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Privacy Policy
Effective Date of Current Policy: November 1, 2009
When you interact with us, we automatically receive and store certain types of information, such as the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address. We use information we collect to serve you more relevant advertisements; referred to as "Retargeting." This is statistical information used to monitor the usage of our website and for advertising purposes. This does not include personal information.
As you browse PoolParties.com, advertising cookies will be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in. Our display advertising partner, AdRoll, then enables us to present you with retargeting advertising on other sites based on your previous interaction with PoolParties.com. The techniques our partners employ do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number. You can visit this page to opt out of AdRoll and their partner's targeted advertising.
We implement a secure processing server on our site when collecting information to ensure a high level of security for your personal information entered such as bank details and credit card info.
Welcome to PoolParties.com's Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we use and protect the personal information you decide to share with us. This Privacy Policy applies to all users of PoolParties.com ("Website"), our products and services, and to any information provided to PoolParties.com, which is a property of VIP Nightlife, LLC. This Privacy Policy does not pertain to information collected by third parties. PoolParties.com cannot and does not assume responsibility for the policies, practices, and actions of such third parties. You are welcome to use as much of PoolParties.com's website without providing any personally identifiable information to us.
Please read our Privacy Policy ("Policy") carefully. We will not share your personal information other than as described below. PoolParties.com reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove provisions of its Policy, and any changes to the Policy will be announced at least ten (10) days in advance, so please be sure to check our Website often. By using or accessing PoolParties.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy without limitation, qualification, or change and do so at your own risk. If at any time you do not accept all the terms and conditions contained within this Policy, do not access PoolParties.com's Website or use any of the products or services PoolParties.com provides.
If you have any questions, please click here for information on how to contact us.
There are two types of information PoolParties.com collects, personal information and non-personal information. Personal information is information that identifies you such as your name and email address. Non-personal information does not identify you personally, but gives us information about your computer and about your activities on our site such as your IP address, browser type, the date and time you access the site, the website that referred you to our site, and etc.
You may use many features of PoolParties.com's website without providing any personal information. However, in order to take advantage of all services & products PoolParties.com's Website provides, it may be necessary to furnish your personal information such as, but not limited to, name, postal address, telephone number, fax number, geographic location, email address, age, gender, birth date, credit or debit card number or other payment account number and the applicable expiration date(s), comedic preferences, purchasing history and other identification and contact information. In addition, you may also be providing personal information when you submit comments on this Website. Ticketvibe collects persona information when you voluntarily provide it. If you are a registered user of PoolParties.com we may retain your information as long as you maintain your registered status.
It is possible to use many features of the Website without providing PoolParties.com with any personal information. However, in order to be able to use all of the opportunities, advantages or features of this Website, you may be required to provide PoolParties.com with your personal information.
On occasion, PoolParties.com may ask you some questions about yourself (such as your interests and activities, your age, etc.) so we know how to best serve you and to help ensure you are maximizing the products and services PoolParties.com offers. However, you are under no obligation to answer these questions.
In addition to the aforementioned non-personal information we collect, we and our service providers also collect and store information from your computer using "cookies." A cookie is a small file stored on your computer and is tied to information about you. For example, cookies enables PoolParties.com to save your name email address so that the next time you access Ticketvibe's Website from the same computer, PoolParties.com will recognize your computer's browser as a previous visitor and will remember your name and email address when you sign on to your account. This makes your experience on PoolParties.com easier, faster, and smoother. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you should modify your browser preferences by deleting or declining cookies. (Click "Help" in the toolbar of most browsers for instructions.) If you do so, please be advised that some of the features and services of PoolParties.com's Website may not function properly.
We also use a tracking cookie to analyze your activity with respect to advertising, searching and purchasing on the Website. You may choose to opt out with respect to the tracking cookie by visiting http://www.247realmedia.com/EN-US/opt-out.html
We and our service providers may also use "web beacons," to track your use of PoolParties.com's Website. A web beacon is similar in function to cookies. Web beacons also enable PoolParties.com to provide you with an experience more tailored to your preferences and interest the next time you visit. Web beacons (also known as clear GIFs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a specific identifier and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. Web beacons differ from cookies in that the information is not stored on your hard drive, but are invisibly embedded on the web pages (or in email). When used in HTML-formatted email messages, Pixel Tags can tell the sender whether and when an email has been opened. Web beacons do not contain any personal information.
PoolParties.com may also receive information about its users from third parties (such as purchase history and demographic information), and we may allow third parties to display advertisements on our Website. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about people who view or interact with their advertisements on our Website. This information allows them to deliver targeted advertisements and judge their effectiveness. PoolParties.com does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on PoolParties.com unless you choose to share it with them.
We realize you value your information and so do we. Therefore, we have taken appropriate security procedures to help safeguard this information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We use data security systems to encrypt your personal and financial information to reduce the risk that your information will be obtained by unauthorized persons. We also encrypt credit card numbers and other sensitive information before it is sent from your computer to ours. We also use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized access to your personal information. Only authorized employees are permitted to access your personal information, and they may do so only for limited reasons. Our employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices, and the servers that store personal information are in a secure environment.
