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From their perspective, Media Matters' targeting of Glenn Beck is almost understandable, after all the radio host/TV commentator has been warning people how the progressive agenda is a danger to American freedom for a long time. He has also been exposing, George Soros, also known as "Spooky Dude" who is the Sugar Daddy for much of the progressive movement, including Media Matters.
What Media Matters doesn't like to talk about is the fact that Soros is a major funder of the organization, most of the funding is indirect. Three different Soros charitable foundations, individual members of the Soros family, and the Geosor Corporation give hundreds of millions of dollars to The Open Society Institute (see page 18 of the Institute's nonprofit tax return posted here). Open Society gives money to the Center for American Progress who gives money to Media Matters. Another Soros funded group that helps Media Matters is the Democracy Alliance, and recently Soros gave a large and public chunk of money to Media matters, calling it the "first ever" donation by the financier (except for all the other I suppose). Keep in mind that Media Matters is not required to list its donors, this information comes from the tax returns of the foundations that give it money, so there may be other donations not discovered.
Media Matters attacks on Beck have reached almost comic proportions—an incredible obsession. A search of Media Matters on site search engine reports the Soros-controlled media police posted 2,460 anti-Beck posts between January 4, 2010 and October 5th (the day before they began their strategy of trying to brand the Commentator as a Jew-hater. Let that number roll around in your mind for a second–2,460 posts in 274 days–that's an average of nine posts a day and (if he didn't miss a TV or radio show) 13 posts per program. It was obvious that either Media Matters and Mr. Soros had it in for Glenn Beck or someone has some sort of kinky crush on the Fox star.
Media Matters began a "Glenn Beck has a Jewish Problem" hit job in October when the the commentator dedicated a program to outlining George Soros' political network and exposing Spooky Dude's history of currency manipulation and it continues through today with the bogus charges of 400 rabbis, blessed by Media Matters and promoted by the Progressive mainstream media.
False charges of Antisemitism are a particular hot button of mine. As a Jew, every time I hear someone being bullied with false charges of Antisemitism I an compelled to offer a defense (usually that deflects the bully's anger toward my direction).
That doesn't mean I reject all charges of Antisemitism. When charges are valid I just vigorously attack the bigot, such as when my friend Rabbi Nessenoff asked me what to do with this little video he took of Helen Thomas. I quickly posted it on my site The Lid, at Big Journalism, gave it to Scott Baker who at the time was running Breitbart TV , sent out tweets and emails to most of the large sites. By the end of the day it was on radio and TV and the calls for Thomas' head were all over the place, and my friend Rabbi Nessenoff's face was all over the media.
In the case of Media Matters and Sugar-Daddy George's progressive hit squad, branding Beck as Antisemitic was a brilliant strategy at times they brought back memories of the All in the Family episode where Mr. Rabinowitz, Archie Bunker's attorney advised,
In a court of law, you can't beat a station wagon filled with nuns!
Though in the case of Soros progressive hit squad, it was an open letter with 400 Rabbis.
Thankfully the attempt to brand Glenn Beck as an anti-Semite isn't working for two reasons. First of all and most importantly it's not true. As a regular listener of Beck's radio show and a semi-regular viewer of his TV offerings, if there was the slightest hint of Antisemitism coming out of the Fox broadcaster's mouth I would be attacking him relentlessly. Just as I continue to attack people like WFAN's Mike Francesa and his former partner Chris Russo, who reacted to 9/11 by calling for Jews to take a loyalty oath.
The other mistake made by the Soros hit team lead by Media Matters was over reach. The few months have seen some of the the lamest allegations of Antisemitism made since biblical times, when God told Abraham to leave the Mesopotamian City of Ur the land of his birth, his kindred and his father's house, move to the Holy Land to create the first "Jewish neighborhood."
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Burglars spooked after finding Florida 6th grader inside home during theft
The 11-year-old called 911 and hid in her closet
The 11-year-old called 911 and hid in her closet
The 11-year-old called 911 and hid in her closet
Four suspected burglars fled from a home in Florida, near Orlando, after being spooked by something they saw in the house, which happened to be an 11-year-old girl, according to WESH.
The sixth grader named Ashley said she was at home when the burglary took place.
"I heard that they broke a window into my house. When they broke the window, I got scared and called 911," she said.
The burglars tried getting into her room as she hid in the closet.
"I got scared because they were so many, one against four, that was too much."
After kicking her door down, the four found Ashley and became spooked, fleeing the home.
"And they kicked it open and when they saw me, they ran out and left," she said.
Deputies were able to locate three of the suspects, who crashed a vehicle not far from the residence. The driver was found in a reported stolen car, pinned inside. They were taken to a nearby hospital and later arrested.
Two other juveniles ran into the woods but were eventually captured.
One police officer praised Ashley's quick thinking saying, "So, to be a child, have a door kicked in and come face-to-face with bad guys, and to have the presence of mind to call us, and everything was able to end in an arrest. Well, hats off!"
The burglars did manage to take Ashley's Christmas gifts, the television and more, however.
"My dad has to work really hard, my mom works really hard. It's really sad because it's not fair," she said.
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(1:45) John King blindsides Newt Gingrich with a question about his ex-wife ... and Newt tears him a new one.
(4:05) King did a horrible job justifying the question ... but was it out of line in the first place?
(6:22) Johnny, Brian, Mike, Slade AND Evan argue that the question was totally fair game.
(11:30) Harvey says the worst part about it was...
(12:10) Harvey doesn't give a damn about what politicians do behind closed doors ... as long as they can lead the country.
(20:45) The funniest end to a call EVER.
(23:50) Obama NAILS an Al Green song at the Apollo ... will it help him in the election?
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Moms and Wombs and Babes
How were you born? Were you induced? Natural delivery? C-section? Premature? NICU? Overdue?
How about your kids? What are their birth stories? Your siblings?
I don't have one.
Well I have one but I don't know it, and I don't know anyone who does. I hadn't thought much of it either, until more recently.
Over the past few years, as my close friends started having kids of their own, and as they journeyed through pregnancy, I would hear the stories of their own births. And then came the story of their baby's birth, each seeming like a pure miracle. Some babies we didn't get to meet, which is a whole heart-breaking story in its own right. But each child has been forever impressed with the emotions, experience and the overall tenor of his or her womb experience, and entrance into this world, which is manifested in their personality, preferences, and general way of being.
And so by the grace of God I made it to full term, which made me wonder…
What was I 'impressed' with inside the womb? How about my entrance into this world…?
The origin of my curiosity…
In late 2013, I attended a presentation which included a panel of three women who shared on the topic of Pre and Perinatal Psychology.
(For those who don't know me well I have studied psychology for quite some time)
One in particular provided compelling information on how important our journey is in being conceived and brought into this world. Her name is Anna Verwaal, RN. I've provided a link to her TED talk below this post.
In summary, she makes the case for having a fundamental balance between knowing how your womb and delivery experience contributes to your patterns, but not allowing them to sentence you to a life you do not want, nor deserve. This information made a big impact on me since she was correlating personality quirks with birthing experiences and I began to wonder if some of mine came from that early part of my life.
Well….did it?
