text:
Main Line: 703 907-8512
Donor Help Line: 703 907-7879
Toll Free: 1 888 35-PSYCH
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Saul M. Levin, M.D., M.P.A., is the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Chair of the APA Foundation Board of Directors, and Clinical Professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Saul M. Levin, M.D., M.P.A., is the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Prior to assuming this role in October 2013, Dr. Levin led the District of Columbia Department of Health (DOH). There, Dr. Levin was responsible for the health of the nation's capital, including the primary care for everyone from infants to seniors on Medicaid and Medicare, DC-funded health care, HIV/AIDS, addictions, health professional licensing and regulation, policy, and planning. He was also responsible for health emergency preparedness, planning, and coordination alongside dozens of federal and local agencies—ensuring the public's good health during major events such as President Obama's second inauguration. Moreover, he promoted the development of a citywide health information exchange that connects health care providers, shares critical information to promote patient care, tracks outcomes, prepares for disasters, and provides for public health surveillance.
Dr. Levin also served on the D.C. Health Exchange Board and chaired the Essential Health Benefits Package Subcommittee, where he successfully led the effort to ensure that residents of the District of Columbia had access to a full range of substance abuse and mental health services. He also co-chaired the committee that oversaw the integration of substance abuse and mental health services into the new Department of Behavioral Health.
In 2012, Dr. Levin served briefly as Senior Deputy Director of DOH's Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration. During his tenure, Dr. Levin promoted substance abuse prevention efforts in all eight wards of the city through the work of the Prevention and Access to Recovery teams, including implementation of over $20 million in federal grants for services, assessed and referred an increasing number of individuals into treatment services, and connected more clients to recovery support services.
Dr. Levin has long been involved in organized medicine and psychiatry. He served as Vice President for Science, Medicine, and Public Health at the American Medical Association. As VP, he oversaw programs related to evolving health delivery systems, such as in the areas of prevention and health care disparities. He also led efforts to improve the interface between clinical medicine and public health.
Among other positions Dr. Levin has held includes serving as a special expert appointee in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he led the initiative to integrate primary care, substance abuse, mental health, and HIV/AIDS response. While serving as President for Access Consulting International Inc., he worked with federal, state, and local governments and private companies to provide health policy, program, and research and evaluation services.
He is a former President and CEO of Medical Education for South African Blacks, an anti-apartheid education trust that provided scholarships to South African black students in health care. He helped award more than 11,000 scholarships to students studying to become physicians, nurses, substance abuse counselors, and other health care professionals.
In 1982, Dr. Levin received his M.B.B.Ch. (M.D.) from the University Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center. In 1994, he received his master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians – Edinburgh, and Clinical Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC.
Dr. Louis Kraus is the Women's Board Professor and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center and the Director of the Rush Autism Assessment, Research and Treatment Services Center.
Dr. Louis Kraus is board certified in child and adolescent, forensic and general psychiatry. He completed his general psychiatric residency at Northwestern University, and then went on to complete his child and adolescent fellowship at the University of Chicago. He was previously Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (North Shore University Health Systems) and since 2002 has been Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Kraus's career is focused on assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. He has a particular interest in working as an expert in school systems in a variety of different context and venues. He does a significant amount of forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, primarily focusing on advocacy issues, including working on national and state issues, dealing with juvenile delinquency, and seeking out appropriate services for children. He has been the Medical Director for the Easter Seals Therapeutic Schools for the Chicago Metropolitan Easter Seals for the past 16 years. Much of Dr. Kraus's clinical and advocacy work centers on diagnosing, treating, and assisting in finding services for Autistic Spectrum children. Through his work at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Kraus runs the psychiatric services at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School (a residential school).
He works closely with a number of different high schools including: Evanston Township High School, New Trier High School, Niles West, and Niles North High Schools and numerous elementary school districts. He has co-edited two editions of the ScientificBasis of Child Custody Decisions and also co-edited a book from Cambridge University Press entitled The Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders. He has written and spoken locally, nationally, and internationally on numerous topics dealing with child and adolescent mental health needs.
Dr. Owen Garrick is President & Chief Operating Officer at Bridge Clinical Research. He is responsible for managing the Clinical Trials and Investigator Training business units, and oversees all financial, administrative and legal aspects of the company.
Prior to Bridge Clinical Research, Dr. Garrick was the Director of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at McKesson Corporation. He pursued vertical integration opportunities with generic drug manufacturers and upstream product development. He also developed and launched the company's Drug Adherence Business focused on pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers.
He also served as Executive Director and Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. In this position, he led all global M&A activity up to $5 billion. He specifically oversaw small and medium size company acquisitions, hybrid equity/license right deals, mature product divestments, and venture investments in biotechnology companies.
Previously, he spent four years at Goldman Sachs in New York, functioning as an investment advisor working with private healthcare companies as they sought to grow, raise capital, and perform initial public offerings.
Dr. Garrick earned his MD from the Yale School of Medicine and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He holds an AB in Psychology from Princeton University and continues to be an active alumnus, serving on the Alumni Council Executive Committee. He also serves on other boards and professional committees, including Quorum Review IRB, Samuel Merritt University, and Sutter Health Bay Area.
He is married to Dr. Jocelyn Garrick, a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who also practices emergency medicine.
Dwight L. Evans, M.D. is the Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neuroscience for Perelman School of Medicine. He is also the Psychiatrist-in-Chief for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Dr. Evans is a nationally recognized expert on depression and bipolar disorders and has more than 25 years of continuous grant funding from the NIH. He is currently Principal Investigator for the Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Center grant. His translational research focuses on the mechanistic role of serotonin, glucocorticoid, and neuropeptide pathways on neuroimmune function in mood disorders and medical illness.
Dr. Evans was Chair of the NIMH Mental Health/AIDS Immunology Research Study Section from 1991-1993; a member of the National Advisory Board of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program from 1994-1997; and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of NIMH from 2001-2003. Dr. Evans is Past President of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), in office from 2005-2008, and served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Gulf War and Health from 2006-2007. He also served as President of the American College of Psychiatrists (ACP) from 2009-2010.
In 2013 Dr. Evans served on the NIH Office of AIDS Research Neuro-AIDS Research Review Committee. Dr. Evans currently chairs the APA's Council on Research, and is a member of the Board of Directors of AFSP as well as the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC).
Dr. Evans is also the recipient of numerous awards, including:
As the Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Glover teaches psychopharmacology and aspects of psychotherapy to Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents. She is Director of the Mental Health Team for Montefiore Medical Group's CICERO program.
Born in the Bronx and raised in White Plains, New York, Dr. Karinn Glover has spent the greater part of her adult life following her interests in science, health, and improving life for the under-served.
Currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Glover teaches psychopharmacology and aspects of psychotherapy to Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents. She is Director of the Mental Health Team for Montefiore Medical Group's CICERO program. In this position, she guides mental health initiatives and provides direct care to HIV patients who are fully-integrated into ten primary care clinics in the Bronx. Dr. Glover has authored a peer-reviewed article on mental disorders in primary care, contributed to a textbook on psychiatric treatment in primary care, and has extensive experience in psychopharmacology and substance abuse treatment. She is also the co-founder of the Thrive Mindfulness Project, which leads seminars, workshops, leadership retreats, and lectures on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) techniques for individuals and organizations.
Dr. Glover has also contributed to various media outlets on a range of topics related to mental health and wellness. She uses mindfulness-based techniques in both her psychiatry practice as well as her career coaching for professional women. Dr. Glover is the director of the Minority Mentors Network for the New York County district branch of the APA. She is a past Vice President of the Black Psychiatrists of Greater New York and Associates.
After graduating from Howard University with a BA in History, Dr. Glover worked at Essence Magazine and then as an Account Executive for Verizon. She followed her curiosity about medicine and ultimately attended SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via the highly competitive Macy Scholars Program.
Maureen O'Gara Hackett has worked in the philanthropy sector for over 30 years, serving as Chairman of the Board of several non-profit organizations, an adviser to many, and an avid supporter of the community at-large.
Her experience in governance issues, strategic planning, development, community outreach, and board development has provided her with hands-on knowledge and experience on both a local and national level.
Maureen and her husband, Jim, have four adult children and three grandchildren, who together constitute the Hackett Family Foundation, a philanthropic team committed to their combined passions. As donors and community activists, their priority is to act as agents of change in the realm of behavioral and mental health with a focus on awareness and education, research and treatment, and the eradication of the stigma associated with mental health care. In addition to mental health awareness and advocacy, the Hackett family is dedicated to serving the interests that make up the heart of every strong community: family, faith, health, and education.
Current Boards, Affiliations & Accolades:
Dilip V. Jeste, MD is the Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care, Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, at University of California, San Diego.
He obtained his medical education in Pune, India, and psychiatry training in Mumbai, India. In the US, he completed his psychiatry residency at Cornell, and neurology residency at George Washington University. He was a research fellow, and later, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) before joining UC San Diego.
He created a Geriatric Psychiatry program at UC San Diego; today it is one of the largest Geriatric Psychiatry Divisions in the world. Dr. Jeste has been Principal Investigator on a number of research and training grants. His main areas of research include schizophrenia, neuropsychiatric interventions, and successful aging. He has published 12 books, 600+ articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 125+ invited book chapters.
Dr. Jeste is also Past President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry, and Founding President of International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology. Dr. Jeste is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a member of the NIMH Advisory Council and the NIH Council of Councils. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Under his leadership the Journal grew from a modest-impact quarterly to a monthly with the highest impact factor among all Geriatric Psychiatry journals internationally. He was listed in "The Best Doctors in America" and in the Institute of Scientific Information list of the "world's most cited authors," comprising fewer than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of previous two decades.
Dr. Jeste has received an Honorary Fellowship, the highest honor it bestows, from UK's Royal College of Psychiatrists, and an Honorary Professorship from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru. He was recently a TEDMED speaker, and his work has been cited in Time, The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Public Radio International, NPR, and various other national and international media outlets.
Dr. Jeste has also received many awards, including:
He has also been awarded by the following organizations:
Dr. Quang-Dang worked for two years on leading the effort to found the Cultural Psychiatry Area of Distinction at UCSF in January 2014, and is also its inaugural graduate. Her career interests include mental health advocacy, geriatric psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, and psychotherapy.
Uyen-Khanh Quang-Dang, M.D., M.S., was born in San Jose, CA, and was raised by her parents and maternal grandmother, who fled Vietnam at the fall of Saigon in 1975. She received her B.A. from Harvard College in 2002, graduating cum laude with honors in History and Science from the Department of the History of Science. For her summa cum laude undergraduate thesis, she received a grant to conduct field research in Vietnam's psychiatric hospitals.
Dr. Quang-Dang received a Master's of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Population and International Health in 2005; her summa cum laude graduate thesis focused on the creation of new gender equality & women's empowerment indicators for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals which factored in sexual/reproductive health. Dr. Quang-Dang received her M.D. from New York Medical College and completed both her general psychiatry residency training and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). During her geriatric psychiatry fellowship, she audited the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship. Fluent in Vietnamese, she has conducted research on the cultural adaptation of problem-solving therapy for Vietnamese-speaking patients.
While at UCSF as a resident, Dr. Quang-Dang led the effort to found the Cultural Psychiatry Area of Distinction in the residency program and co-founded the UCSF Geriatric Psychiatry Interest Group. Her professional interests include geriatric psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, teaching and mentorship, and advocacy.
Among Dr. Quang-Dang's awards are the American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellowship, the American College of Psychiatrists' Laughlin Fellowship (including a second year awarded to 1 of 10 Fellows), the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Scholar Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, and the Edwin F. Alston Award for Leadership from UCSF. As Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellowship for 2013-2014, she was a non-voting member of the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees.
She has served on the APA Council on Geriatric Psychiatry (2012-2014), the APA Council on International Psychiatry (since 2014-2019, the APA Scientific Program Committee for the Annual Meeting (2016- 2019), and the APA Mentorship Advisory Committee (since 2017). In 2017, Dr. Quang-Dang saw a gap and thus developed a new program for the APA Annual Meeting through combining her work on both the Scientific Program Committee and the Council on International Psychiatry: the APA International Poster Engagement Program, which provides concrete feedback and networking opportunities to international poster presenters attending the Annual Meeting.
One of her favorite commitments to the APA is her work with the APA Foundation, where she has served as a Board member since 2015. She has served on numerous committees including the Legacy Fund, Helping Hands grant, Advancing Minority Mental Health Award, and the APA Psychiatric Research Award. She sees tremendous opportunities as well as momentum for the APA Foundation to lead the United States in making mental health a top priority in local communities in the years ahead.
Dr. Quang-Dang is passionate about advancing the field of psychiatry by promoting the involvement and leadership of younger psychiatrists, women, and other minorities in organized psychiatry through mentorship and advocacy within the APA. Outside of psychiatry, she is passionate about education, and since 2013 has served as a Board member of VietHope, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization she co-founded in 2002 as an undergraduate at Harvard College, which to date has provided over 5,000 scholarships, as well as leadership training programs, for disadvantaged students from rural areas of Vietnam. .
Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein is President Emeritus and former Chief Executive Officer of the Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he worked for 30 years. He is also Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland.
A practicing clinician for more than 35 years, he is best known for his research and writing on the economics of private practice and public mental health policy.
Over a period of 13 years, Dr. Sharfstein held a variety of positions at the National Institute of Mental Health, including Director of Mental Health Service Programs, as well as positions in consultation/liaison psychiatry and research in behavioral medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. He has written on a wide variety of clinical and economic topics and has published more than 140 professional papers, 40 book chapters, and ten books. His published works include (as coauthor) Madness and Government: Who Cares for the Mentally Ill?, a history of the federal community mental health centers program. More recently, he was chief editor of Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston from 1969 to 1972. Dr. Sharfstein also received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 1973 and a certificate from the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1991.
