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Mask + Scrub is made with 15 outstanding superfoods, the synergy of which combine forces to gently but effectively exfoliate and brighten your face.
Unlike a typical powdered mask or scrub Graydon's is pre-portioned in single serve (vegetable derived) capsules which keep the superfoods inside super fresh (so they don't oxidize).
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Lingua Franca Avni Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley
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'Under the helm of noted Master Sommelier Larry Stone along with Burgundy master Dominique Lafon, this Pinot Noir is so fine-tuned. The nose is soft and succulent, with notes of dark black cherry, blueberry, violet, vanilla candle, and cotton candy, heightened by a prickly palate, with tart, spicy cherry flavors and a touch of high-toned herbs.' - Courtney Schiessl, Vine Pair, December 2017
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Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive & MEND Poverty
A huge thank you to an amazing group of Food Forward volunteers who came out on Saturday to the Sherman Oaks post office and to MEND Poverty to help support the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive! We helped sort, box & load over 10,000lbs of food brought in by the Sherman Oaks mail carriers and are still waiting for the final… total of food donated to MEND in just one day (definitely over 100,000lbs)… A big thanks to Sonia at the Sherman Oaks Post Office and to Rich, Luke and the entire MEND team for letting us be a part of an amazing day!
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Is their a need for grape fruits? Location is in fontana,ca.
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Jaguar Land Rover 'Approved' has been named as What Car?'s 'Best Used Car Scheme' for the second year running.
Jaguar Land Rover 'Approved' has been named as What Car?'s 'Best Used Car Scheme' for the second year running. Designed as the most comprehensive suite of 'peace of mind' features for its customers, What Car? judges were impressed with Approved's rigorous 165-point mechanical check, extensive warranty and the wide range of models it's available on. What Car? judges also highlighted the F-TYPE Coupe and Range Rover Sport for delivering great value, awarding them victories in the Best Used Coupe for less than £35,000 and Best Used Luxury SUV under £60,000 categories.
We strive to make every part of the car buying process as easy, trouble-free and as transparent as possible for our customers – be it new cars or used cars.These awards from one of the most trusted names in motoring are gratefully received by those in the business that have worked hard to ensure the quality of our used car programme and each and every one of our vehicles. We're confident in the abilities of our cars – including F-TYPE and Range Rover Sport – but their recognition from What Car?'s expert judges is a real honour.
All Jaguar or Land Rover Approved vehicles include a two-year unlimited mileage Approved Warranty, which covers models up to five years old with less than 100,000 miles at the time of purchase. There is no limit to the amount of claims that can be made, and each claim is only capped by the purchase price of the car. For absolute on-road confidence, all Approved models also come with two years' 24/7 UK and Europe Roadside Assistance. The Comprehensive scheme also includes:-
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Despite strong challenges from some excellent used car schemes, Jaguar Land Rover's Approved scheme takes our Used Car Scheme of the Year award for the second year running. And no wonder; it still offers the same blend of qualities that endeared it to our judges last year: a long used car warranty; a comprehensive breakdown package including European cover; a sensible age and mileage eligibility limit, so that older, more accessible cars can be included; and a wide-ranging inspection process. In short, we reckon it's the scheme that offers the best peace-of-mind when going into a dealer to buy a used car.
Jaguar Land Rover's Approved schemes offer the same customer-focused approach as its new car sales, they are designed to complement one another and are jointly operated from its extensively renovated network of more than 200 retailers nationwide. Jaguar Land Rover's new car range is more diverse and cutting edge than ever, too, thanks to recent introductions like the revolutionary all-electric Jaguar I-PACE and plug-in hybrid Range Rover and Range Rover Sport P400e.


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text: To me it comes down to a simple thing: end-to-end packet latency matters to the higher layers, controlling the combined incoming rate of packets must be done at the endpoints, since they are the only place to back off, Internal bottlenecks cause large queueing delays to build up, and absent packet drops, those queues will drain only as fast as the outgoing links that service them can carry packets, The *application* control loops to manage application layer backoff share the same paths and the same queueing delays as do all the rest of the packets, (this could be ameliorated by making a separate flow control channel, but there are a wide range of applications that would prefer to back off intelligently - e.g. use lower rate codecs or decide to go drink coffee and come back when the net is more lightly loaded - so the control channel cannot be based on some fixed theory that hides control from apps). In any case, in today's TCP, we should be seeking Kleinrock's optimum steady state - a pipelining state such that no router *ever* has more than one packet in each outgoing queue (on the average). On links that are not bottlenecks, the average is << 1 packet in the outgoing queue, on links that are bottlenecks, the combined flows traversing that link are such that the average queue length is 1 packet. This is the "minimal latency" state that sustains the maximum overall achievable throughput of a steady state network. Analogous to a single-queue being "double buffered", where a new packet arrives just as the old packet completes. Because of the delays in the control loops at the endpoints that cannot measure without long delay, entry and exit of new flows, and other non-steady-state things, we actually are able to tolerate queue averages a few packets (2-3) long on the average, in service of keeping throughput up in the worst case without resonances and other problems that relate to control instabilities. It's not the size of the buffers that matters - they handle transients better. What matters is not dropping packets feeding into a bottleneck aggressively enough to keep the outgoing queue drained, so it doesn't build up sustained backups of obsolete packets. On 09/18/2009 09:59 AM, Detlef Bosau wrote: > Hi to all, > > this debate continues to appear here now and then in the list ;-) and > to my understanding, the positions are quite extreme here. > > On the one hand, there are some standards, who do "heroic effort" > (credits to DPR ;-)) and allow to configure even a SDU corruption > ratio 10⁻9. > > On the other hand, there is e.g. DPR, who does hardly any effort and > says, there should be typically not more than three transmission > attempts. > > I would like to understand these positions a bit better than now and > perhaps, there are some strong facts, which support the one or the > other view. > > Detlef > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/end2end-interest/attachments/20090918/be35c767/attachment.html


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Rivian R1T electric pickup announced
A new electric pickup truck from US startup Rivian was launched at the 2018 Los Angeles Motor Show, giving Elon Musk's proposed Tesla pickup a rival before it has arrived.