Well, here is what we know about my birth mom: She was a paranoid schizophrenic, and she gave birth to 9 other babies. So, we know she's fertile! But as far as the womb experience, I think it's safe to say, the emotional 'flavors' that I was swimming around in, were a bit chaotic. And let's not forget, we don't know how often she was going to the doctor for check-ups along the way or if she was using drugs, drinking or smoking while pregnant. I just know she was hospitalized while she was pregnant at some point, due to threatening to kill herself and her other children. Yeah.
So there I was, I popped out into the world, not entirely sure how. But reassured that my mother was not in her right mind to care for me, and carrying the only experiences I had thus far from the womb – constant fluctuation from feeling high to low, being consumed with fear and terror, heeding an impending sense of doom… thanks to the terrible diseases of schizophrenia, addiction and paranoia.
To me it was no surprise I tended to focus on how negative aspects of a situation & possible negative outcomes affected me. Or, that I was constantly overwhelmed with maneuvering social relationships, struggling with depression and anxiety on and off. It was because I was always feeling the need to 'survive' my chaotic emotions – which made for a poor foundation in learning, a fertile ground for procrastination and a tendency for working best under chaos and pressure. I was never reaching my full potential because I was constantly playing a game of survival, so how could I master anything or develop intimacy when each day was dedicated to securing my basic needs?
What is so interesting is that even though I was placed for adoption in a loving home with a roof over my head, plenty of food, extracurricular activities, support, family vacations, structure, guidance, education, Girl Scouts, and a million other amazing experiences, I still felt like I was trying to survive on a daily basis. I mean, looking at my life growing up you would wonder how I was the way I was. It didn't compute! And thus I think my parents were a bit at a loss in dealing with me.
So…what exactly do I mean by surviving? Well, here is a list of life experience I've gathered based on years of simply 'getting by'…
- People pleasing to the max
- Avoiding my self at all costs by constantly surrounding myself with others who were just as chaotic if not more than me, taking up their problems and feelings, attempting to fix them, directing their actions or participating in this next bullet point with them…
- When people weren't around or available to help me distract myself from me, I drank, which usually led me to a party or a bar so I could continue to avoid myself and get involved with your life somehow to avoid my own!
- Trying waaaaaaaay too hard to be liked and just coming off inauthentic and sad
- Trying on different lifestyles until they didn't work for me anymore
…while simultaneously getting caught up in…
- Ruminating for hours on end over-analyzing EVERYTHING. All. THE. TIME.
- Treating my parents without regard to their feelings OR the acknowledgement that they were investing so much into me, my safety and my future
- Treating other people really crappy when they didn't co-sign my bullsh%$
- Lamenting over the hurt I experienced and if you were the type that didn't engage with my anguishing I went to the other extreme and pretended I was so strong that I was too good for you and then became stand-offish
And be careful if you were ever stuck in my pathway. I would chew you up and spit you out so fast you wouldn't even know what hit you. I was like a tornado. And I needed to survive!
So, have you ever heard that a person's 'mental capacity' is stuck at whatever age he or she experienced trauma in his or her life? Or while you may have healed from the trauma affecting you on a daily basis, whenever you get triggered or get upset you revert back to that age? I think that what I've come to realize about myself is that my deepest wounds and traumas were all pre-verbal – in the womb, and then right after, when I was separated from my biological mother within the first day or two of birth and taken to foster care. Aside from adjusting to being out of the womb I was experiencing a loss, a separation from the only thing I knew before. And much of my outlook on stressors and discomfort was that of a helpless screaming infant. I think for some time I truly believed I had no control over how I felt and no sense of emotional regulation.
Something else I've learned is that we have a natural affinity for our biological mother no matter what troubles she has in her life or how badly she behaves. It's biological. She's our mom. It's the FIRST thing I ever knew in the period of my existence. It's the ONLY thing I knew for a while, until I was born, and then normally I would meet my family, and then your family's friends and then my own friends and so on.
But for a while after one is born, you don't realize you are a separate entity from your mother for several months. You assume everything you feel, she feels, and so when that person went missing, I think a part of me went missing. And so, much of my life I think I was seeking to find that high, those lows, and that chaos I knew in the womb – which was familiar and normal for me. It may not have been the best thing but it was the FIRST thing I knew, and it meant finding 'mom', finding 'safety', finding the rest of me.
Until fairly recently, I'd say within the last couple years, I truly wished I could crawl back into the womb, where I didn't have to deal with you, or live this life. I didn't ask to live it. I was forced to be here, and ill-equipped. And was tired of doing my dance to convince everyone I was capable of living it, which in turn caused you to tell me that I WAS capable of living a good, happy life. I felt like a fraud.
Here is what I looked like on the outside:
And here is what I felt like on the inside:
A big empty and dark room with no windows and only a door to get out whenever I possibly could.
So, to conclude my first post I guess I will say, it took a looooooong time to realize that what happened to me in the womb and at birth had such a huge affect on me. And as much as my parents love me and did everything within their power to support me, I don't think they could comprehend the gravity of how the simple act of separation from my birth mom affected me. But, thankfully now I am in a place where I have acknowledged the trauma, and made huge strides in healing from it. Most of the severe symptoms of the trauma are healed, and now-a-days I work on tweaking my actions and inner dialogue to be that of compassion, love, kindness, strength, confidence, mindfulness and generally being present.
Stay tuned for my next post where I reveal the information the LA Country Adoption Agency gave to me in detail.


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Packing some serious meat. Er, heat.We're in agreement that Alexander Skarsgard is one of the hottest men on the planet, right? And that he should totally be cast in Fifty Shades of Grey because the movie's screenwriter says she's angling for an adults-only NC-17 rating and that means NAKED ALEXANDER SKARSGARD? And that the reason we want to see a naked Alexander Skarsgard isn't just because his body looks like it's been carved from a tall gorgeous slab of marble -- it's also because his penis is so freaking huge, I'm shocked it doesn't have its own state quarter.
Look, I'm not saying I've seen it in person, or anything. I'm just saying that based on a certain photo that's floating around the web, Skarsgard's shlong should be on a damn Wheaties box. It's that impressive. It's Fifty Shades of HEYYYYYYYYY.
Okay, so apparently Alexander Skarsgard was at the Warner Bros./InStyle Golden Globes Party last night and there's this FANTASTIC photo of him where he's standing all tall and dapper and decked out in a sleek gray suit, but when you take a closer look at his pants, there are all sorts of things that might pop into your mind. For instance:
Because hello, Alexander Skarsgard's penis is a five-dollar footlong. He's fully clothed and this photo is totally safe for work, but you might want to sit down or something first. Are you ready? Here you go.
Now, some of the naysayers among you might insist this is a trick of the light, or a crease in his pants, but WHY NOT JUST TELL A CHILD SANTA IS A LIE, TOO? Me, I prefer to believe Skarsgard's dick is so big, it has its own agent. And I hope that agent's working on a heck of a deal for Fifty Shades. Laters, baby.
So, what do you think? Weird shadow, or real deal?
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Acquisition adds competency in mission-critical intelligence space
CACI International Inc. will acquire TechniGraphics Inc., a provider of imagery and geospatial services, including digital maps, to the U.S. intelligence community, the Defense and Homeland Security departments, and allied governments.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not reported.
Founded in 1982, TechniGraphics is a 450-person company in Wooster, Ohio, with additional locations in Fort Collins, Colo., and Madrid.
Its products form the basis for intelligence analysis, military operational planning, disaster relief planning, and operations and other mapping requirements, CACI said today in a statement.
