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iControlMIDIDesign Ends iOS Development
iControlMIDIDesign have been making apps designed to expose additional MIDI functions in hardware synths for over a year. Ironically I didn't think it was worth reporting on any of them, but here I am reporting on their demise.
Due to insufficient sales, we have to terminate this project.So, what does it mean?
• We will not be releasing any new Apps
• We are leaving our Apps on the App Store for maintenance purposes only (updates, bug fixes, etc…)
• Apple will automatically remove all our Apps from the App Store in 01/2013 as we will not renew our iOS License Agreement
• If you are an iControlMIDI licensee you are most likely safe with our Apps (which runs fine on iOS 4.2, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.1.1); the only risk our Apps fail is Apple updating iOS and breaking our Apps. This will not happen if you are an iPad 1 owner as iOS 6 will not run on that device (we are not saying here that our Apps will not run on iOS 6!). It seems that Apple will be dropping older hardware support so we are entering into a firmware scenario and safe for years to come. However, this depends on Apple, not on us, so we cannot guarantee it.
Thanks for your interest in iControlMIDI, thanks for your business.
I'm a little shocked by this. They have been at it for a while, so this seems sudden. Although I haven't made use of any of their apps it has always been nice to know they are out there if I should ever buy a cheap DX7 off Craigslist. These apps aren't pretty, but they are really helpful for hardware synths with poor patch design interfaces.
Given that their stated reason for ending development was a lack of sales, I contacted the developer to ask if he had considered lowering the price on the apps. Each individual app is listed at $30-50! That seems prohibitively expensive. If they aren't selling at $50, maybe they will sell at $5?
This turns out to be exactly the wrong thing to ask...
Tim: I know a lot of people are using the iPad and custom MIDI designers like TouchOSC to get more use out of their old hardware. There definitely seems to be a market here. Have you considered drastically reducing the prices on your apps, just to see how that goes?
Michael: Thank you for the advice (I already received a tons of emails with the same brilliant idea); so I'm going to give the same in-your-face answer. Who are you? Do we know each other? Are the the CFO of a Fortune-100 software editor? Are you a Partner a KPMG? Do you have a MBA from Harward? What I'm reading here is as good as what I can read in the 'free press' while riding the subway to work in the morning which ends up in the subway trash when I arrive to work! Now I'm going to give a VALUABLE piece of advice. If you do not like our Apps or its pricing; download XCode and develop an App of your own with the pricing you want.
Our conversation dissolved from there into Nietzschean concepts on the revaluation of values, and finally the Alamo. Never forget!
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wow, i guess you'll have to look for friends elsewhere.
Loved the email exchange Tim, thanks for the insight. If you stare to deep into the abyss, it stares back in to you eh?
Sounds like a charming guy! I'd rather buy apps from developers with better attitudes. Can you imagine emailing this guy with a support question about one of his apps? I bet his response would be a far cry from the positive interactions I've had with Matt/Blip Interactive, Wooji Juice, Retronyms, Intua, One Red Dog, Harmonicdog, etc.
And ironically if you are a licensee of some icontrolmididesign you bought for 30 or 50 bucks, you are at the risk of losing the functionality of your pricey purchase in the near future.
These products were a good idea, but the dev underestimated what users expect for $30 in the iOS market. May also have spread himself too thin, trying to cover too many different products before his interface was mature. (The UI on these products is ugly, compared with other apps in this category, and doesn't make any special use of the touchscreen.)
Great response to your email! An angry man indeed. Perhaps this could become a regular weekly section on the web site "lets make a developer angry with a simple question!"? I think it works.
wonder if the part of the statement "...apple will be dropping older hardware support..." relates to this:
dunno what all the pins do now, but presumably the change could affect software developers as much as hardware/accessory makers.
Gee whiz, what a douche! But then again, I have deduced that for quite a while now.
And what, selling your iOS apps on eBay (!) didn't work, either??? Just pathetic and probably a violation of Apple's developer T&C, maybe somebody reported him.
So, $30 or $50 for one ugly-ass MIDI controller after another. Sure, each app is just another selection of MIDI CC#'s that took 5 minutes to enter into a shit-template, but let's make vintage synth owners pay through the nose for each separate one, as they have lots of money to spare if they own a Jupiter-8... If only this guy DID talk to a cfo, maybe his venture wouldn't have failed so spectacularly.
Good riddance.
Wow. I happen to have a PhD in computer science, undergraduate degrees in math, an extensive research track record, and I also develop apps, so maybe I'm qualified to provide advice.
Income = #units * $perUnit
I hope I didn't lose anyone there with the complex math. Everyone still with me? This would be easier with a blackboard. Here comes the hard part.
You might be able to increase #units through a decrease in $perUnit, resulting in a net increase in Income.
I've spoken with colleagues in economics and behavioral psychology (the best man at my wedding is a PhD behavioral psychologist who has done consulting for the Vegas casinos), and there's a sweet spot on the curve. It can be worthwhile to investigate different $perUnit values, to find the one that maximizes Income.
Wait, what's that? My suggestion is the same one that Tim and everyone else had? Wow, I guess the whole freakin' world is wrong. (cue Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box, forever in debt to your priceless advice...)
Wow - sounds like he went to the Underpants Gnomes' school of Business... good riddance.
Fail is as fail does.
Something tells me he's not the sorta fella that would open source his abandonware. A shame, really. I'd love to play with the matrix-6 editor but at that price and as finicky as the M6 is with external control, I wasn't up to take a shot at it.
If I'd done all that work and it flopped, I'd probably be grumpy too. It's too bad though, I can't see why he wouldn't at least attempt a lower price for completed software.
Perhaps they were not charging enough for software clearly coded in gold, platinum, and other precious minerals. It can be risky to set the price too low when you are marketing a luxury product. I picked that up in business school, along with a number of other handy tips.
It reminds me when Animoog was $.99, no one downloaded the app, and Moog went out of business. A cautionary tale.
Gee.......I personally think he should have went the other way. Raise the price and give it an image of being really valuable. If he didn't think slashing it would increase his revenue stream, then heck.......just shoot for the moon and see how far BS could get him. After all, he has a high proced degree in BS if he's telling the truth.
This is the exact problem with music technology and the US business scene in general.
NAMM businesses think they have the right to your future business even when they poorly support today's product.
And the fact is that NO PERSON with a Harvard MBA would buy a product like this with the kind of support attitude like that and generally Harvard educated people are smarter with their money than to spend 30-50 bucks for a mono-tasker app that doesn't even do different synths like Galaxy did so many years back. If someone he graduated alongside isn't going to buy it and he has no respect for those "below" him, why is anyone surprised he's going broke like he deserves?
I have seen Harvard's electronic music studio. It was nothing as good as Berklee or Brown. But even I know that Midi apps with minimalist interfaces like this are nothing to set up. I've done them as slider macros for Performer and Vision on a macplus. Maybe you have to look up a little Hex code and do some counting on your fingers. Big Deal.
But also this attitude that because you were one of the luck suckers to get to a good school on legacy, you deserve success without adversity AND deserve to sell to only high end clients is so amazingly apparent that this comes out as stupidly counter intuitive against any of Adam Smith's principals from the Wealth of Nations and laughable. High-end customers deserve service with some humility.
It is the kind of thinking that will get you laughed at by Capitalists and consumers the world over.
As a personal note, If it was one of the people from the company who came to the AHNE 2011 Synth get together in Lowell, MA, I can definitely see why the product didn't sell that day. The person there to demonstrate this product was not a good salesperson and their presentation left something to be desired. So either an MBA from Harvard teaches you nothing about how to deal with people while selling or it teaches nothing about dealing with people when you are hiring.
I think I'd be pretty pissed too if someone came up to me and started suggesting obvious strategies to help me keep my app in business, when they
and therefore,
no matter,
you seem to think software development and sales is a walk in the park, CONSIDERING ALL OF THE CRITICISM YOU GIVE THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DO IT. if it's so easy then, go ahead, make an app yourself and get it to sell better than icontrolmidi. THEN i think you'll have the right to advise developers.
yaya, it's overpriced, they're ripping us off, it's bs that they're shutting down because someone might have just bought the app and might not be able to use it for as long bla bla bla.. that very well may be the case, and with apps like MIDI designer, you don't really need these, but you're not a developer, so you don't really know what you're talking about, do ya? and if you contact any developer with "Have you considered drastically reducing the prices on your apps, just to see how that goes?" they're gonna get pissed off.
"Never forget!"
