What a day... what a wedding!
And so they tied the knot in complete and utter style at the wonderful Cherry Orchard Lake in Delamere, and despite the initial rain, the stars aligned and the sun came out just in time for their informal ceremony which was carried out by the lovely Richard Hughes who also made the beautiful wedding rings.
The theme was full on festival vibe, with Groom Steve (who is a bloody epic carpenter) making most of the details and lets not forget Beki, who can pretty much turn her hand to anything who made the flowers, fire pit and a whole host of other details which made the day personal and unique to them.
The food was out of this world amazing - the guests were incredible, the speeches were touching, then it all went down hill when Best Man Chris got hold of the mic and showed some pretty embarrassing pictures and told some equally embarrassing stories.
The kids had fun, the dogs were roaming about being well behaved, none more than Steve and Beki's pup, Poppy who had the role of ring bearer and pretty much photobombed at every given opportunity.
The evening guests arrived and Beki popped off to get dressed into some pretty amazing festival wear, there was facepaint and glitter galore.. I'm pretty sure you guys are going to be finding that in unfathomable places for many weeks to come.
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Report to guide sheriff's office on community policing
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
It is by that principle – originally attributed to the 13th century St. Francis of Assisi and more recently popularized by Stephen Covey's …
Kristine Morris, 80, of Chimacum turns to talk with other deputies while sitting with Deputy Adam Newman on March 11 during the first in a series of "Coffee with a Cop" events at the Chimacum Cafe. "I just wanted to know who these people were, see their faces," said Morris, who came with questions about how the sheriff's office handles juvenile offenders and runaways. "You don't get many chances to meet these people unless you are getting pulled over or something." Four people showed up March 11. Two more meetings at the Chimacum Cafe are set for 2 p.m. March 18 and 2 p.m. March 25, each featuring a new cast of deputies. Sheriff Dave Stanko said he may organize more meetings at other locations if this round goes well. Photo by Nicholas Johnson
Basic Law Enforcement Academy Commander David Bales of the state's Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien gives a presentation on Blue Courage to some 55 people, including sheriff's deputies, Port Townsend police officers and various elected officials, on Jan. 16 at East Jefferson Fire Rescue's Station 11 in Chimacum. Photo by Nicholas Johnson
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:30 pm
It is by that principle – originally attributed to the 13th century St. Francis of Assisi and more recently popularized by Stephen Covey's "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" – that Sheriff Dave Stanko has carried out his 28-year career.
Stanko, who was elected sheriff by 269 votes in November 2014, said that same principle is guiding his early efforts to improve the department's community relations in Jefferson County.
"This is the way I've been doing law enforcement my whole career," said the 66-year-old Stanko, who retired to Cape George 10 years ago following a police career in Fullerton, California. "We want to treat people the way you would treat your own mother."
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Upon his election, Stanko contacted his former boss from the Fullerton Police Department, Lee DeVore, who participated as a member of the Washington State Institute for Community Oriented Policing at Washington State University while serving as police chief in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Stanko invited DeVore to assess the extent of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office's current use of community-oriented policing and make recommendations to help with greater implementation of such policing.
"I'm very pleased with this report," Stanko said of the 40-page Community Policing Assessment Report released March 16, which he hopes can help guide his department to "lean away from the community's perception of militarization and toward a culture of courage and guardianship.
"The goal of this is to improve transparency between the department and the community," he said of the report and how it will guide the department's implementation of community-oriented policing.
DeVore, now retired, and two others conducted more than 80 interviews Jan. 5-9, including most department employees and volunteers, county commissioners and other elected officials, school officials, residents, business leaders and civic organization leaders, among others.
The report recommended updates to the department's mission statement and development of a strategic plan and organizational changes. It suggests the sheriff give all deputies business cards and encourage involvement in community groups; expand the reserve deputy program and assign deputies to focus on geographic regions; hire more women; reward good work; try bicycle patrols in business areas; increase the scope and frequency of training; assess workload and improve communication among deputies; foster a culture of teamwork and encourage deputies to take chances in problem solving; draw volunteers from the county's senior population; and grow collaborative relations with schools and other groups.
Stanko said when he started, the department was already doing well in many of these areas, especially in collaborating with schools and tribes.
"I was pleased when I got here to find out we are more engaged with the community than I realized," he said. "We could just be better at marketing ourselves."
Of the report's recommendations, Stanko said he's initially focused on hiring more women and doing a comprehensive assessment of deputy workload and deployment.
Currently, the sheriff's office employs four female deputies. Two are jail corrections deputies, one is a sex crime investigator and another is a civil division supervisor.
Stanko said his office is currently looking to replace a West End deputy set to retire in January 2016. He said he would be giving special attention to female and minority applicants.
Two department volunteers, John Ammeter and Anna Phillips, are currently organizing a citizen advisory board capable of taking community concerns to the board of county commissioners. This board could offer a greater voice to West End communities, Stanko said.
The goal is to convene that board by May. If interested in being a member, contact the Sheriff's Office or email Ammeter directly at
jammeter@cablespeed.com.
DeVore's services typically cost some $500 an hour, but he and his team completed this report on per diem, meaning the county paid for lodging and food, which came to $1,200.
The full report is available for review on the department's website,
jeffersonsheriff.org.
Community outreach is a major tenet of community-oriented policing and an equally important part of Stanko's early efforts to improve deputy relations with the community.
"Communication is 95 percent of our job," he said.
Stanko has launched a series of hour-long "Coffee with a Cop" events to give community members a chance to meet and ask questions of deputies in an informal setting. Those began March 11 and continue March 18 and March 25 beginning at 2 p.m. at the Chimacum Cafe.
Stanko said if those events are successful, he'll look to expand the program to other community restaurants, such as the Twana Roadhouse in Quilcene, the Halfway House in Brinnon and the Bayview Restaurant in Port Townsend.
Stanko, a former president of Port Townsend's Rotary Club, has encouraged his deputies to become more involved in community organizations. Undersheriff Joe Nole, for example, has joined the East Jefferson Rotary Club.
The department has already made strides in working with schools, though Stanko said there is room for improvement in those collaborations.
Quilcene School Principal Gary Stebbins has opened on-campus office space for deputy use as needed, though the school district does not have a full-time resource officer. Stanko said a maximum of three deputies cover the Quilcene area at any given time.
Chimacum High School Principal Whitney Meissner has welcomed deputies to visit the campus whenever they can, Stanko said. Some deputies stop by during their lunch hour to play basketball with students.
"My goal is to get them comfortable with the students and to get the students comfortable with them," Stanko said.
In January, Stanko brought a two-day leadership development workshop, called Blue Courage, to the department to emphasize deputies' role as guardians of the community.
While most in the department received two days of Blue Courage training from Basic Law Enforcement Academy Commander David Bales, two deputies, Shane Stevenson and Charlie McCarty, traveled to the state's Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien for a four-day course on how to train others in Blue Courage.
Stanko said those deputies are available to give presentations on that policing philosophy for schools, churches and any other interested community groups.
McCarty is also a department lead for other types of training, such as rape aggression defense and critical incident training.
McCarty has teamed up with Dove House Advocacy Services in Port Townsend to provide the women-only self defense training, and he led training exercises at Brinnon School for such threats as an active shooter or a bomb threat. Both of those efforts were recently begun under Stanko.
At the end of May, Stanko plans to clarify the JCSO's mission, goals and strategic plan through a team-building workshop for supervisors facilitated by former county administrator David Goldsmith.
"It doesn't matter what I say, if there's no buy-in from your people it's hard to implement any strategic plan," he said. "I have a top-down strategy of what I want to do but if I don't have bottom-up buy-in, I won't get too far."
In June, the department is to undergo Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs accreditation through the Loaned Executive Management Assistance Program. That association sends a team of law enforcement professionals to review the department's functionality and alignment with industry standards, then publish a report in August.
The department has begun crisis intervention training through the state's Criminal Justice Training Commission. That training teaches deputies how to recognize and handle people with mental health issues such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and personality disorders. The department has completed one day of the two-day course overview with the second day coming in May or June to focus on role playing.
Community members are invited tour the sheriff's office and jail at 79 Elkins Road in Port Hadlock during an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May 2.
For those interested in volunteering with the sheriff's office, call 385-3831 and ask for volunteer coordinator Dan Holleran.