Called the R1T, it's a five-seater, 5.5-metre long pickup, available with three different battery sizes: 105, 135 and 180kWh, offering a range of between 230 and over 400 miles.
Acceleration from 0-60mph takes a claimed three seconds, despite the R1T's significant 2.6-tonne weight. This is thanks to four electric motors developing the equivalent of 197bhp and an enormous 14,000Nm of torque.
As well as rapid acceleration, the four-motor setup also promises strong off-road capability – a key requirement for US pickup customers. Adjustable air suspension allows for a maximum ground clearance of 360mm and the R1T has a wading depth of a metre.
The Rivian R1T joins the Rivian R1S SUV and a proposed 'rally-car' hatchback in the US start-up's fledgling range.


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A sole proprietor is a person with a business who has never formed a company with the state. If you've been doing business but you've never established a corporation, an LLC, or another kind of company, congratulations! You're a sole proprietor. If you have a name for your business, you are "doing business as" that trade name. If more than one person are doing business without formalizing a company, that's called a general partnership.
In both cases, you could be legally operating a business (provided you have the right business license and other permits and insurance) without having the protection of a company.
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text: Hello, I am the author of a jigsaw puzzle game application, http://www.resorama.com/glpuzzle/ It's a simple game, but it uses hardware accelaration for a nice visual experience with eye-candy. The game comes with a 12 puzzles, based on photos that I made myself, or found on the web. I would love to see this included in debian and derived distros (like edubuntu) in the future, but I am not sure about the license to use for the photos I made myself, and I am not sure which licenses are acceptable for photos I found elsewhere, or that people want to provide me with. I realize that there has been a lot of talk about this already, but I did not find a definitive answer... I placed my own photos under CC 1.0, but I understand that this is not acceptable? I can change them under the GPL, but would that oblige me to give access to the original jpegs as downloaded from my camera (before rescaling, etc), as this would be considered the "source"? I also am asking some people for photos to create a puzzle-collection in a specific category (classic DAF cars). So, what license should I ask them to provide me these photos with? I don't want to bother these people with legal talk, they really don't mind, and tell me literally "you are free to do with these photos whatever you like"... As for photos I found elsewhere, there are two I particularly like, for obvious reasons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Penguins_111602.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Penguins_Edinburgh_Zoo_2004_SMC.jpg The first is public domain, with a rather explicit note of the other. Would this be considered debian-compatible? And the second is DGPL 1.2, which I understand is not acceptable? Maybe it would be best to only distribute the game with photos that I made myself, and offer other collections on a web-site. But still, the first penguin photo, I'd really like to be able to include in the distributable version, since I want to use it on the splash-screen. Thanks in advance for your advice, Maarten -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.


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Bahrain Police, Protesters Clash in Village near Capital
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Bahrain's police fired tear gas and used sound bombs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday in a Shiite village near the capital, witnesses said.
Witnesses said the incident took place at a road junction in Sanabis following the funeral of a 15-year-old youth.
The protesters chanted anti-regime slogans, AFP reported.
The uprising in Bahrain began in early 2011.
According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested ever since. Bahraini authorities have stepped up their crackdown on anti-regime activists over the past weeks.


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The Rapper RICK ROSS Has Been Arrested On Drug Charges
Ross, whose birth name is William Leonard Roberts II, was arrested on a misdemeanor marijuana charge after police officers stopped his Bentley (seen below) due to an alleged window tint violation.
The officer smelled marijuana before finding a small amount of the drug inside the car, according to Channel 2.
Ross, 39, was reportedly in the process of being booked into the Fayette County jail Wednesday afternoon.
Last January, Rick bought the Fayetteville mega-mansion that was once home to boxing legend Evander Holyfield. The home has 109 rooms, a dining room big enough to seat 100, a bowling alley, a 135-seat movie theater, an Olympic-size pool and a baseball field. The 235-acre property also boasts a separate 4,000 square-foot residence.
Rick was born in Mississippi and raised near Miami. The founder of Maybach Music Group, he is perhaps best known for his 2006 single "Hustlin'."


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Underwater 3G SDI bulkhead connector for M16 port
This DNC-2030 is used for facilitating the transmission of high-definition (HD SDI) video signal within and between underwater systems and for interfacing HD video-based equipment such as telemetry systems, high-speed cameras, broadcast 3G SDI cameras. SDI underwater bulkhead connector with thread M16x1, compatible with waterproof video and DSLR housings such Nauticam NA-BMCC. Being a manufacturer allows us to provide custom variations (1/2x20; M12; M14; M15; etc) of the underwater bulkhead connectors for HD SDI signal.
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Melissa Benoist Gets a Visit from Carole King at 'Beautiful'
Melissa Benoist poses with the real Carole King backstage after a performance of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Friday night (July 27) at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City.
The 29-year-old Supergirl actress is playing Carole in the Broadway musical through August 4.
"I've been in Idaho hanging out and I kept hearing how great Melissa was and I said, 'I better come and see her.' Amazing, just amazing," Carole said on stage after the performance.
Carole also told the crowd how she was amazed that Melissa's foot tapping during the song "It's Too Late" mimicked her own foot tapping.


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Meet the 2019 Cooking Matters Colorado Impact Council!
Share Our Strength and Cooking Matters Colorado are committed to helping families at risk of hunger gain access to healthy food and stretch limited food budgets by empowering parents and caregivers of kids ages 0-5 with lasting food skills and nutrition education.
