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Hobart, Oklahoma Passport Office Information
Residents of Hobart in Kiowa County, Oklahoma have only a single location from which they can get a passport application sealed at. The passport agent in Hobart can provide you with passport forms or witness your signature and seal your passport documents (if you don't need your passport application sealed then you do not need to visit an acceptance agent). Besides the 1 location there are 91 other locations in the state of Oklahoma from which you can get a passport application sealed at. If you are not needing a passport in Hobart for a least (3) weeks, you can visit the sole passport acceptance agent listed below the map on this web page. If you need it faster than (3) weeks we have provided the closest regional passport offices to Hobart, Oklahoma and Expedited Passport service options for Hobart.
Regional Passport Offices Close to Hobart:These are passport issuing facilities. You will need to make an appointment and present proof of upcoming travel but in most cases, you will be able to get passport renewal, new passports, child passports, or a lost passport replacement Same Day or Next Day.
Dallas Passport Agency - 174.5 Miles, Arkansas Passport Center - 294.9 Miles, Houston Passport Agency - 366.4 Miles, Colorado Passport Agency - 392.3 Miles, El Paso Passport Agency - 420.9 Miles
Fast Rush Passport Expediting Service in Hobart, Oklahoma3rd Party Passport Expediting in Hobart OK: Expedited Passports & Visas are the experts for expediting passports in Hobart, if you're in a hurry, this is probably going to be your best option. Passport servces offered for Hobart: Expedited Passport Renewal, Expedited New Passports, Fast Passport Name Changes, Expedited Child Passports, Expedited Lost/Stolen Passport Replacement
How to Get a Passport in Hobart, OklahomaGetting a passport in Hobart OK depends on what type of passport application you are needing. The process in these guides assumes that you are applying at a local Hobart Passport Office in which case it will take you 4 to 6 weeks to get a passport in Hobart.
Please select the appropriate guide from the list below to get started:
Passport Office in Hobart, OK
The single passport acceptance agent (local passport office) located in Hobart is listed below:
- Kiowa County Court Clerk
316 S Main St
Hobart, OK 73651
Other Passport Offices Near Hobart, Oklahoma:Listed below are additional passport offices that are located within 50 miles of Hobart Oklahoma:
Greer County Court Clerk - Mangum - 24.3 Miles
Passport Service for Cities Near HobartResidents of the following closeby cities looking to get a passport should consider using the passport office(s) located in Hobart for document sealing and 3-week passport expediting. Be sure to check other nearby passport offices listed above, as there may be a closer passport office to your city.
Mountain View Oklahoma, Elk City Oklahoma, Clinton Oklahoma, Cache Oklahoma, Chattanooga Oklahoma, Erick Oklahoma, Sterling Oklahoma, Grandfield Oklahoma, Greenfield Oklahoma, Union City Oklahoma, Electra Texas, Shamrock Texas, Meridian Oklahoma, Durham Oklahoma, Hastings Oklahoma, Blanchard Oklahoma, Yukon Oklahoma, Newcastle Oklahoma, Estelline Texas, Bethany Oklahoma


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Friday, September 30, 2011
On the Street…..Young Parisian, Paris
Friday, September 30, 2011
On the Street…..Place de la Concorde, Paris
Thursday, September 29, 2011
On the Street….Racerback, Milan
Thursday, September 29, 2011
On the Street….University of Milan, Milan
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Missoni Spring/Summer 2012, Milan
Thursday, September 29, 2011
On the Street….Via Morelli, Milan
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
On the Street….Check Shirt Update, Milan
This is a great strategy to begin transitioning your favorite summer dress into a new favorite autumn look.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Take A Bow….Giorgio Armani, Milan
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
On the Scene…Bottega Veneta Denim, Milan
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
On the Street….Via Alserio, Milan
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
On the Street….via Manzoni, Milan
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Marni Spring/Summer 2012
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
On the Street….via Senato, Milan
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
On the Street….Sisters, Milan
Monday, September 26, 2011
On the Street….Dots on Dots on Dots, London & Milan
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Sartorialist for Style.com and Levi's® Curve ID
I recently completed a project with Style.com and Levi's®.  Celebrating Levi's® Curve ID collection, its goal was to showcase real women who had not only a variety of personal styles but also represented a variety of curves.
I had a lot of fun with it, and was given the opportunity to cast real women I've met while shooting for the blog. (You'll recognize a few!)
To see all of the images, please click here.
Monday, September 26, 2011
On the Street….Corso Como, Milan
Monday, September 26, 2011
On the Street….via Alserio, Milan
Fashion week has really taken off in Milan. Â The street looks are great and the runways are inspiring.
Marni, Ferragamo, and Jil Sander were all strong collections. Â I promise to lock myself in my hotel room tonight to work on those images.
The men's shot I will post later today is also really great, one of my favorites from Milan in a while.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
On the Street….via Beltrami, Milan
Sunday, September 25, 2011
On the Street….Lincoln Center, New York
Sunday, September 25, 2011
On the Street….10th Ave., New York
Sunday, September 25, 2011
On the Street….London Color, London
Saturday, September 24, 2011
On the Street….Military Cover-Up, New York and London
Friday, September 23, 2011
Fendi Spring/Summer 2012
As I mentioned yesterday, the Fendi show was spot on the fashion mark.
To me, the highlight of the collection was the beautiful dressmaker detailing in several of the dresses. Â Pleats, texture play, and layering were utilized in combinations that kept the eye amused and the heart happy.
Friday, September 23, 2011
On the Street….Late Bloomer, Milan
Friday, September 23, 2011
On the Street….Hudson St., New York
Thursday, September 22, 2011
On the Street….All About Print Blouses, Milan
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Prada Spring/Summer 2012
Wow! Â In my opinion, Prada was the first standout show of the season.
Fantastic work was done at Burberry in London, though. Â It was so great to see more than just outerwear from them this season. Â And in New York, Michael Kors and Marc Jacobs were excellent. Â (Garance and I both want to live in that Michael Kors dream world next summer – and it is well-documented how much I admire Marc's work.) Â Then in Milan this morning, Fendi continued their string of spot-on fashion moments.
But – Prada really woke everyone up. Â There was an incredible response.
Was it just that everyone on the fashion circuit was praying for a show to finally cheer, or are you seeing what I am?
Thursday, September 22, 2011
On the Street….Transport Style, Milan
Apparently, the key to looking good on a scooter (or bike, for that matter) is to coordinate your helmet with whatever suit you are wearing that day.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
On the Street….Lincoln Center, New York
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
On the Street….Black and White Plaid, London
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
On the Street….Somerset House, London
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
On the Street….First Look London, London
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
On the Street….5th Ave., New York
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
On the Street….Don't F with Waris, New York
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
On the Street….Alessandra C., New York
Monday, September 19, 2011
On the Street….34th St., New York
Monday, September 19, 2011
On the Street….Mr. Hainey, New York
Monday, September 19, 2011
On the Street….Corinne, New York
I had no idea who this was when I shot her. Â I mean, I know who Corinne Bailey Rae is; I just didn't know this was her! Â I think I would expect to see her in London, but it didn't connect for some reason here in NYC.
