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Imagista: How did your love for performing come about?
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Imagista: Who has been your biggest inspiration throughout your life?
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Diane Guerrero: I realized that it wasn't beneficial to keep it to myself. Growing up, I felt alone and I didn't want others to feel that way. People benefit from knowing the truth and that is the reason why I was so compelled to write it.
Imagista: When it comes to acting, you have a very impressive resume, what was it like working on such hit television shows like Orange is the new black and Jane the virgin?
Diane Guerrero: I'm so lucky; I got to be on two groundbreaking shows. Both of these have changed the way people think of television and more importantly have changed the way people see people of color.
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This Thailand Travel guide will help you find the best places to visit, best things to do, how long to stay, and how to travel on a budget. Read on below to find out how to make your trip to Thailand - the best one!
A country like Thailand is quite a wonderful choice as you can experience the best things there and create many new and best experiences of your lifetime. With being a country that offers a magnificent nature, a rich culture and history, and offers a friendly population and a great cuisine having rich colour and great appearance as in taste. For many travellers, Thailand will be the ideal choice in Southeast Asia and probably it is the first trip that becomes one of a great series.
Our Thailand travel guide is here that will help you with some great travel suggestions and will help you get most on your trip to Thailand. Before beginning, we have rounded up with some simple guidelines below that are aimed for first-time travellers to the country.
Tourism has been growing everywhere in the kingdom since the 1970s. It has several highlights and points that make our visit to these amazing places a time to remember. Today, you can be a part of this well-trodden trail and can indulge in developed travel infrastructure and take out time to take any pain out of travel here. Moderately, it is easy to get around and roam around the regional standard which is quite affordable as the country attracts a vast number of tourists from different places from all corners of the globe.
With a population of 65,068,149 of different religions and caste, you easily adjust and can communicate with the local in Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects. So, get ready for a joyous ride and book in your flight seats to Thailand from ส่วนลด Expedia and enjoy great deals and discount that allow you to save while travelling.
Absolute highlights
Thailand is a country located in Southeastern Asia, prepares a solid stroke and offers great appealing attractions that are a must see by everyone. When you will visit here, you can create many beautiful memories with some must-see places in Thailand which are sure shouldn't be missed out on your trip. Choose from among some best choices from rates of tropical islands, various places of interesting ruins, trekking destinations in the north and, for those who are seeking an exceptional megalopolis experience, definitely the nation's capital Bangkok will never mislead you.
Here are few places to visit in Thailand:
The Bangkok country tends to settle at number one choice to travel in Thailand. Here you can find the majestic Chao Phraya River, Bangkok expresses this all good and bad about an Asian mega-city. The city expects to offer something for everyone and the delicious street food, offbeat nightclubs, the serene yoga classes and some more adventures make you enjoy the colourful market shopping. Stay in Bangkok using ส่วนลด Hotels.com and enjoy great facilities on your stay.
Chiang Mai
There is no doubt that Chiang Mai is undoubtedly a place that has something to offer in bulk. You can visit this Thailand's northern capital, and expect the fewer people around. The Chiang Mai will definitely let you expect the best thing and will let you hope the town with glittering temples, wonderful restaurants and comprehensive shopping markets, all of which can be enjoyed in on foot.
Historic Ruins
The three destinations is a favourable point to travel between Bangkok and Chiang Mai. These places are home to important historic ruins and are dated back as the 13th century. You can further explore both Sukhothai and Ayutthaya as these places are former capitals and the most popularly visited place to choose. The Kamphaeng Phet is a province in Thailand and one of the most popular choices to travel and appeals those who want to look little off beaten at the trial.
With so much variety and offering a calm environment, Thailand is a place that tends to make it wary of choosing undeniable faves, there are four different islands that are sure the first choice and difficult to beat. Being the Ko Pha Ngan is a highlight for its unusual variety that tends to offer beaches with affordable accommodation. When you will lay back here, you can own a bo-ho laidback vibe and know how the tourism can exist in harmony and peace with some serene option like the tranquil rhythm of the islanders and Ko Kut upmarket making beaches look gorgeous.
Popular Destinations
Here are some popular destinations in Thailand that attract a great number of tourists from all over the world.
If you long for a short trip then plan to visit natural national parks, cavernous caves, dignified rivers, ponds, watercourses and churches. For many though, this place will take them to a back area where they can look at the wider history of the railway as popular as World War II history.
Pai is a popular town in the Mae Hong Soon Province of northern Thailand. It was once a sleepy and fairly remote Shan town. The town is near the valley of the bank and if you want to enjoy a good time then the wanderer of today will be able to create a young traveller on the first trip to Thailand and will take away many beautiful memories with them.
Nong Khai
Do you want the best nearby area that offers you an awe-inspiring place and some of the best locations that are worth a visit? When you visit this Northeastern province, you will be welcomed by the Mekong River within earshot of Laos, Nong Khai that brag magnificent landscapes, waterfalls and forest temples cuddled up into its surroundings. This place is a mix of affordable accommodation, yummy food and what not - from seeing one quirky yet awe-inspiring sculpture to enjoying the appealing destination.
Hua Hin
It is one of the most exotic seaside resorts that offer a big white-sand beach having a thriving scene, tacky tourist sites, seedy bars, hills, golf courses and early 20th-century architecture. Probably here you will be welcomed with much exciting, hastily developed streets, violent plug, exaggerated prices, family-friendly resorts and lots of European retirees. No matter you like it or not, Hua Hin has all the character of its own.
Krabi is a west coast province characterized by a mash-up of funky bars, sense mangrove forests, sheer limestone cliffs, western restaurants and old-school markets, and much more. By visiting the most popular beaches of the destination like Phi Phi islands are the best choice to visit and come with your family to have a fun and fascinating town, also known as Krabi.
What things you can do in Thailand?
For many people having an active Thai holiday might just mean walking and strolling over 20-metre stroll from the hammock to the ocean. But if you are one of those looking for Lord of Rings in a hammock then Thailand fulfils your desire to try such fun things to do.
Learn to dive
The most interesting thing to try your hand at is to learn diving. Ko Tao (or Ko Phi Phi, or any number of other islands) are quite popular places in Thailand where you can learn on diving, also try your hand at rock climbing, particularly by Railway Bay, is the world-class option.
Cooking courses and food walks
Plan to visit the floating market in Thailand and there you can do a cooking course and take a food walk. Both these activities are petty popular and must try in Bangkok's many floating markets.
