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– One very important aspect to consider in buying a Bengal cat is its real cost. But if you want to have a Bengal into your house, you should very well know it's a rare breed. With rarity comes the high price, and that means you should expect that a Bengal cat may price from 500 USD to approximately 5,000 USD, based on what Bengal caliber you prefer.
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As you probably already know, there are three chief types of Bengals-pet quality, breeder quality, and show quality. Pet quality Bengals price 500-1,000 USD while a breeder or show quality Bengal could price from 1,500-5,000 USD (show Bengals may be more expensive depending upon the breeder).
Aside from the actual purchase of the Bengal, you should also take note of the basic expenses in keeping or maintaining it. Here are some considerations so that you may have an idea of how much a Bengal may price:
Micro-chipping is very important for the identification of your Bengal. It really makes a difference especially in the event that you lose your kitty by opportunity. Embedding a microchip into your cat can cost you 50 USD.
Sterilization (spaying/neutering)
On the other hand, sterilization your Bengal cat can cost you basically 100 USD if you need it done n your healthy kitten. Sterilizing your own Bengal can cost around 200 USD if your kitty has complications. Bengal Kittens For Sale In Seattle Wa
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The price of the breeder cat foods varies from time to time, based on the price of raw materials. You should keep yourself updated with all the price variations in your community grocery store.
Medical care
Work with your veterinarian to find the payment methods which you can avail of (health insurance). This might also include potential emergency care, hospitalization, nutritional supplements, and other medications. This is a really significant factor in determining how far a Bengal can purchase. Vaccinations price 50-70 USD, whilst flea and de-worming drugs cost 20 USD.
Insuring your Bengal cat might genuinely help you in the total medical cost to getting you reunited with your Bengal (if ever you lost it). Including this on your Bengal budget is a must.
Grooming and coaching equipment
You ought to have these to be certain that your Bengal stays clean and learns proper behaviour, especially in the bathroom. Having a tidy and well-trained Bengal can cost a lot but it will definitely be worth it. Grooming and training your Bengal cat may cost 20 USD. Bengal Kittens For Sale In Seattle Wa
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The amount of money needed in acquiring a Bengal cat also depends on where you are going to get your own Bengal. If you decide to receive your cat from a reputable breeder, you should be preparing a bigger amount. But if you are going to receive your Bengal cat from a rescue center, it is only going to cost you much less because you will be adopting the cat. Regardless, you still need to think about the expenses in keeping your Bengal cat.
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A RCMP policy report is mandated to be updated approximately every two years, with a monitoring report prepared after each adopted policy document.
The goal of the RCMP is to have new land uses developed in tandem with the necessary transportation network improvements by coordinating the land use, air quality, and transportation planning processes.
2020 RCMP Updates
The 2020 RCMP Monitoring Report was adopted by the SJCOG Board on June 25, 2020
2019 RCMP Updates
The 2019 RCMP Monitoring Report was adopted by SJCOG Board on June 27, 2019.
2018 RCMP Updates
The 2018 RCMP Update was adopted by the SJCOG Board on April 26, 2018.
Previous Updates
2016 RCMP Update
2016 Monitoring Report
The RCMP is a coordinated process to monitor congestion, identify congestion problems, and program funding towards projects that reduce regional congestion. The RCMP includes strategies for the safe and effective management of the regional transportation system such as monitoring and maintenance, demand reduction, land-use analysis and mitigation, operational management strategies, and strategic capacity enhancements. As such, implementing the RCMP fosters a holistic, well-rounded approach to transportation planning that includes consideration of multiple goals, including economic vitality, safety, livability multimodal choices, and the environment.
The RCMP contains the following required components:
- Traffic level-of-service standards for State highways and principal arterials
- Multimodal performance measures to evaluate current and future systems
- A capital program of projects to maintain or improve the performance of the system or mitigate the regional impacts of land use projects
- A program to analyze the impacts of land use decisions on the transportation system
- A travel demand element that promotes transportation alternatives to the single-occupant vehicle
In June 1990 California voters approved legislation which increased funding for California's transportation system. With the passage of Proposition 111 there were new requirements for the transportation planning process that requires urbanized counties, such as San Joaquin County, to prepare, adopt, and biennially update a Congestion Management Program (CMP).
The 2005 Federal transportation bill, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), also requires the development of a Congestion Management Process (CMP) that is fully integrated into the regional transportation planning process in order to provide for "safe and effective integrated management and operation of the transportation system." This requirement was carried forward in all subsequent Federal transportation bills including the most recent Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). Of particular note, in counties that are designated as nonattainment of federal air quality standards such as San Joaquin County, federal regulations require certification that any project resulting in a significant increase in SOV (Single Occupancy Vehicle) carrying capacity (with the exception of safety improvements and bottleneck elimination projects) be addressed through the CMP. Before federal funds are advanced, the CMP must demonstrate that the capacity increasing project is warranted by first implementing feasible travel demand reduction and operational management strategies. If, after all strategies have been analyzed/implemented and the capacity increasing project is justified, federal regulations required that the CMP identify strategies to manage the facility effectively.
At the local level, the 2006 Measure K Renewal ordinance included a requirement to support and develop a Regional Congestion Management Program (RCMP). The SJCOG RCMP satisfies the requirements of this local mandate as well as the state and Federal CMP requirements.
The RCMP Network consists of Roadways, Intersections, Bikeways, and Multi-Modal Corridors, described in further detail below:
Roadway Network
The roadway network is a core network of key transportation facilities that facilitate regional travel within San Joaquin County. At a minimum, state statute requires that all state highways and principal arterials be designated as part of the RCMP roadway network. Local arterials must represent routes of regional significance. Per state statute, once a route is designated as part of the RCMP system, it cannot be removed
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A total of 112 intersections have been designated as part of the RCMP Network. Designation of RCMP intersections adds resolution for congestion monitoring and appropriately focuses attention at locations where operational constraints are typically experienced on arterial roadways. Consistent with state statute, once an intersection is designated part of the system, it cannot be removed. RCMP intersections are subject to the CMP roadway LOS standards and deficiency planning requirements.
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Regional Bikeway Network
The RCMP provides a mechanism to track performance and ultimate completion of the designated regional bikeway network. The regional bikeway network includes existing and future Class I Multi-use trails, Class II Bike Lanes, and Class III Bike Route facilities that will comprise a continuous uninterrupted network of facilities across the entire county. Unlike the RCMP roadway network, the designated bicycle network may change over time depending on the presence, quality or connectivity of existing or planned infrastructure (as defined during periodic updates of the regional bikeway network).
Bicycle Network Map
Multi-Modal Corridors
State and federal mandates require the consideration of all major modes of travel as part of a Congestion Management Program (CMP). Additionally, the California Complete Streets Act (AB 1358) requires counties and cities to include policies that take all roadway users into consideration (bicyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, motorists, children, senior citizens, mobility impaired, and freight movers) as part of their general plan updates. In recognition of these legislative mandates, SJCOG, in coordination with its member agencies identified a sub-set of the RCMP network to be designated as RCMP multimodal corridors. RCMP multimodal corridors are defined as sections of the RCMP roadway network where the operational performance of pedestrian, bicyclist, transit passenger, and motorist is to be considered and analyzed holistically. The concepts and method to compute multimodal level of service (MMLOS) is documented in the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual.
Multi-Modal Corridors Map
Traffic Volume Counts
The RCMP Traffic Monitoring Program provides the mechanism to yield the requisite traffic counts and related data to address the state RCMP vehicular LOS standards and the established multi-modal state/federal RCMP performance measures. The RCMP turn movement and roadway traffic count data base will serve as a countywide resource.
Need to access traffic volume counts on RCMP roadways? Traffic counts are available upon request. Contact Travis Yokoyama at firstname.lastname@example.com or (209) 235-0451.
