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At a Glance
Two measures for computing the cost of intermediate projects-a ratio of cost to charges and relative value units-are highly flawed and can have serious financial implications for the hospitals that use them. Full-cost accounting, using the principles of activity-based costing, enables hospitals to measure their costs more accurately, both for competitive bidding purposes and to manage them more effectively.
For decades, hospitals have used one of two methods to compute the cost of their intermediate products (such as a laboratory tests and radiological procedures): a ratio of costs to charges and relative value units.
Both methods are highly flawed. CFOs who use either of these methods to ascertain the full cost of an intermediate product are making a mistake that can have serious financial consequences for their institutions.
Indeed, CFOs who use one of these methods during negotiations with payers about capitation or subcapitation rates, diagnosis-related group payments, or fees for individual services may end up proposing prices that are too high to obtain the contract. Or perhaps worse, the hospital might end up with a contract in which its service-delivery costs exceed the associated revenue.
A full-cost accounting effort goes through two stages. In stage one, the hospital's accounting staff:
The end result is that all costs reside in production centers. Although it has some flaws, the stage-one effort is well developed in many hospitals and, when done well, results in reasonably accurate production-center costs.
It is in stage two, when a production center's costs are attached to its products, that problems arise. During this stage, the production center's costs are divided into direct and indirect categories. Direct costs are those that can be attached to a product unambiguously; they typically comprise direct labor and direct materials. There is no big problem here.
With indirect production center costs, however, there are some tricky accounting problems, in part because these costs fall into three categories which, in a more general (or manufacturing) sense, are grouped under the label of "manufacturing overhead":
In a typical manufacturing context, MOH ordinarily is "attached" to products through the use of one or more "overhead rates." The absorption process, as this effort sometimes is called, can be a little tricky and can easily give misleading results. For example, when only one overhead rate is used, as happens in some manufacturing settings, the implicit assumption is that the unit used in that rate (e.g., machine hours or direct labor hours) drives the use of all MOH. However, MOH generally results from a more complex array of forces, such that an absorption process using a single overhead rate can give management incorrect information about the actual consumption of MOH, and hence about the full cost of a product. This can lead to poorly informed pricing decisions and profitability analyses.
Activity-based costing, or ABC, is now used in many manufacturing settings as a way to correct for this deficiency. Designers of ABC systems use multiple "overhead cost pools" and try to make the resources in each pool as homogeneous as possible. Then they identify an activity that drives the use of each pool's resources and use it to compute the pool's overhead rate. For example, one MOH cost pool in a factory might be the labor and supervisory time needed to set up the machines for manufacturing a batch of products. In this case, the appropriate cost pool would be everything associated with setting up the machines (such as cleaning and adjusting tolerances), and the appropriate unit of activity for the pool would be a setup. As a result, a unit of output in a small batch of products would get a higher share of the setup cost than a unit in a large batch.
Unfortunately, although many hospitals have developed intermediate-product costing systems in an attempt to determine the full cost of a DRG (the final product), few have developed an ABC system. Yet intermediate products in a hospital-such as laboratory tests, radiological procedures, and surgical interventions-are, from a cost accounting perspective, conceptually identical to products in a manufacturing setting. Instead of developing an ABC system to cost out the products, however, these hospitals have relied on either RCCs or RVUs as a means to compute the full cost of their intermediate products. The simplified full cost report for Owen Hospital (a fictitious institution), shown in Exhibit 1, can be useful in illustrating the errors associated with each of these approaches.
View Exhibit 1
Cost centers that produce a single product do not need an ABC system. For example, the renal dialysis department at Owen Hospital had direct costs of $1,250,000 and allocated service center costs of $423,930, resulting in a full cost total of $1,673,930. If, during the year that it incurred these costs, the department performed 6,000 dialysis procedures, the full cost of a single procedure (the intermediate product) would be $278.99. In this situation, since the department's only product is a dialysis procedure, and since all dialysis procedures are more or less identical, the average cost per procedure is a meaningful number.
By contrast, the radiology department (direct costs of $1,750,000, allocated service center costs of $688,321, and total costs of $2,438,321) conducts a wide variety of procedures, such as chest X-rays, limb X-rays, CT scans, and magnetic resonance imaging. Each procedure requires some technician time, and some procedures require supplies, such as a contrast medium. These are all direct costs of the department and are contained in the $1,750,000 figure. They are also direct costs of the procedures. That is, it is relatively easy to use time and motion studies to determine the portion of the cost for any given procedure that results from technician time, films, contrast media, and other supplies.
But what about the supervisor in the department who doesn't work on procedures? Or the department's scheduling personnel? Or any of a variety of other people in the department who don't work directly on procedures? These are all direct costs of the radiology department-they can be unambiguously associated with the department, but they are indirect with regard to any given procedure. And yet, if we are to know the full cost of a particular procedure, we must find a way to attach some portion of these costs to it.