We want you to feel confident using our Website to transact business. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you feel your information has been compromised in any way from the use of this Website, please contact us immediately. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has released a comprehensive guide that can help you guard against and deal with identity theft. This guide and other useful tools can be obtained by visiting a credit score website. Ticketvibe is not affiliated with any of the services the FTC provides.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide our visitors with a superior customized online experience. Among other things, we use customer contact information to inform the venues of who have purchased tickets to their shows, contact purchasers to inform them of any changes to any shows, contact our customers of upcoming shows they may be interested in attending, to remind customers of shows through our reminder service(s), to send our customer's friends or loved ones emails about upcoming shows, and to send service and promotional emails.
PoolParties.com may use the information we collect about you in order to do the following:
- to process payment for purchases or sales you make;
- to deliver the tickets, products and services you request;
- to enroll you in programs in which you choose to participate;
- to manage your account and provide you with customer service;
- to perform research and analyze your use of, or interest in, our products, services or content (or products, services or content offered by others on our Website);
- to better tailor your Website experience to your interests, and to show you content in which you may be interested and to display the content according to your preference;
- to communicate with you by e-mail, regular mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us, our affiliated companies or other third parties;
- to help us develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our Website and other websites;
- to contact you in the event of a change in the Website's Terms of Service and/or this Policy, or to notify you of other administrative matters in connection with the Website;
- to conduct internal business purposes, such as to target advertising, for data analysis, for audits and for other internal purposes;
- to conduct online surveys and offer online sweepstakes or contests;
- to verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
- to enforce our Terms and Conditions;
- to protect against or identify fraudulent transactions;
- to generally manage our business; and
- to perform other functions, which we will describe to you at the time we collect the information.
Except as otherwise stated in this Policy, we do not sell, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information collected on our Website to others. The information collected by our Website is used to process orders, to keep you informed about any changes to the show, to notify you of upcoming shows, performances, appearances, events, special events, classes, or other similar artistic showcases ("Events"), products, services, or special offers that may be of interest to you, to keep you informed of the latest on your favorite artists, and for statistical purposes for improving our Website. We will disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties for tracking purposes, to charge your credit card (or process your check or money order, as appropriate), improve the functionality of our Website, customize our marketing efforts with you and perform statistical and data analyses, deliver your order and deliver promotional emails to you from us. These third parties may not use your personally identifiable information other than to provide the services requested by us. For example, we must release your credit card number to confirm payment and release your mailing address information to the delivery service to deliver products that you ordered. We also share website usage information we gather from visitors to our Website who have received a targeted promotional campaign with our third-party advertising service partner for the purpose of targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and our third-party service partners note some of the pages you visit on our Website through the use of clear GIFs.
We may provide aggregated statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related website information to third parties that do not include personally identifiable information. Moreover, we may release account information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Service or to protect the rights, property and safety of our users, others and ourselves.
In addition, we may share your personal information with:
Authorized service providers. Our authorized service providers are companies that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling ticket orders, processing credit card payments, delivering packages, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analyses, supporting our Website functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features we offer. These service providers may have access to your personal information to the extent necessary to perform their functions, but we do not allow them to share or use any of your personal information for any other purpose.
Business partners. When you make a purchase or participate in a promotion, we may share your personal information with the business for which you purchase tickets and with merchants offering the products, services, promotions, contests and/or sweepstakes. We will not share your personal information with these businesses unless you choose to purchase tickets or participate in their offer or program. When you choose to purchase tickets or engage in a particular offer or program, you authorize us to share your email address and other information with the relevant business or merchant.
Venues. We sell tickets on behalf of others; we don't organize, produce or otherwise bring you Events. The venues, promoters, artists' representatives and fan clubs, troupes, performers, ensembles, and others who are involved in or bring you Events are known as "Event Providers." When you buy tickets, you consent to allow us to provide your personal information to the Event Providers and their contractors. We share this information so Event Providers can contact you about the Event or other Events you may be interested in.
Direct mail partners. From time to time we may share our postal mailing list with selected providers of goods, products, and services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive mailings from these providers, you can notify us at any time by emailing us at email@example.com.
Other Situations. PoolParties.com may also access and disclose your personal information as needed to: (1) comply with applicable laws; (2) respond to governmental inquiries or requests; (3) comply with valid legal process; (4) protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of PoolParties.com, PoolParties.com's Website visitors or the public; (5) permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; and (6) enforce our Terms of Service or other published guidelines.
PoolParties.com reserves the right to transfer any and all information that we collect from users of the Website to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of PoolParties.com's business, assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). However, the use of this information by any successor entity would still be governed by the terms of this Policy, as amended from time to time, including any amendment after such transaction, and you will continue to have the right to opt out of sharing your information with third parties.
In certain circumstances under California law, customers are entitled to certain information regarding any personally identifiable information (as defined by certain California laws) we may share with direct marketing companies. Personally identifiable information generally is defined under California law as information that identifies specifics about an individual and can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual including that individual's name, mailing address, telephone number, mobile phone number, email address and other identification and contact information. If you are an eligible customer and would like to receive a list detailing the types of personally identifiable information we share with direct marketing companies and the names and addresses of all direct marketing companies that we provide personally identifiable information to, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Your concern will be investigated and you'll be notified as soon as possible of the outcome of the investigation and any action required as a result.
In addition, under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California website users are entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.
