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Document Type
Date of Degree
Summer 2015
Degree Name
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Degree In
Business Administration
First Advisor
Ohlmann, Jeffrey
Second Advisor
Thomas, Barrett
First Committee Member
Campbell, Ann
Second Committee Member
de Matta, Renato
Third Committee Member
Chen, Yong
Motivated by the management of sales representatives who visit customers to develop customer relationships, we present a stochastic orienteering problem on a network of queues, in which a hard time window is associated with each customer and the representative may experience uncertain wait time resulting from a queueing process at the customer.
In general, given a list of potential customers and a time horizon consisting of several periods, the sales representative needs to decide which customers to visit in each period and how to visit customers within the period, with an objective to maximize the total reward collected by the end of the horizon. We start our study with a daily orienteering problem, which is a subproblem of the general problem. We focus on developing a priori and dynamic routing strategies for the salesperson to implement during a day.
In the a priori routing case, the salesperson visits customers in a pre-planned order, and we seek to construct a static sequence of customers that maximizes the expected value collected. We consider two types of recourse actions. One is to skip a customer specified by an a priori route if the representative will arrive late in the customer's time window. The other type is to leave a customer immediately after arriving if observing a sufficiently long queue (balking) or to leave after waiting in queue for a period of time without meeting with the customer (reneging). We propose customer-specific decision rules to facilitate the execution of recourse actions and derive an analytical formula to compute the expected sales from the a priori route. We tailor a variable neighborhood search (VNS) heuristic to find a priori routes.
In the dynamic routing case, the salesperson decides which customer to visit and how long to wait at each customer based on realized events. To seek dynamic routing policies, we propose an approximate dynamic programming approach based on rollout algorithms. The method introduces a two-stage heuristic estimation that we refer to as compound rollout. In the first stage, the algorithm decides whether to stay at the current customer or go to another customer. If departing the current customer, it chooses the customer to whom to go in the second stage. We demonstrate the value of our modeling and solution approaches by comparing the dynamic policies to a priori solutions with recourse actions.
Finally, we address the multi-period orienteering problem. We consider that each customer's likelihood of adopting the representative's product stochastically evolves over time and is not fully observed by the representative. The representative can only estimate the adoption likelihood by meeting with the customer and the estimation may not be accurate. We model the problem as a partially observed Markov decision process with an objective to maximize the expected sales at the end of the horizon. We propose a heuristic that decomposes the problem into an assignment problem to schedule customers for a period and a routing problem to decide how to visit the scheduled customers within the period.
Public Abstract
We study a problem motivated by routing sales representatives to visit customers for developing customer relationships. We consider that each customer can only be accessed during a time window and the representative may experience uncertain wait time resulting from a queue of others at the customer. We first address a daily routing problem where the representative needs to decide which customers to visit and how to visit the customers within a day. We develop two type of solution approaches for the daily problem. One is an a priori routing strategy, in which the salesperson visits customers in a pre-planned order, and we seek to construct a sequence of customers that maximizes the expected value collected. The other is a dynamic routing strategy, in which the salesperson decides which customer to visit and whether to wait at a customer based on realized information, such as the arrival time and the observed queue length at the customer. We then present a multi-period routing problem, where each customer's likelihood of adopting the representative's product may change over time and is not fully observed by the representative. The representative can only estimate the adoption likelihood by meeting with the customer but the estimation may not be accurate.
publicabstract, Dynamic Programming, Heuristic, Orienteering Problem, Queueing, Time Window
xi, 142 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142).
Copyright 2015 Shu Zhang
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Shu. "Stochastic orienteering on a network of queues with time windows." PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, University of Iowa, 2015.


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Discover the world of fairies and wizards, dragons and genies in our SLT Magic Kingdoms Treasure Trail from noon.
Take your kids on a journey through SLT history as they discover all the magical costumes and props used in our theatre shows by finding them all hidden throughout the theatre.
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Date of Award
Spring 2003
Document Type
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Mathematics and Statistics
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Committee Director
Constance M. Schober
Committee Member
David G. Lasseigne
Committee Member
Fang Q. Hu
Committee Member
David E. Keyes
Committee Member
Chester E. Grosch
Symplectic (area-preserving) integrators for Hamiltonian ordinary differential equations have shown to be robust, efficient and accurate in long-term calculations. In this thesis, we show how symplectic integrators have a natural generalization to Hamiltonian PDEs by introducing the concept of multi-symplectic partial differential equations (PDEs). In particular, we show that multi-symplectic PDEs have an underlying spatio-temporal multi-symplectic structure characterized by a multi-symplectic conservation law MSCL). Then multi-symplectic integrators (MSIs) are numerical schemes that preserve exactly the MSCL. Remarkably, we demonstrate that, although not designed to do so, MSIs preserve very well other associated local conservation laws and global invariants, such as the energy and the momentum, for very long periods of time. We develop two types of MSIs, based on finite differences and Fourier spectral approximations, and illustrate their superior performance over traditional integrators by deriving new numerical schemes to the well known 1D nonlinear Schrödinger and sine-Gordon equations and the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In sensitive regimes, the spectral MSIs are not only more accurate but are better at capturing the spatial features of the solutions. In particular, for the sine-Gordon equation we show that its phase space, as measured by the nonlinear spectrum associated with it, is better preserved by spectral MSIs than by spectral non-symplectic Runge-Kutta integrators. Finally, to further understand the improved performance of MSIs, we develop a backward error analysis of the multi-symplectic centered-cell discretization for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We verify that the numerical solution satisfies to higher order a nearby modified multi-symplectic PDE and its modified multi-symplectic energy conservation law. This implies, that although the numerical solution is an approximation, it retains the key feature of the original PDE, namely its multi-symplectic structure.
Recommended Citation
Islas, Alvaro L..
"Multi-Symplectic Integrators for Nonlinear Wave Equations"
(2003). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, Mathematics and Statistics, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/ybsd-cy22


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Jessica unveils video for 'Because It's Spring'
Du Ri Jang, April 19, 2017, 9:42 a.m.
Jessica unveiled the music video for her latest song "Because It's Spring" via Naver V app on Tuesday. On the same day, the artist released the pop ballad song via online music streaming sites. Jessica participated in writing the lyrics of the song with Jay Kim.