He was Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association from 1991-95, its Vice President from 2002-2004, and President from 2005-2006. Dr. Sharfstein also received the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.
Francisco (Frank) Fernandez, M.D., recently joined The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as the Inaugural Dean of the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Vice President for Health Affairs, and Professor of Psychiatry.
In this role, he provides leadership for the School, and is responsible for its approval process through the Liaison Committee of Medical Education (LCME). He will also be responsible for advancing and integrating its research, interdisciplinary education, and patient care missions.
Prior to his selection, Dr. Fernandez spent the last 12 years of his career as the Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Morsani College of Medicine and Professor in the Department of Community and Family Health in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa Florida. Before his post at USF, he served as the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago from 1997-2002.
Dr. Fernandez is no stranger to Texas, having served from 1986 to 1997 as Chief of Psychiatry at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. At Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), he also served as the Director of the HIV Psychiatry Clinic. Before joining the Baylor faculty, he was Director of the Neuropsychiatry Clinic and Assistant Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1984-86. He also served on the faculty of the UTHSC-Houston from 1985-1997.
Dr. Fernandez earned an A.B., from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and his medical degree was obtained from the Tuft's University School of Medicine. He served his residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine also at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Fernandez is nationally known for his scholarly work in psychiatric aspects of medical illnesses, having authored 131 peer-reviewed publications and editing one book on the Psychiatric Aspects of AIDS. He is the recipient of funding support, including multiple awards for clinical trials, the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, SAMHSA, and foundations. Dr. Fernandez also serves as Director of the Institute for Research in Psychiatry and Neurosciences where he is principal investigator of the USF Memory Disorders Clinic.
Dr. Fernandez' clinical practice consists of consulting on patients with neurobehavioral disorders, psychiatric complications of cancer and AIDS, neuropsychiatric complications of TBI, psychological factors affecting medical illness and end of life decision making, psychopharmacology, somatoform disorders, attention deficit disorder, memory dysfunction, Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive disorders. He is the founder of the USF Neurotherapies Clinic utilizing magnetic field or electrical currents to stimulate areas of the brain to assist with symptom improvement.
Dr. Fernandez has been very active in the education of medical students and residents. He served Editor in Chief of the American College of Psychiatrists' Psychiatric Resident in Training Examination (PRITE) and chaired the PRITE Commission. In 2010, he received the American College of Psychiatrists Bowis Award for distinguished service to the College. He is likewise committed to the education of mental health professionals in psychiatric complications of HIV infection and has served as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Mental Health Services funded American Psychiatric Association's AIDS Education Project.
Dr. Fernandez also has extensive service in organized medicine, psychiatry, and in the community. Dr. Fernandez is Immediate Past President of the Florida Psychiatric Society and presently is the first vice-president of The American College of Psychiatrists. He has served as the Chair of the Committee on AIDS of the American Psychiatric Association as well as other leading HIV/AIDS organizations. In 2007, he received the American Psychiatric Association's Simon Bolivar Award for his work with Hispanics and AIDS and depression in Latino men. In Florida, he serves on the Executive Committee for the Florida Partners in Crisis, a group promoting state and community collaboration across the mental health, substance abuse and criminal justice systems to reduce contact of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders with the justice system and support their recovery. Since 2009, he served as the Chair of the Medical Committee of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS of Tampa Bay and since 2003 he serves on the Board of the Center for Victims of Torture.
Dr. Gabrielle Shapiro is an Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health Systems. She is a Board Certified Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr. Shapiro's clinical focus is in depression, Adjustment Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disorder.
Dr. Shapiro is very involved in the Medical Society of the State of New York, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the New York Psychiatric Society on advocacy issues for physicians affiliated with Mount Sinai Health Systems. She served as Secretary Treasurer of the Assembly of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from 2010-2011.
After earning her Bachelors in Psychology from Vassar College, Dr. Shapiro received her medical degree from New York Medical College. She completed an internship in Psychiatry at University of California, Irvine and her residency at University of California, San Diego. This was followed by a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital & Health Center of San Diego (now Rady Children's Hospital).
Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, retired from the Supreme Court of Ohio after 23 years in the judiciary to pursue criminal justice reforms, particularly as they relate to mental health, juveniles, and veterans.
She came to the bench by a very different route. Born to missionary parents in Bangkok, Thailand, Stratton spent her childhood in Southeast Asia. She attended boarding school in South Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War and later in Malaysia, visiting America on occasion with her parents. At age 18, she returned to America alone with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket. Working her way through school, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University College of Law.
She began her legal career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Central Ohio. In 1989, she was the first woman to be elected Judge of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, where she became known as "The Velvet Hammer" for her approach to sentencing in serious felony cases. Her success on the trial bench led to an appointment in 1996 to the Supreme Court of Ohio, where she was elected to a third term in 2008. She retired in 2012.
believes that the courts, in partnership with the mental health system, can affect positive change in the lives of many defendants whose mental illness has led to criminal activity. For 8 years, she and former Attorney General Mike DeWine served as co-chairs of the Attorney General's Task Force on Mental Illness and Criminal Justice, who are law enforcement and criminal justice professionals dedicated to mental health initiatives in the court system. She has now been appointed to now Governor DeWine's Ohio Recovery Advisory Council, which will advise the governor on addiction and mental health policy issues.
Nationally, Stratton is a co-founder and former co-chair of the Judges' Leadership Initiative, a professional association that supports cooperative mental health programs in the criminal justice system. She also works in Ohio and nationally on establishing veteran's courts, to help those returning veterans with Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury and other issues, whose problems may lead to involvement in the criminal justice system. She also currently serves as Ohio's Project Director of Stepping Up, a national collaborative effort to reduce the number of mentally ill in the jail system and to connect them with mental health and other services.
Since retiring from the bench, she works through EStratton Consulting, LLC on criminal justice reforms. She is also Of Counsel to a major Ohio law firm, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, where she provides trial and appellate guidance to lawyers, using her years of experience on the trial court and Supreme Court of Ohio to assist attorneys and their clients in their litigation matters. She was recently named to the Best Lawyers in American Appellate Division, 2017. Eve is also a member of Vorys' drone and autonomous vehicle working group, with a focus on government and insurance.
Among her many honors are the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Angels Award, as well as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Adoption Excellence Award.
Additionally, in May 2008, Stratton received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor at a ceremony in New York City. Established in 1986 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, the Ellis Island Medals of Honor pay tribute to American citizens of diverse origins for their outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation and the world. Ranking among the nation's most prestigious awards, recipients are listed in the Congressional Record.
Justice Stratton is the wife of John A. Lundberg III, and the mother of two adult sons. She enjoys painting, Thai cooking, and fly fishing with her husband. But surely her most interesting accomplishment was her first-place finish in a college Stampede Girls Goat Tying Competition — a talent she later put to good use as a trial lawyer.
