations ask for too little money too often. Kind of like those little dogs that nip at you out of somebody's purse—they just nip, nip, nip and they drive you crazy. Too much asking is a turn-off (which often happens when you ask for too little), and can send donors running for another organization.
5. "They don't tell me how my money is being used."
If an organization isn't forthcoming about how donations are being used, it can't expect donors to stick around for long. Bottom line: People want to know that their money is making a difference. If supporters don't understand their impact, they'll find a new place to invest.
6. "They never reminded me to give again."
This is one of the top reasons donors leave. They never received a message as simple as, "Thank you for donating last year. Would you like to give again this year?" Did you know that, with more than half of all donations made in the United States, no one reaches back out to those donors and asks them to give again? That's the national average across the country. It's remarkable to think that something so obvious could be the cause of donor attrition, but it's true.
These are six common reasons why donors leave. The question now is how do you get them to stay? Stay tuned—that's my next post.


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The mission of Lake Nokomis Community School is to empower every student to learn and grow every day. We represent diverse cultures and experiences which allows for instruction in the meaning and value of community and the importance of life long learning. We are nurturing great potential every day!
Our school community is housed on two campuses southeast of Lake Nokomis: Wenonah for Kindergarten-2nd grade, and Keewaydin for grades 3-8. We celebrate our neighborhood school culture and like to be known as a big city school with a small town heart.
It's almost back to school time! Here are lists for the 2018-2019 School Year. Please bring items to Open House Night, Thursday, August 23 @ Keewaydin 4-5:30 p.m., @ Wenonah 5:30-7 p.m.
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Supply Lists
3rd Grade Supply List
4th Grade Supply List
5th Grade Supply List
6th Grade Supply List
7th & 8th Grade Supply List
Please read our End of Year Parent Letters from Principal La Shawn Ray (Keewaydin) and Principal Kelly Wright (Wenonah). We are happy to share exciting news about reaching and exceeding many school goals this year, and our plans for next year. We wish you a peaceful summer and look forward to welcoming students back in August!
Read this week's news in English or Spanish, and view archives of past issues.
News crews surprised Mr. Pritchard, Wenonah Phy. Ed. teacher, at school: "PE Teacher Helps Kids 'Fall in Love with Fitness' by Taking them Fishing". Check out the awesome shots of our kiddoes having fun, developing life long skills, and using our neighborhood as a classroom. Congratulation Mr. Pritchard! We are happy to show the world why we love you so much!
Please help supply reams of paper (copy and multipurpose) to LNCS School, both Wenonah and Keewaydin campuses. The LNCS PTA has created an Amazon Wish List for just this purpose.
The PTA has launched an online family directory to help LNCS families find contact information for one another – want to coordinate on class events, plan play dates, or get together over the summer? You'll need to register your family to be able to use it (and for other families to see your information). The site is private for registered LNCS families only. It is NOT available to the general public.
See instructions to update your contact information or add family members for school messages. (Don't be scared off by the long instructions. They are mostly pictures and it only takes 5 minutes! And please ignore the follow up email you will receive that asks you to verify your account again.) You will need your student's ID number, which you can get from their bus tag or by calling their school's office.
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Grades 6-8 parents and guardians, monitor your child's grades, attendance, homework and more! Access the Parent Portal.
Contact Lisa Hudson if you have any questions or cannot access. Thank You!
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To borrow from Brian Cook, "apologies to the locals: this is pure meta". Disclaimer up front: I am not trying to be self-congratulatory or shower ourselves with praise. I want to put things out there so that we can all be on the same page.
Earlier today, we broke the news that Tom Izzo told his team he is going to take the Cavaliers' coaching job. We have since been bandied about as 'some blog', had our credibility denounced, and been generally cast aside. There are numerous people who claim contrary to our reports. We stand by what we have reported. This post isn't about the rumors in specific, but a look at what transpired today, and how it all fits into journalism, bloggery, and where we fit into all of this.
All of this began over the weekend, when we got a report that Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is pushing very hard to get Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. I published this information Sunday afternoon along with other rumors that had been covered elsewhere. At this point, Izzo had been rumored but we had the first report that things really were picking up. Soon afterwards, Brian Windhorst and Adrian Wojnarowski put out tweets that solidified our story that talks were picking up.
