text:
Brian Lynch, M.D. © 2007-2011 All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use
In his book, Dr. Lynch "clarifies and explains how we human beings might better understand
ourselves with more patient acceptance of our basic emotions. " He presents the hugely
important work of Dr. Silvan Tomkins in an easy to understand way so that we know
"how we might go about having more positive than negative affective (emotional) experiences".
Available at Amazon
and Barnes & Noble
We came to realize that we are profoundly emotional beings and that unless we understand
our emotions we are very often powerless over our own actions and are powerless over
the world.
We came to believe that by coming to know our own powerful emotions we may maximize
peace and joy in our lives.
We made a decision to start on a path of understanding how our thinking and actions
are often profoundly determined by our emotions past and present.
We came to an understanding that only by taking a detailed emotional inventory, -
an inventory of our anger, fear, distress, disgust and shame and by assessing what
we are really interested in and what really makes us happy- will we truly be able
to change our actions.
That we have expressed to others, when appropriate, and ourselves the exact nature
of our feelings thereby gaining some power over them.
By doing all of the above steps we naturally became ready to be accepting of the
world and others as it is and as they are.
By the above we came to accept ourselves as we are and to understand that we have
done what we have done due to unmanageable feelings of hurt and thus it is counterproductive
and damaging to blame ourselves and others.
Made a list of all persons we have harmed and made an inventory of how we felt at
the time we hurt them and made amends when appropriate.
We have tried to understand why we felt the way we did thus understanding why we
did what we did. We have come to understand that we feel before we think. We have
worked towards understanding that others, like ourselves, have trouble controlling
emotions and thus, often what they do.
We have continued to think about our basic emotions, daily if possible. We have come
to know each emotion in our own personal way. We have monitored ourselves for feelings
of guilt and when we do things that hurt others we look to what we were feeling at
the time, thereby, avoiding feelings of guilt,understanding ourselves better, as
well as making amends to those we have hurt.
Sought, through the practice of a daily emotional inventory and meditation on that
inventory, control over our actions and lives.
Having come to know our emotional lives we have gained the ability to employ our
interest and experience in a new type of interaction with others, one of mutual interest
that will lead us to maximize joy in our lives and with others.


text:
A miserable day for Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy has missed the cut at the Irish Open for the third year in a row.
It was always going to be an uphill struggle for the World No 1 after his disastrous 80 yesterday but with the cut mark hovering around the plus four or plus five mark there was hope among the bumper crowd that McIlroy could shoot a 67 or 66 to make the weekend.
It started steady, with the Holywood native parring the first holes before nabbing his first birdie of the week on the short seventh.
Hope really started to rise in the hearts of fans when McIlroy birdied the 12th, moving to seven over for the tournament as the cut moved out to plus five. Two more birdies on the way home would see the local hero play the weekend at the tournament he sponsors.
But then the 15th hole undid his chances.
McIlory overshot the green on the tricky par 4 and by the time he got up and down it was a double bogey six on the card. That pushed McIlroy back to level for the day, nine over for the week and a cert for a weekend off.
A huge gallery continued to follow the multiple Major winner around the scenic dunes of Royal County Down for his final three pars, until he carded a level 71 for the day, but those with weekend tickets won't have the same honour.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, October 24, 2014
— a big loss for Deaf Smith
Deaf Smith, a deaf fighter, became famous for his battles
against Mexico in the early 19th century. In 1835, he
climbed on a big tree in Texas to spy on the movements
of Mexican soldiers. 179 years later, this famous
big tree that Deaf Smith climbed up, became weak
because of lack of rain water in the area. This fallen
tree was on the list of Famous Trees of Texas. This
is a big historical loss for Deaf Smith. See the
pictures at:
— a different way for the deaf to vote on election day
A leader of the disabled has been urging the local
electoral group to allow the deaf to vote – in a
different way. Instead of ballots listing the
names of candidates, pictures of candidates would
be shown. Why? Many deaf people can't read and
would not know the candidates if they had to
read their names on the ballot! It is not happening
in USA, but in Botswana, where many deaf people
lack education.
— free college tuition and fees for the deaf
College is expensive, but an investment for the future.
Well, many young people cannot afford these college costs
and as a result, either drop out or seek jobs that do
not require a college education. Well, for the deaf
in Odisha, a state in India, the deaf will not pay
college costs. Just wish the same can be said for
students attending Gallaudet and NTID.
to make subscription changes, go to http://deafdigest.com,
click on the "subscribe" icon and follow screen instructions
10/19/14 Blue edition at:
10/19/14 Gold edition at:


