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March 20, 2009
Antonio Anderson
John Calipari
Tyreke Evans
Roburt Sallie
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Ready to go with the questions for the Memphis student athletes.
Q. This is for an Tony and a Tyreke. How concerned are y'all about the -- besides Robert, the 1 for 13 3-point shooting yesterday. When you go back and look at the film, was it not enough ball movement to get open looks? What did you see, or was it just missing shots?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: It was just missing shots. You know, luckily Rob made the shots. But nobody else made any 3s, and that's how it is sometimes. You can't make the shots every game. We've been there before, and we know how to battle through that. We figure out ways to win, and that's what we had to do yesterday.
TYREKE EVANS: Pretty much the same thing. It wasn't our night, but one guy on our team had the hot hand. Pretty much got with him. He got us through the game the whole way through.
Q. This is for Roburt. Did you go back and watch ESPN and look at your shots and go "Man, I was really on. I was on fire"?
ROBURT SALLIE: No. Actually, you know, I've been shooting all season, I'm just a shooter. So it's not -- I mean, I was a bit surprised about the ten 3-pointers, but other than that, you know, I didn't really watch it or think about that.
Q. What was practice like today? Did the coach kind of switch things up or just as regular as normal?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: It's always regular. He didn't switch anything up. We went out there and went hard like we always do. He showed us a couple things to get us ready for tomorrow, and we'll do the same tomorrow at shoot-around. He was just, you know, throwing little things at us to get us prepared for the next game.
Q. Antonio, Vasquez is kind of a different kind of guy and different kind of player. How do you size him up, and what's the strategy against him?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: Can't size him up. He's a great player, great shots, can shoot the ball, can pass the ball, can dribble. He's very gifted, very skilled. There's no -- you can't just stop a player like that. It's going to take five guys and all of us helping one another and just got to be a team effort.
Q. Roburt, after what happened yesterday, do you think you're going to get a little extra attention tomorrow from the defense?
ROBURT SALLIE: Definitely. I know -- I normally get a lot more extra attention. Northridge, they were giving me extra attention towards the second half, but like I said, my teammates found ways to find me. I'm just going the play my role tomorrow. If I have an open shot, I'm going to shoot it. If not, then I'm not going to shoot it, look for my teammates.
Q. Antonio, follow-up to Vasquez, he plays to the crowd, fingers over his lips and does stuff. How do you guys take that? Is that a cool thing or -- how do you take that?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: We don't take it any way. Any way. He's an explosive player. We don't feed into that. You know, if that's what he likes to do, that's what he does. We don't talk trash or anything like that.
We're going to go out and play our game, and if that's the style he plays, that's how he plays. He's just being himself out there. He's not trying to be anybody else. That's how we look at it.
Q. Roburt, are you going to be in the starting lineup, or has the coach not said anything to you about that yet?
ROBURT SALLIE: I haven't been notified of any rotations, being switched or anything. I don't think that would be smart anyway at this point, you know. Might mess up team chemistry. We're just going to stick to what we've been doing all season and continue from there.
Q. Antonio, do you feel like if you guys can shut down Vasquez that you can control this Maryland team?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: Well, we don't shut anybody down. We're going to try to play our regular team defense and try to make their game as hard as possible. He's got some guys on his team that can also shoot the ball. The 5 man and 2 man and 3 and 4 can shoot it. You can't focus on one player.
He has a group of guys who can score. If that wasn't the case, you would have seen him have triple doubles throughout the season. You just have to credit everybody that their coach plays and they all play a significant role in what they try to do. We're going to go out and play our team defense and try to do what we've been doing all year.
Q. Antonio, what do you guys attribute to the slow start for everybody except Roburt yesterday?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: We just didn't come ready to play. There's no explanation. They came out and brought way more energy than we did. They beat us after the ball, and Roburt gave us that lift that we needed, and we just tried to pick it up from there.
Q. All three players, do you expect Maryland to play you a zone most of the day? Would you play your zone against y'all considering the way you shot yesterday?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: We don't know how they're going to play. That's up to their coach to decide on what they're going to play, and if were you to play us, I'm not a coach. You never know because Roburt can shoot and everyone. We've got guys who can get in the lane and make things happen. It's how their coach decides how they want the play us. They're a great team. Whatever their coach decides to do, we know that we'll give our best.
Q. For both Antonio and Roburt, I know you have -- you play who comes up, but your conference, USA, sometimes gets shortchanged. You know the criticism. Playing an ACC team, does that get you up a little more, and just talk about getting to play a team from one of the power conferences.
ANTONIO ANDERSON: It doesn't get us up any more. It's another game. All the conference stuff is thrown out the window, the records are thrown out the window. Two good teams going at it. The NCAA Tournament, we're trying to advance. We don't worry about what people say about our conference.
We played in the national championship last year and the Elite 8 the year before. We know what we're capable of as a team. We don't pay that any mind.
ROBURT SALLIE: Same as what he said.
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Any more questions?
Q. Roburt, I was curious. Since you had that great game yesterday, have you heard from a lot of people, lot of text messages? Have you heard from your old high school pals or something like that?
ROBURT SALLIE: Oh, yeah, definitely. But, you know, I was due for a big shooting night. I've been in the gym working hard and putting up extra shots and stuff like that. It just happened to be my night. The game coming up, I could make no shots.
Doneal can make ten 3-pointers. Tyreke can hit ten 3-pointers. Any given time with this team, any given night this can be on. We're going to come ready to play Saturday and should be a great game.
Q. Tyreke, was your first tournament experience kind of what you expected?
TYREKE EVANS: Definitely. It was a lot of the crowd into it, going back and forth. The coach told us how the team was going to come out making every shot. We just came out, and we weren't prepared for it.
Q. Because of proximity, you and Oklahoma seem to have the crowd, more people here? Do you feel you guys are at a little more of an advantage being as close to home as you are compared to a Maryland or like what Michigan has to face?
ANTONIO ANDERSON: Well, honestly, it's a neutral site. Fortunately, enough it's close. That doesn't mean anything. The fans don't dribble the ball or shoot the ball, it's the players. It's good to have your fans here. You really -- you can feed off them a little bit but at the same time. I know Maryland is not worried about our fans. We can't worry about that as well.
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Anyone else for the student athletes from Memphis?
Great, guys. Thank you.
Coach, if you wouldn't mind giving us a brief opening statement.
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: We're happy we're still playing. I watched the tape of last night's game and, wow, they deserved to win the game and -- but we made the plays down the stretch again that we've done for the last few years.
Proud of my team that we hung in there with foul trouble in the first half and we hung in there with, you know, with the other team just had more energy than we had. I think I said at halftime I talked about our swagger became arrogance, and hopefully we learned our lesson and understand every game in this tournament is a hard game.
I'm looking at scores with Marquette. I'm looking at scores with Kansas. 8-point game. Every game is a hard game in this tournament.
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Questions for Coach.