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The Handmaid's Tale Vs the Blithedale Romance: Literary Comparison
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The Blithedale Romance and The Handmaid's Tale Comparison
Characterization serves as one of the most prevalent techniques that authors utilize in order to make their works to seem compelling and enthralling to audiences. By fashioning images of characters through their speech or actions, readers tend to perceive their personalities as believable and life-like, thus motivating them to continue reading. While Margaret Atwood in the novel The Handmaid's Tale and Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Blithedale Romance both characterize their protagonists with reserved personalities, their reasoning behind this choice varies. Atwood's portrayal serves to depict Offred's true, rebellious nature; by contrast, Hawthorne attempts to capture Coverdale's desire for individuality.
Throughout their novels The Handmaid's Tale and The Blithedale Romance, both Atwood and Hawthorne seldom portray the emotions of their protagonists, Offred and Coverdale respectively, in order to contribute to the depiction of their private, introverted nature. In regards to Offred, the author demonstrates that the protagonist frequently internalizes any emotions of her past or present. When training for the handmaid position, many of the handmaids, such as Janine, readily communicated the emotional happenings of their past; yet the protagonist never conveys a single detail about her traumatic escape attempt or the loss of her family. Additionally, Offred never openly expresses her hope of escaping from Gilead and reuniting with the loved ones of her past; unlike the other handmaids, such as Moira and Ofglen who often converse on this topic. Unbeknownst to those around her, Offred embodies a strong sense of hope that one day she will receive a spontaneous message from her husband Luke, "Any day now there may be a message from him. It will come in the most unexpected way, from the least likely person, someone I never would have suspected… The message will say that I must have patience: sooner or later he will get me out, we will find her, wherever they've put her. She'll remember us and we will be all three of us together (Atwood 106).
Similar to Offred, Hawthorne's protagonist Coverdale embodies a shy, detached personality in an attempt to conceal his true emotions from others. Throughout the entire novel, Coverdale never reveals his love for his fellow Blithedale member Priscilla, indicating that he seems uncomfortable with the idea of sharing personal sentiments with other individuals. Not only do the characters remain unaware of the protagonist's genuine feelings, the readers stay uniformed until the final sentences of the book as Coverdale reflects on his time after Blithedale and confesses his secret, "The reader, therefore, since I have disclosed so much, is entitled to this one word more. As I write it, he will charitably suppose me to blush, and turn away my face:— I—I myself—was in love—with—PRISCILLA!" (Hawthorne). Coverdale's confession serves as justification for the peculiar actions he performs throughout the novel while trying to conceal his feelings from others. Overall, authors Atwood and Hawthorne demonstrate the introverted personalities of their protagonists Offred and Coverdale by refraining from displaying their true emotions throughout the novel.
Nevertheless, Margaret Atwood portrays the protagonist of her novel The Handmaid's Tale as a reserved character in an effort to disguise Offred's rebellious nature from everyone except the readers. By keeping all of her insubordinate thoughts to herself, the protagonist demonstrates the impression of an obedient citizen of Gilead. For instance, when Ofglen and Offred engage in their forbidden conversation about the presence of God, Ofglen seems stunned that the protagonist responds to her illegal statement, "'I thought you were a true believer,' Ofglen says… 'You were always so stinking pious" (169). In actuality, Offred's thoughts prove her defiant personality as she always dwells on her past, which directly violates the rules of the socieety. During her training, the aunts preached that reminiscing about the past went against the laws of Gilead since their current lives should only circle around one task: repopulation. Unbeknownst to those around her, Offred frequently breaks this rule whenever she finds a quiet moment to think or reflect such as during her bath before the Ceremony. The protagonist recalls the horrifying moment of the foiling of her family's escape attempt and how the enemy drags her daughter away right in front of her,
"She's too young, it's too late, we come apart, my arms are held, and the edges go dark and nothing is left but a little window, … I can see, small but very clear, I can see her, going away from me, through the trees which are already turning, red and yellow, holding out her arms to me, being carried away" (75).
Instead of focusing on her responsibilities during the Ceremony, Offred contravenes the rules by concentrating on various moments of her life before Gilead. Moreover, when Serena Joy grants Offred permission to enjoy a cigarette and possess a match, rather than enjoy the cigarette, the protagonist contemplates how the match could aid her in an escape attempt from the house and possibly Gilead itself, "I don't need to smoke this cigarette. … I could burn the house down. Such a fine thought…" (209). All in all, Atwood purposely depicts Offred with a quiet, reserved personality in order to only exhibit her insubordinate nature to the readers through her thoughts.
