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Again with 'Long-haired'. Does he have no imagination whatsoever?
"Um, I'd prefer it if you called me Laura-"
"I'll call you what I want! You embarrassed me in front of the whole college today, why are you here?"
Actually, I'm quite sure it was your own fault you got embarrassed in front of everyone. Best not to say that out loud though...
"Well, actually, I happen to live next-door and I've locked myself out. I wondered if I should go to the porter or the patrol officer to get the emergency key. Ahahah." Awkward laughter shows I'm friendly. I'm being friendly. Friendly?
"Well, that's pretty stupid. Obviously you should go to the porter's lodge."
Thanks. Please, do reciprocate my attempt at getting along with more spite and bile.
"I thought you were smarter than that, actually. Someone like you would already know that it was the porter's lodge. Aren't you just pretending not to know to try to make friends?"
Ohh, well that's interesting. Turns out he's quite sharp.
John leant against his door frame, arms folded. His eyes were stitched with suspicion. He really is quite sharp isn't he. I might've gotten lucky beating him earlier. If he had kept his cool it would probably have been dangerous for me.
"You're quite a deceptive character aren't you. You're totally different from when we fought. Right now you've got that look on your face that's slightly blank and slightly stupid. It pisses me off. When we fought you were completely expressionless, like you could have killed me without blinking. Like a murderer."
Well, isn't that a lovely thing to say to the girl next-door? Smile and be nice, maybe the situation can be salvaged...
"Ahhh, yeah, I've heard I look quite scary when I fight too, but I must have just gotten lucky. I was quite worried you'd beat me which is why I ran..."
"That's bullshit. You weren't lucky and you weren't worried. You weren't even a little worried. You ran because you knew I didn't expect it. You baited me and I bit. From that point on you had me. You even waited for me in a place you knew I'd want to put on a show. You had me dancing to your tune and acting like an idiot right from the start."
Is this even the same guy I beat up earlier? He's acting like a way more dangerous and capable opponent now than I would've imagined at all from how he behaved before.
"I can see how you made it in a year early. You're really a genius of sorts aren't you. Best of all, you hide it to stay under the radar as much as you can. That way you avoid unwanted attention from the professors and supervisors so you can take them unawares when it comes down to the final exams. It might even be more fitting to call you some sort of monster. Where'd you concoct such a devious plan from huh?"
Shit. I might really have to break his arms to keep him quiet. There's no way he should have been able to figure out that much about me. If I can drop him off the bottom of the rankings and have him expelled, he won't be able to expose me. The rumours are already bad enough, if he reveals everything, I'll be targeted by everyone in the whole college, no, the whole uni.
"You're thinking of challenging me right now aren't you? Best not. To be honest, this wasn't all me talking."
So he already discussed it with someone else. If I hurt him now, it'll only look like I was trying to cover up, and that'll be worse. Urgh! He's got me in a corner...
"Relax, noone else knows about your strategy. These are instructions from our tutor. He says we should team up." John glared at the blank space in front of him. Laura was, frankly, flabbergasted.
"He was the one who figured it all out. I'm not happy about it either, but this is what he told me. He says you and I have the best chances of surviving if we stick together. Something about us both drawing bad attention... In any case, he seems to have some sort of plan. We're not to fight each other, and not to challenge anyone until we've consulted with him. He wants to meet with us tomorrow in his office. That was his message."
... I think I underestimated my tutor. He's the one who's the most devious. He's completely inscrutable, idiosyncratic, frenzied, bumbling, idle, and always so weirdly cheerful. Then he comes out with something like that... He's very dangerous. I'm glad he's on my side for now though.
"So. He wants me to team up with you." Laura didn't really phrase it as a question.
"Didn't I just say so?"
"Well, I was just wanting to confirm. I wondered how this arrangement would be advantageous to me given how embarrassingly inadequate your performance was earlier..."
John made a face like he'd been slapped. Laura was almost beginning to enjoy how easy he was to wind up.
"Now look here, I don't like it any more than you do, if you're not happy with it, let's go, off the record, right here, right now, huh?!"
John took three steps. On the first, his fingers curled into fists, Laura let tension run into her legs, ready to spring at him. On the second he drew his hands up into a guard position, his eyes like dark glass, hard and blazing. He was looking much more dangerous. Laura let a long breath flow in and out of her. He wouldn't fall for the same thing twice. She'd have to take him out properly this time. On the third step, John's door swung shut and locked with a neat snick.
"Shit, my keys! No, oh fuck." John rattled his door handle frantically, battered his door, and generally cast around in a panic. He was a little like a lost dog who didn't know where his stick had gone. It was really quite funny.
"Aha! Ahahah! Ah, you're priceless." Laura leant against the wall of the corridor in fits of giggles.
"Go to hell, long-hair. This is your fucking fault! None of this would've happened if it weren't for you!"
"Excuse, me! It's your fault you're so hysterically easy to wind up, besides, it was you who wanted to have an off-the-record fight in the first place. And for God's sake, stop calling me Long-hair, you sound like an idiot, and my name is Laura!"
"Huh, so even your composure can be broken by something like that. I guess you aren't that different from a regular girl after all, with all that giggling and shouting."
Laura flushed a little.
What's with him, making a comment like that? And he's right, that's the worst thing... Pretty unsightly showing myself like that in front of this guy. And what the hell does he mean 'you aren't that different from a regular girl'- I'm a completely regular girl!
"And for once, the long-haired honour student is lost for words. Well, isn't that refreshing." John smirked a little. He had an infuriating smirk. "Well, nothing for it, I guess we'll head down to the porter's lodge, since we both need the master key now..."
"Hey, you wait for me. And I said don't call me that. And don't go around calling me 'honour student' either, I don't need you advertising that I'm both younger and more talented than the others. It'll make me a target."
"Ohh, haven't you changed your tune? I thought you were a bit of a klutz who 'just got lucky' in your fights? What happened to that miss younger and more talented?" John smirked again. Laura gaped.
God, damn him, he's annoying! I can't believe I'm letting this moron get me flustered!
"Still, it's easier to get on with you this way. At least I know what you're thinking when you're being honest. I much prefer this to your quiet and calculating personality and all those fake faces you put on."
Laura huffed expansively.
