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Our office uses Ocular Surface Tomography and proprietary software designed by Zeiss Optical which allows us to create Scleral Lenses with the proper diameter and curvatures needed for your eye. This technology permits us to determine within microns the necessary clearance required to vault over each individual cornea.
Scleral Lenses FAQs
Dr. Edward Boshnick maintains a cutting edge practice devoted to the restoration of vision and comfort lost as a result of refractive eye surgery (including LASIK and Radial Keratotomy), keratoconus, corneal transplant surgery, pellucid marginal degeneration, extreme dry eye, corneal dystrophies, corneal trauma, lasik damage and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.
A few words about Dr. Edward Boshnick and his eye care practice:
Dr. Edward Boshnick maintains a cutting edge optometric practice covering all types of vision care including non-surgical vision improvement, contact and scleral lens care, children's vision and vision rehabilitation for the partially sighted. Dr. Boshnick received his B.A. degree from the University of Miami and his Doctorate degree was awarded in Optometry from Southern College of Optometry.
For over 30 years my practice has been devoted to the non-surgical treatment of patients who have suffered loss of vision and ocular comfort due to the following conditions:
- Keratoconus and Pellucid Marginal Degeneration
- Post-Refractive Surgical Complications such as Corneal Ectasia, Dry Eye and
- Reduction in Quality Vision
- Irregular and Compromised Transplanted Corneas
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
- Corneal Dystrophies
- Compromised Corneas Due to Ocular Trauma
Over these many years, I have developed one of the largest specialty scleral lens practices in North America. Very often this unique technology is the only non-surgical treatment that will restore quality vision and comfort to these patients. If you have patients who you feel could benefit from my services and these materials, please consider my office as a referral source. Please know that all patients will be sent back to your office with a detailed report including anterior segment photos. In addition, please feel free to contact me if you need assistance with a patient suffering from any of the above conditions.
Below are ocular photos of some of my patients' eyes with conditions which I have written about. All of these patients now have functional vision and comfort for the first time in many years. These patients are wearing gas permeable scleral lenses which I designed.
Doctor Boshnick designs Scleral Lenses to be unique for each individual patient and eye because no two eyes are the same and no two patients have exactly the same vision and ocular issues. our goals with these unique lenses are:
- To eliminate blurred and distorted vision resulting in restored ocular comfort once again.
- To promote and restore healing to the compromised irregular cornea and adjacent ocular tissues.
- To protect the compromised cornea from the environment and the eyelids.
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
Troy Thomas was blinded from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome from 1990 until August 2004. Troy is shown standing next to his beautiful bride Shay while holding up his Florida driver's license and standing next to his new car. His corrected visual acuity with his scleral lens is 20/20.
Stevens-Johnson patient Tiffany with her new scleral lens. Tiffany now has functional vision for the first time in 6 years.
Scleral lenses are a unique type of lens designed to treat a variety of eye conditions which do not respond to any other type of therapy. The new generation of scleral lenses being used today are made from a highly oxygen permeable polymer and are unique in that they are fit onto and supported by the sclera (the white portion of the eye).
Because these lenses vault over the compromised cornea and fit under the eyelids, they are extremely comfortable and are almost never dislodged accidentally.
The space between the front of the cornea and the back surface of the scleral lens is filled with artificial tears. This liquid reservoir fills in the surface irregularities of the cornea allowing vision to be restored in a comfortable manner. The lens and the fluid liquid bandage beneath it protect the cornea from exposure to air and the rubbing effects of blinking. This cushion of fluid beneath the lens also provides oxygen to the cornea allowing the eye to heal. The effect is to create a smooth optical surface over the diseased cornea that replaces the distorted surface to improve vision often dramatically.
Our unique proprietary scleral lenses can replace the need for corneal transplant surgery which has a potential for serious complications, long healing period and uncertain visual outcome. When corneal transplant surgery fails, our lens designs can enable patients to recover lost vision. In other words, these unique lenses provide a non-surgical means of restoring lost vision and act in a therapeutic manner.
Over the years, many patients have come to our office seeking relief from the following devastating vision and ocular disorders: keratoconus, corneal ectasia resulting from lasik, post refractive surgical complications, distorted corneal transplants, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Sjogren's Syndrome, corneal degenerations and dystrophies, eyelid abnormalities, chemical and burn injuries to the eye, aniridia, and pellucid degeneration. Scleral lenses have been the therapy of choice in treating all of these conditions with an extremely high rate of success.
The Scleral Lens is, in fact, a medical and therapeutic device that can be fitted to virtually any eye shape and for any degree of visual error while allowing the diseased/injured eye to heal. It is important to understand that Scleral Lenses are custom made for each patient. Therefore, the ability of the doctor to fit these lenses demands greater experience and more time than fitting conventional soft or rigid gas permeable lenses. Computerized Topographical Maps of the entire corneal surface are generated to facilitate the lens size and fitting. In addition, several diagnostic Scleral Lenses of varying curvatures and diameters may be applied to the eye during the fitting process.
Depending on the complexity of the eye and the condition of the ocular surface, adjustments of the lens parameters may be needed. This will require additional lenses to be made and exchanged. The entire scleral lens fitting process can take several visits to determine the optimal lens for each eye.
The following are photos of some of my patients with various eye conditions who have benefited from scleral lenses:
"This instrument is an Anterior Segment Ocular Coherence Tomographer (OCT) made by Zeiss Optical. We utilize this instrument to determine and measure the entire shape and thickness of the cornea and to evaluate the relationship of our scleral lenses with reference to the underlying cornea. With this instrument we can determine within 4 microns the clearance between the back surface of a scleral lens and the front surface of the cornea."


