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Retroperitoneal histologic findings of patients with elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein and pure seminoma at orchiectomy
Shilajit D. Kundu, Brett S. Carver, Joel Sheinfeld*
Objectives: To report the retroperitoneal histologic findings from a contemporary series of patients with pure seminoma at orchiectomy with an elevated serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) level. These patients underwent treatment on the assumption that the lesion was nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT). Methods: We identified 22 patients from 1989 to 2009 with pure seminoma diagnosed at orchiectomy with an elevated serum AFP level (>15 ng/mL) either before or after orchiectomy. The retroperitoneal histologic and relapse data are reported. Results: The median preorchiectomy and prechemotherapy serum AFP level was 248 ng/mL (interquartile range 48-4693) and 279 ng/mL (interquartile range 66-5311), respectively. The percentage of patients with clinical Stage I, II, and III disease was 5%, 50%, and 45%, respectively. The percentage of patients with a good, intermediate, and poor risk status according to the International Germ Cell Cancer Collaborative Group was 32%, 32%, and 36%, respectively. Of the 22 patients, 21 underwent induction chemotherapy followed by retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Overall, 67% of patients had NSGCT elements in the retroperitoneum. The histologic findings were pure teratoma in 38%, malignant transformation in 14%, and viable NSGCT in 14%. Also, 59% had some component of teratoma in the retroperitoneum. Only 1 patient (5%) had any seminoma in the retroperitoneum, but this patient also had retroperitoneal teratoma. Of the 22 patients, 7 developed a relapse and received salvage chemotherapy. The actuarial relapse-free survival rate at 5 and 10 years was 76% and 61%, respectively, reflecting the high percentage of patients with Stage II-III disease. Conclusions: Pure seminoma at orchiectomy with an elevated serum AFP level portends a high likelihood of NSGCT elements in the retroperitoneum.
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Kundu, S. D., Carver, B. S., & Sheinfeld, J. (2011). Retroperitoneal histologic findings of patients with elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein and pure seminoma at orchiectomy. Urology, 78(4), 844-847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2011.02.002
Kundu, Shilajit D. ; Carver, Brett S. ; Sheinfeld, Joel. / Retroperitoneal histologic findings of patients with elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein and pure seminoma at orchiectomy. In: Urology. 2011 ; Vol. 78, No. 4. pp. 844-847.
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Born on the tropical jewel of St.Croix was Quishylah Ajanae Navarro. Being the intellectual outstanding person that she is Quishylah has been an academic scholar her entire life. She enjoys putting her all into a diamond cut field, using her imagination to place passion filled meaning behind words, and expanding her scientific knowledge. Being a natural in the cultural word Quishylah plays steel pan, dances quadrille, was a participant in the "Who Lived Here" project, a member of the Transatlantic slave trade collaboration, and recently became a cast member on"Ah Cultural Corner". She uses her bold and sociable personality to bring the history of the Virgin Island to its present day inhabitants.


Life is an adventure bursting at its seams. Sometimes we need to take risks and enjoy escapes, no matter how old we are.
Mornings by the Sea is a visual editorial of the outdoors and travel by Jamie Fleck. Jamie and her husband are the professional photographers behind Fleckography Co., which specializes in capturing weddings and romance with photographs.
Mornings by the Sea is a story telling medium that Jamie uses to translate into photographs what inspires and delights her. Her love for photography is what documents this visual editorial of her adventures in travel and the outdoors.
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Stuart Pearce hopes Nottingham Forest will be more assured in possession against Leeds on Saturday.
The manager was pleased with how his side battled in last weekend's 0-0 draw at Rotherham, but was left disappointed by the players' performance with the ball.
And Pearce revealed to Forest Player this morning that he and his staff have been encouraging the team to relish their time in possession against the Whites.
He said: "It's a case of galvanising that little bit of confidence in the team and trusting the players.
"They scrapped really well at Rotherham to get a foothold in the game. We competed fantastically well.
"Once you've done that and turned the ball over it's time to get it down and enjoy passing and possession.
"There are two elements of the game – out of possession and in possession. We work on both in every drill we do."
Saturday's trip to the New York Stadium saw Dexter Blackstock make his first league start for Forest since October 2013.
And his manager is cautiously optimistic about what the striker could offer in the coming months.
Pearce said: "I can't lose track of what a bad injury it was. It kept him out for a long time and he's had to be more patient than he probably likes to be, playing in the Under 21s with a view to making sure when he did come back into action he could deliver a level of performance and fitness befitting first-team football.
"We're pleased to have him back. It's an extra striking option. He gives you an aerial threat that's always a problem to defences."

