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imported Alembic broken UVs
invesar posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsHi guys, I have encountered a problem while importing alembic files with UVs. They seem to be kinda rotated (right mesh) - on the left is the same mesh but exported as static .obj. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've attached the file if someone is interested Thank you alembic_import_UVs.hip
Uv before or after bending
anicg posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsI have an individual object that I need to copy to get a long shape that I will bend to make it circular. After the bend the external side is stretched and the internal is squeezed. Would you make the UVs at the individual object level? or for the full circle of multiple objects?
First time I do UV mapping for a rock (was used to manual UV flatten for hard surface objects) This is a high (very high) poly rock (obviously not for games) I applied GameDev Auto UV, it has taken a bit more than 10 minutes and I got this: 1- How do I clean the apparently unnecessary seam cuts (in red)? 2- Does it look like a reasonable UV mapping for a rock? are there too many seams? it's meant to go to Substance Painter. 3- should I have applied the UV's when it was low poly? (I have 5 layers of noise, each time I want to add noise I subdivide first) At the end I added a close up on the mesh (822170 polygons)
How to place the UV island on top of each other?
anicg posted a topic in ModelingLong road, long cable, a bridge, a long wall, fence... most environment assets that use the copy sop create a challenge for me when it comes to texturing and therefore UVs. To make sure I get the most of the 0 to 1 UV space, I want to have one UV island representing the original geometry that has been copied, and place the UV islands of the other copies on top of the original and on top of each other. Any idea how I can place the UV island on top of each other?
Procedural Vine Growth and how to deal with UVs
shadowt56 posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsHi folks, I was able to do alembic transport from Houdini to Maya for a scene which has a procedural vine/plant growth, how do I go about to maintain the UVs? kind regards, Clarence
How to Transfer UVs to Vellum Grains
markitecture posted a topic in EffectsHey, has anyone tried this yet? In the past when creating FLIPs I would normally carry UVs through DOPs using an attribute promote to carry the UVs from vertices to points, but it seems like this is not working when applying the same methodology with vellum? Please help!
Transfer UVs in world space to remeshed object?
bentway23 posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsThis is a bit fx, a bit modeling, a bit rendering, so I'm throwing it here-- I am running sims on a tree model. The original tree was too hi-res to simulate, so I had to run Clean and Remesh to reduce its poly count a little bit. It still proved too oddly-modeled to run a point deform on the original based on the sim, but the sim'd model is still high-poly enough so we're going to use it as the final. What I need to do is transfer the UVs, in world space, from the original model to the down-res'd sim'd model. I tried using Maya's Transfer Attributes, which does exactly what I need, but choked on the source model's size. How can I do this in Houdini? (I know there will be some changes, but those should be mostly in the little tiny branches that are okay to lose, and this is not a hero tree.) I assume it will be something like storing the original models' point positions and then somehow applying those points to the end result of the sim'd/cached model, at which point I could do a straight attribute transfer (and although I get this theory I don't know the steps required), or is there a better way (and if not, how would I do my suggested way)? Thanks so much!
Transfer UVs from low to Hi poly
chromaKiki posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsHi all I am trying to figure out how to do transfer of uvs (with correct seams) from low poly geometry to hi. Example workflow (works for me in Maya) and to the point I'm stuck in Houdini. Take hi res 3D scan > do poly reduce (gets low poly) > do auto uv > transfer UV to high poly. now this for me works all the way to attribute transfer (vertex uv) but uv edges (seams) are not transferred. I tried transferring uv_seams edge group (and it works to some point) but just can't get those clean UV islands as in low poly. I must be missing something simple but I can't figure it out. thanks for help
VDB, Attribute Transfer and UVs - Problem
ParticleSkull posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsHello guys, i think this is a peculiar problem I have to "fuse" 2 meshes and VDB looks just perfect for the job. The 1st mesh is an orange (alembic) and it have some perfect UVs. What I did is a simple vdb setup to combine the 2 meshes + an attribute transfer to get the uvs from the orange but, unfortunatelly, it looks like some of the polygons are still connected in some parts where it shouldn't be. Does anyone knows a solution for this? I can't share the original scene so I've recreated it in a simple way. The original one have a face to mix with the orange. here's the images + scene file (with abc) in case someone can have a look at it Thx again, Alvaro UVs Transfer Problem.rar
uvs Question regarding UV attribute of vertecies in Python
Nicolas90 posted a topic in ScriptingHello dear community, I am just writing a little Python sop that can Unwrap a polycurve like a uvtexture node does on a nurbs curve with [Arc Length Spline] setup. My question is, what is the attribute name of the uv coordinate? I tried uv and uv[1] as its shown on the spreadsheet. Does anybody know the answer? Best wishes, Nicolas
VDB maintain UVs
the MAT Hatter posted a topic in ModelingHello All, I am using VDBs to combine geometry and I am interested in a way of maintaining specific attributes from the two input geometries. Currently I have two poly objects which are being converted to VDBs and then combined using VDB combine and then converted back to polys using VDB convert. What I want is to be able to identify which polygons on the resulting combined/converted object comes from which input object and also maintain their respective UVs. I have had some success with using the second input of the convertVDB node to transfer attributes. Using this method however, I am only able to maintain some of the objects attributes, not all. I've attached some images and a file to demonstrate my issue. In the attached file I have three objects; Base, Add Sphere and Sub Sphere. All objects contain UVs and an ID attribute (tmp1), they are all converted to VDBs then combined using VDBcombine nodes. Finally the resulting VDB is converted to polys using convertVDB. When both original sphere are input into the second input, the UVs and ID attributes are transferred correctly however the Base object is not. When all three objects are input into the second input of the convertVDB, only the Base and one sphere's attributes are transferred correctly. I have tried several different combinations and methods of making this work to no avail, but it feels like I'm so close if I can get all three objects to transfer the attributes correctly, just not all at the same time. It is possible to use two convertVDB nodes, one with the two spheres in the second input and the second with all three objects in the second input, then deleting the problem polys from either (using the ID attribute) and then merging the two together, but this is not very ideal. In the image on the left you can see the results of the convertVDB using only the two spheres as the second input, the middle image is when using all three objects (base, add_sphere and sub_sphere), and the right is an image of all three input objects showing their UVs. I am new to VDBs so I was hoping someone might have some alternative methods or could point me in the right direction. Thank you all in advance! Cheers, -Mat VDB_attributes.hip
