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Find Inspiration with Art Therapy in Southlake, TX
You Don’t Have to Be an Artist to Heal through Art
Just as there is no one type of person, there is no one type of therapy. For some, more traditional methods of talk therapy can be helpful, but limited in their ability to resonate and reach deeper emotions. Art therapy is a creative, alternative way to explore and process feelings, discover insights, and reach healing. You don’t have to have artistic talent to thrive in art therapy—we’ll focus on the process, not the product, as we navigate issues beyond words alone.
Our Approach to Art Therapy
Our art therapy approach is open to people of all ages, from children to adults to seniors. Through various art forms such as drawing, process painting, sculpting, jewelry making, and other artistic expressions, individuals can explore their thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a safe and non-judgmental space. Art therapy is guided by trained professionals who help clients interpret their artwork, facilitating self-discovery, personal insight, and emotional healing.
Art therapy can be a powerful tool for addressing a wide range of mental health issues, improving self-esteem, reducing stress, and fostering greater self-awareness and resilience. Ultimately, art therapy harnesses the unique capacity of art to communicate, heal, and transform, allowing individuals to tap into their inner creativity for therapeutic growth and self-expression. It’s less about the final product and more about the healing properties within the process of art making.Schedule an Appointment
The use of art materials in therapy can aid in treating many concerns, including:
- Bipolar Disorder
- Grief & loss
- Self-esteem & self-image
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Your Art Therapy Questions Answered
During an art therapy session, you may be asked to create art using a variety of mediums, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, or even making jewelry. Your art therapist will then guide you in reflecting on your artwork and discussing how it relates to your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Each session, medium, and topic will be tailored to your specific needs and goals for therapy.
Art therapy can be an effective way to help you process difficult emotions, develop coping skills, and improve your overall mental health. It can also be a fun and rewarding experience that can help you express yourself creatively and connect with your inner self. We’re here to focus not on creating great pieces of art but instead on learning from the process and finding rewards in creativity.
Yes, art therapy is evidence-based. There is a growing body of research that supports the effectiveness of art therapy for a variety of mental health conditions, from anxiety to learning disabilities, eating disorders to chronic pain, and beyond. We may use art therapy as a standalone method or as part of other approaches, like talk therapy.
A 2016 review of studies found that art therapy was effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression in adults. Another study found that art therapy was effective in reducing symptoms of trauma in children and adolescents. We’re still learning new ways that art therapy can benefit people of all ages!
Art therapy has numerous benefits. It can promote self-expression, giving people new ways to communicate their emotions and improve their communication skills overall. It also helps people process emotions in a healthy way, especially for difficult feelings like anger, sadness, and fear.
Art therapy can also reduce stress and anxiety, both as a form of mindfulness and a way to confront deeper issues at the root of anxious feelings. Ultimately, many people find that art therapy boosts self-esteem and confidence as they develop a sense of accomplishment over time.
Those who take part in creative activities before therapy often find that it helps them overcome creative blocks. But even those who think their artistic skills are lacking can benefit greatly from art therapy—it’s all about the process, not the product!
We offer art therapy via telehealth on a limited basis for clients over the age of 10. To inquire about our availability, please contact us today.


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Knicks Knacks seafood meals & catering presents the FIRST Annual Brooklyn Crab Fest 2015. Come and enjoy unlimited Maryland Blue Crabs without the trip south! For $35.00 you receive ticket to enjoy the delights of a traditional Maryland Blue Crab Dest complimented with a Louisiana Seafood Boil, a ticket for complimentary beer from Kilo Bravo. Expect a great time with music, raffle tickets, access to premium bar drinks, and more!
Seating 1: Saturday, September 19, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Seating 2: Saturday, September 19, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Host: Knick Knacks Bk – NYC catering & meals food company
Venue: Kilo Bravo
Address: 180 N 10th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Crowd: Seafood lovers and foodies
Dress Code: Casual
Purchase Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/brooklyn-crabfest-tickets
Here’s what to expect with your ticket:
*All you can taste Maryland Blue Crab Enjoy all the crabs you can handle during the four hours of the event. Our crabs vary in size from medium to large male & female.
*Complimentary beer of your choice plus access to KILO BRAVO premium bar.
*Other great food we’ll have free Louisiana seafood boil w/corn, potatoes, mussels, and crawfish- Old Bay peel n eat shrimp, crab cakes and other snacks for sale!
*KK clean up pack our wet nap, breath mint and bib package.
*Great time enjoying music, raffles prizes, and more with family and friends.
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Joy Chik, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, announced this Wednesday (21st) that big tech has acquired digital security startup CloudKnox Security, responsible for a cloud permissions management platform. The giant’s goal is to help organizations strengthen their systems’ protections. Details of the deal, however, were not disclosed.
Some of the promises are: automated access to solutions; wide range of high-precision machine learning-based anomaly detection; and “seamless” integration of features with company services (such as Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel). In addition, the movement follows other recent purchases such as RiskIQ and ReFirm Labs.
“We’re excited to bring the CloudKnox team and technology to Microsoft and our joint customers, and look forward to your feedback. We’ll share more information as we integrate CloudKnox with Microsoft’s identity, security and compliance solutions,” highlights Chik .
New acquisition was announced this Wednesday (21).Source: Play/CloudKnox
Founded in 2015, Californian CloudKnox currently has 58 professionals listed on LinkedIn; among its investors are Sorenson Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital and Foundation Capital. In turn, the software it offers autonomously manages access levels to company systems linked to the profiles of collaborators and their activities.
“We saw opportunity to deliver even more value and seamless experience across hybrid and multi-cloud, with deeper integrations into the Microsoft ecosystem. By joining Microsoft, we can unlock new synergies and make it easier for our mutual customers to secure their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. clouds and strengthen its security posture,” he celebrates.
Finally, despite the lack of data on amounts and other procedures related to the transaction, it is known that Microsoft generated more than US$ 10 billion in virtual security revenue in 2020, according to the company itself – an increase of 40 % compared to the previous period. Therefore, the search for improvement in the area is part of the expansion of a business that has proven to be very profitable.

