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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Posted by WSC Marketing
Nursing Students Associate of ND names WSC's Grinnell as nurse of the year
WILLISTON, N.D. - Congratulations to Williston State College's Megan Grinnell (LPN) for winning Student Nurse of the Year. Grinnell was awarded this honor at the annual state Nursing Students Association of North Dakota (NSAND) convention on Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 2014 in Jamestown, ND.
In order to be eligible to compete at the state level, Grinnell was selected by her fellow classmates and WSC instructors (located at Minot site) to advance to the state competition. She was judged on the following criteria based on her application and interviews with the judges:
· Leadership
· Professionalism
· Personal Accountability
· Commitment to Nursing
· Commitment to Professional Growth.
· Involvement in the College of Nursing
· Involvement in Nursing Student Association
· Ability to Serve as a Role Model for Future Nurses
Along with this honor, Grinnell will be a member of the 2014 NSAND Board of Directors. She is also the current President of the local WSC chapter and in the past has served as the Vice President. Other responsibilities will include aiding in the recruitment for North Dakota's nursing schools and being an ambassador for the nursing profession. She has and continues to be a leader in organizing her local chapter's community and fund-raising activities. In addition to being a current nursing student in the WSC AAS in Nursing Program, Megan works part-time in Minot's Trinity Emergency and Trauma Center as an ER Technician.
When asked about her experiences in her current positions as an LPN/ ER technician and a nursing student, Grinnell commented, "I've been surrounded by the best people in every field throughout my life. As a student at Williston State College-Minot, I learn from the best instructors. As an ER technician at Trinity's Emergency and Trauma Center, I'm learning from very experienced and talented nurses and colleagues."
Megan also strives to use evidence-based practice as a nursing student and in her present position as an LPN/ER Technician. She defines Evidence-Based Practice as "utilizing proven research findings by implementing it into our nursing practice. Evidenced-Based Practice increases the quality of patient care as well as provides the most cost efficient nursing care possible for our patients."
She believes "nurses need to make it a priority in their practice to stay current with new research and practices as we are always trying to improve the quality of care our patients receive. Nurses need to be reviewing their facility's current policies and procedures to determine if there is a better practice that can be implemented to improve patient outcomes."
When asked how she prevents burnout while working, being a student, and meeting all the demands of her personal life she stated, "I have several family members working in health care. I always have someone that understands the stressors and emotions that I'm experiencing. My nursing instructors are truly committed to seeing us succeed in the nursing program and I know they are just a phone call or email away. I recommend as students/nurses we take advantage of the outlets that are offered to us, from clergy services, our colleagues, to study groups, tutoring, or just taking a break to refocus, regroup, and remember to care for yourself. I'm not afraid to ask for help or speak up if I don't understand."
Her future career plans involve taking her RN-NCLEX exam this summer, continuing her education to earn her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, and working in Trinity's Emergency and Trauma Center as an RN. In addition she plans to become certified in ACLS, PALS, and TNCC.
For more information about Grinnell's award and the WSC Minot nursing site, contact Rhoda Owens at 701.852.2267 or firstname.lastname@example.com For general information about the WSC nursing program, please contact Kari Lesmeister at 701.774.4290 or firstname.lastname@example.com For all other information regarding Williston State, visit willistonstate.edu, call 1.888.863.9455, or stop by 1410 University Avenue, Williston, ND.


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A {very long} while back, my friend Amanda bestowed this blog award on me. I kindly thanked her, told her I would post it, then
That was probably a year ago.
Hmmmmmph. I hate when I do things like that.
More recently, I was given this same award again--and it jogged my memory to the fact that I had gotten it before! I have to thank both Amanda and EricaJ for giving this one to me!!
The rules of the award are:
- Choose seven blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.
- Show the seven winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Scrap."
- List at least 10 honest things about yourself.
So, here are my 10 honest and completely random things:
1. My refrigerator is filthy up on top. I know it. Now you know it. I just looked up there today, as a matter of fact, and saw the layers of dust. I've cleaned my house from top to bottom--several times lately--but I have a hard time convincing myself to clean up there because, well....no one ever sees up there but me. And that's only when I'm standing on a chair. Someday I'll get a wild hair and make it all shiny up there, I'm sure. Someday.
3. I still have very scary thoughts every single day about something happening to my Peanut.
4. I think I may be addicted to candy. {Probably part of the reason for my afore-mentioned weight issues.} Ahem. I have a particular fondness for york peppermint patties, junior mints, snowcaps, and nerds. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
5. Tetris is my most favorite Nintendo game of all time. I could sit and play for hours and hours and hours....wish I still had one of those!
6. Even over two years later, there is not one day that goes by that I do not think of the baby that I lost. Not one day.
7. I struggle terribly with patience. I ask God for patience everyday, and pray that today will be different than yesterday was. I can be such an impatient mother to my children, and I feel so guilty about it. I'm ashamed of myself every single day for at least one thing I said or did--but, I am also working on it. Every. Single. Day.
8. I love notepads. I think I buy every single different one in Target's $1 bin every time I go there. Something about a decorative piece of paper that you can stick to your fridge and write your thoughts or reminders or grocery needs on...I love them! Ah, the little things...
9. One of my favorite things in life is getting love notes from Shane. Whether they are written in soap on my mirror or written on the dry erase board in the kitchen, it doesn't matter. They have a way of making my day. My week!
10. I love being a stay at home Mom more than anything. There are fun days, down days, busy days, lay-around-and-do-nothing days, cleaning days, laundry days, Mom-is-nothing-more-than-a-taxi-cab-driver days, lunch-with-Daddy days, shopping-just-for-fun days, shopping-because-your-fridge-is-empty days, library days, Room Mother days, and so many in between....but I truly love and am grateful for them all. I really believe that I have the best job on the planet.
{And, I'm skimping out on naming seven other blogs today, because of time issues...I'll try to get to that. Hopefully, within the next year. Or two.}
Happy Monday, everyone!


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An Edgewater diver who drowned at Blue Spring State Park had plenty of air in his tank but, its air valve was only partly open, according to a report from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
An Edgewater diver who drowned at Blue Spring State Park had plenty of air in his tank but its air valve was only partly open and he was not certified to dive as deep as he did, according to a report from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
Samuel Slack, 36, drowned on Oct. 9 after he had a problem with his air supply and an attempt at buddy-breathing failed with his diving partner, Daniel Vansickle, 37, of New Smyrna Beach, according to reports. Slack "showed no signs of apparent or obvious injury" and the autopsy determined his death was an accidental drowning, the report states.
Keith Sterner, the owner of Sea Dog Dive Shop in New Smyrna Beach where Vansickle earned his open water and advanced certificate, said an out-of-air diver can quickly panic.
"It's scary to see people panic," Sterner said. "You see grown men do things you wouldn't think they'd do. A lot of times you can't control someone in a panic and the best thing you can do is to save yourself."
Slack was the first diver to die at Blue Spring in Orange City since 2009 when Robert A. Jones, 38, of Zephyrhills drowned while "free diving" without air tanks.
Vansickle told investigators the men had been diving for several minutes and were about 80 feet deep when Slack made a "throat slash" gesture to show he was having trouble breathing, the report said.
Vansickle said he passed his regulator to Slack so he could breathe from it.
But when Vansickle motioned for the regulator's return after about 30 seconds Slack held on to it, the report said. Vansickle told deputies he then pulled away from Slack, got control of the regulator and swam to the surface.
Once he surfaced, Vansickle yelled for a maintenance person to call 9-1-1, then dove back down and found Slack motionless in about 100 feet of water, the report states.
Vansickle could not be reached for comment.
Vansickle worked with Slack's wife, Krystal, at The Garlic restaurant in New Smyrna Beach and had known Samuel Slack for about a year and a half, the report said.
Slack's tank had about 2,100 pounds of pressure/air, the report states.
Corbin McKeon, an employee at Spruce Creek Scuba in Port Orange, said in a phone interview that depending on the type, tanks can hold from 3,000 to 3,500 pounds of air.
Slack's tank valve "only turned less than one quarter (1/4) of a turn to shut off, this is not a normal operating position," the sheriff's report states. Another part of the report said it turned only a quarter turn. Sterner said he teaches students to open the valve all the way, which can take several turns, and then turn it back a half-turn.
"If the valve isn't open all the way, it can create labored breathing," Sterner said.
Slack had a novice open water diver card, meaning he was not certified to dive any deeper than 60 feet, the report states. Both Slack and Vansickle initialed a document at the park that they would not exceed the limit of the least certified of the two, meaning that they should not have exceeded the 60-foot depth.
Vansickle was certified as a cavern diver and his gear included an extra regulator to be used by a buddy to breath during an emergency.
But the additional regulator was under the chest straps of Vansickle's "buoyancy vest, making the regulator unavailable if needed," the report states.
Each man's wrist-worn dive computer showed they dove to 116 feet to the bottom of the spring and remained there for about 2 minutes.
They ascended to about 80 feet where both computers showed that they stopped for about a minute.
Slack's computer shows he then descended to 90 feet and remained there for 8 minutes, the report said. Then Slack "immediately" rose to the surface.
Vansickle's computer shows the same depths and then Vansickle rising to the surface as Slack remained at 90 feet.
The computer shows Vansickle immediately descending to 90 feet and then immediately returning to the surface. The computer information is consistent with Vansickle's account and his decompression sickness.
An investigator tried to formally interview Vansickle, but on advice of his counsel "he refused to cooperate further during the investigation."


