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Arrowhead Farms of Zavala County, TX, now draws water from either the Nueces River (on other side of nearby trees) or deep water wells (brown pipes), either of which are filtered through sand tanks and pumped to the tree roots on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Sediment free water is essential because, it will flow through various automated pressure and flow control valves, pipes, tubing and finally out emitters that drip water out of tiny holes at a rate of 1 gallon/hr. Each tree has several emitters under its drip line and over a typical 24 hour watering period will get just the right amount of water to survive Texas temperatures as best as possible. The farm has been owned by Mr. Akram Mohammad, a pecan farmer since 2005. The 719-acre farm with 10,000 trees, features some orchards with underground micro irrigation system that feeds water to the roots of 4,380 pecan trees on 146 acres. Mr. Mohammad said, “USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) was essential to my business and trees surviving the recent exceptional drought. The trees were stress free thanks to underground micro-irrigation. This is essential to the future growth of Texas agriculture and good for America.” U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Environmental Quality Initiative Program (EQIP) awarded Mr. Mohammad a $130,000 grant in 2008. He provided $26,000 for the balance of the $156,000 total cost to install a 146-acre underground micro-irrigation for 4,380 trees. USDA Photo by J. M. Villarreal.
Donald Julian Reaves announced today that he will step down as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) effective December 31, 2014, or thereafter when a successor is in place.
Accompanied by his wife Deborah, Chancellor Reaves made the announcement to a gathering of university faculty, students and staff after having informed the WSSU Board of Trustees at its meeting earlier in the day.
“At the end of December I will be in the middle of the eighth year of my five-year commitment,” Reaves said jokingly. “Seriously though, I am truly thankful to have had the opportunity to serve the University and the community and I want to thank UNC Presidents Tom Ross and Erskine Bowles for giving me the opportunity to lead this institution. I also want to thank the members of the board of trustees with whom I have worked for their strong support, especially Board Chair Debby Miller. I also want to salute the wonderful faculty and committed staffs who serve this institution. For me, it has been an exceptional experience.”
Chancellor Reaves said that he struggled with the decision, but beginning in late 2012 has had conversations with UNC President Ross about his desire to step down as chancellor and return to the classroom, where he began his career in higher education 37 years ago. He will join the WSSU political science faculty as a full professor with tenure.
“Deciding to leave a job that you love is not easy,” Reaves explained. “Deborah and I have given this decision considerable thought and I have consulted widely about it. I also went back and read the speech that I gave at my installation to determine whether I had fulfilled the promises I made then. Though there is always work to be done, I feel that we have accomplished everything that I said and much more. So, having built a much firmer foundation for WSSU, it seems that now is a good time to move on.”
Chancellor Reaves said that his initial goals were incorporated into the University’s strategic plan and that he continues to be excited about the implementation of those efforts and the results. He is particularly proud of the improved outcomes for students, including significantly better retention and graduation results.
“Providing our undergraduate students with a quality education and preparing them for success in their careers and their communities is our primary mission,” Reaves said. “Graduating students is the business that we are in and I’m proud to say that business at WSSU is booming. Current statistics speak directly to what we have been able to accomplish.”
By raising admission standards three times beginning in 2007, the University has attracted better prepared students and that has impacted retention and graduation rates. The retention rate for first-year students climbed from 68 percent in 2006 to more than 80 percent in the 2011-2012 academic year. The graduation rate which stood at 36.5 at the end of the 2007-2008 year has improved to 45.5 percent for the most recent reporting period, and the number of students graduating has risen from 824 in the 2006-07 year to 1,556 for the most recent year, 2012-13, an increase of almost 89 percent.
“It is also important to note that progress was achieved despite major reductions in our state allocations,” Reaves added. “We did that by targeting our scarce resources on a single key objective and that was improved student outcomes.”
The fact that more has been done with less is reflected in data released from the UNC General Administration that shows that over the five-year period, from 2007 through 2012, per student spending at WSSU declined by almost 30 percent while degree production increased by more than 47 percent. Among the 16 UNC campuses, WSSU ranks number one on both of those percentage change measures.