If you are in the Northern region of Thailand and want to do trekking then going at Chiang Mai, Pai, Mae Hong Son and Pai are all trekking centres that offers a great option to have fun. The trips will lead you to an exciting area where you can visit or stay in a monitory village. You can book your stay by using ส่วนลด Hotels.com that offers you various options of hotel rooms at the best rates.
Courses and personal improvement
You might visit any Thai town, you will be welcomed by one wat (temple) that offers no scarcity to visit and doing meditation courses will also be the best option to try. There are varied languages courses too that offer you different techniques and knowledge and let you learn especially in Chiang Mai. By getting into involved with yoga, high-speed and detox retreats, you will be taken by the more hostile approach and get pampered in most audacious time.
Thailand is a country that offers you an impressive collection of festivals and gave you a reason to make your trip more interesting by getting involved into the water festival of Songkran (Thai new year) which arrives in the mid-April and is known as the biggest festival of all. You might also want to indulge in the rocket festival and Phi Ta Khon in the northeast of the country. Both these areas will let you enjoy the surroundings nationwide Loi Krathong, and make your trip more remarkable (and colourful) imminent into living in Thailand.
How much travelling to Thailand will cost?
When you are travelling to Thailand for the first time, then it is essential that you make a good budget and do not exceed that budget. Your budget will depend based on the number of places you travel and on the basis of your style of travelling.
For instance, the type of hotel room you book, the transport option you choose, the flight seats you book – these all things can be sorted if you book your deals using from ส่วนลด Expedia and from ส่วนลด Hotels.com.
Also, you should keep control with the other things you try while travelling like eating street food, not drinking too much alcohol, travelling using cheap transport and steering clear of heavily touristed (and budget-friendly) destinations. By ensuring these things you can easily survive and save huge money.
Get controlled by watching out for fancy pants dorms which will cost you heavy and might misbalance your whole budget.
Here are few more additional tips:
Take advantage of Thailand's happy hour
When you have decided that you could have the best time in Thailand, then the best way is to take advantage of Thailand happy hour when the drinks will be half-priced and will have 2-for-1 specials.
Nothing can be cheaper than sleeping for free? What do you think? If you somehow cannot able to find best budget deals then you can choose Couch surfing that connects you with locals and will allow you to live at a place where you will not only get a free place to stay but also a local tour guide will help you introduce with great places to see.
For how long to travel around Thailand?
How long have you got?! After deciding on your budget, think about your number of days you can afford to stay. For a first-time traveller who is just planning to see the most top places and just a bit of Bangkok, and say Kanchanaburi or Ko Samet, then one- week would be enough and can taste what country has to offer.
But surely, Thailand is a country that really deserves to spend a good amount of time and needs at least a two-week for this, we suggest.
If you are someone who really cannot just spend your holiday at one place but wish to see all the best attractions of the country then the best option is to take time of at least four weeks of time. And to stretch this much longer, you can make a big budget and look for a visa-free stay by extending your stay for a couple of weeks in the north and a couple of weeks in the southern area.
Also, make sure you are familiarizing with Thailand's best visa rules. As sometimes, the rules may change very often and can be chaotically, complicating and but knowing if you can make the process simple.
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What is the rationale of collecting three specimens for sputum microscopy?
Of the total smear positive cases presenting at health Institutions, about 69% can be detected by smear examination of first sputum specimen and another 20% by examination of second specimen. The additional case yield by subsequent specimen is minimal. Therefore, a minimum of two specimens should be examined for obtaining acceptable sensitivity of smear microscopy as a case finding tool. Further, there is likelihood albeit small of single positive sputum smear result to be false positive. However, the chances of two positive results to be false positive are practically non-existent. Therefore, the criteria of at least two smear positive results to label a case as smear positive increases the specificity of the test. Since the bacilli are not excreted consistently in all specimens, at least three specimens should be examined to satisfy the above criterion.
Why should we examine at least 200 oil-immersion fields to declare a sputum smear as negative?
A sputum smear is spread over an area of 200 mm2 and contains about 0.01 ml of the specimen. Each oil-immersion field has an area of 0.02 mm2. Therefore, there are 10,000 fields on the slide. If a specimen contains 5000 bacilli/ml, there will be 50 bacilli distributed over entire smear and 1 bacilli over 200 fields. Considering that the bacilli are not distributed evenly over the smear, there must be at least 10,000 bacilli/ml to detect 1 bacillus over 200 fields.
What precautions are needed to reduce false positive sputum smear results?
Rinse mouth before sputum collection or collect specimen before food. Use separate wooden stick for each smear preparation and stain each slide separately on a rack. Use new slides. Nevertheless, the scratches on the slide can be differentiated as these occur in parallel rows and are found deeper. Use fresh stains and preferably filter the stains before use. Preferably, use distilled water to avoid false positive result from environmental mycobacteria. Do not touch the slide with the objective of the microscope or the oil dropper. Clean lens with a lens cleaning paper (not cotton) after exam of each slide.
What are common reasons of false negative results?
Improper guidance to the patient resulting in poor quality of the sputum sample is the most common reason of a false negative result. Bacilli may loose acid fastness if exposed to excessive heat (over heating while fixing the slide), direct sunlight, or long period of storage in hot and humid conditions. Smear not prepared from blobs that contain dead caseous tissue discharged from cavity. Too thin or too thick smear Improper fixing To short carbol-fuchsin staining or boiling it Intensive counter staining Erratic and brief examination Administrative errors
What is the role of X-ray in RNTCP?
Chest X-ray has a role in differential diagnosis of pulmonary disease among chest symptomatic patients whose sputa are consistently negative on smear microscopy.
Is it possible to detect cases early by X-ray or culture?
Smear positive cases do not necessarily pass through an early smear negative stage and only a few smear positive cases would be prevented by use of additional more sensitive methods for detecting pulmonary TB cases, which will also shift priority from detecting and treating most infectious cases.
What is the role of culture?
A cavity of 2-cm diameter contains about 100 million organisms, easily detected by sputum smear microscopy. Almost the same number of new cases can be detected by the first two smears as by first 3-culture examination. Therefore, the additional yield of cases by culture is small. Only nodular lesions discharging small amounts of bacilli are negative by microscopy. Moreover, only culture positive TB cases (negative on microscopy) discharge bacilli intermittently, compared to smear positive cases, which discharge bacilli more consistently. Nevertheless, culture has a role in drug sensitivity testing, diagnosis of extra-pulmonary TB like lymph node TB and for differential diagnosis in a few cases after carefully evaluating microscopy and radiology.
