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Chicken Broth Mix, Reduced Sodium, in a Large Spice Jar (4.94 oz.)

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Product Details: Our reduced sodium chicken broth mix boasts a true chicken flavor without too much salt. Use it to make gravy, broth and soup; add to sauces, casseroles, and rice dishes to boost the flavor. Fine powder consistency. Shelf-stable; no refrigeration required; great for emergency food supplies, camping, RVing, boating, and hiking.

To Make Broth:
Stir together 1 tsp. broth mix and 1 cup boiling water.

Our Large Spice Jar
(containing 4.94 ounces / 140 grams of product) is clear plastic with a black cap featuring a removable safety seal and two flip-top openings, one large enough for a measuring spoon and the other with sprinkle holes.

Ingredients: sugar, hydrolyzed corn protein, salt, maltodextrin, gelatin, modified food starch, onion powder, chicken fat, dried chicken powder, dehydrated parsley, garlic powder, oleoresin turmeric, disodium inosinate and guanylate, natural flavor. Packaged in a facility that also handles wheat, milk, soy, egg, sesame, peanuts, and tree nuts.

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1 cup ≈ 0.38 pounds / 1 pound ≈ approx. 2.61 cups

Shelf Life: 2+ Years when stored at room temperature or below in an air-tight container out of direct light

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Recipe: Unfried Rice
One pot and a lid - no wok required - to make a quick dinner or side dish.

4 cups water
2 cups long-grain white rice
1 egg - beaten
2 Tbls. butter OR 1 Tbls. butter powder
2 Tbls. dried minced onion
2 Tbls. reduced sodium soy sauce OR 1 Tbls. soy sauce powder
1 tsp. low-sodium chicken broth mix OR chicken soup base
1 cup frozen peas and carrots blend (thawed is better, but not necessary)

~ In a 2-quart saucepan over medium-high heat, bring water to a boil.
~ In the meantime, measure the rice into a sieve and rinse thoroughly under cold water for at least 1 minute; set aside to drain.
~ Once the water is boiling, slowly pour the beaten egg into the water while whisking briskly with a fork. This will create thin threads of cooked egg.
~ Stir rice and remaining ingredients into water, bring back to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover, and cook for 20 minutes. Do not open lid or stir.
~ After the 20 minutes is up, remove the pot from the burner and allow to rest for 5 minutes with the lid on.
~ Fluff with a fork and serve.

Note: You can add diced, cooked chicken or pork or even a can of shrimp to the rice and make it a meal

Recipe: Low-Sodium Chicken Ranch Meatballs
Flavorful and easy stovetop meatballs to serve as an appetizer, over a bed of pasta, or on a sandwich with marinara sauce and cheese.

1 pound ground beef
1 packet No Salt! Buttermilk Ranch Dip Mix
2 Tbls. olive oil OR butter
3/4 cup water
2 tsp. low-sodium chicken broth mix

~ Knead together beef and Ranch Dip Mix. Roll into 1" balls.
~ In a large skillet over medium heat, brown meatballs in oil on all sides

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After sexual assault at Florida teen prison, state awards firm $16M deal

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The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice signed a $16 million contract last month with a private youth prison company facing a string of troubles in the last year, including official findings of “substantial evidence” of child abuse by its staff.

With the new six-year contract, Nevada-based private youth prison firm Rite of Passage holds more than $60 million worth of contracts with the state of Florida to manage several of DJJ’s residential detention facilities.

The state didn’t sign the contract until February 18, more than a month after Gov. Ron DeSantis took over the administration. Though DeSantis has attracted attention for his departure from the Rick Scott administration in some ways, the new contract marks a continuation of business as usual at Florida’s agency charged with helping redirect the lives of troubled youth. The agency moved to fully privatize its last five state-run residential facilities in 2012 under the Scott administration.

This newest contract came about amid a rash of scandals for Rite of Passage. An employee at one Florida facility in Defuniak Springs called the Walton Academy for Growth and Change was arrested last summer as part of a group sexual assault on a fifteen year old boy using a shampoo bottle, the Miami Herald reported. Despite a video recording of much of the incident, prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against the Rite of Passage employee, Antoine Davis. Bill Eddins, State Attorney for the 1st Judicial Circuit, told the Phoenix in a statement that “there was not sufficient evidence on the video to show that the defendant aided, encouraged, or helped the co-defendant’s,” and declined to comment further.

However, a DJJ Inspector General report obtained by the Phoenix describes the video as showing Davis standing at the door to the room where the teen was attacked, looking in and “doing nothing to stop what is happening in the room,” and even sharing a laugh about it with other youth looking into the room.

The report found there was enough evidence to prove Davis “was negligent in his supervision of youth under his care,” and that he used “unnecessary force” against the sexually assaulted teen after the teen got upset following the incident.

The Nevada-based Rite of Passage has a long reach. The investigative journalism website Reveal reported that Rite of Passage has had agreements with the federal government to house unaccompanied immigrant children. It also operates facilities in several states.

In August, Colorado state officials suspended the firm’s license to operate a facility in Durango, citing unsafe conditions for children. The Colorado Department of Human Services found “substantial evidence” that the company’s employees “committed acts of child abuse,” the Durango Herald reported.

That was only a month after Colorado officials had suspended another Rite of Passage license to operate a detention facility where staff lost control of the detainee population of teenage girls, Denver TV station KMGH reported.

And just days before Florida DJJ Deputy Secretary Timothy Niermann signed the contract with the company, three teenage boys escaped from one of the company’s Arkansas facilities and injured a guard, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. That was a few months after the newspaper also reported that police were investigating an ex-guard at a Rite of Passage facility related to a repeated sexual assault of a teen held there.

The allegations of abuse and mismanagement all made headlines while the company was competing to manage a state-owned “nonsecure residential facility” in Jasper, Florida for 40 teenage boys. In fact, the sexual assault incident at the Panhandle facility happened the day before the Rite of Passage was due to submit its proposal.

