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E-Z, Convenient Solution: Consolidation
by David Smith
Posted 3/1/1999 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
One National Bank's Layton "Scooter" Stuart apparently plans to open some bank branches in the 30 Rivercity Energy Co. stores he bought in January.
"What I find interesting about what [Stuart] is doing is that banks are supposed to merge and the big oil companies who supply all of us are merging, but a small-town banker in Arkansas merging with a small oil company in Arkansas isn't supposed to happen," says Mike Coulson, president of Coulson Oil Inc. "He's just saying, 'If a convenience store can lease space to a full-service bank, like Fina [at Amboy] did with National Bank of Arkansas, why can't a bank do the reverse?' Well, they can. They are.
"If they can have a bank branch cheaper and still serve their customer base and not have to have the [land and building] investment on a street corner, that's OK."
Neither Stuart nor Barksdale McKay, the former Rivercity owner who still manages the stores, returned several telephone calls to comment for this story.
Steve Griffin, owner and managing member of Griffin Express in Jonesboro, says Stuart's strategy is "very smart."
"There's no question there is plenty of opportunities to do that," Griffin says. "If you have the right real estate where the traffic can comfortably come in, purchase their gasoline, a gallon of milk and cash their payroll check, why not?"
Griffin says Union Planters Corp. of Memphis approached him a year ago and put four automated teller machines in his stores.
"They came to us and said, 'It makes a lot of sense to put a location in your stores. We don't want to spend the money to put a full-service branch in your stores, but we'll put an ATM in,'" Griffin says.
"There will be a lot of people who do full-service branches, but you have to rebuild the whole structure. Banks want very comfortable, inviting, beautiful facilities."
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Headline: E-Z Mart Acquisitions Since 1983
No. of
Chain Sites Location Year
Handy Hut 9 Lubbock, Texas, area 1983
Terrible Willies 6 Beaumont, Texas, area 1985
Bell's 8 Beaumont, Texas, area 1986
Marr's Short Stop 16 Central Texas 1986
Jif-E J 7 Eastern Arkansas 1988
Majik Market 11 Little Rock area 1988
Dandy Dan's 8 Southwest Louisiana 1988
Mapco Petroleum 14 San Antonio, Little Rock 1988
Thirsty's 3 Brownwood, Texas 1990
Spe-Dee Mart 35 Northwest Arkansas 1991
Southland Corp. 17 Longview, Texas, area 1992
Southland Corp. 8 Bryan-College Station, Texas 1993
Mr. M 41 Dallas-Fort Worth area 1995
Mr. Quick 28 Eastern Oklahoma 1996
Shur Pak 7 Texarkana 1996
Mr. O 9 Eastern Oklahoma, south Missouri 1997
Evett's Oil 4 Mount Pleasant, Texas 1997
Lone Star Ice 37 San Antonio 1999
Tab Chart: Stuart's Rivercity Stores
In January, Layton "Scooter" Stuart, chairman of One National Bank in Little Rock, paid about $25 million for 30 Rivercity Energy Inc. convenience stores from Cabot to Benton. Here are the Pulaski County locations, most of which are Texaco stores:
Little Rock
1200 S. University Ave.
3200 S. University Ave.
16700 Cantrell Road
7601 Cantrell Road
Highway 10 and Chenal Parkway
10801 W. Markham St.
9001 W. Markham St.
4100 W. Markham St.
10100 Rodney Parham Road
2620 W. 65th St.
8900 Stagecoach Road
8701 Fourche Dam Pike
700 E. Roosevelt Road
North Little Rock
4400 McCain Blvd.
6915 JFK Blvd.
4800 MacArthur Drive
5919 Crystal Hill Road
2522 Highway 161
2428 Wildwood Ave.
1527 Main St.
20515 Highway 365 N.
Headline: E-Z, Convenient Solution: Consolidation
By David Smith
E -Z Mart Stores Inc. is negotiating to purchase 87 Stax convenience stores in Arkansas and Oklahoma, marking the biggest acquisition in the Texarkana, Texas, firm's 29-year history.
If the deal is completed, the 87 Stax stores would give E-Z Mart 517 locations in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Louisiana.
The purchase, which could total $100 million, highlights a continuing trend of convenience-store consolidation sweeping through the country and beginning to spread through Arkansas.
Layton "Scooter" Stuart, chairman of One National Bank of North Little Rock, bought 30 convenience stores in Pulaski and Saline counties from Rivercity Energy Co. in January. And mom-and-pop stores all over Arkansas are selling or closing because of an inability to meet federal environmental regulations.
The reason for consolidation is three-fold, says Mike Coulson, president of Coulson Oil Inc. in Little Rock: technology, competition and cost of new stores.