Why are there so many grades of microscopy while treatment does not change with grading?
Grading assists in quality control and also saves time since fewer fields have to be examined for higher grades. It also assists in monitoring prognosis during course of treatment. A higher proportion of 2+ and 3+ smears are likely to remain positive at the end of intensive phase and may require additional one month of intensive Phase.
Why should the grading vary from one sample to another in the same patient?
Bacilli are not evenly distributed in a specimen but are found in clumps. (Specimens consistently positive contain at least 105 to 106 bacilli per ml.
What should be done if scanty positive is the result of smear microscopy among chest symptomatics?
A scanty positive smear result should be supported by another positive smear (more than scanty positive) or by suggestive chest X-ray. Otherwise, repeat sputum collection and smear examination is preferable.
Why is it important to exam smear within a week of its preparation?
In hot & humid climates, the bacilli seem to loose their acid-fatness. Even the stained bacilli may also loose the stain by osmosis in such climates. Therefore, slides labeled positive for Acid fast Bacilli (AFB) by lab technician (L.T.) but negative by senior lab technician (STLS) should be re-stained.
It has been observed that false negative errors are more common in sputum microscopy. On the other hand, only 10% random sample of negative slides is cross-checked in RNTCP?
The purpose of cross checking is to identify lab technicians that require retraining rather than identification of individual slide errors.
What is the role of newer diagnostic tests?
(i) Serological tests have poor sensitivity and specificity. Their sensitivity is highest in patients with smear positive disease and much lower among TB cases not detected by smear microscopy viz. sputum smear negative cases of pulmonary TB, extra-pulmonary TB, children diagnosed with TB and HIV infected TB cases. Also, these tests do not reliably distinguish active TB from dormant infection. (ii) Amplification tests e.g. polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are 95% sensitive in smear positive cases and only 50% sensitive in smear negative and culture positive cases. Though specificity is high, it is lower under field conditions. In addition, inability to distinguish viable from dead bacilli and high cost dissuade their use in developing countries. (iii) The Assay of cell-mediated immunity is highly complex.
What are the causes of smear positive specimen negative on culture?
(i) False positive smear result
(ii) Bacilli might have lost ability to grow in culture due to the following reasons:
- Bacilli killed or harmed by treatment
- Exposure to heat and sunlight
- Long storage of sputum specimen- Excessive decontamination procedures while processing the specimen for culture
Why a cut off point of one month is considered for labeling a patient as a new case?
Patients with history of treatment of less than one month have been found to respond similarly, as those never treated before. Also, the chances of development of drug resistance with less than one month therapy are remote.
Is there a higher incidence of TB among contacts? What is the role of contact tracing under RNTCP?
Though relative risk of acquiring infection and developing TB is higher among contacts, the case yield from contact tracing is low. However, the risk of breakdown is maximum during the period immediately following infection, especially among children. Therefore, all child contacts and symptomatic adult contacts of smear positive cases, irrespective of the duration of symptoms should be examined at the health centre, to identify and treat TB cases and to provide preventive treatment to children.


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Hertha Levefællesskab
Next volunteer period: 1st March 2019 – 28th February 2020 (one year)
Deadline for application: 23rd of September 2018
Number of volunteers: 2
Volunteer profile: Tolerant, open, extrovert who can take part in Hertha's daily life with a positive attitude.
Calm personality, flexible and accepting of adjustments to plans.
Description of the project
The project, Hertha, is a living community for mentally handicapped situated in a small village, Herskind, consisting of families and singles, who integrate themselves into the lives and rhythm of the handicapped.
The living community consists of 2 houses with 19 mentally handicapped residents. The residents have different psychological and mental restrictions and some of them are also physically impaired, but all of them are able to walk.
In the village there are different workshops which are used in the project: Bakery, biodynamic market garden, biodynamic farm, dairy, weave shed, kitchen and laundry where the mentally handicapped work.
Accomodation: the volunteer will live at the project in a shared apartment with other volunteers.
Activities: the main activity for the volunteer will be to support the disabled in the workshops according to interests and specific knowledge and experiences. The volunteer can choose between bakery, kitchen, or gardening.
if the volunteer has a driving license, he/she will be in charge of being a chauffeur to different activities
Being able to play an instrument would be relevant, but not essential
Volunteers will only work with the less disabled and challenging disabled
Read more about the project on the EVS-database or Hertha´s website www.hertha.dk/
To apply
Send your filled EVS Application Form to email@example.com
Midtjysk Efterskole
Next volunteer period: Beginning of January 2019 –End of June 2020
Deadline for application: 23rd of September 2018
Number of volunteers: 2
Volunteer profile: over the age of 22, out-going, sociable and has a sense of humor
Interested in sports, outdoor life, music or arts
Also has Interest in learning Mydtjysk Efterskole´s teaching methods and school system
Description of the project
The school is located in the little town of Ejstrupholm and the school is easily accessed by bus with links to the train both to Aarhus, the 2nd biggest city in Denmark, and Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
The school currently has room for 134 students at our school with fairly equal balance between girls and boys and the students live and study at the school for one year only.
The students are living away from home for the best part of a year and are expected to participate in a small community, where teamwork is very important considering that the students live, work, clean and eat together at the school. Any volunteer would be expected to also play a vital role in this community and quickly develop a personal, yet professional relationship to the students.
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Read more about the project on the EVS-database or Mydtjysk Website: www.midtjyskefterskole.dk/
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Volunteering at FEE
Deadline: 30 September the latest.
Volunteer period: 7 January 2019 to 9 November 2019
Duration: 10 months
Accommodation: the volunteer will live in a shared apartment or with a host family.
Description of the project
The FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) Head office is located in Sydhavn in Copenhagen. The office is shared with Friluftsraadet (The Danish Outdoor Council). The office arrangement provides for a very international working environment. Permanent staff members are of different nationalities – from Denmark, Ireland, France, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Israel, USA, Germany, Cyprus and India. Apart from the permanent staff, FEE has more than 80 member organisations in over 75 countries with whom the volunteer will be working daily.
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August 13, 2012
Tengelmann CEO Haub talks multi-channel
Active in two worlds: LZ editors Silvia Flier and Mathias Vogel cross-examine Karl-Erivan Haub on his growing online empire
Since his appointment as Tengelmann CEO in 2000, Haub has presided over a steady implosion at the once dominant family-owned company and has radically downsized the Mülheim-based retail group.
