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When I reached the entryway of the building which housed Lord Aradîr's offices, I gave my name to the dark-garbed attendant who was standing watch. He nodded once, briskly, and led me through the doors and then down a wide windowless corridor. The hall was busy, and full of echoing footfalls. The men we passed on the way gave me brief curious glances: houses of state and bureaucracy are not places for women. We came to Aradîr's rooms, and the attendant went in before me and announced my arrival, bowing.
The man behind the desk in the office looked up and smiled, his keen light-colored eyes glancing up at me. I had seen Lord Aradîr several times before, on the occasions when he came to visit the Houses, but had seldom been in such close quarters with him, nor had he ever spoken to me directly. He had a pleasant youthful face; he had his hands out in front of him to reposition an inkwell, and I could see that the only rings he wore on his fingers were a pair of plain, slender bands; wedding rings, no doubt. Quite different from some other noblemen I had seen, whose fingers were loaded with heavy gold and silver crests and seals, announcing their station and their lineage.
"My lord," I said, dropping a curtsey.
"Good afternoon, my good lady." His voice was quiet and measured. He dismissed the attendant with a nod.
"Please, sit," he said, motioning to the single chair that stood before the desk. He did not look at me as I settled down, but kept his eyes and hands busy with the papers in front of him. I glanced about the room, which was large and airy and well-furnished; the position of Master of the Houses of Healing was a prestigious one, my mother had told me. Lord Aradîr's chair was placed so that he was seated with his back to the office's large windows that looked out on a courtyard. The top of his desk was covered in neat stacks of parchment—affairs of state must still be accounted for in these dire times, I imagined; the City must still be maintained and ordered. Now that I am older, I sometimes think of that office and wonder how our War must have looked in the corridors of the Sixth Circle during those days, with battles and deaths and reprieves all turned to the flatness of paper and ink.
"And how do you fare?" he asked me, still seemingly preoccupied with his paperwork.
"Well enough, my lord."
He smiled again. "That is what some of my colleagues might call a 'diplomatic response.'"
I was not sure whether or not that was a compliment.
"I assume you are somewhat weary with your labors, at this hour?" he went on.
"Yes, somewhat, sir. As is everyone."
"That is more than understandable. And you need always not be so diplomatic with me, though an admirable inclination it is, all the same."
"Yes, my lord."
His eyes were still not upon me, so I took the opportunity to continue my survey of the room. The wall to my left was taken up by a high bookshelf, filled end to end with volumes. Some of the neat spines were the full width of a man's palm, and others were slender as a child's finger; I was too anxious to notice a great deal more about them.
"You are fond of books?" Lord Aradîr was looking at me, now.
"Yes, my lord," I replied, turning back towards him. It was true; I had always enjoyed books. I was not particularly adept at reading, and found it a slow and frustrating affair, but I loved the smell of the leather bindings and the dry rustle of pages beneath my fingers on the scarce occasions when I had a book on hand. I admired the neat contrast between black ink and white-yellow paper, and the elegant rows and lines that the words made.
"That is well," he nodded approvingly. He laid the papers on his desk and clasped his hands on top of them. "You should know the Warden speaks highly of you. He has told me that you are a very intelligent girl, very diligent…and very obedient."
"That is…good to know, my lord," I replied. In my lap, my hands had begun to knot themselves into the folds of my smock.
"And, of course, that you are no poor healer," he went on. "You are like your mother in that respect."
"Thank you, sir."
He paused, then glanced down at his papers once more. "A pity for us all that she did not remain in the City, as well," he remarked softly.
"She would have stayed behind, my lord, had she not my brother and my cousin to care for."
"They must be young indeed, then."
"My brother is ten years old, sir, old enough to have stayed on as a message-lad if he wished. But my cousin is only seven, and they are closer to one another than any two brothers, and would not be separated. So both boys went to the coast." To my mother's great relief, I added silently. I wondered how they fared now; farther from peril than we were, no doubt, but also farther from home.
"'Twas good of her to spare one of her children, then."
I nodded stupidly; I could not tell whether he meant that she had spared her daughter for the service of the City, or that she had spared her son from certain death.
I remembered back to only two weeks before, though it seemed like years ago. Two weeks before, when Minas Tirith was bleeding itself out in rivers of people, all the maidens and children and the old ones who were headed for safer ground. When the Houses of Healing were full of talk about who would go and who would remain, especially after it was announced that the women might stay, too, if they so chose.
I would remain and aid my City, I had decided. Not because I had truly desired to stay, but because somehow I knew it might feel worse to leave. When I told my mother, there was some childish part of me that wanted her to fight me, that wished she would beg me to come with her, so that perhaps I might even be convinced to do so. But of course she did not beg me; I was no longer a little girl, after all, and could do as I pleased. She had nodded and told me she was proud of me. She had told me to be brave. Later she kissed me goodbye and let me go, and now I did not know what I would have done had the choice been mine all over again.
