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The Entepreneur in you?
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In economics, a person who takes a risk to create a new product or develop a better way to operate a business is called an entrepreneur.
Classroom Activity
Several student volunteers will come to the front of the classroom. Each volunteer will be blindfolded. After they are blindfolded, a few students in the audience will be given extra credit vouchers. Other incentives may be candy bars, monopoly money, and pennies, etc. The blindfolded students will have to go into the audience unassisted and disoriented and find the student(s) with the extra credit voucher(s) or incentives. The rules are no running, and when you come to a desk with a student you must ask," do you have the extra credit voucher?" That person must then respond, "I do not have the extra credit voucher" or "Yes, and you may have the extra credit voucher".
Was it difficult to volunteer for something when you did not know the purpose or outcome? Explain how you felt.
When observing the various students wearing the blindfolds, how did they differ in how they moved to pursue the extra credit points?
What were the risks taken by the blindfolded students?
What happened to the blindfolded students when they were given an incentive?
- Did some students behave more aggressively than others pursuing the incentives? What was the result of this behavior?
You can obtain a printed version of the questions by clicking on this link.
Now, look at the quote from Bill Gates that is written on the board or overhead. "Big Wins Require Big Risks" - Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought 1999. Discuss what the word "risk" means.What correlation can you draw between the blindfold activity and the Bill Gates quote about risk?
Throughout this lesson, you will define the role of risk incentives as factors found in all entrepreneurial pursuits. You will analyze, compare and evaluate personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. You will also develop a greater self-understanding as you determine if you have the traits found in successful entrepreneurs. Finally, you will set goals, which will help you to become more entrepreneurial.
Activity 1: Risk, Incentives and Entrepreneurs Defined
Answer the following questions:
What is risk?
What is incentive?
What do you predict will happen when an entrepreneur perceives that the risks outweigh the incentives?
- What do you predict will happen when an entrepreneur perceives that the incentives outweigh the risks?
When an entrepreneur perceives that the incentives outweigh the risk, they are willing to move forward and act on their idea. Entrepreneurs are agents of change and the stimulus for economic growth. Entrepreneurs are creative and individualistic. They are thinkers who take their ideas and transform them into goods and services. Entrepreneurs are enterprising individuals who see opportunities and take risks in hopes of earning profits. When entrepreneurs take a risk and their enterprise is rewarded, new goods and services are developed that raise the standard of living for everyone.
Activity 2
Three Entrepreneur's Life Stories
In this online activity you will analyze, compare and evaluate personal characteristics of entrepreneurs by reading their life stories.
When reading the life stories of the three entrepreneurs, you should determine what type of character traits entrepreneur's have which made them successful. Do you have dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur? Discover what it takes by reading and identifying with the entrepreneurs in the stories.
How is it possible for an individual to become the wealthiest man in the world in 24 short years? Read the online life story of Bill Gates
, and then complete this interactive activity.
Read about Fredrick W. Smith
online and then complete this interactive activity. Today, FedEx Express handles 3.3 million packages and documents every night. FedEx couriers log 2.5 million miles a day, the equivalent of 100 trips around the earth. Maybe Fredrick Smith was lucky because he hit upon a great idea at just the right moment in time. How could a young mother with no business experience whose only claim to fame was she could make a great chocolate chip cookie become a successful entrepreneur?
- Read about Debbi Fields , the original cookie lady, online. In the beginning, people told her that her idea was crazy. But, her idea started as a small business and continued to grow. It is now the premier chain of cookies and baked goods. What were some of the things that played a role in the success of Debbi Fields as an entrepreneur? Debbi Field's followed her own advice and became the best at what she loved to do…bake cookies! Okay, maybe a mother would have an advantage over someone who attends high school full time. How could a student have the time to become a successful entrepreneur?
Activity 3
How Entrepreneurial are YOU?
This online entrepreneurial self-evaluation activity will help you gain a greater self-understanding as you determine if you have the traits found in successful entrepreneurs. Read each question and select the sentence that describes them the best. Then, circle your answer. An online copy of this activity can be found here. If you need an online calculator to add up your score, click here .
An entrepreneur is a person who takes a risk to create a new product or develops a better way to operate a business. Risks are one of the main incentives when trying to "make it big" in the business world. Entrepreneurs are unique individuals who are creative, opportunity seekers, and people who are willing to take a risk when the possibility of great profit is at hand. Perhaps you or some of the people in your class are entrepreneurs. Many ideas and products would not be here today without the driven, motivated, and focused entrepreneurs to pave the way for their success.
Read the poem by Denis Waitley from "Seeds of Greatness," which appears on page 198-199. Then, write an essay about becoming more entrepreneurial and coming up with ideas and strategies for accomplishing their goals. A copy of the poem can be found below. Once you have finished your essay, turn it in to your teacher.
"If You Think You Can, You Can"
You can be a total winner, even if you're a beginner,
If you think you can-if you think you can, you can;
You can wear the gold medallion, you can ride your own black stallion,
If you think you can-if you think you can, you can;
It's not your talent, or the gifted birth,
It's not your bankbook that determines your worth;
And it isn't the color of your skin,
It's your attitude that lets you win!
You can upset McEnroe or Austin, win the marathon in Boston,
If you think you can, you can-if you think you can, you can;
You can profit through inflation, you can redirect this nation,
If you think you can, you can-if you think you can, you can.
It doesn't matter if you've won before,
It makes no difference what the half-time score;
It's never over 'till the final gun,
So keep on trying and you'll find you've won.
Just grab your dream and then believe it,
Go out and work, and you'll achieve it;
If you think you can, you can-if you think you can, you can.


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This is green papaya salad with shrimp, slightly sour and spicy, and very delicious. I love all the flavors going on here.
Sawadee Thai Restaurant
754 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Phone: 801-328-8424
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So funny Kalyn. I love one of the Thai restaurant here in Melb and it's called Sawadee as well. :)ReplyDelete
Hi Kalyn, these look delicious & the first photo of the chicken combo is one I see being cooked by the street vendors here in Bangkok. The last one, with the thick/wide looking noodles with broccoli looks like Kway Teo which is a Singaporean dish. Green papaya salad is still a favorite of mine. Cheers!ReplyDelete
That last dish looks like Pad see eew - I'm an avid fan. Wide rice noodles with a sweet soy sauce. Yum!ReplyDelete
Hey! Kalyn
The last dish called "Pad See Eiw". Normally, the original was fried with "Ka Na". However, mixed vegetable is also good including brockery. Chicken may be changes with pork or sea food or whatever. Also the wide noodle, may be instead with Mee Hun or egg noodle. You should ask the new fusion of this dish for the next Thai food. Hope you will enjoy it.
Yum, Kayln. I love Thai food, especially when it's so fresh and flavorful.
