text:
Topic Page: Guyana
(gīăn'Ә, –än'–), officially Co-operative Republic of Guyana, republic (2015 est. pop. 769,000), 83,000 sq mi (214,969 sq km), NE South America. It is bordered on the N by the Atlantic Ocean, on the E by Suriname, on the S and W by Brazil, and on the W by Venezuela. The capital and largest city is Georgetown.
On the east Guyana is separated from Suriname by the Courantyne (Corantijn or Corentyne) River. The Akarai Mts. form the southern border with Brazil. Several rivers make up much of the western border with Brazil and Venezuela, and the Essequibo River flows through the center of the country. There is a cultivated coastal plain and a forested, hilly interior (for a more detailed description of the physical characteristics of the area, see Guiana). The climate is hot and humid, and the rainfall is heavy.
Most of the population lives along the coast. About half of the people trace their ancestry to India, and the rest are of African, mixed, or indigenous descent. English, Hindi, Urdu, and various indigenous dialects are spoken. Christianity and Hinduism are the main religions, and there is a substantial Muslim minority. The Univ. of Guyana in Georgetown was founded in 1963.
Agriculture and mining are the principal economic activities. Sugarcane and rice are the leading crops, and wheat, corn, coconuts, and citrus fruit are also grown. Cattle and other livestock are raised. Bauxite, gold, diamonds, and manganese are mined. There are large forest resources (notably greenheart and balatá) that have been exploited.
The chief exports are sugar, gold, bauxite, alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, and timber. Imports include manufactures, machinery, petroleum, and foodstuffs. Reforms were instituted in the late 1980s to liberalize the country's economy and to attract foreign aid and investment, and the economy grew in the 1990s and early 2000s. The United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, and Great Britain are the most important trading partners.
Guyana is governed under the constitution of 1980. The president, who is the head of state, is popularly elected (as leader of a parliamentary party list) for a five-year term. The president appoints the prime minister, who is the head of government, and the cabinet. The legislature is the unicameral National Assembly, whose 65 members are elected for five-year terms. Administratively, the country is divided into ten regions. Guyana is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the indigenous Warrau tribe controlled the territory of Guyana. In the early 17th cent. the Dutch established settlements about the Essequibo River, and England and France also founded colonies in the Guiana region. By the Treaty of Breda (1667) the Dutch gained all the English colonies in Guiana. Possessions continued to change hands in the late 18th and early 19th cent. until the Congress of Vienna (1815) awarded the settlements of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo to Great Britain; they were united as British Guiana in 1831. Slavery was abolished in 1834. In 1879 gold was discovered, thus speeding British expansion toward the Orinoco delta and resulting in the Venezuela Boundary Dispute.
After World War II significant progress toward self-government was made. Under the 1952 constitution, elections were won (1953) by the PPP, headed by Cheddi Jagan, who formed a government. However, the British deemed the government pro-Communist and suspended the constitution. Subsequently the PPP split, and Forbes Burnham formed the PNC. The PPP again won elections in 1957 and (after self-government was granted) in 1961, but was politically weakened by strikes and unrest; it later emerged that much of the agitation was precipitated or funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency at the instigation of the Kennedy administration. Proportional representation was then introduced, in response to PNC charges that the electoral system was unfair.
After the 1964 elections the PNC and the UF were able to form a ruling coalition, and Burnham became prime minister. Full independence was negotiated in 1966. In the elections of 1968 and 1973 the PNC won a majority, and Burnham continued as prime minister. Antagonism between the East Indians, who control a substantial portion of the nation's commerce, and Africans led to frequent clashes and bloodshed in the 1960s, but violence subsided by the 1970s.
Guyana became a republic in 1970, embarking on a socialist path that ultimately led to economic ruin. The boundaries with Venezuela and Suriname continued to be a matter of dispute, with Venezuela still laying claim to some 60% of Guyana's territory. In 2007 the disputed sea border with Suriname was settled by a UN Law of the Sea tribunal, but sections of the Suriname land border remain contested. Concessions granted by Guyana for offshore oil exploration revived the boundary dispute with Venezuela in 2015. In 1978 more than 900 followers, mostly Americans, of a religious cult (the People's Temple) led by Jim Jones committed suicide in Jonestown, a jungle village in Guyana. In 1980 a new constitution was adopted, under which Burnham became president. In the early 1980s, the government instituted heavy media restrictions and openly harassed opposition parties.
After Burnham's death in 1985, he was replaced by Desmond Hoyte, who began some liberalization programs and invited foreign aid and investment. In the late 1980s, austerity policies implemented by the government caused considerable unrest, as opposition parties called for new elections. In 1992 Hoyte lost the presidency to the former prime minister (1957–64) and ex-Marxist Cheddi Jagan of the PPP. Under Jagan, the country saw economic growth, especially in the agricultural and mining sectors, and enjoyed continuing international support.
Jagan died in Mar., 1997, and his prime minister, Samuel Hinds, became president, naming Jagan's widow, Janet Jagan, as prime minister. In December of that year, she was elected president. Janet Jagan resigned in Aug., 1999, because of ill health and was succeeded by Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyana's finance minister. Jagdeo and the PPP were returned to power in elections held in March, 2001. Heavy rains, high tides, and drainage canals in disrepair resulted in severe flooding in Georgetown and coastal areas of Guyana in early 2005, disrupting the lives of almost half of the population. Jagdeo was reelected in Aug., 2006, and at the same time the PPP increased its legislative majority by two seats.
In the Nov., 2011, elections the PPP won the election but fell shy of a majority of the legislative seats; PPP leader Donald Ramotar became president. A threatened no-confidence vote by the opposition led in Nov., 2014, to the suspension and then dissolution of the legislature by the president. In early elections in May, 2015, a five-party coalition dominated by A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) narrowly won control of the legislature, and APNU/AFC candidate David Granger, a retired general, was elected president.
Related Articles
Full text Article Guyana
Situated on the northeast coast of South America, of which it is the only English-speaking nation, Guyana anchors the eastern chain of...
Full text Article Guyana
Guyana's flag was adopted in 1966 when the country became independent from Britain. The colours symbolize the people's energy in building...
Full text Article Guyana
The Co-operative Republic of Guyana borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only English-speaking country in mainland South America. The coastal...


text:
Vertical-cavity multiple quantum well electroabsorption modulators (EAM) offer gigahertz modulation speeds, insensitivity to light polarisation and can be integrated into large arrays. They are therefore good candidates for efficient parallel signal processing architectures. We present high-performance 2×128 and 2×64 EAM arrays that were fabricated at 4" wafer-scale by using optimised fabrication and hybridisation processes. The arrays exhibit contrast ratios of 20:1 with a voltage swing of 1 V, a maximum contrast ratio of 335:1 for a 10 V bias and a modulation frequency in excess of 15 MHz.
©2005 Optical Society of AmericaFull Article | PDF Article
OSA Recommended Articles
Stéphane Junique, Qin Wang, Susanne Almqvist, Bertrand Noharet, and Jan Y. Andersson
Opt. Express 15(14) 8566-8575 (2007)
Stéphane Junique, Qin Wang, Susanne Almqvist, Jianhua Guo, Henk Martijn, Bertrand Noharet, and Jan Y. Andersson
Appl. Opt. 44(9) 1635-1641 (2005)
Toru Segawa, Wataru Kobayashi, Tomonari Sato, Shinji Matsuo, Ryuzo Iga, and Ryo Takahashi
Opt. Express 20(26) B485-B492 (2012)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Jessica M. Arnold
Jessica M. Arnold was born in Asheville, North Carolina and attended college at North Carolina State University, where she graduated cum laude with double majors in Spanish and Political Science. She subsequently attended Campbell University School of Law to pursue her law degree. While in law school, Jessica served as an Articles Editor for the Campbell Law Review, traveled around the country competing in a National Moot Court Competition, and completed several internships around Wake County, including an internship with the Wake County District Attorney's Office, the North Carolina business court, the North Carolina court of appeals, the NC Office of the State Auditor, Shanahan Law Group, and she served as a law clerk for fellow Wake County criminal defense attorney Brad Polk.
Upon graduating from law school at the top of her class, Jessica went into private practice in Fuquay-Varina. While in Fuquay, Jessica represented clients in civil litigation, personal injury, contract disputes, family law, traffic matters, estate planning and estate administration. After a year in a general practice firm, Jessica decided to focus her areas of practice to criminal and domestic law. In 2015, Jessica joined the firm of DeMent Askew and currently represents clients on a number of cases, ranging from traffic violations to serious felonies.
Call Jessica today to discuss your legal situation. In most cases initial consultations are free so you can quickly find out what your rights are, and what we can do to help. Or fill out our online contact form with any questions.
(919) 833-5555
Jessica's Credentials
Areas of Practice
- Criminal Law
- Traffic Law
- Driver's License Restoration
- DMV Hearings
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 2013
- Campbell University, J.D., 2013


text:
An extraordinary debut from a new British-based band who combine a gipsy swagger with tremulous sensitivity and gothic rock drama. They are not particularly fresh-faced and fashionable: five scruffy, tattooed veterans of hardcore and emo bands fronted by a 25-year-old anthropologist and medical school dropout, but they have the stamp of greatness about them.
They are a big canvas band making folk rock; a fusion of the accessible pastoral pop of Mumford & Sons with the epic electric soundscapes of Radiohead. But when he drops to the fragile intimacy of an acoustic guitar, singer Peter Liddle's choirboy tenor evokes the tender melancholy of Nick Drake while the group harmonies swell with the sacred hush and precision of 16th-century madrigals. The multi-instrumental band can gently rock or pitch in with the messianic melodrama of Arcade Fire.
All these musical riches are naturally connected to the songs, which unwind with flowing melodies and poetic lyrics, shifting and twisting in unusual ways but never straying too far from the kind of chorus that would have Chris Martin humming all the way to the charts. No Rest and Weights & Measures boast singalong hooks you might not expect from songs that employ the imagery of the King James Bible, framing narratives of complex relationships in historical and mythic settings.
Norwegian born Liddle's high language alerts you to his intense seriousness. A preponderance of religious imagery suggests a lapsed Catholic, still struggling with burdens of guilt and doubt. On New Ceremony, he evokes a sudden gulf between a passionate couple by suggesting "the Angel of Doubt came down and crept into your bed", then vainly tries to halt an inevitable parting with a stream of increasingly desperate endearments: "My little one, my kettle drum, my babel tongue, my come undone, my prison kiss, my dying wish."
A deliciously wonky lead guitar line emphasises how bereft his is, as Liddle laments "I know it's got to stop, love, but I don't know how." It is intoxicating stuff.
I don't imagine Dry the River are going to take over the world, or reassert the commercial fortunes of rock. But they do offer hope, making music with ambition, spirit, taste, depth and bold conviction that repays repeated listening. Produced by Peter Katis, who has worked wonders with New York bands the National and Interpol, this is, most of all, a band that has the confidence to sound like itself.
Download this Weights & Measures


