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Spanish is the official language, but only 60 to 70% of the people actually speak it, and then often only as a second language. The other main languages are Quechua and Aymar.
Travel Health
Altitude sickness is the most common complaint in Bolivia with much of the country lying above 10,000 feet (3,050m). This is particularly relevant to diabetics, those with heart complaints or chest problems, who should seek advice before travelling to Bolivia. Take Acetazolamide (Diamox) or drink coca tea to alleviate symptoms. A yellow fever vaccination is strongly advised, as outbreaks do occur, particularly after flooding, and it is a requirement for those entering from infected areas. Malaria is prevalent in some parts of the country, and dengue fever is on the increase. Sanitation and hygiene are poor in some areas so be wary of what is eaten; avoid under-cooked meat and unpeeled fruit and vegetables, and only drink bottled water. Medical insurance is strongly recommended.
A service charge is normally added to restaurant and hotel bills but it is customary to add a 5 to 10% tip. Hotel porters also expect a small tip. Taxi drivers are not usually tipped unless they are hired for a full day, in which case 10% is acceptable.
Safety Information
Street protests and strikes often affect La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz as well as the regions of the Central Highlands (Altiplano) and the Yungus. Main tourist centres may be affected and visitors should keep up to date with current conditions. Strikes also often disrupt transport to and from the international airport in La Paz and to the regions. Travellers should avoid demonstrations and not attempt to pass through or go around roadblocks, and monitor the local media. Due to operational difficulties being experienced by national airline LAB, air travel in Bolivia can be disrupted and flights have been cancelled.
Although Bolivia is generally a safe country, visitors should still be vigilant at all times. Pick-pocketing on buses or in crowded areas is common and baggage theft occurs at stations. Many thieves work in teams to distract their victims. Female tourists should avoid taking jungle and pampas tours on their own and always avoid unlicensed guides. Express kidnappings are also on the increase and travellers should be vigilant at all times. Penalties for drug possession are extremely severe and visitors should be vigilant with luggage and any belongings. Criminals posing as police officers and taxi drivers are targeting foreign tourists; there have been increasing incidents of robberies of this nature and visitors are warned to be cautious at all times. Violent attacks have occurred recently in Copacabana, especially targeting those travelling overland between Peru and Bolivia. Months of heavy rainfall are usually responsible for flooding and mudslides throughout the country, which can severely affect transport; the rainy season is usually from November to March.
Local Customs
In conversation rural Bolivians should be referred to as campesinos (subsistence farmers) rather than Indians. 'Machismo' is very much alive and husband and wife roles within the family are very traditional. Homosexuality is frowned upon, particularly in the Altiplano.
Relationship building in Bolivia is important and getting down to business might take some time, so do not rush things. Negotiations are generally quite slow, and face-to-face communication is preferred over phone calls or written communications, therefore be prepared to make many trips before a deal can be made. Punctuality is expected, even if the meeting doesn't start on time, and schedules are often just a guideline and fairly unstructured; deadlines are not important. Business people are expected to wear suits. Meetings begin and end with handshakes, although wait for a woman to extend her hand first. It is important to include a person's professional title in the greeting if applicable, otherwise use Señor (Mr) or Señora (Mrs) with the surname. Business cards should also include any academic qualifications, and should have one side translated into Spanish; most business is conducted in Spanish and materials will need to be translated into Spanish. Women are considered insubordinate in the workplace and visiting businesswomen should ensure to emphasise their qualifications and work experience. Office hours are generally 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday with a long break over lunch.
The international access code for Bolivia is +591. The outgoing code depends on what network is used (e.g. 0010 for Entel, or 0013 for Boliviatel), which is followed by the relevant country code (e.g. 001044 for the United Kingdom). The area code for La Paz is 2, but the access code to make a call within the country from another area also depends on what network is used (e.g. (010)2 for Entel, or (013)2 for Boliviatel). Mobile phones operate on a GSM network. Internet cafes are widely available in La Paz and other tourist areas.
