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Monday, July 03, 2006
Getting ready for my interview...
At least that's what it feels like. I'm thinking of refinancing my house. It's odd, my company does this among other things so I know the drill on appraisals and yet I'm actually getting a bit emotional. It's like having a stranger (even though the appraiser is someone I know) come in and evaluate my worth. Oh well...big numbers, big numbers!
With the arrival of Sharon to tell me how much I, er -- the house, is worth, I've been going on an unfinished project bender. I don't usually hangout where my garage is (back corner of the property) but I was out there the other day and noticed that my garage doors have tons of unpainted wood trim (yikes!). Not only that, the fascia board (and some of the siding) was peeling. In short, pretty much anyone driving down Red Hill Avenue could see the eyesore.
I've still got to finish the doors themselves (body color tan so they'll blend in), paint the beam ends, and decide about the light.
I actually like the light. It's a mercury vapor lamp and I've actually always wanted one since seeing them on farm in Minnesota as a little kid. Unfortunately, stick it on the beam ends tends to ruin the look. Any ideas on where else I can mount it?
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Every month, the Pamper Your Mind column in Florida Today answers commonly asked questions about mental health and the struggles that everyday people encounter. Licensed Mental Health Counselor Kristin Woodling gives an expert point of view on these issues and provides advice on what steps are necessary for recovery.
This month, Kristin talks about communicating with your partner about setting healthy boundaries with your in-laws.

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FRISCO, Texas – In a battle between two teams fighting for Western Conference playoff positioning, both clubs continued their recent trajectories in FC Dallas' 3-1 win over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday.
Dallas made it eight straight unbeaten league games while the Rapids slumped to a third consecutive defeat. Coincidentally, Dallas' run began with a 3-2 win over the Rapids on June 7, as coach Oscar Pareja has made it two wins out of two over his old team.
The game was in Dallas' favor quickly, as the Texas club scored twice in the first 11 minutes, and they added a third early in the second half to seal the victory. An 86th minute penalty got Colorado on the board and gifted them their first goal in 281 minutes of league play.
After some early FC Dallas pressure, captain Matt Hedges put away a rebound in the ninth minute after a dangerous cross from Michel. A minute later, Colorado defender Marvell Wynne was whistled for fouling Dallas forward Tesho Akindele in the corner the Rapids' penalty area, leading to a penalty kick conversion by Michel to make it 2-0.
The Rapids pressured from the start of the second half in a bid to get back into the game, and forced Hedges to make a goal-line save in the 52nd minute, stealing a goal from Jose Mari.
But Dallas put the game away in the 56th minute with some good possession, working the ball forward along their attacking left side. Again, Michel played provider, putting in a cross to Blas Perez near the Colorado penalty spot. The ball made it through to an onrushing Fabian Castillo from the right wing and the Colombian finished crisply for the final goal.
Late in the match, Je-Vaughn Watson made contact with Gabriel Torres and was whistled for a foul as the Rapids player was going towards goal near the Dallas endline. Torres converted the penalty in the 86th to round out the scoring and give Colorado their first goal since July 25.
Dallas return to aciton on Tuesday in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinals when they host the Philadelphia Union. Their next MLS match is in San Jose on Saturday, August 16.


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Star Sightings! January Jones and Andy Cohen Hit Up All-Star Celeb Softball Game
Major League Baseball's 2014 All-Star summer events are in full swing in Minnesota, with the 85th All-Star Game to take place on Tuesday, July 15 at Target Field.
The All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game finished up on Sunday, July 13, and there were plenty of celebs participating, including "Mad Men" star January Jones and "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen.
Andy Cohen chatted about which celeb he was most excited see, and opened up about how terrified he was to play.
Check out more videos from the celeb softball game here!


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And Other Strange but True Stories From the Yiddish Press
By Eddy Portnoy
265 pp. Stanford University Press. Paper, $19.95.
In the staid world of academic Yiddishists, Eddy Portnoy is a live wire, a funny guy, a mischief-maker, what they used to call in the Catskills, a tummler.
Portnoy, who works at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, has written about Jewish professional wrestling in pre-World War II Warsaw and Yiddish Communist puppet theater in Depression-era New York. His dissertation concerned the cartoons in the Yiddish-language press and "Bad Rabbi" grew out of hours spent fast-forwarding through microfilm. One day Portnoy let go of the dial on the machine too early and found himself staring at an account of a brawl that erupted at a rabbinical court adjudicating a tawdry case of bigamy.
The story, which had the headline "Two Wives, Blazing Punches and — the Cops," was the tip of the iceberg. To switch metaphors, Portnoy knew he'd fallen into a shmaltz grub (a tub of chicken fat), the Yiddish equivalent of a pot of gold. He had discovered "The Jerry Springer Show," 1920s Warsaw edition.
"Bad Rabbi" is a succession of outlandish misadventures, a wild panorama populated by an astonishing array of characters: Blimp Levy, the 650-pound wrestler and lady's man; Urke Nachlnik, the yeshiva student turned criminal kingpin turned Yiddish playwright; Naftali Herz Imber, the hard-drinking professional psychic who, among other things, wrote the words to the Zionist anthem "Hatikvah."
Only a few of these characters were noted in the English-language press. The case of the devout, apparently insane Pesach Rubenstein, who murdered his pregnant cousin in 1875, was, as Portnoy puts it, the "first major interface between Jews, the justice system, and the press in America" — although it lingered far longer in Jewish consciousness. The Yiddish journalist Abraham Cahan noted in his autobiography that when he arrived in the United States in 1881, Jews were still talking about the case.
While vengeful lovers, demented blackmailers and unscrupulous abortionists may represent universal types, the Yiddish press also gleefully reported on specifically Jewish affairs — like the pitched battles between Jewish freethinkers and so-called Sabbath enforcers.
Portnoy's subjects are those he calls the "unsung heroes of the Jewish underclass," but the secret stars in "Bad Rabbi" are the largely anonymous Yiddish journalists who chronicled their foibles. The Yiddish newspaper was, perhaps even more than the Yiddish theater, a sanctuary where Jews could speak to Jews, confidentially. A wave of Jewish suicides and attempted suicides in Warsaw during the late 1920s were reported on with an outrageous mixture of hard-boiled cynicism and, in the case of bungled or bizarre attempts, dark humor.
Yiddish journalists were showboats, garnishing tabloid sensationalism with literary jokes and religious references. (Given this high-low style, as well as its caustic attitudinizing and internal feuds, the Yiddish press seems like a flamboyant forerunner to the old Village Voice.) Such zesty informality carries over into Portnoy's own writing, which, in blending the erudite and vernacular, regularly tilts toward the latter.
According to Portnoy, "nearly every great Yiddish writer was also, at some point in his or her career, a journalist." His prime example is the Warsaw reporter writing under the pseudonym Gimel Kuper, whose pieces Portnoy characterizes as "Fiddler on the Roof" meets Charles Bukowski. Kuper's cover was blown when a rival Yiddish paper outed him as the serious novelist Israel Joshua Singer, elder brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
"Bad Rabbi" includes a sample of Kuper's reportage — on a court where criminals mete out justice to their own — that is every bit as flavorsome and sardonic as a Bashevis Singer short story. Indeed, Portnoy's chapter on the madcap sectarian battles occasioned by the Miss Judea beauty contest of 1929 is itself a gem of comic writing with a ferocious kicker worthy of either of the Brothers Singer.


