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Creative Problem Solving
This book debunks the perceived mysteries and complexities of creativity and problem solving.
Project Management
Every project and as a consequence every project manager has to deal with different targets, different environments and, last but not least, with different people.
Project Leadership - Step by Step
This is Volume I of two books on how to master Small- and Medium-Sized Projects - SMPs.
Goal Keeping
Don't just set goals, achieve them! Learn how with this straightforward guide and simple, step-by-step tools. Uncover what holds you back and create genuine motivation.
Audiobook: The Guide to Project Management
This book is designed to help you understand the theory, tools, techniques and key success factors for you to succeed in your projects.
The Art of Problem Solving
Learn 7 step-by-step techniques and time-tested methods to tackle even the most complex problems, avoid costly mistakes and become a confident decision maker with The Art of Problem Solving.
Project Leadership - Step by Step
This is Volume II of two books on how to master Small- and Medium-Sized Projects - SMPs.
Audiobook: Project Management Processes
This eBook will help you to identify the appropriate project management process to apply at any point in your own project.
How to improve your company's performance
This book is about auditing and improving the performance of your small, medium-sized or large company.
Introduction to Customer Journey Mapping
Customer Journey Maps are paramount for successful customer-centric business optimisation. This eBook gives you practical tools to get your journey mapping started.
Project management for entrepreneurs
In this practical book, time management authority and entrepreneur Harold Taylor will take you through a simplified five-step project management process using forms he has developed for this purpose.
Managing your Meeting Mortals
In general we attend 6 meeting types and encounter 15 personalities & private agendas. Being able to more efficiently recognise & manage these people will result in more focused & beneficial meetings,
How to Improve Your Production: Part I
This book (in 2 parts) is about the various types of production controls deemed necessary for organizing, managing, running and auditing an effective production process.
Project Management Templates
This e-book includes the templates (forms) and instruction sheets for small and simple projects.
Practical Project Management
Practical Project Management – A Users' Guide to Getting Things Done is written for those seeking real-world advice executing projects.
How to Improve Your Production: Part II
This book (in 2 parts) is about the various types of production controls deemed necessary for organizing, managing, running and auditing an effective production process.
The Top 5 Soft Skills of Project Management
When we talk about the skills of project management, the focus is usually on the so-called 'hard skills'. However, just as important are those essential soft skills that can make or break a project.
The Practical Guide to Project Management
This book is designed to help you understand the theory, tools, techniques and key success factors for you to succeed in your projects.
Models for Teams
This is an A to Z guide of the best team models currently available. Line managers interested in the further development of their staff will find it of particular interest when helping groups reach t
Managing Projects: Challenges and methods
This eBook is the first part of a four-part Series on project management.
Project Management Processes
This eBook will help you to identify the appropriate project management process to apply at any point in your own project.
Managing the Project Schedule
This eBook describes the process of managing the project schedule.
Understanding the PMBOK Guide
What is this thing called the PMBOK Guide? Have you ever tried to understand it in a short time, and failed?
Managing Project Quality
This eBook describes the process managing project quality.
How to Evaluate Performance
This eBook describes how to collect, evaluate and record comprehensive high-quality performance data during the appraisal cycle.
Profit From Six Sigma
Six Sigma has become perhaps the defining management initiative of the past 10 years, and many books and papers describe the basic approach and the associated tools.
Managing the Project Budget
This eBook describes the process of managing the project budget and its associated costs.
Understanding why Teams Underperform
Need to understand why teams underperform? This eBook explains why and provides practical advice about how to identify and fix performance problems.
Managing a project across the project life span
One of the major challenges facing project management today is the confusion between two critical concepts.
PMBOK® Guide: Part 2
This book offers numerous suggestions on how to improve the guide. Topics include fixing errors, closing gaps, clarifying inconsistencies and suggestions for new chapters.
Managing Project Risk
This eBook explains the key issues and concepts involved in effective risk management in a clear and accessible way.
Managing Projects: Methodology
This eBook provides a comprehensive description of the project life span (cycle) that is the foundation of the methodology.
The Essence of Project Management
This book "cuts through the muck" of endless Project Management Books with carefully picked "Golden Nuggets" of information from the author´s own knowledge and experience.
Measuring Performance at the Workplace
This book: Measurement Choices points to the need for new metrics in all industrial sectors; private, public and not-for-profits.