The four-minute video featured the song's sweet piano melody along with Jessica's alluring voice. Jessica unveiled "Because It's Spring" at her birthday party on Saturday to the fans who hosted the special event.
Naver's real-time broadcasting app V allows fans to interact with their favorite K-pop stars through live broadcasts. The app is available for Android and iOS. For more information, visit http://www.vlive.tv


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2015 Milford Yacht Club – Commissioning
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In our annual tradition, please join the 2015 Officers & Board of Directors to officially open the Milford Yacht Club for our 113th season. The club has a storied history, so come join us to add to our stories.
Ceremony begins at 1800 hours,
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The results of the Men's Invitation are now on display by the secretary's office.
Chester members will receive credit for the amount due at the Pro shop.
The Guest will receive vouchers for the amount due. (Now available at the Secretary's office)
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24 March 2016
Blockchain dead?
Mike Hearn, a Zurich-based
developer and long-time proponent of Bitcoin, surprised many this year when
he published a blog calling Bitcoin a "failed" project. This has bought a
lot of people wondering, is there any truth to this rumor. And what is
In the last one day conference held by ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter, for the
first time in our emerald island, the pros and cons of this new technology
was spoken on.
Bitcoins is a crypto-currency, a system of digitally created and traded
tokens to which value is assigned. (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35343561)
Fundamentally this is an online currency where each Bitcoin is basically a
computer file that is stored in a 'digital wallet'. Although most people
refer to Bitcoin as a currency, it is worth noting that for regulatory
reasons many countries - including the United States - have decided to
define it as a commodity instead.
The online ledger book, which maintains the Debit and Credit of each
transaction that uses bitcoin, is known as the Blockchain. Computers have to
solve cryptographic problems in order to add blocks to the Blockchain - In
return, those computers receive bitcoins in a process known as bitcoin
"mining". Users have a "bitcoin address", to which bitcoins may be sent or
from which they may be used. Addresses are stored online in wallets that
function like bank accounts.
Copies of these ledgers are
shared by all the computers that access them, meaning they are distributed
across the network, because bitcoin is, at its core is a distributed
database. Therefore fundamental to Bitcoin's security is the ability for any
single node to be able to audit everything which is going on by itself,
using nothing more than the Blockchain, its own computational power, and a
reasonably accurate clock.
Sir Mark Walport has argued that they could be used by government
departments as a more secure way of managing data. Because the Blockchain
act as permanent records of every time that data is added to them - and
because private the Blockchain allow access to specific users only - they
are thought to be highly resistant to malicious tampering.(http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35344843)
The biggest issue most bitcoin users acknowledge is how quickly new
transactions can be processed. The size of blocks being added to the
Blockchain has been increasing steadily with the rise of Bitcoin. As a
result, the rate at which transactions can be processed has been slowing.
Indeed, some transactions face significant delays, hampering payments. Some
fear the network will eventually become oversaturated and cease to be
The reason for this is that this online ledger book has limit on number of
transactions it can process. Currently, each block can be no more than 1MB.
(http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35343561) The supposed founder, Mr.
Satoshi Nakamoto (who still remains an enigma), put a cap on the number of
transactions that can be processed due to the inherent processing limitation
that every standard computer has.
Now few of the core-programmers, of the bitcoin community, wants to remove
this temporary ceiling. The reason they state is that it limits the number
of transactions that can occur per minute. So they state that if they want
Bitcoin to compete with the likes of VISA and MASTER, they feel the limiter
should be removed.
The Bitcoin XT version developed by Mr. Hearn, and Bitcoin's chief scientist
Gavin Andresen and others offers to increase the block size limit to 8MB
However bulks of the core-programmers do not want it removed. Bitcoin's
history as a "decentralised" currency has led to much hesitation over
decisions that might change its fundamental nature. Any proposal relating to
Bitcoin is likely to encourage fierce debate and, in some cases, stagnation.
There are alternatives, however. Nic Cary, co-founder of Bitcoin start-up
Blockchain, points to BitcoinClassic, which would increase the block size
limit to 2MB. Mr Cary, says the need to update the block size limit is not
as urgent as some say. "This is a matter of perspective," he told the BBC.
"The Bitcoin network has been updated safely dozens of times and will
continue to be the most reliable, affordable, and efficient way to send
value around the world."
Another school of thought on the reason for not wanting the removal of the
limiter is they feel would eventually mean only few people with high
processing mechanisms (such as server-farms) would be in control of the
processing of bitcoin transactions (this is known as mining). So in return
the idea that started the bitcoin, where it will not be controlled by a
large corporate, would be doubtful. Thus resulting in few people running the
This resulted in the previous set of core-programmers wanting to open this
debate to the public miners. Whereas the later set stated that this should
have been discussed and settled internally not open to people who do not
understand the computer-logic or the intricate understanding of what makes
this online ledger a possibility. Because, they say that Bitcoin protocol
development must be done with great care. For any widespread change which
introduces even a slight incompatibility have a strong chance in resulting
in there being two separate and incompatible currencies.
However, there are some who feel that Bitcoin's potential as a currency has
already been exhausted.
"I'm sure there are smart people right now working out what the next
generation [of Bitcoin] should look like but I have to say I'm not convinced
that money or payments is the optimum [use] of the technology," Dave Birch,
a director at consultancy firm Consult Hyperion, told the BBC.
So much so UK 's chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt
the technology that powers crypto-currency Bitcoin to run various public
Sir Mark Walport has argued that they could be used by government
departments as a more secure way of managing data. Because the Blockchain
act as permanent records of every time that data is added to them - and
because private the Blockchain allow access to specific users only - they
are thought to be highly resistant to malicious tampering.(http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35344843)
Part of the problem was the lack of consensus over what Bitcoin was and how
it should be used, he added.
So what is the conclusion? I think I could not have stated it better than
Chris Baraniuk ,a Technology reporter for BBC " There is still huge interest
in developing both the currency and technologies based on the Blockchain
idea of recording data. It seems unlikely the currency will collapse
overnight. But it certainly looks as though fundamental questions over how
Bitcoin works are now coming to a head. Whether the community that uses and
supports Bitcoin will be able to come to a consensus on these matters
remains to be seen. Mr. Hearn has lost faith in the project, of that there
is no doubt. But many others are refusing to throw in the towel just yet."
