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Poll: DO we want Cato and Clove's kid to live at the end of "Reason to Rebel"? Pm me why you choose! Vote Now!
Author has written 6 stories for Hunger Games.
Hi everyone! My name is Kat.
Well it's kathryn..well it's my middle name. ANYWAY!
I'd like to say hello to you all, I'm a singer, dancer, and actress. TRAINED! Soo woohoo!
My favourite fandom is THG and HP.
I ship Cato/Clove...hard...harder then katniss/peeta. But they are still in my top!
I am a slytherin :) So..YAAY!
My top Ships:
1. Cato/Clove ( Clato)
2. Katniss/Peeta ( Peenis :3)
3. Ron/Hermione (Romione?)
4. Haymitch/Effie (heffie)
Disclaimer: i own nothing just for my fun.
I promise to remember Rue
If a little girl ever pets a goat
When I toss some wood in the fire
The Capitol will cross my mind
I'll always think of Glimmer
Whenever I watch a reality show
I swear to think of Cato
I swear to remember the Hunger Games
Random Sarcastic Junk.
One day, I wondered why the frisbee was getting bigger, Then it hit me
Two men walk into a bar, The third one ducks.
Boys are like lava lamps, fun to watch but not too bright.
Boys are like slinkeys. Useless, but fun to watch fall down the stairs.
It takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile and only 4 to reach out and slap someone.
If life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the world wonder how you did it.
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up
Of course I'm talking to myself, who else can I trust?
One day your prince will come. Mine? Oh he took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
I'm not afraid of Death, what's it gonna do kill me?
If two wrongs don't make a right...try three.
When life gives you lemons, squirt them in the eyes of your enemies.
Don't knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run- he hates that!
My knight in shining turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil.
It's better to keep quiet and let someone think you're stupid, than to open your mouth and prove it.
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
if you talk about me i got some advice. click your heels 3 times and say 'i wish i had a life'!
OMG! i think i just saw a flying bird!
let me write that down in my 'things i dont really give f about' notebook.
yea you have the right to your own opinion, but i have the right to think your stupid.
warning: im sarcastic and i hurt peoples feeling sometimes, boo hoo. get over it.!
i speak fluent sarcasm.
are yhu stoned
I don't obsess, I think intensely!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
"Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty. Me? i just want to know who the hell is drinking my damn soda."
I dream of a better world...where chickens can cross roads without having their morals questioned.
"The greener grass on the other side is probably just artificial turf."
"Nothing worse than getting your pigtails shot off..."
"Nobody move! I dropped my brain."
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
"He who laughs last didn't get it."
Never knock on Death's door-ring the bell and run away. Death really hates that.
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
-When angry, count to ten, when very angry, swear.
-Education is important; school however, is another matter.
I had my soul removed to make room for sarcasm and I don't regret it.
-Boys are like trees - they take 50 years to grow up.
You cry, I cry. You laugh, I laugh. You jump off a cliff, I laugh even harder!
-Hello. You have reached the Sixth Sense Detective Agency. We know who you are, where you are from, and what you want so there is no need to leave a message.
-Stupidity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
-Some people are alive today, simply because it is illegal to kill them.
-The newscaster is the person who says "Good evening" and then tells you why it's not.
-I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor doesn't exist.
-If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
-Why is Charlie short for Charles if they are the same number of letters?
-Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone might actually clean them?
-There are no stupid questions – just a bunch of inquisitive idiots.
-Politics is war without bloodshed. War is politics with bloodshed.
-High School Musical 3 and Saw V were the two top movies at the box office when they opened. One depicted gruesome on screen torture. The other was about a guy with a saw.
It takes 47 muscles to frown, 13 to smile and absolutely none to sit there with a dumb look on your face.
-People say satire is dead. It's not dead. It's alive and living in the White House.
-I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
-I do not deny everything.
-Sometimes the mind, for reasons we do not necessarily understand, just decides to go into storage.
Love me or hate me. Personally I could care less
-Isn't it ironic . . . we ignore those who adore us, adore those who ignore us, hurt those who love us, and love those who hurt us
-Don't follow in my footsteps . . . I run into walls.
-Do you want to know why I'm still on earth? Heaven kicked me out and hell is afraid I'll take over...
-Hello and welcome to the Mental Health Hot-line. If you are obsessive compulsive, press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities press 3, 4, 5, 6. If you are paranoid, we know what you are and what you want so stay on the line and we'll trace your call. If you are delusional press 7 and your call will be sent to the Mother Ship. If you are schizophrenic listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press. If you are depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, no one will answer you. If you are dislexic press 6, 9, 6, 9, 6, 9. If you have a nervous disorder fidget with the hatch key until the beep. After the beep, please wait for the beep. If you have short term memory loss, please try your call again later and if you have low self esteem, hang up; all our operators are too busy to talk to you.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?
The road to success is always under construction.
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like solitary confinement.
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.
No I won't go to hell! It has a restraining order against me.
I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
The dinosaurs' extinction wasn't an accident. Barney came and they all commited suicide.
Sometimes I wonder "why is the frisbee getting bigger?" Then it hits me.
Basic Definitions of Science: If it's green or wiggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
When the going gets tough, the tough get duct tape
I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
Don't take life to serouly, no one gets out alive anyway
Life's tough...Get a helmet
I can be Mrs. Cullen, you can be Mrs. Black you can die and I can live forever!
