"Even if it would prove to be just once in my life, I was so lucky to have been granted the privilege of living simply and without clutter, free of the many artificial concern that flood our daily lives, and thus closer to the untouched truth. So much of our good natural instincts are smothered by society and many of our daily lives are directed by false goals, dictated to us by others. Even in this day and age, with our sophisticated technology and developed culture, it must still be important, just occasionally, to find a wild place, where the land [View Full Entry]

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Sunny and Warm Again: We've made the drive from DC through Pennsylvania with only a few showers. We picked up some wonderful soup at the ICA. [View Full Entry]

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Made it through my first week at Laerdal!! I started my assignment by reading through the 2007 marketing plans for each of the product lines. Across the plans, there are some inconsistencies and gaps in the demographics information, so I'm doing research to fill in those gaps and create current, accurate demographic profiles of each of the target market segments. For example, I'm trying to find the number of hospitals (and the number of specific hospitals, i.e. acute care or pediatric), hospital ERs, EMS/Fire agencies, military bases and hospitals, American Heart Association and American Red [View Full Entry]

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Made it to New York. Left on Friday - my mom rode up with me, and we stopped in Hagerstown, MD to visit some family for the weekend. We reached the lovely town of Wappingers Falls, NY on Sunday afternoon (actually, the hotel is in Fishkill, NY - the office is about 15 minutes down the road in Wappingers Falls - both cities are very near Poughkeepsie, which is a little bigger). I'm interning with the company my dad works for (Laerdal Medical Corporation, a private Norwegian company), and we found out later that he has to be up here today [View Full Entry]

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Finally made it to Poughkeepsie! We got the cats settled, visited with old friends and apparently at age 34 Jason still has chores to do around the house. We had Thanksgiving on November 22nd and the Lipka’s dropped us off at the airport on Thanksgiving Day! [View Full Entry]

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