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The Early YearsEdit
Rhett Mclaughlin was born in Macon, Georgia, and lived there until around the age of three. His family then moved to Thousand Oaks California until Rhett was 5. In 1984 they moved to Buies Creek, North Carolina, where his dad became a law professor at Campbell University. Rhett has one brother named Cole who is three years older than him. Link revealed in an episode of Good Mythical Morning that when Rhett was younger he competed in two beauty pageants (although Rhett "claims" that never happened.)[1] Rhett is very tall, like his mother.
First-grader Rhett McLaughlin met his classmate and to-be lifelong friend, Link Neal, in 1984 at Buies Creek Elementary School in Buies Creek, North Carolina when the two were held in from recess for writing "hell" and "damn" on their desks[2]. They spent the time coloring pictures of mythical beasts. Little did they know that the incident would define the course of their lives.
Even as children both Rhett and Link applied their creativity by performing skits and "interviewing" each other as different characters[3]. At fourteen they wrote a screenplay entitled Gutless Wonders and began its film production. However, they shot only a few scenes and the film was left unfinished. In 1999, Rhett wrote "The Tragedy," which recorded in detail the events surrounding a snowboarding accident that left Link with a broken pelvis and, more notably, a month's worth of memory loss[4].
Rhett attended North Carolina State University where he roomed with Link and two other friends, Gregg and Tim, and studied civil engineering. He graduated and spent some time working for Black & Veatch[5]. He was later laid off from this job, but had been planning to leave anyway to pursue a life of entertainment with his best friend.
Personal Life
Rhett plays basketball. He stands 6'7", and his mom stands 5"10.
Rhett has said he would be willing to pay $1,000 a month to keep his beard.
Rhett was married in 2001 to Jessie Lane and now has two sons named Locke and Shepherd. He is the second child of Diane and Jim McLaughlin. He has an older brother named Cole.
As of January 2013 as a new year's resolution, Rhett acquired a gym membership for himself and joined an hour long co-ed P90X (aerobics) class. It begins before seven AM on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and, due to the circumstances, made Rhett decide to go with his hair "going whatever way it was when I woke up." Rhett was lightly made fun of by the instructor, telling him to stay away from her as if he is there to pick up women despite his age and marital status.
Rhett can play guitar as well as sing.
Rhett likes sports and hates when people say "Go Sports!"
Appearances Edit
- Both Link and Rhett have appeared on the kids show "Jelly Telly" many times as a singing duo known as The Fabulous Bentley Brothers[6]
- Epic Rap Battles of History "Artists vs TMNT" as Donatello Bardi
- Epic Rap Battles of History "Mario Bros vs. Wright Bros"
- Epic Rap Battles of History "Lewis and Clark vs Bill and Ted" as Clark
- An episode of TableTop featuring the board game Concept.
Trivia Edit
- Rhett's wife, Jessica[1] (or "Jessie") is 5'3" meaning that Rhett is one foot and four inches taller.
- Rhett has stated before that the first thing he does when he gets up in the morning is read the comments from their latest upload. He has called it a neurosis. It is unknown if he still does so, as this was stated in 2013. [7]
- Rhett's dad made him pancakes in the morning every Tuesday.
- Rhett's mother, Mama Di (Diane McLaughlin) watches every single episode of GMM and GMMore
- Rhett loves all things made of wood. He currently has several wood items such as: bowls, a wooden sphere, a wooden cup, a wooden spoon and fork, and straws and various items sent to him by fans. [8]
- Rhett once found a full three piece suit made out of denim at thrift store that actually fits him. [9]
- Rhett has obsessions that he likes to call, "layers". He has many of these, including but not limited to: Ultralights, guns, crow hunting, wine pairing, fossils (geology), Hawkman, juicing, Crown Victorias, hot yoga, paddle boarding, sailing, off roading, chiropractic medicine, barbecuing, wood, and more. [10]
- Rhett is said to look similar to Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. Mostly from his beard.
- Rhett wet the bed as a child [11]
- He also tended to get nose bleeds when he got excited [12]
- Rhett has a voracious appetite, and he has claimed that he always eats everything on his plate. (4:20 at [13])
- Rhett spent three months in Slovakia [14].
- Rhett is an extreme futurist. He lives so much for the future, he has a hard time enjoying anything in the present. [15]
- Rhett suffers from psoriasis [16], several herniated or ruptured discs in his back [17], and a predisposition to colon cancer [18]
- Rhett says that in his younger years, he devoted 90% of his thought process to thinking about girls. He was attracted to the female gender at the young age of five. [19]
- Rhett can make the living adaptation of the "the smolder"
- Rhett has a beauty mark, or mole on his upper lip, which is now hidden by his beard. [20]
- Rhett loves islands of all kinds, and hopes to one day live on one. [21]
- Rhett was an aspiring basketball athlete in high school, and to this day, he still holds the record for most amount of "Three-Pointers" in one season --77-- at his high school, Harnett Central. [22]
- Rhett helped build a house at the age of 16, with the help of an old man, and a fellow sixteen year old.
- Rhett was last spanked at the age of 14 by his father for throwing rocks off of their elementary school building to cars below. [23]
- Rhett has legs for days… [24], [25]
- Rhett mumbles often. He claims that this tendency to do so stems from the fact he: 1. has a small mouth, and 2. is a giant man and needs to speak soft to not intimidate people. [26]
- Rhett is very very competitive, even as a small child he would try to win at everything from basketball to gym class to pool games.
- Rhett suffered from febrile seizures as a child, and his sons, Locke and Shepherd, inherited the same trait. Fortunately, this condition only affects children two and under. [27]
- Rhett would watch horror movies with his mother, his earliest being, Hellraiser, at the age of ten.
- Rhett was already 6 foot in the sixth grade, and 6'4 by high school. However, these could've been exaggerations. [28],
- Rhett does not believe in the friend zone, and in his teen years would power through to either a relationship, or an awkward acquaintanceship. [29]
- Rhett once planted what he thought was a bush at the side of his childhood home in the third grade. It was years later when he realized that the bush was actually a cedar tree, which is still there, ruining the foundation of the home [30]
- Rhett used to draw comics of what his friends did in high school, including the time that Link ate a worm's anus. [31]
- Rhett's favorite animal is a giraffe. [32]
- Rhett's first and only fight was in the third grade when he punched John Carson in the stomach while defending young Link. [33]
- Rhett once threw a SpeedStick deodorant at Cole, his older brother, and Link, for implying that he liked Melissa Hood. He still gets bothered by the accusation today. [34]
- Rhett often ended fights with Link using the "I'm Dead Move" which was simply laying on Link, using his larger size to pin him down, and repeating "I'm dead" until Link gave in. The last occurrence of this, not included a simulated "i'm dead move" in a GMM episode 74 and episode 918 [35], was in college, where they were both in their boxers. [36]
- Rhett has had several severe back injuries, due to herniated discs in his back. The most recent one was in 2011, where he discussed it on GMM . It is unknown if he still suffers from it. [37]
- Rhett has cable for the sole purpose of having ESPN2, so he can watch college basketball.
- Rhett sleeps in the nude, but only with his wife. He does not with Link. [38]
- For most of Rhett's life, he had a buzzcut and was clean shaven. [39]
- Rhett tends to like 'gimmick' products, is a sucker for seasonal items and is easily manipulated into buying thing from advertising. [40], [41]
- Rhett has almost died twice, both instance occurring while he was with Link. [42], [43]
- Rhett, despite his size, is deathly afraid of heights [44]
- Rhett never got lower than a B in any class, except in conduct. [45]
- Rhett does a number of stretches to help his back, and claims that he is now as flexible as when he was a baby [46]
- Rhett's favorite board game is Risk.
- Whenever Rhett shares a bed with Link, he goes into "log" mode, where he folds his hands together over his stomach and does not move for the remainder of the night. Unfortunately for him, Link does not extend the same courtesy, and as a result, Rhett has been spooned by Link, many, many times. [47]
- Rhett has admitted that he cries often, from a moving circus act, to a good Pixar movie. He cries every time he sees 'the Notebook'
- Rhett has dyed his hair many different colours, including: Grey, Apricot, Yellow, etc.
- Rhett has owned several different cars, including but not limited to: an unspecified Scion xB[48], a blue Dodge Dynasty and an Oldsmobile Omega [49]. At one point he and Link jointly used to own a 1992 Ford Bronco as a company vehicle and for camping [50] . They have also owned an unspecified Ford Fusion as a corporate vehicle for carpooling to work [51]..
- On Feb. 25, 2017, Rhett was in his "first ever whole-freeway-stopping wreck". According to a Twitter post he made. the post is as follows, "I was in my first ever whole-freeway-stopping wreck last night. Was not my fault. I am not hurt. Car is Basically fine.A tad harrowing."
- Rhett is Christian, along with Link


