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Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 4:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
another follow-up:

Those bamboo blinds DH couldn't get from Sears (earlier in this thread), and that I had to find someplace else online, finally showed up late yesterday. We just got one of them put up. I think they look nice :-)



Whoami
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08-02-2001

Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 5:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
They do look nice Naja. You should send that pic (along with a letter to Sears), and tell them how nice they look, and how it's a shame they didn't come from their store.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
They look very nice, Naja.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 1:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Really nice Naja, and functional to boot!

Naja
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06-28-2003

Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Whoami, LOL! I should do just that :-)

Thanks Juju and Bisc. It's always nice to get some affirmation on purchase. I am known in RL for often having buyer's remorse, and this helps stop it in its tracks :-)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 7:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I also wanted to mention that I ended getting the blinds from www.ifurn.com . I was scared to death to order from a place I had never even heard of, but they were great. They even answered my customer service email inquiries by the next business morning. (I emailed them on a Friday night late and they got back to me first thing Monday morning). Free shipping and no sales tax dragged me in.

Whoami
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08-02-2001

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 3:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Its been a long time since I came up with a doozy of a dumb question. So here goes....

In a TV news station, what is the hierarchy of the news staff. Is News Anchor higher or lower than the "man on the street" reporter?

Just curious. There's an anchor here I've never really cared for. Now I'm seeing her doing on-site reports from the street. Is that a step down for her, or a step up? Just wondered if she got promoted or demoted.

Curious minds want to know.

Mack
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07-22-2002

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 3:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
Typically you'd think a news anchor would be the higher position. Maybe she asked to go out and do some on-site reporting? Cost cutting by the station? Seems to me the worst case scenario is that she's be demoted.

Whoami
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08-02-2001

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 4:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That's kinda what I thought too, that news anchor would be the higher position. I looked her up, and she's still listed as an anchor for some morning program. I also thought about cost cutting by the station, where people may be having to double up on some of the jobs around the station. I don't recall seeing her on the desk lately (though I usually avoid the station she's on, since like I said she really rubs me the wrong way, LOL).

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 4:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Who, I'm seeing more of that around here, too. I wonder if the stations figure their ratings are based on their anchors, so if their anchors are featured more as reporters that they'll get new viewers.

One of my favorite stations out of Buffalo NY "cleaned house" a couple of years back. Dumped all the long-time anchors and brought in practically a whole new crew. They lost me in the process. One female anchor was "normal" sized, which means that by TV standards, she was huge. Man oh man, were people up in arms that she was dumped! They went from the #1 station down to the 3rd place one.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 4:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
The "Weather Girl" on one station here recently had a baby.

You could watch her 'progress' as her pregnancy continued. There were a lot of sideways shots as she pointed out weather patterns.

When she left to have the baby the female news anchor laughed and said that in her day they would keep a news anchor's pregnancy hidden by keeping her behind a desk.

Karuuna
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08-30-2000

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Whoami, it depends on the story. If it's considered a 'hot story', it's a promotion. If it's just fluff, not so much.

Whoami
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08-02-2001

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Well, she was in Boulder reporting on the fire.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
fire is hot! Promotion!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Totally OT here, but Abby's here (age 4) and when she saw me posting, she wanted me to click on the smiley face (above the posting box). She loves to look at all the icons and I would point to a certain icon and ask her what it was doing or saying. When I got to this one, she said "I don't want to go to bed!"

(maybe no one will find that funny, but it struck me really funny right now!! Probably cuz she is actually past her bedtime!)

