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NCHRP Report 666 describes methods that managers of state departments of transporta-
tion (DOTs) and other agencies can use for setting performance targets to achieve multiple
objectives and interact with multiple decision-makers and stakeholder groups, and how
data management systems within a DOT can support performance-based decision-making.
Transportation agencies at all levels of government are embracing performance measure-
ment to improve agency efficiency and accountability. Setting performance targets, a cru-
cial step in the management process, generally entails balancing among competing objec-
tives and dealing with political implications. Unless the bases for setting those targets are
sound and defensible and key decision makers and stakeholders concur, the effectiveness of
performance-based management is likely to be compromised. This report presents a frame-
work and specific guidance for target-setting and for ensuring that appropriate data are
available to support performance management. The report draws on a range of private- and
public-sector examples to explore issues of data management and stewardship as well as
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accountability is almost certain to be compromised.
Previous NCHRP-sponsored research has addressed limited aspects of performance mea-
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aspects of DOT management, from planning and policy development to project implemen-
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designed also to describe data management systems and institutional relationships that will
support DOT use of performance-based resource allocation.
The specific objectives of the research were to (1) describe a comprehensive framework
and set of methods (a) to analyze opportunities to improve the multiple-objective perfor-
mance of transportation systems within the context of broader societal goals and (b) to set
specific performance targets to guide agency policies, plans, and programs; (2) detail the fac-
tors that influence target-setting and the success of performance-based resource allocation
systems and explain how agencies may successfully design, implement, and use such sys-
tems; and (3) analyze the data and information needs, data acquisition and management
systems, and institutional relationships required to support successful PBRA systems. Case
studies of organizations that use performance-based resource allocation and other exam-
ples illustrate methods for presenting performance information to decision makers and
other stakeholders and decision-support systems that can provide this information.
A team led by Cambridge Systematics conducted this research. The work started with a
review of current private- and public-sector practices in using performance-based resource
allocation to investigate the key elements of the performance-measurement and resource-
allocation processes and the tools, data-management systems, and institutional relation-
ships needed to support these elements.
The research team next sought to describe factors likely to influence the setting of perfor-
mance targets in transportation agencies. Agency scope and organization; agencies' use of
forecasting; availability, precision, and reliability of data within the agency; agencies' expe-
rience using benefit-cost analysis and other evaluation methodology; and stakeholders' per-
ceptions and expectations were considered. Data management systems and institutional
relationships to support performance-based resource allocation were given particular atten-
tion in the project work. The research results include specific guidance in two areas: perfor-
mance target-setting as a factor affecting resource allocation and data management. Case-
study reports of organizations investigated in the research are presented as well. These
results are presented in this NCHRP report and the supplemental web-only document,
NCHRP Web-Only Document 154, available on the TRB website.
An extension of the research being developed as these publications were in preparation
will identify how risk analysis may best be used by transportation agencies in performance-
based resource allocation. The extension will provide details on specific analysis methods
and applications and on information technology tools and data sharing options to support
target-setting in performance-based resource allocation.
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When the London elite have trouble finding just the right accessories for their latest ball gowns, they turn to Annie Valentine, whose fashion sense can't be beat. Carmen Reid introduces us to Annie in The Personal Shopper, the first of a fun series that takes readers behind the scenes of a posh department store. In addition to following the latest fashion trends, Annie has to deal with a difficult boss, raise two children on her own and schedule time to date. In later books, Annie thinks about starting her own business and gets tangled up in the television world. Readers will love the diverse characters and visiting the fashion hot spots of the world as they follow Annie's adventures from the first book through the latest, Shopping with the Enemy.
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The measure of the true love for a philosopher is that one recognizes traces of his concepts all around in one's daily experience. Recently, while watching again Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, I noticed a wonderful detail in the coronation scene at the beginning of the first part: when the two (for the time being) closest friends of Ivan pour golden coins from the large plates onto his newly anointed head, this veritable rain of gold cannot but surprise the spectator by its magically excessive character - even after we see the two plates almost empty, we cut to Ivan's head on which golden coins "nonrealistically" continue to pour in a continuing flow. Is this excess not very "Deleuzian"? Is it not the excess of the pure flow of becoming over its corporeal cause, of the virtual over the actual?