Baking shaders to UVs
Ryuji posted a topic in Lighting & RenderingHi, I've been trying for a while to render to UVs, but with no success. Rendering the constant shader to UVs works fine, but any other shader just fails (clay, stone, ect). Only the polygons that are seen by the camera get rendered, the rest is just black/shadowed. Any idea on why this is happening? Thanks in advance
HDA to Maya - UVs don't get transferred right
fraspo posted a topic in Other 3d PackagesHi everyone, as the title says: I am importing a digital asset into Maya with Houdini Engine and, while everything seems to work kinda ok, the UVs are somehow different (and wrong) in Maya. I can't post the original scene for it is a production scene but basically I just have a bunch of tubes with polycaps and their relative UVs. I've attached a self explenatory image. Does anybody knows why is this happening?If so how can I fix it? Thanks everyone Cheers
Slice from UVs, similar to Carve, but for imported meshes? (SOLVED)
cristobalvila posted a topic in ModelingHi guys, Doing with my first steps learning this marvelous software :-) I was under the impression that CARVE SOP will slice/cut our meshes (even imported ones) following the information derived from UVs. But now I see that this assumption was wrong… I understood what Carve does when using on Sweeps, Lofts, Birails… stuff created inside Houdini. On a next step, I decided to do some tests using Alembic geometry imported from Modo. My first results were great, because I imported some basic figures, like a thorus or a tube (and at these stage I will continue thinking that slice operation should be derived from imported UVs). But now, using a more complex imported geometry/UVs, I get unexpected results… Now I suspect that Carve Slice operation is derived from internal point order structure and not UV map. My question: is there some SOP or (relatively simple) procedure to apply a slice operation, like the ones produced by Carve, but derived from UVs information? I would like to get something like this mockup, slicing geometry through green and red lines that would be pairs of U and V coords, like the Carve SOP: Unfortunately, this is what I really get: Thanks for your help! :-)
cut uv when export from houdini to maya
dimosa posted a topic in General Houdini QuestionsI import model from maya in *.obj with uv to houdini. Then export model in *.obj from houdini and open in maya. if uv was vertex type, then in maya all uvs are cut separate. If uvs was point type, then all uvs are conected.. uv are broken in all variants How I can export model from houdini and hold original uvs?????
Procedural selection of given uv shells
enquel posted a topic in ModelingHello, I am not sure it is a proper subforum, but... I have this situation: I modelled a path using curves and sweep SOP. The curve is resampled with even segments, thus my path have them as well. The polys making my path are more or less rectangular. Next, I assign UVs to the path using UVTexture (Rows and Columns setting). Now, I want to know hot to do several things: 1. Have each rectangular segment of my path take up all UV space. 2. Have each rectangular segment of my path take one UV space, assigned by primitive number. 3. Have a UVs looking like a strip of rectangles, with my path segments falling to one of those strip parts based on a rule (like rand($PR)) Now, how to achieve that? Thank you


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Memorials/DonationsnoneObituaryFrances Clemonds nee Pethick passed away on February 21, 2016 at the age of 58. She was the beloved wife of Roland Clemonds of Montgomery City, Missouri; She is survived by her six sons, Rickey Maass of Montgomery City, MO, Shane Maass of Branson, MO, Ronnie Watson of Wright City, MO, Roland Watson, Wright City, MO, Joey Watson of Wentzville, MO, Christopher Clemonds of Elsberry, MO; six daughters, Sabrina Miller of O'Fallon, MO, Pepper Hohenshell of St. Charles, MO, Krista Miller of Branson, MO, Pamula Burpe of Salina, KS, Samantha Dehil of Philadelphia, PA, Christiane Kolling of Rockledge, FL. She is survived by four brothers and three sisters; She had 26 grandchildren; She is preceded in death by her father, William Pethick, and mother, Geraldine Pethick nee Lewis.
She was a devoted mother dedicated to her children and grandchildren. A loving wife and trusted loyal friend. She was a very strong person that loved everyone. She enjoyed fishing, being with her family, going on trips to anywhere. She enjoyed hunting & being in the woods with her husband. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
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When cancer happens, it happens to the whole family and its social network. By supporting people with cancer and their families and friends, we help the whole family live with the new ways cancer has uniquely affected them.
Many cancer focused organizations do not connect the diagnosis with the emotional impact of cancer on those affected and their families. We actively connect members to create a place where they can ask questions and go for support. We engage with their social, nutritional, emotional and mental health experiences. We believe that no one should face cancer alone, and that supporting the whole person helps not just their physical outcome but also addresses the impact of cancer on their whole family.
Breaking out of traditional treatment roles, Friends of the Cancer Support Community creates a community where those affected by cancer can communicate, have the freedom to ask questions, and develop tools for facing all aspects of living with cancer. We provide a place where they are met with understanding, encouragement, and information to push back the initial fear and replace it with support.
When our doors open, Friends of the Cancer Support Community Wake County will offer a warm and welcoming place where people with cancer, their families, and friends can gather for social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care.
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Around 20 percent of Chinese tourists have cancelled their trips to South Korea due to their increasing concern over the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak. It is estimated that about 100,000 tourist from China will cancel their trip to South Korea in June.
The Korea Tourism Organization says more than 20,600 tourists from China and other Asian countries have canceled trips to the country. An employee from a Chinese tourist agency China Comfort Travel says that they have received many inquiries about the disease situation in South Korea, and many of their clients have canceled trips or changed their schedule.
As the China National Tourism Administration and authorities in South Korea have not sent out any notice about prohibiting people leaving or entering South Korea, some travel agencies in China say the tourist groups will depart as planned.
South Korea is one of the top travel destinations for China, with more than 6 million Chinese people visited the country last year.
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David Berg
—MO October 8, 1972 NO.186—LTA
P.O.Box 31, London WC2E 7LX, England or GPO Box 3141, San Juan' Puerto Rico 00936
1. Lord, it was not necessarily the custom of old to anoint the Prime Minister. Nevertheless, he's already been anointed by Thy Spirit, and Thou hast been faithful to him and purged him and cleansed him and helped him and inspired him.