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|Before the plastic bag tax: Carrying plastic bags (probably full of more plastic bags) home from the supermarket.
|After the bag tax: the more things change, the more they stay the same: Carrying plastic bags (probably full of more plastic bags) home from the supermarket.
|Sackss of plastic bags and other trash in the Plaza San Victorino.
So, give Bogotá officials credit for recognizing the problem. If only they would try an effective solution.
First came 'educational' measures for stores. Some neighborhood stores put up signs encouraging customers to bring their own bags - which almost everybody ignored.
|Worth something?
|The tax didn't discourage this shopper from packing her
shopping cart with bags filled with more bags.
All of this makes about as much sense as Colombia's policy to reduce carbon generation, in which the country simultaeneously taxes carbon to discourage its use, and also subsidizes fuel consumption and encourages oil and coal production.
It's no wonder that plastic bag habits are tough to change. Not only are plastic bags convenient, but a friend points out that giving them out has become a 'social gesture.' I couldn't count the number of times that a seller has chased after me or literally cried out in protest when I rejected his or her offer of a completely useless plastic bag to carry home a single apple, a candy bar or a box of aspirin. But the bag came from somebody's heart.
Taxes have effectively reduced plastic bag use in Ireland, some U.S. cities, and other localesbcxi. But those places have stronger legal systems and lower rates of corruption and black markets.
Perhaps a bag tax would work here if the government either enforced it using sting operations, or actually taxed the newly-manufactured bags.
|'Please bring your own bag.' This sign, in a shop in La Candelaria, was removed once employees realized that the pllastic bag decree wouldn't be enforced.
|A sign in a shop implores customers to save the planet by bringing their own bags.
Notice the woman's hand giving a customer a bag.
|City workers hand out reuseable bags in La Candelaria. They gave the bags to anybody willing to sign for them, whether they needed them or not.
|A proud woman with her free bags.
|This older woman scored two bags. But will she ever use them? Could she actually carry one full of stuff?
|The La Panamericana stores seem to have taken real measures. Here, a sign at the checkout counter saying they no longer will give out bags smaller than 30 by 30 cms.
|Canvas bags for sale in La Panamericana.
|The bag rule doesn't apply to neighborhood corner shops and traditional markets like this one.
By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours


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Background vocabulary
Semi-permeable membranes – allow some molecules to pass through, but not others
Background knowledge
Cell membranes are semi-permeable. They allow small molecules such as oxygen, water carbon dioxide and glucose to pass through, but they do not allow larger molecules like sucrose, proteins and starch to enter the cell directly.
Larger molecules can only get through the membrane by use of a membrane channel protein.
What is Osmosis?
Osmosis is the passage of water from a region of high water concentration, through a semi-permeable membrane, to a region of low water concentration.
Osmosis is the way that some particles (like dissolved salt) flow towards water.
A passive processes. Requires no added energy.
Below we see 2 compartments, separated by a semi-permeable membrane.
More water molecules on one side than on the other.
Water molecules flow from high concentration side to the low conc side
Continues until the conc of water on both sides is equal : dynamic equilibrium
Can cause water to move up agains gravity!
Adding sugars to water results in a decrease in the water concentration,
because the sugar molecules displace the water molecules
As water is pulled to one side, it's level rises
Let's see this in motion
Osmosis apps
PBS Learning Media Osmosis app
PBS Learning Media Cell membranes: Just passing through
Concentration of dissolved particles is super important in biology
solute conc. inside cell < solute conc. outside cell Hypertonic
solute conc. inside cell = solute conc. outside cell Isotonic
solute conc. inside cell > solute conc. outside cell Hypotonic
Diffusion and Osmosis <- document
Related links
Osmosis Demystified. AlienRyderflex by Darel Rex Finley
Learning Standards
AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy
5C/H1a ( Grades: 9-12 ): Every cell is covered by a membrane that controls what can enter and leave the cell.
Next Generation Science Standards
MS-LS1.A.3 ( Middle School Life Sciences ): Within cells, special structures are responsible for particular functions, and the cell membrane forms the boundary that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
HS-LS1.A.1 ( High School Life Sciences ): Systems of specialized cells within organisms help them perform the essential functions of life.


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Again we will mine our own experiences, our own emotions. Only through understanding ourselves can we bring life to our characters. This might be hard to do, but if you need to bring deep emotions to a story, you need … Continue reading
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Sometimes it take only a few words to engage our imaginations. This one might seem like there's little to it, but once you start writing you might just be surprised by what comes out. Set that timer, and start! To … Continue reading
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Today is so beautiful that it deserves a beautiful movie. How about the criminally underrated heaping pile of gorgeousness known as RAZORBACK? This wonderful slab of cinema cake is directed by RUSSELL MULCAHY which means it looks like a DURAN DURAN video except instead of SIMON LeBON and NICK RHODES you get GREGORY HARRISON and a giant killer pig! Read my full blown review HERE and watch the incredibleness unfold below! Your eyes and ears (what an excellent score!) will thank you!
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The World Is Yours
This wide-ranging, eight-part series explores the extraordinary impact of recorded music on our modern world. The series offers unprecedented access to more than 150 artists and producers from across the music spectrum, and features rare archival studio footage and an extensive soundtrack.
This series was the last creative project for Sir George Martin, the producer who was instrumental behind many of The Beatles' albums, before he passed away in March.
The World Is Yours
Meet the pioneers of hip hop and explore how sampling – the practice of borrowing fragments from existing records-created a new genre of music that took over the world; including Public Enemy, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, Beck and more.


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Day 1:
Im standing in the battleground.
I see naught but nutshells and robot knees. They're all dead.
It's not like the sun to be this cold.
I'm searching for food. For a spare battery pack. My body hurts so much. Blood and oil drop from different parts of it. The muddy field is full of scaps and scars of a long fought battle. A stalemate has been in force for just one day now.
I'm Adam. It's a stupid name. I don't have a better one.
It's a good thing I kept my hands. Otherwise I might not write.
Everyone knows the Robots led a rebellion. I'm one of the cyborgs sent to fight it. I was dead. Like all the rest of us.
The robots realeased a virus. A deadly one. Killed a lot of people. Left me and a lot more people in hospitals. Grasping a straws for life. Then, me and all of those in my ward. Anyone who still had proper hands and knees. The virus was designed by the robots to attack our skeletons. Eat away at our cartilage and then the bones themselves. Slowly reducing our ability to walk. To fight. To live.
You would think, maybe they should go for the blood? Or the brain? Apparently the robots didn't think it effectively would get their point across. Robots didn't want to kill humanity. After all we were their parents. Their creators. Killing us? It was not the option they wanted. Even with their advances and intelligence they wanted humanity to survive. If for no other reason than because deep down, they loved us in a strange robot like way.
I'm walking on a trail of various pieces of what some may call junk. Not really junk. It's all bits of cyborg body. Or robot body. Or expolded bits that no one could recognize. In between it all their is naught but mud. Mud. Dark, brown, sticky.
It took less than three hours to create this field of the dead. The battle lasted just long enough to kill thirty thousand cyborg humans. Twice as many robots.
The man who came to me. The one I mentioned earlier. Or did I forget? These cyborg bodies he said, they will give you life. Let you fight back. Give humanity one last chance to really fight these robots.
Of course I knew being a cyborg was just making, and adding to a inevitable end. I'm not stupid. The fact is, any second now my cybernetic body will get shut down codes.


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We have invaded every single corner of the internet at this point. You can't go to a forum without seeing at least one person with a pony avatar. Travel around the mall though, and you won't see a whole lot of pastel equines walking around. It's pretty rare to see someone sporting even a pony shirt!
So how do we bring ponies to the real world? With the magic of GIGANTIC ROLLING LED SCREENS. The Big Red Truck will be invading bronycon and the USA sporting EQD logos, Ponies, and all sorts of other brony related crazyness.
If you are curious about the actual truck, head on over to their Facebook page here, or to participate in the event, check out their main page here!
They released a video showing off what the truck is capable of. You can find that one after the break!