The company provides mission-essential geospatial data, services and solutions. This acquisition solidifies CACI's competency in the mission-critical intelligence market and sustains a long-term commitment to sophisticated intelligence solutions, the statement said.
TechniGraphics' revenue in calendar year 2010 is expected to be $46 million. Closing is anticipated by Nov. 1.
CACI, of Arlington, Va., ranks No. 16 on Washington Technology's 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
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America was ecstatic last week over the last episode of AMC's "Mad Men" television show. Several newspapers, magazines, social media, radio and television shows were raving about Don Draper and the supporting cast.
People were making comments such as, "Oh, the good old days," or, "I wish we could go back to more simpler times." For minorities, the '60s were not the "good old days" or "simpler time." From our standpoint, we hear: Return to the Jim Crow days.
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Digital Arts students show up strong at local ADDY awards
Students from Liberty University's Department of Studio and Digital Arts made a statement at the Western Virginia Student ADDY Award competition Saturday, Feb. 23, in Roanoke, Va. They brought home 11 gold and 17 silver awards, nearly topping all schools in the region. Liberty improved upon its success from last year, garnering four times as many awards.
The ADDYs are hosted by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and is the industry's largest and most representative competition worldwide, drawing over 60,000 entries annually. The competition includes local, district, and national judging. Gold award winners automatically advance to the next round. The AAF District 3 ADDY Awards will take place in Raleigh, N.C., March 23-24.
Liberty collected the second-highest amount of awards in the local competition, following Radford University by a slim margin and outperforming Virginia Tech and Lynchburg College.
Todd Smith, SADA chair, said this year's competition included hundreds of submissions, which had to pass an extremely rigorous critique by the judges. Liberty's representation in the Addy Awards has consistently grown, with students earning gold awards in four of the past five competitions. Last year Liberty claimed two gold awards, a judges choice, and four silvers.
"The ADDY is the most prestigious award in the advertising field. These students aren't waiting until they graduate and are hired to begin standing out, they're doing it now," said Dr. Norman Mintle, dean of the School of Communication & Creative Arts. "The prolific number of awards won by our students is not only impressive and laudatory, but demonstrative of the world-class faculty who teach and mentor these outstanding artists."
The SADA department at Liberty has seen strong growth since the program launched in its current form in 2006, rising from about 150 to more than 500 declared majors.
"Our goal is to provide an environment that encourages students to pursue artistic excellence that reflects God's creativity and brings Him glory, not just in the classroom, but in industry settings," Smith said.
- The Liberty University Department of Studio and Digital Arts is part of the School of Communication & Creative Arts and offers majors in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Studio Art with Teacher Licensure. The department also offers minors in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Photography.
Liberty's 2013 Western Virginia Student Addy Award winners
Collateral material (stationery package):
Kelsey Phillips, Gold for "Bittersweet"
Collateral material (poster):
Nicholas Harris, Gold for "James' Peach"
Brianna, O'Neal, Silver for "Restoring Peace to Humanity"
Michael King, Silver for "Light and Dark"
Abigail Bock, Silver for "Inspiration"
Roberta Hall, Silver for "Smoking Kills"
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Jacob Siner, Gold for "Minimal Movies of 2012"
Cooper Miller, Silver for "UP"
Roberta Hall, Silver for "Imagination"
Roberta Hall, Silver for "Liquid"
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Roberta Hall, Silver for "Three by Three" (credit: Hayden Kenneth, artist)
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Robert Puffenburger, Gold for "Imbue Magazine" (credits: Rachel Rawn, creative director; Emily Brown, copy editor; Jeremy McLemore, photographer; Melissa Terry, contributor; Joshua McGhee, design consultant)
Dylan Stine, Gold for "Cadence Magazine" (credits: Alex Sattler, photographer and copywriter; Tiffany Fath, copywriter; Kelsi Gabriel, copywriter; Josh Parvis, copywriter)
Victoria Petrocelli, Silver for "Venture Magazine" (credits: Sally Ann Edwards, Bailie Porter, Gaetane Maurice, Kelsey Crockett, Elizabeth Campbell)
Direct marketing:
Roberta Hall, Gold for "Portrait Abused"
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PoHang Hui, Silver for "Lynchburg Area Food Council Ads"
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Amy Fox, Silver for "Blue and Gold Macaw"
Matthew Deike, Silver for "Panda"
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Jacob Siner, Gold for "Portraits of Song"
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Esther Elmore, Silver for "Winter Wonderland"
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In my travels to NYC (I was there for a blogging summit), I hadn't met any cyclists, just seen pizza delivery bikes, and a few messengers in traffic. Sitting at a round table, listening to a lecture, and checking on BIke Hugger, one of the attendees said, "hey! you're a cyclist and we proceeded to chat about the Gotham scene." He told me about
and said that it was easy to get out of the city into some good riding. Walking home from dinner, I passed Chelsea Bicycles, but it was late. I'm never in New York long enough to bring a bike, but maybe next time, I can meet a local club.


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MIAMI - The Ravens' hopes, like a ball in Jamal Lewis' hands, are growing more fragile.
Their season, like their team identity, is splintering more every game.
What looked so promising a couple of weeks ago now appears utterly haywire, as the Ravens' defense did enough to win while their offense did more than enough to falter in yesterday's 9-6 overtime loss to the Miami Dolphins before 73,333 at Pro Player Stadium.
The Ravens produced more turnovers (two interceptions and a fumble) than they did scores (two field goals). Their last mistake - Lewis' fumble at his 33-yard line - proved to be the Ravens' undoing, setting up Olindo Mare's game-winning,...


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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — For an NBA team, what good is having a mascot if you do not use the mascot at some point to scare the heck out of players? We saw it earlier this season in Phoenix, where the Gorilla popped out of a trash can wielding an air horn. And last season in Milwaukee, Bucks mascot Bango scared Dwight Howard.
So recently in Houston, the Rockets used their inflatable version of their mascot, Clutch, to stand sentry in a hallway and suddenly and terrifyingly come to life as various Rockets players left practice. The best part of this video is probably the slow motion replays spliced in, showing the players leaping into the air with genuinely frightened looks plastered across their faces.
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Iowa Skipper Atrytone arogos iowa (Scudder) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
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his report provides a comprehensive annotated compilation of data and literature for the Iowa skipper (Atrytone arogos iowa). Sources reviewed included publications, unpublished reports, Internet resources, consultation with experts (e.g. regional butterfly experts and State Natural Heritage Program personnel), and personal knowledge and experience. The Iowa skipper is a western subspecies of the Arogos skipper (A. arogos) and is associated primarily with mixed- and tallgrass native prairie in the Great Plains. Populations eastward to the coastal states are recognized as the Arogos skipper subspecies (A. arogos arogos). A general overview of species and subspecies information is also included at the beginning of this report to familiarize readers with the subspecies. It includes classification and nomenclature, a general description of the adult and immature life stages, summaries of habitat requirements, biology and ecology, and distribution and status.
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CAMPTON HILLS – Trees in winter, their bark plain with no leaves to define them, are still identifiable – if you know what to look for.
The potato chip tree is wild black cherry, easy to spot by its bark. The branches of a red oak reach to the sky while the burr oak's are crooked, the pin oak's reach down and the white oak's reach out like a wide embrace.
Buckeye, chestnut, black walnut, silver maple and basswood were also among trees that Campton Township naturalist Jack Shouba identified Saturday. Shouba led about a dozen people in a nature hike at Corron Farm in Campton Hills for a lesson in reading the landscape in winter.
