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Between 1999 and 2009, the average U.S. salary rose 38 percent. During the same timeframe, healthcare costs jumped 131 percent, according to the nonprofit, research-focused Institute of Medicine (IOM) within the National Academy of Sciences. If other costs had grown as quickly as healthcare has since 1945, IOM researchers calculate that a carton of eggs would cost $55 and you'd fork over $134 for a dozen oranges.
Today's healthcare tab in the U.S. exceeds some $2.5 trillion, and there are plenty of wasted greenbacks in that eye-popping figure. Among the misspent dollars, IOM scholars cite $130 billion worth of inefficiently delivered services, $55 billion missed prevention opportunities and $190 in excessive administrative costs.
Information technology has the potential to reduce waste in these areas, and that's why Raghu Santanam is researching healthcare uses of IT and their impacts. This professor of information systems at the W. P. Carey School of Business recently used his one-year sabbatical from teaching to conduct studies at the Mayo Clinic's Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery (CSHD).
The mission of the CSHD is to develop patient-centric service models and directly engage patients to co-create value in the healthcare delivery process. How will healthcare providers achieve these goals? They're still trying to figure that out, which is where Santanam's research savvy comes into play. Studies he now has underway include different ways to share and gather health-related information using patient portals, new costing approaches, as well as a pilot project for dermatology consultations via smartphone.
The power of the portal
Transaction-oriented portals are tried-and-true venues for raising consumer convenience and reducing costs in many industries. It's now routine to look for airline tickets over the Internet, purchase goods from e-commerce sites and check account balances via online banking portals. Some healthcare organizations use portals, too. Kaiser Permanente, for instance, lets members refill prescriptions, schedule appointments, view test results and email doctors via its patient portal.
Taking this a step further, the Mayo clinic is considering using the patient portal as an educational venue. One study in progress looks at how well diabetic patients respond to carbohydrate-counting instruction via the portal versus printed patient education materials. "The idea is to use the patient portal to engage with diabetics for a sustained duration so that you can give them the educational materials in a piecemeal fashion, which provides more time for assimilation," explains Santanam. "The research aim is to measure if the portal works as well or better than delivery through the traditional means: by mail."
The portal-delivered materials will certainly be more actively engaging. Instead of a pile of papers that arrive in the mailbox, Santanam says the portal materials offers up information in short, digestible chunks and includes videos recorded by physicians so that people have multiple ways to access the lessons. Soon, Santanam and Mayo personnel will measure patients' ability to do carbohydrate counting to see if the portal delivery exceeds retention of mere reading materials.
Another Mayo study aims to see if information gathering can be made more efficient via the patient portal. Santanam currently is reviewing data on two ways of updating medication lists for medication reconciliation, or the process of figuring out just what exactly each patient is taking.
"Once you have an appointment with a care provider at the Mayo Clinic, a pharmacy technician will call you a few days before your visit and get the list of medications that you are already taking and update that in your medical record," Santanam explains. This way, healthcare providers can see your current medications and avoid prescribing conflicting drugs.
This sounds simple enough, but it's a cumbersome process. Pharmacist calls don't always reach the patient as intended, and patients don't always return messages promptly. Even if they do, patients often don't have their medications nearby to read the labels off to the pharmacy tech. "It is very rare that you can get all of this done in one single phone call," Santanam says. "There is a lot of inefficiency in doing this over the phone. On the other hand, if you wait until the day of the appointment, now you are wasting either the time of the nurse or physician on the floor, who winds up trying to enter this information into the medical record during the appointment."
Mayo Clinic recently began gathering medication lists by phone as well as via secured email messages. "They're able to reach more patients and have a higher response rate by using secure message," Santanam says. Analysis is underway to see if data collection methods impact the accuracy of the lists and the cost-effectiveness of the process.
Good call
Also in the works is a study on telephone-based dermatology consultations. Arizona has a very high incidence of skin cancer, so Arizona State students frequently have questions about skin lesions for the primary care physicians at the student healthcare center. Now, the Mayo Clinic is piloting a program where campus doctors can photograph a lesion with iPhone app and send it on to a dermatologist for a real-time review. "The lead time for an appointment with a dermatologist can be two or three months," Santanam notes. "In this project, we are looking at ways to improve students' access to dermatologist expertise."
In yet another study, Santanam and Mayo researchers are looking at how patients respond to different pricing models for things such as hip or knee replacements.
Under the traditional model, patients who undergo these procedures get a dizzying array of bills from several sources, Santanam explains. "You have a surgeon's fee, the fee for the anesthesiologist, a fee for the implant, a hospital-related fee, then after the surgery you have fees for the physical therapy and the post-surgery follow-ups," he says. "In a sense, the fees are unbundled." But, what if patients had the choice to make a single payment for the knee replacement and hospital administrators decide how that bundled payment is shared among the people and components of the treatment?
A study is looking at how patients will respond to this different payment model, and Santanam sees plenty of upside to it. Not only is this model simpler, but given the single-payment approach, it gives "the whole team an incentive to insure that the surgery goes as planned," he explains.
This and the other research projects noted above are among a number of projects Santanam is engaged in with Mayo Clinic staff.
"We are still in the early stages of using technology to improve patient engagement in healthcare," he says, "but there are lots of innovations that are going to come. As information systems researchers, we come to this field with the essential skills you need from the technology perspective, and we know how to design business processes. In a lot of ways, the patient-centered technologies that are coming into healthcare are in a sweet spot for the IS researchers because they offer a context in which we can show our strength. This is the right time and the right place for us all to be engaged in this type of work. Being involved with a healthcare organization like the Mayo Clinic at this juncture: You can't ask for better."
Bottom Line:
- Information Systems professor Raghu Santanam recently spent a year-long sabbatical working with the Mayo Clinic to study how technology can boost patient engagement and value.
- Some studies focus on using technology for education, such as a pilot study that uses a patient portal to teach diabetics how to count carbohydrates.
- Some pilots focus on technology for care delivery. In one, doctors are using an iPhone app to get on-demand dermatology consultations for skin lesions.
- Some projects are examining how portals can aid care delivery by helping patents supply information before they see the doctor.
- Santanam is continuing his sabbatical research with Mayo teams to complete these studies and more.