"And your father? Defending Gondor, undoubtedly?" Aradîr turned over a sheet of paper, which made a soft flicking noise. I swallowed.
"Dead, my lord. Nine years ago."
"I am sorry."
"There is no need, sir."
Aradîr regarded me for a long moment, then nodded briskly. I wondered what he had summoned me here for; my body refused to relax in the chair. I fully expected that at any moment I should be accused, threatened, sentenced.
"As I recall, you work mainly in the south ward."
"North and south, my lord."
"That is well," he said. "And is there ever need for you in the surgery corridor?"
Ah, so here it is…
"Yes, my lord. On occasion."
"I see. And are there any surgeons who favor your work especially?"
"No, my lord. Not especially."
He made a soft noise of assent in his throat and looked down at his papers once more. I tried to keep still; I felt as though I had done something wrong. Nothing at all, I thought to myself. You have done no wrong. Not yet, at the very least… I remembered the man lying in Valacar's surgery-room that day, and repressed a shudder at the nearness of the memory as it welled up in my throat.
"So you have aided many of them?"
"A few, sir."
"Valacar?" Lord Aradîr's tone was marvelously casual, as if this were merely the first surgeon's name he had plucked from the air, and nothing more.
"Yes…once or twice, my lord."
"He asked for you?"
I remembered Valacar's words: Just protect yourself, if it comes to that. But if Aradîr did not know something, he would not be asking me such pointed questions…
"His apprentice was ill, my lord. Valacar merely needed a second pair of hands for the day."
"And does Valacar conduct himself well?"
"I—I do not understand, my lord."
"He has never treated you in any way that was…untoward, has he?"
It was not an invalid question: some of the surgeons, steady as they were with their scalpels, were known to be a bit careless with their hands, especially where the young women of the Houses were concerned. Valacar, however, had never been one of these, and I found myself bridling at the very suggestion.
"Never, sir."
"A perfect gentleman, I suppose?" For the first time in our conversation, I detected an edge creep into Aradîr's voice. I half-expected to see his mouth curled into an elegant smirk; it was not, of course.
"Yes, my lord," I truthfully replied.
"That is well. And he has asked for you?" Aradîr's tone was still light, as if this were some small misapprehension that he needed my assistance in sorting out. But he would not have called a little healer-girl all the way to his offices for the correction of a simple misapprehension, would he?
"Yes, my lord. He asked for me."
He nodded and slowly pulled one of the papers from the stack, holding it up before him in two hands so that I could not see the markings on it.
"Know that I doubt not your skill, good lady, nor do I doubt the skills of any of those in our Houses. But you are aware, are you not, that for a woman to attend at surgery is in direct violation of the Healer's Canon?"
Had I not been so startled, I might have laughed. "The Canon? My lord, those laws were written hundreds of years ere our time; they—"
"As were many of our laws, good lady." Aradîr's voice was soft and even. "And yet that is no less of a reason to cleave to them."
"But—" I began, but then thought better of it. But we all break the Canon, now and again—healers, herbalists, surgeons and Warden, I was about to say. And it was the truth. Everyone knew it. The Canon was a set of old and elegant rules, but Gondor had been at war for years; there were edges that had to be trimmed away, formalities that must be forgone, in times such as these. We looked upon the Canon as more of a symbol of our history than anything else. Our Warden knew this, for he was there with us every day, walking the aisles between the sickbeds. We all knew that there were things he chose not to see, mild transgressions on which he did not have time to remark; the times before the poppy rationing, for instance, in which the healers might administer a slight excess of the drug to a painfully dying soldier, so that he could drift off to sleep more easily, though he might not wake up again. It was one of the many small truths of the Houses that went unspoken, but stood all the same.
Aradîr gave a lift of his brow at my aborted objection before going on. "You were made to recite the Canon upon your induction as an apprentice, were you not?"
"Yes, my lord. All of us were."
"Recall you the passage concerning women in the Houses?"
I closed my eyes and remembered the hours I had spent with my mother as she helped me to memorize the Canon in full; it was a long collection of laws, but we were all made to learn it perfectly so that we could speak it for that one occasion. In the weeks before each yearly induction, it is not uncommon to hear the young boys and girls murmuring snatches of passages under their breath as they go about their errands. Laeron had had a terribly hard time learning his Canon, I remembered; Elloth, of course, had had its entirety committed to her memory from nearly her first hearing, and had not been shy about volunteering this fact whenever the subject arose.
"And of those women who tend to the wounded and the infirm…" I began slowly, the words coming back to me after these intervening years. "…just as they shall not wield sword in war, neither shall they take a blade to the bodies of those who lie in their care, for their work shall be for the giving of life, and not for the wounding."
I stopped and opened my eyes. Aradîr was staring at me with a faint smile on his face.