The new contract is the second multi-million dollar deal the state agreed to with Rite of Passage in recent months. DJJ signed a contract with the company for $17.7 million last September for a 42-bed residential facility for boys with developmental disabilities.

DJJ Deputy Secretary Niermann declined to discuss his role in signing the contracts, deferring to the department’s press staff, but did tell the Phoenix in a phone call that “how we bid contracts is very detailed and robust.”

Niermann’s boss, DJJ Secretary Simone Marstiller, told the Phoenix in a statement that Davis’ actions were “reprehensible and inexcusable. Ultimately, the contracted staff person was terminated, the program was placed on a corrective action plan, and DJJ’s Office of Inspector General thoroughly investigated this incident.”

As for signing the contracts with Rite of Passage, Marstiller said that “we will continue to hold contracted providers accountable and will review our procurement practices to ensure we are selecting providers best suited to serve the children in our care.”

DJJ’s selection process included a component that accounted for past performance, but DJJ records obtained by the Phoenix show Rite of Passage was not even the highest scoring bidder, in large part because of its past performance.

In contrast, the top spot went to a Florida group called AMIKids (which has its own history of investigation of sexual abuse incidents) that earned nearly five times Rite of Passage’s score for past performance. DJJ says it couldn’t move forward with AMIKids because the company would not commit to certain state staffing and service requests.

Most of the state’s more than 50 youth prisons are operated by a company called TrueCore Behavioral Solutions.

Despite being a smaller player in Florida’s juvenile justice scene, managing just a handful of DJJ facilities, Rite of Passage’s contracts with the state can be quite lucrative. Under the February contract that lasts through the first half of 2024, the state is paying the firm $223 per bed per day. Even if nobody is sleeping in that bed, the company still gets $213 per bed per day.

In making its bid with the state, Rite of Passage also had the advantage of employing  a former insider. Michael Cantrell, who oversees the firm’s Florida facilities, previously worked as a regional director for DJJ for six years, from 2005 to 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The governor’s office did not provide comment on the contract, or answer questions about DeSantis’ future plans for juvenile justice.

A statement from Rite of Passage said the company “is proud to have been selected to operate an innovative program for Florida’s at-risk youth that focuses on robust education, individualized treatment and a state-of-the-art equine therapy program.”

The statement, provided by Rite of Passage director of development Suzanne E. Schulze, also noted the company “follows stringent hiring practices that meet all state, local and federal requirements. We also follow a zero tolerance for abuse, and if an employee acts in violation of this standard, they are immediately terminated. We are proud of our 35 years of work in juvenile services, are in good standing with all our contracting partners, and look forward to continuing to operating a program that helps the youth in our care.”

But Colorado officials told the Phoenix that, due to problems,  two Rite of Passage facilities there have remained closed for months, with the license for one facility permanently revoked and the contract for the other facility terminated.

And Rite of Passage has faced a longer history of problems than the flurry of headlines it produced in the last year.

Though the Sunshine State is giving Rite of Passage new business, it has struggled to win over officials at its home state of Nevada. In 2015, Nevada walked away from a contract with Rite of Passage to run a maximum security facility near Las Vegas, citing safety and civil rights problems, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. That was days after what was the third of a rash of riots at another facility in Northern Nevada, amid a concerted effort by the company to improve its image.

“Unfortunately, this is not a surprise,” said Michelle Morton, the ACLU of Florida’s policy director for juvenile justice. “But we should be demanding better for these kids who are going to come back out into society… If they’re not rehabilitated, the consequences fall on all of us.”

Morton also cast a critical eye on the state’s heavy use of private, for-profit contractors to manage its residential facilities.

“Any time you have a profit motivator for incarceration, you’re going to run into issues where they’re cutting corners to save costs,” she charged.

Rite of Passage Inc, is headed up by CEO Ski Broman, who signed the contracts with DJJ on the company’s behalf. In 2016, the company took in more than $3 million in management fees and salary reimbursements from an associated Nevada nonprofit with a similar name, according to tax filings from the nonprofit with the IRS. The nonprofit also paid Broman nearly $200,000 that year to lease land from him. Rite of Passage did not answer questions about its corporate structure or the leasing arrangement.

“Part of the issue,” Morton said, “is that the state either doesn’t have enough control over these companies, or isn’t using the power they have in these contracts.”

Florida’s contracts with Rite of Passage include a common clause that allows it to terminate for convenience: If it wanted to, the state could get out of its contracts without cause and without any penalty by simply giving 30 days notice.

But more broadly, Florida’s juvenile justice system is in need of a “cultural change” Morton said, adding that it’s logical to exclude companies with checkered pasts from doing business with the state.

“When you have these companies with track records of abuse in multiple states, it makes sense you wouldn’t give them a license, or a contract, to have access to our kids,” she said.

Abuses at youth lockups are not unique to Rite of Passage, and Florida has had a particularly long, horrific history of delinquents being abused in state care, from the infamous Dozier School for Boys to more recent tragedies chronicled in the Miami Herald’s Fight Club series.

Florida’s juvenile justices system also has a disproportionate effect on black youth, who made up 63 percent of Florida’s more than 3,500 youth in residential facilities in fiscal year 2016-17, despite making up 21 percent of the youth population according to DJJ data. They are also more likely to be placed in higher risk facilities.

Liz Ryan, head of Youth First Initiative, an organization working to end youth incarceration, said in an interview with the Phoenix that abuses are bound to keep happening if the state keeps relying on what she described as a “coercive model” of taking youth out of their homes and communities.

“The youth prison model has been in place since the early 1800’s and it has never worked,” she said. “It isn’t safe, isn’t fair, doesn’t work, and can’t be fixed. In youth prisons, youth are at high risk of physical and sexual abuse and it increases the chances that they will enter the adult criminal justice system.”

Daniel Ducassi
Phoenix contributor Daniel Ducassi is a multimedia freelance journalist based in Miami and a native of the Sunshine State. He is a former reporter for POLITICO Florida, where he wrote about education, the justice system, gambling, and medical marijuana. His work has also appeared in the Miami Herald, WLRN Public Media and The New Tropic.