On the other hand, within the novel The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts his protagonist with a detached personality in an attempt to express Coverdale's desire for individuality. In a typical day at Blithedale, inhabitants spend a majority of the time with their assigned group; the men work outside while the women labor inside. Sleeping seems like the only time that the people of the community ever receive any true alone time. Yet, every once in a while, members can take a day off for some much needed relaxation. When given the opportunity, Coverdale prefers to spend his time off the beaten path, just to ensure that no one interrupts his peace and quiet,
"Not long after the preceding incident, in order to get the ache of too constant labor out of my bones, and to relieve my spirit of the irksomeness of a settled routine, I took a holiday. It was my purpose to spend it, all alone, from breakfast-time till twilight, in the deepest wood-seclusion that lay anywhere around us… Unless renewed by a yet farther withdrawal towards the inner circle of self-communion, I lost the better part of my individuality" (Hawthorne).
The private nature of Coverdale contributes to his longing for individuality as he does not typically spend such an extended amount of time with other people. Furthermore, the protagonist embodies such a strong sense of distinctiveness that he emanates the impression that he holds little interest in Blithedale and its values. The community promotes a sense of closeness to its inhabitants. Throughout the novel, most of the residents spend time with the social circles they form as seen with Hollingsworth, Zenobia, and Priscilla. Conversely, Coverdale enjoys spending time without the company of others in order to engage in his old world habits of writing poetry,
"It was an admirable place to make verses, tuning the rhythm to the breezy symphony that so often stirred among the vine-leaves; or to meditate an essay for the Dial, in which the many tongues of Nature whispered mysteries, and seemed to ask only a little stronger puff of wind, to speak out the solution of its riddle. Being so pervious to air-currents, it was just the nook, too, for the enjoyment of a cigar. This hermitage was my one exclusive possession, while I counted myself a brother of the socialists" (Hawthorne).
Giving up old world possessions stands as one of founding principles of Blithedale in order to create a firm sense of community. These old habits promote selfishness and as Coverdale participates in them it endorses the idea that he still feels strong attachments to the old life and not Blithedale. In the end, in order to convey Coverdale's gravitation towards individuality, Hawthorne characterizes him with a fervently private disposition.
Overall, in the novels The Handmaid's Tale and The Blithedale Romance, Atwood and Hawthorne choose to portray their protagonists with an introverted and private personality. Yet, the reasoning behind this choice serves entirely different purposes in the characterization of Offred and Coverdale. Atwood utilizes a quiet nature for Offred in order to conceal her actual recalcitrant feelings towards Gilead and reveal them to only the readers. On the other hand, Hawthorne applies the personality to Coverdale in an attempt to depict his gravitation towards individuality and his weak interest in the community of Blithedale.
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Glasnow is dominating again to lead Rays
by Gary Shelton on May 4, 2019 · 0 comments
in general, Tampa Bay Rays
Glasnow is 6-0 on the season./JEFFREY S. KING
Saturday, 3 a.m.
How old do you have to be before you can be an ace?
How many hitters have to walk away shaking their heads? How many curve balls have to snap by them? How many times do you have to walk away in victory?
With the Tampa Bay Rays and pitcher Tyler Glasnow, all questions seem pertinent so far. On a staff with Cy Young winner Blake Snell and free agent Charlie Morton, Glasnow continues to shine.
On Friday night, he snuffed the Baltimore Orioles, winning 7-0 in a game in which he pitched seven innings and allowed just three hits. Glasnow is the reigning AL pitcher of the month, and he seems not to have noticed that teh calendar has changed.
Pham had three hits for the Rays./CHUCK MULLER
It was Glasnow's third start of the season in which has not given up a run. He has a 1.47 ERA.
"I just felt good from the start," Glasnow said. "I had all three pitches working. I just stayed on the attack. I tried to stay locked in. Whenever you feel yourself not so locked in, that's when it's important to get back in and focus. I'm just going to continue to put my head down and keep working. just don't ever get content and stay locked in."
Glasnow, who was 1-5 with the Rays last year, struck out eight. He has 46 on the season.
Rays starters lead the majors with a 2.60 ERA. The starters have allowed 3 runs or fewer in 28 of 31 games and two runs or fewer in 25 of 31 games.
"He had the consistency that he's had all season," Rays' manager Kevin Cash said. "He just picked up right where he left off from that first month. He was tremendous for us. His first two innings of work were pretty electric stuff. Being able to land the breaking ball, the fastball. He's on a really good run. It's impressive. It's fun to sit and watch him."
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Mike Zunino broke open the game with a three-run homer in the fourth.
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La croce di San Giorgio è una decorazione statale della Federazione Russa.

