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Herb Tinley
Cruise Consultant
Sailed on over 20 cruises to destination all over the world.
Worked with Cruise Everything since 2007!
Click Here to Contact Herb Tinley
Destination Specialties:Alaska, Bahamas, Bermuda, Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, River Cruises, South America, Exotic
Cruise Line Specialties:Holland America, Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Regent, Crystal, Princess, Windstar, Cunard
Types of Cruises: Groups, Individuals, Fund Raisers, Company Incentives, Singles, Family Reunions, Senior Travelers, Ultra Deluxe
Get To Know Me!
Question: How many cruises have you taken and list the most significant? I have taken over 30 cruises with some of the most significant including escorting those with special needs. Without my planning and escorting these special needs folks they would not be able to travel.
Question: What is your favorite cruise destination and why?I never get tired of Alaska or the Panama Canal. The Alaskan beauty remains a constant WONDER and the Panama Canal a constant MARVEL.
Question: What was the most exciting cruise you ever planned for someone and why? The "First Time" cruise for a client is always the best. I get great joy in making them comfortable for their new adventure for a first cruise is usually the most memorable.
Question: What do you enjoy the most about cruising?The relaxation cannot be beat. The moment I step on the ship the stresses of the past months melt away. While the ports of call are exciting, I can do as much or as little as I like with no schedule. And all this is experienced with fantastic food and pampering service in luxurious surroundings.
Question: What do you believe is the biggest misconception about cruising? The COST! There is no better vacation value than cruising. For the dollar, cruising is far and away cheaper than a land vacation of comparable length or destination.
Question: What are your personal favorite cruise lines/ships?
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Do you like decorating? Most of us love to revamp and update our homes and shopping for the perfect items can be a lot of fun! In fact, it's one of the reasons I became a designer.But sometimes it can become challenging without having the the right tools. I know from my own experience, that when it came to redecorating my own home I couldn't believe how hard it was to make a decision! And I know the importance of having a plan and I possess the right tools to make it happen.
In early 2007 a small but very productive design club was created. One client told her neighbor about my services, who then told another, who told another, and thus, our club was created. With little structure, but big design plans in mind, all of us would get together on Friday afternoons for a little design pow wow and discuss design. It was a great way for six lovely ladies to pick my professional brain over a glass of yummy Merlot, and we all achieved needed design solutions. Not to mention it also created one of the best design support groups in Nashville, and I got the added bonus of acting as their sponsor.
Well, word traveled fast about our little pow wow and before I knew it everyone wanted to be a part of it. I mean, who wouldn't want to get together, sip wine and discuss great design topics of the day? I know I did! Unfortunately, there just wasn't enough of me or time to go around. But I soon realized that the same topics, and concerns kept resurfacing. They were the topics I faced when redoing my home, and they were the same topics everyone else had. And thus, Design Strategies was born.
I built this course for you in mind. After the challenges I personally faced, and the challenges I kept seeing in our pow wow, I realized how difficult it must be for every busy mom or professional trying to find the joy in decorating, while running in circles of frustration! So if you want to learn how to tackle your design project on your own then Design Strategies is for you. Design Strategies gives you simple design solutions at an affordable price, and workshop's that help you learn how to do it.
So there it is. The evolution of this course, and why we offer it. Had it not been for those six lovely ladies, their laughter and design dilemmas…some would say design emergencies, this course would never have seen the light of day. Because of them everyone can now learn the necessary tools it takes to decorate their homes and it actually has structure and a fancy PowerPoint to boot! Who knew it could be this fancy!?
D.I.Y. Decorating workshops
1) Where to start and finding inspiration
2) Developing a strategy, budget and floor plan
3) Smart shopping and how to accessorize
4) Color for the home
A) Design Comprehensive-An in depth, one day crash course focusing on the key points necessary to execute your next project like a pro. Includes a group work shops, experiments and an in-depth education on building a proper decorating tool kit for your next project. Course is typically an all day course with lunch, (5-6 hours), depending on number of students, and is held all day on Friday, or Friday and Saturday. Design Comprehensive $499. All materials, snacks and drinks included.
B) New! Design Comprehensive light-Taking highlights from the design comprehensive course to give you quick, easy tools to get started, all in a couple of hours! If you don't have a lot of time but need decorating guidance for your home, then this course is for you. Afternoon course is typically 2-2.5 hours depending on number of students and focuses on the key decorating tips to help you get focused for your next home project. Includes one group workshop. Decorating afternoon course, $199.
Lighting 101- Class focuses in great depth on the principles of good lighting, fundamentals of light and how it works in your home. Most importantly, how to make what you got, work! For more information on this special, once a year course, and when classes will be held, please contact us.
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British quartet STARSAILOR have announced their brand new album All This Life, set for both physical and digital release on September 1, 2017 via Cooking Vinyl.
'Listen To Your Heart' is the opening track from the album. Lead singer & guitarist James Walsh describes it as, "an energetic, emotional song. I think in doing what we do, you have to be emotion and instinct lead. If every decision was sensible, practical and mulled over, we'd never have done anything or got anywhere. It's not always easy, so you have to keep reminding yourself."
Of the album and recording process, Walsh says; "Recording the album was an intense and rewarding experience and we're excited to get it out there. There's a good mix of the aspects of the band people know and love, and a few changes in direction."
Their fifth studio album – and first since 2009 – All This Life finds Starsailor re-energized and in outstanding form. They played to an ecstatic crowd in a packed Big Top Stage at this year's Isle Of Wight Festival and debuted a new track from the forthcoming album.
'ALL THIS LIFE' TRACK LISTING: 1. Listen To Your Heart 2. All This Life 3. Take A Little Time 4. Caught In The Middle 5. Sunday Best 6. Blood 7. Best Of Me 8. Break The Cycle 9. Fallout 10. FIA (F**k It All) 11. No One Else


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The name of this sauce pretty much sums it up… YUMMY! It's my version of the white sauce they serve you at Japanese restaurants (which I would pour over my entire plate)! You can also buy it in the grocery store but it is full of yucky ingredients including soybean oil and corn syrup, just to name a few!
I posted this recipe originally in my first cookbook, Satisfying Eats, to enjoy with my Pork Fried "Rice" and have since included it in with my Asian Fried Cabbage! The recipes by themselves are good but when you pour this sauce on, you have just taken the taste over the top!
Here are some other serving suggestions for this AMAZING sauce:
- With Chicken Tenders
- With Oven Wings
- On burgers
- Over steak
- As a veggie dip
- With baked or grilled chicken
- With baked, broiled or fried fish
- Use as a sandwich spread
- Use in the place of mayo in tuna or chicken salad
- With my Smokey Salmon Burgers (recipe coming up tomorrow)
My husband thinks that this sauce would even make dirt taste good but lets not go that far! Whatever you pour it over or use like a dip for will 100% taste better! 🙂
How do you eat your Extra Yummy Sauce??
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- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tsp. organic ketchup (or tomato paste)
- 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice or vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Siracha or 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper (add extra for more heat)
- 1 tbsp. water
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1-2 servings Stevia Select or sweetener of choice, to taste
Blend all ingredients in a small bowl. Taste for sweetness and heat and adjust if needed. Serve with pretty much anything and enjoy!
Nutrition: 50 Calories, 4.5 grams Fat, 3.5 grams Total Carbs per tablespoon.
Also be sure to check out my two cookbooks, Satisfying Eats & Comforting Eats, NOW available in eBook format through Amazon and the spiral bound versions are available here on my blog.
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Have you noticed them, the patterns I mean? I don't mean the big ones that people talk about when they say things like "Every seven years there is a change…", or "Things go in 'X' year cycles, don't you know."
I mean the sort of patterns that are happening and in which we are involved, moment by moment and day by day.
Time and again I have found that – when working with both individuals and groups – the problem they are complaining about is held in place by a self-sustaining pattern of behaviour.
This may be a tit-for-tat type of interaction where one person responds to another's behaviour in a way that has become predictable. Or it can be the individual is simply repeating behaviours (this includes how they think, say, by making judgements or accepting blame, for example), that are unhelpful or destructive.
Over the years I have come to adopt a kind of loose rule which says "It doesn't matter what you do, just as long as you break the usual pattern." This means that, often, you don't actually have to know what the pattern is in order to change it!
Astonishing, what!? Or daft! But it works.
You can try it. The next time you are caught in a loop that just seems to keep you stuck, change the pattern by doing the opposite (or near opposite), of that which you would habitually do. Even if it doesn't fix the problem you can have fun experimenting!
(I should point out that the new behaviour or course of action should be respectful of others, legal, safe, and not likely to put you or anyone else at risk.)
Learning to see things as patterns provides some interesting opportunities, and even if you'd rather not try anything new, at least you might recognise what you are struggling against.
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HH Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
The Conclusion
Jeremiah was a prophet in such a terrible time. It must have been awful to be living and preaching when Israel was falling to pieces and being destroyed by the Babylonian people. In many ways, we might feel the same today. It's awful to see the world around us falling to pieces. It's a little scary to feel the walls closing in on Christians. Who knows how long the United States or St. Vincent and the Grenadines will stand, or how long we might want to live here. It is getting worse every day and there are no signs of warnings from the watchmen
Yet at the same time, we have nothing to worry about. The Lord has supplied everything we truly need. We have a loving Shepherd in Jesus who lived and died for us to bring us righteousness. His holiness given to us means that we will spend an eternity in the peaceful pastures of heaven. And while we remain in this sinful world, God also provides shepherds of righteousness—leaders of his church that we can be thankful for and look to for guidance throughout our lives.
Thanks are to our loving and Gracious Shepherd! God be with our spiritual shepherds and leaders!


