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Brood X Emergence 2021 - Magicicada by Amy McGee (PG-13)
Underground, they are waiting, clustered around the roots of sycamores and black walnuts. Since 1953 they’ve measured the passing of seasons by the temperature of tree sap, blood-warm in a Southern summer, frozen like glass in an Appalachian winter. Only now they’ve started tunneling their way up, up, through six or seven feet of brick-red Georgia clay. Almost to the surface. In DC they’re just a couple of inches below the White House lawn. If you’re kneeling underneath the St. Louis arch, you could dig your hands deep into the rich, black, loamy Midwestern soil and find them. In Connecticut and New Jersey and even in Michigan they are on their way, just a little bit behind the others. But the southern regiment is at the front. Somehow they’ve counted, in unison, 14… 15… 16… and now they’re just waiting for the sign.
Walking helps. If it doesn’t quite ease the squeezing, vise-grip cramps in her belly and across her back, at least it takes her mind off of them. For a little while. Until the next one hits, makes her see red, makes her lose her breath. Keep walking. She leans on a stick to steady herself. She doesn’t want to take a chance on falling out here on the uneven ground. Carefully she picks her way down another row of tombstones, steering her massive roundness between two blackened marble monuments. She’s still not used to the heft of it. It makes her clumsy.
The stick has another purpose as well. She lurches, makes her way to a stout live oak at the edge of the cemetery. Supporting herself against the tree, she uses the stick to brush dead leaves away from its roots. She studies the ground, wishing she could still squat down to get a closer look, but she can see it’s hopeless. No little holes. No chimneys. And on the tree itself, no shells.
The pain takes her again, forcing tears from her eyes. She imagines herself splitting apart like the magicicada from its nymph skin. Bursting open from the inside, becoming something else. The timing is so ridiculous she really ought to laugh. She’d planned on metamorphosis, all right. She was going to emerge from two years researching periodical cicadas transformed from a harried grad student to the entomology department’s first female doctoral candidate. But then, course work completed, all but dissertation, she gets knocked up just before Brood X makes its appearance. Oh sure, no big deal. She can wait another seventeen years!
The jokes from the department. This is biology. You know what causes pregnancy, right? She did know. In this case, an adjunct English professor who taught Renaissance poetry in the classroom next to her office last year. He played Simon and Garfunkel songs on his guitar and wooed her with interesting bugs he caught in his apartment. To his credit, he’s stuck around, and claims to be excited about the baby. Talks about a wedding.
He cannot, however, understand why she’s so disappointed about missing magicicada. There will be another brood. And he’s right. But this is the Great Eastern Brood, David. The big one. Benjamin Franklin wrote about this one in 1732. The same one, on a 17 year cycle. The cicadas that are hatching this spring are the descendants of those that covered this country before it even was a country. And as a little girl in Pennsylvania in ‘53, she let a cicada from Brood X crawl on her finger. She put it safely on a tree limb and decided right then and there she wanted to study insects when she grew up. At least that’s the story she tells herself. The story she planned to tell her children.
Another wrenching, twisting cramp, and this time, she feels a sudden gush of warm liquid rushing from between her legs. She knew to expect it, but it’s still a surprise. There’s just so much of it. She can’t help feeling ashamed, at first, as if she’s wet herself in public. And then she realizes she can’t deny any longer what’s happening to her. In her sopping skirt, with her walking stick, she lumbers out of the cemetery and across the street to a phone booth.
The dry pink dust of the cemetery path soaks up the spill and absorbs it, turning the clay blood red. Magicicada nymphs catch the signal. …17. They break the surface.
A janitor arriving for his night shift at the hospital finishes his cigarette and stubs it out under his white rubber sole. Just as he approaches the double doors at Emergency, he hears a sound behind him, a buzzing roar and an otherworldly hum. It makes him think of this flick he saw a couple of years ago at Howell’s Drive-In. It was supposed to be cool, something dumb like “Day of the Triffids” that might make Sondra yelp and jump in his lap. Instead it was a weird movie that started out with these apes and ended with this astronaut that turned into a baby. Sondra didn’t even want to make out. She fell asleep before it was halfway over. What a waste of two bucks that was. But there is something about that noise now that reminds him of that big old rock in the movie. And it sounds like it’s getting closer.
He turns around, and his eyes widen. He starts to run for the double doors, stumbles in the parking lot, falls and scrapes the palms of his hands on the asphalt. The UFO sound is deafening, wee-ooo, wee-ooo. It’s coming from the dark cloud behind him, something he might have seen once in a B-movie. And it’s coming right for him. He gets to his feet again and sprints, dashes, hurls himself at those doors. EMERGENCY is the word he sees before he is safe inside.
But not alone.
A nurse is already on her feet and halfway around the reception desk. Her instinct is to check on the janitor. Before she can ask if he’s okay, she covers her mouth with her hand in shock. Some two or three hundred black-and-orange roaches with blazing red eyes buzz through the air. Thousands more outside slam themselves against the glass.
The janitor sprawls on the floor, covering his head with his arms. The insectoid invaders aren’t interested in him after all. A few bump against the fluorescent tubes in the ceiling. One or two swoop and dive at the concussed heads and dog-bitten limbs in the waiting room.
The vast majority of them, however, stay together in a more-or-less organized swarm. With a sound like two thousand baby rattles falling downstairs, they move purposefully through the corridors. In their wake are curses and crashed carts and dropped clipboards, surgeons swearing about sanitation, patients screaming about plagues.
They even cause one poetry professor to spill his Styrofoam cup of coffee as they zip past him just before they flatten themselves against the window of a nearby hospital room. The hospital room where the poetry professor's girlfriend is giving birth at that moment to a baby with ruby-red eyes.
One month later, the poetry professor
It’s not his fault.
He tried. Everyone said he tried.
He’d have married her, even, if she wanted. Which isn’t required or even expected these days, but he totally would have. He could have dug that whole scene. The wife and the kid. Not that it’s easy on an adjunct’s salary, but things were looking up at the college. He had a good feeling a permanent gig was on the horizon.