text:
This year's theme is: "Let Your Imagination Fly…"
All art must be turned in by October 26, 2015 to your teacher or to the office.
Let your imagination fly and unleash your inner artist! Write a poem or story, take a picture or create a piece of visual art and tell us what the theme, "Let Your Imagination Fly" means to you!
For 3rd - 5th grades, this program recognizes outstanding student works in several art areas: iterature, Photography and Visual Arts.
Students may enter as many pieces as they would like in one or all art categories. Students will need a Student Entry Form for EVERY piece they submit for judging. The Rules and Procedures have been simplified this year. Make sure to read all the Rules, and fill out the Student Entry Form completely including signatures, title, artist statement, and art questions.
**These Rules and Forms will be sent home TODAY's Tuesday folder on September 15, 2015.
The program also has a Special Artist Division as an option for students with disabilities. Please see rules or contact Ann-Margaret Alexander.
Our school's winning pieces will advance to the county level, county winners will advance to state, and state winners will advance to nationals.
Our school will host a Reflections Celebration later in the year and all participating students, regardless of placement, will be invited to attend and be recognized. Our PTA and school staff are excited to see the wonderful creations our super talented students submit this year!!!
If you have any questions email Ann-Margaret Alexander at: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Image Source
What is Your Emotional Awareness About Your Past?
Identifying Unexpressed Emotion
By Randi Fine
To find out if you are having trouble letting go of the past, please answer yes or no to the following twenty questions:
- Do you have painful childhood memories that you have yet to deal with?
- Do you often feel upset, unbalanced, uncomfortable, or even cut off from your emotions?
- Do you have a habit of ignoring or burying your most uncomfortable feelings?
- Do you always show a happy face to the world, even when you are suffering inside?
- Are there triggers that suddenly bring out your anger or cause you to be defensive?
- Do you suffer from unexplained insomnia, headaches, stomach problems, and fatigue?
- Are you afraid to feel your emotions?
- Are you afraid to excavate old emotions because of the "Pandora's Box" that will open up?
- Do you feel that showing emotions is a sign of weakness?
- Do you suffer from addictions or co-dependency issues?
- Do you have deep bouts of depression that cannot be explained?
- Do you make excuses for the people or events that hurt you in the past?
- Do you have resentments toward others for things they have done to you in the past?
- Are you hypersensitive, rigid, irrational, and/or insecure?
- Do you suspect that something traumatic happened to you in the past but cannot remember what it is?
- Do you find it difficult to go with the flow of life?
- Do you constantly stay busy so you won't have time to think about things that upset you?
- Do you want to be happy but doubt that you ever can?
- Were you abused as a child or young adult?
- Do you wish you could change the past?
If you answered yes to five or more questions, it is highly likely that issues from the past are preventing you from living fully in the present.This test is for screening purposes only. It is not a formal diagnosis. Please see a qualified therapist or counselor to further evaluate and diagnose you.
How Do You Feel About What Happened to You in the Past? Take Anonymous Survey
Hits: 859


text:
A name that houses different types of kinesiology
Types of Specialized Kinesiology:
• Touch for Health
• Edu-kinesiology
• Three in One Concepts
• Applied Physiology
Direct contact with Mind Body Spirit connection – Using muscle monitoring or manual muscle testing (as ideomotor-mechanism) we tune in into the essence of the Body Mind Spirit connection: your energy field or thought field. The correction that follows is holistic in nature.
It reflects the wording of the Body Mind Spirit connection as it is the way the connetion has expressed itself through muscle testing. Daniel Whiteside (Three In One Concepts) used to say: "Let the body paint its story".
It doesn't matter how you call it, but this is really a journey you make every time you check out your field and fix the issues as we go: fix as you go.
In the begining – At the beginning of Specialized Kinesiology lies Touch for Health. It is the form that is nearest to Applied Kinesiology as it – essentially – teaches to test 14 muscles that are said to relate to 12 main meridians and 2 extra meridians from the Traditional Chinese Medicin – a notion that plays a significant part in the Applied Kinesiology approach.
To name some balancing acts:
- holding neuro-vasculair points (Bennet points) and/or
- rubbing neuro-lymphatic points (Chapman points),
- threngtening or sedating chi in that particular meridian by holding/massaging specific meridian points.
All is done on basis of information gathered by using Accurate Muscle Testing. Also called Muscle monitoring, Manual Muscle Testing,
Muscle testing can be learned – Muscle monitoring is a technique that can be learned, just as you can learn to drive a car. Hazards are everywhere. Learned with the right attitude and the right feeling (scope) you can experience miracles happening as you practize more and more. The essence is to trust what you are sensing and go from there. Meaning: do not try to impose your expectations on your testing, your are likely to fail if you do so!
Very light testing – This type of muscle testing as we do at Applied/Specialized Kinesiology is very light and in fact we don't intend to measure the strength of a muscle. We really monitor the quality of the muscle while we recognize: "strong", "weak", "blocked". (Applied Physiology)
Balancing the Mind Body Spirit connection – It is true you are not alone. You are a conglomerate of different parts, namely:
- Mind – Expressed by your Thinking and Feeling (Emotions).
- Body – Expressed by your Physical presentation.
- Spirit – Expressed by your Extra spatial abilities (Knowing)
Stop that program holistically with Applied/Specialized Kinesiology – While muscle testing, you only get the same result when there is a program running that needs to be shut down. And when you read further on this site you will understand that muscle testing for communication with the Mind Body Spirit Connection is one thing, performing the correction is the other. You will find when we use the right correction that program will shut down. How do we know? When we can not test with the same result. Doesn't that sound reasonable. Well, that is what we do!
So when you have become interested, do the only right thing and read and take to you that is interesting and insightful. And/or find a practitioner to experience this first hand. Now you should be aware that no one is the same, everyone has his/her own preferences that reflect in the way the information is handled. So it is with every practitioner. There is no good or better, just as long the correction offered is appropriate for the issue.
Muscle testing is something you must have felt – Muscle testing is the way to listen to mind body spirit. To listen holistically. There are loads of people who think to know how it is to be muscle tested the way Applied / Specialized Kinesiology practitioners muscle test by simply watching a video on YouTube and say "Crap!". When you are one of them "Stop what you are doing!". And realize you can only judge when you have experienced the real thing. I am sure you can relate to that for many other experiences in your life. When not, then you are not from this world.
Be in the Now – Muscle monitoring – as a way of facilitated communication – is a great tool to assess the problems you experience and a great starter for making the right choice(s) to get back to the "Normal" state. This state where you are in the Now, in the Present. Guess what, there is only Now. All your thoughts and your actions – that make you live in the Past or project you in the Future – make you do anything but to "have not live life at its fullest". Hint …. At the heart of "living live at its fullest" lies the art of Mindfulness.
Muscle testing, the alpha and omega of a session – There are loads of explanations for manual muscle testing to work. While muscle testing, we work in the different areas of the Body Mind (thinking-feeling) Spirit connection. Muscle testing, we focus on the whole (hence the term holistic) and we receive information from the B/M/S connection. It is our job – as practitioner of Applied/Specialized Kinesiology – to act on this information. The correction – our way of stress management – will influence the whole system according the appliability of the presented correction. At the end muscle testing shows the effectiviness of the intervention.
Because stress is unavoidable, doesn't mean we cannot do anything to relieve stress. Facilitated communication to assess and focussed attention while making the correction, are the way stress management is done – essentially – at Applied/Specialized Kinesiology! Entering the realm of the Body Mind Spirit connection, our influence is holistic in nature … It is up to you to take the steps necessary and find the relieve you desire so much.


text:
In this episode we discuss Pixelmator, Victorian Aunts and Dancing Robots
Listen to this episode
- Elaine on Google Plus
- Mike on Google Plus
- Elaine's YouTube account
- Limit on Open In menu on iDevices
- Calendar woes
- Klout
- Apple branded TV
- NaNoWriMo
App Review
- Robert Walker loves the Lion DiskMaker which we covered in Episode 57
FREE Webinar
- Thanks to Derek, James, Minster and Minster's robot for your comments and feedback
The MacBites Crew are Elaine Giles, Mike Thomas and MacBitesSiri. Together they bring you tips, tricks and valuable first hand experience of the Mac platform.
Latest posts by The MacBites Crew (see all)
- MacBites After Hours 0052 - 28 October 2019
- MacBites After Hours 0051 - 28 October 2019
- MacBites After Hours 0050 - 27 October 2019


text:
Property Description
A professionally designed four bed residence with an infinity swimming pool that exudes impeccable luxury in its master bedroom, 3 bedrooms and the living room that offers spectacular panoramic views of the Andaman Ocean. It is in a gated community of exceptional quality villas that is known to be one of the finest developments on the island. It is within a short distance to the secluded Layan Beach and Laguna shopping district and restaurants are within a short 5 minute drive.
Daily rentals include daily maid service except on Sundays, change of bed linen on every third day, welcome soft drinks and a fruit basket, round trip transfer, conscientious villa manager on call.
Monthly rentals do not include electric and water.
Pets are not allowed.
1 March to 31 October
Daily: $650
Weekly: –
Monthly: $13,000
1 Nov to 19 Dec / 21 Jan to 28 Feb
Daily: $800
Weekly: –
Monthly: $16,000
20 Dec to 20 Jan
Daily: $1,400
Weekly: –
Monthly: $25,200
Rates: Please enquire for latest rates and promotions. All rates are quoted in USD.