RCMP Documents
Relevant Regulations
- CMP Statute (Government Code Section 65088-65089.10 (PDF)
- SAFETEA-LU Federal CMP CFR Title 23 Vol. 1 Section 450-320 (PDF)
- Senate Bill 743 (SB-743) requires replacement of Level of Service analysis with Vehicle Miles Traveled analysis in CEQA and streamlines RCMP analysis near high frequency transit.
- Proposed Comprehensive Updates to CEQA Guidelines, including updates to transportation analysis implementing SB 743
- AB-1358 (Government Code 65040.2, 65302) for addressing multi-modal "complete streets" concepts in city/county general plan circulation elements.
- Senate Bill 375 (SB-375) requires Metropolitan Planning Organizations to develop "Sustainable Communities Strategies" (SCSs) to achieve quantifiable targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through more efficient development and better coordination. SB 375 streamlines the environmental review process for certain new development projects located near transit stations.

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Thirteen E-Rabs awarded with the "Illinois State Scholar" title
December 19, 2018
According to isac.org, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission is a state agency dedicated to helping Illinois students and their families make post-secondary education affordable and accessible. This organization awards this title to high school seniors who are in the top ten percent in the state's graduating senior class. Students in nearly all of the state's high schools compete in this program. To those who receive the award, it is truly a great academic achievement.
"I received a newsletter and email, and I had no idea that the program existed or even was a thing," said Miguel Melo Bustos, award recipient class of 2019.
Out of the 21,000 awarded scholars this year, thirteen of them were East seniors from the graduating class of 2019. This year, East's Illinois State Scholars are Muna Alshoja, Lorinda Arbogast, Grace Berlage, Taylor Byrd, Kelsey Cunningham, Madeline Grobe, Jake Hill, Sophia Janicki, Tommy Le, Miguel Melo Bustos, Jeremiah Pearson, Angela Perez Dominguez, and Emilie Weisser. To become a state scholar, students must meet certain requirements and go through a selection process to become a finalist and receive the title .
According to isac.org, to become eligible to win the award, scholars must meet the following requirements set by ISAC. Scholars must attend an approved high school and graduate during the year they were awarded the title, be an Illinois resident and a U.S citizen or eligible non-citizen. They must also have taken the ACT or SAT during the third semester prior to graduation, and lastly, scholars must score in the 95th percentile on the test and perform in the top one-half of their high school class. Students don't apply for this program. High schools send the data to ISAC, which then hands out the title if they are finalists.
Once the requirements are met, scholars are eligible to win the award and are put through a process of selection. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission uses a formula to determine the finalists. It is a combination of exam scores, class rank (or unweighted GPA) and class size. Congratulatory letters are then sent to the finalists, which usually are sent out after Nov. 2. Although only a few receive this title, there is no limit of titles given per academic year, and they usually vary over the years.
"It makes me happy, and it's an honor to receive such a title. I didn't know what it was at first, but then I got to school and saw the list of those who received the award posted outside of the office. I thought to myself, 'This is something big."'
"I have put so much effort and hard work these past three years, and it's nice to see that all the hard work has paid off in some way," said Angela Perez Dominguez, award recipient.
So far, a substantial amount of information on how to become a state scholar was provided, but what does it mean to be named an Illinois State Scholar, you may ask? The recipients of this title don't receive monetary aid, but instead bear the title as a highlight in their academic record. Such title often comes with more financial aid or opportunities to receive scholarships.
"It is quite an honor and recognition, and it looks pretty good in the [academic] resume of those who receive the title," said Kristen Hunt, counselor at East high school.
The thirteen award-winning E-Rabs will receive a certificate presented to them on awards night in the spring.
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Farrah Abraham Quotes
"An Uber driver almost raped me, so I don't know about Uber … I felt like I was getting raped...I felt like I almost got raped. You're violating me by looking at me. Don't act like a rapist ... I have a severe problem with that." - Farrah, confused at what being a rapist is
"F—kin monkey ewe s—t come up 4 what she is a nothing." - Farrah going all racist, NSFW and nonsensical on Blac Chyna for no reason at all
"I don't do that with them." - Farrah on sex with black men (seriously)
"I've been beating out Kim on a lot of things." - Farrah on rival Kim Kardashian, without explaining what things those actually might be
Loosing [sic] your teeth should be special, I like to add passion and something special to everything ... These years are flying bye [sic] and soon $600 won't be surprising to my daughter and the tooth fairy will just be imaginary and made up. So $600 for one tooth is a great addition to her college fund and let's [SIC] her have a big surprise. You're only a kid once! - On giving her six-year-old $600 for a lost tooth
PictureDay! #SchoolPictures Sophia is so beautiful! 1st Grade #MomMonday #MakeLifeBetterInAWord #Blessed - Farrah on Sophia's school photo, as only she can put it
I think there's different parenting styles. At that time we really didn't [have a relationship] because of some abusive things that happened. My parents got put into jail ... [we] have such a different dynamic now. Not everyone's perfect. We do learn and we grow. - Farrah on her abusive past
I'm further along in life than she is ... I heard she lost her kid - maybe she should focus on that. - Farrah on Leah Messer, who shaded after the 2016 Teen Mom trailer dropped
No matter what I've been doing, I've been doing the best in it that we know of. What I'm saying by that is, if I'm developing novelty toys, I'm winning awards. If I'm writing books, I'm a New York Times bestseller … how do I do it all? I don't know.
I don't really pay attention to much online. Listen, I was, like, the most popular girl growing up and I had women do the same thing to me then as now. And I overcame it.
I think God is my manager. God is my guide. Because within entertainment, I can't control anyone, I can't pay somebody enough. God really has helped me be the best person that I can be.
It's not about porn. Porn, porn, porn, porn, porn. Because if I was really a porn person, then I would have a porn name. Like Candy Willow … I'm not in the porn industry. But I do have novelty items being produced that I've won an award for given my celebrity sex tape [sales].


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Okay so if you've been paying attention to the weather forecasts in the UK, and other parts of the world, you would have heard about the plethora of harsh winters, snow storms, icy breezes, widespread frost and so on that is happening. Yes, we have been experiencing cold winters in many parts of the world. As a result of this, a lot of people have been questioning the actual validity of Global warming. "If winters are still quite cold, how can there even be global warming?".
I spent some time wondering what exactly I wanted to write about today on my beloved paperless blog. It did not come easily to me as I was having one of those lazy days. I had barely left my bed to do much of anything. I was just not having it. All I wanted to do was sleep… or more accurately, hibernate. I scrolled through social media on my phone, ate some food and just basically rolled about on the bed under the covers. Then it hit me!
YES dear readers 'tis the season!
And no I don't mean the 'ho, ho, ho' jolly Christmas time. We just concluded that a few weeks back. 'Tis the other season- the time of the year for love letters, endearing presents to that special someone, and romantic lit dinners. Yes the season that everyone seems to be humming and dancing to the rhythm of love. You guessed it. It's Valentines!
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to fly or shoot lasers from your eyes or have super strength? I know some people who really want to be superheroes and they can! While we may not be able to move things with our minds, we can still save the earth from a supervillain: Climate Change.
A major contributor to climate change is garbage. Landfills are full of methane which is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. It is 23 times more effective than carbon dioxide in trapping heat!
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Hug to Sandy
A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. ~Lycurgus
While I was writing Farewell to Polamalu's Golden Locks I read the following in the November 7, 2013, issue of the Ligonier Echo (item published Oct. 29, 1913):
- How often you see an otherwise lovely face spoiled by homely hair—a face that would be most charmingly beautiful if she only had prettier hair. What a pity. And how foolish. Because that ugly hair, stringy, dull, lifeless-looking though it may be, can be made as glossy, soft, silky and beautiful as the heart could desire if only taken proper care of.