Then there are the $658,321 in service center costs that were allocated to the department during stage one. They are indirect with regard to both the department and any given procedure, but we also must find a way to attach a portion of these costs to each procedure. Historically, this is where RCCs and RVUs came into play, and unfortunately, their use has led to potentially serious inaccuracies.
To compute the RCC for, say, the radiology department, the accounting staff divides the sum of the department's full costs for a year, as determined in stage one, by the department's total charges for that year. The resulting ratio can be multiplied by the charge for any given procedure, such as an MRI, to determine the procedure's cost.
Research has indicated that the RCC approach to determining a hospital's costs is about 95 percent accurate at the product line level and about 85 percent accurate for a DRG. (For details, see Michael Shwartz, David W. Young, and Richard Seigrist, "The Ratio of Costs to Charges: How Good a Basis for Estimating Costs," Inquiry, Fall 1995.) Below that level of aggregation, however, its accuracy declines, and it is extremely unreliable for any single product provided by a production center.
View Exhibit 2
To illustrate this inaccuracy, assume we wish to compare the costs of four laboratory tests used in the treatment of a patient with a given DRG in a teaching hospital with the costs of the same four tests for a patient with the same DRG in a community hospital. Assume the following conditions apply:
Thus, although the true cost of each test is the same in both the teaching hospital and the community hospital, the reported costs (using the average RCC of 0.48 multiplied by the charge) are quite different.
View formula 1
As a result, total costs for the four lab tests in question would appear to differ considerably.
View formula 2
In short, for two patients receiving the same four tests, the cost in the community hospital would appear to be $79.20, compared with $108 in the teaching hospital. And yet the actual resources consumed were identical in both institutions.
Over a large volume of tests, these cost differences would net out. But in a department that provides a heterogeneous mix of outputs, the use of RCCs usually will produce similarly misleading results for any aggregation of patients below the DRG level, and certainly for any single patient or any single test or procedure.
It often is argued that teaching hospitals are more expensive than community hospitals because of their greater case complexity, research agendas, residency programs, location, and a variety of other matters, all of which quite likely is true. However, it also seems likely that at least some portion of their so-called higher costs arises from the flaws in an RCC approach to costing. Indeed, imagine the difficulty the teaching hospital in the above example would have in obtaining a managed care contract in which the population to be served was expected to use a large number of "simple tests," and it thought that its cost for a simple test was $24 instead of $10.
Many hospital departments perform a variety of different kinds of procedures. In radiology, these range from a simple chest X-ray to a rather sophisticated CT scan that requires injecting a contrast medium into the patient's blood and taking several images of the patient's brain as the contrast medium flows through it in the bloodstream.
Assume that during the period covered by the cost report for Owen Hospital, the radiology department performed 30,000 procedures. With total costs of $2,438,321, the average cost per procedure is $81.28.
Assume further that we wish to know the radiology cost for two patients, each of whom received two procedures. If we use the average cost per procedure, the cost for each patient would be $162.56. However, if Patient A received two chest X-rays and Patient B received two CT scans, these totals would be very misleading.
To address this problem, the radiology department might decide, as many others have, to use relative value units. An RVU approach uses information from a national database to assign a weight to each procedure based on its complexity. For illustrative purposes, assume a chest X-ray is worth one RVU and a CT scan is worth 10, and that the radiology department performed 25,000 chest X-rays and 5,000 CT scans during the period covered by the cost report. We can compute the total RVUs delivered during the period as follows:
View formula 3
Since Patient A had two chest X-rays and Patient B had two CT scans, the new per-patient costs are shown in the exhibit below:
View Exhibit 3
Intuitively, this makes sense, since we know that a CT scan is a more complex procedure than a chest X-ray. Given the assumption that a CT scan is 10 times more complex than a chest X-ray, based on its RVUs, it makes sense that its cost should be 10 times that of the X-ray.
In terms of accuracy, however, the important cost accounting question is not procedure complexity, since much of this is picked up in the material and labor costs that are attached to the product directly, but whether all MOH should be a function of RVUs. If we conclude that MOH is driven by something other than procedure complexity, then we must undertake an ABC effort. To do so, we need to divide our overhead costs into several pools and determine the appropriate cost driver for each. The exhibit located below illustrates how costs might be computed if drivers other than RVUs were used for attaching the department's MOH to its products.
View Exhibit 4
There are several important points to note about this exhibit. Labor and material costs are direct costs and therefore are not an issue. (Because the CT scan has 10 RVUs, its unit costs under the RVU approach are 1/10 of what they are under the procedure approach. In total, they are the same under both approaches.)
There are five overhead cost pools. Four (hospital administration, plantwide depreciation, housekeeping, and maintenance) are the same as the ones used in Exhibit 1; that is, they are hospital service centers whose costs were allocated to radiology, and the total amount shown is the amount of the allocation. The fifth is the department's administrative costs, which are direct costs of the department but indirect with respect to any given procedure performed in the department. (In practice, we might use more overhead cost pools in an effort to improve the cost homogeneity in each.)