text:
Session Date: November 22nd, 2008
This is the first session of a new D&D 4th edition campaign. I recommend you read the introduction to the campaign here: http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/blog.php?b=5.
The players are:
Aidan (Playing Red, a Dragonborn Warlord)Alucinor (Playing the here-forth unnamed 'elven' Rogue)SpiffyBananaFoot (Some call me, Tim? Playing the Eladrin wizard.)Corii (Playing Snow the elven Ranger)JonDOT (Playing
Oh, I'm so blogging depressed, and my life is so blogging pathetic, you must read my blog to make me feel like I'm spechul, my very life depends on it. Boo hoo, boo hoo hoo...
Sometimes I hate the internet and miss the 80's.
I've decided to try my hand at something I have never done before by writing up a campaign log for my currently running campaign. This campaign originally began in January 2008, but the story (and the characters) became a little mangled in our attempt to switch from D&D 3.5e to 4e. So, we decided to hard-reset the game and start from the beginning on a fresh 4th edition slate. Although the introduction remains the same, however, this will not be the same story that the players embarked on
Perhaps I just missed the big announcement, but it looks like Wizards of the Coast quietly slipped a toe in to test the waters with publishing on the Amazon Kindle. The other night, I was browsing for suggested books on my Kindle, when what to my wandering eyes would appear? Four Forgotten Realms books by R.A. Salvatore available since October this year: The Pirate King, The Orc King, Road of the Patriarch, and Promise of the Witch King.
This is great news for Forgotten-Realms-reading
He recently discovered an unusual characteristic within his own family members, and as a result has set out on a quest to discover if he has these traits as well.
Siedon's family displays the following characteristics: Selfless acts that make others miserable. (Mother purchases a very expensive Doppledog because she believed her son would find it adorable. Knowing her son does not like animals, mother keeps the pet for herself after her son spends one hour with the insane creature.)


text:
United Kingdom
United States
Relax in the hot springs while your body soaks up minerals that are incredibly good for your health. In these springs, underground water comes bubbling up at different temperatures (above 20 °C), and depending on its composition, it has several therapeutic qualities, such as baths and inhalations, as well as being used for irrigation and heating.
Peruvian geology, and especially the Nazca Plate geological fault, have produced around 500 hot springs. Plate movements allow thermal flux filtration, which heats up underground water. It then comes out of the ground at high temperatures, containing minerals that are good for your health.
Hot springs with temperatures over 70 °C. The water's minerals have therapeutic properties for treating bone, skin and nervous conditions. Designed for the comfort and best enjoyment of visitors, pools have been built where hot water mixes with cold. There is also a sauna and swimming pool in which to enjoy a relaxing bath after sightseeing in the city.
Due to its historical importance, it is one of Peru's most famous medicinal hot springs. The Inca Emperor Atahualpa was found here when the Spanish conquesters arrived. The stone pool where he used to bath can still be seen.
Right from the moment you enter, the steam can be felt rising from the chloride and sulphurous waters of the bubbling springs. Although this area is particularly attractive due to its hot springs, it also has beautiful natural scenery, accommodation and magnificent restaurants.
About 25 km from Arequipa, Yura hot springs are spacious with sulphurous alkaline waters at 26 °C, perfect for rheumatism, arthritis, obesity, varicose veins, breathing conditions, stomach pains, skin and urinary complaints, although they are not for those with heart conditions or diabetes.
La Calera
The hot springs at La Calera are found in the Colca Valley, just a few minutes from Chivay. A spa boasting specific characteristics that replenish your energy after trips and hikes through the Colca Canyon. Its 85 °C waters come from the Cotalluni volcano and contain minerals such as Sulphur and Iron, fantastic for the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism. The complex has five spacious and clean pools as well as a small ethnographic museum.
Monterrey and Chancos
In Áncash, when travelling through the Cordillera Blanca (White Range), there is the chance of having a revitalising bath in hot springs. Monterrey's hot springs are the closest to the city of Huaraz, with its water reaching 49 °C. An alternative is Chancos, located at the foot of the Nevado Copa mountain, it has even hotter waters that are up to 74 °C. The waters of both spas are ideal for the treatment of rheumatic and nervous conditions, as well as paralysis.
The medicinal hot springs at Quercos, in the Callejon de Conchucos, are recommended for treating joint and skin complaints. Its sulphurous water comes up from deep within the rock. The complex has rooms, pools and a small swimming pool. It is a destination for hundreds of visitors looking to improve their complaints of rheumatism.
Machu Picchu Pueblo also known as the town of Aguas Calientes, just a few minutes from the famous Inca citadel, has sulphurous water, colourless and scentless at a temperature of 30 °C, perfect for treating rheumatic, muscle and nervous disorders. An excellent way of replenishing energy after trekking along the Inca Trail or through the Machu Picchu sanctuary.
The legend tells of an Inca that came through this place and made a princess pregnant. In Quechua language, "chiuchi" means small male child, this being the origin of the locality's name. Located on the banks of the Chegras River, all you need to do is cross it to reach Chiuchín's hot springs. Although getting there is not easy due to the state of the road, those who make the effort to visit the hot springs of Huacachín (Chiuchín), Picoy and Huancahuasi will be more than rewarded. At these hot springs relief can be found for liver, skin, breathing, kidney, nervous and rheumatism conditions. The temperature of its waters vary between 40 °C to 60 °C. Here there are a wide variety of available services for the visitor.
Festivities and events
- Hasta: 01-agosto
574-8000 - 24 Hrs - firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
In Salon Loyalty Programs:
How to Turn your New Customers into Repeat Customers
It is surprising how many salon businesses allow little opportunities to market themselves slip through the cracks. This could equate to a sizeable chunk of potential revenue being squandered. For example, it seems almost standard practice nowadays for a salon employee to, at the end of their client's appointment, simply bid them good day and allow them to leave without going the extra mile of trying to market to that client. In the process, not only do they miss the opportunity for increased revenue, but also potentially turning a customer into a loyal client. Things might be so different if they took the time to ask for their customer's email address, or to sign them up to a loyalty program. It does not take much effort to ask the question, but boy, the rewards have the potential to be fantastic. Let's take a little look at this:
Converting One-Off Customers into Regular Customers
If you ask any experienced salon owner or any businessperson in general, they will tell you that it is far easier and cheaper to keep an existing customer than to gain new ones. If you ask most salon owners or managers though, I am sure that they will tell you that a percentage of their client base are new customers. In fact current research figures show that a whopping 83% of them will never return again. It may surprise you though, to find that taking steps to reduce this percentage is incredibly simple. You just need to have a strategy in place. Let me introduce you to the world of email marketing.
As a side note here, there are plenty of software programs online that you can utilize to build up your email marketing list. I absolutely love AWeber though as it is so simple to use and pretty effective at cracking those spam filters. I suggest that you check it out, HERE.
How do you go about marketing your company in this way? The first step is pretty obvious – you are going to attempt to get the email address of every customer that you serve. Most people will have no problems with sharing this information. Once you have your email contact, these are the stages that you would ideally go through:
Send an email giving them a top tip relating to the work that they had carried out at your salon. You do not need to say anything special here whatsoever. Just a short email tip is all that it takes.
One week later send a follow-up email, perhaps inquiring how they are handling their service, and maybe also giving another tip related to your salon. Again, you do not need to make a sale here. In fact, it is more important that you try not to do that.
After several more weeks, you are going to want to introduce them to a loyalty program relating to your business.
Loyalty Programs and How They Work
The idea behind a loyalty program is to get the client coming through your door. They should encourage the client to make an appointment as soon as possible. Ideally this means that you want to tell them to make an appointment today. For example, your offer might be that if they make an appointment immediately, they will receive a loyalty card entitling them to one free piece of work carried out for every ten that are carried out. Now, you want people to sign up quickly right? Well, tell them that if they make an appointment the same day that they receive this email you will class the previous session as part of the loyalty card and then an extra punch for 'free'. This means that one trip will be classed as three. Honestly, people will be jumping through hoops to make that appointment.
So why should you do this? To illustrate, I'd like to relate to you a case study of a car wash and their loyalty program. The owners introduced an experimental loyalty scheme to their car wash, using a 10-stamp loyalty card, and discovered that 'artificial advancement' increased their customer loyalty. They found this by dividing their patrons in half, giving one group a blank loyalty card to start with, while the other group received a card with the first two stamps already filled in – giving them a head start known as 'artificial advancement'. The results were measured over 9 months and showed 28 out of the 150 people who received the first card (i.e. no artificial advancement) returned. However, of the second group, 51 out of 150 customers returned – a sizeable difference!
Why does this work? People are more likely to finish something if they can quite clearly see the end. With 2 stamps in place they were 20% of the way there! It's crazy to read human psychology in this way, but it really does work.
It is important to note that artificial advancement only works if there is a reason for putting it into place. As an example, in the case of your salon this reason might be 'customer appreciation'. Now, straight away there is a great chance people will keep coming back to your salon as a result of this concept of artificial advancement. This equates to more money in your pocket. Also, by the time their loyalty card has been completed, the client has had the opportunity to experience so much of your good work, you'll find they remain a loyal customer even without a card incentive. All as a result of just three emails.
The Bottom Line
If you want to turn your new customers into clients who return time and time again, try being smart with the email follow ups that you send out. Talk to your customer as a friend. Don't channel your inner-salesperson – that doesn't work. Show that you care about their experience at your salon and that you value their patronage. It's all encouragement for them to sign up to your loyalty program.
As a salon business owner, it should be your mission to ensure that you offer the best salon experience that you can, but it does not stop there. You need to know how to properly market to your patrons too. Loyalty schemes are without a doubt an excellent starting point here, but there is so much more marketing that you can and should do. Learn as many marketing tricks as possible – I promise you, if you do that then your business will be really going places!