2. HE'S BEEN A FAITHFUL STEWARD in all his house, diligent in his business, and loyal in Thy service and hast accomplished all those things whereto Thou hast bidden him. We Thank You Lord! He's been one of the most faithful and loyal in all our house, and we have trusted him' Lord, and put all our affairs in his hands, so that we, as with the kings of old, hardly know ought about our business but what he cares for it.
3. THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL POWER AND SPIRIT YOU'VE GIVEN HIM for the diplomatic relations with others and the wisdom and patience and love and tact you've given him. Thank You Jesus, for how You've inspired and led him how to do it, who to take, how to talk. We thank You Lord! Praise You Jesus!
4. THANK YOU LORD THAT HE HAS SUCCEEDED, AND BEEN A SUCCESS IN THY WORK and accomplished so much, both at home and abroad' always faithfully performing that to which he's been assigned. Lord, we know we can always expect to get it done when we ask Jeth to do it. We get action and immediate action when we ask him to do it! Thank You Lord!
5. Help him to quit thinking about himself, but to get his eyes on You. None of us can stand the sight of
ourselves. We're a mess and nothing without You, and only You can do it, if we just yield to You.
6. (Tongues) Even as Thou didst help Moses and gave him righthand men to conduct the affairs of the Kingdom, even so hast Thou done with us. We thank You for such good helpers. The Kingdom can not do without them. Help Thy subjects to give him due respect and honour, and to recognise his place and to obey. Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord! In Jesus' Name!
7. FINISH THE JOB even as he requested, according to Thy will. Complete the purification of his spirit and setting of his mind and heart on Thee, putting Thee first of all, loving Thee with all his heart, and delighting himself in Thee above all other things.
8. (Sees a huge old ornate gold pocket watch on a heavy gold chain with a leather fob and emblem:) Give him joy in his labours and glory in his task, strength for the wheel as he puts his shoulder to it, to cause the other wheels to turn. Except this big wheel turns, Lord, none of the little wheels can turn, We're all cogged together. So help this big wheel to turn so the little wheels can hum! I guess I'm the Main Spring!
9. I'm the Spring!—The Lord's the One that winds it! The Spring causes all the wheels to turn, yet if these big wheels, like this balance wheel, turn not, then everything stops. Jesus, help Lord! If the Spring can't turn this wheel, then none of the wheels will turn properly, and this one keeps them in tune and in time and well balanced and running smoothly.—so that our face and hands can tell the time to the nations to show them what time it is, how late it is, as a sign. We are the time keepers of this world, and all of Thy operations are geared to us, Lord!
10. THANK YOU FOR THE PRECIOUS THINGS THOU HAST GIVEN US—THE CASE OF GOLD AND THE LITTLE JEWELS UPON WHICH THESE WHEELS PIVOT, and the little bearings upon which these wheels rest and without which they could not turn—all these little secretaries, workers, etc.' so unseen behind the works—behind the face, behind the hands, behind the scenes,—and yet without them the wheels could not turn, without these smooth jewels who are the bearings, these precious jewels—secretaries' provisioners, PR men, greeters, cooks,—all the little tiny hidden parts that make it run' without which any missing part would hinder! Thank you Jesus!
11. Whether they like it or not, the world can hear us tick, they may think we conceal things, like the face of the clock conceals the works behind the scenes, but we can stand inspection, Lord, and they can hear us tick! They know we're running! We're not dead and silent like the churches! And the hands move–they don't stand still! They haven't stopped a hundred or two hundred years ago, but they're still telling time—telling the world what time it is' still prophesying, still voicing!
12. And this, Lord, is one of Thy biggest wheels, that's needed to make it go' make all the little wheels turn in tune and in time, for all the machinery to hum smoothly. Thank You Lord for the oil of Thy Spirit that makes everything run smoothly and sweetly and quietly without friction!
13. I'M NOTHING BUT A LITTLE SPRING, LORD, THAT SETS THINGS IN MOTION' pushes a little to get the wheels turning. We thank You Lord, for how they keep going! Help him to thank Thee and Praise Thee, not to weep for himself, but to weep for Thee and Thy work, Thy children, and get his eyes off himself.—To be sorry for himself is to be selfish and introspective and even to murmur!
14. HELP HIM NOT TO BE SORRY FOR HIMSELF, BUT TO PRAISE THEE for his blessings and thank Thee for how You've trusted him and we've trusted him to do a good job, for we know he will. Help him to thank Thee for how much You trust him, and how much You've helped him to accomplish, how You've worked so mightily in the hearts of those he's dealt with in public relations and in the hearts of his staff! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
15. THANK YOU FOR THE GOLDEN CASE YOU'VE PUT US IN—FOR THY BEAUTIFUL PROTECTION AND PROVISION! Thank you Jesus! Thank You Lord for the crystal of publicity that You've given Your message, through which the world can see us—TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, so many things through which the whole world views us, the crystal that makes our signs open to the public—the signs of the times—the movement of the hands!
16. Nothing God does is without signification, and the hands of this large old ornate watch stood at a little after 3. And I thought: well, now, what does that mean? Besides just being a sign to the world, they also tell us what the time is! The minute hand was actually in between three and six' nearly half past 3, between the 20 and 25 minute marks. We really didn't start telling the time until about 3 1/2 years ago! We didn't really start getting out the message to the world till the Spring of 1969!
17. And then I wondered, Why Lord, if that's the case—they're always talking about midnight being the final hour:—If that's the case, then midnight is less than nine hours, or nine years from now, which would make it about 1980 or 1981! Then the answer came just as clear:-
"That is not to be your Midnight, but your Noon!—And Midnight will come 12 hours after that!"—About 1993! Just as the Lord seemed to indicate in other prophecies such as "Gypsies" and the "70 Years Prophecy"! Hallelujah—'69 to '93!—24 years!—24 hours!—12 to 12 to 12!—And it's now '72—nearly half past three!—Glory!
18. It was like one of those big gold pocket watches, ornate and old-fashioned. I kept asking, Why was it in the form of a watch instead of a clock?—Why, of course, a clock is stationary, but a watch is always on the move! We're a pocket watch that the Lord carries around in His pocket all the time, and we're valuable to Him! He really protects us, and takes us out, and winds us, and He's even proud of us!