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Martha Lorenz, 103, a lifelong resident of the northern suburbs, was co-owner of the Northbrook Garage, 1347 Shermer Rd., Northbrook, the oldest family-owned garage in the United States.
Services for Mrs. Lorenz, who had lived on Shermer Road in Northbrook for 85 years, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in St. Peter United Church of Christ, 2700 Willow Rd., Northbrook. She died at home Thursday.

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The Missouri Independent Bankers Association has had 17 annual conventions, and Jerry Sage has presided over every one of them.
Mr. Sage, executive director of the trade group, is a former public relations executive. Since he signed on he has been at the center of virtually every major shift in banking practices and policy in the state.
Formed in 1959, the group represents about 200 of the 380 independent banks in Missouri. Most of its members live in rural or suburban towns and deal in farm or smallbusiness lending.
Taking a break from preparing for this week's annual convention, the 50-year-old Mr: Sage talked to American Banker about his years running the trade association and some of the issues and changes ahead for community banks in the Show Me State.
What legislative initiatives has your group undertaken in recent years?
SAGE: Most of our efforts here have been making sure our input goes into the national fray: moves to reform CRA, regulatory burden, FDICIA-type problems - all those things that small banks are really ill-equipped to deal with.
Q.: What issues are most on your members' minds?
SAGE: Well, Missouri spent the last year recovenng from a flood, so that has taken a lot of attention.
Bankers have to take an active pan in rebuilding their communities.
On the legislative front, we're looking on with apprehension to the federal interstate branching bill.
Q.: Where will the association come down on that issue?
SAGE: I think, given our tradition and history, we'll go for an opt-out.
We don't need somebody from North Carolina or Ohio to come here and take deposits out of this state.
Q: Won't that be at odds with big Missouri banks?
SAGE: We were very successful against intrastate branching until just a few years ago. I think we can be successful on this front, as well.
We're already expecting the state's bigger banks, Boatmen's and Mercantile, to run up against the statutory 13% limit on the state's deposits.
It's going to limit their ability to acquire banks in state. So we are expecting they'll make a move against that, too.
lt's just that these interstate branching laws open up a lot of tax questions.
They are going to have to figure out how banks can help pay for schools and roads. It's going to open up a whole new can of worms.


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Oklahoma's Favorite Son
It was mentioned earlier this morning on my show on KIX 105.7 that it was on this date in 1935 that Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska Territory (now Alaska). It struck me to investigate the life of Will Rogers as he was the same age as I am now, 55, when he was killed.
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Some of the more familiar sayings we still use today from Will Rogers include "I have never yet met a man that I dident [sic] like," "Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than puttin' it back in," and "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
A very entertaining man, Will Rogers, one whom never was a loss for words, is definitely is someone to check back into your history (Or Wikipedia!) to learn more.