Joeysynthsynth, you are this guy? ;)
The guy is free to do as he pleases, dont think anyone has disputed that. Being rude and aggressive after little provocation would appear to be the issue. And the idea that you need to be an ios developer to understand a simple sales technique employed to varying degrees of success all over the world is a little like saying you need to understand brain surgery to sell headache tablets. Programming skills do not equal good business or sales skills. This chap, his app and his attitude could be considered exhibit a.
Little point here: consumers opinion drives sales. Ignore that at your peril.
So you also think people shouldn't vote because they're not politicians?
@Joesynthsynth -- there are many folks here who develop and sell apps. Yeah, we *do* understand the situation. And whether we're developers or not, pretty much everyone agrees that the price point for the apps is way out of line compared to the functionality (we're talking Auria range pricing here -- Auria is really really really slick, and they're taking some heat for the pricing). Tim runs the blog and interacts with a lot of developers; he's got a decent idea of how the sales game is played.
This person's apps would pop up on searches and I'd wonder about how big his market could possibly be.
Of course, short of a Harvard degree or MBA, one could hit the library up for a marketing textbook and learn from it that the formula is:
how big is the market at what price
Sour grapes cast with some fury at people of good will, all because his dreams didn't come true?! He's not the first entrepreneur to combine ignorance about marketing with a really bad attitude. I sense his disappointment after--no doubt--a big programming effort.
My own broader take on IOS audio app pricing is that the sweet point is a sale price that drives the cost of trying something out below $10 at 50% savings. The main driver for me is the lack of demo opportunities.
@joesynthsynth, i am actually sympathetic to your situation. i can't say that i have never responded like that to users asking that same question. mobile users are a different animal. they expect infinitesimal prices because surely you can make it up in infinite volume. mobile apps are the realm of toys where visuals mean more than functionality, and learning curves of any kind are not tolerated. at least piracy on ios is somewhat under control; but yeah, the price pressures will squeeze out anybody making a tool with an audience that is limited in size. what people are willing to pay as a maximum on principle is kind of absurd actually, but you will never change the psychology of mobile users. they would have a heart-attack to learn that at guitar-center, even the aorst stompbox effect is $50. but there are too many ios hobbyists losing money hand over fist, and good apps abandoned as free, for prices to go up. desktop users still pay reasonable prices, and of course working for IT departments pays. this is an interesting cautionary tale. i thought about porting my korg karma specific controller at $20, and can see that it will be a waste of time no matter how good it turns out. part of mobile user psychology seems to be berating people that have high prices to hold on to the wonderfully underpriced system we now have. i say they are underpriced because of the developer response to going to Adware, in-app purchases to weedle users into spend even more than they thought, etc. mobile games devs like zynga look like a sort of skinner-box malware to me. but this is the mobile user's world.
Come on. An IOS app is not a stompbox which you own forever. It is not a peice pc software which remains useable for as long as you need it. The market is different - there seems to be a nice swell of ios "musicians" enjoying making music on the device and proper marketing (sorry, yes includes pricing strategy at times to lure people in to provide positive reviews) can earn rewards. However, it is more than that - good support, efforts to build a community, not being a dick to those consumers giving you money for your work. Perhaps it is a labour of love -I take my hat off to those who manage it, but to those who ain't got he staying power the advice is simply stay away. My opinion.
Produce something of value and that fills a need and it will sell. Don't come moaning and throwig toys out of pram if it turns out not to be of need. Rule 1 of marketing - having a product other people want/need?
@rob You may be able to get $20 for your Karma controller! Make a good one. I think 19.99 is a mental breaking point for a lot of people.
Obviously, his pricing model is broken. This isn't meant as a dig on him personally. He's absolutely right: his company, his work, he can charge what he wants! I think he had a great idea, business wise: Lots of people want to control old synths with crappy hardware UIs. Make the same app 30 times, change the data for each and charge individually for each. Not a damn thing wrong with that - a great way to keep costs down and margins up. But, people will pay up to what they'll pay and that's it.
I do think mobile app purchasers are generally insane when it comes to price:value. That said, it's shortsighted to not recognize how much more software is being purchased via the app store than was ever ever purchased via traditional pc/mac means. Ask McDonalds or Walmart or whomever: scale counts. Hell, ask apple. It's the only way the macbook air or the ipad can come in at the cost it's at - scale. If you really have that much more market potential, you can sell your french fries for a dollar. Sure, it's $0.03 margin but you sold 40,000 of them this week.
Here's the thing I'm failing miserably in getting to: the time/overhead he saved on the 2nd, 3rd...25th iteration of his product is value he could pass on to (or share with) his customers - making it a better deal for them and increasing his revenue. If his cost is actually $30-50 per app, something is terribly wrong. See plenty of equations above to illustrate a way out of this. Additionally, were it my company, I'd actually consider making a single app and then doing in app purchases. Any marketer/salesperson will tell you how much easier it is to sell to an existing customer.
Sad truth: looks matter. Ask anyone who makes anything for a living. Breakfast, bicycles, drills, yo yos, apps, whatever. The iControlMidi apps aren't terribly attractive. Maybe in the plumbing tools industry you can get away with it (you can't) but most people buy ios devices because they're attractive. Say what you want but if you're in business, know your market.
I'm not sure why I care but for some reason, I do. It seems a shame to abandon all that work without at least testing the market a little more. That might be presumptuous as he may have already tried and I just missed it. If he's already worked through these scenarios, it'd be interesting to hear about how he came to his decision.
@Will, I guess the point that I am making, that all commenters seem to verify is that this is mostly outrage that any app can have a high price; as if it's a crime that must be stopped before it spreads. Nobody seems to have the app and be unhappy with it. Everybody seems to simultaneously be kicking him in the butt out the door with a "good riddance" while also ironically lamenting that if in theory they had bought it, that this turn of events means that this developer is now gone. If this is the sort of app that only makes sense given that you have a DX7 or something similar, then it's only natural that there is an upper bound on sales that no price drop will fix. Your comments about the UI are true. So that adds another ironic twist in pricing. It takes a *tremendous* effort to put in all the UI doodads to attract huge numbers of users. So smaller efforts that *only* focus on functionality start more expensive, and can only drop prices with a huge effort to also make it appeal to large numbers of users. The other irony is that as soon as you start going crazy with UI issues that don't have anything to do with functionality, they usually do actually make the app less useful to somebody that knows what he's doing; because making the app usable for a larger audience always means dumbing things down. But that's the road to selling your $5 app to a very large audience. Large Audiences, think AutoRap/IAmT-Pain. Now, let's see what happens when you start making tools... If you require basic musicianship then divide audience by 4. If you don't pick scales for users, cut in half again. Need to understand how MIDI actually works, divide by ten. Need a CCK, divide by 2, etc... The price keeps climbing as a result, but we are making tools to solve specific problems; especially problems that we ourselves have. I'm all the way down at the deep-end of making microtonal capable instruments, simply because I need them for myself, and they are generally impossible to get anywhere at all.
I can't say because I don't know his apps, but the problem may not be that his prices are "high". It may be that there are enough potential users in the world at any price to make this app profitable; which means that the number of users that *do* exist won't pay a high enough price to make it profitable.
One other thing... MIDI can be an amazing White Elephant when it comes to support. An example of history with Wizdom (I worked on Geo with them): Morphwiz came out without MIDI. MorphwizMIDI was demoed but not released. Then when I worked with them and I put in MIDI out support into Geo, it was a hugely controversial thing to do. At that same time it was decided to put MIDI in support into SampleWiz. Then Tachyon comes out; no MIDI again. Why? Probably because everything that can go wrong is now only in that one (tested) app, or perhaps in audio sessions of background apps. If you are making anything other than a piano-like interface with a single pitch wheel; all the support requests versus devices you don't end will end up killing you. If his app makes really deep use of MIDI then he should actually remove all these apps from the store to avoid the support hassles.
Charging more to keep support costs lower did cross my mind. I babbled about it and deleted it because my blather was too long already. :) I can't say I blame him if that's his motivation. If so, it's looks like it's working too well.
Obviously, his potential market isn't tpain's but I'd venture to say there's a reasonably sized cross section of dudes in their 40s that can afford ipads and still have digitally controlled synths they'd like to get more out of. Not that I have any frame of reference here.
re: UI. I wasn't really talking about adding tons of glitter to the UI or reinventing UI paradigms the way you guys have (successfully) done. I mean that the apps are just unpleasant to look at and much more importantly devoid of physical comparison to the synths they're aiming to control. In other words, putting OSC stuff together, filter stuff together... in some sort of spatially meaningful or signal-flow-relevant way, not adding fake wood panels and skeuomorphic knobs.