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Finding a mouthful of joy in the concrete jungle
By Marina Wolf
SOME PEOPLE WAKE up when spring rolls around. I'm the exact opposite: fall is my favorite season. Around this time of year, my pulse quickens. During the darkening autumn twilight I drive the car through alleyways and hushed back streets, quietly, slowly. Sometimes I get out and peer up into the tossing trees, my vision keen, my breath shallow.
I'm stalking the wild persimmon.
They aren't really wild, but they're as good as I'm going to get in the heart of the city: untended, and on someone else's property. The only tree I've found so far has grown unchecked for at least 40 years at the back of one of those big mid-block plots. The rambling Victorian has been renovated into a blank-faced hive of law offices, which means that if I get caught I could get sued 10 ways to Sunday. But my conscience is clear about my nighttime raids.
If those lawyers can't be bothered to tend the tree, they don't deserve to pick the produce.
And as they say, "It's not stealing, it's liberating."
For starters, I'm liberating the fruit from a certain and untimely fate of squishing onto the uncaring pavement.
Every year, from August through early winter, the streets of Santa Rosa literally overflow with bushels of fruit: plums, apples, lemons, loquats. In older times this fecundity would have been cause for celebration. Children would be conceived, goddesses praised, communal banquet tables loaded with the harvest.
Instead, the rain of ripe fruit incites only cries of disgust as it bounces off cars and stains the sidewalks.
Picking the fruit before that fateful fall is a little like adopting mongrels from the pound. No one wants them, owing to all their apparent defects, and at first glance I'm not sure I want them, either. Semi-wild apples are knotted and often seething with worms. Untended plums vary from one branch to the next, sometimes sour and pinched from lack of sun, sometimes baked in their skins to a mushy pulp.
The persimmons from "my tree" are sooty and small, almost feral in contrast to their smooth-skinned domesticated cousins. And any fruit that's ripe enough to eat by the time I get to it has almost certainly been visited by the birds.
I overlook a lot in my foraged goods: anything short of complete decay is fine when the fruit is for free.
Why do I forage if the fruit can be so nasty? Well, looks aren't everything. Wild and semi-wild foods are more intensely flavored than the froufrou cultivated stuff. And foraging connects me to the food chain in a way that's truly miraculous. I'm not a religious person, but finding food growing in the middle of the city sometimes feels like tripping over a chunk of manna in the desert.
It's an adrenaline rush, too.
The persimmons are a challenging prey. Not only is the fruit high up, but some of it hangs over the parking lot of a bank. It's hard to act nonchalant in a bank parking lot, but I just hold to the first rule of urban foraging: act as if you belong there. A bucket and a long-handled apple picker provide a certain air of forethought, and self-possession covers the rest.
By comparison, most of the other empty lots are easy targets. They harbor some fine fruit trees, and no one ever questions my presence, if indeed anyone can even see me through the underbrush. Getting fruit out of yards where people still live is a bit tricky. Sometimes I ask--especially when they're standing right there, or if the tree is in front of the living-room window--but I also will take, if the moment presents itself, a casual nibble as I pass the fence line.
YES, I'M A BIT OBSESSED. But I didn't always think this way. Once I walked with the oblivious masses, trodding blithely on the sad castoffs from someone else's tree. I must have stepped over my first wild fruit a thousand times before I noticed it, one date among the thousands that littered the asphalt under a row of scraggly palms. For some reason I picked it up, rolled it around in my fingers. The date was tiny, all pit and wrinkled skin; it looked nothing like the plump, well-watered dates from the store. But when I tentatively nibbled on it, a honeyed sweetness exploded in my mouth, and my view of the natural world changed forever.
Now, as I pace through the concrete jungle, I can scarcely take three steps without noticing some new food source: here a particularly prolific patch of blackberries, there an untrimmed hedge of rose hips. I try to carry some small container in the car, in the event that I stumble across a real harvest, but usually the take is so limited that I end up eating it right where I pick it. I take a bite and toss the remains into a bush, then move on to the next piece of fruit. I pry out the pit, bite away the wormy part, and spit it out.
