Now more than ever it is so important for Employers to check all the paperwork of each employee that works for the company. Social Security Numbers are being stolen and used by persons other than who the original owner is, and making life hell for the people who are the real owners of the numbers.
Employers can take action , large and small companies can now check Social Security Numbers online by going to ssnlocator.com and placing the number into their database, then you can make sure the person who filled out your employment papers is who they say they are.
Trace Social Security Numbers and make sure you know who is working for you!
01 January 2009
Like A Beacon of Light............
Is this photograph not spectacular?
I have been spending much time this last month trying to re think how my life has been going. I found out two things for sure:
1. I have not been listening, I have heard but not really listened to what I have been learning. I have begun to see how if one really listens to what others tell you you actually do begin to learn, to understand.
2. Faith is a two way street. I have been kicking myself senseless to learn what it is, how to have it, did I have it and how do I make it work? Well this morning thanks to a few wonderful pastors on TV I finally fianlly got it. What a sense of peace, I have faith ... honest to God real faith!
Just the two of these things have made me see I can survive anything, I do not have to be scared about my future. And I do not have to wallow in my past either.
This has been a big thing for me as well... speaking openly about my relationship with God, here on this blog without fearing my readers reactions.
I have been praying about being able to get this blog as well as the others to a place where I felt comfortable speaking about my faith. Now is the time.
So, I hope with all my heart that you will feel okay about my posts where I speak about how I feel about God, what I learn from Him. I can not and will no longer stay away from the subject. What ever success I have with this blog and anything else I do in my life comes from Him and this blog belongs to Him. I am just it's caretaker for a while.
I do not see this affecting anything I post here, as I have always tried to be respectful of people. I just need to be able to give Him the credit, to thank Him every day for all he has done for me.
Faith comes by hearing the Word of God :-) and I have all faith that this blog and all I put my hands to in this coming year will be fantastic.
I have been spending much time this last month trying to re think how my life has been going. I found out two things for sure:
1. I have not been listening, I have heard but not really listened to what I have been learning. I have begun to see how if one really listens to what others tell you you actually do begin to learn, to understand.
2. Faith is a two way street. I have been kicking myself senseless to learn what it is, how to have it, did I have it and how do I make it work? Well this morning thanks to a few wonderful pastors on TV I finally fianlly got it. What a sense of peace, I have faith ... honest to God real faith!
Just the two of these things have made me see I can survive anything, I do not have to be scared about my future. And I do not have to wallow in my past either.
This has been a big thing for me as well... speaking openly about my relationship with God, here on this blog without fearing my readers reactions.
I have been praying about being able to get this blog as well as the others to a place where I felt comfortable speaking about my faith. Now is the time.
So, I hope with all my heart that you will feel okay about my posts where I speak about how I feel about God, what I learn from Him. I can not and will no longer stay away from the subject. What ever success I have with this blog and anything else I do in my life comes from Him and this blog belongs to Him. I am just it's caretaker for a while.
I do not see this affecting anything I post here, as I have always tried to be respectful of people. I just need to be able to give Him the credit, to thank Him every day for all he has done for me.
Faith comes by hearing the Word of God :-) and I have all faith that this blog and all I put my hands to in this coming year will be fantastic.
Surfer girl in the making here......
Surfer Girl in Silhouette, standing with her surf board while totally mesmerized by the golden sunset
Originally uploaded by mikebaird
What I would not do to be right where this girl is, right now. While I lived in CA for many years the one thing I never did was surf. Oh I went to the beach, hung out each summer like any good Cali girl did, the sun was to be enjoyed back then not run away from. I would watch the other kids surf and it sure looked like fun but while I am a strong swimmer who actually grew up on the water of the Atlantic ocean as a kid I was not able to get my inner scaredy cat on to a board. Chock it up to Jaws.
Now I am older. I am not less afraid Jaws will get me, I just don't really care as much about whether it will happen. I would give any shark who felt the need to taste me a whopping case of indigestion.
I think about the freedom you have skimming across the water as a surfer. One of my Professors once told us that the greatest power in the wave was right where the water curl met the surface of the ocean, that it was the nirvana of surfing. I want to know if that is true and what it feels like to be in that place of power. One day I will get back to Santa Cruz and when I do I will rent a board, find myself a willing teacher and I will go out for the ride of my life. I will become one with the ocean I love so much.
This hobby is not inexpensive, boards cost. And you just can not jump on a board and become the big Kahuna without a bit of learning first. I have no clue what the different parts of a surfboard are or what they are for. For instance, surfboard fins are for directional stability and also are determined by what you want to do with your board, have fun or do tricks. Least I hope that is correct, I am sure some surfer will come and correct me.