text:
|Thread Tools
|Search this Thread
|Display Modes
I'm agnotisic as well. I try to keep open minded and cool headed over religion, minding what other people think even though I feel they are wrong.
I've only had one religious friend try to convert me, and that was to Christianity (kinda funny, cause he had just been brought over to it after claiming he was an Athiest). He converted cause he was having a tough life and the community supplied by going to his church helped him through that, and since I had something bad happen to me he thinks I should go to. I said no multiple times, and I almost got to a point that would have been painfully rude towards his beliefs. I will tolerate others religious views as long as they can respect my views as well. I've always thought that that cardinal rule of religious respect for others should work both ways.
I'd consider myself to be agnostic as well. For the longest time I always believed I was an Atheist, until I truly sat down to consider a lot of different things. One factor easily helped me "look outside the box." When I look at it, I see one amazing thing, Existence. "Life," is always the pinnacle of what's brought up in religious debates, but I think the word "Existence" is a far more ethical choice to focus beliefs. Regardless of the fact that animate objects are in itself, Life, I believe there is far more to it. Now this is all obvious, I know, but existence itself is one miraculous phenomenon. Planets, stars, light, air, gravity, grass, black holes, supernovas, humans, animals, bacteria etc etc. Simply because we have the capability to breathe, communicate and think, makes us no better than anything else that exists. As has been stated before, there is no physical evidence linking creation to a single god, many gods or supreme beings. Likewise, there isn't any stating that they do not exist. When you try and fathom the possibility of how endless this universe is, and how complex lifeforms and inanimate objects can be, it's hard not to think it was created by someone.
I find it quite difficult to believe that "it just happened," but at the same time, I find it just as hard to believe that there is an individual ruling all under his name. It's a lot easier to believe we were created by someone, as it gives an inner sense of hope for a chance at life after death, or possibly multiple lives. With this, I believe some forms of religion exploit that. When you bring in the fact that the creator(s) have rules and regulations, I find that to be quite cruel. No individual on this planet, or in "existance" is any higher up than anyone else. Thus, our equality far overrules this set of "rules." We are all blessed by being alive in the same time (period) with no real explanation as to why, or how. Some say it's luck, but I see it as a privilege.
I respect other's opinions, and I ask that mine be respected as well. I am not bad mouthing anyone's beliefs, nor trying to belittle them. This is simply my point of view. As long as it isn't enforced upon me, I will respect it 100%, and the same goes for myself. I would never try to impose my beliefs over anyone else. I simply state this, to possibly give more of a look into the subject. The same as when I read or hear about this as well.
I've never really understood religion, to me it just seems weird.
As I said before I'm an atheist. I don't believe there's anything superior, who lives somewhere above us, that has created the world, us ... everything.
There are so many scientific facts that prove so much.
Religion has also caused many wars, all around the world. They think their God wants/wanted them to do that.
All because it's written in a big book ...
Add me on Xfire !
Add me on Steam !
Add 'Mutte' @ BFBC2
PSN ID: MutteBE
StarCraft II (EU): Mutte.806
Last edited by Mutte; 10-11-2009 at 07:59 AM.
To Catholics, God isn't a belief, He is the the truth. They're not supposed to say, "I think he exists;" they say "I know He exists." Which is why arguing against these beliefs is impossible. They believe in the something that cannot be proven or disproven.
As for the Bible, there are many different ways to interpret it. But in the end, what if it is just the world's best selling book? Even if the Bible was based on truth, there are millions of different ways to explain it.
In my opinion, it's way better to see the stories from the Bible applying to real life situations. In other words, I'm glad I was raised to be a Catholic. It's made me a better person; it's part of who I am. But as I've gotten older, the idea of religion makes less and less sense. Tolerance makes more sense in the sense that we must coexist to exist. So I agree with DeatH when he says he can respect another religion as long as he is not imposed on. But here's my take on that: The ends do not justify the means, but the end is what counts. The relationship of our different cultures becomes mutual when we follow an almost universal rule: as long as we do not harm others, we can believe in whatever we want.
Sooo, whether or not God exists does not matter to me. Life's too short to think about something so literally out of this world. If He exists, how can we be so arrogant to know what He wanted us to do. If there is a God, i'm sure He'd understand what I'm thinking. After all, this is the way He made me.
Last edited by Coodoo1134; 10-11-2009 at 03:32 PM.
I did once have a christian phase i guess you could call it, but i kinda lost faith, because my Great Nan, and Grandfather died from cancer, along with my Uncle dying in his sleep, my Auntie having a heart attack, all in the space of a year or so, was crazy, so i kinda fell away, i think i went because it kept me occupied and it gave me awnsers, but as i said, i fell away from it once all the death started happening. (Wish it would stop already. ¬_¬)
Funny that i used to go, but never understood it, strange that, and also people say to me, "you don't belive in god do you?" My reply is. "I do belive in him, i just hate him." (Please don't flame me for that.)
I know they say god works in mysterious ways, but its just something i can't belive, or atleast anymore, who knows, maybe i will be proved wrong one day?
im pretty sure agnostic is you dont believe in god, but you respect the fact that there may be a god
*shrugs* nothing like that has ever happened, but I could see it happening. Some people just feel that strongly against religion.
Personally, I'm a christian. Yes, I know. Typical christian post. You probably guessed it in the first sentence, lol.
But, hey, at least I'm not babbling on like an idiot about how stupid you are for being atheist. =P
I don't mean to be offending anybody here, but I personally think it's hard for someone to accept the christian faith on so little when it asks them to give up so much. You see a lot of people say this same thing very offensively. Such as, "They walk after their own lusts"... but it's true. People need to understand that it takes more than a simple argument and name calling to convert someone. In fact, you're only going to push somebody away from the faith because they're gonna think of how much of an asshole you were when they think of the faith. (yes, I'm talking to anybody who's over-reacted in an argument.)
|Thread Tools
|Search this Thread
|Display Modes
Linear Mode


text:
Full Description
Due to the consumers becoming more cost efficient and price-savvy than ever before, big food ingredient suppliers and distributors are feeling the brunt of the companies who are staying unbelievably competitive with their pricing to keep business growing in these tough times. Giving the best deals isn't always the easiest thing to do when you're a food ingredients supplier or manufacturer.
One of the fastest growing trends that the food industry is seeing is a large break from the loyalty of it's past food ingredient vendors and manufacturers. During better economic times, food ingredient buyers would often not obtain multiple quotes from the suppliers of the same ingredient so save time, and keep service consistent. They used suppliers that they knew they could depend on, even if their prices weren't always the cheapest. Quality over price was definitely prevailing.
In contrast, food buyers are now shifting their buying habits like never before. Instead of obtaining 1 -3 bids on a product, they are now doing some heavy shopping around, often times, even looking outside of their country for better deals and quotes. After obtaining the quotes, they are taking the lowest quote even bargaining it down lower, to be sure they are cutting costs in every way they can. While under large pressure from their upper management to keep costs low, these food ingredient buyers are inadvertently creating a new market price gauge when negotiating such tough terms.
A few food companies have managed to continue to grow, while other have resorted to compromising on the quality and promises of their food ingredients products. While price gouging is common for almost every market, the food industry has some fairly dirty ways of getting around this, that ultimately affect the consumer and their end product.


text:
"Six Feet Under" and "American Horror Story" Emmy nominee Frances Conroy has been tapped to star in the scripted drama based on Stephen King's 1980 novella "The Mist" for Spike TV.
This marks first casting of the ten-episode series about a seemingly innocuous mist that seeps into a small town and creates immense havoc. Christian Torpe is penning and executive producing the series which begins production this summer ahead of a 2017 premiere.
Conroy will play Nathalie, a modern-day ecological martyr seemingly more connected to nature than most people, but her instincts about her fellow humans are dead on. "The Mist" will be Spike's first scripted series in nine years.
Source: The Live Feed


text:
The Bead Artists' First, Only and Complete Source for Color Mastery
Send us your interpretations of a Margie Deeb pattern so the world can enjoy your creativity:
margie [ at ] margiedeeb [ dot ] com
Using the "Thai Multi-Strand bracelet" project from The Beader's Color Palette, Janis Garich added her own flavor of colors... and they are inspiring. I especially like the peaches and pinks combined with the browns and greens.
Julie Kirk makes a beautiful emerald green version of "The Golden Earring" from Beading Her Image.
A luxurious version of a "Mandira" from The Beader's Guide to Color, Terah Hernandez drapes a silk cord and tassel from the bottom! I also like seeing her flipped horizontally, so the large earring is now on the right side rather than left, as it is in the book.
Using peyote stitch, SaraBeth Cullinan made simple straps that allow the focus of "The Glamour" from Beading Her Image to remain the portrait. Note how the edges incline diagonally toward the straps. This is much more aesthetically pleasing than if they were stitched to end horizontally. These diagonal lines enhance the scooped out collar area of the center section.
SaraBeth Cullinan changed the designates colors for Arabian Nights so they are more analogous, and added a brilliant sparkle of gold cut beads, resulting in a sophisticted, mellow color scheme.
Look what Linda Thompson-Mills of Pleasant Hill, California has created using the "Nouveau" pattern from Out On A Loom. The omission of the amber gold and a background of rich blue (rather than raspberry) change the piece, making it feel more solid and quiet.
Keith Pearson took "Nouveau" (from Out On A Loom) and made it his own, with a cooler, more masculine color scheme and repeating the face motif in the straps. Notice how he re-designed the bottom above the fringe, so it ends with the large, sweeping curve, omitting the final right-sweeping curve. Frieda Bates assisted with the weaving. Both pairs of earrings are gorgeous. What a success!
Frances Hill-Tornese wove "Owl FLight" according to the pattern in Out On A Loom. Notice her exquisite fringe.
The tapestry pattern "Purple Garden" comes to life in the masterful weaving of Joanne Muzzy.
This is one of the most creative interpretations of a pattern yet. Lela Holcomb loomed "Grace" from Beading Her Image and stuffed it, making it dimensional, bas-relief beadwork. She finished the edges with a fancy stitch incorporating 4mm faceted amber beads.
Medina Franco wove green into her version of "Snake Goddess" from Beading Her Image and I love it. This new color strongly accentuates the snake-like curve of the left arm, and makes the piece more playful.
© 2019 Margie Deeb. All Rights Reserved.


