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While the smart appliance industry is not growing by leaps and bounds in terms of unit shipments, it includes an ever-growing number of products by a variety of companies, according to a report from In-Stat/MDR. The high-tech market research firm finds that, even though the economic conditions of the past 2 years have put many projects on hold and have lowered consumer spending, the overall Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for smart appliances will be 53.4 percent from 2002 to 2007.
The firm divides smart appliances into two main categories: Internet-enabled consumer electronics and white goods. Internet consumer electronics include audio products, picture frames, analog Internet TV, and e-mail devices. The white goods segment is divided into major and portable appliances. In addition, this year will also see the first Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) devices.
"The market for smart appliances is affected by drivers such as Internet access, home networking, education and price," said Cindy Wolf, an industry analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "There is a growing interest in digital entertainment products and housing developments with built-in connectivity are also on the rise. These factors will also influence the adoption of smart appliances."
However, many of these products require a broadband connection or need to be included in a home network, therefore limiting the size of the market. According to Ms. Wolf, "Successful products will have features that are compelling to users and it will be easy to see how the connectivity adds value to the product and the consumers' lives. Overall, as more and more homes gain access to broadband and home networking, the demand for networkable devices, such as smart appliances, will inevitably grow."
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In addition to features, education and price, other issues affecting manufacturers include connectivity platforms, software, and standards.
In the early part of In-Stat/MDR's forecast, e-mail devices make up the greatest part of the total smart appliance units. By 2007, the product segments become more evenly divided.
The white goods segment, as a whole, will experience the highest CAGR, 95.4 percent, over the period. However, unit sales for white goods will be low for a few years due to the competitive nature of the industry and a reluctance to enter the market too quickly with a product that consumers have yet to demand.
This year we will see the first SPOT devices. These products, the first of which will be watches, will use DirectBand technology to access Internet content rather than more traditional methods. Microsoft expects SPOT appliances to appeal to a very large audience, because they are focused on everyday objects that people already find useful.
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I also found Costco's prices much cheaper on Greenies Pill Pockets than any local retailer ($4.30 for 45 each or 1.6 oz.). Find them behind the pharmacy counter at Costco. PetSmart was asking $7 for the same item. Amazon.com charges $6 including shipping. If you can get your cat or dog to swallow the pill by simply coating it in butter or sticking it in a piece of bread, good for you.
Here's another pet product that can get expensive--Feliway. If anyone's vet recommended Feliway diffusers and spray to reduce anxiety in cats/dogs, save a lot of money ordering them online. I have found the cheapest prices at Entirely Pets. If you order $85 or more, shipping is free.
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Within the next five years, U.S. social advertising revenues will reach $15 billion, with native and mobile leading the way.
Driven by the growth of mobile and native advertising, U.S. social media advertising revenues will increase from $5.1 billion in 2013 to $15 billion in 2018, according to BIA/Kelsey.
In its newly released U.S. Social Local Media Forecast (2013-2018), BIA/Kelsey defines social media advertising as money spent on ad formats across social networks. The company predicts that these ad revenues will grow to $8.4 billion in 2014, representing the greatest year-over-year jump in the five-year forecast period.
Meanwhile, native social advertising is growing faster than social display, notes the report. And in 2015, it will surpass social display for the first time.
U.S. native social advertising, primarily driven by Facebook's News Feed ads and Twitter's Promoted Tweets, will surge from $1.8 billion in 2013 to $9.4 billion in 2018, according to the forecast. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.6 percent. In comparison, social display ad revenues will see a modest increase, from $3.3 billion in 2013 to $5.6 billion in 2018 (CAGR: 11.3 percent).
"Native social advertising is anything integrated within a social network's user experience," says Mark Fratrik, vice president and chief economist at BIA/Kelsey, commenting on the findings. "Facebook's News Feed and Twitter's Promoted Tweets are becoming very successful. And social sites are able to charge higher advertising prices for native advertising, because people know they have a great impact."
A look at two different platforms - desktop and mobile - reveals that by 2018, U.S. social mobile ad revenues will climb to $7.6 billion by 2018 (CAGR: 38.3 percent), and exceed social desktop for the first time.
This trend is down to a striking revenue growth in Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels in the past few years, primarily through mobile, Fratrik explains. "Young people check Facebook pages and Twitter feeds every few hours," he tells ClickZ. "Based on every quarterly report we get from Facebook, we find that this social network has successfully moved into mobile area."
