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The Trump Administration wants to get the ability to fire the head of the CFPB for any reason, according to an article in Forbes. If the courts agree that there is too much power investing in the agency, then it is likely that the agency will be looking for a new director soon.
The administration's latest act to change Dodd-Frank is to ask a court to declare the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional. Trump wants the right to fire the head of the agency for any reason. Under its current organization, the president cannot remove the CFPB director except for cause. If Trump gets his wish, the likely result would be significant political pressure on anyone in charge of the agency by whomever is in power at the time. That could indirectly undermine the independence, and focus on Wall Street, the CFPB has exhibited.
With the anti-regulatory mood of the executive branch and Congress, it is likely that the CFPB will face continued challenges to its structure, authority, and perhaps even its existence over the next few years. Much will depend on whether or not the control of Congress changes in 2018.
Overview by Ben Jackson, Director, Prepaid Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group
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If Trader Joe's announced another new store for metro Nashville, where should it go?
To be fair, Nashville did just celebrate the opening of its second Trader Joe's location on Wednesday.
But even as the new White Bridge store thrilled a slew of Nashvillians who previously had to travel to the only Trafer Joe's location in Green Hills to get their fix, others are still lamenting their distance to both stores.
So we asked our Instagram followers where they would want a Trader Joe's to come if, by some miracle, the hugely popular grocer decided to announce a third metro Nashville location.
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Mouse of Commons
THEY are well-meaning innocents, not too bright. Invest some care and attention, though—a scolding when they make a mess, praise when they do the right thing—and you'll have a long, happy relationship. Bandai, a Japanese toy company, made millions of dollars by transferring the precepts of pet-keeping to the electronic world with tamagotchi. Now some Internet enthusiasts in Britain are applying the same principles to MPs: adopt one, train it to your will and have a faithful friend for life. All it takes is a couple of clicks of the mouse.
The idea is to make political activism fun; the focus is the government's position on trying to control the use of cryptography on the Internet, which matters a lot to people who care about cyberpolitics. Some proposed controls would remove a reasonable expectation of privacy from all sorts of activities on the Internet. The "@dopt an MP" site should ensure that activists' concerns are heard.
The first step is to go to the site and provide your postcode. You are then told who your MP is (not always correctly, as yet) and offered a chance to adopt him or her. The second step will come when the government releases its consultation document on Internet encryption and related issues. The people who made the site, members of a like-minded bunch called Haddock (don't ask), will go through the proposals and draft tough questions. The adopters then have a chance to send those questions to their MPs, prodding them to ask them in Parliament.
The MPs will then be monitored. When they ask a question from the list, they can expect nice things from their adopters; if they fail, they should look out for brickbats. It is not quite like a tamagotchi—the adopters cannot actually cause their charges' demise—but if the site results in well informed questions, then it will be a success.
Even if not, it is still a precursor of an age when interactive communications between voters and politicians will be the norm. The "@dopt an MP" site is not only a way of keeping tabs on legislators, but a way for a new generation of activists to send a message to the world: "We are bright, we are witty and history is on our side."
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Mouse of Commons"
Britain December 19th 1998
From the December 19th 1998 edition
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Good jobs and household riches remain out of reach
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Evelyn Sharma to fly to Japan for boot camp training session
Evelyn Sharma is all set to push the envelope as an actor and explore new territories.
The young actress, who is preparing for her next film, has decided to walk the extra mile for the role she is supposed to play and doing so, she will be traveling to Tokyo, Japan, for a one-week intense physical transformation course to get a even more toned body.
A source says, "The role that Evelyn is playing requires her to loose an extra 5kg and she'll be following a special diet and fitness regime that suits her body type. It's learnt that she will be enrolling for Tokyo's famous Fitness Boot Camp featuring best personal trainers to guide stars in loosing weight."
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Boys soccer: Old Bridge players wear gold to beat childhood cancer
OLD BRIDGE - As the Old Bridge High School boys soccer team warmed up, a confused fan wondered about the gold shirts. Where was the purple, black and white?
No, the Knights didn't suddenly change school colors. But go ahead and ask – that's what the players want. Gold has deep meaning in September, and it has nothing to do with Emmy Awards statuettes.
September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The gold ribbon is the symbol for childhood cancer awareness. Gold represents more than just precious metal like in a wedding ring, as the American Childhood Cancer Organization notes, but "the most precious thing we know: our children."
READ: NJ high school unveils new logo following Native American controversy
The sports world has embraced that message, from Major League Baseball teams wearing gold ribbon decals and wristbands on Sept. 1 to Major League Soccer using a gold and white ball throughout the month.
Last year, the township's middle schools, Salk and Sandburg, used their soccer game to bring attention to the disease. Knights coach Chris McGrath thought that was a great idea and decided the high school players would help at their "derby" game against Sayreville on Monday evening at Geick Park.
READ: NJ football: Down to 19 healthy players, spirited Metuchen trying to fight through season
The Old Bridge players wore gold warmup shirts, decorated signs they posted at school and asked for small donations that will go to hospitals for research, financial assistance and other purposes. The website to donate is https://donate.go4thegoal.org/obhs-boyssoccer.
"We've been trying to just add a little bit of community service to our program," McGrath said. "It's easy to just run around and kick a ball. If anything, it helps make the athletes a little bit more aware of how blessed they are and that not everybody's so fortunate."
Aside from trying to win, high school sports are supposed to help mold teenagers into adults with life lessons no matter the result, and building empathy is certainly a worthwhile goal. For example, Greater Middlesex Conference baseball teams participate in April's Autism Awareness Month. The annual Snapple Bowl summer football all-star game includes having players and cheerleaders visit children's hospitals for activities, such as arts and crafts, with patients.
Monday, as Old Bridge athletic director Dan DiMino watched on the sidelines clad in a gold shirt, he noted that many teams don pink for October's Breast Cancer Awareness month. Behind DiMino, little kids practiced on the adjacent soccer field at Geick Park, running around with smiles and seemingly kicking with no other care.