I stopped fighting my inner demons... We're on the same side now!
SHUT UP VOICES!! or I'll poke you with the Q-tip again...
If Barbie's So Popular, Why Do You Have To Buy Her Friends
Life's Greatest Pleasure Is Doing What People Tell You Not To Do
Never Go To A Doctor Whose Office Plants Have Died
Everyone Is Entitled To Their Own Opinion, It Just That Your's Is Stupid
Man Invented Language To Satisfy Their Deep Need To Complain
Magic is the stuff Science hasn't made boring yet!
My VAMPIRE can beat up your WEREWOLF!!
What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere?
"Obstacles are put in our way to see if what we want is really worth fighting for."
"Don't fall for someone unless they're willing to catch you."
"If you don't understand my silence, then you won't understand my words."
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads :P
I wouldn't have OCD if everyone else would just do things the right way.
Your shin (n): a device used to find furniture in the dark
Alice in Wonderland Oh! Is that the story of Alice before she went into the Asylum?
People that don't know me think I'm quiet. People that do wish I was.
Sarcasm. It's easier than actually having to deal with stupid people.
An atheist is a person who believes in not believing anything.
If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
High School Musical 3 and Saw V were the two top movies at the box office when they opened. One depicted gruesome on screen torture. The other was about a guy with a saw
There are no stupid questions – just stupid people.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either
Do you want to know why I'm still on earth? Heaven kicked me out and hell is afraid I'll take over...
You talk to yourself a lot. (e.g. Hmm, what would happen if it was sunny the day Bella got hit by the van? Oh, story idea!! Must get computer!)
You talk to yourself about talking to yourself. (e.g. 'Why do I constantly ask my self random things?')
When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else. (e.g. 'Have you ever noticed that deliver could mean someone's liver?')
After uttering a profound peice of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, "Wow,this stuff is great for sugar highs...'
You live off of sugar and caffine (the two greatest things ever discovered!)
You'll check your e-mail every day of the week and then dissappear off the face of the earth.
You're e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random.
When replying to an e-mail, you'll never actually address the point of it.
You tend to collect Bic Stics off the ground like picking pennies off the ground.
No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper.
The letters on your keyboard are wearing off. (once a key actually fell off!)
Your friends and family think that you have carpal tunnel syndrome.
People think you have A.D.D.
You think it'd be cool to have A.D.D.
You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense.
You start thinking about making lists like this and start giggling for no "apparent" reason
Your friends stopped looking at you funny for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago.
And FINALLY, the one way to tell if you're a good writer: You failed English 101.
lol i know really random
*YoU kNoW yOuR a DaNcEr WhEn...*
...Dance is life and the rest is just spare time. (definately)
...when you put on your pointe shoes to reach high places (don't have pointe shoes yet)
...your vocabulary includes bandaids, wedgies, sweat, determination, and guts!
...you use your swingset to practice your fouettes.
...you have fights with gymnasts about who works harder
...you sit in a straddle when you are watching TV. ...you have blisters on your feet for life.
...your friends are covering up their zits while you try to hide your ugly feet. (Believe me...my dance friends and I all have foot damage.)
...you use rosin more than soap.
...your pointe shoes are your babies.
...you sit in a straddle when on the floor...comfortably.
...you have more bandaids on your feet from dance than holes in swiss cheese!
...people mistake you for a rubber band. (Well, people tell me I have good flexibility)
...your body cracks loud enough to stop class but you don't hear it.
... instead of toes on your feet you can only see the blisters.
...pirouette and fouette are the two main words in your vocabulary.
...your feet have more blisters than toes.
...you pointe you toes even during sit ups. (I point my toes during everything and I can't even run when it's not on tiptoe)
...you dance down the hallway instead of walk. (Totally!)
...when you see christmas commercials on TV with Nutcracker music, you start to get nervous.
...you know most barres aren't in jails. (Yeah!)
..."Practice makes perfect" isn't just a saying, but a way of life. (I know!)
...all your friends are eating dinner while you are in class. (Yeah...except for my really good friends that are in class with me)
...you do plies and tondus while waiting in line. (ALL THE TIME!!!!!)
...Watching TV is not a time to relax, it is a time to stretch
...you do grande jetes in the parking lot and down the streets.
...you can't remember a time when your feet were soft and uncallused. (OMG...definately)
...your parents work two jobs to pay for private lessons.
...you perform calmly before crowds yet suffer anxiety during school tests. (Sounds like me.)
...you are well coordinated in class but trip over your own feet walking (Exactly correct!)
...you have the ability to balance your body on five toes, yet cannot bend over to pick the clothes up off the floor of your room
...a new leotard makes you whole day (Yeah, that or a new pair of shoes or even just new stage makeup!)
...every hard floor is like a place for practicing. (That's why it's hard, isn't it????)
...you walk with your feet turned out unconciously
...you know the frog isnt an animal, but a stretch.
...you use every handrail you see for practicing your fouettes.
...you carry a bottle of nail polish around in your purse to stop those darn runs in your tights.
...your dad bought stock in BandAid.
...you actually sit up striaght in your chair at school.
...you hear classical music and you need to dance. (YEAH!!!)
...you actaully DREAM of wearing those heavy, expensive, netting-ridden tutus. (OMG, I can't wait for that!)
...you dont dance for a week, and even your brother notices.