However, anyone who thought this fifth-generation family representative was bidding adieu in instalments has seriously underestimated the man. Since 2010, Haub has also been enthusiastically building an empire of online businesses.
A score of participations and a big learning curve later, Haub (52) is probably in a unique position as a retailer. He can compare the merits of clicks and bricks, and make as shrewd a guess as anyone regarding how best to combine them.
In 2011 Mülheim-based Tengelmann posted revenues of €7.3bn, but all Tengelmann's larger stores, its discount subsidiary "Plus" in Germany and eastern Europe, as well as the "A&P" supermarkets in the US have now been sold.
Today in bricks & mortar, Tengelmann Group is essentially a clothing discounter ("Kik") and a regional supermarket operator in the Northern Rhine area as well as in Greater Berlin and Munich. The company also has a majority stake in leading DIY multiple "Obi".
Herr Haub, why are you powering away so hard in online businesses?
Because we want to learn more about how online business works. It's a different world with its own set of rules. It's also fun developing new ideas and business concepts. Who knows, maybe we'll hit on something big.
Why so tentative a response?
Not everyone who has tried their luck on the internet has struck gold. Perhaps only two out of ten will make it and achieve national or even international success.
Could Zalando, the online shoes and clothing shop you have taken a 9 per cent share in, be one of the success stories?
Zalando might make it. It is certainly an exception...and has made remarkable progress. Revenues tripled to more than €500m during the last business year. Zalando has the potential to become a major brand.
But Zalando still makes a loss. In fact, losses are increasing faster than annual revenues.
Zalando is still in the development stage. You need money to build something up. Zalando needs to invest a lot in marketing, logistics and, above all, IT and software. It's just the same with bricks & mortar, entrepreneurs have to put their money up front before they can make a profit.
Would you say that the internet is more of a niche game for retailers?
That would seem to be the case at the moment, or at least in Germany. That's because there haven't been so many investments in the trade yet. It's different in the USA where a lot of money is invested in start-ups and even new market entrants have deep pockets....
Are you worried about burning your money?
We are investing in an area of business which belongs to the future. Our investments are limited because we participate in start-ups where the costs are relatively small. That said, we don't intend to throw our money out the window.
How much money have you invested so far?
A lower three-figure million sum to date.
One of your companies has already gone bust. Do you think there will be any more?
Our family group participates in a vehicle called Tengelmann Venture, and we work on the basis that not all the projects this company invests in will be successful.
But surely at the end of the day your goal is to make money?
You bet. Last year, for example, we sold a stake we owned in a company and made a buck or two in the process.
Who do you think has the best chances of success, established bricks & mortar retailers or internet newcomers?
I think the better question would be: what can both systems learn from each other, and where are the advantages in each system?
Where are they then?
Internet retailing has a big advantage in terms of the huge, and almost unlimited, choice which online shops can offer. Bricks & mortar retailing, where sales surfaces are finite, is totally different: you have to limit your assortment and make a selection.
Why, then, bother with bricks & mortar at all?
There are trades where online doesn't work so well. In food retailing, for instance, success doesn't depend on selection, but on one's capacity to get the goods as quickly and reliably as possible to the customer and at a viable cost.
Fresh produce and chilled food can't just be dumped somewhere for collection.
Why then are Tengelmann's supermarkets trying an online delivery service?
We've been doing this for years. We want to see whether we can do it despite the problems. We are concentrating on big cities and also have a lot of commercial customers, whether offices or doctors' surgeries. This reduces delivery problems.
Tesco is a bricks & mortar retailer which also sells online. What do you think of them?
They are certainly helped by the fact that net margins in the UK are several times higher than in Germany. Sending food is expensive. If that wasn't the case, you'd have a lot of pure online players in the business.
There are still some who say that it's cheaper to sell over the internet?
That's not the case with food, at least in Germany. No pure online retailer would be able to match the discounters on price. The cost of delivery alone would make this impossible...
So, here too, everything comes down to price?
If you haven't got the right price, online is not going to work for you either. That said, it's completely wrong to assume that online only sells via price. Everything depends on the total offer.
Can you give an example?
Zalando, for instance. It doesn't undercut the prices normally found in shoe and clothing shops.
Which channel involves more costs?
It's most expensive when you do both. Traditional retailers who also start online operations have to build the new business up while not neglecting their existing store base. Believe you me, online isn't good for your margin.
But online retailers don't have to pay rent or modernise their store base. They also have lower energy costs and need fewer staff?
True, but they have other costs. For instance, they have to spend a lot more on software and IT systems than bricks & mortar retailers. That can cost billions.
Look at the latest quarterly figures for Amazon. The world's largest pure online player has billions in annual revenues, but hardly makes anything below the line because it costs billions to maintain and develop its business systems.
You said earlier that clicks & mortar is the most expensive option. Why then is Obi trying to build an online shop?
Our subsidiary Obi is an established retailer. As DIY market leader in Germany, it benefits from extremely high brand recognition. That's also very advantageous when it comes to being perceived in virtual retailing.
How advantageous?
When you are a retailer, people have to find you. What the site of the store is for bricks & mortar, your position on a Google search list is for the internet. That's not as easy, however, as it sounds.
We have therefore created our own company, Tengelmann New Media, which deals exclusively with online marketing. We employ experts who used to be pure online specialists. Their knowledge is essential...
Do different rules apply on the internet?
Yes, especially in marketing. In all other things, it's more or or less like bricks & mortar retailing. That's why we don't just give money to start-ups.
We show them how the daily business of retailing works, we teach them how to do their accounts and to control their costs. These are things which our young entrepreneurial business partners tend to forget...
Obi uses its own name on the internet. Other companies tend to separate their online from their bricks & mortar marketing worlds. Do you think that's right?
No, I don't. At the end of the day, a company which works in both worlds and which sells identical products under different brand names is only competing against itself...
So multichannel is the way forward?
Yes, especially in the DIY business. Our customers don't only use Obi's online shop to buy things... It also contains a lot of information for DIY enthusiasts.
The Obi platform is also a community where customers can exchange information and help each other. That's all good for the Obi brand.
Is online more than just retailing?
Much more; in fact, it's a whole new world. It's changing our shopping habits and making everything faster. It has huge potential, much of which we haven't perhaps even envisaged yet, but it also brings totally new challenges.
Is it still possible to be a retailer and not go online?
No one today can afford not to be online.