"Don't worry, I much prefer you this way than when you're trying to look cool and swagger around like some sort of imbecile with that stupid hairdo." There was more than a little spite in her voice.
"Stupid hairdo?! What do you mean by that, my hair is awesome!"
"Oh yeah, it looks good, but you also look like an arrogant and snarky prick who's asking to get pounded."
"Coming from you! You're the haughtiest seventeen year-old I've ever met! Waltzing around with your I shine brighter attitude."
"I do not have an I shine brighter attitude! At least I'm not stupid enough to pretend I'm better than I am, then publicly humiliate myself!"
"Fuck you!"
"Fuck yourself!"
They proceeded to the porter's lodge and back in silence.
Laura slotted the master key into her door and unlocked it. She tossed the key to John, who caught it cleanly in his left hand and transferred it to his right before opening his own door.
"What time's our meeting with our tutor tomorrow?" Laura's composure was mostly back. She spoke in a low voice with a hint of curt displeasure. Like addressing a particularly ugly frog you'd accidentally trodden on that had ruined your shoes.
They did not look at each other.
"He said around midday, in his office. I'll see you then."
"Tomorrow then."
Laura's pulled her door to.
"What?" She stuck her head back out.
"Goodnight." John ducked into his room and the door shut with a neat snick.
What's with him...
Laura shut her door, flicked off her lights and went to bed.


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- Best blogs of the week: Kevin's MySpace blog, Angela's MySpace blog, Jenna's MySpace blog, John the prop guy's MySpace blog, Bob Vance's MySpace blog, Kate's TV Guide blog.
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13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past
in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I
persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
"For you have heard of my former manner of life in
Judaism, (and he described that life) how I used to
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himself. Paul was out of his mind in his madness
against the church.
>> Two things we are going to establish here.
> First, Paul was not some insignificant person no one
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Paul was a leader, if not one of the greatest leaders
in Judaism. So when Paul reflects on his past
lifestyle, his readers, and his enemies, were well
aware of his incredible rise in Judaism and his
loyalty to the religion of the Jews.
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3 I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus,
[a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at
the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the
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A Revised Periodic Table: With the Lanthanides Repositioned
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The lanthanide elements from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive are incorporated into the body of the periodic table. They are subdivided into three sub-groups according to their important oxidation states: La to Sm, Eu to Tm, Yb and Lu, so that Eu and Yb fall directly below Ba; La, Gd, Lu form a column directly below Y; Ce and Tb fall in a vertical line between Zr and Hf. Pm falls below Tc; both are radioactive, and not naturally occurring. The elements with easily attained 2+ and 4+ oxidation states are grouped and clearly differentiated. Gadolinium has an important position as the centre of four triads in the block of elements that surround it– La, Gd, Lu; Ba, Gd, Hf; Eu, Gd, Tb; Yb, Gd, Ce. This new arrangement has the advantages of compactness, simplicity and clarity – there are no tie lines; and important oxidation states of these metals are emphasized. The actinides are also accommodated within this system, and element 114 falls naturally below lead in Group 14.


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Everything was okay.
Well, comparatively at least. The fear still clutched them both and they held onto each other like frightened children. But outside there was no Shadow Man.
Across the patchy muddy grass that grew around the hospital buildings she saw a couple of workmen sorting out a delivery to the main hospital. They were laughing at some private joke, carrying too many boxes carelessly into a building where a hospital office worker looked on disapprovingly. Next to them an elderly couple hobbled past, the man's leg well-bandaged up but it didn't seem to bother him too much. They got into their car in the over-packed car park and drove away.
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Everything was okay.
At last, Rayan found his voice. Clearing his throat deeply he said, "He's gone, hasn't he?"
"Why would he go? Why would he let us leave and then go?" Amara broke free of her rigidity and started frantically looking all around them, as if expecting to see the Shadow Man hiding behind a bush.
"Why does he do anything?" sighed Rayan, touching Amara lightly on the shoulder to stop the rising panic he saw in her eyes.
"So am I free?" she questioned, not really to Rayan, "Are people going to come after us or...?"
He shrugged, kicking some gravel on the floor, annoyed.
Amara put her face in her hands and sat on the floor crying. Rayan grabbed her and pulled her to her feet, hugging her close.
"It's okay, Amara. You're okay. I'm okay. We're okay. But we need to go. Let's go back to the house. Let's... put on a film or something, get a take out and get down Monopoly from the loft. We're going to have a normal night. You can start that new book you've been wanting to read for ages. I'll try out my new xbox game I bought the other day."
Amara smiled a little, "You and your bloody xbox."
"Yep," he said, taking her hand, "Now what do you want - Indian, Chinese, pizza?"
"Indian," she said straight away, "I'm going to try that curry that you said burns your mouth out. Hospital food was so bland I think my taste buds have died. I need something to revive them."
He laughed, "Fair point. Come on then let's not waste any more time - I've parked in the hospital car park so every second is costing us a fortune."
They walked, hand in hand, to his car. As they left, time resumed in the mental heath building without anyone noticing that the clocks were all a bit wrong and that one patient was missing. Life carried on as normal, the touch of the Shadow Man hidden by its own obscurity and illogic. Human tendency to prefer denial to acceptance of the absurd was a brilliant weapon; and also, the Shadow Man considered, would probably be their downfall.


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The Picasso Museum is less than one-minute walk away from this stylish apartment with 2 balconies, in the historic Born district of Barcelona. Las Ramblas Street is a 10-minute walk away.
This warm and inviting apartment fuses traditional architectural characteristics with colourful decor and modern comforts. The first and second bedroom each contain 2 double beds, and the third and fourth bedrooms each contain one double bed.
Twin beds can be found in the fifth bedroom, and two double sofa beds are located within the lounge. The modern kitchen is fully fitted, and the each bathroom contains a shower.
Guests will find themselves nestled amongst many of the attractions and monuments that the city has to offer. Barcelona Cathedral and the Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar are each just a 5-minute walk away, and Ciutadella Park is 350 metres away.
The surrounding area also offers a wide selection of bars, restaurants and cafes to enjoy. The nearest bus stops are less than 100 metres away, and Jaume I Metro Station can be reached within a 2-minute walk.