...the top shelf in your closet is stuffed with your old leotards and dance shoes.
...your friends ask you to oversplit "just for fun!"
...you know more French than English.
...you have an entire drawer devoted to your dance stuff.
...you have washboard abs from those 100 sit-ups before each class.
...Centerstage was the best movie EVER!
...you own 25 pairs of shoes...but 20 of them are for dance.
...you have bigger muscles than all the boys in school.
...everything you do has to do with dance.
...you promise to never stop dancing... like an energizer bunny that just keeps going. (Yes!)
...your calves look like softballs because they are so big.
...you cancel dates telling them you have dance. (Well, not dates, but I say I can't hang out with non-dance friends those days)
...you suddenly can't count past 8
...you can learn the dances to music videos like that (snaps fingers). (I pick stuff up so quickly...)
...you're disgusted when you see a picture of a dancer with pointe shoe ribbons tied up to her knees. (OMG...cringes)
...you say all kinds of dance terms (in french) in front of your non dancing friends and tell them it's a secret language. (I almost did a couple times...)
...all the things you get for Christmas relate to dance.
...When you spell "point" you always mess up and spell it "pointe"
...When those ballerina Barbies irritate you because they aren't turned out and can't bend their arms! (YEAH! They do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
...When you are walking you count your steps, but only go up to 8 and start all over again.
...Your kitchen floor has marks all over it from tap shoes, and pointe shoes. (Well, not pointe shoes yet, but tap shoes)
...Before everything you do you say 5,6,7,8
...You laugh at a non-dancer when they say their feet hurt. (As mean as it sounds, I think it's abnormal for someone to complain about hurting feet unless it's really hurt, or they're doing ballet)
...You never leave home with out your hair spray and bobby pins.
...You have less toe nails than anybody you know.
... you can talk about ballet all day long to people that dont care. (Yeah!)
...you stand en pointe in your shoes when talking to friends.
...your friends say they went shoe shopping and you ask them if they got a hard or medium shank.
...pirouette and fouette are the two main words in your vocabulary.
...you pointe you toes during pull-ups for gym class.
...you know more French words than anything else.
...When you can't sit still when you hear music. (Totally!)
...You lecture your friends when they draw pictures of ballerinas with pointe shoe ribbons tied up to their knees.
...you bend over to pick up something and your leg shoots up to a 180* angle.
...You don't mind when people tell you your feet stink.
...You get disgusted when you see cheerleaders because they never pointe their toes. (Yeah...I do)
...Glitter is imbedded in you skin for life.
...All the boys at school are afraid of you cuz you can kick so high.
...instead of calling rooms "rooms" you call them "studios"
...When you go to get your hair cut you tell them to leave it long enough to be able to put it in a bun. (Yup!)
...You consider tights a fashion accessory.
...at the start of the new school year, the first pictures in your locker are the ones from dance camp
...you miss more school for performances than your do for being sick (Well, I haven't had to yet, but as I get better, I will)
...you can rattle off the name of every pointe shoe brand in the dance store
...when you refer to half time of a football game as "intermission"
...You don't have to paint your toe nails...They are already blue.
...You hair has a permanent line in it from wearing it in a pony tail.
...You don't mind when people tell you your feet stink.
...All your friends make fun of you cuz you always either stand in B+ or 5th position.
...You dye your hair just because it will look better on stage.
...You don't think it is wierd when a boy wears tights. (If they're dancing, then no)
...You have memorized every color tights of they sell at the local dancewear store.
...Every song that come on on the radio you know a combo to.
...You noticed every mistake made on any dance movie or TV show. (Yes!!!!!!)
...You have ever fallen asleep in the splits.
...You have ever said "200 sit-ups no prob."
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Lisa Mullins: Diplomats read and deliver a lot of speeches as part of their job. Timing is key. A good diplomat delivers the right speech at the right time. Well, that's precisely what India's foreign minister, S.M. Krishna failed to do at the United Nations last week. Krishna was appearing for the very first time in front of the Security Council. He began reading what sounded like a heartfelt speech. The thing is it wasn't his personal speech.
{Excerpt] 'On a more personal note allow me to express my profound satisfaction regarding the happy coincidence of having two members of the community of Portuguese speaking countries, Brazil and Portugal, together here today.'
Mullins: It turns out that the Foreign Minister Krishna was reading a statement actually prepared for the Portuguese foreign minister who had been at the podium just prior to him. Colin Lynch covers the United Nations for the Washington Post and Foreign Policy. I understand in the 'world gaffes department' this went on for an eternity. Tell us more about what happened.
Colin Lynch: This was an extraordinary gaffe. I mean, for the Indian foreign minister, for his first appearance before the Security Council India wants to have a permanent seat on the Security Council, they want to show that they deserve the same place as the other big powers and for them to sort of mess this up it really kind of dealt a setback to that effort.
Mullins: Not the auspicious introduction to the Security Council that India wanted. Remind us then what happened. This lasted like three minutes?
Lynch: This was well into an hour and a half long debate about security and development and most of the speeches pretty much sound alike and essentially what happens is that the...
Mullins: That's not a good sign.