Related article in German: Lebensmittel Zeitung, no. 32, 10.08.2012, by Mathias Vogel & Silvia Flier


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The photograph shows the rebuilding of Napier businesses after the devastating 3 February 1931 earthquake and subsequent fire. The image, taken looking towards the corner of Hastings and Tennyson streets, shows the foundations of the Masonic Hotel block. Across the road is the new Market Reserve building.
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By Doug Darling, Executive Producer
"How much does a video cost?" is the most common question we get. So, we've asked video creators to identify a video they like & let us know what they thought it would cost to produce. The only catch: IT'S NOT THEIR VIDEO (so all posts are merely an estimate by each video creator on what they thought a similar video might cost). Enjoy the series!
So, how much did that video cost?
This video has popped up a couple of times in the last year at both events we've worked on and on TV and it really stuck with me as a beautiful, clever video with a simple concept and stunning execution.
The first thing that impresses me is the creative. An organization like Export Development Canada has a potentially dry subject matter – and even if you try to excite it a bit, the first inclination may be to show lots of freightliners, crates and things that relate to the physical act of exporting. That's cool and all, but this has a much more crafty, simple and most likely, more affordable approach.
Now there are several things I can't know about this production, but here are some things I will take the liberty of assuming:
For instance, there's a chance that they may have done custom music, but I feel that this was stock. Also, it's hard to say how much the creative cost on this due to how much brand discovery work was done prior, or if they made the concept and created the verbiage and tone from scratch.
Also, I'll assume the actor was an ACTRA member, although they could have potentially found a model that had basic acting skills.
They brought in a lot of artificial light to fake the sun (you don't want to plan for the location of the real sun or your time is really limited) and they may have used a large tungsten Lamphead to give that yellow sunset look. And as there were limiting camera moves (small dollys and jib shots) I would imagine they didn't have to build a set, and chose a modern house, that's optimal for shooting.
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- Colorist – $1000
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- Foley/Sound Design: $400
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Ben Gillen had worked with the best and brightest at Caltech. CMC students raised the bar.
So, how does Gillen's new algorithm for strategic investment decisions work?
Traditional optimization techniques struggle to create effective portfolios that contain many securities even with relatively long return histories. Gillen's algorithm overcomes these data limitations by grouping securities into smaller clusters to form a group of balanced portfolios. By diversifying across these "subset portfolios," his algorithm robustly separates the signal from the noise in historical return data.
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His CMC students have "a willingness to tackle questions in a fearless manner, go out and experiment, just do it and see what happens," Gillen said. "A grad student would get all caught up with the modeling and theory."
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"Let me tell you about Coleman," Gillen says, beaming with avuncular pride. At their first work meeting, the FEI-based investigator had directed his new research assistant to read the academic paper explaining his method. The 71-page paper presents a dense mathematical exposition of the algorithm, including hints at refinements that focus on how to best diversify across the clustered "subset portfolios."
"I asked Coleman to think about it," Gillen recalls.
At their second meeting, Cornell brought code.
Gillen was both stunned and delighted.
"Coleman had already started working on implementing this refinement that I'd only sketched out in a very vague way," he says.
Cornell spent the summer running thousands of data-intensive simulations on sample portfolios of many sizes at all different risk and return levels. Gillen calls his newest research assistant's contribution "a genuinely meaningful refinement to the algorithm. I'm in the process of revising this paper," he adds, "and some of the figures that Coleman put together will go into the next draft."
Another research assistant who has knocked Gillen's socks off is Jingcheng "Eric" Zhu '20.
Gillen found his algorithm "works amazingly in simulation," but "in the real world, asset returns change, expectations change, risk changes." Eric, he said, has been able to get the algorithm to perform better with real data, by "looking at how to go about estimating the inputs to the algorithm, playing with lots of different approaches."
As with Cornell, Gillen merely instructed Zhu, a Shanghai native, to read his paper and think about the problem.
When Zhu returned, he, too, came armed with code.
Gillen's first research assistant, Seth Taylor-Brill, was similarly "awesome" and "amazingly self-starting" in exploring approaches to select the tuning parameters for the algorithm. Now a senior with double-majors in PPE and economics, Taylor-Brill is back in the Bauer Center research lab after a summer interning with the FDIC.
Gillen dreams of growing his current team. He's hoping to bring two more students onto his team this Spring.
"I hope to eventually reach a point where I have a crew of six to eight RAs who are just working on their own little projects. In my ideal world, these students train each other, so I can sit back and harvest a lot of research while the kids do all the work," he says, with a laugh.
It's hardly a one-way street, however.
"The students are learning great quant skills that are rare and in high demand," Gillen says. "My job here is first to be an educator and a mentor—to help these students grow and develop and learn things that they will be able to use in life."
It pleases Cornell to be given so much autonomy. He plans to write his senior thesis on his project in Gillen's research group.
"Professor Gillen doesn't like his RAs doing busy-work," notes the La Cañada-Flintridge native, whose parents, Karen Cornell '84 and Curtice Cornell '85, are CMC alumni and retired financial professionals. "I have my own entire project. I answer to him, but it's my own work coming to fruition. I see results, and I'm happy with that."
If it leads to a deeper understanding of Gillen's algorithm and its applications, better still.
"In engaging on financial research, these students are head-and-shoulders above the students I had at Caltech," Gillen says. "They're so interested and driven. It makes them so much fun to work with. I wish I had enough bandwidth to work with 20 of them at a time."
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[01] Eroglu briefed on economic packageAccording to KIBRIS (22.5.00) the so-called Prime Minister of the pseudostate Dervis Eroglu has claimed that the country has a stable ``government'', adding that the so-called National Unity Party NUP communal Liberation Party CLP coalition ``government'' is working with goodwill in a bid to overcome the problems.
Mustafa Akinci, so-called acting and deputy prime minister and state minister, economy and finance minister Mehmet Bayram; and Public Works and Transportation Minister Salih Miroglu visited Eroglu, who is recovering from a recent illness at the Jasmine Court Hotel in occupied Kyrenia and gave him detailed information on the final version of the economic package the so-called Cabinet prepared on 20 May.
In a statement to the media during the meeting, Eroglu said that they will hold a detailed discussion on the socio-economic package, adding that this country, might be faced with economic problems from time to time.
Noting that certain ``government'' scenarios have been mentioned recently, Eroglu said that this is the first time that the TRNC has had such a harmonious so-called coalition government and that creating a government crisis would not benefit anyone.
Pointing out that if all the sectors of the community are in solidarity then the problems can be overcome more easily, Eroglu said that a period in which the country can be in cooperation, unity and solidarity has begun, adding that if measures are not taken now more bitter measures might be necessary in the future.
