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I worked at Plum Market full-time (Less than a year)
I worked with a handful of great people who unfortunately tend to be overqualified and under-appreciated in their roles.
Poor benefits, volatile owner/management, inconsistent demands and expectations, no feedback given regarding performance.
I've worked some "hot heads" in my day, I was in the restaurant industry for several years and worked for corporate cronies after that. But, this place takes the cake. I was even asked in my interview if I could handle working for a demanding and sometimes irrational boss. I thought I had seen it all so I said "yes."
I was a department Director between 3 different location and was constantly told by the owner how great the management team that was handed to me was. However, I found them to be whiners and complainers who had no business in a leadership role of any kind, nor were they interested in solving their own problems or being mentored. I was constantly baby-sitting these these kids and trying to resolve their issues with their own employees. It was something akin to being a Resident Advisor at college. "He said this....she did that"
They constantly expected me to do half of their job in addition to my own. I have been mentoring managers for years and was expecting to do so in this role, but no matter how much I tried, they refuses to learn or grow professionally. One of them consistently picked fights with one of our most important vendors on a regular basis. The manager before me spent way too much time with them outside of work socially and coddled them on the job because they were friends. I was told repeatedly by the owner who hired me that behavior like that was NOT to continue.
The owner always told me I was doing a good job. I never had a performance review or got feedback that I was struggling to live up to the expectations or demands of my position. After they fired the only HR person in the company (he was "unnecessary," even though he was the only one with a clue regarding HR), they assigned an Assistant Store Manager to oversee employee relations. I approached her about a 6 month performance review I was promised when I accepted the job. She said she would take it up with the owner. I never got it, but was let go 3 months later.
I was somewhat happy to leave, since the last time I saw my immediate supervisor, the owner, was when he was loudly berating minimum wage employees for not doing things his way quickly enough after they had all been working 8+ hours on the busiest day of the year, Christmas Eve. I was shocked by his behavior and over the holidays considered making an escape. However, when I returned to work after the holiday, the same aforementioned Assistant Manager called me to come to another location an hour away for an emergency meeting. It was there, without the presence of my supervisor and the one who hired me, that I was let go with no reason. Fired by a person I had never reported to while the owner hid in his office.
Advice to Management
Try to be more professional. Give solid feedback, if people in management positions cannot handle REAL feedback, they are probably not qualified to manage.
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I really can't think of any pros, I mean I was paid well, but it really wasn't worth staying for.
Right off the bat on my very first day I set my apron down on the counter to go use the restroom and when I came back my team members were literally surprised to see me because the first thought in their mind when they saw me take off my apron was that I must have quit...on my first day. That should have been a clue about the work experience I was going to about to have.
I found out that although the location I was working at hadn't even been open for a year, only two people remained out of the original staff...Those two quit less than two months later. Only one of them was actually working on the one year anniversary, ironically her last day of work.
What you have is a rapidly expanding chain of stores financed by two guys who got their fortune from the buy out of their father's very successful retail chain by Whole Foods. Only one of the two seems to have a good retail know how, the other taller one seems to have no experience or for that matter ability to manage effectively, which he, sadly, is the one that you see more often then not. If you work here, be prepared to deal with daily temper tantrums from him and an ever changing mind on what he'd like to see done in a day.
The problem lies solely within the upper management of the stores, the team leaders and department managers seemed like good people, but the rest of the administration staff is highly ineffective. To give examples, a good chunk of the upper management is made up of friends and family of the two owners, and not just the usual son or daughter kind of thing, first cousins, second cousins, people who lived down the street, you name it, previous retail experience wasn't a concern.
So with that, if one person randomly decides he doesn't like you and starts filling out negative performance reviews about you to try to get you out of the store, there's nothing you can say or do to defend yourself or appeal to a higher authority like in most stores. The family will never doubt another family member and since all of the family members are managers of some type, you're screwed.
Want proof? Check the Ann Arbor or Detroit Metro Craiglist Jobs section and just search the word "Plum" I can almost guarantee you that you'll always find multiple listings. I found 10 just now and only 2 of those listings weren't from the Plum Market.
Advice to Management
Start to actually take a look at the people you've hired to run the company for you. Ignore the fact that they're family members and think about their performance as employees, there is a reason that most people try to keep business and family separate.
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Several great co-workers, good discount on groceries
While I was an employee, I saw numerous managers come and go in all departments. I became a manager because mine was fired. One week later, the director was fired. The person that took their place was no more qualified than any other person that ever gets hired there. I was constantly put in position with no direction, no guidance and most times, not even in contact with the director.
I was given several performance reviews, and at each was commended for doing a great job. I was told that I was one of their strongest employees on more than one occasion and one of my many bosses called me a "great asset to the company." One week later I was fired.
Every decision about firing was based on gossip from other co-workers. All the hiring was done from craigslist. Management has no discretion about whom they hire, for any department. I trained at least 6 people in my department in as many months. All of them either quit or were fired.
Advice to Management
Don't ever leave Plum Market because the things that you do there would never be tolerated anywhere else.