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Kids participate in sports for a diversity of reasons. Every tiny one is assorted, and each tiny one has assorted skill ranges. Some youngsters reap the advantages of the amount of social time they get to employ with their friends initiate air of faculty. Some youngsters retract to meet current friends to play with. Some youngsters fair retract to play sports and have to play any sport simply to be doing something.
Then there are the kids who are only lifeless perfect at baseball. Whether their skill is natural, or they've worked very exhausting to change into perfect, it's finest shapely to those talented youngsters that they've the substitute to search out their hobby in baseball and thrive in a disaster the save they are able to play against youngsters with the identical level of hobby and ability as they've. If youngsters are no longer challenged, then they'll lose hobby.
You cannot pressure your youngsters to relish sports; you may well well presumably also no longer pressure them to be perfect at sports. Alternatively, you may well well presumably also present them with the substitute to procure for them if these sports are something they'd retract to pursue and fabricate for them. In buying for teams with like-minded youngsters and oldsters there are assorted ranges of baseball to consider of getting your tiny one enraged about.
Many youngsters initiate out as early as age 5 by playing tee-ball. Playing with a tee offers the kids one more to fabricate the hand-leer coordination and swing tactics while not having to awe about being hit by a pitched ball. Kids learn the foremost technical solutions of baseball, and get to play diversified positions defensively. In opposition to the tip of the tee-ball program when youngsters are getting willing to level-up, on occasion the coach will step in as a pitcher to familiarizeize youngsters with having to hit from a pitch. The tee is fundamentally nearby and brought encourage in if a tiny one is having a fancy time getting a success from the pitch. The aim is to withhold self perception excessive, yet prepare them for the next stage of the sport.
Most frequently around the age of eight, youngsters initiate playing within the "A Division" of recreational league teams. Someone is allowed on the crew, and every person will get one more to play. Everyone is impressed to search out their abilities, and fundamentally youngsters get to play each and each enviornment so they are able to feel out what they take pride in and the save their abilities lie.
A step up from the recreational leagues is the "AA Division" teams. These teams possess try-outs to permit extra competitive play, and to boot they most frequently play against other local and regional teams. A identical earlier age differ for this division is ages 9/eleven. This level is huge for youngsters who possess standard abilities in hitting, catching and throwing, and a typical thought of the recordsdata of the sport. This may well occasionally be the foremost time that recreation scores and participant stats are kept discover, striking a tiny extra stress on the kids to pause their finest, and no longer fair train up to possess stress-free.
The relaxation level of qualified Minor League Baseball in Runt League, this level is geared in opposition to youngsters age 9-12 who are willing to enhance their abilities whereas in a highly competitive atmosphere. League standings are kept, and kids are watched by managers who will draft them into the next level of recreation play per the high quality of their newest abilities. These teams are extra competitive and fundamentally touring to issue or nationwide tournaments.
Main League Baseball is the top level of competitors in Runt League. Any league players age 10-12 are eligible; however players wants to be drawn to this league by a supervisor. Once a tiny one is drafted to a Main League crew, that tiny one stays playing for that crew for the remainder of his Runt League profession. This league is for the waste competitive teams within the country.
These divisions and age ranges are moderately versatile and have to be better per a tiny one's ability and ability space in desire to age. Check your local programs to search out out what they give, as programs vary from situation to situation. Or no longer it is no longer relevant what division your tiny one will thrive in, be willing to support apply with your tiny one at home, change into enraged about their practices, and presumably be a crew coach. Here's doubtlessly a huge formula to work along with and educate your tiny one a lifelong skill.


In 2017, Irene Fong and Joanne Nguyen, both Academy of Finance students at Boone High School, Orlando, Florida, served as the summer interns for Florida Prosperity Partnership. Irene and Joanne were tasked with research on banking products available in Florida, using guidelines from Cities for Financial Empowerment's (CFE) Bank On 2.0.
CFE and FPP are two organizations that envision a future beyond stability, to one of financial security, for all individuals.
To reach this goal, the researchers used Bank On 2.0 and FDIC guidelines to discover the potential financial deposit and credit products of banks in Florida as an option to alternative financial services (AFS).
Approximately 225 banks exist in the state of Florida.
More than 10% of Florida banks meet the Bank On 2.0 standards in all four researched areas of deposit products, small dollar loans, credit-building products and alternative car loans.
The research data was gathered via websites, direct phone calls and live chats; live chats proved the most immediate and reliable source for data collection.
Some Florida banks have worked diligently within their communities to serve customers with poor credit ratings, as unstable credit is a significant factor in access to financial products.
Financial institutions have demonstrated movement in offering products that meet the Bank On 2.0 standards; those brands that meet the standard have been able to successfully attract a market segment in Florida communities otherwise drawn to alternative financial services.
In 2016, Kiara Zabrana, an Academy of Finance student at Boone High School, Orlando, Florida, served as the summer intern for Florida Prosperity Partnership. Kiara was tasked with research on the unique challenges low-to moderate-income (LMI) households face with health care and transportation in their respective communities across the state of Florida.
Health care options do exist in Florida for low- to moderate-income (LMI) households.
Gaps in access to free and reduced-cost health care options are evident in rural areas more than metropolitan areas.
Stable health, achieved in part through adequate health care, is a critical component of a Floridian's movement from financial crisis to stability, security and well-being.
Reliable transportation is needed to access health care options in all areas; this is even more of a need in rural areas of the state.
Reliable transportation is available, and needs improvement and enhanced marketing efforts in rural parts of Florida to wholly meet the needs of those seeking health care and financial stability.


