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by Amanda Mei Kim
The woman took her daughter's hands and gently pushed them into the compost pile.
"Feel this heat," she said.
The girl wriggled her fingers in the hot pile of decay and felt the vegetable matter and the grubs twisting under her fingers. The acrid smell burned her nose.
"Hot enough to kill weed seeds, insect eggs and just hot enough to kill the bad funguses," said her mother.
They turned the compost with their hands. "Out of this comes new life, you know."
For the girl, a little farm on the California coast was the center of the universe and her mother, Shinobu, was the creator of life on earth.
My mother wandered through the orchards inspecting all the old, split and rotten stumps, looking for signs of new growth—a shiny green leaf on a spindly stem, a root which had twisted back up to send a new tree out—she was always looking for her lost child, her miscarriage, but never found him. . No matter how many times we turned the compost pile or dug a water trough around a burned or blighted tree stump, we never saw that sign of life. People used to believe that miscarriages were monsters. I know this because my last foster parents believed that magic and secret messages could be discovered in old books. I had stacks in my bedroom, the histories of medicine, of science, of wombs, of women, of needles and knives. Every "monster" belonged to a type, some were formed by a small or narrow womb, or by a mother who sat too long or sat with her legs crossed or who had received a blow while "great with child". The most common monster was the kind created through the imagination, bad dreams and evil thoughts. But what about us, the monsters who were created outside the womb? Nobody studies us or gives us names even though we are in the millions. I think, in the world, there are just a few of us who are miracles, but most of us are monsters, at least that's how it seems.
In their sadness, her father, disappeared for days on end while her mother started to eat like a wanderer. Shinobu strung together chilies, dried tomatoes and green corn in bunches and hung them along the curtain rods. She made beef jerky, chicken jerky and smoked fish. She ate everything that she desired and nothing else. This woman with her lengths of twine and her hands smelling of salt ate as if she had no home.
One day, her father Kenji came to the porch and called for the girl who was wearing a pair of coveralls with several full pockets on the front. Hiro had been gathering tunas, cactus fruit, using a magnifying glass to find the transparent spines. Her fingers were dotted pink with blood. They drove to the bus stop, barely a shack with four benches, two inside and two on the platform. "Who's coming? Where's he coming from? You can tell me," she said, kicking her heels against the bench legs.
"It's a boy named Matías."
"Where is he going to live?"
"With his aunt, with Lupe."
Hiro grunted softly. Guadalupe worked in the packing house, except for strawberry season when she picked berries. She had quick hands and was light on her feet. Sometimes, Lupe offered to spray the girl with perfume or gave her the stubs of old lipsticks, something she did not want but accepted politely. However, she did smell of Maja soaps, even on weekdays. Hiro slid off the bench all the way down to the ground where she sat cross-legged, hunched over her magnifying glass.
Her father looked down from his paper, "Be careful with that."
"I'm just looking," she turned to block the sun as she searched for spiders and termites in the wooden platform.
The Greyhound bus from Los Angeles barely stopped to let out a fourteen-year-old boy with a small bag of clothes. He had brown, brown eyes and a smile like a flash of light on water. But he was not what Hiro expected. His clothes were dirty and he had gaps in his teeth. On the drive home, her father asked the boy questions in Spanish but he was so polite that he answered in a military style, with his eyes straight ahead. The girl at his side ignored him. They drove past the packing shed to a small cluster of farmworker houses and left him at Guadalupe's where he sat on the porch, like a plaster animal with his enormous eyes and expressionless face.
At the time, I didn't know how small our cosmos was. Through the magnifying glass, it seemed infinite. We lived in a small town, and within that, it was only my mother and father who would die in a fire, my baby brother or sister, whichever it was, and that boy and his aunt, who ever mattered to me.
If I had known then that I would be an orphan and sent to live with strangers, I would have asked Matías what it was like to be a child and alone in the world. It took a dozen foster homes in far-off suburbs and cities to teach me that you can never go back to the same place unchanged, that eventually, you come to belong to a place and not your people; that for the rest of your days you will be driven by a mindless hunger, the fear of loss, the desire for love and the pain of trying again, yet again. Hunger, fear, desire, pain, forever a reptile.
Ron, the only brother worth remembering has brought a cup of cottage cheese with apple sauce on top, a lighter and a little smoke. He probably wants me to get up and read a book, do some studying, work on my math, but I'm in bed and it's still dark out, so I will sleep for a while longer.
In the afternoon, the workers came out of the packing house, blinking their eyes in the light. Their hands were layered with wax and dirt which came off in little balls when they rubbed their palms together. They shaded their eyes from the sun and hit their pants, drank the cold black sodas that Hiro had brought them and then threw their bottles in a box when it was time to go back in.
The tomatoes rolled down a padded funnel, passing in front of the workers who sat on stools or wooden boxes or stood. They packed them by size and quality. Matías worked an air gun, tacking three-quarter inch staples into wooden slats, his arms jerking visibly when the staple punctured the wood, while Hiro walked around with a red wax pencil marking the boxes and putting the flats onto the conveyor belt. Her father stood under the light. He had one eye on the boy stapling the boxes and the other on his aunt, Guadalupe, who sat lightly on the edge of her box, her hands moving so easily that he imagined she was sitting on the shore sifting sand between her fingers.
Ron stroked my forehead until I feel asleep, exchanging the cold compress on my head for a hot towel around my feet. I woke in time to see him closing the door behind him. "Why are you doing all this?" I asked, but he was gone already, so the words flew out the window like little birds, indistinguishable from each other.
I've known Ron since I was fourteen years old. When we first met, he was almost eighteen and ready to age out. Our foster parents were the usual religious freaks who lived at the edge of the desert. Our father, Daniel, wore a wooden crown at dinner, and would "smite" us. We weren't allowed television but we were surrounded by old books left over from from estate sales or found in library dumpsters. Daniel and his wife Sharon used them to create their house rules. "One for each of you," said Sharon dishing out boiled potatoes, "the book says that plain foods will drive out vanity and other evils," and we were punished according to the "law," whatever that meant.
Ron told me to find him when I was ready to leave. I never even thought about it until two years later. A neighbor was taking me for a motorcycle ride and stopped at the gas station the next town over. I thought I saw Ron through the window and came inside.
He had cool gray eyes and a shaved head, skinny, all angles and bones. He looked harder than I remembered, probably from working nights in the gas station.
"Ron, it's me."
He was staring through the glass, at the neighbor who would jerk his head back and flash his false teeth whenever he caught them slipping out of place.
"Are you about ready to leave?"
Unexpectedly, I said yes.
"Do you need to say something to him?" he nodded toward the man waiting by the motorcycle.
"Not really," I left through the back door and waited on the loading dock until Ron's shift was over.
The neighbor never said a word. No one came to the gas station to ask about me. Oh well, she's probably better off. At sixteen, they don't look for you, they just check a box in your file, "missing from care".
One Sunday, Matías wrapped some chile rellenos in a clean cloth along with a pan dulce. Lupe always had sweet things in the house, fresh fruit juice, pan dulce, cookies, piloncillo. And though she was his aunt, she felt more like a cousin to him. He opened the screen door and breathed deeply. There was still a low buzzing in the air, from insects that had not yet been warmed by the sun.