I think it's so interesting when you meet someone like Corinne, who is so artistically gifted  - and able to express that gift not only through the instrument of her voice but also the execution of her style.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
On the Street….Classic American Sportswear, New York
Sunday, September 18, 2011
On the Street….18th St., New York
Saturday, September 17, 2011
On the Street….15th St., New York
Friday, September 16, 2011
On the Street….22nd St., New York
Friday, September 16, 2011
On the Street….Everywhere, New York
Garance and I would like to thank our drivers for New York Fashion Week, Mr. Huffy and Ms. Schwinn.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2012….Denim Jacket
As I've mentioned before, I think some people have lost the thread on how to relate to fashion shows. Shows aren't something that should make you feel bad about not being able to afford what you're seeing, or not looking like a model. Instead, they should just be pure inspiration for color, silhouette, genre, pattern matching…and DIY projects.
This denim jacket, for example, is a great DIY. Steal your boyfriend's denim jacket, split it up the side to your true waist, slide a belt through, cut the sleeves off, and let it billow.
It's a great example of how to be ahead of the curve; no need to wait six months for this trend to hit stores.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
On the Street….Marina, New York
This is Marina. I used to work with her at Style.com.  As you know, she consistently looks incredible.
But to me, these are two separate pictures; above is a great shot of Marina, but below is a shot about the beauty of clothes in motion.
It's the same reason I shoot so many people on their bicycles; shooting a person walking and smiling at the camera for you is one kind of movement, but a completely unselfconscious shot in which you see the flounced hem kicking up and the silk shirt billowing as she saunters shows you a beauty in the silhouette that your average standing portrait can never achieve.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
On the Street….Richard Chai in His Button-Up Jean Jacket, New York
Above is Richard Chai, who I've known for a while and who has consistently great style. That's not the main reason I took this photo, though; it's also a guide to how I should buy a jean jacket.
Like almost everyone out there, I am hypercritical about how things fit on me. Jean jackets never seem to hit me at the right place. But then I look at this picture of Richard – who has a couple inches on me – and the jacket hits at the same place they always hit on me! It's making me rethink things. Maybe I've been too self-conscious. Because, really – this is a great look.
To be honest, this is the entire reason I started The Sartorialist. I was hungry for a set of visual references. If I thought someone was dressed well, I wanted time to look back at images and go over them – to learn why I thought that, since sometimes in the moment it's hard to piece it all together.
Back to the jacket, though; it's not just the shape, but the fabric. There is an easiness, and a softness, that you just can't get with a true jean jacket.
Thanks for the constant inspiration, Richard!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Fall Shopping…Aspesi
I was really excited to read today on WWD.com that Aspesi has launched a new international e-commerce site.
Aspesi is one of my first stops in Milan when I go shopping, along with Piombo (now available at Barneys) and Al Bazar. I want to say the store is world-famous (but it might be Euro-famous?) for their down-filled outerwear – especially their down-filled shirt.
I would imagine I probably have 5 or 6 pieces of Aspesi outerwear in a range of styles – overcoat, shirts, layering vests (like the Italians wear on their scooters!), a nylon sportcoat…
To now be able to buy it online and have it shipped direct to door is not only great because of the convenience, but it is also going to open up space in my suitcase that is always reserved for my new purchases from Milan. Â Believe me – a puffy shirt takes more space than you think!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
On the Street….5th Ave., New York
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
On the Scene….Anna Wintour at Derek Lam, New York
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
On the Street….Holli and Natalie of Net-A-Porter, New York
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
On the Street….The fellas at Michael Bastian, New York
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
On the Street….Fran, New York
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Steichen Opening at Danziger Gallery
As you know, James Danziger is my gallerist. Â But more than that, he is a great guy from whom to learn more about the history and art of photography.
James has a great show opening this Thursday if you're around.
Edward Steichen – The Last Printing
Thursday, Sept 15 6- 8 pm.
Danziger Gallery
527 West 23rd Street
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
On the Street…5th Ave., New York
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
On the Street….Carine, New York
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
On the Street….Lincoln Center, New York
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Marc Jacobs to Dior?
The other day I read in WWD that Marc Jacobs is in negotiations to take over the Dior job.
My first reaction was – oh, that's crazy. That'll never happen. Why would he leave Louis Vuitton – where he built the entire clothing image of the brand – to go to Dior?
Something I hadn't thought about, though, is the couture element that Dior offers. I have no clue what his dreams are, but to offer that to someone who is as much of a design artist as he is… the idea is fascinating, and must be at play here.  I personally would love to see him have a team like that at his disposal. What a kick in the ass that would give the entire couture season!
So what do you think? Marc Jacobs to Dior? And if not – who else?
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
On the Street….Eva on 15th St., New York
Monday, September 12, 2011
On the Street….The French Editor, New York
Monday, September 12, 2011
Fall Shopping….Plaid Coat
The last couple of seasons it's been all about the solid color coat in all forms – pea coat, overcoat, nylon. But I love the idea of bringing some pattern back into outerwear.
I love the idea of it especially in the context of those big, plaid coats – with shorter sleeves, and at a hip length and no longer – but the most important thing is to have some sort of nipped waist (see above); without it you look like some sort of giant square.
Even if it doesn't come with that kind of silhouette, it's reasonably easy for any tailor to add a dart in the back, as you would with a shirt.
Monday, September 12, 2011
On the Street….Pier 59, New York
Sunday, September 11, 2011
I Remember 9/11
I wrote this post five years ago. Â Everything I remember is still as strong as it was to live it ten years ago.
I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday.
I remember I was working on the seating chart for James Coviello's fashion show which was the next day.
I remember a model came by for a casting and was telling one of the designers about an accident at the World Trade Center just as my phone rang and James told me about the planes and I looked down at my computer and the photos were already on CNN.com.
I remember a few moments later walking up 7th Avenue towards James' office. The streets were jammed-packed with people walking up from downtown. It wasn't until that moment that I began to really realize how big this could get. The towers still hadn't fallen but you could just tell how badly this could end. After about one more block I turned left and headed straight home.
I remember that even before I made it home I was going into emergency mode. I needed to get cash, I needed to get bottled water, I needed to get canned goods. I have never been in a war or natural disaster but it is odd how clear the basics become when you are in that situation.
I remember going into the nearby grocery store. It was packed with people and absolutely silent. No one was talking and no cell phones ringing because all phones were down.  No carts or hand baskets were available; people were packing groceries into empty shipping boxes and pushing them around the store with their feet because they were so overloaded with essentials. Someone dropped a jar of spaghetti sauce and it exploded with a loud, glass crunching boom….and everyone froze like deer in the headlights. I remember seeing one guy buying only fresh fruit and yogurt; that seemed like an odd strategy to me. When I got home one of my neighbors asked why I was buying so many groceries.  I said, "because we are on an island."  That changed the look on his face and he walked away.
I remember being able to watch news coverage on TV and being able to look out my South-facing window next to the TV and seeing the real scene. It was truly surreal.
I remember it was beautiful and sunny and it was that way for the next few days but all I wanted was for the rain to come and wash away the smoke and the smell of burnt iron.
I remember feeling so isolated because Manhattan is an island and it is tough to get off an island quickly – especially with a two-year-old. By the same token, it is tough to get things onto an island so I really worried about if we would have enough food and supplies. The stores were picked clean and there was no telling how long it would take to restock.
I remember seeing the towers fall while watching TV but not understanding what I was seeing while it was happening. I didn't see it on the videos we all see now, I saw it on a live-feed shot from a news helicopter above – the angle was so weird and close that it was hard to grasp what was happening.
I remember jogging from my apartment down to the WTC all that summer. I can still picture in my mind exactly how it looked down there and still when I walk down there I still expect to see the towers. Â Even more than missing the towers when I'm downtown I sometime think I will run over to the bookstore that was at the base of a WTC, completely forgetting it is not there anymore.