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I became an Ultimate Fighting Championship fan when I had the privilege of meeting a fighter named Brian Stann during the 2011 Marine Corps Marathon weekend in Washington.
Unlike many professional athletes who revel in gargantuan paychecks and being dubbed "warriors" by television announcers, Stann is the real deal. From his days as a child in the hard-working city of Scranton, Pa., this combat veteran has earned everything he has, including a Silver Star from President George W. Bush.
During a hellish week of fighting in early May 2005, Capt. Brian Stann, then a second lieutenant, spent several days battling terrorists while trying to seize a critically important bridge with fellow U.S. Marines near Karabilah, Iraq.
"At one point, the enemy massed on his platoon and fired over 30 rocket propelled grenades, machineguns, detonated two improvised explosive devices and attacked the unit with three suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive devices," Stann's Silver Star citation reads.
The incredible story doesn't end there.
"Inspired by his leadership and endurance, 2nd Lt. Stann's platoon held the battle position on the Euphrates River for six days, protecting the Task Force flank and isolating foreign fighters and insurgents north of the river," the citation continues.
Since receiving the prestigious military award, Stann, 31, has displayed a genuine brand of humility that's mostly absent from my generation.
"I just wanted the award that said 42 out of 42 men came home safely," the Marine veteran said on his website. "We all came home, so mission accomplished."
Two of Stann's best friends at the U.S. Naval Academy, Marine 1st Lt. Travis Manion, 26, and Navy SEAL Lt. Brendan Looney, 29, did not come home safely from final deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively. Losing two buddies, as well as several other friends killed in combat, weighs heavily on the shoulders of this fierce competitor.
"I had some great times with Brendan and Travis," Stann told me at the Marine Corps Marathon Health and Fitness Expo, where he was promoting the honorable missions of Hire Heroes USA and the Travis Manion Foundation.
Stann, who wrote a book called "Heart for the Fight," revealed his warrior spirit while speaking at the Team Travis and Brendan pre-marathon dinner. The event honored the fallen and rallied a team of almost 250 runners before the Oct. 30 race.
"We need men like Brendan and Travis more than ever," Stann told a packed ballroom in Arlington, Va.
Two things struck me about the warrior's remarks. First, he didn't say a word about himself. Second, he didn't just memorialize his friends; he challenged a room full of service members, veterans, military families, and civilians to honor their sacrifices.
"It's like the scene in 'Saving Private Ryan'," the Marine said. "We need to earn it."
As Stann spoke, several families of fallen heroes, including a Gold Star father and sister sitting at my table, jumped up to applaud.
Very few of us have fought to take a bridge, charged toward the enemy or saved a child's life by disabling a roadside bomb. But in order to earn our freedom, Stann doesn't think all of us have to go to Afghanistan or Iraq. Instead, we can start by taking small steps to change our lives.
"We need to remember that we have families and we have these experiences because of men like Brendan and Travis," Stann said. "So we have to reflect upon and ask ourselves: Would these relationships make men like Brendan and Travis proud? Would we be earning it?"
On a frigid Sunday morning, 21,250 Marine Corps Marathon participants, including hundreds of wounded veterans, took those steps as the sun rose above the Iwo Jima Memorial. First Lt. Travis Manion and Lt. (SEAL) Brendan Looney would have been proud, especially as their loved ones crossed the finish line.
Are we earning the extraordinary freedoms given to us by valiant Americans who fought for our country? As our brothers and sisters continue to be killed, wounded, and emotionally devastated on post-9/11 battlefields, it's a question we are compelled to ask ourselves.
I am proud to be Brian Stann's newest fan. Now, it's time to embrace his challenge.
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Cutting a cardboard box to a custom size provides a tighter fit for the items within while minimizing the need for excess packing materials that may result in a larger shipping fee if you intend to mail the box to a friend or customer. If you are a frequent seller on Ebay or if you need to pack a present for a friend or a family member, then customizing the size of your cardboard box is a convenient skill to learn. You can use a new cardboard box or an old box that you'll turn inside out to hide the previous shipping labels and packing tape.
Open the cardboard box to lie flat on its side on a table or other flat surface.
Find where the cardboard was glued in place to create a box. Most cardboard boxes are manufactured from a single piece of cardboard and one end is folded to glue onto the opposite end. This is often located near one of the corners of the cardboard box. Pry apart the two ends of the cardboard box so you can work with the single long piece.
Place the items that will go into the cardboard box near one edge of the flattened cardboard. Leave enough space between the items and the edge of the cardboard so the edge will cover the side of the item when you cut the cardboard.
Mark the outline of your custom box in pencil around the item on the piece of cardboard, accommodating the space you'll need for the top, bottom and side edges of the box. Mark an outline that is the same shape and size of the first outline, minus the side next to it, next to the first outline. The total outline should be the size of your custom cardboard box if it was laid flat.
Use a box cutter or scissors to cut the outline for your custom cardboard box.
Fold up the edge of the cardboard on the vertical side where the item was initially placed.
Fold up the opposite edge of the cardboard to create a similar edge on the other vertical side of the item then fold the excess of this opposite edge of over the item to create the box. Use packing tape to affix the two edges of the cardboard.
With the items centered in the custom cardboard box, make vertical cuts at the top and bottom ends of each side of the cardboard to create tabs that will allow the excess cardboard at the top and bottom to act as flaps that will fold shut over the items.
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Anyone utilizing wet distiller's grains (WDG) already knows the challenges of spoilage borne by the high moisture content. What researchers are beginning to demonstrate though, is the added shelf-life that can be had by mixing dry, bulky feeds with the byproduct.
For example, University of Nebraska (UNL) researchers tried mixing in grass hay, alfalfa hay or wheat straw. According to a recent UNL report, mixing in grass hay (15%), alfalfa hay (22.5%) or wheat straw (12.5%) -- all on a dry matter basis -- proved to be the minimum level that allowed for successful bagging at 300 lbs./square inch.
For bunker storage, researchers found 40% of grass hay mixed with WDG was firm enough for packing; 25-32% for wheat straw.
There may be 2-3 in. of spoilage at the top, but everything else appears fine says Galen Erickson, UNL nutritionist.
"Other fiber sources would presumably work but we chose these three because of their availability this time of year," says Erickson, who worked on the project with fellow UNL nutrition researcher, Terry Klopfenstein.
You can find more details of the project, including work with mixing WDG with Dried Distillers Grains, and mixing corn gluten with WDG at: ianrnews.unl.edu/static/0606270.shtml.


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Adam Hakki named Securities Lawyer of the Year by Benchmark Litigation
Adam Hakki (New York-Litigation), Global Managing Partner and Global Head of the Firm's Litigation Practice and Disputes Unit, has been named the sole "Securities Lawyer of the Year" for the United States by Benchmark Litigation, the leading litigation and disputes-specific directory. Adam has won this award in four of the last five years, and for three consecutive years. Benchmark Litigation selected Adam based on his many significant courtroom victories in the last year, his preeminent reputation in securities litigation and his status as a go-to lawyer for a broad swath of the world's leading companies, especially financial institutions and asset managers, for securities and antitrust litigation and investigations.
Benchmark Litigation exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market in North America, encompassing the United States, Canada and Mexico. The winners are chosen based upon research conducted between March and November 2019, including extensive interviews with litigators and their clients to identify the best attorneys in their respective practice areas and states. Recently, Adam was also named Banking "MVP of the Year" by Law360 and recognized in publications such as Chambers USA and The Legal 500 as one of the country's most sought-after litigators.
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The mottled swift (Tachymarptis aequatorialis) is a species of bird in the swift family, Apodidae. It is one of two species in the genus Tachymarptis together with the alpine swift (T. melba). It occurs widely in eastern Africa and locally in western Africa. It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Jali Makawa noted that the Alomwe people hunted these swifts by swirling long bamboo poles above them to swat the swifts down. Makawa and C.W. Benson tasted these birds and found them palatable.

