Hey folks I am trying Applebee’s for the first time ever. The restaurant is located at Westfield Fairfield that is currently partially closed due to the ongoing Covid-19 situations. Outdoor patio dining is currently available at this point of time. Please tell me your favorite dishes from Applebee’s in the comments below thank you.
Blackened Shrimp is served warm on a bed of fettuccine pasta tossed with broccoli and rich Alfredo sauce topped with Parmesan cheese. Served with a golden brown signature breadstick brushed with a buttery blend of garlic and parsley.
$14.49
1360 CALS
The pasta dish was on point in the seasonings department. The shrimp had a kick to it maybe cayenne pepper was added to this dish very rich in flavor.
The perfect balance of crunchy and chewy, warm pretzel sticks are ready to dip in BLUE MOON® white Cheddar beer cheese and honey Dijon mustard.
$8.99
1190 CALS
The pretzel breadsticks were hot, and fresh from the oven kind of good. Warm and soft on the inside tasty indeed. The dip had a hint of beer flavor that meshed well with the tangy blue cheese with Dijon mustard sauce.
These onion rings were the bomb.com. Real crunchy on the outside, and chewy on the inside. So overall I give this whole meal from Applebee’s a 9 out of 10 onion rings.
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ISO is a very important component in photography. With modern cameras you can take much better use of ISO. But what is ISO and how does ISO influence your images? 2. The effects of Aperture and Shutter Speed https://youtu.be/Ns82n-RZzrU Aperture and Shutter Speed can do much more than just brightening up your image.
Aperture is important to blur the background of your portraits and Shutter Speed will freeze your images when you photograph fast movement, or blur the water of waterfalls. 2.1. The effects of Aperture Part I https://youtu.be/NVI-TkW5pXU
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my story about women used to be that “women wanted to control me” and that I had to retain my freedom
that story was developed from 7-16 years old from having a EX step mom that was controlling and manipulative
even after my dad divorced her and I never had to see her again…
I kept attracting that pattern into my life
our stories (beliefs) remain on autopilot and attract to us an equal match to what we believe
my first long term ex-girlfriend (from 17 to like 20 years old) was super jealous and didn’t like how loud I was, how I was around people, etc and wanted me to be a certain way (control)
it was like that pattern was STILL in my life even though my ex step mom left for good
then I broke up with that girlfriend after a few years of dealing with it
(I stayed with the relationship WAY to long just like my dad did with the Ex step mom)
then within a week of breaking up with her, I got transferred to a better department at Nordstroms
I USED to work in “B.P” shoes (it’s like shoes for young people)
THEN I got transferred to “Salon Shoes” (it’s like shoes for rich people)
this meant I was making more commission since the price point was higher
it all SEEMED to be better…
however the manager of that department was literally an energetic clone to my ex-step mom
she would talk down to people and make them cry
she would manipulate people and intentionally be mean
she was in my life for about 3 years
and then I finally broke the cycle.
when I went through my awakening in 2012 I started to become aware of this pattern
while in meditation, I realized that I had a belief about women that was on autopilot
then what I did was become aware of the pattern and story…
and then questioned it.
and let it go realizing it was just simply that…
a story
and stories can be changed
after I did this I replaced it with a new story
“women let me be myself and appreciate me for who I am”
from that point on, I never attracted a women to reflect back that OLD story
let me ask you a question…
what are your stories about men?
can you trust them? do they let you down? are they too much to deal with? try to control you? do you keep attracting a specific pattern over and over again?
what are your stories about women?
are they difficult to understand? hard to trust? do they try to control you? do you keep attracting a specific pattern over and over again?
as you become aware of these stories, you begin to take your power back and can easily let go of the old ones
question these stories….
