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problem with addon and my pet
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i play a warlock, and ever since this new update, when i load BasicChatMods, then my pets bar goes up higher than it should go. normally it sits right above the exp bar and another bar. but now it goes much higher and a huge gap of space with nothing there. is there a way i can possibly fix this?
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Rev Your Engines For NASCAR
Our guest post comes from Bonnie & Bill Neely of: Real Travel Adventures Ezine – Your free online monthly travel magazine with hundreds of features and photos on travel to anywhere.
For years we have been NASCAR racing fans, usually via TV. The first race we attended in person was at the Texas Motor Speedway near where we live. But this year we wanted to go to the hometown of NASCAR racing in North Carolina, where we spent a delightful weekend in Cabarrus County, just outside of Charlotte, NC, and the location of the Charlotte Motor Speedway, a 1.5 mile oval racetrack with seating for over 100.000 spectators.
The whole area is about racing and we had so much fun visiting the various places, in addition to watching three racing events: the Windstream Pole Night on Thursday night, the Nationwide Race on Saturday afternoon, and the big CocaCola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup event on Sunday night. These events occur here every Memorial Day week-end And the fans are now gearing up for the exciting October 12 – 15 events: World of Outlaws Late Model Series Showdown, Bojangles Pole Night, Dollar General 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series, and Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. There is some kind of racing event in and around this area almost any week you choose to come.
The amazing new biggest screen in the world, added this year to the track, makes the race even more exciting for fans. It stands beyond the track so that we could see every detail “up close and personal” as the cars zoomed around the track. The close-up shots had a very tiny delay from the actual, so it did not detract but enhanced watching the race. Our eyes did not stray to the screen, as at Dallas Cowboy Stadium, but instead, we could glance at the huge screen when we missed a detail or needed to see the point of interest more closely than any seat position could offer. It made the race more exciting.
The races are great to watch, especially since nowadays the cars and safety outfits the drivers wear are so well designed that even the most exciting and horrifying crashes almost always have the driver walking away unharmed. Your adrenaline really pumps when you watch it, holding your breath as you peer at flying car parts, flames and smoke.
And we can thank the NASCAR engineers and builders for the many safety features on the cars which we drive each day, because they were first developed and tested in preparing race cars for such events as the NASCAR races.
Among the features (first developed as a result of racing) which help us stay safer every day on the road are disc brakes, safety belts, steel bar roll cages, fuel tanks that don’t explode on impact, the front accordian-like crumpling on impact so the driver is not speared by the engine parts.
Hotels and restaurants and shopping are plentiful within a couple of miles of the Speedway, but you must make your reservations early because they fill up fast! We were so pleased to get to stay at the Hilton Garden Inn, where we had a large and beautiful Junior Suite, which can accommodate two adults and two children. We enjoyed early and delicious breakfasts in the hotel restaurant each morning. There is a good exercise room with lots of equipment and a small indoor swimming pool. It is a perfect choice for your home during the races, just a little over a mile from the Speedway.
Very nearby is the huge Concord Mills Mall, where you can shop till you drop and find any and everything at outlet prices! And there are several restaurants you’ll find in the area. By far, our favorite was the fun at this mall.
The home of Dale Earnhardt, Sr., who was killed in the 2002 NASCAR race at Daytona, is just a few miles away, and you can drive the Dale Trail to see some of the memorialized places he frequented and his 9 foot tall statue at Kannapolis at Dale Earnhardt Plaza.
Concord, a small town nearby is a great place to visit little unique shops and enjoy the friendly hometown people and the surrounding countryside. This whole area is devoted to racing and race fans and race families as most of the NASCAR drivers live in Charlotte or this area in the few months they get to be at home, since the race season is from February through Thanksgiving.
During the races the drivers stay in their comfortable and elaborate RV’s in the special parking area near the Motor Speedway Garage. Sometimes you can see the drivers riding in golf carts from their RV’s to the Garage or Pit and many will stop for autographs, so Garage and Pit passes are a good value for being upclose and personal with some drivers and many technicians and pitcrews. It is fascinating to watch them work on race days at the track.
Some hotels and businesses offer shuttle rides to the track. Parking is plentiful, but for some you must walk a good way, and for closer spots you must wait nearly an hour to exit, but it’s all part of the events! You can even stay in an RV, camper, or tent in the center of the racetrack. There are no hook-ups for water but there are large restroom and shower facilities. Campers bring chairs to line up along the fence or on top of their rigs to watch the race. Make reservations for this camping through Charlottte Motor Speedway. There are numerous other campgrounds very near the race track too.
Every race fan must allow a half day in downtown Charlotte to visit the new and wonderful NASCAR Hall of Fame. This stunning facility opened in 2010 and has just recently inducted its second group of drivers into the Hall of Fame to be immortalized here, showcasing their memorabelia and cars. You’ll enjoy the collection of race cars through the years on display near the entrance, and you can walk on the track beside them to feel the pitch of the curves on which they speed nearly 200 miles per hour: very awesome! There are so many inter-active, fun and informative activities that you could spend all day here and still be learning more and never be bored. We loved the experience of the pit crew challenge in which three visitors work on a car: one changes the tire, one adds fuel, and one jacks the car up, all on a timer! The films at various places throughout the building help you learn the interesting history of racing, telling about the people who originated the idea and the ways in which the first cars were raced on dirt in fields. This place is filled with fun and information for fans of all ages to enjoy. Don’t miss it!
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Not everyone knows that NASA has embedded crowdsourcing into their strategy and capabilities. But in fact, back in 2011 (after they ran a highly successful crowdsourcing pilot) NASA established the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI).
Sustainability is a widely known concept. However, finding a balance for its three main pillars (society, economy, and environment) is not easy. Society demands that companies respect and protect the environment while generating benefit, improving the country’s economy and respecting every member of society.
Most people agree on the importance of sustainability in innovation, so why is it difficult to deliver? In this article, we’ll explore three hurdles to sustainable innovation: it’s often not considered by innovators themselves as they plan their projects; sustainability is not framed as an exciting and imaginative opportunity; and that sustainable innovation may not fit into a company’s ongoing processes.
Last week Unilever announced research showing that one-third of consumers now purchase its brands based on their good social and environmental performance, but went on to suggest that brands are missing an opportunity from not promoting sustainability effectively. Getting this right could unlock a further $1trn market opportunity for sustainability innovators.
Everyone knows about ROI, as in “return on investment.” But for evaluating the success of an experiential brand event or marketing campaign, businesses should take an equally close look at ROI, as in “return on innovation.”
Innovation has become a business mantra and a word that threatens to lose all meaning every time it’s uttered at another conference or thrown into another book title. But in spite of its omnipresence it continues to be essential – a growing field – and one of the only practices that might save businesses from extinction.
This is the third part of a three-part article series. We are investigating why – despite all the investments made into the early phase of innovation – innovation results remain disappointing. We call this the “corporate innovation problem”. In the first part we illustrated that companies are investing heavily into the early phase of innovation. In the second part, we provided some metrics on the corporate innovation problem and found that the corporate innovation problem actually consists of a “complexity” problem” and a “system problem”. In this article, we show six levers to change the “system problem” and think this is the way to solve the corporate innovation problem – and ultimately to increase innovation performance.
This is the second part of a three-part article series. In the first part we illustrated that firms are investing heavily into the early phase of innovation. In this second part we show that despite of all these investments, innovation results remain disappointing. We call this the “corporate innovation problem”. We provide some metrics and find that there are two root causes. In the upcoming third part we will suggest that six levers can be used to address one of the root causes. We believe that moving these levers can provide a solution to the corporate innovation problem – and ultimately lead to increased innovation performance.
Innovation is at the top of the Management Agenda for many companies. For excellence in innovation, companies have to master the chain of activities from discovering valuable insight into unmet customer needs to successful market adoption. However, despite large and growing investments into innovation, results remain disappointing. We call this the “corporate innovation problem”. In this 3-part article series we dig deeper into this problem and find that there are actually two root causes for it. We focus on one of the root causes – the “system problem” – and work out six levers of improvement. Acting on these levers offers a solution to the corporate innovation problem and ultimately increases innovation performance.
The human body serves as the perfect metaphor for understanding the innovation challenge facing today's organizations. The body is built to adapt and respond to demands that are placed upon it. The greater the demand, the stronger the response. If you and your organization are going to thrive in this world you must build and keep your innovation muscles strong. We know that only the fittest survive.
In my first article in this series, I talked about the continued, and often misplaced, focus of corporate innovation leaders on developing disruptive innovation efforts. My basic argument within the article was the while “Big I” innovation can be a valid driver of growth. However, few companies are in the right position or have laid the appropriate groundwork to support and develop new, groundbreaking ideas, especially in the context of the existing organizational culture.
Before any organization can reap the economic benefits of open innovation, it must overcome a number of legal, operational and cultural challenges. In this article Peter von Dyck addresses the top three obstacles to open innovation: managing intellectual property issues and other legal risks, processing ideas quickly and establishing an efficient internal structure.
Ideation focused crowdsourcing has been around for some time, but the approach is often not producing the desired business results in order to justify continued investments. How does the model need to change in order to drive real business value?
Launching an innovation program is challenging for a number of reasons. Most of the time, champions of innovation face two main problems: 1) the general challenge of coordinating the various aspects of the innovation department, but also 2) educating the rest of the community about the value of innovation and how it will impact them. Addressing some of the main questions or challenges right off the bat paves the way for innovation success later.
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Macros are big hype in the fitness community. You might have heard of them, or IIFYM a.k.a. “if it fits your macros.” Basically, any ratio of protein, carbs and fat are your macros!
So, you’re eating them now in some combination. Simple enough, right? Well, we could go on and on all day when it comes to anything nutrition-related if you haven’t noticed, and macronutrients are no exception.
Oh! And where there are macros, there are micros. These are the lesser known nutrients, but they’re still wildly important.
If you do enough research online about macros, you’ll find loads of recommendations. In all likelihood, you’ll have a hard time deciding what the right path for you is.
There is no right or wrong way, but the more you know about macros and micros, the more confident you can feel in making the best decisions for your nutrition. Let’s talk about it!
More about macros
Let’s chat about the definition of a macronutrient first. It’s actually really simple, and you’re probably already pretty well acquainted with them.
A macronutrient is a substance required in relatively large amounts by living organisms, in particular.
Each of the following macros plays a different role in our bodies and on our plates, and they work together exceptionally
well. That’s why, unless you are on a ketogenic (low-carb) diet
or a low-fat diet, you’re not eliminating any of the macros entirely
While there are proven therapeutic benefits to a low-carb diet, your low-fat diet is definitely best left in 1999. Otherwise, this trio just gets on really well. You just don’t need to separate them.
It’s important to remember that some foods are sitting around 100% at one specific macronutrient, many foods contain all three macros at once. Generally speaking, we CAN classify foods as one, but they don’t strictly exist exclusively.
For example, while avocado is considered primarily a fat, the fruit also contains around 20% carbohydrates and nearly 5% protein.
You probably know more about protein than you do about the other macros, mostly because it’s somehow made its way to the top of the list. It’s the popular kid in school, because it makes muscles grow.
You can have TOO much protein, but that’s another story. Protein is indeed fantastic for muscle growth and mass maintenance, but it’s good for so much more than that.
It is vital for human growth in general – especially in infants – and it can help bust sugar cravings and keep us feeling satiated for longer.
Proteins are made up of 22 amino acids which you might also recognize as “the building blocks of protein.” The fact of the matter is that amino acid balance is crucial to overall health and wellbeing.
Not all protein is created equal! Some will contain more of one amino acid than another. This is why variety in protein intake cannot be stressed enough.
Taking in different types of quality animal protein on a regular basis should ensure good levels of each amino acid, considering most animal foods and fish are complete proteins, meaning they contain all those that are essential.
Another good example of a complete protein is collagen. This can be an issue for planet-based eaters who have to pay more attention to food combinations.
Nearly 700 million people are protein deficient worldwide, so perhaps the benefits of eating enough each day aren’t widely known enough. If you’re going by the U.S. government’s protein standards, you want to aim for around 1 gram of protein per kilo of your [ideal] body weight.
The World Health Organization begs to differ, and suggests a marker of around 0.45 grams of protein per kilo of body weight. Ideally, we should be more focused on whether or not we’re meeting our requirements for amino acids (which is naturally more difficult to gauge).
To sum it up, all aimal foods are primarily sources of protein including beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish. Some plant-based sources include legumes, quinoa, soy and soy products such as tofu, lentils and even rice.
If you think of a fire, you can envision carbs as your kindling. While they get the flame going, they won’t keep it going. No – it needs a little something else (and we’ll get into that below).
At the same time, carbohydrates certainly serve their purpose! They provide quick energy to the brain and body, which tends to be the reason we crave them (i.e. sugar); we understand that carbs will give us a quick hit, and we’ll end up with a burst of energy.
This makes them great for pre-workout fuel or an afternoon pick-me-up.
Carbs are either simple or complex, and one reigns superior in terms of sustainable energy. Your complex carbs come from healthy starches, while your simple carbs come from sugars.
These sugars head directly into the bloodstream and fizzle out fast, hence the sudden spike and drop we often get after a meal heavy in carbs. Some simple carbohydrates like grapes or honey aren’t detrimental to the system, considering we often have them in a modest amount.
One of the major factors that has changed our perspective on the carbohydrate’s impact on health is the discovery of resistant starch which provide our digestive system with a level of stability.
Another purpose of the carb was found in glycobiology, which has uncovered the idea that many carbs act as communication devices which play a part in detecting blood type, immune function and more.
In general, all carbohydrates are plant foods – not animal foods. This is an easy rule of thumb if you’re still trying to determine which foods fall into which categories. This includes all fruits and vegetables in addition to grains and tubers.
While carbs are the kindling, fats are the firewood. They are satiating and they provide us with sustainable, long-lasting energy. They’re the key to endurance, and they’re what will keep us going.
Fats are what help us to avoid excessive hunger, blood sugar spikes and drops and fatigue due to hunger. Fats also provide a good buffer for carbohydrates, so it’s good to take them in together.
Dietary fat is also necessary for our bodies to use certain micronutrients – namely, fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D and K! Don’t fear fat; it’s good stuff. Oh, and it’s freakin’ delicious. Avocado, nut butter, good quality olive oil and butter… need I say more?
Fat intake impacts our health mainly in one way, which is our omega-3 fatty acid to omega-6 fatty acid ratio. This balance impacts so many aspects of our health. With all macronutrients, it’s important to recognize the priority for quality versus quantity, but fats ESPECIALLY need this focus.
We also need both unsaturated and saturated fats, plus fatty acids of all lengths – short, medium and long chain.
The Standard American Diet (SAD) doesn’t lend itself well to us creating this internal balance. Most refined and hydrogenated oils we’re taking in with processed foods are rancid because polyunsaturated fatty acids are too delicate to be handled.
They’re upping our omega-6s and driving down our omega-3 ratio big time, when we’re aiming for 1:1. Add trans fats into the picture, and we’ve got a big mess on our hands.
When we take in enough quality fats and a modest amount of carbohydrates, we become more effecient at using fat for fuel. This is helpful considering it is our energy source with more endurance, thus increasing our endurance!
Quality sources of fat include unrefined oils from avocado, olives or coconut, pasture-raised and/or grass-fed animal fats like tallow and lard, wild-caught seafood, avocado fruit, and nuts and seeds (preferably soaked and sprouted).
Micronutrients include ALL vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids and phytonutrients. Basically, they’re everything else that’s in our food!
There are approximately 53 essential micronutrients. The body isn’t making these on its own, though, so it’s on US to ensure proper micronutrient intake. This number doesn’t even take into account all of the phytonutrients!
It’s much more difficult to ensure that we’re hitting our micros than it is our macros, but a balanced diet should do the trick. Just take a look at the photo above and tell me the first thing you notice. Color has a lot to do with it!
In short, focusing on a wide range of seasonal, colorful, fresh and organic produce including both fruits and vegetables will put you in good shape.
On top of taking in enough protein to ensure amino acid balance (amino acids in and of themselves are considered micronutrients) and fatty acids to help absorb some key vitamins, this will put us in a good space to receive and actually absorb proper levels of micronutrients.
You also want to focus on a balance of flavors from sweet and spicy to bitter and salty. Finally, placing a slight emphasis on alkalizing and acid-forming foods can help establish proportionate micronutrient levels in the body.
Still, problems are presented when we question the health of soil our food is being grown in as it deteriorates. It can also be difficult for some to eat enough fruits and veggies each day.
In that case, taking a general supplement can be quite helpful. We like this multivitamin.
Should I count my macros?
Ideally, these explanations of macronutrients and micronutrients will show you that it’s really not that complicated. If there are two things that you took away from this learning, I hope it’s this:
- Quality matters. The quality of macronutrients in the diet is one of the first things I would look at if I were evaluating someone’s food journal and attributing my findings to their health and wellbeing.
- Variety matters. Again, I would assume someone in optimal health was eating with the seasons, cycling through different sources of protein and fat and overall getting in a wide range of vegetables and fruits to ensure micronutrient balance.
If you want to count your macros, I want this process to be simple for you too! You can tweak macros to align with your fitness goals, but you might want to work closely with a trainer to do so, or simply do more research on your end.
I’m going to talk about balance for someone who is eating a real food or paleo diet. This range is safe, healthy and happy for the majority of people if the macros that make it up come from whole foods.
The SAD features an intake of more than 50% carbohydrates. While this isn’t so far off from our chart, we’re assuming that 50% is mostly comprised of quick carbohydrates from wheat and added sugar.
Your 40% will ideally consist of slow carbs in the form of fresh veggies – both green and starchy, a modest amount of fruit and occasional grains or seeds such as quinoa, rice and oatmeal.
Moreover, the Standard American Diet generally features a fat intake around 35%. While this is a relatively healthy range, the fats being eaten are not consumed mindfully with essential fatty acid balance in mind.
Finally, these percentages leave just 15% for protein! With our deficiency epidemic, this is not a healthy standard to reach for each day.
Using an app like MyFitnessPal will help you plug in what you’re eating and automatically calculate macros for you. You can plug in your own macro goals on the app, and it will create a graph like the one above for you to reference.
For the most accurate measurements and macro readings, use a food scale! This will give you a better idea of what you’re eating, and where you might want to tweak it. Counting macros can be helpful outside of fitness, physique or weight loss goals.
It can help you dial in on foods you might be eating too much or too little of, or it can help you attribute symptoms to food intake. Knowledge is power and knowing how our nutrition impacts us arms us with tools for lifelong health.
I hope you learnt more about what makes our food both nutritious and delicious in this article on macros today. Plus, I hope we could shed some light on the right macros for you. If you enjoyed reading, hit the ‘Share’ button! For Pinterest, share from here.
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What was Bipasha Basu thinking while braving the scorching heat?
Milind Soman and Bipasha Basu announced the third edition of a marathon, only for women
Milind Soman and Bipasha Basu announced the third edition of Pinkathon, a marathon only for women.
The press meet at the roof top of a shopping mall in SoBo had the actress break out in cold sweat...literally speaking.
We couldn't help imagining what the dusky beauty was thinking while braving the scorching heat. Here's spelling it out aloud..
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Malaika Arora, Bipasha Basu and Sussanne Khan scorch the ramp
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Who is iCAD?
iCAD is a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions. We work passionately to provide precise, powerful healthcare solutions expertly engineered to optimize operational efficiency, clinician confidence and patient outcomes.
Recent Spotlight & News
June 17 - 20, 2018
Mammograms to MRI 2018
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July 6 - 7, 2018
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July 22 - 25, 2018
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October 15 - 17, 2018
2018 Fall Radiology & Imaging Conference (HCP)
November 25 - 30, 2018
Radiology Society of North America (RSNA)
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Welcome to Marathon!
Marathon is a 10-mile-long family-oriented island community conveniently situated in the middle of the Keys island chain, comprised mainly of Vaca Key, Fat Deer Key and Grassy Key. Residents, snowbirds and visitors enjoy Marathon’s fishing heritage, an old-Keys lifestyle and seafaring traditions.
Seaside Pool Home on Vaca Cut
3 Bedrooms | 2 Baths | Sleeps 6
Views of the 7 Mile Bridge
3 Bedrooms | 3 Baths | Sleeps 6
Marathon Key – Gulf Front
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Milestone is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust that is governed by the laws of Ontario. The REIT's portfolio consists of 61 multifamily garden-style residential properties, comprising 19,908 units that are located in 14 major metropolitan markets throughout the Southeast and Southwest United States. Milestone is the largest real estate investment trust listed on the TSX focused solely on the United States multifamily sector. The REIT operates its portfolio through its internal property management company, Milestone Management, LLC, which has more than 900 employees across the United States. Based in Dallas, TX, TMG Partners, L.P., an affiliate of The Milestone Group, LLC, is the external asset manager of the REIT. For more information, please visit www.milestonereit.com.
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The hexadecimal color code #01f6a5 is a shade of green-cyan. In the RGB color model #01f6a5 is comprised of 0.39% red, 96.47% green and 64.71% blue. In the HSL color space #01f6a5 has a hue of 160° (degrees), 99% saturation and 48% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 518.61 nm.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
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There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Through the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) initiative, wetlands are currently being integrated as a component of ecosystem indicators. CESI mandated the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS/EC) to develop and implement the wetlands indicator. Based on the Ramsar Convention and the 2010 BIP, three indicators were selected to report on progress toward wetland conservation under CESI, as follows: 1) Status and trends in wetland ecosystems extent, 2) Trends in conservation status of wetlands and, 3) Trends in management effectiveness in Ramsar sites. The phase 1 (2010–2011) consisted in establishing a reference base to measure the status of wetlands based on existing datasets. The wetland database was produced by the combination of geospatial databases on wetlands and land cover. Data sources have been translated according to a data model (adapted from the Canadian wetland inventory – CWI, phase 1). Subsequently, a process of verifying and correcting geometric errors was applied. A quality control of the databases was conducted to document the margin of error and to verify if the wetland categories could be reclassified. Finally, the data were combined using an arbitrary prioritization. Next steps are to recover and integrate new geospatial databases and automate the process of integrating databases into the wetlands geodatabase.
1) Assists in gathering existing information on wetlands in Canada.
2) Provides technical support and assistance related to ongoing implementation of projects and initiatives related to wetland indicators:
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Sharon Osbourne reveal she had double mastectomy to reduce breast cancer risk
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 11/05/2012
Sharon Osbourne has revealed she recently underwent a double mastectomy to proactively ward off breast cancer.
The former America's Got Talent judge decided to have a 13-hour surgical operation in which both her breasts were removed after discovering she carries a gene that made her predisposed to developing breast cancer, the U.K.'s HELLO! magazine reported Monday.
"As soon as I found out I had the breast cancer gene, I thought, 'The odds are not in my favour,'" Osbourne, who contracted colon cancer 10 years ago but successfully fought the disease, told HELLO! "I've had cancer before and I didn't want to live under that cloud: I decided to just take everything off, and had a double mastectomy."
"For me, it wasn't a big decision, it was a no-brainer," she said. "I didn't want to live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me. I want to be around for a long time and be a grandmother to [son Jack Osbourne's daughter] Pearl."
Osbourne explained her surgery came in the form of relief, as she wanted to reduce her risk of getting cancer again and enjoy life without the added stress and worry.
"It's not 'pity me,' it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around," Osbourne told HELLO! "I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time."
The breast cancer gene scare isn't the only problem Osbourne has recently encountered regarding her chest. Before undergoing the double mastectomy, her breast implants had reportedly leaked into the wall of her stomach. Due to everything she has experienced with her body, Osbourne told the magazine she's never getting plastic surgery again.
"Sometimes I'll see a photo and I'll think, 'My face looks plastic;' it can look so unnatural from certain angles," Osbourne added. "Now I am definitely, definitely done. You can't buy your youth back, no matter how much money you've got. I won't be going under the knife again."
(Photo credit NBC)
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Sec. Water-Smart Food Production
Volume 6 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.857650
Estimating the Water and Carbon Footprints of Growing Avocados in the Munich Metropolitan Region Using Waste Heat as a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Potential
- Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Avocados, which have been labeled a superfood and are very popular around the world, are often grown in areas with water scarcity and have long-distance transports to their end consumer. Water and carbon footprints could be reduced by using greenhouse farming, waste heat and rainwater. This study aims to determine whether avocados and other exotic fruits could be locally or regionally grown in greenhouse systems in Bavaria heated using waste heat and examines whether this approach decreases the resulting water and carbon footprints. To test these hypotheses, the waste heat potential is estimated by analyzing a database provided by the Bavarian Environment Agency. Data on water and carbon footprints are extracted from databases by The Water Footprint Network and FAOSTAT. As a local case study, a greenhouse system using waste heat of a nearby glass factory in Upper Franconia is considered. The results show a tremendous waste heat potential for Bavaria and Munich with reduced carbon, but similar water footprints compared to international avocado production. The required area for these avocado farms would only amount to 0.016% of Bavaria's or 0.02% of Munich's total area. With more uncomplicated handling and earlier fruit bearing, fruits like papaya, guava, or carambola seem to be better suited for greenhouse farming than avocados. Waste heat supported farming in controlled environments can require significantly less water through modern irrigation techniques and should be considered when designing new food security concepts for urban or rural areas.
Since the introduction of SDGs, worldwide food security has not improved, although the total number of people affected by food insecurity was re-evaluated and claimed to be significantly lower than previously estimated. Over two billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity in 2019 and every year there are around 60 million more people worldwide suffering from hunger (FAO, 2020a; United Nations, 2021).
In 2006 the World Health Organization estimated that over 40% of people around the world will be affected by water stress or water scarcity during the next 50 years (World Health Organization, 2006). By now, these numbers have nearly been reached, with over three billion people living in agricultural areas with high water shortages or scarcity (FAO, 2020b; United Nations, 2021). Although the global access to electricity improved from 83% in 2010 to 90% in 2019, this declared “SDG Seven” has still not been achieved yet. There may still be over 600 million people worldwide with no access to electricity by the year 2030. Additionally, the global renewable energy share increased only slightly and will have to be focused much stronger in order to achieve this goal by 2030 (United Nations, 2021).
The complex interlinkages between the fields water, energy and food security represent the core of the specific research field “Water-Energy-Food Nexus” and are a central part of this study. The concept of Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus was introduced 2011 during the Bonn Nexus Conference in Germany. It showed first insights about the benefits of the WEF Nexus concept and how it could improve water, energy and food security through e.g., trade-off reduction, building of synergies and the improvement of governance (Hoff, 2011).
A good example for the implementation of the WEF Nexus in an agricultural context is the field of avocado production. While avocados provide many people with their healthy nutrients, growing these fruits can lead to water, land use and, often as a consequence, also social conflicts (Madslien, 2020; Sommaruga and Eldridge, 2020; Cho et al., 2021; Henkin, 2021; Denvir et al., 2022). What would happen if avocados were instead locally grown in countries normally importing them, e.g., in Germany? With 67% of people living in cities by the year 2050, it is utterly important to ensure the future food security for urban areas (Brockerhoff and Nations, 1998). Assuming a meat reduced diet, regionally produced organic food has the potential to feed large regions of Germany as a case study for Hamburg and the surrounding regions showed (Joseph et al., 2019). A study conducted in Munich came to similar results regarding the potential of enhancing food security by urban farming (Gondhalekar and Ramsauer, 2017). During the last 2 years, the Covid-19 pandemic showed the fragility of international supply chains and can be seen as another reason why local food security should be enhanced. This project aimed to evaluate whether it is possible to improve urban food security in Bavaria and Munich by locally producing avocados in heated greenhouses. The temperature in these greenhouse systems is kept stable using waste heat. This study estimated the theoretical waste heat potential and avocado yield for Bavaria and Munich as well as the differences in carbon and water footprints between a potential Bavarian avocado production and the standard global avocado supply.
As a local case study an innovative greenhouse project from Upper Franconia in the north of Bavaria was used, as global examples data from Mexico, Chile and Peru were considered. The first section examines the used materials and methods of this work, while the second section looks at the specific results that were found. These results are then discussed, and conclusions are drawn in the last two sections of this paper.
Research Gap and Hypotheses
There is no sufficient research data available on greenhouse farming with avocados in Central Europe or the use of waste heat to ensure stable temperatures in greenhouses systems. The combination of these two issues brought up the idea for this project and the following hypotheses were made:
• It is possible to produce tropical or subtropical fruits, especially avocados, in Bavaria and the Munich Metropolitan Region with the use of waste heat.
• There is a significant potential to reduce ecological impacts (water and carbon footprint) considering the WEF Nexus.
Materials and Methods
Waste Heat Farming Case Study
This study uses an existing Bavarian initiative as case study for successful greenhouse farming of tropical and exotic fruit products in Central Europe. The project is called “Tropenhaus Kleineden” (Eng.: “Palm House Little Eden”) and can be found in the village Kleintettau, which is in the very north of Bavaria near the border between Bavaria and Thuringia. The region around Kleintettau, located in the district of Upper Franconia, is known for its colder climate compared to the rest of Bavaria (Lueers and Foken, 2004). On a total area of around 3,500 m2 two greenhouses, one for visitors and one for research and production, were built between 2011 and late 2013. Besides tropical and subtropical fruits and vegetables another useful co-product of the greenhouse system is created by breeding fish in indoor tanks. For this, the tropical fish species of Tilapia is used. A relatively robust and frugal species, which is why it is often seen as the future of sustainable tank aquaculture (Yue et al., 2016). One of Tilapia's few downsides is its weakness against low temperatures. Ensuring stable temperatures suited for tropical fish and fruits is one of the main challenges for a greenhouse located in Central Europe.
Irrigating the plants in “Kleineden” is executed in a circular matter and only with the use of rainwater. Two tanks outside the greenhouse store the accumulating rainwater, before it gets pumped into the fish tanks inside the greenhouse system. This happens with the intention to build a circular system, where the fish are naturally adding fertilizer to the water with their feces. This fertilized water is then used to irrigate the plants. The remaining water in the fish tanks is circulated through a biological filter system of water plants and a small trickle bed reactor. Remains of harvested plants can later be used as fish food again, which closes the circle in this irrigation and fertilization system.
