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State governments are receiving homeland-security grants faster than they can spend them, according to the most recent figures from the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2002, the department has awarded $16 billion, but so far states have picked up only $11 billion; the remainder is sitting unspent in the nation's capital. Even attractive targets for terrorists, like the District of Columbia and New York state—both of which have complained about grant cuts—haven't been able to keep up with the federal government's largesse; New York has spent only 52 percent of its grants, the District 62 percent. New Mexico has been the stingiest (or the most prudent, depending on your point of view), spending only half of its grants to date, while South Dakota has burned through 86 percent of the $96.5 million earmarked to thwart threats in the Badlands. The states say that matching-fund requirements, bidding and contracting procedures, and back-ordered goods have kept much of the money on ice.
—"Agency Roll-up," Department of Homeland Security (Study not available online)
Does a fear of hellfire make women more religious than men? "Risk preference theory—which holds that because females are more risk-averse than males, they are, for example, more likely to attend church as a hedge against the possibility of spending eternity in hell—is the latest attempt to explain the piety gap between men and women. (Other proposed hypotheses suggest that women traditionally have had more time to attend church and that they've seen religion as a source of affirmation in male-dominated societies.) Now a study by two researchers at the University of Arizona aims to dispel the hellfire argument, noting that it presupposes that speculation about the afterlife determines people's religiosity. Researchers studied people who believed in an afterlife and people who didn't, and found not only that women who don't believe in life after death are more religious than men who don't expect an afterlife, but that the gap between the sexes was larger among those who don't anticipate an eternal reward or punishment. Women who don't believe in the afterlife are nearly twice as likely as men with similar beliefs to view the Bible as the literal word of God; women who do believe are only 1.27 times as likely to take the Bible literally. Similarly, women who don't believe in hell attend church more frequently than men who share their skepticism, but women who do believe in hell don't attend church much more often than their male counterparts.
—"Risky Business: Assessing Risk Preference Explanations for Gender Differences in Religiosity," Louise Marie Roth and Jeffrey C. Kroll, American Sociological Review
Turns out Uncle Sam hasn't done that much to stop teens from drinking and driving. The official story goes that the 1984 Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act, which threatened to withhold federal funds from states that didn't raise their drinking age to 21, ended the glory days of teens driving to another state to get drunk and then careening home. According to federal estimates, pushing a uniform minimum drinking age nationwide saved 21,887 lives through 2002. New research argues that it wasn't so: By studying state-by-state data, the authors found that most of the reduction in fatalities came from states that had raised the drinking age before the federal law went on the books; in states that raised the drinking age to comply with the federal pressure, there was little effect. Furthermore, fatalities in states that raised the age early dipped only briefly; in the other states, they either remained steady or increased after the age was changed. The authors conclude that the overall reduction in traffic deaths has had more to do with safer cars and better medical treatment for accident victims than with policies handed down from on high.
—"Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives?" Jeffrey A. Miron, Elina Tetelbaum, National Bureau of Economic Research
If you're a Chinese refugee seeking asylum in the United States, what's your best bet? First, move to San Francisco. Then try to find an immigration lawyer, prove that a dependent is counting on you, and pray for a female judge. According to a recent study by three law professors, factors like ethnicity, geography, and the gender of the judge—along with a healthy dose of luck—play a far bigger role than the merits of the case in determining whether a refugee is granted asylum in the United States. The authors analyzed hundreds of thousands of cases and found a huge geographic variance in the rates at which applicants prevailed. In 2005, for instance, the Houston field office granted asylum to only 17 percent of applicants; the Arlington, Virginia, office approved 52 percent. Between 2000 and 2005, 74 percent of Chinese refugees in San Francisco won asylum, whereas only 18 percent of their compatriots in Newark, New Jersey, did. Demographics may account for some of this variance, but they don't explain the discrepancies that the authors found in the judgments of officials in the same buildings: At the federal immigration court in Miami, one judge granted asylum to 88 percent of Colombian applicants, yet another ruled in favor of just 5 percent. The researchers also discovered that asylum seekers with lawyers were granted refuge far more often than those without, that those with dependents had slightly better odds, and that female judges granted asylum at a substantially higher rate than their male counterparts.
—"Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication," Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag, Stanford Law Review
The kids are, eh, all right. A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that more people now consider adequate income and an equitable division of household labor more essential to a happy marriage than having children. Researchers asked more than 2,000 adults what they considered important for a successful union; having children ranked eighth out of nine choices, ahead of only "agreement on politics." Just 41 percent said that kids were "very important"—a plunge of 24 percentage points since the last such study, in 1990. ("Sharing household chores" shot up 15 percentage points over the same period, landing in third place.) The report attributes the shift in part to a change in moral thinking that has also led to greater social acceptance of cohabitation, premarital sex, and unwed childbearing. As a result, the authors say, "In the United States today, marriage exerts less influence over how adults organize their lives and how children are born and raised than at any time in the nation's history."
—"As Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart, Public Is Concerned About Social Impact," Pew Research Center
One hundred thirty-five years ago, Charles Darwin wondered whether pride led to good posture, or whether it was the other way around—that a ramrod back inspired self-confidence. A little of both, says a new study—but only for men. The authors asked participants to take a math test while sitting either slumped or upright; they found that men felt better about their performance on the test if they sat upright. Women, however, felt more confident about their performance if they slouched. The men who'd been sitting up straight went on to score better than their hunched counterparts; the women's scores showed no such disparity. The authors suggest that men rely more on internal cues when determining how they feel and that women rely more on external ones—an upright posture forces them to be more self- conscious, which previous studies have shown can hurt how well they do on math tests.
—"Not All Who Stand Tall Are Proud: Gender Differences in the Proprioceptive Effects of Upright Posture," Tomi-Ann Roberts and Yousef Arefi-Afshar, Cognition and Emotion
Don't blame the collapse of the Soviet Union for the widespread popularity among arms dealers and insurgents of the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle, a new study on "weaponomics" advises. Blame the Soviets: Not only has the AK-47 been widely copied, but "large caches of these weapons were freely distributed to regimes and rebels sympathetic to the Soviet Union" well before its collapse. Drawing on field reports and journalistic accounts, the study claims to be the first effort to quantitatively document the market for small arms, which are responsible for between 200,000 and 400,000 deaths each year. The AK-47 merits particular attention because its "ease of operation, robustness to mistreatment and negligible failure rate" make it the weapon of choice for small armies and bands of marauders: Of the 500 million firearms estimated to be in the world today, some 100 million are Kalashnikovs. The study reports that assault rifles are on average at least $200 cheaper in a typical African country than elsewhere, thanks to porous borders (as conflict moves across the continent, the arms freely follow). It also finds that the small-arms trade tends to be weaker in countries with high military spending, because a strong military makes it "imprudent for non-government entities to openly trade or parade about with large quantities of conflict-grade weapons." Most surprisingly, the study cites research suggesting that having more arms in the marketplace makes running a counterinsurgency easier, presumably because it tends to fragment rebel groups: "The more easily individual combatants can obtain weapons through independent suppliers," the author writes, "the more difficult it will be to mount and maintain a united and coordinated insurgency."
—"Weaponomics: The Global Market for Assault Rifles," (PDF) Phillip Killicoat, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
When NBA Commissioner David Stern acknowledged in July that referee Tim Donaghy may have gambled on games he officiated, Stern called him a "rogue, isolated criminal." But a paper by an undergraduate student in the Stanford Department of Economics suggests that Donaghy may not have been a rogue element after all—there's a distinct likelihood, the author argues, that NBA players (or coaches) are also betting on games. The author observes that conventional economic theory supports conflicting claims about pro basketball's betting market: On the one hand, that market displays a measure of inexplicable irrationality that typically would point to untoward business transactions (like insider trading); on the other hand, NBA players make so much money that the odds of their intentionally shaving points, and thus jeopardizing their careers, seem quite slim. Still, pro ballplayers may not be immune to the lures of the sports book, given the brevity of their careers, their willingness to put personal interest ahead of team success, and their drive to compete, which they share with gamblers. The author studied betting lines and game results from the previous 14 NBA seasons and then analyzed how scores tended to move in a game's last five minutes—to his mind, the period when it was easiest to cheat. He found that heavily favored teams failed to cover the spread often enough to suggest that some funny money may have crept into the market. He estimates that players or coaches on the take skew perhaps five games a season, adding that since "referees are no less principal characters in basketball games," future researchers might investigate whether there are more bad apples in the officiating ranks.