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Higgins delighted to link up with Kenny yet again
Ruaidhri Higgins became the fifth player to sign for Dundalk ahead of the 2014 season when he put pen to paper on a one-year deal at Oriel Park on Tuesday afternoon.
The 29-year-old was deemed surplus to requirements by new Derry City boss Roddy Collins and after turning down moves to Irish League clubs Linfield, Coleraine and Glentoran, in favour of linking up with Stephen Kenny for a third time, he said he was hungry to get going at his new club.
"When I came back from my honeymoon recently I found out that Derry City had other plans", said Higgins. "When you're at a club for that length of time you sort of always expect to be there but new managers come in and can change everything up. I hope it's a blessing for me and I really can't wait to get going here.
"I had a few chats with Stephen, as well as other clubs, but the group that is here is very exciting and I wanted to be a part of that."
Higgins said Kenny's presence was one of the biggest attractions about coming to Dundalk. The Limavady man won two FAI Cup and five League Cup trophies with the Candystripes under Kenny and he said that he could could already see similarities between the manager's time on the Bogside and his tenure at Oriel Park.
"What Stephen is doing here at Dundalk reminds me of what he did in Derry. When he took over at Derry in 2004 they were just after fighting relegation and he year after that we lost the league title on goal difference.
"In 2006 we lost out on treble by goal difference and we played six games in European competition. He has a track record of doing things like this so obviously he was a huge draw in coming here."
Higgins feels his attributes will compliment Dundalk's playing style and he is looking forward to fighting it out with, arguably, the most talented group of midfielders in the country.
"The team is very exciting going onward and hopefully I can add something to the group. There's a lot of competition for places. My job is to get in the team and stay in it. I'm not here to waste my time, I'm here to be successful."

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Another cracking set of manufacturing output numbers yesterday from the CBI, a report on which can be read HERE on the Guardian's website.
The CBI has reported that the orders balance has jumped to 5% in March from -8% in February, well above expectations of a reading of -6%. Manufacturing firms are expecting to increase output in coming months, with that measure rising to 27% from 23%, the highest level since February 2007.
All of which begs the question, how is manufacturing doing it when another one of my clients more aligned to the current vagaries of the consumer sector says he is feeling a definite slackening in demand?
Previously, I have put this down to a more favourable exchange rate environment which is making UK manufactured goods more competitive than we historically have been, but the CBI figures are beginning to show that there may be more to this than meets the eye. Apparently, the export orders balance fell back 11% to 5% during the period. This is still high by historical standards but does point that there more to this than just exchange rates.
A conversation with a manufacturing client a few weeks ago may offer a clue. He believes that manufacturing's response to the downturn has been far more flexible than other sectors. Instead of laying people off, short time working, pay freezes and cuts, were used to drive cost out of businesses without, crucially, losing the skills necessary to take advantage of any upturn.
All of this demonstrates a rare maturity from both management and workforce and is truly a case of "we are all in this together". It is certainly a far cry from the days of Red Robbo when a previous client told me he wasn't sure if he was in the business of manufacturing or just providing jobs.


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Yeah, the fanboys are crazy about this one, but it does look a very fun ride.
"as a look at the fabulous doc 20 Feet From Stardom"
This is one doc I want to see.....
"the quite exceptional (if needlessly scorned by some) The Lone Ranger"
I think you are the only one speaking well of this film, Mr Gorber.......well, I will see it someday.
Good work as always....but only 5 minutes....?
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Originally published in The Weekly Packet, October 18, 2012
Applefest celebrates apples for eating, drinking, playing and art
Kindergarten teacher Vanessa Grindle poses with Riley Patten, 5, in front of the "What's your favorite apple?" stand. Students tasted several apple varieties and voted for their favorite as part of several events held on Saturday, October 13, at the annual Applefest.
by Jessica Brophy
Fall means apples, and what's not to celebrate about this New England food staple?
On Saturday, October 13, students and families gathered at the Sedgwick Elementary School for the school's annual Applefest.
Bright skies, cool weather and a breeze kept most bundled up, but still able to enjoy many of the activities. These activities included sampling apple chips, apple sauce and warmed apple cider; pressing fresh apple cider; crafting with apples—such as using a painted half-apple to press circles and shapes onto canvas tote bags.
Children also made their own apple turnovers, baked inside the school in batches. Samantha Simmons, 10, spent several minutes rolling out her dough before filling it with apple mixture.
"I like this," said Simmons. "I enjoy rolling the dough out."
Students also played on the playground, coming together for activities like an "Apple Relay," which had students "speed walk" a course while balancing an apple on a spoon. Students who dropped apples would have to spin around in place five times before continuing.
Upcoming events at the Sedgwick Elementary School include a "Mad Scientist Halloween" evening on Friday, October 26, as well as the school's traditional "literary parade" in school on October 31.


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Everyone has fear — it is a natural feeling. Sometimes our fears help us — if you are afraid of getting burned, you won't put your hand in a fire.
But, sometimes our fears are not real and they actually hold us back — if you are afraid that no one will like you; you may not attend an event that will help grow your business.
Fear holds us up. Fear keeps us away from our goal attainment. Fear paralyzes.
I have a number of clients that will choose to not take action because they are afraid of making a mistake. Do you do that too?
The unfortunate thing about this is that the fear of being wrong holds them up from actually pushing their business forward.
Knowing how to overcome fear is a skill that will help you grow faster. In order to have successes you have to try. Trying sometimes means failure. However, if you continue to believe in yourself and learn from those failures, your successes will outweigh the failures over the long run.
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The Horror Writers Association chose a historic hotel in the haunted city of New Orleans to announce the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® tonight. The presentations were made at a banquet held as the highlight of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, which this year incorporated the World Horror Convention.
Fifteen new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year's winners are:
Superior Achievement in a NOVEL
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL
Life Rage by L.L. Soares (Nightscape Press)
Superior Achievement in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
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Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times by Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton (McFarland and Co., Inc.)
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The Blue Heron by Gene O'Neill (Dark Regions Press)
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"Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Book Company)
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The Cabin in the Woods" by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (Mutant Enemy Productions, Lionsgate)
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Shadow Show edited by Mort Castle and Sam Weller (HarperCollins)
Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION (tie)
New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (Dark Regions Press)
Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco Press)
Superior Achievement in NON-FICTION
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton (Reaktion Books)
Superior Achievement in a POETRY COLLECTION
Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls by Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
Works can be recommended by any member of the HWA. Juries in each category also compile their top picks, and members with Active status then vote on works from both the member recommendations and the jury selections in a preliminary ballot. From there the field is narrowed to the final ballot and a list of nominees, from which Active members vote to choose the winners. The award is named for Bram Stoker, best known as the author of Dracula. The trophy, which resembles a miniature haunted house, was designed by author Harlan Ellison and sculptor Steven Kirk.
In addition, HWA presented its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards and its Specialty Press Awards. Robert R. McCammon was on hand to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, and Mark Miller accepted on behalf of Lifetime Achievement Award winner Clive Barker. The Specialty Press Award went to Jerad Walters of Centipede Press.
The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, was voted by the organization's Board of Trustees to Charles Day. The President's Richard Laymon Service Award was given to James Chambers.
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When the two ladies are out everyone has to be very careful in Jeco land. It used to be that if one of the two ladies went missing, everything else stopped for the Great Tortoise Hunt. Now, they just wonder home in time for tea.
Trig Point
Another summit & another trig point for the boys – this one was on top of Ivinghoe Beacon this afternoon.
Bridges by camera-phone
Finn & I had a walk along the canal to see the very nice people at the local computer shop to get some speakers for grandad's skype machine. The fact that KCS has air conditioning obviously had nothing to do with our decision to stop there before returning home…
…on the way back we passed some bridges over the canal and took some piccy's on a camera-phone. What fun we have.
Fantastic sports day at school last week – started early before it got too hot. Very different from when I was five, much more fun and loads more things to do.
Compare and contrast
A delightful little boat house, downstream a little way from Wallingford, where Oxford University Boat Club are building a new boat house (at least I think it's OUBC, there do seem to be a lot of Oxford University rowing clubs).
The boats outside the new boat house appeared to be converted Dart sailing catamarans.
Waitrose on Thames
There's a nice new Waitrose in Wallingford. Just down stream from the town is the bridge over the river for the bypass, underneath is this graffiti.
Not sure if it was protest or advertising.
I wonder if Richard Neale can shed any light on the subject?
Booze Cruz
More Elephants
See, Lions
Chocking It
Grandad was over to help fit a new back door – thankfully he'd also borrowed Brendon's 'chock', making the whole plane-it-to-fit routine that much easier.
Thanks Les, and thank-you Brendon.
Coat Hooks
Morning Walk
Because of the rain, cycling to the nursery wasn't on, instead we went by buggy along the canal, past Bushes Lock.
On the way we passed 'Snowdrop' just passed Northchurch Lock.


