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Costus vinosus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Costus vinosus Maas
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Costus vinosus was described by Paul Maas in 1976 from a single collection in 1973. It is a very distinctive species with waxy leaves that have deep wine-red undersides and unique cup-shaped ligules making it very easy to recognize whether in flower or not. There are no known taxonomic issues with this species.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild) A3c; B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v); C1+2a(i,ii); D ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Skinner, D.
|Magos Brehm, J.
This species has only four recorded collections in 1973, 1974, 1986 and 2004 indicating it is rare in the wild. It has only been collected at three localities, one of which has been deforested and converted to pasture land with no plants still in existence there. At the other two localities, the collectors have informed this assessor that the species was not common and few plants were found. The species is distinct enough from other Costus species that it would likely have more collections recorded by botanists if it existed in substantial subpopulations or other localities. The known localities are not in protected areas. The species is widely cultivated and well known to be difficult to grow and bring to flower indicating that it is sensitive to habitat change. Since the last collection record was ten years ago, it is possible that this species is extinct in the wild or very nearly so.
|Date last seen:
|Range Description:
|Costus vinosus is known only from three locations in central Panama on the Caribbean side where there have been only 4 recorded collections. The type was collected in 1973 along the Rio Guanche in Colon province at 50 metres but this area has experienced substantial habitat loss and several recent searches along the river have failed to find the plant still in existence there. The last recorded collection there was in 1974. This assessor searched for C. vinosus in 2012, thoroughly checking small forest fragments remaining along the river, up river a distance of about five km and concluded that the species is no longer extant at this location. Noted Marantaceae botanist Dr. Helen Kennedy told the assessor that her type specimen for Calathea gymnocarpa, which grows at the same low altitudes, has also disappeared from the Rio Guanche area due to conversion to pasture land.
The second location is a collection recorded in 1986 at 65 metres altitude along the "Rio Taindi (Taimdi on maps)" six km above the confluence with the Rio Mandinga. Based on the GPS coordinates given, this river is probably also known as Rio Cangandi on some maps. The determination was made by Greg de Nevers who was also the co-collector. Costus vinosus is a very distinctive species so this assessor has a high degree of confidence in the identification.
The third location is a collection recorded in 2004 at 250 metres altitude and a more inland location on the Santa Rita ridge of the Sierra Llorona. This was collected and determined by Paul Maas who described the species in 1976.
With only two widely separated collection sites where the species is believed to exist, it is difficult to calculate an Extent of Occurrence (EOO) in square km. A third point was set on the GeoCAT map to extend the area along the Rio Taindi where this species may still exist. This resulted in an EOO calculation of 50 km2. Based on the rarity of this species and the lack of other collection records, a two km wide square was used around these points to calculate the Area of Occupancy (AOO) of 12 km2.
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|This species is believed to be gone from the area along the Rio Guanche where the type specimen was collected. The last recorded collection was in 1974 and the area has since been deforested and converted to pasture land. This assessor and others have searched for the species at Rio Guanche in the past several years without success.
The Rio Taindi location collection was made in 1986 by Greg de Nevers and Heraclio Herrera. Sr. Herrera was contacted by email and reported that he vaguely remembers the plant and it was not common in the Rio Taindi region. He is the Director of Environment for the National Indigenous Peoples Coordinating Body of Panama, COONAPIP (Coordinadora Nacional De Los Pueblos Indígenas De Panama) and he knows the San Blas area well. He said he may have seen similar plants but could not say whether they were Costus vinosus. He said, in his opinion, this species is gradually disappearing.
The third collection at Santa Rita Ridge was made in 2004 by Dr. Paul Maas who first described the species in 1976 from the Rio Guanche population. Dr. Maas has informed the assessor that he recalls observing only two to three plants in the Santa Rita subpopulation.
No other collection records have been found. This is a very distinctive and noticeable species, and is likely to have been collected and recorded by botanists if it exists in any substantial populations. Accordingly, this assessor is estimating the total population at less than 30 plants.
Costus vinosus is common in cultivation and used as an ornamental plant in gardens. Based on experience in growing this species in cultivation, the assessor believes it would be particularly sensitive to habitat change. The species is known to be difficult to grow and bring to flower, very sensitive to cultural conditions and not prolific in flower and fruit. Since the last recorded collection was 10 years ago, and the collectors indicated there were few plants, it is possible that it is now extinct in the wild.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species was described by Paul Maas as "Only known from the type locality in the province of Colon, Panama; in rocky vegetation in forest shade, near river; in same vegetation: Heliconia imbricata, Calathea silvicola, and Cyclanthus bipartitus; flowering in June; fruiting in August-September."