A figure passed between the rows of trees. It was the girl. He followed her through the grove to the narrow opening of the barranca where the eucalyptus trees created an arch over the sharp canyon and watched her pull mugwort and wild rosemary into small fist-sized bouquets and bury them under sticks and leaves. She turned and began running up the barranca, jumping from rock to rock, her feet sliding down the sides of the rocks until she caught herself and was midway up the next. He kept to the sides, with his head low and his pole tucked under his arm. Where the canyon split in two directions heading into the hills, he lost her and fell, panting into a pile of soft damp malva leaves, which had opened themselves for the morning mist and were now closing.
My senses are evolving, not just the familiar five, but other ones. What use are eyes when scallops with their rows of little eyes can only see motion, and then not all motion, just quick movements and slow? The starfish is just as capable and has no eyes, just photosynthesizing tips which tell it what is light and dark. When it's light, I smoke and stay up for days and days, and when it's dark, I sleep for nights.
One afternoon, after the work was done, but there was still light in the sky, the boy followed the girl and found her in the barranca, hiding underneath a fallen tree, waiting for his footsteps to pass. If it had not been for her scuff marks in the soil, he would have walked by, but instead, he went around the log and climbed on top of it. He laid himself down lengthwise and broke off pieces of twig which he tossed at her. She rolled out and looked at him.
"What are you doing down there?"
"Nothing," there was a long pause in which each considered whether or not to continue this conversation or find something more interesting to do.
"Have you seen the fish yet?" he asked pointing to a shallow bend in the creek.
She shook her head no and he led her to a place where tiny lemon-colored crawdads were shuffling under the silt.
"These aren't fish," she said, pulling them out one by one, "See, no fins, no tail fins, no gills, no circles in the eyes and," she said tossing them back in the water, "they don't swim."
"I wonder if they taste like fish," he said. He opened his bag and handed her a cob of corn, still steaming inside of its charred black husk. The kernels were brown and tasted of smoke. Hiro remembered the smell of fire early in the morning.
She stood and poked a stick into the silt watching the crayfish spill out of the plume of dust.
We lead short, compressed lives. In a single day last spring, I woke up with no plan at all, and that night, ended up in an underground bedroom with the windows covered by boxes. Like most stars in the sky, no one knows our names and we are forgotten as soon as someone looks away.
In the town, everyone had three-quarter moon smiles, where the lemons etched away the enamel in their teeth, leaving them with blazing white, brilliant smiles. Matías got his after a few months. At a picnic, he had taken a piece of dry ice and rolled it around in his mouth, while people laughed and shouted at him to spit it out, Mati stop, you'll burn yourself! He never made trouble, never complained, but he did not like his aunt's house and having to hide whenever he heard the truck waiting in the driveway.
The first night in Ron's narrow basement apartment, we fell asleep on the double bed. There was nowhere else to sleep and it was clear that there would never be enough room for a second bed. He wore sweatpants and I wore a long sweatshirt. We weren't exactly brother and sister, but we had slept like this before. On many occasions, we had been banished from the kingdom and forced to sleep on the floor of the garage, with a piece of cardboard beneath us and a sheet above us and the light on for decency's sake.
I woke up before him and looked closely at his torso, which seemed oddly thin to me, but only at certain points. The section of arm, just above the elbow narrowed slightly before it flared out again into muscle. His shoulders were bony eaves covered in tattoos that were already faded from too much sun. There was an area where his chest seems small, but the rest was normal and there was a tiny circle of downy white hairs around his belly button.
In the early light, I crawled over him to inspect the other side, but before I could start, he rolled on to his back and asked me what I was doing.
"Nothing," I said.
He hung his arm over my shoulder and I shut my eyes and listened to the radio that we kept on all the time to hide our voices.
Hiro and the boy sank to the bottom of a swimming hole, bordered by rock faces which met somewhere below them in the sand and the mud. They sat underwater on the moss covered rocks and stared up through streams of particles: motes of dust, empty seed hulls, crushed bits of insect skeletons. From the bottom of a pool, they watched the clouds being pushed across the sky by trade winds, the North Pacific drift and El Niño, from two thousand miles away. The water filled their mouths and they blew it out, creating new currents. They linked their skinny brown arms and waited for the sun to fall.
There is something alive in Ron's touch, in the way it goes from one place he's touched to another. Each of these sensations extends through the skin and continues on in the bloodstream, in memory, forever ricocheting around in my body. This afternoon, I ran my fingers along my scalp and discovered small bare areas. I counted twelve of these dime-sized spots. I could feel how smooth my scalp was underneath, how soft the new growth and how spare. It might have been like this for weeks, but I never noticed.
Matías watched as the patrón stepped down from Lupe's porch. He met the man in the path, but did not speak. For a moment, Kenji glanced at him, saw a dirty, skinny boy and then he remembered. He turned, "You're a good worker," and handed him two dollars.
When Ron came home from work, I asked him about this balding, he touched the spots with his fingers. "I didn't want to scare you," he said. He is gentle with me, never recoiling, never worrying that whatever I have might be catching. When my mouth is dry, he keeps me supplied with licorice and root beer.
"What you need is to drink more milk, you need a little vitamin D, that's all. Just a couple more months."
He has thought it all through. In a few months, I'll be old enough to go straight to a G.E.D. class instead of back to high school where I'd have to live with another family, with more neighbors with flashing teeth. Miraculously, against all odds, we were safe for a time.
The legs of water bugs did not puncture the surface of the water, creating tiny indentations, pressing against the bubble which never breaks. They skated across the creek's surface, around leaves and piles of rocks, in and out of eddies. For a time, they gathered where the water broke before spilling over a boulder. They were pulled into the circles of currents, spinning in pairs or threes, around and around until they were ejected from the whirlpool. Hiro tested the same waters, floating on her back, too large to spin, her body rotated slowly. The sun dried her skin and she smelled of algae and granite. From the banks, Matías watched and waited his turn.
At dusk, the girl stood along the creek bank and called out, "O, yoy, yoy, yoy," letting her voice rise until the coyotes called back from the black shadows of the mountains.
"Don't do that!" He pulled her down by the arm. She was wearing a nightgown and sneakers. Underneath her gown, her skin was covered with scabs from flea bites and sharp twigs, a strand of barbed wire hidden in the weeds. He felt through her clothing for these raised lines and welts, bits of hardened blood like sap. They found each other's watery bruises. Some came from hard falls or carrying boxes on their bony shoulders, but most could not be remembered. Sliding off a rock or slipping down the roof of a house and falling into a pile of leaves.
"We're going to get in trouble soon."
"Who says?"
"Lupe knows about us, she asked me."
Hiro hung her head down.
"Your father will know next," he said.
"How do you feel today?" Ronald woke me up with his hand on my belly. He just finished working two shifts and the sun was setting.
"I'm okay."
"What did you do yesterday?" he asked, handing me the pipe.
"I cleaned the walk out front, at night, when it was late."
There was a woman who stood on the street corner every day, yelling at cars, "I am alone, I'm here, I've been stabbed." She always left puddles of soda, partially eaten sandwiches and smashed ketchup packets on the sidewalk near our window.
