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View 1 - 10 results for promise comic strips. Discover the best "Promise" comics from Dilbert.com.
Friday February 28,
Tags #garbage man, #election, #campaign, #strategist, #Win, #promise, #sell, #foreigners, #profits, #parks
The garbage man says to Dogbert, "Sure, Dogbert, I'll be your election campaign strategist." The garbage man sits at a table with Dogbert and Ratbert. The garbage man says, "You can win if you promise to sell our national parks to foreigners and share the profits." Dogbert replies, "I couldn't do that." The garbage man asks, "You couldn't sell the parks?" Dogbert replies, "I couldn't share the profits."
Thursday August 29,
Tags #idiotic promise, #brain, #amazing thing, #untapped power, #solution, #enjoy walk
Dilbert and Dogbert walk outdoors. Dilbert says, ". . . So the salesperson made an idiotic promise to our customer. Now it's MY job to fix it." Dogbert says, "The brain is an amazing thing." Dilbert asks, "Are you saying that if I use the untapped power of my brain, there's a solution?" Dogbert replies, "No, I'm saying my amazing brain filtered out your boring story so I could enjoy my walk."
Monday February 24,
Tags #promise the customer, #build in month, #timing probelm, #shifting blame, #engineering, #spending huge bonus, #blame transfer
Dilbert sits at a conference table with several people. A salesman tells them, "I had to promise the customer we could build the thing in a month even though you said it was impossible." The salesperson continues, "I'll solve the timing problem by shifting blame to engineering while spending the huge bonus I got for the sale." Dilbert says, "Your planning has improved." The man closes his eyes and says, "Beginning blame transfer now . . ." The other people at the table growl.
Saturday March 21,
Tags #Catbert, #evil hr director, #boss prevents new job, #great job, #outrageous, #bad situation worse, #human resource promise
Catbert: Evil H.R. Director: Dilbert sits in Catbert's office and waves his hands in the air as he says, "My boss is preventing me from transfering to a great job." Catbert says, "That's outrageous! There shouldn't be any great jobs at this company." Dilbert says, "Once again, you've made a bad situation worse." Catbert replies, "That's the human resources promise."
Thursday May 07,
Tags #promise customers, #product not yet designed, #motto, #ask forgiveness, #seek permission, #design work
Bob tells Alice and Dilbert, "Maybe it was wrong to promise our customers a product that hasn't been designed yet." Bob says, "But our motto in marketing is, "'It's better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission.'" Alice holds Bob over the roof. He is dangling. Dilbert says, "Your motto needs some design work too."
Friday June 22,
Tags #$35 worth food, #15% tip, #penne pasta, #no log cabin, #build log cabin, #sitaution, #promise
Dilbert looks at a menu in a restaurant and says, "Bring me $35 worth of food, including your 15% tip." The waitress reaches for his menu and asks, "If I bring you a penne pasta, will you promise not to build a log cabin on your plate?" Dilbert replies, "I can't promise that." The waitress says, "Well then, we have a situation here."
Thursday December 01,
Tags #obliviousness, #obstinacy, #office workers, #whiteboard, #conference room, #prohject timeline, #zombie reflex mode
Dilbert: Don't clean the whiteboard in the conference room. It has my project timeline. Janitor: I can't promise that. I slip into a sort of zombie reflex mode when I do this job. Dilbert: I envy you. Janitor: Would you like a few minutes to say goodbye to your timeline?
Monday March 13,
Tags #decide to buy, #recommend position
Dilbert sits at a conference table with the Boss and Dogbert. Dogbert says, "I promise that if I decide to buy your company I'll gladly recommend a position for each of you." Wally, who is also sitting at the table, asks, "Really? You'd make sure we all got jobs?" Dogbert answers, "No, but I'll recommend a 'position.'" Dilbert and the Boss look shocked.
Wednesday November 29,
Tags #network connection, #technology have not, #global economy, #french fry, #electronic mail, #snork
Dilbert, Wally and Alice sit at a table eating lunch. Wally asks, "Alice, did you hear that Dilbert's network connection isn't working?" Alice says, "Uh-oh." Wally continues, "He is what we call a technology 'have not.' His competitiveness in the global economy will last as long as this french fry." Alice says, "So sad." As Wally gulps the french fry, Alice says to Dilbert, "After lunch, I'm going to use something called 'electronic mail.' You can watch if you promise not to touch anything." Dilbert looks angry.
Thursday January 08,
Tags #free thursday, #surprise party, #flowers, #Card, #snowballed, #good taste, #karaoke
Carol, the Boss's secretary, is taking wirting in a note pad. She says to Wally, "Are you free on Thursday for Ted's surprise party?" Wally says, "Party? You don't give a party for someone who has a death in the family." Carol says, "Well... we got him a card, then flowers. It just snowballed." Wally says, "I assume this will all be in good taste." Carol says, "I can't promise that. Karaoke is really hit or miss."


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Ramadan fever has hit me hard.
Growing up, Ramadan was always one of my favourite times of the year: the midnight feats (as I see them anyway) before dawn; the spread of dishes when you break your fast; the feeling of being in it together with everyone – it's like the satisfaction you get when you have run a 5k (I was going to say marathon, but that was unrealistic on my part) and you know it was exhausting but you did it!
Other great memories include always having "Radio Ramadan" on in the kitchen and eating dates (which now that I come to think about it, I have no idea why they are confined to one month – I wanna eat them all year!) But, it's also one of my favourite times because it's a month dedicated to really reflecting on your life, giving up all the bad habits you have wanted to but haven't had time, and a chance to focus on who you want to be while having the support of everyone around you who is doing the same thing. Ultimately, I've always associated Ramadan with the feeling of peace and balance in my life.
I've kicked my Ramadan off with a classic this year. Chicken curry. I absolutely sucked at making curries for the longest amount of time. It got to the point where I could make anything BUT a curry. This was partly blamed on my electric cooker - curries are usually best made on a gas hob - but modern living means no such luck. However, I have finally cracked it.
But before I am hit with "Aisha, you said you were going to be healthy this year," (which you should always take with a pinch of salt), curries aren't actually bad for you! Indian recipes and chicken curry get a terrible rep which is why an Indian doesn't make it into most healthy eating plans but this has always been lost on me. I grew up with a healthy amount of curry in my life, but I also grew up with a health-conscious mum.
The basis of every curry is onions and tomatoes, with plenty of tasty spices. So, a chicken curry can be a yummy protein rich meal. Where it goes downhill is the copious amount of fat, and accompanying white breads and rice. So, if you deal with that, curries are back in the game.
So, below is my low-fat, chicken curry, cooked on an electric cooker, which you can enjoy with quinoa, whole grain rice, cauliflower rice, or mixed roast vegetables on the side.