At 2:00 this afternoon, we came across the info that Tom Izzo had told his team that he would be taking the Cavs job. From there, Brendan worked to check with sources that he had – sources 1 and 2 that would be able to confirm. Around the same time, we got a report from a separate source (source 3) that said the same. This Source 3 later told us that Coach Izzo was waiting until his kids were done with school on Friday before making the announcement.
These emails came in between 2:00 and 2:08 PM. We confirmed with Sources 1 and 2 by 2:31 PM. We debated during the time between the inital report and our confirmation what we would as a site need to run the story. Once we had three sources, we ran the story at 2:46 PM. Fear The Sword tweeted about the rumors just after DP tweeted about our upcoming story. While we have not talked to John, we assume that our sources are the same based off of his post about the rumors at FTS that went up just after ours.
While reported from "anonymous sources", we are well-aware of our sources and their relationships to the parties involved. We are reporting them anonymously for the same reasons that others in all areas of media report sources anonymously – because we don't want to hurt our current relationship with them (or give up any sort of edge we may have in breaking news – we are, after all, a growing site that reports news, publishes opinion and analysis, and is not above attempting humor on occasion). There are hundreds of reports on ESPN, CNN, in the New York Times and Washington Post that are published every week from "anonymous" sources. That's part of the issue, but certainly isn't the crux of the issue here.
Once published, there was a nearly instantaneous proliferation of our story throughout the greater Twittersphere – from there, it made its way to message boards, other blogs, and anywhere else that electrons could take information. With the spread of the info came the speculation and the denigration. People called their sources at MSU, who denied the reports. Amidst the conflicting reports arose the standard "just a blog" argument that tends to pop up any time a blog or "new media" member breaks a story.
When it comes to looking at "blogs", there is a certain stigma that many people have. When saying this, I don't mean only the established main-stream media. Looking at the general population, many people still lump all blogs together and have a mindset about "blogs" one way or another. To many people there is no spectrum of blogs, no difference between KSK or EDSBS or SportsByBrooks or Deadspin or TBL or The800Level. They may be able to hear "Yardbarker.com" and know that it's a sports blog, but the average person likely can't differentiate between Yardbarker and SBNation or other fan-specific sites.
The lack of differentiation is a large contributor to the widespread denouncement of our report. It is a large part of the argument that happened between Spencer Hall/Brian Cook and Jason McIntyre/Alana G/Josh Zerkle this past weekend at Blogs With Balls 3.0 – a philisophical difference between bloggers at different sites. When people think "blogs" and think of the kind of sites that run rumors about Delonte West and Gloria James (for what it's worth, we got the email that was published on a garbage website 4 days before it published there. I think that it was crap then and it still is crap now*), it is a slight to what we try to do here. It is exactly the same as thinking "newspapers" and lumping The New York Times in with The National Enquirer (I'm not saying that we are the Times or the Enquirer in this case – just pointing out that lumping "blogs" together is an obtuse thing to do).
I can speak only for myself, but I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of Cook and Hall. We shouldn't look at the medium of the content that we're taking in, but rather at the quality of it (H/T: Ammo). We have guidelines and standards here at our site for a reason, and the fact that we do resonates with our readers (and we hope the greater blogosphere as a whole). By not dealing with salacious rumors or over-the-top stories, we hope to keep things reasonable, sane, and reliable.
Have we been wrong before? Certainly. Have we broken news before? Yes. We had the info about Brady Quinn's house being on the market before anyone else. Scott had info about the Browns' interest in Tom Heckert before anyone else. We had the story about LeBron's second MVP award and where/when he would accept it before anyone. This Izzo story is arguably the biggest that we've had, for a number of reasons.
As a site we are growing in scope. This past spring we started getting access on occasion to events in Cleveland. We are doing our best to cultivate relationships with people in the business that we love to cover – the sports business. We are doing our best to make the most out of these relationships. We don't publish news recklessly – that's not something that we have done, nor is it something that we plan to do in the future. We want to bring you news and analysis that is relevant. If that means that we publish a news story first, that's great. If that means that I photoshop a fish head onto Sebastian Telfair's body, it happens.
A lot of great people came to our defense today. The readership community has been wholeheartedly behind us. For some it was instinctive, stick-up-for-blogs talk that came from the greater blogosphere. A great deal of the support came via wholly supportive tweets from highly-regarded bloggers and established media members for whom we have a great deal of respect. The fact that they'll stand by us means a great deal to us. There are those who have said their mind about what we do, who think we're nobody, and hey – that's just dandy. You'll see us publish an apology if we are wrong. I hope that we see the same from these established "journalists", but I think we all know that's not going to happen.