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Trees, Heartwood and the Nature of Broken Hearts
Author's note: All the tree pictures are high resolution. Click on them for more information.
Nature is a Mirror
"…landscape … furnishes us with the metaphors and symbols with which we pry into mystery…In approaching the land with an attitude of obligation, willing to observe courtesies difficult to articulate – perhaps only a gesture of the hands – one establishes a regard from which dignity can emerge. From that dignified relationship with the land, it is possible to imagine an extension of dignified relationships throughout one's life." – Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Yesterday, I was splitting wood, in anticipation of the oncoming cold of autumn, and beyond that, winter. The batch of wood I got from my neighbor is full of knots and hard to split this year and I have to use wedges and the sledge hammer to get into them. A clear piece of wood like this, without knots or cross grain, will take about 1-2 minutes to split into 8-10 pieces with a maul. Grain that is not straight, usually from an intervening branch, that crosses the main flow of the grain, will not split cleanly with one or two strikes of the maul, like a stem with clear heartwood will, and requires steel wedges and a sledgehammer.
When I finally got this one opened into a sagittal section, which took probably 5 minutes and dozens of strikes with the wedges and maul, I noticed something that made me pause. I looked at the end cross section and saw that at some point the tree had had two stems, and they had somehow joined together and become one stem.
I sat down on my splitting block and put my head in my hands, took a deep breath, and thought back to the summer…
This July, I was struck with the most acute, traumatic emotional blow I have ever received from another person. On the phone, I confronted my partner with evidence that she was cheating on me. She was living a few hours away – we had been doing the long distance thing for a few months. It was her birthday, and I asked her to tell me the truth. She denied the affair and said she had to go just then and be with her family and we would talk tomorrow. The next day she texted me a picture of the wagon-full of garlic she had harvested earlier that day and told me she loved me. I never heard from her again. Total silence, no response to a dozen prompts by text or phone. It took me a couple days to figure out what had happened; not that I really understand, even now.
We used to sing that line together from the Avett Brother's song "January Wedding: "True love is not the kind of thing you should turn down. Don't ever turn it down." Ours was most certainly a true love, one of the few great loves of my life, and maybe one day, I'll tell that story, but I guess she turned it down. We also sang the other part of that same song to each other: "She knows which birds are singing, and the names of the trees where they're performing," because our relationship was deeply woven with a deep, quotidian immersion in nature. It seemed like we were doing pretty well, talking of children and marriage, although this year has been a very difficult time in both our lives. For a while I Googled her name to see if she had been killed in a car accident or something. Just a few weeks ago I heard second-hand from a mutual friend that she is indeed, still alive. I tried to feel happy about it.
The Nature of Connection
Somewhere, along the way, as a result of my observations as a tracker and a naturalist, and my exposure to some native, traditional ways of seeing the world, I picked up the idea and image that all living things are connected by energetic threads. It's as simple as noticing the tree between your house and your mailbox everyday, perhaps for several years. What at first barely existed, after a time has become something you feel affection towards. Maybe your children climb it and it has become part of the lore and landscape of your family now. Maybe it has a name: "The Pirate Ship Tree." In certain respects, you are bound to it.
If we can connect with trees and animals this way, all the more so may we connect with our own kind in bonds of love. Alex Grey makes this idea beautifully vivid in his work. So when we lose a long-term partner and love – any beloved one – because we have woven our lives together, bodily, emotionally, spiritually, in many senses, there is a kind of amputation that takes place, as if we had lost a limb or an organ. We bleed out, and the grief and pain we feel from the separation is an expression of that.
And is this isn't just a touchy-feely metaphor. During a response to trauma, we literally lose billions of neural connections, in a process called apoptosis, but when acute, becomes a kind of necrosis. Dr. Mark Brady tells more of the neurological story of suffering and healing here, in his wonderful blog "Your Flowering Brain". Science increasingly confirms that the flood of stress and pain hormones from loss can cause you to literally die of a broken heart.
When we're bleeding out, we have to heal. And it's hard work. I've been blessed with many tools for doing that work, and I'm going to be okay. But I've been working at it, because unresolved grief puts us at great risk for enduring the same suffering over and over again, and even inflicting it upon others, as something in us drives the self into situations to force us to deal with the root issues. There is enough novel suffering in the basic structure of life, that I'll have to deal with, I'd rather not cycle through the same chapter of the story over and over again. But thanks.
I've learned that sometimes when nature gives you a metaphor or symbol to work with, it's a good idea to take the time and energy to engage it. It's less about finding a conclusive answer than turning it and working with it, to "…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves…"- Rilke
The Connection of Nature
One of the best tools for healing is nature connection. Meaningful engagement with nature can facilitate healing in many modes, but right now, I want to address just two of those patterns.
When we observe and participate, especially over long periods of time, How Things Work in nature, it tends to lend a solidity or equanimity to life. For lots of reasons. We go waaayyyy back with nature, as way back as there is a way back. There is an inherent solidity and elegance and rightness to natural design. Nature is reliable! The sun and moon rise and set as they are supposed to, the earth spins, the seasons come and go, the tides rise and fall, the leaves and the rains and the animals and birds all move as they are supposed to. Even in this era of extraordinary disruption things still basically work like they are supposed to, and when we come into an embodied experience of that, a kind of gnosis abides and that kind of knowing does much to ease anxiety.
Another route towards stability and repair of our psyches lies in the way that Nature, if we choose it as a fundamental nutrient in our information diet, provides us with templates, patterns and the raw material to use for creative acts, for inspiration, and for wisdom. This is what Barry Lopez is speaking of in the opening epigram: "…it furnishes us with the metaphors and symbols with which we pry into mystery…"
What had I noticed as I pried into the mystery of the tree, into the log, that brought me up short, heart pounding?
Remember the last time you stubbed your toe, and the sensitivity forced you to realize how constantly you use your toe? An emotional wound functions in the same hyper-sensitive way, calling attention to our heart, as memories of our loss intrusively flood back to mind. Dealing with perservating, intrusive thoughts is one of the significant challenges of a wound to the psyche. Often, I just breath them in, acknowledge them, hold them for a moment, realize the futility of holding and then let them go. Sometimes they asked to be worked with. And this was a moment that needed to be worked with.
From the look of the log, it appears that the two stems of this "two-hearted" tree grew along side each other, for just a little while, before they fused into a single tree, where I assumed the growth of the grain would continue straight and uninterrupted, as it appears to. But as I found my way into the log, with more wedge and sledge work, it stubbornly refused to give. I realized that the although the hearts had merged into a single bole, the cellular web of their merger still radiated throughout the grain of the tree, all the way to the very edge. After the merger of the two stems, it appears that the grain runs true and straight and should be easily separated. But that wasn't the case.
That union of the two, deep inside, and down, towards the root, now formed a "one" of a very different character and quality than a typical single stem tree. The "commitment" the two stems made to each other, continued to be manifest, imperceptible to the eye.
They didn't want to let go. So I wasn't alone in that feeling, after losing love, after becoming separated. I don't want to let go. It doesn't mean that I can cling to it. I can't and won't. But it tells me that it isn't wrong to have that feeling. That feeling has a place in the world. I can accept it. And then I can really let it go.
And then I stood up
and went back to splitting wood
with a wedge
and a sledgehammer.
It's heavy work, but good.
There is no better teacher and healer than nature. She will never leave you, she will never forsake you. She will wrap her loving arms around your raw and exposed heart and care for your seeping wound. The broken places will be stronger for it. Stay with her and she will see you through the acuteness of your grief.


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What is Hotels.com?Hotels.com is a website designed for booking hotel rooms online and via telephone. The company formerly known as "Hotel Reservations Network" has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,000 hotels in over 19,000 locations. The site's storage is one of the biggest ones available and includes hotels and B&Bs, condos, and other types of commercial lodging. Established back in 1991 David Litman and Robert Diener, Hotels.com became part of Expedia in 2002 and is currently operated by Hotels.com LP, a limited partnership located in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. The company owns web sites for North, Central and South America, Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, and South Africa with web sites for Indonesia and Vietnam launched in 2011. Customers in all countries can book online or by phoning one of the multilingual call centers, with calls both toll-free and paid, depending on the country of booking. Hotels.com also launched an iPad application in 2011, and updated its mobile phone product on iPhone and Android. On December 1, 2016, Hotels.com took over Venere.com (another Expedia owned company). Loyalty program is also available on the website, allowing customers to claim discounts on almost all hotels, regardless of hotel chain or type. How is it done? For every 10 nights stayed at hotels booked via Hotels.com, customers can claim a price reduction on a subsequent booking equivalent to the average amount paid for those nights. The loyalty program is extremely beneficial for travel lovers.
Interesting factsHotels.com had a character named Smart (Voiced by Ed Helms) solely for advertising purposes. The "Smart" character appeared in 2009, 2010 and 2011 advertisements until 2012, when he was given a new look, as part of the new global red brand launched in April of that year and evolved in CGI. As a consequence, he no longer had a goatee and his outfit changed from a buttoned suit to a tuxedo, with several modifications on his face as well. In 2014, Hotels.com introduced the character "Captain Obvious", portrayed by actor Brandon Moynihan, who makes self-evident comments with the aim of communicating that hotels.com is the obvious choice.
Apart from being the "obvious choice" for you as an explorer or "hodophile", a person who loves to travel, Hotels.com may give you much more in dark mode. Let's take a look at key dark mode benefits and how with Night Eye browser extension, you can book your hotel in a new and healthier way!
Hotels.com dark mode
We can spend a tremendous amount of time in search of the perfect accommodation. And this is not by coincidence, as we want to make the most of our limited free time during the year. For many of us, this means traveling abroad, becoming one with nature, or sightseeing monumental cultural attractions around the world. With Hotels.com you can manage to choose not only your preferred destination, but also your perfect accommodation by booking a hotel room in over 19,000 locations. And now, with Night Eye dark mode browser extension, you can do that in a healthier and cooler way than ever before. Night Eye will enable negative polarity on your screen, not only providing a modern looking dark mode version of your favorite booking site Hotels.com, but also increase your eye-care. By minimizing the harmful blue light with implemented blue light filter, alongside customization options for colors, brightness, contrast, and saturation, Night Eye will add a layer of protection to your eyes and prevent Digital Eye Strain, associated with symptoms like eyestrain, headaches, dry eyes and even blurred vision. This is done by reducing the blue light exposure from your desktop and laptop screen which is the main negative source that is damaging our eyes.
The benefits of dark mode
- Enhances visual ergonomics by reducing eye strain.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Vol. 4 by Brian Michael Bendis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Uncle Aaron walks among the living and he's teaming up with a nefarious bunch for the heist of a lifetime to steal a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier for a mysterious buyer. One may have thought that he'd use this second chance to live a better life, maybe even reconnect with his family, but he is a burglar at heart, and stealing from a corrupt system is his own form of justice. He and Miles will never see eye-to-eye on this, and although he's been warned to mind his own business, Miles is going after the Sinister Six anyway, leading to great misfortune.
I was rooting for relationships to be mended in this volume. For secrets to not keep the Davis family apart. The dynamics may be different, but they can still be a family. With his mother now in on the secret, things will definitely be different. Like how his parents are mysteriously working with some guy named Cable who wants Miles to be a part of his spy organization. What is that all about?
In the meantime, can we just celebrate the fact that Ganke has a girlfriend?! I'm glad to find out that Danika was legit because at first, I thought she was really only interested in what information he might be able to share with her about Spider-Man. Ganke is a nice guy and he deserves someone who is sincere. Miles has some work to do though as it concerns girls because his new girlfriend seems to think that he is still into his ex Lana. He's got some serious explaining to do. I wonder if he would ever tell her his secret or if he even should? It doesn't seem to work out when masked heroes do. His calling is great and we've only seen the beginnings of what he's capable of. I look forward to seeing the heights and depths of his abilities in future comics.
With the announcement of Brian Michael Bendis making the move to DC Comics, I thought I'd read my last Miles Morales comic. I was thrilled, however, to find volume 4 at my local library. The cover looked to me like old friends welcoming me back for a read. It was a satisfying experience, especially because of the farewell letter at the end penned to readers of his books. I am a new fan as of summer 2018. I was new to comics of any kind really because I never thought I would enjoy them. Bendis was the first one that I read and I knew that I'd struck gold. Miles Morales was the perfect place to begin my comic book experience so as you might imagine, it was rather disappointing to learn that Bendis was ending his career with Marvel. I thought it might also mean the end of Miles. I am glad to know that his story will continue on. I don't know anything about Saladin Ahmed but I do look forward to seeing where he'll take Miles. Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 1 releases this summer (7/30/19) and I can't wait to check it out.
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OCTOBER 22, 2012 – Herman, Herman & Katz, LLC congratulates six of its attorneys for being chosen by New Orleans Magazine as the Top Lawyers in the city for 2012 in a variety of practice areas. Attorneys are named to this annual list based on recommendations by their peers.
HH&K attorney Leonard A. Davis was named for his work in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions; HH&K partner, Russ M. Herman, was chosen for his work in Personal Injury Litigation; the firm's managing partner, Steven J. Lane, was recognized for his work in the field of Family Law; partner Brian D. Katz was named for his work in Personal Injury Litigation; attorney James C. Klick was listed for his Medical Malpractice Law experience; and attorney Jennifer J. Greene received recognition for her work in Family Law.
All licensed attorneys in New Orleans are considered for this exclusive list. Each nominee is carefully evaluated based on the city-wide survey results, the legitimacy of his or her license and his or her current standing with the Louisiana State Bar Association. Those attorneys who received the highest number of votes in each practice speciality are included on the list.
Herman, Herman & Katz's six attorneys will be recognized in the November issue of New Orleans Magazine.


