http://www.youngloveafter50.com Our Desert Star Av Filmoffice Commissioner Pauline East shares with Marva Greenleaf her passion and dedication in promoting our region for film projects. Collaborating for the benefit of our commUNITY, we thank you Pauline for your be YOU (tiful) contributions! AVBOT 42nd Annual Antelope Valley Business Outlook Conference Vicki S. Medina — with Jim Greenleaf and Pauline East at Hilton Garden Inn.
http://www.youngloveafter50.com Mayor Parris shares with Marva Greenleaf the excitement of embracing the adjustments our commUNITY faces with the serious issues of today. Remain Confident, Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM). Our words have power and will melt the mountains of resistance, flourishing as we move forward…
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http://www.youngloveafter50.com City of Lancaster Vice Mayor Marvin Crist shares with Marva Greenleaf the understanding of community investing in one another and looking out for the greater good of our region. AV Nice: it takes wonderful to know wonderful…
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http://www.youngloveafter50.com Chris Spicher Director Emeritus AVBOT/Antelope Valley Florist/AV Nice CEO and Marva Greenleaf Passionate Activist/Youngloveafter50.com roll out the welcome red carpet at the 42nd Annual Antelope Valley Board of Trade Reception held at the Hilton Garden, Palmdale, Ca. Vicki Medina is the Hostess with the mostest, invigorating, dynamic, flourishing throughout our Antelope Valley Region. Bloom where you are planted!
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http://www.youngloveafter50.com Vicki Medina, Executive Director of the Antelope Valley Board of Trade shares with Donna Tremeer, Director of the Antelope Valley Family YMCA / AVBOT Director and Marva Greenleaf the passion and joy we bring as we tend to our daily gardens. Baby Bloomers flourish and thrive right where we are planted! CommUNITY at its best. Desert Stars all around us…
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Professor Bill Nye got to touch it, Chris Spicher SITS INSIDE. We take you along as we rocket off the runway at Mojave Air/Spaceport, in 4 quick 6G minutes we are at 320+ Thousand feet, weightless in a space suit..Public Space Travel is close, a reality. Mr Andrew Nelson is a scientist, engineer and a people person, the perfect chap to lead this enterprise. To meet, talk with and be able to share this full size mock up, to sit next to an astronaut, to become an Astronaut myself, amazing, in fact need to invent some more words, or wax poetic… Xcorriffic, Spacetacular, unbefrigginlievable
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http://www.avnice.com Chris Spicher gives us a little sneak peek of at The Mojave Air & Space Port “Breaking Boundaries,” the theme for the 2014 Antelope Valley Board of Trade Antelope Valley Business Outlook Conference, based on innovative plans and preparations that promise to break decades-old program practices, while enlivening the experience for an expected 800 visitors.
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Terry and Sylvia Norris believe in the strength and opportunity of the Economic Region they live and have their business in. Come enjoy the Calibration, formed over 18 years ago they and their staff count and measure ANYTHING… the word is getting out!!
Precision Labs started in 1995 with a single multi-function meter calibrator and two dedicated professionals. While one of the founders had 4 years of formal metrology training, the other was a calibration lab manager. We worked long hours and reinvested any profits back into the company, a process of self improvement that continues to today.
The only work we could perform back then was at the customer’s facility because we lacked a formal location. But that changed once a small 10foot by 15 foot lab with climate control was built after 1 year of service. At that point we had approximately 30 instruments. Many customers were surprised to see us with such a strong technical background for the size of the company.
We quickly moved to a 1000 square foot facility in Palmdale. At that point we had a crew of 4 people. The amount of instrumentation had also grown, but we still always felt as though we were always sharing tools. Someone termed the phrase “calibration co-operative” to explain our philosophy of sharing our resources in such a manner as to help customers. That method of though continues today as many loyal customers may seek a single calibration, but we will invest heavily to calibrate this one item on the plans to help others.
We were one of the first companies to become ISO 17025. In fact, so few companies were ISO 17025, that the Automotive Industry Action Group had to act in order to help the industry. The lessons of ISO 17025 removed the last vestiges of military standards that we used as guides to run the company. That allowed the company to improve efficiency to help work process in a much better fashion.
After a short stay of only two years, we had to move into 2000 square feet building in the city of Lancaster. After many shelves and a storage facility for our 30 filing cabinets of manuals was built, we realized the time to move had come again. By this time, we had well over 300 customers to include all of our original customers. The breadth of our calibration capabilities were hundreds of calibration items, computer networks, front office personal more than the first staff, company cars, and more.
We now have nearly 6000 square feet and continue to find more ways to expand. Major customers are now demanding that we continue to find innovative methods to help them cut costs while continuing to improve quality. Our efforts of the strongest team we have ever assembled stands together to tackle your next challenge.
The teamwork continues to build here at Precision Labs as co workers are obtaining safety, managerial and workforce training. The keys to our success has always been the quality of the work that we can perform for you: our best team member and the reason we exist.