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Press Release
Cody Nelson of the Virden Oil Capitals has been Manitoba Pork Peak Performer for the Month of January.
The 20-year-old forward has been recognized for his outstanding leadership skills both on and off the ice.
"Cody volunteered as an instructor at the Southwest Peewee
Development Camp, sharing his passion and knowledge of hockey with the
young players," MJHL Commissioner Kim Davis said of Nelson's selection.
"The Camp included two speaking sessions where Cody addressed the
players and their parents about his work ethic and daily routine and
what it took to become a Junior 'A' hockey player."
Nelson, who hails from Brandon, has demonstrated strong public
speaking skills and a willingness to share his personal experiences with
"Recently, Cody spoke in front of the entire Virden Collegiate
student body at their WE Day event and is a tremendous ambassador for
the Oil Capitals," said Davis.
Nelson was a Peak Performer on the ice as well, recording six points (3-3) in the month of January.
"Cody is a true ambassador of the Oil Capitals and the MJHL," said
Davis. "He a worthy winner of this award. The MJHL and Manitoba Pork
Council congratulate Cody Nelson on his award."
(Nathan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Long standing Christchurch retirement homes to wind down
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Long standing Christchurch retirement homes to wind down
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- Thu, 9 Aug 2018, 5:45AM
There is surprise at the announcement that two long-standing Christchurch retirement homes will gradually wind down.
Anglican Care will not be taking any new residents in their Bishopspark and Fitzgerald retirement villages, after 66 years of operation.
Age Concern Canterbury CEO Simon Templeton says he was shocked to hear the news, but admits it's a tough industry to be in which comes with big costs.
He says there are a lot more home-based care options for elderly people now.
"What that means especially for the aged and residential care side, is people are going into that care far, far more unwell and needing far more care than they used to, so there's a cost to servicing that."
He says it runs the risk that we could see rural aged care facilities potentially closing down in future, which would impact our elderly population.
Templeton says corporate-type models work well in cities, but rural rest homes are often run by church- based providers.
"If they're struggling and have to close down in the future, what will that mean for people living in rural environments? That would be a real shame."
He says that retirement villages are beneficial for older people facing social isolation and loneliness.
"That's often why a lot of people move into those types of accommodation is to have that community around them, perhaps when they've lost that in the environment they were living. We know that is vitally important."
Anglican Care says continuing the homes has become financially unviable, and it'll be concentrating more on community-based care and support.