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The movie Haemoo ([Sea] Fog), directed by the South Korean Shim Sung-bo, had obtained the main prize of the official section in the 3rd edition of Casa Asia Film Festival (CAFW) organized by Casa Asia and Cinemes Girona. The CAFW had presented a total of 52 movies from 20 Asian countries from
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Dir. Sung-bo Shim | With: Yoo-chun Park | 2014 | 111 min | South Korea | Drama
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Haemoo was nominated as the best movie at the 2014 San Sebastian Festival and won the Narrative [Feature] Award of the Hawaii International Film Festival 2014. Yoo-chun Park won three awards as Best New Actor with this film.
Biographical information of director: Sung-bo Shim is a South Korean screenwriter and director known for Memories of Murder (2003), [Sea] Fog (Haemoo) (2014) and Lin…
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Derrick Gunn makes his picks for Week 12 of the NFL season.
Bears at Eagles (Sunday 1 p.m. on FOX)
Their record says the Bears are a 3-7 team, but their play on the field shows they can be competitive. The Bears have lost their last three games by eight, seven and three points. Their three wins this season have been against Pittsburgh (in overtime), Baltimore and Carolina. They have an impressive run game that averages 131.8 yards, which is fifth-best in the league, featuring second-year back Jordan Howard, who is third in the league in rushing with 84.1 yards per game, and rookie Tarik Cohen. Both average over four yards per carry. Quarterback Mitchell Trubisky has shown promise, but he's still a rookie and prone to make mistakes. Chicago's offense averages just 17.4 points. Their defense is ranked 11th and can get after the quarterback with 29 sacks, tied for fourth-best in the league.
Unfortunately for the Bears, they are running into a red-hot Eagles squad that is firing on all cylinders on both sides of the ball. Carson Wentz and his crew are shredding defenses and the Birds' defense is making Sundays miserable for opposing offenses.
I look for this to be an entertaining game for maybe the first 30 minutes, then I expect the Birds to send the Bears into hibernation.
Pick: Eagles 30, Bears 14
Tampa Bay at Atlanta (Sunday 1 p.m. on FOX)
Don't look now, but it looks like the Falcons are getting their mojo back. The defending NFC champs are coming off wins over Dallas and Seattle, but they're still looking up to New Orleans and Carolina in the NFC South. Running back Devonta Freeman is still in concussion protocol and will miss this game, but the Falcons still have more than enough firepower to handle a Bucs squad that's won two in a row, though Tampa Bay's defense is ranked 29th.
Pick: Falcons
Cleveland at Cincinnati (Sunday 1 p.m. on CBS)
The headline in this battle of Ohio isn't about which team will win this game, but which coach might lose his job first, Hue Jackson or Marvin Lewis. The Browns can't win a game and the Bengals are going nowhere but home at the conclusion of the regular season. Cleveland will lose its 11th straight.
Pick: Bengals
Tennessee at Indianapolis (Sunday 1 p.m. on FOX)
The Titans have playoff aspirations, but they have a lot of work to do. The Colts can't run the ball and can't score. Tennessee should be able to run right through Indy.
Pick: Titans
Buffalo at Kansas City (Sunday 1 p.m. on CBS)
What in the world has happened to both of these teams? The Bills were 5-2 at one point and the Chiefs were dominating their division. Now Buffalo has lost three straight, can't figure out the QB situation and is fighting to stay above .500. The Chiefs have lost two in a row, but they are still on top of the AFC West. Andy Reid is not a happy man right now and his guys know it. The Chiefs will unleash their frustrations on the Bills.
Pick: Chiefs
Miami at New England (Sunday 1 p.m. on CBS)
Until further notice, the Pats are the best team in the AFC (what else is new). The Dolphins will be without quarterback Jay Cutler, who's still in concussion protocol. Tom Brady is in a zone, leading the league in passing (3,147 yards), with 22 touchdowns and just two interceptions. The Pats should put this one away by halftime.
Pick: Patriots
Carolina at New York Jets (Sunday 1 p.m. on FOX)
The Panthers are hot, winners of three in a row. They have linebacker Luke Kuechly back on the field, and now Cam Newton gets his tight end back. Greg Olsen, who's been out since Week 2 with a broken foot, returns this week. The Jets have lost four of the last five but still have slim postseason hopes. You never know which Jets team will show up week-to-week, but the Panthers will be ready for them.
Pick: Panthers
Seattle at San Francisco (Sunday 4:05 p.m. on FOX)
Last week, Pete Carroll made a bad coaching decision, and it cost the Seahawks a chance to beat Atlanta. Thanks to the Rams losing, Seattle is still within striking distance of the NFC West title. The lowly Niners won't be much of an obstacle this week.
Pick: Seahawks
Denver at Oakland (Sunday 4:25 p.m. on CBS)
The Broncos and Raiders have been two of the biggest disappointments of the year. The Broncos have QB issues and are now turning to rookie Paxton Lynch. The Raiders fired defensive coordinator Ken Morton Jr. with hopes of shaking up that lethargic unit. The Raiders' offense vs. the Broncos' defense will be interesting to watch. Oakland's offense wins this matchup.
Pick: Raiders
New Orleans at Los Angeles Rams (Sunday 4:25 p.m. on CBS)
This is the marquee matchup of the week. The Rams are trying to regroup after their high-flying offense crashed in Minnesota. The Saints are looking to extend an eight-game winning streak. It's the old man Drew Brees vs. the young gun Jared Goff. In big game situations like this, I like to rely on experience. Brees and the Saints win a shootout.
Pick: Saints
Jacksonville at Arizona (Sunday 4:25 p.m. on CBS)
I still can't get used to calling Jacksonville a division leader, but the times have changed. The Jags' defense is rock solid, first overall (276.6 yards allowed), first in pass defense (162.0) and first in points allowed (14.1). The Cards, just 2-2 at home this year, will lose their third straight overall.
Pick: Jaguars
Green Bay at Pittsburgh (Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on NBC)
The Packers got embarrassed last week at home vs. Baltimore, and Green Bay QB Brett Hundley appears to be lost. Now to add to the Packers' woes, they venture into the Steelers' den to face a team trying to keep pace with New England for the No. 1 seed in the AFC. The Packers don't have a prayer in this one.
Pick: Steelers
Houston at Baltimore (Monday 8:30 p.m. on ESPN)
Right now the Ravens are the sixth seed in the AFC. They haven't played at home since late October. For a second straight week, the Ravens face a backup QB. They destroyed Hundley in Green Bay. This time Tom Savage is in trouble.
Pick: Ravens


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Today's feature came to us by way of a recent post on design work life that showcased a great identity (see above) designed by Ai Carver for a Kansas City Zoo fundraising event!
Ai Carver is a designer at Barkley in Kansas City, Missouri, and has an exemplary portfolio of branding, logo, packaging, illustration, collateral, and conceptual work. Carver has been the senior graphic designer at Barkley since 2004. Prior to 2004, this designer was on the staff at Threewide Marketing, also in Kansas City, as an associate art director. Carver also attended design programs at both the Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas.
Carver's style can be whimsical and playful, yet it adheres to the fundamentals of layout and color theory. This balance works well for established companies that want to stir it up a little, and for new or growing companies that want to set themselves apart in the marketplace. As such, Carver has worked with a variety of local, national, and international clients, including H&R Block, Sonic, Jolly Time Popcorn, and the American Jazz Museum. Carver's work, which covers a broad spectrum of mediums, has been recognized by the ADDY Awards, Print Magazine, Communication Arts, One Show, and AIGA.
Ai Carver has a online portfolio you should really check out. You can also view this designer's contribution to Barkley on the agency's website. If you find this designer on any of the social networks, you know what to do. You don't know what to do? Post related information in the comments section of this feature, or on our Facebook page. Cheers!


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THIS CLASS BEGAN JUNE 26 AND ENROLLMENT IS NOW CLOSED. Join us for the showcase on Monday, August 21 @ 7:00pm in the Linge Lounge and stay tuned for the next available session of this popular class! This is our beginning course in our Adult Cabaret program. Explore the basics of cabaret song performance - […]Find out more »
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Join us for auditions for Grease at Theatre Cedar Rapids! Adults: Sunday, July 16 & Monday, July 17 (7:00pm) SYNOPSIS Book, Music, and Lyrics by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies". Head "Greaser" Danny Zuko and new good girl […]Find out more »


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Artist: Carpenters
Album: Lovelines
I've been livin' memories lost in the warm of your smile
Driftin' through the dreams we used to share
Thinkin' 'bout the times we spent in love without a care
And wishin' you were there
(*) So darlin' if you should feel you're lonely tonight
And you need someone next to you to hold you tight
Just call me and I'll be there by your side
Cause we can put that feelin, back inside us
If we try
Summer time was feellin' good holdin' the world in our hands
Seemed like what we had was growin' strong
Never even crossed our minds that love would soon be gone
I guess that we were wrong
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So darlin' if you shoul feel lonely tonight
And you need someone next to you to hold you tight
Just call me and I'll be there by your side
Cause we've got all those memories to guide us
And we can put that feelin' back inside us
If we try
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As stocks drifted down from their highs on Friday, CNBC's Jim Cramer urged investors not to blame earnings action for the market's failure to rally.
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Cramer said a lot of the market's moves have been mirroring overseas markets, a trend he called "stupidity" because foreign stocks often slide on a weakening dollar, which is a boon for U.S. companies.
"That said, while blowout earnings reports can't always save the broader market, a beat-and-raise quarter will almost always produce higher prices for the stock in question," Cramer said. "It's another reason why you have to pay attention to the individual earnings reports."
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Creative Freedom:
What if you were able to create for the pure joy of it? To create freely, like a child does. What if you didn't worry about what people thought or compared yourself to them? Comparison can kill creativity. I hope this video inspires you to lose the inhibitions that grown ups have and create for the fun of it again.