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Large apartment with a good location. We found taxis easily and there are lots of restaurants. close enough for the beach and touring. The kitchen facilities, cookware, plats, glasses, etc were well provided.
everything worked pretty well. the only thing is that it is up 4 flights of stairs that
are not so large near the top.
provided contact numbers for problems and were helpful
Good,central and clean Location in El Born. Simple Check In and Mark was very friendly. We stayed one week in this appartement. Sometimes it was a little bit noisy , but Barcelona is never quiet!
A great place of residence!
Everything was well organized and prepared: confirmation after booking, arrival guide, appointment at the appartment for handover, useful ttips and the return as well. Many thanks to Pol, Mark and his Team!
The appartment was exactly like the pictures, clean and in very cood conditions and just in the middle of everything in Barri Gothic. We stayed 3 nights with 6 persons
In summary: 5 Stars. We would like to come again :-)
All the best
Incredibly beautiful apartment in central Gothic Barcelona. Close to everything. We stayed two families and had nice space.
Nice and spacious appartment in the centre of El Born area. However reasonably quiet spot. Suitable for groups of 8-9 adults; only beds are bit small (150cm width) so cosy sleeping. Appartment meets the expactations and is fully according the published pictures.
Mark is a nice host. Check in and out go smoothly. Also option for luggage storage available at no cost. Excellent.
Only remark is the place is very warm and the airco is way insufficient for the accomodation, especcially for the bedroom without any window.
The fans helped out a little only.
Would go there again.
Hard to top!
Clean, large, very good beds and right in the best prt of Barcelona.
Kitchen with all you need and want.
2 bathrooms with good standard.
Hyghly recommendet!!!
The check-in and -out was very friendly and informal.
Good choice!
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Wohnung sehr schön, großzügig (wir waren zwei befreundete Paare), voll ausgestattete Küche, geniale Lage: Bäcker, Tapasbars, Geschäfte in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft. Sehr netter Kontakt mit Mark, stand schon vor der Wohnung als wir mit dem Taxi vom Flughafen kamen!
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#7336 Oct 23, 2013
I think the Government will have to look to the parents, make them be more responsible. This could apply to the bullies they raise.
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#7337 Oct 23, 2013
I actually think that you have NEVER been in school.
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#7338 Oct 23, 2013
Ditto that, Dave. I do read the posts keeping up with the kittens. So cute they know your voice so young. You're so cool.
#7339 Oct 23, 2013
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#7340 Oct 23, 2013
It's going to be hard to let them go. I may just have to do what I have to do.
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#7341 Oct 23, 2013
I gotta go to bed. See you guys tomorrow.
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#7342 Oct 23, 2013
for one the deranged idiots know that law abidding citizens adhere to the law which the deranged idiots know that schools are considered by the Federal Government as Gun Free zones and they know there is no threat by the school faculty either since they are unarmed.
#7343 Oct 26, 2013
Hello "Anonymous of Indy"
Don't they say many times these people are crazy. Do they want to commit suicide, and this way they hope the police will kill them. That is one point.
Then, there are those that say they are crazy, but they run many times when the Police arrive.
You bring up an excellent point, about them feeling safe in a school, to act out the Demons in their twisted minds. And yet through all of their craziness. They have enough saneness, to know if there are Police there, they can't can carry out their Demon driven thoughts. They are extremely evil. I wonder if those that were caught alive, if society, had a public hanging would deter any of them.
I met a man one time, I believe he was in Saudi Arabia, but don't hold me 100% to it. He saw a crowd gathering, so he had his camera with him. What he witnessed was a public caning administered by, I believe it was a man trained in martial arts. The caning has a Doctor there, to administer smelling salts. Anyway it is something after they lose consciousness to bring them too. I think he said it was seven licks, or what ever the judge orders as punishment. I believe he said after the second or third lick with this long cane pole is the best I could describe. They lose consciousness, the doctor brings them too, then the caning continues until the punishment has been administered. Usually I think he said in the end, their bottom is a bloody mess, with meat flying. Not postive on the meat flying. But it is something no man, wants to ever go through.
Have you ever read of a more severe punishment than being nailed to a cross? I have read of a more barbaric punishment than the cross. My guess, this occured possibly 3000-3500 years ago. Off the top of my head, I don't recall when it occured. But it was so barbaric, it was stopped, and the more sane punishment was the cross. Think of how horrible that must have been to endure. I will tell you, if you were interested. But I can tell you from what I read, it would be extremely painful, and it took about 3 days for the victim to expire. My guess is some, if not a great many died sooner, from loss of blood, and from the sheer, brutal pain of the punishment.
Getting back to the man in, lets say Middle East, that will cover areas, where beheading, stoning to death occurs, to this day. Anyway on another occasion, he saw a crowd gather, this time it was a beheading. The victim, is prodded with a sword, to make him bend over a block of wood. Once he has kneeled and his neck is over the block. At this moment, and split second, his head is removed. A bucket is used to catch the falling head. The man took a photo, or photos. When the authorities found out he had photographed the execution, they took his camera. Don't you imagine, he had some thoughts running through his mind. I would have been scared out of my wits.
I don't know if we need these kinds of punishment. But my guess, for the insane, they can always, or unless it is suicide by Police, know they have done enough wrong to run from the Police. And if some of these kinds of punishment, were administered, we might not have so many killings.
Later I will tell you what some young men from Turkiye or we write Turkey. Several on Twitter have used Turkiye, if not most. Anyway if you are interested, I will tell you the punishment, as best as I can remember for stealing there. Now bear in mind it has been a few years back so the punishment could have changed. But believe me, a person would not want to be caught stealing. Catch you later, enough of the gruesome punishment.
#7345 Oct 28, 2013
On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza -- armed with his mother's guns -- stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and murdered 20 children and six adult members of staff. As the nation mourned in the wake of that unthinkable tragedy, many citizens and lawmakers raised their voices to demand stricter gun control laws, President Obama vowed to use his power to curb gun violence. "We're not doing enough," he said at a December vigil. "And we will have to change." Tragically, change has been slow in coming.
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#7347 Oct 29, 2013
Yet another young democrat with guns is always tragic.
#7349 Oct 30, 2013
Virtually every day we see the tragic stories of kids shooting other kids, of children being killed in crossfire. We must act, not tomorrow, not the next day. End gun violence now, and start with limiting the purchase of firearms.