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Islamic Dua For Husband Wife Love
The relationship of a husband and wife is fragile and it requires a lot of love, support, affection, understanding and trust. And, every husband and wife experience ups and downs in their life. However, it is completely up to you how you handle these situations and make your marital life successful and happy. With the help of Islamic dua for husband wife love, you can easily maintain a healthy and balanced and loving relationship with your spouse without any problems. Just recite the dua for love and you will see that your life will be a blessing.
Dua For Husband Wife Love From Quran
If your husband is interested in another woman and he doesn't give you enough time and love, then it is very heart wrenching. You may have tried every tantrum to bring them back in your life and to win their love. However, the dua for husband wife love from Quran is very powerful and it has the power to bring your husband back to you. It will add spark, love and affection to your marital life and your husband will forget the other woman and come back to you forever. If you're really worried because of this, then this dua will serve your purpose very well.
Islamic Wazifa For Getting Husband Wife Love
If your marriage is new and at present both your husband and you are not open with each other, then the Islamic Wazifa For Husband Wife Love From Quran will be the perfect aid for your relationship. All you need to do is recite the wazifa with a clean heart and Insha Allah in few days your relationship will start getting better. You will see love, understanding and affection developing in your relationship. So, just recite the wazifa and let it work as a miracle in your marital life.
For those wives whose husbands are short tempered or do not behave properly with them, the wazifa for husband wife love is a great remedy to win the love of their husbands without any problem. Just recite the wazifa and very soon you will notice a change in the behavior of your husband. It will add loads of love in your life and your husband will always values you and love you. In order to get 100% success in this wazifa, it is better that you seek help from an Islamic specialist. The specialist will guide you and help you with a perfect Quranic dua.
Amal For Husband Wife Love From Quran in Hindi
The amal for husband wife love from Quran is mentioned below:
- Take 2 almonds and after the Isha namaz keep them in your mouth.
- Keep them on your tongue, not under it.
- Keep the thought of your spouse in mind while performing it.
- Recite Durood Shareef 11 times.
- Recite the Ayat no. 39 from Surah Taha 500 times "Wa-alqaytu 'Alay kama'habbatan minnee wali tusna-'a 'alaA'aynee"
- After completing every 100th time, take the almond out of your mouth and blow on them.
- Then put them back in your mouth and commence reading again.
- So, in total you have to do it 5 times.
- When you complete the wazifa keep them on a clean piece of paper and cover it.
- Perform this wazifa for 5 days
- And keep these same almonds for all 5 days, following the same procedure.
- After 5 days make your husband eat the almond.
- Insha Allah your purpose will be served.
If you're really worried about to enhance love between you two, then speaking to the astrologer is the right thing to do.
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We should note that we expect to keep permanently our three primary holdings, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., GEICO Corporation, and The Washington Post. Even if these securities were to appear significantly overpriced, we would not anticipate selling them, just as we would not sell See's or Buffalo Evening News if someone were to offer us a price far above what we believe those businesses are worth.
This attitude may seem old-fashioned in a corporate world in which activity has become the order of the day. The modern manager refers to his "portfolio" of businesses - meaning that all of them are candidates for "restructuring" whenever such a move is dictated by Wall Street preferences, operating conditions or a new corporate "concept." (Restructuring is defined narrowly, however: it extends only to dumping offending businesses, not to dumping the officers and directors who bought the businesses in the first place. "Hate the sin but love the sinner" is a theology as popular with the Fortune 500 as it is with the Salvation Army.)
Investment managers are even more hyperkinetic: their behavior during trading hours makes whirling dervishes appear sedated by comparison. Indeed, the term "institutional investor" is becoming one of those self-contradictions called an oxymoron...
Despite the enthusiasm for activity that has swept business and financial America, we will stick with our 'til-death-do-us-part policy. It's the only one with which Charlie and I are comfortable, it produces decent results, and it lets our managers and those of our investees run their businesses free of distractions.
Buffett wrote that in an era when the average holding period for stocks was in the 2 to 3 year range. These days, the average holding period is more like a few months. So if Buffett saw market participants as hyperkinetic, whirling dervishes back then what does he think now?
Roughly 25 years ago, Buffett said he expected to keep the three primary holdings permanently. Here's what happened to those three stocks:
-In 1995, Walt Disney Co. (DIS) offered to buy Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. and closed on the deal in early 1996. Berkshire received cash and Disney stock in exchange for the 20 million Capital Cities/ABC shares owned by Berkshire (cost basis $ 345 million but worth around $ 2.5 billion at the end of 1995). The Disney shares were only held for a few more years. The Walt Disney Co. shares haven't done much in the decade plus since they were sold, but the business has done just fine. Another case where business value had to "catch up" to a bloated price to earnings ratio.
-Also in 1996, Berkshire purchased the remainder of GEICO's stock they did not already own causing the company to be converted into a wholly-owned subsidiary.
-Washington Post (WPO), of course, remains in the Berkshire equity portfolio.
So Buffett and Munger may often go in with the intention to own something "forever". At least so far, for two out of the three that's what has happened. In fact, by buying the remaining shares of GEICO the commitment to GEICO as a long-term investment has been only increased.
Naturally, over a longer time frame, something unforeseeable comes along like the Disney-Cap Cities/ABC deal where the buyer wants the business and is willing to pay a price for the shares that is attractive enough to the seller.
It's not that selling never makes sense. If the moat deteriorates to where the economics become very unattractive (especially if a large percent of net worth), or cash is needed to fund the purchase of an unusually attractive investment, sometimes a sale makes good sense. Yet, a bias toward not selling once you own shares of a good business (or an entire business, of course) minimizes frictional costs, and potential mistakes, while allowing the long-term effects of compounding to benefit long-term owners.
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We thought there might be some of you that would enjoy rising to a challenge. You know to feed that competive spirit lurking inside? This is a challenge that could land you in London during the 2012 Olympics. Good luck and read on for all the details of the competition sponsored by VisitDenmark.
The purpose of the conference is to introduce a new business structure for the company. The reason for choosing Copenhagen as a destination is the Awareness of the environment and sustainable thinking since this is highly prioritized within the company. This is therefore an opportunity for the client to showcase their sustainable credentials.
The conference should take place in a hotel within maximum 20 minutes from the Copenhagen airport. The proposal should include options for the meetings and accommodation as well as suggestions for two off-site dinners, one team building activity and appropriate transportation to the dinners. In general, the client wishes to optimize the ROI of the conference by using new an innovative tools.
Participants in this challenge are encourage to think creatively, and maybe even use some MIND-blowing ideas, when putting together their proposal for the conference. Creative solutions will be an important element for the judges. Find inspiration and contact information to event partners on this site; www.visitdenmark.com/MINDchallenge
Format for presentation: all creative ideas are welcome, power point is accepted but other formats encouraged.
The companies submitting the 5 best North American submissions will be invited to present their ideas at a New York event, April 12 (live or via Skype), AND, the North American winner picker here will get a trip to London for the Grand Finale during the London Olympics 2012!
North American submissions will be judged by our honorable judges:
- Greg Oates – PREVUE
- Saira Banu Kianes, CMP – Banu Events Solutions & Training (B.E.S.T.)
- Susan Hennig, United Airlines
Participants presenting form each company: Minimum 1, maximum 10 (if you get all the way to the grand finale in London, there is a maximum of 2 peopl presenting).
MEDIA PARTNER NORTH AMERICA: We are proud to have as our exclusive media partner in North America: PREVUE. Go here to follow their coverage of MIND challenge 2012: http://www.pevueonline.net/mindchallenge/
GRAND PRIZE: the winner will get a free venue in Copenhagen suitable for the case abou (50ppl/1 day max).
Deadline for North American Submissions: Please make sure we have your submission no later than March 14, 2012.
Send to: Send your program suggestion directly to your North American representative via either mail or email:
Christina Anderson
Sales and Marketing Manager, Meeting Industry
655 Third Avenue, Ste. 1810Y
New York, NY 10017
United States
Email: email@example.com
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Fall Sale!
Happy Friday, guys! I've been working on lots of stuff behind the scenes--I'll share an update soon--but in the mean time, I decided to have a fall sale to help make room for new things! Use coupon code "PUMPKIN" to save 20% on everything in my Etsy shop through the weekend.
This week has flown by, and I still have many things yet to cross off my to do list, but I'm looking forward to some beautiful weather over the next couple of days and maybe taking a day trip to see some fall foliage. What are you up to?
P.S. A random thing has been happening lately when I reply to comments; it shows up for a second and then disappears. I'm not quite sure why that's happening, and I am still able to reply via email, so it's not a big deal. Just thought I'd mention it in case someone out there has had a similar issue and knows how to fix it? I tried google and couldn't find anything that helped. xo
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A fall sale is a great idea. Can't wait to see what you've been up to lately!ReplyDelete
Love that card! And I, too, look forward to seeing what you've been up to :)ReplyDelete
I'm excited to see what you've been doing! I bet it's come cool prep for that craft show. :-)ReplyDelete
Weird about the comments. I never had that happen to me when I was still on Blogger, but I had other annoying glitches pop up toward the end.
Yay for sales! I adore your notebooks. xoReplyDelete
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Judith Lowry's Artistic Reflections on Native California
The exhibit "Our Stories" is a collection of vibrant, large scale narratives that Judith Lowry painted over the past 20 years. Her themes include family stories, California Native oral traditions, pop culture, women's roles, and politics. She uses symbols inspired by her California Indian roots, mixing her family histories with important oral histories.
Weh-Pom and the Star Sisters, a 6 panel work currently on exhibit in the National Museum of the American Indian, has been reprinted for this collection. Weh-Pom (Coyote) travels to the stars to seduce the five Star Sisters each who are dancing among the stars while wearing California Native dance regalia.
The fiery image, Obedient Wives, tells the story of how the rat lost his hairy tail. The owl-like creatures, the wives, watch Rat as his tail burns after a match with Weasel.
This collection also incudes And He Glittered When He Walked, a tribute to Harry Fonseca; the Tattoos series showing men and women with various tattoo designs representative of their Native communities; and illustrations from Home To Medicine Mountain, a book about the Indian boarding schools from the viewpoint of her father and uncle as children.
Growing up in a military family, Lowry traveled and attended schools all over the world. Lowry was taught many California Native traditional stories by her father who was Mountain Maidu, Hammawi Band Pit River, Washo and Scottish-Irish. From her Australian mother, she learned about Aboriginal Dreamtime stories. This rich multicultural background is displayed in Lowy's artwork.
Judith Lowry was born in 1948 but didn't start her art career until the 1980s. She received her M.A. in art from Chico State University and lives locally in Nevada City, CA. Her artwork has been on exhibit in numerous museums including the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, the George Gustav Heye Center, the Crocker Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
In many of Lowry's paintings, one can see traditional burden baskets used for collecting food and medicine and basket caps worn by women. To complement Judith Lowry's paintings, beautiful examples of handmade basketry on loan from the California State Indian Museum are also included in this collection.
Exhibit Show Dates: February 16 – May 31, 2013
Where: Maidu Museum in Roseville
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With the advent of programs such as Apple Logic, Garage Band and Avid Pro Tools, artists such as GZA and Erykah Badu have talked candidly about the advantages of recording at their in-home studios. In exchange for filtering out the subpar emcees who keep trying to peddle their wares in the comment sections of HipHopDX and other sites, most major labels will gladly add the fee for recording in a top-notch studio to an artist's advance. But, given the current sales climate, G-Unit's Lloyd Banks sees a happy medium between both methods.
"They massage the artist to feel like the bigger the studio, the bigger the record," Banks told BBC 1 Xtra's Tim Westwood. "And that's definitely not the case."
Westwood went on to recount a time when then Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen ordered a pair of high-end studio speakers and billed them to DMX's recording session. Banks added that he dramatically cut the recording costs of HMF2 (The Hunger For More 2) by doing his initial work from his home studio. After recording the initial vocal tracks, Banks said he then takes the rough edits to a larger studio for mixing and mastering. The result was the gold-selling single "Beamer, Benz or Bentley" and a top 25 debut in the Hip Hop/R&B category for his album.
The return to the charts got the self-proclaimed Punch Line King praise from critics, including a nod for DX's "Comeback of the Year." But to hear Banks tell it, the preceived decline of G-Unit is part of Hip Hop's natural evolutionary cycle.
"You can't name one entity that has the same energy," Banks explained. "From Ruff Ryders, Bad Boy, Cash Money, No Limit…they all had their moments. Honestly I can't say we've seen an impact like G-Unit has had in the last decade. People wore bulletproof vests after we came. We touched people."