I think most people commenting are commenting based on his snarky email reply to a fairly benign question that we now know was labeled 'press inquiry'. Discussions of price seem mostly constructive (if a little snarky) to me, not outrage based. Maybe I'm reading those through my own filter of 'wait, what?' at the notion of closing shop without testing lower prices. Like tim mentioned in the original post, I like the idea of these apps being around.
Would be cool to hear from anyone who bought any of these.
@ Rob: I appreciate your work, and know that my $2 does not begin to cover your actual costs for Cantor.
Why didn't I buy the app for my Akai Miniak? Price was a consideration, so was the ugly UI. But I could have swallowed both if it had done the job well. It didn't. It didn't grab the current state of the hardware parameters, and it didn't handle the one thing that a touchscreen interface could have really helped with, drawing tracking curves.
Well, I'm done putting up a defense for this guy (he seems to be too pissed right now to be capable of it). But keep this in mind when developers stop taking risks, stop being responsive, or desert the platform. Something has to give on the price issue soon. The very low prices were less of a problem for developers when there were far fewer developers.
A lot of smart guys are going to Windows8 to get in before there are 8000 other music apps in their store. I might defect to that camp myself.
At the beginning of this year, a lot of devs started writing portable code and testing out Android; but the latency issue (and the even cheaper/pirate user culture) stands in the way for music apps. Even Playbook...great latency...broken business.
yeah, no piracy on Windows. /s
smart guys flocking to w8, but it remains to be seen if not-so-smart customers will. there are lots of w7 users who feel they are just fine where they're at and who don't even like the new metro interface, and IT depts. are much the same story, they'll happily wait for w9 next year or the year after.
When I first saw the apps the first thing that came to my mind was how ugly the ui was. After looking at the list of his apps on appshopper.com (there are a ton of them with similar functionality) I was then confused which one I would even want. The third thing I noticed was the price which was beyond what I would ever spend on an app. There is another music app I really want badly but I just will not spend $30 on it even though I think it is an awesome app (TC-11 app).


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Despite an earlier leak that made a May announcement seem increasingly likely, Samsung is apparently still considering an April launch for its highly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone, South Korean news site MK reports. Samsung president for the China region Kim Young-ha is quoted as having said that the company is still pushing for an April launch. "In order to increase sales of the Galaxy S3 as well as the Galaxy Note which is already very popular in China, the company is considering rescheduling the rollout of the Galaxy S3 from May to April," Kim reportedly said Wednesday while speaking at the Samsung Forum 2012. An earlier report suggested that the flagship smartphone is currently slated for a May 22nd announcement, as tipped
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Skip to comments.Prepare to Survive Total Economic Collapse
Posted on 05/14/2012 7:11:25 PM PDT by Kartographer
The collapse will be a cycle. Its wise to be prepared for all the angles of possibilities .It will be survival of the fittest and most aware. That's exactly what's happening. Either be aware, prepare, survive, and thrive.. or stay in denial and eventually die on your knees. People have a choice. Most choose to stick their heads in the sand while keeping their lazy fat asses in the air. Most of em enjoy the raping.Avoid big cities and crowded places ,Buy food, water, a water purifier, guns and ammo. You will need medical supplies, vitamins and ibuprofen. Power will be an issue. No power? No toilet. You need power for water in the city and if you have a well. When the food and water has run out in the houses and the stores are closed and empty, the people will be in the streets. You DO NOT want to be one of them.
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Preppers' PING!
Must defeat Obama!!
I have an old artisian well on the property. I'm going to get a manual pump for it and run a line down. At least until I can get my auto standby generator I'll have water from my well to use.
8 days without power during an ice storm in 2008 made me a believer. Even if a SHTF event doesn't happen I'll be prepare for the worst.
Read The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn. It explains what's happening and why. Most amazing book I've read in a very long time.
Could happen before November.
That video will pucker you up.
Don't forget to store extra pet food.. And keep them fat, JUST IN CASE. LOL
It certainly could.
You know what, if it's that bad I'd just as soon be dead
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, more of the same shit I've been hearing on this site since 2006.
It's getting tiresome. Name an exact date, or go pound sand. I grow board of your increadingly incorrect prognostications.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, more of the same shit I've been hearing on this site since 2006.
It's getting tiresome. Name an exact date, or go pound sand. I grow board of your increadingly incorrect prognostications.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, more of the same shit I've been hearing on this site since 2006.
It's getting tiresome. Name an exact date, or go pound sand. I grow board of your increadingly incorrect prognostications.
Where does one find reasonably priced freeze dried survival food for dogs and cats?
When it hits the fan, dogs and cats become dinner.
Work on the spelling. It's "bored" unless, of course, you did mean "board" as in "stiff as a" as in DEAD because you failed to prepare.
I only got as far as his saying: "A Darwinian culling of the human species...." and I knew hat he's an unbeliever, and on top of that, his eyes are brown!
Psa 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
I'll trust Jehovah Jirah; The Lord my Provider. I believe He will see me through. But to paraphrase what the 3 young Hebrews said prior to being thrown into the fiery furnace: And if He does not see fit to provide for me, I'll just die and go to Heaven. The born again believer can't lose, no matter WHAT happens!
I was thinking more along the lines of warmth when the generator is no longer functional. :)
That's a good question. I try to keep enough on-hand for our nine cats for about a year, but haven't found freeze-dried stuff. We aren't eating our cats! A couple of them can probably catch lizards, birds, and bugs for us...
Dog meat is a great source of lean protein.
Not going to happen. The Zombie Apocalypse is more likely.
Yeah, we have been hearing that since 1998. Whatever. If the sh1t comes down, ya'll will never find me anyway. I sure as shooting won't be holed up in a house waiting for the end. They'll have to hunt me.
Unfortunately, the economic collapse is pretty much inevitable regardless. However, the government may be somewhat less of an enemy without Zero at the helm.
Still, best to keep in mind that no matter who occupies the WH, in a collapse the government is NOT going to be on the side of the people and it will not protect us.
"I had lunch at this restaurant (Dookey Chase in New Orleans)"
Good for you. Too bad your meal was spoiled by the image of Glorious Leader.
I had a conference in New Orleans before Katrina. The Cajun food is fantastic. Oyster sandwiches called Poor Boys. Wonderful sauces and the Gumbo. Wow.
Honestly, if it is that bad, even prepared people will not last very long. They will be targeted by one group or another. If they have a bunch of people together so they have some numbers, personalities can still pose problems. Ifyou have supplies it will get out. Military may decide to re-stock on your 10-20. Injuries received will not allow you to keep fighting like in the movies where you can still keep moving and using your injured leg or arm very long.
All it takes is a blade or bullet to ruin years of prep. Bugging out has the same problems. You are a target in a vehicle and someone can reach out and touch you from a long way away. Ambushes on bridges, high fields, gullies, etc. If you're a stranger in the area you've got nothing personal to stop them from relieving you of your gear.
Although not affected by that ice storm that is exactly what got my butt in gear.
It's called piles of clothing/bedding. Which was used in the older days.
I don't think it matters who wins at this point.
I got plenty of ibuprofren.
"I got plenty of ibuprofren."
AND vitamins. Don't want to face TOTAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COLLAPSE without a good supply of One a Day tablets!
I hear that vitamin C is great at driving away aggressive Zombies.
That is simply a lame excuse for not taking care of business. Let me tell you why I say that...
Sure, some tough times could be coming for which a person needs to prepare to survive. But nobody knows how long those times are going to last - it may only be for six months or a year. And, once it's come and gone things might start to get better than ever (for those who survive).
So, you want to "be dead" rather than endure a few months of hardship that our forebearers might have considered a cakewalk? You want to "be dead" when other folks you care about might need you later?
I guess there's a million excuses not to do the due diligence necessary to get through tough times - but yours is not in the top 10 list.
Let me give you a better excuse ... how about "I'm not preparing because I don't think the crap will ever hit the fan"...or, "I'm certain the government will take care of me.". Try these on for size, they are much better. :)
My husband listened politely and thanked Dooky for the grand lunch we had. There was no point in talking politics.
But, for the food and ambiance, we will definitely go there again when we are in NO.
I'm with you. Who wants to live like that? Back to the Dark Ages....no, thank you.
If I was you I would serious rethink my tag line as no true cowboy I ever knew was such a wussy.
Don't have stock in it. . .but every household needs silver sol (nano technology silver. . non collodial) liquid and gel . . . Dr. Pedersen . . . . . American Labs
Not going to happen. The Zombie Apocalypse is more likely.
Excuse my ignorance but what's The Zombie Apocalypse?