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
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|Use and Trade:
|Costus vinosus is widely cultivated and used as an ornamental plant. It is an especially attractive plant, prized by collectors. The 1973 collection by Robert Dressler is known to have been cultivated at Lankester Gardens in Costa Rica. An early accession record is at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens #1986-0224 indicates the plant received was from Dressler and was from Rio Guanche in Panama. It is believed that further distribution to other botanical gardens and to the general public has resulted in its wide cultivation in the U. S. and no recent natural source for the cultivated plants has been found.
|Major Threat(s):
|The type locality is mostly converted to pasture land and only very small patches of secondary forest remain along the river at the lower altitudes where this species was found. The species is no longer thought to be in this area. The Santa Rita location has visible deforested areas surrounding it and is not in a protected area. There is a threat of further habitat destruction. The third area (Rio Taindi) is the most remote and has the lowest threat.
|Conservation Actions:
|There is currently no active in situ conservation plans for this species, but it is common in cultivation is and held in the living collections of several botanical gardens. All these plants are believed to be clones from a single collection, and to be lacking genetic diversity. There are no protected areas where this species is believed to be growing in the wild. It is recommended that further field work be completed searching for this species in the two localities where it was last reported, and seeds collected for ex situ genome seed banks. The species should then be reintroduced in a protected area in similar habitat and closely monitored.
|Skinner, D. 2014. Costus vinosus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T56301925A56301947. . Downloaded on 14 August 2018.
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Update: As of 1:15 a.m., with 73 percent of precincts reporting, Bocanegra holds his lead even more firmly than before.
This has to hurt.
Current L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon, the career San Fernando Valley politician who won his last five elections (spanning two decades) with his eyes closed, is getting laid out by his former aide in tonight's primaries.
Although only 28 percent of precincts have been counted as of this posting, Alarcon rival and CSU Northridge professor Raul Bocanegra is leading the silver medalist by an Earth-shattering 11 percent:
Granted, Bocanegra's camp campaigned hard the last few months, driving Alarcon's felony fraud charges into voters' brains with their picket sticks and out-fundraising the current councilman $329,000 to $202,000. Alarcon, meanwhile, has likely been saving the big guns for the real race between now and November.
That's not to say the councilman and his foot army haven't put some sweat into the campaign so far. Case in point, via political consultant Brian VanRiper:
Look at this Alarcon office hustle, I think I saw a baby making lawn signs! #ad39 twitter.com/brianvanriper/...
— Brian VanRiper (@brianvanriper) May 1, 2012
Alarcon didn't hold back on the mud-slinging, either. Amid the election-fraud hubbub, he somewhat ironically tried to turn the tables and picket outside Bocanegra's home, accusing his opponent of insider trading. Then there were the sexual-harassment claims against Bocanegra that Alarcon's people drummed up in the eleventh hour.
But L.A. County voters, who turned out in numbers much higher than predicted this Election Day, have spoken.
They don't want the same old comfy, wilting pol who's been jumping from office to office since he learned how to hold a mic -- and is now slumbering in his City Council chair while he and his wife face 24 felony charges of perjury and voter fraud for allegedly living outside his district.
Anonymous Alarcon-haters (who ever could they be?) weren't shy about blasting those charges all over the Internet.
Poor guy. He's got a classic politician's face, complete with slimy pencil moustache. And ever since the whole "where do you REALLY live?" scandal crashed down on him two years ago, he's aged in light years. Compare this photo from his campaign website to one that ran in the Los Angeles Times about a month ago, right when the D.A. reintroduced his charges:
No, thanks.
The people apparently want a fresh, friendly dude like Bocanegra. He doesn't operate entirely outside the L.A. political bubble, but at least we know he's got the professor's brains to properly wade through a city budget. (Urban planning! What a concept!)
And those dimples can't hurt.
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A state race like this -- in which two Democrats and former cohorts go head-to-head in a district that would normally just usher in the Party's unanimous pick -- is a glorious product of the new citizen-drawn California voting districts and runoff voting system.
Donkey-on-donkey drama, at last! Sorry, Alarcon -- you're not the only liberal Latino in town anymore.