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Active in the community, Stafford serves on the boards for Leadership Memphis, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. Stafford received a 2017 Award from the 100 Black Men of Memphis, recognizing his commitment to serving and uplifting our community, and African American youth in particular. Stafford was also recognized as a 2017 Distinguished Speaker by The Neal Corporate Governance Center of the University of Tennessee.
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One of the first vinyl records I bought before I even owned a record player was the voodoo jazz thump-a-dump of Dr. John the Night Tripper's Gris-Gris –— a lucky ten dollars at the markets. The cover was a visceral nightmare: a hot red light burning away any of Dr. John's distinguishable facial features, a double exposure of his profile backlit by white, unfurling smoke that made the whole thing look like the birth of a UFO alien in a science fiction movie. It was second hand, so some edges were scuffed white by the hands of its previous owners, and the delirious, boogaloo ramblings of Dr. John himself on the record's back made me excited to listen. And soon after, when I was finally in possession of a turntable, slipping the clean black vinyl out of the sleeve, resting the needle on the edge of it, and hearing the crackle before the saxophone's crooning introduction in 'Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya' felt more than satisfying, to say the least.
Even the CDs I grew up with, which have less of the physical wow factor and more of the compact affordability, are fragile and sentimental in nature. They have weight, not just literal, but metaphorical, and my collection of them, albeit small, is precious.
Nowadays, I listen to 99% of my music via streaming services. I didn't get much time to savour the full experience of vinyl/CD collecting, as the internet, music downloading, and eventually music streaming came crashing quickly into my world. I've become accustomed to familiar faces like YouTube and Spotify, and infatuated with modern music technology's ability to scale convenience and quality. It's easier, of course, to listen to anything and everything, but I find myself going back to the cosy, poster-clad record store walls, sifting through the crumbling plastic crates and running my hands over the tattered edges of hand-me-down vinyl or the glinting facsimile jewel cases. And it isn't about the music quality either.
The process, especially, is important. Addictions often fester in the form of habits and routine, and streaming gives you none. What excitement is there in the click of a play button, this robotic one-step ritual? Record playing reduces grown adults into starry-eyed children at Christmas time: rip off the plastic, examine every grain of the album cover's kaleidoscopic colours, undress the jacket from the vinyl and fumble with the disc so as to not leave fingerprints on the grooves, lay it down on its turntable bed and drop the needle with a quivering, delicate hand (or the punch of a few buttons). Do that ten more times, or twenty, or more, and you'll find yourself falling deeper in love with music when it has an action to match — think of it as a ceremony, the spin of a record its own self-celebratory dance. The process attached to streaming is barely a celebration: click the application open, search for your album of choice, squint at the album art, press the emotionless 'play' triangle, and watch your pixellated pointer icon hover in the margins of the flashing computer screen.
Let's not forget that owning music also strengthens the bond between fan and musician. For most musicians, there is careful consideration in the construction of a musical artefact. The visual choices on the sleeve, the liner notes, the occasional behind-the-scenes pictures, and the thank you notes are usually handpicked by the artists themselves, and an album ends up feeling more like a carefully crafted gift or a personal manifesto rather than a simple piece of merchandise. Take, for example, Dr. John's nonsensical, chanting descriptions on the back of Gris-Gris, saying he has "dug up the old Danse Kalinda to remind you we have not chopped out the old chants and the new croaker courtbullion to serve battiste style of phyco-delphia" (whatever that means). It's a glimpse into the chaotic and exotic travels of Dr. John's feverish mentality. Another vinyl in my possession demonstrates the same: Funkadelic's iconic Maggot Brain. The art in itself is something to be admired, with the woman's scream halfway between horror and joy available up close, each blinding white tooth in full view, but the real gem is inside, a quote from the infamous Process Church of the Final Judgement about fear and how it is "at the root of man's destruction… lurks like monster: dark and intangible". These words that crawl across the cardboard directly reflect the music, Maggot Brain revolving around the idea of fear, death, and transcending both, and the pair make sense in companionship, each its own poetic homage to the other. It's a far cry from the stark, austere uniformity of albums on streaming applications which provide just the bare bones of what a musical experience with the physical feels like. The personal and intimate are all sucked away; who is the musician but a name on a screen?
On the other hand, some may argue that records and CDs deteriorate over the years — vinyl records warp, covers fade, liner notes rip, jewel cases crack, CDs scratch — and technology, sleek and perfect, can immortalise music for generations to come. Once again, the argument of convenience seems to overtake the concept of passion, and fans forget that sometimes, it's nice to treat music like an old friend. Records fade, but they do so with memory and care. With each tear in the paper or scratch on the disc, there's often a memory associated: Remember when you played that life-changing album on the turntable for the first time? Remember when you blasted that CD through your car speakers with the cadmium yellow sunlight beating down on your face? Remember when you loaned that already-tattered record to your significant other because you wanted them to leave their mark on it too? Records are made to grow old and weary, but they age with grace.
Without sounding like an ageing hipster, let's forget, for a second, about the efficiency or the easiness of streaming services: the fact of the matter is that I feel closer to the music when sitting on a pile of discarded plastic casings and shiny holographic CDs; like a "true music fan". Yes, streaming is easy as pie, but records foster a passion beyond sonic satisfaction.