text:
Making Change: How small actions have big impact
Many of the best, most authentic and enduring destinations in a city, the places that keep locals and tourists coming back again and again and that anchor quality, local jobs, were born out of a series of incremental, locally-based improvements. One by one, these interventions built places that were more than the sum of their parts. — Project for Public Spaces
We know that major retrofits can change the face of a city for the better. We've seen highways torn out to reveal lush rivers that run beneath. Mega-parks built atop railway stations. Abandoned Walmarts turned into public libraries.
But these big wins can take decades to pull off. With our cities in crisis, change needs to happen sooner than that. And it can — literally overnight. By starting out with low cost, low risk, but high visibility initiatives, we can immediately begin to transform and improve our cities within days or even hours.
At 8 80 Cities, Gil Peñalosa dubbed these quick wins "impatiens" — after the colorful and resilient flowers that nearly anyone can maintain, and that immediately brighten a garden patch. "Orchids" on the other hand, refer to projects that take more time and effort to bring into bloom.
These bold impatiens projects help nurture the open and fertile environment that makes orchids easier to grow by generating credibility and empowerment amongst citizens that help fuel support.
Showing, not telling
Consider what happened in New York in 2009, when transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and her crew went out one day with some orange plastic traffic barrels and plastic lawn chairs and created, in a matter of hours, a temporary pedestrian plaza out of Broadway in Times Square — one of the busiest sections of roadway in the world.
If Sadik-Khan had asked then-mayor Bloomberg or the residents of New York for their blessing to shut the street down for good, she'd have been deemed crazy. But instead, she just asked for six months to give it a go. She told Bloomberg: "If it worked better for traffic, if it was better for mobility, if it was safer, better for business, we could keep it. And if it didn't, no harm, no foul, we could put it back, because these were temporary materials."
And it worked. Pedestrian injuries in the area plummeted by 35 per cent. Traffic flow improved and taxis moved faster. Retail rents doubled and new flagship stores opened. But perhaps most important, people flocked to the space and reveled in the experience of it. Instead of telling New Yorkers what they should want, or why they should want it, Sadik-Khan gave them the chance to fall in love with the idea by experiencing it themselves.
"We were able to show how it worked," Sadik-Khan said. "Instead of waiting through years of planning studies and computer models to get something done, we've done it with paint and temporary materials. And the proof is not in a computer model, it is in the real world performance of the street."
The proof of Sadik-Khan's strategy's success is in the street too: pavers are currently being laid that will make the project a permanent fixture in the streets of New York once and for all. But instead of waiting five years for that plaza, New Yorkers have had it all along.
Open streets, open minds
Even pilot projects lasting just a matter of hours can be enough to win the confidence of politicians and the hearts of citizens. An example lies in the hundreds of cities around the world that have begun opening their streets to pedestrians and cyclists for a day at a time through Ciclovía or Open Streets programs, giving people an opportunity to experience a new kind of ownership over their streets and imagine how streets could change.
"One of the most important things about Open Streets is that it reminds people that the streets are public spaces that belong to everybody and that it's not a good use of that resource to only allow the use of cars to go from point A to point B twenty-four seven," said Gil Peñalosa, who founded the Ciclovía movement in Bogotá in the early 2000s."We can have different uses according to the time of the day, of the week, of the year."
8 80 Cities Program Director Emily Munroe, who has advised cities around the world on developing Open Streets initiatives, points to Mexico City as a shining example. The seething metropolis is home to some of the world's most snarling traffic congestion, but for the past several years has operated a Ciclovía program that makes 12 kilometres of roadway car-free and open to walkers, joggers, cyclists, yoga and jazzercise classes and everything else the residents can think of every Sunday of the year. Once a month the program expands to cover 32 kilometres.
Launching such a program in a place like Mexico City would be considered a feat in and of itself, but Munroe points out that the ripple effect is even more notable. Since the Ciclovía program started in 2007, the shift in the city's ability to push through cycling and pedestrian-friendly improvements is impossible to ignore. They've launched a bicycle share and a 15-year-long green plan to promote cycling and increase the number of cyclists in the streets. They laid down a 17-kilometre segregated bike lane that splices right through the heart of the city on its main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma, and have plans for more.
"The only place that they have a separated cycling track in Mexico City right now is on Reforma which is the exact route that the ciclovía goes down. That's not a coincidence," says Munroe.
From citizen to city maker
It's not just city-led initiatives that can have this effect. Behind some of the most successful impatiens — projects that started small yet had a major impact on the permanent livability of cities — are citizens.
Consider the example of a simple art installation. In 2005, a group of artists from the San Francisco design studio Rebar plunked a pocket-full of change into a parking meter, unfurled a roll of grass and plopped down a potted tree and a bench. They invited passersby to join them as they hung out for a couple hours in their temporary park (pun intended) while the meter ran down, then packed up and went home.
When an image of the park circulated the internet, Rebar got so many requests for replica installations that they created an open-source manual to enable people to do it themselves. The idea spread as people rallied around it. A movement was born — every year on the third Friday of September people around the world create similar installations, an event now known as PARK(ing) Day.
The impact of the movement went beyond the temporary parks themselves. Rebar was approached by the San Francisco planning department to help them develop a pilot project prototyping "parklets" — miniature public space modules that included public seating, tables and bike racks, and could slot into street-front parking spots and extend out from the sidewalk to create extra public space. After Rebar helped the department successfully install more than 20 of these temporary units in 2010, the city rolled out its official parklet permit program in 2011, which enables any private resident or business owner to create a permanent parklet. The program has since been replicated in dozens of cities worldwide.
The Rebar group didn't need to wade through the process of creating a full-fledged permanent park to reclaim a small piece of public space. And what they created was something even more powerful: proof that even simple action can have a profound effect.
This chapter is available as a PDF: Download a copy.
Lede image credit: 8 80 Cities
More stories
Or so they think. While North American cities are ever more dispersed and distance is a genuine barrier some of the time, in many cases the distance may actually be a false perception. Studies show that city dwellers frequently overestimate the distance or time it would take to walk to where they want to go. So while improving walkability is, in most cases, something that must be fixed through design, other times all it takes is helping people understand that "it's not too far."
That's why that phrase has become the tagline of Walk [Your City], an initiative that is dedicated to helping citizens understand the walkability of their communities more accurately. WYC is an online platform that enables any community to quickly and cheaply produce accurate wayfinding signs that can be temporarily installed to show residents and visitors how quickly they can walk to various locations in their neighbourhood.
It is an example of how a small, informal and temporary project can not only spark profound change in the mindset of a city's residents, but also have a deeper impact within the formal city structure and policy.
WYC started as a DIY or guerilla intervention in Raleigh, North Carolina when landscape architecture and urban planning graduate Matt Tomasulo and his friends polled people in the city about why they don't walk more often. Many of the people they spoke to felt that things were "too far to walk to," but Matt knew this wasn't true — he and his friends walked places all the time. So they went out one night and strapped 27 corrugated plastic signs to lampposts downtown. The signs stated the walking distance, in minutes, to various destinations — such as the rose garden, or a good cup of coffee.
Eventually the city took the signs down because they hadn't been pre-approved. Recognizing their value, however, they were later reintroduced through a city-initiated pilot project where staff installed and maintained the signs themselves. The city has since written Walk [Raleigh] into their official pedestrian plan with a recommendation to expand the program to other neighbourhoods.
Matt and his pals have now launched a website that enables anyone, from a single citizen to a government agency or community group, to take on a similar initiative. On the Walk [Your City] website, groups can plan and design their signs and have them printed and mailed with all the necessary pieces for installation, including straightforward directions, materials, and tips to make the process smoother.
Cities have used these for various reasons. Mount Hope, a community in West Virginia, wanted to encourage walking on their main street for health purposes, but had limited financial resources to do so. A Walk [Your City] campaign was an affordable start. The North Hills neighbourhood of Raleigh used to be large shopping mall, and is currently transitioning to become a more walkable neighbourhood with mixed retail and residential development, offices and more. However, due to its transitionary nature, the community core is disconnected from other areas of the new development, which created a mental barrier to pedestrians. The real estate company used a WYC campaign to try and break these perceptions. And it worked. Many residents of the community reported that they were surprised by how close destinations on different sides of the development were, and had begun to walk more often. One retired couple even reported that they had never realized the cinema was close enough to walk to from the grocery store — even though they were across the street from each other.
During the North Hills campaign an executive from the insurance agency Blue Cross Blue Shield walked from one big box store to another only because she learned for the first time via the WYC signage that it would take just ten minutes. That inspired Blue Cross Blue Shield to partner with WYC to expand the project's technology and bring it to other communities in North Carolina.
Hear Matt speaking candidly with us at the Doable City Forum in Chicago, June 2014, about the process of going from staging a guerrilla intervention to getting Walk [Your City] officially recognized by the city in the video above, and learn more about how to produce a Walk [Your City] campaign on their website.
Anyone who thinks her town is too small, too closed-minded or too cash-strapped to create programs that will kick start change might want to check out Cochrane, northern Ontario. This town of about 5000 people, located far enough in Canada's north that tourists go there to see polar bears, opened a public bike share in the summer of 2014. It's not quite as fancy as Paris's Velib or as shiny as New York's Citibikes, but it's there, it's free of charge, it's popular and it's getting Cochranites moving around the city and rediscovering cycling in a brand new way.
The total cost to implement the system? About $100.
Launched as part of the Doable Neighbourhood Project the bike share was spearheaded by Cochrane deputy-clerk J.P. Oulette. He had been impressed and excited by bike share systems in Toronto and Chicago, but knew that in order to do it in Cochrane, they had to find a way to make it free. So he worked with the Ontario Provincial Police, who agreed to donate some of the confiscated stolen bicycles they would normally sell at auction.
Youth from the community came together and painted the bikes bright colors (the paint is where most of the $100 went). They fixed signs explaining the program to existing bike racks along the town's main drag and attached liability waivers to the bicycles. The town's two staff mechanics agreed to perform regular maintenance on them, and they even painted the town's first bike lane down the main strip. Then, they left the bikes unlocked in the rack for people to use at their leisure for running errands, or enjoying a recreational ride around the lake.
It probably goes without saying that the system has had its kinks so far. With an initial flurry of use when the program launched, the bikes, which were already old and used, quickly fell into disrepair.. They put newer ones onto the road, and of the 40, about 20 of them are still in use. So far, Cochrane's experience reflects, to a certain extent, that of other cities that have attempted free bike share programs: bikes are being stolen, often by children who know that if they put the bike back in the rack it likely won't be there for them the next day.
But Oulette doesn't necessarily see that as negative. "Our perspective is at the end of the day it's cost us nothing and if we've put kids on bikes, well that's not a bad thing," he said. The city is also applying for funding to not only improve the quantity and quality of the bikes in the system, but also to simply give bikes to children who want and need them.
Oulette says that, at the end of the day, they never had any illusions that it would be perfect or easy. But they did it. And how many other towns of 5,000 do you know that have a public bike share?
"You have to jump right in and try and be creative. Certainly that's always been our key in not having a lot of the resources a city might have. As a small town you're always looking to creative concepts to try and implement any type of program." Hear Oulette tell us more about the process of getting the Cochrane bike share up and going in the video above.
The Build a Better Block project was started by Jason Roberts in 2010, when he decided he wanted to revitalize a dead commercial block in his hollowed-out Dallas neighbourhood—overnight. After discovering dozens of city ordnances that made illegal or prohibitively expensive almost anything that would make the block lively, such as café patios, fruit stands, or flower boxes, he and a team of community advocates decided to temporarily break all the rules and make the block what they thought it should be, which also included adding landscaping, temporary bike lanes, crosswalks and more.
After Roberts and his friends staged several similar interventions throughout the neighbourhood, the city of Dallas agreed to change many of the zoning laws and rules that they had been challenging. The city has also implemented some of the changes the project piloted, such as traffic calming, permanently.
Since then, dozens of cities throughout the United States have taken Roberts' approach to rapid revitalization either on their own, with the help of the open source Better Block guide or Roberts' consulting firm, Team Better Block, which offers workshops and helps cities implement Better Block interventions with the purpose of helping cities and communities discover and generate ideas for themselves about how to build on their assets to improve public space.
Watch Roberts tell the story of how the Better Block project came about in the video above. The Better Block website hosts a number of awe-inspiring stories of communities that have used the Better Block approach to kick start change in their community. The story of Norfolk, Virginia, where several major permanent changes resulted from the process, is a great example, described in detail in this report, as well as in DUSP MIT's Places in the Making (page 21).
There's a catch-22 that often arises when it comes to creating a more bike-friendly city: one of the most important first steps is simply having more cyclists in the first place. Without a solid cycling population, politicians may feel hard-pressed to justify spending money on bike infrastructure. Yet nearly every study out there tells us that good infrastructure is required in order for average people to feel comfortable enough to get onto the streets on their bikes.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a local community group dubbed the Charlotte Spokespeople has tackled this problem head-on by creating an alternative route to getting people out and comfortable on their bikes. They call it the Plaza Midwood Tuesday Night Ride (PMTNR): a simple, fun and free weekly group bike ride that happens every Tuesday night, rain, shine or snow, in the Plaza Midwood neighbourhood. Each week, up to 150 people come out for the 10 to 15 mile ride, which lasts about 2.5 hours including stops at local businesses. A social ride (versus a performance-oriented, or competitive ride), the PMTNR is open and fun for cyclists of all abilities and, most important, it is geared toward creating a supportive environment that allows people who are new to cycling or hesitant to ride in traffic get used to doing so. The Spokespeople also host even slower rides on Sunday afternoons with the same goal.
Bethanie Johnson's story is an example of the type of change such a simple initiative can spark. A 45-year-old single mother, Johnson rode her bike frequently as a teen and into her early adulthood. Once she had her daughter, she found herself chauffeuring around between work and school and more or less stopped riding regularly. One evening, she was invited to take part in the PMTNR. She arrived to discover that her friends had backed out of their commitment to meet her there. But it looked so fun that she decided to go anyway. On that ride, her brakes broke and were immediately fixed by two men who had brought their tools in case someone needed help along the route.
"They weren't hitting on me or anything. They just wanted to help. It just gave me this feeling of 'this is a place I want to come back to where people help each other,' and it's been like that ever since. Sometimes I go to church and people aren't very friendly or social sometimes. But on these rides, people care," Johnson said. She began going to the rides regularly, and inviting her friends and colleagues along. Johnson's daughter, a 17-year-old who hadn't previously shown much interest in anything active, borrowed a bike from a friend and started coming along. Both Johnson and her daughter got bike baskets and panniers, and started going grocery shopping and running errands on their bikes together. Johnson even started noticing that her neighbours had seen them doing so, and began riding their bikes too.
This summer, Johnson took a huge step and committed to riding her bike to work — a 26-mile round trip — every day. The Tuesday rides, she said, had given her a new confidence. "I'd met so many people at the ride who commuted. These were people who weren't just commuting close distances but were actually committing to going a lot further. Plus, riding with other people on the street you learn the tricks of riding, kind of, and it gives you more confidence to ride in traffic with people and not feel so intimidated by that," she said.
Since she started riding, Johnson's lost about 10 pounds — though she admits that neither she nor her daughter were really overweight or needed to slim down. But she did notice something else. As a teacher and a single mom, money sometimes gets a little tight in the summer when school is out and she's not earning as much. "This year, I noticed that there weren't any times that I was absolutely strapped for money, because I only drove my car twice this summer — I didn't ever have to buy gas."
Want to inspire others like Bethanie to get out on their wheels? There are rides like the PMTNR all over the world. Listen to PMTNR founder Pam Murray speak about her experience of starting the ride in the video at the top. For another example with a fun twist, check out how folks in San Jose have accomplished the same goal with bike parties in the next window.
Less than a decade ago, the idea of a city closing its streets to vehicles and opening them for the public to enjoy car-free every Sunday was considered radical. In 2007, only about 10 North American cities dared to have such programs—known as Open Streets in North America, or Ciclovías in Latin America—that temporarily turn streets into paved parks where people can run, walk, cycle or participate in exercise programs. Today, there are over 100 on the continent, from megacities like New York and LA to small towns. And each year the number grows.
Helping cities get Open Streets programs off the ground is a big part of what 8 80 Cities does, because it is something that any city can do immediately. Executive Director Gil Peñalosa, who founded the Open Streets movement in Bogota in the early 2000s, says that he originally took his inspiration from Frederick Law Olmsted, who created New York's Central Park for the purpose of bringing communities together—a principle that Peñalosa continues to see at the heart of Open Streets programs.
"160 years ago he was writing how in New York, everybody hated everybody. The rich and the poor and the immigrants and the blacks and the whites, and he said: 'Look, people don't know each other! They don't live in the same buildings; their children don't go to the same schools; they get sick they don't go to the same doctor! We need to find a place where people can meet each other as equals.' One of the things I find so exciting about the Ciclovía is that it's like an exercise in social integration. It's like a Central Park, except that it's something that every city around the world can have," he said.
In part, Open Streets are a means to an end: a way to help people envision their cities and streets differently, to take ownership of them as public places and experience their cities differently. But there's more to it than that. Many cities pursue Open Streets for the sake of other goals, most notably public health. And, studies show, they have good reason. As 8 80 Cities Program Director Emily Monroe points out, in cities where Open Streets happen regularly, they can be a goal in and of themselves for this purpose.
"I would challenge anybody to show us a recreational program that has the level of participation like the Ciclovías in Bogota and Guadalajara. Every single Sunday you have people out being physically active for between one and two hours. That's a million people every Sunday participating in an exercise class. There's nothing I can think of that works like that. I think that once they reach a certain point, a certain frequency, a certain length, a certain amount of participation that they do act as an end in themselves."
As written in C3's recent meta-review, "The Benefits of Regular Walking for Health":
"A review of 38 ciclovías found that they have real potential for positive public‐health outcomes, summarising the evidence to date – which is limited, but encouraging. For example, one study found an estimated 41 per cent of Ciclovía participants in Bogota took part for more than three hours (including about a third walking or running, and about half the participants cycling). A study of health‐related quality of life measures found that adults participating in at least one day of the Ciclovía each month scored higher than those who did not participate (even after adjusting for sociodemographic and other factors), and one study showed that levels of particulate matter along a section of Bogota's Ciclovía street was 13 times higher on a weekday than on Sunday (the day of the Ciclovía). The health benefits of the Ciclovías have recently been evaluated – with the cost–benefit ratio for health benefit from physical activity estimated at 3.23–4.26 for Bogotá, 1.83 for Medellín (also in Colombia), 1.02– 1.23 for Guadalajara (Mexico) and 2.32 for San Francisco."
Just because any city can have an Open Streets program, doesn't necessarily mean it's easy. Like with any change, Munroe says, getting the political will and support of the business community can be tough, and the logistics of implementation daunting. But, she notes, it's been proven again and again to be possible, pointing out that Open Streets Toronto—a program administered in part by 8 80 Cities—happened under the city's most blatently unsupportive and right wing Mayor, Rob Ford, thanks in large part to the extreme support of several Business Improvement Asssociations.
Peñalosa says that many the programs that currently exist could still stand to be improved. "Too many people see it as an event. It's not an event it's really a program. It's not something you do once a year like if it was Canada Day or the Fourth of July in the States, but it's something you should be doing every Sunday," he said. But the resources are increasingly available for cities to make this happen.
In 2012 the Open Streets Project produced a report on Open Streets projects throughout North America, which provides case studies and background to the Open Streets movement in North America, and this spring 8 80 Cities will release a comprehensive toolkit that will help communities implement programs in their own cities.
San Francisco's Market Street connects the city from water to hills, through residential neighbourhoods and business districts alike. But for decades now, the street has been little more than a thoroughfare—a way to get from A to B but not to stop in between. But a recent initiative by the city seeks to change that by doing away with its former regulations, and turning city-owned land into flexible spaces called Living Innovation Zones for artistic exploration dedicated to connecting people.
A partnership between the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation, the city's department of planning and Public Works, the Living Innovation Zones are places for community groups to come in and install temporary installations that enliven the streets without having to go through the same cumbersome permitting process that would typically halt any type of major installations, especially by smaller local groups. "We're really asking people to push us. With permitting you often get this culture of no. We're asking them to push our limits," said manager and planner Steve Gennrich.
The first LIZ installations included a pair of "whispering dishes," that enabled people to whisper to each other from across the plaza, a musical bench activated by hand-holding and a pedal-powered cell phone charging station.
The idea of parklets has become so popular around the world that the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, in collaboration with the Lewis Center and the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, produced a 160 page toolkit guidebook for creating and implementing parklets. Their definition and description of parklets is as follows:
"The term 'parklet' was first used in San Francisco to represent the conversion of an automobile parking space into a mini-park for passive recreation. This toolkit expands this basic definition to include other spaces formerly occupied by cars as well as spaces that can also facilitate active recreation. Parklets emerge from the low-cost conversion of small and under utilized residual spaces originally devoted to cars into spaces for the passive or active recreation of people. Parklets are typically created by building a platform on the pavement to extend the sidewalk space, and retrofitting it with benches, planters, tables and chairs, umbrellas, and bike racks. In the case of active recreation parklets, exercise machines can be bolted to the platform.
Parklets vary based on the following characteristics:
Location: Parklets can occupy former parking spaces, street medians, traffic triangles, re-purposed travel lanes and parking lots or excess asphalt space at angled or irregular intersections.
Surrounding land uses: Commercial or residential.
Size: From a couple of parking of spaces to spaces extending along the length a block, to larger spaces occupying entire parts of a block.
Shape: Linear, square, rectangular, triangular, or irregular.
Duration: From a few hours (e.g. Ciclovias and Sunday Streets), to one day (Park(ing) Day), to part of the year (during spring and summer), to year-around installations.
Type of activity: Passive or active recreation."
Download Reclaiming the Right of Way: A Toolkit for Creating and Implementing Parklets here.
A full version of the San Francisco parklet permit program, which includes a comprehensive overview of the goals, policies, process, procedures and guidelines for creating a parklet in San Francisco, can be seen and downloaded here. It is also intended to serve as a resource for people outside of San Francisco working to establish parklet programs in their own cities.
In the 1960s, the Korean government paved over the Cheonggyecheon, the river that once served as the culture and geographic center of Seoul, and replaced it with an elevated expressway. Four decades later, the city decided to demolish the highway and restore the river. PBS produced a documentary about the project, Seoul: The Stream of Consciousness. In their description of the film, they write:
"After the Korean War, Cheonggyecheon, a stream that had once been the center of the city of Seoul, both geographically and culturally, had devolved into what was essentially a sewer. It was dirty and surrounded by shantytowns where vendors sold items for low prices, but there was also a significant amount of criminal activity. Even though it had at one time held special significance to the people of Seoul, because of its deterioration, there was little protest in the 1960s when the government decided to pave over the stream and build an elevated highway directly above it.
During the period of rapid development following the war, the road systems in Seoul were overwhelmed with traffic. The accepted strategy at the time was to increase the supply of road space to keep the traffic flowing. New roads were built on a regular basis, but often by the time they were finished the demand had already exceeded their capacity. It wasn't until the early 1990s that this method was called into question. What started as a casual conversation between two university professors soon became a massive project that dramatically changed the future development of Seoul.
In 2002, rather than building more roads to meet the traffic demands, the newly elected mayor of Seoul, Lee Myung-bak, made a decision to do the opposite. He destroyed the Cheonggyecheon expressway and restored the 6 km long stream below it, which has already played host to more than 24,000 social and cultural activities. While many were concerned that removing road space would create traffic problems, in fact, it has not. The city took steps to encourage the use of alternative transportation by extending subway hours, introducing a central bus lane, raising prices of government-operated parking spaces and encouraging businesses to begin the work day during less congested times."
See video footage of the highway and river before and after in a short trailer of Seoul: The Stream of Consciousness here and the full documentary, including pre- and post-viewing questions for showings here.