"We wanted to do a little education and show people what we have here," Shouba said.
Corron Farm was part of an open space purchase that preserved 1,100 acres and 300 acres of farmland, he said. The trail through the woods at the 1830s farmstead was a blend of oaks and invasive species – like the box elder – and some like the wild cherry that are native to Illinois, but don't belong in an oak forest.
Every few steps, Shouba stopped and talked about how to identify trees in a winter landscape. Taking out a small Swiss arm knife, he cut a twig from a tree and described it.
"The twig is thick, and it has a 'face' where a leaf fell off – it's a black walnut," Shouba said, passing the twig around. From the ground, he picked up a few broken walnut shells, adding, "And there are walnuts around. That's a clue."
Another snip of another tree showed a little yellow bud. This, he said, was a yellow-bud hickory, also known as bitternut because the nut is, well, bitter.
Shouba spoke of the wonder of oak trees, especially burr oaks, with their coarse, tough-looking bark.
"That is strong enough to stand up to a prairie fire," Shouba said. "Oaks have a strategy. Their leaves burn in a fire, but their bark is not hurt by fire."
The "strategy" is survival, Shouba said. Its rivals, such as the box elder and maple trees would succumb to a prairie fire, brought on by a lightning strike. Once the rivals are swept away in fire, young oaks can sprout.
One of the challenges of the volunteers at Corron Farm, Shouba said, is to clear the understory and encourage young oaks, which need sunshine instead of shade to grow.
Areas where volunteers had already cleared more invasive species and those that do not belong, showed signs of recovery. Shouba pointed to a single clump of tall grass.
"Grass is a good sign," he said. "There is enough sun here to support it."
Greg Van Zandt, a Campton Township trustee, who attended the winter nature walk, said he learned a lot.
"I learned a lot of different things about oak trees," Van Zandt said. "I did not realize that red oak branches go up and white oak branches go side to side."
In particular, Van Zandt said Shouba explained things well.
"Jack is just so personable and brings to life the things we take for granted, like the trees and shrubs," Van Zandt said.
Winter walk: Trees reveal themselves at Corron Farm
CAMPTON HILLS – Trees in winter, their bark plain with no leaves to define them, are still identifiable – if you know what to look for.


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Edward Titcomb born 1740 Married Mary Mulcock in Highworth 16 April 1761
Looking for Edward's parents. Edward and Mary had 7 children, no problem to find but his parents are a nightmareAny help appreciated.
Looking for my Dad's army records
William Ralph Embling was born 8-7-1909 in Wiltshire. His parents were Ralph Titcomb and Edith Emily Embling.
He married my Mum in 1942 at Edmonton Middx. I am looking for his army records, he served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery, do not know if it was in Wiltshire or London. Although I do know he was in Germany.Hopefully someone can help.
Edward Titcomb's parents
Edward married Mary Mulcock in Highworth on the 16th April 1761. He was born in Sevenhampton 1740
Cannot find his parents, any help would be appreciated.
Ralph Titcomb
He married Susanna Stefe and they lived in Broad Blunsdon,Wiltshire.Can anyone help with the names of the children?
William Allen
Can anyone confirm that William Allen married Elizabeth Chapman on 15th January 1821 at Thorney Cambridgeshire. Also did they have 3 children, Thomas Richard and James if so I have found the right family.
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Have William Allen 1791 -1866think he married Elizabeth who died 1854 in St.Ives,Cambs Have found 3 sons James, Richard and Thomas, did he have any more children. (possibly Isaac and Isabella( Does anyone know Elizabeth's maiden name and date of birth.Nightmare family to find.
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My great grandfather was James Allen born about 1826 in Boxworth,Cambridgeshire. He married Miriam
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William was born in Kingsdown,Wiltshire and married Phoebe Jane in 1854?Any help would be appreciated as I researched the wrong William and have had to go back and start again.
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Former ESPN anchor celebrates a couple of 'good eggs'
Former ESPN anchor celebrates a couple of 'good eggs'
Sara Walsh couldn't have been happier to spend Mother's Day at home.
The past couple of years, she was hosting ESPN's "Sportscenter" on the holiday. She described it as "personally brutal" and "an hours-long reminder of everything that had gone wrong."
What went wrong was a miscarriage while hosting a "Sportscenter" on the road, followed by two more pregnancies, surgeries and IVF procedures.
On Sunday, the now-former ESPN personality shared her story along with a picture of two "good eggs" -- her new babies -- with an Instagram post.
Walsh was a casualty of ESPN's recent wave of layoffs, but after her trying experience with becoming a mother, she realizes "how lucky I really am."


text: Trial strategy and legal memoranda are normally directed at attorneys. A legal consultant who seeks out lay people will not even be working very long. Consumers want to know what you can do for them. If you cannot represent them before a judge, they will find out. Legal work is results oriented. If you cannot provide results, making a living will be difficult. Now, intentional misrepresentation is a different matter. Calling yourself an attorney when you are not licensed is not what I am talking about here. Assisting someone with his Chapter 7/13 petition is legal consultation. Appearing with someone before an IRS agent, as an enrolled agent, is legal consultation. Think outside the box, while following all the rules.


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Beginning at the International Print judging in July 2006, album competition entrants may submit their Album entries on CD. This exciting change in the International Print Competition will simplify the submission process and greatly reduce the cost of producing and shipping physical albums.
Since most albums today are made from digital files, many entrants will already be familiar with the process. Just design your best album, be it a wedding, bar mitzvah, family or portrait event. Save each page as a jpg file and drop the pages into a folder. Burn that folder onto a CD and send it in with your entries to the PPA International Competition in July 2006. Remember, this year's entry deadline is June 1, 2006. Entrants may submit up to four albums, and each album must be saved to a seperate CD.
If you make your album the traditional way with film and prints, pages and album covers you can still enter the physical album into the competition, just as in the past.You may also photograph your album pages and send those images in on a CD.
Digital Album Entry Specifications:
- One CD Per Entry
- Viewable Image Size: 1024 x 768 pixels, Horizontal
- Gamma: 2.2
- Color Space: sRGB
- File Format: JPG
- Qty of Images: Not to exceed 70.
- Use three digit file names, sequenced numerically in the order in which you wish them to be viewed. Example: 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg, etc.
- Put all your images into one folder named with the title of your entry.
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Are you devastated? I am DEVASTATED. And I knew what was coming but that didn't make it any easier. Maybe it even made it harder? I don't know. I know nothing. It's like I'm Jon Snow, that's how little I know. Except that, side note, you know who is really like Jon Snow? Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas is like Jon Snow because he got oral cancer because he likes eating pussy so much that it actually gave him cancer. But even though he could have DIED, now he just eats even more pussy. I am now officially completely fascinated by Michael Douglas. Uh, so anyway, sorry for that digression (I'm not at all sorry) and now let's get on with this episode that I'm absolutely DREADING writing about because then it will make it all real. Or as real as a completely fictional universe can be, which feels pretty fucking real right about now. Aaahhhhhh.
So, here we are in Stark headquarters where lions and wolves face each other on a map of Westeros. Robb is discussing his plans with his mother to attempt to take Casterly Rock, saying that this will be the most painful thing for the Lannisters. Why is Robb even talking to his mother now? His mother the traitor? Well, he ignored her advice not to send Theon to Winterfell and now Winterfell is burnt to the ground and, as far as they know, Bran and Rickon are dead. So, yeah, maybe Robb should have listened to his mother. Are you going to listen to her now? Are you, Robb?