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Welcome to RADA USA! We extend our sincere wishes for a happy and healthy 2020.
As we move into a new decade, we couldn't be more excited about what lies ahead. RADA USA is just getting started, and we stand ready to support the needs of our brave men & women who serve our nation.
In just 2 years, we officially opened our new Engineering & Manufacturing facility in Germantown, MD on December 2, 2019. The ground work for applying RADA's military-strength tactical radar systems to critical defensive missions is laid. So far we have:
- Established a company
- Hired a talented, technical workforce of 30 people (including 12 veterans), with more hires pending
- Established a support network to service our customers
- Built a factory and a state-of-the-art anechoic chamber
- Purchased and installed over 8 tons of specialized environmental test equipment
- Transitioned over 800 product drawings and specifications from Israel to the U.S.
- Began building a supply chain to manage 16,000 components per radar
- Imported and are managing over 500,000 lines of source code
- Have been at government test facilities and in the field for thousands of hours, hunting hundreds of drones and other very fast targets
Along the way, we've already developed many relationships, including with some incredible people from the customer community. We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity to serve, and to contribute to their missions. Our sincere thanks to leaders at:
- The United States Marine Corp and the Ground Based Air Defense program office. These are the people that make the most lethal tactical drone hunting machine today.
- The United States Army and PM Cruise Missile Defense System. In just over one year, this program has developed into what is likely the most menacing air defense vehicle. We are thrilled to be building the radars for it.
- The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, in collaboration with PM Vehicle Protection System. These are the stewards of the critically important mainstay Bradley Fighting Vehicle System.
- Leonardo DRS, a prime defense contractor, leading technology innovator, and supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and defense contractors worldwide.
- Ascent Vision, a globally-recognized, market-leading provider of portable, on-the-move Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) solutions that support airborne, ground and maritime missions around the world.
We thank all those who supported our accomplishments to date.
There is much to do, and we at RADA USA, are ready to support the needs of our customers and their missions.
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Before we had a car, taking Rio, our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, for a day out on the beach was a near enough impossible mission. If you've found this page hoping to find out that Spain, the dog-friendly country, allows dogs on to all of its beaches, then you'll be disappointed.
The good news though is that the dog-friendly beaches on the Costa Blanca are specialised beaches, they usually have good local facilities and the area themselves are such beautiful untouched coastal spots.
We had high hopes that Rio would love splashing around in the waves on a scorching hot summer's day and that he would welcome being able to be outside with us shaded from the heat, playing with dogs and getting his paws wet as opposed to being cooped up inside away from the midday sun. How wrong we were.
Rio spent the entire time laying next to us or sitting on my knee, avoiding the sea at all costs. If we got into the sea, he'd stand at the shore barking, if we put him in the water, he'd swim as fast as he could back to the shore, out of the water. He didn't even care that other dogs were running in and out of the water fetching their toys and sniffing each other. He's clearly not a beach boy.
Now that the weather is starting to heat up again in preparation for summer and more and more people are arriving in Benidorm again, I thought it would be a good time to share some of the beaches we have been to with our dog and a few others that we know of. After all, summer is made for the beach.
However, if your four-legged friend is into the beach, these are some of the best beaches along the Costa Blanca where you can take your pooch and catch some rays:
Playa El Xarco
El Xarco is a beautiful cove in Villajoyosa and is one of the few beaches in the Alicante region where dogs are allowed to go. Playa El Xarco is perfect if you like stretches of blue, ideal for snorkelling and picturesque sunsets. Playa El Xarco is a stone beach. It is a very quiet beach and relatively open, so it can be battered by the elements and can get very breezy. The beach is accessible by car by Venta El Xarco on the Villajoyosa main road.
Playa Mar y Montaña
Playa Mar y Montaña is located in Altea and is one of the best dog beaches in the Alicante region. Separated into two locations, dog beach and non-dog beach, the dog beach has coverings of wood chippings or dried seaweed – I'm not really sure which! All I know is that you'll need some shoes to wear and a deck chair or two! Playa Mar y Montaña also has a beautiful beach bar which welcomes dogs.
Playa El Pinet
Playa El Pinet is located in Elche, however, please be cautious as this is a beach that has a lot of pine trees. Pine trees are the homes to the pine caterpillars that arrive once a year, so if it is caterpillar season, be sure to stay away as these are deadly to dogs! The beach is a sandy beach.
Playa Can
Located in Gandia, the dog-friendly area is a sandy beach and located at the end.
Calas del Cuartel
Located by the Santa Pola lighthouse, the dog beach is a small sandy beach with a scattering of pebbles.
Playa de la Escollera Norte
Another one we haven't visited, but this is the dog-friendly beach in Denia.
Regulations and Guidelines
At the dog beaches, there are certain guidelines and regulations that must be followed to ensure the safety of your own dog, other dogs and visitors to the beaches.
If your dog is categorised as a dangerous dog in Spain, it must wear a muzzle. Dogs must be on leads on the beach with the exception of being in clear, open water. All droppings must be picked up and disposed of. Furthermore, you must remember to carry the pet passport and ID card with you. Police do monitor the beaches and have been known to ask pet owners to present these documents. You may be asked to leave, cautioned and fined if you are found to not have the relevant documentation and up-to-date vaccinations.
What to take to the Dog-Friendly Beaches
Before you even think about taking your pooch to the beach, make sure you have the following:
- European passport filled with a completed schedule of vaccination certificate, the vaccination against rabies and possibly the health declaration.
- Bowls
- Clean, fresh water
- Doggy bags.
- Photo of your pet, in case he gets lost
- Toys
- Dog towel
Hasta luego,


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"The widespread Kangaroo Grass, Themeda triandra, is one of the most recognisable members of the grass family (Poaceae) in Australia. Themeda triandra is considered by some to be two species, the African and Asian species T. triandra and a separate Australian species Themeda australis. As there does not seem to be enough distinguishable differences between them to warrant the split they are generally considered one species, although many publications still use the name T. australis". Information retrieved Australian National Botanic Gardens 7 Sep 2019
"Themeda triandra is a perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans. It does not do well under heavy grazing pressure, but benefits from occasional fire..........
The young growth is palatable to stock. T. triandra seed has been used as a famine food in Africa. It also serves as a food source for several avian species, including the long-tailed widowbird. It is also occasionally used as an ornamental plant." Information retrieved from Wikipaedia 7 Sep 2019
Useful for: Groundcover, erosion control, famine food – (seeds can be ground into flour).
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Sowing Time: Mid summer-Autmumn.
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"Seed may be sown straight away with some success in mid summer to autumn but generally the seed has a dormancy period of up to 12 months depending on the area where it was collected. Fire or temperatures of 40–45° C may also break dormancy. Approximately 2/3 of seed collected from one inflorescence will be infertile. It is sometimes hard to distinguish fertile from infertile seeds as they both turn brown and retain their awns, but generally fertile seed is larger. If you are harvesting and sowing a lot of seed beware of the sharp callus (barb) at the base of the seed.
Seed can be planted 15 mm deep or spread like mulch when the whole inflorescences are harvested. Kangaroo Grass does not transplant well but success has been achieved with square tube stock pots which air prune the roots and stop the seedlings becoming root bound. When planted out, water crystals and slow release fertiliser should be placed in the hole with the seedling, it should then be watered in well." ANBG from Text by Jennifer Liles
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For people of pallor China is a paradise for finding employment. They're not necessarily the best jobs they are jobs. Competition for candidates is so fierce that even defective candidates can easily be placed. In urban centres of any size Europeans, Antipodeans and North Americans under forty seemingly can't walk for ten minutes without receiving at least three job offers. Huzhou being relatively small I've escaped this exercise in tedium. Then again, I'd actually need to leave my flat to be seen and in the past weeks that's been too much to ask. Problems arise when the Chinese assume that they can treat Westerners in the same way they treat Chinese. In China, the massive population allows for employers to treat employees like rubbish and arbitrarily change their wages. It is not unheard of for employers to not pay all wages. An acquaintance, a Briton who teaches in another province, told me the story of an American he heard of who was not paid for the last two months he worked. They only finally paid him after he threatened to smash all the windows at their school.
My situation is not nearly that serious; despite the rapidly growing list of insufferable experiences I will spare you this time. Nor are the teachers I met especially defective. Two have experience teaching elsewhere and I am only marginally defective; at least on a good day. What this does, however, is allow us to compare out experiences with our current situations. All three of us have experience living and/or travelling in Asia. Sadly, all three of us compare China negatively to our past experiences. The most experienced of the teachers enjoyed his time in south-east Asia thoroughly, save for Singapore which he found sterile. He loved Malaysia and Thailand. He also spent a fair amount of time in India. Yes, I know that India is in South Asia. Their other teacher, as I mentioned before, worked in the Philippines for several years. Both say frequently that China is more expensive, that the people are far more conservative and possess a pride well in excess of their real circumstances. I, naturally, am to borrow a Chinese phrase, as close as lips and teeth to the Japanese. Strangely, the Chinese who know about the situation are least distressed by my negative comparison of China to Japan. They may not like Japan, but they have a grudging respect for the country. By any measure Japan has a vast economy and among the most sophisticated civilisations. The profundity of their achievements economically and culturally is only magnified by the fact that Japan has virtually no natural resources. The Chinese also admit that Japan is a far more modern, well-developed country. For the Chinese to be compared negatively to countries they consider simply inferior is too much.
The way we cope with frustrations is rather different and is seen differently by the Chinese. The most experienced teacher, before he quit, went to massage parlours and attempted to actively engage people. His idea of actively engaging people, inconveniently, is akin to spitting on Nan's grave to the Chinese. He'd frequently put them in the spotlight; attract the attention of crowds in overwhelmingly awkward situations. In short, made them lose face. Their other teacher tends to putter about on his scooter and spend time with a handful of his mates. He's known to be a bit of a whinger but he doesn't make anyone look bad. Me? I usually close my eyes and think of England. I spend precious little time outside my flat. I fail to see the merits in making any effort. I've largely re-created a little Europe filled with classical music, operas, BBC Radio on the weekends and classics of Western and Japanese literature. To their annoyance, my excursions into the Oriental involve two-to-three Japanese lessons each week. I can scarcely deny having more than a little of the colonial mind-set. This grates the Chinese as much as it does the other teachers.
I find it amusing that the company president and other teachers encourage me to holiday in South-East Asia. Oh dear, could any of you imagine me happily wiling away the hours on a third world beach with cheap mixed drinks and beer? Egads! The food is often excellent but I'd much rather savour it in a country with proper health regulations. My holidays are planned out! In winter I am looking forward to visiting mates in Taiwan and Japan – and visiting one of Japan's most beautiful historical towns, Kanazawa. Kanazawa is often referred to as "Little Kyoto" because of its wealth of heritage buildings and cultural richness. In summer I will visit mates in New Zealand and Australia. Do you think I'm too snobbish?