There are a number of places on our Website where you may click on a link to access other websites that don't operate under this Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement on our Website, you may be taken to a website that we don't control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you. Importantly, these third parties will have their own privacy policies describing how they use and disclose your personal information. Those policies will govern the use, handling and disclosure of your personal information once you or we have shared it with those third parties. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. These other sites may send their own cookies or clear GIFs to users, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information. Additionally, other companies which place advertising on our Website may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising through the use of cookies or clear GIFs. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect. If you want to learn more about other entities' privacy practices, please review the websites of those third parties. Privacy policies are typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting. If you have any questions about how a third party handles personal information, please contact that third party directly.
We may provide areas on our website where you can post information about yourself, communicate with others, post reviews or upload content (e.g. pictures, videos, audio files, etc.). Such postings are governed by our Terms of Service, so be sure to review them before posting. In addition, keep in mind that postings may appear on other websites or when searches are conducted on search engines on the subject of your posting.
Also, whenever you disclose personal information publicly (such as on publicly viewable web pages), that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others. For example, if you post your email address, you may receive unsolicited email messages. We can't control who reads your posting or what others may do with information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to use your discretion with respect to posting personal information.
Access and control over most personal information on PoolParties.com is readily accessible through the profile editing tools. Ticketvibe users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their PoolParties.com account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of PoolParties.com.
At any time, you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails from us by clicking on My Account page and following the instructions to "manage your email alerts." You may modify your choices at any time in your account. Also, in any commercial email we send, you will be given the opportunity to opt out of receiving such messages in the future by clicking on the link at the bottom of the email that says "unsubscribe." It may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request.
Even if you have unsubscribed from receiving promotional emails from us, we may send you other types of important e-mail communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. These may include customer service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys. Please note that changing information in your My Account page or opting out of receiving promotional email communications will affect only future communications from us. If we already provided your information to a third party (such as an Event Provider) before you changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change your preferences directly with that third party as well.
When you complete the ticket purchase for a show, you will be automatically enrolled in PoolParties.com's newsletter. In addition, for some shows you may receive a complimentary subscription to a trade magazine, venue's newsletter, or a artist's newsletter. For this purpose, we will provide your name and mailing address to the magazine subscription fulfillment company. You may choose to simultaneously opt out of the subscriptions during the checkout process.
If you apply for a position with PoolParties.com and submit your personal information through our Website, the information you submit will be used only in connection with considering and acting upon your application. We may retain your personal information for a period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your application for current or future available positions.
If you apply for a position with Ticketvibe and are directed to a third-party site (for example, a third-party site specializing in job postings, such as Monster.com). Any personal information you provide will be collected by such third party. PoolParties.com has no control over, and are not responsible or liable for, such third party's use of your personal information. Please consult such third party's privacy policy for information regarding their privacy practices.
The third party collecting your personal information will share such information with PoolParties.com so we can review your information and, if applicable, respond to your query or job application. Please note PoolParties.com has no obligation to respond to all queries or job applications submitted. Any personal information PoolParties.com receives from such third party will be treated in accordance with this Policy.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act took effect on April 21, 2000, and imposes certain requirements on websites directed toward children under 13 that collect information on those children, or on websites that know they are collecting personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. It currently is our policy not to collect personally identifiable information from any person under 13. If Ticketvibe determines it has collected personal information of children under the age of 13, Ticketvibe will immediately delete such information and any accounts believed to be held by children under 13.
If you have any questions concerning this Policy, you may send them by email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please note that email communications will not necessarily be secure; accordingly you should not include credit card information or other sensitive information in your email correspondence with us. You must send any official correspondence via postal mail to our L.A office: National NightLife LLC, 850 Broadway Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90014. Attention: General Counsel
This Privacy Policy covers the collection of information on our Website from U.S. residents. If you are visiting our Website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. U.S. data protection and other laws may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we take steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.
We will occasionally update this Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will notify you by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address you most recently provided us in your account, and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Website. We recommend that you check our Website from time to time to remain updated as to any changes in our Policy or any other policies. Thank you for using PoolParties.com!
If you ever have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us. We respect your rights and privacy, and will be happy to answer any questions or concerns you might have.
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Wow, what an action-packed weekend! Not only is today Valentude's Day, but it's also the 10th anniversary of Marco Pantani's fun-filled death, and it's Presidents Day, which means in honor of AMERICA! I won't be posting on Monday, February 17th, but will be back on Tuesday, February 18th with regular updates:
Sure, I could post anyway, but they're having some sweet sales on Hyundais and I need to take advantage.
Meanwhile, yesterday I wrote about Thomas F. Barraga, the Suffolk County legislator who doesn't think anyone should ride bikes (motorized or human-powered), and I was pleased to learn that someone has updated his Wikipedia page accordingly:
I guess the current entry has been "corrected," but at least this version still exists in some sort of Wikipedia limbo. Here's an excerpt:
Barraga's intense bicycle hatred stems from an incident that occurred as a child. At the age of 9, when his father was teaching him to ride a bicycle, Barraga's low-hanging balls got caught in the spokes of his bicycle. He has despised all forms of unmotorized transport ever since. He has thereafter made it his personal mission in life to see to it that 90% of all bicyclists are involved in on-road accidents. Barraga explained, "I loved my balls. I would play with them often, five, six times a day. I resolved to destroy that which destroys balls."