text:
12 Full Months of Business & Marketing Mentoring • Your VIP
All Access Pass
with Peggy McColl
(scroll down for details)
Here's The "Total Immersion" Opportunity For Anyone
Who Seriously Wants To Get "Unstuck" And
Become A Hugely Successful "Online Entrepreneur"…
…and who realizes that massive action creates massive results!
Deborah Skye King
President Soul Therapy International
"With Peggy as my Mentor and Online Marketing Coach, I've repurposed my first book into diversified income streams, resulting in an extra $113,927.92 of new revenue, already. One idea alone generated 27 new clients in just 3 days! Peggy's straight-forward approach to harnessing my passions and marketing my message globally has changed my life forever, both financially and professionally."
If any of what Deborah, Esperanza and all my other clients have experienced sounds like something you might enjoy…
If the idea of creating an ongoing six- or seven- or even an eight-figure income appeals to you…
And even if all you'd like to do is replace your current income while working from home (or the beach, or a cruise ship) … with no employees, and no bosses … on your own terms, and your own schedule … and much faster than you could ever do it on your own…
Then we need to talk, you and I.
Because if you QUALIFY then we could soon be working together on a 1-to-1 basis to make it all happen.
Get private 1-on-1 coaching with me PERSONALLY…
PLUS automatic entry into every program I offer through my business within the next 12
Introducing My "All Access Pass" Private Coaching
If you're reading this page you're probably already familiar with my training programs, my track record, and my reputation.
As a business coach, I work with my clients to uncover their passions, identify a profitable niche to work in, and then establish multiple streams of income. And the goal is always to create as much cash flow, with as little "work", as possible! (Note I'm not saying "no work"; anyone who expects to become wealthy and free with no work at all need not apply.)
Again – mine is a simple, teachable, and repeatable set of steps that many others have used successfully, once I've shown them how easy it can be:
Neale Donald Walsch
NY Times Best-Selling Author of the "Conversations With God" series
Double platinum! Reached #1 on BOTH Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com!
"By 10:30 a.m. on target day, my latest book "Home with God" hit #1 overall on both Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com, where it remained for three days! This was the most successful launch of ANY book I have ever written, and I am very clear what made the difference. In two words: Peggy McColl."
Dr. Stacia Pierce
Doubled her bottom line!
"Thank you, Peggy! Your coaching has made a world of difference in my life and business. In fact, my bottom line has actually DOUBLED because of your help."
Dr. Cynthia Thaik
Best Selling Author of "Your Vibrant Heart"
Worth 10 Times the Investment!
"The thing I love about you – truly love about you – is that you keep your prices at a level that is reasonable for those of us just getting started. You are here to give, give and give. I know you could charge a lot more, yet here you are, giving ten times the value of what I paid."
Dean Graziosi
Author of "Totally Fulfilled"
A Non-Stop, Idea-Creating, Revenue-Generating Machine!
"More than just great ideas – she followed through on every promise. Rare in today's world. Even though my creations have already generated over $100,000,000, I hired Peggy to take my book 'Totally Fulfilled' to the top of the charts AND, in addition, she also helped me design a brand new marketing program that is generating more online business than I ever imagined possible. She is a non-stop, idea-creating, revenue-generating MACHINE! She's worth 100 times what she charges – no, make that 1,000 times and more!"
I've workd with heart-centered entrepreneurs of ALL experience levels – everyone from first-time "unknowns" to "household names" like…
Wayne Dyer • Marci Shimoff
Neale Donald Walsch • Marianne Williamson
Debbie Ford • Gay Hendricks
During your journey we will have a full day of brainstorming
right here in my own home in Ottawa, Canada!
That's right!
You'll spend a whole day with me, right here, in person, brainstorming the possibilities for your business and lifestyle … planning our year ahead … and laying the groundwork for your success – whether that includes becoming a best-selling author, an affiliate marketer, a public speaker, a coach…
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING your l'il ol' heart desires!
And we'll identify some powerful "reasons why" – those dreams and goals you'll focus on, the ones with enough power and draw to pull you forward, even when you hit the occasional hurdle. (That's what I'm here for too, of course.)
Don't worry, if you can't travel to Ottawa – instead, we can hop on Skype or a Zoom call, and spend the day in video-chat!
And if you don't have an idea for a business,
I will help you get one!
If there's one thing I never run short of, it's ideas for new businesses – in fact I generate ideas faster than I could ever possibly implement them. And there's no point in me just sitting on all of them because tomorrow I'll be thinking of more. And the next day. And the next.
Instead, if you just can't think of something on your own, I'm willing to share one of MY ideas with you … and then work side-by-side with you to build it into a money-making machine!
You see, once you are in this exclusive program, I have no intention of letting you reach the end without achieving some MASSIVE goals!
That's why I've designed it to be the ultimate hand-holding, arm-in-arm support and training you need to "git 'er done fast".
How much can we accomplish in a year together?
With these proven strategies and techniques, I'll guide you to a level of success you could only once dream about – and maybe even MORE – including any or all of these (providing you do the work):
- Build a profitable online business — I will even help you figure out WHAT the business can or should be!
- Gain recognition as an "expert" in your field of passion, and build a memorable brand
- Write a book and make it an International Best Seller, possibly even achieving the well-respected designation of "New York Times Best-Selling Author"
- Develop an effective online marketing business, as we cover topics like:
– Building a list
– Writing and sending persuasive emails
– Developing a website that sells products by the truck load
- Create information products (e-books, audios, videos, etc.) that make BIG money
- Inspire others to market YOUR products and services—while you profit! (Alternatively, you can make darned good money promoting other people's products; I can show you BOTH ways!)
Here's everything you get with your "All Access Pass"
The "All Access Pass" is undoubtedly the gold standard among my many coaching and training programs for anyone who is willing to work at a thorough, steady pace to create MASSIVE change in your life.
You get all this:
One Full Day (6 Hours) Of Brain-Storming And Planning … just you and me, in my home in beautiful Ottawa, Canada. (Or, if you can't get to Ottawa, we'll spend the day on Skype in a Zoom room.) We'll explore possibilities for your business and lifestyle … plan our year ahead … and lay the groundwork for your success!
12 Solid Months Of Personal 1-On-1 Mentoring … starting within two to three weeks from when you sign up. You and I will meet – via phone or Skype or Zoom – twice each month in 45-minute sessions … for a total of 18 hours of personalized 1-on-1 coaching!
AND, full enrollment into ALL programs that I launch throughout the year!
APPLY NOW to see if the All Access Pass is a good fit for you. PLEASE NOTE: This program requires an investment of $36,000 USD with payment required up front and in full to begin. This offering does not have a refund option. Once you make the commitment to this Annual All Access Pass, the commitment is made to you.
APPLY NOW FOR PEGGY McCOLL'S
Annual All Access Pass
Please note: Application process to be considered
No spam! We promise to keep your e-mail address safe.
Copyright © 2017 Dynamic Destinies. All Rights Reserved.
Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Earnings Disclaimer