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Blair Redford: Where's The Bride on 'The Lying Game'?
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January 16, 2020
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Hudson Grille Sandy Spring, 6317 Roswell Rd NE, Sandy Springs , GA,United States
One of the best networking events in town. Find what you want and share what you have.
Run by Joe Thompson
Location: Hudson Grille Sandy Springs
6317 Roswell Rd NE. Sandy Springs, GA


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How to reach us
By public transport
- From Munich Airport
Take the S-Bahn number 1 (S1). At the stop Neufahrn transfer to bus number 690 towards "Garching-Forschungszentrum". The trip takes about 40 minutes. Please note that this bus does not run often and is not operating on Sundays. You can find other connections on the MVV web page. A taxi ride costs about 40.00 Euros.
- From Munich downtown
- Take the subway U6 to the final destination "Garching-Forschungszentrum"; approx. 25 min.
- Take train S1 to Neufahrn and then via bus 690 to "Garching-Forschungszentrum".
- From Garching-Hochbrueck or Garching center
- Take subway U6 from stations Garching or Garching Hochbrueck to the final destination "Garching-Forschungszentrum"; approx. 7 or 10 min, respectively
- take Bus 230
- cycle to MIAPP (10 min) - you can borrow bicycles from MIAPP
You can request your schedule directly at: mvv-muenchen.de
Further information with network maps and prices are found at Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV).
Travel by car
The research campus Garching can be reached by Autobahn A9:
- From Munich
Take Autobahn A9 towards Nürnberg, exit "Garching-Nord" and follow the signs to Forschungszentrum.
- From Nürnberg or Airport München
Take Autobahn A9 towards München, exit "Garching-Nord" and follow the signs to Forschungszentrum.