Lynch: ...That's not a good sign but that's the way that most of these debates play out and kind of explains perhaps why it took him so long to realize what had happened. But he begins the speech and he makes these remarks honoring the fact that there are two Portuguese speaking nations at the Council. It's kind of typical for dignitaries to say nice things about the President of the Security Council and this year it's Brazil, so not quite so extraordinary. But it isn't really about three minutes into it he starts talking about the importance of coordinating action between the UN and the European Union and at that point the ambassador steps up and takes the Portuguese statement and he kind of slides it off the table and the foreign minister is somewhat puzzled, turns around and say, 'You mean, I have to start from the beginning?'
Mullins: We actually have the tape of that. Let's listen.
{Excerpt} 'The European Union is also responding in this manner in coordination with the United Nations...start all over again?'
'Yes, you can start again, yes.'
'Mr. President, Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation...'
Mullins: Now that sounds a lot more like the foreign minister of India talking about Mahatma Gandhi.
Lynch: Clearly shows that he hasn't read the speech before he delivered it.
Mullins: It's embarrassing, you feel kind of bad for the guy. I wonder what his response was to this and what the Indian government's response was and anybody else who was listening.
Lynch: The Indian foreign minister spoke to reporter afterwards and his answer was essentially, 'Stuff happens. Could have happened to anybody.' But it set off a kind of political wildfire in India and the opposition has been calling for his resignation, saying that his gaffe essentially shamed the Indian nation before the world and will undermine their efforts to gain a permanent seat on the Security Council. There is one kind of ironic twist to all this. Some observers in India were suspicious that this was actually some sort of way of apologizing to the Portuguese who fought viciously with the Indians back in 1961 when India invaded the Portuguese controlled island of Goa and forced the Portuguese out, ending hundreds of years of colonial rule. So there's some sensitivity between the two sides and I think people were reading more into this than was actually there.
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Reese Witherspoon Black Eye, How bad did Reese Witherspoon suffer the injuries after being beaten by a car last week? From the looks of things, very bad. And painful.
Reese was seen in public today for the first time since her horrific accident and made no attempt to hide her massive black eye, bruised face and leg and forehead bandaged, all of which seemed to be still fresh, even now, a total six days after being taken to hospital after being hit by a driver 84 years of age.
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November 28, 2005
AT&T's New Logo: A Difference Without a Distinction
I have intentionally avoided reading what any of us in the marketing and design community have opined about AT&T's new logo. Generally speaking, when there is a logo design change, it seems that many practice schadenfreude - taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune.
I would like to give my opinion on the new AT&T logo with a different twist. I will do my best to look at the new AT&T logo through the eyes of its customers.
First I would like to, once again, commend SBC's management on selecting the AT&T name over SBC or Cingular.
Back to the new logo through the eyes of its customers: I am guessing that this is much ado about nothing. To the typical consumer, the logo changes are subtle or evolutionary at best. The company has essentially maintained the same color scheme with a modified globe and lowercased text.
Having said that, I can't resist commenting as a marketing professional. The new globe image seems to overwhelm the lowercase AT&T name. Other than that, it is fine.
If you would like to see what others are saying about the new AT&T logo, please check out these other blogs:
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November 27, 2005
Product Naming: Cow is to Beef as Kangaroo is to...
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at naming? Here's your chance.
The Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia (KIAA) is sponsoring a contest to rename kangaroo meat. I think the KIAA's website makes a valid point that "... afterall we don't eat cow, it's beef; we don't eat pig, it's pork; nor deer, we call it venison."
The KIAA saw how Chinese gooseberry enjoyed wide acceptance after is was renamed kiwi fruit.
There are over 80 million kangaroos in Australia, four for every Australian vs. about 100 million cattle and calfs, or one for every two people in the U. S. (Source:USDA).
I'm also reminded of rape seed oil changing its name to canola oil, prunes to plumbs, and life insurance which is really death insurance, but that's getting off the subject.
Toss your hat in the ring with entries for renaming kangaroo meat.
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November 21, 2005
Product Naming: Invincible Google? Maybe Not.
If there is any one point I would like to make, it's that Google is not invincible.
It's well known that many independent authors, The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have filed lawsuits to prevent Google from scanning books.
To better position Google's effort, the name was changed from Google Print to Google Book Search in an attempt to appease, I feel, the writers' affirmation groups.
Jen Grant, Google Product Marketing Manager, has stated that the name change is to avoid giving an impression of a book being printed.
I'd like to end where I started: Google is not invincible, at least when it comes to product naming.
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November 18, 2005
Product Naming: A Town Named Dish Revisited
In an earlier post I discussed DISH Network's offer of free service in exchange for a town changing its name. By now, I am sure many of you are aware that Clark, Texas took the bait.
They accepted DISH's offer to re-name Clark, Texas to Dish, Texas in exchange for 10 years of free service for a town's 55 households.
I'd say that DISH Network is getting one heck of a deal. If one assumes that the value of the service is $75 per month per household times 120 months, this equals $495,000 in retail pricing. However, the true cost of this offer to DISH Network is likely half of that, or $247,500, if one assumes a 50% gross margin.
In comparison, the average 30-second commercial on the Survivor show is $350,000, so I think DISH Network struck quite a deal.
DISH Network will be getting free brand exposure over a decade for less than the price of one 30-second TV spot.
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November 16, 2005
Generation X: Holiday Inn Déjà Vu?
Remember Generation X? They were the ones that came of age watching Dallas and Cheers and dancing to Madonna's "Like a Virgin." Well, Gen Xers have grown up, gotten married and hit the road. Now hotels are scrambling to cater to this new crowd of post-boomers who, though getting more set in their ways, are still edgier than their parents.