—"Point Shaving in the NBA: An Economic Analysis of the National Basketball Association's Point Spread Betting Market," (PDF) Jonathan Gibbs, Stanford Department of Economics
Maybe it's time to rethink what we mean by the "golden years." As Americans get older, they tend to make better and better financial decisions—but only up to a point, a study finds, and then their hard-earned skills decline. Researchers from Harvard, Princeton, and the Federal Reserve—drawing on consumer financial data from 10 sources, including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans—observed an overall U-shaped pattern of financial mistakes, with the best performance occurring among people in their early 50s. On average, financial perspicuity peaks at 53, which the study designates the "age of reason." The age of peak discernment when it comes to picking the best home-equity loan is 56; for a mortgage, it's 62, and for a car loan, it's 50. Both older and younger borrowers are more apt to make poor decisions that result in higher interest rates and fee payments. The researchers (all on the cusp of middle age themselves, incidentally) suggest that the financial acumen of 50-somethings demonstrates that experiential capital trumps the analytical capital that quick-thinking youngsters enjoy, but that it follows a pattern of diminishing returns as old age encroaches.
—"The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle," Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson, MIT Department of Economics Working Paper
The recent British experience in Basra offers a glimpse of what might happen in Baghdad after the current surge of U.S. troops recedes, according to a recent report from the International Crisis Group. The British aimed to "pave the way for a takeover by Iraqi forces" through a security plan dubbed Operation Sinbad, which was conducted between September 2006 and March 2007. The operation was "a qualified success," insofar as it drove down crime, assassinations, and sectarian killings and produced a "relative calm." But the calm proved "both superficial and fleeting," giving way to renewed violence that has left the British hunkered down inside their compounds. This intra-Shiite strife, the report suggests, in a city far from Iraq's major Sunni-Shia fault lines, is more evidence that the lack of a functioning state is as much to blame for the chaos as sectarian rivalry and antipathy toward coalition troops. In the absence of dependable state institutions or local leaders, the withdrawal of coalition troops risks creating further instability. Power in Basra increasingly lies in the hands of militias entangled with incompetent police forces and political parties, the authors note, and local leaders often resolve conflicts outside of official institutions, undermining the judiciary and its role in mediating disputes. As Congress and the White House consider options for Baghdad and the rest of the country, the report urges them to recognize that "their so-called Iraqi partners, far from building a new state, are tirelessly working to tear it down."
—"Where Is Iraq Heading? Lessons From Basra," International Crisis Group
In the 18th century, Britain's Royal Navy may have been defined by rum, sodomy, and the lash, but the sailors often thought that there was too little rum and way too much lash. According to a study by a George Mason University economist, the navy's cruelty and authoritarianism drove sailors to join pirate ships—by 1716, the pirate population was one-fifth that of the British navy. The pirates devised a separation- of-powers system to ensure that their new captains treated them better. They elected a quartermaster from within their ranks to mete out provisions and booty, and captains got only an equal share. Common sailors could barge into a captain's quarters, "swear at him, seize a part of his Victuals and Drink." Only in battle did pirate captains wield total authority, allowing their crews to profit from the quick decisions a unitary executive could provide. The sailors, before setting out, would agree on guidelines—known as the "Custom of the Coast" or "Jamaica Discipline—for settling disputes, doling out punishment, and deciding living arrangements. (Some ships even had strict no-smoking policies.) The author notes that the separation of powers on pirate ships slightly predates England's 1688 Glorious Revolution, and he suggests that the American system of checks and balances appears to have a little Captain Morgan in it.
—"An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of a Pirate Organization," Peter T. Leeson, George Mason University
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Hey I'm taking a year long class called Lifebook. I like having classes to entertain me. I am usually taking more than one at a time. And this isn't my first year long class and so I know that I usually fizzle out and loose interest at some point along the way. Not so with this one because I have learned that The Principle is the same.
Let me explain that a bit. I have taken many classes both online and in person. Invariability there is someone in live classes who needs their finished project to look exactly like the class sample. And I suppose there is some value in that. But that has never floated my boat. Well there was that one time when the teacher changed the class so much from the sample that I was not happy; but mostly I like to go my own way. Back in my courting days when women took to wearing pants out to the night club, I wore dresses. My hair stylist likes to part my hair on my bad side, I got her to switch…do you see where I'm going here…I think you do.
So when the Lifebook teacher taught a class on making a junk journal my little outside the box mind baulked. I don't need a purse journal its not something I practiced, journaling while out and about. So I decided to use her technique but not on a journal. She started with white gesso, I went with black. I agree with Seth Apter that it add a richness of depth to a piece.
I started with a piece of junk like she did, but I used something bigger, the packaging that my crafty goodness came in just that day. I turned it into some I need: a pocket. You see I had spent the previous evening looking for my watercolor chart only to find that my Alex drawers had eaten it. After looking everywhere and I mean
ev-ver-ry-where in my studio and if you want to see why that is a frustrating endeavor see my previous post where I gave a tour of my studio spaces. I needed a pocket to hang on the outside of the Alex drawers to hold my chart instead of putting it inside where it could slip behind the drawer again. I didn't even think that was possible.
Here it is empty:
And here full:
And so the principle was the same I just used it my way to make some I needed, something I'll actually use!
Can you guess who the teacher is?
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- Harbor House of Jackson
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Pine Grove Behavioral Health
Pine Grove Behavioral Health is an addiction and behavioral center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi which began in 1984 and is part of the Forrest General Hospital. The facility originally started as an inpatient treatment center for adults but currently offers a wide range of treatment programs for patients. Since its beginning, the facility has catered to individuals from all of Mississippi's counties and several foreign countries. The facility boasts of being the state of Mississippi's largest addiction treatment center for individuals battling substance and psychiatric disorders and utilizes cross-disciplinary expertise and treatment methods that directly and effectively address addiction. Pine Grove understands that addiction is a complex and developmental disease with damaging consequences and emphasizes the 12-step system as well as holistic treatment methods as sure paths to long-lasting recovery. The facility offers various forms of treatment programs which include inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient programs and treats various forms of illnesses ranging from substance abuse and sexual disorders to autism and sleep disorders. The center also offers dual diagnosis treatment and detoxification programs. Pine Grove offers a Next Step Program exclusively for men, which involves a host of programs including inpatient detoxing, trauma groups, therapy, relapse prevention, and many others. The facility also has an addiction treatment center exclusive to women battling chemical dependency, substance abuse, mood disorders, and other illnesses. Both treatment programs offer a gender-specific and safe type of treatment where individuals work together to achieve full recovery.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The organization offers various models of therapy depending on the patient's unique needs. These include:Inpatient TreatmentIn the inpatient treatment program, the facility provides acute care for children and adults. Detoxification services are available for individuals suffering from substance addiction and the facility also offers dual diagnosis care and sex addiction treatments for adults.Outpatient TreatmentIn the outpatient treatment program, the facility offers comprehensive assessments, individual, marital, and family therapy, and medication management services. Children and adolescents are also given access to psychological testing and experienced medical staff is available 24/7. The following are a list of problems treated at the facility:Substance use disorder | Sexual addiction | Eating disorders | Co-occurring disorder | Bi-polar disorder | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Methods of Addiction Treatment
The facility offers various options of therapy which include:Marital & Family therapy | Individual therapy | Group therapy | Support groups | Medical management | Relapse prevention | Recreational therapy | Holistic therapy (yoga and exercise)
The facility hosts an event called "Day of Hope" four times a year for previous clients (alumni) can visit the establishment to meet up with former clients and staff. The alumni members are also allowed to meet current clients to help inspire and aid recovery. Amenities such as gym, pool, and bookstore are available to clients registered to the facility. Recreational therapeutic methods such as Art therapy, Music therapy, Yoga therapy, and hypnotherapy are made available to clients. The hospital offers a serene and supportive environment that helps aid recovery and combat mental health and substance abuse issues at a low cost which is surprising as it offers top-class treatment. Payments are relatively for patients that return to the facility for treatment due to relapse. The cost covers all needs including recreational activities, feeding, and housing and is a good option for clients looking for an affordable treatment center that offers good treatment in the area.