Improving Performance with Balanced Scorecard
This book describes how to control better and improve your Company's Strategy and Performance by the use of the concepts and perspectives contained in the Balanced Scorecard Framework.
Managing Project Scope
This eBook explains the processes and requirements involved in scope management.
PMBOK® Guide: Part 1
The PMBOK® Guide – Current Reality, is part of a 2-book series on transforming this leading guide from a theoretical state into a practical approach that helps practitioners learn how to apply it.
Strategic Procurement Management
Providing an overview of current best practice, Strategic Procurement Management is the perfect guide to boosting the health and wealth of an organisation by unlocking the potential of your suppliers.
Managing Projects
All throughout your life, whether at work, rest or play, you'll need to organise and manage projects.
Project Scheduling Rules
Project Schedules have an essential role in the success of projects, but they are not always effective enough to fulfill their role.
Project Management: the CAM2P™ Model
This is the last book in a 4-volume series on project management and The Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing Projects™ (CAM2P™).
Project Management for the accidental manager
Project management has been emerging globally as an essential and strategic function for organizations of all types and sectors.
The CEO's Guide To GDPR Compliance
The guide for Board Directors and Senior Managers to ensure better compliance with GDPR and avoid fines and other sanctions.
The People side of Project Management
The 'People side of Project Management' addresses this gap by looking at why people are so difficult to manage on a project, who those people are and how to manage them better.


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At the same time, U.S. ag exports totaled $53.3 billion in 2002, up less than $1 billion from the $52.7 billion posted in 2001. For fiscal year 2003, exports are expected to rise by $3.7 billion.
According to Carol Whitton, coordinator for the Economic Research Service, and Ernest Carter, coordinator for the Foreign Agricultural Service, most of the year-to-year growth in export value is expected to come from shipments of corn and soybeans, with "modest gains" in wheat and meat.
Since November, prospects for corn exports have been reduced because of increased foreign competition, particularly from Argentina and China. The stronger forecast for soybeans reflects a large increase in demand from China, particularly for beans to be crushed for oil.
The forecast U.S. agricultural surplus is $14, the largest since fiscal year 1998.
The U.S. and world economies "continue to be plagued by uncertainty," the analysts note, and this country's Gross Domestic Product is expected to be unchanged in 2003. World growth, however, is projected to rise by over 2 percent, compared to 1.6 percent in 2002.
Lackluster growth
"Until some of the uncertainty can be resolved, growth in the world and the U.S. is likely to continue lackluster," they say.
Economic growth in all developing countries is expected to increase more than 4 percent this year, and in Asian developing countries by more than 5 percent. Growth rates in China and India are forecast at more than 7 percent and near 6 percent, respectively.
"Serious problems" persist in Latin America and Argentina, the latter in its fifth year of recession, with a 75 percent depreciation of its currency against the U.S. dollar since Jan. 2002.
While the dollar remains "relatively strong," it has depreciated against some currencies, chiefly the European Community's Euro and the Japanese Yen. But, "no precipitous drop in the dollar is expected; rather, a slow decline over the rest of the year and into 2004 is likely against some currencies. With some decrease in the dollar, U.S. agricultural exports are expected to become more competitive in world markets."
Looking at specific forecasts:
Grain and feed exports are pegged at $16.1 billion, with reductions for wheat and feed grains partially offset by gains for value-added products.
Coarse grain exports are expected to be down 4.2 million tons to 52.6 million, valued at $6.2 billion. A weaker outlook for corn is due to continued strong competition from China, better prospects for South American crops, and large global supplies of feed quality wheat. Compared to 2002, little change is expected in corn export volume, but average prices will be higher. The sharply lower sorghum crop will reduce export volume.
Rice exports will be a record 3.8 million tons, but weaker average unit prices will leave the value virtually unchanged. The large U.S. crop and resulting lower prices support increased export volume, and global demand for rice remains strong.
Oilseeds and products are projected to be up, but lower average unit prices will limit value to about $6 billion. Continued strong sales to China and other countries support the gains, but increased competition from South American growers is eroding the U.S. share of global trade, estimated at 35 percent for the 2002/03 marketing year. Soybean shipments are forecast to remain below last year's record, but higher average unit values will bring somewhat higher total value.
The outlook for livestock, poultry, and dairy product exports remains unchanged at a record $12.4 billion, with beef/pork/poultry contributing most of the increase in value.