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I need to publicly shame myself, I have bought about 20 books in the last month and probably the same the previous month. Now when you consider that I probably read about four a month, that would mean that I have purchased almost enough to read for the entire year! Not to mention I probably already had enough books on my bookshelf to keep me going for a year. Now, really, you might find this hard to believe but it's true. I have a lot of unread books, I have even bought books for my BF to read because she liked a series and I gave her the first to read before me. So I bought the rest of the set for her to read and me to 'get to'. This happened with Dianna Gibaldon's 'Cross Stitch' series and Sara Donati's 'Into the Wilderness' series.
So I need to stop buying books and read only what's in my TBR (to be read) pile! I have already picked 5 books for this month, although I think that will be a stretch because a couple of them are quite large. I finished the new Jodi Picoult 'Change of Heart' today. You will find my book review here (no spoilers).
Now all I have to do is decide what to read next. I think maybe I will go with Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice as I have a couple of novels coming from Amazon that are sequels to it (obviously not written by Jane Austen).


text: It's not enough to say Otis Taylor, a Chicago-born singer and guitarist who grew up in Denver, takes an unconventional approach to the blues. He all but reinvents it. The repetitive, almost droning acoustic music of his fifth CD has more in common with the rhythmic guitar lines of African mbaqanga than the familiar blues riffs of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. And his songs profile such oppressed African-Americans as York, a slave on the Lewis and Clark expedition ("Mandan Woman"), and Major Marshall Taylor, an early-1900s bike racer whose devout beliefs gave white competitors an unfair edge ("He Never Raced on Sunday"). Although Taylor is a gentle figure who sings in a deep, conversational voice, his music is all historical outrage. The blues hasn't sounded so poignant and original in decades.


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Insulin-potentiating Action of a Synthetic Amino-terminal Fragment of Human Growth Hormone (hGH 1-15) in Streptozotocin-diabetic Rats
The hypoglycemie activity of the synthetic peptide fragment of human growth hormone, hGH 1–15, is insulin dependent, although it does not alter the circulating levels of plasma insulin in normal and diabetic rats. In severe diabetes induced by streptozotocin, the peptide had no effect on the basal levels of blood glucose, but enhanced insulin sensitivity during intravenous insulin tolerance tests in 16-h-fasted rats. Radioreceptor binding studies show increased binding of insulin by hepatic plasma membranes prepared from rats pretreated with hGH 1–15. These results suggest that the biologic action of the peptide is, at least in part, on insulin receptors of plasma membranes.
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I wouldn't call it a complete list, but LifeHack has a hell of a good list of email best practices.
- Use Descriptive Subject Lines — Guilty, but who amongst us hasn't written an email and intentionally left the subject line nondescript in order to entice people to open your email? Unfortunately, that tactic just pisses people off and they stop reading your emails all together. Think of your email headline as the title of a text book. You wouldn't name "Windows Scripting guide" "DUDE!" would you?
- Brevity is Your Friend — Guilty. Sometimes though, in a place like UWT I have a wide range of audiences — from people who like a lot of information to people who don't want to be bothered. Those messages are the most difficult. Those are the ones that require my inner Hemingway to come out and shine – unlike this response.
- But Don't Be Too Brief — Guilty.
- Don't CC if You Don't Have a Reason — Think of who your email is going to before you send it. Do they REALLY REALLY REALLY need to know?
- Reply-All Isn't Always Necessary — In fact, it's never necessary. And please don't use Reply-All to just say "thanks."
- Use BCC for Bulk Mail — but don't use it to be passive aggressive. if you have something to say to someone be an adult and say it to their face.
- Don't Use The Forward Button — especially to just forward the latest scam. Does the person you're forwarding this email to REALLY REALLY REALLY need to know? Probably not.
This is some very good advice. From my point of view. The problem is that many of us work in places where there are myriad communications styles and what happens is that the workplace communication can get bogged down with everyone trying to say the same thing in 5 different ways.
That's what it's so important for a large workplace to agree to and adhere to workplace policies and best practices regarding email.


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I figured I would start out my week of coloring females with Claudia Black because I'm a massive
Claudia Black fangirl Farscape fan... not to mention it goes along with my Dragon Age love since she does the voice acting for Morrigan. How great is that? At any rate, I'll probably revisit her once I've managed to polish my skills more because she has some seriously amazing features.