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There is so much awesome packed into Big Boy by Ruthie Knox that I'm not even sure where to start. A novella with less than 70 pages left me completely blown away by the characterization, setting and plot. This sucker might be short, but it is nothing if not excellent.
Plain, train, automobile…of all the different modes of transportation, which do you think is the sexiest? If you answered train: you are correct. (Your hint was the big ass train on the book cover.) Forget about the reality of trains for a minute and think about the idea of them. I think back to a time when woman wore smart little hats and men actually polished their shoes. The idea of trains is timeless, classy…and if you pick up Big Boy, really really sexy.
Mandy met a guy on an online dating service and ends up with a standing monthly date with a stranger – she doesn't even know the guy's real name! So, before you start thinking that this sounds totally sketchy, wait for the best part. The role-playing! And not in a creepy be-my-daddy-spank-my-leather kind of way. In a very cool vintagey throwback way with high-waisted pants, pocket squares and flapper fringe. Even smearing on coal dust for authenticity isn't out of the question. You WISH your booty calls were this awesome.
Eventually though, all good things come to an end. Their fantasy world explodes when it intersects with real life – in come the secrets, kids and all the other things they can no longer hide from.
But what happens if Mandy isn't ready to give up her stranger, even without the fantasy? I mean, Jesus. Who would give up a guy who wants to dress up like a newsboy from the 1950s to get it on in an old train car? (Be honest, now.)
I was so invested in the characters in Big Boy, you guys. I wanted so badly for them to be together – really together. Sometimes the writing really gripped at me.
I'm grateful—so grateful—that he doesn't act as though we've never met. Which, it occurs to me, is setting the bar a little low.
Seriously. I love how nothing in this story makes any logical sense – but it all comes together so beautifully anyway. This is a seriously wonderful story, in a very Calgon-take-me-away kind of way where trains make booty calls classy and all you want is for two strangers to fall in love.
To Sum it Up:
- This wonderful, touching, complicated story is all wrapped into a small little novella, you guys. Short, cheap and WORTH IT.
- Trains, man. They can make anything seem classy and old-world. I absolutely adore how atmospheric Big Boy is.
- Sexiness aside, there is still a lot of substance to be found in the real lives of our characters.
Check out Big Boy by Ruthie Knox on Goodreads / Amazon (Seriously, the ebook is $2.10! If I haven't convinced you this story is worth a couple bucks, I must not be very good at this…)
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The pilot reported that after a "normal" landing, he performed a 180° turn at the end of the grass airstrip in New Enterprise, Pennsylvania, and started his takeoff roll. After accelerating to 65 miles per hour, he reported the Cessna 172 became airborne at the crest of an incline, but about 20 feet above the ground the airplane began to "quickly lose airspeed."
The stall warning horn sounded, the left wing dropped, and the airplane entered an aerodynamic stall.
Subsequently, the airplane hit terrain and collided with a fence at the end of the grass airstrip. The fuselage and both wings sustained substantial damage.
Probable cause: The pilot's exceedance of the critical angle of attack during takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
NTSB Identification: GAA15CA243
This August 2015 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.


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There are many who call me an idealist – perhaps because I am passionate about what I do? For what could seem more important than being a part of making this world a better place – a sustainable world, which can feed and house all of our planet's people, but also one in which we can secure a much better legacy for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren?
Everyone wants this, but not everyone thinks it's very easy to achieve. However, with a large dose of creativity and some inspiring examples everyone can steer their company, their life and their journey towards the goal of increased sustainability.
I have the great privilege to work in a sphere of activity which I'm passionate about, and this enables me to meet people who wish to change things and change themselves, in order to make a difference. They are, amongst others, managers, department heads, and immigrant women – and we all share same kind of dreams and hopes. To be involved in their journey and to witness their joy when they discover the opportunities which lay before them is so enriching and inspiring that I often cannot help thinking that I have the best job in the world!
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I have worked in project management for many years, particularly in the areas of human rights, democracy, social issues, sustainable development, rural development and culture.
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Often the biggest obstacle to starting a project, is a lack of knowledge about how to formulate and write a good project application. This, together with being able to find out about the best sources of funding, often present major challenges which can be daunting and difficult to navigate at first. But, because of my hands-on experience and deep interest in the field of project management – I am well placed to advise on these and other issues.
However – a project description and application shouldn't be undertaken solely by an external agency. The client knows what kinds of activities need to be tackled, and should be involved in all preparations of the project. This is my preferred method of working, and whilst a project should always progress in a fair, democratic and constructive manner, the general oversight, coordination and focus remain the constant responsibility of the project manager.
My specialities are within CSR, Sustainability, Fairtrade and Fair Travel. I give inspiring and motivational lectures ranging from 1 to 4 hours in lenght, entirely organized according to the client's needs.
I am a qualified instructor in Fairtrade, and provide training for aspiring Fairtrade ambassadors. My clients range from municipalities to trade unions and NGOs. A Fairtrade ambassador's course of instruction lasts 12-14 hours in total which can be arranged to suit the customer's requirements. See more at www.fairtrade.se
Cultural activities
Since finishing my studies at Linköping University my interest in culture, art, history and music remains as strong as ever. Thus, there have been many events over the years (exhibitions, concerts, street fairs etc) where I took the role of producer or co-producer. Since 2008, I have been involved in arranging the GiG concerts for 10 weeks in a row every summer in Knäppingsborg. Later on, in the end of September, Norrköping is brightened up by the Night of Culture, when I am responsible for booking acts and stage performances for various locations and venues mainly in Knäppingsborg.


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You know what happens when you assume…
I refer to my little sisters, as, well, my 'little sisters'. I have one little sister who lives in Perth. I talk about her quite a lot because I miss her quite a lot.
One day, I was talking about my Mum and some children said,
"Yeah, we don't actually like her."
Feeling a little confused, I enquired as to why the children did not like my Mum, who they had never met. I was told,
"Well she mustn't be very nice if she lets your baby sister go to Perth when she's still in her nappies."
I asked them when I had ever said my sister in Perth ever wore nappies. The children explained that I had called her my 'little sister' and therefore she simply must wear nappies.
I quickly explained that she is an adult, wears high heels to work and is in no way still wearing nappies.
This particular little sister is known as the sister who 'wears high heels'.