Duty Free
Travellers to Bolivia over the age of 18 years can bring the following items into the country without incurring customs duty: 100 cigarettes, 25 cigars and 200 grams of tobacco, 1 bottle of alcoholic beverage and a reasonable amount of perfume for personal use. Technology such as cameras, laptops and cellphones are limited to one per person for personal use. Newly purchased goods to the value of US$1,000 per person are also duty free. Travellers departing from the country should note that it is illegal to leave with the following items without prior written permission from the appropriate local authority: pre-Colombian artefacts, historical paintings, items of Spanish colonial architecture and history and native textiles.
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it seems like a theme in this thread is that because we are paying anderson 8mil a year he is 100% guaranteed to start. i would not be upset if that is the case, but getting paid that amount of $$$ DOES NOT mean you should start. the best option/matchup will start the game. and starting really means nothing. lets say anderson comes off the bench but gets 30-35 mpg and is on the floor at the end of games, and lopez starts, gets 24-26 mpg and isnt on the floor at the end of games. that is what matters. not who gets an 'S' in the box score, but the amount of minutes played and WHEN those minutes are played.
i honestly think (if this trade went down, of course) our best lineup would be rivers, gordon, anderson, davis and lopez. i expect to see davis/anderson play all 3-5 positions this season.
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I've been one all offseason that has wanted to get Robin Lopez. I think he fits our needs perfectly. Right in that 24 year and below range we have been sticking to. True 7 footer, good size, good mobility for a 7 footer(IMO).
Defensive stats can be so misleading coming from a team that has Steve Nash getting blown by on every posession. In fact, Phoenix's outside defense was pretty weak all around. Really puts a lot of stress on the bigs.
No, I don't expect him to become some all-star starter. But for a team that needed a matchup big, I think we hit a homerun.
Now we go into next offseason already with Anderson, Davis, Smith and Lopez locked up. Two seven footers off the bench. That's pretty strong right there.
We didn't want to part with anything too valuable for Lopez, so we turned Jack's contract into Miller's contract, which can be bought out. Now Phoenix can send out Warrick's contract as their incentive to let Lopez come here- instead of paying $8million for Lopez and Warrick, they're paying $800,000 to buy out Miller's contract.
They (Phoenix) must have another move in mind, or they like Wes Johnson, either way. Presumably we can afford to sit on Warrick's contract for 12 months because Demps isn't planning on making any more moves, at least until February.
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Can we talk Hakim Warrick for a second.........
He just turned 30 years old, and is obviously little more than a contract at this point for us. But I don't get the "he's awful" discussion other than from Phoenix fans and their typical nonsense.
This of course was the guy they brought in to take Amare's place. A plan destined to fail obviously, but they did what they had to do. Last year he played some of the smallest minutes of his career, and his play sufferred. But just the season before last, he was 29th amongst all PF's in PER, scored over 51% from the field, would have averaged about 16 points per 36 minutes. Year before that, he was 33rd in PER.
People are going to take whatever stats they want to prove whatever point they want. Again, Warrick will NOT be a Hornet past this season. But I feel pretty good about him being our third PF and 5th big off the bench. He is not some waste.
I wouldn't judge any player's ability to play defense after they have played for Phoenix. With Lopez's energy and strength I think he'd be a monsta in Monty's defensive scheme. He and Warrick.
Having said that, he can score, but his rebounding leaves a lot to be desired- he doesn't have the game to be a SF, but he's too slight to be a PF. In reality he'll be an expensive 5th 'big' man behind Davis, Anderson, Smith and Lopez.
im tired of talking to people with reading comprehension problems. in the second sentence of my post i said "i would not be upset if that is the case", referring to anderson starting. and i never said i expect lopez to start 82 games a season. but he is more than capable of being a "spot starter" based on match-ups and injures. i havent taken anything you said seriously since i started posting here. have a good one.
But that's exactly why I'm not a GM in the NBA
Edit: Yup it was the 2010 WCFs playoff run cause I still remember this:
We can probably assume Dell and Monty place some value on Lopez- he's 24, so he's the right age if nothing else. Lewis and Warrick will come off the books in 12 months, presumably Dell will make another move then.
You're right, it's nice that we're using 100% of the cap- gives the fans faith that the owner will not be cheap later on when it counts.