Punjabi Chicken Curry Recipe
⏰ Prep Time: 10 minutes
🍳 Cook Time: 45 - 50 minutes
⏳ Total Time: 1 hour
🎯 Calories: 427 per serving
🌱 Dietary Information: Gluten Free, low-carb, low-fat
1 large chicken, skinless, on the bone, cut into medium-sized pieces (approximately 1kg)
3 tbsp olive oil
2 large white onions finely sliced
3 tomatoes finely sliced
1 tbsp garam masala
3 tsp chilli flakes
2 tbsp turmeric powder
3 tbsp coriander powder
2 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
1/2 tsp salt
250 ml water
1. In a heavy based pan heat the olive oil. Add the sliced onions and brown on high heat makings sure to periodically stir.
2. On medium heat add the sliced tomatoes and cook for a further 3 - 4 minutes mashing the onions and tomatoes with the back of your stirring spoon. Add a splash of water (approximately one cooking spoon worth).
3. Add in the garam masala, chilli flakes, turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt, and ginger and garlic paste. Thoroughly combine and add a 1/4 cup of water cooking for a further 3 - 4 minutes. The mixture should now come together as a masala paste.
4. Add the chicken and on high heat coat the chicken in the masala thoroughly sealing off your chicken - the flesh of the chicken should turn white.
5. Add 250 ml of water and turn the heat to medium. Pop a lid on the pan and cook for 45 minutes.
6. Serve with a side of rice or roti. Alternatively, if you want to keep it healthy, you can try it with a side of quinoa or cauliflower rice.

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Jack's Pension File
Jack Sherrod (8/14/1843 - 5/8/1915) and his wife, Cassie (3/1850-6/20/1940) were the parents of Fannie (1869-?) who married George Powell, William (1871-1916), Ida (1873-1918) who married Alonzo Wilson, Mary (1877-1895), John (1875-1904) who married Addie Edwards, Benjamin (1879-1937) who married Annie Edmundson, Dallas (1881-?) who married Mary Taylor, Exum (1883-?), Arthur (1885-1955) who married Effie Diggs, Sissie (1887-1887) and Cora (1888-1972) who married Columbus Ward, Robert Powell and John Barnes.
In Jack's testimony, he said that "the solicitor was his one and only slave owner" and that was John V. Sherard (1822-1897). Note, John V. Sherard's last name was spelled different from Jack's. John V. was the son of Gabriel Sr. and Elizabeth Sherard. Gabriel Sr. died in 1847 and Elizabeth died in 1873. According to the Sherard/Sherrod family history which I found in the book "Heritage of Wayne County North Carolina" by the Wayne County Historical Association, it stated that John V. was one of the earliest graduates of UNC Chapel Hill. On the 1860 slave census, John V. is listed as a slave owner in Goldsboro, NC with 15 slaves. One of which is Jack but who are the others and are they all related to each other.
son, Arthur Sherrod; Arthur's son Kemmie and Arthur's wife, Effie Diggs Sherrod;
daughter, Cora Sherrod Ward Powell Barnes.


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We have all heard the saying "Garbage In – Garbage Out", for some of us maybe a frustratingly number of times. Information Technology has developed great solutions to automate all sorts of activity but in most cases the solutions require that the source data is clean and accurate.
Nowhere have I encountered data as disparate, messy or indicative of the 'Garbage In' adage as found in Direct Store Delivery data. In retail there are many products that for various reasons are shipped directly to the store (often direct to shelf) rather than semi-trailers delivered to distribution centers.
With this model every store delivery generates it's own invoice. Add to this the same product is often delivered by a different distributor based on geography. This means you have an invoice for every store every week or maybe several times a week and the invoices are coming from multiple distributors whose invoicing systems and product identifiers are different. All of a sudden you can't connect any of your invoices together much less connect your invoices to your sales data because none of the data uses the same product keys. This is a text book case creating 'Garbage In – Garbage Out'.
Because of this retailers have inaccurate data in their price book which means they don't know what they are paying for a product. If you don't have accurate cost information how can you accurately price the product on your shelf to your customers?
If you can't connect your invoice data to your sales data it becomes impossible to inform inventory positions. Do you have enough product on the shelf? Too much product on the shelf? How many units should the next delivery be?
These are just a couple of examples of data issues that are costing retailers millions of dollars every day.
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Doing this will help companies recover the millions of dollars falling through their fingers because they have great systems but those systems can't solve the 'Garbage In – Insights Out' requirement that businesses today so desperately need.
Topics: Retail Insights & Analytics, Data Sharing & Harmonization, DSD Solution, DSD Software
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The World Series is over and the Red Sox are again world champions, but soon the celebration will come to an end and they, along with the 29 other MLB teams, will look to field a championship-winning roster beginning with free agency. Here is where we think the top 30 free agents will wind up:
1. Manny Machado (SS/3B/Los Angeles Dodgers) – Philadelphia Phillies
Ideally, Machado is best fit at third base as he struggled tremendously with his glove last season. However, his bat can't be ignored. A series of blunders in the postseason tarnished his name, but his offensive numbers combined with his youth (he's only 26) will allow him to land a megadeal.
2. Bryce Harper (OF/Washington Nationals) – Chicago Cubs
Harper struggled tremendously in the first half of the season, hitting just .214 in 93 games before the All-Star break, but he turned it on after the summer classic, owning a slash line of .300/.434/.538 and ended the year with 34 home runs. He's another young player and he has won an MVP award. There won't be a shortage of teams interested in his services, but in the end I see him landing a megadeal with a championship contender.
3. Clayton Kershaw (LHP/Los Angeles Dodgers) – Los Angeles Dodgers
Kershaw will likely opt out of his deal today, but I can't see him doing anything else but re-signing with the only franchise he has ever played for with a huge salary.
4. Patrick Corbin (LHP/Arizona Diamondbacks) – New York Yankees
Corbin spent much of his career looking like a back-of-the-rotation starter before emerging in 2018 with a 3.15 ERA across 200 innings. He's young (entering his age 29 season) and struck out batters at an impressive rate of 11.1 per nine innings. The Yankees have already been rumored to be interested in him and could be potentially looking to replace both J.A. Happ and C.C. Sabathia.
5. Craig Kimbrel (RHP/Boston Red Sox) – Boston Red Sox
Kimbrel had issues walking batters in 2018, but he was still his dominant self, racking up 42 saves and striking out 13.9 batters per nine innings. Boston should re-sign him to a record deal.
6. Josh Donaldson (3B/Cleveland Indians) – Atlanta Braves
Donaldson was a late-season acquisition for the Indians who has dealt with a series of injuries in recent years. Now healthy again, the former MVP is a bit older than Machado (he turns 33 in December), but he should still be able to have a series of offers available.
7. Dallas Keuchel (LHP/Houston Astros) – Los Angeles Dodgers
Keuchel isn't the ace pitcher people thought he was during his Cy Young-winning 2015 season, but nevertheless is still a solid pitcher who pitched 204.2 innings in 2018. The Dodgers may be looking for a replacement for Hyun Jin-Ryu.