The piece took me back to the crossover time between the 1950s and 1960s when I worked very diligently to achieve the "do" of the day. I slept with varying sizes of rollers in my hair, styled my baby-thin hair strands into the stylish pageboy of the day, then doused it with excessive hairspray—and less than 5 minutes later my hair wimped out on me. I might as well not have bothered; I might as well have spent my time on something more productive. But I relentlessly kept trying.
- Hair: we want it; we don't want it. We try to grow it; we try to remove it. It is despised; it is sacred. It is our 'look," though we cannot ever actually see most of our own. But this paradox is an old one. We have been fussing with our hair for centuries.**
Years later I was the mother of a daughter, Sandy. She was luckier than I was. She had a thick head of naturally curly hair that everyone admired.
"It's in the genes," I'd explain.
I call the time she spent mucho time achieving the right hair do, left the house, jumped into the swimming pool, climbed out, shook her tresses (and that's really all it took to give her a just-been-to-the-beauty-parlor look), then entered the house to spend mucho more time refixing her do.
And I tried to quash my envy.
Years later, when I met a young man in the food line of a restaurant buffet, I commented on his waist length hair: I wish I could grow my hair (which now doesn't grow beyond earlobe length) like yours. This young man was almost ready to donate two lengths of his 38 inch mane to Locks of Love. My, how I wish I could do that.
I decided to let go of my hair obsession as I grew older. Why, I asked myself, spend so much time fighting hair rollers and hair brushes when the result is the same lack of desired achievement each time? Isn't that the definition of insane? To do something repeatedly, with the same result, then do it again expecting a different result? Not wanting to be considered insane on this basis I decided that there are more important things to spend my time and financial resources on.
With that decision I also decided to disagree with the following comments made by a variety of persons:
- Diana Ross: Hair has always been important.
- MartinLuther: The hair is the richest ornament of women.
- Edna O'Brien: To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed.
- Hillary Clinton: I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
Catherine Tynan: I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.
- Hubert de Givenchy: Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. (Vogue, July 1985)
- I Corinthians 11:15: But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.
I respectfully realize that hair is far more meaningful to some persons than others. To Troy Polamalu, hair is about more than making a style statement:
- Every time a piece of my hair comes out, and I look at a 20-inch strand, I'm like, 'Wow, what happened when this first started growing? You think about all the life experience that you've had, and my hair's been a part of me. It's kind of become my fifth appendage and my identity.
Polamalu might agree with Thomas Carew's comment:Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
Back to the Ligonier Echo article. Turns out it was a sales piece:
- Harmony Hair Beautifier is just what it is named—a hair beautifier. It is not hair dye or hair oil—it is just a dainty, rose-perfumed liquid dressing to give the hair its natural gloss and brightness, its natural way softness, its natural rich beauty. Very easy to apply—simply sprinkle a little on your hair each time before you rush it. It contains no oil, and will not change the color of the hair, nor darken gray hair.
Let's all rush out to get this product—oops, 100 years later it's nowhere to be found.
Guess I'll have to put up with my "ugly hair, stringy, dull, lifeless-looking…"
How about you?
Unknown: How can I control my life when I can't control my hair? (Perhaps I decided to disagree with this quote prematurely.)
Third-grader to Shave Head to Support Pediatric Cancer Research & Patients—St. Baldrick's Foundation Event
Looking Back, Ligonier Echo, Nov. 7, 2013 pp 4
**The Rumb Line, July 2008, Maine Maritime Museum, Notes from the Orlop.
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Rajakumari-Marayoor: People in the high-range areas of Kerala may have to rely on their stars in case of snakebite as hospitals even if accessible are not equipped to give antidotes. If bitten by a snake, the victim should be given medical aid within three hours but the vast and forested Idukki district has poor and sparse facilities on this count. However, the risk of snake bite is so high that even students encounter venomous snakes and even wild elephants on their school premises.
The few government hospitals with anti-venom in Idukki are the Thodupuzha district hospital and Idukki district hospital; taluk hospitals at Nedumkandam, Adimali and Peermade; as well as the Peruvanthanam primary health centre.
Community health centres and family health centres also do not have anti-venom.
People in areas, including Rajakkad, Senapathi, Shanthanpara, Chinnakkanal, Bison Valley, Rajakumari and Udumbanchola, seek treatment at a private homeo hospital if bitten by snakes.
People from Rajakkad, Rajakumari, Senapathi, Shanthanpara, Bison Valley, Chinnakkannal regions, would have to go till the taluk hospital at Adimali or district hospital at Nedumkandam to get anti-venom.
Cobra at school
The recent death of 10-year-old Shehala Sherin due to a snakebite at her school at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad district is a scary reminder of the perils faced by students in Idukki too. Snakes pose a threat to the schools in the Anjunad region of the district. A 5 feet cobra was found from the backyard of the Jayamatha School at Marayoor recently. Another cobra was caught from underneath a cupboard of the office of Seva Bharathi school at Marayoor.
Elephant menace
A wild tusker had stationed itself in the marshy land adjacent to a private Lower Primary School at Upper Suryanelli in the Idukki district couple of months ago, much to the horror of the teachers and students. Wildlife personnel and local people had to try very hard to force the tusker to retreat. Notoriously known as Chillikomban, the lone tusker was stationed at the area for over a month.
In another hair-raising incident, teachers and students have said that herds of elephants were seen several times near a hostel close to a prominent unaided school at Chinnakkanal. Wild elephants are also frequently seen near an anganwadi at 301 Colony at Chinnakkanal.
Elephant menace was also reported from the 80-acre BR Dam premises, Mullanthandu and Shankarapandyamettu.


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Here is my Brompton M6R at Le Casset near Le Monêtier Les Bains in the Hautes Alpes. You would think that it would be all downhill from here to the town of Briançon, but oddly enough there is quite a bit of uphill too. Perfectly Bromptonable though.
The photo is looking up towards the Col du Lautaret which is a mountain pass at more than 2000m altitude. I should aim to get up there on my Brompton.


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I read about stickK this morning on TechCrunch , and I was instantly intrigued. The quick explanation is that the site, like many others, helps you to set and track goals. Some of the big ones listed are losing weight, exercising more, quitting smoking, etc.
What sets stickK apart is that, as you set up a goal, you set up a contract with yourself. And you put money against it. So every week you don't make progress to your goal, you have to pay up (all the money goes to charity). The contract is legally binding, so once you sign up, you're in it for the long haul.
I love this concept. I've been trying to get back on the 20/20 program since I moved to Boston, and incorporating a contract forces a few things into the equation:
- Preparation . It's easy to say, "I'll start tomorrow." But have you taken the necessary steps to get there? I almost set up a contract this morning, and realized, "Oh crap! I better go grocery shopping and get everything I need to really make this happen first."
- Accountability . They give you a buffer to enter your information every week, but you have to do it every week. If you don't, it counts as a week where you didn't meet the goal, and you pay up.
- Drive to stick with it . The contract is binding until you meet your end goal. So giving up because of one bad week really isn't an option. I think the contract refocuses the problem in a positive way: It pushes you to brush off bad weeks and get right back up again, which is so critical when you're trying to meet a difficult, long-term goal.
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Audax 2016 – 600k – Skegness Adventure
After many chats with Dave, we decided that we needed another crack at a 600k ride. Based on our experiences in Wales, we decided we'd try something different, so went for the flattest route available. Ely and Lincoln were the original objectives, with the Humber estuary also being a candidate, but in the end, we decided we liked the idea of the fens, so picked Skegness.