"We all carry knives," I protested. "All of us, my lord. 'Twould be near impossible to treat the battle-wounds without such things, even for the women."
"When you are making your rounds on the wards, yes?"
The expression on my face must have been concerned, indeed, for Aradîr gave a gentle laugh. "Be not so troubled, good healer. I am not blind to the necessities you face, though I am…how do your old women say, 'Neither healer nor…'"
"Neither healer nor surgeon, my lord," I murmured.
He smiled. "Yes, that is the old adage, I am told. Tell me, though…recall you the very next part of the Canon?"
I traced back over the words in my mind. "…for their work shall be for the giving of life, and not for the wounding. They will withdraw…" I went on. "They will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work."
"And so there are reasons that women may not become surgeons, you see."
"But sir, I was not—"
He put up a hand to stop me. "Please forgive me. It is not my intent to make you run through your lessons like a school-child, nor is it my intent to dictate how you should go about doing your work."
Then what is your intent? I thought.
"Understand that you have done nothing wrong," he continued. "I merely wish to make you realize that some of your superiors…some of your surgeons…might draw you into a position in which you are forced to go against our laws, even if it seems to be in the best interests of your patients." The wooden legs of his chair scraped the floor as he pushed back from his desk to stand and turn around and gaze out the window, arms crossed over his chest. "I have served this City as a statesman for many years, and one of the things I have learned is that breaches of…small rules can soon lead to violations of larger ones, and larger ones still." He turned around and looked at me once more. "And you must know, as well, that to be complicit to any such crimes renders one just as much at fault as if one had carried out the crime oneself. Perhaps even more so."
"Yes, my lord." In my lap, my palms were cold with sweat.
Lord Aradîr crossed over to where I sat, and, to my surprise, dropped to a crouch beside my chair so that our eyes were on the same level.
"You are not an ignorant girl," he whispered. "You do not seem so to me, nor are ignorant men and women permitted to become healers and surgeons. So there is no way you cannot see that Gondor is dying. That Minas Tirith is dying. And that it has been so for years, that it began before you were born."
My throat went dry.
"But even in our death we are strong," he went on. He was so close that I could feel his breath on the skin of my neck. "And that is because we have an order of things. We have the codes and the decrees of our Stewards and even of our Kings, that we may hold them and cleave to them as flesh cleaves to bone. Do you understand?"
I nodded.
"So you understand that I…that we must not see this City fall into lawlessness, even in its ending. That we must not turn to such weakness, even in these final moments."
"Yes, my lord," I replied, my own voice barely above a whisper. Lord Aradîr stood up once more. I had to tilt my chin up in order to look at him.
"That is well. And if ever you should observe that anyone in the Houses is engaging in any…larger breaches of Canon, you would inform the Warden, would you not?"
"I would, sir."
He went and sat behind the desk once more, and returned once more to the seemingly perpetual shuffling and re-shuffling of his papers. Suddenly my anxiety about this man's words were drowned in a surge of contempt. His hands were soft and dry, and he was never with us; he was not in the wards, wading through a sea of beds and bodies. He was not there with us, plunging his fingers into wound after wound until all thought disappeared; and so he could not make any judgments about what we might or might not do. He had no right to take me from the Houses, even if it were for less than an hour, to ask me questions that led nowhere and to make me repeat a Canon he might have just as easily looked up in one of his books. It was all time I might have spent helping the wounded men, or at the very least, moments that I might have spent curled up in a dead sleep in some dark room to the side.
"You have a good memory," he was saying to me.
"Thank you, my lord."
"Might you indulge me once more before I let you go? Tell me what the very beginning of the Healer's Canon says."
I nodded again, and tried to recall the first words.
"I swear by the Valar and by all who preceded me in this craft that I will use this learning for the benefit of the wounded and the infirm. I will keep them from injustice and above all do them no harm."
"Please, go on."
"I will neither administer a deadly drug to anyone who asks for it, nor take measures to end a life before that time is fully due, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. In purity and devotion I will guard my life and my art."
"You may stop there." Lord Aradîr was smiling once more. "Many thanks for your time, my good lady. You are dismissed."
When I came back through the gardens, the soldier with the foot wound and the carving-knife was sitting against the wall once more.
"Hello, little one. Off to do more knife-work?"
I passed by without answering, my shoes crushing the soft grass.
"Well, then. Never can tell what pleases a lady, now can you?" he grinned.
I stopped and looked him in the eye.
"You don't frighten me," I said, and walked away swiftly, willing myself deaf to whatever it was he said next.
In the south ward, Fíriel was folding the clean towels. I sat beside her and began to help. After three towels, I stopped and leaned my head on her shoulder and closed my eyes.
Fíriel finished folding the towel that was in her hands, then put her arm around me.
"Is anything wrong?"
I could feel the warmth through the cloth of her dress; she still smelled of chamomile. "I don't know."
