Some people are born just knowing they want to be a doctor, others might be certain they're destined to be a chef, but then there are some Spaniards who grow up just knowing that they would be darn good tree shakers – vareadores that is. In getting to know the Spanish culture, I've been blown away and charmed by some of the uniquely Spanish professions here – jobs that tell you so much about where the country has come from and what they've valued through the course of time. Sure many of these professions can be found across cultures, but the combination of them sure gives you a clear picture of what this place is all about.
First there is the panadero – the bread man. Who's not happy to see the bread man, am I right? The panadero is an expert in the craft of bread and even pastries (a true hero if you ask me). Given the importance of bread in the Spaniard's daily diet (and mine too), many panaderos, like the extinct milkman, deliver bread to people's homes every day. In fact, when Jacobo was young, his mother would leave a form on the door everyday letting the panadero know how many baguettes to leave. Even these days, I will occasionally see a bag of bread hanging on my neighbors' doors (just teasing me to take some).
I have to throw in this job, the tree shaker, because it seems like it could have been particularly fascinating back in the day (pre-machine, that is), and well because the video below somehow makes it seem especially awesome. This tree shaker fellow could be tasked with shaking many different kinds of trees, from olive trees, to even oak trees so that the hungry little piggies can chow down on acorns. Apparently, this profession used to entail shaking the trees with sticks (or so says Jacobo), but these days, it seems to involve a peculiar contraption that nearly tickles the tree to death (see video!). I can just imagine myself spending my days with my stick out in the fields shaking trees and then resting under them while I hang out with my pig friends. This is usually where my daydreaming stops though – when I realize that I like to eat my pig friends and that there is a slight conflict of interest. Somehow daydreaming about being a panadera seems a lot more "digestible." Anyway, I couldn't find any sort of proper history on this interesting, and yet at the same time incredibly un-interesting job, so with that it will just remain in my imagination as the man with the stick shaking trees in the countryside (oh yeah, and then this clown below too – "Sr. Vareador Profesional").
I would be lying if I said that I hadn't toyed with the idea of applying for the position of mariscadora – or awesome shellfish digger lady (sorry, it's the best translation I can come up with). Sign me up – sun, beaches, and working hard for the money! Ok, not exactly. The mariscadora is a job filled by the women of Galicia, Spain's northwestern province, and it isn't any walk in the park (err, beach). It's a laborious task, one which is often passed down from generation to generation, and that requires spending early hours in Galicia's frequently inclement weather, not to mention lots of staring at muck and rocks hunting for those precious shellfish. On that note, I think I will just stick to eating the shellfish – but cheers to the hardworking mariscadoras!
With his "venencia" (a wine serving tool), the venenciador extracts wine from the barrel and pours it into the glass from a great height (Benihana-style) in order to oxygenate the wine. Apparently this job, which is considered an art here, originated from the fact that historically, agreements on the purchase of wine were celebrated in the bodegas by extracting wine from the barrels to have a toast. This extraction was of course done by the venenciador, who I assume spends less time these days in the bodegas toasting wine deals, and more time entertaining easily amused onlookers like me at weddings and other events. Hey, it can't be a bad job when people only admire your work more and more with every pour!
I think I might be saving one of my favorites for last, but really, who doesn't adore the antiquity of each of these jobs? The afilador is a knife sharpener – but don't be fooled by the simplicity of this task! You don't just bring your knives to the afilador, oh no, he comes to you. And when he comes to you, he doesn't simply park out front and then knock on your front door – he takes what I call a modified ice cream man approach (or maybe the ice cream man took a modified afilador approach…hmmm). That is, he has his own musical sound track that is delivered by his handy harmonica thingy (I know, my descriptive language is mind-blowing). And as if this all weren't enough, he comes on a motorbike which has his knife sharpening machine built on back. If I weren't certain that I'd end up chopping off a finger, then well, this might be the darn coolest job ever, largely because it's just so weirdly charming.
My search for awesome Spanish jobs continues, so to that end, I myself am off to play pastora, or shepherd, this weekend. Yes, I will be running around chasing after sheep in the Spanish countryside. Stay tuned….
Used to love the panadero of my childhood 🙂 Smelled SO good!
Agreed! It really is a shame. My life in the US was filled with mass-produced bread, knives that could be sharpened only if you sent them to a warehouse a million miles away, and the coolest way we could think to serve alcohol was via shot luges. There's something so refreshing about living in a place that has preserved the charm of such unique professions….although, sadly, I'm sure these traditional jobs too are fading.
Erin! I just stumbled upon this article. Great job writing it and I think it's so fascinating! I really love how the Spanish respect their professions and take it seriously, whether they're working as doctors, camareros or garbage men. Or tree shakers, I guess. Man I'd love to be shaking some trees once in a while, that's be fun!