That's how childhoods should be, but cancer ends that tranquility. An estimated 10,590 new cancer cases in children up to age 14 will be diagnosed in the country in 2018, according to the American Cancer Society's latest statistics.
After accidents, cancer is the second-leading cause of death among children, with 13 percent of deaths in 2015, according to the ACS, and an estimated 1,180 cancer deaths will hit children in 2018.
The good news?
The ACS reported that "childhood cancer death rate declined by more than two-thirds from 1969 (6.5 per 100,000) to 2015 (2.1 per 100,000), largely due to improvements in treatment and high rates of participation in clinical trials."
That's where initiatives like the National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month comes in. Every gesture helps from the big leagues to a high school soccer game on a drizzly, late summer night. Old Bridge's bright shirts read "Go 4 The Goal … Helping kids with cancer achieve their goal." Some sported gold laces on their cleats. Before the game, the Old Bridge and Sayreville players posed for a picture, arms around one another.
"It's all about the smiles," Knights sophomore Angelo Sciancalepore said. "It's for a good cause. Before the whistle, we're all friendly. Then when the whistle goes, it's competition time."
Indeed, the game was tight and tense, tied 1-1 at halftime. Old Bridge scored three goals over the final 20 minutes to pull out a 4-1 win. Senior Tom Disimile's go-ahead score was his first varsity goal, and he added another goal. Alex Park and Adam Meliani also found the back of the net.
Junior goalie Eric Siciliano recorded six saves, helping energize his team. McGrath said, "Most goalies make the saves that they're expected to make. Eric's got to make one a game that basically is a tide turner. It's the same as scoring a goal at the other end."
The Knights have faced adversity this season with senior captains Mauro Sciancalepore and Frank Reitano both tearing an ACL in the preseason. It was a huge blow, but Old Bridge (2-3-1) has remained competitive and owns a key Red Division win over Monroe and a tie with East Brunswick.
"Not only do we miss them on the field," McGrath said, "it's just their presence everywhere. Practice. The locker room. They're all-American kids. They're just hard workers. Good students. Good citizens. They lead by example. … They were unfortunate enough to pick up that kind of injury.
"But I think they're past their grieving stage as far as knowing that they couldn't help us on the field. But they've grabbed the bull by both horns and now they're at games. They show up to practice. They're in the locker room. They travel on the bus. They're here trying to help me coach. That speaks volumes about the kind of boys they are."
Monday, DiMino pointed to them pacing the sidelines, giving instructions and cheering. No doubt the games have meaning, but it's good to be reminded that an injury and a kick too high or wide aren't the worst things that can happen.
"You see them now wearing the (gold) shirt and a torn ACL is what, you're going to be back and ready to go nine months later," Old Bridge's athletic director said. "But with pediatric cancer, I mean, it could be a life, so I think it puts perspective into the seniors, too."
McGrath said. "It's just to help the athletes appreciate that they're blessed, whether they're running around scoring goals at varsity or winning championships, they get to participate. Their health is everything."


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Staff Review: "The Abstinence Teacher"
Ruth Ramsey is a sex educator at a suburban New England high school. A divorced mother of two tween girls, Ruth has taught her classes for years with no objection from the community. After misspeaking during one of her classes, a complaint is filed against Ruth and she becomes the subject of intense public scrutiny. In order to appease those who are outraged, the school district revamps its human sexuality curriculum to heavily emphasize abstinence, something Ruth does not personally agree with but must teach if she wants to keep her job.
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all political authority. Found it hard even to justify Lutheran princes resisting the
Catholic Emperor. Luther was never a radical in social/economic/political terms; his
condemnation of the Peasants' Revolt (1524-5) matched his earlier teaching.
1. Methods
a) role of printing press. Scale of circulation of Luther's pamphlets (1/3 million
copies by 1521). b) Luther's style & contribution as pamphleteer: theological sophistication plus earthy populism c) Failure or unwillingness of Catholics to reply in kind d) Role of visual material, esp. cartoons, in undermining respect for RC Church e) role of spoken word- preaching
Hesse, half a dozen by 1530)- crucial for long-term survival.
the Lutheran alliance at Muhlberg, 1547, but the princes, inc. Catholic ones, then
turned against him. Charles was driven out of Germany, 1552, paving the way for
the Peace of Augsburg, 1555. That gave the princes freedom to determine the
religious settlement in their own territories ('cuius regio, eius religio').
The Reformed Churches: Zwingli, Calvin and Calvinism
Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), Zurich reformer. More radical than Luther. Saw the sacraments (baptism & eucharist/communion) as largely symbolic. More ambitious than Luther to reform society as well as individuals. Zurich adopted a Protestant system 1523, but Zwingli was killed in battle (Kappel, 1531
John Calvin (1509-64): French, but fled France after crackdown on heresy. Published Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536). Settled in Geneva 1536-8 (expelled) and 1541-64. The Calvinist system: a) Theology- salvation by faith through grace (& predestination) b) church structure: pastors, teachers, lay elders, lay deacons. Above them the consistory (pastors & elders) responsible for church government and discipline. Broader aims of godly reformation: a) strict moral reformation b) social welfare: medical and educational provision, intervention over wages and interest rates.
'Calvin's Geneva'? Calvin was never a magistrate, nor even a citizen for many years. Resented as foreigner and killjoy, including by many old magistrates, whom he dubbed the Libertines. They were dominant 1548-54, but Calvin's friends firmly in control from 1554/5 and destroyed the opposition. (cf modern Iran).


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I've been involved with starting three Facebook groups and one blog page, and have founded two Quora Spaces and a Reddit sub-forum. This is about passing on what I learned from that experience.
To back up, I started into exploring social media coupled with an interest in tea some time ago, about seven years back. Or really more like nine, but this blog started seven years ago. Basing that online channel exploration around a subject theme helped, since daily life both is and isn't a shared interest. Using a subject interest as a focus really works better for joining groups and discussions.