  1. Disappointing news , while the State tries to find ways to make amends for the atrocities found at the Dozier youth facility the State continues to follow the corporate incarceration model that creates incentives to lock up troubled youth rather than deal with the root causes of many of the troubles.

  2. Florida; where dogs have *more rights than children [instead `as many rights]. I think the the animals will cheer when we humans finally bring on our own extinction.

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Tara Davis Says Georgia Not Releasing Her To Transfer

Update (Dec. 18): All-American jumper/hurdler Tara Davis released a video on Tuesday evening saying that she has not transferred to Texas, and that the University of Georgia has not yet released her to pursue other schools. Davis' former coach at Georgia, Petros Kyprianou, tweeted last week that the world junior record holder was headed to Texas, but in the minute-long video posted on Davis' Twitter account, she refutes that assertion.

In the video, Davis says that she only signed a scholarship aid document last week so that she could be on campus at Texas during a dead period in between semesters. Davis also claims that she has not formally signed to compete for the Texas track and field program, and that she is currently ineligible to compete in the NCAA during the 2018-2019 track and field season. Davis says she is appealing the decision.

We have reached out to Georgia for comment on the situation.

Update (Dec. 13): Georgia head coach Petros Kyprianou announced that Tara Davis is transferring to Texas, though she has yet to personally respond with her official plans for the future.

On Dec. 7, the world junior record holder tweeted she was leaving the University of Georgia in the midst of her sophomore year.

On Instagram, Davis said she hasn’t decided where she will transfer to, and hasn't yet personally responded to her former coach's announcement.

The hurdler and horizontal jumper was part of the Bulldogs’ NCAA championship team in the indoor season.

In that meet, Davis placed third in the long jump and sixth in the 60m hurdles. Her best performance, however, came in the semifinals of the 60m hurdles when she ran 7.98 seconds to set the world junior record.

Outdoors, Davis was fifth in the long jump and made the semifinals in the 100m hurdles at the NCAA Championships. Georgia placed a close second in the team competition. Later in the summer, Davis won the U.S. junior title in the long jump and went on to take the bronze medal at the World U20 Championships in Finland.

Davis’ transfer also means that Georgia will enter the 2019 indoor season missing all three members of their long jump podium sweep from last March. Keturah Orji graduated in the spring after a career that included eight individual NCAA titles. Kate Hall, the winner of the indoor long jump competition, turned pro in the summer, forgoing her final year of eligibility.

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With just one weekend left to qualify for the 2020 DI NCAA Indoor Championships a staggering 61 track and field All-Americans from last year have yet to achieve a top-16 mark in 2020.

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Yulimar Rojas Sets Indoor Triple Jump World Record In Madrid

Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas set the women’s indoor triple jump world record on Friday in Madrid with a 15.43m leap. With it, the 24-year-old eclipsed Tatyana Lebedeva’s 15.36m mark that had stood since 2004.

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What was expected to be a coronation of marathon world record holder Brigid Kosgei as the half marathon queen instead turned into an introduction of a worthy counterpart as Ethiopian Ababel Yeshaneh stunned the Kenyan on Friday morning (Thursday night in the U.S.) at the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon by setting a 64:31 world record.

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Between more Mondo Duplantis' theatrics in Glasgow, a ridiculous road 5k world record in Monaco and plenty of excitement stateside, there was a lot to get excited about this past weekend in track and field.

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With just two weeks left to qualify for NCAAs a majority of the top-16 fields are coming into form on the distance side. The NAU men are currently slated to qualify ten entries across three distance events.

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A little over a month after Rhonex Kipruto took down Joshua Cheptegei’s road 10k world record, the Ugandan has answered back in a big way by running 12:51 on Sunday in Monaco to smash Kipruto’s 5k world record. Cheptegei cut a whopping 27 seconds off the 13:18 that the Kenyan ran on Jan. 12, a run that came en route to Kipruto’s 26:24 10k record.

Mondo Does It Again, Breaks Pole Vault World Record

Mondo Duplantis is ushering in a new era of the pole vault, one centimeter at a time. Just a week removed from his world record clearance of 6.17m, the 20-year-old vaulted 6.18m at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow.

U.S. Indoor Women's Preview: Can Purrier Chase Down Houlihan?

The most interesting match-up of the indoor season materialized quickly. Last Saturday evening at the Millrose Games, Elinor Purrier dropped a stunning 4:16.85 mile to break the American record and dispatch a stacked field in a race that turned into a festival of personal bests and national records. It was a career-defining race for Purrier. A run fast enough to legitimately raise the question if she could beat America’s best mid-distance runner, Shelby Houlihan. This weekend at the US Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, Purrier will have two chances (the 3000m on Friday and the 1500m on Saturday) to pull it off.

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Is there a polite way to ask someone to not call you by your nickname(s)?

Asked by Nimis (13199points) September 29th, 2008

I don’t like when people (that I don’t know that well) call me by my nickname(s).
Is there a nice way to ask them not to?

Obviously I am okay with my family and old friends calling me by my nickname(s). Is just seems a little rude to point out that they do not fall under either category.

It’s always annoyed me. But I’ve always let it slide because I’ve never found a nice way of explaining to people why I don’t like it.

(Besides just getting over my weird hang-ups.)

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jsc3791's avatar

I have experienced this too! My name is Jessica. My close friends and family call me Jess. ONLY my little sisters call me Jessie – b/c I do not like it but it is sort of endearing when they do it. So…I agree with you that it is kind of presumptuous for someone not close to you to refer to you by a nickname, but I am not sure what to say to these people. Except maybe “Actually, I prefer xyz.”

Les's avatar

Ok, Snoogly Bear.
All you have to do is, next time someone refers to you by the nickname, just stop them politely and say, “I’m sorry, I would prefer if you would call me by my full name.” It really should be no more complicated than that. My name is Leslie. And I hate it when people (close friends, too!) call me Lez-lie. I like the sssssss. So I will stop them, and correct them. Most people would rather you tell them what you prefer, than have them keep calling you something you don’t like.