Fortunately, we made it, but not with as much time to spare as I'd hoped:
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Despite the flatness, the ride turned out to be somewhat of an ordeal. This was mainly due to the almost continuous heavy rain.
In fact, it was raining heavily when I was leaving at 9am on Sunday.
I had already decided to take full thermal gear, despite the promised 18 degree temperatures and the miserable start sealed it.
The ride to Dave's was fine, despite the rain. However, heading through Windsor park, my right leg began to hurt quite badly. Fortunately, this was cured by rapid use of Ibuprofen. This would twinge every now and again for the first few hours, but then didn't bother me thereafter. Note sure what it was all about.
I then had two other potential disasters related to my Lumicycle headlight. First, pulling over after the road through Slough, I discovered that the mount had snapped and the light was bouncing against my spokes. I had hoped a new arrangement with the mount had solved this problem, which used to happen every 6 moths or so, but clearly, it had just been over 6 months since my last replacement! Fortunately, I had decided the night before t pack a spare mount. Somewhere on the horribly bumpy and busy road through Amersham, I decided it'd be a good idea to take the light off until I actually needed it, to reduce the chance of losing the final mount. When I stopped to do this, I discovered that the light wasn't working and I couldn't persuade it to re-start. Because of the bullet-proofness of the Lumicycle, I hadn't bothered to pack a replacement. Never leaving home without the Hope 1 again! Frantic calls ahead to my brother in law secured a spare light. In the end however, a few hours in the trunk bag for light and battery seemed to cure all ills, and it worked faultlessly for the rest of the trip. I did however, take the offered spare, having lost faith! It could be that attaching a new mount in the rain got some contact wet, that then dried out in the bag.
Somewhere after Dunstable, the sun came out and we were treated to quiet, smooth roads through the fens in the sunshine. This was definitely the high point of the ride. Then arriving at my brother and sister in law's at Prickwillow, we were treated to a slap-up meal. Excellent.
This got us in high enough spirits to play down the cracking of thunder as we left. I'd even swapped thermals for shorts! This of course, is when the truly torrential rain started. I tried taking photos, but none really did it justice. The rain continued to hammer down as we passed through Wisbech and towards Long Sutton where we dived into an almost impossibly welcome McDonalds.
In fact, McDonalds turned out to be a great find on this trip. They are actually open 24 hours a day and you can see your bikes from your seat. Quick service too!
The A17 and A16 to Boston went pretty quickly in a pace-line. While there were quite a few lorries, they were all very courteous and the road was nice and wide for overtaking. We got to Boston thinking that we'd pretty much make to to Skegness, but over 20 miles on the bumpy A52 ground us down somewhat.
By this point, the rain had stopped, being replaced by heavy, wet fog.
This meant that by the time we got to our "hotel" in Skegness, our clothes were still soaking.
It's a testament to the space blanket, that I actually managed to get 30-45 minutes sleep despite soggy clothes and temperatures close to 10 degrees. A 3am arrival was slightly later than I'd hoped, but surely we'd make up time without the rain.
I woke up to a dawn over the sea at 4am and we pushed on while we had a hope of quiet roads. The small roads through the fens were nice and quiet, but rather rutted and bumpy. They continued to be poorly surfaced as we approached Sleaford, but the rush-hour traffic built continuously and it was with relief that we stopped for a slap-up breakfast.
The roads after Sleaford seemed to be much quieter, so we relaxed a little. Then, at the bottom of a small descent Dave kept pedaling over a very small ford. I saw Dave slide sideways a couple of meters ahead and decided to pedal faster rather than attempt to stop as t was already too late. Both wheels went out from under me for a fraction of a second. 20m down the road after controlling massive wobbles, we were completely focused again.
After this, the rain started to slowly increase again (cue another McDonalds shelter). It would reach a point where I was sick of it, then it'd get heavier. This went on for hours, culminating in cycling down a very busy, narrow and choppy A47 with a river pouring on us.
In Higham Ferrers, a coffee shop (http://beanscoffeestop.co.uk/ I believe) owner rushed out and told us we could bring our bikes inside, round the back when they spotted us locking them up outside. The rain had turned torrential again at this point, so it was huge relief to do the faffing with bags and GPS under cover. Also, it allowed me to relax with the bikes secure. Waffle with ice cream, bagle and flapjack for the road were also all most appreciated.
It was around this time that I noticed that Dave wasn't eating much. As I was packing away waffles and burgers, he was having soup! He was feeling nauseous when eating or even drinking water. No doubt something evil picked up on his bottle spout from the endless spray on "country" roads. This lack of nutrition was starting to give him trouble and he struggled to stay on my wheel to Milton Keynes if I pushed at all.
The ride through Milton Keynes was extremely pleasant on a network of small roads an good quality cycle paths. In the middle of this cycling joy was a beautiful lake where we took the opportunity for a quick rest.
Despite his bench kip, Dave was still suffering on the ride from Milton Keynes to Aylesbury, only slightly ameliorated by ice lollies. Aylesbury turned out to be a truly horrible town for cycling with crummy surfaces, fast but narrow roads and a massive amount of traffic. Not to mention scary roundabouts and dual carriageways. It was exiting Aylesbury that Dave and I parted ways. We were planning to do so further on, after the M4 crossing, but he was able to take a more direct and less hilly route back home, which made sense given his troubles.
It turned out that Dave actually got home 30 minutes before me, so either his ice lollies jazzed him up, he had been playing me since Higham Ferrers and saving his energy sitting on my wheel, or most likely, I was actually also in a terrible state.
As I got away from Aylesbury, the traffic calmed down and I ground out the final miles. I didn't remember the exact route I had planned for the run in, expecting to be approaching Wokingham from the West, but actually coming at it from the East. It wasn't helped by the fact that had confused the layout of Wokingham with Sandhurst or that there way yet another bout of torrential rain, hampering visibility and generally being miserable.
However, at last, I was back onto roads I knew like the back of my hand through Farnborough and back into Aldershot. At last, I rolled up to my front door, where my wife had stayed up to get a picture of me creeping in at midnight of Monday / Tuesday.
All in all, a great adventure, but really could have done without the rain and it being about 10 hours shorter.
And last, what Audaxing is all about, riding down a rainy trunk road in the middle of the night:


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Powering your application with deep learning is no walk in the park, but is certainly attainable with some tricks & good practice. Serving a deep learning model on a production system demands the model to be stable, reproducible, capable of isolation & to behave as a stand-alone package. One possible solution to this is a containerized microservice.
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Andreas von Chrzanowski a.k.a. Case Ma'Claim just finished his latest artwork, contributing to the Wonderwalls Festival in Port Kembla, Australia. The mural is called "Awakening", showing a photorealistic male, who's (probably) laying in bed, stretching his hand out to the observer. This gesticulation generates a three dimensional "out-of-the-wall" effect.
The Wonderwalls Festival occurred from 15. – 17. of February 2019, representing street artist from around the world. Port Kembla was an interesting location to celebrate the festival, since the town was originally more of an industrial region for coal mining, and is now trying to work on a better infrastructure for clean energy.


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Which machine learning (ML) algorithm should I use? It's a common question I get asked and usually, once I know something about the application and the data I can make an educated guess: a clustering algorithm, a neural net, k-nearest neighbour... But, I've been working in ML for decades. For ML newbies this is a hard problem because there are so many ML algorithms to choose between. SAS have created a resource designed primarily for beginner to intermediate data scientists or analysts who are interested in identifying and applying machine learning algorithms to address the problems of their interest. Read their blog post to learn how to navigate their flow chart.
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Machine learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example
Machine Learning is becoming more important in many aspects of our daily lives. However, most of the general public and importantly politicians and policymakers are quite ignorant of its scope, strengths and weaknesses. To better inform people the UK's prestigious Royal Society has recently released a report titled Machine learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Cancelation Alert: Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money to be No More?