Storia
La decorazione è stata istituita il 20 marzo 1992, su modello di una decorazione già esistente ai tempi dell'Impero.

Classi
La decorazione dispone delle seguenti classi di benemerenza:

 I classe
 II classe
 III classe
 IV classe

Assegnazione
La medaglia è assegnata a soldati, marinai, sergenti, sottufficiali, ufficiali e per azioni lodevoli in battaglia nella difesa della Patria, così come distinzione in battaglia sul territorio di altri Stati, nel mantenere o ristabilire la pace e la sicurezza internazionale con le istanze riconosciute di coraggio, dedizione e abilità militare.

Insegne
 La  medaglia è una croce patente di 34 mm. All'intersezione delle braccia troviamo un medaglione con sul dritto san Giorgio a cavallo che uccide il drago. Il rovescio del medaglione centrale reca il monogramma cirillico dell'ordine di San Giorgio "SG" (in russo: «СГ»).
 Il  nastro è arancione con tre strisce nere, identico a quello dell'ordine di San Giorgio.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Onorificenze della Federazione Russa

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4 New Books By Black Feminists You Need To Read
BY BUST Magazine
IN Books
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When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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In this groundbreaking memoir, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, with coauthor asha bandele, weaves together stories of her family, both chosen and biological, into a complex patchwork that expresses unconditional love, anger, pain, and sadness. This book is also meant for all those who agree that black and brown people—including those whose identities are not heteronormative or neurotypical—deserve peace, food, shelter, respect, and freedom from harassment and violence. The writing here shines in the way characters are introduced, especially Cullors' mother and brothers. And the way that memories from her life are turned into immersive scenes that readers can see, touch, hear, and feel is a rare treat. Hopefully, this will be the first of many memoirs. (5/5) – Robyn Smith
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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Gardner beats Lunenburg in OT
PUBLISHED: January 20, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 12, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
LUNENBURG — It took a little bit extra, but the streak goes on for the Wildcats.
After starting the season 0-5, the Gardner boys' basketball team won its seventh consecutive game Friday night with a thrilling 64-55 overtime victory over the Blue Knights at Lunenburg High School.
While improving to 7-5, the Wildcats also put themselves in the driver's seat for the Mid-Wach C title at 5-0, while the Blue Knights fell to 8-2 overall and 3-2 in the league.
"It's our seventh straight win and the kids just believe," said Gardner coach Tim Caouette. "They're playing their butts off. They're a team in every sense of the word. They're just a special bunch of kids. They never give up."
Nijal Hamberg drained a 3-pointer with just three seconds to go in regulation to knot the score, 53-53, and send the game to overtime, where Gardner took over.
A pair of free throws from Andrew Gallant and a 3-pointer from Mitchell Ryan put the Wildcats up 58-54. Though they struggled a bit from the free throw line down the stretch, they made enough and Erik Haney's layup sealed the deal.
"I thought both teams played very well," said Lunenburg coach Jon Economo. "We battled back from a quick deficit and hung in there. But, credit to (Gardner).
"They're a good basketball club. They've got a little bit of everything. They have inside presence and outside presence and knocked down some big ones when they needed to. We just couldn't make it happen in the end."
Gardner jumped out early, taking a 21-10 lead after the first quarter. Gallant scored all of Gardner's points in a 7-2 run to close out the quarter. The Wildcats also got a pair of 3-pointers from Garrett Shetrawski in the first.
The Blue Knights chipped away at the lead throughout the second quarter. Behind Josh Trainque and nine straight points from Kacy Thiphavong, Lunenburg got right back into it. Greg Abare's bucket at the end of the half pulled them to within one point, 31-30.
Another pair of 3-pointers from Shetrawski in the third quarter helped Gardner maintain the lead, but with 1:50 to go in the quarter, Thiphavong's 3-pointer tied the score, 39-39. The Blue Knights then took a brief 40-39 lead on a free throw from Andrew Sanders before Shetrawski ended the quarter with a basket to give the Wildcats a 41-40 lead.
Lunenburg took a 48-45 advantage with three minutes to play before Shetrawski tied it up with yet another 3-pointer. Abare got the lead back for Lunenburg with a basket to make it 50-48.
But Shetrawski would not be denied and buried another 3-pointer to put Gardner on top, 51-50.
A basket from Gallant made it 53-50 before Hamberg sent the game to overtime with his clutch 3-pointer for the Blue Knights.
"Give all the credit in the world to Lunenburg," Caouette said. "They were right with us the whole game. They put some runs together and matched us and they came back again. That was a fun basketball game to be a part of. Fortunately, we came out on the right side."
Shetrawski led all scorers with 22 points, including six shots from behind the arc. Ryan and Gallant added 12 apiece, while Haney had 10 points for Gardner. Lunenburg was led by Trainque with 18 points and Thiphavong, who tossed in 14.