Fratrik points out that marketers and advertisers are continuing to transition from traditional media to online and mobile. "We expect that growth to continue," he adds. "In our research, we see many marketers are incorporating successfully social and online digital sites into their campaigns."
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Yet I provided links demonstrating otherwise.I don't agree; religions teach followers how to be better people and are proud of their good works. Most mainstream religions understand people of other religions have other theology. There is a benefit from religion; instruction in morality and self control. Atheists don't teach the same values.
Heck, you yourself have already invoked Godwin's, just as I predicted.
And there is a difference between theology and the simple view that an abstract theological construct is not scientific.That's why I support my neighbor's right to practice their religions without government interference.
There's a difference between teaching someone how to be a better person and teaching someone how to be a better cook.
I did. You can't. Hence you are required to construct the very same caricature of non-believers that all fundies do. You're as bad as Skippy.(shrug)Just note the difference between the two.


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Referring later to the present-day situation in the Holy Land and to the synod for the Middle East to be held in October of this year, the archbishop said, "The Church in Jerusalem will have a predominant role. Jerusalem is the key to the Middle East and war or peace depends on it."
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Johnson's car left the roadway, fell about 25 feet, flipped and landed on it's roof into the Little River.
A passing motorist discovered the vehicle in the river and reported the accident to park rangers.
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NEW YORK — May 9, 2014 — Digital video viewing saw double-digit growth in 2013*, making cross-platform insights critical for marketers—particularly when it comes to marquee events like the Olympics. To better understand exactly how consumers watched the 2014 Winter Games across TV, online and mobile, NBCUniversal participated in an exclusive pilot using soon-to-be-released Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings mobile measurement and Nielsen's proprietary Software Development Kit (SDK).
Nielsen is making a significant mobile push this year, expanding to measure advertising and programs across platforms, both linear and dynamic ad models.
To determine consumer exposure to advertising across all NBC Olympics channels, watching on one screen or multiple, NBCUniversal tapped Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings. The solution combines Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings reporting with TV ratings to deliver unduplicated and incremental reach, frequency and gross rating point (GRP) measures by age and gender for TV and digital advertising. The pilot looked at five national ad campaigns that ran heavily across platforms.
"We're living in a cross-platform world. Whether you're 45, living in Boise and watching on your big screen or a 19-year-old tuning in from your smartphone at a Starbucks in Atlanta, we need to be able to capture your ad exposure," said Megan Clarken, EVP, Global Product Leader, Nielsen. "This pilot with NBCUniversal is proof that it's possible, and offers a preview of the cross-platform measurement capabilities that will be available to the marketplace this year."
Mobile will be included in Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings in Q3 and in the C3 TV rating this fall.
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The top 5 toughest football schedules in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast
By Jeff Greer
There's no shortage of good football games on the calendar for this fall. Find out which teams put together the toughest slates in the area.
A long review of this fall's games show one thing: Area teams weren't afraid to play the big boys. Several nationally ranked teams will play Palm Beach County opponents, including Miami Central, the No. 1 team in the nation. Beyond that, with a quality crop of local teams, the district schedules here are tougher than they've been in recent years.
What shouldn't surprise fans is which teams made the toughest-schedules list. They're all considered the best squads this area has to offer.
Here are the top five toughest schedules in the area, with a few other contenders listed at the bottom.1. Glades Central
Glades Central starts the 2013 season with a new district and a tougher-than-ever road to the state finals. Fort Lauderdale-University, the defending Class 3A champion, moved up a class and into Central's district. The newly formed district rivalry starts in Belle Glade in mid-October. A week later, the Raiders play Miami Northwestern, another nationally ranked powerhouse. And of course the Muck Bowl against ready-to-break-out Pahokee finishes the season.
County-assigned non-district games with Palm Beach Gardens and Palm Beach Central only made the Raiders' list of games stick out even more. And the season opener against Dwyer is only matched in-county by a Thursday night game at American Heritage on Sept. 12. And when Central gets to the playoffs, it'll likely have to play Gulliver Prep or Miami Washington, one of the top 10 teams in the country.
Toughest Games: Aug. 30 — Dwyer; Sept. 6 — Palm Beach Central; Sept. 12 — at American Heritage; Sept. 20 — at Pompano Beach-Blanche Ely; Oct. 11 — at Palm Beach Gardens; Oct. 18 — Fort Lauderdale-University*; Oct. 25 — Miami Northwestern; Nov. 8 — Pahokee.