But a salient view that cropped up in the ISACA Sri Lanka chapter one day
conference, as to the why have countries an issue with welcoming the
crypto-currency as a viable option for the mode of currency (such as the
case in VISA, MasterCard or even PayPal) is the lack in a single body that
acts as a regulator to this new technology. Even though there exist
advantage that this form of digital currency has over normal currency, such
as theft, hard to forge a transaction and less cost, the deregulatory aspect
of this currency still keeps regulators at bay
Assistant Manager – IS Audit
SJMS Associates | Independent Correspondent Firm to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
For more information on the crypto-currency event that was organized by
ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter please visit www.isaca.lk or the ISACA Sri Lanka
Chapter Facebook page at www.facebook.com/isaca.srilanka.
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malicious macros have become a popular method of infecting computers over
the past few months. Attackers are now taking it one step further by using
such documents to deliver fileless malware that gets loaded directly in the
computer's memory.
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks analyzed a recent attack
campaign that pushed spam emails with malicious Word documents to business
email addresses from the U.S., Canada and Europe....."
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credit card information by prompting fake Google Play store payment
page. In subsequent years, Marcher variants also started targeting
banking applications by presenting fake login pages to steal user
Marcher has continued to stay active and was recently covered by
phishlabs. In this blog, we will cover a new wave of Marcher Trojan that
is active since past one month where the malware arrives as an adobe
flash installer package. We have captured over 50 unique payloads from
this campaign. Majority of these Marcher payloads are from pornographic
sites serving fake adobe flash player for watching porn. The primary
goal of this malware is still the same - display a fake Google Play
store payment page and steal financial information from the user....'
'....Amazon Web Services launched its first true cloud computing product,
Simple Storage Services, 10 years ago today, turning the computing world
on its head.
To the company's early customers, "the cloud" was essentially a way to
rent out storage on its data centers, hoping to find business from
startups and established companies that found building out scalable data
centers cost prohibitive......'
'....In a post-Valentine's Day attack the e-commerce site of
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during which time about 7,000 customers placing orders on the site may
have had their personal and payment information compromised.
The online flower retailer said in a letter to the California Department
of Justice that for a 33-hour period – stretching from the evening of
Feb. 15 to early morning on Feb. 17 – an attacker collected the name,
address, email address, payment card number along with its expiration
date and CVV security code of all those placing or attempting to place
orders on the site...'
'...nside the car's firmware update version 2.13.77, Mr. Hughes found a
PNG image that depicted the logotype of a car model that Tesla doesn't
yet sell, the P100D.
Currently, Tesla provides the P70D, the P85D, and P90D models, which
come with 70KWh, 85kWh, and 90kWh batteries.
The logotype Mr. Hughes found inside the most recent firmware image
means the company is preparing the car's source code for an upcoming
model, one that features a 100kWh battery, and the image that Mr. Hughes
found might be used in various sections of the vehicle's on-board
digital display.....'
Announcing SQL Server on Linux
'...It's been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and
an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our
Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch
activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this
year. This is the most significant release of SQL Server that we have
ever done, and brings with it some fantastic new capabilities...'
'...Samsung laptop owners are being urged to update their Windows PCs
after the discovery of a vulnerability that can allow remote attackers
to download files onto a targeted system and gain complete control over
the laptop. The flaw is tied to a feature called "Samsung SW Update Tool
22.214.171.124" designed keep Samsung laptop users' drivers and software up to
date. Security researchers at Core Security discovered the vulnerability
in November 2015 and disclosed the flaw March 4 after Samsung issued the
patch to fix the problem.....'
"...Even with the greater awareness for strong security within
organizations—and the high-profile hacks that have contributed to that
increased awareness—security executives still encounter significant
hurdles in doing their jobs to protect data and systems. Password entry
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Our founders, Alex and Andrew, have been around the ocean their entire lives. They both grew up on the Florida coast, swimming, diving, fishing, and surfing. After becoming friends in college, they saved up their money for the surf trip of a lifetime to Bali. When they arrived, they found a beach that was completely covered in plastic, with trash-filled waves delivering more garbage with each break.
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Civilization in the Wilderness
Student Summaries of Sichot of the Roshei Yeshiva
Yeshivat Har Etzion
Civilization in the Wilderness
Our portion begins, "God spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai" (Bamidbar 1:1), stressing that the Torah was given in the wilderness. The Maharal explains that this is meant to signify a place of desolation, a place with no water and no life, a place with no inhabitants. Yet it is specifically here that Benei Yisrael encamp, by their tribes and their banners, with the Tent of Meeting at the center of the camp, creating an ideal civilization in the midst of the wasteland.
If we were to think about where to establish a nation, we would probably think about somewhere central, teeming with life. The Torah teaches us that true civilization is not to be found in such places: not in tall towers, not in all the fancy capitals of the world. This is not the sort of nation that God wants to establish. God establishes the ideal civilization in the wilderness; an empty page, as it were, neither committed nor connected to anything that has preceded it.
Here we must ask: what sort of nation (am) arises in this wilderness, disconnected from all that came before? The Torah tells us that at Mara, the first stop after crossing the Sea of Reeds, God "placed a statute and a law for them, and there He tested them" (Shemot 15:25). Our Sages (Sanhedrin 56b) explain that the first principles to which Am Yisrael commit themselves are the seven Noahide laws, the dinim (civil laws), and the law of the red heifer (Seder Olam Zuta 4). I have explained in the past that the red heifer symbolizes the laws with a reason and meaning that we do not understand, while the dinim are the laws that we do understand. Am Yisrael commit themselves to examples of both types, thereby demonstrating that they are ready to fulfill the commandments, whether they understand them or not. However, the main laws that they take upon themselves at that point are the seven Noahide laws, the simple principles that would appear to obligate every human being. When God establishes the nation, He first wants Am Yisrael to commit themselves to being human, humane, good people; only after that foundation is laid can the rest of the commandments follow.
Thus, Am Yisrael are commanded, on the one hand, to fulfill the most elementary requirements which should be the basis of any proper, moral society. On the other hand, they are commanded this with no connection to anything that has come before; they start off on a clean page, in the empty wilderness. On the one hand, Am Yisrael, organized and arranged by God's direct command, is in constant conflict with the wilderness, representing absolute chaos; on the other hand, they are in constant conflict with the other nations of the world, who build their societies based on human priorities.