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Chiropractor in Mesa : Dr. Manfred Ahnen, DC FIAMA
I operate an amazing practice dedicated to providing Natural Health Care, and I get to do what I love every day, helping people become healthy.
I am including this biography because I want you to understand that I personally know how hard it is to live and work with pain - that's why I became a doctor that focuses on natural health rather than a medical doctor.
"The Doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison
Before I became a Doctor, I worked with my hands for a living...
Doctors were a part of my life growing up. I was always sick as a kid and a teenager, I could count on having a cold or the flu every 2-3 months as regular as clockwork. It didn't stop me from doing things like water skiing, hiking, and playing racquetball, but it did make everything much more difficult.
During high school and as a young adult I worked summers in Alaska, up on the North Slope, as an oil spill containment specialist. One day, trying to grab an out of control fire hose on an oil rig, I disabled my back, and became unemployable for the summer. Repeating what I'd learned as a child - I immediately went to a medical doctor, who was unable to help me.
The US Army was my next adventure. I learned two things there: one was how to use my hands to fix helicopters and electronic weapon systems; and two, was that I needed more education if I was ever going to do anything else. After my honorable discharge, I became a "field engineer" for a national office supply company. A field engineer is a fancy name for a "repair guy," who drives around in a van all day fixing and moving office machines.
How two auto accidents in eight months changed my life...
Most of my days as a field engineer were spent driving from office to office in Anchorage, Alaska and later Olympia, Washington. One day, while driving in Olympia, I was rear-ended in my work vehicle, an accident so severe that it totaled both vehicles. I was in terrible pain, my back and neck hurt so bad I could barely move. But after a few days of recovery, a ton of aspirin and Bengay, I went back to work (even though I was hurting) just to keep my boss happy and mainly to protect my job.
Eight months later I was in another accident, rear-ended again. This time, I was smashed while stopped on the freeway. I couldn't overcome the pain to keep working, so I started visiting back specialists under the state's Workmen Compensation Program. The pain became so intense - I couldn't work, I couldn't even walk across a room. I became sedentary (a couch potato), and gained 50 pounds. I was a mess and I couldn't understand why all these doctors couldn't help me.
Since I couldn't work, I decided to go back to school. After 2 years of attending a local college, I transferred to Western Washington University to study biology and chemistry. As a PRE-MED major, I was determined to accomplish two things, first to study hard and keep my grades up to get into medical school and second, to get my health and life back. I just wanted the pain to go away and I was willing to try anything.
$50,000 in traditional medical treatments and the wrong surgery made my condition worse...
While I was attending college, the doctors continued to try to figure out what to do with my back. If there's a procedure that requires you to be poked - pinched - or stuck with a needle, I've had it. Multiple MRI's, Milograms (replacement of spinal fluid with dye - you're sick for a week), spinal injections, x-ray after x-ray, one specialist after another. Every doctor said the same thing - we'll need to do a few more tests, just be patient.
Patient - I'd been patient! All I wanted was some relief! After every treatment my condition seemed to get worse, as long as I didn't move I could take the pain, but if I tried to walk, I was in intense pain. It made walking to class very difficult, but once I got there I felt better. Sitting didn't hurt that bad, as a matter of fact it was the only time I wasn't hurting. I guess the ONLY good thing that came of all the unnecessary medical treatment I received was that it forced me to sit still in the library and study - day after day.
Finally, the medical doctors decided the only thing to do was to cut me open to repair a herniated disk in my lower back (L5-S1). After the operation and weeks of recovery - guess what? My condition was even worse. Since I've become a doctor, I've learned that the medical doctors completely misdiagnosed my condition, I didn't have a herniated disk, I have a condition known as Facet Syndrome... NO OPERATION IN THE WORLD COULD HAVE CORRECTED IT!
A friend offers me an alternative treatment - Chiropractic...
Now, I'd been treated like an experimental lab rat for 3 years, had my back cut open and I still couldn't walk across a room without being in intense pain. A friend of mine suggested I go see their family Chiropractor. After my first treatment, I was in for the surprise of my life.
In two weeks I was walking PAIN FREE, for the first time in over three years. What an army of medical doctors, over $50,000 in treatments, and unneeded surgery couldn't do - a Chiropractic Doctor had accomplished in a few short weeks. I still needed many months of treatments to correct all the damage from the accidents and the other doctors, but I was pain free and I could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
What type Of Doctor should I become? Medical or Chiropractic...
Now I was ready to graduate from college with a pre-med degree, with grades and test scores high enough to get into any medical school I wanted, but what type of medicine should I practice?
I thought about this extensively, and after a while the answer was very clear. I had a simple choice - either help people stay healthy with preventative care, or to treat them like an insurance claim number and only work with them after they were sick. The choice was easy...
I knew from that moment on, my life would be dedicated to helping other people avoid all the needless pain and suffering I had gone through.
Utilizing chiropractic training to learn about the human frame and combining all my pre-med, biology, and chemistry knowledge to learn about nutrition, I could really become the "Doctor Of The Future" as predicted by Thomas Edison 100 years ago. I chose to become a Chiropractic Physician, and I've never regretted it.
I understand pain from both sides now, as a patient and a doctor...
Today I'm the luckiest man on earth. I'm in my 50's and I do everything that I want to. Chiropractic is part of my life to this day both as a doctor and patient. I still receive regular adjustments that keep me going. I've experienced this with many of my patients and share my story with them often.
Just the other day in our Mesa chiropractic office a patient commented that I helped their son with Carpal tunnel syndrome. "Doc", they said, "you did an adjustment and acupuncture to my son, and after only one treatment it, his pain was gone". I recently heard another similar story about knee pain from another patient.
One great complement I often get from patients is that I'm a great adjuster. It usually goes something like this... "I've been to chiropractors all my life and no one adjusts as well as you. No other chiropractor does the things like you do." I just had a patient that said his reflux has gone away. He's had reflux most of his life and was on all kinds of meds. I recommended a digestive enzyme and it all went away. He is so thankful. Helping people is what I love to do!
Outside the office
I have two amazing sons, Tristan and Brayden. I work out three times a week with weights, and I play a lot of Racquet ball. I just won first place in a Tournament (Grand Canyon Games)! I play chess, and usually have several games going with friends on Facebook. I do Kempo Karate with my boys, two to three times a week. I'm a purple belt, and so is my son Tristan. Brayden is a yellow belt. I enjoy it. It gives me an activity that I can do with the boys rather than sit in the stands.
I love going out on my boat, fishing, and water skiing. Our family enjoys hiking, camping, and evening walks. Being a father seems to mean that I'm also a part time chauffeur. My boys are involved with lots of sports. I also enjoy reading and love Football… Go Raiders!
I operate an amazing practice dedicated to providing Natural Health Care, and I get to do what I love every day, helping people become healthy. As a patient, I figure you want what I wanted when I was hurt. You want to get fixed right and you don't want to wait around. Natural first and drugs last (or surgery last) is my philosophy. I hope it's yours too.
The following information is what the medical boards use for a doctors qualifications - I think the biographical information you just read is what really qualifies me to understand your needs as a natural healing physician.
Medical Board Certifications
- National Boards for Chiropractic, parts I-IV
- National Boards for Physiotherapy
- National Boards for Acupuncture
- Graduated From Western States Chiropractic College, Portland Oregon. Doctor of Chiropractic Degree, Academic Dean's List.
- Graduated Cum Laude from Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology, with a Minor in Chemistry.
- International Academy of Medical Acupuncture, Phoenix Arizona. Fellowship in Medical Acupuncture.
- American University of Integrated Medicine, Glendale Arizona. Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine.
- Multiple nutritional seminars.
- Certified auto accident physician.
- Certified FLT (First Line Therapy) practitioner for nutritional counseling.
- Whiplash Certified by Spine Research Institute of San Diego 1999.
- Physiotherapy Certified
Enough about me! How can we help you with today's safe and natural chiropractic care? Contact us so we can help you take your first step towards better health.