It was just the bugs, man.
It was okay when they were just fooling around. It was kind of perfect, gave him an opening to quote “The Flea” to her, which she found hilarious, by the way. If she liked John Donne and she liked Simon and Garfunkel, he could put up with the fact that she had a fondness for creepy-crawlies.
But since the baby came, it’s all been too much. Those orange and black flying crickets are everywhere. They cover the walls of the house. They cover the car. He can’t go anywhere without stepping on them, crunching them under his feet like popcorn. The little klutzes are always dive-bombing him, smacking him in the face when he goes outside for a smoke or a toke or just to clear his head for a second.
And that’s just outside. The worst is that she’ll let them in the house. She says she doesn’t do it on purpose, but he swears it’s a magic cicada zoo in that place, and the baby’s room is the worst. It’s like something out of a horror movie. Those nicey-nice roaches fucking all over the place, fucking and flying around in circles over his daughter’s crib. And the baby laughs at them like they’re her goddamn mobile. It’s disgusting. It’s not safe. Really, what he ought to do is get his little girl out of there. But he just couldn’t take her away from her mama, could he?
Besides, truth be told, he’s not all that sure she’s even his kid after all. He would never say it, but… those red eyes. Those eyes are weird, right? Rosemary’s Baby weird.
All things considered, it’s probably for the best if he just moves on. She’ll understand. She’s just that kind of woman. They have that kind of connection, like Donne’s twin compasses. He’s writing it all down for her now. “Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
“ Magicicada going bye-bye, baby. Wave bye-bye, sweetie. This one is sleepy, see? Mommy can catch it on her finger. Let’s leave her on this tree. She has to lay her eggs now. Bye-bye, cicada. Bye-bye.”
They’ve been underground since 1970. Building tunnels and dining on the choicest sap of the finest deciduous trees from New York to Georgia, from Missouri to Boston, Massachusetts. They haven’t seen the sunlight since Elvis was alive, since Michael Jackson sang with his brothers, since the Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road” topped the charts and consoled fans devastated over breakup rumors.
The nymphs were tiny then, just hatched from eggs the size of individual grains of rice. They’d barely gotten a glimpse of the surface world before they had to dig deep for safety. All this time they’ve just been waiting for their chance. Now, finally, they’re ready. Their season has come. Time to begin that slow crawl up, toward the warmth. Up, toward the light. And for as many as can, toward her.
It hasn’t been easy growing up with red eyes, but for the most part she’s managed to fly under the radar. She’s gotten used to looking down, never meeting people’s gaze so she doesn’t have to answer impossible questions. They always assume she’s shy. When she was in fifth grade, her mother found out they made contact lenses that changed your eye color and went to extravagant lengths to get her an early pair. She’s had brown eyes now for six years, and only occasionally does she still hear “red-eyed freak” in the hall.
Most of the time, she’s ignored. She does well in school, but not so well as to attract attention from her teachers. She tries not to show too much interest in anything that might draw fire from her classmates, especially not anything weird like the cello or comic books. Or bugs. Her mom is always falling asleep over some bug book when she gets home from her bartending shift. If the girl has a hobby, it’s trying to turn herself invisible.
Which is why she is kicking herself for being here tonight, in her high school gymnasium, in a Gunne Sax dress and dyeable satin shoes, surely the most uncomfortable shoes known to womankind. Listening to a DJ in a white tuxedo spin “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” while a boy she barely knows holds onto her hips and sways from side to side. She never should have said yes when he asked her. She was so stunned she didn’t have time to think. But her mother said a girl shouldn’t miss her prom. So here she is.
He asks her if she’d like to take a walk, and she agrees, even though her feet are hurting. They step outside and make their way through the gauntlet of smokers. She can tell he’s trying to talk to her, but all she can do is smile and nod; the music is still far too loud. They walk around the corner of the school. She sees the gate to the football stadium is open. Another couple in formalwear has just walked inside.
She knows it’s a mistake, and starts to turn back. The boy’s insistent. His friends are all here. They’ve planned this. Two boys are on the field, tossing the ball back and forth in their rented tuxes. Others are clustered with their dates in a small group, passing around a bottle. A couple is lying down on the 50-yard line, kissing.
The boy tries to pull her by her hand onto the football field. When she won’t come, he grabs her arm and yanks her. His hand can close around her upper arm. It hurts. She’s pulled off balance. She puts one foot on the football field.
The nymphs are tunneling upward where the maples grow outside the parking lot. They stop.
She pulls against his hold, tries to run away. He picks her up, throws her over his shoulder. The football boys whoop at him. He carries her across the field while the other couples laugh. Her face is burning. She’s too embarrassed to call out. They think it’s a joke. Maybe he is only joking. He puts her down on the far side, pushes her back on the ground.
The nymphs change direction.
One of the other guys asks if he needs a rubber. He laughs. This time maybe the girls don’t. It’s hard to tell. He’s torn her dress now, ripped it. She can’t go back inside now. She looks at the tops of the maple trees and decides to go there. She’ll imagine herself there, just hide there and wait until this is all over. Her contact lens is falling out. A tear slides down her cheek and hits the dirt.
Now. They burst out of the ground. Magicicada Brood X. Only instead of climbing a tree, they swarm the boy. Two of them pierce his eyes as if they were a tender young sapling. He opens his mouth, sucking in more bugs than air to scream. Now he’s not only blind but choking, his mouth full of new wriggling life eager to explore. The other boys and girls hear his distress and instinctively scatter. Nymphs are swarming down the collar of his rented shirt, into the waistband of his briefs, looking for someplace to sink themselves inside. Others climb the goalpost and use that for a base as they break free from their shells and spread their wings at last.
The boy rolls on the ground, clawing at his eyes and writhing in pain. For the rest of his life he will hear the sound of cicadas as ten thousand rattlesnakes, as the trees themselves screeching in laughter.