To attach the costs in these pools to the department's products, this example uses the same cost drivers that were used to allocate the costs to the department in Stage 1 (such as square feet for depreciation and housekeeping). It then computes the amount of space, maintenance hours, and salary dollars associated with each of the procedures, and uses the resulting percentages to distribute the costs between the two procedures.
The specific results would change depending on the overhead pools we select, the cost drivers we use for them, the mix of procedures, and the number of cost driver units used by each. With the assumptions in Exhibit 4 showing how costs might be computed using ABC, however, the per-patient cost comparisons between RVUs and ABC would look as shown in Exhibit 3.
With the ABC approach, we have relaxed the implicit assumption under the RVU approach that all overhead is driven by procedure complexity.
In its place, we have attached overhead to each product by means of several homogeneous overhead cost pools and using an appropriate cost driver for each. The result is that the chest X-ray now costs about twice as much as under the RVU approach, and the CT scan costs about half as much.
More generally, hospitals that substitute RVUs for a serious cost accounting effort can come to highly misleading conclusions about the cost of an intermediate product. This occurs because, although RVUs address the complexity issue, they do not deal with the fact that much of MOH is unrelated to procedure complexity.
Hospitals and other healthcare providers that wish to measure their costs more accurately, both for competitive bidding purposes and to manage them more effectively, can benefit considerably from ABC. Clearly, there are situations where a single overhead rate is adequate (such as in the dialysis unit) and, therefore, there is no need for ABC. But there are many other situations where the presence of one of three factors-product diversity, relative costs, or volume diversity-calls for an ABC system.
Product diversity exists when different products use overhead-related services in different proportions. For example, if one product requires considerably more supervisory time than another, there is product diversity. However, product diversity is important only if the costs of the different activities are significantly different, which is the relative cost factor. Finally, some overhead activities are batch-related, and if products are manufactured in batches of different sizes, there is volume diversity.
The details of the process for developing an ABC system are discussed in many cost accounting textbooks. In general, the process entails classifying a production center's costs into four activity-related categories.
Facility-sustaining. This is the highest-order activity, and includes work such as plant (or departmental) management, repair and maintenance, security, and other activities unrelated to the department's products, per se.
Product-sustaining. These are the activities needed to ensure that products are produced according to specifications. They include process engineering, product specifications, engineering changes, and product enhancements.Batch-related. These are activities that are performed each time a batch of products is manufactured, such as set-up time for machines, material movements, and inspections.
Unit-level. These are activities that are tied directly to the number of units produced, such as utility usage, machine hours, and the like. (Unit level activities also include direct manufacturing costs; the three other categories include only manufacturing overhead.)
These four categories are the building blocks of an ABC system. Once costs have been classified into a category, and the categories have perhaps been further subdivided into more homogeneous cost pools, the accounting staff needs to determine the activity that causes a product to incur the costs in each pool. Conceptually, the search is for a cost driver that reflects a product's demand for the resources in the pool. For some pools this is relatively easy; for others, it can be tricky. Nevertheless, even if considerable effort is required to put an ABC system in place, it is a one-time effort. Once developed, an ABC system can be sustained at minimal ongoing expense.
In summary, a hospital department can use a single rate to assign its MOH to products if it has little product diversity and production batches that are all about the same size, or if it has high product and/or volume diversity but similar activities regardless of the type of product or the batch size in a production run. A dialysis unit, with little product diversity and equal batch sizes (one dialysis in a "batch"), falls into this category.
By contrast, when there is high product or volume diversity, or differences in activities associated with different products or batch sizes-as there are in pathology, radiology, the operating suites, and many other departments where a hospital's intermediate products are delivered-there quite likely is a need for an ABC system with multiple overhead cost pools and a separate cost driver for each. Once such a system is in place, it can produce more accurate cost information, which, in turn, can better inform pricing decisions and profitability analyses, especially in hospitals that are engaged in managed care contracting.
Outside of health care, the use of ABC has led managers in many organizations to reverse their thinking regarding which of their products are the most profitable. It is likely that similar conclusions would be reached in a hospital that undertakes an ABC effort. Indeed, in an era of shrinking resources for health care and intense negotiations between payers and providers, a hospital that does not have an ABC system could be putting its financial viability at considerable risk.
David W. Young, DBA, is professor of management, emeritus, Health Sector Management Program, Boston University School of Management, president and CEO of The Crimson Group, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. , and a member of HFMA's Massachusetts Chapter (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Spice Dealer ! / Fortune Teller .
A spice dealer can't overhaul what time has spoiled.
A fortune teller can't predict his own destiny ,
Yet there are those who pay him for his trifle Quackery.