This whole situation reminded me of a great, great piece from Glenn Greenwald at Salon that I came across on Tumblr the other day. Edit: Greenwald included this quote from David Halberstam, on the state of American press (thanks, Alecks):
"There are a few things I would like to pass on to you as I come near to the end of my career. One: It's not about fame. By and large, the more famous you are, the less of a journalist you are… Somewhere in there, gradually, but systematically, there has been an abdication of responsibility within the profession, most particularly in the networks… So, if we look at the media today, we ought to be aware not just of what we are getting, but what we are not getting; the difference between what is authentic and what is inauthentic in contemporary American life and in the world, with a warning that in this celebrity culture, the forces of the inauthentic are becoming more powerful all the time."
We work hard to stay authentic to we we are as a site, most importantly because the community that we have established here is so authentically Cleveland. To all of you who have supported us in all of this, I want to say thank you on behalf of all of us. In a few days, we'll know for sure whether or not our report was correct. Until then, we're extremely grateful for the support you all have given us.
* I refer to the Delonte/Gloria James rumor as "crap" referring not to the sourcing of the story, but the contents. It's not the kind of rumor that we're prone to cover here. This is my opinion on the topic.


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So here I sit on Christmas Eve, doing exactly that, and updating the world on our year. I also have all my wrapping to do, and a little pink bike in the crawl space waiting to be assembled... quite the honey do list for a holiday if you ask me. And
But I digress. Like I mentioned earlier, 2012 was a whirlwind; what with a baby and a move across country so naturally this year felt somewhat vanilla. One exciting thing we experienced early this year was the longest streak of weather in MN under 60 degrees since 1861 (October- May). It was nice to be a part of history and all but we decided the best way to celebrate was to get the hell out of here. We used Kassi's 30th birthday in April as an excuse for a seven day trip to Jamaica (which luckily we booked before paying our taxes on April 15th).
I had never been to Jamaica before but for all knew we could have been anywhere, we never left the hotel pool, much less the resort. I felt kind of bad not getting even a taste of the local culture but then I realized I was lying in the tropical sun having buckets of red stripe delivered and that I couldn't care less about the culture. Except of course for the bobsled team but they were unavailable for some reason (might have been because I demanding to meet them at the concierge desk in nothing but my swim trunks... at 9am).
In 2013 Lyla grew into a full blown kid. Gone are the days of her quietly crawling around on the floor. Now if she sits still for more than 30 seconds it's because she is asleep or because Dora The Explorer is on. She is constantly on the move, constantly gabbing up a storm, and constantly demanding to have things her way... very much like her mother, not me. I actually resisted momentarily when Kassi insisted on bringing home my parents vast collection of books on parenting a strong willed child but then decided to just let her win that one. Happy wife happy life they say.
We also perfectly nailed the conception window for baby number two this year and we are looking forward to welcoming Everly Joy Chapman to the clan in March. That was the only month we had available due to Lyla's second birthday in February and my 30th birthday in April. Needless to say Evie is already more punctual than either of her parents.
No big promotions this year for either of us, but work for both Kassi and I continues to be pretty great. Kassi loves Oracle and I love Life Time and for the time being both fit pretty perfectly into our work, family, baby, blogging, cooking, rugby, another baby, cats, and a dog kind of life.
So here is to the momentary conclusion of yet another year. We are thankful beyond belief for the blessings we have received and for each one of you. Our friends and family, near and far, mean the world to us and we wish we could see more of you this Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
Ryan, Kassi, Lyla, Evie, Tim, Carlos, Kevin


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Lady Gaga to Take Act to India
To expand her audience, she's paired up with Bollywood producers to remix her songs in South Asia.
Lady Gaga is going Bollywood.
Hot on the heels of selling more than 1 million copies of her third album, Born This Way, the Grammy winner has announced plans to kick off a marketing campaign in India.
Gaga and her manager Troy Carter have teamed up with Desi Hits, a New York-based media company that distributes entertainment content to South Asians worldwide to expand her brand, the Wall Street Journal reports. PHOTOS: What Lady Gaga and other stars wore to the Grammys
"The reason I'm going to India now is because I can," she tells the WSJ. "I didn't have the money or the resources before to travel and bring all of my things with me and reach an entire new territory of fans."