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God Authors Life. The voice for ego, that seems to drown out the Voice for God or the Holy Spirit that ever leads Man back to Idea in Source, believes that satisfying the waking senses through consumption of effects means authoring life. Only Magnetic Cause Authors Life; electrical effects are but reflections of Authorship.
Ever defer to the Authority of the Voice for God; the voice for ego as it describes in terrible awe the seeming power of electricity does nothing but attempt to frame the Son of God in the fear of the death of what is only illusion. The moving electrical body of Man, never existing at any point in time, never leaves the Timeless Magnetic Stillness of the Idea of Man in Source. The Magnetic Idea of Man is forever in place, but the electrical image of man is not. The electrical image is the potential of the Idea, seeming to be out of place.
The Son of God is never born and never dies. One with the Father, the Son ever Interchanges in the Father in Love. This Interchange is what God has Authored forever, and is the Pulse of Life to rest in and to Know.
From the glossary of terms for the book Without the idea of death: there is only Life
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For students deciding to come on a mobility experience can be a big decision with many aspects of life at home being considerations when considering being away for two weeks. For some one of the considerations is celebrating a birthday away from family and friends. This year Leitu made that decision and celebrated her birthday in Ho Chi Minh City and Hoi An.
The celebrations continued throughout the day for Leitu, firstly with the students from UEH singing her happy birthday (yes I believe the look in the photo translates into thanks Tim for telling everyone and getting me out the front of the class).
The celebrations continued in Hoi An where Leitu received flowers on arrival from the guide and hotel. And we were then able to share a birthday cake at dinner.
Happy birthday Leitu…..


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Billions of dollars are funneled into federal drug programs to keep our children away from drugs and our cities safe from crime and economic turmoil. Our guest this week, journalist and author Johann Hari, has spent the last several years traveling and researching the war on drugs for his new book Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, to find out if federal programs are as effective and righteous as we are often led to believe.
Hari talks to host Josh Zepps about how he discovered the troubling beginnings of drug war riddled with corruption and ulterior motives, and argues that everything we thought we understood about drug addiction appears to be wrong.


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Jesus and his disciples are on the road this morning. The visual is important. In the story you have Jesus, the disciples, and what Mark refers to as the "crowd." Jesus has a bit of a posse, a bit of an entourage. They're walking down a long dusty footpath from Bethsaida to Cesarea Phillipi, climbing up to the Golan heights. On the road, Jesus decides that he has some explaining to do to those closest to him, the followers he has called into this ministry. Maybe they're together in a cluster, far enough ahead of "the crowd" to be out of earshot. So far his ministry has been about healing and feeding. He's taught a little bit, told them the parable of the sowers. He walked on water and calmed a storm, that was weird. Jesus described the Kingdom of God. But so far, Jesus, has not told them where this, this mission they are all on together, where this is all headed.
Like any good teacher, he begins with a question: "Who do people say that I am?" which leads to another, more important question: "Who do you say that I am?" Peter gets the answer right, "You are the Messiah!" But Jesus sternly tells them all not to say that word, that politically charged word. You see, people were looking for a messiah. The prophets promised that a savior would come, and rescue the people from the rule of foreign oppressors. The messiah was supposed to come and lead a military campaign against Rome, remove the empire, and begin to reign over Israel. The word had weight.
What Jesus says next is confounding. He admits to being the messiah, and then says that the messiah must die. Peter, ever the good student, pulls him aside. Notice, Peter pulls him off the path. He takes him off the road for a moment. Peter was the first one with the right answer before, and he's ready to explain to the teacher that the teacher has it wrong. That's not how it goes. The messiah doesn't die. The messiah reigns on high, triumphant! Jesus responds with that famous stinging retort: "Get behind me Satan."
"Get behind me Satan." The words call Peter a tempter. That's the literal translation of satan, "the tempter." The role of the devil is specific in the Hebrew and Arabic mind. That tempting is a common theme in the stories of the Bible, in the stories of prophets and teachers. Even in the story of the prophet Muhammad, this idea of the tempter, satan arises.
The story about Muhammad and the devil was told in this week's The New Yorker. The writer explains the context in which the new religion of Islam was being born. A nomadic people had just begun to settle down permanently. The new city of Mecca was prosperous. Much of Mecca's financial power came from important temples to three goddesses which stood outside the gates. The temples were controlled by Mecca's ruling families, and the offerings made by passing caravans served as fantastic tax revenue.
In the new cities there was a new problem: homelessness and hunger. In the caravan, this problem did not exist. You did not leave people behind. The nomads took care of each other. The umbrella of extended families, headed by matriarchal leaders, made sure that even orphans were cared for. Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the man who would become "The Prophet" worried about the growing numbers of hungry and holy people as he walked past the temples to the goddesses on his way to Mt. Hira
On Mt. Hira, Muhammad would retreat from the busyness and poverty of Mecca. He would spend weeks at a time holed up in the solitude of a cave. It was at Mt. Hira that the Angel Gabriel appeared and ordered him to recite the verses that would become the holy book of Islam. According to the New Yorker article, "The ethos of the Koran, the value system it endorses, was, in essence, the vanishing code of nomadic Arabs, the matriarchal, more caring society that did not leave orphans out in the cold." The people who would first embrace Islam, would form a new community around the prophet, were the hungry and homeless of Mecca, left out in the cold by the ruling elite who controlled the official religion.
The story of Muhammad and the shaitan, the tempter, satan in English, centers around the revenue generating temples of Mecca. You see in the polytheistic Arabian Peninsula in the sixth and seventh century, another sect around another God was not a problem as long as the new God didn't compromise the offerings/taxes that were flowing into the coffers of the temples in Mecca. According to legend, which goes back to at least the ninth century, one day Mohammed came back from the mountain one day that said that the temples should be honored. The temples' "goddesses" were called "lovely birds" and their intercession was desired. Translation: Mohammed came with a verse in the Koran that validated the offerings to the temples of Mecca. The revenue streams were secure, the new religion was not a threat.
Later Mohammed returns to the mountain and comes back embarrassed. He orders that the verses must be removed from the Koran. It turns out the prophet had been tricked by Satan, and had misunderstood his whisperings as God's voice. The Koran should read that these goddesses are just "names you and your fathers have invented: God has vested no authority in them." The author of the article wants us to ask, why Mohammad would have changed his mind about the verses. Was it possible that at first the prophet thought his new religion might be able to support the rulers of his day, only to realize later that this vision was fantasy? Did he avoid conflict by not condemning the temples early on? Did the prophet give into temptation for awhile? Listen to the voice of the tempter that offered an easier road than one of open conflict with the ruling elite.
This is the story of the "Satanic verses." The author of the article in this week's New Yorker is Salman Rushdie, who in 1988 published a novel called "The Satanic verses," based partly on the story. His novel was called blasphemy. His imagining of the prophet's temptation gave rise to outstanding anger in the Islamic world. For years, Rushdie needed state security protection in his home country of Great Britain after the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued an order for him to be killed. The protests led to murders and massacres which shocked the world.
Much as the world was shocked this week when protests over a film produced in the United States served as cover for the attack on the US Embassy that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans. The tragedy was terrible, and we ask that you remember Ambassador Stevens, his family, all those who were affected, and the people of Libya in your prayers today.
As I read the article by Salman Rushdie, and saw the stories coming out of Libya, I was struck by an important difference in our times from the late 1980s and early 1990s. When the riots in the street were happening in response to the "Satanic verses," we saw in the paper and on the news similar angry crowds. But we would not have seen the images of other, regular Libyans, everyday people uploaded on Facebook and Twitter, holding up signs that said "We are sorry America. We also loved Ambassador Stevens. This is not the message of Islam and our Prophet." If you haven't seen the hundreds of photos of Libyans holding up signs with these messages, Google when you get home. Regular people proclaiming "Islam is against terrorism" and getting millions of views, show that the internet can be a powerful tool for good.
(Photo from Salon.com…click to see a slideshow.)
The protests and death threats that came as a response to Rushdie's book, missed his profound respect for the prophet Muhammad, a man who resisted the tempter. The prophet replaced the satanic verses with verses that brought him into open conflict with the powerful leaders of Mecca. Muhammad, in the end, did not give into a lesser vision. The temptation was for a religion that was less challenging, less transformative of a society that desperately needed reforming.
This brings us back to Jesus on the road with Peter. I hope you knew that I was going to get back to Jesus. Kaye, on our staff, says my sermons often cause her to wonder where I'm going. I'm a bit of a prodigal preacher, away on long wanders, but now we're going to bring it home. So, back to Jesus: Why does Jesus call him Satan? Is it, perhaps, because Peter is offering him an easier road? Just like the story that occurs earlier in Mark, the story of the temptation, where the devil offers Jesus worldly success, is Peter offering a different, less challenging vision to Jesus?
I think that may be exactly what is going on. The "human things" that Peter's mind is meditating on, comfort, power, prestige, are far from what Jesus and the disciples will find down the road. Jesus does not want to compromise. Jesus wants religious radicals. He wants his followers to be radicals. Listen to what he says, you have to take up your cross, your instrument of torture, and follow me. Jesus wants radicals.
I think Muhammad wanted radicals as well, people who would submit to God's rule of justice and inclusion over and against the exclusion of the society which was leaving orphans out in the cold. Blowing something up does not make you a religious radical. Killing for the glory of your religion doesn't make you a follower of Jesus or of Muhammad. Hate is not radical. Hate is too commonplace. Love is radical. Justice is radical.
It is far more radical to give your life, to give your waking hours, to give your time and your labor and your treasure to combating the satanic forces of poverty and injustice in this world. It is far more radical to sit down with someone our society casts out, because you follow a leader who ate with outcasts and sinners. Our world needs religious radicals, Christians and Muslims, willing to work together so that our world is a little more loving and a little more just.
Maybe that is why Jesus couldn't let Peter
take him off that radical road, why he told him to get behind him, to follow in
line. Jesus knew the world needed Peter, a radical Peter who was willing
to spend his life proclaiming the Gospel, the Good News of God's love and care
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Clocks go forward on 31st March! Are you dreading it? Or are you seeing this as an opportunity to finally get them sleeping past 6am but worried about getting them to bed at normal time? Rest assured, there's a solution!
Of the two clock-changes, Spring – when we move the clock forward – can be the easier to manage, but it also heralds the shift into shorter nights which can sometimes lead to bedtime battles and early rises, wreaking havoc on even the most established sleep patterns. So be prepared!
You have three ways in which you can tackle the upcoming clock change:
Cold Turkey
Hit that clock change head on. If 7pm is their usual bedtime, go for 6pm instead.
Gradual Shift
From Wednesday night, gradually bring their bedtime forward by 15minutes a night. So if 7pm is bedtime, put them to bed at 6.45 on Weds, 6.30 on Thursday, 6.15 on Friday and bingo! 6pm on Saturday night.
Split the Difference
Go for a 6.30pm bedtime on Saturday night and 'normal' bedtime on Sunday.
Be consistent, be persistent and deal with any sleep disruptions with early beds or longer naps to ensure that overtiredness doesn't rear its ugly head! And any disruption that does occur will settle down within the week – just make stick to your plan and you'll be fine.
Good luck!
Struggling to get enough sleep? Get in touch and see how I can help bring the gift of sleep into your home sooner than you think.