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A new patient for National Aquarium Animal Rescue
Published August 23, 2011
It continues to be a busy season for our Animal Rescue team! Just weeks after releasing several of the Kemp's ridley sea turtles we've had in rehab, our team was called to the rescue in Ocean City, Maryland.
Late in the evening on July 29, a severely debilitated loggerhead sea turtle was admitted to the National Aquarium Animal Rescue facilities. Our team was contacted earlier that evening by the Ocean City Coast Guard and Beach Patrol that helped bring the loggerhead safely to shore until our volunteers arrived.
We'd like a give a huge thanks to the Ocean City Beach Patrol for their efforts in rescuing the stranded turtle. You can see some great photos of their rescue on the Ocean City Beach Patrol facebook page.
The female loggerhead is being housed in the National Aquarium Animal Rescue hospital pool. She arrived severely emaciated and covered with a heavy barnacle load, as you can see in the photo below:
Our amazing animal health team safely removed the barnacle load, which helped her to be able to swim again once she was stable. She is slowly gaining weight, but her prognosis is still guarded at this time. We are working to give her the best chance possible, but she has a very long road ahead of her.
Each day our staff and volunteers are monitoring her energy levels and her diet. She is eating well and is up to 2 pounds of food per day! Her weight is steadily increasing thanks to her diet of capelin, shrimp, squid, and soft shell crabs.
Please follow her progress, as we will update you throughout her treatment here at the National Aquarium! Interested in contributing to the care and feeding of sick and injured sea turtles? Donate Now!
Deep inside the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) building, the National Aquarium runs a little-known lab. Here we carry out the propagation of jellies, many of which later end up on exhibit in Jellies Invasion. Read on for a peek into the process!
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Picture this: You’ve just spent a wonderful, late summer week on Cape Cod, swimming in the ocean and enjoying the sunshine with friends and family. As fall sets in, you know it’s time to head home. You get on the highway, but something strange happens … despite driving for hours, you end up back where you started. You feel sluggish, confused and exhausted. If you were a turtle, you just might be cold-stunned.
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Swedish Institute estimates Israel has 80 nuclear weapons
By Ken Hanly | DigitalJournal
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in a new report, estimates that Israel has around 80 "strategic" level nuclear weapons
Israel has followed a course of what is often called nuclear ambiguity claiming that:
""It would not be the first country to "introduce" nuclear weapons to the Middle East, leaving ambiguity as to whether it means it will not create, will not disclose, will not make first use of the weapons or possibly some other interpretation of the phrase".
In spite of strong international pressure, Israel has refused to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, claiming that to do so would be contrary to its national security interests.
A former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, blew the whistle on the secret Israeli nuclear program. He revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to British newspapers in 1986. Mossad later lured Vanunu to Italy using an agent. He was drugged and abducted to Israel. In a trial behind closed doors, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. More than 11 were spent in solitary confinement.
Estimates of the size of the Israeli weapons arsenal vary widely from 75 to almost 400 nuclear warheads. The Stockholm International Peace Research (SIPRI) estimate is at the low end of estimates. SIPRI said that probably 50 of the warheads can be mounted on Jericho II medium range missiles and another thirty could be dropped from airplanes. SIPRI also noted that there could be smaller tactical weapons that were not counted in the arsenal.
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Posting all of the things we love: bridges, water, and boats. On a foggy or sun-smeared day. Breathe it in. Some philosopher said the past (or future) was today with something missing. I don’t know why this visual reminded me of that but it did. Maybe because in the past we had no time to miss the water as we were always there.
Reflection & Syncronicity
I was reflecting on the old home town, and the photos arrived on Facebook. That is such a lovely gift from the Universe. (Although and until I’m sure that the waters did it—moving from one place to another as is its way.) The view below is of Riverside Park, where so often we went with parents and children and sometimes to eat a lunch and watch the river flow by. The view behind the eagle and the street lights is as the street moves up through the town.
And below is the photo of the Mississippi with the La Crosse bridge in the background. With the bridge seen from this perspective you can see how the one-way pattern of each blends together to create a lovely picture. That effect cannot be captured when viewed directly with the traffic flow. The photo was taken from the back of a boat so that is the wake from the motor that we see curving out behind the boat, in front of the bridge. Another lovely merging of arcs. Viewed as a whole, it appears to form a circle. The river, the bridge, the sky.
Bridges & Photos & Poems
Crossing the Mississippi River from La Crescent, Minnesota, into La Crosse, Wisconsin.This photo posted by Audrey Kletscher Helbling on her blog, Minnesota Prairie Roots.
The bridge on the left is my bridge, the one we walked across to get from our place along the Mississippi river to the other side. Pettibone Park and the swim beach awaited there. In the park there was also a lagoon where we ice skated in winter.
The bridge on the right, the smaller bridge, was added a few years back so now each is oneway. I was shocked to see the added bridge the last time I was home. The bridges are not the same color and certainly do not match in style. What offense to my childhood!
The erasure poem posted here on March 7, 2014, is about the bridge and river and sand. It’s about this bridge and a child’s feet that walked there with the past and the future, singing with the ghosts of time.

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The bleeding that started at the beginning of 2022 apparently continued to end the worst quarter since the Pandemic began in 2020. The tech selloff reverberated throughout Wall Street where $1.99 billion of value has been subtracted from the Nasdaq Composite index.
Broad-based indexes lost $1 trillion of value but fared better than the Nasdaq index. Investors kept punishing the Pandemic darlings dragging the indexes with them.
A sea of red
President Biden claimed on Thursday 31st of March that the USA is preparing to release record reserves of oil to fight the soaring energy prices and inflation. As a result, the S&P 500 fell by 1.6%, Nasdaq by 1.5%, and Dow Jones by 1.6%.
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The 10-year Treasury yield lowered to 2.32% but its performance this quarter is up, recording the largest since March 2021. As a general rule yields fall when prices rise, as government bonds underperform in times of high inflation.
Consumer spending in the U.S. rose by 0.2% in February which is most likely due to higher prices but it still came in below forecasts. Amid a tighter labor market, the expectations are mostly in line with economists’ predictions. Stoxx Europe 600 also finished down by 0.9% followed by Asian indices also finishing lower on the day.
The U.S. large-cap tech stocks finished low for the day but were not alone in their fall. Almost the entire market bled as investors locked in profits. There is a lot to digest for the market therefore it is expected that some volatility will most likely happen.
Frothy markets usually cause investors to panic sell with more recent geopolitical tensions adding to the worries investors feel. Currently, supply chains are stretched whilst inflation is on the rise which is clearly reflected in this quarter’s performance of the market indexes.
Investors should keep an eye on their portfolios, tracking changes in company policies, reporting, and general sentiment. The investment thesis for long-term investors should not change based on current issues, however, keeping track of developments certainly can help understand the broader market forces.
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Day Camp Programs
|This program operates only at specific times of the year. Check with the organization for current information about dates of operation!|
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|Major Intersection||James St S and Bold St|
|Primary Contact||Vitek Wincza, Artistic Director|
|Located In Community||Hamilton Central|
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Children's Arts Exploration - Participants experience a wide variety of approaches and activities in Visual Arts, Dance, Music, and Drama, including clay, painting, sets and props-making, violin, recorder, keyboards, percussion, role-playing and character building. Children and their family and friends celebrate their learning at the end of each week - inspired by stories from around the world!
Kinder Arts Exploration - Half day camp designed for Junior and Senior Kindergarten children, this ALL arts exploration program sets the children’s imaginations in motion * Learning through story, professional arts instructors lead the group on a music, art, dance and drama journey responding to music, experimenting with different tools and materials and dramatizing rhymes, stories and legends from around the world * Children will feel a sense of accomplishment as they conclude their week long exploration with a final performance on stage at HCA where parents, families and friends are welcome to attend.
Triple Threat Camp - Open to all students from beginner to advanced who wish to experience all three disciplines: Singing, Dancing, and Acting! This is a great opportunity to sample and experience a little bit of Broadway.
Just Dance Camp - Dancers from beginner to advanced participate in four different dance disciplines including ballet, jazz, musical theatre, and hip hop. Classes will be divided according to different ages and experience levels. This is a great opportunity for the aspiring dancer to try a variety of new forms of dance and an intensive program for the more experienced dancer to improve their technique! A choreography class will tie all the students together into a final performance for families and friends to come and enjoy this great week of fun, learning, and social engagement.
Tuesday Evening Summer After 5 Programs - Visual Art, Dance and Drama (Ages 3-18 years) * Call for more details
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A Turks and Caicos All Inclusive Honeymoon
Turks and Caicos are beautiful by nature and it is known as the home of the best beaches inthe world. Turks and Caicos all inclusive honyemoon resorts are really outstanding since they cater most the activities suited for a couple who seek adventure and relaxation at the same time. There are many little islands that make up Turks and Caicos, though all the activity is concentrated in a few place. This is really the perfect place for spending the love because one will really fall in love when they see the white powdery sand and the vibrant clear blue water.
The following will help those honeymooners decide to make Turks and Caicos their destination spot. A typical Turks and Caicos honeymoon package often includes a complimentary welcome wine, a perfect suite for a couple and a breakfast for two on their first day. With a Turks and Caicos all inclusive honeymoon, you leave your wallet in your room because all food and beverages and some entertainment activities are included in the daily room rate.
Accommodations are really good and they have hospitable and friendly staffs to help people in their needs. The Turks and Caicos Islands offer different activities that will amuse individuals like, swimming, snorkelling, diving, kayaking, boat sailing, horse riding, golf, and more to enumerate. Since these islands are known for its spectacular beaches, water activities are very popular here.
Turks and Caicos Honeymoon Destinations
Turks and Caicos honeymoons will not be complete if couples will not spend their days in water. They may even swim with friendly animal creatures and see the panoramic view underwater. Seeing the coral reefs in water trip will inspire every individual who will experience this adventure. Couples who are nature lover will surely enjoy their trip in these islands because they will also have a chance to do kayaking and have a tour in mangroves areas.
For honeymooners who want to have a serene trip, they may enjoy a cruise while watching the sunset with a scrumptious food being served. Conch, a Caribbean delicacy, is one of the famous in Turks and Caicos since this is considered as an aphrodisiac stimulating every sense, which is good for honeymooners.
Many mouth-watering sea foods to choose from for lunch and dinner because this island is also known for this, like barramundi, snapper, grouper, and other tasty sea foods. Albeit this is a place for serene and adventure, shopping is still on the list. Many shopping centres are on the area like the Duty free shopping mall just in case couples want to shop for souvenirs or whatever.
Turks and Caicos Celebrity Honeymoons
When the sun sets, honeymooners will still enjoy because nightlife in this beautiful island is still alive. So Turks and Caicos honeymoon couples will continue to have adventures until dawn. Another factual trivia is that many celebrity couple even chose Turks and Caicos as their honeymoon and wedding destination like Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, and Eva Longoria and Tony Parker.
Turks and Caicos are really a flawless destination for lovers and no one will get disappointed in their spending their vacation in this tropical island. Couple will definitely treasure their Turks and Caicos honeymoon and will promise that one day they are going back again to these beautiful islands.
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Restaurant stocks have been all over the map in recent weeks, swinging on news about the coronavirus pandemic as the industry is one of the most threatened by the outbreak. Restaurants across the country have been forced to limit themselves to takeout and delivery to stop the spread of the virus.
Today was no different as industry stocks fell in tandem with the broader market, which was sliding after President Trump said yesterday that the next two weeks could be "very, very painful" as deaths from COVID-19 mount. The government also predicted that the virus would cause between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the U.S. in the coming months.
Not surprisingly, that announcement affected the restaurant sector, which is hoping for a quick end to the outbreak so locations can reopen and business can return to normal. As of 12:10 p.m. EDT, a number of restaurant stocks were trading lower including Dave & Buster's (PLAY -3.42%), which was down 18%, Wendy's(WEN -0.37%), which was 6.7% lower, BJ's Restaurants (BJRI -4.02%), which had fallen 15%, and Darden Restaurants (DRI -2.44%), which was off 15.8%. At the same time, the S&P 500 index had given up 3.7%.
Dave & Buster's, the eat-and-play chain that may be the most vulnerable of the group since a majority of its business comes from on-location amusements, was sliding on a negative analyst note today. SunTrust analyst Jake Bartlett maintained a rating of hold on Dave & Buster's, but lowered his price target from $42 to $13. He said the chain was in the weakest position of the restaurants he covered as the company only has sufficient liquidity to last about 14 to 15 weeks with no sales. He also expects the company to announce severe cost cuts when it reports earnings tomorrow afternoon. As of the company's most recent earnings report, it had just $20.9 million in cash and $640.4 million in debt.
Wendy's actually got an analyst upgrade yesterday, but the stock was still falling on the broader market headwinds today as investors adjusted their expectations for restaurant reopenings. Last week, Wendy's said in a business update that it would close most of the dining rooms in its restaurants, relying on drive-thru and delivery for sales. It would also defer collections on rent and royalties from franchisees for the next three months
There was no specific news out on BJ's Restaurants today, but the company issued a similar update last week, saying that its cash position was solid after drawing down the full $250 million in its credit facility. It did suspend its dividend as it works to conserve cash. BJ's also said that it estimated it would have $5 million in weekly operating costs in a scenario where all of its locations would close, meaning the company has more than a year's worth of liquidity to survive the current economic climate.
Finally, Olive Garden-parent Darden was also skidding today, as casual-dining stocks are particularly at risk from the lockdown orders since most of their business depends on dine-in customers. Like other restaurant stocks, Darden has pulled its guidance for the year, suspended its dividend, and drawn down its $750 million credit facility.
Investors should expect restaurant stocks to continue to be volatile as the sector swings on news about the broader coronavirus crisis and its economic impact. The big question for these companies is when will they finally get to reopen, and if consumers are willing to visit them even when they do, since fears about the virus could persist and a recession is likely. Right now, no one knows the answer to that, though it appears that restaurants will be closed for at least another month as President Trump said social distancing guidelines would be in place for another 30 days.
Restaurant investors should then expect to wait months, rather than weeks, to see these companies return to normal business.