Five years later I still remember everything about that day and I probably always will.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
On the Street….18th St., New York
Friday, September 9, 2011
Fall Shopping, continued
Thought I would finish up the series on pant hems with a hem that isn't actually a hem. Â Eyeballing it as a possible DIY.
Friday, September 9, 2011
On the Street….Modern Hair (more or less), New York
Thursday, September 8, 2011
First Look from Fashion Week, New York
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Do Laundresses Still Exist?
Didn't there used to be a job called "laundress"? Â Wasn't it a job for a person who specialized in taking care of your clothes – washing, laundering, keeping them in order? Â Does it still exist?
I've been googling to try and find out, but no luck. Â I mean, to me it sounds like an obvious opportunity in this economy. Â Taking care of the clothes you have is better than just going out and picking up new items every season, and not wearing a good piece because it hasn't been updated or is in slight disrepair. Â I think a lot of times, as Americans, we tend to just pitch things. Â That, or they sit in our closets for years, unworn.
Anyone have a lead for me? Â I'd love to find out if the job still exists in New York, or anywhere.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Shopping for Fall, Brown Pants
I've been wanting to buy some dark brown pants for a while. Â The thing that has held me back is finding the right kind of shoe to go with such a dark brown.
The best answer I've seen is a tone-on-tone chocolate brown, probably suede, shoe. Â It creates a nice long line between your leg and your foot.
The other obvious answer is a cordovan/mahogany shoe, like an Alden – or the shoe I'm getting made by Cleverley.
Black is also an option, but it just seems too awkward and simple to be interesting.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Goodbye to Summer
Fashion Week starts this morning.
It's rainy, and cloudy, and cool. Â If this weather holds out for the next week, summer is definitely over for me; I won't be back in New York until October.
I'm so ready to start layering and wearing something other than Converse and shorts. Â Wearing grown man pants again! Â Having fun with fall fashion!
I hope you had a great summer. Â Let's do it again next year.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Fall Shopping, continued.
As I mentioned yesterday, Junya also had a couple great suggestions for how to hem your pants.
The one I thought that seemed most simple, but was also subversively brilliant, was this idea of a denim hem (the kind of hem you find on jeans) on a pair of classic wool trousers. It's funny, because it looks so natural – and at the same time, I don't know if I've ever really seen it. It gives the pant a really sporty feel, which raises the question – is there right kind of trouser to do it with? I'm thinking a heavier, more tweedy fabric is the best to try it out with.
Above is a look that is again subversively simple. The pant is finished traditionally, but the suggestion of a cuff is in reality just the pant turned up like a pair of jeans.
This isn't something that's going to rock the world of fashion. But it's something that can turn an average pair of pants into something slightly more curious.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Fall Shopping, continued.
For the first time since high school, I'm considering doing the fully buttoned shirt. I've seen guys doing it for a little while now but it's usually with a plaid shirt, and it's in the summer, and it looks too woodsy and hot……or it's a dress shirt with a hard collar, and it just doesn't look right to me.
But the way I envision it as being done well was reinforced in January at Bottega Veneta. The shirt is with a jacket maybe, tonal, with a soft collar. There's no stiffness in the neck. It's wearable. There is a hued palette; it's not just this jarring white shirt, buttoned up. There is a beautiful transition from the jacket to the knit shirt.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Breakfast with Garance at Ruschmeyer's
I hate to put up so many pictures of Garance, but I just sincerely think she has one of the most incredibly well-developed personal styles of anyone I know. Â It really has to do with her ability to mix pieces from all different price ranges.
And also – and this is very important – to be appropriate to the setting. Â In the picture above, for example, we were having breakfast at Ruschmeyer's in Montauk. Â Garance stole a pair of my floral print Etro shorts and mixed them with a Breton-striped shirt under a vintage kid's sweatshirt, and pink Zara ballerinas. Â As you can see above, she does sporty as well as she does the red carpet.
And here, for example: on the way back from the beach at Ditch Plains, Garance has stolen my shirt. Â However, when you looks this good, I'm not complaining.
She is also wearing a hat that she bought at a Montauk drugstore, because she hates the direct sun. Â Again, the key here is not the maker of the shirt, the maker of the hat…it's about the visual impact that it makes. Â I think Garance's background as an artist helps her look past the price tag and see the potential of things.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Beginning of Fall Shopping
It's supposed to be a high of 65 degrees, and rainy all day today. Â It's the perfect mood to start my Fall shopping.
Actually…I've already started. Â My first real decision is going to happen when I go to the tailor and start hemming the pants that I bought. Â I know it sounds simple – but it's not so simple. Â It's actually one of the few places that a man can put a more personal stamp on his clothing.
I've been looking through my old files and thought Burberry had a lot of good suggestions for pant hem options.
ABOVE: Slim, and right at the ankle, no break.
ABOVE: Slim, past the ankle, with lots of break.
ABOVE: Last but not least: above the ankle, with an extra wide cuff.
Junya Watanbe also had a couple very interesting suggestions for pant hems; I'll show you those tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Vogue Italia
I didn't have many "dreams" when I started the blog. Â But, one of the only pipe dreams I had was to someday shoot something for Italian Vogue. Â I never imagined that it would actually happen, but it was just something that I had, and that drove me.
So, I am extremely humbled to share with you a shoot that I did for Vogue Italia for their August edition. Â Even though I had done things for Vogue Pelle before, you can't imagine my shock and awe when I got the call about shooting something for Franca.
It's funny. Â When you get the call about doing something you've always wanted to do, you wonder – can I really do this? Â But I was very happy with the result. Â It was very fun to work with Patti Wilson and the incredibly high level of skill and talent she brings to a shoot. Â It was also great to have the chance to shoot cool young ladies such as Keira Chaplin, Poppy Delevigne, Vanessa Traina, and the Richards sisters.
You can see all the shots and a behind-the-scenes video online at Vogue Italia, here.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
On the Street….Götgatan, Södermalm
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Road Trip, continued
Growing up on the east side of Indianapolis, one of the biggest treats you could have was donuts from Hart Bakery.
Of course, nothing lives in reality the way it does in your memory. Â Hart isn't quite as cute as when I grew up, but it's just as sweet.
PS. Â This was Garance's first EVER doughnut!!! Â Welcome to America, baby!!!
Friday, September 2, 2011
Road Trip
So, yesterday Garance and I decided to turn our staycation in New York into a road trip.  We hopped into a rental car and headed west to Indianapolis for a Bazbeaux pizza.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Last Weekend of the Summer, Montauk
Thursday, September 1, 2011
On the Street….Aoyama, Tokyo
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It's that time of year again. When you're dripping in sweat as soon as you step out the door, and by the time you've walked down the block, you just want to lie down until the sun goes away.
Or is that just me?
Today, that's not what I'm here to complain about. Let's talk about another reason why summer is so awful.
Stifling summer heat means shorts, and skirts, and tank tops, and various other clothing items that make us feel like we ought to be hairless. Time to start cursing whoever it was that decided that hairless legs were a trait that ought to (quite unnaturally, really) be exhibited by the entire female human population.
I applaud all of you who manage not to buy into it. I'm working on it. Really, nobody should care if I'm hairy but me. Conversely, I really shouldn't care whether anyone cares. I'm sure that part of the reason I can't just ignore this particular societal construct is the deeply ingrained taunting of a boy in grade four laughing at my downy legs, and nicknaming me "monkey girl". But my childhood psychological scars are beside the point.
Considering that I have bought into it, what's the big deal, right?
