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Remember how I mentioned all that brush had some poison ivy tangled up in it?
So far we've worked three full Saturdays on clearing the brush (ended up filling the dumpster twice). The first two Saturdays poison ivy made a tiny, inconsequential appearance on a few of us. One or two bumps here or there. No biggie.
The third Saturday I didn't join Scott and the kids as I was spoiled with girls-night-out-type plans all day long. Somehow, the poison ivy sensed the maternal absence and attacked. Emma, Ben, and Josh were stricken with itchy bumps on their arms, faces, and stomachs (luckily the little girls didn't really help, so they're okay). Emma got the worst of the kids, by far. That's what she gets for being the hardest worker. Scott, however, took it to a whole new level--he looked like a leper on Sunday morning. Head to toe, he was itchy. The most troublesome spot being his right eye, which was bright red and swollen half-way shut by Monday morning. He went to the doctor's office and got a shot which calmed things down. We debated for a few days whether or not to take the kids in. Their vote was a resounding NO (they'd rather deal with itching than needles any day). Since they weren't nearly as affected as Scott we let them wait it out with calamine lotion. We asked them, is it worth it for the fort? Yes, they all agreed, though they eye the cleared area with notable wariness now.
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Hi Guys! *waves*
As you may or may not know, Nikki Jefford, author of Entangled, has a new book out called Aurora sky: Vampire Hunter. Well I have the privilege of being able to show off the Cover Reveal.
Without any further ado, I bring you......
Oops! Naughty me! I can't share it with you until the 17th. You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled on the day :D:D
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
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Transportation Security Administration officials Friday night identified the agent killed in a rampage at LAX as Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39.
Officials provided no details about Hernandez. A second TSA agent was also shot at LAX, but he has not been identified.
"No words can explain the horror that we experienced today when a shooter took the life of a member of our family and injured two TSA officers at Los Angeles International Airport," TSA administrator John S. Pistole said in a statement.


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TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - David Wilson, the current president of Shelby Baptist Hospital in Alabaster, Alabama, has been named president of the North Mississippi Medical Center.
Wilson will begin his new job on March 30 in Tupelo.
The 50-year-old Wilson is the southern market leader for the Birmingham-based Baptist Health System, a four-hospital system. Before joining Baptist in 2006, he was CEO at Saint Francis Hospital in Bartlett, Tennessee.
The announcement was made Wednesday.
The Tupelo post has been vacant since September 2013. Donna Lewis Pritchard, who has served as the interim president, will resume her post as chief nursing executive for the hospital.
Wilson graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee with degrees in zoology and biology. He completed his master's degree in health administration with honors from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
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Dr. Caldera is employed by Penn Medicine.
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Appointed Chief Medical Officer at University of Pennsylvania Department of Physical Medicine and REhabiliation, where my responsibilities include seeing patients and overseeing consults and assuring proper placement. Being point of contact for several services to assure expedient transfer to proper rehab facilities. Teaching residents about general rehab topics such as TBI, SCI, and neuromuscular medicine. I am also in charge of UBCLS at PEnn Rehab and improving quality of patient care through the weekly quality meetings.Appointed Associate professor of PM&R. I have a subspecialty in Pain Medicine and am a Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine. I also have expertise in performing Diagnostic and intervention Musculoskeletal Ultrasound along with fluoroscopic guided lumbar spine interventions. I also perform nerve conduction studies and EMG to help diagnose patients with nerve pathologies.
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Medical School: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Saint Clare Hospital Health Center
Residency: Metropolitan Hospital Center
Dr. Caldera is employed by Penn Medicine.
Caldera F Zhang Y et al: Cell Therapy for the Degenerating Intervertebral Disc. Translational Research. Translational research: The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine. 2016 PMID: 27986604 The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine : 2017.
Plastaras C, McCormick Z, Nguyen C, Rho M, Nack SH, Roth D, Casey E, Carneiro K, Cucchiara A, Press J, McLean J, Caldera F.: Is Hip Abduction Strength Asymmetry Present in Female Runners in the Early Stages of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome? Am J Sports Med 44 (1): 105-12,2016.
Caldera F, Fang J.: Ultrasound Diagnosis of Proximal Phalanx Fractures. AAPM&R Online Case Study, MSK Case #43. October 2014. http://me.aapmr.org. : 2014.
Caldera F, Tingen A.: Left sided upper extremity pain and swelling after cervical injection. AAPM&R Online Case Study, MSK Case #39, August 2014, http://me.aapmr.org : MSK case #39,2014.
Chen DJ, Caldera FE, Kim W.: Acute achilles tendinopathy diagnosed with ultrasound. AM J Phys Med Rehab. 93 (6): 548-9,2014.
Chen DJ, Caldera FE, Kim W.: Diagnosing Adductor Muscle Avulsion at the Symphysis Pubis with Ultrasound. Am J Phys Med Rehab 93 (4): 346-8,2014.
