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"Debt is normal. Be weird!" – Dave Ramsey
One of the most challenging emotions that accompanies debt is the feeling of hopelessness that can fall over you when you look at your statements. That feeling can be paralyzing; stopping us from making any significant moves to change our situation because it feels as though there's nothing we can do that will actually make a difference. When you're trapped in the debt cycle, it can be hard to imagine a time when you won't be in the red, but the reality is that no matter what choices you've made in the past, and no matter what curve-balls life has dealt you, there is always something you can do today, that will have a positive impact on your future.
If getting out of debt is something that you're determined to do, here are 7 steps that can help you get there:
- Take Charge of Your Money
I'm a firm believer that managing money doesn't need to be complicated. Simple systems are effective because they're easy to set up, and easy to manage. If you can automate your savings and your bill payments as much as possible, it makes managing your money even easier. Start by figuring out how much money you have coming in and going out each month, and then give any "spare" dollars a purpose. Make sure you use past statements rather than your memory to come up with the numbers – most people hugely underestimate how much they spend on gas, groceries and eating out each month.
- Find Your "Spare Cash"
Subtract the amount you have going out each month from the amount coming in. If the answer is positive then decide how much of that amount you're willing to commit to paying down debt (if the answer is negative then you need to figure out how you can either simplify your expenses, or increase your income). Set up a system that forces you to make those extra payments on payday rather than waiting to the end of the month, when often, there's no money left.
Challenge yourself to "create" extra money by simplifying your expenses or taking on a part-time job to boost your income.
- Create a Saving Habit
It seems counter-intuitive to put money into savings when you have debt costing you money, but there's a psychological factor to debt that often gets overlooked. If you're used to having no money and being in debt, it can be surprisingly hard to build up savings because your instinct is often to spend what's in the account rather than leave it there. (Author, T. Harv Eker calls this our "money thermostat".) The other argument for building up savings is that life is unpredictable, and so there's a good chance that while you're on your journey out of debt, you're going to come up against an unexpected event that you won't have budgeted for. Having to borrow from a credit card or line of credit that you've just spent months paying off can be extremely demoralizing, whereas being able to borrow from yourself is empowering.
- Start a "Debt Snowball"
Dave Ramsey coined the phrase "debt snowball" to describe his process for systematically attacking and eliminating debt. If you're committed to getting out of debt, the snowball approach is extremely effective and thousands of people (including me!) have used it successfully to conquer their debt mountain. I'll be writing a post on how to use the debt snowball in a couple of weeks, but if you want to get started, the first things you need to do are to create a list of your debts in order from smallest to largest and then determine how much extra money you could commit each month (on top of the minimum payments) to paying down your debts.
- Redefine Your Money Blueprint
I mentioned in #3 that, once you get used to being in debt it can be hard to adjust to having savings. This is because we each have a comfort zone with money (our money thermostat) and any time we step out of that comfort zone our subconscious mind will try to pull us back. Redefining your money blueprint means taking a good look at all the beliefs and habits that we have in relation to money, and ditching anything that isn't going to help us improve our situation. For example, if you avoid actively managing your money because you think it's complicated or boring, then finding a reason that makes managing your money more appealing means that you'll be more likely to do it. Often our biggest obstacles are our own beliefs and habits. Changing them can have a huge impact on our own success.
- Choose a Strong Tribe
It's said that we are the sum of the five people we spend the most time with. Our friends and family can be our biggest allies and supporters, but they can also be surprisingly large obstacles to creating change. If you're committed to getting out of debt but your closest friends are happy to stay in the debt cycle, then they may not support your decision to change because it makes them feel badly about their choices. Change isn't easy and surrounding yourself with people who resemble the person you're trying to become, rather than the person you've decided not to be, makes the journey a lot easier.
- Take Action
Someone told me once that there are two times that people quit: right before they start and right before they succeed. Change isn't easy. Taking the first step is one of the hardest parts of the process, and it's the step that often people procrastinate on. They wait for the right time, the right team, the right amount of knowledge, and every day that they wait, it keeps them away from their goal. If you're determined to get out of debt then the time to start is now. Don't worry about having every detail of your plan perfectly prepared, don't worry about the voices that say you can't do it, just commit to the journey and get moving. Everything else will fall into place.


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Product Safety
Product safety and quality is a top priority for Galt Toys Inc.
We test all of our products at internationally recognised, third-party accredited laboratories.
All of our products comply with or exceed current global toy safety regulations (including, but not limited to ASTM, CPSIA, EN71, and Canadian standards).
Rigorous quality control is applied at all stages of development, production and distribution, and all Galt toys are routinely inspected and tested to maintain the highest standards in quality and safety.

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A beautifully prepared and presented joint, this pork loin is perfect for a Sunday lunch with a generous helping of crackling. With the rind already scored, the crackling will be crisp and the meat will be sweet and succulent.
The Butcher: The loin runs from the shoulder to the sirloin. This is the best joint for roasting quickly and produces delicious crackling.
In The Kitchen: The loin is a lovely joint to roast, and is an impressive centrepiece to bring out to the family and your guests. Roast on celery, carrots and onions, and then create a lovely gravy from the juices.
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Excellent Reviewed by Alistair.eleanor on 25 Mar 2020
Best pork ever!
Wonderful Reviewed by Cyril.eighteen on 08 Dec 2019
Fantastic without a doubt the best pork that my wife has ever had again fantastic
Best bacon ever ! Reviewed by Bryn_day on 01 Dec 2019
Made some bacon with it , no more bacon with no fat or flavour ,yum yum .
Great product, great service Reviewed by Tcjkerr2 on 20 Sep 2019
I had special instructions for this (I made bacon from it and needed the joint skinning and de-boning) which were carried out to the letter, the parcel was on time and perfectly packed. I shall be ordering again, I'm sure.
Excellent Reviewed by Ashtree40 on 23 May 2019
wonderful flavour and great cracking
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Our aim is to dispatch all orders placed before 1pm on the same day (Tuesday to Friday), this is dependent on whether the items ordered are in stock. Any orders placed after that time will be dispatched on the next available working day.
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Gloucester Old Spot Pork
"Once you try Gloucestershire Old Spots pork you'll turn your back on the tasteless dried up intensively reared pork forever." Derek Cooper on the BBC Food Programme
Our Gloucester Old Spot piglets are selected from a small number of small holders who keep them in a free range system, allowing them to exhibit natural behaviours such as rooting for food and wallowing in the summer.
We purchase the piglets at 8 -10 weeks, where they are moved to deep straw bedded traditional pigstys with an outside pen. The pigs are fed on the best balanced proprietary food and a spot of milk.
Using an English slow growing breed of pig, in particular the Gloucester Old Spot, the pork is sweet with just the right amount of fat to assist flavour and cooking - and the crackling is something else!


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|We had a great time at Quilt Market in Kansas City and came back with LOTS of ideas!
New merchandise is arriving daily!!!
Stop in and check it out!
|If you haven't been to Faulkton lately, there is a new & big reason to come! We have a fantastic painting on the elevator by world-renowned artist Guido VanHelten.
We are going to be hosting "SEW DAYS" every Tuesday starting July 16th thru August 20th with fun classes & great projects!
Classes will be $5 each plus the cost of the kit.
You can attend just one class or all six!
Bring your own machine or rent one from us.
Classes are from 10:00-3:00.
Come & go as you wish & bring a friend!
|Back by popular demand, the Collage Class is back!
Next week June 3rd – June 5th
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday).
It's not too late to sign up!
This is a great way to play with fabric – without having to do any sewing.
Class is $20.
Attend 1 day or all 3 – it's up to you!
|Mark your calendars for our
Christmas in July event!
Saturday, July 27th from 10:00-3:00.
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The Straight Story (1999) was a thoughtful and well-constructed film about a man and his cross-country journey on a lawnmower.
David Lynch directed it, but didn't write it, so the things which I don't always appreciate the lack of in Lynch's films, like a coherent plot, linear continuity of time, and so on, were present. And yet there were some of the things I love in Lynch films: long pauses between lines in dialogue, some scenes dominated by ambient sounds, and moreover, just plain weirdness.
The subject of the film could be said to be redemption and/or mortality. I'm not going to go into the details of the plot; suffice to say I found it quite effective. The runtime was a bit long, but when Lynch directs, that just comes with the territory.
A minor character, seen most prominently in one short scene which I've embedded below, reminded me much of a former co-worker at a gas station. (I'm referring to Sig, the man in the green hat and overalls in the scene.) Aside from that, this scene is a good example of the dialogue pacing in this movie. Also I think it's hilarious.
It's interesting to note that Richard Farnsworth, who portrayed the main character of the film (Alvin Straight), was working through terminal bone cancer during filming. In other words, he probably worked much, much harder than anyone else in the film. Sadly, he shot and killed himself about a year after the film's release.