"Will you tell me when you do?"
I nodded.
"All right," she said. She gave me a light kiss on the forehead. I rested there for a few moments more, and then I sat up again and we both went back to work.
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Banh Mi with Lemongrass Pork
I miss the breakfast breads in Vietnam during my travels, specifically Vietnamese-style baguettes (bánh mì). Here in the States, whenever I need my bánh mì fix, it's a fifteen minutes drive to Little Saigon. Most of the time, there's a line, so it takes even longer to get my fix. That's why I decided to make it at home.
Bánh mì, which is the Vietnamese term for "bread," is actually the baguette that is used to make the popular Vietnamese sandwich. It's found in places with a concentrated Vietnamese population, from France, Canada, United Kingdom to the United States. This popular Vietnamese-style sandwich can be easily found in most restaurants or Vietnamese-owned sandwich shops, and there are a variety of meat choices—from steamed, pan-fried, to grilled options (Thit Nuong, being my all time personal favorite).
This fresh Vietnamese baguette roll with golden crust is exceedingly crispy and crunchy. As for the Thịt Nướng (grilled meat), I used the intensely flavorful grilled lemongrass pork that was slightly on the fatty side so it turned out nice and tender with charred aromas. Spread the baguette with some mayo or butter and fresh cilantro, jalapeno slices and most importantly, the pickled carrots and daikon, you're on your way to a very substantial meal. This is another great summer recipe to try as the aromas of the grilled lemongrass pork beckons from afar.
Out of all the bánh mì varieties, my personal favorite is Bánh Mì Thit Nuong with grilled lemongrass pork. What's yours?
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I'm loving this marinade! Indeed a great looking humble sandwich!
Wonderful! This sandwich looks super delicious – love the caramelization on the pork! :)
I always get the one with pâté and head cheese. Sure wish I could make that bread at home. It's 80 miles to the nearest Vietnamese market.
I make a version with mortadella….yes, but it's really good!
It looks so good…
The secret of banh mi is the baguette… Must be light and crunchy
My fav is bahn mi thit nuong too.
You spelled thit nuong wrong :)
Huong-Hung Nguyen Thanks for the correction, fixed. Vietnamese language is tough!
This sandwich look fantastic,bravo!the presentation on a wooden plate is well thought and blend well with the bread of the sandwich… very enticing, toutes mes félicitations!
Simply delicious… YUM, thank you :-)
can u pls advise what is sweet soy sauce. thks
This sandwich looks amazingly delicious! And I'm not normally a sandwich person. But this one I would devour!
I've seen and heard how this is a very special sandwich to the people of Vietnam. I am an ardent lover of cajun po-boys (another type of sandwich) being from Louisiana. I totally 'get' this yearning and craving for a delicious sandwich combination like this. I would love to try one out someday. There must be a place somewhere in this huge city of Houston.
I have sweet sauce used for frying char kway teow. Is this the same as sweet soya sauce. thanks
Look for the label 'Sweet Soy Sauce' or 'Kecap Manis'. Its not the dark soy sauce that is usually used for Char Kway Teow.
We recently came back from a trip to Cambodia where they sell banh mi sandwiches on carts along the streets during the day. They have a almost clear yellowish spread that they use in the sandwich and as a dip. It is sooooo good. I just wanted to share it with all of you.
It is basically yellow mayonaise with the egg yolk instead of the egg whites. Just crack two or three eggs, separating the yolk and discard the whites(or keep it to make something else). I use a handheld whisk on low speed. Add about one cup of oil to one and a half cup (used canola oil) and mix for about four to six minutes. You will see it becoming thick and then turn a bit translucent. Add about one table spoon of sugar and mix it a bit more. Then scoop it up in a container and put it in the fridge until you are ready to use it on your sandwiches. You can add more sugar or oil adjusting it to your taste. In Cambodia, they use more oil and less egg because egg was more expensive then oil. The husband loves this stuff and even uses it on his tuna sandwich or in place of mayo. I hope you will try it and like it also. Best wishes.
banh mi me, please!!! i can't believe when i was in vietnam i never had one, but i've had a few in socal that have been amazing.
Hi, I've been following your website for awhile and finally got round to trying one of your recipes. (I have 2 young kids so it isn't always easy to cook) Tried this recipe and my whole family LOVED it!!! It was so simple and absolutely delicious. We polished the whole lot off! Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm definitely looking forward to trying out more of your recipes. :)
I was very excited to make this (I love buying banh mi and wanted to try my hand at it) and I finally got everything together today. I bought a grill basket to cook the meat in so it would be easier and not fall through my grill. It worked great, and tasted fantastic! We ate 1/4 of the meat before it even made it to the sandwiches. Thanks for this great recipe! I can't wait to make some of the others on here.
I make this a lot and it's a wonderful recipe! Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!!