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A ruby-throated hummingbird sat perfectly still in Joan Weber's hand, that is until she gave it a nudge and the tiny bird shot off like a rocket into the trees above.
The ritual was repeated with slight variations dozens of times at the West Feliciana Parish home of Murrell Butler Saturday morning as birds buzzing around feeders were caught, banded and released. Some took off immediately, while others almost seemed to like resting in human hands for a spell.
The occasion was the annual Hummingbird Celebration hosted by the Feliciana Nature Society and the National Wildbird Refuge, an event that gave enthusiasts a close-up look at the birds and a chance to briefly hold them
"You could barely feel anything in your hand," said Weber, of Gramercy, who was visiting with her husband, Michael. "All I could feel was almost a little tickle."
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November 10, 1934 - The final loss on the season
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ND actually controlled this game, except for a blocked punt and a 35 yd INT return that set up both Navy scores.
ND had 8 drives that ended in Navy territory without scoring. The Irish won the statistical battle by a lot (300+ yd to 180 yd), but lost. Navy scored the only two times they threatened. Navy would win 10-6.
Layden was now 3-3 and hearing it from the press and alums again. But the big games against Army and USC were still to come. They would determine the success of failure of the season.
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Much is being said about the mediocre week the SEC had, but at least a few of that league's better teams played very well. The Pac 12, by contrast, has got remarkably little to show for itself, other than dominant performances by Washington and Colorado over lowly opponents, and a good comeback by UCLA in an overtime loss at Texas A&M. Besides that, Washington State was toppled by a Division I-AA team, USC got annihilated by Bama after a huge build-up, Stanford turned in a pedestrian performance, Cal was idle after a wobbly win over Hawaii, Arizona and OSU were defeated, and the other three teams beat up on lower-division schools. The Czar understands the desire by many to ridicule the arrogant SEC, but let's give condemnation, like credit, where it's due.
Sept. 9
Louisville at Syracuse
The Cardinals ushered in a new season in this great American game of college football by sending the hammer-and-sickle-heads of Charlotte to the ash heap of history, 70-14 last Thursday night. For whatever it's worth against such dismal opposition, QB Lamar Jackson threw for 286 yards while rushing for 119 more, and tallying an amazing total of eight touchdowns.
When these teams were rivals in the Big East, the Cuse was guilty of sabotaging the U of L's season on several occasions. In fact, the teams split their last six games as members of that league, despite it being an apparent perennial mismatch. In their first two ACC meetings, the Cards have won handily, by scores of 28-6 and 41-17.
SU's teams used to be known as the Orangemen, but now they're simply called the Orange. That must make it difficult for them to figure out which rest room they can use. For instance, must it be an orange one, or will any color do?
Louisville 45, Syracuse 24
Sept. 10
Penn State at Pitt
One of the greatest series in college football finally resumes after an inexcusable 15-year lapse. Joe Paterno had been determined never to play the Panthers again, at least not on a one-to-one, home-and-home basis. Considering PSU's superiority at the time the series had ended, the Czar is amazed that Joe Pa was willing to carry that last result, a 12-0 loss at Three Rivers Stadium, to his grave. Had the teams continued to play regularly, Paterno's team would have built considerably on its 44-41-4 series advantage, but by now, the two are on much more even footing.
James Conner's return from Hodgkin's lymphoma to score rushing and receiving touchdowns was the highlight of the Panthers' otherwise unremarkable 28-7 trudge past Division I-AA Villanova. Second-year coach Pat Narduzzi must find it a bit disconcerting that, in the first year of the post-Tyler Boyd era, none of his young wide receivers seized the opportunity of that tune-up game to step to the forefront. Instead, it was senior TE Scott Orndoff who repeatedly made the big play.
The Lion OL only allowed one sack in a 33-13 win over Kent State, but that's partly due to a new offensive scheme that relies on a much quicker release from the quarterback than they'd been getting from Christian Hackenberg. The game plan clicked only intermittently, totaling a modest 354 yards, while relying on the defense to set up one touchdown and score another.
The Panther defense is improving, but is not yet playing up to Narduzzi's reputation. If the Nittany Lions' line can't handle their pass rush, then QB Trace McSorley may find himself being traced in chalk when he visits Michigan later this month.
A lot of people wonder why Jerry Sandusky is bothering to ask for a new trial. It may be that he's trying to draw the process out so long that by the time the final outcome is determined, his behavior will have become socially acceptable. The Czar wishes he was only joking about that.
Pitt 29, Penn State 21
Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech
This ABC prime time spectacle will take place at Bristol Motor Speedway, where an all-time record football crowd is expected. It would have probably sounded like a brilliant idea to you and your friends about an hour before last call, but let's sober up and take a look at this. The football field is laid out on the infield of the racetrack, which is at least twice as large. It is surrounded, obviously, by the track, leaving the best seats in the house just barely out of catapult range of the sidelines.
If you've ever been to a football game in a stadium with a running track, imagine being separated from the field by eight concentric running tracks, and that's about what they're dealing with in Bristol. The fans in the end zone seats will be much farther away still, because of the difference in length between the gridiron and the infield. All things considered, people who go to outdoor hockey games in baseball stadiums are probably better able to see the action than the attendees at this gimmickey game will be.