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Modern gas and electric dryers get clothes dry much faster than air-drying on a clothesline, but finding wet clothes in the dryer at the end of a cycle may be a sign that any of several components of your dryer have malfunctioned. Replace worn or damaged parts with new White-Westinghouse dryer parts to fix the problem.
Dryers pass through several stages during the drying cycle. If your clothes are still wet at the end of that cycle, the timer may have malfunctioned and signaled that your clothes were ready before the stages were complete. Timers, which ensure that each stage runs long enough to thoroughly dry your clothes, are commonly replaced dryer repair parts.
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June - Rising Stars Day Camp Grant
June 9, 2009
Central Park Players' Rising Stars! Day Camp Receives Scholarship Grant
The Grand Haven Community Foundation Youth Advisory Council awarded Central Park Players' Rising Stars Day Camp grant monies that will be awarded as need-based scholarships for its new two-week theatre day camp for youngsters this June.
Rising Stars Day Camp, a new venture for Central Park Players, is a tuition-based day camp that focuses on teaching the basics of being onstage to the beginning actor, ages 4-11. The day camp will have both AM and PM sessions running from June 15 through June 26, culminating with a stage performance.
Instruction will be provided by the chairperson of the Family Theatre Committee of Central Park Players, Shaylynn Chalupa. Chalupa, who has many years of experience working with children with Central Park Players and Muskegon Civic Theatre, will teach the basics of theatre focusing on teamwork, character development, theatre basics, and staging.
The funds for the scholarships have been awarded from the Grand Haven Community Foundation Youth Fund which is supported by donations to the Grand Haven Community Foundation discretionary fund.
The scholarships provided through these generous donations will give families who are struggling financially the ability to expose their children to opportunities in the arts where they can gain confidence, build talent, and develop lifelong tools to be more successful in whatever they endeavor.
Central Park Players also offers a late-summer day camp for older students which was started last year.
Both programs will continue to offer scholarships through the Grand Haven Community Foundation grant and funding from a private donor.
Click here for more information about camp.
CPP Family Theatre's production of Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. Now in Rehearsals
Central Park Players' Family Theatre will be presenting the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Jr., at 7:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, (with two performances on Saturday), July 9-11, 2009, at the Grand Haven Community Center.
The production is directed by Norma Bethke and assisted by Henry Tiles. Music Direction is by Kay Wells and the show's Producer is Trudi Kerkstra.
Fiddler on the Roof, written first in Yiddish in 1894, and then translated and performed with music under the direction of Jerome Robbins, was the longest-running play in Broadway history until Grease was produced a decade later.
This is the second time Central Park Players has performed Fiddler on the Roof, its first in 2000 when it was directed on the mainstage by John with Ruth Bethke and Norma Bethke as a cast member.
Tevye, played in this production by Erin Robere, is a Jew living in Russia in the early 20th century. In Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. he must face several issues: his poverty, the tension between the Jews and Gentiles in his small village; his not-always easy relationship with his wife Golde, played by Maggie Barnard; and the marriage arrangements of his five daughters, played by Becca Kerkstra, Erin Mickelson, Mollie Labeff, Michaela Kerkstra, and Katie Parks.
When the village matchmaker, Yente, played by Courtney Cotter, tells Golde that the wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf, played Brandon Marion, wants to marry her eldest daughter Tzeitel, Golde jumps at the chance.
But what she doesn't know is that Tzeitel is in love with her friend since childhood, the tailor Motel Kamzoil, played by Sean Billingsley.
Tevye doesn't know this either, and so he makes the marriage arrangements with the butcher. That is when the difficulties begin, and what follows is a sometimes-comical-but-always-heart-tugging story that is wonderfully supported by classic songs, such as "Tradition," "If I Were a Rich Man," "Matchmaker," and "Sunrise, Sunset."
Fiddler... is the perfect addition to Central Park Players' anniversary season as it rounds out a series of reprisals of the patrons' favorite choices from past seasons.
CPP's Family Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. also features the talents of Riley Remington, Allison Cotter, Emma Dale, Douglas VanBennekom, Breezy Vanderlaan, Alexa Shampine, Lindsey Bronold, Chaz Bratton, Leann Mayberry, Hannah Dillree, Josephine Hardman, Gabriella Holmberg, Cassie Kotrch, Anna Carmolli, Gabby Rabon, Caleb Sportell, Thomas Wells, Kelci Gilmore, and Caitlin Shampine as the Fiddler on the Roof.
Tickets for Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. can be reserved starting Monday, July 6, 2009, by calling the CPP box office at (616) 971-1329. The show will be performed at the Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave. Grand Haven. Ticket prices are $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for children ages 12 and under.
Fiddler on the Roof, 2000
Access this and much more of CPP's rich history by visiting our website at www.centralparkplayers.org
Become a member and gain access to the special members-only section with archival pages, forums and much, much more.
Central Park Players Annual Membership Meeting and Picnic
The annual membership meeting will be held July 12th at the Jaycees building 1737 Marion Ave. in Grand Haven.
Central Park Players will provide burgers, hot dogs, condiments, buns and table service. Please bring a dish to pass.
Vote for your CPP Board members at the membership meeting!
Want to run for a position on the Board?
Members of the Board will serve three-year terms and will be asked to submit information pertaining to a criminal background check prior to application approval.
If you would like more information about the Central Park Players Board of Director, or would like to apply, contact Peter Drost at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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You can now apply for membserhip or renew your existing membership online. Just click here to go to our website!
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Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing unveil the AM-RB 001 hypercar
Designed by Red Bull Racing's Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, Aston Martin's Marek Reichman, chief creative officer and David King, VP and Chief Special Operations Officer.
The team and the car manufacturer announced that the mid-engined beast will be powered by a naturally aspirated V12 engine and that the car's F1-inspired carbon fibre construction will give it a power to weight ratio of 1:1, 1 bhp per kilo of weight! The AM-RB 001 is to feature performance levels in line with that of today's LMP1 Le Mans sports prototypes!
Production of the car will be between 99 and 150 road cars and a further 25 track-only versions in the works. First deliveries will commence in 2018.