Indeed, anyone who has visited Jerusalem and ascended Mount Scopus knows that Jerusalem borders the desert on one side. Looking down the mountain, one sees a wasteland. Jerusalem is engaged in an ongoing battle with the desert and what it symbolizes. At the same time, it is the city of God, struggling against the messages that emanate towards it from the other cities of the world. Jerusalem, eternal capital of Am Yisra'el, is thus at the center of a struggle from two directions the wilderness, on one side, and the nations of the world, on the other. We should all keep this symbolism in mind as we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim next week.
(This sicha was delivered on Leil Shabbat, Parashat Bamidbar 5765 [2005].)


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Watch a Trailer for The Highly-Anticipated Grace Jones Documentary
The boundary-pushing musician, model and icon and gets up, close and personal
As she makes way cross the globe with the rest of the Humanz on Gorillaz's new album, a long-awaited trailer for a new Grace Jones documentary has finally arrived. And it's glorious.
The teaser clip for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami flips between two shots of the iconic performer, one tucked into the back of a car, the other in the green room, but both find Jones prepping for…something. As the camera intimately pans in and out on Jones applying her own makeup, the confidant brood of Jones' voice quotes Dolores Clairborne, "You have to be a high-flying bitch sometimes," watching a self-made pioneer self-make herself into something even more entrancing, all while "Pull Up The Bumper" plays throughout.
READ: Grace Jones On Today's Pop Stars Stealing Her Style, But Not Her Disdain For The Industry
The Sophie Fiennes-directed film will make its debut on October 25th in the UK, followed by a Q&A with Jones. You can watch the first clip from Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami above. No US release has been announced yet.


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Lawyer warns of social media threat to settling disputed wills…
Families in dispute over relatives' wills are being warned not to air their feelings publicly on social media, as it can be used as evidence in court.
Robert Weston, partner and contentious probate specialist at Midlands law firm mfg Solicitors, has warned that people forget their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts are like "shouting your private business into a loudhailer."
The nationally-recognised probate expert said people who "flaunt" their wealth or get into disputes with relatives on social media may not realise but their posts and photographs can used in court as evidence to demonstrate any claims to an estate.
Mr Weston said: "People spend so many hours on social media as they see it as something harmless and just part of their day to day life.
"The danger is that the messages posted remain and those off-the-cuff remarks can come back when you least expect them to.
"Instagram, Facebook and Twitter act as a window to the world, providing extra information that can either support or go against a case. It is like shouting your private business into a loudhailer and many people fail to recognise that."
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"Our second profession is photography. We often share advice and critical views and we even have some sort of rivalry," Ekaterine
She says they have carried out numerous projects together during all these years, they also travel around the world and try to fill their mutual gallery with various images. This year they decided to concentrate on domestic tourism.
"Our first location was Bakhmaro and it turned out to be much more mystical than we have imagined. This little settlement full of wooden cabins is wrapped in mist several times a day and in the evening, when we were there, it was completely impossible to make any photos. It was exactly due to the foggy weather that we could not go to the 'Sunrise Mountain', which is the place we wanted to visit the most. In the end, we decided that we will return one day" - Ekaterine says.
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Suzuki GSF 650 S A
Suzuki GSF 650 S A - one of the famous models from this manufacturer among motorcyclists. This model has 2 series. For example, some of them are 2010, 2008 and others. Also here you can see and download pictures of Suzuki motorcycles GSF 650 S A how they looked by year.


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What's a marriage therapist and how can they help me and my wife, as we fight all the time?
A marriage therapist or couples' counselor is a mental health professional who has a specialty in helping couples navigate relationships more satisfactorily. They are trained in helping couples identify, understand and change unhealthy emotional and behavioral patterns that can be destructive to a marriage. Unlike individual therapists, marriage therapists conduct most of their therapy sessions with both spouses present. Doing so allows the therapist to see the spouses' relational patterns unfold first-hand and gives them the ability to intercede in real-time.
Marriage therapists can help people with a broad range of issues, but arguing is one of the most common reasons couples initially seek therapy. Therapists can help couples reduce the frequency and intensity of their arguments by intervening in multiple ways. First, by helping clients understand how they argue. This includes identifying triggers for conflict, learning what leads to escalation, understanding how fights end, what issues are left unresolved, and most importantly, helping each partner acknowledge his or her role in the pattern.
Second, therapists can help couples recognize why they argue. Arguments are frequently not really about the topic being fought over. For example, repetitive fights about spending money might represent a deeper disagreement about the definition of security. Quarreling about sex might really symbolize a difference in how emotional closeness is felt and expressed. Bickering about time spent on independent activities might reflect a difference in how partners define and maintain a sense of identity. Understanding the meaning underneath what is being argued over allows the issue to be addressed directly, increasing the odds of a mutually satisfying resolution.
Armed with this knowledge, a therapist can teach couples new ways to approach the inevitable disagreement. The goal of therapy is not to eliminate conflict, but rather to resolve it non-destructively. This usually includes new ways to communicate with one another in a non-provocative manner, uncovering hidden needs, empathizing with the other partner's point of view, and fair negotiation.
Marital therapists help people with a wide range of other problems, too. Sometimes couples reach an impasse on major issues and they need help deciding whether or not staying in a marriage is in their best interest. It's possible that there might not even be any animosity in these situations (though there is usually at least a deep sadness and feelings of loss). At other times couples have already decided to divorce and need help separating. Sometimes therapy is sought well after a divorce has occurred to help people address ongoing parenting issues, which might include how to integrate with new step-families.
Every couple that seeks marriage counseling brings unique issues to the table. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to marital therapy. However, a good therapist can help a couple develop, and put in to action, strategies that they feel will work for them, whether that entails resolving conflicts more harmoniously or deciding to go their separate ways.


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An exhibition entitled 'El Éxodo de la Carretera de Almería - Febrero de 1937', has opened in Torremolinos.
The exhibition focuses on what has become known as the 'Flight from Malaga'; an event that took place in February 1937, when the Republican-held city fell to Nationalist troops during the Spanish Civil War.
