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The various factors that affect the cost of maintenance in terms of the modern system analysis and design include, a) Latent Defects, b) Number of customers for a given system and c) Quality of system documents. Latent defect refers to the possible internal defects that relate to a product. Secondly, the number of customers of a given system refers to the number of people using the system at a given point in time. The last factor that affects the cost of maintenance is the quality of the system's document, i.e. the documentation for the systems (Hoffer, George, and Valacich).
Of the above-mentioned factors the most important factor is the quality of systems design. Creating a well-documented system allows all other aspects of the systems to be traceable and with complete evidence. Hence any latent issue or technical issue that might come up can be easily resolved. Also, all the communication and messages are more accurately sent to the intended users. Although the development of strong and quality system documentation can prove to be an expensive and time-consuming task, this allows the other possible issues in the future to be resolved more easily and fast, which thereby lead to reduced maintenance costs (Hoffer, George, and Valacich).
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This project is interesting because it demonstrates some of the extraordinary service Macawber can perform in addition to plant/capital equipment in a project. The customer came to us having been a previous customer in the mid-'80s. IGC performs foundry sand reclaiming for resale use in more foundry moulds. A few years ago they switched to chromite sand and were interested in updating our pneumatic conveying equipment they purchased 20 years before. So they requested a refurbishment service from us at the time of an additional equipment order of 5 systems. After putting a game plan together, we tackled the refurbishment on-site at their factory. The results have been 2 like-new systems plus the additional 5 brand-new. Our field-service team spent one week on-site ensuring the quality standard we require was met in this unconventional service offering we delivered. It goes to show that we sport the flexibility of a small company, with the flare of a larger international organization that sees our field-tech personnel travel world-wide.


The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, is the place for stars to see and be seen while basking in the sun and enjoying good music — and the 2018 event is drawing in even more celebrities, thanks to Beyoncé's eagerly anticipated performance. Spread out over two weekends, April 13-15 and April 20-22, The Weeknd and Eminem are headlining with Queen Bey, while other acts scheduled to perform include Cardi B, Migos and Haim. Celebrities in attendance include Rihanna, Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian and Justin Bieber. The "Sorry Not Sorry" singer, 25, lounged around in a blue swimsuit that highlighted her assets.


Every year over 5,000 riders take on the epic challenge of Dragon Ride L'Etape Wales by Le Tour de France. The spectacular sold out routes that offer challenges from 100km up to 305km have become the stuff of legend in the cycling community.
Ahead of the annual rush to secure an entry (which started on Tuesday September 27) we have summarised seven typical thoughts that every rider has when taking on Dragon Ride L'Etape Wales by Le Tour de France.
Despite the best made plans, inevitably life happens, and you never get out for the amount of training rides you wanted to in the weeks leading up to the big day.
Then on event day as you arrive in the village, and head to the start line, it dawns on you just how monstrous the challenge you are about to embark on is.
Suddenly your weekly 80km weekend rides seem insufficient for the 230km Gran Fondo you so confidently clicked on months ago.
Don't worry though, everything will be fine, and crossing the finish line is that much sweeter after the earlier panic attack.
We've all seen the pictures on the website, and heard our mates go on about how stunning it is, but nothing quite prepares you for the real thing.
There are some simply breath-taking moments of beauty, maybe most notably at the top of Rhigos (which is unhelpful as you're already out of breath), where the scenery is so spectacular you just want to sit down for an hour and have a pint looking at it.
However with another gazillion miles to go it's best to keep cycling – plus that would really mess up your Strava time.
You've checked out the elevation profile, and done some decent climbs in preparation, but the relentlessness of the Dragon Ride L'Etape Wales route should not be underestimated.
By the time you are halfway up the 5km Devil's Staircase climb, which features a gradient of 20%, you are pretty sure there must have been a printing error.
To find out more, and to book your place, click here.
Once you hit the Devil's Elbow climb you will see the familiar polka dot branding on flags, signifying the start of Le Tour de France timed King (& Queen) of the Mountains section.
The roads are closed allowing you to spread out a little, and suddenly you get the rush. With no traffic, and the alpine like views around you, it's easy to imagine you are Geraint Thomas or Nairo Quintana on a crucial stage of Le Tour. Well, until some show-off breezes past you anyway.
I'm a fully grown adult, I should have got over being rewarded with a medal years ago. However it does look quite awesome shaped like a yellow jersey, and I've just completed an incredible challenge, so why not.
You work off many thousands of calories during the ride, so despite eating your weight in salted potatoes at the feed station (surprisingly delicious) and the pasta at the finish, it's going to take a while to replace all that spent energy.
Reports of multiple service station stops for food on the way home are not uncommon, but anybody who slays the dragon deserves it.
As you get into bed after the event you can barely move your legs, you've got some mild sunburn, and you don't really want to sit on a bike in the foreseeable future.
You know though that in 12 months' time you will be ready to experience it all again, and contrary to how you felt 100 miles in, you might even try a longer distance. It's all worth it.
Entries into the 2017 Dragon Ride L'Etape Wales by Le Tour de France opened on Tuesday September 27 at 9am, so sign-up before it's too late!