The challenge to sustainably heat the greenhouse, especially during winter, is overcome by using the industrial waste heat of a glass manufacturing company called “Heinz-Glas GmbH,” which had the idea to further use its excess process heat in a productive matter (Heinz Glas GmbH, 2021). A small part of its unused heat is transferred through a 550 m pipe connection to the greenhouse system, where it supplies the rooms, the greenhouses, and the fish tanks with warm temperatures. The power and heating supply in the glass manufacturing company, which creates the excess heat, is generated completely by renewable energies (Heinz Glas GmbH, 2021).
Figure 1 shows a simplified scheme of the different process streams going in and out of the greenhouse system. Additional technical characteristics of avocado farming are covered in the next chapter.
Figure 1. Process streams greenhouse system “Kleineden” (adapted from Schmitt, 2013).
Further Technical Considerations for Avocado Farming
Irrigation in Avocado Orchards
Traditional avocado orchards have a high water demand for irrigation. The annual water use for Hass avocados ranges from 6,680 m3 * hectare−1 * year−1 in Israel to 7,875 m3 * hectare−1 * year−1 in California and 8,900 m3 * hectare−1 * year−1 in South Africa (Kalmar and Lahav, 1977; Gustafson et al., 1979; Hoffman and Du Plessis, 1999). Since greenhouses are controlled systems, and technology is easier to implement than on wide avocado orchards, it could be possible to use much less water than the traditional avocado agriculture. Promising results were found testing drip irrigation and micro sprinkler technique and the combination of both on several test avocado trees. The combination of both techniques resulted in the highest avocado yield compared to using only one of the respective irrigation methods (Darwish and Elmetwalli, 2019). During avocado irrigation, constant water stress through decreased irrigation volume is better adapted by the plants than short water stress during the growth period in summer. It is assumed that the plants adapt to constant water stress by reducing their vegetative part and lowering their evapotranspiration (Silber et al., 2019).
Precipitation in Bavaria
Since the case study's greenhouse is using only rainwater for irrigation the annual precipitation in Bavaria plays a key role in the possible implementation of rainwater as only irrigation source of greenhouse systems. The average annual precipitation for Bavaria amounts to 941 mm, which almost equals the value of 944 mm for the city of Munich (Munich Statistical Office, 2020a; Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2021a).
Due to other lighting conditions in Bavaria than in South America, avocado plants tend to struggle during the short winter days in Bavaria (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021). A solution to this problem could be found in artificial lighting, which is already standard in many innovative greenhouse systems like e.g., vertical farming systems (Orsini et al., 2020). A modern lighting structure with LEDs instead of high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps can save 40% of the greenhouse's lighting demand. This LED lighting doesn't produce as much heat for the greenhouse system as the HPS lamps (Katzin et al., 2021). Regarding the vast waste heat availability for the case study's greenhouse, this fact has no big impact.
Most relevant studies regarding the topic of pollination finds that insect pollinators have a great impact on pollination, fruit set and yield. The most important pollinating insects are managed honeybees. Wild pollinators are found on most avocado orchards around the world. Changes in land use or land management can negatively affect wild pollinators and therefore the successful avocado production (Dymond et al., 2021). Regarding the case study greenhouse system, it occurred to be difficult pollinating the avocado plants. The responsible general manager assumed it is connected to the different blooming times of male and female avocado plants and possibly less wild pollinators available in the greenhouse system than in a standard outdoor avocado orchard (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021).
The average yield of avocado orchards differs around the world. For this work, the FAOSTAT yield database of Mexico, Chile, and Peru from the year 2019 was compared and the maximum yield value considered as theoretical yield for the case study's greenhouse system. The chosen yield was the Peruvian yield with a yield value of 12,524.9 kg per hectare (FAO, 2021).
Waste Heat Potential and Avocado Consume
Data on waste heat potential in Bavaria was extracted from the web service “Energie-Atlas Bayern.” This web service is provided by the Bavarian State Government. It has several tools regarding the evaluation of potential waste heat, such as a map or the possibility to download the specifically generated data matching chosen criteria. The number of avocados consumed in Bavaria were assumed using an avocado import database provided by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Federal Statistical Office of Germany, 2021).
Water and Carbon Footprint
Relevant data on the blue and gray water footprint of avocados was extracted from “The Water Footprint Assessment Tool” webpage, provided by the “Water Footprint Network” (Water Footprint Assessment Tool, 2021a,b). To predict the avocados' Carbon Footprint research is done on the emissions of supply chain logistics in this field of agriculture. Looking at the globally exporting avocado industry a product carbon footprint suggestion by Reinhardt et al. (2020) was considered. These tested global values do not consider the precise carbon footprint of avocado farming, but rather try to approximate the footprint using ratios of fruits with relatively similar ways of transportation and cultivation. The carbon footprint of the potentially local avocado industry in Bavaria will take occurring transport emissions and the footprint of materials needed to build a greenhouse into consideration. The assumed values of global and local avocado industries are tested and then compared to see what amount of carbon emissions could be avoided by producing avocados in Germany.
Step 1: Estimate Theoretical Waste Heat Potential for Bavaria
To calculate the theoretical waste heat potential for Bavaria and Munich a dataset from the Bavarian Ministry for Environment is used and filtered by specific parameters. The minimal necessary heating time is estimated with 6,500 h per year. This covers heating of the greenhouse for fall, winter, and spring. Because the case study greenhouse system used only about 4% of its annual waste heat consumption from June to August, the summertime will not be included into estimating the minimal annual heating time. The data of waste heat consumption only refers to the year 2013, since then the summers have been increasingly hotter and this trend is likely to continue, which is why the summer months are neglected. The sum of all applicable sites is formed and used as foundation for the calculations to follow. It is assumed that the sources producing waste heat are completely powered by renewable energy.
Step 2: Calculate Number of “Kleineden” Greenhouse Systems Heated by Theoretical Waste Heat Potential
The theoretical waste heat totals for Bavaria and Munich are then used to calculate how many “Kleineden” greenhouse systems could possibly be heated by this amount of waste heat. For this, the totals are divided by the area needed for one greenhouse system.
Step 3: Calculate the Total Yield for Bavaria and Munich
Calculating the theoretical avocado yield is done by assuming a certain yield per area, which is done by using the agricultural value of kg per hectare. In this work, the yield in kg per hectare is estimated by considering the highest yield of the compared global avocado exporting countries Chile, Mexico and Peru while neglecting the yield variation between on-crop and off-crop seasons. Yield data is extracted from the FAOSTAT database supplied by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The results from the first calculation (1) are then used to calculate the total theoretical avocado yield.
Step 4: Calculate Water Footprints
The water footprints were calculated by multiplying the blue and gray water footprints of several avocado producing countries with the total theoretical avocado yield for Bavaria and Munich. These water demands were then compared to the also calculated water demand of the local greenhouse case study.
Step 5: Calculate Carbon Footprints of Global Avocado Industry and Two Local Scenarios
Calculating the carbon footprint was done with the help of numbers provided by the study of Reinhardt et al. (2020). With these, there could be assumed three different global scenario product carbon footprints as well as two scenarios for the product carbon footprint of the local greenhouse case study. One scenario applies the same ratio of carbon footprints between apple from New Zealand and regional and seasonal apple from Germany onto avocados from Peru and theoretically regional avocados from Bavaria. The other scenario uses the carbon footprint of tomatoes grown in heated greenhouses. The amount of heating accounting to this carbon footprint is then subtracted since the case study's waste heat is completely produced by renewable energy.
Theoretical Waste Heat Potential in Bavaria and Munich
With data provided by the Bavarian State Government this work comes to the following results:
• Total theoretical waste heat potential for Bavaria amounts to 5,973 GWh
• Total theoretical waste heat potential for Munich amounts to 33 GWh
Table 1 shows the sites with suitable waste heat potential in the city of Munich. All the potential sites have a maximum annual operating time over 6,500 h and a temperature high enough to heat up a greenhouse system. The smallest waste heat potential occurs at a BMW plant with 1.2 GWh, the highest potential can be found at the WWTP Gut Grosslappen with 19.2 GWh. Four out of the five waste heat sites are industrial companies while one is a municipal facility.
Table 1. Waste heat sites Munich (Source: Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2021b).
The annual heat demand of the greenhouse case study “Kleineden” accounts for 1.2 GWh. Based on this waste heat demand the possible number of heated greenhouse systems similar to the chosen case study “Kleineden” was estimated and can be seen in Table 2. For Bavaria, the 680 waste heat sites could provide heat for 4978 “Kleineden” greenhouse systems. Munich could provide enough waste heat to supply 27 case study greenhouses with a total number of five sites producing waste heat.
With a useable area of 2,300 m2 per case study greenhouse system the total needed area for the calculated number of possible greenhouses can be estimated. The following areas (in hectare) are needed:
• In Bavaria a total useable area of 1,144.8 ha would be needed
• In Munich a total useable area of 6.2 ha would be needed
Bavaria has a total area of 70,542 km2, the city of Munich a total area of 310.71 km2 (City of Munich, 2021; Statista, 2021). The previously calculated required areas amount to the following percentages of the total areas of Bavaria and the city of Munich:
• Required Bavarian area as percentage of the total Bavarian area: 0.016%
• Required Munich area as percentage of the total Munich area: 0.02%
Looking at the theoretical avocado yield per hectare, the Mexican, Chilean, and Peruvian yields were compared, and the maximum yield chosen as final parameter. The maximum current yield per hectare was the Peruvian avocado yield in 2019, with an amount of 12,524.8 kg per hectare (FAOSTAT Visualizations, 2021). Using these numbers, the total theoretical avocado yield for Bavaria and Munich could be estimated as the following:
• Bavaria could produce a theoretical avocado yield of 14,339 t
• Munich could produce a theoretical avocado yield of 78 t
Putting these yield numbers into perspective, the import data for avocados into Bavaria were inspected. To estimate the possible avocado import, respectively, consumption for the city of Munich, the population of Munich and of the state of Bavaria were put into a ratio. As of September 2020, the population of Bavaria accounts to 13.14 million people and the population of Munich to 1.56 million people (Bavarian State Office for Statistics, 2020; Munich Statistical Office, 2020b). This results in a rounded percentage of Munich to Bavarian population of 11.86%.
Neglecting different age groups and an eventual higher avocado popularity and therefore consumption in urban areas, the avocado import numbers for the city of Munich for 2019 can be estimated with 1,665 t. With these results it can be seen which percentage of avocado imports to Bavaria and Munich could be reached by the yield of local avocado greenhouse systems.
The following results were found:
• Bavarian avocado imports could be fulfilled to 102% by Bavarian avocados
• Munich avocado imports could be fulfilled to 4.7% by Munich avocados
The different water footprints of the chosen producer countries and the local case study can be seen in Table 3.
Table 3. Water footprint comparison (Source: The Water Footprint Network, 2021).
Chile has by far the most severe impact considering its green-blue water footprint of 1,600 m3 per ton and its gray water footprint of over 200 m3 per ton. The Chilean gray water footprint covers the combined footprints of Mexico and Peru. Looking at the local case study, the “Kleineden” greenhouse project only uses organic fertilizers and no pesticides. Hence, there is no impact by a gray water footprint. Of the global avocado exporting countries Chile by far has the highest total water footprint with 1,800 m3 per ton. The second highest total water footprint is produced in Mexico with 1,099 m3 per ton, followed by the total water footprint of the Peruvian avocado production with 1,051 m3 per ton. The local case study greenhouse system would create a total water footprint of 1,900 m3 per ton, surpassing even the highest footprint of the global total water footprint examples.
Putting the mentioned water footprints into a more comprehensive perspective the following section shows the comparison between the water footprint of the local case study and the global avocado production examples:
• Local total water footprint compared to Chilean water footprint: 106%
• Local total water footprint compared to Mexican water footprint: 173%
• Local total water footprint compared to Peruvian water footprint: 181%
The assumptions of avocado carbon footprints for global avocado production were extracted from the current work of Reinhardt et al. (2020). They calculated carbon footprints for Peruvian avocados (organic and conventional production have the same footprint) as well as for a global average avocado. With these two different carbon footprint assumptions the following results of total carbon footprints with the respective theoretical avocado yield were achieved:
• Bavaria: Peruvian avocados would create a footprint of 11,471 t CO2 equ., the global average avocados one of 8,603 t CO2 equ.
• Munich: Peruvian avocados would create a footprint of 63 t CO2 equ., the global average avocados one of 47 t CO2 equ.
Regarding the carbon footprint of a potentially local greenhouse system, there were created two separate scenarios, which were then applied on the calculated findings. The following section explains the different scenario setups and shows the application results of both scenarios.
Scenario 1: Footprint ratio between apples imported from New Zealand and regional as well as seasonal apples from Germany
Reinhardt et al. (2020) estimated the product carbon footprints of apples imported from New Zealand with 0.8 kg CO2 equ. per kg apples and the carbon footprint of regional and seasonal apples with 0.3 kg CO2 equ. per kg apples. Using the same ratio as for these two footprints and including the comparison to Peruvian avocados, the footprint of a theoretical avocado production in Bavarian greenhouses would amount to 0.3 kg CO2 equ. per kg avocados. Comparing local and global production with the carbon footprint for local production of this scenario came to the following results:
Local carbon footprint compared to Peruvian footprint: 38%
Local carbon footprint compared to global average footprint: 50%
Scenario 2: Modified footprint of tomatoes grown in heated greenhouses in Germany
The second scenario estimated the local avocado carbon footprint with the help of two studies. Reinhardt et al. (2020) calculated the product carbon footprint for tomatoes grown in heated greenhouses in Germany with 2.9 kg CO2 equ. per kg tomatoes. Since the case study greenhouse is heated by waste heat that is produced using only renewable energies, the impact of heating was completely neglected. Rendon Velasquez and Franco Pereira (2020) assumed that heating makes up for 84.27% of the carbon footprint for a greenhouse building, if it was heated by a 100% renewable energy source (Rendon Velasquez and Franco Pereira, 2020). Combining the mentioned findings of both studies results in an estimated carbon footprint of 0.456 kg CO2 equ. per kg avocados grown in a greenhouse heated by renewable energy fueled waste heat.
With this parameter the comparison between local and global carbon footprints came to the following results:
Local carbon footprint compared to Peruvian footprint: 57%
Local carbon footprint compared to global average footprint: 76%
Outcome of Hypotheses
This section shows the overall results and outcomes of the hypotheses previously mentioned in this work.
Hypothesis 1: It is possible to produce tropical or subtropical fruits, especially Avocados, in Bavaria and the Munich Metropolitan Region with the use of waste heat.
Outcome: This hypothesis was predominately fulfilled. There is a tremendous waste heat potential for Bavaria and the city of Munich. Tropical and subtropical fruits can be successfully grown in greenhouses, although avocado plants have a complex pollination procedure and can have difficulties growing in a standard greenhouse system.
Hypothesis 2: There is a significant potential to reduce ecological impacts (water or carbon footprint) considering the WEF Nexus.
Outcome: This hypothesis was partly fulfilled. Whereas, the product carbon footprints of a potentially local avocado industry would be significantly lower than the footprints the global avocado industry creates, this cannot be claimed for the water footprints. With the current data on the water demand of the local case study's greenhouse, the local water footprint would be slightly higher than the highest global avocado industry water footprint, namely higher than the one from Chile.
Waste Heat Potential
The chosen waste heat sources are part of a database provided by the Bavarian State Government. This database is built from voluntary data and probably only represents a fraction of the actual waste heat potential in Bavaria. The chosen maximum operating time of 6,500 h only looks at the total time but ignores the continuity of these hours. The potential could be lower if 6,500 h were not considered as the maximum operating time but as minimum operating time from the operating time ranges provided by the waste heat potential database. A continuous supply of waste heat must be ensured to keep the temperature inside the greenhouse on a constant level. This problem especially addresses the winter months and should be an exclusion criterion to choosing possible waste heat potential sites in further research projects.
The theoretical yield of greenhouse-grown avocados from Bavaria could cover more than the current avocado import numbers for the whole state of Bavaria. There were not made any calculations on the achievement of different yields. With denser tree spacing like e.g., 4 × 1.5 m rather than the conventional 3 × 3 m (Peru) a much higher total avocado yield could be reached (Stassen et al., 1999). The assumption of Munich's avocado import/consumption numbers is rather rough due to the lack of data or surveys on this topic. The Statistical Office of Munich had no relevant data and there weren't found any useful data in public research publications either. Therefore, the numbers were interpolated by relating the avocado import numbers of Bavaria to its number of inhabitants. With this and the number of Munich citizens a possible consume amount for Munich was estimated. The real amount could be significantly higher. This assumption is based on the fact that the percentage of people following a vegetarian diet is higher in cities than in rural areas. Higher educated citizens are more likely to live by a vegetarian diet. On top of that, young people between 18 and 29 years represent the greatest share among different age groups living vegetarian (Mensink et al., 2016). Since Munich is a city with high numbers of student citizens, it can be assumed that avocado consume could be much higher than the amount this project was working with.
Looking at the global water footprint examples from Chile, Mexico and Peru, there can be noticed that Chile has much higher footprints, green-blue as well as gray, than the two other countries.
Regarding the calculated total water footprints, the local case study has an even higher footprint than any of the three global examples. The reason behind this is a rather high estimation of water demand for the case study system of 950 liters of water per two fruits. This estimation was part of the personal communication with the case study's general manager (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021). The real water demand wasn't measured and is probably much lower. Due to the controlled environment of a greenhouse, the evaporated water is kept in the system and will recirculate by entering the soil again after dripping down the greenhouse's walls. The establishment of a modern drip or micro sprinkler irrigation system could further reduce the water demand too (Moreno-Ortega et al., 2019).
Inspecting the carbon footprints of global avocado production, there weren't used footprint estimations for all of the three example countries Chile, Mexico, and Peru. The footprints solely considered Peruvian avocado production and a global average. This was due to working with one specific study's data to ensure consistency for global and local carbon footprints. The first scenario used probably represents the more unrealistic scenario compared to scenario two. The emission impact “greenhouse building” is completely neglected in this scenario. Additionally, it must be questioned whether the carbon footprints of highly technological greenhouse systems can be compared to conventional outdoor avocado orchards. This question represents the main limitation of the carbon footprint results. With the modified carbon footprint and the subtraction of the heating impact, the second scenario seemed to be better suited. Regarding future improvements of greenhouse buildings' carbon footprint the use of sustainable materials like bamboo or recycled glass could be a valuable approach.
Urban WEF Nexus Implications
Water – Energy: Water demand is closely interlinked to energy use since there is often the need of pumps to transport the irrigation water from the storage tank/groundwater well to the farming area. Higher water demand therefore means higher energy demand. This interlinkage could be reduced by irrigation systems working with gravity driven pipe systems.
Water – Food: Water use strongly interferes with agricultural food production and therefore food security. As mentioned in the introduction, agriculture is causing almost 70 % of worldwide water use. Reducing the irrigation volume directly impacts the yield volume (Silber et al., 2019).
Modern irrigation systems can reduce the needed water volume since the irrigation is precisely located near the plants and therefore less water is wasted. Rainwater use for irrigation would lower the blue water footprint of urban food production significantly. Intensive agriculture can also have negative effects on water security through soil degradation and impacts on groundwater aquifer with pesticides, nitrate, or high salinity.
Energy – Food: Energy and food security are correlated. Large industrial food production sites need energy in the form of fuel or electricity to irrigate the crops. Greenhouse systems need heating during winter, which consumes a tremendous amount of energy. This could be strongly reduced by using waste heat in agricultural controlled environments. Local food production produces less CO2 emissions than food transported around the world.
Required Area and Urban Farming Ideas
The required useable greenhouse system area ranged between 0.016% of the respective total area in Bavaria and 0.02% of area in Munich. These values are marginal and could easily be achieved. On the other hand, Bavaria is a state with a quite high land use and decreasing untouched natural habitats. The risks and benefits of this development and potentially further increased land usage should be carefully considered. The municipalities of innovative cities could think about engaging into public-private partnerships by offering unused areas to private urban farming initiatives. A possible alternative to further land use changes would be the usage of existing structures. For urban areas, the idea to use rooftops, walls and green areas could be an interesting option and is backed up by several studies (Thomaier et al., 2015; Gondhalekar and Ramsauer, 2017; Orsini et al., 2020).
A possible combination of public areas and the use of waste heat could be the rooftops of public swimming pools. With the help of arial analysis, seven out of the 10 public swimming pools of Munich seem to have useable flat roofs. Regarding the use of private rooftop or wall areas it would be interesting to examine the possible use of gray water from sink or shower water for irrigation or heating.
Another idea to practice waste heat supported farming without putting more pressure on the densely populated Munich area, could be the involvement of the city's wastewater treatment plants. Reasons for this are:
• WWTPs are often located outside the city with enough space around possibly suited for farming areas.
• The fouling towers as well as the wastewater itself carry a high waste heat potential.
• Treated sewage sludge ash could be a fertilizer option for urban farming areas nearby.
Possible Alternative Agricultural Products
According to the general manager of the used greenhouse case study, Mr. Ralf Schmitt, avocado plants have difficulties growing in Bavarian greenhouse systems (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021). In Germany, avocado trees can take years until the first fruit bearing. After 3 years trying to improve the pollination rate and bringing the avocado plants through the short winter days, the avocados still had not bloomed in the “Kleineden” case study greenhouse. This was the reason why Mr. Schmitt decided to stop the experiment of growing avocados in the greenhouse project “Kleineden” in the fourth year of growing the avocado plants. These results could possibly be improved by more advanced greenhouse settings such as ultraviolet lighting, automated irrigation and a more intensive and complex pollination scheme. Despite the unfortunate ending of the avocado experiment, there was made good progress with several other fruits. Promising yield results were achieved with papaya, guava and carambola (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021). Experiments with other plants such as cocoa or coffee plants were botanically successful but failed from an economical perspective. The price of a cup of coffee produced in the Kleineden greenhouse system would amount to roughly 29 Euro (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021).
Climate Change in Bavaria
Water scarcity is not only already a problem in avocado producing countries but affects Bavaria too and it will probably increase due to climate change. The region in Franconia where the greenhouse case study is located, already suffers from increasing droughts since several years. Mr. Schmitt reported about 10–15% less rainfall over the last 5 years in this region (R. Schmitt, personal communication, 18.06.2021). His observations are backed by the Climate Report 2021 of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection. According to the report's prognosis average rainfall will decrease during summer, while extreme weather events like thunderstorms with the potential to bringing dangerous, punctual flashfloods will occur more often in the future (Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2021a). While climate change will increase the dangers of agricultural production it will also enable new business paths. This trend will bring the possibility to grow new types of plants on Bavarian soil.
Climate Goals and Rising CO2 Pricing
To achieve the climate goals resolved during the Climate Conference in Paris 2015 there must be undertaken greater effort. After promoting the energy transition for the last decade, the German government should promote the heat transition as one of the next important goals. The introduction of higher CO2 pricing is a disputed topic in Germany during the summertime before the next federal election in September 2021.
The higher the price is for a ton of CO2, the more expensive will the global food transport via ships and airplanes become. This can be seen as a chance for local urban food systems trying to increase food security of urban areas without relying on global food trade. Resource efficiency and the use of unavoidable waste heat will become more important by the further development and application of these measures.
An ethical concern of this work occurs with the theoretical loss of jobs and prosperity for people working in avocado producing countries supplying the Bavarian market. Through the domestic production, Bavaria would reduce its import quantities for avocados. This could negatively impact the global avocado producers and enhance social conflicts in these countries. Contemplating this problem from a utilitarian perspective international avocado production brings benefits and happiness to more people than it harms. Examined under a deontological view, it is just the avocado farmers' duty to farm their orchards without thinking about the potential consequences of their doing. Seen from an ecocentric perspective, putting the nature's “well-being” into focus, industrial avocado production harms nature in several ways and should not be further proceeded. Soil degradation, groundwater pollution, deforestation, reduction of biodiversity, increased nitrate inputs to the ground or excessive fire clearance are enough reasons to condemn industrial agriculture from an ecocentric perspective. Regarding water use, there comes up the question whether the access to clean water is a human right given to everyone or a consumable good that can be sold. An example of this problem is the water supply in Chile, where water is handled as a privatized, consumable good (Prieto et al., 2019). Improving avocado farmers' lifes by engaging in international unions and demanding fair pricing and food labeling, better work safety and clear governmental guidance on agricultural businesses would be a starting point that could help. This should be the minimal condition for pursuing the plan to grow avocados or other exotic fruits in Central Europe.
This research aimed to identify the possibility of growing subtropical or tropical fruits, here especially avocados, in greenhouse systems in Central Europe. The results indicate that there is a tremendous waste heat potential that could cover greenhouse grown avocado yields in volumes similar to the current import numbers of avocados to Bavaria. Unused waste heat occurs all around the world and could be used to ensure food production in normally unsuited places. Due to complicated pollination procedures and unsure fruit bearing, avocados would not be suggested as preferable exotic crop type for greenhouse farming in Bavaria. There are other exotic fruits like papaya, guava or carambola with promising yield results made in a case study project in Upper Franconia. Water footprint results indicate a similar water footprint of local avocados compared to avocados grown in Chile. This could be significantly improved by introducing modern drip or micro sprinkler irrigation systems. Results for carbon footprints show that local avocados would be tremendously lower than global production with percentages between 38 and 50% or, respectively, 57 and 76% of global avocado production footprints, depending on the two different scenarios created. An unexpected insight of this research was the finding that land transport via trucks from and to the ports accounts to similarly high CO2 emissions as ocean-crossing transport via container vessel. This work clearly illustrates the tremendous potential urban farming has in combination with waste heat utilization in Bavaria and Munich, but also raises the question whether the used local and global carbon footprints should be directly compared to each other. Another limitation of local avocado production would be the question whether this could be done without having any ethical concerns toward the prosperity and work of current avocado farmers. As recommendation, the potential of gray water use for irrigation of urban farming areas and possible public-private partnerships between municipalities and farming initiatives could be further examined. Further research on detailed waste heat potentials in Bavaria but also worldwide potentials should be undertaken while the existing waste heat potential in Bavaria and Munich should be exploited with stronger effort. The research topic of heat transition application as tool to reach the proclaimed climate goals would be worth to further pursuit. This research backs the assumption that the carbon footprint of local food production produces much lower CO2 emissions than international food production with global supply chains. Avocado farming in Central Europe is more difficult than with other exotic fruits, which explains the low number of relevant data or existing avocado farming projects in these European regions. The findings of this work confirm the usability of the WEF Nexus concept and show possible use cases to ensure food security in urban areas around the world while reusing unavoidable waste heat.
Data Availability Statement
The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors, without undue reservation.
LB and DG contributed to conception and design of the study. LB organized the database and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors contributed to manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.
This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the framework of the Open Access Supporting Program.
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Keywords: WEF Nexus, waste heat potential, tropical greenhouse, food security, water resource management, water and carbon footprint, urban farming
Citation: Becker L and Gondhalekar D (2022) Estimating the Water and Carbon Footprints of Growing Avocados in the Munich Metropolitan Region Using Waste Heat as a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Potential. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:857650. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.857650
Received: 18 January 2022; Accepted: 22 March 2022;
Published: 25 April 2022.
Edited by:Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen, University of Alabama, United States
Reviewed by:Ignacio Cazcarro, Fundacion Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo, Spain
La Zhuo, Northwest A&F University, China
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UCLB signs MoU with Kyoto University
Published on 24 June 2013
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between UCL (UCLB), Kyoto University (SACI) and its TLO organisation, the Kansai TLO Co.,Ltd., to enable greater collaboration between the two universities about their technology transfer companies for mutual benefit.
The agreement has been signed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the ChoShu Five arriving to study at UCL this year, the first students from Japan to study outside of their home country. The five students, including Hirobumi Ito and Kaoru Inoue, subsequently travelled back to Japan after completing their studies and led the country into a new period of openness and industrialisation.
The agreement will see the technology transfer offices from both UCL and Kyoto University work together to exploit intellectual property and relevant patents held by both institutions. Kyoto University is chartered as a corporate national university and has an international reputation as one of Japan’s foremost research institutions.
Commenting on the announcement Cengiz Tarhan, Managing Director of UCLB said. “This is a significant international collaboration for UCLB and we look forward to working with Kyoto University and Kansai TLO to help promote UCL’s research and technologies in Japan whilst UCLB will work to promote Kyoto technologies within the UK and across Europe.”
UCLB is a leading technology transfer company that supports and commercialises research and innovations arising from UCL, one of the UK’s top research-led universities. UCLB has a successful track record and a strong reputation for identifying and protecting promising new technologies and innovations from UCL academics. UCLB has a strong track record in commercialising medical technologies and provides technology transfer services to UCL’s associated hospitals; University College London Hospitals, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Royal Free London Hospital. It invests directly in development projects to maximise the potential of the research and manages the commercialisation process of technologies from laboratory to market.
UCLB supports UCL’s Grand Challenges of increasing UCL’s positive impact on and contribution to Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.
For further information, please visit www.uclb.com
About Kyoto University, KU-SACI
Kyoto University is well-regarded for its academic excellence, and is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. In 2004, Kyoto University expanded its mission of Research and Education, additionally to promote the Dissemination of knowledge and technology through industry–academia collaborations and established a Division of Knowledge & Technology Transfer and Innovation (currently called as KU-SACI). KU-SACI attained strong track record on the research collaboration with industries, on the licensing revenue, on competitive governmental research fund and number of patent applications. KU-SACI offers an educational platform to encourage entrepreneurship and future business leaders. It also maintains close relations with the University Venture Funds, allowing for the promotion of spin-out venture companies. These figures and activities put Kyoto University at a top tire among all academia in Japan. KU-SACI intends to contribute to the realisation of the fundamental principle of Kyoto University to be an open university, enhancing global collaboration of society and academia.
About Kansai TLO
Kansai Technology Licensing Organization Co., Ltd. (Kansai TLO) was established in October 1998 as one of the first technology transfer organisations in Japan.
It has achieved positive results in its technology transfer activities since its establishment, organising a strong licensing system by exclusively promoting intellectual properties of university partners. In 2008, it became a subsidiary of Kyoto University.