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Monday, February 26, 2007
What we think about buildings
Recently, the American Institute of Architects released the results of a poll of America's favorite structures. The Empire State Building comes in at number one, and others in the top twenty include the Golden Gate Bridge, Grand Central Terminal in New York, the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials. As I read the list, I thought both about my favorite buildings and about a recent concert I attended. The poll evidently was taken by showing images to respondents--but arguably, that's not how most of us experience architecture. Architecture is something that you experience with your entire self--not just your eyes. I became a student at Cornell the fall after the Johnson Museum (designed by IM Pei) opened--and, as a freshman, at first, I hated it. After walking past it, up Libe slope for two semesters, I came to love it. Ithaca has changeable weather, to say the least, and somehow the Johnson changed in every weather. Some days it loomed up out of the fog or snow, other days it was surrounded by fall leaves. The building became a part of me and my life at Cornell.
A few weeks ago I attended a concert at the Walton Theater. Walton's a small town near me, and the building, listed on the National Register, has served as performance space and movie house for generations of Waltonians. Last spring, I toured the building with two of the dedicated volunteers working to restore it--but just a few weeks later, the building, and much of Walton, were devastated by floods.
This concert, by Irish American musician Cathy Ryan, was the first since that flood. Volunteers, many of whom had damage to their own homes or businesses, had pulled together and cleaned out mud, replaced floors and theater seats, and brought the building back. It was a joyful occasion for the community. Cathy Ryan talked about how musicians can feel a sense of previous performers when they walk into a space. I think this sense of lives past--whether it's our own experiences or others--is what makes a favorite building.
Buildings' lives are created by those occupants and others who experience it inside and out. As I thought about the lively feel of this old but now new performance space, I wondered about why it's so hard for so many historic houses to convey this same spirit. Do we not chose to save the right places, just taking the house that someone is willing to give us? Or have somehow do we squeeze that feeling out of it in our eagerness to care for and interpret the place meeting professional standards? The best historic sites, to me, are the ones that somehow recapture that feeling--the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, or Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin for instance. Now that so many places are the same--will all our communities be saving all those Wal-Marts in future decades?--it's perhaps even more important that we pay attention to that spirit of place in all of our communities.
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Retrofit my Existing Home or Move?
Reprint from Article Written for The Union Grass Valley Newspaper on April 28, 2015
A recent survey by Genworth Financial, a long term care insurer, noted that while overall long term care costs continue to rise, paying for care services in home is still the cheapest option*. Being close allies here in Grass Valley with local and may I say, beautiful assisted living communities, aging in place in one's home is not for everyone, the thought of having meals prepared by gourmet chefs and lots of activities to choose from is enticing indeed. However, some of my clients complete a reverse mortgage credit line to tap into their home equity for funds to retrofit their homes for the next stage of life's journey.
What is the typical cost of a retrofit? The MetLife Report on Aging in Place 2.0** recently reported the cost for design and structural modifications for a one story home will cost an average of $9,000 to $12,000.
What are smaller projects to consider? Replacement hardware, sturdy handrails, grab bars, single handled faucets, higher sitting toilets, rollout shelving in kitchens, and lighting in hard to see spots are all relatively easy and cost conservative.
If I funds are available, larger projects for electric scooter or wheelchair access; widening doorways, corridors, and ramps are bigger picture retrofits.
In home health costs are reportedly rising at a slower pace than facility-based care. According to the Genworth study, in-home health aide costs rose approximately 1.27% over a one year period compared to assisted living and semi-private nursing home care rising an average of 2.86% and 3.77% respectively.
There's no pre-determined correct path in this next stage in a senior's life, it's all about hopefully having the financial ability to exercise a conscious choice. In addition to a reverse mortgage credit line being used to retrofit a senior's existing home, a reverse mortgage can fund assisted living/dementia care for one owner on title, as long the other owner on title to the home remains in the home as their principle residence. Also, an existing home can be sold to buy, via reverse mortgage for purchase, an already senior retrofit home.
One of my clients commented recently that they felt I conducted my business more like a consultant, not only a loan officer: someone who would listen to concerns and offer options, this after we spent time going over their future living and financial considerations; preparing for big picture changes for them as they entered their mid-70's. Aging is not for the faint of heart, we all are moving forward in the journey of maturing and entering into new life stages. If you'd like to sort through some of your options with me, call for a personal appointment or attend one of my monthly Reverse Mortgage Workshops held in my local Grass Valley Office, lunch is catered and the last comment from several of the April workshop group: " Shawna, that was fun!"
A closing thought: the recent HUD reverse mortgage program change requiring me to do a borrower financial assessment at the time of loan application is no reason to allow any lender to panic or pressure you, give me a call, I've got you covered for explaining this change!
Shawna McDonald has successfully completed hundreds of reverse mortgages and is approved with 8 reverse mortgage lenders. Her office, Sierra Foothills Reverse Mortgage, is located at 412 E. Main Street Suite N, Grass Valley, (530) 497-3010. Her website is www.SierraFoothillsReverse.com.
The opinions expressed here are solely those of Shawna McDonald, Loan Officer/Real Estate Broker. Copyright © 2015. All Rights Reserved, duplication and distribution prohibited. Shawna McDonald NMLS #271335 CA-BRE # 00585530 DBA Sierra Foothills Reverse Mortgage and Borba Investments Inc, DBA MLS Reverse Mortgage Auburn, CA NMLS #76801 BRE #01456165 ~ HUD approved lender. * 2015 Genworth Financial annual Cost of Care Survey ** MetLife Report on Aging in Place 2.0, 2013


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Keep Your Pot in the Flame
by thehealthyqb
I am very proud of the UCLA Bruins victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers last night. I'm happy for the fans, the coaches and, most importantly, the players. It's amazing when you think about the turnaround they've experienced vs. just one year ago. I think it's important to recognize that the turnaround isn't merely the result of a few changes here and there, rather, it's a complete revamping of how things are done at UCLA. My hats off to the coaching staff as they've orchestrated a turnaround much faster than many would have anticipated. Recognizing of course that this is game two of the season and that there is a long way to go… this wasn't Rice they were playing… it was the powerhouse Nebraska.
So what's different this year vs. last year? How is it possible to have such improvements in such a short period of time? I argue that Coach Mora and staff have mastered the art of always "keeping the pot in the flame". Indeed, a new level of intensity and confidence has permeated this Bruin program. In my view, this particular group of Bruins has an attitude of seizing the opportunity when it's presented to them. When things get hot, they keep their pot in the flame. When you keep your pot in the flame, your water boils. With boiling water, you create steam. With steam, you can move anything… even the mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Congratulations UCLA.


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A rare opportunity to acquire a commanding detached Victorian house with immense potential with the main house offering six reception rooms, six bedrooms and three bathrooms. The freehold offers a unique opportunity to a family executive buyer or developer seeking an individual residence of character.
Cardigan House has many original features with accommodation set over three storeys, together with a renovated coach house within the grounds and extensive gardens.
The freehold comprises a hallway, lounge, dining room, music room, a substantial sun room/drawing room extension, good sized conservatory, breakfast room and kitchen, cloaks/shower room.
Stairs lead to the first floor where there is a family bathroom and three good sized bedrooms with the master having a walk-in dressing room and en-suite facilities. A further staircase leads to the second floor where there are a further three bedrooms and another bathroom.
The property has the benefit of a separate coach house facility which could be utilised for various uses, comprising on the ground floor a kitchen/utility, games room, WC and then upstairs are a further three rooms.
Set on a substantial plot with ample parking, garage area and south facing gardens which are mainly set to lawn. The garden had past planning consent which has now expired, but could be considered favourably for re-instatement.
Located on the south side of Bridlington, Cardigan House is at the junction of Shaftesbury Road and Cardigan Road.
Contact Ullyotts on 01262 401401 for more details.


