text: Friday, June 17, 2011 APTA to Assist Chapters in Strategies to Reduce Patient Co-pays Recognizing that patient co-pays for physical therapy services under certain health insurance plans exceed the insurer's payment to the provider, APTA will help chapters to pursue policy and legislative options to reduce these excessive co-pays. During its discussion of the charge Reducing the Burden of Current Copayment Systems, the House of Delegates acknowledged recent efforts by the Kentucky, Colorado, and New York chapters, and assessed the probability of several options that chapters could pursue, such as designating physical therapists as primary care providers.[RC 16-11] (Related: "House Amends Positions on Student Supervision and Disclosure of Benefits") Comments As a practicing PT and private practice owner I am very interested in this issue. To have us designated as specialists, which requires the insured to pay the higher copay, and yet we get paid by the insurance companies at a much less rate than specialists such as dermatologists, otolaryngologists, etc. is significantly reducing the ability of the patient to see the PT regularly and therefore reducing both outcome to the patient and revenue to the practice. And now with Medicare and Aetna cascading reimbursements it will become even more difficult to give quality care. Certainly, designating PT's as PCP would be a good first step. Posted by Linda Johnston, PT on 6/17/2011 6:51 PM I am very interested in this. I feel that many insurance plans abuse the purpose of a co-pay. We have many patients who have a co-pay that exceeds the insurance pay portion. Some have 40 dollar plus co-pays, which is really too much to ask anyone to pay, considering PT is not a one time visit thing. When you consider that some of these plans only pay 55 per visit, it is ludicrious to call the patients portion a co-pay. I also see that plans have high deductibles and then have low visit limits, which again is another strategy to limit payments. All in all, I strongly feel that an insurance company should not be allowed to pay less than what it actually costs to provide the service. Posted by Dano Napoli on 6/20/2011 9:48 AM I am in private practice 10 years now and our profession is taking quite a hit from these insurance companies. How can we provide quality care and get a patient better when the copays are outstanding and the visits are severely limited and scrutinized. This insurance industry needs some restrictions on copay and premium amounts charged. They are reaping the rewards and the hard working PT's are being ripped off. Somebody please help already. Posted by William S. Macri on 6/20/2011 4:33 PM Something that I would like to see happen is legislation that places the burden of collecting the deductible on the actual insurer instead of the provider. Insurance companies are mandated to pay us within a reasonable time frame once the bill has been submitted. Once the insurance company denies payment because the patient has not met their deductible we are then forced to go through multiple billing cycles to get payment from the patient that can often end up in collections, small claims court or not receiving payment at all or at a reduced rate. I would like to see, at the very least, that the insurer is to pay for the service up-front as part of their agreement to provide insurance and then go after their member to recoup deductibles rather than pitting the provider against the patient for collection of monies owed. I think the age of high deductibles is going to crush most small private practices as well as have a negative impact patient care. If an insurer agrees to charge a certain premium to a member, the law should make the insurer liable to collect money from their member. For example: If someone slips and falls at your business and injures themselves and then sues you for medical expenses your insurance company pays the claim and then sends you a bill for the deductible. They don't go to claimant and say "we will pay you minus our client's deductible." How and why is personal health insurance any different? I think this is another example of our lousy politicians on Capitol Hill being bought-off by the big insurance company lobbyists and our lobbyists either not recognizing this ahead of time and/or not having any ability to do anything about it. It starts with voting every politician who has been in office for way too long OUT!!!! They continue to let this happen. Posted by Darin McCarthy on 6/24/2011 4:58 PM


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A report by real-estate website Trulia has ranked Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood as one of the top 10 gayest neighborhoods in America.
By identifying zip codes with high-concentrations of gay and lesbian couples (using Census data) and examining the average price-per-foot of real estate in that area, the report found the top 10 neighborhoods that were the most affordable for gay and lesbian people.
In Edgewater, a home is averaged at $131 per square foot, making it the most affordable for gay and lesbian couples.
Alderman Harry Osterman, who represents the 48th ward, calls the acknowledgement "very exciting" and said it reflects the way people in the Edgewater community feel about their gay and lesbian neighbors.
"Edgewater is diverse on many levels and the gay and lesbians that live in our community have always made it a much better place to live," he said. "We have many LGBT small-business owners including Women & Children First bookstore and Big Chicks.
"We live in a very special place. Going back many years our community has always been supportive and welcoming to the LGBT community and immigrants. We hope to continue that in the future."
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A dark cloud has lifted from over this great country, and a new day is beginning.
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- Anonymous1/20/2009 9:17 AM
Time to get back to work, wave good bye to Bush and Cheney, and make some positive changes!ReplyDelete
Seeking a future of peace and dignity!
- Anonymous1/20/2009 10:22 AM
Yes, I can't wait for more abortion, less payment to physicians, more taxes, less progress, more government, less opportunity, more unemployment, less hope, more pity, less change in our pockets, more insecurity, less truthfulness, more corruption.ReplyDelete
God bless America! Thanks for electing Barack Obama from the wonderful city of Chicago!
I love the fact that the second, jaded, cynical "author" left his words anonymously.ReplyDelete
I, for one, am proud of the US and hopeful for my new Commander in Chief.
- Anonymous1/20/2009 3:52 PM
The markets showed what kind of hope they have in Obama today.ReplyDelete
I am actually in favour of more abortion and more government (ie more transparency in the run-amok banks and insurance agencies). As for the other stuff anonymous #2, I doubt your little Bush-loving world will come tumbling around you any time soon.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/20/2009 7:59 PM
I sincerely hope that you are not serious when you say that you are "in favour of more abortion."
That is incredibly offensive and disgusting.
You actually want more abortions.
Anon 7:59,ReplyDelete
Get off your high horse. I won't speak for ERP, but increased access to abortion for women who want it is a good thing. The logical consequence of that is that there might be more abortions, and if the result is that there are fewer children born into families who are unable to care for them, fewer neglected and abused children, then yes that is a good thing. I've seen too many pitiful, hopeless children to want that cycle to continue.
I'm sorry if that offends you. We may have an irreducible disagreement here. Abortion is icky and I'll make no apologies for that. It would be better if all women had the access, education, and foresight to use contraception and abstinence to obviate the need for abortion. But so long as there is a need for abortion, I don't have any shame in standing up and defending the practice.
- Anonymous1/21/2009 6:27 AM
ERP said that he wants more abortions. He did not say that he wants more access to abortion.
There is an enormous difference.
What kind of society do you want to live in? One where more mothers suffer the devastating psychological of having an abortion? More suicide of mothers in the first year post-abortion? More depression? More death? More disregard for the lives of the frail in our population?
If you don't care about the millions of children who are being destroyed in the womb of a pregnant mother, at least care about the pregnant mother enough to spare her the post abortion sequelae which will ravage her emotions and thoughts for years after the abortion.
At least care about the Hippocratic Oath: of doing no harm.
Again, I don't speak for ERP. But I will say this: on the balance, abortion is a social good, and more abortion is not in and of itself a bad thing.