Chancellor Reaves stated his strong belief that the University has benefited tremendously from its strict adherence to the goals and objective set forth in the strategic plan, Achieving Academic Distinction: The Plan for Student Success – 2010-2015, which include academic excellence and student success as the highest priorities. “Virtually every decision we make and every dollar we spend benefits from the guidance provided by the plan” Reaves noted.
Other derivatives of the strategic plan include:
•Reforming and implementing an undergraduate curriculum grounded in the liberal arts tradition and designed to prepare students to compete in the market-based global economy. At the core of the new curriculum is an emphasis on the development of the students’ ability to think critically, participate in rigorous analysis and creative problem solving, communicate effectively, and collaborate to effect results.
•Reducing the size of the student body to improve student preparedness and to align its size with available resources, including the capacity of the physical plant.
•The consolidation of the schools of business and economics, and education with the college of arts and sciences to generate savings, and to align projected spending with expectations about the resources that are likely to be available in an era of flat or declining enrollments.
•Expanding graduate education with the addition of doctoral programs in physical therapy and nursing.
•Raising the standards for tenure and promotion to improve the quality of the faculty.
•Developing a partnership with Forsyth Technical Community College which has led to the creation of the Dual Admission Program that provides students who were not admitted to WSSU with an opportunity to prepare themselves academically prior to matriculating directly to WSSU.
•Maintaining the athletic program at the NCAA Division II level, reducing significantly the resources that were allocated previously to athletics, and making them available to support academic priorities. An added bonus, the program has subsequently won 14 conference championships.
•Managing a $34 million reduction in state funding over five years without reducing fulltime faculty or course offerings.
•Improving the student experience through the development of a campus master plan that included the construction of the new Donald Julian Reaves Student Activities Center, the Martin-Schexnider Residence Halls, the renovation of Hill Hall for use as a Student Success Center, and the nearly complete acquisition of Bowman Gray Stadium and the surrounding 94-acre Civitan Park.
Reaves noted that while the list of accomplishments is impressive, his greatest satisfaction derives from the more subtle, less-quantifiable changes that have taken place, with an emphasis on what has occurred with regard to expectations.
“When I arrived in 2007, I encountered a culture of low expectations that was characterized by a belief that WSSU students could not succeed,” Reaves explained. “That belief prevailed among the faculty, the staff, and the various communities and even among our students and their parents. WSSU was viewed as an institution of last resort. All of that has changed. Today, there is a new spirit on the campus among the students and the faculty, as well as throughout the community. There is once again a genuine belief that a WSSU education can prepare students to compete and be successful in the marketplace. The success that we have enjoyed since changing the culture of the institution is by far the most rewarding aspect of my work and will undoubtedly have the greatest impact on the future of the students and of the institution.”
WSSU Board of Trustees Chair Debra Miller also spoke of Reaves’ leadership and said that because of the work he and his team had completed, the board accepted his decision with great regret.
“As a member of the Board of Trustees and as an alumna of WSSU, I am extremely proud to have had the opportunity to work with Chancellor Reaves,” said Miller. “Through his vision, his leadership, his commitment to academic excellence, his willingness to make difficult decisions such as establishing priorities among competing interests, his commitment to improve student outcomes, his hard work and that of the team that he assembled, this university has been transformed in virtually every respect. It is exciting to see the impact that the past seven years have had on our students and on the campus.”
Donald Reaves assumed his duties as chancellor in August 2007. Chancellor Reaves had previously served five years as Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer at the University of Chicago, and he spent 14 years at Brown University where he held a number of senior positions including Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Brown University in 1988, Chancellor Reaves worked in Massachusetts state government where he held several positions including deputy assistant commissioner for budget and cost control at the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare. Chancellor Reaves also spent 16 years in the classroom, 13 of which were at Northeastern University as a tenure-track and adjunct member of the political science department
A native of Cleveland, Ohio Chancellor Reaves earned his undergraduate degree from Cleveland State University and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in political science and public administration from Kent State University.