text:
At Sierra Fitness Spa prepare to relax your mind and restore your body. Our Licensed Massage Therapists specialize in injury prevention, pre and post surgery recovery, physical therapy, relaxation, stress and pain relief. A Sierra Fitness Spa massage will increase your flexibility and circulation, healing you emotionally and detoxifying the body. We also offer waxing services and organic facials. Call us today to book your appointment!
REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT Meet Our Massage Therapists


text:
This article is part of our Rising Stars Portfolios Series.
I'm excited to recommend and open a position in Brink's
The business
You've probably seen Brink's armored cars driving around your neighborhood at some point, but you probably didn't realize that Brink's trucks are seen globally. Only 30% of Brink's business comes from North America; the rest comes from around the world.
The business breaks down as follows: 55% of the company's revenue comes from its core business of cash-in-transit armored car transportation and ATM replenishment and servicing. Another 33% comes from value-added services, which include arranging secure long-distance transportation of valuables and supply-chain management of cash. The remaining 15% comes from guarding services, including airport security. Brink's also used to have a home security business, but it was spun off in 2008 as Broadview Security, and then subsequently bought by Tyco International.
Why buy: Dominant business in an oligopolistic industry …
Founded in 1859, Brink's has been operating for more than 150 years with a strong commitment to service and security. This commitment has earned it one of the strongest brands in the security business, as well as an almost unbeatable competitive position, indicated by its long-term history of strong returns on equity. Brink's also has one of the strongest balance sheets in the security business, enabling it to take market share by offering customers in-house insurance, and assuaging customers' fears over competitors' weaker financial positions.
Brink's largest competitors include Group 4 Securicor (U.K.), Loomis AB, Prosegur Compania de Seguridad (Spain) and Garda World Security Corporation (Canada). None has the same scope or financial strength as Brink's.
… With a large moat …
There are significant barriers to entry in the security transportation industry. All personnel must be trained in proper security procedures and firearms handling. A serious competitor must also have a well-managed back office to track all of the goods being transported. The trusted brand name earned over time may be Brink's best defense against competition. You don't want to trust your valuables to just anyone, and with Brink's, you know they will be safe.
... And it's cheap!
Over the last four quarters, Brink's e ked out slight revenue growth of 1%. As the recession ends, Brink's is poised to grow around the world, and its results should bear this out over the next few years. Brink's is nearly the definition of a great business, and it's not often that investors can buy into a strong company trading cheaply.
To top it off, as we wait for the market to fully value Brink's, the company pays a small dividend for a current yield of 1.5%. I'm more than willing to collect some cash while we wait for Mr. Market to award Brink's a fair valuation.
The risks
As with all investments, there are dangers to face. In the short term, a further strengthening of the dollar could hurt earnings, since 80% of Brink's revenue comes from abroad. In the longer term, the only real risk I'm worried about is a slightly underfunded pension plan. This was an issue for the company in 2009, when management had to contribute $150 million to close the gap between assets and expected liabilities. If markets drop again, management would likely have to contribute to the pension instead of reinvesting in the business. However this would only slow the company, as opposed to fundamentally harming it.
I'm buying $1,000 worth of shares of Brink's tomorrow. As Brink's says, "A dollar not lost is a dollar earned." It's an unsafe world, and Brink's is a safe, long-term investment with serious potential over the next few years.
This article is part of our Rising Stars Portfolios series, where we give some of our most promising stock analysts cold, hard cash to manage on the Fool's behalf. We'd like you to track our performance and benefit from these real-money, real-time free stock picks. See all of our Rising Star analysts (and their portfolios).
Dan Dzombak can be found on his Twitter account: @DanDzombak. He does not own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article. Brink's is a Motley Fool Inside Value selection. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