He freakin shoots 50% from the court at 7'0" from 3-5 feet from the basket>> &&&&&&&& he shoots SHAQ FREE THROWS ! Actually Worse than Shaq ! 46% !! That is gawd awful !
Lets face it>> You paid 8 million a year for a guy that can rebound & CAN DO ABSOLUTELLY NOTHING on offense ! HE is a PATHETIC low post offensive player !
And Asik at least had offers from other teams, no other team other than the Hornets wanted Lopez
It should be of note that, aside from the Hornets' interest, no other NBA squad has gotten the restricted free agent to sign an offer sheet. Read that as the rest of the NBA market knowing that Lopez is a guy with too many question marks to risk overpaying for.
Read more: http://valleyofthesuns.com/2012/07/2...#ixzz21dytFPbp
Asik AND Lopez are both Gahbage. No need to argue anymore.
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Ick. So much faffing around about CBA rules and what not...and only limited word on if this deal is even getting done.
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As things stand, each of the state's community colleges sets its own smoking policy.
"They're isolated from major entries," he said. When some complained that one shelter — the structures are sometimes referred to as "huts" or "gazebos" — was too close to an entrance, it was moved.
Nadelman said he's hopeful most think the policy is fair. It was the product of a committee made up of both smokers and non-smokers.
Chelsea Greenhaw, president of the college's Student Government Association, thinks most on campus believe the current policy is reasonable.
Students who smoke "are very thankful for the smoking huts that we have," she said, and non-smokers seem appreciative that smoking is limited to four isolated areas, despite occasional concerns about second-hand smoke.
Colleen Hilliard, a student at the college, smokes and said the distance between the shelters and college buildings means some smokers don't go that far when it is cold or raining.
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Nadelman also has concerns about enforcing a campus-wide smoking ban. More than half of the state's 58 community colleges already ban smoking, and he has talked to the presidents of some of those colleges. Potential problems include students lighting up in random places on campus or going to the edge of campus to smoke in the street.
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Mary Ann Sunbury Retires after 35 Years in College Athletics
February 1, 2013
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University athletic director Mary Ann Sunbury has been a constant presence on the Pfeiffer campus since 1985 and has coached all but two womens sports for the Falcons in those 27 seasons. Sunbury, who has seen a great deal of change over the years in womens athletics both at the high school and college levels, will step down as athletic director and retire after 35 years in athletics, both on the sidelines and in the administrative offices.
I will miss the interaction with my colleagues and the students; I have great coworkers, Sunbury said.
Before Girls Sports Were Played
Her years in athletics started at Wade Hampton High School in Greenville, S.C., which at the time was the biggest high school in the Palmetto State.
Girls high school sports had not existed in South Carolina until 1971 and Wade-Hampton had no teams until the insistence of Sunbury.
"My friend and I sat in the principals office and asked him to start a basketball team, Sunbury said.
The argument made to her, she said, was that girls could not have a high school team because the gym was already full with the varsity, JV, ninth grade, B and C boys teams.
However, with the influence from the advent of Title IX, womens athletics were born across the country, including a tennis team for Sunbury and her friend at Wade-Hampton her junior and senior year.
Sunbury said that she always knew she wanted to coach, which she did after high school.
Becoming A Coach
After graduating from Erskine College in 1976 with a bachelors degree in physical education, Sun-bury coached at Pendleton High School in South Carolina for three seasons. She coached basketball and started a volleyball squad as well, including earning state championships in both sports in the 1978-79 academic year.
Sunbury earned a masters degree from the University of Georgia and advanced into the college coaching ranks to Brevard College, then a two-year junior college. The University of Georgia was also where she met her future husband, Bill, who recently also retired from Erwin Middle School in Rowan County Schools after 30 years as a P.E. teacher.
In her five years at Brevard College from 1980-85, Sunbury coached the basketball team to a conference championship and sent a tennis squad to nationals.
Pfeiffer College
After her time at Brevard, Sunbury said that she was ready to get into a four-year school as a coach.
That school was Pfeiffer College, where she was hired in the summer of 1985 to coach basketball, tennis and be an assistant P.E. professor, as well as supervision of student teachers.
