text: OR Executive Summit Agenda Online registration is closed. Register onsite at McCormick PlaceLevel 3 Concourse March 30 - April 1, 2014 | Chicago, IL SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014 7am-4:30pm: OR Executive Summit™ Lounge (For OR Executive attendees only. AORN thanks Ethicon, exclusive sponsor of the VIP Lounge.) 7-7:45am: Breakfast & Networking 7:45-9am: Reliability Science and the Socio-Technical Model (1.0 CH) Kerry M. Johnson, MS/Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI) 9:15-10:15am: Large Scale Disclosure of Patient Harms (1.0 CH) David Sine, DrBE, ARM, CSP, CPHRM/Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety You will learn a process for determining the parameters for identifying who should be notified, tested, and psychologically supported. You will examine the ethical dilemmas presented in large scale exposure situations. The 'tipping point' of where to draw the line of who should be told, including public disclosure will be explored. You will also learn how to support the unprofessional team with ramifications and ethics of a large exposure. Review examples of patient mass-exposure situations caused by failed sterilization, a reuse of a medical device, a mass supply/drug contamination, or other source. Describe the mechanics of a large scale disclosure effort. Analyze the ethical implications of deciding how/when/what to disclose in a large scale exposure situation. Identify steps to manage large scale disclosures, from patient communication to media interaction. 10:30am-12pm: Navigating the Financial Rapids Ahead (1.5 CH) Keith Siddel, MBA, PhD(c), JD, CHC Achieving financial success in your OR while navigating the rapids of today's health care revenue stream is no easy task. OR Leaders must understand the current reimbursement environment and how to optimize their charge structure. They must assign the right charge amount, minimize denials, and manage equipment, vendors, and staff all while avoiding the myriad of compliance risks. What are the financial strategies you should consider? What leadership approaches should you adopt to maintain the financial health of your department? Learn how to navigate the financial rapids ahead. 12-1pm: Lunch & Networking with Education-The Future of Google Glass: Half Empty or Half Full? (0.5 CH) Keith Siddel, MBA, PhD(c), JD, CHC Is the new wearable technology from Google a game changer or just a passing fad? What role could it or will it play in the OR? How is it changing health care delivery models? What lies ahead? Who is already using them and what do they think? See a live demonstration of how Google Glass technology works and what they can do. 1-2:30pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo Opening Ceremony & Chapter Awards (1.5 CH); or Preview Cine-med® Education Videos (1.5 CH); or Free Time 2:30-4:15pm: Networking Opportunity; or Award for Excellence Education Session (.5 CH); or AORN Surgical Conference & Expo General Session: Poetic Voice-Sekou Andrews (1.0 CH); or Free Time 4:30-5:30pm: Seeking the "Holy Grail": Efficient Use of Time and Supplies as a Component of Value Based Medicine (1.0 CH) Suzzie Hobbins, BSN, RN, CNOR; Carol Pehotsky, MSN, RN, CPAN, ACNS-BC; SricharanChalikonda, MD/Cleveland Clinic As our country moves toward value based care, perioperative nurses are the key to ensuring optimal patient outcomes while being careful stewards of their organizations' resources. This presentation will discuss ways nurses and nursing leaders can partner with surgeons to ensure the best use of surgical supplies. Having the correct supplies available when needed maximizes patient safety and increases surgeon and nurse satisfaction. Patient satisfaction is increased through minimizing delays caused by "idle" OR time. There is also a sizable financial impact. Accurate preference card data minimizes supply waste. Considering the average cost per OR minute is upwards of $100, minimizing supply "scavenger hunts" is the right thing to do both from an efficiency and a financial viewpoint. You will learn about the barriers and lessons learned during the process about a program developed to update preference cards, standardize supplies needed, and standardize supply location. Team members included nurses and surgeons to ensure full transparency and involvement in decision making. Evidence-based practices for developing and sustaining programs focused on supply organization will be discussed. Describe a program to maximize accuracy of physician preference cards and in-room supplies. Describe evidence-based practices for establishing and maintaining supply organization in the perioperative setting. Discuss the impact of supply availability and organization on nurse, patient, and physician satisfaction. 4:30-7pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo 2014 Exhibit Hall Opening Reception MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014 7-6:30pm: OR Executive Summit Lounge (AORN thanks Ethicon, exclusive sponsor of the VIP Lounge for OR Executive attendees only) 7-8am: Breakfast & Networking 8-9am: Jerry G. Peers Presentation: Extreme Change: Adapt, Overcome, and Win as One! (1.0 CH) (Part of AORN Surgical Conference & Expo) Robyn Benincasa 9am-4pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo Exhibit Hall 12-1pm: Lunch & Networking 4-5pm: Innovative Ways to Manage Block Scheduling Efficiently (1.0 CH) Jamie L. Sanchez-Anderson, MSN, MBA, RN; Debbie L. Hoffman, EMBA, BA, RN; Jane A. Kusler-Jensen, MBA, BSN, RN, CNOR/Deloitte & Touche As more health care organizations strive to cut costs and increase profits, they are looking for innovative ways to improve efficiencies in the OR. One key area to improve overall OR performance is through the management of block scheduling. Effective management of block scheduling has been proven to drastically improve overall OR performance and reduce utilization inefficiencies. To manage block scheduling effectively, guidelines must be established and enforced, and new innovative visual tools, such as surgeon scorecards and monthly dashboard, must be used to track and display OR performance metric, such as block utilization, first case on time starts (FCOTS), and turnover time (TOT). Identify key metrics within perioperative services – first case on time starts (FCOTS), block utilization, and turnover time (TOT). Discuss guideline criteria for effective management of block scheduling. Review innovative tools to visually manage block scheduling, including report out perioperative performance metrics. Discuss case studies demonstrating increased perioperative performance with the implementation of block scheduling guidelines and effective visual perioperative performance management tools. 5:30-6:30pm: Social Gathering (AORN thanks Ethicon, exclusive sponsor of the OR Executive Summit™ Social Gathering) 6:30-7:30pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo Managers' Reception TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 7-5pm: OR Executive Summit Lounge (AORN thanks Ethicon, exclusive sponsor of the VIP lounge for OR Executive Summit attendees only.) 7-8am: Breakfast & Networking 8-9am:Beyond the Bundle: Effect of Real Time Feedback and Staff Engagement in Process Improvement Related to Surgical Site Infections for Joint Arthroplasties (1.0 CH) Rowena David, RN, CNOR; Madhuri Sopirala, MD/University of Cincinnati Medical Center The Institute of Healthcare Innovation (IHI) estimated in 2008 that 40% to 60% of surgical site infections (SSI) that occur in clean cases (Class I/Clean as defined by CDC) are preventable. The 25th and 75th percentile of national benchmark infection rates for these surgical procedures are 0.58% to 1.6% and 0.68% to 2.38% respectively; taking into account the patient's risk index. The State of Ohio joined the list of states in 2008 mandated to report SSI for total joint arthroplasties. In 2011, the University of Cincinnati Medical Center started following Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) All-Or-None Bundle to improve surgical care, in addition to implementing enhanced SSI prevention bundle recommended by IHI. With only modest improvements in our SSI rates despite compliance with the bundle, we extended our reach beyond the bundle elements to develop an innovative approach to reducing SSI that actively engaged perioperative staff, infection control, and surgeons via real time and active feedback on SSI and certain processes in OR and perioperative areas. We will describe this project, how the real time and active feedback has affected our SSI rate, how processes beyond the bundle can affect SSI, and how this positive experience will be extended to other high risk, high volume surgical procedures in an effort to decrease SSI rates for these procedures. Compare baseline when the evidence-based bundle was implemented and post implementation (when perioperative staff and surgeon engagement through real time feedback) infection rates for planned total joint surgical procedures at an academic medical center. Demonstrate how the real time feedback of SSI for total joint surgeries in a