"I would say within five years there will be half the number of convenience-store companies [in Arkansas] than there are today," Coulson says.
Customers are practically requiring new stores to have pay-at-the-pump technology because of its convenience. Those pumps cost $15,000 each, Coulson says. It's also costly to introduce scanning technology at the checkout counter, but many operators soon will be doing it.
Fighting Wal-Mart
Convenience stores are facing significant competition from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Sam's Clubs. Both Sam's Clubs in Pulaski County have gasoline pumps.
"Wal-Mart is a driving force in our business," says Coulson, whose firm supplies gasoline to 120 stores and operates 30 in Arkansas. "They don't want to buy us out; they just want to steal our customers."
Actually, Coulson says, almost every big-box retailer is selling or test-marketing gasoline. Harvest Foods already sells gasoline in Arkansas. Target Stores, Kroger Co. and even The Home Depot Inc. are testing gasoline "somewhere in the country, although I'm not sure where," Coulson says.
"They all have that empty asphalt out in front of their stores," Coulson says. "Just slap a canopy and [put in] some pumps, and with the pay-at-the-pump technology, nobody has got to be there."
To compete with the giant retailers, convenience store operators have to have bigger stores, more pumps and enter the food-service business.
"Food service may be the future of my business," Coulson says. He has three co-branded agreements in Little Rock: Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits, Burger King and Blimpie Subs & Salads.
The cost of new stores is maybe three times what it was 10 years ago. Coulson says he has $1.5 million in any new store he builds today, whereas it was about $500,000 in 1989. A big percentage of that is related to complying with the federal government's underground storage tank regulations.
Steve Griffin, owner and managing member of Griffin Express in Jonesboro, expects convenience store acquisitions to increase in Arkansas in the near future, basically because of the large oil company mergers.
"The big guys are consolidating to reduce their cost of operation," Griffin says. "The same thing is going to occur in a small way with guys like us. It's a trickle-down theory."
The environmental regulations about safe underground tanks put a lot of small operators out of business late last year because they couldn't afford to upgrade, Griffin says.
"With all this transition with the large oil companies, we all have to get a lot smarter now," he says. "The way we get smarter is to eliminate costs. Getting bigger helps us do that."
Good Fit
Most of E-Z Mart's growth has come through acquisition. Tom Coleman, president of E-Z Mart, says he expects the company to grow by 25 percent this year. It has grown by 41 percent since 1995, from 304 stores to 430. The Stax purchase would give E-Z Mart 70 percent growth since 1995.
If the deal goes through, Coleman says, E-Z Mart likely won't have to close any Stax stores because there are no conflicts with E-Z Mart stores.
"This will put us in two large markets we're not in now, which is Oklahoma City and Tulsa," Coleman says of the possible purchase of the Stax stores.
The coordination of the Arkansas Stax stores should be easy, Coleman says, because E-Z Mart is already in the markets where Stax stores are found: Little Rock, North Little Rock, Hot Springs, Hope and Texarkana.
Coleman wouldn't disclose any details of the purchase since it is still in negotiations. But at a price of around $1 million a store, E-Z Mart could be paying $75 million-$100 million for the 87 stores.
Griffin's Growth
Two years ago Griffin had 15 convenience stores. At that point, he says, he had to decide whether to get out or get bigger. He chose to get bigger. Griffin Express owns and operates about 60 convenience stores in northeast Arkansas, the Memphis area, the northwest corner of Mississippi and the bootheel of Missouri.
Convenience stores in Arkansas haven't reached the point where banks are, with large companies willing to pay high prices, like two or three times book value.
"I don't know why it won't be that way [in the future]," Griffin says. "We're experiencing what the banks did in the late '80s and early '90s. We will have a lot of big chain operators [in the future] as you see in the banks now."


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I read an article about a study evaluating the different forms of stress management for one of my social work classes. The study within the article brought up four different ways of managing stress: 1) source management, 2) relaxation, 3) thought management, and 4) prevention (Epstein, 32). Through the study conducted, the researchers were able to conclude that "the…study showed clearly that prevention is by far the most helpful competency when it comes to managing stress" (Epstein, 34).
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April 4, 1913
Raymond Sherman has bought an Eagle Motorcycle and is breaking the critter to ride.
Louis Weiss, J. S. Rockwell, and Aug. Hildebrandt are at the Kankakee marsh this week in search of ducks.
Perhaps we have not gotten any more rain than the ground needed for spring, but it is quite sure we have had wind enough already to do the year out.
Only nine members of the G. A. R. comrades could be mustered to attend Wm. Livingston's funeral, and only about 25 are left all told, and a majority of them are not able for duty.