"Really late, like three or four in the morning, no one saw me,"
"I trust you."
"You'll never guess what she says."
He shrugged his shoulders.
"She says, 'I'm dying, I'm here,' and nobody does anything. She'll go on for hours."
"That's okay, she's fine, she always comes back, so she's fine."
"I guess that's right," I guess that's what it means when you get up every day and face your loneliness, you're okay.
Hiro came back from the chickenpen one day and found her father striking a bush. He jabbed a stick into the bushes. Hiro heard crying and screaming coming from the bushes. Kenji yelled, "Come on out of there. I know all about it." Over and over, until the boy shut up. Mati came out, bruised and tear stained. He did not look at Hiro as he ran home. That was the last time she saw him.
From then on, whenever Kenji saw his daughter in the fields or the packing house, he would say, "Get up. Get inside, you've been out long enough." Hiro went back to the house and sat in the kitchen with a book, until her mother came in to make dinner and said, "Haven't you sat there long enough? Go outside." There were three days of that before Lupe found someone who could drive Matías back to the bus stop and send him back to the deserts of Calexico with a sack full of avocados, some clothing and a fishing rod.
The night he left. I opened my window and found a small cairn on my windowsill, a cracked green glass marble, a piece of string and a sand dollar. When I returned to the barranca again, he was not there to meet me, and I would never see him again. Soon after, it would be my time to leave. Matías could return to Calexico and leave again, as many times as he wanted, but I could never return to Aviso and no one would take me in. They said I was slatternly, sideways and worse.
Hiro climbed the slick tin roof of the packing shed and flashed a pocket mirror into the sun. In the middle of the dirt road, she marked out three dots, three dashes, and three dots with sticks. She said his name into her fist and threw it into the wind. She tied strips of aluminum foil to the tail of a kite and sent the kite high up above the trees. She set damp leaves, twigs and oilcloth on fire in a metal bucket, sending smoke signals to the boy.
Ron brought home a black and white photocopy that had been taped to the gas station's bathroom wall. It was an image of two people, a man and a woman, screwing on top of a copy machine. The bottom of the page had been cut so that people could tear off phone numbers. He dropped it in front of me, "Look at this. This is the stupid shit that is happening in the world." It was sketchy but I could see the shadows of flattened buttocks and a black crack from which emerged what looked like a crow or a penis. The copy was smudged from having been handled and nearly half the tabs had been torn off.
"This is how people get sick."
Ron's parents died of AIDS and drugs. He was determined not to die of AIDS. My parents died in a fire and I think I might have died with them. I touched my face, which is covered in itchy scabs and pockmarks. He handed me a lottery ticket and some smoke and told me again that I wasn't a monster for accidentally, but most likely, killing my parents in a house fire.
"But I did it."
"It's okay."
I held my breath until my vision started to turn dark and leaned against him with my arm over his shoulder. His bones were vibrating under his tee shirt. I whispered, "You're doing a good job." His body shook for a moment and then quieted. We stayed as still as we could, as long as we could.
Amanda Mei Kim is fourth-generation Californian and Bay Area resident. She is a graduate of Brown University (BA, American Civilization) and San Francisco State University (MFA, Creative Writing). She received the James D. Phelan Literary Award and completed residencies at Yefe Nof, Hedgebrook and the Fine Arts Work Center. She was selected by the incredible Ursula K. LeGuin for her writing workshop at the Flight of the Mind. She is an emerging writer who has not yet published.


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Despite Benjamin Franklin's saying about death and taxes, there are many other things pretty much guaranteed in life. One of them is disagreements. I hate disagreements. Actually, it's not so much that I hate disagreements, it is that I dislike handling disagreements. The truth of the matter is that I could learn to do a much better job dealing with the reality that not many people see the world just the way I do. If I could get in the habit of handling disagreements better I would have a much richer, more complete perspective of my world.
What is a disagreement? A difference in values.
Disagreements occur when we hold a view on a matter that is different than someone else's view. Given each person's unique walk in life and their God-given wiring, disagreements are to be expected. If you dig deep enough, you'll find that most disagreements are rooted in a difference in values. I had a disagreement with a colleague recently about how to solve a problem. The other person valued expediency and showing others quick action. I valued a systemic approach and wanted to take additional time to address root causes. We simply valued different things in addressing the issue. If you pause to analyze any disagreement by asking lots of "Why is that?" questions, you'll find that values are usually the difference.
What do we normally do about disagreement? Dig in and defend.
Normally, when faced with disagreement, our first action is to turn inward and build defenses around our own beliefs. We strategically muster factual as well as emotional "data points" that bolster our position based on our own values. Then, we turn outward and use those defenses as attacks to argue why our own position is better. As the other person does the same to us, we calculate the "trajectory" of their defensive attacks to determine which of our own defenses will offer the best response. We end up with a verbal volley that actually achieves little until someone decides to give in. What's the result? Two unchanged and further entrenched minds.
What should we do about disagreement? Open up and consider.
We should handle disagreements by first opening up and considering the possibility that our own values and perspectives have flaws and thoughtfully exploring other's values and perspectives as potentially valid. This requires a character trait that is very difficult for most of us, including me—humility. To engage in this process we must risk being wrong or needing to modify a position. Start by first seeking clarity. We must identify the true root cause of the disagreement. I once saw a disagreement that at first appeared to be about the effectiveness of a new compensation program. In the end, though, the decision makers were worried about their new role in having to provide negative feedback and constructive criticism to employees. Tremendous time was committed to persuading the decision makers that the compensation plan was the best strategy. At first they fought hard using their defensive attacks. After seeking clarity on the matter, we finally discovered that the real issue was their new responsibility to be more frank with employees.
Once clarity is established (i.e. What are we really talking about?), then seek to understand. Ask questions, then more questions, followed by a batch of additional questions. Your goal in seeking to understand is the ability to articulate the other person's position as effectively and persuasively as they can. It isn't about who is right or wrong. It is about being able to deeply appreciate other's values and perspectives in the midst of disagreement.
What's next? It depends.
What you do next depends on what happened while seeking clarity and understanding. In my experience, when I have truly sought clarity and understanding, I find that the other person follows and does likewise. With a greater mutual appreciation for each other's values and perspectives new possibilities are sometimes discovered. The search for clarity and understanding seem to engage a creative process that facilitates problem solving.
Sometimes, after truly seeking clarity and understanding, an effective solution isn't discovered right away, but the two people develop greater respect for one another. This respect leads to trust and the ability to work together. As leaders know, we must be able to work with people who hold different views. These experiences over disagreements can forge alliances and partnerships that are the basis of great things in the future.
How do you handle disagreement? What is one thing that helps you handle these difficult discussions?
Dr. Scott Yorkovich is a leadership coach and consultant. He works with individuals, small and medium organizations, and ministries. Contact him at ScottYorkovich[at]LeadStrategic.com with your questions.
Photo by William Stitt. Photo available at Unsplash under CC0 license. Image modified for size and space.


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"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." - Jim Morrison
Granted he was not talking about architecture, but the quote works. The front door is the main entry, the gateway to a home. Often facing the street, it is typically the first thing you notice, walk up to, touch and experience. You know where you're coming from, but the front door can set expectations as to what is to come inside.