8. Michael Brantley (OF/Cleveland Indians) – San Francisco Giants
Brantley was able to play more than 100 games for the first time since 2015 and played well, owning a slash line of .309/.364/.468 and a WAR of 3.6. He'd slide right into left field following the departure of Hunter Pence in San Francisco.
9. Nelson Cruz (DH/Seattle Mariners) – Seattle Mariners
Cruz's options are limited by the fact that he simply can't field anymore as he enters his age 39 season. He has played nine games over the past two seasons in the outfield, but his bat is still incredible, so he will have multiple AL-teams interested in him. Ultimately, I think he stays with the Mariners, where he hit 37 home runs last season.
10. Charlie Morton (RHP/Houston Astros) – Atlanta Braves
After spending most of his career as a middling pitcher, Morton seemed to put it all together for the Astros, owning a 3.36 ERA in his two years with the team. Morton began his career with the Braves and would give a veteran presence to a young rotation.
11. Nathan Eovaldi (RHP/Boston Red Sox) – San Diego Padres
The hard throwing Eovaldi struggled with injuries over the past two seasons between Tommy John and a surgery to remove loose bodies at the beginning of the 2018 season, but he re-established his value once being traded to the Red Sox, where he operated as a swingman, including a memorable performance in relief during Game 3 of the World Series. He has experience with three teams in the AL East, but I can see San Diego offering him the most money.
12. Adam Ottavino (RHP/Colorado Rockies) – Cleveland Indians
Injuries nearly ended Ottavino's career, but he bounced back in 2018, posting a 2.43 ERA and 13.0 strikeouts per nine innings. Cleveland could be losing Andrew Miller this offseason.
13. A.J. Pollock (OF/Arizona Diamondbacks) – Philadelphia Phillies
Phillies lose out on the Bryce Harper sweepstakes, but still land a player who can improve their outfield not just offensively, but defensively as well.
14. Wilson Ramos (C/Philadelphia Phillies) – Tampa Bay Rays
The Rays traded Ramos to Philadelphia, but he could be an affordable enough option for Tampa to sign. Ramos hits well enough that he may be best suited to play for an AL team so that he can still hit on days he doesn't catch.
15. Yasmani Grandal (C/Los Angeles Dodgers) – New York Mets
Travis d'Arnaud tears the cover off of the baseball in Triple A, but can't replicate his minor league success in the majors. Midseason acquisition Devon Mesoraco is also hitting free agency.
16. Andrew Miller (LHP/Cleveland Indians) – New York Yankees
Miller was originally signed by the Yankees before being traded to Cleveland. New York has a need for a lefty out of the pen with Zach Britton hitting free agency and Miller has familiarity with the clubhouse and can fill in as closer if Aroldis Chapman struggles again.
17. Marwin Gonzalez (Utility/Houston Astros) – Los Angeles Angels
A super utility player, Gonzalez can play all four infield spots as well as the corner outfield positions. Gonzalez could ultimately replace Luis Valbuena for the Angels while getting steady work at third base.
18. Zach Britton (LHP/New York Yankees) – Boston Red Sox
Britton was acquired midseason by the Yankees and was a strong closer in the AL East, but an Achilles injury hampered his 2018 campaign. The Red Sox made a push for Britton and may try to poach him from their biggest rival.
19. D.J. LeMahieu (2B/Colorado Rockies) – Oakland Athletics
The biggest red flag for LeMahieu is his home/road splits. In the thin air at Coors Field, LeMahieu is batting .330/.387/.448, but those numbers drop to .264/.311/.362 on the road. He is, however, a stud on defense, something Oakland should covet.
20. Hyun-Jin Ryu (LHP/Los Angeles Dodgers) – Washington Nationals
On the field, Ryu is an effective starter, owning a 1.97 ERA in 2018, but the problem is that he is often injured. A bigger market can afford to take the risk on him and Ryu would slide in well for the Nationals behind max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg.
21. Jeurys Familia (RHP/Oakland Athletics) – Oakland Athletics
Acquired midseason from the Mets, Familia was effective, but not stellar with Oakland, owning a 3.45 ERA and striking out 11.5 batters per nine innings.
22. Mike Moustakas (3B/Milwaukee Brewers) – Texas Rangers
Moustakas was actually a free agent last year after rejecting his qualifying offer, but after the hot stove went cold (or really, just never got hot), he was forced to take a deal with the Royals for less than his qualifying offer. Now he is back on the market and there should be a bigger need for third basemen. The Rangers may be looking for a younger option now that Adrian Beltre is 40.
23. Andrew McCutchen (OF/New York Yankees) – Washington Nationals
His days of playing center field are behind him, but McCutchen can still play the corner outfield positions and provide some solid on-base percentage, evidenced by the .421 clip he posted with the Yankees. The Nationals need a replacement for Harper.
24. Daniel Murphy (2B/Chicago Cubs) – Cleveland Indians
Murphy has always been a defensive liability, but man can he hit. I think he's best fit for AL teams who can ultimately use him as a designated hitter.
25. J.A. Happ (LHP/New York Yankees) – Oakland Athletics
Happ is now 36 and won't be able to command a large deal, but he has been consistently solid over the past few seasons in a tough AL East.
26. Jed Lowrie (2B/Oakland Athletics) – Houston Astros
Lowrie is now 35, but he has been healthy in back-to-back seasons and posted a respectable .267/.353/.448 slash line with 23 home runs over an All-Star campaign last season. Plus, he offers position versatility, something Houston needs if Marwin Gonzalez leaves.
27. Adrian Beltre (3B/Texas Rangers) – Texas Rangers
Forever one of my favorite baseball players because of incidents like the above, Beltre is turning 40 and he won't hit 30 home runs anymore, but he's still a plus-player overall and a great clubhouse presence. He's reportedly torn on returning in 2019, but I think if he does return, it will only be for Texas.
28. Brian Dozier (2B/Los Angeles Dodgers) – Los Angeles Dodgers
The Dodgers lose Machado, but still keep Dozier at second base platooning with Chris Taylor. This depth piece is especially important if Corey Seager struggles to return from injury.
29. David Robertson (RHP/New York Yankees) – Philadelphia Phillies
Robertson is a curious name to watch as he represents himself. New York obviously loves Robertson as he was re-acquired by the team this summer, and could definitely be in play, but the Phillies need to retool a bullpen that struggled in 2018 and Robertson could ultimately be a candidate for them in the ninth inning.
30. Adam Jones (OF/Baltimore Orioles) – Pittsburgh Pirates
The Phillies are a name to watch, they had a trade in place for Jones before the vetoed it, but if Pollock goes to the City of Brotherly Love, they won't move forward with an aging Jones who struggled on both sides of the plate last season. Instead, he could field offers in a low-pressure situation similar to former teammate Nick Markakis.


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What would you do if your tween showed you a photo of an outfit that she'd just dressed her Sim in and asked you to sew her a real life version?
What I did was sigh deeply, then say that of course I could sew something similar! And I jumped on to the Lekala website to see what I could come up with. I came up with these two patterns.