According to Hotelier & Caterer, Gen Xers (people born between 1967 and 1974) are becoming the fastest growing segment of travelers today. As a result, Holiday Inn Select is bringing back the über-retro Holidomes (dome enclosed swimming pools) and offering its guests friendly high-tech accessories such as an online concierge, iHome clock radios and modernized sports facilities. In addition, Holiday Inn Select will be offering sport-themed restaurants in association with the Sporting News restaurant chain and water parks.
I think for a hotel that has long been a "family brand," Holiday Inn is a little too square for the cool crowd. Holidomes are almost a cliché in the hotel business. However, Gen Xers might gravitate towards the nearest Holiday Inn Select while traveling only because they can recall staying there while on road trips with their folks.
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November 14, 2005
Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: Many Plans to Name. Little Name Planning.
There's been a lot of press lately about the new Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) available for Seniors. The promotional hoopla began in October, but the real test, identifying and signing up for the plans, begins this week.
What's interesting about this highly regulated release of new products is that all 76 of the PDP brand names were introduced simultaneously. It means that the insurance companies had no precedent or competitive set to use in their branding. Every one of them ran the risk of sounding dangerously familiar to another PDP on the market. And it shows.
Of the 76 unique Prescription Drug Plan brands, 36% contains the word Rx, 32% contains Medicare and 29% contains Plan. And a few like, AARP MedicareRx Plan, Blue Shield of California Medicare Rx Plan, manage to contain all three words.
Equally uncreative are the terms used to describe the different levels or sub brands for these new PDPs. The majority of plans relies on the traditional Gold and Silver or Option 1, Option 2 level differentiators.
But the lack of differentiation doesn't stop with the wording, it's also inherent in the architecture. Only two brands are one word in length, with the average brand running 3.1 words. Kudos for the shortest name goes to Pharmacy Insurance Corporation of America - PICA, whose moniker for the new plan is, simply, PICA.
But this refreshing brevity is in contrast with the conventionally longer names on the list. The most excruciatingly long brand name goes to Rocky Mountain Health Plans for its RMHP Defined Standard Medicare PDP Plan. Also noted are the series of 143 sub-brands offered by Prescription Pathways such as Prescription Pathway Platinum Plan Reg 14, Prescription Pathway Gold Plan Reg 29 and Prescription Pathway Bronze Plan Reg 2. ( I hate to state the obvious, but the target market for these products does not have the best memory for long-winded names.)
A few bright stars, however, emerge from this crowded sea of insurance traditionalism. Medica Health Solutions' YOURx Plan, Universal Health Care's Masterpiece Rx and Masterpiece Rx Choice use shorter, suggestive words combined with traditional drug symbolism to get the message across.
In the end, a brief and compelling name may very well be the best prescription for standing out among this crowded field of new insurance offerings.
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November 10, 2005
Product Names: Monster Whisky Anyone?
In an earlier post I wrote about the emerging trend in wine naming that shifted away from hard-to-remember estate names towards the irreverent names like Yellow Tail and Fat Bastard.
Despite this trend, which seems to affect beer as well (witness the advent of "Bootie Beer" this month), Scotch Whisky product names still conjure up unpronounceable, romantic Gaelic words. Try Auchentoshan for instance, fine old single malt, that means, "corner of the field" in Old Scottish. Or how about Dalwhinnie, excellent single malt that comes from the highest distillery in Scotland? The name means, "meeting place" in Gaelic, but you knew that, didn't you? Other, better-known single malt whisky names, like The Glenlivet and Langavulin are actual places in Scotland.
But these names do not exactly roll off the tongue, do they? Nowadays, consumers want hip, easy to remember names. Spirit companies should consider them.
Compass Box Delicious Whisky Ltd. is on the forefront of creating great, high-end malt blends with funky labels and neat names that are sure to bring the enjoyment of fine whisky to the trendy set. I bet a glass of Asyla, Monster or Hedonism whisky would work.
But not as much as the bottle of Chivas Regal, one of the world's most popular premium scotches, which is sold worldwide every second of the day!
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November 8, 2005
When It Comes to Product Naming, Even Google "Stubs Their Toe."
Almost every day I read in the business press that one major company or another lives in fear of what Google might do next. Be it Microsoft, ABC, NBC, CBS, or some other major corporation.
Perhaps, we all are giving Google too much credit. As good as they are, Google "stubs their toe," too.
Since introducing the Gmail brand name, Google has had to stop using it in both the UK and Germany.
- In the UK, Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) was successful in defending its Gmail trademark. Google's Gmail is now called GoogleMail in the UK.
- In Germany, Giersch Ventures successfully defended its GMail trademark, which is used for an email service. The German court declared that the Giersch Ventures' GMail service was registered and used long before Google's search engine.
It seems to me that Google should have done some "googling" on its proposed email name before trying to launch it internationally.
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November 7, 2005
Product Naming: Do You Need a "Fartfull" For Your Computer?
Whether or not you know a single word of any Scandinavian language, you've probably heard that "IKEA" is Swedish for "particle board."
Jokes aside*, however, the odd and sometimes unpronounceable names that IKEA gives its products are part of the IKEA experience. And while I have yet to hear an IKEA-lover cite names like "Tromso" or "Leskvik" as the primary reason for their devotion to the store, it wouldn't be IKEA without them. One Flickr user even posted a photo of her favorite IKEA product name: "Gorm" (without it, she was gormless).