Also unchanged is the outlook for horticultural product exports, including fresh and processed fruits, at a record $11.3 billion. Continued economic weakness in Japan, a relatively strong dollar, ongoing trade disputes with Mexico, and growing competition from China are among key factors restraining even greater export expansion for these products. The outlook for fresh and processed vegetables is for $3.1 billion, and remains positive for tree nuts.
Import gains
Growth in imports by the U.S. is largely in horticultural products, chiefly wine and malt beverages, fruits, and vegetables.
Despite moderate economic growth in the U.S., the dollar is expected to remain strong with respect to currencies of many importing countries; "thus, the foreign purchasing power of U.S. consumers will stay high. But, prospects for oil supply disruption may result in even higher energy prices, the immediate effect of which would likely be to reduce consumers' appetite for imports, especially high value products."


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The hearth tile installation went well, I guess. I had to go rent a tile saw because there were some mitered corners. There were a few minor issues to deal with, most having to do with the fact that it was salvage tile being installed on an old mortar bed. The mortar bed had sagged a quarter inch in the middle. The real problem, though, was the old indentations from the original tile. The backs of tile are not flat, so there were a lot of hills and valleys in the old mortar.
So yesterday I skim-coated the old mortar bed to even things out. You can now really see the ghosts of the original 1895 installation. The skim-coat gave me a smooth bed on which to set the "new" tile. Another issue with the tile that caused problems was the fact that I had 3 different thickness of tile. To try and even things out, the thick tiles are set on a thin bed of mortar, while the thinner ones are heavily "back buttered" to try and make them level with the thicker tiles. It was challenging, and a few pieces had to be pried up and done over.
The new installation fit the old space well. The original design was about an inch wider and a half inch deeper. To get everything to fit I had to go with almost non-existent grout lines. This is the way it was done back in the day, so it looks more original this way. The problem with this was that the large green tiles are the same width as the 1.5X6, but when everything was installed there were gaps at the top and bottoms. Four rows of 1.5 inch high tile came out to more that 6-inches. Go figure. I knew about this beforehand, because I had laid them all out, but there was not much I could do about it. I tried to make gaps at the sides to balance it out, but that was not easy.
I'll do a white un-sanded grout in a few days and that should make the gaps less noticeable around the big tiles. The other issues was some of the 1.5X6 tiles still had minor remnants of grout. It was very little, because there was little to start with, but it made the design a little uneven in places. This is probably only noticeable to me.
Once the grout is done I'll add a fluted wood molding around the perimeter to hide the half inch gap around the edges where the old mortar bed is still showing. After that I can finish the rest of the floor. Then all I need to do is install the base molding where the floor meets the walls, and then give all of the woodwork a good shellacking. I should have the drapes in a week and a half, and with those hung, this baby will be done!


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Imagine a typical New England family Thanksgiving dinner — mouth-watering roasted turkey with traditional bread stuffing (Father's favorite), buttered baby peas, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, tossed salad and fresh pumpkin pie, all served in a homey 200-year-old colonial in Westport, Connecticut.
But this dinner is anything but typical. The food did not come from the supermarket or an upscale gourmet grocer. The meal's ingredients arrived secretly, in two bulging tote bags muscled aboard an airliner in California. This meal is a culinary trap set by a cunning daughter.
Enter the unsuspecting victim, one Paul Newman, actor. His life is about to take an unexpected turn.
"He is very traditional," says the designated holiday cook, Elinore "Nell" Newman, eldest of three daughters of Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward. "So, when he finished wiping his plate clean, I asked, 'How did you like your organic Thanksgiving dinner, Pa?' He stopped for a minute, then smiled as he realized he'd been had. 'I see what you mean,' he said. 'I understand now."'
What "Pa" Newman suddenly understood was just how good fresh, organic food can be. Like a lot of Americans, Newman had the idea organic food was nut loaf and yeast gravy from the hippie-dippie 1960s. Nell kept telling him organic wasn't that way anymore. And every time Pa asked her to join his food business, Newman's Own, she came back with the idea of starting her own organic line under the Newman name. They had been arguing about it for years.
"That is why I did the dinner," Nell Newman says of the 1992 organic Thanksgiving, "because whenever I mentioned to him the idea of doing something with organic foods, he turned up his nose. My sole purpose was to educate him about organic, to show him that it didn't have to be heavy, but could be light, good and fresh."