The girl, shakily, manages to stand. Her dress, ruined, falls around her feet, but the magicicada surround her, cling to her and cover her. She totters on her heels at first, but quickly gathers strength from thousands of tiny hearts in open circulatory flow. They love her. They protect her. Their new shiny exoskeletons harden into armor for themselves and for her as well.
“There is freedom within, there is freedom without…”
From halfway across the football field she can hear the DJ’s music. She can feel her heels sink into the turf. But the terror from moments before has dissipated. Even the jitters are gone. With each step, she’s only getting stronger. She no longer hears anything from the dance, not the ballad from the speakers or the chatter from the teenagers clustered outside smoking in their rented tuxes. She doesn’t hear or feel her shoes hitting the ground, barely feels her hand on the door.
But her classmates feel the air shift when she comes in. One by one, they turn their heads to look at her, the red-eyed freak. And they think, as one, Damn. She looks amazing. In her skin-tight dress of black and gold lace, delicate as an insect’s wings, studded with tiny red jewels. The kids feel strangely off-balance. One boy rubs his eyes furiously, as if he were Paul on the road to Damascus. They don’t understand. How can they have known her all their lives and only now, after 17 years, really see her?
She doesn’t see them. Her ruby eyes are closed, a dreamy smile on her face, the sound of a thousand maracas in her ears. The DJ can play whatever he wants. She only dances to the music of the cicadas.


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Chemical engineers descended on the Houses of Parliament yesterday, to ask MPs and policymakers about UK Science and Global Opportunities at Parliamentary Links Day – the largest science event in the Parliamentary calendar. They had been selected by IChemE, as a special thank-you for the time they had dedicated volunteering for the organisation.
In the wake of the Election result and as Brexit negotiations begin to take shape, Parliamentary Links Day, organised by the Royal Society of Biology, saw a record turn-out of scientists and engineers all keen to discuss how the political landscape impacted their industry and work.
Last week (Thursday 12 January), the IChemE Energy Centre welcomed participants both online and in person to discuss the outcomes of ‘COP22 – what next?’.
Hosted by Chair of the IChemE Energy Centre, Professor Stefaan Simons, at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, participants first heard from Board members Dr Rachael Hall, Model Site Lead – Severn Trent Innovation Team, and Mark Apsey, Technical Services Director – Ameresco Limited, about their experience at COP22 in Marrakech.
Air quality is something that teenagers and school children probably spend little time thinking about. In the area of Wasatch Front, Utah, US, this issue is particularly important due to weather inversion.
Weather or temperature inversions occur when there is an increase in temperature with height. This means that an inversion can trap pollutants below it causing higher pollution levels.
Educating young children about air quality and how the decisions we make as an individual and as a society affect pollution can be a challenge, so a chemical engineering research associate at the University of Utah, Kerry Kelly, came up with a video game idea to do just that.
Kelly wanted school students to start thinking critically about air quality, so working with Roger Altizer, a professor at the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering video game program, the web-based game “Bad Air Day: Play It Like UCAIR” was created.

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Watch: Chloe Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham Debut as Couple
Actions may speak louder than words when it comes to Brooklyn Beckham and Chloë Grace Moretz's relationship status.
The 18-year-old son of Victoria Beckham and David Beckham and the 20-year-old Kick-Ass actress had confirmed a relationship in 2016, making their red carpet debut as a couple at the premiere of her film Neighbors: Sorority Rising, then called it quits late that summer.
Brooklyn, who recently moved to New York City to study photography, told E! News in August he is "single" and "having fun." But weeks later, he and and Chloë sparked rumors they had rekindled their romance and the two have recently been dropping hints about it on Instagram.
They dropped their biggest one yet on Saturday when Chloë posted on her Instagram Stories feed a video of Brooklyn giving her a long kiss on the cheek as the two cuddle at a rugby match in Dublin. They attended the game with her older brothers Trevor and Colin.
The actress is in Ireland filming The Widow. She and Brooklyn have not commented on the status of their relationship.


According to the latest research by L2, a brand analysis company, Amazon has more private labels, not by analysts. According to the report, researchers found 41 private label swimwear manufacturers, seven more than those of Morgan Stanley.
29 of them are clothing, including jeans, sportswear, swimsuits, shoes, and L2. All intellectual property lawyers James F. Struthers office submits the operation of the trademark, his name has become the Amazon’s trademark application before, L2 said.
In the second quarter, Cooper Smith wrote on Monday’s blog that Amazon’s latest private label seems to have been launched in the past few months, in order to make full use of holiday shopping boom.
Amazon has done an excellent job in its own brand consumer goods, especially batteries and baby wipes, but its clothing products are attracting consumers, which is a challenge to traditional players such as Adidas, Nike and Calvin. This puts Nike in trouble, considering that it decided to sell on Amazon earlier this year.
Amazonbasics goods have easily smashed other retailers’ private consumer goods brands, but Amazon is not far from Amazon’s main line, driving further Amazon to buy the whole food 365 line. Amazon’s amazonbasics brand goods are dominant, own brand sales, earning more than $250 million a year to date (up to 85% of the total sales of its own brand in the United States), but the private label swimwear manufacturers lark and RO and baby care brands and vitamin Amazon elements are increased by 90%, from the beginning of last year, according to the analysis of electronic commerce click one of the retail company report. Many products are provided only to Prime members, helping to expand the value of Amazon’s $99 a year.
Speaking of fashion, the success of Amazon’s own brand has brought many challenges to the clothing brand. In addition to all kinds of private labels for clothing, footwear and accessories, Amazon is also experimenting with various sales and delivery modes, including a new clothing ordering service (now in the beta version), which is known as a boutique wardrobe. According to Amazon’s data, Amazon’s necessities occupy 3% of the best seller in all its clothing categories, defeating Adidas, Nike and Calvin. It sounds like a lot of consumer power: Amazon accounted for 5% elements, diaper bestsellers, beat Unilever’s seventh generation, and amazonbasics is the leading brand of batteries, more than Duracell, L2 notes.
“This is a way of selling brand fashion,” Smith said. “The importance of category to the retailer is clear.” Instead of waiting for famous brands to release, Amazon also uses its own brand products to fill the blank space.