References

External links
 Mottled swift - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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Birds of East Africa
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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The Works Recruitment sponsors Leeds business festival in a bid to introduce students to a career in manufacturing
The line-up of sponsors providing essential backing for this year's Leeds Manufacturing Festival has recently been announced. Accountant RSM, Leeds City College and The Works Recruitment are all supporting the festival, which is all about giving young people the chance to find out more about the wide range of career options on offer in Leeds' modern manufacturing sector.
Festival chair Tracey Dawson, who is also managing director at Daletech Electronics, said:
"Our sponsors' support is essential to enable us to reach out to thousands of students across the city and to make sure our programme of online events taking place between now and next summer has maximum impact.
"There will be mock interviews, careers panels and the chance for students to talk to manufacturing employers and young people already working in the industry about what it's really like. There's a real demand for new talent among Leeds' many innovative manufacturers right now and with all kinds of apprenticeships and other opportunities on offer, manufacturing is definitely a really positive career option."
Craig Burton, founder and managing director of The Works Recruitment, added:
"We've been connecting people, talent and skills with manufacturers in the region for almost 30 years, and education, outreach and ambition have always been embedded in our core values.
"So working with and sponsoring LMF and young talent in the region is the right thing to do. We're excited to work with tomorrow's talent, and to ensure their decision to choose a career in manufacturing will deliver a solid and happy future."
Neil Sevitt, head of manufacturing for Yorkshire and the North East at RSM, said:
"Skills are a long-standing challenge for the manufacturing sector and there will be a need for higher technical level qualifications and digital skills over the next 12 months as businesses invest in technology in order to quickly adapt to changes brought on by coronavirus.
"The Leeds Manufacturing Festival is so important to allow employers to demonstrate the wide range of opportunities in modern manufacturing and inspire young people to make it a career choice. Manufacturing will play a key role in the UK's economic recovery and addressing the skills gap is vital to secure the long-term future of the sector."
Mitch Scott, head of engineering and automotive technologies at Leeds City College, said:
"We've seen a 25% increase in applications to our engineering courses this year; a reflection of the fact that manufacturing and engineering is a growing and dynamic sector. It's essential that we work closely with employers to ensure that we are giving our students the most relevant knowledge and skills for today's workplace and the festival is a brilliant format for showing young people just what the industry has to offer."
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Il prōtasēkrētis (), anche riportato come prōtoasēkrētis (), latinizzato in protasecretis o protoasecretis e italianizzato in protasecreta o protasecreto, era un funzionario di elevato rango della burocrazia dell'Impero bizantino. Il titolo significava "primo asēkrētis", ed era capo degli asēkrētai, la classe più elevata dei notai imperiali.

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La carica evolvette gradualmente. Il primo asēkrētai è documentato dal VI secolo, e venne ricoperta da diversi patriarca di Costantinopoli e da un imperatore bizantino, Anastasio II (r. 713–715). A parte i riferimenti forse anacronistici a Massimo il Confessore che fu un prōtasēkrētis sotto l'imperatore Eraclio I (r. 610-641), la prima nomina confermata (come proto a secreta) viene dal Liber Pontificalis dell'anno 756. Come capo della cancelleria imperiale (il successore effettivo del tardo romano primicerius notariorum), la posizione era molto influente: nell'899 nel Klētorologion di Filoteo, una lista di precedenze dei funzionari imperiali bizantini, è al settimo posto tra i sekretikoi, i ministri finanziari dello Stato. Da documenti e prove sigillografiche, il prōtasēkrētai aveva la dignità di protospatario, patrikios e anthypatos. Fra gli altri ebbe l'incarico il patriarca Fozio (858–867 e 877–886).

Fra i suoi subordinati vi erano non solo lasēkrētai, ma anche la classe inferiore dei notarioi imperiali, sotto il loro capo, il prōtonotarios, così come il funzionario noto come dekanos, messo "a capo dei documenti imperiali", secondo il De Ceremoniis dell'imperatore Costantino VII Porfirogenito (r. 913-959). I prōtasēkrētis sembra avessero anche l'incaricato di preparare le crisobolle imperiali. Dopo il 1106, tuttavia, venne spostato dalla cancelleria ed assunse funzioni giurisdizionali, dirigendo una delle quattro più alte corti dell'impero bizantino (insieme al Megas droungarios, al 'dikaiodotēs e al koiaistōr). Sebbene la classe dei asēkrētai non è documentata dopo il XII secolo, il posto di prōtasēkrētis sopravvisse nel periodo dei Paleologi.