Karuuna
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08-30-2000

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Whoami, that was a big story, so it sounds like she got the choice assignment.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Makes me think of the news people mess a number of years ago here in Chicago. Carol Marin has occasionally reported on 60 Minutes. I think she may have been seen nationally on a few other thing too. She's local Chicago though. She and Ron Majers for years were anchors on no. 1 rated NBC Chicago affiliate 10:00 news. Then some "bright" person at the station thought adding Jerry Springer to do some commentary during the newscast was a good idea. That all BLEW UP. Ultimately Marin and Majers left the station. They'd have no part of it. Wanted nothing to do with Springer. IIRC, Springer was on for a week at the most. It didn't work. Viewing public didn't want him either. NBC affiliate has never been no. 1 again . . . although CBS affiliate is currently at the bottom of the three networks. Majers has been anchoring now no. 1 ABC affiliate 10:00 news pretty much since the mess happened. Carol tried various things in the Chicago news arena. Now she reports big news for NBC affiliate again. And does some hosting on Chicago Tonight, nightly PBS news program.

I found the story here.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
The BEST paragraph from that story:

"For a time, reporters and camera crews from competing shops freely ranged through the WMAQ-TV newsroom. The managers whose actions led to Carol's departure were nowhere to be seen."

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 1:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Julieboo, I thought Abby's choice of smiley face was funny too!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 3:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
ha ha, yup, Abby knows her smiley faces!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
That smiley thing with Abby is funny, so accurate!

I have a question... and let me first say I'm not in need of an ER, it just occurred to me I wouldn't know what to do if I did.

So say a medical emergency happened in my house and we called an ambulance... does the ambulance take you to their base (or whatever you would call it) hospital, or do they want you to tell them where to go (i.e. your nearest in-network ER)? And if it's a real emergency, do medical insurers expect you to go to an ER that's in-network or can you go to the nearest one?

It's something I probably should know... just in case!

Karen
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09-06-2004

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
No idea what the answer is, Kitt, but boy, does a question like that make me glad to be Canadian.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 10:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
If you have an emergency that is an EMERGENCY, they take you to the nearest hospital.

If you are going to emergency room because drs office is closed and urgent care is closed, you should go to in-network.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 10:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I can answer for where I live, not sure about other places.

We have two hospitals (well, three but two with ER's) here in town and if you can answer, they will ask which one you want to go to. If the big hospital is too busy, they'll take you to the other one, happens once in a while. When I worked at the retirement home, that was something we had to know when people moved in, hospital/ER preference, so if neccessary, we could tell the paramedics. When I've had to take Kota to ER, I've always just gone to the one closest to my house (the bigger one) and never given it a thought. My mil has gone to both at different times, no probs with her insurance. I do know if it's a real life or death emergency, the paramedics can make a decision to go to the closer one.

Now, when I was pregnant with Caleb, I had Kaiser and the nearest Kaiser hospital was in Panorama City, about an hour and a half to two hours away from us. They did contract with the bigger hospital (AVH) here, so if I needed to go to ER or when I went into labor, I could go/went straight to AVH with no problems. This was 14 years ago, so my memory may be a bit off, but if I remember right, I could have gone to LCH (the smaller hospital) but there would have been a big billing/paperwork nightmare afterwards to deal with and I think I would have had to show I had no choice but to go to the hospital they didn't have a contract with. LCH was closer to our apartment, but AVH was only about 3 minutes away from there, so no big deal going to AVH.

I also remember, with both Kaiser, and later during my pregnancy with Kota when I had pacificare, not to travel further than, I think it was 250 miles, from home after my 8th month of pregnancy. Because if I went into labor and had to go to the hospital, neither would have had to pay cuz I was then out of network.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 10:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Karen, tell me about it! I've been in the US a long time now, and all of a sudden I think of things like this and have no idea what I should do, should anything happen!

I had a run in with a black widow spider... it didn't bite me, but freaked me out a little... ok it freaked me out a lot! It got me thinking if I was all alone and it had bitten me, what should I have done. But now I've looked up my closest in-network hospital (so I assume that means the ER is in-network, the website didn't let me explicitly check) and it's only about a mile further than the nearest one, which I think is out-of-network, so I'd be prepared if I had a choice.

Thank you :-).