19. THE BACK OF THAT WATCH WAS SO ORNATE AND BEAUTIFUL!—ALL INLAID WITH DIAMONDS AND RUBIES! AND THAT ENGRAVING! I never thought about what it said. I don't even understand the design! It was just like a mystery, like several initials all intertwined. Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus! Whose initials are usually carved on the back of a watch?—The Owner's initials of course! Very mysterious! I can't even decipher them!—Like its a mystery. God has a lot of names!
20. There's a scripture in Revelation about the Lord putting His name on us—Revelation 3:12: "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name."—Hallelujah! We're His watch and bear His name! You know that scripture is in the passage about the Philadelphian Church with the ones about the Key of David also! The Philadelphian Church is a totally victorious church—not a bad thing said about it!
21. Attached to the watch is a heavy golden chain:-and what is attached to the other end of the chain? The Owner, of course! We're tied to the Lord with the golden chain of His love! Hallelujah!
22. (This whole revelation came about because of Jethro's faith, and is his asking the Lord for a sign. He wanted to know what he was and where he fit in.)
23. YOU, JETH, ARE THAT WHEEL THAT KEEPS MOVING BACK AND FORTH, and when that wheel doesn't turn, nothing turns. What a balance you are between the spiritual and the practical, to keep things all balanced properly! If some of them had it, it wouldn't be anything but business!—And if others were doing it, it would be nothing but spiritual! But you help keep the balance. The balance wheel is the most active wheel—the one that moves the most back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, moves in all directions—keeps the balance.
24. There was a special pocket for the watch.—And they always had something else!—A watch fob! A little trinket or ornament on the top of the watch that you pull the watch out with—and sometimes they were made of leather with a little metal piece on it. This one I saw in vision had a yoke on it! How about that!—That's our symbol God told us to always wear!—Hallelujah!
25. And we're mobile! Whatever way God moves' we move with Him!—Right in His pocket!
26. THE LITTLE HAND INDICATES THE HOUR' OR IN THIS CASE, THE YEAR, and the big hand the minutes, which in this case, indicates the months. The year is divided into 12 months.—It must be something that happened in May of 1969! May be the Lord considers the Revolution didn't really get started until we left Tucson, because until that time we hadn't really forsaken all—we still had a certain dwelling place.—And then maybe it means something else! What else happened in the middle of May?—That's our Anniversary! Hallelujah!
27. GOD IS TELLING THE TIME BY US, and accurately! The watch is a portable timepiece! It has to be movable. It's always worn right on the person of the Owner! Whichever way He moves, we move! Hallelujah!—Isn't that great!
28. This morning' while praying, Jethro got II Kings 20 from the Lord, and verse 8, which says: "And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day? And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, it is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay' but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees back ward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.'—A sun dial!—A timepiece!—The Watch is that sign!--A sign that God's going to heal you' Jeth, and give you more Time!—Hallelujah!
29. This evening the Lord has answered that prayer with this sign! (MO: tongues and weeping:) "Why dost thou marvel for all these wonders and signs I have given thee, that thou shouldst wonder that I have spoken these things?"


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Cycle Enfield Consultion is now underway
The final designs for the Cycle Enfield/Mini Holland cycle superhighway were unveiled at the Fox Pub, (July 16th - July 18th) to build a continuous segregated cycle route along Green Lanes, from Enfield Town to Broomfield Lane, in Palmers Green. The consultation on whether this project should go ahead runs until October 9th 2015.
Initial verdict?
The plans run to seventeen pages, they are difficult to interpret, but a guide to each section of the route will be compiled by an expert traffic engineer to help you to understand the proposals. Here is the 'unofficial' guide to what is proposed.
Click on the image to read it and also to participate in the consultation on either one or more sections of the proposed route.
Firstly the timeline
Public Consultation July 17th – October 9th Oct 2015 (12 weeks)
Enfield Scheme Approval – December 2015
TfL Scheme Approval – March 2016
Detailed Design December 2015 to May 2016
Scheme Build – May 2016 to October 2016
In the guide, you will see each section of the proposed route, plus an analysis of the changes that are being proposed.
Here are some of the problems that the Cycle Enfield consultation is NOT going to tell you about.
Significant loss of parking
* Under these plans there would be massive loss of parking along the route, for households and businesses, from Palmers Green to Enfield.
* Very little residential parking on London Road, Park Avenue, Village Road and Ridge Avenue.
* Completely changing the nature of the service roads on London Road, between Roseneath Walk and Lincoln Road, and on Ridge Avenue (at Avenue Parade) plus the removal of parking on Bush Hill Road.
* No parking on the west side of Winchmore Hill Broadway between Compton Road and Station Road.
* The removal of the Compton Road triangular island, the small roundabout and both roads slip roads at the junction with Station Road and Ford Grove.
* Removal of parking on the east side of Green Lanes between Hazelwood Lane and Lodge Drive in the Palmers Green shopping centre.
* Removal or relocation of the iconic local landmark The Triangle at the Green Lanes /Aldermans Hill junction in Palmers Green and its possible replacement with a characterless "Dutch style shared space roundabout".
* Removal of service road on Avenue Parade (Ridge Avenue) and removal of parking on Bush Hill Road.
This would make it very difficult for businesses and residents who reside in these properties, as well as for visitors, deliveries, rubbish collections, tradesmen, skips etc.
In some instances new parking spaces are "relocated to side roads". However, most of these side roads are already widely used for parking.
There is no guidance provided on how any new parking bays in side roads could be reserved for the use of residents, business owners and visitors who would previously have parked on the A105. This could only be achieved by creating one or more Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) but there is no mention of any plans to do this.
The parking figures provided on the drawings do not always relate to the area being shown on the map and no indication has been provided on the methodology used to provide data on 'average' number of cars parked. Many people who live and work in the area who have looked at his analysis believe that it is a gross under-estimate of kerbside parking usage.
Economic risk assessment
Cycle Enfield has provided no assessment of the economic risks to businesses that could arise from:
* Reducing the on-street parking
* Making it harder for people to cross roads
* Restricting the flow of traffic in the locality
Crossing points
A number of traffic islands would be removed, and zebra crossings moved.
* Most of these existing crossings are located at points where the maximum number of people would want to cross – close to bus stops, adjoining roads, shopping parades and other destinations such as churches, theatres, shopping parades and health clinics.
* Removing or relocating would not only inconvenience pedestrians but would also be likely to encourage more people to risk crossing the road at locations where there is no crossing.