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How having children, and their level of education, can affect health in old age
Although it is known that parents generally live longer than their childless contemporaries, little is known about why or what factors modify this effect. In this blog post, the authors of a recent study of multiple health outcomes in over 800,000 individuals, published in BMC Geriatrics, highlight and discuss some of their findings, shedding light on these unknown mechanisms.
Anna Meyer, Hannah L Brooke & Karin Modig 30 Apr 2019
Parenting is not an easy job, but the hard work may eventually pay off. Research demonstrates that parents have lower mortality rates in old age than childless men and women. Although this finding has been replicated often and in various settings, many questions still remain unanswered.
We need to understand the causal mechanisms behind the longer survival among parents, and during what point in life this survival advantage arises. Are mothers and fathers less likely to develop diseases? Or does the advantage arise because they survive longer once a disease occurs?
How we answered these questions
In our recently published study, we took a closer look at the relationship between parenthood and health in old age. We did not only focus on mortality in general; we also examined the risk of a first hospital admission, the risk of being readmitted to hospital, and survival after hospitalization among the entire Swedish population over the age of 70 (in total 890,544 men and women). We studied how these four different outcomes were associated with the number of children per individual and with their offspring's socioeconomic resources.
We believe that two findings are particularly interesting. As expected, childless men and women had higher mortality than parents in our study, but they were not at higher risk of a first hospitalization. This suggests that the advantage of having children perhaps plays out once ill health occurs rather than before. Alternatively, parents might be more likely to seek help and receive early treatment, which itself might be one reason for their longer survival.
In an era of population ageing and rising levels of childlessness, identifying care deficits could eventually contribute to reducing health disparities in old age.
Secondly, we found children's education, but not their income, to be associated with their parents' health, more so than the number of children itself. The protective effects of higher offspring education were strong and consistent for all parental health outcomes in our study, regardless of parents' own socioeconomic position.
The mortality differences between parents and non-parents should not be neglected. Holding other factors constant, we estimated that 61% of women with two children were expected to survive to age 87 (the end of our study period), while the corresponding number for childless women was 56%.
The difference was even larger between parents whose children had only compulsory education and parents with highly educated children: we found an increase from 57% of women expected to survive to age 87 in the former group to 66% in the latter, with a similar increase for men.
In another recently published study, we estimated that married women with two children are expected to survive about 16 months longer after stroke compared to childless married women. Considering that the average survival time after stroke is just 7 years, this survival advantage is substantial.
Although several studies on the relationship between number of children, their socioeconomic resources, and health in late life have recently been published, most authors conclude that further research is needed to shed light on the underlying mechanisms.
What causes these differences?
People who eventually become parents might be healthier already from an early age. For instance, some people remain childless because of health problems in mid-life which could then affect mortality in old age. This would mean that having children indicates better overall health but does not contribute to it.
On the other hand, adult children often become caregivers for their ageing parents, even in a country like Sweden in which publicly financed health and elder care is universally available. Children might also provide emotional and informational support to their ageing parents. These forms of support may directly contribute to the better health and mortality outcomes for parents.
Either way, it is possible that childless adults would benefit from additional care and support in old age, regardless of the underlying causal pathways. In an era of population ageing and rising levels of childlessness, identifying such care deficits could eventually contribute to reducing health disparities in old age.
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Anna Meyer is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Her work primarily focuses on health and mortality trends in the ageing Swedish population. Specific research interests include health and mortality among the old, sociodemographic differences, and disparities between parents and childless men and women.
Hannah L Brooke is a post-doctoral research fellow at Uppsala University with a PhD in Epidemiology. She specializes in using register-based data to study socioeconomic factors in relation to cancer incidence and survival.
Karin Modig is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. She is also guest researcher at Max Planch Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. Her research concerns the health of the ageing population, the driving force of longevity and its societal consequences.
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Jaundice is a condition of excessive build up of a substance called bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is a product of break down of red blood cells and is normally processed by the liver and excreted from the body in bile. When the liver malfunctions, bilirubin is not excreted and it gets deposited near the skin surface giving a yellow tinge to the skin, mucous membranes, and eyes.
Jaundice occurs when excess amounts of bilirubin circulating in the blood stream causes a yellowish appearance of the skin and the whites of the eyes. With the exception of physiologic jaundice in the newborn (normal newborn jaundice in the first week of life), all other jaundice indicates overload or damage to the liver, or inability to move bilirubin from the liver through the biliary tract to the gut.
Newborn jaundice is common and unless associated with an abnormal condition will clear without treatment. Another condition called Gilbert`s syndrome is a hereditary condition in which mild jaundice develops during times of stress. This condition, once recognised, requires no further treatment or evaluation. There are also other more rare hereditary causes of elevated bilirubin levels. All other jaundice is the result of an underlying disease, condition, or toxicity.
A yellow-to-orange colour may be imparted to the skin by excessive intake of beta carotene, the orange pigment seen in carrots. People who consume large quantities of carrots or carrot juice or take beta carotene tablets may develop a distinctly yellow-orange cast to their skin. This condition is called hypercarotenemia or just carotenemia. Hypercarotenemia is easily distinguished from jaundice in that the whites of the eye (sclera) remain white, while people with true jaundice have a yellow sclera.
The medical history is obtained and a physical examination performed.
Is the skin colour yellow (jaundice)?
Is the inside of the mouth (mucous membranes) yellow?
When did the jaundice start?
Has the jaundice occurred repeatedly (recurrent)?
During a physical examination, the doctor studies one's body to determine the presence or absence of physical problems.
The liver has many functions. One of the liver's functions is to produce and secrete bile into the intestines to help digest dietary fat. Another is to remove toxic chemicals or waste products from the blood, and bilirubin is a waste product. The liver removes bilirubin from the blood. After the bilirubin has entered the liver cells, the cells conjugate (attaching other chemicals, primarily glucuronic acid) to the bilirubin, and then secrete the bilirubin/glucuronic acid complex into bile. The complex that is secreted in bile is called conjugated bilirubin. The conjugated bilirubin is eliminated in the feces. (Bilirubin is what gives feces its brown color.) Conjugated bilirubin is distinguished from the bilirubin that is released from the red blood cells and not yet removed from the blood which is termed unconjugated bilirubin.
Besides the cosmetic issues of looking yellow and having dark urine and light stools, the symptom that is associated most frequently associated with jaundice or cholestasis is itching, medically known as pruritus. The itching associated with jaundice and cholestasis can sometimes be so severe that it causes patients to scratch their skin "raw," have trouble sleeping, and, rarely, even to commit suicide.