2. American Heritage
A kickoff classic at nationally ranked First Coast starts a five-week bum-rush of good opponents. Cross-town rival Atlantic hosts Heritage for the season opener before the Stallions head south to play their sister school Plantation-American Heritage. They'll have a short six-day turnaround before their home game against Glades Central. Then, before the much-needed bye week, another nationally ranked team, Cocoa, travels south for a much anticipated showdown in Delray Beach.
In-district games against Pahokee and Cardinal Newman should be fun to watch, though Heritage's lines will be the difference. The Stallions finish up at home against Gulliver Prep, a playoff regular from Miami Washington's brutal district.
Toughest games: Aug. 23 — at Jacksonville-First Coast (exhibition); Aug. 30 — at Atlantic; Sept. 6 — at Plantation-American Heritage; Sept. 12 — Glades Central; Sept. 20 — Cocoa; Oct. 4 — at Pahokee*; Nov. 1 — Cardinal Newman*; Nov. 8 — Miami-Gulliver Prep.
3. Palm Beach Central
The Broncos once again have high hopes. A year removed from their first district title and second consecutive playoff appearance, they'll challenge themselves in a must-see kickoff classic against Miami Northwestern. Central will be a significant underdog in that game, but it'll be a great experience before the season starts. The rest of the games, including some tough district contests, are against tough in-county opponents.
Toughest games: Aug. 23 — Miami Northwestern (exhibition); Aug. 30 — Royal Palm Beach; Sept. 6 — at Glades Central; Sept. 27 — Seminole Ridge; Oct. 18 — at John I. Leonard*; Nov. 1 — Park Vista*; Nov. 8 — Palm Beach Gardens.
4. Dwyer
Before the season ends, Dwyer will be considered among the best teams in the state. The Panthers won't surprise anyone with their talent at receiver, with three BCS-quality wideouts. But they might catch people off-guard with their defensive speed and their quarterback play. Paired with running back Alonso Smith and a good offensive line, Dwyer has plenty to work with, which is why coach Jack Daniels scheduled some good in-county games. None sticks out like the kickoff classic against Miami Central, the No. 1 team in the country. The rivalry game at Gardens will be fun, and Dwyer's games against Glades Central always entertain.
Toughest games: Aug. 24 — Miami Central** (exhibition); Aug. 30 — at Glades Central; Sept. 13 — at Palm Beach Gardens; Oct. 4 — at Royal Palm Beach*; Oct. 25 — Atlantic*.
5. Palm Beach Gardens
None of these games necessarily stretches the map — a game at Vero Beach is the farthest Gardens will travel — but Gators coach Rob Freeman put some tough local teams on Gardens' slate. Each presents a different type of challenge, with Leonard, Vista and Glades Central being speed teams and Ridge and Palm Beach Central representing some of Palm Beach County's more physical teams. The biggie on here is a Sept. 13 game against Dwyer. Not only is it a huge rivalry that took a few seasons off, it's also a game against one of the best teams in the state.
Toughest games: Aug. 30 — at John I. Leonard; Sept. 6 — Park Vista; Sept. 13 — Dwyer; Oct. 4 — at Seminole Ridge*; Oct. 11 — Glades Central; Oct. 25 — at Vero Beach; Nov. 8 — at Palm Beach Central.
The best schedules of the rest: Fort Pierce Central, Pahokee, Park Vista, Royal Palm Beach, Seminole Ridge.


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*The promotion of Nishioka was essentially a swap for Danny Valencia. They don't play the same positions since Valencia is a third baseman and Nishioka is a middle infielder, but the swap works because Jamey Carroll and Alexi Casilla can play (and have played) third base. Valencia and Nishioka are essentially the same age -- Nishi just turned 28 and Valencia will turn next month. Valencia has proven some value at the major league level -- he was third in the Rookie of the Year voting in 2010 after hitting .311 in a partial season, and he did lead the Twins in RBIs last year (albeit with 72, mostly by staying healthy while nobody else could). Nishioka has not proven anything at this level. So the decision was a function of two things:
*The first thing is money. Valencia was a 19th-round pick. He was making $515,000 this year. In the grand scheme of things, Minnesota didn't have a ton invested in him. Nishioka, on the other hand, was brought here for $14 million, including a posting fee. The Twins are obviously not willing to cut their losses on this one (even though they have been prepared to eat contracts before, such as when the DFA'd Jason Marquis earlier this season). The total investment just seems too much for the Twins to bear giving up on Nishi, at least for now. You can argue this is not a smart way to do business -- that Nishi is sunk cost, and they should just move on -- but we don't think you can argue that money is a factor in this decision.