Only a small per cent of the people are superstitious of number 13, but the year 1913 is liable to add to that list if the fatalities keep up the pace they have started with. In Crown Point the shocks and thrills have come regular for a month or more, commencing with the deaths of Margaret and Hazel Krimbill, and funerals quite regular since. It seems that both young and old have tickets in life's lottery box and that they are being drawn out quite regular, having no respect for age or health.
April 8, 1938
The common-place question at public sales of "How much am I offered?" and the auctioneer's outcry of "Sold to that guy over yonder" was a minus quantity at the public venue held by Auditor Finerty, when he attempted to sell some fifty pieces of Lake county real estate to satisfy school loans which had gone by the boards for non-payment of principal or interest by school fund borrowers. Auditor Finerty made all diligent effort to dispose of some of the advertised delinquent property, but try as he did, a public sale without buyers cannot be a success, so, according to law, the county became the owner of a lot of farming land and other real estate with improvements thereon. He explained that under the existing law if no purchasers are found for the real estate so delinquent for state school loans, the county in which the loans are made must purchase the property for an equal a out to the unpaid mortgage, plus delinquent interest and cost of advertising the sale. It is also necessary on the part of the county to have the properties appraised and then it may be sold at its appraised value.
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Center township assessor Harry H. Strong says personal property assessing schedules have now been made available to his office and deputies will start delivering them to taxpayers. State law requires that a taxpayer must sign and file his own return, but Form 101, which was introduced in 1962, has been revised and deputies will make every effort to help the taxpayer as much as possible in filing of returns, Strong explained. No appreciable change will be made in the assessment of household goods if the household has remained the same as previously, the assessor continued. Automobiles will again be assessed at one third of Red Book National Market Reports valuations; for 1963 vehicles, factory delivered price will be used as base price.


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I hope you've enjoyed the quotes thus far in June. I have to be honest and say that I'm missing my blog and my blog readers, so while I'll be sharing the additional quotes I have selected for the month of June, I'll be checking in and posting more often too.
Life continues to be crazy, but also crazy good. I'm still working on a surprise project and really starting to feel the anticipation of sharing it with you all. Be assured that all is well and that I'm entirely relieved that school is OUT …
… which brings me to the point of this post. I'm ready to share what has become an annual thing here on the blog. My summer "kid plan" for avoiding at least some of the laziness that tends to accompany ten weeks of no school and also tends to weigh heavily on moms.
This year Chase, Trey and Taft will be playing Summer Bingo. Clark has informed me that he is officially too old, in spite of the fact that there is potential for earning some extra school shopping money.
I suppose it would be potentially embarrassing for him to walk in the house with a friend and try and explain the bright yellow BINGO card (with his name on it) hanging prominently on the hook.
So, I've attached the official BINGO rules (Download BINGOrules )for playing summer bingo. For those that don't want to click and download, here's the overview:
- you get a new BINGO card each Sunday
- you can use your FREE sticker on any square you want
- you earn one ticket for every bingo (5 squares in a row)
- tickets are redeemable for things like popsicles and extra Wii time
- a BLACKOUT by Saturday night is rewarded with an extra $5.00 toward school shopping
Here's the link (Download SUMMERbingo )to my basic BINGO card, as a Word document.
I started with a table (5 rows, and 5 columns) filled with activities that I'd love to see my children do over the course of one week. So, there are 25 activities a week that they can choose from to enrich their days (hey. hey.) Their BINGO card is attached via a binder ring to a sheet of yellow stickers that they use to cover up each activity as it is completed.
I will be the gatekeeper for the sheet of dated FREE stickers and the tickets. My boys will have to come to me to acknowledge each bingo and get a ticket. I didn't make a BINGO card for Addie, but the boys have several activities on their cards that include Addie, for example: Take Addie to the park to play for 30 minutes, or draw a picture with Addie, or play Play Doh with Addie.
I will use the basic BINGO card as my template for every week, but I will also change out a few squares each week to keep things fresh — for example, the week that we go to my parents house, I've added activities like "practice your archery skills" that are specific to our location.
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I absolutely love personality quizzes. In college, I did the What Color is your Parachute quiz. It told me that a large percentage of people like myself become members of the clergy. Now, I happen to be agnostic (bordering on atheist), but if you think about it, this is actually pretty accurate. If you subtract the whole religion part of the equation, I'd be an AWESOME clergy-person. I love speaking in public. I love giving advice and listening to problems. It's a great fit.
Two years ago at work, I took the Myers Briggs test, and discovered I was an ENFP:
I am energizing, loud, easily excited, enthusiastic, casual, social, emotional, passionate, prone to overextending and procrastination. My team should know that I might overlook details and I'm most effective in the start-up of a project (vs. the implementation).