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Stacey Shelor was tired of waiting rooms.
She was having a harder time getting doctor’s appointments for her family members and was looking for a change.
She became a client of Agenacare Housecalls soon after it launched in 2019 through a mutual friend of the owner.
“I tried this out and it was absolutely fabulous because you make a phone call, they set up a time and they are at your home, which is nice because you feel comfortable in your home,” she said.
Shelor, a Salem resident, liked that Agenacare could do anything a general practitioner would.
“And I also like the fact that this group of professionals treat you like you’re a family member or friend, versus just a number,” she said.
Now, these services are available to Lynchburg-area residents as well.
Whitney Pugh, owner and founder of Roanoke-based Agenacare Housecalls, launched the business in fall 2019 after working in corporate medicine for years, tired of what she described as a broken health care system.
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“I remember sitting there thinking, ‘I hate what I do. I’ve gone to school for seven years to run people in and out like a cattle market.’ I was so frustrated with it,’” she said.
As a family nurse practitioner, she decided she could complain about it or fix it.
“I was sitting there with my husband and I said, ‘I’m going to start a concierge house call urgent care practice on mobile, and I’m going to go to their homes,’ and I remember he looked at me and was like, ‘What?’” she said.
Only a few months after launching, the COVID pandemic reached the area.
Pugh had to determine whether she would keep going or shut down. But she never shut down or turned a patient away.
COVID-19 put Agenacare on the map, she said, because patients had to find alternatives to what they were used to in terms of primary healthcare.
She started with 25 patients in 2019 and grew to have 500 patients in 2020.
When COVID-19 hit, it was calming to Shelor to have a professional who she knew come into her home fully masked and shielded.
“They even wore a hazmat suit, God bless them,” she said.
If her family needed COVID-19 testing, Agenacare was able to come to their home and do that as well. They also conduct yearly physicals, sports physicals, and strep tests, give stitches and perform blood work and X-Rays.
“It was quick, efficient and they were out. That’s the other part of this, is they’re in and out. They listen to you and they take care of what needs to be taken care of as far as your health issues are concerned and then it’s over and you don’t have to sit and wait,” she said.
Pugh said the average time from when a call is made to when a provider shows up at their home is two hours.
“So you don’t have to go sit in an [emergency room] waiting room or urgent care waiting around for hours,” she said.
In 2021, it was time to add on a team of health care professionals to come along with Pugh, who ended up serving close to 10,000 patients.
“We just kept flourishing and kept growing ,” she said. “I wanted to really take it like you know how the doc used to go back to the homes years ago. That was really what I was bringing back because sometimes change doesn’t always mean for the better,” she said.
Pugh said though the flagship office is based in Roanoke, her team can travel all over the state to see patients, lending itself to the Lynchburg area where it grew a client-base over the years.
Agenacare opened in Lynchburg earlier this month and plans to open a physical office once it gets busier.
Pugh is proud of how the business has grown but mostly of its customer service.
“You’ll find that from the time they call us to the dispatchers, to the provider, to the follow up calls, they’re always treated respectfully, kindly,” she said. “That’s always been my thing because when you feel bad you don’t want to be treated like crap.”
Agenacare also doesn’t take insurance, a move Pugh said has cut out a lot of the health care stress and hurdles.
“If insurance determines that you can’t do something or they don’t want you to do something, they tell you it’s not going to be paid for. And then your hands are held because the patient doesn’t want to pay it because it’s too expensive and the company can’t pay it,” she said.
So the business doesn’t take insurance and just charges one flat fee per visit or membership.
“With insurance, even though people may have premiums of $500 to $1,000 a month, reimbursements for us, per house call, would be right at $50. It’s just not feasible and it doesn’t work,” she said. “So we took that whole piece out of it so we don’t have to deal with the insurance and the patients don’t either.”
Along with COVID-19 testing, other services include flu vaccines, suture and wound care, physicals, telehealth, IV nutrition therapy and lab draws.
The company offers direct primary care plans, family memberships and corporate memberships.
Shelor said her days are over of sitting in crowded waiting rooms and she feels safer having health professionals come to her.
Agenacare sees not only her family but her extended family now, too.
“It’s just become a part of our life,” she said. “I consider them my general practitioner. I don’t call anybody else. This is who I call for everything.”