And so Paul Newman gave in. He agreed to cover one year's expenses while Nell and her business partner, Peter Meehan, researched the feasibility of a certified-organic line under the Newman name. Paul had just one condition, as Meehan recalls: "He said, 'Spend what you need to spend, but you have to pay me back, because it is charity money that I would have given away."'
In 1982, Paul Newman and a long-time friend, author A.E. Hotchner, began selling their salad dressings (previously famous among friends and family as holiday gifts) under the Newman's Own brand. At the onset, Newman made a decision that created a unique business model: He decided all his after-tax profits would go to the common good. Sales took off — the line quickly grew to include steak sauce, pasta sauce, popcorn, salsa and lemonade. The 22-year success of Newman's Own has generated more than $150 million for charities that benefit children, the arts, the environment, and disaster and hunger relief.
Nell's new enterprise — Newman's Own Organics: The Second Generation — officially opened for business in 1993. The slogan touted "Great-tasting products that just happen to be organic." It, too, was an immediate success. The choice for the first product was a no-brainer; market research revealed that pretzel sales were booming nationwide, yet no organic varieties were on the market, and Paul Newman loves pretzels. Nell's pretzels soon became the best-selling brand in the natural foods industry. And her father's seed money was paid back quickly.
But Nell didn't stop there. To date, Newman's Own Organics has generated $2 million that Paul Newman has donated to organic agriculture research, wildlife preservation, education, medical research, affordable housing and other charitable causes. And Nell has taken her father's business model to a new level by taking recommendations from employees and suppliers to help choose which charities receive the money.
Nell Learns to Fly
Nell Newman describes herself as a "flexitarian" when it comes to food and notes her favorite venue is farmer's markets. She eats a lot of fruits and vegetables, but also red meat, poultry and fish from time to time. At 44, she is tall and athletic, as befits someone who loves the outdoors. And her twinkling blue eyes tell you in an instant she is her father's daughter.
She lives in Santa Cruz, California, on the north coast of the Monterey Bay. Home is a 1,000-square-foot cottage built in 1947. The small yard is filled with organic vegetable gardens, flower beds and a prized white Babcock peach tree, which is netted each summer to protect the fruit she gives as gifts. Six laying hens follow her everywhere — two each of the Buff Orpington, Silver-laced Wyandotte and White Leghorn breeds. Nell calls them by name: Winston, Wycliff, Dorothy, Betty Poop, Einstein and Mrs. Robinson.
It was through birds — a love of avian creatures and the threat to them (and us) from agricultural pesticides — that Nell Newman's environmental consciousness emerged. When she was just 8 years old, she received a baby falcon as a gift. Her father had become acquainted with Morley Nelson, a falconer involved in making a movie adaptation of My Side of the Mountain, the award-winning children's book by Jean Craighead George.
"It's the story of a young boy who runs away, lives in a treehouse and uses a falcon to hunt," Nell says. "Dad brought Morley home one day and, before I knew it, I was reading a 12th-century treatise on falconry." In no time, she became an accomplished falconer.
Peregrine falcons were her favorite, and they were on the brink of extinction: The pesticide DDT made their eggs so fragile they would break during incubation. Nell tried to help them the only way a little girl could. "We had five or six apple trees — if the sprayer guy showed up when Mom and Dad weren't home, I sent him away," she says. "I got him to stop spraying the apple trees."
At 16, she'd had enough of just about everything and everybody. She dropped out of high school and distanced herself from her family for a few years. Later, she earned her GED and enrolled in the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, from which she graduated in 1987 with a degree in human ecology. She then went to work for the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City. "I lasted three months, until it got really hot," she recalls. "I had serious culture shock going from Maine to New York."
California beckoned. Nell wound up at the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary in Big Sur, working to re-establish the bald eagle in central California. A few years later, she switched to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. Workers there routinely had their blood analyzed after handling pesticide-laced bird eggs. Even though she didn't work with the eggs, Nell had her blood tested, too, out of curiosity, and learned that her body contained PCBs, DDT and chlordane, a banned termite insecticide. She was stunned.
Then came an even worse blow. After successes in re-establishing the peregrine falcon, U.S. government officials revised the peregrine's status from endangered to threatened, a less-critical category. "When that happened, our funding dried up because the bird wasn't sexy anymore," Nell says. "But that was the most critical time, because we needed the money for monitoring. That was infuriating. Then I had this bare-brained idea, just a knee-jerk reaction. I said, 'Damn it, I am sick of trying to raise money. I am going to do what Pa did — start a food company, but use organic ingredients, and donate the profits to charity!"'