Q. John, been a lot of years since you and Gary were in a NCAA Tournament game. Just off the top of your head, what kind of things have changed in this game, recruiting changes, things like that? What have you noticed most?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Biggest thing is players leaving early. That is the one thing that, you know, during my time at UMASS I had one player leave early, Marcus Camby in his junior year. Gary Williams had one, Joe Smith. He left in his junior year. He may have left as a sophomore. That was the beginning of kids leaving early.
You had a lot of teams where now the run we're on at Memphis is with three, four different teams because anybody that can really play, they left. They're not there anymore, and you had to do it with new guys.
I would tell you that that would be the biggest change. But we had great games. We played Gary probably three games that were not NCAA Tournament games, and then we played that game in Wichita against him. I said there's a big difference now.
My point guard then was Derek Kellogg, who is now the coach at UMASS. And that's why we lost. My point guard now is Tyreke Evans.
Q. How much more do you have to cultivate image as a coach? Seems like because of the 24-hour news cycle, how much more time do you have to put into that, let recruits know what the coach is about and reputation and those kind of things?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Well, you know, people -- there have been people that I have been close with for a lot of years, and if they call me to do something for them, I will.
Jim Rome called me today, Dan Patrick, guys I've known for 15 years, 20 years who have been good to me. If I did all the radio shows and television stuff that people ask me to do, I couldn't coach my team.
But there are certain people that have been really good to me that, you know, I've had a relationship with a long time that I would do stuff with.
It is important that kids see how you play. And I think our style has been one of those styles that kids wants to play. Even last night, Roburt Sallie. If you get it going for us, go, no one is holding you back. They're not subbing you. Until you start missing, keep shooting. If someone is hot, keep giving them the ball. That's how we've always played.
Q. When you went back and looked at the film, 1 of 13 3-point shooting. Were they good looks, did you get enough in and out, inside, outside for the zone?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: No, we didn't. We didn't throw the ball in enough and get in the lane enough and driver, but the looks were still there. They were open.
I believe one of them plugged in there and stopped. Did it plug in between the backboard and the rim? I think one of them did that. I think a couple of them were air balls long, like he pulled up from 18 and the ball went 19. We had some of those.
Our team has done that before, and then we come back the next game and go 13 out of 20. That's what we are.
Q. John, what makes Vasquez such a good offensive player and talk about trying to keep him in check?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Two things. One, he's really crafty. So his feel for the game is as good as I've seen and he's also got size. You're not just going to put someone with size on him and have that affect him. Not happen.
He is so crafty. Gets everyone involved. In other words, he's trying to curl in the lane to catch balls. As much to pass as he is to score and now all of a sudden, he's getting a player a play he can make. He's getting the ball to a guy next to the rim where he's making that.
Second thing is people help so much on him when he does miss they offensive rebound because those guys aren't body to body with somebody. They do a great job of really bum rushing the rim. They've got arms on you and hands on you and that ball goes up, you're like fighting for your life. That's how they play.
Q. Coach, we asked Roburt this morning if he thought he would start, and he said he didn't know, that it was up to you. He wasn't even sure that would be smart because it might mess up team chemistry.
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: I'm not going to start him, but I can't wait to put him in (laughter). I'm not going to start him. The whole thing, not so much him as Doneal Mack. He's had a great year. The one thing that kind of surprised me that I hadn't prepared for was my team being a little skittish. I've been in this tournament a long time, and the one thing my teams usually aren't is that, and we were.
I started off by being really mean to shake them out of it, and that didn't work. I talked to them at halftime, it didn't work. With about five, six minutes to go, they kind of got it in gear, and we just talked about we've been in this before. We've been in these situations just make plays, but it wasn't like I walked in the game and said, "Well, if we're a little shaky, here is how I'll be." I never even thought about it.
A lot of it was to do with Northridge came out and punched us in the mouth. They came out and beat us to balls, they outran us, they made shots we didn't make, they ran their offense better. They obviously ran their defense better. They were shooting 50 percent on us until the last six, seven minutes.
So, I was a little bit on my heels like you have, "Oh-oh, I haven't coached this in a while."
That being said, that's why I want to keep things how they are and just keep doing what we're doing.
Q. Could you talk specifically about your memories of '94 and Wichita because Gary is still at Maryland, are there parallels between that team even then and the way this current Maryland team runs itself?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Just to give you an idea of my memory, I call my numbers -- my players by numbers because it's easier for me. So I remember it was in Wichita. I remember my point guard was Derek Kellogg. They threw -- some of the press -- some of the press bothered us and a kid, Mario Lucas, made a 3 or something -- was that his name that broke up the game? They had a terrific team. They finished with a winning record in the ACC that year, I believe, and they were really good.
Q. Two part question. First part is, this run of Sweet 16s, Elite 8 that you've been on, what does it do for a program to get on that kind run? And the flip side of it is, when that becomes the standard, what does that do for you as a coach?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: The standard in Memphis right now is 30 wins and if you don't get to 30, something is wrong, putting For Sale signs in my front yard.
The other thing is that two, three players will be drafted. One might go 1, one will go 7, but you're going to have players drafted. That's what the standard becomes, and I call it rarefied air.
Some of the stuff we're doing the last four years has never been done in college basketball history. Our people, our fans think, well, this is how it's supposed to be now.
So it's hard. But, Larry Brown keeps texting me and saying, "It's hard when they're expected to win every game. Keep loving them." That's Larry Brown. He's texted me ten times. "Love them." It's hard when they're supposed to win every game.
And, folks, the guys that have followed us know that we're saying. We have to win every game in Memphis. We lose a game, we're like a 9 seed. That's why we've won so many games. We have no choice.
Q. Coach, does it make it easier at all in terms of the recruiting and all the stuff you're trying to do?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: What's happened in recruiting a lot of it is style of play, lot of it is player development. I don't go in promising any player I will do a better job of getting you do the pros than any other coach. I don't do it.
They watch and see how we play. They know we let guys go. They know that it's going to be a hard place to play. And I tell them all, "If you want to go to an easy play, this is not it. You're going to go to class." We graduated 19 of our last 22 this May. "You're going to go to class, do what you're supposed to do. You're going to train and be in the best shape of your life. You're going to go and practice, and there's other guys that can play. If you want to be the only guy that can play, don't come here, because you're going to have a bunch of other players that can play here. Yet, if you can play, I'll let you go. If you can't play, don't come here. I can't hide you."
This offense, you can't -- we're not setting screens. You've got to be able to play basketball. If you want that, that's it.
That's basically what we're saying. We're not saying the pot of the gold is here. It's hard what these kids are trying to do. It's hard.
Q. John, lot of people criticize Conference USA, saying you guys are the better team. The fact that every game you guys have won, when you go to play somebody, you got the target on your back. How much does that prepare you guys for the NCAA Tournament and the end of game situations? Is that a legacy that maybe gets passed down from team to team, the toughness?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: I hope so. The other thing is, one of the things we always try to do and what I try to do -- and again from being with Coach Brown and I don't want to call timeouts. Sometimes I want them to work through it themselves. I don't want them to have to rely on me for everything.