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Were you one of the millions of Canadians around the world who watched Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip's potentially last show? Then you were probably one of many who were tearing up, grabbing for tissues and buzzing with humanity.
Most Canadians knew where they were when they heard the news that Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. If you didn't know where you were, you knew how you felt. It hit home like a hammer.
The band is commonly known as "The Hip" and they couldn't be more Canadian. With songs about Bobcaygeon, that won a Juno in 2000, and music videos filmed in small towns such as Brooklin, Ontario, the group helped define Canadian music.
The complexity, the wholesomeness and the humility of living in this country we call home resonates through Downie's high-reaching vocals. Together, the group added a musical layer to our collective identity: we are a simple, humble people, yet genuine. We aren't too flashy, we are a bit quirky, we are a little softer than our neighbours to the south and there isn't anything wrong with that.
That's what made Downie's announcement so tragic. It felt like we were about to lose a little of ourselves.
But, true to form, this iconic band decided to give it one last go and it moved the nation. The Tragically Hip's last concert in Kingston, in the place where it all started, did more than symbolize how everything comes full circle. It was a sweet gesture permeated with courage, social justice and a political tone that touched Canadians around the world.
It was a powerful gift of sound that reminded us of who we are: the humbly brave.


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Price is for ONE each large PARASPIRFIER bownockeri brachiopod (sea shell). Both valves (sides) are present in this large brachiopod. This is a complete specimen from the famous Sylvania area of Ohio now closed to collecting.
These are classic shells and are often found large up to 3 inches long. These average 2 inches long.
We will choose the biggest and best one of the lot we have at that time to send to you.
PARASPIRIFER bownockeri
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Rouhani underlines need for tourism infrastructure development
TEHRAN - President Hassan Rouhani has recently emphasized the importance of developing tourism infrastructure in the country, according to Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Director Ali Asghar Mounesan.
"The president said that increasing the number of hotels would help enhance the organization's role in recreational field," IRNA quoted Mounesan as saying on Sunday.
Mounesan met the president to present a report of CHHTO's plans and policies for the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21).
The president also emphasized the need for urgent restorations of cultural heritage sites and monuments, which have recently suffered damage from flash floods and rainfalls, he added.
Unprecedented increase in the number of foreign arrivals; playing host to international events such as Hamedan 2018; World Tourism Organization meetings in Iran, and ways to improve the country's tourism industry in the domestic and global levels were among topics discussed in their meeting, the report said.
Earlier this month, CHHTO Deputy Director Vali Teymouri said that U.S. sanctions, targeting Iran's economy, has failed to lessen foreign arrivals to the Islamic Republic.
"U.S. sanctions have been ineffective in tourism industry of Iran," he said.


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Mad Men Style Mellows Out, Lindsay Lohan Is Headed To The Clink, And A Chic Peek At Isabel Toledo For Target
While the northeast is experiencing the hottest and most humid summer since 2001, we're experiencing July gloom here in L.A. (HuffPo)
Breaking news that will neither shock nor surprise anyone: Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and rehab. (E! Online)
One of the hottest films of the summer is Deborah Granik's gritty Winter's Bone starring the lovely and soon-to-be-household-name Jennifer Lawrence. (Jezebel)
Mad Men's costume designer says this season, the looks will be less glitzy. Seriously, what would Joan Holloway wear? (NYMag)


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Besides cat cafes, owl cafes are slowly popping up in Japan as well.
The shop I went to is called "Fukurou ni Aeru Mise -「Fuwa Fuwa」" (フクロウに会える店「ふわふわ」) which means "The shop where you can meet owls「fluffy」).
I suppose every shop has different systems. For this shop, it was 1500yen for one hour – for the first 10 minutes, the staff brief on how to pat the owls and whatnots, next 40 minutes you can take pictures, pat, and put them on your hand/shoulder/head as many times as you want, and last 10 minutes pictures only and no touching as the owls need a break before the next batch of customers come.
I decided against my urge to put them on my head or shoulders as owls cannot be potty trained and I don't want poop stains on my clothes while I still have a full day outside ahead of me. They pooped several times onto the floor even as I was holding them on my hand.
There was a counter with seats and two fences where the owls are tied to on separate sides of the room. When holding the tiny owls, we were asked to not go to the other side of the room as these tiny owls feel stressed when the big ones are nearby.
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For over a decade, Liz Hanson has been the Client Director at Athlete Assessments, an international consulting company specializing in the 'people side of sport'. While the company is best known for athlete and coach profiling and team dynamics consulting, it is a leader in coach education and sport management professional development. Clients include some of the top US College athletics programs, professional and Olympic teams and Australian national sporting bodies. Liz looks after their key clients and consultant relationships and also manages marketing and new business development.
For over eight years, Liz has been a faculty member of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy in the US, teaching three programs per year. In addition, she teaches at the Japanese Women Coaches Academy, which was established three years ago. A long-time advocate of girls and women's sport, her passion for leadership development of women started over twenty years ago. Prior to Athlete Assessments, Liz ran a national women's leadership company for five years which remains the largest of its kind in Australia, after a successful corporate career in banking and finance.


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I was a bit late in planting some of the summer vegetables, but they've flourished in the initially cool late spring and now hot early summer temperatures.
Remarkably, I've harvested peppers and tomatilllos, usually a no-show until late summer.
There are LOTS of tomatoes developing and the first ones close to harvesting. Woo-hoo! And the various vining squashes are looking good, too -- no sign of squash vine borer moths or larvae (maybe they were confused by the strange winter and spring weather and somehow my plants will escape???)
This year, I do have mostly C. moschata squash varieties (trombocino & tatume) as well as butternut, and delicata), which are resistant to the borers, anyway, so maybe we'll have some squash this year!
Supposedly most winter squash like butternut and delicate are tasty enough as immature squash. We'll see. Apparently almost all squash aside from ornamental gourds (which are bitter) are at least decent-tasting, based on my limited Google search.
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The first beans, tomatoes, and squash
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Tastefully decorated with fine fabrics, traditional furniture and in either a Louis XV or Louis XVI style, our Superior rooms (237 feet²) offer a view on either the Luxembourg Garden or a quiet cobbled stone street, Rue Servandoni…
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Anaheim Hills is a city in Orange County in Southern California. It is still technically considered to be part of the city of Anaheim but because it does not border Anaheim and it geographically separated from Anaheim, the name Anaheim Hills is used to distinguish itself from Anaheim.
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There are a couple of ways to get to Anaheim Hills. Anaheim Hills is on the south-west corner of the 91 and 55 Freeways. Also Imperial Highway ends in Anaheim Hills and turns in to Cannon that will allow you to access the city of Orange via Katella or Chapman.
The view - Anaheim Hills offeres almost a 360 degree view of surrounding areas. On a clear day you can see Downtown Los Angeles, Corona and Catalina Island from two separate vantage points.
Disneyland is only about 15 minutes north-west.
Visit the Nixon Presidential Library in the neighboring city of Yorba Linda.
Hibachi Steakhouse is on the corner of Santa Ana Canyon Road and Fairmont Blvd. It has some of the best Teppan Yaki you will find in the USA.
Sushi Yosuke is on the corner of Santa Ana Canyon Road and Fairmont Blvd and has the best sushi in Anaheim Hills.
The Foxfire located on the north-east corner of Imperial Highway and Santa Ana Canyon Road is really the only real "Bar" in Anaheim Hills.


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Prospective members are invited to ride with the club for a few rides & then asked to join and support the club. The cost is modest. Annual membership for 2020 is $20.00 for individuals and $25.00 for families and is on a calendar basis.
Your membership dues pays for the club's operations (icluding liability insurance) and our contributions to other non profit biking organizations (Partners).
Benefits Include:
- Organized rides, group outings, parties, and monthly meetings
- Discounts at area bike shops: Please contact stores for full details. OPCC membership card needs to be shown to receive discounts
- Amling's Cycle - 10% off labor, parts and accessories (NOT including bikes)
- Bikefix - 10% off parts and accessories (NOT including bikes, frames, custom wheels, and some electronics); Presta and Schrader tubes (common valve lengths) reduced to $5.
- Dan's Bike Shop - 15% off all merchandise (INCLUDING bikes)
- Barnard's Schwinn- 10% off parts, accessories, clothing, shoes, and nutrtition; 10% off electronics (Cat Eye, Garmin); wheels.
- Wheel and Sprocket - 10% off labor, parts and accessories (NOT including bikes)
- Access to the club only Ride with GPS page which offers club routes wtih turn by turn directions that can be downloaded to the Ride With GPS Phone App or your bike computer.
- Access to the club only Facebook Page where rides outside of the weekly scheduled training & Show & Go rides are posted.
- Coverage under the club liability insurance while on club sponsored ride
How To Join
Membership in the Oak Park Cycle Club is easy and inexpensive.
Individual membership - $20
Family membership - $25
There are 3 ways to register:
- Online at Active.com /2020 OPCC Membership (preferred method as they are great supporters of our signature ride event, The Wright Ride)
2. By mail Link to printable membership form.
Mail membership form, checks, or money orders (no cash please) to:
Oak Park, IL 60304
3. Sign up at one of our monthly meetings.
What That Means To Us
Our club depends on its members! We have members of all riding skills and interests. While we are not a high-performance super-fast riding group, there are members who like to ride fast and we encourage them to pursue it with other like minded members as well as with anyone else. We strive to provide riding opportunities for members of all skill levels and help riders gain confidence to ride safely on the streets and thus expand their horizons beyond the area trails.