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Si tú o tu cónyuge nacieron antes del 2 de enero de 1955, tal vez puedan usar el formulario 1040-SR (en inglés) en vez del 1040 Jun 07, 2019 About Form 1040-SR, U.S. Tax Return for Seniors Form 1040-SR is available as an optional alternative to using Form 1040 for taxpayers who are age 65 or older. Form 1040-SR uses the same schedules and instructions as Form 1040 does. Form 1040-SR Department of the Treasury—Internal Revenue Service . U.S. Tax Return for Seniors. 2020. OMB No. 1545-0074. IRS Use Only—Do not write or staple in this space.
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You are here: Home / Mechanical PT / Preventing overload damage (on servomotor designs) with torque limiters
Preventing overload damage (on servomotor designs) with torque limiters
December 17, 2015 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment
By Edd Brooks • Senior Technical Support Representative | NEXEN Group
A critical requirement in the design of many machines is the need to protect against damage and downtime that is often caused by machine overloads. Torque limiters address this challenge by behaving as 1:1 transmissions as long as torque is less than a specified value. When the torque surpasses the limit, torque limiters operate as a clutch to disconnect the drive from the driven system in a short period of time.
By disconnecting the motor from the driven load, the torque limiter removes much of the inertial energy from the drive train, typically in a time period between a few milliseconds and tens of milliseconds. Typical applications for torque limiters include packaging machinery, conveyors, assembly lines, machine tools, woodworking machines, textile machinery, industrial robots, sheet metal processing equipment, printing and converting machines, and servo and dc motor drives.
All of Nexen's torque limiters feature a ball/detent interface. Mechanical torque limiters (MTLs) are available in ten model sizes with three to six engagement spring selections up to 24,000 in.-lb of trip torque. MTLs are available in three interface designs—single-position, which automatically re-engages after a trip at a single position; multi-position, which automatically re-engages at multiple points; and the full disengagement MTL free wheels when an overload occurs. Re-engagement is not automatic; the spring must be manually moved into position after an overload occurs.
Simple torque limiter devices
The simplest type of mechanical torque limiter is a shear pin that links two rotating bodies and is designed to break at a certain torque level to separate the drive system from the load. However, shear pins are rarely used when protecting mission-critical machinery because it can be difficult to accurately control the level of torque at which the shear pin will break. Thus, the potential exists for either nuisance failures if the shear pin breaks at too low of a torque or damage to the machine if the shear pin breaks at too high of a torque.
Friction torque limiters operate in a similar manner to automotive brakes with a drive component sandwiched between friction linings connected to a driven component that grips the drive component in normal operation. An overload causes the drive component to slip relative to the friction innings, protecting the machine from damage. Removal of the overload causes the drive to resume transmission of torque. The spring pressure of a friction torque limiter is adjusted to accurately change the level of torque that will cause the device to slip. Friction torque limiters offer simple and relatively low-cost overload protection so they are generally used in sprocket drives on conveyors and other similar applications. A disadvantage of friction torque limiters is that considerable amounts of wear occur when the torque limiter is operated at high speed in an overload state.
Ball detent designs for torque limiters
The ball detent style of torque limiter uses a series of balls or rollers to connect the drive element and the driven elements. The balls or rollers are positioned in mating sockets or detents in both the drive and driven elements and held in position under normal operating conditions by spring force. When a torque overload occurs, the balls or rollers overcome the spring pressure and force the drive and driven element apart. The balls or rollers then slide out of the sockets. This disconnects the driving and driven elements from each other so they rotate relative to each other in tracks around the plates.
Some torque limiters are designed so that when the overload is removed, spring pressure forces the balls back into the detents. This restores the drive connection, while others must be manually reset. Ball detent torque limiters more accurately control the torque value at which the load is disengaged and their response is more predictable than shear pins or friction torque limiters.
Pneumatic and hydraulic designs
More advanced ball detent torque limiters use pneumatic technology instead of springs to engage the torque limiter. An advantage of the pneumatic approach is that adjusting air pressure to increase or reduce the set torque can remotely control the trip-out torque. Another advantage of pneumatically-engaged torque limiters is that a proximity sensor is used to detect an overload condition, signal the directional control valve to exhaust the air, disengage the torque limiter interface and, if desired, interrupt power to the motor.
Nexen air-engaged torque limiter with double-flex coupling accessory. Couplings are used to connect companion shafts inline and provide misalignment protection for the TL drive flange bearings.
Hydraulic torque limiters apply hydraulic pressure between the drive and driven element of the torque converter to connect the power source to the load. When the input load exceeds the desired release torque, the hydraulic pressure is no longer sufficient to connect the drive and driven elements; the driven element will begin to slip against the driving element. The operating pressure level accurately controls the release torque. Hydraulic torque limiters are primarily used in extremely high torque applications.
Nexen TL torque limiters are pneumatically-engaged ball/detent clutches equipped with proximity overload sensors. Trip-out torque is remotely set with an air regulator using the torque versus air pressure charts found in the catalog. Nexen offers more than 200 pneumatically-engaged torque limiters in torque ranges up to 28,000 in.-lb at 80 psi, operating speeds up to 2,000 rpm and bore sizes up to 2.438 in.
Magnetic and electronic designs
Magnetic torque limiters can provide advantages in certain niche applications. In this type of device, the drive and driven elements do not touch each other, but instead are connected together through electromagnets that exert force at a distance. Magnetic torque limiters do not wear, do not require lubricant and can be used at nearly any temperature. Additionally, magnetic torque limiters are used to reduce the transmission of torsional vibrations. On the other hand, magnetic torque limiters are expensive and limited to applications involving low levels of torque.
An alternative approach is to electronically monitor the torque output at the motor and apply a braking torque when an overage is detected. This approach is well suited to address situations where the load increases in a linear fashion at a relatively slow rate. But there are often many mechanical drive components between the motor and load that have a lot of rotating inertia. These components increase the time required to sense an overload and continue to drive the load even after a brake is applied to the motor. Thus, when torque suddenly jumps—because a part has broken and become jammed in a mechanism, for example—there is a good chance that the inertial energy stored in the drivetrain will damage the machine.
Application of torque limiters
The drive torque is the most important criteria for selecting a torque limiter. The torque limiter should be selected or adjusted to slip at a high enough torque to avoid unnecessary tripping, such as during start up of the machine (the point at which most applications experience the highest torque during normal operation). When the torque limiter is placed between the gearbox and the driven equipment, it protects both the gearbox and motor from overloads. Placing the torque limiter between the motor and gearbox protects only the motor from overloads.
Another consideration is that torque limiters provide longer service life if they are installed on a relatively low-speed shaft, such as between the gearbox and the load. On the other hand, a torque limiter that is positioned between the motor and gearbox can have a lower torque capacity because torque is usually lower on this side of the gearbox. It's important to protect the most expensive part of the drivetrain—the gearbox—so torque limiters should be placed on the output side of the gearbox whenever possible.
Cross-section of Nexen's Air Engaged torque limiter.
One of the primary responsibilities of the machine designer is to protect against damage due to overloads. Mechanical torque limiters that help address this challenge are available in a wide range of styles and sizes to suit practically any application. Selecting the right torque limiter for the application can help protect against damage at a relatively low cost.
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Former Angels employee convicted in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death
By Schuyler Dixon
A former Los Angeles Angels employee was convicted Thursday of providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in Texas.
FORT WORTH, Texas - A former Los Angeles Angels employee was convicted Thursday of providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in Texas.
Eric Kay was convicted on one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces up to life in prison.
Skaggs' widow, Carli, and his mother, Debbie, hugged as the verdict was announced. Kay took off his jacket and tie and was placed into handcuffs, nodding toward his family and friends in the courtroom.
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A coroner's report said Skaggs, 27, had choked to death on his vomit, and a toxic mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone was in his system.
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The trial included testimony from five major league players who said they received oxycodone pills from Kay at various times from 2017-19, the years Kay was accused of obtaining pills and giving them to players. Kay also used drugs himself, according to testimony and court documents.
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Linda is admired for her giving nature towards others even when tragedy or difficult times strike her personal life. A few years ago she didn't hesitate to donate a kidney to her brother so that his quality of life would be better even though there was a risk hers would decline. Sadly, she lost her sister this past summer after a very long and courageous battle against cancer. But, instead of succumbing to the sadness of the situation, Linda did what she always does…..she organized a benefit dinner, helped plan her nephew's wedding, helped her sister put together a memory book and video so the grandchildren she would never get to meet could know her just a little bit.
As Winston Churchill said "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Linda already has a long list of accomplishments and volunteer activities that count towards a very fulfilling life. She could rest on that but she won't. She just keeps going and going. Congratulations Linda!


