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Orlando City kicks off, closes 2020 season at home
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Orlando City will kick off and close new coach Óscar Pareja's debut season at home in Exploria Stadium.
Lengthy road trips that included midweek games and playing in the peak heat and humidity regularly have thwarted Orlando City's momentum in the past, but the Lions will have fewer of those headaches in 2020.
From late May through mid-August, Orlando City is not scheduled to play any daytime games.
Orlando City's midweek games either feature two home games during the sets or two contests relatively close together, cutting down on grueling cross-country trips during busy weeks.
The schedule is not without challenges and does not include any non-MLS tournaments such as the U.S. Open Cup.
Orlando City kicks off the season at home against Real Salt Lake on Feb. 29 at 6 p.m., then plays three of its next four matches on the road: at Colorado March 7, at LA Galaxy March 22 and at New York Red Bulls March 28.
If Orlando City is in the playoff hunt, a compressed swing in August could be a big hurdle. The Lions host D.C. United Aug. 15, visit expansion side Inter Miami CF on Aug. 20 and visit Atlanta United on Aug. 23.
The Lions will host both Atlanta United (April 26) and Inter Miami CF (July 10), playing the rival clubs twice during the 2020 season.
Orlando City will be featured on six nationally broadcast matches, with the rest airing on Fox 35 Plus (WRBW-Channel 65).
The Lions are offering season ticket packages for its 17 home games that start at less than $17 per match. The club is also selling a holiday gift pack that offers fans a chance to buy tickets to the Orlando City, Orlando Pride and OCB season openers along with two coffee mugs. For more information, visit OrlandoCitySC.com or call 855-ORL-CITY.
Orlando City 2020 Schedule
Sat., Feb. 29: Real Salt Lake, 6 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., March 7: at Colorado Rapids, 9 p.m., Fox 35 Pus
Sat., March 14: Chicago Fire, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sun., March 22: at LA Galaxy, 6 p.m., UniMas
Sat., March 28: at New York Red Bulls, 1 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., April 4: Montreal Impact, 3 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., April 11: at Columbus Crew, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., April 18: FC Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sun., April 26: Atlanta United, 1 p.m., ESPN
Sat., May 2: at Montreal Impact, 1 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Wed., May 6: Houston Dynamo, 7 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., May 9: Minnesota United, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., May 16: at D.C. United, 7 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., May 23: Columbus Crew, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., May 30: Portland Timbers, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., June 6: at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., June 13: New York Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., June 20: at New England Revolution, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., June 27: at Chicago Fire, 8 p.m., UniMas
Wed., July 1: at New York City FC, 7 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., July 4: Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Fri., July 10: Inter Miami CF, 8 p.m., ESPN
Sat., July 18: at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., July 25: Philadelphia Union, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Aug. 1: at FC Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Aug. 8: at Vancouver Whitecaps, 10 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Aug. 15: D.C. United, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Thur., Aug. 20: at Inter Miami CF, 7:30 p.m., UniMas
Sun., Aug. 23: at Atlanta United, 2:30 p.m., Fox
Sat., Aug. 29: at Philadelphia Union, TBD, Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Sept. 12: Nashville SC, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Sept. 19: NYCFC, 7:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sat., Sept. 26: at Toronto FC, 7 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
Sun., Oct. 4: New England Revolution, 4:30 p.m., Fox 35 Plus
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DEAD AND DISTURBED | Local landmarks are hotspots for paranormal activity
Oct 24, 2018 | Cover Story, Dane Edmondson, Feature, News, Santa Paula, Ventura | 0 |
October is, for me, a month filled with nostalgia. My mom and I would plot out our Halloween costumes while my pops dusted off the VHS collection of campy, film-noir slasher flicks. It was a celebration that seemed to last weeks, leading up to that infamous "night of the living high-fructose corn syrup," and kicked off the holiday season.
Yet these warm and fuzzy customs are but a few of the associations surrounding All Hallow's Eve. Some are of a more macabre, supernatural or paranormal nature. And for individuals who seek communication with another realm, there are several hotspots in Ventura County that are advantageous to such endeavors.
The Ventura Theater has at least two ghosts that spook people who visit the theater.
Ornate theaters are part of the cultural fabric of America, weaving together the earliest forms of entertainment to create a tapestry that depicts the history and creativity of our country. The Majestic Ventura Theater in Downtown Ventura was, and continues to be, one such champion of the arts. Its inception dates back to 1928, and the grandiose theater played host to a plethora of talent. Some of these performers enjoyed themselves so immensely that they decided to stay . . . forever.
During its heyday, the Majestic was frequented by countless visitors. Routine maintenance was necessary to keep the establishment up to par, and the person to whom this responsibility frequently fell was a man named Chester. He was a skilled handyman, capable of making any and all repairs, and one of his recurring tasks was the upkeep of the lavish chandelier that, to this day, hangs from the 30-foot ceiling above what is now the soundboard. One day, Chester set up the enormous ladder to climb toward the ceiling. As he was working, he lost his balance and slipped off the ladder, tragically tumbling to his death. Though void of his physical form, Chester still feels his work is left undone. My tour guide, Stefan Brigati, himself a paranormal investigator, elaborates on the lingering spirit of Chester as we embark on our adventure.
"A lot of the activity that comes from him [Chester] affects the maintenance staff, the ones trying to do their jobs. The vacuum cord has been pulled out of the wall. Cleaning the restroom only to go back in and find it's dirty again, and that there's foot steps on the floor," Brigati said. "Where he fell, our sound guys have been affected. We even had a show where our head sound guy came outside saying that while he was doing the engineering, he was suddenly being lifted off the ground. Then it proceeded to happen so much that he was casual about it."
Another common apparition floating about the Majestic is that of a young girl, Annabelle. She was supposedly attending a prom at the theater, and happened to be on the stage when a colored glass pane serving as a prop came falling down, beheading her. She is frequently seen dancing across the stage or in the upstairs lobby, often in front of a particular mirror. Annabelle is said to have a sweet and airy demeanor, and sometimes assists staff by keeping a watchful eye on the theater.
"She is actually one of the friendliest spirits we have at the Majestic; she's even been known to help out with security," claimed Brigati. "A long time ago, when we took over the theater, we had some staff staying upstairs during renovations. So one night they go to bed and turn off the lights. Well, that's when some kids [tried] to break in the back door. One of the workers suddenly gets woken up by a woman's voice, and then runs downstairs to chase the kids away. The next morning he called [manager] Loanne [Wullaert] and was asking where she went after waking him up. She told him that she'd been home all night . . . It was Annabelle."
There are numerous accounts of spirits frequenting the Majestic's nooks and crannies. From a thin and shadowy figure in the men's bathroom on the balcony to men in zoot suits smoking cigarettes in the side wall stairway, the theater entertains many permeant occupants. During my tour, the old projector room seemed to run colder than any other area, which Brigati explained was due to the "mad projector."
"One night after a show, we were hanging out with a guy who was a big nonbeliever in the paranormal, and so we asked if he'd be OK with being locked in the projector room for 15 minutes," Brigati recalled. "And he was saying, 'I'm not afraid, I'll go do it now.' So he goes in there and we head down to the stage. . . . Not even five minutes later, he's got his head out of the projector hole, yelling, 'What's going on? Who just touched me?' So we went up to get him and he immediately left the theater and never came back."
Brigati and I proceeded to the balcony, where we found four aisle chairs with the seats inexplicably folded down. In addition, the aisle lights at the base of each seat were flickering on and off. It was an encounter that I felt could be explained by paranormal forces. They seem to be easy to find at the Majestic Theater, waiting eternally for the next performance.
MONSTER-IN-LAW
At least one apparition remains from the days when Ventura City Hall was a courthouse.