Setting aside the basics that a door must provide weather protection and security, here we focus on the aesthetics of what a door might represent. A door's color, material, and construction can affect your first experience with a home. It can invite access or deter entry, provide privacy or bring light into a dark entry.
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The following are excerpts from an interview recently conducted with Ambassador Hazem M. Fahmy of Egypt in Seoul by The Korea Post media for publication.—Ed.
|President Moon Jae-in (left) speaks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt at their meeting at the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, New York, United States, on Sept. 26, 2018
Question: What are the most important major policies of your country in the New Year?
Answer: In the New Year, Egypt is continuing to implement its strategy formulated in response to popular mandate after two great consecutive revolutions that took place on the 25th of January 2011 and 30 June 2013. This strategy embodies two central policy components; a domestic agenda focused on an ambitious economic reform program coupled with measures aiming at the achievement of social justice, and a reinvigorated dynamic foreign policy involving strong outreach activities and partnerships.
The main policies behind the economic reform program involve the implementation of massive new, hard and soft, infrastructure projects preparing Egypt for the demands of the 21st century. This involves on the hard infrastructure side, the building new road networks, new smart cities, a new administrative capital, new economic zones, and a strong move toward acquiring all sorts of cutting edge technologies to modernize Egypt's industries and to build new industrial capacities. On the soft side of infrastructure Egypt is upgrading its education and health services to meet the needs of its growing population on a scale that is unprecedented in its modern history.
Q: What are the major areas of cooperation between your country and Korea in the new year?
A: The most important areas of cooperation between Egypt and Korea in the New Year are; Investments, trade and education. In this regard, a large Egyptian business delegation headed by the Minister of Finance, and with the participation of the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, is expected to visit Korea at the end of February to look into practical ways to improve Investment and trade flows, as well as educational ties between both countries. The visit is expected to involve high level meetings with senior government officials and heads of Korean economic institutions, as well as networking between business representatives on both sides. The only time an important similar gathering happened in the recent history of both nations was on the side of the visit by Egypt's President, H.E. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Korea in March 2016.
Q: What is the volume of bilateral trade, its outlook in the next 12 months?
A: The trade balance between both our countries totals around 2.2 billion US$, with a significant surplus in favor of Korea, and it is not expected to change radically over the next 12 months. However, we are attempting to achieve some balance in the overall economic relations through various measures such as; increased Egyptian exports to the Korean economy, stimulating Korean direct investments to the Egyptian market, and attracting a large volume of Korean tourism to Egypt.
Q: What are your competitive products and services attractive to Korea, and what are Korean products and services that your country might wish to import from Korea?
A: Korea has a decisive advantage in high value added products embodying advanced technologies, due to its advanced stage of development, such as; cars, electronics, and durable goods, while Egypt's competitive advantage with Korea lies in; agriculture products, raw materials and some intermediate goods. In the area of services, tourism would be the most attractive product for Koreans, and I would imagine that Education and transfer of technology would be the most important services Egypt could import from Korea in the near future.
|The government Ministers of Korea (on the left-hand side) and those of Egypt (on the right) take notes of the remarks of President Moon Jae-in (fourth from left) and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt (sixth from left).
Q: What are areas in your country where you want Korean companies to invest and what are the areas where you wish businessmen to invest in Korea?
A: I think this is the area where Egypt has the most to offer to Korean companies, and where its decisive competitive advantage lies, investment opportunities. Egypt is one of the most strategically situated countries in the world when it comes to trade, as it is geographically located at the crossroads between three great continents; Africa, Europe and Asia, and has one of the world's most important waterways for global trade, the Suez Canal. This makes it an attractive investment destination. Egypt also has a population of a hundred million people and adds ten million people to its population every four years. This makes it a huge domestic market with a large middle class with many attractive investment opportunities.
On top of this Egypt has a network of free trade areas with many economic entities in the world such as; the European Union, Arab States, EFTA (European Free Trade Association) countries, Marcos (South Common Market in Latin America) and Turkey. Any company that invests in Egypt has access to a market of 1.8 billion people that it can export to.
In March 2018 African heads of state signed the blue print of a Pan African Free Trade Area that will encompass all 54 African States within a few years when it comes into full effect. This means that any company that invests in any African country will have access to the entire African Market without any customs or duties. Egypt, besides its strategic location, has one of the best infrastructure facilities in Africa and could be the hub for any Korean investments targeting African Markets. As Africa is the Emerging market of the world and has the fastest rates of growth among its economies worldwide, now is the time for Korean companies to take advantage of the upcoming African Continental Free Trade Area and consider to relocate in Africa, and particularly in Egypt.
Finally, as mentioned earlier Egypt is implementing a very ambitious economic reform program that involves mega infrastructure projects that could be attractive business opportunities for Korean companies to work in and to invest as well. Prominent among those mega projects is the Suez Canal Economic Zone. It is a special economic zone around the Suez Canal waterway and is multiple times the size of Hong Kong, but with a far better strategic location. This area is intended to be a global hub for many industries, logistical services, and transit trade between major global markets. Hence, it presents a unique business opportunity for Korean companies with a vision for the future.
Q: Who is the head of the bilateral friendship organization with your country? How is he contributing to the promotion of bilateral cooperation?
A: Honorable member of the Korean National Assembly, Mr. Won Shik Woo, heads the Korea-Egypt Friendship Association at the Korean Parliament. Honorable Won Shik Woo was until recently the speaker of the ruling party in the Korean National Assembly and is a great friend of Egypt. He is very active and dedicated in promoting bilateral relations between Korea and Egypt. He received many official delegations who visited Korea last year, and just returned from a visit to Egypt on 25 January, where he headed a delegation of Korean Members of the National Assembly that visited their Egyptian counterparts at the Egyptian National Assembly.
Q: Who are the most prominent Korean or Koreans who made the largest contribution to the bilateral relations last year?
A: H.E. President Moon Jae-in meat with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi last September on the margins of the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in New York upon his initiative. There is nothing more important in relations between nations than summit meetings among its leaders in contributing to the enhancement of bilateral relations. Beside discussing various aspects of bilateral relations between our two nations and ways to enhance them, President el-Sisi reiterated his invitation to President Moon Jae-in to visit Egypt. President Moon Jae-in accepted and welcomed the invitation, and we hope this visit takes place in the near future.
Q: What are the attractive tourist destinations for your country?
A: I can say with pride and confidence that no country in the world was blessed with a rich culture and history more than Egypt. Its history spans a variety of civilizations that are unique and in an unprecedented manner to have taken place in the same country. Starting with the Pharos of Egypt who impressed the human race across time with their achievements and monuments, and passing through Greek, Roman, Coptic Christian, and Islamic civilizations. Each era left its own monuments and treasures. The city of Luxor alone in southern Egypt with its Pharaonic monuments is believed to have more than 30% of all world monuments.
Most recently the Vatican has approved the official map of the sites that the holy family, Jesus and Marry, visited during their journey in Egypt. The route of the holy family in Egypt is being prepared and promoted as an important destination for all interested tourists particularly Christians around the world for religious tourism.