They say that law was financed partially by reducing the projected growth of Medicare, not cutting it. Ironically, it is the same argument that Republicans often fall back on when they are accused of seeking cuts to education or other programs.
Democrats also say that none of the $716 billion came from cuts in guaranteed benefits, but primarily from reductions in projected payments to private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program, as well as reimbursements to hospitals and other providers.
They also note that the health law eliminated the doughnut hole, a gap in coverage that required seniors with especially high prescription drug costs to pay large sums out of pocket.
But Republicans accuse Obama and the Democrats of making false accusations of their own.
They stress that neither Romney nor Ryan has proposed any changes for current beneficiaries or those within 10 years of enrolling in Medicare. They also cite independent fact checks concluding that Democratic claims of a $6,400 increase in out-of-pocket costs for seniors under the GOP approach are bogus, based on an outdated version of Ryan's plan.
Republicans also say that unlike Ryan's plan, Romney's does not include a mandatory cap on growth of the overall program to guarantee budget savings. Romney has yet to release details of his own proposal, or even a comprehensive description of ways in which it differs from his running mate's blueprint.
There's no doubt about the millions going into the campaign debate on the issue.
Obama's campaign seized on Medicare shortly after Romney named Ryan as his running mate. It spent nearly $16 million on ads in eight battleground states for several weeks beginning in mid-August, according to records compiled by ad checkers. Romney spent about $7.7 million over roughly the same time period.
There the issue sat, until Romney's strong showing in the first debate on Oct. 3 and Obama's poor one.
Suddenly, the president's campaign was back on the air attacking Romney over Medicare again, trying to blunt the Republican's gains in the polls.
Last week, Romney, too, mentioned Medicare in an ad that begins by cataloging the high unemployment and large deficits during Obama's term. "He just hasn't been able to put in place reforms for Medicare and Social Security to preserve them," the commercial says.
A similar clash is playing out more than two dozen Senate and House races, largely along the same rhetorical lines.
In California, Democratic challenger Raul Ruiz and the party's campaign committee have both paid for ads targeting Rep. Mary Bono Mack's record on Medicare. One accused her of "voting to end Medicare, leaving seniors at the mercy of insurance companies, paying $6,400 more."
The sixth-term congressman aired an ad of her own, and the National Republican Campaign Committee defended her as well.
"The truth: Mary voted to protect Social Security and Medicare. She always will," the congresswoman's ad said, before going on to accuse House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of being behind the ads. It claimed the ads were part of a campaign to put liberals back in charge of the House. "We get more taxes, higher spending, fewer jobs."
Obama campaign Medicare ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50SljBBRYE&feature=plcp
Romney campaign Medicare ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4gPvToKTWU&feature=plcp
Raul Ruiz ad: http://www.drraulruiz.com/videos
Rep. Mary Bono Mack ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeGp_M5TPM&feature=relmfu
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Unlike traditional pistols the serial number on the PICO is found not on the frame, but on the stainless steel sub-chassis. This distinct difference makes the PICO truly modular, providing customers the opportunity to easily change the techno-polymer grip frame from the standard “go-with-everything black” to one of three different colors including flat dark earth, white or purple, all with a single serial number. LaserMax® takes the PICO frame options beyond just color by developing an integrated laser grip frame for those looking for that added sense of security and confidence laser aiming devices provide. The modularity of the PICO provides the option of customization and extends beyond the frame to the caliber itself with a simple change of the barrel. PICO owners can change their .380 ACP pistol to a .32 Auto utilizing the optional caliber kit available thru the Beretta Pro-Shop.
Second to customization, the PICO’s modularity provides simple disassembly and easy cleaning. Owners no longer need the services of a gunsmith to change the front and rear sights, a simple hex screw allows for a host of sight options and adjustments; while left-handed shooters will appreciate the PICO’s ambidextrous mag release, an exclusive feature in the pocket pistol category. A smooth, double action trigger and soft recoil make the PICO a pleasure to shoot for men and women alike. A sleek, low-profile, snag free design completes the PICO and makes it easy to carry, draw from concealment and holster, mandatory features for any pocket pistol.
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If you can make hay out of the physics and not run into the maddening frustration that dominated my playtime, then Pumped BMX Pro might just stick the landing. But if you want something that's more freeing and interesting, you're better off checking out any one of the other similar games hitting Switch in 2019.
Taken as a whole, Evoland: Legendary Edition should probably be viewed as just including Evoland 2, since that game is, for the most part, totally alright. I'd look at the first game as a nonessential bonus. It's a solid gag, but that's about it. The second game also veers into that humorous minefield, but at least it can precariously hang with decent action-RPG elements and amusing writing.
The brief length can make it feel a little less ambitious, but I can't say I was let down by this whimsical short story of a video game. Lovely art, a cute story, and solid puzzle platforming help make The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince a pleasant ride.
Away: Journey to the Unexpected is a thoroughly abnormal game that triumphs when its oddities all click. When you're rolling out there switching between your little boy, robot bounty hunter, and drunk wizard and blazing through battles against colorful foes, it's excellent, but when the repetitive areas and roguelite malaise starts to creep in, it falters. If all works out, by the time you hit that point, you'll be rolling the credits.
undefined.We have multiple reviews of Swords & Soldiers, all positive, including Chuck Jose's take on the WiiWare release in 2009 and Zach Miller's equally charmed screed on the HD release on Wii U in 2014. I don't have much more to add that Chuck and Zach haven't already covered aside from I think Swords & Soldiers shows its age more. The spirit of it is wonderful, but if you want to check the series out, I'd more recommend you wait for the sequel to come out in March.
Some elements of these mystery dungeon-type games will always be inscrutable, but Tangledeep does the best job I've seen at making it playable for everyone. The Switch version might not be ideal thanks to the clumsy interface, but it's worth figuring it out because underneath the difficulty and few crusty layers lies a beautiful game with a ton of enjoyable RPG variety.
After years of hearing how cool Downwell is, it's great to see just how fantastic it really is. It's a straightforward, no-nonsense masterclass in design where it's super easy to sit down with the intention of playing for five minutes and walk away a dozen runs and more than an hour later. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some gun boots to fire off so I can get to the bottom of this well.
Gabbuchi has its issues, primarily due to the character’s floaty jump and frustrating hitbox, but the puzzles nearly break through the problems thanks to their thoughtful challenge and clever design. It falls short of the engrossing majesty of similar puzzlers, but I hope h.a.n.d. makes more interesting games such as this. It’d be nice to see what they’ve learned after years of working with other company’s creations.
It captured me for a while though, as I tried to go through many runs to learn the ins and outs of these villagers as I planned out my sacrifices strategically to keep them all in the dark of the true machinations of my charlatan cult leader's goals. That is, if the cult leader is lying. I mean, the Chernabog isn't real, right? Right?.
FutureGrind is a brilliantly simple 2D application of extreme sports game concepts that offers a lot of variety packed in a relatively lean package. Surprise was at every corner of this game and the engaging trick system and enjoyable campaign made for an awesome time.
The experience might be muddied by a few rougher edges, like the consistently grating load times and some of the discomforting battle quirks, but more often than not, I came away impressed by how well everything came together in spite of some issues. The ambition and scope of this lengthy indie epic is impressive, taking big swings and, despite the numerous inspirations, carving its own distinct path. If you want your Japanese-style RPG to do to New Jersey what Shin Megami Tensei does to Tokyo, then YIIK is the closest you'll ever get.
Thankfully, even if it's a little weird and limited in some respects, Travis Strikes Again is a fun game that makes me excited for the future of the series. Spending time in the punk rock hellscape of No More Heroes isn't something I thought I'd get to do again. That trip might be through the lens of a bunch of fake video games, but all that does is add a welcome twist to Travis' escapades and add another quirk to Suda's legacy.
Snowboarding The Next Phase looks and plays fine, but it all fuses together to make a mundane and humdrum snowboarding experience. I wish more moment-to-moment creativity was in this game, as so much of it just feels like a boilerplate sketch of the snowboarding game legends like SSX and 1080 that it follows.
U DX is far less essential. The package is totally fine, and outside of Peachette leading to one of the most disturbing memes in recent Nintendo memory, the new character's addition is welcome. Aside from that, the only benefits of this release is that it can be truly played portably and it's on a console a lot more people own.
I had a good couple of hours of Pang Adventures, mostly because I find the concept enjoyable. It's a quick romp that only has legs if you get really into the co-op or leaderboards. If you miss Buster Bros. or just want a quick hit of arcade action, this Switch release is worth popping through. Just don't expect anything more than a good old-fashioned Pang time.
Donut County is incredibly endearing, but it ends too soon. While the amusing tale wraps up nicely, I wished I could have had more reason to toy around with putting trash into holes and see concepts limited to a level or two be further expanded. Donut County is worth experiencing for what it is, but it's disappointing because it could have been so much more.
This version of Clue is a perfectly fine recreation of the board game in video game form; however, the lack of single-system multiplayer kills a lot of the utility of the Switch version. The mobile version offers a far better deal and is also way easier to get a bunch of friends together to play Clue digitally.
World of Light maybe overstays its welcome, but it's an enjoyable ride through an array of matches. The oodles of extra modes are great alternative ways to mess with the characters and history. But the core of what matters with Smash Bros. is the local multiplayer, and it is still one of the best party games out there, bar none. Ultimate's inclusion of all the playable characters from the series history—as well as several dynamic new characters—along with most of the stages and music makes it a must-have multiplayer game for the Switch.
Conduct Together is an overall low-key affair but the puzzling chops here are solid and well crafted. The solo experience is the draw to me, as it's the kind of serene game with demanding puzzles that sucks me in. Multiplayer is a bit more goofy and frantic, but it has a fun feeling, especially if you can find some conductor compatriots to ride or die with.