Long before the infamous O.J. Simpson murder case dominated the airwaves, a previous "trial of the century" took place in Downtown Ventura . . . and its "star" seems to still pine for the spotlight, many years after shuffling off this mortal coil.
Elizabeth Ann "Ma" Duncan was a dangerous character. She was also the final woman to be executed in the state of California. Born around 1904, her early days were marked by a nomadic existence. She was supposedly married and divorced several times, in may have run a brothel at one point. Impulsive and reactive by nature, she built a reputation as a wicked woman, and one who should not be crossed.
None knew this better than Olga Duncan, Ma's onetime caregiver who became the wife of Ma's son, Frank. According to the rumor mill, Ma had an uncomfortably close relationship with Frank (inviting comparison to a certain fictional motel owner). Wishing to retain her son's affection exclusively for herself, she plotted against Frank and Olga's union from the onset. She made transparent threats and even hired a man to imitate Frank for the purpose of annulling the marriage. It was a true example of a monster-in-law, and it eventually came to a frightful crescendo.
Ma hired a pair of local thugs to murder Olga, along with her unborn child. When authorities found Olga's body along the Casitas Pass, they determined that she had been beaten, strangled and possibly buried alive. (Dirt was found in her lungs.) When the hired hitmen were later identified and apprehended, they promptly flipped on Ma. She was incarcerated for a time at the Ventura City Hall jail before being sent to San Quentin State Prison, where she would eventually be executed in the gas chamber.
Richard Senate is a paranormal investigator and all-around historical authority on Ventura. He has spent many studious hours at local haunted spots and serves as a spirit tour guide for those brave enough to follow along. One of his ghost tours includes Ventura City Hall, with its hallways haunted by the eternally restless Ma.
"She [Ma] was considered evil. I talked to old timers who were at the trial, and it was like the O.J. Simpson trial. The whole nation was following it. And the courtroom was packed with reporters from all the major papers, even London and New Zealand," Senate said. "Every day there was a new salacious event happening, and it was creating headline, whether it was the rumors of her having an incestuous relationship with her son or talking about crazy things, like killing people and boiling their bodies in acid. She was cuckoo."
Many people have since reported seeing her image in various locations.
Ma's apparition, however, is not the only one circulating the former halls of justice.
There are rumors of a judge who still oversees his courtroom, albeit from an alternate plane. As the story goes, the elderly judge was presiding over a trial and a recess was requested. It would be the last time he would leave the bench: He was found dead of a heart attack in his chambers. Some claim that he wanders the halls, still in his robe and potentially looking to bring villains to justice.
Glen Tavern Inn remains an active haunted attraction from its wilder days as a speakeasy and brothel during Prohibition.
Driving past the sleepy town of Santa Paula, one can imagine this settlement to be nothing other than a pit stop between the coast and Los Angeles, a tiny appendage stemming from a road used by truckers and travelers avoiding the dreaded 405. But rewind the clock more than a century and this small town tells a much different story, that of affluence and high society. Once considered one of the wealthiest towns in California per capita, Santa Paula was a major hub of the agriculture and oil industries, and home to the Union Oil Company. Several magnate-status families ran the roost, and often entertained East Coast blue-blood visitors who arrived after a weary cross-country steam train journey. These influential families decided Santa Paula was in need of luxurious lodging, and thus was the Glen Tavern Inn conceptualized and constructed.
Designed by famed architect firm Burns and Hunt and within walking distance of the train depot, the opulent Glen Tavern Inn swiftly became a backdrop for Gatsby-esque soirées. As the landscape of industrial America began to shift, some prominent families relocated, and the social and economic atmosphere of Santa Paula (like much of the U.S.) began to morph toward more hedonistic appetites during Prohibition.
As America became dry, the Glen Tavern Inn was happy to indulge customers looking to sate their lust for newly taboo vices. The third floor was rumored to be a covert speakeasy and brothel, where the Inn played host to a multitude of surly characters, from gamblers to prostitutes and even Hollywood stars escaping Tinseltown for the weekend. The "proprietor" of this veiled club was said to be a violent individual who took it upon himself to play judge, jury and executioner when it came to matters related to the establishment.
One storied occurrence involved a slick-handed gambler named Calvin (or Wilbur) who found himself on the wrong end of a pistol after a heated exchange over perceived cheating. According to legend, he was shot dead through his cowboy hat, and Calvin has since been seen and heard on many occasions by both guests and staff.
His murder took place in the infamous room 307, which is said to host the most paranormal activity. This may also be due to the gruesome murder of a woman who, according to reports, was either a prostitute or mistress. Her body was found beheaded in the closet, quite possibly for overhearing some words that she shouldn't have. Few concrete details are known of this heinous act, but the victim's restless soul apparently remains to this day, perhaps looking for retribution. Many guests (including the Majestic's Brigati during an anniversary getaway) have had encounters or reported difficulty sleeping or a general sense of anxiety when occupying the room. Staff members have even refused to enter it alone.
Employee Delfina Johnson has personally had a spine-tingling encounter, and lived to tell the tale: "There was no one staying on the third floor, and I was cleaning room 305, and I see somebody pass behind me. But I didn't pay it much attention because I thought it was just a guest. So I keep cleaning and bring a pile of laundry to the door when I see a lady walk down the hall toward room 307. She was a tall girl, with long blonde hair and an old dress, like from the 1930s. But she didn't have any shoes, and she was moving like she was maybe drunk. So I called downstairs and asked if anyone had checked in to the third floor, and they said no. So I go back in to the room to get the rest of the laundry, when I see the lady walk by the doorway again. This time she seemed to float and move really slow. I dropped all of the laundry and my supplies and ran downstairs."
Manager Dustin Aremburg has endured his own unexplainable occurrence. One day he was assisting some guests with a holiday photo shoot. Opting for the fireplace as a backdrop, Aremburg raised the guest's camera and instantly noticed a curious sight in the view screen.
"I took a picture of a mother and daughter sitting over by the lobby fireplace, and in both the pictures you can see this orb that's very intricate," he said. "And you see it close to the ladies in the first picture, then in the second picture it moved higher up, which I thought was strange. So then we went over by the Christmas tree and as I'm focusing the digital camera, I realize that, in the screen, there's this mist that's all around them, which wasn't visible except when the camera was pointed at the ladies. Then I took a picture and there was nothing there at all."
There have been several reports of guests attempting to enter a room, only to find that it has been locked from the inside.
"We've had people on the third floor, in room 301, where the door was dead-bolted from the inside and the master set of keys didn't open it," Aremburg explained. "So they [maintenance staff] had to actually use a ladder and go through the the window. This was happening more often about 10 years ago, when the new owners bought the place and began renovation. There was a lot of activity then."
I even have my own unsettling Glen Tavern Inn story. When I first moved to Ventura County, I paid a visit to the California Oil Museum. Afterward, I randomly passed by the Glen Tavern Inn, and was immediately drawn to its English Tudor architecture. I entered the ornately designed lobby and asked the man at the front desk if I could explore a bit. He obliged and I started my tour. On the third floor I immediately felt unsettled, as it was lit by a single red exit sign at the end of the horror-movie-like hallway — the kind that seems to warp and expand. I was very uncomfortable. I returned to the lobby and mentioned my experience to the employee. That was when I first learned about the dark history of the hotel.
The Inn is by far the most responsive supernatural environment I've experienced — and I have been in many a haunted hotel or graveyard. It has become a regular stop for paranormal investigators, celebrity and hobbyists alike, and it's a decent first-date spot for those seeking an adventure that's out of the ordinary or, should I say, to die for.
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Another Day in the Life
(Sunset in Phu Quoc Island)
Once again, time has managed to slip away. It's been a whirlwind since returning from the states. David flew back to Australia for a backcountry ski trip (followed by another month of surfing in Sri Lanka)…and I ventured to Nha Trang to participate in an Avian Influenza/Emerging Pandemic Threats workshop.