By gaining understandings from university researchers and companies, Kansai TLO is striving to further enhance technology transfer and business developments that will result in advancement of curiosity-driven research activities of university researchers.Print friendly version of UCLB signs MoU with Kyoto University
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SHAFAQNA – Canada’s religious freedom ambassador denounced the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar and urged Canadian businesses eager to find opportunities in that resource-rich country to respect human rights.
Ambassador Andrew Bennett said he also delivered his concerns about the well-document persecution of the Rohingya Muslim population directly to Myanmar government officials, including the country’s foreign affairs minister on May 6.
“Now really is the moment for a more inclusive process that brings all religious and ethnic communities together so that they can contribute to the country’s development,” Bennett, who was on a lengthy trip to the south Asian country, told TheCanadian Press in an interview from Yangon.
“There is prejudice that exists towards Muslims throughout the country. This is an ongoing challenge not only for Rohingya Muslims, but the situation facing them is particularly acute.” Myanmar has faced widespread criticism for its persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Mr Bennett is Canada’s first Canadian ambassador for religious freedom.
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The Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) has designated Engr. Ferdinand Pontillas, current corporate planning manager, as officer-in-charge, following the recall of its acting general manager Engr. Nelson Lalas by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) Friday.
Lalas announced in a press conference his recall order, stating that his position was only temporary. Pontillas will be OIC pending his official designation as a general manager.
“Meron na akong recall order, my recall will be after siguro ng office hours nitong araw nito. Katulad din ng dati, my position here is only temporary.” Lalas said.
NEA designated Lalas in January 2019 when the cooperative was facing intense criticism amidst continuous power service interruptions, including a threat of sanction from President Rodrigo Duterte himself.
Lalas will return to his office in the National Electrification Administration (NEA) after his recall order.
PALECO chair Jeffrey Tan-Endriga credited Lalas for helping the cooperative resolve its operational problems. He noted that in 2019, PALECO received a sustainability award in 2019 for keeping its system loss percentage under check.
“Considering our geographical situation in Palawan na pahaba, maaari natin masabi na napakaganda ng ating system loss performance dahil ‘yong percentage na nami-maintain natin ay within the capacity, allowed capacity na binibigay ng ERC na 12 percent, naglalaro lang tayo ng 10-11 percent,” he said.
NEA deputy administrator technical services sector Artis Nikki Tortola will act as project supervisor and acting general manager of PALECO. Tortola has endorsed Pontillas to act as OIC to oversee the daily operation of PALECO.
“Malaking bagay ito sa ating operation, unang-una ay nakatipid tayo dahil hindi sila kumukuha ng sweldo dito, unlike dati na ang GM ay tayo nagpapasahod. Nagbigay talaga (administrator Edgardo Masongsong) ng importansya considering na may issues about technical, minabuti niya na magtalaga dito at least hindi biased, walang kakampihan, papaboran,” he said.
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I'm told by various and sundry persons that being married and having kids and generally being of a traditional frame of mind about many things is either a near-insurmountable row to hoe, or a bad idea in the first place -- children are too expensive, or the world is too full of people already, or some such. Others say western civilization in all its forms is very important, of course, but they make it sound like a directive to eat your vegetables. You're supposed to do it, grimly, because otherwise society will fall apart.
I just don't get any of it. My wife and children are delightful, and I never get tired of them, and they fill my house with a jolly tintinnabulation every day they aren't out in the great, wide world making their racket for strangers. I never miss whatever it is I'm supposedly missing out on. Our life might be difficult, but my family is the cure for that, never the cause. And even if you think the world has too many people in it, it surely still has too few of the pleasant variety, so we tried to make some more.
And I hate to break it to you, but vegetables are just food, and I like eating food, and you should too.
[Many thanks to Andy B. in Indiana for his generous mash on the PayPal tipjar button in the right-hand column. I'm constantly amazed by the generosity of my readers]
[Update: Many thanks to longtime UH supporter Kathleen M. of Connecticut, who is as close to a perennial flower as this blog will ever see, for her ongoing generous contributions to our tip jar]
[Up-Update: Many thanks to Charles E. from The Land Of Enchantment for his very generous assault on our tip jar. I do not know anyone named Charles that isn't a nice person. I don't think they exist]
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Dancing encourages bonding with people and integrating in an environment that is different
from simple drinks in a pub.
If you are looking for a unique idea for a company night out, you are in the right place. Reflex Dance Studios organises one of a kind 80s Christmas parties.
On the Standard Reflex Christmas Party you can expect:
- Glass of bubbly
- Funky 80s Dance Class – a dance routine to the 80s tune of your choice (alternatively, if you don’t want to dance we offer 80s Karaoke. If you’re feeling extra festive, you can go for both!)
- 80s Party
The programme of the night is specifically tailored to every company we work with. Whether you want dancing to be the main point of the night, or whether you prefer to skip dancing and do some other funky activities instead is entirely up to you. Reflex Dance Studios is here to provide you with ideas, and organise the night exactly like you want it.
Other, most popular choices for an 80s Christmas Party:
- Dinner – We’ve got some great deals for our customers at and
- 80s themed photo-shoot. Get those Santa Hats immortalised in picture form.
- Accommodation – We can plan your stay in one of the hotels nearby for your team.
- 80s Makeover – neon eye shadows and exaggerated make-up, or flashy headbands and leg warmers?
- A professional video from your team building event.
- Want something specific just for your group? Leave a note on your enquiry and we’ll try to organise it for you!
You don’t pay for ideas, so email us now with a short description of your company and a party you have in mind. We will then email you back with the proposal for the night that will best suit your needs.
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Thanks to the worldwide proliferation of smartphones, tiny high-resolution displays are common and cheap. Interfacing these displays with anything besides a phone has been a problem. [twl] has a board that does just that, converting HDMI to something these displays can understand, and providing a framebuffer so these displays can be written to through small microcontrollers.
[twl] is using a rather large FPGA to handle all the conversion from HDMI to the DSI the display understands. He’s using an Xilinx Spartan-6-SLX9, one of the most hobbyist friendly devices that is able to be hand soldered. Also on the board is a little bit of SDRAM for a framebuffer, HDMI input, and a power supply for the LCD and its backlight.
On the things [twl] has in his ‘to-do’ list, porting Doom to run on a cellphone display is obviously right at the top. He also wants to test the drawing commands for the Arduino side of his board, allowing any board with the suffix ~’ino to paint graphics and text on small, cheap, high-resolution displays. That’s a capability that just doesn’t exist with products twice [twl]’s projected BOM, and we can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
You can check out the demo video of [twl]’s board displaying the output of a Raspberry Pi below. If you look very closely, you’ll notice the boot/default screen for the display adapter is the Hackaday Jolly Wrencher.
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From $353,990 | 3,147 Sq. Ft. | 4 Bedrooms | 3 Baths | 2 Garage | 1 Story
Lots of space, great options and innovative design. The Wakefield floor plan has everything going for it. Imagine walking through this new house floor plan and you’ll see why Wakefield offers more than the average Leander new homes for sale. The smart layout takes a fresh look at how a one-story can be designed.
Inclusive Living Spaces
The main living area is the heart of the home. A large open kitchen with pantry is stylishly tilted to view the breakfast nook as well as the family room, so meals are convenient and the cook remains connected to what’s happening with family or friends. There is plenty of counter space, including a long working island with breakfast bar. Another island sits conveniently in the center of the kitchen.
Options in the big family room include a cozy fireplace to gather around and a media niche. A light-filled sunroom is entered from the floor plan/kitchen area. If you’d prefer, this space can be built as a media or play room instead. A backyard covered patio is also accessed from the family room.
Both the formal dining room and living room are located at the front of the home. Just off the foyer, the living room can be used optionally as a study with French doors.
Spacious Master Suite
You’ll love the master suite, which will afford you a place to go to recharge. Here, the bedroom includes a sitting room by an elegantly bowed bank of windows. French doors open to a sumptuous master bath, where separate dual sink vanities provide expansive counter space. A tempting garden tub sits in the corner; you also have an attractive glass-enclosed shower. The lavatory is behind privacy doors. Two roomy walk-in closets provide his-and-her storage.
Bedrooms 2, 3 and 4 are situated for privacy, ideal for guests or family. Two bedrooms, one with a walk-in closet, share a full bath while the last bedroom, with walk-in closet, has direct access to another full bath.
The floor plan also features a utility room with nearby entry into the garage. While Wakefield features a two-car garage with a storage niche, you have options for enlarging it. If you just want more storage space you can widen the garage by five feet. Or, it can be built out to accommodate a third car.
Design Your Look
Visit the Design Studio for those touches that fit your personal style, with finishing’s, flooring and more. When you arrive for your appointment you’ll be met by a design consultant who will help you make selections within your budget and style you’re interested in. You can even see what’s available in home technology and security.
For the exterior of your home, choose from four gorgeous looks. Each offers variations in windows, roof pitch, and stone. Select the one that you love the most.
When you own one of our homes, you can be sure that Taylor Morrison is proud to be a leading Austin homebuilder that puts the homebuyer and quality construction at the forefront.
The Wakefield is available to tour today in a home for sale.
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Reviewed by Heather Shirey
Published on H-AfrArts (December, 2008)
Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti
On the Precarious and Mutable Concepts of Beauty and Ugliness
In Beautiful/Ugly, Sarah Nuttall brings together eighteen essays on the concept of beauty and ugliness in Africa and its diasporas. This collection challenges Western-based philosophical constructs of beauty by examining the very mutability of beauty in its relationship with ugliness. More particularly, Nuttall’s introduction and several contributions respond to Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just (1999), a book based on her 1998 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Harvard University. In her introduction, and especially in relation to Scarry’s reflections on beauty, Nuttall calls for a broadened understanding of aesthetics from a global perspective, leading to a more fluid understanding of the precarious boundaries between beauty and ugliness.
One of the greatest strengths of this edited volume is that a genuine dialogue emerges. This sophisticated dialogue is sustained on different levels throughout a number of the essays. Cheryl-Ann Michal’s reflection on the “slippery” nature of food as a cultural referent responds to Françoise Vergès’s analysis of food and hybrid identities in the postcolonial context. Rita Bernard, in “The Place of Beauty: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda,” offers the most direct critique of Scarry’s talks on beauty, using this critique as a framework for the analysis of Mda’s post-apartheid novel The Heart of Redness (2000). Bernard’s essay and a number of other pieces in the collection serves to develop a nuanced discussion on aesthetic philosophy initiated in Nuttall’s introduction. Two stories by Mia Couto (“Two Stories: Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time and The Fat Indian Girl”) are addressed in Isabel Hofmeyr’s essay “Seeing the Familiar: Notes on Mia Couto.” Hofmeyr contextualizes Couto’s stories in postcolonial Mozambique and turns to William Kentridge’s essay in the book, “Two Thoughts on Drawing Beauty,” as a framework for her reading of Couto’s texts. Kentridge, in turn, reflects on the act of transcending ugliness in arriving at the rendering of beauty. For Kentridge, and indeed for the essayists in the volume as a whole, beauty and ugliness are not seen as binary opposites, but instead are interwoven concepts, inseparable from one another.
The unification of the individual texts within the volume, then, serves a number of the essays well. Patricia Pinho’s “Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil,” a nuanced discussion of the construction of racialized concepts of beauty and ugliness, certainly stands well on its own. However, the significance of Pinho’s essay and particularly her discussion of Scarry’s work in relation to issues of power and Afro-aesthetics in Brazil is expanded when considered in the context of Nuttall’s introduction and other contributions to the book. Michelle Gilbert’s “Things Ugly: Ghanaian Popular Painting” has been revised from an earlier publication, and the author seems keenly aware that her analysis of popular paintings depicting horrific and shocking subjects takes on new significance in the context of this volume.
The essays are tremendously diverse, representing the voices of artists, journalists, writers, and scholars. The authors draw on the methods and sources used in fields of study as diverse as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, gender studies, history, literature, political science, and sociology. While this diversity in the scholarship is one of the strengths of the book, it is also its weakness. The accessibility of the essays varies widely, and so the intended audience is difficult to define. Some essays will be quite useful for a general audience or advanced undergraduate students in any of the disciplines mentioned. A number of essays, though, are more anecdotal and less rigorous from an academic standpoint, or, alternatively, the texts are more deeply immersed in theoretical discussions and the scholarly debate in particular fields of study and therefore apparently intended for a more specialized audience.
The book itself has tremendous aesthetic appeal with its rich and diverse color illustrations. Nuttall tells us that the project was conceived with Cheryl-Ann Michael, who is also a contributor to the volume, and that the concept emerged from the 2001 symposium held in Cape Town, South Africa. A book production such as this, built around a dialogue that is developed throughout the text, illustrates the effective intellectual debate that a symposium can achieve when its participants are given space and time to grow.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the list discussion logs at: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl.
Heather Shirey. Review of Nutall, Sarah, ed., Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics.
H-AfrArts, H-Net Reviews.
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Baltimore's new school board has been given until the end of the month to choose an interim superintendent, who will lead the city's restructured system until a permanent leader is selected.
The two-week extension beyond tomorrow's original deadline was granted after board members met yesterday with the two judges who presided over the lawsuits that led to the sweeping school reforms, lawyers for the plaintiffs and defendants in the cases, and key legislative leaders.
"Everyone agreed to it," said Baltimore Circuit Judge Joseph H. H. Kaplan.
He said no one wanted the board to rush into a decision. "It's too important," he said.
State Sen. Barbara A. Hoffman called the initial deadline for the nine-member board, which was sworn in May 29, a "very hard timetable."
"If they're not quite ready, I think it's fair," said Hoffman, a Baltimore Democrat and key architect of legislation that sent an additional $254 million in aid to the city's ailing schools in exchange for a greater say by the state in how the schools are run.
Board members, who had gathered for a weekend retreat at a suburban hotel, welcomed the extension.
"It gives us that necessary latitude to complete the task," said J. Tyson Tildon, the school board chairman.
The interim superintendent will run the schools until Oct. 31, when the board must select a permanent chief executive officer. The CEO will then choose chief academic and financial officers, and the position of superintendent will no longer exist.
The interim superintendent is prevented by the enabling legislation from applying for the job on a permanent basis.
The board will hold its first public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the system's headquarters at 200 E. North Ave.
Tildon said the panel might take all of the additional two weeks to decide. But he said it would use the extra time to continue to review more than two dozen current applications and to accept new ones.
The only finalist for the interim job whose name has surfaced, wealthy developer John Erickson, said this week that reforms would be speeded up if the board chose a permanent chief now. He also said he was not interested in taking the job for just a few months.
Tildon said it was "not likely" that the board would bypass the selection of an interim superintendent and pick its permanent CEO but added: "We don't rule it out."
He declined to say who was on the board's short list but said he hoped to make the names public after all the finalists were notified.
During yesterday's retreat, the board heard presentations from high-ranking school administrators who oversee buildings, finance, instruction and procurement.
"What we're doing is information-gathering," Tildon said.
As they met, the man who led the city's school system for six years, former Superintendent Walter G. Amprey, was saying goodbye to the district and the local media on his last day of work.
During a news conference held at his alma mater, Edmondson-Westside High School in West Baltimore, Amprey reflected on his tenure in the superintendent's office and offered advice to those who will follow him.
He also announced a gift to the city schools from his new bosses at cable giant TCI Communications of Baltimore: free technology training for one teacher from each of Baltimore's 179 schools.
Beginning July 1, Amprey will be National Vice President, Urban Education, for Education, Communications and Training, a TCI subsidiary.
Amprey was upbeat during the news conference, insistent that he was not bitter about the reorganization that pushed him out of the top school job and confident that he had done well in the district.
"I think one of the best things I did was initiating the concept of privatization in the district," Amprey said, referring to the district's brief relationship with Education Alternatives Inc., a private Minnesota company that was hired to run several city schools.
"A lot of people say we failed with that because we didn't renew their contract, but I think we learned an awful lot by doing it."
Amprey also said he was proud of the communitywide effort he helped organize in 1992 to forge a strategic plan for the district.
"We really had everyone involved, and that was important. We didn't make decisions about kids without asking the people who are involved in their lives," Amprey said.
As for the new board members: "Establish yourselves as independent, and make your own decisions," he implored them.
Amprey said that in addition to his duties at TCI, he will work on a book about school reform in Baltimore.
Pub Date: 6/14/97
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A recently published global survey by IEMA has revealed that sustainability and environmental professionals are some of the most satisfied workers out there. Why? Well, when we look at the overview of the environmental and sustainability profession, as depicted by the IEMA survey, it’s hard to think of a reason why somebody wouldn’t be happy: salaries are increasing including entry level graduate roles, professional development is supported and encouraged by employers and workers are highly qualified, regularly keeping their knowledge up-to-date. Not to mention the ‘nature’ of their work is morally rewarding – pun intended.
The survey, which was released in April 2016, is based on over 1,000 responses from IEMA members worldwide. Of these, 82% of participants reported that they were satisfied with their career – the highest number ever recorded for this group and comfortably exceeding the 77.6% of the general working population who consider themselves satisfied at work, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Speaking to "BusinessGreen" Tim Balcon, Chief Executive of IEMA, said there were multiple reasons why sustainability executives were broadly happy in their chosen careers;
"Quite simply these professionals say that the jobs they do are rewarding. There is a real sense of doing something ethical and positive with their careers that usually chime with their core beliefs and intrinsic interests in nature. Plus salaries are on the rise and employer support for professional development is high. All of that adds up to satisfied workers who really bring their best to work."
Happy with healthy salaries
In 2015 the median earnings of an environment and sustainability professional reached £38,180, with the average being £43,812. This compares favourably against the national average wage of £27,600 that was reported by the Office for National Statistics in November, as well as against comparable occupations. A survey by the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) magazine in February 2016 revealed the average salary for health and safety managers fell between £37,500 and £39,999. Clearly organisations are recognising the importance of the role of an environment and sustainability professional.
It doesn’t stop there. The IEMA survey also reveals that salaries are in fact on the rise, with two thirds of participants reporting a pay rise in 2015. Balcon predicts that this increase is set to continue over the upcoming years, commenting,
"Looking at the average stats from recent years I think we can predict that salaries will continue to rise. We are already seeing a £5,000 rise in the average salary since 2011 so the current trajectory looks promising. I don't think this is just down to inflation either; as more and more businesses wake up to the threats and opportunities of environment and sustainability these skills will become increasingly valuable."
Unsurprisingly, the IEMA survey showed that qualifications and experience have a major influence on pay; those with more experience and expertise tend to reap the biggest rewards. IEMA membership status is a good proxy for experience and the build-up of skills and knowledge over time.
That said, it’s also good news for those just starting out in the profession. Graduates can expect to earn around £24,500, £500 up from the previous year and on par with other graduate roles within industries in which environment and sustainability professionals’ work: energy, engineering and industrial, construction, public sector and consultancy.
Location, location, location and salaries
Perhaps one of the most uplifting findings of the IEMA survey is that of the expected salaries by region. Most pay surveys show that people working in London and the South East typically earn more than those working in other parts of the UK. This is not the case in the environment and sustainability profession. The 2016 survey results confirm what was noticeable last year: there is generally a more equitable picture of pay levels for practitioners across the country, making the dreaded London commute a lot less necessary.
Gender gap for salaries
It’s not all good news however. A closer look at the statistics shows a gap in pay between male and female workers. Although younger women tend to earn slightly more than their male colleagues in the early years of employment, this changes after the age of 25 where the gap in earnings widened last year to £7,000, equating to a 16.7% pay gap. This is still a smaller gap than the UK average of 20% reported by the BBC. IEMA have acknowledged that work needs to be done to address this issue as a promoter of best practice in business today;
“Work needs to be done by business to bridge the gender pay gap however; there really is no room for any form of inequality in such a modern and diverse profession that represents the very best professional values.”
Watch this space, ladies.
Developing knowledge and skills
The healthy earnings of environmental and sustainability professionals are a reflection of the high level of skills and qualifications offered by workers. IEMA members who took the survey tend to be highly qualified with 93% of respondents having higher academic qualifications.
About one third went on to complete a second qualification, 45% of which was in environmental management or assessment. These figures suggest that many practitioners are keen to develop their knowledge and skills in environmental management to further their career.
Continuing professional development
IEMA requires its members to carry out Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to demonstrate a commitment to the development and maintenance of professional competence and knowledge and industry standards. This can be done through a combination of training, learning and practical experience and through the support of others.
In 2015, 91% of respondents reported that they undertook some form of CPD by means of IEMA webinars, attending CPD workshops or training courses, reading The Environmentalist or attending an IEMA certified training course. Half of respondents reported that the main motivation for undertaking this professional development is to develop knowledge and skills in their current role.
Benefits of CPD
ISO 14001:2015Half of respondents reported that the main motivation for undertaking this professional development is to develop knowledge and skills in their current role. This commitment to development is valued by employers of IEMA members; participants of the survey reported that their development activities helped enhance their organisation’s environmental performance, enabled them to help upskill colleagues, boosted their sustainability performance and had a direct positive impact on their organisation’s reputation.
Practitioners also reported that their CPD activities had led to direct financial savings for their organisation including reduced overheads, reduced taxation due to the actions spurred by their development and reduced insurance premiums.
Of course the savings of IEMA training development activities were not wholly financial. After all, IEMA’s main objective is to help organisations achieve global sustainability. The activities of IEMA members resulted in their organisation reducing energy use, reducing pollution, cutting general and carbon emissions and reducing water consumption. Unsurprisingly the majority of participants reported that their training was funded by their organisation; a reassuringly win-win situation for all.
Overall, IEMA’s more experienced survey respondents said that the environment and sustainability profession offers a rich and rewarding career that makes a real difference and offers variety. With more and more businesses and industries waking up to the scale and scope of environment and sustainability opportunities, it looks like this is just the tip of the iceberg for a promising and growing profession.
www.businessgreen.com is a leading source of information for the green economy in the UK delivering the latest news and in-depth analysis on green business and environmental issues.
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You've already basically got the idea of "genetically tractable": if we can readily modify an organism's genome using known techniques, then it's genetically tractable.
That's a moving target, of course, because the set of available techniques is constantly expanding, so this is more of a pragmatic definition than a taxonomic definition. It's a ...
If the query genome is unknown, a microarray cannot be made for a target species. Microarrays have DNA fragments of what you want to amplify on them. Those fragments must be known.
DNA microarrays are microscope slides that are printed with thousands
of tiny spots in defined positions, with each spot containing a known
DNA sequence or gene.
What it seems you're struggling with here is a lack of clear definitions.
Yes, the unity of core cellular mechanisms implies an unbroken line of descent back to the origins of life. But that does not in any way mean the cells are actually the same. I think that you would find it instructive to learn about the puzzle of the Ship of Theseus, which is the ...
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We really haven’t heard much about the border lately, aside from the occasional observation that no one from the Biden-Harris administration seems to be in any hurry to visit the border. It wasn’t so long ago that we were running stories on migrant detainment facilities, formerly known as “cages,” being packed beyond capacity despite warnings from the CDC not to fill them beyond 50 percent so as not to spread the coronavirus.
We also haven’t seen Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put on her best whites and break down in tears at the “concentration camps” on the border.
The New York Times seems to have noticed, and in a rare act of journalism, is reporting that Democrats are “voicing worries privately” now that President Biden is in office.
Turns out Democrats who screamed about President Trump are still concerned about the treatment of migrant children. They're just 'voicing worries privately' now that a Democrat is in the White House. From NYT: https://t.co/xsAeT1G0rm pic.twitter.com/jgEr3FaGQN
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 25, 2021
“With the issue bedeviling President Biden, they are voicing worries privately.”
Don’t worry. After we find out more about the President’s peloton I’m sure it’ll be addressed.
— B. Miller (@BlaiseInKC) May 25, 2021
The fact the the NYT could write that, seemingly oblivious to what it obviously proves, just shows the bubble these people thrive in.
— Tony C (@tcat9999) May 25, 2021
Yeah, so the New York Times is trustworthy today I guess
— Steven Zaitz (@szaitz) May 25, 2021
Interesting how they justify this: The Democrat administration has good intentions where as the Republican administration did not. Therefore, we forgive their handling of the children. This is of course by definition almost a partisan justification, without objective merit.
— Art Walker (@ArtWalker4) May 25, 2021
No they’re not, they DGAF. This has been going on since the 90’s and they didn’t care until they could use it as something to bitch about Trump for. Truly mindless derangement.
— Princess Sparkle Krogan (@NiftuCal) May 25, 2021
I would really like to know what SHOULD be done with migrant children, according to the Democrats.
— ConcernedCitizen (@Ubi_est_veritas) May 25, 2021
That explains too why the media have gone private
— EddyCaplan (@EddyCaplan1) May 25, 2021
The hypocrisy is overwhelming
— PhillyGirl (@FranklinPhilly) May 25, 2021
It's just a kinder, gentler form of outrage.
It might LOOK like placation… but it's not.
— Double-secret Shadowbanned Joe ⭐⭐⭐ (@4ever_right) May 25, 2021
— 1Angrythumb (@JohnRob32663475) May 25, 2021
Shhhhh…. 🤫 let’s keep this among ourselves 😂 😂 😂
— Maddie Adams (@MaddieAdams75) May 25, 2021
In other words, they're all full of shit.
— Amie Whatserface (@AmieWohrer) May 25, 2021
The difference from before? Trump told the illegal aliens to stay away, and they came anyway. Biden told the illegal aliens to 'come on in', and caged the children when they arrived, and wrapped them up like baked potatoes for dinner.
— PreSafe (@pre_safe) May 25, 2021
Biden's policy allowing unaccompanied minors to cross the border is terrible. It's an open border for kids. He is incentivizing children to be trafficked. It's shameful that no one is calling him out on it.
— 🇺🇸Chris 🇺🇸 (@Rimer_Chris) May 25, 2021
Why does our president hate young people of color?
Is he, too, literally Hitler? 😥
— niceguyshawn (@niceguyshawn2) May 25, 2021
Where are the thousands of illegal migrant children ? Who’s feeding, housing and caring for them?
— Barbra Harrison (@BarbraHarriso18) May 25, 2021
We’ve heard of them being housed with sponsors, in convention centers, in hotels, on buses, on military bases, in detention facilities … just put ’em wherever you can find room.
Hypocrisy, of the highest order.
— Redinblue (@Redinblue4) May 25, 2021
That's called hypocrisy.
No only from Democrats, but from the @nytimes as well.
Congratulations. We knew you were in bed with each other, and you continue to provide evidence confirming that notion.
— ThinkMore (@LetUsThinkMore) May 25, 2021
“We care, but quietly” perhaps not as comforting as they think to suffering children.
— Kelli Kobor (@PublicDomainiac) May 25, 2021
Bullshit. If they were concerned, they wouldn’t have voted for Biden. If they were concerned, they’d be screaming about kids in cages. Democrats don’t care about anything but power. Period.
— ✨Shawn Quinn✨ (@ShawnQuinn83) May 25, 2021
Has it occurred to anyone that there are more kids in custody than are enrolled in some suburban school districts? And a lot of them have parents or other relatives living here illegally? I used to think estimates of 11 million were nuts, no more.
— Meowmix (@Meowmix23846679) May 25, 2021
We’re frankly amazed that the New York Times even suggested that Democrats were “once-outraged,” implying they’re not anymore — which they aren’t.
Joe Biden’s America: Migrant children stuck overnight on parked buses for consecutive days and nights https://t.co/AneUle0BbO
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 13, 2021
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She welcomed her first child just eight days ago, but Gabrielle Union shows no sign of sleep deprivation. Easygoing in jeans, a red plaid shirt, and a pair of Fear of God sneakers, Gabrielle looks fresh and flawless as she arrives at one of her go-to local haunts, a beer tavern near the Sherman Oaks, California, home she shares with her husband, Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade.
She comes in for a hug before sliding into the corner booth, and though she’s quick to admit she got a bit more rest than usual last night, the actress-producer—who, this May, stars alongside Jessica Alba in the new television series L.A.’s Finest (a Bad Boys spin-off)—says her new normal is “like that second day in Vegas where you’re all, ‘I’m not sleeping Saturday away. I’m going to day-party and rally!’ But your body is like, ‘Are you crazy?’ You’re exhausted and you kind of start to feel a little ill because you haven’t slept.”
But she’s not complaining. This is part of being a parent, and it’s just one of the many phases she’s up for, following a lengthy struggle with infertility. Before the arrival of her daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, who was born via surrogate, Gabrielle suffered some eight or nine miscarriages and underwent three years of failed IVF treatments, all of which she chronicles in her 2017 memoir, We’re Going to Need More Wine.
Last summer, she revealed she’d been diagnosed— after years of searching for answers about her body—with adenomyosis, a condition that can cause intense periods and an enlarged uterus. It could be the reason she was unable to carry to term. “There’s nothing more that I wanted than to cook my own baby,” says the 46-year-old, who helps raise Wade’s nephew and two sons from a previous marriage. But once she was down to three embryos, surrogacy seemed like the best option.
“The idea of it felt like surrendering to failure,” Gabrielle says, when speaking about welcoming a surrogate into their lives. Yet she pushed past those emotions and shifted to focusing on finding the right woman to carry her baby. “Some people care about the race, religion, or food habits of their surrogate. I was like, ‘I want a reader.’” When Gabrielle met a potential surrogate who shared her love of books, she knew she’d found the one. “She said, ‘I love the smell of the pages,’” remembers Gabrielle. It was the sign she needed.
Imagining the public’s reaction was a tough hurdle too. “People want to see the bump, hear that you got hemorrhoids—they want to know you’re like them. I was like, ‘This is going to seem like the most Hollywood sh*t ever. Will I be embraced as a mom?’ It’s terrifying.” But when her baby finally arrived, those feelings were replaced by ones of fierce love, loyalty, and a serious sense of protectiveness. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is my baby,’” she recalls. “I wanted to fight everybody in that room for various reasons and no reason.”