Marciniak C, Caldera F, Welty L, Lai J, Lento P, Feldman E, Sered H, Sayeed Y, Plastaras C.: High-resolution median nerve sonographic measurements: correlations with median nerve conduction studies in healthy adults. J Ultrasound Med 32 (12): 2091-8,2013.
Caldera F, Gottwald E.: Bilateral Forearm pain with exertion. Case AAPM&R Case of the Month, MSK Case #35. September 2013, http://me.e-aapmr.org/topic_MSK.aspx MSK #35 : 2013.
Caldera F, Woojin Kim: Left sided groin pain and Left sided lower abdominal pain. AAPM&R Case of the Month, MSK Case #27. July 2127, http://me.e-aapmr.org/CaseStudies.aspx. : 2012.
Caldera F, Song J.: Chiari I malformation in a young man with neck pain. ConsultantLive;http://www.consultantlive.com/nervous-system-diseases/content/article/10162/2046148. : 2012.
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The Central Square Community Church is a family of Christ that recognizes the uniqueness of all who worship with us. We welcome all, as God welcomes us all. We affirm our beliefs in God, the divinity of Christ, and the presence of the Holy Spirit.The purpose of our church is to provide spiritual nurture through meaningful worship, music, study, prayer, and mutual caring; to proclaim the gospel in our lives; and to accept the challenge to be co-workers or partners with God in responding to human needs in our community and globally. In spite of our imperfections, we reach out towards a deeper understanding of God's grace.
Central Square Community Church is passionate about the world around us. We seek to inspire and nourish everyone in our midst. You dont have to be a Christian to be a part of our family. We welcome everyone without prejudice.
CSCC hosts and funds many free meal events to Veterans, Emergency Response Personel, Seniors and the general Community.
We have worked as a team to provide fresh organic produce to the local food pantry through our on site garden.
We host many youth groups such as the Boy/Girl Scouts local dance groups and theatre groups.
CSCC also hosts an annual wellness clinic for those that can not afford regular healthcare.
We are currently undergoing a remodeling process of our building and grounds to prepare for an afterschool program for area youth.
We need talents of all skill levels! CSCC is full of warm and energetic people of all ages. If you like to help others and have fun CSCC might be right for you!
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Leadership Team
Tom Bosanko
Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Icaros as its new Chief Executive Officer in September 2012, Tom spent more than 10 years as President of MKS's best run and most profitable business unit. During his stint with MKS, Tom played a key role in turning MKS around, building its value, and helping to consummate its sale to PTC (NASDAQ:PTAC) in 2011 for more than $300 million. MKS (TSE:MKX) was a publicly-owned software products company.
Tom has led several other very successful high-tech companies including Datafocus and Convergent Solutions. Datafocus, a private company equally-owned by Tom and a partner, grew rapidly during the 1990s, and its two divisions were separately acquired by Ciber (NYSE:CBR) in 1996, and MKS in 1999. Prior to Datafocus, Tom was a co-founder of Convergent Solutions, which proliferated throughout the 1980s, making Business Weeks' 100 Fastest Growing High Tech Companies two years in a row, and going public (NASDAQ:CSOL) in 1987. The company was merged with KTI (NASDAQ:KTI) in 1992.
Over the years, Tom has been active in the northern Virginia high-tech venture capital community, where he was a founding investor and an adviser to the board of Monumental Venture Partners, and was also a co-founder of the Winchester Innovation Management Group, a high-tech start-up incubator. Tom is active in various charitable organizations including The Melanoma Research Foundation, The American Heart Association, and the Piedmont Charitable Association.
Motti Shechter
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Motti co-founded Icaros, Inc. in 2004, and serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer. With more than 30 years in the electro-optics industry, Motti Shechter is a recognized industry leader in photogrammetry and geospatial systems and solutions and an expert on complex, high-tech equipment. Since 2003, Motti has served as a technologies, strategic and business advisor for Bluebird Aero Systems Ltd. Motti also co-founded BEAMHIT LLC US – Columbia, MD in 1996, which was acquired by L3-Communications.
Mitch Lindenfeldar
Chief Financial Officer
Mitch has spent the past twelve years working as a Chief Financial Officer for various public and private organizations. Mitch has a vast background in financial reporting, management and administration, investor relations, human resources and legal and IT activities. Mitch has served as the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer for two venture-backed companies. Prior to joining the Icaros Team, Mitch served as Chief Financial Officer for Campus Partners.


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We opened Rise in Durham in 2012 with a simple vision…serve great food at an affordable price point, made with premium quality ingredients by people who care. If you are interested in bringing the best dang biscuits and donuts to the people, read our story below, learn about opportunities, and apply online.