(( Its sad and painful to see unqualified individuals
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What a wonderful message. Loved how you used the spice dealer and fortune teller..it is so visual. Incidentally, I have written 2 similar micropoems & would love to share with you:
Fate's Favor http://wp.me/p2qvHS-db
the 5th poem in this post http://wp.me/p2qvHS-7v
You have a very interesting blog.
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Wise words JalMichael, God tells us only He knows the Future and those who He reveals it too but it is never for material gain, all His Truth is free to those who seek, ask and knock but those blindly enmeshed in the Occult never seek Him for Truth and His guidance, they can't they are blinded and in deep darkness, Satan is their Father and remains so unless they come to heart repentance.
Satan knows our past and our present that is why Medians, fortune tellers etc seem so convincing but he lies about our future and leaves seeds of fear and despair.
Many years ago when I was young in age, I was told by a Median that I would die on my second trip overseas, you may not believe it JalMichael but I'm still alive Lol and I have been overseas many times in my life but that fear was there for a long time. At first they share good things and than when convinced, they tell you lies even believing themselves they are True and so many more are than trapped in Satan's web but thankfully like me, Jesus rescues those He knows.
Thank you for sharing Truth as a warning JalMichael may you be greatly blessed as you continue to do so.
Christian Love from both of us – Anne
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Many Pay, Much, for 'Quackery!'
At least the seers do no harm. The politicians are downright dangerous.
Do you really believe 100% JalMichael that seers meaning fortune tellers, Mediums even reading the daily stars do no harm or Pagan worship of Goddesses.
All these are part of the Occult and lead to worshiping Satan, many of those in Covens started this way, which is their purpose to put people in bondage, what seems like fun turns into a nightmare but not till your trapped.
God tells us not to call good what He calls evil or evil what He calls good.
We can vote out a Government but when Satan has a foothold in our lives without heart repentance it is Eternity in Hell.
Blessings- from both of us – Anne
I don't doubt that JalMichael what you say is very True but to agree that seers do no harm, or to agree with those who worship a Pagan Goddess regardless of how nice they present, shows lack of understanding.
God warns us about both seers and Pagan worship in the Bible, it is Spiritual Adulty, I value you as a person of commitment to The Lord, not to the deception of the world.
Christian Love – Anne
The same with worshiping Goddesses, so good JalMichael we agree, I don't want anyone to fall into the Satan's Trap like I did, no one warned me.
Blessings to you and may you continue to stand up for God's Truth – Anne
Indeed! We're camped out on Mars, we can replace worn out hearts and can see and speak to anyone, anywhere on earth … Yet we still can't govern ourselves, either individually or in nations. We are the clowns of the universe!
Do you find it interesting that bees produce the only food on earth that doesn't spoil?
Thank you for following my blog.
amazing. truth.
Well said!
I see the future ….LOL .. Just kidding sir Nice post :)
Thank you for visiting my blog today and for liking one of my posts. Blessings, Natalie :)
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Dear Jalal, I wrote a post named "AN IMMIGRANT" a few days ago. I really like you to read that post and give me your comment about it. I truly am grateful if you read it.
Always, your sister in Christ, Ellie
I'm with you on that one my friend, and to that I have to add the ridiculousness of expecting a politician to actually pass laws that will limit the amount of money he can take home at the end of the day. But we still vote for them, because hope springs eternal. I enjoyed the post, and thanks for the visit.
I always enjoy your posts Jalal. Best wishes for the Christmas holiday. Steve


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Definitions for Epidemiologyˌɛp ɪˌdi miˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˌdɛm i-
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Epidemiology
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ep•i•de•mi•ol•o•gyˌɛp ɪˌdi miˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˌdɛm i-(n.)
(n.)the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and with detection of the source and cause of epidemics.
Category: Medicine
the factors contributing to the presence or absence of a disease.
Category: Medicine
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the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
The branch of a science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, computer viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
The epidemiological body of knowledge about a particular thing.
Origin: From epidemia + οlogy, from επιδημία + λόγος, from επί (upon) and δήμος (people) (disease upon people and theory). See also epidemic.
Webster Dictionary
that branch of science which treats of epidemics
Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results. Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences. Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials. Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
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Field of medicine concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.
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CBS wins National award hey? Does anyone realize you can't buy a suit of clothes in CBS, there are very few sidewalks, no fine dining, and it's almost impossible to make a left hand turn on "good old route 60". It will be a proud day when CBS gets some sort of retail outlet store rather than another hardware store or gas station.
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Time to base these Galleons and get them finished up and ready for play.
For my first Galleon base I wanted to go with a nice maritime theme - one that really spoke to the aesthetics of this unique looking colossal. The first step was to start on the quay.
I cut a strip of foam wide enough to fit across the interior of the base.
Here I've poured the plaster. You can see it's leaking out the sides a bit but that's about as bad as it gets. Make sure you don't pour too much or you'll end up with a really tall base.