Sounds plausible to me.
In the meantime, spring has never seemed more remote, and this image sums up the current state of affairs here rather succinctly:
That bike should be accessible some time in August.
And now, I'm pleased to present you with a quiz. As always, study the item, think, and click on your answer. If you're right then go high-five yourself, and if you're wrong you'll see some fancy ridin', after which you'll point out that's not a "fixie," though that doesn't make the ridin' any less fancy.
Thanks very much for reading, ride safe (or else snowshoe safe depending on where you live), and don't go to work on Monday, even if you're not American.
--Wildcat Rock Machine
0) Thomas F. Barraga thinks nobody should ride bicycles in Suffolk County because:
--"90 percent of those people eventually were hit by an automobile"
--"Suffolk County is a suburban automobile community"
--"I loved my balls. I would play with them often, five, six times a day. I resolved to destroy that which destroys balls."
--All of the above
1) Thomas F. Barraga voted in favor of the Suffolk County "Complete Streets" resolution.
2) The Global Development Manager at Specialized is outraged by low wages for bicycle mechanics because:
--Bicycle mechanics are more worthy than gardeners, janitors, and shoe repairmen for some reason
--Bicycle mechanics are not able to live in $3,500-a-month apartments
--Slideshows in support of bicycle mechanics is better PR for Specialized than suing people to defend trademarks they don't own
--All of the above
3) The cool new way to harass cyclists in Portland is with a:
--Laser pointer
--BB gun
--Oil slick
4) SRAM have run afoul of PETA with their new "SRAM Green" prototype component group.
5) The inventor of the homeless recumbent is seeking $10,000. So far, he has raised:
6) Fat bikes have "arrived" now that they're:
--Available in crabon
--Available in Walmart
--The subject of local news stories in Cleveland
--All of the above

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Online data breaches are just an unfortunate fact of life now—as the New York Times put it, you might as well assume that your personal information has been taken, because cyberattacks happen all the time.
That's why we recommend identity-recovery coverage, which may be available for as little as $1 a month for our homeowner insurance customers.
It's best if you don't have to use that coverage—but many people don't take even simple steps that would make it harder for thieves to gain access to banking details, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. And even those who have been victimized previously can find themselves falling into old habits.
Fortunately, there are several things you can do, quickly and easily, to keep your data more secure. And while a really determined and skilled hacker could still find a way in, putting up a few roadblocks might encourage them to move on to a different target, similar to a burglar choosing an obviously unoccupied home instead of one with the lights on.
Here are five things experts recommend to better protect your personal information:
Use a stronger password. People have some truly awful passwords: The worst of 2017, as compiled by password-management company SplashData (using data leaked in various breaches), included "123456," "qwerty," "letmein" and the ever-popular "password." You should try to create complex passwords using a combination of special characters, numbers and odd phrases that aren't easily guessed. Instead of "mike2013," for example, remember something like "In 2013, Mike broke his leg in Omaha" and translate it into "i13MbhliO!" Password-management software can help, too; these programs generate strong passwords for you and require you to remember just one master password.
Better yet, use multi-factor authentication. Many companies and online service providers offer this feature, which forces you to provide verification beyond a password to sign in. You might be required to enter a code that is sent to your mobile device, or answer security questions. Beware the security questions, however—thanks to publicly available information, including posts on social media, these can be easy to guess. ("What is your favorite food?" is not a great question to use, particularly if your answer is "pizza.") So make sure your answers are things only you would know. If multi-factor authentication is available, you should use it, especially for sites with your most sensitive information.
Watch out for phishing attempts. We've all gotten calls or messages that were clearly scams, such as when the "IRS" calls to say you're going to be arrested if you don't immediately make a payment via credit card. But they're not "clearly" scams to everyone, and if someone happens to send you an email that is plausible because of your present situation, you could be fooled, too. Unless you're absolutely sure about the person or company you're dealing with, don't give out personal or financial details on the phone or via email. If you have a question about someone's authenticity, type the organization's web address into your browser (don't click links in an email or use an address provided by a caller). Then call or email back using the information on the actual website, or get the correct contact information from your account statement.
Back up (or wipe out) your data. Not only is this important in case your device is stolen, it also can save you in the event of a "ransomware" attack, where someone blocks access to your data unless you pay a fee. Some devices and platforms have a feature that allows you to erase everything remotely if needed, so consider enabling that feature if it's available. And remember to always fully wipe old devices before selling or recycling them. Simply deleting files isn't enough—check with the manufacturer and learn how to completely erase all of your information.
Watch where you go online (and where you're connected). If you're making a purchase online, don't enter your credit-card information (or other sensitive details) unless the site's address begins with "https." And it's best to avoid entering this type of data when you're on a public network, especially if it's unsecured.
Of course, nothing can completely protect you from all risk online. Even the founder of LifeLock, a data-security company, famously had his identity stolen multiple times. (To be fair, he did use his actual Social Security number in an advertising campaign, which in hindsight wasn't the best move.) But if you use the steps above, you'll be ahead of most people.
Reposted with permission from the original author, Safeco Insurance.