*The second thing must be Valencia. The Twins basically gave him away for a 21-year-old prospect playing in low rookie ball. They traded him while Trevor Plouffe was still hurt. And they traded him after he had at least performed decently after his recall (the Twins were 5-2 in his seven starts, and he had six RBI). But Valencia has clearly rubbed the team the wrong way at various points. Whether there was a final straw or just an accumulation of things, the Twins had seen enough. But they made a decision, as we said, that didn't help their on-field product. Because there is no way you can argue that Nishioka is a better MLB player than Valencia based on what each has accomplished. Valencia, by the way, is buried on the Red Sox AAA depth chart.
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Not recommended – Cocomo 'go go club'
'Would you like to come to Cocomo, we've got beautiful girls?'. Any man wandering along the deptak in Szczecin after 8.00 p.m. is certain to be approached by one of the 'pink umbrella girls'. Perhaps even by two or three. And they will never take 'No' for an answer.
Should men allow themselves to be dragged into such a 'den of iniquity'? Before setting foot in Cocomo, please be aware that the company 'Ewent' from Kraków which runs the 'Cocomo' chain is owned by one Jan S, currently awaiting trial on fraud charges.
On 11 march, 2014, Poland's leading liberal newspaper 'Gazeta Wyborcza' published two articles about 'Cocomo' go-go clubs, which are now present in most of Poland's major cities, including an anonymous interview with a female employee of Cocomo Szczecin.
The newspaper reports on the case of 'Mateusz' who entered Cocomo Poznań and left 5k PLN poorer, having lost consciousness after apparently only having drunk a single beer. 'Mateusz' reported the matter to the police, and is now awaiting the results of a drugs test to determine whether his drink had been interfered with.
According to the Poznań police, 12 similar complaints have been made in the city. Further similar accusations have been made by Cocomo customers in Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Sopot and Kielce. The police have suggested that identical accusations from a number of Polish cities cannot all be coincidental.
One of the complaints was from a Pole who had been working in Norway, and had had two sums of 15k and 29k PLN debited from his account. Initial tests suggested he had been drugged.
The record formost money spent in Cocomo in an evening is apparently held by a Swede, who is said to have lost consciousness after purchasing two bottles of champagne. His evening in Cocomo set him back a whopping 98k PLN (20k GBP, 25k EUR).
Sz-n.com therefore suggests that unless you have a strange desire to prove the old adage 'a fool and his money are soon parted' correct, or else wish to improve the bank balances of Polish fraudsters and gangsters, then please ignore the entreaties of the 'pink umbrella girls'.
'Cocomo' – just say 'No'.
Norwegian Cai Larsen, a freelance software developer and amateur film-maker, moved to Szczecin four years ago after meeting his current partner, Monika. Whilst living in Poland, Cai has worked hard on his Polish through the study of classic Polish films. Cai will be contributing reviews of Polish movies for the Szczecinian.
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Hello Thanks for this interesting doc, i'm french, and come back to my country yersteday with the amazing news that i had spent 11 000 € (27 000 zlt.) in Cocomo this week, wich is not possible, i have an insurance with my visa card but i'm afraid it works, please help me to find others victims…
another victim of this scam, 1200€ stolen from my bank account (thanks god I had a lower limit than many other people), which I am pretty sure I never authorized. With this kind of places in the main square of many polish cities with total impunity after so many reports, I am even afraid of going to the police. Something smells really really bad there. Already contacted my bank, I hope I can get the money back.
One more! I lost 12'000 EUR 2 days ago. I do not remember what happened. I drunk one beer. After this full blackout. A report was made at the police station. They have a questionnaire especially for Cocomo. The police officers were kind, but they told that they can't act against them because officially they are clean. It's very clever. One mafia boss getting rich. If you want to get in touch with me feel free.
Me too, Gdansk £4000 down the drain, I only had a few drinks from about 9pm, boss then brought in some "free" shots….. credit card required…. type in pin number……free shot…. credit card required…can't stand.. helped to toilet sick in basin…credit card required to clean toilet (loss of earnings)… find my self outside on the pavement on all fours…..police turn up and take me back to hotel. Wake up next morning with no headache or sickness (so not drunk last night!), looked at credit card slips, couldn't believe the totals and even more strange that the time on the slips were mostly around 1:40 am!! I went to police but they said without a blood test nothing could be proved, as I was going home to England the next day and I didn't want to spend the rest of my holiday in a hospital! and now I guess it's too late to do anything apart from cash in my two ISAs and try to pay off the credit card bill before Christmas.