If you want to make Thai at home, try Trader Joe's "Thai Green Curry Sauce" (it's in a jar). I tried it two weeks ago and I was totally blown away - really awesome.
I love it that people are helping me identify the names of the dishes, and that there's a Thai restaurant in Melbourne also called Sawadee. (I wonder what that means? Will have to ask next time I go there.) Thanks for chiming in guys.
Amy, (sigh) unfortunately there is no Trader Joe's in Utah. I do stock up though when I go visit my brother in LA so will try to remember to get some!
I think the first dish may be Larb or Laab (spelled both ways, but more commonly Laab). The restaurant here calls it Larb.
Can be made with lamb or chicken, I think. Jenny U of Use Real Butter has a recipe for Larb on her website & I think it is pretty SB friendly.
Hey! Kalyn
"Sawadee" is Hello or Hi. When Thai people meet together. We also use for "good bye" too. The green Papay salad, we called "Som Tam". The second dish is may be fusion food.
For KimJ : The first dish is not Larb but called "Pad Kra Prow Kai" The last word "Kai" is chicken. We can use pork instead. Pork, we called "Moo". Then, this dish will called "Pad Kra Prow Moo" You can use other instead too. likes a meat, lamb, sausage or sea food.
Eeuu - Thanks so much for the info! Really appreciate it!ReplyDelete
Your're wellcome, Kalyn. I am your fan!!ReplyDelete
I love Thai food and that looks like a nice restaurant.. Can't go wrong with the green papaya salad.ReplyDelete
Hi Kalyn,
If you haven't already done so, check out Thai Lotus (downtown) and Pawitts Royal Thai (holladay) for some really great Thai dishes.
Two personal favourites of mine here in SLC.
Stuart, thanks for the recommendations and fun finding your blog. I added you to my page of Utah food bloggers.ReplyDelete
I'm so happy you're taking the time to comment on Kalyn's Kitchen! I love hearing from people who stop by, especially if you're sharing feedback or asking questions about a recipe I've posted here.
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Nature names from the botanical world, including flower names like Daisy and Lily and tree names such as Maple and even spice and fruit names such as Sage and Plum, have become both more visible and more fashionable over the past handful of years.
But there's another group of nature names that hint at their earthly roots rather than state them so plainly, a secret garden of baby names that reference plants and flowers in their original meanings. One of the best things about these names is that they're more even-handed than many botanical names in their gender identity, with several excellent masculine choices plus others that work equally well for boys or girls.
If you love nature names but also value subtlety, one of these secret garden names may be right for you.


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Editor's note: The following article was published by the William H. Miner Institute of Agriculture in the March 2014 issue of the Miner Institute Farm Report.
Switching pens and regrouping is a fact of life for dairy cows on most farms these days. Depending on size and management strategy, during her lactation cycle a typical cow might be housed in a fresh pen, high production pen, low production pen, far-off dry pen, and close-up pen.
She may also transition between a sick or hospital pen and her normal housing. It's also likely that stocking density will vary among these housing situations. The interaction between regrouping and stocking density has had very little attention despite how often cows are asked to adapt them.
The Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia addressed this situation in a recent edition of Journal of Dairy Science . Behavioral data from 72 mid-to-late lactation Holstein cows averaging 42 lbs of milk per day was collected.
Cows were housed in pens containing 12 or 24 freestalls (either 3 rows of 4 stalls or 3 rows of 8 stalls), milked twice daily, fed a TMR (52% forage and 48% concentrate), and provided free access to water. Feeding space was constant at 23 inches of bunk space per cow. Stocking density at the freestalls varied from severely undercrowded (4 stalls per cow) to undercrowded (2 stalls per cow) to at-capacity (1 stall per cow). Cows were regrouped a total of 8 times to progress through the various combinations of freestall stocking density and pen size.
Lying and feeding behaviors were monitored from 1 day before regrouping to 1 day after regrouping. Social aggression at the feed bunk was monitored for 3 hours following the delivery of feed on the day before and after regrouping. Change in stocking density affected the cows' response to regrouping. When cows were moved into a pen with a relative higher stocking density, time spent lying following regrouping decreased.
Alternatively, when cows were moved into a pen with a lower stocking density, their total lying time increased. However, the size of the pen also played an important role. When cows were moved into a smaller pen from a larger pen, a decrease in lying time occurred and vice versa. Due to the consistency in feed bunk stocking density, there was no effect on feeding behavior. This suggests that relative pen size does not affect feeding behavior.
Similar to lying time, social aggression increased when stocking density increased and decreased when stocking density decreased following regrouping. These data provide some insight on how the combined effects of stocking density and regrouping might interact. The major limitation of this study was the range in stocking density included, which went from severely undercrowded (25% capacity of freestalls) to a maximum of an at-capacity pen (i.e. 100% stocking density).
As these stocking densities would not reflect what a cow would likely face when moving between pens in commercial facilities, there remain unanswered questions. Evaluating the response of cows moving among at-capacity pens and varying degrees of overstocking would provide a basis for estimating the cost to a cow of regrouping within an environment that she will likely be challenged with.
On the other hand, these data do suggest the importance of keeping hospital pens and fresh pens understocked to reduce the challenges inherent in these pens, especially as it will likely be a smaller pen than a cow's normal home pen.
Peter Krawczel was a graduate student at Miner Institute and earned his Ph.D. in animal behavior from the University of Vermont in 2011. Peter is now a Dairy Research and Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.


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A round-up of reports from the Clarets defeat to Middlesbrough...
LIVEWIRE Jacob Butterfield snatched a winner for Boro to put Sean Dyche's promotion party on hold. The Burnley boss saw two clear penalty claims rejected by referee Dean Whitestone as his side ran out of luck just when they were on the brink of the Premier League.
Daily Star Sunday
Burnley's promotion champagne has been put back on ice for another week after they crashed to defeat at home to Middlesbrough after they huffed and puffed but could not blow the house down at Turf Moor.
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Battling Boro prevented Burnley clinching promotion with a gritty display at Turf Moor.
A reshuffled side grafted bravely at the back and had to ride their luck as the dominant home time brought a string of superb saves from Dimi Konstantopoulos, had two strong penalty shouts waved away and put a header against the bar.
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Combustible Woods
An incendiary afternoon with reformed bad boy James Woods.
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James Woods grabs cans out of the cupboards and pulls the eggs and butter out of the fridge. Like he does most days, he concocts a meal that would make even uber-homemaker Martha Stewart green with envy, all the while carrying on a rapid-fire monologue about the sorry state of affairs between men and women at the close of the millennium. Concentrating on slicing the onions for the home fries, he takes a moment to fire up a Montecristo No. 2. Nattily dressed in a pair of olive corduroy pants with a perfectly pressed Ralph Lauren shirt (yes, he even does his own ironing)--James Woods seems like the answer to every woman's dream. Why isn't this man married?