(Nha Trang Conference @ Sheraton)
There's an increasing emphasis on monitoring diseases of animal origin that pose a risk to humans – including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), H5N1 avian influenza, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The speed with which these diseases can emerge and spread presents serious public health, economic and development concerns.
(Fishing Town in Nha Trang)
(Fisherman)
Interestingly, I just saw a preview for the movie, Contagion. Despite its Hollywood dramatization, I'll gladly welcome any forum that can help inform the general population of real-life threats that globalization poses on health and to highlight challenges (i.e., political, infrastructure, resources, human capacity, etc.) that public health professionals face when detecting and responding to epidemics.
(Nha Trang)
(Beaches in Nha Trang)
As such, this workshop predominantly focused on the need to strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems across animal and human health sectors to detect dangerous pathogens at an early stage, to build regional, national, and local response capacity, to increase laboratory capacity to support surveillance, and to educate at-risk populations on how to prevent exposure to pathogens.
I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed attending a conference outside the realm of HIV/AIDS. I think I was able to bring a fresh perspective to the table, building on PEPFAR experiences and applying lessons learned to Avian Influenza. I feel truly blessed to be in this field.
(Night Photography @ Hoan Kiem Lake)
(Rooftops of Hanoi)
Alas, I'm back in the world of HIV/AIDS in the midst of our busiest time of year – COP! For those of you not familiar with PEPFAR lingo, COP stands for our Country Operational Plan – an industry unto itself…with a whole team of persons responsible for writing COP Guidance, COP Technical Considerations, and COP Appendices – hundreds of pages of pleasurable reading.
(Lotus Ponds)
(Lotus Leaf Shade)
In this climate of declining resources, PEPFAR wasn't spared from the butcher's block. Vietnam took a serious blow to its budget, making this COP process even more contentious.
(Moon Bear Rescue)
PEPFAR, comprised of USAID, CDC, SAMHSA, DOD and State Department (Peace Corps is also included, but Vietnam does not have PC Volunteers), is attempting to view this as an opportunity to re-evaluate our portfolio; to become more strategic and streamlined in our response to HIV/AIDS; and to move towards a technical assistance model where the government of Vietnam takes on more ownership of the HIV/AIDS program.
(Jamey and Jackson)
The process itself is tedious and slow, but hopefully rewarding at the end of the day. Needless to say, work has been rather stressful – but I'm also making the most of the weekends.
(Bear Sanctuary)
A few weeks ago, several of us went to Tam Dao National Park to visit Moon Bear Rescue. This experience not only educated me on the cruel, torturous and inhumane bear bile industry, but also touched my heart.
(Tam Dao National Park)
To quote from Animal Asia's website, "Bear bile is a prized ingredient of Traditional Medicine with a 3,000-year history of usage. The bile liquid within bear gall bladders is classed as a "bitter, cold" medicine with the function of expelling heat in the body. It is used to treat heat-related illnesses such as high temperatures, liver complaints and sore eyes. Bear bile medicines are used in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and countries across the world with significant Asian populations.
(Asiatic Bears)
(Notice the paw that's missing…caught in a trap)
The active ingredient in bear bile, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), is more abundant in bears than in any other animal. However, Chinese medical practitioners stress that all bear bile products can be easily replaced by herbal or synthetic alternatives, which are cheaper, more readily available and just as effective.
(Learn more about Moon Bears and how you can help!)
According to official statistics, there were about 4,000 farmed bears in Vietnam in 2008 (90% of whom were moon bears) with another 600 captive bears used for display purposes.
(Indian Culture Night)
Unlike in China, where bears are "tapped" for their bile, bears in Vietnam are subjected to a variety of other cruel procedures. All are caged and some undergo crude surgery to remove bile from their gall bladders every three months. This leaves agonizing, infected wounds and often leads to death after three or four such operations.
(Cruising on our private boat in Phu Quoc)
(Amy and Margie)
Today, the bears usually have their gall bladders punctured with long needles, which then "siphon" off the bile via a pump into a glass bottle. Continuous puncturing of the gall bladder often leads to bile leakage and a slow and painful death from peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum – the membrane that lines the wall of the abdomen and covers the abdominal organs)."
(Friends in Phu Quoc)
I'm continuously mortified by man's cruelty to animals (and to other humans). And it's extremely evident in this part of the world, where there is a lack of appreciation for the environment.
(Sundowners at Mango Bay)
(Beautiful beaches)
Although, I'm thrilled to say that there are some concerned people in Vietnam doing their part to promote conservation.
(Hiking to the waterfall)
A group of friends just flew to Phu Quoc Island to stay at an eco-lodge, Mango Bay Resort. I absolutely loved its relaxing atmosphere; its rustic bungalows nestled in the forest with scenic views of the ocean; and its gorgeous grounds and gardens.
(Amy and Roger on Phu Quoc)
(Boats on the beach)
(More boats)
I even went running in the mornings along desolate country roads, with the occasional motorbike riding past. I kept thinking, 'where am I?' I literally felt as though I had traveled to another country altogether!
(Paul, Ann and Amy)
We spent four days and three nights chilling on the beach, exploring the island, snorkeling in the sea, touring the fish sauce factory, and even shopping for pearls. My only complaint is that time went by too quickly, and that I'm already back in the hustle and bustle of Hanoi.
(Fish Sauce Factory)
(Oh, that smell…)
Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of 9/11. As in years past, I would like to take a moment to remember my dear friend, Berry, who was on the first plane that struck the World Trade Center. I still love and miss her and think of her often! I find it hard to believe that ten years has gone by…as I reflect on the years, it saddens me even more to think that so many lives have been lost in vain. I don't think we, as a nation, are safer than we were ten years ago.
(Setting lizards free…)
(Roman and Kyle)
(Margie and Chris)
(Ann and Michael)
Two wars are still on-going, Iraq and Afghanistan, with no sign of an end. The Middle East is going through tumultuous times. Terrorist threats are still ubiquitous; politics are even more contentious and divided; and the world's economy seems to be waning. Truly a sad state of affairs…
(Berry and Coot)
I'm in the process of renewing my contract another year. Unfortunately, because I'm renewing for only one year (as opposed to two), I am no longer eligible for home leave. As such, I won't be returning to the states over Christmas.
(Berry Perkins)
My doors are always open to anyone who wants to come to Vietnam! We would love to have you.
Much love to all,
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On behalf of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz posted in Car & Truck Accidents on Monday, October 10, 2011.
One Harris County woman has found herself in trouble once again after colliding with a parked car. It is the second time she has been involved in a drunk driving accident; fortunately, this time no one was injured. The first accident, three years ago, resulted in the death of an innocent child.
On August 16, 2008, around one in the morning, a maroon Ford Explorer was seen weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds on Will Clayton Parkway in Houston. Moments later, the out-of-control SUV rocketed off the side of the road and hit a tree, straight on. The passenger in the front seat of the SUV was rushed to the hospital, where she died shortly afterward. She was four years old.
Law enforcement officials later determined that the four-year-old girl had not been in a child safety seat at the time of the crash. They believed that she had been wearing the lap portion of the adult safety belt.
The driver of the SUV was also transported to the hospital to be treated for her injuries. Police discovered that the 22-year-old woman had a blood-alcohol content (BAC) level of .24, which is three times the legal limit in Texas. The four-year-old passenger was her daughter.
The 22 year old pleaded guilty to intoxicated manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years of probation. The terms of her probation required that she did not drink alcohol.
Her suspended license was reinstated about a month ago. This past Wednesday night she was arrested for drunk driving once again after he backed her car into a parked car. Given her previous fatal accident and current probation status, she has been charged with felony DWI and is currently being held without bail.