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Ready to get all sciencey? Good, because Lookah Glass, as you probably already know, is a glass maker that is based out of a space station orbiting Amalthea. This piece just landed on planet earth and holy moly is it something out of this world. It has a small, puck-shaped mini chamber below the bowl to get things started. After that you've got a colored globe perc in the bottom chamber that leads up with three arms and a central spiral into the second chamber which is filled with another colored globe. And in case you don't have time to look it up: Prokaryotes undergo a vegetative cell division known as binary fission, where their genetic material is segregated equally into two daughter cells. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Want to convert it to a dab rig? Banger nails, downstems, and more available on our accessories page.


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A couple of days ago I met a super gifted senior citizen who is a maestro in his field. In the beginning of his involvement in his craft, he had learned from a legendary multi-talented Malaysian artist, the late Tan Sri P. Ramlee. This person, despite his colorful achievements, spoke with great humility. And needless to say, I was deeply humbled that he agreed to guide and teach me as much as he could! Allah Kareem! He emphasized these facts that we all know, but to hear him utter from the bottom of his soul, left me even more humbled. He said: "I am nothing. We are nothing. Everything good that we have in our hands, comes from Allah. Had he not helped us, had he not facilitated every single thing for us, we could do nothing. I will teach you. Knowledge must be shared."
MashaAllah tabarakallah!
Certainly, all the good stuffs that we have in our brain, in our hands, all that is with us, all are borrowed gifts. Someone I know pretty well, has had to remove his right leg today. A friend, a colleague who's a hard working single mother of four teenage kids, passed away today. I hope this friend of mine will enter her grave and find it as a heavenly abode. Amin.


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1991 Wilderness 26 5N 5th Wheel
1991 Fleetwood Wilderness 26 5N 5th Wheel. This unit is 26ft, sleeps 6 with booth seating, jackknife couch and front queen bedroom. Features rear kitchen and walk thru split bath. Includes electric only fridge/freezer, stove/oven, microwave, water heater, a/c, stereo and awning (has weak spring). GVW 7,100. Asking only $3,995, call Bob 320-267-3949 or Jim 320-309-6195.


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Pearl and Pink Stone Earrings
Incredible earrings set with pink stones and pearls inspired by royal India.
22kt gold plated on 925 silver, inset with antique finished crystals and pink glass. (Glass was often used as a replacement to the gems that were destroyed during the time of the British Raj , used to inset old palace walls and temples.
4.5cm in full length; very light weight for pierced ears.


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Secure Broadcast is an engineering and technology company building groundbreaking TV solutions for enterprise with security at its heart. Our technology is the result of 5 years R&D by a team of extremely passionate software engineers, film production specialists and graphic designers. We have a very exciting roadmap that includes a list of innovations ensuring that we stay at the forefront of secure global communications.
We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for owning the API layer of our application. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
You will be leading the development of our API and Cloud services. Currently, we are using a mixed technology stack on the backend supporting multiple web and native client applications. You will be responsible for the design of a scalable infrastructure that meets the needs of the business. This will include researching, prototyping and implementing the latest stable cloud service technologies to ensure that our product base remains future proof and performant.
If you're interested email your CV to email@example.com and let us know why you think you're a good match for the role and company.


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Wharton Alumni Angels Network (Europe)
Angel Group · 19 Members · London, United Kingdom
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About this Program
The Wharton Alumni Angels Network is a professional network of the Wharton Club of UK and connects entrepreneurs and early stage investors across Europe.
Our Investment Focus
We focus on tech-enabled businesses headquartered in Europe with high scalability potential. We do not set specific industry restrictions as long as it relies heavily on modern technology and applies high ethical standards.


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While these meetings are for business owners only, Sponsors are invited to be a part of the meetings as thought leaders and stakeholders in the community. We are seeking sponsors who wish to be engaged with the small business community. Click here for details.
For more information please contact Andrea Duguay, Director of Owner to Owner Member Engagement, at email@example.com or (800) 362-5461 ext. 231.
Join a network that is designed exclusively for small business owners in the Washtenaw Region to gather together on a regular basis with other owners and stakeholders in your community. Each regional meeting will feature components of networking, education, and small business advocacy awareness brought to you by SBAM's third ranked Advocacy team.
May 14, 2020
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
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The recognition of acquired competencies (RAC) process in vocational training allows adults to obtain official recognition for competencies acquired on the job or through real-life experience in relation to a program of study. At the conclusion of the process candidates receive the official ministry of education diploma for the program. For more information on RAC please visit http://www.ceracfp.ca/en
At the Lester B Pearson School Board, RAC is offered for a large number of programs in English. The programs are:
If you have worked in, or are interested in a program that you do not see listed here please feel free to contact us and we can help you explore your options.
RAC is a process that is available to anyone who has worked in a trade and would like to obtain their diploma or someone who has received training outside of Québec that is not currently recognized by the Ministry of Education.
The RAC process is offered through Business Solutions, located in Lachine, at 5000 René Huguet, H8T 1M7. Phone: 514-422-3000, ext. 31540
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text: Sounds good. So why did this film, once known as the Eaters of the Dead, sit on studio shelves for two years? Presumably because of the thoughtless editing that trimmed down the film to its bare bones, crafting an actionfest out of an epic. It's not often that you crave for a movie to be longer, but The 13th Warrior could've benefited from fleshing out of its subplots and characters. On the surface it's good eye candy with some fine pulse-quickening moments, and Banderas and the accompanying cast turn in sympathetic performances, epitomizing camaraderie in the face of impending doom. However, if you're looking for a good thematic tale from the Dark Ages (akin to Braveheart), you may be disappointed. --Jeremy Storey