We bought a semi-rural property in 2009 and I observed that there were two switches on the circuit breaker that were labeled "well." There was no sign of the wellhead, so I contacted the State Water Resources Board and received a map of all the water wells drilled in my section. There was no record of any well drilled on my property, so it must have been done off the books. Do you have any suggestions on how I could locate the wellhead? Thanks.
Not going to happen. The Zombie Apocalypse is more likely.
Excuse my ignorance but whats The Zombie Apocalypse?
I looked it up. Thanks, anyway.
We are/could be screwed.
I don't think it matters who wins at this point.
You're right.
You have wiring underground from your house to the wellhead. You can follow this with a metal detector. As an aside, plastic pipe going to septic tanks is often buried with a strand of wire to make it easy to find in the same fashion.
Witching rods... don't ask me, but they do work. Metal detectors as electrically piped wells are often piped or will contain a collar for the hose at the top. Look for a flat piece of ground that might have contained the original home or barn. They often dug the well first back in the day before they built the house next to it.
Best of luck. A well is a wonderful thing!
I tucked the kids in and replied 4 minutes late. :)
"Could happen before November."
Almost certainly before the year is out.
stop worrying.
Keep your eye on southern europe. When their problems get widespread and unbearable, you will know THEN that the sh*t will hit the fan in america in about a year. America will definitely be the last man standing.
Thanks. I also found out that I can use a line tracer to locate the submersible pump.
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What are you most proud of? The project called for 16x20 pillow form and all I could find was a 20x20 so I had to adjust. Unfortunately.... I didn't check the directions and measured the blocks incorrectly so I had to make some edging to make it the proper size. But it turned out better than I thought it would!
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that is a very pretty pillow.
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From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, and The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
To determine the relative frequency of underlying factors for recurrent pneumonia and the proportion of patients in whom the underlying illness diagnosis was known prior to pneumonia recurrence.
Retrospective medical record review for a 10-year period from January 1987 through December 1997 at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, a tertiary care pediatric hospital. Recurrent pneumonia was defined as at least 2 pneumonia episodes in a 1-year period or at least 3 during a lifetime.
Of 2952 children hospitalized with pneumonia, 238 (8%) met criteria for recurrent pneumonia. An underlying illness diagnosis was identified in 220 (92%). Of these, the underlying illness was diagnosed prior to pneumonia in 178 (81%), with the first episode in 25 (11%), and during recurrence in 17 (8%). Underlying illnesses included oropharyngeal incoordination with aspiration syndrome (114 cases [48%]), immune disorder (24 [10%]), congenital cardiac defects (22 [9%]), asthma (19 [8%]), pulmonary anomalies (18 [8%]), gastroesophageal reflux (13 [5%]), and sickle cell anemia (10 [4%]). Clinical clues to diagnosis were recurrent infections at other locations and failure to thrive in the cases of an immune disorder, recurrences involving the same location in those with underlying pulmonary pathology, the association of respiratory symptoms with feeding in those with gastroesophageal reflux, or recurrent wheezing in asthmatic children.
Recurrent pneumonia occurs in fewer than one tenth of all children hospitalized with pneumonia. Most of them have a known predisposing factor. The most common cause was oropharyngeal incoordination.
PNEUMONIA IS a major problem in children, especially those younger than 5 years, accounting for up to 5 million deaths each year in developing countries.1- 4 In North America, the annual incidence of pneumonia ranges from 30 to 45 cases per 1000 children in those younger than 5 years to 16 to 22 cases per 1000 children in those aged 5 years and older.5,6 A subgroup of these children suffer from recurrent pneumonia, raising the question of whether there is an underlying illness predisposing them to such pneumonia recurrences.
Recurrent pneumonia has been defined as at least 2 pneumonia episodes in 1 year or more than 3 at any time, with radiographic clearing between episodes.7 Although several review articles7- 11 describe possible approaches to investigations for recurrent pneumonia, there are surprisingly few primary studies of such children. These previous series may not be generalizable to most recurrent pneumonia patients cared for in our setting because they have consisted of immunocompromised populations,12- 14 were limited to cases of bacterial pneumonia,15- 17 or were not performed in an industrialized country.18 The purpose of this study is to describe the underlying illnesses of children with recurrent pneumonia hospitalized in a tertiary care pediatric hospital. From these data, a series of investigations for the child with recurrent pneumonia is proposed.
A medical record review was performed on all children with recurrent pneumonia. All children admitted to The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, from January 1987 through December 1997 with a hospital discharge diagnosis of pneumonia were identified. The hospital is a tertiary care referral center but also serves as the pediatric hospital for children in downtown Toronto. Children younger than 18 years are admitted to the hospital. The records of all children with diagnostic codes corresponding to a diagnosis of pneumonia were identified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification19 (codes 480-487, 507). Patients were included in this analysis if they had 2 or more episodes of pneumonia per year or 3 or more episodes in a lifetime and if there was radiographic confirmation of pneumonia during hospital admission. Only patients with pneumonia who were hospitalized or whose diagnosis was recorded on admission to our hospital would be identified.
Patients were classified according to underlying illnesses that have previously been associated with childhood pneumonia.7- 11 These include oromotor incoordination and swallowing dysfunction predisposing to aspiration syndrome20- 22; immune disorders, including primary and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome13,14; underlying congenital heart defects23,24; underlying lung and airway problems, such as bronchial asthma25,26; and gastroesophageal reflux.27,28 Using a standardized data extraction form, information was obtained on patient demographic characteristics, including date of birth, sex, age at diagnosis, percentile weight on first hospitalization, dates of hospital admissions and discharges, and time between onset of respiratory symptoms and age at which the underlying illness diagnosis was determined. The duration of time between the underlying illness diagnosis and the initial pneumonia recurrence was calculated.
Confirmation of underlying pulmonary pathologic characteristics consisted of results from laboratory testing, including sweat chloride testing, pulmonary function tests with methacholine challenge, a computed tomographic scan of the chest, and/or laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy. Confirmation of cardiac anomalies was based on findings from an echocardiogram. Most cases of aspiration syndrome were diagnosed clinically. In some patients, however, fluoroscopic feeding studies were performed by occupational therapists to confirm oropharyngeal incoordination resulting in aspiration. Gastroesophageal reflux was documented either with a barium swallow or esophageal pH manometry.
Quantitative serum immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA, and IgM) were quantified using a nephelometer analyzer (Behring Nephelometer Analyzer; Behring Diagnostics Inc, Newark, NJ). The T and B lymphocytes were assayed using lymphoproliferation studies to assay cell function, and flow cytometry was used to assess the number of lymphocytes. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody was assayed from serum samples using various enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay systems (IAF Biochem Detect HIV; Biochem Pharma, Montreal, Quebec, and MEIA; Abbott Laboratories Inc, Abbott Park, Ill). Microbiological studies, such as sputum samples and nasopharyngeal swabs, were obtained in only a subgroup of patients.
Two thousand nine hundred fifty-two patients were admitted to the hospital with pneumonia during a 10-year span; 238 (8%) met the definition for recurrent pneumonia. Of these, 139 (58.4%) were male. The mean age when recurrent pneumonia was diagnosed was 3.7 years (age range, 2.5 months-15.6 years).
An underlying illness was identified in 220 (92.4%) of the patients (Table 1). One hundred fourteen patients (47.9%) had an underlying aspiration syndrome secondary to oropharyngeal muscular incoordination leading to an inability to handle respiratory tract secretions. Twenty-four patients (10.1%) had immune disorders; 22 (9.2%) had congenital heart disease; 19 (7.9%) had bronchial asthma; 18 (7.6%) had congenital or acquired anomalies of the airways or lungs; 13 (5.4%) had gastroesophageal reflux; 10 (4.2%) had sickle cell anemia; and no predisposing factors could be identified in the remaining 18 (7.6%).
All patients with aspiration disorders had involvement on radiography of more than one lung lobe. Of these, cerebral palsy accounted for nearly half the causes. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in children with aspiration disorders was 6.3 years. Of the 24 patients who had immune disorders, 13 had malignant neoplasms; 5, dysgammaglobulinemia (3, hypogammaglobulinemia; 1, hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome; 1, agammaglobulinemia); 5, HIV infection; and 1, autoimmune pancytopenia. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in children with immune disorders was 3.8 years.
The patients with congenital heart disease included 16 (72.7%) with isolated left to right shunts, including atrial and ventricular septal defects, as well as patent ductus arteriosus. Six other patients had more complex cardiac disorders. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in children with congenital heart disease was 1.8 years. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in the 19 children with asthma was 4.5 years.