Then, as he discusses the contents of the morning's Los Angeles Times editorial page, he opens a can of whole potatoes for the home fries. Culinary Secrets of James Woods, Lesson One: Don't be afraid to use canned food. As he scrambles the eggs, he wonders whether onions and cheese would be a welcome addition. He sets the table with some wonderful old dishes, talks about playing golf through back pain during the previous week's Pebble Beach Open, and squeezes fresh orange juice, all while watching over six pots on the stove, each one at a critical point. And, of course, talking seven million miles a minute.
Everything about the brunch is perfection--right down to the crisply cooked bacon, gently wrapped in paper towels to soak up the excess grease. Culinary Secrets of James Woods, Lesson Two: Pay attention to details. Which brings us to the most important Culinary Secret of James Woods: Stay in control. Complete control. And yet make everything look easy. Effortless.
Perched on a bar stool amid the pots and the plates of food, Woods muses over the "bad boy" perception that just about everyone seems to have about him. "I don't get why people don't understand this about me. I'm like the nicest guy on earth. I wasn't that bad to begin with. I was just a little insecure. I was scary in movies, I wasn't scary in real life. I was kind of a minor, minor, minor league little troublemaker. I wasn't a big one like most of them.
"One of the reasons people think I'm tough is, when you're insecure, you kind of compensate by being a little hysterical. I'd kind of have little mini fits every once in a while. Little 'poo-poo head in the schoolyard' fits. Now I realize that nobody's interested. It doesn't work. It doesn't help me at all. So I decided to kind of shut up and be an adult. To be a little bit less of an asshole and a little bit more of a man. And given this moment right now, I'm glad I finally did something with it. I'm glad I stopped the bullshit that I wasted my time with for the past 20 years. And for the first time in my life, I think I'm really, really happy. I guess I'm finally sort of accepting things I can't control anymore."
A Zen philosopher once said that you can never step into the same river twice. Well, the same holds true with the Woods. Yet he is always engaging. Consistently enigmatic. Exasperating. Often brashly charismatic. He is a man who possesses the appealing combination of being seriously smart and dangerously funny. He is a gentleman of the highest order, tempered by just enough of the rogue to keep you constantly off balance. He is opinionated, strong willed and unafraid to stand behind what he says, or what he has done.
Sure, he has made mistakes, many of them publicly, and has paid a higher price than most--usually in the media. But he has learned from all of them. The product of a loving family, he yearns for the companionship of an as yet unnamed soul mate. And, at 50, his biological clock is ticking. Loudly.
What distinguishes James Woods in an overcrowded con-stellation of movie stars is a consummate talent: a rare set of gifts and skills combined with passion, a creative fearlessness and a determination to achieve his vision. This alchemizes into an unstoppable artistic force that must always be reckoned with, offscreen as well as on.
"Actors of Jimmy's intensity and brilliance produce in the public mind an image that spills over into real life," says Frank Pierson, director of Woods in HBO's Citizen Cohn. "People tend to watch them closely, hoping to see when they might slip over the edge and do something really bad. So if they see him coming first, they can cross over to the other side of the street. Truly, Woods walks upon life's stage with the same white heat with which he acts. And nobody who knows him can call him unopinionated."
Woods' opinions carry over to such everyday considerations as cigar storage. He is unashamed to admit that, in spite of the elegant Dunhill humidor that graces a shelf in his library, he stores most of his prize cigars in a Tupperware container with a natural sponge and some distilled water. With his trademark grin and a devilish gleam in his eye, he says, "Aficionado, my ass. I just love to smoke cigars." As he takes the lid off the box and proffers a Hoyo de Monterrey, he adds, "The humidor is such a pain in the ass. I take them out and roll them every once in a while, and if they sound right and they smell right and they're not flaking, they are fine."
After he washes the dishes and finishes cleaning the kitchen, Woods continues the conversation in the library. The design and construction of his home, a seven-year undertaking, is nearing its final phase. With a distinct Frank Lloyd Wright feel, the home was built on the former site of violinist Jasha Heifitz's house. Woods even went so far as to have Heifitz's Wright-designed practice studio disassembled and reconstructed as a donation to the Colburn School of Music in San Diego. An iron gazebo, following the same architectural lines as the original studio, now stands in its former location.
"We spent four months sitting on this property on ladders, imagining what the sun would do at different times of day so that we could design the house," says Woods. "It's sort of like the Grand Canyon in the sense that there is never a moment when it ever looks the same as any other moment. The light is always different. It was a matter of envisioning the house and then building it piece by piece. I just wanted to see if I could create something that was beautiful and something that reflected my needs. I love to read, I always wanted a library--now I have one. I think it's a beautiful little library. I wanted a bright kitchen where people could enjoy themselves. I love gardens where I could sit and think. I said that I wanted it wide open and yetI wanted to have little cloisters, hidden areas, pockets of comfort that you find sort of out of nowhere where you can just disappear for a while and be by yourself. It was kind of an odd challenge. And finally I said, I want it to look like it was the newest house on the block--if it were 1936. I was going for a degree of difficulty here."
As he builds a fire in the fire-place and lights his cigar, Woods thinks for a moment about what caused him to take stock of his life and make the much-needed changes. In his case, the motivation for change was a lot of pain. "You always think that you're going to avoid a midlife crisis. But it just sneaks up and gets you no matter what. I had mine with a lot of help from my second ex-wife. She was really kind of a ship passing in the night; she just turned out to be the Exxon Valdez. It was kind of a lesson about how horribly another human being can treat you. You never really expect it. In my heart, I'm really kind of an optimist about human nature. But there is always a wonderful lesson out there with three sixes tattooed on its forehead that will teach you otherwise. "And I'm kind of glad that it did. It was kind of a purging experience because I've trusted the kindness inside of me rather than running from it like I used to in the old days."
Born on April 18, 1947, the eldest son of a military hero and a preschool teacher, Woods and his brother, Michael, grew up in Illinois, Virginia, Guam and Rhode Island. His father died when Woods was 12 and his mother, Martha, raised her sons as a single parent, while running a private school. "My parents loved each other," Woods recalls. "I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of," Woods says. "My mother and my father loved me and my brother like we love the air we breathe--out of necessity. It was a necessity for them to love us in some deep inner genetic calling in their hearts and minds and souls. I have that as a standard."
His mother reports that as a young boy, Woods and his best friend would open a dictionary, close their eyes and choose a word at random. The pair would then use the word all week long--in school, at home, even on the playground, most of the time to the bewilderment of friends, playmates and teachers. "I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer; at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me."