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chemical element 109
Chemical element with atomic number 109
Meitnerium, 109Mt
(myt-NEER-ee-?m)
(MYT-n?r-ee-?m)
Mass number
[278] (unconfirmed: 282)
Meitnerium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
(Uht)
Electron configuration
[Rn] 5f14 6d7 7s2(predicted)[3][4]
Electrons per shell
2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 15, 2 (predicted)
Phase at STP
solid (predicted)[5]
Density (near r.t.)
37.4 g/cm3(predicted)[3]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states
(+1), (+3), (+4), (+6), (+8), (+9) (predicted)[3][6][7][8]
Ionization energies
1st: 800 kJ/mol
2nd: 1820 kJ/mol
3rd: 2900 kJ/mol
(more) (all estimated)[3]
Atomic radius
empirical: 128 pm (predicted)[3][8]
Covalent radius
129 pm (estimated)[9]
Natural occurrence
face-centered cubic (fcc)
(predicted)[5]
Magnetic ordering
paramagnetic (predicted)[10]
after Lise Meitner
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
Main isotopes of meitnerium
Isotope
Abundance
Half-life (t1/2)
Decay mode
Product
274Mt
syn 0.4 s ? 270Bh
syn 4 s ? 274Bh
282Mt[11]
syn 67 s? ? 278Bh
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Meitnerium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element (an element not found in nature, but can be created in a laboratory). The most stable known isotope, meitnerium-278, has a half-life of 4.5 seconds, although the unconfirmed meitnerium-282 may have a longer half-life of 67 seconds. The GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany, first created this element in 1982. It is named after Lise Meitner.
In the periodic table, meitnerium is a d-block transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in the group 9 elements, although no chemical experiments have yet been carried out to confirm that it behaves as the heavier homologue to iridium in group 9 as the seventh member of the 6d series of transition metals. Meitnerium is calculated to have similar properties to its lighter homologues, cobalt, rhodium, and iridium.
A graphic depiction of a nuclear fusion reaction. Two nuclei fuse into one, emitting a neutron. Reactions that created new elements to this moment were similar, with the only possible difference that several singular neutrons sometimes were released, or none at all.
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Visualization of unsuccessful nuclear fusion, based on calculations by the Australian National University[12]
The heaviest[a]atomic nuclei are created in nuclear reactions that combine two other nuclei of unequal size[b] into one; roughly, the more unequal the two nuclei in terms of mass, the greater the possibility that the two react.[18] The material made of the heavier nuclei is made into a target, which is then bombarded by the beam of lighter nuclei. Two nuclei can only fuse into one if they approach each other closely enough; normally, nuclei (all positively charged) repel each other due to electrostatic repulsion. The strong interaction can overcome this repulsion but only within a very short distance from a nucleus; beam nuclei are thus greatly accelerated in order to make such repulsion insignificant compared to the velocity of the beam nucleus.[19] Coming close alone is not enough for two nuclei to fuse: when two nuclei approach each other, they usually remain together for approximately 10-20 seconds and then part ways (not necessarily in the same composition as before the reaction) rather than form a single nucleus.[19][20] If fusion does occur, the temporary merger--termed a compound nucleus--is an excited state. To lose its excitation energy and reach a more stable state, a compound nucleus either fissions or ejects one or several neutrons,[c] which carry away the energy. This occurs in approximately 10-16 seconds after the initial collision.[21][d]
The beam passes through the target and reaches the next chamber, the separator; if a new nucleus is produced, it is carried with this beam.[24] In the separator, the newly produced nucleus is separated from other nuclides (that of the original beam and any other reaction products)[e] and transferred to a surface-barrier detector, which stops the nucleus. The exact location of the upcoming impact on the detector is marked; also marked are its energy and the time of the arrival.[24] The transfer takes about 10-6 seconds; in order to be detected, the nucleus must survive this long.[27] The nucleus is recorded again once its decay is registered, and the location, the energy, and the time of the decay are measured.[24]
Stability of a nucleus is provided by the strong interaction. However, its range is very short; as nuclei become larger, its influence on the outermost nucleons (protons and neutrons) weakens. At the same time, the nucleus is torn apart by electrostatic repulsion between protons, as it has unlimited range.[28] Nuclei of the heaviest elements are thus theoretically predicted[29] and have so far been observed[30] to primarily decay via decay modes that are caused by such repulsion: alpha decay and spontaneous fission;[f] these modes are predominant for nuclei of superheavy elements. Alpha decays are registered by the emitted alpha particles, and the decay products are easy to determine before the actual decay; if such a decay or a series of consecutive decays produces a known nucleus, the original product of a reaction can be determined arithmetically.[g] Spontaneous fission, however, produces various nuclei as products, so the original nuclide cannot be determined from its daughters.[h]
The information available to physicists aiming to synthesize one of the heaviest elements is thus the information collected at the detectors: location, energy, and time of arrival of a particle to the detector, and those of its decay. The physicists analyze this data and seek to conclude that it was indeed caused by a new element and could not have been caused by a different nuclide than the one claimed. Often, provided data is insufficient for a conclusion that a new element was definitely created and there is no other explanation for the observed effects; errors in interpreting data have been made.[i]
Meitnerium was named after the physicist Lise Meitner, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission.
Meitnerium was first synthesized on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt.[42] The team bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of iron-58 and detected a single atom of the isotope meitnerium-266:[43]
83Bi
-> 266
This work was confirmed three years later at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna (then in the Soviet Union).[43]
Naming ceremony conducted at the GSI on 7 September 1992 for the namings of elements 107, 108, and 109 as nielsbohrium, hassium, and meitnerium
Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, meitnerium should be known as eka-iridium. In 1979, during the Transfermium Wars (but before the synthesis of meitnerium), IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called unnilennium (with the corresponding symbol of Une),[44] a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the element was discovered (and the discovery then confirmed) and a permanent name was decided on. Although widely used in the chemical community on all levels, from chemistry classrooms to advanced textbooks, the recommendations were mostly ignored among scientists in the field, who either called it "element 109", with the symbol of E109, (109) or even simply 109, or used the proposed name "meitnerium".[3]