Gregory W. Dalack is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He began work at the University of Michigan in 1992 and served in a variety of leadership roles in the Mental Health Service at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System through 2005. From 2005-2016, he was Associate Chair for Education and Academic Affairs for the Department of Psychiatry, from 2006-2007, he was Vice Chair of the department, then served as Interim Chair until his appointment as Chair in 2010.
Dr. Dalack has had research interests in the treatment of chronic and persistent mental illnesses, particularly focusing on schizophrenia. He has conducted studies examining nicotine addiction and smoking cessation interventions in schizophrenia, health behaviors in schizophrenia, and metabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications in severe mental illness. More recently, he has been involved in developing collaborative care programs to provide psychiatric and behavioral health expertise within primary care clinics at UMHS, the local community, and throughout the State of Michigan.
Dr. Dalack received his B.S. in Chemistry at Yale University, and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He completed his internship in Medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York and his Psychiatry Residency at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Also at Columbia and NYSPI, he completed a fellowship in Psychopharmacology.
Dr. Dalack previously served on the APA Council on Quality Care, chaired the APA Workgroup to Establish a Psychiatry Registry (2014-2015), and serves on the APA Registry Oversight Committee (2016-present).
Dr. Lama Bazzi completed her training in adult psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She then pursued further training in Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. During her fellowship she developed an interest in the role a forensic expert plays in educating judges and lawyers on the complexities of mental illness.
Dr. Bazzi then moved back to the New York area where she served as the Director of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment program in Suffolk County It was in this capacity that she evaluated, treated, and testified on hundreds of cases involving respondents with extensive criminal histories, co-occurring substance use disorders, and severe mental illnesses.
Dr. Bazzi currently serves as the Inpatient Unit Director at Maimonides Medical Center, a Community Mental Health Center in Brooklyn, New York. She works as a Forensic Psychiatrist, where she serves as a court appointed expert in civil and criminal cases.
In addition, she is a Medical Review Officer and treats patients with Substance Use Disorders. Dr. Bazzi serves as an expert witness in several courts in New York City, as well as in federal and national cases. Dr. Bazzi has been active in the American Psychiatric Association since she was a resident. She served as an APA Leadership Fellow and sat on the Council for Psychiatry and the Law as well as the Board of Trustees as a nonvoting member during that time. She served a three-year term as the APA Early Career Psychiatry Trustee at Large. She is passionate about advocacy, education, increasing awareness, and improving the relationships between the justice system and the mental health system to better serve patients.
Altha J. Stewart, M.D. is Immediate Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and served as President of APA from 2018 to 2019. Altha J. Stewart, M.D. began her term as President of the American Psychiatric Association at the end of the APA Annual Meeting in May, 2018. Dr. Stewart is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Dr. Stewart has held several leadership roles at APA, including secretary of APA, past president of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, chair of the APA Conflict of Interest Committee, chair of the Minority Fellowship Selection Committee, member of APA Ad Hoc Workgroups on Real Estate and Strategic Planning, member of the Council on Advocacy and Government Relations and member of the APA Joint Reference Committee..
Dr. Stewart previously served as Executive Director for Just Care Family Network, Memphis' federally funded System of Care program for children with serious emotional disorders and their families. Additionally, Dr. Stewart was Director of Systems of Care for the Shelby County Office of the Public Defender. Prior to this she served as Executive Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health Services funded National Leadership Council on African-American Behavioral Health. Earlier in her career, Dr. Stewart served as Executive Director of Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency, one of the largest public mental health systems in the U.S. She worked for over a decade as CEO and Executive Director in large public mental health systems in Pennsylvania and New York, overseeing the management and development of programs for persons with mental illness and substance use disorders.
Dr. Stewart is active in several professional organizations having previously served as president of the Association of Women Psychiatrists and the Black Psychiatrists of America.
Jeffrey Geller, M.D., M.P.H. is the President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Geller is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and Medical Director of the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, a 290 bed public psychiatric hospital serving adults and adolescents. Prior to taking this position, Dr Geller spent 25 years as the Director of Public Sector Psychiatry at UMMS.
Dr. Geller is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Prior to assuming his position on the APA Board of Trustees as President-Elect, Dr. Geller spent 11 of the past 13 years on the Board as Area 1 Trustee or APA Vice President. Dr. Geller has served in the APA Assembly in various roles, including on the Assembly Executive Committee, for 18 of the past 25 years. He has been the Personal Accounts column editor for Psychiatric Services since the inception of this column in 1994. He has also as well been a Psychiatric Services last Book Review Editor. Dr. Geller has served on multiple components of the APA, most particularly those focusing on public sector psychiatry and global psychiatry.
Dr. Geller has served as a consultant to 26 states and a number of foreign countries. He is the author of over 125 referred journal articles and coauthor of the book, Women of the Asylum. In the Clinton health reform era, Dr, Geller served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy fellow in the US Senate. Currently Dr. Geller serves on the SAMHSA National Advisory Council as well as on the boards of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, Clubhouse International, Genesis Club, Treatment Advocacy Center and World Federation for Mental Health. He has been a leader, nationally and internationally, in making the provision of care and treatment to persons in the public sector with serious mental illness a respectable and respected specialization.
Dr. Geller is the recipient of many awards and honors including:
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its Privacy Policy, including with
new information specifically addressed to individuals in the European Economic Area. As described in the Privacy Policy, this website utilizes cookies, including for the
purpose of offering an optimal online experience and services tailored to your preferences.
Please read the entire Privacy Policy. By closing this message, browsing this website, continuing the navigation, or
otherwise continuing to use the APA's websites, you confirm that you understand and accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, including the utilization of cookies.


text:
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
By Gino Wickman
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?
Don't let common problems and frustrations run you and your business. Get a grip and gain control with the Entrepreneurial Operating System®.
Inside Traction, you'll learn the secrets of strengthening the Six Key Components™ of your business. You'll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment.
Based on years of real-world implementation in thousands of companies, the Entrepreneurial Operating System is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. Successful organisations are applying it every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses – and you can too.
Buy Traction Now:
What People Are Saying About Traction :
"TRACTION is far and away the most potent and useful approach I've ever seen for running a successful company. The content is bulletproof! You have to read this book."

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Click here to Download 300+ Premium Mindfulness Worksheets
PLUS Limited Time Bonuses!
Free Mindfulness Worksheets
Free Mindfulness Worksheets
On this page, we've put together a collection of 320 unique mindfulness worksheets for your use. These worksheets can be used as a highly effective tool to increase your level of self-awareness, sharpen your clarity of mind and mental focus, and increase your level of overall resilience in your day to day life.
If you'd prefer to access these mindfulness worksheets digitally, you can download them to your computer, tablet, or mobile device and access them offline whenever it's convenient for you. Or, if you'd like to use a good old fashioned pen and paper to complete them, you're welcome to print them out and work with them as hard copies.