The brand Dalin was created by the Pharmacist Adil Karaağaç in Kopaş Kozmetik Pazarlama ve Sanayi A.Ş. in 1983. The goal of the brand was to offer high-quality and affordable products meticulously developed and manufactured as pharmaceutical products for babies having different needs from adults in terms of hair and skin care. Firstly, tear-free baby shampoo, baby powder and baby soap were offered to mothers. From the beginning, Dalin products have been produced meticulously and have been well ahead of their time. The Dalin manufacturing facility was the first manufacturing facility to receive a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) certificate in the cosmetics sector in Turkey. The quality of the product offered to mothers and, consequently, confidence has been assured over generations as a result of the QAS (Quality Assurance System).
Preferred by mothers over many generations, today, Dalin baby shampoo is the number one baby shampoo in Turkey with a market share of almost 50%. Moreover, with its baby care expertise expanding from hair care to skin care and from maternal products to baby laundry care, Dalin has become a baby care brand that meets a mother's every need with 61 different product types across 4 different categories, such as baby oil, rash cream, fly repellent spray, wet towels, diaper change mat, breast pads, baby laundry detergent and softener specific to babies and sensitive skins.


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Viridiana är en mexikansk dramafilm från 1961 regisserad av Luis Buñuel.

Filmen handlar om novisen Viridiana (spelad av Silvia Pinal) som precis ska avlägga sina ordenslöften när hon får en inbjudan att stanna hos sin farbror Don Jaime (spelad av Fernando Rey).

Filmen vann Guldpalmen vid filmfestivalen i Cannes 1961.

Externa länkar

Filmer 1961
Filmer tilldelade Guldpalmen
Mexikanska dramafilmer
Spanskspråkiga filmer
Filmer i regi av Luis Buñuel


