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A Combo is a special attack that is performed by pressing a number of buttons rapidly in a certain sequence. Combos are usually more damaging than regular attacks.
List of Combos
Note: These combos are actually how many times you need to hit the enemy not necessarily how many times you press the buttons. For instance, with the X X X Y Y combo you can actually rapidly hit the light attack button X 4 to 5 times in the time it takes to do 3 animations, so actually performing three consecutive light hit animations is what you need before you should start hitting the heavy attack button Y.
- Main article: Strength
Basic Combos
Light Attack
- To Perform: Press X.
- Effect: Enemy is attacked, sustaining damage.
- Level Needed: None
- Note: Press Y to do a Strong Attack.
- To Perform: Press Y and a direction while standing next to an enemy. (+)
- Effect: Enemy is thrown in the desired direction, causing damage.
- Level Needed: None
- Note: If you are very fast, you can permanently throw enemies either by slamming them into the ground over and over, or throwing them upwards over and over.
Quick Light Attack
Heavy Attack With Spin
Infinite Hovering Attack
- To Perform: After jumping into the air using the A button, Press the X button 4 times, followed by the Y button once. This X and Y button combo can then be repeated over and over. (+, ...)
- Effect: Your character will hover in the air, hacking at enemies, then slamming them to the ground. This will repeat over and over.
- Level Needed: None
Elemental Combo
Levels 1-10
Double Jump
Sprint Attack
- To Perform: While sprinting, press the X button or the Y button. (+ or )
- Effect: When using Y, your character does a front somersault that can deal rapid damage. When using X, your character lunges forward with his weapon outstretched in front of him and will knock opponents in front of him to the ground.
- Level Needed: 4
Spinning Uppercut
Levels 11-30
Levels 31-50
Slashing Headbutt
Slashing Headbutt Combo
Diving Spin (Elemental Infusion)
- To Perform: Press the X button 3 times, and the Y button twice. ()
- Effect: The Y attack will be infused with elemental power, such as poison or fire (depending on the character) dealing extra damage, followed by a diving spin. The amount of damage if affected by both your strength and your magic level.
- Level Needed: 50
- Magic Level Needed: 15
Magical Combos
- Main article: Magic
This is a list of all of the standard magical attacks that each playable character has. Note that all level requirements are in terms of magic, for example an attack requiring a level of 20 needs 20 out of 25 bars filled in the magic skill.
Splash attack
Midair attack
Diving Spin (Elemental Infusion)
- To Perform: Press the X button 3 times, then the Y button one time. ()
- Effect: The Y attack will be infused with elemental power, such as poison or fire (depending on the character) dealing extra damage. The amount of damage is affected by both your strength and your magic level.
- Magic Level Needed: 15
Magic jump
- Main article: Magic Jump
Additional Moves, Upgrades, and enhancements
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Dear Mr. Peirce,
I just wanted to offer a quick hello and let you know that Shady Grove kids (and Wissahickon Middle School kids) are continuing to push for Big Nate in the Philadelphia Inquirer. We made sure we had a "get out the vote" effort through an email blast and letters home to our original 50 letter writers when Big Nate became one of the "Show Down" nominees.
We are hoping to see Big Nate in the final Show Down soon. And we'll be sure to vote again. In the meantime, my students are going crazy over On a Roll - I have a few copies that I can't keep in the reading room. It's getting checked out constantly - and these are reluctant readers, you know. I thought it was great, too!
Attached is a photo of our Don't Wait, Read Big Nate board outside my room. You can see that we've already done a fun math activity with Nate and that I post strips for passers-by to enjoy.
All the best,
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The Voice: Winter 2001
Sustaining college relationships
by Judy Hagey
What relationships do you value? Family? Friends? Sustaining relationships that remain mutually satisfying can require a bit of effort. Time, distance, and the hectic pace of 21st-century living make it challenging to maintain meaningful relationships.
Dordt has been the starting point for many significant relationships. Many life-long friendships are formed when two or more individuals live together in a small dormitory room and, of necessity, learn to appreciate (or tolerate) their roommates' idiosyncrasies. Bonds forge as young persons, at that important stage between adolescence and adulthood, confront the important questions of life...who am I? and what am I doing here? Dordt's role in helping students answer those questions has shaped many lives and forms the basis for many continuing friendships.
Yet, despite our best intentions and promises to stay in touch, jobs, families, and other commitments often get in the way, and those relationships that were once a primary focus move to the periphery of our lives. The yearly Christmas card or occasional phone call may bring back memories of late- night donut runs and marathon study sessions and may prompt a New Year's resolution to do a better job of staying in touch with Dordt friends. For others, these reminders may bring back painful memories. Perhaps your life's journey has brought you much heartache and disappointment. Perhaps the hopeful purposes you had when leaving Dordt are only dashed hopes and the effort to re-connect with those who shared a youthful ideal is too hard to consider.