You talk about protecting the vulnerable? I'm all about that. It is very clear that women and children do better when child-bearing is deferred until the mother is ready for it -- when education is complete, when the mother is mature enough for the responsibility, when the mother is economically secure enough to raise her child, and when she is in a relationship which will give her a partner in rearing the child. If abortion allows a woman to put off motherhood until she is ready, then I am all for it.
Abortion is not without its risk and downsides, some of which you cited. I am cognizant of these, which is why it is *better* if contraception and abstinence can prevent the need for abortions, and in that respect fewer abortions would be preferable. But more abortions is better, in my opinion, than more unwanted, abused, impoverished and neglected children.
I've had my say. I know we will not agree, so I'll not argue with you any more.
- Anonymous1/21/2009 10:23 AM
"It is very clear that women and children do better when child-bearing is deferred until the mother is ready for it -- when education is complete, when the mother is mature enough for the responsibility, when the mother is economically secure enough to raise her child, and when she is in a relationship which will give her a partner in rearing the child."ReplyDelete
If that were true, then Barack Obama would have never been born.
- cynic1/21/2009 4:00 PM
When you neglect the sanctity of the innocent, i.e. an unborn child, you lose all other moral grounds.ReplyDelete
I will leave it at that.
I DID mean there should be more abortions. Because if more have access to it, there will be more! Not that I think people should just run out and get them but access should be improved. Thus, if I see more abortions I am happy since there is more access and less hyper Christian right wing blathering.ReplyDelete
Sorry for my anti-religious rant. I am just hopeful that we can finally get back to separating church from state.ReplyDelete
- Gingerale1/21/2009 11:57 PM
But more abortions is better, in my opinion, than more unwanted, abused, impoverished and neglected children.ReplyDelete
Agreed. Thank you for stating your view ShadowFax.
In my view abortion is not a casual thing, not a thoughtless thing, not a happy thing: it is a choice made in necessity and sorrow, and it is a blessing too.
I thank the health care professionals reading the blog who respect all this.


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(KUTV) - A deadly game of chance takes the life of a 12-year-old boy in South Jordan and now his mother, his football coach, and police have a message for other kids even thinking about games of risk.
Tua Maui was found unconscious at his home on Friday afternoon. The mother says he was playing the "fainting game" with his friends when she heard screams for help.
The game involves kids chocking themselves until they pass out. Tua never woke up.
"Anger, numbness, this can't be real. It's not really happening, just heart wrenching," said an emotional Celestia Maui to 2News. "I'm hoping to get the message out to parents and children to not do these games that you see on YouTube and these challenges. They don't show the consequences."
"There's no mom no father that should have to bury their kid over a game. A stupid game that didn't need to happen," said a tearful Bryan Ellison who is Tua's football coach.
Tua's funeral is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. Tragically the family had to bury his father less than two years ago after he suddenly died of a blood clot and then stroke. Leaving Celestia with eight children to raise.
"I am concerned for my children to have so much asked of them to lose a father and a brother," said Celestia.
Ellison took over in many ways as Tua's father. Helping him to excel in football, a game he truly loved to play.
"Courage and fearless that was Tua to a tee," said Ellison. "He gave you every single thing he had all the time and he was afraid of nobody."
The case is still under investigation but South Jordan Police say there is no evidence of foul play and this looks to be nothing more than a tragic accident.
"We have no reason to not believe what the family is telling us," said Lt. Matt Pennington with South Jordan P.D. "The 'Tide Pods', the 'fainting game' any of these that are going around that are really gimmicks on the internet...can be very dangerous.
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pitbullski wrote:cheekymonkee - You should live in St Louis for awhile. The place is over crowded, people are beyond rude & the little towns in the area are passing BSL. They are tearing up the country side to build houses that most people can't afford, unless both people work several jobs just to have the house!
Aw, come on now. Honestly, IMO, the people in Tulsa are way ruder than the people in St. Louis. And way more spoiled with their stupid, multi-million dollar houses. No BSL though, but I'm sure there would be if the state law got overturned.
And as for overcrowded, . We can't find a house to rent in southern Tulsa at all. There is one little house going for pretty cheap, but the roof is about 4 inches above Lonney's head, which is just creepy. I feel like I'm walking in a shrinking room. (May have to grab that one up, though, because its right next door to Lonney's job.)
Anyway, I just had to rant. I liked St. Louis a lot. I miss things like Dave & Buster's, Del Taco, nice places to drive like the river road to Graffton IL. I miss the Gateway APBT club;p even though the club down here is more organized, Loki can't do sanctioned ADBA stuff. I miss places being open past 9pm in the evening; what's up with that? I miss uni-lingual business. (No offense to any Spanish-Americans, but when I walk into McDonald's and the clerk is speaking Spanish to me, there's something wrong with that.)
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Shift34 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Brassware Agencies NT
The business has been running for almost 27 years, yet to this day has NEVER had a logo to define who and what the business is about.
The name of the business is somewhat misleading too, but due to customers knowing who they are and trusting the product, there has been no need to change it.
The business specialises in the wholesaling of plumbing (90% of business) and electric fittings (10% of business), mainly in PVC (not brass fittings as the name suggests!) as well as showers, toilets, vanity basins and other bathroom fittings. Being a wholesaler, the company represents many leading brands in their market so delivers high quality product to the plumbing and electrical trade.
The business is well respected, and is looking to get a facelift and increase it's share of the market through better presentation and (finally) an online presence that we need you to be part of.
The target market is largely existing clients, but we need to be careful not to frighten them off or think that the business is now under new management.
The brief is to provide existing customers confidence that it's business as usual (just with a new look and feel) and provide confidence to potential new clients that the business is forward thinking and has an online identity.
The target market is largely blue collar due to the nature of the industry, builders, plumbers, electricians and contractors within the building sector. They are honest sorts of people that are not into BS and the website should be strong to reflect that.
What we need is clear and concise logo that utilises the business name Brassware Agencies and has a graphical element to support it.
We don't want overtly IT/banking sector/medical looking page, it has to be more simple than that.
At the same time, please DO NOT supply concepts that contain clip art, cartoons or any other animation, these will automatically be eliminated from the competition. Be warned!
The great thing is there is nothing to compare the concept to. There has not been a website for the company before which means you have creative freedom within the wireframes attached.
You will have to work the new logo into the design and as such, this will form the basis for some of the design.
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The new logo attached
Primary navigation including Home, Contact us, About us
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Space for 14 supplier logos (attached) that will link directly to the suppliers own website with a text box above logos saying "Brassware Agencies NT - agents for:"
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Be creative, think about the audience we are trying to target and I wish you well.


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We grow garlic!
Everyone always seems so surprised when they hear that we grow garlic and it seems that we're always answering with, "yes, we grow garlic, in Wisconsin, and it's really great too." And after they try it, they agree. So, we've decided to create this site to tell you about all the fantastic garlic that we grow here on our little farm just north of Madison, WI. We've been growing garlic as a hobby here for 12 years now and we really have a lot to talk about!