Fearing persecution, thousands of Republican refugees headed east on the road to Almeria, but many died of exhaustion or were killed by shells from offshore gunboats and aerial attacks from the German Luftwaffe.
The exhibition, which has been organised by the Junta de Andalucía, with the assistance of Torremolinos town hall, combines both visual and textual information concerning this horrific stage of the war.
The exhibition was previously on show at the Provincial Archives of Malaga and is currently on a tour of several towns in the province.
On display are various objects and equipment used by the combatant armies and more than a hundred different documents, many of which are displayed for the first time.
There are historical files from the provincial and municipal governments of Malaga and Almeria, historic military files, as well as documents from the Red Cross and the Italian news agency Luce.
Also included are the prison records of the journalist Arthur Koestler - in Malaga as a war correspondent at the time - who was accused of being a spy.
The exhibition displays a collection of poems that were written by celebrated writers of the period, including Gamal Woolsey, Peter Chalmers Mitchell and Emilio Prados. Among the items on display are a collection of photographs and newspaper cuttings that graphically document the effects of the bombings in Malaga.
The exhibition, which began last week and continues until 16 June, includes testimonies of several people from Torremolinos that lived through the event.
One draws on the story of Don Miguel Escalona Quesada, former mayor of Torremolinos, who recounted his personal story of the event in his memoirs, 'Así llegamos a Almería', (Thus we arrived in Almeria).
His family has loaned the exhibition documents and photographs that were published in the book and these include his brother's prison records, Lázaro Escalona Quesada, who served 30 years in prison after trying to flee the city in 1937.
There are also information boards and video screens that retell the horrifying story of the Battle of Malaga. The images of burnt-out buildings and desolate refugees remind one of how senseless the Spanish Civil War was.
The refugees faced a 200km trek in search of a safe refuge, while being pursued by Italian tanks, German aircraft and rebel Nationalist ships.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 citizens are believed to have perished during the exodus.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A stolen Audi blew through a stop light, triggering a multi-vehicle crash that killed one, and left four people hospitalized Saturday night in Kansas City, Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Audi, which was stolen Friday night, was westbound on Kansas Ave. at a high rate of speed as it approached the intersection with South 10th St. shortly before 9:30 p.m.
The stolen car smashed into a red 2014 Chevrolet Spark, sending it flying off the road and through a nearby fence. It also struck a blue Chevy Aveo in the collision.
The driver of the Spark — Octavia Baker, 47, of KCK — died from injuries sustained when the Audi struck the driver's side door. Two passengers in the Spark — Arhelia Cano, 54, and Angie Logano, 12, also of KCK — suffered serious injuries.
The driver of the Aveo — Bersain Perez, 28, of KCK — also suffered serious injuries along with passenger Marison Florez-Lopez, 23, of KCK.
The driver of the stolen Audi fled the scene on foot.
According to KCK Police Chief Terry Ziegler, the owner of the stolen Audi spotted the car and gave chase before crashing near Fifth St. and Central Ave.
A Wyandotte County Sheriff's Deputy spotted the car a short time later and initiated a chase near Eighth St. before terminating pursuit when the Audi drove the wrong way on a one-way street.
Three minutes later, the deputy advised of the multi-vehicle crash at 10th St. and Kansas Ave., where "2-3 suspects fled from the vehicle," according to Ziegler's "While You Slept in KCKS" note.
#KCKPDWhileYouSlept pic.twitter.com/3Kb2BKj6wo— Terry Zeigler (@KCKPDChief) December 30, 2018
Extrication was required for some of the vehicle passengers, according to the KCK Fire Department spokesman's Twitter account.
Trapped parties in a MVA at 10th & Kansas Ave...Heavy Rescue responding— KCK Fire Department/PIO (@KCKFDPIO) December 30, 2018


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The Duppy Share Rum is a Caribbean golden rum, a blend of rum from two islands: Jamaica and Barbados. It was created by the Westbourne Drinks Co, founded by George Frost and Jessica Swinfen, and was first released in summer 2014.
If you don't know this rum you will, most likely, have heard of the two component rum distilleries. The Barbados rum is from Foursquare Distillery whilst the Jamaican Rum comes from Worthy Park. The Worthy Park estate has been has been a working sugar estate since 1720 with the first rum being produced in 1741. A new distillery was completed in 2005. The estate still grows all their own sugar cane. The rum is made from molasses, double distilled in a Forsyth's copper pot still and aged in old white oak casks. Foursquare is owned by the Seale family who are responsible for famous Bajan rum brands such as Foursquare, Doorlys and R L Seales Rums, all produced under the supervision of fourth-generation distiller Richard Seale. The rum from Foursquare is distilled in a combination of pot and continuous stills and is aged in ex-Bourbon barrels. The Worthy Park component is 3 years old whilst the Foursquare part of the blend is a 5 year old rum. The Jamaican rum brings tropical, fruity character with hints of spicy, banana bread to the blend whilst the Bajan rum brings smooth caramel and oaky notes. The rums are blended in the Netherlands and bottled in London. It is presented in a eye-catching apothecary-type bottle with a colourful Art Deco, travel poster inspired label.
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So the 'dream final' in Brisbane between Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin … happened. And wasn't all that much of a dream, actually. Except in the sense that it was long and confusing and sweaty and full of inexplicable reversals and ended with a sense of disappointment rather than resolution. So a lot like most of my dreams.
Kim Clijsters d. Justine Henin, 63 46 76(6)
If she was wearing five layers and desperately trying not to drop a cigarette, this would be an accurate impression of me trying to walk down the street this week.
Another great week for Kim, although her tennis at times was less than convincing, but she got the trophy. As for Justine and the Henback / Comebackhandening, after such a long lay-off I thought she looked in pretty good shape, despite having lost the final.
I don't think she agrees.
Sisters, sisters …
We get it. They're cute.
Seriously though, they're cute.
Starting off the year in style.