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Amos Eno Gallery posted on December 29, 2013 2:34 PM
ABOUT Founded in 1974, Amos Eno Gallery is one of New York City's oldest nonprofit cooperative art spaces. Amos Eno Gallery provides a full and active season of exhibits by member and guest artists, complemented by a diverse and challenging series of performances as well as distinctive educational and public programs for the arts community in Bushwick and the greater metropolitan New York area. Amos Eno seeks to provide a platform for emerging artists in all media, giving precedence to artistic expression freed from commercial restraints combined with continued professional education. MEMBERSHIP As a member of Amos Eno Gallery, artists not only secure exposure in one of the world's art capitals, New York City, but also gain a support network of like-minded artists and the assistance of a professional director. Our new 750 square foot home at the Loom places artists in the center of the vibrant Bushwick arts scene, mid-way between the Metropolitan and Jefferson Avenue L train stops. In addition to our Artists Level memberships, Amos Eno is excited to announce the Affiliates Level, our newest membership initiative! The Affiliates Program is specifically designed to accommodate the needs of emerging artists, offering access to a number of Amos Eno's professional services at an affordable rate. VIsit our website at http://www.amoseno.org/index.php/site/membership for more information.
Loom Yoga: About Us posted on February 13, 2012 11:49 AM
Loom Yoga Center offers Yoga, Pilates and various workshops for the Bushwick neighborhood and beyond. Maintaining affordable rates to strengthen and encourage daily practice. Loom Yoga Center is a collective of yogis dedicated to positivity, wellbeing and community. We are blessed to be located in the thriving artistic and family oriented neighborhood hovering between East Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn. Here at Loom Yoga Center, we seek to channel personal expression through the ancient practice of yoga. We wish also to integrate those aspects of contemporary practices that will heighten the spiritual and creative journey by offering Pilates classes and exciting workshops supporting creativity, curiosity and caring. At Loom Yoga Center we're on a mission to help you weave together your body, mind and spirit. At Loom Yoga Center it's all about building our community through a common practice! It's our belief that in honoring the dynamic reciprocity built by caring teachers and curious students we will foster personal relationships to support the growth of your practice. Loving attention and sincere connections are vital to the Loom Yoga Center vision. We consider it our duty to keep the prices low and the energy high so that we can all practice, live and grow together! Create yourself! Live yourself! Be yourself! We are always looking for new ideas, that may improve, and expand our offerings. For suggestions, or comments, contact us directly at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The drought ruining crops, shrinking water supplies and exacerbating wildfires intensified dramatically over the last week, U.S. forecasters reported Thursday.
The weekly Drought Monitor shows "widespread intensification" in the central U.S., the National Drought Mitigation Center said in a statement.
Across the contiguous U.S., the total area under all kinds of drought grew only slightly but the most severe categories -- extreme and exceptional -- rose from 13.5 percent to 20.5 percent -- the highest level since 2003.
The jump "this week was the largest since we started the U.S. Drought Monitor" 12 years ago, Brian Fuchs, a climatologist and Drought Monitor author, told NBC News. "This is really showing the rapid intensification of the drought due to the heat/dryness over the region with little relief for anyone."
"We've seen tremendous intensification of drought through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska, and into part of Wyoming and South Dakota in the last week," Fuchs said in the center's statement.
A drought is now gripping more than half of the nation, with the latest U.S. Drought Monitor showing some of the worst areas are expanding. In Tennessee, crops are dying and families are struggling to face the losses. NBC's Thanh Truong reports.
Every state had at least a small area categorized as "abnormally dry" or worse. "It's such a broad footprint," Fuchs said.
The Weather Channel noted the jump is the equivalent of adding 219,000 square miles to the worst drought categories -- "an area slightly larger than the states of California and New York combined," it noted.
Related story: Food prices to rise next year, USDA says
States posting dramatic increases in just the last week included Illinois, which went from 8 percent in extreme/exceptional drought to 70 percent, and Nebraska, which went from 5 percent to 64 percent.
In Illinois, the drought is impacting water supplies in towns like Pontiac. "The Vermillion River does not have enough flow for us to use it as our primary source of water," one field observer reported Wednesday to the Drought Mitigation Center. "We have had to switch to a secondary source of water, located in a reservoir a few miles outside of town ... A 'dirt' like smell and taste is being noted ... We NEED rain, very soon."
The intensification also means drier soils and deteriorated pastures.
America's ongoing drought disaster is getting worse before it gets better. NBC's Chris Clackum reports.
"Over 90 percent of the topsoil was short or very short of moisture in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, with virtually all (99 percent) short or very short in Missouri and Illinois," the monitor stated. "Over 80 percent of the pasture and rangeland was in poor or very poor condition in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana."
A longer drought index compiled by the U.S. shows this year's drought now covers the most acreage since a dry spell in 1954. Two Dust Bowl years, 1934 and 1939, also had larger drought areas in the Palmer Drought Severity Index, which dates back to 1895 but is not as detailed as the Drought Monitor.
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VWR International, LLC Appoints Peter Schüle as Senior Vice President and President of European Lab Business
26 Jun, 2013, 14:05 BST
RADNOR, Pennsylvania, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VWR International, LLC, a global solutions provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services, announced today that Peter Schüle has joined VWR as the Company's Senior Vice President and President of European Lab Business.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101109/NY97837LOGO)
Mr. Schüle joins VWR from Sigma Aldrich Corporation where he served as Vice President, Supply Chain Europe, Middle East and Africa, developing and implementing supply chain strategy and structure for its European operations. Since joining Sigma-Aldrich in 1994, Mr. Schüle held numerous Operations and Sales leadership positions, supporting the German market, as well as the broader European organization. Prior to Sigma Aldrich, Mr. Schüle has held various logistics roles in the industry.
"Peter's wealth of experience and knowledge will help VWR's European Business continue to succeed, while also providing new insights for our Global product and service solutions," said Manuel Brocke-Benz, President and CEO of VWR. "I have known Peter for many years. His values and high integrity are strongly aligned with VWR, and I believe this is a perfect fit to help us develop our performance driven, collaborative culture."
About VWR International, LLC
VWR International, LLC, headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, is a global provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services with worldwide sales in excess of $4.1 billion in 2012. VWR enables the advancement of the world's most critical research by providing product and service solutions to laboratories and production facilities in the pharmaceutical, biotech, industrial, educational, governmental and healthcare industries. With over 160 years of industry experience, VWR offers a well-established network that reaches thousands of specialized labs and facilities spanning the globe. VWR has over 8,000 associates around the world working to streamline the way scientists, researchers, medical professionals and engineers across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific stock and maintain their facilities. In addition, VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services, storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems integration and technical services.
For more information on VWR, phone 1-800-932-5000, visit www.vwr.com, or write, VWR, Radnor Corporate Center, Building One, Suite 200, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA 19087.
VWR and design are registered trademarks of VWR International, LLC.
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by David Parmer
Michael Rush was the youngest son of Andrew and Abalene Rush, immigrants from the County Roscommon. In 1892, he married Elizabeth Farrell, another child of County Roscommon immigrants. They were the parents of eight children who were born in Orlando, namely Andrew, Peter, Abalena, Anna, Helena, Gertrude, Bertha, and Marie.
To the left are Andrew and Elizabeth Rush with their two oldest children, Andrew (left) and Peter (right). A photo of Elizabeth in later years is at the end of this entry.
See the Feb '08 entry The Rushes From County Roscommon for more on Michael's parents.
See the Jan '08 entry A Summer Wedding for Elizabeth's sister's wedding. It includes a photo of the Farrell sisters in old age.
Right are young Marie and Andrew Rush with Roy "Boss" Riffle at the Orlando train station. Boss Riffle's wife Idena & son Fred are in the Sept "07 entry Fred Riffle's Strawberries
The Rush Hotel.
Susie Stark of Weston, granddaughter of Margaret (Rush) Kraus who was the sister of Michael Rush, recalls that her grandmother told her that she prepared and sold lunches for passengers on the trains which stopped in Confluence to allow passengers to change trains and also for water and freight stops. Members of the Dolan family likewise made a living for many years selling packed lunches to train passengers. In the first decade of the 1900s, oil and gas exploration brought a boom to Confluence. The town was the nearest rail freight stop for equipment and supplies needed by the drillers and related trades. Teamsters were on the streets of Confluence everyday picking up supplies or oil and gas field workers, or bringing barrels of oil for shipment by rail. The Rush Hotel enjoyed the trade brought by the boom and prospects looked good for the Michael Rush family.
To the right is a photo taken from the Henline home on the hill south of downtown Orlando.
A Well Known Merchant of Orlando
Died of Typhoid Fever
In the early twentieth century, medicine was still a primitive art and preventive health care was practically nonexistent. Vaccinations, serums, and effective medicines were still decades away. Some diseases were common, unchecked and nearly all fatal. One of these diseases was typhoid fever and many deaths in the early 1900s were attributable to the disease. Michael, who in November 1907 had been married for only fifteen years and was but forty two years of age, fell a victim of typhoid fever. Michael Rush took ill in the first week of November 1907 and was dead by November 7th at the home of his sister Mary McGann of Weston. The angel of recovery did not visit Michael Rush. His body was returned to Orlando from the home of his sister in Weston and lay in repose at the Rush Hotel for the wake, with Mike Moran in charge of arrangements.
November 10, 1907 was a dark, cold and sad Sunday as the funeral procession for Michael A. Rush prepared to depart Orlando for St. Bridget's Cemetery at Goosepen. Mike Moran's two-horse funeral wagon bearing the casket of the deceased paused briefly at the end of the Orlando Bridge so Lee Morrison, photographer extraordinaire of Orlando, could memorialize the solemn occasion of the death of Michael Rush, the prominent Orlando merchant and hotel keeper. Many kinsmen and friends, mounted upon their horses, arrayed in front and behind the funeral wagon and carriages bearing the Rush family, for the five mile trip to the burial ground. Michael's oldest child Andrew was thirteen, his child, Marie, was seven months old. It was a long cold trip to the cemetery for adults and more so for young grieving children. But such is God's will.
We know that in August 1917, the hotel was again known as the Rush Hotel. In his column in the Buzzardtown News, Uncle Zeke mentioned that Mrs. Solomon Mick of Rocky Fork who came to Orlando to shop "got lost in the city of Orlando the other day and mistook the Rush Hotel for Dock Means Store. Mrs. Mick will have to come to town a little oftener." The Dock Means Store was in the building opposite the hotel.
The Rush Hotel remained in the ownership of the Rush family until 1933. The Michael Rush heirs sold the former Rush Hotel in Orlando to J. E. Riffle, C. M. Mick and D. S. Bennett, Trustees of Washington Lodge No. 194 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in August 1933 for the sum of $491.36 to be paid within one year. The parcel conveyed contained approximately 3968 3/4 square feet, or roughly an eighth of an acre.
Helena (Rush) Fahey is to the right.
Two photos of the twins. Double click to enlarge the photo to the left to see the patchwork quilt the girls are wrapped in.
To the right are, (L to R) Gertrude and Bertha Rush.
Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Marie (Rush) Bramham, recalls hearing conversations about Orlando among her family when she was young and recalls her aunt Bertha, known to her as "Aunt Bobbi," talk about the "rooming house" her family owned in Orlando, and that the family was busy providing lodging to itinerant farm and oil field workers in the Orlando area.
Gertrude became a nurse and last worked in New Yourk. Bobbi worked in Clarksburg in dress shops and other retail stores.
In 1936, Von and Abelena moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he worked in the Soil Conservation Program as an Accountant. Abelena worked in New Mexico as a stenographer for the Santa Fe Railroad.
On November 28, 1936, their only child, a daughter, was born in Albuquerque. They named her name is Martha Ann. She had strawberry blond hair and was the apple of her father's eye. Martha can remember going on family picnics. She remembers her mother as knowing her own mind and she was willing to share it with others. Martha remembers her father a quiet and rather passive.
Von transferred to job in Colorado and in late 1950's and he and Abelena retired in Melbourne, FL Abelena (Rush) Von Thaden died October 31, 1978 while she and her husband Peter were visiting relatives in WVA. She suffered a stroke. She was buried in Melbourne, Florida. Peter died of complications of Leukemia in 1983. He was buried in Melbourne next to his wife.
Above, left and right, Abalene
Left, Peter "Von" von Thaden
The Fealy farm was located at the junction of the Goosepen Road and the Three Lick Road as it came down westward off Ryan's Hill. Ella Fealy had married Floyd Straley and the couple lived on her family's farm. One of their children, Tom, was born in 1903. Floyd and Ella Straley bought a Model T Ford when their son Tom was a teenager. Although originally intended as a family automobile, young Tom soon found it to be a necessity for traveling to Orlando, the closest metropolis to his family's Goosepen farm, where he spent most of his leisure time. A young lady of Orlando, Marie Rush, the daughter of Elizabeth (Farrell) Rush and the late Michael Rush, was the most beautiful thing young Tom Straley had ever seen to that point in his life and he was immediately infatuated with her. He made many a trip thereafter to Orlando.
A bashful youth, Tom, could summon up enough courage to speak with the beautiful Marie, but lacked the confidence to express his romantic interest in her. As a substitute for advising Marie of his love, Tom lovingly carved her name on the steering wheel of his car.
Elizabeth Rush, the mother of Marie and her two brothers and five sisters, had decided to move her family from Orlando to Clarksburg around 1920. Without knowing of Tom's love for her, the beautiful Marie and her family moved to Clarksburg, far from the Goosepen farm of Tom's youth and his heart.
Tom Straley lived the remainder of his life as a bachelor. His beautiful Marie met her future husband in Clarksburg and never returned to Orlando. Tom finally sold his old Model T with the inscription of his secret love in mellowed patina emblazoned on the steering wheel. He died in 1951 at the age of forty eight.
in Clarksburg when he was called up for service during WW I.
Pictured left and right is Andrew V. Rush.
In the 1930s and 1940s, when Andrew Rush was engaged in the insurance business in Weston, he would often find his occupation taking him through Burnsville. Andrew's son, John, would frequently travel with his father. Andrew always made it a point to stop by the Burnsville Drug Store and say hello to Doctor Stanton Trimble who also once made Orlando his home in the early 20th century. Although Doc Trimble was a bit older than Andrew they enjoyed reminiscing about their former days in the railroad town of Orlando. John Rush, son of Andrew Rush, and grandson of Michael A. and Elizabeth Rush, recalls that his Aunt Bertha Rush, his father's sister, worked in Clarksburg in dress shops and other retail stores after the family moved to Clarksburg.
Pete also died from Multiple Sclerosis. He died at the age of 61 in St Mary's Hopsital where his sisters had trained.
To the left is Anne, detail taken from a group picture.
To the left is Pete Rush riding a cow in Orlando, with the help of buddies. Holding the cow is Doc Henline. Behind the cow from left to right are Hob Henline, Sam Craft's son, Albert Butcher, Clyde Skinner, Dan Moran, and Sam Craft.
To the right is Uncle Pete with Andrew's son Michael.
The Widow Rush and Her Family
In order to stay close to her daughters and to take advantage of the amenities of a larger city for her family, Elizabeth left the still booming town of Orlando. She moved in 1919 to 311 Jefferson Street in Clarksburg where she remained to the end of her life. Thus ended a thirty year connection between the Rush family and the town of Orlando.
To the left is Elizabeth (Farrell) Rush.
To the right are Andrew, Abelena, Elizabeth, Gertrude, Bertha, Helen, Marie and Peter. Ann took the photo.
Below right, Elizabeth with daughter Abelene, granddaughter Martha and great-grandson Josef.
Elizabeth sold some of the real estate holdings owned by her late husband in the Orlando area however she continued to hold other real estate and the oil and gas leases which she had executed with the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company and the Hope Natural Gas Company on about 270 acres in Braxton County and on her interest in the Farrell property on Rocky Fork which consisted of about 600 acres.
Although Elizabeth occasionally returned to Orlando for visits and stayed at the Dolan Hotel, she lived the rest of her life in Clarksburg and died in 1970 at age 98. She was buried at St. Bridget's Cemetery.
comment 1: The St. Mary's School of Nursing, which was affiliated with St. Mary's Hospital, was chartered in 1905 and continued graduating nurses until 1968. It was operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wheeling.
To the right is the St. Mary Hospital about the time the Rush sisters were there.
comment 2: The Rushes' Orlando home, which they purchased from businessman H. D. Mitchell, was later the home of Charley Knight. Later, the buildning's materials were used to build the home of Coleman and Helen (Frame) Jeffries. The home built from the materials of the Rush house is featured in the Feb '07 entry
Childhood in Orlando: Early Remembrances of Hauling Lumber.