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Nursing: Then and Now - page 7
The nursing profession, as a whole, as well as the role of the nurse have evolved dramatically over the past several decades. I personally have witnessed the changing face of nursing during my 30+ years in the profession. Gone... Read More
- 3Quote from Good Morning, GilOh there was time to smoke, go to the powder room, go to have your meals (in the cafeteria for days and perhaps evenings), take breaks, have a quick convo with one's bf, hubby or fiancé (then as now many nurses were dating or involved with a member of staff or someone who had regular business at the hospital such as LE ), and so forth.My question is: how did nurses have time to smoke back in the day? lol
I always call patients Mr or Miss ______ unless they prefer something else or are my age or younger. I'm in my 20's; is this not standard practice? I think it's rude to call someone 50 years older than me by his/her first name.
Depending upon your unit there could be a decent census of stable patients whom today would be discharged home or to LTC. So aside from meds, treatments and what not there really wasn't *that* much else to do. Even for many CC patients treatments/interventions may have been limited compared to the options today.
With team nursing it also was (again depending upon the unit and staffing) sometimes easy to sneak off for a break or what not. That is until your head nurse sniffed you out.
Finally there was end of shift charting. If not the nurse's station then the lounge or anyplace else one could find room and smoking was allowed.
- 1Quote from tnbutterflyNeither often did new moms.Post op patients did not ambulate as soon and as often as they do now.
- 1Quote from nhnursiePatients were often admitted night or even a day or several before scheduled surgery or procedure. Much depended upon what sort of tests/lab work the MD wanted run beforehand, or required prep.Dont think I saw this but patients were admitted the night BEFORE surgery!!!!!!
So many things are done today on an outpatient basis and or much of the prep done at home before patient arrives that "youngsters" forget there was a time that didn't happen. A two or even three day bowel prep for a colonoscopy was done inpatient. You'd find those soda pop looking green bottles of magnesium citrate in many fridges on the floor, but getting patients to drink them all down was another matter cause it most certainly did not taste like pop. *LOL*
Depending upon what tests or whatnot were ordered the physican or physicans may wish to see the results early enough before the night before.
- 1Quote from Good Morning, GilWelcome to the new world of assumed informality.My question is: how did nurses have time to smoke back in the day? lol
I always call patients Mr or Miss ______ unless they prefer something else or are my age or younger. I'm in my 20's; is this not standard practice? I think it's rude to call someone 50 years older than me by his/her first name.
Telephone your credit card's customer service department and the rep named "Bob" (even though they are most often in India ) acts like he has known you for ages and begins addressing you by your Christian name. Go to a restaurant and your waiter is now also your close friend and upon seeing your name on the credit card begins calling you again by your Christian name.
Back in the old days it was "Nurse Rogers" or "Miss. Kent", or "Doctor Jones". Patients were Mr, Miss. or Mrs, unless some other honorific such as "Father", or whatnot applied.
- 2Quote from phoffmanAhh Vitamin B, the essential ingredient for making a nurse's best IV friend the "banana bag". Slap some tape on the thing and you've got a system nearly if not equally as accurate for most gravity infusions as today's pumps.I remember having a brown glass bottle of whiskey in the med closet to give a Doctor ordered measured dose (in a med cup)
We mixed chemo IV's at the start of shift.
We also added yellow vitamin to IV (I loved the smell, so my co-workers would save those for me)
My grandfather had pernicious anemia and needed a vitamin B shot 1x/month. As a student nurse I gave it to him in my aunt's (nurse) absence. The syringe was glass and the needle needed to be sharpened!
- 3Quote from brandy1017In Manhattan, NYC the boards were usually given IIRC at the New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle (now the Time Warner Building).I remember the two day all day affair of nursing boards back in the day! And you only learned if you passed, not how well or poorly you had done. Months would go by while you were working and waiting and if you failed you could lose your job or at least be demoted till you passed. Talk about pressure! I passed but a couple coworkers didn't, one lost her job and had to go to a different hospital, the other worked as a HUC/CNA till boards were passed.
Twice a year you'd pass and see scores of mainly women and girls in various states of panic stretched out with Lippincott and other review manuals doing some last minute reviewing.