He is! Of course, Catelyn's advice—given after Robb reminds her that they could die in the "way Father died, or worse"—is: "Show them how it feels to lose what they love." Which means that Robb and his army are going to Walder Frey's to ask for reinforcements while accompanying Robb's uncle Edmure to his wedding. Both Catelyn and Robb seem nervous about this, but think it's the only way to win Casterly Rock and hurt the Lannisters in the worst possible way. They want revenge. The thing is, of course, that when pure vengeance is your motivator, things don't always turn out that well.
But maybe this time things will be ok? After all, Walder Frey welcomes everyone into his castle and shares bread and salt with them, which is the Westerosi version of a pinky swear that nothing bad will happen while they're under the Frey roof. Robb apologizes for breaking his oath to marry a Frey daughter and Frey takes the time to introduce all of his many daughters and granddaughters, all of whom are…well, Amanda Bynes would definitely call them ugly. Amanda Bynes calls everyone ugly though, so that's not saying much. I'll just say that none of the Frey girls can hold a candle to Talisa. Walder Frey notices this too and insults both Robb and Talisa saying that Robb married not "for love, but for firm tits and a tight fit." Walder Frey is an asshole.
Over in Yunkai, Daario is helping to plan an attack on the walled city. Daario thinks that he will have no problem sneaking into the city and winning the Yunkish slaves over to Dany's side. Jorah is skeptical and beseeches Dany not to trust Daario. After all, he double-crossed the men he used to be associated with, why wouldn't he do the same to Dany. I mean, I'm just guessing here, but maybe it's because Daenerys is beautiful and has dragons and Daario wants to sleep with her, just like Jorah does? Maybe? Anyway, Daario says to Jorah, "You have a very suspicious mind. In my experience only dishonest people think this way." Dany asks what Grey Worm thinks and because he trusts him, Daario's plan goes into effect.
So, we also have a quick visit with Sam and Gilly, which means a little exposition. Sam knows where there is a secret gate through the wall. Gilly doesn't understand how he knows everything and the answer is because he can read! Gilly thinks this makes him like a wizard. But that's because poor Gilly is inbred and stupid. And that's all with Sam and Gilly and the little mouth-breathing baby she totes around.


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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code E08.49
Diabetes due to undrl condition w oth diabetic neuro comp
Diagnosis Code E08.49
Short Description: Diabetes due to undrl condition w oth diabetic neuro comp
Long Description: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with other diabetic neurological complication
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code E08.49
Valid for Submission
The code E08.49 is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Information for Medical Professionals
Code Edits
The following edits are applicable to this code:
Manifestation diagnoses - Manifestation codes describe the manifestation of an underlying disease, not the disease itself, and therefore should not be used as a principal diagnosis.
Convert to ICD-9
- 249.60 - Sec DM neuro nt st uncn (Approximate Flag)
- 249.60 - Sec DM neuro nt st uncn (Combination Flag)
- 349.89 - Cns disorder NEC (Combination Flag)
- Coma associated with malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus
- Neurological disorder associated with malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus
Information for Patients
Also called: DM, Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. With type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin. With type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or use insulin well. Without enough insulin, the glucose stays in your blood. You can also have prediabetes. This means that your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes. Having prediabetes puts you at a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
Over time, having too much glucose in your blood can cause serious problems. It can damage your eyes, kidneys, and nerves. Diabetes can also cause heart disease, stroke and even the need to remove a limb. Pregnant women can also get diabetes, called gestational diabetes.
Blood tests can show if you have diabetes. One type of test, the A1C, can also check on how you are managing your diabetes. Exercise, weight control and sticking to your meal plan can help control your diabetes. You should also monitor your blood glucose level and take medicine if prescribed.
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- A1C test (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Blood sugar test - blood (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes - keeping active (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes - low blood sugar - self-care (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes - tests and checkups (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes - when you are sick (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes and exercise (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Giving an insulin injection (Medical Encyclopedia)
- High blood sugar (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Diabetic Nerve Problems
Also called: Diabetic neuropathy
If you have diabetes, your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Over time, this can damage the covering on your nerves or the blood vessels that bring oxygen to your nerves. Damaged nerves may stop sending messages, or may send messages slowly or at the wrong times.
This damage is called diabetic neuropathy. Over half of people with diabetes get it. Symptoms may include
- Numbness in your hands, legs, or feet
- Shooting pains, burning, or tingling
- Nausea, vomiting, constipation, or diarrhea
- Problems with sexual function
- Urinary problems
- Dizziness when you change positions quickly
Your doctor will diagnose diabetic neuropathy with a physical exam and nerve tests. Controlling your blood sugar can help prevent nerve problems, or keep them from getting worse. Treatment may include pain relief and other medicines.
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Cranial mononeuropathy III - diabetic type (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Diabetes and nerve damage (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Nerve damage from diabetes - self-care (Medical Encyclopedia)
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ICD-10 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Present on Admission
The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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Welcome to The Creative Circle link party – a place to share and find decor and DIY inspiration for your home!
If you are new here, welcome! You can find loads of rental decorating ideas and DIYs around here. I also co-host this weekly link up party (with 5 other fantastic ladies) for bloggers to share their recent home design, diy, and decor posts!
And readers, you've come to the right place, because today the blog is going to filled with endless home inspiration from all over blogland. Please stick around and check out some of the links at the end of this post {and when you do, tell them we sent you}.
Remember to visit the other hostesses to see if you were featured there!
If you wish to pin any of the individual project features, please click through any pin from the original source.
I'm a huge fan of mid century pieces and couldn't believe the transformation this beauty went through from Art is Beauty.
This darling DIY drop cloth pillow made by One Mile Home Style feels vintage and stylish. I love it!
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By Leah Stassen
TransWorld SNOWboarding Business hit the road this winter to visit shops and get a real sense of what's going on in the marketplace. Utah was the first stop in mid March.
Salt Lake City has been a snowboarding hub for years, and there are many shops addressing the market. Some have been there for years, others are relative newcomers. Most this year cited the lack of early snow, the opening of new shops, and the Olympics as problems in the market. Despite these downfalls, there are also some bright spots.
Here's what one had to say:
Stop 1: Bottom Line Snowboard Shop, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.
What was the overall vibe of sales this season?
"People have been loving the new products, but even so it hasn't been the best year," says Manager Brandon Johnson. He points to November as a big month for the store, but sales have dwindled since then. "The Olympics kind of killed things for us," he says.
Even so the shop has been doing well in its women's department and as always¿its accessories business. "We always sell tons of gloves, goggles, and beanies," says Johnson. "Any glove at the 40-dollar pricepoint just flies out the door for us. This year we sold through a ton of Burton Tactics."
The bulk of these sales can be attributed to the store's location¿just minutes from both Brighton and Solitude in Utah's Big Cottonwood Canyon. It primarily caters to local resort employees, but accessory items are often sold to resort visitors searching for that last-minute or forgotten item.
The women's department, however, is one area the Bottom Line had the most improvement.
"Surprisingly, all of the women's-specific stuff is selling great," says Johnson. He points to Velvet, Chorus, and the F-60 Lady binding from Drake as great examples. "I think women just really want equipment that is tailored specific these days," he continues.