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Hi guys! It was so much fun to take these pictures. It was so lovely sunset that evening and we stopped at a beautiful spot at the beach. So I asked my mom if she can take some pictures. It was not easy to get a shot while I was jumping, but as you can see a few turned out quite well 😉
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Birmingham Natural Environment Pledge
Wednesday 14th December 2016
Photo credit to Birmingham Open Spaces Forum
The natural world sustains us, and all economic activity depends on the natural environment. At present, this contribution is neither recognised nor valued by our economic structures leading to short sighted, compartmentalised thinking.
We all benefit from these green spaces: individuals, businesses, public health, Local Enterprise Partnerships and the West Midlands Combined Authority. At present, funding is expected from Birmingham City Council's Parks and Nature Conservation budget to protect and manage these spaces. 2016 - 17 budget cuts will make good quality management almost impossible.
Looking to the future investment must come from all sectors not reside with the city council Parks and Nature Conservation budget: everyone who lives here, works here, cares about or runs a business here benefits from a healthy natural environment and must be prepared to support and invest in our green spaces.
Organisations across the city (listed below) are calling on everyone to pledge to protect the environment, in every way you can.
Whoever you are, you can take the pledge if you want to make sure Birmingham's parks and green spaces are protected for future generations.
Are you:
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- a politician?
You benefit from a healthy natural environment and you can do something to protect and improve it. Take the pledge here.
Will you commit to protect Birmingham's fabulous parks and green spaces?
Please fill in this online form to make your Birmingham Natural Environment Pledge.
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The natural world is essential to achieving the priorities of the 2020 Vision for Birmingham of a strong economy with thriving local communities, a healthy, happy population, a great future for young people and where safety and opportunity for all children is delivered by a modern council.
The natural world contributes:
• to improved health and wellbeing of everyone living and working here
• increased productivity for businesses
• flood alleviation and risk management for residents and businesses
• cleaner air and carbon absorption
• a place that people want to live and establish businesses
• a thriving tourist industry
For the wellbeing of everyone who lives and works here, for future generations, and for Birmingham to be a leading city achieving the aims of the 2020 Vision;
I recognise it is everyone's responsibility to protect the green spaces of our city and I will do everything in my power to:
support the development of a 25 year plan for the environment recognising the importance of all green spaces in the city and across the West Midlands Combined Authority
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actively manage the land within my control to enhance benefits to the natural environment.
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If you would like to take further action please submit a response to Birmingham City Council's budget which will cut funding to parks and spaces drastically including the loss of park keepers and many rangers services. Birmingham Open Spaces Forum website has lots of useful information to help you write your response here.
Organisations involved in the Greener Birmingham pledge for the natural environment include:
This has been put together in response to the proposed cuts to the Parks and Nature Conservation budget in Birmingham. We intend to roll this pledge out to the Black Country in the new year.
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September 16, 2015
Peabody Opera House – 1400 Market Street, St. Louis, MO 63103
Pre-Event Networking: 5:30 p.m.
Program: 7:00 p.m.
Reception: 8:00 p.m.
Corporate Sponsor Package: $4,000
Includes reserved program seating for 10 and two tickets to a private reception for new CEOs in St. Louis; elevated billing on the sponsor signage; logo placement in the event program, pre-and-post event media, recognition on the Regional Chamber website and digital signage in the Chamber lobby.
To be included in event program, sponsorships must reach the Regional Chamber by September 1, 2015.
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We do not assist in the area of immigration law. We do offer the following referrals:
For legal help with immigration problems, visit Legal Aid's website or contact a legal aid office in your area.
If there is no legal aid office serving your area, call their Client Service Centre, 1-800-668-8258 (for TTY users(telephone device for the deaf), call 1-866-641-8867).
Quinte Local Immigration Partnership - collaborative partnership of many organizations to help achieve a successful integration for newcomers
Quinte United Immigrant Services (QUIS) - a not-for-profit charitable organization which offers direct, essential services to newcomers to Canada including reception, orientation, translation/interpretation, referral to community resources, solution focused counselling, general information, and employment-related services to meet the needs of newly arrived immigrants any time after their arrival in Canada through the Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program, the Newcomer Settlement Program.
Settlement.org - information about Ontario for newcomers (in 11 languages) - where to go for help
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) - produces many pamphlets and facts sheets including those on sponsoring your family, refugee claims, hiring a lawyer, immigrant women and domestic violence and more.
CLEO's Refugee Rights in Ontario website - information for front line workers
Canadian Council for Refugees - non-profit organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees and to the settlement, sponsorship and protection of refugees and immigrants
Citizenship and Immigration Canada - information about Citizenship and Immigration services and programs or applications in process - lots of guides and forms available
HALCO - HIV & Aids Legal Clinic Ontario - Immigration links page
Immigration and Refugee Board - Independent tribunal that is responsible for hearing refugee claims and appeals - many guides, including Claimant's Guide, and forms are on their website
Lawfacts.ca website - a legal information resource from Legal Aid Ontario. Written by Legal Aid lawyers from across Ontario, LawFacts provides legal information about criminal, family and refugee law, as well as court-related mental health issues.