I plugged in Stella's measurements, and around 15 minutes later I was printing off the patterns (yes, Lekala are that fast). Then it was into the car for a trip to Spotlight for fabrics. Stella wasn't with me, so we had a pretty funny Whatsapp video call for her to select the fabrics that she preferred. I bought them, came home again, and a few hours later we had this!
Not the same as the original dress, but definitely Sim inspired! So, on to the details. I'll start with the skirt.
The pattern is Lekala 4645, described as 'double skirt'. Waist measurement is the key for this style. There is a zip set into the left side seam, and the waistband closes with a button and buttonhole. As is always the case with Lekala patterns, the instructions are fairly brief. It helps if you've sewn a lot before, or have a sewing reference handy to assist with any potentially tricky bits such as zip insertion.
The fabrics are cotton sateen. We thought that it would have the right amount of body and oomph for the style, and it definitely does. While this was a perfect choice of fabric for the skirt, I don't think that it worked quite as well for the top.
The top is Lekala 4656 and the recommended fabrics for this one are 'blouse fabric, lace'. The cotton sateen is okay, but something drapier would work better with the centre front pleats, and the edge finishes would look neater. A combination of the fabric type, self fabric bias strip finishing and the fact that it's sewn in a rather small size makes the armholes and necklines bulkier than I'd prefer.
That said, the fit overall is pretty good and allows for a fair bit of growing room (much needed for Stella at the moment). I chose to sew a separate skirt and top rather than combine them into a dress because I thought that there was more chance of future wear if they were separates. I suspect that I'm right and that the skirt will get much more wear than the top.
You can see that there is plenty of room in the top! It was also very long – I chopped a fair bit off it and there was still plenty left to tuck in. That's one of the hazards of using Women's patterns for a tween, despite it being drafted to measurements.
One happy tween – and therefore a happy mother! It was fun to work together to turn her vision into reality.


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I made these scarab sets with polymer clay, various semi-precious stones, acrylic, and metal.
I mixed polymer clay to get a nice bone color, then I distressed that with an earthy brown acrylic. I set the scarab with green chrysocolla. I made the links for the chain out of antiqued brass and green chrysocolla beads.
I wanted an organic feel with the bone and the green for the earrings. I set round green chrysocolla beads inside rings and suspended them from antique brass earwires.
For the second set, I mixed polymer clay to give me a rich, saturated cinnabar color. I then distressed it with lamp black acrylic and set it with lapis lazuli. I made the links in the chain with lapis, red magnesite, and antiqued brass wire.
These earrings are lapis and red magnesite drops from antiqued brass lever back earring hooks.
Other colors and stones are available. Price varies depending on stone, wire work and clay work involved. Please inquire and allow 7-10 production time for back orders and customs.


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The ultimate Costco Grocery List showing the best products to add to your shopping cart! Free Printable!
I go back and forth deciding if a membership to Costco Wholesale is worth the $60/year fee. For now, it seems to be worth it. You can't beat the convenience of buying certain items in bulk, while hopefully saving a little money. However, be careful shopping at Costco because the prices can add up fast and cause major "sticker shock" at the checkout! Plus, having "too much" food in the house can also add up fast around your waistline!
Over the years I have learned to shop cautiously at Costco, steering clear of the bakery, and focusing on buying products that are mostly healthy and beneficial to my family. For a family of 4, I have also learned not to buy too much fresh produce or large quantities of perishable food that could go bad before we have a chance to eat it. Costco is perfect for businesses, big family gatherings, or other events where you need a lot of food. For a smaller family, on a regular basis, I find it's important to be more selective.
To help make my trips to Costco easier, I've created a list of over 50 products that I like to purchase again and again, for one reason or another (price, quality, convenience). I shop at Costco about once a month and focus on the
Bring this FREE list with you on your next trip to Costco Wholesale and have fun shopping:
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I try to stick to the healthier options in the snack aisle. Pretzel Crisps are great on a veggie tray with hummus. The only ingredient in Bare Apple Chips is apples. I always have some type of cracker in the pantry.
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We have a chest freezer in our garage which allows us to stock up on seafood and convenience items that come in handy for quick and easy meals. Costco has an excellent selection of Organic Frozen Fruit, perfect for making smoothies.
The deal on Organic Unsweetened Almond Beverage at Costco is awesome! It's shelf stable so you can keep it on hand and never run out. Izze Sparkling Juice is the closest my family comes to drinking soda. We each usually enjoy one can per week. Vitaminwater Zero is sweetened with erythritol and stevia and is great to have on hand when you get tired of drinking plain water.
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5 Must Follow Tips for Getting the House Ready for the Baby
Posted on: May 6, 2019 |
Do you have a new baby on the way? Welcoming a new baby to your home is both a very exciting time and a very busy time. During the weeks leading up to the baby's arrival, it is important to baby proof the house. Keep reading this blog for some essential tips for preparing your home for the new baby.
5 Things to do Before Baby Arrives Checklist
- Prepare frozen meals: During the weeks leading up to the baby, prepare frozen meals that can easily be put in the oven or crock pot. After nights with little sleep or days spent caring for the new baby, you'll be thankful for the convenience of low maintenance meals.
- Wash clothing ahead of time: Have baby clothes, sleepers, socks and more washed and folded before your new baby arrives. This will save you a lot of time once the new baby gets home.
- Check the smoke and carbon monoxide detector: This is not only a smart safety tip to help protect your baby, it will also grant you some peace of mind about the overall safety of your home. Make sure your carbon monoxide detector and smoke alarm are in good working condition with new batteries.
- Get ready for visitors: Whether it's overnight or day time visitors, one thing you can expect after having a baby is for people to visit. Make sure you have enough easy to prepare snacks and meals for your guests. Additionally, make sure the bathrooms are stocked with hand soap and towels and you have clean sheets for overnight guests. The last thing you want when you just get back from the hospital is to have to spend time running to the store or worrying about your guests.
- Check your home for safety concerns: While it may seem premature to prepare for a baby that can crawl, any parent can tell you how this time will fly. The main thing to look for when babyproofing the house is any items that can potentially injure your child. For example, prevent your child from getting inside of low cabinets by using cabinet locks on all cabinets that are close to the ground. Additionally, keep all medications, cleaning materials and any other toxic materials up high.
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Today marks a beginning for me–this is my first blog (or at least an introduction to blogs yet to come). The bigger news is that this is the launch of my website and the business that it announces. After 30+ years in education, I've decided to test the waters of entrepeneurship. Don't worry, I'm not leaving my day job just yet, but I am hopeful that this will turn into a business that will carry me through retirement.
When you visit my website you'll see there are three main service areas on which the business will focus–faculty support, elementary classroom support and workshops. I want to use my years of experience and my degree in educational psychology to focus on helping teachers–whether in the elementary classroom or the college classroom–to hone their skills and to create classrooms that are learner-centered.