Myers Briggs is fun and the above is certainly accurate, but two years later, I don't know that I actually have benefitted from the insights. So, when they announced at work that we'd all be doing the Gallup Strengths Finder 2.0, I was excited for the quiz element, but a bit skeptical as to whether it would affect my day to day.
I have to say, this quiz was incredibly accurate, and the half-day training we did at work to accompany it was really enlightening as well. We also did a crazy Amazing Race competition, and I am pleased to report that my team won (by a LOT).We had all sorts of nutty assignments for the race, including one that led to this stunning photograph:
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7th January 2013, 12:35 AM #1
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Laptop for Photo, Video Editing
Hi there. I am looking for a laptop with a 15+ touchscreen that can fluidly handle photo and video editing. I am a photographer and will be loading many photos from a Canon Rebel onto the laptop and editing with photoshop, also viewing HD video. It is very, very important to me that the screen is top-notch, high-resolution, vivid colors.
You can disregard price in your suggestion...however, if you could also give a suggestion for a laptop that meets these parameters as best as possible around $1000, that would also be great, since that is probably more realistically my budget.
Also, what are your thoughts on getting a PC vs an Apple? Never had an Apple before.
Thank you so much for your help!
7th January 2013, 01:59 AM #2
Re: Laptop for Photo, Video Editing
Is touchscreen a dealbreaker? You'll have far more options if you drop that requirement, and they'll generally cost less.
I would suggest the 15" HP Envy Spectre XT as a starting-point for your shopping. It's a great machine if you can disregard that it's way overpriced and needs a RAM upgrade and SSD. The other problem is that it's disappeared from HP's site and is out of stock at Amazon so its future availability is in question."Manny Calavera" (Now my wife's) - Envy 14 - i5-450m, 5650M, 8GB DDR3, 160GB Intel X-25M SSD, Win 7 HP x64, Radiance Display, Slice Battery
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Re: Laptop for Photo, Video Editing
How about a compromise to maybe a Lenovo ThinkPad W530 - built in color correction and color calibration, and you can get a wacom digitizer built in. You are looking at $1500-$2000+ for that option though, but you want a high quality color accurate screen behind a sheet of finger-smudged glass, both a rare and very expensive combo.
If you can drop the touch screen completely (i.e. no Wacom either), you can be set up with a very powerful ThinkPad W530 with a matte 1080p screen with >95% color reproduction and active color correction.
The site isn't (for some reason or another) allowing selection of the color sensor, but if you call them you can get it. And they also come standard with nvidia quadro K1000M graphics, upgradable to a K2000M for beastly power (+$250).
Anyway, hope this helps! As far as touch screen machines go, I do not know of any that would fit your bill in a laptop, they are either ultrabook/tablet type machines with low horsepower and 75%~ color gamut IPS displays or big fat weak machines that are trying to capitalize on the touchscreen novelty factor. I hope I am wrong and something perfect is out there for you, but check out the rest of the ThinkPad line (the T530 series is another fantastic option, coming in around $1200-1300 with an i7-3620QM, nVidia NVS5400m, 1080p screen, and gobs of reliability).
I would recommend against a mac unless you legitimately do not have any form of limit on how much you spend. You can get one hell of a powerful $1500 laptop for about $2500 with a mac logo... Als just because I like pointing out apple's many, MANY flaws, here is an article that will hopefully save you some money - an Apple "retina" IPS panel color calibrates worse than a basic TN panel, when IPS should blow a TN out of the water: Apple Retina IPS vs ASUS FHD TN LED - Color Calibration Results and ComparisonMSI GX60 | AMD A10-4600M | AMD Radeon 7970M 2GB | 16GB G.SKILL DDR3-1600 | 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200RPM | Killer Doubleshot E2200/1202 | 1920x1080 | BD-ROM | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
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7th January 2013, 11:28 AM #4
Re: Laptop for Photo, Video Editing
first I have to advise against a Mac ( even as a photo & video editor, and Mac user ) as Adobe CS now works better in Windows 7 & 8 better than OSX. and their screens are abysmal for color work IMO.