ABC-TV's "Pushing Daisies" has been struggling to survive in the ratings jungle. Earlier this month, the network was giving it two weeks to improve viewership or else it was the morgue for the Lee Pace driven dramedy. The good news is that "Daisies" beat out the miserable "Knight Rider" on NBC. The bad new is that's not saying much since it received the lowest ratings ever. Unsubstantiated rumors are running amok that the hammer has already come down from the ABC Network. Earlier this season I wrote in support of this show. It's a delightful, frothy, sweet (albeit sometimes too sweet) program that should be saved. The fact that "Knight Rider" and "Kath and Kim" are still roaming the earth while "Pushing Daises" is getting chopped is mind boggling. Maybe another network will "touch" it back to life?
Another one to bite the dust?
"Dirty Sexy Money" is also rumored to have been canceled, and not a moment too soon. I cautiously championed this prime time soap-like drama earlier in the season, simply because the cast was substantial in quality despite the tiresome premise concerning the wealthy Darling family and their obnoxious brood. How can you go wrong with Jill Clayburgh, Donald Sutherland, Billy Baldwin and Peter Krause? The answer is - you can, with sub-par writing, boring storylines worthy of "Day of Our Lives" (which is also up for the chop in day time), and sleazy unneccesary tub and shower scenes that make the mind wander toward the DVR line up to see if your machine recorded something better. Unlike the charming "Pushing Daisies" which should be rescued from the
jaws of cancelation, "Dirty Sexy Money" should mercifully be put to rest.
Update: "Pushing Daisies", "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Eli Stone" were officially canceled. R.I.P.
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In the eighth race of the 2013 USATF-CT Grand Prix Series, the New Haven 20k, the NHRR Masters Men took first while the Open Men and Women's teams both placed second. Fortunately the Open Men's second place finish was enough to clinch an over all victory in the 2013 USATF-CT Grand Prix.
On the individual side NHRR had a very strong showing with 10 men and 7 women participating under terribly humid conditions. Notable performaners include Tom who was the 3rd CT runner overall and Nathan who posted a huge PR performance under especially rough conditions!
Complete results can be found below and photos have been posted on the Photos page.
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Would it be wrong to hit the man you loved?
Besides, Jen didn't really want to hit him. Maybe kick him in the shin, though. Or throw something at him. Because…had he really just told her she couldn't go?
As in, he was attempting to dictate what she could or couldn't do in her own life?
"Okay, just to be clear," she said tightly. "You're telling me I can't go?"
"That's exactly what I'm telling you," Cash shot back.
Anger and disbelief twisted in her belly, making it difficult to keep the hostility out of her voice. "So you make decisions for me now?"
"About this? Hell yes." He grabbed his jeans and yanked them on, his sculpted shoulders rigid with tension. "You think I'm going to let my girlfriend happily stroll into a war zone? No way."
"First of all, it's not a warzone. And second, even if it was, how is me going any different from what you do?" she challenged. "You put your life at risk on a daily basis!"
"That's what I trained for, Jen! I went through years and years of training that taught me how to handle myself in dangerous situations."
"And I can't handle myself?" she demanded, her skin prickling with offense.
"No, you can't," he said bluntly. "You're trained in self-defense, not in urban warfare.
Central America is too unstable right now. It's too fucking dangerous, especially for a woman traveling alone."
"I won't be alone," she insisted. "I already told you, the magazine is arranging for a military transport. And there's a whole unit of US Marines down there training the local military."
"That doesn't mean shit if you're in a town that's overrun with gangs and they open fire on you, or kidnap you, or kill you."
"We won't be going into areas like that."
"The whole country is areas like that!"
Cash snatched his shirt off the floor and threw it on, radiating waves of white-hot anger.
But his response had left her equally infuriated. It would've been one thing if he'd calmly suggested they talk it over, but to flat-out say she couldn't go? With no discussion? Without even hearing the details?
She didn't mind a caveman in bed, but this was ridiculous.
"I'll be taking every precaution. And you know I've visited poverty-stricken areas before. I only do boring portraits for Today's World, but I used to travel on my own, remember?"
"The other places you've gone haven't involved drug cartels and—" He stopped and shook his head. "I don't know why we're even still talking about this. You're not going."
Every muscle in her body seized to the point of paralysis. Jen could barely take a breath she was so furious. She stared at Cash's inflexible expression as she struggled to control her temper.
"You have no say in this," she said stiffly. "If I choose to go, then you can't stop me."
She stuck out her chin. "And I choose to go."
Astonished blue eyes stared back at her. "You're fucking kidding me."
"Does it look like I'm kidding?"
"You'd really put your own neck on the line just so your pictures can be featured in a lead story?"
The harsh words stung. "It's what I signed up for when I got into photography," she snapped. "I never wanted to be a bubblegum photographer who takes portraits of cats and babies and frickin' fruit baskets! I want to shed light on real issues and make a difference." She glared at him accusingly. "You know that. And you always said you supported it."
"I do support it." He glared right back. "But not when there's a risk to your life."
"There's a risk to your life every time you go wheels-up. Every time you're deployed for months on end." Frustration clawed up her throat. "I have to live with that every fucking day. The worry and the panic and the fear that I'll never see you again—"
"Well, it's your turn to live with it. I'm going, Cash."
"Jen…" A warning note crept in.
"I'm going," she repeated. "And as much as I would love your support about this, I don't need it in order to accept this assignment. Nor do I need your approval."
Cash didn't answer. A noticeable vein appeared in his forehead, his mouth set in a tight, angry line. He looked ready to explode, but Jen didn't care. His high-handed, domineering reaction to this whole situation had seriously pissed her off.
"By the way," she said curtly. "I leave tomorrow."
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Spring IoC container can manager more then one beans. Beans are created with details provided via metadata configuration to container(via Java code, Java Annotation, XML). Bean Definitions are represented as the Object of BeanDefinition which contains the several metadata information. Properties those are part of BeanDefinitions are
- Class
- Name
- Scope
- Constructor Argument
- Properties
- Autowiring mode
- lazy-initializinng-mode
- Initialization method
- Destruction method
Registering Beans created outside Container
In order to register beans created outside container by user, we can use BeanFactory(DefaultListableBeanFactory)(Accessed by getBeanFactory() method). Accessed beanfactory can be used to register the existing bean via registerSingleton() & registerBeanDefinition() methods.
Bean Naming Convention
Every bean in a single container can have one or more then one(treated as Alias) identifier(referenced via id / Name) but these identifier needs to be unique. Id / Name are not required attributes so user is not forced to provide Id / Name for a given bean. In case user does not provide any(Id / Name) of them container will generate unique name for the same.
Aliases can be create by providing different option in name attributes these options should be separated by comma.
Bean Instantiation
Container combine the application class and metadata configuration details to build the beans. There are different ways a container can build the Beans.
- Constructor Instantiation
- Static Factory Method Instatiation
- Instance Factory Method Instatiation
Constructor Instantiation
For Constructor instantiation bean class(class attribute in <bean>) is required. Default constructor of class may also be required.
Example of constructor instantiation with XML based metadata.
<bean id="HibernateDao" class="com.dao.HibernateDaoImpl">
Static Factory Method Instatiation
In this case bean will be created by calling static factory method of a Class. Spring container doesn't have direct involvement in defining the beans.
Example of Static Factory instantiation with XML based metadata.
<bean id="contactService"
Here we are defining class having static factory method(createInstance).
Static InstanceFactory Method Instatiation
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When 16-year-old Darien Piva decided to start a robotics club, he knew it would be expensive.