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'On Citizenship' is a superb introduction to the fundamental, yet often misunderstood, concept of citizenship
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Book: On Citizenship
Authors: Romila Thapar, N. Ram, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel
Publisher: Aleph
Price: Rs 499
What does it mean to be a citizen of India today? What rights and privileges adhere to the notion of citizenship, and what duties and responsibilities must a citizen discharge in order to qualify as a responsible member of the family of Indians? These questions, which seldom cross the horizon of our consciousness, have taken on renewed importance in the wake of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, especially when considered together with the proposed National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens.
In the opening essay of On Citizenship, "Citizenship: The Right to be a Citizen", Romila Thapar gives a quick overview of the development of the concept of citizenship in both West and East (including its complicated relationship with race and ethnicity), before going on to assert how, in an independent, democratic country like India, "The state is no longer the patron since the citizen is the one who has established the state." Relating the idea of citizenship to that of being civilized, Thapar ends her essay with the reminder that "Being civilized also means having institutions that protect each one of us and allow us to both live and die with dignity."
The next chapter, N. Ram's "The Evolving Politics of Citizenship in Republican India", narrows down Thapar's broad focus to look at citizenship in the context of India, drawing upon the Constituent Assembly debates, the specific and peculiar case of Assam, the controversies engendered by CAA-NPR-NRC and other social and political landmarks to examine how the notion of an inclusive citizenship that gives every adult citizen of the country voting rights — something that is taken for granted by most of us — is both
contingent and presently under threat. He reminds us that the Constituent Assembly debates "make it clear that provision for citizenship [was made] in the specific context of Partition and the coming into being of the Indian nation state with newly drawn boundaries"; something that needs to be taken into account when we seek to better understand the "huge democratic and governance deficits in handling citizenship aspirations and dreams that have been articulated, and contentious issues over the right to citizenship that have cropped up, across a vast and diverse land."
On Citizenship by Romila Thapar, N. Ram, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel, Aleph, Rs 499
Gautam Bhatia examines "Citizenship and the Constitution" in the following chapter, closely analysing the "extraordinary circumstances" in which the Constitution of independent India was framed, and how, despite Partition and the call for a religious basis for Indian citizenship, the framers of the Constitution established a "clear and unambiguous link between the secular character of the Indian polity, and the rejection of racial or religious criteria as grounds for citizenship." This is the reason why, for example, Part II of the Constitution ("Citizenship") or, indeed, the provisions of the first Citizenship Act of 1955 cannot be read in isolation but need to be seen as forming "one strand in a web of harmonious and mutually reinforcing principles, which woven together, [make] up the Constitution." As Bhatia puts it, the framers of the Constitution were "faced with a stark choice: an inclusive and universal vision of Indian citizenship, or a narrow vision that privileged ascriptive identities in prioritizing claims to Indianness. Even before Independence, the Constituent Assembly was clear in its choice: it chose the former."
In the final chapter, "Past Imperfect, Future Tense", Gautam Patel brings his considerable legal acumen, many years of experience as lawyer and judge, and an enviable ability to make complex matters of constitutional analysis and legal interpretation accessible to the interested layperson to lay out what he calls the "trifecta" of our Constitution that moves from the general to the specific — "from the Union and its territory in Part I, to citizenship in Part II, fundamental rights in Part III, and so on", which, he asserts "is not just as it should be, but is the only logically consistent and sure-footed structure". In keeping with this structure, Patel's essay moves from an examination of the "relationship or link between citizenship and fundamental rights" to "the attempts in statutes to limit or undermine our basic rights" to "the consequences of very recent political and legislative actions; specifically, some contours of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA, when set against the Constitution, and issues that have arisen... due to the [ongoing] global COVID-19 pandemic." By citing landmark cases and judgments from the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India, focussing on those which have subsequently been "consigned to judicial oblivion" due to their wrong-headedness, but where there were dissenting opinions (which have since been recognized for their courage in championing the rights of the individual in a modern State), Justice Patel alerts us to the fact that both the law and its interpretation are dynamic, evolving processes, subject to human fancies and desires; to the pull of power, and the exigencies of party politics.
This slim volume, with its subtly acute analyses of the notion and the operation of the idea of citizenship in the Indian context, is a superb introduction to this fundamental, yet often misunderstood, concept; one that has taken on a renewed, perhaps even desperate, urgency in recent years. It should be essential reading for every concerned Indian, for, in Gautam Patel's words, "We look back in anger. We look forward in trepidation. For we have faltered before. We cannot afford another misstep."
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Call Levy charges will be deducted automatically from your registered UOB account with the Company every Tuesday. If the Tuesday falls on a public holiday, the deduction will be done on the next working day.
We will be introducing a new call levy for jobs with $2.30, $3.30 and $8 booking fees with effect from 3am on 25 September 2018 (Tuesday). In response to cabbies' feedback, for fares that are below $12, the new call levy will be waived to encourage cabbies to take more bookings. For fares that are $12 and above, the new call levy will be 3.9% of the fare collected. It is subject to GST as per normal.
In response to cabbies' feedback, for fares that are below $12, the new call levy will be waived to encourage cabbies to take more bookings.
It is implemented with effect from 3am on 25 September 2018. This is the first adjustment that we have made to the call levy in seven years. The last adjustment was in 2011.
