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Hooray! That is fantastic. What a great week. I know for patients the worse suffering comes from worry about the unknown. You give them to opportunity to recognize their challenge and sink teeth into plan for recovery.ReplyDelete
And I love your high school reference... I am sure you were still this cool while in high school it just took others time to "get you"!
What?? Pathologists are NEVER cool! Too much protruding ear hair.ReplyDelete
(Just teasing :P )
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Pathology has totally been my favorite unit in med school so far. I could read Robbins all day.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, if "lab-related occupations" are a Homecoming Dance and the Pathologist is the Homecoming Queen, I've proven myself time and time again to be the awkward frizzy girl with glasses. When I'm in a lab, no glass equipment is safe..
Congratulations on a fantastic week!ReplyDelete
You are so right about pathology. Without your help, we can't effectively treat our patients. I think it's a fascinating field; histology was arguably my favorite class in med school.
Doesn't it feel great to know that you are good at a difficult skill?
(By the way, it's OK to dance with your microscope. I dance around my operating microscope in the OR occasionally.) :-)
And, you know, we neurosurgeons claim that CSF is the champagne of body fluids. An appropriate specimen for your "crown jewel" case!
Thanks JC! I was pretty stare at the floor shy in high school. Hence the last name.ReplyDelete
Hey Fizzy! Don't make fun of my ear hair. I still have no idea what the heck PM&R is even though you've explained it ten times (Also teasing. A little. Well, not really).
I still love Robbins. My baby Robbins (Kumar) looked like a rainbow it was so coated with highlighters. One of the pathology students I tutored made it a fancy zebra jacket cover and it is still on my shelf. The great thing about pathology, Action Potential, is that there are so many different things you can do. You don't have to work directly with glass beakers, if you don't want to. In the lab, even the awkward girl with frizzy hair can be a queen.
gcs15 - I love that! The champagne of body fluids. Now I'll have to start comparing all the body fluids to alcohol. You are right about dancing with the microscope - I'll have to try it. Forget the date - I've already got one in my office.
I wish I could stand microscopes, otherwise I'd totally be considering pathology. It's such an interesting field, and all the pathologists I've met have been really nice. Nerds, but nice happy nerds.ReplyDelete
How wonderful!ReplyDelete
Rock Star MD Girl - you defined me! A nice, happy nerd. Unfortunately, you've gotta love the scope. You spend a lot of time in it. And the good ones cost as much as a car - it took me years to pay mine off and I'm finally about to buy a camera.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Ramona!
Everyone should feel like a queen every once in a while. Good for you!ReplyDelete
Awesome!! Way to go, Gizabeth!!ReplyDelete
I think it's a fascinating field; histology was arguably my favorite class in med school.ReplyDelete
Thanks Kyla and Kelly!ReplyDelete
Stock trading - I loved pathology so much. Tried not to like it, because it was uncool. Practically matched in ophthalmology and backed out at the last minute. I am so happy I did - it's much nicer spending your life doing what you love and what comes naturally to you than to choose a competitive "glamour field" for the wrong reasons.


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Sunday was spent at the lake where Sylvia got a lot of Grandma, Grandpa, and Great-Grandpa time.
I love this picture of the two staring at each other!!! I think it is because they have so much in common, like the afternoon nap!
A typical lunch time. Here sampling a wagon wheel... Yummy!
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Sunday was spent at the lake where Sylvia got a lot of Grandma, Grandpa, and Great-Grandpa time.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 11:34 AM 0 comments
Happy Monday!
We had a visit with our neighbors Ben and Bonnie. Sylvia got some good snuggle time in with both of them and she worked on her walking. Thanks for the great photo neighbors :)
Monday, June 29, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:05 AM 1 comments
Father's Day Weekend Part 1
Happy Father's Day Daddy!
My first 'big kids swing' was great, until the pinched fingers!
It was a warm one, so the pool party worked out to be a great idea. Too bad the "Dogs for Peace" had taken over the pool we wanted to be at, but the kiddie pool by our house worked out just fine. The kids enjoyed the nice warm water, and we also enjoyed a nice relaxing picnic. I love Jimmy John's.
If I remember correctly, the cup was full of raisins...
Seriously, can we get a smile out of you?
So much for the photography class... Sun to your back Jamie!!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 11:22 AM 0 comments
BBQ Pictures (Finally)
The image upload finally worked, so here are some pictures of a 'normal' Thursday night BBQ.