Source: Houston Chronicle, "Mom convicted in DWI killing girl faces more alcohol charges," 10/7/11.


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Abstract: Quality-of-life measures have been expanded to help in assessing the physical and psychosocial effects of oral health. Although, in the case of children undergoing oral surgery, the oro-facial status is generally measured by studies, it is essential to carry out investigations into the level of quality of life (QoL) after surgery to assess the actual effect of these surgeries on children's lives. Hence, our study is aimed at evaluating the QoL in these children. The study was performed using qualitative content analysis method. Eighteen caregivers of 4–6 year old children with a history of unilateral cleft lip and palate participated in in-depth interviews about the children's experiences with different problems affecting their daily lives. The results were divided into codes, sub-categories and categories through an inductive process in which the researchers moved from the specific to the general. A number of problems were identified, particularly insufficient functional and socio-emotional well-being including, difficulty in eating and speaking, dento-facial problems, shame, anxiety, insufficient peer interaction and dissatisfaction with their own appearance. The most critical problems derived from the participants' experiences were insufficient functional and socio-emotional well-being that contributed to the reduced QoL among these children. Long term multidisciplinary interventional strategies such as psycho-social supportive programs are required to improve the QoL of these children. These interventions should be considered from the early stages of treatment, or even early stages of diagnosis.


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Атанас Николов Дачев е български революционер, войвода на Вътрешната македоно-одринска революционна организация.

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Дачев е роден през 1883 година в Сливен. Завършва училище в родния си град и през 1902 година става член на ВМОРО, като полага клетва пред Кръстю Асенов. Четник е в неговата чета, действаща в Ениджевардарско и Кукушко. По време на Илинденско-Преображенското въстание е във въстаническата болница в село Църварица, Кюстендилско.

В периода 1904-1905 година е четник при тиквешкия околийски войвода Петър Самарджиев. След смъртта на Самарджиев през 1906 година остава в Тиквешко и през 1907 е определен за тиквешки войвода. След Хуриета през юли 1908 година участва като войвода на чета в похода на младотурците срещу Цариград през 1909 година заедно с четите на Яне Сандански и Христо Чернопеев.

След възстановяване дейността на ВМОРО в края на 1909 година отново е войвода на чета. През 1910 година е войвода във Воденско, а през 1911 – в Гевгелийско. Участва в Балканската и Междусъюзническата война 1912-1913 г.

След войните се оттегля от активна дейност. Установява се да живее в родния си град, където умира 29 юни 1973 година.

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Български революционери от Тракия
Дейци на ВМОРО
Родени в Сливен
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Български военни дейци от Балканските войни
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Our passage contains the dreadful consequence of a "party spirit" (politics) operating in the churches of God. Ignoring this passage has brought many Christians, relationships, ministries, and moves of God, to an abrupt and pitiful end over the last 2000 years. It is impossible to overstate how dangerous a "party spirit" or politics are to God's people. This is why Jesus commanded the disciples not to organize their ministry into a Gentile power structure in Matthew 20:25-26, Mark 10:42-43, and Luke 22:25-26. Multitudes cry to Heaven "Lord, Lord" and then go right out and disobey these clear verses. Simply put, Jesus warned us not to set up a corporate type hierarchy (pecking order, ranking, chain of command) in the churches.
Despite this clear command being repeated in all the synoptic Gospels, churches and organizations are typically set up like a corporation. In a corporate hierarchy, we might say that "Pete is about six levels below the CEO;" however, this is not the way churches and Christian organizations are to be established. It is nothing more than Israel crying for a king rather than allowing God to rule over them. As with Israel, so too with the churches, this Gentile, worldly, Egyptian, or whatever adjective we want to employ, "power structure" has grave consequences.
Any place that you find a ranking system, you have sin being committed. Disobeying God in Matthew 20:25-26, Mark 10:42-43, and Luke 22:25-26 is no different than any place else. Moreover, ranking systems breed sin and offenses. They can do no other. Why? Because when there is a political element involved, people don't feel obligated to treat their brother or sister in Christ as they would want to be treated. They generally lose their minds and forget they are supposed to be Christians.
In the Old Testament, when the people were really off track, God would use the prophets to bring a strong message of correction. Nobody "votes in" a prophet, so God has to raise one up to confront the people. They often employed radical language or tactics to accomplish the job. Similarly, Paul used a morbid statement to the Galatians, But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! What happens? When someone bites, the natural response is to bite back. This process continues until all parties involved are consumed (destroyed). What begins as behavior becoming toddlers — erupts into a savage warfare between people acting like wild animals. The renowned Greek scholar A.T. Robertson, in commenting on these verses, tells the sobering story of two snakes who each swallowed the other by the tail.
If there is one thing that most parents of toddlers detest — it is biting. The fastest way to receive a spanking when I was a child was to bite somebody. Emotions would run so high that some parents would say to the victim, "Just bite him back! Show him how it feels." It would not be unusual for parents to come to blows nearly when they looked at their child's arm and there was a bite mark. "Why did he bite you?!" The parent asks. "Because I was playing with his toy." Then the parents get into an argument. One backs their child's right to territory, and the other wants an apology for biting. In modern times, I suspect parents are more civilized than this, but I'm not holding my breath.
Toddlers are not the only people who "bite" when they don't get their way. Adults do it too. This is what Paul said, But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! (Galatians 5:15) This is much more serious and destructive than the behavior of toddlers. It is more serious because toddlers are supposed to be selfish; that is to say, they have to be taught to be friendly and loving. Christian adults should know better. It is more destructive because there is so much more at stake. When a toddler bites and is then bitten back, both have bite marks. Each tells how the other bit them. The same holds true with adults. Of course, we are not speaking of literal teeth marks; we are dealing with malicious actions against one another.
When adults grow up in carnality they don't fight over toys, they fight over territory. They fight over positions at work or at church. Most of the time the parties fight each other until neither of them have a reputation left. In fact, people will even sabotage one another in hopes they can "get their job." This is part of what is often called, "office politics." Whole books have been written about the subject. What happens? Life becomes a perpetual replay of age 2-20. Everything we had to endure from pre-school to High School becomes our daily lot. Boys fist-fighting in the halls; girls quarreling and fussing. I realize the fists are not usually literal in adulthood, but the attitude back of those behaviors is just as real. The stress on daily life for some becomes almost unbearable.
These things ought not so to be in the churches of God; but unfortunately they are. There is nothing new under the sun. Nepotism is just as rife in many churches as it is in the world. Ministries become dynasties all the way from the corner church to the largest Christian TV Networks. Father and son feuds develop imitating the madness and hate of family based reality shows like Orange County Choppers. Moreover, politics are often exaggerated in churches. Factions develop that split churches and organizations into two or more opposing camps. Again, usually there is a real spiritual reason for doing it, just like there was a real good reason for the toddler to bite the other one. Really?
Satan was the very first politician. He led a rebellion in Heaven and drew a third of the Stars with him. Then he shows up in the Garden of Eden spouting propaganda to win over the whole human race into his camp. First politician. First liar. Hmmm. See the connection? Satan misrepresented God because he wanted his place on the throne. Nearly all politicians misrepresent their opponent or withhold information about them that would sway the people into liking them. "Make the opponent look bad" is the modus operandi (m.o.). Imagine what happens when a Christian environment becomes "politicized." Who do you think is behind it all? God wants the churches to be a place of heaven on earth. Satan does too. He comes in to use people to do on earth what he had done in Heaven. He divided it by campaigning for God's throne. All the while blinding everyone to what he is doing. What happens? He causes so much strife that every action gets interpreted. Motivations get questioned. A spirit of suspicion prevails.