The Organic Generation
About that same time, Meehan, who had helped Nell find summer gardening jobs during her teenage years in Connecticut, sold his business there and moved to Santa Cruz. Call it serendipity, call it fate — Newman and Meehan met up again and it turned out they lived only five minutes from each other. This was a few years before Nell's organic Thanksgiving dinner.
"Nell and her dad corresponded about the food business," Meehan says. "I helped her write a letter that put her ideas in business format and he was really impressed. 'Oh wow,' he said, 'We could do Newman's Own, The Second Generation."' But he still wasn't sold on selling organic products. Nell was forlorn.
The entrepreneurial Meehan quickly countered: "I told her, 'I'm not going to commiserate with you. This is an incredible offer. If you turn it down without even trying, you'd be nuts!"' That's when Nell hatched the secret turkey-dinner plan to convince her father that "The Second Generation" should be organic.
"Nell is a true believer," says Gene Kahn, who 32 years ago founded Cascadian Farm, one of the first organic food companies in the United States. "She is motivated by her beliefs and combines that motivation with strong business sense. I just love her company. It is all done to benefit charity, so it is an excellent utilization of a celebrity persona — probably the best example we will ever see in the world of organics."
Organic Giving
Newman's Own Organics has 61 products on the market, ranging from pet food (introduced in 2003) to olive oil, pretzels and cookies. Thirty-five of those are 100 percent organic, while the rest have at least 70 percent organic ingredients. Organic or not, most of the products fall into the snack food category. "One of the biggest problems in doing what we do is that we are, in fact, a walking, functioning contradiction," Meehan says. "The world does not need another consumer product, nationally distributed with all of the problems of shelf-life, packaging and freight issues. So many things are inefficient and not sustainable in our operation by their very nature. It is difficult for me and Nell because we know that.
"But the fact that we are growing the organic base in agriculture makes it worthwhile. That, plus we can channel our profits into organizations that are in need of funding. If it weren't for Newman, I wouldn't be in the food business — it is so fraught with waste."
With all that in mind, the two came up with an idea to out-Newman Pa Newman. They decided: Let the people who produce Newman's Own foods help choose where the money goes.
Paul Newman flipped over the idea. "He thought that was incredible," Meehan says. "Paul had been in business for 15 years and he had never thought of it. Now everybody gets to give away the money."
That includes Judy Groft, who boxes bags of Newman's Own Organics pretzels and loads them into trucks at a plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, "the buckle on the Pretzel Belt," according to Paul Newman. Giving away other people's money is a "great feeling," says Groft, a Hanover native. She and her fellow workers support causes ranging from Alzheimer's research to the local Ronald McDonald House with Newman money.
Another recipient of Newman's organic charity is the Grey Bears of Santa Cruz, a non-profit group that shares fresh produce with senior citizens. The Grey Bean distribute 1.5 million pounds of produce a year, delivering food weekly to 1,300 members and 800 shut-ins. The group also teaches composting, makes and sells worm compost, and recycles newspaper and cardboard — keeping 11,000 tons of recyclable material out of landfills every year. For two years in a row, Newman's Own Organics and its employees have donated more than $23,000 to the group. "It was like having Santa Claus come to the facility," says Lynda Francis, Grey Bears executive director.
Money Makes Change
Nell Newman says her father has great respect for the power of the ballot and has threatened, on occasion, to disown any family member who doesn't vote. So she votes regularly, but, she says, "Voting with our dollars has more influence. The main reason for the growth of organics double-digit growth for the last 15 to 20 years — is that it is a way to make change, really, to show your support of a particular company and their methodology for growing your food."


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- East Bay Regional Park District East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is a system of beautiful public parks and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The system encompasses 1,745 square miles on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay.
- Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
- Harland Hand Memorial Garden
- John Muir National Historic Site The Site preserves the 14 room mansion where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914
- Mount Diablo State Park Mount Diablo State Park is one of the ecological treasures of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Ruth Bancroft Garden Preserving an exceptional example of American garden design, The Ruth Bancroft Garden demonstrates the beauty and excitement possible in a water-conserving landscape
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Law Enforcement
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- Richmond Public Library
- Corona Public Library The Corona Public Library welcomes and supports all people in the enjoyment of reading and pursuit of lifelong learning
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- Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts Walnut Creek. Home to Center REPertory, a resident professional theatre company. Includes calendar of events
- Diablo Light Opera Company non-profit community theater emphasizing on modern and classic operetta (Walnut Creek)
- Golden State Model Railroad Museum
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Zytiga, known chemically as abiraterone, now can be given to men with advanced prostate cancer that hasn't responded to hormonal treatment and who have not yet had chemotherapy. Until now, the once-a-day pill was only approved in European Union countries for use in men whose prostate cancer had worsened during or after chemotherapy.