Infiltrative diseases of the liver refer to diseases in which the liver is filled with cells or substances that don't belong there. The most common example would be metastatic cancer to the liver, usually from cancers within the abdomen. Uncommon causes include a few diseases in which substances accumulate within the liver cells, for example, iron (hemochromatosis), alpha-one antitrypsin (alpha-one antitrypsin deficiency), and copper (Wilson's disease).
What is neonatal jaundice (jaundice in newborn infants)?
Neonatal jaundice is jaundice that begins within the first few days after birth. (Jaundice that is present at the time of birth suggests a more serious cause of the jaundice.) In fact, bilirubin levels in the blood become elevated in almost all infants during the first few days following birth, and jaundice occurs in more than half. For all but a few infants, the elevation and jaundice represents a normal physiological phenomenon and does not cause problems.
The cause of normal, physiological jaundice is well understood. During life in the uterus, the red blood cells of the fetus contain a type of hemoglobin that is different than the hemoglobin that is present after birth. When an infant is born, the infant's body begins to rapidly destroy the red blood cells containing the fetal-type hemoglobin and replaces them with red blood cells containing the adult-type hemoglobin. This floods the liver with bilirubin derived from the fetal hemoglobin from the destroyed red blood cells. The liver in a newborn infant is not mature, and its ability to process and eliminate bilirubin is limited. As a result of both the influx of large amounts of bilirubin and the immaturity of the liver, bilirubin accumulates in the blood. Within two or three weeks, the destruction of red blood cells ends, the liver matures, and the bilirubin levels return to normal.
There is another uncommon syndrome associated with neonatal jaundice, referred to as breast-milk or breast feeding jaundice. In this syndrome, jaundice appears to be caused by or at least accentuated by breast feeding. Although the cause of this type of jaundice is unknown, it has been hypothesized that there is something in breast milk that reduces the ability of the liver to process and eliminate bilirubin. With breast-milk jaundice, the bilirubin levels rise and reach peak levels in approximately two weeks, remain elevated for a week or so, and then decline to normal over several weeks or months. This timing of the elevation in bilirubin and jaundice is different than normal physiological jaundice described previously and allows the two causes of jaundice to be differentiated. The real importance of the more prolonged jaundice associate with breast-milk jaundice is that it raises the possibility that there is a more serious cause for the jaundice that needs to be sought, for example, biliary atresia (destruction of the bile ducts). Breast-milk jaundice alone usually does not cause problems for the infant.
Physiologic jaundice and breast-milk jaundice usually do not cause problems for the infant; however, there is a concern that high or prolonged elevations in levels of unconjugated bilirubin (the type of bilirubin that is not attached to glucuronic acid and the main type of bilirubin that is present in physiologic and breast-milk jaundice) will cause neurologic damage to the infant. Therefore, when unconjugated bilirubin levels are high or prolonged, treatment usually is started to lower the levels of bilirubin. Treatment may be started earlier in infants who are born prematurely since their livers take longer to mature, and the risk of higher and more prolonged elevations of bilirubin is greater. Treatment involves phototherapy with artificial or natural sunlight and, if phototherapy is not successful, exchange transfusion in which the infant's blood is exchanged for normal blood from blood donors.
The benign nature of physiologic and breast-milk allergy need to be distinguished from hemolytic disease of the newborn, a much more serious, even life-threatening cause of jaundice in newborns that is due to blood group incompatibilities between mother and fetus, for example Rh incompatibility. The incompatibility results in an attack by the mother's antibodies on the babies red blood cells leading to hemolysis. Fortunately, because of modern management of pregnancy, this cause of jaundice is rare.
How is the cause of jaundice diagnosed?
The history can suggest possible reasons for the jaundice. For example, heavy use of alcohol suggests alcoholic liver disease, whereas use of illegal, injectable drugs suggests viral hepatitis. Recent initiation of a new drug suggests drug-induced jaundice. Episodes of abdominal pain associated with jaundice suggests blockage of the bile ducts usually by gallstones.
The most important part of the physical examination in a patient who is jaundiced is examination of the abdomen. Masses (tumors) in the abdomen suggest cancer infiltrating the liver (metastatic cancer) as the cause of the jaundice. An enlarged, firm liver suggests cirrhosis. A rock-hard, nodular liver suggests cancer within the liver.
Measurement of bilirubin can be helpful in determining the causes of jaundice. Markedly greater elevations of unconjugated bilirubin relative to elevations of conjugated bilirubin in the blood suggest hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells). Marked elevations of liver tests (aspartate amino transferase or AST and alanine amino transferase or ALT) suggest inflammation of the liver (such as viral hepatitis). Elevations of other liver tests, e.g., alkaline phosphatase, suggest diseases or obstruction of the bile ducts.
Ultrasonography is a simple, safe, and readily-available test that uses sound waves to examine the organs within the abdomen. Ultrasound examination of the abdomen may disclose gallstones, tumors in the liver or the pancreas, and dilated bile ducts due to obstruction (by gallstones or tumor).
Computerized tomography or CT scans are scans that use x-rays to examine the soft tissues of the abdomen. They are particularly good for identifying tumors in the liver and the pancreas and dilated bile ducts, though they are not as good as ultrasonography for identifying gallstones.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans are scans that utilize magnetization of the body to examine the soft tissues of the abdomen. Like CT scans, they are good for identifying tumors and studying bile ducts. MRI scans can be modified to visualize the bile ducts better than CT scans (a procedure referred to as MR cholangiography), and, therefore, are better than CT for identifying the cause and location of bile duct obstruction.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) provides the best means for examining the bile duct. For ERCP an endoscope is swallowed by the patient after he or she has been sedated. The endoscope is a flexible, fiberoptic tube approximately four feet in length with a light and camera on its tip. The tip of the endoscope is passed down the esophagus, through the stomach, and into the duodenum where the main bile duct enters the intestine. A thin tube then is passed through the endoscope and into the bile duct, and the duct is filled with x-ray contrast solution. An x-ray is taken that clearly demonstrates the contrast-filled bile ducts. ERCP is particularly good at demonstrating the cause and location of obstruction within the bile ducts. A major advantage of ERCP is that diagnostic and therapeutic procedures can be done at the same time as the x-rays. For example, if gallstones are found in the bile ducts, they can be removed. Stents can be placed in the bile ducts to relieve the obstruction ca used by scarring or tumors. Biopsies of tumors can be obtained.
Ultrasonography can be combined with ERCP by using a specialized endoscope capable of doing ultrasound scanning. Endoscopic ultrasound is excellent for diagnosing small gallstones in the gallbladder and bile ducts that can be missed by other diagnostic methods such as ultrasound, CT, and MRI. It also is the best means of examining the pancreas for tumors and can facilitate biopsy through the endoscope of tumors within the pancreas.
Biopsy of the liver provides a small piece of tissue from the liver for examination under the microscope. The biopsy most commonly is done with a long needle after local injection of the skin of the abdomen overlying the liver with anesthetic. The needle passes through the skin and into the liver, cutting off a small piece of liver tissue. When the needle is withdrawn, the piece of liver comes with it. Liver biopsy is particularly good for diagnosing inflammation of the liver and bile ducts, cirrhosis, cancer, and fatty liver.