Because the state line separates Bristol, Tennessee from Bristol, Virginia, this is being billed as a "border rivalry," but history says otherwise. The Vols and Gobblers have only met five times before, three of those prior to WWII.
The Volunteers took a pounding from the pundits over their unsettling, opening-day, overtime win against Appalachian State, but let's wait and see just how good those Mountaineers are. By the end of the season, a victory over App State of any margin might be considered quite an accomplishment.
Anyone expecting to see a dramatic transition away from Beamer Ball in coach Justin Fuente's first game in Blacksburg must have been a surprised to see Tech's traditionally balanced offense, run by a quarterback who led the team in rushing yards. In addition, the special teams got in on the scoring with a third-quarter safety. The 36-13 win over I-AA Liberty doesn't say much either way about what kind of season they can expect, other than that Fuente is not going to misuse the personnel he inherited from Beamer by forcibly molding them to a particular system.
Never mind that nobody at this game will really be able to watch it, other than on the video screens. They're only going in hopes of seeing a Gobbler crash anyway. Come to think of it, that would be cool!
Tennessee 30, Virginia Tech 17
Washington State at Boise State
For the second year in a row, WSU opened with a loss to a Division I-AA opponent, this time falling to Eastern Washington, 45-42. Last year's defeat to Portland State mattered little once the real games began, as the Cougars rolled to a 9-4 finish, capped by a snowy Sun Bowl victory over Miami.
BSU beat the peppers out of Louisiana-Lafayette last week at Cajun Field, 45-10. Wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck spurred the Broncos with a 35-yard touchdown catch, as well as a 48-yard TD pass to tailback Jeremy McNichols.
Cougar QB Luke Falk will have to luke a little farther downfield if he is going to beat the Broncs' defense. Against EWU, he collected 418 passing yards, but it took him 41 completions to do it.
How would someone from Boise explain why the "e" isn't pronounced at the end of "State" as well?
Boise State 39, Washington State 35
Arkansas at TCU
Following his Horned Frogs' sloppy 59-41 comeback win against the Division I-AA South Dakota State Jackrabbits, coach Gary Patterson stated the obvious when he admitted, "I did a poor job of getting them ready to play." It's not just him, though. It makes total sense for big-league teams to approach those early-season games against lower-division opponents with an exhibition game mindset. For that reason, it would be a mistake to overreact, and assume that Patterson's defense will be as lax this week against an opponent from the SEC.
The Hogs had lots of trouble with up-tempo passing offenses last season, as Bret Bielema's spat with Texas Tech's Coach Henri, as well as his team's SEC-worst pass defense, can attest.
The Razorbacks won by the thinnest of margins last week against Louisiana Tech, 21-20. Tight end Jeremy Sprinkle dusted LTU on a four-yard, fourth-quarter, fourth-down touchdown catch to lift his team to victory. And now, we know what number every lardhead in the state of Arkansas played in the next day's lottery.
Lardheads never don't play the lottery.
TCU 52, Arkansas 31
Nevada at Notre Dame
ND was knocked off in its opener by Texas, 50-47 in double-overtime. That was a CFP-caliber game, however, whose outcome said a lot more about the Longhorns' dramatic improvement than it did about the Fighting Irish.
The Wolf Pack was a more formidable team the last time they visited South Bend, in 2009, but that team was visibly awed by the occasion, and by all of the Irish pomp and tradition. UNR bungled its way to a 35-0 loss that day, although it would end up having an 8-5 season, complete with an unprecedented three 1,000-yard rushers. This year's Pack is probably less talented, but maybe they'll be better psychologically prepared.
The golden domers have a lot of history to brag about, but the University of Nevada-Reno is the school that educated Colin Kaepernick. Okay, so that's obviously nothing to be proud of, but as they say at Penn State, if you can't live it down, celebrate it instead.
This is getting pretty far afield from analyzing the Irish-Pack football game, but the Czar feels compelled to point out that USA women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe is a lardhead, and far worse. In "a nod to Kaepernick," Rapinoe refused to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner at one of her league matches in Seattle, later adding that she did it to "keep the conversation going." While Kaepernick has been less than eloquent in his explanation of his own behavior, it is quite obvious that his conversation and the one Rapinoe is having are not one and the same, but that she is transparently using him as an unwilling platform for her own cause. So, Rapinoe is not only a disloyal American, but a leech, to boot.
Furthermore, nobody would even know who she is if she hadn't engaged in pretend patriotism by playing for Team USA for the past ten years. If she feels this is such a rotten country that she won't stand for the anthem, then she should never have been able to put on the uniform. In fact, she should be forbidden from doing so ever again, although we all know that is not going to happen.
Remember when people liked our women's national soccer team, about five or six obnoxious acts ago? Pretty soon, they could become the most widely disliked sports team in America … next to Notre Dame, of course. See? The Czar knew he'd find a link somewhere.