Most of the time people are just trying to serve God, but sometimes they are not. People know when they are intentionally being divisive. Whereas love puts the best construction on events, politics puts the worst construction on them. Ministers have been known to hire private detectives to bring one another down. It happened in the 80's and early 90's in mainstream evangelicalism. The name of God was blasphemed among the Gentiles. There is no new thing under the sun. Pride has often destroyed the works of God's hands. How is God going to handle those who do such things? It's a sad thing to work in the kingdom for decades only to have those labors destroyed by a bunch of crooked politics.
Pride has been known to completely destroy ministries. Men have turned and fought against the very thing they prayed into existence. In America we have what some have called a "peaceful transfer of power" when new presidents and governors are elected. Harry Truman had the right attitude when it came to leaders leaving their political office. For example, he was asked during the Cuban Missile crisis if he had called the sitting president to offer advice. His answer was compelling, "If the president wants my opinion he will ask for it. And when he does I won't be telling you about it. If the president wants it known he can tell you." This is humility talking. This is a man who was able to "let go" and go home. He wanted the nation to prosper, even though he handed the presidency over to a Republican rival. Understand that Truman is considered to be one of the greatest presidents in American history, and yet was not offended by the fact that he may not have been consulted by the sitting president, even in a crisis. Is this the attitude of politics in ministry? Not generally. If you don't keep everyone feeling important, they are liable to start biting and devouring. Is there any wonder Jesus commanded the churches not to set up in a worldly construct? Politics has no place in the Kingdom of God; it is the outworking of democracy, not kingdom.
What's the use of so much prayer, when politics are destroying our prayers? Why fast? Everything in the kingdom of God is put at risk where politics are involved. How can we have a revival if people are jockeying for the credit and glory for what transpires? I have seen revivals destroyed because of rivalry. What happens? Christians are disillusioned and near to giving up because of the politics that go in behind the scenes. This is where repentance has to begin. Not in the pew; not with the drug addict; not with the sinners around the world. We cannot go forward until men and women lay down their ambitions and all that is involved in them. There must be a humble repentance of the secular approach to ministry that prevails in our times. There must be a wholesale repentance of lovelessness and hate wherever it exists among leaders in the churches of God.


Today, there is a pressing need for a new, more comprehensive and relevant perception of human economy as a whole in order to understand the prerequisites for sustainable livelihood for the whole of the humanity and to be able to create a lifestyle which could provide a dignified quality of life for all people, with due respect to the ecological boundaries of the biosphere.
The new perspective is also needed as the counterforce in the hands of people against the overriding market globalization, which is intimidating the democratic power, i.e. the traditional channels of people to influence in their society and economy. We are seeking the people's power to control the market and to have their economy in their own hands.
The concept of human economy is used in this paper to signify all work, production, actions and transactions needed to provide for the livelihood, welfare and survival of people and families, irrespective of whether they appear in statistics or are counted in monetary terms.
Here we see the human economy as composed of three major, distinct components, which are the household economy and the cultivation economy in addition to the industrial economy. In fact, households and cultivation have always existed, long before money and industry were ever invented, but they are still invisible in the eyes of mainstream neoliberal economists.
- the cultivation economy, i.e. the production based on the living potential of nature, which is the interface between economy and ecology, human culture facing the ecological laws.
Both of these economies are very basic from the point of view of a sustainable way of living, and thus for human survival and people's ability to control their own lives.
A particular feature of the households is the extent and significance of nonmarket work of people without pay for direct production of human welfare, and thus as an essential contribution to satisfy the basic needs. A particularity of the cultivation economy is its profoundly unique nature by being based on potential of living nature. As we know, the human abilities cannot control and direct the elements of nature; therefore the humanity should be wise enough for taking the terms of nature seriously into consideration.
Households, Cultivation and Industry and trade are the basic pillars of the human economy. Each one of these components has different foundations and terms of operations. This has to be taken into consideration in the agency of human economy in order to achieve sustainable exchange and collaboration between all three.
In founding of economics the processes in cultivation and unpaid work and production in the households have both been left out of the realm of economic science. Therefore it is obvious that this kind of economics is only a narrow part of human economy as a whole. However, during these couple of hundred years this narrow philosophy of economics has become the only theory and language of economists, by way of which the value of production and work, exchange and spending is assessed and measured.
Figure 2. illustrates the great and essential differences between Cultivation economy and Industrial economy. The industrial economy can also be called Extraction economy, since it is based on dead elements extracted from the soil; stone, minerals and fossil fuels. It also deal only with dead transaction like trade, traffic, currencies and accounts and its value is measured by money, which is a nonmaterial fiction.
In human history after the transition from the gathering economy to the cultivation economy the extended farming family has been the basic unit of livelihood for long periods. Along the time the people's skills and means developed to enable qualitatively better satisfaction of their basic needs. This kind of "a house-hold" (note: holding the house/farm) was fairly independent and self-reliant economic unit at the modest level. The livelihood was based on the quality and accessibility of natural resources and skills and assiduity of the people living together.
During the course of centuries various kinds of production and trade, independent artisania, exchange of goods and services, public institutions and administration were emerging around the farming families. The public society and economy was in the making. A means of exchange came into the picture, and people started to buy and sell goods and services.
When the basic functions for livelihood are performed within families, they cost a lot of time and work, but when externalized into the public sphere, they will cost money. In this process many of the traditional vital functions were substituted with commercial ones. Thus they became dispensable and therefore the status of women as providers was declining.
A major part of economic growth in the past centuries has consisted of the functions being transferred from the private family to the public one, from the non-monetary economy to the monetary one and thus been made visible and counted. This way the life and production also has become monetized and commercialized.
From women's point of view this discussion is very important. The non-monetary economy even in the industrializing countries has until lately been primarily a female economy. Its invisibility is a supreme manifestation of women's invisibility in the society at large. Today the family economy is still primarily in the hands of women even in its monetized form, the consumption of marketed goods and services, since the purchasing decisions are made primarily by women.
In the emergence of the public, monetarized economy, production, politics, culture and organization outside the private family, all this was designed, planned and built up exclusively by men, who possessed neither the particular gifts nor the experience of women acquired over centuries in the management of the private family and nurturing its members.
that the long-term imbalance between male and female rate of influence in planning and conduct of modern industrial societies is the virtual source of most of social, economic, human and international problems which we face today.
In Finland the time-use surveys on unpaid housework has been made very thoroughly in 1980, 1990 and the latest in 2001. The time spent in unpaid labour in average Finnish families is presented in Figure 1. The share of women has been about 60 % of the total in 1990 and 2001.
The distribution of unpaid work between men and women varies a lot between the families as well as between the countries. But statistically there is hardly any change taken place between 1990 and 2001.
In these studies in Finland all the unpaid work in the households is counted, i.e. the work of women and men, boys and girls. The interesting point is that the time used in the non-market work in the households has not much decreased, although one might assume that the purchasing of services and goods from the market would have increased along the years.
The monetary value of unpaid work has also been calculated and the measuring rod has been either the average wages in the labour market for all employees or the current salary of municipal home helpers. They give somewhat different figures, but the first one is more relevant, since the housework requires several skills and competences. When compared with the GNP of same years the proportions in Finland are in Table 2 and they correspond well with the average of international statistics. (Varjonen – Aalto, 2006).
The percentages given imply that the amount of unpaid labour in the households would be the highest single contribution into the GNP if it were counted. In comparison with the state budgets the value of unpaid work is usually about two times the sum total of the same year's state budget.
The UNDP/Human Development Report 1995 gives even a global estimate of the amount of women's unpaid labour. "If more human activities were seen as market transactions at the prevailing wages, they would yield gigantically large monetary valuations. A rough order of magnitude comes to a staggering 16 trillion (dollars) - or (if added, it would make a total of) about 70 % more than the officially estimated 23 trillion of global output. Of this 16 trillion, 11 trillion is the non-monetized, invisible contribution of women."