We know so much about how the brain processes information and about which strategies produce the greatest gains in student learning, yet our classroom instruction, particularly at the collegiate level, hasn't changed that much in over 50 years. More and more money is spent on education each year with little to no gain in student scores. We can bemoan the current high-stakes testing environment all we want, but the truth of the matter is that students aren't learning because many teachers aren't utilizing their craft effectively.
According to Dylan Wiliam, "changing what teachers do is more important than changing what teachers know," yet teachers are not given the time nor the support to change and/or perfect what they do. I'd like to change that. I've created this business to support teachers in their goals for improvement, so if you know a teacher (or if you are that teacher) who wants/needs help, send him or her my way.


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The grieving process is one episode down for fans of Game Of Thrones, who tuned into the first episode of the final season in record numbers for Foxtel.
But for arguably its biggest star, Emilia Clarke, the ending remains both a melancholy time and a mystery.
"Even the cast doesn't really know how the final season will end," Clarke told News Corp Australia. "We shot different endings and there are many different strands of this story and so many characters that only a few of us have an idea about what really happens in terms of the overall picture."
It only adds to the thrilling way this epic HBO fantasy will come to a conclusion, five episodes from now — and the 30 million viewers worldwide will have to say goodbye.
Clarke understands the detachment issues that poses, admitting she "cried like a baby" on her last day on set, knowing she would never return to the dragons, the epic, blood-drenched battles and the heavy blonde wig she wore as Daenerys Targaryen.
"Ten years is a long time. It's like losing an actual limb. I was 22 — a child — when I first walked on the Game Of Thrones set. I grew up with the character [and now] it's over."
She said: "everyone will be sad in one way or another, including fans who have followed the series for so long. The feeling of loss that comes with the end is only natural. But there will also be a sense of having been part of an extraordinary journey."
For Clarke, that journey has been made even more remarkable given her recent revelations she overcame the complications from two brain aneurisms, which left her battling for her very life while juggling the greatest job of her career.
But playing the mother of dragons became part of her own identity, she said.
"We've grown up together, We were two helpless girls at the beginning and then she evolved into a warrior and I've evolved into an established actor. I did a lot of self-exploration through Daenerys. She was pushed to extreme limits as a woman and I've been through a similar process, facing up to my insecurities in order to overcome them," she said.
"It's been such an engrossing process that I would sometimes wake up at three in the morning and still be living the part. I do not think I'll ever completely cut myself off from her," she explained.
Compounded by her health problems, Clarke admits the travel involved with filming GoT proved isolating and took a toll at times.
"There was a time when I was becoming very homesick and I was crying a lot. It was a reaction to the sense of not having a steady life and not feeling attracted to anything apart from my work," she said.
"But then you get over that and learn to appreciate all the good things about this kind of job and how lucky you are to have these opportunities."
Her good fortune at working on the world's most popular TV program — earning her an estimated $500,000 per episode — is not lost on the London actor, who went from working in a call centre to the set of GoT.
"Sometimes it's difficult for me to believe how lucky I've been. This series has given me the kind of role that every actor dreams of getting. I never imagined while I was working at this terrible call-centre that I would get a part on Game of Thrones, much less get to play a major character. Even when I was told that I was going to play Daenerys I had no idea it would turn out to be so important."
As the final season unfolds and Queen Daenerys makes her play for the Iron Throne (now believed to be the inheritance of her on-screen lover, Jon Snow), Clarke continues to embrace all that she's learned from the warrior woman.
"I try to embrace as much of Dany's fearlessness and her sense of purpose but deep down, that's not my nature," she said.
"I have a very easygoing and vulnerable side that will always be who I am. But I'm better at asserting myself and I feel that things are going so well for me and I'm able to enjoy everything about my life now more than ever."
* Game Of Thrones, 11am and 8.30pm, Monday on Foxtel Fox Showcase.


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Granny Squares – new designs
The most basic of granny squares can get a bit dull after a while. Even if I say so myself, I think I've completely smashed it with the basic granny. Every one I make comes out perfectly square and neat.
I changed up a gear last month by trying out the solid granny. I'm not entirely happy with them. I crochet into the spaces rather than the top of the stitches which makes them a bit gappy, instead of solid. They also looked a bit messy at the start of each new round. I will keep trying, but I've moved them temporarily into the "too hard file" while I tackle other designs.
I therefore present to you the block stitch granny, the circle in a square granny and a front post granny.
My favourite, based on looks, is the circle in the square.
My favourite for speed, and for least yarn used (therefore more economical for charity makes) is the block stitch granny.
The front post (or it could be back post – I get confused) is quite effective but it comes out slightly smaller than the others overall. That's fine if you are doing a whole project using just them, but my mix and match blankets need squares the same size.
I also made this circle/ block stitch combination, which I like, and it wasn't too fiddly.
It's a good way of using up yarn that's no good for other projects, because you can use it for the round of chains between the blocks and it's hidden apart from the 'diamond' shape (the bright pink).
These new designs are a bit wonky, but I think they will get pulled straight once joined to other squares.
You may notice that the colour scheme I'm using is less random than some of my others. The plan is that I am going to use all of my coloured yarn stash, only buying neutral colours to finish projects. The hope is that my projects will look a bit more polished, although I do like the random ones. Let's see how long I can stick to the plan.
I'm adding this to the craft challenge which is a bit lonely and to be honest will probably get abandoned if I don't get any takers.
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Last weekend I had the privilege and honor of photographing Josie + Tyson's Palobrea Summit Wedding in Queen Creek, AZ. The day could not have been more beautiful. We had been experiencing some rainy days, so we were so glad the forecast was partly cloudy with no rain. Palobrea Summit is an intimate, backyard style venue. It was so relaxed and cozy. The space was perfect for their guests, complete with bistro lighting, and an awesome dance floor. Every detail was perfectly placed and personalized to their taste.
This past Spring, I photographed Josie's brothers wedding, so I had worked with her family before. I was so excited for their wedding to come, so that I could party with all of them again. It makes my job so much more enjoyable when I've already worked with them before. Josie + Tyson are the modern day Brady bunch family. Josie came into their relationship with 5 of her own children and Tyson with 4 of his. Together they have 9 beautiful children and now they are officially one big family!!
Across the street from the venue was a gorgeous desert landscape with a view of the beautiful San Tan Mountains. I loved being able to take their family and couple portraits there. The view was absolutely breathtaking and just added another element of beauty to their special day.
Thank you both so much for trusting me to photograph the most important day of your lives. I truly hope you love these photos and look back at these memories and remember what an amazing day it was. It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know you both and I'm so excited for your journey to continue as you enter into marriage. I can't wait to keep in touch and hear what's new with you both. Always make time to keep dating each other, looking for ways to be romantic and serve one another. I wish you both the best of luck in all you do and love you both!!


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Today is Give to the Max Day here in Minnesota, and in honor of this awesome day we wanted to announce the recipient of our annual giveaway.
Since our inception, Happy Dog has made it a point to do a little something to give back each year. Last year we were fortunate to work with the Bryan McDonough Military Heroes Foundation, and this year's nonprofit of choice is: Hope 4 Moms.