"She's expanding her base," said Carter. "In the last album cycle we toured a lot of places in the world, but there were still some territories that we weren't able to go and spend time and really work. India was one of those places." PHOTOS: Lady Gaga's wackiest style choices
Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Akon and Enrique Iglesias have also partnered with Desi Hits to penetrate the India market, which is made more attractive by its population; 700 million people are under the age of 30.
The company pairs artists and their record label with producers and DJs to help them navigate the commercial culture in India. Co-founder Anjula Acharia-Bath explains that songs become hits in India after appearing in movies, so a fluency in Bollywood is essential.
Acharia-Bath had Gaga's hit song "Born This Way" remixed by two sets of producers, The Bollywood team of Salim and Sulaiman and Culture Shock, a Canada-based band and production team, according to the WSJ. They were released last month on YouTube and DesiHits.com, which gets 1.5 million unique visits a month and reaches 20 million people across the Web, mobile and TV platforms monthly. Two more South-Asian influenced remixes of her song "Judas," by Salim and Sulaiman and another well-known producer, Panjabi MC, are also being featured on DesiHits.com.
Gaga has promoted her album prolifically domestically as well between appearances on Saturday Night Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Good Morning America's summer concert series. When Amazon.com sold her album for 99 cents, its cloud servers nearly crashed. VIDEO: Gaga on GMA
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What is Curricular Practical Training?
The Immigration Service defines "curricular practical training" as employment which is an integral or important part of your curriculum, including: "...alternate work/study, internship, cooperative education, or any other type of required internship or practicum which is offered by sponsoring employers through cooperative agreements with the school." At the Sacred Heart University, the terms "co-op", "internship", and "field experience" are used to describe opportunities for Curricular Practical Training.
What Jobs Qualify?
To be considered Curricular Practical Training, the work must be related to your current major field of study AND must also be an integral or important part of your studies. Your academic department must determine if the job qualifies for Curricular Practical Training.
A. Employment which is required by your degree program always meets the requirements for Curricular Practical Training, regardless of whether or not you receive academic credit for your work.
B. Employment which is not required by your degree program may meet the requirements for Curricular Practical Training if you receive academic credit for the employment experience and if it is an important part of your studies.
Optional Practical Training may be used for work experience that is optional and not for credit, or for work that is requested prior to you meeting your academic department's eligibility for Curricular Practical Training. See the handout on F-1 Optional Practical Training for more information.
How do I Qualify?
Employment Which Is a Required Part of Your Degree Program.
(1) you are a graduate student, and
(1) you are a graduate student, and
(2) you are maintaining lawful F-1 status, and
(3) the proposed employment is a required part of your studies, and
(4) you meet all academic criteria set by your academic department,
you may apply for permission to engage in Curricular Practical Training whenever your program requires your participation, even if it is immediately upon beginning your studies. Undergraduate students must have completed two semesters of full-time study in order to be eligible for any form of Curricular Practical Training.
Employment Which Is Not a Required Part of Your Degree Program. In order to be eligible to apply for permission to work in a job which is not a required part of your study program, you must:
(1) be in lawful F-1 status and
(2) have been a full-time F-1 student for at least one full academic year and
(3) meet all academic criteria set by your academic department.
English Language Students. Students enrolled in SHU's English Language Institute are not eligible for Curricular Practical Training.
When May I Start Work?
You must not start work until you receive a new I-20 form with specific written permission for Curricular Practical Training on page 3. Working improperly or without authorization is a serious violation of your F-1 student status. You should consult with the Student Life Office before taking up any employment. The Student Life Office will advise you regarding your responsibilities; however, it is your responsibility to comply with all Immigration regulations that apply to F-1 students.
How Many Hours per Week May I Work?
Your academic department must approve your request for Curricular Practical Training including how many hours per week you are approved for work.
Part-Time Training. Employment for 20 hours or less per week while you are also enrolled full time is considered "part time" Curricular Practical Training. The employment authorization written on the back of your Form I-20 will specify permission to engage in "part time" training and you must be careful to limit your work to no more than 20 hours per week. There is no limit on the number of semesters that you may participate in part-time Curricular Practical Training, but you must be simultaneously enrolled full-time in order to maintain lawful F-1 status.