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Crumpet Tea Room Orange Rolls
2 1/2 c. hot tap water
1/2 c. melted shortening
2 c. flour
2 t. salt
1/2 c. powdered milk
1/2 c. sugar
3 heaping T. fast active dry yeast
6 c. flour
In large mixing bowl, add the first 3 ingredients. Mix for two minutes with dough hook beater. Add next 4 ingredients and continue to blend. Slowly add remaining flour until mixture is blended well and not sticky to the touch. Cover and let double in size. Punch down and roll dough out long and narrow to 1/4 inch thick. Spread thin layer of orange frosting over dough. Roll up and cut in 1 1/2 inch rolls. Place in greased pans. Let rise to top of pans and bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 20 large rolls.
Orange Frosting
1 c. soft margarine
2 c. granulated sugar
1 orange
Cream margarine in mixing bowl until soft and smooth. Add sugar, juice from one orange and grated peel of orange. Blend well.
4 c. cooked chicken, shredded
1 1/2 c. celery, diced
1/2 c. sweet relish
4 eggs, hard boiled and diced
3/4 c. Miracle Whip (or enough to moisten mixture)
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DKICP continues biomedical research in joint project with UH Manoa
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Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) will receive more than $800,000 a year for five years in federal funding that will help strengthen a collaborative research program with UH Manoa.
The IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program in Hawaiʻi, which has been supported for more than 10 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has recently received an additional $18.4 million over five years of support. The renewal allows the collaboration to continue expanding and improving biomedical research in Hawaiʻi.
John M. Pezzuto, dean of DKICP, leads the UH Hilo effort, and works with UH Manoa Principal Investigator Robert Nichols, professor of Cell and Molecular Biology and Program Coordinator David Easa, both at the John A. Burns College of Medicine (JABSOM).
"This is important because it's a competitive renewal, which means the grant wasn't automatically extended. We had to compete with top research facilities throughout the country," Pezzuto said. "And because one of the focuses is on fostering biomedical careers among students, we can pay it forward for years to come."
In addition to core functions and support for undergraduate research projects, the UH Hilo component of the grant will support studies being conducted in DKICP laboratories.
"The hope is that work conducted under the auspices of INBRE will be leveraged into larger projects supported by extramural funding agencies," Pezzuto said.
The grant also supports researchers and student enrichment programs at Chaminade University, Honolulu and Hawaiʻi Pacific University, Kaneohe. It also funds projects and programs at outreach institutions Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu, Leeward Community College, Pearl City, UH Maui College, Kahului, and Windward Community College, Kaneohe.
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American Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced the pricing of the completely redesigned 2006 Honda Civic GX.
The 2006 Civic GX, which achieves an EPA estimated city/highway fuel economy of 28/39 miles per gasoline-gallon equivalent, goes on sale today with an MSRP of $24,440. Currently natural gas is approximately 30 percent less expensive than gasoline when purchased at a refueling station, and approximately 65 percent cheaper than gasoline when supplied by a Phill home refueling appliance.
2006 Civic GX owners will be eligible for a Federal tax credit of $4,000 for the car and up to $1,000 for the purchase and installation of 'Phill,' the convenient natural gas home refueling appliance. Both GX and Phill benefit from the federal tax credits enacted January 1, 2006, for clean alternative fuel vehicles and fueling infrastructure. Natural gas fuel is an ideal lower-cost alternative to gasoline and is primarily a domestically produced fuel with a price that has proven to track below that of petroleum fuels.
Based on the all-new, award-winning 2006 Civic, the ultra-clean Civic GX produces near zero emissions, makes owners eligible for significant tax credits, and can be refueled with a convenient home refueling appliance. The Civic GX is the only dedicated natural gas-powered passenger vehicle available to retail customers in the United States.
Proclaimed the "Cleanest internal combustion engine on Earth" by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the GX is the only vehicle certified by the EPA to meet both Federal Tier 2-Bin 2 and Inherently Low Emission Vehicle (ILEV) zero evaporative emission certification standards. GX meets these strict emission standards, as natural gas is inherently a clean burning fuel.
Equipped standard with a 5-speed automatic transmission, the 1.8-liter, 4-cylinder engine delivers 113 horsepower and 109 ft-lbs of torque, both an increase of more than 10 percent versus the previous model. The Civic GX offers the same standard safety features that have earned Civic the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's "Top Safety Pick - Gold" Award. Standard safety features include dual front airbags, side curtain airbags, driver's side impact airbag, front passenger's side impact airbag, ABS and Honda's Advanced Compatibility Engineering Body structure TM (ACE TM).
Phill - the home refueling appliance manufactured by FuelMaker Corporation, provides Civic GX owners a convenient and affordable method of refueling at home. Phill can be mounted to a garage wall, either indoors or outdoors, and allows the GX to refuel overnight directly from a homeowner's existing natural gas supply line.
Natural gas-powered vehicles are part of Honda's energy strategy to offer the best available technology for the reduction of air pollution and petroleum dependence and serves as an enabling technology for hydrogen fuel cell cars in the future. The 2006 Civic GX will be assembled in East Liberty, Ohio. Destination and handling charges for all 2006 Honda vehicles are $550.