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Fresh meat, flavour of the month, new blood, firm-buttocked, ogle-worthy Adonis – all epithets that tend to be standing somewhere out back enjoying a woodbine, dusting off their well-worn polo necks when pegamequemegusta is being discussed. The new, pshaw, we've never been too fond of it – especially all these blog posts on up-and-coming players, which only take off when driven along by a particularly smooth scribe. Too often it's an over-enthusiastic exercise in cradle-gazing, almost always without any real, first-hand experience or knowledge (hence its appeal for pretend journos, perhaps). Moreover, it involves too long a wait for what is ultimately a rather trivial pay-off, little more than an eventual smug bar-stool diatribe ending in the words "[…] profitable nor popular." What's more, in South American football, in particular, while somewhat unlikely, it can potentially lead to the very sales of young players bloggers tend to deplore. After all, foreign clubs have proven over and over again that their scouting policy is about as sophisticated as pegamequemegusta's grooming techniques.
When it comes to new managers, though, we become quite energised. A couple of reflective, articulate respected men slowly asserting themselves on the scene gives us real hope for a Jota Jota-less day. A change from the same old faces on the managerial sorrow-go-round that make up Argieball could bring about some change, could (indirectly) bring some stability, could lead to thoughtful, timely critiques of the many avoidable ills that continue to undermine the game here.
Hence we were delighted to discover some of the finest prose being written about the game coming from ex-players such as Facundo Sava, who retired last year after a 17 years lanking around Ferro, Boca, Fulham and Racing among others, and Santiago Solari, the dreamy left-winger who was part of del Bosque's glorious Real team ten years ago before getting bogged down in the torpor of Zanetti's Inter. Crucially, neither seem content to merely add further bulk to the dangerously overstocked punditry pulpit, like the admittedly precise and loveable Diego Latorre. Rather, reading their pieces, one gets the impression that for now they are biding their time, that they have a real vocation for management, that this is a period of meditation – albeit public – as they prepare themselves for the inevitable time when they put their theories and experience into practice.
Santiago Solari, indeed, a magnificent piece of whose we translated a while back here on pegame, states as much in his latest column in el país. Titled 'The simple Life of a Footballer', he lists with great rhythm and style down through his opening paragraphs many of the difficulties that beset the modern footballer: having every minute of the day accounted for, the constant changes in schedule, the travelling, missing one's family, never being around for holidays, birthdays, school plays, etc., the rigorous diet he must follow, the injuries, taking five minutes just to make it to the bathroom, the relentless competition throughout one's whole (short) career, not to mention the threat that one's career could end at any moment "in any match or any training session".
In the final paragraphs, however, he turns this Hobbesian catalogue of horrors on its head. He recognises that, despite being the son and nephew of football managers, and despite his own vast experience in different set-ups, he had forgotten how everything surrounding the footballer, even the organisation of what he regards as his own trials, essentially depends on others. At a coaching course organised by the Spanish FA the previous week, he finds his mind opened "to a new dimension where everything that happens on the pitch is but a fraction of the responsibilities that the position [of manager] entails."
"The life of a footballer is really easy. No Anatomy, Pschology, Sociology or Law. No Training Theory, Team Management or Teaching Methods. Coaches, managers, physios, doctors, psychologists… These were the people who were thinking of every detail of every day of every year so that I, the player, didn't lack for anything and could devote all my attention to achieving the objective: put a few crosses in and, if I could, score the odd goal."
Much of this is 'obvious', of course, but it's the depth of thought that strikes us like a slap from an aggrieved mother on one of our blind bumbling careers through the park.
We were similarly impressed with a piece by Facundo Sava that came out on Wednesday. Titled 'Boca, team play', it discusses the triumph of Falcioni's men in the Argieball Apertura with two rounds left to play. The merits of Falcioni's Boca are clear – solid defence, pressure on the ball, always a man in support, patience – and while their play may have been somewhat prosaic at times, they're worthy champions for the simple fact that no other team in the division had the wherewithal to emulate such elemental virtues. El colorado Sava, however, who we always thought of as a dull-looking journeyman of a striker, spins the Orb of Power and inflects the story nicely.
For in the run-up to the title-decider against Banfield last Sunday, the dominant media line was whether the oft-crocked Riquelme was going to play or not. Updates, worry, exasperated murmurings, the impression was that without their talisman Boca could still mess up the championship. This, Sava asserts, was completely wrong-headed. Indeed, the real secret of Boca's success, he argues, was that such media speculation must have seemed as foreign to the players as it did to him, a disinterested observer paring his fingernails coolly observing Falcioni's creation from afar. For the players were united, Falcioni had instilled in them such conviction in the validity of their play that they "had no need to even look to the bench during a game."
This quality reminded us of Coco Basile's Boca, whose consistency saw them crowned bicampeones in 2006. The team they remind Sava of, however, were Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, under the management of Phil Jackson. Facundo insists that Jackson's book Sacred Hoops is obligatory reading for any coach in any sport. For the 'Zen Master', he says, managed (the key word, Mancini) to get a group of superstars to prize the collective over the individual. He convinced them that there was something larger than themselves to play for – avoiding the distressingly common occurrence whereby a team's most gifted player can mutate into a burden, like being gifted four large ducks when you don't have a freezer – thereby achieving a kind of synergy.
Gah, ugly word! Fair enough, a lot of this is obvious. Moreover, words like the offensive one just used smack of the wisdom of auld handmaidens, suspicious Brent-speak. Sava's right, though. His point is timely, original and savvy shrewd. Having a keen analytic grasp of the game, or being an intellectual for that matter, is no guarantee of success, of course. However, it bodes well. Moreover, the cristaline quality of Solari and Sava's prose, and the generousness of their opinions in general, make us think they'd have no problem conveying their points to a group of pampered, overly-developed men-children. Both both weigh their words judiciously, both appear to be independent thinkers, neither have any problem taking a stance contrary to the prevailing opinion, nor do they squirm when the obvious needs stating.
Of course, neither are managers yet. Nor are they alone in their field. Abroad, too, there are several more reasons for hope in the future of Argiemanagement in the satellites orbiting the mad moon Bielsa (there should be a moon named after Bielsa), the Genghis Khan of coaches.
At home, though, there's a dearth of such folk: Diego Simeone should be one of the luminaries but his glib, blind bumbling at Racing, forever haughtily sniping at the short-sightedness of the pueblo whilst ignoring his own shortcomings, is but a blueprint for despair. Simeone is the Man Who isn't Here. The very title of Solari's blog, El Charco ('The Pond'), on the other hand, implies a connection to the auld country, that he's not an eternal ex-pat; it reveals a sense of commitment, of duty. Likewise Sava, who keeps an even lower profile far from the fanfare of Olé. Nationalism is such a dirty concept, but we've come to believe that some of its cleaner qualities, namely a sense of solidarity, far from cheap xenophobia or base self-congratulation, ought to be rehabilitated – especially in such an outward-looking, insecure nation such as Argentina (or Ireland, for that matter).