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well i guess i'll start off the new year by apologizing for not updating this as often as i should. i've been busy with 2x and holiday season, but as break comes to an end, i guess i'll have a moment of reflection while presenting what i will try to get accomplished here in the following year.
i know i brought up earlier that 2x is indeed worth it if you are working. over break with two sets of 2x cards (my 30 day 7-11pm starting december 2, and my 10 7-11am day starting december 27), i've realized that 2xp, or maplestory in general, has helped me overcome a real life problem many people face.
having a long attention span xd
it's amazing how time flies for me in the course of something tedious or slightly boring. SAT reasoning? wow that sure went by fast, yet all my friends come out moaning about how long a four hour test is. Church (only sometimes, i have to admit, it's not always exciting)? things are over almost right after it starts. i think maplestory has helped me develop the ability to pay attention to something for a long period of time. i used to think four hours of 2x was so long, yet all of a sudden i found myself doing 2x twice a day (and at 7am i might add, might as well maximize my break..)
anyways, this is probably pretty boring for you guys, so i'll present some goals for the coming year.
1. the first thing i want to do is analyze all the third job skills based on what i've seen and experienced for the past..69 levels. i want to add insight on how, when, and where (dont expect a fat guide) certain skills can be used to their full potential based on my own experience
2. as many of you know, 4th job is right around the corner coming January 15. i'll also be doing the same thing as with the 3rd job skills, only these posts will probably be more extensive and detailed, since i'm experiencing everything for the first time again. i'm going to try to record my mistakes and successes, so others can avoid or follow my failure/conquest of leafre.
3. lastly, i've made the executive decision to not make a lvl 140 video. since i'm aiming for 140 in the next couple of days with 4th job on the horizon, i feel that a video made so soon will not do justice to a snipers 4th job experience. instead i've decided to get my skill books, explore leafre, and eventually churn out another 10 levels to make a lvl 150 video. hopefully with the new leafre maps, training wont be so hard. however, i might not be able to find the time for maplestory in the spring because both tennis and basketball seasons are starting.
anyway, happy new years to you all. i'll try to get the 3rd job skill analysis up this week if the homework load isnt too bad. then again, i might buy more 2x (i've also worked a lot during break so i have a lot of spare cash) and try to crank out as many levels before i get overwhelmed with sports. i suppose that 10k from the ascendancy pie victory will help me out.
be excited for 4th job.
but not too excited.
because leveling is a pain in the butt.
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£7m funding for NWRC campus plans
Plans to redevelop the North West Regional College's (NWRC) Springtown campus in Londonderry have been boosted by £7m of government funding.
The college plans to redevelop facilities at the campus which delivers most of NWRC's training and skills courses.
The funding is being provided by the Department for the Economy.
Work could begin at the campus in September, subject to the approval of planners.
Leo Murphy , NWRC principal , said the funding was a "welcome result for the development of industrial apprenticeships in the college, city and region."
"If we are to realise our economic potential in this region, as well as becoming a University City, we need to become an Apprenticeship city.
Vibrant economy
"This substantial investment and support from the Department for the Economy can allow us to make this happen for our young people and adults and bring the campus space into a new era."
Courses at the campus, one of NWRC's five sites in the north west, include tiling, electrics, welding, motor mechanics, joinery and plumbing.
Beverley Harrison, of the Department for the Economy, said the campus redevelopment will "provide students and staff with access to a modern, state of the art, learning environment."
"The department is committed to enhancing the education, skills and employability of learners of all ages and abilities in order to help develop a vibrant knowledge-based economy," she added.


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Cracked through time/space, godless and dryToday is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, of course.
I've been reading Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower. The book opens in 2024, but today, July 20th, 2009, is supposedly the day that the protagonist of the novel, Lauren Olamina, is born.
And since Lauren's father is exactly forty years older than she is, that means he was born on the day of the first moon landing.
This surely isn't a coincidence. The character Lauren starts a religion which looks forward to the human colonization of space as a kind of future heaven. But the birthdate significance isn't explicitly spelled out in the book.
I thought it was an interesting little discovery.


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What is an idea? Is it a thought? A what if? Or does it have to be a strong deliverable proposition? The definition of an idea is a thought or suggestion, but that doesn't seem to do justice to the word idea, a word that is just full of brilliance.
I've an idea. What if someone were to get rid of the News of the World? It's just an idea, or is it just a thought. I mean, could you imagine it! Really! Surely, that's just a thought. That's not big enough to be an idea. And it's not. In itself it is just a thought. A good idea needs to be much more robust.
A good idea needs a single-minded thought, and it also needs to result in exceptional benefits – either explicit or implicit. Look at JFK's idea to put a man on the moon. "We choose to go there not because it is easy, but because it is hard" he said. And in that line lies the actual idea – by pursuing the thought that we could put a man on the moon we can explore all sorts of technologies that will have beneficial effects for the USA – it'll attract the greatest science brains; it'll inspire the nation; we'll make technological discoveries that will benefit us for years to come. What a great idea.
What about this as an idea? Let's close the News of the World. We could then extend The Sun into a seven day publication; we could also just continue to publish all the stories we currently push out through the News of the World through our online edition and all we would need to do is change the masthead to read thesunonsunday. All we would need to do is register that domain name (hey, that's lucky, someone has.) oh and then we'll have appeased the politicians and we'll get our hands on that broadcasting company we're after. Not only that, the news international organisation could then sell news services back to that broadcasting company after we've been forced to sell off it's original news channels to ensure impartiality.
Now that's an idea: it's a stinking one, but it's an idea because it's tangible, realistic, will shake things up and it has a plan.
Anyone can have a thought, but an idea has a strategy sat behind it. It has lifeblood and it's something you can see living. There are bad ideas and there are good ideas. Unfortunately there are also good bad ideas, and that's when we turn to morals and values.