And apparently you can have more than one fin, again determined by what board you have. At TheSurfboardwarehouse.com you have an extensive selection to choose from , all with wicked sounding names and sick color schemes. You know I love color :-) If I was to have a board, and were I not allowed to paint it black and yellow for my favorite Rock station ever ( 98.5 KOME) I would probably have it done up in a all black with a melded color scheme from light to dark blues, iridescent. So I went to see what they had that fit that bill.
My board for sure would not be a trick board but one wide and safe feeling, so my fin would need to be for that job, simple safety and stabilizing so I do not end up in the drink each time I went out. And I did find one that my untrained eye thinks would work, the Future Fins Vector 2 Quad, all done up in awesome yellow! And it states it is for the "heavier" surfer.... me.
Seems like for the professional and well trained surfer that Surfboardwarehouse has all the items needed for surfing and at good prices. And check this out, they do custom boards, so my vision , my future board will be coming alive one day!
One day peeps, you will catch me surfing into the sunset out at Davenport, you wait and see!
Now I am older. I am not less afraid Jaws will get me, I just don't really care as much about whether it will happen. I would give any shark who felt the need to taste me a whopping case of indigestion.
I think about the freedom you have skimming across the water as a surfer. One of my Professors once told us that the greatest power in the wave was right where the water curl met the surface of the ocean, that it was the nirvana of surfing. I want to know if that is true and what it feels like to be in that place of power. One day I will get back to Santa Cruz and when I do I will rent a board, find myself a willing teacher and I will go out for the ride of my life. I will become one with the ocean I love so much.
This hobby is not inexpensive, boards cost. And you just can not jump on a board and become the big Kahuna without a bit of learning first. I have no clue what the different parts of a surfboard are or what they are for. For instance, surfboard fins are for directional stability and also are determined by what you want to do with your board, have fun or do tricks. Least I hope that is correct, I am sure some surfer will come and correct me.
And apparently you can have more than one fin, again determined by what board you have. At TheSurfboardwarehouse.com you have an extensive selection to choose from , all with wicked sounding names and sick color schemes. You know I love color :-) If I was to have a board, and were I not allowed to paint it black and yellow for my favorite Rock station ever ( 98.5 KOME) I would probably have it done up in a all black with a melded color scheme from light to dark blues, iridescent. So I went to see what they had that fit that bill.
My board for sure would not be a trick board but one wide and safe feeling, so my fin would need to be for that job, simple safety and stabilizing so I do not end up in the drink each time I went out. And I did find one that my untrained eye thinks would work, the Future Fins Vector 2 Quad, all done up in awesome yellow! And it states it is for the "heavier" surfer.... me.
Seems like for the professional and well trained surfer that Surfboardwarehouse has all the items needed for surfing and at good prices. And check this out, they do custom boards, so my vision , my future board will be coming alive one day!
One day peeps, you will catch me surfing into the sunset out at Davenport, you wait and see!
Happy New Years Jericho Rangers ~ a message from Redsox1986 concerning Jericho
A message from Redsox1986 ~
Hello Fellow Rangers, Happy New Year. Here is hoping that 2009 is better than 2008.
As the New Year Commences we find our selves wondering what if anything will happen with Jericho. As many have seen over the past 5 weeks the ratings have been consistent in the 1 million range on the CW with this past week ratings being 1,260,000 in the 7:30-8:00pm time slot. The lead in to the movie is important to the money people and the numbers are increasing each week as the 7:00-7:30pm slot has be interrupted by football.
The UHD commercial will have one more full week run on UHD channel starting on Monday January 5, 2009. I will get the schedule posted when I get the flight schedule from UHD channel. I understand from Denny that Jericho is not on the UHD schedule for January, so the CW will have the exclusive broadcast on television for Jericho episodes. More than ever we need to get bodies in front of the television on Sunday nights tuned to Jericho and the CW.
First and foremost, I think we all need to come to terms with how things stand right now. I keep hearing from people what is going on, why have we not heard anything from the producers in a long time or there has been no official word on Jericho’s status.
I believe that right now the producers, writers and actors are not involved in the fate of the show any longer. They have moved on to other projects because that is what they do. In my opinion we are not going to hear from Dan or Karim or any other producer regarding Jericho.
I know that Carol Barbee sent Shaun an email which he read on his show on December 22, 2008 Thank all the fans for their support. I hope they are enjoying the CW run of Jericho and assure them we're still working on a continued life of the series. What that means is not clear it could mean a graphic novel and/or a movie. It was the first thing I have seen in many months and again most including Carol have other shows they are developing/producing for CBS for the Fall Season.
The show is a commodity, something in the vault owned by CBS Paramount and they are the ones who will decide its’ ultimate fate. The producers and actors are not relevant to the financial decision makers, never have been. So with that I have stopped putting any stock in what they say or do not say.