[02] Talat faults `coalition/ for imposing packageAccording to KIBRIS (22.5.00) the leader of the Republican Turkish Party (RTP) Mehmet Ali Talat has said that the so-called National Unity Party- Communal Liberation Party (UBP-TKP) coalition is trying to impose its economic package on the community and called on the ``government'' to change its stand.
In a written statement, RTP leader Mehmet Ali Talat maintained that the leaders of the two parties seem insistent on ignoring the principle of participation, one of the basic principles of democracy, and on doing whatever they please. Talat pointed out that the so-called government will merely brief the parties and organizations outside the NUP and the CLP since it is impossible to reach a consensus. He asked: ``How can a moral or de facto consensus be reached on a package drawn up without the input of other organizations?''
Talat asserted that social accords can only be reached moving from the grassroots up, and he cited the conciliation document drawn up when the `RTP was in power as an example. He pointed out that the approach of imposing policies and the omission of nongovernmental organizations at a time when Cyprus is getting ready to join the EU membership process and in the midst of a serious economic crisis can benefit neither the country nor the community. Such policies, he said, can only further the interests of those circles that want to usher in antidemcoratic regimes.
[03] GIAD on bank crisis, economyAccording to KIBRIS (16.5.00) the Association of Young Businessmen (GIAD) has called for the introduction of urgent measures and structural reforms in order to preclude a bank crisis, to overcome the present economic problems, and to achieve progress.
In a four-page statement on the economic situation and the demands of the young businessmen, GIAD Chairman Vargin Varer has said that resources worth about $100 million have been transferred to Turkey through Is Bankasi and Ziraat Bankasi in the past few months.
The statement, a copy of which has been sent to the so-called State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Akinci, notes that the programme of the so-called coalition ``government'', which was set up with the overwhelming support of the people in the 1998 general ``elections'', contained measures for securing economic revival. However, the statement says, none of these measures were put to practice for a whole year.
[04] Turkey: Sezer presents Ataturk peace prize to DenktashThis year/s International Ataturk Peace Prize was given by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to Rauf Denktash, Turkish Cypriot community leader.
Denktash arrived at the Cankaya mansion on 19 May.
Praising Denktash/s services to his community Turkish President Sezer gave Denktash a plaque, a badge, a certificate, and 1,000 gold coins. Denktash said that he considers the prize as one given to his people.
Denktash said that the 1,000 gold coins will be used to buy equipment for two hospitals in the occupied area.
[05] Ecevit and Denktash discuss economic crisis in the occupied areaAccording to Ankara Anatolia English service, 13:25 GMT 19.5.00) Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit met on Friday with Rauf Denktash who came to Ankara to receive the Ataturk International Peace Award.
Following the 45-minute meeting at the Hilton Hotel in Ankara, Prime Minister Ecevit and Denktash held a press conference.
Prime Minister Ecevit said that the meeting had focused on economic difficulties in the occupied area.
He said, ``we did not need to discuss foreign relations and political problems of the TRNC at the meeting, because the attitudes of Turkey and the TRNC, and President Denktash/ determination are clear. A satisfactory solution cannot be found unless the existence of two separate and independent states on the island is recognized''.
[06] Project for eradicating contagious diseasesThe front page of KIBRIS (20.5.00) under the title ``2,5 million dollars from UNOPS for contagious diseases'', refers to the campaign which has begun to eradicate contagious diseases.
The so-called director of the Veterinary department, of the ``forestry and agricultural ministry'' Kamil Aktolgali said that during the first stage of the campaign for the eradication of contagious diseases, 2,500,000 dollars were put aside for research by UNOPS (United Nations Office of Project Service) who finances this campaign.
Aktolgali explained that ``at this moment we do not have the money, but the money has been put aside for the work. Everything from A to Z has been covered by UNOPS.
[07] Eight thousand tourists expected from Alanya and AnamurAccording to KIBRIS (20.5.00) regular sea services between Alanya (south Turkey) and occupied Kyrenia port started yesterday.
The paper says that 110 people arrived yesterday in the occupied area, by FERGUN EXPRESS II of Fergun Maritime Company.
KIBRIS adds that in June a new sea line will be opened between Anamur (south Turkey) and the occupied Kyrenia port, and together with Alanya- Kyrenia service, it is expected that eight thousand tourists will visit the occupied area from these two ports.
From the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office (PIO) Server at http://www.pio.gov.cy/
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat - Roadside Picnic Addons Pack v.1.1 - Game mod - Download
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Roadside Picnic Addons Pack is a mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, created by punk0x29a.
Description (in authors own words):
Addons Pack designed to make the CoC more immersive and more faithful to the original Strugacky's/Tarkovsky's works.
Hi there!
This pack has been growing within my CoC installation for quite a while now... After watching some YT reviews in which folks had trouble with applying addons, I've decided to share it.
Hopefully you'll enjoy it.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Roadside Picnic. I find this novel to be one of the most inspiring pieces of literature I've ever stumbled upon in my lifetime. Also - via the very first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. press announcment back in 2001 - I've heard about the book for the first time, obtained it (which wasn't easy at all back then, almost like finding an artifact) and immediately got hooked on the whole post-apo genre.
Due to this, I feel kind of obligated to give something back. With help of many great CoC addons, I've rebalanced quite a few aspects of the gameplay to fit the book's narration and atmosphere.
This pack is definitely not aimed at hardcore veterans. It's made mostly for the rookie players. Yet, IronMan (permadeath) mode is highly recommended, not to say - required... Immersion was my primary goal when compiling this pack, and no other gameplay paradigm yields comparable amount of emotions for the player to experience.
All right, koniec pieprzenia o dupie Marynie, time for the interesting stuff:
1) This mod compiles contents of quite a few addons into one - relatively stable - package; included:
a) Immersion:
- Living Zone by Skelja ( Moddb.com )
AI is working simultaneously in all areas right from the start. In addition to the unlocked AI, this addon makes NPC's more life-like and adventurous, less predictable... There are no safe-zones in The Zone.
- DoctorX Questlines 1.24 ( Moddb.com )
- Modified Pay for DocX Questlines ( Moddb.com ) (tweaked a lot).
The reason is giving the player some goal at the beginning. It's rather superficial, sure, but it does the job very well. It doesn't get in your way of aimless wandering, so I'd call it a non-intrusive enhancenment.
And, when you run out of "important" stuff to do, you always have a place to visit... Non-zero-sum game scenario.