According to other L2 studies, when private label swimwear manufacturers sell directly on Amason website, they can control their brands on the website, which makes Amason take risks to evaluate their bestsellers and sell them according to their basic conditions. Even if they have not officially released Amazon, their models are available through the market of third party suppliers, according to the report. For example, there are more than 2300 of the Amazon market for Tory Burch items, some discount as low as 71%, the manufacturer’s recommended retail price.
In the day, this is the first time that Amazon’s own brand Mae (underwear), goodthreads (men’s shirts), and RO (women) and the next (men’s shirts) landed on Amazon’s bestseller list in their categories, visibility to the Prime Minister of the day are landing page the screen driver based on L2. The study found that, in fact, in this year’s golden day, the Amazon’s fashion page is fully featured by its own brand products. These private label swimwear brands have maintained a great momentum in prime time.


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The Paranoid Style in American Politicsdescribe the provincialism in American society, warning it contains much anti-intellectual fear of the cosmopolitan city, presented as wicked by the xenophobic and anti-Semitic Populists of the s. They trace the direct political and ideological lineage between the Populists and anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyismthe political paranoia manifest in his contemporary time.
The only problem is, he is with Amy and there's no way he would ever return her affections As soon as she closed her door behind her, she slid down it, burying her face into her arms as she cried. She thought Leonard loved her, he had proposed numerous times, followed her like a puppy, and he was absolutely devoted to her.
She thought she was finally in a relationship where everything was fully functional and she wasn't with another jerk. However, walking in on him having full on sex with Priya, who had recently returned from India, was just too much. Yes, Leonard had his insensitive moments but she never thought he would cheat on her.
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How could this have happened? Leonard cheating on her! Knock knock knock 'Penny? Sheldon didn't say anything; he just walked towards her and gave her a hug. Shocked at his actions, Penny melted into his arms and just cried. Sheldon shut the door behind them with his foot and just held her, stroking her hair and rubbing the small of her back.
This isn't like you, you don't hug people,' Penny whispered through her tears. When I entered the apartment to see Leonard and Koothrapali's insufferable sister dishevelled, panicked, half-dressed and running around like headless chickens, I put two and two together and came straight over.
What was he to do now? He wasn't an athlete so it wouldn't work for him to lift her. He also didn't have the heart to wake her, after all she deserved a bit of sleep, just to calm down and relax.
This was just typical Penny. Even when she was distraught, she still managed to make his life difficult. Maybe the hug was too much? Sighing, Sheldon shook her shoulder gently to try and wake her but she didn't stir.
He would have to try and be an athlete after all. Well, if he dropped her, he certainly wasn't apologising as he had already tried to wake her. Sheldon wiggled her so that she fell back into the crook of his left arm before placing his right arm under her legs and lifting so he ended up carrying her bridal style.
She was surprisingly light and to his shock, he found that it was fairly easy for him to lift her over to her bed and place the covers over her. As he started to leave the room, Penny called his name.
I couldn't possibly stay here. He sat down on her bed and made sure she was all tucked in before starting to sing soft kitty to her. He looked down and then back at her.
Amy and I tried it as an experiment and it failed. I just want some security,' Penny pleaded, giving him doe eyes. Sighing with defeat, Sheldon let her hand remain where it was.
Sheldon looked down at their intertwined hands and frowned. Somehow it was different holding Penny's hand in comparison to Amy's; with Penny it was like the cogs in a train… they fit together perfectly.
Soon Penny was asleep and Sheldon quietly left her apartment. Upon entering his own apartment, Sheldon saw Leonard hunched over in the chair, chewing his nail and bouncing his knee up and down.
Upon hearing the door close, Leonard looked up and blinked at Sheldon. Sheldon hung his jacket up before sighing and turning to face Leonard again.
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The first military governor of Kebbi state and former minister of communications, Gen Patrick Aziza is dead. He died Saturday at the age of 67.
Aziza who has been sick of cancer, reportedly died in Abuja about 3:45am . The news of his death took the urhobos and Deltans aback as people were seen in groups discussing the sudden death of the onetime minister of Communication under the military government of late General Sani Abacha.
Major-General (retired) Patrick Aziza was the first military Governor of Kebbi state after it was split off from Sokoto State on 27 August 1991 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Aziza's was born in Okpe local Government Area in Delta state on 23 December 1947. He was raised in Abakaliki. He went to Ibadan for his secondary education before joining the army and participating in the civil war (1967–1970). Aziza then attended the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, graduating in 1970. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant and promoted to lieutenant in 1970, and was posted to the 3rd Marine Commando. In 1971 he was promoted to captain.
Aziza was the Brigade Commander of the Amphibious Brigade in Calabar when he was appointed the first military administrator of Kebbi State, holding office from 28 August 1991 to January 1992, when he handed over to the elected civilian governor at the start of the aborted 3rd Republic.
Aziza was a member of the group of officers that planned the coup in which General Sanni Abacha took power. He was Chairman of the Special Military Tribunal that convicted Olusegun Obasanjo and Major General Shehu Y' Ardua for involvement in an alleged 1995 coup plot.
He was also head of a tribunal that tried six journalists for treason, based on publishing accounts of the coup. The trials were swift and the conclusion appeared to be decided in advance.
Aziza was required by President Obasanjo to retire from the army in June 1999 after the return to democracy.
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Treasure Hunt in Prague
On the TerraHunt gaming platform, specializing in organizing team games, you'll find a wide selection of treasure hunt games designed for companies.
One of the most popular is Treasure Hunt Prague. This game stands out for its combination of modern technology and a creative approach to task completion, carefully integrated into the city's historical and cultural context.
Thanks to a mobile phone or tablet app, participants are guided through Prague's most interesting places, where they face not only questions and puzzles but also tasks focused on team cooperation and mutual support.
TerraHunt thus brings a completely new dimension to corporate team-building events, where the combination of fun, education, and team collaboration creates the ideal conditions for strengthening the team spirit.