No One Is Illegal (Toronto) - a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect - They publish a guide called Know Your Rights, a guide to immigration, arrest and deportation and your rights at home, on the street and at work (for people without immigration status) - Available in English, French and Spanish
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Just outside of the historical center, where the street curves to go up to Fiesole, Godò is a warm and welcoming neighborhood restaurant in a leaf filled piazza. Outdoor tables provide seating in good weather. Inside, a wall is lined with shelves of wine bottles, the selection is small, but the owners take care in their selection. Large chalkboards on the walls advertise the menu, daily specials or wine by the class. Options start with the Tuscan standards, but they aren't afraid of creative liberty.
In summer a Tomato Sformato with Crema di Burrata (Tomato Pudding with Burrata Sauce) was a sophisticated riff on the Caprese. The sformato itself is the essence of pure tomato, an exquisite pomodoro sauce, but with the soft solid texture of pudding. The intensity of the tomato is a vibrant streak of pure flavor softened by creamy warm burrata sauce. Make sure to get it with Burrata sauce and not the Mozzarella which they have started serving instead. Large ricotta filled ravioli come paired with a creamy sauce made yellow by zucchini flowers, and classic Sienese Pici (like a thick spaghetti) are often served with lobster in tomato sauce for a delicious, if difficult to eat, dish.
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Lakewood Airport is located closeby to the central business district of Lakewood in Ocean County, NJ. Its a public use airport and is owned by Lakewood Township.
This airport offers the township's corporate and industrial clients the opportunity to be located in a very desirable area while still being in the main stream. Fixed wing and helicopter charter services are available or clients can fly themselves in to conduct business.
Recreational flyers and two aero clubs have rediscovered Lakewood Airport. Following a complete rebuilding of the runway and taxiway with the addition of services, the number of resident aircraft has risen from less than 20 to over 70. The Civil Air Patrol with its search aircraft remains an active user of the airport. Flying lessons, orientation flights, charters, banner towing, transient parking and other services are available.
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Aviation Charter Patrol – 732 -363-6400
Jersey Aero Club – 848-565-1478
Monmouth Area Flying Club – www.flymafc.com
Flight training and membership
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Warbird and helicopter siteseeing rides. For information call 732-363-6400
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Over the years, few businesses in the racing industry have done more with less than California-based Good Vibrations Motorsports, and for it's patriarch Jim Maher and his entire staff, little has stood in their way of serving an entire corner of the marketplace.
Good Vibrations, based in Whittier, California, was founded rather inconspicuously more than 25 years ago in Maher's garage, as the drag racer and entrepreneur sought to meet the needs of his fellow racers on the California Independent Funny Car Association (CIFCA) circuit — an organization he has presided over for more than two decades and has garnered five championships in as a driver.
"The business really evolved out of my association with the Funny Car circuit," explained Maher. "I was a go-to man at the events, responsible for having the cars there. As the guys would forget their safety equipment or break parts, they'd come to me. So I started carrying spare parts with me, and next thing I knew, I was getting calls through the week to bring things to the races, and all of a sudden, I'm in the mail order business — and the rest is history."
"It wasn't really a master-plan, to be honest. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time and seized the opportunity," he continued.
Today, Good Vibrations Motorsports is one of the leading performance products companies in racing, and with their specialization in superchargers and fuel injection, services an entire segment of the auto racing industry. As you may have guessed, their customer base spreads from drag racing to sand drags, tractor pulling, mud bog racing, and marine applications, to street rods, and everything in between —a clientele that stretches around the globe.
But Maher, an intelligent businessman if there ever was one, has transitioned Good Vibrations from a small, part-time operation out of his garage into a global supplier, not by expanding and spending, but by sticking with what he and his employees know, and by investing in the people that work for him. He did it all, for many years, out of a facility not much larger than 2,000 square feet — a "closet", as he calls it.
Today, we're going to take an inside look at Good Vibrations Motorsports, their staff, and how their successful mail order business continues to flourish, even in the wake of the economic downturn, with Maher and longtime employee, Jessica Arteaga.