Well, let's put aside the fact that razors and things are expensive. Let's ignore the fact that bathing takes double the time in the warmer months. Let's overlook the extra cleanup that needs to take place in the bathtub solely because of the pursuit of "silky" legs. Let's even discuss the fact that big companies get rich off of our insecurities by propagating unnatural, and often unattainable, standards of beauty some other time.
Why exactly do I hate shaving my legs so very much?
I always, without fail, miss a spot.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Today, It's On My Left Calf.
Labels: "beauty", all about me, I just don't get it, it's hot, nature is nice, rant, Whoops
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Try having legs as long as a person. SUCKS. I'm with ya. Let's bring hairy back!ReplyDelete
I SUCK at this. My legs HATE cheap razors, but I'M too cheap to buy the expensive ones every other week!! My only consolation is that I've learned that coconut oil works better than shaving cream, so I don't have to spend a lot of money on that IN ADDITION to the razors. :PReplyDelete
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When I first started having trouble with anxiety and worry and stress, I always found it impossible to relax. I couldn't think of anything that might help me and I started to believe I'd just forgotten how to do it and that was that. In time, though, I started trying different things and I figured out the best things for me to do if I'm feeling anxious or worried.
This list is just a few suggestions for those of you who aren't sure what to do. Try some, leave some, but I hope it might help in some way.
1. Mindfulness
Maybe this seems like an obvious suggestion, or maybe not. There's stuff about mindfulness everywhere these days and I see that as a really good thing. Personally, it has helped me a lot in learning to deal with stress and anxieties and in general it's a useful tool to have in everyday life.
If you want to give it a go, I recommend the Headspace app (also on desktop) as a good place to start. To start off there are 10 lessons, 10 minutes long each, that guide you through a mindfulness meditation to help clear your head. If you like it, then after the 10 days, you can subscribe for more.
Edit: while I definitely think Headspace is a great place to start as an introduction to mindfulness, some people might feel it's a bit too expensive to subscribe after their 10 free lessons. There are other apps available that provide guided meditations – I use Insight Timer.
2. Yoga
In some ways the benefits of doing yoga are similar to those of practicing mindfulness (and yoga incorporates aspects of mindfulness), except yoga is also a way to exercise and stretch out all the tension that builds up in your muscles from all the stress throughout the day. I find if I'm having a particularly bad time, my body feels it as well as my mind, so yoga is great for addressing that.
I always thought that yoga wouldn't be for me because I figured I didn't have the patience or the flexibility, but I'm so glad I decided to give it a try because I think it has made a huge difference for me.
I started off with a class in college and I would say it's best to start out by going to a class where a teacher can help you out if you're having any difficulties. I started also practicing at home using the YouTube channel YogaWithAdriene. My favourite videos are the Bedtime Yoga Sequence and Yoga for Anxiety and Stress, and I've recently started working my way through her 30 Days of Yoga series.
Even if you don't have a mat yet, you can start off with this 5 minute video for stress!
3. Colouring
When the adult colouring books came out I sort of dismissed them at first, again using the excuse of not having the patience for something like that. However, as time went on, and I was looking for new ways to occupy my time so that I wouldn't be focusing on my worries so much, I realised that a colouring book could actually be what I was looking for. It also gives me the opportunity to be creative which always makes me feel better. It's not something that takes much time out of your day either really, because you can just sit and colour while you're watching TV or listening to music, and instead of your mind wandering, you can be focused on what you're doing.
|Some of my colouring in the Enchanted Forest colouring book by Johanna Basford
4. Baking
Baking is just something I happened to discover helps when I'm worrying about something or feeling anxious. I'm busy the whole time, reading the instructions, mixing the ingredients, washing up, decorating, whatever. It keeps my mind busy, I'm active and I'm being creative, and at the end of it I have something that I made myself! (and also something I can eat).
The next time you find yourself idle and worried about the thoughts that might come, consider giving baking a go, or maybe looking up a recipe to cook something different for dinner, or try do something where you can learn something new
5. Making the Time
No matter what it is that I decide to do, even if it's not on this list – walking, listening to music, going to the movies – the most important thing that I do is I make the time. I'm currently in the middle of my final year with a huge amount of work to do, and it's very easy for me to say 'I don't have them time for any of that'. However, the time I could have spent doing something for myself – even if I just took 10 minutes – would probably be spent sitting there worrying and stressing instead. Even if I do have things to do, I may as well use whatever spare time I have doing something for myself instead of creating more and more worries in my head.
This list is just what I find helps, and maybe some of it is useful to you, maybe none of it is. Find what it is you enjoy doing, then find the time to do it.


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Up and down all night having breathing problems thought about going to the ER but who would take care of Sophie and all they would do is give me steroids.l My hands are shaking and hurt. I have a headache, my sinuses are killing me. My chest hurts breathing in and out.
Both of my arms ache from the shoulders down into my elbows, the right one worse. My eyes hurt so bad I want to dig my eyeballs out of my skull. My knees ache, I got up to take Sophie outside and you should have herd them popping.
The world didn't end...at least not for everyone but I'm flaring like crazy. For those of you who have seen the movie This Is Spinal Tap I can tell you that my pain surpasses 11 I am at about 15 right now and when I'm in this kind of pain all I can do is brew up some coffee and pop some Arthritis Pain Tylenol just to get the pain back down to 11.
If I had a blender right now my fingers and toes would be looking like ground beef. It is all that I can do to keep myself from pounding my head with my rubber mallet. The pain is so great that my eyes are tearing up and Oh the headache so bad I can barely keep my eyes open.
Maybe the world did end? It has been snowing on and off all day. Not a lot so far but enough to be too cold and too damp, that's not helping this flare at all. y hands shake bad...I get these "electrical" charges through them. I'm wondering if this is Parkinson's and related to my Lupus or if it is something different. I've had the shakes for quite some time now but it seems to be getting worse.
I'm hurting so bad, I have to go in and heat up some coffee so I can take the pain pills with it. I can't take Oxicodeine Vicodin because I'm allergic to codeine but I might force myself to withstand the vomiting just to end this damn pain, and good grief the shakes, even making fists doesn't stop m,y hand from almost bouncing.
My ankles hurt. Oh to have someone here to massage my feet and hands. Just my feet and hands would be fantastic. I guess it is because they are at the end of my body and massaging them pushes everything back through my system and that gives me a boost of sorts.
The cold and damp doesn't help any I could withstand the cold if there wasn't this dampness with it. The cold in Tahoe for instance is dry and totally different from here. The cold in Lake Tahoe doesn't get deep into your joints when you are hurting and it doesn't stay there for the entire winter, building more pain.
I am hoping that pain my lower back is my lower spin and not my kidneys. I have been having a hard time standing, my hips become so weak. During flares I have to make sure I know where I can sit if I'm dealing with a push cart. That is the main attraction to Wal Mart and their scooters. For all the crap I have to go through to shop at Wal Mart I can at least do so on a scooter.
So this isn't getting me any coffee heated up and I'm not getting any pain pills and Sophie won't go do it for me, damn dog. So I will have to do it myself. , that is unless you , the reader would be so kind...