On a daily basis, thousands of bookings are lost to us because not enough cabbies take available booking jobs. If more do, it would mean shorter waiting time for commuters and this, in turn, will incentivize more commuters to want to take our cabs – which ultimately mean more trips and more income for our cabbies. And, In response to cabbies' feedback, for fares that are below $12, the new call levy will be waived to encourage cabbies to take more bookings.
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Over four years the Education Department paid $760,000 to Chase Manhattan Bank of New York for interest and fees on student loans that never left the bank because the students did not cash their checks.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., revealed the bank's bonanza Saturday when he gave his Golden Fleece Award for June to the department for paying interest on 1,600 government-subsidized student loans that never were used.
In announcing the award, which is given monthly for the most wasteful, ridiculous or ironic use of taxpayers' money, Proxmire identified the financial institution involved only as a "major bank." But the Department of Education said it was the Chase Manhattan Bank of North America.
To date, Chase Manhattan Bank has refused to make restitution to the government for the $760,000.
A spokesman for Chase said bank officials learned of the problem in April and "have been trying unsuccessfully to reach the Department of Education." Lou Mathis, a spokesman for the Education Department, said the agency will seek full recovery of the $760,000 from the bank and also has drafted a regulation change "that will prevent it from happening again anywhere else." The rules change, which is awaiting approval by the Office of Management and Budget, says that if a check for a student loan is not cashed within 90 days, the government's obligation to the bank ceases.


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Bonuses can be an effective and energizing incentive structure, pushing employees to meet or exceed sales goals with the promise of a payout. But recent headlines have shown the darker side as well: When employees are aiming for an unrealistic target—based on out-of-date assumptions and static information—shortcuts and unethical behavior can creep into normal workflow.
Relying only on a static, annual budget may be part of the problem, as goals that seemed within stretchable reach one, two, or even 10 months ago become all but impossible as the competitive landscape shifts or the economy changes. Scrapping the bonus compensation structure altogether is one solution. But there might be a better way to solve the problem.
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"Large rewards tied to challenging sales goals do not have to be a deadly combination," three leading management consultants argued in a Harvard Business Review article. Used correctly, they can effectively motivate staff and drive revenue.
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So how do you ensure incentives are challenging but still reasonable? Consider rolling forecasts.
Many finance teams already like these budgets, which are continuously updated based on changing conditions, because they're more accurate than static versions set in stone for the whole year. Flexible plans help to kill the stereotype of an annual budget, painstakingly created over many months, that becomes instantly outdated upon completion.
Rolling forecasts also make it easier to tie compensation to actual results. Traditional budgeting compensates performance based on "annual, static, and often irrelevant budgets," according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers white paper urging the elimination of such techniques. What's worse, more than half of companies surveyed by PwC said an annual budget is one of the major drivers of executive pay—meaning that most workers are gunning for bonuses that don't make much sense.
Rolling budgeting, on the other hand, aligns pay with real business goals rather than historical trends or negotiated standards. That goes a long way toward eliminating the traditional budget gamesmanship "that erodes the ethical foundation," said Steve Player, director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table and a guest speaker at the Adaptive Insights' webinar Tame Your Budgeting Process With Rolling Forecasts.
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That's an important point because employee behavior is largely driven by a company's processes. Therefore, creating positive, realistic goal-setting through continuous planning is critical to maintaining high-achieving, satisfied employees.
"You want to pay people based on the number that's not negotiable, it's based on what they actually deliver," Player said. "And when the environment gets more favorable or less favorable, the target self-adjusts. If it gets more favorable, they've got to hit a higher target because everyone else is going higher. So it really focuses you on the competition instead of trying to negotiate a favorable return."
A rolling forecast solves both sides of the compensation problem caused by traditional budgets. Under such a system, your employees are far less likely to resort to cheating in order to hit what they view as impossible numbers. They also won't be able to achieve their goal by Labor Day and coast through the fourth quarter.
"You can't get better behavior until you change the process and start incenting and rewarding and dealing with the things that really matter," Player said. "The reason we shift to rolling forecasts is because it's a much more proactive and positive way to run a system."
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Met Office warns severe weather to continue as roads already flooded
The A303 had to be closed last night (December 18) due to flooding
Ellie Kendall
Map shows affected area for weather warning (Image: Met Office)
A yellow warning for rain has been extended for Somerset and much of the midlands and south of England and Wales.
The Met Office warns that heavy rain could lead to "flooding and travel disruption in places" and are urging people to take care.
The warning has now been adjusted to cover a larger area and "increase the impact level", they say.
This comes as police closed the A303 yesterday (December 18) after parts of the key West Country route was hit by heavy rainfall.
This resulted in heavy flooding, with waters so high in one area, that officers had no choice but to stop traffic.
Map shows heavy rain for South West (Image: Met Office)
The Met Office website reads: "Several periods of heavy rain are likely from Wednesday afternoon until early Friday.
"30 to 50 mm of rain is likely to accumulate quite widely during this time, with 60 to 90 mm over some south-facing hills of southwest England and south Wales.