and as you do, you break down the old outdated ones
it’s simply a choice you can make
and once you make that choice, you feel FREE AND you stop attracting the old
hope today’s email gave you some insight on how you can let go of the old stories in your life 🙂
it’s simply about awareness and then making a new choice
sometimes people are nice to gain the approval of others
sometimes people are nice to avoid confrontation
I was trained to be nice from my Ex-step mom who was/is a narcissist
she was in my life from 7-16 years old until my dad finally divorced her
my brother and I had to be perfect, polite and stay in line to receive privileges and love growing up
by privileges I mean going to school activities like band camp or forensics debate (playing with friends or watching t.v was not something we did until my dad divorced her)
I’ve been undoing this conditioning for the last few years now and peeling back the layers of it
however…
I had an experience a few days ago of someone pushing my buttons and I became aware of that shadow “safety mechanism” kicking in that I learned from my dad
I knew that response of being “nice” wasn’t authentic though
so instead I caught this pattern and then in that awareness…
the warrior came out inside me
I was firm and blunt with this person
and it was authentic
I then was ALSO able to look back into my past and see all the times I was “nice” when it wasn’t authentic
I was able to see the PAIN it has caused me AND that I NO longer want to live in that pattern
being “spiritual” can sometimes make us bypass things or not want to go into the shadow to do the work…
I used to avoid confrontation due to not wanting to be “in low vibe”
and guess what?
total spiritual bypassing.
the moment I realized this awareness of the shadow, my brain started to re-wire
I started to ask myself… what is authentic in this moment?
the answer?
be firm, tell the truth, and be BOLD
the result?
standing up for myself and then total liberation and a new awareness that will change my life forever
I now realize that me being honest and authentic is more valuable to me then being “nice” and living in a pattern I learned from my dad
tbh I’m more edgy now…
but I am also more of a leader
I have a vision that I will not drift from and it’s very clear to me how to get there
and being “nice” is not apart of that
to be clear, there is nothing wrong with “being nice”
the key is not using it as manipulation
“hey, if I am nice to you, will you like me? will you love me? will you validate and accept me?”
that’s an energy exchange.
if you feel like being nice with NO strings attached that’s cool too
but realize that it is not to get anything
this shadow work realization has changed so much about me
I am now more clear on what I like and don’t like in life
and I’m not afraid to communicate that or ask for it
I also have more boundaries now and am not afraid to communicate them too
I am more blunt and firm and that’s okay too
the cure to people pleasing or being nice is not what you think
Although many problems plague most mass transit systems all across the country.The good thing in all of this madness is that solutions for public transit exist. These solutions can help greatly improve safety, travel times, transit operations, and more. The USA transit systems could be on the level of most European mass transit systems like in Budapest, and Great Britain. Listed below are the possible solutions.
Grade Separation, Transit only Lanes: In the long term future with Sacramento transit system for an example. The light rail lines that converge into downtown need to be grade separated from urban city streets. The options of subways(San Francisco Bart), and or Elevated pathways ( Chicago’s EL) can be considered. Transit only lanes, and signal priority could be added for light rail, tram/streetcar, and bus rapid lines to help speed up travel times.
2. Public Safety: Better Security forces need to be hired to enforce the laws of public transit. Homeless Social workers need to be dispatched to areas inhabited by the homeless populations to help provide permanent affordable housing, medical services, and mental health programs for those who suffer from extreme mental illnesses.
3. The Hy-Rail Rapid Transit Concept: According to the Hy-trains website HyRail is a HYbrid combination of the above 3 rail types, taking the best qualities of each and leaving the drawbacks. It uses the wide stance, high capacity and high speeds of the Heavy Rail, the low visual/audio/construction impacts found in a straddle beam monorail, the climbing capabilities and low operating costs associated with Linear Induction Motors, and the bonus lateral wheels for high stability, speed and safety… all qualities needed for a corridor like the Sepulveda Pass.
HyRail has the ability to lower construction and operating costs by up to 2/3rd, is completely grade separated, can go up to 125+ mph, and greatly increase metro capacity with Quadruple Tracking at a fraction of the cost of other modalities. HyRail is also modular and can be used to convert an existing rail line or add an express service above it at minimal cost.
Sacrt is currently planning a light rail extension of it’s Green line that for now ends at township 9 station. The proposed project would terminate at Sacramento international airport. Construction is probably starting in 2022. I think this proposed hybrid rail concept should be considered for the following USA long termed planned transit projects.