collaborative approach with physicians, perioperative staff, and clinical staff can be used to improve processes beyond the bundle that play a role in development of SSI. Demonstrate how addressing the processes beyond the bundle play a role in the prevention of SSI. 9am-2pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo Exhibit Hall 12-1pm: Lunch & Networking 1:15-2:15pm: Clinical Effectiveness: Reducing Cost through Clinical Redesign (1.0 CH) Patrick E. Voight, MSA, BSN, RN, CNOR; Olive O'Rourke, RN; Noralyn Baluyot, MHA, BSN, RN/Deloitte & Touche Of the $2.7 trillion spent on health care in the US, it is estimated that approximately $800 billion is driven by inappropriate care and administrative waste, evidenced by the following examples: Only 55% of patients receive evidence-based care; a 2009 study estimated the incremental cost of treating potentially preventable conditions to account for more than 9% of total inpatient hospital cost. Up to 80% of re-admissions might be avoided through improved care by practitioners and/or better adherence to pre-dismissal instructions, and 13.9% of individuals (115.3 million) visit the ER each year with a "non-urgent care" condition, resulting in $14 billion of unnecessary spending. Traditional approaches to identify potential cost-reduction opportunities do not actively engage the physicians and nurses who are expected to comply with the subsequent recommendations many times in the midst of broken or damaged processes. A Clinical Effectiveness and Efficiency (CE2) approach to performance improvement turns the traditional cost reduction process on its side and engages clinicians in improving the activities which they control. Explore how a clinical effectiveness approach to performance improvement that turns traditional cost reduction process on its side and engages clinicians in improving the activities which they control in a DRG bundle approach. Physicians are engaged to understand the impact of clinical practice patterns on the use of drugs, supplies, and other resources driving costs, as well as the impact on quality outcomes. Explain the difference between traditional cost reduction approaches and the clinical effectiveness (CE) methodology 2:30-3:45pm: Can Lean Improvements Fuel Innovation in the OR? (1.2 CH) Tony Gorski, MBA; Jan Stull; Mary Jo W. Steiert, BSN, RN, CNOR/Vail Valley Medical Center Quality is today's health care mandate. Yet, there is a dark cloud blurring the vision of many nurse executives today because Lean has had some false starts and stops in days gone by. Lean is one very useful tool for achieving quality that is easy off the tongue, but confusing to many. Ask ten staff members what the definition of Lean is and chances are you will get ten different definitions. However, with the right education, long-term focus for lasting change, and short-term ideas for easy wins, nurse executives can use Lean principles to change culture and the bottom line, making quality improvement a win-win for patients, the hospital, and the employees. Today, we work in broken processes that require excellent people to achieve average results. Many nursing processes are inherently setup to fail. Lean running hospitals think differently—focused on building excellent processes. The key is applying Lean in the right way. While 90% of hospitals are doing Lean, only 10% are "running" Lean. Case studies show us how health care systems are using Lean to increase quality and create measurable financial savings. Here are the keys to making Lean work for improved quality and fiscal health: A case study will be presented on how Lean Innovation was implemented in the OR. Vail Valley Medical Center has been on a Lean journey for over three years. After several starts and stops, it has found that the application of Lean – from a process focus and a tie to employee and physician staffing, has driven improvements in morale, productivity, and physician engagement. (Note: additional data measures will be presented). This presentation will focus on hard dollars and ROI. Describe how Lean principles increase quality and create measurable financial savings. Describe and demonstrate a mobile leadership rounding application for patients, staff, and physicians. Discuss how Lean innovation created a staffing skills matrix in the OR. 4-5:15pm: Closing Education Session (1.0 CH) Marshall Goldsmith, PhD 5:30-6:30pm: AORN Surgical Conference & Expo: AORN Foundation General SessionDr. Peter J. Pronovost WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014 Attend AORN Surgical Conference & Expo 2014 Included in your OR Executive Summit Registration. Optional. OR Executive Summit runs concurrently with AORN Surgical Conference & Expo, as well as the business of the Association (Congress). As participants of the OR Executive Summit, attendees may also review Poster Displays for contact hours and attend education sessions on Wednesday, April 2, including the AORN Foundation General Session, concurrent education sessions, and the AORN Surgical Conference & Expo 2014 Closing Education Session and Closing Ceremony. 8-9am: Concurrent Education Sessions (1.0 CH) 9:15-10:15am: Concurrent Education Sessions (1.0 CH) 10:30-11:30am: Concurrent Education Sessions (1.0 CH) 1-2:30 pm: Concurrent Education Sessions (1.5 CH) 4-5pm: Closing Education Session: Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air: Lead Through Change (1.0 CH) Janet Lapp, PhD What would happen if everyone in your organization saw the positives, not the problems, in current changes? What would it look like if people broke out of their molds, pushed their boundaries, and developed a new set of skills? Research indicates that 69% of the workplace is not fully engaged. How much time and money does this group cost an organization? How much time and energy would be saved if everyone learned a common language to identify and contain resistance? How much time and money would be saved if everyone became rekindled their passion, became fully engaged, and took daily and consistent action toward their own goals and the goals of the organization? Experience this high-energy, high-humor program and learn how to guide yourself and others through ambiguity and uncertainty in a positive and productive way. Learn to keep morale high to retain the best and encourage the rest. Develop the courage to face new obstacles and challenges with a strong forward momentum. 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Bennington officials react to NYT heroin articleBy Patrick McArdle
STAFF Writer | March 15,2014BENNINGTON Community leaders came together Friday to formulate a response to a New York Times article about heroin use, which some said painted Bennington in an unbalanced and negative light.
Select Board Chairman Joseph Krawczyk Jr. said it was important to make a formal response. But he said the community should not run away from the fact that we recognize that we do have an issue here that weve got to solve, but at the same time, we know that and were taking steps to solve that problem.
The article was published March 5 and carried the headline: Heroin Scourge Overtakes A Quaint Vermont Town.
Krawczyk said of the article: It painted the town of Bennington in a very bad light ... To say that we have turned our back on an issue here, which is addiction to drugs of any type, is not true.
Sue Maguire, principal of Mount Anthony Union High School, said her biggest concern was a quote attributed to Trooper Wayne Godfrey of the Vermont State Police alluding to heroin use by high school students.
Everyone is doing it, Godfrey said in the Times article. Its in the high school. The kids are doing it right in school. You find baggies in the hallway.
MAU was not named, but Maguire said it wasnt true.
Everyone isnt using heroin, she said. Weve never found a baggie of heroin or any drug sitting in the hallway and kids obviously arent shooting up and using drugs in the hallways.
Maguire added, For me, that particular quote sensationalized a really serious problem that we face like every other community, but the sensationalism was at the expense of our kids and our school.
Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette supported Maguire. He said the high school was in his departments jurisdiction and he was not aware of any investigation that found heroin in the school halls or heroin use in the building.
However, he also said he knew Godfrey and said he was a good police officer. He said he hoped the community could move past the comment and look at drug abuse in the community.
Doucette said local law enforcement has been doing its part, sharing resources and working with community members who have begun to bring information to police because theyre tired of seeing drugs in their town.
We have worked very hard with the Sheriffs Department, the Vermont State Police, the New York State Police, Rensselaer County Sheriffs Department and the Bennington County states attorneys office to locate, put a case together, apprehend and prosecute people that are dealing drugs in our community, he said. And I think that weve done very well at that.