Footway Crossways
There are literally hundreds of dropped kerbs on this route, where residents and business owners/visitors will have to cross/reverse in or out across the cycle lane to park on or exit from their property.
Whilst Enfield Council currently has had a policy of refusing planning permission for new footway crossovers (for environmental reasons), it is understood that new applications to allow off-street parking to take place will be looked on favourably to compensate for the lost of on-street parking.
* If continuous cycle lanes were to be installed on both sides of the A105 route there would be increased congestion for other road users. This is because most of the road would then not be wide enough for more than two lanes of traffic.
* It is proposed that the northbound bus lane on London Road approaching Enfield Town would be removed as would part of the southbound bus lane on Green Lanes approaching the junction with North Circular Road.
* If a bus or another vehicle is stopping or a vehicle is turning right, following traffic would be unable to pass. For example this would be the case at the junction with Barrowell Green. Enfield's only waste recycling centre is located in this road.
* As stationery traffic is a major pollutant, air quality in the area would suffer.
It is proposed that most of the bus stop yellow road markings would be located in the main carriageway, so that a stationary bus would cause an obstruction to following traffic. This would occur at 28 (82%) of the 34 proposed bus stops on A105 between Cecil Road and Palmerston Crescent.
* At 26 (76%) of these proposed bus stops bus passengers would have to cross a cycle lane to board and alight from a bus. This is obviously a potential safety risk, especially for people travelling with young children and the elderly.
* Some bus stops would be moved and even removed, including stops which are currently widely used by school children and elderly residents. TfL guidelines regarding bus stops state that "generally they should be situated near places of particular need, such as local shops, libraries, clubs, health facilities and sheltered housing". They also state that "an ideal spacing for bus stops is approximately 400m, although a closer spacing in town centres and residential areas may be necessary to meet passenger requirements".
Also, "an ideal spacing for bus stops is approximately 400m, although a closer spacing in town centres and residential areas may be necessary to meet passenger requirements".It is proposed that the bus stands at the left turn slip roads from Green Lanes into Fords Grove and into Hedge Lanes would be removed. This would mean that buses would no longer be able to turn around those two locations. No proposals for of any alterative turning arrangements have been agreed because with TfL and the bus operating companies.
What will the new cycle lanes look like?
The town centre designs ie Palmers Green and The Broadway will use shared space principles, with the cycle lane and footway adjacent to each other at the same height with different materials to indicate separation, reduced kerb heights are also used between the parking and traffic lanes. Here is the design that was presented.
The problem in Winchmore Hill is that our 'town centre 'is a pinch point. The Broadway dates back to the 1900s, when a shopping parade was built along the tramway.This means that the place where street parking is most important, under the current designs 11 of the 41 parking spaces (25%) are set to disappear. There will be no on-street parking on the west side of the Broadway from Compton Road to Station Road. Sorry you won't be able to drop off your charity donations to the North London Hospice shop any longer. Broadway Butchers will have to wheel carcasses of beef across the road; the lovely guys from Autostore won't be able to help customers with small jobs for their cars as they do now. They sell bikes but they are definitely not keen on what is being proposed.
The design team say that overall, the parking close to The Broadway will actually increase. The Fords Grove car park will become pay & display – so that it will be available for short stay use rather than filled up with commuters cars – something Broadway businesses have been asking for for years,
Perhaps the Fords Grove parking will help to compensate for the loss of on-street parking. The businesses what rely on casual impulse shopping (especially goods & services that can easily be bought down the road at Sainsburys) are most at risk.
However even at this late stage there was an admission at the Partnership Board meeting that there has been no economic risk assessment to the businesses.
- What if some of the lose 10% of their turnover, 20%, when will the tipping point come when they will just shut up shop?
- There are already several empty premises from the cormer opposite the Green Dragon and along the Broadway, will the proposed cycle lanes encourage or discourage business owners to invest in setting up new businesses along Green Lanes?
- What about the local ladies who are the main customers for most of the businesses along The Broadway? Can they be persuaded out of their cars? Persuaded to park at Fords Grove or Sainsburys car parks and still use the Broadway?
- Could the route be send round the back of Queen Anne's Drive rather than along the Broadway?
- Will there be any compensation for loss of income?
- Will businesses receive any reduction of business rates?
- If the project goes ahead and is a white elephant – what remedial steps would be taken?
These are all questions residents and business owners will need to consider when consultation starts shorly.
"Low level of parking in residential area" (apparently)
During the presentation we were told about the low level parking during the day. Yet nobody seems to have taken into account the churches, doctors surgeries, dental surgeries and other health practitioners, libraries and other premises attracting short stay parking requirements,along much of the residential sections of Green Lanes.
The planning team reported that in the residential areas:
- "the maximum occupancy on the A105 corridor is 57% of the available space, with an average of 34%
- Formal spaces have been provided for 71% of the average
- The remainder would be relocated to spare occupancy on the side roads, which is approximately 30 vehicles on average
Only 30 cars displaced along the whole length of Green Lanes? These findings do not tally with the detailed parking surveys undertaken by retired traffic engineer Robert Taylor.
You an read his parking analysis in Why parking is important for Green Lanes businesses
and Why Green Lanes business owners need to be afraid, very afraid
Scaremongering? No, a traffic engineer who actually has an indepth knowledge of the local area and really cares for his community.
- Have you tried to find a parking space in a side road in close promximity of Green Lanes recently?
- What are residents going to think about the additional pressure on their limited parking space?
- How will this parking displacement fit with the proposed 'Quieter Neighbourhood' proposals?
The 'real' debate on the Green Lanes cycle lanes is about to begin
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Helen0I have no confidence whatsoever with anyone at any level involved in these designs. They have put a zebra crossing, intended for cyclists to cross from the east side of Park Ave. over to the Bush Hill quietway, on a blind corner. There is an existing informal crossing but nobody in their right mind would use it in that direction. Not the only 'deficiency'. They need a fine tooth-comb, or better still just walk along the road. Instead they are using us, especially you two, to do their job for them.
My particular complaint at the moment is, presuming the lanes are still solid line 24/7, no stopping, that there is no provision for household deliveries nor picking up/setting down. The cycle lanes are like a red route & far more restrictive than yellow lines. At exhibitions they said side roads could be used, - impractical enough anyway, but hardly feasible when they have added 'formal parking' in these same side roads.