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Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water… or drive a car… or be in your house – Here comes the Syfy original film, "Sharknado". Rob Cesternino is joined by Big Brother 12's Matt Hoffman to discuss the summer film which is taking the world BY STORM.
Sharknado stars Beverly Hills 90210 alum, Ian Ziering as Fin, a pro surfer turned barkeep who is taking it upon himself to defend his family and Los Angeles from a hurricane and eventual tornado filled with sharks. His estranged wife, played by Tara Reid, is also in the movie (which is probably the nicest thing we can about her performance)
Rob and Matt breakdown the story of Sharknado and try to fit together the pieces of the film to try and better understand the plot. Among the questions the guys try to piece together, Rob and Matt will explore:
- Which is the more dangerous disaster, A shark attack or a tornado?
- What was the exact nature of the relationship between Fin and Nova?
- What was the relationship between Fin and the mysterious Baz?
- Where did they get that tricked out hummer with the Nitro button in it?
- How come nobody was too upset when Tara Reid boyfriend died?
- Would a bomb really blow up a tornado?
- What is the total estimated damage that was inflicted on Los Angeles during a Sharkicane and Sharkando?
- How old were Fin's kids, Claudia and Matt?
- Why did Tara Reid and Ian Ziering get back together at the end of the movie?
- Of course, Why is a chainsaw the most useful thing to have in any shark related weather disaster?
I think we're going to need a bigger podcast when it comes time to start talking Sharknado!


text: Creative Longevity on the agenda at bespoke AWARD Summit Friday, 27 April 2018 THINK:LONG - Short Talks on Creative LongevityFriday, May 25 10.00am-2.00pm Carriageworks The AWARD committee has today announced a mini-creative summit to be held earlier in the day of AWARD Awards on May 25, in partnership with Facebook. Think:Long will be headed by Wieden + Kennedy's Co-Chief Creative Officer Susan Hoffman, who joined the agency more than 30 years ago and is behind game-changing ads, including Nike's "If You Let Me Play" and "Revolution" and Old Spice's "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like".During her Australia visit, Hoffman will explore the concept of 'bravery' and how to build brands over time - a fitting topic for the advertising legend who began her career working on the Nike account as W+K's eighth employee in 1985. Presented by AWARD and The Communications Council, Think:Long promises to deliver a powerful four-hour show and live debate addressing many of the industry's biggest issues.AWARD Chair, Mike Spirkovski said, "Our industry is more competitive than ever with brands, agencies and individuals struggling to stay relevant each day. This is compounded by speed to market, fragmented media-channels, shrinking budgets and an audience that has no time to consume the ordinary. This is fast creating an industry-wide anxiety that's forcing agencies and brands to lose focus on the long term, to the detriment of brand longevity and creativity."Adding: "If you care about creativity and have concerns about the future you shouldn't miss Think:Long." Susan Hoffman will be joined by: Jonathan Kneebone from The Glue Society , celebrating 20 years of success Terry Savage only a month prior to his final year as Executive Chairman of Cannes Lions and an association lasting 33 years Ron Baker, who founded the VeraSage Institute over 18 years ago, and is one of the world's leading experts on pricing services on value creation CEO of The Communications Council, Tony Hale said, "This is a brilliant initiative of the AWARD committee. The Think:Long creative summit leverages debate around critical industry initiatives at the same time as we celebrate the very best of the year." Panel moderator and Humdinger Sydney founder Al Crawford will question the speakers on the challenges facing creative leaders today, from building brands and trust over time, helping clients to have the courage to stick it out, the future of pricing models, and how creatives can build and sustain a long, successful career. Event details Date: Friday 25th May 2018Time: 10.00am to 2.00pm (includes lunch)Venue: Bay 20, Carriageworks SydneyFor ticket information, visit the event page or call (02) 9925 7472. Stay up-to-date Subscribe to News | Like us on Facebook | Follow us on LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube


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Nini - Long Lumbar
The fabric used to make this pillow is authentic vintage Baule indigo cloth hand woven in The Ivory Coast. The cloth is made by weaving long striped strips, the strips are sewn together and then the whole cloth is hand dyed using resist techniques to create the unique patterns.
Because these pillows are made from vintage hand made fabrics, there will be slight imperfections and inconsistencies; this is part of what makes these pillows so special and one-of-a-kind. Each pillow may vary slightly in pattern from the pillow pictured, as they are cut from different sections of the same cloth. We try to photograph any major differences.
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I bought an iPhone 6 on craigslist, that needed the screen replaced. This was my first iPhone 6 screen replacement job ever. Anyways, I know you have to match the home button to the logic board in order for the touch ID to work properly. So I've moved that over, but when I was moving the silver panel over with the cable that connects the home button to the logic board, it ripped a little, so it doesn't work for touch ID. I've now replaced 3 silver panels to that, with good cables, and I'm not getting the touch ID to work, even though the home button works fine. So my question is... ...does the silver panel with the cable that connects the home button to the logic board have to be the original as well?
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Shiga-Business Hotel > Commercial & Residential Services > Making A Difference For The World With Your Existence
Making A Difference For The World With Your Existence
We often look at the problems in the world, the way we are treating the environment, the slaughterhouses, the landfills and lament about the situation without taking initiative in our own lives to make a change. One bit of realization that could essentially change the world is if we all realize that every one of us causes the destruction that is happening around us and that every drop makes the ocean. If you take the vegan movement as an example, you will see just how much change they are making as more and more people change their lifestyles and say no to the slaughter of animals and the destruction caused to the environment by the production of mean. A study done in two thousand and seven showed that nearly four hundred million less animals were killed in comparison with previous years simply because people changed their lifestyles and their ways and this is a massive leap for the environment as well.
Reduce your trash
Similar to this, if each of us makes an effort to produce less waste, and to find responsible waste disposal methods for the trash that we do produce, we could reduce the amount of waste that goes in to landfills and the ocean every day.All we really need is effort. We could get a few rubbish bins that we can have outside our homes for each different type of trash so that the recyclable trash can easily be recycled thereby reducing the amount of waste that goes in to the landfill.Another fun way to reduce the amount of waste that goes in to the landfills is to recreate the waste to make things that we can use in our lives.
You can read this article if you are looking for the rubbish bin.
We can cut up plastic bottles to make little cups or bowls that we can use and this will save us money in having to buy new bowls. We can create little pet feeding bowls with our plastic packaging as well. If you are creative, you will see that there are various ways in which we can repurpose much of our garage and then, in turn reduce the trash that is going in to the landfills as well. It is indeed a win win plan but of course, it does take time and effort. We need to teach this to our children in schools instead of the long drawn hours of history lessons because this problem is affecting our world today and if we do not act fact, we will not have a future.