Airway and pulmonary anomalies were diagnosed early in life and were found in 18 patients. The mean age of diagnosis was 4 months (age range, 0 days to 6 months). Children with tracheoesophageal fistulas formed the largest group in this category with 7 patients. Two patients each had congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation, vocal cord paralysis, subglottic stenosis, and tracheomalacia. The 3 remaining patients had an esophageal bronchus, a tracheoesophageal cleft, and tracheal stenosis, respectively. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in children with airway and pulmonary anomalies was 3.5 years.
Associated gastroesophageal reflux was found in 13 patients with recurrent pneumonia. In all patients there was a notable association between feeding and subsequent respiratory symptoms. All of these children were neurologically normal on physical examination. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in children with gastroesophageal reflux was 1.4 years.
Children for whom no underlying etiologic diagnosis was identified had growth, development, and physical examination findings within reference limits. The mean age at diagnosis of recurrent pneumonia in these children was 4.8 years. All were asymptomatic prior to and after the illness leading to hospitalizations. Findings from all hospital investigations were within reference limits.
One hundred seventy-eight patients (80.9%) were diagnosed with an underlying illness prior to the first episode of pneumonia. Twenty-five patients (11.4%) were diagnosed during the first episode of pneumonia, and 17 (7.7%) were diagnosed only after recurrence (Table 2). Aspiration disorders, immune disorders, and congenital heart disease were underlying illnesses that tended to be known prior to the first pneumonia. Asthma, respiratory tract anomalies, and gastroesophageal reflux tended to be diagnosed after the first or recurrent pneumonia (χ2 = 127, P = .001).
Of the 17 underlying illness diagnoses discovered after pneumonia recurrence, asthma was the most common, occurring in 7 patients, followed by oropharyngeal incoordination leading to aspiration in 4. The remaining causes included gastroesophageal reflux disease in 3 patients, underlying airway anomalies in 2, and immune disorders in 1.
Prior to their asthma diagnosis, children with asthma presented with episodes of pneumonia but were otherwise healthy. They underwent extensive laboratory evaluation, including sweat chloride and quantitative serum immunoglobulin measurements. Growth, development, and physical examination findings were all within reference limits. These children were clinically diagnosed as having asthma (multiple episodes of partially reversible airway obstruction) or diagnosed by pulmonary function tests.
Recurrent pneumonia prior to a diagnosis of an underlying aspiration disorder was seen in 4 cases. One patient who presented following recurrent pneumonia was found to have oropharyngeal incoordination with hypotonia. This patient was diagnosed as having nemaline rod myopathy after abnormal findings from electromyographic studies. The second patient had a brainstem tumor and presented with recurrent bilateral pneumonia from silent aspiration; neurological signs and symptoms, including headache, loss of appetite, and weight loss, did not develop until after the second episode of pneumonia. The remaining 2 patients had familial dysautonomia (Riley-Day syndrome) but were initially diagnosed as having bronchial asthma. One child had a family history of the disease prior to hospitalization with pneumonia.
In the group of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, all were diagnosed as a result of having a pneumonia episode. Ten patients were diagnosed before age 1 year during the first episode of pneumonia. Three patients were diagnosed at age 12 to18 months after recurrent pneumonia.
Two patients with an underlying respiratory tract anomaly (1 with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation and 1 with esophageal bronchus) were diagnosed after pneumonia recurrence. Both patients had recurrent pneumonia involving the same lung lobes. Seven patients (2 with tracheoesophageal fistulas; 1, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation; 2, subglottic stenoses; 1, tracheomalacia; and 1, bronchomalacia) were diagnosed during the first episode of pneumonia.
One patient with hypogammaglobulinemia was diagnosed following pneumonia recurrence. This patient also presented with other features of immune disorders, including recurrent otitis media, oral candidiasis, and failure to thrive. Two patients were diagnosed with sickle cell anemia during their first episode of pneumonia. This was suspected secondary to anemia, race, and/or family history. The remaining 8 patients had known sickle cell anemia prior to pneumonia presentation. Five patients with an underlying immune disorder presented with pneumonia (3 with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, 1 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and 1 with a neuroblastoma). Of the 3 patients with HIV infection, the diagnosis was suspected during the initial episode of pneumonia because of the presence of the classic interstitial pattern on chest radiograph films and multiple etiologic agents on bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, including Pneumocystis carinii, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, parainfluenza, and cytomegalovirus. The patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented with pneumonia and an elevated white blood cell count.
Our study demonstrates that most patients with recurrent pneumonia are known to have an underlying illness at the time of pneumonia recurrence. The most frequent underlying illness is aspiration pneumonia secondary to oropharyngeal incoordination, followed by immune disorders, congenital heart disease, asthma, respiratory system anomalies, gastroesophageal reflux, and sickle cell anemia.
The remaining patients, however, who presented with recurrent pneumonia without a known underlying illness diagnosis present an interesting diagnostic challenge. In more than half, a final diagnosis was determined. Asthma was the most common illness diagnosed in this population, followed by disorders causing aspiration, gastroesophageal reflux, and respiratory tract anomalies. Interestingly, congenital immune disorders was rarely a diagnosis following investigations for pneumonia recurrence. In approximately one tenth of our population, a predisposing factor was not found despite comprehensive evaluation. In these patients, however, follow-up information was incomplete.
A considerable number of children with recurrent pneumonia in our study had concomitant sickle cell anemia. It has long been recognized that children with homozygous sickle cell anemia are at increased risk for pneumonia relative to other children, even with penicillin prophylaxis treatment.29- 31
In children with recurrent pneumonia, age and location of pneumonia recurrence may be important clues in discovering underlying illnesses. In the first few months of life, structural or functional anomalies of the airway may present as multiple pneumonias of the same lung lobe. Before age 18 months, gastroesophageal reflux may contribute to recurrent pneumonia. These illnesses should be confirmed with barium esophagography and/or continuous pH monitoring in children in this age group presenting with recurrent pneumonia.32 Bilateral interstitial pneumonias on chest radiograph films and/or the presence of opportunistic infections were paramount in diagnosing HIV infection as an underlying factor in recurrent pneumonia. Older children with recurrent pneumonia were often found to have asthma following extensive investigation.
Our study design had several limitations. Our study includes only hospitalized patients. However, one would suspect that most children with recurrent pneumonia would ultimately be hospitalized. By using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification19 codes for hospital discharge diagnoses of pneumonia to identify children with recurrent pneumonia, we may be underestimating the true number of patients with this condition. Other children who would have met clinical criteria for pneumonia would not have been included once other diagnoses, such as cystic fibrosis, were made. Perhaps identifying children by hospital admission diagnoses or secondary diagnoses would have allowed a more representative sample.
The radiographic diagnosis of pneumonia in our patients is susceptible to bias.33 Reports describing chest radiograph films could not always differentiate atelectasis or consolidation. The occurrence of true pneumonia may have been overestimated.
The retrospective nature of our study restricted diagnoses and the types of investigations performed at the time the patients were diagnosed with pneumonia. Since children had not undergone a uniform set of investigations, diagnoses may have been inaccurate or incomplete. Furthermore, our study ascribes a single underlying illness as the cause of recurrent pneumonias, potentially excluding additional factors or multiple diagnoses in children. The assumption that an underlying patient illness contributed directly to the recurrence of pneumonia in our study population is also a weakness in our study. The severity of underlying illnesses was not assessed, and the "underlying diagnosis" may have been coincidental, rather than causal.
To our knowledge, this study represents the largest pediatric series of recurrent pneumonia. Most instances of recurrent pneumonia have a known underlying cause, namely oropharyngeal incoordination predisposing to aspiration. This underlying cause has tended to be ignored in previous studies of pediatric recurrent pneumonia.
In most children with recurrent pneumonia, underlying illnesses are known prior to the first episode. In undiagnosed recurrent pneumonia, however, asthma and gastroesophageal reflux, in particular, should be eliminated in the differential diagnosis.
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Editor's Note: This neat, simple study provides valuable information that should allow us to breathe easier regarding unwanted surprises in the case of children with recurrent pneumonia.—Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD
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Yamin et al evaluated the adoption and use of a personal health record (PHR) in an integrated delivery system. Blacks and Hispanics were less likely to adopt the PHR than whites. Patients with 2 or more chronic conditions were more likely to adopt than those without. Intensity of use was correlated with increasing number of comorbidities, followed by race (whites over blacks and Hispanics) and insurance status. Despite increasing Internet availability, minority patients adopted a PHR less frequently than white patients, and patients with the lowest income adopted less often. Among adopters, however, income did not have an effect on PHR use.