Rise Biscuits Donuts is an award-winning, innovative fast casual concept providing fresh, gourmet, premium quality food at an affordable price point. Our food is made with good stuff by people who care. To find out more about Rise, surf through this website, visit us on social media and take a look at the video below. We hope you'll visit one of our stores to taste what we're all about.


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This episode we are talking with Courtney Thompson. A native of Washington, she was part of a national championship team at UW in 2005. She's played professionally in Puerto Rico, in Europe, and most recently, in Brazil. She was a member of the team that won the silver medal in the 2012 London Olympics, and more recently a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.
We talk to her about her recent season in Brazil and what it was like to play for Bernardinho, perhaps the most well-known and most successful coach in the world. We also talk about the pressure and the competition to make an Olympic roster, and what it's like in the gym right. Finally, she tells us about her foundation – Give it Back – and what she's doing to promote volleyball, to teach young women about competition and life, and to raise money for charity.
She's a person of tremendous character, and has had a remarkable career arc – she truly sets the standard for what's possible with the right mindset and work ethic. Enjoy the show!


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Reporting from Washington — House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their 2012 budget proposal, a document they hope will rebrand the GOP as the party of sensible solutions to government overspending with leaders willing to make hard choices.
The budget outlined by budget committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) takes considerable political risks -- particularly in its proposal to remake Medicare and Medicaid, the core of the social safety net for the poor and elderly.
But Ryan also passes on other politically dicey solutions to reducing deficits and debt. His plan all but dodges changes to Social Security, an area Ryan acknowledged Tuesday was more ripe for bipartisan agreement. The plan offers no measures that would increase revenue. And Ryan acknowledged that it would not produce a balanced budget until some time in the 2030s.
Instead, the budget resolution is largely reliant on cuts and entitlement reforms to slash $5.8 trillion in spending over the next decade. If compared to President Obama's spending plan, the reduction would jump to $6.2 trillion.


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God Is Good to Israel: How Providence Hindered Franklin Roosevelt from Hindering the Birth of the Modern State of Israel
By Julio Severo
In poor health two months before his death, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, on the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal. Later, on April 5, 1945, Roosevelt wrote to King Abdul promising that as long as he was president, the United States would never recognize a Jewish state: "I communicated to you the attitude of the American government toward Palestine … that no decision be taken. … I assured you that I would take no action, in my capacity as Chief of the Executive … with regard to the question of Palestine … the policy of this government … is unchanged." (As reported by Bill Federer in WorldNetDaily.)
|Jewish children in Nazi death camp
Roosevelt wanted no U.S. role in the birth of the modern State of Israel. In fact, he wanted the U.S. to prevent the birth.
Yet, his public speeches did not mirror his private talks to Saudi dictators. On March 24, 1944, Roosevelt publicly explained the original goal of the United Nations was to protect the Jews. He said, "In one of the blackest crimes of all history — begun by the Nazis … the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabated. … Hundreds of thousands of Jews … are now threatened with annihilation as Hitler's forces descend. … The United Nations have made it clear that they will pursue the guilty. … All who knowingly take part in the deportation of Jews to their death … are equally guilty with the executioner. … The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist."
Roosevelt coined the name "United Nations" for the allied countries fighting together against the National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi) and Nazi anti-Semitism. His most controversial alliance was with the Soviet Union, which, nevertheless Marxist, fought Nazi anti-Semitism and had many Jewish political and military leaders.
However, this alliance supposedly to save the Jews makes no sense when you consider that Roosevelt also wanted no U.S. role in the rescue of Jews from Nazi Germany. According to David S. Wyman, American-Jewish author of the New York Times bestselling 1984 book "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945," the Roosevelt administration was aware of Nazi treasures and Jewish suffering from 1941 to 1945, but it ignored the Jews and took excessive care to rescue Nazi treasures.
Wyman's charge is very simple: Roosevelt knew about the Jewish horrendous plight before and during all the World War 2, but he never intervened. He never ordered the bombing of the railroads that took millions of Jews to death camps. In contrast, his administration worked very hard to save Nazi treasures.
Even though some authors argue that Roosevelt was misled by Marxists, the deeper reality is, according to William T. Still in his book "New World Order," that "Support for both secret societies and Marxism has run in FDR's family. His ancestor, Clinton B. Roosevelt, a New York assemblyman, was a noted American Socialist."
Still says that Roosevelt's life was marked by socialism and Masonry. It was marked also by a providential death hindering him from hindering the birth of the modern State of Israel.
With information from WND, Bill Federer and "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945."
Portuguese version of this article: Deus é bom para Israel: Como a Providência impediu Franklin Roosevelt de impedir o nascimento do moderno Estado de Israel
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As a response to all the pressure put on the Student Eye staff from different people both inside and outside university, Student Eye stops blogging for fifteen days.