"Of the total burden of work, women carry on average 53 % in developing countries and 51% in industrial countries." Out of the total time of women's work, 1/3 is paid and 2/3 unpaid. For men it is just the reverse, 3/4 of their working time is paid and only 1/4 is unpaid. "If women's unpaid work were properly valued, it is quite possible that women would emerge in most societies as the major breadwinners," concludes the HD report (UNDP, 1995).
"For the last fifty years national income statistics have been widely used for monitoring economic developments, for designing economic and social policies and for evaluating the outcomes of those policies. Had household production been included in the system of macro-economic accounts, governments would have had quite a different picture of economic development and may well have implemented quite different economic and social policies," concludes the OECD researcher Ann Chadeau, who has done extensive work on this issue (1992).
- on one hand it will aim to the total abolition of work and skills in the households, in the private life of people, since all labour and skills are absorbed into the market.
- on the other hand people are supposed to acquire professional competence only in one single field, where they will then earn money enough to buy everything else in life from the market.
The time people spend outside the economic system is reduced to pure unskilled leisure-time. This way the living households would cease to exist, the people will become totally dependent on market and the home remains only as a place to sleep. This would legitimate the continuity of the market forever, render people market slaves and annihilate the human dignity of everybody. This is the ultimate ideology of the market (Cogoy 1995).
If market forces are allowed to pursue these aims to the ultimate, it will imply that people will find themselves helpless and powerless pawns in their society, unable neither to command their own life nor to influence their society. The economics has never taken human beings as dignified individuals but only as means of production and consumption, as fuel to keeping the system running.
However, the household is still the area of the economy where people do have power in this world, where they find very few options to influence macro economic issues. The choice to decide how much one would like to produce by her/himself and how much to buy from the market is exactly the leverage of power still in the hands of individuals. It is crucial to everyone's own personal independence and integrity in life, whether she/he keeps this power in her/his own hands or lets it vanish away.
The "ideology" of the households is contrary to the one of the market. The human being and her wellbeing is the point of departure for the household, her dignity and integrity are its basic values. According to the household-ideology all work and production is for people, to serve their needs and aspirations, physical, mental and spiritual.
We saw above that households and women have critical position in the human economy, therefore we can draw the conclusion, that they also could turn the trend. They can change the values and lifestyle in families back to the basics, less consumption of the market goods and services, more emphases on commonality, working together, making family life self-servicing, achieving pleasure and satisfaction by being and doing instead of buying and paying.
every individual is indispensable and dignified member of the family and community, and we are all subjects in our own life, not objects of anonymous market forces.
5. Turning the trap into an asset - the Utopia for good life?
At that time Robert Jungk referred to the unemployed people being more or less permanently without paid jobs. Today we may apply this thought also to the people who have paid job only temporarily or occasionally. These people are in the trap of constant job-seeking and they find themselves forced to accept almost any kind of work on any salary.
However, the thought of Robert Jungk gives some hope that we could – and we should – stop the rat race and turn around the wheel. We should not let the lack of a regular job to render us paralyzed and hopeless. We can realize that this situation will allow us to command more of our time, and the scarce income could become an incentive for us to make more use of our skills, knowledge and experience in our own households. These thoughts could be a hint for finding one's own creativity and initiative. While finding her/his own skills for helping oneself will lead better control of one's own life, too!
How would it feel like, if we make our own plans for our household economy and decide to do more at home in order to decrease our dependence on the money-income and supply of the markets? Then we will realize that the more of necessary goods and services we are able to produce by ourselves, the less we are dependent on the market, both on labour market and the market of goods and services.
Would this become a strategy to use power from below to influence the economy around us, too? This kind of an economic transition will make the household again an asset in the hands of people. A decisive prerequisite for making these changes possible is the multiplicity of practical skills, which we can acquire for instance from elderly relatives, the advisory books or various training lessons and courses – if we have never learned them or forgotten them.
However, we should not allow this change to increase the workload of women in the house again. Therefore it is necessary to equalize the distribution of labour between women and men, girls and boys, at home. Even for the sake of men themselves it would be necessary to design a new division of labour in the house. When men can no longer be the single breadwinners anyway, they could become direct supporters of their families in practice and it will give them a meaningful and rewarding new role in the family. Within the younger families in the Nordic countries we already have good signs of this kind of transition.
The richer the family is in the practical skills of its members, the better chances they have together to decide their relationships- if it were counted. Together with the monetary contribution of households as consumer units these contributions make an enormous "hidden market force" or potential leverage of power in our hands. It is real people's power from below over the neoliberal macro economy globally.
Today the globalized capitalist market forces have become a new "totalitarian super power", which has rendered our democratically elected governments and political institutions fairly powerless. And the more representative democracy is intimidated, the more we need a new kind of people's power from below.
To summarize I would like conclude that as individuals we can reassume our right to decide ourselves, how much of our work, time, skills and know-how we are willing to sell to the labour market and how much goods and services we are willing to buy from the commodity market. This would be the way to regulate our degree of dependence on the market. The pivotal assets are skills and money, but the skills are more important than money.
the industrial and commercial economy should be seen only as auxiliary, serving the needs of families and individuals instead of using them as means of production and consumption.
This turn around of the economy will never be made by the market, nor by our democratic governments any more in today's world. In the globalizing world we have to do it by ourselves, to take the power back in our own hands to command our own lives. For that purpose we have to denounce the values and rules on which the neoliberal economy operates, such as constant economic growth, conspicuous consumption, maximization of profits and competition by everybody against everybody in everything and everywhere.
If we stop obeying the signals of marketing, advertising, fachions of all kinds etc. the expansion of the market will stop. We can stop consuming more than we need. We can start saving instead of consuming - not only money but the climate, natural resources, goods, our time etc.
We can cooperate and serve others instead of competing, Not to believe, obey and go along with the market will be the end of market-slavery and the beginning of our new liberation.
The really powerful choice is to buy or not to buy - to reject all advertising, fashions, marketing and other manipulation and decide independently by ourselves, what we need and what we don't need.
People's power is always acts of individuals, democracy is the power of millions of individuals acting together in the society at large. This will be the democracy in the age of globalized market hegemony. with both the labour and commodity markets. And the richer the village, community or local cooperative is in skilful and multitalented people, the less dependent they are on the goods and services provided by the market. Furthermore, gaining more control on their own economy they will also gain insight to influence the economy of their society.
6. Democracy in the age of globalizing power?
- if it were counted. Together with the monetary contribution of households as consumer units these contributions make an enormous "hidden market force" or potential leverage of power in our hands. It is real people's power from below over the neoliberal macro economy globally.
People's power is always acts of individuals, democracy is the power of millions of individuals acting together in the society at large. This will be the democracy in the age of globalized market hegemony.
Excerpt of a long paper.
- the "global substitute" method, whereby a general housekeeper's wage rate on the market is taken as a substitute value for all unpaid housework, which rests on the assumption that housework does not require any particular qualifications. Therefore also the average wage in the labour market is used within this method.
- the "specialist substitute" (also called "the replacement cost") method, which relates various types of household tasks to the wage levels for the type of work performed by professionals such as cooks, nurses, gardeners etc.
All these ways of measurement are applying the so called input-based method, because they measure the household production through the inputs to the process as the working hours.
- the "output-based evaluation" implies the valuation of the non-market production in terms of the market value of the outputs produced, whereby the products and services produced in the household are assigned a value equivalent to the price of similar market goods and services (such as the meals served in the restaurant, the cleaning performed by a professional firm, etc).
Output-based evaluation method does not require time-use data, but data about the amount of goods and services produced in the households and their values in the market.