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Get your Elf on this Christmas! Plush and fleecy like a throw, with a warm hood and a front pocket like a hoodie, this wearable blanket is the best of both worlds, keeping you nice and snugly all winter long - perfect for your next movie marathon! for camping trips, cold mornings, watching movies with friends or evening naps!
A "Snug Hoodie" is a one-size fits all wearable blanket. This snug hoodie is crafted from an outer silky smooth micro-mink polyester face. And for the inside we have an ultra soft microfiber fleece lining. Each panel is individually printed, cut and sewn to ensure a flawless graphic with no imperfections.
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Behavioral Health Providers Look Forward To New Governor
Getting behavioral health care in New Mexico has never been easy. The system that cares for people with things like mental illness, addiction, and developmental disabilities is still recovering from a shakeup a few years ago, and our new governor will have to continue picking up the pieces.
KUNM visited several service providers to hear what the next administration can do to ensure people get the help they need.
In 2013, outgoing Republican Governor Susana Martinez' administration accused 15 behavioral health service providers of billing fraud and froze their Medicaid payments. Some went bankrupt.
The administration has insisted it was following federal law on how to manage the Medicaid funds, but later investigations found no evidence of fraud. Five years later, Patsy Romero is still angry.
"The people we've lost – I mean seriously lost, people have lost their lives – because of this irresponsible decision by this administration, is unconscionable and it's unacceptable." said Romero. She is the executive director of Easter Seals El Mirador in Santa Fe, which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and severe mental illness.
Romero, who has worked in behavioral health in New Mexico for more than 30 years, says the manufactured crisis undid decades' worth of work in communities across the state. "For example, there aren't enough services in Carlsbad," she said. "In Roswell, people are trying to rebuild and it's been a very slow process. You have to start from the ground up."
Of the five Arizona providers brought in after the shakeup, three have already left the state. One, Valle del Sol, is now filling gaps in northern New Mexico after Tri-County Community Services closed this summer.
The biggest challenge for all new providers starting up is that there's no substitute for local knowledge and experience. That's something I heard from nearly everyone I spoke with, including Roman Sanchez in Española. He's a peer support worker at Inside Out Recovery, where people can drop in to get group therapy, classes, food, clothing, and other assistance.
Sanchez has been clean for seven years now, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, peer support and his faith. He runs support groups in Española and Taos, and he says what his clients need most from the state is more residential detox and treatment centers.
But, he says, addiction looks different in different communities, so the needs are going to differ too.
Sanchez recently gave a training to other peer support workers in Shiprock and Farmington on addressing the heroin epidemic. "They were all like, we don't really have that here, it's alcohol," he recalls. "Then as a while went on, they said, oh, we mix alcohol with oxycontins, that's what they do a lot here. So that right there was the opiate epidemic unrecognized, no?"
Often, local needs are best addressed by local entities. But the vast majority of behavioral health funding in New Mexico comes from the federal government and flows through the state's Medicaid program.
"New Mexico is data rich, but information poor," said Fred Sandoval, executive director of the National Latino Behavioral Health Association. He says the state collects data on who's using behavioral health services and how much they cost, but doesn't use that data to inform better policy. For example, he says, the governor's Behavioral Health Planning Council could be more useful if they had better data.
"It should inform us about how our resources are used," said Sandoval, "but particularly it needs to be targeting: where are we going to get additional resources to address these problems?"
At Easter Seals, Patsy Romero agrees. "The state is refusing to give us the data about the most at-risk individuals, who, in my opinion, have been lost," she said. "What happened to the severely mentally ill? Right now, in our system of care, we don't know."
Nearly a third of New Mexicans are on Medicaid, and that program is going through some changes that will affect the future of the state's behavioral health system. That'll be part of what our new governor has to deal with. But no matter who wins the governor's race, Romero is hopeful that they'll do a better job than Susana Martinez.
Support for KUNM's Public Health New Mexico project comes from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundation, the Con Alma Health Foundation, and from KUNM listeners like you.


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Only 28 will apparently be made – but wait until you see the asking price.
With the rising prominence of the turbocharged DB11, the naturally-aspirated Aston Martin Vanquish looks like it may be getting ready for retirement soon. Thankfully, design house Zagato is honoring its legacy with the drool-worthy Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante, combining stunning Italian styling with brilliant British engineering. According to renowned render artist Jan Peisert of Peisert Design, an ultra-exclusive Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Speedster is also in the works.
A European dealership informed the designer that the Zagato Vanquish Speedster will be based on the Aston Martin DB AR1 Roadster which launched in 2003 limited to 100 units and was based on the DB7 Vantage Volante. While there hasn't been an official announcement and no official images have been released, Peisert has produced a tantalizing render of what the Vanquish Zagato Speedster could look like, combining elements of the Vanquish Zagato Volante and DB AR1 Roadster. The result is simply spectacular. Unlike the Vanquish Volante, Peisert says the Speedster will strictly be a two-seater, with typical Zagato humps protruding at the back and a two-piece roof.
Power will be sourced from the same 5.9-liter V12 as the Vanquish Zagato Volante mated to an eight-speed automatic, so expect 600-horsepower on tap, a 0-62 mph time of around three and a half seconds, and a top speed of about 201 mph. While only 99 examples of the Vanquish Zagato Volante were made, the Speedster will be even rarer. Peisert says that only 28 units will be made, seven of which will be in European spec. Unsurprisingly, such exclusivity demands a high asking price: the Vanquish Zagato Speedster is said to cost 1.2 million Euros without taxes which is around $1.3 million, with deliveries set to start at the end of 2018. And we thought the Vanquish Zagato Volante was overpriced.
We didn't think the Zagato could possibly improve the lust-worthy looks of the Vanquish Volante, but the Speedster's styling looks even more sporty and aggressive assuming this render is a close approximation of the final design - saying it looks stunning doesn't really do it justice. We can't think of a better send-off for the sweet-sounding V12 Vanquish.