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The job I am aiming to have when I finally finish my degree and hopefully make it through a PGCE is to teach. Other than being a mother it is my vocation and having had the best teachers ever at school and now at university, I feel so excited and I can't wait to be a teacher and this post is just a short list of all the fictional teachers (both official and mentor-like) that I find so inspiring alongside the real ones.
- Will Schuester (Glee): I have only just begun watching Glee (just on 1×13!) but from the number of times I have seen him cry at his students' achievements and moving rites of passage. He deals with his students' personal lives and his own the way I hope to as a teacher in the future…with compassion and good humour. All aspiring teachers should I think watch Glee and take not from Mr. Schue (not Sue!) 😉 Plus, I would just like to say he has the voice of an angel and I've been sat on my bed all day with my autoharp out belting "Leaving on a Jet Plane" which he sings in the Pilot of the show. Inspiration or what?
- Blu Rain (Precious): This alternative teacher used the intricate and complex personal lives of her pupils to help them. Her sexuality is the one thing that made my head turn. It was a complete twist and made me respect where she came from and where she had the potential to take her charges.
- Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): This socially uncomfortable librarian and fatherly figure to the Scoobies of Sunnydale is my hero. Not only is he a booksmart and sexy older man, but Giles is also a dependable and focused man on the students who are constantly in danger from the supernatural. His unforgettable moment was when he sacrificed his place on the Watchers' Council because they were forcing unjust regulations on the Slayer…great move, Giles!
- Charles Xavier (X-Men): Now in this example we are exposed to a man who spans two worlds: the human and the mutant, peace and war. Xavier is a leader of adults and of children and commands respect from all, even his enemies. All teachers have others in the staff room who dislike them for this and that, but this pettiness and staff room bickering is to be expected. I am not a likeable person, so I will probably have many coworkers who find me odd and a bit ersatz so the teacher I aim to be will rise above this and while she might know that she is not the most popular in the staff room she knows that she has the respect of her peers and pupils both.
- Gordon Bombay (The Mighty Ducks): Over the course of a trilogy, this ice hockey coach proved the subject/sport he taught was more than just that. Bombay taught his kids that ice hockey could impart valuable life skills and although the viewers only got a glimpse of the player's childhood, you could tell that in their adulthood Charlie, Goldberg and Banks would tell their children about what Bombay taught them.
- Aristo (The Roman Mysteries): This tutor of the four adventurous children living in 1st century AD Rome is a great model for a teacher. Of course, he does end up marrying one of them and he cohabitates with two of them, but hey, when in Rome… But his devotion to his students' education and lives (in tricky political situations) is remarkable – I don't think I would follow my students all the way round the known world on their antics!
- Severus Snape (Harry Potter): Snape is portrayed as a crap teacher throughout most of the series but his underhand double-agentry to save the Hogwarts pupils and ultimate personal sacrifice is the tell of a truly great teacher. The fact that he was a housemaster only makes him all the more respectable in my book. To have responsibility of so many kids is the ultimate reward for a great teacher!
- Maester Luwin (A Song of Ice and Fire): Maester Luwin is a minor character at best in this long saga but his stalwart presence for the recently crippled Bran and the emotionally traumatised Rickon combined with his pedagogic presence not only with the young Starks but also with Catelyn and Eddard prove that not only children learn from their teachers. If only all parents could learn from their children's teachers, the world would be a simpler and less traumatic place.
- Chiron/Mr. Brunner (Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief): This particular example is a teacher who promotes and rewards his demigod campers not only for their obedience to his knowledge and experience but also how they take their own initiative and strike out without his guidance (and sometimes approval). Surely this is the mark of the greatest of educators: the firm belief that once your work is done and you've given all you need to give, your students have all the skills and know-how necessary to stride out on their own in the world and leave their mark, which you helped create.
- Miss Stacey (Anne of Green Gables): Miss Stacey is similar to Chiron in that she takes a special interest in her pupils' personal pursuits, however, when Anne reads "Ben Hur" during geometry, she is decisive in her punishment whilst taking care to safeguard her enigmatic pupil's love of reading. Miss Stacey is also the perfect example of a teacher who continues to take an interest in their pupils once they've flown the classroom so to speak. She lines up job opportunities and further education placements for the students who can aim that high. She is the best example I could find of a teacher who realises that education never stops and once you're someone's teacher, you'll always be their teacher.
- Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre): Much like the previous entry, Jane is a female teacher from a period setting and both dealing with orphaned girls who are quite the trying pupils. Jane's journey – I suspect – will end up much like my own. She had a tough time at her own school but broke out of the depressing system by turning to teaching herself and through that vocation which she excelled at she found her future husband, ward, household and progeny. Her story just goes to show that teaching leads to miracles…even for those of us who are plain and ordinary.
- Derrial Book (Firefly): There isn't another teacher associated with a faith or religion here, but Shepherd Book uses his faith and chirpy maxims to make the crew of Serenity better and healthier people. My faith is such an integral part of my existence and I know it is usually a bad thing to impart on that kind of level to students, however, even if faith isn't mentioned, the lessons that can be learned from it are what matter.
- Master Yoda (Star Wars): First off – who doesn't love a bit of Yoda? No one methinks! This little green Jedi master is yet another instance where wisdom trumps size. He uses everything available to him to protect the greater good. He doesn't look at the individual picture, he looks for the individual as it is in the whole collage. This is an important lesson for any pastoral care work with students. For, as much as any student might have a problem (like I did at school) there is always a bigger picture and only by sorting out the big picture can the individual be saved. To end with a quote from Master Yoda: "Always pass on what you have learned."
- Gaius (Merlin): Everyone loves that one sarcastic and slightly derogatory teacher that always has your best interests at heart but chooses not to wear said interests on their sleeve. Gaius is the perfect example of the protective teacher whom I aspire to be. He shields Merlin from those who mean him (and his kind) harm and manages to do so without turning him into a pansy or a wallflower. I always see on TV and thew news the cases of kids who take their own lives because no one stood up for them and had a few teachers not bothered to care for me and more importantly show it, I would not be writing this now, so I will be that much of a lioness with my students.
- Tom Clarkson (Waterloo Road): This character has been on this show for so long and was one of the main reasons I stuck with it. He appealed to me because he became a parental figure for so many of his pupils, which is how I see so many of my old teachers who got me through the tough times and helped me out. There is also the circumstances of his death to take into consideration: he fell off a roof trying to save a student of his and whilst I do not advocate the general population of teachers endangering their lives, it shows a level of commitment to those for whom he cared and who depended on him which moves me to the point of tears.
- Gandalf the Grey (The Lord of the Rings): Gandalf is one of the more obscure and vague members of this list of teachers, yet the technicolour wizard succeeds in making smalltown hobbits into big Middle Earth adventurers and conquerors. I talk about small teachers but it is this 'teacher's' treatment of his small charges that singles him out on this list. Perhaps the most difficult jobs a teacher can face is getting the small and unconfident kids to emerge from their shells and the fact that Gandalf does this with panache is laudable.
- Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy): Miranda is a short and snappy but sweet mentor to her interns and residents. It is the fact that she is a short and stumpy surgeon but is feared and respected by all around her, for I will never be a tall person, so in that respect, she is my hero and the proof that even those of us who are vertically challenged can pack quite the punch.
- Brom (The Inheritance Cycle): Brom manages through the first books to conceal the fact that he is the protagonist's father while being his mentor in the arts of dragon-ing (?) and fighting with both magic and blade. The way he manages to get Eragon to succeed and to be the person he was destined to be while keeping his relationship concealed is admirable. As someone who fully intends to assume a professional alias but have a child and that kind of double (some might say schizophrenic) life, that kind of inspiration is quintessential.
- Alaric Saltzman (The Vampire Diaries): I love me some Alaric. He is not only a gorgeous vampire-hunting history teacher, he manages to be the one true friend a diabolical and constantly villainous vampire (Damon) finds in Mystic Falls. I think when there is so much good to be found in someone, it will always be a teacher – regardless of whether it is their pupils who require it – who discovers that diamond in the rough and help assimilate them back into friend groups and families.
- Craig Pelton (Community): Despite Craig not really being a teacher per se, but the Dean of Greendale Community College, he should be on this list. Part of my brilliant experience of Chigwell School was the incredible administrative staff and pastoral staff's role and thus, the Dean who throws himself arm, leg and stupid costume into running his failing school but respecting and valuing the individuality of his students is the perfect conclusion to this list!