The naming of meitnerium was discussed in the element naming controversy regarding the names of elements 104 to 109, but meitnerium was the only proposal and thus was never disputed.[45][41] The name meitnerium (Mt) was suggested by the GSI team in September 1992 in honor of the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, a co-discoverer of protactinium (with Otto Hahn),[46][47][48][49][50] and one of the discoverers of nuclear fission.[51] In 1994 the name was recommended by IUPAC,[45] and was officially adopted in 1997.[41] It is thus the only element named specifically after a non-mythological woman (curium being named for both Pierre and Marie Curie).[52]
Meitnerium has no stable or naturally occurring isotopes. Several radioactive isotopes have been synthesized in the laboratory, either by fusing two atoms or by observing the decay of heavier elements. Eight different isotopes of meitnerium have been reported with atomic masses 266, 268, 270, and 274-278, two of which, meitnerium-268 and meitnerium-270, have known but unconfirmed metastable states. A ninth isotope with atomic mass 282 is unconfirmed. Most of these decay predominantly through alpha decay, although some undergo spontaneous fission.[53]
Stability and half-lives
All meitnerium isotopes are extremely unstable and radioactive; in general, heavier isotopes are more stable than the lighter. The most stable known meitnerium isotope, 278Mt, is also the heaviest known; it has a half-life of 4.5 seconds. The unconfirmed 282Mt is even heavier and appears to have a longer half-life of 67 seconds. The isotopes 276Mt and 274Mt have half-lives of 0.45 and 0.44 seconds respectively. The remaining five isotopes have half-lives between 1 and 20 milliseconds.[53]
The isotope 277Mt, created as the final decay product of 293Ts for the first time in 2012, was observed to undergo spontaneous fission with a half-life of 5 milliseconds. Preliminary data analysis considered the possibility of this fission event instead originating from 277Hs, for it also has a half-life of a few milliseconds, and could be populated following undetected electron capture somewhere along the decay chain.[54][55] This possibility was later deemed very unlikely based on observed decay energies of 281Ds and 281Rg and the short half-life of 277Mt, although there is still some uncertainty of the assignment.[55] Regardless, the rapid fission of 277Mt and 277Hs is strongly suggestive of a region of instability for superheavy nuclei with N = 168-170. The existence of this region, characterized by a decrease in fission barrier height between the deformed shell closure at N = 162 and spherical shell closure at N = 184, is consistent with theoretical models.[54]
List of meitnerium isotopes
Half-life[j]
year[56]
reaction[57]
266Mt 1.2 ms [56] ?, SF 1982 209Bi(58Fe,n)
268Mt 27 ms [56] ? 1994 272Rg(--,?)
270Mt 6.3 ms [56] ? 2004 278Nh(--,2?)
274Mt 440 ms [58] ? 2006 282Nh(--,2?)
275Mt 20 ms [58] ? 2003 287Mc(--,3?)
276Mt 450 ms [58] ? 2003 288Mc(--,3?)
277Mt 5 ms [58] SF 2012 293Ts(--,4?)
278Mt 4.5 s [58] ? 2010 294Ts(--,4?)
282Mt[k] 1.1 min [11] ? 1998 290Fl(e-,?e2?)
Other than nuclear properties, no properties of meitnerium or its compounds have been measured; this is due to its extremely limited and expensive production[18] and the fact that meitnerium and its parents decay very quickly. Properties of meitnerium metal remain unknown and only predictions are available.
Meitnerium is the seventh member of the 6d series of transition metals, and should be much like the platinum group metals.[49] Calculations on its ionization potentials and atomic and ionic radii are similar to that of its lighter homologue iridium, thus implying that meitnerium's basic properties will resemble those of the other group 9 elements, cobalt, rhodium, and iridium.[3]
Prediction of the probable chemical properties of meitnerium has not received much attention recently. Meitnerium is expected to be a noble metal. The standard electrode potential for the Mt3+/Mt couple is expected to be 0.8 V. Based on the most stable oxidation states of the lighter group 9 elements, the most stable oxidation states of meitnerium are predicted to be the +6, +3, and +1 states, with the +3 state being the most stable in aqueous solutions. In comparison, rhodium and iridium show a maximum oxidation state of +6, while the most stable states are +4 and +3 for iridium and +3 for rhodium.[3] The oxidation state +9, represented only by iridium in [IrO4]+, might be possible for its congener meitnerium in the nonafluoride (MtF9) and the [MtO4]+ cation, although [IrO4]+ is expected to be more stable than these meitnerium compounds.[7] The tetrahalides of meitnerium have also been predicted to have similar stabilities to those of iridium, thus also allowing a stable +4 state.[6] It is further expected that the maximum oxidation states of elements from bohrium (element 107) to darmstadtium (element 110) may be stable in the gas phase but not in aqueous solution.[3]
Physical and atomic
Meitnerium is expected to be a solid under normal conditions and assume a face-centered cubic crystal structure, similarly to its lighter congener iridium.[5] It should be a very heavy metal with a density of around 37.4 g/cm3, which would be the second-highest of any of the 118 known elements, second only to that predicted for its neighbor hassium (41 g/cm3). In comparison, the densest known element that has had its density measured, osmium, has a density of only 22.61 g/cm3. This results from meitnerium's high atomic weight, the lanthanide and actinide contractions, and relativistic effects, although production of enough meitnerium to measure this quantity would be impractical, and the sample would quickly decay.[3] Meitnerium is also predicted to be paramagnetic.[10]
Theoreticians have predicted the covalent radius of meitnerium to be 6 to 10 pm larger than that of iridium.[59] The atomic radius of meitnerium is expected to be around 128 pm.[8]
Experimental chemistry
Meitnerium is the first element on the periodic table whose chemistry has not yet been investigated. Unambiguous determination of the chemical characteristics of meitnerium has yet to have been established[60][61] due to the short half-lives of meitnerium isotopes[3] and a limited number of likely volatile compounds that could be studied on a very small scale. One of the few meitnerium compounds that are likely to be sufficiently volatile is meitnerium hexafluoride , as its lighter homologue iridium hexafluoride is volatile above 60 °C and therefore the analogous compound of meitnerium might also be sufficiently volatile;[49] a volatile octafluoride might also be possible.[3] For chemical studies to be carried out on a transactinide, at least four atoms must be produced, the half-life of the isotope used must be at least 1 second, and the rate of production must be at least one atom per week.[49] Even though the half-life of 278Mt, the most stable confirmed meitnerium isotope, is 4.5 seconds, long enough to perform chemical studies, another obstacle is the need to increase the rate of production of meitnerium isotopes and allow experiments to carry on for weeks or months so that statistically significant results can be obtained. Separation and detection must be carried out continuously to separate out the meitnerium isotopes and have automated systems experiment on the gas-phase and solution chemistry of meitnerium, as the yields for heavier elements are predicted to be smaller than those for lighter elements; some of the separation techniques used for bohrium and hassium could be reused. However, the experimental chemistry of meitnerium has not received as much attention as that of the heavier elements from copernicium to livermorium.[3][60][62]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory attempted to synthesize the isotope 271Mt in 2002-2003 for a possible chemical investigation of meitnerium because it was expected that it might be more stable than the isotopes around it as it has 162 neutrons, a magic number for deformed nuclei; its half-life was predicted to be a few seconds, long enough for a chemical investigation.[3][63][64] However, no atoms of 271Mt were detected,[65] and this isotope of meitnerium is currently unknown.[53]