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Read composition – Quality and Nucleotides
January 16th, 2018
The intention of this post is to give a short introduction into the topic of read composition, which is an important feature of NGS sequencing analysis.
Quality value – what are they and why do I need them?
Reads received from e.g. Illuminas Sequencing Machines do not only contain the corresponding nucleotides, but also Quality values for every position in the read. These quality values contain information about the certainty of the written nucleotide at this position. This certainty is (for Illumina reads) the probability of a being incorrect at this position). The value of this certainty is transfigured into a single letter so it can be processed easier and does take less space (it is then called Phred quality score, which were originally invented for Phred base calling), but it can be calculated backwards to get an impression of this certainty. The actual calculation depends on the type of machine that was used, because the values used are a bit different, but basically you calculate 10 to the power of the negative ASCII number for the letter divided by 10.
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So, if you see a quality value of 30 this nucleotide is in most of the cases incorrect in only 0.01% of the cases.
These scores are needed to gain knowledge about how much you can trust the given nucleotide. If the score is low, then there is a good chance, that the given nucleotide is wrong. It is well known, that at the end of reads this quality tends to be far lower than at the beginning – the reason for this is the process to analysis the sequence itself.
(Sadly, this principle is not as easy as it sounds, because sometimes even wrong nucleotides are associated with a high Phred Score – see M. Schirmer, U. Z. Ijaz, R. D Amore, N. Hall, W. T. Sloan und C. Quince, "Insight into biases and sequencing errors for amplicon sequencing with the Illumina MiSeq platform," Nucleic Acids Research, Bd. 43, pp. e37–e37, jan 2015. )
Nucleotide composition – what letters can tell you
Now you know how to use these quality scores, but you can do even more with just the reads. Besides a GC analysis you can also analyse the composition of all the four nucleotides. This analysis may tell you if there are any irregularities in your reads. A completely random library would show about 25% of each base at each position, but natural or artificially produced sequences are seldom random, so the percentages or total amounts will reflect the mean number of this nucleotide in the data – if everything went well of course. Sometimes some positions show a deviation from this "ideal" value. The reason for this is the priming process in library preparation, favouring some random hexamers over others. Sequencing adapters which are removed very strictly – and thus some real part of the sequence is removed with them – can also result in a shift at some positions. The first issue is often seen in results at the first five to ten positions in which there is a higher fluctuation than at the rest of the sequence positions. Adapter dimers in the results are a reason for different values, too. Those dimers can be created by the preparations steps and will most likely show a different composition than the sequences which should have been analysed.
All in one this analysis shows you if there are any specialties which should be kept in mind for further analysis.
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The beauty of South Africa's national parks has been highlighted by a virtual treasure hunt staged by the country's top travel magazine go! The competition, with a total prize value of more than R600 000, has grabbed the attention of thousands of readers. To date, more than 36 000 entries have been received.
Each month, the magazine publishes clues for the Hide-and-Seek hunt to entice readers to discover in which national park the grand prize, a Mahindra XUV500 with accessories to the value of R355 000, has been hidden. With the August issue currently on shelves countrywide, nature lovers still have two chances to win prizes such as 4×4 accessories, camera equipment, gift vouchers, binoculars and SANpark holidays, and the grand prize of the 4×4 vehicle.
"Hide-and-Seek fever has taken the country by storm," says editor-in-chief Barnie Louw. "We have been overwhelmed by the public response. We have had extensive feedback from readers telling us how the whole family has become involved in the search for clues. We wanted to inspire people to embrace our national parks and realise how incredibly privileged we are as South Africans to have nature's bounty right on our doorstep. I would like to encourage the public to keep submitting entries as there are further clues in the September issue and still loads of prizes to be won."
According to SANParks general manager Bheki Zwane they are delighted with the response to the competition. "It is encouraging that thousands of South Africans have taken the opportunity to once again explore our 19 national parks. I have to congratulate the magazine on the innovative way it has structured the competition. It is extremely well researched and has led readers to rediscover not only the incredible scenic beauty of our parks," says Zwane, "but also to learn more about their history, culture and archaeology. Parks do not operate within a vacuum but carry the footprints of their inhabitants of many years ago. From the Kruger National Park in the north to Table Mountain National Park in the south, our national parks are a legacy we should conserve for future generations."
The final set of clues will be published in the September issues of go! and Weg magazines, on shelf from 13 August. Additional clues are provided on the magazines' websites and Facebook pages, or watch Expresso weekday mornings on SABC3.
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By 2018, Saudi Aramco will have reversed the age ratio of five years ago: Roughly six out of every 10 employees will be aged 35 or under, says the company
To deliver on its aspirations for the future, Saudi Aramco is developing increasingly sophisticated upstream operations, expanding its downstream business, and pursuing ever more ambitious technological innovations.
This transformation requires an immense amount of creative and intellectual energy – all of which is generated by the more than 61,000 members of the Saudi Aramco family who know that the work they do today will have a positive impact on someone at home or abroad tomorrow.
Turning great aspirations into reality requires great capabilities. In 2014, Saudi Aramco funnelled significant energy into making sure that its people have the opportunities and support they need to acquire essential new skills and abilities.
From educational and developmental programmes for its growing ranks of young employees and specialised technical training programmes for its seasoned professionals, to experiential courses for its current and future leaders, Saudi Aramco builds the capacity of its employees to be ready to take on the challenges ahead.
And it is not just its own workforce: Through its expanded business activities and initiatives to advance the kingdom's economy, Saudi Aramco enables thousands of new employment opportunities in the domestic labour market. Many of these jobs require specialised skills, says Saudi Aramco in its 2014 Annual Review.
To meet this need, Saudi Aramco partners with local training organisations to create training institutes to prepare the kingdom's young workforce to take advantage of the upcoming opportunities. The key to successfully competing in today's dynamic global business environment is the ability to recruit top talent.
Today's workers are not just looking for jobs – they are searching for purpose and the opportunity to make a positive difference through their work. In 2014, the company's workforce grew to an all-time high of 61,907. Its new employees are drawn by the challenging professional opportunities Saudi Aramco offers and by the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that drive its actions as a catalyst for a sustainable future.
Saudi Aramco further energises its workforce by fostering a culture that values ideas and merit-based performance. These elements, combined with its high ethical standards, have earned it the trust of its employees and the respect of its peers and competitors, making it a highly sought-after career destination.
With more employees comes the responsibility to provide for their physical and social welfare and that of their families. In 2014, Saudi Aramco worked towards creating communities for its employees that are healthier, safer, and more sustainable. At Saudi Aramco, employees are inspired by where it is going and the company works hard to ensure its people have the skills to take it there.
Saudi Aramco supports continuous learning
Saudi Aramco's workforce of the future is trending younger. In 2009, nearly 70 per cent of its employees were above the age of 35. Today, almost half of its employees are 35 or younger.
Saudi Aramco hired 1,713 Saudis in 2014, a 3 per cent increase over 2013 levels – and a figure more than three times greater than the 2010 hiring level. And while Saudis make up almost 84 per cent of its workforce, its small but valuable expatriate labour force is becoming younger and more diverse as well.
To meet the growing human resource needs of its new businesses and ventures, Saudi Aramco attended 11 major events and conducted 117 workshops around the world. In 2014, the number of nationalities represented in its 35-and-under expatriate employees rose from 37 to 61.
Saudi Aramco supports continuous learning and self-development by running the world's largest corporate training programme. It also matches its younger employees with more experienced mentors to advance their acquisition of technical proficiency. In support of its performance- and merit-based work culture, in 2014 Saudi Aramco instituted an incentive programme designed to reward employees for their individual contributions to helping the company achieve its business targets.
The Jazan Refinery and Terminal project is one example of how Saudi Aramco is amplifying the benefits of its business activities for the benefit of local communities. Saudi Aramco formed a nonprofit organisation, the Jazan Contractors' Consortium for Training and Employment – 'Maharat,' – with its local and international engineering, procurement, and construction contractors to train qualified Jazan-area high school, technical, and industrial college graduates in specialised construction trades.
These young people are then employed by the consortium to support the construction of the Jazan facilities, giving them an opportunity to start a career and make a tangible contribution to the economic development of their communities. The Jazan Contractors' Consortium is a sustainable model that Saudi Aramco intends to replicate and institutionalise for all future mega-projects.
As Saudi Aramco executes its strategy to become a top-tier global chemicals company, it is building the world-class workforce essential to successfully accomplish this goal. Saudi Aramco launched an aggressive recruitment campaign and has hired a core group of qualified professionals, including chemical engineers, marketers, supply chain experts, industrial engineers, and financial experts.
Saudi Aramco also hired over 120 male and female Saudi graduates from universities around the world for positions in its Chemicals organisation. To enable these young Saudis to effectively take on the mantle of leadership in the years to come, Saudi Aramco created programmes to further develop their capabilities through assignments and internships inside and outside the company.
Skilled manpower is essential to the success of Sadara, its joint venture integrated chemicals complex with Dow. To accelerate the readiness of hundreds of Sadara manufacturing employees, Saudi Aramco established on-the-job training programmes for them to acquire capabilities alongside Dow's experienced workforce. At the programme's peak, around 50 trainees were embedded in Dow facilities in the Netherlands while similar numbers were working at other Dow sites in Germany, Portugal and Thailand.
At year-end 2014, over 200 trainees had successfully completed their assignments and returned to Saudi Arabia. During their international training assignments, the Sadara trainees also participated in citizenship projects in their local communities. By optimising its maintenance training curriculum, Saudi Aramco accelerated the training time of the participants in its Apprenticeship Programme for Non-Employees and improved success rates. The enhanced maintenance training programmes now utilise a performance-based smart curriculum and learner-centred instructions, significantly reducing time to achieve competency. In all, more than 600 apprentices in the various maintenance disciplines were trained in 2014 using the new curriculum, resulting in a 10 per cent to 20 per cent reduction in contact hours.
Redesigning its maintenance curriculum assures strategic alignment between job task competency for its apprentice graduates and business line requirements for entry-level skills. In a first for the region, Saudi Aramco added a fully immersive and state-of-the-art maritime vessel navigation simulator to bolster its marine training. The simulator uses an exact replica of the bridge of a Saudi Aramco vessel and has a 360-degree virtual display. Trainees are immersed in precise simulations of operational scenarios, including terminal berthing and approaching jack-up barges, rigs, and gasoil separation plants. Weather conditions and environmental factors are faithfully recreated, enabling the development of customised training programmes that help enhance safety and efficiency.
Housed in its Marine Academy in Ras Tanura, the simulator provides realistic, real-time simulations that help prepare its trainee captains and engineers for real-life situations before they ever set to sea. It is also used to provide procedural and emergency training for its offshore and shore-based employees.
YLAB ... strength of the youth
Improving the company's capabilities dictates that Saudi Aramco must raise the capabilities of its professionals as well. In 2014, Saudi Aramco instituted innovative programmes to prepare its professionals to contribute to its business objectives at a higher level. Saudi Aramco also entered strategic partnerships with domestic and international businesses, agencies, and universities to extend the benefits of its training programmes to Saudi men and women who are not employees.
All newly hired Saudi university graduates spend their first three years with the company in its Professional Development Programme. In 2010, Saudi Aramco piloted the Saudi Aramco Professional Development Academy, a new on-boarding programme designed to build individual and team-based competencies. The six-week interactive programme focuses on health and safety, leadership, communications, and community service and features workshops, guest speakers, site visits, and collaborative experiences.
From the first pilot group of 29 participants, the programme has evolved to become a permanent offering in the Professional Development Programme. By the end of 2014, more than 1,600 young Saudi professionals, including 180 women, had participated in 22 sessions of the academy. The company's Youth Leadership Advisory Board, or YLAB, is a group of 16 young employees who serve 18-month terms and conduct studies on topics of significant importance both to the company and to young people. The group provides advice, ideas, and insights to senior management and engages other young employees in the changes taking place throughout the corporation. Saudi Aramco is now on its third YLAB cycle and the programme has influenced other young employees to create their own self-directed 'youth-only' groups to tackle issues of importance to them.
Saudi Aramco boosted the marketable skills of over 500 Saudi women by partnering with local entities to create the Mahara programme. The three-year programme will train a total of 750 women, with each participant receiving 724 hours of training. The curriculum focuses mainly on highly sought-after information technology, English language, and business communication skills. The goal of the programme is to increase employment opportunities for Saudi women. Of the class of 2012–2014 graduates, approximately 250 were hired by various local companies, including 32 who found employment with Saudi Aramco. After noticing a mismatch between the skills possessed by female information technology graduates and those needed in the marketplace, Saudi Aramco saw an opportunity to bridge that gap.
It collaborated with 14 universities, conducted seminars for over 1,175 attendees, and created specialised training plans for Saudi female graduates focusing on information security, engineering design, and network operations to enhance their employability.
As a company that values and prioritises continuous learning and self-development, Saudi Aramco regularly partners with leading educational institutions to bring the latest knowledge and technologies to the kingdom. In 2014, Saudi Aramco collaborated with three prestigious international universities to offer part-time targeted and specialised custom hosted master's degree programmes for its professionals, bringing its total number of hosted university degree programmes to 11.
The Graduate Institute Geneva offered a master's degree programme in advanced investment analysis while the Georgia Institute of Technology from the US was selected as its strategic partner to deliver a professional master's degree programme in information security. Through this programme, its employees are developing the skills that will help keep its cyber infrastructure – and the kingdom's – secure while acquiring effective mitigation and containment strategies in this critical area. Thirty-five students are participating in this hosted programme.
The company's corporate hosted university programme also includes a Master of Science programme in human resources management. The programme is intended to increase competency in fields such as recruiting, selection, retention, organisational behaviour, staffing, compensation, research methods, and information systems, among many others. Texas A&M University from the US was selected to deliver this in-kingdom programme. At year-end, 27 employees from across the company were participating. Saudi Aramco also collaborates with world-class universities to provide advanced skill-building programmes.