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- About OpenVPMS
- Users
- Implementors
- Developers
HL7 MLLP Sender
Submitted by Guest on Sat, 13/03/2021 - 13:04
This is the create/edit/view screen for HL7 MLLP Senders. These are responsible for sending HL7 messages using the MLLP protocol over TCP/IP, to external applications.
The fields are as follows:
|the sender identifier
|the sender name
|uncheck this box to deactivate the sender. Deactivating the sender prevents HL7 messages being sent.
|The host to connect to
|The port to connect to
|Sending Application
|Uniquely identifies the sending application among all other applications within the network.
|Sending Facility
|Identifies the sending application facility.
|Receiving Application
|Uniquely identifies the receiving application among all other applications within the network.
|Receiving Facility
|Identifies the receiving application facility.
|Response Timeout
|The maximum time to wait for responses, in seconds.
|Retry Interval
|The time to wait after an error occurs, before resubmitting a message.
|The HL7 Mapping to use when creating messages.


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Jonathan Cole
Columbia University
Provost and Dean of Faculties Emeritus, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University
B.A., Columbia, 1964 Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia, 1969 Adolphe Quetelet Professor of Social Science, 1989 to 2001 Professor of Sociology, Columbia University from 1976 to present Adjunct Professor, Rockefeller University, 1983-1985 Vice President of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1987-1989 Provost and Dean of Faculties, Columbia University, 1989-2003. Director, Center for the Social Sciences, 1979-1987 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1975-76 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1975-76 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 Cavaliere Ufficiale in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, 1996 Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, 2003 "National Associate" U.S. National Academies of Sciences, 2003. Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 2003. Member, American Philosophical Society, 2005 Served on multiple national committees of the NSF, NRC, and NAS. Recent Board Memberships: Urban Justice Center, 2003 JED Foundation, 2003 President of Reid Hall Inc., Paris, 1989-2003 Marconi International Fellowship Foundation, 1997. Some publications in the sociology of science, science policy, and higher education, include: Social Stratification in Science (with Stephen Cole) (1973) Peer Review in the National Science Foundation: Phase One (1978) and Phase Two (1981) of a Study (co-authored) Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community (1979) The Wages of Writing: Per Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps (1986) (co-authored) The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community (1991) (co-edited and author) The Research University in a Time of Discontent (co-edited and author)(1994) multiple journal publications on similar topics. Currently working on a book on the critical importance of American research universities and why they are under threat.


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Several years ago I made a simple cherry book rack for a television series I was shooting for the DIY network. This was one that I never finished, but had stowed away in a storage tub. I decided it was certainly worth finishing and giving to my son Blake, who is still in school.
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The CMS Global Pool, based on HTCondor and glideinWMS, is the main computing resource provisioning system for all CMS workflows, including analysis, Monte Carlo production, and detector data reprocessing activities. Total resources at Tier-1 and Tier-2 sites pledged to CMS exceed 100,000 CPU cores, and another 50,000-100,000 CPU cores are available opportunistically, pushing the needs of the Global Pool to higher scales each year. These resources are becoming more diverse in their accessibility and configuration over time. Furthermore, the challenge of stably running at higher and higher scales while introducing new modes of operation such as multi-core pilots, as well as the chaotic nature of physics analysis workflows, place huge strains on the submission infrastructure. This paper details some of the most important challenges to scalability and stability that the Global Pool has faced since the beginning of the LHC Run II and how they were overcome.
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|Computing facilities
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|Computing middleware
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LED VISOR-RS for KTM EXC / EXC-F / TPI 2017-2020 takes the lighting of your bike beyond what you thought was possible.
The 4600 lumens of the Visor ST will allow you to enjoy the nighttime with safety. Not missing any detail of the path, and being very respectful towards your motorcycle looks.
Features of the Visor Headlight (KTM 2017-2020)
- Powered by 40W, it is only 5w more than the original bulb.
- An electric cooling fan and more auxiliary led lights can also be installed at request while keeping the original stator.
- Adjustable in height to adapt to all types of terrains and teach rider's style.
- Not certified for use on public roads.
The complete LED kit includes
- Technical specifications
- Power watts 40w
- Power Amps 3.33 at 12 volt
- Luminous Intensity 4600 lumens
- Colour of light 5500ºK
- LEDS Led technology CREE
- Waterproof Protection IP 67
- Approximate life 40.000 hours
- Lens Polycarbonate
- Screws, Stainless/galvanized
- Mount Matte black powder-coated aluminium
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Debate Underway On Goals To Replace MDGs
VOA News: Planning Post-2015 Development
"The U.N. Millennium Development Goals are due to expire at the end of next year. Debate is underway on what should replace them. One U.N. official says they should be based, in part, on the findings of the 2014 Human Development Report…" (DeCapua, 7/29).