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i LEAD TIME: 5 working days
Product Model Information
The Model UG roller is spring retained, constructed of a 2-1/2" diameter 14 gauge galvanized steel tube and a 7/16" hex plain steel shaft.
Refer to the Roller Selection Guide for help.
UG36 Construction
- Between Frame (in): 36"
- Roller Tube: 2-1/2"x14ga Galv Stl
- Shaft: 7/16" Hex Plain Stl
- Bearing: Commercial Light oil
- Roller Retention: Spring
- Capacity (lbs): 213
- Weight (lbs): 8.8
- Sleeve: none
UG Configurations
- Commerical Light Oil Bearings
- Commercial Grease Bearings w/ Teflon Seals
- 1/16" Orange Vinyl Sleeve
- 1/8" Orange Polyurethane Sleeve
When Can This Item Ship?
Lead times are subject to change depending on the size of your order. If we cannot meet the lead time that is listed on the website, we will contact you to discuss your order and your options.
All items in your order will ship together. The lead time for your order is determined by the items in your order with the longest lead time.
For more information about our lead times, please visit out FAQ page.


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Nest records - individual nests and colonial nests
Controls at the top right of the map:
The 4-headed arrow control lets you navigate around the map.
The question mark icon lets you interrogate the data - click on it and then on any data point to select it and see the corresponding record in the table below, or click and drag to select a set of data points:
The blue plus icon allows you to switch base layers on and off, to change between a satellite image and a street map, for example:
You can also use the controls on the left of the map to navigate and zoom.
Controls on the data grid:
Click on any record in the grid to see it highlighted in red on the map:
Filter the grid and the map by typing into the red boxes in the filter row at the top of the grid. Use an asterisk as a wild card, so for example, typing *buck* in the common name box will show bushbuck, waterbuck and reedbuck. You can filter to a year by entering, for example, 2017 in the date box, or filter to a range of dates by entering, for example, 2019-2020. Press Tab or Enter to activate the filter.
Click on the right-hand icon to view a record's details:
If it is your record, and you are logged in you will also see an icon which allows you to edit the record:
Click on any column heading to sort alphabetically A-Z by that column. Click again to sort the column Z-A.
LOG IN to see the filter bar which allows you to filter the records by location, date, source, record ID etc.
If you are logged in you can use the FILTER BAR above the map to explore the records by clicking on Create a filter. Options include:
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As a leading medical institution in the United States, the Cleveland Clinic operates at the center of the country's raging debate over health care. Like many peers, the clinic finds itself fighting to hold the line on costs while maintaining quality, attracting the most qualified staff, and providing access to affordable health care. But its efforts don't stop there. Established in 1921 as a nonprofit group practice with a mission that links patient care, research, and education, the clinic has long been a crucible for experimentation and innovation.
And innovate it has, though not always without controversy. With more than 37,000 employees and annual revenues in excess of $4.4 billion, the Cleveland Clinic is leading a charge to lower the burden of disease on the country's health care system while improving quality and patient experience. Cafeterias in the clinic's many facilities no longer serve foods containing trans fats. Cleaning supplies have been replaced with nontoxic alternatives. What's more, starting last September new employees aren't allowed to smoke. Applicants are tested for nicotine, and those who test positive are provided with free smoking-cessation assistance but are not offered employment. Clinic physicians excel at technological, biomedical, and pharmacological innovation—its heart and vascular institute has been number one in the field for more than a decade. However, some observers believe that a number of these physicians have a conflict of interest.
The clinic's CEO, Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, whose own research has produced more than 30 patents, recently sat down with McKinsey's Brendan Buescher and Paul Mango to discuss health care in the United States, the importance of innovation as the industry globalizes, and the delicate balance among competing interests in the field. Cosgrove is not your usual executive; he spent 30 years at the clinic as a cardiac surgeon before being promoted to CEO, in 2004. Since then, he has immersed himself in the details of his new role, seeking to improve not just the clinic and the health of its patients but also their hospital experience and the future of the health care industry overall.
The Quarterly: Where do you think the US health care system is heading—and what needs to be done?
Toby Cosgrove: If you look at health care in the United States, what has caught the attention of most citizens is the cost, at around $2 trillion annually, or 16 percent of GDP. At that level, costs already affect competitiveness, so there's a lot of concern about what will happen as those costs increase. That has led to three seismic shifts in health care.
The first is prevention. The only thing we can do to reduce costs, while still improving quality, is to reduce the burden of disease. Forty percent of the premature deaths in the United States are caused by obesity, inactivity, and smoking, all of which ought to be preventable. Two-thirds of the country is overweight and a third is obese. Over the decades I have operated on a lot of patients with lung cancer, and every one of them was a smoker. So a natural starting point is to help people stop smoking and help them lose weight.
The Quarterly: Practically speaking, what has the Cleveland Clinic done in the area of prevention?
Toby Cosgrove: We feel that if we're going to be a health care organization, we really need to walk the talk. We decided that a hospital should be an organization with employees who don't smoke, so we stopped hiring smokers. Although there are 6,000 companies across the country that don't hire smokers, very few of them are health care providers. We took some criticism from the press for initiating this practice, and employees were worried that the next steps might be attempts to regulate their sexual habits or their eating habits at home. That is not our intention. Criticism has died away, and the policy hasn't affected the number of job applicants. People still want to work here.