Inside Good Vibrations
For years, Good Vibrations has operated out of a single facility located in Whittier, just outside of Los Angeles, measuring in the neighborhood of 2,100 square feet — or about the size of the average American family home. Within this small space were the offices, shipping and receiving areas, warehousing, and assembly departments. In recent years, however, due to their consistent growth that had their original facility literally bursting at the seams, Maher and company purchased a neighboring structure that formerly housed the Top Fuel drag racing operation of Robert Reehl to serve as an overflow building with additional offices, assembly, and warehousing, providing them some 6,000-plus square feet of space to utilize.
The Offices
At the front of Good Vibrations' original shop are the offices, where all of the technical and customer service staff answer calls from around the world. All of the accounting processes involved not only in sales, but also in ordering and inventorying product are handled right here. The new, larger shop offices have provided the company a place to conduct all of their advertising initiatives, as well as additional offices for accounting, technical support, and sales.
In addition to Arteaga, the sales and technical staff includes Mahers' son, James Maher, who wears many hats including IT, web design, public relations, and social media; Randy Walton, who has been with the company for more than 11 years and does much of the web design and IT work; office manager Maribel Menchaca; Kasey Smith, who also manages the shop area, Shawna Snyder and Rod Alvarez, who both handle account receivables/payments and order processing; Jose Campos, who enters orders and handles inventory; and David Barron, who works on the website and in shipping and receiving.
In all, there are 12 full-time employees at Good Vibrations. This number can vary, however, as Maher is a strong supporter of his younger employees pursuing their education, and has shifted his full-timers to part-time or worked with their schedules to maintain their studies while continuing with the company.
Arteaga says, "With the business growing each year so has our sales and tech team. The team is there to take your order and answer your questions so that customers are 100-percent confident they are getting the right part the first time. Because the Good Vibes team are racing enthusiasts themselves, it's more than just taking an order for them — they enjoy helping their customers achieve their goals. The technical team is very thorough with each question and if you find yourself talking to Randy Walton or Kasey Smith, you'll be sure you are in good hands."
Because the Good Vibes team are racing enthusiasts themselves, it's more than just taking an order for them — they enjoy helping their customers achieve their goals. – Jessica Arteaga
As a strictly mail order supplier, product is continually moving in and out the door at Good Vibrations, and as Arteaga tells us, this process can move along rather quickly, with such a large clientele from so many disciplines of racing placing orders over the phone or via the internet around the clock.
"Our shipping and receiving department is always in high-gear," says Arteaga. "Parts are carefully inventoried, assembled, and placed on the shelves and pulled for orders. Each part is checked and double-checked before each order is processed to minimize any error. A happy, satisfied customer is what we strive for."
According to Arteaga, Good Vibrations keeps an extensive amount of product in-stock on their shelves and ready to ship upon the customer placing an order. In all, Good Vibrations carries product from more than 25 different manufacturers, and at any one time, there are multiple pieces of each product on-hand.
"We stock everything that we advertise. I can't think of anything we carry that isn't on the shelf," says Arteaga. "The only reason we wouldn't have it is if, for some reason, a vendor wasn't able to supply it at that time."
Like any business whose sales are somewhat "seasonal", Good Vibrations evaluates their re-orders from suppliers through the year, and typically during the fall and winter months, will reduce their stock due to the decreased demand during the racing off-season. All of this is typically overseen by Maher himself, who remains very hands-on with the business that he was once the one-of-one employee at.
"That's one of the great things I like about working here, is Jim's work ethic. He doesn't cut any corners and he thinks ahead. I've worked other places outside the racing industry, and they just aren't as thorough as Jim is," says Arteaga.
According to Maher, over seven figures worth of product is kept on-hand at any given time, which is certainly a lot of product. "We have more product than most of the manufacturers that we represent have on their shelves," says Maher.
Good Vibrations submits orders for product on a near-daily basis, meaning there's product from the numbers of suppliers they work with, from Enderle Fuel Injection to DJ Safety to JAZ Products, coming in the door in a constant flow every day. Good Vibrations' inventory system actually keeps a "minimum stock and re-order" flagging process that will ensure no product is left out-of-stock.
And although they utilize every inch of the space they have, you'll find nothing but perfect organization around these two facilities. Whether it's in totes, in boxes, or just placed on the shelves, everything is orderly and where it should be, making everyone's jobs just that much easier.
Although strictly mail order, there's indeed some assembly work that goes on at the Good Vibrations facilities. However, you won't see complete engines or anything of that magnitude on the assembly tables. Rather, much of the processes involve cutting product like rubber hoses down to the ordered size — given that it's sold by the foot — or assembly of the Good Vibes' own polished belt guards.