Payment Type Accepted
Pine Grove costs between $8,000 and $11,670 for a 30-day treatment and this depends greatly on the program of choice. Clients are advised to call the hospital for information on program costs and payments to be made, as the administrative department will collate the costs of the treatment and create a payment plan that fits the patient's circumstance. Insurance is accepted by the facility and in this; the insurance will be verified to confirm if the client's coverage covers payment for the program. Clients will be told before or on admission to the facility, the complete payments to be made for the duration of stay or program registered into. Deductibles and Co-pays will be measured as well.
Gary RobertsonMedical DirectorGary went to the William Carey University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and The University of Mississippi Medical Center where he earned a Doctorate degree (doctor of medicine) and completed his psychiatric residency. He holds a postgraduate diploma, Master's degree, and diploma in Medicine (Evidence-based), Experimental Therapeutics, and Theological studies respectively.Roopsi BaasiPsychiatristRoopsi holds a degree from the Government Medical College and Hospital located in India at Chandigarh. She went to The University of Mississippi Medical Center where she completed her residency and is also a member of the American Psychiatric Association. She has been working at the facility since 2015.Siddeequah BilalPsychiatristShe completed her residency and holds a Bachelor's degree from The University of Mississippi Medical Center. Siddeequah is board certified to practice psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She handles outpatient services and just joined the facility in 2018.
The facility is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Office Location:
2255 Broadway Dr, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402https://www.pinegrovetreatment.com/
Home of Grace Addiction Recovery
Home of Grace Addiction Recovery is a faith-based treatment center that offers hope and recovery for individuals suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. Since its foundation in 1965, it has helped tens of thousands of individuals reclaim their lives. The mission at Home of Grace is to offer freedom from addiction through Christ-centered approach. The center's vision is to become the leaders in providing treatment services by introducing Jesus Christ as a catalyst for hope, healing, and quality of life. This is achieved through a residential program, outpatient programs, worship and devotion, and adult education programs. Clients are offered therapeutic and spiritual therapies including individual and group counseling, work therapy, and community living. Special ministry events are scheduled along with the dynamic chapel and worship services that enable clients to establish a deeper connection with God through Jesus. This paves a path for them to start their spiritual healing journey which will lead them to their desired destination of everlasting recovery. Clients are also educated through GED classes to obtain a high school diploma for those who do not have it. They are also taught computer literacy skills so that they can advance their lives after the completion of treatment at Home of Grace.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The different treatment options available at the Home of Grace are:Residential Treatment | Outpatient TreatmentThe following substances' abuse is treated at Home of Grace:Alcohol | Opiates | Illegal Drugs | Prescription Drugs
Methods of Addiction Treatment
Home of Grace offers the following therapies to its clients:Individual Counseling | Group Counseling | Focus Groups | Seminars | Spiritual Therapy | Relapse/ Recovery Skills | Parental Skills | Art Therapy
Home of Grace Addiction Recovery has been offering its Christ-centered approach of treatment to adults for more than 50 years now. It has been successful in providing hope and healing to thousands of individuals who were at their lowest points in lives because of addiction. The philosophy of a faith-based treatment is to enable individuals to reconnect with God through Jesus with the belief that He would be able to help them if they make the required effort. Clients are provided spiritual education, Bible lectures, and Christ teachings to help them start their spiritual journey towards recovery. The serene and peaceful campus gives ample opportunity to clients to contemplate and ponder in order to become better individuals. The safe and private environment along with the spiritual guidance and teachings help clients in realizing their inner resilience which they can use to free themselves of addiction and live a sober life forever.
Payment Type Accepted
Home of Grace Addiction Recovery offers a 3-month residential program to adult men suffering from alcohol and substance addiction through a faith-based approach. The cost of the 3-month residence program is $6,000. However, Home of Grace collects donations from churches, corporations, and other resources which enables it to offer a $3,000 scholarship to every client who wishes to join. So, the cost of treatment comes out to be $3,000 for 3 months which has to be paid in full at the time of admission. Since Home of Grace is not a medical facility, it does not accept any insurance plans.
For over half a century, Home of Grace Addiction Recovery has been helping individuals from all walks of life to become sober and addiction-free through its treatment programs. The programs are primarily based on the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ. These treatment programs are carried out successfully through the help of a diligent, dedicated, and hard-working staff which strives to provide the highest standards of care to clients. The staff's mission is to provide hope and healing to all individuals who walk through their doors. The staff members include licensed counselors and social workers who carry out individual and group counseling of patients. There is also a chaplain and other individuals who provide spiritual teachings to clients. A number of teachers are also employed who offer computer and GED classes. There is also a medical clinic at the facility where volunteer doctors and nurses provide their services twice a week. The staff also includes administrative personnel who are responsible for the smooth functioning of the campus. The support staff provides further assistance in this regard.
Home of Grace has the following accreditations and licenses: Licensed by the State of Mississippi
Office Location:
14200 Jericho Rd, Vancleave, MS, 39565https://www.homeofgrace.org/
Turning Point Treatment
Turning Point Treatment Center offers multi-level care and effective treatment services to adults for substance abuse, addiction, and mental health disorders. The mission at Turning Point Center is to treat not only the addiction but the underlying mental health disorders that led to addiction in the first place. The center specializes in helping clients regain control over their lives and reclaim their lives. Clients are taught life skills and tools to regain emotional stability which helps them overcome their addiction. The staff at the center is highly trained and experienced to provide a complete continuum of care to clients. They offer in-depth and individualized assessments and treatment plans for each client based on his/her unique health needs. The treatment programs offered at the center include Medically Monitored Detox, partial hospitalization program (PHP), and the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). A therapeutic curriculum is utilized in the treatment programs which comprise a number of tried and tested therapies including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Clients are educated about practical skills that help them cope better with stress, learn to regulate their emotions, and rebuild their relationships. The center also offers a strong aftercare program through ongoing skills training, peer fellowship meetings, and relapse prevention education which helps clients maintain everlasting recovery.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The Turning Point Treatment Center offers comprehensive treatment services to its clients through a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, and detoxification programs. The success of treatment is mainly dependant on the highly-qualified and trained staff at the center. The staff members are experts in their respective fields and have vast experience working with addiction and mental health patients. They utilize their expert services in treating clients holistically through various therapies and education groups. The staff at Turning Point Treatment Center comprise a physician and a psychiatrist who has specialized in addiction and adult psychiatry. Other staff members include Masters-level counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs). All staff members provide round-the-clock expert services to clients in an effort to provide hope, healing, and recovery to them.
Methods of Addiction Treatment
Turning Point Treatment Center offers the following therapies to its clients:Individual Therapy | Group Therapy | Family Therapy | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | Suboxone Therapy | Art Therapy | Pet Therapy | Recreation Therapy | Relapse Prevention Support Groups | Motivational Interviewing
The Turning Point Treatment Center has the following accreditations and licenses:Accredited by the Joint Commission | Certified by the National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
Office Location:
340 Stateline Rd W, Southaven, MS, 38637https://www.turningpointtreatment.org/
Harbor House of Jackson
Located in Jackson, Harbor House of Jackson is one of the best substance abuse treatment facility in that area and probably also one the most committed in Mississippi. Harbor House of Jackson founded since 1973 is one of the most reputable landmarks in Jackson Mississippi. Harbor House of Jackson specializes in a comprehensive addiction treatment program that is authorized and licensed by the State through the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. This facility was created to provide community-based affordable alcohol and chemical dependency treatment. The facility's residential or inpatient program has served close to 10,000 or more clients since its formation. Clients in the residential program undergo two and sometimes up to three phases: Primary Care, Secondary Care and if necessary, the Extended Transitional Program. In total, the facility has treated over 16,000 clients and their families with evidence-based research that have been approved by the state. Harbor House of Jackson is also licensed to conduct DUI Diagnostic Assessment Services. This program, on the other hand, is for persons who have been convicted of two or more DUI violations and have had their driver's license suspended. Their mission is to offer a continuum of effective, affordable and high-quality chemical and alcohol dependency treatment services and programs for adults and adolescents. In other words, they help their patients live a productive life in recovery no matter the circumstances.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The treatment options at the Harbor House are numerous while aiming to satisfy every individual undergoing treatment at the facility. Upon admission, patients work with an on-site doctor and a team of nurses to undergo physical check-up prior to the treatment. After that, they draft up an individualized plan corresponding with their stay or attendance in the facility. The treatment options are:Holistic Treatment | Medically Assisted Detox | Psychotropic Medication | Inpatient Treatment | Individualized Treatment | 12-step Treatment | Transitional Care | Dual Diagnosis Treatment | Extended Care | Aftercare Support
Methods of Addiction Treatment
The Harbor House of Jackson administers a variety of Evidence-based therapy. These therapy programs are made possible to suit any patient requiring any need. Each and every therapy organized by this facility is handled by a licensed professional. They have also been proven to be effective during the patient's recovery process. The therapy choices at Harbor House of Jackson are:Family Therapy | Individual Therapy | Group Therapy | Experiential Therapy | Life skills | Psycho-education | Adventure-based Counseling
Founded in 1973, Harbor House of Jackson has been operating for over 40 years of service providing its participants with experienced services. This facility rose through the ladders of service and currently, it is one of the best substance facility in the state of Mississippi as a whole.