After 45 minutes to an hour it's time to take the plaster out. It's best to work with it while it's still wet, but make sure it's hard to the touch. Right now you're looking at the piece bottom side up. You'll want to file away all that excess so it sits flat on the base. You see how the facing side has picked up some texture from the foam? That's exactly what you want. It'll give the bricks a natural look.
Once the bottom has been filed flat, flip the piece over to begin adding some of the stone effects. The top has also picked up some interesting texture from the base it was cast on. I was going for a concrete slab look so I used the side of a file to make some nice straight lines. It's probably worth pointing out that this is not the same tool I used to file the bottom of the base flat. That was a big steel number that I usually keep in the garage.
I made some stone slabs across the front, and also added some tiny little cracks with a sharp X-acto.
The bricks were just carved in with the pointy end of my small file.
Eventually I had enough to cover the whole surface.
For the Dock I'm just using Balsa Wood. To intensify the wood grain texture you can rub a wire brush along the wood's surface.
Just cut the wood into strips and glue them to a framework of some sort. I've just glued mine to a sub-structure made of thicker wood. Super glue is terrible for this sort of thing, so use white glue or wood glue.
For the posts I've cut up some bamboo skewers. To get that beaten appearance, give them some good solid whacks with a hammer or something else that's solid and moderately heavy. I used my file and it worked great.
Then put it all together.
The dock is painted with Umbral Umber (P3). Then it get's drybrushed with Gun Corps Brown (P3) and a little bit of Hammerfall Khaki(P3). Then it gets a wash of Agrax Earth (GW). You can add some drops of green ink here and there while the Agrax is still wet to give it some color.
To get a nice brick color I mix a little Umbral Umber in with some Skorne Red (P3).
To get a nice gross color for the water I our some Umbral Umber into the base, then spread it around with a brush to get it nice and even. I squirt some Vallejo Cayman Green on there while it's still wet, and spread it around with one of those cocktail sticks. This makes for a nice gross toxic waste kind of appearance.
Once that's dry it's time to add the water. This isn't any special product for terrain. It's just some Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel. I used a piece of thin plastic I cut off of a blister pack to spread the gel around and get it nice and even. Then I went in with a smooth sculpting tool (basically shaped like a very small spoon) and patted the gel repeatedly to get it to make ripples. When I was finished, some of the peaks of the waves were a bit too tall and sharp. I tapped the base against the table a few times to kind of even it out.
And here he is. In order to get him to perch up there properly I pinned him through the plaster and down into the base. There are 5 pins in all, and they all use thick brass rod to help support his weight.
As you can see the next base is quite different. The rest of my Merc army are based on various hunks of scrap. I guess someone's paying them a lot of money to guard a really important junk yard. I decided to make an extra big junk pile for this Galleon.
I can't claim credit for this technique. This idea came from a No Quarter a few years back. The focus of that article was about creating terrain, but Colossal bases are big enough to use the method. Anyway, on to making the base. You begin by cutting a piece of pink or blue foam down to the appropriate shape. Then crinkle some aluminum foil around it. Use hot glue to apply the chunks of scrap over the foil. I'm using parts from the Pegasus Hobbies Power Plant and Chemical Plant sets. With enough time and patience you can create your own industrial looking parts with rivets and strips of plasticard. But man - this is way faster.
Keep adding bits until the foil is completely covered. To mix things up a bit I've also added some strips of plastic mesh used for needlepoint. There's also some plastic tubing and some I-Beams from Evergreen Scale Models.
Next I spray it with Rustoleum. Make sure to get the spray into every nook and cranny. Of course if you get it too thick you can obscure the detail.
Once the spray is dry I give it a wash of thinned down Heartfire (P3).
Finally I drybrush it with Chanimail (P3), then give it a nice thick coat of my special armor wash. This is mixed from 1 part water, 2 parts Agrax Earth, 1 part Nuln Oil, and 1 part Asurmen Blue. It also gets a drop or two of matte medium to make sure it binds properly. Then you have to pin the big guy through the foam. As before, I used thick pins so that they bear the load of the Galleon rather than the scrap pile.
~So there you go. Hopefully these tips will come in handy whether you use them for basing or terrain.


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When not humblebragging about the fact that he–a millionaire–still takes the bus to work, Square cofounder Jack Dorsey enjoys the holidays the only way a nouveau tech founder truly can: by frolicking around with a model on a yacht in St. Bart's.
British model Lily Cole, known for her shock of auburn hair and alien-like visage, was snapped by the Daily Mail massaging Mr. Dorsey. Or perhaps she was showing the rather pale founder how to properly apply suntan lotion? Last techies heard from Ms. Cole, she was an aspiring founder, launching her own social network called Impossible geared towards enabling people to help each other.
The Daily Mail deemed the guy in the photo a "mystery man," but as Kernel points out, that mystery man looks just like Mr. Dorsey, and even has the same tattoo. Kernel reports the duo are spending their holidays in St. Bart's together.