I scan the foliage for other fruits, my hands busily pawing away in search of the next mouthful.
My wild mind forgets that I have juicy, clean grapes and blemish-free pears sitting neatly in a bowl at home. I am caught up in the quest.
Right now, in the moment, I want to hunt for my supper.
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Jimbei did say that only if he took a liking to luffy that he'd look after him and that's what jimbei's doing right now. But ace also told jimbei about how much the crew takes care of luffy so he'll only be looking after luffy until the crew is reunited cause once they are together, jimbei will have no need to look after luffy anymore
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There's a saying in the OP forums which goes like this..."If a new unidentified character is wearing a hat, he must be Sabo!"...Yeah, take that Obitio/Tobi/Madara theorists!
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I'm going to say no to all of those choices.
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this sounds a bit like you just read through the thread and picked out what most of us are saying.
also NO boa will not join for many reasons neither will jimbi
perona, Margarette, and MR.2 are at the top of most of our lists right now
and croc was a theory i brought up not to long ago that is very very unlikely
well like i said unlikely im not saying its 100% not possible
1. they both have there own problems and there home lands to worry about.
2. they are to well established all ready and would do more harm then good.
3. they are two strong and if oda added them its would be a bit uncreative and oda is so creative that he could find better and more creative ways to beef up the crew.
Boa really doesn't have a problem per say because her leaving is the exact same thing as her predecessor. And as long as she remains a warlord, the government will protect her island. As far as Jimbei goes, one can use the argument of saying he will be keeping his word to Ace as far as looking out for Luffy. As of now he is still sticking with Luffy. If he really needed to protect his island he would of left after Rayleigh came.
Boa will not join Luffy coz she can't..i mean if WG knew she with Luffy, her shicibukai status may have been revoked, and it'll put Amazon Lily in jeopardize don't you think??and for jimbei, he'll will accompany luffy till he get to merman island..that what i thought.


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A man crashed his car into an apartment building Tuesday, rupturing a natural gas line and causing an explosion that destroyed much of the building and injured at least two people.
The center section of the 35-unit building in the southwest part of the city exploded about 3:30 p.m., and it took as many as 75 firefighters at least five hours to contain and extinguish the inferno.
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Dyer said rescue crews were called to the scene of what was reported as a car hitting a building. They began pounding on the doors of roughly eight apartments in the immediate area after they realized the gas main had been hit. They received no response from the apartments, but the building exploded before they had a chance to go back and force their way in, he said.
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Beautiful late autumn image ! Wonderful November mood captured with the muted colors , the overcast sky and the lighting ! CONGRATULATIONS, Mary ! Hope you had a good Thanksgiving weekend ! |
Beautiful shot! Congratulations! Happy Thanksgiving! |
Congratulations on the AC!Happy Thanksgiving !!! |
gorgeous shot. love this one. |
Very beautiful shot. Congratulations on the AC! |
so beautiful Mary!! love the light and the neutral colors! great shot and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! |
Beautiful scene & the same to you - AC Congrats, Mary! |
Mary, this is beautiful! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Celebrating life, Debra |
Beautiful autumn shot - Happy Thanksgiving to you too! |
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By Anonymous Coward May 24, 2004 |
Saw the area 05/22/04. There are actually many more routes in the Ice Cream Parlor that have not made this site yet. A friendly group we met up there pointed out a 5.6 trad route to anchors, another 5.7 trad route to anchors, and we saw anchors for about three other routes that aren't in any guide books yet. I don't know any names or any other info on the newer routes... sorry. Though, we could have done more climbing if we had bigger cams... bring a big rack with big pro for some of the routes that are not on this site yet. Great area! |