Obesity, on the other hand, will require the education of a whole generation of people, and it has to start by addressing childhood obesity. That means asking obstetricians to educate women prenatally, because that's when they really have the mother's attention. As far as inactivity is concerned, people have to understand that they need to get up and move around more or their whole body will start to deteriorate.
Competition in this sector has been driven very much by cost and by being the lowest-cost provider. But low costs don't necessarily equate with great outcomes or great quality. Instead, maybe what we really ought to be driving for is value for the health care dollar. This is the second of the seismic shifts in health care.
The Quarterly: How do you get more value for the money that's spent at the Cleveland Clinic?
Toby Cosgrove: Value for your dollar has a lot to do with quality and outcomes and transparency. It turns out that in health care, there is very little information about what quality is. To improve value, you still have to measure costs, but you also have to measure quality, in terms of outcomes. At the Cleveland Clinic, we've had a long history of measuring outcomes in cardiac surgery. So we asked all the other departments to do the same sort of thing—to figure out what they want to measure, measure it, and then become transparent about it, because patients should know the expected outcomes. We ought to be able to say not just that we're great doctors but also here's how we actually do—and put metrics to it. If nobody has ever come up with any metrics for dermatology, we'll do it. And if someday somebody says there's a better way, then we'll adopt whichever approach is better.
We now have 29 books on outcomes. Some of them just track volume, some of them measure quality, but each year they get a little more sophisticated. As we measure these things we find problems, and as we find the problems we can go back and start to address them. That exercise is now pretty much adopted and a part of the culture at the clinic, and three years into this program the measures are getting more sophisticated; results can be found on our Web site. Interestingly, other institutions are starting to do the same thing. For example, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania both produced their own cardiac surgical-outcome books that were identical to the ones we put out—the same size, the same format, the same graphs—and that's great. Now we're starting to talk about quality, not about perception and reputation.
In the same spirit of transparency, as of the first of January we opened our medical records—what's often called "the chart"—to patients anytime they want to see their own charts. The charts really aren't the hospital's; they belong to the patients, and we think it's their right to have that information. This transparency has an effect on care, because now, when the nurses review charts during shift changes, they do it bedside instead of at the nursing station. So when they say, "Well, Mrs. Smith went for a walk this morning," Mrs. Smith can jump in, if she needs to, to say, "Oh, no, nobody got me up."
The Quarterly: Does that level of transparency also change how you think about competition?
Toby Cosgrove: Yes, and that brings us to the third seismic shift in health care. When I first started as a cardiac surgeon, 20 percent of the patients died. Success and quality were judged by whether the patient walked out or got carried out. Now, it's quite different—nearly everyone survives. Now patients judge us in the same way they would judge a restaurant or a hotel: on the experience they have here. That experience has a physical, clinical, and emotional component. They'll form their opinions and they will talk to people. I think we really have to address the quality of the experience, because patients expect it, and it is an opportunity to improve their emotional well being, which clearly has an influence on the speed of their recovery.
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We've started to try to address those things. The physical aspect includes the cleanliness and the convenience and the small physical things that you do. For example, those gowns that tie up the back are probably the most dehumanizing clothing that you can possibly put on. So we redesigned it to be more like a bathrobe. We began to look at things we could put in the rooms so if family members wanted to stay with the patient, they could. In fact, we designed and are now installing in rooms a couch that is both comfortable to sit on and pulls out at night into a bed for family members.
We looked at the experience of patients, particularly how the clinic's staff members interact with them. People learn from an early age how to size others up—whether they look at you, smile when they talk, how they touch you. These are all interactive, physical, emotional activities that impart a message of care, and ensuring that everyone heeds this requires a huge training process. To lead the effort, we hired a chief experience officer, whose entire responsibility is to look at the hospital experience from the eyes of the patient and to translate that message back to the caregivers.
The Quarterly: Let's change gears a bit. You've talked about some of the things that the clinic is doing, but what can other CEOs or leaders do—either at the individual or systemic level—to reform the health care system?
Toby Cosgrove: They can do a lot. The preventative health steps are pretty clear: they can do things that encourage people to take care of themselves, stop smoking, and increase activity. They can provide the stimulus, they can provide the facilities, and they can drive these ideas home. I was thrilled, for example, when Disney CEO Bob Iger decided that there would no longer be people smoking in films made by Disney. That's huge, and I'd encourage him to get with other film producers to do the same.
Systemic health care reform is a huge issue, obviously, and it's emotionally loaded because every single individual in the United States is a stakeholder. One way or another, all of us will one day be involved in the health care system. So there are 300 million people that are involved in this discussion, and we have to begin to understand where we are going and to develop some consensus about what to do. This isn't going to be a quick fix; it's going to take years.
Right now, there are all kinds of experiments under way, all over the country, to try and figure out how we can do this. It's happening on a state-by-state basis, and frankly I'm pleased about that, because with a lot of little experiments going on, some of them will be successful and some of them will fail. There will be lessons learned that will ultimately help us form a national health care policy. That's going to be a step-by-step process.
The Quarterly: Let's talk about the Cleveland Clinic as a business. How did it develop such a global presence?