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The Training and Education sector is aimed at meeting the competency development needs of individuals and organisations providing education, training and assessment services within the Vocational Education and Training Sector (VET).
The VET sector is responsible for developing the competence of individuals in areas of work required by industry, enterprises and organisations as well as providing general education for the community.
If you undertake an Australian Apprenticeship, or training through a TAFE or private provider, you will be trained by someone with qualifications in Training and Education.
More students enrol in VET than the primary, secondary or university sectors. The industry is made up of a combination of training organisations including secondary schools and universities, and Registered Training Organisations with the best known being TAFE.
The other registered organisations are: Private Registered Training Organisations that may be for-profit, Enterprise Registered Training Organisations that are both training provider and employer, and Community Registered Training Organisations such as Community Colleges which are not-for-profit.
Education is Australia's 4th largest export and the VET sector has a very good reputation overseas for its training. The Asian market in particular is either coming to Australia or more importantly accessing VET training offshore.
There are regulatory requirements for you to become a VET teacher or practitioner. Employers will look favourably on those that have or are working towards a TAE qualification, and who already have a current qualification and industry experience in the sector they would like to teach in.
Top skills for this industry are: teaching skills, digital communication, learning agility, intellectual autonomy, adaptability, compliance, creativity and problem solving and language, literacy and numeracy skills.
Job prospects are good especially for those that can teach in current skill shortage sectors. People employed in this industry are predominately casual or part time.
Industry information is published by peak level associations, government and major employers. Accessing industry association sites, including member lists, is a good way of building up an understanding of an industry. Visiting employer websites and looking for careers or employment menus helps identify how employers recruit and the skills they are recruiting.
This is a small industry for Australian Apprenticeship commencements. In the year to September 2022, commencements were: 342
Source: VOCSTATS, extracted on 11/4/2023. AATIS analysis.
Commencements in the year to September 2022 in this industry have increased, compared with the previous year.
For Australian Apprentice graduates from this industry, employment outcomes are high.
Source: NCVER National Student Outcomes Survey, 2020, unpublished. AATIS analysis.
This is a small to medium sized industry compared with other Australian industries.
Source: National Skills Commission, 2022. AATIS analysis.
In the next 5 years, change in employment in this industry is predicted to increase.
The average wage of all employees in this industry is high.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2022. AATIS analysis.
Training & Education has career pathways from Certificate IV through to Diploma. Look at the Job Pathways Chart to see what is of interest.
These literacy and numeracy quizzes demonstrate the levels needed to start an Australian Apprenticeship in the industry. They are also good practice before job hunting or starting training.
General and industry-specific job search websites that relate to apprenticeships and traineeships.
Group Training Organisations employ apprentices and trainees and then host them out to employers. Talk to a provider to find out more about vacancies in your area.
Apprenticeship Network Providers can give information about starting an apprenticeship or traineeship, and discuss your eligibility. They also handle the paperwork and ongoing administration of apprentices and trainees.
For more information about other Industries in this sector, including: Correctional Services; Local Government; Public Sector and Public Safety.


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Popular at many corporate events, our Airstreams are well equipped, fully functional multi-purpose units, available on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Based in South West England, we deliver and collect anywhere worldwide. We always strive to meet your needs and can customise units according to your production and budget. Choose from our Airstream Production Office, Airstream Box Office/Bar or from our fleet of accommodation Airstreams. If you're looking to use an Airstream on tour for a product launch or sports event etc, we can work with you to make it happen.
Our Airstreams require a 16amp power supply, reasonably flat ground, a water supply within 30m and somewhere to dispose of waste within walking distance. You can hire a generator from us at an additional cost, if required.


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Supplier Qualification
Definition and Rhein S.Q.M. service description:
Experienced Rhein S.Q.M. process auditors will plan, supervise and enforce timely quality improvement and process optimisation measures with clear target orientation on-site at the facilities of your current or prospective suppliers by way of tried and tested QM tools.
Benefits for our clients:
Rhein S.Q.M. will provide you with an effective qualification of supplier organisations with your requirements in mind, and with the objective of feasible series production starts without any 'surprises'. The supplier qualification can – depending on assignment – be financed by either the client or the supplier.
Contact us regarding this or any other topic!
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Wisdom Teeth Removal
Wisdom teeth tend to appear after adolescence (when a person is more "wise", thus the name "wisdom teeth"). Their emergence can be painful as well as damaging to tooth alignment if they're allowed to come in fully. In fact, 85% of wisdom teeth negatively affect oral health and have to be removed.
Part of our approach to your family's ongoing dental healthcare plan will include the monitoring and removal of wisdom teeth. Typically, the earlier we can notice and remove wisdom teeth, the better — early removal can prevent damage to neighboring healthy teeth, bone, gum tissue, nerves, and blood vessels.
The two chief issues with wisdom teeth are poor alignment and impaction. Wisdom teeth can erupt (grow in) at an angle, pushing on nearby straight teeth and altering their alignment. Sometimes the wisdom teeth become impacted: they completely develop, but they don't erupt, remaining completely encased in the jaw's soft tissue, or they only partially erupt, creating a passageway for bacteria to get into the soft tissue.
Some have the fortune of avoiding problems with wisdom teeth altogether, but in the worst cases, gum infections, jawbone cysts, and bone loss can occur. Therefore, our providers most often err on the side of caution and recommend having them removed.
At Family Tree Dental, we offer a multitude of comfortable options that make the removal of your wisdom teeth a calm and relaxing experience. Our experts remove the teeth skillfully and gently, and then they provide medications and follow-up information that that assure a speedy, easy, pain-free recovery.
To find out more about wisdom teeth removal or to talk to one of our experts, contact your Marietta dentist today!


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I love to eat seasonal produce such as strawberries in the spring and sweet corn in the summer, but besides apples, I'm not sure what's in season now. Can you tell me which fruits and vegetables are seasonal in the fall?
Your question is very similar to another that was asked in a "Chow Line" column from September 2017, so it's best answered by reissuing that column here.
Fall is a good time to start looking to buy pears, apples, and hard squash, among many other seasonal fruits and vegetables. In fact, those are some of the items that many grocery stores typically start to promote heavily at discounted prices in their grocery aisles, according to the National Retail Report, a weekly roundup of advertised retail pricing information compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
While improved technology and agricultural innovations mean that consumers can access fresh fruits and vegetables year-round, fruits and vegetables naturally grow in cycles and ripen during specific seasons. When ripe, produce is fresher and typically has its best taste. Seasonal fruits and vegetables are also typically cheaper to purchase because they are easier to produce than fruits and vegetables that are grown out of season.
So how do you know which fruits and vegetables are in season?
To find seasonal foods near you, try using the app and website developed by Grace Communications Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for sustainable foods. The app compiles data from the USDA and the Natural Resources Defense Council on over 140 varieties of produce to show users which fruits, vegetables, herbs, and nuts are in season on a state-by-state basis.
Called the Seasonal Food Guide, the app and website allow users to check which produce is in season in half-month increments in each state. Other sources to check for what's in season include the USDA Seasonal Produce Guide, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, and Ohio Proud, among others.
While this is not an all-inclusive list, generally speaking, the following produce (among others) is in season in Ohio in the fall:
- Apples
- Beans
- Beets
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Cantaloupe
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Collard Greens
- Cucumbers
- Eggplant
- Grapes
- Kale
- Onions
- Peaches
- Peppers
- Potatoes
- Pumpkins
- Radishes
- Raspberries
- Spinach
- Summer Squash
- Turnips
- Winter Squash
Chow Line is a service of The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and its outreach and research arms, Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Send questions to Chow Line, c/o Tracy Turner, 364 W. Lane Ave., Suite B120, Columbus, OH 43201, or [email protected].


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Mirror Luxe 24" Mirrored Full-Featured LED Medicine Cabinet, Open Shelf, Hinged Left or Right
$600 $522.21
The Mirror Luxe Medicine Cabinet is a state-of-the-art cabinet that provides you with everything you need for a stylish and functional bathroom. The exterior of the cabinet features a sophisticated mirrored finish and a built-in dimmable LED task light that creates an illuminated frame within the mirror. There is also a separate night light at the bottom of the cabinet, so you can see clearly at night without having to turn on the main lights. The cabinet also features a defogger, which will keep the mirror clear even in humid conditions, like after a shower. A open, mirrored surface shelf is located under the medicine cabinet, providing you with a convenient place to store frequently used items. This helps to keep your bathroom clutter-free and organized. The interior of the cabinet features a sensor LED light and a handy electrical/USB outlet combo. This allows you to charge your electric shaver, toothbrush, or other essential items while you get ready in the morning. The interior also features three adjustable glass shelves, which can be used to store all of your toiletries and bath items. The double-sided mirrored door swings on 110-degree, soft-close hinges. This ensures that the door opens and closes smoothly and quietly. The entire product is UL-certified and has an extremely high waterproof rating. This means that the cabinet is safe to use in humid environments, such as bathrooms. The Mirror Luxe Bathroom Medicine Cabinet is the perfect way to add style, functionality, and convenience to your bathroom. With its sleek design, state-of-the-art features, and high-quality construction, this cabinet is sure to last for years to come. Hinged Right or Left.
- Mirror Luxe LED lighted Mirrored Medicine Cabinet, Black Anodized Interior and frame, with touch controls on the face of the mirror. Convenient open, mirrored lower shelf for those most-used items.
- LED Colors: 3,000k warm white, 4,500k cool white, 6,000k white daylight. 24" Wide: 41 Watts, 2,100 Lumens. 24" Wide: 34 Watts, 1470 Lumens - both cabinet size LEDs are completely dimmable.
- Integrated demister keeps the mirror clear and fog-free. There's a automatic-off memory function and a 30-minute auto-turn-off for the defogger. There's also an automatic night-light.
- Front-surface touch controls for dimming, defogging and LED color. There's automatic lighting that comes on when you open the door which is mirrored on both sides. Interior 15 Amp electrical outlet and 2 USB ports.
- Recessed or Surface mount with nstallation hardware included. Overall dimensions: 24" x 32" x 5.25" Deep. 1-Year Manufacturer's Warranty.