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Bryan Reeves explores what it really means to love yourself everyday.
I still say "yes" when I deeply want to say "no" (and vice versa)…and then resent others/life for my choices.
I still walk paths and make choices that feel heavy because logic says this will get me the validation, respect, affection, admiration, love that I want … which is mostly always wrong.
I am routinely tempted to sacrifice my heart's deepest longings for shallower ego comforts of money or a moment of physical affection … which often leaves me with an emptiness hangover.
I've been taught that peace, fulfillment, affection, validation, love, etc. comes from the world around me, and to get it I must dance like a monkey on a chain crashing cute little cymbals together for crackers.
Probably like you, I've been taught that peace, fulfillment, affection, validation, love, etc. comes from the world around me, and to get it I must dance like a monkey on a chain crashing cute little cymbals together for crackers.
Sure, I get my crackers, dancing like a monkey for others' pleasure.
But I'm tired of crackers!
Where's the feast?
Where's that experience of everyday joy, an ongoing thrill for living, a happiness that Benedictine Monk, David Steindl-Rast, described as "that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens"?
I know awful things will happen sometimes. I don't expect to be blissfully happy all the time or an intimate partner to always stay with me or to always have "enough money" in my bank account (whatever "enough" would even be).
I just don't want to be dependent anymore on this absolutely unstable, ever-changing world around me for my psychological well-being.
No more dancing for crackers to sustain the illusion of control and sanity!
I'm ready for the feast!
And I'm finding it in the hardest lesson of all: self-love.
What is self-love?
Self-love is about giving myself the medicine my body, mind, heart and soul needs in any and every moment.
I am discovering that loving myself everyday is the quickest way towards simply loving my life every day.
I don't mean merely indulging in the modern drugs of choice that mostly serve to distract from human angst, like work and making money, TV, alcohol, shopping, even sex.
Rather, self-love is about loving and honoring my deeper truths, my deepest longings, so completely that I am not willing to move into any experience that feels heavy, regardless what my scarcity-minded, fear-filled ego-brain tells me about it.
It means saying yes when I know my entire being would delight in saying yes, and saying no when I know saying yes will likely lead me down a false path deeper into the darkness of inauthenticity and charade.
Throughout my life, when I've felt compelled to move further down some path into darkness—further into heaviness—it always turned out that I needed to learn something massive for my personal evolution.
After all, suffering is a great teacher!
It's a powerful way to know what I want by experiencing what I do not want!
But I'm done suffering intentionally for the sake of personal growth. I'm done working to get some outside thing, person or experience to validate and love me in ways that just never fully assuage my underlying angst, anyway … not for long, anyway!
So my current practice is self-love.
I am discovering that giving myself love everyday, regardless where doing so takes me or what tangible things it gets me, is the quickest way towards simply loving my life every single day.
Sometimes the practice is just closing the gap between the moment I sell myself out and the moment I adjust by coming back home to myself.
It's perhaps the hardest practice—and often the most terrifying, too, for it threatens everything I've been taught about getting love and acceptance from the outside world.
But I ache for the feast.
My moment-to-moment practice is to honor what is deeply true for me by speaking / walking / living / breathing / fully surrendering to that deeper knowing without necessarily knowing "why" it's true or "what" it will get me.
Doing so magically led me this summer to a beautiful cabin in southern Idaho where I'm right now finishing my second book. I live in Los Angeles, and I had no idea this gorgeous quiet retreat location even existed until I started listening to that deep longing that simply said, "Get out of LA for the summer. Finish your book. Go north. It will work out magically."
And it has. (see stunning pictures I've taken of my cabin-sabbatical-retreat here)
Sometimes this practice just means closing the gap between the moment I sell myself out and the moment I adjust by coming back home to myself.
It used to take years, doing work I didn't love, staying in relationships I didn't really want to be in. I refuse to subject myself to unnecessary suffering that long anymore. Now closing that gap is down to hours and days, or weeks at most.
That's why self-love is an intentional, conscious practice, because I still sometimes choose unnecessary suffering for a time while I'm working through some lesson I haven't quite got yet. My last relationship ended only a few weeks after I knew it had to, which is better than the years I used to spend letting go of what I knew didn't work. But I had something important to learn in those extra weeks. And learn it I did! ("Why Every Couple Should Break Up")
A big part of this self-love practice is also not making others (life) dance like a subservient monkey to please, validate, or take care of me, either.
There's another name for practicing self-love everyday:
Letting go.
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The last pizza night in our apartment in Santiago arrived way too soon for my liking. We have been living in Ave Italia for a little more than two months, but even though we love living here, we realised that the time has come to move to a more affordable area.Dirk loves making pizza, so for one final time we invited a few friends over to share the evening with us.
A fantastic thing about Chile is the really good, really cheap wines. You can by a decent bottle of wine in a supermarket for less than $5 USD! During the evening an interesting story was told about a specific wine grape variety found in Chile, called Carmenere. Carmenere wine has a deep red colour and aromas of berries and spices. It was originally grown in Bordeaux, France, but in 1867 a plague destroyed a lot of the vineyards in Europe. It was thought that the Carmenere grape was extinct.
The truth was that a few French winemakers immigrated to Chile, bringing cuttings of Carmenere with them, in search of vineyards unaffected by the plague. The grapes were interplanted with Merlot wines and the name Carmenere was not used, as the wine produced was thought to be Merlot. In the late 1990's, when French winemakers travelling in Chile tasted the Merlot, it was discovered that the wine was in fact Carmenere! So, the lost wine was not lost at all.


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Dear Ian,
There have been some big changes in this house, little man. Because now, instead of being my baby boy (although you'll always be my baby), you are my big boy, complete with a big boy room and a big boy bed. That's right! This past weekend we emptied your baby nursery and moved all of your things and toys upstairs. And WOW do you have a lot of stuff! Of course we knew this, but trying to move all of it in one day was a challenge.
This event wasn't really a one-day thing, either. A lot of work went into your room. First there was the organization of all of Daddy's stuff that had accumulated in what would soon be your room. And if I thought YOU had a lot of stuff, at least now we know where you get it from. Daddy is a pack-rat. Anyway. Once we cleaned out and organized all of that, Mommy got to work taping and painting your new room. Daddy and I chose a color called "peaceful slumber." We were hoping the move would go smoothly and you would continue to "peacefully slumber." I will be honest; with every change or transition we've made with you, I have always had this little sliver of uncertainty. "Will this go ok? Will he continue to sleep? Oh geez, why am I doing this again?" With everything from pacifier weaning, to stopping the use of swaddles, dream-feeds and morning naps, I got a little anxious about whether it was the right time to make changes in your little world. But, like with everything in the past, I should have known that you would take this in stride. But back to the room make-over.
Your new bedroom used to be Daddy's workout room. It housed a weight bench and an Eliptical treadmill. It also was full of computer equipment, D&D supplies and pieces and his paintball and M1 stuff. Daddy worked hard to get all of his stuff out and organized to make room for yours. It took the help of Uncle Gary and some Fitness Pro professionals help move the weight bench and Eliptical. Uncle Gary also helped move all of your new furniture up to your room. And then we put it all together.
To decorate your room, we went with a space theme, but in reality, there's not a whole lot of space stuff up there, but just enough to have a theme. I wanted a room that you could grow up with without me having to change the decor eight times. The colors are navy, slate blue (almost gray) and red. And it looks really good. But telling you about it isn't as good as showing you, so here it is!
You really seem to love your new room, and you're getting really good at getting up and down the stairs. I have to stop every time I hear you going up or thumping around in your room from hollering "what are you doing up there?" since it wasn't that long ago that you weren't supposed to go up the stairs. But we're all adjusting. And I'm getting used to the stares I get from the Eliptical as I pass it to go into the kitchen. I've even succumbed and used it a time or two since it's moved downstairs...
I love you big boy,
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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St. Joseph County adopts new wind energy ordinance
Energy generating wind turbines put up in St. Joseph County will soon have to conform to a new set of rules, aimed at keeping homeowners and their neighbors safe. The St. Joseph County Council passed the new regulations unanimously Tuesday. County leaders said they want the push toward "green" energy to continue, but not unchecked. ...But others say the regulations don't go far enough. They worry the windmills will still be too noisy, too visible, and could lower property values."