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This Is Not America. Why Wal-Mart left Germany. By Harald Schultz
U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart failed to get a foothold on the German market - first and foremost because management didn't take into account German consumer habits. German retailers could have been forgiven for panicking when Wal-Mart first arrived in Germany. They probably felt like ants about to be trodden on by an angry giant. But nine years on, the giant turned on its heel and disappeared. "TextilWirtschaft," Europe's leading trade publications for textiles and clothing, described the fiasco as "Wal-Mart's Waterloo" in a reference to Napoleon's bitter defeat against Prussia and Britain in 1815. But what on earth made the giant capitulate? When Wal-Mart decided to expand in 1996, its managers saw Germany as a promising market. Europe's largest market is home to 82 million - far more than in England, France and Italy which each have a population of 60 million. Germany enjoys a healthy pro capita income, so consumer spending is robust. The country has good transport infrastructure, which is good when stocks need to be replenished. Given these excellent conditions, Wal-Mart must have thought success was guaranteed. It wasn't to be. Its German venture ended disastrously, with the retreat costing the company $1 billion. Just why did Wal-Mart Germany end so badly in Germany, just like before in South Korea? The answer is simple but banal, and can be encapsulated by a line once sung by David Bowie: "This is not America." Management's mistake was to implement a successful U.S. business formula in Germany without paying any attention to local idiosyncrasies. "The problem was the company's business philosophy, which had always worked so well," wrote Frankfurt's Brsenzeitung in what pretty much amounted to an obituary. "It's people-centered - but that doesn't actually work when the people aren't American." The problems added up. The company gave the job of masterminding Wal-Mart Germany to an American who didn't speak a word of German. This should surely have been indispensable to finding out what the German salespersons would need to know about local shopping habits. The second problem was that Wal-Mart initially bought up a chain of 21 stores, then another 74, which included sites previous owners had failed to make profitable. The third problem was bad press. The media reported that shoppers were turned off by Wal-Mart staff hired to greet them at the door and bag their groceries. This sort of thing was and still is unusual practice in Germany, so it was done away with. The company also scrapped the staff warm-up sessions scheduled at the start of every day, on the grounds that German employees found them ridiculous. The authorities also kept a close eye on Wal-Mart. Anti-trust lawyers banned its practice of luring consumers with price-dumping, while Germany's stringent laws governing opening hours meant stores couldn't stay open too long. German labor law prevented the easy-come, easy-go hiring and firing common in the U.S., and the unions and the public alike were outraged by what Germans saw as an absurd ban on flirting in the workplace. All in all, Wal-Mart operated what the newspaper Handelsblatt described as a "bizarre company culture." Another fatal flaw was that Germany's retail market is already saturated with discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, meaning that any new arrival inevitably finds itself in the midst of a cutthroat price war. Germany has the cheapest groceries in Europe. Moreover, real incomes have barely grown in recent years, which has dampened consumer spending. Retailers are vying for customers by cutting back profit margins. In the foods sector, the yield returns in Germany are less than 2 percent, often even only at 1.5 percent. Against this backdrop, presenting German consumers with unfamiliar U.S. brands was doomed to failure. With just 95 outlets, Wal-Mart also remained too small. Originally, it had wanted to build 50 superstores as quickly as possible, but while Germany has one-third of the population of the U.S., it doesn't have one-third of its surface area. It is only about as big as Oregon - and consequently, every square foot is either developed, or about to be. German planning law therefore has a lot of obstacles when someone wants to construct stores on the Wal-Mart scale. So instead of increasing its number of stores, Wal-Mart actually had to close a few down - some of which were taken over by Wal-Mart's rivals once its leases ran out. But the full extent of Germany's strategic retaliation against Wal-Mart only became clear when the local competition - primarily the Metro Group - snatched a number of chains up for sale from under Wal-Mart's nose. The bottom line: the American company had to abandon its expansion plans. Paradoxically, the U.S. giant ended up terminally dwarfed in Germany. Experts estimated that a turnover of ?8 billion ($10 billion) would have been needed to reduce each store's logistics costs to a sensible size, but Wal-Mart barely managed to scrape together a turnover of ?2 billion ($2.5 billion), a result expected to get even worse. One consequence was less competitive prices than those of their rivals. These weren't management's only mistakes. Germany is a country that loves stability, even on the executive floor. Chaotic leadership and frequent personnel changes make a frivolous impression and suggest company problems. "American management methods are often primitive," said Aldi's former CEO Dieter Brandes in the weekly magazine Stern. "It's all about budgets, not customers. When the figures look bad, no one looks for the roots of the problem; they just replace the CEO." And soon enough, Wal-Mart did indeed replace its CEO in Germany - with a Brit. Unfortunately, cultural differences between Britain and Germany are even greater than those between the U.S. and Germany. Based as he was in England, he too failed to grasp what makes German consumers tick, and after a few months at the helm, he too had to go. The German who took over had plenty of experience with kiosks and gas stations, but not with superstores. It may be some comfort to Wal-Mart to know it's not the only foreign retail chain that has failed in Germany. A similar fate befell Intermarch, Castorama and Prnatal from France, Marks & Spencer from England, and Oviesse from Italy. Even the Metro Group, which bought all of Germany's 85 Wal-Marts, is unhappy with the Real chain which the stores will be merged with. Real also chalked up losses in 2005. Wal-Mart's German failure could be summed up by a German proverb - translated, it means: "A nightmarish end is better than a nightmare that doesn't end." - Harald Schultz is a senior editor at the Handelsblatt.


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"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults." — Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins
The reception on the Cell Phone was staticky, with a peculiar whistling in the background. The voice was urgent though… it was my wife, the lovely Realitychick. She was on the turnpike to a nearby town to hear my daughter's vocal recital. But she didn't sound happy at all.
"You want to go to this convention tomorrow," snarled the voice on the other end of the phone "You'd better call a glass place NOW. The Windshield is coming out of the van!"
And thus started my adventure called "The Texas Frightmare Weekend" or "Casher and Mirth's Phantasmagorical Peregrination".
Let me catch you up. One of my things on my "Mirth List" to do for this year was to attend a big media convention. Partly for fun, of course, but my main reason was to pick up more work for my day job at Wirewaves, some freelance illustration work for me, and network with potential guests for CathARTic shows. My original plan was to attend the Indianapolis Horrorhound show with filmmakers Leif Jonker and Gary Miller, and Horror Host "Gunther Dedmund" from The Basement Sublet of Horror , but alas time and money wouldn't quite sync with that trip.
So when I put out the word that I would be attending TFW, my buddy Tim (a.k.a. T.E. Pouncey, a.k.a. Casher O'Neill) said he'd be up for the challenge. After all it had been about 20 years since the last con we had attended. He and I used to be the Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman of our college paper, but wives, families and real life got in the way of us being able to collaborate on a regular, post-academic basis.
We were to leave about 9 am on Thursday, April 29th… getting into Dallas early enough to check in and clean up to go see Romero's Survival Of The Dead and the World Premiere of Tim Sullivan's wacky 2001 Maniacs. Well, Cash had a work meeting he couldn't get out of, and now I had a Windshield to get replaced, so the 9 AM start ended up being a Noon departure. And save for the 40 MPH headwinds all the way there, It was a good trip. Never let it be said that journalists can't make for good conversations!
We arrived at the hotel too late to get to the movies, but who do we see coming out as we go to check in? WIlliam Katt, he of The Greatest American Hero, Carrie, and Pippin! We exchanged brief pleasantries, and I was briefly *just* a bit star struck. This would change quickly as soon there were "celebrities" everywhere we turned. That first night I shared an elevator with Sid Haig of Spider Baby fame, and I think I freaked out Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson (who is probably sick of seeing "Elvira" as her middle name) just a little with my unfortunate natural friendliness.
Oh, I didn't completely fanboy out on her. I just did my chipper "Good Morning" bit… at 9PM. Well it *is* morning… within 12 hours anyway.
Cassandra and her trainer had just come in from a BBQ joint called Hard Eight which amazed them! They suggested we try it, but we never did get the opportunity to… maybe next year!
Over the next few days, we made all kinds of friends. Finally met Brandon Slagle, and Frederick Doss (who was one of the Soccent guys running the screens we designed for the first Transformers) who I knew through Facebook; filmmaker Mel House and his lovely wife Melanie who had worked with Shannon Lark on Walking Distance; Matt (who could be a young Matthew Broderick) and his buddy, Eric from St. Louis; Mike, the Oklahoma restauranteur; Lauren (who could be a young Ally Sheedy. If only we could have found a young Dabney Coleman!) and her boyfriend Jeremie; Amanda "Elbows Out!" the TFW staff member that was running the John Carpenter line; Leslie from Pennsylvania, whom I call "the Queen of the Ottoman Empire" because she had guys lining up to be her footstool… so many cool people, and I know I'm forgetting a bunch.
I met two of my top five living directors, John Carpenter and George Romero (the latter of which, I got to see through his eyes!). I got face time with Jason Mellon and The Virgin Connie Swayle (Keith Gordon and Alexandra Paul — and yes, McGee, I told them you said "Hi."), talked cyberstalkers with Debbie Rochon, shared fruity drinks* with Terry Alexander and Jarlath Conroy of the original Day of the Dead, talked F-Troop with James Naughton, chatted with Halloween's Charles Cyphers and Martin's John Amplas, learned basic Pittsburghese from Buffy's Camden Toy, cut up with Kane Hodder, strolled down Rue Morgue, and hung with members of Ghoultown a band that is this amazing amalgam of Rob Zombie and Johnny Cash. I would have gone to see them in concert Saturday night, if it weren't for something that literally made the entire trip for us.
But that, my friends, is a story for another blog.
*The bar didn't do fruity enough drinks, so I'm fixing it in post. Pictures soon!