Tea wasn't the only subject interest I had, of course, or the only grouping I naturally fell into. Back then I had just spent about 15 years pursuing an interest in Buddhism (which included being ordained as a monk once), both as philosophy and a religion. For living in Thailand the expat theme came up, that of being a foreigner living abroad. Thailand was a recurring theme, for being here, and travel in Asia came up a lot, which is really what led to the tea interest, for running across it a lot.
Enough about me though, on to how founding a social media group works out, some factors to consider going in, and decisions and details that come up.
back in the day in that religious role
Subject theme
I don't tend to see people discuss why to start a group, since it's usually an outcome related to having a well developed subject interest. Blogging is different; people often ask how to be successful at writing a blog, before they fully narrow down what they have to say. That's even with the theme of blogging being on the way out, now largely replaced by profiles in Instagram and the like, and discussion in Facebook groups. Social media sites like Twitter are something else, but that format lends itself to relating to a narrow subject theme; you just follow profiles tied to a theme, and stick mostly to discussing that, or sharing posts about it.
If someone didn't have a really well developed interest in one particular subject starting a social media group would make no sense. It would also be natural for someone to love a sports team, and certain foods, or travel, fitness, or fashion, to identify with these themes, but not to want to talk to people they don't already know about them.
writing this reminded me that I wasn't in any alumni groups, so I joined one
A commercial interest can help drive these sorts of pursuits. Someone interested in fitness might only want to keep track of new references about the subject, but someone working as a freelance personal trainer would need to go further with making connections, and gaining exposure. A tea vendor could start a tea group for the same reason. They tend not to, but it does come up. A social media tea group can even be limited to only relating to one particular vendor, like this Yunnan Sourcing Fans group. That group has 3000 members; that sort of exposure could definitely have a positive impact on business.
It would be a little odd to start a group mostly to see how starting a group would go, but that could work. It would still need a theme, since a "group about nothing" would go nowhere. Regional themes can make for an easy fall-back. I'm from a rural area in Pennsylvania and a local group there has been interesting for re-connecting me to some local news. It almost goes without saying that a graduating class theme could also work. Or any interest, really. The narrower the better, and it's best if you have a really strong connection to the subject, because otherwise continuing with discussion and moderation tasks could become tiresome.
How it went for me
I started with helping two online contacts set up tea groups, one of which I'm still the main moderator for, and most active participant, the International Tea Talk group. At least in terms of membership count that goes well; that group currently has 13,800 members. In both cases I helped add some friends with a shared interest to get the group membership base started, and let the groups grow organically from there, or else not develop.
How the theme and activity level worked out is really something else, more mixed, part good and part bad. It works best if you can set up an active core group that promotes ongoing on-topic discussion, and a feeling of community, but the members who are most active in groups tends to change over time. In many groups most posts are either blatant spam, ads, or else information sharing designed to push the boundary between discussion and advertising.
I met some really interesting people through that one group. If someone said something interesting, or their background was really unusual, I'd say hi by message, and I've talked to a fair proportion of the tea industry that way, people all over the world. When the pandemic first became active in China and Italy I talked to people in both countries about that, people I had already spoken with. It helps having an established blog that's related, because it automatically sets up subject credentials that are hard to replicate in another way. Just being a group moderator doesn't carry much weight. To be clear I'm nothing like a celebrity, but it's easy to reference my degree of interest and background at a glance here.
The other tea group I helped initiate died of disinterest. I learned that my approach to tea and that contact's weren't a close match, so I became less active. Sharing ownership of a group is an odd theme; it might be as well to avoid that. It worked out well for the other group mainly because the other primary owner is inactive, eliminating most of the potential for conflict over direction.
I also started two Quora Spaces, a bit later on, that site's equivalent to groups, but also in between FB's "group" version and that of topic pages as function goes. One is about tea (Specialty Tea), back to that central exploration them, and the other is About Foreign Cultures. Those have 5400 and 11,200 followers, so there seemed to be some interest. I never hear much about that interest from fellow "Quorans," and only one contact on Quora really seems like a friend, someone who I've met "in real life" a couple of times since.
Related to membership equaling interest, a group can be quite large and still somewhat inactive, or most posts can just be self-promotion. Those Spaces aren't mostly about followers adding content, so I post almost everything that appears there, along with a function supporting sharing on-topic answer posts from others. For whatever reason people submit quite a bit of answers to be posted related to culture but not many in the tea space version. I suppose that is a narrower topic in terms of general following, not just related to the follower count.
Even when page or group stats seem to indicate a moderately high degree of following, for example that stat of 3.2 million combined answer views on Quora, it's not always clear what that means. I doubt people actually read the answers that many times, and someone scrolling past one in a feed doesn't mean much, or in the Facebook feed context either. Those two Spaces' stats confirm that posts and topics compete there for interest; there's not as much traffic as the follower numbers would imply. I don't even check that related to the International group on FB; it's not relevant to me, so I don't keep track.
Life-cycle of groups or forums
A bit on this already came up, but to some extent any online group, or even forums, tend to have a natural life-cycle. I suppose I don't just mean that they drift off to becoming inactive, also that the patterns related to that seem consistent across types and context themes. It's not completely unrelated to a person's life cycle and perspective, related to youth being about exploration and development, maturity related to building on already established themes and direction, with prior direction and activity level eventually narrowing and tapering off. Renewal is possible, with a theme change, or membership change, but more often cycles of renewal tend to taper off too.
An expat forum was a clear example of all this, one of the places that led me to explore social media as much as I did. It was originally called "Orient Expat" and later converted that to Expat.life when political correctness made that a poor choice of naming.
That forum really stood out, for a number of reasons. There was an active core group of 8 to 10 main members, with another 20 or so regular participants, and lots of people coming and going, just checking in. Individual country forums allowed for discussion across the broad region (not so much based out of China and Japan, more in South East Asia), and then discussion of general issues bridged across that. This Wayback Machine capture register shows it's life-span:
it wouldn't have to relate but I would guess activity level equates to capture counts
Of course the "Xpat.life" site version continued that run, but the writing was already on the wall. The founder eventually lost interest, after banning more and more people for less and less serious transgressions.
Facebook groups were going to kill it anyway, drawing all the oxygen out of the room for group participation, as they also killed off Google + eventually.