Randisi Glass & Specialties Inc can be found at Church St 65. The following is offered: Ornamental Glass, Metal, & Stone. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Landisville there are 1 other Ornamental Glass, Metal, & Stone. An overview can be found here.
Randisi Glass & Specialties Inc was founded in 1994. The company is located in Landisville and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Randisi Glass & Specialties Inc specializes in Automotive Glass Replacement Shops.


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"""
Filter support
"""

from openstack.common.gettextutils import _LI
from openstack.common import log as logging
from openstack.common.scheduler import base_handler

LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class BaseFilter(object):
    """Base class for all filter classes."""
    def _filter_one(self, obj, filter_properties):
        """Return True if it passes the filter, False otherwise.
        Override this in a subclass.
        """
        return True

    def filter_all(self, filter_obj_list, filter_properties):
        """Yield objects that pass the filter.

        Can be overridden in a subclass, if you need to base filtering
        decisions on all objects.  Otherwise, one can just override
        _filter_one() to filter a single object.
        """
        for obj in filter_obj_list:
            if self._filter_one(obj, filter_properties):
                yield obj

    # Set to true in a subclass if a filter only needs to be run once
    # for each request rather than for each instance
    run_filter_once_per_request = False

    def run_filter_for_index(self, index):
        """Return True if the filter needs to be run for the "index-th"
        instance in a request.  Only need to override this if a filter
        needs anything other than "first only" or "all" behaviour.
        """
        return not (self.run_filter_once_per_request and index > 0)

class BaseFilterHandler(base_handler.BaseHandler):
    """Base class to handle loading filter classes.

    This class should be subclassed where one needs to use filters.
    """

    def get_filtered_objects(self, filter_classes, objs,
                             filter_properties, index=0):
        """Get objects after filter

        :param filter_classes: filters that will be used to filter the
                               objects
        :param objs: objects that will be filtered
        :param filter_properties: client filter properties
        :param index: This value needs to be increased in the caller
                      function of get_filtered_objects when handling
                      each resource.
        """
        list_objs = list(objs)
        LOG.debug("Starting with %d host(s)", len(list_objs))
        for filter_cls in filter_classes:
            cls_name = filter_cls.__name__
            filter_class = filter_cls()

            if filter_class.run_filter_for_index(index):
                objs = filter_class.filter_all(list_objs, filter_properties)
                if objs is None:
                    LOG.debug("Filter %(cls_name)s says to stop filtering",
                              {'cls_name': cls_name})
                    return
                list_objs = list(objs)
                msg = (_LI("Filter %(cls_name)s returned %(obj_len)d host(s)")
                       % {'cls_name': cls_name, 'obj_len': len(list_objs)})
                if not list_objs:
                    LOG.info(msg)
                    break
                LOG.debug(msg)
        return list_objs

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A treatise on the power of silence.
True silence is a state of consciousness reached by inner peace. It is an effective balance against the blight of noise pollution that we must deal with daily.
I have lived "alone" for more than 50 years. When I discovered I was not alone and never had been, I welcomed this little book. It has excellent, fresh ideas. I loved all the Swami Paramananda's books. I am grateful to Vedanta Press for having these books available.


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VIDEO: "The Muppets" TV pitch reel to ABC that you were never supposed to see
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Posted on July 22, 2015 by Ricky Brigante 3 Comments
With "The Muppets" officially on the way to ABC, there's no doubt we're in for some sensational, inspirational, and celebrational entertainment. But apparently it took a 10-minute video pitch for the execs at ABC to give the show the green light.
Recently at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees were treated to this pitch that was never intended to be seen by the general public… until now. Thankfully, the Internet prevailed. And it's wonderful:
Sam Eagle said it best: "God bless America and it's magnificent Broadcasting Company."
"The Muppets" will debut September 22nd.
Ricky Brigante
Founder of Inside the Magic. Since growing up in Miami, Florida and ultimately moving to Orlando after college, Ricky has become an expert on Central Florida's many theme parks and attractions. He founded Inside the Magic in 2005.
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Is anyone else super ready for spring? I feel like the shock of moving back up north has been too much for me and I'm taking it extra hard. I need sunshine and warmth like time meow. How many more weeks of this crap?
I pretty much saw every blogger and their mother rocking these white mules on the gram and knew I had to snag them before they were sold out. I'm normally a 6.5 and that's what I got in these. I may have gone into a 7 if they would have been in stock but I think they work just fine.They are super comfortable and can totally be dressed up or down. And totally practical for doing all the mom things I have to do.
I really hate buying maternity clothes. Maybe it's a pride thing or maybe it's just because they're usually overpriced and in my opinion, sort of a waste of money. So I tend to just size up on normal clothes, at least until I can't anymore! Except for pants.. I'm totally okay with maternity pants. I've been living in these maternity jeans I'm wearing above and these leggings.
I scored this purse for $10.98 on clearance and I'm obsessed. It can work for any season and almost any outfit. I found a similar one online and it's a little more pricey but still less than $30! Check it out here.
I wish I could say I'll be turning in my sweaters for swimsuits in the near future but I won't. So I might as well embrace spring in the slightest way possible. Embroidered floral sweaters and white mules make me feel like I'm at least moving in the right direction of warmer weather..