City: San Jose CA A future extension of Bart ( bay area rapid transit) to downtown San Jose subway ending at the Santa Clara Caltrain Commuter rail station.
The following common steps may be helpful in solving the problems of urban transport:
1. Development of Additional Road Capacity: …
Additional lanes increasing the person- carrying capacity of the roadway. A new road or lane can draw vehicles away from nearby congested roads and improve the flow on the surrounding network. … New lanes and roads can encourage new or re-development of surrounding lands, stimulating economic growth across the globe.
Traffic Management Measures: …
Traffic management measures are supposed to greatly reduce total vehicle emissions by creating situations where vehicle engines operates very efficiently (e.g. fuel consumption is reduced by eliminating congestion and smoothing traffic flows) and/or by reducing transport demand such that the use of private vehicles is reduced in a way.
Effective Use of public transit Service: …
According to www.c40knowledgehub.org Effective public transit service can be done by: Physical planning. Bus and metro routes, as well as walking and cycling infrastructure, should be planned to intersect each other, so that passengers can easily move from one mode to another to complete their journeys. NACTO’s Transit Street Design Guide offers practical and comprehensive guidance on all aspects of this, including on designing transit lanes, intersections, stations and stops.
Integrated fares. Payment systems should be integrated so that passengers only pay once for trips that include multiple public transit modes. Smart ticketing systems automatically adjust the fare that is charged to take into account each passenger’s specific journey and travel frequency.
Integrated operations. Ideally, a single agency should be responsible for managing all public transport systems in the city. This allows for seamless intermodal integration and timetabling, smart ticketing and single apps for users to find information. London is a good example of this: Transport for London is responsible, either directly or through licenses and franchises, for managing London’s metro, bus and tram.
(DLR and Tramlink) systems, city-wide cycling infrastructure, taxis and water buses, in addition to London’s Major Road Network (most smaller roads are managed by Borough councils).
Parking Restrictions: …
These include use of a collection agency to help collect unpaid fines and a link to a state’s Department of Motor Vehicle records so that the registered owner of a vehicle may be tracked and notified that they have an unpaid fine. Parking enforcement is not a job for everyone.
Promoting the Bicycle: ..
The fitness factor: Biking to work is good for you. While the exact calories burned on a ride varies between each person, their speed, and the topography, cycling on average burns as many calories as jogging, with considerably fewer negative impacts on the joints. Cycling improves cardio-vascular and aerobic fitness, lowers blood pressure, boosts energy, builds muscle, and improves coordination. Sneaking the health benefits of biking into your daily commute is so easy it almost feels like cheating!.
Encouraging Walking: …
Promoting Public Transport: …
Overall according to Curbed.com Seattle: An all-of-the-above approach to better transit
The home of Amazon has long been held up as a poster child for the ills of tech-fueled development. While it’s still coming to grips with housing costs and homelessness, Seattle has become an oft-cited model for building a more functional and diverse transit system. The city’s playbook for new mobility has focused on adding high-capacity rail and bus lines and expanding cycling options to accommodate a growing downtown, and there’s evidence the work has paid off.
More than 70 percent of weekday trips to downtown aren’t in a private vehicle, thanks to the city’s Commute Trip Reduction initiative, and significant investment in new transit options, including the 62-mile ST3 rail plan, will strengthen a growing mass transit system. Seattle has even bucked the trend of decreasing bus ridership, expanding and improving service at a time when other cities struggle to maintain rider numbers. Until next time from Rw’s Random Life.
Hey folks Rw’s Random Life here today we discuss the many issues involving mass rapid public transit in certain californian cities. Also possible solutions will be addressed in pt 2 of this article.
Sacramento transit founded Apr 1, 1973. The city has 70 bus routes, 3 rapid light rail lines, and 1 commuter line called the capitol corridor from Sacramento Valley station, to San Jose Diridon station.
The Issues The At Grade Street Level Factor
California’s cities like Sacramento, San Jose, and San Diego have a thing in common: their light rail networks are mostly at grade level at least within their downtown areas. Certain train lines often share the right of way with automobile traffic resulting in slower travel times. Pedestrians at times are seen walking along street level light rail, tram tracks creating a safety hazard in dense urban areas.