Who, other than the military, needs a military style rifle or military style pistol that will fire hundreds of rounds in a matter of minutes?
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#7350 Oct 30, 2013
The second amendment still begs to differ.
#7351 Oct 30, 2013
Strengthen gun control to reduce violence.
Trayvonius Martinez
"Seven Days In May"
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#7352 Oct 30, 2013
Tell us how that has worked out in Chicago, Fried Larder.
#7353 Oct 30, 2013
Strengthen gun control by using Pale puss as target practice !!!!!!!
#7354 Oct 30, 2013
By the way "DUMB ASS" where's your BFF Johnny?
#7355 Oct 30, 2013
Sounds like it coukd be nearly as fun as shooting beaners.
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#7358 Nov 4, 2013
Would America have Gun Control, if the Republican's got out of the way?
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#7359 Nov 4, 2013
When are you going to realize that criminals don't purchase guns, they steal them. The government will NEVER be able to take responsible citizens guns away from them. The constitution prohibits it.
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Helping bustards in the snow
Posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 by Andrew Taylor
Two juvenile female great bustards in the snow. Photo © David Kjaer. As birds which live and feed on the ground, deep snow can be a serious problem for great bustards. We are lucky that in southern England, cold snaps tend to be short and far apart. In countries like Germany, Hungary and Austria, bustards often make cold […]


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Friday June 29, 2001
Coffee Republic, the chain of coffee shops, is to scale back its expansion plans in a move that analysts say means that it is unlikely to post a profit this financial year.
New chief executive Peter Morris, who took over from co-founder Bobby Hashemi two months ago, said that the company's plans to open 40 new coffee shops in the year to next 2002 had been over-ambitious. The figure has been cut by ten.
''This is a more realistic goal in view of the current market,'' Mr Morris said. ''There's a lot of competition for new units. We need to avoid feeling pressured to put flags on the map; we need to focus on good returns.''
In the year to this April, the company failed to meet its target of opening 30 shops - managing just 20 new outlets while closing three old ones. It posted an operating loss of £2.53m - 15% less than the previous year. Turnover was £21m, with like-for-like sales up 8.4%.
Analysts at house broker Investec Henderson Crosthwaite said management changes and a slower expansion plan would mean a pretax loss on continuing operations of about £800,000 for the year to next April. It had previously forecast a profit of £400,000.
Yesterday, shares in Coffee Republic, which runs 82 coffee shops across the UK, closed down 0.5p at 18.25p.
In a note to be published today, Investec is expected to maintain a three-year sales growth forecast of 60%, after which it expects to see consolidation among competitors.
With Starbucks and Costa, Coffee Republic holds 50% of the Britsh market share, according to most recent figures. Mr Morris said he expected Coffee Republic to maintain its share of about 8% in the current financial year, despite forecasting a drop in like for like sales growth to 5%.
This is considerably less than the 20% growth rate at the peak of the coffee shop boom, and falls short of the 15% like-for-like increase posted recently by the smaller Café Nero.
Coffee Republic chairman Nicholas Jeffrey said: ''The UK espresso bar market is forecast to grow to 2,400 brand outlets by 2003. We plan to continue with our expansion programme and to be trading over 200 outlets across the UK by the end of 2004.''
Lucinda Kemeny
May 6 2001 Sunday Times
CLOSE BROTHERS, the independent merchant bank, has been appointed to sell the fast-growing chain of "cafe bars" owned by the Parisa retail group. The 20 outlets focus on Mediterranean-style food and include micro-breweries and a range of 250 wines.
Parisa also has Right Choice and Booze Buster, the cut-price off-licences, and the Wine Cellar brand. The group is owned by Nader Haghighi, its chief executive, and CVC and Bridgepoint, the venture-capital houses.
Haghighi, a flamboyant Iranian immigrant, built up Parisa after he led a management buyout of the off-licences from the Greenalls group in August 1997. He went on to launch his first cafe bar in 1998 in Putney, south London.
A former Pizza Express dishwasher, he had taken over the management of the Greenalls shops in 1994. At the time the chain was a mixed collection of 500 high-street and local off-licences.
The group now has 400 off-licences, 330 trading as Booze Buster and 70 as Right Choice. It had sales last year of £190m.
Parisa has most recently been mooted as a potential bidder for Oddbins, the 246-strong chain of high-street off-licences put up for sale by Seagram, the drinks arm of Vivendi Universal. It is believed the deal would be worth about £65m.
Other bidders are thought to include J Sainsbury, Southcorp, Australia's biggest wine producer, and Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, which already owns Thresher and Victoria Wine.
It is probably only in the past ten years or so that coffee has managed to find a place for itself in the England way of life. In the early 1980s there were hardly any cafes in London, like the typical ones in Paris, Vienna or Milan. The culture of Cappuccino and a Danish was still alien to most of the ''Yuppies'', after all in the 1980s you had Champagne not Coffee.
However, with the opening of the Channel Tunnel and the more European Friendly culture of the 1990s, London started to become more European and cosmopolitan. At first, places like The Dome and Café Rouge started springing up, followed by the smaller and sometimes one-off shops. Today, the consumer is totally spoilt for choice. Walk down any street in London today, and you will see several café shops and cafés trying to lure you in to spend your £1.20ish on a cup of their special brew!
The Coffee shop has grown from a small corner in a café Rouge where you could have a coffee without ordering food, to places like Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Coffee Republic to name but a few; where the whole culture of the place is based around coffee. You don't go to these places for their gourmet cooking. The attraction is that hot, steaming cup of coffee you buy first thing in the morning!
Today, Londoners are spilt for choice when it comes to coffee places. Ask anyone who works in London to list the names of the coffee shops they know off-hand, and you will get a list of at least ten different places right away, most of which will invariably have the world ''Coffee'' in their name: Newspapers and magazines set competitions to find the best Cappuccino in London and write the columns about how to achieve that ''coffee shop taste'' at home. Even television programmes like Ally Macheal are filming scenes around Cappuccinos, showing the sexy side of your morning coffee!