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It is barbaric and causes the rest of the civilized world to always group Seoul, South Korea which in most aspects could be called a thriving metropolitan city, into the group of poor starving, ignorant, third world countries who have no other resources for food. To burn these poor helpless, doomed animals to a fate worse than death and on the city streets certainly has changed the way I look at Seoul and I was born there but got out in 1963. I am ashamed that the government who wants to be progressive and compete in a capitalist market would allow this to continue. In conversations while growing up and still today, if you are in a group of friends and someone brings up Seoul or Korea in general, sure enough someone is going to make a joke or get angry that Korea is the land where they baroque live dogs and cats on the sidewalks for the Korean's midday snack. Not funny but it is true. It does make South Korea sound like another impoverished third world country that has no respect for life -- Human or not. I am ashamed.


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His personal coach in Australia, John Davison will be glued to his TV set today to see if his ward grabs the hat-trick wicket. "If Nathan gets the hat-trick, I am sure Damien Fleming would welcome another member to the hat-trick club," said Davison, who played 32 ODIs and five T20s for Canada before moving to Australia.
"I'm sure Nathan is not focussed on the hat-trick. His number one priority will be to contribute to the team's cause. Individual milestones are a bonus. My advice to him would be to make no extra effort (for the first ball in the second innings), but bowl your best ball. He is a team man, modest, generous, caring and hard-working," added Queensland-based Davison.
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Gogo's 24. We are building a tree house
Анонс серии:
Тони и джени решают постоить дом на дереве. Гоугоу решает им помочь! Чем все закончиться?
Записываем в словарик новые слова:
floor – пол
wall – стена
door – дверь
hammer – молоток
nail – гвоздь
ladder – лестница
paint – краска
brush – кисть
Текст серии:
Hello, Tony. Hello, Jenny.
- Hello, Gogo!
What are you doing?
We are building a tree house.
Can I help?
- Yes, please, Gogo.
You can help Jenny.
What's she doing?
- She is cutting the wood.
Stand back, please, Jenny.
Very good, Gogo. Thank you.
That's all right.
That is Tony!
He is using the hammer.
What is he doing?
He is making the floor.
Can I help you, Tony?
- Yes, you can.
Look, Jenny.
The hammer is hitting the nails.
Ah! Jenny's climbing up the ladder.
She is carrying the paint and the brushes.
Oh, good! We can paint the house.
What colour have you got, Jenny?
- White
Gogo, that's not white. It's pink.
I like pink.
I like purple!
This house is very small!
Oh! Gogo!
Look! The door is opening.
That's right, Jeeby.
I am opening the door.
Good morning.
Good morning, Gogo.
Come in.
What are you doing?
I am closing the door.
What are Tony and Jenny building, Pod?
Er... er...
- They are building a tree house.
What are they doing?
- They are building a tree house.
Tony is making the floor.
What is Tony using, Tappy?
He is using a ... a ...
He is using a hummer, Gogo.
Very good, Jeeby.
What is Jenny carrying, Tappy?
She is carrying paint and brushes.
Very good, Tappy.
I want a tree house.
Do you want a tree house, Jeeby?
Yes, please.
And you, Pod?
- Yes, please.
Then let's build a tree house.
I am building a house.
I am making the floor.
I am painting the walls.
And I am painting the door.
I am using a hammer.
I am hitting the nails.
I am cutting the wood.
I am making it good.
We are builders.
We can build.
We are painters.
We can paint.
Let's build a house.
Let's make the floor.
Let's paint the walls.
And let's paint the door.
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Year of inscription on the World Heritage List 1987
Criteria (ii)(iv)(vi)
Year(s) of inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger N/A
Previous Committee Decisions see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/420/documents/
International Assistance
Requests approved: 0
(from 1988-2010)
Total amount approved: USD 53,785
For details, see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/420/assistance/
UNESCO Extra-budgetary Funds
USD 10 000, World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS technical mission in 2005 financed by the Spanish Funds-in-Trust for World Heritage
Previous monitoring missions
November 2005: World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS Technical mission; November 2009: WHC meeting.
Factors affecting the property identified in previous reports
a) Potential degradation of the historic site by continued and uncontrolled mining operations in the Cerro Rico Mountain;
b) Instability and risk of collapse of the Cerro Rico;
c) Deficiencies in conservation: special attention required for the restoration and upgrading of structures with residential use and the archaeological industrial heritage;
d) Inefficient enforcement of protective legislation;
e) Environmental impacts on the river which in turn affects the historic fabric and the local population.
Illustrative material see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/420/
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2011
The Cerro Rico is an integral part of the World Heritage site - City of Potosi. In 1996, the World Heritage Committee noted with satisfaction that the Bolivian Mining Corporation (Corporación Minera de Bolivia – COMIBOL) had included the preservation of geological features and the topography and natural environment of the Cerro Rico as important objectives to be considered regarding future mining activities, given that uncontrolled mining operations over the last 500 years had continuously threatened not only the preservation of the Mountain, but also the lives of over 14 000 miners who work there on a daily basis.
In 2005 a technical mission conducted an analysis of the mountain's geology and morphology, mining activities, security, pollution, existing environmental conditions and threats to heritage, and provided recommendations for each of the three sectors the mountain is divided into, namely the: summit, middle area and low area; as well as for its surroundings. These included: the termination of mining activities over 4000 metres above sea level and those not related to maintaining the stability of the mountain; the monitoring of all natural phenomena; the elaboration of a Geologic Monitoring Plan focused on geo-mechanics and geo-structural stabilization; the development of a Geo-Environmental Risk Plan; controlled mining activities; the elaboration of a mining work plan; the evaluation of pollution levels; and the implementation of measures to safeguard the human and labour rights of miners and their families.
During a meeting held in November 2009 in Bolivia the Ministry of Cultures agreed to undertake urgent measures to facilitate coordinated actions for the preservation of the mountain. The State Party also expressed the need for the development of a Management Plan for the City of Potosí and the Cerro Rico Mountain. In March 2010, the International Assistance request for the preservation of the Cerro Rico mountain was approved, with the objective of having qualified international experts work on the site to: (a) assess and analyze the specialized geotechnical, structural, geophysical and geodesic studies undertaken at Cerro Rico; (b) participate in the definition of a drilling programme; (c) assess and diagnose the structural stability status of the Cerro Rico; and (d) propose a suitable Action Plan in co-ordination with the Bolivian Government, national experts and stakeholders. It was agreed with the State Party that once the specialized studies were finalized, the Mission and the implementation of the International Assistance request would be undertaken.
As a result of the most recent and critical collapse of the summit (mid February 2011), the State Party requested the urgent implementation of the International assistance request to send a technical mission to the site in May 2011 and to organize an International Expert Meeting to urgently establish recommendations and guidance for the conservation and management of the property and its components. In particular, it is expected that an Action Plan will be developed to assist the State Party in identifying required measures for the preservation of the Mountain, including the definition of regulations for the control of mining activities. The State Party is presently finalizing the Tomography Study of the Cerro Rico and a preliminary report has been sent to ICOMOS for its analysis.
Analysis and Conclusions of the World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and ICCROM
The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies note the serious collapse of a portion of the Cerro Rico Mountain, an important component of the property, and particularly the impacts that uncontrolled mining activities are having on the preservation of the mountain, its heritage components, and the potential threat to workers and the City of Potosí. They recommend that the World Heritage Committee point out that the formulation of an Action Plan as well as the identification of management and conservation recommendations is a necessary step in ensuring the conservation of the property. Current efforts could also serve to address pending issues, such as the definition of a larger buffer zone to include all reservoirs to the east and south-east of the City.
