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Seamus Coleman has been one of the star turns in what has been an up and down season for the Blues so far. His speed, fearless approach and raw ability have been refreshing to watch and has led David Moyes to propose that the Irishman can have the same impact for us as Gareth Bale has done for Spurs, which is some praise considering Bale is held up as the benchmark for young wide players in the Premier League. This article will assess his performance this season and will look to where he fits in with Everton's future setup and also analyse if the stats support Moyes' comparison between Coleman and Bale.
Coleman's stats summary this season…….
Coleman is statistically our best tackler this season with a completion rate of 90%. His pass completion rate is an impressive 78% although his shooting requires some improvement, currently only accurate with 1 in 3 shots. His ability to take players on has been a key component to his success, with an impressive 62% success rate of beating his marker and 33% of his crosses have been completed successfully, with a classic example of both being the below mazy run and cross against Liverpool to setup Cahill's opening goal.
Positional Debate
With old fashioned wingers now few and far between there is a strong argument in modern day football that full backs are the most important position in the team in terms of providing width and the impact they have on matches. Seamus Coleman possesses the key attributes for this type of role in that he has speed, great stamina, excellent man marking capability and is incredibly sharp in the tackle
I have made the point on this blog in the past that Moyes has a preference for wide players to tuck inside (like Pienaar,Arteta, Billy) to enable the fullback to get up the flank and create an extra man in midfield (like Baines does week in week out). Playing right wing, Coleman doesn't really fit into this model because he likes to hug the touchline due to him being a born and bred fullback.
Coleman is doing a fantastic job for the team this year and his speed, penetration and direct approach are qualities that we don't have in abundance in the current squad. Pace is such a key variable in the modern game and with Coleman in our midfield it is noticeable that defenders will stand off more and hold a deeper defensive line to prevent the threat in behind. This in turn creates more space on the field for us to exploit.
The diagram shows Coleman's average position from a recent home and away game. The top diagram shows Coleman (circled blue) much more withdrawn than Billy (circled red) on the opposite flank. The below diagram shows his and Billy's average positions against Arsenal with Coleman clearly further forward and almost level with Saha. This has been a trend in many games this term where Coleman's pace has been better utilized more in away games were home defenders will push up more leaving space in behind which is perhaps why out of Coleman's 5 goals in all competitions, 4 have come on our travels.
Being a good defender and the combination he and Neville have down the right flank gives us great balance to our more offensive left side. The pair have combined greatly and subdued arguably the top 3 marauding left backs in the league this campaign (Bale, Evra & Ashley Cole) is credit to them. Indeed, of the 34 of goals we ship from the right side is just 23% have had their origin down our right side
Coleman v Bale Statistical Comparison – Premier League Games Only
Coleman v Bale
There are definitely comparisons which can be drawn between both of these all action players. Both are comfortable as full backs but are currently deployed as wingers for their clubs. Also, unlike the modern trend to play wingers on the opposite wing cutting in on their preferred foot (e.g. Ashley Young for Aston Villa) they both play on their strongest footing side, Bale on the left and Coleman on the right.
For me, Seamus Coleman has much better defensive attributes than Bale. If you look at Coleman's tackling stats (90% completion) you can see he is a natural stopper and loves to tackle. Coleman has also shown in his man marking assignments this campaign (notably on Ashley Cole at Stamford Bridge) that he is adept in tracking and nullifying opponents.
Bale is more composed and has a better chance creation and shooting completion figure. Bale on average creates 1.7 Chances per game for an opponent whilst Coleman has a much lower figure of 0.8. I would say that Coleman is a real goal threat when it comes to instinct (4 of his 5 goals this campaign have been 1 touch finishes) but he can often show indecision when given too much time and space in the final third as happened in the second half of the Blackpool game at the weekend.
Both will often look to hit the touchline before delivering although Bale, like Leighton Baines, has a range of delivery which means he is capable of whipping/drilling balls from deeper positions. One thing which is interesting to note is that from combined they have put in164 crosses with only 41 reaching an opponent. Paul Gardner's recent article in World Soccer Magazine talked about how in modern football the cross into the box is something of a haphazard tactic with figures showing that it has limited success in terms of creating goals. He comments that other leagues such as La Liga have a significantly less emphasis on the cross as a way of creating a goal scoring opportunity, with the games he analysed showing 3 times less crosses in the Spanish games than in the Premier League.
The future
With our skipper Phil Neville perhaps having 1-2 years left as a pro I foresee Moyes increasingly looking to use Coleman in the right back slot. When he has been deployed here this season (albeit sparingly) he has shown that he can switch off (See below screen shot v Newcastle ) and also being caught up field against Brentford for their goal.
v Newcastle at Goodison earlier this season, SC switches off when in the right back role enabling Kevin Nolan to find space leading to SC bringing Nolan down which luckily for the Blues didn't result in a pen.
This occasional lack of awareness is something which is resolved through experience and playing in front of Phil Neville week in week out will unquestionably benefit the Irishman in terms of advice and guidance from the skipper on when to go and when to hold position.
If you look at the current composition of our squad, I would say our best central players are midfielders (Arteta, Rodwell, Fellaini) and our best wide players are defenders (Baines, Coleman). Therefore an approach similar to AC Milan's current 4-3-1-2 system could be deployed. The additional benefit of this approach would be to have 2 out and out strikers with Cahill in behind.


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"Alice in Wonderland" had more than Tim Burton and Johnny Depp propelling it to box office greatness -- it also owes a great bit of its box office success to the 3D mania started by "Avatar."
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Next Norwegian ship to have Rock of Ages musical
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Can't Buy Me Love (but you can get me that bag)! Stella McCartney turns 43 in style as she sits front row at husband's fashion show with legendary dad Paul
While most of us spend our birthdays preparing to hit the town with friends, Stella McCartney celebrated turning a year older in much more stylish surroundings.
The acclaimed designer decided to mark her 43rd birthday on Saturday in the way she feels most comfortable – at a star-studded fashion show.
The flame-haired style icon took up a seat on the front row of the Hunter Spring/Summer 15 runway presentation during London Fashion Week.