text:
Diamond Wedding Bands NZ
At Aurum Fine Jewellery Auckland, we offer a tremendous selection of classic wedding ring designs for both men and women
Women's Wedding RINGS
Choose from our wide range of contemporary or classical options or even better still envisage a unique band that is exclusively your own.
Our most popular option is a simple wedding ring that is created to complement the style of the engagement ring, you can be as conservative or as imaginative as you'd like.
Wedding rings are often set with diamonds, especially if they are integral to the design or you might decide to add more diamonds at a later date when you celebrate an important anniversary for instance. Our exclusive rings can be modeled in platinum, titanium, silver or gold or a combination of various metals with polished, textured or satin finishes.
Aurum's rings are made to fit a straight-sided wedding band but if your engagement ring has an unusual profile we can also shape and remodel them to make your wedding band sit comfortably alongside your engagement or eternity ring.
We also offer an engraving service where we can engrave an appropriate message, date or initials onto both of your bands.
Men's Wedding RINGS
Men's wedding rings have thankfully evolved over the past few years and it's now quite acceptable to choose more elaborate bands that incorporate mixed metals and gemstones while still retaining a definite masculine appeal. Rings can be made of white gold, yellow gold, platinum, palladium or titanium. Whatever your budget you can be sure that you'll get the best quality to value ratio in Auckland.
We can make your wedding band to perfectly match your partner's band or create more imaginative designs with inlaid patterns or special textures set in mixed metals.
Whatever type of wedding ring you desire, we can design and make it for you to order. We also repair and remodel broken wedding bands throughout the Auckland region.
We look forward to making your exchange of rings one to remember.
For a personal consultation please contact Colin Thomson by email or telephone on 09 378-1335.
Tax and Duty free purchases are available to overseas travellers and residents.
We are leaders in the wedding market in New Zealand.


text:
Events for January 15, 2019
Events Search and Views Navigation
10:00 am
Pharmacy Technician Information Session
Information Session Take the first step to starting a promising career! Walk-in Information Session. No pre-registration necessary. Are you interested in a promising career in the high-demand healthcare field? JVS's Pharmacy Technician Training Program can provide you with the training you need to pass the national pharmacy technician certification exam and launch your career.Find out more »
11:45 am
Adult Diploma Pathway Information Session
Information Session Earn your high school diploma! Walk-in Information Session. No pre-registration necessary. Are you looking to earn your high school diploma? JVS's Adult Diploma Pathway will help you earn a free high school diploma from Boston Central Adult High School in 18 months to three years. Learn in a classroom setting with other adult studentsFind out more »


text:
Citrus is an important fruit crop in Kenya and ranks fourth after bananas, pineapples and mangoes.[MOA,2007].About 10000 hectares are planted with sweet orange,Lemons,Tangerines and Grapefruits that produce a total of 87000 metric tons valued at Ksh 1.7 billion[MOA,2008].The highest production is in the Coast ,Eastern, and Rift valley provinces. However, production does not met the local demand [MOA, 2003] necessitating importation of large qualities of citrus fruits and products. There is therefore scope for improving the production and quality of local Citrus.Agricultural Development Corporation grows citrus mainly in Transnzoia district at ADC Suam Orchards. The Unit consists of some 725.6 Hectares (1,793 acres).Approximately 67.8 hectares of this has citrus fruits under an efficient gravity irrigation. Citrus includes different varieties of oranges, lemons and lime. The varieties include; Temple oranges, Kara mandarine, Satsuma tangerine, Bear lemon, Lisbon lemon, rough lemon ,Mediterranean oranges, Valencia late oranges Washington navelADC Suam Orchards has embarked on citrus fruit quality improvement to match improve on the final quality and beat the competition from imported ones through pre-harvest treatment.ADC Suam orchard is a major source of citrus fruit seedlings to the Kenyan farmer.ADC sells over 2, 500 tones of high quality citrus annually.
We have 14 guests and no members online


text:
Monday, 3 February 2014
Estee Lauder Illuminating Powder Gelee - Heat Wave
11 comments:
This looks absolutely stunning, and the formula is very intriguing too! I've heard good things about the pink one in Tease (I think that's what it's called) as well. It's quite a bit outside my price range though!ReplyDelete
Tasha // shiwashiful.Replies
I have Tease too and it is just gorgeous :)Delete
I love highlighters! This one is more shimmery than the ones I typically reach for, but I do think it would look gorgeous applied with a light hand :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Definitely, best applied with a light hand. :)Delete
Wow - those swatches look amazing and the packaging is so nice too xxReplyDelete
Jasmine CaraReplies
Estee Lauder are very good at elegant packaging that is pretty but not over the top :)Delete
I live in Victoria too! Every time I go outside I feel like I am going to melt its so damn hot!ReplyDelete
Great post :)Replies
Yup I agree with the melting feeling! The heat has been ridiculous lately, bring on Autumn I say!Delete
Thanks x
I love highlighter! This look gorgeous! Thanks for the review. I have yet to own a gold based hightlighter.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 04, 2014 2:30 pm
This looks beautiful! So happy its finally here is Australia! So tempted to pick it up but I have so many highlighters (cant have too many though right?) :)ReplyDelete
Where can I buy heat wave?ReplyDelete


text:
Release date: April 22, 1935
Director: James Whale
Boris Karloff,
Colin Clive,
Valerie Hobson,
Ernest Thesiger,
Elsa Lanchester,
Gavin Gordon and
Douglas Walton
Great sequel to the classic 1931 film Frankenstein being just as good as the original, I actually think it is better than the original film.
Taking place right after the events of Frankenstein, this film again follows The Monster (Karloff) who survived the blaze in a burning windmill that supposedly killed him. He rises from the rubble to run rampage once more.
A dark scientist named Dr. Pretorius (Thesiger) is determined to make a mate for the monster, and teach him how to speak. Pretorius blackmails Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Clive), forcing him back into the laboratory to revive another corpse - this time a woman - that will become The Monster's partner.
This remarkable sequel has been regarded as better than the original, and I tend to agree. Bride of Frankenstein reunites most of the original cast, including Karloff and Clive among others.
Director James Whale also returns to the director's chair to make this quality classic horror movie. Karloff's portrayal is perfect. He makes the perfect monster who is made a lot closer to the source material. Instead of killing everything in his path he acknowledges the kindness of others who wish to help, and his halting words of dialogue are haunting.
Colin Clive returns to the role that he made back in 1931, and still retains the character's intrigue as well as his determination.
Special effects and make-up look amazing considering that it's a film made over 70 years ago.
Overall, Bride of Frankenstein is classic horror balanced out with some comic relief. It has dated badly, but the brilliance still shines through and makes for a very enjoyable 75 minutes of viewing.
Return from The Bride of Frankenstein to Top 50 Horror Movies
Return from The Bride of Frankenstein to Horror Movies Central
Are you getting our Horror obsessors?
If not then sign up for it below!


text:
Habits Bar
Habits Bar offers possibly the most elegant place in Louth to drink, with comfortable seating and a quiet ambience, perfect for a drink before your meal or enjoy to a cocktail with friends.
The bar features table service from our dedicated bar team. We have an extensive wine selection and specialise in cocktails. We open the bar Fridays and Saturdays 5-11pm. The bar is available for private hire throughout the week and is also used to host our afternoon tea.


text:
Pawprint Bottle Opener & Keychain
Poochie Pawprint Metal Bottle-Openers and Keyring
A subtle and fun way to showcase your pooch love and be "drink ready" with these brightly colored metal bottle-openers. We fell in love with these years ago and they continue to be a hit with our family and friends. Choose from an assortment of colors to match your dog gear for on the go.


text:
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Face of Australia Carnivale Nail Enamel in Midnight Fireworks
12 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 10:41 pm
I really like the look of the pink one. I like the look of the textured nail polishes but tend to just scratch them off my nails so it'd be a waste to get another one.ReplyDeleteReplies
The texture can seem strange. Maybe a top coat would smooth it over?Delete
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 11:11 pm
The gold looks so pretty and definitely something I'd wear! I think the whole collection has some really pretty colours and I like that the texture isnt too 'sandy'ReplyDeleteReplies
To me, this shade just felt like a normal glitter polish on the nails. The texture is quite fine in these polishes.Delete
That's stunning - is Summer Lovin' a liquid sands type polish too?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yup! The whole collection has the textured 'liquid sands' look :)Delete
This is so pretty! I have the entire collection and while the normal colours are pretty, the glitter ones are out of this world! xxReplyDeleteReplies
I almost got the whole collection but then I restrained myself. I don't wear polish that often was my reasoning but picking up the other shades is very very tempting.Delete
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2013 12:38 pm
That looks really pretty, very similar to the liquid sands! Love that shade too!ReplyDeleteReplies
It is a gorgeous shade and pretty much exactly the same as the OPI Liquid Sands but so much cheaper :)Delete
these are gorgeous!! definitely going to pick up a few. masquerade and ferris wheel are stunning!ReplyDeleteReplies
There next on my list to wear :)Delete


text:
Rigid Semi-Flex Discs
CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels introduces new rigid semi-flex discs, expanding its semi-flex disc line for aggressive grinding applications. The new rigid semi-flex discs are made with a stiff phenolic resin fiberglass backing, which is engineered to be stronger than plastic or vulcanized fiber backings for more control when grinding corners and edges. The new backing material also allows the disc to be used without a back-up pad for ease of use and cost savings.
The strong, phenolic backing on the rigid semi-flex discs prevents the discs from deforming due to use, heat or humidity and ensures unlimited storage life is possible. The rigid semi-flex discs can be used wet or dry and are available in 16-, 24- and 36-grit sizes, type 27 shape and in 4-1/2-, 5- and 7-inch diameters with 7/8 inch or 5/8-11 arbor holes. "Rigid semi-flex discs are great for tough applications like grinding fiberglass forms and shower surrounds," said Joe O' Mera, president, CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels. "CGW is proud to offer its customers strong tools for virtually any application."
- stiff phenolic resin fiberglass backing
- 16-, 24- and 36-grit sizes


text:
Getting to Our Shop
Drive into King Plow Entrance 1 and park in lot A or B (we validate parking), walk through the main King Plow Doors and out into the courtyard, building M is on your right. Dial #0314 at the door after 6pm or on weekends.
887 W Marietta ST NW, Suite M105, Atlanta GA 30318
(404) 228-3012
Tues, Weds, Fri, 10am - 7pm
Thursday, 12pm - 9pm
Saturday, 10am - 6pm