The positive lessons from there still work though, about setting up a core group, enabling themed discussion that still allows for some range, and trying to support Q & A and news posting, and also general discussion. There was a "shout box" feature there, a nice function enabling chatting beyond post commenting. I haven't replicated all those things in any given group that I've started, and Facebook groups just aren't set up to.
Using groups for promotion
This could work. I've already mentioned a commercially oriented group, and of course I add blog posts to the tea group that I moderate. One main benefit of setting up your own group is choosing the rules, allowing or dis-allowing whatever you want. A group that's essentially a business page would be unlikely to gain popularity, I suppose unless that business or brand is so successful that it may work to leverage the association, for an entity like Disney, for example. Of course then a highly successful business wouldn't be seeking to increase exposure through a group or other media outlet (in the same sense), only to serve other functions, to add a communication channel, or develop a new form of association or information distribution. That Yunnan Sourcing tea vendor fan group serves as an exception; it's more active than the average tea group, and much more active than the three different more conventional forum-based sites (Tea Chat, Tea Forum, and Steepster, with the last split between a discussion section and review functions).
For a typical small business, one selling something, or offering a service, it could be a real challenge to link general subject interest and relatively direct marketing. Another example of a forum--not the same thing as a group, but related--comes to mind related to this.
Tea Chat was one of the main tea discussion channels online at one point, probably the overall main one. They managed to balance commercial interest (they were owned by Adagio, a retail tea vendor) with that discussion hosting role by essentially dropping out all connection to tea sales, by not marketing there. But then that cost them most of the exposure and business benefit, so eventually, probably related to changes in management, they changed direction and instead emphasized product exposure.
The conflict between the two themes caused a rift immediately; they ended up deleting posts or topics that ran counter to that positive exposure, and added "fake" accounts for testimonial purposes (allegedly, but some of that negative feedback came from the former main moderator, who was removed from that role). Maybe a balance could have been struck, but the group probably never would have become as popular if that commercial theme had shared focus initially. It would be problematic to emphasize only marketing for one related business, and perhaps even more problematic to allow open input from competing businesses.
Blogging dying out--giving way to Instagram following and the like--leads to less conflict of a similar form for mentioning blog links, which most larger Facebook groups simply don't allow. Which is probably reasonable; to keep commercial or self-promotion posting in check it's necessary to establish clear rules, and a natural cut-off includes preventing blog link posting.
Rules and related issues
It wouldn't work at all to start a group without commercial-scope restrictions; if people joined it that group would immediately become an advertising platform. Setting a cut-off can be problematic, because any restriction would invoke grey areas. For example, not allowing ads doesn't necessarily prevent photo sharing or information posts by business profile members, which would essentially be ads. Not allowing commercial profile members (from FB, or elsewhere, if personal and business accounts are mixed) is one way to move the limit back further.
All groups would also need to set a limit related to discussion being civil, or eventually a test case would come up. Other scoping would relate to subject theme. Tied to a topic like tea that's clear enough, but there's always something, like herb tea (tisanes), or people selling tea packaging machines. In one philosophy group scope restriction was really problematic, and tone; lots of people were more interested in communicating politically oriented opinions, which isn't conventional philosophy. It was funny how the owners of the group I'm thinking of leaned into that bias by promoting their own political agenda there, and discussion of the subject philosophy more or less dropped out.
Options / channels
I've mentioned setting up groups in Facebook and Quora so far, but not so much about a failed attempt at a Reddit sub-forum. I don't love Reddit culture but I'm active in r/tea there. As an experiment I set up a sub-forum related to non-fiction Youtube video channels, but it didn't gain any traction. Then again I just posted a few times to it, and didn't do much with promotion before pulling the plug, setting it to "inactive." In general Redditors definitely wouldn't want to be sold something, or in my interest case to discuss tea in the same form I tend to. I do answer questions there though, in the main "sub," or post blog links sometimes, which tend to be ignored.
r/tea on Reddit; there are 229,000 members, which adds a need for clearer rules
Facebook is obviously where the people are. I liked some aspects of Google + but disinterest killed that channel. It's also worthwhile noting that Facebook pages can serve a related but different role (as for this blog). Those aren't as group-discussion oriented but can serve as a contact point or for exposure.
New channels are cropping up, which is about time, given how long Facebook has served as a singular main arena. Discord groups or Slack discussion groups serve some of the same function. I don't love the Discord format; it looks like an old main-frame environment, I guess on purpose. I think Slack is more a communications app than a media based social platform, like Whatsapp and the like. We use Line in Thailand, the Japanese version. "Groups" in the sense of shared messaging is possible on any of those, but it's not the same, as Zoom video meetings aren't.
Then I guess there's always "in real life" as an option, connecting through sites like Meetup. A Facebook group would work just as well to coordinate that though, and their media sharing and discussion and message functions enable limited exchanges to occur with or without that face to face step ever happening.
I started an "in real life" local meeting group but then never held more events
Private online settings that split the difference between old-style forums and these main-channel groups really haven't been developing, at least not much. This post is mostly about how someone might use an easy-to-establish group form anyway, not about forums, or customizing a new website based version. I've checked out one recently though, to see how that might be set up, related to a former mob / mafia captain telling stories on video through a Youtube channel (that group site and Youtube channel).
I'd definitely recommend at least checking out the mob story videos
If someone doesn't feel like there's anywhere they fit in online they could always try to start their own group. The same would go for promoting a commercial interest, or ramping up blog exposure, whatever it is. In most main channels there are almost no technical challenges to doing that, just a few details to work out initially, and a monitoring demand to keep up with, filtering the input.
Pages work well for setting up a contact point, sharing information or media, or letting people follow a theme topic, but groups add discussion and participation depth to that.


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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — National agricultural experts recently predicted that Oregon will produce 18 percent less hazelnuts this year than it did last year.
The Register-Guard reported Thursday that the experts conducted field and lab tests to predict the state will produce 36,000 tons (32,700 metric tons) of hazelnuts this year. The state produced 44,000 tons (40,000 metric tons) last year.