Most games I'm going to end with two, three or four timeouts. Late game, we're walk -- we're working on stuff everyday in practice. Our people that walk in our gym with six seconds to go, we're not calling a timeout. If they're shooting free throws, we'll know whether they'll be up. We're not. They end up taking it on themselves, and they understand that that's how we play here.
We're running a play. I don't need to call a timeout and tell them the play. We've done it in practice a hundred times. I call the play and they go do their thing. What happened at Tulsa, Antonio Anderson came up to me and said -- for the people that don't know, we were down one with four seconds to go. Get me the ball. There was some other words he threw in there.
I just said, "Guess what? We're going to get him the ball." We ran a play and moved him to a position within what we had always done so he would get the ball.
He scored. Anytime a player asks me, "Get me the ball," I'll look at him, "Where?" I'm going to get him the ball because now he owns it. Instead of me owning it, instead of it -- I want the players to own it. I want them to be empowered. I don't want them to have to look at me every play and have me come up with a genius play. If I've done my job in practice, they'll know what they're supposed to do.
Q. Conference USA?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Greatly.
Q. The fact that you guys have -- I'm sorry. The fact you guys kind of have a target on your back.
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: Yeah, it's hard because every game is a Super Bowl. We go to UAB. If UAB is so easy a place to play, everybody in the country have at it. They've lost two games in the last two years in that building, both to us.
They have tents outside and students have tents for four, five days, waiting for us to come. It doesn't matter if it's there. UTEP was a crazy place to play. Tulsa. They're not easy places to play.
I'm not begrudging anybody else's league. Our league is a hard league to do it, especially when we're up against it every game we play. Any slip-up -- if we don't show to play, we're losing. We have to show to play. That gives us a chance.
Q. How comforting is it to know that you have Antonio Anderson to throw out there tomorrow on Vasquez, and how did he come to be the defensive player that he has become?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: He's a multidimensional. He's scoring for us, he'll defend when he has to. He's probably got as many assists as Tyreke has at point guard 4s. We also have Doneal Mack who I can put on Vasquez. If I want to do that, we can. I can also put Roburt Sallie on him. We can also switch and put Robert Dozier on him.
So we got a lot of guys we can play him with. But Antonio, the biggest thing is he made the baskets down the stretch of this last game, he made three shots that really broke their back, and that's after he had six turnovers. They had six turnovers. Yet with six minutes to go, we stepped it up and played.
Q. How is Shawn Taggart?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: He's been the new steady Eddie. He's come every game. He's somebody we need to play through more and more. Great foul shooter. He can shoot 3s, in his mind, anyway, and he loves shooting 3s. We can put him at pick and rolls and pop him out.
Yet, he's able to score in the post. Last year we couldn't throw to the post as much unless we threw a lob because we were afraid of free throw shooting. Now, it's throw in it then let he and Robert Dozier get fouled because they both can make free throws.
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Last couple questions.
Q. To go back to this idea of putting this run of Sweet 16s together, Elite 8s, is that a Duke becomes a Duke, the great programs, or is there more to it than what you do in the tournament year-in and year out?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: I think part of it is the tournament. I think part of it is what we've done. I think that, you know, we're bumping up the stuff. You've got to do it -- right now we've done it over nine years now and I'd say really over four, five years. Now you got to do it over 15 years and you just got to keep the thing rolling.
Hard. Because, see, if you're in a BCS and you have a bad year, you can go on a win streak at the end of your season, win three games and get in the NCAA Tournament.
If you struggle in a non-BCS team. The BCS will not play you in your court. They will not play. You have no chance to recover from a slow start. So it's somewhat different.
And so I tell all the BCS, non-BCS, I feel for them because it's hard. I'm in there. We're in a non-BCS. We got to try to win every game. Everybody in our league is trying to win every game. So it makes it hard.
But I think we're started down that path. The biggest thing what you're finding out is young players -- and here is the greatest thing: They don't remember but three years. A kid that's 16, he don't remember when he was 11 or 12, who was in the NCAA Tournament, how they played, what they did. Does not remember.
He remembers the last three years, and the last three years, we've been that team. And so what's happened is you see in recruiting now, 14, 15 of those young kids are looking at Memphis. Why would they - because we've been hot. We've been hot during that time.
Doesn't take away anything from Kentucky or Duke or North Carolina or anybody else. Just that that's how these kids are. They're 13 years old. They remember those next three years.
Q. Vasquez seems like a guy who plays with a ton of emotion and seems to sort of drive him. Have you coached guys like that before, and is there times when you sort of have to channel, get -- find a way to channel that emotion?
COACH JOHN CALIPARI: You don't want rage. Rage is not good. You also don't want players to hate another team. Hate became -- becomes anxiety. We try to approach every game where we respect the other team, we treat no team different than any other. We will not treat Maryland any different than we treated Northridge.
They'll be treated the same as Tulsa, Tulane, Gonzaga, Tennessee, whoever we play, and I think that's part of it, how we methodically go about what we're trying to do.
The other side of it is we've had some guys with rage that you try to say, "Hey, this is not good, it's not healthy and it's not right." If you're obsessed with somebody else, you lose every time. If you're obsessed with another program or another coach or another person, you lose every single time.
So you try to tell guys that yeah, I want that emotion and passion. I coach with it. That's why I've aged very fast. But I coach with that emotion and that intensity, so I want it, but it's also got to be kept in check including with me.
KEVIN KLINTWORTH: Thank you, Coach.
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Ada and Ruby are proving themselves capable of anything together. They have learned to work cooperatively so that no challenge seems insurmountable. Surviving the cold, burying the dead and healing the wounded are outside of their regular farm routine. Yet these women are so strong and confident they set themselves to these tasks without hesitation. The war, having taken the men away, leaves women filling in all roles.
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Learn to develop and assess comprehensive youth tobacco interventions!Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco examines the components of a preventive public health intervention directed at reducing the rate of youth tobacco use. This valuable book describes this innovative intervention, which involves making tobacco more difficult for young people to acquire and also calls for fines for possession of tobacco. It illustrates the rationale for this intervention and reviews the literature on the topic, pointing to findings that indicate that this kind of comprehensive intervention has been shown to be effective.From the editors: The amount of human pain and suffering caused by tobacco use is immeasurable. Preventing youth smoking initiation of the most effective way of reducing long-term mortality from heart disease, chronic lung disease, and other tobacco-related disorders. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing over 400,000 people each year. This is more people than die of AIDS, homicide, suicide, automobile accidents, illegal drug use, and fires combined. Despite these facts, 22.9 of adult Americans and 13.8 of Americans under 18 smoke cigarettes. This essential book can provide some much-needed answers, showing you:
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How could World University & School make place-making for anthropological field sites,
- e.g. a virtual Harbin, an UNESCO world heritage site, a city, a small country, a garden -
easy, free & instructive,
in interactive (with avatars and communication), virtual worlds,
for anthropology graduate & undergraduate students, especially, and everyone
(it still isn't easy to make 'accurate' topography in Second Life, for example) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology ...
and also give rise to milieus for loving bliss generation? ...