Practicing mindfulness
Putting mindfulness into practice in our daily lives is sometimes easier said than done. We'll often read something interesting, listen to an audiobook, or watch an inspirational video online, and tell ourselves that we'll incorporate what we've read, heard, or seen into our daily habits. Frequently, though, something gets lost in translation: we want to create new habits of mindfulness, but the hectic pace of our daily lives can make for a challenging stumbling block.
With mindfulness exercises and worksheets, you can focus your intention on putting mindfulness into practice each and every day. These worksheets can help you come to recognize the unconscious, unhealthy patterns that show up in our ways of being. By unraveling these patterns, you can begin to live with more awareness, clarity, and presence than ever before.
Creating newer, healthier habits
These mindfulness worksheets are intended for integration into your everyday life. They can be used daily if you like; or, you can use them two to four times per week as you periodically evaluate your progress. Once new habits begin to emerge and eventually mature, you'll likely find yourself needing to check in with less frequency. Feel free to share these worksheets with family, friends, students, clients, co-workers, or anyone who you think might find them useful.
Access to Free Mindfulness Exercise Worksheets
Here at MindfulnessExercises.com, you'll find a plethora of mindfulness-related worksheets and exercises that can contribute to your pursuit of a mindful, conscious existence. We have compiled more than 300 individual mindfulness worksheets that you can make use of. Each one is designed to be utilized as a personalized, highly focused tool that's aimed at raising your awareness of how you interact with others, increasing your mental clarity and sense of focus, and augmenting your ability to be resilient in your daily existence.
Some would prefer to make use of these worksheets using their computer. That's easy to do: all you have to do is download them to your laptop, phone, or tablet, and you can use them regardless of whether or not you have an internet connection. Of course, if you'd prefer to tackle them in print form using a pen or pencil, you can always print them out rather than downloading them.
How to incorporate mindfulness into your life
It's not always easy to make mindfulness a part of our day to day existence. It's one thing to read a book or attend a lecture about mindful practices: that's fairly easy to do. However, it's an entirely different task to attempt to incorporate what we've learned into our daily lives. We may be trying to live our lives mindfully, but it's hard to actually make that happen.
Thanks to the mindfulness exercises offered here, you can bridge this gap. You can put your attention and focus towards making mindfulness a part of your daily life. You can even escape unhealthy patterns that show up in your daily existence: these mindfulness exercises will help you to expose these patterns, and ultimately transcend them.
Create new habits and share
Use these exercises daily, weekly, or several times a week to create newer, better habits. You're welcome to share these worksheets with friends, family, co-workers, and anyone else who might benefit from them.
320 free mindfulness worksheets are offered here to help you increase more self-awareness, clarity, and resilience in your daily life. Save them to your computer or print copies to work on with a good old fashioned pen or pencil. Mindfulness exercises and worksheets help to unravel and reveal unconscious patterns for us to see more clearly, showing us a way to live with more awareness and clarity. Feel free to share these mindfulness worksheets with family, students, clients or co-workers who you think may appreciate them. These mindfulness worksheets are designed to be integrated into daily life and to be used two to four times per week until new habits of awareness are matured.
Access our 1,800+ FREE Audio Mindfulness Exercises now!


text:
There was much commotion and activity in Bethlehem on that magical night so long ago, but far too little of it revolved around the coming birth of God's son and the peoples Messiah. People were rushing about, in their own worlds, with their own agendas, not aware that an event was about to occur that would change the world. Two lonely people were in search of a place to rest and to deliver the savor of the world. There was no room for them, no room for Mary to have her baby at the inn. There wasn't a place for her, it was filled with other people, doing other things, with other thoughts and concerns. But wait, this is the Lord, the Messiah who is about to be born. None of that mattered to the innkeepers and it certainly didn't matter to the people who were warm and comfortable and involved with their individual lives, their minds and their hearts filled with earthly and material things. And yet, in the midst of so much that was going on that holy night God sent his son into the world to set before us a new covenant of peace, love, grace and possibility.
What about your mind and your heart? Is there room for Jesus to be born anew within you? Or is your heart and mind so filled with earthly things that now there is no more room? Are you so settled into your own way of thinking that Jesus has to fit into your agenda rather than you giving yourself over to him?
Jesus came to be a new compass for a people who had for generations wandered the earth in search of meaning. Now that meaning was available to them if only they would recognize the true gift that was being offered.
That gift presents itself to each of us as well. Welcome it with a grateful and open heart and mind and see how Jesus sets before you a new direction of amazing blessings.
Rev. Jefferson Beeker
We live our lives one thought at a time. Let each of those thoughts really count for something wonderful.
Be prepared to change your thinking and change your life. Please join us each Sunday at 5:30 PM in our Social Hall at First Christian Church, North Hollywood, CA for our Contemporary Celebration and Praise service. Come as you are and enjoy an hour of great music from our wonderful band and singers, inspiring messages and good fellowship. Those things in life that you have been seeking have also been seeking you. Now is a good time to receive them. We will lift one another to live exciting, abundant new lives of possibility and purpose.
Also, join me on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 8 PM for an hour of guided and silent meditation, reflection, affirmation and prayer. As always, we will share communion together. Everyone is welcome. We are an open and affirming congregation.
First Christian Church, North Hollywood, 4390 Colfax Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604. http://www.fccnh.org


text:
DVP vs. DiEUGENIO
JAMES DiEUGENIO SAID:
Wow, if I ever had any doubts about what a mouthpiece for DVP you [Mike Williams] and Duncan [MacRae] are, they are now dispelled. He might as well be here. But you forgot to use one of his Von Peinianisms: "CT nuttiness". Mikey boy, you are taking my definition of hearsay from elsewhere and applying it to a non-analogous situation. Unlike with Humes and the FBI report, Tomlinson never denied what Marcus wrote. Even though he knew he was being interviewed for the record. Quite the contrary. (See Mr. Hogan's post above.) And the other source, about Wright somehow forgetting he turned over CE 399, is right in the WC volumes. As per DVP, I challenged him to a debate many months ago. He passed. And passed. And passed. Now, he wants to debate me with his own ground rules. Which would allow him leeway to fabricate things, which as I have shown elsewhere, he [has] a remarkable tendency to do. But you know all this Mikey, since someone named Ken Murray posted my reply to him on the board that you and Duncan so freely associate with DVP on. In the spirit of fairness, why don't you repost my reply to him here then.
I wonder if Mr. DiEugenio can supply even one post of mine which
includes my "remarkable tendency" for "fabricat[ing] things".
Jim can start with this batch of articles, numbering in the dozens.
Good luck finding one single piece of DVP "fabrication" in HERE.