When it comes to nature, Egypt has one of the top three diving destinations in the world in the red sea, where the largest marine variety in the world exists. It has beautiful coasts along the red sea and the Mediterranean, as well as amazing safari trips in its beautiful deserts. The infrastructure for tourism in the red sea resorts rival any in the world and Egypt's tourism industry and hotel business is developing rapidly to accommodate the rising demand for its services worldwide.
The river Nile, the longest in the world, and where old Egyptian civilization came about and impressed the whole world has its own beauty, and is home to a once in a life time unforgettable experience through the cruises it offers between the two ancient cities of Aswan and Luxor in Southern Egypt. There is no limit to what Egypt can offer with regard to tourism with all its variable products; culture, beaches, safari, conferences…etc.
|Ambassador Hazem M. Fahmy of Egypt in Seoul (right) is interviewed by Publisher-Chairman Lee Kyung-sik of The Korea Post media, publisher of 3 English and 2 Korean-language news media outlets since 1985.
Q: Please introduce yourself in detail to include your career, family and hobbies.
A: Ambassador Hazem Fahmy is married to Ambassador Amal Nosseir, and has three sons. He started his career in 1987 at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served at the Egyptian mission to the European Union in Brussels (1991-1995), at the Egyptian Foreign Minister's Cabinet (1995-1998) and at the Egyptian Permanent Mission to the United Nations (1998-2003).
He was on loan from the Egyptian Foreign Service to the United Nations Secretariat between 2003-2014. During his work at the United Nations Secretariat he worked at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, as well as a member of the Cabinet of UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan, and as a member of the Cabinet of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
On the 1st of July 2014 Ambassador Hazem Fahmy was appointed as the first Secretary-General of the Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development, initiated by the Egyptian President at the 23rd African Summit as the South/South Cooperation arm of the Egyptian Government with African nations.
He was appointed as Egypt's Ambassador to South Korea in December 2017
Ambassador Hazem Fahmy has a B.A. in Economics from the American University in Cairo (1986), a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University (1990), a Masters of Philosophy in Economics from the New School University (2007) and a PHD in Economics from the New School University (2011).
He is an avid reader and world traveler and likes listening to all kinds of music and enjoy swimming.
Q: Who are the Korean companies actively contributing to the promotion of economic cooperation between Korea and Egypt?
A: There are several Korean Companies working in Egypt and are actively contributing to the promotion of economic cooperation between Korea and Egypt. However, the sky is the limit of what Korean Business can do in Egypt and the future is full of unfulfilled potential in this area.
Samsung Electronics has a large flat screen factory in the city of Banisweif in the South of Egypt. This factory became an economic hub in the area it was built, and besides serving the Egyptian domestic market, it is making good use of the network of free trade areas Egypt has. This factory's exports exceeds 800 million US$ annually, and as a great partner in Egypt's development Egypt has asked for a change in the rules of origin governing intra-trade in the Euro- Mediterranean free trade area to allow Samsung Egypt to enter the European Market. The new rule is expected to come into effect quite soon. Even though Korea has a free trade agreement with the EU, flat screens are heavy and it will be much better for Samsung to export from Egypt to the EU and economize on shipping costs. This is a classic example of a perfect partnership between Egypt and a Korean Company for the benefit of All.
Also LG has a large factory at the 10th of Ramadan City in Egypt that produces flat screens and washing machines. It has a large share of the Egyptian domestic market exceeding 100 million consumers and exports to the Arab States and Africa, making use of the network of free trade agreements that Egypt has. The LG factory added new production lines since it opened and has a great potential for further expansion through exports and product diversification.
GS construction is involved in the construction of one of the largest petrochemical and oil refineries in Egypt. The project is worth close to 4 Billion US$ and is scheduled to start working at the end of this year. This refinery is expected to produce half the Diesel fuel that the Egyptian economy consumes in a year.
Korea Telecom is the most recent Korean company entering the Egyptian market. It partnered with an Egyptian Company Gega Global Technology and Telecom (GGTT) last year to raise the speed of the internet in Egypt. Most of Egypt's telephone cables are made of copper wire, which is resistant to the internet. Korea Telecom developed a technology in 2014 that overcomes this resistance and could raise the speed of the internet on these wires up to 200 times.
Korea Telecom conducted already field testing for this new technology in Egypt and it proved to be quite successful and will be implemented gradually starting this year.
This by itself when fully implemented in Egypt could raise the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Egypt between 1 % and 3%.
In addition to this, Korea Telecom CEO visited Egypt for the first time last year and signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone, in partnership with GGTT to design and implement the entire smart infrastructure of the Suez Canal Economic Zone. I was informed in this regard that KT is planning to open a representative office in Egypt as an important sign of the growth potential and the deeper ties and investments it is expected to have with the Egyptian market in the near future.
This is just the beginning and we expect many Korean companies to enter the Egyptian market in the near future in light of all the reasons I outlined.
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Scientists recreate hallmarks a genetic disorder in labDecember 22nd, 2008 - 11:23 am ICT by ANI
London, December 22 (ANI): University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have successfully recreated the hallmarks of a genetic disorder in their lab, using stem cells derived from a patient.
The researchers claim that their work marks an enormous step forward in being able to study and develop new therapies for genetic diseases, as it would provide scientists with a great opportunity to watch the course of a disease unfold in the laboratory.
Research leader Clive Svendsen has revealed that this breakthrough was achieved while working in collaboration with researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The researchers also revealed that the team created disease-specific stem cells by genetically reprogramming skin cells from a patient with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disease that is considered to be the most common genetic cause of infant mortality.
In this disease, a mutation leads to the death of such nerves as control skeletal muscles, causing muscle weakness, paralysis, and ultimately death, usually by age two.
During the study, the researchers created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from stored skin cells of a young SMA patient and his mother, who did not have the disease.
They developed a new method to efficiently drive them to make large numbers of motor neurons, the cells that control muscles and that are affected in SMA.
According to them, the motor neurons thrived in both samples initially, but those from the patient-derived cells began to disappear after about a month.
"The motor neurons we got started to die in culture, just like they do in the disease. This is the first validation of a human disease that we"ve modeled in a culture dish," Nature magazine quoted Svendsen as saying.
He said that the team could then start dissecting what kills the motor neurons, and why such cells alone are targeted in the disease.
UW-Madison researcher Allison Ebert, who is the lead author of the study, said that previous studies to discern the effects of the SMA-causing mutation often relied on the easy-to-obtain skin cells, which are not affected in SMA, and thus those studies offered limited insight into how and why motor neurons die.
"If we start to understand more of the mechanism of why the motor neurons specifically affected in the disease are dying, then potentially new therapies can be developed to intervene at particular times early in development," she said.
The researchers believe that their approach may also prove useful for studying other genetic disorders, such as Huntington''s disease.
"We have to find better ways to model complex human diseases that are difficult to reproduce in animals. iPS cells represent a promising new research tool to reach this goal," Svendsen says. (ANI)
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– These collaborations are a great way for LINXS to establish its new premises as a vibrant location for workshops and research related events as well as for expanding our network. The presence of the students and lecturers at LINXS at the same time as our working groups will give rise to some very interesting discussions, says Stephen Hall, Director of LINXS.