Our role in the alumni office is to help you sustain the relationships you began as a student with other students and faculty and with the institution. Helping you stay connected with us and each other is a priority for us. It involves keeping an accurate database of addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses and letting you know about events on campus and in your area. But if that is our only job, we've done both you and Dordt a disservice. Our interaction with you ought to be nurturing the relationship that began when you were a student a relationship that continues to help you answer those important world and life questions who am I and why am I here?
To be sure, relationships change over the years. Age and experience change what we bring to and need in return from a relationship. Dayton Vogel relates how his experience on the alumni council has given him a new perspective on his relationship with his alma mater. Whatever your situation, I hope that your relationship with Dordt continues to be one that nurtures both you and the college New Alumni Council Members Dave De Ridder, '71, is the youth pastor at Third Christian Reformed Church in Denver, Colorado. He and his wife, Gladys, have four children, ages 19-26. Dave's ministry takes him on many youth group outings, including leading mission teams to Mexico. Even though he's been pastoring for almost thirty years, he still names that, along with marine aquariums, among his hobbies.
Teresa (Weidenaar) Kredit, '87, lives in Manhattan, Montana, with her family. She keeps the books for her husband's electrical business and is homemaker to their three children. The Kredits belong to Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Manhattan. They enjoy outdoor activities, especially camping in big sky country.
Nancy (De Wit) Meendering, '96, lives in Sioux Center. Music occupies much of her time. She teaches music at Sioux Center Christian School, gives private violin lessons, plays organ and piano at her church, and belongs to the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Nancy and her husband, Kevin, have two adult children who have both graduated from Dordt. In her free time Nancy enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Rebecca Vande Griend, '99, lives in the Twin Cities where she is in her second year of teaching second grade at Calvin Christian School. Rebecca attends Faith Christian Reformed Church in New Brighton, Minnesota. She enjoys spending her leisure time traveling, running, camping, and spending time with her family.
Alumni Musicians We're interested in sharing your professional successes or ventures into the public arena. For instance, we heard from several alumni who have ventured into the music business some professionally, some as amateurs whose activities you might be interested in. Let us know about your projects and we'll be glad to share them with your classmates.
Darrin Berg (ex '95) is the director of music at First Christian Reformed Church in London, Ontario. But it's his song-writing abilities that have garnered some recognition. Darrin has over 500 original compositions to his credit and has released two albums By Grace Alone and his second earlier this year, One Step Closer. He continues to perform with his band, The Immigrants, playing a blend of celtic and pop songs. Contact information: Kelli Koopman (519) 421-0926 or DarrinBergMusic.com.
Andrew Wolgen ('96) also continues the song-writing and performing he did at Dordt. He has one album to his credit, Letting Go and Holding On. All original compositions, they are his testimony that his faith gives him what he needs to let go of the old life and hang on to the new. Andrew also performs with a local band, Covenant. He lives in Orange City, Iowa, with his wife, Jenness (ex'95) and their family. Contact information: Andrew Wolgen; (712) 737-8664; e-mail: email@example.com.
5-4-1, a male acapella group, has been around since 1990, begun as a Dordt student group. While the membership has changed through the years, the purpose five (5) men singing for (4) our one (1) Lord remains unchanged. Only one of the original members, Harold Wierenga ('93) still sings with the group. The other members are Brian Gulker ('97), Dave Van Essen ('95), Eric Netjes ('97), and Brad Krommendyk (ex'99). The group released its first album, The Acapella Journey, in 1998 and hopes to produce another soon. Contact information: Brad Krommendyk (605) 371-8949.
Jack DuMez,'96, is another grad who continues to make his way in the music industry. He writes all his own music and is a frequent performer in clubs and coffee houses. He has released two albums to his credit Wonder in the Wonder and Live and Lenza's. Contact information: Jack Du Mez (920) 564-2402.


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Welcome to Benbecula
Benbecula in Gaelic is Beinn na Faoghla which means Mountain of the Ford. This is a very apt name for the island and it's solitary hill, Rueval, which is in fact a stepping stone between North and South Uist. The islands are connected by a series of causeways but once upon a time crossing to the Uists would mean fording the dangerous stretches of tidal sands.
Balivanich is also known by it's Gaelic name, Baile a' Mhanaich which means 'town of the monks'. This refers back to the 6th century when there was a monastery here and the ruins of Columba's Church can be found just south of the village. Balivanich is the main administrative centre on the island and here can be found a Post Office, hospital, primary school and several shops and cafes.
The hamlet of Lionacleit is the home of the Uists' main secondary school, which also doubles as a community centre containing a swimming pool, cafeteria, sports facilities, a small museum and a library.