Hazelnut growers and representatives, however, said the industry's production is tough to predict and has become even tougher in recent years.
Garry Rodakowski, chairman of the Oregon Hazelnut Commission, says he wasn't too surprised by this year's forecast of a smaller crop.
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Harbus: Tell us about how you met.
Abigail: Well we don't exactly know the first time we met.
Kevin: We met at Williams during our freshman year. We were living in the same dorm and during our first week at school we met during orientation activities, although it obviously wasn't a very memorable moment.
Abigail: Then we went to a dance together (the "screw" dance), the theme being your roommate set you up with someone.
Kevin: But Abigail was dating the "hot" senior rower. Her mom really liked this guy, he was an artist, and he liked to paint clouds. Once I broke that up, we finally started dating in April 2002. Then I proposed on July 7, 2006 and we were married on September 1, 2007.
Harbus: Post-undergrad did you move to the same location?
Kevin: During Junior year of college when everyone else was worried about internships, I was thinking about law school.
Abigail: He was an English/Political Science Major.
Kevin: Abigail said wait no, I want you to be in Boston with me. She made me apply for all of these business/consulting jobs. Basically all of the jobs she was applying for!
Abigail: He got the job I wanted!
Habus: Once you decided to apply to business school, what was your plan?
Abigail: This was challenging.
Kevin: Uber-stressful.
Abigail: We were married in September, went on a two-week honeymoon and then I was training for a marathon. That fall was so busy. In addition, I had started a new job in June and so by the time I started applying it was already November. So, we kept our list short and sweet, only 2 schools, Tuck and HBS.
Kevin: We figured worse comes to worse the schools are not too far away from each other if we had to be apart.
Abigail: So we applied together and spent most of December preparing our applications.
Harbus: Did the application process ever get competitive between the two of you?
Abigail: We didn't want the other person's application to influence our own so we waited to read and edit each others' essay until we were all done.
Kevin: I'm also a lot less organized than she is, so I wasn't finished much ahead of her anyway. We both applied second round and then waited. I ended up receiving my interview invitation three weeks before Abigail received hers. That was stressful.
Abigail: He told me that they selected alphabetically (and chastised me for not changing my name). But he totally made that up, it was a lie!
Kevin: Those are the ok ones to tell, it made her feel better and soon enough she received the invitation.
Abigail: Then he found out first too!
Kevin: We only had one computer, I just logged on first.
Abigail: However after it was all over, I did receive a nice bouquet of Red Winston Roses.a great ending.
Harbus: Now that you're both at HBS, how, if at all, has the RC year changed or challenged your relationship?
Abigail: We struggled early on because we were so absorbed in cases, we'd fall asleep talking about cases, dreaming about cases. Finally we made a rule, no case conversations when heading to bed.
Kevin: When you're working, once you come home, you're free, so it was easier to separate work and hang-out time.
Abigail: However, being in a relationship where we are both here together we are able to understand each other really well. I'm less resentful if he's super busy and I feel like overall we're more understanding of each other's needs and the pressures we're facing. Besides, I "live" with my learning team!
Kevin: We definitely discuss our cases together and check our numbers, but we do all of our own work first.
Abigail: We think so differently, for instance. After our finals we would come home and discuss our action plans.
Kevin: We kept choosing different options! We definitely think differently.
Harbus: What about doing laundry and dishes, have you divvied up the household chores?
Abigail: We have a couple of rules in our house.
Kevin: What??
Abigail: One is that I do the laundry and he vacuums and cleans the bathroom. It appears like a pretty even division of labor.however.
Kevin: It's not, and I have certainly come out on the good side! There's a definite period when you NEED to do laundry, it's not always very clear how often you need to vacuum or clean.so I feel like I am doing less.
Abigail: We also cook dinner together most nights and in this cold weather, it's always good to have someone to walk to class with!
Harbus: What are your valentine's day plans?
Kevin: During college we quickly realized that the fixed-price Valentine's Day stuff is a huge rip off! So, we usually go out on the 13th or the 15th and on the 14th it's pizza and a bottle of wine.
Abigail: It's become a tradition.
Kevin: Even the first night of our honeymoon was Dominos and rum punch watching the sunset.
Abigail: It's our way of celebrating special occasion, and of course, I get to pick the movie!
Harbus: One last question, what are your future plans? Have you begun to think about next steps after HBS?
Abigail: So much has yet to be decided. We'll be living in the Northeast.


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Edinburgh wealth management firm founded 21 years ago acquired in seven-figure deal
An Edinburgh-based wealth management business founded 21 years ago has been acquired in a seven-figure deal.
The takeover of Caledonia Asset Management by Mattioli Woods follows a wave of consolidation in the sector including the recent acquisitions of Adam & Co, from Royal Bank of Scotland, and Cornerstone Asset Management, which was bought by Waverton Investment Management Group.
Mattioli Woods, the specialist wealth and asset management business quoted on London's Alternative Investment Market (Aim), is acquiring Caledonia Asset Management from its shareholders for an initial £960,000 and potential further consideration of up to £640,000 dependent on meeting performance targets in the two years after completion of the deal.
Founded in 2000, Caledonia provides wealth management services to affluent individuals and families, covering areas such as lifestyle financial planning, pensions and retirement planning, income protection and personal taxation matters.
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The firm works with about 150 private clients with more than £55 million of assets under advice. Its team of five staff will remain with Mattioli Woods following completion.
Gordon Forbes and Pauline Forbes, Caledonia's directors, said: "This is a very positive step for everyone associated with Caledonia, especially our clients and employees. Mattioli Woods shares our core values and client centred business ethos and so we are delighted to become part of the Mattioli Woods Group.
"Combining our strengths will allow Caledonia's clients and employees to benefit from the considerable additional resources and support available as part of the group, enabling our team to enhance and expand the bespoke personal service our clients expect from us. We are very much looking forward to this exciting new phase."
Ian Mattioli, chief executive of Mattioli Woods, said: "Caledonia is a great fit for us both culturally and operationally, serving a similar client base to that of our existing business. This is an important strategic step for the group, extending the geographic footprint of our wealth management business in Edinburgh."