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Author CommentsCubist, July 12th, 2015, 9:40 am ( Reply )
Free Samples, Temulin style - Hm. Could we be seeing what Ruth and Maria meant by the word "upgrades", a few strips back? [consults Magic 8-Ball] "SIGNS POINT TO NEXT STRIP." Well, okay then.
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- Fist of the North Star? "YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD! AYYYYY-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI!"
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What the hell is wrong with the muzzle in that last frame? That isn't broken, it's like the bone structure was removed and only the cartilage remains, wind blowing the soft meat-sock to her right.
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3 rows of teeth, like a shark? give her wings and a scorpion tail? you'd have a womanticore :)
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@KeeCoyote: Womanticore? if that doesn't scream Made-for-Syfy tv movie, nothing does!
posted by DarkwingDork on July 13th, 2015, 11:30 am
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@DarkwingDork: Well, maybe we can pencil in that after "Piranhacane" and "Avian Plague". So yeah, I need 15 coat hangars, a camera, and some animated bird gifs!
posted by Salen on July 14th, 2015, 8:20 am
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@Salen: Careful, you'll give that "Birdemic" guy ideas...
posted by DarkwingDork on July 14th, 2015, 8:50 am
the birds
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Good ole' Alfree Hitchcock started something in a movie called "the birds", didn't he?
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Friday, July 10, 2015
You Always Remember Your First!
We have a special announcement today. We have decided to pick up the series Yuri na Watashi to Akuma na Kanojo (?) (I'm a Lesbian and She (?) is a Demon) by Jin Mokoyama. You may have already seen that the first chapter was released by Psylocke Scans a couple days ago, but after they said they would only be doing chapter 1, we contacted them and got their permission to take over the series for them, so we'll be doing it from now on. Also of note is that we are doing something slightly different this time, in that we are going to be working from raws posted on Comic Walker on a monthly basis. As of now, chapter 2 is the latest chapter, with new chapters posted at the end of each month.
The story follows Yashiro Nonoyama, who as a child developed an intense fear of men due to boys constantly bullying her. Now in high school, she dreams of being reunited with her first love: a girl who protected her one day from her bullies. Yashiro is in disbelief when a transfer student named Mikoto Saionji arrives who looks a lot like her first love, but she later discovers that Mikoto is actually a guy, and that he was her first love. Yashiro learns that Mikoto is rapidly turning into a girl, and the only way to counteract this change is for them to passionately make out with each other every day.
Yuri na Watashi ch. 1: Mediafire, Dropbox
Yuri na Watashi ch. 2: Mediafire, Dropbox
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This one seems like it could be interesting. Will have to see how it plays out.ReplyDelete
I like it. More please :DReplyDelete
Well, let's see how things goes with this one. Thanks guys!ReplyDelete
New series, plenty of yuri kissing, i like it.ReplyDelete
I can never thank you enough for these scans! BTW, I think you'd get a whale lot more praise and attention if manga readers were just more aware of your service and loyality. Manga sites should hawk you guys more! Keep up the great work!!ReplyDelete
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The online retail behemoth Amazon has given a mainstream boost to the latest manufacturing revolution, 3-D printers, by launching a dedicated section for 3-D printers under its industrial and scientific department. In this section customers can shop for printers, printer filament, software, accessories, and books related to 3-D printing.
The office-supply store Staples is already selling 3D Systems' (NYSE: DDD) consumer printer called Cube. Amazon, on other hand, is the official reseller of MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3-D printer. Amazon, like others, believes that although the 3-D technology is exciting and looks promising, it still has a long way to go and requires the support of larger corporations.
The 3-D printing market is getting consolidated to two main firms: 3D Systems and Stratasys(NASDAQ: SSYS). Both of these were the top-performing stocks in 2012 with 3D Systems increasing by 270%, while Stratasys rose by 158% in the 12 months ending December 2012. This year, the growth of the two traditional 3-D stocks has been relatively modest, but a new entrant, ExOne (NASDAQ: XONE) is feeding the market's appetite and its stock has risen by 93% this year.
Industrial applications and economic impact
Support for this industry now seems to be coming not only from Amazon but from other industrial powerhouses like General Electric and Ford Motors. 3-D printing is a far more efficient method – which translates into cost savings – as compared to conventional methods of cutting or drilling objects. In the future, Ford believes that customers will be able to print custom parts of their vehicles. Ford has been producing prototypes of brake rotors, rear axles and cylinder heads for test vehicles using 3-D printers for the last three decades. Similarly, General Electric plans to use 3-D printing in a variety of applications, ranging from fuel injectors for aircrafts to ultrasound probes used in hospitals. Others such as Mattel have been using 3-D printers to make the parts of almost all of its toys including Max Steel, Barbie and Hot Wheels cars.
The Research firm Wohlers Associates has pointed out that the 3-D printing market is booming and registered a growth rate of 29.4% in 2011. In the next three years, it could achieve an average annual growth rate of 23%. Another well-known research firm, McKinsey's, reports that by 2025, 3-D printing will have an annual economic impact of $230 to $550 billion due to reduction in costs and greater value of customized parts.
Increasing competition: 3D Systems vs. Stratasys
3D Systems is now expanding in different areas such as production, personal and professional segments, but broadly speaking, it mainly operates in the consumer area. Earlier this month 3D Systems acquired France-based Phoenix Systems, which specializes in direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) 3-D printers. Although the company hasn't given any official figures, industry experts believe that 3D Systems would pay around $20 million for its 80% stake in the firm – this would put the Phoenix's total value at $25 million. 3D Systems will also purchase the remaining 20% of shares in the near future.
3D Systems' growth has been phenomenal, to say the least. In fact, Forbes magazine ranked it as the fourth fastest-growing tech company in 2012. In its last three years it has reported 46% and 30% growth in revenues and earnings. Furthermore, markets are foreseeing a growth rate of 37% in next 12 months.
So should you invest in it now? That might not be a good decision. Potential investors should note that 3D Systems is trading at 41 times its current year's earnings and 33 times next year's earnings estimates. Its market cap is more than 10 times its annual sales, it has a PEG ratio of more than 2 and it is not a dividend-paying stock. In short, there is very little attractiveness here. Therefore, despite the expected improvements in the coming quarters, I believe that at the current price levels, 3D Systems does not have significant room for growth and the stock is overpriced at the moment.
Stratasys is more focused towards industrial clients. But it has recently acquired MakerBot, a leader in desktop 3-D printing, for $403 million. This is a significant move in the consumer category. Through this acquisition, I believe that Stratasys will ramp up the competition with 3D Systems' Cube product line. This will be a significant step towards relatively cheaper printers. Currently, its lowest priced printer goes for around $10,000, while MakerBot's Replicator 2 (being sold by Amazon) sells for around $2,200. In reply, 3D Systems will offer significant price cuts that will make its products far more appealing to consumers. It is expected to lower Cube's prices to below $1,000 in the next 12 to 18 months.
Stratasys is also as expensive as 3D Systems in terms of price-to-earnings based on current and next year's estimates. But what makes it less appealing is that it hasn't been profitable and generates negative free cash flow. It generates return on assets of just 0.5% and return on equity of -1.27%. Therefore, I believe that Stratasys is even less attractive than 3D Systems and definitely not a buy, but a hold at the current price levels.