Beginning in 2012, Saudi Aramco launched a programme with Michigan State University's School of Communication to provide advanced public relations and communications training in Saudi Arabia. To date, nearly 200 of its professional staff have completed the 22-week programme. Saudi Aramco continued its partnership with MIT to nurture the research skills of Saudi female university faculty members majoring in science or engineering.
The company's prestigious Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Women is a merit-based, one-year research programme at the MIT campus. It gives Saudi female doctorate degree holders the opportunity to conduct advanced research under the supervision of an MIT senior faculty member. In 2014, a total of 10 fellows from domestic universities were participating in the programme.
This programme is just one example of its strategic investments in not just the employees of Saudi Aramco, but in the people of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco enables opportunities for ambitious talent to do the best work of their lives, part of its greater goal of building a knowledge economy in the kingdom to help ensure the prosperity of future Saudi generations. Not all of its human resource development programmes are driven by its training organisation: Some of its most innovative approaches come from within – Qudwa is a case in point. Qudwa, which means 'role model' in Arabic, is a volunteer organisation dedicated to encouraging dialog through networking, knowledge sharing, and skill building, with special consideration to gender differences in the workplace. The group's events, which include guest speakers and Q&A sessions, highlight the need for self-awareness and self-development.
A company-wide mentorship programme has been particularly successful in helping its newer Saudi female employees achieve more. Membership in Qudwa is roughly 2,800 and more than 4,300 employees have been reached through the group's activities. In 2014, Saudi Aramco expanded the team responsible for coordinating the activities of the company entities involved in promoting gender diversity. This resulted in a new organisation called the Women Development Programme (WDP).
The programme supports the development of its female employees and also delivers diversity training for teams across Saudi Aramco. In addition, the WDP arranges outreach programmes at female universities and works with local businesses and government agencies to prepare female students for successful careers, bridging the gap between education and the skills needed in the domestic labour market.
In 2014, the WDP conducted over 100 workshops, seminars, and forums, reaching more than 2,500 female employees, students, and other professionals. The workshops were offered on topics such as transitioning to the workforce, conversational styles, personal branding, and character building. The programme encourages, empowers, and increases the competencies of women in the workforce within Saudi Aramco and in local communities, part of its long-term vision to create opportunities and inspire ambitious young Saudis.
Saudi Aramco is partnering with MIT
At Saudi Aramco, it is anything but business as usual. Every day brings new opportunities to capture and new challenges to overcome. Successfully navigating the company's transformation into an integrated energy and chemicals enterprise requires leaders who inspire, empower, and motivate their teams. It requires leaders who can translate its diversifying business strategy into meaningful and actionable outcomes.
It requires pioneering leaders who can find unique solutions that produce exceptional results while upholding its legacy of excellence. Leadership development is one of the most critical areas for business success.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco employed a multitude of training regimes to ensure its leaders possess the transformational skills required to achieve its 2020 Strategic Intent. The company's transformation from an oil production powerhouse to a globally integrated energy and chemicals enterprise requires intensive skill building inside and outside of Saudi Arabia.
In 2014, more than 100 Saudi Aramco professionals worked as interns at companies in North America, engaged on assignments in manufacturing, oil and gas, and electricity facilities; in offices conducting financial and accounting activities; in security industries; in medical facilities; and in an array of other disciplines. In addition, many of its leaders are assigned multi-year rotational assignments with its offices in the US, Europe, and Asia, building their global acumen.
Critical advances in technology and innovation are essential to achieving the level of sustainability Saudi Aramco is pursuing in its operations.
To ensure that the company's R&D activities support its goals and achieve the necessary impact, Saudi Aramco created a comprehensive development programme for its division heads, or front-line supervisors, in its R&D Centre in Dhahran. Through individual coaching sessions and team interventions, its R&D Centre leaders found solutions to their particular challenges, improved their leadership skills, and achieved greater alignment with its strategic objectives.
Another leadership development programme targeting this level of its leadership is its Human Resources Partnership Programme for Division Heads. Now in its second year, programme participants learn about the important role human resources plays in driving business results and are exposed to a variety of tools, conceptual models, best practices, and case studies. The division heads benefit from interaction with subject matter experts representing a variety of functions.
The company's professionals also benefit by gaining a greater understanding of the most pressing human resource issues affecting line leadership. By working together, division heads and human resources personnel find ways to better address these challenges. To date, over 800 of its division heads have participated in the programme.
Saudi Aramco also piloted the Leadership Series for Managers, tailored specifically to prepare division heads for their transition to the role of manager. Designed with the input of its executives and facilitated by experts in the field of leadership development, the programme uses experiential learning, project work, and one-to-one coaching to embed new skills and behaviours that can be immediately applied in their current role as well as more complex managerial situations.
The Saudi Aramco Leadership Forum is a unique venue for its high-potential supervisors, division heads, and senior professionals to participate in facilitated discussions with senior executives. The forum encourages open dialogue on a variety of topics related to leadership, including staff development, strategic thinking, and ethics.
While high-potential professionals benefit immensely from these candid discussions, its senior management also receives valuable insights into the current challenges facing its up-and-coming leaders. Since 1999, the forum has been instrumental in preparing 1,360 of its high-potential leaders for greater responsibilities. With more than 60 per cent of its crude oil and nearly half of its refined products exported to the countries of the Far East – and with its growing chemicals business in this region – its Asia Business & Culture Programme fulfils a strategic need in its leadership development regime.
This programme builds cross-cultural and geopolitical understanding and helps prepare its leaders to be effective communicators, managers, and negotiators in these vital business environments. The central goal is to produce highly motivated leaders who are familiar with Asian cultures and business practices and who are well-positioned to make significant contributions to its joint and equity ventures and new business developments in Japan, South Korea, and China. The programme, held biennially, has included 85 of the company's top leaders since its inception in 2001.
Saudi Aramco inaugurated a first-of-its-kind
One way Saudi Aramco energises the people and ideas that make it a catalyst of innovation and opportunity is by creating communities its employees are proud to call home. Healthy, vibrant communities contribute to the well-being of its employees. By developing sustainable communities for its people, Saudi Aramco also leads by example to stimulate energy-efficient residential development in Saudi Arabia.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco broke ground on the most significant expansion of its Dhahran community in three decades and also moved forward with its plans to build an entirely new, sustainable model community near Dhahran.
Saudi Aramco also continued an important legacy programme that helps make it possible for Saudi employees to fulfil the dream of owning their own home. A unique benefit Saudi Aramco has long provided to its Saudi employees is assistance in securing loans to build a home in Saudi Aramco-prepared communities. Several land development and infrastructure projects are ongoing in various locations, including Dammam, Jubail and Al-Hasa. Other infrastructure projects in Abqaiq, Yanbu, Dammam, and Dhahran are ready for awarding.
In 2014, 1,037 new home loans were granted. Over the life of the programme, more than 63,000 new homes have been financed through its Home Ownership Programme, enabling generations of employees to improve their quality of life and contributing to the growth of dynamic communities.
The company's Communities of Excellence initiative aims to implement best-in-class social, environmental, and economic practices in the communities hosting Saudi Aramco's Home Ownership programmes. The first development aligned with this initiative is the South Dhahran project.
In May 2014, Saudi Aramco completed the commercial master plan and financial evaluation for the project. South Dhahran is a planned, mixed-use community that includes homes, parks, schools, mosques, recreation centres, a health clinic, and commercial districts. Located close to Dhahran, the South Dhahran home ownership community is intended to enhance the work-life balance of its employees. Built in phases, it will contain approximately 8,500 ready-built villas and apartments and will also feature a full range of commercial services.
This project is unique for its size and its comprehensive and cohesive modern features and services. Once proven in South Dhahran, this business model can be a kingdom-wide benchmark for future housing initiatives.
Khursaniyah ... achieving 3.5 million work hours without a lost-time injury
At Saudi Aramco, health and safety are two sides of the same coin; each promotes the other and Saudi Aramco actively promotes them both for the long-term benefits of the company and the kingdom. Safety is one of its core values.
Every year for over 80 years, Saudi Aramco has worked to instill a culture of health and safety within its company and in its communities. This year was no different. Saudi Aramco launched several new initiatives in 2014 to strengthen its safety culture and improve the health of its employees and their families. Saudi Aramco is working to make a positive difference in the world. But taking care of the health and safety of its people is the most important work of all.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco inaugurated a first-of-its-kind health care joint venture in Dhahran with its partner, Johns Hopkins Medicine. The formation of this new company, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH), represents a significant milestone in the transformation of medicine and health care in the kingdom. Under the terms of the initial 10-year agreement, Saudi Aramco and Johns Hopkins Medicine will each hold an indirect ownership stake in the new Saudi-registered company.
JHAH brings together its long-established health care delivery system and the world-renowned clinical, education, and research expertise of Johns Hopkins Medicine. JHAH will fuel clinical innovation, serve as a model of health care in the kingdom, and contribute to the development of the country's health care in alignment with its commitment to enabling growth, opportunities, and diversification within the kingdom's economy.
Safety is one of its core values and Saudi Aramco works to embed a safety-first mindset on and off the job in its employees and their families – and in the wider community through its safety outreach programmes and campaigns.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco conducted a number of major safety initiatives to strengthen its culture of safety and to enhance safe practices across its operations. Its Safety Leadership Workshops empower management with the skills to be visible safety leaders.
Since the programme was first introduced in 2005, a total of 93 workshops have been offered to more than 1,100 managers and division heads. Its Loss Prevention organisation conducted 18 major compliance reviews and also participated in two collaborative technical exchange meetings with joint venture partners Dow and Sinopec.
The meetings provided a platform to communicate and share best practices for mitigating health, safety, and environmental concerns. These safety training programmes and practices are a significant factor in its success in improving its overall safety performance.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco recorded a lost-time injury rate of 0.05 injuries per 200,000 work hours, a 44 per cent reduction compared to 2013. Its safety performance was recognised by the US-based Gas Processors Association. Several of its gas plants achieved significant safety milestones, including its Juaymah NGL facility, which reached 6.5 million work hours without a lost-time injury, and its Khursaniyah and Berri plants, each of which achieved 3.5 million work hours without a lost-time injury.
Saudi Aramco also recognises and rewards exceptional safety records among its employees, helping instill a culture of safety across the company. In 2014, Saudi Aramco honoured 397 employees who completed 35 years of service without an incident – the largest number of employees who have ever reached this safety milestone in a single year. Off-the-job disabling injuries – mainly due to traffic accidents – remain a cause of concern for it and for the kingdom.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco experienced an off-the-job disabling injury rate of 0.42 per 200,000 hours of exposure, a 29 per cent decrease compared to 2013. In response to the growing number of incidents involving traffic safety, Saudi Aramco increased its efforts to make its roads safer by establishing a traffic safety taskforce comprised of corporate and manager-level personnel.
The taskforce is developing a set of initiatives in five focus areas including cultural factors, engineering, and education. Traffic safety is a 24/7 concern for it: Every day, thousands of its employees drive company vehicles for work purposes – and often in remote locations.
In 2014, Saudi Aramco began a campaign to install an automatic vehicle locator device in its fleet of work vehicles and to educate employees on how the device will save lives through encouraging safe driving habits. The system uses real time GPS capabilities and other sensors to monitor vehicle location, tire health, seat belt use, speed, and other safety factors. The company successfully installed the system on 47 per cent of its company vehicles, including security vehicles. It is on track to complete the installation programme by the end of 2015 and is coordinating with its IT organisation for full automation and other system enhancements.
During the course of the year, Saudi Aramco held several safety-related campaigns and workshops in company locations across the kingdom. They ranged in subject and emphasis from traffic, home, and bicycle safety to hydrogen sulphide safety and fire drills. Saudi Aramco contracts with many companies to provide services and it expects them to take safety as seriously as it does and to abide by its stringent safety standards at all times.
Saudi Aramco helped improve its local contractors' safety competency through its 2014 launch of the Contractor Safety Administrative Requirements Workshop series. The workshop is a 'train the trainer' engagement focused on giving company organisations that regularly interface with contracting companies the ability to train their personnel in Saudi Aramco safety standards and protocols. The company conducted roughly 75 workshops in 2014, amplifying its safety training and helping to raise safety standards in the wider contracting sector.
As its business activities and operations grow in scale and complexity, Saudi Aramco continues to adhere to the legal and ethical standards that are the bedrock of its reputation for integrity. Saudi Aramco goes beyond simple compliance by setting a higher standard of behaviour for its employees and its partners that it wishes to inspire in its communities.
For it, corporate integrity is born out of personal integrity. The company's standards and models of integrity flow from its fully engaged Board of Directors whose members possess a wealth of diverse experiences and future-oriented mindsets.
The company's board challenges management to adhere to the highest personal and professional standards and through the corporate audit process, set in place and monitored by the board, ensures an independent, confidential, and robust review and reporting channel. Its Business Conduct Handbook summarises the standards that enable employees to preserve and build on its proud ethical legacy by outlining the company's policies on conflict of interest, financial integrity, intellectual property management, workplace harassment, fair practices, safety, health, and the environment.
It reaffirms the guiding principles by which Saudi Aramco have achieved its success. Every employee reviews its Conflict of Interest and Business Ethics Policies on a regular basis. This ensures its ethics policies are continuously reinforced for use in real-life applications. Any ethics concerns from its employees or third parties can be clarified through its established communication and reporting channels. In addition, a General Auditor Hotline is available to provide a secure and confidential venue for people inside and outside the company to report suspected fraud, unethical conduct, or irregularities.
Saudi Aramco holds employees to a high level of ethical conduct and expects the same of its suppliers. Its Supplier Code of Conduct outlines mandatory policies on environmental, health and safety issues, fair trade practices, ethical sourcing, conflicts of interest, bribery, kickbacks, gifts and fraud, monitoring, and compliance. Saudi Aramco's Supplier Code of Conduct helps promote ethics across the kingdom's private sector and assures its suppliers that the firm holds itself to those same standards.