Though she’d been trying for years, becoming a parent in her 40s ended up being the right timing for Gabrielle, whose breakout role in Bring It On in 2000 was followed by films like Think Like a Man, Breaking In, and the BET show Being Mary Jane. “Any earlier and the FOMO would have greatly influenced how I parented,” she says. “I’ve seen it. I’ve done it. I’ve done it well. I’ve gotten all the T-shirts. Now I’m in the right mindset and mental space, and I’m open to being the best mom I can be.”
Gabrielle has picked up plenty of tools to keep her mind right over the years. One of them is to occasionally indulge in “eating what the hell I want and not thinking about it,” she says, while nodding at the table where her order of garlic Parmesan fries, chicken wings, and beer sits. Her self-care routine also includes finding a moment alone to enjoy some quiet time (“I appreciate silence”), reading (“Let me just get a chapter in”), and listening to Affirmation Pod by Josie Ong. Whipping out her phone, Gabrielle reads the titles of a few episodes she’s played recently: “Motivation for a New Beginning” and “You Are Worthy and Deserving.” “I’ll listen to these while I’m brushing my teeth or getting a facial,” Gabrielle says. “She always drops some nuggets.”
Maintaining an active lifestyle and getting plenty of fresh air are also keys to Gabrielle’s well-being. “I need sun,” she says. “I need vitamin D on my face. Give me a trail, a park, a walk down the street with the dogs, a breeze, rain. I’ll go hike. I’ll get a lawn chair and sit outside my trailer so I’m not trapped inside.” When she’s in Miami, where she and Wade also have a home, she’ll jump on Jet Skis or hit the gym with the kids. “Training together, struggling, failing, trying to get better—it’s been a cool thing that doesn’t feel like, ‘Let’s go talk about our feelings.’ It’s like, I’m a cool mom!”
Approachable is exactly the kind of parent she hopes to be for her daughter. “I want to let her be free,” says Gabrielle, who wrestled with identity issues after moving, at a young age, from a mostly black neighborhood in Nebraska to a primarily white one in Pleasanton, California. “I want to instill in her morals, values. And then I want to give her space to fill in those gaps, fall on her ass, and make mistakes. Get an F because she didn’t study. Pick the wrong dude. Pick the wrong friends and figure it out. I don’t want to be super judge-y.”
Gabrielle knows the entertainment industry can be just that, so when she acknowledges some of the sacrifices she makes to keep herself camera-ready, it’s with an “it is what it is” attitude. While on set during the week, she drinks a gallon of water a day, eats good fats, and is gluten-free, dairy-free, and low-sodium. She first implemented this type of diet in early 2018 while dealing with IVF side effects, including intense bloating. “My face looked like the surface of the moon, small chunks of hair were falling out,” she explains. “At 9 a.m. I had a flat stomach. By noon I looked like I was five months pregnant.”
To help get her body on track, she consulted Alisa Vitti, a functional nutritionist and women’s hormone expert. “She said, ‘Cut out gluten, dairy, alcohol, and caffeine and see if the swelling alleviates and it helps with your skin and hair,’” says Gabrielle. “I felt like she was trying to torture me.” But after only a few days, she noticed a big difference. “So I did it for six weeks,” she adds. “Then I was like, ‘I need a drink!’”
Drinking is something she won’t be giving up again. But sticking to a healthy eating pattern and adding 15 to 20 minutes of daily cardio, plus strength training and Pilates, keeps her body fit and her head clear. Morning sweat sessions jibe best with Gabrielle’s schedule, but she’d much rather pull the covers back over her head when the alarm goes off. “You know how you swing your legs off to the side of the bed?” she asks. “That’s when you really think about life’s decisions: How much would it cost if I cancel? What does traffic look like? Should I go back to sleep?” It’s usually cold-brew coffee and the guilt of canceling last-minute that gets her going. “I don’t leave people hanging.” (Editor’s note: Spoken like a true workout buddy!)
In fact, part of the thrill of having her own production company, I’ll Have Another, is helping others realize their dreams. “Creating opportunities, especially for creatives of color, to start careers, advance, get paid—it’s the best,” she says. As a dedicated mom, wife, actress, and boss, Gabrielle has plenty of knowledge about being a strong woman to pass on to the one she’s raising.
This article originally appears in the March 2019 issue of Women's Health. For more intel on how your favorite stars and influencers lead healthier, happier lives, pick up an issue on newsstands.
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You are a busy professional and need to hold yourself financially updated and that’s you by no means miss any form of monetary information. Over 1,000 people from all over the reservation got here to pay their respects and Governor Thomas Campbell of Arizona sent the Adjunct General of the Nationwide Guard to attend as his personal representative (different enterprise prevented him from attending) along with a letter to be read on his behalf for the family.
In line with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 122,000 public relations specialists in the United States in 1998 and approximately 485,000 advertising, advertising, and public relations managers working in all industries.
A rustic which is poor normally has low financial actions that go on in it. Financial recession is noticed in Africa because the money which is for use in selling the economy of the continent is shifted by our leaders to different nations which add to their own economy.
Travel, writing, artwork, photography, reading, cats, and naturally, my household, have all the time been with me. My husband and I are avid RVers and spent 4 years after retirement dwelling in our RV and touring the U.S. This glorious time gave me the opportunity to photograph a few of the most lovely places within the country, and these photographs are sometimes the inspiration for my hubs on RVing and travel.
Government press releases differ from these for personal firms in that they aren’t immediately advertising one thing, but slightly are sharing information with the public to help build support and understanding for their actions and selections.
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Willing to buy floral print sarees online but still not completely sure? If you’re a first-time online shopper, it’s completely understandable and I have some great tips for you to overcome this hurdle. If you have been shopping online for a while, but it’s your first time with printed sarees, then also you landed at the right place.
Printed sarees, with a variety of prints like floral, digital, geometrical, animal etc, are being loved by women. It’s tough to choose which print is right for you. It’s even tougher to choose where to buy floral print sarees online, in case you picked the most pleasing and easy to style print.
How to pick great floral print sarees?
The problem with floral print is that there are again tens of options, each one being completely unique, that leave you confused. I could write long essays on each and every type of print but have shortened it to help you pick the most important points.
The size of the flowers
If you have a toned or slim figure, you must go for big or medium sized flowers. If you’re a bit flabby, pick smaller flowers. Let me explain why. Smaller flowers help you look thinner. When you’re already thin, you don’t need to look even slimmer. That doesn’t seem nice. However, when you’re looking for hiding away some love handles, you must use this trick to make yourself look slimmer in sarees.
2. How much print should be there?
Either you can go for a saree with all over floral print or you can pick a saree that has flowers printed out around the border and pallu. Both styles are nice and depend on your personal preference.
3. The colors of the sarees
Floral print sarees often look graceful when paired with bright lively colors. It makes sense to pick such colors for they just go with the whole floral print theme. So, pick bright colors. However, don’t be afraid to play with a bit darker colors like purple and brown when you need a toned down look.
4. Pick chiffon or georgette fabrics
If you’re wondering which fabrics look the best with this kind of print, you have your answer now. Chiffon is a very lightweight and flowy fabric that looks amazing when paired with subtle prints. Georgette is the most popular fabric amongst women and depending upon the quality, you can pick different variants of georgette for different occasions.
5. Such sarees suit which type of occasion?
If you’re into fashion, you can truly pair floral print sarees with any type of occasion. The easiest pairing is, of course, for casual wear. Buy floral print sarees online and use them to look stylish every single day. They come at a pretty reasonable price, for example, such sarees are available at Rs. 429 at Brijraj.com. It’s the best quality at the cheapest price you can get anywhere- online or offline.
If you want to dress up for cocktail party or kitty party, just pick a more sophisticated and intricate design. Pair it with statement accessories and you’re ready to get your girlfriends jealous of your style.
I wouldn’t suggest you wear printed sarees for weddings and such big fat Indian parties but if you do want to try, you can obviously find a great design even for that.
Tone down the look even further than casual wear and pick really small prints and you can use the style for office wear sarees as well.
Those are my 5 tips to help you buy floral print sarees online. I would also suggest you check out the Brijraj collection of printed sarees. They have around 1200 unique designs in stock as of writing this post and they keep adding hundreds of new designs every day. It’s the best website for sarees online shopping.
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The Borrero Law Firm provides comprehensive counsel for intellectual property (IP) needs spanning copyright law, trademarks, and trade secrets (note: at this time we do not specifically cover patent). This field includes the following areas of concern:
- Copyright/trademark/trade secrets
- Filing of copyright/trademark registrations
- International copyright/trademark registration (advisory and filing)
- Use and business strategy vis-a-vis others’ IP rights/licenses (incl. software use strategy)
- Contracts to enforce your IP rights (NDAs, employment, contracting, servicing, etc.)
- Trademark/copyright infringement or trade secrets misappropriation (“theft”) litigation
- Special areas: interactions with media law, employment law and trade law; domain name disputes, niche areas of design protection; etc.
Click here or call the number above to get in touch with us for your intellectual property needs. For a general educational overview on intellectual property law and practice, including how a law firm such as us can help, click here.
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What is causing the divisiveness in America? John is on the road for this week’s boralogue, talking to normal, everyday folks about what’s going on in our country. From oppressive taxation to inept bureaucracy, John shows that it’s not down to earth people causing the problems we face today; it’s elites in Washington fighting for the status quo that continues to keep us divided.
First amendment freedoms are under attack and those who have fallen victim are fighting back. Jeremy Dys (www.firstliberty.org), Senior Counsel at First Liberty Institute, examines several court cases including a member of the military punished for displaying Bible verses, a man fired from his secular job for what he said in church, and the Kleins in Oregon who refused to bake a cake for a same sex marriage.
What does the Bible say about borders and immigration? Dr. Andy Woods (www.slbc.org), Senior Pastor of Sugarland Bible Church in Houston, Texas, examines the Tower of Babel in relation to borders and what the Bible teaches us about both compassion for immigrants and obeying the law.
Is there diversity within the Christian Church? David Leong (www.spu.edu), Professor at Seattle Pacific University discusses his book, Race and Place, about understanding why many churches remain segregated with like-minded people and the need to get out of one’s comfort zone and engage in discussion and action.
John’s quote of the week:
“Two groups of people: the establishment elites who want to see the game go back to where it was, and those of us out here who recognize that most of these elite dreams are broken and failing, as pensions are going to fail, jobs need to be created, infrastructure is crumbling, the debt grows, and it goes on and on and on.”
Follow us on Twitter @steelonsteelpro as well as the Steel on Steel Facebook page and remember to join Praying for Persecuted Christians for the latest information concerning persecuted Christians around the world. Don’t forget to stop by our YouTube channel as well for our latest videos.
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Touch Tour Pictures
November 14 – December 21, 2008 | 11 Rivington St, NY
Eleven Rivington is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new photographs, Matt Ducklo: Touch Tour Pictures, on view from November 14 – December 21, 2008. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his third in New York.
The exhibition will feature eight large scale (50 x 40 in.) color photographs, all works 2007-08, taken during ‘Touch Tours’ for the blind at important museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. This body of work investigates and questions the inherent problems or impossibilities for people who cannot see and experience works such as Rodin’s ‘Burghers of Calais’, Barnett Newman’s ‘Broken Obelisk’ or Dan Flavin’s ‘Monument for V. Tatlin’. By touching these works, the blind are able to have real engagement with a work of art and come away with a different experience than a sighted person’s. Touching art is not seeing art, but through ‘Touch Tours’ the blind are able to have access to something often taken for granted. Ducklo’s images are meditations on important works of art, as well as portraits of individuals as they are experiencing iconic sculptures through touch.
Matt Ducklo was born 1973 in Memphis, TN, and lives and works in NY. He was educated at The University of Tennessee (BFA) and Yale University (MFA). Ducklo’s solo and project exhibitions include Bellwether, NY; Elizabeth Dee, NY; and The Power House, Memphis, TN. Group exhibitions include Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg; Derek Eller Gallery, NY; and The Queens Museum of Art, NY, among others.
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The Cleveland Browns have a completely new group of coaches in the building. There are many questions about how Rob Chudzinski, Norv Turner and Ray Horton are going to develop and train the team in their new scheme and approach: what exactly does "big guys that can run and little guys that can hit" look like? How much will the offense really attack? Will Brandon Weeden be the starting QB? Who will be the competitor? Where will we focus in the NFL Draft?
Enough questions already, how about some philosophy? NFL Philosophy.
There's a former NFL Operations Coordinator who I follow on Twitter who is constantly active sharing tons of great insight, takes, and information. He tweeted a lot today about how strongly he feels coaching and production trump talent.
Here is his take, and don't let his avatar fool you:
This is interesting because in contrast to the last two years (excluding Dick Jauron) I think we currently have a great group of teachers in the building who can adapt to coach our young talent. That's one of the main reason's why I am supporting keeping Weeden and addressing other areas in the draft and free agency. I believe the current coaching staff can actually make our players better.
According to NFL.COM reporter Albert Breer, in a MEMO obtained by Steve Wyche, it appears that in addition to the Wonderlic, the NFL will begin supplemental testing that will be 60 minutes in length and the players will not be able to prepare for it, there will be more released on NFL.COM shortly.
Some of the details are cited below:
I hate to be the one wearing "rose colored glasses" around here but again, I remain excited to watch our new coaching staff teach our young players and hopefully prove the Coaching > Talent argument true. I'm also hoping that this new testing piece of the draft process will help the Browns find the mix they prefer among production, talent, motivation, decision making, etc. I think Chud and company have shown the ability to do adjust and coach their players effectively in the past and this gives me confidence that they can do it again with the Browns young core and our soon to be new rookie class of 2014.
Relax. I'm not preaching or thinking that's realistic. . . but you never know in the NFL and like I said earlier in the week, it can't get any worse.
What do you guys think about the coaching and production over talent argument? Who fits, who doesn't? Blast away!
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Have a look here for other Nina Ricci polishes. I seldom see them swatched and have only seen them for sale once (when I got a gift pack for a bargain!) I'd love to get some more as they are really outstanding - easy to apply, beautiful colour payoff, and very glamourous!
They are only identified with a tiny little number on the bottom.
Base colour: Nina Ricci #30
Nail plate: Mash 41Stamp colour: China Glaze 2030
Topped with Essie Good to Go
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I didn’t have a word for 2015 up until the last minute. Of course. I’m a master planner when it comes to business or family matters. But as for self, well, I’m still learning.
But on December 31th, as if on cue, I read an article somewhere that mentioned the word “WELLth” and I knew I had it. All of the things I wanted to focus on in the new year had one underlying theme: health & wellness. This year I’m focusing on the health & well being of the mind, as well as the body – and so “WELLth” feels just right.
So what does WELLth mean for me in practical terms? What habits do I want to make this year?
It’s actually a simple three-step plan: yoga, meditation & everyday self-care. Yes, I know, it’s all about me this year. But you know what, after 30 something years on this earth, it’s about time I placed more focus on loving and taking care of myself more. And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing this year. Not, in a selfish way, but in a caring & tending way, with a goal to look after my well being & happiness.
So this year, I’m hopping on the yoga bandwagon. Not for vanity reasons, or because it’s trendy, but for health reasons. And if you’re a skeptic, like I was up until last year, here’s a little review of the health benefits of a regular yoga practice. No, I’m not joining a fancy studio, buying a mat or super cute yoga clothes that will make people look thin or sexy. Well, maybe. But mostly, since I’m a straight-forward no-fuss girl, all I need is guidance (this is where quality YouTube channels come in), my living room, and determination to practice twice a week.
Meditation is as important to mental health as physical exercise to the health of your body. It improves memory, learning, emotional flexibility, strengthens the immune system, increases resilience and calm, decreases negative emotions, lowers stress and anxiety, helps with ADHD, OCD, depression, and more. I’ve already been meditating a bit last year but it’s not been a simple habit to pick up. There’s still lots of resistance, my mind running places and even lack of willingness to put in the time (because how do you do “nothing” when there’s a million things you really have to do!). Guided meditation worked really well so far, but this year I’m determined to sit for at least 10 minutes each day & meditate all on my own. By the end of this year, I want to be comfortable with sitting for 20 minutes each day.
Self-care can help us feel a sense of happiness, gratitude, hope, and healing. The goals are simple: be good to myself, be gentle and treat myself well, like I would my best friend. Every day, no exceptions. It could mean a bubbly baths, reading good books, slowing down, respecting my boundaries, making art, dancing when I feel like it, taking care of my needs before taking care of others, being mindful about what food I put in my body and what thoughts I put in my mind, belly-laughs, long walks, doing what feels good and right for me as opposed to what I think I should do, and more. The fact is, every day there are endless opportunities for self-care but it’s often the last thing on our mind, way at the end of our to-do list (and often we simply run out of time). Well, this year, I’m making it a priority. No more putting myself last, neglecting my needs & desires, self-criticism & self-doubt. No more inner mean girl!
It took me two years to work out “acceptance” – my goal for 2013. Let’s see how this journey goes.
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Russia is ramping up its unmanned military system. The state media announced that Russia’s armed forces would be fielding long-range armed drones in 2021. Although, the identity of the new drones to be fielded has not been revealed yet.
“Next year, the troops will start receiving multi-purpose long-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), capable not only of conducting aerial survey but also of striking enemy facilities with high-precision projectiles,” said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s Aerospace Forces Lt. Gen. Sergei Dronov, quoted in TASS.
As reported earlier by EurAsian Times, Russia has sped up the delivery of the first Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik (“Hunter”) attack drone in 2024. According to the Ministry of Defence, S-70 Okhotnikis powered by an AL-31 turbojet engine and is equipped with electro-optical targeting, radio, and “other types of reconnaissance equipment”. It made its first flight on August 7, 2019, flying for 20 minutes and reaching an altitude of 600 meters (1,970 feet).
Dronov said that currently, the Russian military has short and medium-range UAVs in service. He also added that the use of combat UAVs in Syria demonstrated their capacity to carry out high-precision strikes.
Samuel Bendett, an adviser to the think tank CNA’s Russia program and a specialist in Russian unmanned military systems, lists down a number of likely candidates that the Russian military can field including Forpost-R, Orion, Korsar and the Orlan-30.
The Russian version of Forpost first flew last year, and there are ten on order. It has a maximum speed of 125 miles per hour, a mission endurance window of about 18 hours, and a service ceiling up to 20,000 feet. It is based on the IAI Searcher from Israel that first flew in 1998.
The Orion UAV is classified as a medium-long duration aerial vehicle. It is assumed that the maximum duration of its flight is not less than 24 hours, while it can fly at a maximum altitude of about 8,000 meters. According to the project of the drone, Orion’s weight should be about 1 ton.
“Several were already acquired by Ministry of Defence for testing and evaluation this year, and it was tested in Syria in combat mode,” said Bendett. “The Russian defence industry began to design munitions specifically tailored to this UAV type.”
The Korsar’s fuselage length of the drone is 4.2m, while its wing span is 6.5m. The take-off weight of the UAV is 4.2m. It is a smaller multipurpose drone. The Orlan-30, which is an upgraded version of Orlan-10, weighing about 30 kg (66 lb), it cruises at 150 km/h (81 kt) at altitudes up to 4,500 m (15,000 ft) and can loiter for over five hours at a distance up to 300 km (162 nm) from the launch point.
“At this point, the U.S. and Israel have several decades more of actual experience in using drones in different roles,” said Bendett. “But the learning gap in using such technology can be closed rapidly by nations willing to put their technology in the field.” “We will see Russia rapidly innovating in combat drone development as a significant mission multiplier,” he added.
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Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern, co-owners of Hamilton Stern Construction LLC, finally can put their feet up and relax.
After completing renovations on their headquarters in Pittsford, the duo have settled into the new home of their full-service construction management company.
In just more than two years, Hamilton Stern Construction has completed or begun work on a variety of commercial, health care, industrial and residential projects, ranging in cost from $25,000 to $5 million. Those projects include building renovations to the Niagara Falls Air Force Base, the build-out of Savers thrift store in Henrietta and the corporate offices of Chaintreuil Jensen and Stark Architects LLP.
Hamilton and Stern's dream of owning a business together began in 1998, when they met as teammates on the basketball team at Rochester Institute of Technology. They clicked instantly.
"We kind of knew right then and there that one day we would be working together," Stern said.
Both Stern and Hamilton were civil engineering majors. After graduating in 2003, they worked as project engineers at MLB Construction Services LLC in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, before pursuing separate ventures.
Stern went to work as a project manager for LeCesse Construction Services LLC, a commercial construction management company with offices in Henrietta. Hamilton became a project manager for Mazzarella & Cannan LLC, a real estate development and property management company in Rochester.
Both Hamilton and Stern said the contacts they made working for those two companies served as the building blocks for their construction firm. The duo formed the company in early 2010, with two other employees.
Hamilton Stern Construction took shape in a temporary office on Humboldt Street in Rochester. The company's first major project came in May 2011, a 7,000-square-foot addition and renovation of Tire World Auto Service Center in Penfield. The renovations, completed in October, included a new showroom and an expansion from five to nine service bays.
As the project wrapped up, Hamilton Stern Construction was moved into its 5,000-square-foot office and warehouse space on Monroe Avenue in Pittsford. Stern and Hamilton spent the first few months working together in a small office in the building while their construction team completed renovations.
The space, which previously housed the Three Crowns gift shop, now features their offices, a spiral staircase, conference area and kitchen. Hamilton said the next step is hiring a receptionist as business picks up.
"We're growing to the point where we need help," Hamilton said. "That's a good thing."
The firm has 12 employees, but each client still gets the services of either Hamilton or Stern.
"We're very hands-on. Either Justin or I will see each project from start to finish," Stern said.
Hamilton said the company owes its early success to word-of-mouth marketing, several repeat customers and the chemistry between its 32-year-old co-founders.
"I tell people Chris is like my brother from another mother," Hamilton said. "We're able to bounce ideas off each other. He knows what I'm thinking before I say it. That's the beauty of having a partner."
5/11/12 (c) 2012 Rochester Business Journal. To obtain permission to reprint this article, call 585-546-8303 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
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This Monday coming is Mid-Autumn Festival in China, so yesterday my University organised an activity for the foreign teachers to make traditional mooncakes.
Sadly, only three teachers turned up for it (myself a Vietnamese and a Burmese) but it was fun and, once packaged, the cakes looked pretty impressive. However, I'll let JD try once first before I risk anything!
About the author
Past blog entries
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Our August craft fair was a great event at Culzean Castle
We had nice weather and lots of lovely customers, local and from further afield. We could have done without the little wasps that annoyed us every now and then but they didn't spoil a great weekend.
We had beautiful Vintage style bags from Sherrie Stewart Designs, natural soaps and skincare from Miss Polly, gorgeous jams from Wendy, brilliant wood carvings from Chainsaw Art (yes, Ross really craves them with a chainsaw, they are amazing), Louise Nelson and her lovely glass beads, Rona and her glass work, jewellery from Susan and Marie, the cutest knitted baby hats and jackets from Janette (cute enough to make me broody again, but thankfully it was just a passing notion), handmade cards from Susan H and soaps and Toiletries from The Hidden Garden. All beautiful and all handmade.
We also had a visit from a former long standing Acorn crafter Pat, from Pat's Paraphernalia. It was lovely to see her again and she spent a lot of time chatting to her old friends.
Our next craft weekend in October 15th and 16th - it would be lovely to see you there.
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Ahlstrom adding drylaid nonwoven line at Texas plant
Feb. 2, 2007 - Ahlstrom said that it will invest EUR 5 million in a new drylaid nonwoven line at its Groesbeck, Texas filter media plant.
The Grossbeck facility currently operates six drylaid and needlepunch nonwoven lines.
Start-up of the new production line is expected at the beginning of 2008, Ahlstrom said
SOURCE: Ahlstrom Corp.
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Accredited Laboratory AROCO
The mission of the testing laboratory is to provide objective information on the composition of the tested samples. The results serve customers to assess the overall quality of the raw materials and products and to check the correct production technology. To achieve highest quality standards the management of the testing laboratory places the utmost emphasis on good professional practice and on the quality of testing process. The tests are carried out by the staff always in accordance with established methods and customer requirements.
The testing laboratory has an established quality system that complies with the requirements of CSN EN ISO / IEC 17025: 2005. The effectiveness of the quality system is constantly improved to ensure a highest level of service and supreme credibility of test results.
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1) This organic Aloe Vera Hair Care Mask is a real treatment for dry hair. Organic Coconut oil and Shea butter are combined with organic essential oils to nourish dry hair.
2) COSMOS organic certified Shower Gel with organic Mint and Lavender essential oil - organic Green Tea extract.
3) This Aloe Vera organic Shampoo is a real treatment for dry hair. Organic Coconut Oil, Organic shea butter and organic essential oils are combined with a vegetable foaming base.
Each Christmas Gift Set of 3 or more items comes with a beautiful Merry Christmas Gift Box as shown in the photo below with matching festive tissue paper and sticker at no extra cost.
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Ethiopian Free and Open Source Software Network (EFOSSNet)
The global interest and movement to address climate change is led by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC, established in 1989 by the World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has since led a number of deliberations and consultations to get a better understanding of the causes of climate change, its impacts, and mitigation and adaptation strategies.1
Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester
Climate change is likely to exacerbate the poverty and marginalisation of developing country populations. Yet those same populations increasingly have access to information and communications technologies (ICTs). How can we characterise the research work done so far linking ICTs, climate change and development, and what should be the future research priorities?
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Not Being There YetArt & Survival
From Comics Scene #4 / ©1981 by Howard Cruse
Thursday morning. If I push myself and forego jogging, I can finish the American Photographer art and deliver it on my way to Export, thus consolidating my time logged on the subway.
Then, by wrapping up the Export assignment over the weekend, I can clear the decks for those health food sketches I promised I’d have by the end of next week.
I have been sitting on an interesting comic strip idea for Eclipse for what must be eight months by now. I really thought I had made room for it in April, but then the health food guy called, and by the time I get his job out of my hands, Bananas is bound to have a new "Doctor Duck" script ready...
Hey, I’m getting work! I’m grateful! Don’t get me wrong.
But there’s this feeling I have as once more I put aside that strip I’ve been wanting to get to. I’m not There yet. That’s what I feel about myself.
Where is "There"?
Hard to say exactly, but I know when I’m in its vicinity. I can smell its nearness the way I smell fresh crescent rolls from outside a bakery.
I’d like to stroll into that bakery, have them smile across the counter, grab my hand and say, "Why, Mr. Cruse, merely to look at you is to recognize your sterling qualities. Please allow us to provide you with our delicious crescent rolls free of charge. Indeed, let us guarantee you all the free crescent rolls you may desire for the rest of your life!"
Ah, if only appetites were so simply satisfied!
Daydreams aside, the fact is that it takes money to buy rolls, or to secure living space, or to nourish yourself so that you have energy for drawing while occupying that space. Gaining access to the requisite money usually involves an extended campaign. The urge for artistic fulfillment, unless it is nimble and prepared to stick up for itself, can easily get trampled underfoot once the harsh battle for basic survival is engaged.
Once in a happy while, a young cartoonist will encounter a cartoon buyer who is prepared to offer a living wage in return for precisely the drawings that the cartoonist prefers to draw. But by all reports, that’s rare! Most of us who want to be professionals rather than hobbyists have to do a lot of bending in the early years in order to keep afloat. When we manage to harvest a little creative satisfaction in the course of our contortions, it’s a special pleasure.
Thinking of this, I’m reminded of a particular day in 1969. I was living in New York at the time and was due that day to deliver my last job to Tom Borowik at Flaghouse, Inc. Tom had hired me for sporadic freelance gigs even though I was just out of college and very green around the edges. Today he listened as I said my piece.
"I don’t expect I’ll have time to do Flaghouse jobs for awhile," I told him. "I’ve decided to try concentrating on ‘underground’ cartooning."
Tom nodded thoughtfully. "I don’t know how much money there is in underground stuff," he ventured.
"I still want to give it a try," I said.
In those days I was always quitting jobs. I once gave notice at the end of July because I couldn’t bear to spend August indoors while Central Park beckoned. I had an almost mystical faith in my bank account’s ability to spontaneously regenerate. Still, I wanted Tom to understand where my head was at. He had done me the favor of behaving as though I had a promising future as an artist at a time when my own confidence in that prospect needed all the bolstering it could get. I felt he deserved an explanation.
I had connected with Flaghouse the previous winter through a classified ad in the Village Voice. Flaghouse was seeking freelance cartoonists, and that’s what I wanted to be. When I answered Tom's ad I was employed by a small typesetting firm which specialized in working 18 hour days producing legal documents for corporate mergers which, judging by the hysteria surrounding our hairbreadth pre-dawn deadlines, must have customarily been consummated around 4:00 a.m. My role was to hunch over a light table and slice minute corrections into complex charts composed of very tiny type. I was nearing my burnout threshold when I spotted the Flaghouse ad.
Today Flaghouse distributes athletic equipment and camping supplies, but its initial enterprise was providing pennants and custom-made flags to high schools across the country. Hence its name. By the time I encountered Flaghouse it was already diversifying its catalog (today, in fact, it carries no flags at all). But in 1969 the banner business still looked bullish at the House of Flags, and here came I with my portfolio composed of a mishmash of posters I’d drawn for college plays, logos for Alabama Volkswagen dealers, comic strips already rejected by every syndicate in the country, etc. Never was a youngster’s flag-designing potential so clearly in evidence.
Let me acquaint you with the flag-production process, so you’ll see how I fitted in. A direct-mail brochure from Flaghouse would catch the eye of the Principal (or Student Council or PTA) of, say, Scrubbutter High School in Montana. Flaghouse’s mission was to deliver, upon request, a free flag design based on the school’s colors (green and gold) and the symbol or mascot of the school’s athletic team (the Scrubbutter Flaming Otters). No strings attached. If the design proved pleasing, Flaghouse was prepared to translate it into an actual banner at a reasonable price. "Sounds good," the Principal (or whoever) would say, and the handy coupon would be mailed forthwith.
Every few days I would stop by the Flaghouse office and pick up a few dozen such orders, along with standard illustration boards on which blank flag formats were printed. "The Scrubbutter Flaming Otters!" I would murmur to myself. "Let’s give those kids at Scrubbutter High something to cheer about!" Across a rich green field would go heroic golden letters announcing the name of the team. In the center, a snarling otter would be rendered, frozen at a dramatic stage of combustion. How many of my designs were accepted, I wonder? How many were sewn into noble banners that are flying aloft to this day? Let other artists be hung in elitist galleries. I was being hoisted up flagpoles all over America!