In the grainy photo, Ms. Cole is seen placing her hands on Mr. Dorsey's shoulders, perhaps in an attempt to siphon his tech and design skills. "His weird denim obsession will be mine!" she was reportedly heard muttering while maniacally rubbing her hands together like a witch from a Disney movie.


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I worked at Walter Industries full-time (more than an year)
Salaries can be good, depending on position.
Poor employee relations and communications. Don't care about people.
Employees are your biggest asset, learn to treat them well.
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The business side needs to be focused on processes, procedures, etc. The company mines well but as an operating company it is horrible. Promote people based on talent not who they kiss up to.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
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A Killeen man faces capital murder charges after Austin police say he plowed into a crowd of people at South by Southwest.
A man on a bicycle and a woman on a moped died.About two dozen others were hurt, including five critically.
21-year-old Rashad Owens faces two counts of capital murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault.Police say they had tried to pull Owens over because they suspected him of driving drunk.
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Ocean acidification is a global environmental issue caused by the man-made release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Ocean acidification is often called the "evil twin" to climate change, because both issues are rooted in carbon dioxide emissions.
The oceans absorb almost 30 percent of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but the rising amount of carbon dioxide emissions being created by human activity has surpassed what the oceans can healthfully absorb, changing ocean chemistry and making them more acidic.
The current rate of change in the ocean's pH is 100 times faster than any time in the last few hundred thousand years and is most likely unprecedented in the Earth's history. This shift in the natural balance of the ocean's chemistry will have major adverse effects on tropical as well as cold-water corals, and the loss of many coral species will negatively impact a variety of marine life and ocean-dependent economies, such as fishing and tourism.
Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Ocean acidification may have negative impacts for many other marine species, especially those that produce shells. In some cases, these impacts are already occurring, and they have the potential to disrupt entire ocean ecosystems and disrupt food webs.
The only truly effective way of combating ocean acidification and climate change is to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. If action is not taken now, ocean acidification may cause widespread disruption to marine ecosystems and a massive decline of corals within this century.
Oceana is working to reduce the cause and effects of ocean acidification by promoting government policies to cap CO2 emissions, eliminate offshore drilling, and by advocating for energy efficiency and alternative energy sources such as wind power and more.


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The lower part of Seattle's Duwamish River was declared a Superfund site in 2001. That means the polluters have to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. More than ten years later, the EPA and the polluters are close to proposing a clean up plan. But there's still some debate about how clean this river should be.
A significant source of water pollution, muddy runoff from logging roads, is stirring up controversy in the Northwest. A lawsuit that began in Oregon will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Its ruling will determine exactly how the Clean Water Act applies to the hundreds of thousands of miles of logging and forest roads.
When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, its foremost goal was to halt the widespread toxic industrial dumping that left urban rivers in flames in the 1960s. Those problems have been largely solved. Now, agricultural water pollution is getting more scrutiny.
The water that goes down the drains and toilets of millions of homes ends up funneling into drain fields, septic tanks, or wastewater treatment plants. But that's not the end of the line. All that water — along with everyday chemicals, pharmaceuticals and human hormones — ends up in groundwater, rivers, lakes, and bays.
For all of the Clean Water Act's successes, it was never designed to control contaminants that have emerged since its passage in 1972. These pollutants are affecting the environment in new and different ways. Consider the feminized fish of Puget Sound.
A major goal of the 1972 Clean Water Act was to stop cities and towns from discharging raw sewage. The federal government gave communities billion of dollars to build wastewater treatment plants. But those early grants are gone and those plants have aged.
Peter Maier is waging a lonely campaign against the Environmental Protection Agency. He's zeroed in on a test the agency uses to determine how far plant operators must go to treat wastewater before returning it to America's rivers, lakes and bays.
The Clean Water Act took effect 40 years ago Thursday. In 1972, stormwater pollution was nowhere near a top priority. Today, it's taken the lead as the top water contaminator. How bad is it? Puget Sound diver Laura James takes us where nobody wants to go — inside a stormwater outfall — to get an upclose look.
At least since the 1970s, Scientists and engineers have been devising methods to intercept contaminant-laced rainwater that sloughs off hard surfaces. Yet these methods still are not widely mandated, making stormwater a leading reason the Clean Water Act –- passed into law 40 years ago today -– has failed to meet its goals.
OPB's Cassandra Profita is busy this summer blogging about water in the Northwest. Keep up with her and all her findings at Ecotrope's Clean Water: The Next Act.
Join us for a live online community chat for the anniversary of the Clean Water Act, Wednesday, October 17 11am-Noon. Our team of journalists will share some of the highlights from our Clean Water: The Next Act series of reports. And we'll bring other folks into the conversation to learn how communities around the Pacific Northwest are addressing pollution in local waterways.
The Clean Water Act is now 40 years old. Join us as we take a look back at the time of the creation of the Act in 1972, the water quality challenges we face today and the future of the Clean Water Act.