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Ricky Gervais can't wait to see young people called out by the next generation
Bang Showbiz on Oct 21, 2021
Published in Celebrity Gossip
Ricky Gervais thinks the young people of today won't be "woke" enough for the next generation.
The 'Office' creator has revealed that he can't wait for the tables to turn on "woke" young people.
He explained to guest Sam Harris on his 'Absolutely Mental' podcast: "I want to live long enough to see the younger generation not be woke enough for the next generation. It's going to happen. Don't they realise that it's like, they're next? That's what's funny."
"We kicked out the old guard. We did it. There's only so woke and liberal you can get and then you start going the other way. But it's inevitable."
Ricky, 60, is a frequent critic of so-called cancel culture.
In late 2020, the comedy star appeared on a episode of the 'Smartless' podcast and discussed his fears to hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
He explained: "The scary thing is being canceled if you say the wrong thing and suddenly Netflix can take you off their platform.
"You could be the most woke, politically correct stand-up in the world at the moment, but you don't know what it's going to be like in 10 years' time. You can get canceled for things you said 10 years ago."
Ricky thinks it's important to make people accountable for their actions.
However, he dislikes when critics try to impose their ideas on other people.
He said: "The misunderstanding about cancel culture is some people think you should be able to say anything you want without consequences and that's not true because we're members of society and people are allowed to criticize you.
"They're allowed to not buy your things, they're allowed to burn your DVDs and they're allowed to turn the telly off. What they're not allowed to do is to bully other people into not going to see you."
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Two years ago, a Chinese chip-design expert named Micree Zhan was reading China's seminal science-fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, while wrestling with how to create a new processor. He had already designed custom chips for the company he co-founded, Bitmain, that had made it into the world's leading bitcoin miner, allowing it to dominate the new, hyper-competitive industry of unearthing bitcoins. Now he needed a chip that could launch Bitmain onto a new trajectory, one that would help it master a world-altering technology called deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence.
While performing his nightly meditation, a practice he has kept up for nearly a decade, it suddenly came to Zhan. "It was late at night, and something inspired me—Sophon!" he recalls. A sophon is a fictional proton-sized supercomputer from The Three-Body Problem that is sent by an alien civilization to halt scientific progress on Earth. It's capable of causing strange phenomena—such as inscribing flashing words on the retinas of elite scientists. The aliens use it to take over Earth when their own planet is destroyed by the chaotic gravitational forces of its three suns.
Bitmain's newest product, the Sophon, may or may not take over deep learning. But by giving it such a name Zhan and his Bitmain co-founder, Jihan Wu, have signaled to the world their intentions. The Sophon unit will include Bitmain's first piece of bespoke silicon for a revolutionary AI technology. If things go to plan, thousands of Bitmain Sophon units soon could be training neural networks in vast data centers around the world.
To grasp how a Beijing startup is poised to challenge the likes of Google, Nvidia, and AMD in the deep learning arms race, it's essential to understand Bitmain's pivotal role in the $70 billion bitcoin economy. Incorporated in Hong Kong as Bitmain Technologies Ltd, Bitmain's controlling shareholder is a trust registered in the Cayman islands.
The company is a marvel of vertical integration. Bitmain designs the silicon that goes into its bitcoin mining rigs, assembles the machines, then sells them to customers around the world. It also operates the machines for its own account, runs vast bitcoin mines that it rents out on contract to others, and, finally, manages several of the world's largest mining "pools"—agglomerations of processing power so huge that they greatly improve the odds of successfully mining a bitcoin block.
Hash rate is critical because bitcoin is in the midst of a messy "civil war." Controlling chunks of hash rate provides miners with a public vote on the bewildering array of technical proposals dictating bitcoin's future. At the crux of the technical debate: How to increase the number of transactions the bitcoin network can handle at any given time. The recent split of bitcoin into bitcoin and bitcoin-cash illustrated one way to do this.
Bitcoin mining is the process of checking and adding new transactions to bitcoin's immutable ledger—its blockchain. Miners must compete with one another to be the first to find a new block. In return for performing this work, which requires massive processing power and incurs hefty electricity costs, miners are rewarded with a certain number of bitcoins for each block they add to the blockchain. Currently, that's 12.5 bitcoins per block, and a new block is found roughly every 10 minutes. At the current bitcoin price of about $4,000, that's $50,000 up for grabs every 10 minutes, or $7.2 million a day.
Wu, the business brains behind Bitmain, is a polarizing figure in the bitcoin world. He has been a vocal and vociferous proponent of one particular technical approach to increase bitcoin's transaction capacity, one that would increase the size of bitcoin's blocks by eliminating the 1 megabyte limit imposed by the bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitmain is among the signatories of the so-called "New York Agreement," which calls for doubling the block size under the Segwit2x proposal. Some see this as technically risky, and philosophically fraught because it concentrates power in the hands of miners—like Bitmain. "In France, nobody likes him at all. He is despised," said Sosthène, the pseudonym of a Parisian bitcoiner I met in Beijing.
Jack Liao, a Shenzhen-based bitcoin miner who has clashed with Bitmain, says Wu is trying to dominate the bitcoin economy and shape it for his own ends. "He wants to control the code, he wants to control the environment," Liao says. "Then he can design the entire bitcoin ecosystem." Liao has clashed with Wu on social media in China, claiming that he's prepared to take legal action against Wu for bad-mouthing his company, Lightning Asic.
Wu, 31 years old, spars with his critics on Twitter, where he says he is inundated by professional trolls. He famously published an expletive-laden tweet in 2016 in response to users who he believed were trolling him during one debate about bitcoin's future. It was promptly turned into memes and held up as evidence that Wu was unqualified to lead the conversation about influencing the future of a protocol worth $70 billion.
Wu says he regrets that particular Twitter outburst. "If I had a time machine I would not have posted that," he says. Fixing his image problem is partly why we've been invited to Beijing to meet him—he rarely grants interviews—and why we were invited to visit his firm's bitcoin mine in Inner Mongolia the day following our meeting.
Bitmain and Wu's power would never have come about had it not been for a chance encounter on a Beijing street. Zhan, the Sophon chip designer and the technical brains behind Bitmain, was running a startup called DivaIP in 2010 that made a set-top box that allowed a user to stream a television show to a computer screen. One of Zhan's staff was canvassing for customers when Wu walked by.
Wu was then in private equity, armed with a degree in economics and psychology from Peking University, China's most august institution. Zhan, a graduate of Tsinghua University, famed for its technical degrees, was trying to raise funding for DivaIP, so he asked Wu for advice. Ultimately Wu couldn't help, but three years later it would be Wu who needed Zhan.
Wu had discovered bitcoin in 2011 in a blog post, and one line stuck in his head. "They described it as the most dangerous open-source project ever," he says. Bitcoin was envisioned as a form of stateless money that could be owned by anyone but controlled by no one—with no central bank, and no government in charge. "Such a monetary system is possible. It doesn't have to be government-backed. It doesn't even have to be gold-backed," he says.
In short order, Wu emptied his bank account to buy bitcoin, then just a fringe idea. One bitcoin could be purchased for under a dollar in early 2011. "I spent all my life savings to buy bitcoin in 2011," he said. "Most people thought it was risky or a scam." Two years later, bitcoin exploded, soaring from about $20 at the start of 2013 to $900 by the end of the year and, in the process, it captured mainstream attention. Wu realized that he could make money not just by trading bitcoin, but by creating it. At the time, a miner could earn 25 bitcoins every 10 minutes.
Zhan's first task was designing an ASIC that would run SHA-256, the cryptographic calculation used in bitcoin, at maximum efficiency. The development of bitcoin mining ASICs escalated the race to devote greater amounts of processing power to bitcoin mining.
"In the beginning it was very tough for Micree [Zhan]," Wu says. "He complained it was impossible," to create an ASIC for bitcoin. But Zhan, 38, got the job done, and at record speed, taking just six months from idea to finished product. Time was critical, because bitcoin prices fluctuated wildly, meaning Bitmain could miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to profit from the ongoing rally. Other players were already on the scene; early ASIC makers like ASICMiner and Butterfly Labs crowdfunded their projects in 2012 to create the first generation of bitcoin ASICs.
In November 2013, Zhan's first mining rig, the Antminer S1, was ready, and Bitmain opened for business. Sales took off. "We had very good sales during the whole of 2014," Wu says. Indeed, bitcoin hit a historic high of nearly $1,200 in November 2013—only to crash months later after fraud was discovered at Japan's Mt. Gox, then the largest exchange in the world.
Wu and Zhan clung on. "It was very tough," says Zhan. "I thought if the price continues to drop maybe Bitmain will break down." But by 2015, the cryptocurrency appeared to have bottomed out. There was increasing interest in the technical idea behind it—the immutable ledger known as the blockchain—from some of the world's biggest banks and financial institutions.
At the same time, Zhan began working on the Antminer S5, the fifth iteration of Bitmain's mining rig, which slashed power consumption by about a third compared to the S1. As bitcoin's price crept up, miners returned to the scene, seizing on the Antminer S5 as their equipment of choice. "That chip was amazing," says Wu. "It helped our company a lot." Bitmain had a 50% profit margin on the product, according to Zhan.
The Antminer S5, which contained the BM1384 chip, turned around Bitmain's fortunes. Wu won't disclose the company's revenue and earnings, except to say that it is in "a very good financial position." He claims it is cash-flow positive, and that it has over 70% of the market for bitcoin mining rigs—effectively providing 70% of all the processing power on the network.
The firm sells hundreds of thousands of Antminers each year, according to Wang Jun, who leads work on Bitmain's new deep learning chips, and the rigs are the firm's major source of income. Wu told Bloomberg (video) that the mine in Ordos generates about $250,000 in revenue daily, and that he is planning to invest up to $200 million building new mines in the US.
Bitmain has few competitors for the Antminer. Because chip manufacturers must depend on a rising bitcoin price to sell their wares, many were unable to stay afloat when prices dropped in 2014 and 2015. Today, Bitmain's chief competitor is San Francisco-headquartered Bitfury, which makes its own chips, sells them, and maintains mines in Georgia, in eastern Europe. It has about 6% of the global bitcoin hash rate.
Bitmain now employs 600 people in a four-story building in a high-tech park of the sort favored by tech companies in Beijing. It's renovating the building next door because it's running out of space. Inside, barely anyone looks older than 25, as circuit boards jostle for space with company-provided cans of Coke and other soft drinks. The majority of employees don't have a personal interest in bitcoin, says Nishant Sharma, Bitmain's communications manager, doing their jobs without being invested in the debates, squabbles, and philosophizing of the cryptocurrency world.
ASIC clouds: The future of deep learning?
As the price of bitcoin skyrockets, Bitmain's future in the cryptocurrency markets seems assured. But in the artificial intelligence race, it's a minnow in a field dominated by giants. Why should a Beijing bitcoin startup be able to compete with Google, Nvidia, and AMD?
Wang Jun, who heads the AI program under Zhan, has spent two years working on Bitmain's deep learning chip. The idea is to etch in silicon some of the most common deep learning algorithms, thus greatly boosting efficiency. Users will be able to apply their own datasets and build their own models on these ASICs, allowing the resulting neural networks to generate results and learn from those results at a far quicker pace. This is a technique that Google's DeepMind unit, based in London, used to train its AlphaGo artificial intelligence, using its own Tensor Processing Unit chips.
Bitmain plans to sell these chips to any corporation that wants to train its own neural nets—which means a vast swathe of the economy. Wang says tech firms like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are among his target customers. Bitmain may eventually build its own data centers containing thousands of deep learning rigs and rent out that computation power to clients, just as it does with its bitcoin mines.
Zhan may have solved the problem of naming Bitmain's deep learning ASIC, but he still has plenty on his mind. He's months away from launching Sophon, which is due on the market before year's end. Even after surviving the bitcoin crash of 2014, he says he still feels beset by crises and business challenges.
He turns to philosophy for guidance. Around the same time he read The Three-Body Problem, he read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. In it, Harari argues that storytelling is the human attribute that allows groups, society, and civilization to form. "If we believe in the same story we can work together," Zhan says.
I ask Zhan if he remembers that Harari argues that money is among the most powerful stories humans have told each other for centuries.