"If it was cheap, I wouldn't have a problem," Piva said with a laugh, standing next to his club mates who were on the floor fixing the arm of a small robotic rover they made.
Piva knew if he wanted his Real Virtuality Robotics club to continue to grow, he would need some cash. So he sent in a proposal to the Edmonton Community Foundation's Young Edmonton Grants (Y-E-G) committee, hoping for an award of $500 to $3,000.
"We got the whole $3,000," said Piva, "and it is quite a blessing having all of that. I would say almost that entire bot there was paid for with the $3,000."
The Y-E-G program began in 2011, and has since distributed nearly $500,000 to 225 young people with great ideas in the Edmonton region.
Cassandra Lundell with the Edmonton Community Foundation says the grants program is meant to support youth leadership.
"This means the activities that can be supported through the program are wide-ranging – from organizing a local street dance, to initiating a career fair, or hosting workshops on topics like bullying, self-defense or civic engagement."
Leadership in the eyes of the Y-E-G program doesn't necessarily mean running for student council – it's about 13 to 24-year-olds enhancing the community around them.
"We encourage young people to reach out to see how we might be able to help them through funding," Lundell continued.
Lundell recommends applications be realistic, reasonable in cost and something that fosters youth leadership.
Having successfully secured the largest grant available, Piva also suggests highlighting what makes your idea different.
Other Y-E-G programs foster acceptance and understanding in their school community. Students at Sir George Simpson Junior High received a grant to start a touring Indigenous drumming circle club.
"It covers the cost for the travel, if it's over the lunch time it will cover some of the lunches," said Ryan Arcand, the club's leader.
Though their grant was smaller, the impact it's had is huge.
"What it does at a young age, it stops racism and the discrimination that we're different," Arcand explained, noting that three of the club members were not Indigenous.
"There's a lot of negative press about 'kids these days' and we disagree," said Lundell. "Through this program, we get to see all the creative and engaged young residents putting their ideas into action throughout the greater Edmonton area. It's such a great program to learn about all the fun and engaging initiatives happening in our community that are being driven by 13 to 24-year-olds."
There are three rounds of application deadlines each year. A full description of grant eligibility can be found here.


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Johannesburg - Just a month after publicly admitting that he has been unlucky in love, it seems things are looking better for Dingaan Thobela.
After going through a very public split, with all sorts of horrible rumours, Dingaan has admitted that he and his wife are fixing their relationship.
First it was reported that he had cheated on her and then later it was said to be his wife who had actually cheated on him. (Read that story here) Either way, it doesn't matter now.
Sunday World is reporting that the two are back together.
"We are very happy in our marriage again as husband and wife. I'm glad we're taking our love to the next level," he told the paper.
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I've blogged on the pervasive use of chemical toxins in this country before, and more recently how the more widespread use may be linked to everything from genetic damage to aggressive prostate, liver and breast cancers. For sure, the anomaly of American males in their 30s being diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer (Gleason score of 8 or higher) may be directly linked to their inhabiting a chemical toxic sea - most of whose components they know nothing about.
Right now, indeed, I am writing this amidst a toxic 'brew' in my own home, as a result of exposure to resins, acrylic acid (e.g. http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/acrylica.html ) etc. from having a downstairs shower pan replaced and resurfaced. Yes, the thing looks fantastic after the replacement, but the toxins released - which we are now trying to expel using a high-powered fan, maybe not so much. (Don't blame me, btw, it was wifey's idea to refurbish the thing as it "looked too grungy". I guess maybe she figures we may have guests coming at some point to use it!) The point is, in this country there is almost no escaping the toxic stew, which accompanies everything from a simple bathroom shower floor redo, to pest and weed control and even handling DVDs (laden with bisphenol A).
Even oldish toxins can lay in wait and affect the most innocent among us, kids - who may have nothing to do with pesticide spraying or renovating showers. The CDC estimates that in at least 4 million households in the U.S. today children are still exposed to dangerous amounts of lead from old paint that produces dust every time a nail is driven into a wall to hang a picture, a new electric socket is installed, or a family renovates its kitchen. It estimates that more than 500,000 children ages one to five have "elevated" levels of lead in their blood. (No level is considered safe for children.) Studies have linked lost IQ points, attention deficit disorders, behavioral problems, dyslexia, and even possibly high incarceration rates to tiny amounts of lead in children's bodies.
Sadly, when it came to the creation of America's pervasive chemical stew, the lead industry was hardly alone. Asbestos is another classic example of an industrial toxin that found its way into people's homes and bodies. For decades, insulation workers, brake mechanics, construction workers, and a host of others in hundreds of trades fell victim to the disabling and deadly lung diseases of asbestosis or to lung cancer and the fatal cancer called mesothelioma when they breathed in dust produced during the installation of boilers, the insulation of pipes, the fixing of cars that used asbestos brake linings, or the spraying of asbestos on girders.
Despite growing medical knowledge about its effects (and increasing industry attempts to downplay or suppress that knowledge), asbestos was soon introduced to the American home and incorporated into products ranging from insulation for boilers and piping in basements to floor tiles and joint compounds. It was used to make sheetrock walls, roof shingles, ironing boards, oven gloves, and hot plates. Soon an occupational hazard was transformed into a threat to all consumers.
What's inside the new walls of your new home might be even more dangerous. While the flame retardants commonly used in sofas, chairs, carpets, love seats, curtains, baby products, and even TVs, sounded like a good idea when widely introduced in the 1970s, they turn out to pose hidden dangers that we're only now beginning to grasp. Researchers have, for instance, linked one of the most common flame retardants, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, to a wide variety of potentially undesirable health effects including thyroid disruption, memory and learning problems, delayed mental and physical development, lower IQ, and the early onset of puberty. Other flame retardants like Tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate have been linked to cancer. As the CDC has documented in an ongoing study of the accumulation of hazardous materials in our bodies, flame retardants can now be found in the blood of "nearly all" of us.
Is this the end of it? Dream on! Lurking in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, for instance, are window cleaners and spot removers that contain known or suspected cancer-causing agents. The same can be said of any cosmetics (including lotions- linked to hypospadias in male infants) in your bathroom, or of your plastic water bottle or microwavable food containers.
As for Bisphenol A (BPA), the synthetic chemical used in a variety of plastic consumer products, including your DVDs, some baby bottles, epoxy cements (now wafting through my home) Sarah Vogel of the Environmental Defense Fund has written: "New research on very-low-dose exposure to BPA suggests an association with adverse health effects, including breast and prostate cancer, obesity, neurobehavioral problems, and reproductive abnormalities."
Do we care? Maybe we do, but inhabiting a techno-civilization where these chemicals are so abundant and intimately woven into our lives means there's little we can do to control them. Toss out all your DVDs? Hardly likely! Tell my wife no more bathroom renovations like this last one, unless harmless chemicals are employed? Even less bloody likely! Demanding wifey use a newspaper to kill that large 6" diameter arthropod over there as opposed to spraying RAID? Even less probable!
So, in the end, we swim amidst all these toxins, use them - in so far as we have to - then cross fingers and just hope to hell we don't get to be the one stuck with liver, prostate, breast or kidney cancer.....or some awful respiratory disease.


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24th April 2019 In
Grace | Master Stylist
'Life is short. Make each hair flip fabulous.'
With over seven years experience working in a top London salon, involved with London Fashion Week, baftas and also travelling as an educator for L'Oreal, Grace comes to Love Hair enthused. Last year she thought it was time to set her sights on something different, so she packed her bags and moved to Hong Kong.
With a keen sense of fashion and modernity, Grace especially enjoys keeping up with all of the hair trends. She is in high demand for balayage as a bespoke colour for her clients. Giving them good tips on how to maintain great hair, Grace listens to her clients' needs and delivers fresh looks every time.