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In the Fall of 1998, with the blessing of Elder Ephraim, Elder Joseph Voutsas and Fr. Germanos Ponitkas purchased the 188 acre property known as the Huff House Golf Resort in Roscoe, NY for $2,500,000. Three lay-disciples from Toronto had taken second mortgages from their houses for $100,000 each and donated it for the down payment of the property, which helped greatly. Two of the donors gave the money as donations and the other donor gave the money as a loan. There was also a $25,000/month mortgage for the first 2 years and with the help of donations, the two monks paid off the mortgage.
Many of the original structures of the Golf Resort have been torn down. The structures that remained have had their exteriors and interiors redone, and new buildings have been erected. The property value has also sky-rocketed. The amount of money put into each new building (chapel, trapeza, monks' quarters, new reception area, etc.) averages at over 2 million dollars/building.
At the end of December 1998, Abbot Joseph, together with 3 monks (Fr Germanos, Kassianos & Epifanios) and 4 novices (Symeon, Philotheos, Alexios and Michael) departed St. Anthony's Monastery in Florence, AZ and drove to Roscoe, NY to start setting up St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery., Inc. They arrived in early January 1999. Fr. Seraphim came from Arizona shortly afterwards. Due to problematic issues, Elder Joseph sent Fr. Seraphim back to Arizona after a brief stay at St. Nektarios Monastery. The monks were instructed to tell pilgrims that Fr. Seraphim was only sent up on loan to help start the monastery. This was so the pilgrims wouldn't be scandalized
During Holy Week of 1999, Elder Ephraim visited the Monastery and tonsured the four novices as monks in the old chapel. Elder Ephraim did not change the names of the new for two reasons:
- Because they were recently baptized converts who just changed their names at baptism.
- So the lie that they were given as an obedience to tell people would be more believable—The new monks had an obedience to tell people they were tonsured in Arizona but their koukoulis weren't made yet and they had just received their koukoulis now. This was to cover-up the fact that Elder Ephraim visited the monastery and performed an ecclesiastical function without the knowledge or permission of the Bishop.
Some years later, Elder Ephraim again secretly visited St. Nektarios and tonsured 4 novices: Kosmas (Jason), Ephraim (Gerasimos), Nektarios (Gregory), and Damianos (Anestis). This time, the tonsure took place in the new chapel as the old chapel had been converted into a living room for the monks and a temporary dorm when the monastery couldn't accommodate all the visitors in the guest houses.
The First Chapel at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery, Inc.—The Upstairs Living Room
The first church at St. Nektarios Monastery was located in the upstairs living room of the white building, originally dubbed "the main house." The iconostasis from St. John the Theologian Monastery (closed in 1997) was used, as well as all the other materials from that chapel. The Chapel had golf green wall-to-wall carpeting. The use of the living room as a chapel was a temporary solution until the main church could be built. When the temporary chapel was no longer needed, it was converted back to a living room—a couch occupied the area of the Holy Altar, a computer station the area of the Proskomide. The former narthex was also used as temporary sleeping quarters when the guest houses became full and there was nowhere to put the extra pilgrims.
When Geronda Ephraim secretly visited the monastery during Holy Week of 1999, he gave obediences on where to build everything and how the monastery should look. Geronda Ephraim told the abbot to build the main church where the tennis courts are and the trapeza would be where the current monks' quarters are now built.
The Present-day Chapel of Archangel Michael Madamado (formerly, the Chapel of St. Nektarios)
The new chapel—which was formerly a Gaming/Entertainment Room—was finished shortly before the first Feast Day of the Monastery in September 1999. Of course, there was still lots more work to be done, this was only the initial groundwork so it could be used as a Church. The new chapel was originally dedicated to St. Nektarios. During the mid-aughties, Elder Joseph decided to change this and re-dedicated the chapel to Archangel Michael icon of Madamado. This was done for two reasons:
- The monastery needed another feast day type event to help generate more income and donations for all the projects that were taking place and will continue to take place.