Turning older in style: Stella McCartney marked her 43rd birthday on the front row of the Hunter Originals Spring/Summer show on Saturday
But of course, no birthday is complete without being surrounded by your family – so it was a good job that Stella's dad, Beatles legend Paul McCartney, was sat nearby.
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Hey dad! The birthday girl had her famous father Paul McCartney by her side as they celebrated her turning a year older
Family affair: The designer joked with her step-mother Nancy Shevell as they waited for the show to start
FROW friends: A raft of famous people had turned out to see the brand's new collection, including (left to right) Anna Wintour, Chrissie Hynde, Rita Ora and Jamie Campbell Bower
Proud wife: The Hunter S/S 15 collection is the second Hunter runway show since Stella's husband Alasdhair Willis took over as creative director
After the show, the RIP hitmaker took to Instagram to wish Stella many happy returns, writing: 'Happy birthday you amazing lady. Rita f*$kin loves ya!'
Saturday wasn't only a big day for the birthday girl – it also marked Stella's husband Alasdhair Willis' second collection as creative director of the Hunter brand.
Most famous for its must-have wellington boots – a favourite among trendy festival-goers – the brand is focusing on creating further hype around its waterproof outerwear, bags and shoes.
Earned her stripes: Stella looked chic in a long striped maroon dress with wooden platform sandals
Treat: The style icon shared a snap of her birthday cake – including the spelling mistake in the icing
New pals: Sir Paul McCartney seemed to strike up a fast friendship with pop star Rita Ora
Mwah mwah! The RIP hitmaker uploaded a snap of her greeting Stella on Instagram, writing: 'Happy birthday you amazing lady. Rita f*$kin loves ya!'
Stella looked on in pride as a series of yellow and green waterproof designs were strutted down the runway by both female and male models.
Speaking to Grazia about wanting to take the brand in a new direction earlier this year, Alasdhair explained: 'I've restructured the architecture of the brand so Hunter Original is the start of a roll-out.
'It's for a younger customer and of course we know our history with festivals so it's much more playful, fun and easy.
'Hunter Field is launching in Spring Summer 2015 and that's much more technical so takes care of our more traditional customer.'
New vision: Alasdhair wants to take the Hunter brand – famous for its must-have wellies – in a new direction
Return of the mac: The show featured trendy outerwear, bags and shoes, all perfect for a wet and wild festival


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The Village of Montelovesco
The village of Montelovesco belongs to the municipality of Gubbio, in the province of Perugia, region Umbria.
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For the province of Perugia, to whom Montelovesco belongs, on 2020-07-01 are reported 1,008 cases. In the previos day there were 1,008 cases, thus having a variation of 0 cases, i.e. 0.00% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
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The village of Montelovesco is 17,72 kilometers far from the same town of Gubbio to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Gubbio also belong the localities of Belardello (8,93 km), Bellugello (14,77 km), Bellugello Biscina (16,06 km), Belvedere (15,31 km), Birello (2,51 km), Borgo Torre (12,09 km), Branca (15,06 km), Caibelli (12,47 km), Caicambiucci (11,70 km), Caimariotti (11,04 km), Camporeggiano (16,87 km), Canalecce (3,24 km), Carbonesca (15,23 km), Carestello (8,79 km), Carpiano (14,29 km), Casacce (16,30 km), Casamorcia (5,15 km), Casanova di Torre (11,75 km), Case Colle (13,20 km), Case Fontarcano (2,55 km), Case Mocaiana (8,25 km), Case Monteleto (7,81 km), Case Sant'Erasmo (6,15 km), Case Santa Maria Maddalena (3,30 km), Case sparse (-- km), Case Vignoli (11,23 km), Cima di San Benedetto Vecchio (12,86 km), Cima San Benedetto (1,13 km), Cipolleto (3,27 km), Colcelli (8,12 km), Colombara (10,36 km), Colonnata (8,18 km), Colpalombo (12,59 km), Corraduccio (17,21 km), Decima (16,45 km), Febino Casacce (16,07 km), Fontanelle (2,58 km), Fonte Cese (3,44 km), Fonte della Salsa (12,32 km), Ghigiano (10,11 km), Goregge (10,27 km), Intonacato Basso (9,67 km), Lastreto (13,43 km), Le Trosciacce (3,28 km), Loreto Basso (9,27 km), Madonna del Ponte (1,90 km), Mengara (9,64 km), Mocaiana (8,68 km), Molino di Camporeggiano (17,83 km), Montanaldo (9,83 km), Monteleto (7,51 km), Monteluiano (4,29 km), Morena (15,83 km), Murcie (10,34 km), Nerbisci (9,20 km), Nogna (13,64 km), Padule (5,72 km), Padule - San Marco (4,76 km), Palazzaccio (8,07 km), Petazzano (4,46 km), Petroia (14,30 km), Pian Grande (2,68 km), Piccola Piaggiola (6,21 km), Pieve di Agnano (-- km), Pisciano (12,73 km), Ponte d'Assi (5,08 km), Raggioli (9,49 km), Ritirata (9,77 km), Salia (11,89 km), Salia Parrocchia (11,89 km), San Bartolomeo (7,94 km), San Bartolomeo di Burano (8,05 km), San Benedetto Vecchio (15,02 km), San Cristoforo Basso (4,70 km), San Marco (4,27 km), San Martino in Colle (6,80 km), Sant'Ubaldo (1,38 km), Santa Cristina (4,81 km), Santa Margherita di Burano (8,29 km), Scritto (12,98 km), Semonte (2,74 km), Semonte - Casamorcia (5,14 km), Semonte Castello (4,04 km), Serrabrunamonti (13,70 km), Spaccio Monteluiano (5,64 km), Spada (8,62 km), Stazione di Camporeggiano (17,67 km), Stazione di Padule (6,80 km), Torre Calzolari (12,27 km), Torre dei Calzolari (11,77 km), Torre dell'Olmo (14,73 km), Valdichiascio (7,04 km), Vallingegno (11,01 km), Venata (1,71 km), Vignoli (11,27 km), Villamagna (5,62 km), Zangolo (11,33 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Gubbio.