A multimedia patient education program with health professional support reduced falls among cognitively intact hospital inpatients (4.01 falls per 1000 days in the intervention group compared with 8.72 falls per 1000 days in the control group). This evidence shows that a single intervention strategy can reduce falls in hospitals. Cognitively impaired patients did not benefit from the intervention, and a multimedia education program that did not include health professional support was ineffective.
Older adults having difficulties to perform concurrent motor or cognitive tasks are more likely to fall. Little is known about effective approaches to improve gait under such dual-task situations. Trombetti et al evaluated the efficacy of a music-based multitask exercise program in 134 community-dwelling older adults 65 years or older and at high risk of falling, using a randomized controlled trial design with gait variability as primary outcome measure. The authors found that 6 months of once-weekly exercise classes benefited the gait performance under dual-task condition. These findings provide evidence for the reversibility of increased gait variability (ie, a strong risk factor for falls) while walking and simultaneously performing a cognitive interference task. Also, balance and functional performances improved with the exercise program. These changes translated into a reduction in falls and numbers of fallers.
Modern thrombolytic strategies, including the use of routine invasive evaluation after thrombolytic therapy (TT), may affect the previously documented mortality benefit of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) over TT. This study prospectively assessed in-hospital mortality in 5295 unselected patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated with PPCI (86%) or with TT (14%) during the period 2007 through 2009 in 73 Belgian hospitals. After adjustment for differences in baseline risk profile, a significant mortality benefit was only present in the high-risk groups: 23.7% for PPCI vs 30.6% for TT. For non–high-risk patients (81% of the study population), the mortality difference was marginal, with in-hospital mortality rates of less than 5% irrespective of reperfusion therapy. Subgroup analysis revealed that mortality benefit of PPCI over early TT (door-to-needle time, <30 minutes) was offset if the door-to-balloon time exceeded 60 minutes.
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I'm following the national health care debate because I find it astounding that at last census count nearly 50 million Americans were living without health insurance. I'm also following the health care debate because it's a fascinating case study in the power of strategic communications.
The debate is highly polarized. Folks on the right are talking about health care reform as a"government-run system." Their goal is to evoke images of bureaucracy, inefficiency and huge delays in getting to doctors. Not a welcome state of affairs. Folks on the left are framing health care reform as a "public-option." Their goal is to evoke images of inclusivity, democracy and most important - one option among many.
What's interesting about this debate is that neither frame has won - yet. However, like all battles for our minds. The winner will take all.
Regardless of where you currently stand on health care reform, you can be certain that the words we use to talk about this issue will have wide-ranging effects.
- First, the words we use to talk about health care reform will constrain our ability to generate additional options or solutions.
- Second, the words we use about health care reform will engender an emotional response. This will stymie our ability to use reason and read the fine print!
If you've ever felt dissonance between your experience of the world and how you are perceived by others, you know what I mean.
As a little black girl growing up with a white mother, I lived in constant state of anxiety about being "too white." According to my classmates and some teachers, my actions and abilities did not align with my skin color. And this constrained me greatly. I dumbed down my speech. I raised my hand less in class. I tried to fit in. It took years of therapy and education to realize that this (racist and ridiculous) definition of "blackness" was subjective. That it was just a frame (albeit a powerful one) for looking at the world. I could create my own version of reality.
If you want to earn a win for your cause, you have to take note of how others are talking about your issue and do your research to understand why certain frames resonate more than others.
You also have to be savvy and brave enough to realize that there is no objective reality, there are just different ways at looking at the same thing. Once you understand this, you can you do the creative and empirical work you need to do to develop a new language for your issue...and then words won't hurt you.


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The more than 5-week work stoppage at Bell Helicopter Textron was the longest work stoppage of 2009 and involved approximately 2,500 unionized factory employees accumulating 67,500 days of idleness.
The stoppage began on Monday, June 15, and ended Wednesday, July 22, 2009, after the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 218, which represents manufacturing workers at the plant, approved a new 4-year contract.
The work stoppage occurred as a result of failed negotiations during the bargaining process for a new 3-year collective bargaining agreement. In mid-June, UAW members rejected the initial contract because of proposed increases in medical costs and plans to outsource some of the work. That rejection led to the strike at several of Bell Helicopter's parts plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the new contract, the ratification bonus dropped from $4,500 to $3,500 and the length of the contract increased from 3 years to 4 years.
The work stoppage involving the Transport Workers Union and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) was the largest of 2009 in terms of the number of workers involved. It began Tuesday, November 3, 2009, and ended a week later, on Monday, November 9. The stoppage involved approximately 5,500 union workers accruing 27,500 days of idleness.
The work stoppage was the result of failed negotiations at the bargaining table for a new 5-year contract. The union's concern about the stability of the underfunded pension plan was a key issue during contract talks, with union leaders reluctant to accept an increase in employee pension contributions without confidence in SEPTA's commitment to ensuring the fiscal integrity of the plan. The work stoppage ended with both sides agreeing on a new 5-year contract that included a $1,250 signing bonus and across-the-board pay increases totaling 11.5 percent over 4 years.
These data are from the BLS Work Stoppages Program. To learn more, see "Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2009," Compensation and Working Conditions Online, March 2010.
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By the time anybody reads this post, we'll all be in a different reality. That is, we'll be back to getting up early and jogging in the dark and perhaps facing unpleasant work assignments.
The more I think about chat roulette, just for example, the more I truly despise it.
But, more important, we had a weekend of spring. I finished trimming all the roses, which is quiet, contemplative work where you don't think about much except guiding bushes back into shape. A couple of them were already blooming, which they are not supposed to be doing, but it was nice to see those pretty flowers again, anyway.
Also, Mason played with his band, the Blenders, and we celebrated the birthday of my friend from middle school, and that was nice. Happy Birthday, Sweetie.
And, when the Blenders were done, I admit, I conspired with the bass player, Monty. We think the Blenders need to go on the road, even if only to San Antonio for one weekend. It would be fun, no? Mason is very dubious, but we'll see how far Monty and I can get us. He's talking about touring Europe and earning enough frequent flyer miles for the entire band. If you knew Monty, you'd know he could actually pull that off.
And, I'm strangely happy to report that I've seen a grub worm (they are disgusting but way better than chat roulette) two mosquitoes, a robin and a cardinal so pretty it was impossible to do anything but stop and stare.
I'll let you know if he (Mr. Cardinal) figures out the new bird feeder. I forgot to mention, we have a new one, bought at Target. Made me miss Manders (our kid who is in London, studying to be an actress) because Target is one of her favorite stores.
Here's a fabulous woodpecker. Anybody know what kind he is? And these are the roses that weren't supposed to be blooming.
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"We need caution flags. I don't care what you want to call it, we need those caution flags because that adds excitement to what we do."
-Bruton Smith, Speedway Motorsports CEO
Really? Maybe he thinks he needs them on his big boring tracks like Atlanta, Charlotte, Kentucky, Las Vegas and Texas. But if anything, this season has been a resounding rebuttal to his selfish thinking.
First of all, ask yourself if you like stop and go traffic, or do you prefer when the road is open and you can keep rolling? That's what a caution- filled race is all about. All you'll ever need for an example was the 2008 Indy race where they had to pit every 20 laps for a new set of tires. Boy, that was fun.
All season, except for last weekend at Kansas and Bristol's second race, green-flag racing has been the dominant style this year.
Why is this exciting? Because it has put the entire team back into the race. Before, much of the work was compartmentalized. The engine guys built the motor, building the same thing week after week, and then head out to go fishing. The team in the garage puts the car together then sits back and watches the race on Sundays.
The pit crew, usually former college football players, practice in a static, controlled situation and prepare to do the same thing on Sunday. Now, that's vanilla.
Then this year, it is all changed up. Those engines are built so close to the edge that long green-flag runs mean that motors have to run harder, longer and with no lifting.
Before they were just fine with 40- or 50-lap runs, then having the engine cool down with pit stops and a slow run behind the pace car. The car builders need to pay attention to every nut and bolt, because if they forgot to tighten something down, there's no yellow flag coming to save them. This year, the mechanics are right on the edge.
Finally, the pit crews have a new psychological intrusion with green-flag pit stops. Cars are coming in hot and need to get out as fast as possible, running the mental screws in tight. Secondly, there's the noise level. Under caution, the noise has dropped, and it becomes a staged event.
Under green-flag racing, all the cars are circulating, and the noise level adds a fast 20 points to their blood pressure.