Doucette also talked about how police would like to do more to help than simply making arrests.
Some of these people need help and in order to help them, there needs to be follow-through with these people that are arrested, he said. There needs to be a way that we can treat the people that we dont arrest that realize they need help. You dont have to be arrested to get help.
Judith Fellowes-Miller, a local substance abuse prevention consultant for the state Department of Health, said much of her work involves trying to sift through perception and reality. She pointed out that the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey of MAU students, which is conducted every two years, found only 1 percent of the students said theyd tried heroin.
This last article (in the New York Times) has reminded me, when I lived in Alaska, people would fly into Alaska and they would stay a week and then they would go away and they would write a book, Fellowes-Miller said. We all thought that was very humorous because the book was nothing like living in Alaska was like.
While no one at the meeting on Friday said the article was entirely inaccurate or that drug addiction was not a problem in Bennington, there were other criticisms. Ralph Provenza, director of United Counseling Service in Bennington, said the article may have overstated and oversimplified the problem.
Town Manager Stuart Hurd, who has been directed by the Select Board to draft a response, said some of the quotes that were used were devastating, but he called the article galvanizing in bringing people together to look at the local drug problems.
Our response to the Times is going to attempt to outline the things that we are all doing here to deal with the problem, Hurd said. I dont think anyone in the community is running away from the problem or hiding their head in the sand. Were not ignorant to whats happening in this community and its happening everywhere.
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The demolition of Daytona Beach Shores' Publix nears completion and the re-build will begin soon. The majority of the tear down of the old structure and debris removal took just over a week.
"They were done quickly," City Manager Michael Booker said. The building was "basically gutted" prior to demolition, resulting in the fast tear down, he said.
Much of the rubble was hauled away by a recycling company. Clean up of the site "went fine," Mr. Booker said.
The city received one noise complaint as the site was being prepared for new construction. A resident complained that demolition "started too early" in the morning, Mr. Booker said. However, the city allows demolition to occur between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. HGR Construction, the firm in charge of the project, was in compliance with that regulation, according to Mr. Booker.
The old store on Atlantic Avenue will be replaced by a larger facility that includes a liquor store and a pharmacy with a drive-through. Also, in exchange for some minor code variations, Publix will add some public benefits, including a bus bench easement, a covered loading dock, a direct walkway from South Atlantic through the parking lot to the store entrance, a six-foot high noise reducing, decorative wall on the west side of the property, four picnic benches in adjacent McElroy Park and additional trees along the eastern and southern borders of the property.
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Since the store's closing in March, residents of Daytona Beach Shores as well as adjacent beachside communities have had limited options for grocery shopping. Atlantic Avenue is home to only two other supermarkets. Winn Dixie just north of the Publix location and a Publix much farther north in Ormond-by-the-Sea are options that don't please everyone.
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The Alfred Wegener Institute carries out research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as in the high and mid latitude oceans. The institute coordinates German polar research and makes available to national and international science important infrastructure, e.g. the research icebreaker "Polarstern" and research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic.
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16. September 2014: Current Sea Ice Situation: Ongoing Retreat in the Arctic, new maximum in the Antarctic
The area of sea ice in the Arctic fell to a summer minimum of around 5.0 million square kilometers this year, which is about 1.6 million square kilometers more than the record low in 2012. However, according to sea ice physicist Marcel Nicolaus from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Lars Kaleschke from the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence for Climate Research (CliSAP) this confirms the long-term downward trend in the Arctic. On the other hand, the winter ice sheet in the South Polar Ocean has expanded to an area of 20.0 million square kilometers, as the researchers report, which exceeds the 30-year-maximum from the previous year.
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26. August 2014: Greenhouse Gases in the Southern Ocean: First Evidence of Active Methane Emission at the Antarctic Seafloor
During an expedition with the German research vessel Polarstern off the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, an international team of scientists discovered more than 130 active methane seeps at the seafloor. According to chief scientist and MARUM researcher Gerhard Bohrmann, this is the first report of greenhouse gases seeping out of the seabed in the Southern Ocean. The finding was recently published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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20. August 2014: Record decline of ice sheets: For the first time scientists map elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have for the first time extensively mapped Greenland's and Antarctica's ice sheets with the help of the ESA satellite CryoSat-2 and have thus been able to prove that the ice crusts of both regions momentarily decline at an unprecedented rate. In total the ice sheets are losing around 500 cubic kilometres of ice per year. This ice mass corresponds to a layer that is about 600 metres thick and would stretch out over the entire metropolitan area of Hamburg.
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19. August 2014: Has the puzzle of rapid climate change in the last ice age been solved? New report published in Nature shows that small variations in the climate system can result in dramatic temperature changes
Over the past one hundred thousand years cold temperatures largely prevailed over the planet in what is known as the last ice age. However, the cold period was repeatedly interrupted by much warmer climate conditions. Scientists have long attempted to find out why these drastic temperature jumps of up to ten degrees took place in the far northern latitudes within just a few decades. Now, for the first time, a group of researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have been able to reconstruct these climate changes during the last ice age using a series of model simulations. The surprising finding is that minor variations in the ice sheet size can be sufficient to trigger abrupt climate changes. The new study was published online in the scientific journal Nature last week and will be appearing in the 21 August print issue.
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Great finish. Two on, two out, bottom of the ninth, Huston Street protecting a three-run lead against the scrappy Nick Punto. The place in an uproar. Naturally, the count goes to 3-and-2. Nobody warming in the Oakland bullpen; it's up to Street. Finally, Punto lifts one up toward the Teflon roof. It's a harmless popup, […] [Read More]
Did That Really Happen?
Shocking. That's the only way to describe it. The A's have a 4-2 lead in the seventh inning because Torii Hunter, one of the finest defensive center fielders of the modern era, made a big mistake. With a runner on first, Mark Kotsay hit a line drive to center, an apparent clean single — but […] [Read More]
Six In the Books
It was so quiet heading into the Twins' sixth inning, you felt like one of those guys in the foxhole in an old World War II movie. "Too quiet," I whispered to nobody. Within moments, the noise was ear-splitting. The Twins' back-to-back homers by Michael Cuddyer and Justin Morneau had such a soul-shattering effect, manager […] [Read More]
The Early Innings
THE 3-BLOG LOUNGE: The A's just broke through against Boof Bonser, and more on that soon, but there's an awful lot going on elsewhere. About a month ago, Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks made a fool of himself by publicly criticizing his players for lack of effort, when insiders knew the real problem was the […] [Read More]
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By Bruce Jenkins of the Chronicle staff The memories flood back, and there aren't many good ones. I covered six or seven games a year at the Metrodome during my beat-writing days with the A's in the 1980s, and I keep going back to a visit in Billy Martin's office after a terrible loss, all […] [Read More]
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The success of Ken Macha's rotation plan may very well depend on the A's first-round opponent. I like the setup if they play Detroit; Barry Zito is an obvious choice for the opener, and the Tigers — a free-swinging, not-so-patient bunch with predominantly right-handed power — could be vulnerable to Esteban Loaiza's approach. Loaiza would […] [Read More]
Scutaro gets the job done
From Sporting Green columnist Bruce Jenkins: THE 3-BLOG LOUNGE: How appropriate that Marco Scutaro finished off the Angels last night (the standings still give them a chance, but let's be realistic). Scutaro is the very essence of the A's, a guy who plays the game right, gets the little things done, comes up big when […] [Read More]
Liriano holds the key
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The vow of silence adhered to by the managing partners of Dublin's top commercial law firms would put the Mafia's omertà to shame. Ironic, really, in a country full of characters famed for the gift of the gab.