Yet, as we said, we're not heralding a footballing revolution here. After all, the man who just won the Apertura, Falcioni, is a gnarly old-timer whose face looks like a chewed up slipper. Novelty, indeed. However, in the absence of justice, Batman cometh; and in the shadow of the AFA's neglect, strong, well-spoken personalities with a respectable record are what are needed. As Wenger said in an interview mark Arsenal's 125th anniversary,
the development of a football club depends on individuals, who take the right initiative [sic?], take the right decisions, have the right dedication for the club […]
Whether they bring anything inherently new or not, Facundo Sava and Santiago Solari, so far, look well on course to make a positive contribution to Argieball. They are distant stars whose light has yet to reach us. In the meantime, Real-Barca, eh?


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Rosa Famania was sentenced in federal court in April to five months in prison and three years of supervised released. She must also complete a substance abuse program and repay the stolen money.
Famania worked for the Framingham Housing Authority as an accounting assistant from 2010 to 2015, when she resigned as the agency investigated missing rent payments.
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So far, this year had been crazy. But July provided a nice change of pace.
Within the first ~3 months, I wrote and launched the Hibernate Tips book with huge success. As of today, I sold more than 1100 books and e-books. As I've learned recently, that are more copies than some traditional publishers expect in the lifetime of a book. Thank you to everyone who got a copy and made this possible!
Shortly after that, I had to migrate Thoughts on Java with all the blog content and courses to a new web hosting company and platform. The company, that built and managed the platform that I used before, announced to change their overall strategy. So, I either had to leave or stay as a customer who no longer fit into the overall strategy. I decided to migrate everything to a new web hosting company. That also required me to change the underlying platform. All of that had to be done within 3 stressful weeks.
And less than a month later, I opened the registration of the Advanced Hibernate Online Training and the Hibernate Performance Tuning Online Training.
So, I was really happy when I recognized that there were no big projects planned for July. I on-boarded the first project coaching client and did a few consulting calls. But besides that, I was able to concentrate on writing more blog posts and publishing videos on YouTube.
And it already to pay off. The website traffic is growing, and yesterday, the YouTube channel exceeded the 1400 subscriber mark. That's a 40% growth within 2 month.
BTW: If you haven't already done that, you should subscribe to the channel now. Otherwise, you're missing out on 2 great videos about JPA and Hibernate every week 😉
Posts & Videos
OK, I said that I, finally, had the time to write more posts and to record more videos. So, let's take a look at all the posts and videos.
Here are the 3 Hibernate Tip and 2 Tutorial videos that I published in the last 5 weeks. As always, I tried to cover a mix of beginner and advanced topics.
And I already recorded the videos for the next 2 weeks. So, expect to get a new video every Tuesday and Thursday.
Hibernate Tips
Similar to the Hibernate Tip posts, the Hibernate Tip videos provide you with a quick and easy to implement solution for a common development task. In the last month, I showed you how to map a bidirectional many-to-many association, use Hibernate's native bootstrapping API and to map a bidirectional many-to-on association.
The tutorial videos are a few minutes longer and most often provide more context than the tip videos. In the last months, I explained how to map an association to a java.util.Map instead of a java.util.List and provided an introduction to JPA's different FetchTypes.
In the last few weeks, I wrote 6 tutorials about advanced or new features and 3 Hibernate Tips which covered a mix of advanced and beginner topics.
Last month's tutorial posts summarized the changes in JPA 2.2, showed you the problems that occur when you use CascadeType.REMOVE, explained a few things you need to know when you use Hibernate with a MySQL database, compared the performance of DTO and entity projections and started a new series about version-based database migration with Liquibase.
- What's new in JPA 2.2
- Why you should avoid CascadeType.REMOVE for to-many associations and what to do instead
- 5 Things You Need to Know When Using Hibernate with Mysql
- Version-Based Database Migration with Liquibase – Getting Started
- Entities or DTOs – When should you use which projection?
- Version-Based Database Migration with Liquibase – Update an Existing Database
Hibernate Tips
And the Hibernate Tips posts show you how you can fetch associations in batches, override mapping definitions so that you can use different databases and bootstrap Hibernate with Spring Boot.
- Hibernate Tips: How to fetch associations in batches
- Hibernate Tips: How to override the primary key generation strategy
- Hibernate Tips: How to bootstrap Hibernate with Spring Boot
What is planned for August
The main focus of this month is to prepare and cleanup everything before I start traveling to different conference in September and October. So, I will work on all the small tasks on my ToDo list, write blog posts and record videos.
I will also speak at the JUG Paderborn about Hibernate performance tuning and prepare 2 workshops for the Workshop-Tage 2017 in September. In the first workshop, I will speak about multi-tenancy with Hibernate ORM and give a quick introduction to Hibernate Envers and Hibernate Search. The second workshop is all about advanced Hibernate features.


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Pagination and Removing Categories in WordPressOctober 13th, 2015 by Edward
Quite often I need to create a new WordPress query – but this can mess up the pagination – so that if you press to go to previous posts it shows the same darn posts again.
Thankfully, it's relatively easy to solve.
I find that I nearly always need to exclude categories from my query so I am adding that in as well.
Here's the standard code from index.php file int he 2013 template:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?> <?php /* The loop */ ?> <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?> <?php endwhile; ?>
Nothing out of the ordinary there of course.
Firstly we need to add this line:
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$paged is set to the current page that we are looking at – so for example if you are display post 11-20 then its likely that this is page 2 if you have the number of posts per page set to 10.
Next we create a new wordpress query in array format:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 10, 'cat'=>-145, 'paged'=>$paged ) ); ?>
we create a new WP_Query object called $query
- set the number of posts_per_page to 10 in this case
- set the categories variable to not show cat id =145 – done by setting the minus sign
- and set the paged variable to the $paged we set up before
And hopefully that's it.
Edward owns and runs ee-web design and has been building websites for over 12 years. He is passionate about... most things really
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Today I'm writing about the longest, most difficult physical challenge I've ever attempted: a 500 mile cycling trip. I'm not sure I'm even going to make it, but I sure as hell will try.