Please notice that in what follows no statistic nor population data are available at the moment: the same are available for the Italian places having al least the status of municipalities ad for most of the villages too.
The distribution of the most commun family names is equally unavailable.
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- Weather and weather forecast for the municipality of Gubbio, to whom Montelovesco belongs.
- Hotels in Montelovesco and its surroundings.
- Free ads in Montelovesco and in its province and region too.
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Where to stay in Montelovesco and its neighborhoods
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You can arrange the results by number of stars, by popularity, by distance or even by the guest review score choosing among young couples, mature couples, families with young children, families with older children, people withfriends, or solo travellers.
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Just fill in the free text search box placed on top of the map with any of previous categories and then press enter.
Please feel free to use the same free text search box placed on top of the map to find any kind of business activities you're interested into.
Videos about Montelovesco Gubbio, Perugia, Umbria
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Where Have all the Nurses Gone?
Lack of health care professionals in schools affects students', teachers' performance.
By John Rosales
Nurses are so much in demand in today's job market that school nurse Marianne Capoziello cannot open her mailbox without finding recruitment letters from hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and health care employment agencies.
"I get recruitment offers all the time," says Capoziello, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) for 30 years and member of the Polk County Education Association in Florida. "But I love school nursing."
Health Services Director Irene Rosales visits a nurse station at a district high school where she interacts with students and nursing staff. Despite a growing need for nurses, nursing programs can't meet the demand due to a shortage of nursing instructors, classrooms, and clinical sites.
Hospitals are the most aggressive recruiters, offering to cover moving expenses along with cash signing bonuses and financial assistance with student loans. In 2007, hospitals had a vacancy rate of just over 8 percent, according to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN).
"The nursing shortage is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows," says Amy Garcia, NASN executive director. "The problem [for schools] appears to be a shortage of adequately funded positions for school nurses."
The average public school nurse cares for 1,151 students at 2.2 schools. About 25 percent of schools have no school nurse, partly because of funding. The average salary for a school nurse is $42,467, or between $33,929 and $53,622, according to a Certified Compensation Professionals' analysis done for Salary.com.
To measure the need for school nurses, districts try to maintain an appropriate ratio of school nurses to students. Ratios vary from state to state. Students in Vermont, for example, have one nurse per 275 students. In Utah it's one nurse per 4,893 students.
States like Alabama (one nurse per 936 students), Georgia (one per 1,734), and Tennessee (one per 1,415) have committed funds during the last 10 years to significantly improve the ratio of school nurses to students. But with their health on the line, it's vital that students have regular contact with a nurse.
Garcia says the increasing health needs of children suffering from asthma, obesity, diabetes, and substance abuse is escalating.
"School nurses struggle to make sure that all students can see, hear, and feel well enough to learn," she says.
K–12 schools aren't the only institutions suffering from a lack of nurses—universities are grappling with a shortage of instructors in their nursing programs.
"Most nursing schools have long waiting lists," Garcia says. "Students with excellent grades are routinely turned away for lack of [nursing school] teaching positions."
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, more than 30,000 qualified nursing school applicants were turned down last year primarily because of a faculty shortage. California currently has wait lists for nursing programs of over three years.
Insufficient clinical sites, classroom space, and budget constraints also hamper nursing programs. By the year 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration projects that more than
1 million new registered nurses (RNs) will be needed to meet demands for nursing care at schools and hospitals.
To address the nursing shortage, national organizations such as NASN and the National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses (NFLPN) work on state and federal government committees to supply research and written and oral testimony to legislatures and Congress. These efforts helped produce the Nurse Reinvestment Act, signed by President Bush in 2002. This initiative is intended to encourage people to enter and remain in nursing careers. The law establishes scholarships, loan repayments, public service announcements, retention grants, career ladders, and grants for nursing faculty.
Statewide initiatives are also under way. In Pennsylvania, for example, six new nursing education initiatives were announced to address faculty shortages by encouraging practicing nurses to return to school, earn graduate degrees, and teach nursing. Illinois is unveiling a plan to provide faculty scholarships and grants to nursing schools in order to expand student enrollment.
"We need to develop more nurse educators," says Ottamissiah Moore, an executive board member with NFLPN. "LPNs are helping with the shortage of RNs by returning to school for additional training."
California is trying to expand nursing education through a $90 million initiative.
To bolster interest in a nursing career, two national media campaigns have been launched by Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow, a coalition of 44 health care organizations. The campaigns are aimed at raising interest in nursing careers among middle and high school students.
But for now, schools are still left to deal with their own lack of nursing staff, even as the need for school nurses continues to grow.
At the United Independent School District (UISD) in Laredo, Texas, the nurse-student ratio is one to 800. The district's 40,000 students and 6,000 employees are served by 45 RNs (with five vacancies), eight licensed vocational nurses (LVN), and 17 health assistants (with six vacancies).
"I wish it would change to 500 students per nurse," says Irene Rosales, health services director. "Some areas have one RN for two or three schools."
The district's largest campus, United High School, has 3,300 students who are served by two RNs, one LVN, and one health technician.
In addition to assessing student health status and making referrals, identifying vision and hearing problems, administering medication and vaccines, and delivering emergency care, nurses also manage insulin pumps, check blood sugars, insert tubes, suction children on ventilators, and counsel pregnant teens.
At UISD, school nurses also teach first aid classes to teachers, conduct drug assessment exams on students believed to be under the influence of drugs, weigh and measure the body mass index of every student from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, and conduct health-related classes for students and parents.
"People think we sit behind a desk and that's it," says Rosales, an RN who worked at schools for 16 years before becoming a director in 2006. "It's not like that at all."
This false impression about school nursing has partly contributed to the shortage.
"They quit on me when they find out that this is not all fun," she says. "You have to want to be a school nurse."
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Nursing Categories
The National Education Association (NEA) passed a resolution regarding school nurses during the 2002 Representative Assembly. Resolution F-45 states: "The NEA urges its affiliates to enroll school nurses in active membership and to seek legislation that provides licensure/certification and inclusion in collective bargaining agreements. The Association believes that professional development programs should be available to all licensed/certified school nurses to augment their skills in delivering health care services and in dealing with students with disabilities."