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A council finance boss who stalked his ex for seven months has been spared jail - but banned from an entire town.
Former international athlete Ronnie Hunter, 56, who now works for Edinburgh City Council as its treasury and banking finance manager, was excluded from Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, for 18 months.
Sheriff Simon Collins also sentenced Hunter to 200 hours of unpaid work.
He rejected Hunter's lawyer's plea that the former GB runner should continue to be allowed to train on 1371ft Dumyat Hill, a classic hill race venue, in Bridge of Allan.
Hunter, of Garnethill, Glasgow, a Chartered Banker and a veteran athlete who has run for Scotland and Great Britain, appeared for sentence at Stirling Sheriff Court after being found guilty last month of stalking his former lover, Annabelle Cameron, by loitering "almost daily" near her home in Bridge of Allan between April and November last year and staring at her. He had denied the charge.
Stephen Maguire, defending, said Hunter's career was now in question.
He said: "There are implications potentially in respect of his professional life and the fall out from that is yet to be clarified.
The court heard Ms Cameron, 57, a social services planning and commissioning officer for Clackmannshire Council, dated Hunter over almost three years, before ending their relationship in 2017 - but Hunter "wouldn't accept it was over".
He then began driving almost daily from his home in Glasgow to Bridge of Allan and parking in her street - ignoring the "large and more convenient" free station car park - and getting a train to his Edinburgh office.
He began training and coaching with a group based at nearby Stirling University and came close to exchanging missives on a house in Annabelle's own road.
Ms Cameron said Hunter had "frightened the life out of her" and made her get counselling.
She said she couldn't understand why he was "still wandering round the streets" and "hanging about with a clipboard" near her home after they finished.
She said: "His car was in my street so often it was like another house being built. I was living on my nerves, falling apart. He just wouldn't go away.
Sheriff Collins said first-offender Hunter, an old boy of top private school Morrisons Academy, Crieff, had "persisted in a serious offence over a number of months".
He said: "He has to stay away from this woman and the areas where she lives.
He said the sentence he imposed - the community payback order with unpaid work, and an 18 month non-harassment order banning him from Bridge of Allan - was a direct alternative to prison.
Hunter has worked for Edinburgh City Council for over 11 years, after leaving the National Australia Bank.
He notes his voluntary interests on LinkedIn as "Media Team Leader - World Athletics Championships; Track & Field Support -Commonwealth Games" adding that he uses "in-depth knowledge of track and field events at major athletics championships (world/Commonwealth and Olympic games) to work with teams to ensure the effective running of events and to coordinate the media management of such events".
Last year he won the Silver Jubilee Trophy for the best age-graded performance by a male Scottish Veteran Harriers member at the Scottish Masters Outdoor Championships with a time of 12.57 seconds in the 100 metres.