Sunbury went on to send tennis teams to nationals in 1994 and 1995 as well as claim seven conference championships and having strong teams in all those years. She coached tennis at Peiffer until the 2007 season.
Included in her five seasons as the head womens basketball coach was a huge win at UNC-Pembroke when the Braves were ranked 25th in the nation at the time.
Sunbury also coached the womens volleyball team for five years, which included a conference championship and appearance in the regionals.
In 1997, she was named as assistant athletic director and worked with compliance, later becoming an associate athletic director.
Sunbury was named the athletic director in 2011 and served as such for two seasons.
As the Pfeiffer athletic program searches nationwide for their next athletic director, Pfeiffer professor Jack Ingram will serve as interim AD.
After Pfeiffer
The process for retiring has been interesting, Sunbury said, adding that it was just time to do it.
Sunbury said that she and her husband love to travel and plan to do so while the knees and the body still works.
She said that she looks forward to not having to get up early every day, but that she will miss being around college students.
The presence of students in her life, Sunbury said, kept me on my toes and kept me young.


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Results vs. USC-Upstate (2007-03-20 14:30:00)
March 20, 2007
|Baseball Defeats Upstate 5-3
|Tuesday, 20 March 2007
|Misenheimer, NC---Pfeiffer defeated USC-Upstate 5-3 in non-conference baseball action Tuesday afternoon. Pfeiffer scored twice in the bottom of the eighth to grab the win and improve to 15-16 on the season. USC-Upstate falls to 17-14.
Pfeiffer got on the board first scoring a run in the bottom of the first. Ryan Harju led off with a double and later scored on an Upstate error.
Upstate tied the game in the second when Jake Rollins singled in Brian Dempsey to even the score at 1.
Both starting pitchers pitched well as the game reached the fifth tied at 1.
In the bottom of the fifth Pfeiffer came up with two runs to take a 3-1 advantage. Ryan Brown and Ryan Harju led off the inning with back to back singles and after an out Bryan Braxton knocked them both in.
Upstate tied the game in the eighth when Bret Story hit a two-run home run off Falcon reliever Chris Russell to tie the game at 3.
With two outs in the bottom of the eighth Pfeiffergot a walk from Shawn Coke, a single from Emmanuel Turner and a walk from Ryan Brown to load the bases. Ryan Harju then hit a two-run double to give the Falcons the lead at 5-3.
Russell settled down and shut out Upstate in the ninth and Pfeiffer had the win.
Chris Russell got the win for Pfeiffer and Dennis MCCraney took the loss for USC-Upstate.
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Justin Langseth has been working to collect, manipulate and make sense of big data since before the term became mainstream vernacular in tech circles.
Stretching back to the mid-1990s, Langseth has carried the chief technology officer title at three firms that built businesses on helping others to digest the large volumes of information that flow to their servers.
Now Langseth has formed his own venture, called Augaroo, that aims to help companies make sense of that information through data visualization. The company's main product in development, called ZoomData, would allow businesses to create and toy with charts and graphics that depict their data on iPads and other Web-enabled devices.
"There seemed to be a gap in the market that I noticed in terms of there wasn't really an ability to create interactive and real-time data analysis," Langseth said in a phone interview from Odessa, Ukraine, where he was visiting the firm's team of developers.
The idea garnered Langseth top honors at a TechBuzz competition in May, where 28 upstarts pitched to a room of investors. Augaroo was named Best of the Buzz, and Langseth said the company could finalize an initial round of venture funding this summer.
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McCarthy, 42, looked pensive as she inched down a short staircase to the SNL stage in a pair of high sparkly red platforms Saturday.
The actress ended up falling on the floor as a stool she used for balance slid away. She then performed a song and dance number with Taran Killam on her knees, UsMagazine.com said.
"They told me, 'Make sure you practice in your shoes.' I said: 'What? I live in heels!' But I don't do that. That was not honest. I'm primarily in a Croc. I just really wanted to get all gussied up for you guys," McCarthy said.
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I thought I would create a thread about people's experiences with homeless people. I see homeless people quite frequently where I live.