- The large church that has yet to be built will be dedicated to St. Nektarios and it wouldn't make sense to have two chapels dedicated to the same saint.
The present-day chapel at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Monastery, Inc., Roscoe, NY is dedicated to the Archangel Michael icon of Madamado. So far, it has cost the monastery a couple million dollars to "beautify God's house."
Some Aspects in the Construction of the Chapel
In order to do the stone work and add a bell tower, etc. the pre-existing structure needed some foundational reinforcement. [NOTE: The bell tower was originally going to be taller. Before it was completed, Gerondissa Olympiada drove Gerondissa Ephraimia, abbess of the Archangel Michael Monastery on Thassos, for a visit. Gerondissa Ephraimia told Geronda Joseph the bell tower should be lower, so he changed the plans and did obedience to her suggestion].
The monastery hired Joe Valentine—owner of Valentine Construction Company, Inc. in Deposit, NY—to do the work. Joe Valentine's crew was so impressive, that the monastery would hire them to do the foundation and concrete work of all their future projects. And thus, Valentine Construction's annual revenue became 1 to 2.5 million dollars.
The Valentine crew became very close with the monks at the monastery. When Joe Valentine was in a custody battle for his baby boy, he asked Geronda Joseph if he could testify as a character witness for him in court. Geronda Joseph told him he didn't know the language that well and it would be difficult for him to testify. However, Geronda Joseph gave Fr. Epifanios the obedience to testify as a character witness, which he did, and Joe Valentine won custody. Geronda Joseph later told the fathers that he didn't testify for him because if something bad happened later, his name would be attached to it. He also told the fathers, and Joe himself, that he won custody because of all the help he gave to St. Nektarios monastery, etc.
According to the Masters Concrete webpage, as of November 23, 2009, Masters Ready Mixed Concrete (Kingsley, PA) has provided approximately 1900 yards of concrete between the two buildings.
Also see an interview with Fr. Epifanios Kapritsas of St. Nektarios Monastery concerning the benefits of Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF's).
Stone Work
The Monastery ordered their stones from a New York State company, Champlain Stone, Ltd. South Bay Quartzite® was the material used for the Chapel's exterior. It is advertised as: "A quartzitic sandstone with an advancing and receding surface that resembles a windswept and sandy beach. Visually smooth, yet heavily textured with a blend of tan, antique white, ice blue, amber, and brown. South Bay Quartzite® will enhance any home from warm beach cottages to cozy cabins deep in the woods."
The stone work itself was done mainly by a crew of Ecuadorian stone masons who work for a Greek man named George from New York. The Fathers also helped out with the project. The Ecuadorians' work was so impressive that they were to be hired for other projects as well. The fathers also respected their ethical work etiquette: "They don't swear, smoke, and they don't talk much, just work." Later, during the construction of the new monks' quarters, the Ecuadorians experienced a big temptation.
Father Raphael had stolen a radio from the pick-up truck of a Mexican work crew doing the drywall. As the drywall crew couldn't imagine a monk stealing their property, the only other suspects were the Ecuadorians. There was nationalistic and heated tension between the crews from that time on. When Geronda Joseph discovered the stolen radio during a routine, random cell check, he was almost ready to call the police on Fr. Raphael. As Geronda Joseph has repeatedly told Fr. Raphael, "If it wasn't for your father, Geronda Ephraim would have sent you home ages ago!"
Page 12 of the brochure below has pictures of the stonework on the chapel.
One of the main crews the monastery uses for framing is JP Construction, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, which is owned by John Paralavos. They were used for the extension of the Chapel, as well as all the other building projects. His crew was given special liberties: they could smoke and get drunk on monastery property. Like the other crews that did jobs at the monastery, the workers would stay overnight and sometimes for an entire week. One of John's workers was an alcoholic. The abbot would give him a large cup of Metaxa every night as a reward for a good day's work.
The story of how John became close to the monastery is interesting. Shortly after he visited the monastery with his family, the abbot read an article in one of the Greek papers which listed the richest Greeks in America—the abbots and abbesses like to know which pilgrims need "special attention." When the abbot saw Johns name he decided to cultivate and groom him. This is a common practice with most of the wealthy Greeks that visit the monasteries: special treatment, groom and cultivate. The monasteries have a lot of bills and expenses and wealthy donors are a good asset. John Paralavos' wife had lupus so he was already in an emotionally vulnerable state that could be easily manipulated. Regular blessings with St. Nektarios' relics, house visits, taking him on a trip to Arizona to meet Geronda Ephraim, etc. also helped.