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Obrázky stránek
Principles of Elocution
Od autorů: Thomas Ewing
looks homeward, and well-known voices come to him amidst the war of the waves. The parent sends away his children, but sends them to prosper, and to press them again to his heart, with a joy enhanced by separation. Are such the separations which slavery makes ? and can he who has scattered other families, ask God to bless his own ?
CHANNING.
41.-ON GRIEVING FOR THE DEAD. We sympathize even with the dead, and overlooking what is of real importance in their situation, that awful futurity which awaits them, we are chiefly affected by those circumstances which strike our senses, but can have no influence upon their happiness. It is miserable, we think, to be deprived of the light of the sun; to be shut out from life and conversation; to be laid in the cold grave, a prey to corruption and the reptiles of the earth; to be no more thought of in this world, but to be obliterated in a little time from the affections, and almost from the memory, of their dearest friends and relations. Surely, we imagine, we can never feel too much for those who have suffered so dreadful a calamity. The tribute of our fellow-feeling seems doubly due to them now, when they are in danger of being forgot by every body; and, by the vain honours which we pay to their memory, we endeavour, for our own misery, artificially to keep alive our melancholy remembrance of their misfortune. That our sympathy can afford them no consolation, seems to be an addition to their calamity; and to think that all we can do is unavailing, and that, what alleviates all other distresses, the regret, the love, and the lamentations of their friends, can yield no comfort to them, serves only to exasperate our sense of their misery. The happiness of the dead, however, most assuredly, is affected by none of these circumstances; nor is it the thought of these things which can ever disturb the profound security of their repose. The idea of that dreary and endless melancholy, which the fancy naturally ascribes to their condition, arises altogether from our joining to the change which has been produced upon them, our own consciousness of that change, from our putting ourselves in their situation, and from our lodging, if I may be allowed to say so, our own living souls in their inanimated bodies, and thence conceiving what would be our emotions in this case. It is from this very illusion of the imagination, that the foresight of our own dissolution is so terrible to us, and that the idea of these circumstances, which undoubtedly can give us no pain when we are dead, makes us miserable while we are alive. And thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects society.
DR ADAM SMITH.
42.-ON REMORSE.
As the greater and more irreparable the evil that is done, the resentment of the sufferer runs naturally the higher; so does likewise the sympathetic indignation of the spectator, as well as the sense of guilt in the agent. Death is the greatest evil which one man can inflict upon another, and excites the highest degree of resentment in those who are immediately connected with the slain. Murder, therefore, is the most atrocious of all crimes which affect individuals cnly, in the sight both of mankind and of the person who has committed it. To be deprived of that which we are possessed of, is a greater evil than to be disappointed of what we have only the expectation of. Breach of property, therefore, theft and robbery, which take from us what we are possessed of, are greater crimes than breach of contract, which only disappoints us of what we expected. The most sacred laws of justice, therefore, those whose violation seems to call loudest for vengeance and punishment, are the laws which guard the life and person of our neighbour; the next are those which guard his property and possessions; and last of all come those which guard what are called his personal rights, or what is due to him from the promises of others.
The violator of the more sacred laws of justice can never reflect on the sentiments which mankind must entertain with regard to him, without feeling all the agonies of shame, and horror, and consternation. When his passion is gratified, and he begins coolly to reflect on his past conducts he can enter into none of the motives which influenced it.
They appear now as detestable to him as they did always to other people. By sympathizing with the hatred and abhorrence which other men must entertain for him, he becomes in some measure the object of his own hatred and abhorrence. The situation of the person who suffered by his injustice. now calls upon his pity. He is grieved at the thought of it; regrets the unhappy effects of his own conduct; and feels at the same time that they have rendered him the proper object of the resentment and indignation of mankind, and of what is the natural consequence of resentment, vengeance and punishment. The thought of this perpetually haunts him, and fills him with terror and amazement. He dares no longer look society in the face, but imagines himself as it were rejected, and thrown out from the affections of all mankind. He cannot hope for the consolation of sympathy in this his greatest and most dreadful distress. The remembrance of his crimes has shut out all fellow-feeling with him from the hearts of his fellow-creatures. The sentiments which they entertain with regard to him are the very thing which he is most afraid of. Every thing seems hostile, and he would be glad to fly to some inhospitable desert, where he might never more behold the face of a human creature, nor read the countenance of mankind the condemnation of his crimes. But solitude is still more dreadful than society. His own thoughts can present him with nothing but what is black, unfortunate, and disastrous, the melancholy forebodings of incomprehensible misery and ruin. The horror of solitude drives him back to society, and he comes again into the presence of mankind, astonished to appear before them loaded with shame and distracted with fear, in order to supplicate some little protection from the countenance of those very judges, who he knows have already unanimously condemned him. Such is the nature of that sentiment, which is properly called remorse ; of all the sentiments which can enter the human breast the most dreadful. It is made up of shame from the sense of: the impropriety of past conduct; of grief for the effects of it;
of pity for those who suffer by it; and of the dread and terror of punishment from the consciousness of the justly-provoked resentment of all rational creatures. DR ADAM SMITH.
43.-ON HUMAN GRANDEUR.
An Alehouse-keeper near Islington, who had long lived at the sign of the French King, upon the commencement of the last war pulled down his old sign, and put up that of the Queen of Hungary. Under the influence of her red face and golden sceptre, he continued to sell ale, till she was no longer the favourite of his customers; he changed her, therefore, some time ago, for the King of Prussia, who may probably be changed, in turn, for the next great man that shall be set up for vulgar admiration.
In this manner the great are dealt out, one after the other, to the gazing crowd. When we have sufficiently wondered at one of them, he is taken in, and another exhibited in his
room, who seldom holds his station long; for the mob are ever pleased with variety
I must own I bave such an indifferent opinion of the vulgar, that I am ever led to suspect that merit which raises their shout; at least I am certain to find those great, and sometimes good men, who derive satisfaction from such acclamations, made worse by it; and history has too frequently taught me, that the head which has grown this day giddy with the roar of the million, has the very next been fixed upon a pole.
We have seen those virtues which have, while living, retired from the public eye, generally transmitted to posterity, as the truest objects of admiration and praise. Perhaps the character of the late Duke of Marlborough may one day be set up, even above that of his more-talked-of predecessor; since an assemblage of all the mild and amiable virtues is far superior to those vulgarly called the great ones.
I must be pardoned for this short tribute to the memory of a man, who, while living, would have as much detested to receive any thing that,
appearance of flattery as I should dislike to offer it.
wore the
There is scarcely a village in Europe, and not one university, that is not furnished with its little great men.
The head of a petty corporation, who opposes the designs of a prince, who would tyrannically force his subjects to save their best clothes for Sundays; the puny pedant, who finds one undiscovered quality in the polypus, or describes an unheeded process in the skeleton of a mole, and whose mind, like his microscope, perceives nature only in detail ; the rhymer, who makes smooth verses, and paints to our imagination, when he should only speak to our hearts; all equally fancy themselves walking forward to immortality, and desire the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. " Where was there ever so much merit seen ? no times so important as our own! ages, yet unborn, shall gaze with wonder and applause !" To such music the important pigmy moves forward, bustling and swelling, and aptly compared to a puddle in a storm.
I have lived to see generals who once had crowds hallooing after them wherever they went, who were bepraised by newspapers and magazines, those echoes of the voice of the vulgar, and yet they have long sunk into merited obscurity, with scarcely even an epitaph left to flatter. A few years ago the herring-fishery employed all Grub-street; it was the topic in every coffee-house, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We bave fished up very little gold that I can learn; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected. Let us wait but a few years longer, and we shall find all our expectations a herring-fishery.
GOLDSMITH.
44.—THE EFFECT OF ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ON THE BELIEF
OF MANKIND. A weak mind, unaccustomed to reflection, and which has pasșively derived its most important opinions from habits or from authority, when in consequence of a more enlarged intercourse
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation today revealed the latest standings in the Official WBSC Baseball World Rankings, which weigh a country's entire National Team programme (from U-12 to Pro) in international competition.
The WBSC Baseball World Rankings reflect a 4-year cycle and a data set of more than 1,000 international contests dating back to 2012.
Ranked No. 1 since November 2014, Japan (5,154 pts.) remains the top-ranked baseball power, while the United States remains at No. 2 (5,091 pts.).
The U.S. has pulled within 63 ranking points of the top spot, having defended the country's world titles at the U-12 Baseball World Cup and U-18 Baseball World Cup in 2015, while having placed second at the 2015 Pan-Am Games and flagship Premier12, which awards the most ranking points of any international competition.
Chinese Taipei has moved up a position from world No. 4 to No. 3, a historical high for the nation.
Korea, bolstered by winning the Premier12 last November, has jumped up four spots to tie its highest-ever ranking at No. 4 in the world. Korea climbed as high as No. 4 in 2009, following a gold medal performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and a second-place finish at the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Mexico, who advanced to the semifinals of the Premier12, has moved up five spots to world No. 7, a historical high for Mexico.
Italy, now Europe's top-ranked country, has advanced two positions to world No. 9. Italy's breaking into the Top 10 equals the nation's highest-ever ranking.
The Dominican Republic, who finished winless at the Premier12, has dropped six places to world No. 12, falling out of the Top 10.
Puerto Rico has also fallen out of the Top 10, dropping two spots to No. 11.
Oceania's top nation Australia has moved up a spot to world No. 13.
No. 40 South Africa is Africa's best-ranked representative.
Four nations are making their historic debuts in the WBSC Baseball World Rankings: No. 58 Singapore, No. 59 India, No. 66 Estonia and No. 68 Iraq.
Sweden made the biggest leap forward in the rankings, moving up 24 spots from No. 53 to No. 29.
The top international competitions on the 2016 calendar are the U-23 Baseball World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico in Oct./Nov., which will award 690 points to the nation that captures the U-23 world title, and the U-15 Baseball World Cup in Japan in Jul./Aug., which will award 460 points to the U-15 world champion.
An updated WBSC World Baseball Rankings methodology and point allocation can be viewed here.