The team will also routinely assemble fuel injection kits and fuel pump kits with their Enderle systems that don't otherwise come assembled as a convenience for their customers.
After all, it's customer-first around Good Vibrations.
Despite the economic downturn in the late 2000s that affected virtually every corner of the automotive and racing aftermarket industry, Good Vibrations has continued to grow year-over-year, and as Maher tells us, the blown alcohol market is as strong as ever, all across the world.
"Our numbers just continue to grow every year — even during the recession. We're up eight-percent this year alone. I would say the nitro and Top Alcohol markets are down from years ago, but our niche remains strong," he says.
For Maher, it's perhaps his people-first mentality that's owed to the success of Good Vibrations. His business was born out of his efforts to take care of the racers around him, and today, he continues to put his customers and his people first. It's this approach that has kept many of his employees around for more than a decade and has allowed this business, which truly operates in a niche marketplace, to continue to excel despite the odds stacked against it.
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Culled from "The Ga of Ghana: History and Culture of a West African People, 2001" by David K. Henderson-Quartey, 2001
The town of Alata grew as an adjunct to James Fort hence the English called it James Town after King James II of England. It is called Alata by the Ga as the people who first settled in the vicinity of the Fort were employees and slaves of the English trading company who were reputed to have been brought from the Allada area of the Bight of Benin and formerly referred to as the Slave Coast. The beginning of the town could be dated from 1672, the year in which the fort was built. European writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have referred to the area as "Soko village". The Fort was built on a large rocky head which projects into the sea.


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County Durham new starts, micro firms and growing SMEs are being given a unique chance to be part of this year's Oktoberfest.
As part of plans to encourage smaller companies to be part of the event, there will be a dedicated Incubator Zone for those companies who have never before exhibited.
The criteria is that the companies must:
- Be based in County Durham
- Employ around 10 people or fewer
- Have proven links to the manufacturing and engineering sectors
- Actively looking to grow
- Need help developing networking and exhibiting skills
Organisers of the annual Oktoberfest event have teamed up with Business Durham's Durham Business Opportunities Programme (DBOP) to offer companies a mini exhibitor package which they hope will open the expo up to those companies who don't have marketing budgets.
The package will mean they can have a presence within the show, with support provided to help prepare them for the exhibition and marketing materials such as banner stands and flyers designed and printed if they need them.
Peterlee-based LEC Communications and Design is delivering the Incubator Zone project after a competitive tender process through Durham County Council.
David Land, Chairman of the County Durham Engineering and Manufacturing Network (CDEMN), which organises Oktoberfest, said: "We're always looking to strengthen our offering to businesses and make our event appealing to them regardless of their size.
"Reviewing feedback and exhibitor statistics from the last few years, it was evident we could be doing more to appeal to those firms that are relatively new start ups, who perhaps want to raise their profile and meet potential new clients.
"We are aware that our existing offer could be quite daunting to businesses that fall into that category, so we have created an Incubator Zone within the main hall which is specifically designed for those firms that have never exhibited at Oktoberfest before."
Businesses must be able to demonstrate a link to the engineering and manufacturing sectors, whether that's through the products they make or services they supply, or that their current client base includes employers within these sectors.
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Contract type: Part Time
Contract term: Fixed Term
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person with excellent communication skills to join our busy student services team. This role will involve producing the daily absence report and dealing with students and parents at the school's student services reception. Other duties include the administering of first aid and providing other administrative support. A current first aid qualification is not essential as training will be provided. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential for this role. The successful candidate will also have a professional outlook, the ability to use their initiative and be an excellent team player.
If you would like to work in a forward thinking school and make a difference, we would like to hear from you. This position has a start date of March 2018 and is fixed term in the first instance. The deadline for applications is 9am Wednesday 21st February.
Salary Scale – H3 pro rata (£17,366-18,357 p.a. full time equivalent)
15 hours per week, term time only
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate. Online TES applications are accepted.
Details are also available from our website www.sandringham.herts.sch.uk or www.teachinherts.com Applications should be sent to: Kate Ward, HR Officer, Sandringham School, The Ridgeway, St Albans, AL4 9NX, Tel 01727 799560. Email firstname.lastname@example.com
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How To Predict Divorce
This blog post is part of my running series on marriage, based on the research and writing of Dr. John Gottman's famous book, Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work. I often recommend this book to any of my clients interested in improving their relationship, married or not. In couples therapy, I teach the skills in this book to help partners with the many difficulties related to conflict styles, communication, and strategies for healing wounds and creating happy, sustainable long-term romantic relationships.