2017 was the inaugural year for our Impact Council - a version of a young professionals group that helps break the barrier for low-income families to access healthy food while raising public awareness and revenue streams that allow all community members to utilize the programs offered.
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For Gigi's founder, seller's remorse
Gina Butler's new book is called "The Secret Ingredient" and features family recipes along with business lessons. "I'm now re-building my brand," she told Franchise Times during a visit to its booth at the NYC franchise expo.
"It's been really hard. You birth a baby and you put it into someone's hands and you trust them," said Gina Butler, the founder of Gigi's Cupcakes who sold 100 percent of her cupcake chain to a private equity firm in June 2016.
The flowery words always flow when founders sell their franchise brands to private equity firms. At the time of the sale to FundCorp out of Texas and its affiliate KeyCorp, Butler said in a statement, "I am so excited about FundCorp leading the way for Gigi's Cupcakes. We now have the opportunity to experience tremendous growth."
But as shown by the rare honesty of Butler, who was a Franchise Times cover story in January 2015 and stopped to visit with an update at a recent trade show, the good feelings don't always hold. For her, the hardest part is remaining the face of the brand, appearing on behalf of Gigi's to tell her unique story, but having no voting interest or control with the franchisor.
"Your name and your face is on it. The hate mail—and the fan mail—still comes to me," she said, adding she'll get a note when a store in Milwaukee, say, runs out of cupcakes. "I'm still the face." In fact, she makes appearances at trade shows and grand openings to promote the cupcake chain, which had about 100 units at the time of the sale and two years later has about the same number.
Dueling lawsuits by KeyCorp against franchisees and franchisees against KeyCorp, detailed in the May issue, are painful to her, yet something she said she predicted.
She told the board "if you make these four changes you will get sued," and they said "oh no, don't worry," yet it came to pass, she said, while adding many of the franchisees involved were a problem before the sale and remain so afterward.
KeyCorp and Gigi's execs declined an interview request, but Gigi's Franchising CEO Judy Renfrow sent a statement that said in part: "Not only does her history and passion for the company make her the perfect spokesperson, it also allows her to still be involved as we take Gigi's Cupcakes to the next level of growth both through expansion of the franchise system as well as new offerings such as the recent introduction of nationwide delivery."
Now Butler is working on her next chapter, and true to her back story—broke cleaning person and aspiring country singer turned Gigi's founder with $300—she has big aspirations. "I'm now re-building my brand," she said, emphasizing the 'my.'
Her book is out this fall from Simon & Schuster, titled "The Secret Ingredient" and featuring a family recipe at the end of every chapter and a business lesson at the beginning. For example: "Be brave, be bold. It's the hard knocks experience of business."
She's developing a line of cooking utensils under her name, such as tea towels and spoons and a whisk. The tag line is, "Where there's a whisk there's a way," and she even wrote a jingle, which she proceeds to sing aloud. The idea is, if she has to paddle across a river with this whisk she can. "It's—don't mess with my whisk," she says with a laugh, striking a tough pose.
She has a deal for Gigi's branded cabinets with Serenade Cabinetry out of Pennsylvania, and she will begin touring and doing cooking shows for all the designers. The difference between her and other housewares celebrities, she figures, is authenticity. "I've cleaned more cabinets than anybody on the planet," she said.
She's recording a TED talk, and she said to do one of those popular 15- to 22-minute talks "you have to be able to support your theory. My theory was, sweet dreams die hard."
Her ultimate goal is to do a cooking show. "I want to be the next Martha Stewart," she declares, then pauses. "Without the prison sentence," and she whisks herself away toward her next appearance.


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In the past, an installation & repair resume objective was a required introduction to the entire document, highlighting what's to come in the applicant's career and giving readers a reason to carefully review each section. Today, the objective is seen as completely unnecessary because it only relates to employers what they already know: you want a job. Take the time instead to learn the new way of writing a resume summary by checking out the differences between the two below.
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An installation & repair resume objective is future-oriented, giving employers the outlook you have for your career. This may have been a key to conveying your aspirations, but it shouldn't be used today unless you are changing industries, entering at entry-level, or seeking a promotion with more responsibilities. These usually include where you currently are in your career and education and end with where you want to be. Here are some samples:
- Seeking employment as a CCTV Technician to utilize my history in real estate development, installing camera and access control systems to maximize security and safety in various neighborhoods. Would like to apply my work with government and private agencies in the design and implementation of CCTV, fire alarms and other integrated systems.
- Would like to be an installation and repair technician, using my own truck and basic hand tools or meters necessary to implement DSL inspections and standard res/bus pots. I would like to maintain, test, clear and locate faults from buried, aerial and submerged wire or cable and communicate what needs to be done.
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Unlike an installation & repair resume objective, the summary gives you the opportunity to sell your best employment and skills highlights in about a 30-second sales pitch at the top of your resume. It should be no longer than four to six lines long and only include relevant major skills, employment history, and any soft skills or personality traits that would be valuable to an employer.
Sentence fragments are okay, but make sure to take out all pronouns. Take a look at the sample below:
Example of an Installation & Repair Resume Objective
Former National Guard Signal Support Systems Specialist adept at ensuring information flows smoothly and securely. Provided technical support to users of signal equipment, as well as trained users in operation of equipment. History of preventative maintenance and services will be useful to the integration of networks and systems, unit-level maintenance, and securing radio and data distribution systems.
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Event-Works is a web-based platform that optimises the flow of delegates attending any type of event
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This tutorial will teach you how to make a basic candy lei. These leis are perfect to give out at graduation ceremonies or any other fun celebration.Continue reading
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Travel to the Murchison Falls NP. Expect the roaring rapids of the Murchison Falls, the rolling plains of Uganda's largest National Park teaming with abundance of wildlife. Go chimp trekking in Budongo Forest Reserve. You will return to Kampala before travelling to Bwindi. Go gorilla trekking Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for relaxation and sightseeing. Return to Entebbe International Airport to catch your flight out.