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Planning an event can be overwhelming for so many people. But with just a little organization, it can be fun and very rewarding too.
I've had a few people ask me how I prepare for an event, so I thought I'd share some of my secrets here.
It's all about the "Book".
The biggest event I ever planned was a street fair called A.M.A.S.S. It was held in the old original Funk Zone of Santa Barbara and it was all about artists. The idea was to have artists assemble on Mason Street and get a chance to show their art in real-time.
Artists Making A Street Scene brought together painters, musicians, dancers, fire spinners and so much more. And I put it all together…with a lot of help.
My son, Adam started a local magazine that showcased artists, and A.M.A.S.S. was his brilliant idea to bring artists together. Stateside Magazine featured a different artist each month on the front cover, and no artists were charged to showcase their art in the magazine.
A.M.A.S.S. was a great way to raise funds for Stateside.
We closed the street, brought in bands, food, wares, and of course artists. It went on into the night and we estimated about 7,000 visitors our second year.
There are a lot of people who claim to be the ones who put together A.M.A.S.S., but I'll bet Adam and I are the only ones with a book to prove we did it.
Any time I organize an event, I start with putting together my book.
It is the best way to get things rolling in the right direction. And it becomes invaluable at times.
During A.M.A.S.S., I had to pull out my book more than once to show someone our permits. Or to remind a store owner that yes he did sign the agreement to close the street.
A book is especially important for a wedding, in my opinion. And, sure, you can do an online one if you want, but there is something about having it all right in front of me, and making notes here and there that helps me the most.
Get tabs you can write on and put all the information you are gathering into your book. Put everything in there…at first. You can always weed out the ideas that didn't pan out or were vetoed later.
I've put together books for so many different events, big and small.
I once orchestrated a formal Thanksgiving dinner for 30 guests, and would have been lost without my book.
I even put together a small one for our trip to Europe last month. It was simple and fun and kept me organized. I brought it with us in case I needed to pull out rental agreements for our car hires or other rentals, and it turned out I did.
Arguably the most important part of your book is a timeline. That's what keeps it all moving smoothly. I created a loose timeline for our trip to help keep track of where we wanted to go. And I say loose, because we like to go with the flow on our trips.
But if you are organizing groups of people, your timeline will be essential. Speaking of which, I better get back to work on that timeline for the next wedding I'm coordinating.


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Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by SPST, Nov 8, 2018.
And this one was in the produce section too!
Translator please: Does anyone speak Jive @0:50?
She's no better than tech help from "Chad" in India.
Well, I will admit the hair grab and swing while she mopped the floor with her was pretty impressive. Damn I am glad I live in the middle of no where and do my shopping at small local shops!
Dude in the white shirt went down twice. I think the maneuver on the woman in the yellow is called "walk the dog."
I could see that happening here at the East Burlington Walmart. There was once a report of two separate knife fights in the parking lot there. I've never seen any trouble in the Positively Charming Mebane location, though.
Help break it up?? Yo Mama, how about I de-ass the area and mind my own business.... I ain't your savior....
Here in Chapel Hill the only "fights" are me trying to find a person with a key to the ammo cabinet.
The struggle is real, y'all.
Same characters, same old stuff.
No charges?? Walmart has a great recognition system an I guarantee they know every single person that walks in their store.
when I see *strawberry beefcake* open up and start mopping the floor with that chick , am I the only one thinking she be yelling " I told you to stay in the car " at her kid...… lol
Stop feeding the masses and let them pay for their own procreation.
How do they have this much energy after a hard day off work? I must be doing this work thing wrong..
In the future I'll be on the lookout for black women in clown wigs.
Anchor on TV: Find someone on scene to interview!
News guy on scene: Give me a second to find the dumbest person I can.
I guess I better find another place to buy my Butter Ball.
Fightin' over the Last bag of tater tots?
This is nothing compared to what I witnessed as a kid in the bargain basements of
Gimbal's, Macy's and A&S in Brooklyn, NY circa 1965. Amusing to watch grown women
fighting over a dress or bra that was nowhere near the size the needed.
Classy; real classy.
wig down!
I love it!!!!
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KEVIN Danso was representing a team referred to as 'Southampton' when his MK Dons coach realised the scale of his potential.
Dan Micciche, who now works for Arsenal's academy as under-16s and lead development coach, first worked with Saints' deadline-day signing when he was an under-9 playing in the same academy that produced Dele Alli.
He recalls: "We'd never been to an overseas tournament because we didn't have the brand name, we were just a League One club with a small academy. But we went to one in Greece because Southampton pulled out – and they called us Southampton the whole time!
"Kevin scored twice when we beat Panathinaikos 3-0 in the semi-final. It was boiling hot, it was the sixth game we'd played in two or three days. He'd played all of them and was playing a year up.
"Elite performers deliver in pressure moments and that was one."
Two others were his international and Bundesliga debuts, both as an 18 year-old. Micciche recalls one of Danso's best goals for the MK Dons academy. "At Colchester's stadium, he beat three or four players on the edge of the box, rolled the ball and then chipped it in the top corner. It was another example of what he's capable of.
"So was scoring the equaliser for Augsburg in a draw against [Borussia] Dortmund and the fact he kept getting picked in a top league at centre-half.
"A lot of managers don't trust young centre-halves so that speaks volumes. I went out there to watch him play two seasons ago against Wolfsburg and even as an 18 year-old he was marking Mario Gomez.
"He's played against Bayern Munich's first team three or four times in front of big crowds. He's marked the likes of [Robert] Lewandowski and [Edinson] Cavani when he played Uruguay.
"He played against Brazil's seniors last summer, when they had big-hitters including Neymar playing."
Danso has already won six caps for Austria, the country of his birth (contrary to his Wikipedia page, Danso was never eligible to play for England), but his formative football education began at MK Dons a few years after his family moved to the area.
In 2014, they moved to Germany. After two seasons in Augsburg's first team, Micchiche believes Danso has moved to the right club at the right time. "He was always destined to come back to England and it was always going to be in the Premier League, to a club that plays a good style of football, breeds young players and with a manager who's going to improve him and progress his game.
"He had interest last year from a few Premier League clubs - West Ham, Newcastle and Fulham – but that would have been too early.
"He's been in Germany for five years now and had two years' experience in the Bundesliga so this is a really good fit.
"One of my close friends is Southampton's first-team analyst and I have a lot of friends in their academy.
"Southampton is such a good club and the indications are that it will work out well."
As an international centre-half, Danso is just what Saints need. But he has the potential to play in other positions.
"He's a very multi-functional player with really good composure," continues Micciche.
"He's played a lot at centre-back in Germany whereas I always saw him as a box-to-box midfielder, which he may become in future.
"Southampton have got a player who can play in three or four positions. Whether he can play in three or four positions in the Premier League is another matter.
"He'll never be a number ten but wouldn't be embarrassed around the box. He's got a good set of lungs, always has done. He can get around the pitch, he's got good speed, a good spring, a good touch, can score and is such an honest player. He can cover the ground very quickly and defend in transition as well.
"The biggest thing with him is he wants to improve. Even now, he doesn't think he's made it at all.
"He's very, very self-critical. He can have a good game and he'll think he's had a bad game. He'll always look for that extra percentage.
"Credit to him, he's never got ahead of himself. Even now he won't see it as 'I've made it'. He'll see this as the next part of his journey and that the hard work starts from here."
Such is Danso's quality that Micciche believes he will prove one of the best young players in the Premier League.
"Having worked with Jadon Sancho and Phil Foden with England, I would definitely put Kevin in that category of player," continues the former England U16 coach, who likens the quality of the 20 year-old's versatility to that of Frank Rijkaard and Marcel Desailly.