I was fascinated by the recent BusinessWeek cover story on IKEA, which discussed IKEA's naming convention. Naming the 7,000 objects available in an IKEA store is a big job, but while IKEA employs 12 full-time and 80 freelance designers to create furnishings and accessories, the names are the responsibility of a single person.
One thing, which makes the naming job manageable, is the system behind it. Check out Margaret Marks Transblawg where she explains how IKEA names its products. Dining tables are named after places in northern Sweden. Rugs get Danish place-names. Bookcases are named after professions, while mathematical terms designate curtain rods. Desks and chairs get men's names, whereas anything meant for a bathroom is named after a body of water. If you know that, and have both an atlas and a Swedish dictionary handy, you'll probably do well at Cal Henderson's IKEA game, a multiple-choice quiz in which players are asked to match names to products.
IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad is dyslexic, so back when he was naming products himself, he wanted to keep them easy to pronounce and remember. Whether we can blame his dyslexia for the notable mistake of calling a child's bed "Gutvik," which in English is unremarkable but in German refers to an activity not suitable for children but results in children, I don't know. However, making sure no further mistakes of this nature occur again is now part of the job description for the woman in Aumhalt who maintains the vast IKEA product name database. She does, however, appear to have overlooked the infelicity of "Fartfull" to describe a computer desk so bizarre that mere words cannot do it justice.
* It is well-known that the IKEA name is an acronym derived from the first letters of the founder's name Ingvar Kamprad and the village where he grew up Elmtaryd Agunnaryd.
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November 3, 2005
Why Companies Change Their Name
The November issue of Business 2.0 takes a good look at when and how an established company must change its most valuable asset.
Corporate name changes are up 12% over last year. Times change and business names change with them, whether it's Kodak dropping Ofoto in favor of Kodak EasyShare or beleaguered WorldCom returning to plain old MCI. We're also now seeing the post-bust demise of the ".com" company name. However, the article points out that the "leading trigger" for corporate name changes is mergers and acquisitions, which are way up nowadays (9,000 last year, up 50% from 2003).
When one company takes over another, you either have to settle on one of the old names, combine the two, or think up a new name. The key is to evaluate each M & A partner's brand. When I was asked by the writer of the article how this is accomplished, I said: "You do substantial quantitative research" using rigorous but subjective surveys. I suggested that the companies ask themselves "Can the brand be described as a leader or a follower? Does it feel young or old?"
Many times it is best to find a compromise, such as when Sprint acquired Nextel. Sprint's adoption of Nextel's yellow and black color scheme, along with the tagline, display what I felt is "the perfect example of co-branding" (see our September 6 post on the subject).
Some companies start with a fresh name, such as the name Novartis that grew from the merger of Swiss pharmaceutical giants Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories. Sometimes, however, the new name is simply an awkward amalgamation of the two partners: think ConocoPhillips, DaimlerChrysler, ExxonMobil and, lamely, Konica Minolta.
Other companies either seem to rename themselves after their top product. Xerox was once boring Haloid; Relational Software is now called Oracle after its best selling database product; Motorola started as the name of a car radio produced by Galvin manufacturing in the 1930s.
Renaming a company usually involves hiring branding agency, which can do the hardcore research involved in finding new names and how they will appeal to customers. We often provide "demos" of how the new name will look on letterheads, corporate reports, the website and even on business cards. Then comes introducing the new name to workers, and finally, to the world.
Even the best laid plans can go awry thanks to mismanagement and corporate bungling that can make any new name go sour (think how hard it is to associate positive meanings with the name that resulted from the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth: Enron). But change can bring growth. Since Kodak dropped the Ofoto name, the online service has grown from 18 million to 25 million users...good news for a well-known and loved brand name that's facing an uncertain future.
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November 1, 2005
Are You Confuzzled About Vocabularians?
The English language has a frighteningly large number of words in it, as anyone looking at the old-fashioned printed version of the Oxford English Dictionary can tell at a glance.
By virtue of the history of the occupation of the British Isles, English has a threefold linguistic history on top of its native Celtic roots: Latin, Germanic (Saxon) and Norman French. This means that English usually has at least two words for everything. To paraphrase Robert A. Heinlein, the choice is usually between the intestinal Latin word and the gutsy German one.
And still our hungry tongue is unsatisfied, and devours words from other languages when given the slightest excuse. As if this weren't enough, English speakers are devoted neologists, inventing new words at the drop of the proverbial hat.
Merriam-Webster OnLine received thousands of submissions when they invited vocabularians to send in their favorite non-dictionary words. Their selections are awesometastically funny.
If Merriam-Webster's offerings are insufficient to satisfy your verbivoracity, check out LangMaker's A-Z listing of neologisms.
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Landlady and DM/MIL one and the same(79 Posts)
That's me.
My son and his partner found out they were expecting a baby last summer. They did the rounds trying to find somewhere to live - council waiting list was 6 months plus, private rentals were either slums, or if they found a house with potential, it was gone in a flash every time they enquired or tried to put in an offer.
To cut a long story short, my husband and I bought them a house they liked, in an area that wasn't too bad. They have signed a rental agreement and although we are proper landlords, we are also their family.