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Low Cost Ultrafast Optics with a Mode-Locked Erbium Fiber Laser
Bethel University, June 13–15, 2018
Immersion participants will build and characterize a connector-based, mode-locked erbium fiber laser. We will carefully align a polarizer and a series of wave plates in a free-space segment of the cavity (see figure below) to optimize conditions for pulses. Output pulses from such a laser can be on the order of 100 fs and are strongly influenced by the cavity dispersion properties. The Fourier transform of a train of pulses is a relatively broad spectrum (tens of nanometers) of individual frequencies separated by the cavity pulse repetition rate. When stabilized and broadened, this comb of frequencies acts like millions of stable lasers and can be used for applications such as frequency metrology. Participants will align and use an auto-correlation device to characterize the temporal profile and chirp of output pulses. The auto-correlator uses the nonlinear response of a silicon photodetector at the lasing wavelength of 1.5 micrometers, which helps make it affordable.
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Follow this link to watch a video overview of this Immersion.
Host and Mentor:
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This years final two weeks in MLB's drive to the playoffs have many interesting Story Lines.
Inside those Story Lines, there are some great Manager Of The Year Candidates.
There are some perennial losing franchises that have become winners.
The 2013 season can also have a "Back To The Past" theme as certain teams which faced each other in the playoffs in the past, could very well do the same.
Lets start in the American League.
As of this moment there are four teams that are within 2.5 games of the final wild card spot. The current leaders are the Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers.
On the outside looking in are the Cleveland Indians, managed by Terry Francona, the Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals.
Yes, the Kansas City Royals.
Once upon a time, the Royals and the Yankees faced each other in the playoffs from 1976-78. The Royals only World Series title occurred with late former Yankees Manager Dick Howser in 1985.
After many years of frustration, the Royals have built their team through the farm system and Manager Ned Yost has done a fine job with this squad. Whether Kansas City makes the playoffs is one thing. But the Royals have also created new revenue streams as they renovated Kauffman Stadium for $250 million.
Despite being known as a small market franchise, things are looking good for Kansas City, and who knows, perhaps they will face the Yankees again in future postseasons.
For now, Royals fans are just happy that they can talk about baseball late into September and don't care who they meet in the playoffs. They just want to get there.
In Cleveland, Francona has definitely done a fine job in his first year as Indians skipper. Buck Showalter led the Baltimore Orioles to the playoffs last year and just simply wins every where he manages. Being in the toughest division in baseball makes his work even more impressive. Despite injuries and performance enhancing drugs distractions, I give the New York Yankees a lot of credit for still being in the pennant chase.
In the National League, there are only two teams to talk about.
We're in the "Back To The Past" theme.
In any other season, the Manager of The Year Candidates can come from a group consisting of Francona, Joe Girardi, whose done a masterful job dealing with adversity, and Yost, who could still be a possibility.
The two candidates who are my odds on favorite to win the award are Boston Red Sox Pilot John Farrell, who has his team in first place in the American League East. The one-time Boston Pitching Coach inherited a 69-93 squad which suffered it's first losing season since 1997 and worst since 1965. Now they're certainly the front runner to win the World Series.
The man that I believe Will Win the Manager Of The Year is Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle. In 2007, Hurdle led the Colorado Rockies to the franchises' first World Series appearance. Colorado was swept by the Red Sox 4-0.
This seasons managing job has been monumental for Hurdle as the Pirates have snapped a 20-consecutive losing seasons mark, the largest in North American professional sports history.
The Pirates likely opponent in the playoffs could be the Cincinnati Reds.
Back in the 1970's, these two rivals played in Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh) and Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati). Both stadiums had artificial turf. They both had some great Hall Of Fame players. Willie Stargell, Roberto Clemente and Johnny Bench were a few.
Pittsburgh won the World Series in 1971 and 1979. Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, led by former Detroit Tigers Manager Sparky Anderson, won two-straight championships in 1975-76. Now it's very possible they'll play a one-game wild card playoff to advance deeper into the tournament.
It will be neat to see how these Feel Good Story Lines turnout as well as which Manager is honored.
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The power purchase agreement Tucson Electric Power signed with NextEra Energy for an "all-in cost significantly less than $0.045/kWh over 20 years" has become the new benchmark for combining solar power with energy storage, but at least one industry expert says the math is not as simple as it seems.
According to Tucson Electric, the 100 MW solar portion of the project came in at under $0.03/kWh, putting the 30 MW, 120 MWh energy storage piece in the ballpark of $0.015/kWh.
"Just because you're being paid 4.5 cents, doesn't mean the system costs 4.5 cents," James Lazar, senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project in Olympia, Wash., told Utility Dive in an interview.
Lazar assumes the 100 MW solar system in Arizona produces electricity for 10 hours a day and yields 1,000 MWh a day of energy. But the batteries store only 120 MWh or 12% of the solar output.
Lazar then takes the difference between the cost with storage and the cost without storage, i.e., 1.5 cents, and divides it by the percentage of energy stored, in other words, 12%. The result is 1.5 cents divided by 12% which comes out to $0.125/kWh. When you add in a 20% discount for round-trip efficiency losses, the total cost comes to roughly $0.13/kWh. "That is still a good deal," says Lazar, but it is not $0.015/kWh.
The utility is still paying $0.045/kWh over the life of the contract, but "it is deceptive to call it $0.015/kWh. You have to look at what you are getting," Lazar said.
In Lazar's analysis, the Tucson Electric PPA does not set a new benchmark for low cost solar-plus-storage projects, though it is cheaper than two other recent projects in Kauai, Hawaii.
In one, Kauai Island Utility Cooperative is paying AES Corp. $0.11/kWh for a 28 MW solar array with a 20 MW, 100 MWh battery system. In the other, Tesla signed a $0.14/kWh PPA with the same utility for a 13 MW solar project tied to a 13 MW, 52 MWh battery system.
In both of those deals, the storage component of the combined system is more closely sized to the solar portion of the project. Applying his same analysis, Lazar comes up with a $0.17/KWh for the storage portion of the Tesla deal and $0.12/kWh for the storage portion of the AES deal. Discounted for round trip efficiency, that comes to $0.19/kWh for the Tesla deal and $0.13/kWh for the AES deal.
Lazar also points out that the costs and benefits of a project are locational. For an island system like Kauai, the solar-plus-storage projects are a good deal because they are still lower than the cost of generating power using diesel fuel, the mainstay of Hawaii's conventional generating fleet. Those deals will definitely reduce consumers' costs on Kauai, he said.
The Tucson Electric PPA "may be a good deal," Lazar said. It falls in the range between on-peak and off-peak power prices and when viewed as an alternative to gas-fired peaking resources, it is becoming competitive. "This is a sea change for the industry," he said.
Ravi Manghani, director of energy storage at GTM Research, agrees with Lazar that the storage component of the Tucson Electric project is undersized. When looking at any of these recent deals, "you have to be careful about how you apply them as benchmarks," he told Utility Dive in an interview. GTM uses two metrics: the ratio of storage to the system and a comparison of the total energy output of both components.
Comparisons that use a single number to measure storage can be misleading, Manghani said. But "we are seeing specific examples of storage looking at competing with natural gas-fired peaking plants," he said. Those comparison often are with fully depreciated gas peakers, but in a comparison between two greenfield projects, solar-plus-storage could be competitive, he added.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated James Lazar's calculations of the cost of solar plus storage systems.