Benbecula has a long military history An airfield to the north, built during World War II, became the control centre for the Hebrides rocket range, established during the Cold War and is now Benbecula Airport, An army base was established here in 1958 and is one of the main employers on the island as it is the headquarters for those who service the South Uist missile testing range. The airport was upgraded during 2001 and early 2002 in preparation for the Eurofighter Typhoon test programme. During the tests in April 2002, the £16 billion aircraft fired an Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile on the Hebrides test range, the first of this type of missile to be fired from a Eurofighter.
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- v. To befoul with smoke.
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- transitive v. To foul with smoke.
- transitive v. To harden or dry in smoke.
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CCF/SCF Tools Creating Your Sustainability Plan
- Audience:
- Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF), Compassion Capital Fund (CCF)
- Category:
- Guidance, Policies, Procedures, Tools
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Build your Case
- Partnerships
- Maintaining Partnerships
- Resource Development
- Summary
This training includes several steps that an organization can implement when engaging in a sustainability planning process.
The first, Getting Started, includes questions that organizational leadership should answer in order to position the organization for sustainability.
The second, Build your Case for Support, will walk your organization through a process to determine who is most likely to support you and how you can tailor your message to that audience.
The third and fourth, Develop Strategies for Establishing Partnerships and Develop Strategies for Maintaining Partnerships, will assist you in achieving one common goal for forming a sustainable project: creating partnerships that both support your organization's mission and make you more attractive to potential donors.
The fifth, Develop Strategies for Resource Development, provides a thorough list of resource development options for you to consider.
1. Getting Started
The Sustainability Planning Questions worksheet will guide you in the planning process.
There are a number of questions that should be answered when creating a sustainability plan. Your answers to these questions should serve to guide you throughout the planning process. To get started with your sustainability plan, download the Sustainability Planning Questions.
A consistent message and direction is essential.
What is the main purpose of our organization? What is our mission? What is our vision?
Unless your organization can clearly articulate its purpose, you may struggle to stay on point. Consistency in messaging and direction is essential. As Lincoln famously pointed out, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Don't put yourself at risk of internal divisions that could pull the organization apart.
Remain aware of community needs to maximize impact.
What are the community's needs? How well does our mission align with those needs?
To maximize your organization's impact on the community and ensure your future sustainability, it's essential to remain aware of the often dynamic nature of a community's needs. If your organization's mission falls too far out of alignment with those needs, you will lose the support you need to exist. If you do not have a clear idea of your community's needs, consider facilitating a community asset mapping project in order to answer this question.
Define your purpose to maximize effectiveness.
What are we trying to accomplish by maintaining our programs or services?
An examination of the purpose for the programs or services you provide is important for several reasons. For one, it can help determine if your organization is making the most effective use of its available resources by asking how else those goals might be accomplished. Also, focusing on your goals can assist in taking an outcome-oriented approach to providing services; having concrete results to show to prospective donors is especially important given the shrinking pool of resources available to nonprofit organizations.
Assess supply and demand to identify gaps in services.
Do we fill a gap in services?
The rule of supply and demand doesn't only apply to the for-profit world. No matter how great the need for a service, it's possible for supply to outpace demand. Too much supply leads to a lower return on investment. Even though you aren't "selling" a product to your clients, you need to "sell" yourself as an organization to prospective donors. If your "market" is becoming inundated with supply, this task becomes increasingly difficult, and you may need to reassess the service you provide.
Understand your organization's relationship to nearby communities in order to engage volunteers.
How do we see ourselves, our role, and our relationship to the community we serve?
A good understanding of where your organization stands and its relationship to the communities you serve can assist you in activities such as engaging volunteers and can improve your general interactions with the community. The more you can paint a clear picture of how you see your organization serving the local communities, the better able you will be to attract the interest of volunteers and donors alike. Create a value statement that clearly aligns your mission and vision with the interests and needs of nearby communities.
Assess staffing needs to ensure adequate support.
How many and what kinds of people, with what skills, do we need to run our programs and services?
Assessing your staffing needs is crucial to ensure that you have adequate support without stretching your available resources too far. In doing so, you not only need to consider how many people you will need to run the program, but also the criteria in which you will select those individuals. Consider the key characteristics and skills that would be considered best fit within the organization. Are you looking for someone with a history of service in your field? Or are you looking for someone with direct experience in the cause you support? Will you want these individuals to be collaborative or autonomous? Outgoing or reserved? By considering questions such as these, you will be able to paint a clearer picture of your staffing needs.
Work with partners to enhance outreach efforts.
How should we make our best contribution to the social service provider network? What organizations should we collaborate or partner with directly in order to maximize the impact we have on the community?