The Bottom Line plans to add four new board lines this year from Rossignol, Elevation, Rome, and Never Summer.
In other areas the shop will be sticking with the brands that have done well during the harder economic year. These include 686, Bonfire, Volcom, and Burton for outerwear; Northwave, Salomon, and Burton for boots; and Johnson cites Technine as a great binding holdover for next year. "They are really simple, solid bindings with great customer service to back them up. Any warranties we've had to deal with have been outstanding," he says.


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But back to more important things.
There are a LOT of things I don't understand about cycling. Having said that, I promised myself that this would be a short post, so please consider what follows as a highlights package. Please feel free to add your own suggestions as comments.
- When they do track sprints, why don't they go hard from the gun? I'm aware this probably sounds stupid to a trackie, but really, WHY? I'm not sure who first came up with the idea of playing cat n mouse instead of going for it, but man, that must have taken some guts.
- Why do boys never smile on the podium?
- Why do people attack at the start of a race? Unless you're Emma Pooley and this is the Plouay World Cup, you're never going to stay away. Don't give me that 'exposure is good for the sponsors' line. Stupidity is bad for the sponsors.
- Who made the unquestionably awesome decision that we always race for money? What other weekend sport lets you do that, other than poker?
- If you have a race that involves skinny blokes racing up to 200km a day, up mountains and across countries, for 3 weeks at a time, at a pace that is faster than most people can ride for an hour, why are people surprised when some of them get busted for drugs?
- Why don't time triallers get along with other time triallers?
- Why do I climb so much faster when I'm 2kg lighter? It's not much of a difference compared to my overall body weight. Come to think of it, why do my scales consistently measure 2kg too much for most of the year?
- Why is cycling a team sport but only 1 person gets the Olympic or world championship medal? If I could change one thing about the Olympics (and miniature dachshund harness racing was already on the fixture), it would be to give medals to the whole cycling team. This would also help out multiple generations of cyclists giving talks at their grandkids' show-and-tell who have to explain to a class of 5-year olds that grandpop drove himself into the ground, his friend got the medal instead of him, and he couldn't be happier.
- Why, in the peleton, is it wrong to wear black socks, but fine to wear a teeny-tiny little hat that looks like it should have a propeller attached to it?
- While we're on socks, what is with this obsession with long socks? The only time in my life I remember long socks being fashionable was at school when your legs were getting a bit prickly. Ladies, do you REALLY want your calves to look any bigger?
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Process Analyzers Can Use OPC Xi and OPC ADI to Communicate with Control Systems
This article was printed in CONTROL's December 2009 edition.
By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief
There are several kinds of process analyzers, both on-line and at-line. On-line analyzers vary from simple pH meters to complex hydrocarbon analyzers and online scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), and they speak different languages. An at-line analyzer can be completely different from the on-line analyzer sitting next to it because they were designed to meet different specifications, to do different jobs, and to communicate in completely different ways. This is not a good thing when trying to fit analyzers into the control system communications framework to comply with the Process Analyzer Technology (PAT) Initiative or when trying to integrate analyzer data into the process control system.
The PAT initiative requires that analyzers be capable of reporting to the control system in real time, so their information can be used for real-time control of the processes. This is easier said than done for several reasons.
Some analyzers have analog (4-20 mADC) outputs; some have RS-232 or Modbus outputs; some have datalogging and data storage capability but no real-time output; and some have no output at all and weren't designed to have any.
Some control systems can't take in data other than simple outputs from analyzers, like pH or conductivity, and field instruments like flow, pressure, level and temperature. The output of some analyzers must be sent to data historians or advanced process control modules that can use it in their models for control.
Why Such a Big Deal?
Why is PAT this important? All you have to do is to look at the results reported at Emerson Global Users Exchange by Bob Wodjewodka of Lubrizol and Terry Blevins of Emerson Process Management. Control reported on this issue from the 2007 Emerson Exchange meetings ( 2007, www.controlglobal.com/articles/2007/321.html)
Wodjewodka, a statistician by training, has been trying to figure out how to control a batch while it is cooking and steer it into the good norm in real time or near-real time for years. Why? Because some of his batches require 30 days or more to complete, and throwing away a bad batch after that long plays havoc with production scheduling, not to mention the cost of waste and environmental issues associated with waste disposal. Wojewodka has identified thousands of dollars in potential savings, and in a test conducted earlier in 2009 in Rouen, France, payback began within hours of beginning the test, as problems were identified and fixed almost immediately.
If you add to this the convergence of industrial networks on Ethernet and the use of PC-based software for many larger analyzers, whether at-line or online, it becomes apparent that in order to comply with PAT and to assist in improving productivity or quality, analyzers must learn to speak a common language or work with a common translation.
Traditionally, this has been a very difficult integration to perform, since analyzers have disparate communications mediums, and custom application program interfaces (APIs) can be notoriously "brittle." That is, these links are easily broken, and the data then suddenly doesn't get from the analyzer to the control system until the API is repaired.
For years, the most commonly used method of data transfer in the process control space has been OPC. Originally called OLE, for Object Linking and Embedding, this started out as a Microsoft ad hoc standard for data exchange that used COM/DCOM as its translation method. Seeing the great value of this methodology, several automation professionals created a variation of OLE called OLE for Process Control, or OPC. The OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org) now calls this OPC Classic.
In addition, with Microsoft's move away from OLE toward the .NET framework for services, and with the advent of open operating systems such as Linux, the OPC Foundation moved to create a radically new and significantly stronger and more robust version of OPC called OPC-UA, for Unified Architecture.
Recently, a companion specification to OPC-UA called OPC Analyzer Devices Integration (ADI) was released by the OPC Foundation to provide users with a common method of data exchange for analyzer data models and laboratory, online and at-line analyzers. The OPC ADI Specification serves as an information model for analyzer devices which enables true plug-and-play, multi-vendor interoperability. "The release of the ADI spec enables us to provide the industry with analytical products based on open connectivity that will seamlessly interoperate with manufacturing systems to provide an enhanced degree of efficiency and reliability," according to Thomas Buijs, product manager at ABB (www.abb.com).
"OPC ADI is an exciting step forward toward establishing an industry standard for integrating process analyzers with production control systems," said Jay Cincotta, software marketing manager at Mettler-Toledo AutoChem Inc. (http://us.mt.com/)
"The specification is truly a pragmatic one, whose development was motivated by the end-user community," commented Alisher Maksumov, Software Engineering Group lead at OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com). A mix of end-user companies and process analytical technology vendors have committed to using the OPC ADI specification, including ABB, Abbott, Arla Foods, Bristol-Myers Squibb, BRL Consulting, Bruker Optics, CAS, FOSS, GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Optical Systems, Malvern Process Systems, Mettler-Toledo Autochem, Novartis, Pfizer, Sentronic GmbH, Siemens AG, Software Toolbox, Sympatec GmbH, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Umetrics and Yokogawa.
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The Lion Inn offers diners a unique eating and drinking experience as well as hotel facilities and a new style to rival many. The Lion has been a traditional pub for many centuries and has undergone a chic yet sympathetic transformation into a bistropub extraordinaire.
Pontlands Park is the perfect venue, whatever you're celebrating. A variety of function rooms, including a marquee during the summer months, offer something for everyone, whether you're planning an intimate gathering or a larger, more formal event.