Nurses who fall into some of the following categories are employed in school settings.


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Creating and reading QR codes
With the right tools, you can create your own QR code squares with information you want to share, for example, on a business card, in a letter, or on your website.
Read errors of unreliable, one-dimensional bar codes often caused interruptions in industrial production, prompting companies like Toyota and its subsidiary Denso Wave to develop as early as 1994 a new code for acquiring stock data. The new matrix bar code was designed to store more information than the traditional bar code and to stay legible, even if the label was dirty, wrinkled, or partially destroyed.
The quick response code, or QR code, comprises a matrix of square dots instead of the usual lines. Measuring up to 177 by 177 dots, the QR code encodes up to 4,296 characters, compared with a bar code that encodes just 13.
Thanks to numerous free reader apps for smartphones, QR codes have gained in popularity in recent years. Posters, catalogs, magazines, business cards, and even television screens display the small squares, offering additional information or URLs for microsites.
Data Grabber
If you want to encode your address into a QR code for a business card, you could try one of the many services on the Internet. However, restrictions typically apply. For example, some services allow only QR codes in a certain size or in limited quantities. Also, you never know for sure, what the services do with your data. For example, some sites explicitly allow sharing and selling the data to third parties in their terms of use, more or less pre-programming an increase in junk mail in the future. Fortunately, several QR code tools can help you avoid these problems in Linux.
On My Mark!
The quickest way to create a QR code is with the Qrencode [1] command-line utility. Any major distribution can install Qrencode via the package manager. The following command then creates a QR code containing the text "Hello World!" (Figure 1):
$ qrencode -o qrcode.png 'Hello World!'
The generated QR code ends up in the
qrcode.png file. If the file already exists, it's overwritten without prompting. If you have at least version 3.3.0 (
qrencode -V), Qrencode can generate an EPS graphic,
$ qrencode -t EPS -o qrcode.eps 'Hello World!'
or ASCII output (Figure 2). In the QR code image, the software creates a white border the width of one dot. This facilitates the process of deciphering the code for programs or the smartphone later on. If desirable, you can increase or decrease the edge with the
-m parameter; in the following example the border width would be 10 code pixels:
$ qrencode -m 10 -o qrcode.png 'Hello World!'
If you are saving the QR code in PNG format, the
-s parameter specifies the height of a black QR code pixel. By default, Qrencode draws every black dot three by three pixels. The program creates a slightly smaller QR code with quite a wide margin with the following command:
$ qrencode -s 2 -m 10 -o qrcode.png 'Hello World!'
A white border appears around the QR code that is exactly 20 screen pixels wide (10 QR code dots in width, with each dot two pixels). If you are creating EPS images, the only parameter available is
-s moves the entire QR code out of the image in this case. To control the resolution of PNGs further, use the
-d parameter to define the dpi.
Besides the specified data, the QR code contains additional error correction information. If a portion of the image is damaged, it allows you to reconstruct the missing or illegible data. The more additional information the QR code contains, the more heavily damaged it can be without becoming useless.
Increasing the error tolerance increases the size of the image because you need more black dots (Figure 3). The QR code standard thus uses four levels of error correction:
H level allows you to read all data if 30 percent of the QR code is destroyed,
Q level if 25 percent is unreadable, and
M level if just 15 percent is unintelligible. At the lowest level,
L, only 7 percent of the data can be faulty. In Qrencode, the
-l parameter selects the error correction level. The possible values are pretty much what you would expect:
Q, and
The level you choose depends on the proposed use. If you expect the QR code to be exposed to external influences (e.g., wind, weather, graffiti) or if you are planning to manipulate the image deliberately (see the "Intruders" box), you will want the highest level,
H. On a business card, the lowest level,
L, is sufficient. If in doubt, simply omit the
-l parameter. The program then uses level
L by default.
QR codes are quite robust against destructive behavior, which allows you put a logo or image in the middle. If the "foreign body" is small enough, the code still works, and it looks pretty, too.
None of the generators available for Linux can add images like this, however, which only leaves you with the option of switching to a web service or editing the image in another application. In the latter case, you will want to create the QR code with error correction level H as a precaution and then check that it works with a smartphone.
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Accreditation & Mission
Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. means our programs meet or exceed the standards for academic excellence set for every public and private college in a 19-state region. The colleges are approved by the Iowa Department of Education and the Board of Regents. Individual programs are accredited by associations within their respective fields.
EICC is accredited by the Iowa Department of Education, which also has approved all of its academic programs. A comprehensive visit by the Iowa Department of Education is scheduled for the 2019-江苏快3遗漏 academic year.
Mission Statement
Deliver high-quality education and training that prepares a skilled workforce, provides affordable access to higher education, and builds and strengthens our communities.
Quality Vision
Be the first choice for education, training and partnerships that strengthens Eastern Iowa.
Statement of Ethical Values
EICC is guided by the belief that a cohesive and productive community is one of shared values and practices. Hence, the following core values and ethical principles are designed to assist us in making decisions and determining appropriate courses of action:
Human Well-Being and Safety:EICC employees value and protect each other from harm by fostering an environment that is safe and peaceful for all employees, students and visitors.
Human Dignity:EICC employees respect the human dignity of all individuals with courtesy and sensitivity.
Honesty and Trustworthiness:EICC employees use resources, personnel and assets for furthering the mission of the District only and not for personal gain.
Consistency and Harmony of Interests:EICC employees avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts.
Justice and Fairness:EICC employees treat everyone equally, justly, and fairly.
Authenticity or True Self-Identification:EICC employees identify their personal views and actions as private citizens from those expressed or undertaken as institutional representatives.
Freedom of Expression:EICC employees freely express themselves and recognize the freedom of others to do the same.
Integrity:EICC employees are conscientious with regard to their words, actions, intent, and relationships and the impact of their behavior on others.
Professionalism:EICC employees are professional in the discharge of their duties and promote personal and student development.