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The Destiny of Larry Poons: Larry Poons Paintings 1971 - 1980
Jacobson Howard Gallery
January 15 - February 25, 2008
Larry Poons has been on the scene for many years. By the scene, I refer both to contemporary art history and to the regenerative impulse that has accompanied his work over the past four decades. Known for his optical dot paintings of the 1960s, Poons was included in The Responsive Eye at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965. This exhibition, curated by William Seitz with close to a hundred artists, was an international exhibition that surveyed the Op Art phenomenon that has spread around the world since the late 1950s. While Poons never considered himself an optical artist, the exhibition gave his paintings much attention. Dissatisfied with painting highly calculated dots on the background of a grid, Poons quickly moved onwards with elliptical paintings that soon jumped forward into a genre that, according to the critic Clement Greenberg, was related to "post-painterly abstraction," or, in Poons' case, a kind of idiosyncratic expressionist color field style known by other critics of the late 1960s as "lyrical abstraction."
The recent exhibition of paintings from the decade of 1970s, entitled Throw, Pour, Drip, Spill & Splash, follows a transitional, yet marvelously anamorphic period where the ellipses no longer conform to calculations on a grid but instead impale the surface as they collide into one another from all directions. The current exhibition could be labeled as a historical show, but, in fact, this work feels fresher today than when it first appeared in the 1970s. Beginning with the mural-scaled "Railroad Horse" (1972)—a large horizontal painting, recently praised by the artist's colleague, Frank Stella, as a groundbreaking work—these paintings may have seemed slightly out of touch at the time they were painted. They were more extreme (mannerist?) than Jules Olitski's drip paintings around the same time, and somehow indirectly defiant of Noland's concept of "razor-thin" paint and Greenberg's "flatness." They simply did not follow the logic of color field painting or any of the other formalist concepts that were extant at the time. They were aesthetically weird drippy, splashy paintings. Even so, the title of the current exhibition seems inappropriate. It gives Poons a pop orientation, and fails to suggest the change of aesthetic attitude that makes these paintings relevant today.
They are relevant in that they are no longer layered with an expectation to follow the canon of formalism or color field painting. They stand on their own in the dull mist of so many faulty attempts to bring abstract painting back to the foreground of critical attention. (One of the big problems here is that there is so little "criticism" available to deal with works of art that require a critical (as opposed to a theoretical) vantage point.) Listening to Poons speak about color and the satisfaction he feels when it brings light to the surface of a painting is about as far from the kind of rhetoric exercised in graduate art history classrooms today as Pollock is from Warhol or, in more topical terms, as Obama is from Bush. Poons adamantly believes that the greatest resonance of light in a painting is a testament to the greatness of a painting. He is constantly referring to Titian, Rubens, and Beethoven, whose greatness, from his perspective, derived from their ability to make you feel the light or, in the case of Beethoven, to make you feel the lightness. Shying away from formulas, Poons believes that the fundamental attribute of painting is color, and color is what creates the sensation or sensory awareness of light.
In addition to color, one may also cite issues like cropping, format, and scale as important components in these paintings. For example, in "Festinniog" (1975) and "Old Dominion" (1980), both paintings reveal the spattering of thrown color at the top edge. In "Claudio" (1981), the spattered color elements at the top have been eliminated through cropping. This gives "Claudio" less depth and more direct surface resonance, while "Festinniog" and "Old Dominion" retain the sense of illusionist interplay between two types of color on either side of a diagonal horizon near the top edge. The spattered color is more direct, whereas the falling slides of paint create an automatic mixture as the hues inevitably pool together. In the dominant lower portion of these paintings there is an all-over sense of whiteness, suggesting that Poons covered the surface with wet white pigment to catch the pigment as the paint slid from the upper edge into the complex mixture that defines the majority of the surface.
Poons speaks of complexity in positive terms, believing that for a painting to be complex means that it is liberated from the constraints of being one thing, and therefore, offering a single sensation. Concomitantly, the artist who allows complexity into his work also retains a greater freedom to expose the intricacies of color on an emotional level without necessarily being aware of the action or the cause-and-effect response.
To see these paintings today, nearly thirty years after many of them were painted, is like a sparkling reflection of sunlight when a hidden treasure is first unearthed. But then what appears as gold may, in fact, be iron pyrite or "fool's gold," as the expression goes. So how do we know that these painting by Poons are significant?
In an important essay in Greenberg's later career, titled "Can Taste be Objective?" (1972), the critic states that taste in art is established through consensus and that all the great art that has come down to us has happened by way of a consensus. Ironically, the artist Marcel Duchamp in "The Creative Act" (1957) asserted a very similar point of view, namely that the appreciation of great art cannot be imposed; it will only happen by consensus. In the case of Poons, who clearly aspires to greatness in painting, we might ask if the consensus runs in his favor. But before we ask this question, we might reevaluate the meaning of consensus as being much more than fashion or instant trends, just as democracy is more than the illusion of majority rule. It is conceivable that taste takes longer than a generation to form a consensus, particularly in an era of media manipulation where memory exists by default in the digital overflow of mindless, panic-ridden bits of information. In view of this, my hunch is that a true consensus has been delayed in relation to Poons, as, in the meantime, we struggle to justify the prices of Koons.
ContributorRobert C. Morgan
Robert C. Morgan is a writer, international art critic, curator, poet, lecturer, and artist. His most recent book is Clement Greenberg: Late Writings (2003). He holds both an MFA in Sculpture and a Ph.D. in Art History. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute.
New Leadership, and Work, at New York City Balletby Susan Yung
MAR 2019 | Dance
After many months under an interim leadership team of dancers who replaced the ousted Peter Martins, the company announced that Wendy Whelan, who retired from the company in 2014 after 30 years, will be associate artistic director, and ex-principal Jonathan Stafford—who had become the de facto leader—will be artistic director.
Rethinking (Art) History (without Reaching a Conclusion)by Daniel Baumann
JUL-AUG 2018 | Critics Page
It is not a coincidence if Adolf Wölfli's work ended up at the Kunstmuseum Bern.[i] In that city, you could find a community—curator Harald Szeemann; curator of the Paul Klee Foundation Jürgen Glaesemer; art historian Elka Spoerri and her husband the psychiatrist and professor Theodor Spoerri; artists like Bernhard Luginbühl, Meret Oppenheim, and Markus Raetz; art dealer Toni Gerber—convinced that Wölfli's oeuvre, and not just his, had to be considered art and should therefore be housed in an art museum.