- 1Quote from Psychtrish39Quite honestly regulating the flow manually probably is the easy part. It's getting to that point, the actual math that seems to scare most student nurses. Thing is the standard formulas haven't changed much over the years, and long as one knows basic math it's all pretty much plugging the numbers in then solving the problem. Oh and knowing when to round up or down unless you've found a way to give fractional drops! *LOL*@Do good.. I went to school in the early 2000s and we learned gravity drips as well. You are right all nurses should know how and I am glad that I do so if in a natural disaster or no pumps.. I can do it "old school" and I am darn proud I am old school and new school both.. Love this post.... love hearing how nursing has changed...
Student nurses today by and large have it easy as most progams allow them to use calculators and various formulas/methods to solve. Back in the day it was pencil,paper, showing all work an in most cases using only the formula one's med dose calc teacher gave, PERIOD.
- 2Quote from nursel56Oh the days when one could graduate on Friday and start working as a GN on Monday without skipping a beat. The biggest question usually running around a class of grads was those who would work before taking the boards versus those who wanted to take some time off and or use the period to study.Just had to come back and add another one --- "then" you waited for ☞6 weeks☜ for the results of your "state boards" - (pre-cursor to the NCLEX) so I get amused when people freak out if they don't get "the good pop-up" in a few days.
- 2Oct 24, '12 by tnbutterfly, BSN, RN AdminSpeaking of the harrowing 2-day ordeal of State Boards...... One of my classmates was so worked up about taking the boards that she fainted and missed part of the first day's testing. In fact, I don't know what became of her....whether or not she was even allowed in the testing room at all. I try to block out all memories of those 2 days.......except for the miraculous fact that I passed!!!!
- 6Quote from DidiRNKnow am going to get *****slapped for saying this but..... part of that "trust and respect" came from the professional pulled together look of whites with or without a cap.One thing I remember and see a huge difference now is when I started back in the mid 1980s, is how patients and families had a lot more trust and respect for you.
Yes, one knows in shouldn't matter but dress does play a powerful role in how others perceive us in our employment roles.
There is no reason why airline pilots still need to wear those military inspired uniforms, I mean aside from going to and from the plane no one actually sees them at their job, but yet they do and when they saunder (or in some cases strut) through the airport some people stand at little straighter.Last edit by Silverdragon102 on Oct 25, '12 : Reason: changed to all **


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Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Comments On Delay In Phase III Impracor™ Program
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMY), which is focused on the commercialization of drug formulations utilizing the FDA 505(b)(2) drug development pathway, today announced that last week it was notified by its contract manufacturing supplier, DPT Laboratories, Ltd. ("DPT"), that its recently produced placebo formulation batch failed, and its active batch showed a lower than expected specification result. As a result, Imprimis announced that there would likely be a delay in the initiation of its Impracor Phase III topical NSAID program. Imprimis is awaiting the receipt of the full CMC report to evaluate its options regarding these manufacturing issues.
Imprimis CEO Mark L. Baum, stated, "Our company is committed to transparency, excellent stewardship of corporate resources and, in every case, responsibility. For this reason, upon confirmation of these manufacturing issues with our clinical trial material, we notified our shareholders and the market."
Baum continued, "Prior to the recent production at DPT, Imprimis contracted with a seasoned CMC expert to review our manufacturing protocols in connection with the production of our clinical trial materials. Additionally, both our CMC expert and our Chief Medical Officer were present at DPT during the production of both the active and placebo batches. Nevertheless, DPT notified Imprimis that preliminary test results were not within specifications for the placebo formulation and that there was a lower than expected specification result for the active formulation. While DPT has successfully produced two batches of our active material in the past, they have recently experienced challenges with our protocols. I have requested a comprehensive report on the recent production activities at DPT in order to help guide future manufacturing activities for the Impracor program."
Baum concluded, "We value providing transparency to our shareholders. We expect to thoroughly investigate the matter, assess our options, preserve our portfolio of assets, and ultimately provide guidance on our clinical trial activities as soon as we practicably can. We are committed to these goals."
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Testifying Wednesday before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, offered a grim assessment of the war-torn country—and revealed startling details about America's hapless reconstruction efforts there.
Few have a job as challenging as Sopko's. As the inspector general, he must study our actions and spending, and uncover and investigate examples of fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. Since the U.S. has spent the last 12 years blasting dollars into Afghanistan, "following the money" is a task on the order of investigating grains of sand in the desert. Still, Sopko and his team have proven to be uncompromising, inexhaustible, and enormously effective. His office is independent; he is not beholden to the usual feudal lords in Washington. As Congress has decided to sit this war out, Sopko has proven to be the conflict's only real oversight mechanism.