Until about six months ago, I used to be like many people and just ignored homeless people and didn't give them anything. Now that I have a lama and am able to see my negative and selfish habits more clearly, I have started giving change to homeless people who are begging on the street. This is a very small step and is very little compared to the vast generosity of bodhisattvas, but I found it to be a significant learning experience. I found that I felt nervous and awkward the first few times I gave money to homeless people. But why should I care if other people think I'm foolish? And why should charity be embarrassing?
I realized that generosity, like kindness, is a skill and one which I need to practice much more to be good at. It takes courage and skill to be truly kind and generous. It's so much easier to be selfish and cold in modern society. We've internalized so many habits in order to protect our property at all costs.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Freshman Jordin Canada scored a career-high 31 points to lead the UCLA women's basketball team past West Virginia, 62-60, to win the 2015 Women's NIT Championship on Saturday at the Charleston Civic Center. Canada connected on 9 of 19 shots from the field and made 13 of 15 free throws, helping UCLA (19-18) win its sixth consecutive game. She was the Bruins' only player to score in double figures, shattering her previous career high of 19 points, in addition to tallying four steals and two assists ... (Read More)


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"I became Catholic (from evangelicalism) back in 2007, but I've never stopped listening to this website. My 22-year-old daughter is now a catechumen at an OCA parish, and my wife and I are going to visit a Greek Orthodox priest this Saturday. Various podcasts and "Ancient Faith Today" have pierced our hearts, and we are being drawn into the Orthodox faith."


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Results vs. Barton College (2008-04-14 00:00:00)
April 14, 2008
|Softball Sweeps Barton
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|Misenheimer-- The Pfeiffer softball team swept a Conference Carolinas double header against visiting Barton. The Falcon's took game one by the score of 12-1, and came back to win the night cap 9-1. Pfeiffer will travel to Simpsonville, SC on Thursday to participate in the Conference tournament. Pfeiffer is now 26-21 overall and 12-8 in Conference Carolinas play.


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Farzana D Pashankar MD, MBBS, MRCP(UK)
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- Johnston LB, Pashankar FD, Camacho-Hubner C. Analysis of the intracellular signaling domain of the human growth hormone receptor in children with idiopathic short stature. Clin Endocrinol(Oxford) 2000 Apr; 52(4) 463-469.
- Pashankar FD, Steinbok P, Blair G, Pritchard S. Successful Chemotherapeutic Decompression of Primary Endodermal Sinus Tumor presenting with severe Spinal Cord Compression. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2001;23(3):170-3
- Pashankar F, Singhal V, Akabogu I, Goldman F. Intact T cell responses in ataxia telangiectasia. Clinical Immunology 2006; 120: 156-62.


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Washington DC—Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), incoming Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, will preside over a hearing focusing on the state of the U.S. economy, lagging economic growth and job creation, and recommendations to accelerate both. The hearing will be held Thursday, February 28th at 10:00 a.m. in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.
In preparation for the hearing Brady said, "The current recovery is not satisfactory and is a concern shared by both political parties. Five years after the January 2008 peak, the American economy is still down 2.7 million private payroll jobs and suffering from a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 7.9%. We need faster growth and more business investment to create jobs and solve our nation's fiscal crisis. I look forward to our witness's constructive suggestions as to how we can jump-start America's economic recovery. "
The following persons are scheduled to testify:
• The Honorable Michael Boskin, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
• The Honorable Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.


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Michael Jon Palmquist
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." –Albert Camus
The man who works a profitable but sedentary office job may decide one day to spend his evenings at a weight lifting gym, as many people in contemporary society are apt to do. And by doing so, this man admits through his actions that having a stronger body is at least in some way unnecessary with respect to his survival: if he required bulging musculature to survive in his workplace or in a cruel society, he would already have the physique of, say, a blacksmith without much unnecessary effort. So what then are his reasons? Health and longevity? A hobby? A way of releasing pent-up aggression? A recognition that he, and therefore society at large, cannot accept his current appearance? In any case, he requires of himself an enrichment (or in some cases, waste) of his life that life in turn did not apparently demand of him.