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As announced in the last post, on 6 March 2013 I gave a talk for the urban game project Rezone in Den Bosch about (digital) play and citizen engagement with the media city. The evening was a kick-off for a – hopefully – new project I am participating in. The crowd was a n interesting mix of architects/planners, media and game developers, (semi-)government and the cultural sector.
After my talk a lively discussion arose about the potential of play and games for citizen engagement.
Below the presentation that I gave that evening (in Dutch, pdf 1.2 MB).


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Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend and Myth by Carol Rose is a great reference. an amazon US link...http://www.amazon.com/Giants-Monsters-Dragons-Encyclopedia-Folklore/dp/0393322114/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206474598&sr=1-1love your blog, btw. It makes me wish I could knit. :-)
Ahaaa! Thank you! I'll look that one up! Sounds just right...Knitting is fun! Give it a go! :D
There is a book about beasts by Fantagraphics Books, came out in 2006 called BEASTS and another book, without pictures though by Jorge Louis Borges called 'El libro de los seres imaginarios' but you probably know about them. Anyway, hello from Athens-Greece, I read your blog very often!
AAAH Sophiiiiaaaaa!!!Hello :D so nice to read you! You know, I was thinking you'd be the person to ask!I know the Louis Borges one (I ahve to get my own copy though) but not the Fantagraphics. I'm still catching up with publications past 2004 or so!I think I should also get that book with the dancing many-tailed god animals.
do they need to be books? you should check out the crazy monster in the korean movie, "the host", if you haven't already. it's fun to watch, anyway. wahh!
I haven't watched that yet but want to!Films also good, but I want to build up my reference library a bit...
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One of the complaints I hear most often, and which I see posted most frequently on Web stories about financial aid, is a version of this: "If you’re poor, you get all the free money you could possibly want. If you’re rich, you already have all the money you need or want. But if you’re in that nice medium called middle class you get screwed right out of your socks," which was posted last year at USNews.com by "College studen" (sic) of Texas. (I’m assuming CS simply mistyped and knows how to spell the word student.)
Is there any evidence supporting this?
A soon-to-be-published book by a Princeton sociologist found that low-income minority students (mainly African-Americans and Hispanics) who have good grades and test scores appear to have an edge over whites and Asians with similar grades and test scores (but not necessarily other factors such as extracurricular activities or recommendations, which were not considered in this study) at getting into the elite private colleges that tend to give out the most scholarships.
But by U. S. News’s count, only 54 of the 5,000-plus American colleges and universities promise to provide enough scholarships to meet all students’ financial need. And those colleges give plenty of aid to the far greater numbers of middle- and upper-middle-class students whom they admit. Harvard, for example, charges no more than 10 percent of a family’s income for all those who earn $180,000 or less.
A few dozen other schools promise to meet the need of students from low-income families only, typically cutting their generosity off at annual incomes of about $40,000.
The few students who meet these criteria may very well receive better financial aid deals than similar students who aren’t lucky enough to win admission or whose families earn slightly more than their school’s cutoff. But the numbers of students who get this advantage is surprisingly tiny. Most of the really generous schools are quite small. Princeton University, for example, enrolled just 1,300 freshmen this year. An analysis by Postsecondary Education Opportunity, a think tank based in Oskaloosa, Iowa, found that only about 10 percent of Princeton’s students come from low-income families. Using some back-of-the-envelope calculations, I’d estimate that these generous schools take no more than 200,000 or so of the 3 million freshmen who start college each year. But because the majority of those admitted to elite schools tend to be from well-off families, the number of low-income freshmen who get full financial aid probably doesn’t exceed 30,000—or 1 percent—of all college freshmen.
For the other 99 percent, the think tank found that it is the poor and working class who particularly get the financial aid shaft.
PEO researcher Tom Mortenson has found that families earning less than $70,000, on average, don’t receive the amount of scholarships and grants they need to meet the stingy budget formula the government uses to determine a student’s "need."
Mortenson calculated the amount of grants students received and subtracted that from the costs of their colleges. When he compared that number with what the government thought the student could afford, he found some depressing results: The poorer the family, the bigger the gap between their aid and their need.
Take students from families earning about $35,000. The government calculates they typically can afford only about $2,600 a year for college. But considering dorms, books, travel, and tuition, those students’ bills come to about $20,000 a year. Mortenson found that the average grant these students received in 2008 was about $7,000. That means those families had to spend about $13,000—almost 40 percent of their 2008 annual incomes—to support one child in college. Even adding in more than $5,000 worth of loans and work-study earnings leaves a gap of more than $5,000 between what they actually had to pay upfront and the aid they received.
Families who earned about $65,000 were expected to contribute almost $10,000 toward the student’s cost. But they typically got only $4,600 in grants to cover their $11,600 need. Even if the student worked and borrowed, the family was typically left with a gap of $1,443.
Now look at what happened to students from families earning about $170,000 a year. The government estimates those families can afford to pay, on average, more than $36,000 a year, or about 15 percent of income, toward college. That’s more than most in-state public universities, and even some private universities, charge. But some of those students nevertheless win "merit" grants or scholarships, such as Georgia’s Hope Scholarship, which covers tuition at in-state public universities for any Georgia student with good grades. In fact, one study found that more than one quarter of students from families in the richest 25 percent got some state merit grants. While good students should be rewarded, no matter how wealthy (or poor) their parents are, the result is that some wealthy students are getting more aid than the government calculates they need.
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Elizabeth Stone, Virginia
Elizabeth is a self-employed real estate agent in northern Virginia. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in June 2012. While she has remained largely asymptomatic for the last few years, she has recently begun to experience symptoms like severe night sweats and difficulty standing for more than a few minutes at a time.
In 2013, Elizabeth largely stopped responding to treatment after two rounds of stem cell transplants. Because of the kind of Hodgkin’s lymphoma that she has, she says that she will never be fully cured, but she could enter remission. She started clinical trials for new maintenance drugs and her treatments are only available through a remission expert in New York. While the cost of the medication itself is covered by the trial, the associated costs, which include transportation, bloodwork, and sometimes hospitalizations, are completely on her.
Elizabeth purchases her insurance through the Marketplace. Her plans have been canceled a couple of times, both her premium and out of pocket costs have risen.
Without access to insurance through the Marketplace, and without some of the protections, she says that she could dip into an inheritance for a few months, but then she’d be bankrupt and would eventually stop being able to afford treatment altogether. She’s currently paying $490/month in premiums without any kind of financial assistance, with a high out of pocket cap. She’s especially worried about any removal of protections for people with pre-existing conditions and a guaranteed ban on lifetime caps. “As science improves, people with conditions like mine will be living longer and longer. But the cost of that care is astronomical. We have to be able to continue to make treatments affordable for people, otherwise, we’ll die.”
In February of 2017, Elizabeth transitioned onto her husband’s employer-sponsored insurance in July, 2019. She said that when she logged onto the exchanges this year, for the first time ever, it was more expensive for her to get marketplace insurance than to be on her husband’s. However, the good news is that Elizabeth’s care remained mostly uninterrupted despite the change in insurance. She only had to wait an extra week or two for a specific treatment but other than that there were no hiccups caused by her lapse in coverage. She stayed on her marketplace insurance between the marketplace open enrollment and her husband’s employers.
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International technology professionals on H1-B visas want the US government to extend all their stay in the United States, from the existent 60 to 180 days after the layoff, due to coronavirus global crisis that affected businesses as well.
H-1B visa holders have initiated a petition campaign on the official website of the White House asking to extend their stay in the US and to protect the H1B workers under these difficult circumstances, VisaGuide.World reports.
The petition requires at least 100,000 supporters, to get a response from the White House.
“Under regulations, H-1B workers have a 60-day grace period of unemployment time during each authorized validity period to stay in the USA legally. They must find new work within 60 days; otherwise, they have to leave the country,” the petition reads.
The federal rules that are currently being applied require the H-1B visa holders to leave the US together with their family members, 60 days after they lose their job.
According to the experts of the economy, various sectors of the American economy will be subject to massive layoffs, due to the economic crisis that is expected to deteriorate in the coming months, due to coronavirus pandemic.
On March 21, it is reported that 3.3 million Americans have been laid off, while 47 million people in the US could also be unemployed.
The H-1B visa holders are ineligible to receive unemployment benefits. They neither can benefit from the securing benefits, even though the salary deduction has been established for this purpose.
“Most H-1B workers are from India and cannot travel home with children who are US Citizens as many nations announced an entry ban, including India. H-1B workers cater to the economy at large, mainly supporting the IT Industry with high tax contributions,” the petition highlights.
Through an H-1B visa, all foreign citizens, specialized in skills such as IT professionals, architects, professors, doctors, can be able to temporarily work in the US.
This week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration agency announced that the limit for preliminary applications for H-1B visas had been reached, while this was the first time USCIS imposed a new electronic registration system.