text:
Southern California Region
8049 Somerset Boulevard
Paramount, CA 90723
Phone: 562.220.1450
Fax: 562.630.7772
8049 Somerset Boulevard
Paramount, CA 90723
Phone: 562.220.1450
Fax: 562.630.7772
The Southern California Region houses the corporate headquarters for Total-Western as well as five operating divisions, a warehouse, and a fabrication yard. The office is located within 20 miles of six coastal refiners as well as both onshore and offshore oil production facilities.
Total-Western's team of highly skilled supervisors and craft workers provide quality work that keeps your facilities operating safely and efficiently. All services are performed with attention to detail and customer satisfaction in the following markets:
Jeff Cranny
Business Development Southern California Region
John Hovsepian
Energy Maintenance Division Manager


text:
Why Visit Lupin Lodge?
Lupin nurtures the Mind, Body and Spirit. Experience nude yoga, clothing optional hiking, tennis, volleyball, art classes and of course, nude sunbathing around the pool.
Relax & Rejuvenate at Lupin
Nudism offers an incredibly relaxing experience. Non-sexual, social nudity is about improving a life-long relationship with one's own quite unique body.
Where Men and Women of all sizes, shapes and colors are welcome to experience clothing-free relaxation and recreation.
Fun Recreation
Lupin offers a swimming pool, hot tub, sauna, nude sunbathing, volleyball court, tennis court, petanque and a clubhouse lounge for rainy days and special off-site retreats and events.
Nude Yoga & Meditation
Join a weekly Nude Yoga class at lupin. There is no greater release and rejuvenation than feeling the sunshine enjoying outdoor naked yoga in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains.
Your Weekend Getaway
Consider an enchanting overnight in an yurt or camping under the stars, enjoy pool time or a game of tennis all in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains 30 minutes from Silicon Valley.
Lupin Events & Activities
Lupin Lodge has an active activity calendar and an award winning restaurant. Subscribe to our newsletter "This Week at Lupin" to get the latest weekend events.
"The freedom to be me"
"The total sensations of sun, air and water"
"No more soggy swimsuits"
"A direct connection with nature"
"Rearranges the gender-power equation"
"The feeling of total acceptance"
"A truly spiritual experience"
"The total sensations of sun, air and water"
"No more soggy swimsuits"
"A direct connection with nature"
"Rearranges the gender-power equation"
"The feeling of total acceptance"
"A truly spiritual experience"
Get Back to Nature at Lupin
Imagine how relaxing an Eden-like day visit or weekend getaway might feel at one of California's most scenic naturist resorts situated in the beautiful Santa Cruz Redwoods.
Lupin Art Workshops
Lupin Art Workshops allow you to create your Life Art interpretation of the Human nude. You are also welcome to create your masterpiece clothing-free to connect deeper with your inner creative energy.
Your Event @ Lupin
Hold your event or restreat at Lupin Lodge! We have the facilities to make your event a total success. The clubhouse offers a multiple rooms and Yurts offer breakout rooms.
Lupin History
Founded in 1935, Lupin has survived adversity, hard times and creditors for more than three-quarters of a century. In spite of that, Lupin remains an idyllic spot nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. . .


text:
We are fortunate to have most of the D1 teams playing in MY-NPL under sponsorship either directly or indirectly by major paintball brands & local Vendors. They are expected to carry their sponsors brand be it during tourney or even during training. Sponsors can be very picky & sponsorship can be terminated in an instance just like that eg. By wearing a jersey/t-shirt of a rival brand or using a rivals marker etc could just cost your team the sponsorship.
But how about employing the services of hired guns to play with your team in a tourney or even for all 5 legs of MY-NPL next year? Will your team be in trouble with the sponsors if the hired gun/s is sponsored by a rival brand? Eg. A team under DYE but the hired gun/s is under P.E/SP/JT/MD etc. It won't be a problem if in this situation the hired guns uses a DM9 & DYE jersey/pants but what if they too have to carry their sponsors name & colours? You'll be going to have a mix match of players playing under 2 if not 3 different brand of sponsors.
Can you call that team a DYE sponsored team when you've got a few players under a different banner/sponsor and to relate back to my title, can you even call the team as "a team" when you employ hired guns to beef up your line up? The proudest moment for a team is when you're on the podium in your sponsor's colours & banner but now out of the 10 guys in your line up, 2-3 will be in a rival's colours. Will your sponsor be happy with it? Will they take any action? Only time will tell, we'll just have to wait and see come this Feb 14-15 2009 during the 1st leg of MY-NPL cause I believe most D1 team will be facing this dilemma for the '09 season.


text:
CINCINNATI, Ohio- Gensuite is pleased to announce that we have been selected as a winner for the 2016 Cincy Magazine Cool Tech Award under the Coolest Impact on Community category, a regional award that showcases the success of technology in business in the Cincinnati area.
Gensuite demonstrates community impact in Cincinnati and around the world through their Global Outreach Program. Going above and beyond the practical, environmental, health & safety and sustainability impact of their applications, Gensuite's Community Outreach program was started to better the Cincinnati community through team involvement in local charities each quarter. This program extends past the Cincinnati community in that it is implemented at Gensuite's global locations as well.
Gensuite is passionate about giving back to community, whether that be in Cincinnati, Ohio or Shanghai, China and the team makes it a priority to be active in each global location's community.
"With the number of team members that we have in Cincinnati, we wanted to make a difference because we love the area. We started with quarterly events, such as the Thanksgiving food drive and Salvation Army Adopt-a-Family program and then focused our year-efforts last year to raise funds for charities centered on children, women, and serving families in need." said Gensuite CEO R Mukund.
Gensuite® cloud-based IT solutions enable you to achieve your vision for robust and effective business compliance processes and management systems. The result of two decades of systematic innovation and evolution, Gensuite today offers proven product suites for Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) and Sustainability; Quality; Security; Responsible Sourcing, and Product Stewardship. Our 65+ integrated, award-winning Web applications provide comprehensive program support, delivering enterprise operational excellence and risk management. All Gensuite applications share an innovative and patented architecture, with integrated and intuitive interfaces, real-time trending & analytics, and best-in-class Mobile capabilities. Gensuite subscribers are assured of an absolute commitment to and a track record of product & service excellence, with services spanning hosting, maintenance, support, customization, implementation & strategy consulting and continuous product evolution; and an unmatched collaboration and innovation community spanning 110+ global subscriber companies!


text:
Image by victor_nuno via FlickrI was recently browsing the atheism directory of Reddit and voting up good pro-atheist submissions as I frequently do to combat routine down-voting by Christians, when I ran across an interesting op-ed in the New York Times. It was a mild critique of the atheist movement written by Charles M. Blow. It was one of those articles that did not make much of an impression on first read but got me thinking enough that I returned to it later and have now decided to share some thoughts about one part of it.
After challenging the conventional wisdom that the maintenance of religious belief requires early indoctrination, Mr. Blow notes that the most common reason given by people who come to faith later in life are "because their spiritual needs were not being met." He also reports that people are most likely to choose their religion because "they simply enjoyed the services and style of worship." He bases these statements on the recent Pew survey.
The part of Mr. Blow's brief op-ed that caught my attention, however, was the following:
While science, logic and reason are on the side of the nonreligious, the cold, hard facts are just so cold and hard. Yes, the evidence for evolution is irrefutable. Yes, there is a plethora of Biblical contradictions. Yes, there is mounting evidence from neuroscientists that suggests that God may be a product of the mind. Yes, yes, yes. But when is the choir going to sing? And when is the picnic? And is my child going to get a part in the holiday play?Essentially, Mr. Blow is suggesting that "science, logic and reason" are simply not enough for most people. They do not speak to the daily concerns of the average person. I do not necessarily disagree with this. In fact, I have seen countless atheist bloggers making precisely this point over the past couple years.
However, I am not sure about Mr. Blow's suggestion for the atheist movement:
As the nonreligious movement picks up steam, it needs do a better job of appealing to the ethereal part of our human exceptionalism — that wondrous, precious part where logic and reason hold little purchase, where love and compassion reign. It's the part that fears loneliness, craves companionship and needs affirmation and fellowship.I agree with this up to a point. Science, logic, and reason alone certainly do not speak to much of what makes us human. Moreover, I think that most atheists recognize that we have not done a particularly good job of creating fostering a secular sense of community. As Mr. Blow suggests, we do need to do a better job in many of these areas.
Where I am not willing to go along with Mr. Blow is the implication that we need to go outside the natural realm (i.e., into fantasy and delusion) to meet these needs. Nature itself is an astounding source of beauty, awe, and even transcendence. It speaks directly to our emotional side and is an ideal alternative to shared superstitions. Science too often provides this experience to those who understand it.
The challenge facing the reality-based community is not one of learning lessons from religion, as Mr. Blow believes. The challenge is one of building effective secular communities, educating people about the unacceptably high costs of religious belief, and fostering a mutually beneficial relationship with nature.
Subscribe to Atheist Revolution


text:
So many things have happened in the past few months. A two month visit to the States, a move out of my in-laws' to our own rental apartment, as well as some other things going on in my mind which I will talk about later.
Brendan is currently 9.5 months old. He's able to pull himself up to standing position and take little steps while holding on to our hands. He's very observant and responsive, smiling when we talk to him, or angry when I am too tired to pick him up for the zillionth time. I spend my days looking forward to his nap time which I use to do housework or other miscellaneous things. Yet I also spend his nap times looking forward to seeing once again his bright round face peeking at me through the slats of his cot. It's a strange see-saw between tiredness and desire.
Today is my dad's birthday. I have been thinking a lot about my parents ever since I became a parent myself. What went through their minds as they once contemplated giving me up for adoption? What were their considerations back then as passionate young adults? Their hopes and dreams for themselves and for me... Did they have any for me? Or was the see-saw mostly slanted toward the side of weariness, a sense of hopelessness about their future? I try not to think too much about it because I now I know too much about my parents' personality (partially thanks to MBTI) to be positive about all these questions. I know the truth, but I don't really want to believe it.
I don't want to believe it, because I know that the moment I do, I will stop being able to dream big dreams for my children. I find that I am only able to dream big dreams for my children if I believe that my own dreams are attainable. But quite honestly, I have never given wings to any of my dreams. I have never believed that any of my grand visions could ever come true because deep inside, I know nobody ever believed in me. I suppose the outward passion I sometimes display comes from a deep-seated notion that if I strive hard enough, surely the stars will align and things will fall into place. But that has not been so and I am now twenty-six years wrong.
Still, I won't blame my parents or circumstances for what I take to be a rather bland and useless life. I'm a mother now. I feed my young and that is all. What of purpose? The Lord decides. It's depressing not to know while I live on, what in the world am I actually good at and should be doing. The Bible gives us the clichė answer: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul.
Most days, I feel like a terrible Christian. I have a black eye from my last fight with Jerry and I'm not proud of it. He says we'll work on our temper. I've honestly lost my hope in him. I don't really have anything to show for my "christian life" these days other than my tendency to weep my eyes out to God, wailing about things and pleading for a way out of pain. Bible study? Going to church? Reading the Bible? Is this the recipe I am to follow for the rest of my life? Step one, step two, step three... Voilà! A perfectly baked cake. What if I don't want to be a cake?
I want to be a wild goat, standing on a beautiful mountain somewhere. Hopping from crag to crag, death below and life above. Hopping from crag to crag, light-footed and light-hearted.
Is this not for me?