"Some drier periods are likely in between the spells of rain and the longevity of these is uncertain, but the overall accumulation of rain on saturated ground is likely to lead to flooding in places."
Weather warnings are in place from today (Thursday, December 19) to Sunday (December 22).
The affected areas in the South West of England are:
The Met Office warns that this sudden fall of heavy rain will mean that homes and businesses could be flooded, causing damage to some buildings, delays or cancellations to train and bus services are possible and spray and flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and further road closures.
In some extreme cases, communities could be cut off as a result of flooded roads and there may even be some power cuts in certain areas.
Met Office official forecast for the South West of England
Heavy rain and strong winds this afternoon.
A mostly dry morning, with only a few showers. However, heavy rain and strong winds are expected throughout the afternoon as the band of rain pushes across the region. The southern coast will be particularly windy. Maximum temperature 12 °C.
Tonight:
Some showers will linger during the evening, but heavy downpours will return briefly in the early hours. Rain and winds will ease later. Fog patches could form towards morning. Minimum temperature 7 °C.
A mixture of sunshine and showers during the day. Windy along some coastlines, especially the south. Feeling colder. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
Outlook for Saturday to Monday:
Unsettled over the weekend with showers and strong winds. Some early morning fog patches on Sunday. Monday will be slightly drier, but there will still be some blustery showers.
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Darius Slayton's two new collectible footballs are special to Giants rookie
Quarterback Eli Manning of the New York Giants congratulates wide receiver Darius Slayton after catching a pass for a touchdown in the second quarter against the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Dec. 9, 2019 in Philadelphia. Credit: Getty Images/Al Bello
By Tom Rock tom.rock@newsday.com @TomRock_Newsday Updated December 11, 2019 6:23 PM
Darius Slayton's two touchdown catches didn't really resonate for him on Monday night because the Giants' loss to the Eagles overshadowed any sense of joy or accomplishment. But the footballs from those plays are now sitting in his house and he has a new fondness for them.
Not only because he caught them, but also because of who threw them.
"I definitely think it will be one of those things, whenever my career ends, I look back on and really appreciate," Slayton, the rookie receiver, said of the passes from Eli Manning. "It's an honor to play with a Hall of Fame quarterback. A lot of guys don't have that opportunity in their career. So I'm really blessed."
Slayton said he keeps all of the scoring footballs at his house, and it's getting surprisingly crowded. He leads the Giants with seven touchdown receptions. He also leads the team in receiving yards with 655 and is second in receptions with 42.
The footballs from Monday night, though, are special. It was his first game with Manning as his quarterback and he became the 57th different player to catch a touchdown from Manning.
Now Slayton is angling to get those footballs signed by the quarterback who gave them to him.
"[Eli's] Year 16, I dunno, maybe he'll have two or three more [seasons]," Slayton said, "but I might have to have him sign it just in case he tries to make a sneaky exit. You never know."
Notes & quotes: CB Janoris Jenkins missed practice with an ankle injury but spent time during the workout interacting with fans on social media while he was in the Giants' training room. "He shouldn't be tweeting during practice," Pat Shurmur said of the cornerback who has run afoul of team decorum several times this year … G Kevin Zeitler (ankle/wrist) did not practice and could miss the rest of the season, Shurmur said. Zeitler's ankle is sprained, not broken … CB Corey Ballentine (concussion) was a full participant and could be cleared to return for Sunday.
By Tom Rock tom.rock@newsday.com	@TomRock_Newsday
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After another blindside eviction last Thursday evening that was orchestrated by the Level 6 alliance, Queen Bay (Bayleigh Dayton) was sent out the Big Brother door as the first member of this season's jury. By taking such a hard hit, the Hive alliance desperately needed a Head of Household victory, and just when they needed it the most, Haleigh Broucher came through for them again. As the new HOH, on the heels of being last week's BB Hacker, Haleigh has definitely made a splash in the overall Big Brother competition lately.
When another member of their alliance was voted out last week, the Hive was holding on by a thread. Even with the HOH win this week, they still have an uphill battle in front of them. Haleigh's power can be striped down just like she did to Angela's HoH last week with the BB Hacker power. In addition, Tyler Crispen still holds the Cloud App Reward which can save him from a nomination to the block for eviction. Then there's always that pesky Power of Veto. Haleigh and her tribe need to win the Hacker competition if they have any chance of making waves this week in the Big Brother house.
Now that Bayleigh, a leading member of the Hive alliance, has been eliminated, how will the alliance manage to bounce back from losing another member?
Faysal Shafaat completely broke down after the live eviction vote. He was very distraught because he has to chose between Rockstar Lantry and Bayleigh to go. In the end, he confessed that he decided he had to vote with the house and vote for Bayleigh to be evicted.
On the other side of the house, Sam Bledsoe was just as emotional as Fessy after the eviction. She revealed to all the houseguests that she was the one vote for Bayleigh to stay in the game. She apologized to Rockstar for voting for her eviction, but Sam explained that she didn't want Bayleigh to feel as though no one wanted her in the house. Sam shared that Bayleigh was the closest person she had in the Big Brother house…and now, Bayleigh is gone.