Hopefully, your flight is scheduled for an early (not past noon) landing in Uganda. Your guide/driver will pick you from Entebbe Airport and you will hit the road for Murchison falls. The highlights of this park include; the roaring rapids of the Murchison, the rolling plains of Uganda's largest National Park where you will have the chance of viewing lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. Then surely you will be fascinated by the concentration of hippos and the Nile crocodiles here. For birders, Murchison Falls boasts 450 bird species including the elusive shoebill stork, dwarf king fisher, the white-thigh hornbill, and the Goliath heron among others.
En route, make a detour visit to Zziwa Rhino sanctuary. You will have at least one hour of rhino tracking while here. Another stop will be in Masindi in order to enjoy your lunch. Continue to the park and check in to your accommodation to relax for the Evening.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Parkside Safari Lodge
- Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
- Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Have your breakfast, depart for an early morning game drive across the rolling plains of Uganda's largest National Park, where you will have the opportunity of viewing lions, giraffes, hartebeest, buffalo, and elephants. For any birder, this area supports the secretary bird, and black chested snake eagle to name a few. Return to your accommodation for lunch. After lunch you will head out for the boat trip to the base of Murchison Falls where you will also be able to catch sight of more animals including Hippos and Crocodiles and several water birds. Continue with a hike (if you like) to the top of the falls. The hike may be a strenuous one but the thrill on reaching the top is breathtaking. Miss it only if you must. Return to your accommodation and have a relaxed evening.
- Main Destination:
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Accommodation:
- Parkside Safari Lodge
- Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Budongo is astonishingly bio-diverse, with 24 mammal species, over 360 birds, 289 butterflies and 465 plants. Budongo is also known for its primate population, which includes around 800 chimpanzees.
After breakfast, you will be driven through the Ugandan countryside which alone is worth a trip as you go for chimpanzee trekking in Budongo Forest. Also, look out for other primates like the black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, baboons and grey-cheeked mangabeys. With over 360 bird species, you will have an absolute bird sighting experience while here.
After your chimp experience, you will return to the lodge for lunch and relax probably enjoying the sounds and sights of the area. Else, you may opt to take some nature walk to feel the beauty of the forest firsthand.
- Main Destination:
- Budongo Forest
- Budongo Eco Lodge
- Mid-range lodge located inside Murchison Falls NP
- Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Have a relaxed breakfast at the accommodation and then set off for a return journey to Kampala. On arrival, you will be dropped off at the booked accommodation where you will have relaxation plus the overnight stay (awaiting next day's trip to Bwindi NP).
- Main Destination:
- Kampala
- Accommodation:
- Cassia Lodge
- Mid-range lodge located in or near Kampala
- Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Your guide/driver will pick you from the accommodation and then depart for Bwindi Impenetrable national park. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a big habitat for mountain gorillas in Uganda harboring over 300 of them, more reason as to why it should be your next safari destination.
The drive takes you southwest Uganda, cross the Equator, and then to Mbarara for Lunch and through Savannah grasslands to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The scenic drive through Kigezi Highlands, banana plantations and sight of herds of long-horned Ankole cattle – endemic to this area take you to the gorilla Sanctuary of Bwindi.
You will arrive in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the evening and will mainly do less but just check into your accommodation, relax as you prepare for the Bwindi gorilla trekking experience the following day.
- Main Destination:
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Broadbill Forest Camp
- Budget tented camp located inside Bwindi Impenetrable NP
- Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After an early breakfast and a briefing by a ranger guide, you will enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rain forest is spectacular! The area offers dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain vary with the movements of these great primates. Once you locate a gorilla group, you will be allowed an hour in their presence. The thrill of spending time observing these gentle and endangered giants is an awesome, exciting experience to be long savored. Return to your lodge. Have your lunch and thereafter check out for a transfer to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is framed by lush, green-terraced hills that reach a height of (2,200 – 2,478m) but it's the 29 islands of various shapes and sizes scattered across the water that make it most magical — you could admire them all day.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Bunyonyi
- Accommodation:
- Arcadia Cottages Uganda
- Mid-range cottage located in or near Lake Bunyonyi
- Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Have a relaxed breakfast at the accommodation with spectacular view of the Bunyonyi little islands just right in front of you and thereafter embark on your return journey to Entebbe Airport. Expect enroute stopovers in Mbarara town for lunch and the Uganda Equator line mark in Kayabwe for some memorable photos (if you didn't stop on the first day) and may be buying some art pieces of interest. Proceed with the journey arriving late afternoon/evening for drop off at the airport.
We do recommend for a late afternoon/evening outbound flight schedule for this day (if flying out). We hope to see you (or any referral) when next, you visit and thanks for choosing Ngoni Safaris Uganda!
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Important Information
Price Includes
- Park fees(For non-residents)
- Gorilla permits(One per person, non-resident)
- Chimp permits(One per person, non-resident)
- All activities(Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation(Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation(Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals(As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water(On all days)
Price Excludes
- International flights(From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips(Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items(Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Some meals(As specified in the day-by-day section)
Terms & Conditions
- Rates are per person and exclude the international flight from/to your home country.
- This tour must be paid in US Dollars (USD).


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We are exceptionally pleased to announce that 2019 marks the 15th Anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Voice!
In 2004, when we began the Jewish Voice . . .
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So much has changed and one of the industries most effected has been publishing. That's why as we celebrate our 15th year, I wanted to write and thank you for your ongoing support.
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At Délifrance, we believe that every day doesn't have to taste like everyday. Each day is a reason to enjoy every bite of it.
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The care of each and every one of our people: we call it our human chain.
From our farmers, to our millers, our bakers, our employees, up to our customers, we are collectively commited to seeking new and pioneering ways to improve ourselves while cultivating the highest respect for our heritage and willingness to hand it over. This not only includes the quality of our products, but respect for every single person and the nature we source from.