Nimis's avatar

I do tell them that I prefer my full name—when it’s just them.
I find it problematic when we’re hanging around with people
that I obviously don’t mind calling me by my nickname(s).
It seems like I’m saying Sorry, you’re not as close to me as so-and-so.

-Snoogly Bear

xxporkxsodaxx's avatar

Uh, yea… I’m gunna need you to stop calling me that and call me by my appropriate name, thanks.

gailcalled's avatar

@Nim (you don’t mind if I call you “Nim?”) It is not a weird hang-up. Be courteous, use a nice tone of voice and say it in a straightforward manner. It is tricky with a crowd, however.

gailcalled's avatar

When I hear a friend being called both by a diminutive and her real name, I ask her what she prefers.

Nimis's avatar

I don’t mind shortened names.
I’m quite lazy and do it all the time myself.

It is tricky!
Even if I say it nicely, it sounds mean (in my head).

I wish people would ask me.
But even still, they’re sure to notice the discrepancies.

They can. You can’t. Sorry.

Les's avatar

If I were you, I would just learn to deal with it. I don’t like Lez-lie, but people still call me that. And, oddly enough, I’m not particularly fond of ‘Les’ either, but for some reason it is my user-name. But if someone calls me either of these things, I have just had to deal with it. It’s just something people do.

Hopefully the nickname isn’t quite as bad as ‘Snoogly Bear’. In that case, I would say don’t live with it, but also don’t let anyone call you that. ;-)

augustlan's avatar

I’d just explain that it is an old nickname, and only people who “knew you way back when” still call you that. I’ve know several people who have used something like that to get their point across.

whatthefluther's avatar

People write my nickname all the time: wtf or WTF with or without exclamation marks. I see it so frequently, I’ve grown to not only accept it, but like it! Feel free to call me wtf , Nimis.

gailcalled's avatar

People who had “y’s added to their names when they were young (my brother, Don, and my ex, Fred, for example) were haunted, as adults, by Donny or Freddy when they met old friends.

MY name doesn’t lend itself to a nickname other than Gaililo or Gallileo (neither of which I’m crazy about), so I’d love one.

Nimis's avatar

Les: I think if it evolves naturally on its own, I don’t mind it (whether I actually like it or not).
I don’t like it when they pick it up from someone else (who is closer to me).
I have been dealing with it. Just wondering if I didn’t have to?

Aug: Good idea! That totally solves half my problems.

Wha: WTF!!

Gail: Gailcalledy? Yeah, probably not a keeper.

maybe_KB's avatar

Say casually….Mmm, call me ________.
Don’t break in conversation
allow a moment of silence.
That would be prob. create discomfort for the both of you & you obv. don’t want that.
So, no silence immed. following
and keep the convo. going right after you them.

Les's avatar

AugustIan has the best suggestion. Way to go.

By the way. AugustIan, is it “Ian” with an L, or an i?

maybe_KB's avatar

what the fluther…LOL

gailcalled's avatar

@Les; My sister is also Leslie and we have always called her Lezlie. I have a friend who prefers your ‘ssss’.

whatthefluther's avatar

wait…did someone call me?

Nimis's avatar

Sorry. It was too much fun. Couldn’t help myself.

babygalll's avatar

I am the same way and don’t like people I don’t know that well to call me by my nickname. I just come out and say I prefer you call me (insert your name). It’s worked for me.

augustlan's avatar

To All: It is AugustLan, with an “L”, not an “I”. It is a common problem…darn lower case “L“s.

Les's avatar

Thanks! (Go me! That’s always how I’ve read it.)

gailcalled's avatar

Me, too, but I have had to squint.

marinelife's avatar

For the difficult in a crowd situation, you could try humor. “These days I go by mywholename, even though some of these folks who know where all the bodies are buried use my nickname.”

Said with a smile, it is hard for people for take offense.

sccrowell's avatar

Why not just say, Hey SoAndSo, Would you mind calling me by (whatever name you wish) I’d really prefer that.

More than likely “SoAndSo” will say sure thing!

shrubbery's avatar

If these are friends of friends who you don’t really know, just make sure your close friends who do call you by your nickname know to refer to you with your real name when talking to their friends, instead of their nickname for you.

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Bab & Scc: I have done that in the past. (Either that or just let it ride.)
I just feel bad like I’m singling them out or something.
I’m probably just being more sensitive about it than I should.

Mari: Another good option!

Shru: Was thinking the same thing. Best to nip it in the bud, eh?

shrubbery's avatar

I reckon! And it’s not like your friends are gonna think it’s rude for you to ask that, is it? Afterall, you’re just reminding them that they have the special privelege to use your nickname while others do not ;)

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When the person calls you (ex.,) “Joey”, tell them “JOSEPH – I hate the name Joey”.

A few rounds of this and, eventually, all you’ll need to say is “JOSEPH” when they call you Joey. Make it light unless they’re saying it in a condescending manner (ex., “Joey Boy”) then DON’T WORRY about being polite.

deaddolly's avatar

The old nickname trick sounds like the best way to go. I prefer my nickname, Jan, to my full name, Janine. When I was little they called me ‘ne ne’, which I understand means something like breast in the Spanish pronounciation.

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I care little what people call me:

Suzie, Sue, Annie, Suzie Q, SA, Sue-Tred (my real last name starts with TRED), Suebee, Sue-per, Deckie (also a form of my last name), Sue Me, Suebell, Sou-ie (think of a calling a pig)...there are probably a dozen more.

I like nicknames and people using them. For the most part I think it’s because people like me and are comfortable with me. And being in sales, that’s kinda what you work for.