Monday, June 22, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 3:50 PM 0 comments
Mr. Hoots
Every morning Sylvia wakes up to Mr. Hoots. She gives him a big wave and recently started pointing at him. For those who haven't seen Sylvia's room, she has two 'trees' that are on her wall. When Jamie's friend Megan gave this toy to Sylvia, we figured the tree was the perfect spot for him.
The evening ritual is the same. "Good night Mr. Hoots, see you in the morning!" Sylvia gives him a big wave. We are working on blowing kisses, but nothing yet...
Even though this isn't Mr. Hoots, we had to include a picture of Sylvia. Here she is chewing on a wood block that happens to have an owl on it. Maybe it is the long lost relative to Mr. Hoots.
Hopefully we can get out other pictures uploaded, but they have failed three times and I am getting sick of trying... so no BBQ update yet.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:16 PM 1 comments
Happy Monday!!!
I can't help sharing a picture that Meg took yesterday. Sylvia was playing in the hula hoops that grandpa Jim brought over on Saturday. He got a great deal at a garage sale. Have a great day and I hope this picture gave you a smile!
Monday, June 15, 2009 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:57 AM 3 comments
Mr. Alligator
I don't think Sylvia liked the idea of sharing her shaker with Mr. Alligator. She kneed him and then got out of there. I think he looks pretty angry, Sylvia better watch her back. (or her naked bootie)
She doesn't get to much naked time. It's to hard to change her diaper much less take her clothes off just for fun, but today we gave it a whirl. Adam ended up cleaning up pee. As you can see she is also very into sticking her tongue out.
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Robert Downey Jr. says they have the perfect director for Iron Man 3. The Wolverine is ready to begin filming. Anne Hathaway details her feline research for The Dark Knight Rises. The new Fantastic Voyage may be getting a big-name star.
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Top image from Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance.
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Anne Hathaway explains one of the more unusual ways in which she prepared to play Catwoman:
You know what? I actually had this moment when I convinced one of the assistant directors on the London portion of the film to get a cat with me, the idea being that we were going to get a kitten from a rescue shelter, and he was going to live with me, and I was going to observe it, and when I left London I was going to give it to her. Then, thankfully, her husband pointed out that that was a terrible idea on so many levels, not least of which being that it would probably be really confusing to the cat. So I turned to YouTube instead and got a National Geographic video on cats.
Here are a couple set photos from Pittsburgh, featuring one of the camouflage-colored Tumblrs in a hole. [ComingSoon.net]
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article explains what might be going on there:
The "Bathole" that had been dug on Cherry Way came into play today as it erupted into fire and one of the Tumblers literally tumbled inside the crater and was covered with debris — and, at one point, flipped upside down.
Here's a set video. [Screenrant]
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"I talked to a friend of mine who was a 'featured extra' (which is apparently different than a regular extra) in the 'Man of Steel' filming down in bufu Illinois. He told me the scene he filmed, over a two day period, involves citizens running away from a tornado. Jonathan Kent is apparently swept up in the tornado and Superman has to fly up and save him."
The Amazing Spider-Man
Here are a couple more promo photos, giving us a better look at the new suit. [CinemaBlend]
Kelsey Chow, who appears on the Disney XD show Pair of Kings, reveals she has a small role in the movie:
"I have a very small, little thing in the next 'Spider-Man' movie...I found out last minute and I took off work for a day and went on set and it was surreal. It was crazy...I'm a character [in] school. I play the role of Sally Avril."
In the comics, Sally Avril becomes the masked crimefighter Bluebird, but that character name is probably just in there as an homage to her comics alter ego, and not an indication of a future plotline. [Daemon's TV]
The Avengers
Here are some set photos of what appears to be a crashed alien spacecraft. [Comic Book Movie]
Iron Man 3
Robert Downey Jr. discusses new cowriter-director Shane Black, and whether the movie will feature the sort of meta humor that defined their previous collaboration, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:
The thing about Shane is that it will be anything but one of those moments, unless we come up with something that is so cheeky and character-driven and perfect that it has to be in the movie...
He's more than the sum of his parts and he's also kind of been a sleeper for a long time. We're not talking much about [the script] right now because Shane is off writing and we talked before that and when we are talking again the talking is going to be over pretty quick [because we're on the same page]. It's kind of like we're fighting on the same side and at the same time we're circling each other, so it's all great. It should be great...Bringing in Shane Black to write and direct 'Iron Man 3′ to me is basically the only transition from Favreau to a 'next thing' that Favreau and the audience and Marvel and I could ever actually sign off on. The fun thing is going to be getting [Jon Favreau's character] Happy in the movie.