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Apple has given a preview of some of the 100 features that will be included in a new iPhone operating system to be launched later this year.
Apple founder Steve Jobs showcased seven of the features, including multi-tasking which will let users run more than one programme at a time.
The feature is already included in many other smartphones.
A mobile advertising platform is to be launched to allow the device to run ads on applications made by third parties.
iAd marks Apple's first foray into a potentially lucrative new market, and pits it directly against Google's search engine advertising model.
Apple will allow external developers to pocket 60% of ad revenue from iAd.
The Apple boss said the iPhone OS 4.0 update will be released first for the iPhone and iPod touch, and then the iPad, later this year.
'Be the best'
Apple boss Steve Jobs gave a demonstration of the multi-tasking feature showed the online radio station Pandora running in the background playing music while a user could either read news online or deal with email.
The iPhone OS 4.0 update will be released later this year
"We weren't the first to this party but we're going to be the best," he said.
Some of the other features unveiled at the presentation at Apple's headquarters in California include being able to create specific folders to store third party applications downloaded from iTunes, homescreen wallpapers, enhanced mail which will gather email from multiple accounts into one "unified" inbox and providing iBooks which is already on the iPad.
Mr Jobs said mobile users spend more time inside applications than searching the internet.
Therefore it made sense to have adverts within the applications - or apps as they are commonly termed.
"It's very clear that [Mr] Jobs believes that ads in the context of apps makes more sense than generic mobile search," said Tim Bajarin at consulting company Creative Strategies.
Changing mobile commerce?
Apple's move into mobile advertising was widely expected after it bought Quattro Wireless mobile advertising network for almost $300m (£196m) in January.
Apples believes advertising inside applications is the future
****ysts say revenue from mobile advertising will jump dramatically this year.
Some ****ysts believe this will shift the paradigm in the mobile world.
"It has huge potential to really change mobile commerce," said Van Baker, Vice president of research at Garnter.
"The evidence so far is that very few transactions really happen in this space. Mobile is used to compare prices, find restaurants, movie times and the like but very little in the way of commerce."
Apple bought mobile ad company Quattro after failing to buy the market leader AdMob which was purchased by Google.
In a slight to the search giant, Mr Jobs said "Google came in and snatched them (AdMob) because they didn't want us to have them".
In 2009, mobile ads represented 12% of revenue but that number is expected to grow to 28% by 2012.
iPad demand
During the packed press event, Mr Jobs revealed that to date Apple has sold 50m iPhones. That number rises to 85m when the iPod touch is included.
Mr Jobs also gave an update on the iPad which went on sale in the US only at the weekend. It is expected in stores in the UK and part of Europe, as well as Canada and Australia at the end of the month.
Apple said it had sold 450,000 iPads as of Thursday. Mr Jobs added that 600,000 electronic books and 3.5m applications had been downloaded for the iPad in the last five days.
"We're making them as fast as we can," Mr Jobs said. "Evidently we can't make enough of them yet so we are going to have to try harder."
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There's always loads of books I want or none!! After much humming and harring I think I'd have to go for Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - I love the humour! :-)ReplyDelete
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+1 GFC Follower: Mel S
It seems that this week there are so many books I'm dying to read but Iced by Karen Marie Moning is the one I can't wait for since I learned about its publication :)ReplyDelete
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+1 GFC follower: celebridal
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I'd love to win the first book in the McKenzie Lewis series by Sandy Williams. Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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+1 Tweeted: https://twitter.com/lesleyboogie/status/260396020217819136
Man, Sandy Williams' series looks amazing. But I think for this I might have to go with The Evolution of Mara Dyer.ReplyDelete
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+1 GFC follower: Lori M. Lee
+1 twitter follower: @LoriMLee
I agree that the Sandy Williams' series is awesome, but I think I'll go with Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones. Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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The Dead of Winter sounds interestingReplyDelete
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Have The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams & talked to her in Chicago at RT 2011, so I would go for, The Shattered Dark (McKenzie Lewis #2), by Sandy Williams.ReplyDelete
Many great choices today. Thanks for the chance.
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Oh wow, Terry Brooks' anniversary edition for me! He is my favourite author, and my original trilogy is getting quite worn out.ReplyDelete
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Perfect giveaway! I think I would want Midnight City. <3 Maybe :D Still a bit unsure ;p Thank you for the chance :)ReplyDelete
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I would love to win Iced! Thanks as always for the giveaway! ^.^ReplyDelete
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- Christina Kit.October 22, 2012 at 1:10 PM
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i think i would pick fourth grave beneath my feet by i'm still unsureReplyDelete
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I'm totally in for Iced by Karen Marie Moning, I need to get into this series immediately.ReplyDelete
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All my ducks are in a good a row as possible. Thanks!