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I have always called my youngest daughter, now 25, Moochiemine or Moochie, she actually loves it. Our family members may call her that as well, BUT that’s it! When her closest friend won’t call her that. My eldest daugther, I’ve always called Boogs, Boogie when she was younger. She only puts up with me calling her that because I’m her mother. It’s funny how kids can be. My eldest brother has always called me Boo, he says it’s because I was afraid of the dark. I still am and he still does, he’s 51 and I’m 48, go figure…

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1 small to medium eggplant, cut into 1 to 1 1/2-inch wedges

3 small zucchini, cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks

2 medium onions, each cut into 4 wedges

2 to 3 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces

4 sun-dried tomatoes (not packed in oil)

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6 ounces green beans, trimmed and cut into thirds

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  2. In a colander toss the eggplant and zucchini with about 2 teaspoons salt, and let drain for about 30 minutes. In a large bowl, combine together the remaining ingredients except the fresh tomatoes with the olive oil. Add the eggplant and zucchini to the bowl and transfer to a large roasting pan arranging in 1 layer. Place in a preheated oven. Occasionally turn vegetables for even browning, after 30 minutes add fresh tomatoes continue cooking for another 15 to 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Serve hot or cold, garnish with fresh chopped herbs.

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A fish fry is delicious, spicy and traditional Kerala dish for the fish lovers. The fish fry(Meen Varuthathu) is very easy to make and tasty too. You can use any variety of fish to make this tasty fish fry.

This Kerala style fish fry recipe uses very few and basic ingredients. Also, you can add some fresh finely chopped curry leaves while frying the fish pieces. You can use the same masala for frying any fish. Spicy Kerala Fish Fry is a great side dish for the meal. Find the complete instructions of Kerala Fish Fry and try the recipe.

  • Fish - 1/2 Kg (5 Pieces)
  • Chilly Powder - 1 Tablespoon
  • Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tablespoon
  • Pepper Powder - 1 Tablespoon
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  • Garam Masala - 1/2 Tablespoon
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  • 1Wash and clean the fish. Cut the cleaned fish into equal medium sized pieces.
  • 2In a deep mixing bowl, add chilly powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder,garam masala, ginger garlic paste, finely chopped curry leaves, lemon juice,  salt, one teaspoon oil. Mix all the ingredients to a fine paste with your hand. Taste the marinade and adjust the salt or spices as needed.
  • 3Add fish and mix properly. Cover the masala on all sides of the fish and keep aside for at least 30 minutes so that masalas perfectly blend with fish.
  • 4Heat a pan or tawa. Add two tablespoon cooking oil and spread it well. Add fish pieces one by one. Fry both side of the fish till the fish pieces become dark brown in color. Serve hot with rice.


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Doctor 'Report Cards' May Be Hazardous To Your Health

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If you’re like me, you rely heavily on online ratings systems. I routinely use Yelp ratings to find new restaurants, to check out movies, and Amazon ratings for everything they sell — which is pretty much everything.

But what about rating surgeons? Two groups, Consumers’ Checkbook and ProPublica, now offer patients free online ratings of surgeons, including death rates and complication rates. At first glance, this would appear to be a good thing. Who wouldn’t want to know whether the surgeon about to replace their heart valve has a 5-star rating or 3-star rating?

However, grading surgeons can create tricky unintended consequences that don’t occur when grading restaurants or movies. I’ll discuss some of those problems below, as well as how patients should (or should not) use such physician ratings.

Fortunately, we have experience from similar state-level initiatives. New York state has published cardiac surgeons’ mortality rates since 1989. A detailed expose by Robert Kolker for New York Magazine showed how this led to many surgeons avoiding high-risk patients in order to protect their mortality statistics.

From Kolker’s article:

Many surgeons, simply put, began gaming the system immediately and continue to do so today. “We still have people at this hospital who will not treat a high-risk patient,” says David Brown, an angioplasty cardiologist at SUNY–Stony Brook, with evident frustration. “I see a case on Monday morning with an acute myocardial infarction” — a heart attack — “that wasn’t treated. They come in and assess the patient, they think the patient’s at risk of dying no matter what they do, so they do nothing. And people admit to it...”

[I]n an anonymous survey sent out to every doctor who does angioplasty in the state, an astonishing 79 percent of the responders agreed that the public mortality statistics have discouraged them from taking on a risky patient. If you’re a hard case, in other words, four out of five doctors would think twice before operating on you.

In some cases, the patients were being “dumped” across state lines:

In the first few years after the report-card program began, the Cleveland Clinic received 31 percent more referrals from New York hospitals than they had previously received—and the study verified that the New York patients were sicker than those who were referred from other states.

In other words, some patients were subjected to the risk of being transported hundreds of miles to another city to keep them out of the state grading system.

Now the government officials in charge of the grading system did recognize that mortality statistics had to be adjusted for patient risk. In other words, surgeons would get more “credit” for treating patients with certain risk factors, such as advanced age, obesity, or being on certain cardiac medications like nitroglycerin. But this led to a different kind of gamesmanship: “When intravenous nitroglycerin became a risk factor for the data, there were reports of a greater number of patients getting intravenous nitroglycerin before operating.”

Although it can be hard to know in any individual case, one has to wonder how many patients were put on medically unnecessary drugs, solely for a surgeon to get credit for taking on a “riskier” patient.

A paper in the Journal of Political Economy analyzed ten years of data from New York and Pennsylvania (which had a similar system), concluding that the report cards may “give doctors and hospitals incentives to decline to treat more difficult, severely ill patients.” Even more troubling, “[O]bserved mortality declined as a result of a shift in incidence of surgeries toward healthier patients, not because report cards improved the outcomes of care for individuals with heart disease.”

As Kolker summarized, “[T]he very system designed to make heart surgery safer here may be convincing surgeons to turn patients away.”

On a related note, an article in the 2007 New England Journal of Medicine asked the provocative question, “Is Zero the Ideal Death Rate?

For example, a certain type of complicated heart attack can damage the heart muscle so badly that the patient will almost certainly die without surgery. Even with surgery, the chance of death may still be 30-50%. However, most patients would undoubtedly prefer a 50-70% chance of life (with surgery) to a near-certain chance of death (without surgery).