Sustainability:EICC employees strive to conduct our activities in an ecologically sound, socially just and economically viable way to maintain and enhance a healthy planet for humans and other species.


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So many changes I can't even go into it. :)
Open link in new window/tab now works from the context menu.
Add support for middle clicking to open links in new window.
Fix chimera build bustage. You'll need to update to current trunk of mozilla now. Sigh.
Working on option-clickto save a link.
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based on what you said it might've been that you had low enough expectations to let yourself become surprised, which is a good strategy.
on the tier just below his first three movies, which by my estimation will always be the best work he'll ever do. i'd love for him to prove me wrong.


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This kit allows you to build either of two robots controlled by a BASIC Stamp 2SX compatible module. The heart of the kit is the StampBox board with an i-Stamp module. Manuals and software are included to guide you through the building and PBASIC programming process, providing a hands-on learning experience.
The robots you can build are the wheeled, free-range or remote-controlled iZEBOT, and the tracked, line-tracing or compass-guided RoboTank (compass not included).


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We had a crazy thunder and lightening storm sweep through yesterday afternoon just as I was getting off of work. The rain was coming down so hard that the drive home was actually a bit nerve wracking. Luckily, as fierce as the storm was it blew itself out after just a couple of hours so I didn't have to get soaked taking pup-pup for his walk. :)
Maybe it was the grey skies that had me toning down the color palette on this card or maybe it was just wanting to pull out the What's Up papers from Basic Grey. It's another line with an interesting color combo going on but it's growing on me. I do have one disappointment with it though... see that cloudy sky paper behind Fairy Glenn Charlotte? Basic Grey didn't include that print in the 6x6 paper pad and I was so looking forward to having it in a more scaled down version for my cards. Le sigh, le pout, le boo-hoo. Oh well, at least I had the big 12x12 sheet to play with. And Charlotte does seem right at home in her slightly over cast sky.
It's time for me to go get ready for the day now. So much to do, so much to do.
Catch ya later my crafty peeps! :)
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Contrary to popular belief, bouquets of flowers and fresh blooms remain fresh and lively for longer than a few days but only with a little care and nurturing. By following a few simple steps and guidelines, you can ensure that this thoughtful but fragile gift stays fresh for many days to come, constantly reminding you of the senderãs kind, generous, thoughtful or amorous intentions.
Watering the freshly arrived blossoms
The best practise to care for your newly arrived present is to transfer them to a vase as soon as possible. All floral treats come with their own floral foam which is pre-treated with water. However, when you transfer it to a vase, it is important to ensure that you keep the water levels as high as possible. This will ensure that the flowers will stay fresh for longer.
Placement of the floral treats
When finding the perfect spot to display the beautiful floral arrangement you have just received, make sure you choose a spot that is cool and away from direct sunlight. This will let them stay fresh longer as they will not meet too many temperature differences. Also, avoid keeping the flowers directly under fans or air conditioning or near heaters as this will dehydrate the stems and cause them to wilt faster.
Daily Care
Watering the flowers once and leaving them to take their natural course is not going to help you help them last long. If the sender has taken so much trouble to send you such a thoughtful and beautiful present, it is only fair that you take five minutes of your daily routine to check in on these beauties. Provide fresh water of the flowers daily so as to get rid of any residue or build-up. This will not clog the stems and keep the flow of fresh water right to the petals. Of course, as time passes, the flower will have consumed its natural minerals and will need external sources of nourishment. If the petals seem to droop in spite of your care, it might be a good idea to treat the flowers with some specific flower foods which are usually delivered with your gift. This will not just provide the flowers with the much needed supplements, but will also keep bacteria at bay.
Trimming the stems
In the longer run, to keep the flowers fresh, you can start by cutting half an inch or one inch off the floral arrangement every day. It is important to cut the stems diagonally so as to allow for maximum level of fresh water absorption. Before you cut the stems, ensure that the floral placement is not disturbed on the top, by carefully typing it up at the base of the flowers, else it will ruin the look of your present.
Apart from these basic and generic rules, the best and simplest way to look after your specific floral gift is by following the specific guidelines which come along with it, based on the specific flowers which make up the arrangement.
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Teal Chicken Foot - LIMITED
Dried and Painted Teal Chicken Foot for Ju Ju
Teal Blue Chicken Foot with Red Nails dried and painted for you to create into a Ju Ju for protection and keeping negatives and evils away.
You may add more symbols by drawing and painting, add items by tying on feathers, beads, gris-gris or gluing small items such as shells and beads. Keep in an area for protection and positive energy. You may tie with a cord and hang in an area if you would like.
The feet we sell are from our free range chickens we and friends have raised. When we thin the flock to feed ourselves, we save the feathers and feet for ceremony items. If a claw(s)/toe nail(s) are missing it was naturally, we did not remove any.
Each is dried and painted individually and may vary from the photo. Includes tie for hanging.


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Famous trapeze artist Tony Steele had a stroke in January, but he didn't let the medical condition keep him down for too long.
The 78-year-old was hospitalized for almost a month in January, recovering with 52 staples in his head. But when he was well enough, he started practicing trapeze again in the backyard of his home in Haines City, Florida.
"It's the most wonderful feeling in the world," Steele told NBC affiliate WFLA. "It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
U.S. & World
Steele holds three records in the Guinness Book of World Records for tricks he performed in the 1950s and 1960s. He joined a professional circus when he was 15 years old. Flying on the trapeze is different now, it's a lot harder, he said. But he'll keep doing it as long as he can.
"When I can't make it up the ladder, you stop when you have to," Steele said.


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Over the last three decades, chief executives at major technology companies in the government market have made critical decisions against a backdrop of a sea of changes: the impact of Sept. 11, 2001, rapidly accelerating advances in technology, and the enormous growth of government IT spending.
It is said that hindsight is 20/20 vision. Washington Technology asked five former top executives to reflect on key decisions they made, how those decisions affected their companies, and what lessons they took away from those decisions.
Given the clarity offered by the passage of time, are there any decisions that they have second thoughts about or that they would like to have back? On the other side of the coin, what decisions did they make that may have seemed perilous at the time but in the final analysis turned out to be the right ones?