As I recall, I was paid seven dollars a shot for these designs.
Emboldened by my freelancing coup, I quit my job at the type shop. I set up a stiff regimen for myself. Rising at 7 a.m., I would plunge into the day’s quota of lions, tigers and bears. At first I worked in tempera, striving for maximum originality and flash with each design. Then the arithmetic of the situation began to sink in. At seven dollars per design and with Manhattan rent to be paid, I had to turn out a lot of flags. And fast!
So I streamlined. I switched to Magic Markers. I worked up drawings of the more popular animals and traced them over and over again. I worked till 11:00 at night, hit the sack, then rose with the morning traffic to go at it again. I felt intrepid. I felt disciplined. I felt stupid.
I soon learned an unfortunate fact about freelancing: sometimes you’re in demand and sometimes you’re not. I’m not sure how many flag-hungry schools I thought there were out there on the coupon circuit, but demand for my services dropped off once I had worked through Flaghouse’s backlog of orders. (Or perhaps a more adept flag-renderer was siphoning off my assignments.) After a few weeks Tom thanked me and said he’d give a call the next time my talents were required.
Unemployed! Suddenly I remembered the appeal of regular salaries.
Flaghouse didn’t abandon me entirely. Indeed, as I said earlier, in the long run it was I who did the abandoning. I dutifully turned out occasional jobs for Flaghouse in the few months before my final defection: decals, certificates for Best Camper of the Summer, things like that. Scattered jobs from other sources occasionally came my way.
Still, I wasn’t really making it. I was surviving, yes, and sometimes when I was working I’d sense a glimmer of nascent professional pride. But something more had to lie beyond all of this, and I knew I wasn’t There yet.
The germ of a breakthrough dates from that rocky time. My cartooning efforts had previously been pretty traditional. Jokes were arranged Just So in the customary number of panels. But there were other drawings as well that I had been doing through the years. These were squeezed into margins of textbooks and compressed within the random empty spaces left among notes from boring college classes. These were doodles, not "important" because they were not for publication.
In these scribblings, my subconscious imagery spilled without censorship onto paper. The drawings were disturbing in their idle perversity. Cows gave arduous birth to elephants. Spikes were pounded beneath the nails of swollen fingers, or between teeth and bleeding gums. The necks of hapless clowns were wrung by robots. These were throwaway items rendered in pencil or ballpoint and long ago discarded. Friends who peered at these images as I drew them usually eyed me warily afterwards, but still seemed eager to see what I would come up with next. In their awful way, these drawings were crowd-pleasers.
I remembered my doodles during the summer of ‘69, and wondered if they would still evoke fascination if rendered in a more crafted style. Thus was born a series of drawings that I collectively named Phenomena.
Isolated as I was from the work of artists around me, I thought I was exploring uncharted territory. Actually, I was experiencing my personal version of a creative ferment happening everywhere. These were times when all boundaries that had heretofore restricted the form and content of art were being radically questioned. Actors were vaulting confrontationally out of their safe proscenia. Pop artists hoisted comic book panels and soup cans into galleries. Psychedelic rock posters upended most traditional rules of graphics. (Underground comic books were happening, but I hadn’t seen them yet, though the strips offered in underground newspapers provided a fragmentary glimpse of worlds to come.)
The upshot was that I stopped assuming that comics existed only for laughs or storytelling. I saw possibilities for cartooned communication on deeper psychologicalindeed, even mysticallevels. Much that has been of value to me springs from that insight. Phenomena was the crude initial result.
I haven’t seen those old Phenomena drawings in years. The only one I still remember depicted a monkey perched upon a giant human hand, peeling the most prominent finger like a monumental banana. Freud wouldn’t find the symbolism of that one overly opaque! I modestly thought that the whole Phenomena series was weird, groovy, trippy and keen! I decided that it should be a regular feature in the East Village Other.
The Other, nicknamed EVO, was the radical "hippie" journal of the period. I was digging rock-and-roll and getting stoned and leading a marginal enough existence to feel fairly hippie-ish. The smattering of comix that had caught my attention within its pages and the pages of its spin-off, Gothic Blimp Works, made me think that EVO might get off on my odd visual fantasies. So I trekked from my one-room apartment in Chelsea into the wilds of the East Village.
The lyric dream of Flower Power had taken on fuzztone distortions along the streets where I walked. Smiles had too much amperage. Shaggy pilgrims seemed relegated to a destinationless saunter past the youthful panhandlers with dilated pupils who jockeyed for handouts. Or maybe everybody was out shopping for eggs and butter and my own mind was building alienated images out of its own discomfort. I was a tourist there, not a native. Long-of-hair certainly; perhaps even cosmic-of-vision. But a Street Person? No.
I ascended a narrow stairwell and entered the EVO office. Mounds of paper were strewn across all available flat surfaces. Several workers glanced up at me as I stood awkwardly in the doorway. I felt more transparently unhip by the moment. After all, this was hardcore counterculture here. Even the T-squares had beards. I managed to announce that I had some cartoons to show. One fellow whose name I don’t remember took me aside and thumbed through my drawings.
"I like this one and this one," he said finally, selecting out a couple.
"I was hoping I could have, like, a regular feature," I said. "Y’know, every issue."
"We don’t do that for anybody," he said. "That’s our policy. Nobody gets run two issues in a row. Not even Crumb! We don’t want any 'stars'!"
Oops! Not only was I inadequately hip, I was inadequately egalitarian. You see, in my secret heart of hearts, I wanted to be a star!
I also wanted a feature that would provide me a guaranteed space, where I could experiment (and even fail sometimes) without worrying about having individual segments jettisoned because this one or that one left somebody cold. Brash me! I wanted artistic control!
It was clear that the Other and I were operating out of different mindsets. I took back my drawings and thanked the guy for his time. We did the ritual handclasp that somebody had invented for hip folk to do, and I left.
I trudged back to my quarters on Fifteenth Street. As I trudged, I wondered what I would do now. I had bowed out of mail-order flag production. The underground and I hadn’t meshed. What would become of this Alabama kid adrift in his fantasies of sublime accomplishment?
It’s 13 years later now [as of 1981], and if I wish I can hop a subway, disembark in the East Village and take the walk again. The intervening years of living have given my feet a firmer footing. I’ve learned strategies that make survival more possible and satisfaction more accessible.
Yet the mystery I pondered then, I still ponder now. What could I do with my creativity if...?
If I had more money. If I had more time. If I were unleashed. If somebody gave me all the crescent rolls I desire, for free.
If I do the work. If I master the skill. If I learn to tell the tale. If I wrestle the angels, give inked form to my dreams....
Such thoughts can rev me up till my head fairly spins. To hell with obstacles! Let me back at my drawing board; I want to conquer all worlds at once.
First, though, I have three commercial assignments awaiting completion. Oh, well. They’ll be fun. They pay the rent. I’ll give them my best.
Maybe I’ll manage to clear the time for conquering those other worlds next month.
I’m closer, but I’m still not There yet.
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We are open for virtual appointment for BC patients and clients!
The Surrey (Fleetwood) Clinic location is now closed as we plan to reopen in a new physical clinic & vitamin dispensary location soon! More details to come.
Appointments and refill orders can be made by phone 778-218-3111 or email. Pharmaceutical prescriptions can be refilled by phone appointment. Please have your pharmacy contact information available. We have also confirmed that extended health insurance will still cover your appointments with a Naturopathic Physician. Continue reading
We treat people of all ages and health conditions. We also have focused treatments in the areas of; hormone imbalance, digestion, weight loss, infertility, anti-aging and longevity, and so much more. Visit our conditions treated and services pages for details.
We accept Extended Health Insurance and bill directly at the time of service!
In 2005, Dr. Cindy Quach practiced in Port Coquitlam, BC with a now retired, Naturopathic Physician. There, she honed her general practice skills and developed specific focuses for treating patients. Even before this time, she envisioned creating a Health & Wellness Clinic of her own, offering safe and effective treatments for the entire family.
After years of study and research, Dr. Cindy learned first-hand that the healthiest YOU could be achieved by combining the best of Naturopathic Medicine with other related treatments such as; Acupuncture, Lifestyle Counselling, Nutrition and Dietary Planning, Homeopathy, Laboratory Testing, and NET (NeuroEmotional Technique).
“I began searching for a location around 2005 but it wasn’t until 2007 that I found and purchased a location that happened to be very near to my childhood home. After hiring an interior designer to help turn my ideas into reality, we spent the better part of a year putting my vision on paper.
When my final concept was completed, the remodeling process began with a new reception area, treatment rooms, a sauna room with a private shower, and the vitamin dispensary. We opened our doors in February, 2008.
The name Avisio Naturopathic was created from this process. I built it with ‘a vision’…my vision and from this I work to share that vision and knowledge to help others throughout their lives.”
We have gone on to receive several awards and we are known as one of Surrey’s Best Health & Wellness Clinics. Here, you can receive personalized treatments to address many conditions and diseases especially for challenging cases where other therapies offer little or no relief.
What that really means is for people who are tired of being sick, tired of hearing they are stuck with an illness or disease, you have other options! You don’t have to live with it. You can take control of your health and your life. We can show you how.
Give us a call and find out how Naturopathic Medicine can help.
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5 Epic Train Trips That Will Totally Inspire You
Take some advice from these train adventurers. Pack your bags, grab your friends and head to one of our more than 500 destinations across the country. We promise your train trips will be E-P-I-C!
The #NerdTrain Adventure
When one group of young people came up with a hair-brain idea about meeting in different cities around the country and traveling to them by train, it was all about the fun and adventure. Three years later, they’re still at it, and racking up tons of rail miles not to mention Amtrak Guest Rewards points along the way!
During the 33-hour trip they managed to share everything from the gorgeous scenery of the Southwest and pictures of the wonderful Amtrak employees to envy-inducing snaps of the renowned steak dinner and adorable baby Miles, who was the youngest member aboard the #AmtrakLIVE train.
Heading to the Big Game
The rules for the #AmtrakRivalry train were simple. 1. Have fun. 2. Hashtag often. 3. Cheer really freakin’ loud. Michigan State fans packed a train from Chicago to East Lansing to watch the Michigan State Spartans take on the Big Blue of University of Michigan. When fans stepped off the train at their destination, they were even greeted by the media. See, riding the train really does make you a star!
In Search of Powder
TJ David, Trent Bona, Caleb Brown and Whit Boucher traveled on the Empire Builder to ski some of the best terrain in the country. Even more awesome? All of it has been captured in a new web series called Storm Cycles for Epic TV and on Instagram and Twitter with the hashtag #AmtrakSeason! They even taught fans how to pack their skis and bring them on the train. Helpful, huh?
A Weekend Blitz
Jeffrey and McCown wanted to go somewhere cool. So they booked a roomette aboard our Silver Meteor one hour before the train left the station. They call it a Weekend Blitz, and rightfully so!
“It was a very spontaneous, spur of the moment decision,” Jeffrey says of their getaway from Charleston, S.C., to New York City. “We were using Amtrak Guest Rewards points, and it was the same amount of points between Miami and Boston, so we were attracted by the big city feel of New York.”
Where have you always wanted to go by train? Tell us in the comments below!
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Why wrong: The word bacterias doesn’t exist. The word is bacteria, an irregular plural, whose singular form is a bacterium. Click here for more examples. To be professional…
Correct it: “There were a lot of bacteria in the air.”
Contact Roy to hit your goals in 2014. Speaking better English will help you do that.
Why wrong: The word medias doesn’t exist. The word is media, an irregular plural, whose singular form is a medium. Television is a medium, radio is another medium and the press is yet another one. All of them together are the media.
Correct it: “All of the media were there.”
Contact Roy. He is a Cambridge English Teacher Advisor and can help you improve your vocabulary so as not to make embarrassing mistakes.
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Human VEGF R2 / KDR Protein, Strep Tag, Ala 20 - Glu 764 (Accession # AAI31823) was produced in human 293 cells (HEK293).
Predicted N Terminal:
Lyophilized from sterile PBS, pH7.4, 10% Trehalose.
Measured by its binding ability in a functional ELISA. Immobilized Human VEGF121 at 2 μg/mL can bind Human VEGF R2, Strep Tag with a linear range of 0.01-2.5 μg/mL.
Human VEGF R2, Strep Tag is fused with twin strep tag at the C-terminus, and has a calculated MW of 86.3 kDa. The reducing (R) protein migrates as 100-110 kDa in SDS-PAGE due to glycosylation.
Less than 1.0 EU per μg by the LAL method.
>92% as determined by SDS-PAGE.
Samples are stable for up to twelve months from date of receipt at -70ºC.
Store it under sterile conditions at -20ºC~-70ºC. It is recommended that the protein be aliquoted for optimal storage. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
It is recommended that sterile water be added to the vial to prepare a stock solution of 0.2 ug/ul. Centrifuge the vial at 4ºC before opening to recover the entire contents.
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Island will begin phased resumption starting June 9 with commercial flights from a select number of countries with low COVID-19 infection rate in bid to save tourism sector
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus on Friday outlined plans for the phased resumption next month of commercial flights from a select number of countries with low COVID-19 infection rates to jump-start its vital tourism sector.
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said flights will begin in two phases — June 9 and 20 — from two groups of countries selected by an advisory body of medical experts.
The first group is comprised of Greece, Malta, Bulgaria, Norway, Austria, Finland, Slovenia, Hungary, Israel, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia and Lithuania. The second group is made up of Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Estonia and the Czech Republic. The list excludes the country’s two main tourism markets, former colonial ruler Britain, and Russia.
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Karousos said starting June 9, passengers arriving from countries in either group must obtain three days prior to departure a health certificate confirming that they are virus-free.
Starting June 20, passengers from the first group of countries won’t need health certificates, but those from the second group will still be required to obtain them.
Aircraft arriving from any country not included in either group will only be permitted to carry Cypriot citizens or foreign nationals who permanently reside in Cyprus, or anyone who has been granted special permission.
These passengers will also have to obtain a health certificate three days prior to departure. They can opt to be tested in Cyprus, but will have to stay in self-isolation for one day in designated accommodation.
Passengers arriving from any other country are required to self-isolate at home for 14 days.
Anyone arriving from countries that don’t have labs capable of conducting specialized tests for the virus can be tested in Cyprus.
Passengers will have to cover costs relating to testing, quarantine accommodations or transport.
Karousos said hotels that have been shuttered since a strict stay-at-home order was imposed in late March, and lifted earlier this week, will open their doors on June 1.
More countries will be added to the two groups in the coming days, the minister said. Tourism officials said medical experts will assess the course of the pandemic in the UK and Russia before flights from those countries can begin.
Marketing its year-round sunny skies, pristine beaches and Mediterranean cuisine to entice holidaymakers, Cyprus relies heavily on tourism. The sector directly accounts for 13 percent of the east Mediterranean island nation’s gross domestic product.
Government tourism officials estimate that the country will lose 70% of the initially anticipated 2.6 billion euros ($2.83 billion) tourism-generated revenues this year. Authorities are eager to get hotels and other businesses up and running to keep unemployment numbers from spiking and to buttress a still fragile economic recovery from a 2013 financial crisis that almost bankrupted the country.
But health officials insist that the resumption of flights and the arrival of foreign travelers won’t be allowed to jeopardize Cyprus’ so-far successful handling of the pandemic. To date, Cyprus — with a population of around 880,000 — has reported 927 confirmed coronavirus infections and 17 deaths.
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Adam Steffey is surely one of the most recorded mandolinists over the past 15 years or more. He is a five-time Grammy Winner and has been voted Mandolin Player Of The Year an unprecedented eleven times by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He is an adjunct faculty member at East Tennessee State University as a mandolin instructor in the ‘Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Department’ and has been an instructor at a variety of workshops and camps – including the famed Mandolin Symposium held each year in California. He has been a member of some very influential acts including Alison Krauss, The Isaacs, and Mountain Heart. Adam is currently a member of The Boxcars, who were recognized as the ‘Emerging Artist Of The Year’ in 2011 and have been awarded ‘Instrumental Group Of The Year’ in 2011, 2012, and 2013 by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He is also in demand as a session musician having recorded and/or performed with such artists as Alison Krauss, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Vince Gill, Little Big Town, Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Bill Frisell, Susan Ashton, Rhonda Vincent, Dan Tyminski, Ronnie Bowman, Jim Mills, Dale Ann Bradley, The Lonesome River Band, The Isaacs, Mountain Heart, Jim Mills, The Cox Family, John Bowman, and many, many more.
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Commercial Truck & Van is a distributor of Godwin Manufacturing Co., Inc. Dump Bodies and Champion Hoists. Godwin manufacturers' a full line of dump bodies to meet any customer's application.
Click on one for the following to view literature:
Commercial Truck & Van is a distributor of Champion Hoist and Equipment. Champion has developed a wide variety of hoist so you may select the hoist you need to fit your application.
Click here to view literature on Hoists.
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A Contraceptive Implant with Remote Control
A startup has developed a contraceptive chip that could be deactivated and reactivated using a wireless remote.
Contraception can be inconvenient and imperfect.
The hunt for a perfect contraceptive has gone on for millennia. A new candidate is now on the horizon: a wireless implant that can be turned on and off with a remote control and that is designed to last up to 16 years. If it passes safety and efficacy tests, the device would be more convenient for many women because, unlike existing contraceptive implants, it can be deactivated without a trip to the clinic and an outpatient procedure, and it would last nearly half their reproductive life.
Developed by MicroCHIPS of Lexington, Massachusetts, the device will begin pre-clinical testing next year in the U.S. The goal is to have it on the market by 2018.
The device measures 20 x 20 x 7 millimeters, and it is designed to be implanted under the skin of the buttocks, upper arm, or abdomen. It dispenses 30 micrograms a day of levonorgestrel, a hormone already used in several kinds of contraceptives. Sixteen years’ worth of the hormone fits in tiny reservoirs on a microchip 1.5 centimeters wide inside the device. MicroCHIPS invented a hermetic titanium and platinum seal on the reservoirs containing the levonorgestrel. Passing an electric current through the seal from an internal battery melts it temporarily, allowing a small dose of the hormone to diffuse out each day.
“The idea of using a thin membrane like an electric fuse was the most challenging and the most creative problem we had to solve,” MicroCHIPS president Robert Farra says.
To conceive, women turn off the implant with a remote control; another click of the remote restarts it. After 16 years, it could be removed. Doctors could also adjust dosages remotely. Currently, no hormonal birth control lasts over five years.
The idea for the device originated two years ago in a visit by Bill Gates and his colleagues to Robert Langer’s MIT lab. Gates and his colleagues asked Langer if it were feasible to create birth control that a woman could turn on and off and use for many years. Langer thought the controlled release microchip technology he invented with colleagues Michael Cima and John Santini in the 1990s and licensed to MicroCHIPS might offer a solution.
Few private companies step up to the challenge of creating new contraceptives. MicroCHIPS’ timing could be good. An international coalition of governments, companies, philanthropies, and nonprofits recently committed to providing family planning to 120 million more women in the world by 2020.
More work remains before MicroCHIPS files an application with the Food and Drug Administration.
For example, it will be necessary to encrypt the chips to keep their wireless data flow private and secure.
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08/30/17 - Hugo Romero
In order to safely construct the skybridge joining the existing administrative building to the new pedestrian building, GSA will be instituting nightly closures of the three easternmost northbound vehicle exit lanes at the San Ysidro POE. Because of this, the exit to the Rail Court off-ramp will be closed during the intermittent night closures.
The first set of recurring nightly closures start each evening at 4 p.m. and end at 4 a.m., starting on September 12 until September 16. The second set start at 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. from September 18 through December 30.
Ready and SENTRI lanes should remain open, they’ll just have to exit through the westernmost northbound vehicle exit lanes at the port.
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In fact, there really are no secrets to prospecting. Like anything else in life, once you learn a few things about prospecting, the mystery, and the fear associated with it, the reluctance to talk to people, the “dark side” will fade away.
The mystery, the fear, the reluctance can be overcome by learning to do some basic things outlined below. Listening to or reading material by some of the folks who are very good at it will help. You can pick up on who that might be on your own, but some of my favorite guys to listen to are Ray Higdon, Cedric Harris and Todd Falcone.
1. Start by making your first question more unique. Instead of saying “Hi, how are you?” which is what everyone else starts off asking, try something different. “Hi, today is looking really great, how it is going for you?” sets you up as upbeat, optimistic and charged up and asks them to join you. Or perhaps: “A great Friday morning to you, how has the week been?” or “Hi, a great Monday to you and a better week to follow!” will set you apart from all the other folks who might be calling or talking with your prospect.
2. Next, you want to start a conversation with your prospect. Most other callers will start making a sales pitch immediately as if they have only a few seconds to get the prospect’s attention. Using that tactic they probably do only have a second or so. By engaging the prospect in conversational questions and answers, you begin a dialog that will capture their attention and pique their interest in who you are and in what you have to say rather than them trying to figure out how to get off the phone with you.
The script you prepare for your calls should engage the prospect immediately and introduce who you are and why you are calling by asking questions to gauge your prospect’s interest and where they are in their process of “looking”. An excellent script is essential. If you have any doubts about yours, get in touch with me and I will forward a dynamite one to you that was prepared by one of the best network prospectors in the business. “This is (your name) from (your city and state) getting back to you because: you requested information, were referred to me, we met last week, answered an ad about (your reason for calling). Is that correct?” or ““This is (your name) from (your city and state) calling to connect with you about ways for you to increase your business. What is it you are doing to drive more traffic/business right now?”
3. These questions allow you to not only start a conversation with your prospect, but to get their reaction to what you are calling about. Your first objective was to engage the prospect, now you are qualifying them. Keep your ears tuned to what they say and importantly, how they say it.
Are they the type of person you want in your business?
Do they sound like they are willing to be part of your business?
Are they a bit outgoing, enthusiastic, good with words?
Do they sound interested?
4. Listen to what they say and respond appropriately. Let me say that if it is clear at this point you really do not have a prospect, do not waste time, cut your losses and move on – say thank you and goodbye. For those you want to continue with, ask permission to continue: “Is this a good time for us to spend a few minutes talking?”
5. Now ask your probing and qualifying questions and these are tailored to your business. “What do you do currently for a living?” “How long have you been doing that?” “What do you like most about it?” “Are you looking for fulltime, part-time or added income opportunities?” “Given…would you…?” or whatever you have on your script. You must have a list of questions in your script that you need to ask your prospect so you can fully quality them or you can determine they are not really interested. If you do not know why they will buy, why they will not buy, if they are the decision maker or need affirmation from others, how long it will take them to decide and what else they might be looking to do, you could be wasting a lot of time on someone who is not a serious prospect for you.
6. Finally, make an appointment to get back in touch with the prospect. Set an exact date and time. This will give you a lot of information about your prospect. Someone who will not commit and make an appointment is less likely to be seriously interested and less likely to be coachable in the long run. You should initiate the follow up call yourself, but if the prospect calls you, well, that tells you something very positive.
Your prospecting call should get a boost from using these suggestions. Good hunting.
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Everyone wants a raise and to make more money. One of the easiest ways to do that is to take advantage of your employee benefits.
A study by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce last year puts the value of basic health and dental benefits, life insurance, and retirement savings plans at about 24 per cent of payroll. So, if you’re making $60,000, the value to you can be as much as $15,000.
Other perks like fitness subsidies, tuition reimbursement and maternity/parental benefit top ups make your compensation package worth even more. So here’s a checklist that can help you unlock the full potential of your workplace benefits.
1.Maximize retirement savings
Many employers match employee contributions to the company pension plan or Group RRSP by as much as 5 or 6 per cent of their employees’ salary. Over time it’s worth a bundle.
Suppose you make $60,000 and contribute 5 per cent to your retirement savings plan from age 30 to 65. Assume that you increase contributions by 2 per cent a year to account for inflation and get a 5 per cent rate of return. That would be worth at little over $369, 000 at age 65. If your employer matched that, you’d have almost $738,500.
Pay attention to where the money goes. Unless you pick where the cash will be invested, it ends up in a default fund. A 2011 study from Great-West Life Insurance reports that about a third of default funds are money market, daily interest accounts or cash that won’t keep up with inflation.
2. Consider company stock
Your company may have a payroll deduction plan that lets you buy shares at a discount. It is a taxable benefit and any decision to buy company stock should be part of your overall investment strategy. When Nortel failed, many employees who owned company shares lost both their jobs and a significant chunk of their nest eggs.
3.Submit all medical bills
Often your pharmacy and dentist will submit bills directly to your insurance company. However, other bills must be submitted by you. Check out your plan to see what’s eligible, keep the receipts and submit them. Even small amounts add up.
4. Coordinate benefit plans
If you and your spouse, or partner, have benefits make sure they are co-ordinated. Instead of getting a portion of your bills paid, you may be able to collect it all by using both. If a root canal costs $1,000 and your company only pays half, you have a lot to lose.
5. Health Care Spending Account: Use it or lose it
Health Spending Accounts are a popular way for employers to give employees benefits choice. The company provides a lump sum, say $500, which can be used to pay for things not fully covered by the basic medical plan.
Check your benefits information to understand how your HSA works. Also make sure to read and act upon statements or emails advising you that your HSA balance will be forfeited if it is not used by a certain date.
6 Monitor your maximums
Make sure you know how much you can spend each year for dental work, physiotherapy, massage therapy, orthotics or glasses. Time your appointments and purchases accordingly.
7. Maternity and parental leave top up
Ottawa pays up to $485 a week for 50 weeks of parental leave, after a two week waiting period. Many companies pay full salary for the waiting period and top up to 95 or 100 per cent of salary.
To be eligible for the government and company benefits you have to accumulate at least 600 hours of insurable employment in the previous year or since you lasted collected benefits.
8. Employee Assistance Plan
A Toronto Board of Trade Survey found that employers pay about $45 a year per person for Employee Assistance Plans. These plans offer a lot of value. They are available at no cost to you by telephone 24/7. Getting the help you need when you need it is invaluable if it helps you to function well enough to keep your job or hold your family together in a crisis.
9. Tuition reimbursement
Many companies will pay for tuition if the course is approved and you pass. If your employer is willing to fully or partially fund an Executive MBA, you’ve really hit the jackpot. The 2012 fee for the Rotman program including all tuition and course fees is $93,000.
10. Get fit at work
Take advantage of in-house gyms, sports teams and wellness challenges to get fit for free. Working out is also more affordable if your employer has negotiated a corporate rate at a fitness club and/or subsidizes fitness club memberships.
The corporate rate at Goodlife Fitness for Research in Motion employees and spouses is $320 a year, with each employee’s fee paid for by the company. This represents a significant saving over the individual annual Goodlife membership fee with towel service of $34.50 every two weeks, or $897a /year.
11. Use up your vacation days
Your company probably has restrictions on unused vacation that can be cashed out or carried over to the next year. Check the rules and use them up.
12. Corporate travel
Corporate travel can be more of a pain than a perk if it takes you away from home for long periods. However, business travellers rack up a huge number of airline points. Some companies allow employees to charge travel to personal credit cards and retain airline points for personal use. And airline points you earn on the job are not a taxable benefit.
Also, if you are going somewhere interesting and your hotel room is paid for, you may be able to take your family along on a vacation for a fraction of the normal cost.
Toronto lawyer Sheryl Smolkin’s Eye on Benefits blog is found at Moneyville.ca.
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:35:49 EST
A quote from your article:
"Now in 2001, it's Mark Rauterkus of the South Side, an unemployed swimming coach and political neophyte."
As a fellow stay-at-home-dad I take offense at Mr. Rauterkus being described as "unemployed." Staying home to raise your children is a noble and courageous decision and should not be derided in the press. I hope you will apologize to Mr. Rauterkus and issue a correction.
Tim is from the great state of Minnesota and is a conservative Republican that in no way voted for any of the following: Jesse Ventura, Paul Wellstone, or newly elected Mark Dayton.
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Before the advent of virtual job fairs, organizations spent thousands of dollars on venue acquisition, venue negotiations, developing print materials, advertising, fair setup and breakdown, travel, resources, and more. While some of these aspects carry over to virtual job fairs, the majority no longer exist, but the workload is still the same.
The bottom line for any job fair remains the same – supply candidates to fill open positions and supply jobs to those seeking employment.
Reasons for Adoption
Q: Why are organizations and job seekers increasing adoption of virtual job fairs?
A: To increase audience reach, distribute compelling content beyond physical assets, cut costs for attendees, exhibitors, sponsors and implement innovative engagement techniques.
The Wall Street Journal published an article, “Virtual Fairs Offer Real Jobs,” that details related reasons for adoption: employers are turning to online events to broaden their applicant pool, the article notes.
If there is one key point I want you to walk away with, let it be this one. Do not assume that a virtual job fair is less work to create and maintain. Take time to nurture your project and develop a winning strategy. Define your audience, develop compelling content, and engage audiences through a rich-media experience they will never forget.
Benefits for Employers
Organizations are adopting virtual job fairs as a way to filter out the noise. While there may be many job seekers out there, getting to the right candidates at a physical job fair is increasingly difficult because of the swell of job seekers over the past three years.
Inundated by processes, decreased resources, and limited time, organizations must efficiently match potential employees for a maximum return. Virtual job fairs allow this to happen.
Benefits for Job Seekers
If you’re seeking employment, this is serious business. You have the opportunity to engage with representatives from the safety of your home, office, or wherever mobile connectivity is possible, without the headache of traveling.
For you, the greatest benefits of a virtual job fair are cost savings and increased visibility. Generally, fairs are free for job seekers. However, what if the best career fair in your industry is 2,500 miles away? You need to spend hundreds of dollars just to make an appearance. Then you hopefully walk away with a few interview appointments.
The last thing you want to do is spend precious time (and dollars!) on the chance you will be hired. This is where virtual benefits outweigh making a physical appearance.
Rich media allows individuals to connect via webcams, microphones, or text-based chatting to initiate dialog.
