British TV presenter Rico Daniels tells Wikinews about being ‘The Salvager’

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Rico Daniels is a British TV presenter living in France who is known for his two television series — The Salvager — whilst he still lived in the UK and then Le Salvager after he moved to France. Rico has been in a variety of jobs but his passion is now his profession – he turns unwanted ‘junk’ into unusual pieces of furniture. Rico’s creations and the methods used to fabricate them are the subject of the Salvager shows.

Rico spoke to Wikinews in January about his inspiration and early life, future plans, other hobbies and more. Read on for the full exclusive interview, published for the first time:

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One “Big” Interview Question For A Restaurant Manager Position And How To Answer It}

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Submitted by: Gail Wise

Great, your resume has got you the interview for the restaurant manager position you want so NOW its time to prepare your responses to at least one of tougher questions you might be asked in your hospitality job interview.

Hospitality job interviewers often ask you a lot of different questions during the interview process in order to ascertain whether youre qualified for the position youre interviewing for.

One of the biggies that interviewers often ask a hospitality job candidate

is: What do you feel are your strengths and weaknesses.

Or what they are really asking you is what skills or attributes makes you a good fit for the job of restaurant manager and what about you may hinder you from giving them your best job performance

Were going to give you some possible responses to that question but be aware that these answers are only guidelines for possible responses.

You should take the time to evaluate what answers honestly work for you and adapt your responses appropriately.

Lets imagine that youre at the interview and youre asked the question What are your strengths and weaknesses as a restaurant manager.

And your possible responses could be:

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My strengths:

Guest Service: I thoroughly enjoy talking with the guests at my present position at XYZ Restaurant and take pride in my ability to make them feel relaxed and comfortable when they visit. Guests appreciate a manager taking the time to stop and ask them about their visit or how they enjoyed the food or inquiring about their family.

Multi-tasker: A good supervisor or manager has to be able to multi-task.

What I mean by this is you have to have the ability to see the whole restaurant at once and then be able to prioritize on the fly what you should focus on at that particular moment to make the restaurant run as efficiently as possible. This I feel I do very well.

Anticipate Problems: Rather than waiting for a fire to develop and then try put it out I try to anticipate any potential problems. For example if it the restaurant has an influx of guests I go to the kitchen and immediately alert the kitchen staff to prepare for a rush.

Or in walking through the dining room and speaking with guests I can see if a guest needs something or seems upset for some reason.

Calm amid Chaos: In any restaurant problems arise, guests might be unhappy because they feel the food is taking too long to come out of the kitchen etc. It is important for a supervisor or manager to remain calm no matter what is going on around them. If the supervisor or managers remain calm it can steady the employees so they handle the situation better. This I also think I do well.

Experience: I have worked in the restaurant industry for some time have had held various positions such as bartender, catering manager, server, and restaurant manager and therefore have a good working knowledge of many different aspects of the restaurant business.

I have also worked with many restaurant managers some really great at their jobs and some not so good. This has given me a better idea of what makes a great restaurant manager.

Employee Relationships: I try to create an environment for employees where they feel they can talk to me and I will listen.

I treat all the employees with respect and I feel I am respected in return. I dont put myself on a pedestal and I am not adverse to cleaning a table if a guest needs the table, or helping a server set up the restaurant if they are a little behind. I believe the employees appreciate that and work perhaps a little harder than they might normally.

My Weaknesses:

Perfectionism: No matter what job I do I always work hard to do the very best job I can. Unfortunately this causes me to sometimes take criticism too personally; rather than to see criticism as constructive and only as advice on how to do my job a little better.

Taking Work Seriously: Although I do take my work very seriously I think it may appear to others as though I dont because I like to enjoy my work and am a gregarious person. I think I may be perceived by some as not being serious enough and therefore not capable of a high level of responsibility.

Conflict: I do not like personal confrontation when it is aggressive and will sometimes avoid this kind of situation when it should be dealt with. I sometimes have a difficult time saying what needs to be said in a way positive and constructive way.

Relationships at Work: I have worked at my present position for four years and have become work friends with some of the employees. Although I do attempt in my job as manager to make sure everyone follows the rules and regulations; my “work” friendships could be perceived by some as a hindrance to me being a fair and effective manager.

*As a side note another question you might be asked at your interview is what you would like to or need to learn more about to become an even more effective restaurant manager. Some possible responses could be

1. Better working knowledge of (BOH) back of the house operations

2. Better working knowledge of food and labor costs and how to analyze this knowledge to make the restaurant more profitable.

Remember preparation is the key to a successful hospitality job interview.

The responses we provided to this one big interview question is just a guide from which to create your own responses.

Interviewers expect honesty so take time to think about what makes YOU a good manager and what qualities and skills you have that will make you an asset for the company.