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LONDON — German generic drugmaker Stada, under pressure to curb its reliance on a weakening home market, embarked on two takeover attempts in Russia over the last two years but failed both times following months of exclusive talks.
After deciding against a merger with Russia's largest drugmaker Pharmstandard in 2010, the German company opted out of acquiring unlisted firm Valenta a year ago, several people familiar with the matter said.
The misadventures, which have not been made public until now, suggest that Stada may be left behind in a global generics industry that is racing to achieve economies of scale. They also raise questions as to whether its management is too cautious in pursuing opportunities in emerging markets.
While the first deal would have eased its strained finances at the expense of handing some control to Russian partners, the second deal, worth about $400 million according to one source, would have helped widen its operating margin.
Stada, based in Bad Vilbel near Frankfurt, declined to comment. Officials at Pharmstandard, which has a market value of about 68 billion rubles ($2.3 billion), were not available for comment.
Stada's home market has been a headache after changes to the German government's drug reimbursement rules in 2008 upended Stada's strategy there, which had been focused on doctors and pharmacies.
Following the changes in policy, German health insurers were allowed to put bulk purchases out to tender among generic drugmakers, triggering a price war for big contracts.
The switch came at a bad time for Stada.
Formerly a procurement cooperative for German pharmacies that had relied on third-party producers, the company was investing heavily to develop its own production capabilities to emulate more nimble rivals Ratiopharm and Hexal.
As a result, Stada's finances are strained. Its debt burden of 2.6 times core earnings compares with multiples of just 1.2 for industry leader Teva and 0.9 times for U.S. peer Watson, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.
Expanding in burgeoning Russia could help resolve Stada's predicament. The country is already Stada's second-largest national market with annual sales of about 260 million euros ($340 million) after two successful acquisitions in 2005 and 2007.
The Russian generics market is forecast to grow at an annual rate of 13 percent through 2014, according to Stada. In addition, it is driven by patients who have to buy most prescription drugs themselves, preserving consumer loyalty to higher-margin generic medicines sold under a company brand.
That prompted Stada to enter talks with the country's biggest drugs player Pharmstandard in 2010, according to two people involved in the matter.
Russian oligarch Viktor Kharitonin, the mastermind behind Pharmstandard and its majority shareholder, contacted Stada's management with a merger proposal that would have given the German firm access to Pharmstandard's Russian plants and staff, and would have bolstered its footprint in a fast-growing market.
In turn Stada's know-how could have helped elevate Pharmstandard's manufacturing practices to Western levels, potentially jump-starting the group's exports and easing its complete dependence on former Soviet states.
The mooted deal drew support from the Russian government. Eager to improve the nation's health-care sector, it pledged to underwrite a capital increase to shore up the combined group.
Even though Stada shareholders would have had the upper hand in the new entity, the deal was eventually struck down by the German group's supervisory board, which feared a loss of power to their Russian partners.
Generics makers have been in an M&A frenzy for years because Western governments are putting pressure on the industry to provide drugs at the lowest possible price, which favors large players who can produce at low costs.
Israel's Teva has emerged as the undisputed leader, with $10 billion in takeover deals under its belt over the last 10 years. Runners-up Novartis, Mylan and Watson have spent billions each on deals, taking a firm lead over Stada.
The German group's largest takeover by far has been that of Serbia's Hemopharm for less than 500 million euros in 2006. The deal helped form the nucleus of Stada's manufacturing network.
Stada's chief executive Hartmut Retzlaff, aged 58 and in charge since 1994, appears to have shunned M&A that has been the key to success for many generics rivals but has undone a few.
The finances of Iceland's deal-hungry Actavis imploded in the 2008-09 financial crisis, leaving the group effectively under the control of its largest lender, Deutsche Bank.
Retzlaff is known for keeping a tight rein on the company with an unorthodox management style and for relying on his instincts rather than an army of advisers.
Encouraged by Stada's past success in Russia, Retzlaff trained his sights on peer Valenta, when its owners put it up for sale later in 2010.
The Valenta auction, organized by investment bank Jefferies, ended without yielding the owners' asking price, but Stada was exclusively invited back to the table several weeks later.
Stada then proposed acquiring only Valenta's marketing network and intellectual property and excluding the production facilities, which it regarded as too risky.
Two sources said Stada eventually secured the green light from key ministers in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Cabinet. At that stage, Stada and Valenta's owners were only about 10 percent apart on a dollar price, with the euro's strength at the time playing into Stada's hands.
But the deal collapsed in March 2011.
"We had intended to conclude a very complex deal. Agreeing its parameters required a great effort from both sides, everyone was tired and the deal did not take shape," Valenta's chief executive Alexander Itin said.
Itin said the complexity of the deal eventually overwhelmed both sides. "It was not a matter of disagreement over price."
Valenta said it made about 2 billion rubles in EBITDA last year on sales of 5 billion rubles.
Industry experts say Russia's attractive growth rates must be balanced against the risk of a falling ruble and of political upheaval. In addition, the industry has recently been subjected to a number of government restrictions on drug prices.
But that has not kept Stada from trying to thrash out deals in the country for years. Two sources said that at one point it was also looking into buying drugmaker Veropharm. Officials at Veropharm could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, Stada says in presentations to investors that "internationalization progresses," citing a proportion of sales from abroad of more than 71 percent, up from 63 percent in 2007.
But that is as much a result of deteriorating sales in its home market as it is of growth outside Germany.
Stada's need to act became apparent again at the start of the month, when it reported that its 2011 net income slumped by two-thirds, dragged lower by delayed payments from Serbian drugs distributors and as the margin squeeze in its home market continued.