text:
Control of haptic devices for tele-microassembly
|Project members:
|I. Polat, MSc (Ilhan), prof.dr. C.W. Scherer (Carsten)
|Robotics and mechatronics, Optimization-based control, Data driven and fault tolerant control, Model-based control
|Sponsored by:
Accurate control of haptic micro-assembly devices requires fine-tuned multivariable impedance and admittance shaping for the realization of scaling for the two-sided interaction between micro- and macro-domains. A particular challenge arises from the inclusion of stiffness directionality in order to avoid the damage of work-pieces. Model-based H_infinity–synthesis is an ideal tool for optimal loop-shaping which has not been systematically employed in haptic controller synthesis. As a second major challenge in general manipulator systems, one has to keep up stability and performance even if the slave (or operator) interacts with a strongly varying environment.
In haptic micro-assembly, the superposition of external forces acting on the workpiece leads to position-dependent nonlinear characteristics. In order to avoid overly conservative designs based on crude passivity techniques for ensuring stability and performance robustness, it is of fundamental relevance to develop suitably structured uncertainty models (such multi-variable sector-conditions on force nonlinearities) for the work-piece environment in haptic micro-assembly.
As a substantial benefit, these techniques even offer the opportunity to design controllers that adapt themselves to measurable changes of the environment in order to even further enhance performance. In view of the generic tuning-complexity, classical ad-hoc gain-scheduling techniques seem inferior to recently developed one-shot algorithms for optimization-based scheduled controller synthesis, and their extension to dynamic integral quadratic constraints which are currently under development. Thus it would be beneficiary if the state-of-art modelling techniques can be modified in order to obtain a parameter-varying model so that current advances regarding LPV gain-scheduled controller design can be applied.


text:
This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.
Prior to import, this record was last changed 15 APR 2009 .
Thank you to Lorna Henderson for creating WikiTree profile Fairbairn-549 through the import of FAIRBAIRNJohnMILLERNy4WikiTreeJul2013v3PlaceUpdated.ged on Jul 13, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Lorna and others.
Have you taken a DNA test for genealogy? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
May E is 24 degrees from Sharon Caldwell, 24 degrees from Burl Ives and 24 degrees from Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.


text:
Tequila Buzz Quilt Pattern
Scrap and precut friendly!
Use quick construction methods to make a traditional buzz-saw block and a not-so-traditional border block from easy-to-cut shapes. The finished motifs look southwestern, but this quilt would look fabulous in many fabrics and colors. It's a great way to use some of those fat quarters you've been collecting, or use up fabric pieces leftover from other projects. Finished size is 55" x 65".
Overall rating:
How do you like this product?
Share your thoughts with the Annie's community.
You must be logged in to leave a review. Please log in.


text:
Marks & Spencer has quickly reacted to the 'Gareth Southgate Effect', which has sent the country into waistcoat-wearing frenzy, with a social media and ad campaign in support of the England football team.
Marks & Spencer has quickly reacted to the 'Gareth Southgate Effect', which has sent the country into waistcoat-wearing frenzy, with a social media and ad campaign in support of the England football team.
N Brown-owned lingerie and swim retailer Figleaves has launched a body positive marketing campaign with the hashtag #beautyhasnobounds featuring 12 body positive ambassadors.
Croatian model Faretta, who made her modeling breakthrough in 2016, has been signed up to front the fall/winter 2018-2019 campaign for Italian fashion house Blumarine.
For three days in October, the luxury giant will publicly open the doors to 56 of its labels' sites around the world, backed by a mass communications initiative and digital media campaigns.
On Wednesday Zadig & Voltaire revealed the supermodel Eva Herzigova as the face of its fall/winter 2018-2019 campaign.
Forget famous faces of the runway -- Furla is embracing the internet age for its fall/winter 2018 campaign.
A product placement deal signed between Missguided and hugely popular British TV show Love Island is helping the young fashion brand increase its brand awareness among millennials, new data has showed.
Dove is championing the growing no-photoshop beauty movement.The skincare giant is launching a 'No Digital Distortion Mark' that will signal the absence of any alterations to its images from this July.
Luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon has launched a new footwear collection and campaign inspired by a Cardi B song and social media self-respect movement.
Dubbed #GratefulNotHateful, the campaign advocates a year-round feeling of "Pride," rallying for people to work on everyday acceptance rather than focusing uniquely on the traditional LGBTQ global parades.
Thursday, June 21, Longchamp unveiled its first advertising campaign starring its new global ambassador, Kendall Jenner.
Makeup-free selfies have been back in the spotlight recently, and now a major skincare brand is jumping on the trend for a good cause.
Koovs has unveiled a new collaboration with Bollywood icon Taapsee Pannu with the star and the fashion e-tailer working together on a new social media fashion collaboration.
The Saint Laurent fashion house has unveiled the latest installment in its fall 2018 campaign, featuring rising stars Zoë Kravitz and Lennon Gallagher.
The LA-based brand is celebrating Gay Pride with an inclusive campaign seeking to give visibility to the trans and non-binary community, and a capsule collection, the proceeds from which will go to The Trevor Project.


text:
Grapevine IT is a customer-focused IT Support company based in Kingsbridge, South Devon. Our entire team is focused to help our clients get the most out of their technology. If you're based in South Devon, with 1-100 staff members, Grapevine can help.
We are specialists in IT support & advice for small businesses in the South Hams and beyond, anything to do with technology. Grapevine IT help our clients with PC and Mac IT support, networks, servers and mobiles devices. We also look after project installations, new servers, cloud services, web design and hosting.
Friendly, knowledgeable and professional advice delivered by our team of IT support engineers based at our Kingsbridge office, we cover the whole of South Devon, from Salcombe across to Exeter and Plymouth. One of our team will be in the workshop from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm from Monday through to Friday and if we are unable to take your call at once we will call you back as soon as we are free.
Grapevine IT work hard to make sure our clients are happy with our work and we understand how crucial it is that your IT systems are operational. We are very confident we consistently deliver both excellent service and high quality work when we provide IT support to small businesses. To back up this claim we offer up to 100% discount on any job you are not completely satisfied with.
Our workshop contains all the latest tools required to fix any computer problem; be it an issue with a server, laptop or a desktop. We support Apple Macs including iMacs and Macbook Pro laptops, as well as Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP systems. We maintain the highest level of service through an exceptional knowledge of our own industry and by working closely with partners and affiliates to keep abreast of latest technologies. Our business is built on providing a second to none, jargon free and down to earth IT service.


text:
About LuLu's
LuLu's is an online retailer known for outfitting women's closets with more than the 'cute dresses and trendy tops' that many shoppers come to purchase. The unique styles and inventory offered includes a range of clothing, shoes and accessories that showcases a blend of well-known and up-and-coming designers and brands from across the globe – from Steve Madden to Project Social T. LuLu's also purchases limited quantities of their dresses, handbags, rompers, jumpsuits, swimwear and other goods with the intent of connecting consumers with the hottest clothing straight from designer studios.
Dresses are a huge draw for shoppers, who come to shop by trends (from Boho chic to two-piece ensembles), by occasion (such as proms, parties, weddings, and graduation), and by type of dress, such as the Flutter On By Nude Off-the-Shoulder Skater Dress, Pinnacle of Prestige Ivory Lace Midi Dress, and Honored Tradition Denim Blue Strapless High-Low Dress. Shop 'Shoes' to find a variety of color, prints and types, including ankle strap heels, wedge sandals, sneakers, knee high boots, gladiators, and summer shoes. You will also find a section devoted to affordably priced Vegan Shoes, fashioned out of man-made materials.
Browse 'Best Sellers' to locate popular items sold at LuLu's, such as Betsey Johnson Carly Gold Glitter Heels. As you explore 'top rated' fashions and 'exclusives,' scan 'fave brands' to find the likes of Seychelles, Lucy Love, Blowfish, Amuse Society, 100% Pure, Olive & Oak, Chinese Laundry, and Jessica Simpson's line. LuLu's also has their own collection that includes exclusives such as their Comeback Baby Black Dress, in addition to their floral and print dresses, like the Petal Wishes Navy Blue Floral Print Maxi Dress; and jewelry pieces that include Ancient Ruins Gold Hoop Earrings and Bird of Prey Silver Cuff Bracelet.
Sellouts are common, and the company lets you know when items are 'going fast' or 'back in stock.' There is also an influx of new trends constantly listed on the site; check 'New Arrivals' for clothing also listed as 'just in' and 'coming soon.' If you're interested in saving money on your next little black dress, crop top, or denim boyfriend jeans purchase, don't forget to check Giving Assistant for a LuLu's coupon code. Not only will you save money, but we'll also donate a meal to a good cause on your behalf.
|Total Offers
|Coupon Codes
|Best Discount
|90% off


text:
Quick Reference
The International Olympic Committee list of banned substances (performanceenhancing substances subject to doping controls) is generally accepted by the governing bodies of most sports. The Sept. 1994 list includes the following doping classes and methods:DOPING CLASSES
classes of drugs subject to certain restrictions
Subjects: Medicine and Health.
Related content in Oxford Index
Reference entries
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Please, subscribe or login to access all content.