Most of the top coffee shops that have started to open branches around London have managed to offer a high quality cup of coffee, in an aesthetically pleasing environment, with good services at a reasonable price. So, how do you stay ahead of the competition? The idea of merchandise with the shop's brand name have been picked-up by most of the coffee shops, but one establishment that seems to be on the right track is Costa Coffee.
As well as offering all the above, we have the Costa Coffee ''CARD''. The idea is the same as the loyalty cards used by Supermarkets. Titled ''Sharing a love of coffee'', for every cup of coffee purchased at a Costa Coffee shop you get a stamp (in the shape of 3 coffee beans), once you have collected the maximum 10 stamps, the 11th cup is on the house! Simple idea but I tell you when you are faced with so many choices between coffee shops, you go to the one that gives something back and eventually feels more like home. Costa Coffee then decided to look beyond their usual customers and came up with the great idea of coffee shops in Airports. You can now have a decent cup of coffee in the terminals at Heathrow while waiting for your flight that has been delayed or share your precious last moments with your loved ones flying off.
The management of the Company then went even further, why stick to people with two feet on the ground, why not follow them up all the way to 20,000 feet? Well, that is exactly what they did. You can now enjoy a frothy cappuccino while flying on ''GO''(the low cost airline from British Airways). You have to pay for your Cappuccino/ café mocha etc.., but I tell you it is worth every penny. You can even buy one of their sandwiches or Danish. So Forget about all that dreary food on the plane, Costa Coffee TO THE RESCUE!
So, where do the others go now? Compared to Costa coffee, even Starbucks with its superior cup of coffee feels a bit tame. Yes, they have bought Seattle Coffee Company, and will be refurbishing all the branches into brand new Starbucks; but it still feels like they should do something extraordinary to stand out! May be that could be the first coffee shop on the moon, or the ''Space Village'. At least they would be higher up than cost Coffee. I will leave you to come up with the next big idea in coffee shops. Where can they go from here? How about hearing from the coffee shops themselves. Maybe Mr. Bobby Hashemi of Coffee Republic can enlighten us. Over a Cappuccino perhaps?
Bobby Hashemi's Coffee Republic-
Anyone who was in the US a few years ago could have predicted that Starbucks coffee-mania could soon be exported to the UK. But ''anyone '' didn't. Bobby Hashemi did. He got the idea for Coffee Republic when he was a student in New York and set up a pilot store with his sister Sahar in London's South Molton Street.
Their aim was to offer top coffee in a fresh environment with No.1 service from students recruited like the ''barristas'' that they have in Italy. His model was successful and Hashemi set about finding the money to expand. His operation being too small to attract venture capitalists, Hashemi went in search of an investor.
He sent his business plan to Oxford Venture Capital Report (VCR) which is like a dating agency for investors and entrepreneurs. Coffee Republic appeared in the April 1996 issue of their report and Hashemi met several potential investors before agreeing to a deal. He received £300,000 from an investor for 50 percent of the firm guaranteeing a further £300,000 if performance targets were met.
But why did the investor do it?
His investor still prefers anonymity but has revealed he was 'attracted by the energy and drive of the entrepreneurs, and by the force of the idea whose time had come.'
The fact that Hashemi's investor had already established a branded clothing empire of his own proved a great asset.
The investor appreciated the amount of investment Coffee Republic would require and provided judgment, creativity and contacts. He opened a lot of doors to Coffee Republic.
Now with 11 Central London stores, Coffee Republic has gone on to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) where it raised £3.5m to roll out across London before going national.
During the office hours the city of London is still one of the most densely populated areas in the country which creates a lucrative lunch market for the local caterers. The composition of the lunch customers in the City of London in the weekdays is about 70% office workers, 30% passers-by and residents. The office workers and service providers need to have quick breakfast, lunch and snacks in their short breaks. This was traditionally catered by the made to order caterers. The appearance of self-service supermarkets and fast food outlets like McDonalds has changed the scenario. The fast food customers find the traditional approach time consuming, inconvenient and expensive. In the 80s Benjys pioneered a new style in the fast food by combining café, sandwich bar, supermarket, And McDonald serving . The new system has improved over since and other major players like PERSY'S, Pret a Manger, Kellys, Eat and Treats entered the market, as a of fact this is a dominant market culture at the moment and the fast food industry is constantly growing there.
Just to survive in this very competitive market a player should be aware of what is happening there.
To reduce the costs and increase efficiency, a trend has already started in the City among the employers to:
1. Out-source staff
2. Out-source services.
3. Abolish the staff canteens, out-source the catering services, or replaceit with the luncheon-Vouchers
4. Move out of the City
5. Ask the staff to work for them from their residence using the ever-improving telecommunication facilities.
Items 2 and 3 above are a blessing to the caterers in the city, while the other s have a negative effect on them. Although the paces of these measures have been pretty slow, acceleration has already started. Caterers in the city are advised not to panic (there is still time to adapt to the new environment), but do not ignore the criteria.
The other issues, which affect the market drastically, are trends and fashions, health, environment, weather, politics, economics, and competitions.
Trend used to be to lunch at pubs and restaurants, then having a sandwich at the made to order sandwich bars, then launching at McDonalds or similar outlets, then buffets and self services, and now sandwich supermarkets like PERSY'S. The favourite lunch once used to be fish and chips, then burgers and fried chickens, then pizza, then sandwiches, and now everybody is craving for Tex-Mex.
The next issue is the health every now and again our customers are pre-occupied by BSE, CJD, salmonella GM, foods, or get obsessed with free-range products, organic food, fat-free, low calorie, health foods, etc. To my experience these have all been issues that dominated the market for a short while giving way to the next one. While ignoring them is a big mistake blindly falling in their traps is even a bigger mistake unless a major market research has been carried out (these is always a very profitable niche market for the health conscious, but getting involved in it requires a proper market research).
Mr Reza Taheri
The next issues is the economy, when the economy is booming customers are mostly extravagant, while in the recession or a period of uncertainty people tend to spend less especially on food. At the moment it seems that the providers of a meal at £4.99 or less per head are booming, the ones of over £25 per head meal providers do not experience any charges, while the caterers who are aiming at markets between these two are generally suffering and having a hard time.