Since taking charge in 2012, he's uncovered everything from $230 million in missing spare parts to spending on diesel running $500 per gallon (when the going rate was around $5 per gallon). Thanks to Sopko, American taxpayers learned that they bought $200,000 thermostats for air conditioners in a small medical clinic that was never completed—and according to the Afghan government, was probably never going to be used. And that's just in the areas to which he has access. Because of security concerns, by next year his office will be restricted to a mere 21 percent of the country.
And according to Sopko's congressional testimony, things are bad. Really bad.
Since the fall of the Taliban government at the start of the war, the United States has invested $10 billion to fight the Afghan drug trade, through efforts such as ending poppy cultivation, halting the manufacture of narcotics, establishing drug treatment programs, and building a robust counternarcotics police force and criminal justice system. This might be money well spent, as 90 percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan. No effort to build a stable nation there can succeed amid the hurricane forces of financial and institutional corruption that come with a thriving drug trade.
But 12 years and $10 billion later, according to Sopko's testimony, "Afghan farmers are growing more opium poppies today than at any time in their modern history," and despite the "mammoth investment" of American dollars and blood, "more land in Afghanistan is under poppy cultivation today than it was when the United States overthrew the Taliban in 2002."
Still, the optimist might argue, good policies under hard conditions take time to bear fruit. So five years after President Obama assumed decisive control over our strategy in Afghanistan and tripled the number of U.S. service members in that war, are his efforts finally set to pay dividends? Said Sopko: "In the opinion of almost everyone I spoke with, the situation in Afghanistan is dire with little prospect for improvement in 2014 or beyond." As a result, "All of the fragile gains we have made over the last twelve years on women's issues, health, education, rule of law, and governance are now, more than ever, in jeopardy of being wiped out by the narcotics trade which not only supports the insurgency, but also feeds organized crime and corruption."
One-third of the Taliban's funding is thought to come from opium. And though U.S. officials have remained fixed in the denial stage of the Kübler-Ross model, claiming that we can work with elements of the Taliban, the news remains bleak all the same. According to Sopko, "It is widely thought that every drug organization supports or works with insurgents in Afghanistan."
The exhausted American might wonder: Why does it matter? With the litany of problems in Afghanistan, why should we care about fields of pink flowers and the drugs they yield? This is a fair question, but assumes that the drug trade is an island unto itself. Not so, according to the inspector general. "Opium cultivation and insecurity go hand in hand," the report noted. "About 89% of total poppy cultivation this year occurred in Afghanistan's southern and western regions, where insurgents and criminal networks are strongest."
And the problem is spreading. Nangarhar, the eastern province in Afghanistan whose capital is Jalalabad, was declared "poppy free" in 2008 and had been hailed as a model province. In the span of one year, however—from 2012 to 2013—poppy cultivation has increased 500 percent, now covering 15,719 hectares of the province.
It's hard to make the argument that the United States has ever waged a drug war effectively, and our work in Afghanistan is no exception to that. In 2002, we had a sweep-and-destroy policy for poppy fields in Afghanistan that yielded little success. As the late Richard Holbrooke, America's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in 2009, "[Those policies] did not result in any damage to the Taliban, but they put farmers out of work and they alienated people and drove people into the arms of the Taliban."
A more sensible policy was thus implemented, in which the U.S. would encourage and assist farmers in planting alternative crops such as saffron and grapes. Executed in parallel were training programs to establish an Afghan equivalent of the Drug Enforcement Administration; drug interdiction programs to get drugs off the black market; and the use of forensic accounting to squeeze Taliban revenues at their sources. At the local level, basic security measures were implemented to provide law-and-order in villages and towns, and rehab clinics were established to help addicts. In other words, the U.S. led a full-spectrum effort to provide a better life for the average Afghan, which would in turn make poppy cultivation less appealing. "Nonetheless," said Sopko, "on my last trip to Afghanistan no one at the Embassy could convincingly explain to me how the U.S. government counternarcotics efforts are making a meaningful impact on the narcotics trade or how they will have a significant impact after the 2014 transition."
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The term "falernum" supposedly comes from the name of the ancient Roman wine "Falernian", though the two are in no ways similar.
Two brands of falernum are Fee Brothers (which is non-alcoholic) and John D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum (which is 22 proof). Falernum is fairly easy to make at home, but care should be taken to steep the lime peels for only a day or two.