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high protein soya tikki
Posted by : Deepali Mittal
- Food Type : Veg
- Cook Time : 00:20
- Cuisine : Other
How to make high protein soya tikki
boil water and add soya chunks in that for 5 min or till they become soft.
drain poha in water and rest it for a minute
churn squeezed soya chunks and poha in mixer grinder along with spices.
take out the mixture and shape it in thin tikkies .you can also add veggies of your choice. roast them well on non stitck pan n you are done with your yummylicios breakfast!


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a decent tea
when i smell the leaves dry, they have a dark chocolate smell.
when i smell the leaves wet, they have a dark chocolate smell as well as a roasted/toasty smell
when i smell the brewed tea, i smell a dark chocolate smell as well as roasted/toasty smell.
when i taste the brewed tea, i taste dark chocolate as well as a roasted/toasty taste. also i taste grapes, but its so minor its hard to tell if it is me or the tea.
now, the dominant taste is the dark chocolate. also i was told by Amanda ‘SoggyEnderman’ Wilson that this tea is a lot like “Shui Hsien” from Sea dyke brand. if i were to say which is better Shui Hsien or this tea, the former wins hands down.
i rate this tea a 75, as i was kind of disappointed.
Flavors: Dark Chocolate, Roasted, Toasty


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Explore Sydney Harbour on a luxury boat! Charter a skippered Luxury Catamaran for up to 28 people. Rates as low as $525/per hour and minimum booking of 4 hours. PLEASE NOTE ALL Public holidays incur a 20% surcharge. SPELLBOUND is a luxury 12m sailing catamaran. Be “Spellbound” by the luxury décor of our vessel with a very large, light and airy saloon and comfortable shaded cockpit, which makes this the ideal catamaran for your harbour cruise experience. Please note that there is also a standard fee of $100 for the BYO surcharge and $100 for the pick up and drop of wharf bookings, which will be added to the booking. We offer a range of cruise options, which can be customised for every occasion…. Corporate Cruises, Private Charters, Team building activities, Business meetings, Romantic celebrations, Scattering of the Ashes, Morning tea and Sunset cruises and so much more. You can choose how you spend your time cruising around the Harbour while our experienced crew will do their utmost to make your experience unforgettable. This Luxury Catamaran is a stable, flat platform under sail and at anchor, maximising the comfort of your guests, who may not be used to sailing. If you love to swim our crew can anchor in a bay, or take you to a suitable spot to enjoy the fabulous beaches. For those sun shy guests, we have ample shaded area in the saloon, or on the aft (back) deck lounge to still enjoy your time out on this luxury catamaran. Catering available on request, or BYO Food, Beverages and ICE. Bluetooth, iPod Connectivity TV / DVD, Swimming. Our Skipper on the day will cook your BBQ while you sit back and enjoy your cruise. PLEASE NOTE: NO BUCKS PARTIES. If you have any questions, we can answer those through GetMyBoat’s messaging platform before you pay. Just hit, “Request to Book” and send us an inquiry for a custom offer.
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With a reputation that includes titles such as the "Pie Guy" and "The Man Who Made 100 Different Pies in One Night," it's no great surprise that Chris Monroe—a dedicated pie lover and enthusiast—runs Hunka Pie. Open since 2007, the restaurant is dedicated to small-batch and handcrafted pies that boast flaky, hand-rolled crusts and are made without the preservatives found in big-batch bakeries. Equipped with the childhood pie memories and experience of growing up with three generations of pie makers, Chris claims the "largest selection of handcrafted pie in Arkansas." And judging from his list, he may be right. Interesting flavors such as chocolate hazelnut baklava and peach with rum glaze pop out alongside classic combinations such as southern pecan and key lime.
But though Chris and Hunka Pie specialize in pie, they also bring their A-game to breakfast, lunch, and dinner food, as well. They tout classic and creative burgers made with a third-pound of ground beef, some seasoned with secret spices, and others with more exotic flavors. The bombay burger adds garam masala to the mix, and the turkey burger's patty is seasoned with herbs. And though the restaurant was once relegated to a small drive-in counter, the restaurant's new digs invite patrons to sit and relax in the classic chrome and red of a former diner.
Armed with just a single, generations-old cookie recipe, Great American Cookies opened its first store in 1977, and the rest is history. Today, the franchise boasts locations in malls across the country and nabbed a coveted spot on Entrepreneur magazine’s 2012 Top 500 Franchises in the baked-goods category. As the shop’s reputation grew, so did its menu as chefs churned out a mouthwatering roster of gourmet-cookie recipes, each created and carefully tested in Atlanta. The tempting options now include snickerdoodle, peanut butter with M&Ms, and chewy pecan supreme, as well as freshly baked fudge and cheesecake brownies, and cookie sandwiches stuffed with frosting. The real show-stoppers, however, are the giant chocolate-chip cookie cakes, which can be customized with sweet, celebratory messages or shopping lists penned in colorful icing.
In 1956, residents of North Little Rock began catching mouthwatering whiffs of smoked ribs and chopped pork. Those aromas emanated from a spot called Lindsey's Bar-B-Q. Stepping inside, they found the source: a pit master named D.L. Lindsey Sr. Today, his son Donnie Lindsey II and his wife Eleanor carries on the family tradition at Lindsey's Hospitality House, located just a block away from his father's former eatery.
Lindsey II prepares many of the same specialties his dad served, including smoked chicken and racks of ribs paired with sides, such as glazed carrots and black-eyed peas. Patrons can relax in the dining room or arrange a catered feast in the restaurant's banquet room, which comfortably seats more than 200 people.
Green, leafy bamboo stalks reach from the floor to the ceiling at Lemongrass Asian Bistro, lining a bright yellow wall that contrasts from hanging red lamps. Therein, the wait staff ferries about artfully plated dishes, such as pineapple-marinated chicken served with bell peppers in half of a hollowed-out pineapple. Red and green curries coat servings of duck, beef, pork, chicken, or tofu, and seafood shines in jumbo shrimp flash-fried and topped with a caramelized cheese sauce.
Fresh Cup spreads out a chilly selection of frozen yogurt flavors and toppings, allowing dessertarians to create tasty masterpieces exactly as their taste buds demand. Patrons start by filling a cup or 11-gallon hat with a frozen treat of their choice from dispensers stocked with such festive flavors as red velvet, fat-free New York cheesecake, cookies ‘n’ cream, and pomegranate raspberry sorbet. Once a creamy foundation has been constructed, decorate your edible work of art with more than 15 additives including sliced fruit, cookie dough pieces, and cheesecake bites before it’s weighed for payment ($0.45/oz.). In order to keep the yogurt carousel spinning in line with the seasons, Fresh Cup stocks different flavors depending on the time of year, posting the changes on its Facebook page regularly.
Curry in a Hurry invites hungry guests to slow down and taste from an ample menu of classic Indian cuisine. The vibrant menu presents a range of colorful dishes, many of which roast in a clay tandoor oven to achieve their ideal level of succulence—chunks of lamb and beef kebab, to name just two. This eatery—like King Edward the Confessor—is named after its core competency, but it also barbecues many of its cuisines. Mounds of tomato curry can join plates already bursting with lentils, potatoes, or cauliflower. The kitchen team also dresses many of its creations in thoughtful combinations of exotic spices, and their naan adorned with garlic or spinach can complement any entree.