Notre Dame 41, Nevada 21
Northern Illinois at South Florida
This sounded like a far more competitive matchup before NIU lost its opening game at Wyoming, 40-34 in 3OTs. Husky QB Drew Hare was conspicuously un-wabbitlike, as he rushed for negative yardage for the first time in 26 career games.
Could this be the year the Bulls finally succeed in unscrewing the Tampa-proof lid that's prevented them from winning their first division or conference title? USF won 7 of its last 8 regular season games in 2015, but their big victory over Temple was too late to stop the Owls from clinching the AAC East.
Unlikely as it seems, this is the fourth time these teams have met since South Florida jumped to Division I-A in 2001. They lost to the Huskies in DeKalb that year, but beat them the following season at home. At the end of the 2009 season, they met again at the International Bowl in Toronto, where the Bulls romped, 27-3.
How can you tell if you've got an international bowl? Easy. You won't be able to eat out of it, because once you've poured the milk, it will smell like wet foreigners.
South Florida 48, Northern Illinois 30
Brigham Young at Utah
In last year's Las Vegas Bowl, the Cougars coughed up the ball on their first five possessions to spot their arch rivals a 35-0 first-quarter lead. The way they dominated the remainder of that 35-28 defeat, they must have wanted a rematch almost immediately. And so, they've got it.
The Ute offense will need all the help it can get from BYU turnovers again this time, in their first real game since the departures of both QB Travis Wilson and RB Devontae Booker. In an opening 24-0 snooze against the I-AA Southern Utah Thunderbirds, they only rushed for 3.7 yards per carry, without anyone managing to break a run for more than 16 yards.
The Cougs are already 1-0 against the Pac 12 this year, having shut down Arizona, 18-16 last week in Glendale. Trailing with just under a minute and a half to play in a defensive slog, they suddenly broke free to march swiftly downfield for the game-winning field goal.
It's a little-known fact that the reason Utah is called the Beehive State is not that it has a disproportionately high bee population. Contrary to popular belief, it's actually because of the hairstyle. Ever get a load of the coifs of the women at those polygamist compounds? Yeesh!
Brigham Young 21, Utah 13
Texas Tech at Arizona State
Coach Jethro's fancy ciphering at the end of last year's Cactus Bowl didn't quite add up. Having just scored to take a 41-36 lead with about five minutes left, ASU's Todd Graham elected to kick the extra point to lead by six, as if he expected West Virginia to score two field goals in what little time remained. Instead, WVU drove for a late TD to beat the Sun Devils, 43-42.
Look at that LSU team whose offense oozed across the tundra of Lambeau Field las week, and imagine them scoring 56 points. That's how bad the Red Raider defense is, as evidenced by last year's 56-27 Texas Bowl loss to that same Bayou Bengal team. Tech's D was third-worst in the nation in 2015, yielding 548 yards and almost 44 points per game.
Coach Henri may be a smoothie, but in this matchup, he's out of his league. Jethro is a gen-yoo-wine international playboy, you know.
Arizona State 55, Texas Tech 51
Nc State at East Carolina
As wussy as the NCAA is about the weather these days, it's a wonder that any September meeting between these teams is not preemptively postponed. In 1999, when ECU's hometown of Greenville was flooded by Hurricane Floyd, NCSU invited their neighboring rivals to use their home stadium in Raleigh. The Pirates accepted, and scored a classic 27-23 upset of those other Hurricanes from Miami. Mind you, none of the coaches or players from these teams was around at the time, so there are no more warm feelings left between the two.
Funny how an incredibly destructive hurricane in 1999 was not the fault of the President of the United States, like the ones in 1992 and 2005 were. Whatever could the difference be? Hmmm.
Scottie Montgomery has been beamed up to the head coaching position for ECU at the age of 38. A North Carolina native, he was once a standout wide receiver at Duke, where he has served as offensive coordinator for the past two seasons. Scottie seems determined to carry on the offensive tradition left behind by Ruffin McNeill, as evidenced by his hiring away of Louisiana Tech offensive coordinator Tony Peterson.
The Wolpack, by contrast, kept sophomore quarterbacks Ryan Finley and Jalan McClendon in safe mode last week against William & Mary. If they're not willing to open up the passing game against lower-division competition, then how will they survive an October stretch of games against Notre Dame, Clemson and Louisville?
Have you noticed that Hurricanes are often given supposedly human names that no human being really has? When's the last time you met someone named Floyd? Or Hermine? Or Georges (pronounced "Zhohhrgzh")? Perhaps people just naturally resist the idea of naming a child after a massive force of destruction. Or maybe they just want to name their kids something they can say without choking.
East Carolina 34, Nc State 24
Ball State at Indiana
The Hoosier offense produced only a field goal through three quarters at Florida International, by which time they trailed 13-12. This, despite the fact that they'd driven into FIU territory on every one of their six first-half possessions.
If IU doesn't make more of its early opportunities this week, the visitors from Muncie won't let them have the ball often enough to get so many chances. In last Friday's 31-21 win at Georgia State, the Cardinals cranked out 325 yards and four touchdowns on the ground.
You can tell that Muncie is a college town. Why else would it be named after the feeling a student gets after a long night of smoking weed?