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I've got Altaro running in my home lab and decided to upgrade recently to the newest version. I wanted to highlight a few updates regarding version 8!
The interface is still the same for the most part. It's easy to understand, and intuitive.
My friend, Andy Syrewicze over at Altaro has a great What's New video:
Drastically reduce RTO.
"WAN-Optimized Replication allows businesses to continue accessing and working in the case of damage to their on-premise servers. If their office building is hit by a hurricane and experiences flooding, for instance, they can continue working from their VMs that have been replicated to an offsite location," explained David Vella, CEO and co-founder of Altaro Software.
"As these are continually updated with changes, businesses using Altaro VM Backup can continue working without a glitch, with minimal to no data loss, and with an excellent recovery time objective, or RTO."
Centralized, multi-tenant view for MSPs.
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can now add replication services to their offering, with the ability to replicate customer data to the MSP's infrastructure. This way, if a customer site goes down, that customer can immediately access its VMs through the MSP's infrastructure and continue working.
With Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, MSPs can manage their customer accounts through a multi-tenant online console for greater ease, speed and efficiency, enabling them to provide their customers with a better, faster service.
You can check more information out on the Altaro page.


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Surrounded by Nature
Jackson County's largest campground nestled on 300 acres surrounded by woods and a private 400 acre lake. Sand hill cranes, deer, swan and other wildlife are often seen at the campground.
Jump for joy on the giant, jumping pillow!
Campers of all ages, jump for joy on the giant, jumping pillow at Greenwood Acres Family Campground.
Climbing on the Tank
All ages enjoy exploring the old, retired military tank, which is unique to Greenwood Acres Family Campground.
Overnight camping at the water's edge.
Beautiful lake front view only $55 per night (add $5 for holiday). This site can accommodate tents, pop ups and up to 28' trailers. Enjoy a water front site on lot 13 or 14 on Canal Street.
Family Size Pavilion at the Rec. Center
The Magic Bus Band was groovin' Greenwood Acres Family Campground two years in a row. Each year we had a full house as we grooved to the 1960's era at the rec. center family pavilion. Another FREE amenity with your paid camping.
Returning from Fishing Goose Lake
Fishing buddies returning from a great day of fishing and camaraderie!
Pony Rides
Camper kids enjoyed Chamberlin Pony Rides (9/28/19) as another FREE amenity with your camping at Greenwood Acres Family Campground.
Campers enjoy cornhole toss at the campground. Watch for the 2020 calendar to reveal the cornhole tournament dates.
Local Attractions
Enjoy basketball, tennis, shuffle board and pickle ball on the new, improved courts. Please refrain from riding your bicycles on the courts.
Greenwood Acres is Jackson County's largest Family Campground and RV Park with over 1,000 sites on 300 acres nestled in a wooded setting featuring a mile of frontage on Goose Lake. Relax at our sandy beach or enjoy fishing on the lake where the maximum speed is 5 mph.
Our lots all have water and electric; many lots have sewer hook ups too. We also have pull thru sites to welcome RV travelers. We have a dump station, modern bathrooms, laundry facility, propane, wood, a store, a café, a recreation center, pavilions and meeting rooms to accommodate weekly campers and weekend visitors, as well as, our seasonal campers. We are pet friendly and have special parking for motorcycles as they are prohibited within the campground.
You can enjoy an Olympic size swimming pool, free 9-hole golf course, mini-golf, vintage carousel, playgrounds, jumping pillow, shuffleboard, tennis, basketball courts, horseshoes; even an old, retired military tank to explore! Golf cart rentals are available too.
Themed weekends, dances, bands, planned activities. We have our own spectacular fireworks during the Fourth of July weekend. Fun, fall festivities including Halloween trick or treating, hayrides and more each week during October.
We are located seven miles east of Jackson and are only 20 miles north of Michigan International Speedway. When on I-94 westbound, take exit 147 or if eastbound, take exit 145.