But the surgeon has a different incentive, accentuated by the relatively small sample sizes. Suppose the “acceptable” death rate for a certain kind of procedure is 2%, and a mortality rate of greater than 4% is considered a sign of incompetence. If a busy heart surgeon performs 100 of these procedures a year, he or she will have a powerful incentive to avoid operating on those 1-2 riskiest patients who could ruin his score for that year. You’d better hope you aren’t one of those patients.

Some will argue that we shouldn’t operate on those sickest patients anyways, because that merely wastes money for “the system.” It is true that responsible doctors should not provide “futile” or excessive medical care. But decisions about appropriate-vs-futile care should be made as part of an open and frank discussion between the surgeon, the patient, and the family members — not made covertly by doctors bound by performance metrics the families may be unaware of.

Another way of looking at this issue: The report cards can tell you how many patients died under a particular surgeon’s care. But they can’t tell you how many of those patients would have died without surgery. And more importantly, the report cards can’t tell you how many of those same patients would have died if treated by a different surgeon — because each surgeon gets to choose which patients he or she will operate on.

The goal of recognizing good doctors is laudable. But the proposed “report cards” have serious limitations. Patients looking for a good surgeon should consider these report cards as merely one data point among many — and not necessarily the most reliable.

Instead, doctors at Harvard Medical School recommend a multi-pronged approach in their 2012 publication, “Choosing A Heart Surgeon.” Some of their suggestions include (1) getting multiple referrals from primary care physicians and cardiologists about their preferred heart surgeons, (2) asking a surgeon, “If you weren’t going to do my surgery, who would you send me to?” and (3) doing your own research as to which procedure is best for you and finding a surgeon who has performed many of them. But the Harvard doctors also emphasize that there is no simple single shortcut for patients to find the best surgeon for their individual circumstances.

Various private rating systems will be a mixed bag, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. I personally think all such systems will have flaws that patients should consider. Fortunately, patients can listen to — or ignore — those ratings as long as they remain private. (In contrast, government rating system can be very easily captured by those with agendas that don't necessarily align with patient interests — such as cost containment. That's where we could potentially see big trouble.)

Just as standardized tests in school don’t necessarily indicate which students are the “best,” standardized grading of doctors won’t necessarily help you determine which doctors are “best.” As surgeon “report cards” become more widespread, patients should understand their limitations (and the associated unintended consequences) before making any life-or-death medical decisions.

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Why Brand Stories Matter And Simple Steps To Creating A Unique Brand Story

Telling and sharing stories is the key to our civilisation. Storytelling is great for stretching the imagination. In a paper on the British Council website, it has been shown that storytelling workshops help mental health and well-being by supporting relaxation.

How do we develop a unique story for our business and brand?

  • What a brand story is not: It is not just a tagline. It is not just the logo or the colours. It is not just your personal story and ‘about’ page, or a sales pitch.
  • What a brand story is: A brand story is the heart and soul of your brand. It is the complete picture of what you are. It is what makes you unique.

Successful brands create a narrative, something that positions them as unique, and creates an emotional connection with the customers. Good storytelling is all about forging an emotional connection.

The colours, the logo, the name and the tagline all follow from the central message. They all come together to form the brand story.

A brand story tells the motivation for starting your business, and why you get up and do what you do every day, why customers should care, and why they should trust you.

The brand story builds connections and it builds trust. Research has shown the power of descriptive stories and how our brains respond to it. Scientists call it synchronising or neural coupling where a simultaneous brain activity happens in two people, the brand narrator and the customer in this instance, and leads to a mirroring effect, leading to an enhanced comprehension and understanding.

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak‘s research indicates that our brains produce the stress hormone cortisol during the tense moments in a story allowing us to focus on the story, and then the resolution of that tension releases oxytocin, the feel-good chemical that promotes connection and empathy. So, when we build tension and then create a feel-good moment, we create a captivating story. Here is how to create an unique and authentic brand story:

  1. Keep it simple: Simple stories are the best to build momentum and relationships. The story has to focus on problem, success and solution. Most good stories have a beginning- why did you start, was there a struggle, a protagonist who overcame some obstacles; a middle- where and when, and how; and, an end. The end isn’t really an end in the true sense as it is a journey and a progression, creating optimism for the client. Simple stories build trust.
  2. Let your personality shine through: Good brand stories are driven by the founder’s personality. So, let your personality drive through the brand story. It comes back to the point I made earlier about being authentic and aligning brand values with your own values. It isn’t just your life story. It is the reason that your brand is so inherently inter-linked with you. It is what makes your brand completely unique. People buy from people. People relate to other people. So, let the face behind the brand be visible. This doesn’t have to mean putting our faces on billboards. It means letting the clients see the reason why you are the best person to drive this brand forward, and it creates trust.
  3. Communicate the higher purpose: I believe that this is one of the most essential elements of any brand, and of a powerful brand story. I always ask my clients to start by figuring out their own ‘why’. What is the purpose of the brand? It is not just about making money. What kind of problem does it solve? What kind of social change does it bring about? Is it improving lives in some way, because every brand or business does? We all have our businesses to make lives better, to leave a little mark of ourselves, to leave a legacy. Communicating this purpose through your tagline and your brand story creates trust and a connection with customers. It creates a reason for them to buy from you.

For The Art Tiffin, it is all about bringing a creative revolution and supporting mental health and well-being. The tagline is ‘nourish the mind, nourish the heart’, and the brand brings a ‘creative hug in a box’ giving people permission to slow down and look after themselves.

A good story has to be shared, told and re-told.

It is how we tell the story that matters too.

But, first we have to weave that brand story, that communicates what we do, why we do it, how we do it. We have to bring our personalities and our experiences into it, and our purpose and aspirations, Then we can truly start making connections. A great brand story gives our brand roots, grounding it and anchoring it while giving it wings, and letting it soar.

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Warren Buffett Sells More Than 30 Local Newspapers For $140 Million

Topline: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is giving up on newspapers, announcing on Wednesday that he has agreed to sell Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio of 31 local papers to publisher Lee Enterprises for $140 million in cash.