Aarandale Guest house is a charming family run Chelmsford guest house providing quality bed and breakfast accommodation in Chelmsford the county town of Essex in England.
This Chelmsford Hotel is an excellent venue which can host a number of different events and parties. These can range from weddings, birthday celebrations to conferences and seminars.
The Blue Boar Hotel is without a doubt one of the best hotels in the Maldon area. Look beyond the Grand Georgian frontage of the Blue Boar Inn, both literally and historically and you will find buildings of rich architectural and social interest.
Need quality accommodation in Essex? Look no further than Fraser's. One of the best guest houses in the area and a pleasant change to chain hotels.
Situated in the heart of the Town centre in Maldon, Essex, this quirky four star Guest House, makes the perfect retreat for romantic breaks and relaxing weekend or mid-week stays, with comfortable, en-suite rooms.
Conveniently located in South Woodham Ferrers town centre, we are close to both Chelmsford and Southend on Sea, while being totally surrounded by open farmland and countryside.
We provide attractive clean rooms, comfortable beds and a very good breakfast.
A friendly bed & breakfast only a few miles from Stansted Airport and a 5 minute walk from the restaurants, pubs and shops on Dunmow's High Street.
The Old House is a spacious family run private hotel standing in its own half acre of mature grounds. It is a grade II* listed building of special architectural and historical interest, the oldest part having been built in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Brentwood Guest House provides comfortable accommodation in a relaxed warm and friendly atmosphere, it is an ideal base for both holidaymakers and business visits.
The Henry VIII Suite is an original Tudor ground floor room with oak beams, Inglenook fireplaces and plenty of character, complete with its own reception area, private bar and en suite cloakroom.
Prested Hall is a truly romantic house and has hosted many happy weddings. Couples have exclusive use of The Hall and its bedrooms on their wedding day until they wave goodbye to their house guests after breakfast the next morning.
This modern and comfortable Lodge is less than 5 minute drive from Stansted Airport terminal and offers WI-Fi access in its public areas. Transportation from the airport is available for an additional fee from Bus station Bay 36.
Set in the beautiful seaside town of Southend, the Holiday Inn Southend is a premier choice among Essex wedding venues. Personalised service and meticulous wedding co-ordinators complement our fully flexible function suite, licensed to hold civil wedding ceremonies and civil partnership ceremonies in Essex
If you're planning your Essex wedding then talk to us - We can help you with every stage of your big day and even provide you with our experienced wedding planner to make sure everything runs smoothly.
The Four Sevens Guesthouse is a very large and spacious Victorian house which has only just recently undergone a full refurbishment of all its rooms and facilities.
Welcome to our Grade II listed period Tudor house; home to Lady Mary Cornwallis in the 16th century and her muse, John Wilbye, the famous madrigal composer, and now a comfortable boutique bed and breakfast.
Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town and was its first Roman capital It has a unique place in Britain's history. Today it is a thriving centre full of attractions for residents, visitors and businesses.
The Brook Red Lion Hotel in Colchester is a historical Grade I listed building dating back to 1465. Located in the busy town centre of Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town, The Brook Red Lion Hotel in Colchester is one of the oldest inns in the area.
This is a guest house with a difference. Comfort combined with all the essentials ensure your stay is as pleasant as possible and at a price you can afford.
Some of our 77 bedrooms have recently undergone a fabulous new makeover. Contemporary décor and stylish bathrooms enhance the most comfortable of beds. Many bedrooms have views over our listed gardens and terraces.
You are assured a warm welcome at The Rose and Crown hotel, which dates back to the 14th century. It is a beautiful oak timber framed building situated in the bustling, historic town of Colchester.
With its magnificent setting in 300 acres of picturesque, rolling Suffolk countryside, a beautifully appointed hotel and superb facilities, Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa provides one of the most idyllic country wedding venues in Essex and Suffolk.


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Gadget Gary Lounges with Vudu
The days of getting in your car and driving to a video store to rent a movie are coming to an end. In addition to the new iTunes Movie Rentals, there are other ways of getting movies into your home without getting off your couch.
One of the most interesting is VUDU ($295; vudu.com). It involves a small black box that hooks up to your TV using a simple broadband connection. Once it's installed - and this was one of the easiest installations I've ever done, taking under 10 minutes - it gives instant access to a library of close to 5,000 movies to rent (99¢ to $3.99 for 24 hours) or own ($4.99 to $19.99), with storage on the unit's 250-gigabyte hard drive. Within seconds of ordering a movie, I was able to start watching.
Included is a very cool, ergonomically friendly remote control with a scroll wheel (like the one on a computer mouse) for fast-forward and reverse. This remote is different from any other I've seen; it's so distinctive in size and feel that it's easy to tell apart from all my other remotes.
Vudu recently began renting HD movies ($3.99 to $5.99). I watched the Bourne trilogy, and the picture was crisp, clear, and vibrant - especially during the scene in The Bourne Identity where Matt Damon chases a sniper through the woods. And TV addicts will also find tons of content to buy ($1.99 per episode), from 24 to the '60s cult classic Lost in Space.
I'm lovin' my Vudu lounge. The days of video-store clerks asking for the Dell'Abate identity are over.
Gary Dell'Abate is the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show. He's done a number of things on camera that look startlingly clear in HD.


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Made from 100% recycled rubber, C-Port rooftop support components can hold as much as 2,500 lb. The supports extend roof life, dampen vibrations, and can be used without supplemental rubber pads. Although they're approved for use as rooftop conduit supports, they can also be used in underfloor applications.
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Transfer appeals for the 2018-19 school year are considered beginning June 1, 2018. Any appeals received before that date were held as a courtesy until June 1, 2018.
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Did you know that an estimated 5,567 Henderson County children live in poverty, or that 55 percent of students in public schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches? How about the startling statistic that 231 local students are identified as homeless?
Did you know that an estimated 5,567 Henderson County children live in poverty, or that 55 percent of students in public schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches? How about the startling statistic that 231 local students are identified as homeless?
These are among issues that the Children & Family Resource Center plans to address in its 5 Promises Campaign, which begins New Year's Day. The campaign will feature a monthlong Virtual Speak Out Conference that goes online Feb. 1 and a March 1 community meeting at Blue Ridge Community College.
The campaign is the next phase in the United Agenda for Children, an effort that began in 2007 when community leaders gathered to identify critical needs of children and to develop priorities in health, safety and education. The group identified seven priorities and has since reported progress in several areas, such as increasing access to nurses and mental health care in schools, and boosting housing that's deemed affordable.
With the New Year and the 5 Promises Campaign, the Children & Family Resource Center is pushing the community to deliver five key promises to help ensure success for all children. The five promises are: be a caring adult; provide safe places; provide a healthy start; deliver an effective education; and provide opportunities to serve. The initiative is based on research from the National Academy of Science that finds children who experience at least four of the promises are significantly more likely to achieve academic success, avoid violence and become involved in their communities.
The promise "be a caring adult" is the key for individuals to make a difference. More than 22,500 children live in our county, accounting for about one of every five residents. Almost a quarter of them live in single-parent homes. The charge of every caring adult is to find ways to befriend, encourage, mentor and support a child.
Providing safe places is also a crucial goal when you realize that almost half of sexual assault victims served in the county are age 17 or younger. There can hardly be a higher priority than making sure children are safe in our homes, schools, neighborhoods and online.