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The Beginner's Guide to Getting More High Quality Traffic
You've launched your ecommerce store, you've shared it with friends and family, and now… you wait.
But what happens when the traffic doesn't come? If there's no traffic, there are no conversions. If there are no conversions, there's no profit.
Worse, what happens if the traffic comes, but it's all the wrong people? You know, people who aren't likely to part with their money for your products because they're the wrong demographic, the wrong segment.
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Fear not! Here's how to get high quality traffic that's relevant to your unique store.
First, is all traffic created equal?
No, all traffic is not created equal.
There are a number of different sources you can use to generate more traffic to your store. You can: start a blog, launch a podcast, invest in SEO, explore PPC, become a social media socialite, or any number of other options.
Here's the thing, though: some of those sources will generate higher quality traffic for your specific business and some of those sources will generate lower quality traffic for your specific business.
For example, let's say you're targeting young professionals interested in buying wacky office supplies. LinkedIn might be a better option over, say, Pinterest.
Can you tell which one of these LinkedIn promotions doesn't seem to belong, contextually speaking?
But then it gets even more complicated.
Let's say you're targeting those same young professionals, right? If you post a link to your store on your Facebook page, you might generate some wayward traffic over the next couple of hours. But imagine if you ran a targeted ad campaign specifically to reach young professionals interested in wacky office supplies.
The point isn't that paid ads (PPC) are the best option, the point is that the paid ads would allow you to target the specific segment that you know will be relevant and valuable to your business.
Paid or not, the secret to traffic acquisition success is doubling down on the most relevant traffic you can find. Of course, "the most relevant traffic you can find" is incredibly subjective and different for everyone, so let's break it down.
Ok, but is getting relevant traffic really that hard?
Yes, actually, it is.
According to HubSpot, growing traffic to a website is a top priority for most businesses (55%) over the next 12 months. 63% of companies said generating traffic and leads is their company's top marketing challenge.
Driving traffic to your store is hard enough, let alone the right traffic. Don't worry, you're definitely not alone on this one.
4 Popular Traffic Sources to Consider
Now, there are thousands of different traffic sources out there, but I'm going to focus on some of the most popular and well-known.
What types of buyers are you likely to attract via each traffic source? How can you target your traffic acquisition efforts more effectively on each channel?
Let's find out.
1. Blogs
According to WordPress, 409 million people view more than 22.3 billion pages each month. WordPress users produce about 76.3 million new posts and 42.7 million new comments each month.
But who's reading blogs? Well, to be honest, kinda everyone. But check it out:
- According to Pingdom, the average reader of a top blog is about 41-years-old.
- The same study found that the average top blog has 45% female and 55% male readers.
But this is all averages among some of the top blogs. There are plenty of niche blogs that would defy this data, like East Coast Mermaid.
If you want to attract relevant buyers and generate traffic back to your store through blogging, you'll need to be purposeful about your targeting. Clearly, it's a wide open sea. So, you need to be purposeful about where you cast your net, right?
Alex Birkett of CXL suggests working backwards, starting with the problems your customers turn to your store and products to solve:
"Content, like product, is about solving your customers' problems. Most people forget this in favor of shareable content or even blindly keyword-focused content. That's why we get trite BS like '33 SEO Experts Reveal Their 1 Magical Trick for Success' (when it's really 33 SEO experts who wanted a backlink to their own site).
Now, the process for solving problems through content while also producing 'search engine findable' content isn't easy. It's literally the job description of a good content marketer. But generally it involves some customer journey mapping, persona building, keyword research, and content gap analysis.
That said, your best traffic source is wherever your ideal customers hangout. Often, content marketing is the best engine for this."
So, it starts with two things:
- Figuring out who your highest quality customers are. For this, look into three factors: purchase frequency, average order value (AOV), and retention. What similarities do those who purchase often, purchase more and stick around have?
- Creating a destination where those types of people would want to hangout. Dig into Google, conduct some qualitative research… what problems do those people have that they turn to your store to solve? What interests them outside of your products? What do they do for fun with friends? What are they passionate about? Craft blog content based on the answers to those questions.
As Alex cautions, blogging and other content marketing initiatives might not be worthwhile for every merchant:
"Certain market segments may read less and some products may be harder to sell via content marketing. Low average revenue per user (ARPU) / lifetime value (LTV) products are generally hard to sell via content marketing because it's a long-term, and somewhat expensive, channel."
So, if you have low-value customers and you find yourself needing a lot of customers to generate profit, work on your ARPU and LTV problem before investing in blogging.
Note that there's a possibility that a low ARPU or LTV could be merely a factor of your industry. Don't sweat it, there are plenty of other traffic sources to choose from.
Once you've determined blogging is right for you, Alex has some suggestions:
"I think there are two pieces. First, have a strategic plan. Can you compete in this channel? Do you have any competitive chance at scaling this channel, and if so, what's your edge?
Second, meet your ideal prospects where they already hangout. If you're selling to marketers, that may be communities like Inbound or Growth Hackers. If you're selling to angsty teenagers, I'm not really sure where they hangout online, but do the requisite research before you blast away with boring me-too content hoping for some magical ROI."
Don't go into blogging blind. Know your ideal audience, have a strategic plan for gaining mindshare with that audience, infiltrate their current hangouts, and eventually create a new hangout destination for them.
CrossFit Journal is a great example of this, actually:
Before we move on, Amanda Gant of Orbit Media has a few comments on basic search engine optimization (SEO). This advice is relevant to blogging and any other on-site content you might produce:
"Sites that win big have pages with information that people are looking for. To get in front of the right audience, make a list of topics and phrases to target.
Ask yourself: If I were looking for this product/service/article, how would I search? What words would I use? What phrases? Getting in the mind of your visitor-to-be is the key to increasing targeted traffic.
Do your keyword research, check your Domain Authority against the competition and make the best optimized page on the internet for that topic. Go big and the reward will be worth it.
When it works, you've got a magnet for traffic. Rather than just a spike of traffic from email or social, you'll get a steady stream of targeted visitors to the page from search engines for months or even years."
Again, you're being asked to put yourself in the potential customer's shoes and focus on long-term, consistent growth (vs. short-term, one-off growth spurts).
One you've identified that those high-value customers, really dig into who they are as people. The more you know, the better you can generate quality traffic in the future.
2. Podcasts
According to Edison Research, 60% of those surveyed were aware of the term "podcasting", up 5% from 2016 and equaling an estimated 168 million people. 40% of those surveyed had listened to a podcast, up 4% from 2016 and equaling an estimated 112 million people.
24% of those surveyed identify as monthly podcast listeners, up 3% from 2016 and equaling an estimated 67 million people.
56% of podcast listeners were men in this survey.
Here's where the demographic data gets really interesting. Those aged 35-54 (31%) and 55+ (32%) are the most likely to have listened to a podcast. However, those aged 18-34 (44%) are the most likely to be regular monthly podcast listeners.
That said, monthly listening is growing the fastest year over year among 25-54 year-olds (7%).
Much like blogging, podcasting opens you up to a wide variety of people. So while these averages are interesting to read, you could excel in a specific niche, targeting a specific audience.
The problem, as Noah Kagan of Sumo and Noah Kagan Presents points out, is that podcasting isn't necessarily optimized for traffic acquisition:
"Podcasting is more for brand awareness and loyalty, in marketing speak.
Most people are doing something during a podcast, so it's really the show notes or a blog post related to the podcast that will drive anything marketing related."
It makes sense, right? Podcasts are enjoyed at the gym, on the bus, during a lunchtime walk, etc. There's no call to action to click while you're listening.
Here's how Noah structures his show notes in iTunes:
Note that link to his blog for the "full show notes", though. Here's what that blog post looks like:
It's a full article on the very topic you just spent 21 minutes listening to Noah (& co.) talk about, featuring, of course, those calls to action that weren't possible in-podcast.
Noah focuses on encouraging engagement, instead:
"The thing I aim for is taking the podcast content and making things from that to drive activities — social, YouTube, blogs, etc.
What was really surprising was, in one show, I said to email me with feedback near the beginning. It was amazing how many emails I got since you don't get comments like a blog / Facebook post."
For example, if you listen to Noah's podcast, you might be familiar with this:
He regularly asks listeners to share the episode with just one person who likes the topic discussed.
And once the loyalty and brand awareness is built up, you'll start to capture some of those monthly podcast consumers we looked at. Then you will start to notice traffic flowing in organically from the podcast show notes, for example.
So, if you're looking for a quick win with traffic, podcasting might not be your best options. It's definitely more of a long-term game.
3. Social Media
There are dozens of social media platforms you could choose from. We're talking Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Google+, Instagram… the list goes on and on.
So, for the sake of simplicity, we'll focus on the two whales: Facebook and Twitter. If you want, you can apply the process I'm about to lay out for you to other social media platforms you want to try out.
First up? Facebook. Who's using it and why does it matter?
As of the second quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2 billion monthly active users. Active users are those which have logged into Facebook during the last 30 days. Reaching 1.33 billion active users on a daily basis, Facebook is easily the most popular social media platform in the world.
According to Statista, 26% of the U.S. Facebook population is men and women in the 25-34 age range. Another 19% fall within the 35-44 age range and another 18% within the 18-24 age range. That said, both the 13-17 (3%) and 65+ (8%) age ranges are represented as well.
80% of Facebook users worldwide accessed the site via mobile devices vs. only 39% who accessed the site via laptop or desktop.
Next up? Twitter.
In 2016, eMarketer estimated that worldwide, user growth of 10.9% that year would bring Twitter's monthly active population to 286.3 million. For 2017, the estimate jumped to 310.1 million by the end of the year.
Only 1 in 5 Twitter users are in the U.S. Brazil is home to the second largest Twitter population in the world, with 27.7 million users, followed closely by Japan (25.9 million) and Mexico (23.5 million).
According to a 2015 study by Pew Research Center, a third (33%) of all teens use Twitter. However, young adults 18-29 are the most likely to use the platform, with 37% using the service.
The study did not show a statistically significant difference in Twitter use based race, locale or socio-economic status.
So, here we are again, talking about traffic sources that allow you to reach billions of people. How can you narrow in on the highest quality traffic for your store?
It starts with the work you did above to find your highest quality customers.
Let's say you're running a store like Chubbies. I, of course, have no knowledge of their most valuable demographics, but for the sake of example, let's pretend it's 18-24 year-old men.
Both Twitter and Facebook could be a good option since they both have such incredibly wide reach. However, we know that Twitter is more popular among young adults. So, if we don't want to invest resources in two different platforms, Twitter might make more sense.
Here's the process now that we've selected a platform:
- Research where your highest value demographics are currently hanging out on the platform. What are they discussing? Who are they following?
- Figure out how you can insert yourself into conversations that are already happening. Can you befriend an influencer? Can you hop on a popular hashtag? Swipe a popular meme? Can you walk, talk and act like this demographic does?
- Figure out how you can lead similar conversations in the future. Once you've borrowed the credibility of relevant influencers and started to build up your reputation, you can begin putting yourself in your potential customer's shoes and coming up with conversation kick-offs. Your goal is to become the type of hangout destination for this demographic that you studied in step two.
So, using Chubbies as an example still, you will have a hard time finding a hard sell on their Twitter page.
Instead, you'll notice them building a community, attracting that high-value demographic with the type of content they're on Twitter to find. Yet, the content is curated carefully so that it's on-brand and relevant to what Chubbies sells.
Then again, the content doesn't always relate back to swim shorts, which is what Chubbies primarily sells. Sometimes it's just straight up content the targeted audience will enjoy and that's ok.
Why? Because they're building a hangout destination, a following who is actively engaged because they want to be, not because they're waiting around for a flash sale.
We focused on Twitter and Facebook here, but again, you can take this process and apply it to any social media channel you're interested in trying.
Just be aware that social media done right takes time and effort. It's community building, not a quick "growth hack". So don't worry about being everywhere. Pick one or two platforms that make the most sense for you, that serve as a hangout place for your high-value demographic(s).
While you're exploring social media, you might consider paid ads as well. Since this allows for advanced targeting, it can be a great option for generating relevant traffic.
According to eMarketer, Facebook dominates this space, with a predicted 67.9% in social network ad revenues in 2016. Twitter was expected to grab 7.9% only globally that same year. Most of Twitter's ad revenues are mobile: 88.9% this year.
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4. Video
I probably don't have to tell you that online video is exploding right now.
While there are other options for hosting your videos, YouTube is the most popular, so I will focus on it for the sake of simplicity. It is, after all, the second largest search engine in the world.
Check out the data:
- YouTube has over a billion users (almost one-third of all people on the Internet) and, each day, those users watch a billion hours of video, generating billions of views.
- YouTube overall, and even YouTube on mobile alone, reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S.
- More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices.
- The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube is up 50% year over year.
Everyone from a 3-year-old kid to a 95-year-old grandma can be found watching YouTube videos. Actually, YouTube has dispelled some myths, namely that the average YouTube user is a young, single male.
Here's the reality:
- From 2015 to 2016, time spent on YouTube almost tripled among adults 55+.
- According to comScore, YouTube reaches 95% of online adults 35+ in a month.
- More than 50% of YouTube's audience is female.
- YouTube users are more likely to have a college degree vs. the average population.
- YouTube users are more likely to have kids vs. the average population.
So, how do you narrow down that massive audience and get the right eyes on your YouTube channel, and then back to your store?
Dan Martell, who uses YouTube videos to generate 2/3rds of his traffic, was kind enough to drop by and explain his process:
Here's Dan's step-by-step process for getting YouTube to recommend your videos:
- Choose your top five keywords that you'd like to rank for.
- Search the top channels ranking for those five keywords.
- Look at the top videos from the top channels you identify.
- Ask yourself whether you can create video content that's very similar to those top videos.
Viola! YouTube is now more likely to recommend your video to those who watched the top videos you identified.
What you're doing is essentially borrowing all of that super, super relevant traffic from the top channels in your space. Pretty cool, right?
It's not about getting the most amount of visitors to your store as quickly as possible.
Instead, focus on truly understanding your high-value customer segments. Who are they? Where do they go online? What do they talk about there? What do they do in their spare time? The more you know about them, the better you can target them.
Choose the traffic sources that bring you closer to those segments. More importantly, optimize the traffic sources you do experiment with to get the most value out of them.
Traffic acquisition is rarely cheap, whether you're spending money or time / effort. So why waste your resources on bad traffic? Double down on relevant, high-quality traffic sources.
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Kawai Shiu is an internationally recognized artist whose interests and achievements explore the essence of music embodied as sound, composition, performance, and thought. His work in various fields calls attention to music as a portal to personal myth. As a versatile artist, Kawai has received numerous awards in recognition of his work. Composition awards include those from the Vienna Modern Masters' Orchestral Recording Award, the Rudolf Nissim Award, Frederic Goossen Composition Prizes, the SCI Commission Award, Kent Kennan Scholarships, and funding from the American Music Center. Other commissions and performances include those from the South Bank Centre for Endymion at the Purcell Room, Cheltenham Festival, International Clarinet Course in Spain, Dartington Festival, World Saxophone Congress, Pacific Contemporary Music Festival, Around Sound Arts Festival, and In Midair Festival. His music has been recorded by CRI, Vienna Modern Masters, Ablaze, and Soy Sauce Records. In praising his winter tide, the American Record Guide writes, it "glitters and soars through it's concise four minutes" while Fanfare declares that it "creates a surprising amount of drama." Kawai has served as the Music Director of the British Royal National Theatre's production of Euripides' Bacchai, directed by Sir Peter Hall. A lecture performance co-developed by composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Kawai on Paul Klee has been presented at Hayward Gallery and the British Royal Academy of Arts with the members of London Sinfonietta, and as a part of the Lucerne Festival with the Festival Academy. Kawai is also a published writer of poetry, drama, and musings on music and art criticism. Stream and seasons program notes This is my second CD released by Ablaze Records. If the previous unassuming music had been a double album, stream and seasons would have been disc two because stream and seasons is, in my mind, a mirror or a companion of unassuming music. In addition, both albums aspire to individually create a coherent structure among the juxtaposition of the selected pieces. Stream and seasons focuses again on unaccompanied music. The pair a Leaf by Far and La Rosée fond, along with the other three movements which appeared in unassuming music, complete the solo movements of De Stroom, a song circle for unaccompanied voice and solo strings. Commenting on the theme of nonexistence, the two pieces portray intimately a short yet evocative life journey, one of a drop of dew and the other of a leaf. Both pieces also engage ample nuances of murmur and silence which I refer to as the shadow of music. Like De Stroom, some of the compositions in this album date back to a few years earlier when I worked extensively in Europe. Farewell Bacchae, originally for basset clarinet, was commissioned by legendary clarinetist Alan Hacker, with whom I worked on the Royal National Theatre production of Euripides' Bacchai. Farewell Bacchae embraces one of my fondest musical gestures-non-linear/non-circular progression-here as a metaphor of Dionysian possessive power. Twenty six eighty seven was written in Basel Switzerland. One day looking down to the Rhine through the window of Paul Sacher Stiftung, some mental visions, both aural and visual, came to my mind. Two of these images persisted: one of a woman in a white gown on the water and one of an unaccompanied saxophone piece. Twenty six eighty seven was a result of the latter aural vision. With no sketches, I wrote out the preexisting piece from start to finish without much tug and haul. I titled the piece in memoriam of composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987). The two extra long and distorted notes towards the end of the piece symbolize the desolation of motion and time, which I often observe when listening to Feldman's longer pieces. I have yet come to terms with whether the woman in white was related to the opera Neither. Stream and seasons is enveloped by a set of three season pieces autumn palette, summer ligature, and winter tide. All are for a Pierrot ensemble. Being the oldest piece in the set, winter tide was composed some fifteen years ago. It is a metaphor of gradual temporal progression as portrayed by a solitary tide. Three years after winter tide, I wrote autumn palette. Quite the opposite of winter tide, my interest at the time and henceforth was the possibility of non-developmental music, in which, like a painter's palette, random colors in deceptive chaos are revealed instantaneously. Since autumn palette, it has been my inclination to create a collection of the four seasons to document my shifting musical predilections. I was curious to see how different (and similar) the pieces would be as a result of the distant time and psychological space between them. A decade after autumn palette, my immediate interest in summer ligature was the idea of approximate alignment and vertical relationship in music. The ligature is represented by an uninterrupted piano continuum; other instruments interject variations of the musical crux into this interlude. Jade luster for two pianos serves as an extended coda for the album. As a continuing fascination with propinquity, jade luster investigates simultaneity and minute variation in music. The two pianists read from two closely related laptop movie scores without the traditional "deliberate synchronization" of most piano duo repertoires. If life is a travelogue, stream and seasons will be a chapter of two interweaving stories in which all who have contributed are the main characters. For this, I thank them dearly. kawai shiu a leaf by far take bright light of the sun glaring through my almost symmetric body seven points with veins passing unintentional radiant lines thousands and millions before my eyes another millions just as i as i flutter as the wind blows high and low all of the remains four years thirteen months nine days eight nights a snap a snap floating a leaf leaving onto the soil sleeping drying as mishap sip the bone with laughter cripple crawl look upon a trunk with thousands of millions close my eyes rest a leaf.