Although you may provide several services to your community, it's almost impossible to meet all of your clients' needs or to identify every individual who could benefit from your services. Working with partners who offer complementary services enables you to better provide for your existing clientele while also enhancing your outreach efforts through the referral process. When considering who would make a good partner, simply think about your clientele and from what other services they might benefit.
2. Build Your Case for Support
Step 1: Identify and define the problem(s) addressed by your organization.
The ultimate goal of Step 1 is to answer the "Why should I care?" question for your prospective donors. In order to best address this question, it may be helpful to refer back to the question from the previous section, "What are we trying to accomplish by maintaining our programs or services?" To answer this, identify the services that you provide and consider what problems those services are meant to combat. For example, let's suppose that your community has a high dropout rate as well as a large number of youth involved in gangs. Your organization runs various after-school programs in your community, offering tutoring and various recreational activities. The problems that these particular programs address could be both dropping out of school and gang involvement, assuming that you can establish a correlation between the two.
When communicating this message of "Why you should care" to your audiences, appeal to them both emotionally and logically. Target the message as much as possible by always keeping the audience in mind! Since catering the message to specific individuals is likely cost prohibitive, the next best thing is to break down the donors into groups by some common factor that characterizes them as a population, ethnic group, geographical community, or other group, and consider instances of each distinct problem addressed through the services you provide.
Step 2: Explain your purpose and your solution to the problem.
No matter how convincingly you portray the seriousness of the problem, donors will not support your organization unless they believe that funding you will make a difference. The goal of Step 2 is twofold:
To establish your organization as a "brand" for your donors
To convince them that you provide the best available solution to the problem.
You need to communicate your purpose in a compact form that donors can identify with and believe in. Point out your successes through statistics, such as numbers served, as well as testimonials from clients (particularly members of your target audience) to demonstrate the impact you've had on the community.
Step 3: Share your vision for the future.
Before a donor will want to make a long-term commitment to supporting your organization, they must believe in not only what you've done to address the problem in the past, but also on your plans for the future. This involves communicating your vision to your target audiences and describing how you plan to improve upon currently offered services. In addition, use this opportunity to explain how your plans will help address the problem in the future.
Step 4: Define the support needed to accomplish the vision.
If you've accomplished the previous three steps, your prospective donor should care about the problem and believe that supporting your organization is a worthy cause. At this point, he or she should be asking, "How can I help?" Obviously, there are numerous costs involved with running an organization and, as a nonprofit, you likely depend upon a combination of donations and grants for your very survival. Donors are more likely to give if they understand these costs and how their gifts might be used. How could a donation of X amount of dollars help fulfill your organization's vision? Think about all of the costs involved with running your organization. Since your case for support is similar to an advertisement, you should focus on expenses that are most likely to be attractive to your audience, namely the expenses associated with running programs or offering services to clients.
Step 5: Ask for and encourage that support.
Now that you've made your case, it's time to ask for support. Be assertive! Let your prospective donors know how important their support is to you and those you serve and that by supporting the organization, they are making a difference in the community. Also let them know what perks you might have to offer, such as newsletters, recognition, and invitations to special events.
Present your case in an engaging way will attract the interest of your audience.
Your case for support must engage your audience. Passive voice and variations of the verb "to be" are not effective means of conveying the dynamic nature of your organization. Instead, use an active voice. For instance, rather than saying "the Neighborhood Homes Project was founded in 1958 by John and Jane Doe," say "John Doe founded the Neighborhood Homes Project in 1958."
It is essential to capture the points that are central to communicating your message by being thorough and concise without losing your audience. Be selective in choosing what points to include and trim any unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. Ensure that the appearance of your materials is attractive to the audience. Use a readable font and don't neglect color scheme or spacing.
For a helpful "on the go" resource about how to present your case, download the form, Tips for Presenting.
3. Develop Strategies for Establishing Partnerships
In the current nonprofit environment, partnerships have become a near necessity. More than ever before, donors are looking for organizations that are positioned to offer comprehensive solutions to their clients' complex problems. To begin the process of finding and engaging potential partners, download the Who to Partner With Template.
Partner with organizations that are compatible and will enhance your services.
In the space provided on your Who to Partner With template, list the nonprofit organizations operating in the community you serve and examine them by answering the following questions. Do they:
- Offer services that could enhance what you currently provide to your clientele?
- Have a mission and vision compatible with yours?
- Stand to benefit from a partnership with you (for instance, would your services be a good supplement to theirs)?
Place a circle around the organizations that meet all three of these criteria. Take some time to contact these organizations and assess their interest in engaging in some level of shared services. Then, put together a meeting with one or more of these organizations to discuss possibilities. The following are a few examples of common shared services:
- Multi-tenant facilities
- Group purchasing
- Accounting services
- Marketing services
- Consulting services
- Human resource services
Appeal to potential partners by outlining key benefits.