Woods was first drawn to acting as a senior in high school in Providence, Rhode Island. "I did 'Little Foxes' at Pilgrim High. I won an acting award and I thought, 'This is a really cool thing to do.' " But the desire to please his late father propelled his collegiate career into a different direction. Woods was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, majoring not in the physical sciences, but in political science. He also pursued acting, appearing in 36 plays at MIT, Harvard and the Theater Company of Boston, and performed in summer stock at the Provincetown Playhouse. He dropped out of MIT during his last year to move to New York and pursue acting full-time. "It was a very wrenching and painful decision for me--in my senior year at MIT, on high dean's list and full scholarships--to decide that maybe I wanted to be an artist. I think it is actually something that my father would understand. Whether I'm making 30 grand a day or union scale, I have found something that I truly love, and that is something he would have admired."
Woods loves to act--whatever the medium. Trained as a theater actor, he has made the successful transition from stage to film to television and back again. He is comfortable in all three, and understands the unique requirements of each discipline.
"I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it," he says. "But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. When I'm working on a film, I just play the absolute purity of the moments. I don't worry about the pacing, because the pacing is going to be dictated by the director and the editor. On the stage I have to give pacing to the play. As an actor, you, in fact, become the editor of the piece, in terms of the timing. You are required to engineer the pace yourself. In television, everything is in so close, that you realize that most of what you do has to register in your thought process."
While many actors snub the notion of working on television, throughout his career Woods has found some of his biggest creative challenges on the small screen. "A cardinal rule of being a movie star, according to the agents and all the people who have wisdom, is that you should be aloof, do very little press and you shouldn't ever get on television. I don't think there is a piece of political film making in the United States that is a good as, let alone better than, Citizen Cohn. Let's assume that I am not even in the picture. I mean, just the writer of the piece, David Franzoni. I look at Promise, written by Richard Friendenberg and directed by Glenn Jordan, a wonderful director. Forgetting that I am in it, just looking at the material itself, My Name Is Bill W. would not have had the same impact if it were a feature film; it would have come and gone. But on television, 25 million people get to watch it all at the same time. So television has a power all its own and it has an allure all its own, and I think that television often deals with more meaningful subjects than many feature films do."
Yet Woods always returns to film, because of the scope of the medium. "I think Ghosts of Mississippi was a meaningful film and I think Contact [due out this summer] will be another. In film, the canvas is bigger, and you are in a big room with a lot of people watching it."
Capturing the viewer's imagination is something Woods has always been able to do. He first received notice as Barbra Streisand's guy pal in The Way We Were. Over the years, his career has taken him from the role as the amoral journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador, to the icy H.R. Haldeman in 1995's Nixon, both for director Oliver Stone. He has won an Emmy Award for portraying the schizophrenic "D.J." opposite James Garner in the ABC movie Promise, and also was honored for his role as the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous in My Name Is Bill W., also with Garner. (Woods gave up his profit participation on the video sales so the movie could be donated to Alcoholics Anonymous chapters.) He has gone from leading man as Sen. Joseph McCarthy co-counsel Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn to the scene-stealing cameo role of Lester Diamond in Martin Scorcese's Casino. In the 1996 CBS made-for-television movie The Summer of Ben Tyler, he played a man who adopted a retarded black child in the 1940s. Woods said he took the role to cleanse himself of the oppressive psychic weight of turning in a haunting performance as the unrepentant racist Byron de la Beckwith in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, a role that earlier this year earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, his first Oscar nomination since the 1986 film Salvador. Then there's his tour de force in The Onion Fields, and his standout performances in HBO's Indictment: The McMartin Trial, and the 1995 film The Specialist. His résumé is as varied as the man himself.
Woods is clearly on a mission. "I'm now making up for an incredible amount of lost time. You lose time when you haven't defined what you want in your life. It is easy to achieve your goals--the tough part is defining them. Now I make a point of defining them. I said to my new agents at [International Creative Management], 'No more shit. No more [Creative Artists Agency] pay-the-rent shit. I want to work on the best scripts, with the best directors. I don't care about the money. I don't care about the size of the part or the billing and all that other stuff. But I want to do material that is great. With directors and actors that are great.'
"You see, I have always wanted on my tombstone: 'He Played the Part Better than Anybody Could Have'--whatever that part may have been. I don't ever want to say that I'm the best actor in the world. But I'd like to think that when I do a part, that people can't imagine anybody else doing it after I have done it."
Pierson sums up working with Woods this way: "What is it like to direct Jimmy Woods? I wouldn't know. You don't direct him. You surf him. It's like surf-riding the biggest wave you ever saw. A moving mountain of energy and inventiveness and intelligence. And if you stay standing up, it's the biggest damn thrill of any director's lifetime."
Woods often makes surprising career choices, but there is a method to his madness. "If you star in movies, which I predominantly do, most agents would assume that you don't want to do a two-day part in a movie," he says. "But when you read a script like Casino and you know it is being directed by a genius like Martin Scorcese, you say, hey, I'll be an extra in this movie. I'll do anything. I called up Marty and said, 'Any part, anytime, anyplace, anywhere.' Because I want to work in good scripts with good directors, and this was a great script with a phenomenal director, it makes the choice really easy. We ended up making a two-scene part into a 10-scene part. Which proves my point. When you're working with great people and great material, you're going to milk it. I have learned that you can't be a champion unless you are in the championship zone. You can't win unless you're in the zone, whatever winning might mean. Right now, maybe they are not going to star me in a $100 million movie all by myself the way they would some other actor, but if I'm in that championship zone, I have got a shot."
Twice recently he has been in the zone, auditioning for and winning the roles of H.R. Haldeman in Nixon and Byron de la Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi. Unlike other actors of his level, Woods says he is proud to have auditioned. "One of the things that was a challenge for me [about Nixon] is that Oliver Stone did not want me to play the part of Haldeman. He said, 'You're not right for this part, Jimmy. This guy is very restrained, very cold, a very straight-edged, square guy. You're a mercurial artist. Impulsive. Passionate. Emotional.' And I said, 'Oliver, it's the old joke--it's called acting. I think I can do it.' "
The proof is on the screen. And with it, a valuable lesson in his own creative evolution. "I'm hoping that my inner life that is usually expressed in an outer way, if I keep it inside, will make the dry dimension of the character--the repressed dimension--more vital, because you can smell the chaos and the drive and ambition underneath the guy," he says, warming to his topic. "You can yell and scream all the way through the movie and usually everybody thinks that's great acting. The toughest part is to do all that--now lock it up and put it inside and be as cool as you can be on the screen. You have to have done all your work in the chaos department ahead of time and just have it under there and parcel it out in tiny little flashes. That's the hardest thing to do. Haldeman was one of the most difficult jobs of my entire career, and one of the ones of which I'm the most proud. And probably one of the ones that most people won't notice."
Oliver Stone, who has seen Woods on both sides of his personal transformation, says, "In the old days, I used to want to strangle Jimmy with my bare hands. But since that time Jimmy has mellowed out. And perhaps I have, too. And now I love him deeply. He has grown, actually, into a human being. And a fine one, too."