Please take a few moments to look around and be sure to check out our online garlic catalog. We'll be telling you about the over 230 different varieties we're growing, adding photos, sharing recipes for garlic and garlic scapes, and telling you about how we grow our garlic - just in case you've ever wondered about how garlic is grown or if you're looking for tips on how to grow your own garlic in a cold climate.
Click here to view our online catalog We do accept Paypal.
Any questions or comments? To contact us via email, please use the form on the bottom of the "About Us" page. You may also email us directly at: karenandmike @wegrowgarlic.com (remove the space between our names and "@" before you send)
For a listing of all the varieties we have planted see the Our Garlic page, we'll be updating it soon with the new varieties we've added. Thanks so much to all who purchased our 2012 garlic crop! - you've encouraged us to continue growing extra garlic and to continue with our crazy little family garlic growing hobby.
See below for some photos of the current and prior growing seasons - we'll keep adding photos of the season as it progresses.
July 13, 2013, It was a strange growing year with an endless winter and no spring followed by a month of too much rain. The garlic started out a month behind but quickly caught up during the last month. Harvest is now over and the crop looks very nice. I need to finish a few things such as giving the family pony a bath (hence the photo) and then we will be ready for updating the catalog and taking orders. Our web hosting company has decided to change platforms on us July 31st so I'll also be completely rebuilding the website and getting it ready for the switch over. That will be rather challenging at this time of year and a nice unexpected added expense too. Hopefully it will go as seamlessly as they promise so please bear with us just in case they are wrong.... They "think" the old platform will work until the new one goes live so please cross your fingers!
July 7, 2012, It is literally hot enough to fry bacon outside with actual temps exceeding 100 degrees - we tried frying some bacon in the driveway today while were harvesting garlic and it worked quite well. It was a very strange growing year. We really did not have a winter so the garlic was growing way ahead of schedule and it's been very hot and dry here with mid April being the last "real" rain here at the farm. We are in such a severe drought that even large trees are dying and yet the garlic is looking great. Garlic must be some really hardy stuff! We plan to start taking orders after harvest either around mid July or when we call it quits and come in out of the heat. (or melt in the field???)
November 6, 2011, We have now finished our planting for the 2012 season. Due to time constraints we decided to plant a bit less again this year but somehow we still managed to add at least 60 new varieties to try out. (it's just too fun to try new ones and see how they perform and then to compare the flavors!) People are always asking about how we space our garlic. We plant in staggered double rows that are about 3 feet apart. The photo shows the view down one of the staggered rows before it's covered. We make the row with our Mantis, set each clove by hand, and cover it by hand with a hoe. No fancy planters here - unless of course you are talking about my fashionable rubber boots? On a warm sunny day it's rather nice to be out. On a cold snowy day - not so much...
July 20, 2011 - Here is a really wonderful sight! It is a tub full of garlic marker tags that we use to mark our varieties in the field which can only mean that we have finished up with yet another harvest. Despite the absolute freezing cold lack of spring that we had this year the garlic is looking really nice. We will be ready for 2011 orders very, very, soon. (just as soon as I'm done updating things as a matter of fact) Please be sure to check out the notes about using the catalog as we will be selling a bit differently this year; it is all explained there. Thanks so much to all the wonderful helpers that made this year's garlic harvest a success! Aren't you glad we finished up before the heat index hit 115? We sure are! By the way, the garlic bulb in the photo below is still going strong. We put it in a baseball display case on a shelf and the features of the "figure" in the bulb have actually gotten even more pronounced with time and it's looking great. It's really amazing to see and it still makes us smile!
October 8, 2010, We started planting our garlic today and I was going to put up a photo of the garlic bulbs being planted but that seemed a bit boring after what we found while breaking the garlic apart for planting. We broke open a bulb of Lorz Italian to find what looks very much like an image of an angel or Jesus or something inside the garlic bulb - see them standing in the middle with outstretched arms or wings? How cool is that? Now what makes this really spooky is the conversation that we were having at the time we found it. (maybe I should buy that lottery ticket and claim my miracle?) If you blow up the photo you can actually see a full face, long hair, and fingers on it - pretty wild! Anyone have an idea of how to preserve this? (at least it's a softneck variety so it will store awhile) It would look really neat in a shadow box. The photo really doesn't do it justice. Have a blessed day and we hope it makes you smile too!
August 29, 2010 - Today we were thrilled and honored to welcome Wisconsin's very own Alice in Dairyland, Christine (Lepple) Lindner, to our farm! We had a wonderful time visiting with Christine and telling her all about our garlic growing hobby and the various garlic varieties that we're growing and planning on adding. For more information on the Alice in Dairyland program and to follow her interesting travels around the state, click here. It was a true pleasure meeting you Christine! It seems that you've inspired our daughter to aspire to become a future Alice in Dairyland. (you'd probably better hide your crown!!) Click here if you'd like to see our interview with Christine on YouTube.
July 16, 2010, Garlic harvest is now complete and we are very pleased to announce there is no Dog House garlic this year so no one has to sleep in the green pup tent this year. We broke a few shovels (not kidding) but harvest went well and the crop looks good. Many, many, many thanks to all who helped out this year. We really appreciate your hard work. What is this rumor we keep hearing that you're all booking a cruise during harvest time next July? You're taking us along right???
June 13, 2010 - The garlic scapes are in full swing here in Wisconsin. They started forming this year on Memorial Day weekend with the Turbans and some of the early varieties. The scapes are the "flower stalks" of the garlic plants on which the bulbil capsules form which contain bulbils or small garlic "seeds." If you are harvesting your scapes to eat, the best time to cut them is just as they start to curl as in the photo. Cut them just above the top leaf of the plant. Garlic harvest is generally two to three weeks after the scapes form so it's not too far off! Now we're just hoping for a little dry weather, it was even raining when this photo was taken....but it's not snow so we won't complain...too much anyway....
May 5, 2010, Our spring weather here in Wisconsin has been a month ahead of schedule and the garlic is loving it! Here is a photo of it this evening enjoying a brisk prairie breeze. It's hard to believe the gnarly little things in the photo below turn into such beautiful plants with just a little warm and sunny weather. The garlic scapes should start forming around the end of May and on into early June. We are really looking forward to eating fresh scapes and making some fresh garlic scape pesto again. If you'd like to be notified when the scapes are ready just drop us an email. We'd be happy to sell you some to try. If you are local we can arrange to have you stop out and pick them up and if you're not local and would like some sent to you, we could arrange that as well. We've already snuck a few bulbs out of the ground to eat as fresh green garlic (use them just as you would green onions) and we can already say that this year's crop is absolutely delicious! We promise we'll try our best not to eat them all before harvest time....
March 14, 2010, The snow drifts in the garlic field were over waist high this winter. Two days ago there was still about a foot of snow covering things out there. Today the snow is gone and there are little twisted gnarly looking green garlic sprouts everywhere. The poor little things were indeed trying their best to grow under the heavy snow all winter as they hadn't yet sprouted before the snow fell last fall. Most importantly though, the yard is full of robins and red winged blackbirds again. Spring is here!!! (of course that means we'll probably have a blizzard within the next week or two...that's Wisconsin weather though!)