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Andy will be going head-to-head with Big Sean –
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Barry (Hader) is a depressed hitman from the Midwest, and while on a job in Los Angeles, he follows his mark into an acting class and has a career epiphany when he discovers the intoxicating world of theater acting. Instantly drawn to the class and students, Barry is eager to leave his lonely, cold-hearted job behind, but as he attempts to start a new life in LA, his criminal ties won't let him walk away, forcing him to find a balance between both worlds.
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Susan Eisen serving on a national panel on "Vistioneering-How To Big Picture Plan For Your Business" at the Instore Show in Chicago.
Susan Eisen leading a round table at the Texas Jewelers Association Convention in Dallas about dealing with large communication companies.
Susan Eisen as the guest speaker at the New Mexico Community Foundation Estate Planning seminar speaking on "Who Gets What" and how to equitable divide and value items for equitable distribution to the beneficiaries.
Helping the Junior League of El Paso raise money for their very worthwhile projects at Christmas Fair 2017.
Susan Eisen as guest speaker at the El Paso Estate Planning Council Meeting speaking about "Estate Appraisals and How to Help Your Clients Avoid a Family Inheritance Battle After They Die".
Susan Eisen as a special invited guest with Colleen Marusich of the Wealth Management Group of Weststar Bank giving a private talk on heirloom collections, how to divide them equally during heir distribution, how to make a With Love List to help with inheritances, and how to make provisions in your will on how to distribute jewelry, art, and coins upon your death. Each attendee received a complimentary copy of Ms. Eisen's book along with the workbook to complete to start taking charge of their estate.
Susan Eisen speaking to New Mexico State Universities Women's Estate Planning Conference Graduation Celebration, 2015.
Honored to speak at the International Jewelry Conference.
Susan Eisen, past president of the El Paso Better Business Bureau and winner of the Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics giving her award acceptance speech.
Susan Eisen with Jim Tuttle of Green Lake Jewelry Works and Mark Loren of Mark Loren Designs judging the jewelry for the winner of the national "Bench Challenge" in Chicago.
Suusan Eisen as a national judge of the "Bench Challenge" with 2 other well known jewelry designers at the trade show in Chicago.
Susan has been invited several times to speak to the UTEP graduating classes in business and accounting about ethics in business.
Speaking to an El Paso organization about making a "With Love List" before you die.
Susan Eisen chosen to present her research project on Gemology vs. Appraising at the Gemological Institute of America Symposium to 700 leading gemologists from around the world.
Susan speaking to the UTEP graduating seniors in the Accounting Department on Ethics in the Jewelry Business. – November 2014.
Susan Eisen speaking to UTEP Art Metals Seniors on setting up a jewelry business for the future. – March 2014.
Susan Eisen, author and inheritance advisor, participating in a panel discussion with Lawrence Katzenstein, Tax and Estate Planning expert and others on "Estate Planning and Charitable Donations to Museums and Public Institutions" sponsored by the El Paso Chapter of the Federal Bar Association in August of 2012 at the El Paso Museum of Art.
What are the issues of ethics in business? Lots of questions from UTEP students during her lecture to them.
Graduating accounting students at UTEP listening to Susan Eisen sharing her thoughts on ethics in business.
Susan Eisen leading a roundtable discussion group on appraisals at the Texas Jewelers Association Conference.
Susan Eisen speaking at the seminar on business for artists at the El Paso Museum of Art.
As a member of the board of directors of the El Paso Estate Planning Council, Susan Eisen was chosen to give the commentary before the speaker on current estate planning issues to the group which consists of estate attorneys, CPA's, trust officers, and estate planning professionals at their October 2013 meeting. The group meets regularly to hear pertinent information regarding estate tax, new IRS laws and regulations, and current trends in estate planning.
Susan Eisen speaking at a University seminar on estate planning for family heirlooms before you die.
Susan Eisen was invited to speak to the graduating master's business class at UTEP on the subject of dealing with ethics in business and how her business follows the standards and ethics she has created for her company to follow.
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contract theory
Contract theory is the study of how people and organizations develop legal agreements in situations with uncertain conditions, unknown factors and information asymmetry. Contract theory applies to both multi-party negotiations between a principal and one or more agents and contracts created by a single individual or organization to specify details of multi-party agreements, such as employee contracts.
Ideally, a contract specifies the responsibilities and requirements of both parties so meticulously that there can be no room for dispute or misunderstanding. However, that ideal may never be achieved, for various reasons. Moral hazard, one model within contract theory, is the risk that one party to a transaction is not acting in good faith. For example, that party may have withheld important information or provided misleading information or may have undisclosed motivation driving elements of an agreement that are being negotiated. Moral hazard often involves the assumption of risks that disadvantage the party with less information. Other models within contract theory include adverse selection, in which the principal party is not fully informed of the agent's risk factors, and signaling, in which the agent reliably conveys information about itself to the principal, for example, a job applicant listing qualifications that match the hirer's list of requirements.
Contract theory is a special application of game theory, which is the study of mathematical models of negotiation, conflict and cooperation between individuals, organizations and governments. Central questions of game/contract theory include why an individual makes a particular decision and how the decisions made by one individual affect others.
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Very cool! I think it turned out fantastic. Can't wait to see how it looks when polished up.ReplyDelete
I love it! It's so perfect for you! I should really look into getting a stamp made for my pieces. I'm going to go check out the site you linked!ReplyDelete
A maker's mark is so cool Kristi, I love the design it is so you.
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Greetings Spankos and Pervs, I'm back for another edition of WIP It Up Wednesday.
This week, I'm sharing another chapter from the sequel to The Fall of Lady Westwood (formerly titled A Lady and a Maid). The sequel's working title is Chattel Slave in a Vampire's Kingdom, but it's likely to be changed somewhere down the line.
I won't include much set-up here other than to say that as the story opens, Sophie McClearn, the lost paramour of the hero of The Fall of Lady Westwood, Owen Galt, finds herself newly captured by the hated, and feared nocturne.
Her new circumstances makes her former nightmarish captivity at Westwood Manor under the thumb of Miriam Westwood seem but a pleasant afternoon's diversion. Sophie is learning that things can always get much, much worse … [Read more…]


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Constellation Software (the guys who bought Market Leader) acquire Zurple.
Teke Wiggin from Inman News
Market Leader's new owner also purchased CRM provider Zurple
"Market Leader provides a customer relationship management system and some online marketing products. Since Zurple basically does the same thing, the acquisition raises the possibility that Constellation might integrate or blend the two.
Zurple offers a website, a customer relationship management system and online advertising management. The advertising managed by Zurple drives prospective buyers and sellers to the Zurple-powered website where some register their contract information."
It's kind of getting lonely out here…. : )
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Guyana is an Indian word meaning "land of many waters," and these many waters are the major thoroughfares along which people and produce move about the country. All tours to the interior begin in Georgetown, the country's capital and commercial heart, located at the mouth of the Demerara River. Once called the "Garden City of the Caribbean," Georgetown is a quaint combination of Victorian elegance—legacy of its British heritage and in turn the only English-speaking country on the continent—and tin-roofed mining town. And there are many interesting sites to see: St. George's Anglican Cathedral, which opened in 1892, towers 142 ft. to rank the world's tallest wooden building. Inside, a huge stained glass window casts a many-colored glow on the simple wooden pews. Beyond the cathedral lie several gingerbread-trim buildings, including the City Hall (1887) and Tudor-style law courts. Among the historic building is the 150-year-old Cara Lodge, a heritage house converted to a small hotel. An essential capital visit is the extensive (180 acres) and beautiful Botanical Gardens and Zoo, displaying one of the most extensive collections of tropical flora in the Caribbean and sheltering over 100 species of Guyanese wildlife, including jaguar, river otters, birds, snakes and other reptiles. The shopping experience is a "don't miss" at the Stabroek Market, an iron building once described as "a bizarre bazaar," selling everything from agricultural produce and caged songbirds to pirated DVDs and gold jewelry.
Guyana is tailor-made for the growing number of natural history buffs and adventure travelers, while birders find among the more than 700 species the elegant cock-of-the-rock and the majestic harpy eagle. From Georgetown, they depart to journey by waterways, small aircraft and 4WD vehicles to the famous Kaieteur Falls, where the 400-ft.-wide Potaro River plunges 741 spectacular ft.; to the lush forests of the north and to the wild-west Rupununi savannahs in the southwest. Stays include accommodations at Amerindian lodges where living among the local communities, guests learn about their conservation efforts, school programs and explore their treasured forests and rivers.
BEST TIME TO GO: During the dry season: February to May and August to November on the coast; August to May in the interior
FUN-FACT: Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning "Land of Many Waters"; one of those, the Essequibo River runs the entire length of the country and is the third-largest in South America after the Amazon and the Orinoco
GETTING THERE: Delta flies from New York (JFK) to Georgetown
ENTRY DOCUMENTS: Valid passport, valid six months from time of entry
CURRENCY: Guyana dollar
MUST-TRY LOCAL FOOD: For more than 50 years, Shanta's has been serving up the city's best curries: boulanger choka (eggplant), pumpkin or boneless chicken curry paired with homemade peanut punch.
In small villages, adventurous eaters can also sample a range of wild meats, such as labba, agouti, peccary and paca
BEST BUYS: Items made of all different beautiful hardwoods, Amerindian weavings of the Wapishana and Makushi communities, jewelry, as well as aged El Dorado rum are good picks. Calabash Gift Shoppe/Hadfield Foundation Fine Art Gallery sells quality local paintings and woodcarvings
INFORMATION PLEASE: Guyana Tourism Authority—guyana-tourism.com