I love this! Jason and I just bought $3 banh mi but they totally skimped on the meat – definitely need to make it at home and stuff the goodies!
I am a huggggge fan of banh-mi sandwiches and when i found this recipe…I had to try it! I followed the recipe exactly and even pickled the carrots. When the pork was broiling, my home smelled like heaven. When I finally had the chance to build the banh-mi with as much pork, cilantro and jalepenos as I wanted, I just closed my eyes and smiled. Thank you for sharing! I absolutely love te recipes on this website.
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Accepting the total life means the middle path. If you deny, you move to the opposite extreme. Denial is extreme. If you deny anything, you deny it for something; then you move to one extreme. If one denies sex, he will move to brahmacharya, celibacy - to the other extreme. If you deny brahmacharya, you will move to indulgence - to the other extreme. The moment you deny, you have accepted the extreme path.
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Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services or activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, or safety. Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.
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|Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
|Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
|Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
|Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
|Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Work Activities
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
|Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
|Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
|Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
|Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
|Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Work Context
|Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
|Telephone — 100% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 92% responded "Every day."
|Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 96% responded "Every day."
|Duration of Typical Work Week — 89% responded "More than 40 hours."
|Work With Work Group or Team — 63% responded "Extremely important."
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 52% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Contact With Others — 48% responded "Constant contact with others."
|Structured versus Unstructured Work — 52% responded "Some freedom."
|Frequency of Decision Making — 52% responded "Every day."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Bachelor's degree
|Master's degree
|Post-baccalaureate certificate
Interest code: EC
|Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Work Values
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Related Occupations
|Purchasing Managers
|Transportation Managers
|Storage and Distribution Managers
|Logistics Managers Bright Outlook Green
|Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
|Logistics Analysts
|Risk Management Specialists
|First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Managers, All Other.
Employment data collected from Managers, All Other.
Industry data collected from Managers, All Other.
|Median wages (2014)
|$50.51 hourly, $105,060 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|898,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Slower than average (3% to 7%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.


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This plant, the Club Moss (Selaginella Lepidophylla), has been around for 290 million years. It pre-dates the dinosaurs, and survived through their destruction, it also made it through the ice age and continues to thrive to this day in the 21st century. It can dry up and hibernate for as long as 50 years at […][Read More]
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Every feature we add to iPhone must answer yes to one question: will it make the experience better? So the colors of iPhone 5c received the same intense consideration we apply to everything we make. We even designed the Home screen and wallpaper colors to complement the exterior. As a result, using iPhone is so much more engaging and delightful.
With an all-new design, this is iPhone as you've never seen it — or held it. iPhone 5c is beautifully, unapologetically plastic, the better to bring its five decidedly uncommon colors to life. Beneath the smooth surface of the seamless outer shell, a steel-reinforced frame provides structural integrity. So iPhone 5c feels reassuringly solid in your hand.
Oh, how quickly things change. Add one of the six Apple‑designed cases to your iPhone 5c and it instantly goes from colorfully cool to impossible to ignore. The case design allows the color underneath to show through, creating 30 fun possibilities. So the iPhone 5c Case does more than just protect your phone — it helps it stand out. And it helps you make it yours.
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Launch your favorite apps. Load your favorite blog. Download and watch the jaw-dropping video that just showed up in your inbox. Power through games with console-level graphics. Do all the things you love doing on iPhone — at the speeds you've come to expect.
Long battery life.
The A6 chip is designed to be extremely energy efficient, so you can spend your day taking advantage of all the features and apps on your iPhone. Without worrying about battery life. 1
iPhone 5c supports more networks than ever before. So now, even more people can experience fast download and upload speeds. Meanwhile, the number of carriers supported by iPhone throughout the world continues to grow. So when you're traveling, you can take advantage of ultrafast networks in more places.
The 8MP iSight camera delivers startlingly sharp photo quality thanks to features like a sophisticated five‑element lens. And panorama, which lets you get stunning high‑resolution shots of things like packed football stadiums. The San Francisco waterfront. Or the marching band your friend hired to play "Happy Birthday" outside your window.
New Camera app.
iPhone 5c also comes with a new Camera app that raises your photography game. Now you can shoot images in a square format. And choose from eight live filters that can be applied before or after you take your photo. Use the Instant filter to give a group shot at the beach a vintage color look. Make a sunset even more vivid with the Chrome filter. Or choose Noir to capture a self-portrait in dramatic black and white.
HD video.
Now when you record video in 1080p HD, the new 3x zoom feature lets you get in tighter on your subject. Video image stabilization helps smooth out shaky footage from your high‑adrenaline moments. (Running of the Bulls, anyone?) Face detection for up to 10 faces makes sure nobody gets lost in the crowd. And the ability to take still photos while recording video comes in handy when you want to tell that story within a story.
