Just curious. One day they were there; the next day NOT!
Pen heaven? A third world country? Landfill?
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INTERESTING: What DID TD do with all the old Commerce Bank pens?
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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POLITICAL: Make “health insurance” personal!
Saturday, December 13, 2008http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122852525037084565.html
DECEMBER 6, 2008, 11:16 A.M. ET
For Workers, Medical Bills Add to Pain as Firms Fail
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In May, Jevic Transportation, a New Jersey trucking company owned by buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc., told employees in a letter that it was shutting down and terminating insurance. “Continuation of these plans via Cobra is not an option since Jevic no longer provides any group health plan to any employee,” a human resources official wrote.
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Until the company shut down, Archway had deducted health contributions from employees’ paychecks. The contributions, along with the employers’ share, go into a pool that funded Archway’s insurance plan. Blue Cross and Blue Shield was the administrator of the plan, so employees and doctors would file claims with the insurance firm, which would determine if they were valid and then pay them. Archway would then repay the insurer. Typically, this process could take a couple months to complete.
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Another argument for the gooferment to make health insurance deductible to the ordinary taxpayer as it is for employers.
Time to stop the fraudsters.
The Archway example sure was “deceptive”. imho
Time to have a paradigm shift.
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POLITICAL: Is this the end of “public financing”?
Friday, December 12, 2008http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=abPrh.QKY5Tk
Obama Spent Four Times as Much as McCain at Race End
By Jonathan D. Salant and Kristin Jensen
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Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama’s record-breaking fundraising gave him four times as much cash to spend as rival John McCain in the final months of the presidential campaign.
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So much for his “public financing” pledge. Now can we finally bury the McCain – Feingold Unconstitutional attack on Free Speech?
Funny that McCain was knifed by his own law.
And, maybe he would not have made a good President since he was deceived by Obama’s renege.
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TECH SERVICE: Example of the danger of depending upon the cloud for computing service
Friday, December 12, 2008Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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TECH SERVICE: Example of the danger of depending upon the cloud for computing service
Friday, December 12, 2008Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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RANT: OJ was punished for the last crime
Thursday, December 11, 2008http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9461992
O.J. Simpson and C.J. Stewart Sentenced
Updated: Dec 5, 2008 06:59 PM
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Former football great O.J. Simpson will spend anywhere from nine to 33 years in prison and his co-defendant, Clarence C.J. Stewart will spend 7.5 to 27 years for their roles in a Las Vegas armed robbery case.
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Sorry! This is a terrible result.
I’m no OJ fan.
I believe that the LA keystone kops muddied the DNA evidence and the jury righty said so.
In this case, I’m of the opinion that he didn’t get a fair trial. The Goldman’s in the court room “invited” the jury to punish him for what he “got away with”.
Sorry! I think he was railroaded.
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POLITICAL: Rat’s nest of Chicago
Thursday, December 11, 2008http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/12/10/the-tainting-of-the-president
The Tainting of the President-Elect
By Jeffrey Lord on 12.10.08 @ 1:05PM
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Wait a minute.
“I had no contact with the governor what….”
That’s the money quote from President-elect Obama in his first comment on the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. What was that “what” about to become before Obama stopped himself in mid-sentence in front of the cameras as Al Gore and Joe Biden sat by, stonefaced? The word “whatsoever” perhaps? In which case, did the new president stop himself because he knew that to say “no contact whatsoever” was something that would be provably untrue? According to a now hastily retracted statement by aide David Axelrod, the president-elect had indeed “talked to the governor” about the vacancy.
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I found this hard to believe also.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Doing differently
Wednesday, December 10, 2008What Would You Differently if You Were in College Again?
December 5, 2008 at 12:24 pm | In Career Development, Personal Branding, Success Strategies, gen-y |
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From time to time, I get asked certain questions that I think could benefit a larger audience. Many of my blog readers are still in college right now, so I figured today would be the perfect day to go through two questions, so you can think about them this weekend. If you, like me, are a college graduate, you might want to take this time to reminisce, laugh or give suggestions in this posts comment section that can benefit us.
Question: “Thinking back when you were in college what would you have done differently with the knowledge that you now have?”
The context of this question relates to career development, branding and getting a job upon college graduation. It has nothing to do with partying really hard, hooking up with girls/guys and alcohol abuse (not that we have done any of that ;) ). This is a tricky question because social media wasn’t important or heavily used back then. I didn’t know about it and I bet you didn’t as well (I graduated Bentley University in 2006). I learned about social media in late 2006.
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That’s easy!
I’d have started collecting McKay66’s on everybody I ever met. I’ve lost so many potential contacts that I can’t even envision them all.
Argh!
But I did manage to hang onto a vunderbar woman who tolerates my stupidity!
Maybe less drinking and more saving, but it was SOOOO long ago. Who remembers! LOL, like it was yesterday.
Rage at the dying of the light!
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INTERESTING: We cause out own problems
Tuesday, December 9, 2008http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20692
Miss Cellania
Messing with Mother Nature: 5 Cautionary Tales
by Miss Cellania – December 4, 2008 – 10:09 AM
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A case in Borneo illustrates the delicate balance of nature and the unintended consequences of human intervention. An early 50s outbreak of malaria led the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring in massive amounts of DDT to kill mosquitoes. They killed the mosquitoes, but also virtually wiped out a particular species of parasitic wasp. The wasp fed on thatch-eating caterpillars. With the wasps gone, the caterpillars ate the villager’s roofs! An even worse consequence was that geckos ate the poisoned insects and were in turn eaten by native cats. The native cats died from DDT poisoning, and therefore the rat population flourished. This lead to an outbreak of typhus and plague among humans. To assuage the damage, WHO arranged for a supply drop that included a couple dozen healthy cats! This supply drop (which included other supplies) was dubbed Operation Cat Drop. The cats were able to reduce the rodent population to controllable levels, and DDT was eventually outlawed.
As we continue to “improve” the environment and serve a growing human population, there will be more such stories to come.
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Humans really can screw stuff up!
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FUN: Blagojevich Indictment Threatens Nation With Asterisk Shortage
Tuesday, December 9, 2008Blagojevich Indictment Threatens Nation With Asterisk Shortage
By gillespie @ reason.com (Nick Gillespie)
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ROFL!
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