text:
Sherri Osaka is a licensed landscape architect and Bay-Friendly Qualified Designer whose business – Sustainable Landscape Designs – has been helping clients create water-efficient, low-maintenance gardens for over 20 years. In her free time, Sherri is a member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District's Landscape Advisory Committee and Chairperson of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). As the volunteer chairperson of the Gardening with Natives subgroup of her CNPS chapter, she organizes over 30 free 90-minute talks per year in partnership with local libraries in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. The topics vary widely, but mainly focus on native plants, wildlife, drought-tolerant gardening, and graywater and rainwater systems. She also teaches water saving classes through the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. Over the past seven years, Sherri has helped educate 8,648 people, for an average of 1,235 per year.
Former Assemblymember Rich Gordon served in the California State Legislature for six years, and was termed out in 2016. During his tenure, one of his mottos was, "If drought is potentially our new normal, then conservation is also our new normal." He initiated and chaired the Select Committee on Water Consumption and Alternative Sources, leading an effort to educate other legislators about the importance of water conservation and new technologies to address potential water shortages in the era of climate change. He championed the use of recycled water, promoting new building codes and ways to encourage water reuse on site. His vision of a diverse water portfolio included capture and storage of rain and stormwater runoff. As a part of this effort, he authored two pieces of legislation aimed at raising awareness about the safety of potable recycled water and the importance of stormwater capture. AB 2022 enables water agencies to distribute bottles of advanced purified recycled water for educational purposes, and AB 2594 allows public agencies to capture and use stormwater directly or for groundwater recharge. Assemblymember Gordon also was a strong proponent of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and his actions at the legislative level will leave a legacy for generations to come.
Elias Nacif grew up participating in Boy Scouts, where he developed a deep appreciation of nature. Since 2007 he has worked for Service by Medallion, a large janitorial and maintenance provider serving more than 200 clients and cleaning over 30 million square feet of real estate nightly. Elias rolled out Medallion's Green Initiative to improve sustainability practices, both internally and externally. He created a water conservation checklist for clients that provides an inventory of potential water saving opportunities and a return on investment for each product, including toilet and urinal fixtures, stand-alone flushometers, water faucets and cleaning agents and equipment. A change-out to low-flow faucet aerators has been saving over one million gallons of water per year at some client sites. At Medallion, Elias introduced a Chemical Management System that consistently provides the correct dilution for cleaning products, decreasing water use, chemical exposure and plastic bottles in the waste stream. Medallion also switched to using microfiber cloths that require minimal chemical/water dilution, the Hygen Clean mop bucket system with an integrated water filter that generates cleaner water, and an exterior auto scrubber to replace power washing of debris that uses recycled water and uses only 270 gallons per day versus 1,050 gallons per day with standard equipment. The use of this technology is helping one client save over 125,000 gallons of fresh water per year.
Akhil Dua – Akhil is a 17 year-old student at American High School in Fremont. He has been active in Boy Scouts since second grade, and for his Eagle Scout project he mobilized his Troop #132 to partner with the City of Union City to convert a 12,000 square foot turf area to drought-tolerant trees. Utilizing Alameda County Water District's Water-Efficient Landscape Rebate Program, the project received $2,200 to cover the entire cost of replacing the turf with 35 native trees along the Old Alameda Creek watershed at San Andreas Park. A drip irrigation line was installed to help establish the saplings. This project is estimated to save about 260,000 gallons of water per year for the City of Union City.
Laura Allen – Laura is a founding member of Greywater Action and has spent a decade exploring low-tech solutions to urban sustainable water issues. She is a co-editor of the anthology "Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground," focusing on strategies for water sustainability from small-scale eco-technologies to global grassroots political movements. She recently authored "The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape," forthcoming from Storey Press. She also was lead author of the "San Francisco Graywater Design Guidelines for Outdoor Irrigation," and was instrumental in the creation of the Santa Clara Valley Water District's greywater installation rebate program. Greywater Action has become the Bay Area's leading resource for installation of greywater, rain catchment and composting toilet systems, and has led efforts to remove institutional barriers to sustainable water use at the state level.
Arvind Kumar – Arvind has worked tirelessly to promote drought-tolerant California native plants throughout the Bay Area and the State. He served as President of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society for six years, and on the organization's State Board of Directors. Arvind was instrumental in the development and on-going success of the Going Native Garden Tour, which will celebrate its 11th anniversary in May. As part of the Tour, thousands of people visit showcase gardens featuring native plants. These gardens are exemplary models of how landscaping with natives can reduce water, chemical and pesticide use, improve wildlife habitat, and provide a unique aesthetic appeal. Attendees learn that water use can decrease by nearly 90% when traditional, high water use landscapes are replaced with native gardens. Arvind's many activities include planting and maintaining a large native plant garden at San Jose's Lake Cunningham Park, expanding the Gardening With Natives program to libraries throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, and coordinating the Annual Wildflower Show at Mission College, native plant sales in Los Altos Hills, and native plant gardening symposia held at Foothill College in 2011 and 2012. His own garden is an inspiring model of a native, low-water and pesticide-free garden. Visitors marvel that so much beauty can be found in such a small space.
Frank Niccoli – Frank is a landscape contractor and educator. In 1979 he founded The Village Gardener, a landscape construction and maintenance company. He limits water waste in landscapes through comprehensive irrigation management and less water-intensive planting and maintenance techniques. The latter include non-chemical pest control methods and a focus on native plants. He has contributed to multiple professional landscaping associations, including the California Landscape Contractors Association, where a water management program (now being used by more than 600 landscape contractors) was developed under his leadership. Since 1996 Frank has developed curriculum and taught classes on sustainable landscape practices, residential irrigation, integrated pest management, California native plants and water management at Foothill College. He also chaired the Foster City Environmental Sustainability Task Force.
Ken and Sally Coverdell own and operate Blue Sky Designs, an award-winning landscaping firm, and Blue Sky Farms, a retail nursery and coffee shop in Half Moon Bay. They are dedicated to educating others about the importance of water conservation and native ecosystems, and practice what they preach both at home and at work. Features that demonstrate the Coverdells' commitment to responsible water use include a 30,000-gallon cistern under the parking lot that collects rainwater for irrigation. A smart controller receives current evapo-transpiration data and then determines water needs for the nursery. Their water conservation efforts have steadily reduced their water consumption from 970,000 gallons in 2000 to 220,000 gallons in 2010.
Former Assemblyman John Laird sponsored state bills to reduce urban and agricultural water use, and to require high efficiency toilets in new developments.
Previous Lifetime Achievement Winners
For nearly two decades, Frank Jahn served as the Public Education Specialist at the Alameda County Water District (ACWD), which serves the cities of Fremont, Newark and Union City. During his tenure, he created revolutionary hands-on water saving programs that influenced hundreds of thousands of residents. Each year he provided direct program content to 20,000-25,000 students through assemblies and classroom programs. Students took home ideas and items to encourage conservation, including shower timers and toilet testing kits, reaching many additional family members. Under his leadership, the ACWD received the Claire A. Hill Award for its "Stop that Running Toilet" school outreach program, which is estimated to have saved 13 million gallons of water per year. He spearheaded an outreach program about drought tolerant plants that provided students with seeds of plants native to the service area. Frank also coordinated a very popular Water Conservation Poster and Slogan Contest for local schools that often garnered more than 2,000 entries per year. Winning entries were featured in a calendar distributed to every teacher in the ACWD service area.
Trish Mulvey has been a water champion for decades. Her activities span a broad range of water-related topics, including groundwater management, water reuse, water efficient landscapes and rainwater capture. Trish's top concern is watershed health, and her work underscores the complex interconnections between water supply, healthy creeks, stable aquifers and robust wetlands. One of her earliest efforts was to organize the CLEAN South Bay Coalition, pulling together dozens of regional environmental groups and hundreds of citizen activists to support Communities for a Better Environment's litigation naming a local wastewater treatment plant as polluting the South Bay by discharging heavy metals originating from Silicon Valley plating and manufacturing facilities. Ultimately, the suit was settled, leading to the creation of the Silicon Valley Pollution Prevention Center and a focus on cost-effective source control solutions. Trish is an avid supporter of recycled water, and helped secure $16 million for a pipeline project from the Palo Alto wastewater treatment plant to Mountain View. Recently, she has advocated for a Groundwater Management Plan for the San Francisquito Cone and has supported East Palo Alto's Groundwater Management Plan.
Marty Laporte – Marty is the Associate Director of Utilities for Environmental Quality and Water Efficiency at Stanford University. She founded Stanford's water conservation program in 2001, and under her leadership the University developed a Water Conservation, Reuse and Recycling Master Plan. The program facilitated the retrofit of over 13,000 bathroom fixtures, replaced inefficient lab equipment with water efficient models, installed water saving devices in large campus kitchens, installed water miser devices on steam sterilizers (autoclaves), and improved the efficiency of landscape irrigation throughout the campus. Marty started a pilot study program to test the effectiveness of new water-efficiency technology. Stanford was an early adopter of weather-based irrigation controllers and advanced metering infrastructure, commonly known as real-time metering, allowing daily or hourly water use data to help detect leaks. In response to the drought, monthly water report cards are now issued to each major group on campus, providing a check-in on water use and conservation status that helps identify where to focus efforts. Under Marty's leadership, Stanford reduced its water use by 600,000 gallons per day, in spite of a growth of 2.5 million square feet of new campus facilities. After a 22-year career at Stanford, Marty will be retiring in March 2015.
Kathy Machado – Kathy began working at the Santa Clara Valley Water District in 1995 after an accomplished career in education. During her first year, District education programs reached more than 4,000 K-12 students and trained 290 teachers. Over the years the curriculum has evolved to provide hands-on lessons for each grade level that follow Common Core guidelines. This year, programs and field visits will reach 21,000 students and 1,000 teachers. Since 1995, Kathy and her staff of teachers and interns have taught 331,264 students and 18,700 teachers. For teachers, Kathy presents the Project WET 2.0 (Water Education for Teachers) curriculum, thereby expanding the reach of her innovative lessons that are easily replicated and effective at creating long-lasting behavioral changes. In addition to her official role with the Water District, Kathy has a double identity as the "Water Wizard," performing water magic shows that mesmerize and educate children about the preciousness of water and the need to conserve it.
Award Categories >