December 2009 - Wishing you peace, love, and joy this Holiday Season and best wishes for a wonderful and happy New Year! The garlic is well mulched in white already with over 17 inches of snow just from one recent snow storm. With the warm ground suddenly being blanketed with so much snow all at once, we wouldn't be a bit surprised if the garlic continues growing and sprouting this winter under the snow. We have observed winter growth during similar winter conditions and it's always fascinating to see the garlic in the spring when that happens. It will be interesting to see next spring if that was the case this year too. It's really hard to think of snow as being warm and insulating though isn't it??? That's really not how I normally think of snow...
"Fun-with-Garlic" idea #257: Find a clove that's sprouting roots and use it to make a shadow puppet that looks like a cartoon whale. (It all started with taking a photo of a clove to show how the roots start to form and with a little help from the kids, it just went downhill from there....) Moral of this story? Be sure to eat your hardneck garlic varieties first and save your softnecks to get you through until the next harvest is ready as hardnecks won't store as long. You don't want to run out of garlic! It's also a great time to make garlic powder with those hardnecks. See the bottom of our recipe page for how to make garlic powder.
Nov. 26, 2009 - The 2010 garlic crop is busy sprouting roots. Mike thought I spent the day searching online for the perfect pumpkin pie recipe but...shhhh... I was actually creating a calendar from our garlic photos for a gift for him. (don't worry, the secret is safe; he doesn't look at the website during the "off season") If you'd like to peek at it click here - it will take you to Lulu, a self-publishing site. You can click on "preview" to see it for free. Or to see it on Amazon, click here. You're welcome to order one if you'd like. But...remember...it's a secret...don't tell Mike...shhhhh!! Update - he LOVES his calendar and was surprised!
July 11, 2009 - We just finished up with garlic harvest this afternoon. Here's a shot of the hanging garlic drying in the garlic barn. We will be working on organizing our harvest numbers and will be ready for 2009 garlic orders very soon for shipment starting in August. A big thank you goes to the wonderful crew of helpers we had this year. You all did a fantastic job and we really appreciate all of your hard work! Hopefully you'll still be able to enjoy garlic after smelling it all week.
June 20, 2009, Garlic scape season is in full swing and we've been enjoying them for about a week now. We cut the scapes off as they begin to curl into a circle and then enjoy the fresh garlic flavor in as many ways possible. If anyone has some scape recipes they would like to share, we'd love to try them! Don't forget that you can freeze scapes to enjoy all year. Garlic harvest is just around the corner. If everything stays on schedule we'll be starting with the early varieties on July 3rd and harvesting until we're finished.
April 21, 2009 - It's time for the annual April photo of our sprouting garlic field here on the prairie. When you live in Wisconsin it always seems like such a miracle when you see green sprouting each spring! The garlic is looking good so far. Today was rain mixed with snow and it's supposed to be 78 degrees on Friday; it's typical spring weather in Wisconsin. Ya gotta love it! (the 78 degree part that is!)
November 29, 2008 - The 2009 garlic crop has now been planted and we have over 100 varieties in the ground. We can hardly wait to taste all the new ones! Now it's time to kick back and relax and play with the kids. Thanks so much to everyone who helped us this year and to everyone who bought our garlic! Have a wonderful winter! (and thanks to Sommer Von Behren for the new photo)
August 16, 2008 - The Garlic Shipping Department is hard at work preparing orders for shipment. We still have plenty of garlic for sale in our catalog and the Shipping Department will have your order on it's way to you in about a week after we receive your payment. (that's about how long it takes them to get it into the boxes since the head of the department takes off for a nap every afternoon - wouldn't that be nice?)
July 17, 2008, We have been working like dogs for the past couple of weeks harvesting the garlic and we're finally done. We're going to catch our breath (and clean the house) and then we'll get the online catalog updated within a couple of days and we'll start taking 2008 garlic orders. Thanks so much to everyone who helped us with garlic harvest this year! We promise you will stop smelling like garlic in a week or two...or three...
June 9, 2008, People sometimes ask us about a good way to keep mice and squirrels from digging up their garlic bulbs after they're planted each fall. Enlisting the help of nature is often the best answer. We are blessed with a family of red tailed hawks that help us - they keep a close eye on the garlic field for us. Here's a photo of one of the "new guys." The babies were out learning to fly today and this little guy was taking a rest. By the way, the garlic is looking great and scapes are now appearing.
May 16, 2008, Here's a photo of the garlic field at sunset. It is so nice to see green again after looking at white snow all winter! The garlic is doing well and once we get some warmer weather it should really take off. The hardneck garlics should start forming scapes within a few weeks. Our temperatures have been just a little below average this spring with a couple of late freezes and frosts.
This is a young garlic plant's view of a sunset in mid-May. (sometimes it's just fun to lie in the garlic field and watch the clouds float overhead when you are supposed to be weeding)
April 13, 2008 - The kids, the puppy, and the garlic are all growing! It was an unusual winter with over 100 inches of snow. (more than twice our normal snowfall) It was amazing, beautiful, and awful all at the same time. It's rather interesting, the ground did not seem to freeze this year under the heavy blanket of snow and the garlic sprouts from last fall are still alive and well and growing. It looks like they may not have to send up new sprouts this spring. Garlic is amazing, we learn something new every year.
February 10, 2008, The garlic should be very happy with it's snow cover this year. We're either at or very near to setting a new seasonal snowfall record (76.1 inches) and winter's not over yet! Cabin fever has set in and we're actually looking forward to weeding again. The photo? He's our new webmaster's helper and garlic digger. Just kidding on the garlic digger part - he's already got a full time job playing with the kids. If you're wondering what the garlic field looks like, just stare at a blank piece of white paper for awhile and you'll get the idea. We hope you're all having a great winter. Think spring! We definitely are. Our local groundhog predicted an early spring and we're hoping he's correct.
November 10, 2007, Some of the garlic has already sprouted and is starting to grow. This little guy is going to have a big surprise when winter arrives! Fortunately the garlic will sprout again in the spring and it will be just fine. It's always amazing how fast garlic starts to grow after planting.
The 2008 garlic crop has been planted and has been covered with straw mulch. Now comes the easiest part of growing garlic - do nothing with it and wait for spring.
July 15, 2007 - The hard work of harvest is now over! We have plenty of extra garlic for sale and our Garlic Ordering Department is now standing by ready to receive garlic orders. Click here to go to our online catalog or you can also see the Try Our Garlic page for pricing and availability and how to place your order.
July 14, 2007, we were busy again digging garlic. We have only one more variety to dig tomorrow! Oh, and in case you were wondering, that's Mike's foot and leg in the photo...not Karen's...