Full-Time Training. Employment for more than 20 hours per week is considered "full time" Curricular Practical Training and the employment authorization on your Form I-20 will specify permission to participate in "full time" training. There is no limit on the number of semesters that you may participate in full time Curricular Practical Training, but if you participate for twelve months or more, you will not be eligible for
Optional Practical Training (see next paragraph).
How Long May I Participate In CPT?
Your academic department may have limits on the number of credits of Curricular Practical Training that you may register for. Each academic department, not the International/Multicultural Center, makes this decision. However, if you participate in twelve months or more of "full time" Curricular Practical Training, you lose eligibility to apply for twelve months of Optional Practical Training. Participation in "part time" Curricular Practical Training does not effect your eligibility for Optional Practical Training.
Application and Authorization Procedures
Bring the following to the Student Life Office:
- your original I-20 form
- a letter from your prospective employer which describes the position
- a recommendation from your academic advisor
- proof that you have registered for Co-op, Internship, or Field Experience
You must be careful not to continue employment beyond the date authorized on your I-20 unless you apply for and are granted an extension of your permission to work.
What Paperwork do I Need to do When I Start Work?
When you begin work, you and your employer must complete a form entitled "Employment Eligibility Verification" (INS Form I-9), which the employer retains. The I-9 must be updated each time you receive a renewal of you work permission. Your I-20 will have a specific employment authorization on page 3.
Do I Pay Social Security and Other Taxes?
In general, F-1 students who have been in the U.S. less than five years are exempt from Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes. See IRS Publication 519, US Tax Guide for Aliens, for detailed information. This publication is available on-line at www.irs.gov. Your earnings are subject to applicable federal, state and local income taxes. A tax return is due on or before April 15 each year, which will determine if any of these taxes may be refunded.


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All orders are hand wrapped in tissue paper and despatched to you in sturdy cardboard boxes that can be recycled once you've finished with them or used to send anything back to us.
Standard delivery within the UK costs £4.95 irrespective of the weight of the parcel. Orders should ordinarily arrive within 5 days (excluding Sundays).
If no-one is at the specified delivery address when the courier attempts delivery, you can ask them to leave the package in a 'safe place' - i.e. in the porch, with a neighbour etc. Simply enter your designated place under delivery instructions as part of your order. If the courier is unable to complete delivery after 3 attempts the parcel will be returned to sender and you will be refunded.
We do offer a next-day delivery service for UK addresses only, with orders of in stock items placed on weekdays before 8pm guaranteed to arrive the next working day in personal courier areas only. This costs £8.95.
If no-one is at the specified delivery address when the courier attempts delivery, you can ask them to leave the package in a 'safe place' - i.e. in the porch, with a neighbour etc. Simply enter your designated place under delivery instructions as part of your order.
Our next day service is available for orders placed for delivery Monday to Saturday. Unfortunately, we are not able to make deliveries on a Sunday or on bank holiday Mondays, nor can we provide a next day service to Jersey, the Channel Islands, Scottish Highlands, counties north of West Lothian or Northern Ireland.
During our popular end-of-season sales we still offer a next day service but orders must be placed by 6pm to guarantee delivery.
Stock permitting, all orders are usually despatched within 48 hours of being accepted, to arrive with UK customers within 5 days (excluding Sundays).
In the event that an item is temporarily out of stock, we will notify you of the delay and despatch it as soon as it arrives. If you do not wish to accept the new delivery date, simply email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 0330 333 9584 and we will cancel your order. All calls are charged at local rate. Your credit/debit card will not have been charged as your order will not have been despatched.
The delivery period stated within which you will receive your order is approximate. Goods will be sent to the address given by you in your order. If you are ordering more than 1 item, your goods may be sent to you in instalments if certain items are out of stock. In this case, you will only pay a single delivery charge.
Our courier will require a signature for all orders over �299. If you are unavailable at the time of delivery the courier will be happy to deliver to a neighbour on your behalf. If you are happy for a neighbour to sign for your order, you can enter this information in the delivery instructions field on the checkout page.
If you are ordering from France we offer the Colissimo delivery service. This is charged at �8.95 an order and you can expect delivery within 7 days (excluding weekends and public holidays). We are happy to fulfil orders to France directly from the UK site. Free returns are not available to addresses outside of the UK, any returns are at the recipients cost.
If you are ordering from Germany please re-direct to your local site www.poetry-fashion.de for a swifter service.
We are happy to fulfil orders to most other European addresses, from the UK site. These are charged at £18.00 an order and can take up to a week to arrive. Free returns are not available to addresses outside of the UK, any returns are at the recipients cost.