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Weekly prayer meeting
On Sabbath mornings before the service there is a prayer meeting where we gather so that we can humble ourselves and pray for the matters of the church. Usually, this contains updates on members who can't join us and often we can give thanks for the ability to meet so publicly.
Fortnightly prayer meeting
Every fortnight there is a midweek prayer meeting on a Wednesday evening. This would have a short devotion with and psalm that is sung and then an opportunity to pray. You don't need to pray however we would still love you to come along. Please look at the upcoming section to see when the next meeting is.


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Goodwill's Career Connection Center in Stapleton is helping to fulfill the Green Book's vision for Stapleton by providing the community with an outlet to develop human resources. It serves as a bridge in building a strong bond between the center and the community. It is, "A place in the community where goals and needs are met," said Vanessa Clark, Senior Director of Marketing. Goodwill's Career Connection Center is most in line with Stapleton's desire to be a sustainable community. Stapleton was created with the intention of providing a community in which people could live and work. The Career Connection Center teaches skills required in the workforce allowing individuals to be self-sustaining and able to live and work within a community.
The Career Connection Center at Stapleton is one of the many programs of Goodwill Industries in which individuals acquire new skills, strengthen existing ones; as well as have a supportive staff to aid in their career exploration. The center positions people for success by providing classes in a wide variety of topics from workshops on building resumes to healthy relationships. Vanessa shared that the mission of Goodwill's Career Connection Center is to "give dignity and hope to Coloradans in need through the power of work." They also provide "individuals attention to find work and success in careers." By hosting hiring events, the Career Connection Center gets people in front of companies that are hiring for positions.
The center is not just for Stapleton residents; according to Veronica O. White, the Work Skills Instructor, it is for anyone who is "motivated, reliable, and dependable;" it is for those with an "eagerness to find a job." Vanessa added that it is "not a resource for Goodwill," rather "it helps those out in the community find jobs." If a person is in need of career assistance, and is 16 years of age or older, they can utilize the Career Connection Center. It is for those who are wishing to re-enter the workforce and people who want to attain new skills in order to advance in their career.
To utilize the Career Connection Center, community members need to attend an orientation about the center and the expectations of those using the center. Once this is completed, users are able to: utilize the computer lab, have access to any of the Career Connection Center's locations, as well as sign up and attend classes. During the first visit, users will receive assistance from the staff to assess their skill set and what they want to achieve. The end goal is to help people along their path to self-sufficiency in a supportive community setting.
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Beach Green North, located in Far Rockaway, Queens, features a 94,000 sf building, including 101 residential units along with amenity spaces for it's tenants. Developers had the ambitious goal of building to Passive House standards, which not only saves energy and reduces carbon emissions, but also results in cost savings for both the owner and the tenants by lowering utility bills and creating a more durable, sustainable, and comfortable space to live.
Construction is complete and in April of 2018, Beach Green North was officially certified to PHIUS+ 2015 standards!
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Steven Winter Associates (SWA) was selected as the Passive House (PH) verifier for the project, aimed at meeting the notoriously stringent PHIUS Standard. Working in collaboration with The Bluestone Organization and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, the team achieved in bringing the project goals to fruition.
Primary Energy Conservation Measures:
The majority of this structure has been constructed with insulated concrete forms. This system has several benefits including reduced thermal bridging and speed of construction, and is quickly becoming a favorite of PH developers for low to mid-rise construction.
While this system has a myriad of benefits, it does pose some unique challenges when compared to traditional stick framing. Particular attention to detail at the punched openings—windows and doors—is critical to meet the demanding Passive House air tightness requirements. Working in conjunction with the developer, general contractor, and window supplier, SWA was able to assist the team in assessing the best methods for air sealing these details. Mock-ups combined with air leakage testing resulted in a winning solution that could be replicated throughout the building.


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Battle Of Culloden Facts
The Battle Of Culloden was the bloodiest of all the Jacobite battles. It was also the last battle fought on British soil.
The Battle of Culloden was fought on Drumossie Moor, to the north east of Inverness, on April 16, 1746.
The battle ended within the hour: the Jacobite forces, with the wind and rain against them, succumbed to the government's army.
Jacobite morale was low. Hunger saw the men spreading out wide to find their own food, some of them breaking ranks for home.
On the long march back to Scotland, the Highland Army wore out its boots and demanded all the boots and shoes of the townspeople of Dumfries as well as money and hospitality.
The battle began with an artillery barrage by the Hanoverian forces. It lasted only a few minutes, but cut down many of the prince's men before they had a chance to charge.
One of the many myths of this event is that it was a Scottish versus English affair. In fact, far more Scots supported and fought on the Hanoverian side than on the Jacobite.
Forces led by Charles Edward Stuart – better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie – led the Jacobites, comprised mainly of Highland clansmen.
On the night of the 15th, a mismanaged strike was launched on Cumberland's camp which achieved nothing, resulting only in sleepless, hungry Highlanders for the next day.
Jacobite casualties are estimated to have been between 1,500 and 2,000, while only 50 deaths and 239 wounded were recorded on the opposing side.
80 rebel officers, like Lord Balmerino, Lord Lovat and Lord Kilmarnock were taken prisoner at or shortly after the battle and tried in London.
Cumberland's troops were made up of English veterans fresh from Europe and over 4,000 Scots: more Scots were facing Charles than were standing next to him.
The Battle took place South east of Inverness and a few miles south west of Nairn in Scotland.
The term Jacobite comes from the name 'Jacobe', which is Latin for James.
The Jacobites were outnumbered around 9000 to 6000, and the ground was too marshy to accommodate the Highlanders' favourite tactic – the headlong charge into the enemy's ranks.
It is said Cumberland gave orders for "No Quarter Given": in other words 'none shall live' – however it appears this was actually added to the foot of Cumberland's written orders by some unknown person.