One great example of a MILIEU which gives rise to, or generates, qualities of loving bliss neurophysiology are Grateful Dead concerts for deadheads (& me) ...
... grow this, in new ways, in-world in virtual worlds
... Subcultures and music can generate bliss :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/04/sierra-mtns-moon-curious-how-world-univ.html - April 15, 2011)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Sierra Mtns Moon: Curious how World Univ & Sch might make place-making for anthropological field sites easy, Milieus for loving bliss generation
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An ancient form of specialized compression massage focused on pressure points of the foot. This system of movements is used to increase circulation to all areas of the body, balance the inner organs and reduce tension. (Basic Reflexology: 1/2 hour sessions are $40.00)
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Policy D4: Development in urban areas and inset villages
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Policy D4: Development in urban areas and inset villages
Planning permission for new development in the urban areas of Guildford, and Ash and Tongham, and inset villages will be granted provided that it:
In addition to the above, proposals for new development within inset village areas will have particular regard to:
GGG Response
There are effectively two separate parts to this policy, both are flawed, and in the case on insetting, fatally flawed. In the case of urban development there are numerous flaws, including:
Urban development
There is a fundamental flaw in the draft Local Plan, in that there are not enough dwellings planned in urban areas, in particular, Guildford town centre. This is where the demand for affordable homes is most acute, a fact which is recognised in much of the draft Local Plan. Yet the plan then envisages that most dwellings will be built outside the urban area, so there is no continuity in the plan – if the demand for affordable homes is most acute within the town, then is where these dwellings should be built. There are sites available, for example, various sites in Woodbridge Meadows, Walnut Tree Close (including the area around the station) and North Street. Yet the focus in these areas is to provide a very limited number of dwellings, with the emphasis on additional retail space and more commercial premises. Given the profound changes in traditional retail, this is not a sustainable policy. There have been many examples of bankruptcies amongst traditional retailers, the most recent examples being BHS and Austin Reed, and previously Woolworths, Comet, etc. The British Retail Consortium forecast that by 2020 up to one third of those now employed in traditional retail could lose their jobs, due to a combination of the move to the internet and higher costs, from business rates and increases in the minimum wage. Recent figures show that online sales are still growing quickly, with more than 13% of total retail sales now made over the internet. Nor does an expansion in traditional retail chime with the objective of attracting highly paid jobs to the area – the majority of jobs in retail are low paid, with zero hours contracts and usually a pay rate based on the minimum wage. So any expansion in traditional bricks and mortar retail would create a greater demand for affordable and social housing – exactly the reverse of what is needed.
Even the major grocery retail chains have been affected by changes in retail habits – Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, etc are closing some stores, with no major large stores planned. Banks and other financial institutions are still closing some branches, so changes in town centres still have some way to go – but none of these changes are recognised in the draft Local Plan, which envisages no limit to traditional retail.
There is another reason why the retail sector is unlikely to exhibit long term growth, and this is consumer debt, which has reached a level that the Bank of England have said could contribute to economic stability. This is likely to have a greater destabilising effect in the event of an economic downturn – and there will certainly be at least two of these during the life of the Local Plan. Retail spending simply cannot be maintained indefinitely at its current rate, and to plan for a large increase in consumer spending is irresponsible.So there has to be a reappraisal of the urban development plans, with more homes provided in urban areas, in particular in the centre of Guildford, before there is any consideration of building outside the urban area. These are not separate policies to be considered separately, but hang together as part of a holistic plan. As the council own many sites in the centre, these could be made available for development within the first 5 years of the plan, with mixed housing on these sites, including new social housing, which is sorely needed. Affordable housing is simply not affordable to anyone on the minimum wage, there is a need for a considerable expansion of social housing, a need that is not adequately recognised in the draft Local Plan.


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Some folks were feeding the seagulls there, tisk, sigh. Don't want to get too close to that. Not that I have anything against seagulls but that's too many in one spot. When they fly overhead the odds are greater of getting shat-upon. I actually like the varmints myself. Enjoy watching them fly. I read the story "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" about 40 years ago. Also like the Neal Diamond recording and the movie.
Down to the beach a few feet to the left of the parking lot is a rocky area where the storms have washed some of the sand away leaving the rock. Amongst the rocks is where agates can be found. I only found a few small ones this time. Need another good storm or two. In the winter the storms wash a lot of the sand out to sea or someplace and leave some rocky areas where the agates hide.


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Introduction to the LAL Test
Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) tests detect and quantify bacterial endotoxins extracted from the outer membrane of gram negative bacteria. The critical component of the LAL reagents used in endotoxin tests is derived from blood cells (amebocytes) of the horseshoe crab,Limulus polyphemus. It contains the proteins of the blood clotting mechanism, which is triggered by endotoxins. LAL reagents are primarily used to test for endotoxins in injectable pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices. They are also used in renal dialysis centers and a wide range of other applications.
LAL tests are described in the Bacterial Endotoxins Test chapter in the United States Pharmacopeia (Chapter <85>) and in the equivalent chapters in the European Pharmacopoeia (Chapter 2.6.14) and the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (General Tests, No. 4.01).
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Skin MD Natural Shielding LotionSo, I'm sure you all have recently seen this little white bottle with the red cap all over beauty blogs. I have at least. I was sent this lotion a few weeks ago to test out and review from Skin MD.
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"Conventional lotions are only effective in the short-term by adding artificial moisture to the skin in an effort to replace natural moisture. The problem is that they are very easily removed and need to be reapplied continuously. This sends a signal to the moisture producing parts of the skin that enough moisture is in present, while in reality the skin doesn't produce enough moisture to resolve a dry skin problem. Skin responds to this message by decreasing moisture production and thus becomes addicted to the artificial moisturizer. If the lotion stops being reapplied, the skin can go through a phase of getting even drier than before the first application of an artificial moisturizer (conventional moisturizing lotion). Additionally, conventional lotions sit on the surface of the skin, may be greasy or sticky, thus attracting dirt that may contribute to clogged pores." - Wikipedia.org
During winter, my hands get incredibly dry - especially my knuckles. I usually use scrubs and apply heavy moisturizers at night and hand creams throughout the day, but the problem is, I wash my hands SO many times a day, that I'm continuously washing off my moisturizer & re-applying it. So I was excited to give this lotion a try.
The directions are to apply a small amount every 2-8 hours until moisture level improves. Then, just once every 12-24 hours.