Treasure Hunt with an Adventurous Story
Teams preferring to have their activity in nature rather than in the center have the option to experience one of the story games, which can be set in any environment and can even be played virtually.
Let's look at the most popular places in Prague, which are accessible, and where it's possible to organize a corporate event for hundreds of people.
Stromovka, an extensive and historically significant park in Prague, becomes the ideal place for carrying out a Treasure Hunt with a story. Its vast green spaces and mysterious nooks provide the perfect setting for an adventurous Treasure Hunt.
Hostivař Forest Park
Hostivař Forest Park, an oasis of calm on the edge of the city's hustle, offers another great location for the team building game Treasure Hunt. This park, with its beautiful forest environment and water area, adds another dimension to the game and allows participants to experience a unique day full of fun and adventure.
Divoká Šárka Park
Divoká Šárka, a wild and picturesque valley full of rock formations and natural beauty, is another excellent place for organizing team building with the Treasure Hunt program.
Why Choose Treasure Hunt for Your Team
Treasure Hunt in Prague offers a unique combination of fun, adventure, and team work. The tasks are designed to promote communication and strategic thinking.
Whether you decide on an adventure in Stromovka, Hostivař Forest Park, Divoká Šárka, or right in the center of Prague, each location offers a unique atmosphere and opportunities for an unforgettable team experience.

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Best Thailand holidays
Telegraph Travel has collaborated with a number of holiday partners to bring you the best holidays in Thailand. Immerse yourself in the incredible history and culture of this fascinating country, discover the bustling capital of Bangkok with a guided tuk-tuk tour, meet Asian elephants in the Golden Triangle or take some time to relax with an authentic Thai massage. Unwind further along the golden shores of Krabi Island, see monks chanting at Wat Pho Temple or explore the ruins of Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Siam. Whatever you choose to do in Thailand, you are sure to discover a wealth of experiences.
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How to explain these 10 movies to a 5-year-old
Could you explain your favorite film to a 5-year-old?
Americans took to Twitter Friday to attempt such an act. The hashtag #ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld reached trending status in the United States that morning, with more than 9,400 tweets associated with the hashtag.
The tweets act as a way for adults to explain high-minded film concepts to children. They also serve as a way for parents to encourage their children to use their imagination, something that will help youngsters build cognitive skills, according to recent research.
Psychologists at the University of Texas at Austin studied the effect of imagination on cognitive thinking back in 2015, finding that magical thinking, when children live in their own fantastical worlds, possibly helps them learn about different perspectives, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Not engaging in imagination, the researchers suggest, could result in social deficiencies among children, too, WSJ reported.
"The imagination is absolutely vital for contemplating reality, not just those things we take to be mere fantasy," Paul Harris, a development psychologist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told WSJ.
It helps, too, that children today are more imaginative than in years past. A study from Case Western Reserve University suggests that children play with more imagination today than they did back in the 1980s.
Researcher Sandra Russ said the study should quell any parents who worry that the modern world is too real, according to the American Psychological Association.
"Even though children have less time to play in the real world, their imagination … seems to be getting better," she said. "That was a surprise."
We've collected some of the most imaginative ways to explain a film to a 5-year-old, which could help parents foster creative thinking among their youngsters.
These also help parents explain movies that may be too graphic or violent for their children to watch.
No, they're not fighting stars, the war is up in the stars. #ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld
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A house falls on a lady & a girl steals her shoes. There's a talking lion, tin man & scarecrow & mama needs a nap. #ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld
— Katie (@aCinnamonGirl) January 13, 2017
#ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld A singing nanny risks the lives of the children in her care, by letting them dance on rooftops with undesirables.
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#ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld That big dinosaur is going to eat a guy while he is on the toilet, you'll love it.
— Jennifer Vogenthaler (@jenvogie) January 13, 2017
It's was nap time inside a nap time. #ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld
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Kevin got left alone in his mansion xmas but Santa clause wasn't trying to drop presents off it was robbers #ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld
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They want to get married, but their families are fighting. So they sing and dance about it. A lot.
— Bess Katerinsky (@BeKaterInTheSky) January 13, 2017
#ExplainAFilmToA5YearOld If you can find a golden ticket you can eat as much chocolate and candy as you want but be good or you will pay!
— Angela Davis ✊ (@MieshaM1) January 13, 2017
A boy is friends with a girl for a long time. Then, they decide to get married after a kiss.
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ITANAGAR, JUNE 24 : The Capital Traffic police has appealed to all the commuters and road users specially the vehicle owners not to create problems for others while driving and parking of your vehicle on the roadside.
Haphazard parking on the road has been creating lots of hurdles for fellow commuters and on several occasions it has been witnessed that due to haphazard parking by few disobedient drivers and vehicle owners there has been traffic jams and smooth traffic movements has also been badly affected.
The traffic safety cell of the Capital police has started its task with a proper parking system on the roadside and has since joining Dy SP Traffic P Nobin Jomoh has been advocating for parking of any types of vehicles as specified place of parking without touching the white line of the road. Jomoh has been seen on street for last few days with PA system and dozens of Traffic wardens and traffic police has been deployed at vulnerable places especially at Ganga market and Gandhi market area and road leading toward C Sector and other important location of the capital city including the Naharlagun township and other parts of the city and observing the way the general masses support the new system of the traffic parking in the capital complex.
.It has been observed that people have still not learnt properly to park their vehicle and due to which the traffic police has been challenging the defaulters across the capital complex and in a single day on June 23rd a sum of Rs.182600. Collection of a huge fine is a matter of great concern for the denizens of the capital complex.
A senior officer and a senior police officer says that better not to give opportunity to traffic police to fine we need to learn to park our vehicle in proper way and if there is no space for parking please walk for a small distance to visit to your office and shops etc. When we learn to live with Covid within a few months, why can’t we learn to park our vehicle on our own national highway or the arterial roads of the colony/sector.
The Capital Traffic Police team under DySP Nobin Jomoh is working very hard to enforce traffic rules in the capital and request denizens of the capital to follow traffic rules, save lives and save cash as well.