text:
The filing says the woman, who practices witchcraft as her religion, was hired by the university in February 2007 to direct a youth program. She was fired when it was discovered that she was a witch.
While I don't know the whole story here, if the allegations are true they reflect some pretty ignorant behavior on the part of what is supposed to be an institution of higher learning. There might be grounds for the firing if the plaintiff was prosletyzing or attempting to promote her beliefs to students, but barring that there really is no excuse for this sort of religious bigotry.
It always amazes me when some Christians try to claim that they are some sort of persecuted minority despite being the majority religion in this country. It's usually those who hold less popular beliefs who find themselves threatened with tangible sanctions like job losses.
UPDATE: In response to the comments, I want to make it clear that I am in no way accusing Christians of being behind this firing. Since I haven't heard the University's case, I have no idea who initiated it or for what reason. However, if the firing was solely because of this woman's beliefs, I stand by my description of it as religious bigotry - no matter who initiated it or what their own religious beliefs might be.


text:
See some of the world's most spectacular wedding cakes - from amazing cheese towers to decadent chocolate cakes
Your wedding cake is a great way to add to your wedding theme – as well as providing a delicious snack for your guests, a beautiful cake can really enhance your décor.
We've rounded up 43 of the most amazing wedding cakes ever to inspire you. Not a cake fan? Don't miss our edit of awe-inspiring wedding cake alternatives…
Award winning cake maker Rosalind Miller creates breath-taking cakes that are perfect for glamorous couples. This striking trio of wedding cakes features gorgeous gold detailing and hand-painted flowers, as well as intricate sugar work. Even just one of these cakes would steal the show on your big day.
This fabulous creation from Enchanting Cakes features an intricate room within the cake, complete with a tiny chandelier. How amazing would this wedding cake look in a stately home wedding venue, on display in the ballroom under the full-sized chandelier?
If you want something a little simpler, a single tiered wedding cake can still be really effective. This rose gold beauty from Caked by Carissa is gorgeous – especially the way it has been displayed, alongside a rose gold vase and lots of beautiful decorations.
White and gold will never not be a regal combination, and when used on a six-tier cake, the result is totally majestic. We also love the monogram detail on this cake by Ann's Designer Cakes – if you want to be seriously fancy, monogram your wedding cake.
If your garden is your happy place and you love nothing more than spending time tending to your plants, reference that on your wedding day with this terrarium inspired Modern Marble wedding cake from Jelly Cake – we love the subtle greenery detail!
We can't get enough of the marble wedding cake trend – it's so pretty. Cookie Delicious has complemented a cool grey marble effect on the base tier of this cake with a rich blue tier and an irresistibly shiny gold top tier – this is a seriously awesome choice for an understated wedding.
Blue and gold is a winning colour combination – how about this show-stopper pictured by Apple of Gold Events? The intricate detailing on each tier is a total work of art – we love how it matches the bride and groom's wedding outfits!
Looking for doughnut wedding ideas? If you don't fancy a stack of doughnuts, what about a few to decorate your wedding cake? This pink drip wedding cake from Dollybird Bakes is made all the more adorable with the addition of tiny doughnuts, macarons and meringue kisses.
This green wedding cake from Meadowsweet Cakes is totally on trend – it matches the Pantone Colour of the Year! We love the delicate white decorations, especially that elaborate ball of sugar flowers on the top of the cake – who needs a cake topper?
Fancy an elaborate cake that's perfect for a vintage-style tea party? This awe-inspiring creation from Boucakez could be the one for you. It features an amazing display of sugar work, including 3D cups and saucers, bowls of sugar cubes and flowers and biscuits. You almost won't want to cut into it.
Want to really make a statement with your wedding cake? Go for one that towers over the both of you. This beauty by Cakes Alouisa stands at 8ft tall and features lots of incredible floral detail and an elaborately swirly monogram bearing the cake-loving couple's initials.
Could you bear to cut into this golden wonder from Elizabeth's Cake Emporium? We love the luxe gold finish and the richly-toned floral adornments. Choose a cake like this, and it's guaranteed to be Instagrammed by all your guests.
How incredible is the decoration on this pale blue wedding cake by Fancie Buns Cakery? The detail on this four-tiered beauty must have taken hours to complete and will totally capture everyone's attention at your wedding.
Have some fun with your wedding cake – be inspired by this cute carousel cake from Immaculate Confections. Each layer features a beautifully detailed element, and that carousel top tier is totally irresistible.
If you have classic takes, what about this ivory beauty from Jeannette's Great Cakes? The six-tiered creation is fairly simple, save for a cascade of sugar roses that run from the very top of the cake all the way down to the bottom.
We can't tear our eyes away from the Molly cake by the Abigail Bloom Cake Co. There are eight tiers to this beautiful creation, but it's made even taller with the addition of pink and cream roses on the base, in the middle and around the top of the cake.
Have you been considering a Disney wedding cake? This amazing creation from Jelly Cake is a stylish way to reference Snow White – the pretty all-white cake provides the perfect backdrop for that eye-catching red apple cake topper.
Brides who love a bit of glamor will adore this metallic pink and gold wedding cake pictured at Cowley Manor. It's super simple in its design, but those gorgeous colours make it look really effective. Also – those surroundings, including the amazing lights, definitely add to it.
If you have your heart on a classic wedding cake, whilst your partner wants a super-hero themed wedding, why not go for a compromise cake? This clever cake from Boucakez is super pretty on one side, but has a kick-ass superhero side too so both of you can be happy.
Choose a hand painted wedding cake and you'll have a delicious treat that doubles as a piece of art. This beautiful cake from Sweet as Sugar cakes features intricately painted waves and stand out flowers made from icing.
Birdcages are a timeless wedding trend, but we love how Jill the Cake Maker has added a twist on the trend with a floral painted backdrop behind the icing bars of the cage. Your guests won't be able to stop checking it out!
This frosty blue wedding cake from GC Couture would look perfect at a winter celebration. There are seven tiers and layers of pretty white sugar flowers which gives the cake an impressive height. It'll look amazing in your wedding pictures!
Want a wedding cake that will have all your guests doing a double take? How about this elaborate creation from Sweet as Sugar which looks like it's been swathed in silk fabric and adorned with gems.
We have been obsessed with geode wedding cakes for some time now and this Rosalind Miller beauty is a subtle way to include the trend at your own wedding. We love the blue and gold marble effect tier, as well as all the pretty gold detailing across the rest of the cake.
This pretty little cake from MurrayMe Cakes is a real show stopper. We love the painted floral detail and the text, but also the cascade of gold stars from the top is so beautiful and unusual – it really will take your breath away.
Wedding cakes with a pearly sheen always look really high-end, and this pale pink and gold creation from Dollybird Bakes is no exception to that rule. We love the gold sequin effect on the bottom tier, it's so sparkly!
Want to give your wedding cake a royal feel? The Marilyn wedding cake from GC Couture can do exactly that. This seven-tiered wedding cake looks as though it's been draped with pearls and features mock sapphire sugar work too.
This rose gold wedding cake from Elizabeth's Cake Emporium is seriously stylish and unique. How elaborate are the sugar flowers?
The alternating colours of the tiers on this elaborate wedding cake, snapped at the Willows, really make it remarkable. We love how it's displayed as well, on a sparkling gold table cloth that matches the cake and its glittery stand. Find out more about how to display your wedding cake.
This hand-painted wedding cake from Sweet as Sugar is pretty on its own, but take in the 3D flowers and the super cute dragonfly detail and it's totally irresistible.
How pretty is this five-tiered wedding cake from Abigail Bloom Cake Co? We can't get over the watercolour middle tier and the delicate gold detailing.
If you're planning a Harry Potter themed wedding, you'll love this Patronus inspired cake from Immaculate Confections. The detailing is insanely creative and it's a stylish way to have a themed wedding cake.
Do you and your other half love to travel? Consider this incredible map-themed wedding cake from Sylvia's Kitchen – that level of detail on the map tiers is awe-inspiring, and the ruffled layers keep it suitably wedding worthy.
Gold sugar flowers take a glamorous wedding cake to the next level, as you can see from the Rosalind Miller work of art. We love how the sugar work continues all the way up on to the top of the floral wedding cake as a gravity-defying cake topper.
Can't choose between stripes, ruffles or florals? Go for all three. This breath-taking cake from Willow & Bloom effortlessly combines three gorgeous cake trends and the result is fabulous.
We all know about feathered wedding dresses, but what about a feathered wedding cake? The subtle peach colour of this Jelly Cake creation is so charming, and that feathered bottom tier is just beautiful.
A cake that blends tradition with fantasy, the carousel at the top of the beautifully crafted Alice Cake by Melissa Woodland Cakes actually rotates. Like this unusual wedding cake? We've got plenty more for you to browse on hitched!
An unmistakable Choccywoccydoodah creation, the Old Master is a feast of floral delight. So beautifully crafted it could be made of porcelain, this delicious confection is totally theatrical.
If you are looking for superhero inspired wedding ideas, this stunning cake by Krumblies is fun, colourful and bound to give your guests super-powers once they've eaten it...
Into the Woods by Sweet As Sugar Cakes is completely edible. Made using four tiers of different flavour sponges, each butterfly is hand painted, with the toadstools, branches and vines all made from chocolate. The background is a mixture of hand painted foliage and roses with an airbrushed sky.
The Floral Decadence cake by Sweet Hollywood was created for a secret garden themed wedding with 800 guests. The cake stood seven tiers tall with flowers at the base, creeping up the cake, and a statement crown.
Once you've picked the perfect look for your wedding cake, why not choose a mouth-watering flavour? We have 50 fabulous wedding cake flavours for you to browse.
Discover the wedding gift list that's right for you by browsing our edit of the best options available.