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The top-ranked provinces are New Brunswick and Quebec on the first society report card to look at performance at the provincial level. Overall, Canada gets a "B" and ranks 10th among 16 peer countries.
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But it seems Chihaya in Natsuzora Kanata is a little different from Chihiro from ef in terms of their memory loss condition. Chihaya able to remember several days of her memories without losing it, then losing them altogether. While Chihiro will be able to remember as long as she keeps on remembering it, then if she skips the schedule she lose all of them. I don't know which one is more miserable than the other, but Chihiro might be worse off.
|2008-05-06, 23:17
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 38
You're both right about there already being a thread, but that makes the whole thing even more perplexing. If there was already a thread for it, why was everypme discussing the ending routes here? I thought "surely, they must be doing this because they don't know whether it warrants a topic of its own", but apparently I was wrong...
In general, I've found that this thread sometimes feels like it's becoming almost a chatroom/twitter collection for anything ero-game related, and that really isn't the point of this thread...
|2008-05-07, 02:55
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 38
Well, in the spirit of the thread, the latest game that has my attention is Fizz's Asanagi no Aquanauts. Only played through one route so far (that of the titular heroine, Mio), but I've been quite pleased with it on the whole.
Useless without pics, so...
Spoiler for Box Cover Art (Slightly NSFW):
Spoiler for LE/Pre-Order Goodies (Illustration Book, Bonus Disc Cover, and Telecard) (More NSFW than above):
Shinova already posted a summary of the trial version, which is basically the first hour or so of the game, so I guess there's no need to repeat the basic premise. So I'll jump straight to impressions (I'll use two levels of spoiler tags -- one for mild spoilers/the first few hours-ish, and the another for comments about the end-game scenario/overall).
Spoiler for General Impressions of Premise and Characters (Light Spoilers only):
|2008-05-27, 16:24
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Hinamizawa
I just started this game: Chrono Belt.
It's a crossover between Ayakashibito and Bullet Butlers (Propeller's best games), and I must say, it's pretty cool. OST is awesome and the art is beautiful (Chuuouhigashiguchi is the designer, hell yeah).
Gameplay is simple, end the two paths you can select, and then you unlock the main and third route. The voice acting is superb.
Too bad I still don't know how to save the game (Probably because I need to install it and I'm just playing directly from the DVD); anyway, I recommend this novel, it has comedy (Really funny), mistery, action, etc.
|2008-05-27, 16:58
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Nitro+ fan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hyogo
Just finished Propeller's Chrono Belt (the crossover sequel to Ayakashibito and Bullet Butlers). It was really damn good, not to mention full of surprises. I cried a lot. However, I definitely wouldn't recommend playing it without knowledge of both the previous games.
EDIT: Dammit!! Beaten by a few seconds. XD
|2008-05-28, 00:50
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Join Date: Nov 2004
How should I put this... wasn't Marmalade supposed to release a fandisc of sorts for their recent games like Lyrical Lyric?
Just posting a blogpost link about said game.
Good thing it's just an advertisement for the real game, since I don't think they'd allow ero content on consoles and all.
Erhjegel would also be hot on the trail of this game, I suppose.
|2008-06-03, 17:43
|Link #2114
Nitro+ fan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hyogo
Just got my copy of ef - the latter tale.
Will be interesting to see how much Chihiro's story follows the anime. I just started, but I already get the sense that the ratio of regular standing drawings is higher here than in the first tale... could be just me, though; it's been a while.
|2008-06-06, 13:08
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Bishoujo Lover!
Today, I finished Yuzu Soft's latest game: Natsuzora Kanata!
There are no words that can express how much I loved this game! The story, the visuals, the music, the characters! It was worth waiting all this time for this game! Yuzu Soft didn't let me down this time either! In fact, it was better than I had expected!
My only dissatisfaction is would be:
Spoiler for Chihaya's Route Spoiler:
|2008-06-09, 18:08
|Link #2117
Nitro+ fan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hyogo
Got delayed a bit, but finally finished ef - the latter tale. It was beautiful, of course. Mizuki's story was by far my favorite in either game (unsurprising, since she's my favorite of the female characters, and Kuze ended up being my favorite of the guys).
TBH, the only thing keeping ef from being way high up in my top ten is the fact that I actually didn't like Yuuko's chapter very much. As a story and as the framework for the rest of the game, it was fantastic... this is especially apparent in the present-day epilogue. Some aspects of her character just didn't hang together very well for me, though.
Also, it's kind of obnoxious that--as was the case with the first tale--such a cinematic game doesn't have a proper scene replay list, but that's purely a gripe with the system.
Still, Mizuki makes everything better. Not to mention the powerful direction and great music and so forth. I was delighted that Shaft did a bit of animation at the end there.
|2008-06-14, 22:47
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Played the trial of Prima Stella which is by Atelier Kaguya Berkshire Yorkshire. Here's what I have to say about the trial:
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Maine mall sacks Santa Claus after children, parents complain he is rude, grumpy
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine mall has sacked Santa Claus after children and parents complained he was rude, grumpy and wouldn't even let one child sit on his lap.
Officials at the Maine Mall in South Portland say they are looking for a jollier Santa and hope to have him in place Thursday.
Jessica Mailhiot and her 6-year-old daughter, Chantel, went to see Santa this week. They tell WGME-TV (http://bit.ly/RpPkak ) he was rude and wouldn't let the girl sit on his lap when they said they didn't want to buy a $20 photo.
Chantel says when she asked Santa for an American Girl doll, he replied "American football."
When the Arundel mom posted her story online, others shared similar experiences.
The station contacted the sacked Santa, but he did not want to comment.
Information from: WGME-TV, http://www.wgme.com