Toby Cosgrove: The clinic has a long history of seeing patients from all over the world, going back to the 1950s, when coronary angiography originated here. That was the defining procedure for coronary artery disease, so people came from all over the world to learn about it. Then they'd go back home and refer patients, and we saw as many as 5,000 patients a year from overseas. After September 11 all that changed, because people were unwilling or unable to come to the United States.
So we began to look at various opportunities to meet our global patients halfway—and we were getting a lot of invitations to collaborate. We spent a lot of air miles and shoe leather figuring out what we could do, where we could do it, and if it was reasonable. We came to a couple of conclusions. First, we could not expect Cleveland Clinic doctors from the United States to practice in countries like China. These physicians didn't speak Chinese, they weren't licensed in China, and they didn't want to live there. As we probed deeper, we realized that other countries wanted to have us involved because they realized we had an operational model that provided doctors with the necessary facilities, technology, and support.
The second thing we realized was that we did not want to be involved for the short term. We didn't want to just put the Cleveland Clinic name on something and expect the brand to stick. Finally, we didn't want to put our capital at risk. I didn't think I could go to the people of northeast Ohio and say, "We're not investing here, we're going to invest somewhere else."
The Quarterly: So how involved are you overseas?
Toby Cosgrove: We eventually settled on a couple of opportunities. The first was in Abu Dhabi, where we signed a 15-year contract to build and select the staff and manage a hospital for a fixed fee.1 Recently, we signed a similar arrangement with a hospital outside of Vienna for heart surgery. We also opened a limited facility in Toronto, and we have relationships with hospitals in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. We see these partnerships as an opportunity to monetize our intellectual capital—the things we've learned about running a hospital for a long period of time—and do well by doing good.
Now, sooner or later, every country is going to want to develop its own expertise, and so the flow of patients coming to the United States to visit the Cleveland Clinic is probably not going to increase. For example, we used to have a lot of patients come from South America, and we've also trained a large number of residents from that region. Now, the leading heart surgeon in every country in South America was trained at the Cleveland Clinic.
The Quarterly: So how will you draw patients to Cleveland as other regions step up to serve themselves?
Toby Cosgrove: Our value proposition to the world is technology leadership. In an environment where the ability to distribute medical knowledge is compressing very quickly, we need to be able to continue to innovate in the way we practice and dispense medicine. Part of the success of this organization has always been its willingness to lead in innovative ways. We have a long history of innovation, including things like a lumpectomy rather than a radical mastectomy for breast cancer, coronary angiography, and coronary bypass. If this institution doesn't innovate, there will be nothing to differentiate it from others.
We've done everything we can to foster that spirit of innovation, including asking each one of our 1,800 doctors to take a trip once a year to go someplace new and learn something. It doesn't matter where. A lot of the new things that I've done resulted from a glimmer of an idea I discovered out in the world—from France, Germany, England, and Stanford. So if we have all these doctors out there scouting for new ideas, we're bound to get better because there's always somebody doing something better than we are. We just have to go find it.
The Quarterly: And what about concerns regarding conflicts between the physician's interests and those of the patients?
Toby Cosgrove: This area may be different in medicine than in most other fields because medicine is looked at as a charitable activity. Think of this: kidney dialysis was developed by a doctor here at the Cleveland Clinic after World War II, and no patents resulted from that. We received no financial returns for this breakthrough, even though we paid for all of the research that went into developing it. Companies picked up this innovation, manufactured dialysis machines, and made a bundle of money—which all flowed away from the clinic.
Recognizing this dynamic, we argued that it would be at least fair if the clinic were to benefit from the research it invested in—whether in time, effort, intellect, or cash. Institutions and researchers started asking product developers to share the profits. The same discussion has gone on in universities.
Then the laws changed, and research institutions were encouraged to patent and commercialize their developments. That really opened the floodgates. Up went the number of patents, up went the number of developments and disclosures. And that's where the conflict of interest question came up. People began to ask, "Are you doing this simply to make money or are you doing it to help mankind?" The answer is that we need to do both—to maintain the emphasis on patients' interests while rewarding innovation.
The Quarterly: How have you kept that balance at the clinic?
Toby Cosgrove: We did a couple of things. About seven years ago, we formed a venture capital company and used our expertise to help it vet proposals for new products. For that we receive a portion of returns for anything it developed.
Then we formed Cleveland Clinic Innovations, which is the development arm for the intellectual property of our employees. So all of the patents and developments and the returns on them are the property of the Cleveland Clinic and are shared with the inventor. I was named CEO as that process was happening, and I became the focal point for this question about conflict of interest and disclosures. This is an evolving area. What are our obligations to the physician innovator, to the hospital regarding public disclosure, and to patients?
We have put a lot of thought into establishing a policy that protects the patient while not discouraging innovation, and that requires doctors to disclose their commercial and consulting arrangements. We developed a registry. We want to make sure that commercial interests do not inappropriately influence clinical decision making. That's taken a lot of thought. We don't want to make the rules so restrictive that we say to doctors, "We don't want you talking to any company," because that will inhibit the development of new techniques and new products and stop the innovation process—and ultimately endanger patients.
The Quarterly: To wrap up, what challenges keep you up at night?