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Words By: Liz Walker, East Coast Liv Event Specialist
Photos By: Allan Mueller
I can't sleep – the excitement and anxiety of the largest single-day event I've organized as a Liv demo driver has got the best of me.
The women's cycling community of Western North Carolina has completely blindsided me with their enthusiastic support of the "Liv Pisgah Takeover No Drop Group Ride" and I've spent the last 10 days pulling together resources to make this event the best ever. Tomorrow will be the day.
The scrambling led me right up to 11:30 p.m., when a small crew of Liv Ambassadors stuffed 70 water bottles with Liv swag and I set the timer on tomorrow's coffee.
Heading to bed shortly before midnight, my mind keeps running through the next day's events, crossing the "T's" and dotting the "I's" one last time, and then again, without stop.
Less than six hours later the alarm goes off. It's cold outside, which I expected. I bundle up and slip out the door with Raider the dog. I pull into the empty parking lot in front of The Hub and Pisgah Tavern and mentally lay out my set-up plans.
I've been driving the East Coast Liv demo rig for almost three years, so set-up has become ritualistic. I use this solo time to focus on the plan and get in the zone. I had purposely arrived at The Hub an hour earlier than I'd told anyone I would just for this moment of clarity.
The weather forecast is concerning: differing models all pointed toward potentially cold, wet conditions, and this could affect our turn-out. But the forecasted 70% chance of rain has dissipated overnight, and aside from the occasional drizzle, the weather looks to be on our side.
It's 9:45 a.m., and we have a small stream of shivering, excited women flowing into the parking lot. Over the next hour and a half, nearly 60 female riders gather to tackle one of five different routes in Pisgah National Forest.
We have riders not only from Western North Carolina, but also from Raleigh, Charlotte, and parts of Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Bundled and brave, these women are pumped (and nervous!) to tackle some challenging trails. There are no true beginner trails in Pisgah – the area is known for its steep, rocky, and rooty terrain, and on such a day, the roots and rocks might be slick.
As I meet each rider, some confide that the Takeover would be their first time riding in Pisgah but they felt comfortable—even with the weather—because they would be riding with knowledgeable ride leaders and skills coaches in a welcoming environment.
By 11:15 a.m. each group has departed, one by one, and I take a huge sigh of relief. It's done. They're out there. I cross my fingers that there are no injuries or mechanicals. All that's left is the party!
A couple volunteers stay back with me to move our set-up from the parking lot to the back porch of The Hub and Pisgah Tavern. We lay out a cornucopia of raffle items, swag, snacks, and beer cups.
Hours pass and one by one the groups return, full of smiles and high fives. Appropriately-named Rocket Girl Lager (Asheville Brewing Company) is free-flowing and the Mobile Global Bistro food truck is a hub of activity. Riders take advantage of their last chance to donate to SORBA by purchasing additional raffle tickets and the special edition Liv Paradisa hat.
The Tavern slowly fills up with women sharing their trail success stories, and warming their bodies and souls in fellowship with other female riders. I hear "Wooos!" and "Yeahs!" and "We sessioned it until I got it!" There are laughs and camaraderie, beer and stories, late into the evening.
The Liv Pisgah Takeover wasn't successful because 60 women showed up to ride on a cold, dreary, authentically-Pisgah day. It was successful because we curated an experience that brought together a large community of women, encouraged them to struggle, coached them to thrive, and provided them with the opportunity to build new friendships within their cycling community, which, at her core, is what Liv is all about.
To view the full photo gallery and download and share your favorites, visit https://almphoto.smugmug.com/Bicycle/Liv-2018/Liv-Social-Media
Keep the photo album going! Tag #HowWeLiv and #LivPisgahTakeover


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Forms, Policies & Procedures
Here you will find a repository of forms, policies and procedures related to research at the University of Delaware. This repository draws on sources throughout campus to provide quick and easy access to these resources in a variety of formats, such as html, MSWord and Adobe PDF. We encourage you to explore and use the tools provided to narrow your search by word, resource type or category in order to learn more about the content that governs research at UD.
Animal Subjects in Research
For Forms, Policies and Procedures pertaining to Animal Subjects in Research and other resources
Conflict of Interest
Contracts and Grant Management
Effort Certification
Export Regulations (ITAR/EAR/OFAC)
Human Subjects in Research
Intellectual Property
Internal Funding
Material Transfer
Reporting Misconduct
Research Administration
Research Agreement Templates
External Sponsorship and Grant
To insure that acceptance of external grants by faculty members does not create unforeseen and unrealized financial burdens for the University.
- It is important that the long-range implications of the acceptance by the University of any external grant be carefully considered. In the past, the University has sometimes found itself in a position where the acceptance of these grants has resulted in serious budgetary commitments which extended far above and beyond the grant income. This has been particularly true in the case of federal, departmental, or program developmental grants which have involved continuing financial commitments for staff, equipment, and other items.
- In order that the acceptance of such grants will not create financial burdens on the University, unforeseen and not realized, such grant applications must be reviewed to insure the following:
- That there be no statement in the grant application which will obligate the University to maintain personnel levels or to sustain budgets at any prescribed figure beyond the date of the grant unless specifically approved by the Provost.That the budget approved for the period of the grant be adhered to and that funds earmarked for one-time expenditures for equipment, facilities, visiting professors, or short-time appointments not be transferred into continuing or tenured positions or continuing demands for supplies and equipment except through the allocation of positions from appropriate accounts or from regular operating funds.
- That the budget of the grant show clearly that the expenditures will decrease at the expiration of the grant or that the decisions are made previously considering operating funds earmarked for future obligations.
- That all such grants carry a statement similar to that in long-term government contracts indicating the continuation of support is contingent on available funds and a decision of the University to continue such programs.
- It is important that all signatories to these grant applications be aware of the potential problems and assure themselves that the University is not inadvertently committed to the programs unless such decisions are consciously made.
- Externally sponsored proposals and awards may now be approved in accordance with the following schedule when 100% of any required funding is available and there are no exceptions to University policies:
|Principal Investigator (P.I.), Chairperson, and Research Office
|Up to $500,000
|P.I., Chairperson, Dean, and Research Office
|Up to $1,000,000
|P.I., Chairperson, Dean, Research Office, and Provost
|Up to $2,000,000
|P.I., Chairperson, Dean, Research Office, Provost, and President
|Over $2,000,000
All proposals that include a waiver of indirect costs must be signed by the Dean or their designee.
|P.I., Research Office
|Up to $1,000,000
|P.I., Research Office, and Provost
|Up to $2,000,000
|P.I., Research Office, and President
|Over $2,000,000
ALL proposals and awards with the exception of those that fall within the limits of delegated authority must be approved and signed by the Vice Provost for Research or his or her designee.
Related Links
General Counsel Page for this Policy
Policy Details:
OWNER: Provost
SECTION: Research, Sponsored Program, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Policies
RESPONSIBLE OFFICE: UD Research Office
POLICY NUMBER (Legacy): 6-03
ORIGINATION DATE: April 15, 1975
REVISION DATE(S): September 26, 1990; January 22, 1997; January 18, 2008; August 6, 2008