An experiment determining the chemical properties of a transactinide would need to compare a compound of that transactinide with analogous compounds of some of its lighter homologues:[3] for example, in the chemical characterization of hassium, hassium tetroxide (HsO4) was compared with the analogous osmium compound, osmium tetroxide (OsO4).[66] In a preliminary step towards determining the chemical properties of meitnerium, the GSI attempted sublimation of the rhodium compounds rhodium(III) oxide (Rh2O3) and rhodium(III) chloride (RhCl3). However, macroscopic amounts of the oxide would not sublimate until 1000 °C and the chloride would not until 780 °C, and then only in the presence of carbon aerosol particles: these temperatures are far too high for such procedures to be used on meitnerium, as most of the current methods used for the investigation of the chemistry of superheavy elements do not work above 500 °C.[61]
Following the 2014 successful synthesis of seaborgium hexacarbonyl, Sg(CO)6,[67] studies were conducted with the stable transition metals of groups 7 through 9, suggesting that carbonyl formation could be extended to further probe the chemistries of the early 6d transition metals from rutherfordium to meitnerium inclusive.[68][69] Nevertheless, the challenges of low half-lives and difficult production reactions make meitnerium difficult to access for radiochemists, though the isotopes 278Mt and 276Mt are long-lived enough for chemical research and may be produced in the decay chains of 294Ts and 288Mc respectively. 276Mt is likely more suitable, since producing tennessine requires a rare and rather short-lived berkelium target.[70] The isotope 270Mt, observed in the decay chain of 278Nh with a half-life of 0.69 seconds, may also be sufficiently long-lived for chemical investigations, though a direct synthesis route leading to this isotope and more precise measurements of its decay properties would be required.[64]
^ In nuclear physics, an element is called heavy if its atomic number is high; lead (element 82) is one example of such a heavy element. The term "superheavy elements" typically refers to elements with atomic number greater than 103 (although there are other definitions, such as atomic number greater than 100[13] or 112;[14] sometimes, the term is presented an equivalent to the term "transactinide", which puts an upper limit before the beginning of the hypothetical superactinide series).[15] Terms "heavy isotopes" (of a given element) and "heavy nuclei" mean what could be understood in the common language--isotopes of high mass (for the given element) and nuclei of high mass, respectively.
^ In 2009, a team at JINR led by Oganessian published results of their attempt to create hassium in a symmetric 136Xe + 136Xe reaction. They failed to observe a single atom in such a reaction, putting the upper limit on the cross section, the measure of probability of a nuclear reaction, as 2.5 pb.[16] In comparison, the reaction that resulted in hassium discovery, 208Pb + 58Fe, had a cross section of ~20 pb (more specifically, 19+19
-11 pb), as estimated by the discoverers.[17]
^ The greater the excitation energy, the more neutrons are ejected. If the excitation energy is lower than energy binding each neutron to the rest of the nucleus, neutrons are not emitted; instead, the compound nucleus de-excites by emitting a gamma ray.[21]
^ The definition by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party states that a chemical element can only be recognized as discovered if a nucleus of it has not decayed within 10-14 seconds. This value was chosen as an estimate of how long it takes a nucleus to acquire its outer electrons and thus display its chemical properties.[22] This figure also marks the generally accepted upper limit for lifetime of a compound nucleus.[23]
^ This separation is based on that the resulting nuclei move past the target more slowly then the unreacted beam nuclei. The separator contains electric and magnetic fields whose effects on a moving particle cancel out for a specific velocity of a particle.[25] Such separation can also be aided by a time-of-flight measurement and a recoil energy measurement; a combination of the two may allow to estimate the mass of a nucleus.[26]
^ Not all decay modes are caused by electrostatic repulsion. For example, beta decay is caused by the weak interaction.[31]
^ Since mass of a nucleus is not measured directly but is rather calculated from that of another nucleus, such measurement is called indirect. Direct measurements are also possible, but for the most part they have remained unavailable for heaviest nuclei.[32] The first direct measurement of mass of a superheavy nucleus was reported in 2018 at LBNL.[33] Mass was determined from the location of a nucleus after the transfer (the location helps determine its trajectory, which is linked to the mass-to-charge ratio of the nucleus, since the transfer was done in presence of a magnet).[34]
^ Spontaneous fission was discovered by Soviet physicist Georgy Flerov,[35] a leading scientist at JINR, and thus it was a "hobbyhorse" for the facility.[36] In contrast, the LBL scientists believed fission information was not sufficient for a claim of synthesis of an element. They believed spontaneous fission had not been studied enough to use it for identification of a new element, since there was a difficulty of establishing that a compound nucleus had only ejected neutrons and not charged particles like protons or alpha particles.[23] They thus preferred to link new isotopes to the already known ones by successive alpha decays.[35]
^ For instance, element 102 was mistakenly identified in 1957 at the Nobel Institute of Physics in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden.[37] There were no earlier definitive claims of creation of this element, and the element was assigned a name by its Swedish, American, and British discoverers, nobelium. It was later shown that the identification was incorrect.[38] The following year, RL was unable to reproduce the Swedish results and announced instead their synthesis of the element; that claim was also disproved later.[38] JINR insisted that they were the first to create the element and suggested a name of their own for the new element, joliotium;[39] the Soviet name was also not accepted (JINR later referred to the naming of element 102 as "hasty").[40] The name "nobelium" remained unchanged on account of its widespread usage.[41]
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"""
Meta Schedule schedule rules are used for modification of
blocks in a schedule. See also PostOrderApply.
"""
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List