Characteristically, Woods steers away from the standard choices when he speaks about actors whose work he admires. "Robert Redford understands film acting better than anybody on the face on the earth," he declares. "You know how some carnivores get every bit of meat off of a carcass they can? Well, there's nobody who gets as much blood out of a moment as Redford. Within the range of his talent he knows how to get every single note available, and he is a genius not only at getting those notes but in making them fully accessible to his audience. He is one of the few actors that can play three or four emotions at the same time, and he is amazing; he truly understands the subtlety of film acting."
Woods once did a play reading with Holly Hunter. "Holly is such a fast, smart, wonderful actor. When we worked together, it was like a hot knife through butter. It was like clockwork. I would love to do a film with her."
He has just finished work on the film Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the book by Carl Sagan. Due for a July release, Contact stars Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, with a stellar cast of co-stars that includes Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerrit, Rob Lowe and Angela Bassett. Says Zemeckis of working with Woods: "Jimmy's consummate talents are only exceeded by his boundless energy. I can't remember when I've laughed so hard in my professional career. Working with him is truly entertaining."
Woods excitedly shares the film's story: "Jodie Foster works in an area of science devoted to contact with extraterrestrials, which is sort of the 'lost stepchild' of the astronomy movement. And she receives a transmission of prime numbers being broadcast from somewhere in outer space, which, by definition, cannot be an accident--and we're off and running. The movie, oddly enough, is about faith. And God, in a strange way. Do we believe in what our senses tell us or what we hope can be true?
"There are some amazingly clever things in the movie, and the canvas is so complex and so large, and Robert does it all in his head," Woods says. "He has a cutting-edge sense of this new medium of computer-generated graphics. Robert loves to do things with computers that can actually give emotions to the scene.
"My character's job is to provide national security for the United States, which is, basically, to prepare for the worst. I'm basically the guy who is the anti-touchy feely element in the piece, or the voice of reason, depending on how you look at it. This role is sort of my farewell to this stuff, in a way. I don't think I want to play any more 'hard guys in suits,' only because I have done it enough. I want to do different things."
Woods worked hard for his role in Ghosts of Mississippi. "I love doing great material. And if you want to do great material, you must devote yourself to it 24 hours a day and go out there and make it happen. I sit here every night and I read scripts. I don't let anything escape my purview. And most of the greatest experiences in my life were things that I have found. There have been times when I have honed in on something that I have really liked. When Ghosts of Mississippi started, of course the agents were working on it, but they were working on another part in the picture. It was a smaller part, but they were working on it. And I saw the role of de la Beckwith and I said, 'Wow, that part is great, but that's completely out of the picture. Unless you're Jimmy Woods and you don't take no for an answer.'
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As the head of Saybrook Capital's bankruptcy practice, Jonathan Rosenthal '80 is an expert in dealing with complex financial crises. In fact, while the Santa Monica-based boutique investment bank that he co-founded in 1990 is thousands of miles from Wall Street and much smaller than many of its competitors, Rosenthal has handled some of the country's largest bankruptcies. He has advised creditors of Pacific Gas & Electric and shareholders of Kmart and Adelphia Communications, among others. "We tend to get the deals that are big, ugly and complicated," he told Business Week for a profile on him.
After receiving a scholarship to study law at Uppsala University in Sweden, Rosenthal returned to his native California and enrolled in Southwestern's SCALE® program. "I really thought the structure of the education was great," he said of the law school's alternative curriculum. "And the professors were excellent." Following graduation, Rosenthal landed a clerkship with Judge Skelley Wright in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. He then went on to practice law at several firms in Denver before founding his own business, NetAir International Corp., an aircraft leasing company. "I started it in '83, took it public in '85, and sold my stock in '89," he said.
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Morgan came home from her vacation at Grandma's with 6 books. While she was away she purchased 3 books at the book store and got 1 book as a gift. During her stay at Grandma's, she also gave her cousin the 2 books that she finished.
How many books did she take with her when she left for her trip?
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AnswerMorgan started with 4 books.
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Morgan returned with 6 books.
She gave away 2 of the books that she had.
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People struggling to make ends meet in Melksham could get a helping hand soon, thanks to the efforts of two mums.
Friends Fay Yandell and Claire Parfitt set up the Melksham and Area Helping Our Own page on Facebook at the start of the year, to co-ordinate charitable donations, and have been inundated with offers of support.
Mum-of-three Ms Yandell, 32, said: "It's a bit scary really; it's all happening so fast.
"Me and Claire were talking over Christmas, as some family members were having some issues, and we decided we would do a Facebook page and see what happens.
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Town residents can use the site to donate unwanted items for distribution to organisations and charities.
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WELLAND hit back from missing two penalties to beat Broadway United 2-0 after extra-time to reach the Worcestershire FA Minor Cup semi-final.
James Lush and Ben Pearson both squandered spot kicks in normal time before the hosts prevailed with two Tim Lewis strikes.
The game, played at Dyson Perrins Academy, began evenly with both defences on top and few chances were created by either side.
Stratford Alliance Division One outfit Broadway had the first opportunity after 10 minutes when their lively winger beat several defenders following a mazy run and forced Welland keeper Niall Hacking to make a brave save at his feet.
It was a similar story at the other end when Lush and Omar Elmougy both went close only to see their shots well saved by the visiting keeper.
Broadway should have taken the lead on the half-hour but their effort from a corner was headed over from close range.
The second-half began in the same way as the first with neither side wanting to give their opponents an inch.
Jim Owen and James Nightingale made a series of blocks before Hacking pushed a Broadway effort round the post to keep the game goalless.
With both keepers on top form and producing some outstanding saves, it was looking like extra-time would be needed.
However, with 10 minutes left, Lush burst forward and was tripped just inside the box for a penalty. Lush picked himself up and took the spot-kick only to see the keeper make yet another fine stop.
With Welland pushing forward, Lush was again upended in the area two minutes from time by a last-ditch tackle and another penalty was awarded. Pearson stepped up and fired straight against the woodwork.
Welland looked stronger and fitter in extra-time, creating more chances and finally took a deserved lead mid-way through the first period via Lewis' effort after a powerful run.
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2009 Salary Survey
High Anxiety; Not Much Change. The Numbers In Our Survey Have Changed Little in the Last Year; the One Thing on the Rise Is the Anxiety Level, Making the Process Industries Typical of Manufacturing in General
This article was printed in CONTROL's June 2009 edition.
By Nancy Bartels
Shakespeare, always a man able to nail a situation with a few well-chosen words, called it "the winter of our discontent," which is a pretty good way to describe the feelings of the more than 1,500 respondents to our 2009 salary survey. No matter that the actual key numbers shown have changed little from last year in most categories. Except for a few sunny optimists and contented souls, most of those surveyed are Not Happy.