'The Work Is Never Done' at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archivesby Benedict Nguyen
DEC 18-JAN 19 | Dance
Beyond the title itself, theres something about the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)s exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, running from mid-September 2018 to early February 2019, that brought up meta thoughts about what work Im doing. What could this writing, this work, do?
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
DEC 17-JAN 18 | Books
The day after Ta-Nehisi Coates's new essay collection We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy was released, Coates appeared on CBS This Morning to promote it. Towards the end of the segment, Gayle King addresses him. Youre being called one of Americas best writers on race, she says. I heard you gagged when you heard that.


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Published: 1:40 pm, Tue. Dec. 5th, 2017Updated: 1:39 pm
Looking back 40, 30 and 20 years ago, the following are excerpts from the Artesia Daily Press from Dec. 3-9.
40 years ago
Dec. 3-9, 1977
As reported in the Pinon News: Travis and Ted Eldrige and Basil Holcomb have been busy the past week riding fence lines, moving cattle, and other jobs, as the Pinon Draw cattle have been getting in Basil's pasture. They found no fence down or no gates open, so they think some hunter must have left the gates open when they went through, then shut them when they came back.
Members of the Hospital Auxiliary have been refurbishing and dressing used dolls to be sold at the Thrift Shop. The proceeds from the sale of the dolls will go toward the purchase of bronchoscopy equipment for Artesia General Hospital. Persons to clothe the dolls include Jaynie Beadle, JoLyn Bloomer, Jean Bullock, Louise Bush, Toni Bratcher, Cindy Franklin, Jan Johnston, Corinne Lanning, Sally Lanning, Helen Mapes, Marie Morten and Debbie Padon.
Several Artesia area farmers have scheduled a meeting to make plans for joining a parade in Albuquerque next month designed to protest what farmers say are unfair prices for their produce. About 12-15 tractors from the Artesia area are already committed to the parade, farmer Don Thigpen of Cottonwood said. He said area producers will gather at Jackson's Restaurant to make plans and hear speakers from the original American Agriculture movement. Large tractor parades protesting low farm produce prices have already been held in Colorado and Georgia, and farmers throughout the country have planned others.
Future Homemakers of America students at Lake Arthur High School recently held a "Mr. Irresistible" project to raise money. Each girl ws to give a boy a paper heart before she spoke to him and if she forgot she had to donate three cents. The boy with the most money at the end of the day was crowned for the honor. Brian Lilly was crowned for the honor. Runners-up were Jimmy Salcido and Mark Crook.
Artesia's girls basketball team proved it could keep up with the biggies as they beat two AAAA schools, Carlsbad and Alamogordo (48-45) to nail down the consolation spot in the Goddard Tournament. The Bulldogs dropped their opening match up to defending AAA state champ Clovis by 10 points, but came on strong to win their last two tournament games. Playing what Coach Ronnie Null called "the best game we have played this year,"
30 years ago
Dec. 3-9, 1987
If a tie game is like kissing your sister, then a tie game when the state championship is on the line must be like kissing your sister when she's had a bad day. The Artesia Bulldogs and Lovington Wildcats kissed each other up and down the field for four quarters Saturday in Lovington, with the 1987 Class AAA state football title at stake. When the clock had ticked itself off, the teams found themselves mired in a 0-0 tie and co-winners of the state title. New Mexico Activities Association rules specify that any state championship game ending in a tie does not go into overtime. The teams are declared co-champions. An announcement of that fact in the fourth quarter of Saturday's game brought a chorus of boos from fans from both teams. On the field after the game, the teams took turns being presented with the lone first-place trophy. Neither team appeared to be too excited by the situation, and there wasn't much whooping or hollering by either squad. There was a lot of grimacing going on. "I thought it would be low-scoring the whole game, but I didn't expect this," admitted Artesia Coach T.W. Harvey. "You'd like to win, you know, but if you don't win, the next best thing is a tie. Of Course, we'd rather win, and I'm sure Lovington would, too. They played a super ball game."
As reported in the Pinon News: Mr. and Mrs. Basil Holcomb were about two miles from their home Monday of last week when their pickup quit and Basil was unable to get it started again, so Mrs. Holcomb walked back to their home to get another pickup to pull the pickup back to the house. After she had been gone quite some time, two hunters, Bob Stafford and Kuebel Apiaries from Boerne, Texas, saw Basil working on his pickup and went to him to see if he needed help. They found the trouble was a short but did not find it, so they tied on to it and pulled it Basil's house and arrived there just as Mrs. Holcomb did. She was very appreciative, as she hates so much to pull a car.
20 years ago
Dec. 3-9, 1997
Selected to the Southeastern New Mexico Music Educators Association All-District Honor Band recently are Artesia musicians Todd Richardson, trumpet; Luis Marrufo, tuba; Ricky Swafford, French horn; Ricky wiles, baritone; and Luis Perez, percussion. All are students at Artesia High School except Perez, who is a student at Artesia Junior High School. They competed with more than 300 students from throughout Southeastern New Mexico. They will participate in the All-District Honor Concert at Hobbs High School Auditorium.
The Artesia Bulldogs harnessed the Silver City Colts Saturday afternoon 34-31, at bulldog Bowl. It is the 20th state trophy in football for AHS. Head coach Cooper Henderson said he was not surprised by Silver's output in the first half. "Really it's what we expected out of Silver," he said. "We did go into the game saying we were going to have to win it in the second half." He said the players were very determined to win the game. "I think the big thing is this group doesn't get rattled," Henderson aid. "They stay after it."
As reported in the Pinon News: Mr. and Mrs. Pete Peters of Artesia, had their son, Chase Peters, his wife and two little sons came from a long distance from the Northwest, Tuesday in their trailer house for a visit. They became ill soon after arriving at the peters home in Artesia. They thought it was from the gas so they went to Mayhill to a campground there and soon became all right. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Peters have been going up there each morning to meet them and be with them. They all went to the Weed and Avis area Thanksgiving Day sightseeing and planned to go out somewhere and have Thanksgiving dinner somewhere, during the day.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Looking Back is compiled each week by Daily Press Community Living Editor Teresa Lemon.)