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This is the beginning of what I hope will be an ongoing feature of this blog. Below will be several groups of statements and facts. Two will be true and one will be a lie. It will be your job to guess or determine which is fact and which is fiction! Comment away!
*EastSide Charter School and Family Foundations Academy are blaming their Smarter Balanced scores on the fact their kids are not as computer literate as their peers in other schools
*Sussex Academy won't be able to finish their pool because of mercury in the ground.
*Freire Charter School signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Wilmington Police Department
*Brandywine Superintendent Dr. Mark Holodick was so happy their referendum passed he was seen doing cartwheels the next day.
*Academia Antonia Alonso wants no help from the Charter School Office at the Delaware DOE with their upcoming move to property at Odyssey Charter School.
*Howard High School of Technology suspended students who were in the bathroom the day of Amy's death and kept suspending them for weeks on end without any form of due process.
*Charter School of Wilmington held a legislative breakfast.
*Charter School of Wilmington wants an audit inspection to be released that has been on hold since March.
*Charter School of Wilmington will be allowing 20% of all students with disabilities who applied this year to be admitted to the school in August.
*Early College High School parents are not happy about the school's grading system since the school's scores didn't match up with Delaware State University's grading system
*Penny Schwinn is coming back to the Delaware DOE.
*Dr. Lamont Browne mentioned my blog post about his resignation at a Family Foundations Academy board meeting.
*Family Foundations Academy held pep rallies prior to the school's testing window for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Assessment to pump up kids.
*A Delaware State Representative recently had a Facebook post titled "State Representative Looking For Beaver".
*The same State Representative found some beaver and had a barbecue.


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How to export StyleGuides as PDF
MockFlow StyleGuide is actually meant for creating and sharing a live design document which is regularly updated. However sometimes the styleguides might be required to be exported as a file, in such cases 'MockFlow StyleGuide' relies on the browser to export the complete document to PDF using the 'Print to PDF' option available in browsers such as 'Google Chrome'
By following the below steps, you can ensure the 'Export to PDF' function is without any issues.
- Make sure images are loaded before the export
- In the Print dialog of the browser, 'Enable background graphics support', only then color themes export correctly
Sample print dialog settings - Google Chrome


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The online world is amazing. So many things that we need and want now can simply be checked out, chosen and the purchased online. All you need is your Paypal account or your credit card and that's it, you are ready to shop.
Some basic things that we need (like clothes) and yes, even important equipment not only for our use but for offices and companies can now be purchased online (for instance, our friendly firemen can check out RawhideFirehose.com for fire hoses).
Truly, our purchasing or shopping life has changed with the times and with technology making it all possible.


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Harvester hoopsters off to blazing hot start
December 5, 2012
The way the Harvesters' basketball season started can be summed up in one word: winning.
The team is off to a 9-2 start, blowing out its first four opponents by an average of 44 points and scoring 143 in its best offensive game against Paul Quinn on Nov. 5.
Sophomore point guard Semar Farris, who is second on the team in scoring at 10.7 points per game and first in assists at 5.6 per game, credited the team's early success to its ability to move the ball and get scoring from many sources.
"Everyone on the team can score," he said. "We have a really good program this season."
Aside from his offensive presence, Farris has lived up to his anchor role on defense as well. He is leading the team with almost three steals per game.
Head coach Anthony Fletcher said Farris' play on both ends of the floor has impressed him.
"Semar has been playing really well starting at the point guard slot for us," he said. "He's so fast and so quick with the ball, when we get it we're off and running."
The Harvesters' first loss was a 77-72 setback at Kilgore on Nov. 17. Eastfield shot only 16 free throws while Kilgore attempted 37.
"It was a [good loss,] if there is such a scenario," Fletcher said. "We had to go out and play a Division 1 opponent, a scholarship school, and we gained experience on the road."
Despite the loss, freshman forward Andrew Maxie was named the NJCAA Division III Player of the Week. Maxie, who scored 26 points in the game, said he was flattered to receive recognition, but wished the team could have pulled out a victory.
Maxie leads the team in scoring with 11 points per game and is on the heels of sophomore shooting guard Brock Hunter for the team lead in rebounds at five per game. It's rare that a guard leads a team in rebounding, however, and Fletcher said he would like to see an improvement in that area by his post men.
"I would like to see a guy that's not a guard be our leading rebounder, just be a glass cleaner," he said. "It makes it easier if one of your post guys [rebounds]."
Eastfield bounced back from the Kilgore loss with its largest win so far, posting a 62-point win over Northwood on Nov. 19. The Harvesters had six players score in double figures, including Farris, freshman forward Dimari Porterfield and sophomore forward David Bonner, who all came off of the bench.
The Harvesters will play four more games prior to the semester break, the last of which is Saturday, Dec. 15, against Cy-Fair Community College. Cy-Fair's only loss came at the hands of MAC member Brookhaven.
"We like to compare and contrast the scores [of other MAC teams]," Fletcher said, "to see how everybody else is doing against our opponents."
The Harvesters will also play seven games over the semester break, including three versus conference opponents.
"Hopefully, we'll be more focused," Fletcher said. "Guys don't have to worry about the classroom at that point. It's just basketball."
On Jan. 23, after the spring semester begins, the team matches up with defending Region V champion Cedar Valley.
On Cedar Valley's basketball website, there is a banner depicting the team returning to New York to play in the national championship. However, the Harvesters believe they can upset the Suns' plans.
"It's a new year," Farris said. "That banner motivates us. We have a real tough team this year, so they'll have to come with a lot."
The Harvesters, who were unranked at the beginning of the season, have been ranked as high as third and are currently ninth in the nation. They will look to continue their strong play into the second half of the season.
"It's going to be quite interesting," Fletcher said. "Hopefully, we can keep doing the same things that we've been doing."


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Standing alone in your cafe on a scorching summer's day. Obsessed about over-thinking and wishing for some relief from the heat, you reach for the mop and bucket.
You named your mop Boris and your bucket Dorothy. You take comfort in imagining that sometimes Boris gets a little angry with Dorothy, but Dorothy always gets Boris back when she squeezes the life out of him.
Dancing a little boogie to a random beat, you let Boris take the lead. Not only does Dorothy scold him, but you do too. He gets so hurt his head falls off on the floor. You pick it up and try to put it back on again, but it's broken.
Dorothy will need a new Boris. You smile when you think about your new mop's name.


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How does LeBron James' return impact the Lakers slow start?
The Los Angeles Lakers' early-season struggles have been well documented, but help appears to be on the way.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, there is "growing optimism" that superstar LeBron James will make his return for the Lakers' matchup against the Boston Celtics on Friday, Nov. 19. James is said to be "making good progress" after resuming individual workouts in recent days, set to join Los Angeles for its upcoming five-game road trip.
The 36-year-old has been sidelined since Nov. 2 with an abdominal strain, missing the last seven games. He has missed a total of nine games so far, with the other two coming from an ankle sprain suffered in the third game of the season.
MORE: LeBron James injury timeline
With the Lakers getting out to an underwhelming 8-7 start, can LeBron's return get things back on track?
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How does LeBron James' return impact the Lakers?
Let's start by stating the obvious: the Lakers returning one of the greatest players of all time will impact the team in a positive way. Even in Year 19, coming off of a couple nagging injuries, you can expect James to step in and right the ship.
Prior to his abdominal strain, James was averaging a team-high 24.8 points to go with 7.0 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game.
He was still throwing down ridiculous dunks, often enough to have a two-minute highlight package from six games.
MORE: Where did the Lakers land on this week's Power Rankings?
His playmaking will never fall off, he was knocking down a career-high 2.8 3s per game and he was still making big plays happen on the defensive end.
The Lakers are 4-2 in games where LeBron has played and 4-5 in games where he has been out.
While his on/off numbers do paint the picture of how crucial he is to their success, it mostly magnifies how much better they are offensively when James is on the floor.
With James on the floor, the Lakers' offensive rating of 109.8 would rank them eighth-best in the NBA. When James is off the floor, the Lakers turn into a bottom-five offense in the league with a rating of 101.6.
As it stands for the entire season, Los Angeles' offensive rating of 104.8 ranks them 23rd in the league, a far cry from where a title contender would hope to be.
With James back in the lineup, the Lakers will be less reliant on running offense through Russell Westbrook, who hasn't had the most ideal start to his time as a Laker. Westbrook is averaging a league-leading 5.3 turnovers per game, a number that has only gone up since James' injury.
On the other hand, star forward Anthony Davis is starting to find a rhythm with more shot attempts, averaging 26.4 points over the last five games. While StatMuse shows that Davis is only averaging roughly three more points in games without James compared to games with James this season, LeBron will have to take it upon himself to keep the eight-time All-Star engaged on offense even when the trio is back on the floor together.
MORE: Anthony Davis' ejection vs. Bulls highlights Lakers struggles
That will be the biggest hurdle to overcome, as the threesome didn't exactly click just yet prior to James' injury. With Westbrook and James once again sharing playmaking duties and all three players splitting shot attempts, can they iron out the kinks and become the dynamic force Lakers faithful hoped they would be prior to the start of the season?
The answer to that question will be the difference between a championship team or a team that is bounced out of the playoffs well short of their goals.
What will happen to the Lakers starting lineup when LeBron James returns?
Along with James, the Lakers' other four starters in his last game prior to his injury were Westbrook, Davis, Kent Bazemore and Avery Bradley.
Since then, Bazemore has been removed from the starting lineup in favor of the 20-year-old prospect Talen Horton-Tucker, who has returned to action following preseason thumb surgery, and Carmelo Anthony has played himself into a starting role in James' absence.
Since it's safe to assume James, Westbrook and Davis will all start, that leaves head coach Frank Vogel with a decision to make on Anthony, Horton-Tucker and Bradley.
My guess would be Bradley stays in the starting lineup for his perimeter defense, while Anthony rounds out the frontcourt alongside LeBron and AD. Because of Horton-Tucker's ability as a playmaker to create offense for others, his talents would be better suited to lead the second unit with James and Westbrook dominating the ball for the starters.
Moving THT to the bench gives the Lakers some real depth for the first time this season, as the young forward is off to a hot start, averaging 22.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.0 steals through his first two games.
It will be interesting to see how Vogel actually handles the starting five and the team's rotation as they look to steady what has been a sporadic start.