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Mascots for Vancouver 2010 Olympics based on native mythology

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia were just announced. Based on mythological characters, they are Miga, Quatchi and Sumi.

Miga, a sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod near Tofino, and Quatchi, a young sasquatch, represent the Olympics, while Sumi represents the Paralympics that follow afterward.

A sea bear is a First Nations creature, part killer whale, part Kermode spirit bear. While illustrated as being taller than the other characters, the mascot costume of Quatchi is the same height as the other two characters.

The third mascot, Sumi, an animal-guardian spirit, is a Thunderbird that wears the hat of an orca. Sumi will be the mascot of the Paralympics.

In 2004, the Times Colonist suggested a marmot might be a good mascot, except for their winter hibernation. The organizers still chose one, named Mukmuk, as their “virtual only” counterpart.

After the Olympic logo design was leaked the day before the 2005 announcement, organizers were extremely tight lipped until today’s news conference at a Surrey school. They apparently didn’t do any development on the characters on internet-enabled computers, to ensure the images or information wouldn’t slip out.

The characters were designed by the Vancouver and Los Angeles-based Meomi Design. Their characters have been used as part of iGoogle, a customizable homepage option from Google, as well as Electronic Arts, Girls Inc., Time Out Magazine, Cyworld, Nick Jr., Bang-on Clothing, and CBC4Kids.

The Vancouver organizers have a CDN$46-million merchandising program; previous Olympics have made as much as $100 million from mascot-related products.

René Fasel, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission commented that “The IOC welcomes these imaginative new additions to the Olympic Family as they take their place on the world stage today – a symbol of the Games and of Canada. We know that when Olympians, Paralympians and visitors from around the globe arrive in British Columbia at Games time, they will fall under the spell of these captivating characters.”

The characters first appearance will be at a Bay store in the Lower Mainland; HBC is a major sponsor of the Games. They will then make their way to schools, take a break through the Christmas season, and fly to Ottawa for the Winterlude festival.

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Spanish town council electee proposes nudist pool, marijuana field in park

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Friday, June 1, 2007

A former mailman who proposed to paint the town hall pink, turn the local town square into a nudist pool, and to plant a marijuana field in the local park has been elected to the Reus, Spain town council.

Ariel Santamaria promised to show up to the town’s council meetings dressed up as Elvis Presley if he was elected and kept his word at the town’s first meeting on Thursday.

Before being elected, Santamaria who is a member of the Reus Independent Coordination, had also promised the town’s 100,000 residents that he would install a GPS system at the police department that would allow officers to track people who are smoking marijuana and provide them with a light if they need one.

An unnamed media consultant who works for Santamaria set up a website for his campaign and followed Santamaria wherever he went, dressed as a pirate.

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Green Tea And Dental Care

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By Mary Rose Antonio

There are many dental care procedures that Dentists use for replacing missing teeth. Dentures are one such procedure. You have three types of dentures that you can opt for:

1. partial dentures

2. Over-dentures

3. Complete dentures

Of the three, complete dentures are the most commonly used.

Complete dentures are used by patients who have lost all of their teeth for one reason or another. Though nothing can replace your natural teeth in terms of quality, complete dentures are the next best option. Besides helping you chew your food, dentures prevent your facial muscles from sagging.

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If you are opting for complete denture replacement, you should keep in mind that sometimes they can cause pain and discomfort. Dentures are most likely to cause discomfort in the initial stage of adjustment and after some years of use. During the initial stage your dentures will try to adjust to your gum structure and this is what causes the pain. After some time the bony ridge of your gums will shrink due to lack of stimulation. Your dentures will then become more comfortable.

Tips To Avoid Denture Discomfort

You do not always have to suffer pain, with these helpful tips you can avoid most of the problems associated with dentures:

1. Always keep your dentures clean, especially during the adjustment period. Clean dentures reduce the chance of bacterial infection which helps the healing process. Once your gums have healed your dentures will fit properly. You can clean your dentures with toothpaste, soap, or water.

2. Keep your gums clean to keep bacteria away. Brushing is a good way to provide stimulation for your gums in order to keep them healthy. Drinking green tea coats the gum and teeth with its powerful ingredients called polyphenols that fights bacteria in your mouth including your teeth and gums.

3. During the adjustment period, only eat soft foods. This will

also assist with the healing process. Once the dentures have adjusted you can go back to eating what you ate before, though you should avoid chewing hard food such as apples or corn on the cob.

4. If your dentures are causing pain, you can take ibuprofen or some type of pain killer.

5. In the adjustment stage dentures tend to cause soreness. A great way of relieving gum soreness is by removing your dentures for a couple of hours everyday. If the soreness continues, visit your dentist as soon as possible.

6. Gargle or drink unflavored green tea before, during, and after meal. This is a great way of keeping bacteria at bay.

7. If you need to make adjustments, let your dentist handle it. Never do any modifications to your dentures yourself. You could harm your dentures or yourself.