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Steven & Fran's Annual Report for
In May Son Drew decided he and Fran would attend Grandson Cameron's graduation in Lancaster, California. What fun that was. Time was limited by Drew's work schedule.
We flew to Burbank, from Sacramento Thursday morning, rented a car, drove to Lancaster, attended the graduation that evening, and stayed overnight at Mark and Janette's house.
The next day we watched Cam do some jumping.
Drew would like to have given it a try but decided against it. Then they all rode somewhat more safely... Cam, Brad, Drew and Mark. Then back to Burbank to catch a plane home.
Summer came with long seesions of trip digit heat and lots more birthdays. Including grandson Gavin's first birthday.
We took Steven's Mom to dinner a lot and to a couple of plays at the local Acting Company playhouse.
Steven also spent some time updating our website, especially RVbasics.com and he also sold three of the mountain dulcimers he made on ebay.
We enjoyed being with the grandkids, family and frinds but a case of hitch itch was beginning to take hold.
By September we had hitch itch big time and headed south as soon as Glenn and family returned from their vacation in Disneyland. Our first stop was just a few miles south of Yuba City at Thousand Trail Lake Minden.
A walnut orchard near Thousand Trails.
In Sacramento we visited the Towe Auto Museum which had a special exhibit of old recreational vehicles.
The whole museum is very interesting and anyone who likes automobiles would enjoy what they have on display.


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Student Mobility Programme
Some Malaysian institutions offer mobility programmes to meet the needs of international students who wish to spend a single semester or one full academic year of study in Malaysia. Student mobility is a programme that initiates the exchange of students between two institutions for a short duration of study (anywhere between 3 to 12 months of study) that usually allows credit transfer to the existing degree programme in the student's home institution.
By participating in a student mobility programme in Malaysia, a student will benefit from the academic experience that benefits their area of study and upon completion of the programme, credits are awarded to the student's programme at their home institution, (subject to the academic regulations of the home institution).
The student mobility programme is a unique opportunity for students to combine overseas travel and cultural experience, with studies focusing on various aspects of their area of study.
If you are interested in participating in the student mobility programme, check with your institution whether this option is available to you.
If you have already received your acceptance/offer letter to enroll in a mobility programme, you can apply for your student visa here.
Important notes if you are interested in Student Mobility Programmes
- In order to be eligible for this, you must be enrolled as a fulltime student in an overseas university which is registered by the governing body in its country of operation. You will be required to show proof of this by providing either a letter from your current university, or a copy of your student card certified by your current university.
- All mobility programmes should not exceed 12 months.
- The student mobility programme is only applicable for students applying to Public Universities, Private Universities, and Foreign Branch Campuses.
- If your mobility program is longer than 3 months, the process and document requirements will be the same as a regular international student applying to study in Malaysia. This means that a Visa Approval Letter will be issued and you will receive a student pass (for the duration of your programme in Malaysia) once you arrive in the country. An iKad will also be issued to you.
- You will be required to attend a medical screening once you arrive in Malaysia. If you fail this medical screening you will not be issued with a student pass and will be required to leave the country.
- Dependant passes will not be issued for the families of students who enrol in mobility programmes.
Document Requirements
- The offer letter stating that you have been offered placement to undergo a Mobility Course in Malaysia.
- A copy of your passport pages which includes:
- Passport Information Page
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- All Visa Information
- A passport photo with a white Background (35mm x 45mm) as per EMGS requirements
- A letter from your current university stating that you are enrolled as a full-time student. Alternatively, a copy of your student matriculation card (certified as a true copy by your current university).
- Pre-Arrival Medical Screening Health Examination Report. Mobility students who are citizens of the 15 countries listed below are exempted from pre-arrival medical screening, However they are required to submit a Declaration of Health Status Form :
- United Kingdom
- Japan
- Australia
- South Korea
- Belgium
- Finland
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
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I am super happy to say that I made it on the other side of the challenge!! And to be honest, I didn't stay on track as much as I wanted to because of I guess life lol! But all in all, I think I accomplished what I wanted to! This was a great kick start to getting these 30 pounds off! This challenge got me used to meal prepping again and just preparing in general! If you guys remember from my last post, I went to the Pinky Promise Conference this past week and I tried to prepare as much as possible for it, but the fact that I wasn't home and the sessions lasted all day made it pretty hard to stay on track eating wise. But I still tried to make healthier decisions when I could, except for the stop at Gus' Fried Chicken (please no judgement here lol, I mean that is where the group decided to go, what was I supposed to do lol?!!)
These past two weeks I have been pretty busy and I just didn't have time to meal prep all of my meals so there were a lot of protein smoothies, chicken salads and fruit!
As always, thanks for reading guys!!


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Looking For Ways To Stop Smoking? Ideas You Can Use
Many people mistakenly think that quitting smoking means throwing out the cigarettes and relying on willpower alone to overcome their addiction. This might help you quit, but it doesn't need to be so excruciating. There are countless methods available to help you quit smoking.
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Mike Francesa ignored CBS / WFAN VP not to do lengthy horse racing themed radio programs
Francesa's Preakness gambling show bombed in more ways than ratings
New York, NY -- Mike Francesa fought with Mark Chernoff after losing a ratings battle with the Michael Kay Show. Francesa apparently forced his lap dog Neil Best to write:
The vague reference to Kay beating Francesa widely was misconstrued in the business and on social media as meaning Kay had beaten Francesa for the first time over an extended period — or a quarterly "book" — when in fact it happened over a small sliver of the spring ratings period.
It was? Nobody said it was over an extended period and nobody would immediately refer to the quarterly book except a sycophant. How about over a month?
How about over a week? (Craig Carton went as far Monday as to say, "Beat him in the ratings. Yep, somebody accidentally tuned in to ESPN that day.") A source further explains what the argument was about:
The discussion between Mike and Mark escalated because Chernoff dropped a line on Francesa, "I ORDERED YOU NOT TO DO ALMOST ENTIRE SHOWS ON HORSE RACING!" That is what really got it burning.
A 2nd source added, "Think Francesa fighting with BT was out of place? It was. Fatso fighting with staff is commonplace...just that commonly it's screaming at Mark Chernoff!"
Just recently Francesa described his life in the shady, disgusting, abusive world of Horse Racing - gasping for breath after every few words for some reason. And he's been fighting listeners over the boring racing themed shows for years. Probably was this call from Pat that put him over the edge.
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