But when it comes to money, Irish mouths have been firmly shut. Until now. For the first time, The Lawyer can put figures to the leading group of firms in the increasingly wealthy Irish market. As with last year's groundbreaking Euro100, the figures reveal the top revenue-generating firms in the market and will begin the process of opening Irish firms up to the same levels of scrutiny with which UK and US firms are all too familiar.
One caveat - the figures remain estimates. Not a single partner was willing to go on the record with specifics. But by quizzing enough people - current partners, former partners, managing partners, recruitment consultants - who were ready, willing and able to offer insights, we have produced informed estimates on figures along with specific observations on the equity structures and profitability of Ireland's largest firms.
Coming clean
The first indication that Dublin-based lawyers were at last ready to talk money publicly came in September 2004. Declan Moylan, the managing partner of mid-sized firm Mason Hayes & Curran, wrote an article responding to a piece in The Irish Times on the Dublin legal market ('Just how well paid are tight-lipped solicitors?', John McManus, 6 September 2004), in which he revealed his firm's turnover. Or at least, an approximation of it. For Dublin, this was shocking, controversial stuff.
Moylan actually said his firm's turnover for the 2003-04 financial year was "just in excess of €20m [£13.7m]". Research by The Lawyer suggests the actual figure was €20.5m (£14m). In the last year Mason Hayes has been on a hiring spree, growing its revenue by 15 per cent and putting its turnover for the last year at €23m (£15.7m). Moylan would not confirm the figure but is happy to agree that his business is in "growth mode".
Even without the specifics, Moylan's press comments in 2004 represented a significant breaking of the ranks. He referred to a "rapidly developing ethic of transparency within leading law firms regarding their financial affairs" in his piece. At the very least, it was a sign that the cartel of quiet that has reigned over one of the most vibrant and wealthy legal markets in the world was beginning to splinter.
Of course, it is worth exploring Moylan's motivation for penning such a bold article. As the managing partner of one firm put it: "The first person to give you their figures will certainly be the one I don't believe."
No one is calling Moylan a liar, and the man himself will not divulge profit figures. But as one of the more progressive thinkers in the Dublin market, and as head of a firm built on litigation which has bulked up steadily over the last few years, Moylan knows he still needs to recruit. Going public on revenue is one sure way of ensuring Mason Hayes is both in the headlines and in the thoughts of laterals looking to move, evidenced by the recent hires of Christine O'Donovan from A&L Goodbody and Justin McKenna from LK Shields. It is also a canny move by Moylan that says, very publicly, 'We're a business, not just a law firm'. As the Irish market becomes more competitive and clients begin to demand more transparency on billing and at beauty parades, Moylan's lead in removing some of the mystique surrounding the legal market looks particularly canny.
In fact, most firms in Dublin are in growth mode. The Irish economy has enjoyed a concentrated period of correction and adjustment over the last 10-15 years and, as a result, the legal market is booming. "International lawyers with specialist expertise are in high demand, particularly by the top five," says a consultant at recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. According to Michael Benson of recruitment consultants Benson & Associates, "lawyers across the piece are in great demand, but particularly in commercial property, construction, banking, finance and corporate. And there's an increasing trend for specialisation."
BCM Hanby Wallace is one of the mid-sized firms that has really capitalised on this growth. The firm, built on a platform of property and with excellent practices in employment and construction, was up to 29 partners at the end of its financial year, 12 of whom are full equity. The firm, which is building a barnstorming reputation for work on major development projects such as the Dundrum Shopping Centre, has budgeted for 28 per cent growth in the current financial year. It is currently reviewing its lockstep, partly in an effort to counter the dip in profits it has faced as it has expanded (The Lawyer, 26 September).
Another firm on the growth path is O'Donnell Sweeney. Managing partner Francis Hackett, who joined three years ago from Eircom after overseeing its IPO, will have helmed his firm to a doubling in turnover since his arrival if it hits budget in 2006. Hackett claims his firm is "transparent about circulating our numbers among the fee-earners", although he refuses to be drawn on revenue or profit figures. However, with a practice profile of 40 per cent property, 40 per cent corporate and commercial and 20 per cent litigation, it is a reasonable estimate (in the context of the Mason Hayes figures) that 16-partner O'Donnell Sweeney's revenue for the year ending 31 January was some €19m (£13m).
Another of the chasing pack firms, Dillon Eustace, is still badged as a funds boutique - unfairly so, in the eyes of managing partner Mark Thorne. "We're significantly broader than just funds," he argues. "We handle securitisations, repackaging, insurance, litigation and more. But we're still the biggest in the investment funds arena."
According to one legal market recruiter, Dillon Eustace has "exploded" in terms of size in the last 18 months and is "extremely strong" in banking and finance. The Lawyer puts the 23-partner firm's revenue at €18.5m (£12.6m). But Thorne is keeping his counsel on the figures. "We feel there is no pressure on us to reveal our figures," he argues.
Transparent or not, the word in Dublin is that Thorne's firm, which specialises in high-margin specialised financial transactions, is among the most profitable in the city. And for any mid-sized City partner reading this with an air of complacency and comfort based on their own figures, forget it. There is little comparison between the equity partner remuneration of the top Dublin firms and those of a similar size and focus in the City.
"The profits of the leading Irish firms compare notably better than mid-size London firms," says the managing partner of one large Dublin firm. "Three times the average of their UK counterparts would not be unusual, although the mid-sizers earn a lot less. In Dublin, taking home €200,000 (£136,500), or even €500,000 (£341,300), for a top partner isn't doing particularly well."
In his piece, Moylan called on The Irish Times journalist John McManus to ask the managing partners of Dublin's big five for their turnovers, a challenge McManus accepted. The result, published the following week, was a big fat "no comment" (one unnamed managing partner hilariously went so far as to offer: "Off the record: we have no comment to make.").
This year The Lawyer has taken up a similar challenge, expanding it to the top dozen firms in the city. The immediate results were similar, with still few signs that Dublin's managing partners are willing to shed much light on the revenues and profits at their firms. Few signs, but some.
Despite the growth of the more aggressive mid-size players, the Dublin market is still dominated by the big five - A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP), McCann Fitzgerald and William Fry. There remains clear water in size terms between this group and the next tier of firms, which includes the likes of BCM, Eugene F Collins, Mason Hayes and O'Donnell Sweeney.
Goodbodys is Ireland's largest firm on a fee-earner basis, with 313 at the end of its last financial year. However, the firm known locally as 'the factory' employs a large number of paralegals, so on qualified solicitors only it is the third-largest with 186 (behind Arthur Cox with 195 and McCann Fitzgerald with 193). MOP and William Fry are the only other two firms with more than 100 qualified solicitors on board (177 and 133 respectively).
In estimating the revenues of these five firms, it is obviously necessary to consider the kinds of work they do and their respective client mix. Each is distinguished by an international client base, including major corporates and investment banks well used to paying top dollar for legal advice. The estimate is assisted by Moylan's breaking of the ranks. Mason Hayes' turnover of €23m (£15.7m) and partner count of 27 gives a revenue per lawyer (RPL) figure of €850,000 (£580,300). The revenue per partner (RPP) for each of the firms in this group is certain to be higher, although Mason Hayes' high level of international work means that it is unlikely to be too significant a disparity.
Assuming average RPP across the five is €950,000 (£648,500), that puts Arthur Cox at the head of the revenue table with €66.5m (£45.4m), followed by McCann Fitzgerald's €60.8m (£41.5m), Goodbodys' €58.9m (£40.2m), MOP's €50.3m (£34.3m) and William Fry's €47.5m (£32.4m).