Word of mouth advertising through social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ increase the potential attendance figures by a simple click.
Qualified candidates can be interviewed deeper than ever before because there is no time restriction or waiting periods. If a candidate does not get face time with a recruiter, an invitation can be sent through the virtual portal to commence the conversation at a later time or date.
For international organizations, virtual platforms that integrate languages remove barriers by providing real-time chat translation and localization of the platform.
Extensive Data and Metrics
The possibilities are endless, but the most powerful resource available to recruiters and job fair owners is the extensive metrics reporting system. Where physical environments rely solely on feedback capture from the audience and exhibitors surveys, virtual reporting analyzes the trends of exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees from registration, actual attended, site traffic, exhibit space or booth traffic, content consumption, social behaviors, and more. These reports help determine what worked and what did not so that the next virtual job fair is better.
Virtual job fairs are here to stay, but that does not mean physical job fairs are going extinct! Hybrid events bring a whole new layer of complexity that offers the best of both worlds. Some people believe face-to-face interaction is the best method, while others believe face-to-face webcam interaction is just as potent. The next time you are considering a job fair, look at all of your potential opportunities to expand your reach. The greater contact and opportunity you provide your event goers, the more likely it is to succeed.
Post contributed by Matt Goodwin
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Menigitis Outbreak : Products Recalled
(WENY)---The pharmacy at the center of the meningitis outbreak announced Sunday a voluntary recall of every product it makes.
The company, New England Compounding Center, released a statement saying, "This action is being taken out of an abundance of caution due to the potential risk of contamination"
The outbreak is spreading quickly, all because of those steroid shots to the spine for patients.
In the past 24 hours, at least 27 more people have become sick. That brings the total number of cases to 91, including seven deaths.
Health officials say the steroid is contaminated with a fungus that goes from the spinal fluid up to the brain, causing a rare form of meningitis.
The Former Chief Counsel of the FDA, Sheldon Bradshaw, says the industry has been hijacked by those now just making cheap copies of, safer drugs.
He says, "These individuals are no different than counterfeiters. Instead of manufacturing fake uh Rolexes, they're manufacturing fake drugs."
Officials say there are no reported cases of meningitis in New York related to steroids.
Both Guthrie and Arnot Health Systems tell WENY TV News that they do *not* use products from New England Compounding Center.
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The world remembers Sept. 11, 2001, every year. Wall Street still lives with it every day.
"We don't have to be reminded," says Fred Price, managing principal of Sandler O'Neill, which lost 39% of its employees, including its founder and nine of its 31 partners, to the tragedy.
But while wounds remain fresh, six years after the attacks, the long-feared exodus of the financial community from New York never materialized, despite some high-profile departures. Despite losing 20,000 financial jobs to New Jersey and 5,000 to Connecticut post-Sept. 11, the number of people employed in the industry in New York has now returned to a pre-attack 190,000 jobs, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
Even at the firms that were hardest hit, business has rebounded. One-fifth of the deaths came from Cantor Fitzgerald, where 658 people were unable to escape from their offices on the 101st to 105th floors of the North Tower. Facing extinction in the days that followed, Cantor's remaining managers, led by Howard Lutnick, hired furiously to get the business moving again.
Six years later, Cantor has regained much of its status as the king of bond brokerage and has expanded into other areas, including property and equity derivatives and a virtual exchange where traders can speculate on the box-office performance of Hollywood films.
Keefe Bruyette & Woods, a rival to Sandler O'Neill in the niche world of investment banking for banks, lost 67 employees, including its co-CEO and almost its entire research staff. Like Sandler, it has survived -- and prospered--through pluck and sheer force of will.
KBW has taken itself public (its stock is up 19% from its November 2006 IPO) and continues to represent some heavy merger and acquisitions hitters, like Bank of America, a bank with which it has a long-standing relationship.
Across the street from the towers were the offices of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, The Wall Street Journal and Deutsche Bank. Lehman has since decamped to Midtown, while Merrill and the Journal have returned to the World Financial Center. Deutsche Bank abandoned its office tower and moved to the former JPMorgan building on Wall Street.
Morgan Stanley, once the biggest tenant of the towers, with more than 800,000 square feet of office space, now occupies a perch in Times Square. Most of its 3,500 World Trade Center employees escaped that day.
But that doesn't mean things haven't changed. Many firms that were hit hard moved operations elsewhere. Marsh USA, a division of MMC, lost 295 employees, though its offices in the North Tower, just under those of Cantor, were not its headquarters, which is still in Midtown. The surviving Marsh employees have scattered to other Manhattan locations.
The New York Stock Exchange has also been radically shaken up in recent years as well--but not by Sept. 11. The Big Board embraced electronic trading, acquiring electronic network Archipelago Holdings last year and moving its floor brokers--of whom there are significantly fewer numbers--to a hybrid trading model. NYSE even went public and bought a European exchange.
But Sandler O'Neill's Price says more fundamental changes in the tight-knit community are evident as well. "It's hard to explain. People care differently now," he says, citing the support for charitable causes to help Sept. 11 families. "There's a sensitivity that's out there.
And then there are the constant reminders in everyday things--streets, landmarks, and most of all, absences.
"In NYC," he says of the day, "you always remember it as the people who aren't here."
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The original Recreational Activity Vehicle with 4-wheel drive pioneered a new segment for compact, highly manoeuvrable SUVs, part of the market that has developed from a niche to become a fundamental feature of the motoring mainstream.
Toyota had modest ambitions for its new model, expecting initial worldwide demand of only around 4,500 units. When 8,000 orders flooded in in the first month alone, production volumes had to be doubled.
In the UK, sales of the “small, light, sporty and affordable” RAV4 kicked off in June. Initially it was available only as a three-door with a 2.0-litre petrol engine and either five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission. Equipped with independent suspension all-round, a monocoque body and measuring just 3.96m long (little more than today’s Yaris), it was unlike anything else on the market.
The public had an appetite for the newcomer, however, and the following year – RAV4’s first full year on sale – almost 6,800 were sold, quickly establishing it as the fourth best-selling model in Toyota’s 14-strong UK line-up.
Where it all began
The first evidence of the direction Toyota was taking to create a compact SUV was the RAV-FOUR concept, unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo motor show. It may have been just a design study, lacking the detail of a genuine development model, but it was warmly received by the public. Two years later Toyota gave the project the green light, and work began in earnest on creating the first RAV4.
The development challenge
Chief Engineer Masakatsu Nonaka soon discovered he had a tough job convincing other Toyota departments of the feasibility of creating a mass production car for a market segment that didn’t yet exist. The term “sport utility vehicle” wasn’t in common use, and many people within the business found it hard to understand the concept of such a compact 4×4.
At one point the project ground to a halt, only to be revived thanks to intervention from an unexpected source. Toyota’s Japanese and European sales divisions came to the rescue, their close contact with the market convincing them that the time was right for this new type of car. Together they put the project back on track, and soon had their faith rewarded.
From niche model to global car
Toyota can rightfully claim to have created the compact SUV market with RAV4’s introduction in 1994. That year it sold 53,000 worldwide; the following year saw double that number reach the road, and by 1995 the total had tripled.
Global sales have grown with each of the four generations of RAV, with more than five million now having been sold – 1.3 million in Europe and more than 167,000 in the UK. As a testament to Toyota’s reputation for building hard-wearing, reliable vehicles, more than 90 per cent of the RAV4 ever sold are still on the road today.
The sales performance is all the more noteworthy given the increase in competition. By 2010 other manufacturers had followed Toyota’s lead, increasing choice in the compact SUV segment to 10 models; today there are 19.
This reflects the fact that the segment is one of the few to show sustained growth in Europe, with sales rising by 36 per cent in the last five years. Last year it attracted 848,000 sales in Western Europe, with a further 387,000 in Russia.
The compact SUV market hasn’t only grown since 1994, it has also evolved and matured in line with customers’ changing requirements and preferences. At the outset this new type of car was regarded as an alternative to sporty hatchbacks and coupes; today its popularity is among families wanting an alternative to MPVs and estates that’s more fun and fashionable.
In each development of RAV4, Toyota has worked to keep the model firmly at the heart of its segment, without sacrificing the fun-to-drive quality that defined the original model. When it came to creating the latest, fourth generation modeel, it talked to existing RAV4 customers around the world to understand what the liked best about their car. They cited its good manoeuvrability, ease of access, elevated view of the road ahead, ingenious packaging, versatility and reassuring capability, even when the going gets tough.
As a result, today’s RAV4 reflects a stronger emphasis on family use, while retaining the core values of handling, versatility and on and off-road performance that have underpinned its continued popularity. The result is a car that is stronger and more sophisticated with sharper styling, a more spacious cabin and loadspace, greater comfort and higher levels of safety and versatility.
Customer choice is wider than ever before, with the UK range extending to nine models, offering both two and all-wheel drive, four diesel and petrol engines and three transmissions. Its all-wheel drive capability is more sophisticated than ever before, with Toyota’s Integrated Active Drive System developed to offer a more engaging “sport” mode, with Dynamic Torque Control monitoring and automatically adjusting the amount of drive torque distributed between the front and rear axles.
Toyota RAV4 milestones
|1994||The first generation RAV4 makes its debut at the Geneva motor show. It’s powered by a transverse-mounted, 2.0-litre, 127bhp petrol engine and has full-time all-wheel drive. Five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission is available, but with no transfer box or low-range ratios. The car has a unitary, monocoque construction and features independent suspension front and rear.|
|1995||A five-door model is made available in the UK.|
|1997||Production of an electric-powered RAV4 is launched, continuing until 2000. A number of RAV4 EV are recruited for tourist transport on Jersey.|
|1998||A three-door soft-top RAV4 is offered in the UK.|
|2000||The second generation RAV4 is introduced. The three and five-door models are longer than their predecessors (+55mm and 40mm respectively) and are available with 1.8 and 2.0-litre petrol engines. The AWD system adopts a limited-slip centre differential, with a Torsen LSD provided as an option on the rear axle.|
|2002||The first diesel RAV4 is launched.|
|2006||The third generation RAV4 is built on a new platform and is exclusively a five-door model, but with different wheelbases in different world markets. The car is significantly longer: +190mm for the short wheelbase version and +475mm for the long wheelbase. It features a new AWD system with an electronically controlled coupling; Downhill Assist Control and Hill-start Assist Control are also introduced.|
|2010||A new RAV4 EV concept is developed in the USA with Tesla.|
|2013||The fourth generation RAV4 is, again, a five-door only model, offered with a single wheelbase worldwide. It’s longer by 235mm compared to the previous SWB model. The latest model marks the debut of the Dynamic Torque Control AWD system.|
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The UWEC Women's Rugby Club gives campus women a chance to compete in the exciting and unique sport of rugby. The rugby rules we play by are the same as those followed throughout the world. Rugby is a physical, fast moving, demanding, and most of all FUN sport. Rugby is played in the Fall and Spring semesters. Come and give it a try! No experience is needed to start.
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For Michael Phelps, the Olympics began as a parable about the importance of hard work. In his first final of the 2012 Games, Phelps finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley as Ryan Lochte streaked to gold. The man who never lost four years ago in Beijing explained that it was “just a crappy race”—that his competitors “swam a better race than I did, they swam a smarter race than I did. In the end, they were more prepared.”
The questions about Phelps’ preparation had started before the London Games. American backstroker Tyler Clary told a California newspaper that his U.S. teammate wasn’t putting in the laps. “I think it's too bad,” Clary said. “I think the things he could have done if he'd worked as hard as I do would have been even more incredible than what he has pulled off.” That crappy 400 IM gave some heft to Clary’s self-pitying words. So too did Lochte’s powerful swim, which came—we were told in repeated NBC promotional spots—after he’d shaped up since 2008 by flipping tires, dragging chains, and cutting McDonald’s and Skittles out of his diet.
A week later, Big Mac avoidance doesn’t seem like the determining factor in Olympic success. In what he says was his final competitive race, Phelps swam the butterfly leg in the Americans’ victorious 4-by-100 medley relay on Saturday. That win ran his 2012 tally to four gold medals and two silvers and his career total to 22 medals, 18 of them gold—that’s double the gold haul of any other Olympian. And after that big loss in the 400 IM, Phelps got revenge on Lochte in the 200 individual medley. As Wayne Drehs wrote on ESPN.com two days ago, Lochte “put in the endless hours of grueling training to back up all the hype. Only there was one problem: He wasn't Michael Phelps.”
We want to believe in stories like the one we were being fed about Ryan Lochte. The Lochte narrative is the easiest kind of story to understand, a redemptive sports arc with a beginning (the disappointment of always coming in second), a middle (the aquatic version of a Rocky-esque training montage), and an end (Olympic glory). The Phelps story, by contrast, always stood out for its lack of relatable humanity. Yes, he has a mom and sisters who hoot and holler for him in the stands. But this is a guy who swam without ever sinking. He was infallible, unbeatable, a Speedo-wearing creature born deep below the sea.
After the first few days of this Olympics, it seemed like Phelps might finally get sucked under—that he was flailing, and that we might learn something about him as we watched him thrash about in the water. But in the end, we learned what we already knew. Lochte had a great Olympics, winning two golds, two silvers, and a bronze. But no, he isn’t Michael Phelps, and that says less about Lochte—he has 11 Olympic medals, tied with Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi for second most of any male swimmer—than it does about the man he could rarely match. It also reveals that, for the best of the best, that truism about there being no substitute for hard work isn’t necessarily true. Being the greatest swimmer of all time, it turns out, can be a pretty effective substitute.
Phelps wasn’t trying to coast to victory. He acknowledged in recent days that he put every ounce of effort into the 2008 Games. This time around he made a conscious effort to do less. Tyler Clary was half right: Phelps wasn’t trying as hard as he could, but he wasn’t cheating himself or anyone else. He’d already gotten the most out of his abilities. This time, he wanted to see what would happen in the pool and in his life if he gave 95 percent, and he was willing to accept the consequences.
On the two occasions when he lost in London, Phelps said he’d gotten what he deserved. First was the 400 IM, where he talked about not being prepared. Next was the 200-meter butterfly, the race in which he got nipped at the wall by Chad le Clos. In an interview with Bob Costas, he said he got out-touched because he’d been “touch[ing] kind of lazy” in practice. “In 2008, everything was exactly perfect at the right exact time of every single moment of every day,” he continued. “Over the last four years, yes, we have prepared a little bit differently, and I understand that. … The decisions that I made over the last four years were the decisions that I made. And, you know, I'm OK with it. I'm just going to have some fun.”
But when you’re Michael Phelps, there are limits to the consequences you’ll suffer for your lassitude. On Friday, Phelps swam the last individual event of his Olympic career. As NBC’s Dan Hicks described it, the 100-meter butterfly has been “the diciest of Phelps' individual events throughout his career.” In 2004, he won gold by four-hundredths of a second. Four years ago, he was victorious by an even slimmer margin, beating Milorad Cavic on that famous final half-stroke.
This time around, he was seventh after the first 50. But he devoured the field in the back half of the race, chasing down Cavic and everyone else until he’d reached the front. Just as in the 200-meter fly, he glided into the wall. But this time it didn’t matter. Michael Phelps could coast for as long as he wanted, because he was too far ahead, and nobody was going to catch him.
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Arsenal have been cleared to seal the transfer of Alvaro Morata, with Real Madrid ready to sell the striker to the Gunners, according to reports in Spain.
Morata has impressed since moving from Madrid to Juventus but the Spanish giants have a buy-back clause which depends on how many appearances the 23-year-old makes this season.
AS say Los Blancos want to buy the forward back for £23.5million before selling him to Arsenal for £39.5m, making them a very healthy profit.
It remains to be seen whether Arsene Wenger makes a move for Morata but a number of top European clubs are interested in the Spain international who has scored ten goals for Juve this campaign.
Wenger is scouring the market for attacking reinforcements ahead of the 2016/17 season and Morata is believed to be a target for the French boss.
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From Brian Keogh in Tucson
Jerry Kelly hopes to “kill” Padraig Harrington in a WGC-Accenture Match Play death match in Tucson.
The former ice hockey player is famous for his aggressive, attacking style on the golf course.
And the world No 55 reckons that’ going to the jugular is the only way to get the better of Open champion Harrington on a bomber’s course that doesn’t suit his game.
Itching to get going, Kelly said: “Neither of us give up but he’s is the Open champion so he’s expected to win, right? I have just got to go out and play hard.
“I love matchplay. It’s head to head. Kill or be killed. I play the man all the way through. It is more like a boxing match than anything.
“You have to be prepared to change game plan and counter-punch instead of just playing the golf course.
“So I’ll be going for it. It’s all about holing the putts at the end of the day and in this event anyone can beat anyone else.”
Coming off his share of third place in the Los Angeles Open last week, Harrington is happy with his form but worried that he might not last the pace at the Gallery Golf Club outside Tucson where he lost in the second round last year.
He battled the ‘flu at Riviera and reckons the case of shingles he suffered in January has left him vulnerable.
Before taking on Niclas Fasth in a warm-up match, he said: ‘”I am not 100 percent physically at all. I am actually very tired and run down because of the shingles more so than the cold I had.
“Going far this week makes it awkward. But you just have to be ready to play in your very first match or you are knocked out. If you are not 100 percent ready, you are going home early.”
Harrington expects a tough match from Kelly, who he describes as “a dogged player who never gives up.”
The Wisconsin native hasn’t qualified for this event since 2005 but reached the quarter-finals in 2003 and 2004 before taking Sergio Garcia to the 19th in the second round three years ago.
World No 1 Tiger Woods faces big hitting JB Holmes in the first round and confessed: “You just have to step up to the plate and hit shots. You just can’t afford to slip up.”
Seeking his sixth tournament win on the trot, Woods won the matchplay title in 2003 and 2004 but hasn't gone past the third round since.
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According to local media, alleged Russian or Assad regime airstrikes hit and destroyed a major hospital in al-Sakhour in Aleppo, killing up to four civilians and wounding 15 more.
Al Jazeera reported: “Russian and Syrian warplanes shelled the biggest hospital still working in Eastern Aleppo, destroying it and forcing it out of service, as well as killing two people and wounding others”.
Sky News also referred to the hospital as “the biggest in Eastern Aleppo”, reporting that it was “bombarded for the fourth time on Saturday [Oct 2nd]. Four people were killed and 15 at least wounded”.
But Focus Aleppo reported that no civilians were killed, citing the director of hospital who said that “no staff were in the hospital at the time and that no casualties were reported.”
While most sources (Nader, @abd_horan, @Syriapost1, @abdulgrafordyab, al Araby TV, and Focus Aleppo) attributed the incident to Russia, Al-Jazeera pointed to both the Assad regime and Russia as the culprits.
However, according to SMO, explosive barrels holding chlorine were dropped on the building. They described how the chloride fell into a water tank which allegedly made it less effective.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Russian Armed Forces Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between October 1st – 19th 2016.
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I had my kitchen re-done with new countertops, back splash, and new sink. They were excellent! I’m very happy with the results.
It went very well
The service was better than I would have expected. I would strongly recommend this business to anyone. Everything went well.Frances Lumu
We needed counters for our kitchen remodel which included counters along the walls, an island and a separate counter off to the side of the kitchen. We had three visits from the Granite Marble Designs staff. First was the quote when we were sold on this company, then a visit from a guy who built the templates which gave us a good feeling that they would fit perfectly, and the last visit by the installers who were conscientious about getting it right…every little detail. A great company with a good work ethic!
We have purchased granite two times in the past and have learned that in addition to finding a stone you really like, the fabricator can make a big difference. Little things like stone dust falling into all the drawers and bigger things like polishing are likely the reasons you may pay a little more or less for what you get. We looked around a bit, stopped in a few places, spoke with folks over the phone, searched on the internet, read blogs, etc. It’s not a small investment and not something you can easily redo. We ended up hiring Granite & Marble Designs in part because Shawn presented himself and the company so well. He arrived on time for our quote, was low-key and competently answered all our questions. He had handouts for us on edges and was clear on the costs and what we could expect….and that is exactly what happened. He pointed us to different granite locations and when the piece we selected was sold that same day he sent us to another location where I found a piece I liked even more.
The template maker was on time, likable and clearly competent since when the stone came to be installed it fit perfectly. I am sure my Android phone picture will not do it justice!
The installers came and stayed…and stayed…to get it right. We had a couple issues with the height of one of the base cabinets and they shimmed it and then shaved down one corner so the cabinet door next to it would not knock on it. I wouldn’t have known the difference with some of what they did but they were true professionals.
We chose a Black Cambrian on the counters along the edge and a Neptuna Bordeaux for our island. It looks great, it’s finished fabulously, and feels good to finally have a working kitchen. We are planning on a major bathroom remodel and planning on having Granite Marble Designs back in the house to do the vanity counters. My husband and I recommend you give them a call for a quote…it’s a good place to start!Janice Wong
I just want to express my gratitude to Jason for helping me get through my granite install. I have been struggling with a very difficult remodel project and quite frankly, I was literally having a nervous breakdown during some of the process. My new granite counter top is simply beautiful and everyone who was involved in the project should be praised. I will highly recommend your company. Thank you again. I will definitely call upon your company for my bathroom remodels….but I need time to recover first!
Please let Jason know he is simply WONDERFUL. A true gentleman and professional.Marianne Novkovic
Dear Jack and Michael,
We wanted to write and thank you for the exemplary work installing our granite. Shawn Smith was an outstanding representative of Granite and Marble Design, from the initial contact through the template phase. We were surprised at how much we enjoyed working with Shawn and Bill to select the exact grain placement of the templates and learning about the process, from cutting the granite through the final stages of polishing.
We appreciated the fact that both of you were so involved in the project, including the template measurements and arriving after the installation both days to be sure that the installation was finished appropriately.
Although there were a few issues with the initial installation, after Jack visited and made note of the problems (including several things he and our contractor noticed that we did not), he immediately scheduled a second crew to arrive the following morning so that our contractor would not be delayed. Jorge and Pancho were artisans and craftsmen. The seams are nearly undetectable and the on-site cuts they made were perfect. We truly appreciate their exacting execution of a beautiful finished product.
This is a kitchen that we’ll enjoy on a daily basis so the quality and service become part of our everyday life. Your pride of workmanship recognized the ongoing pleasure your clients get out of a job well done. You made this a very pleasant experience and we’ll enjoy it all the more for that.
Kathie and Ray Barnes
The installation was great and the countertops look awesome! That color is so rich and really makes it feel and look like a new home! We are very excited and very impressed with your service from start to finish. We’ve already passed out two of your cards to neighbors/friends who came over to see it and they were very impressed as well.
Thanks again!! We are very happy customers!!Jeff Darden
I want to take a minute to thank you so much for making the fabrication on my granite counter top a priority. It was the extra step I needed in this endless kitchen remodel. Please know that your extra effort did not go unnoticed. Thank you!K. K. Harvey
Thank you for cutting my sink “just the way I wanted it”. It is beautiful. Jorge did a fantastic job of cutting and polishing as well as the initial installation. Thank you for your concern and the second trip for the cut-out.Lynn Hegstrom
It’s been a month now that we’ve had our new “Paradiso Classico” granite counter-tops. We absolutely love them. They have made our kitchen in to a beautiful part of our home. Friends and family that have visited have given their praises of what a great choice we made.
Most of all, I (Debbie) feel that you were so very instrumental in helping us make this important choice. And, you were so professional each and every time I met with you or called you on the phone when I had doubts or questions. I’ll never forget the day you came to Granite Imports and met my daughter and me. You had your tape measure out, measuring the slab to make sure I was assured to get the right vein of granite and motion where I wanted it to fit on my counter-tops. I was impressed, you measured perfectly!
Also, thank you to the wonderful job the fabricators did in cutting the slab and the efficient installation they performed. It was not an easy job since one slab was so large with no seam. They should not be overlooked as the finished job looks professional, smooth, and sleek. We would be happy to give recommendations to prospective customers.
I want to wish you, Jen, and to the future of Granite & Marble Designs that you continue doing well in the Metro area. Thank you so much for all your help.Debbie and Jim Phillips
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Country profile: Greece
|Location:||Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey|
|Climate:||temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers|
|Terrain:||mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands|
|Size:||131940 sq. km total (Land area: 130800 sq. km Water area: 1140 sq.km)|
|Population:||10,722,816 (July 2008 est.)|
|Languages:||Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)|
|Legal system:||based on codified Roman law; judiciary divided into civil, criminal, and administrative courts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations|
In recent years, Greece has enjoyed strong economic growth and low inflation. In 2005, however, Greece's economy experienced a modest slowdown, with 3.7 percent real GDP growth, down from 4.2 percent in 2004. The contraction occurred following four years of high investment expenditures for the 2004 Olympics as well as high employment and low interest rates. The economy is expected to slow further due to high oil prices and the decline of the Euro against the US dollar, with a projected growth rate of 3.5 percent in 2006.
One of the smallest economies in the European Union (EU), Greece became the twelfth member of the Eurozone in January 2001. The government is undergoing an EU-imposed “excessive-deficit” procedure for misreporting its public finances as far back as 1997. In fact, had the true extent of its fiscal deficit been known, Greece would not have been allowed to adopt the euro in 2002. With its deficit reaching 6.6 percent of GDP in 2004 and 4.6 percent for 2005, Greece remains well above the 3 percent limit for Eurozone members. Although much of the deficit can be attributed to one-time spending in preparation for the 2004 Olympics, the fiscal corrections needed are substantial.
Since the mid-1990s, Greece has undertaken macroeconomic and structural reforms, including measures to reduce the size of the bureaucracy, expand privatization, and attract foreign investment. Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have called for continued efforts in these areas. Although privatization of key utilities and industries has begun, these efforts are limited when compared to other Eurozone members.
Greatly improved relations between Greece and Turkey have allowed for more economic and energy cooperation. In March 2002, Greece and Turkey began discussions to resolve a decades-long disagreement over Aegean Sea boundaries. Greece has endorsed Turkey's bid for EU membership since 1999. Greece, which is a major investor in the former Yugoslavia, is working to integrate its energy infrastructure with the Balkan states. Improved relations with neighboring states could help Greece achieve its goal of becoming a major regional energy hub.
Energy production and consumption
|Production:||5,687 bbl/day (2005 est.)||15 million cu m (2005 est.)|
|Consumption:||415,700 bbl/day (2005 est.)||2 billion cu m (2005 est.)|
|Exports:||119,200 bbl/day (2004 est.)||million cu m (2005 est.)|
|Imports:||550,400 bbl/day (2004 est.)||2 billion cu m (2005 est.)|
|Reserves:||7 million bbl (1 January 2006 est.)||950 million cu m (1 January 2006 est.)|
Greece - recent news
|27 Feb 20
||Greece: Energean to acquire Total's stake in Block 2, offshore Greece
Energean Oil and Gas has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Total’s stake in Block 2, offshore Western Greece, providing further material exploration opportunities in its core area of the Eastern Mediterranean with limited financial exposure.
|05 Jan 20
||Greece: Energean and DEPA agreement paves the way for commercial operation of EastMed pipeline
Energean and the Public Gas Corporation of Greece ('DEPA') have agreed to cooperate to further support the EastMed Pipeline Project. Energean and DEPA have signed a Letter of Intent for the potential sale and purchase of 2 BCM natural gas per annum from Energean’s gas fields offshore Israel.
|08 Apr 19
||Greece: Energean announces first oil from Epsilon extended reach well
Energean Oil and Gas has announced the successful completion of drilling operations of the extended reach well, EA-H3, at the Epsilon oil field in the Gulf of Kavala, Northern Greece. The well was brought into production on 1 April and is currently producing at a stable dry oil rate of more than 1,000 bopd on a restricted choke.
|12 Sep 18
||Greece: Energean considering farmout of its Katakolo development offshore Greece
Announcing its results for the half year ended 30 June 2018, Energean said it was considering a possible farm-down of its Katakolo development, offshore Greece.
|06 Mar 18
||Greece: Total consortium and Repsol consortium bid for blocks offshore Greece
Hellenic Petroleum, as part of a Total-ExxonMobil consortium and a Repsol consortium, has submitted offers for the Southwest and West of Crete blocks and the Ionian Sea block, following international tenders for the blocks announced last year.
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Dengue fever: is it endemic in Australia?
McBride, W.J.H. (2010) Dengue fever: is it endemic in Australia? Internal Medicine Journal, 40 (4). pp. 247-249.
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It is instructive to look at our early colonial history for insights as to what factors may be involved with the re-emergence of diseases once considered endemic in Australia. Malaria, for example, was responsible for large epidemics in the Northern Territory and the Gulf of Carpentaria, and was the reason for the desertion of the town of Port Essington, north of Darwin, in 1849.1 The north Queensland coast was considered endemic for malaria with a large epidemic in 1942 leading to the establishment of a malaria research unit in Cairns under the guidance of Colonel Neil Hamilton Fairley. The combination of effective malaria control in the allied forces combined with civilian mosquito control measures led to the disappearance of malaria soon after World War II, although sporadic epidemics, linked to introduced cases, have occurred since.
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Pacifier Holders make wonderful Baby Gifts. Christening Paci Holder is just the thing for Babys Christening or Dedication. It will keep the Pacifier from falling on the floor. Clip on the back of paci.
Silver toned Cross with White Enameled background. Choose White or Blue Ribbon.
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Why irrigation control valve box filled with water? A broken sprinkler head or broken pipe can be at fault. And it can cause damage to underground valves or the entire irrigation system of the lawn.
Consequently, gardeners fail to keep their lawns’ grasses healthy by maintaining a sufficient water supply. Hence, the consequences are intimidating.
But what is more threatening than that is to figure out the causes behind the standing water in the valve box. That stated, we have talked about some possible reasons for the valve box to be filled with water and discussed the solutions in this article. So, let’s read.
Irrigation Control Valve Box Filled With Water: Explore All The Possible Causes & Solutions
Many factors can cause the water to seep into the irrigation control valve box. Below, we have discussed some of the most common reasons and solutions.