I would love to win Donna Grants "Midnight Seduction"ReplyDelete
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Ooo so many great choices Susannah! I have some on pre-order, and I am looking forward to them. But I forgot the new Jacqueline Frank book, so that one if I win please!ReplyDelete
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Great choices! I would take Beautful Redemption.ReplyDelete
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SO many choices! I would love to win either ICED, Forbidden, Midnight's Seduction, Finale, or The Evolution of Mara Dyer.ReplyDelete
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OMG!! No brainer here! I would love to have a copy of Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet! Thank you for the awesome giveaway! email@example.com +1 Comment, +1 FollowerReplyDelete
I'd love Forbidden by Jacquelyn Frank.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance.
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my pick is for Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlReplyDelete
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Fourth grave beneath my feet! Finally it's here, yay!ReplyDelete
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So many choices! I think I'll go with Beautiful Redemption. :)ReplyDelete
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My choice would be Beautiful Redemption! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 22, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Would love to get Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter.ReplyDelete
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if i win i would like to read either Finale , by Becca Fitzpatrick OR Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet , by Darynda JonesReplyDelete
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- Marie-ClaudeOctober 22, 2012 at 8:32 PM
I would like to win Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier.ReplyDelete
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I would love to win ICED! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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OMG!!! There are so many good ones. I just wrote them all down...didn't realize some were coming out this month :) I'm going to pick the one I want to read first but I will be reading 5 off this list. Favorites. If I'm picked I'd love to have Iced by KMM. I freakin loved her fever series and have been re-reading parts to get ready for Iced. So Iced is it for me :) Thank you Thank you!!ReplyDelete
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I would love to win Iced by Karen Marie Moning. Thank you for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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My pick is The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.ReplyDelete
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Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet. I have been wanting to read this series very bad.ReplyDelete
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+1 GFC follower: June M.
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Ooh, Dark Star looks pretty good! But so do a lot of others... Wow, its hard to pick! :PReplyDelete
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+1 GFC follower: Midnight Book THief
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I would love to read The Lands of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Thank you for this chance! :DReplyDelete
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i want Sapphire Blue (Edelstein Trilogie #2), by Kerstin Gier ....i bought her first novel and this is the sequel that i have to read...thx :)
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I want to win Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson #4), by Darynda Jones, pls.. pls.. :)ReplyDelete
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I'd love to win Iced: A Dani O'Malley Novel (Fever World #1), by Karen Marie Moning. I am a huge fan of Fever series and just can't wait to read this spin-off!ReplyDelete
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Lands of Ice and Fire! /squealReplyDelete
I'm a sucker for books with maps in them, what can I say?
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I would love to win a print copy of The Evolution of Mara Dyer!ReplyDelete
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So much choice, but I keep seeing Kristen Painters House of Commare series and it looks amazing, so I would choose book 1 of that series.ReplyDelete
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+1 I'll throw my name in the hat for Rhodi Hawk's new novel.ReplyDelete
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This is a tough one, but I'd love to read The Dead of Winter. Thanks!ReplyDelete
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I would love a copy of Finale! Thank you :)ReplyDelete
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Fourth Grave Beneath My FeetReplyDelete
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thank you so much for this new contest, I would love to read Iced: A Dani O'Malley Novel (Fever World #1), by Karen Marie Moning.ReplyDelete
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Darynda Jones (book 4) please! I need a Reyes fix :)ReplyDelete
I'd like Beautiful Redemption. Thanks for the giveaway as always :)ReplyDelete
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+1 twitter follower: CatyR48
+1 GFC follower: Caitlin Rahm
+1 tweet: https://twitter.com/CatyR48/status/261223806172024833
I really want to win Finale! Thanks
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+1 twitter follower @jlkalman26
+1 GFC follower: Jennifer
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jlkalman26 at gmail dot com
Oooh! The Evolution of Mara Dyer !ReplyDelete
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Funny sort of list this week; I think Midnight's Seduction (Dark Warriors #3), by Donna GrantReplyDelete
+4: comment, twitter & blog follow, tweeted
Oh man, there are a lot of great books coming out this week! If I'd win, I'd have to choose Krampus: The Yule Lord because I use him to scare my daughter around Christmastime. :-DReplyDelete
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So many good titles and there are just too many I want. Probably mara dyer or dark starReplyDelete
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Iced or Death's Apprentice.ReplyDelete
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I want Beautiful Redemption. I have the other 3 in this series and this would finish it for me!ReplyDelete
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Eeek! If I win, I'd like to have Iced by Karen Marie Moning. Can't wait to read it.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway!
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What a great release week. I see at least 5 books that I want, with the top of the list being Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter, A Trace of Moonlight, and The Shattered Dark.ReplyDelete
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The Evolution of Mara Dyer sound great but I would love the first book, The Unbecoming of Mara DyerReplyDelete
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Would like to get The Shattered Dark (McKenzie Lewis #2), by Sandy Williams. I read the first one and loved it.ReplyDelete
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+1 Twitter Follower : Rogue484
I would love A Trace of Moonlight by Allison PangReplyDelete
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