Of this group, the two firms widely considered the most profitable are Arthur Cox and William Fry (although the other three will not be far behind). The distinction of Ireland's most profitable firm falls to M&A star Arthur Cox, the firm that carries with it "the gloss of success", as one recruiter puts it. According to managing partner Pádraig O'Ríordáin, "last year was a record". A reasonable estimate for the top of equity is at least €1m (£680,000). Sources suggest it could well be as high as €1.5m (£1m) at the firm known for its meritocratic approach to remuneration (O'Ríordáin introduced a bonus system on his watch, setting it apart from the all-equity, pure lockstep McCanns, which has none). However, the firm's relatively large number of equity partners means that, even with a profit margin of some 35 per cent, average profit per equity partner (PEP) is around €500,000 (£341,300).
Frys, known primarily for its strength in banking and financial services, is the smallest of the big five, but has a higher average PEP than Arthur Cox thanks to the tightly-held equity. Just 28 of the firm's 50 partners are full equity, giving them an average PEP in the region of €590,000 (£402,800) on a similar profit margin of 35 per cent.
The figures may not quite compare with the City's elite, but for a handful of senior equity partners they are very, very healthy indeed. But with the rapid rise in remuneration that Irish lawyers have enjoyed over the last decade must come an acceptance that business these days demands transparency. As Gavin O'Reilly, director of Dublin-based Solv Legal Recruitment, puts it: "The environment here is changing and the firms are having to react and treat themselves more like businesses in the eyes of their customers. The negative effect of keeping the financial information a secret is one of perception. Yes, by law, firms don't have to disclose their figures, but when clients see Mason Hayes do it they will wonder why the others aren't."
As Irish firms wake up to the fact that they can take nothing for granted anymore, and the big five in particular realise that the pack is snapping at their heels, anything a firm can do to distinguish itself from its rivals is fair game. Just ask Moylan.
Money is more than simply the stuff you take home at the end of the month. Remuneration and equity partner status were at the core of a dispute that may have escaped the headlines, but nevertheless set tongues wagging in the Dublin market to the extent that, two years on, they are still wagging.
It centred on Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP) and the firm's associated tax advisory practice. MOP, which has by far the largest tax group in Ireland, is the closest thing to a multidisciplinary partnership in the Dublin market. But Irish regulations still prohibit full profit-sharing between lawyers and non-lawyers.
However, in a memo dated 21 July 1999, MOP appeared to suggest that it was open to the entry of non-lawyers to the equity. The memo said MOP was "committed to the development of its existing taxation advisory service and is committed in principle to the creation of a structure to facilitate the career progression of new senior recruits other than solicitors towards full equity partnership, status and benefits."
On 14 July 2003, one of the firm's tax advisers, South African John Gulliver, claimed in the High Court that MOP had agreed to admit him as a full equity partner. This, Gulliver alleged, had been agreed to take effect on 1 January 2003. MOP refuted the claim, arguing that the case should go to arbitration. On 19 December 2003 in the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Geoghegan confirmed that the dispute should go to arbitration, following which the case settled. Consequently, Gulliver departed from MOP.
|Dublin salaries
|Range €K (£K)
|Typical €K (£K)
|40-54 (27-37)
|48 (33)
|50-62 (34-42)
|56 (38)
|56-63 (38-43)
|60 (41)
|60-72 (41-49)
|66 (45)
|66-90 (45-61)
|73 (50)
|80-120 (55-82)
|100 (68)
|110-140 (75-96)
|125 (85)
|Source: Hays Legal
Table: Dublin law firms at a glance
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Last Monday, the city of Lubbock's animal shelter welcomed a new volunteer. Next thing they knew, they were in the middle of an investigation. City Health Director, Tommy Camden, recounts what happened saying, "I'm contacted and animal services was contacted late Wednesday afternoon saying an individual has attempted suicide that may have some connection to the animal services volunteer program."
Police think the individual stole this drug commonly called "Fatal Plus," brought it home, and injected it into his veins. Fatal Plus is a lethal drug the shelter uses to put animals to sleep. Police and the Health Department are still investigating how the volunteer got access to the drug. They think it was through the room where euthanizing takes place, but all entrances are usually locked. Camden says, "In one particular part of the building we can raise one of the garage doors where the euthanasia takes place and this individual had wandered around to the back part of the shelter and was observing some of what was going on that afternoon."
Camden says it's still unclear exactly how the volunteer got into areas that are normally off limits to volunteers. Regardless, he doesn't think the safety procedures at the shelter should be questioned. He says, "There may be a few minor things that will be tweaked, but it's an unfortunate incident that happened in which somebody it seems might have had something pre-planned and did his best to carry it out."
The shelter volunteer was taken to University Medical Center. He survived the suicide attempt.
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So, I was telling a fellow ebaumer about my first mortifying sex experience, and he said to make it into a blog so everyone else can laugh about it as well. Please, feel free to laugh... I giggled after the fact, too.
Usually my sex encounters go relatively smoothly... I've never really had any bad or embarrassing stories - UNTIL! Jay*
This was a boy I had been seeing for about a month (After knowing him for over 2 years... he was a manager at the place where I change my oil.) Well, we had decided to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to Daytona around 2am. When we got there, we were the only people on the beach... it was slightly chilly so we wrapped ourselves around eachother to keep warm... oh, so romantic! Well, since it was our first time being "intimate" with one another, we decided it would be best to go back to my car since sand gets uncomfortable when it finds your naughty bits and being caught by a beach bum would scare me hah
So here we are, parked in a remote motel parking lot in my tiny Toyota Yaris Hatchback, about to get down and dirty! I'm all revved up and ready to go, so we tear eachother's clothes off and get things started. Things were going pretty well until I started going down south. While I was on my knees in my seat and he was sitting in the passenger seat, my ass somehow bumped the horn. A pathetic little *BEEP BEEEEEP* shocked us, but we laughed it off and kept going. Then, as I was moving to straddle him, I accidently hit the wiper blades, which made a wretched *SCREEEEECH SCREEEEEECH SCREEEEECH* Again, we laughed it off and kept going. When we were finally about to experience penetration, I adjusted myself to get better leverage, and the worst happened. My left knee slipped into the crack between the car seat and the door (And got stuck!!), and my right knee, trying to catch me, ended up landing right on his "mini Jay*!"
Mortified, and scared by his loud "AHHHHH!!!!!", I started getting flustered. I couldn't for the life of me get my left knee unstuck, and him wriggling around in pain trying maneuver out from under me didn't help much either. Finally, sick and tired of being calm and collected, I just opened the passenger door at the same time he lifted me off of him, causing me to fall onto the pavement butt naked. I immediately rushed back into the car at which point he says, "I think there's a security guard over there watching us."
Needless to say, we left without even getting all of our clothes on. The hour and a half ride home was awkward, to say the least.
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Clinical manager Susan Wilton said a lack of communication and connection was part of the problem.
"I'm concerned the community are not recognising the depth of the problem we have with suicide," Ms Wilton said.
She said she was saddened by what appeared to be an increasing lack of interpersonal communication skills, particularly with the rise in electronic communication.
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A big dose of wheat in the grain-bill gives beers a soft fruit flavor and a refreshing zesty crispness. In other words: the perfect summer brew. Here are five favorite wheat beers to have in your fridge when the thirst strikes.
5 Wheat Beers to Try:
• Oberon Ale from Bell's Brewery: Orange and spice all up in here.
• A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale from Lagunitas Brewing Company: Snappy fruits with lingering grassy hops.
• Festina Pêche from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Brewed with peaches and lip-smackingly tart.