In the following sections five former chief executives — Charles Rossotti, Joseph Kampf, Dendy Young, Daniel Young and Tony Barclay — talk about critical decisions they made during their time at the top:
Charles Rossotti, former chief executive of American Management Systems
Rossotti co-founded American Management Systems in 1970 and served at various periods as president, CEO and chairman until 1997, when he became commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Against an initial capital investment of $300,000, the company's annual revenues had soared to nearly $1 billion by the time he departed for the IRS. During his tenure as chief executive, in 1979, AMS became one of the first technology services firms to offer shares to the public.
Despite the company's extraordinary record of growth, Rossotti has reservations about his decision to keep a tight rein on AMS's business with the federal government.
"During the 1980s and early '90s, we could have grown the federal business faster," he said. "Our strategy was always to try to keep a balanced mix of business by sector and generally that meant the federal business ran around 35 percent of the total revenue. People always thought AMS was more of a federal business but it was actually more diversified from the very beginning. We thought that was the right thing to do."
There was another reason. As a public company, AMS's business decisions were held to account by its investors -- and 20 years ago they were skeptical about doing business with the government.
"The public market didn't like federal business," Rossotti said. "They had this conception that it was bad business, low margins. We were always getting a lot of advice from our outside investors, and even our own board. [They would ask] why do you have all this federal business?"
As a result, AMS restrained its federal business by taking a tough line on pricing. "We tried to maintain the highest possible margins and go for the best quality business we could, which is fine up to a point, but it also meant that there was a lot of business that we couldn't touch in the federal sector," he said. Meanwhile, other technology companies began to see their government business expand rapidly, he added.
Looking back, "had we pushed the federal business harder over a long period of time...our whole business would have been bigger and our federal business would have been a lot bigger," Rossotti said. "When the downturn in the private market came, around 2000, that would have held the company in good stead. We would have been smarter to damn the torpedoes on some of that [investor] advice and grow the federal business faster."
Charles Rossotti is senior advisor at the Carlyle Group in Washington.
Next: Joseph Kampf
Joseph Kampf, former CEO of Anteon International Corp.
In the summer of 2001, Anteon, a privately held government technology services firm, was up for sale. "A lot of big, Tier One players came to the table," said Kampf. "We were in the [sale] process for probably three months, over the summer and into September. The bid date for the deal was September 10." The next day, of course, the world was rocked by the terrorist attacks of September 11.
"Everything went silent for a few weeks," he said. "No one could move around the country, no one had meetings, no one knew what the implications were, people were contemplating the enormity of what had happened."
Against an uncertain future, Kampf cancelled the sale of Anteon and decided to take the company public. It was "absolutely" a risky decision, he said. "The decision was based on what [we thought] Anteon could accomplish under this new, emerging threat."
In March 2002, with revenues running at about $750 million, Anteon went public. About four years later, the company's revenues had rocketed to $1.7 billion. "It was a great outcome for us," Kampf said. "It was a good decision not to sell and it was a good decision to take the company public. I think [the rise in revenues] was consistent with what happened with [the Defense Department] in the national security space over the next four or five years. Anteon became very successful."
In 2006, Kampf made another major executive decision: to sell Anteon. "General Dynamics approached me and suggested that they wanted to acquire the company," he said. "Anteon was performing well but my perception was that the market was going to turn again and I didn't think Anteon would have as spectacular a future as it had a past so I decided to pursue the deal."
The decision turned out to be "exactly the right one," Kampf said. "The market has turned down dramatically. Most of the companies that were around when Anteon was sold are worth a lot less now than they were five years ago."
Joseph Kampf is a co-founder of CoVant, a private equity partnership in McLean, Va., and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Next: Dendy Young
Dendy Young, former CEO of GTSI
Young's says his personal philosophy is "have no regrets." And that applies to decisions he made during his 1996-2006 tenure as CEO at GTSI Corp., a government systems integrator and services provider. Actually, there is one exception, he says. Human Capital.
"The only times I've varied from that [no regrets] philosophy have been when there are people involved," he said. More specifically, Young has second thoughts about some executive hiring decisions he made at GTSI. One instance of a hire gone wrong occurred early in his days as CEO at GTSI when he was looking for a vice president of sales.
"There was a time when it was very difficult to hire people," he said. "They didn't want to work for GTSI. The reseller industry was going through turmoil on the commercial side. A lot of people thought resellers were a dying breed. Dell had just hit the market and was doing it direct so there was a lot of pressure on the reseller community. The perception was that resellers are bad."
In addition, the company itself was struggling financially, compounding the perception problem.
"All of the sudden, I couldn't find a vice president of sales," Young said. "I exhausted my Rolodex and hired an expensive headhunter and he exhausted his Rolodex." The headhunter told Young: "I know what you want. Those people are out there. But none of them want to come work for you."
Nevertheless, they selected two "less than stellar" candidates and decided to hire the better of the two. It was a mistake. "I knew within 30 days, maybe 60 days, that the relationship wasn't going to work out," he said. "But I was so desperate to have somebody in that position that I kept him for much longer than I should have. It was hard because I didn't have a lot of choice. I was under pressure from all sides. I was trying to rebuild a company that was in trouble in the first place. So I probably should have held and continued looking [for a sales executive] but at the time it seemed as though I needed anything to help me out of the bind."
The impact of the decision was that Young's effort to rebuild the company stalled. "It wasn't until I hired the second or third one after that that I got somebody really good and [that hire] helped me to take the company to greater heights," he said. During Young's decade as CEO of GTSI, the company's revenues grew to more than $1 billion from $400 million.
Dendy Young is managing partner of McLean Capital LLC, a private equity firm.
Next: Daniel Young
Daniel Young, former vice chairman and CEO of Federal Data Corp.
Young started working for FDC in 1976 and became president and COO in 1985. "We always thought that being small and nimble with some really smart people could build a business," he said. "That was the premise on which the company was built. That worked out very well over time."