In 2020, Caledonia generated revenues of £450,000 with a profit before taxation of £180,000. The acquisition is expected to be earnings enhancing in the first full year of ownership.
Paul McGinnis, an analyst as brokerage Shore Capital, said: "The MW [Mattioli Woods] management team has a strong track record of value creation through deals and we expect further purchases, including potentially larger businesses, on an ongoing basis."
Last week it emerged that Canaccord Genuity Group was buying Adam & Co for £54 million following months of speculation surrounding the RBS-owned wealth manager.
Adam & Co's Edinburgh-based investment management business has client assets amounting to some £1.7 billion.
News of the sale followed speculation regarding a potential disposal as RBS parent NatWest Group focuses on its core UK banking operations.
The deal came hot on the heels of Cornerstone Asset Management, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow and advises on some £500m of assets under management, being bought by London-based Waverton Investment Management Group.
Waverton said the acquisition represented an expansion of its regional footprint and would allow for an "augmented service proposition", bringing together wealth planning and discretionary investment management services for clients.


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From the beginning, our clinic has been there to help you with minor injuries, sudden aches or pains or minor illnesses. Whether you're a new patient or whether you've been with us for years, our commitment to you remains the same: to provide you with the quality health care you expect when and where it's convenient for you.
We are committed to our patients' health and well-being. "We Care" is our highest mission.
While our extended evening and weekend hours, convenient locations and affordable services still make us the first choice for urgent care, we now offer an array of other options that make our clinic the go-to option for families and businesses seeking comprehensive care. Our clinic is staffed by experienced, dedicated and compassionate medical professionals. From the start, we have focused on delivering exceptional care, with an uncompromising commitment to our patients.


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Public Mobile Removes Custom Plan Builder, LTE Plans for New Customers
Telus prepaid brand Public Mobile launched a rebrand this week, touting a "brand new visual identity," along with new logo and tagline.
The Public Mobile website also got refreshed with the rebrand, but at the same time, two previous options for new customers were also removed.
The company's customized plan builder, which was available since day one, is no longer available for new customers, along with 4G LTE plans. The Public Mobile website only offers 3G plans for new customers now, making the prepaid brand's data speeds similar to rivals Lucky Mobile (Bell) and chatr (Rogers).
Below are the eight plans currently offered by Public Mobile:
Public Mobile said the following in a statement when asked about the removed plan builder: "We have seen that most customers prefer the simplicity and value of ready-made plans. In an effort to simplify the purchase experience, we removed the customized rateplan builder option."
"For those customers who currently have a customized rateplan, they can remain on it until they decide to switch to a ready-made plan," added the spokesperson.
When asked if new customers would get LTE plans or just 3G, the Public Mobile spokesperson told iPhone in Canada, "At this time, we are focusing on 3G speed plans. Our focus continues to be on offering customers the lowest possible prices on Canada's largest network."
What do you think about the removal of Public Mobile's plan builder and 4G LTE plans?


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Ecological - Second Order
Soil heating caused by prescribed or wildland fire commonly focuses on a single biological thermal threshold of 60 °C for the duration of one minute to represent organism death. This metric severely misrepresents the heterogeneity of the soil environment, the physiological attributes and tolerances of organisms, and the complexity of heat transfer through soils. Measurements of biotic death in simulated laboratory experiments render research findings difficult to extrapolate to forest and grassland soils. The disparity between assumed biological responses and the diversity of biological responses after wildland fire events calls for a thorough review of soil biological heating thresholds. In this review, we synthesize and compare research that directly relates soil heating temperature and duration to biological responses, provide relevant models for temperature-duration responses of soil organisms in lieu of a strict threshold, and recommend applications of soil heating data for wildland fire and ecosystem management. For no single study or group of organisms was a threshold of 60 °C for one-minute duration evidenced. All soil organisms reviewed, which included roots, mesofauna, bacteria, fungi, microbial biomass, and soil respiration, displayed both positive and negative responses to soil heating across temperature and duration gradients. We, therefore, discourage the use of the traditionally accepted metric of 60 °C for the duration of one minute. Instead, we present models of duration-temperature relationships of soil biota and invite interdisciplinary efforts from researchers and managers to directly measure biological responses on a case-by-case basis.


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Republican Shane Schoeller is running for Secretary of State of Missouri. In the video above Schoeller lays out his vision for that office. That vision includes establishing a citizen's commission to write ballot language for initiatives and referendums as well as pushing for voter ID and cleaning up the voter roles in Missouri.
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Take a Matterport virtual tour of Pearl Studio Apartments in Portland, and walk through our community from the comfort of your very own home. Our 3D technology highlights all of the features of our stunning apartments. Each layout is complete with granite countertops, energy-efficient appliances, large windows, raised ceilings, modern layouts, and much more. Our Portland studio apartments truly give you a front-row seat to easier living. Discover a world that has been handcrafted to bring convenience to your fingertips. Embrace a lifestyle that is centered on loving where you live. At our 97209 apartments, you will find community amenities such as free bicycle storage, a game room, laundry facilities, and much more. Come home to Pearl Studios in Portland, OR, where home becomes the destination.


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It would seem that even more people are discovering the joys of classical music for themselves, after a record 114,000 tickets were sold for the BBC Proms 2013 after booking opened on Saturday.
Over 100,000 tickets were sold online, with the rest bought in person, on the phone or by post – a rise of 12% on sales in 2012. The most popular concerts – based on ticket sales – included the First Night of the Proms (which sees conductor Sakari Oramo in his first performance as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra), both Proms by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and two Doctor Who Proms.
The Doctor Who Proms are back to celebrate the show's 50th anniversary, which takes place in November, with scenes included from the series soundtracked to music written by its young fans.
"With 50 years of the Doctor coinciding with anniversaries for Wagner, Verdi and Britten amongst others, not to mention concerts by the Stranglers and the Vienna Philharmonic, we expected another level of demand this year but this is extraordinary," chief operating officer of the Royal Albert Hall Jasper Hope said.