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Headteacher's News July 2016Download PDF
Both Mrs Buckley and Mrs Bracken will start their maternity leave this summer and we wish them the very best for next year. Ms Maton will be the Deputy Headteacher next year and Ms Fortet has been appointed as the new Assistant Headteacher.
This has been an incredible year both at school level and in the world at large. As the year draws to an end we can reflect upon the successes and challenges that we have all faced at some stage or another. Despite whatever happens both nationally and beyond, it is vital that Montpelier and its community remains outward looking, confident and optimistic. Watching our Year 6 children last night reminded us all that the future can and will be bright.


“I am still here because of dance,” Richard Daniels says. At 47, Daniels has returned to his first love almost by accident and is bemused that he has become known as a “downtown,” or experimental, solo dance performer in New York City. Now he’s developing an ambitious national performing-
“And then there was Richard Daniels,” Littler wrote in what was otherwise a pan of last summer’s Toronto Festival of Independent Dance Artists, “whose solo to the music of Beethoven’s Op. 135 String Quartet, titled ’Ghazi’ (Turkish for leader, survivor of war), flowed right from the music with the utmost economy, as if every movement counted.”
Each movement does count with mature artists like Daniels, who are gradually being welcomed back into American modern dance. Their bodies may not be up to the extreme technical demands made of younger dancers today, but they’ve lived long enough to be unafraid of expressing emotion in an increasingly hip, chill art form.
This is especially true of Daniels, who tested positive in 1992 after his lover of 16 years, lawyer Curtis Sykes, was diagnosed with PCP. “Curtis never wanted to be tested,” Daniels says. “He never believed there was such a thing as confidentiality.” And Daniels had no illusions about his own HIV status: “I knew if he was, I was.”
The two had met in ballet class in Kansas City, Missouri, where they both grew up. As a child, Daniels had always wanted to dance. “I’d put costumes on, play a record and perform in my room,” he says. “But I never felt it was acceptable for a good Jewish boy to be a dancer. So I asked for piano lessons.”
Eventually, Daniels headed east to college at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he received a degree in photography and took his first real dance classes. He returned home for two years, then he and Sykes moved to New York City together.
Daniels readily describes the performing career that followed as lackluster. His unsure attempts at choreography met with a resounding lack of interest. Then came an injury. “I was thirty,” he says. “I thought, ’It’s over. You’d better make a living.’ So I went into arts management.”
In 1994, five weeks before Sykes died, Daniels ran into Janie Brendel, a modern-dance teacher with whom he’d studied in the mid-’80s. Brendel wanted to help -- and she offered her teaching -- so Daniels returned to the studio.
“I was spending all day in the hospital,” he recalls, “but I could take three or four classes a week. Dance let me get out of myself a little bit. You can talk to therapists, friends, doctors, but it just doesn’t do the same thing. Janie would put on the tape, and I would do pliés with tears rolling down my cheeks.”
The classes made him hungry for the stage again. His return, after 15 years, came in a 1995 benefit for Dancers Responding to AIDS. In class, Daniels had worn dance clothes he found when cleaning out Sykes’ drawers after his death. And now, moving onstage on his own, Daniels felt that Sykes and Eric Beeler, an influential teacher and early AIDS casualty, “were holding me up.”
He wants to do the same for others. Buoyed by audiences’ positive reaction, Daniels had put together a program of solos -- dances he created on his own and with friends, as well as work by noted choreographers like Molissa Fenley, Eleanor King and Christopher Gillis. Now, he says, “I’m starting on a second program of dances by people facing a life-threatening disease.”
He envisions a touring package of workshops for the seriously ill and their caregivers, to accompany his solo program. “I also want to have a solo night as a benefit for people with AIDS,” he says.
“There are several things I want to communicate,” Daniels continues. “One is about finding opportunity in crisis. The other is that there are still so many people not in a position to be public about what they are coping with. I want to be a visible face to that.”
In “All the Time in the World,” a haunting solo he created with Barbara Mahler in 1997, Daniels bends and stretches slowly, suggesting a pilot flying blind through the night, searching for telltale beacons of light far below to guide him. “When we were working on it, Barbara would tell me to take more time,” he says. “There are a lot of quiet moments in that piece with nothing to do but focus. I have a tendency to rush. ’Dance as if you had all the time in the world,’ she’d say.”


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“Go big”, Janet Yellen, the US Treasury Secretary, urged other G20 finance ministers in a recent email. That’s what the US is doing, no question. Biden’s promised $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” will pass into law today in virtually untouched form. Admittedly, the increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has gone, but pretty much everything else survived intact, including means-tested $1,400 cash payouts to citizens.
Coming on top of the two previous stimulus packages, neither of which have yet been fully utilised, it’s a huge sum of money – nearly three times as big as the stimulus Barack Obama persuaded Congress to enact in the aftermath of the financial crisis – raising the question of whether the US economy actually needs such a mighty, additional shot in the arm.
Rising US Government bond yields, together with the 379,000 surge in jobs creation last month, far bigger than anyone expected, suggests not. Lots of economists, even a number of progressively minded ones, agree. The US recovery is already well under way.
Sadly, the same cannot be said of benighted Europe, where stimulus packages continue to look feeble by US standards, and vaccine rollout remains marooned in squeezed supply, logistical incompetence and confused political messaging.
Economically crippling lockdown measures may as a result persist for months to come, assuming they can any longer be enforced, that is, prolonging the agony and forestalling meaningful recovery. If the US is guilty of going too far in its stimulus package, potentially reawakening inflationary pressures down the line, Europe stands accused of not going far enough.
What we are likely to see over the next year, then, is the emergence of a two-speed world economy, with the US and China surging and the eurozone languishing. Meanwhile the UK – with its ‘spend now, pay later’ Budget and much swifter vaccine rollout programme – will be stuck somewhere in the middle.
Government bond yields have responded accordingly. Up to a point, a rising bond yield can be seen as a positive development, especially in markets which hitherto have been dominated by fears of secular stagnation, for they indicate growing confidence about prospects for growth.