Payment Type Accepted
The Harbor House of Jackson's cost can be gotten upon contact with their office. However, the facility accepts only:payment assistance | self-pay options
The staffs at Harbor House of Jackson includes nurses, CADCs, Case Managers, Psychiatrists, therapists, and pharmacists. The staffs at this facility have years of experience providing treatment and they are a qualified team of professionals who handle addiction issues generally. They commit to their work and ensure that anyone who comes to Harbor House of Jackson actually recovers. Some of the important staffs include:M. Trost Friedler, CPA – Executive Director | Jacqueline Lampley, MS – Assistant Executive Director | Myra Wheaton, MD – Physician | Clinton Barnett, LPN – Nurse Manager
The Harbor House of Jackson is licensed by the state of Mississippi, accredited by CARF
Office Location:
5354 I-55 S Frontage Rd East, Jackson, MS, 39272https://www.hhjackson.org
The Ranch Mississippi Treatment Center
The Ranch Mississippi was established in 1979 and provides a large number of treatment services to customers who experience the dreaded effects that addictions can impose on their lives. The goal of recovery at The Ranch Mississippi is not just to get the patient to walk out of a program offered at the facility without having used drugs or alcohol during the time in treatment – but rather to ensure the patient can achieve long-term recovery and to ensure relapse into a world of alcohol and drugs can be effectively prevented. While the facility does take advantage of the 12-step recovery clinical setting that is known to be relatively effective in the treatment of addictions, they take further actions by introducing patients to nature and giving them the ability to develop their own skills in a safe, secure, and sober setting.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The addiction treatment services offered to patients at The Ranch Mississippi primarily relies on the principles of the 12-step recovery program that is widely known around the world, but the company does have other solutions and programs in place that can further assist their patients during the journey toward their sobriety. The Ranch Mississippi has different treatment options that can be tailored to meet the needs of a specific patient who is presenting signs of addictions, along with those who are experiencing additional mental health problems. It does, however, seem like this facility primarily focuses on dealing with professionals who are struggling to overcome their addictions. Treatment options at The Ranch Mississippi include:Medical detox | Residential inpatient services | Outpatient treatment programs | Partial hospitalization program | Aftercare services
Methods of Addiction Treatment
Patients undergoing any of the treatment programs that are being offered at The Ranch Mississippi will gain access to a therapist dedicated to helping them helping them throughout their recovery. The 12-step program will also introduce the patient to various group therapy programs for further support.
There are no specific details available in terms of the amenities that patients will be provided access to when they decide to come to The Ranch Mississippi to assist in the treatment of mental health disorders and substance abuse issues. Patients will need to visit the facility directly if they wish to find out more about specific types of amenities that they will gain access to should they decide to stay at the facility. The patient will most likely be provided with three meals a day, along with access to dressers to ensure the patient has adequate storage space for their clothes during their stay at the facility.
Payment Type Accepted
No details are provided in regards to how much patients should expect to pay if they come to The Ranch Mississippi for treatment. We did note that the facility seems to prefer the utilization of an insurance policy for the treatment of the patient's addictions and their co-occurring mental disorders. The facility has been contracted with a relatively large number of medical insurance providers, including:MWN | MultiPlan | First Health | UnitedHealthcare | Humana | Magellan | HealthSmart | AetnaIt does not, however, seem like the facility is able to accept federally-funded insurance programs like Medicaid and Medicare. Patients who will require self-pay as a way of paying for the services that will be provided to them need to discuss their options with the admissions and administrative staff at The Ranch Mississippi. We are not sure if any financial assistance programs might be available, but the patient will most likely be asked to either pay an upfront amount or consider the financial services from a third-party lender that specializes in the healthcare industry.
The Ranch Mississippi has a dedicated team of staff members that are always ready to provide the patients who are being treated at the facility with quality care services that will promote recovery and healing. The company does offer a very basic overview of the staff members, divided into multiple teams, including the Clinical Staff team and the Medical Staff team. Limited details are provided on every staff member who is involved in the treatment programs offered at The Ranch Mississippi.Ashley Lewis (RN, MSN, NP-C) – Family Nurse Practitioner | Deborah V. Gross (MD) – Psychiatrist | Michelle Thompson (RN) – Nurse Manager | Dr. Lloyd J. Gordon (MD, FASAM) – Medical Director
The Ranch Mississippi's range of treatment services that they offer their patients have been reviewed and accredited by the Joint Commission. This accreditation means the company is able to provide their patients with quality care and services that will set the patient on the path to successful recovery and long-term sobriety. Licensing information held by The Ranch Mississippi is not provided on their website, but patients can inquire about any licenses that the Mississippi Health Departments have granted the facility for the addiction and mental health services that they provide.
Office Location:
3949 Highway 43 N, Brandon, MS, 39047https://www.recoveryranch.com/locations/the-ranch-tennessee/
Warren-Yazoo Mental Health Service
Warren-Yazoo Mental Health Service, with two centers in Vicksburg and Yazoo City located in the state of Mississippi, is a not-for-profit agency which provides behavioral health care treatment to a wide range of persons dealing with addiction, mental health, and developmental or intellectual disorders. The organization has existed since 1975 and is one of Mississippi's fourteen regional community mental health facilities. The organization is assisted, certified, and monitored by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health and provides treatment services in both the Yazoo and Warren County. The center also prides itself on the affordability and cost-effectiveness of its treatment services. About 175 persons have been employed as staff by the facility. This staff consists of licensed practical nurses, board-certified psychiatrists, a psychologist, community support specialists, therapists, registered nurses, and support staff. The facility also provides various levels of care for its patients including outpatient treatment and day treatment, specialized care, and a Juvenile Outreach Program designed for children and adolescents dealing with substance use disorders and mental health problems. The agency also provides a one-month residential program and support from persons dealing with co-occurring disorders.
Types Of Treatment Provided
The center provides treatment and therapy services to clients, and it's dependent on the patient's unique needs. Some of these are:Residential treatment | Outpatient program | Day treatment | Housing servicesResidential TreatmentThe organization's residential treatment program in Vicksburg, Mississippi lasts for a month and is designed to help persons dealing with substance abuse/chemical dependency. The 25-bed center caters to adult men and women and involves clients in counseling sessions, self-help groups, recovery skills education and more.Day TreatmentThe agency's day treatment program is offered to elders and children/adolescents. The day treatment for elders provides patients with therapeutic guidance, nutritional support, field trips, mental health and nursing services, and group activities. The day treatment for children and adolescents is an alternative to residential treatment and offers individualized treatment plans to each participant. Children/adolescents in this program have the opportunity to stay at home or remain in school while receiving treatment.Outpatient TreatmentThe outpatient treatment program offers a comfortable and safe setting to dealing with substance addiction and mental health problems. The services are conducted and facilitated by a multidisciplinary team of qualified professionals which assists in providing various treatment options including therapy, 24/7 nursing services, and psychiatric evaluations. The following are a list of conditions treated at the facility:Substance abuse/ Chemical dependence | Co-occurring disorder
Methods of Addiction Treatment
The facility offers various options of therapy which include:Individual therapy | 12-step meetings | Group therapy | Family education | Relapse prevention
The facility believes that family involvement is of utmost importance and as such offers a family program to clients registered at the facility. The programs take place at the Chemical Dependency Treatment Center Building and counselors educate loved ones of clients on the repercussion and ripple effect of addiction also touching on relapse prevention and housing principles. Groups such as Multi-Family Groups are created as well so that different families can bond and be involved completely in the treatment process. In entirety, the facility offers both outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment programs to clients suffering from substance abuse and mental health issues, incorporating traditional therapy and 12-step methods. Clients seeking a facility that offers a continuum of care accessible to all and living within the Mississippi area will find Warren-Yazoo Mental Health Service to be a good option.