• Dancing Man Wheat from New Glarus Brewing Company: Lots of traditional ripe banana, bubblegum, and toasted clove flavors with this one.
• Gumballhead from Three Floyds Brewing Co.: Lemony hops bounce around a big creamy yeasty fruity wheaty middle.
American wheat beers give a nod to traditional German hefeweizens and Belgian witbiers. They can veer toward the banana and clove flavors of the former or the coriander and orange character of the later, but don't always count on it. Many wheat beers forge ahead on their own path.
What is generally true is that wheat bears are made with roughly half wheat and half barley. With some stretching of the imagination, you can get a sense of fresh bread wheatiness beneath the citrus and fruit top-notes. Wheat beers are usually lightly hopped, giving the beer just enough herbal and grassy hop character to ensure a crisp finish. The wheat also gives beer a creamy, milkshake-like quality (especially when left unfiltered) with thick, sturdy head of foam.
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Ditto on the Sumpin' Sumpin'. Lagunitas never disappoints.
<3 Oberon. I went to college where Bells brewery is so very spring equinox when they release Oberon we would cut classes and have porch parties and drink Oberon. This stuff always takes me back.
Blanche de Chambly! (from Quebec)
21st Amendment in San Francisco has an awesome watermelon wheat beer as their summer seasonal. It's not sweet nor does it have that gross, cloying fake watermelon taste. It is my favorite.
Festina is a little off this year - just keeps on getting more and more artificial tasting, sadly. Still a good beer, but not a true sour.
Love me some Sumpin' Sumpin' as well.
We're getting ready to brew a coconut wheat beer, fermented with coconut water and then dry-coconutted. Had an experimental batch at Dogfish Head, and are going to try to re-create it at home. Good stuff!
Westbrook Brewery's White Thai is amazing. It has lemongrass and ginger root instead of the orange and coriander. Proudly brewed in SOUTH CAROLINA!!! http://westbrookbrewing.com/beers/year-round-beers/white-thai/
These mostly sound great, hope I see them around! Would love to try this White Thai, too. Sounds tasty.
Festina peche though - maybe I had an odd bottle, but I found it cloyingly sweet, not tart at all. It's the first Dogfish Head beer I've actually disliked, sadly.
Oberon is my absolute new favorite, it's delicious and light.
Another "yum" vote for Oberon.
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I live a mile from the brewery in K-zoo, and as the first poster mentioned, it is almost like a holiday in town when the beer hits the shelves.
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How thoughtful, but it's really okay. Basically, that car was very old. Not in the sense of years as it was only a 2003, but mileage. I lost it with 217,000 miles on it, so it had had a long life. Coming home one day, it was driving like normal when all of a sudden, my temperature gauge went WAY up and then white (what I initially thought was smoke) steam started billowing out of the hood in clouds so thick, I couldn't see the car behind me. After pulling off, and popping the hood, I found that a hose that carried coolant had burst (hence the steam,) I lost all my coolant, engine overheated to a point where it ruined the water pump, and done significant damage to the head. After it had to be towed to the shop, they said it would cost more to fix it than it was worth. So they made us an offer. So that's the story. That car was special to me in a way that even some people that have known me for years couldn't even understand. It was my first car and I am already exceedingly passionate about Land Rover's to begin with. Not to worry though, it may have been my first Rover, but definitely will not be my last.
- I am obsessed with a good pen.
- The highest setting on a car's AC fan drives me CRAZY.
- I find the sternocleidomastoid muscle very sexy.
- I believe in emotional attachments to cars.
- I cannot do a somersault. I just can't.
- When I was little, one of my life goals was to grow a mustache.
- I apparently have longer than normal hair follicles on my tongue.
- I cannot think of more breathtakingly beautiful plants than bonsai trees.
- I am utterly and shamelessly fascinated by human sexuality.
- I love the ocean, but nothing scares me more than its vastness.
I'm so happy you brought this up because, as you all know, I love talking about cars. So be prepared for a rant.
First of all, people need to get off Land Rover's back. This is the 21st century and the company needs to adapt to the world around them which has become very sleek, streamlined, and eco-friendly. Everything that classic SUV's are not.
As for the design, I hate when people try to compare them to any other vehicle. The only reason this generation Range Rover looks at all like the new generation Explorer is, I think, because of the head and taillights. Big whoop. That being said, if we jump back to 2004 and look at the Discovery and the Explorer, you'll see they share a design in the headlights too. But nobody cared because they were both such different vehicles otherwise. The Mercedes-Benz CLS and the Volkswagen CC have a similar design in their overall shape, but other then that, they are very different as well. Also, Ford owned Land Rover for a number of years (2003-2008 I believe) so naturally the companies are going to share some design similarities.
So many people base Land Rover on it's "look." The classic, rugged look. Which is true. I personally don't think they can be mistaken for anything else. Especially the older ones. However, not only has the Range Rover kept the same basic shape for over 40 years, but so many people also seem to forget that Land Rovers key belief for almost 70 years in designing their models is to make a vehicle that can tackle the worst driving conditions in the world (not exaggerating) while doing so in comfortable interiors, filled to the brim with luxurious, state-of-the-art amenities. The Range Rover is and always has been like nothing else on the road. No one has been able to match the combination of refinement and capability found in the Range Rover.
Land Rover is a company that, like Jeep, has been struggling in the recession because they don't design compact vehicles, so they are forced to step away from the boxy designs, which is prominent in the Range Rover Evoque. This isn't the 90's anymore, and people actually DO care about gas mileage and it will sway them greatly in buying a car. Before they jumped on the environmental bandwagon with the rest of the auto world, they struggled desperately from about 2006 to 2008, because their vehicles were still heavy, powerful beasts.
There is no way that this Range Rover is a "joke" because if it was a pre-production or concept vehicle, they would say so. They have already announced that it will be available in Europe by September and the US by Christmas.
I'm very pleased with how they redesigned it, and I can not wait to see the redesigned Defender in 2014 and redesigned LR5/Discovery 5 in 2016. I tip my hat to Land Rover because, one thing no one can deny, they're trying.
Whenever I stumble across spiders in my home, I take photos of them, refer to them as "she," give them old, classy, British lady names, and scare them off so someone else doesn't stumble across them and squash them. This is me.
The person was, at the time, someone very special to me and I considered what we had everything that a relationship is except for the social label…if that makes sense. It was practically a relationship, but I found out that they had been lying to me pretty much right before I intended making things official. So because that never happened, I didn't consider it an actual relationship. I had been totally truthful to this person and I didn't get the same in return which made me feel like I had been cheated.
Ok so I just had some random guy message me on Facebook. Exactly like the many random guys before, I have no idea who he is, but he starts flirting with me immediately and says "hey :) *insert name of acquaintance here* told me about u n i thout u wer cute so i requested u (:"
See straight people, you really get on my fucking nerves sometimes because you never seem to be able to just leave me be and meet and talk to guys on my own. You always have to "find me someone" and "set me up with someone." Believe me, its immensely flattering. I can't deny that you guys have nothing but good intentions and thank you so much, but frankly I find it rather offensive, for a couple reasons. First of all, it makes me seem like I am incapable of meeting and interacting with guys just because "there aren't that many gay people," which is false anyway. It makes me seem desperate and that I NEED to be set up with someone no matter what because I can't STAND being alone. Excuse me? Do you even know me? If you did, you would know that I love independence just as much as being in a relationship. There is also this unbearable stereotype you all pose that basically states if two guys are gay, single, and near the same age that they'll immediately hit it off and be into each other. What, do I not have standards? Do I not have a specific taste? Oh. Right. I'll date any guy that come across me. Silly me, thanks for finding me my future soul mate. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I just find it really offensive in a way that I just can't fully and easily explain. I DON'T want to be the first thing you think of when you meet a single, gay guy.
