Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 408

Yes, I am here in New York, and no, I haven't been missing for the past two days. Unfortunately, a raging migraine has been holding me hostage for a couple of days, which has made focusing on a computer screen rather difficult! I'll do my best to recap before it's off to dreamland for some much-needed rest! I arrived on Tuesday morning at eight am with my sister in tow to help me with the mounds of work to be done. We were squirreled away in a windowless conference room all day, but fortunately, the room had a lot of character. Known as the "chairman's boardroom," it felt more like a small library with a big conference table. It was a reasonably pleasant way to spend the morning while putting together the welcome packets and gift ... read more

Fredag d. 11/5 (26. og sidste dag ) Så er dagen for vores rejse retur til Danmark, nærmest ufattelig hurtigt, oprandet, og der er blevet pakket og gjort ved. Efter planen lander vi i kastrup lørdag d. 12. kl. 12:55. I går tog vi subway'en over til Brooklyn, på den anden side af East River. Brooklyn er en bydel der blev oprettet af Hollænderne under navnet Breukelen i sin tid. Det er en fantastisk hyggelig del af New York, som absolut hører til på "Must"-listen over ting man skal nå. Fra subway'en gik vi rundt på må og få, og nød den rolige atmosfære, som er meget anderledes end på 7th. ave., hvor det banker derud af. Vi kom ned til promenaden ved East River, der minder ret meget om Sortedams Dosseringen, hvor Manhattans sydlige Skyline ... read more

Day 9 – Tuesday – Niagara Falls, New York Well, a little over a week in to our holiday...and we had our first big day of driving. Thankfully John has it down to a fine art (bloody Americans on the wrong side of the road!) and Jen is a great navigator. We did hit a little traffic on the way out of Boston (man they have some DUMB freeways where vehicles are both entering AND exiting right near each other and literally crossing over each other) and we did get some roadworks....but all in all it was a fun enough day considering. I think we ended up hitting our hotel by about 7pm or so, and decided to check out the falls by night. Yeh, that's right, as it was just prior to 9pm when ... read more

so we went trapsing through Voorheesville, NY today at Thacher Park. we hiked the indian ladder trail, and took a few detours to get ourselves into a few precarious positions! we found a few trails that took us up to about halfway up one of the falls, n then we hiked back along the higher path and ended up having to free climb our way down about 30 feet or so, but we made it safe and sound... we stood underneath another one of the falls and found a cave about 40 feet up or so. i climbed up to check it out but jimmy decided he didn't feel like dying today so i climbed back down. at the end of the trail we decided to live on the edge and go off the beaten ... read more

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 Cross chapters, nursing homes, registered nurses, pediatricians, etc. It's not going too badly - I've been able to use a couple of databases of hospital and EMS demographics that Laerdal has purchased, and I found some figures online (but the online ... read more