- Dan's Desolation Mod ( Moddb.com )
Set both human and mutant populations to 0.25 in the main menu to feel the effect.
In the book (and the movie) there were no NPCs in The Zone. Yet, it's another universum, another rules, another medium... All and all, The Zone with more space to breath is the way I like it.
Nothing beats the view of a lone zombified stalker moaning far away on the roof of an abandoned train, in the fog, when the sun is rising on the horizon at five o'clock in the morning...
- Dan's Faction Overhaul ( Moddb.com )
- DoctorX Dynamic Faction Relations 1.8 ( Moddb.com )
First one makes factions mechanics (and some related AI behaviour) less nonsensical, the other one adds to the unpredictability factor.
- Muffled PDA/Geiger Counter 1.2 (Moddb.com ))
- Inaccurate Zombies (Moddb.com)
- Patched Gore Mod 1.2 ( Moddb.com )
WYSIWYG. Small, yet ingenious tweaks.
- Sound Restoration V2b2 ( Moddb.com ) ( tweaked a lot)
SR V2b2 adds a lot more variety to the game's soundscape, but it was way too loud in its original form. All the included sounds have been modified by hand using ffmpeg/sox to be truly ambient. When you sit on the cement factory roof silently at noon, you can barely hear distant moaning and gunshots... But you can feel them all the time.
- Smurth's Dynamic Hud v18.104.22.168 ( Moddb.com )
No introduction should be required here. SDH is a must-have. Best played with the crosshair turned off.
b) Gameplay:
- Deadly Anomalies V1.04 ( Moddb.com )
In the book, falling into an anomaly meant instant death. D.A. addon gets as close as it gets, and it scales according to the difficulty, too.
- Outfit Addon 1.4.6 ( Moddb.com )
- Arsenal Overhaul 3.1 (v.5) ( Moddb.com )
Due to the variety, ammo is somewhat harder to obtain and, therefore, more valuable. Trading - even when you're getting ripped off - becomes a must, especially before taking a long trip into The Zone.
Dan's Monster Mods ( Moddb.com ) ( partial )
Not fully merged - only the stealth part has been incorporated. Moving silently and staying in the shadows can give you a huge advantage when executed properly.
c) Graphics:
- Structures Redux 1.1 (Moddb.com )
- Absolute Nature Redux 1.17 (Moddb.com )
- S.W.T.C. - Call of Chernobyl Edition 1.11 (Moddb.com )
- Enhanced Sunsets and Sunrises 1.08 (Moddb.com )
No DX11 enhancenments here, so you must apply one on your own if you want to. On the other hand, it works platinum under WINE software.
2) In-house modifications:
a) Custom damage balancing
Weapons have more punch. For everyone. And let no one be left behind... Nerfed weaponry in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is the most frequent complaint I've heard.
Upgrading your gear in terms of armour is somewhat meaningful now (long, dangerous trips to Red Forest just to get that silly +3% you can't even feel, anyone?). While more kevlar on your body does not make you invincible, it gives you a bit wider margin for surviving all those pesky snipers hiding in the bushes near Skadovsk, or the horde of zombies ambushing you from behind that buidling... Generally speaking, fully upgraded armor actually helps you deal with situations for which you can't be prepared. Still, don't even dream about getting out alive from things like point-blank machinegun fire...
b) Loadouts:
Every faction starts with a short arm suited for that particular group, and a random long arm.
Loners, Bandits and Clear Sky start with basic novice outfits - from the dialogue it seems that those are newbies, ill prepared and disregarded by their superiors. (Well, maybe except for the Clear Sky, but we all know how rich in resources those guys are...)
Duty, Freedom and Mercenaries start with regular armors; they're an experienced, reliable people, or at least that's what I get from what the NPCs are saying.
Monolith member starts as a regular monolithian, with somewhat limited weaponry due to the scripting limitations I hope to overcome one day.
Soldiers are equipped with regular military uniform, as every soldier does.
c) Artifacts:
Based on Dan's Artifact Balance ( Moddb.com ), but tweaked beyond recognition. Artifacts are rare and very expensive, just like in the book. Also, they're more faithful to their relevant in-game descriptions.
4) Installation
Just copy the gamedata/ folder to fresh CoC's 1.4.22 root. Copy appdata/ as well if you're interested in my default config scheme (DeusEx inspired).
As for the HUD configuration, check out SDH page for detailed explanation.
3) Known bugs:
Game can work like a charm for six hours straight, and then crash to desktop randomly with no error message at all. Be sure to limit QS number to 1 and save very often (no issue on IronMan, right?).
Some quests seem to be stuck when reaching certain points (mutant hunts, escort mission and such). Quick save and quick load helps in 99% of cases. Also, ask major characters for side missions before taking DocX's ones, as the sidemissions dialogue options will get disabled until "important" quest completion.
Don't get into tight spaces with your followers. Run towards bunkers doors, or be prepared for lots and lots of jiggling around... Also, some NPCs like to spawn in wrong places when starting a new game - just give them some time to get to their posts, they'll reach them eventually.
Some traders can be tricked for infinite money. I hope to fix it one day, at least if it won't get fixed beforehand. To abuse or not to abuse - I'll leave it to the player's conscience...
Unreachable stashes are most probably a vanilla issue. Here's a quick&dirty hack for some of them: Moddb.com
This pack is incompatible with additional monsters (tark, fish, komar, you name it). It'll crash for sure, but you're very welcome to try to get it working.
Game can crash when entering Truck Cemetery: Add -noprefetch CLI switch to the game launcher, it'll work then.
And, last but not least: spawning in front of enemies when moving between areas...
Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to overcome this one. Better back up your save files on IronMan before every transition, or have your finger ready to press the QL button as fast as possible... Nevertheless, with this pack issue is far, far less noticeable/severe/notorious...
4) Unknown bugs:
I've been playing this pack on my own - obviously - so there are probably countless bugs left unnoticed. Game balancing can also be way off for some of you.
Every piece of feedback is invaluable.
- Last update: Sunday, April 19, 2020
- Genre: Action
- File size: 2276.2 MB
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Central States Trucking (CST) Expands Market Leading Position with Purchase of Multi-Modal Transport Inc. (MMT).
Oak Brook, IL – July 25, 2018 - CST, founded in 1980, and currently one of the largest intermodal drayage companies in the United States (22 National Offices, with over 1,500 total Employees and Drivers), has acquired Multi-Modal Transport Inc. (MMT). MMT represents the seventh acquisition that has been completed by CST since it was acquired by Forward Air Corp. (FWRD).