The Research
When Dr. Gottman studied couples in his experimental 'Love Lab', he asked them to argue and resolve a conflict. Then he followed them for decades, and was able to isolate the factors that contributed to which couples divorced. His findings showed the critical importance of conflict in predicting divorce.
What matters isn't if you argue as much as how you argue that makes the difference in your relationship. What he found were signs of possible relational problems/divorce that allowed him to predict divorce with up to 91% accuracy. The "signs" of impending divorce are also the very behaviors that I target in marriage therapy in order to help a couple salvage their relationship if they're headed to the brink of divorce.
The Warning Signs of Divorce
#1 Harsh Startups
How you start up a difficult discussion with your partner--especially emotional or sensitive topics--is critically important to what happens next. Harsh startups are those kinds of conversations that start out badly, right out of the gate.
- "The trouble with you is ..."
- "Wow, that's just great. Thanks a lot."
- "Why still haven't done the dishes...!?"
- "My problem with you is that you never ...."
Notice the accusing and hostile tone of these words. It's critical or sarcastic, and reveals your feelings of contempt towards your partner. You are acting as if you're completely right and they're completely wrong. You're better than them. It's a quick way to make your partner defensive and get nowhere fast.
#2 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
These are the four behaviors that are always toxic to a relationship, which I have discussed in more detail in a previous blog post. I've also added an additional fifth behavior that is just as problematic and leads to divorce.
- Criticism – you attack your partner's character--who they are as a person--instead of making a specific complaint (something your partner did or a situation). It's always better to complain about something specific, sending the message "I didn't like what you did that one time" rather than critically attacking who they are as a person, which sends the message "something is really wrong with you". Complaints give your partner a way to fix things and make a better relationship. Criticisms push your relationship closer towards divorce.
- Contempt: When you're being sarcastic and cynical, you are showing contempt towards your partner. It's a sure-fire way to lead your relationship towards divorce! It's so bad that if you act this way regularly, research has shown that even your immune system suffers enough to make you more prone to sickness! Contempt includes things like rolling eyes, looking at your partner with disgust, sneering, mockery and using hostile humor. Contempt is the worst of all four horsemen, and is the biggest warning sign of future divorce. Sometimes, contempt is when you act like you are taking the higher "moral" ground, insinuating that you are better than your partner. When you allow long-standing negative thoughts about your partner to go unchecked in your mind, you inevitably create feelings of contempt towards them.
- Defensiveness: Carrying around a defensive chip on your shoulder is another way to bring about divorce. Maybe you show defensiveness by immediately explaining or defending yourself when your partner says anything remotely critical or complaining. You may act as though you're expecting an attack, even if that's not your partner's intent. You're on edge and ready for a counter-attack. When you're being defensive, you tend to be sending the message of righteousness, without blame, such as "it's not me, it is you".
- Stonewalling: This is when you tune out, ice your partner out, or shut down. It usually happens after one of the other horsemen rears their ugly heads, and you get overwhelmed. Maybe you stop listening, stop making eye contact, or stop responding. Or maybe you only respond with "yes" or "no". It's about sending your partner the message, "I don't care". 85% of the time, the partner doing the stonewalling is the husband, and we think it's for evolutionary reasons. Women tend to be able to physiologically calm down faster, but of course this is not always the case.
- Belligerence. This is similar to contempt, but it has such a particularly nastiness to it that it's worth mentioning separately. It's not one of the original "Four Horsemen", but Dr. Gottman considers it to be an honorary horseman and sign of divorce because it is so harmful to relationships. Belligerence is when you express your anger in an aggressive, threatening way. For example, you're acting belligerent when you say something like, "Maybe I should just leave you so that you won't have someone to blame all the time."
#3 Flooding
This is when you feel defenseless or shell-shocked, usually after hearing a bunch of criticisms, contempt or defensiveness. When you're feeling flooded, you get hyper-aware, on edge, and expect that your partner is "just about to attack me again".
If you tend to stonewall, it's usually because you're trying to protect yourself against the feeling of being "flooded" with overwhelming emotions. When you get stuck in this state of mind, you're physiologically in a state of "fight-or-flight" body feels in danger. Getting occasionally flooding can be handled in a healthy relationship, but if you get flooded on a regular basis, your marriage can become in danger.
When you're feeling flooded, undergoing the physiological changes that happen in a hyper-aware state (i.e. endocrine, heart-rate) can predict divorce for two reasons: 1) distress when dealing with the other; 2) hard to have a productive problem-solving discussion when distressed.