Competition is another worry for the caterers in the city. Not only they have to watch their existing competitors, almost every day a new food outlet is appearing in the area. My advice to the city is appearing in the area. My advice to the city caterers to handle the competition is as follows:
1. Share the existing market in a win-win situation between themselves (e..g. one aiming at the cheap end of the market and the other one at the high end, one takes care of sit in customers and the other one take away ones).
2. Combine the two outlets and get a bigger, better, and more profitable one in a form of company or partnership (a good example of this approach is Marks & Spencers).
3. Co-operate with the competitors to promote the market they are both in to get more business to be shared between them (e.g, mark the area more attractive to customers).
4. Encourage more competitors to the area in order to give the area a reputation to be a food centre with lots of choices, attracting more business to the area.
5. Out-perform their competitors.
6. Go beyond their customer's expectations.
7. Innovate and be always at least one step ahead of their competitors.
8. Use customer loyalty schemes.
9. Get to know their customers, get friendly with them and show them that they care about their customers.
10. Be aware of events, changes, and advancements in their markets and respond to due course.
11. Lead their business and market not manage it.
There must be, if the records are correct, at least three people called Nader Haghighi. One of them lived in the ancient city of Shiraz during the time the Shah still ruled Iran. In the early 1970s, as a child from an impoverished family, he set up a street kiosk selling bric-a-brac at the age of nine, becoming the family's sole breadwinner...
Nader Haghighi, pennyless refugee
By Darius Sanai
The Independent (London)
November 8, 2000
There must be, if the records are correct, at least three people called Nader Haghighi. One of them lived in the ancient city of Shiraz during the time the Shah still ruled Iran. In the early 1970s, as a child from an impoverished family, he set up a street kiosk selling bric-a-brac at the age of nine, becoming the family's sole breadwinner. The second Haghighi was a penniless refugee holed up in a bedsit in Croydon, south London, in 1980. A young man from a Middle Eastern country who spoke no English and had no friends or contacts in Britain, he worked as a kitchen porter in a local Pizzaland surrounded by an alien nation.
The third Nader Haghighi is sitting confidently in a plush office in the City, sipping mineral water and outlining the expansion plan for his company, Parisa, the fastest-growing cafe and off-licence chain in Britain. "It is my aim to become one of the country's biggest leisure retailers within the next few years," he says. This Haghighi, aged 41, is worth at least pounds 30m. Parisa, of which he is founder, chief executive and the largest individual shareholder, has more than 500 shops, cafes and bars across Britain under various brands, employs more than 4,000 people and is developing two new high-profile cafe/restaurant brands with 35 establishments set to open in the next 12 months. Turnover in the 12 months to the end of September 2000 was pounds 187m, with a pre-tax profit of pounds 14m.
The three Haghighis are, of course, all the same person, making his growing success in the British retail market all the more remarkable. He created Parisa in 1997 through a pounds 56m management buyout of the off-licence operation of Greenalls. Since then the group has diversified its retail operation, running the Right Choice and Booze Buster cut-price chains, the upmarket Wine Cellar off-licence-plus -cafe concept and the trendy Parisa Cafe-Bars, of which 35 more are due to open across the country in the next 12 months.
He cautiously confirms reports that he is seeking to take the company public in the next 12 to 18 months. "We haven't finalised the timescale for flotation, but it will happen sometime in the foreseeable future," he says. A flotation could see the company valued at up to pounds 100m. There are also rumours, which Haghighi won't comment on, that he is negotiating the takeover of a large high street leisure retailer which would transform Parisa from a medium-sized company into one of the industry's prime movers.
Haghighi is launching an ambitious new concept, PerSia, a Persian restaurant with a bar and a dancefloor, early in 2001, with the aim of starting a new trend of eating and dancing Persian-style. "My country (Iran) doesn't always have a good image in Britain," he explains, "and this is my way of promoting all the most wonderful aspects of it." Both Parisa and PerSia are named after his daughters, though he has yet to find a concept to name after his son, the less exotically named Oliver.
Haghighi would know a thing or two about the wonderful aspects of Iran, as his hometown, Shiraz, is a beautiful historical oasis of palaces and walled gardens. His childhood was far from romantic, though, and one can't help thinking it's a rather different aspect of Iran's historical legacy that Haghighi has transplanted to Britain a tireless instinct for doing business founded in the city's 3,000 -year history as a trading centre. "I love customers," he says. "My life has been all about the enjoyment I get from giving customers what they want."
Haghighi, known in the industry as a lively character not averse to a little self-publicity, is fond of saying he has been in retailing for 32 out of his 41 years. His customer experiences started when he was even younger. His father's dry cleaning shop in Shiraz "was never a very good business", he says, so from the age of five he took to the streets, selling glasses of home-made chilled plum sherbet to parched shoppers and office- workers during the hot Iranian summers.
The family of eight - five brothers, a sister and his parents - all lived in one room. "It was a very important lesson for my future business life," he says, "when you learn from a very young age how to live with people and get along with them, whatever the circumstances." Haghighi is an outgoing, well-built man who rips off his tie and undoes his top button as soon as he settles down on the sofa in a meeting room at his company's PR firm in the City. Beneath his informal friendliness is the absolute determination and quickness of wit that has seen him rise so far in the industry. He also has an astonishing memory for figures, remembering everything from company results to key dates in his life to prices of his products instantaneously.
Haghighi's father died when he was nine, leaving the family with no income at all. There was no social security in the Shah's Iran, so the young businessman enlisted the help of one of his brothers to set up a wooden kiosk on Darius Street, the city's main thoroughfare. "I went to the bazaar in the morning and I bought a selection of goods which catered for the impulse purchaser, things like chewing gum, shampoo, toothbrushes and nuts," he says. Haghighi often talks like this, in grammatically perfect sentences laced with marketing jargon, a result of learning English while on the job after he arrived in the UK.
In Iran, he would go to school in the mornings, and then, as his schoolmates were hanging around or playing football, would man the kiosk during the afternoon and evening, doing his homework in the breaks between customers. "When I started running the kiosk, I found myself confronted with the complexity of running a business at a very young age," he says. "Even in a small environment like a kiosk you still have to worry about cash flows, the profit you're making, the merchandise you're buying and where you source it from. You have to work out how best to present your proposition to the consumers who were passing by in the street who would just look at the merchandise with one glance."