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So You Think You Can Funny? The Do's and Don'ts of E-mail Marketing Humor
This week we have a guest blogger. A former colleague and friend, Julie Kraut is a professional writer and one very clever marketer. She succesfully weaves humor into her writing for a wide array of audiences. Here she offers some tips on how to effectively use humor when communicating with customers through email marketing.
A little humor goes a long way in e-mail marketing. Consistently providing a giggle in addition to the valuable content, information, and deals you e-mail out can make your brand more relatable, spur open rates, and encourage message forwarding. While in general I like to think that funny is in the belly laugh of the giggler, when it comes to e-mail marketing, there are some do's and don'ts of humor writing. Follow them and you'll be laughing all the way to your analytics pages.
Here we go:
- Make funny, not fun—Anyone who's ever been to a high school cafeteria knows that poking fun at others is a super easy way to get some laughs. After all, with fat people, dumb people, Yaris-driving people, the jokes write themselves. But remember that you're not sending out this e-mail solely for laughs. If you offend someone into unsubscribing before you convey your message, your e-mail is a total fail. So, be funny, but not at anyone's expense. Especially vegans. They're super sensitive. Trust me, I know from experience.
- Funny ain't perfect—Humor is a lot about delivery. The funny needs to flow and feel natural. Don't over-edit your jokes to the point where they lose all sense of normal speak. People are going to be focused on what they're laughing at. They're not going to care that the sentence at which they're meant to be laughing ends in a preposition. Being funny means kicking some grammar rules to the curb. Sorry, grammar Nazis, but there's a reason you don't have your own show on Comedy Central.
- Hedge your bets—Not everything that tickles you is going to translate to chuckles from your subscribers. That's ok. There's no such thing as a guaranteed laugh, but don't let that intimidate you from attempting to get some. Instead, let the fact that not everything's going to work encourage you to try a lot. If you only put one joke into your e-mail, you're not helping your odds at giggle success. Insert tons of humor and know that even if a reader doesn't get some of your jokes, she'll get a few. I imagine this is the strategy of the writers of Two and Half Men. At least 75% of their jokes thunk like a pet rock in cement boots, but it's still one of the most successful show on television. You probably don't even have to find a way to make a convicted criminal endearing, so you're one step ahead of those writers.
- Know your limits—Humor can be a helpful means for communicating your message, but it's not for every message. Think of humor like cream cheese frosting. That stuff makes almost everything taste better. Almost. It's actually really quite disgusting on pad thai. So, you need to be thinking, is your message like rice krispie treats, toast, or asparagus—something that can be enhanced by cream cheese frosting—or is it more of a pad thai message? Your business might not lend itself to humor. That being said, you don't need to be a zany slinky manufacturer to be funny. I've seen humor used by investment companies, career counselors, and non-fiction books. But there are limits. And "Putting the fun back in pet funerals" is well beyond them. Again, I know from experience.
That's all she wrote on the Commandments of Funny. Go forth and get laughs.
Julie Kraut is a writer for hire and the co-author of Hot Mess and author of Slept Away. For more, check out JulieKraut.com.


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The first precept of The Five Precepts of Buddhism is; Do not harm any life being.
I work hard to not kill any sentient beings, even the ones who come in from the outside. I have a large plastic cup that I keep in the kitchen to capture spiders and ants that wander my house. My family thinks its funny to watch me coax an ant or spider in to the cup and carry it back outside. My son told me once that I'm probably catching the same bug over and over.
Since we moved to the country there are way more critters, especially ants than I've ever seen in the city. Yesterday I walked around my property and noticed armies of ants marching up the drain pipes on my house. Last year we had so many ants coming in our kitchen I taped the window sills with packing tape to keep them out. I don't like using chemicals and certainly won't use bug spray indoors. The tape is working so far, except the time ants came out of the wall socket, but that's another story.
The upside to seeing all the ants is we will continue having warm weather. The downside is tens of thousands of ants are trying to get in my house.
Ants are sentient beings and they don't know I don't want them in my house, eating my food. They are just beings ants. I really, really don't like the idea of killing any of them. And I really, really don't like ants crawling all over my kitchen. So, I bought a bag of diatomaceous earth and sprinkled it around the outside of my house. I know many ants will die, but it is my hope that the other ants will see what happened to their friends and move someplace else. There is a property next to me where no one currently lives that has several rotting cars and a barn they could setup house in. Maybe they will find it.
I also told myself that the ants will reincarnate and come back as something even better that being an ant.
I hope that's true.
So far today, there is no sign of them. Hopefully, I won't need to use any more DE and we can all live in harmony this summer.
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I stumbled upon a very cool article from Genealogy Magazine's 2006 archives and thought you guys might enjoy it:
Surnames Sound a Challenge For Researchers
It's all about how Americans' pronunciation of surnames diverged a long time ago from how the names were actually spelled. I found it while searching for the correct pronunciation of "Beauchamp," since I have read soooooo many articles lately about The New Republic's military go-to guy, Scott Thomas Beauchamp. It's usually pronounced "Beecham" over on this side of the pond, apparently. The magazine folks compiled a nice list for us of names and pronunciations that aren't, well, intuitive.
I've been amused by the variation between spelling and pronunciation of proper nouns for as long as I could spell. Near the city of Paris in northeast Texas, where I graduated from high school, there's a small town called Bogata. The first time I saw it, I pronounced it like the capitol of Colombia: bo-gah-TAH. I was corrected immediately, for over there they say "buh-GO-tuh." But, I protested, it's not spelled the right way to say that. They misspelled it. Well, yeah, maybe they did. But this is how it is.
Another local community over there is Kiomatia... pronounced ki-MISH.
In Oklahoma, we have the Washita River. Next state over, in Arkansas, they have the Ouachita National Forest. It's pronounced the same: WAH-shih-tah.
It's not a trend peculiar to Americans, though. The English have some incomprehensible ones, starting with such obvious ones as Worcestershire / Woostershir. And how in the world do they get "Sinjin" from "St. John?"
If there are any odd ones from your neck of the woods, leave 'em in the comments. I love this kind of stuff.