text:
The makerspace philosophy: Learn by doing with agency, heart, and purpose
Boys can dream, make, think and do in our new makerspace. Through the powerful and iterative process of imagining a problem, designing solutions, repeatedly building and testing, and accomplishing a solution that is shared with a larger audience, boys develop creative confidence, persistence, and purpose. By teaching students the problem-solving tools and habits of mind to be change-makers and problem-identifiers, students build empathy while developing twenty first century skills.
What it looks like at Fenn:
The makerspace, in its first year at Fenn, is used in a variety of ways to complement the strong academic and arts programs we already have.
Three programs are highlighted in the pictures below: The IDEA Program, Design Thinking and Curriculum Integration, and Co-curricular Opportunities.
To read more about the Makerspace, please see our most recent FENN Magazine spotlight.
Design Thinking and Curriculum Integration
Using design thinking students become problem-identifiers, tackling real world problems through the design process to engineer solutions that will be shared with a larger audience. Working with faculty to integrate the design thinking process into lessons from traditional Fenn classes is another goal of the makerspace. This space allows faculty to bring their classes to a room that has equipment that is too specialized to duplicate in every classroom. It has space that is meant for doing hands-on projects and creating new things.
Co-curricular Opportunities
Afterschool classes and Upper School Activity blocks will be held in this space, providing an opportunity for students to be taught how to use the tools in the makerspace, and tackle design and engineering challenges. For upper-schoolers, they have an hour long activity block twice a week where we can offer programming in the makerspace specifically for those who are interested in these activities. Afterschool activities will be offered to Lower and Middle School students who have an earlier end to their school day. See the Friday Fenn bulletin for more information and sign up details.
If you are interested in learning more about the makerspace and Design Thinking at Fenn, please contact Pauline MacLellan.
Check out our website for more information about the tools and projects!


text:
French Cooking, The Easy Way
It's French Week at The Kitchn which is funny since I haven't exactly been whipping up macarons and pot-au-feu lately. The real picture of my week is less romantic: returning from two weeks of intense travel to a hot, rainy city and a daughter turning four, which means making felt party hats and writing her birthday verse for school, all with my final book deadline looming so close that I'm cross-eyed.
From what I've seen from the way French people cook and from what I learned in French culinary school, the French either torture the hell out of their ingredients (one day I'll tell you about the tournage week in culinary school) or they just let them be, pure and simple.
Of course, it is this second approach that I like best, and that makes me feel most French on days like today when I have great ingredients but not much else.
For our daughter's birthday, not only did we have to write a birthday verse, we had to bring fruit salad. Sounds simple? Yes. But you know I'm not the type to just cut up some bananas and call it a day.
So yesterday I strolled the Union Square Greenmarket with Gluten Free Girl and The Chef (what a complete pleasure it was to meet Shauna and Daniel, finally) and bought ten absolutely perfect Seckel pears. And some blooming mint. And pea blossoms. Pea blossoms aren't exactly a classic pear pairing but they went into the salad because they were pink and purple and that, in all honesty, is really all my daughter cares about, and I wanted to make her happy.
These were the ingredients at hand. This is what the earth was producing and these are flavors that work together. I made a quick mini broth of warm honey and lemon juice to barely tenderize the fruit then tossed the mint blossoms and pea blossoms in, and voila, I felt kind of like the French mother of a French preschooler.
It wasn't the recipe, technique or particular ingredients that made it sort of French. It was the attitude behind it: easy, colorful, fresh and happy. Those are the qualities of French cooking that have always spoken most to me, not the tournage.
• Related: Faith, lucky lady, was in France last week and put together this Kitchen Tour from Paris. Check it out: Kitchen Tour: Paule Caillat's Splendid Paris Kitchen


text: some bad advice almost got me bricked, ok so i got some advice from someone at alldroid that may have screwed me. heres scene. im on 2.1 by koush, have his rec img (cant do nandroid from it) in his rom there is a "T-CDMA 64" instead of verizon logo in notification bar and charge screen. to change this i was told to adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk rename from .apk to .zip so i can access folders nav to /res/xml/eri.xml change .xml to .txt to edit find T-cdma 64 and change to what i want. rename back from .xml to .txt and rename .zip to .apk adb push back to where it was. so my phone rebooted and now EVERYTHING is FC , system i mean everything to the point i cant do anything but batery pull did a wipe from recovery and no help with koushs recovery there is no backup/restore option so i need to know how to flash sprecovery 0.99.2b so i can do a backup. help please!!! added: the only options on this recovery are reboot system now apply sdcard:update.zip wipe data/factory reset wipe cache partition install zip from sdcard toggle signature verification toggle script asserts so how can i use adb even? theres no mount option im freaking out also tried original root update.zip and said "E:EOCD marker occurs after start of EOCD" "E:signature verifacation failed" "instalation aborted" i just need to get a rec that will let me do a nandroid restore also if anyone has a clean framework-res.apk please post it CHANGED OP TITLE


text:
Hotels in Sanchón de la Ribera, Spain
Search & Compare Sanchón de la Ribera Hotels
Save more with Secret Prices
Get instant savings with Secret Prices
Best hotels in Sanchón de la Ribera
Sanchón de la Ribera overviewIf you're looking for a new favorite getaway, look no further than Sanchón de la Ribera. Sanchón de la Ribera might not have many well-known attractions, but you don't need to travel far to find places worth a visit like Plaza de la Torre and San Nicolas Parish. You may want to expand your exploration to the surrounding area to see Plaza de Espana and other sights.
Where to stay in Sanchón de la RiberaA city welcoming to all, Sanchón de la Ribera has a variety of hotels to choose from. You can shop as many as 11 deals for Sanchón de la Ribera accommodations on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 10%. We have room prices starting at 42 USD per night and below are the number of hotels by star rating in Sanchón de la Ribera as well as in the surrounding area:
- • 3 4-star hotels from 58 USD per night
- • 5 3-star hotels from 42 USD per night
What to see around Sanchón de la RiberaHere are some recommended places to see in the surrounding area:
- • Plaza de la Torre (6.7 mi/10.8 km from the city center)
- • San Nicolas Parish (6.7 mi/10.8 km from the city center)
- • Plaza de Espana (6.7 mi/10.8 km from the city center)


text: I rooted my phone I read and have copied the recovery steps to bring my phone back to factory in case of any issues. I understand you can change the Roms, themes etc. SPRecovery, I also read that it is hard to brick the phone with these safety features. since the droid is a 2.01 what will happen when VZN sends the 2.1 update? Will the phone get bricked? Can I install any ROM or are there specific ones? Will I be able to get my phone to the Pre Root stage? Thanks


text:
- Home
- WWE News
- News Plus
- Events
- Hollywood
- Send News
- Contact Us
- About Us
Despite the fact that Triple H has given his best to the company, the time for his departure is already here.
Triple H has really given his best to the company in the last couple of years. Hence, quite a good number of stars see him as their mentor, the one man they can walk by his steps and learn from his experiences.
Yes, he came from the bottom to the top, just like most true stars in the world. And most importantly, his intention and vision for the company has been awesome.
See also: WWE BREAKING: Bad Update On John Cena's Imminent Return – See Shocking Details
That being said, his contract would expire just at the brink of this year's WrestleMania and the company is not doing anything about renewing his contract, report says.
This is quite unusual as the company has always made effort to renew contracts of stars by a year or few months in advance. But this time, Triple H seems to have been placed in the dark even though he would be defending the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Roman Reigns in few days' time at the AT&T stadium.
See also: WWE BREAKING: Roman Reigns Gets A Major Change — See Shocking Reasons…
Hence as his contract bend towards expiration on this very March 32, word is going on that Shane would take over the company and control WWE RAW.
As a matter of fact, Vince McMahon succinctly stated on WWE RAW few weeks back that if Shane defeat The Undertaker at the Hell In A Cell match, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon would leave the company.
This would brace the reason why WWE is reluctant to his contract and also translate to Triple H and Stephanie McMahon ceasing to appear on the WWE Television at least for a while.
See also: BREAKING NEWS;Another Former WWE legend Is Coming Back TO WWE, Guess who?
Fans are already tired of The Authority, and now, they are kicking for Shane. Let's see how it goes with Triple H and Stephanie's exit…