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Selling in understandably at the core of every business, which means your Dubai sales team is very much the heart of your company. If they are underachieving on a regular basis there must be a reason for it, and more often than not it stems from a lack of motivation. After all, what do they get for marketing your products far and wide and then making huge sales other than their basic wage packet and maybe a pat on the back once in a while?
Billionaire entrepreneur, Sir Alan Sugar once said, 'Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating' and the last thing you want, or need, is an unhappy, self-defeating sales team.
So how do you motivate your sales team to produce better results on an on-going basis?
You may not think that your small, Dubai-based sales team needs any additional training, but the simple act of showing them new marketing strategies and explaining new technologies to them will result in increased motivation.
Well firstly you're showing your sales team that you have enough confidence in them to bother training them in new methods of selling. Confidence and motivation are very much interlinked, which means if you go to the trouble of showing confidence in your employees they will become motivated to prove your confidence is well placed.
Secondly, any new selling techniques or marketing strategies that you teach them will undoubtedly improve their sales figures, and ultimately your profits.
It doesn't matter whether you are based in Dubai, the UAE or elsewhere in the world, praise for a job well done is incredibly motivational, and especially when it comes from someone who is high up in the management team. Larger companies in particular tend to forget that their sales teams are in fact human, and that they thrive on praise rather than criticism.
Think about it for just one minute…when was the last time you actually said well done to a specific member of your sales team? We don't mean a general 'well done' during a team briefing, we mean a personal 'good job' to a high-achieving member of your team?
All it takes is a bit of motivation to produce a successful sales team.
Everybody likes a bit of competition which is why pitting your sales team against each other (in a friendly, fun way of course) can motivate them to achieve more. Add into the mix a little incentive each month and you have the recipe for a much more productive sales team.
Obviously you don't need to offer things like new cars and holidays as incentives, but small things such as a day off with pay, or a meal out in a nice restaurant is something to aim for in addition to the accolade of being top sales person for the month. Plus, if you change the goal each month e.g. top overall sales one month but top sales to new clients the next month etc. you can manipulate the results to an extent so that everyone in your sales team has the opportunity of 'winning'.
Making continued sales in today's economy is not an easy prospect which is why you need to give your Dubai sales team all the encouragement and praise they need to make it happen. Show faith in them and they will reward you with better results in return, and you might just have a bit of fun along the way.


Come out of busyness into God's rest. This conference welcomes faculty, graduate students, spouses, and families to engage in a wide variety of seminars and workshops in addition to enjoying a generous amount of leisure time. Come and disconnect from the world's chaos, be restored, and meet God in the beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
As university faculty and staff, you contribute to God's kingdom in unique ways. But our experience as Christians in the academy can be a lonely one. Come join us for the West Coast Faculty Conference for the opportunity to connect with colleagues. We will worship, pray, network, explore our vocational calling, and engage in conversations of importance to your life, work, and much more!
As Christians in academia, we often face unique challenges when it comes to integrating our faith with our role in the university. Join me and other university faculty June 27–June 30, 2019, at the Blue Ridge Faculty Conference. Hear from Christian scholars and step away from the busyness of campus life to enjoy the company of colleagues as well as families.
The next Northeast Faculty Conference will not be held until August 2020. In the meantime, we'd love to have you join us for local InterVarsity faculty gatherings and events happening in the Northeast. Learn more about opportunities in 2019 to connect with Christian faculty near you.
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We were fine with this but it was a little uncomfortable as plenty of seating opened shortly after.
No offer to move was ever made despite the other party growing significantly. They were also sitting purses and children on the table while we were eating. We didn't really let it spoil our meal but the experience didn't really make me want to return.
The delivery man was 25 minutes late and was not friendly and delivered the wrong order.
Food was amazing but one item was missing.
Although I love Dennys food and prices I am very disappointed that I haven't received my free build a grand slam for ordering online this month! I ordered online atleast every 2 weeks! I've ordered 3 timesomething this month of the free grand slam campaign and haven't received that offer yet!
Would have 5 stars but I haven't received my free grand slam for my online orders in January!
The kitchen was severely understaffed on Christmas. I had to wait an hour for my to online go order. The server told me that they have no control over when the online order tells me the food will be ready. This seems like a design flaw of the program. It told me 15 minutes. There needs to be more training of the servers to greet people when they arrive. I stood at the register for 8 minutes before anyone asked me if I needed to be seated. All of the servers were standing at the counter and looked at me many times but never helped me until another customer walked up and told me I should go somewhere else because it would be an hour or more before I got food. I would have if I hadn't already paid for my order. During that time, two tables told them to cancel their orders and walked out. They said they had been waiting for an hour for food. The table closest to the register told anyone that walked in that it would be an hour wait for the food. While waiting for my online to go order, I watched a server argue with the table closest to the register because they did not receive 2 items they ordered and she would not remove those items from the ticket. I witnessed when her food came out and she did not receive those items. There did not seem to be a manager on duty to handle all of those angry customers. I felt bad for the employees because the staffing issue was not their fault, but how it was handled was their fault. I think the customers may have behaved better if they were told in advance how backed up the kitchen was. I felt bad for the employees because it was Christmas night and they probably were not getting tips. Customers need to realize that when the kitchen messes up, it's not the servers fault and should not penalize them by giving a low or no tip.
The upland store is great. Clean, consistent, very well staffed. The new menu and prices are very good.


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Does MyEDiary have the capacity to generate a letter or form to a parent?
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Tony Mosman has been at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital since 1976. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1971. At university he paid his way through University by playing bass guitar in a rock and roll band. He started practice in Cowra and West Wyalong and before heading off to a locum in the UK and work as a ski instructor in Austria.
He is a board member of the Guide Dogs Association of NSW/ACT. He is now enjoying Pilates , golf and scuba diving.
Dr Julia graduated in 1979 and arrived at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital in 1984. She has raised a family while working full time and been part of the local community particularly in relation to public education. At present she is a Director of the Australian Veterinary Association .
Her special interests include medicine, soft tissue surgery, exotics and radiology.
She has a 2year old cross Cavalier called "Tippi" who keeps her on her toes . "Tippi" turned up a the practice shortly after" Emelia" , the Burmese died at the age of 19 . "Tad", who was trapped under Sydney Hospital as a 6 week old kitten in 1999 sadly passed away last year.
Chris is a familiar face to many, being the star of the TV series, The Bondi Vet, The Living Room and Im a Celebrity . The He graduated from the University of Sydney in 2001 and started working here a couple of years later.
He travels a lot for his TV shows so is not regularly rostered onhere but he lets us know when he is home and feels like being a genral practice vet again and comes in a does some shifts. We always enjoy having him back.
Ray graduated from the University of Sydney in 2008 and has spent some time working in North-Western Sydney before moving to the eastern suburbs. Ray has a particular interest in soft-tissue surgery and animal welfare.
If Ray isn't at the vet hospital you are likely to find him knocking down pins at a bowling alley nearby.
Ray has an Eclectus Parrot name Horus, who is getting very close to speaking his first words and two Axolotl 's Alfred and Kiera.
Tina has a long history here at Bondi Junction Vet.
Tina first came here as a child with her family pets. As soon as she was old enough she offered up her time doing work experience feeding all the animals. Obviously making a great impression she was offered work as a kennel hand looking after all the animals in boarding and hospital.
By this time she had taken a great interest in animals and decided to enrol at Sydney University to study Veterinary Science. When she wasn't studying she spent her weekends and holidays working as a vet nurse and receptionist.
As a new graduate she was offered a job and has been with us ever since.
She knows the ins and outs of the hospital and from client to vet there isn't anything she hasn't done here.
Now with her three children a bit bigger we should be seeing her here a more often.
Dr Caitlin McQuarrie has been with us for almost a year now and we are so glad to have her as part of the team. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 2016 and brings to the practice enthusiasm and the most up to date knowledge and skills . She is calm and kind and a great communicator and is a ballroom dancer in her spare time.