And what have we seen? Top teams have had their motors grenade, parts falling off and pit stops marked by goofs, lug nuts missing, tools left in the car and a slew of speeding penalties on pit road by the drivers.
Why? The human factor which is the core of competition. Because who wins any sporting event is the team or individual that makes the fewest amount of mistakes, whether you're placing chess, football or racing an 800-plus horsepower race car at top speed no matter what track you're on.
And it didn't go away this weekend at Winchester Speedway at the 50-lap Super Late Model Raye Vest Memorial. All 50 laps were run under green, and the best prepared car won. Mark Pettyjohn was the winner, with Greg Satterlee in second and Jason Covert in third.
They were the class of the field, and the racing was exciting for all 50 laps with nothing decided until the last lap. It was a great way to end the season at Winchester and a well crafted exclamation point on why Bruton Smith should not be the race director at some backwoods bull ring for a, 'run what ya brung' show, never mind advising NASCAR.
Sunday's Journal obituary page had sad news that was a little bit like an old Paul Harvey news item. As Harvey would say, "...and now...page two."
Merle Wilt passed away. Like many obituaries we might quickly glance at in the paper, maybe we recognize a name or know the church they went to. This one mentioned his son, of course, and his grandson. But to leave it at that tells only part of the story.
His son, Dave Wilt, was a longtime driver in this area, racing most everything. Together, with his grandson, Shane, they now do the announcing at Hagerstown Speedway and will be there this weekend. Shane mans the booth, and Dave, with his encyclopedic knowledge of racing and racers, wanders the pits doing interviews and talking with the winners at the finish line. In the past, all three Wilts have been heavily involved at, and great supporters of, Winchester Speedway for many years.
This weekend is the Brawl In The Fall at Hagerstown starting noon on Saturday and Sunday. Qualifying is Saturday, with features on Sunday for the Late Models, Big Block Modifieds, 358 and 410 Sprint Cars.
There should be a big crew of 410 Sprinters coming in with an open-tire rule for this race. The money saving ticket to buy is the two day pass for $40. Kids under 12 are still free.
Sympathy cards can reach the Wilts at Hagerstown Speedway, 15112 National Pike, Hagerstown, Md., 21740. Or come a little early and ask around for the Wilts. They'll enjoy your kind words. That's racing, too.
Remember, if you don't have dirt on ya, it wasn't a race.
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Welcome to Region 21 of the National Labor Relations Board. We conduct elections, investigate charges of unfair labor practices, and protect the rights of workers to act together, service much of Southern California from our regional office in downtown Los Angeles and resident office in San Diego. If you have questions or wish to file a charge or petition for election, please visit one of our offices or call and ask for the Information Officer on duty. We can arrange to have someone speak with you in the language of your choice. We are also happy to provide speakers and materials to promote a greater understanding of the National Labor Relations Act.
Washington, D.C.—The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved a settlement agreement between Tesoro Refining and Marketing and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC (Steelworkers). Under the bilateral agreement, Tesoro will pay more than $8.08 million to 769 employees at their Carson, CA and Anacortes, WA facilities who engaged in the winter 2015 refinery strike. They will also post a notice for employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.


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Monday, January 13, 2014
Corey Caulder scored 35 points, with 16 rebounds and seven steals Friday to lead the Palmetto Christian Lady Eagles to a 52-42 home win over Calhoun Academy in the SCISA Region II-2A opener.
Caulder shot 8-11 from the field, including 2-3 from three. Annie Pascutti scored seven points with 11 rebounds, and Parker Emerson added six points.
Palmetto Christian (4-8, 1-0) jumped on top early with a 17-point first quarter. The Lady Eagles limited Calhoun to just 15 points through the first half while they stretched opened a 14-point halftime advantage.
The Palmetto Christian boys followed with a 68-50 win to complete the Eagles' region-opening sweep.
Chris Demarco scored a game-high 17 points. J.T. Waters added 12 and seven assists.
Palmetto Christian (4-7, 1-0) scored 23 points in the opening frame and added another 20 in the second, while limiting Calhoun to just 21 in the first half. Palmetto Christian opened a lead as large as 21 points and never allowed Calhoun to come within single digits after the first quarter.
Joe Siegwald and Mitch Hogan each added nine points for Palmetto Christian. Jackson Flemming led Calhoun with 16 points, and Ryan Sandifer turned in 10. Follow @fjmansfield //
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In mid-December, a Rancho Cordova Kmart store that opened in March 1977 will close its doors, the company said Wednesday.
Ninety-seven employees work at the Sunrise Boulevard location. The retailer's lease wasn't renewed, prompting the closure.
A liquidation sale has been going on since Sept. 29, according to a written statement from a Kmart spokesperson.
The company said the store's 97 employees will have an opportunity to apply for positions at other Kmart and Sears stores.
Sears Holdings Corp. owns Kmart Corp. Sears has been taking a series of actions to reduce operating expenses and streamline operations, the company said.


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Former employer is fighting my unemployment benefits – Now what?
February 23, 2010 at 12:57 am in Work & Money by Beach angel
I have had the awful experience of working with an dysfunctional employer as well as being in a hostile environment. I have had so much rotten luck since I moved to Florida in 2005. My husband died in 2003. I really want to get of this state as fast as I can and RUN!
I lost my job in 2008 and got hired to work in social services as an assistant to the director in March 09. I don't have a social services background. My background is in healthcare administration. To make a long story short I will tell you the facts.
I am 56..boss 23. I didn't mind working for a younger person..I was happy to have a job. My boss hired me March 26. She had her baby April 9, 2009 and took 3 mos off of work. I had very little training and got help now and then from other social workers for a few hours a week. It was rough. Most people thought I would quit and I did not.
The boss came back mid June. I followed her instructions on what to do. I never received a Dept policy book to review and sign. I never received a performance review of any kind. However, she was trying to write me up for things she told me to do. I never went above her to complain. I was trying to resolve things on my own. I am never one to rat on anyone or whine and complain. I was just thankful to have a job. I had lost a job a year earlier after a 3 year gig at another facility due to this rotten enconomy.
She kept trying to do me in and rebutted her comments showing I was doing my job. I refused to sign her last notice of writing me up as it was lies..so she let me go.
I started collecting unemployment in January. I got a letter in today's mail that they want to do an appeal over the phone on March 5th. I don't understand this appeal as I did not have enough time to collect unemployment benefits against this employer. I only worked for them for 9 mos. I worked for the previous employer 3 years. I had collected unemployment from the previous employer before I was hired in March 09 in Social Services. This is all very confusing to me.
Even so, I need someone in my corner as I did not do anything wrong. This director made comments to me that she was "covering her ass" and that I was used while she was gone on maternity leave. she also made comments that "a bunch of bitches work here" which later she turned out to be one herself.
I have never EVER worked in such a dysfunctioinal job in my 20 years in in healthcare. This is the worst job I ever had..PERIOD.
The letter states that I did not follow policy and procedures but everything that was given to me was pretty much verbally. Why did they keep me for 9 mos..hmmm? Sounds too fishy to me.
Why did it take them 9 mos to figure out I wasn't what they wanted. Now I face this hearing on March 5th. The problem is I am in a right to work state…and I don't see how any attorney is going to be able to help me. I called one today. I am in no postion to pay back that money as I am already hanging on a thread.
My former employer called me for for phone interview at at a major university I worked at in another state. I am ready to go back. I don't care about my house anymore. I don't care about stuff! I have a girlfriend in that state who is welcoming me with open arms..and I feel weird about it as I never had to do this as I am a very self sufficient woman. I will do what I need to do, though.
How do you guys think I should handle this appeals hearing. The letter said they are bringing witnesses. There are no witnesses. It was just me and the director. I need someone to be in my corner and furthermore a phone interview is not sitting well with me. I need to a face to face meeting. Even though this is a right to work state I feel I am wronged! I have letters of recommendation about my previous character and how the great work I did in my former jobs.
This is very wrong and I am not sure what to do. I placed a call with an attorney. The lesson I learned was I should have went to HR when this stuff started. I am not use to this kind of behavior in the work place as I am a get along go along gal and never cause problems at work.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) announced wonderful fourth quarter results, in our opinion. Revenue rose 14% year-over-year to $18.2 billion, easily exceeding consensus expectations. Earnings also exceeded consensus estimates, growing 36% year-over-year to $0.68 per share.
Same-store sales expansion outperformed the 1.9% growth rate we saw at Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) earlier this week, jumping 7% year-over-year and 7.1% in the US. Management noted that large ticket items were the standout performer, saying:
Total comp transactions grew by 1.7% for the quarter, while average ticket increased 5.6%. Our average ticket increase was impacted somewhat by commodity price inflation in lumber and copper, which contributed approximately 80 basis points to comp.