Level 6 alliance is not real pleased with Sam's emotions lately. Sam has let her emotions get the best of her and her Big Brother game. Level 6 is starting to see her as a liability as opposed to an asset for them. They want to convince Haleigh to put her on the block for eviction this week.
Sam requests a private conversation with Haleigh. She continues with her emotional and mental breakdown. She told Haleigh that she feels as though everyone is making fun of her behind her back. She asked Haleigh straight up who was talking behind her back. Haleigh immediately threw Angela under the bus for suggesting Sam be nominated to the block. Sam had a small tirade about how she is the only "real" person in the Big Brother house and says that everyone else is just out for the money. Has Sam ever watched a season of Big Brother? She is really starting to crack at the seams and is a liability to the entire house at this point.
Haleigh fell short last week in successfully targeting Tyler for eviction from the house as the Big Brother Hacker. Thanks to the Power of Veto win by the HOH Angela Rummans, Haleigh lost the battle to target Tyler. Now that Haleigh holds the HOH powers this week, will she target Tyler for eviction? Will she try and plan a backdoor operation so that he cannot compete in the POV competition? Being that Tyler is such a proven strong competitor, that would be the smarter move for Haleigh to make.
Haleigh is in control this week, at least for now. She is starting to consider and discuss who she wants to put on the block for eviction with her alliance. Tyler is certainly at the top of her list. She attempted to target him for eviction last week while she had the Big Brother Hacker power, but the HOH was able to thwart those plans. Now that she has the HOH power this week, she thinks a backdoor plan to evict Tyler is the best route to go.
Tyler approached Haleigh to try and convince her to backdoor him, as he knows he will be a target one way or another. If he is backdoored by Haleigh, he knows that he can use his Cloud Power app and save himself from eviction. If Haleigh puts him on the block initially, and he uses his app to save himself, Haleigh could win the POV and put him back on the block. He knows his best move is to convince her to backdoor him so that he can use his app power and save himself.
At the nominations ceremony, Haleigh puts up Angela and Kaycee Clark on the block for eviction. Angela and Kaycee are targets this week because they are members of the Level 6 alliance. In reality, Haleigh is going to target Tyler for eviction. That is her true target for the week. Tyler is ecstatic as he can now save himself if and when Haleigh puts her backdoor plan in motion.
This new Big Brother twist has definitely added chaos and drama to the house. This week's winner has the opportunity to seize and replace one of the block nominees, pick a player to compete in the POV competition, and nullify a vote at the eviction ceremony. Needless to say, the winner of the final BB Hacker installment of the summer is critical at this point in the game.
Time for the Big Brother Hacker competition. This competition involves hacking the Big Brother cameras. The houseguest will see a small fragment of one camera view inside the Big Brother house. The first 3 houseguests to correctly identify which room of the house is shown, will gain a point. After seven rounds, the houseguest with the most points wins the competition. After 5 rounds, Kaycee is in the lead by one point. At the end of round 6, Kaycee is in first place, and Scottie Salton is in second place. After the final round, Kaycee wins the Big Brother Hacker Competition.
As expected, the BB Hacker removed Kaycee from the block for eviction. The new nominee to the block is Rockstar, who is very upset that she is on the block yet again. Now, if the Hive doesn't win the Power of Veto, one of their alliance members could go home during their own HOH week. The Hive needs to pull it together and win the POV or their Big Brother games are all in jeopardy.
Join us again Wednesday at 7:00pm CST/8:00pm EST for the Power of Veto competition.


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Work of Leicester ecologists presented before Kenyan Prime Minister
Posted by pt91 at May 11, 2011 11:29 AM | Permalink
Leading conservationist David Harper involved in empowering communities
The Kenyan Prime Minister observes University of Leicester PhD student Ed Morrison at work.
Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 11 May 2011
World-renowned ecologist and conservationist Dr David Harper, from the University of Leicester Department of Biology and his PhD student Ed Morrison, have showcased their latest work to the Prime Minister of Kenya.
The researchers have just returned from a successful field research visit to Kenya's Rift Valley. There, at Lake Naivasha, where Dr Harper has been researching for nearly 30 years, they were central to the launch of "Imarisha Naivasha" by the Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.
Ed Morrison demonstrated briquette-making to the Kenyan Prime Minister in a practical fair of processes which help to save water and carbon. This charcoal-saving process, which Ed is championing around Naivasha, makes fuel from waste paper, cardboard or plant material and, in a country where charcoal is the major source of energy, helps in a small way to save forests
'Imarisha' - meaning "Empower Naivasha" is an initiative, backed by the Prince of Wales' Sustainability Trust, to try to coordinate local industries and communities with government agencies and international NGOs, to restore this damaged lake. Imarisha has come to fruition six years after David Harper first started raising the alarm about the lake's deteriorating ecology, based upon tell-tale signs that others had missed.