One time, John told one of the monks at St. Nektarios that he was thinking of asking Geronda to do a holy water blessing of his house. This monk told Geronda Joseph just before John and his wife went in for confession—it is a common practice for monastics to relay everything a pilgrim has told them before they go into confession. Geronda Joseph brought it up to them before they could ask and John started hailing him as a holy prophet, which the abbot dismissed. Later, the abbot asked the monk if he told John he had been informed beforehand about John's desire to ask for the blessing. The monk responded, "No, I didn't say anything." The monk was then given an obedience not to tell John that he had told the abbot beforehand. Thus, John could continue to believe that the abbot was a God-inspired prophet who read his heart.
Stastidia in the Church
The stastidia in the Church were designed and made by the company in Serres, Greece that does all the wood work for Elder Ephraim's monasteries in North America (chairs in the church, iconostasis', etc.): Eleftheriadis Bros Sa.
Before the stastidia were made, there were wooden chairs for the pilgrims, and cushioned arm chairs for the monastics. Periodically, some pilgrims would become scandalized that the monks "sat in fancy chairs" while the pilgrims were forced to sit in "less comfortable chairs" or stand. One pilgrim even had the audacity to quote scripture to some of the monks in this regard, "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues…"
Each individual seat cost close to $600, the Bishop's Throne cost much more. The monastery made a plea letter to raise the funds to cover the cost and mailed it out to the pilgrims on their mailing list. With the help of donations, the monastery was able to cover the cost of the stasidia. The abbot would sometimes state, "It's the poor people who build this monastery." He gave a homily to a group of close spiritual children visiting the monastery and related a story:
"There was one man in New York who is very rich. He made a comment that he'd donate if there was going to be a plaque with his name stating he donated. The pilgrim told the rich man that the monasteries aren't like the parishes in the world and don't do plaques of honor. The rich man replied he wouldn't give a cent, then. And to his shame, poor women who work hard cleaning toilets and save up money—which they hide from their husbands—gave donations for the entire amount of a stasidia. It's the pain and sweat of the poor that build the monasteries."
Address: Serres 621 21, Greece
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Iconography in the Church
George Filippakis of Woodbury, NY, is an artist who specializes in Byzantine iconography. He was commissioned to do the iconography at St. Nektarios Monastery, Inc. His first project was in the Trapeza, and then he did the Archangel Michael Chapel. The cost of the Church's iconography was quite a few hundred thousands of dollars.
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The candles in the narthex are hand-made from real beeswax by the monks of St. Nektarios with the help of various pilgrims. Originally they were manually dipped by hand. In 2008, Geronda Joseph decided to order a $20,000 candle-making machine from Greece which would do most of the work for the monks.
The beeswax was originally bought from a company in Babylon, NY. Geronda Modestos offered Geronda Joseph his contact in China, where they bought "100% pure beeswax" for $1/lb., however, it had a funny smell. Though pure beeswax is expensive, and the prices increase yearly due to the high death rate of bees and hive collapses, the recycling of used candles from the narthex in the candle-making process helps cut the costs.
St. Nektarios was one of the last of 8 monasteries to be established in the year of 1998 via the blessing of then Archbishop Spyridon (2 in Florida, 2 in North Carolina, 1 in Texas, 1 in Michigan, 1 in Illinois and finally the 1 in NY). 1998 was a busy year for Elder Ephraim having to oversee the establishment of 8 new monasteries in less than 12 months, which his disciples state is further proof of his sanctity.
As two other monasteries have feast days in November, the Brotherhood decided to celebrate their main feast day on September 3, the day of the translation of the relics of St. Nektarios. This can ensure that each monastery can still attract peak numbers of visitors for their individual feast days, as well as allow the monks or nuns from those monasteries to travel to each others' feast day celebrations.
The monastery has grown to over 20 monks with only a few monks having left in its 15 years of existence.


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Arthur R. Dubs took the final walk home with our Father Jesus Christ on June 11, 2013.
Arthur was born February 26, 1930, in Phoenix, Ore., to Reinhard Jacob Christian Dubs and Elsie Marie Frohreich. A Southern Oregon man through and through, he lived his entire life in the region. From a young age Arthur enjoyed working and playing in the outdoors.
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