|Halifax Central Library
What is a Central Library?
A Central Library functions as the hub or core of the public library system within a city, region or municipality.
|Halifax Public Libraries – Home Page
Halifax Regional Library was created April 1, 1996 from a merging of the Halifax City, Halifax County and Dartmouth Regional Libraries. At that time a new automated catalogue was launched allowing residents from the entire Halifax Regional Municipality to access the collections of the three former library systems. In 2003, the Library changed its name to Halifax Public Libraries.
|Halifax Public Libraries – Sackville
Located on the main floor of the former Acadia School building, this bright and spacious full-service library offers a wide range of materials, including books, videos, CDs, DVDs, magazines and more.


By Dan Shapley
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's plan for tackling greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's second largest city is bold - calling for a 35 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels by 2030. But according to an analysis by the Los Angeles Times, it puts a heavy emphasis on as-yet undeveloped technology, and it doesn't doesn't put much emphasis on politically-fraught calls for personal change. Villaraigosa is in New York for the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit
, where world leaders have gathered to share solutions for tackling global warming, according to a May 15 story in the Los Angeles Times.


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This is, obviously, a painting of a variety of birds on a white picket fence in a garden full of colorful flowers. While probably not a scene you're likely to come across in the real world, this is where artistic license comes into play. Pushing the limits of reality can make for more interesting and lively paintings.
The birds are, in order from left to right, a male American goldfinch, female goldfinch, eastern bluebird, black-capped chickadee, female northern red cardinal, and male northern red cardinal.
The background flowers are delphinium and the foreground flowers include calibrachoa and Black-eyed Susan daisies.


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On March 31, 2009, the City of Port Colborne, Ontario, became Canada’s 56th designated “Safe Community” under the umbrella of Safe Communities Canada. This designation came after a year-long candidacy period during which time we established a Leadership Table, held a Priority Setting Exercise, and formed committees to address our top three injury priorities – Vehicle, Intentional Harm, and Falls.
Safe Communities Port Colborne’s mandate is to work collectively across all sectors to make Port Colborne a safe place in which to live, learn, work, and play. We are striving to create a culture of health and safety for our community through engagement, partnerships, and collaboration. Rather than duplicate already existing injury prevention programs and resources, we are seeking to complement and champion current initiatives and fill gaps as required.
Safe Communities Port Colborne is a not-for-profit, charitable organization. A Board of Directors, a Commitee of 30+ members, and four active Working Groups work together to address the priorities of Safe Communities Port Colborne.
If you have an interest in guiding the direction of health, safety, and injury prevention in Port Colborne, please consider joining our Board, Committee or one of our Working Groups.
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By Brian T. McVey
Are you that officer who shows up to work thinking you are “Officer Friendly when your spouse or co-workers say you are a lot more like “Officer Tired and Cranky?”
One reason is that you are probably working long hours, different shifts and side jobs while not getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation influences not only mental but also physical health and performance. Lack of sleep is also associated with depression and mood disorders.
Judging by sales of prescribed over the counter sleep medications, millions of people rely on meds to get to sleep despite the fact that they are addictive and don’t work over the long term.
Many athletes, who understand they have to perform at high levels under enormous pressure, have become masters of “sleep.”
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady attributes much of his on-field success to getting enough rest.
“I have to do things differently,” Brady told ESPN Magazine. “And that means getting a lot of sleep.”
“The old school approach of toughing it out is completely bogus, not to mention counterproductive,” maintains Charles Czeisler, director of the division of sleep medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Czeisler, who is known around the National Basketball Association (NBA) as the “sleep doctor,” recommends a simple formula for maximizing elite athletic skills—more sleep.
Warren Buffet, one of the world’s most successful investors, is similarly greedy about his sleep. He famously told investors, “Why don’t you go home and get a good night’s rest, and we’ll meet again tomorrow,” after an important meeting in the 1990’s.
Bryan Vila conducted a comprehensive study of police fatigue which he published in his book, Tired Cops: The Importance of Managing Police Fatigue (2000).
Vila is a professor of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University. His research focuses on the impact of sleep-related fatigue, shift work and long work hours on the safety, health and performance of police officers.
In a TED Talk, Bryan spoke about the fact that if you work officers harder, you wear them out. “More officers get sick and more of them burnout. You then have fewer bodies to put out on the street,” Bryan said.
Over the long-term, sleep disruption suppresses your immune system which can lead to cancer, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders and psychological problems. Several studies done at the Center for Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine on sleeping patterns of police officers confirmed that shift work contributes to sleep disorders and excessive fatigue.
Over 18 million Americans have sleep apnea, a disorder in which the airway becomes blocked, causing sufferers to snore loudly and stop breathing for short periods. Those that suffer from sleep apnea feel constantly drowsy which can raise blood pressure to dangerously high levels.
A good night’s sleep will get you recharged. Sleep also helps to burn calories—between 50 and 100 calories an hour.
Very few law enforcement agencies have established comprehensive shift, work-hour, and fatigue management policies despite the well understood, long-standing, and profound influences that round-the-clock schedules have on worker health, safety, performance, job satisfaction, and family life. Right now, this is a health and safety issue we have to deal with on our own. So, work on getting more sleep. It’s our only choice.