If anyone has a tendency for fabrication with respect to the JFK case,
it's James DiEugenio. His imagination runs wild regarding anything and
everything to do with President Kennedy's assassination. Here are 13
excellent examples:
"Somebody else might have done it [burned the first draft of the
autopsy report and Humes' blood-stained notes]. .... Today, I think
that's what really happened. I think that that whole thing about
burning the notes...was just a cover story." -- James DiEugenio;
December 11, 2008 (Black Op Radio)
"The anterior neck wound--the measurements on that wound--are
too small for the 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano ammunition." --
James DiEugenio; December 11, 2008 (Black Op Radio)
"Tom Purvis has proved there was at least one of those [36-inch
Carcanos] stamped with that serial number [C2766]." -- James
DiEugenio; 2008; http://CTKA.net/2008/von_pein.html
"As I reported, Dr. [John] Lattimer had one [Carcano rifle] of
the 40 inch variety with the C 2766 serial number." -- James
DiEugenio; 2008; http://CTKA.net/2008/von_pein.html
"Specter and Humes understood that the probe was gonna be a big
problem. They thought the photographs would never be declassified. So
Specter made up this B.S. story about the strap muscles, never knowing
that that story was going to be exposed." -- James DiEugenio; July 16,
2009 (Black Op Radio)
"The story of this (these) paper bag(s), Wesley Frazier, his
sister, and the curtain rods can be challenged every single step of
the way. .... By the early evening of [November] 22nd [1963], the DPD
had very little besides the notorious Howard Brennan. Shaky eye
witness Howard Brennan couldn't be relied upon to put Oswald on the
sixth floor. As Police Chief Jesse Curry later admited [sic], they had
no one who put Oswald in the building with a gun in his hand.
Therefore, they needed Frazier and his "Oswald carrying a package"
story." -- James DiEugenio; http://CTKA.net/2008/bugliosi_6_review.html
"I have minimized the testimony of Linnie Mae [Randle]. I do so
because in my view it is highly questionable." -- James DiEugenio;
"Kennedy is murdered at 12:30 PM. Oswald is almost undoubtedly
on the first floor at the time." -- James DiEugenio;
"At Bethesda, the military severely curtails the autopsy so that
no one will ever know the true circumstances of how Kennedy was
killed. Also, the FBI switches the bullet found at Parkland Hospital
to fit the second rifle found at the TSBD, a Mannlicher Carcano." --
James DiEugenio; http://CTKA.net/2008/bugliosi_5b_review.html
"I don't believe Oswald shot Tippit." -- James DiEugenio;
January 14, 2010 (Black Op Radio)
"I'm not even sure they [the real killers of JFK, not Lee Harvey
Oswald, naturally] were on the sixth floor [of the Book Depository]. I
mean, they might have been. But what's the definitive evidence that
the hit team was on the sixth floor? .... If they WERE on the sixth
floor, they could have been at the other [west] end. .... And I've
always suspected there was a sniper in the Dal-Tex Building." -- James
DiEugenio; February 11, 2010 (Black Op Radio)
"I don't think [Howard] Brennan was at any lineup. I think that
was all manufactured after the fact. I think Brennan is a completely
created witness." -- James DiEugenio; May 27, 2010 (Black Op Radio)
"I just proved that CE 399 was not found at Parkland." -- James
DiEugenio; June 4, 2010
Now, what was that Jim D. was saying about someone's "remarkable
tendency...to fabricate things"?
Can it get any better on a "Pot and Kettle" scale than this, folks? If
it can, please inform CNN right away, because they'll surely want to
know about it.
David Von Pein
June 2010
MY YouTube CHANNELS:
DVP's JFK CHANNEL
DVP's OLD-TIME RADIO CHANNEL
DVP's CHANNEL #3
DVP's JFK ARCHIVES:
DVP's VIDEO & AUDIO ARCHIVE:


text:
DebugDiag Dump
Posted by on 12 April 2013 05:06 AM
DebugDiag (exactly Debug Diagnostics Tool) is Microsoft's utility (you can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26798) which can help in situations when normal logs cannot give the answer about state of IceWarp Server processes. In this document, we will cover two most common issues – CPU load (loop) and memory leaks.
CPU Load
In the case we need a dump of a process causing a high CPU load, the simplest way to determine whether the process (actually, one or more of its threads causes a loop is to use the Task Manager – check whether the process loads one of your processor cores to 100%. (i.e. 25% for four core processor). If you run into this situation, do the following:
Memory Leaks
In some buggy situations, you can see a raising size(s) of Private Bytes and Virtual Memory for specific process – this is called memory leak and can exhaust all of your available physical memory and even crash your system if it is not handled correctly. DebugDiag can serve as a monitor for these processes and can give us valuable information about the culprit. The only thing you should remember is that instead of "just in place dump" we need to monitor the given process for a while to gather needed information about memory regions and where they have been moved to. So it is fair to say you should run the monitoring ASAP after the memory starts growing or (if it is reproducible) after a service restart to clean up the address space.
To start monitoring:
When the memory of the process raised twice or more in size, just navigate to the Process tab again, right-click the process monitored for leaks and select Create Full Userdump.
These generated dumps can help our specialist to fix issues raised from leaks or loops much faster.


text:
Kitten rides across town in engine compartment
Tiny kitten saved by mechanic
ORLANDO, Fla. – A driver looking to get an engine check found much more when the faint meowing of a cat was heard trapped under the hood of the car.
The faint, meager meows of a kitten are what saved her life on Saturday. Dialiahel Odllakoff, a mechanic at Two Guys Tires and Auto Repair on North John Young Parkway in Orlando, heard the cries.
"Basically he got in through the tire and the cover," said Odllakof. He explained that the kitten somehow crawled up over the tire, into the wheel well of the Toyota Corolla, and under the shock tower inside the engine compartment.
Odllakof was stunned that the kitten survived the ride across town. He said the car's owner, who brought in the car for an alignment, came from the University of Central Florida. Odllakof said the car's owner didn't know how the cat got into the engine compartment or who it belonged to.
Odllakof called 911 and firefighters had to pull apart the engine compartment to free the kitten, which is doing fine.
Odllakof decided to adopt the kitten and name it, appropriately, "Meow."
Copyright 2013 by ClickOrlando.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Super Reishi with Maitake D-fraction – Supports Immune & Optimal Health
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) has been highly prized for thousands of years in China as the "Elixir of Mortality" and "Sprint Plant". As a "superior" tonic it was believed to balance and support your body systems, including heart, lung, liver, nerve and brain function.
Reishi in our "Super Reishi" is log grown free of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. It contains both hot-water and alcohol concentrated extracts in order to achieve the maximum range of beneficial constituents, such as active B-glucan and terpenes. It is also enhanced with immune boosting Maitake D-fraction.
120 Capsules
Research Reishi Mushrooms to find out more about this amazing mushroom.


text:
The little girl who always wanted to go to the Macy's Christmas parade, as yet, has not gotten her wish, but she got something even better. This is my 10th anniversary as the coordinator of the Weston Parade, and it's been a joy.