July 8, 2007 - It's been a busy weekend and the garlic drying building is slowly starting to fill up with the 2007 garlic crop. It's too bad we can't share the smell of the building with you, it's filled with the most delicious garlic aroma. All of the garlic varieties are really looking great this year. Seeing the pretty garlic bulbs makes all the hard work seem worth it.....although we have to admit that we are starting to seriously question our sanity in regards to growing this much garlic at this point...it may be that we're just a little tired...we'll get over it... We'll start digging the rest of the garlic next weekend. Thanks to all who have helped us this weekend! You're the best!!!
Here's a photo of the 2007 garlic field just as harvest began on the morning of July 6, 2007. Only a few varieties had been harvested when this photo was taken.
Hmmm...looks like someone missed this garlic scape and it formed a bulbil.
The garlic elf was up bright and early and was busy helping wash the freshly harvested garlic. Afterall, it's never too early to start earning money to pay for medical school!
The Garlic Quality Control Inspector was also very busy double checking everyone's work.
A beautiful sunset over the garlic field on June 27, 2007. Just too gorgeous not to share! By the way, the garlic crop is doing well and harvest time is very near! Some of the early varieties may be ready for harvest by around the 4th of July.
It's now May 28, 2007, and it's time for an updated photo of the garlic field. It's looking great and we're expecting some rain this week....perfect timing for good bulb formation. The garlic scapes should be appearing soon!
It's April 29, 2007, and the entire field is looking green. (fortunately the green is garlic and not weeds) All varieties are now up and looking good. Here's a shot of some German Porcelain waving hello in the breeze. What a difference two weeks has made! See below for a shot taken on April 14 to see the difference.
We were a little worried about the overnight lows in the teens in early April as the garlic had already started to sprout but it looks like it made it through just fine! Here's a photo of the sprouting garlic taken April 14, 2007, after the cold and late season snow storm was over.
Freshly harvested Martin's Heirloom Garlic from summer 2006.
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Students participate in Fitness Boot Camp
Finding time to exercise can be challenging for any student during the course of the semester. Liberty University Fitness is helping students remain active and physically fit with the return of its Fitness Boot Camp.
The program motivates students to stay in shape through low-impact movement, muscle-building and cardio workouts. Running through Oct. 24, participants will exercise in a variety of environments around campus such as Williams Stadium, the beach volleyball courts behind David's Place and the Liberty Mountain trail system.
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I am the Electronic Resources & Metadata Cataloger at the University of California, Irvine, and I have been in this position for 2 years. Prior to that I was a music cataloger at Pasadena City College and a public services librarian at the Cerritos Library, where among other duties I was responsible for building our graphic novels collection. Before going into librarianship I worked at the Southern California Indian Center, a nonprofit organization that provides services for the urban American Indian community of Los Angeles and Orange Counties. I am currently the secretary of the American Indian Library Association (AILA) and also serve on AILA's Subject Access and Classification Committee.
I received my MLIS from San Jose State University in 2005. Prior to that I pursued graduate studies at UCLA in American Indian Studies, and I have my BA from California State University Long Beach in interdisciplinary studies in Music and Comparative Literature, with a minor in American Indian Studies.
My professional interests include metadata, electronic resources management, subject access & classification, XML/XSLT, web-based library services, graphic novels & YA literature, and native libraries.


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Other than watching Juan Dixon and Steve Francis play while he was growing up, Evan Smotrycz "really had no connection" to the Maryland basketball program.
Smotrycz wasn't recruited by Gary Williams' Terps or Mark Turgeon's Texas A&M Aggies coming out of New Hampton Prep in New Hampshire in 2010. But when Smotrycz decided to transfer from Michigan after his sophomore season, Turgeon was one of the first coaches to reach out to the 6-foot-9 ½, 230-pound power forward.
While Baylor, Colorado, Clemson, Kansas State, Providence, Xavier and several other high-major programs tried to enter the Smotrycz sweepstakes, something about the Terps stood out to the former four-star prospect right away. A weekend trip to College Park confirmed those initial impressions, and Smotrycz offered his commitment to Turgeon on Monday morning.
"It feels great," Smotrycz said. "Obviously I'm really excited. I'm kind of relieved that I found a spot and can kind of focus on getting better and getting out there. … It's obviously a big-time program and I thought it would be a good spot right off the bat."
Said Turgeon in a news release: "He's a stretch power forward who can really shoot the ball. He has a good feel for the game. He played a lot of minutes on a Big Ten championship team. Evan is a matchup nightmare at his position. He's a great kid and really wants to be at Maryland. He's another great piece to what we're trying to put together here."
Smotrycz's decision to leave Michigan after a sophomore season in which he averaged 7.7 points and 4.8 rebounds was a surprise to many followers of the Wolverines' program. While he was replaced in Michigan's starting lineup midway through the 2011-12 season by senior guard Stu Douglass, Smotrycz continued to play a significant role in averaging more than 21 minutes per game and shooting 43 percent from 3-point range for a team that shared the Big 10 regular-season championship with Ohio State and Michigan State.
"He was going to be an integral part of a Top 10 team," said Tim McCormick, an ESPN college basketball analyst and former Michigan standout. "And he probably would have started every game and have been the second- or third-leading scoring option. At times, I thought he was a great fit for John Beilein's system with his ability to be a stretch power forward and knock down shots. His rebounding had really improved this year. I'm a big fan of his game. As someone that follows Michigan basketball really closely, I was disappointed."
Smotrycz said that leaving Michigan was a "really hard decision," but a decision he felt that he needed to make in order to "develop and push myself to … get to the next level." Turgeon articulated a detailed plan for Smotrycz during his redshirt season. The face-up 4 will join a roster that will also feature small forward Jake Layman, power forwards Charles Mitchell and Damonte Dodd, and centers Shaquille Cleare and Alex Len. But Smotrycz's skill-set should be utilized immediately once the 2013-14 season tips off.
"At Maryland, from what I've seen on film and what the coaches have shown me, obviously in the ACC they like to get out and run a little bit more," Smotrycz said. "Just the way the coaches showed me coming off screens, picking and popping, making plays off the bounce, I feel like that would really suit my game and what I've been working at to get better."
While McCormick thinks Smotrycz would have been a big part of Michigan's future, landing at Maryland seems to be an ideal fit for the Reading, Mass., native. McCormick likened Smotrycz to Khris Middleton, a 6-foot-7 forward at Texas A&M who earned All-Big 12 honors under Turgeon in 2010-11. Both Middleton and Smotrycz are known as highly skilled offensive players that can "always improve defensively and in toughness and rebounding." Turgeon, McCormick said, is the perfect coach to bring out those qualities in Smotrycz.
"I'm a big fan of Mark Turgeon," McCormick said. "He is very much a defensive and toughness and rebounding coach. And those are not necessarily strengths of Evan. But I think from a developmental standpoint, that Coach Turgeon will help. Evan is a really skilled ball-player. He will take another step in his game playing for Coach Turgeon. … I think that Michigan's loss is definitely Maryland's gain."
While the basketball aspect of Smotrycz's decision was a "no-brainer," he was interested in seeing what Maryland's campus had to offer. Smotrycz arrived in Maryland on Saturday morning, ate lunch with several Terps players in Baltimore and had dinner in Washington. In between meals, Smotrycz met with the coaching staff, toured campus and bonded with Pe'Shon Howard, Sean Mosley, James Padgett and Ashton Pankey.