In the next section of your Who to Partner With template, tailor a "Case for Partnership" for each the organizations that you circled, outlining the benefits that they stand to gain from partnering with you. Your "Case for Partnership" is not an official document. It essentially consists of a one-page bulleted list of talking points to use when communicating with a potential partner. It is a straight-forward, logical appeal to the benefits of collaborating. You should consider mentioning the following points:
- Better serving clients through working together
- Expanded outreach through referrals from your organization
- Expanded visibility to donors due to association with your organization
- Possibility of saving money through shared services
Work with corporations and businesses to develop strategic alliances.
You should also consider developing strategic alliances with corporations and businesses that work with some of the same clients or have other reasons to be interested in the work you do. Stress the impact you've had in the community (from your Case for Support), the compatibility of your organizations, and what you could achieve by working together. Emphasize that it makes good business sense. Talk about the trust and reputational boost they could gain by working with you. Another benefit you could mention is the increased employee morale and retention rates enjoyed by companies that are engaged in their communities.
4. Develop Strategies for Maintaining Partnerships
The Maintaining Partnerships template will assist you in developing strategies for maintaining partnerships.
It is important to come up with a sustainability plan for each of your partnerships. Download the Maintaining Your Partnerships Template to assist you in developing strategies for maintaining partnerships.
Over time, your partnerships should evolve.
In the first column of your Maintaining Your Partnership template, list all of the organizations that you are currently partnering with. In the second column, label each partner depending on the category they fall into: transactional, complementary, or collaborative.
A transactional partnership is originally formed to bring about a direct material gain for each member. You agree to share services, such as office space or purchasing power, but little more.
Complementary partners have compatible missions and may work with the same clientele. They are likely to use each other as referral sources and may work together on a community initiative or a grant, but they operate as fully independent entities.
Collaborative partners work together on a much wider scale, integrating one another into daily operations. Members of a collaborative are still independent, but the partners exert considerable influence on one another while working together to fulfill a common vision.
Maintaining your partnerships means keeping them alive and not allowing them to grow stagnant. Sometimes, maintaining the status quo is desirable, but over time it is more likely that the scope of your partnerships should evolve in response to organizational and environmental changes.
Maintaining transactional partnerships requires open communication, trust, and reliability.
Transactional partnerships are need-based. Thus, maintenance entails ensuring that the arrangement continues to fulfill each partner's needs. Maintenance of a transactional partnership requires both members to openly communicate information pertinent to the agreement. Fostering a sense of trust and reliability serves to strengthen the stability of the agreement, increasing the chances that the nature of your partnership will evolve rather than dissolve as a response to your organizations' changing needs. Even if a relationship must dissolve, open communication will make you aware of this sooner, giving you time to make new arrangements and insulating you against future uncertainty. Make plans to talk with someone from your partner who either has decision making authority or knowledge of the aspects of his or her organization affected by the agreement. Meet at least twice a year to discuss how the arrangements are working and what adjustments could be made to benefit all or both partners.
Maintaining complementary partnerships requires frequent communication, faith, and awareness.
Complementary partnerships are opportunity-based. These partnerships are formed for benefits such as giving clients access to additional services, increasing visibility, or for winning a grant that neither organization is capable of carrying out alone. As with transactional partnerships, open communication is essential to maintain the partnership, but since your organization's reputation is likely at least partially at stake, the communication needs to be more regular and its scope needs to be greater. Maintenance of a complementary partnership depends upon each member having faith that the other members will produce high-quality services that are relevant to the work they do. Partners need to be made aware of new organizational developments such as a geographical expansion of services. Also, as opportunities are sometimes fleeting, partners need to be kept aware when new chances to work together arise. If they prove to be reliable, complementary partners are a valuable commodity that can greatly enhance the visibility and success of your organization. Make arrangements to talk at least quarterly to keep one another aware of new developments and opportunities.
Develop earned income strategies to ensure a reliable source of income.
Collaborative partnerships are mission and vision based. A collaborative partnership is formed to combine efforts and resources as a more effective and efficient way to address a common problem. To maintain a collaborative partnership, it is essential that each partner not only be kept informed of, but also that each partner has a say in any decisions concerning significant developments within other partner organizations. The dynamics of a collaborative partnership are complex, so leaders need to agree on a schedule to discuss aspects of the partnership, such as maintenance of a common vision and resolution of any partnership difficulties. Due to the closeness of the partnership, direct interaction is frequent and real human relationships are especially important. To maintain these relationships, you should consider creating institutional structures, such as annual get-togethers, that foster a sense of camaraderie and mutual identity.
The Community Tool Box has additional information concerning how to maintain a coalition, which is essentially the same as a collaborative partnership.