Dr Catherine has spent the large part of her veterianry career in northern India and Bhutan. She is presently home in Australia finisheing a PHD in traditional Tibetan veterinarymedicine. We are delighted to have her working with us mostly on weekends whilst she finishes this task.
Her compassionate and caring philosophy leads her to her special interest in geriatric medicine, palliative care, acupuncture and other integrated therapies. We admire her ability to think outside the box in caring for older pets.


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Forget about unreproducible research — you could be falling under the spell of common sense dressed up as brain science.
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Came to NZ as skilled migrants on work to residency visa. We had spent 1 month on the South Island and 1 month on the North Island to do our research. We wanted to live in New Zealand permanently because we could spend more time outdoors and because we believed that the level of education was good.
Had to accept jobs well below our level of work to make it 'fit' with the skill category, which is a story in itself. We are white Europeans, fluent in English (because we have lived overseas for the last decade) so we did not experience a lot of racism or anything. What we did experience was jealousy. Lots of it. We found jobs which were considered 'top' jobs in New Zealand, and we still felt that we had gone back some 15 years in our career: work place conditions and management concepts are so archaic that it isn't funny anymore. The level of education is terribly low; we had no choice but to transfer one of our kids to a private school. Way too expensive of course, even though we could afford it. Houses are of a ridiculously low quality, landlords use their short term thinking skills only and think they can fix everything themselves (not). Cost of living much too high but what really did it for us was the low level of thinking. We have never encountered so little ambition, so much jealousy and such a lack of spirit. The ambitious people who want to develop themselves leave NZ and go to Australia.
Although we stayed for 3 years, gave it our best and have tried to integrate (by volunteering, helping at school, working etc. etc.), we have left and we're so happy we did!
I am very happy to see this site, because too much of the information out there is totally untrue and I have seen so many disappointed emigrants who are now stuck in NZ!
I wrote a booklet about it (very therapeutic) and put it on Kindle for a few bucks. Just to try and spread the word that NZ is not all that…. (just type in "live in New Zealand" in the Kindle bookstore and you'll find my 2 cents worth!).
Thanks for your story. I wish more and more people get to know the hidden truth about New Zealand. I'm a New Zealander but now I see that what I have been thinking about New Zealand is not just my own thought.
Yes that is so so true. God help you if you try to get anything happen and be forthright about it as well. The level of passive aggression in New Zealand seems to know no bounds. Qualified, with 20 years experience, updated industry qualification as well and I can't get a job in IT. Maybe I've said one too many home truths for the poor wee Kiwi chip on the shoulder. Thinking about selling everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, I have to leave. At 44 years old, I feel like I have wasted half my life over here. Pretty damned sad I'd say!
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Global high purity alumina market size was valued at USD 1.82 billion in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16.5% from 2018 to 2026.
Aluminum oxide or alumina, frequently known as AL2O3, is the primary raw level used for the manufacturing of metallic aluminum. High purity alumina (HPA) is one of the purest forms of aluminum oxide. HPA is widely used in various end-use industries such as LED and semiconductor manufacturing industries all around the world.
The various methods used for producing high purity alumina include vapor phase oxidation, thermal decomposition of ammonium alum, aluminum alkoxide hydrolysis, and underwater spark discharge with aluminum among others. Hydrolysis of aluminum alkoxide is the most common and widely used process required for high purity alumina production. Increasing growth of electronics and semiconductor equipment industries in the Asia Pacific is expected to position the region as a dominant one in the high purity alumina market during the forecast period.
Moreover, the rapidly growing demand for high-resolution television and smartphones is also expected to fuel the growth of the high purity alumina market across North America and Europe. Rising applicability of LEDs in the lighting market coupled with the advanced utility of high purity alumina in smartwatches, smartphones, and tablets will generate lucrative opportunities for medium to small-scale manufacturers thereby helping in the future growth. However, the threat from various substitutes and higher cost of production are some of the major restraints that may affect the growth of the high purity alumina market.
The Asia Pacific is expected to hold the largest market share of the global high purity alumina market. The Asia Pacific is estimated to hold a market share of more than 35% and will continue to maintain its dominance throughout the forecast period of 2018 to 2026.
The global high purity alumina market has been segmented on the basis of application, purity level, and technology. Based on the purity level, the market is divided into 4N, 5N, and 6N. The 4N segment held the largest market share among others during 2017 and is expected to hold the largest market share for the forecast period as well. The high market share of 4N can be attributed to its high usage in the lithium-ion batteries that has the immense usage globally across all electronic devices. The global market on the basis of application has been segmented into phosphorus, sapphire, semiconductor, and electronic display among others. The electronic display held the largest market share in 2017 for global high purity alumina market in the application segment which is a result of higher government focus on promoting the environmentally sustainable options like LED that consumes less energy. On the basis of technology, the global market has been segmented into hydrolysis and HCL based. The hydrolysis technology is the most adopted one in terms of technology for the market. Here alcohol and aluminum metal is synthesized together facilitating the retention of acid which can be used later on and that results in reduction of operational costs as well making the hydrolysis process highly feasible.
Asia-Pacific is expected to be the market leader in global high purity alumina market over the forecast period of 2018-2026. The growth in consumer electronics industry in countries such as India and China will form a major factor contributing to the Asia Pacific holding the largest market share in the market. Moreover, there has been high demand for LED as a more environmentally friendly solution that will further have a positive impact on the market in Asia Pacific. For example, in January 2015, the UJALA scheme was launched by the Indian government to replace domestic efficient lightning programme scheme or DELP. It was aimed to replace more than 200 million incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs, further translate into saving of over 1.8 GW of electricity annually.
The leading players in the global high purity alumina market focuses on merger and acquisition as a part of their business strategy. For example, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited and Excel Crop Care Limited formed a merger on August 2018 where upon merger Sumitomo Chemical India will form the remaining company. Some of the leading companies operating in the High Purity Alumina market are Baikowski Pure Solutions, Sumitomo Chemicals Co. Ltd., Nippon Light Metal, Alcoa Inc., Altech Chemicals limited, Orbite Technologies Inc., and Polar Sapphire Ltd., among others.


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Next week's Northwestern-Minnesota game reportedly in jeopardy after increase of positive cases in Gophers program
Mark Schipper | 2 months ago
The Minnesota Golden Gophers were forced to cancel the bloody border rivalry with Wisconsin, which is the battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe, and now it's doubtful they'll be able to play next Saturday at home against Northwestern, all because of Covid-19 infections across the roster.
According to Andy Greder of the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, the Gophers have more than 40 players and staff infected with the virus over the last ten days. Fifteen additional positives were reportedly added to the list Saturday.
Brief: #Gophers football program has 40 COVID-19 cases across 10 days, casting more doubt on Northwestern game Saturday.https://t.co/cRzfUBtRbI
— Andy Greder (@andygreder) November 29, 2020
With the Big Ten's strictest-in-nation protocols for athletes, each infected player would be required to sit out a minimum of 21 days before being considered for a return to play. It could be that Minnesota literally would not have enough players to play a complete game.
If the Wildcats game is cancelled, that would leave only Nebraska on Dec. 12 for the 2-3 Gophers to play, in addition to the Championship Week matchup Dec. 19, giving them seven games for the season. But the game against the Cornhuskers may be in doubt, too.
From this vantage point it appears Northwestern—a team that was upset Saturday as a rare favorite against Michigan State—would backdoor into the Big Ten West division title and an appearance in the championship game against presumptive East champion Ohio State. Year of our lord 2020 wouldn't have it any other way.
Mark Schipper
Mark Schipper is a reporter, sportswriter, and aspiring novelist living in Chicago, Illinois.
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