Hope 4 Moms was founded by Kari Bristol and it's just getting started. Once the organization is ready to go, it will provide resources for struggling single moms in the Twin Cities. Bristol's strong faith in Christ is what guides her business plan, with the organization's mission being: To be a representative on Christ's behalf to bring justice and hope to single moms and their children. This work will be done through connecting moms with mentors, and forming a relationship with those mentors with the goal of improving lives.
Why did we chose them?
Why did we choose Hope 4 Moms? As of 2010, there were approximately 13.6 million single parents in the U.S. responsible for caring for 21.2 million children. And of those single parents, 80 percent are single mothers. Of the single mothers, 80 percent have some form of employment, and 50 percent are employed full-time. And, now for the most disheartening statistic, 27 percent of single mothers live with their children in poverty. This combined with actually meeting Kari made us want to dive right in.
Hope 4 Moms will be receive about $5,000 in our services, which includes a new website. We're giving it to the max. And loving it.
Get involved
If you wish to help out with Hope 4 Moms, please contact us and we can put you in touch. Also, if you want to learn more about Give to the Max Day, go to givemn.org.
Stay tuned to see the beautiful website we create for this wonderful organization!


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Cycling has the potential to make us healthier and happier, and our cities less congested and polluted. So why are so many people against it?
It's been a small revolution in her daily life, but it didn't come easily. Having been knocked off her bike by a car in her native US several years ago, she was too nervous to try cycling on the roads of her adopted city. "That [fear] was always a barrier for me," she says.
But the barrier has come down in recent months. Miller-McTaggart hooked up with a volunteer group, Go Cycle Christchurch, set up by Danish-born Connie Christensen, which works with anxious cyclists to build their confidence and road skills. And the gradual establishment of a network of cycle lanes around the city, which fully separate bikers from cars, has turned what would have otherwise felt like an intolerably stressful commute into one that feels safe – even joyful.
For all but the first couple of kilometres from her suburban home in south Christchurch, Miller-McTaggart rides on the new St Asaph St cycleway through the city centre, and then on the so-called Uni-Cycle from the CBD to the university. Cyclists are separated from traffic by raised concrete berms, and have dedicated traffic signals, triggered by sensors in the lane. On quieter residential streets, "sharrows" painted on the road signal that cyclists and cars share equal status.
Her commute takes about 40 minutes – considerably quicker than travelling by bus, and only a few minutes more than it would take to drive and park a car. "It's a dream. It's lovely," she says. Even the cold, dark mornings and evenings of winter do not deter her. "I find I'm more connected, and my mood is 100 times better when I'm cycling. I miss it when I don't."
It's going so well that she has resisted the temptation to buy a car. But if it had not been for the provision of separated cycleways, she says, "I don't think I would have done it".
A highly satisfied customer of Christchurch's partially completed $156 million urban cycleway project, Miller-McTaggart, 46, is an example of a phenomenon well known in the transport literature, the interested but concerned rider.
The "Portland model" – so named because it emerged from research by transport officials in Portland, Oregon – describes four types of cyclists: about 1-2% are "strong and fearless" – predominantly young, fit men who will bike as a means of transport, regardless of the traffic conditions or absence of protected cycleways; 12% are "enthused and confident", happy to give it a go if there is some cycling infrastructure; a third fall into the "no way, no how" group, who are either unable to cycle or have no interest; and the rest are "interested but concerned".
This last group is transportation's silent majority: people who would cycle to work, school and the shops, and have fond memories of biking as children, but don't any more because they are afraid of the traffic. A strip of white paint and cycle graphics along the edge of a road dominated by cars and trucks travelling at 50km/h are not enough to convince them that cycling is a safe option.
Separated bike lanes have allowed the interested-but-concerned Miller-McTaggart and many other Christchurch residents to become everyday cycle commuters. A recent Christchurch City Council survey of people using the new routes shows that 15% would have travelled by car if not for the separated lanes, says Lynette Ellis, the council's manager of planning and delivery, transport, who is leading the five-year development of a network of 13 separated cycleways in the city, of which three are completed. More than 80% said they were cycling more than previously because of the new infrastructure.
"People want real choices about how they travel," she says. At the moment, "it's a car, or a bus that takes too long, or [they cycle and] run the gauntlet of cars".
Healthy habit
Last August, around the time that Miller-McTaggart was starting her cycle commuting, Wellington general physician Marion Leighton was beginning to speak out about the potential of regular biking and walking to reduce New Zealand's expensive epidemic of obesity, diabetes and other preventable diseases.
A general physician at Wellington Hospital, Leighton works with patients suffering from complex multiple conditions, and estimates that 80% of her caseload is contributed to by lack of exercise and poor diet.
"The two together are causing us to be very unwell. They are not necessarily making us die early, but they are causing us as a population to live with more disease, and to live more miserably," says Leighton, who quickly attracted the backing of 130 senior hospital doctors to Doctors for Active and Safe Transport when she launched the advocacy group last August.
Type 2 diabetes is just the tip of the iceberg, she says. "We think of it as a derangement of your metabolism. It's not that your body can't produce insulin; it's that it can't be used by the muscles and the liver, so the insulin that you've got doesn't work properly. And we now know that those changes happen because our lack of exercise and poor diet cause the insulin not to be recognised properly."
Leighton says other diseases are caused by the same sort of processes, including hypertension, gout, dementia, some types of arthritis, and non-alcoholic fatty liver – which is now the most common cause of liver failure in the Western world.
"Most of us, as doctors, are aware that the smart money is in prevention, but we are so snowed under dealing with the disease that's coming at us here and now that we can't focus on prevention. Only about 0.5% of the health budget is spent on this type of prevention. We need the transport and housing budget to focus on it as well."
What's this got to do with people like Miller-McTaggart making an everyday choice to ride a bike to work? Leighton says health research shows that the most successful way to build and maintain an exercise regime is to incorporate it into your daily commute. "That's because it's something you were going to be spending time doing anyway. Yes, you can go to the gym or go tramping, but that takes extra time, and what you actually need is a bit of exercise every day.
"You won't lose much weight doing a gentle, active commute every day, but you will change your metabolism. Doing a 20-minute cycle commute each way, plus a bit of normal walking around – an hour a day is the sweet spot – changes the way your muscles work in order to absorb insulin better, and that changes the metabolic process that leads to diabetes and hypertension, which can lead to renal disease and strokes. It changes the way the receptors work in the muscles, in the liver, and it improves the way the blood flows through your body."
The benefits from active commuting are well recognised in the international health literature, says Leighton. People who are fitter recover better when they do get sick, their rates of dementia are lower, and mental health indicators are better among those who are active for 20-30 minutes a day.
Last year, the British Medical Journal published the results of a study in which 260,000 people with an average age of 53 recorded their transport methods for five years. When the information was matched against hospital admissions and death records, the researchers found that cycle commuting was associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer and "all-cause mortality". Walking more than 9km a week reduced cardiovascular disease, but it wasn't as effective as cycling and didn't reduce cancer rates.