Many of the Highlanders headed for Inverness and were hunted down and killed without mercy by Cumberland's dragoons.
One of their first acts after the battle was to try to catch the Prince himself, who had eluded them by slipping away from the battlefield while the fighting was still going on. Charles fled the mainland and made for the Hebrides, outwitting both a massive military cordon and a reward of £30,000.
In 1881, Duncan Forbes erected the headstones that mark the mass graves of fallen Jacobite soldiers. They lie on either side of an early 19th-century road which runs through the battlefield.


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The major refurbishment work at Plymouth Market is coming to an end with a Grand Day Out on Saturday 30 September to celebrate its completion.
The refurbishment works have given the Grade II listed building a new lease of life, lightening and brightening the building in the city's West End.
To welcome customers old and new to this unique Aladdin's Cave of shopping and eating, the market is holding a big celebration for all the family on 30 September and everyone's invited.
Matt Jones, Market Manager said: "We're so pleased with the outcome of the refurb works that we had to throw a party for everyone to come and see the results! "We wanted to thank all our existing customers for their continued support throughout the disruption and entice new customers in to see what they've been missing.
"We've got a great line up of activities taking place throughout the day, from free 'have a go' workshops to classic cars on show, free tasting sessions, live music, street entertainers and our very own finals of 'Plymouth's Top Talent, in conjunction with Radio Plymouth.
"And if that's not enough, we've teamed up with the West End Food Fayre in Frankfort Gate: local celebrity chef Peter Gorton will be cooking up a storm exclusively using ingredients from the market and chatting with our stall holders."
The celebrations start on Friday 29 September with a free 'Tea Dance with a Twist', run by Plymouth Dance from 12.30 to 3.30pm. A dementia-friendly event, everyone will be welcome to come along and put their best foot forward.
The Grand Day Out will run from 10am until 4pm. A key highlight will be the grand finals of Plymouth's Top Talent, hosted by Radio Plymouth. The winner will receive the fantastic cash prize of £500 as well as the opportunity to perform on the Radio Plymouth stage on the Hoe on Bonfire Night.
Madcap street entertainers will be roaming the market to keep everyone amused. They will also be joined by some familiar faces as some of the market's regular music acts play a mix of favourites songs, old and new.
Car enthusiasts are in for a real treat as classic motors will be on show around the Market: if you're a luxury car lover or a timeless motoring devotee, come and swoon over a selection of some of the best cars in the South West.
Council leader Ian Bowyer said: "We've invested in the Market as it's the anchor for our West End. It's somewhere with a strong sense of community and a place which not only has a lot of shoppers, but is a place where many businessmen and women start their entrepreneurial journey.
"It's a very distinctive listed building which needed sensitive updating. I'm thrilled to see the work finished and look forward to seeing lots of people at the Grand Day Out as well as afterwards. I hope more people pop in to see what makes it special to Plymouth."
Steve Hughes, Chief Executive for the Plymouth City Centre Company, said "We're delighted that Plymouth City Council has ensured the future of Plymouth Market for years to come with this significant investment in refurbishment works. I hope that this will act as a major catalyst for more investment in the West End moving forward."
There will still be time to browse 140 stalls, eateries and cafés and discover great value purchases from the friendly stall holders, who offer a wide variety of goods from fresh local food to fashions jewellery, beauty products, haberdashery, fabrics, household goods – the list is endless.


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Seven years ago, on a Thursday in November, not long after Connor Gushen, a sous-chef at Vesta Dipping Grill, had moved to Denver, the scent of roasting turkeys wafted through the air. It was Thanksgiving, a day when families congregate around the dining room table and squawk about politics and each other. Gushen, who was on his own and bereft of a family in Denver with whom to squabble, didn't have plans. But fellow sous-chef Kenny Turk wasn't about ready to let Gushen spend the day on his own. "Kenny invited me and a handful of other line cooks with nowhere to go to a Vesta orphan Thanksgiving at his house with him, his wife Lisa and Cordelia, their daughter, and I remember being so grateful and learning from Kenny how strong the family vibe of Vesta really was," says Gushen.
So many other Vesta staffers, past and present, have similar stories about Turk, who, after an unprecedented sixteen years on the line at Vesta, is leaving that galley -- and Denver -- later this month to move to Albany, New York.
See also: Vesta Dipping Grill owner Josh Wolkon reflects on fifteen years of success
Turk, who began his career at Vesta in April of 1999, when he was just 27 years old, is described by his colleagues, including owner Josh Wolkon (Wolkon is also the owner of Steuben's and Ace) as the "intangible" MVP; the sous-chef behind the scenes; the unsung hero of Vesta."
Turk, reflects Wolkon, "has brought antics, tomfoolery, practical jokes and positive energy to a small kitchen that thrived in his presence, and with every successful business, there seems to be that one person who has the ability to bring smiles to those around them, and Kenny is that guy, always lightening the mood but professional when necessary." Turk, he adds, "can work each and every station with skill and ease, and he's incredibly handy with kitchen challenges involving electrical currents or plumbing."
Twice a year, shares executive chef Brandon Foster, "Kenny pulls all the ceiling tiles down in the kitchen, then cleans and/or replaces them, and then puts them all back. It's a terrible job, and one of the few things I've never done here...sounds like that'll change soon," he surmises.
Turk can "handle a misbehaving ice machine, cooler or oven, for example, all the while showcasing his skills at making sausage and salamis," says Wolkon, adding that while Turk sidesteps the spotlight, "he's been vital to the success of Vesta's line" while cooking under former executive chefs Matt Selby and Wade Kirwan and, now, Foster.