But being small had its liabilities. "When you're a small company like we were, if you didn't recover from a mistake, it could be catastrophic," Young said. He learned this lesson big time when a decision to team with another small company on a government contract brought some unexpected consequences and cost the company a considerable amount of money.
In 1987, FDC bid with a company that designed TEMPEST-tested computers on a contract to provide portable computers to the National Security Agency. "TEMPEST was the standard that NSA had developed to ensure that computers would not emit signals that could be detected by the enemy," Young said. "To become TEMPEST-tested you had to have certification from NSA."
The other company was comprised of former NSA employees who formed their own firm and developed the TEMPEST-tested products, he said.
FDC and the company, as the subcontractor, won the contract and started delivering the computers to NSA. "We delivered quite a few and it was a very successful program," Young said.
One day, however, Young got a shock. He received a letter from the government accusing FDC of fraud and asking for $38 million in damages. "At this time, the company was very small," he said. "We didn't know what $38 million was."
What happened was that the subcontractor had made modifications to the computer without FDC's knowledge, claiming that the changes had been approved by NSA. The government countered that the modifications had not been approved NSA. It was a situation that threatened to destroy FDC.
"The net effect was that our banks foreclosed our loans and said we had to pay all of our obligations within 30 days," Young said.
As it turned out, FDC was able to negotiate a settlement, paying the government $1.2 million for its expenses. "We worked our way out of it," Young said. "We were exonerated after we paid the $1.2 million but it made us such good cash managers that we paid off all of the loans within about 45 days and from then on we became a better company as a result of this adversity."
For Young, the message was don't do business with people you don't know well. "Never let your subcontractors or a partner talk directly to the customer without you involved," he said. "You've got to maintain control of the people you work with and have an extremely close relationship with the customer."
When FDC was acquired by the Carlyle Group in 1995, Young became president and CEO of the company. FDC was sold to Northrop Grumman in 2000, ending Young's long association with the company.
Daniel Young serves on the boards of NCI Corp. and GTSI Corp. and is an advisor to the Knowledge Consulting Group in Reston, Va.
Next: Tony Barclay
Tony Barclay, former CEO of Development Alternatives International
Among Washington's government contractors, DAI is company that marches to the beat of a different drummer.
Former CEO Barclay describes DAI as "a consulting company started by intellectually curious, idealistic people who wanted to solve the world's deep-rooted development problems." Founded in 1970, the employee-owned company didn't start with the classic ingredients that most businesses would have place, such as a business plan and a defined capital structure.
When Barclay became CEO in 1999, DAI's worldwide business had been expanding steadily but the basic business infrastructure necessary to its operations hadn't grown with it. "We didn't have any of the support and communications systems that would seem obvious," he said. "We had to retrofit those necessary parts of a business onto a company that in some respects was coming to terms with its own growth."
Barclay decided that it was critical for DAI to look for expertise at the executive level from outside the company. "Not many people [at DAI] had a financial management background or professional human resources background, to name two areas we needed work in," he said.
DAI's unique employee culture — portrayed by Barclay as "strong, inclusive, can-do, let's get smarter, learn by doing"— was a powerful force in the company. In making hiring decisions, Barclay assumed that DAI's culture would "rub off" on new executives brought in to upgrade the company's support systems. It didn't work out that way. Cultures, mindsets and personalities clashed, impeding Barclay's goal of upgrading DAI's business processes and systems. "Several executives hired from the outside in the early 2000s got some important things done, but the cultural fit never took hold, and they moved on," he said.
"There's a real challenge in taking people who are very structured in their thinking and very rule-based into a company that can live within the rules but is very often solving problems right out on the edge of the box," he said.
Subsequently, Barclay became a more discriminating judge when he sought executive talent from outside the company. He looked for senior executives who could serve as change agents, but who also would find DAI's mission and culture intellectually stimulating and motivating. "It really was an issue of fit," he said. "I didn't look as hard for that in a couple of those hiring decisions as I should have. That's a big takaway."
Tony Barclay is an independent director of DIA and serves on its board.
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I don't have to tell you that at Cooper, we love personas—how could we not?—and we're glad to see continued excitement about them. That said, although personas are essential design tools, we think some people may be losing sight of the fact that they're just tools, and tools with a specific purpose, at that. Lately, we've been seeing a lot of gold-plated hammers—unnecessarily elaborate communication about personas—and some fundamental misunderstandings about the relationships among research, personas, and scenarios.
Be only as elaborate as you need to be
Recently we've been seeing people try new and entertaining ways to communicate about their personas. Over the years, we've seen our clients do everything from printing posters and t-shirts to playing persona trivia. This kind of internal marketing is important, and there's no reason it can't be fun. However, it's easy to overdo it to the point that personas become an end in themselves, rather than a favorite tool among several used to guide product and design decisions. Before expending a lot of effort and money on a novel communication method, ask yourself what that method will accomplish that text, photos, and illustrations won't, and whether the gain is really worth it. Also ask yourself whether that method will obscure the most important aspects of the personas: their behaviors and goals.
For example, I recently heard about a Web design agency building "persona living rooms" that are furnished and decorated according to the personas' tastes and filled with magazines the personas read. It's an interesting idea for helping people who don't participate in the research to get a feel for the personas' environments and attitudes. Understanding the personas' experience goals is particularly important for any situation where brand is a central consideration, such as a corporate Web site. Certainly, the novelty of the rooms will generate some attention and excitement, which is always a good thing.
In the long run, though, is this kind of three dimensional mood board really worth the investment? Say you use 600 square feet of office space to build mini living rooms for half a dozen personas. At San Francisco rates, that's about $20,000 a year just for space that could be used by real employees. Even if you manage to furnish them cheaply—and that's a big if—it would be easy to spend $30,000 or more on such an effort. Physical representations of space are helpful for designing physical products, but generally aren't necessary for software or Web sites. The exception is where the personas' workspace is quite unusual; for example, if your persona is a stock trader who keeps a dozen applications and information sources open on half a dozen monitors, you'll want to see how your application fits into that environment as you design it. However, most organizations are far better off with a compelling (but far cheaper) print or digital artifact. Cost aside, portable artifacts are more effective because they can be shared by distributed teams and go to the meetings where the decisions are made. Also, a room is a lot of effort to expend on something that focuses on just one aspect of the personas, without conveying critical information about goals and specific behaviors.
