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- This Has To Be Fake: Hearse Towed During Funeral
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CDTV - Episode #8 - Merchandising Guru's Rich Kizer and Georganne Bender Share Tips to Make You More Profitable
Written by Connecting Directors Sunday, 07 February 2010 15:36
CDTV is the world's most fun funeral industry webshow, focused on industry trends, information, and products and how they can make funeral homes more profitable.In this episode Ryan again turns his downtown Chicago hotel room into a low budget Hollywood set, and invited world renown merchandising guru's Rich Kizer and Georganne Bender of Kizer and Bender to share some merchandising tips that will help make funeral professionals more profitable.
Georganne and Rich have been hired by industry associations like NFDA and CANA to assemble merchandising focus groups related to the funeral industry. Georganne and Rich themselves have also posed as "mystery shoppers" planning their own funerals to go deep inside many funeral home showrooms.
Through their focus groups Kizer and Bender have been able to develop many merchandising techniques to help funeral homes increase their profitability.
In the follow episode of CDTV Kizer and Bender share some of those tips with you!!
Cat Predicts 50 Deaths in RI Nursing Home
Written by Connecting Directors Sunday, 07 February 2010 15:28
A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book.Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, said that five years of records showed Oscar rarely erring, sometimes proving medical staff at the New England nursing home wrong in their predictions over which patients were close to death. The cat, now five and generally unsociable, was adopted as a kitten at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, which specialises in caring for people with severe dementia.
Dr Dosa first publicised Oscar's gift in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Since then, the cat has gone on to double the number of imminent deaths it has sensed and convinced the geriatrician that it is no fluke.
The tortoiseshell and white cat spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with patients except those with just hours to live. If kept outside the room of a dying patient, Oscar will scratch on the door trying to get in.
Accelerator Pedal Sticks As Toyota Slams Into Funeral Home
Written by Connecting Directors Sunday, 07 February 2010 15:08
Becky Anne Lane, 46, was taken to Baptist Hospital of Cocke County on Wednesday for possible injuries following an accident at Manes Funeral Home in her 2008 Toyota Camry LE that she blamed on a stuck accelerator.Lane told The Newport Plain Talk that her accelerator got "hung" as she was headed east on East Main Street at Court Avenue, at about 2:30 p.m., on her way to the Food City East store.
Lane said she had stopped for the stop sign on East Main Street at Court Avenue when she stepped on the gas pedal and it got stuck to the floor.
She said the steering wheel locked up, she lost control of the vehicle, clipped a Manes Funeral Home sign in the business's parking lot, and ran into the building, doing considerable damage to its interior lobby.
Read more: Accelerator Pedal Sticks As Toyota Slams Into Funeral Home
This Has To Be Fake: Hearse Towed During Funeral
Written by Connecting Directors Friday, 05 February 2010 13:46
Reportedly this is not a fake image, but it is almost to ridiculous to believe. Think about it... A hearse being loaded up on a tow truck and being towed away for illegally parking in front of a church, while the funeral procession is walking out of the church? If this is a real image then I fell horrible for the family. This image was posted two days ago on Twitter by user @mattpluskate. Looking at the guys Twiiter stream he seems to be just a normal guy. It doesn't appear that he posted this in hopes of gaining any popularity from it either. Blow is a bigger picture of the alleged towing and also a link to a YouTube video of the towing.
There is speculation that this could be for some TV show but know one knows. Check it out below.
Teens Driving While Texting - Graphic PSA Video
Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:45 Written by Connecting Directors Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:22
It use to be that the number one cause of teen driving accidents was excessive speed. Now rapidly climbing the list of causes is text messaging. It seems that text messaging while driving is becoming a common thing, but with it comes tragedy. A study conducted by the Virginia-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that people using a cell phone while driving were four times more likely to get into an accident. Being in the industry we are in, we unfortunately get to see the results of Texting While Driving, and the results are never good.
It is not just teenagers that find it difficult to not text and drive. Research conducted by Nationwide Insurance proposes that DWT (Driving While Texting) is generational, with 46 percent of drivers' ages 16 to 17 admit to texting while driving, while just 14 percent of those ages 28 to 44 and only 2% percent of drivers ages 45 to 60 admitted to it. These numbers are in response to a massive statistics that suggest Driving While Texting becomes the killer monster in the road.
I myself admit to doing a lot of texting while driving, but after watching the video below, I will think twice about replying to the next text I get while behind the wheel.
Caution: The Video Below Is Very Graphic, but the reality of it hits home. This is reality and it happens a lot, please don't let this happen to you...
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