I dont think in your situation a touch screen is gfoing to be any advantage once so ever, its not precise enough to edit or manage alot of files. a good mouse or digitizer becomes a necessity.
for absolute top notch screens barring cost is the Elitebook 8770W, and 8570w with the Dreamcolor 2 IPS screen upgrades, as well as the Dell Precision m6700 with the Premiercolor IPS screen upgrade. 10 bit per primary color, full aRGB gamut, and makes even the renowned Dell u2711 IPS external screen look pretty bad. ( really makes My Apple Cinema displays look inaccurate )
after those you have the Lenovo thinkpad W530 and T530 as well as Sager/Clevo gaming units with the upgraded 95% NTSC TN screens. the Sony Viao Z ( all calibrate to about 88-90% NTSC
also do note what software you want to edit in as your GPU can become a large factor as well. if you plan to work heavily in CS6 Applications ( except Premier ) many nvidia Gforce 600 series GPU's can actually be a detriment due to theyre abysmal OpenCL performance. ( Premier also supports CUDA ... for now ).
also depending on how heavy of video editing you plan to do a laptop that can handle multiple hard drives and atleast 24GB of RAM can be a monumental asset.Lots of Macs, and lots of HP and Dell portable workstations plus a couple Panasonics and a Thinkpad or three.
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Hey ladies! I have apt to get DS (who is 4 1/2 weeks old) checked out on Thursday but I wanted to see if any of you gals who are familiar with reflux in babies had to say. Also, I EP so he gets only BM from a bottle.
DS hates to sleep on his back and I have noticed that the couple times I have managed to get him to stay asleep while on his back for about 15 mins he has spit up a tiny bit, choked, and I have had to sit him up to help him breath again. I keep him at an incline and this doesn't help, he still will not sleep on his back. I have also tried sleeping with him in the bed with my arm under his head to keep him at a good incline and he will sleep, but very restlessly, usually making lots of noise and wiggling the whole time. So I have been stuck with him on my chest all night with me at a steep incline and he sleeps great. He sleeps for a hours at a time during the day in his vibrating bouncy seat but I think its the vibration that he likes, not so much the incline since he won't sleep in it unless its on.
He also fusses/cries about 80% of time after he burps, but only for a few moments. It just seems like hes uncomfortable and its unpleasant for him, but not a painful cry.
He is an extremely consolable baby and is content and happy the majority of the time. There hasn't been a time yet that I haven't been able to get him to stop crying/fussing (even during his witching hour in the evening, there is always something that I have found that helps calm him down. It might not last for a long time, but then I find something else and he is good again and it only lasts a couple hours at most just a few nights a week) He goes to sleep easy when hes in my arms at a steep incline or on my chest. And he is only restless when hes on his side or back.
He has not vomited once and he only has spit up during the few times I tried to put him to bed on his back. He arches his back sometimes, but once he gets the gas up and out he stops.
However, he "snacks" a lot. Sometimes he will eat 3 ounces in a sitting, but often he drinks 2 ounces, then snacks on another 1-2 ounces over the next hour or two until he goes back to sleep. He drinks, pops off either because he gags or he lets out a little cry, then scrambles back onto the bottle as if he was starving, takes a couple swallows, pops off, cries, then does it again.
I burp him OFTEN (sometimes he just randomly burps even if its been an hour since he ate), his poop is totally normal (yellow seedy) so I don't think its a dairy intolerance (DD had that). So basically its the fact he cries a bit after he burps, hates to sleep on his back and spits up in his sleep which makes him gag and choke (I can change him though and he is perfectly fine on his back),he gets hiccups ALL THE TIME, usually if I lay him on his back less than 30 mins after he eats, he "snacks" often, and he arches his back once in a while that makes me wonder if he has a little reflux going on?
I know theres not much, if anything, a dr can do since hes not in pain and hes not bad off at all. Its mainly the sleeping on the back and choking on spit up that has me concerned since I know babies are suppose to sleep on their back to reduce the risk of SIDS. But if he chokes on his own spit up every time we try this, whats the alternative? Do you ladies think this sounds like reflux?
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A quick trip in to the DIY store leads me down the path of criminality yet again -
In the far distance from The Castle I can see a house - I don't want to so I thought a couple of Leylandii - a fine British tree - would do the trick - two for the price of one at Ł9.99, done deal.
Of course I am risking an ASBO thanks to that tosser Steve Pound MP for Ealing North... High Hedges Bill
The government declared war on light depriving leylandii hedges, describing them as one of the worst forms of anti-social behaviour and announcing plans to give councils power to chop back any offending hedge higher than two metres (roughly 6ft 6in).
Well I want my pair, I think I will call them Gordon and Tony, to grow well past 100ft as they are capable of doing. I noted the Garden Centre no longer calls them Leylandii just "Ornamental Conifers", such is the fear the Government has put into the growers of them.
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after graduating from university with a liberal arts degree and spending a year teaching english in japan, i entered the business world as an administrative assistant for a small software marketing firm. i spent several years there, learning a lot, getting promoted, taking on more responsibility. but i could only go so far - my career path was either executive assistant or account management. when i left i was making $30k/year. after taking a year off to ski in the pyrenees (life is rough, eh?), i decided it was time to get my career back on track and that an mba was the best way to get out of the administrative rut and jump to the next level.