Much of the discontent is an understandable free-floating anxiety about the economy in general and job security in particular. Some of it relates to perennial complaints about the "suits" that "just don't get it;" the clueless newbies who seem to be less well-prepared to enter the workplace than ever; the parsimonious bean-counters who are penny-wise and dollar-foolish; and the sense that the people who do the real engineering work don't get the respect they deserve. Some unhappiness reflects the frustration that comes from dealing with long-ignored issues, such as the aging workforce and related loss of intellectual capital to retirement, continued outsourcing of work to lower-cost countries, the persistent demand to do more work with fewer people, and long hours and lack of concern about work-life balance.
Whatever the reasons, this winter seems a particularly cold one. Interestingly, the statistic in our survey that has changed the most is "number of respondents." Last year about 750 engineers took time to fill out the survey. This year, the number was more than double at 1,594. Three hundred and forty five of those took the time to add additional comments to their surveys—and it is in those additional comments that the icy winds are felt.
One Texas-based chemical engineer summed things up succinctly: "I don't get to see my family when I work 70 hours a week. This job sucks."
A Louisiana-based process engineer with a master's degree added, "We have a transient workforce. Corporations are treating their workers more and more like temps."
An Ohio-based chemical engineer who has worked at the same company for more than 20 years says, "Recognition and advancement opportunities are generally only for those in management. Those doing the work to produce a quality, cost-effective product are treated as a necessary evil."
And an Illinois-based electrical engineer chimes in about management: "They do not have a clue as to what we do, how we do it, or what landmines lay ahead." This is happening despite the Automation Federation and ISA's work with the U.S. Department of Labor on raising the identity of automation professionals.
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Oddly, at first glance, the numbers in our survey don't seem to warrant this gloom. Most of the 2009 numbers are within two to three percentage points of last year's results.
Comparatively speaking, process automation folks make good money. This year, 50% of our respondents make more than $60,000 and 36% make more than $100,000 per year. That's up from only 28% in 2007 (Figure 1).
Raises remained good across the board. Ninety percent of our respondents reported getting a raise last year—54% of them between $2,000 and $4,000 dollars. A substantial 16% reported raises between $5,000 and $7,000. A lucky 5% reported raises of $8,000 to $10,000. In addition, 68% of those surveyed reported getting a bonus last year. A little more than a quarter of them (27%) fell in the 2% to 5% range, and another quarter in the 6% to 10% category, but a substantial 18% reported a bonus of more than 18% of their salary. These numbers nearly match those in the 2008 survey (Figure 2). Of course, many of those bonuses may have been earned before the shoe dropped at the end of 2008. It will be interesting to see what the bonus numbers look like in next year's survey.
Benefits remain fairly typical, with 98% reporting they get medical coverage and 89% reporting that they get dental insurance. Eight-eight percent have company-paid life insurance and 77% get disability. On the other hand, pensions continue to decline. Only 48% of those surveyed reported getting a pension, down from 54% in 2006, but 90% say they have a 401K plan, and 15% say they get stock options—which, given current stock market conditions, may put something of a damper on those big gross salary numbers. Notably, 30% now say they get flex time and 9% have the option of telecommuting—perhaps because of company dollars spent on wireless connectivity and Internet-enabled resources.
Vacation time numbers shifted only marginally. In 2008, 32% reported having three weeks' vacation. This year, it was down to 30%. But those taking four weeks moved up slightly from 26.4% to 27%. Those taking more than a month increased from 27% to 28%—a number probably reflective of the advancing age and seniority of many of our respondents.
The downside of this apparent largesse is that it comes at an increase in the number of hours worked. As in 2008, nearly 78% of respondents said they worked 41 to 60 hours a week—a number that has remained remarkably steady in our survey since 2005. Another 10% said they worked more than 60 hours. And nearly 79% reported they didn't get paid for overtime, up from 77.2% in last year's survey.
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Makes me think talks have gotten more serious. I hope so.
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Makes me think talks have gotten more serious. I hope so.
Quiet before the storm, man.
Too quiet....
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
The problem is that until Al goes, nothing else of significance happens in the entire league. And because the Hawks control all, we are in for a long ride. They will stretch this out too long, forcing the Pacers or Warriors to look in another direction and ruining their bargaining position. It is like a big game of chicken.
A lot of teams are probably waiting for the Al and AI deals to happen before making their own moves.
"I'll always be a part of Donnie Walsh."
-Ron Artest, Denver Post, 12.28.05
As soon as Iverson falls, all the other chips will fall too.Originally Posted by FrenchConnection
"George's athleticism is bananas!" - Marc J. Spears
Once Iverson is traded.....he will directly...and indirectly affect any team involved with Harrington.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I think what it is is the easy trades have been done and now teams are playing hardball with each other. If this off season is like others there will be a few more trades during the Summer and then another flurry of trades just before the season starts when teams fill out their rosters.
I know I am about the only one in here who hopes Al goes to the Warriors. That would be all we need with Jax, JO, and Al all wanting the ball to throw at the basket. Great combo
Sometimes silence means nothing , but considering how hard Indiana has been allegedly pursuing Harrington, for nothing of note to be mentioned for this long, anywhere, certainly suggests they may have come to a take it or leave it point,perhaps?
Even the GS papers that were basically regurgitating each other's columns, have written nothing new for awhile.
It's like the Rumor Mill has come to a grinding halt for now.
For reference I was looking back to last year, our rumored interest in pursusing Sarunas started around the same time that the Harrington rumors did this year. And the first leaks of Sarunas signing with us was around July 25, 2005.
Why Not Us ?
Did you say something?
I hate how Al and AI look the same.
Yeah...no kidding.Originally Posted by FrenchConnection
From what I have read.....you're right...its entirely possible that Iverson stays with the Sixers......but "experts" seems to think that Iverson will end up somwhere else.
Now...if the Hawks are waiting on the Sixers to finally make their move.....then that would suck.
I would hope that at some point....someone just cracks and gives in to someone so that we can move on.
I guess that this is how the entire league felt last season when Walsh/Bird was holding up all the Trade Deadline talks with all that Artest talk.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I'm talking about the Pacers/Harrington chatter.Originally Posted by Will Galen
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I hate this time of year, all talk, no action.
"Like [Jonathan Bender], AMC's Pacer was supposed to be fitted with a rotary engine--but both rotaries had technical problems late in their development (read: after incurring heavy research costs) that prevented them from seeing the light of day. Of course, both vehicles had plenty of problems that did reach production. The Pacer was a dud in terms of quality, execution and particularly styling. Make your own assessment about its bizarre proportions, but don't miss the one door that's bigger than the other."
J/K........sort of....let me know when you are done counting to 10 young man....