"I don't view myself as any more hardworking than anyone else, but I'll admit that I'm the guy who does the jobs that no one else wants to do -- the guy who will fix all the things that are broken, and that's just part of being the best sous chef I can be," explains Turk. As for shunning the limelight, Turk, who despite being one of the most hilarious guys on the planet with a sharp wit and a genuine ability to poke fun at himself, insists that being front and center isn't his goal. "I don't want to be in the limelight, and nor am I expected to be in the limelight," he claims. "My job is to do what it takes to make our exec chef look the best he possibly can."
And he performs that job, says Wolkon, without any pomp and circumstance -- and sans emotionally-charged antics. "Kenny never brought drama to a drama-filled industry; a cameo from Kenny in the dish pit wasn't unheard of; he was the first to jump into the dumpster if we needed more room; and when former employees think back to their best memories, favorite people, and funniest stories of their time at Vesta, Kenny's name will be mentioned often," insists Wolkon, noting, too, that Turk's mustaches -- an oft-seen site at Vesta, especially during the restaurant's annual Mustache Festival -- are legendary.
Still, while Turk, by his own admission, is the kind of guy who's perfectly content in his clogs, Selby, who was the exec of Vesta for fifteen years (he's now the exec chef of Central Bistro & Bar), cooked at the James Beard House several years ago, and while he had an impressive roster of kitchen cohorts from which to pull from on his journey to the famed New York temple of gastronomy, he chose Turk.
And anyone who's ever been to the Beard House knows that the size of the kitchen all but commands comradery -- and a shrugging nonchalance for bumping butts. In the Beard House kitchen, it's best to cook among friends. Turk was unfazed by the pressure, the culinary cognoscenti and the fact that he was cooking in a kitchen that breeds enormous prestige. "Choosing who to take the the Beard House was one of the toughest decisions I've ever had to make, but Kenny grounded me, which allowed me to the enjoy the moment with him; there's no one I would have rather had with me than Kenny," admits Selby, adding that Turk taught him, among other things, to "speak your mind and trust your gut -- and yourself -- and not to always worry about what other people might think about you."
And, attest Turk's colleagues, to provide comic relief on nights when Vesta's kitchen is slammed, which is the norm rather than the exception. "Kenny's best quality is making people laugh when they're down; he can cheer someone up in the blink of an eye, and he also makes some of the grossest comments that you've ever heard," reveals Steven Cox, another sous at Vesta who will take over Turk's position when he departs.
I know this from firsthand experience. "If you ever find yourself in a a stressful situation, and you need to focus, you start whacking away at your balls," Turk tells me. "It's testicular stimulation, and it gives you a burst of energy that makes you focus, and while it might hurt a normal human being, I've been touted as a man of steel -- 60 percent steel and 40 percent dolomite -- so I'm actually stronger than steel," he asserts, acknowledging that the ball whacking only happens two, maybe three times a month. "I only do it in the heat of battle, and it's usually just ten to fifteen whacks -- just enough to make it inspiring to those around me," he adds.
"I've seen him punch himself in the balls while smiling...many, many times," collaborates Rob Bowman, a server at Vesta and instigator of the Mustache Festival. Bowman, who says that the name "Turk conjures up odd images of Ottoman raiders descending upon some poor, unsuspecting village in Turkey," predicts that if "Turkey were a high school, Kenny would be its mascot, and he'd be screaming down a hill swinging knives, while his other hand would be furiously punching himself in the balls, provoking a kind of existential dream in his enemies. He can punch himself in the balls over and over. I can't emphasize this enough," stresses Bowman.
Turk is also renowned for what he calls "his wild tales and outlandish stories," including one that involves his blind eye; no one knows if it's his right or left, including, he admits, his wife...although he could be fibbing about that. "It's true that I'm blind in one eye, but which eye is my most tightly guarded secret, and my wife doesn't even know, because she says I'm always cross-eyed," deadpans Turk, who will tell you that his blind eye is a result of one of three things: "I was born blind in one eye because of a folded retina, and my parents didn't even realize it until I was two years old; I was attacked by a bear in the woods who took a swipe at my leg and hit my eye instead; or I was attacked by a shark in the ocean while snorkeling." But he does confirm this: "If you look deeply into the eye that's blind, you'll see your own death," he declares.
"Some us wish we could get a straight answer from Kenny when we ask him how he lost the vision in his eye, but the story changes every time and often comes with a warning that if you look into the wrong eye, you'll see your own demise," says Doc Noe, the director of marketing and human resources of Secret Sauce, the parent company under which Vesta, Steuben's and Ace are all umbrellaed.
In addition, says Noe, "Kenny's horrific handwriting and somewhat creative spelling has been referenced by more than one line-mate, especially those who have had to read one of his prep lists or recipes."
And then there's the matter of the "astronaut training" of newbies, which, according to Foster, is Turk's (mostly benign) hazing of incoming line cooks. "When I first started at Vesta, Kenny defined it as being able to tolerate anything at any time," recalls Foster. The "training," he reveals, involved "tests like turning up the heat on the flattop so I'd burn the pita bread if I wasn't watching it closely enough; rearranging my station while I was in the walk-in; and tugging at my arms and my chef coat while I was trying to ladle sauces into two-ounce cups."
In fact, once the new guy -- most of them spend the first several days learning all the sauces -- had just gotten comfortable on the line, Turk admits he'd "tickle, prod and poke him, all in an effort to make him focus on the task at hand." According to Turk, the "astronaut training" is about "overcoming your fears and phobias in order to make you concentrate, even when you're wielding a knife."
Training cooks, notes Noe, "is at the core of a chef's responsibilities," and it's "fair to say," he adds, that "Kenny has, in several ways, influenced many culinary careers," including the paths of chefs who have formerly commanded the line at Vesta -- Wade Kirwan and Brandon Biederman, the chef of Ace and Steuben's, for example -- and chefs like Paul Reilly and Drew Hardin. "They've all learned a thing or two from Kenny," says Noe.