Decision Adopted: 35 COM 7B.120
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Document WHC-11/35.COM/7B.Add,
2. Recalling Decision 20 COM VIID.60/61, adopted at its 20th session (Merida, 1996),
3. Regrets the collapse of a portion of the summit of the Cerro Rico Mountain; and expresses its deep concern regarding the event and the dangerous conditions that exist derived from unregulated and unsafe mining practices at the Cerro Rico Mine;
4. Notes with concern that the recommendations made by the World Heritage Centre/ ICOMOS technical mission in 2005, to improve the security and stability of the property, as well as other conditions necessary to allow for sustainable mining activities, have not been addressed;
5. Requests the State Party to implement, by February 2012, the emergency measures identified by the 2011 World Heritage Centre/ ICOMOS technical mission, in order to protect human lives, to improve working conditions, and to prevent further deterioration of this vulnerable component part of the property, in particular:
a) Finalize the geotechnical study of the Cerro Rico Mountain,
b) Implement measures to ensure the structural stability of the top of the Cerro Rico Mountain,
c) Implement Supreme Decree 27787 and modify article 6 to halt all exploration, extraction and any other interventions under and above ground between altitudes 4400 and 4700m,
d) Prepare a comprehensive topography study and install a monitoring system to assess the stability conditions of the Cerro Rico Mountain at monthly intervals over the next four to six months,
e) Organize a technical expert meeting in early 2012 to evaluate the above studies and monitoring results, and to prepare an Emergency Action Plan for future interventions including rationalisation and planning of the industrial exploitation in the area;
6. Also requests the State Party to initiate the process of developing a participatory Management Plan for the property, and the official submission of the buffer zone;
7. Further requests the State Party to work in co-ordination with the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies to implement the additional measures identified by the 2011 technical mission undertaken to the property and invites other relevant bodies and funding partners to co-operate with the State Party for the implementation of the conservation measures for the preservation of the Cerro Rico Mountain;
8. Finally requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2012, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and on the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session in 2012, with a view to considering, in the case of confirmation of ascertained or potential danger to the Outstanding Universal Value, the possible inscription of the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger.


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Are you a cat lover with a few hundred quid to spare? How about a huge Dennis the Menace fan keen to show your appreciation via the medium of your motor? Well you're in luck as the DVLA – the body in charge of car registrations in the UK – is holding 2017's first live auction of registration numbers this week and among the plates on offer are WH15 KER ( yours for a starting price of £700) and BE11 ANO (a mere £400). The event – which starts on Wednesday – will see a total of 1,500 personalised registrations being auctioned to members of the public. The registrations on offer have been chosen by DVLA to suit all tastes, styles and budgets and range from plates that reflect names such as EL17 OTT, HA15 RRY and PA14 ULA through to quirkier offerings such as OUR 848Y, OLD 800K and YOU 105E. And fans of Harry Potter could find themselves spellbound by POT 110N which carries a reserve of £250. The agency will be aiming to build on the success of its live auction programme in 2016, which raised £25.6 million through five sales – setting a new record for a second consecutive year. Last year, the total sales of personalised registrations by the DVLA surpassed £147m, taking the total amount raised since the sales began in September 1989 to £2.4 billion. Sales by the agency suggest that interest in personalised plates has soared in recent years with a 150 per cent increase of registered bidders for its live sales since 2011. On average 9,500 customers com[pete for lots per auction. Adam Griffiths, of DVLA Personalised Registrations, said: "It's been nearly three months since our last live sale, and I am really excited by our first sale of 2017 where some really great registrations are available to bid for. We have experienced two successive record-breaking years and, when you look through the catalogue at the registrations we have compiled for this sale, I am very hopeful that this success will continue." He added: "Bidding in person is by far the most popular way to buy a registration and it is at the auction where you will find the real atmosphere – it's a great day out and we make the experience as enjoyable and friendly as possible. If you can't make it to the auction we offer free telephone, internet and absent bidding facilities".
2010 Car Number Plates
We're now just over a month away from the introduction of the 2010 number plate on all new cars hitting the road after the beginning of March.
While the excitement surrounding the introduction of new number plates may go over some people's heads, during the past few years a real demand has grown for personalised plates, with some selling for an absolute fortune at auction.
Music legend Elton John's former number plate ELT 70N recently went up for auction for just under £1,000, but that's nothing compared to the £113,815 one crazy person (in the nicest sense) shelled out on a 1 HRH number plate auctioned by the DVLA at the beginning of 2009. And even that has some way to go to surpass £254,000 paid to take ownership of the 51 NGH plate.
THERE are a number of mistakes that can be made on personalised number plates that could see drivers land a £1,000 and also fail their MOT. Here is what they are and how to avoid them.
Illegal number plates could see thousands of Brits face fines and even make them fail their MOT.
Certain personalised number plates have the potential to be costly errors for drivers.
While a personalised number plate can be, to some people, a nice form of expression, they could also be costly.
According to the company, however, 15,000 drivers across the UK have been fined for having an illegal plates over the past three years.
The worst offenders come from London with 3,058 offences clocked while North Wales and Norfolk also totted up over 1,100 each.
This includes plates that did not conform to regulations, cars without a front or back plate or ones with indistinguishable/obscured plates.
It is a legal requirement for a car's numberplate to be clear and legible and failure to meet these criteria can result in £1,000 fine, loss of the personal registration number and/or a failed MOT.
There are other modifications that drivers can also be penalised for.
These include using the wrong colours for the lettering or for the background of the plates.
Number plates should have black characters on a white background at the front of the car and on a yellow background on the back of the car.
Spacing is also crucial and drivers should ensure that the characters on their plate are correctly spaced.
Non-confirming backgrounds or stickers that could interfere with the legibility of a plate are also factors that carry a fine risk.
The standard font used on all number plates is 'Charles Wright' and it is the only one deemed acceptable for motorists to have.
Similarly, the flag on the left hand side of the plate must also be correct.
Acceptable flags include: The EU flag, The Union Jack, The St George Cross, The Scottish Saltire (St Andrew Cross) and The Red Dragon of Wales.
Relevant letters accompanying these flags must be also:
GREAT BRITAIN, Great Britain or GB
UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom or UK
ENGLAND, England, ENG, Eng
SCOTLAND, Scotland, SCO or Sco
CYMRU, Cymru, CYM or Cym
WALES or Wales
Failure to comply could also land drivers with a fine and/or MOT failure.
The staff of state Sen. Andy Dinniman's office recently presented him with a historic Pennsylvania Senate license plate from 1933 as a holiday gift.
The plate, which features the number "19S," dates back to the time when Chester County's 19th Senatorial District was represented by the late state Sen. William Hannum Clark, who served from 1927 to 1935.
Clark, born at Doe Run in 1877, attended public schools in West Marlboro Township and the Maple Grove Institute in Delaware County before graduating from Coatesville High School. According to Senate records, he pursued the bonding business and served as superintendent of Chester County Highways, automobile inspector, and register of wills before being elected to the state Senate on Nov. 2, 1926.
Clark, who succeeded T. Lawrence Eyre, served five terms from 1927 to 1935 (at that time Pennsylvania state senators served two-year terms).
"While we may know little about state Sen. Clark, he certainly does seem to have had an interest in cars, as county superintendent of highways and automobile inspector," said Dinniman, D-19. "I thought this was a really neat, unique, and thoughtful gift and want to thank my staff.
"When you have the opportunity and privilege to serve in public office, you join part of a long line of individuals and leaders who stood for and represented the values of your region. This really helps put that into perspective," he added.
Dinniman said his staff came across the historic license plate in an online auction after being alerted to it by his Chester County colleague, state Rep. John Lawrence, R-13, who has an interest in historic automobiles.