  • The sale, which is expected to close in mid-March, marks an end to Buffett’s time as a news mogul, as he abandons an industry that he’s long defended in the face of declining revenues.
  • Buffett has owned The Buffalo News since 1977 and he built his news portfolio over the last decade by rapidly buying up other daily and weekly newspapers, incorporating them into a division called the Berkshire Hathaway Media Group.
  • Iowa-based Lee Enterprises had been managing Berkshire’s media group operations for the past 18 months; the company’s purchase from Berkshire Hathaway will now increase its portfolio of 50 daily newspapers to 81 in total.
  • As part of the deal, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will retain ties to Lee by becoming its sole lender and providing $576 million in financing at a 9% interest rate.
  • The loan from Berkshire will be used in part to pay for the acquisition, but also to refinance Lee’s approximately $400 million of existing debt, the company said in its press release.
  • Lee expects the acquisition, which chairman Mary Junck called a “compelling and transformative transaction” for the company, to immediately boost profitability by driving an 87% increase in revenue and a 40% increase in adjusted EBITDA, as well as allow it to cut down on balance sheet debt.

Crucial statistics: Based on their previous work managing the Berkshire Hathaway Media Group portfolio, Lee expects that the deal, which nearly doubles its existing audience size, will result in $20 million to $25 million in additional annual revenue.

Big number: Lee’s stock soared on the news Wednesday, rising more than 84% and adding more than $50 million in market value.

Surprising fact: Buffett, who is worth $89 billion according to Forbes, is selling his newspaper business for much less than what they originally cost him. Buffett paid $36 million for The Buffalo News, and bought 28 of the local papers in Berkshire Hathaway’s Media Group for $344 million in the early 2010s. But the real money-making move in this transaction rests with the $576 million loan Berkshire is offering Lee at a 9% rate.

Crucial quote: “My partner Charlie Munger and I have known and admired the Lee organization for over 40 years. They have delivered exceptional performance managing BH Media’s newspapers and continue to outpace the industry in digital market share and revenue,” Buffett said in a statement released with the announcement. “We had zero interest in selling the group to anyone else for one simple reason: We believe that Lee is best positioned to manage through the industry’s challenges.”

Key background: Buffett had previously described himself as a newspaper “addict” in 2012, when he was still intent on buying up more papers. But over the years, the Oracle of Omaha grew increasingly concerned about the business because of declining advertising revenues, telling Bloomberg in an interview last year that most newspapers were “toast.” But newspapers still only represented a small part of Berkshire Hathaway’s overall portfolio—Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate holds stake in more than 90 different businesses, from Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz to Bank of America and American Express.

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Twenty Five Million Dollar Mortgage Settlement

The Federal Government has recently settled for 25 million dollars with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Ally Financial with regard to pending litigation concerning their improper activities regarding mortgages.

The cases were initially started in 2010.  Banks were initially found of guilty of signing off on foreclosures without appropriately reviewing them.  The scandal uncovered what has been referred to as robosigning.  Robosigning is where bank officials sign documents without reading them.  Sometimes as many as hundreds of these documents within a day.

Banks Broke The Law

The banks involved in the robosigning scandal broke the law.  As a result of their improper activity thousand of homeowners were evicted from their homes for invalid or nonexistent documentation.

Who Receives the 25 Million?

The exact details with regard to the settlement have not been worked out. However, it is anticipated the money will be allocated as follows:

1.         1.5 billion dollars in cash payments will go to approximately 750,000 qualified homeowners who lost their homes in foreclosure between 2008 and 2011.  This works out to about $2000 per homeowner.

2.         Banks will agree to 17 billion dollars in principle reductions concerning homeowners who have homes that are underwater and are either at risk of default or currently in default on their mortgages.

3.         3 billion dollars will be allocated to homeowners who are currently paying high mortgage raters or have adjustable mortgages.  The adjustable mortgages can be reset to very low interest rates.

4.         The balance of the settlement funds will be utilized for consumer protection programs and to establish reforms with regard to the bank servicing agency.

It is estimated that it will take between eight and ten months to set up a methodology of distributing the funds and establishing who the homeowners are that would have to be compensated.  The settlement will be thereafter put into effect for a period of 36 months.

Federal officials have suggested that the total amount of funds paid by the financial institutions will end up being as high as 39 billion dollars.

This Is Not Enough

Paul Dales, a housing economist recently stated “you are hardly skimming the surface.  It could help some people a lot, individually. But in terms of the big picture, overall economy and housing market, it is really just a drop in the ocean of the problem.  Only the five banks mentioned have agreed to this settlement, while mortgages funded by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are exempt.  This cuts more than half of the homeowners from eligibility right off the bat.”

Punishment for Banks

Experts feel that the 25 billion dollars being paid by the financial institutions will not have a significant impact on dealing with the housing crisis in the United States.  While the plan may be flawed, it is a start in the right direction!

Stopping Foreclosure By Filing Bankruptcy

Foreclosure related bankruptcy filing is one of the possible options in dealing with foreclosure problems.  Individuals and spouses can file either Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 bankruptcies.  The filing of the bankruptcy immediately stops foreclosures from moving forward, stops debt collection practices and stops creditor harassment.  In some circumstances the filing of bankruptcy can eliminate second mortgages.  Call us and we can discuss the types of bankruptcy that are available to you and why filing bankruptcy may be in your interest and other foreclosure defense related options.

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The Long Island foreclosure defense lawyers at The Law Offices of Schlissel DeCorpo have for more than two decades been representing the families in the courts of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.  The firm helps clients obtain mortgage modifications.  The firm also prepares forensic audits on behalf of clients.  If a foreclosure action is started, the firm submits written answers alleging defenses such as predatory lending, defective foreclosure lawsuits and defective mortgages.  The firm’s attorneys appear in court for settlement conferenceand pressure the financial institutions to give their clients mortgage modifications.

