A few nice business degree images I found:
business traveler
Image by buckshot.jones
Most large public spaces serve a purpose of creating a common bond, people coming together in one place for the same purpose. Airports, at the immediate level are no different than other public spaces. Yet, as we gather in the great modern terminals our identities are reclassified. No matter who we thought we were upon entering, once we stand in the TSA security line we are now identified as a traveler. The only thing we may take along from our outside identities is the hyphen. At this point we lose leave our old groups and prejudices outside the terminal and adopt new ones. We identify ourselves and each other as a Business- Traveler, Leisure- Traveler or maybe Adventure- Traveler and so on. The cold reality is, despite these new labels, we all share a high degree of anonymity.
As days on the road blend into years on the road, the faces of other travelers almost become invisible. I can make out the shapes, the telltale carry- on pulled at soft angle behind the person as they walk and I know they are a fellow traveler. I know we probably share many similar stories and tales of the road. I likely have more in common with them than many of my friends back home. But all I see is a faceless shape. When we sit next to one another in the terminal or on the plane, we put on our headphones which act as a high- tech cloaking device designed to isolate us from contact with the human form sitting next to us. And we sit and wait each of us the same; Anonymous- Traveler.
big cotton
Image by eschipul
living in big cotton
nah, not so much
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The last time a similar pullback occurred was during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the U.S. economy was in recession, he said.
Some experts read the sluggishness in gasoline demand, which has fallen every week since late January, the same way. They say it has more to do with the national economy than high gasoline prices.
"We're certainly starting to see the American consumer pinched," said Bruce Bullock, director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Weller said the burden of higher prices falls hardest on the working poor, who are seeing as much as 9 percent of their income go to fuel costs. In response, many consumers are being forced to cut back elsewhere as well as adding credit card debt, he said.
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Packing the growing jars
Image by Rosa Say
On the tour of Hamakua Mushroom Farm, the only commercial grower of gourmet mushrooms in Hawai‘i:
Machines fill quart-size plastic bottles with the growing medium, then move them into a large tunnel that is sealed and heated to sterilize the mixture, killing any bacteria present. Those tubes to the left in the photo, drill a hole in the compressed, wet substrate for the seeding to come, to provide easier growth of the spawn. Afterwards, a bottle-capping machine caps the bottles automatically Conveyors move the sterilized bottles to a seeding room, where the mixture is injected with the fungi that will eventually grow into mushrooms. The bottles are capped and left to incubate at 75 degrees; the length of incubation can be anywhere from 21 days to 3 months.