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Stroke rates and death from strokes are falling, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study followed 4 U.S. communities closely for a period of more than 2 decades.
According to a summary of the study:
"Stroke affects an estimated 795 000 Americans each year, remains the fourth leading cause of death, and is the main cause of adult disability in the United States. Worldwide, stroke ranks as the second leading cause of death, responsible for 9.5% of total deaths each year, with a greater burden in developing countries.
"Over the past decade, overall stroke mortality has declined, primarily in western countries. Moreover, several studies have documented a decrease in stroke incidence rates.These favorable trends are likely due to better vascular risk factor control and improvements in acute stroke treatment at many institutions, including specialized stroke centers. In the United States, however, there are persistent racial, ethnic, sex, and regional disparities in age-adjusted stroke mortality rates, and long-term temporal trend data on validated stroke incidence by race and ethnicity are scarce."
What does this mean? An article published by USA Today explains a few of the key findings and implications:
- The study followed 15,792 people ages 45 to 64 from 1987 to 2011.
- Study participants came from Jackson, Miss.; Washington County, Md.; Forsyth County, N.C.; and Minneapolis.
- During those 24 years of the study, 7% of participants had a first stroke and 58% of those people eventually died.
- Over each decade, the rates of stroke and death fell, by about 24% and 20%, respectively.
- While overall stroke rates and deaths from stroke declined, this was not true for people under age 65. Preventing strokes in younger people is a topic that warrants further research.
- Possible explanations for declining strokes rates could be better control of blood pressure and cholesterol, less smoking and better medical care after strokes.
- Generally, blacks are at higher risk of stroke than whites. Scientists are concerned that improvements seen in blacks in the study, who came primarily from Forsyth County and Jackson, might not be seen nationwide.
The study is part of a large, ongoing research effort to understand what causes strokes and resulting deaths.
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If you've been on the fence about whether to home school your child, this news might tip you in favor:
Children taught in the home score above average on the state tests, far exceeding public school children. Home schooling is also way cheaper, with great potential to help our overstretched federal budget.
And the benefits go on, according to a new home schooling report from the Home School Legal Defense Association, an advocacy group.
"This study is great!," says KickButtMama, a HS mom of two boys ages 5 and 8 and owner of the Happy Homeschoolers group. "Many people still think home schooling is only for cults and polygamists. Normal people home school just to have the chance to be able to nurture every aspect of their child's education. For many it has nothing to do with religious beliefs."
In a comprehensive study of nearly 12,000 home schooled children in 50 states, home schooled children who took the state achievement tests scored 30 points on average higher than their public school counterparts.
There was no gender gap -- boys and girls scored equally well in all subjects, and parents' income, education or how much they spent on books and supplies had nothing to do with the results. Researchers found that the average home-schooling parent spends about $500 a year to educate their child; the average public school tab is $10,000 per child.
KickButtMama thinks home schooling is king for two main reasons:
"First, the child is encouraged to learn in what ever manner works for him. What subjects interest the child are often at the forefront. This is why many home-schooled children see school as 'fun'.
"Secondly, there are fewer demands on a home-school mom's time during an actual lesson. Even if there are multiple children in the home, the HS mom will take each lesson individually, giving that very personal one-on-one time, leaving no opportunity for a child to fall behind."
There's a lot more to the story homeschool vs. public school story here, and there are many benefits to public school that don't show up on report cards. But based on these academic findings alone ...
Why wouldn't you want to homeschool after hearing these results? What's holding you back?