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Summertime, and traveling other time zones may be on your agenda! Want to enjoy every vacation moment and eliminate jet lag? Sometimes a week ahead of traveling to Europe we get to bed by 8 pm and awaken at 4 or 5 am so we'll already be on European time. But this isn't always easy, […]read more
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You're itinerary's perfection, car, hotel, entertainment, sight-seeing, including plenty of local color. But are you macro-ready? Am I what? Yep, are you prepared to eat well and within macrobiotic diet recommendations while away from your macrobiotic kitchen? There are a few parts to this puzzle. It's do-able, easy, and well worth it. Why? Because you'll […]read more
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Macrobiotics in south of France is very special indeed. Wait 'til you discover the Bio shops specializing in Lima products, the most delectable macrobiotic cuisine anywhere! Bio describes organic vegetables, and locally grown, these are fresher than the California veggies shipped to Atlanta. Even in Baillargues, our niece's village. My dear husband being Swiss, has […]read more
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Writing from the mountains of Gstaad, Switzerland where we've been enjoying a family reunion ~ stretching each and every day, we've learned so much about ourselves. And what we'd like to integrate into our daily regime once we're home again. A few years ago a book entitled, All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in […]read more


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"You aren't just what you eat. You are
what your body can do with what you eat."
Hello, I'm Andrea Nakayama, and I'm a Functional Nutritionist, Educator and Speaker practicing Whole-Foods Nutrition to people around the globe from my home in Portland, Oregon.
Like many of you, my road to understanding the power that nutritional knowledge can bring to our lives began with a family health crisis. In April of 2000, my husband was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. He was told he had only six months to live. I was seven weeks pregnant with our son Gilbert at the time of his diagnosis.
My husband lived two and a half years after that grave diagnosis, long enough to share the beginnings of our son's life. During his illness I discovered that food was not just something that I enjoyed exploring at the local farmer's market, or preparing for family and friends, but that it also held tremendous curative properties. This empowered me to make incremental dietary changes and to further explore how I could use food to nurture my family – my afflicted husband, my growing baby and myself – each and every day.
Some time after my husband's death I experienced what Matthew Sanford, a paraplegic yogi, describes as "Post Traumatic Growth". I was determined to understand the mechanisms that feed cancer growth, to understand how and why the body reacts as it does, and to discern the aptitude that we have to unlock our healing potential using the keys that nutrition can provide.
In 2006, I began my journey to understanding food and nutrition, taking courses in Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Psychology and Nutrition. I attended Bauman College, and became a certified Nutrition Educator (CNE), followed by a program at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN), where I became a Certified Holistic Health Coach (CHHC). I then went back to Bauman, and earned a degree as a Certified Nutrition Counselor (CNC). Today, I'm working towards a Masters of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine (MSHNFM) through the University of Western States, and supplement my knowledge through the Integrative Health Symposium, the Institute of Functional Medicine, and many seminars conducted by the renowned Dr. Kharrazian among others.
I'm passionate not only about continuing my own education so that I can put more of the puzzle pieces of health together, but also about educating my clients and the Replenish nutrition team so that so we become agents of change, able to take ownership of our own health. I simplify physiology so that it's understandable for each and every one of us. This way it becomes a motivating tool for understanding why we may need to make particular dietary changes to meet our goals.
My personal and educational experience has led me to believe in three core principles: that each person has the unique capability to heal and thrive, that a person cannot heal without examining why they're hurting, and that it's important to always ask yourself "What's going on in there?"
I put these beliefs into practice in both my own and my family's life, as well as in the lives of the clients and staff that I work with at Replenish. At Replenish we counsel others to foster the changes that stimulate rejuvenation. Using food and supplemental therapies, we work from the core of the body to heal the gut, balance hormones, and support the detoxification of organs.Our intent is to educate about the physiological imbalances that may cause undesirable symptoms, while also teaching about the empowering aspects of food for healing. We believe that the body yearns to heal itself, and by using comprehensive nutrition therapy, we hope to help you uncover your own inner resources.
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The Chicago Spire to become world's tallest residential building
By Mike Hanlon
December 16, 2006
December 17, 2006 Santiago Calatrava is known for his ability to create public landmarks on a grand scale. The world renowned Spanish architect and engineer has one of the most impressive bodies of work ever assembled including the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Transport Hub, plus dozens of the most beautiful buildings in major cities around the world - airports, opera houses, bridges, train stations. Now Shelbourne Development Group has filed a final design for the Chicago Spire, with the City of Chicago. The Calatrava-designed Chicago Spire is 2,000-foot tall tower which will become the tallest residential building in the world if approved. It's Calatrava's second remarkable residential building.