New FaceTime HD camera.
iPhone 5c comes with a new FaceTime HD camera. Larger pixels and an improved backside illumination sensor give it increased sensitivity in low light — great for, say, letting your friends back in the UK experience a California sunset with you. You can also make audio‑only FaceTime calls with clearer sound than even wideband audio. 2
Cleaner, simpler icons. An interface that feels fluid and alive. And new features that make the most of the technology inside. It's the perfect companion to the most colorful iPhone yet.Learn more about iOS 7
Schedule a meeting. Listen to your chillout playlist during your commute. Even remind yourself to check the forecast before your flight to Rome. Whatever you need — or want — to do, iPhone 5c comes equipped with apps to make it happen.
Have more fun with iPhoto and iMovie. Be more productive with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Explore your favorite genres with Podcasts and iBooks. Do even more with iPhone 5c, one free download at a time.3
Do everything you can think of — and discover things you never thought of — with apps from the App Store. There are over 900,000 to choose from.4 Many of them are free, and each one has been reviewed by a member of the App Store team. So you can be sure everything will work as described. Simply sign in to the App Store with your Apple ID, browse dozens of categories, and download away.
iCloud lets you access your content whether you're using your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. And thanks to new features in iOS 7, it's more indispensable than ever. Even if iPhone is your only Apple device, you can use iCloud Photo Sharing to send photos and videos to your friends' iOS devices. They can comment as well as post their own photos and videos to your shared streams. And the new Activation Lock feature of Find My iPhone makes it harder for anyone who's not you to use or sell your device.5Learn more about iCloud


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Trudie Styler 6 DVD Set
All six Trudie Styler DVDs at a special value!
All six empowering, body-shaping Gaiam DVDs by Trudie Styler in one money-saving set!
Pure Sculpt:
With Pure Sculpt, you'll create long, lean muscles with a yoga-inspired toning workout. These masterfully designed routines foster full-body toning, while exuding a peace and tranquility rarely found in a workout video. Choose from six short, targeted segments that can be done together or separately as your schedule allows. Each workout focuses on a specific body area with exercises designed to increase flexibility, muscle strength and tone. 71 minutes. USA.
Cardio Dance Flow:
These fun, flowing dance and stretch routines were developed by fitness guru James D'Silva in collaboration with Trudie Styler — actress, producer, environmental activist and wife of rock star Sting. Cardio Dance Flow is two workouts on one DVD: a 25-minute cardio dance routine plus a 20-minute stretch segment. Includes personal interviews and footwork tutorial to help you master the moves. 45 minutes. USA.
Warrior Yoga®:
An empowering blend of cardiovascular conditioning, strength training and flexibility in a vigorous yoga exercise experience. Taped at Styler and Sting&rsquoo;s eco-friendly Tuscan villa Il Palagio, the two-workout Warrior Yoga® DVD was created for all yoga levels by Styler with celebrity fitness guru James D'Silva. Features songs from Sting's #1 classical album Songs from the Labyrinth, including "Fields of Gold" and "Message in a Bottle." 70 minutes. USA.
Core Strength Pilates:
For Trudie Styler, Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality. A collaborative effort between Trudie Styler and fitness guru James D'Silva, Core Strength Pilates is a complete head-to-toe workout. 55 minutes. USA.
Sculpt and Tone Ballet:
Since studying ballet as a child, Trudie Styler has long admired the ageless art of ballet as well as the extraordinary strength and grace of ballet dancers. Together with classically trained dancer and fitness guru James D'Silva, Styler delivers this ballet-based 25-minute workout you can do with a barre or with a chair. 37 minutes. USA
Weight Loss Yoga:
With Trudie Styler's Weight Loss Yoga DVD, you'll get four workouts to help you learn to use yoga to lose weight naturally. "Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss" helps you to cleanse and strengthen. "Total Body Yoga" adds extra challenge and builds strength. "Yoga Abs" improves core strength and posture. "Chair Yoga" is an easy-to-follow routine for people new to yoga or easing back into practice. 107 minutes. USA.
Click to view the entire Trudie Styler DVD collection.
Pure Sculpt DVD:
- 6 express workouts on one DVD
- Combine to customize for your unique needs
- Increase flexibility, muscle tone and strength
- Interviews with Trudie Styler, Sting and famed fitness guru James D'Silva
- Music performed by Sting, including "Fields of Gold" and "Message in a Bottle"
- Filmed on location at Il Palagio, Sting and Trudie Styler's beautiful Tuscan villa
- Sneak peek at how Trudie and Sting produce organic wine at their Tuscan estate
Cardio Dance Flow DVD:
Two routines – dance and stretch&ndashdeveloped by famed fitness guru James D'Silva in collaboration with Trudie Styler:
- Cardio dance segment is a fully integrated head-to-toe workout and provides intense cardio intervals along with smooth, elongating active stretches. Improve balance and endurance while lengthening and toning &ndashalways moving to the beat of this fast-paced workout. 25 minutes.