These are my three reasons for getting out there!
1. It's long. I want to challenge my mind and body way beyond my current level. So far, the most I've biked in my life was 45 miles, and the next day, I went to a spa. I want to max out my biking limit (or what I think my limit is) and see if it holds up.
2. I want to disconnect. I'm tired of noise! I'm looking forward to the miles of empty road and meditation to center my thoughts.
3. I'm a chicken. I really want to do a longer hike, but at the moment, that's just not possible. I love hiking, but I'm terrified at the thought of being alone in the woods for longer than a day. Cycling is just not that scary – you are always on the road, seen by people, and… if shit hits the fan, you can just call the cops. I know, this is a disappointing truth. But if this is what it takes to get me slightly more comfortable with the uncomfortable, then it is what it is. (P.S. if you have good tips to share for tackling a solo hike please leave me comments! I'd love to hear your thoughts!)
Let me walk you through it…
I'm cycling from Wilmington, NC to Jacksonville, FL via the East Coast Greenway. The original plan was to bike part of the Southern Tier Bicycle Route, but for various reasons, I decided against it. The best thing about biking down the coastline is the scenery. I'll be riding next to the ocean for most of my trip and hitting many urban areas along the way, which means – showers, warm food and familiar faces along the way.
So far this is my itinerary:
Day 1: Wilmington, NC to Holden Beach, NC
Day 2: Holden Beach to Myrtle Beach, SC
Day 3: Myrtle Beach, SC to McClellanville, South Carolina 29458
Day 4: McClellanville, SC to Charleston, SC
Day 5: Charleston, SC to Yemassee, SC
Day 6: Yemassee, SC to Savannah, GA
Day 7: Savannah, GA to Townsend, Georgia, US
Day 8: Townsend, GA to Woodbine, GA
Day 9: Woodbine, GA to Jacksonville, FL
That works out to about 500 miles, or 45-65 miles/day for about 9 days. Even at a bloody slow pace (=my pace) it sounds doable.
I plan to rent out a large SUV in Newark, NJ, stuffed my bike inside and drove straight down to Wilmington. Bike shipping is easy with BikeFlights.com but if you don't know where to ship because your itinerary is in flux you have a problem. Renting an SUV cost me $110 + tolls + gas – all in all about $200, which is just about the same I'd pay for the flights.
When I get to Jacksonville I'll actually FedEx my bike home. It's only about $50 and it will get my bike home within 3 days. I'll use some spare miles I have with AA to fly myself home for free.
I decided to camp out about half of my nights. The other half, I'll spend in airbnb rooms. Airbnbs are cheaper and more accessible in urban areas, which means less unnecessary miles traveled and more hot showers for me. Plus, after biking 50+ miles per day, I deserve a freaking bed.
You'd think this would be cheap, right? So did I, but we are both wrong. I'm still going to be away from home, which means accommodation and food costs. Plus, I had to buy a whole bunch of gear, because minus this little 500-mile stint, I'm not actually a cyclist and my bike isn't properly equipped.
If all goes as expected, I calculated that the 10-day trip will run me slightly over $1,000 (side question I've been pondering: how do hippies do it?!):
- $300 accommodation
- $200 car to Wilmington
- $250 bike supplies (tent, mattress, bike pants, tools)
- $150 food & drink (bringing a ton of dry food, so expecting to only pay for lunch!)
- $80 bike tune-up
- $80 bike shipping (cost & box)
To be honest I am not much of a prepper. I just jump on a plane and figure things out as I go. It's more exciting that way! One time, Camilo and I went to the Dominican Republic, rented a car, hopped on the highway…. and then we saw a toll. Not only did we not have the local currency – we also had no idea how much to take out of the ATM because we didn't look up the exchange rate! Hey, it's all about the adventure 😉
But this time, it's a little different. Camilo isn't around. I'm alone. I have no idea how to fix a broken bike. For all those reasons and more, I need good gear to keep me alive in case shit goes down. I need to carry water, food, batteries, tools and shelter at all times.
Here's the complete list of what I am carrying on my bike (links out to the new items I just got):
Cycling Related
- Panniers (rear) – side note: I forgot to buy rain covers for the panniers, so I put everything inside them in separate zip locs.
- Handlebar bag
- Bike multi-tool
- Helmet
- Bike pump
- Kryptonite bike lock
- Bungee cords
- Tire patches
- Cycling shorts (x1)
- Cycling pants (x1)
- Socks (x3)
- Short sleeve shirts (x2)
- Long sleeve shirts (x2)
- Waterproof, breathable rain jacket
- Warm jacket
- Fleece neck warmer
- Helmet liner
- Padded underwear
- 5 pairs of underwear (yes, one pair /2 days)
Camping Related
- Lightweight tent
- Sleeping bag
- Sleeping pad
- Flashlight / headlamp
- *I did not bring any cooking gear, knowing that I could always stop by and get a Subway
- Water bottles
- Water filter & water treatment
- Dry bags (x2)
- Heavy trash bags, zip locks
- First Aid Kit (ended up bringing just ibuprofen & bandaids out of there)
- Sunscreen and lip balm
- Lederman knife
- Anti chafe balm


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One Reply to "One Classic FIlm…"
One classic film, numerous formats.
Alexander Salkind Presents
Marlon Brando
Gene Hackman
A Richard Donner Film
"Superman: The Movie"
Starring Christopher Reeve
Also Starring
Ned Beatty
Jackie Cooper
Glenn Ford
Trevor Howard
Margot Kidder
Jack O'Halloran
Valerie Perrine
Maria Schell
Terence Stamp
Phyllis Thaxter
Susannah York
Jeff East
Marc McClure
Sarah Douglas
Harry Andrews
Production Design by John Barry
Photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC
Music by John Williams
Superman Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Story by Mario Puzo
Screenplay by Mario Puzo, David and Leslie Newman & Robert Benton
Creative Consultant: Tom Mankiewicz
Executive Producer: Ilya Salkind
Produced by Pierre Spengler
Directed by Richard Donner
Filmed in Panavision ™?
Processed by Technicolor ™?
Recorded in Dolby Stereo
An Alexander Salkind Presentation
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Next Year: "Superman II"


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