On a larger scale, on Sunday, Nov 25th at 2.00 p.m., when the parade rolls down Weston Rd from Church Street to Dennison Ave, this great community tradition will be celebrating its 40th anniversary! And this is truly a testament to the indomitable spirit that is Weston as well the parade's ability to adapt.
At least half of the high school kids who now wear costumes and carry banners in the parade come from homes where Christmas is not celebrated, but they and their parents still love them to be part of the event and they do it because they also love Weston.
Another way in which the parade has adapted is by keeping up with current trends. This year in addition to the marching bands and 40 community floats, the 501 Star Wars Troopers will be part of the event, as will characters from Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig, both very popular kid's shows. To add theatrical flair to the parade, the Sunny Tang Lion Dancers will be displaying their amazing artistry.
Weston may be small, but our Weston Parade is MIGHTY. For more information on the parade, please visit our website at: www.westonvillagebia.com or email us at: [email protected] We still need volunteers!


text:
Cool Controls for Windows Forms!
Robert Green blogs about the release of the VB.NET PowerPack. The PowerPack is a set of 7 cool new Windows Forms controls written in Visual Basic.NET. Don't let the "VB" in the title or your own language bias fool you, you can use these controls in any .NET language. You can download the controls from the GotDotNet workspace. My favorite control is the NotificationWindow control, which you've seen in MSN Messenger, SharpReader and several other applications. The code below creates a notification window, that when clicked, changes the label on a form.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
//Create Toast
NotificationWindow toast = new NotificationWindow();
toast.TextIsHyperLink = true;
toast.ShowStyle = NotificationShowStyle.Slide;
//Create Message for 6K milliseconds
toast.Notify("Hello World!", 6000);
toast.Click += new NotificationWindow.ClickEventHandler(toast_Click);
private void toast_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
//Event fires when a user clicks on the toast
label1.Text = "You clicked Hello World";
If you are a true language snob (shame on you) and don't want to use these b/c it's called a VBPowerPack, you can always use a using alias at the top of your file as shown below:
using PowerPack = VbPowerPack;


text:
Coaching with NLP has branches in the UK and South Africa. They deliver training in various countries and focus on doing two things really well.
Firstly, you can experience world class training in NLP, Coaching, Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy®, Speed Reading, Train the Trainer and other personal development courses.
Secondly, we work with businesses and private clients in the following areas; Business coaching, Life coaching, Body language, Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy®, Personal Breakthrough sessions as well as other coaching and therapy related areas.
Having done training around the world with international leaders in, like Dr. Tad James and Dr. Adrianna James, we utilize many of the skills and techniques taught in NLP in many of the courses and coaching that we deliver.
About Wayne.
Wayne Farrell, has the great pleasure and wonderful opportunity to travel the world in the pursuit of mastery. He is fortunate to deliver various types of training in various countries and is passionate in helping you, to become the best you can be.
Some of his credentials include:
Master practitioner and trainer of NLP,
Master practitioner and trainer of Hypnosis,
Master coach and trainer of coaching,
Master practitioner and trainer of Time Line Therapy®,
Micro Expression and Body Language trainer,
As well as delivering training in Speed reading and other personal development courses.
Mission Statement.
Through over delivery on our clients expectations, we are committed to delivering the best service in our fields of training, coaching and therapy. We are passionate about helping you, our client, to achieve your greatest success. We are also proud to be part of the global movement to transform the planet into a place where everybody can achieve their fullest potential. Always remembering that our clients are our partners and the most important spoke in the wheel of success.
Vision Statement.
Our vision is to be the preferred partner and "go to" company to our private and business clients in the fields in which we operate.
Our longer term vision is to work with partners to build a self-sustainable "village" where people can live with family values at its core as well as the need for sustenance. (Both for the body, soul and mind.) Living with and from the abundance that surrounds us and not to focus on the demands placed on them by society in regards to possessions and prestige. Being happy and content with what we have, knowing that only then will you truly appreciate what you can ultimately achieve.
Our Core Values
Honesty, Integrity, Fulfilment, Fun, Excellence and Continual improvement.
So how can we best serve you? Do you want to do a course in personal development or are you looking for coaching or therapy. We can assist. Simply contact us today and we look forward to meeting you.


text:
On F.lux
January 5, 2012 § Leave a comment
F.lux is a great little tool that changes the temperature of your screen to match the room you are in, syncing with the sunrise and sunset automatically and adjusts your screen to optimal levels. It's a subtle difference but one that my eyes are very happy about.
On Personal Configurations
January 3, 2012 § Leave a comment
In a lot of the Rails projects I work on we use yaml files to set up configuration variables, things like domain urls, facebook and paypal keys, smtp configurations and many more. A lot of these can be different across different environments. The domain we use in our development environment might look like
127.0.0.1:3000 where in production it would look like
awesome.com. We use Rails's database.yml as a template for the rest of our configuration files, so an example of our
config/config.yml might look like this:
test: name: AppName host: 127.0.0.1:3000 push_endpoint: http://lvho.st:8080/app/cometd development: name: AppName host: lvho.st:3000 push_endpoint: http://lvho.st:8080/app/cometd user_dev_tweaks: false production: name: AppName host: sweetdomain.com push_endpoint: http://sweetdomain.com:8080/app/cometd
We then slurp the current environment's settings into a global constant in
config/application.rb with the following:
CONFIG = YAML.load_file("#{::Rails.root.to_s}/config/config.yml")[::Rails.env].symbolize_keys
See all of the code in the gist for easier reading.
On Riding the Latest Rails
December 29, 2011 § Leave a comment
Note: I wrote this up a few weeks a go, but didn't publish it for some reason. It is a touch out of date since Rails 3.2 RC1 was recently released, but should be close enough to give you a good idea on how to get up and running on Rails master.
I wanted to play with the latest and greatest for Rails, which at the time of writing is 3.2.0.beta (RC 1 is now out). This means building and installing the rails gem locally. It took me a good while to figure out how to get everything working, so I figured I'd throw it down here for future reference… and for anyone else running into the same problems I did.
I am using rvm to isolate my different gem set ups, so as not to get random version conflicts. These are the lists of commands with notes I ran to get everything up and running:
# create a new gemset to use with rails master rvm gemset create rails-master rvm gemset use rails-master # this is where I am going to put all of the git repos cd ~/src # Rails 3.2.0.beta requires the most recent (as in master) # versions of arel and journey git clone git://github.com/rails/arel.git cd arel gem build arel.gemspec gem install arel-*.gem cd .. git clone git://github.com/rails/journey.git cd journey gem build journey.gemspec gem install journey-*.gem # now get Rails cd .. git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git cd rails # install all of the Rails pieces, # i.e., ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, etc... cat RAILS_VERSION | xargs ruby install.rb # check to make sure you are riding the correct rails ruby -r 'rails' -e 'puts Rails::VERSION::STRING'
You can get just the commands in a gist too.