Transactions for tickets under $50, representing approximately 20% of our U.S. sales, were up 0.3% for the fourth quarter. Transactions for tickets over $900, also representing approximately 20% of our U.S. sales, were up 9% in the fourth quarter. The drivers behind the increase in big ticket purchases were the strength in generators and appliances.
We believe generators are much more levered to Hurricane Sandy, so we aren't too sure how long that benefit will last. However, appliances have largely lagged the rest of the housing recovery, so we believe appliances will be an area of strength going forward. This could also boost the fortunes of other appliance sellers like Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and hhgregg (NYSE:HGG).
Gross margins were virtually flat at 34.9%, as improved shrink control was offset by an unfavorable product mix and higher transportation costs. Since the firm was rushing to supply stores in the wake of Sandy, the higher transportation costs could ease in 2013. While we don't anticipate much gross margin expansion, the firm has done an excellent job leveraging SG&A, which fell 110 basis points to 23.1% of sales. For the full-year, operating margins expanded 100 basis points to 10.4%.
The firm's free cash flow generation was terrific, up 4% to $5.6 billion (compared to 2011), and the company authorized a $17 billion share buyback to be completed by 2015. Home Depot also raised its quarterly dividend 34% to $0.39 per share-an annual yield of 2.3% at current levels. We plan to update our dividend report soon.
Looking ahead, Home Depot believes same-store sales can grow 3% in 2013, with total revenue growing 2% (fiscal year 2013 will be a week shorter than fiscal year 2012). The company is looking for earnings per share of $3.35, about 12% higher than in 2012. Cash flow from operations is anticipated to total $7.2 billion with $1.5 billion in capital spending, meaning we could see another year of free cash flow expansion.
Overall, we liked what we saw from Home Depot, and we think the company is doing a much better job executing than its main competitor, Lowe's. Still, we do not believe shares are attractively priced, and we won't be looking to add the company to the portfolio of our Best Ideas Newsletter at this time.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Emma Bunton's Search for Lost Dog Comes to 'Terrible' End
Without delving into details, she took to Twitter to thank those who reached out when she announced earlier this week that her and fiancé Jade Jones' chocolate Labrador Phoebe went missing on a daily walk.
"To all the amazing people who supported us at this horrible time, our precious Phoebe has been found and it's terrible news," the Spice Girl, 37, Tweeted Wednesday. "We are devastated."
"Thank you everyone for your support," Jones, 33, added. "Love you Phoebe always."
The couple, who are parents to sons Beau and Tate, also thanked Dog Lost, a database for lost and found dogs in the U.K., who assisted the family.
Phoebe, whom she described as gentle and gorgeous, was microchipped at the time of her disappearance.


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The clinical importance of parenteral therapy with vitamin K has become well established. The most prolonged improvements in prothrombin clotting time so far reported have followed the intravenous administration of either synthetic vitamin K1 or 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (menadione). The chemical reactivity and the toxicity of menadione as described by Fieser1 make it less desirable for general use than vitamin K1. A single dose of one of these drugs can restore and maintain normal blood prothrombin levels for periods as long as two or three weeks.2 Some inconvenience is caused by their lack of solubility in water and their sensitivity to ultraviolet rays. This has led to the continued use of water-soluble preparations; the effects of these are of much shorter duration, so that repeated injection is required for prolonged effect.
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AT&T CENTER – With Tony Parker out (soreness in left Achilles) and Danny Green and Tiago Splitter receiving 'Did Not Plays' for rest purposes, the San Antonio Spurs were led by a player who was just traded for at the NBA trade deadline in late February, Austin Daye. Led by Daye's 22 points on 6-of-10 made 3-pointers, the Spurs defeated former Spurs assistant coach Brett Brown and the 76ers 113-91. Along with Daye being the story of the night, the Spurs also got a balanced scoring attack, as four players scored in double figures, and the defense clamped down on the 76ers. Here were some key points in the Spurs' 14th win in a row.
The Austin Daye Experience
"He is a skilled guy," said Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich of Daye after the game. "Obviously he can shoot it, but he is also a good passer. He knows how to play the game and it was good to be able to get him some time tonight."
Daye gave the Spurs a package worth of productive play on both sides of the ball, as he finished with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting, grabbed six rebounds, and had one assist, two steals, and two blocks in 28:34 minutes. Whether it was throwing bullet passes to Jeff Ayres, providing fake behind-the-back passes, knocking down open 3-pointers, or just stealing passes in midair, Daye showed what he could do when given a chance with decent minutes.
"I was really comfortable," said Daye after the game. "I was just trying to be a professional and stay on my game to be ready whenever my number was called. It was called here pretty early."
Of Daye's eight rebounding chances, he grabbed six of them. He showed he was a part of the offense for stretches as he had the 3rd most touches on the team (64) and threw the 3rd most passes (50). Daye also reaped the benefits of his team's passing as 10 of his 13 shots were uncontested, where he shot 60% on those attempts. Coach Brown said it was the Spurs' system that allowed Daye to thrive.
"It surprises me that he looked as comfortable as he did catching and shooting the shot. He's lucky – and I've seen this over so many years – people can come into that system and shine. Their system creates opportunities for everybody, and he took advantage of those. The attention you have to give others and the movement that they have in their structure allowed him to get freed up a lot. He reaped the benefit of playing in that system. I think the system created that opportunity, and to his full credit, he delivered after that."
Take a look at Daye's shot chart on the night.
Check out this no-look pass from Daye.
The machine rolls on
After scoring less than 100 points in their previous two games, the Spurs found their flow on offense again by scoring 113 points, shooting 55.7% from the field, and 48.1% from three. The Spurs also collected 31 assists on 44 made baskets, including nine of those assists coming off secondary passes. The ball movement passed the eye test as nearly half of the Spurs' shots were uncontested. The Spurs shot 44 contested shots and 40 uncontested looks, while shooting above 50% on either type of shot. The only main flaw and why the 76ers were able to stay under 20 points for a majority of the night was due to the Spurs' 17 turnovers.
Even in missing Parker, Green, and Splitter, the Spurs had seven players touch the ball 40 or more times, and six threw 30 or more passes. Duncan scored 19 points, Kawhi Leonard scored 15 points, Patty Mills scored 15 points on 3-of-6 shooting from three, and Cory Joseph scored 12 points, grabbed seven rebounds, and threw five assists. Joseph was the Spurs' leading rebounder on the night.
"In my opinion, that's how you play the game," said Brown of the Spurs after the game. "So what you see is a system that is born out of many, many years of corporate knowledge where the winks and the blinks and wrinkles and the subtle nuances (allow them to) understand each other's tendencies, and the offense shines."
"It's not just a byproduct of good players or a great coach," continued Brown on the Spurs. "It's a decade worth of corporate knowledge. That's what you aspire to get to."
"It felt like they were running 100 miles per hour out there," said 76ers forward Thaddeus Young after the game. "They were moving and passing and cutting, but that is a sign of a team who has been together for a few years and had been a championship contending team each and every year."
Parker, Green, Splitter rest, are ok
Before the game, the Spurs announced Parker would sit out of the game due to soreness in his left Achilles. During the game, both Green and Splitter were in warm-ups, but never played in the game. After the game, Popovich said it was to give the three players some needed rest.
"I don't want to just worry about Tim (Duncan), Tony (Parker), and Manu (Ginobii)," said Popovich after the game. "Those guys have been playing a lot of minutes," as he referred to Green and Splitter.
A look into the 14-game winning streak
During their 14-game winning streak, the Spurs are beating teams by an average of 15.7 points per game. The Spurs are scoring 111.6 points, shooting 49.1% from the field, 43.3% from three, collecting 28.8 assists, and only turning the ball over 14.0 times per game. Defensively, they're holding teams to 95.9 points per game during the streak.
The Spurs are ranked first in Offensive Rating with 112.2 points per 100 possessions and ranked second in Defensive Rating by holding teams to 97.5 points per 100 possessions during the streak.
Where San Antonio Stands
- Regular Season: 54-16 (Lead the NBA)
- Home Record: 27-8 (Lead the NBA)
- Vs. Opponents with –.500 records: 32-2 (Lead the NBA)
- Vs. The Eastern Conference: 23-6
- Post All-Star Break Record: 16-1 (Lead the NBA)
- Since Kawhi Leonard returned from injury: 14-0
- The Spurs are 12-0 in the month of March.
(All Stats and Player Tracking data via NBA.com)