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Gary Payton: East still runs through Celtics
When I think of Gary Payton, the very last thing I think of is his time in a Celtics uniform. It just doesn't fit. He's The Glove. A Seattle Supersonic. His years on the Bucks, Lakers, Celtics and Heat should just be forgotten. They're kind of like Jordan's years with the Wizards, Bob Cousy's time with the Cincinatti Royals or Kwame Brown's entire career: we should just pretend like they never happened.
But since I'm now remembering the last few years of his career, Payton should have an interesting perspective on the East's top two favorites. He has played for both the Heat and Celtics. (Business Journal)
Just like anybody who follows the NBA, Payton said he is also interested to see how things will turn out for the highly improved Heat squad that now boasts of LeBron James and Chris Bosh in addition to resident superstar Dwyane Wade.
"Well, they have three great stars there. But like what I've said you've got to have more than just names. You'll never know what will happen this season. You still have a great team in the Orlando Magic. You have a great team in the Boston Celtics. The Celtics are the defending Eastern Conference champions, so they [Heat] have to go through them. I just want to see what happens [with the Heat] just like everybody else…," Payton said.
The Heat still have to go through Boston. I couldn't have said it any better myself.
P.S. – Is it bad that I'm already fired up for the playoffs, even though there are still two months until opening night?
P.P.S. – I am now going back to pretending that the last four years of Payton's career never occurred. Sorry, Gary, but you just lost your one ring.
(h/t ESPN Boston)


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|Common English Bible (CEB)
|New International Version (NIV)
|1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.
|1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
|2 All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you—all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea's fish. They are in your power.
|2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
|3 Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you the green grasses, I now give you everything.
|3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
|4 However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.
|4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
|5 I will surely demand your blood for a human life, from every living thing I will demand it. From humans, from a man for his brother, I will demand something for a human life.
|5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
|6 Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his blood will be shed; for in the divine image God made human beings.
|6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.
|7 As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it."
|7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
|8 God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
|8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
|9 "I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants,
|9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
|10 and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.
|10 and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth.
|11 I will set up my covenant with you so that never again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
|11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
|12 God said, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation.
|12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
|13 I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the symbol of the covenant between me and the earth.
|13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
|14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,
|14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
|15 I will remember the covenant between me and you and every living being among all the creatures. Floodwaters will never again destroy all creatures.
|15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
|16 The bow will be in the clouds, and upon seeing it I will remember the enduring covenant between God and every living being of all the earth's creatures."
|16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
|17 God said to Noah, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I have set up between me and all creatures on earth."
|17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."
|18 Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth came out of the ark. Now Ham was Canaan's father.
|18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
|19 These were Noah's three sons, and from them the whole earth was populated.
|19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
|20 Noah, a farmer, made a new start and planted a vineyard.
|20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
|21 He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and took off his clothes in his tent.
|21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
|22 Ham, Canaan's father, saw his father naked and told his two brothers who were outside.
|22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
|23 Shem and Japheth took a robe, threw it over their shoulders, walked backward, and covered their naked father without looking at him because they turned away.
|23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
|24 When Noah woke up from his wine, he discovered what his youngest son had done to him.
|24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
|25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan: the lowest servant he will be for his brothers."
|25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."
|26 He also said, "Bless the LORD, the God of Shem; Canaan will be his servant.
|26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
|27 May God give space to Japheth; he will live in Shem's tents, and Canaan will be his servant."
|27 May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave."
|28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
|28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
|29 In all, Noah lived 950 years; then he died.
|29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.
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Whole Foods Interrupts Gowanus Opening to Announce New Bryant Park Location
"Third & 3rd" is just the beginning.
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"Third & 3rd" is just the beginning.
He was more repentant in his Facebook diatribe.
He posted as police banged on his door.
It reportedly started over a coat.
Bryant Park is about to get all kinds of new food options.
Plus: Max Brenner expands, and more, in this week's Leftovers.
But expect a shop in Brooklyn next year.
Skinny jeans and fattening frites.
So now he's moving to Texas.
Things got ugly.
Guess we'll have to keep bringing our own!
Not an easy challenge, for sure.
Don't waste your time. It's not Beyoncé.
Plus: a new roof for a restaurant in Cobble Hill, and Milk Bar keeps the noise down, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
The designers will model in Naomi Campbell's fashion show.
If you have a ticket! She's selling them on Ticketmaster.
With QVC and the Kardashains at the Tents, is it any wonder?
The meatpacking steakhouse will open a restaurant, outdoor café, and takeout kiosk.
Plus: Reintroducing oysters to Jamaica Bay, and another Frederick's closes, in our regular roundup of neighborhood food news.