5. Develop Strategies for Resource Development
Seek in-kind contributions to offset expenses and improve organizational effectiveness.
Direct funds are usually your target, but in-kind contributions can help to offset expenses or improve organizational effectiveness. When targeting a donor, think about what else they might have to offer either instead of or in addition to cash gifts. Marketing assistance and/or space to hold an event are just two of many possibilities that you could suggest to appropriately-situated donors.
Recruit volunteers to cut staffing costs.
A well-managed group of volunteers can help you cut down on staffing costs and/or increase the quality or quantity of the services you provide. The following resources can assist you with volunteer recruitment:
www.samhsa.gov has a manual for finding, training, and using volunteers.
www.volunteermatch.org allows you to register your organization as a nonprofit looking for particular types of volunteer assistance.
www.about.com has helpful information about recruiting volunteers for nonprofits.
www.techsoup.org sets out ideas for using volunteers to provide assistance for your IT needs.
Identify and develop donors who share your interests and goals.
Donors don't just come out of the woodwork. You need to take steps to find, engage, and cultivate both individuals and businesses who share your organization's interests and goals. The key is to become relationship experts.
Seek grants from diverse sources to increase awareness of opportunities.
Foundations, corporations, and all levels of government are all potential sources of grants. By developing relationships at each level, you can increase your awareness of upcoming opportunities, as well as your likelihood of success when applying for grants.
Develop earned income strategies to ensure a reliable source of income.
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Machine is remarkable, dependable and overall the best bagged vacuum out there. Whatever I try to clean it is done. Tried a unit at a local store and clean carpet without engaging the roller setting. Tried a Dy*son and NO comparison to the picking up of dirt!!! Do yourself a favor and stick with Hoover as they offer the best customer service and product bar none. I do not work or am affiliated with Hoover but a valued and lasting customer
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Its admittedly a bit heavy and I don't use the self propulsion but I've used this model for years and it's a tank of a vacuum. Use the anniversary version at work and this one at home. Works perfectly, plenty of suction and lots of accessories! Highly recommended!
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Lightly used after 1 yr the self propel stop working. This vacuum is very hard to push due to the weight.
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Love this vacuum! It actually replaced an older Hoover. I have had Hoovers for 40 years . They never disappoint and just get better. Love the bagged!
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Skip to comments.Alleged: Dog came home from Petco with taped-on ears
Posted on 02/16/2012 3:29:08 PM PST by smokingfrog
HONOLULU - Two dog owners filed a lawsuit claiming their pets were mutilated while being groomed at an Oahu pet store.
The lawsuit filed in state court Monday said plaintiff Gladys Kapuwai dropped off her dog Dodo for grooming at the Petco store in Kaneohe in July, and that the pet was returned with its ear cut off.
In addition, there appeared to be an effort to "reattach, glue or sew" the ear back on, the lawsuit states.
"I couldn't believe what they did. I started crying because this is our baby, too, you know." Kapuwai told Hawaii News Now.
The plaintiffs claim they suffered serious emotional distress and anxiety, and said they are seeking unspecified damages.
San Diego-based Petco said in a statement that it takes "any animal care concerns very seriously and we're actively investigating these cases."
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ow! ow! ow! ow! poor pups.
I didn't mean to laugh....
Must be a very bad PetCo. I've had my dogs groomed at PetCo for years, and am very satisfied with their services.
I did too.. lord help me..
Bets are the dog is a terror to trim and clean ears and the groomer just didn't know how or couldn't just say no and tell the owner of the dog to go somewhere else.
Just use super glue, it'll grow back together.
Me too.
I fear...
a terror of a pup who needs to be twilighted to be groomed + new, inexperienced groomer = disaster.
The dog wasn't in pain?
There was a local groomer here that left the room with the dog still in the neck loop, and when she came back the dog had moved off the table and strangled. We cut our own dog's hair now.
Excuse me...but was your dog wearing a red bow tie?
"Estelle Green also claimed her dog Hope was injured during a grooming visit to the store that left the tip of its tail cut off and bleeding.
Hope had other injuries, "including cut eye lashes and whiskers and bleeding toes," the lawsuit said."
Hers was the only dog injured AND mutilated?? Something's not right here..
It sounds as if the dog ran into a fan.
I've done that before to myself - cut my finger with a knife and it kept opening back up. Not really bad enough for stitches.
This has to be the weirdest story of the day. Seriesly.
Don't hire Mike Tyson to run the clippers.
It works, have seen it used often on horses over the chest and leg areas where the skin is tight. Superglue and a butterfly bandage.
the headline, at first glance, sounds humorous.
They need to sue though.
Sounds more like Michael Vick.
"Were you wearing a pink necktie? Oh, then here's your lip." /Obscure
Curley, is that you?
Poor poochie.
Just be glad that Lorena Bobbitt didn't work at the Petco!