While in Winston-Salem, Chancellor Reaves has served on numerous boards including the Novant Hospital Health Triad Region, Forsyth Futures, the Piedmont Triad Leadership Council, the Winston-Salem Alliance and the Josh and Marie Reynolds Hospital Guest House Board of Advocates. He also served on the advisory boards of the North Carolina Humanities Council and Wells Fargo Bank.
Five and 50 pound bags of pecans produced at Arrowhead Farms of Crystal City, TX, on Friday, December 9, 2011, owned by Mr. Akram Mohammad, a pecan farmer since 2005. The 719 acre farm with 10,000 trees, features some orchards with underground micro irrigation system that feeds water to the roots of 4,380 pecan trees on 146 acres. Mr. Mohammad said, “USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) was essential to my business and trees surviving the recent exceptional drought. The trees were stress free thanks to underground micro-irrigation. This is essential to the future growth of Texas agriculture and good for America.” U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Environmental Quality Initiative Program (EQIP) awarded Mr. Mohammad a $130,000 grant in 2008. He provided $26,000 for the balance of the $156,000 total cost to install a 146-acre underground micro-irrigation for 4,380 trees. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
You wouldn't know after ten minutes on the Hangers Way, but the night before I'd diligently cleaned and buffed up my walking boots. Now they were once more a muddy, soggy mess, and I was once again wondering whether I should invest in some gaiters.
2017 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 50, X for eXceptional
It's been 7 years since there has been as much snow as fell on Sunday and Monday in the whole of The Netherlands. Traffic was a chaos and left many tourists stranded. We even had blizzard-like conditions in our garden ! The picture was taken on Sunday afternoon, by Monday there was about 8 cm of snow.
Approaching Rowley Station in Beamish Museum is 1949 0-4-0ST shunting locomotive in NCB livery, built by Andrew Barclay & Sons of Kilmarnock. Unusually it is seen here hauling a type of vehicle that it would never have been anywhere near in it's former existence!
The carriage in question is the magnificently restored Victorian royal railway carriage GER No.5.
The carriage was built in 1898, originally for Princess Alexandra (Princess of Wales and wife of the future King Edward VII) and once came complete with toilets, guards accommodation and pantry facilities.
The locomotive is on loan from the Bowes Railway, Springwell, Tyne & Wear and the carriage is on loan from the Furness Railway Trust.
Copyright © 2013 Terry Pinnegar Photography. All Rights Reserved. THIS IMAGE IS NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION!
My exceptionally comfortable, stylish & very swishy skirt.
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My exceptionally comfortable, stylish & very swishy Tu black leather maxi skirt is complemented by a monochrome blouse.
When I was very young & a shorts wearer, my Mother was also my Barber in the 1960`s. She would instruct me to sit on her stool in order to cut my hair. She frequently wore an evidently hypnotic black pleated cotton skirt which tickled my knees as it brushed across them while she was cutting my fringe. I now apparently have the image of her skirt deeply in my eyes. It was first noticed by my (secondary) School Teacher in the 1970`s & by subsequent girlfriends who have also mentioned it. The presence of the image & my Mother regularly sitting with her legs crossed on a high stool at our then Breakfast Bar with her new dark brown sequinned polyester Sunray pleated midi skirt very striking draped very close to the floor during the 1970s has strongly influenced my interest in cross-dressing & I regularly wear one of my pleated or circle skirts/dresses at home.
In November 2015, I was scapegoated by a group of criminals, who waited in a silver Private Hire Taxi outside the building in which I lived expecting me to emerge dressed as a woman with a bob hairstyle. My being dressed as a man rendered them indecisive with their execution plot, so the 3 men did not ambush & abduct me. In view of my cross-dressing hobby saving my life, I shall continue to enjoy femininity. There`s also additional information at; www.flickr.com/photos/127177664@N04/16024330889/in/datepo...