The new entrant
ExOne is the new star of this industry. ExOne develops large, expensive industrial size printersfor corporate customers. Sales volume is on the lower side; it sold just five printers in the last quarter but ended up with sales of $7.9 million. In this business model where the company is focused on the top end of the market, even a small increase in sales volume gives a big boost to revenues. This is exactly what has been happening as ExOne has recently posted quarterly year-over-year revenue growth of more than 190%. The business is not profitable yet, but what makes ExOne more interesting than the industry leaders is that it is more focused on a specific customer segment.
The markets have a high degree of optimism about metals printing in general and ExOne's M-Flex metal-printing system in particular. This was reinforced by the expected increase in demand from companies like General Electric and Ford Motors.
The stock is trading more than 5,000 times its current year's earnings estimates. This unusual number shows that although it is far more expensive than its bigger rivals – based on its own impressive growth as well as a possibility of a takeover – the markets are expecting big things from ExOne, which would push the shares even higher. Therefore, I would recommend ExOne.
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An Irish Blessing
Unleashed: Christmas Concert
The West Cork Choral Singers' Christmas concert was a festive potpourri, with the choir as a whole performing a seasonal repertoire. In addition, various choir members teamed up in smaller units to sing, play an instrument or read poetry. The variety of the 'acts' made for a lighthearted evening of entertainment, with the mulled wine and mince pies adding to the spirit of the evening and of the season.
Cantique de Jean Racine
The West Cork Choral Singers are shown above performing this haunting piece by Gabriel Fauré to a large and appreciative audience at Abbeystrewery Church in Skibbereen on Sunday 2 April. The evening, entitled 'Encore', also featured work by Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvořák and Karl Jenkins.
Annabel Adams on piano and Justin Grounds on violin provided musical backing. Justin's solo violin accompaniment of the 'Benedictus' from The Armed Man was especially moving.
Rosario, Diana, Annabel and Claire in happy mood after an excellent evening of music. It was, sadly, Rosario's last evening with the choir as she, and her family, are returning shortly to Spain. Rosario provided laughter, great mussel cookery and castanet playing to the choir during her stay in West Cork. A fond adiós from all at the West Cork Choral Singers.
Christmas 2016
Sweden to Schull
No sooner has the dust settled on their wonderful performance of Stabat Mater than the West Cork Choral Singers are busy again, this time playing host to the Boo Chamber Choir. Boo is a parish on the outskirts of Stockholm and their choir has existed in various forms since the early 1900s. It began life as the Boo Church Choir, then became the Boo Cantabile Chamber Choir and, in 2015, changed its name to the Boo Chamber Choir.
The choir has high aspirations with some 20 committed singers. Musically they place an emphasis on the classical repertoire, including both a-cappella music plus larger choral and orchestral works of both traditional and contemporary composers.
Since 1999 the choir has been conducted by Helena Engardt. Helena studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and, since 1996, is also as organist in Boo parish.
So please do come along to Holy Trinity church on the Colla Road in Schull on Friday 27 May for an evening of cultural exchange. Camilla Griehsel who performed so powerfully in the Karl Jenkins work will provide a bridge between the cultures as she is a member of that small band of Swedes who call West Cork home.
Greetings from Musica Fortuna
Vita, the leader of the Musica Fortuna choir in Turnov (Czech Republic) – where the West Cork Choral Singers visited in 2008 – was in touch with Margaret over Christmas. She kindly passed this on to me.
Hallo dear friend
I wish you and all the members in the choir a good new year. How are you? We here are more or less OK. No big changes in my
family. The choir sings every Monday, some new songs, some new singers. Last year we had no trip abroad. As usual we had 8 performances and concerts before Christmas. Hope to find some place where we could made a trip this summer.
So have a good time, many greetings to all the people in the choir and hope to meet again…
Christmas concert 2015
A large number of stalwart choir supporters braved Storm Desmond to see the West Cork Choral Singers at Abbeystrewery Church.
Those who made the effort were rewarded with an evening of beautiful choral music from, amongst others, Haydn, Vivaldi and Karl Jenkins. A few seasonal favourites completed the programme.
Fortified by mulled wine and mince pies the crowd dispersed into the dark night.
The choir would like to thank everyone for their support and take this opportunity to wish one and all a peaceful Christmas filled with music.
Christmas concert: hear and see
Click on the link for a movie of the choir singing Haydn's Gloria live at Abbeystrewery.
A sound recording of the Stabat Mater by Karl Jenkins can be heard by clicking the link.


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By U.S. ArmyApril 7, 2017
From April 4-7, U.S. Army Central's 4th Battlefield Coordination Detachment hosted ground liaison officers from around the country at Shaw Air Force Base. A GLOs mission is to bridge that operational gap, in this case between the Army and the Air Force. GLOs are Army officers and senior noncommissioned officers embedded with Air Force units to help ensure their respective units can understand how the Army operates.
Despite being surrounded by airmen, the GLOs know that their role is to ensure the Army is represented at their units.
"I don't ever stop thinking about the Army's mission," said Master Sgt. Michael Hughson, who is assigned to the 5th Bomber Wing in Minot, North Dakota, " My job is to best help the Air Force understand what's happening on the ground."
Because of the GLOs, their Air Force units are better able to adapt missions to best serve the Soldier on the ground and on the front lines. This ranges from logistical assets with Air Mobility Wings to tactical missions with close air-support.
Ensuring that the Army's mission is represented, but more importantly understood by the Air Force can be a challenge. New ideas, new doctrine, and even new phrasing can make the job of a GLO difficult.
"We all had to come into this and understand how a completely different branch of the military operates," said Capt. Scott Ferguson, a GLO assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing , here on Shaw AFB. "For us, I think one of the challenges is having to learn terminology and structures that are different. It feels like my first days in the Army all over again."
With the importance of their mission, the qualification course provided an opportunity for the GLOs to reinforce their skill sets on issues ranging from administrative to tactical. Some of the lessons included were on expectations of air crews, safety training, and the capabilities and systems of joint terminal attack controllers, more commonly known as JTACs.
The importance of the work the GLOs accomplish is recognized to be a great tool in molding joint operations. Even USARCENT's Commander Lt. Gen. Michael Garrett spoke to the GLOs about their impact and importance to USARCENT and the Army. With their new training, the GLOs can continue to provide the insight to bridge the gap between the Army and Air Force, ensuring the the next battlefield is dominated by the United States.


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Tom's seminars specifically covered how air leakage is measured, the effect of regulations on air leakage in the UK and the impact on energy of reducing air leakage. He also summarised air tightness standards. He explained the history and impact of building regulations from the UK perspective, as there are no standards used in Hong Kong presently. He then explained the standards used to test and assess buildings in Europe today and the resulting energy savings expected.
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As children of this divine Universe we are born to love, not hate. We are born to create, not destroy. We are born to be united, not divided. And last but not least; we are born to create the concept of Heaven, not Hell!
So where have we gone wrong? In other words; "Who in the 'Hell' do we 'think' we are????