"They're great guys and great coaches," Smotrycz said. "Coach Turgeon has been able to take programs a long way. I was really confident in their ability. I thought they were great guys to be around."
Smotrycz's situation at Maryland will be different than what he went through at Michigan. With the Wolverines, he was a young player waiting his turn to star on a team that made two-straight NCAA tournament appearances. With the Terps, Smotrycz will likely be counted on to use that experience and lead Maryland back to the postseason. It's a role Smotrycz said he can't wait to play.
"I think it'll be huge," he said. "It was like recruiting all over for me again. The stuff I know at 20 years old vs. 15 years old is so much different. I think being sort of the veteran on what will be a young team will definitely be a different situation for me, and I think it will be positive."


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We talked about Milton Bradley yesterday, which makes me wonder how he and Martin would have interacted with each other. I have a feeling it would be worse than his relationship with Reggie Jackson. Martin would have to be the manager of the all bad-guy team.
George Steinbrenner kept going back to Martin. Each time it was "going to be different," but it never was. Martin was a quick fix kind of guy. He turned teams around right away, which makes me believe that type of fiery personality is what could be needed for the Mets.
However, the danger of a quick fix manager is they become super novas and burn themselves out. If and when the Mets make another managerial change, they need to go with a commanding presence, a guy who doesn't have to be a simmering volcano, but one that demands respect and doesn't take any crap.
The team needs a disciplinarian type, a man who would make a player shiver just by his stare. They said Gil Hodges was that way. Joe Torre is that way as is Tony La Russa. Above all, they need somebody with success on his resume, somebody who has the ring his players do not.


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Sept. 15, 2006
San Diego, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team picked up its second win of the day Friday with a 3-0 blanking of Ivy League member Brown at Jenny Craig Pavilion in San Diego. The Gauchos defeated #11 Wisconsin 3-2 earlier in the day at the USD Invitational.
Scores of the match were 30-24, 30-16 and 30-18. The two straight wins put UCSB back over .500 with a 5-4 record while the Bears are now 1-4. It was the first time the two squads had ever met.
Three Gauchos, including Lauren McLaughlin, Brett Quirarte and Olivia Waldowski, posted match-highs with 13 kills. Jamie Garbisch, who had a career-high 31 kills in the win over Wisconsin, totaled 11 kills and 14 digs, a match co-high along with Emily Hendrickson. McLaughlin also notched a double-double as she had 13 digs.
UCSB dominated both offensively and defensively. The Gauchos hit .317 with 59 kills while the Bears had 23 kills and a .061 attack percentage. UCSB held a 58-40 edge in digs and had eight blocks, six attributed to Waldowski. From the service line, UCSB dropped in eight aces.
Brown's Rikki Baldwin had seven kills and Katie Lapinski had 13 digs. The Bears put down just four kills in the second game and six in game three.
Garbisch, an all-tournament pick last week at UNLV, leads the Gauchos with 3.88 kills per game this season. The senior outside hitter has amassed 10 or more kills in seven of 10 matches and has had four double-doubles on the season.
UCSB is 2-1 thus far at the USD Invitational as it fell 3-0 against host San Diego Thursday.
The Gauchos wrap up tourney action Saturday against #16 Ohio at 4 p.m. The contest will also bring to an end a 10-match road trip with UCSB opening its home season Sept. 20 against UC Davis at The Thunderdome (7 p.m.).


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Times Square in New York City is synonymous with New Year celebrations. But here's a little secret that's not so secret: it's not very enjoyable. It's unbelievably crowded, it's cold, it's expensive, good luck finding a bathroom, and even after enduring all of these indignities, you still might not have a view of the ball drop.
However, since New York is a given, let's turn to the cities spanning the rest of the globe that are earning reputations for hosting fetes that aren't too shabby.
Whether you like your year-end fireworks with a side of debauchery, rock and roll, tradition, religion, as a family affair, or perhaps you're seeking some combination of the above, there are world-class celebrations that may be up your alley.
So, which cities provide excellent celebration destinations for New Year's fun-seekers? Click ahead to find out.
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In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars, the ultimate sci-fi popcorn flick-turned-pop-culture myth machine. It quickly became the biggest money-making film of all time and changed the shape of the film industry. After two successful sequels (1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return Of The Jedi) that extended the story of the first film, Lucas took some time off to produce movies for others, with mixed success. In 1999, Lucas returned to the Star Wars saga with a new approach -- instead of picking up where Return Of The Jedi left off, Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace would be the first of a trilogy of stories to trace what happened in the intergalactic saga before the first film began. Here, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson); Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become known as Darth Vader, is just a nine-year-old boy. When the Trade Federation cuts off all routes to the planet Naboo, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are assigned to settle the matter, but when they arrive on Naboo they are brought to Amidala (Natalie Portman), the Naboo queen, by a friendly but opportunistic Gungan named Jar Jar. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan plan to escort Amidala to a meeting of Republic leaders in Coruscant, but trouble with their spacecraft strands them on the planet Tatooine, where Qui-Gon meets Anakin, the slave of a scrap dealer. Qui-Gon is soon convinced that the boy could be the leader the Jedis have been searching for, and he begins bargaining for his freedom and teaching the boy the lessons of the Force. The supporting cast includes Pernilla August as Anakin's mother, Terence Stamp as Chancellor Valorum, and Samuel L. Jackson as Jedi master Mace Windu. Jackson told a reporter before The Phantom Menace's release that the best part about doing the film was that he got to say "May the Force be with you" onscreen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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- Ewan McGregor - Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
- Natalie Portman - Queen Amidala / Padmé Naberrie
- Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
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Every now and then Byron (11 months old) gets possessive of a chew bone or something he's gotten hold of that he knows he's not supposed to have, and he'll flatten his ears and growl when approached. I've tried bribing him with a treat but he still remains agressive (sometimes snarling and snapping) about protecting his "prize". Otherwise he's a very gentle and non-agressive.
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One Quick Handwriting Transcription Challenge Every Day-for the genealogist in you
Monday, June 18, 2012
My Neighbor Was a "Getor"
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Lemul SimpsonReplyDelete
- kim elizabethJune 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM
yes...Lemul SimpsonReplyDelete
- Judy M.June 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM
OK....I get the Simpson, but I'm not sure about the first name. It could be Hirmul (never hear of that one!) or Jurmul or Furmal or Tumul or Lumul or ? It's tricky.ReplyDelete
Could it be Samuel Simpson - with the Samuel perhaps slightly mis spelled?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM
Could even be "Samul Simpson".ReplyDelete
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today unveiled an initiative designed to accelerate the process from scientific breakthrough to the availability of new, innovative medical therapies for patients.
The initiative involves two interrelated scientific disciplines: translational science, the shaping of basic scientific discoveries into treatments; and regulatory science, the development and use of new tools, standards and approaches to more efficiently develop products and to more effectively evaluate product safety, efficacy and quality. Both disciplines are needed to turn biomedical discoveries into products that benefit people.