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Il comune di Firenze è diviso ufficialmente in cinque quartieri amministrativi, nei quali sono compresi a loro volta zone urbanistiche e quartieri minori.

Le prime Circoscrizioni di decentramento fiorentine furono create a metà degli anni 1970, sull'esperienza dei precedenti comitati di zona. Fino al 1990 i Quartieri furono 14, per diventare con un'ampia riforma gli attuali 5.

Elenco dei quartieri
Il Quartiere 1 Centro Storico, oltre ai rioni di San Jacopino, di Piazza Puccini e alle Cascine (dove insiste l'Istituto di Scienze Aeronautiche e la Scuola Militare "G. Douhet" dell'Aeronautica Militare) comprende il centro storico, anima della città, frequentatissima meta di turismo e inestimabile patrimonio dell'umanità dell'UNESCO, sede di importanti musei come la Galleria degli Uffizi, delle principali istituzioni, della stazione centrale di Firenze e di numerose attività.

Il Quartiere 2 Campo di Marte comprende aree prevalentemente residenziali (Le Cure, Campo di Marte, Coverciano, Piazza Alberti…) oltre che le principali strutture sportive della città, tra le quali lo stadio Artemio Franchi e il Centro Tecnico Sportivo Federale della FIGC, il Nelson Mandela Forum e l'omonima stazione ferroviaria.

Il Quartiere 3 Gavinana-Galluzzo, composto dalle zone di Gavinana, Bandino, Sorgane e Nave a Rovezzano e del Galluzzo, occupa la parte a sud-est della città.

Il Quartiere 4 Isolotto-Legnaia è composto principalmente da Isolotto, Legnaia, Soffiano, San Lorenzo a Greve e Cintoia e si situa nella parte a sud-ovest della città, in prossimità dell'inizio della Firenze-Pisa-Livorno e dell'autostrada del Sole.

Il Quartiere 5 Rifredi, il più esteso e popolato, occupa il quadrante nord-ovest della città. Comprende al suo interno varie zone urbanistiche come Statuto, Rifredi, Novoli e alcuni sobborghi come Brozzi, Peretola e Quaracchi. Ospita molte strutture di ampio rilievo urbano e metropolitano quali il grande Policlinico Careggi, l'Ospedale pediatrico Meyer, il Centro traumatologico ortopedico, le sedi di molte Facoltà (economia, giurisprudenza, scienze politiche, ingegneria, medicina e chirurgia, farmacia, scienze matematiche fisiche e naturali) dell'Università degli Studi, l'importante stazione Rifredi, il nuovo Palazzo di Giustizia, l'aeroporto di Firenze, la Scuola marescialli e brigadieri dei carabinieri e l'inizio dell'autostrada A11. Nel Quartiere 5 è presente poi la maggioranza degli insediamenti industriali rimasti dentro i confini del comune di Firenze e non spostatisi nell'hinterland.

Funzioni e amministrazione
Queste sono le principali funzioni dei Quartieri:
 Sottoporre al Consiglio Comunale, alla Giunta e al Sindaco mozioni, interrogazioni, interpellanze e proposte;
 Esprimere pareri obbligatori sui piani urbanistici generali e specifici, sui bilanci comunali, sui regolamenti e deliberazioni comunali che interessano i Quartieri.
 Gestire direttamente servizi di base e alla persona, secondo appositi criteri direttivi approvati dal Consiglio Comunale generalmente all'inizio di ogni consiliatura.

Gli organi politici statutari dei Quartieri sono tre: Consiglio, Presidente e Collegio di Presidenza. A questi si aggiungono le Commissioni consiliari

Consiglio di Quartiere
Il Consiglio di Quartiere è composto di 19 membri, eletti direttamente con il metodo proporzionale, con premio di maggioranza e preferenze. Le elezioni si svolgono contestualmente a quelle per il Sindaco ed il Consiglio comunale di Firenze. In caso di scioglimento anticipato del Consiglio Comunale, sono sciolti anche i Consigli di Quartiere. Ogni consigliere deve appartenere ad un gruppo consiliare. Fino al 2014 i consiglieri di Quartiere erano 23.

Commissioni Consiliari
Tutti i consiglieri compongono le Commissioni Consiliari Permanenti, con compiti consultivi e di impulso relativi alle competenze attribuite ai Quartieri. Sono composte da 5 o 7 membri, proporzionalmente distribuiti tra i gruppi del Consiglio, e presiedute da un consigliere di maggioranza. I vicepresidenti sono invece consiglieri di opposizione.

Ogni anno le Commissioni sottopongono al Consiglio le linee programmatiche, riguardanti le tematiche e le funzioni ad esse delegate.

In tutti i Quartieri la Commissione Garanzia e Regolamento, con funzioni di controllo sull'operato politico del Quartiere, mantiene la proporzionalità elettiva ma è presieduta da un consigliere di opposizione.

In caso di particolari tematiche da affrontare possono essere istituite Commissioni Consiliari Speciali, con durata limitata e prestabilita.

Presidente del Consiglio di Quartiere
Il presidente è eletto direttamente dai cittadini. In caso di assenza o temporanea impossibilità è sostituito dal Vicepresidente, eletto in votazione separata nuovamente nella prima seduta. In caso di dimissioni entro i primi tre anni di consiliatura, il Consiglio procede ad una nuova elezione oppure si procede con nuove elezioni circoscrizionali. In caso di dimissioni dopo questa data, il Consiglio è sciolto ed il Quartiere è commissariato.