When these cities listed above first planned their light rail systems over 20 years ago. It was done on a low budget as a result trains often had to stop at traffic stop lights meaning no signal priority, plus the lack of public transit only lanes. On Sacramento’s K street light rail trains have some right of way via the transit mall.
Many public transit systems all over the planet are facing severe problems due to the Covid-19 situations. Public transit ridership are on the decline leading to budget cuts, early operation service closures example Bart (Bay Area Metro Rapid Transit) system has to close at 9 pm instead of 12 am or midnight. Safety on public transit is not being fully addressed as criminal activities is at an all time high. The homeless population often use public transit as a mobile homeless shelter.
In the Covid-19 related video above (San Francisco, CA) Bay Area transit agencies are uniting with the common goal of providing a safe ride for the public as the region responds to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The core of this effort is the newly released “Riding Together: Bay Area Healthy Transit Plan.” The plan outlines action items for frequent cleaning, personal protective equipment, face coverings, social distancing, ventilation, and touchless fares.
As riders return to public transportation, surveys show that passengers want to be assured steps have been taken to provide a safe ride. With that in mind, transit operators in the nine Bay Area counties have established common commitments based upon the industry’s best health-related practices to strengthen trust in riding public transportation.
These commitments are also based on information from the California Department of Public Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization.
Criminal Illegal Activity on Public Transit: Abusing illegal street drugs on trains, and buses. Numerous cases of assault or attacks of random passengers on public transit.
2. Lack of Public Transit Restrooms, and Trash Cans: Certain people are known to defecate, and urinate on trains creating a health hazard to all other passengers. Certain passengers at times eat or drink when the rules state not to. Trash is often found all around trains, and buses due to lack of trash disposal units.
3. Illegal Street Vendors: When living in Los Angeles. I fully took advantage of the public transit here is my personal experience. Various street vendors would often sell candies, incenses, drinks, among other things on the light rail/heavy rail lines. The public transit security forces oftentimes never enforced the transit laws in place to curb the problems.
4. Sleeping on Public Transit: Although sleeping is allowed on public transit. The homeless population sleeps on train seats. When the trains cease operations for the day the staff or security offices often have to wake up these folks who then have to find alternative places for shelter.
5. Infrequent Public Transit Wait Times: Many train, and bus lines are known to take over 1 hour to reach a particular station. Factors are unpredictable traffic conditions, public transit operator errors, and erratic weather conditions.
6. High infrastructure maintenance costs
According to https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=4621Cities facing the aging of their transport infrastructure have to assume growing maintenance costs as well as pressures to upgrade to more modern infrastructure. In addition to the involved costs, maintenance, and repair activities create circulation disruptions.
Delayed maintenance is rather common since it conveys the benefit of keeping current costs low, but at the expense of higher future costs and, on some occasions, the risk of infrastructure failure. The more extensive the road and highway network, the higher the maintenance cost and its financial burden. The same applies to public transit infrastructure that requires a system-wide maintenance strategy.
7. Lack of Passenger Health Awarenesson Public Transit
Certain passengers when generally riding public transit don’t often follow public health safety guidelines. Including not wearing masks/ face coverings, and gloves although certain experts in the medical field claim that wearing masks does not protect against Covid-19.
The Conclusion Folks
So overall Public transit systems are therefore challenged to remain relevant to urban mobility as well as to increase its market share. The increasing volatility in petroleum prices since 2006 provides uncertainties in the costs of transit fleet ownership and operations, and how effective it is to convert transit fleets to alternative sources of energy.
A younger generation that has a preference in living in higher density areas is perceiving the automobile as a less attractive proposition than the prior generations. Electronic fare systems are also making the utilization of public transit more convenient. A recent trend concerns the usage of incentives, such as point systems (e.g. air miles with purchase of a monthly pass), to promote the use of public transit and to influence consumer behavior. To be continued in part 2………
Hey folks in this spiritual awakening video. Aaron Doughty explains letting go of your bad moments in life, and being yourself in this world of turmoil. Stay Aware folks.