from tvm._ffi import register_object
from tvm.runtime import Object
from tvm.tir.schedule import Schedule, BlockRV

from ..utils import _get_hex_address, check_override
from .. import _ffi_api

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from ..tune_context import TuneContext

@register_object("meta_schedule.ScheduleRule")
class ScheduleRule(Object):
    """Rules to modify a block in a schedule."""

    def initialize_with_tune_context(self, context: "TuneContext") -> None:
        """Initialize the schedule rule with a tune context.

        Parameters
        ----------
        context : TuneContext
            The tuning context for initializing the schedule rule.
        """
        _ffi_api.ScheduleRuleInitializeWithTuneContext(  # type: ignore # pylint: disable=no-member
            self, context
        )

    def apply(self, sch: Schedule, block: BlockRV) -> List[Schedule]:
        """Apply a schedule rule to the specific block in the given schedule.

        Parameters
        ----------
        sch : Schedule
            The schedule to be modified.
        block : BlockRV
            The specific block to apply the schedule rule.

        Returns
        -------
        design_spaces : List[Schedule]
            The list of schedules generated by applying the schedule rule.
        """
        return _ffi_api.ScheduleRuleApply(  #  type: ignore # pylint: disable=no-member
            self, sch, block
        )

@register_object("meta_schedule.PyScheduleRule")
class PyScheduleRule(ScheduleRule):
    """An abstract schedule rule with customized methods on the python-side."""

    def __init__(self):
        """Constructor."""

        @check_override(self.__class__, ScheduleRule)
        def f_initialize_with_tune_context(context: "TuneContext") -> None:
            self.initialize_with_tune_context(context)

        @check_override(self.__class__, ScheduleRule)
        def f_apply(sch: Schedule, block: BlockRV) -> List[Schedule]:
            return self.apply(sch, block)

        def f_as_string() -> str:
            return self.__str__()

        self.__init_handle_by_constructor__(
            _ffi_api.ScheduleRulePyScheduleRule,  # type: ignore # pylint: disable=no-member
            f_initialize_with_tune_context,
            f_apply,
            f_as_string,
        )

    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return f"{self.__class__.__name__}({_get_hex_address(self.handle)})"

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Since the capital fertiliser program in 2003 and 2004 production has increased from 256 to 377 kg product/ha (27%). Our maintenance fertiliser program is now costing about $10/su.
This farm was going backwards - the clover had all but disappeared, the pastures were brownish-yellow and we were using more and more fertiliser N. We thought that the problem was the clover flee and/or the root weevil killing the clover. Dr Edmeades of agKnowledge inspected the pastures in 2005 and noted that they were very patchy - the urine patches were very prominent. He collected soil and clover-only samples a determined that the soils were deficient in K and Mo. He explained that this was the reason the clovers were not thriving. Since correcting these problems the clover has returned and the pastures are much healthier and more productive. Our production has increased from about 85,000 kg MS/yr to just over 100,000 kg MS annually. Our fertiliser costs are now about $0.30/kg MS produced and we do not worry anymore about pasture pests like the flee and weevil.
Since the involvement of agKnowledge Ltd MS production has increased by about 18% and the maintenance fertiliser program is costing about $0.30 per kg MS produced.
Despite what we thought were reasonably high fertiliser inputs the performance of the farm was very poor. The pasture looked 'run-out' with very little clover. I decided to seek independent advice to solve the problem. Based on the visual symptoms of the pastures, and soil and pasture tests, Dr Edmeades identified that the soils were deficient in K and S. We had the fertiliser balance wrong - too much P and not sufficient K and S. Once this was solved the pasture have boomed into life which has been reflected in the vat."
Milk production has increased by 30% since 2004 and the fertiliser costs per unit production have declined from about $0.45 to $0.25/ kg MS produced. Based on today's prices our income is up by $147,000 annually and fertiliser costs are down by $10,000.
Since 2004 total production has increased by 22% and fertiliser costs have decrease and are now below $0.40/kg MS.


Heavy Metal and Flat rock Production at its finest!
Many thanks to all involved including Tomorrow Builders,Irish Welding Service, Thorp Concrete, X-Sound Engineering and especially "Randy" and "Tha' Man" @ UBCC !
"Dropping" the 1x2" steel truses for roof.
The steel shrinks slightly where the heat is applied.
Shrinking one side only automaticly bends the work.
That heat can also distort the work as shown below.


I walked into a petrol station one day and was happily surprised to find the attendant asking me "Whether I would like a chocolate bar today?" This reminded me of something I believe MOST retail businesses FAIL TO DO and are basically letting profits slip through their fingers.
Upselling is the simple process of asking the customer to purchase an additional product once they have made up their mind to purchase something from you.
* suggesting a premium brand of alcohol when a brand is not specified by a customer (such as offering Captain Morgan if a customer simply requests a "Rum and Coke").
* suggesting a brand of watch that the customer hasn't previously heard of as an alternative to the one they are considering.
The reason why upselling works, is that not everyone will say YES. Infact a majority will say no. But the small percentage who did say yes would have only said yes because you asked. Therefore, businesses are letting sales slip through their fingers literally because they failed to ask!!
A lot of times the reason why retail operators do not ask is because they feel uncomfortable in making a "sales pitch".
The secret to upselling in a retail business is to select suitable products (ie: guilty pleasures or small personal items which are easy decisions to make) to position next to the counter and developing a simple and natural question to ask the customer. In the same manner "do you want fries with that?" comes out of the mouth automatically and without hesitation, your upsell must be able to be delivered without being even labeled a sales pitch. In fact, most diners visiting a McDonalds outlet would be thankful that the attendant reminded them about the fries!!
The principle of the upsell is very true for Post Office owners. A Post Office has a large number of people walking through its doors on a daily basis. Now imagine if only 10% of every customer purchased a small upsell item worth $2, how much would that increase your profits by? And what would that translate into when you eventually sell your Post Office??
Would you like some assistance in developing the right "Would you like …?" for your business?


Quinoa – a food that Brittny, my receptionist, would flatly refuse to eat if I brought it to our next pot-luck. Although quinoa sounds exotic, it's remarkably tasty, versatile, and simple to prepare.
Quinoa has 14 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber per serving – impressive, right?
Quinoa comes in white, red, and black varieties. It has a mild, nutty flavor. You can substitute it easily for rice, couscous, or bulghur in recipes. I make a big batch of it and eat it all week. Here's how to make it and stir in delicious additions for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
You have to rinse quinoa, or it will be a little bitter. I pour the dry quinoa into a mesh strainer and run water over it for a full minute.
Place the rinsed quinoa into a saucepan with a lid. Add 3 cups liquid. If I'm making this for breakfast, I use water. If it's for dinner, I use chicken broth.
Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes. I told you it was easy!
Lots of bananas here, with red quinoa, honey, and cinnamon.
Add feta cheese, chopped basil, and a few chopped peppadew peppers, and you have a delicious lunch.
This is a really easy, tasty dinner. Omit the chicken and you have a great side dish.
To prepare, stir together all the above ingredients in a medium bowl. Pour over quinoa and toss to combine. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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