By grega Mar 24, 2006 |
Climbed around here for the first time last week. Good fun. A few bolted routes (not in guide) around the 3-crack area. They appeared to be around 5.8/5.9's and a 5.10 far right. We climbed a crack just right of Knee Grinder (I think). The route went: up an "easy" water groove, through a dirty BD#4 bulge, thin fingers corner (i.e. hard to protect), right around a roof, up to some anchor/slings. The Bjornstad guide misrepresents this line (i.e. lists it twice differently). Anyone know what it is?? |
By dkmzligon From: Thornton, CO Apr 4, 2007 |
The Ice Cream Parlor is a great area for climbers that want a relaxed atmosphere. Great for families because it has climbs for all abilities (5.6 - 5.11). Good top anchors make setting top ropes a breeze. |
By denise 911 From: fort collins, co Mar 30, 2008 |
nice south facing wall with some good variety in routes. looks like they closed off the camping area for parking (or maybe due to jeep safari that was going on)? wide spot in the road still fits a few cars. Perfect setting for a relaxed afternoon at the crag. |
By Greg D From: Here Apr 7, 2008 |
Here is a guide to put the routes in order from left to right. (updated 11/06/08) Starting from the lower left: Pandemic 10+, Kura Burnan 12, Rattler 11. Up the hill approx 50 feet/30 feet down and left from slabs: Unkown 8 (left slanting finger crack). At the left side of slabs: 5.6 Corner, 10TR, Parlor Game 9 (3 bolts). Unkown 7 (approx 5 bolts). Right of gully: Black Slab 6 (Bolts - 2 different starts), Slab 7 (bolts), Crack 3 8 TR, Crack 2 8R or TR, Crack 1 (aka Wolverine) 8, Hot Carl Sunday 10b/c bolts, RP City 10b, same start as RP City is Vanilla Cream 10a mixed. traverse right on ledge to Freezer Burn and "Not RP City" 10a with one bolt at start then moves right into corner/crack system (incorrectly listed as RP City in Rock Climbing Utah). A hundred yards right get on ledge and traverse left to (from left to right): A Good Day to Die 9, Ice Cream Parlor Crack 11b, Pulp Friction 11, The Coffin 9, The Possessed 11c bolts, Knee Grinder 9+ (right of and behind Possessed with same anchor). Right of Knee Grinder (not 100% sure of the following. they all exist but not sure of order): Deathtrap 8, T-Rex II/11c/4 pitches, basterdized old route. See topo: mountainproject.com/v/utah/moa... |
By Brian Scoggins From: Boise, ID Mar 16, 2009 |
There is a route between Unknown 8 and 5.6 Corner that starts on either splitter fingers or a wide slot, then climbs through rubble to a two bolt anchor. It is incredibly loose between the initial splitter or offwidth and the anchors, and should be avoided at all cost. Toproping this route WILL cause rock fall. |
By Reedrombo From: Nationwide Dirtbag Mar 14, 2010 |
Reference Greg D's comment. I just climbed Ice Cream Parlor 2 days ago. There are quite a few sport slab climbs that are easy and fun. we swung over and top roped the 10 to the left side of the slab, thats actually the best slab climb i did during my entire stay in Moab, it was great! Its a great place, good view, we were sad it was the last place we checked out we didnt even get to make it down to the right side. Also, slab climb number 3 has two pitches. The second pitch is bolted as well and is really easy so good for multi pitch practice. The last bolt to the chains is pretty run out but you can literally walk to it. Good stuff! |
By Scott H. From: Sandy, UT Dec 7, 2011 |
I had a bit of a hard time finding the location of this area based on the provided directions. I think a few things have changed over the years. Camping is not allowed at the pullout/ parking area and there are several cattle guards along Kane creek. I found it easiest if you head into the canyon from Moab. After descending into the canyon there is an intermittent stream crossing just after you pass a campsite area on the left. Then after the canyon begins to open up and the road turns to the left there is a pullout on the left for this area. I hope that helps. |
By Greg D From: Here Jun 30, 2012 |
Some recent updates were in order. So, Scott H's post may not apply any longer. |
By J. Pitts From: Garden City, Ks Apr 23, 2015 |
This place is a zoo, literally like 2 dogs to each human, plus babies. Glad I showed up at the crack of dawn and left when the hoards showed up. good rock quality, fun climbs, shouldn't really complain. |


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