Several things have kept me motivated to continue my efforts to continue the Jericho story. The number 1 reason are the people here in the Jericho Community. In the 9 months since the cancellation we have all gone through a lot together from the big projects like the tv commercial and bill board to the ads in variety.
We have also seen disagreements and arguments which cause many good Rangers to leave. But sometime back in August people chose to put those differences aside and the various groups started to work together to get Jericho back. The reason we are here today with Jericho back on the CW and with at least a chance to see the story continued is solely due to the fans and their efforts, writing cards, letters, faxes, watching Jericho on every platform imaginable
The second thing that has kept me moving down the path to continue the fight for Jericho is the business side of things. That is, CBS Paramount has made a business decision to put Jericho back on the CW to see what the ratings it generates and to see who if any network would be interested in it including the CW..
I think they made this decision for 2 reasons first the show continues to draw interest on the internet, at UHD, Fancast and other places. Second, the economy has a lot to do with what is going on, not just at CBS but for all networks facing shrinking ad revenues, viewers to other forms of distribution such as the internet, cable and direct tv. They are looking for cheaper alternatives to developing and producing new scripted shows during the current economic climate.
As I mentioned I believe the numbers people decided to give this commodity one more look to see if it would make sense to invest money in making a movie or producing more episodes and if so what is the Return on Investment (ROI) that is needed to justify making a movie and ultimately more episodes. I do not think that Carol, Dan or any of the producers were consulted or informed of the decision before the story came out in the media.
For the past several weeks a group of fans lead by Myvibes, NorsU, K6, CaseyDog, Nursevick, Rat Keeper and others have been putting together statistics, graphs and charts in an attempt to communicate with the ultimate decision makers, the bean counters that Jericho is a very viable commodity that people are willing to watch. We are trying to give the quantifiable data that they can use to justify an outlay of capitol to produce a show with a reasonable likelihood that they will get a return on their investment.
I posted the most recent letter that I sent to Nancy Tellem at CBS, Bonnie Hammer at NBC, Dawn Ostroff at the CW and Comcast which provides graphs and charts of the numbers. Youtube is at 1,100,000 views, UHD Board is approaching 17,000 posts, Jericho continues to hit the top 50 at Netflix and Joost.
Most important is the ratings on the CW. With the show starting its’ run for the first 5 weeks with significant spill over from NFL games, the holiday season, and terrible early winter weather the show continues to garner over 1 million Nielsen viewers. This past week the numbers shot up to 1,260,000 in the 7:30pm to 8:00pm lead into the movie.
The next 8 week are critical for us to have any chance to get a movie made which is the most realistic thing we can aim for right now. Getting people watching on the CW and on Youtube is more important than ever.
Just as important is to continue our letter writing, emailing, faxing and completing Feedback forms each week. CBS Paramount as well as the other Networks have people who do look at the letters and comment forms and who count them.
I have been going back around reporting the paragraph below which has the links and information that we are trying to get out there to get people to watch Jericho and to be counted.
If anyone wants to help you can simply copy and past on community boards, college boards or anywhere you think people will see it. I have been going around to newspapers for all 6 New England states and posting it to general forums as well as to tv and movie forums.
You probably have heard many times before people say I am just one person what can I do to possibly change something. When one person turns into thousands of people working together they can speak in one voice and they can change things. We need to continue to trust in one another and do what we can individually to contribute to the group as a whole. The sports term is a team is the sum of its parts, it is successful not because of a few superstars but because everyone does what they can to contribute to the collective good f the team.
No matter what happens over the next 4 months I want to thank all of you who have helped in any way the past 9 months since the March 2008 cancellation. The Holidays are over, football will be over soon and we have 4 months in which to be measured and counted. Let make each week count.
As always we need to Stay the Course and Keep the Faith.
Redsox 1986
******** end of message ********
May this year bring to each of you what ever you wish and dream for, may it be full of blessings and no sorrow. And may you all remember how you made this all worth while, each and every fan.
Hello Fellow Rangers, Happy New Year. Here is hoping that 2009 is better than 2008.
As the New Year Commences we find our selves wondering what if anything will happen with Jericho. As many have seen over the past 5 weeks the ratings have been consistent in the 1 million range on the CW with this past week ratings being 1,260,000 in the 7:30-8:00pm time slot. The lead in to the movie is important to the money people and the numbers are increasing each week as the 7:00-7:30pm slot has be interrupted by football.
The UHD commercial will have one more full week run on UHD channel starting on Monday January 5, 2009. I will get the schedule posted when I get the flight schedule from UHD channel. I understand from Denny that Jericho is not on the UHD schedule for January, so the CW will have the exclusive broadcast on television for Jericho episodes. More than ever we need to get bodies in front of the television on Sunday nights tuned to Jericho and the CW.
First and foremost, I think we all need to come to terms with how things stand right now. I keep hearing from people what is going on, why have we not heard anything from the producers in a long time or there has been no official word on Jericho’s status.