I'd be very careful about where I took my dogs to be groomed or who groomed them. I pay somebody to come into my house and do it there where I can watch them.
I'm glad I have a self-cleaning Border Collie.
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In the first of a weekly series, the Times columnist tells a close friend, who died from cancer, how he longs to say goodbye properly
Dear James, When I first began writing this letter, I began with the wish that I could remember more about the time we last met. But I realised that I actually desire the opposite: I wish I could forget the meeting altogether. I wish I could forget that I spent most of that evening fretting about my disintegrating relationship with my girlfriend. I wish I could forget that I curtailed our time together to be with her and that I didn't respond with more than an embarrassed shrug when you said that you were proud of me.
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Pianist Jon Jarvis has been bounc-ing around clubs in the New York and Boston area for about 30 years, yet his name recognition, even among the jazz cognoscenti, has re-mained on the low side of the scale.
But things may be looking up following the release of his new trio recording, Never Never Land, on the TVT label, with a special guest appearance by legendary violinist Stephane Grappelli. The recording features jazz classics and three Jarvis originals.
On this, only his second recording in 19 years, he is joined by mates Anthony Weller on guitar, with bass duties split between Bob Nieske and Chris Rathbun.
"I've been doing mostly cocktail gigs for all those years," he said, "so people have been pretty oblivious about me. It can drive me crazy, but it also allows me to refocus and get my priorities straight and just get into the piano—which is where I belong."
Jarvis admits he has considered "packing it in" a few times, calling those periods not his best moments. But his passion for playing and the fun he has performing outweigh any negatives. Check out his version of "Sweet Lorraine" for a taste of his fun side.
"I always try to have fun and I love it when my audience laughs with me," he said. "Garner did that all the time, and I've a recording of Art Tatum—my deity—doing the same, earning belly laughs as he went from one end of the keyboard to the other. It's wonderful!"
His style has been compared to Tatum, Rachmaninoff, and John Cage all rolled into one, and his new recording, which he describes as very much improvised, demonstrates this mix.
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The Bissell Symposium will present two events surrounding the documentary film "King Corn," a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
At 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 12 in Colton 120, the documentary will be shown, followed by a question-and-answer session with documentary creator Curt Ellis. At noon on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in East Hall Forum, Ellis will give a presentation.
Ellis is a creator of the hit documentaries King Corn, The Greening of Southie, Big River and Truck Farm. He is co-founder of the national service organization FoodCorps, and a passionate campaigner for building a world in which service, sustainability and health are celebrated.
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I must be one of the few readers who has yet to pick up Stieg Larsson's series of crime novels: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played With Fire; and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. No surprise that the first two have morphed into popular movies, also.
But I have been to Stockholm, one of the main locales of the books, and it's one of my favorite European cities. Although my roots are Norwegian, I have more of an affinity for how the Swedes live and play (plus like the Norskes, they have royalty).
Stieg Larsson's three best-sellers revolve around journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, who lived and worked in Stockholm. The city has become such a popular destination with fans of the book that the Stockholm City Museum now conducts twice-weekly Stieg Larsson-Millennium Tours in English: Wednesdays at 6 PM and Saturdays at 11 AM. Or you can do the tour on your own by purchasing a map at the Stockholm Tourist Centre.
Another locale in the Millennium crime trilogy is Sandhamn, a resort island in the Stockholm archipelago. My hubby and I took a day trip there, and it's beautiful. There are a number of ferries that sail from Stockholm to the island; we booked passage on one that featured an English-speaking narrator. Along the way we saw Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg's family home, along with a cabin where Greta Garbo used to stay. Plus all that lush landscape.
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Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization
Ed. by Azzam, Azzeddine
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2015: 0.189
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2015: 0.549
Impact per Publication (IPP) 2015: 0.500
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Aims and Scope
The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide.
As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.
JAFIO's mission is to provide a peer-reviewed, scholarly, international forum to address this new complexity with the added benefits of 1) electronic submission, 2) professional and constructive reviews by specialists in the topic area, 3) a response guaranteed in 10 weeks, 4) no galleys to proofread, and 5) instant publication upon acceptance. Through electronic submission, revision, and publication, manuscripts will no longer become obsolete because of lengthy reviews and/or waiting in the print line, as they often do in traditional paper journals.
The journal welcomes empirical as well as theoretical articles, notes, and perspectives. It is expected that both empirical and theoretical contributions are issue-driven, informed by the idiosyncrasies of food and agricultural markets, and have practical relevance to firm strategy and/or agricultural and food industry policy.
Of particular interest are issues related to regulatory economics and competition policy, horizontal and vertical coordination, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, auctions, product differentiation, food labeling, food safety, cooperatives and strategic alliances, economics of innovation and property rights, strategic trade, market structure and environmental economics, and political economy.