This brief train of thought must be urgently applied to that age-old question of god's existence, which has loudly resurfaced in European and American public debate in the wake of the 9/11 atrocities. For while this unanswerable question is certainly mentally stimulating in academic circles, we must ask ourselves whether its present public resurgence entails something more sinister than a simple and gratuitous appeal to the brain. For the following reason, if nothing else: anyone who needs to definitively answer this question in order to proceed with the task of living, hates life itself. Their hatred may be in fact born in light of true injustice to themselves or members of their society, or born of self-pity and self-victimization, but the simple fact remains.
The existentialist who cries out that life has no objective meaning ends by enforcing a subjective meaning on his fellow humans in the form of dictatorial law, while the man who cries out that life has no meaning without god begins by lavishly condemning himself in order to justify condemning the human race to theocracy. They are in the end the same person, and in this moment of recognition they despise each other with a blind energy that few other creatures can muster. They are the Left and the Right, biding their time under the banners of moderate democratic parties, and waiting patiently for the proper level of civil unrest in order to unfurl again their scythes and the swastikas.
Therefore that stereotypical brand of atheist who needs god to not exist in order for life to have meaning must be viewed with no less suspicion than the man who claims as certain fact that a given god is the originator of life's meaning. Life is quite apparently a finite series of revolts attempting an exhaustive chain of revolt against death (whether a given life form is consciously aware of it or not), and in turn human life is quite obviously a revolt against human death and misery. Any other interpretation forced upon human existence in this period of history is at best gratuitous and artistic, and at worst (and more commonly) a monstrous form of nihilism and hatred of life.
The human race at this moment cries out for a brand of citizen (I will call them atheists only for lack of the better term) who refuse to answer the question. Atheists who recognize the question of god's existence as a distraction and stumbling block to life. Atheists who do not give our existence a meaning it need not wear. Atheists, who in refusing totalitarian thought, refusing death at every turn (except in the immediate defence of human life), restore to human life the meaning it always and objectively bore. Atheists who confound traditional party lines by decrying both the death penalty and abortion insofar as it is gratuitous. Atheists who actively engage in restoring to humanity the common bonds of community and dignity and solidarity which have been too quickly abandoned as parishioners continue to pour out from the crumbling churches and temples of the gods.
The twenty-first century has too quickly forgotten the words of the twentieth century's greatest humanitarian writer, the French-Algerian Albert Camus, in great part because he despised that word that every new generation embraces: Revolution.
"Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic", he wrote. And again, in his seminal L'homme révolté: "The rebel undoubtedly demands a certain degree of freedom for himself; but in no case, if he is consistent, does he demand the right to destroy the existence and the freedom of others. He humiliates no one. The freedom he claims, he claims for all; the freedom he refuses, he forbids everyone to enjoy. He is not only the slave against the master, but also man against the world of master and slave. Therefore, thanks to rebellion, there is something more in history than the relation between mastery and servitude. Unlimited power is not the only law. It is in the name of another value that the rebel affirms the impossibility of total freedom while he claims for himself the relative freedom necessary to recognize this impossibility."
The atheist of today must carry those words ringing in his ears as he lives in constant revolt against all extremes, allowing over and over again the ancient ideals of Greek democracy and solidarity to conquer the nihilistic extremes that threaten to tear our civilization apart. The atheist of today must despise revolution, which always at heart bears a hatred of this life. That begins by refusing to answer the question. For this new atheist, the god debate is simply irrelevant.
Michael Jon Palmquist is an American writer & ex-patriate living in Germany after serving 3 years in the US Army and 16 months in Afghanistan.


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Over the last few months, as our televisions and newspapers and radio programs were dominated by news related to the economic downturn, many media outlets made comparisons to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In certain parts of the United States — like California, Texas and Georgia — they might as well have brought up another dismal phenomenon of that period: The Dust Bowl.
The average American hears the word "drought" and thinks of water restrictions and rising water rates, but in the early half of the 20th century, drought meant dead crops, livestock and people. Although the consequences are not likely to be as dire as they were 80 years ago, the implications and impact of drought — especially the economic and legislative ones — should never be far from the carwash operator's mind.