The consistency of the moisturizer is very thin and runny. Within seconds of applying this, my hands feel slippery, but they soak up the moisture completely. My hands don't feel oily or greasy. They don't give a silky feeling like a regular lotion may because there is no residue. It dries completely. But, I can feel that my hands are slightly softer with each application, and I really like the cooling, satiny feeling this lotion gives while application.
I tested this out by applying it to my hands and then washing my hands right after. The moisturizer didn't rinse off my hands. My hands stayed moisturized. Yay!
I mainly have been using this on my face (you can use it on your face, body & hands) as a moisturizer before my foundation. I prefer this more for a facial moisturizer rather than a hand/body moisturizer because I don't have the patience to apply lotion to my hands so many times throughout the day. I like applying Vaseline or very heavy creams to my hands at night and wear moisture gloves and get rid of the dryness in one shot.
For my face, I like light, runny moisturizers rather than heavy creams because I don't like my face getting greasy. So for me, this stuff is perfect for my face. Its very light and makes my face feel very fresh and prepped for an even makeup application. It hasn't broken me out. It actually reminds me A LOT of Laura Gellar's Spackle Primer ($25 for 2 fl oz) which happens to be an old favorite of mine.
The Verdict: I do like this stuff, but a this time I'm unsure If I would re-purchase it. Mainly because I always manage to get my hands on GWP (Gift with purchase) moisturizers and I use a lot of generics. It's $18 (4 oz) which isn't bad for a facial moisturizer. Time will tell with this stuff. Once I run out of it, I may want more. :)
Now, it's your turn to try SkinMD Natural! One person will receive a full sized bottle to see for themselves!
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Off-Air: Byron Saxton introduced WWE COO Triple H, who welcomed fans back to Full Sail. Triple H proceeded to rundown the WWE Network announcement and programming that will be featured. Triple H then announced that when WWE returns to Full Sail on February 27th, the show will air live for the first time in a special event on the WWE Network.
* Brandi Rhodes is the ring announcer, at least for the first taping. She wasn't introduced formerly, so no word if she's using her old Eden Stiles ring name.
Episode 1; Airing January 22nd:
* Adrian Neville b. Wesley Blake with the Red Arrow.
* Alexander Rusev w/Lana b. Xavier Woods with The Accolade. After the match, Rusev continues the attack on Woods until Sin Cara ran out to make the save while "Hunico" chants filled the arena.
* Antonio Cesaro b. CJ Parker with the Neutralizer.
* Sami Zayn came out on crutches to talk about how his 2013 went and said 2014 will be better. Zayn asked Antonio Cesaro for a rematch to their 2 out of 3 falls match from long ago. Cesaro walked up to Zayn, grabbed the microphone from his hand, said no and walked off.
* Natalya w/Bayley b. Summer Rae w/Sasha Banks with the Sharpshooter. Kyle said the match was really good and had a couple nice spots.
Episode 2; Airing January 29th:
* NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension b. local workers who weren't introduced with Fall of Man.
* Corey Graves comes out and says that he will never forgive Adrian Neville after he tried to end his career.
* Corey Graves b. Camacho with the Lucky 13 in a quick match.
* NXT Champion Bo Dallas came out to celebrate his milestone of being the longest reigning NXT Champion in history. Bo said that there will be a banner hanging to celebrate the achievement, but before the banner could drop Adrian Neville interrupted. Neville wanted a match for the NXT Title. Bo said he can beat Neville any time in the same exact time that earned Neville a title shot in the first place (4:45), except for tonight. The crowd then starts chanting "Bo's a Wanker".
* WWE COO Triple H interrupted and announced a match between Dallas and Neville right now and if Neville can last 4 minutes and 45 seconds against Bo, he will receive an NXT Championship match during the live NXT show on February 27th on the WWE Network.
* Adrian Neville lasted 4 minutes and 45 seconds against NXT Champion Bo Dallas in a special Beat The Clock challenge to earn an NXT Title match on February 27th. Dallas tried to assault Neville after the bout, but Adrian countered and ended up hitting the Red Arrow and counting, along with fans, to 3.
Episode 3; Airing February 5th:
* Bayley w/Natalya b. Sasha Banks w/Charlotte and Summer Rae with a belly-to-belly suplex.
* Tyler Breeze b. Colin Cassady after Cassady was distracted by the appearance of Aiden English on the titantron, who entered a room the Enzo Amore was in. Kyle said the match was really entertaining. At one point, Cassady took selfies on a fans phone to mock Breeze.
* The Miz b. CJ Parker with the Figure Four in a quick match. Kyle mentioned the crowd did not care for either guy and after the match, Miz tried to high-5 some fans at ringside but got left hanging for the most part.
* Renee Young heads down to the ring to host a contract signing for the NXT Championship match between Bo Dallas and Adrian Neville on the live show on February 27th on the WWE Network. Neville signs the contract when Bo doesn't turn up and afterwards, Bo finally comes out and tells Adrian to grab and chair, sit down and watch him prove why he is the NXT Champion. Dallas then called for his opponent to come out.
* NXT Champion Bo Dallas b. a local worker who went unnamed in quick fashion. After the match, Bo finally signed the contract and then he starts brawling with Neville up the ramp.
Off-Air: A video package for the WWE Network was shown, which led to "9.99″ chants.
Episode 4; Airing February 12th:
* Alexander Rusev w/Lana b. Sin Cara with The Accolade. Kyle says this has been the quietest match crowd reaction wise he has ever seen.
* Emma b. Alicia Fox with the Dil-Emma in what Kyle called a sloppy match. After the match, Emma grabbed a microphone and talked about Paige not being 100% healthy at the moment and says when she is, she wants her NXT Women's Championship match. The BFFs came out and attacked Emma until Bayley and Natalya ran out to make the save.
* Mason Ryan b. Sylvester Lefort in a squash match.
* Tyson Kidd b. Aiden English when Aiden was distracted by Colin Cassady.
* Adrian Neville b. Corey Graves with the Red Arrow. After the match, NXT Champion Bo Dallas came out and attacked Neville until WWE COO Triple H appeared and stopped him. Triple H adds a Ladder match stipulation to the title match on February 27th between Dallas and Neville.
Episode 5; Airing February 19th:
* Bayley, Emma and Natalya b. Alicia Fox, Sasha Banks and Summer Rae when Emma made Alicia submit to the Dil-Emma after Banks and Rae abandoned Fox.
* Aiden English b. Colin Cassady with the Director's Cut.
* Sami Zayn comes out and says that to this day he just can't get the image of Antonio Cesaro beating him in that 2 out of 3 falls match out of his head. Cesaro interrupts and taunts Zayn about how he has never been able to one-up him. Zayn fires back with taunts, saying how can Cesaro be so sure if he won't face him one last time. Cesaro says he will face him if he promises he won't complain about the outcome. Zayn extends his hand to shake, but turns it into a pinky promise after the crowd chanted for it. Cesaro played it up, but ultimately said no again and kicked Zayn's injured knee.