Captain America 2
Cowriter Christopher Markus says the sequel will likely feature some scenes set during World War II in gaps between missions seen in the first movie, but he stressed that they don't want to make that the focus:
It might be doing a disservice not to address the present day Cap, particularly because so much of the comic book run right now is present day Cap – that 'man out of time' is the icon. The Captain America that most people know is really from kind of the reboot, when Stan Lee brought him back in '63 and '64, frozen from a block of ice. So his biggest personality trait is that he's this man out of time, and for us, we didn't have the opportunity [to explore that]. This was a guy in the RIGHT time.
He also discussed the possibility of bringing in Peggy Carter's niece Sharon Carter, as well as Cap's one-time sidekick Falcon, who was one of the first African American superheroes:
"I want both of them! Sharon is meaty, almost to a point where you get a little uncomfortable because her relation to Peggy has shifted over the years, as time has passed. She's the sister, she's the cousin, she's the niece. You have to walk a fine line there because it does seem like you're dating your girlfriend's daughter. Falcon is awesome. We can't play with time so much to have Cap go back to Harlem in the '70's and clean up the streets, but it would be awesome to go straight up, like, 'Shaft' with Cap and the Falcon."
The Wolverine
Hugh Jackman and new director James Mangold are reportedly getting ready to film in British Columbia between November 11, 2011 and March 1, 2012, specifically in Burnaby's Canadian Motion Picture Park, which is where Twilight, Supernatural, and Fantastic Four have all been filmed. [Vancouver Sun]
Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance
Here's a poster. [Superhero Hype]
Fantastic Voyage
Will Smith is reportedly in talks to play the lead in the remake of the 1966 original. Director Shawn Levy was previously working on the project with his Real Steel star Hugh Jackman - it's unclear whether Jackman has now departed this project due to The Wolverine's resurgence and so now needs a replacement, or whether Smith will actually be joining Jackman in the film. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The constantly delayed film has been - you guessed it! - delayed yet again, with production now not starting until 2012 at the earliest. Director Craig Gillespie is reportedly having difficulty finding the female lead. [Variety]
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Paramount Pictures has released a new promo image. [ComingSoon.net]
Breaking Dawn
Here are some new promo photos. [IGN]
Sin City 2
Robert Rodriguez offers another update:
"We're still working on the script for Sin City 2. I'm excited about that, I know a lot of people are always on the look out for it, the time is finally coming. We've been telling everybody that we're going to shoot this year, so we actually have to shoot this year."
G.I. Joe 2
Party Down and Veronica Mars actor Ryan Hansen says he has been cast in the movie:
I play a Joe named Grunt. Small part but awesome.
Doctor Who
The Radio Times has released these details for the ninth episode (and second of season 6.5), "Night Terrors":
A little boy called George is terrified of something lurking in his bedroom cupboard...
The Doctor receives a strange letter, begging "Help me"...
The creepy Peg Dolls – until now, heralded only by a brief appearance in the series six trailer (below) - are dead-eyed, implacable and relentless. But what do they want with young George?
Daniel Mays (last seen in Outcasts and Ashes to Ashes) plays worried dad Alex, who teams up with the Doctor to help battle his son George's demons. But not before Rory and Amy find themselves miniaturised and sucked into the strange doll's house in George's cupboard. What else can the Doctor and Alex do but follow them inside...?
BBC America has confirmed the titles of episodes eight through twelve: "Let's Kill Hitler" by Steven Moffat, "Night Terrors" by Mark Gatiss, "The Girl Who Waited" by Tom MacRae, "The God Complex" by Toby Whithouse, and the newly confirmed "Closing Time" by Gareth Roberts. The title of Steven Moffat's finale has not yet been revealed. [KSiteTV]
The Daily Star, which has been coming up with a lot of crazy but not necessarily false Doctor Who spoilers lately, is reporting the final episode is called "The Wedding" and features the Doctor getting married to a person unknown (but the smart money is on River Song, of course). This isn't the first time we've heard this rumor, and The Daily Star seems to have gotten the rumor about Amy and Rory semi-leaving the show sort of right, but still...grains of salt until we hear a lot more, I'd say. [The Daily Star]
Game of Thrones
Hellboy II actor Roy Dotrice has reportedly been cast as Pyromancer Hallyne, "the chief of the Guild Of Alchemists." You can check out the link for a full roundup of all the season two cast additions. [Den of Geek]
True Blood
Here are some sneak peeks at this Sunday's episode.