text:
|Please note: This article is about the double of Bayushi Kachiko. For other uses of the term, please see Asami (disambiguation).
|Yogo Asami
|An old Yogo of unknown name,
Bayushi Aramoro
|Bayushi Aramasu
Yogo Asami was a woman who, in her youth, looked almost identical to Bayushi Kachiko, and actually replaced her as a double on several occasions. [1]
Becoming the double of Kachiko Edit
Asami began her association with the Scorpion Clan when she was twelve. She was the daughter of a farmer whose crops had been destroyed by an ogre bandit. Her father was forced to sell her to a geisha house. Kachiko discovered that girl when she was fourteen, and she saw that they looked almost identical. Asami was placed under contract by Kachiko, and trained in the skills of mimicry and disguise in order to make Asami become a body double for the young Kachiko.
When Kachiko began her secret (and long) relationship with Doji Hoturi, Asami would often take her place, sometimes even for days. In these cases, Asami was taking short walks through the gardens of the Shosuro stronghold to make people think Kachiko was home. Asami was a quick learner, and she began to mimic Kachiko's voice and mannerisms to such a degree that even Kachiko's maids could not tell them apart. [2]
Asami and Aramoro Edit
Two years later, Bayushi Aramoro returned to the Shosuro lands and asked to see Kachiko. When Asami came into the room dressed as Kachiko, Aramoro discovered almost immediately that this woman was not who she claimed to be. Aramoro demanded to know where Kachiko was, but Asami would not talk. Aramoro told Asami that he should kill her if she didn't reveal Kachiko's location, but Asami refused, telling the ninja that she would rather die than betray her mistress. Aramoro told Asami that he would wait with her until his mistress could tell it to him herself.
Later that night, when Kachiko returned, she found Aramoro and Asami still locked in stalemate. Kachiko explained Asami's role to the ninja, and he acquiesced. However, Aramoro was so impressed by the peasant girl's faithfulness and willpower that he offered to train her when her duties with Kachiko were over.
Assassin Edit
During the Topaz Championship in 1118 [3] the Badger Clan Champion Ichiro Akitomo began to talk with Asami, who was impersonating Kachiko. Asami realized that Akimoto had met shortly before Kachiko, and with recollection of the previous conversation she could not maintain a proper posture with Akitomo. To keep the secret safe Asami ordered to kill [4] the Badger Daimyo, alongside with his four bushi bodyguards. There was already a Scorpion operative to take Akitomo's life under Shoju's surveillance, so the matter ended this same day. [5]
Married Edit
As the girls aged, their appearances diverged and she was no longer able to act as a replacement. But the many years she did allowed Kachiko a level of freedom she could never have otherwise attained. For this, she sold Asami her contract and told her she was free to do as she pleased. Asami immediately went to Aramoro, and begged him for instruction. However, the secrets of the Shosuro Shinobi School were forbidden to people that were not Scorpion Clan members. Asami used the skills she had learned under Kachiko's tutelage to catch an old Yogo husband, being recognized as a Scorpion in her own right. She then used the skills Aramoro taught her to make her husband die under mysterious circumstances.
Asami would bear Bayushi Aramoro a son, Bayushi Aramasu. Given Aramoro's love for Kachiko it was probable he chose Asami as his wife due to her appearance. [6]
Shosuro Hametsu Edit
Another ally she gained during her service to Kachiko was Kachiko's brother, Shosuro Hametsu. He found her both alluring and repellent. Asami noticed this, and used it as far as she dared. She studied with Hametsu more than one year, and she learned how to create many of his simpler poisons. She had proven to be an apt pupil for both Hametsu and Aramoro. [7]
Scorpion Coup Edit
The Lion forces led by Matsu Tsuko in the third day of the Scorpion Coup assaulted the Outer Southern Wall, at the Emperor's Gate. Matsu Gohei commanded the Akodo Deathseekers, alongside with Matsu Chokoku with his Lion Medium Elite Infantry, and Matsu Yojo with regulars. They were confronted by Bayushi Aramoro with his Bayushi Elite Spearmen, Asami and Bayushi Tangen with their Bayushi Ambushers, and Bayushi Kuritsu with his Ninja Bowmen. [8] Soshi Shugenja twisted their magic to defend the city, forcing Lion to retreat. [9]
After the Coup Edit
After the failure of the Coup the former Shosuro Daimyo Shosuro Hametsu hid in the city, disguised and working as the local magistrate. Asami and many of the Scorpion's deadliest assassins also moved there. [10]
Death Edit
Her son Aramasu planned his revenge on the man who murdered his mother, [11] most probably Aramoro.
See laso Edit
External Links Edit
- Yogo Asami (Forbidden Knowledge)
- ↑ Secrets of the Scorpion, pp. 76-77
- ↑ 'Way of the Scorpion, p. 64
- ↑ Imperial Histories, p. 127
- ↑ Way of the Minor Clans, p. 67
- ↑ Roleplaying in the Emerald Empire, p. 213
- ↑ 'Way of the Scorpion, pp. 64-65
- ↑ 'Way of the Scorpion, p. 65
- ↑ Otosan Uchi: The Scorpion's Sting, p. 60
- ↑ Otosan Uchi: The Scorpion's Sting, p. 44
- ↑ Way of the Wolf, p. 109
- ↑ Geisha House (Hidden Emperor flavor)
|This Scorpion Clan related article is a stub. That means that it has been started, but is incomplete. You can help by adding to the information here.


text:
- TexasSpringBride
- 6 years ago
- Wedding: January 2013
Let me preface this as only my opinion but something doesnt sit right with me. I will tell you why.
Years ago, when I was 14 I was kidnapped from my house by two men who lived in my neighborhood. They were 19. I had known them from community events and they had been friends with my brother in high school. One of them was still in high school when my abduction took place.
For hours I was repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten. When it was over I was then thrown from a moving car. I suffered a stroke due to a brain bleed and a skull fracture. I had a lacerated kidney and a lacerated liver. I was found by a neighbor and immediately was air lifted to a hospital. My family had just left hours before to go out of town for a farmers market in the next town over. They had been watching my house.
Now I understand that everyone deals with trauma differently. During my trauma, I experienced intense fear, grief, anger, pain. I didnt want anyone to touch me, I didnt want to be alone with anyone who wasnt my parent. I was sedated for most of the first few months and occasionally whenever I was under stress for several years after. I didnt lose my parents though. I cant imagine the pain compounded on what I had already been through. After I left rehabilitation therapy, I had to learn to use my right side again, I didnt sleep, I was pretty much a walking vegetable. Then there was the trial to get through. It was a horrible ordeal. I didnt return to high school til my senior year.
That said I know that everyone experiences things differently. However Im just blown away by Hannah Andersons behavior. She is on a social media site posting smiling selfies and talking about getting her nails done. I couldnt even dress myself, let alone feel like putting on make up. Also some of the things she said just dont make sense. Now I do understand that perhaps it hasnt sunk in what has happened. However I expected her to be sad about her mother and brother and instead she mentions the dog first?
Also when asked why she didnt appear more upset, her response is, I could be crying while Im writing this, not I am crying as I am writing this. Then she shocks everyone by appearing at a fundraiser for her family. Apparently her remaining family wasnt even expecting her.
I just dont know what to make of it. With more information coming out, I begin to feel she knows more than she is telling. Whatever the case she is 16 and he was a grown man. I just wonder why her mother thought it was appropriate to let her 16 year old daughter go with a man even a close family friend and stay over nights out of town in hotels.
Just my opinion and can we please keep the responses civil. Again Im only going on my own experience and of course it is different from hers. I know that we all experience things differently but I didnt think it would be that much of a difference.


text:
666 Park Avenue Season 1 Episode 5
A Crowd of Demons
On this week's episode of 666 Park Avenue…
The smoke turned person from the suitcase turns out to be the revival of Peter Kramer, a man who murdered his wife with a hatchet at the Drake in 1929. His wife had given her necklace to her daughter (now the little ghost girl), which happens to be the necklace that Jane has.
Henry has an interview about his heroic save and is introduced to Laurel, who seems interested in his political career.
Alexis tells Brian that she won't be a bother anymore.
Brian walks in on Louise and the doctor who is massaging her abs.
An unknown person threatens Gavin and attempts to run over Olivia.
The Dorans throw a Halloween party.
Peter chases Jane around the Drake trying to kill her. After striking the wall, the birds fly out and attack him. The hatchet along with one of his victims sinks into the floor and disappears.
Alexis tricks Brian into thinking the doctor is having an affair with Louise. Rather, Louise, who turns away the doctor's attempts, only seeks him because of her addiction to pills.
A red box that was hidden in Gavin's safe is stolen and the unknown person who stole it is threatened by Gavin.
- Show:
- 666 Park Avenue
- Season:
- 666 Park Avenue Season 1
- Episode Number:
- 5