The landmark 2,000-foot tall spiraling tower will be built at the mouth of the Chicago River along the shores of Lake Michigan. The new plan includes several improvements to the original design that will enhance the building's integration with the riverfront and minimize traffic flow through the neighborhood.
"We have taken what was a highly-innovative design and turned it into something even more desirable," said Garrett Kelleher, executive chairman of Shelbourne Development Ltd. & the Shelbourne Development Group, Inc. "We look forward to the city's approval and to breaking ground next year."
Famed architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, who is both the lead architect and engineer for the project, echoed Kelleher's enthusiasm. ""The sculptural idea of an extremely slender building that twists as it rises has been retained. But, I believe the design is more mature than it was initially, and the relationship between the building and the city is better, which is something I could accomplish only with Mr. Kelleher's partnership," said Calatrava.
The Chicago city planning department has begun reviewing the proposal, which calls for a property encompassing 3 million square feet and soaring 2,000-feet above the ground. However, unlike the initial concept, The Chicago Spire will not include a broadcast antenna, nor will it include a hotel or retail space. The number of floors has increased from 124 to 160, and the number of exclusive residences now total 1,300. The tower's spectacular lobby will feature 56-foot tall ceilings and glass walls allowing for an unobstructed view through the base on all sides.
To maximize the property's riverfront access, The Chicago Spire will be situated along the Ogden Slip at the northern end of the property. The new plans call for an underground 5-floor garage, which will sit under the building's riverside plaza. The development team is also dedicated to the early development of DuSable Park, which borders the property to its East.
Kelleher and members of his development team, including Calatrava, conducted a series of introductory meetings this week with city homeowners and community groups with a presence in the Streeterville area to discuss development plans and the construction of the building.
"It was important to us that we had the opportunity to receive feedback from the community before submitting our design for city approval," said Kelleher. "I am now even more confident that we will develop a building that the city and neighborhood will embrace and which will take its rightful place in the history of modern architecture."
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Will the Ridekick power trailer help me up steep hills?
The Man vs. Hill video is filmed with a standard Ridekick power trailer on a 10% grade (pretty darn steep!) It really does work that way. This FAQ explains the "tricks" to riding uphill; note in the video that he was climbing at good speed and not lugging at 3 mph.
This power trailer is designed to help you pedal, not pedal for you! Enjoy the ride – get your heart rate above what you get while driving.
The smart controller recognizes when the overheating will occur and shuts down to protect the motor and controller.
The overheating condition is when you are powering up a hill at less than 8 mph.
For example, if you have your brakes on, apply full throttle, and don't move for 30 seconds, the controller will turn itself off for protection. It will display "E8" on the controller readout and you can reset it by turning it off then on again and you are ready to go.
Yes, you can get up that hill. The key is to pedal enough to keep above ~8mph. On gentle hills, you won't need to assist much at all. On steep climbs, pedal with the power on and notice how much easier it is with the assist. Some hills are just too steep depending on your strength and endurance, so turn around and enjoy the ride downhill.
Take note that hill climbing drains the battery more quickly. Don't expect full range going up hills.
One happy kicker writes: "I bought it yesterday, and today went to the grocery with it and back up Soledad Mountain carrying 40 lbs of groceries! The little electric motor is very quiet and perfect for the uphill segments… don't need it on the flat and downhill. So awesome!" –V
When starting on a hill, pedal enough to get up to 8mph within 30 seconds. Or if you are approaching a hill, get your speed up as you enter the climb.
It's great fun riding into the wind with power assist. The same hill climbing clues apply – pedal along for speeds greater that 8mph, and you are on your way without sweat. Riding into the wind will use more battery power, so when riding with the wind, use less assist to extend your range.
The latest controller update includes a power setting option. P1 (power level 1) is lower power for higher mileage, and P2 provides high power for faster starts and subsequently lower mileage. Both settings have the same top speed on level terrain.
If you are in San Francisco, pedal along with the assist to get up those hills, and coast downhill. If you are stopped at the base of a steep hill, it will take to effort along with the assist to get up to speed in ½ minute. Be sure to check you brakes before you ride so you have the stopping power for those unexpected downhill events.
In the rolling hills of the Midwest, enjoy the ups and downs as you do on an unassisted bike. With the power assist, you can top that oncoming hill with an easy assist.