Toby Cosgrove: Well, there are things you can control and things you can't. I can't really consider it a challenge if there's nothing I can do about it. For example, I don't have much capacity to deal with reimbursement from the government, so I don't lose a lot of sleep over it. The things that I do have control over—the culture of the organization, a few strategic decisions, and probably most important, the selection of people—I do worry about. It's not very hard to decide if people are bright enough to fill a role, but if they don't have the cultural fit or the work ethic, they just won't last here.


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Today's Names to Know: NL West, Kyle Lohse, Josh Fogg, Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, Mike Winters, Hope Solo, Shawn Marion, T.K. Weatherell, Reggie Bush vs. Percy Harvin and More.
NL Playoff Racing: The National League presents the most exciting season-ending four-game stretch I can remember. The NL West is raging. The NL East is up for grabs, with the Mets on the verge of an epic collapse to rival
Mets collapse continues: Only 1 game in front of the Phillies. Four games to play, and it's too close to call. (If you're not a Mets or Phillies fan, you've got to be rooting for the one-game playoff.)
Phillies win: Behind...Kyle Lohse?! OK, let's give him the MLB Stud of the Day award. What an unlikely September hero.
NL West is best: If this situation was happening in the AL East, people would be freaking out and saying "Best Division Race Ever!" The division is up-for-grabs, and the Wild Card is too.
The surging
Meanwhile, the Rox have one game left against the Dodgers tonight -- then three at home against the D'backs to end the season.
Yankees clinch a playoff berth: 13th straight, but that's not the point. Think back a few months to when the Yankees were absolutely reeling. Most fans had gleefully written them off. And, yet, here they are: Back in the playoffs... again.
Bonds 756 Ball: The fans have spoken and the ball will be branded with an asterisk then sent to the Hall of Fame. I think that any self-proclaimed "purist" who voted for the asterisk loses their "Purist Club Membership." But I also appreciate the asterisk as a symbol of an era in baseball that should be marked, no pun intended. I wish it wasn't on the ball, but I'm nothing if not a fan of letting fans decide. 81 percent of fans wanted to see the ball in the Hall of Fame, one way or the other.
Bonds' final game in
Now, here's the natural intrigue: Next season, when Bonds comes to town with another team, will Giants fans cheer or boo?
Vick tests positive for marijuana: Just when you thought the story couldn't get any more effed up... there you go. Let's see: House arrest until he stands trial? Sure! Additional suspension time from the NFL? Why not! It's not like he'll ever play again anyway. At least, NOW he won't.
Mike Winters is the new Joey Crawford: For being a complete d'bag to baseball's biggest nutjob player, ump Winters was suspended for the rest of the season (which means how he acted was probably WAY worse than what anyone in the public really knows).
US Women's Soccer controversy! Coach Greg Ryan benches Hope Solo for Briana Scurry. Here's the problem: Solo is a total hottie – by far my favorite on the team. (I'm not saying to play her only because she's hot. I'm just saying that she's my favorite on the team.) By the time most of you read this, the
UPDATE: US routed by Brazil, 4-0. Ouch. Yikes. Even Dwight from The Office in those hilarious ads can't help them now.
Shawn Marion wants to be traded: The question is: Can Marion be anywhere near as effective without playing alongside the best point guard in the NBA? I think he merely needs to play with a GOOD PG to continue to be one of the weirdest matchups in the NBA. And if he can get himself into the East, he could maintain his status as a Top 20 player.
More NBA: The league hired an ex-ref to monitor refs, an obvious move (almost as obvious as firing Jackson and Nunn, who ran the refs before). I wouldn't have hired an ex-ref: I would have hired a quant expert from Vegas' top sportsbook.
Roy Tarpley is suing the NBA and Mavericks, claiming they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they wouldn't reinstate him. His disability? Being a recovering drug and alcohol abuser. He doesn't want to play (he's 42) but is looking to restore his reputation. Feels a little late in the game for that. (But, then again, isn't it quaint to remember that players used to be banned for drug and alcohol abuse, rather than, say, gambling on games or killing dogs?)
Academic scandal at
PED Watch: Of the huge DEA steroids bust from earlier this week, the craziest detail (via the NYT) was that a bunch of dealers were peddling PEDs on MySpace... to the children! (Obligatory Helen Lovejoy quote: "Won't anyone please THINK of the children!")
Beckham Watch: David's dad had a heart attack and Beckham flew back to
More MLB: Jim Leyland wants a contract extension with the Tigers. I'd say he's earned it.
Wait: Where's the NFL news? We've already covered Rex Grossman ad nauseum. Interesting tidbit at the top of Pro Football Talk this morning: Is Reggie Bush overrated? (Or, more precisely, is he not nearly as good as he is popular?) It all comes down to how creatively they can use him, because he's simply not an every-down running back (like, say, Adrian Peterson).
One interesting point made in the PFT item was that it might impact the draft status of
But where Harvin will have an easier time proving NFL value and worth is that he's a wide receiver who happens to sometimes get the ball in the backfield, rather than Bush, who is a running back who happens to sometimes line up at wide receiver.
Tebow Watch: Was I so crazy to rank Tim Tebow as my Heisman front-runner as of this week? Was I so crazy to devote the lead of my Deadspin guest-post to him? Well, Pete Thamel (the best college football reporter in the country) has Tebow ranked No. 1 right now, with an inspired pick of Andre Woodson at No. 2. Here's the link.


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