Indiana 32, Ball State 19
South Carolina at Mississippi State
The Bulldogs can't be too quick to bury kicker Westin Graves for his missed 28-yarder at the end of last week's 21-20 loss to South Alabama, because there's plenty of blame to go around. MSU was lucky to be leading 17-0 at halftime, and then were dominated in the second half by the underdogs from the Sun Belt Conference.
Just as Carolina was headed south, senior QB Perry Orth came to the rescue, rallying his team from a ten-point deficit to defeat Vanderbilt 13-10. The Gamecock offense lacked any sense of direction until Orth led them on a vertical passing attack in the second half.
After this, the mud puppies don't play at home again for another month. If they lose to SC, their fans can ring their bells until the cows come home, but the cows may find better things to do in Starkville than going to another losing football game. For instance, there's got to be an inflatable bounce house around somewhere. Cows love those.
South Carolina 24, Mississippi State 22
California at San Diego State
There was a lot of good for the Golden Bears to take from their opening 51-31 win over Hawaii in Sydney. Journeyman QB Davis Webb fit right in, throwing for 441 yards and four scores, and he found a new top receiver in Chad Hansen, who caught 14 passes for 160 yards and a pair of TDs. Still, they gave up 31 points, 482 total yards, and 6.5 rushing yards per carry. To Hawaii.
The Aztecs' 31-0 rout of Division I-AA New Hampshire shouldn't really count, but since it does, it's their eleventh win in a row. That's the second-longest active winning streak in the nation, next to Alabama, which is up to 13. Running back Donnell Pumphrey fell short of the 100-yard mark against UNH, but he's rushed for 90 yards or more in every game out of those eleven.
Aztecs are like Hawaiians, except that they eat hearts and throw people off pyramids. Oh, and they're also extinct. Come to think of it, Aztecs aren't really much like Hawaiians at all, except that wear the same spiffy hats. Or at least they would … if they weren't all … you know … dead.
San Diego State 42, California 38
Wake Forest at Duke
The Blue Devils knew in the spring that they might be without QB Thomas Sirk, so the announcement that he's out for the season with a recurring Achilles injury does not leave them unprepared. In the one game Parker Boehme had to start last season, however, their offense was squelched in a 31-13 loss to Pitt.
Last Thursday, the Demon Deacons barely held off Tulane 7-3, in what was mercifully the only untelevised game between I-A teams on that opening night. The Wake defense allowed only 175 yards, although frankly, the Green Wave gave them plenty of help.
Both team mascots are from hell, but give the Demon Deacons the advantage for being well disguised. A Blue Devil walking around town is about as conspicuously evil as Mark Cuban.
Wake Forest 17, Duke 14
Cincinnati at Purdue
LSU coach Fewer Miles should take a lesson from the Bearcats' Tommy Tuberville. If you know you're not wanted at your current school, don't just wait for the axe to fall. You'll be more greatly appreciated by your next employers if you allow them to hire you away, as Tuberville did in jumping from Texas Tech to Cincy. Miles should be on the lookout right now for opportunities to arise at programs like the one in West Lafayette.
UC's prodigal QB Gunner Kiel is back with the team, but as a third-stringer. The Czar wonders whether that designation will last through this week's game, after sophomore Hayden Moore gave an uneven performance in a 28-7 win over I-AA Tennessee-Martin. Going back to last year, Moore has thrown as many interceptions (11) as touchdowns.
Coaches seem to put a lot of stock in the psychological effects of their uniform choices, so the Boilermakers' Darrell Hazell should consider that PU hasn't really been very good since introducing the wussified, aerodynamic helmet logo. They would instantly look like a tougher team if they'd bring back the big, rigid, anvil-like "P".
At least they've apparently abandoned those helmets with the train tracks over the top, signifying that they're making it all the easier for opponents to run over them.
Cincinnati 25, Purdue 20
Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt
The Commodores led through most of their game against South Carolina, but appeared helpless when SC brought in its backup quarterback and began attacking more directly downfield. That doesn't portend well against the MT-heads, whose QB Brent Stockstill averaged 308 passing yards a year ago.
MTSU had been 3-0 against Vandy before dropping last year's game, 17-13. The Blue Raiders led that game 13-3 midway through the fourth quarter but were unable to close it out, partly because they lacked any semblance of a running game. Coach Rick Stockstill (the QB's dad) hopes to have solved that problem with the arrival of RB I'Tavius Mathers, a transfer from Ole Miss.
I'Tavius is no relation to Jerry Mathers, but he might prefer to have a nickname like Beaver all the same. Can you imagine going through grammar school named I'Tavius, as cruel as kids can be? Especially that Violet Rutherford.
Middle Tennessee 19, Vanderbilt 10
North Carolina at Illinois
The Tarheels once led Georgia 24-14 before falling 33-24 in their opener at the Georgia Dome, although if you look at the box score, it really wasn't that close. Behind junior quarterback Mitch Trubinsky, the Heels averaged only 6.5 yards per pass completion, and fewer than four yards per attempt.
The Fighting Illini won their opener by a final of 52-3. That's the same score by which they defeated Kent State to begin last season, but they finished the year at 5-7, and got slobberknocked by UNC 48-14 along the way.