Water wasters
As water becomes a more precious (and expensive) commodity, it is imperative the commercial carwash industry position itself as a steward of the environment and a conservative user of water. Bob Koo, president of AquaChem, a company which manufactures and supplies water reclamation and treatment systems, explained that carwash operators face an uphill battle in defying the consumer's preconceived notions of the carwash industry. Education and marketing efforts should be combined in order to reach your customer and potential customer bases. (For more ideas on marketing and education, see the sidebar titled "Water-friendly marketing tips and tricks".)
In addition to educating customers, Koo said operators should also consider the financial benefits of a water reclaim system which can be realized in as little as 12 months. These cost savings are especially important as water rates rise along with chemical expenses, labor costs, and energy expenses.
Not only is it important to carefully manage your use of fresh water, and then to try and capture and reuse as much of it as possible for cost savings, but in some parts of the country it will soon become mandatory. Even operators who aren't in drought-affected states need to be prepared for an onslaught of new legislation as the Obama administration works to improve environmental protections. Koo said operators in many of the states affected by drought and water shortage are already being told they must reclaim or recycle at least a small percentage of their water.
Also, many cities are facing growing demands for water services and their utilities are struggling to catch up. For example, in some Colorado cities, carwash operators have reported water rates that have doubled and then tripled in a matter of years.
The bottom line is carwash operators need to prepare now for drought, for legislation, and for the growing costs of water use. The best way to start is by implementing a water management plan that is tailored to your carwash business and needs. Professional Carwashing & Detailing tracked down one operator who has had great success in this area, and we are sharing his story with you.
A case study in water management
Mark Ellis is a second generation carwasher who operates five conveyor carwashes with full-serve, detail and express offerings in and around Grand Rapids, MI. Michigan may seem far removed from the issue of drought, but in the summer of 2008, at least 46 Michigan counties were affected in some degree by a drought that swept through the state. According to data from the Michigan Department of Agriculture, the state also was affected by heavy rain, flooding and considerable frost/freeze; a virtual trifecta of poor carwashing conditions.
But Ellis kept his head up. Thanks to efficient water management, he is able to keep operational costs to a minimum and process high volumes during good wash weather. These best practices have helped him maintain and grow a healthy business even when the chips were down.
Ellis practices water management at all five of his locations, but we will focus on his fourth site, Southland Auto Wash in Woodland, MI, as a case study. He purchased the 37-year-old carwash in 2005, after it had been blown up when "a little old lady ran into the gas meter." As Ellis explained, no one was hurt, but the building was leveled. He purchased what was left — the property and foundation — and built a similar-sized modern carwash in its place.
In addition to its water management system, the Woodland site features skylights the length of building, a galvanized metal roof, high-efficiency boilers, variable frequency drives, and three automated tellers which have RFID and fast pass technology.
About the water management system
The 180' conveyor has a trench designed to self clean and drain into a two stage sand/settling pit with adjustable height sanitary sewer overflow. Ellis said 98 percent of the sand and solids settle into the first two pits and are then pumped out by a sewer cleaning vac-truck twice a year. The two pits also use a turned-down flow through pipe which forces oils to stay in the pit, thus accomplishing the task of an oil separator as well. Any built-up oil can be skimmed off the top of these pit sections and the water then flows into a series of three 2-compartment septic tanks.
"This creates essentially six more compartments for the water to settle out any solids and stop moving quickly," Ellis explained. The wash then relies on an AquaChem reclaim system to pump out of the last tank with a 10-hp pump. It doesn't use an intake screen, but instead pumps directly through a pair of hydro-cyclones which take out remaining solids bigger than 12-15 microns. Those solids are then returned through a drain line to the conveyor trench.
Upon leaving the cyclones, the water is routed through an advanced oxidation chamber, where it is treated with a combination of ozone gas and an oxidizing chemical treatment. "This process removes the chemistry from the water," Ellis said, "which ultimately keeps bio-degradation from taking place inside the pipes." By removing the chemistry, Ellis is able to filter and use over 200 gallons per minute with no residual odor and very good water clarity.
About the wash processThe Woodland site utilizes a high pressure washing system which requires between 150-175 gallons per minute of the reclaimed water to wash a vehicle. The nozzles are "very well directed and effective," Ellis said, and follow the entire vehicle, from the door handles down, including a following wheel washer and side/corner blasters to penetrate ice and snow in the wheel wells and on the lower body. These nozzles are also directed at the nose through the rear license plate, front, back and top of the vehicle.