Dr Harper said: "It is very easy to come to Lake Naivasha as a visitor or journalist, see all the greenhouses around the lake and immediately just blame flower growing" he said. "Local newspaper articles have blamed anything that goes wrong on pesticides from flowers, even though all the evidence shows flower-growing to be a very well-controlled industry without risk. Articles have even talked about paint being thrown into the lake, because the water colour has changed. These are natural processes, but ones that have run riot because the lake is over-fertilised by people.
"The real cause of the lake's deterioration" says Harper, "is the same basic cause as everywhere else in the world - too many people, also using up too much water and wasting most of it because they think it is free". The lake is 2 metres lower than it should be naturally because of water taken out - but it is to run the taps of the cities, to power the greenest source of energy, a geothermal power station nearby and thousands of small-scale farmers in the catchment - as well as to grow flowers. Flower growing is critically important to Kenya, it is the biggest earner of foreign exchange - now above tourism and above coffee and tea. Over half of all roses sold in UK supermarkets come from Naivasha.
"The flower industry is conscientious about the water taken out, most particularly the growers who sell to European supermarkets, because they know that consumer groups can keep a check on the water they use as well as the conditions of their workers.
"Imarisha Naivasha" is the start of a better future for the lake. We are all really optimistic that it will encourage everybody to pull together, reduce their water use and give the lake a chance".
Harper added: "Two European supermarkets, REWE from Germany and Coop from Switzerland are leading the world, funding plans for ecological restoration of lake and wetlands, based upon my advice and that of my colleagues. I was also the major advisor to the Prince of Wales' Sustainability Unit from Clarence House, when they paid a fact-finding visit in September last year. I am very happy to see the fruits of my research now being used to guide the sustainable future of the lake.
"UK supermarkets should realise though, that they are being left behind by the Europeans. The Swiss and the Germans can see that, to make their supply chain sustainable, they need to put some profits back into ecological restoration. British supermarkets need to do more or they could lose the market in a few years time".
Above: University of Leicester PhD student Ed Morrison demonstrates briquette-making to the Kenyan Prime Minister in a practical fair of processes which help to save water and carbon. This process, which he is championing around Naivasha, makes fuel from waste and, in a country where charcoal is the major source of energy, helps in a small way to save forests.
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Evan didn't want to be fat, but he also didn't really want to do anything to lose it either–or at least, nothing that felt like work. He was a slacker, and a gamer, and as far as he was concerned, being fat was just the price he had to pay, in order to live the life he wanted. He worked an easy job from his apartment as an editor, and spent the rest of his downtime gaming–well, that and masturbating. He didn't exactly have much of a sex life, since he didn't even leave the house most days, but he liked his hand more than the few women he'd been with anyway.
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The site hadn't given him an option for whether he wanted gay porn or straight porn, but this definitely wasn't what he was into. He tried to close the window, but it refused, saying he hadn't finished his workout yet. He spent another minute trying to escape it, and then he found himself getting drawn into the slideshow, and then, a minute later, he had his cock out, and was happily masturbating to the men on the screen.
He lost track of time–and of how many times he shot. He also didn't think about where he was shooting, he just kept unloading all over himself until, at last, the slideshow stopped, the site said he'd finished his workout, and told him to subscribe. Only after he'd put in his payment information, and signed up for a daily workout regimine, did he finally come back to himself, disgusted, and horrified to find he'd been masturbating for nearly an hour straight. One thing he knew for sure, was that he was never going anywhere near that site again–he closed the window, and went to take a shower, unaware that he was a couple pounds lighter already.
But Evan quickly learned he didn't have much of a say in what he did with that site, now that he'd subscribed. Every day, he'd get a notification reminding him to workout, and unable to stop himself, he would navigate to the site and watch another slide show, jacking off constantly, only regaining control after the session had ended. To his horror…he actually found himself enjoying the sessions. He'd finish them, covered in cum, and feel a…rush, or a high, and just loll in his own cum, rubbing it into his clothes–no longer bothering to shower after. The results were apparent after a couple of weeks. He really was losing weight, and he could barely believe it. It seemed like a price he was willing to pay, and so he kept at it–but then things started getting…strange.
The workouts got longer for one thing. One hour became two, two became four, four would occasionally be six. The men in the sideshow were changing as well. At first, it had been fairly generic men, models, pornstars…but lately, they had been taking on a certain different flavor. Skinheads featured prominently, as did men in workwear. Grungy men, dirty men, piss play and rubber and leather. He was hornier outside of his workouts, and would search out more porn like it to jack off to, thinking about what it might be like to shave his own head…until he came to from a session and discovered he was totally shaved, from head to toe.
More changes came, usually during longer sessions. Tattoos in particular. He was getting rather trim now–he could barely believe it, how much weight he'd lost in a few months. His old clothes had disappeared, replaced by new gear that better fit his new body, all of it like the gear he saw on the skinheads on the screen. To his pleasure, even as his cock and balls had…grown. His balls especially–each was the size of a orange now, and he leaked almost constantly. There was no longer a time when he wasn't horny–gaming was no longer of interest to him, all that mattered was self gratification.