The Proms start on July 12th and includes 92 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, with four others across the UK.
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Bhubaneswar:6/10/17:The BJD is always prepared for early polls, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik told reporters here on Friday.
If the pre-term polls will be held, BJD is fully prepared for it, said CM Naveen.
The Election Commission would be ready to hold assembly and Lok Sabha elections simultaneously after September next year, election commissioner OP Rawat said on Wednesday, a move that could cut poll costs by hundreds of crores.
While parliamentary polls are scheduled for 2019, assembly elections will be due in eight states September 2018. Polls in Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan are slated for the end of 2018 and early 2019. Polls for the remaining four states are slated to be held with the general elections.


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The Text God
By Whitney Dineen
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Text and you shall receive…
Jen Flanders moved to New York to be an artist. This translates into walking dogs for money, practicing yoga for sanity, and hitting up her friends at a local bakery to supplement her diet. Rent is due and she's running out of cash. After begging the universe for a sign that help is on the way, her phone pings with an incoming text. GOD: You can do it; I believe in you!
Gabriel Oliver Daly agreed to mentor a friend's younger sister. Unbeknownst to him, after losing her phone, said sister uses her dog walker's phone to text him about a job offer. He responds enthusiastically.
Jen can't believe GOD is actually texting her! But who is she to question the ways of the universe? On the first day of texting, GOD gets her a job that will keep her afloat. On the second and third days he offers even more help.
Gabriel starts to think his friend's sister might be too flighty to make it in the legal jungle of New York. Why exactly does she need a survival job? Wasn't she supposed to be interviewing for a position as a junior lawyer? And why is she texting him random (not to mention very personal) stuff all the time?
When they finally meet, Jen realizes GOD isn't a deity but a divinely handsome lawyer. A complete stranger has answered all her prayers. After all, God does move in mysterious ways.
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Wisconsin State Representative Greta Neubauer started her activism in high school organizing students for Barack Obama's first presidential campaign. Neubauer organized in the youth climate movement for a number of years, co-founding and going on to serve as the Director of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network. In 2018, Neubauer ran to represent her home district in the State Assembly and won. In 2019, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers appointed Neubauer to the Governor's Task Force on Climate Change. She has recently been appointed to the Wisconsin Legislature's powerful Joint Finance Committee.
"Young climate activists continue to push and support us to take steps towards a clean energy economy at the state level, but states can only do so much on our own," said Wisconsin State Representative Greta Neubauer. "Having a President who understands the existential threat of climate change is critical, but he'll need the support of young climate activists and elected officials from every state in order to make the changes we need."


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We are excited to announce a new Wright Mommy and Me class in Pasadena at The Family Room. The first 8-week series will be held from August 19th – October 7th and is for babies born March – mid-July, 2015. The class will meet on Wednesdays from 11am – 12:30pm and be led by Kim-Lan Dovan, MFT.
The Family Room is a resource center and community space for expectant parents and families. It's a beautiful space and we couldn't be more thrilled to partner with them.
You can signup directly (and get more details) at The Family Room or email email@example.com with your baby's name, birth date and your phone number. We are offering one FREE class for new signups so the 8-week series costs $280 (regular price $320.)
Wondering if you should invest your time and money on Mommy and Me? Read more about the Wright Mommy and Me program and why this village can be so important in our modern age of parenting.
The Wright Mommy and Me classes nurture the adjustment to motherhood and explore many topics throughout baby's first year, while also creating a place to find new and supportive friendships with other moms. Developed by Julie Wright, MFT, co-author of The Happy Sleeper (praised by Daniel Siegel, MD, author of Whole Brain Child as "Compassionate, courageous and creative!")
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(CNS News) -- The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus posted a video last week about how they are "coming for your children," and will "convert" them, "bit by bit." In response, Christian leader Franklin Graham said they were proclaiming the "truth about" their agenda, which is a real "threat" to families and society.
In a July 10 post on Facebook, Rev. Graham wrote, "This gay group says they're 'coming for your children' -- and they're telling the truth about it. We knew it, but I'm surprised they admitted it."
(To watch the video, click here.)
"In a video posted to YouTube last week, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus recorded a virtual performance of a song claiming that the LGBTQ community would 'convert' the children of conservatives," reported Graham.
He continued, "Parts of the song says: 'We'll convert your children – happens bit by bit, quietly and subtly… The world's getting kinder, Gen Z's gayer… We're coming for them. We're coming for your children... The gay agenda is coming home. The gay agenda is here.'"
"One verse even says," Graham reported, "'You think that we'll corrupt your kids if our agenda goes unchecked. Funny, just this once, you're correct." Wow. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?"
"After outrage from viewers on YouTube, the group took the video down, and tried to say it was an attempt at some kind of humor," said Graham. "I don't see any humor, and neither do a lot of other parents and grandparents, but I see a driving agenda and a threat that is real."
"As followers of Jesus Christ, we should have an agenda as well," he said. "We need to stand boldly with the Word of God and teach the next generations the biblical #TRUTH that can impact their lives both now and for eternity."
Franklin Graham is the son of the late-Pastor Bill Graham. He currently oversees the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the international aid group Samaritan's Purse.


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Do you need healing, or are you praying for someone? We believe in the power of prayer and joining together with one another to see God move and do the miraculous.
We recognise that many people who need healing are vulnerable to the risks associated with the COVID Pandemic, so we will be running our healing service online for now.
Join us for our special Healing Services every third Sunday of the month held after our regular 9:30am service. All are welcome!
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Lady Gaga redefined the meaning of statuesque in sky-high shoes for renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz . Gaga literally towered over everyone and she's only 5'1″ tall, until she came crashing down.
Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, wore what had to be 24″ heels and stilts to pose for Vanity Fair in a flowing gold dress that was half Marie Antoinette and half Nefertiti.
Underneath her flowing tiered skirt, Gaga, known for her outrageous footwear, wore sky-high shoes and stilts.
Gaga was photographed on a New York street next to a hotdog stand.