* As Cesaro was heading to the back, WWE COO Triple H came out and said he heard on good authority that Zayn's knee will be healthy on February 27th and proceeds to announce Cesaro vs. Zayn for the live show on the WWE Network because the fans wanted it and if the fans want it, it's best for business.
* CJ Parker b. Tye Dillinger in a quick match. After the match, Parker cut a promo about recycling and polar ice caps melting… seriously.
* Erick Rowan and Luke Harper w/Bray Wyatt b. Jason Jordan and Marcus Louis in a squash match. After the match, Bray cut a promo about how the family hasn't forgotten where they came from.
Off-Air: It was announced that NXT will return to Full Sail on January 30th and the special guests will be Cody Rhodes and Goldust.


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What, you mean there's really such a place as Franklin and Marshall? I just bought it because it's American prep, you know? It reminds me of what an American college would be like- but I never thought it was real."When I tell people in Europe that I went to F and M, they ask "The clothing brand?" How did this happen? According to a recent article by Kathy Matheson,
Franklin and Marshall the company was founded by a pair of entrepreneurs in Verona in 1999, more than 200 years after Franklin & Marshall the college was founded in Lancaster by a gift from Benjamin Franklin. Giuseppe Albarelli and Andrea Pensiero were inspired to create their high-end sportswear by an authentically old F&M sweatshirt they found at a secondhand shop in London. They began replicating and improvising on that classic collegiate look, not realizing Franklin & Marshall was an actual U.S. college.Hmm, interesting that these two young entrepreneurs had no access to an internet search. But still, my alma mater will benefit from having its name used for sportswear. A scholarship fund for an actual F and M student is being established by the faux college wear. But what are the broader consequences of becoming the school that is now a brand? Will incredibly hip kids from Rome or Tokyo decide to go to F and M because they love the brand name? The company's website features a variety of pretty and very white young people- blonde hair, tan skin. The men are huge- rugby or American football players; the women are rail thin. There is a nostalgia about it all- a vintage truck, scenes from somewhere vaguely like the American West (NB: the actual Franklin and Marshall is in Lancaster, PA). These young cyphers of American elite educational institutions sport the uber-preppy styles- plaid shorts, polo shirts, dark blue or bright red sweat shirts with Franklin and Marshall in white letters- that the company is now famous for. There is even a faux insignia. The motto of the company is apparently
For Franklin and Marshall the word vintage refers to the continued search for clothing and personalization in order to express one's identity.The dizzying mix of the postmodern search for authenticity through consumption is made more real by a button that allows the consumer to then click on the website for the actual Franklin and Marshall College. What is real and what is not in this mix? There seems to be a real fetishization of whiteness and wealth and privilege on this site. The youth on the website are untroubled by "urban" scenes. America is white and in open spaces. This is interesting since most the youth wearing the sweatshirts in Shoreditch were Black. Like earlier appropriations of privilege by the less privileged- think Tommy Hilfiger- perhaps Franklin and Marshall the brand represents the knowledge that the way to get into the ruling classes is to be born to the ruling classes. To go to schools like F and M and meet "others like you" and then have careers like everyone else in your family: lawyers, doctors, professors, etc. Perhaps also the fact that this is a brand that has taken off everywhere but the United States (Bloomingdales tried selling the brand but no one wanted it here in the US) means that first world young people are yearning for a time when America was still a Superpower and young white college prepsters were preparing for a secure future. Whatever it means, it certainly is a sign that elite educational institutions in the US are now easily branded-something the schools themselves are constantly trying to do anyway. F and M the school can now sell itself as "hip" in the same way that the school I teach at now, Middlebury College, sells itself as "green." It also means that when Ben Franklin started Franklin College a few hundred years ago, to educate what he saw as the highly ignorant local inhabitants of Lancaster, he could not have envisioned a time when higher education and business joined together to sell a product. But perhaps he would have been in favor of such a wise use of resources. As an apologist for both the Protestant ethic of penny pinching and the capitalist spirit of seeking wealth, Franklin might have favored saving a penny in school advertising by letting a clothing brand do it for you. So now when people ask me if I graduated from a clothing brand, I will say, "Yes, yes I did. And now I teach at a lifestyle brand."


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quote:President Trump has to step down as President for over 10 Months he has done so many stupid BRAINDEAD things and said so many BRAINDEAD THINGS. His Polices suck bloody hell that's right who came up with the idea to deregulate so many important policies this year? he did he ruined everything Obama did to move our country forward. Now on to Russia does he really think it is over? nope not even close Flynn has already gone down today and it only will get worse for trump going forward
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Give your favorite fall beverage homegrown flavor with this cocktail kit. Developed by Urban Architecture, a Los Angeles-based company whose innovative products simplify the process of city gardening, the spiced cider kit prepares you to serve up an exceptional drink. The set includes essential cocktail tools, an organic sage grow kit and an exclusive recipe by mixologist Harry Chin. Each kit comes in a decorative wooden box – great for the home bar or as a hostess gift.
- Includes Mason shaker, wooden muddler, julep strainer, packet of organic sage seeds, one bag of organic soil and one container in a decorative wooden box.
- Recycled tea-bag container has grommeted hole for hanging from a vertical surface.
- Container provides optimum drainage and soil aeration.
- Spiced cider recipe by Los Angeles mixologist Harry Chin included.
- Packet contains enough seeds for 3–5 sowings.
- Assembled in USA.
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- 16-oz. cap. Mason shaker.
- 5" wooden muddler.
- Julep strainer
- Packet of organic sage seeds.
- 1 1/2-qt. organic soil.
- 5" diam., 8" high recycled tea bag planter.
- 13" x 8" x 5" wooden container.
- Sage grow kit is designed for year-round, indoor growing. Plant requires full sun.
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How to Get Over 'Impostor Fears'
Sue Shellenbarger and Stanford University researcher Greg Walton discuss a ridiculously simple intervention to ameliorate feelings of not belonging, whether at work or in the classroom. Photo: Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal.
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Double Chocolate Cookies are really brownies masquerading as cookies. They're super chocolatey, and I love chocolate and brownies, but I was a little disappointed that they didn't surprise me with something new. They contain a full pound of chocolate and only a half cup of flour. And although they have a lot of sugar, they're not very sweet. They are definitely a chocolate lover's cookie…there is nothing subtle about them.
The recipe calls for refrigerating the dough before baking the cookies. That was great, since I like baking just as many cookies at a time as we're likely to eat in one or two days.
The recipe is on pages 329-330 of Baking With Julia. To read about other bakers' versions of Double Chocolate Cookies, you can find links to their blog posts at Tuesdays With Dorie.


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Medtronic Inc., which already has big contracts to manage heart-lab operations in dozens of European hospitals, announced a $350 million Italian acquisition Wednesday that aims to expand those efforts.