8. Remember to always remove your dentures when you go off to sleep. This will provide your gums some much needed rest.

With these helpful tips you can keep pain and soreness to a minimum and enjoy your dentures.

In Japan and China, it is customary to take some green tea after every meal. This is a habit to maintain a healthy mouth. Green tea inhibits the growth of bacteria called Streptococcus Mutans in addition to other bacterial species associated with dental problems.

Yet another mechanism by which tea polyphenol reduce the risk of cavities is by increasing the resistance of the tooth to the actions of cavity-causing bacteria. Tea strengthens the bonds between fluoride and calcium, phosphorus, and organic substances in tooth enamel, resulting in a tooth surface that is highly resistant to cavity-causing acids produced by bacteria.

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Sweden’s Crown Princess marries long-time boyfriend

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976 took place Saturday when Crown Princess Victoria, 32, married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, 36. The ceremony took place at Stockholm Cathedral.

Over 1,200 guests, including many rulers, politicians, royals and other dignitaries from across the world, attended the wedding, which cost an estimated 20 million Swedish kronor. Victoria wore a wedding dress with five-metre long train designed by Pär Engsheden. She wore the same crown that her mother, Queen Silvia, wore on her wedding day 34 years previously, also on June 19. Victoria’s father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, walked Victoria down the aisle, which was deemed untraditional by many. In Sweden, the bride and groom usually walk down the aisle together, emphasising the country’s views on equality. Victoria met with Daniel half-way to the altar, where they exchanged brief kisses, and, to the sounds of the wedding march, made their way to the the silver altar. She was followed by ten bridesmaids. The couple both had tears in their eyes as they said their vows, and apart from fumbling when they exchanged rings, the ceremony went smoothly.

Following the ceremony, the couple headed a fast-paced procession through central Stockholm on a horse-drawn carriage, flanked by police and security. Up to 500,000 people are thought to have lined the streets. They then boarded the Vasaorden, the same royal barge Victoria’s parents used in their wedding, and traveled through Stockholm’s waters, accompanied by flyover of 18 fighter jets near the end of the procession. A wedding banquet followed in the in the Hall of State of the Royal Palace.

Controversy has surrounded the engagement and wedding between the Crown Princess and Westling, a “commoner”. Victoria met Westling as she was recovering from bulemia in 2002. He owned a chain of gymnasiums and was brought in to help bring Victoria back to full health. Westling was raised in a middle-class family in Ockelbo, in central Sweden. His father managed a social services centre, and his mother worked in a post office. When the relationship was made public, Westling was mocked as an outsider and the king was reportedly horrified at the thought of his daughter marrying a “commoner”, even though he did so when he married Silvia. Last year, Westling underwent transplant surgery for a congenital kidney disorder. The Swedish public have been assured that he will be able to have children and that his illness will not be passed on to his offspring.

Westling underwent years of training to prepare for his new role in the royal family, including lessons in etiquette, elocution, and multi-lingual small talk; and a makeover that saw his hair being cropped short, and his plain-looking glasses and clothes being replaced by designer-wear.

Upon marrying the Crown Princess, Westling took his wife’s ducal title and is granted the style “His Royal Highness”. He is now known as HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland. He also has his own coat-of-arms and monogram. When Victoria assumes the throne and becomes Queen, Daniel will not become King, but assume a supportive role, similar to that of Prince Phillip, the husband of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II.

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Fatal coal mine accident in western Turkey

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Thursday, June 1, 2006

A mine accident killed at least nine miners in a coal mine in western Turkey. A methane explosion collapsed a mine shaft about 150 meters below the town of Odakoy, in Bal?kesir Province, near the border with Bursa Province. Rescue work was slowed by the presence of gas, with rescue workers having to be hospitalized for methane poisoning.

Turkey suffers relatively frequent mine accidents, especially due to methane pockets either igniting or poisoning miners. Some observers fault old & untrustworthy equipment, or a disregard for safety regulations.

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Wildflower Honey From Greek Farms That Embodies A Mixture Of Floral Sources