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Go Karamazov is a wearable and wireless interface for sound and light.
The live audio is programmed in Pure Data and is adressing issues of electromagnetic
propagation. Light has been integrated into the design adding a visual element of
light and shadows.
Go Karamazovis is an interface for live interactive performance, a wearable controller
with sensors as inputs for gestural performance. The sonic output from the controller
is composed and processed in Pure Data.
Go Karamazov was first developed during an Artist in Residence at the Nordic Resort.
This 2 month residency was organised the Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark
December 2006 January 2007
The second prototype was developed as part of a commission for the New Composers Series,
organized by Diapason Sound Art Gallery, Electronic Music Foundation, White Box Gallery
in New York and had the premiere at the Performa 07 Biennale, with support from New York
State Music Fund and the Rockerfeller Foundation.
Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music 2012
at Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Research in Music, ICSRiM
School of Music, University of Leeds, UK
NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2008
Linux Audio Conference 2008
KHM Cologne, Germany
Pure Data Convention 2007
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nordic Resort Residency presentation at the
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, Sweden in 2009


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South Carolina – March 8, 2021
Bedsores can cause minor irritation to nursing home residents, and in some cases, result in dangerous health complications. They are preventable if nursing home staff gives residents appropriate care. When bedsores develop, or get worse, it may indicate that negligence, or inadequate care is endangering a resident’s well-being and safety. Contact an experienced nursing home attorney if you believe the shortages in nursing home staff has caused harm to a resident loved one.
Claims against bedsores.
Residents, or loved ones who want to make a claim for staff negligence leading to a bedsore can take actions to strengthen their allegation.
- Take pictures of the lesions, and dates of each to see if they are becoming worse,
- Hire private duty nurses to monitor the care, or make sure bedsores are being attended to,
- Request performance reports of staff involved in loved one’s care,
- Research complaints against staff, administration, or the nursing home itself.
- Request copies of citations, reprimands, warnings, or documented violations against negligent care.
Resident Bill of Rights.
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Standard of care.
When sub-standard care results in harm to a resident, or outright abuse occurs, legal action may be taken against a nursing home and/or the treating medical professional, or nurse because acts of negligence that cause, or exacerbate existing health conditions, or place residents in danger are deviations from NHRA rights. It may be time to consult with a competent South Carolina attorney, who is knowledgeable about elder law protections when a resident, or loved one wants to make a formal complaint against a nursing home nurse.
South Carolina laws.
South Carolina nursing home facilities have standard operating procedures requiring administrative personnel to protect residents. If residents suffer harm directly related to a negative nursing home encounter that exacerbated an existing health condition, or placed them in danger, a skilled lawyer can identify the appropriate legal cause of action supporting a duty of care outlined in the Resident Bill of Rights set for by the South Carolina Omnibus Adult Protection Act.
Talk to a lawyer.
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Jane Friedman, the former publisher of Writers Digest, walked a tight rope in her “Getting to Yes” article in Publishers Weekly‘s Booklife self-publishing advertising insert, which is stuffed with positive reviews that self-published authors have paid for.
Her article says that authors marketing their work should start their campaign by making lists of “owned media, one of paid media, and one of earned media” to approach.
Owned media are existing resources and assets you control that can help spread the word about your book. This can include your website or blog, email newsletter, social media presence, or anything that reaches readers directly, whether digital or analog. Paid media are those you pay for attention or exposure. This includes advertising and paid reviews. Earned media refers to media coverage or attention that you secure for free.
I thought “earned media” was interesting and revealing phrasing.
She implicitly likened “paid reviews” in her article to a form of advertising. But what they actually are is a complete waste of money that nobody takes seriously…the opposite of “earned media,” or a review you’ve earned by virtue of your book appealing to critics on its own merits, not your ability to pay. An “earned” review is taken seriously, a “paid” review is not. That was the revealing part of the phrase. She was essentially acknowledging that real reviews are earned. Paid reviews are advertising.
But advertising what…and to whom?
The only thing a “paid review” advertises is your desperation, naivete, and ego.
Paying for a review is actually a huge mistake…for one thing, it negates the likelihood of you getting an “earned” review from PW or Kirkus (which also runs a “paid review” insert in their magazine for self-published authors). You’re better off, and will save money, by asking your Mom to post a positive review on Amazon for you…and you’ll accomplish just as much with just about the same level of humiliation.
But naturally, she didn’t dare say that, or dwell on the “paid review” aspect of a “marketing plan” in her article. In fact, she actually doesn’t mention paid reviews again…not daring to bite that hand that feeds her.
Self-publishing authors—or any authors who are pitching themselves—should seek alternative options to gain momentum. These include local and regional media, influencers in the relevant target market, and any person who is likely to answer your emails or pick up the phone when you call.
Note that she didn’t say, “buy a positive review like the ones in the following pages of this Booklife insert.” To be honest, I am surprised she didn’t.
Some of you reading this post may be looking for a quick and easy answer to the question of whether you should invest in a paid book review. Here’s what I think in a nutshell, although a lot of people will be unhappy with me saying so:
The majority of authors will not sufficiently benefit from paid book reviews, and should invest their time and money elsewhere.
She also noted that the PW piece that ran this week is actually a reprint of an article she wrote for them two years ago.
Brash Books is launching tomorrow with thirty books by twelve amazing authors…and I am SO excited. I’m pleased to say that the buzz has already been very positive. For example, last week Kirkus Reviews did a great interview with me and my Brash cofounder Joel Goldman . Here’s an excerpt:
The Brash editions I’ve seen so far are handsome, trade-size paperbacks, with bold cover imagery and elegant interior design. “Joel and I decided right off that we were either going to do this ‘first-class’ or not at all,” says Goldberg, “with high-quality covers that vividly and definitively establish a franchise for each author or series that we are publishing. We also decided that our covers would be contemporary, regardless of when the stories take place, and that they would pop in thumbnail but be rich in details and textures when seen full-size. We believed that strategy, that look, would instantly set us apart from our competitors, many of whom are either marketing their books with ‘vintage paperback’ or ‘pulpy’ covers that immediately date the product, or are churning out hundreds of generic covers based on a few rigid templates to control their costs. It was a pricey decision for us to make, but we believe it’s the right one.”
Will the gumption and gusto shown by Brash Books help it triumph in an increasingly decentralized publishing environment, one that’s already spawned other paperback reprint houses (such as Hard Case Crime and Stark House Press)? It’s hard to tell. The two partners behind it, though, are certainly optimistic. “We wouldn’t be investing this much of our money into Brash if we didn’t love each and every book we are publishing,” Goldberg states. “We are also having a lot of fun together doing this. Yes, it’s a business. But it’s also been really exciting and fulfilling…especially when an author, or an heir, tells us how much they love the books and how much it means to them, emotionally, to see them brought back in such beautiful new editions. You can’t beat that feeling.”
JKP: Do you worry that with such a huge single-month rollout, some of the individual works you’re publishing might get lost?
JG: We’d be crazy if we didn’t worry about that, because we don’t want to publish more books than we can support.
LG: But we also wanted to make a big splash, to launch with a list of books that truly announces who we are, that represents the range of work that we’re publishing, and that demonstrates the high quality that sets us apart from our competitors.
JG: Our marketing plan is a solid mix of old-school and new-school promotion, including magazine and convention ads, online ads, social media, and our killer Web site. We’ve hired an ad agency and a PR firm to help us, and we’re going to as many conventions as we can to get the word out.
LG: The best advertisements we have are our books and our authors. People are blown away by how gorgeous our books are and are very enthusiastic about the authors we’re publishing. Those readers are spreading the word for us better than any tweet or Google ad can.
And if that wasn’t enough, Publishers Weekly gave our premiere novel, Tom Kakonis’ Treasure Coast, a great review:
After more than a decade’s absence, Kakonis (Michigan Roll) returns with a darkly humorous caper novel that throws together an odd mix of characters whose conflicting aims and shifting alliances result in mayhem on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Failed gambler Jim Merriman makes an ill-considered promise to his dying sister to “watch out” for her hapless 21-year-old son, Leon. Con man B. Noble Bott and his assistant, Waneta Pease, are concocting a new scheme with Waneta serving as a medium to put the living in contact with the departed. Mismatched debt collectors, racist thug Morris Biggs and Latino Hector Pasadena, are about their nasty business, which includes Leon. Billie Swett, naïve trophy wife of Big Lonnie Swett, is the piece that will inadvertently connect them all. A hastily concocted kidnapping scheme, an ape-like PI named Don McReedy, and an incipient hurricane stir the plot. Kakonis overwrites at times, but he still offers strong entertainment.
We’re expecting more articles and reviews about Brash in the coming days. But what I really can’t wait to hear is what you think of our books… and whether you believe that we are living up to our motto: we publish the best crime novels in existence.

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