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Our ED is a pretty high-acuity, intense place to work. We staff it to a level of about 2 patients per physician per hour, which is more or less in line with the ACEP practice management recommendations. In the lower-acuity areas ("Fast Track"), there are PAs who see somewhat more: 2.5-3 pph.
I'm one of the faster physicians in our group. I can see 2.5-3 pph without too much trouble, though that certainly requires a high-energy day for me. I average more like 2.25-2.5 over the longer run. The fastest doc we have ever employed averaged about 2.7 pph, and frankly, I worried that he was a little too fast for my comfort.
So I was at ACEP recently and talked to some docs from other areas of the country. They tossed around numbers like 3-4 pph as if it were no big deal. Due to the setting, I was not able to closely question them on how they achieved those numbers, which quite frankly stretch credulity. But it got me thinking. With our ED, and our acuity, and our doctors, numbers like that actually seem impossible.
How about you, O My Readers? What sort of volumes do you or your docs generally see per hour? If it's a higher number, 3+, what factors allow you to achieve such efficiency? Do you work in a high-volume shop which sacrifices safety for speed? I'm curious to know.
So what's your experience?
03 November 2008
How fast is fast?
Our ED is a pretty high-acuity, intense place to work. We staff it to a level of about 2 patients per physician per hour, which is more or less in line with the ACEP practice management recommendations. In the lower-acuity areas ("Fast Track"), there are PAs who see somewhat more: 2.5-3 pph.
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- Anonymous11/03/2008 11:02 AM
Our stats seem to mirror your experience.ReplyDelete
70K visits, Community/level II trama/ STEMI recievig ED.
Avg pt/hr = 2.1/hr. Range 1.7-2.5 PA's seeing 2.1-2.9 in fastrack.
We seem to be catering on chaos all the time. Any faster and it would be very dangerous. Frankly, I am skeptical about others who claim these high numbers. I know the stats on our group which is a large national group and we are above average in these numbers so I just don't think it is true. We do all dictation. Maybe with scribes and a good EMR people are going faster.
The way the ebb and flow of shifts go it is not unusual to see 8 or so in your first hour but it averages out to your numbers.
Greetings ... as a call in radio listener would remark "long time listener, first time caller."ReplyDelete
Similar numbers, but I always find it hard to compare apples to apples in terms of hours "worked". By choice, I work our 8 hour night shift (10 pm - 6 am). I've logged my actual hours worked for the last 3 years for every shift. I am also working overtime by choice (~ 1.3 FTE), so my shift numbers are on the high side.
Fiscal 07-08:
218 shifts worked
1740 hours of "scheduled" work
5151 patients seen
2270 actual hours worked
By the scheduled hours, I saw 3 pph
By actual hours, I saw 2.26 pph
Groups seem to define the "shift" in various ways ... "hard scheduled hours" vs padding the shifts with some time to dictate and finish patients.
With 26 years of experience, blessed with good health and a continued high level of energy, I can handle volume and intensity better than most and I would be hard pressed to see much more than this.
Enjoy your blog ...
GJB Fargo, ND
Working with residents (lots of them) seems to allow for higher numbers, though I still have to see each and every patient for at least a bit, just to be sure.ReplyDelete
I work exclusively nights, and at an exclusively children's hospital, so that may skew the numbers even further.
Summer months? Sometimes 1 patient on a whole shift (though that is rare). But winter months? I've already had a couple of nights where I've seen 37-38 patients in 7 1/2 hours. Luckily, those nights had no traumas and no resuscitation room cases, but nights like that happen, too.
On an average night, I usually maintain 3.5-4 pph. Most of my group can do the same sort of throughput, so I figure it's got to be a combination of residents and seeing only the kids.
- Anonymous11/05/2008 6:51 AM
I'm fast, and I'm a PA in a fast track, and I've been doing this for 30 plus years. But when I see more than 3.5 patients an hour over a long shift, I can pretty much predict that I will make a probably non-important yet stupid looking omission or a mistake, or I will be so rushed that patients will perceive, which might not be true, that they did not get adequate treatmentReplyDelete
My shop is a community ED/Level II trauma center that has 37k visits.ReplyDelete
Currently we average 2.5 pt/hr as a department. My average is 2.9 pt/hr. The somewhat higher average is achieved largely because we have approximately 36 beds in our ED. We almost always have a bed available for our patients when they arrive. We also have great ancillary services who are efficient, x-ray and CT in the center of the ED. We are also compensated on pure production which incents us to work hard. The combination of the above allow us to see a somewhat higher pt/hr than most. Interestingly, when we were salaried employees we claimed we couldn't possibly see more than 2 pt/hr. Now if we see 2 pt/hr it feels like we are not even working.
I think the goal of 2-2.5 pph is reasonable. Some days, more--if you get nothing but snotty noses, simple sprains/fractures, and the occasional belly pain. Some days, less--complicated MI, septic shock, and a bad trauma. Overall, it should average out. More than that means one of two things--you're missing things or you have an unusually low-acuity ED.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/14/2008 11:44 AM
Stumbled onto your blog, very interesting topics. Excellent blog. I'm glad I'm within the average range of everyone else. I've also always wondered how those who claim they see >3pph do it.ReplyDelete
My stats:
93k level 1 trauma center in metropolitan area with residents.
20-30pts/12hr in the main on avge
25-35pts/12hr in peds on avge
30-40pts/12hr in fast track on avge
When all is said and done, I average about 2.5pph. Couple things I notice:
1-2 complicated traumas or codes can ruin that day's stats (ie spending 1-2hrs in the trauma room with 1 critical pt).
I work faster alone, when the residents are at conference. I don't have to double check their work or read their charts or spend time teaching (although that's what I enjoy about working at an academic center).
I only hit those really high numbers (35-40pts/shift) less than a dozen times per year.
Ancillary staff is vital to hitting those high numbers.
- David Lee Smith, M.D. in AL1/28/2009 7:02 PM
I'm pulling 29 day shifts this month. Average 24 per mo. About 25k annual visits. Single coverage, no mid-level. Level II.ReplyDelete
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Classics Final - It's All Greek to Me!by Kim Johnson • December 13, 2007 Share:
The upperclassmen in the Classics Department brought new meaning to the term "final exam" performing a scene from Euripides' Hippolytus in its original language. Seniors Alex Coates, Chris Geggie, and Homer Twigg took the stage Thursday in front of a crowd.
"With students at this level, it is silly to give them another written exam," said Professor of Classics David Kubiak. "I know whether or not they know the language."
Alex Coates '08 said, "rather than take another translation exam, we wanted to be able to show our knowledge in a more practical way. Our goal was to get an entire play done. We wanted to go beyond the translation and get at what it was the play meant to say."
The seniors were pleasantly surprised with the turnout and the audience's reaction. They expected a lot of laughter at the female characters they played but instead felt like the crowd was drawn into the story. "From what we understand, this mimicked a Greek audience," Chris Geggie '08 said. "People got really wrapped up in the action. We saw that today.