text:
A Revolutionary Moment Conference Postmortem
This past weekend I went to Boston to present a paper A Revolutionary Moment: Women's Liberation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s conference. Unfortunately, I do not have too much to say. The conference began on a Thursday and ended on a Saturday. Due to my teaching obligations, I only participated in the final day.
Nonetheless, I came away impressed by the job done by the numerous organizers and volunteers. Even on the final day, hundreds of people were going from panel to panel and filled a rather spacious hall at Boston University for end keynote address. That's very difficult to co-ordinate, but as far as I could tell, everything went smoothly.
I think this was the most unique conference I ever attended. Every other one more or less has been tailored to an exclusively academic audience, but A Revolutionary Moment made a point to also invite artists, professionals, and activists outside of the academy to the proceedings. It is very easy to get myopia, especially in the dissertation phase, so the multitude of viewpoints expressed at the conference provided a nice jolt to the senses.
Given that most of us presenting at "Challenges Across Boundaries of Race, Sexuality, and Class" were graduate students, in addition to the fact we presented first thing in the morning on a Saturday, we did not expect a large audience. This prediction seemed on the nose about ten minutes before we started, but then the floodgates opened. I'd estimate we had about 40-50 people listen to us, by far the most I've ever seen at a panel I presented at. As I mentioned on twitter, I was flattered and awed by that.
I experimented a bit with this presentation, too. I normally try and take advantage of full allotted time given to me at these sort of things, but as i was presenting with 3 other people, I deliberately limited myself to ten minutes. I always was told that less people complain if you go short as opposed to going long, and it seemed to pay off in this case. The audience looked engaged and and I got a lot of constructive feedback in the Q&A and through a few conversations in the hallway afterwards. My presentation also benefited from the halo effect given by my co-panelists. Andrew Pope, Dr. Patricia Ulbrich, and Chelsea Del Rio all gave dynamite papers, and Dr. Robyn Spencer (called into chair last minute) kept us on task. It was an honor to meet and work with all of these scholars.
The only drawback of the discussions I had after the panel was that it kept me from going to the next session, and since I was only there for the last day, I only got to go to one more ("Hope, Change, and Feminism in the American South" and the keynote given by Linda Gordon. Gordon's keynote in particular was thought provoking. I am not sure if I can do it justice from memory alone (I believe there will be a transcript of it soon). In general, she argued the biggest challenge for the movement moving forward came not from far right populists (such as Tea Party members) or ignorant politicians such as Todd Akin , but the emerging corporate order's that influences the social ideologies of both.
The Q&A that followed Gordon's keynote was controversial and memorable. At one point, a young woman in a black shirt and neon lettering, and instead of asking a question, begin calling for revolution. When it became clear she would not yield the mic, it was cut off. Quite a few people then cheered. This is where my absence the previous two days puts me at a disadvantage. One of the organizers explained this woman and her group (there were several other similar dressed men and women throughout the crowd) had been saying the same thing over and over at numerous panels throughout the weekend. A few other attendees indicated this was the case afterwards. Nonetheless, several other speakers in the Q&A protested the censure.
Another Q&A speaker then stated that all men present should "wear a sign explaining what they were doing there." I have to admit, that did make me feel a bit uncomfortable, although very few other people in the audience seemed to share this sentiment. I do not think it was unfair for her to say this. There are numerous cases from the 1960s and 1970s of men in the SDS or academia denigrating, disrespecting, and trying to silence women who wanted to make their views heard...it's one of the many reasons women's liberation was needed and important.
And it did make me look inward and try to think what I would write on such a sign, if I had to wear one. It would be something along the lines of "Wanting to know more." Lame, I know. But that is the case. Some of the historical actors in my dissertation were women who identified with the women's liberation movement. That is not in my wheelhouse, which leaves me with two options: I can ignore them, or I can try and reconcile with their existence in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Chicago. Too many urban historians, I feel, have taken the former path. I do not feel I know the movement well, and I went to the conference to try and rectify some of my personal intellectual shortcomings.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn near Boston University. It had a giant chessboard (with 2 foot tall pieces). This made me giggle every time I walked by it. Unfortunately, my room was also next to the indoor pool and it was noisy. Hard to concentrate!
My hotel had HBO! There was nothing good on, but I felt special.
A suggestion for Logan International Airport: Holy shit play something other than smooth jazz. Anything. Please.
Boston University has some weird quirks. A lot of bike locks were attached to the wire cage of a pedestrian overpass. Multiple buildings had hallway lockers...like a high school...I don't know why. What's up with that BU?
I really wish fewer conferences were in the academic year. They can be fairly inconvenient if you are teaching. My MWF schedule caused me to miss most of this one, and I spent 2/3 days in an airport or a plane. I'd love to be able to fully attend one of these things for once!


text:
Style # 225541
AVAILABILITY: Unavailable for immediate shipment.
Skinny Ribbed Logo Dress is rated out of 5 by 3.
Rated 4 out of 5 by TipsTips from Color not quite right The color is not the same as pictured. Its a comfortable material.
Date published: 2016-12-27
Rated 5 out of 5 by WisconsinPrincess from Love it!1 Love this dress. I am a size 12 and got a XL- fits great and not too short. I am gonna wear with textures tights or leggings and tall black boots.. I got the black- cant go wrong with this dress. Good staple in wardrobe
Date published: 2013-12-18
Rated 5 out of 5 by Freakles from Ribbed logo dress (black) absolutely love this dress got a sz med and it fits extremely well!!
Date published: 2013-12-16


text:
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Fargo Web Hosting: what is web hosting?
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.
The scopes of hosting services vary widely. The most basic is webpage and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web "as is" or with little processing. Many Internet service providers (ISPs) offer this service for free to their subscribers. People can also obtain Web page hosting from other, alternative service providers. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or cheap. Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.
Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. Many providers state that they aim for a 99.9% uptime, but there may be server restarts and planned (or unplanned) maintenance in any hosting environment.
A common claim from the popular hosting providers is '99% or 99.9% server uptime' but this often refers only to a server being powered on and doesn't account for network downtime. Real downtime can potentially be larger than the percentage guaranteed by the provider. Many providers tie uptime, and accessibility, into their own Service Level Agreement, or SLA. SLAs may or may not include refunds, or reduced costs if performance goals are not met.
Fargo Web Hosting Found Here
Posted by Find Fargo Real Estate or FM Realtors at 10:45 PM
1 comment:
- hosting kniga said...
хостинг эротика хостинг http://hosting.miheeff.ru хостинг эротика
- December 31, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
A car dealership is quite a dynamic place, with many service staff involved. However, many shoppers just approach a dealership with the car sales person in mind. This article sheds light into more officials that take part in a car deal. Next time you are buying your preferred new Peugeot 4008 model, look out for these officials as well.
The car sales person
The sales person can show you the features of the car you intend to buy. For example, if you walk into a showroom to purchase a new Peugeot 4008, you are most likely to deal with a sales person. However, the sales staff should not be your only source of information, especially if you are first time buyer or if you have little knowledge about car-buying process.
The internet sales manager
Shoppers have various options when it comes to car buying. For example, you may choose to purchase your car through the internet. If that is your option, the right person to approach is the manager in the internet sales department. The person can help make your car shopping as simple as possible. The manager handles all the shoppers who want to buy their cars through the internet. For example, if you want to place an order for Peugeot 208 GTI, the manager can take you through the entire process from the moment you place your order to delivery. If you want a car buying deal with less hassle, you can go the internet way. Check Brisbane City Peugeot for more details.
The receptionist
The receptionist is your point of contact on the ground. You can judge the level of customer care at a given dealership by the how the receptionist handles you. The receptionist answers the phone and some of the questions you may have. If you are just window-shopping for a car, say, a new Peugeot 4008, the receptionist can give you brochures even without involving a sales person.
Assistant sales manager
The assistant sales manager is another staff, usually involved when it comes to figures. He is responsible for closing the deal. He is aware of the deal the dealership wants to make out of each purchase. While they deal with numbers, sales managers have no mandate to decide on price. His or her work is to mediate between the sales manager and the customer. It is usually rare for shoppers to deal with a sales manager directly.
Sales manager
The sales manager is the second highest-ranking official a car-buying chain. He or she decides on how much a dealership wants to make out of a car purchase. While most shoppers deal with assistant sales manager, sometimes it is important to deal with the sales manager face to face as well. This is important especially if a deal is going round and round without good results.
The general manager
He or she is the highest-ranking person in the dealership chain. He handles both sales and service departments. For example, if you have service problems with your Peugeot 308 model, and other officials have not been able to assist, you can deal directly with the general manager for assistance.
In addition to the mentioned staff, there are porters and finance and insurance managers. If you are looking for a new Peugeot 308 CC, now you know whom to approach. For more info, visit http://www.citypeugeotbrisbane.com.au/


text:
04 November 2009 06:00
Vimeo, Video Sharing For Youby 54 others (via)
Welcome, you're new, aren't you? Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. See for yourself and Join today!
1 (1 marks)


text:
Room Schedules
These room schedules are for information only. If you would like to reserve one of these rooms please call the Environmental Conservation main office number at 413-545-2665 (campus phone 5-2665) Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm.
Please note: If any of the calendars don't display properly on this page, click the Full screen link below the calendar.
Room 312A – Conference Room:
Room 105
Room 211
Room 301 – Laptop Computer Lab:
Room 302 – Undergraduate/Teaching Comp. Lab:
Room 306 – Small Seminar Room
Room 308
Ag. Eng., Room 110A
Page updated: February 15, 2017


text:
I just watched my Dallas Cowboys take on the Philadelphia Eagles. It was easily one of the most exciting football games I've watched in a long time. And by long time, I mean ever.
I hope you didn't miss the game. But if you did, you missed DeSean Jackson make the dumbest move of life. One of the announcers called it "one of the all-time bonehead plays". This young fella spiked the ball BEFORE he broke the plane of the endzone. No ball in the endzone=no touchdown. He made a spectacular reception but he started celebrating a second too soon and now he is infamous.
Expert advice from Terrell Owens: "You've got to score first."
It doesn't sound too hard but perhaps the young fella needs a lesson.