Since the start of the year, the yield on ten-year US Treasuries has risen all the way from 0.92pc to nearly 1.6pc. That doesn’t sound much, and remains extraordinarily low by post war standards, but for these markets, it is a big move nonetheless.
Yields on comparable German bunds – a proxy for the eurozone – have admittedly risen by a similar order of magnitude over the same time frame, prompting concern at the European Central Bank that the European economy is being sucked into an American tightening which it hasn’t ordered and for which it is not yet ready. But over the last two weeks, there has been something of a decoupling. The US yield has continued upwards; the bund yield has remained broadly the same.
In the scale of things, such week-to-week divergence may seem neither here nor there. But what does seem clear is that the expected surge in corporate and household spending as excess savings built up during the course of the pandemic are partially disgorged, is going to take longer to come through in Europe than in the US, or even the UK.
My guess has long been that we will see quite a bit of inflation coming through in the US over the next several years, eventually forcing the US Federal Reserve to act to bring it back under control.
The challenge for Europe, as recently articulated in a speech by the ECB board member Fabio Penetta, will be to prevent rising worldwide interest rates from infecting bond yields in the eurozone, where given persistent pandemic related damage, they are needed like a hole in the head. The same is true of the UK, though to a lesser extent. Any significant rise in rates threatens to reignite sovereign debt worries in the eurozone.
Bottom line, Europe needs a Biden-like fiscal stimulus much more than America does. The EU’s “Recovery Plan for Europe” is dressed up as something similar, but in truth comes nowhere close. But any accompanying tightening in monetary conditions is absolute poison. European policymakers find themselves between a rock and a hard place.


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Alfred and Ace are two very spirited doggos named after Batman characters. They joined us in studio for some portrait photos to be used on their parent’s Christmas cards. Photography by Leanne Williams.
Roné had booked an outdoor shoot, but the weather didn’t co-operate, so at the last minute we relocated to the studio. The dogs LOVED showing off their tricks and posing skills. Photography by Leanne Williams.
What a little cutie! Siba was treated to some Cake Smash fun in our studio to celebrate her 1st birthday. The family chose a simple, elegant theme and the photos are classic and beautiful. I’m a lucky photographer! She was a little bit grumpy from teething pain, but her family’s laughter and enthusiasm gained some cute smiles. Yummy cake helped too. Siba was a true lady about it, and didn’t seem too keen on smashing the cake, so everyone stepped… Continue reading
Meet Nadia, owned by Draco, the 8 month-young Labrador. This was his first shoot – he made Nadia work very hard for some ‘stays’, but they both did so well. Read Nadia’s t-shirt for the rest of their story – ‘99% sure my soulmate is a dog’. By Leanne Williams.
Renee is one of the best dog handlers I’ve met. She instructs at Canine Performance Centre in Midrand, and competed at the 2018 Agility World Champs. She booked a studio shoot with her dogs, Savvy, Stardust and Sayde to show off some of their prizes and sponsors. By Leanne Williams.
Melissa’s pack of Border Collies includes spirited Esca, goofy Kadin, and old man Shay. Melissa’s dad and niece joined the shoot to help with the dogs. You know it’s serious stuff when Melissa almost wears shoes for the first 5 minutes of the shoot! By Leanne Williams.


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Representative Tina Davis has been serving the 141st district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2010. Within the House, she is a leader for issues including economic development, pay equity, property tax reform, and programs assisting families, seniors, and veterans. Representative Davis is a known advocate for commonsense legislation and philosophies that span the partisan divides, and serve the greater good in Bucks County, and throughout the commonwealth. As a former real estate agent, Rep. Davis understood firsthand the how the unfair property taxes hindered homeownership, and is a proponent for eliminating residential property taxes while fighting for responsible education funding. Other parts of her platform include protections against government corruption and fraud, implemented legal consequences for “revenge porn,” and new legislation and oversight for regulated drug and alcohol halfway houses.
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ANNOUNCEMENT 01 Jan 2013In January 2013, the government of Nigeria announced a change in import duties.
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With respect to the Fiscal policy measures 2012(related measure), the 2013 measures continue to focus on import substitution. Also, incentives for captial goods imports (through zero duties), to boost the local industries, continue.
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- Completely knock down components (CKD) for Mass Transit Buses (8702)
- Amorphous pet chips (3907)
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- Polymers of polyethylene and polypropylene (3901,3892): 5 per cent
The new measures entered into force on 1 January 2013.


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Mornings are cooler, most air chills the face, mist and thick clouds loom on the horizon. The days are becoming shorter and pleasurably cooler, although still warm on sunny afternoons. Occasional storms, rain, and thick mist have returned. Autumn, the season of new growth and new beginnings in the Bokkeveld has arrived.
The excitement can hardly be contained as we implement our organic farming production at Avontuur Sustainable Agriculture. At Avontuur we treasure soil, we value organic material and we soil microbial organisms. We believe that healthy, well-nurtured soils ensure sustainable production. This year we are very excited to expand our practises.
Our practise is focused on a transdisciplinary approach, ensuring conservation of the natural environment and embracing sustainable agricultural production practises that are underpinned by sound research and collaboration with colleagues from different disciplines. Our agricultural practices are focused on maximising soil health and producing sustainably in the face of the changing climate. Siyabonga Myeza’s enthusiasm, experience and understanding of conservation and ecosystem functioning combined with Noel Oettle’s knowledge and experience of Sustainable Land Management and Dryland conservation give heart, soul and feet to the project.
In our experience good soil preparation is crucial in achieving soil health and enhanced production. Understanding that soil is a living thing and is home to communities of micro- and macro-organisms living in it is important. Knowledge of how these organisms benefit soil and plant health affords any farmer priceless advantage in his or her practice. We have learned that working with forces of nature yields sustainable outcomes. In drylands, nourishing the soil with organic material such as compost and covering the soil with mulch or cover crops will protect it from harsh heat of the sun, dehydrating winds and compaction of the soil surface from intense raindrops. This contributes to the health of mycorrhizal fungi in the soil, which are critical for plant nutrition and health.