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Oceanfront Luxury Private Home/villa, on Winding Bay, Eleuthera
- Villa288 m²
- Sleeps: 6
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 4
- Min Stay: 7–14 nights
3BR/4BA 2-story Private Beachfront Estate
Property Manager
Darby Harris
- Languages:
- english
About Darby Harris
The owners, Marty and Lynnie Erbaugh, built this beautiful home in 1991 after travelling to Eleuthera for over 25 years. With the help of an acclaimed Bahamian architect, they built a home and retreat they can enjoy with family and friends as well as a place to welcome others. Their three daughters grew up on the bay shelling, playing in the waves and building sandcastles and now they are bringing their children down to experience the beauty and adventures that Eleuthera has to offer. This home has hosted guests from all over the world for the past 15 years and many people continue to come back after their first visit, falling in love like Marty and Lynnie did so many years ago. Marty and Lynnie, and now Marty's daughters, have extensive knowledge about the island and how to make the island experience perfect for you. In fact, one of Marty's daughters got married down on Eleuthera, welcoming 90 guests! We know restaurants, beaches, off the beaten path places to see and more. We can assist with car rental and air fare as well. For all of our guests, we provide a detailed write up that can help you plan your trip. We can't wait to talk to you about Point o'Vue! We love to share stories and hear from all of our guests as everyone who visits has become like family.
Why Darby Harris chose Tarpum Bay
Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Winding Bay is a 2 1/2 mile stretch of beach at the south central point of Eleuthera Island. Winding Bay is protected by Joseph's Cay, which guests will see from the veranda stretching far to the right. Winding Bay is perfect for beach strolls, shelling, snorkeling and diving. A small reef resides inside the bay where you will see small fish, star fish, a manta ray and if lucky, you will see sea turtles.
What makes this Villa unique
In front of the house down at the beach there is a cabana for you to enjoy with a table for picnics or afternoon drinks. If you would like more protection from the Atlantic breezes, you can walk or drive around the bay to "Richard's Beach" for a picnic. Richard's Beach is directly across from the house when looking out onto the bay from the veranda. Visitors can also walk past Joseph's Cay and explore the beaches that lead to the entrance to Half Sound. Our family has enjoyed picnics, kayaking, water skiing and shelling in this incredibly beautiful body of water.
- Internet
- Air Conditioning
- Satellite or cable
- Washer & Dryer
- Children Welcome
- No Smoking
- Bathrooms: 4
Location Type
- beach
- waterfront
- BeachfrontThe home is nestled among casuarina trees and palms to open up onto 2 miles of pink sand beach and the shallow blue-green waters of Winding Bay, Eleuthera.
- Telephone
- Air conditioning
- Linens provided
- Washing machine
- Clothes dryer
- InternetWifi
- Towels provided
- Wireless Internet
- Iron & board
- Toilet roll
- Dishwasher
- Fridge
- Hob
- Oven
- Microwave
- Grill
- Coffee maker
- Toaster
- Blender
- Ice maker
- Lobster pot
- Dining area
- DiningGuests can dine indoors or outdoors on patio overlooking the bay.
- Television
- Satellite / Cable TV
- Stereo
- DVD player
- Books
- Games
- Music library
- Video library
- Balcony
- Kayak / canoe2 kayaks, 2 paddleboards
- Deck chairs
- Beach towels
- Long-term renters welcome
Onsite Services
- Housekeeper included
House Rules
Children allowed
No pets
No smoking
Max guests: 6
Cancellation Policy
100% refund if canceled at least 60 days before arrival date.
6 Reviews
Special place!
Special place , perfect getaway for anyone who wants to enjoy the natural beauty of the island. The house is very comfortable and open.
we couldn't have asked for nicer people to work with.
Thank you!
Perfect family vacation spot
We loved everything about this sweet pink house and the people who helped make our family vacation so memorable. The owners were extremely helpful and responsive to our questions. The house is very comfortable, clean, and spacious and is thoughtfully appointed with everything you need - from fresh flowers and comfy furniture indoors and out, to board games and all the necessary kitchen amenitites. The location on Winding Bay beach is a beautiful and peaceful long arc of blue water and pink sand. We saw only a few other people on the beach during our week-long stay. We arrived on a Sunday so the housekeeper, Tessa, helped us stock the kitchen with a few starter groceries. Eleuthera is a gem of an island and we were so impressed by its quiet beauty, kind people, and rustic charm. We rented a car from Columbus so we could explore spectacular beaches on both sides of the island and the lovely little towns. Grocery shopping is a bit of an adventure, but the Market in Rock Sound has most essentials and we enjoyed the quest to find local produce and bread, and fresh fish from the dock in Tarpum Bay. We also ate very well at several local restaurants and at the Governor's Harbour fish fry- don't miss it!
Secluded beach front home
My wife and I and two sisters and their husbands stayed at this property in late April and had a wonderful time. Although there are homes on each side of this home, you cannot see them because of the awesome landscaping. The views of the ocean are hard to beat. We had one issue with an air conditioning unit but they came out and replaced the unit right away. The housekeeper, Tessa, was wonderful and cooked us a great dinner. We would stay at this home again. Great experience as we were there for our son's wedding. Cheers
Thanks for this review and we're glad you had a great holiday and wedding!
4 Couples now in love with Eleuthera and POV!
Marty and his team have done a great job with this property. Everything from the landscaping which strategically blocks the sun but not the view, the 2 porches so you can always have a cool shady place to rest, to the 3 outside showers, and enough stuff to make everyone happy at the gorgeous beach. Winding Bay is perfect! Beautiful soft sand, clear and calm water, and lots to explore. We met most of his team and have nothing but good things to say. They took great care to exceed all our wants. This is very close to Paradise.
Our family appreciates these kind remarks and it was a pleasure to work with Mark. We love our home and the unique environment and beauty of Winding Bay. It's a joy to share Point o' Vue with others and have them experience the magic of the place as we have for over twenty years. Marty, Lynnie, Darby, Lindsay, Cal and Todd.
Paradise exists
Having visited Eleuthera many times in the past 20 years, I'm always amazed at how this magic island remains a paradise stuck in time. This property, Pointe o' View, adds to the entire experience of Eleuthera with a great housekeeper, a knowledgeable property manager, and a spectacular owner who takes pride in keeping his rental property in excellent condition. The central and southern parts of the island are spectacular and POV acts as a great headquarters for adventure. POV's beach on Winding Bay has plenty to do by itself and the towns of Rock Sound and Tarpum Bay are a short drive away. The most amazing beach in the world, Lighthouse Beach at the southern tip of the island, is just 45 minutes away. You can't go wrong with POV.
Spring Break at Point O Vue
Our family (my husband and I and two children, ages 13 and 9) and another couple stayed at Point O Vue the week of April 16th. The house was very clean and comfortable. The kitchen was extremely well stocked as were the towels for the beach and bathrooms. The view from the house to the ocean was extraordinary. The beach was nice, but there is a lot of seaweed. Our favorite part of the week was our trip to Lighthouse Beach. Absolutely stunning and worth the bumpy ride to get there. Lobster was out of season :( but we enjoyed the grouper and the conch. There is definitely not any nightlife on the island, but we were too tired at the end of the day anyway. Had a breeze the entire time and didn't have to turn the AC on once. Thanks Marty and Linnie for letting us use your wonderful Eleuthera home. We'll be back:)
We are so glad you enjoyed your stay at Point O' Vue and your visit to Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. We love sharing our home with guests and the out island experience. We'd love to have you back. Thanks!


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Vita-Min Sport (60 caps)
OLIMP Vita-Min Multiple Sport™ is a complex composition of vitamins, with supplemental herbal extracts (Vita-Plex Sport®) and the highest quality easily absorbable minerals in the form of amino acid chelates, licenced by ALBION company (Chela-Min Sport®). Such a combination facilitates the coverage of the basic requirements of essential nutrients for the body under intense physical stress. For an athlete's body, food is primarily the source of building materials (proteins) and energy (sugars and fats). Nevertheless, in addition to these three basic nutrients, we find the whole range of other micronutrients in food - vitamins, minerals and substances with a vitamin-like action - which are necessary in small quantities for the normal functioning of all vital processes, especially those associated with adaptation to physical exertion and development of sporting performance. Chelating minerals is the very important process of binding metallic elements by weak organic acids, e.g. amino acids, enabling successful absorption of elements from the gastrointestinal tract and their distribution to the vital processes in which they participate. Minerals from simple inorganic compounds are basically non-absorbable, and are absorbed only to the extent they are able to form chelates with components of concomitantly consumed food. In view of the above, the Chela-Min Sport® formula of Vita-min multiple Sport™ contains minerals in the form of amino acid chelates produced by the leader in the market of pharmaceutical raw materials - the American company – Albion®.
Scientific research shows that when systematically used in supplementation of the sport diet:
- vitamins and minerals facilitate the development of functional capacity,
- citrus bioflavonoids eliminate free radicals and strengthen the antioxidant effect of vitamin C,
- polyphenols from green tea (incl. EGCG) are natural antioxidants and have a positive impact as an slimming aid,
- cynarines from artichoke may support the normal functioning of the liver, enabling the appropriate use of structural and energy-delivering nutrients,
- polyphenols and phytosterols from pumpkin seed and nettle extracts may support the functioning of the hormonal system associated with the mechanisms of adaptation to physical exertion,
- alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) may support liver function, facilitate penetration of energy components into the muscular tissue and their metabolism with obtaining useful energy,
- piperine (Bioperine®) from black pepper extract facilitates gastrointestinal absorption of all nutrients, including active ingredients of the product.
The product is intended for those who are very physically active, especially for competitive sportsmen.
Recommended use: 1 capsule of VITA–PLEX SPORT® and 1 capsule of CHELA-MIN SPORT® once daily after the main meal, drinking with large amount of water. The product is recommended to adults. Keep out of reach of children. Do not exceed the recommended daily dose. Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet. A varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle are recommended. Not suitable for pregnant, lactating women and children. Do not use other vitamin preparations at the same time you are using this product!