The researchers concluded that the findings, if causal, suggest population health may be improved by policies that increase active commuting, particularly cycling: the creation of cycle lanes; cycle hire or purchase schemes; and better provision for cycles on public transport.
Research in this country has produced similar findings. University of Auckland head of epidemiology and biostatistics Alistair Woodward says a still-unpublished study linking census and mortality records has found that those who cycle to work have lower rates of heart attack and cancer and are at lower risk of death from all causes than those who drive.
"They may be at slightly increased risk of a road crash, but that's more than balanced by all the health benefits of being more active," says Woodward, who is leading a research project called The Future of the Bike, focused on the contribution that cycling can make to society. His research shows the risk of injury sufficient to generate an ACC claim from cycling is about the same as from DIY activities at home.
The benefits of having more people on bikes go beyond public health. As transport engineer and traffic planner Glen Koorey says, cycling reduces pollution and carbon emissions from vehicles powered by fossil fuels, and also cuts infrastructure costs because it is a far more efficient use of limited road space than using private cars.
According to the National Association of City Transportation Officials (Nacto) in the US, a single 3m-wide traffic lane can move 600-1600 people an hour (assuming one or two people per car), but a two-way protected cycleway can move 4000. (Dedicated public transport lanes beat everything, Nacto says, moving as many as 25,000 people an hour).
Koorey says that people worry about the price tag of separated bike lanes but, at about $3 million a kilometre, they are "relatively cheap" (New Zealand Transport Agency data shows the cost per kilometre of recently completed roads ranged from $10.5 million-$52 million) and their construction usually improves things for pedestrians, too.
"Ultimately, they make cities a lot friendlier and more accessible. Ten-year-olds can't drive, but they can bike safely if we give them the right environment. The [cycleway] design philosophy for Christchurch is that an unaccompanied 10-year-old ought to be able to use this network. That's similar to the philosophy in cities around the world – in Europe, they talk about eight-to-80 cycleways."
Pushbike pushback
So what's not to like about safe cycle lanes that remove the fear for people such as Miller-McTaggart and for parents who would like their kids to bike to school but believe it's too dangerous on the roads? If the evidence is so strong, why the "bikelash" against so many of the cycleways under construction around the country?
In St Asaph St, the protected bike lane that Miller-McTaggart follows every day is the focus of bitter resentment from adjacent businesses, many of which have struggled to rebuild properties and trading levels following the earthquakes. "We see a 'Copenhagen-style' city being forced upon an unsuspecting city following a natural disaster," Clark Richards, chief financial officer of the department store Ballantynes, told the Christchurch City Council. It's fine to make room for cyclists and pedestrians, he said, but the "the amount of space … is disproportionate to their use". If the council continued to roll out such changes, it would "drive people out of the city".
Car parking, central-city property developer Shaun Stockman told the council in a submission, is "the lifeblood of business". Like many other complainants, he's unhappy that parking has been reduced and the two-lane, one-way street narrowed to create space for the cycleway and wide concrete berms.
The consequence, says Andy Innes, who has run a sporting shop in the street for decades, is that the road is so narrow, the traffic has to slow down whenever a car manoeuvres into a park, someone opens a car door or a bus stops.
"How many cyclists do you see on it?" demanded one irate business owner during one of the Listener's visits to the street. At the time – it was 9.30am on a Tuesday – both the on-street car parks and the cycleway were almost empty, although data from council cycle counters shows that more than 500 people used the cycleway every weekday in November, and the number of people cycling around the city was up 15% on a year earlier.
The bikelash has a cost. Opposition from the businesses soaked up $200,000 worth of council time. They wanted 53 on-street car parks reinstated, as well as other major engineering work in a proposal that would have cost $1.2 million. According to a submission by public health physician Alistair Humphrey, the provision of those car parks for the benefit of the businesses would have carried an equivalent capital cost of $30,000 each, a figure based on the Canterbury District Health Board's cost of car-park construction.
In the end, the council decided on some minor tweaks – budgeted at $210,000. The discontented businesses are stuck with a design they deplore, and a reduction in easy on-street parking which they say is driving their customers away.
Change the street names, and the St Asaph St saga could easily describe the brouhaha in any number of New Zealand towns and cities where protected cycleways are being built in the hope of getting more Kiwis out of their cars and onto two wheels.
In Wellington, the modest 1.7km Island Bay cycleway is still whipping up passions two years after it was built. It has been the subject of angry public meetings, lawsuits have been threatened and the layout has been tinkered with. The design placed the cycleway between the footpath and a painted line against which cars park, and locals complained they couldn't get their cars in and out of their driveways safely, and couldn't see the cyclists coming because of the parked cars. Others complained that car parks had been taken away, causing businesses to suffer. Some didn't like the fact the roadway had been effectively narrowed to accommodate the bike path. Even some cyclists disliked it.
Now, the Wellington City Council has budgeted $6.1 million to re-engineer the bike path: it plans to raise the cycleway to the level of the footpath, giving the cars a hard kerb to park up against. Councillor Sarah Free, who holds the cycling, walking and public transport portfolio, says the original design "wasn't intuitive", and the council "didn't do the amount of preparatory work with the community that's needed". The new design will be a more "elegant" solution.
Elegant or not, it still faces deep opposition. Just before Christmas, about 100 people marched in protest, demanding that the whole thing be put back the way it was before the cycleway.
Westmere wobbles
In the gentrified inner-Auckland suburbs of Grey Lynn and Westmere, development of a new cycleway has been stopped in its tracks by protesters, the most vociferous of whom is local cafe owner, self-described activist and long-time resident Lisa Prager.
"I believe everyone in New Zealand affected by a cycleway has the right to sue for the destruction of their business," she told the Listener while perched in a pohutukawa in downtown Auckland, where she was protesting against the transplanting of trees to make way for the extension of the Quay St cycleway.
In December, Prager led the "occupation" of a traffic island at the top of Garnet Rd in Westmere and other sites along the proposed suburban cycleway route, as well as taking control of a digger. She has multiple objections: Garnet Rd is so wide there's no need for a cycleway; car parks have been removed; grass berms dug up to lay tarmac for bikes; the design is unsafe; Auckland Transport (AT) engaged in "fake" consultation and is under excessive influence from cycling advocates ("car-hating bike zealots"); and it rains too often in Auckland for cycling to be a practical option.
Whatever the veracity of Prager's claims – which include accusations that the cycleways are "like a fungus" and part of a private-sector plan to drive out small businesses and leave the way open for private developers to build high-rises – her campaign of civil disobedience worked. Cycleway construction in the area has been paused, and AT has agreed to months of fresh consultation with the community.