Payment Type Accepted
Warren-Yazoo Mental Health Service are greatly dependent on the kind of treatment and type of care a client requires. Payment for treatment is calculated based on the household income of the client, that is, the facility implements a sliding scale mode of payment. Clients seeking more information about payment, admission, insurance, and more are advised to contact the facility for more information.
Bobby Barton Executive DirectorBobby holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Mississippi in Psychology and a Master's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in Social Work. Prior to holding his position at the facility, he served in different capacities within the organization such as Chief Operations Officer. He is passionate about behavioral health and provides the necessary leadership to help enhance the organization.Donald G. Brown Deputy Executive DirectorDonald holds a Bachelor's degree from the Alcorn State University in Sociology and Social Services and a Master's degree from Jackson State University in Rehabilitation Counseling. He then furthered his education by going to Mississippi State University to complete a postgraduate work in Group Psychotherapy. He has over 30 years of experience working in the field of Behavioral Health and is a sustaining force to the agency.Rick Vessel Chief Financial OfficerRick holds a Bachelor's degree from the Mississippi State University in Professional Accounting. With over 25 years of experience in accounting, he oversees and manages the IT and Client records departments. During the course of his employment, he has implemented multiple financial management and data collection systems for efficient activity management.
The facility is licensed and certified by the State of Mississippi Department of Mental Health.
Office Location:
3444 Wisconsin Ave, Vicksburg, MS, 39180http://www.warren-yazoo.org/home.html
Clearview Recovery Center
Clearview Recovery Center is a treatment center based in the Moselle, a suburb of Laurel, Mississippi and it treats persons with drug or alcohol addiction primarily, but their principles are also applied to clients with non-chemical dependencies such as eating disorders, shopping, and gambling. However, although they can address some non-chemical dependencies clients are not admitted unless they have a chemical dependency too. The treatment center was founded in 1979 as Serenity House, and it changed the name to Clearview in 2005. Clearview Recovery Center is located at a peaceful and serene location with beautiful landscapes, and it's accessible to clients from all over the country. Both inpatient and outpatient services are provided by this treatment center.
Types Of Treatment Provided
Clearview Recovery Center prioritizes customer satisfaction. They take feedback from their clients in order to improve the quality of services. That's always a good thing; to know that a facility or organization of any kind listen to their clients. As seen above, although addiction to drug and alcohol is primarily treated counselors also work with patients who happen to have some other problems too such as eating disorder. Dual diagnosis support is also provided by this treatment center. Treatment services provided by Clearview Recovery Center include the following:Premiere program – a residential program that lasts between 30 and 90 days. Before the beginning of the program, the staff conducts a thorough assessment in order to tailor a treatment process. Every day throughout the residential treatment program clients have different tasks and responsibilities along with counseling sessions. During this program, clients learn about the root of their addiction problem, communication, family systems, relapse prevention, stress and anger management, coping with grief, among other things. They also learn how to utilize the 12-step program in order to maintain their sobriety. Once the program is over Clearview still cares for their patients and provides weekly aftercare which involves a support group that clients can attend online if they're not able to attend physically. | Intensive outpatient services and transitional living – specifically created for clients who require a less restrictive level of care. Clients get to continue their normal routine at home and work while they receive treatment for chemical dependency. This is a 10-week program that focuses on the 12-step approach.
Methods of Addiction Treatment
The treatment center relies on an evidence-based approach to help patients recover from drug and alcohol abuse. Therapies that are provided by Clearview include:Cognitive behavioral therapy | Individual therapy | Group therapy | Family therapy | Trauma therapy | Motivational interviewing | Life skills | Rational emotive behavioral therapy
Some of the most important amenities provided by this treatment center include:Half-size basketball court | Gym | Ping pong table | Flexible program | Aftercare support | Family involvement, lectures, education
Payment Type Accepted
Clearview works closely with each client to provide the most comprehensive and affordable rates. Costs of the treatment differ from one patient to another due to the individualized approach during the recovery process. After all, every patient is different, so their needs vary. Clients or their family members are encouraged to call Clearview Recovery Center to learn more about the costs of the treatment and insurance coverage.
The recovery center has 35 employees who are dedicated to meeting the specific recovery needs of each client. Their clinical staff is comprised of eight counselors and other professionals all of whom are accredited, educated, and experienced in this field. Also, the treatment center contracts addictionologist and a nurse practitioner and they employ a full-time nurse as well. Their official website does not reveal names, roles, and other info about all members. Some staff members featured on the website include:Carol Brown – program manager, oversees the entire facility and its operations | Issac Boose – the care coordinator, coordinates care of residents from the moment they are admitted all the way up to the discharge | Alayna Bryant – clinical director | Carl Donaldson – the referral coordinator, works as a liaison for referrals and assists in the admission process.
Office Location:
#3 Clearview Circle, Moselle, MS, 39459https://www.clearviewrecovery.com/
Call now to schedule a free and confidential consultation about your treatment.Making the decision to the right treatment center is the first step toward a new, healthy life. (866) 318-4577
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Mayor Castro late in filing travel disclosures
Mayor Julián Castro, who recently unveiled a proposal to strengthen the city's ethics code, failed to follow a different section of the code that requires city officials to publicly disclose trips sponsored by third parties.
The mistake came to light after the San Antonio Express-News filed an open-records request for the travel reports to analyze how often Castro left the city and who paid for his trips — especially after the national spotlight focused on the mayor when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention last year.
After receiving the newspaper's request, the city released disclosures Tuesday for 28 trips sponsored by organizations such as the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and H-E-B.
The reports hadn't previously been filed with the city clerk's office, where members of the public can view the disclosures.
The documents show sponsors paid nearly $27,000 in airfare, accommodations and other travel expenses for Castro from February 2010 to March 2013.
"It was an oversight to not file them at that time," Castro said by phone Tuesday from Austin. "It's been corrected."
After an ethics flap at City Hall last year, Castro sought to bolster the code to ensure high-profile contracts are shielded from potential conflicts of interest, and he has called for the creation of an ethics auditor.
Asked how he can push for expansion of the ethics ordinance when he was delinquent on another section of it, Castro said: "It is incumbent upon all of us as elected officials to get all the forms filled out."
Castro's chief of staff, Robbie Greenblum, said the mayor's office is starting an "internal protocol to make sure this kind of oversight doesn't happen again."
Questions about travel disclosure first arose when the mayor was scheduled to fly to Mexico in February, where he spoke to Banamex, a Mexican bank that funded the trip.
"The trip to Mexico City for the mayor to speak to Banamex was a new situation because that's a bank," he said.
Greenblum said Castro's travels to that point largely had been funded by nonprofits and universities.
City Councilman Carlton Soules, a critic of Castro's efforts to add more requirements to an already lengthy ethics code, said filling out travel disclosure forms "a couple years later is unacceptable."
"It should be a lesson to the mayor that adding more rules to a 50-page document full of rules might not be the best course," Soules said.
The reports released Tuesday do not include trips paid by the city or political campaigns. Castro traveled across the United States last year to give political speeches and campaign on behalf of President Barack Obama. Those trips were paid for by the Obama and Castro campaigns.
The travel disclosures are intended to add more transparency to the actions of City Council members.
The code says the travel report must identify the sponsor, the destination, the purpose, date of the trip and the cost.
"Obviously codes like that should be complied with," said Robert Prentice, a business law and business ethics professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
"There could be significant things disclosed, and there might not be," Prentice said. "But the reason we have those is so we know if there are situations where a major conflict of interest arises."
City Attorney Michael Bernard said that the requirement to file travel disclosures for trips funded by third parties hinges on whether the city officials are traveling in connection to their "official duties" — a term that isn't defined in the ethics code.
Bernard said it creates a gray area for some of Castro's trips, and he argued that the mayor didn't have to file disclosures for all of them.
A $700 trip to Mexico City on Sept. 13, 2010, was funded by the U.S. State Department. Castro filed a disclosure for that trip, even though the ethics code doesn't mandate travel reports for trips paid by public agencies.