Foreclosure related bankruptcies are another option to deal with foreclosure lawsuits.  Either the filing of a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 bankruptcy will bring a foreclosure proceeding to a halt.  Either of these bankruptcies can be utilized to stop foreclosures, stop debt collection, and stop creditor harassment.  Contact the firm for a free consultation.

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This property is included in a list of SSS foreclosed properties that are for negotiated sale, updated as of 2019-April-30. More details below.

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  • Region: Western-Visayas
  • Property Location: L31 B8 Remegios St., Canetown Subd., Victorias City, Neg. Occ
  • Lot Size (sqm): 154.00
  • Floor Area (sqm): 58.40
  • Dwelling Type: Residential/Deteriorated Bungalow
  • Fair Market Value: PHP 222,850.00
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Contact Person: Engr. Antonio G. Wong, Jr.

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  • All foreclosed properties are for sale on an “AS IS, WHERE IS” basis. Interested parties are reminded to conduct proper due diligence prior to the purchase of any foreclosed property.
  • Availability, prices, and property status are subject to change without prior notice.
  • Misprints should not be construed as misrepresentation of the property.

Last updated on: 2019-MAY-09 with file sss-foreclosed-properties-for-posting-haa-for-sale-as-of-april-30-2019 (SSS HOUSING ACQUIRED ASSETS FOR SALE – Edited and printed as of April 30, 2019) which can be downloaded from the link mentioned above.

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AHCC 1500 mg 60 caps | Prescribed Choice

AHCC or Active Hexose Correlated Compound is a natural substance made from medicinal mushrooms containing bioactive, low molecular weight hexose molecules. Medicinal mushrooms and their extracts have been reported in scientific literature to have a variety of biological effects and beneficial influences on healthy blood sugar levels, serum health and healthy blood pressure levels*

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AHCC 1500mg 60caps

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Suggested Use: As a dietary supplement, take two (2) capsules daily on an empty stomach, or as directed by a healthcare professional. For acute conditions, the dosage may be increased to four (4) to eight (8) capsules per day. Do not exceed eight (8) capsules per day.

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Serving Size: TWo (2) Capsules
Servings per Container: 30
Amount per Serving
Calories 0
Total Fat less than 1 g
Total Carbohydrates less than 1g
Protein less than 1g
AHCC Proprietary Blend: Mushroom Mycelia Extract, Candelilla Wax (candelilla plant), and Microcrystalline Cellulose (plant source)
Other Ingredients: Vegetarian Capsule (HPMC), Microcrystalline Cellulose (Plant Fiber), Rice Flour, Silicon Dioxide, Ascorbyl Palmitate.

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After a Disastrous Quarter, 2 Things All Offshore Drilling Investors Need to Know

Few industries have been hit harder in the past two years than offshore oil drillers such as Seadrill , Ensco , Noble Corp. , Diamond Offshore , and industry Juggernaut Transocean . After yet another earnings report that included an enormous writedown, it's a good idea to drill down into the conference-call transcript of the industry's largest company to see what information can be gleaned about what investors can expect over the next year or two.

CEO resignation highlights the challenges facing the industry

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This quote is in reference to the resignation of Transocean's CEO, who took over in the wake of the 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, which involved one of the company's rigs and for which final litigation has yet to be fully completed.

In the five years that Newman was CEO, Transocean's stock has not only catastrophically underperformed the market, but it has also suffered far worse than rivals such as Seadrill and Ensco.

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According to Reuters, company insiders cite Newman's overly conservative nature and poor industry timing as key reasons for the departure. For example, critics argue that Transocean was too slow in scrapping older rigs and put off its plans for too long to spin off eight older rigs into a separate company called Caledonia. That IPO would have raised much-needed funds for the company if done earlier, but because of the oil collapse, that deal has been shelved, possibly permanently, and those rigs will probably have to be scrapped instead.

In addition, insiders say that Newman was too slow to build new rigs to take advantage of the previous boom in day rates, and his poor timing has left Transocean with 12 new rigs set for delivery within the next few years, seven of which don't have contracts.

However, while I agree that Newman made mistakes during his tenure, I think such criticism may be an example of Monday morning quarterbacking. After all, Seadrill was the most aggressive at ordering new builds early on and has 15 new builds scheduled for delivery in the next two years, 13 of which are without contracts at this time, putting it in an even worse position than Transocean.

Which brings me to the most pressing issue facing the offshore drilling industry -- a dangerous glut of rigs.

Future rig oversupply looms over the industry

According to UBS analysts, Transocean has 26% of its ultra deepwater, or UDW, rig fleet -- the highest-margin rig type -- idle at this time, and by year's end as much as 50% to 60% of its UDW fleet may be without work if oil prices don't recover.

Thus, it's no surprise that both Transocean and Seadrill are desperately trying to delay the delivery of new UDW rigs, which will only add to the current rig glut and potentially force offshore drillers to cold stack -- place into dry dock storage -- their costliest and most valuable assets. In fact, because it costs around $110,000 per day to cold stack a UDW rig, offshore drillers, especially those with older UDW fleets -- such as Diamond Offshore and Noble Corp. -- may be forced to accept day rates below the operating cash flow breakeven level of approximately $250,000 per day.

This means that future earnings, cash flows, and dividends, which have already been slashed or suspended throughout the industry, might have further to fall unless oil prices recover over the coming quarters.

Takeaway: A perfect storm of negative events means the worst industry downturn in years shows no sign of abating anytime soonOffshore drillers' shares have been hammered down to supremely undervalued levels. However, potential and current investors need to understand that the industry looks to be facing another difficult year or two ahead. Already high-spec UDW rigs are being idled, and the next two years will see the delivery of many more such rigs. This trend may result in substantially falling day rates, even to levels where drillers are losing money on an operating cash flow basis even on their most profitable rig type.

Meanwhile, no one can predict when rising oil prices -- the only catalyst that's likely to launch a recovery of the industry -- will occur. Thus, while I remain bullish on this industry in the long term, I would advise only truly long-term investors, those comfortable holding highly volatile "dirty value" stocks, to invest in shares of these companies, and only as a part of a thoroughly diversified portfolio.

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