If you are ordering from the USA, please re-direct to your local site www.poetryfashion.com for a swifter service.
We are happy to fulfil orders to most other addresses outside Europe, from the UK site. These are charged at £20 an order and can take up to 10 days to arrive. This price does not include any import duties or local taxes, for which the recipient is responsible. Free returns are not available to addresses outside of the UK, any returns are at the recipients cost.
All international deliveries are sent by Royal Mail International and the progress of your delivery can be tracked through their website at http://www.royalmail.com/track-trace
Please note customs policies vary widely from country to country. We recommend you contact your local customs office for further information. Please note international shipments may be subject to cross-border inspections by customs authorities.
We have our own returns policy which is explained below. Please note that this returns policy does not affect your right to cancel your contract with us under The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 ("Consumer Regulations"). We explain how to exercise your rights under the Consumer Regulations below.
Please note that the right to cancel under the Consumer Regulations will not be available in some circumstances. For instance, if you wish to cancel only part of an order, if you wish to cancel your order over 14 days after receipt of the goods or if you would like us to cover the cost of return postage, however, our own returns policy might be applicable (please see below).
Order confidently from us, knowing you may return any products within 30 days of receipt for a refund or exchange as long as those products are unwashed, unworn (except for the purposes of trying on) and with the original tags attached. We always aim to process returns as quickly as possible within 5 days of our receipt however, it can take slightly longer during busier periods.
If you wish to exchange an item for another size or colour, return it to us within 30 days of delivery and we will send you the replacement item free of any additional delivery charges. We can only exchange an item for an alternative size or colour. If you would like to exchange for a different item, please contact Customer Care on 0330 333 9584.
We offer a free Royal Mail tracked returns service on all orders sent to a UK mainland address.
Simply attach the reply-paid sticker that appears at the bottom of your despatch note to the original packaging and take the parcel to your local Post Office. The parcel will then be tracked all the way back to our returns warehouse. This reply-paid sticker covers a parcel weighing up to 5kg.
You can follow the parcel's progress by visiting the Royal Mail website�http://www.royalmail.com/track-trace�and entering the 13 digit tracking number. We strongly recommend that you obtain proof of postage from the post office as the receipt contains the tracking number. It is also proof that you returned the order.
If it is not convenient for you to get to the Post Office we have agreed a special rate with our delivery partner Hermes. One of their team of couriers can collect your parcel directly from your home or place of work. The parcel will be tracked from collection to delivery and the price of a mainland courier collection is �2.70 per parcel. Services to remote area postcodes IM, HS and ZE charged at �4.99 per parcel.
If you prefer you can drop your parcel off at one of the many local ParcelShops� operated by MyHermes. ParcelShops� are located in small corner shops, convenience stores, garage forecourts and local independent stores. These shops have long opening hours and are generally located within residential areas making it easy and convenient to use.
To arrange a courier collection and for a list of your local ParcelShops� visit https://www.hermesparcelreturn.co.uk
If you change your mind you may return any unwanted item purchased in store for a refund or exchange within 30 days. It is important that any unwanted item, unless faulty, is returned in a re-saleable condition. This means you have all the original packaging and labels and the item is unworn and not damaged. Returns made outside 30 days are at the discretion of the store manager and any refund would take the form of store credit. If you return an item bought for you with a gift receipt we will give you store credit to the value of the original selling price.
Returning an online purchase in store. Please be aware that although we accept returns of online purchases in store you must provide proof of purchase. Refunds are not issued in store, we return your online purchase to the returns centre for processing free of charge. Your refund will appear 2-3 days after receipt.
We have explained below how you can exercise your right under the Consumer Regulations to cancel your contract with us. Please note that in many cases our own returns policy may be applicable or may be more suitable for your requirements. You have a right to cancel this contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The cancellation period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and dictated by you acquires, physical possession of the goods.
To exercise the right to cancel, you must inform us, Selective Marketplace Limited trading as Poetry of Belton Rd West,�Loughborough,�Leicestershire,�LE11 5XL, of your decision to cancel this contract by a clear statement (e.g. a letter sent by post, fax or email). You may use the cancellation form supplied here but it is not compulsory. To meet the cancellation deadline it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right to cancel before the cancellation period has expired.