Submissions addressing issues which arise in specific antitrust cases in food and agricultural industries, or issues which arise in reconciling antitrust laws with modern industrial organization theory, are also welcomed.
Supplementary Information
- Language:
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- Readership:
The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide. Published in conjunction with the Center for Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization at the University of Nebraska, the Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization is the only international journal devoted solely to theoretical and empirical industrial organization as applied to agricultural and food systems which link input suppliers, farmers, processors, and retailers. All submissions are reviewed by at least one member of the editorial board, which consists of distinguished economists specializing in food and agriculture, and are guaranteed to receive a decision within 10 weeks, with the first review coming within one month.
Publication History
One issue/year, updated continuously
Content available since 2003 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
What scholars are saying about Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization
I frequently use this journal for my own research and think of it as a very valuable source for teaching and research.
Hendrik Wolff, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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Editorial Information
Azzeddine Azzam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Editorial Assistant
Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Associate Editors
Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University (USA)
John Crespi, Kansas State University (USA)
Panagiotis Fousekis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Jean-Philippe Gervais, Farm Credit Canada
Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
David Hennessy, Iowa State University (USA)
Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University (USA)
Philippe Marcoul, University of Alberta (Canada)
Dimitrios Panagiotou, University of Ioannina (Greece)
Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University (USA)
John R. Schroeter, Iowa State University (USA)
Khalid Sekkat, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Jim Vercammen, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, University of California-Berkeley (USA)
Tian Xia, Kansas State University (USA)
Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University (USA)
Christine Zulehner, University of Vienna (Austria)
Advisory Board
Hans Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
Stephen Martin, Purdue University (USA)
GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University (USA)
Jeffrey Perloff, University of California-Berkeley (USA)
Jeffrey Royer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Richard Sexton, University of California-Davis (USA)
Ian Sheldon, Ohio State University (USA)


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The examinations are credited in line with the national qualifications framework known as the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF). This framework provides a means of comparing the level of qualifications and amount of credits they carry which can contribute to other awards offered by the SQA. Entry to the NPA or PDA is at the discretion of the delivering centre or organisation. Beginners would enter the NPA (SCQF level 2) and advance through each level to SCQF level 6. For pipers there is the opportunity to progress to PDA's in Scottish Bagpipes (SCQF levels 7 and 8).
Piping students will be given the opportunity to sit examinations up to SCQF level 7. The syllabus can be viewed here.
Advance notice by intending candidates is vital so that the relevant support pack information can be provided. Students should indicate whether they wish to do so by ticking the relevant box on the booking form or they can purchase them at any time before the school at our online shop (link to shop). Advance notice must also be given to allow scheduling of exams. Please note an additional charge will be made to students who wish to sit exams.
Fees are listed beside the examination below.
- SCQF Level 2 (PDQB Level 1 ) – £30
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- SCQF Level 5 (PDQB Level 3) – £30
- SCQF Level 6 (PDQB Level 4) – £30
- SCQF Level 7 (PDQB Level 5) – £60


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Ballet by John Neumeier
after Harry Graf Kessler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Production 1977
65 min.
Vienna State Opera Ballet, Vienna, February 11, 1977
TV-Production Unitel, December 23, 1977
Production 1979
Premiere in Hamburg
The Hamburg Ballet, 18. July 1979
Set and Costumes Marco Arturo Marelli
Production 2008
Premiere in Hamburg
The Hamburg Ballet, Juni 29, 2008
Set John Neumeier
Costumes Albert Kriemler – Akris
Joseph dreams of an Angel...
Joseph is abducted.
At Potiphar's court a festivity is being celebrated. Potiphar's Wife refuses to take part.
A mortal combat between warriors is held as entertainment for the guests. A strange figure of extraordinary beauty overcomes the warrior who was the last to win. While Joseph is borne in and sold to Potiphar as a slave, the figure reveals itself to be the Angel Joseph had dreamed of.
Joseph dances for Potiphar. This dance, woven through with strange visions, effects Potiphar's Wife deeply.
The guests leave the festivity. Joseph goes to sleep In the empty hall. Once again he dreams of the Angel...
Potiphar's Wife feels herself to be drawn to Joseph. Her fascination for him grows until it becomes a monster of passion...
Potiphar surprises his Wife as she is attempting to seduce Joseph. Potiphar wrongly believes Joseph to be the seducer and orders him to be tortured.
Disappointed and hurt, Potiphar's Wife whips Joseph herself. But suddenly, at the moment of Joseph's deepest despair, a change takes place in Potiphar's Wife and she tries to protect Joseph against her husband's fury
The Angel appears, carries Joseph away, and reveals his destiny to him.
Potiphar's Wife remains, lonely and alone.
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