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sidekicks

This blog was nearly called learning sidekicks, perhaps in some way I will be learning sidekicks for ever. I have improved a lot since beginning them but the below I am not. Yet. I can jump a little and propel

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training

I’ve started training every day in some shape or form and also nice timing with CookDing’sKitchen Lenten Challenge too. Also catching up on some Korean terminology on the train in the mornings, so was interesting to see a post on

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Grin and Bear It: Toothache Day and Why It Was Best to Avoid the Dentist in the Ancient World

Reblogged from Museum of Health Care Blog: *The following blog post was written by Curatorial Assistant Varsha Jayaraman February 9th marks Toothache Day, a day to celebrate…toothaches?  Much like many strangely-named holidays, the origin and reason for this one is

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notes from “Reflex and Interpretation – a genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines”

From a seminar series at UCL History of Medicine centre, via a tweet by @mocost. The seminar was presented by Professor Katja Guenther Sigmund Freud – higher functions – patient voice, listening; and Otfrid Foerster working in a city hospital

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Learning analytics ethics scenarios x4

Our internal learning analytics focus group met yesterday. We are starting to create – probably about six different scenarios which we hope might encourage people to think about the ethics and current policies which may be affected through use of learning

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taekwondo training – don’t panic!

We’ve had three great fun sessions over the weekend and tonight. Yesterday we practised stepping back and other movements. Master Mark Worsfold found an old sliding metal pole from somewhere and managed to attach a training knife to it and

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Martial arts instructors for Martial Arts Summer Camp 2013?

If you are around / available / would like a week by the sea in Cornwall Saturday 10th August – Friday 16th August Photos of 2012 and previous camps Feel free to get in touch via this blog, direct to

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experiment update – hibernation

I forgot to post about this. I realised at end of November that it would be impossible to do during winter. Too many sleeves and it’s not possible to put the clicker inside and press it, I tried wedging it

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Peace

The gentlest of gentle whispers The masks of human existence no longer need to be worn Free from the confusion Another soul flies off in search of new adventures Goodbye Aunt   Photo – Peace with thanks to InspireKelly available

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History of web hosting

I have chatted with a few people who have been involved with different forms of infrastructure and we seem to be in agreement. I remember looking at different types of servers when I did my CIW and how they are connected. The evolution

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Thumb exercises

There are lots of resources publicly available showing different exercises. So will see what difference it makes. I have some grippers that I can use too and spongy ball, elastic bands, don’t have little marbles but can find something round

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cycling update

Had first lesson on confidence building so I can cycle on roads with traffic in my area. Prior to lessons had visions of making it to Ashtead and back but it was slightly disheartening though useful to discover it was

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Reverse kicks practice

It was really a interesting session (they are all interesting in their own way and always challenging). We practised reverse hooking kicks in training today following a series of other combinations and drills. They are not easy kicks as you

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Catching up with Cloud architecture

Whilst at Learning Technologies we could wander into Cloud Expo in the neighbouring hall. Lots of stands talking about private clouds but I came across quite a few views from visitors to the exhibition rather than the exhibitors, who don’t want to lock into

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Cumbria says no

Reblogged from Meall Dubh: Well, that’s it decided at last – Cumbria County Council is no longer putting itself forward as a possible site for a nuclear waste repository. When this was debated at full Council in September, I urged

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Petition – no nuclear dump in the Lake District

I don’t often advertise petitions on my blog, but this particular one is to several councils in the Lake District who have volunteered to use the area to dump nuclear waste. More details at noend. 38degrees petition: Why is this

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Thanks to KenThinksAloud for a great link – writing like Stephen King

After reading the post on KenThinksAloud blog (who has recently done a wonderful series of interviews with teenagers in Bangladesh – I found Ken’s blog whilst doing 1CAD). I took the 2 most recent posts from my writing category and

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Writing like Dan Brown and Douglas Adams

Reblogged from kenthinksaloud: I had some fun last week when, through another blogger, I discovered yet another writing website. I’m beginning to feel like I’m collecting these sites – often packed with lots of helpful information – and spend more

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Cook Ding’s Kitchen and Practical Daoism in Everyday Life

Cook Ding’s Kitchen was one of the earlier martial arts blogs I found when I first started looking several years ago. He has recently released a book -Cook Ding’s Kitchen – a kung fu carry out – Practical Daoism in Everyday

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Co-efficient of variation and correlation co-efficient

Co-efficient of variation compares spread of data (could be two sets of different sizes or units) and is calculated with the mean and standard deviation e.g. Correlation is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables. I

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