Hence, let’s read on thoroughly. But before that, let’s have a quick look at the possible reasons and solutions mentioned in the table below.
|Potential Causes||Effective Solutions|
|Broken Sprinkler Head||Install A New One|
|Clogged Filter||Clean It Thoroughly|
|Faulty Valve||Tighten The Valve Box’s Top|
|Broken Pipe||Contact Professionals|
|Inappropriate Drainage System||Remap & Reinstall The Drainage System|
Broken Sprinkler Head
One of the most common causes is a broken sprinkler head. When a sprinkler head breaks, it can cause water to leak out and get collected in the box.
If you notice a damaged sprinkler head, the best solution will be to replace it with a new one. By doing so, you can prevent your valve box from filling with water.
A clogged filter can cause your valve box to be filled with water. It prevents water from flowing through the system and can cause water to store in the valve box.
Hence, you need to clean the filter appropriately by following the required steps to avert this issue. If you can’t clean it yourself, you should ask for a professional’s help.
One of the primary reasons your irrigation control valve box holds the water is the valve box itself. For your information, valve boxes are notorious for having leakage on the top.
If you find such leakage in your valve box, you can fix it by tightening the top with your hand. However, if you notice the source of the leak is somewhere else other than the top, you should contact professionals to get rid of this problem.
Another common cause of water in the irrigation control valve box is a broken pipe. If a pipe is broken, it can cause water to leak out and store in the valve box even though you have a waterproof irrigation box.
If you figure out that the irrigation pipe is broken, you can fix it yourself. But it will be a challenging job to accomplish.
Because you need to dig out the soil, cut the broken pipe, use slip-fix fitting, drain water with a chugger, apply PVC primer, and do many more arduous chores alone.
However, you can call for a professional’s help if you wanna avoid the working hassle.
Inappropriate Drainage System
Improper drainage systems around your irrigation valve box can cause the water to enter the box and remain there for an infinite time. Hence, while searching for the causes of water inside your valve box, you should check out the drainage system too.
If you find anything troublesome, eliminate it by taking necessary steps such as appropriately remapping and reinstalling the drainage system.
Many gardeners have witnessed a sprinkler valve box full of water after rain. Yes, a downpour can be a significant cause for your irrigation control valve box to be filled with water.
If this is the case, you have nothing to worry about. Instead of worrying, you should drain out the water and let the valve box dry.
These are all the possible causes for your valve box to hold a whopping amount of water.
A Helpful Tutorial You May Need!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Why Is My Irrigation Control Box Full Of Water?
Due to various factors, it can be full of water, including heavy rain, clay floor, a leak in the box, broken pipe, clogged filter, broken sprinkler head, and more. Whatever the causes are, you should follow the repairing and water prevention methods to eliminate the problem.
How To Keep Water Out Of Irrigation Valve Box?
To keep the water out of the irrigation valve box, ensure the lid is secured. Afterward, inspect the seals around the top of the box, and check for leaks regularly.
How Do You Cover A Sprinkler Valve?
To cover a sprinkler valve, you need to place a weatherproof box over the valve and secure it with screws or bolts. Anyway, use a large box to cover the valve, including any handles or levers, completely.
How Do I Lock My Irrigation Valve Box?
Locking your irrigation valve box is essential to prevent vandalism. And depending on the box type, you can choose an array of locking systems from padlock and key lock to security plate. Or else, you can contact your locksmith to install a specialized lock.
Can Irrigation Solenoids Get Wet?
Yes, irrigation solenoids can get wet if the bonnets, upper chambers, PVC pipes, or valves have leaks. However, solenoids are designed to be resistant to water, and hence, you have nothing to worry about if they get wet.
Irrigation control valves are essential as they will protect the underground valves and offer easy access for maintenance and help you keep the water flowing throughout your yard.
However, due to several causes, you can have an irrigation control valve box filled with water. And we have already described all of the reasons and talked about the solutions. We hope you will utilize the knowledge and facilitate your gardening journey. Wish you the best of luck.
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If it has a motor Jason has a pretty good idea about how it works. Jason graduated in Automotive Mechanics Technology from Bishop State in 1992. After working on vehicles for 11 years he made the transition to selling tractors and lawn care vehicles. Currently, Jason writes and edits much of our content as he transitions into retirement with his lovely wife, Shelley.
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By Diane Gasper-O’Brien
University Relations and Marketing
HAYS, Kan. --To foster curiosity and wonder.
That was the goal of the Hays Rotary Club and Fort Hays State University’s Teacher Education Department when they partnered with Hays USD 489 in a recent science initiative.
Thanks to a grant written by Rotary Club member Dr. Lorie Cook-Benjamin, associate professor of teacher education at FHSU, elementary students in several classrooms around the city will get the use of microscopic lenses to take photos.
The Rotary Foundation matching District Grant of $1,440 provided the purchase of 204 macro lenses that clip onto devices such as tablets and smart phones to allow students to take magnified photos of very small items.
“This is a synergistic benefit to all involved,” said Dr. Teresa Woods, assistant professor of teacher education at FHSU. “This is our gesture of thanks to our (district) teachers who are helping to train our students.”
FHSU’s Teacher Education Department long has placed its students in local and area schools as interns. And there have been numerous after-school programs featuring science activities.
However, this is the first year of placing interns in the classroom specifically in charge of a science curriculum.
“I believe it’s good to actually be in the classroom face to face and see how they do science in the classroom,” Woods said, “because that’s what they will be asked to do as teachers.”
Woods said she was redesigning her internships for elementary school science this year, and Cook-Benjamin, interim executive director of faculty affairs, asked how she could help.
“We tried to think of something that could be a perk for the elementary school science classes,” Woods said, “something that would spark the students’ imagination and enhance our partnership with the school district. It’s a partnership we value highly.”
Woods joined Rotary Club members and FHSU elementary education majors in presenting the first group of macro lenses to a kindergarten class at Roosevelt Elementary School earlier this week. Woods also handed out a bag of lenses to each of the FHSU students who are interning at other Hays schools and were in attendance for the Roosevelt presentation.
Roosevelt kindergarten teacher Heidi Wamser seemed as excited as her students to receive the new learning tools.
“Sorry, we get excited in kindergarten,” Wamser said, flashing a big smile as she asked her students to show their appreciation with a silent cheer.
“I remember when student teachers would come into our classrooms when I was young,” said Wamser, a Hays native who attended Hays schools and is a product of FHSU’s Teacher Education program.
Now in her 17th year as an elementary school teacher in the local school district, Harper-Wamser said. “I have Fort Hays State interns come into my classroom all the time. They are a great addition.”
Wamser’s current FHSU science intern, Alyssa McCandless, also was excited about the macro lenses.
“I love my internship; I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” said McCandless, a Hutchinson senior.
McCandless said her favorite grades to teach are third and fourth but that she enjoys all elementary school levels, including kindergarten.
“I love working with this age. I like seeing their lightbulb moment when they get it,” she said. “Kindergartners definitely keep you on your toes.”
So, too, does Wamser, who said she puts her interns in charge of a group of students from the first day they walk into her classroom.
“I tell them that no one is going to give you what to teach when you are a teacher,” Wamser said. “So I want them to get the hang of it right away. I put them in charge of the lesson plan and behavior, everything.”
McCandless said she appreciates that approach.
“The mentor teachers can’t hold your hand forever,” she said. “Here, if you make a mistake, the mentor teacher can backtrack and see what points you might have missed teaching. It’s perfect.
"Mrs. Wamser is a great teacher to be under," McCandless added. "She’s always giving me constructive feedback that is going to help so much when I get out and teach.”
McCandless stayed close to home and attended Hutchinson Community College her first year out of high school.
But at the urging of her parents, both Fort Hays State graduates, she checked out FHSU’s Teacher Education program -- and is glad she did.
“On my visit to Fort Hays State, they were so warm and welcoming,” McCandless said. “Now, with all these opportunities I’m getting, it’s turned out great.”
Shanna Dinkel, assistant superintendent of Hays USD 489, said “it’s wonderful to be in a community where the civic organizations like the Rotary Club make education a priority. They are always willing to support education.”
Dinkel has held a multitude of positions in her 20-plus years in the district, ranging from classroom teacher to several interim administrative jobs to her current position. So she is well aware of the benefits of forming partnerships with organizations outside the school district.
“The grant opportunities from civic organizations, especially when budgets are tight, are great,” she said. “They keep finding opportunities for our students in a variety of ways.”
Dinkel echoed those sentiments about Fort Hays State, from where she earned her building and district leadership endorsements.
“It’s such a positive thing for the district to be able to partner with FHSU in so many areas, whether it be internships or student teaching or after-school programs,” Dinkel said. “The College of Education is wonderful to work with as far as what our needs are, and in the end, all our students benefit from it.”
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NATO spokesman Major Dominic Whyte said today that the orders, printed on leaflets, were dropped by air on the guerrillas' positions in the Panjwayi and Zahre districts of southern Kandahar Province on December 15.
The move was part of a major new anti-Taliban offensive launched on December 14 in the two heavily Taliban-dominated districts.
Hundreds of troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, helped by Afghan forces, kicked off the operation on December 14 to clear the way for much-needed reconstruction work in the war-torn areas, which have seen heavy Taliban fighting this year.
The new operation has been code-named Operation Baaz Tsuka.
ISAF carried out its biggest-ever operation in mid-September in the same region. More than 1,000 rebels were killed in the two-week Operation Medusa.
In other news, a roadside blast has killed one NATO soldier and wounded two others in eastern Afghanistan. A NATO statement said the explosion occurred in the Mehtar Lam district of Laghman Province on December 15. The statement did not identify the nationalities of the dead and wounded soldiers.
Most NATO troops in the country's east are American. Separately, a NATO soldier was wounded today when he stepped on a land mine while conducting a patrol with Afghan forces near Kandahar city.
(AFP, AP, dpa)
A U.S. military vehicle damaged by insurgents near Kandahar (epa)
HOMEGROWN OR IMPORTED? As attacks against Afghan and international forces continue relentlessly, RFE/RL hosted a briefing to discuss the nature of the Afghan insurgency. The discussion featured Marvin Weinbaum, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and RFE/RL Afghanistan analyst Amin Tarzi.
Listen to the entire briefing (about 83 minutes):Real Audio Windows Media
RFE/RL's coverage of Afghanistan
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The San Diego History Center initiated the Presidio Excavation Project in 1965 to discover and identify what lay below the grounds. Since the museum was not built upon the old presidio ruins, it was expected that the foundation walls would be uncovered. The project was undertaken as a cooperative effort between the Historical Society and local colleges with approval of the City of San Diego.
Research into archives in Spain, Mexico and California failed to unearth any maps or drawings of the original presidio, so digging began in the area thought to be the soldiers' barracks. The chapel complex was excavated by students from San Diego State University, Mesa College, and selected volunteers under the direction of Dr. Paul H. Ezell. Members of the locally prominent Bandini and Estudillo families had been married in the chapel and it was used as late as 1841 by the people living in the pueblo - today's Old Town.
In addition to chapel foundations, students unearthed animal bones, sea shells, potsherds and other material revealing the dietary habits of the first settlers. Detailed drawings of the chapel were made and the foundations covered over for protection. Excavations were also made into burial sites in the presidio cemetery located at the side of the church. An important discovery made in February, 1968, was the grave of pueblo settler Henry Delano Fitch who died in 1849. Other graves were also found.
Mesa College, in 1976, began to search for the main entrance into the presidio on the northwestern side of Presidio Drive. Many additional artifacts have been uncovered which are on display in the Serra Museum with explanatory information. The San Diego History Center, under an agreement with the City, provides interpretative services of the areas under investigation and escorts groups of twenty or more touring the presidio area. The park itself is an outdoor museum that is continually evolving. Each new discovery contributes another piece to the puzzle and helps tell the story of Serra's San Diego.
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My sister in law, Lee, decided she was not going to be left behind when my brother and sister, David and Colleen, agreed to help us sail the boat from Turks and Caicos to Florida. It was a 450 nautical mile trip over 3 weeks with at least two overnight sails. Lee is less than enthusiastic about travelling in general and I admired her courage in taking this on as her first sail. I imagined a few sleepless nights for her back in Canada and I would have felt the same way if this had been my first sail. By the end of the trip, we were teasing her that we would be seeing her as the keynote speaker at the Miami boat show. Her session title, “Gale, Shmale: You too can fly the spinnaker at 25 knots.” Her theme, the faster the better.
Within a few days, Lee was keeping track of water depth by watching colour changes in the shallow waters, taking the helm and feeding wind and boat speed information to the crew, and keeping an eye on sails for gybing potential. On a rocky rolly ride, she had her head in the lower galley cupboards looking for ingredients for supper, followed by a relaxing time reading her book. I couldn’t fathom doing either with my queasy stomach. Two to three metre seas in the Gulf Stream didn’t phase her.
What I liked most about sharing time with Lee was that she appreciated what we love about sailing. Being outside and watching the skies, water, and wildlife are what drew us to this life and Lee shared our passion. While David, Colleen, Craig, and I snorkelled and swam, Lee relaxed on the boat and even grew to tolerate wet and windy dinghy rides.
One of our favourite snorkel adventures was Thunderball Grotto at Staniel Cay, a limestone dome inside an island with abundant fish and corals, accessable at low tide. Known for a scene in 1960s James Bond film Thunderball, the dome was teeming in colours and light from the upper openings. We circumnavigated the island under water and saw mounds of coral cities hiding moray eels and 18 inch spiny lobsters.
Staniel Cay is also famous for swimming pigs who paddle right out to dinghies and are known to climb right in for food. We were graced by a visit but they snorted in disgust and turned around when they realized we only had a few carrots.
A short day sail north from Staniel is Warderick Wells, the headquarters of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. As a protected area, the park provides a limited number of mooring balls and miles of snorkelling and hiking. We were held up by weather for four days in the line of sailboats that hover between the shore and a mile wide sandbar that is ankle deep at low tide. More snorkelling and island hiking occupied our time and we all agreed that this was a trip highlight.
Our last overnight sail took us out to deeper waters in the Tongue of the Ocean, the deep trench between arms of the Great Bahama Bank, and around the north end of Bimini Island to our anchorage in the south. Glimpses of dolphins and trails of green sparkled bioluminescent creatures behind our transom at night continued to captivate and delight us.
David, Colleen, and I don’t have the chance to spend much time together. Three weeks with them on Alberta Crewed affirmed how grateful I am to be their older, albeit bossy sister. They are kind, gentle souls and I appreciate their humour and zest for life. They carry on a lineage of people who look for the good in others and who care about all living creatures. I treasured every minute with them and watched and listened carefully for what they had to teach me. I am honoured and humbled to have them and their spouses and children in my life. But just because they're all grown up with families doesn't mean they don't need me to boss them around.
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Lady at the reception was really nice. The room was really big. Good WiFi. Only 3 minutes from the airport. You can walk there easily
The Lady at the Bar was not very nice. Something was leaky in the Bathroom.
The staff was excellent and went above and beyond to help us in every way they could!!
Clean and big room, nice hotel staffs and free shuttle bus to the airport.
Great service, with nice restaurant on site for evening meal service. Very quiet rooms, very close to the airport, with friendly greetings throughout the hotel
Didn't know how to get shuttle pickup from airport. I was on crutches, so it would have been helpful to call shuttle last minute.
Restaurant with good food. Proximity to Airport with free shuttle. Nice staff.
Guayaquil Hotel within Walking Distance of the Airport Conveniently located less than 1 minute from the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, the elegant and contemporary Holiday Inn® Guayaquil Airport Hotel is the best choice on your next visit to the city, whether for business or pleasure. The Guayaquil Convention Center is a mile away, and corporate offices of national and international businesses can be found in the surrounding area. The city’s classic touristic attractions such as Barrio las Peñas, Malecón 2000, Puerto Santa Ana and Cerro Santa Ana are a short drive away. Mall del Sol, the biggest shopping center of the city is less than 5 minutes away, and the new city’s attractions like Plaza Navona, Parque Histórico Guayaquil and Plaza Lagos can be easily accessed form the hotel. This Guayaquil hotel offers comfortable rooms distributed on 7 floors, and outdoor patio with pool and Jaccuzi. A Fitness Center with panoramic views of the city and Business Center are available, as well as complimentary high-speed Internet access. We also offer, free a shuttle service to the airport and a safe private taxi service.
based on 2 060 reviews
Things to know
- Clean rooms
- Nice building
- Professional service
- Good access to airport
Policies vary by room type and provider.
Reviews about Holiday Inn Guayaquil Airport
Most popular landmarks
- Parque Histórico 1,5 km
- Mall del Sol 1,6 km
- San Marino Shopping 3,2 km
- Cerro del Carmen 3,9 km
- Cerro Santa Anna 4,1 km
- Parque Centenario 5 km
|Guayaquil Jose Joaquin de Olmedo||1,4 km|
|Salinas (Santa Elena)||123,3 km|
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Kestutis Kemzura will be the new coach of Latvian National Team. He has reached an agreement with the Latvian Federation and will be officialized in the next days. If Latvia will qualify for World Cup the contract will be automatically renewed.
"I have the honor to work with Latvia, a country with a long basketball tradition and with very strong players" said Kemzura in a statement.
"Kemzura as team leader is the best choice. The most important thing is to biuld a strong and joined team" added the President Ojārs Kehris.
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With the recent announcement that Mary-Kate Olsen is engaged to wed her 44-year-old French banker beau, our imaginations immediately began rattling off potential nuptial scenarios that would make our inner teens swoon. What would twin sister Ashley’s maid of honor dress look like? Would the wedding serve as a glorified Tanner family reunion? The inquiries continue.
But now, it looks like that fantasy just got slightly more real: Us Weekly is reporting that the younger Olsen sister, Elizabeth, is engaged to actor Boyd Holbrook. There hasn’t been a confirmation so much as a "source" leaking the story to the tabloid, but in these rumors, there is almost always a kernel of truth.
"They’ve been by each other for a while now, taking a lot of couple time," one source told Us, "talking about getting engaged."
The pair met on the set of Very Good Girls in 2012, and reportedly moved into a Brooklyn apartment together a few months ago. Now, the hard part: patiently waiting to see the rock. Double wedding, anyone?
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Protect your family and home from the hazard of lipo charging.
This lipo-guard is a fireproof bag, designed to stop and contain the fire caused by incorrectly or poorly functioning lipos, especially during charging.
We urge all customers to always practice extreme caution when charging and never leave a charging battery unattended.
This pack is the small size. It is 18x22cm. It will fit three 2200mah 3S1P packs comfortably.
The LP-Guard is made from a fibreglass woven fabric. Similar to fireproof suits worn by some firefighters.
Product Id: LPGUARD18X22
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If the advertised price of the motor fuel is subject to one (1) or more “conditions of sale” at that price, other than cash or credit, the retailer shall post the “conditions” immediately adjacent to the sales price with equal illumination in lettering of the same style and at least one-half (1/2) the size that is used to post the sale price.
In other words, the above law states that if a customer must meet certain conditions in order to obtain the price posted, those conditions must be at least one-half (1/2) the size of the price itself and they must be equally visible both day and night.
If the unit price for the same grade of motor fuel differs, and the sign will not accommodate displaying of all prices in lettering of the same style and size, the highest price shall be displayed in lettering using the largest size of the prices that are displayed.
In other words, if a price sign has different size displays for the same product the highest price must be the largest displayed. This applies to all conditions including cash / credit.
The requirement to have the CASH or CREDIT “condition of sale” wording at one-half (1/2) the size of the numbers does not go into effect until July 1st, 2017. However, you are required to provide the wording until the law goes into effect. So, as you upgrade your price signs over the next four (4) years be sure that the new sign allows you to post the words CASH and CREDIT in letters at least one-half (1/2) the size of the numerals on the new sign.
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Not long after lifting of electronics ban imposed on some airlines, USA is now introducing enhanced security screening for transborder flights from Canada. Although I have only taken 2 transborder flights so far (AC791 from YYZ to LAX and AC578 from YYC to LAX), I was given the special SSSS treatment on my second flight.
It may sound daunting but my experience during the enhanced security screening was not unpleasant. Once you hand your boarding pass at the luggage screening area, the TSA agent will inform you that you have been randomly selected by the airline (I am still quite doubtful on this although I have no idea on what basis I was selected). They will then carefully put all your carry-on separately in a container to go through the x-ray machine. Next, you will be offered the option of either a thorough pat down or the body scanner (I opted for the body scanner as it is faster). Once cleared, they will get you to open your luggage to do a swab test looking for chemical traces (i guess looking out for explosives).
The whole process took roughly 10 to 15 minutes. The agents were serious but were never rude / unfriendly. They were pretty professional throughout the process and reassured me that there is no need to be worried (my guess is this is highly dependent on the TSA agents you get).
Prior to 19 July, only selected passengers will get this ‘royal treatment’. With the enhanced screening being a SOP now, this will definitely create a long queue for those traveling into USA. I arrived in Calgary International with only 1 hour 45 minutes to spare before my flight departs. Despite the SSSS screening, I still managed to squeeze in about 30 minutes of time in Aspire Lounge. If this was introduced during my time in Canada, I am sure I would have miss my flight to Los Angeles!
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The Redeye Complex
Friday, June 18, 2010
Technology Is Killing Music
Gone are the days when I would visit record stores while on my travels in various cities. I would spend hours flipping through CD racks, turning my head sideways trying to read the title on the spine. I sort of do the same thing now in used music stores but even those stores seem to be disappearing.
I would be looking for those releases that I could not get at home. Singles, EPs, and limited releases were always something that I look for.
What happens now though is that I can do the same thing while sitting at the kitchen table. Instead of cranking my neck sideways, I type band names into the computer while shaking those names from my brain into a search window.
And every once in a while, my brain, keyboard, and search window comes up with a choice result.
Technology Is Killing Music by Rachel's (from eMusic) is one of those finds that would get my heart in a flutter if I was in a real music store. Okay, its only one track at 18 minutes - an EP really. Still, I really really want to hear this.
If this was a real music store, I would be kind of giddy holding this thing. I would not be able to wait to listen to this on my own CD player. I would be happy from the moment I held it until I pressed play. Happy after paying for it. Walking down the street with it. If I had my car then I could slip it in in the CD player. If not then my happiness would just continue later when I was near a CD player.
And now ...
Now I just click a link. A file downloads, and minutes (!!) later I hear it. I don't even have to move from the kitchen table.
The present day music experience is faster. But what about the happiness from anticipating to hear music. This thought crossed my mind as I read Corey Doctorow's post on Boing Boing about Dan Ariely's book The Upside of Irrationality ...
we have a tendency to indulge our pleasures without respite, and to take frequent breaks from those things that make us miserable. This is exactly backwards. If you want to maximize your pleasure -- a great dessert, the delight of furnishing your first real apartment after graduation, a wonderful new relationship -- you should trickle it into your life, with frequent breaks for your adaptive response to diminish. If you want to minimize your pain -- an unpleasant chore, an awful trip -- you should continue straight through without a break, because every time you stop, your adaptive response resets and you experience the discomfort anew.So it seems that while we have made it quicker to buy music we have taken some part of the thrill away.
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Find Cool Gadgets and Celebrate your Inner Geek with Gadget Junkie
Gadget Junkie is a new app for Windows Phone that’s targeted at lovers of technology and geeky gadgetry. The team scoured the web and has curated a list of some of the coolest and most interesting gadgets online from a variety of sites including Thinkgeek and This Is Why I’m Broke. This list is updated daily.
The application features include
- Infinite scrolling as you swipe through gadget lists so you can browse the hundreds of gadgets we’ve found online for your browsing and shopping pleasure
- Live Tile rotates through the most popular items of the day
- Ability to share gadgets you’ve found via Facebook, Twitter or Email.
- Whats New and Popular sections in case you want the freshest or the most popular gadgets of the week.
- Buy button that takes you to the website where you can purchase the item.
Where Can I Get It?
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About a week ago -- while unintentionally backing up my SSP06 email to my Gmail account... -- I discovered a long lost personality test that was given to us participants at the ISU Summer Session Program in Strasbourg, France. I was going to post it sometime anyway, for "fun," but after giving someone a hard time and trying my best to ruin their Christmas yesterday, what the hell, I'll post it today.
Maybe this makes sense to you -- what do you think?
Attached is your personality profile from the questionnaire you filled out at SSP06 this summer. Be sure to open the powerpoint file in the NOTES view (if it opens in the slideshow format, right click, choose EDIT and Notes) so that you can see the text explanations for the graphs.
There is no such thing as a 'bad' personality profile. Each profile identifies the characteristic way a person responds to the world if there are no strong situational constraints shaping our responses. For instance, we act very differently at a funeral than we do at a party. It is the situations that limit what behaviors and responses we choose to display. Your profile may have identified predispositions to deal with the world that present challenges to you or make things more difficult at times (e.g., if you were quick to anger). These should be considered to be elements of your personality that you can focus more attention on developing more positive ways of managing your response to the world. By adulthood, personality (the predisposition to react in certain ways) is fairly well set…it changes in mostly minor ways as we grow older. In rare situations, extreme experiences can bring about dramatic personality changes but for most of us, we must learn to emphasis our strengths and modify the impact of our less favorable traits. For example, people who are quick to anger may develop strategies to give them time to calm down before trying to interact with others or shy people will use a job role to help them initiate conversations with others. Once we know what our natural predispositions are, we can look for ways to enhance the best and buffer the rest...
Least surprising trait: I score high on the scale for neuroticism. Who would have thought that?
Thanks to Sheryl Bishop for providing this for us and for being a hell of a cool instructor at ISU. Now I have to ask your permission to post this...
The gold standard for personality assessment for the last 15 years has been the NEO-Personality Inventory by Costa & McCrae. This instrument assesses five global dimensions of personality: Neuroticism = anxiety, hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness & vulnerability. Extraversion = warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking, & positive emotions. Openness to Experience = fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas & values, & Agreeableness & Conscientiousness. These dimensions have been found to be associated with the previous previous personality ‘right stuff/wrong stuff/& no stuff’ profiles identified by Helmreich et al in longitudinal studies of American Astronaut candidate performance.
Compared with the responses of other (western) people as well as the men’s & women’s group in general, your responses should be interpreted according to the following categories:
- Very High-High: Easily affected by the surrounding atmosphere, easily worried, quick to anger, & easily discouraged; often feels uneasy & embarrassed; have difficulty resisting temptations & coping with stress.
- Average: Generally calm & able to deal with stress, but you sometimes experience feelings of guilt, anger & sadness easily.
- Low-Very Low: Very stable moods; often appear calm & relaxed; able to cope with stress, takes more to discourage & embarrass them; composed & able to handle stressful situations without anxiety; secure, hardy & generally relaxed even under stressful conditions.
- Very High-High: Affectionate, friendly & intimate; gregarious & prefers company; tends to be assertive & drift towards leadership positions; Craves excitement & thrills, work & play at a fast pace; usually have cheerful, optimistic outlook on life in general; extraverted, outgoing, active & high-spirited.
- Average-Moderate in activity & enthusiasm. You enjoy the company of others but you also value privacy.
- Low-Very Low: Reserved & formal; prefer to be alone & seldom seek out company; tend to stay in the background & perform activities at a more leisurely pace; have a low need for thrills & have a less exuberant attitude in general than extraverts do. Introverted, reserved & serious; prefer to be alone or with a few close friends.
Openness to Experience (O)
- Very High-High: Imaginative & daydream a lot; appreciate art & beauty & place value on emotions; prefer variety in life & enjoy trying new things out; have a broad intellectual curiosity & seem to be able to talk knowledgeably about many different things; liberal & open to re-examining own values.
- Average: Practical but willing to consider new ways of doing things. You seek a balance between the old & the new.
- Low-Very Low: Focus is on the here & now; find speculative talk a waste of time; are uninterested in artistic endeavors & discount the value of emotions; prefer familiar, routine tasks & life styles; have a narrow intellectual focus & are very conservative & dogmatic about your own views & values.
- Very High-High: Sees others as honest & well-intentioned; are often straight forward & frank with others, & are willing to help & trust in them; if placed in a conflict, usually defer under a higher authority; are humble, sometimes self-effacing, & are usually tender-minded & easily moved.
- Average-Generally warm, trusting & agreeable, but you can sometimes be stubborn & competitive.
- Low-Very Low: Have a cynical & skeptical outlook on life; find it hard to trust others & often appear guarded & reluctant to get involved; are aggressive & competitive, especially when placed under conflict; often feel superior to others, & are hard-headed & rational.
- Very High-High: Capable & effective; are well-organized, neat & tidy; governed by conscience & honor, driven to achieve success; focused on completing tasks & thinks carefully before acting.
- Average- dependable & moderately well-organized. You generally have clear goals but are able to set your work aside.
- Low-Very Low: Often feel unprepared; unorganized & unmethodical in performing tasks; casual about obligations & have a low need for achievement; procrastinate frequently & are easily distracted; spontaneous & hasty in tasks.
The SFPQ Inventory expands on the dimensions of Agreeableness & Conscientiousness measured with the NEO-PI. Your profile presented above consists of three factor scales plus a Conscientiousness score provided at the far right of the profile, even though the SFPQ substitutes this concept with the separate attributes of Methodicalness & Industriousness. The graph indicates your percentile scores & your team percentile scores which reflect the proportion of people in the normative sample that obtained a score lower or equal to the specific trait score. The factor scale percentile scores can range from 0 to 99 percent. Divided by High, High Average, Average, Low Average & Low, your scores can be interpreted as follows:
INDEPENDENCE – REPLACES NEUROTICISM ON THE NEOPI
- High scores= self-determined & shows a high level of autonomy; enjoys being free in various situations; is unconcerned about reputation or others' praise or disapproval. Defining trait adjectives: Self-reliant, willful, secure, sovereign, unconventional, independent, recalcitrant, offensive, self-assured.
- Low scores = willing & prefers to follow rules; is easily influenced & reliant on others for direction & support; concerned about reputation. Defining trait adjectives Obedient, approval seeking, dependent, conforming, socially sensitive, ingratiating, impressionable, proper, confiding, pliable, help-seeking
- High scores=Does not like ambiguity; thinks before acting; is organized & neat. Defining trait adjectives: Precise, prudent, organized, accurate, deliberative, scheduled, meticulous, purposeful, disciplined.
