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[scot47]

...and that shows how little you know of the reality of this part of the world.

[johnslat]

Dear scot47,
Working in (or taking a runner from) a place where inefficiency, laziness, and endless procrastination are not so uncommon can have its upsides.
There are not, I think, too many Inspector Javerts on the job there.
Regards,
John

[Mr. Mead]

[wordsmith]

Does anybody know how long they take to send an offer?

[Mr. Mead]

Hi Wordsmith, some answers to your question have unfortunately spilled over into a less useful thread on KAU.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=71620&sid=075977cf8d7652cae00a24f5e9fab7f2

[wordsmith]

Many thanks, Mr. Mead.

[littleoldlady]

Wordsmith and anyone else who needs to know about job offer at KAU.
Mine offer came two days after interview.

[roy_101]

Odd

[eclectic]

Not odd.

[maniac]

Hi Guys

Allow me to join this discussion

I went for a tele-interview about 3 weeks ago, still no offer. What can I read into that?

Can anyone shed some light on course, what books to they do. Is it like the schools in KSA where they hand you the teaching manual and the weely program, and expect you to follow that, they don't allow much inovation and deviation from the prescribed text.

I am a teacher that likes to prepare in adance for my classes, I even prepare during the holiday before school start. That is why I want to know more about the actual program

[rigel]

[Kipling]

Aaagh maan the last 2 posts have done a runner or maybe this post is like the Bermuda Triangle. Speaking of which is it an Isoceles or a right angled one.
It makes all the difference you know


OK moderator, please, please, not the face, sob, not the face!!!!!!

[roy_101]

Interesting information.

[rigel]

You can grow tomatoes on rocks if you dump enough fertilizer on them. But doing so depletes the soil, we mine it when we do this.

Fertilizer represents 28% of the energy used in agriculture. So let me get this straight. Fertilizers are made from and with natural gas which we�re dumping on crops to grow them for biofuel. We�re going to take the biomass waste away, which means we�ll have to add even more fertilizer. How, exactly, does that lessen our dependence on fossil fuels?

OK, one good thing, sort of. Fertilizer is part of the green revolution that made it possible for the world�s population to grow from half a billion to 6.5 billion today (Smil 2000, Fisher 2001). So I�m biting the hand that feeds me and four billion plus others who wouldn�t be alive otherwise. But natural gas is limited, not easily imported, and it�s depleting faster than oil on the North American continent. Discontinuities clearly lie ahead.

Our national security is at risk as we deplete our aquifers and become dependent on unstable foreign states to provide us with increasingly expensive fertilizer. Between 1995 and 2005 we increased our fertilizer imports by more than 148% for Anhydrous Ammonia, 93% for Urea (solid), and 349 % of other nitrogen fertilizers (USDA ERS). Removing crop residues will require large amounts of imported fertilizer from potential cartels, potentially so expensive farmers won�t sell crops and residues for biofuels.

Improve national security and topsoil by returning residues to the land as fertilizer. We are vulnerable to high-priced fertilizer imports or �food for oil�, which would greatly increase the cost of food for Americans. Return crop residues to the soil to provide organic fertilizer, don�t increase the need for natural gas fertilizers by removing crop residues to make cellulosic biofuels.

One useless BS post deserves another!

[eclectic]

R., which post was the useless one? I was quite enjoying this thread, sort of.