The Fridley-based maker of medical devices said it would buy NGC Medical S.p.A., of Tolochenaz, which runs hospital departments that use common Medtronic products. The deal is part of an effort by Medtronic to go beyond selling devices to doctors and hospitals and start selling services that put the company in direct contact with patients.
The NGC announcement also fits with a trend of acquisition news streaming out of Medtronic in recent months, including a $43 billion proposed deal to acquire surgical supplier Covidien that would relocate Medtronic's corporate headquarters to Ireland. On Tuesday, Medtronic announced a $200 million acquisition of Dutch firm Sapiens SBS, which is developing a next-generation deep-brain stimulation device to relieve symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases.
But the NGC acquisition is different because it's not about expanding Medtronic's line of physical products.
Rather, NGC provides services — managing cardiovascular suites, operating rooms and intensive care units for Italian hospitals. The company has designs on expanding it services across Europe and elsewhere.
Medtronic already had a 30 percent ownership stake in the company. It had also already quietly built up $500 million in contracts to manage heart-catheterization labs in hospitals in several European nations.
Cath labs are where many cardiac interventions are done using Medtronic products, including stents, which prop open clogged heart arteries with wire-mesh tubes.
Though Medtronic is growing its hospital-solutions business overseas, U.S. consumers shouldn't expect to see the inside of a Medtronic-branded heart catheterization lab at a hospital near them anytime soon, said Mike Genau, senior vice president of Medtronic's U.S. region.
American hospitals have much easier access to capital to start up and run cath labs, as compared with the European hospitals where Medtronic is working, which are generally funded directly by governments. Bureaucrats in those countries often find it tough to prioritize hospital funding over other domestic needs, creating a niche for Medtronic to run joint programs to equip and help staff the European labs where Medtronic's stents could be used.
But Medtronic hasn't totally foreclosed the idea of bringing the service to the U.S. "To say it will never happen would be too bold," Genau said in an interview.
In the United States, Medtronic's push into the "solutions" business has taken the form of remote-monitoring health-data sensors and telehealth services. That includes last year's $200 million acquisition of CardioCom, a company specializing in devices that help chronically ill patients take their own vitals at home and transmit them to healthcare providers. Moving such services out of expensive clinical care settings and into homes can create value in the company's eyes.
Medtronic officials declined to release revenue numbers for CardioCom services, but Genau said the number of patients using it has grown 25 percent in roughly the past year, and revenue growth has been even faster.
Medtronic chief executive Omar Ishrak has said that providing solutions, rather than just individual products, will be a key strategy in the future. Boston Scientific, another large devicemaker with a significant workforce in Minnesota, has announced a similar focus.
The move is a logical one for devicemakers in an era when healthcare reform and a ballooning national deficit in the U.S. are creating huge pressure to control healthcare spending.
"We are focused on increasing hospital operational efficiency — providing meaningful clinical and economic improvements for customers, reducing costs associated with readmissions and post-acute care, and helping the system more effectively manage populations of chronically ill patients," Ishrak wrote in his preamble to Medtronic's 2014 annual report last spring.


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text: Which is Best for Your Vehicle: Regular vs. Synthetic Oil? Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2017 Every time you go in for an oil change, you need to decide between regular oil or synthetic oil. It's general knowledge that synthetic oil will last longer than regular oil, but many people wonder exactly how much better it is. Studies have shown that synthetic oil performs better than regular oil apart from lasting longer. Here's the difference. Synthetic Oils Perform Up to 47 Percent Better Oil is used to protect engines and their components while in operation. Synthetic oils provide better heat management and breakdown at slower rates. These oils are especially useful on cars with turbocharged engines, vehicles that are frequently in traffic, vehicles which are prone to overheat or vehicles that are in cold environments. But though synthetic oils do perform much better, they aren't necessary for every vehicle. Despite all of this, 44 percent of individuals are either unsure that synthetic oil makes a difference or they do not believe that synthetic oil makes a difference. The benefits of synthetic oil may not be immediately obvious to a driver, as they are usually seen long-term, through the protection of engine components that are critical to the vehicle's performance. The Cost of Synthetic Oils vs. Regular Oils Is it true that synthetic oils average out to cost less than regular oils over time? Many who do use synthetic oils believe that synthetic oils cost less overall because they need to be repaired less frequently. But because regular oils are extremely affordable, synthetic oils still cost a little more than regular oils even when factoring in that they last longer. But this is only the price of the actual purchase of oil; there are also other expenses to consider. At a little over $60 a year or $5 a month on average, the increase in cost is not a significant amount. Although synthetic oils themselves may cost more than regular oils, they also lead to lower maintenance and repair costs as well. Over time, these costs add up to far more than $60 annually. Ultimately, it has been proven that synthetic oil is far more effective than regular oil, but that it's not necessarily a requirement when changing your car's fluids. If you can afford synthetic oil, it's likely to save you money over time and increase your vehicle's performance. However, if you can't afford synthetic oil, your car is still going to function properly. If you want to discuss your options during your next oil change, consider coming down to Auto Tek to find out more. Our experts can determine whether your car would benefit from synthetic oil and help you make your final decision. Tags: Regular, Synthetic, Oil, Vehicle


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Making a curtain for a cat flap is a great way to turn an otherwise ugly part of the room into a unique design feature that matches the rest of the room. Choosing a fabric that complements the colours used in the room will make sure your cat flap is one of a kind. The curtain can be used instead of a traditional plastic flap, or it can be used in addition to one already installed.
Measure the current cat flap with a tape measure to get an idea of how big the curtain needs to be. Add on at least 4 inches to the height measurement and 3 inches to the width measurement so that your curtain covers the whole area with room to spare.
Purchase the fabric you want to use for your curtain. Choose a material that will match the rest of the decor or the door itself. For example, a quaint, wooden door would look good with a gingham curtain over the cat flap. A contemporary door would work well with a bold fabric of some kind.
Cut the material with scissors following the measurements made earlier.
Sew a hem on the sides and bottom of the curtain by folding 1 inch of fabric on the sides and bottom over to the backside of the fabric and sewing close to the crease for each fold. These hems can be sewn by hand with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.
Fold over 2 inches of the fabric at the top of the curtain and sew together on the opposite side from the crease in order to create a flap. Thread a piece of pliable wire through the flap you have created.
Use an electric drill to attach two screws to the door in the positions where you want your curtain to hang. To attach the curtain you can simply wind the wire around the screws. Your curtain should hang perfectly over the cat flap if attached in this way.
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Wai Chee & Yuet Leng Wedding Dinner
20 October 2012, it's Wai Chee and Yuet Leng big day..
sisi and shennie. see a lot faces that recently less keep in touch :).
here they come~
champaign pouring session.
wen biau and chai yike is here too.
here they are, yuet leng and wai chee. not to forget Kuan Hong too.
a big reunion
ladies and pretty ladies.
how guys hug.. how girl hug... and drink drink drink.
all friendly faces show up.
kuang hong, wen biau. even winnie is here. :)
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I am going up to Idyllwild to help with RYLA this weekend so please note special hours for this week:
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RYLA stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Award. We will be teaching 300 High School Juniors about leadership and ethics. These kids are our future and it is really important to share our wisdom and values with them. Everyone can do this on a regular basis with all the young people in your world. Remember the most powerful way is to lead by example. I hope you do as I do and constantly keep improving yourself and the choices you make in life. It is our responsibility to lead others in this world in the right direction.