The only reason it’s hard to LET GO of that someone or something is because there is an ATTACHMENT. Once you RELEASE THE MEANING behind the story you tell yourself, you become FREE and magnetic to your desired, DREAM life. In this video, you will learn EXACTLY how to let go of what’s causing resistance and completely CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Guided Meditation for Letting Go with the Law of Attraction by Aaron Doughty: ➡ https://youtu.be/4oDQIKvHP1Y
If you find yourself having trouble letting go.. Maybe you’re attached to a person, a label, and outcome or a situation.. If you feel attached to any of these things, this video will show you exactly how to LET GO and change your life forever. Realize that when you feel like it’s hard to let go of something or someone and you feel resistance toward it, it is caused by having an attachment to it.
Look at this equation: Attachment = Suffering. Attachment is making something that is not you, you. When you attach yourself to a person, an outcome or a circumstance, you begin to make that a part of YOU even though it is external to you. When you do that, you start to make something that isn’t you, you and create an emotional attachment to it.
That’s why the attachment creates pain and suffering. The story that follows with the justification of the attachment is what causes resistance in letting go. Letting go of the attachment and the story allows you to transform your belief, become free and attract your desired life. The key is to become aware of this process. Once you become aware, you find that you are able to exponentially change your life and invite magic. Observing your thoughts happens among emotions like fear, anger and neutrality. Once you start to observe, you transcend to the higher levels of reasoning. Reasoning is the logical process of how you think.
It’s important to understand that reasoning creates beliefs that are then reflected back to us in our life. Above that is love, which is conditional. All letting go is, is the release of meaning. It’s important to realize meaning is changeable and able to be transformed by you. Once you become aware of the story, that is how you are able to let it go. In my personal past, I used experiences that I once gave a negative meaning to and turned it into more transformative meanings. I used my experiences that used to make me feel worthless and upset, and shifted them to being perceived as necessary catalysts that led me to my own spiritual awakening.
The reason it’s hard to let go of attachment is because there is a story that you tell yourself about it. The more you tell yourself that story, the more you find a reflection of it being true in your life. All our beliefs create our reality, so once you become aware of the belief, you automatically have the power to change it.
Updated August 19, 2020: Keeping out of the spotlight may be a wise plan today. You’re so well-liked that you easily get drawn into conversations wherever you go, but this can undermine your productivity. Now that there are so many tasks demanding your attention, it’s best to work in seclusion. By staying focused on tasks, you’ll have a chance to rest and relax with your favorite person this evening. Or, you may find more peace and rejuvenation on your own, luxuriating in a scented bath or curling up with a good book.
The Tarot has unique insight about how these energies are impacting YOU.
You will not forget why you were born. We thought that title would capture your attention as so many of you during this time are attempting to remember why you were born, or more importantly, why you decided to live during these times. Whether or not you believe you made that choice is irrelevant, but know that you did.
We will tie together all of our cryptic messages of late. We recently mentioned the law of attraction, and that was to capture Roger’s attention this morning when we led him to a video discussing the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes.
Roger studied this information decades ago, and he wondered why we wanted him to hear it now. When he listened, he was reminded of the law of cause and effect, which is the same as the law of attraction but said differently. The point of that excursion was to alert you all to the fact that information is always available for you to glean understanding, but then you are to add to that. That is one of the reasons you were born.
Then we led Roger to an article about 1918, where the same discussion was about whether or not you should wear masks or kids could go to school during the flu pandemic. If you were to study this information yourself, you would discover that you collectively have done this before, and now you know why we kept saying you’ll be fine.
Then Roger questioned why humans as a whole had not utilized the information they were given more than a hundred years ago, and that is also why we mentioned women’s suffrage of 100 years ago. You learn gradually and change slowly. Yes, we mean you individually and collectively.
Yesterday Roger was a prime example of this. In the message he delivered, he left out one part, and that was the one where we told him why he was born. Roger, just as you have not accepted, he was capable of that mission. You are alive now because you did not believe you were capable of fulfilling your mission, but you also knew that living through this time will help you to do so. We will continue tomorrow with more pieces of the puzzle, but they all will eventually end up with you accepting yourself.
(We will leave you with the message on cause and effect.
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