Person of Interest
CBS has released a synopsis for the show in general and the first episode in particular. First the description of the show:
PERSON OF INTEREST stars Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominated and current Emmy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson in a crime thriller about a presumed dead former-CIA agent who teams up with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes by using their own brand of vigilante justice. Reese's special training in covert operations appeals to Finch, a software genius who invented a program that uses pattern recognition to identify people about to be involved in violent crimes. Using state-of-the-art surveillance technology, the two work outside of the law using Reese's adept skills and Finch's unlimited wealth to unravel the mystery of the person of interest and stop the crime before it happens. Reese's actions draw the attention of the NYPD, including homicide detective Carter, and Fusco, a cop whom Reese uses to his advantage. With infinite crimes to investigate, Reese and Finch find that the right person, with the right information, at the right time, can change everything.
And now, a brief synopsis of the pilot:
"Pilot" – When the social security number of a young prosecutor comes up, Reese and Finch work together to figure out if their person of interest is the victim or perpetrator, on the series premiere of PERSON OF INTEREST, Thursday, Sept. 22 (9:00 – 10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
There's also a full cast list for the pilot at the link. [SpoilerTV]
And here's a promo poster. [EW]
Once Upon a Time
Here's a promo.
Here are some set photos. [SpoilerTV]
Here are descriptions and promo photos for the next three episodes.
"Catch and Release" Episode 7 – A young Alpha with the ability to create powerful inventions from common items goes missing, and Rosen and his team are called upon to find her...and protect her. Summer Glau guest stars.
"A Short Time in Paradise" Episode 8 – A dangerous Alpha cult leader bewitches Hicks and Nina. Garret Dillahunt guest stars.
"Blind Spot" Episode 9 - No official synopsis. Lost's Rebecca Mader guest stars.
The Secret Circle
Here's an interview with Phoebe Tonkin, who plays the bad girl Faye on the show.
And here's another trailer.
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This story appears in the April 2001 issue of Entrepreneurs Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
Although the world is home to hundreds of different languages and cultures, the words business, capital and profit are understood everywhere. That's a good thing for Chris Donato and John Rapchinski, co-founders of ReMark Partners Inc., who found that their road to potential riches began overseas, even if it doesn't end there. In fact, they recently secured funding for their company from investors overseas, demonstrating the significant opportunities for capital formation that U.S. entrepreneurs can find outside the United States.
Donato and Rapchinski, both 30, built their Norristown, Pennsylvania-based referral solutions company back in 1999, initially funding their Internet creation with personal savings. Although their vision called for a suite of business solutions, their first product, JobTag, drew on their background in recruiting. "JobTag is an employment referral solution that enables companies to use their employees, vendors and anyone with vested interest to [get referrals] through our company," notes Rapchinski. "Most of our clients are small to mid-sized businesses, and they've been focused on technology so far. However, we're open to all businesses."
The Internet was at its hottest back then, and capital came from individual and institutional venture capital investors. And though the stock markets began to show a fissure in April 2000, there was still enough momentum left for ReMark to close a $1 million deal that May. The proceeds were earmarked for working capital, product development and the addition of key personnel.
State Of The Market
That Was Then, This Is Now
But what a difference a few months make. Tech stocks soured and share prices for technology companies sank fast, making the business and financing climate much cooler for young companies in that sector. Or was it? That depends on your perspective. Outside the United States, capital-raising dynamics were much different during the latter half of 2000, and investors remain eager for access to new deals. So ravenous is the appetite overseas for U.S.-grown ventures that ReMark's news release about its May funding round appeared on a radar screen at venture firm Network Asia in Hong Kong- and led to a meeting between the two companies in San Francisco and ultimately a $1.5 million financing deal in December 2000.
That's good news for Rapchinski, who says Network Asia helps put ReMark in an advantageous position in the market. He says, "What they can provide in the way of experience and business connections really made them a natural partner."
Techtonic Shifts
According to Michael Roy Fugler, director of corporate finance for I-Bankers Securities, an investment banking firm in Dallas that concentrates on raising overseas financing for companies around the world, there are several reasons why international markets are now productive hunting grounds for U.S. investors. "First," Fugler says, "looking for capital outside the United States is the road less traveled. Here you might have 30 players in a single niche, all focusing on the same investors. But once you start looking in foreign jurisdictions, your competition is minimized, if not eliminated.