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Mid July = time to get "serious" about planning for next year. Up until this time, I browse the Google, favorite tons of tweets, and e-mail myself tons of ideas that might be worth considering. Now is when I attempt to get real about reading everything closely and determining if it is a good fit for me and my students.
I'm having a difficult time getting into that this summer. I'm not sure why, but for whatever reason I can find numerous other activities that I'd rather do.
Nonetheless, here is my brain dump to-do list:
1. Finalize algebra 2 learning targets
2. Revise SBG format
3. Make a new bulletin board
4. Print and bind a teacher planner
5. Find a "killer" first day(s) motivator for Algebra 2 students
This certainly isn't everything I want/need to do, but I'm hoping that putting a list to "paper" will give me focus so that the remaining part of my vacation is restful but also productive.
Hope your vacation is time well-spent for you!


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I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government — every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Celery Soup
Ingredients -
Olive oil for frying
One medium sized onion finely chopped
One medium potato peeled and cubed
5-6 washed celery stalks (include the leaves) and cut thinly
Salt and pepper to taste
500ml of vegetable stock and 300ml milk
Method -
Add seasoning.
Add the vegetable stock and milk and bring to simmer gently.
Cook gently for 15 minutes
Once slightly cooled - use a hand held blender to liquidize.
Serve with a roll and enjoy.
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About CIAO!
CIAO! is a three-week program on the built environment from a sustainability perspective. One week in Rome exploring art, landscape, architecture, engineering and planning. Sustaining nearly 3 millennia, Rome is the perfect living laboratory. Two weeks at the Center for Sustainable Urbanism in Sant'Angelo in Pontano where students work on a building design project. Their results, requiring aspects of sustainability, are then presented to the mayor and community.
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As a 501C3 education non-profit, donations to the Fund are tax deductible and create an opportunity for financially challenged future architects, engineers, sustainability consultants, and planners to participate in what is, for many, a life-changing experience.
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text: NYSE:DEI - Douglas Emmett Stock Price, Price Target & More Sign in or create an account to add this stock to your watchlist. Get Started $40.28 +0.23 (+0.57 %) (As of 06/25/2018 02:32 AM ET)Previous Close$40.28Today's Range$39.96 - $40.3752-Week Range$34.72 - $41.59Volume2.36 million shsAverage Volume959,397 shsMarket Capitalization$6.81 billionP/E Ratio21.20Dividend Yield2.50%Beta0.67 Company ProfileFinancialsAnalyst RatingsDividend HistoryEarnings HistoryInsider TradesHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial MediaChart Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Douglas Emmett, Inc. (DEI) is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), and one of the largest owners and operators of high-quality office and multifamily properties located in the premier coastal submarkets of Los Angeles and Honolulu. Douglas Emmett focuses on owning and acquiring a substantial share of top-tier office properties and premier multifamily communities in neighborhoods that possess significant supply constraints, high-end executive housing and key lifestyle amenities. For more information about Douglas Emmett, please visit our website at www.douglasemmett.com. Receive DEI News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for DEI and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Industry, Sector and Symbol Industry Real estate investment trusts Sub-IndustryOffice REITs SectorFinance SymbolNYSE:DEI CUSIP25960P10 Webwww.douglasemmett.com Phone310-255-7700 Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio1.04 Current Ratio2.17 Quick Ratio2.17 Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio21.20 Forward P/E Ratio20.04 P/E Growth2.97 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$812.05 million Price / Sales8.43 Cash Flow$2.1598 per share Price / Cash18.65 Book Value$23.02 per share Price / Book1.75 Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$1.90 Net Income$94.44 million Net Margins12.86% Return on Equity2.76% Return on Assets1.27% Miscellaneous Employees600 Outstanding Shares169,920,000 Douglas Emmett (NYSE:DEI) Frequently Asked Questions What is Douglas Emmett's stock symbol? Douglas Emmett trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DEI." How often does Douglas Emmett pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Douglas Emmett? Douglas Emmett declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 29th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, July 13th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.48%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 28th. View Douglas Emmett's Dividend History. How were Douglas Emmett's earnings last quarter? Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE:DEI) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 8th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17. The real estate investment trust earned $212.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $212.25 million. Douglas Emmett had a return on equity of 2.76% and a net margin of 12.86%. The business's revenue was up 9.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.47 EPS. View Douglas Emmett's Earnings History. 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Some companies that are related to Douglas Emmett include Weyerhaeuser (WY), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), DIGITAL Rlty Tr/SH SH (DLR), Welltower (WELL), UNIBAIL-RODAMCO/ADR (UNRDY), GGP (GGP), Ventas (VTR), Boston Properties (BXP), SBA Communications (SBAC), Host Hotels and Resorts (HST), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Realty Income (O), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE). Who are Douglas Emmett's key executives? Douglas Emmett's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Jordan L. Kaplan, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 57)Ms. Mona M. Gisler, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer (Age 44)Mr. Kenneth M. Panzer, COO & Director (Age 58)Mr. Kevin Andrew Crummy, Chief Investment Officer (Age 52)Mr. Stuart McElhinney, VP of Investor Relations Has Douglas Emmett been receiving favorable news coverage? Media headlines about DEI stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. 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The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 310-255-7700 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for Douglas Emmett (DEI)Community Ranking: 2.1 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 230 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 319 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 549MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Douglas Emmett and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe DEI will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe DEI will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 6/25/2018 by MarketBeat.com Staff