6 months down the line, they have turned the house into a slum. I went today to pick up my 5 1/2 month old grandchild and the floors are covered in bits (a dog that chews everything), there isn't a kitchen surface without dirty crocks, pots and pans - actually, you can't see the kitchen unit surfaces at all, and the stuff is so yuk and dried on it could be up to 2 weeks old! The toilet is absolutely minging, likewise the bathroom sink. These are my observations just from walking through the house to the toilet, not poking or moving things at all.
If DiL had worked before having the baby she would be on ML now, and I know how hard it is with a small baby. The general consensus on MN is that the housework can go b*gger itself, but I consider the state of the house to be bordering on a health hazard - salmonella and e.coli from the food lying around, cockroaches and rats ditto.
I've had a look through the tenancy agreement and apart from keeping the glass clean inside and out and general maintenance etc there's nothing specific about cleanliness and hygiene. I am, however, aware that a landlord's inspection is not unreasonable, and I could use it to highlight my concerns and use it to get the place decent.
BUT, they obviously don't see a problem with the way they live. I've been to DiL's parent's house and while it was slightly better than the rented house, it's still way below my standards. And I'm not a very house proud person; each household job, e.g. vacuuming and dusting is done approx once a week, kitchen sorted every 1 or 2 days, just enough to keep on top of it. It isn't that hard, and I'm a bit of a slob too!
How do I handle it so I don't upset (hardly) anyone?
So in addition to providing the equivalent of housing gold dust - a house bought for you by your folks and rented to you so no crap LLs, letting agents taking you for a ride every 6 months, inspections, etc - the OP is also supposed to sort out their cleaning problems by sourcing cleaners and providing childcare?
5.5 months. They aren't overwhelmed, they are lazy.
Report them to SS, OP, you can do it anonymously.
I wouldn't talk about it from the POV of the house at all, but from a point of concern for the baby
Sounds like she is already providing childcare.
expat - yes, sorry, I do see that. I agree they are extremely lucky.
I am not trying to suggest the OP should pay for a cleaner. I just don't know what her situation is and whether it's an option. I would think it depends hugely on whether these people are just being a bit slummy and lazy, or whether there is a more serious issue such as the PND I'm mentioning? Or maybe, as you say, the DH needs to step in and isn't doing so (and the OP suggests that might be).
The LL isn't 'expected' to do anything, but she is this baby's grandmother and it's not rocket science to realize she actually might not want to report her own child to SS if there is another way.
If you're ds moans about cleaning in the future that might give you a chance to broach the question - you could offer to include a cleaner in the rent - so increase the rent but hire a weekly cleaner?
or they could employ a cleaner ...
I did suggest they could employ a cleaner, upthread.
Let's be totally honest here, the OP is being extremely generous but if her son and DIL don't see anything wrong with the way they live, the fact is she is worried about them not seeing her actions as concern, but as interfearing. She is in a really difficult position because she has her grandchild to think about, and I don't see that ignoring the facts in order to talk about SS and 'laziness' is helpful.
there's a bit untidy, and there's plain disgusting. Sounds as if they never wash up and never clean the toilet. Money clearly isn't a problem as they are feeding a dog.
OP's son doesn't have PND. Is he as entitled and idle as he sounds?
The child is at risk from this filth. Straight talking time, or social services will have to be involved.
Talk to son and get him to employ a cleaner or help more. Regardless of who owns the house, clearly not coping.
I'm a multiple landlord. Tenants don't have to keep the place tidy. Again though, forget the landlord bit. A caring grandmother/mother would still have an interest in this.
I would recommend the ss route to be frank. No they are unlikely to have dgs taken into care but from the sounds of it if it was felt needed he'd be placed with you in this situation while dil sorts herself out.
Your ds and dil need to realise that this is an issue for their child and it needs to be done for him.
FFS just tell them to get the place clean or you might have to rethink whether or not you want to be a landlord.
But she can't. She's said she has a contract.
I am going to say this and I know lots of LL think it is really unfair, and I see that in this situation it must feel really unfair to the OP. However: tenants don't have to clean up for inspections. They don't actually have to allow inspections. This is obviously not an excuse for anyone living in a pigsty, and obviously you would bloody hope that if your MIL bought you a house and rented it out to you, you'd show gratitude by keeping it clear or at the least having a clean-up when she came round.
The fact they're not doing that might be that they're just lazy and entitled as some have said.
Or it might be that they are not coping with a newborn, for whatever reason.
Or, it might be - especially if the DIL's parents rent and aren't especially houseproud - that they don't see the problem and won't be amenable to being expected to clean up for a LL with whom they have a formal relationship as well as a family one. That's the worry, isn't it? That if they won't clean up, what does she do? If telling them she'd like them to clean for inspections happens to work - brilliant. But there are reasons why it might not and since she posted about being a LL as well as grandma, that side of it needs to be mentioned.
I reckon she needs to talk to the son and see if they'll go for a cleaner, and if the DIL has a HV or anyone to talk to. Maybe she's fine but it can't hurt to try to see if she's not.
I really think you have to separate your concern about the house from your concern about your grandchild.
To be perfectly honest, the cleanliness of the house is nothing to do with you as a landlord. It's perfectly possible to get a deep clean done at the end of a tenancy, and replacing carpets and other fixtures and fittings is part and parcel of renting property. It's a business expense which along with general wear and tear is recognised in the tax allowances on the income from property.