Last week's Lovie-fest against I-AA Murray State means nothing, now that the former Bears coach faces the first legitimate opponent of his collegiate career. Lovie might not have known that Julius Caesar was a pin cushion, but he surely knows the difference between a lower-division team and the defending ACC Coastal division champs.
The College Football Czar has known that Julius Caesar was a pin cushion for decades now. Just goes to show what a fine Pitt education can do for you.
North Carolina 37, Illinois 24
Ohio at Kansas
The Jayhawks' opening 55-6 victory probably felt good to players and fans alike, but keep in mind that the opponent was a Division I-AA Rhode Island team that's coming off back-to-back 1-10 seasons. So, basically, they've beaten a lower-division version of themselves.
OU scored on a 75-yard pass play with only 38 seconds left to take a 38-35 lead against Texas State, but then allowed TSU to turn around and drive 77 yards for a last-second chip shot to force overtime. In the third extra frame, Bobcat QB Greg Windham was sacked on the two-point conversion attempt, in a 56-54 defeat.
The Czar can't help but be amused by analysts worrying about the Big XII watering itself down through expansion. A league that already has KU as a member, watering itself down? That's like breaking crumbs – which, incidentally, is listed among the activities in the Things To Do In Kansas tour guide.
Ohio 42, Kansas 40
New Mexico at New Mexico State
The Aggies' most potent weapon is running back Larry Rose III, who continues to silence skeptics everywhere. Not that anyone doubted his ability; it's just that nobody believed that there could ever be three consecutive generations of Larrys.
A year ago in Albuquerque, Rose scored on long TD runs of 63, 67 and 51 yards to stake NMSU to a 29-14 third-quarter lead. The Lobos roared back, however, to score the last 24 points of a 38-29 victory, which proved to be instrumental in UNM's successful quest for its first winning season since 2007. Oh, all right, so lobos don't roar. So who are you, Old MacDonald?
The College Football Czar likes to refer to our 47th state as New and Improved Mexico, and he thinks the state should use that title to promote tourism. After all, if it wasn't an improvement, why would so many people come stampeding from the old Mexico to the new one? Besides, the current state motto, "Land of Enchantment" is way too Michael Jacksonny.
New and Improved Mexico 55, New and Improved Mexico State 36


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In the Pilot, we first see Nostradamus talking to Queen Catherine. Nostradamus tells Catherine about his visions with Francis's future is unclear. Catherine states that she wants to control Mary, but doesn't know how. Nostradamus asks Catherine if that having power bothers her. Nostradamus says that Mary is young and pretty. Nostradamus tells Catherine to be patient, that answers will come. Catherine comes upon Nostradamus and asks why the potion didn't work on Mary. Nostradamus states that nothing was wrong with his potion, the delivery of it failed. Meaning that Colin wasn't paying attention to Mary. Nostradamus states that Mary will bring Francis's death. Nostradamus tells Catherine to keep on sacrificing.In Snakes in the Garden, Nostradamus brings Catherine to the dungeons to show her that Colin wasn't beheaded like they'd thought. Somehow the wrong boy was killed and Colin escaped. By the end of the episode, Nostradamus is washing the 'X' off a door there while he speaks to someone. He knows it was she who let Colin free and tricked the jail guards into killing the wrong boy.
In Kissed, Catherine joins Nostradamus in his rooms and he's making her a concoction to help her sleep. While with Catherine, he has a vision of war which will eventually reach the castle. Henry calls on Nostradamus, asking him to share his wisdom with everyone. He says that a seer in Prague can tell the fortunes of people based on playing cards, and although Nostradamus tries to inform Henry that his power does not work that way, Henry wants him to tell the fortunes of Mary and her ladies. Nostradamus has the girls pull a card and ask a question. He offers general things to Lola and Mary before Henry calls him out on his lack of specifics. Something comes over Nostradamus' face and then he starts rattling things off to them. To Mary, "The Lion will fight the Dragon on the field of poppies." To Greer, "You will fall in love with the man with the white mark on his face." To Aylee, "You'll never go home." Mary goes after Nostradamus, asking why he would scare her friends. Mary knows Catherine was not behind it, so she asks who he serves. He says he only serves the realm, himself and the truth.
When Sebastian is wounded, he is brought to Nostradamus, who sees his vision again and understands that the war was brought into the castle through the attack on the French troops and Sebastian.
In Hearts and Minds, he continues to treat Bash's wounds.
In A Chill in the Air, Nostradamus is working to save the carriage driver's life while scolding Bash for interrupting a blood sacrifice which will put Bash in danger. Nostradamus warns Bash to stay close to the castle, or he'll be in grave danger.
In Fated, he discusses with Catherine about the prophecy of Francis. He claims he the prophecy hasn't changed and the Francis will die if he is wed to Mary. Later Nostradamus sees another prophecy of death in the castle and he tells Mary of what he saw. Mary shares with her ladies-in-waiting that he said one of them would die before the first frost falls. When the death occurs, it is Aylee. She claims Nostradamus was right and she will never be going home. Mary then calls Nostradamus the devil. Nostradamus knows that Cathrine couldn't have possibly done this, so he leads the trail straight to Clarissa. As Nostradamus chastises her for what she has done, he removes her bag of her head and makes her look Aylee in the face. Clarissa is forced to look Aylee in the eyes.