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27 Jul 2015
Sky has chosen Leeds Dock for the location of a new technology facility which was revealed earlier this year and create up to 400 jobs at the cutting edge of digital technology.
The work will be focused on creating and developing Sky's next generation of websites and apps across its services and based at Allied London's Leeds Dock, in the heart of the city. The company said Sky@Leeds Dock will establish a dynamic and creative environment that will transform the way Sky's technology teams operate.
It will also include a new Software Engineering Academy aimed at people starting their career
Sky said the academy will offer graduates a hands-on, accelerated learning programme, providing practical, on-the-job training including opportunities to develop and support software for teams across Sky, including Sky News and Sky Sports.
This year the academy will recruit 24 graduates and eight apprentices from across the north of England, and will look to expand in the coming years.
The company said the opening of Sky@Leeds Dock reaffirms Sky's commitment to Leeds, and will bring the total number of employees based in the city to over 1000, creating a world-class facility in the north of England.
Matt Grest, head of technology at Sky@Leeds Dock, said: "The creation of Sky@Leeds Dock is a major commitment to our technology business, and to the city of Leeds.
"We are creating one of the largest digital communities in the UK, offering people in the north of England a unique opportunity to help shape Sky's award-winning digital products, reaching millions of Sky customers around the UK.
"Leeds is thriving, with a burgeoning technology sector, and we're confident our new hub can make a huge contribution to the city."


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Shes the one on the left!! Shes in the yaer below us but is still pretty
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Here is a link to my review of Geoff Johns & Andy Kubert's Flashpoint via Graphic Novel Reporter and published by DC Comics.
Posts Tagged 'Geoff Johns'
Flashpoint Review
Posted in Reviews, tagged Andy Kubert, DC Comics, Flashpoint, Geoff Johns on April 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Geoff Johns Interview Part 2
Posted in Interviews, tagged DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Geoff Johns Interview, Robot 6 on February 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here is the link to Part 2 of my interview with Geoff Johns at The Comics Journal.
Thanks to Robot 6 for mentioning the interview in their Comics A.M. report.
Geoff Johns Interview
Posted in Interviews, tagged DC Comics, Flash, Geoff Johns, Geoff Johns Interview, Green Lantern on February 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to part one of my interview with Geoff Johns at The Comics Journal where we discuss his script-writing process and the craft of creating comics.
I want to give a big thanks to Geoff for taking the time to speak with me about his career and to DC for all of their assistance.
Brightest Day
Posted in Reviews, tagged Brightest Day, Brightest Day #10, Brightest Day #10 Review, Brightest Day #9, Brightest Day #9 Review, DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi on September 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I just submitted a joint review of Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi's Brightest Day #9 and Brightest Day #10 to Broken Frontier. Instead of the single issue reviews, I felt a combined review fit better with the series since it is largely written for the hardcover collection or trade paperback audiences.
I'll post a link here when it's published.
Upcoming Reviews & Posts
Posted in Reviews, tagged Action Comics #892 Review, Batman #702 Review, DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, J. Michael Straczynski, Jason Aaron, Jeff Lemire, Paul Cornell, Paul Levitz, Scalped #40 Review, Superboy, Superman Secret Origin #6 Review, Superman/Batman #75 Review, Vertigo Comics, Wonder Woman #602 Review on August 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Little behind this week. Did 6 reviews of the following books in addition to the various other writing projects I've got currently running. Once these are posted, I'll update the links:
Geoff Johns' Superman Secret Origin #6 (DC Comics)
Grant Morrison's Batman #702 (DC Comics)
Paul Cornell and Jeff Lemire's Action Comics #892 (DC Comics)
Paul Levitz, et. al. Superman/Batman #75 (DC Comics)
J. Michael Straczynski's Wonder Woman #602 (DC Comics)
Jason Aaron's Scalped #40 (Vertigo)
Forthcoming Posts
Posted in Reviews, tagged Brightest Day #8 Review, DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Green Lantern Corps #51 Review, Image, Impaler, Impaler Review, Impaler Volume 2, Matt Timson, Peter Tomasi, Tony Bedard, Top Cow, William Harms on August 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I submitted the following reviews last week and I await their publication at Broken Frontier. I'll post links when they are published.
Geoff Johns & Peter Tomasi's Brightest Day #8 (DC Comics)
Tony Bedard's Green Lantern Corps #51 (DC Comics)
William Harms & Matt Timson's Impaler Volume 2 (Top Cow/Image)
I'm also working on some really big interviews at the moment that I hope to reveal more about in the coming days. My interview with G. Willow Wilson was also submitted to BF but I have yet to hear about its status or publication date.
Brightest Day #7 Review
Posted in Reviews, tagged Brightest Day #7 Review, DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi on August 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to my review of Geoff Johns & Peter Tomasi's Brightest Day #7 at Broken Frontier.


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We offer many day tours where guests can visit neighboring islands in the Galapagos. Combining a stay in our hotel, along with a few days on tour gives the flexibility of spending some free time in town, or using a full day to explore surrounding areas, all with their specialized vegetation and landscape, and diversity in animals.
All tours begin in the morning and guests are picked up at the hotel. Lunch is provided on board the daily tour boats, and you arrive back at the hotel in the late afternoon.
A few of our sample day tours:
North Seymour is a small island near to Baltra Island in the Galapagos Islands. It was formed by uplift of a submarine lava formation. The whole island is covered with low, bushy vegetation.
This island is home to a large population of blue-footed boobies and swallow-tailed gulls. It hosts one of the largest populations of frigatebirds in Galapagos.
North Seymour has a visitor trail approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in length crossing the inland of the island and exploring the rocky coast.
North Seymour is an extraordinary place for breeding birds, and is home to one of the largest populations of nesting blue-footed boobies and magnificent frigate birds. Pairs of blue-footed boobies can be seen conducting their mating ritual as they offer each other gifts, whistle and honk, stretch their necks towards the sky, spread their wings, and dance—showing off their bright blue feet.
South Plaza is a small island off the east coast of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands. It has an area of 0.13 km and a maximum altitude of 23 metres. South Plaza was formed by lava up streaming from the bottom of the ocean. Despite its small size it is home to a large number of species and it is famous for its extraordinary flora.
That is why this island is very popular with visitors. On the steep banks it is possible to see a great number of birds such as nesting Red-billed Tropicbirds and Swallow-tailed Gulls, but most of all, enjoying the beautiful view from atop the steep banks or strolling along the base of the cliff is an extremely pleasurable experience. Very attractive are the beautiful prickly pear cactus trees (Opuntia echios) and of course the large colony of Galapagos Land Iguanas. Depending on the season, the Sesuvium ground vegetation changes its colour from intense green in the rainy season to orange and purple in the dry season.
Bartolomé Island is a volcanic islet in the Galápagos Islands group. It is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island. It is one of the "younger" islands in the Galápagos archipelago. With a total land area of just 1.2 km², this island offers some of the most beautiful landscapes in the archipelago. The island consists of an extinct volcano and a variety of red, orange, green, and glistening black volcanic formations.
Bartolomé has a volcanic cone that is easy to climb and provides great views of the other islands. Bartolomé is famous for its Pinnacle Rock, which is the distinctive characteristic of this island, and the most representative landmark of the Galápagos.
It has two visitor sites. At the first one, you may swim and snorkel around Pinnacle Rock; the underwater world there is really impressive. You can snorkel with the penguins, marine turtles, white-tipped reef sharks, and other tropical fish.
Isabela Island is the largest island of the Galápagos with an area of 4,640 square kilometres (1,790 sq mi), and length of 100 kilometres (62 mi) nearly 4 times larger than Santa Cruz, the next largest of the islands.
One of the youngest islands, Isabela is located on the western edge of the archipelago near the Galápagos hotspot. Isabela is also interesting for its flora and fauna. The young island does not follow the vegetation zones of the other islands.
The relatively new lava fields and surrounding soils have not developed the sufficient nutrients required to support the varied life zones found on other islands. Another obvious difference occurs on Volcan Wolf and Cerro Azul; these volcanoes loft above the cloud cover and are arid on top.
Isabela's rich animal, bird, and marine life is beyond compare. Isabela is home to more wild tortoises than all the other islands.
Please contact info@hotelsilberstein for more information on daily tour packages that are offered during the free days of your trip! We look forward to helping you plan your most memorable experiences in Galapagos!