Since Student Eye staff has started blogging at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, tremendous pressure has been put on our writers and bloggers. Recently, it reached a dangerous level. Student Eye protestes this undemocratic behavior of some of the AUI-S administrators by stop blogging for 15 days.
Student Eye is the first and the only truly independent media which has served AUI-S community by providing news and opinion pieces on daily bases. We have tried to be the voice of the voiceless and the trusted eye of the AUI-S students. However, there are people who put barriers on our way almost every day. We cannot accept this anymore.
This temporary halt is a protest to those uncivil treatments that our staff face because of blogging for Student Eye.
Student Eye faces this shameful act of pressure while AUI-S Catalogue states the following:
"Academic freedom is central to the intellectual life of The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani. We believe that all members of the University possess both the right and the responsibility to follow an argument wherever it may lead; that intellectual inquiry must be protected against those who would reject it, silence it, or punish it; and that the pursuit of truth properly lies at the core of university life and is fundamental to human progress."
We are not happy in making this decision, but we had no other choice to send the message. If the pressure put on our staff and writers didn't stop, we will have no choice but to spell out the attacks on freedom of speech and those people who are behind us.
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Koh Ker, Cambodia
An untouched temple complex reveals more wonders of the Angkor empire. Get there before the crowds. By ROBYN ECKHARDT. Photographed by DAVID HAGERMAN
Published on May 10, 2010
Prasat Thom, one of the temples at Koh Ker
When it comes to the magnificent ruins of the Angkor empire, few travelers venture beyond Siem Reap. Minefields and lack of road access have been the main culprits, but those issues are being slowly rectified. Still, many of these sites remain untouched by mass tourism. Take Koh Ker, a mostly unrestored temple complex 120 kilometers north of Angkor Wat that served as the kingdom's capital from A.D. 928–944. Though a road linking it with Beng Menglea, another temple site 67 kilometers south, was completed several years ago, a visit last year was largely undisturbed by other tourists. (Landmines are still a danger, so take care not to venture off the paths.)
Of the 40 structures spread over 35 square kilometers, the most striking is Prasat Kraham, or the Red Temple, so named for its maroon-hued bricks. Lofty stone archways, galleries and intricate carvings rival any of those found at that other, more famous site. A causeway leads to 35-meter high Prasat Thom, a seven-tiered pyramid that sits in the center of an empty field. Also not to be missed is Prasat Pram, located near the complex's entrance, made up of five red-brick towers, some of which are photogenically wrapped in webs of thick, gnarled roots—much like Ta Prohm, but without the hordes.
Prasat Pram
Koh Ker is a two-hour ride by car from Siem Reap; expect to pay US$80–US$100 round-trip. Look out for the Community Heritage Patrol — a squad of tan-uniformed young people who assist visitors and help deter looters. They're part of a sustainable-tourism initiative that includes ox-drawn cart tours. On the way back, stop at Beng Menglea, a beautiful 12th-century temple with atmospheric galleries and a library, as well as a wooden walkway that enables visitors to view the complex from above.
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Everyone will be talking about the Middle East Policy substance of tonight's Foreign Policy debate between the candidates. This is not a blog about US politics, but since my nostalgia posts are well received, and since Mitt Romney has shown a certain nostalgia for the United States Navy as it was in 1916, though battleship navies seem to have faded away after Pearl Harbor, I thought it might be appropriate to run a couple of pictures of the Great White Fleet's transit of the Suez Canal on January 1909.
from this US Navy site. To the best of my knowledge, the felucca in the picture was not a part of the Great White Fleet.
Below, sailors from the Great White Fleet pose at the sphinx.
Monday, October 22, 2012
My Only Comment on Tonight's Debate: Those Were the Days: The Great White Fleet in the Suez Canal
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the reported meeting of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on President Muhammadu Buhari's health in London as another attempt by the All Progressives Congress, APC, government to deceive Nigerians on the state of health of the president. It was reported that the recuperating President is hale and hearty.
Fayose told newsmen that he remains confident the President is in a critical condition but only proves from Osinbajo that Buhari is indeed recuperating will change his mind.
I'm not going to prove that (the President is recuperating) to Nigerians. It is him (Osinbajo) who said he saw the President that needs to prove to Nigerians. I have made the allegations and I have said it expressly that we are in the age of technology. How do we have an Acting President of a nation that has visited his boss that cannot show evidence of the meeting? The picture they are posting on social media are pictures taken a long time. You recall that I said this again at Transcorp Hilton in 2015. We are talking about President of 170million people. The Acting President visiting the President that has left this country for about 60 days or more cannot show evidence of the meeting. It shows the President is in critical condition," he told journalists.
According to Vanguard, Fayose also said if the situation isn't handled properly, he will release 11 damaging pictures of the president to justify his stand on Buhari's state of health and stop the ruling party's deceit to the public.