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INSIDER<br />
SPRING <strong>2017</strong><br />
Growth Squirt:<br />
Building a business on solid values<br />
WHAT’S INSIDE | THIS ISSUE<br />
COASTER THERAPY<br />
ZACK’S BABY GIRL<br />
FEATURED PLANT
GOT KIDNEY STONES?<br />
Get thee to Big Thunder Mountain!<br />
If you’ve ever had a kidney stone,<br />
you will remember because it<br />
brings with it an exquisite pain<br />
that you would not want to wish<br />
on your worst enemy. There are a<br />
wide variety of treatments available,<br />
including drinking lots of<br />
water, medication, lithotripsy<br />
and, in the most serious cases,<br />
surgery. Now a new treatment is<br />
being evaluated for efficacy: roller<br />
coaster therapy.<br />
There has apparently long been<br />
anecdotal evidence connecting<br />
roller coaster rides to passing of<br />
kidney stones. Urologist David<br />
Wartinger decided that the time<br />
had come to run scientific trials<br />
on the premise that a ride on a<br />
roller coaster can assist sufferers<br />
in passing their kidney stones. The<br />
doctor and a colleague had their<br />
findings published in the Journal of<br />
the American Osteopathic Association<br />
in an article entitled Validation<br />
of a Functional Pyelocalyceal<br />
Renal Model for the Evaluation<br />
of Renal Calculi Passage While<br />
Riding a Roller Coaster.<br />
It would seem to be hard for the<br />
lab-coated readers of the journal<br />
article not to crack a smile or stifle<br />
a giggle at the thought of a couple<br />
of serious-minded urologists getting<br />
in line at the Magic Kingdom<br />
for ride after ride of the Big Thunder<br />
Mountain Railway coaster with<br />
a silicone model of a human kidney<br />
filled with a handful of carefully<br />
placed real kidney stones in a bath<br />
of real urine, concealed in a backpack.<br />
One can imagine the looks of<br />
consternation aimed at a reader of<br />
the journal in the middle a hospital<br />
staff lunchroom who is trying desperately<br />
to keep his composure,<br />
only to burst out with an involuntary<br />
guffaw when he comes upon<br />
Figure 3 of the clinical essay, which<br />
is a diagram showing which seats<br />
on the coaster car yielded the best<br />
results.<br />
The paper concludes with the finding<br />
that the ride does indeed facilitate<br />
passing of the kidney stones<br />
in the model, and that riders in the<br />
hindmost car of the coaster enjoy<br />
a benefit of nearly 5 times greater<br />
than riders in the forward cars of<br />
the coaster.<br />
This is an actual illustration as it appeared in the medical journal showing the<br />
best place to sit on the roller coaster to pass kidney stones<br />
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<strong>Spring</strong> Is Bustin’ Out All<br />
Over<br />
As I wrote last<br />
issue, the Kirsch<br />
family was eagerly<br />
anticipating the<br />
birth of our newest<br />
member. On<br />
March 1, Elizabeth<br />
Rose entered the world. As you<br />
can see from the photograph, she<br />
is about the most beautiful baby<br />
the world has ever seen. She’s<br />
been spending lots of time ever<br />
since then doing baby stuff, which<br />
has placed some pretty big demands<br />
on her parents. I’m grateful<br />
to have a wife, Erin, who is able to<br />
take care of most of those demands,<br />
so I can keep up with the<br />
nursery stuff that I have to do.<br />
I’m thinking at some point I’m going<br />
to look back at this time in my<br />
life with amazement and wonder<br />
how I was able to juggle all the<br />
things that are happening right<br />
now. I would be happy to share my<br />
secret with my future self—getting<br />
by on a lot less sleep! If my future<br />
self ever wants to know why I<br />
chose to have a newborn and undertake<br />
a gigantic move and nursery<br />
expansion at the same time, I<br />
will tell him I have no idea, but that<br />
I’m having the time of my life.<br />
<strong>Spring</strong>time is always busy at the<br />
nursery, and it has never been<br />
more busy than it is right now.<br />
We’ve brought in more personnel<br />
to keep up, got a new delivery<br />
truck, and we’re shopping for one<br />
more. Our new location abuts<br />
Interstate 75, and the billboard<br />
we put up to advertise our presence<br />
to the thousands of travelers<br />
who pass this way every day has<br />
brought in some added exposure<br />
and business.<br />
Full steam ahead!<br />
Until next time,<br />
Zack Kirsch<br />
General Manager<br />
386 754-0161<br />
sales@gsnursery.com<br />
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G&S Core Values<br />
№<br />
0I<br />
LIFECOMESFIRST<br />
Make sure our team<br />
doesn't miss out on life’s<br />