Starting last Sunday and running through January, the Times-News is publishing articles on the challenges and gaps that exist in delivering the five promises. The Virtual Speak Out Conference that begins Feb. 1 offers a novel approach to gathering community input, provided people take the time to participate. The same is true of the March 1 community dialogue event at Blue Ridge Community College.
To encourage local business involvement, the campaign includes a competition through January. Local businesses that submit plans to address four of the five promises can compete for a $10,000 award, with the winner chosen from among five finalists at the March 1 event.
Organizers of this campaign understand that big changes take people pulling together over the long haul. Delivering on these promises will take creativity, commitment, passion and perseverance. The place for information is 5promiseshc.org.


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Recently I heard a local girl's high school basketball coach (who's had outstanding success) interviewed on a local PBS radio station. When asked about the differences between coaching girls and boys he indicated that the girls had to be taught that they could focus on themselves, rather than the team in some of their play. He indicated that boys had to be taught to pass the ball and not shoot it each time. Girls he said had to be taught that they could shoot the ball and not pass it all the time.
In understanding why he was so successful it was clear that he allowed his teams collectively to help make some decisions and really worked using their desires to cooperate.
When my step-son plays on his soccer team the coach has to work to build teamwork. When older girls' teams are practicing nearby their teamwork and general camaraderie are always very evident.
Socialization is certainly part of this, but biology also plays a role. Watching young children I've seen very little boys playing very different from similar girls. TV, other kids as well as parents affect behavior, but it's more than that.
I wonder how, if at all, it may be different in subcultures (and other cultures in general) where cooperation is valued much more than our individualistic culture.


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The title "Inspector General" dates back at least to the 1600s in France. The first American Inspector General was Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus Von Steuben in 1777. He was the IG for the Continental Congress. The concept of the Inspector General was that there is a need for someone to apply independent and objective criteria to the evaluation of the performance of government activities. The modern Inspector General concept began in the federal government in 1959 with the appointment of a federal Inspector General by the Secretary of State, who reported to Congress on issues such as efficiency and economy in government.
In 1962, the Department of Agriculture appointed an Inspector General in the wake of the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The current federal Inspector General system was created by the 1978 IG Act, which established twenty-nine IG's appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with a mandate to prevent and detect fraud and abuse, as well as to recommend methods to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. The federal IG's report both to Congress and the President. Florida's Inspector General system mirrors the federal model in many respects. Section 20.055, Florida Statutes, was passed by the legislature in 1994, to "provide a central point for coordination of and responsibility for activities that promote accountability, integrity, and efficiency in government."
There are two major components of the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The Investigative Function conducts independent investigations into allegations of misconduct by employees of the Commission. These allegations in many cases come from members of the public who have had some kind of negative encounter with an employee. These investigations are conducted by trained law enforcement investigators whose objective is to gather evidence to determine if the employee violated any of the Commission's Standards of Conduct, as are found in the agency's Internal Management Policies and Procedures Manual (IMPP). Sustained findings may result in disciplinary action. The Office of Inspector General does not recommend what action to take against an employee. That is left to the divisions, offices and Institute, and the Executive Director. The OIG merely conducts an investigation and determines whether or not policy has been violated.
The Audit Function of the OIG conducts financial, compliance, electronic data processing and performance audits of agency programs, as well as reviews and evaluations of internal controls necessary to ensure the fiscal accountability of the agency. The OIG also conducts Whistle-Blower investigations and serves as the agency's Ombudsman.
Section 112.3187-31895, F.S., creates Florida's Whistle-Blower Act. It is the intent of the Act to prevent agencies or independent contractors from taking retaliatory action against an employee who reports violations of law on the part of a public employer or independent contractor that create a substantial and specific danger to the public's health, safety, or welfare or who reports or discloses information alleging improper use of government office, gross waste of funds, or any other abuse or gross neglect of duty on the part of an agency, public officer, or employee. The Office of Inspector General in each state agency, or the Chief Inspector General within the Executive Office of the Governor, are charged with investigating whistle-blower allegations.
You may file a whistle-blower complaint by contacting our office, or by completing an online form.
The term "Ombudsman" is a Swedish word meaning "Commissioner." The traditional role of the Ombudsman is to receive, investigate and to report on complaints by private individuals against government officials. Since the Inspector General Act placed this responsibility in the Office of Inspector General, the duties of the FWC Ombudsman are to address concerns expressed by employees of the agency that have not or cannot be resolved by the normal chain of command.
Citizens or employees may contact the Office of Inspector General at 850-488-6068, SunCom 278-6068. You may e-mail the office at any of the addresses listed on our Contact list. If you wish, you can file a complaint online. You may also mail your complaint to this address: Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Office of Inspector General 620 South Meridian Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-1600
All complaints are treated as confidential, and the agency mailroom does not open correspondence to the OIG. No matter what method you select to contact the OIG, please provide as much detail as possible about your complaint.
Employees who are members of a collective bargaining unit have certain rights enumerated in the contracts of these units. Non-sworn Career Service employees, whether or not they are dues-paying members, are covered by the contract between the State and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Florida Public Employees Council 79 (AFSCME). This contract gives employees the right to have a representative present during any disciplinary investigation meeting, or during a pre-determination conference in which the suspension or dismissal of the employee is being considered.
Representatives may advise and assist the employee, but may not interfere with the interview, object to questions, or otherwise become adversarial. Employees not covered by this contract are Selected Exempt Service, Senior Management Service and Other Personal Services employees.
FWC sworn law enforcement officers have certain rights during disciplinary investigations found in their union contract and Section 112.531-535. F.S. All internal disciplinary investigations concerning sworn law enforcement officers are confidential and exempt from disclosure under Florida's public records law until the investigation is complete.
The Office of Inspector General investigates complaints of sexual harassment, as well as other similar claims of discrimination. You may contact the OIG directly if you feel you have been a victim of sexual harassment or other forms of discrimination.
Sexual harassment is traditionally (and somewhat narrowly) defined as a demand that a subordinate, usually a woman, grant sexual favors in order to obtain or retain a job benefit. More broadly defined, it is the imposition of any unwanted condition on any person's employment because of that person's sex. Thus, sexual harassment is really a form of gender discrimination, and may not always involve persons of the opposite sex. Employees are urged to review the agency's sexual harassment policy and promptly report any such claims to the OIG.
Yes. Obviously, the more serious the allegation, the more intense the investigation into an anonymous complaint. In many cases, minor complaints of this sort are turned over to the divisions, offices or Institute for follow-up.
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Martina Castro is the Managing Editor of KALW News. She started her career in journalism as an intern at National Public Radio in Washington D.C., and worked with NPR as a producer, trainer, and freelancer before coming to KALW. Martina's independent work has been featured nationally on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day, as well as the online radio magazine The [Un]Observed.
On KALW's Crosscurrents, Martina has produced stories gauging the impact of the recession on the Bay Area, and also has focused on the arts like in her series The Audiophiles, a wide-range of conversations with creative people working in sound around the Bay. She also edited and produced The Fault Lines, an award-winning series about the roots and solutions to violence in Oakland. Martina likes to work in audio even in her free time – she makes radio in Spanish as senior producer of the new podcast Radio Ambulante, is a sound artist and designer for local art installations, and she sings with the San Francisco Latin rumba reggae band Makrú. She's also known to go out for an occasional surf.