All of the management, office staff, and drivers of Multi-Modal Transport will transition to CST and will continue to provide the same high level of service as their customer base have enjoyed for many years. CST expects the existing growth in the Minneapolis market to continue and plans to further add both driver and operating resources to satisfy our customer's strong demand in this market.
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Think one fearless road can lead to Oberlin? So do we.
I'm not good at making decisions. I am that person who blocks the aisle in the grocery store for ten minutes trying to distinguish between five identical brands of ketchup. Asking me what movie to see or what restaurant to go to will launch a long and agonizingly complicated process. Even after I announce my decision, I'm often still making up my mind.
So, you know, picking a college was kind of a big deal. I applied Early Decision to Oberlin, and it was no big surprise to anyone. But I didn't really "choose" Oberlin until I got here. And now it's my pleasure to present, for the very first time, in stunning technicolor: the long and winding road that brought me to Obieland...
In eighth grade I discovered the wonderful world of college viewbooks. It's not that middle school wasn't a scintillating intellectual utopia, but the inky college course catalogs... the glossy images of students clustered on grassy quads, fervently discussing Foucault... Well, they were a lot more alluring than geometry worksheets.
And so my quest began. Just as Mr. Smith went to Washington, just as Harold and Kumar went to White Castle, so I, too, would fulfill my destiny by going to college.
I kept files with detailed notes about each school. While the written notes are hilarious in retrospect, the spreadsheets are the best. I collected all the usual stats, and then went a little farther. The number of languages offered, the number of library holdings per student... I could give a complete statistical breakdown of any of the schools on my list. I couldn't actually imagine myself at any of them. But maybe if I crunched enough numbers, I could find a magic algorithm that would point me to the perfect school, and suddenly divine understanding would sweep down upon me! It was almost Pythagorean.
When you're poring through endless books, catalogs, and mailings, trying to figure out what makes one school different from another, it's easy to latch onto numbers. They're clinical, objective, concrete. But the things that will actually define your life once you get to college... they just don't fit into a spreadsheet. In the midst of this blur of numbers, my dad's memories of Oberlin showed me another side of college life: learning to make granola in Fairchild Co-op, going to conservatory recitals, DJing for WOBC over Winter Term. I started to think about college as a real place where I would actually live &mdash and the college in my head was a lot like Oberlin.
The spring of my junior year I visited seven or eight colleges &mdash mostly small, quirky liberal arts schools like Oberlin. The routine was the same at every school: morning class, tour, lunch, info session, walk around observing random corners of campus. Then my family got back in the car to compare notes and find our hotel. The whole time, I was busy imagining. Was that the dorm where I'd live my freshman year? Was that the professor whose class would change my life? Would my friends and I hang out on the quad just like the students I saw?
I expected love at first sight &mdash the One True College that would just feel right the instant I set foot on campus. So I kept an eye out for fireworks, lightning bolts, and other divine portents.
Oberlin was the last school I visited, and easily the most anticipated. It was also one of the few places where I stayed overnight, and I felt a little lost. My host was nice, but very, very different from me ... and I was pretty shy. Fortunately, I encountered lots of people who weren't. They invited me to their performances, offered to swap comic books, fed me plantains and Cat cookies, talked to me about Herodotus and ghosts and the graffiti in the Mudd bathrooms. I caught a jazz show at the Cat in the Cream, Oberlin's coffee house, then crammed into a lounge, along with half the residents of Barrows, to watch a presidential candidates' debate. It wasn't home. But folks seemed curious, passionate, open. I decided I could live there.
Bottom line, I liked most of the colleges I visited. There's this dream that I had a lot back then where seven little Eli clones went to seven different colleges for four years, and then had a reunion. They turned out differently, but they all turned out pretty well. I still think I would have done just fine at any of the schools on my list, and it was something of a comfort to realize that. But it didn't make it any easier to choose between them.
And then it was just me, at my desk, with a pile of college applications.
I sat and thought about all the colleges I'd visited. And the thing that jumped out about Oberlin was that I wanted to go back. Yes, I'd sat through a lecture and slept in a dorm. But there were so many things I hadn't done! I hadn't visited a co-op, hadn't explored the museum, hadn't eaten at the Feve. I imagined myself taking lessons in the Con, or doing something outrageous for Winter Term.
At the same time, I wasn't sure if I had the guts. After all, Oberlin students were passionate and feisty: they taught their own classes, cooked meals for hundreds of people, traveled to other continents for Winter Term, got arrested trying to save the world. The more I thought about it, the more I worried that getting in was one thing; living up to the sheer awesomeness of the school was another. On the other hand, maybe it was a place where even a shy, geeky kind of kid could be awesome, too &mdash a place that would push me &mdash a place that I wouldn't grow out of.
So I applied Early Decision. It was essentially a dare. I felt a little like I was diving off a cliff &mdash but I desperately wanted to be at Oberlin.
After everything else I've written on this blog, I don't think I need to say that Oberlin has become home. I've been here for two years, and every day I'm inspired and intimidated (in a good way) by the folks around me. And I still feel like I'm nowhere near done with this place. I don't know what possessed me to come here, but I'm pretty darn glad I did.
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I can't believe I'm tearing up reading your words, Eli, but on the other hand maybe I can - I've always been something of a drama queen.
I also applied early decision. Oberlin offered me the least aid, but I went anyhow. I didn't visit until after I was accepted, then fell head over heels in love.
There isn't a single day that goes by that I don't thank my lucky stars that my awesome high school guidance counselor, Mr. Murphy, said to me, "Oberlin College? Go. That place will nurture you in a way no other school in the country can."
Posted by: Mirla Criste Agnir '85 on April 6, 2010 12:42 PM
It's always interesting to hear about how other people came to make Oberlin their home! Yay Eli!
Posted by: Helena on April 6, 2010 9:23 PM
I had spreadsheets too. Didn't overnight anywhere else, though I visited four other places. Applying ED was slightly scary, only because it meant I was really actually going to college omg, but it was right for me and I'm glad I did it. Yay!
Posted by: Kate on April 9, 2010 11:09 PM
How awesome to know that there's a second queer-oriented Eli Goldberg from Vermont who applied to university early decision...even if we're 17 years apart!
Good luck there!!!
Posted by: Eli on May 3, 2010 6:18 PM
@Eli: That's so cool! Thanks for setting a precedent :)
Posted by: Eli on May 4, 2010 5:28 PM


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