Some of Prager's accusations sound extravagant, but other residents and businesses along the cycleway route are glad that her activism has drawn attention to things they were unhappy with. In the nearby West Lynn shops in Richmond Rd, Jacob Faull's children's clothing shop Nature Baby is one of about 60 retail businesses and small enterprises in the area. A bike-riding father of three, Faull co-chairs the Grey Lynn Business Association.
"I'm all for the cycle lanes," he says. "We are happy to have them in our area." But it's complicated, he explains. Three divisions of AT were involved in the project – buses, roading and cycling. Local businesses asked for some "fairly simple items" regarding the placement of a couple of bus stops, and retention of car parking outside organics retailer Harvest Wholefoods, which is the shopping village's major attraction and a big part of the area's environmentally conscious identity.
But AT moved the car parks 150m away to the other side of the road. A bus stop was relocated outside Faull's shop, which caters to parents with babies "who don't come by bus". Another bus stop was built out into the street and a bus shelter erected that has "closed down the frontage of two stores".
Managed transition
"AT has ignored the benefits of having a functioning local shopping area," says Faull. He agrees that Auckland needs to move to a less car-dependent future – he has cycled in Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam, where biking is often the easiest way to get around – but he says the transition to that future has to be managed, to minimise the harm to businesses.
"We have to look at how we protect retail that in urban areas provides character, not only for living but for the new businesses that start up … We just want better design and for [AT] to retain the area's charm while it does it."
Kathryn King, AT's walking and cycling manager, says there was "considerable" consultation in the lead-up to construction starting, but "we didn't perhaps hear from all of the people who now have concerns". AT is setting up two community liaison groups, which are expected to meet monthly on a redesign.
Faull says he hopes the outcome will be better for everyone and provide a blueprint for other areas scheduled for cycleways, including nearby Karangahape Rd. "Let's hope it works, otherwise we're screwed."
In the meantime, the "interested but concerned" of Auckland's inner west, including the children of the three schools along the cycleway route, will have to wait. Old Mill Rd resident Linda Broom says her two girls, aged six and nine, want to bike the 1km to the local primary school and hoped the cycleway down their street would be finished by the start of term; it's not safe enough for them to ride on the road, she says.
Amid all the shouting and complaining, she says, there seems to have been little thought for the interests of children such as hers.
Learning curve
Is the problem simply that in New Zealand, which has one of the highest rates of car ownership in the world, we are not much good at designing cycleways? As Wellington councillor Sarah Free says, our cities are new to this; Copenhagen and Amsterdam have been at it since the 1970s.
"In some ways I think the first projects were always going to have difficulties, because there was really so much that we learnt. Every road has unique challenges. But we are definitely building up a body of knowledge."
Whatever the short-term hitches, however, cities have to take a long-term view, she says. "People will say, 'Only 2-4% of people cycle: why are you doing all this?' But you have to lift the vision above today and look at the city we are aspiring to build in the next two decades.
"We know we have traffic problems, parking is under pressure, we need more housing and there is limited space. We can't just build more and more roads. We really have to think intelligently about how we use our precious space and offer people more choices within our existing roading network."
The phenomenon of bikelash has been seen in cities around the world that have tried to reduce congestion and pollution and improve public health by making cycling safe for all. Janette Sadik-Khan, who was New York City's transport commissioner during the tenure of mayor Michael Bloomberg, calls it a "transportation Copernican revolution".
"Instead of building new roads, urban planners need to start with building new transportation choices," she writes in Street Fight, her account of the battle to reclaim the streets of the city from gridlocked cars and turn them into places for people to gather, walk and cycle. For a century, she wrote, urban designers have been "inculcated with the autocentric view that transportation is a car, and pedestrians, bike-riders, and public-transit passengers – all street life – are natural enemies of this order".
As she rolled out hundreds of kilometres of protected cycle lanes around the city and launched a massive public bike-share scheme, Sadik-Khan faced ferocious opposition, lawsuits and accusations she was trying to turn New York into Amsterdam. One highly contested section of cycleway was described by a local newspaper as "the most controversial slab of cement outside of the Gaza Strip".
In building safe biking infrastructure, Sadik-Khan says, cities are "daring to take street space that for decades has been used exclusively by vehicles and do something else with it". For some, that amounts to an "ideological war on cars".
"Never underestimate the anger directed at bicyclists," she writes. In New York and Melbourne, opponents laid tacks across new cycleways; in New York's Central Park, an attacker strung a wire across the path of a cyclist.
Similar sabotage has occurred in London and Portland. On the last weekend of the last school holidays, around 30 tacks were found on the Island Bay cycleway.
Challenge to the status quo
In a recent research paper on bikelash led by the University of Auckland's Kirsty Wild, bike lanes are described as "sponges for a sea of latent cultural and economic anxieties … Far from representing a 'value-free' reshaping of the streetscape, cycle lanes present fundamental challenges to existing power relationships within cities".
International experience shows bikelash tends to come from four key groups, Wild says:
- Retailers who object to a loss of on-street parking. They tend to overestimate the importance of parking to their customers and underestimate the number who come by bus, bike or on foot. Many studies have shown little change, and often an improvement, in retail trade after a bike lane goes in.
- The second main group of objectors tend to be political conservatives, who see cyclists as outsiders and regard the redistribution of road space as theft of an existing entitlement.
- Internationally, bikelash has also come from experienced cyclists, who don't want to be marginalised into separated lanes.
- Others worry that cycleways are a precursor to gentrification and displacement of low-income and ethnically diverse communities.
Ironically, some of the causes of discontent about new cycleways (such as the digging up of grass berms in Grey Lynn and Westmere to lay cycle paths) are design compromises made to placate those who didn't want to lose on-street car parking to make way for the bikes.
Woodward says that disputes about bike lanes occur even in cycle-friendly countries such as the Netherlands, but over decades they have developed design codes stipulating what kind of roads require separated cycleways and where it's okay for cars and bikes to mix, rather than having to fight it out "corner by corner".
"So you have this virtuous circle where there are more people using bikes on the street, which makes it more familiar and comfortable and authentic, so people are less anxious about it." Vulnerable road users such as children and the elderly then start to feel that the streets are safe for them to bike and walk on.
All of this would make our streets much more like they used to be before cars began to dominate. "It wasn't always like this," Woodward says. "There was a power shift in the 1920s when pedestrians and cyclists were pushed, literally, to the margins. Now I think we are facing a remarkable period where young people are not using cars the way we [baby boomers] did when we were young. They are looking for other forms of status. The fossil-fuel period is coming to an end.
"And the bike, in a sense, is right at the heart of the politics of it all. There are the things that the bicycle can deliver in terms of numbers of trips and cases of diabetes prevented. And then there is what the bicycle stands for, which, in the long term, may be more important, because I think it's to do with intimate cities, it's to do with connections with nature, it's to do with sustainability, with sociability and with simplicity and pleasure.
"You ask people why they bike, and of course they say that it's quicker and it's good for me. But they also say, 'I feel better. When I get to work, I feel more alert and lively and more resilient.'"
This article was first published in the February 17, 2018 issue of the New Zealand Listener.


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