"We wanted to experience what it would have been like to perform a Greek play. In Greek plays all the characters were played by males. We also wanted the opportunity to speak it since Greek was first and foremost a spoken language long before it was ever written."
Coates said, "this is really pulling together all of the pieces of a liberal arts education – the language, the translation, the performing. There was even a theater professor here. That's what it's all about."
After the performance Professor Kubiak said, "They passed, they definitely passed."


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Gilead Sciences: Sovaldi to Boost Shares in 2014, Maxim Group Says
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Maxim Group's Jason Kolbert upped his target for Gilead Sciences (GILD) today, based on potential sales of Sovaldi.
Shares of Gilead gained 104% in 2013, besting Amgen's (AMGN) 35% rise, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) 61% advance, and Biogen Idec (BIIB) 91% increase but lagging Celgene's (CELG) 115% rise.
Kolbert explains his bullishness:
Based on others' outside data, we are told that IMS second-week scripts for Sovaldi have been strong, potentially with over 800 patients started on the drug. We are not surprised by the initial robust nature of scripts as we know there have been patients warehoused. Our understanding is that consensus expectations for 4Q Sovaldi revenues are approximately $80M.
This is only the beginning. Sovaldi has yet to be launched as an STR (single tablet regimen). Based on the recent top-line data from the ION trials, we believe that Sovaldi is viable as an STR—an interferon-free and/or RVN-free regimen—and will open up the HCV marketplace.
Kolbert, who rates Gilead Sciences a Buy, raised his price target to $98 from $89.
Kolbert's bullishness hasn't helped Gilead much today. Its shares have dropped 0.4% to $74.79 today at 9:59 a.m., while Amgen has gained 0.2% to $114.20, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has dropped 1.6% to $270.75, Biogen Idec has fallen 0.5% to $278.30, and Celgene has gained 0.4% to $169.70.


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A middle-aged milquetoast discovers life with a vengeance in British novelist Graham Greene's sly frolic, "Travels With My Aunt," a Los Angeles premiere at the Colony Theatre in Burbank.
Tending his beloved dahlias seems less satisfying to the quiet, retired bank manager Henry Pulling, after Aunt Augusta shows up at his mother's funeral. Alternately repulsed and fascinated, Henry learns that the 75-year-old, free-spirited grande dame lives above a pub, lustily cohabits with a young West Indies-born scoundrel named Wordsworth, carries a torch for an Italian war criminal and engages in skullduggery of her own.
She also harbors a secret — soon apparent to the audience, though not to Henry — having to do with Henry's prim and proper mother and the seemingly unknowable stranger that was his late father.
Like Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame, Aunt Augusta adheres to the "life's a banquet" philosophy. She rattles Henry's staid existence until, too dazzled and intrigued to resist, the desire for adventure fizzes in his veins, sending him on a picaresque journey from Paris to Paraguay.
Urged on by his aunt and her insistence that her plodding nephew must have something of his "hound" father in him, Henry encounters smugglers and a CIA agent, smokes pot with a teenage hippie, offends a military dictator, loses sight of his moral compass with little regret and feels "oddly elated to be alive."
Directed with taut precision by David Dean Bottrell, Giles Havergal's Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Greene's 1969 novel efficiently assigns four actors multiple roles. Played without regard for gender, race or ethnicity, they are performed with virtuosic verve by a superb cast: Thomas James O'Leary and Mark Capri as Henry and Aunt Augusta, respectively, and Larry Cedar and Sybyl Walker, who enliven assorted male and female eccentrics with vivid individuality.
O'Leary, serving as narrator as well, deftly nuances Henry's slide away from the societal norm and his transformation from observer to participant. Mark Capri gives his indelible Aunt Augusta the stately, slightly off-kilter presence of a debauched Margaret Dumont. Highlights among Cedar and Walker's colorful roles are Cedar's comic turn as Wordsworth, deepened with a touch of pathos, and Walker's subtle menace as jolly war criminal Visconti.
Inevitably, Henry's intoxicating sense of being alive in the world bashes up against unsavory reality. Willful ignorance, it turns out, has its price. Although the shift from comic to dramatic tenor is too abrupt, this fateful turning point, delicately finessed by director and actors, is chill with the whiff of amorality.
Production values are top-flight, from Sherry Linnell's character-revealing menswear touches to lighting designer Jared A. Sayeg's atmospheric illuminations and Cricket S. Myers' illustrative sound. Michael C. Smith's outstanding set design is a visual feast of packing crate platforms, stacked suitcases serving as stairs and vehicles, framed travel posters doubling as windows and an applause-worthy quick-change flip that transforms a table from tea time to cocktail hour. Henry's dahlia garden is one of several comic flourishes.
What: "Travels With My Aunt"
Where: Colony Theatre, 555 N. Third St., Burbank.
When: 8 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 3 and 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Ends Dec. 18. $20-$42.
Info: (818) 558-7000, Ext. 15 or www.colonytheatre.org.
LYNNE HEFFLEY is a Los Angeles-based freelance arts writer and theater reviewer.


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From ZineWiki
Dad. (2007) is a zine by Timothy Colman, put out in Philadelphia, PA.
Dad. originated with a Fun-a-Day project created in January 2007. The zine was compiled in February 2007, and was first made available at the Third Annual Fun-a-Day Show, on February 17, 2007. The original cover was white. The black covers were created for the second print run of the Dad. Since then, it has been carried by Learning to Leave a Paper Trail Distro, Starfiend Distro, Sticky Institute, Bluestocking Books, Quimby's, Twelve oh two Distro, Stranger Danger Distro, Riot Grrrr Distro, False Start Distro, Click Clack Distro and Parcell Press.
Selections from Dad. were reprinted in Zine Yearbook Volume #9, published in 2008.


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Are you a genealogist living in Nebraska? Do you research your Nebraska ancestors? If so, I'd like to invite you to join a Facebook group called Nebraska Genea-Peeps:
It's a group for genealogists living in or researching in Nebraska. You can ask questions, share research tips and Nebraska resources. At some point, we hope to plan some informal in-person get togethers, ride sharing to events or day-long research trips or do some cemetery hopping.
Recently, someone posted a request for help in finding an obituary for her grandfather, and within a few minutes, we discovered a source for the obituary, which she was able to order online.
We also post upcoming genealogy events. Come join in!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Nebraska Genea-Peeps Group on Facebook
Posted by Susan Petersen at 8:21 AM
Labels: Facebook, Nebraska Research, Social Networking
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A great idea. I like the idea of regional support and social networking amongst the genea-bloggers, and this was my original thought behind the New England Geneablogger Bash. It was nice to see the faces behind the blog posts and Facebook updates. Thomas MacEntee is fully behind the idea, too, and I hope it spreads!ReplyDelete
Heather - thanks for the comment. The Nebraska Genea-Peeps group is not restricted to bloggers - it is open to anyone doing genealogy research in Nebraska.ReplyDelete
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