My exceptionally comfortable, stylish & very swishy Lindy Bop skirt is complemented by a silver Fruit of the Loom blouse, a gold Lupai Bracelet/Watch, plus Sweet Women Kitten heeled open toe buckle ankle shoes. Please click on, or touch the link below to vote for me to become the next Miss YoModel on their web page;
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When I was very young & a shorts wearer, my Mother was also my Barber in the 1960`s. She would instruct me to sit on her stool in order to cut my hair. She frequently wore an evidently hypnotic black pleated cotton skirt which tickled my knees as it brushed across them while she was cutting my fringe. I now apparently have the image of her skirt deeply in my eyes. It was first noticed by my (secondary) School Teacher in the 1970`s & by subsequent girlfriends who have also mentioned it. The presence of the image & my Mother regularly sitting with her legs crossed on a high stool at our then Breakfast Bar with her new dark brown sequinned polyester Sunray pleated midi skirt very striking draped very close to the floor during the 1970s has strongly influenced my interest in cross-dressing & I regularly wear one of my pleated or circle skirts/dresses at home.
In November 2015, I was scapegoated by a group of criminals, who waited in a silver Private Hire Taxi outside the building in which I lived expecting me to emerge dressed as a woman with a bob hairstyle. My being dressed as a man rendered them indecisive with their execution plot, so the 3 men did not ambush & abduct me. In view of my cross-dressing hobby saving my life, I shall continue to enjoy femininity. There`s also additional information at; www.flickr.com/photos/127177664@N04/16024330889/in/datepo...
Playing around with the Helios 44-2, surprisingly sharp when stopped down.
Pentax Spotmatic + Helios 44-2 58mm f2 + HP5 @ 320 iso + Kodak D76 1:1 @ 13 mins
This was at the flea market today. The composition of this cell phone pic is horrible, but I don't get to see Aloe Vera in bloom often.
Professor Noam Chomsky's lecture titled "American Exceptionalism: Reconsidered" drew a large crowd to the Joel D. Valdez Main Library on April 13, 2018. The lecture offered a timely and important discussion of some of the ways in which American society has departed from the world, sometimes in extreme and hazardous ways. The event, held on Jacomé Plaza, was free and open to the public.
After spending 62 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is currently a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Professor Chomsky, considered the founder of modern linguistics, has been called one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and America’s most useful citizen, and authored more than 100 books on topics as wide-ranging as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media.
I did a fairly extensive photo shoot with my Fodens the other day. Having dug the Fodens out for the first time in ages I gave them a wash to get rid of eight months’ worth of dust. I wanted something to photograph with the new gear to start and get a feel for it, there are some photographs with the EOS M but most are with the 5D. They will appear repetitive but for my own reasons I have decided to upload most of the shoot.
M462LYL was one of the 400 or so 4000 series gritters that were supplied to the Highways Agency over a period of years to replace the S80 series Fodens, that we had five of. This wagon would have been scrapped along with most of the others but for the intervention of Stuart Kaye. Although it is in exceptional condition so were most of them, regardless, they had to be scrapped and not sold back onto the UK market. A scandalous waste of money, many had been extensively (and expensively) refurbished to a very high standard – total rebuilds – they were still scrapped. A Cummins 325 and six speed auto box makes this wagon very nice to drive empty! I very much doubt that the auto box and gearing would get up our local hills fully loaded and certainly not if pushing a plough. The wagon has covered 85,000 km and other than corrosion caused by salty hands the cab interior is very good.
I bought a second 4000 series, but just the chassis cab. The scrapping contract allowed for chassis or gritter bodies to be sold separately. Once separated the body takes a lot of refitting. There are hundreds of wires in plastic trunking and they just hacked through them, you couldn’t overstate the scale of the job of refitting, cost effectively, a body back onto one of the original chassis. I had sourced a dump truck body from an MOD Foden Alpha that would fit nicely on the 4000 chassis. We use this around the yard alongside our 1960’s Foden dumper.