most important moments<br />
4<br />
Everybody can benefit<br />
from having some rules<br />
to live by. History tells us<br />
that George Washington<br />
had a set of 110 rules of<br />
etiquette, copied by hand<br />
when he was 16. As our<br />
company continues to<br />
grow, we decided the<br />
time had come to lay out<br />
a set of principles that<br />
define our culture as a<br />
company as well as a<br />
mission statement that<br />
clearly presents what our<br />
purpose is as a wholesale<br />
nursery. In the same<br />
way writing out a budget<br />
helps a family or a company<br />
stay on track, these<br />
principles, written down,<br />
can help us as a company<br />
stay on task.<br />
№<br />
05<br />
MAKEITBETTER<br />
Run a highly organized<br />
and clean operation
№<br />
03<br />
SHOWINGWECARE<br />
Be the highlight<br />
of our customer’s day<br />
№<br />
04<br />
ACTWITHINTEGRITY<br />
Conduct business with<br />
the highest levels<br />
of Integrity<br />
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Featured<br />
Plant<br />
ASIAN JASMINE<br />
Trachelospermum Asiaticum<br />
Asiatic Minima Dwarf Jasmine<br />
is a true ground cover that<br />
forms a thick mat and is<br />
more drought and shade tolerant<br />
than most turf grasses. It can<br />
be used as a turf substitute that<br />
does not need to mowed and<br />
will stay green in the winter—just<br />
don’t expect it to withstand a lot<br />
of foot traffic.<br />
Some experts recommend<br />
mowing a jasmine bed in the late<br />
winter as the new growth period<br />
begins. The benefit is a more<br />
uniform height to the planting<br />
and lower susceptibility to<br />
disease due to better air movement<br />
within the canopy. Set your<br />
mower to the highest setting; the<br />
foliage will be mostly removed<br />
but will quickly be replaced by<br />
new growth within a few weeks.<br />
Weeds don’t usually pose a problem<br />
in a mature planting due to its<br />
dense growth, but if weed control is<br />
needed, the use of Roundup® mixed<br />
to 1oz./gal is highly effective with no<br />
adverse reactions to the Jasmine. Do<br />
not treat until after the spring growing<br />
phase.<br />
1 gal: Only $1.55!<br />
Prices good through the end of June <strong>2017</strong><br />
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise,<br />
but he is not half as wise as the man with no<br />
secrets to keep.”<br />
—E.W. Howe<br />
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386 754-0161
Feeling at home in our new space...<br />
Things are finally starting to feel routine<br />
after several weeks of working out of<br />
our new space. We no longer catch<br />
ourselves turning the wrong direction<br />
out of the driveway when we leave for<br />
work in the morning; our brains have<br />
finally caught on to the fact that “work”<br />
isn’t where it used to be.<br />
The guys in the office enjoy sitting on<br />
the front slab while the weather is still<br />
pleasant, and we get visitors from time<br />
to time, like Chad’s daughter Francesca,<br />
who dropped by to show her friend<br />
Bingo where her dad works.<br />
We may be settling in, but we’re not<br />
slowing down! We’ve begun phase II of<br />
our infrastructure expansion, preparing<br />
new beds on the unused land of the<br />
property, which will effectively double<br />
our capacity.<br />
If you’re ever in the neighborhood,<br />
give us a call and come on<br />
by. We’d love to show off our new<br />
nursery and discuss ways we can<br />
serve you better.<br />
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www.gsnursery.com
1550 SW Bedenbaugh Ln.<br />
Lake City FL 32025<br />
RIDDLE OF THE MONTH<br />
Two friends live along a river 9 miles apart.<br />
They make plans to meet on a Saturday,<br />
and they both leave in kayaks at the<br />
same time. Jim is paddling downriver at<br />
a rate of 3 miles an hour. Clarence has<br />
to fight the current, so his progress is<br />
only 1 mile an hour.<br />
How many hours must they paddle<br />
before they meet up?<br />
LAST MONTH’S RIDDLE:<br />
A cowboy rides into town one Friday<br />
afternoon and finds lodging at the local<br />
saloon. He stays for 5 nights and then rides<br />
out on Sunday in the morning in order to<br />
make it home before sundown.<br />
How can this be possible?<br />
ANSWER: The cowboy rode in on a<br />
Friday and stayed 5 nights. He rode out<br />
Wednesday morning on a horse named<br />
Sunday.<br />
ANSWER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN:<br />
RTIC<br />
30 oz<br />
Tumbler<br />
LAST ISSUE’S WINNERS<br />
Judiana Trevino<br />
Laura Bland<br />
Gregg D’Antonio<br />
Send answers to newsletter@gsnursery.com before May 30 <strong>2017</strong>. All correct<br />
answers will be entered into a drawing to win a prize!