Until we human beings decide to head out of our heads; we will continue to head towards Hell!
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"We create the cheerleaders and sounding board you need to maintain confidence and momentum."
Landit Coaching helps professionals land a new job.
Landit was founded to address the particular challenges of the over 40s job seeker.
The most obvious challenge is that opportunities don't unfold as readily once people move further up the career ladder.
A less obvious, but critical challenge is the availability of support networks - people to strategise with and bounce around ideas.
"The family and friends who were there as trusted advisors for job seekers in their 20s and 30s, simply don't have the time, skills or networks to help the way they they once did."
Landit's signature program, peer-based group coaching & mentoring circles was created to address this gap.
Our mission is to help over 40s professionals maintain their marketability and employability.
Our services are designed to help individuals do what they know they should be doing.
In other words overcome hurdles such as self doubt and focus that prevent an experienced professional doing for themselves, what they no doubt preach to others!
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The person behind Landit Coaching and facilitator is Kelly Claudius. Kelly's desire to create a peer-based group coaching & mentoring program arose from a combination of her own experience and insights gleaned helping friends and colleagues in their job search.
The 'go-to' person for strategising on job search and CV updates amongst friends and family, Kelly's insight is backed up by hundreds of hours of informal coaching and mentoring.
Her desire to translate these learnings into a coaching and mentoring program stems from frustration at the time she wasted not having the right support in place and the subsequent impact on her career and finances. She has a fervent desire to short-circuit these learnings and prevent similar consequences for others.
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Do you and your pet have plans for Halloween? Bone-A-Fide Pet Boutique is hosting their 13th (spooky!) annual Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade & Costume Contest. The parade starts at 3:00PM at Town Square (Montreat Road & State Street) in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
The costume contest will follow the parade. Registration for the contest is from 1:00-2:30PM. Registration fee is $5 for pet and $8 for human/pet pairs. All well-behaved domesticated animals are welcome. In previous years winners have included the usual dog or cat, as well as farm animals! A portion of the fees will be donated to local animal rescue organizations. Asheville Humane Society and Full Moon Farm are among the organizations that will be present at the event.
Prizes will be awarded in both costume categories. Prizes have been generously donated by businesses in Black Mountain. Two grand prize winners will receive a cash prize. Sponsors include Cherry Street Kids, Chifferobe, Curiosity Shoppe, CW Moose, Dark City Deli, Head to Toe, Merry Wine Market, Seven Sisters, Thyme & Again, Town Hardware, Veranda Cafe, and Vision of Creation.


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With Mayor Ila Mettee-McCutchon on her way to the Board of Supervisors, could the Marina City Council already be headed in a new direction? It certainly seems possible after they voted 3-1 last night against moving forward with the ill-considered "luxury" auto dealership Mayor McCutchon seemed to think was such a good idea.
Marina residents turned out to blast the project, pointing out that Marina's own land use plan sets the property aside as open space – but public opposition hasn't ever dampened Marina officialdom's enthusiasm for development in the past – and we don't remember them letting inconvenient details, like the policies of the land use plan, bother them before. Yet, last night one council member (and it wasn't even the council's long-time voice of reason, Ken Gray) even indicated that he thought Marina might be approving too much development too quickly.
Will this unexpected outbreak of common sense actually take root? Will it spread to other jurisdictions? We can only hope ….


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A Totodile named Huck has an indenty crisis, while his partner, Dusty tries to convince him that he's not a human. ...or IS he? ...naw, he's just totally bonkers. Seeking excitement, the two form an exploration team to get Huck in touch with his inner Pokemon. Meanwhile, the dark mistress, Blair, plans a scheme to use Dusty as bait to get her paws on the princess of Leppa Cape--And rule the world of Pokemon as we know it..! Can Huck and Dusty get it together in time to save the princess before darkness engulfs their world? Eh-- Why the hell not? ((Rated T for violence, language, and naughty themes.)) [Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - copyright Nintendo]
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Reply Le Jelleh, June 19th, 2009, 3:27 am
Sorry I haven't updated this in like, forever. xD Call it lost muse, or whatever.
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Reply Adriafox222, June 19th, 2009, 9:58 am
bahahah... Totodile is so cute xD
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I didn't think Totodiles could learn 'Belch'. =w-
Reply Korin the Blue Fox, June 19th, 2009, 2:08 pm
Probobly. XD
Reply hyper ee (Guest), June 20th, 2009, 12:08 pm
cute little totadile!!!
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Now that's a jelly fish! Stunned fisherman catches wobbly shrimp-like creature that's completely see-through
- Stewart Fraser was fishing 43 miles north off the Karikari Peninsula
- He plucked the bizarre creature from the water and took a photo
- It has baffled Mr Fraser and all of his fisherman friends
- But aquarium tells MailOnline the creature is called a Salpa maggiore
A fisherman from New Zealand was left baffled when he caught this see-through shrimp-like creature swimming near the surface of the ocean.
Stewart Fraser was fishing with sons Conaugh and Finn 43 miles north off the North Island's Karikari Peninsula when he spotted the translucent 'shrimp' floating near the top of the water.
Mr Fraser said: 'I was in two minds whether to haul it in, but curiosity got the better of me and I decided to take a closer look.
This translucent shrimp-like creature was caught swimming near the surface of the ocean off New Zealand
Baffled: Fisherman Stewart Fraser holding the see-through shrimp
'It felt scaly and was quite firm, almost jelly like, and you couldn't see anything inside aside from this orange little blob inside it.
The photo baffled Mr Fraser and all of his fisherman friends, who are still none more the wise as to what the creature could have been.
One theory to explain the mysterious fish is that it could be a salpa maggiore - a kind of marine invertebrate.
Salps, as they are more commonly known, are found in both equatorial and cold seas, so the waters around New Zealand's Karikari Peninsula would be more than suitable for the translucent sea creature.
They are spotted swimming alone just as often as they are seen in long, string-like colonies, and move by pumping water through their gelatinous bodies.
As a harmless creature that feeds only on plankton, a salp's see-through body is believed to be designed to avoid it being spotted by predators when floating near the surface.
One remarkable species survival technique is the ability to create a clone of itself when food is abundant, which then grow at the fastest rate of any multicellular creature.
Mr Fraser said: 'We have no idea what it could have been but it was quite something and I'd never seen anything like it before.'
However, Deborah Cracknell, research lead from the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, told MailOnline she believes the creature is a Salpa maggiore (Salpa maxima).
Paul Cox, director of conservation and communication at the National Marine Aquarium, said: 'Little is known about these salps, however, they are often found in colder seas, with the most abundant concentration found in the Southern Ocean.
'The salp is barrel-shaped and moves by contracting, pumping water through its gelatinous body.
'It strains the water through its internal feeding filters, feeding on phytoplankton from the upper sunlit layer of the ocean.
'They have an interesting life-cycle with alternate generations existing as solitary individuals or groups forming long chains.
'In common with other defenceless animals that occupy open water - jellies and hydroids for example - the translucence presumably provides some protection from predation. Being see-through is a pretty good camouflage in water.'
Mr Fraser, was fishing with sons Conaugh and Finn 70kms north of the Karikari Peninsula when he spotted the mysterious shrimp
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