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Her Angst: But then Nadia kills herself, and Lela's convinced her spirit was sent to a horrible place known as the Shadowlands where suicides are punished - a place Lela's dreamed out since she attempted suicide years before. Can Lela possibly get Nadia out, or will she fail her best friend a second time?
Secondary Cast:
Malachi: The Captain of the Guard of the Shadowlands. Dedicated to ridding the dark city of the Mazikin - demons who possess the bodies of suicides. He's been at this for more than seventy years, waiting for the time when his service will earn him the place in the Countryside he was denied when he committed suicide back in the 1940s.
Ana: Another suicide who serves on the guard with Malachi. A kick-ass warrior, she helps Malachi and Lela track down Nadia while fighting off the Mazikin.
Nadia: Lela's friend - overcome with depression, she became convinced she was an unloveable fraud and killed herself to escape. Instead, she wound up in a grimy underworld to endure punishment for her act.
Raphael: A mysterious, powerful personage who helps the Guard as their healer and doctor.
Juri: An evil Mazikin who has it in for Malachi - every time Malachi kills his host body, he possesses another one to continue their battle until the bitter end.
Angst Checklist:
- Surviving Sexual Abuse
- Exploring love and sexual desire after surviving sexual abuse
- Depression and mental illness
- How people apparently deserve to be punished for depression and mental illness
- I escaped the Holocaust and all I got for it was Indentured Servitude
The Word: First of all, I owe an apology to the author, Sarah Fine. She was kind enough to send me an ARC of this back in the summer, but when I was moving my bookshelves around, the book got lost in the shuffle. I found it this month and was mortified at how late it was. I am so sorry for the delay.
As part of my apology, I might suggest to Ms. Fine that she not read this review, because not only was I more or less unimpressed with the storytelling, the worldbuilding sent me spiralling into a pretty heavy rant that I'm pretty sure she would not want to read.
The novel starts strongly - with the fantastic heroine of Lela Santos. A tough, jaded teenager with a thoroughly calloused soul after years of abusive foster care, she manages to befriend Nadia, the Queen Bee of her latest high school. To Lela's surprise, Nadia is kind and welcoming, and the two develop a wonderful bond of friendship that finally convinces Lela that she has a future, that she's worth something, that she's worthy of love.
The two flies in her ointment: one, Lela still has recurring nightmares of the horrifying hell dimension she witnessed when she tried to kill herself as a child; and two, she can't seem to stop Nadia's inexorable slide into depression - which eventually culminates in her suicide.
Lela is devastated. Worse, now her nightmares include Nadia, lost and alone, wandering through that dark city rife with misery and riddled with mysterious predators. Somehow, Lela realizes these visions are real and that her friend didn't obtain the escape she longed for. While trying to figure out how these visions work, Lela falls off a cliff (for reals) and winds up in a heavenly Countryside where she feels warm and loved and at peace - but bordering this land is the same dark city she witnessed in her dreams. Despite the Countryside's loving embrace, she can't rest while she knows her friend is suffering in that horrible afterlife, so she sneaks past the Suicide Gates to try and rescue her friend.
Past the Suicide Gates, Lela emerges in a horrible place called the Shadowlands, where suicides live in helpless torment. The place is also patrolled by guards who keep the suicides from escaping - and also combat the strange demons known as Mazikin who have started infesting the city in ever-greater numbers. It's here that Lela runs into Malachi, a former suicide and captain of the guard. Malachi is first shocked, then fascinated that anyone would willingly give up the Countryside for someone else - after all, he has been working to earn his way out since the 1940s (as indicated by the tell-tale string of numbers tattooed on his arm). As they work together to find Nadia, they develop a passionate bond that, unfortunately, ends up slowing the pace and cluttering the storyline with purple prose as each protagonist tries to out-martyr the other to prove their love.
On top of the story losing steam and devolving into a gooey, angsty teen romance version of the "oh no, after you" "no, no, I insist, after you" joke, I had serious problems with the worldbuilding.
Now, I knew the setting would be a dark underworld reserved for suicides going in, so I swallowed my repugnance at the idea because I wanted to see what the author would do with it. After all, there is a huge mythological and religious basis for the idea that suicidal people go to a different afterlife. Who knows? Maybe the worldbuilding will be clever enough to explain it in an interesting way.
Except not. We get some basic world building, but the ultimate purpose of the Shadowlands is left in the, well, dark. It's a hellish dimension where everyone walks around in endless cycles of misery. No one helps these people. No one reaches out to them. In fact, some of them even commit suicide again, several times, only to reappear outside the Suicide Gates to start over.
The only bright spot in the entire city is the Sanctum, where the Judge resides - the omniscient being who can free people from the Dark City and send them to the Countryside. But she only does it for people who are "ready" - or **spoiler** to support her own personal agenda when she frees Nadia to gain Lela's service. So really, the whole "they need to be ready before they leave" is bull crap because she can free people whenever she wants. She just doesn't, because she's horrible and this book is horrible. *spoiler*
The only message that sends to me is that people who commit suicide - and this includes the mentally ill (depression is brought up) - deserve to be punished. People who die "regular" deaths (like Lela, initially) go immediately to the lovely Countryside. None of them are delayed or asked to "work out their issues" before they reach their heavenly destination. Despite the fact that people who die of natural causes or accidents can have just as many issues as people who wind up taking their own lives.
Meanwhile, the world in this book deems suicides unworthy of a happy afterlife and sends them to a hellish underworld where they are expected to fix themselves (which worked SO well when they were alive) before they can be free to join their families and loved ones in the Countryside. **spoiler** Despite the fact that the Judge can send ANYONE SHE WANTS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE whether they meet her bizarre requirements or not. **spoiler**
No. Just - NO. I can't think of an uglier or less compassionate idea.
I tried to get over this revolting worldbuilding to focus on the story, but the further I got, the worse it got - especially with Malachi's backstory, in which he was told by the Judge that his horrible suffering (in Auschwitz) didn't "earn" him a "free ticket" out of the hellish dimension he apparently deserved because he was "weak" enough to consider death-by-electric-fence preferable to being shot by the Nazis.
Part of the reason for this rant is because the novel is so vague about what the purpose of the Shadowlands is. Why are suicides sent here? How is this supposed to help them? Or if this is punishment - why do they deserve to be punished? For all I know, the Judge and the City could turn out to be villains in the next book - but part of that should at least be reflected in this novel by the characters' attitudes. Lela, initially, does think the city is horrible, but she is slowly convinced by Malachi and the others that this is just the natural order of things, the way things are meant to be, and that the suicides somehow need this for some unexplained metaphysical reason.
Which, I'm sorry to say, is not enough to convince me that the world of this book is anything less than disgusting.
Sanctum has an awesomely strong, developed heroine who is more than capable of taking care of herself - but not much else. Even without the heinous "suicides need to suffer before they can get to heaven" plotline, the story is bogged down by tedious training sequences, overblown InstaLove, underdeveloped villains, and an inconsistently portrayed setting.
If you still want to read this, Sanctum is available for Kindle.