In using personas to design for a wide range of client projects and cultures, we've generally found that three types of persona-related communication are most effective.
- Detailed descriptions
First, each persona should have a detailed description that outlines current behavior and frustrations, goals, and so forth in narrative form, because stories are more compelling and memorable than lists. This detailed information helps people get to know the personas and serves as a lasting reference. Depending on the product you're designing, it can be helpful to include compelling research photos, sketches of how physical space is laid out, workflow diagrams, and collages of images that convey visual impressions of attitudes, taste, or lifestyle. For example, on a recent project involving a medical device for seniors, we saw a tremendous difference between the attitude and motivation levels of some of the interviewees. To help our client's team members share that research experience at a gut level, we included photos that emphasized the contrast between two of the personas. One was an active person with a positive outlook, so we included brightly-colored photos of a neat living space, an exercise class, and smiling people. The other was quite depressed and not at all sociable, so we used washed-out photos of a messy living space and no people.
- Quick reference tools
The second important item is some form of quick-reference tool that's easy to use in meetings and keep available in offices. This might be a laminated placemat or table tent people can carry with them or a set of posters on the wall. In either case, it's helpful if these items include photos, names, goals, and just a few key facts.
- Meetings to introduce the personas
Finally, it's important to have a live meeting when introducing the personas so you can cheerlead, persuade, and address any concerns people have. Whether you make this a fairly serious meeting or have some fun with it depends on your corporate culture. It's helpful to introduce the personas to a small group of stakeholders before sharing them with a larger team.
Beyond these methods, it's a matter of finding simpleways to keep the personas in everyone's minds over time.
Get the basics right before you experiment
We hope designers will continue to experiment with personas because that's how methods evolve and improve. However, it's important to be sure that any experiment—whether in creating, communicating, or using personas—gets the fundamentals right. One type of experiment we've heard about gets pretty far from the fundamentals: having personas take on lives of their own, such as posting photos and blogs in online communities. In other words, someone posing as the persona is interacting with real people and seeing how they respond. The first problem with this is that personas are models that encapsulate research findings, not research tools themselves. You should already have this kind of information before you create your personas. If you want to understand how teenagers interact online, for example, you'll learn far more by observing them doing so and talking with them about it. Also, most responsible researchers would agree that when research participants are identifiable—as opposed to anonymous aggregate data collection in healthcare, for example—participation should be voluntary and researchers should identify themselves as such, even online. For these reasons, having someone pose as a persona to interact with real people seems questionable from an ethical standpoint.
Regardless of what you try with personas, keep these things in mind:
- To be effective, personas need to be based on sound field research, not derived from the functionality you've already decided to build
- Personas should incorporate attitudes and experience goals when that's useful, but are first and foremost about behavior and end goals
- Keep personas and scenarios distinct. The term "personas" is derived from the Latin dramatis personae, the cast of characters in a play. A set of characters is only interesting in the context of a plot, which is why we use scenarios. Personas should focus on current behavior, not speculation about future behavior with a product. Scenarios describe the personas' future behavior, first in an idealized and high-level fashion, and later in a somewhat more pragmatic and detailed way.
Personas are indispensable tools. If you make them well and use them for their intended purpose, they'll continue to be useful for years to come. They're just tools, though, and I've never yet seen a hammer that needed a room—or a life—of its own.


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IBM Rational DOORS Web Access provides web-based access to create, review, edit, and discuss requirements held in an IBM Rational DOORS database. Rational DOORS Web Access helps you promote collaboration and requirements use in your development process. This web client provides access to central requirements repository and to informal requirements discussions.
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CHEMICAL UPDATE: Plant Growth Regulators
Plant growth regulators, or PGRs, offer a variety of benefits on top of acting as tools to reduce plant growth. Grounds care professionals are using PGRs to reduce maintenance and to improve plant vigor.
PGRs can definitely reduce mowing requirements. However, they do much more. For example:
PGRs suppress turf growth during overseeding to give young seedlings a quick start.
Some PGRs inhibit or suppress Poa annua seedheads.
PGRs eliminate tall seedheads in some roadside grasses (which, in some cases, might be the only reason to mow).
PGRs can differentially suppress growth of various turfgrass species, giving the desirable turfgrass a competitive advantage over Poa annua.
"Chemical edging" with PGRs controls growth of turf around tree trunks, landscape fixtures and edges, which can significantly reduce labor needed for trimming.
Some PGRs can improve the overall health and vigor of their turf, resulting in better color, improved stress tolerance and perhaps better root development.
Ornamental PGRs provide benefits comparable to those of turf PGRs, but also others unique to ornamentals:
PGRs reduce trimming needs for trees and shrubs.
PGRs allow grounds care professionals to eliminate messy or dangerous fruit from trees.
PGRs also suppress sucker and sprout growth.
Certain ornamental PGRs can even improve root development, branching and overall vigor.
To successfully integrate PGRs into your maintenance program, it's important to carefully balance the cost of the application with the anticipated savings in maintenance. PGRs may not always be an economical choice, but they often are.
Using PGRs to improve plant appearance or health, or improve establishment during overseeding, can be difficult to quantify in dollars and cents, and can be more of a judgment call based on agronomic and aesthetic considerations. By contrast, an application that reduces trimming (of a long hedge, to use one example) may be a clear-cut labor-saver.
The following tables are a general guide to PGRs available for turf and landscape ornamental use. Use them for preliminary planning only. They are not a substitute for label instructions, which you must read and follow whenever you use a PGR, as with any pesticide.
If you would like more information about a product, contact the supplier via the information supplied in this Update. You can also find labels via the new Pesticide Search tab on the Grounds Maintenance Web site at www.grounds-mag.com. Powered by Greenbook, this online resource also features a list of newly registered chemical products as well as label changes for existing products. For a comprehensive list of the Chemical Update tables that accompany this article, go to our Industry Research resource at http://research.grounds-mag.com.
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