Hospice hits a home run
0 Comments | Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era; Combined Saturday edition, Sep 4, 2007 | by Susan E. Lindt
Bids exceed $300,000 at Labor Day auction
Amazing things happen at Hospice of Lancaster County’s annual Labor Day auction in Lampeter.
On Monday, at the 23rd annual sale, a regular sheet cake sold for more than $1,500. A man bought an autographed baseball for an exorbitant amount of money, then gave it back to the auctioneer to resell. He ended up losing it.
Later, a woman repurchased her own full-length fur coat for $4,000-plus after donating it to the auction for bidding.
There was a full-sized canoe standing in for a salad bar in the food tent, and later, a 2007 Pontiac Solstice up for raffle, full of Amish boys dazed like everyone else by the flash of the the silver convertible.
The auction was hours from being over – organizers hadn’t even drawn the winner of the Solstice yet – when veteran auction chair Tom Buter interrupted bidding to announce to the crowd that they had already surpassed last year’s $287,000 total and had topped $300,000.
No little part of that was a new auction this year. Bidders interested in sports memorabilia used to have to sit through hours of paintings, gift baskets and jewelry for the occasional signed ballcap to come up.
This year, those items were broken out into their own auction under their own tent. There was no shortage of bidders for scores of autographed items collected by the volunteer trio of Ed Flick, Bobby Brandt and Bob Muschlitz.
“If we’re ever in the right place at the right time to get autographs, we think of Hospice,” said Muschlitz, whose late wife used Hospice services before her 1997 death.
Muschlitz said he thought it would take about two hours to auction everything the three men had collected over the past year. But lengthy bidding wars kept it going for nearly four hours.
“The stuff went at great prices, and there was really good variety,” said one wishful bidder named Jeff, who declined to give his last name or indulge his urge to bid.
“I couldn’t. … My wife would have killed me,” he said. “I see something and I was like, “Wow! Well, maybe … well, no. Some of that stuff went for $800 apiece.”
Plenty of bidders got good deals. Chuck Shaffner of Hummelstown said he picked up a set of golf clubs and two dozen golf balls for a mere $25 – bought at a store, he would have laid out hundreds.
“You have to be really alert, though,” Shaffner said. “They started pretty slow, but now they’re knocking things off pretty quickly.”
Hospice serves clients at the end of life, both in their homes and at its center on Good Drive, regardless of their ability to pay.
How someone came to know the organization is part of many answers at the auction, no matter what the question.
Shaffner’s wife, he said, used Hospice’s services before she died in 2004. “They were wonderful,” he said.
Others just know the Hospice auction is a good time. If there’s a good deal in it, that’s even better. At times, three tents feature simultaneous auctions, and those pounding the gavel have their own entertaining style:
“Ma’am? Just put up your number, and I’ll tell you what to pay,” one especially engaging Amish auctioneer told a bidder.
He also had his high-pressure tactic:
“Ma’am? Is $40 really too much to ask for that lovely painting?” he said, staring her down from his raised podium.
“Sir, we’ll make out a lot better if you ask me instead of her, OK?” he said to a bidder who paused to consult with his wife on upping a bid.
This auction has come a long way. Twenty-three years ago, Larry Newhouser had an idea – hold a simple, one-time auction at Willow Street fire hall as a way to raise some cash for Hospice and memorialize his mother-in-law.
Ron McBrearity was there. He’s volunteered at every single auction since.
“Nobody believed then that it would ever get this big,” McBrearity said, looking at a network of volunteers through which items travel before hitting the block, including one person who photographs the items so they can shown on overhead screens during bidding
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Granada Corp Chooses RingCube vDesk for Desktop Management of Call
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RingCube Technologies, a provider of managed virtual workspaces, announced that Granada Corp has selected RingCube vDesk as a critical component for the company’s business and ability to protect corporate and client information.
Granada Corp offers clients 24×7 outsourced customer support using a bilingual “work from home” (WFH) labor force, the Company noted. Now with RingCube, the company will ensure that corporate and client information is protected, while meeting PCI compliance requirements. Not only does vDesk isolate and protect private information from reaching agents’ desktops, but vDesk also adds host protections to augment Granada’s current antivirus and antispyware protections, ensuring the highest levels of information security for private information.
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As Edward Tufte says,
As Edward Tufte says, ?audiences are fragile; respect them?.
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Ask yourself: Do your presentations have a less-than-evident ?operating system?? Before someone can get your message (the function of your presentation) do they first have to learn and comprehend your design?
Your main goal when designing a presentation should be to keep your audience?s attention on your idea, your pitch, your proposal—your message. They should never be distracted by, or even really aware of, your design. Dazzling them with bells and whistles will help them remember the bells and whistles, not your message.
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After riding it for some time you will also discover that it is also very resistant and it loves air stunting! A good feature is TEKTRO brakes; the frame and the tires are not bad either. The bike is pretty similar to GT interceptor but some may find it?s got some paints from GT Vertigo too. The only considerable weakness that you might find on this bike is that it doesn?t come with chain tensors. Other than that, the bike is really good and the price is very affordable.
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Scenery, wildlife and the culture of Alaska captivate most visitors.
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We have the sensation that we are
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Before using a glucose monitor the diabetic patient will be educated in how to use this equipment and of course how often to do the checking. It is extremely important to have been taught this as misusing or misreading these measurements could be life threatening to them.
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