I have to see Carlisle yanking SJax from the court before I believe that anything has changed.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
its going to be a very interesting summer to say the least, ill be in pins and needles until some action happens and i know for sure what our roster will look like for next season
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GS has said they are not interested in AI, and I read just a couple days ago that Billy Knight has finally convinced the Atlanta owners that getting AI wouldn't be a good deal.Originally Posted by Frank Slade
This entire summer hinges on Al Harrington. Right now, Billy Knight holds the cards and is trying to out fox everyone. However, eventually either Golden State or the Pacers are going to go in another direction and Billy Knight will be left holding those cards and which ever team blinks last will get a really good deal on Al Harrington.Originally Posted by Will Galen
The signing of Daniels makes it completely plausible that Carlisle will deal more strictly with Jackson this year. Carlisle now has someone he can actually put in the game and still stand a chance of winning.


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text: State, feds delayed action on mine shelters By Ken Ward Jr. October 19, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Concerns about potentially faulty underground mine refuge shelters are much broader than previously reported, but federal and state regulators delayed action on the matter for months, interviews and a review of public records showed this week.Corroded and improperly sized fittings could be a problem for more than 1,500 shelters in use in coal mines across the country -- including both inflatable, "tent-design" units and other, hardened steel structures, officials acknowledged and records indicated.Federal and state mine safety officials have understood the problem for months, but only began taking enforcement action in September. Even then, firm steps were delayed at the behest of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, after coal industry lobbyists complained about the state Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training's plans."There was concern about how it was being handled and who was handling it," said Chris Hamilton, a vice president for the West Virginia Coal Association.The controversy creates a cloud around one of the major reforms put in place by then-Gov. Joe Manchin and by Congress following the Sago Mine Disaster and the Aracoma Mine fire in 2006. Twelve miners died at Sago and two at Aracoma before rescuers could reach them deep underground.At Manchin's urging, lawmakers mandated that all West Virginia coal miners have access to an emergency shelter that could provide them fresh air, food and water in the event of a fire or explosion. Congress followed up with similar federal requirements for mines nationwide. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration had the authority to require rescue chambers since 1969, but did so only after a more specific congressional mandate following the 2006 disasters.The latest controversy began in January, when state inspectors were alerted to an incident involving an inflatable shelter made by the A.L. Lee Corp. in use at an unidentified mine in West Virginia. Company officials had found the door of the unit open and several five-gallon drinking water containers tossed outside of the unit. State officials were told the company believed it was an act of vandalism.State investigators, though, quickly determined that it was a mechanical failure on compressed oxygen tanks used to inflate the shelter."It was determined that a brass fitting attaching one of the oxygen cylinders had failed, allowing for a rapid release of the oxygen into the interior of the shelter," said a Jan. 13 state report. "The additional volume released exerted sufficient pressure to force the access door open and expel some of the contents stored near the door."At the time, state officials said that "no immediate danger is posed by the identified issue" and that no actions by mine operators were necessary. State officials did ask shelter manufacturers to provide them with "an evaluation of the attributes of their equipment that would prevent such an occurrence" or action plans for inspections and potential corrective actions.A week later, on Jan. 20, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration issued an alert to the mining community, warning of what it called a "catastrophic failure" of a brass fitting on the shelter's oxygen cylinders. MSHA officials warned that the brass fittings did not meet industry guidelines. They measured 40 percent thinner and 8 percent shorter than recommended by the Compressed Gas Association, according to the MSHA alert. The alert also suggested that leak-detection fluids containing ammonia could have damaged the fittings during routine checks of the units.Federal regulators recommended -- but did not order -- examinations of all underground mine rescue shelters to ensure that fittings met industry guidelines and were not damaged.A week after the MSHA alert, a lab contracted by A.L. Lee Corp concluded the fittings on the shelter in question were corroded, probably because of "sulfur dioxide gas in a moist coal-mine environment."Leonard Urtso, president of A.L. Lee, said his company worked quickly to examine all 133 of its company's inflatable units in use in coal mines in West Virginia. The company found only one other unit on which fittings had "developed some corrosion." In an interview, Urtso downplayed any potential for the fittings to cause a problem for miners. "Just because there is a crack doesn't mean there's going to be a catastrophic event," Urtso said. "It just means there's going to be a leak."Urtso said the units are routinely checked by mine operators and examined every six months by his company, reducing the chances of a problem. "Your chances of hitting the lottery are a lot better than that happening," he said. Still, in February, A.L. Lee reported finding cracked fittings on a third unit at another mine, and MSHA again recommended -- but did not order -- that mine operators have shelter manufacturers examine their units and fix any problems.From May through July, additional reports from a contractor for A.L. Lee and by a Department of Labor lab both confirmed potential problems with fitting corrosion.By September, state mine safety Director C.A. Phillips was preparing to issue an order to for the first time require mine operators and shelter manufacturers to inspect units for potential fitting corrosion. Phillips and other state officials were becoming especially concerned because similar brass fittings were used on all types of underground shelters, not just the A.L. Lee inflatable models.At some point, though, coal industry officials raised concerns about the state's plans with both the governor's office and the Department of Commerce, which oversees the state mine safety agency. Hamilton said the coal association had thought all along the January incident was an isolated one, and that state officials were giving the industry deadlines that were too tight to conduct inspections of all of their shelters."They sprang an awful lot of information on the industry in a relatively short period of time," Hamilton said. "Those concerns were expressed across the board."But in a separate interview, coal association President Bill Raney said operators and shelter manufacturers had taken the situation very seriously from the start."Everybody has been checking these -- all of the manufacturers and all of the operators," Raney said. "We're well along the way."Still, the governor's office told mine safety agency officials to put together a briefing to explain its findings and its planned actions to the industry.Jacqueline A. Proctor, a spokeswoman for Tomblin, said the governor's office "did not intervene at the request of any organization" and has "full confidence" in Phillips.Proctor said the governor's office routinely monitors enforcement actions by state agencies, and did so in this instance to ensure the order was clear and contained deadlines that industry would be able to meet.But the additional meeting added to delays in action, and had the effect of putting off any formal action by the state until after the Oct. 4 general election, in which Tomblin faced Republican Bill Maloney, a Morgantown drilling company executive whose campaign promoted his involvement in a major mine rescue in Chile.State officials had drafted one order dated Sept. 29 and shared it with mining industry lobbyists during a meeting last Friday. But at the industry's request, the order was rewritten to ensure previous inspections by manufacturers could count toward one mandated by the order and to allow waivers of inspection and repair deadlines.Phil Smith, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers, said union officials only learned about the shelter problems in the last few weeks and were "troubled" by a lack of transparency on the issue.Smith noted a similar lack of transparency or discussion with miners' advocates in the ongoing investigation of major problems with the CSE Corp.'s SR-100, the most widely used emergency breathing device in the coal industry."This is not the first time this has happened," Smith said. "We were again the last people to know."Reach Ken Ward Jr. at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1702. 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The sunlit studio has 2 single beds and a nice desk. There is a compact kitchenette with a refrigerator and hot plates suitable for preparing light meals and snacks. Guests can eat seated at the breakfast bar. A shower is included in the vibrant blue bathroom.