Check out Gaga's photos; click to enlarge.
Lady Gaga took the tumble during the shoot today (Sept. 12) in New York's Central Park.
She lost her balance and fell in a heap of fabric. But she was quickly helped to her feet and the shoot continued.
Gaga is not known to be the most nimble when it comes to keeping her feet while performing, and sometimes her clothes work against her.
But once she was upright again, she wowed the crowed in her outfit.
Gaga, a New York native, told MTV she's devoted to the city and said it influenced her latest album, Born This Way.
'I mean, there's so many stories that people don't know,' she said. Now she's one of them, again.


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Get ready to discover one of the many amazing features of the largest river on Earth: the Amazon River, whose flow is even larger than the flow of the next eight largest rivers in the world combined! We'll hop on our boat for a full day exploration on the Amazon river, where we'll have the chance to witness the unique phenomenon of the "unmixable waters" at the confluence that forms the Amazon River, see the largest water plants on Earth, and will navigate among trees across flooded Amazonian forests.
On our speedboat we'll navigate to the confluence of the two rivers that form the Amazon River: the pitch-black Rio Negro and the cream-colored Solimoes River. That confluence is known as "the meeting of the unmixable waters." Due to a unique quirk of nature, the waters of these two tributary rivers flow side by side for about 8 miles (12 kilometers) without mixing, due to a large difference between the rivers' flowing speeds and temperatures. The difference in color between the two rivers is so stark, in fact, that the two "unmixable" waters can even be distinguished from satellites orbiting in space! And while stationed right on the confluence, you can even dip your hand into the waters on either side of the boat and feel the difference in temperature between the two rivers.
During our navigation, we'll see from a distance the houses of the riverside Amazonian villagers, some built on stilts and others being floating houses, to protect themselves from the huge increase in the water levels during high tide season (it's up to a 32 feet/10 meter increase!).
We'll stop for lunch at one of the floating restaurants on the banks of the Amazon river. This restaurant is stationed next to the Janauari National Park, a large natural reserve. We'll be greeted by "ribeirinhos" or "riverside dwellers," who run the floating restaurant as well as a handicraft market next to the restaurant.
After lunch, well traverse a wooden walkway into Janauari National Park to behold the largest aquatic plant on the planet: the Vitoria Regia (Royal Victory) water lily. These gigantic, green lilies can reach up to 7 feet (2 meters) in diameter. You may even see a large group of them in a single patch of water. In some cases this plant's giant leaf can hold, without tearing, up to 33 pounds (15 kilograms) on it, which is the weight of the average 2 year old child! Depending on the season, the Vitoria Regias may dry up considerably, losing much of their texture, or may even disappear completely.
Now let's board our private speedboat for the remainder of the tour! During high tide season the Amazonian forests flood to a height of up to 50 feet (15 meters), so they become fully navigable. We'll venture into the flooded jungle in our private speedboat, among the trees and across the narrow passages. This is a unique way to experience the river and its surroundings from a whole new perspective, since we'll be navigating close to the tree canopy!
Our full day exploration comes to an end as we head back to our lodge having experienced some of the awesome and truly unique sights and phenomena of the Amazon river has to offer!
Important: the tour's exact itinerary and duration may change subject to weather conditions and decisions of the tour guide to optimize your tour experience.
Difficulty: none.
Duration: around 4:30 hours, including time for lunch. This tour immediately follows the "Interacting with the Unique Amazonian Pink Dolphin" private tour.
Guide: private guide.
Vehicle: private speedboat.
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After the 3 year/ 36,000 mile warranty is up I go ahead and buy an extended warranty from Ford, I buy there Ford ESP Plan and take the warranty out to 100,000 miles.
Big Bear, does the above mean that one can purchase Ford's ESP after the purchase, but before the warranty runs out? I didn't purchase, but assumed that if you don't purchase ESP at time you purchased the vehicles, you're out of luck.
I'm assuming Ford Canada has same policy as Ford USA.
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"The analytical mind is completely unaware of the perfection of universal intelligence, that awesome force that conspires in the convergence of happenings, circumstances, events, and occurrences arising seemingly out of nowhere to reveal life's innate harmony. Although the analytical mind has served some purpose in moving the human species forward in its evolution, its use has surpassed its original function and is now moving the species in the reverse direction, toward its own extinction. It is the analytical mind that is behind chronic faultfinding and its insistent objections, which, when taken to a global scale, explains war and genocide.
There is indeed a perfection to universal intelligence. But because the mind senses that this "web of coincidence" is beyond anyone's ability to control or manipulate it, the mind responds with an attempt to reinstate a counterfeit superiority. It does so simply through its loud, obnoxious, and chronic objection to what is. And this defiance of the present moment is considered by most people to be a normal way of reacting to life's flow."
Lisette Larkins, in "Difficult People"
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Career Colleges » California » Massage and Healing Arts » Aromatherapy
Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in California offering Aromatherapy degrees. Aromatherapy courses enable you to become a professional aromatherapist.Attending a California college should be an easy decision. After all, the Golden State has something for everyone. The educational quality is some of the highest in the nation, if not the world, and the after-college activities are endless. Within a four-hour drive in any direction you can be hiking some of the highest peaks in North America, driving through the furnace-like heat of Death Valley, losing your heart in immortally beautiful San Franciso, wandering dreamily through ferny forests crowned with 300-foot redwoods, rubbing shoulders with celebrities in L.A., or diving into the wild and welcoming surf of the great Pacific ocean.
Alternative wellness careers include massage therapy, aromatherapy, reflexology, herbology, osteopathy, and yoga, to name a few
Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils made from plants and flowers. It is a healing art that aims to rejuvenate body, mind and spirit. The different smells (aromas), and the chemical constituents of the oils, are said to produce different
Aromatherapy is of great benefit as a form of preventative health care. It detoxifies the body, increases blood circulation, and boosts the immune system and the lymphatic system. The oils stimulate, balance, uplift, soothe and calm. The release of stress and tension can allow the body's own healing process to begin.
Aromatherapy is used to treat a range of disorders, including:
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