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http://www.avflorist.com 661.948.6006 He loves Mojave, we talk about the tech community, commercial space travel. The VIP reception was full of folks who wanted to say hello to Capt Kelly, the Capt had a chance to meet our WW2 Vet Mr Larry Chimbole too. Capt Kelly’s book Gabby is a great story of success and challenge. I found Mark Kelly to be humble, easy to talk with and a great listener. The Antelope Valley Board of Trade has chosen a fantastic keynote speaker for its Outlook Event.
He loves Mojave, we talk about the tech community, commercial space travel. The VIP reception was full of folks who wanted to say hello to Capt Kelly, the Capt had a chance to meet our WW2 Vet Mr Larry Chimbole too. Capt Kelly’s book Gabby is a great story of success and challenge. I found Mark Kelly to be humble, easy to talk with and a great listener. The Antelope Valley Board of Trade has chosen a fantastic keynote speaker for its Outlook Event.
Capt. Mark Kelly, record-setting American astronaut, retired US Navy combat pilot, and husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle (Gabby) Giffords, is the keynote speaker for Southern California’s Antelope Valley Business Outlook Conference, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
Kelly, a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle flights to orbit, and one of only two astronauts to have visited the International Space Station on four missions, will address an expected capacity audience attending the day-long business conference at Mojave Air & Space Port’s newly completed Stuart Witt Conference Center .
Capt. Kelly will be accompanied on the program by a long list of presenters who are leaders in the fields of regional economics, business, manufacturing, technology, renewable energy, education, aerospace research and development, defense, and transportation. The 42nd annual Business Outlook Conference, organized by the Antelope Valley Board of Trade, opens at 7:30 a.m. and adjourns at 2:30 p.m.
The 2014 Business Outlook Conference theme, “Breaking Boundaries” will be brought to life in a number of ways, beginning with its location at Mojave Air and Space Port, where private-sector companies pioneer in the great civilian leaps into commercial space business, alternative renewable energy, rail transportation, diversified manufacturing, aerospace fabrication and other pursuits.
Outlook Conference Chairman and Boeing executive Al Hoffman said the 2014 event will also give attendees the opportunity to see first-hand the cutting-edge aerospace hardware emerging from many of the Mojave Air & Space Port tenants.
photos by Jim Allen produced by Jim Greenleaf for #av nice
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661.948.6006 Call for prices, we have flowers, we are local, we want to serve you. Benjamin Andrews did the TUMBLEWEED intro for us a few years ago. Lots of flowers, dozens of choices. we can do it!! #tumbleweedflowers
VALENTINES DAY: lore and legend behind Valentines
Lupercus – slayer of wolves
VALENTINE’S Day is thought to have evolved from a spring holiday celebrated in ancient Rome. The feast of Lupercalia was actually celebrated on February 15 and honoured the god Lupercus, who protected the people and their herds from wolves.
On this day, dances were held for single young men and women. A man would draw his partner’s name from a piece of papyrus placed in a bowl. The man not only danced with his partner but was also obligated to protect her throughout the new year, which began in March.
In many cases, the partners became sweethearts and were soon married. When the tradition of these dances was later revived in the Middle Ages, a man would wear his sweetheart’s name on his sleeve. Even today we refer to someone who is quick to show their feeling as “wearing his heart on his sleeve.”
Why it’s called Valentines Day
Valentine’s Day most likely received its name and date from Valentinus, a Roman priest who was beheaded on February 14 in the third century A.D. At that time, Emperor Claudius II banned all weddings and engagements, believing that newly married men made poor Roman soldiers. Valentinus defied the emperor by performing secret marriages and has since been regarded as the patron saint of lovers.
When Valentinus was imprisoned for refusing to worship pagan gods, children made bouquets, tied on love notes, and tossed them through the prison bars. Valentine then prayed for a miracle, hoping that God would restore the sight of the jailer’s blind daughter.
The Emperor Claudius became enraged when the miracle occurred and both the jailer and his daughter converted to Christianity. Condemned to die, the priest sent the young girl a farewell message signed simply, “from your Valentine.”
Valentine’s Day messages
Over time, love notes sent to sweethearts on February 14 became known as valentines – as did those who sent them. Paper valentines differed from those of today in that most were printed without messages, leaving the 18th-century lover to pen his own sentiment. Paper valentines became popular in the 18thC.
Before commercial printers created the colorful heirlooms we now have from Victorian times, people created their own valentines from paper scraps. In the 19th-century a lady would trace the outline of her hand, than add a paper heart in the center as a symbol of her affection for the recipient.
Valentine’s Day gifts
Many girls of the same period made watch papers for their sweethearts. Cut from pretty paper, silk or satin, these small circles replaced the ordinary papers that kept the dust out of pocket watches. The circles were painted or embroidered with hearts, the lovers’ initials, or a special motto – and quickly became popular Valentine’s Day gifts.
Through the years it has been said that a girl could dream of her future husband on St. Valentine’s Eve by sleeping with four bay leaves pinned to the corners of her pillow. Sleeping with any of the following under your pillow could bring dreams of one’s true love:
A woman should count the first nine stars she sees during nine consecutive nights. The first eligible man she sees the next day would supposedly become her husband – if she so desires. Legend holds that a young girl could see the face of her future husband by peering at the moon on St. Valentine’s Eve. For a time many believed this face was “the man in the moon.”
Happy Valentine’s Day
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