In For King and Country, Nostradamus takes a doll into the castle passageway and gives it to Clarissa, who he has locked in a cage due to her culpability in Aylee's death. He notes that she feels no remorse for what she did to the young girl and reminds her that while kings and queens might be allowed to play God, people like her are not. She was given all the freedom she could have wanted if she just stayed out of sight and didn't harm anyone, but now, he threatens to starve her if she continues to misbehave.
In Inquisition, Catherine pays a visit to Nostradamus in the dungeon and brings him water before asking whether Bash had ever seemed too in the know about the pagans in the blood woods. Nostradamus admits that Bash's hunting in the woods could lead to him seeing things and as Catherine apologizes to him for getting him caught up in this, Henry comes into the dungeon to offer a deal. If Nostradamus testifies that the affair actually happened, he would simply be exiled from France rather than executed, but Nostradamus remains loyal to Catherine and rejects the chance to save his own life. Also Nostradamus past about Clarissa is revealed.
In Royal Blood, Nostradamus brings a Bible to Catherine in hopes of providing her absolution before her scheduled execution. However, she rejects his advances and suggests that he bring her poison, as she doesn't want Henry to have satisfaction about the spectacle surrounding her beheading. Later, Nostradamus and Catherine's guard bust into her room and find that she's hung herself from the ceiling with a rope that had been left. They get her down and Nostradamus pledges to bring her to the infirmary, only to take her to her chambers and revive her. Catherine's ready to make her escape to Italy so that she can regain her strength but her journey gets derailed when Nostradamus informs her of the children being kidnapped. He tells her of Bash sending men to find the boys and she thinks that Bash was the one responsible for the kidnapping in the first place; Catherine promises not to leave the country until she knows the boys are safe.
Due to Catherine's firstborn, Clarissa's death, Nostradamus' sees a new vision which is of Mary and Francis in Consummation. Francis and Mary are happy while being married a year and they have children. He tells Catherine about the change in his visions and she goes through quite the range of emotions before settling on anger when he suggests her life might be saved now since she'll no longer oppose Francis and Mary's union. It's gone past her standing in the way; she's been found guilty of adultery and is going to be beheaded. She tells Nostradamus that if she can't turn things around she's going to make sure he burns before she's executed.
However, Clarissa is revealed to still be alive and Nostradamus' vision changes again by the end of the episode to include Francis' historically accurate death of an ear-related disease, but he does not tell Catherine who is in a wonderful mood due both to her son's happy union and her own pardoning.
In Dirty Laundry, Bash brings Olivia to the French Court and Nostradamus treats her wounds.
In The Darkness, Nostradamus continues caring for Olivia, who has miraculously recovered from the state she was in when she arrived at the castle. She informs the prophet of what she knows about where she went; after she got lost in the tunnels, she ran out into the woods and into a group of peasants who kidnapped her and brought her to the Darkness, a creature who lives in a dark, cold cavern. It fed on her for nights that turned into weeks and eventually months, the only way she survived being the weight she lost from barely eating and drinking. That allowed her to slip out of her chains and back into the forest, where she found a stream and eventually Bash. Later, Nostradamus wakes Olivia up with food and new clothes; he says that it's time for her to join the ranks of the living, even though she wants nothing more to do with French court. She wants to stay there with him and live out the rest of her days away from other people, as she believes that the Darkness knew that she was a bad person and filled her with evil during her time in its lair. Nostradamus takes Olivia to a nearby pond and baptizes her, telling her that evil is a choice and that all that matters is what she chooses to be. He encourages her to hang on to who she thinks she is, for it will be her salvation, and she claims that she feels anew.
In Monsters, Nostradamus comforts Olivia from a nightmare, assureing her that the Darkness can no longer reach her. Nostradamus notices an infected wound on her back, he drains it and finds a tooth from the Darkness embedded in it. He shows it to Bash, Francis, and Mary, telling them that the Darkness is, indeed, human, that the tooth embedded in Olivia's back was filed to look like a fang. Bash and Francis head out to hunt down the Darkness.
In No Exit, Nostradamus plans to leave the French Court and start a new life with Olivia. However, Catherine interferes with his plans, by trying to kill Olivia. He feels the only way to protect Olivia from Catherine is to send her away to Trinidad without him. He tells her of a false vision, saying that it was of her happy with someone else, and warns her that if he went with her, Catherine has to reach to take them out. He informs her that his cousins will look after her, the two part with a final kiss.
In Long Live The King, Nostradamus looks after a child that Bash brought back with him from the Blood Wood. Nostradamus says the blood he is covered in did not come from him, since there are no cuts or bite marks on his body. Bash and Nostradamus start interrogating him about the whistle, but Kenna stops them. She asks the boy if he is alright, informing him that no one will hurt him at the castle. Nostradamus thinks the boy will open up to someone with a softer touch, indicating Kenna. Pascal says that the man with the sharp teeth took him to a place in the mountains. Bash tells Nostradamus that the name of the place is a pagan word, meaning where darkness rises. He admits to being born a pagan and wanting to redeem himself for sacrificing the two lives that he did in the Blood Wood. Nostradamus wants to go with him, since the Darkness touched Olivia as well.