"Oh wait! You're gay! MY friend is gay TOO! Omg I'm totally gonna set you guys up, you'll be perfect together!"
I don't need that. Unless you want me to start giving your name and number out to every single, straight girl or guy that I see, stop having random people contact me. All it does is make things awkward for me and give false hope to them. Because, believe it or not, I have standards and very high ones at that so chances are I won't be interested. Does this make me sound like an asshole? Well so be it then, because I'm sick of this bullshit. Sure, I'd like someone, I mean who wouldn't? But I sure as hell don't NEED anyone. Wouldn't you feel a little weird if some random person that you don't have anything in common with and aren't attracted to found you, not just stumbled across you, but SEARCHED for you just because some other acquaintance of yours that you don't even know that well to begin with told them to? Yeah, welcome to my world.
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Corn on the right (organically grown)
9 ears
Planted May 22nd
Applied 10 gallons of Fish Fertilizer (also Manure tea, and Azotobacter)
Corn never stunted
Leaves samples show very little disease
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Leaves are soft in texture and supple
Ears are not deformed
Pollination is uniform
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Remaining corn in field is alive, very healthy and producing sugar (see photo below)
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I'm getting some more interest in the Neptune's Harvest products now that we have seen some good results from using it. We cut 99 huge heavy round bales off 70 acres three weeks after our second application of product. The grass grew really well in those three weeks and the paddock is coming back well despite us having no rain for weeks.
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pretty badly knocked around and degraded. We have actually taken most of his herd and put them with ours as his
alternative was to send them to the sale barn. After all of our fertilizing we have grass to spare, so it is working out nicely. That said, he is now very interested in switching from the traditional fertilizer ($60 per acre at the moment) to the Neptune's Harvest products, which are considerably less.
Because of your products, we have plenty of grass for our herd, and my friends.Thank you,
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Just a note to let you know how pleased we are with the results we receive by spraying on the Neptune Harvest Fish Fertilizer. The fish is the centerpiece of our fertilization program and has set our operation on the right path for the future of our grass finished beef and lambs.We get plenty of comments from forage specialist and professional livestock men and women, on our pastures that say "they are the best they have ever seen in the south and they were not aware you could grow this kind of quality forage in the south". Thanks for the great product, the proof is fat healthy cows and lambs without the big fertilization bill. Amazing product!
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To Neptune's Harvest
As you know, we have been a loyal customer of yours for the last five years buying hydrolyzed fish for our 560-acre walnut orchard operation here in the great San Joaquin Valley of California. We mix it in a 600-gallon mobile trailer/tank and inject it into our solid set sprinkler system throughout the growing season when irrigations are frequent.
The benefits of applying Neptune's Harvest has been shown in other areas of the Garden also. We are still
harvesting green leafy vegetables, in October, such as Swiss Chard, which were planted in April. During the hot, dry summer months, those plants had shown some signs of fatigue, however, in the days following their feeding of Neptune's Harvest they would stand tall and firm. We have also had great success with Brussels sprouts, which had failed in previous years, yet have grown to nearly five feet tall this year.
The harvest of 2005 was exceptional for quantity and quality in all our varieties of walnuts. We harvested 35% more walnuts than our previous best year of 2003 with outstanding edible yield and color, important quality parameters for walnuts. I attribute our success to our fish program and other sustainable activities that we promote to whomever will listen.We would hope that you continue to provide a quality product with which we will continue to fertilize our orchards.
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Locke Ranch, Inc.
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Lockeford, CA
I just wanted to tell you that last winter was the 1st year to feed hay fertilized with your Fish. 10 to 12 pounds per day, as opposed to 20 to 25 for conventionally grown hay, to maintain a body condition score of 4.These cattle are fed on winter range so they have �pickins� other than hay. Outstanding product!! P.S. I also fed 80% less mineral!
Tom Seawald
Mantle Ranch
Dinosaur, CO
I have seen so many great benefits since I started using Neptune's Harvest products. I use N.H. Kelp for my cattle as a mineral. I feed it free choice and they use about 1 - 2 oz. per cow per day. The cattle are healthy, with a good hair coat and their hooves are healthier than ever before. Since I started using the kelp, I haven't had to give even one antibiotic injection, and it�s been 2 years now. This is important, because we raise grassfed beef, with no antibiotics or steroids.
We use N.H. Hydrolyzed Fish on our hay meadows and pastures. The benefits I have noticed is the thickness of the grass after using the product 2 years. When spraying our pastures, we use Fish and liquid Humate with great results. We bought our farm 4 1/2 years ago and it previously had many chemicals used on it for weed control and synthetic fertilizers on the grass. The grass was thin and production was low. We have been really dry the last 2 years, but we still saw good results.
I have a customer who raises organic fruits. The �tree experts� first told him that the fruit trees he picked would not grow in his type of soil. Well, with the help of N.H. Fish and Humate, the 2-year-old trees not only lived but they had 4 feet of growth this year. The "tree people" said that he would have some type of tree sickness from the fast growth, but that hasn't happened. This customer also uses N.H. Kelp for cattle mineral and his cattle have calmed down noticeably. Before using N.H. Kelp, he had a problem with coccidioses in his herd, but he doesn't see that anymore.
I also fertilize residential yards, using the N.H. Hydrolyzed Fish. One customer is excited over the thickness of her grass and the growth and beauty of her flowers and shrubs. She also had an experience with armyworms this year. They crossed her yard without taking a bite of her grass, but her neighbors who use synthetics weren't so lucky.
Needless to say, I gained a new customer next door!
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Harry Potter Gets New Covers for Fifteenth Anniversary...
- Written by Jude Terror on Wednesday, February 13 2013 and posted in News with Benefits
...and fans feel old as hell when they realize the series is fifteen years old.
Source: Robot 6
In September, fans of the hugely popular Harry Potter novels will get a special treat in the form of the opportunity to pay for the books all over again when Scholastic releases a paperback box set of all seven novels with brand new covers by Kazu Kibuishi, creator of the bestselling comics and graphic novels Copper, Daisy Kutter, and Amulet (three separate series, not one with a long title). Fans will also be treated to an unexpected dose of depression when they realize that the first Harry Potter book came out fifteen years ago, in 1998, which was an entirely different century.
"The covers look really nice," said Mildred Bland, a longtime fan of the series from Fort Worth, TX. "But I hadn't really thought about how long it's been since the books first came out. I mean, time is funny, isn't it? When you're younger, it moves so slow, but the older you get..."
"I'm a fan of both Harry Potter and Kazu Kibuishi, so I'm doubly excited about this," said Joseph Felder of New Britain, CT. "Or at least I was, until the whole thing made me start thinking about my own mortality. I'm gonna die, man. We're all gonna die."
Many fans reported noticing some wrinkles around their eyes and cheeks shortly after learning about the fifteenth anniversary edition of the series, which, at over 450 million copies sold, is the most successful of all time. The realization about the transient nature of human existence has put many readers into a dark mood. People who read the news on blogs and websites this morning were forced to wonder if they had made all the right choices in life and whether or not they would have done things differently if they had realized when they were younger how short life really is.
"I wanted to be an astronaut," mused Dale Hatton, a school administrator in Hyannis, MA. "Why did I give up on my dream? Why?!"