Well, that, and the men on the screen.
They were all of a similar type now. Fat, dirty skinheads, mean fuckers, covered in tattoos and piercings, wearing leather and rubber. He found himself admiring them, envying their size. Imagining himself on his knees, licking their guts and cleaning their boots, drinking their piss. The knock on the door startled him one evening–he hadn't left the apartment or seen another living person in weeks now, and he had no idea who it could possibly be. He…knew he had to answer it though, and who he saw in the hall took his breath away.
"Hey mate–nice tah finally meet ya. I'm your sponsor–or rather, your…"
"M-master," Evan muttered.
"Exactly," the huge brute said, and pushed his way inside. "I think you're done with those silly workouts now–how about you get some experience with the real thing?"
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Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending April 8
publication date: Apr 13, 2016
author/source: Valuentum Analysts
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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending April 8. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the 'Symbol' search box in our website header.
Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week
Constellation Brands Inc (STZ): now $0.04 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.31.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMAB): now Ps. 3.50 per share annual dividend, was Ps. 3.00.
H.B. Fuller Company (FUL): now $0.14 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.13.
IDEX (IEX): now $0.34 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.32.
Pembina Pipeline Corp. (PBA): now $0.1219 per share monthly dividend, was $0.1149.
Procter & Gamble (PG): now $0.6695 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.6629.
Qualcomm (QCOM): now $0.53 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.48.
Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR): now $0.13858 per share monthly dividend, was $0.13771.
Souvran Self Storage (SSS): now $0.95 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.85.
Tanger Factory (SKT): now $0.325 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.285.
Tix Corporation (TIXC): now $0.055 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.05.
Firms Lowering Their Dividends This Week
Armour Residential REIT (ARR): now $0.27 per share monthly dividend, was $0.33.
Gas Natural (EGAS): now $0.075 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.135.
MV Oil Trust (MVO): now $0.03 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.10.
Olympia Financial Group (OLGRF): now C$0.50 per share quarterly dividend, was C$0.65.
>>Last week's dividend increases.
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King County Metro seeking community input on future RapidRide Line in south King County
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King County Metro is upgrading Route 160 to RapidRide I Line. and is seeking the public's input – visit their online open house to Have a Say on roadway and intersection changes to make the new route even faster and more reliable.
Here's more from Metro:
Metro is working to bring better bus service to people living and working in Kent, Renton, and Auburn. Building off of the efforts put forth in the Renton-Kent-Auburn Area Mobility Project, Metro plans to upgrade the Route 160 into RapidRide I Line by 2023.
The new Route 160 began operating in September 2020 and provides residents with a single route connecting Renton, Kent and Auburn, and service every 15 minutes on weekdays. The RapidRide I Line will use the same pathway and offer riders even faster, more frequent and reliable bus service, fast all-door boarding, and enhanced stations and passenger amenities.
With the community's input, Metro has identified the I Line route, station locations, and areas to make it easier to walk, roll and bike to the bus. Now, we need to hear from the community to make decisions about:
Projects, such as dedicated bus lanes and roadway changes, that improve bus speed and reliability and enhance safety for all who travel in the area.
Additional projects, including crosswalks and sidewalks that make it easier and safer to get to the bus.
How can the community get involved?
Visit Metro's online open house and provide comments through Jan. 25. The online open house is available in English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Visit the project website to learn more and sign-up to receive email updates.
Metro is committed to prioritizing investment where needs are greatest, such as communities historically underserved and areas with higher percentages of people of color and residents with low income or limited English proficiency. This includes south King County, the area served by the future I Line, where ridership has remained the highest throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
About King County Metro RapidRide
RapidRide is celebrating 10 years of making transit rides easier and more convenient. King County Metro began planning efforts in 2006 and launched the RapidRide A Line in 2010. Today, Metro operates six lines across King County, offering riders more frequent and reliable service, efficient off-board ORCA fare payment, bus station amenities, fast all-door boarding and on-board Wi-Fi. RapidRide routes carry tens of thousands of people each weekday— about 70 percent more than the bus routes that served the same areas before the RapidRide lines were launched. RapidRide is up to 20 percent faster, saving an average of about five minutes per trip.
King County Metro is the Puget Sound region's largest public transportation agency. Metro provides bus, vanpool, paratransit and water taxi services, and operates Seattle Streetcar, Sound Transit Link light rail and Sound Transit Express bus service. Metro is committed to providing safe, equitable and sustainable mobility, and prioritizing where needs are greatest.
RapidRide I Line Online Open House
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Tim Holtz-Idea Ology Paper Dolls Die Cuts: Vintage Black And White. The perfect addition to scrapbook pages, cards and other craft projects! This 7x5 inch package contains 107 assorted die-cut pieces. Imported.
NOTE FROM LISA & LOU ANN: ALTHOUGH THE PICTURE SHOWS THE PACKAGING AS BEING LAYERS WITH 33 PIECES, IT IS ACTUALLY PAPER DOLLS WITH 107 PIECES.