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Foes want vote on proposed Campton Hills rehab center
A 96-bed drug treatment center proposed for Campton Hills gained a key recommendation from the plan commission last week, but people opposing the facility are not giving up.
Village trustees will meet Tuesday to discuss setting a future date to consider the Kiva Recovery Center, which is proposed for the 120-acre site formerly home to the Glenwood School for Boys on Silver Glen Road.
Village President Patsy Smith said Nov. 27 is a possibility for the Kiva meeting, but a decision will be made next week.
Kiva opponents want the village board to put the matter to a villagewide vote via a ballot question, or referendum, in April.
"It was a disappointing night," said resident Abe Andrzejewski of the Campton Hills Plan Commission's unanimous recommendation last week. "I felt, as did many members of the audience, that the decision was made months ago. We're going to ask the board of trustees to put the vote to a referendum because it's something that we're going to have to deal with for the next 50 to 100 years."
Asking residents their opinions is not unprecedented. Last week's Election Day ballot included two advisory questions asking residents if they support video gambling and whether they endorse a plan to pay a fee on natural gas bills to fund a series of emergency warning sirens throughout the village.
The village board previously banned video gambling but put it on the ballot after a local pub expressed interest in it; residents voted no on both measures.
Other residents at last week's marathon plan commission meeting also favored a vote put to all.
"There's no positive aspects to this (plan)," resident Joe Miller told the plan commission, whose members are appointed volunteers. "I believe we all should vote, not just you people."
The seven-member village board must approve the Kiva plan with at least five votes. That means if three trustees oppose it, the plan is rejected.
Kiva representatives have portrayed the treatment center as a high-end, private facility for recovering professionals that would cost $30,000 for a 30-day stay. Officials have said clients would detox at a different facility, but acknowledged that some addicts could be treated there as well.
Residents fear the center would burden the village's fire and ambulance services, depress home values and harm the village's image.
Kiva officials presented a $15,000 study that concluded property values would not suffer because of the treatment center, but residents questioned its validity because the study looked at homes in Rockford and Lemont. Kiva officials said those home were studied because they were close to drug treatment facilities.
Dr. Sheldon Greenberg, a noted Chicago addiction expert who serves on the state's Medicare fraud panel, spoke in favor of Kiva's operating team, saying their methods of holistic care are proven, and clients and their families are paying top dollar because they want help.
"It's a solid plan," he said. "These are patients who are committed to their recovery."
Patrick Griffin, an attorney representing the Kiva team, did not return phone messages this week.
The plan commission considered the Kiva plan during a public hearing session that was continued over several months. Last week's meeting drew a standing-room-only crowd that frequently jeered, shouted and interrupted speakers, and peppered the room with sarcastic outbursts.
Several plan commission members said they were disappointed in the lack of civility, and the "bullying" from residents opposed to Kiva.
"I'm very disappointed in the crowds that have been here and their behavior," said plan commission member Jay Richardson, who noted Kiva officials have responded to residents' concerns, and there's really no other use for the sprawling former school surrounded by a forest preserve.
"What else are you going to use this (site) for?" Richardson said. "It's not like you could take this (school) down and turn it back into farmland. I'm not so sure there's a farmer here what would pay $8 million for it."
The village board meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Campton Township Community Center, 5N082 Old La Fox Road.


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I'm trying to enable X11 forwarding from my headless ubuntu server (12.10) to regular ubuntu to forward virt-manager so I can install windows kvm machines. The problem is when I try to open an X window from an X-enabled ssh session (ssh -X user@server), the $DISPLAY variable is empty, and I get the error "display is not set".
Can somebody please point me in the right direction, I read several topics on the internet that advise to install xvbf, some that don't, issues with xauth,... But a lot of that information contradicts each other. To be clear: I'm not searching for other methods of virtualization or a different way to install my vm, I just want X forwarding fixed.


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Florida Pine Snake
Scientific name: Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus (BARBOUR 1921)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber melanoleucus – DAUDIN 1803
- Pituophis melanoleucus – HOLBROOK 1842
- Rhinechis melanoleucus – DUMÉRIL 1853
- Pityophis melanoleucus – BAIRD 1859
- Pituophis melanoleuca – GÜNTHER 1894
- Pituophis melanoleucos – CUESTA-TERRÓN 1921
- Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus – BARBOUR 1921
Description: Adults average from 48-66 inches (122-168 cm). The record is 90 inches (228.6 cm). A large stocky snake with an indistinct pattern of reddish or dark tan blotches on a tan, brownish gray, or rusty brown ground color. The pattern of dark blotches is most distinct on the hind part of the body and the tail. Some individuals lack the blotched pattern giving them an overall light-colored appearance, while others may have nearly black markings. The belly is uniformly ashy gray. There are 29 dorsal scale rows at midbody and the scales are keeled. The pupils are round. The snout is somewhat pointed and covered by a large triangular, almost cone-shaped, rostral scale. There are four large scales on top of its snout, rather than two as in many other snakes. The juvenile pattern is similar to that above, but is brighter and less obscured towards the head.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Keeled scales
D. Front (face view) of the head
E. Side of the head
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range: The Florida Pine Snake occurs throughout the state, excluding the Florida Keys, The Everglades, extreme southwestern Florida, and immediately north of Lake Okeechobee. Outside of Florida, it occurs in southwestern and eastern Georgia to southern South Carolina.
Habitat: Although not common, the Florida Pine Snake requires dry sandy soils for burrowing. It is found most often in open pine-turkey oak woodlands and abandoned fields, and also in scrub, sandhills, and longleaf pine forest.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). When disturbed, the Florida Pine Snake will inflate and rear its forebody off the ground while hissing very loudly. Because of alteration and fragmentation to much of Florida's upland habitats, the Florida Pine Snake is no longer found in many areas of its historic range and is declining in others. It is listed as a "State-designated Threatened species" by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The Florida Pine Snake feeds primarily on pocket gophers, which it pursues by forcing its way into their underground burrows. Other small mammals, lizards, and reptile eggs are also eaten. It may occasionally climb trees in search of birds and their nests. Florida Pine Snakes spend most of their time underground in pocket gopher or gopher tortoise burrows. Breeding occurs in spring and 4-8 large, whitish eggs are laid in pocket gopher burrows during mid to late summer. The 18-20 inch (46-51 cm) young hatch in September-October.
Comparison with other species: The Eastern Rat Snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) may be tan, yellow, or orange with 4 dark stripes, or white to gray with dark gray blotches; and also lacks the enlarged triangular rostral scale on the snout. The Eastern Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum flagellum) has a dark head and neck turning into a tan body and tail; it also lacks the enlarged triangular rostral scale, and has smooth scales.


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In ever-increasing documentation of violent assaults demonstrating that attacks on Palestinians are not limited to the occupied West Bank, Israeli police repeatedly shot a Palestinian father and Good Samaritan with electric stun guns in front of his 5 young children in an East Jerusalem park.
As reported by mainstream Israeli news outlet Haaretz, the victim, 42-year-old Talal Siad, was having a celebratory Eid al-Fitr family day with his wife and 5 children at Meymadion Water Park on Thursday, when they witnessed Tel Aviv police repeatedly spraying pepper into the eyes of a teenager on the ground.
The teen victim had been involved in an altercation which occurred between some families at the park. Israeli police intervened, but witnesses say the officers used "unnecessary force."
RT News reports that Siad, who was not involved in the altercation but was alarmed by the excessive police pepper-spraying into the eyes of the teenager on the ground, called out, "What are you doing? You're killing those kids! You're being unreasonable!"
Israeli police responded by aggressively threatening Siad, who was holding his 3-year old in his arms.
Says YNet News, when Siad put his child down to attempt to help the pepper-sprayed teen, police attacked Siad with stun guns.


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Stephen Curry pushes shoes, peddles religion
Do you believe that the world was created by an old man in a white beard, who, despite being omnipotent, decided to remain aged 82?
Or perhaps your conviction is that a former carpet salesman from Kalamazoo, Michigan discovered the way, the truth and the life some time in the 1920s.
It could be that you're one of those who thinks the world is absurd and was the result of a very loud explosion in outer space, an explosion caused by a gas leak in a green person's house.
Please, I am happy if any of these beliefs make you happy.


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A dishwasher refers to a back of house worker whose primary responsibilities are to keep the dishpit clean and functioning.
Dishwasher's responsibilities:
Collect soiled dishes from dining areas and transport them to the kitchen.
Ensure that soiled dishes are stacked properly so that they can be picked easily for washing purposes.
Mix liquid soap and ensure that sponges are properly immersed in the liquid.
Clean dishes and flatware with water in order to clear them of dirt.
Soap down dishes and ensure that they are rinsed properly.
Place washed dishware and flatware on drying racks.
Use drying cloth to dry dishes and flatware completely.
Load soap and water into dishwashers.
Place dishes appropriately in the dishwasher.
Switch dishwasher on for the right amount of time and keep a watch on the timer.
Remove washed dishes from the dishwasher and make arrangements to dry them if needed.
Stack dishes properly in cupboards.
Maintain kitchen work areas and receive and store kitchen supplies.
Sweep kitchen floor and take trash out.
Ensure that the kitchen floor is properly sanitized.
Perform preventative and regular maintenance on dishwashers and ovens.
Mop stockrooms and report any hazardous situations to the kitchen or maintenance manager.
Ensure that all dish cleaning equipment and supplies are stocked properly.