The kiosk business went well, with the young Haghighi the family's sole breadwinner in his early teens. When he was 17 he had enough money to start a shop, a clothes boutique on the spot where his father's dry cleaning shop had been, which he says "did very well". He bought a house for his family and saved up for his studies, as he still wanted to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a doctor.
In 1979, when Haghighi was 19, Iran erupted in revolution. Although his family had been in opposition to the Shah, Haghighi decided to leave the country, leaving his family - and his money - behind. "I thought it was a good time to come to Britain and try and pursue my studies as a doctor," he says, diplomatically, when asked why he left.
In those days Iranians didn't need a visa to come to Britain, so on 20 May 1979 the 19-year-old Haghighi found himself blinking at the damp hubbub of south London. He arrived in the country with a little cash in his pocket, two words of English ("yes" and "no") and one contact, an Iranian expatriate with whom he lost contact after his first week. He found a space in a bedsit in Croydon, got a job as a kitchen porter, and enrolled in an English course at the local higher education college.
"I really wanted to become a doctor but in the first year of my arrival I realised that the fees were very high, the cost of living was very high and it would be impossible. So I considered what to do with my life, and the only thing I knew well was retailing." Needing to earn money anyway, he quit his kitchen job and became a part-time shelf-stacker at a Thresher's off-licence in Croydon. Haghighi says his manager "had an autocratic style" and would not listen either to customers' requests or suggestions by his own staff. Meanwhile the young charge was observing what customers asked for, and which brands and kinds of wine were the most popular.
After a few months, the manager went on sick leave for four weeks and Haghighi was asked to run the shop. "I made a great success of it," he says. "What I had learned from an early age was to consider what customers wanted, look at what we had and work out how we could enhance it. The merchandising was very poor, so I enhanced it, and the shop had a high working capital, which I reduced." In those four weeks, Haghighi says, he made "a big difference", and when the old manager came back he was sacked and Haghighi was given his job.
There followed a stellar rise within the off-licence group. Within 18 months he was asked to be regional manager of the west London area, and moved the area's profits from being bottom of the list of 43 regions to top within six months. "It was very simple," he says. "It was about understanding what the consumers wanted, and we ensured through training, delegation and coaching we actually got the management to respond. We had to roll up our sleeves, clear and remerchandise the shops and make the consumer environment better."
Haghighi says the most difficult aspect was not sorting out the shops but getting the company's own management and staff behind him. "But I found it relatively easy to do because I had done that in my own home as a child. If you live with your whole family in a small room you learn the art of motivating other people, ensuring they share the challenge of life."
Through the 1980s, Haghighi worked through the ranks of Thresher, making board level in 1989 when he became national operational director. He remained in the post until 1994, when he was headhunted by the Greenalls group to become managing director of Cellar 5, their struggling off-licence chain, moving to Warrington, which still houses the headquarters of Parisa.
"Straightaway," he says, "I came up with a new strategy which was based on market segmentation. I looked at the portfolio of properties we had in different market sectors and the portfolio of consumer groups and created new brands that would fill the aspirations of those groups." He developed the Right Choice convenience store chain and started a new upmarket wine store chain called Wine Cellar, where wine shops shared premises with cafes, meaning you could buy your bottle of Shiraz in one room and wander over and drink it with a chicken sandwich in the next, all the while enriching the coffers of the man from Shiraz who ran the place. The division's profits grew under Haghighi's guidance from pounds 2.9m in 1994 to pounds 6.7m in 1997.
The Wine Cellar shops typify Haghighi's way of thinking. Spacious and well-lit with bouncy, friendly staff, they offer an array of Middle England's favourite wines - Australian Chardonnays, cheap clarets, New Zealand sauvignons - at good prices, without showcasing anything particularly unusual or exotic. They are safe, friendly places to buy familiar wines, just as his Cafe Parisa cafe-bars are welcoming, good value but not particularly exciting places to eat.
The innovation came with the combination of off-licence and eating place, with his outlets being the first in Britain (after a court battle) to allow you to purchase alcohol to drink either on the premises or to take home. The innovation continues in much more dramatic form next year with the launch of the PerSia restaurant chain.
The Cafe Parisa concept itself was only launched in 1998, a year after Haghighi led the management buyout of Greenall's off-licence operation. With the support of his senior management and two venture capitalists, CVC Capital Partners and Bridgepoint, he completed the buyout on 8 September 1997. "There was a clause in the agreement saying we could not launch a leisure retailer (like a cafe or bar) for 12 months, so we opened the Parisa Cafe-Bar in Putney (south London) on 8 September 1998," he says, grinning.
There are now 15 Cafe Parisas, with an aggressive opening campaign over the next year, and almost 500 Wine Cellars, Right Choice shops and Booze Busters, concentrated in the Midlands and North of England near the company's historical headquarters. It has not all been an easy ride for the new company, though. In 1998, as the off -licence industry was consolidating, Haghighi spent considerable effort in negotiations trying to buy either Thresher or Victoria Wine, only to be rebuffed when Allied Dunbar and Whitbread, their owners, formed the First Quench alliance between the two groups, leaving Haghighi as a minnow.
"That created an obstacle, and 1998 was a lousy year in the off-licence business generally," he says, with the combination of a rainy summer, an increase in the number of illegal imports from the continent and the industry's consolidation leading to a change of tack on Haghighi's part and the emphasis on leisure retail - the cafes, bars and restaurant - which the company continues to this day.
The creation of PerSia is Haghighi's boldest move yet. Persian food may be one of the world's great cuisines, but it is relatively unknown in Britain. Will consumers take to eating Persian then dancing the night away on the restaurant's dancefloor? "Consumers in the UK have Indian, Thai, Chinese, French and Italian food but little chance to try one of the world's most ancient and distinguished cuisines," he says. "We have to create an environment that is modern, chic and stylish and maintains all the values of Persia."
With his chefs and designers, he has spent seven months creating an environment that is "airy, modern and great fun" and a menu which is "both healthy and traditional". The first restaurant is opening in Manchester, he says, "because it is recognised as one of the most difficult venues in Britain for a cafe-bar to open. The competition is very tough. But I've always told myself that if you're creating a new proposition for the consumer you need to experiment with it in a tough environment." If the pilot restaurant in Manchester has a successful first few months, he plans another five PerSias next year, with more to come.