Canal d' Amour is a beautiful area with unique rock formations which form a series of coves and canals. Source. Just 7 kilometres away are the popular beach resorts of Roda and Acharavi. It is 36 kilometres to the main town of Corfu and Corfu Airport.
A large selection of bars, restaurants and shops can be found within a 300-metre distance.
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Reviews of this property
Super lokalizacja, zaledwie 3 min nie piechotę do plaży, piękne i przytulne pokoje, czysto, zielony ogród oraz możliwość rozpalenia grila.
Polecam !
Ottima esperienza. Appartamento pulito ed in bella zona centrale. Venivano anche a pulire l appartamento e rifare il letto quasi ogni giorno
Wir waren sehr zufrieden ,die Unterkunft war sauber und alles nötige war
Vorhanden . Wir würden auf jedenfall nochmal dort hin fahren
Der Garten war sehr gepflegt und alles zu Fuß gut erreichbar
Kostas was a really friendly and helpful host!
The apartments are in a nice location, close to the canal d amour and every possible shop :) (bar, supermarket, souvenir shop...) We want to come back! :)
Siamo stati bene nel complesso, la posizione è ottimale, gli appartamenti sono puliti e sufficientemente abitabili l'unico neo se vogliamo il bagno un po troppo piccolo e la doccia priva di tenda o vetro. Mi è dispiaciuto non incontrare Kostas perché in realtà la gestione è affidata ai genitori che ahimè parlano solo greco.
The appartament was beutyfull and very clean. In a perfect position near canal d amour, and near market, restaurant ar scooter and boat rentall.try it!!!!
Unser Urlaub dort hat uns sehr gut gefallen.
Die Appartments haben eine gute Lage und sind gut gepflegt, außerdem wurden wir sehr freundlich empfangen.
Ich kann die Unterkunft auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen.
The accommodation is clean and had all the comfort we expected. The environment seemed neat. And - the host or owner are extremely nice and accommodating. We have here a very relaxing holiday. We would love to come back.
Die Unterkunft ist sauber und wies allen Komfort auf, den wir erwartet hatten. Das Umfeld wirkt gepflegt. Und - die Gastgeber bzw. Vermieter sind unwahrscheinlich nett und zuvorkommend. Wir haben uns dort gut erholt. Wir kommen gern wieder.
We had a great week in Toulas apartments, Nikos and his wife, the parents of Kostas, were very friendly and polite to us and if we had a question they were always there to find a solution. Almost every day new towels and if we forgot to wash the dishes, they even did this for us when we were out to swim. The location of Toulas is great, only a couple of hundred meters from the beach and from Canal d'amour where we could jump from the rocks in the Ionian Sea. Sidari is a nice place to be and you can get there everything you want, there are many shops and Supermarkets and if you want to go to the bar, there are plenty of them.
We want to thank Kostas and his parents for the hospitality.
Toulas apartments are surrounded by a garden, but situated along a street of shops, bars and taverns, a few steps from the canal d'amour. The presence of a river that borders the garden is very appreciated by mosquitoes so you should always close the screen door in this room, but not the kitchen window! The kitchen is well appointed, but dark and poorly equipped and has no exit to the balcony (which is from the room). The beds are comfortable. The bathroom has a tub and sink big tent: an exception in Greece. A Sidari abound in Pool because the cliffs are beautiful rock "mealy" and the beach is small and sand similar to earth.
Gli appartamenti toulas sono circondati da un giardino, ma situati lungo una via di negozi, bar e taverne, a pochi passi dal canal d'amour. La presenza di un corso d'acqua che delimita il giardino è molto gradita dalle zanzare perciò occorre sempre chiudere la zanzariera presente in camera, ma non alla finestrella della cucina! La cucina è ben arredata, ma scura e poco attrezzata e non ha uscita sul balcone (che è dalla camera). I letti sono comodi. Il bagno ha vasca con tenda e lavandino grande: un'eccezione in Grecia. A Sidari sono presenti molte strutture con piscina perchè le belle scogliere sono in roccia "farinosa" e la spiaggia è piccola e con sabbia simile a terra.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, June 21) SALINAS, Calif. — After 21 years at D'Arrigo Bros. Co. of California, Margaret D'Arrigo-Martin has joined Taylor Farms as vice president of community development.
D'Arrigo-Martin was executive vice president of sales and marketing at D'Arrigo. She started June 18 at Taylor Farms, and remains in Salinas.
"We're still defining my role, but a lot of what we want to do is to help youth in the community and support Taylor Farms' sustainability and corporate responsibility initiatives that are customer driven," she said. "We want to get the right messages out to customers and local communities."
"We do a good amount of community development," said Bruce Taylor, founder and chief executive officer of Taylor Farms. "Margaret and I have worked together on numerous projects in the past. She's been a tremendous source of energy and gets things done in a positive way for the community. She'll also be the champion for our whole sustainability program, an ongoing program which we just haven't pulled together from a corporate perspective.
"Our object is to get the world to consume more fruits and vegetables," he said. "She'll be supporting that at the federal and state levels."
D'Arrigo-Martin will also spearhead Taylor Farms' development efforts on Salinas' historic Main Street, where the company will soon begin construction of a corporate headquarters. Expected move-in is by January 2014, Taylor said.
"Putting the building there is good, but it's not the answer to the downtown's challenges," Taylor said. "Someone needs to be driving change down there to make it a more exciting retail and entertainment destination for people in the community. She'll be doing some of that. It's a pretty full plate."
Taylor has long supported Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County, Rancho Cielo Youth Campus, the National Steinbeck Center and similar organizations. That center is next door to the future headquarters.
"It was just time for a change," D'Arrigo-Martin said. "It's a chance to work with a visionary. I love what Bruce is doing. He's a stakeholder in this community and really cares what happens here."
She said she did not expect a successor to be named at D'Arrigo Bros.
"They'll absorb the marketing within the sales team," she said.
Calls to D'Arrigo Bros. were not returned.
Dave Martinez and Chad Amaral were each promoted to vice president about May 1 at D'Arrigo Bros., D'Arrigo-Martin said. They focus on sales and business development.
"I've known Margaret for 15 years or more," Taylor said. "I have great respect for her dad Andy (D'Arrigo) and her brother John (D'Arrigo). They're one of the suppliers for our salad operation. They have a great family business that does wonderful things in the community as well."
D'Arrigo-Martin is also chairwoman of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California. Her efforts there include fundraising for salad bars in south Monterey County. She's collaborated with United Fresh Produce Association on the effort.
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