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The federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act) requires financial institutions to take steps to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer records and information.Colleges and universities, defined as financial institutions for purposes of the GLB Act, are not subject to the privacy provisions of the GLB Act provided they are in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). However, higher education institutions are subject to the provisions of the GLB Act related to the administrative, technical, and physical safeguarding of customer records and information as specified in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information ruling, known as the Safeguards Rule, which requires all covered financial institutions to have in place a comprehensive, written information security program. This policy has been formulated to facilitate Mississippi Valley State University's implementation of the requirements of the GLB Act.
Statement of Policies
In accordance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA) which is also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999. It is a United States federal law that requires financial institutions to explain how they share and protect their customers' private information. Our goal is to:
a. To insure the security and confidentiality of customer information;
b. To protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information; and
c. To protect against unauthorized access to or use of such information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.
The Office of Student Accounts convey to the student that sensitive data is not share with a third party unless a written statement is given granting the University permission to do so. No student account information is discussed over the telephone. The Office of Student Accounts also established other security methods, such as locking rooms and file cabinets where paper and electronic records are kept, utilize password-activated screensavers, change passwords periodically, and avoid writing or posting passwords near employee's computers. Students may email email@example.com or come by the office if they would like any information pertaining to their accounts.
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*有关伯纳德社会敏感性研究所的更多信息 http://www.socialsensibility.org/
Arrow Factory is pleased to present I Like Round Things, a project by Li Zhan developed in collaboration with the Social Sensibility Research Institute. I Like Round Things is a maypole-like arrangement of materials culled from Li Zhan's work place and private life. The installation sees cascading balls of multi-colored yarn unraveling into strategically arranged cardboard tubing. Two-toned balls of modeling clay are strewn amongst carefully sliced vegetables and Li's personal assortment of "non-conforming" workplace components trace a constellation on an adjacent wall. All of the objects were either amassed piecemeal at Li's assembly line job or trigger strong emotional associations. Working in conjunction with Alessandro Rolandi and Zhao Tianji of the Social Sensibility Institute, Li's I Like Round Things channels personal nostalgia into an intimate compiling of elliptical objects, a quiet trickling act of compilation that unwittingly charts the passage of time.
Since 2011 Alessandro Rolandi has facilitated the Social Sensibility Research and Development Department, an artist-in-residency program embedded at Bernard Controls, manufacturer of electric actuators for valve automation. The department has realized numerous site-specific projects through interactions between artists and Bernard Control's staff members. Now, working with Tianji Zhao, the program is evolving towards empowering the company's employees to make original creations. I Like Round Things is the first project in the Work, Live Series that will bring nascent ideas from the factory floor out into the hutong context, with the intent of blurring the divisions between work and private life, artist and worker, audience and creator. The Work, Live Series is an exploration into the transformative potential of creative processes and inquiry into alternative meanings of authorship. This project also marks the evolution from the Social Sensibility R&D Department at Bernard Controls, still active, to a new entity called Social Sensibility Research Institute with the aim to develop further possibilities and collaborations for this newly open path.
Li Zhan (b. 1986, Beijing) is in her eighth year working on the assembly line at Bernard Controls. Her job consists of joining components into electronic circuits and training new employees to do the same.
*Learn more about the Social Sensibility Research Institute at Bernard Controls at http://www.socialsensibility.org/
On Social Sensibility Research and Development and Work/Live
An Introduction by Alessandro Rolandi and Zhao Tianji
Social Sensibility Research and Development (SSR&D) is a department created for artist Alessandro Rolandi in Bernard Controls, a French company producing actuators for nuclear valves, with its Beijing branch located in a factory near the south 5th ring.
What is the Social Sensibility? After five years working on it, with it and for it, I still don't know. This term was chosen together with the CEO of Bernard Controls Guillaume Bernard in 2011. We continue to resist specific models and definitions, hoping it will exist as a form of its own in order to stay active and alive.
Art is not the purpose, but a side effect that can influence the sensibility of those who are exposed to it. Social Sensibility attempts to extend this side effect to a broader audience, and to transform the relationship between art and people in creating an active and shared space. This is done by inviting artists to interact with people in working environments on a long-term base and in an informal way. By bringing art practice in direct contact with daily and working life, the aim is to inspire an audience of art users, instead of art viewers, whereas artists are challenged through this firsthand participatory experience. Economically speaking, Social Sensibility proposes the emergence of a parallel model to the existing one, in which artists would be supported financially not for the production of objects, but for their involvement with experimental and daring ideas, in the reality of society and working environments.
Social Sensibility engages with two socially driven forces: a transformative one and one that belongs to the realm of vigilance. The first one employs creativity, communication, critical thinking and art as a vehicle to give birth to a new organic social dynamic. The second one resists alienation, short-circuits hardwired behavior, and supports diversity, mutual respect and collective interaction as premises to awaken the social imagination for a foreseeable change.
The key moment is this physical encounter between artists and people, in which the rules of engagement are invented and negotiated all the time. In a tangible and relational space, this small and humble moment is very fragile but extremely precious, and it possesses unlimited potentialities. From this undisclosed territory of becoming, an intuition emerges and gradually takes the form of a quest into the nature of free will.


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So we always talk Economics, Financial Planning, Interest rates or other Financial "STUFF" ….
We do read other subject matters … and have a funny sense of humor (some may say weird or strange, but that is ok-haha) … We wanted to bring your attention to a soon to be released report from the Department of Defense.
In a cannot make this up manner, the December 2020 Stimulus package included the mandatory release of UFO information within six months of the bill…. that would be by the end of this month…..(Ok, so we drifted back into Financial STUFF again)
No idea why or how a UFO report release founds its way into a Stimulus bill, but again cannot make this up!
One of Many Prior Releases
In doing our research we ran across a neat release that pointed us to a video that was downloadable…..
On April 27, 2020 the Department of Defense released a Navy Pilot video…
Here is the video:
Over the last four years, there have been a dribbling of reports released. Here is a good article from Scientific American printed yesterday that takes enough sides of UFO's, no matter your thoughts you will be supported…
Not sure why these releases are happening …
No idea why now ….
Will be very interested in reviewing the new release, which if holds on due date has to be released in the next few weeks…
Odd this was embedded into a Stimulus Bill…
Have a Great "UFO Report Release" Day!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.


text: Sondra Henley, Demo Garden Project Manager, discusses Phase 3 of the Demo Garden Redesign with Eagle Scout Clay Vinson. Clay has selected Phase 3 of the Demo Garden as his Eagle Scout Project, which will include the Pergola and the perimeter butterfly bed designed by Harriett Jackson. Development will begin in February after the irrigation lines are laid.


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Microsoft today pushed out an update to its Windows Camera App for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The update is now available for download for Insiders in Slow and Release preview Ring. This is the same update which was pushed out to Fast Ring Insiders couple of days ago.
The app has been bumped to new version 2016.1018.11.0. Below is the full changelog of new features.
- Enjoy taking photos, videos, and panoramas with our higher-contrast capture buttons.
- Set a photo timer right from the camera dashboard with our new toggle control.
- Get to Settings faster! Now, launch into Settings directly from the camera UI.
- Access your camera roll with one hand from its new spot on the screen.
- Zoom more easily with the new zoom slider.
- Make sure you nailed the shot, with a more noticeable capture animation.
- Change between front- and rear-facing cameras with a more prominent button control.
- On PC, use the spacebar as a shortcut to take pictures.
Experience the magic of living images on your Surface, now enabled on Surface Book, Surface Pro 4, Surface Pro 3, and Surface 3! With living images, extend your still captures with a snippet of video. These are created automatically whenever your shots feature motion—just navigate to Settings and turn on Capture living images.
This release features a variety of performance improvements to enhance your experience. We've added faster shot-to-shot support, improved feedback for saving large videos to SD cards, and improved camera startup time, among other improvements.
The update is currently live and you can grab the same by clicking on the below link.
Download Windows Camera App for Windows 10.


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Men are back. After 7 years since the Bajaj introduced the definitely male machine Pulsar, now men are back in a taller and the longest Maruti SX4 car.
SX4 after being messed up by the truck coming behind, turns up and go straight at the truck pushing it to move on the reverse gear. That's macho right. Its the new ad for the 'Man amongst cars' – Maruti SX4.
It's a boy! It's a boy! – That's how Pulsar was introduced into the markets by screaming nurses as they take off the bike covers and look at the brawny petrol tank. Then the bike turns its head towards the girls as they pass over it. Definitely Male!
Which one does you like, Men amongst cars or the Definitely Male bike? Now the 'Man amongst ads' goes to Bajaj Pulsar or Maruti SX4?


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Dylan Brody started his stand-up career in New York City while still a teenager in the early 1980s, performing on multiple TV showcases, writing monologue jokes for Jay Leno when Leno was still just guest-hosting The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and he has performed around the world. In more recent years, you may have seen him on The Green Room with Paul Provenza, opening for fellow humorist David Sedaris on his stage tour, or on NPR affiliates in California. Brody has released several comedy albums just in the past decade, published three young adult books, and is touring his latest work, a one-man show about his life and career, Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood.
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