In Slaughter of Innocence, Nostradamus and Bash are on horseback, riding through the trees and coming upon a small town in the distance. Bash and Nostradamus finds the town that Pascal told them about. The place is deserted, but they find a room where a body was recently sacrificed. On the walls are predictions of natural disasters that have happened in the past:fires, floods, and such. The most recent was the eclipse that Bash saw when he found Pascal. The only one left was one with stars falling from the sky. Underneath the picture, there is a rhyme that Pascal was saying, but the last line was blocked by dirt. Bash reads it to Nostradamus, and the last line is "I am Darkness". Nostradamus and Bash arrive to rescue Kenna and Pascal. While Bash fights the Darkness, Nostradamus helps by stabbing the Darkness in the back. Once Kenna and Pascal leave, the Darkness tells them that he was sacrificing to the gods to prevent the plague from returning to France. Nostradamus tells Bash that he has had visions, but Bash sends him along with Kenna and Pascal.
Back at the castle, word has come from nearby villages saying that the Plague has begun again and is spreading fast. No one is allowed to leave or enter the castle.


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Whether it has been opening a jacket, blowing away bandages or taking off a coat, there has always been a way to show Stigmata which weren't already immediately visible so I don't think the lack of clothing would be a decisive argument for Imai Kami to place Stigmata. But as long as we don't know for certain whether there's a system behind all of this it's hard to say for sure.
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A southern kingdom bounded on the west by the Western Ocean, on the east by the Eastern Desert, on the south by Stygia, and on the north by Argos, Koth and Khoraja.
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Scrapping Big Business: Scrapbooking Industry Statistics in Time for National Scrapbooking Day
Elmwood Park, NJ (April 26, 2010) National Scrapbooking Day has emerged as a way of celebrating the number one, top-selling category of the 39 craft segments in the $27 billion U.S. craft and hobby industry. National Scrapbooking Day is held each year on the first Saturday in May. It started in 1994 as a way of celebrating the joys of scrapbooking.
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For 32 years, Eric Siegel has been pushing-shoving, really-Canadian businesses to grab a bigger slice of global markets. He steadily ascended the ladder at Ottawa's Export Development Canada, from a lending and underwriting associate in the Far East department to the top rung of president and CEO in 2007. Along the way, he often voiced frustration at Canada's paltry profile in fast-developing economies. Now, as he ends his career at the export credit agency at year's end, does he feel his efforts have moved the needle?
Retiring at 57-how enviable. How does it feel? I feel like I'm being bronzed or set off on an ice floe. But I'm not retiring from international trade. I'd like to translate that to advice, to help companies be bolder.
Are Canadian companies still afraid of foreign markets? Things are better, but we're still timid. That's demonstrated by the concentration of our exports in developed versus developing world, and within that, a concentration in a few countries. By extension, we don't have as many examples of really bold action to follow. We have a very limited number of transnational companies with a dominant position. We don't even have the number that Denmark has.
So you're not impressed with our accomplishments abroad? In China, Canada has seen the nominal value of its exports grow. But our share as a percentage of China's imports has been going down-our market share has dropped by half. We represent 1% of China's imports. We represent 0.8% of India's imports. When we look at the capabilities Canada has, we're under-represented. That generally applies to all of Asia. Yet by 2030, it's estimated that Asia will be responsible for 36% of world GDP. We need to be invested abroad, not just be exporting abroad.
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How has Canada's economic culture changed during your career? When I started, we didn't have an aerospace sector. Forestry has gone through a fundamental reorganization. The top names in mining are completely different than they were even 10 years ago. Also, the branch-plant mentality that existed in the '70s has been replaced by truly Canadian names. But more often than not, when you go into countries like India, they don't know what Canada does, or that the BlackBerry is Canadian. The Canadian brand is not strong, and we need to enhance it along sectoral lines, not just as one brand. What is the brand for Canada as a mining country, for example? It's not just expertise, but doing mining in a socially responsible way. Some of our greatest experience and expertise lies in engineering, urban design, and transportation services. There's this great opportunity for us to capitalize on all that.
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Hajj is a yearly religious gathering in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is the greatest gathering in the planet. Each eligible, fit and adult Muslim who can administer to do so, should mandatory go to perform hajj at least once in lifetime. Hajj takes place starting from the 8th through the 12th days of Dhu al-Hijjah, the wind month of the Islamic calendar. Each and every Muslims should take these 10 days very seriously and perform as much Ibadah as possible. In the below lines, we have given 10 reasons every Muslim should take the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah seriously.
- Mentioned in the Quran: By the dawn and [by] ten nights. Quran 89:1 - 89:2. According to many prominent scholars, these 10 nights refer to the first 10 nights of the month of Dhul Hijjah.
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