If you are a proper landlord and you have a proper tenancy agreement then your tenants are obliged to use the property, fixtures and fittings in a way that causes no damage - that is all. If there is damage, that is addressed through the damage deposit. They are not expected to keep it clean to your standards.
As a grandparent, if you have concerns about the way your grandchild has to live then you need to deal with it as all grandparents would.
Ask your son if he is happy with the state of the place, and whether they need help. If they can't see that a reasonable level of hygiene is important then that's a pity - but unless you feel the child is seriously at risk I'm not sure what you can do if you want to maintain amicable relations.
FYI, if someone called SS and they paid a visit, your DGD would be removed from their care.
This is not true!
Loulybelle, obviously I don't know what happened in your case, but it is simply not true to simply say that if social services visit they will remove a child from the care of their parents, and I actually think that's a shockingly irresponsible, scaremongering thing to say. It's just not true. Plenty of people have messy houses and PND and take fantastic care of their children, social services know that.
Personally, I think social services should be the last resort and a landlords inspection would be by far the best route to go down at this stage, but for social services to remove a child because of the state of a house, then there will be valid concerns about the health of the child.
FYI, if someone called SS and they paid a visit, your DGD would be removed from their care.
I agree this is completely OTT! For heaven's sake, the child has to be at serious risk of harm before that happens.
It might be an idea to separate the problems, your house and your grandchild's safety and your disapproval of how your son and his family are living.
I am a landlord, well landlady, tenants for me seem to come in two main types, perfectionists and slobs, the sensible ones in the middle seem to be few and far between. Perfectionists can be nuisance, they tend to make frequent and petty demands. You know about the slobs but I find they never ask for anything and are too lazy to move out.
From a commercial point of view, you want a tenant who pays the rent and pays it on time. Is the rent paid on time and do they pay an average market rent? Another thing to consider is yield, your yield is most affected by voids, voids can be avoided by not being too greedy with the rent and keeping tenants happy and when they occur they can be minimised by quickly bringing properties back up to the required standard. Whatever the state of the property I am assuming you son and his family are unlikely to move out and therefore you will have no void periods, a very big plus.
Your main financial concern would seem to be Fixtures and fittings , average lifespan will depend on quality but boiler every 10 years, bathrooms and kitchens 5- 10 years, carpets say 5 years if you are lucky or 10 years if they were more expensive and you have perfect tenants. I don't know how long your son and his family will stay but you would be perfectly within reason to tell them to replace their own carpets. As far as the fixture and fittings go, send in a handyman once a year to do any little jobs they have and check the plumbing connections. You would be within reason to point out you will not be replacing kitchens/ bathrooms for a number of years.
So far as your concern for their general welfare goes, I think another thread is in order along the lines of Mil disapproves of filthy house. Separate your concerns as a landlord from those as a MIL GM. Pretend your tenants are just that and just view the financial consequences.
So sorry for you.
It might cost you more but I feel that you should put the property into the hands of a letting agent.
They are then responsible for collecting rent, inspections etc.
I have had an investment property for 10 years and when it became vacant my DN asked to move in.
I gave her the Agent's name and address and they manage the property the same way they always have. (I did tell the Agent that there was no need for references etc.)
If your son treats the house this way, I'd think seriously about the contents of your will if there's any money left to will to him besides this house. He sounds lazy and irresponsible.
Putting aside the LL bit, could you offer to take the baby for the day so they can get some cleaning done. Or come and help them with the cleaning?
It depends on how bad it is - messy floors and plates piled up isn't damaging the house is it? So I do think they have a right to live how they like in their own home.
If you really think it is a danger to the baby then obviously you have to act. If not, just accept that they have different standards to you.
Cross posted with Olgaga- she said what I wanted to say but in a different way.
I think it will be helpful to consider how the rental property is doing financially, look at the rental income minus the loss of investment income or if there is a mortgage rental income minus interest on the mortgage and boiler cover, gas & electrical certificates. I forgot to mention you are
Fortunate in that you have no agent set up costs or commissions to pay. You may be pleasantly surprised not only do you have the satisfaction of knowing you are helping your family but hopefully you are growing family assists too.
'Putting aside the LL bit, could you offer to take the baby for the day so they can get some cleaning done. Or come and help them with the cleaning?'
Sounds like she's already taking the baby.
Help them with cleaning?! She bought them a house to live in, they are adults, now she's supposed to help them clean, too?
No wonder you read about so many pisstaking, cheeky, entitled people on MN!
Well put Expat
expat, did you miss the bit where she has a contract with them and they're paying rent?
She's not 'supposed' to do anything, but she is fairly obviously a normal grandmother concerned about her grandchild. Do you not think she might actually like to see the baby?
She didn't post 'OMG, I hate my family and want to shop them to SS because they are horrible shits', but no-one would know it from your replies.
'expat, did you miss the bit where she has a contract with them and they're paying rent?'
And? She could give them notice tomorrow if they are outside the short-assured period or in the notice period and they'd have to pay rent to someone else who would probably at the very least do inspections, not help them with childcare and hire a fucking cleaner or come in and clean up.
A private rental with a great LL, no chance of getting turfed out, no letting agent fees left right and centre, is fucking gold dust. Anyone who's been out there knows that and would be falling over themselves to keep that place up if they were in any way responsible people.
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