The Parisa group also has an internet operation: winecellar.co.uk, which is recognised in the trade as being one of the better online off-licences, and which is developing next year with the launch of Parisa.com, a more comprehensive "leisure portal". But Haghighi plainly doesn't want to give up the delight he gets from dealing with the consumer in person.
It is now 21 years since Nader Haghighi arrived in Britain, with an imminent flotation an apt coming-of-age ceremony. His whole story seems like something more likely to happen in America than on Britain's more conservative shores. Did he encounter much racism during his rise to the top? "Not at all," he says. "When I moved here from Iran I decided to adopt the British culture and live as a British man; if you actually become British I think there's no reason for racism. "Sure," he continues, "with the difficulties of language, education and environment I had to work harder than anybody else and I had to be more focussed than anybody else, but at the end of the day, if you are determined and you have a clear vision of what you want and when you want it, then you can do anything." He says he considers Parisa to be "only the beginning" of his business career. Given what has happened in the last 32 years of his life, one can only imagine what kind of Persian empire the man from Shiraz will be in charge of by 2032.
"What drunkenness is this that brings me hope? Who was the Cup-bearer, and whence the wine?"
One ancient Persian legend says that Jamshid, a grape-loving king, stored ripe grapes in a cellar so he could enjoy grapes all year long. One day he sent his slaves to fetch him some grapes. When they did not return he decided to go to the cellar himself only to find that they had been knocked out by the carbon dioxide gas emanating from some bruised fermenting grapes. One of the king's rejected, distraught mistresses decided to drink this poisoned potion, only to leave the cellar singing and dancing in high spirits.
The king realised that this fruity liquid had the wonderful and mysterious power to make sad people happy. When Alexander overthrew the powerful Persian empire he entered Darius's palace in January 330 AD. During one of the conqueror's orgies soldiers raided the wine cellars. In a drunken moment Alexander ordered the destruction of Persepolis. Shiraz, lying 5,000 feet above sea level, yet only 100 miles from the sea, had the essential combination of factors necessary to a successful vineyards. To the Persians, Paradise was called Khollar – a village in the mountains beside Shiraz.
The region supplied Baghdad with wine under the caliphs. In the 12th and 13th century Persian poets such as Hafez extolled the beautiful maidens, roses and wine of Shiraz. According to Jean Chardin, a young French jeweller who spent most of his time in 17th Century Persia, the wine of Shiraz was famous in Europe and many members of the European trading companies imported it under contract from governors with royal authorisation. Shiraz had its own bottle-making industry and wine was transported in large jars in baskets over long distances. Chardin gives a fairly full account of the wine trade in his A Journey to Persia.
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"This wine which is so excellent and famous, is called Shiraz, and for the beauty of its colour and the delight of its taste is considered to be the best in Persia and throughout the East. It is not one of those strong wines which pleases the palate straight away." The Shiraz grape was probably the root of the Syrah grape often found in hot places like the Rhone Valley in France. The wine business was still in full swing in the 19th century when a British doctor with the telegraph company, C.J. Wills, wrote how his friend and neighbour in Shiraz , the Mullah Haji Ali Akbar, approached him with the proposition that they should make wine together in Dr Wills' house.
"I cannot make wine in my house," said the Mullah. "I am a Mohammedan priest. But if I ask the Jews to make it for me things will be even worse, because the wine will be dreadful, and I am a connoisseur. If I make it at your house, Sir, it will be first class and I will kill two birds with one stone. You and I will have good wine and there will be no scandal about it." In the 1920s European archaeologists digging in the ruins outside Shiraz discovered immaculate drinking cups of gold shaped as fierce lions and winged ibex. Local wine production was encouraged under the secular Pahlavis. On the eve of the revolution there were plans to export Shiraz wine with French assistance. In 1979 many wine bottles were smashed by Islamic fanatics.
A few Shirazis continued to make their own homemade wine despite the threat of being publicly flogged if caught by the moral police. These days Shiraz wine is not Persian but rather a produce of Australian and South African vineyards. Still, many Iranian restaurants in London will insist that what the customer is drinking is the real thing. It is a myth that seems to bring a smile to many sad faces in exile.


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Columbus Day Field Day scheduled for Monday, October 8th 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. at the Chris Henning Farm 1931 Q Ave., Jefferson, Iowa. The field day will focus on Henning's farm improvement including cover crops and wetlands.
Henning will talk about what she has done to improve and preserve her land including prairies, buffers, wetlands and cover crops. Her approach is a "light hand on the land." Also on the agenda for the event: Sarah Carlson, Practical Farmers of Iowa, will discuss cover crop varieties, opportunities and benefits to add them into a corn-soybean rotation; ISU Extension and Outreach water quality engineer Matt Helmers will present information on the Science-based Trials of Row-crops Integrated Prairie (STRIPs) project. The STRIPs project is exploring the addition of strategic placement of perennial plants in row-crop fields to improve water retention, soil quality and improved biodiversity. Also a presentation with the Conservation Station offers visual lessons the importance of soil and water quality preservation.
The event is free and the public is invited to attend, but an RSVP is recommended. To register for this event, please call Iowa Learning Farms, 515-294-8912, by Wednesday, Oct. 3. The field day is sponsored by the Iowa Learning Farms in cooperation with Women, Food and Agriculture Network's Women Caring for the Land(SM) conservation education program for women.
The Henning farm is located at 1931 Q Ave., Jefferson. From Jefferson, travel four miles south on Highway 4 (N Ave.) to 290th St. Turn east and go 2.5 miles on 290th St. to Q Ave.; go north approximately a half-mile. The farm is on the east side of the road.
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Starting things off on the right foot, more than 100 people joined a New Year's Day beach walk organized by the American Littoral Society.
At 11 a.m. the diverse group set off for a brisk hike along the dunes and beaches behind Fort Tilden.
Northeast Chapter Littoral President Don Riepe said, "This is our 30th year of doing this."
"We only missed last year, (after the hurricane) when the beach was closed," he said.
As they have done every year, the group tried, unsuccessfully, to flash signal their counterparts in Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
"Later we came back to the Rockaway Artists Alliance gallery," Riepe noted. There they celebrated the new year and enjoyed refreshments.
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