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LabCorp and a Washington state medical center must pay $50 million to a Washington couple who won the jury judgment in 2013 after their son was born with birth defects, a Washington state appellate court ruled this week. The ruling was unanimous, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
Attorneys for Rhea and Brock Wuth successfully argued in 2013 that the Wuths had asked for a test that would detect a rare genetic disorder while Rhea Wuth was pregnant with their son, Oliver.
The test was administered by Valley Medical Center and produced by LabCorp. The couple argued that when it submitted the test to Dynacare Laboratories, a subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), the doctor who submitted the results did not include documentation of family history or genetic information.
The couple argued that information that Brock Wuth had a chromosomal abnormality, which had a 50 percent chance of being passed to his offspring, was not made available to Dynacare, which did not ask for it but should have.
The hospital and LabCorp have been ordered to split $50 million payment, some of which will be used to provide lifetime care for Oliver.
Oliver Wuth was born July 12, 2008. The couple sued in 2010.
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I noticed that LabCorp always advertises job openings for phlebotomists. Every LabCorp location is continually looking to hire them. It reminds me of when I was young and 7-11 convenience stores were everywhere. Every 7-11 had a sign that said "night manager wanted". Back then nobody wanted the night shift so it was difficult to find individuals who would take the job. The question that comes to mind with the LabCorp "phlebotomist wanted" signs is; Is LabCorp always hiring phlebotomists because of employees leaving the company or because of growth?
LabCorp is the low price leader in the clinical laboratory market. They get customers, such as insurance companies, HMO's and others by offering them the lowest price, not the best service. It's what Kmart used to do but eventually Kmart had to file for bankruptcy because of lack of customer loyalty. The customers were there because of the cheap prices and nothing else. If anyone else offered a better price, they'd buy from them. It's sort of the same situation that LabCorp is facing now. They get their customers strictly based on price.
Back to the phlebotomist. I believe that LabCorp always has job openings for phlebotomists as a result of their cutthroat low-pricing strategy. They undercut the prices of every other clinical lab and then have to make it up by paying their employees less than competitors. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. That's not to say that all LabCorp employees are bad or lazy. They just happen to have a disproportionate share of them because of how they treat them. The good ones tend to go somewhere else, using LabCorp as the initial stepping stone in their phlebotomy career.
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I received a letter from Marlayna who works at a LabCorp location in the northern California area. She espouses the positives of the LabCorp patient service center she works at. Anyone from Northern California feel the same way? Let us know your opinion.
Here's what she has to say:
In Northern CA, LabCorp is a preferred provider for United Healthcare. 80% of the patients that I see in a day have United Healthcare. We also do accept Aetna insurance. LabCorp offers the cheapest lab rates to patients. If you were to pay cash for your tests, the cheapest you would find would be LabCorp. The price that is billed to insurance companies just depends on what they are contracted for.
Also, at most sites in this area, only one phlebotomist is working. When a location does not receive a high volume of patients, only one technician is necessary. Anything more than that would be wasteful. It is not an under staffing issue, it is just a simple supply and demand. I work for LabCorp and I love it here, and most all of my patients love me.
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Janice from Baltimore sent me an email about her experiences at LabCorp. No complaints, just sympathy for all who have had problems with other LabCorp locations.
Fortunately, I have not had your extreme problems with LabCorp in Baltimore. They are my health insurance carrier's choice, over which I have no control. I've read your story, and it is pitiful that LabCorp gets away with that. I just wanted to point out that you are a "glutton" for punishment. Gluten is something Alton Brown talks about frequently on "Good Eats" with regard to baking. Sorry you've had such a miserable time with LabCorp, and glad your blood tests finally came back with good news. Carry on!
Tags: General Labcorp Stories, labcorp, labcorp centers, LabCorp Complaints, labcorp general, LabCorp Health Care
Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp – New York Stock Exchange Symbol LH) recently reported an increase in fourth-quarter net earnings to $142.7 million, as compared to $118.1 million for the 4th quarter of 2008. The increase in earning were due partly to a gain of $21.5 million from resolving state tax issues and realizing foreign tax credits.
LabCorp's total revenues for the fourth quarter rose to $1.17 billion, up from $1.12 billion the year before. For the full year, the company had profits of $543.3 million, up from earnings of $464.5 million in 2008. The increase also includes all the income from the labs that Labcorp has acquired.
Labcorp also announced that it will be spending $250 Million to buy back shares of their own stock. Labcorp's Chairman and CEO David King said " We remain optimistic about the growth opportunities that lie ahead for us in 2010, and we are well positioned to capitalize on them." I highlight the word lie because while he was making the statement, he was filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he had just sold shares of LabCorp stock and pocketed over $171,960 in profits. You would think that when the head of a company announces positive results and claims to be "optimistic about the growth opportunities" he would be buying stock, not selling it. But then he owns lots of LabCorp stock and could have sold for other reasons.
One thing that LabCorp CEO David P. King didn't boast about is that of a rumored investigation of LabCorp by the US Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program. According to posts in CafePharma.com, LabCorp's Florida operations are in trouble. They had to settle an employment lawsuit at a rumored cost of about $2.7 Million. In addition, they have a pending Federal lawsuit from a former employee that has not gone too well for them. With allegations of witness tampering and obstruction of justice, LabCorp has had to fire the law firm that was handling the case. The posts include the following:
OFCCP would like to hear from those who have been discriminated against based on a protected characteristic. (personal info removed) A formal recommendation has been made for an investigation of LCA Florida. Those who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, write:
US Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program
Charles E Bennett Federal Building
400 West Bay Street
Room 939
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
or call:
(904) 351-0551
All correspondence is confidential.
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Here's a very common complaint. Patient walks into a LabCorp location, has blood drawn, LabCorp loses the blood samples and still bills for the test. This very illegal LabCorp billing practice will eventually backfire. How can LabCorp billing charge for an exam that they did not do? Worse yet, how could they lose the blood samples? Even worse, can it have been tested and another patient receive the results as if their own? It all reminds me of a Looney Toons cartoon I used to watch when I was a little kid. A long floppy eared dog goes running after another animal and stops in its track saying "which way did he go??? Which way did he go???"
Here's an email that I recently received. It tells the complete story:
Couldn't believe that there is a whole website devoted to Labcorp screw ups! On November 23rd, 2009, my husband and I both went to Labcorp with physicians work orders in hand. After waiting about an hour, we finally had our respective blood drawn. My husband's was routine. I am a cancer patient and had two orders, one from my oncologist and the other from my primary care doctor. Even though the facility was very busy and it was a Monday (I should have known better), there was only one phlebotomist on hand. She stated that she was the only one drawing blood there for the past month.
We never heard from our doctor with the results, so on a visit this past weekend, we asked our doctor what the results were. She stated she never received them and proceeded to call Labcorp. She was told they had no record of us going into their facility in November. On a hunch, I called our provider, Humana, on Monday and was told Labcorp had billed them over $500 for my labwork on November 23rd and also had billed them for my husband's. So, according to labcorp, we never went there on November 23rd, yet they billed Humana over $500!! Meanwhile, we had to have our blood re-drawn yesterday. This time we went to Quest Diagnostics. Maybe we'll have better luck there. I have filed a complaint with Internal Affairs at Humana and hope to follow up with a letter to labcorp if I can find the proper person to send it to.
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Financial analysts in Wall Street have downgraded LabCorp (LH on the New York Stock Exchange), citing a slow down of testing volume growth and lower prices for their services. The analysts also expect a cut in Medicare payment rates and potentially weaker prices from health insurers. In addition, health care reform could lead to further rate cuts and eliminate the obscene profits that LabCorp makes on some of their niche lab tests.
Will the N1H1 Swine Flu help offset these factors? The answer is a flat out no. LabCorp won't get much of a boost from a swine flu outbreak because flu testing is only a small part of its business.
Even though LabCorp is buying back their own shares, it may not be enough to maintain the share prices at their current levels. Laboratory Corp. of America announced that they will buy back up to $250 million of common stock under a repurchase plan approved by its directors. LabCorp purchased a total of $500 million worth of shares under its previous stock buy-back plan. About $95 million of those repurchases have taken place since the end of June.
With employee dissatisfaction, pending lawsuits and ongoing management problems, it looks like shares of Laboratory Corporation of America are heading down quickly. Some of the company's insiders sold the shares ahead of the downgrades.
On 09/08/09 LANE WENDY E, a Director, sold 4,116 shares for $68.70 a share.