The other sponsors weren't government entities. In March 2012, San Antonio Express-News parent company Hearst Corp. paid for Castro to attend Gridiron, a comedy show in Washington, where journalists and politicians poke fun at each other. The cost of the trip was $639.
Jacksonville Community Council Inc. funded a two-day, $900 trip to Jacksonville in September 2011. The year before, the community council organized a series of public meetings for SA2020, an effort to engage residents and discuss San Antonio's future. The city paid the group $147,600.
Ben Warner, president and CEO of the council, said it was a busy trip for Castro. The mayor flew in the evening of Sept. 8, 2011. He spent the next day meeting the group's members, attending an editorial board meeting at a local newspaper and giving a luncheon speech to about 400 people. Castro flew back to San Antonio later that day.
"There was no time to do much of anything else," Warner said.


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The City Calendar offers information on upcoming meetings, regular programs and special events organized by the City of Keller. To see additional events going on in Keller hosted by nonprofit and other community organizations, please visit the
Homework Lab
For kids in Kindergarten through 12th grade
- Date: 11/14/2019 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: Keller Public Library
640 Johnson Road
Keller, Texas 76248
The library's computer lab will be dedicated for K-12 student use every Thursday from 4-6 p.m. Students can access the internet, the library's databases and all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Tutoring is additionally provided by qualified volunteer high school students and is free for K-12th grade. No prior sign-up is necessary, first-come, first-served, with a 1 hour limit per student. Tutoring focuses on core course subjects, such as English and Mathematics. Homework and study materials must be provided by the parents or student.


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The Catholic behind Glee
Couldn't resist this BustedHalo blog post by the co-creator of Glee, which just won an award at the 17th annual Catholics in Media event. Ian Brennan is the son of a former Paulist priest, and while folks concerned with "truth" and Catholicism won't like what he says, he certainly exemplifies a certain Catholic ethos. While some may find that insufficient, I find it to be testimony to the enduring power of the "genius" of Catholicism, which runs a little deeper than the day-to-day doctrinal battles.
Brennan: "[Catholicism is] the dialogue between different attitudes towards scripture and towards belief that begets a living church. I believe wholeheartedly that honest, deep skepticism is as holy as religious devotion. I believe that pondering the nature of God, even questioning his existence, is itself a form of prayer. I think the Catholic faith is at its most beautiful when it acknowledges we have minds."
That may not capture the whole truth of Catholicism, but it certainly goes a long way.
Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it, Ian, I love Glee.


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Served with a blended bone marrow & beef dripping butter, olive oil & balsamic vinegar and marinated olives
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We think lunch should be celebrated, that's why we've created our Fixed Price Lunch Menu. Enjoy our chef's selection of lighter dishes with one course from £8.95, two courses from £11.95 or 3 courses from only £14.95 – perfectly designed for any lunch occasion.
What better excuse to enjoy a relaxing lunch with friends whilst eating at your favourite steakhouse?
We know it's hard to find the time to spend with your loved ones, which is why our Fixed Price Lunch Menu is just perfect.
Whether it's a long, leisurely 3-course lunch to while away the afternoon or a quick bite with friends, we're making lunch the occasion to look forward to.
Enjoy our chef's selection of lighter dishes with the option of 1, 2 or 3-courses, to suit your afternoon mood.
Spoil yourself with a well-earned afternoon catch-up over our Goat's Cheese Risotto or if you fancy a delicious quick bite, indulge a little with our Prime Steak Burger.
Lunch Set Menu is available from Monday – Friday, 12pm – 5pm and on Saturday 12pm – 3pm
• 1 course from £8.95
• 2 courses from £11.95
• 3 courses from £14.95
Main menu will also be available
Lunch favourites are not included within the lunch price offer
Fixed Price Lunch Menu
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3 courses from £14.50
Available from noon: Monday to Friday until 5pm, Saturday until 3pm.
Served with a blended bone marrow & beef dripping butter, olive oil & balsamic vinegar and marinated olives
Topped with pomegranate seeds and buttermilk ranch dressing
Spiced rum BBQ chicken wings, oak smoked beef meatballs, beef barbacoa stuffed yorkies, classic mac & cheese, hand-cut nachos and garlic bread
Halloumi & vegetable skewers, smashed avocado, classic houmous topped with pomegranate, Padron style peppers, curried cauliflower bites and warm flatbread
Dressed crayfish & samphire, smoked salmon, salt & pepper calamari with black garlic aioli, garlic prawns served with toasted breads
Topped with aged cheddar cheese sauce, tomato salsa, sour cream, smashed avocado & jalapenos
Topped with aged cheddar cheese sauce, tomato salsa, sour cream, smashed avocado & jalapenos
Sweet chipotle chilli-glazed chicken bites with toasted sesame seeds
Served with black garlic aioli
With buttermilk ranch dressing
Served on toasted ciabatta with lemon and fresh tomato salsa
With fresh avocado, samphire, baby gem and a zesty citrus yoghurt dressing
Served with lobster prosecco sauce, peas, crispy pancetta and straw fries.
Button mushrooms in a creamy Cheddar cheese & spinach sauce, served with toasted breads
With crispy onion loaf, aged Cheddar cheese and beef dripping sauce.
Served on toasted rosemary focaccia with olives and fresh tomato salsa
By the Masters of Steak
All of our steaks are served with parsley butter, seasoned fries, balsamic beef tomato and our famous onion loaf. Then it's down to you to be the master of your steak, with 3 simply delicious choices to make.
British Beef Dripping Sauce
Porcini Mushroom & Black Garlic
Rich Bordelaise
Three Peppercorn
Classic Bearnaise
Bacon & Honey Mustard
Buttermilk Ranch & Croutons
Stilton & Blue Cheese
Garlic Mayonnaise & Grana Padano
Awarded Masters of Steak' by the Craft Guild of Chefs.
A delicate flavour balanced with a firmer texture, recommended medium rare.
A delicate flavour balanced with a firmer texture, recommended medium rare.
Bursting with flavour, recommended medium.
Bursting with flavour, recommended medium.
A firm texture and rich flavour, recommended medium.
The most tender steak regarded by many as the premium cut, recommended rare.
On one side a tender fillet, on the other a flavoursome sirloin, recommended medium.
Indulge together
Explore a variety of steak flavours and cuts - 50 day aged Black Angus Ribeye 8oz, 30 day aged Rump 8oz and two cuts of 50 day aged Black Angus Fillet 5oz. Served with a brisket stuffed marrow bone
Hand-cut from the fillet primal, this 30 day aged 'Masters of Steak' accredited Chateaubriand is the most tender of cuts, recommended medium rare.
The ultimate ribeye sharing experience and a firm favourite of our master butcher.
Fine marbling results in an intensely packed flavour, recommended medium.
Fine marbling results in an intensely packed flavour, recommended medium.
A deliciously flavoursome and tender cut, this grass fed sirloin is recommended medium rare.
Two 5oz cuts of fillet, beautifully delicate and tender. Recommended rare
Two 5oz cuts of fillet, beautifully delicate and tender. Recommended rare
SOMETHING LIGHTER? Swap out our steak accompliments and replace with a fresh wedge salad. Crunchy iceberg lettuce, red & yellow cherry tomatoes, avocado and your choice of wedge dressing, listed above.
With Scotch Bonnet chilli mayo.
With aged Cheddar cheese sauce.
Tender beef brisket mixed with beef dripping sauce, topped with crispy onions and aged Cheddar cheese sauce.
Hand-battered prawns served with lemon
Served with garlic butter.
All our beef burgers are minced from the finest prime steak and served in a glazed brioche bun with our special recipe burger sauce, lettuce and tomato. Served with seasoned fries and dressed slaw.
Topped with smoked streaky bacon and Monterey Jack Cheese
Topped with sliced fillet tails cooked to your liking, barbacoa bearnaise, smoked streaky bacon, Monterey Jack cheese, free range fried egg and crispy onion loaf
Topped with Scotch Bonnet chilli salsa, jalapenos, smoked streaky bacon, spiced rum barbecue sauce and Monterey Jack cheese
Chipotle-glazed chicken, topped with smoked streaky bacon, sweetcorn puree and Monterey Jack cheese
With Scotch Bonnet chilli mayo.
With aged Cheddar cheese sauce.