"Second," Fugler says, "angel investors, which were rare in overseas markets before, are emerging en masse." Fugler's firm focuses on institutional investors in Europe, but he says the activity there indicates a change in the capital markets on a global scale. "Estimates indicate that during 1999, some $25 billion was invested in 11,000 companies in Europe," notes Fugler, "which amounts to a 94 percent increase in investment in the technology sector and an 89 percent increase in capital committed to start-up deals in 1998. We've also seen an upward trend in 2000."
Fugler says such astounding figures mean a much richer target environment. "In Munich, for instance, many firms did not have venture capital arms 18 months ago," he says, "but now they do. They've seen the Microsofts and the Intels flourish into budding technology companies, and they feel left out. Although the bubble has burst, and there is [now] an emphasis on profits, there is still a strong desire to participate in the New Economy."
The dearth of entrepreneurs overseas vs. their abundance here is another factor. "In Europe, and globally, you have a stimulated market that is entrepreneur-enthused without a lot of options," says Fugler. "Therefore, the capital overseas looking for U.S.-style opportunities must focus on the U.S. marketplace if they hope to get a wide cross-section of opportunities."
How To Succeed
Some companies are simply better-equipped than others to raise money from overseas investors, says Fugler. Here are key ingredients for success:
A product or service that can fill a niche in an overseas market. "Foreign investors-institutional and private-are interested in a return on their investment, but they're interested in their own economy as well," says Fugler. "The opportunity to set up a joint venture which can capitalize on distribution or licensing in the investor's own country has a great deal more appeal to an investor than a concept based and contained solely within U.S. borders."
According to Rapchinski, the opportunity to utilize ReMark's JobTag solution was very important to the company's contact at Network Asia. "They saw real value in what we were doing," he says. "Unlike here, where everyone is sitting on the sidelines, they are quite active. They have a lot of portfolio companies that need the kind of solution that JobTag offers." True to Fugler's point, as a matter of fact, Rapchinski says one of the things Network Asia bargained hard for was the right to play a role in introducing JobTag into the Asian market.
Professional guidance. Fugler says it's possible a foreign investor might pursue your company, as in ReMark's case, and professional counsel isn't vital. However, if you plan on making an all-out assault on a foreign shore à la Normandy, you're going to need some help with contacts, conventions and presentation.
When it comes to contacts, Fugler suggests that finance directories that pro-vide names and telephone numbers aren't necessarily the right path to pursue. "The problem with third-party information sources is that they are often out-of-date before they are even printed," he says. "And not only do contacts move around rapidly, but the sources of capital change their focus rapidly. A firm that one day only trades listed securities will quite suddenly enlarge their focus to include pre-IPO companies. To get at these opportunities, you need [to have] someone who is on the ground in foreign jurisdictions and can pick up this intelligence."
Professional guidance will also help you overcome the widely varying social conventions you'll encounter overseas as you interact with investors. For instance, Fugler says, in France you might be expected to shake hands lightly, while Italian investors generally like to shake, pat and interact on a more physical level.
Rapchinski witnessed that firsthand. When he was in Hong Kong, he says, the meetings during the day were very formal, but equally important was the socializing that took place in the evening. "It would have been very bad form had I declined to go out at night with our hosts," he says.
Finally, Fugler notes that professional counsel will help you develop the global angle your pitch and presentation require. "A U.S.-centric presentation might fly, but in most cases, it's a turnoff for foreign investors."
Courage. The last ingredient required for success is a healthy dose of courage. Fugler says, "It's not easy to travel to a foreign land with a different culture, several time zones from home, and walk into rooms full of people you have never seen before-who perhaps do not even speak your language-for the sole purpose of selling them something they may never have seen or heard about before."
But it's not impossible. Preparation and hard work frequently translate into success in financial markets. "Since going overseas is premised on going where the competition is not," Fugler explains, "once you make the choice to look abroad, it's probably best to be prepared for anything that comes your way."
flies in Europe will undoubtedly cause offense in Asia. If
you're going to go, go armed. Here are some must-reads for the
earnest entrepreneur making a capital pilgrimage
David R. Evanson is a principal at Financial Communications Associates Inc. and author of Where to Go When the Bank Says No: Alternatives for Financing Your Business(Bloomberg Press). Call (800) 233-4830 for ordering information.
Contact Sources
- I-Bankers Securities, (212) 459-3765, email@example.com
- ReMark Partners Inc., (877) JOB-TAGS, www.jobtag.com


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