Turk, he adds, is the "calming force behind Vesta's success, the quintessential man behind the scenes, the guy quietly cooking in the center of the storm." He "approaches each day at Vesta with the same intentions he's had from day one: to do his job well, so well, in fact, that you don't even notice," asserts Noe, noting, too, that Turk is "also something of a kitchen counselor," a sentiment that Foster, Vesta's exec chef for the past year and a half, agrees with.
"Kenny has always been the one who can talk me down," says Foster. "He'll always listen and let you vent, and he'll help you through anything and everything, and his energy and passion for craziness and fun is unmatched," he adds.
"Kenny is one of the most honest and genuine people I've ever met and worked with, and I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't worked under -- and alongside -- him," says Gushen. Furthermore, points out Gushen, "Kenny never forgets how to have fun, and he's basically like a big kid, except that when you really need someone with age, wisdom and experience, he'll give you whatever you need, be it the good listener or good advice giver."
For his part, Turk, who attended the Art Institute of Colorado and graduated with a culinary degree, confesses that when he first stepped on the line at Vesta, he didn't know much about anything. "When I came to Vesta, I was so green and, to be honest, I went in there blind -- I knew nothing about Vesta -- but all of us were just kids who were having fun while building an extremely successful restaurant," he says. "We grew up together, had kids together and got married together," adds Turk, who actually met his wife on the line at Vesta. "I trained her and taught her all about the sauces, and we dated secretly for five months before finally coming clean, and in 2003, we got married."
Wolkon, who promoted Turk to sous-chef in 2001, says that his departure will leave a lasting impact. "I'll be forever grateful for the time, energy, loyalty and dedication that Kenny has given to Vesta, our community and the growth of the Denver food scene," he notes. And while the nation's culinary climate is often obsessed with naming the next "celebrity" chef -- even if he can't cook worth a damn -- Turk, insists Wolkon, is the real deal. "Kenny is a local celebrity who's stayed true to what he does best: cooking and smiling," says Wolkon.
"I have this image of Kenny's grin when the shit hits the fan," shares Bowman. "You'll be in the weeds with chaos all over the place and everyone's a bit on edge, but then Turk looks up at you with with this madman grin of 'Isn't this just fucking nuts?' -- and It's fantastic, because it sends down waves of calm and odd little shivers of fear in everyone. It's him saying that everything will be okay," Bowman says. "Everyone knows that he gets shit done. He's earned what he has, and if you're in the trenches with him, he'll make sure you get out in one piece and that you win the battle -- thank God he's on my side."
Turk, whose last night at Vesta is Thursday, has a difficult time finding the right parting words. "It's so hard to sum up the last sixteen years...it's hard to explain, but I hold Vesta really close to my heart -- I wouldn't be the man I am today without Vesta -- and I'm going to miss all the people I love, respect and admire, and I'm going to miss all the hot girls, too," he jokes.
The move, he says, is due to the fact that his wife, who works for Whole Foods, was offered an opportunity in Albany that was too good to pass up, and family time, says Turk, is his main priority. "The reason why I've stayed a sous-chef all these years isn't because I couldn't be an executive chef -- I can -- but there's so much responsibility that goes along with that position, and it leaves no time for my family, and family time is a lot more important to me than being in a restaurant day in and day out. You have to lay down ground rules for yourself, and one of my rules is making sure I have personal time," explains Turk.
His future plans aren't solidified, but he has a few ideas in mind: "I'm going to retire -- at least that's what I'm telling everyone," he says. "It's nice and juicy, don't you think?"
Then again, he confides, "maybe I'll train for American Ninja Warrior, or maybe I'll be a personal chef -- the overpaid prep cook. That would be perfect." On a more serious note, says Turk, "I'm going to be a stay-at-home dad, at least during the summer, and spend some quality time with my daughter, who's eight."
We often hear restaurant industry staff -- chefs, especially -- insist that their galley mimics a family environment. "That's pretty much always horse shit," contends Bowman. "It's usually a loose association of people stuck with each other, but that's not true of Vesta," he promises. "We love together and party together; we've watched our kids grow; we've grieved together, and Kenny is my brother, and I love him. We all love him; we love his family; we love his devotion; and we love his sweetness," he says.
"Remember the punching himself in the balls thing?" asks Bowman. "Nothing will ever hurt Kenny, because he can handle anything, and that's ultimately what made him a hero of Vesta," he explains. "You need someone who will always come through? Someone who will take your side and defend you through anything? Ask for Kenny Goddamn Turk, but avoid that crazy look in his eye; I highly suspect it's contagious," warns Bowman.
On a side note, adds Bowman, Turk is allegedly absent of body hair, which has become a standing joke in Vesta's kitchen, and the crew won't let him go without addressing it. "Why is his body so hairless" wonders Gushen. "I think he has some sort of selective alopecia areata," concludes Bowman. "Kenny insists that he razors his ball sack clean, but I don't think Kenny can grow pubes. What this ultimately means about him, I'm not sure, but while no one needs an abundance of them, not being able to grow pubes is vaguely revolting," he jokes.
"I like to keep it trim down there," retorts Turk.
All joking aside, Turk's fiercely loyal sidekicks all agree on one thing: "We'll all miss Kenny dearly, and the kitchen just won't be the same without him," says Noe. "We'll miss him terribly," echoes Bowman.
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And on Thursday night, when the Vesta crew bids Turk farewell, there will undoubtedly be tears. But make no mistake: Thursday will also be a party, as is customary when a staffer leaves Vesta. Expect a DJ, and, says Turk, "pies in my face," specifically one with "with whipped cream, fish sauce, turmeric, maybe a delightful hint of lavender and maybe even some food coloring." Oh, and if you show up at Vesta on Thursday -- the goodbye bash will start around 9:30 p.m. -- Turk teases that you might even witness some ball whacking. "My balls are tough as nails, so take your shot," he taunts.
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