Using high pressure sensing technology, the wash provides three pressure settles for each pump. This allows Ellis to offer his customers with a pinstriped car or convertible top a gentle cleaning, yet also aggressively clean an icy, snowy or muddy car. The pumps for this system are directly fed with reclaim water and plumbed through a gravity check valve so that if the reclaim system loses pressure, a reserve system holding city water automatically takes over.
The high pressure rinsing system is just prior to the last mitter. It is fed from a tank which captures the reject water from the reverse osmosis system and produces water for a spot-free final rinse. The reject water from RO production is saved for reuse along with the reject water from the RO carbon filter system backwash; this tank is also backed up by city water in case the volume can't keep up on a production day.
Other best practices
In addition to these water efficiencies, Southland Auto Wash also uses reclaimed water for sprinkling its landscaping. The sprinkler system is run during business hours so it can add water back in, otherwise the system would empty the tanks.
City water is used for chemical applications, drying agent and spot-free rinse. Ellis reclaims 80-85 percent of the wash's water for at least a second use — and in some cases a third pass.
"We believe that this is good stewardship of the natural resources, even though we live in Michigan where water is plentiful," Ellis explained. "Generally speaking, we see a two-year payoff in direct water and sewer savings in our reclaim system investments."


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The possibility of WP dropping out of the Currie Cup Premier Division has contributed to the decision to push fatigued Springboks to play this Saturday.
Allister Coetzee was the Bok assistant coach between 2004 and 2007 before he linked up with the Stormers and Western Province in 2008. He is well aware of the manner in which rugby is administrated in South Africa, having been involved with the Boks and a provincial union, and knows how the contracting system is such that the provinces dictate how much rugby the Boks play over the course of a season.
On Wednesday, Coetzee explained his decision to include all seven returning Springboks in the starting line-up for the final Currie Cup league match against the Cheetahs.
Flanked by a visibly exhausted Jean de Villiers, Coetzee admitted that it was a not an ideal situation if one looked at it from a Bok perspective, but as a coach of a province that pays the players' salaries, his hands were tied.
'It's the way the contracts work in this country, the players belong to the province,' said Coetzee. 'Unless there is a change to the structure, that is the way it's going to be.'
WP are currently in third place on the Currie Cup log, but if they lose this weekend and the other two results go against them, they could finish in last position.
This would see them playing a promotion-relegation series against the Eastern Province Kings to determine who will feature in the 2013 Currie Cup.
It is therefore in WP's interest to play all of their available Boks, no matter their state of fatigue. If there wasn't such a risk of dropping down to the First Division, Coetzee may have given a few of the top players a much needed break.
'If you look at what we are all facing, the reality of being relegated, well you have to have your Boks at your disposal,' he said.
'That's what unions are going through right now, nobody wants to get relegated. If we were different position on the log, then maybe I wouldn't have played all the Boks. Now we have to play our best team.'
It was thought at the beginning of the season that the Boks would be excused from the Currie Cup given their extensive workload in the Super Rugby competition and heavy Test schedule. But De Villiers suggested last week that the Boks would return for domestic duty at the conclusion of the Rugby Championship, and when he said it, you got the feeling that he wasn't happy about it.
Coetzee confirmed on Wednesday that the thought process of using the Boks in the Currie Cup had changed recently because of the prospect of relegation.
Indeed, it is not only WP who have loaded their team with Boks. The Bulls have stacked their team with returning Boks and it's likely that the Sharks will do the same when they name their side later in the week.
De Villiers is currently nursing a hamstring injury and will only train at WP's captain's run on Friday. It is a situation that highlights the faults of the South African system, and WP can't be blamed for working within the given parameters.
If the South African system was similar to that of New Zealand, a country that centrally-contracts their players so that they are managed accordingly, they wouldn't be in a position where a fatigue-related injury is a probability rather than a possibility.
De Villiers said that he wasn't happy with the situation and, more damningly, suggested it wasn't likely to change. It's the rugby player's lot in South Africa to simply get on with it.
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