I believe that right now the producers, writers and actors are not involved in the fate of the show any longer. They have moved on to other projects because that is what they do. In my opinion we are not going to hear from Dan or Karim or any other producer regarding Jericho.
I know that Carol Barbee sent Shaun an email which he read on his show on December 22, 2008 Thank all the fans for their support. I hope they are enjoying the CW run of Jericho and assure them we're still working on a continued life of the series. What that means is not clear it could mean a graphic novel and/or a movie. It was the first thing I have seen in many months and again most including Carol have other shows they are developing/producing for CBS for the Fall Season.
The show is a commodity, something in the vault owned by CBS Paramount and they are the ones who will decide its’ ultimate fate. The producers and actors are not relevant to the financial decision makers, never have been. So with that I have stopped putting any stock in what they say or do not say.
Several things have kept me motivated to continue my efforts to continue the Jericho story. The number 1 reason are the people here in the Jericho Community. In the 9 months since the cancellation we have all gone through a lot together from the big projects like the tv commercial and bill board to the ads in variety.
We have also seen disagreements and arguments which cause many good Rangers to leave. But sometime back in August people chose to put those differences aside and the various groups started to work together to get Jericho back. The reason we are here today with Jericho back on the CW and with at least a chance to see the story continued is solely due to the fans and their efforts, writing cards, letters, faxes, watching Jericho on every platform imaginable
The second thing that has kept me moving down the path to continue the fight for Jericho is the business side of things. That is, CBS Paramount has made a business decision to put Jericho back on the CW to see what the ratings it generates and to see who if any network would be interested in it including the CW..
I think they made this decision for 2 reasons first the show continues to draw interest on the internet, at UHD, Fancast and other places. Second, the economy has a lot to do with what is going on, not just at CBS but for all networks facing shrinking ad revenues, viewers to other forms of distribution such as the internet, cable and direct tv. They are looking for cheaper alternatives to developing and producing new scripted shows during the current economic climate.
As I mentioned I believe the numbers people decided to give this commodity one more look to see if it would make sense to invest money in making a movie or producing more episodes and if so what is the Return on Investment (ROI) that is needed to justify making a movie and ultimately more episodes. I do not think that Carol, Dan or any of the producers were consulted or informed of the decision before the story came out in the media.
For the past several weeks a group of fans lead by Myvibes, NorsU, K6, CaseyDog, Nursevick, Rat Keeper and others have been putting together statistics, graphs and charts in an attempt to communicate with the ultimate decision makers, the bean counters that Jericho is a very viable commodity that people are willing to watch. We are trying to give the quantifiable data that they can use to justify an outlay of capitol to produce a show with a reasonable likelihood that they will get a return on their investment.
I posted the most recent letter that I sent to Nancy Tellem at CBS, Bonnie Hammer at NBC, Dawn Ostroff at the CW and Comcast which provides graphs and charts of the numbers. Youtube is at 1,100,000 views, UHD Board is approaching 17,000 posts, Jericho continues to hit the top 50 at Netflix and Joost.
Most important is the ratings on the CW. With the show starting its’ run for the first 5 weeks with significant spill over from NFL games, the holiday season, and terrible early winter weather the show continues to garner over 1 million Nielsen viewers. This past week the numbers shot up to 1,260,000 in the 7:30pm to 8:00pm lead into the movie.
The next 8 week are critical for us to have any chance to get a movie made which is the most realistic thing we can aim for right now. Getting people watching on the CW and on Youtube is more important than ever.
Just as important is to continue our letter writing, emailing, faxing and completing Feedback forms each week. CBS Paramount as well as the other Networks have people who do look at the letters and comment forms and who count them.
I have been going back around reporting the paragraph below which has the links and information that we are trying to get out there to get people to watch Jericho and to be counted.
If anyone wants to help you can simply copy and past on community boards, college boards or anywhere you think people will see it. I have been going around to newspapers for all 6 New England states and posting it to general forums as well as to tv and movie forums.
You probably have heard many times before people say I am just one person what can I do to possibly change something. When one person turns into thousands of people working together they can speak in one voice and they can change things. We need to continue to trust in one another and do what we can individually to contribute to the group as a whole. The sports term is a team is the sum of its parts, it is successful not because of a few superstars but because everyone does what they can to contribute to the collective good f the team.
No matter what happens over the next 4 months I want to thank all of you who have helped in any way the past 9 months since the March 2008 cancellation. The Holidays are over, football will be over soon and we have 4 months in which to be measured and counted. Let make each week count.
As always we need to Stay the Course and Keep the Faith.
Redsox 1986
******** end of message ********
May this year bring to each of you what ever you wish and dream for, may it be full of blessings and no sorrow. And may you all remember how you made this all worth while, each and every fan.
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