The psychiatric health community is already preparing for the September launch of the box set, anticipating that depression and suicide rates may skyrocket. "Usually the winter holidays are the most depressing time of year," said Dr. Grace Foster, a psychiatrist in Cleveland, OH, "but things may change when more people learn that Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone came out a decade and a half ago. We can only hope that people recognize the symptoms of depression in themselves and others and seek help where required."
Asked if she was a fan of the books, Dr. Foster admitted to enjoying the movies. "I've prescribed myself 20mg of Prozac, to be taken once each morning," she told us. "I'm pretty happy with my life right now, but you never know."
The first of Kibuishi's covers is revealed below. It depicts a young Harry Potter and the lovable half-giant, Hargrid, exploring wizarding community Diagon Alley for the first time. Each of the covers will depict a memorable moment for the series. "I'm a fan of the series, so I wanted to make people happy," is what we imagine Kibuishi would have told us if we bothered to contact him for an interview. "I didn't really think about the negative emotional impact nostalgia can have on some people, but revisiting memories that many of us have carried with us since childhood can be bittersweet."
"Just thinking about Harry, eleven years old, discovering a huge, magical world full of wonder and possibility, is a stark contrast to the shackles of ordinary adult life," Kibuishi would have continued. "You have to excuse me. I've got to call my friends and family and let them know I love them.
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Why don't we have the votes? This is bullshit. Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal polls at 70%. It's at 60% with Republicans. The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs are now for it. As are Colin Powell and Dick Cheney. So what's the problem?
I'll tell you what the problem is. Political homophobia on the part of the White House and Democrats in Congress. We got them elected, we gave them control of the White House and Congress, in exchange for their promise to repeal DADT, repeal DOMA and pass ENDA. We've now given them polls showing the American people, even Republicans, overwhelmingly in support of repeal. The Pentagon's top civilian and military leaders agree with us. And we even have political cover from Cheney and Powell. The only excuse for the Democrats in Congress to refuse to repeal DADT, and the White House refusing to even say that they want it repealed this year, is political homophobia.
Our civil rights give the White House and Democrats in Congress the creeps. They think that we're a political liability, regardless of what the polls say, regardless of what they promised us in exchange for our money and our votes. We're marginally acceptable when it comes time for a cocktail party, or maybe a band in the parade, but when it comes to keeping their promises on DADT, ENDA and DOMA, we are persona non grata in the White House and the Congress. No room at the Democratic inn.
Joe and I have been warning for a year now that this day was coming. That the Democrats were going soft on their support for us, and that our civil rights battles in Congress would suffer as a result. Some, like HRC, claimed that everything was on track, and that the White House in particular had a great plan for moving forward, and was gung-ho on doing so.
And now we know that this was untrue. Barney Frank complained just last week that the White House message on DADT has been "muddled." Senator Levin said he was still waiting on direction from the administration on how to proceed. Staffers in the House and Senate said the White House wasn't leading. And SLDN said that if there is a plan, like HRC claims, they'd love to see it.
As a result, the legislative effort in Congress gets messier by the day, while the clock is ticking. Charlie Cook, a widely respected poll watcher, says he can't imagine a way that Democrats hold the House in November. And if we lose the House, we won't see DADT, DOMA or ENDA for years to come. Remember the last time we lost the House. It took 14 years to get it back. That puts us around 2024. How old will you be then? And of course, don't get your hopes up for 2024 because, after all, we'll need a Democratic president or it won't matter what the Congress does. And even then, we've all seen the profile in courage that is a Democratic president and Congress when our lead groups don't hold them responsible.
When will the White House show leadership? When will the Congress? When will HRC?
I think it's time Andy Tobias over at the DNC, and the entire DNC LGBT caucus, went public and explained to our community how they can claim time and again that the Democratic party isn't screwing over the gay community. Where is DADT, Andy? Where is DOMA? Where is ENDA? Yes, we got a gay ambassador. But George Bush appointed one too, so you don't get our thanks for doing what Bush (and Clinton) already did. And yes, the President signed the hate crimes bill. That was great. Of course, he didn't lift a finger to get it passed, since it passed the previous Congress and even survived a GOP filibuster, so it's hard to give him credit for the bill's passage. What the President does have a say in is leading on DADT (and on ENDA and DOMA). Will the President include the repeal of DADT in the DOD budget transmittals being sent to Congress over the next few months, Andy? SLDN and Servicemembers United have asked him to. If he's really for the repeal, why won't he ask Congress officially for it?
Will the White House come out right now and say that it wants DADT repealed THIS YEAR? Will it, Andy? Cuz when Kerry Eleveld of the Advocate asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs to say just that last week, that the White House wanted Congress to repeal DADT this year, Gibbs got tongue-tied – twice. Not very fierce, Andy.
Will the White House actually use up some political capital to get the votes we need on DADT, ENDA and DOMA, Andy? Or will you continue to ask our community to fund the Democratic party with the empty promise that maybe we'll get our rights some time in 2024? Hell, even HRC was only willing to wait until 2017.
As an aside, I seem to recall that some gay people at the DNC were laughing at us, behind the scenes, for even asking that DOMA be repealed. How could we be so naive, they suggested, as to think we could get DOMA repealed any time soon? Perhaps we are naive, Andy. We actually believed the President when he promised to get DADT and DOMA repealed, and ENDA passed, in exchange for our votes. Silly us, to trust that the Democratic party would keep it promises at some point during our lifetimes.
UPDATE: Kerry Eleveld has more from Levin. It sounds to me like Levin is making two mistakes. First, he's making the Obama mistake of assuming that if you don't have the votes when you start, you won't be able to get the votes by the time you finish. We could get the votes if the White House actually got of its ass, and HRC actually made them. Second mistake, Levin seems to be suggesting that the moratorium is only until the DOD study is done. Well, the DOD study isn't supposed to be done until New Years. That means DADT repeal won't happen until the next Congress – that would be the Congress that a growing number of people are expecting will have the Republicans running the House. Under that scenario, we won't have DADT next year, or the year after that, or the year after that…


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HT to Barbara.
Rene Russo hits the nail on the head–it's an all pervasive attitude in our culture to dress females in hooker chic. Apparently, there isn't a line drawn on what age that begins or ends.
When I was an image consultant and working with politicians, their guidelines for dignified dress were pretty much the same as the Catholic Church's guidelines. More proof of natural law.
You can look dignified, elegant, and fashionable—while at the same time dressing modestly.
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Nicole Kidman recently hit headlines when she came out with her opinion that Hollywood probably contributes to violence by portraying women as sex objects, and "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Doris Roberts couldn't agree more. According to Doris, ladies need to leave a little more to the imagination.
"You've got to start with the dolls that are out. We are more than breasts and rear ends, and if you're a child and that's what we're trying to emanate you think that's all we are," Roberts told Tarts at the recent "Peace Over Violence" event in Los Angeles which was aimed at building support for female victims of domestic and sexual abuse.
Roberts even went on to say that young girls who flash a little too much flesh are perhaps sending an open invitation to danger.
"I'm not a prude. I really am not. But if you're going to dress provocatively, you're going to get into trouble," she added. "Kids, right now, 12 year olds, 11 year olds, they're dressing and trying to emanate what they see on television or in movies. When you do that, you're judged, and even if you're not selling that, it appears like you are. That is not very good."
Meanwhile fellow film starlet Rene Russo believes there are many more outlets to blame asides from Tinseltown for
the abuse so many women suffer.
"I don't know if I would go as far to say that it's just Hollywood, it's advertising, it's everywhere, it's everything. It's sort of in the fabric, unfortunately, of our society," Russo said. "I think about it a lot and I'm not really sure what the answers are. Little by little we all need to try to make a difference and get out and support organizations like this because it is a problem. I don't think it's just Hollywood."