"In the modern game he's not a number four, a six or an eight so you have to look back further for someone equally comfortable at the back as in midfield.
"Someone like Desailly or a Rijkaard. If he can achieve what they did he'll have done well!"
Danso, who turns 21 next month, would often play three years above his age group alongside the likes of Dele Alli, who he will come up against at Tottenham's new stadium next month, for the first time since their academy training sessions.
Other MK Dons alumni include Liverpool's Shay Ojo, currently on loan at Glasgow Rangers following a £2m move to Anfield as a 15 year-old in 2011, Brendan Galloway, who played 17 games for Everton before moving to Luton Town last month and Sheffield United full-back George Baldock.
"Dele's group was a good one for Kevin to look up to," continues Micciche.
"He would get integrated into that group so had good peers. It was a good community of local kids with a lot of potential. They would all get an opportunity to play up two or three years, which accelerated their learning.
"Kevin was and still is very close to his teammates. They were a very athletic group so we used to put them on small pitches to help improve their touch and awareness because they got away with quite a lot when they were nine and ten.
"Originally they didn't like it because they weren't experiencing success. But with perseverance they started to buy into it and saw the benefits.
"Kevin has always relished a challenge, which is a trait of an elite performer.
"He stepped out of his comfort zone when he went to Germany and now has a bank of experience that will stand him in good stead.
"I saw his debut for Austria U15s, when he played up front, so he's one of those who's been a good footballer the whole way through.
"There are some you can label. Dele was always going to be in the middle of the pitch amongst the action. He wants to be the centre of attention, but Kevin is a team player who hasn't locked down a position, even now.
"What will benefit Southampton is that he can play in a back three, a back four and in midfield. Hopefully the guidance of such a good manager will move his game on even more."
Dele Alli's achievements have been a source of motivation to Danso.
"When you see one of your peers do something you want to do, all of a sudden it becomes achievable," explains Micciche, who returned to MK Dons for a brief spell as their first-team manager last year.
"Being at an academy with very little in terms of facilities compared to most clubs in the country kept Kevin's feet on the floor. He wasn't given loads of kit, he didn't travel in first class. That was good for him.
"But when Dele broke into the MK Dons first team as a 16 year-old and Shay Ojo got a £2m move to Liverpool at 15 his mentality shifted from 'I'm at a little club with very limited resources' to 'something's happening here, people are getting international recognition.
"Then Kevin started to get his, after being called up to the Austria U15 squad a year early."
Danso's strength and stamina stood out from a young age.
"He's always had that robustness," continued Micciche.
"He's a bit unusual in that the modern-day culture of player development is becoming more about managing their load and looking at every fine detail.
"But while Kevin's programme was detailed and well thought out he played an awful lot of games - 70-odd in one season.
"He once played two full games in a day; in the morning for the year above and in the afternoon for his own age group.
"That was based on knowing him and what he was capable of and asking him how he felt. If he broke down he knew I might not ask him next time.
"That was a good lesson for me. Not all young players can cope with that but it's not a one-size-fits-all. If they can, let them crack on."
The holistic approach to player development favoured in Germany was of great benefit to Danso, who is the youngest of three brothers, when he joined Augsburg as a 15 year-old.
"I'd left for the FA by then but the main reason the family went was for the education," explains Micciche. "It was a bold move but Kevin's come out of it with five A-levels because of the German education system, where you stay in school till you're 18, all paid for by Augsburg.
"We still have a bit of a one-size-fits-all approach, where at 16 players can do an NVQ. But he's well educated.
"He's not just a footballer, off the field there's a lot more to him. He speaks other languages; he's fluent in German, he speaks Austrian and his English isn't bad either. Our academy manager at Arsenal, Per Mertesacker, is always drumming into the players that better people make better players and Kevin's a good example of that; he's a really good, grounded person.
"I'm very proud of him. He's a fantastic human being; extremely polite, very humble. He's been brought up extremely well and is such an impressive young man with good values.
"A lot of credit for that goes to his older brother Manny, who's mentored him very well."


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Mechanical Woes and the Attitudes They Can Create
Have you ever noticed that when things break in your personal "fleet," they do so in multiples? This summer has seen a seemingly endless string of mechanical woes to steeds and gear that have tried both my patience and wallet.
First came hard starting, and then non-starting, for my Triumph motorcycle. After a week or two of attempts to source the issue, it finally died completely and suffered the ignominy of a trailer-trip to the dealer. It turned out to be the ignition switch, which in its death throes also took out the battery.
Next up was a side pod on my Arai which broke off. Had to order two new side pods (they are sold in pairs) and they were replaced by the "helmet guy" at Ride West BMW.
Next up – a recall for the driver's air bag on our Honda CR-V.
Three days ago the rear wiper on our Fiat 500 Sport failed in a heavy rain during a short mini-vacation to Vancouver Island.
Today the zipper on my left motorcycle boot got jammed, and I had 30 minutes of comedy blended with concern because I could not get the boot off!
Tomorrow I go back to the Triumph dealer because the overflow tank for the radiator has a leak. Nothing drastic, but next week's 6 day ride will be more peaceful without worrying when and if that part will let go. They will also finish re-keying the fuel tank cap and seat release, which we chose to wait on because the last repair came just before a three day ride.
Arghghgh! How many more hassles am I due?
No way of knowing, of course.
When these things happen you can gnash your teeth and curse the angry gods you have offended… or – you can step back and consider other factors.
- The Triumph has 46,000 miles on the odometer, which is a fair bunch in motorcycle terms, and has rarely had any issues in the ten years I have been riding it. Things wear out.
- In a summer of one adventure after another, almost all of these things have occurred in my garage or at home, and not in some out of cell phone range hinterland where I've spent a lot of my time.
- Fixing the Arai also had the expert remove both sides and do a thorough cleaning of the entire mounting area, which after about 50,000 miles (I have ridden dozens of other bikes in addition to the Triumph in the five years I've worn it) was quite evidently needed, and not an area I would notice.
- The air bag recall was not the Honda's fault, and now I can rest assured it will not explode and pepper my handsome visage with plastic shrapnel.
- The Fiat wiper is not critical, and the repair will be made under warranty.
- I thought of replacing the boots, which are five years old, but a close examination showed that they have very little wear, despite 50,000 miles of rain and worse. Instead of spending $300 or so, the local shoe repair store will replace the bad zipper pull for $14.00.
- At the end of the day, we are both retired, and none of these events have interfered with our other activities.
- Unlike the many years when we were raising children on the salaries of two teachers plus my various part-time jobs – I can now afford the bills.
I remember years ago when I often reminded my students of a quote by someone that success in any job or endeavor came down to 97% attitude.
I now think that was an understatement.
All in all, I think I win.
Copyright 2015 David Preston


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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was grilled by a Sikh woman during a visit to a Gurudwara in Bristol….reports Asian Lite News
He did it again. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson apologised to a Sikh woman for mentioning alcohol during a Sikh temple visit at Bristol.
The senior Tory leader was commenting the better trade relations with India in the post-Brexit era.He said the Scotch exports will go up to India as soon Britain ends the deal with EU.
The Sikh woman told Boris that the religion forbids alcohol. The foreign secretary tried to apologise, but the woman continued to berate him, telling him about the effect of alcohol on her family. Like Islam, Sikh religion also forbids alcohol consumption.
The issue draws flak from his political opponents.
"This crass misjudgement has shown Boris Johnson is incapable of representing his own party at home, let alone representing Britain abroad," said Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary Tom Brake. "It doesn't bode well for all the trade deals the Brexiteers have promised. The British people don't have to settle for bungling Boris and Theresa May's risky and extreme version of Brexit. The Liberal Democrats will give people a say on the Brexit deal in a referendum, with the choice to remain in Europe."