If you cancel this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for supplementary costs arising if you choose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us). We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you. We will make the reimbursement without undue delay and not later than 14 days after the day we receive back from you any goods supplied, or (if earlier), 14 days after the day you provide evidence that you have returned the goods, or (if there were no goods supplied), 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to cancel this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise, in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of the reimbursement. We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest. You shall send back the goods without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your cancellation of this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days expires. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.


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Robert Bagwell
Mr. Robert Bagwell, husband of Linda Bagwell for fifty eight wonderful years, passed away on June 13, 2017, surrounded by his loving family at Rainey Hospice House in Anderson.
Born in Easley, he was the son to the late Ernest and Margaret Bagwell.
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a son, Randy Bagwell; daughters, Pam Leaphart (David), Cindy Miller (Bill), Kim Hunt (Robbie) a brother, Tommy Bagwell (Pat); and a daughter-in-law, Judy Bagwell; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Bagwell was preceded in death by a son, Robbie Bagwell; a daughter, Bonnie Jean Bagwell; eight brothers and two sisters.
He had a propensity for gardening, a strong love for Nascar, but most of all, he loved God and his family .
Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM on Friday, June 16, 2017 at the chapel of Robinson Funeral Home - Powdersville Road. Burial will follow at Robinson Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 1:45 - 2:45 PM on Friday, June 16, 2017 at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Upstate.
1835 Rogers Road
Anderson, SC 29621
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or in person at Robinson Funeral Home - Powdersville Road, which is assisting the family.
1425 Powdersville Road
Easley, SC 29642
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- He wanted to call you Ulysses. Seriously. I had to explain to him that as we are both shortish, pale, need glasses and are slightly ginger, it was highly unlikely that you'd end up being able to carry off such a name. His other contributions to the baby name list were Wolfgang and Thurston. You had a lucky escape my son.
- He was such a geek at school that he set up a club called The Weirdos, which would only accept the most nerd-like and unpopular people in his year group. He was then ousted from the group by the rest of The Weirdos for being too weird. This is one of the reasons that I married him. The lesson here is that geeks are more fun and well rounded than the popular kids, although this just might not become apparent until they're in their 20s. Until then, you have to endure several years of misery at school, but it will be worth it. As your father says, "I may have been a weirdo at school, but I still ended up marrying a girl with big boobs." Profound.
- Ask him about his trip to Paris many years before he met me, and the vomiting and the helpful lady who was "giving him directions". Just ask him. This is the definition of inappropriate behaviour. He told me about it on our first date, along with a lot of other unspeakable things. Apparently I have the first date persona of a female Michael Parkinson and can get people to open up and tell me all their secrets within fifteen minutes of meeting them. Hopefully you'll inherit this useful trait from me and not your father's propensity for naughtiness.
- He exists on a diet of sweets, cake, biscuits, pork scratchings, pizza and Lucozade. He swills Coca Cola around his mouth several times before he swallows it. He will cheerfully eat an entire Sara Lee Black Forest gateau for lunch and nothing else. Despite this, he's pretty healthy, on the slender side and only has one tiny filling in his teeth. This is an example of injustice. Do not copy him.
- He is a skinflint. He resents spending money on anyone apart from himself and as long as he can afford his imported trainers, he is happy for his wife and child to walk around in rags. Rags, I tell you. OK, not rags, but you see where I'm going with this, right? The man is too tight to buy you a little rail to stop you from falling out of bed. That's why I have to wedge you in with hardback books every night. Yesterday evening while you were
palmed off on my mumspending quality time with your grandparents, he took me out to see PJ Harvey in Manchester using tickets that he had bought rather than been given by a record label for a change. When she was given a standing ovation at the end, your father refused to stand up because "I paid for these seats, I'm going to sit in them for as long as possible. And anyway, it's not like I've seen Jesus or anything. Bring me Jesus and I'll stand up." If you want to go to university in the future, I'd start saving up now if I were you.
Go to Notes From Home to see what other people want their children to know about their fathers.