#4 Failed Attempts To Repair Issues
Healthy relationships require that you regularly repair misunderstandings and hurt feelings. When you do it well, you lower stress levels and conflict, and feel closer to one another. But when you repeatedly fail at repair attempts, you start to feel defeated, like nothing you try even works.
When the four horsemen take over your communication patterns, then you and your partner stop even noticing each others' repair attempts. It becomes a nasty feedback loop in which the "four horsemen" keep happening, then more flooding happens, and then repair attempts are ignored, until eventually you or your partner withdraws.
Positive sentiment override predicts the success of repair attempts. Four horsemen predict divorce by 82%. Add in the failed-repair attempts, and prediction percentage runs in the 90s. On the other hand, having the four horsemen, but with successful repair attempts, a stable relationship is likely. But when four horsemen moved in for good, repair attempts are incredibly hard to attempt, accept or even notice.
#5 Bad Memories
When past is re-written in a negative hue, divorce chances royally go up. For example, you gain strength or negativity from the adversity that you got through together. What matters most is how people frame the situation, which can lead to more negativity or positivity, etc.
When a couple has negatively "re-written" their relationship, they are nearing the end stage of their marriage. They may talk calmly about their conflict, or appear like they are doing somewhat well. They have already begun to emotionally divorce from one another.
It's important to note that such relationships can still be salvaged, however. They will not only need to address their communication problems (i.e. harsh startups, the four horsemen issues) learn effective repairs; they will also need to improve their closeness and the quality of their friendship. This means improving things when they're not fighting., so that they'll even feel motivated to salvage the relationship and want to work for it.
The Final Stages Before Divorce:
- You believe that all the problems in your marriage are "severe"
- You feel that things over seems useless, so you decide to solve problems on your own, usually without your partner, and usually moving more and more away from your partner
- You start leading parallel lives (like "roommates")
- You start feeling lonely all the time (this puts you at a higher risk for infidelity, too)
If you recognize that your relationship has some of these warning signs, it means that divorce is likely if you don't get help. Gottman method marriage counseling has a proven track record for helping two willing partners. Counseling can help you get off the path towards relationship destruction, and back on track towards rebuilding your relationship into a fulfilling, stable, happy one.
If you're on the brink of divorce or separation, consider trying "Discernment Counseling". It's about deciding whether or not your relationship is "fixable" and whether or not you even want to invest in making it work.
If you decide to start couples therapy, know that it's not about just learning negotiating skills or conflict resolution. If that's all you learn in your couples therapy sessions, your relationships isn't going to prevent divorce. You have to take it a step further and learn about what you can do when you're not arguing, by fostering a better friendship. That's when the "Seven Principles" come into play.
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If you're looking to build strong, sustainable, happy relationship, you have to work hard to keep liking your partner. No matter how much you love someone, if you spend enough time with them, you can grow annoyed and bored if you stop appreciating them . But this doesn't have to happen. Everyone can learn to create a healthy relationship with a culture of "fondness and admiration".
In today's blog post, I share with you the key findings from Dr. Gottman's research on fondness and admiration, which is the second principle of making a marriage work.Read More
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So maybe you haven't "updated" your love map in a while? Well the good news is you can get to know your partner again and again, for who they are today. So go ahead, get to know each other better. Start by asking the questions in the "Love Map Questionnaire" on my blog post today.
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ClickUp Shows Promising Signs of Early User Adoption
Click Up is announcing that early user growth shows an unexpectedly high growth in early user adoption.
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2017
While the startup believed early users would likely be making the move into project management, they say they're not opposed to making strategic adjustments as needed.
"We had been expecting a marketing push targeting a demographic that doesn't use project management, but the early data we're getting is telling us we may need to reconsider that. It's never a good idea to stick to the wrong strategy, so we'll be thinking extremely hard about what direction to go in next," said Zeb Evans, CEO at ClickUp.
Click Up offers features that go beyond traditional project management tools, giving users full company collaboration, source control integration with GitHub, and an interface that can be tailored to each user.
The product emphasis at Click Up is to combine deep functionally in a simple, smooth package that lures users at any technical skill level.
Executives at the startup believe that this combination is essential if one wants to get noticed within the cluttered market of project management tools.
Evans added, "Everybody wants something different for their team, but everybody loves good design. We try to nail the key features, package them in a great design, and then include some great functionality on top that should really impress people."
ClickUp will transition into a focus on user growth while they perfect their product based on user feedback.
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