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The medicinal value is too high. From memory power enhancement, to better cardiovascular functioning, there is quite a lot of benefits that you can associate with the regular intake of the Imported Greek Honey. Yes, the sources are from Greece, pristine mountains, though. The Easter menu of Greece people will include inevitably the roasted lamb that is seasoned with some of the variety of Herbs and spices. Without this the celebrations may not going to be as delightful as ever According to the belief of some local people out there in Greece. So how do they prepare this roasted lamb with variety of main ingredients inside? In fact, the religious and holiday celebrations of the Greek people are orthodoxies. These people are observing many fast days during the special days of the year. Other than that, there are days where they will not eat any meat. There are strict dietary rules to be followed during the holy week just ahead of Easter. Especially for lent some of them do not eat any kind of dairy products, fish or meat. Therefore, the menu for those times will be quite different from the other types. Lambropsomo or the Easter bread is also prepared in a delicious manner using some of the wonderful spices. The honey that is available for you here is something extraordinary. That is a major ingredient for the taste of these types of special dishes that are made in this part of the world. Some of the fruits and vegetables that are dipped in Top rated olive oil can taste better. The medicinal value of these fruits and the olive oil together makes it to be a superior dish to be served to the guests in the preeminent hotels and restaurants of the world. Yes, the menu without these Greek dishes would simply be inadequate or incomplete for the guests who are visiting the high-class hotels for high quality Mediterranean food items in particular. So, how do you find the best resources online to procure the Top rated olive oil? It is simple. You do not have to waste time digging deeper into the library resources online to find the superior quality olive oil or the suppliers in the market. At the same time, the quality varies quite a lot from one supplier to the other. You can get olive oil for barely minimal costs in very many other parts of the world too. It may be sold for rock bottom prices for the simple reason that the quality of the oil is not reliable. If you are interested in seeing the best results then you should pay the price and that is the reason why consumers choose to buy the Top rated olive oil from the reliable suppliers in the market. Online shopping helps them to do the procurement easily and also they get the original supplies in quick time.

Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed to answer some questions by phone March 30 about their campaigns and policies. The following is the interview with Ms Chatham on behalf of Mr Eddings, Sr.

Eddings is a federal law enforcement officer and senior non-commissioned officer in the US military. His experience as operations officer of an aviation unit in the California National Guard includes working in Los Angeles to control riots sparked by the O. J. Simpson murder case and the police handling of Rodney King, working with drug interdiction teams in Panama and Central America and fighting in the Middle East. He is the founder of Operation Battle Buddy, which has under his leadership kept in touch with over 20 thousand veterans and their families. He was born in California, but moved to Midlothian, Texas. He endeavours to bring “good government, not no government”. Campaign manager Faith Chatham spoke to Wikinews on matters ranging from healthcare to housing.

An Inside Elections poll published on March 18 shows Republican candidate Susan Wright, the widow of Ron Wright, is ahead by 21% followed by Democrat Jana Sanchez with 17% and Republican Jake Ellzey with 8% with a 4.6% margin of error among 450 likely voters. The district is considered “lean Republican” by Inside Elections and voted 51% in favour of Donald Trump in last year’s US presidential election. This is down from 54% for Trump in 2016’s presidential election, the same poll stated.

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Cheap Garage Shelving And Storage Tips

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By Dan Karas

So you’ve finally decided that it’s time to organize and de-clutter your house. One of the most dreaded chores is cleaning out the garage. It may be full of much unwanted junk that has accumulated over time. There may also be many useful items stored in the garage that you would like to organize so they’ll be easy to find when you want to use them. Garage shelving or storage cabinets would be just the ticket. However, the cost implication of doing this or the issue of the money to be spent scares many. There are some simple, inexpensive garage storage ideas that will be of immense benefit to you and would not require you spending a fortune on.

* Make List Of Items Needed

The best thing to do anytime you need to purchase items for your use at home is to make a complete list of the things you’ll need to buy. Putting your garage in a good shape is not an exemption to this rule. You should start by listing the specific items you would like to store in your garage. If you have stuff you’ve been keeping for years, but never seem to use, consider letting go. You can either sell or donate the items or trash them if they are of little value. There is no point including items that will not be of use to you as they will only reduce the available space for storage on your garage shelves. This way, you will be able to save valuable time when you get to the shop and simply add the items you need to your cart.

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* Go To Thrift Shops

You don’t have to spend huge sums of money for organizing and maintaining your garage, there are various approaches which involve different garage designs and garage solutions you can benefit from. Another point you can make use of is finding the right thrift shop for garage accessories in your area. Thrift shops such as GoodWill often have practical and useful garage shelves and used storage cabinets. You may also find organizing bins and other items that you can utilize in your garage project by checking out the sales being offered by notable thrift shops in your area. Although there may be many other places to go when in search of garage storage ideas, the thrift shops are undoubtedly one of the best places to begin your search.

* Attend Rummage or Garage Sales

If you live in an area where there are no thrift stores, another place where you may be assured of good buys is at rummage sales. There will be a variety of items that could be used for storage, although there is no guarantee that all the items you need will be available at only one garage sale. You may therefore need to make repeated visits to various sales before you can get to buy all the items you’ll need. One thing you would have to be mindful of though is the urge to buy items that you don’t need in your garage. Standard garage storage systems avoid keeping items that are of little or no use in the garage.

There are many more inexpensive garage storage ideas that you will discover. One thing to keep in mind is that garage organization is a skill you must acquire and it takes some effort on your part to ensure your garage remains clean and organized.

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