- Bonus stretch routine will help sculpt your muscles, leaving you feeling leaner and longer. This is fitness training infused with graceful elegance and artistry. 20 minutes.
- Interviews with Trudie Styler, Sting and James D'Silva
- Footwork tutorial to help you master all the moves
- The making of Sting's album If On A Winter's Night
Warrior Yoga® DVD:
- Get 2 total body-strengthening workouts on one DVD
- Choose from 45-minute full-length or 25-minute express program options
- Features yoga, ballet and Pilates-based exercises
- Feel fully present, centered and invigorate
- Combines fitness, aesthetics and artistry
- Enhances the spirit and wellbeing
- Improves tone and flexibility
- Includes a tour of Il Palagio's kitchen and gardens
- Growing Energy – a lifestyle piece featuring Trudie Styler and Sting discussing how they use the Il Palagio land to create an environmentally friendly home
- A calming meditation sequence
- Interviews with Styler, Sting and celebrity fitness trainer James D'Silva
Core Strength Pilates DVD:
- Choose from 45-minute full-length or 25-minute express program options
- Features yoga, ballet and Pilates-based exercises
- Feel fully present, centered and invigorated
- Combines fitness, aesthetics and artistry
- Enhances the spirit and well-being
- Improves tone and flexibility
- Interviews with Trudie Styler, Sting and James D'Silva
- Behind-the-scenes peek at Trudie Styler and Sting's eco-friendly Tuscan estate, with an in-depth look at the foods grown and prepared there
- The making of Sting's album If On A Winter's Night
Sculpt and Tone Ballet DVD:
- 25-minute ballet routine you can do with a barre or chair
- Improves strength, balance and posture
- Sculpt and tone through invigorating dance
- Footwork tutorial to help you master all the moves
- Interviews with Trudie Styler, Sting and James D'Silva, with music from Sting's classical album Songs from the Labyrinth
- Chakra meditation with Trudie and James
- Behind-the-scenes peek at Trudie Styler and Sting's eco-friendly Tuscan estate, with an in-depth look at their organic wine production
Weight Loss Yoga DVD:
- 4 workouts to help you drop pounds and inches, quickly and safely
- Bonus downloadable yoga practice
- Free downloadable weight loss recipes from Trudie and Sting's personal chef
- Trudie Styler interview on weight loss and healthy eating, from her English estate, Lake House
- 15-minute meditation with Trudie
- Interview with Dr. Alejandro Junger on his bestselling book, The CLEAN Diet
Trudie Styler Resources:
- Trudie Styler and Sting Interview
- Six minutue chair workout from Trudie Styler's Weight Loss Yoga DVD
Trudie Styler is an actress, film producer, director, human rights activist, environmentalist and organic farmer. Trudie's charitable works for human rights and the environment have been recognized by many award-giving bodies, and through her work she is committed to working to improve the lives of impoverished and exploited children all over the world. In 1990, Trudie and Sting moved to Lake House in the English countryside and, determined to raise their children on a fresh and healthy diet, set about converting the 200 acres of farmland to organic status.
James D'Silva was born and raised in Goa, India, before moving to England to continue his training in classical and contemporary dance. Ten years ago he opened up his own Pilates studio in London – Bombay Gymkhana – and from this base his reputation has become well-established among his many devoted and celebrated clients. James teaches his own personally devised workouts, which incorporate Pilates, yoga and dance. Using a multifunctional workout machine he created, James specializes in exercise regimes that increase flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles and improve structural fitness.
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UPDATE: This game has been shutdown and is no longer available
FusionFall Overview
FusionFall sets a new standard in the browser based gaming genre. With huge 3D environments to explore and plenty of voice acting from the cast of your favorite cartoons (like Dexter's Lab) FusionFall has much higher production value than your typical MMORPG. Even the combat system, interface, and missions are well crafted and easily compete with client based games. But these amazing features come with a steep disadvantage — free players can only access the first few areas of the game which takes place in the future. To put this restriction in perspective: there are a total of 36 Nanos but free players can only acquire the first 4. Full access comes at the price of $6 a month or with the purchase of a $10/month family plan that covers 4 accounts. The first four nanos and their abilities are:
Buttercup - The 'green' Powerpuff girl that has the ability to stun your opponents, cast a group heal, or reward you with more fusion matter after defeating an enemy. She is the first nano you acquire during the tutorial.
Numbah 2 - A short fat kid from Codename: Kids Next Door. His abilities include a passive movement increase, teleporting the player back to safe spots or rewarding extra taros for defeating enemies.
Eddy - The most outspoken of the Ed brothers from the series 'Ed, Edd, and Eddy.' His three abilities are: a self-heal, a group speed boost, and a shield that protects your boosts & potions from being destroyed by enemy attacks.
