44\u00a0 bar rises 30.06\u00a0 2mph N dewpoint 31 Spring<\/p>\n
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A gray, cool start after a shirt sleeve day yesterday.\u00a0 We’re still in the hurry up and wait phase of gardening.\u00a0 It’s a bit too early for clean up, certainly too early for planting anything but cold weather crops.\u00a0 We don’t tend to do those, at least not so far, so the hydroponics are our primary entry in this years vegetable garden.\u00a0 The lettuce seedlings and tomato plant I put under the light first have grown rapidly.\u00a0 Not ready for harvest anytime soon, but on the way.<\/p>\n
Kate made me\u00a0aware of compounding pharmacies, a vestigial remnant of that which all pharmacies used to be, independent pharmaceutical manufactories.\u00a0 There are six in Minnesota including one in St. Paul, St. Peter and Wayzata.\u00a0 The Wayzata pharmacy has a glitzy name, RxArtisans.\u00a0 I knew a few of those when I was in college.\u00a0 The growth and reach of pharmaceutical companies has reduced the average pharmacy to nothing more than a retail distributor of already compounded drugs.\u00a0 This results, of course, in a matching of patients to available drugs and their available dosages, whereas the compounding pharmacy matched drugs to patients both in dosage and delivery vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Delta buyout of Northwest, not a merger, will not be certain for some time to come.\u00a0 The pilots association of Northwest and the other unions flight attendants, ground crews and mechanics are about to become part of a larger, non-unionized pool.\u00a0 This creates probable labor and culture conflicts from day one.\u00a0 Also, congress and the regulators still have to approve, as does Wall Street.\u00a0 Both companies share price dropped the day after the announcement, an unusual event.\u00a0 Also, both airlines have an aging fleet of planes and debt hangover from their respective bankruptcies.\u00a0 The State of Minnesota wants its incentives back since Northwest, with the merger, violates the remain in Minnesota provision.\u00a0 All this reflects the turbulent nature of an industry who excels in nothing quite so much as an uncomfortable experience delivered for hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
44\u00a0 bar rises 30.06\u00a0 2mph N dewpoint 31 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Gibbous Moon of Growing A gray, cool start after a shirt sleeve day yesterday.\u00a0 We’re still in the hurry up and wait phase of gardening.\u00a0 It’s a bit too early for clean up, certainly too early for planting anything but cold weather crops.\u00a0 We … Continue reading Compounding Pharmacies<\/span>