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V8 implements a generational garbage collector where objects may move within the young generation, from the young to the old generation, and within the old generation. Moving objects is expensive since the underlying memory of objects needs to be copied to new locations and the pointers to those objects are also subject to updating. Figure 1 shows the phases and how they were executed before Orinoco. Essentially, objects were moved first and then pointers between those objects were updated afterwards, all in sequential order, resulting in observable jank.
|Figure 1: Sequential moving of objects and updating pointers
Since there are no dependencies between young generation evacuation and old generation compaction, Orinoco now performs these phases in parallel, as shown in Figure 2. The result of these improvements is a reduction of compaction time of 75% from ~7ms to under 2ms on average.
|Figure 2: Parallel moving of objects and updating pointers
The second optimization introduced by Orinoco improves how garbage collection tracks pointers. When an object moves location on the heap, the garbage collector has to find all pointers that contain the old location of the moved object and update them with the new location. Since iterating through the heap to find the pointers would be very slow, V8 uses a data structure called a remembered set to keep track of all the interesting pointers on the heap. A pointer is interesting if it points to an object that may move during garbage collection. For example, all pointers from the old generation to the new generation are interesting because new generation objects move on every garbage collection. Pointers to objects in heavily fragmented pages are also interesting because these objects will move to other pages during compaction.
Previously, V8 implemented remembered sets as arrays of pointer addresses, or store buffers. There was one store buffer for the young generation and one for each of the fragmented old generation pages. The store buffer of a page contains addresses of all incoming pointers as shown in Figure 3. Entries are appended to a store buffer in a write barrier, which guards write operations in JavaScript code. This may result in duplicate entries since a store buffer may include a pointer multiple times and two different store buffers may include the same pointer. Duplicate entries make parallelization of the pointer update phase difficult because of the data race caused by two threads trying to update the same pointer.
|Figure 3: Old remembered set
|Figure 4: New remembered set
The third optimization that Orinoco introduces is black allocation, an improvement to the marking phase of the garbage collector. Black allocation (shipped in V8 5.1) is a garbage collection technique in which all objects allocated in the old generation (e.g. pre-tenured allocations or promoted objects by the garbage collector) are marked black immediately in order to designate them as "live". The intuition behind black allocation is that objects allocated in the old generation are likely long living. Therefore, objects that were recently allocated in the old generation should at least survive the next old generation garbage collection, otherwise they were falsely promoted. After coloring newly allocated objects black the garbage collector will not visit them. We speed up coloring of black objects by allocating them on black pages where all all objects are black by default. Another benefit of black pages is that they do not have to be swept, since all objects allocated on them are (by definition) live. Black allocation speeds up incremental marking progress since marking work does not increase with new allocations. The impact of black allocation is clearly visible on the Octane Splay benchmark where the throughput and latency score improved by about 30% while using about 20% less memory due to faster marking progress and less garbage collection work overall.
We plan to roll out more Orinoco features soon. Stay tuned, we are still tinkering!
Posted by the jank busters: Ulan Degenbaev, Michael Lippautz, and Hannes Payer


text: Welcome to the Region 2 Public Health Training Center (Region 2 PHTC)! The Center is a continuing education and training resource for public health workers primarily in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through face-to-face and distance-based learning opportunities, MPH student field placements, and more, the Center strives to strengthen local public health departments to better serve their communities.


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I have had this white-centered Striptease sport around for a while. It looks the same as a bunch of them out there. But it's mine and I wanted it to have a name. (I had another years ago I named "Golden Garters" that holly roots tore up - I still have tiny fragments in pots - I have shown it before viewtopic.php?f=1&t=57017 .)
I wanted the name to start with Geo - something like Georgina or Georjette. Today I found a reference to Georgiana
http://www.streetswing.com/histburl/geo ... tino1.html that fits the "Striptease" theme.
So here is another white-centered sport of Striptease -- "Georgiana":
The other white-centered plant, off to the left, is CVG Can Can. I was comparing the whiteness of the centers.


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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter the bottom and sides of a 3-quart baking dish, and sprinkle the breadcrumbs evenly to coat the bottom and side of the dish.
Cut the corn off the cob in a large bowl then scrape the cob across the bowl a second time to release all the corn milk, and then set aside.
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat, add corn, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and cayenne. Saute for 2 to 3 minutes. Add bacon and saute until crisp. Add onions and bell peppers, cook until barely tender, then remove from heat.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the cream, milk, eggs, Parmesan, cornmeal, sugar, pepper and nutmeg until frothy. Add the corn mixture and stir to combine. Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake 35 to 40 minutes, until firm. Serve hot from the oven.
This recipe was provided by a chef, restaurant or culinary professional. It has not been tested for home use.
Recipe courtesy of Michael Murray, owner, LA Pines, New Orleans, LA
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