It was whilst looking at the chassis cabs with Stuart in Geesons at Ripley that we saw OYE779Y, parked up with a plough fitted, it was minus 11 during this period and almost every motor in the yard had flat batteries, which the frost had then killed completely. We didn’t get to see a motor running but I ended up buying two including OYE. As soon as I saw this motor I knew that there was something strange about it. A Paccar (Kenworth) chassis, Cummins L10 250, Eaton Twinsplitter and Rockwell axles, with a 4000 series cab. As a regular buyer and driver of Fodens in the 80’s and 90’s I knew that these components weren’t available in 1982, when it was allegedly built. I had a new Foden the same month as this motor was supposed to have been built, December 1982. BYG167Y had Foden chassis and S10 cab, the Twinsplitter hadn’t been invented at this point. The serial number stamped on the chassis relates to an S80 series gritter, one of the previous generation, with Foden Gearbox, chassis, axles and Rolls Royce 265L engine. This is what the Foden Microfiche build sheet still shows for this serial number.
OYE779Y seems to have been built to replace the original, which was written off in a serious accident. The strange thing is the allocation of the same serial and registration numbers to a totally different vehicle. We have seen a black and white photograph of the wagon, when new with a conventional Atkinson gritter body. This was replaced with the French body now fitted. This has water tanks and can spread the salt with water, made of plastic and stainless steel, it appears unused. The wagon itself was unloved and un driven, we think, because of the Twin splitter gearbox, which wasn’t suitable for the drivers employed on the motorway gritting teams. With 30,000 km on the clock, mostly service miles, the wagon is like new. Other than sag in the roof lining material the cab interior is like new. I’m guessing that it saw very little actual work, subsequently it doesn’t have the fantastic paint job of the newer 4000 series, the result of being sandblasted and two pack painted. OYE has been touched up, a bit of a splodge here and there. There is a total lack of corrosion, it just needs a good respray and it would be like new. A new set of tyres fitted in 2003 still have the stickers on them. The long and the short of it is that this is a much newer wagon. The 4000 series cab was available in 1987, I bought one on an E plate, the last generation of S10 was still available in 1986 on a D plate so I reckon it would be built around this time.
There are only a few 4000 series gritters survived in the UK but some went to Ireland and others to Eastern Europe. Presumably Roger Geeson was allowed to export to countries where it wouldn't affect the sales of the suppliers of the new gritting fleet - this appeared to be why there was a restriction on sales in the UK.
If anyone has more to add regarding this story please let me Know.
I couldn’t resist adding my other two Fodens to the line-up, customers were coming and going at the same time hence some other motors in there. I decided to add some cab interior shots a day or two later, just for the record as it were.
To see more about J B Schofield and Sons and the history of the business and its 33 years as a gritting contractor, look here www.jbschofieldandsons.co.uk/
***UPDATE***4/16/12 I am back from Miami! Bananas! Or maybe I should say "Plaintains!" Whatev. These beauties are off to Rogers Park, once again, to the stunning collections (art, music, and design) of Bjork uber fan, Erik. Thank you, sir, may I have another?
This is your typical shot of a train, getting ready to block a crossing for a couple of minutes. M321 or 323, couldn't remember, left Southwark yard a couple of miles down the track and is heading towards Toronto.
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The Egyptian Soundtrack (1954) - #1 Prelude - Composed by Bernard Herrmann & Alfred Newman
Performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Choir - Conducted by William Stromberg
Recorded at Mosfilm Studio, Moscow, Russia in March and April, 1998. William T. Stromberg, conductor.
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"THE EGYPTIAN" By MIKA WALTARI
1945 first pub. Finland
" First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power.
It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world's history: the Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E., when pharaohs and gods contended with the near-collapse of history's greatest empire.
This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to become personal physician to Pharaoh Akhnaton." --- amazon.com
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Mika Toimi Waltari (19. syyskuuta 1908 Helsinki – 26. elokuuta 1979 Helsinki) oli merkittävä suomalainen kirjailija. Tavattoman tuotteliaana tunnetun Waltarin julkaisuluettelo käsittää romaaneja, runoja, novelleja, satuja, näytelmiä, kuunnelmia, propagandamateriaalia, arvosteluja, elokuvakäsikirjoituksia, matkakertomuksia ja sarjakuvariimejä.
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Mika Toimi Waltari (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979)
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