Dinniman, a historian, history buff, and professor by trade, serves on the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, is known for his interest in local history and preserving local artifacts associated with his office. The building that houses his office, located at One North Church Street in historic downtown West Chester, has been home to various businesses since the early 1800s. From 1914 to 1947, it was a candy store and confectionary, Marakos Candy Kitchen, and Dinniman has preserved a clock and menu from the store that remains on display.
BRITS splashed the cash on private plates last year to the tune of £111million.
Personalised registrations spelling out names, initials, comedy phrases and car models all proved popular.
And the top five priciest plates netted almost £250,000 between them for the DVLA at auction.
The lucrative sales have generated over £2billion in the last 25 years for the agency.
The most expensive ever was recorded in November 2014 when "25 O" sold to a Ferrari dealer for £518,000.
And the popular "O" series featured twice in 2017's top list with "45 O" and "96 O" both going under the hammer for over £50,000 - one now residing on a white Audi.
But top of the tree in 2017 was "JSK 1", sold for £56,200 at the Cheltenham Chase Hotel auction back in May, and now living on a black Mercedes.
The "812 S" plate sold for £45,500 - most likely to a Ferrari collector or dealer looking to twin it up with the 812 Superfast model launched last year.
"1 HSV" was the fifth priciest plate of 2017 with DVLA records showing it's yet to be registered with a motor.
Plates are sold at auction to buyers looking to add a personal touch to their beloved motors or to plate dealers and investors who stock up on popular registrations.
The 1 CUE cherished Number offers a unique chance to show the world you are at the top of your game' Bruno Morris of Image registrations told us.
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A businessman who bought the No.1 limited edition licence plate in Abu Dhabi for Dh31 million has been sentenced to three years in jail for issuing a dud cheque to the organisers.
The Emirati man had bought the special number plate at an auction last year.
The Abu Dhabi Misdemeanour Court handed down the sentence to the Emirati man after he was found guilty of fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
Abu Dhabi public prosecution had ordered for the detention of the 32-year-old man after organisers of the auction filed a complaint that he issued them a cheque after buying the number plate, even though he didn't have enough balance in his bank account.
Prosecutors had detained the businessman. He was charged with fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
And during interrogation, the Emirati admitted to giving the cheque to orginisers despite being aware he didn't have sufficient funds in his account, said prosecutors.
"He said he was planning to re-sale the rare number plate at a profit so he could pay the value of the cheque to the organisers and maintain enough balance in his account," said a prosecutor.
Authorities, however, said one can only re-sale a number plate bought in an auction after one has paid the full amount and that any resale before making the payment is considered illegal.
The auction, which generated Dh99 million, was hosted by Emirates Auction in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Police on November 19, 2016 at Emirates Palace hotel to commemorate the Abu Dhabi Government's Golden Jubilee.
And the Emirati beat several bidders for the coveted plate after starting at Dh1 million. The limited-edition golden jubilee plates all featured the number 50 in the top left corner.
Fifty vanity Abu Dhabi number plates were up for grabs at the Emirates Auction event.
In 1989 a lot of these stored old models were registered in advance of legislation that required all new vehicles registered on or after 1 January 1990 to have catalytic converters fitted. This included vehicles held in storage and out of production for several years, in some cases five years or more. By the late 1990s, the range of available numbers was once again starting to run out, exacerbated by a move to biannual changes in registration letters (March and September) in 1999 to smooth out the bulge in registrations every August, so a new scheme needed to be adopted. It was decided to research a system that would be easier for crash or vehicle related crime witnesses to remember and clearer to read, yet still fit within a normal standard plate size.
Sharjah: Fierce bidding at a Sharjah Police licence plate online auction raked in Dh3.4 million for a single plate numbered "15", said Sharjah Police.
In total, Dh9.8 million was raised from the auction of 100 unique number plates.
Organised by Sharjah Police in collaboration with Emirates Auction from March 27 till April 1, the auction attracted the attention of bidders from across the UAE and beyond.
The online auction witnessed intense bidding on 100 unique number plates, including a pair of two-digit plates: 15 and 66, nine three-digit plates: 120, 121, 200, 202, 221, 313, 660, 801, 888, and 44 four-digit plates, featuring unique combinations such as: 2222 and 5000, in addition to 45 five-digit plates.
The highest bid on two-digit number went to plate number 15, which recorded Dh3,4 million, while plate number 66 recorded Dh1,2 million. The highest price for three-digit numbers went to plate number 888, which recorded Dh700,000.
The four-digit plate number 2222 was sold for Dh600,000 and the highest paid for a five-digit plate (66666) was Dh559,000.
Plate number 200 sold for Dh382,000, while the lowest bid went to plate number 89100 which sold for Dh6,000
The auction was viewed by 500,102 people via Emirate Auction's mobile app and website.
The number plate 1D was bought for a record £352,000 at auction yesterday.
Tycoon Nabil Bishara won it in fierce bidding and plans to put it on his wife's Bentley.
His £352,411 offer beats the previous £254,000 best for a DVLA sale, set by 51NGH in 2006. The DVLA's Damian Lawson said after the auction in Claverdon, Warks: We're absolutely over the moon."
Britain's priciest car reg is F1, bought privately for £440,625 in 2008 by Afzal Kahn of Bradford, West Yorks."
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This is the third and final quilt I completed in January 2017. That means I made as many quilts in January 2017 as I did in the entire year 2016. Maybe I can keep my mojo going for a bit (although you better not expect three quilts a month!)
When I first began quilting in 2014, I stitched two Jelly Roll Race quilt tops in two days. I realized I'd caught quilting fever but didn't want to only make Jelly Roll Race Quilts. (One of those is still a quilt top but the other can be found here.) I looked at my fabric stash, all collected for the express purpose of making little girls clothes and landed on a one yard bundle of Pam Kitty Morning fabrics by Lakehouse Goods. It was about ten different fabrics, mostly pinks, a few yellows. I grabbed the fabrics and drove to my local quilt shop to speak to the owner.
After telling her how much I loved quilting but that I needed to branch out, she handed me a quilting magazine with a pattern called Christmas Cards. (I honestly cannot remember if it was a Quilting Quickly or a Quilty magazine.) I adapted the pattern to use 10″ squares of fabric and using white background fabric used the four at a time method for making half square triangles. I think each half square triangle ended up finishing at 6.5″ (and I'm too lazy to actually go measure right now.)
I sewed in a frenzy for days – this was no Jelly Roll Race for sure! Still, I had the blocks made and pieced in a week. I then folded the quilt up and put it away. I had no backing fabric and at the time I assumed I needed yardage of the same fabric from the same line I'd been using.
I ended up using a few fabrics not used in the front along with some more fabric I ordered to piece a back for this quilt – two years later! Last spring, I sandwiched the quilt, rolled it up and still, it sat and sat and sat.
During our MLK holiday this year, I pulled it out and told my family it was time to finish it. It took me a week to quilt it but I finally finished! Now that I'm done I wonder why I put off finishing it so long. It's not my typical bright colors but I love all the pretty pinks and florals!
It's also larger than most of the throw sized quilts I seem to make these days!
Here's a close up of the fabrics.
And even closer…
I saved the text print for binding. This was almost made into an apron many times. My procrastination saved it for this quilt! (It would make a great apron though!)
Here's the pieced backing!
And that's it! All done. Quilt #3 for 2017! Yay!


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Join us on Saturday, Sept. 10, as we celebrate the abundant harvest of mid-summer, and our favorite farm fruit! There will be tomato tasting, tomato games, tomato facts, tomato art, fried green tomatoes and, of course, lots of red and green tomatoes for sale. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's free, and everyone is welcome to come and join the fun.