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back from badminton, my back is killing me. Im kinda excited for the season to finally start, most of all, the food. Although my team wont be as fun as last year. May i ask why katie bourke made the team??? She just up and decided that she no longer wants to play soccer(which she has been playing for 10 years!) and takes up space on our team. by the way, she sucks, sorry.
hmm, ive been sitting here eating chef bouyardee for half an hour and i cant get over how digusting it is... yet i cant stop eating it. Ive been craving choclate all day, but ive developed somewhat of a potbelly so i think ill pass.
ugh, so gross ....mmm
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Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage. There is no account of such a phenomenon in English poetry, because the trees acquire but few bright colors there. The most that Thomson says on this subject in his "Autumn" is contained in the lines,—
"But see the fading many-colored woods,
Shade deepening over shade, the country round
Imbrown; a crowded umbrage, dusk and dun,
Of every hue, from wan declining green to sooty dark":—
and in the line in which he speaks of
"Autumn beaming o'er the yellow woods."
The autumnal change of our woods has not made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.
A great many, who have spent their lives in cities, and have never chanced to come into the country at this season, have never seen this, the flower, or rather the ripe fruit, of the year. I remember riding with one such citizen, who, though a fortnight too late for the most brilliant tints, was taken by surprise, and would not believe that there had been any brighter. He had never heard of this phenomenon before. Not only many in our towns have never witnessed it, but it is scarcely remembered by the majority from year to year.
The month after his death from tuberculosis, in May 1862, the Atlantic published "Walking," one of his most famous essays, which extolled the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and lamented the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness.
"Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light..." By Henry David Thoreau
Most appear to confound changed leaves with withered ones, as if they were to confound ripe apples with rotten ones. I think that the change to some higher color in a leaf is an evidence that it has arrived at a late and perfect maturity, answering to the maturity of fruits. It is generally the lowest and oldest leaves which change first. But as the perfect winded and usually bright-colored insect is short-lived, so the leaves ripen but to fall.
Generally, every fruit, on ripening, and just before it falls, when it commences a more independent and individual existence, requiring less nourishment from any source, and that not so much from the earth through its stem as from the sun and air, acquires a bright tint. So do leaves. The physiologist says it is "due to an increased absorption of oxygen." That is the scientific account of the matter,—only a reassertion of the fact. But I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know what particular diet the maiden fed on. The very forest and herbage, the pellicle of the earth, must acquire a bright color, an evidence of its ripeness,—as if the globe itself were a fruit on its stem, with ever a cheek toward the sun.
Flowers are but colored leaves, fruits but ripe ones. The edible part of most fruits is, as the physiologist says, "the parenchyma or fleshy tissue of the leaf" of which they are formed.
Our appetites have commonly confined our views of ripeness and its phenomena, color, mellowness, and perfectness, to the fruits which we eat, and we are wont to forget that an immense harvest which we do not eat, hardly use at all, is annually ripened by Nature. At our annual Cattle Shows and Horticultural Exhibitions, we make, as we think, a great show of fair fruits, destined, however, to a rather ignoble end, fruits not valued for their beauty chiefly. But round about and within our towns there is annually another show of fruits, on an infinitely grander scale, fruits which address our taste for beauty alone.
October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.
I formerly thought that it would be worth the while to get a specimen leaf from each changing tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, when it had acquired its brightest characteristic color, in its transition from the green to the brown state, outline it, and copy its color exactly, with paint, in a book, which should be entitled, "October, or Autumnal Tints";—beginning with the earliest reddening,—Woodbine and the lake of radical leaves, and coming down through the Maples, Hickories, and Sumachs, and many beautifully freckled leaves less generally known, to the latest Oaks and Aspens. What a memento such a book would be! You would need only to turn over its leaves to take a ramble through the autumn woods whenever you pleased. Or if I could preserve the leaves themselves, unfaded, it would be better still. I have made but little progress toward such a book, but I have endeavored, instead, to describe all these bright tints in the order in which they present themselves. The following are some extracts from my notes.
The Purple Grasses
By the twentieth of August, everywhere in woods and swamps, we are reminded of the fall, both by the richly spotted Sarsaparilla leaves and Brakes, and the withering and blackened Skunk-Cabbage and Hellebore, and, by the riverside, the already blackening Pontederia.


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Replied To: What are Your Favorite Top 10 Songs From Any of Trey Songz Mixtapes or Covers for other Songs???? (Forum topic)
On: Aug 20, 2009
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My name is Nigeria Seabury.I am 14 years old yeah I'm a youngin but so what. I have a twin brother.When I get out of High School I want to go to college and study to be a forensic Scientist and I Love Trey Songz soooo much!!! My favorite songs of his I would have to say is Store Run,Paper Planes, Upstairs,Gotta Make It, well all of them!!


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