Collegio di Presidenza
È composto da Presidente, Vicepresidente e dai presidenti delle commissioni consiliari permanenti espressione della maggioranza. È l'organo esecutivo del Quartiere. Coordina inoltre i lavori delle Commissioni e del Consiglio, ha potere di impulso nei confronti degli altri organismi e può proporre atti e linee d'indirizzo al Consiglio.

Amministrazione della consigliatura 2009-2014
Tutti i Quartieri sono stati amministrati da coalizioni di centrosinistra, formate da Partito Democratico, Italia dei Valori, Sinistra per Firenze (composta da Sel e Socialisti) e Comunisti Fiorentini, nati da una costola dei Comunisti Italiani. Nel 2012 la maggioranza del Quartiere 1 fu ampliata a due liste civiche di sinistra.

I presidenti sono stati espressione di PD (Quartieri 1,  3 e 5) e Sinistra per Firenze (Quartiere 2, poi iscrittosi al PSI e Quartiere 4, poi iscrittosi al PD). I vicepresidenti espressione di IDV (Quartiere 1 e 5), e PD (Quartieri 2, 3 e 4).

Amministrazione della consigliatura 2014-2019
Le elezioni amministrative del 25 maggio 2014 hanno confermato le coalizioni di centrosinistra alla guida dei Quartieri fiorentini, con maggioranze più ampie rispetto alla precedente consigliatura. SEL non fa parte di queste maggioranze.

Tali coalizioni sono formate da PD, IDV e 5-6 liste civiche. Tutti i presidenti sono espressione del Partito Democratico.

Amministrazione della consigliatura 2019-2024
Nel 2019 la riforma del regolamento elettorale ha introdotto alcune innovazioni:

 il presidente è eletto direttamente dai cittadini, con votazione in turno unico coincidente con quella per l'elezione del Sindaco,del Consiglio Comunale e dei consigli di Quartiere
 la coalizione vincente, che esprime anche il presidente in quanto non è permesso il voto disgiunto, elegge almeno i due terzi dei consiglieri
 all'interno delle coalizioni i seggi sono distribuiti con il metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti

Le elezioni amministrative del 26 maggio 2019 hanno confermato le coalizioni di centrosinistra, formate da PD, +Europa, liste civiche e liste ambientaliste in numeri variabili da Quartiere a Quartiere. I presidenti sono tutti espressione del Partito Democratico: in 4 Quartieri sono stati confermati i presidenti uscenti eccetto nel Quartiere 3, in cui il precedente presidente non si è ricandidato.

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It was a perfect fall day today: sunny and warm with just a hint of crispness on the breeze.
Laura and Monie both had covetable boots.
Elise and Micah. Check out Elise's patterned tights.
I spent a lot of the ride admiring Monie's cool slouchy purse with crossover strap and polkadot dress.
… as we took a 45 minute ride skimming the top of the river valley.
Sadly the leaves have mostly fallen already, but it did mean we had views through the branches.
We stopped and took photos under the trees near the Faculty Club.
She was our pregnant friend in the first Critical Lass ride, & her gorgeous little boy is 6 weeks old.
The Fluevog boots, Sock Dreams tights, and corduroy skirt are a divine match to her vintage Sparta.
Laura sewed this incredible liner for her Eaton's Road King, BeBe, herself.
(which she learnt the hard way).
Coreen is effortlessly cool. Check out the button detail on her blouse and the purple tights.
Gorgeous Selene and her gorgeous Raleigh.
We're so very grateful that they weren't badly hurt in the crosswalk incident a few weeks back.
You know, Judy, it's hard to get a good photo of a photographer!
Matching the narrow belt you cinched your shirtdress with to your covetable Yakkay helmet? Nice touch.
Judy has lots of terrific photos from the ride on her blog.
and gives a nice glimpse of a beautiful tattoo and wonderful large-gauge ear plugs (I wish I had caught her name! update: on Corby).
Group shot. Thanks to the stranger who took this for us.
After photos, we continued on to the little retail area in Garneau near the High Level Bridge.
(the secret: tiny split rings and special pliers made for holding them open).
The hemp-blend skirt has drawstrings that let you ruche the top layer as little or as much as you like.
I triple-tied them so they wouldn't end up in my spokes.
bought to allow my summery 1st-pregnancy wardrobe be worn for my 2nd (autumn) pregnancy.
The dry leaves in the bike lane rustled as our wheels rolled through them.
I'm glad not all the leaves had fallen.
I didn't take any photos in redbike, our favourite LBS, but it's a wonderful shop full of temptations. I finally got to meet Cliff, the owner, and got some advice on a rack for installing a child seat – and Chris noticed that one of Mary Poppins' tires has a loose spoke and needs attention. (So *that's* what's creating that wobble in her gait!). I'll be returning very soon so they can attend to that and some other somewhat-urgent maintenance matters for me (Getting to EBC has been a challenge for me lately!).
Then we popped into The Sugarbowl for rehydration and an early supper. I probably spent an hour a day there back when it was a cafe and I was a grad student. The menu has changed, but the atmosphere is still wonderful there. We arrived just as the menu was switching, so some of us ordered right away from the brunch menu and the rest of us waited 15 minutes and ordered from the dinner menu. I had the delicious corn bread and part of an enormous serving of crab fritters – the rest got packed to come home.
Doesn't Selene's oatmeal look delish?
Karen's husband Dan and a friend met us at the bistro, so we all got to see her beautiful baby boy.
Then we parted ways, and Laura and I rode back the way we had come.
On the way back I just enjoyed the ride without using my camera.
Thanks to all the fabulous women who came out for the ride!
Next Critical Lass ride date will be announced soon.
Update: in addition to Judy's blog post, there are more fantastic photos of our beautiful ride at Coreen's blog.
We have chosen a date for the next Critical Lass ride!
We've moved it to a Saturday so that we're not competing with Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' AGM (1-3pm on Sun Oct 3rd).
The weather will probably be cool. This is a great opportunity to do a layered fall look with tall boots!
Next question is what route should we do? Comments?