Children are welcome to take part in the Tomato Parade, which will step off at around 10 a.m. Marchers are encouraged to bring musical instruments and other noise-making implements and to wear tomato-appropriate clothing, though neither is required.
Halloween Party
Join us for pumpkin decorating, sack races, apple bobbing on a string, and treats. This event is great for all ages, so bring the whole family! Costumes encouraged!
Community Picnic
On Saturdays during Farm Stand, the farm is open to the public for a community picnic. Bring a lunch and visit with neighbors and friends, tour the farm, pick a bouquet, or bring an instrument. We will often have a grill going and would love to see you there!


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Your fantasies of giving birth may be very different from the reality.
When Elizabeth Cooke of Yonkers, N.Y., was pregnant with her first child at age 38, she expected the worst. "I'd heard from my sister that labor is long, painful and awful," says Cooke, who nonetheless decided she didn't want any pain medication. As it turned out, giving birth was much easier than she had expected. "My delivery was very normal," she recalls, "and I spent much of the time thinking how amazing the whole thing was, not how awful."
Barbara Fredrickson, a mother of two in Indianapolis, had a similar experience. "I was worried about the pain and the whole hospital environment — what they might do to me there," says Fredrickson, who had an epidural. "But giving birth was less horrible than I had feared, and none of those things I worried about happened."
On the other hand, labor can be longer and/or harder than expected. Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., director of the Center for Postpartum Health in Woodland Hills, Calif., was prepared to have a drug-free birth. But, she recalls, "I was so shocked by how intense the pain was that when the nurse asked me if I wanted an epidural, I just said yes."
Like these women's, your expectations of childbirth may be vastly different from the reality. According to a USA Today poll conducted last year, 36 percent of women surveyed found that delivering their first child was harder than expected, 31 percent said it was easier, and 13 percent said they hadn't known what to expect. Only 1 in 5 women had a childbirth experience that was in line with what they had anticipated.
Fantasy vs. reality
Knowing in advance what labor and delivery will be like and how you'll respond is understandably difficult. "Childbirth is not part of the culture," explains Marion McCartney, a certified nurse-midwife and director of professional services at the American College of Nurse-Midwives in Washington, D.C. "We've removed it from the family experience, so many women have never seen it and don't really know what to expect," she says. "Women's only experiences of childbirth come from what their friends tell them, which tend to be horror stories; or from what they see on TV or in the movies, where it is portrayed as painful and dangerous." In addition, accurately describing what labor feels like to someone who's never been through it is very difficult.
But while predicting your pain tolerance is hard — not to mention the length of your labor and the size of your baby, all factors that can affect the experience — childbirth is fairly predictable. In fact, about 85 percent of deliveries are perfectly normal, says McCartney. When there are problems, most of the time women and their doctors know about them in advance and can prepare for them.
What will help get your expectations as close as possible to reality is education. Don't listen to horror stories. Instead, take childbirth classes and read medically factual books on birthing. Also ask your doctor or midwife about the trends in her practice — what percentage of her patients have epidurals, episiotomies or Cesarean sections; how many walk around during labor — any possible variable that concerns you. Unless you have special medical considerations, you probably can expect your childbirth experience to fall in line with the majority of those in your doctor or midwife's practice.
Next, think about and write out a birth plan, including what you would like to be able to do during labor, such as walk around or soak in a warm tub. Discuss your plan in advance with your doctor or midwife, bring it to the hospital, and make sure your husband or birthing coach knows your wishes so he can advocate for you when you're in labor.
Just don't get so married to your birth plan that you become inflexible or allow your or your baby's safety to be jeopardized if things don't go as intended. Your contractions may slow down and you may need to have labor sped up with Pitocin, for example. Or your doctor might feel that you should have an emergency Cesarean section. In such cases, she must have the last word.
And if your labor doesn't go the way you had hoped, try to accept it without feeling that you've somehow failed. If you give birth to a healthy baby, you've succeeded.


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Wisconsin will be playing in a second consecutive Rose Bowl and its fifth in 19 years Monday. That will also mark the 50th anniversary of Minnesota's second and last appearance in the Rose Bowl.
On Jan. 2, 1962, the Gophers defeated UCLA 21-3 to make up partially for a loss to Washington a year earlier after Minnesota already had been voted as the 1960 national champion.
There are now 35 bowl games, including the five that make up the Bowl Championship Series -- Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange and the BCS title game.
The Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance were forerunners to the BCS starting in 1992. The Rose Bowl, the Big Ten and the Pac-10 joined in 1998, giving the BCS authority over the four major bowls.
The BCS games are the top tier in bowls, obviously. There are four bowls in the $7 million (or higher) neighborhood for a payout that make up the second tier: Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, Cotton in Dallas, Capital One in Orlando and Outback in Tampa.
The Big Ten has a tie-in with the Capital One and the Outback. So, that's it if you want to talk Big Ten and prestigious bowl games: the Rose (and any other BCS game), the Capital One and the Outback.
The Gophers have played in a dozen bowl games since the victory in Pasadena on Jan. 2, 1962. They have been third tier or lower: one in Birmingham, one in Shreveport, La., one in Memphis, one in a nearly empty Dolphins stadium in Miami, two in El Paso, Texas, three in Nashville, and the past three in the Insight Bowl -- the backup game to the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix.
The BCS consists of 67 teams from the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and Big East (including Notre Dame). That is an increase of one (Utah joining the Pac-12) over the 2010-11 bowl season.
What is the prestige for a BCS program in reaching a bowl game of any level? Consider: For the 2010 season, 46 of the 66 BCS teams played in a bowl game. That's 69.7 percent. For this season, 48 of the 67 BCS teams are in a bowl game. That's 71.6 percent.
Clearly, it's much more difficult for a BCS program to avoid a bowl game than to play in one.
Over the past two seasons, nine BCS teams have failed to reach a bowl game. One of those, Southern Cal, makes the list because of probation. The eight programs that have made the bowl-less list through on-field merit are Ole Miss, Duke, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon State, Washington State, Indiana and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Throw out Southern Cal and that's 12 percent of the BCS programs that have failed to reach a bowl in the past two seasons.
Earlier in this decade, there was a rule for bowl eligibility that required Division I teams (now FBS) to finish above .500. They also could count a victory over a Division 1-AA team (now FCS) only once every three years.
That was changed with the move to a 12-game schedule in 2006. You are bowl eligible with a .500 record and can count a victory over an FCS team every year.
The relaxation of that FCS rule has not helped the Gophers the past two seasons. They are 0-2 against FCS neighbors from South Dakota and North Dakota State. The Gophers are the only team among the 67 in the BCS to have losses to FCS teams in each of the past two seasons.
Admit it, Gopher zealots: These are magnificent accomplishments when it comes to futility.
The Big Ten put 10 of 12 teams in a bowl game this season and the Gophers aren't one of them. Fifty-eight of the 66 eligible BCS teams will have played in at least one bowl game in the past two seasons and the Gophers aren't one of them. BCS programs have seven losses to FCS teams in the past two seasons and the Gophers stand alone with two of them.
Oh, well. Look at the bright side:
As the Badgers run onto the Rose Bowl turf in front of a raucous mob of 40,000 of their fans again Monday, it will be a mere 50 years to the day that our beloved rodents did the same.
Patrick Reusse can be heard noon-4 weekdays on 1500ESPN. email@example.com