Eduardo - A large purple monster from the show Foster's home for Imaginary Friends. His abilities include a nuke, a radar that detects nearby enemies, and an area of effect heal.
FusionFall Screenshots
FusionFall Featured Video
FusionFall Full Review
By Erhan Altay
FusionFall is the new browser based MMORPG developed by Cartoon Network and Grigon Entertainment. The game was announced several years ago but has suffered several delays and was finally released in mid January 2009. FusionFall is a great achievement considering it runs on a web browser. The game contains a huge persistent world with great graphics, music, and depth that it puts to shame many client games that require a large download. All the major Cartoon Network characters including the cast of Dexter's Lab, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and Code Name: Kids Next Door make an appearance in FusionFall, with voice acting included! Unfortunately, this kind of production value doesn't come free. Like in Wizard101, another game geared towards kids, only the first few areas of the game were originally accessible to free users, playing through the rest required a monthly subscription. Cartoon Network has since released a major update that made the entire game free to play.
Join the Team
In order to launch FusionFall, players will need to install something called the Unity Engine which is a sort of browser plugin. It downloads and installs within seconds so it isn't much of an inconvenience. Currently, the game only functions on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox so if you're using a different browser, you'll need to switch over to one of those two before playing. Right from the beginning, FusionFall shows its high quality with a voice acted introduction. Naming your character is a bit tricky, you can use a random name generator or enter a first & last name but it must be manually accepted by the mod team. My desired name of 'Lord Altay' was rejected so I went with a more generic random name, Rex Helmutwalker. The level of appearance customization was impressive, with 5 height, 3 weight options, 23 hair styles, 12 skin, 18 hair, and 5 eye colors to chose from. There were even more clothing options: around 30 shirts, pants and shoes. After character creation, a series of voice acted scenes and movies guides you through the tutorial.
The Clutches of Lord Fuse
The story behind FusionFall isn't very coherent but the amount of backstory, or lore, that's available is impressive. During the first few minutes of the game Dexter and several characters from Code Name: Kids Next Door explain that in the future the evil Lord Fuse is poised to conquer our planet by spreading slime all over the place. This slime, or fusion as it is called, has spawned evil duplicate versions of all the major Cartoon Network characters and it falls to you to stop these evil copies. But first, you'll need to learn how to play. A private assistant called 'computress' will explain the games controls and interface as you progress through the starting area. Movement is done via the W,A,S,D keys while the mouse controls aiming and interface navigation though keyboard shortcuts can also be used to open up menus. The combat is actually very fast paced; players use guns and swords and attack by left clicking with the mouse which fires at their current target. Switching targets is done simply by moving the curser over a new target, no need to lock on. The game's minimap shows the direction of mission objectives which are tracked one at a time and the inventory menu functions similarly to other MMORPGs.
Save the Nanos
The main form of progress through FusionFall is tracked by how many nanos you've unlocked. Nanos are tiny versions of Cartoon Network characters that are acquired by defeating evil Fuse versions of those same characters. The first nano, Buttercup is gained during the tutorial mission but the rest dwell in their own small instanced zones which players gain access to by reaching a certain level. Players can equip up to three nanos at a time and summon them by hitting either 1,2,or 3. Once summoned, nanos hover over the player with their energy bars slowly diminishing. Right clicking with the mouse causes the nano to use its activated ability while passive abilities are in effect the moment the nano is summoned. Each nano has three abilities though only one can be selected at a time. By the end of the first area, called 'the future' you'll have 4 nanons collected all of which I detail in the overview.
A Technological Masterpiece
Few MMORPGs today have the same level of production value as FusionFall, with voice acting and a huge game world that has very few 'invisible walls.' Players are free to jump onto roof tops and explore the world on their own. The overall graphics are very impressive and leave many of the client based games I've reviewed in the dust. Obviously the game is geared towards kids but teenagers and adults who grew up watching Cartoon Network classics like Dexter's Lab or The Powerpuff Girls will feel a nostalgic affinity with FusionFall. There are always extra missions available to keep the game's pacing bearable but since combat is so fast paced and monsters usually die within a few hits, combat is rarely boring. The only problem is the amount of travel the game requires. I found myself running back and forth between town after killing 4 of a certain monster, than 8 of a certain monster. Later on, you can pay to have Mojo Jojo's monkey agents fly you from one area to the other but even that involves plenty of waiting around. FusionFall has raised the bar for future browser games and hopefully as time goes by, Cartoon Network will release more of it content to free players so we can all enjoy the game.
Final Verdict: Good
FusionFall is a very impressive game with varied environments and characters. It has a larger world and more fluid gameplay than most client MMORPGs. FusionFall proves that browser based games have come of age.
FusionFall Videos
FusionFall Character Creation
FusionFall Cinematic Trailer
FusionFall Tutorial Mission
FusionFall Eddy Dungeon
FusionFall Second Nano