Trinidad Skatepark Alliance: Meet the skaters of the Alliance: "(Rory on the left, Kyle on the right) Say 'hello' to Rory and Kyle, two ambassadors of the Trinidad Skatepark Alliance. One night, after the big City Council meeting at Town Hall (See two posts back) Rory walked a community member home so she wouldn't have to walk alone, in the dark, late at night. Kyle recently wrote an essay for school. The theme: Why Trinidad should have a skatepark. According to his mom, his teacher referred to his "excellent skateboarding essay" on his progress report. ..."
A grassroots organization founded in 2010. Trinidad is a small fishing village located in northern Humboldt County, CA. Our organization is dedicated to the forward movement of keeping kids outdoors, on their skateboards in a safe environment through the efforts of community organization and mobilization. We serve the town of Trinidad, neighboring communities in the northwest region of Humboldt County, and anyone who wishes to visit and skate in Trinidad.


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Heineken Experience, Amsterdam
Holland's best-selling beer, Heineken, was first produced in 1867 from this facility in Stadhouderskade, though today it is produced in a different factory in Zoeterwoude
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Holland's best-selling beer, Heineken, was first produced in 1867 from this facility in Stadhouderskade, though today it is produced in a different factory in Zoeterwoude.
Holland's best-selling beer, Heineken, was first produced in 1867 from this facility in Stadhouderskade, though today it is produced in a different factory in Zoeterwoude. Explore the world of pilsner with a behind the scenes tour of the premises with the Heineken Experience. Learn how beer is processed from malted barley, water, hops and their special yeast before bottling; try some wort; experience a 4-D movie on beer; and see brewery architecture, the brew room with vintage brass beer tanks, stables, historical advertisements, and old photographs of the Heineken family. Pour out a pint, and sample some of the brews for free.
About Heineken Experience
Stadhouderskade 78, 1072 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.heineken.com
Heineken Experience and Nearby Sights on Map
The Albert Cuyp Market on the Albert Cuypstraat runs from Ferdinand Bolstraat to Van Woustraat
The Rijksmuseum or National Museum is the largest and most prestigious museum for art and history in the Netherlands, displaying works by Dutch masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Steen
Amsterdam City Archives
Housed in the monumental Brick Expressionism style De Bazel, the Amsterdam City Archives preserves official documents, letters, photos, drawings, maps, prints and audio-visual records tracing the history of the city
The Museum Van Loon is a 17thcentury canal-house alongside the Keizersgracht, named after the Van Loon family that resided here in the 19th-20th century
Cat Cabinet
The KattenKabinet or Cat Cabinet is a cat museum displaying feline art from times long before lolcats and Grumpy Cat took over the internet
Museum Square
The Museumplein or Museum Square in Leidseplein is a large grassed open space adjacent to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Concertgebouw, and the Stedelijk Museum
Sarphatipark
The Sarphatipark in De Pijp is a variety park where locals picnic and sunbathe in the summer
Torture Museum
The Torture Museum is certainly offbeat, with exhibits showcasing the history of different torturous techniques used over the centuries
The Bloemenmarkt is the world's only floating flower market, with florists and garden shops set up on moored barges on the Singel between Muntplein and Koningsplein
The Diamond Museum, run by Coster Diamonds, is an exhibition about the history of diamond trade in Amsterdam


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Polish insurer PZU SA has official announced expansion into Estonia in a press conference in Tallinn that was hosted by the company's board chairman Andrzej Klesyk.
According to Peter Hagen, CEO of the owner of life insurance company Compensa Life, Austrian insurance company Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), the group will enter the Estonian insurance market next year, the daily Postimees reports on Monday.
The Estonian insurance market ended the first half of 2013 with impressive growth rates in terms of GWP, but with less impressive results as far as profitability is concerned. Thus, according to data provided by the Financial Supervision Authority in Estonia, the total GWP amounted to EUR 217.55 million, 23.6% up y-o-y. At the same time, the consolidated net profit for life insurance decreased from EUR 12.73 million in 1H2012 to EUR 4.11 million in 1H2013, while the same indicator for non-life insurance fell from EUR 31.45 million in 1H2012.
In January-March 2013, the gross written premiums of insurance companies in Estonia increased by 23.75%, reaching EUR 110 million, compared with total volume of premiums in the correspondent period of 1Q2012. Claims paid by insurers amounted to EUR 61.30 million according to official data published by the Financial Supervision Authority of Estonia.
Estonia will see growth in its motor insurance market after a rise in car sales, according to a report into the sector.
Insurance company ERGO closes 18 offices and makes nearly fifty people redundant in Estonia in the course of its spring-summer sales network reform, Aripaev Online reports.


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I haven't gotten to shoot for myself lately. Between work, yoga, and photography jobs, I haven't had the change to just pick up my camera and shoot around. I happened to have my camera on me while I was walking home today and I saw these beautiful, frosty blue berries out of the corner of my eye. Usually I don't shoot landscape / nature shots unless I'm shooting wedding details. But this felt so good to just shoot.
This color palette made me very, very happy.
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