After having delivered several billion gifts to children all over the world, Santa Clause (Angel *El Kenyano*) had enough energy to join the Wild Mountain Runner/Amarillo 2006 Christmas Run. If you look carefully at pictures of Santa, in order to get ready for the early morning Christmas run, Santa managed to lose 100 pounds going in and climbing out of chimneys. By the time Santa and his reindeers arrived at Griffith Park with a sack packed with dozens of tamales and champurrado, there were already scores or runners wearing Christmas red shirts and Santa hats ready to run.
By 7:45 a.m., the parking lot was teeming with excitement. By 7:55 a.m. the traditional team photograph was taken and off we went being led by old Santa himself. The route took the red horde through the Los Felix district until we arrived at the Bear statute, our traditional photo site. We then headed down Western until we hit Hollywood Blvd. and turned west towards Highland. Seeing Santa in full gear being followed by 50 taller than average elves, many curious and jolly motorists and bystanders honked and shouted out Christmas greetings ** not to mention a few Scrooges and sleeping drunks who might have shouted out a few expletives for having been awaken by the sounds of our chimes and cowbells.
After running approximately 3 miles, Santa, in consultation with his elves, decided to take photos at the Chinese Grumman Theatre. As we approached the theatre we were spotted by throngs of mostly Chinese tourists and immediately they began to take photos. Fascinated that we may be all part of a planned Hollywood act, they posed with the group and clamored to take photos with Santa and the group. Ernesto *Mostachon* Davila appeared to be the most popular with the ladies, one of them actually sat on him lap. This was one of the best parts of the run as little children eyed Santa with delight. I could not help notice the sparkle in their eyes. We then headed off to the Highland/Hollywood Metro Station. All rides are free on Christmas so we headed towards the Sunset/Vermont station.
On the way several of our female and male members (Guiellermo, Rosa, Donna and Chris) gave us a short but enticing dance performance that includes a twirling around a metal bar (!).
From the Sunset/Vermont Station we headed off to Donnas house. Climbing a short but steep hill we arrived at her Silverlake house (a beautiful house with a great view of the lake) and there we were treated to Donna?s hospitality with snacks, water, soft drinks, and of course ? Beer! Sergio Palomares, otherwise known as *Cuarto Marathon*, sang for us and after 15 minutes of rest, we headed off to Griffith Park. To replenish our body strength, tamales and champurrado was distributed by Santa Clause and some of his helpers. It was another wonderful Christmas Run!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all runners and children around the world!!
When Guiellermo is not training for 100 milers, he conducts classes for exotic pole dancing.
Seriously... that is one lucky Santa!
14 miler with snow visable in the mountains.
Let's all congatulate Rafa, a dedicated Wild Mountain Runner who won 1st place overall at the City of Commerce Turkey Trot on November 23, 2006. Rafa has been one of our most consistent and top WMR runners over the past years. With a personal best of 2:30:15 marathon, his current training regimen, running skills and performance are compared with elite-level athletes. Rafa ran cross country for Glendale College for a few years and has accelarated since them. * Running many years and experience has taught me how to train, what works for me and what doesnt* said Rafa. Now in the masters division, Im sure his performances will be unbelievable. Congratulations again Rafa!