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7 Rewarding Tips to Save on Your Winter Shopping
Getting ready for the cold winter months requires many people to make a trip to a local department store, hit the mall or visit their favorite shops around town. However, winter shopping can be expensive in order to prepare especially if you live in a very cold area. To save money, use these seven tips before you head to the stores this winter.
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- Look for items that are on clearance: Even during the winter months, you can find items that are on clearance for one reason or another and in most cases, you'll pay 50 percent less than you otherwise would.
- Look for coupons online or in the newspaper before going to a store: Department stores and big box stores commonly have these coupons. If you can't find any before going, always ask at the register if there are coupons available
- Shop at consignment and thrift stores: Just because the items in these stores are used doesn't mean they're not in great shape. Many times, you won't even notice that an item has been worn before. You may also be able to buy higher quality items for less money which will last you several winters.
- Sign up for store cards in order to get discounts: If you shop at stores on a regular basis and pay your bill each month, you could get discounts of 20 percent or more on top of sale and clearance prices.
- Buy your winter clothes in the summer or spring: Offseason shopping is the simplest way to save money. Your best bet for finding rock-bottom prices is to buy right after winter ends when stores are starting to put out summer apparel.
- Look online at daily deals sites to see which stores are having sales: Shopping the sales is the best way to get the most bang for your buck. You just need to put in a little effort to find the best sales!
- Shop Online: Many online stores sell merchandise for less than it would sell for in-store because of reduced operating and advertising costs.
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Sunshine Earns Chili Bowl Seat with Clauson-Marshall Racing
Lonnie Wheatley, NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (November 16, 2016) – Another piece of the Chili Bowl Nationals puzzle is now in place for Clauson-Marshall Racing as the team is excited to announce the addition of Tyler Courtney to its 2017 driver lineup.
This January's event at the Tulsa Expo Raceway inside the River Spirit Expo Center will mark Courtney's sixth Chili Bowl outing after earning Rookie of the Year honors at the event in his Chili Bowl maiden voyage under the Bryan Clauson Racing banner in 2011.
"To say I'm excited is an understatement," Courtney said. "When Tim (Clauson) and Richard (Marshall) approached me with their plan for this year's Chili Bowl, there was no way I could say no. To even be considered to be on their 'super team' that Bryan had talked about bringing down there is an honor."
Affectionately tagged "Sunshine" by Bryan Clauson in 2010, Courtney is no stranger to the Clauson family and Clauson-Marshall Racing. It's a relationship that began when Courtney showed up at the then Bryan Clauson Racing shop looking for any opportunity to go racing.
"Tyler came to us basically with nothing but a desire and a will to drive race cars," Tim Clauson recalls. "We explained that he would need to work for an opportunity and if willing to put in the work, we would give him a shot at the end of the year in one of our Midgets."
Courtney jumped at the opportunity.
"That summer I met a kid who grew into a young man and all the while worked his tail off for just one opportunity to drive a race car," Tim Clauson continues.
The hard work paid off. Bryan and Tim decided "Sunshine" had earned his opportunity and readied a Bryan Clauson Racing Midget for his debut after the team had clinched its first USAC championship. And a slew of family, friends and essentially everyone Courtney knew showed up to cheer the young racer on.
It was a night full of anticipation.
"I remember it like it was yesterday. His instructions were simple, to go out and have fun, that he had nothing to prove. Go 80% and let's make some laps," Tim Clauson says. "I don't think Sunshine knew at the time that we had already planned on taking him to the Chili Bowl as a driver; that was a surprise for later. That night was about a kid who worked all summer for a shot and here it was."
That's where the fairy tale came up short. Sunshine started to pick up the throttle as he came off of turn four, hustling into turn one only to spin and turn the car over. The car was done.
"I wasn't sure who was more disappointed; Tyler and his throng of fans or Bryan," Tim Clauson relates. "Bryan knew and appreciated the work that Tyler put in for his chance and knew if not for Tyler and the others on the team that year, that the success we had wouldn't have been possible."
Tim wondered if he would even see Sunshine again. But, when he rolled into the shop the next morning, there sitting on the curb in wait was Courtney.
"I asked him what he was doing there and he said something that I'll never forget; 'Tim, I figured if I could tear up your race car, then I can help tear down your race car'," Tim Clauson recalls. "Just as he had proven all summer, he was there because he wanted to become a racer. Not a driver, but a racer, and he was willing to do whatever it took to do just that."
Bryan and Tim went on with plans for Courtney and the 2011 Chili Bowl. It was a decision that resulted in Rookie of the Year honors for the team.
Courtney has since gone on to establish himself as a top contender in the Sprint Car and Midget ranks, all the while racing with the same respect and reverence that Bryan exemplified during his career.
"Sunshine becomes a part of about every conversation I have with young drivers about how to earn an opportunity," Tim Clauson explains. "When we decided that we wanted to honor Bryan's wishes by 'bringing a badass team to the Chili Bowl', there was no doubt that one of the seats would be filled by Sunshine, who has represented not only himself but Bryan and our family so well over the years."
Courtney is appreciative of another opportunity.
"As most everyone knows, Bryan was a huge influence in not only my racing career, but my life," Courtney explains. "I truly believe that without the help of Bryan and his whole family, I'm not who I am today and that quite literally without Bryan, I am not 'Sunshine'."
Team co-owner Richard Marshall is equally excited to welcome Courtney to the Clauson-Marshall Racing stable for the Chili Bowl Nationals.
"This race team is a labor of love by all involved. Tim and I want our drivers to share Bryan's values on and off the track; a die-hard work ethic, team-driven results and a long-term view of the sport," Marshall says. "Sunshine clearly embodies all of these. Jennifer and I are honored to have Sunshine in a CMR seat."
Courtney goes on to say that, "Getting to be a part of Clauson-Marshall Racing that is going to embody everything that Bryan did and wanted to do for our sport of racing is simply awesome, that's the only way to describe it."
"What I have always loved about working with anything that involves the Clauson family is that it's always done like a family and as a family, while still maintaining the professional aspect as well," Courtney continues. "In the short amount of time I've been around Richard and Jennifer (Marshall), they have made me feel right at home and I can't thank them enough as well for letting me be a part of this new journey in their life."
Courtney wraps up with a popular sentiment among the racing world. "I can't wait to get to Tulsa in January."
Additional information regarding the Clauson-Marshall Racing team and upcoming Chili Bowl plans will be available in the coming weeks.
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