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Pat On The Back Foundation prepares to sponsor trip to tour the MLK Museum
The museum chronicles the life of Dr. King and the MLK movement. This historical trip will be completely FREE for the youth selected to attend; and will include visits to historical sights and one overnight stay in Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana; and a two-night stay in Atlanta, GA. Our goal is to provide the youth with an opportunity to see what those before them have done to make a better life for them TODAY. We hope that by connecting the visual history from the 'generation of the past' to the 'leaders of tomorrow', we can help the youth realize all that they can achieve in life. Dr. King said: "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."– ("I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963). This bus trip will be "a reality of that dream".
The entire trip will be recorded by a professional videographer, for historical purposes. It will be made available for all to see on DVD. We want to make sure this youth trip is an experience they will never forget, something they will want to share with their friends, family, and schools. Our hope is that when they get older, they will want to 'JUST GIVE BACK' for other youth to experience the same.
If you have any questions regarding this youth event or our Foundation, please feel free to contact Patrick Turner (619.886.9263 or email@example.com) or Dion Sayles, Director/Event Coordinator (email@example.com); or you can go to the website (www.patonthebackfoundation.org). We appreciate your support.


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Tech contractors are in high demand today as companies look for the right fits to expand their digital tech base and meet tech needs. The growing pervasiveness and complexity of IT tech jobs render it easier to get IT contractors rather than hiring full-time employees.
Hiring the right IT contractor might seem like a daunting task. Especially because there are so many skills prevalent and highly regarded in the tech space, and an even greater number of individuals claiming to be gurus in those areas.
To make the right recruiting decision, look for the following in contractor prospects.
It matters a lot if your contractor has experience doing the kind of job and size of the job you have for them. Within the digital domain, a lot of things can go astray. And, you need the right talent to handle situations and bring them back to normal.
An experienced IT contractor will be able to foresee challenges and plan preventive measures. They will have worked in the field so much that they will 'just know it' when it's right and when it's not.
Previous experience with the same technology or software is also crucial so you can be confident hiring a contractor and not constantly wondering whether or not they are capable to hit the ground running.
Counting on experience is not enough. To know that the contractor you are interviewing is the right fit, you need to be sure of their expertise. Look for certifications and hands-on projects they have implemented and managed.
Notice if they fire up conversations about their experience with the latest tech, the lessons they have learned through time, and/or their passion for their work. This shows they are invested in their work.
If they have little to no experience, it helps to discover the learning curve they have been through. Allow some of your in-house IT employees to interview and interact with this contractor so that they can check their expertise on the subject matter.
If, however, they have relevant experience to show, explore a bit about their past clients and look at the testimonials or recommendations they have received for their work in the past.
An IT contractor has to work as an extended arm of your in-house IT team. Without the right communication and interaction, a lot of things can go haywire. Look for a contractor who can establish and maintain the connection with your team and gel up like a colleague.
You don't want any loopholes in your communication with them. Ensure they are 100% committed to keeping up continuous interaction throughout the project duration.
A reliable tech contractor will be proactive in asking questions, resolving issues, and taking the project from requirements to support. You don't want your employees to be continuously checking in with a remote contractor on the status of work.
A proactive contractor can take off a lot of hassle from the project and function as an asset to the entire team. Proactiveness is evident when you have faced and solved a lot of challenges in previous projects.
While interviewing for a contractor position, ask prospects about the challenges they have encountered and how they set on resolving them.
The availability and commitment of a contractor towards your project objectives matter to the overall quality of work. You can gauge this simply by asking if they plan on taking simultaneous projects alongside yours.
If so, ask them how they plan on managing multiple commitments and if they have successfully done so in the past. Since remote contractors often have their work schedules all over the place, implore about their working hours and whether or not they would be flexible in changing work schedules according to your needs.
Your IT contractor should be respecting of your timelines. A lot is at stake when companies such as yours set on to implement a technology solution or offer a service. Make sure your contractor understands your dedication to deadlines and is intent on keeping them.
You don't want a contractor who has the habit of messing with deadlines and excusing themselves each time.
If your contractor has their own way of doing things, it's understandable. However, an ideal contractor should be sensitive to your organisational needs and open to tweaking things a little, when necessary.
It takes time and effort to accommodate into the workings of a business, but you should see them trying to deliver as per your needs. This can be a nitty-gritty to judge of them, and could tremendously impact your project.
Finding the ideal IT contractor can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. If you know what to look for, the process gets simpler.
If it still looks like a lot of hassle for you, use our recruitment specialists at LynxPro. We are an IT recruitment agency with a team of hiring pros who can spot the right talent for you and make sure they fit the expertise gap in your business.
Talk to one of our expert IT consultants today!


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Help Iraqi people with online professional courses.
Whether you approved going to war in Iraq or disapproved, there is something we can now all agree on, and that is that we have to help the Iraqi people rebuild their lives. PEOI, a provider of online university level courses free of charge, is seeking to build a program of courses that can be useful for Iraqis (especially Iraqi women) to quickly acquire professional skills to make them productive citizens and to help their economy recover.
If you are a professional capable of educational writing or if you can help to deliver professional courses in Arabic, please consider placing your lecture notes or writings on PEOI web site, or joining the Arabic translation team. See "Authors" section and "Course authoring" in "Volunteers Needed" for more details about volunteering as course author or Arabic translation team member. Work at home on your own computer and at your own time, yet make a big difference for Iraqi people and all over the world.
All tasks can be carried out from home on your own computer and at your own time. Volunteers can join in forum discussions of issues of common interest. Registration is necessary to participate in a forum. New volunteers are invited to register as volunteer staff members. For more details, pease write a short message indicating the volunteer opportunity you are interested in, attach a recent resume, and email to appropriate person in contact information.


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Education Lottery surprises Grand Cherokee for Handyman
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After winning a second-chance drawing in the lottery's Jeep Brand scratch-off game, Jeff Gould has been able to earn a Jeep of his dreams. The Handyman from Wilmington (North Carolina) met lottery officials on Monday at the Wilmington claims center. Initially he was not sure of exactly what he has won. So he had narrowed it down to a couple of possibilities. Finally, the Education Lottery surprised Jeff with a new Jeep.
Neuwirth Motors, a Wilmington-based shop, gave him this offer. "It's unbelievable, just unbelievable!" Gould said. He had the option to choose a Jeep from three brand new Jeeps: a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, and a Jeep Renegade Trailhawk. The Grand Cherokee picked by the winner valued at $45,203. He prefers to make a lot of trips, so this is what he requires.
Gould, who also prefers a lot of travel sessions, owns home repair and lawn business. He was talking to his wife about switching to an SUV from the work truck after he retires. Thus, the Grand Cherokee came at the perfect time. N.C. Education Lottery and Jeep jointly created the North Carolina's first Jeep ticket. Apart from this, the game started in June and has offered four $200,000 top prizes so far. Two among these prizes have already been won.
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