In the demonstration market garden on Avontuur we are currently growing broad beans to improve and enrich the soil, and garlic for the market. The soil has been enriched with compost made on the premises and sheep manure from the Oorlogskloof farm kindly provided by Rickus Louw. A layer of mulch of old chaff provides food for the microbes and earthworms that use it to enrich the soil, whilst also supressing weeds and conserving water in the soil. The beans are up and thriving and the garlic is pushing its spears up through the mulch. We are very optimistic about what the future holds for Avontuur.


We live in a modern world. The more money we earn the more different things we want. It is a normal part of our psychology. Lean production helped society to achieve its product demands. All mass productions use Lean optimization. Your device which you are using to stay connected at BetChan Casino was also produced using lean production.
Lean production is a system of manufacturing that emphasizes the minimization of waste and the maximization of value. The term “lean” was first coined in the 1990s by James Womack and Daniel Jones, who studied the Toyota Production System and identified five core principles of lean manufacturing: value, value stream, flow, pull, and perfection. In the years since, lean production has been adopted by manufacturing and service organizations around the world as a way to improve quality, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.
Principles of Lean Production
The key to lean production is creating value for the customer. This means making products and services that the customer wants, and making them in a way that minimizes waste.
Value stream mapping is a tool that can be used to identify and understand the flow of material and information through a process. It is a key tool in lean production, as it can help to identify areas of waste and opportunities for improvement.
Flow is the smooth and uninterrupted movement of material and information through a process. In lean production, flow is achieved by designing processes that are as simple and efficient as possible. This typically means creating dedicated work cells where each worker has all the necessary tools and materials to complete their task.
Pull is the opposite of push. In a push system, production is started without regard for whether there is customer demand for the product. This can lead to overproduction and inventory buildup. In a pull system, production is only started when there is a customer order. This helps to ensure that only the necessary amount of product is produced, and that inventory levels are kept low.
Perfection is the continuous improvement of all aspects of a process. In lean production, perfection is pursued through the use of tools such as kaizen, which is a Japanese word for continuous improvement.
Lean production has been shown to be an effective way to improve quality, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction. However, it is important to note that lean production is not a silver bullet. It is only one tool that can be used to improve a process. When used in conjunction with other tools, such as Six Sigma, it can be an even more powerful tool for process improvement.


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House on Fire in Aberystwyth
Image courtesy of Halfords Tour Series
Kristian House once again ended a tough week at the Halfords Tour Series in style, with a stunning individual win in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.
The fifth round of the series, run for the first time ever on a Friday night- only 24 hours after the previous round in Redditch, was a red-hot affair from the off, and House was out to make up for what he considered a disappointing performance the previous night.
“I was pretty pissed off after Redditch, I made the break there and couldn’t have been more aggressive, but in the end everyone just looked at me. The last five laps were so unbelievably negative, so tonight I just threw everything at them.
“In the end I knew exactly where to go and I hit them hard when I did. I wasn’t going to let what happened in Redditch happen to me twice.”
Despite Dean Downing winning the bunch sprint behind for fifth, the men in black missed out on their first team prize of the competition, as it was Team UK Youth who broke Endura’s winning streak.
After two weeks and five intense rounds of racing Rapha Condor Sharp now lie in third place behind Endura and Team UK Youth, meaning there is a lot of work for the defending champions in the weeks ahead.
Team manager John Herety, who has been with the other half of the team in Ireland at the An Post Ras this week, commented:
“The competition at the series has changed with the riders having to tackle three rounds in a week, and I think things will change further. We haven’t yet nailed it as a team and it is something we are going to have to start getting right straightaway. We run a dual program so we still have some firepower here at the Ras, and I think the next week will be crucial to see where we can end up in this competition.”
The riders will have several days to rest up over the weekend again before the series picks up again in Peterborough on Tuesday.
In the meantime you can see all the action from this round of the series on ITV4 on Monday May 28th at 8pm.
- How good is this shot ! “@TourdeKorea2013: @mike_cuming looking good in yellow! #TdK2013 @johnherety @raphacondor http://t.co/CrCV1zkCUB”
- RT @TourdeKorea2013: @mike_cuming looking good in yellow! #TdK2013 @johnherety @raphacondor http://t.co/oCjdyhvSue
- Reality check we also lost teammates @AaronBuggle and @carthy94 today. Going to be tough to defend.
- @mike_cuming in yellow with just over a minutes lead going into the final 2 stages of @TourdeKorea2013 couldn't of happened to a nicer guy
- RT @TourdeKorea2013: 25km to go in Stage 6. @mike_cuming is the virtual leader for @raphacondor. #TdK2013
- RT @TourdeKorea2013: 102 riders will sign on today after eight were dropped by their teams in the TTT and failed to make the time cut. #TdK…
- RT @London_phill: @raphacondor @MiBsponsor @james_fairbank_ Rapha team in Tour De Korea 2013 TTT http://t.co/SW09x70Zs0
- RT @182Jay: @raphacondor please share my @JustGiving page @thomwilson88, @DavidMetherell1 and I are fundraising for @MyelomaUK http://t.co…
- Great ride by the boys in Korea. 3rd by only 3 seconds in the 25km TTT today. Mike Cuming now up to 5th overall.
- Some nice pics of the boys and report on the great Mr Cancy's ride last night: http://t.co/ctoHu37ixb


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The IR-4 Project is hiring an assistant manager to work with the Environmental Horticulture (EHC) Program.
This role will be responsible for coordinating environmental horticulture research activities, as well as assisting with the biennial priority setting process to establish research projects.
This position will also conduct outreach to promote the EHC program. Ideal candidates will have experience working with environmental horticulture/ornamental crops, and will have excellent database management skills. Candidates should have either a master’s degree in the plant protection sciences, horticulture, or a related area with three years of experience in applied pest management research/product development; or have a bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience in this field.