Served with dauphinoise potato, chorizo, cauliflower, peas and a rich bordelaise sauce
With apple three ways, dauphinoise potato, green beans and roasted vegetables.
Grilled boneless tender half chicken, sweetcorn puree, dauphinoise potato, grilled tenderstem broccoli and rich chicken dripping gravy.
Succulent pork ribs with a Smoky barbecue glaze, served with seasoned fries and slaw
Succulent pork ribs with a Smoky barbecue glaze, served with seasoned fries and slaw
Topped with smoked Monterey Jack cheese, barbecue sauce and crispy pancetta crumb. Served with our crispy onion loaf, seasoned fries and dressed slaw
Served on crushed baby potatoes ,grilled tenderstem broccoli with a lobster & prosecco sauce
Served on crayfish risotto with grilled baby gem, champagne thermidor sauce, fresh tomato salsa and lemon
Served with seasoned fries, tartare sauce and minted crushed peas.
Served with seasoned fries, tartare sauce and minted crushed peas.
Served with sweetcorn puree, pomegranate, savoury granola and baby potatoes
With crunchy baby gem and Grana Padano, topped with garlic croutons and anchovies.
Topped with cucumber ribbons, sour cream, served with seasoned fries and dressed slaw.
Tender fillet tails, cooked to your liking. Served on a toasted ciabatta, with Monterey Jack cheese , crispy onion loaf, iceberg, fresh tomato salsa and fries.
Tender fillet tails, cooked to your liking. Served with horseradish mayonnaise and onion loaf.
With citrus yoghurt dressing and churrasco
Served with scotch bonnet mayonnaise
A biscuit base, topped with rich toffee, cream and fresh caramelised bananas.
Double Gloucester, Shropshire Blue and Camembert served with nut & mixed seed biscuits, celery and grapes.
Served warm with pecan praline ice cream, rich Belgian chocolate sauce and a dark chocolate & pistachio shard.
Belgian chocolate brownie, banoffee pie, almond macarons, blackcurrant mousse tart, strawberry & prosecco sorbet, coconut milk sorbet with a chocolate & pistachio shard and biscuit crumb
Served with Irish liqueur ice cream
An indulgent, rich chocolate ganache encased in toasted hazelnuts and chocolate nibs, served with pecan praline ice cream and zesty orange curd.
Madagascan vanilla glazed Brulee, served with a house baked vanilla biscuit and fresh berries.
A choice of three ice creams, served with a house baked double chocolate cookie and rich Belgian chocolate sauce. Choose from vanilla bean, double chocolate, pecan praline or strawberry.
A classic dessert served with a rich salted butterscotch sauce and vanilla bean ice cream
Served with strawberry & prosecco sorbet and fresh berries.
Crunchy meringue blended with whipped cream.
Button mushrooms in a creamy Cheddar & spinach sauce, served with toasted artisan breads
topped with cheddar cheese
served with black garlic aioli
Served with a tomato & avocado salad, seasoned fries and buttermilk ranch dressing
Minced from the finest prime steak and served with seasoned fries.
With seasoned fries, tartare sauce and peas
Served with onion loaf, seasoned fries and balsamic glazed beef tomato (£3.00 supplement)
served with garlic bread and dressed salad
Served with creamy mashed potato, lobster prosecco sauce, and fresh tomato salsa
served with pomegranate seeds
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Writing about David, besides being an ardent fan of his, has taken me to various places I have never been. I found a land filled with great artistic talent and drive – not only out of expression of their passion, but matchless enthusiasm as well to promote David.
I discovered a huge amount of humorous Caricatures and Cartoons and beautiful Portraits of David created by the Archies of the world.
Then there are the Fans' Tributes in videos galore.
I am astounded. And impressed.
Do other artists enjoy a similar volume of artwork done for them?
Or are Archies generally specially talented?
Or is Archu-love so much more intense, deep and inspired by the Prince himself?
Don't we feel stupendous pride to be part of this love-David community?
I am posting for your amusement and admiration of some of these artworks done by fellow-archies. Some of you may have have seen them before, but surely you would want to see them again? 🙂
Any favourites? Anyone that makes you laugh and smile? Anyone which makes you perhaps…sad and miss him more?
Since, as commenters, you are not able to post pics, perhaps you can contribute some great fans' vids?
Let's post as many as we can to pay tribute to both David and to those wonderfully talented archies out there, whom we consider part of our big Archu-family.
But David has the last say:
"Haha just you wait! when I draw some caricatures of you guys at concert! 😀 "


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As TAC is expanding with slopestyle this season, the prize money is increasing to $120,000 dollars. 24 riders will be exclusively invited with all local costs covered. Additional 16 riders will be invited to fill up the action.
TAC is waiting for the new Holmenkollen ski jumping arena to be ready for the 10/11 season. And the quarterpipe will be a TTR 5 star event until then. This year the slopestyle is a TTR 6 star event. The prize money will be split into $70,000 dollars for slopestyle and $50,000 dollars for quarterpipe. First prize slopestyle is $30,000 dollars and first prize quarterpipe is $20,000 dollars. The Golden Oakley Time Bomb watch is still up for grabs!
TTR Top 10 riders and invited riders need to confirm their spot before September 15th. All 24 riders can bring a friend to celebrate New Years in Oslo, and TAC will cover their hotel bill. The quarterpipe contest is held in the daytime on New Years with an entertaining evening program to follow. The slopestyle finals are on the evening of January 3rd. TAC has booked Scandic Hotel Edderkoppen exclusively for event participants. Arrival day is December 28 and departure January 4th.
Team managers and sponsors are welcome to nominate riders for the remaining 16 spots by emailing [email protected]


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I'm wondering whether it's possible to make a multiboot USB drive without making a separate partition for each distro, but running them from a (bootable) ISO file. In other words, if I wanted to have 20 live distros on the drive, I'd just make two partitions (instead of 1+20), the one for bootloader and the other for containing all the 20 ISOs. Is this possible, theoretically and practically?
You can't boot/load an ISO file directly, at least, I wasn't able to figure out a way when I looked for it a bunch of years ago. However, you achieve the same effect using syslinux. I created a DOS/WinPE/FreeBSD/Linux/Memtest multiboot drive with syslinux.
Syslinux is a bootloader, like grub. The name is slightly confusing, it doesn't really have anything to do with Linux (the kernel or OS) as such, I believe the name stems from the fact that it was originally written to boot Linux, but it can boot pretty much anything.
I also needed to format my USB drive using BOOTICE, I don't quite remember which options worked best, so you'll need to look that up or experiment. Some USB drives may also work out-of-the-box.
Using isolinux, you can also make a bootable CD/DVD with this, the only difference is that the config file is named /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
It's been a few years since I did this, I believe there's been a major rewrite of syslinux, so this example might not work with the newer version, but it should give you an idea on how to proceed. Also, back then the FreeBSD port of syslinux was seriously broken, I don't know if this is still the case or if it's fixed.
Anyway, here's my config:
PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 30 DEFAULT main LABEL main KERNEL /boot/syslinux/menu.c32 APPEND /boot/syslinux/menu.cfg
DEFAULT freedos MENU TITLE Anduril 1.3 # MENU COLOR element ansi foreground background shadow MENU COLOR TITLE 1;37;44 MENU COLOR TABMSG 37;40 MENU MARGIN 2 MENU ROWS 19 MENU TABMSGROW 25 MENU CMDLINEROW 25 MENU HELPMSGROW -1 label freedos MENU LABEL ^1 FreeDOS KERNEL /boot/syslinux/memdisk APPEND initrd=/boot/freedos.gz label freebsd MENU LABEL ^2 FreeBSD #KERNEL /boot/syslinux/mboot.c32 #APPEND /boot/freebsd/kernel --- /boot/freebsd/mfsroot.gz KERNEL /boot/syslinux/memdisk APPEND initrd=/boot/freebsd.gz harddisk raw label parted MENU LABEL ^3 Parted Magic 5.9 LINUX /boot/pmagic/bzImage INITRD /boot/pmagic/initramfs APPEND edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 loglevel=0 max_loop=256 keymap=us directory=/boot/ label win7pe MENU LABEL ^4 Win7PE #KERNEL /boot/loader.bin KERNEL /boot/grub.exe APPEND --config-file="chainloader /boot/BOOTMGR" MENU SEPARATOR label memtest MENU LABEL ^5 Memtest86+ 4.20 KERNEL /boot/memtest label memtest_probe MENU LABEL ^6 Memtest86+ 4.00 Probe method (Might work if the default doesn't) KERNEL /boot/memtest_probe label hpmemtest MENU LABEL ^7 HP Vision Diagnostics Memory Test 1.7 KERNEL /boot/syslinux/memdisk APPEND initrd=/boot/hp_memtest.gz # http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.gz label hdt MENU LABEL ^8 System Information (HDT) TEXT HELP ENDTEXT KERNEL /boot/syslinux/hdt.c32 MENU SEPARATOR LABEL hdd1 MENU LABEL ^9 Boot first hard disk LOCALBOOT 0x81
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Thank you Carpetsmoker, it does do the thing! Even though it's been my first experience with syslinux which in fact didn't go down too well.. could you please show me your menu.c32 too? Cause I couldn't activate the boot menu and it just booted straight into the default option.