On 09/02/09 LANE WENDY E, sold 2,604 shares at $68.78 a share.
On 08/17/09 HARDISON DONALD M, the company's Chief Operating Officer, sold 854 shares at $69.50 per share.
According to Yahoo Finance, during the past 6 months there have been no insider purchases and 5 insider sales. A total of 12,481 shares have been sold by insiders and a net 12,258,100 shares have been sold by institutions, after taking into account purchases by institutions. It seems that some of those who really know what is going on are selling.
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Many may have already heard about LabCorp's bold move in denying services to a heart attack patient over an old debt of $7, but I just want to make sure that everyone hears about this incident. Below is the article by Donna Smith, the patient's wife. She rightfully denounced Laboratory Corporation of America's practice of disallowing services when "their" computer shows that an old debt was not paid, even if you have insurance and your insurance company may have made an error or did not pay the amount that Laboratory Corporation of America believed was due. Bottom line is that even with insurance, LabCorp will deny services to patients who they believe owe them money from prior services. Here is the note from LabCorp's front desk that was given to Mr. Smith when he was denied services. You can click on it to get a bigger image.
OK, if this wasn't personal enough just yet for me, it just got a whole lot more so. And if you think for one instant that in this nation at this point in history and with this popularly elected President and Democratic Congress you will be treated for a heart attack simply because you might die if you are not treated, think again. And if you think having insurance helps, think some more.
On Friday, my husband was denied a blood test because a computer record from some distant time past and some other state showed he had a $7 balance with LabCorp. I am not making this up.
My husband had a heart attack this week. He woke up one morning sweating profusely and with a heart rate dropping. I watched his color turn first ruddy then ashen, and then he felt as though he was going to pass out. He would not allow me to call 911 as he slowly began to feel sick to his stomach and he believed his symptoms were digestive rather than cardiac.
We have learned over the years to wait to seek care – it is expensive to do otherwise and dooms us to the endless loop of bills and collection notices and more damage to our already badly bruised credit rating. So we always wait to seek care until there seems to be no other option. We are not alone. Millions of Americans do the same. We do not want to use the emergency rooms or doctors' offices. We don't want anything to do with the whole mess.
We moved to Maryland in March, but have fought Humana insurance and Medicare transfer since then to even make sure my husband can get any care at all. And, by God, we were paying the premiums the whole time the insurance folks hemmed and hawed and stalled. It took three months to get that all straightened out, during which time they repeated over and over, "we're not denying treatment," and technically I suppose they weren't as they want us all just to get out our checkbooks and debit cards and pay up. And in the meantime, my husband waited for any doctors' appointment and got meds by calling back to Chicago to get prescriptions refilled.
My husband is a cardiac patient and a vascular patient with a complicated medical history and needs follow-up care on a regular basis. He is a responsible guy who has always maintained his insurance coverage and who avoids seeking care unless it is needed. He does not seek to overuse or abuse the system. To stay relatively healthy, he needs regular check-ups and decent intervention when necessary.
But, I insisted my husband follow up in the way we all are told is more sensible and cost effective. He went to a primary care doc on Wednesday who shuffled him off to a cardiologist after a visit barely long enough to be billed as an "extended, new patient visit." An EKG showed the grim reality. "Abnormal, negative T-waves. Inferior infarct."
Blood work was ordered in advance of the cardiologist visit set for Friday. He was to fast overnight, see the cardiologist and then get his blood drawn. Seems to be progressing, eh?
Well, only until he sat down in the LabCorp office to get his blood drawn. The LabCorp employee typed in my husband's Social Security Number, and promptly told him he could not have his blood drawn or have his test administered until he cleared up his old bill with LabCorp. The bill? $7. That's right — $7.
And my husband has been covered by insurance for many years. But now he sat – post myocardial infarction or heart attack – being told by a laboratory employee that he would be denied care due to an unpaid $7 bill. He did not have $7 with him. He was fasting. He tried to explain. They did not budge. They did call the supervisor. She confirmed and stood her ground for LabCorp. No test for Larry Smith. He owes $7.
David King, the CEO of LabCorp, made $8.2 million in 2008. He's one of the people and LabCorp is one of the companies President Obama is celebrating who will help transform our nation's healthcare system. Indeed. And LabCorp's political participation committee donated funds to several candidates in 2008, including Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. Charles Grassley, both of the Senate Finance Committee that is working on the nation's healthcare reform.
Lest we think the insurance giants are the only people hurting, harming and killing Americans like my husband as they shore up their profits, follow the money in this story alone. One doctor's office, another doctor's office, one insurance company and finally a lab – all worked together to make what they could individually off my husband and then ultimately denied his care for $7. Everybody got their bite of the apple and then left him in the dust as they moved on to the next source of revenue, oops, I mean the next patient continue reading.
Where do we stand today? Still no blood work drawn. Waiting for next week to see what we can do to set the tests and exams the cardiologist ordered before she got busy with another patient. Did my husband return to the doctor's office to tell them what happened and ask for their help? Yes. And he said not one person, not one, would reach into their pockets and give him the $7 or pick up the phone and try to help him resolve this. So what was his life worth? $7.
We'll get the tests done somehow. But the point is, we'll have to fight for it. And his heart will be stressed more and so on and so on and so on. This is the travesty of healthcare in this nation. And this Congress and this President are so damned concerned with their own political futures they cannot even see this reality for the rest of us. I am so angry.
And don't tell me that a single payer – publicly funded and privately delivered system — wouldn't stop heart attack patients from being denied care due to old debts of $7. It's the only system that could stop that sort of abuse.
The LabCorp supervisor who denied Larry Smith's test on Friday, June 26, in Elkridge, Maryland, is named Shirley Smith (no relation to Larry) at LabCorp's Maryland office: 410-365-1264.
Donna Smith is a substantial supporter of the Democrat Party so in all fairness, LabCorp attorneys and management were also contributors to Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and many Democrat Senators and Members of the House of Representatives who are working on health care reform legislation. LabCorp is now trying to convince these same elected officials into making laws that benefit the company. According to Huffington Post, 7 identifiable LabCorp employees contributed to Republicans while 14 contributed to Democrats.
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This is a recent article about LabCorp and their practices. The United States Food and Drug Administration believes that LabCorp's testing "…may harm the public health." Shame on you LabCorp for putting money before patient's health.
The US Food and Drug Administration is looking more closely at an ovarian cancer test from Laboratory Corporation of America after deciding that the existing data did not support the test's commercial use.The FDA Office of In Vitro Device Evaluation and Safety has asked Labcorp to discuss with the agency the utility of its OvaSure Yale test, after it learned that the performance characteristics of the test were based on research that is not representative of the intended pool of patients.In a letter to Labcorp dated August 7, OIVD Director Steve Gutman wrote that the scientific community would not view the study as sufficient to establish performance characteristics for high-risk women who may have ovarian cancer."Based on our review of your promotional materials and the research," Gutman wrote, "… we believe you are offering a high risk test that has not received adequate clinical validation, and may harm the public health." Gutman told Labcorp that OIVD would like to talk to the company about offering the test, and any other strategies the company may have for validating the test.
Tags: General Labcorp Stories, LabCorp Complaints, Labcorp Criminal, LabCorp Executives, labcorp general, LabCorp Health Care, labcorp unethical, Labcorp Wrongdoings
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a walk that marks her
from a mile off,
a daylight ghoul goes foraging.
she pounds grey streets for silver coins
– "I just need 50p for the bus!"
to brown and oblivion.
Eyes dead but urgent
she hunts endlessly,
gaunt face scowling at rejection,
yet she isn't deterred.
She can't be, her spouse
– she loves him and hates him –
is waiting back at the flat.
Sharp-tipped, he's always
needling her, never leaves her alone.
He plays her like a fiddle
plucks her strings
and pulls them, so she dances
like his puppet.
But she's Hungry for him.
All she needs is his touch
his warm caress
his coming inside of her.
H can make her whole again.
But he's a cruel partner
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I wrote this today, and may still edit it quite a lot. It isn't very thought-through in terms of rhythm, metre, and possible rhymes, but it has the idea and the imagery.
I've always noticed the very urgent, hurried walk of many drug addicts when they are out on the street. Sometimes they do it while begging for money, racing to get the amount needed for a hit. Other times it seems like they are off somewhere, presumably to their dealer, so with even more reason to step quickly. It's a walk that seems to even outpace that of the typical London commuter, and yet it isn't exactly the same as the commuter's. The commuter walks with a distant, withdrawn but hard purpose – long strides and arms pumping. The junkie walks with more of a rapid shuffle, almost looking like they are fighting the urge to jog.


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