- Low Scores=Accepts uncertainty & ambiguity; Tends to act on the spur of the moment; Not concerned with neatness or organization. Defining trait adjectives: Vague, rash, messy, imprecise, spontaneous, untidy, inexact, impetuous, chaotic.
- High scores= Maintains high standards of work & aspires to reach challenging goals; persistent & unrelenting in work habits; is drawn more towards work than play; takes a serious approach to life. Defining trait adjectives Ambitious, persevering, serious, striving, determined, earnest, energetic, sober, aspiring, enduring, no-nonsense.
- Low scores=Does not have a high level of ambition; gives up quickly & loses drive over time; enjoys doing things for pleasure; has an easy-going attitude toward life. Defining trait adjectives Indolent, lackadaisical, fun-loving, unmotivated, lethargic, playful, unproductive, relaxed, whimsical
- Is suppose to mirror the same dimension on the NEOPI
The three global dimensions of the SFPQ are further divided into three subscales each.
- Independence=Autonomy, Individualism and Self Reliance
- Industriousness=Achievement, Endurance, and Seriousness
- Methodicalness=Cognitive Structure, Deliberateness and Order
The graph indicates your percentile scores and your team percentile scores which reflect the proportion of people in the normative sample that obtained a score lower or equal to the specific trait score. The factor scale percentile scores can range from 0 to 99 percent. Divided by High, High Average, Average, Low Average and Low, your scores can be interpreted as follows:
- High scores: Tries to break away from restraints, confinement, or restrictions of any kind; enjoys being unattached, free, not tied to people, places, or obligations; may be rebellious when faced with restraints. Defining trait adjectives: Unmanageable, free, autonomous, rebellious, unconstrained, individualistic, ungovernable, self-determined, non-conforming, non-compliant, resistant, recalcitrant
- Low scores: Willingly accepts social obligations and attachments; prefers to follow rules imposed by people or by custom; listens to the advice and opinions of others; is amenable to being easily led or influenced; is reliant on others for direction. Defining trait adjectives: Controllable, tractable, manageable, conforming, conventional, reconcilable, obedient, governable
- High scores: Unconcerned about reputation or social standing; insensitive to others‘ praise or disapproval; does not necessarily conform to socially-approved norms in behavior and appearance. Defining trait adjectives: Socially inappropriate, gruff, unconventional, ungracious, disagreeable, offensive, unstylish, willful, headstrong.
- Low scores: Desires to be held in high esteem by acquaintances; concerned about reputation and what other people think; works for the approval and recognition of others. Defining trait adjectives: Approval seeking, proper, well-behaved, socially sensitive, agreeable, obliging, recognition-seeking.
- High scores: Does not look to others for guidance or support; is able to maintain oneself without aid; has confidence in and exercises own judgment; confronts problems alone; does not seek advice or sympathy. Defining trait adjectives: Secure, strong, self-sufficient, liberated, self-reliant, self-assured, confident, resolute, sanguine.
- Low scores: Frequently seeks the sympathy, protection, love, advice, and reassurance of other people; may feel insecure or helpless without such support; confides difficulties readily to a receptive person. Defining trait adjectives: Dependent, entreating, confiding, requesting, pleading, help-seeking, defenseless, support-seeking
- High scores: Aspires to accomplish difficult tasks; maintains high standards and is willing to work toward distant goals; responds positively to competition; willing to put forth effort to attain excellence. Defining trait adjectives: Striving, accomplishing, capable, purposeful, attaining, industrious, achieving, aspiring, enterprising, self-improving, productive, driving, ambitious, resourceful, competitive.
- Low scores: Tends not to set ambitious goals; prefers easy work over difficult challenges; does not strive for excellence; may respond negatively to challenges and competition; overestimates or exaggerates obstacles. Defining trait adjectives: Unmotivated, indolent, non-competitive, unproductive, enervated, underachieving, non-perfectionistic, lackadaisical.
- High scores: Willing to work long hours; doesn't give up quickly on a problem; persevering, even in the face of great difficulty; patient and unrelenting in work habits. Defining trait adjectives: Persistent, determined, steadfast, enduring, unfaltering, persevering, unremitting, relentless, tireless, dogged, energetic, has stamina, sturdy, zealous, durable.
- Low scores Gives up quickly on a problem; unwilling to work long hours; loses drive or effectiveness over time; prefers to rest when faced with obstacles or difficulties; is discouraged when success is not forthcoming quickly. Defining trait adjectives: Faltering, weary, unsteady, tired, lethargic, relaxed, nonchalant, flagging, distractable, unenergetic.
- High scores: Is subdued in thought, appearance, and manner; takes a serious approach to life and to work; does not seek fun or amusement; avoids frivolity and idle pursuits. Defining trait adjectives: Serious, sober, earnest, conservative, sedate, austere, grave, solemn, grim, somber, staid, prim.
- Low scores Does many things, "just for fun;" spends a good deal of time participating in games, sports, social activities, and other amusements; enjoys jokes and funny stories; maintains a light-hearted, easy-going attitude toward life. Defining trait adjectives: Playful, jovial, jolly, pleasure-seeking, merry, laughter-loving, joking, frivolous, prankish, sportive, mirthful, fun-loving, gleeful, carefree, blithe.
- High scores: Does not like ambiguity or uncertainty in information; wants all questions answered completely; desires to make decisions based upon definite knowledge, rather than upon guesses or probabilities. Defining trait adjectives: Precise, exacting, definite, meticulous, perfectionistic, clarifying, explicit, accurate, rigorous, literal, defining, seeks structure, avoids ambiguity.
- Low scores Avoids making detailed plans or preparations; prefers not to follow a schedule; accepts uncertainty and ambiguity; may base decisions on uncertain information; does not engage in persistent or intense intellectual concentration. Defining trait adjectives: Equivocal, vague, lax, ambiguous, indefinite, lacking in precision, imperspicuous, unscheduled, imprecise, unstructured, inexact, undisciplined
- High scores: Acts with deliberation; is on an even keel; ponders issues and decisions carefully; thinks before acting; avoids spontaneity. Defining trait adjectives: Thoughtful, prudent, inhibited, restrained, patient, steady, pensive, deliberative, reflective, planful, purposeful, self-controlled.
- Low scores Tends to act on the "spur of the moment" and without deliberation; gives vent readily to feelings and wishes; speaks freely; may be volatile in emotional expression. Defining trait adjectives: Hasty, rash, uninhibited, spontaneous, reckless, irrepressible, mercurial, impatient, incautious, hurried, impulsive, foolhardy, excitable, impetuous.
- High scores: Concerned with keeping personal effects and surroundings neat and organized; dislikes clutter, confusion, lack of organization; interested in developing methods for keeping materials methodically organized. Defining trait adjectives: Neat, organized, tidy, systematic, well-ordered, disciplined, prompt, consistent, orderly, clean, methodical, scheduled, planful, unvarying, deliberate.
- Low scores: Prefers not to organize surroundings neatly; is not concerned with neatness; lacks regularity or uniformity. Defining trait adjectives: Messy, erratic, impulsive, unstructured, arbitrary, random, haphazard, disordered, untidy, chaotic, unorganized.
Achievement motivation scores assesses your orientation to Mastery, Work, and Competitiveness.
- Mastery: the desire to be in challenging situations (rather do something challenging or difficult, rather than something they are confident with or that is fun);
- Work – the willingness to apply oneself diligently (finds satisfaction in simply doing work as well as they can, not influenced by to this extent co-workers (popularity), finds satisfaction in a job well done; it doesn’t matter if they do not outperform others);
- Competitiveness: the desire to best others (need to compete).
Type A Characteristics:
- II – Impatience & Irritability – irritated easily, quick temper, propensity for feeling time pressured, irritable and impatient
- AS – Achievement striving – put effort and motivation into things, take life seriously, goal directed behavior with clear desires for achievement
Studies have show that in western populations high mastery, high work and low competitiveness scores are characteristic of high performing individuals.
Your profile indicated that you scored:
- Mastery= High
- Work= High
- Competitiveness= High
- II= Average
- AS= High
The Personal Attributes questionnaire portion of the assessment measures task versus interpersonal orientation. You can be high on both or low on both or high on one and low on the other…they are independent dimensions.
- Instrumentality (I, 8 items) best illustrates self-assertive, instrumental or agentic traits (self-assertion, aggressive, not passive, competitive)
- Expressivity (E, 8 items) interpersonally oriented expressive traits (emotionally sensitive, helpful, devotional)
- Negative Instrumentality (I-, 8 items) measures agentic attributed carried to an extreme and can be thought of as reflecting arrogance and hostility ( Arrogant, boastful, egotistical)
- Negative Expressivity Verbal (Eva, 4 items) reflects verbal passive-aggressive qualities (complains constantly, constantly criticizes).
- Negative Communion (Ec, 4 items) reflects self-subordinating qualities and submissiveness and individual concern for others carried so far that concern for self suffers (gullible, weak-willed)
- Instrumentality (task orientation)= High
- Expressivity (interpersonal orientation= High
- Negative Instrumentality (Hostility)= Low
- Verbal Aggressiveness= Average
- Neg. Communion= Average
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I found this site by a John Yooper. Lots of info on the SKS.
Here is the url for all interested: http://www.yooperj.com/SKS-24.htm
Here are several links to pages dedicated to the SKS.This list is purely for
helpful information and to make research easier for others.I have no affiliation with anyone selling anything or running any of these sites.
I just purchased and SKS...haven't received it yet, but will check out the information for sure...Thanks.
what kind of SKS did you get?
i just purchased a sks . i guess a 1964 model ,
the same name on ATS did you?
what is ats ?
1964 is the year... what is the country of origin?
china .it came with a 10 and a 2rd. clip and the old stock has been replaced with a synthetic pistol grip with a folding stock ,cant wait to go shoot it.
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Former Judge Bonnie Newton endured sharp criticism, then lost an election. Now two judges help her sweeten retirement.
By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE
© St. Petersburg Times, published June 22, 2001
When Judge Bonnie Newton lost re-election to the bench amid a judicial investigation, she also lost the chance to be vested in a state pension.
The Pinellas-Pasco circuit judge had served six years and was two years short. A change in the law last year lowered the requirement but still left Newton out -- she had to be on the state payroll as of July 1, 2001, to qualify.
Thanks to some friends in high places, however, Newton is going to get her pension.
Last week, Chief Judge Susan Schaeffer and Judge David Demers, who replaces Schaeffer as chief judge July 1, agreed to temporarily hire Newton as a $12-an-hour law clerk working for their staff counsel.
With that job, taxpayers will pay Newton, 58, a pension of about $18,000 a year when she turns 62.
She began work Monday. She will work until July 6, just long enough to qualify for her pension.
"This was an opportunity to accommodate Bonnie Newton on the pension issue while at the same time benefiting from her expertise," Demers said Thursday. "It seemed to be a good thing to do. It seemed fair to do what we did to help her."
Newton, who has worked in private practice since leaving office, and Schaeffer could not be reached for comment.
Demers said Newton is replacing a vacationing clerk who returns the day she is scheduled to depart, so a new position wasn't created to help her.
The position wasn't advertised. Newton submitted no written application.
"It's a permanent position she's holding for three weeks," Demers said. "I certainly don't view this as favoritism. If I had someone else in the same position and could benefit from their expertise, then that's what I would do. I'd do the same thing for someone else."
To be eligible for the pension, Newton has to be in a permanent, full-time position by July 1, Demers said. Her new job qualifies, though it isn't technically her permanent, full-time position.
"It sounds like the only reason she was hired was because she didn't otherwise qualify for a pension," said Kurt Wenner, a senior analyst with Florida TaxWatch, a government watchdog group.
"It sounds questionable. You shouldn't be hiring public employees for any other reason other than they can do the job and have meaningful value," he said.
Demers, however, said Newton will be an asset to the office, using her expertise as a former family law judge to review family law files to see whether they are ready for a hearing before a special master.
"It's a legitimate position that provides a service," he said.
Demers said he and Schaeffer agreed to the arrangement, though he said Schaeffer first talked to Newton about the job.
State retirement officials could not be reached for comment. Demers, however, said his office checked with retirement officials to verify that getting Newton on the payroll by July 1 would qualify her for a pension.
In March 1998, the Judicial Qualifications Commission charged Newton with being "routinely abusive, demeaning and sarcastic" to the people who appeared in her courtroom and began proceedings that could have led to her removal from the bench.
The commission also accused Newton of ignoring Florida law in the way she handled divorce cases, favoring some lawyers while punishing others who crossed her, hiding court files and jailing a woman illegally.
But before the judicial watchdog group could try her on the charges, Newton resoundingly lost re-election, making the charges moot. She left office in January 1999.
Though Newton's new position qualifies as a permanent, full-time job under state law, Demers said it is only 20 hours a week.
"This is a permanent position that actually exists," Demers said. "We didn't create it for her, nor would we have done that."
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Well, the first days are the hardest days,
don't you worry anymore
When life looks like Easy Street,
there is danger at your door
Think this through with me
Let me know your mind
Wo-oah, what I want to know
is are you kind?
-The Dead, Uncle John’s Band
This is Colleen and I just spoke with Lisa on the phone. She’s in Virginia and was logging miles with our dear friend, Anne Marie Deale. Remember Anne Marie? Lisa helped Anne Marie make a dream come true back in November 2008 when they finished Ironman Arizona together.
Lisa seems to be adapting to life on the road – and on her feet – really well. She said that life can be boiled down to a few tasks each day…getting up and dressed, meditating for the day’s start, eating, and seeing that the word gets out so people will join the walk and help the cause. Lisa and I have often spoken of the beauty of distilling life down to its simplest forms and while the logistics and the planning and execution are incredibly intricate…the trick is to keep it simple and get ‘er done!
They say the first days are the hardest days…and I get the sense from talking to Lisa today that she has crossed over this divide. A big milestone, for sure.
So today, Lisa and her awesome crew are in Virginia and tomorrow they’ll be hitting Raleigh, NC.
At the end of the day, it will be 650 miles down…
…and the completion of 13 states.
Keep on keepin’ on
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Never forget that Coach K advanced to his record 13th Final Four, March 26, 2022, exactly 41-days after his February 13 birthday.
41, 13th prime
Coach K = 41
Duke = 41
It was an easy call. Congrats to the winners.
This also happened on 26/3, like 263, the 56th prime.
Society of Jesus = 56
Of course, Duke is a Christian school.
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Glen Allen, VA Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church of Glen Allen, VA has been a growing church since 1981. God has blessed us wonderfully and this has been true under a wide variety of circumstances: in our urban land-locked location on Broad Street, in Hermitage High School, and most abundantly in our newest location on Nuckols Road. There have been ups and downs, but always upward and onward. Today, we move forward with a vision to imagine what God has planned for the future of Mount Vernon Baptist Church.
The Mission Of Mount Vernon Baptist Church Is:
- To glorify God by bringing people to Jesus and to membership in His family
- Leading them to magnify God through worship in spirit and in truth
- Developing them to Christ-like maturity
- Equipping and empowering them for ministry through personal service in the church, community, and world
Wherever you are in your spiritual journey, it is our hope that you will find Mount Vernon Baptist Church to be a place where you can come grow along with us.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably than all we ask or imagine… be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” Ephesians 3:20-21
Contact Mount Vernon Baptist Church today at 804-270-6600 for more information.
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Most of the news bulletins are carrying only the strongest bit of Gillard’s comments on News Limited. In the latter bits, she is a little less Bolshiei, though hardly clear on what she is and isn’t saying. Here is the complete transcript of the relevant bits. News Limited CEO John Hartigan’s response was in the previous post.
PM: Sorry, you’ll just have to be a little bit louder.
JOURNALIST: (inaudible) testimony of Rupert Murdoch last night (inaudible)
PM: Looking at all of these events in the United Kingdom, I think Australians have been disturbed by them and I think they’ve been disturbed to see the reports in the UK and the kind of things that have been happening with telephone hacking and the like and I think that does mean that Australians here look at News Limited and they’ve probably got some hard questions that they want answered.
On the individual testimony of Mr Murdoch, or anybody else who appeared, I’m not going engage in running commentary on that, but of course I would say the act that we saw with pie, conduct of that nature is grossly objectionable.
PM: Look, I’m not going to engage in running commentary on testimony, but I do believe Australians watching all of that happening overseas with News Corp are looking at News Limited here and wanting to see News Limited answer some hard questions.
JOURNALIST: Are you saying that News Limited papers here have to answer some questions, or just the British tabloids?
PM: I think it’s inevitable and it happens on other areas of policy in life. When we see a big thing happen overseas it causes us to reflect on circumstances in our own nation, so I’m saying no more or no less than that. When we’ve seen big things happen overseas we’ve then had them influence our national conversation, what we’re talking about. I anticipate that that will continue to happen here.
JOURNALIST: I guess I’m asking, are you casting aspersions on News Limited papers here?
PM: Well, all I’m saying is when big things happen overseas, I’m certainly not making up any conclusions, quite the reverse. All I’m saying is when there’s been a major discussion overseas, when people have seen telephones hacked in to, when people have seen individuals grieving, had to deal with all of this, then I do think that causes them to ask some questions here in our country, some questions about News Limited here, and obviously New Limited’s got a responsibility to answer those questions when they’re asked, and I would say if the boot as on the other foot and there was some major political scandal in the United Kingdom involving politicians, journalists from all newspaper stables, including News Limited, would be beating a path to my door to ask me all about it and what the implications are for Australia.
So, I’m really saying no more than what journalists themselves would view as proper conduct if there was a political scandal overseas.
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Apr 29, 2021
The Tarotbull 2 invite a guest onto the podcast for the first time ever to talk life, love and tarot. Jennifer Sanders talks with us about her journey as a medium, how she receives messages and her life as a spiritual woman. She delivers spot on advice to Brandon and Ashley about their lives and will leave you wanting a...
Apr 27, 2021
Ashley & Brandon talk about the Six of Wands and laugh a whole lot, Enjoy!
Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/tarotbull?fan_landing=true
Apr 20, 2021
Fresh off of the reboot 2021 episode, Ashley & Brandon get back on track and continue to break down the suit of wands by talking about the five.
support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tarotbull?fan_landing=true
Apr 14, 2021
Ashley & Brandon rise from the ashes of their hiatus from the show to update everyone on their lives. Then they each pick a card from the Major Arcana and talk about how they have changed since the first episode.
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I recently hired Donna to teach social media to a group of communications professionals, all of whom had varying levels of social media knowledge and experience. Donna was able to quickly adjust to the group's needs and personalities, and everyone left the session with a deeper understanding of social media and practical knowledge to put this knowledge into action. It was clear in the time that we spent with her that not only was she knowledgeable about the subject matter she was teaching, but that she had taken the time to fully research our organization and industry and was able to talk to the issues that affected our team. Donna is extremely professional to work with, offers her services at a reasonable cost, and produces excellent results. I would recommend her both as an educator and as a communications professional.
Donna is an experienced, knowledgeable and generous presenter. I would highly recommend her Hands-on Social Media workshop.
Donna is an excellent communicator. She was a pleasure to work with as a freelance writer over many years. She has a special ability to take the complex and make it understandable and accessible for everyone. She was always organized and very thoughtful and considerate in all her interactions with our employees and other company stakeholders.
Having Donna Papacosta as part of the YMCA of Oakville Communications Team is like being plugged into what is good and best in the communication world. Donna is professional, talented, knowledgeable, sensitive and always gets to the heart of the communication issue ... She was instrumental in the relaunch of our website - a website where hits have grown over 130% in less than two years. I highly recommend Donna Papacosta as a writer, editor, interviewer and as a communications expert who is truly on the leading edge.
When I think about Donna these things comes to mind: quality, value and thoughtfulness. Quality in the form of the podcasts and copywriting she has produced for me and clients. Value in what she gives to me through our professional relationship and thoughtful in that she is always willing to help. A true professional in every sense of the word.
We are so impressed and pleased with the work that Donna did to engage the audience at our conference.
Donna rocks. Insightful, passionate and dedicated ... Donna has one of the best voices in podcasting and is able to distill business concepts in simple and pleasurable ways.
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WELCOME to Western New York’s Premier Luxury Pet Resort
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Everyone at Creature Comforts Pet Resort treats our guests as if they were their own beloved pets. Our quality services, 24-hour staffed care, and attention to detail has made Creature Comforts one of the best boarding options in Buffalo.
With two locations, we serve all of Buffalo and the Western New York area. Conveniently located in the Southtowns, our Angola location is within a few minutes of Hamburg, Orchard Park, Derby, Eden, Lake View and Fredonia/Dunkirk.
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We invite you to go through this site for more information about our services and see why we’re different – and recognized as Western New York’s Premier Luxury Pet Resort. Visiting Our Resort page is a great place to start.
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Simply stated, we love animals.
We’re passionate about animals and your beloved pet’s comfort, safety and happiness.
Our clientele come from all over town, and even from across the country, because they know their pet’s vacation destination should be as special as their own.
Our upscale amenities will satisfy the most particular pooch or finicky kitty, this is a true destination resort for your pet.
Our 5-acre countryside resort in Angola, NY, has plenty of green space and is only a short drive from downtown Buffalo, NY. Our Tonawanda, NY resort is the largest pet resort in Western New York.
Our award-winning resorts have been recognized by Angie’s List, Best of, Better Business Bureau, Yelp and, of course, our clients!
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Our facilities are equipped with trained staff to serve your pet's needs - 24-hours every day.
From luxury suites to runs, we have the perfect room for YOUR pet.
Separate accommodations for our cat friends with plenty of stretch and play time.
Caring and talented groomers spoil your pet with their own special spa day.
Your dogs can hit the tropical beach year round in our indoor splash park.
Angola and Tonawanda locations serve the southtowns and northtowns.
We love your pets as we do ours. We give extra love and care to our guests.
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All For What! - Episode 6
I'm sorry for hiring Nafisa without telling you first," Maryam apologized in the evening when they both returned from work.
"I forgive you, but I still don't want her working here." Saeed said, seriously. He didn't like the idea of Nafisa staying in their house one bit due to the bad vibes he was getting from her.
Maryam furrowed her brows and asked; "why are you so against her working here?"
"You should have hired someone older, someone who is matured enough to take care of a kid and not a kid herself. She cannot take care of Manal the way we want." Saeed voiced out.
"Her age doesn't matter, habibi . Nafisa is really a nice girl, she will be like an elder sister to Manal. Please allow her work here. Please habibi," she pleaded earnestly.
Saeed didn't want to agree, but he knew Maryam would continue begging until he eventually agreed and besides she hadn't done anything. He was giving her a chance to prove herself.
"Alright," he answered, hesitatingly.
"Thank you habibi. I love you," she hugged him.
"I love you too habibty," he kissed her hair.
Maryam suddenly remembered, Saeed's mother was coming to visit and released him from the hug."Why isn't mom here yet?" She asked.
"Oh...about that, she called in the afternoon and informed me her driver is sick, so she has to postponed the visit." Saeed answered.
"May Allah grant him quick recovery," Maryam said and Saeed muttered 'Ameen'
"Do you know anything about the girl you hired? I mean the new maid." Saeed asked and Maryam shook her head. She didn't know much about her, except the little she was told.
"For all we know, she could be a thief, a kidnapper or -"
"Say Astagafurillah! How could you even think that of someone's daughter! What harm can a girl of seventeen do?" She asked, shaking her head in disbelief
All episodes of this story can be found here >> https://www.ebonystory.com/story/all-for-what
. She didn't understand why Saeed was so against the innocent girl. Why he hated her so much already.
"I just have a really bad feeling about her." Saeed voiced out. Why couldn't Maryam see what he was seeing?
"I get why you don't like her. It's because she mistakenly made Manal fall, right? You should give the girl a chance to prove herself and besides, she needs money for her brother's medical bills." Maryam explained.
"Why don't we just help her for Allah's sake and after that, she can leave?" Saeed asked.
"You need to understand this habibi, she doesn't just need money, she needs a job to take care of her family back in the village." Maryam said and heaved a sigh.
"Fine. Goodnight." he said and lay down on the bed, his back facing Maryam. He didn't like the girl for some reasons, an inexplicable one.
"Goodnight habibi, I love you," she said and lay down beside him.
"I love you more," Saeed muttered, before drifting off to sleep.
In the morning, Maryam instructed Nafisa on what her chores would be. She was to do everything at home, including babysitting Manal, but excluding cooking. She was only allowed to cook for Manal in the afternoon.
"Go and get Manal ready for school," Maryam smiled.
"Alright ma," she said.
"You can call me aunt." Maryam smiled.
"Alright aunt." Nafisa returned the smile and left for Manal's room. She met her still sleeping peacefully on her bed. She gently tapped her, but she didn't budge. She did it again and got the same reaction from her.
"Wake up, wake up," she yelled.
Manal woke up, rubbing her eyes with both her hands.
"What are you doing in my room?" She asked.
"I'm here to get you ready for school, so get up," she said.
"I can do it myself, I'm a big girl, abee said that himself," Manal said.
"Big girl indeed," she said, sarcastically. "Please don't waste my time and get up. I have so many chores to do."
"I said no," Manal shouted.
"Stop throwing a tantrum and do as I say. Come here." Nafisa motioned.
"Leave me alone." Manal shouted.
Nafisa was about to say something, when she glanced back and saw Maryam approaching them.
"Please baby..." She cooed.
"Don't give Nafisa a hard time Manal and do as she says," Maryam said, when she approached them and witnessed Nafisa begging Manal for something.
"Okay ummi." Manal said, nodding her head.
"Come on, let's go to the bathroom," she said and carried Manal.
"Put me down, put me down," she shouted.
Maryam laughed and Nafisa glared at Manal, she was really getting irritated by the little girl's attitude. She found her very disrespectful. "She doesn't like being carried by anyone, except for her abee sometimes," Maryam explained. Nafisa smiled and put her down, she held her hand and they went into the bathroom together.
After Nafisa had finished bathing and helping her in brushing her teeth, they emerged from the bathroom. She helped her in wearing her school uniform and they went to the dining room together.
Manal saw her dad and ran to him.
"SalamAlaykum baby," he picked her up.
"Waalaikumsalam," Manal replied.
"Good morning sir," Nafisa greeted.
"Good morning," he greeted back, curtly. He sat Manal down on her chair and also sat down, waiting for Maryam to bring in their breakfast.
Maryam came in, minutes later with fried plantain and fried egg and placed it on the dining table. She poured some hot water in Saeed's tea cup and made tea for Manal.
"Join us," Maryam said and motioned for her to take a sit with them.
"I...I will just eat in the kitchen and-" she started, but was cut off by Maryam.
"It's perfectly fine Nafisa, right habibi?" she assured, looking at Saeed for approval.
He nodded once and continued with his breakfast.
"Alright," Nafisa said and took a sit, beside Manal and served herself some breakfast.
When they were done with breakfast, Saeed offered to drop Manal off at school.
"Sir...I..I'm sorry for...ye...sterday. I didn't see-" Nafisa attempted to apologize for her mistake.
"Its fine," Saeed cut her off and carried Manal in his arms.
"Habibty," he kissed her on the forehead, before leaving with Manal.
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FIRS has created another Large Tax Office Non-Oil in Apapa, Lagos state, to improve the ease of paying taxes. The new LTO is situated at No. 22 Warehouse Road, Apapa, and started operations on 15 May 2020. LTO Apapa is not for all businesses in the local government area. Rather, the office will serve all companies in Lagos state with annual revenue of above NGN2 billion in the following categories:
- Domestic aviation companies
- Construction companies
- Domestic shipping companies
- Logistics, haulage and transportation companies
- Concessionaires at the Lagos ports
Henceforth, these taxpayers must file income tax returns and submit correspondence at the LTO Apapa.
The essence of the new Large Tax Office (Non-Oil) in Apapa?
Apapa is a Local Government Area in Lagos State with different ports and terminals which are administered by the Nigerian Ports Authority. It is also a commercial hub for cross border trade in Nigeria. Shipping, haulage, logistics, clearing, and transportation companies have a strong presence in Apapa compared to other local government areas. Overall, the LTO Non-Oil Apapa will allow FIRS to improve service delivery to the defined set of taxpayers.
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Schule > Englisch > Allgemein > Aufgaben zu "The Hobbit" (Tolkien)
Aufgaben zu "The Hobbit" (Tolkien)
Verfasst von Oliver Kuna am 01.01.2001
Questions about John R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit":
1.) What do you think a hobbit looks like?
2.a) What do we learn about the hobbit from this passage?
2.b) In what way is this hole characteristic of a hobbit hole?
2.c) Why are the Bagginses considered very respectable?
1.) I think that a hobbit is very small in size, has got spiky teeth and is quite plump because he eats so much. So he cannot run really fast and prefers to walk slowly and leisurely. I suppose that he's got a brown or black hide but he wears strange looking clothes (because of his many wardrobes). Anyway, I think he looks more funny than fierce.
2.a) From this passage, we learn about the hobbit that he prefers to live in comfortable hole in the ground (all hobbits do so). The hobbit described in text is very rich and has got a lot of food in his numerous pantries (he's got many of them) which he likes to eat not only by himself but with other hobbits, too. This is an important trait because he is very fond of visitors and it seems that he often gives parties (he has lots of pegs for hats and coats on the wall!). He belongs to the Bagginses (a hobbit family) and finally the reader gets to know that he will have an adventure although hobbits usually do not have any adventures.
2.b) This hole - the hole of the hobbit Baggins - is characteristic of a common hobbit hole. It is located in a hill (The Hill) and is provided very comfortably with its tiled and carpeted floors, its many rooms, pantries and wardrobes and with its noble items (polished chairs, panelled walls etc.). All these rooms are on the same floor and - because there are no stairs - on the same passage. Another characteristic feature is that the entrance of the hole starts with a perfectly round door with a shiny brass knob to open it. Behind this door the visitor can see a big tunnel provided with those things that I've described just before this.
2.c) On the one hand, the Bagginses are considered very respectable because they're very rich. But on the other hand, and that's more deciding, other hobbits are able to know what the Bagginses would say on any question without asking them. This is because their expression lets it out so a Baggins cannot do anything unexpected. And another reason for respecting them is that the Bagginses never had any adventures which is also very important for the hobbits.
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