I made 2 memory stick versions of ISO installs of NetBSD-6.0.1 and ..-6.1.1 via mkmemstick in order to try them on my old eMachines netbook, so I used them on that USB drive. To my disappointment none of them could load further than their internal boot menu.
I would encourage you to go to the syslinux website and read the documentation, start with a simple example which boots only one system, and add more later. My config is just an example which may or may not work for you.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I've tried to boot a few other OS images with Syslinux (non-BSD) and they worked fine (among them KolibriOS, booted in 2-3 seconds, fantastic!). It seems to me that the root of the above-mentioned problem might be that for some reasons NetBSD images don't play well together with Syslinux, that's the conclusion I've come to.
The grub.cfg entry would look similar to the following:
menuentry "Ubuntu Live" { set root=(hd0,7) loopback loop /ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso noeject noprompt -- initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz }
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Monday, November 16, 2009
I actually think that's probably a good thing. But not so good when you've got a blog based around one particular part of your persona. Hence the lack of updates in a whole week - my longest post drought I think.
Part of it is being busy of course. My life is full. But I do think more of it is just not being the Bitter Animator for a while. That part of me just doesn't need expression right now. He has gone quiet. Is that weird?
Right now, I almost feel like starting a blog on pretty things. Like flowers and colours I like.
That is weird.
6 comments:
- Gregor Nekdo said...
Any chance of asking for an input on this animation idea i had, if you start that other blog?
- November 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- susan said...
Dear Bitter,
Writing award waiting for you at my blog to collect, with respect.
- November 16, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Unknown said...
YOur Bitter Animator side may not need the expression right now, but he'll be there for you if you ever need him again.
Maybe giving Weird Animator a go at it would be fair test of the waters.
- November 17, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Mark p.s.2 said...
I think life is like water, water flowing in a river or an ocean. It has up times in a swell, and low times . In a river you have calm lakes/pools and rough rapids the water passes through on the way to the sea or lake. Enjoy what ever time you are in and know the water will likely change again in time. But maybe your in a calm lake... who knows...
- November 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Ron said...
It is a good thing.
Your life is changing... for the better.
The bitterness fades, but the blog served its purpose, it allowed you to express yourself, your frustration, your fears, and all those things during that time period.
Things are looking up for you, embrace it.
- November 21, 2009 at 3:28 AM
What Ron said. I think it's good that you're becoming...less bitter. Maybe that means life's picking up.
I, myself, am going in the opposite direction.
- December 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM


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Just as many gamers have shouted over the headset in excitement, "BOOM! HEAD SHOT!" Nokia has won a patent injunction against HTC in Germany. Yes, we're aware that many of you have grown tired of such news being covered, but it's a Windows Phone OEM being attacked by another, so it's certainly worth noting exactly what's going on.
It's reported HTC has since disabled the patented power-saving technique in question on affected hardware. This change will lead to poorer battery life, further hurting the Taiwanese product line which incorporates Qualcomm baseband chips. The company is fighting back and it's believed a deal will be struck between the two parties at some point.
So what's the patent all about? As noted above, it's to do with power saving and expanding the life of the battery by identifying packets of data that can be reconstructed from only a portion of an encoded message. Whenever possible, power is provided to the receiving component only if and when further portions must be received in order to fully decode the packet. It's useful for only utilising components when required.
FOSS Patents reports the injunction is permanent and can be enforced preliminarily. In addition to the sales ban, Nokia also won a recall of infringing devices from retail, unless HTC complies with a license deal being struck or said infringing functionality removed. Nokia is also taking the patent claims to the US and the UK.
It was only last week that we reported on ViewSonic also negotiating a settlement to pay license royalties to Nokia. Nokia is asserting 40 separate patents against HTC in the three markets (Germany, UK and US), though the Taiwanese manufacturer is countersuing Nokia in Germay in two cases, involving one of its own power management patents.
Here's Nokia's official statement:
"Nokia is pleased with this decision, which confirms the quality of Nokia's patent portfolio. Nokia has also patented this power saving invention in the US, UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Japan and Hong Kong. In addition to this case in Germany, we have asserted the patent against HTC in the UK and in the US International Trade Commission, with a hearing in the US scheduled to start in two months' time. More than 30 further Nokia patents have been asserted against HTC in other actions brought by Nokia in Germany, the US and the UK. HTC must now respect our intellectual property and compete using its own innovations."
Nokia is currently struggling to build market share and patent licensing is a revenue source for the company. HTC has responded that the manufacturer will continue to fight against the claims and we're certain they won't go down without a fight. Once again, we're all sat around the patent table watching large companies point fingers and chuck sums of money to one another.
We'll no doubt be returning to this topic as the situation progresses or more names are drawn onto the patent battlefield.
Source: FOSS Patents
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The shocking details of the Philadelphia "House of Horrors" run by abortionist Kermit Gosnell brought forth a chorus of voices from the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), the National Abortion Federation (NAF), the National Organization for Women (NOW), and Planned Parenthood (PP) claiming that Dr. Kermit Gosnell was an "outlier," a rogue abortionist who was not representative of the "responsible" abortion industry.
However, as we reported yesterday, pro-life leaders have noted that the conditions and practices at the Gosnell abortuary are not at all uncommon. A new video interview with three women employees of Houston-based abortionist Dr. Douglas Karpen is sure to reinforce that claim (see video at the bottom of this article). It may also force the pro-abortion Big Media — which were AWOL on the Gosnell trial until public pressure shamed them into action — to at least partially cover the ugly truth about abortion.
In the new video, produced by Life Dynamics, clinic employees Deborah Edge, Krystal Rodriguez, and Gigi Aguilar offered horrifying testimony about conditions inside one of Karpen's three abortion facilities, the Aaron Women's Clinic. They tell of regularly delivering late-term abortions in which the baby came out alive and was killed by Dr. Karpen, either by "snipping" the spinal cord or inserting an instrument into the soft spot on the baby's head. However, sometimes, they said, he actually twisted the heads off the live babies with his bare hands.
The video, together with the public awareness caused by the recent trial of Kermit Gosnell, likely prompted Texas authorities to announce that they have launched criminal investigations into Dr. Karpen's abortion clinics.
This dramatic exposé of Dr. Karpen has broken almost simultaneously with the release of yet another shocking video, an undercover "interview" with Dr. Leroy Carhart, a pro-abortion "hero" who recently was celebrated at the Sundance Film Festival. Produced by Lila Rose and her young activist investigators at Live Action News, Inhuman: Undercover In America's Abortion Industry features Dr. Carhart disturbingly telling a prospective patient that after he injects the baby to kill him or her in the womb "it" will get soft and come out easily, "like putting meat in a Crock-pot … it just gets softer." He also jokes that if the baby doesn't come out, he can go in and "take it out in pieces," breaking it up with "a pickaxe, a drill bit" and other tools in his toolkit.
Will Big Media remain AWOL on these shocking revelations? Not if a large enough public outcry forces them to once again grudgingly turn at least a little attention to one of the most scandalous issues of our time: the wanton slaughter of millions of babies.
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In the article entitled That's A Wrap! in the September 2010 issue of Family Tree Magazine, I'm quoted on page 9 discussing the ratings for the US version of Who Do You Think Are?
Not only was some of the ratings analysis used as part of the article by Diane Haddad, but I also gave my permission for a ratings chart to be included. The chart shows the number of viewers during the seven-episode season of the television show.
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