On My Projects Becoming Obsolete
December 27, 2011 § 1 Comment
Rails 3.2 RC1 was released last week and it announces some pretty cool new things. One of those things is something that I have played with building out myself (tagged logging) and another is something I actually did (ActiveRecord Store). When I wrote my data-attributes gem, I was inspired to do so because I had a users table that had an ever-growing number of email permission checks. I never queried against these, and they made doing a
SELCET * FROM users; really painful to try and read. I decided to just throw them all in a serialized column and be done with it.
When I first read the release notes for 3.2 I had two thoughts go through my head.
1) Well, crap.
data-attributes is now dead and useless. (yes, I use <code> tags in my head)
2) Awesome, the solution I came up with for a problem I was having is the same one that the Rails team came up with. Maybe I might know a thing or two about what I am doing.
But as I started to compare the new ActiveRecord::Store with
data-attributes, I began to realize that my little project isn't dead quite yet. The accessors generated by the store call with AR::S aren't full attribute accessors. By this I mean they don't go through
read_attribute and
write_attribute before committing the new data to the serialized hash. This prevents you from intercepting the accessor call and doing some pre/post processing. You also don't get default values as with other attribute accessors. Definitely not a huge deal in the least, but something to be aware of. AR::S does mark things as dirty though.
data-attributes does not do this as of yet.
As for the future for of
data-attributes, I think that it is actually dead in the long run. If I were to work on this problem more in the future, I'd probably do so by adding the AR::S instead of continuing working on
On Why id is Faster
November 14, 2011 § 1 Comment
Database performance is always something that has fascinated me. Not on a admin level, but from the point of view of a developer. Even with a stock database setup there are things that a developer can do to help optimize access. If you do any middle or backend web development you will be familiar with running queries against a database. You will also be familiar with how adding indexes on the commonly queried columns of your tables can increase performance. But it turns out, that not all indexes are created the same.
I have been working with the InnoDB storage engine of MySQL in a Ruby on Rails web development for a while now. Over the years I began to noticed something but was never able to figure out what was causing it . When ever I would queries tables using the id column, The queries would return much faster than when I queried against some other indexed column, even if that column was an indexed integer. For those not familiar with Rails conventions, every table is created with an integer column, id, that has the table's primary index placed on it. It is auto-incrementing so every row has a unique value, a requirement of it being a primary key. Now the InnoDB constructs the primary key in a special way, using a clustered index. What this means is that the primary key index points directly to the page the row data resides on either on disk or in memory. Non-clustered, or secondary indexes, point to the primary key instead of the row data. This little bit of indirection cause the secondary indexes to be slower than a look up on the primary key.
It's always satisfying figuring out the reasons behind behavior you do not initially understand.
For some more information you can check out the MySQL Reference Manual. This investigation was prompted by an answer to a question I posted on Stackoverflow about partial indexes and the group by operation.
On Not Rolling Your Own Verification or Encryption
November 10, 2011 § Leave a comment
When developing code, there are somethings that you should leave to the experts. Encryption is one of them. When I wrote my encrypted cookies and encrypted cookie sessions gems, one of the the things I didn't want to do was write any sort of encryption routines. Luckily ActiveSupport has some help in the way of ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor. It's used much like ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier which is used for signed cookies in Rails. People much smarter than me have put these pieces together, so it just makes sense to use them. Almost nothing good can come from trying to do this stuff yourself. Here are some examples of a verifier and encryptor being used.
> secret = ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(10) => "379af645b8dcce20b607" > verifier = ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier.new(secret) => #<ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier:0x00000103d7ce50 @secret="379af645b8dcce20b607", @digest="SHA1"> > signed_message = verifier.generate("sign this!") => "BAhJIg9zaWduIHRoaXMhBjoGRVQ=--af1e810b074b1abd6d9dcd775f71b1fafa53c218" # this is "<base 64 encoded and serialized string>--<digest of string>" > verifier.verify(signed_message) => "sign this!" > verifier.verify(signed_message + "alittleextraontheend") ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier::InvalidSignature > verifier.verify("alittleextraatthebeginning" + signed_message) ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier::InvalidSignature
> secret = ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(20) => "c1578de6ec2e1789940729dc9d97b335fc7df588" > encryptor = ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor.new(secret) => #<ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor:0x000001295337c8 @secret="c1578de6ec2e1789940729dc9d97b335fc7df588", @cipher="aes-256-cbc"> > encrypted_message = encryptor.encrypt_and_sign("Nothing to see here...") => "BAhJIl9YbDZkK0czS3o0ZkI0Yml6K05uYzgzM05meDJjWWU4QWh0YzdFeFFrbC85b3BocHFORWtRWXdDVWIxaW45TEQ5LS1yVkxGTURJYzFWb2pva0UrVkkwTkFnPT0GOgZFRg==--e61e02a818960d66c7865f5624fad63b1564283f" > encryptor.decrypt_and_verify(encrypted_message) => "Nothing to see here..."
If your secret is too short you'll get a OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError. Make sure your secret is at least 32 bytes. Using ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(16) should satisfy this requirement, but obviously longer is better. You can also pass in a :digest => <digest> option as a second argument to both initializers to specify a different algorithm to use.
One of my thoughts is to submit these two gems into Rails so that people don't make the mistake of trying to roll their own encryption systems for cookies. We'll see how it goes.
On New Milestones
November 7, 2011 § Leave a comment
Earlier this year I got the itch to start doing some open source stuff. I hadn't done anything of the sort before, so I didn't really have any idea where to begin. There have definitely been some bumps along the way, but I think that I have made some progress. Looking back on my progress I identified a few milestones I hit along the way. They weren't obvious at the time, and I certainly can't say that I meant to achieve each one, but I can clearly see them now. Each one helped me a little more on my way to being an open source contributor. Each one also elicited different thoughts and feelings. Now in no particular order and mostly for me to remember what I was thinking…
First Repository Uploaded to GitHub
I signed up for GitHub back at the end of 2008. I forked a few repos here and there just because there was a button to do it. I didn't really know anything about git and didn't do anything with repos I had forked. I didn't actually upload a repo of my own until the end of March 2011. I had been working with subdomains in Rails 3 and experimenting with the new cookie jar chaining. I found a use case for adding another cookie jar that assigned the domain of the cookie. I abstracted it out, gave a poor project name and put it up on GitHub. [tld-cookies]
It was a bit nerve-racking putting something you have made out there for whole world to see. I am sure artists feel the same way when they show their paintings or writing to the general public. I had no expectations that people would look at it or care about it, but still it was out there for people to scoff at if they saw fit to. Nervous as I was, I felt something that I wasn't expecting… liberation. Even if no one ever used my code, I was now a contributing member of the open source community. It felt great.
Two more repos went up almost immediately.
First Gem Published
When I pushed my first repos, the code was more or less in it's finalized state, so the gem(s) followed quickly behind. I remember having my RubyGems.org dashboard up all day watching the those first downloads trickle in. I quickly realized that the first dozen or so were mirrors downloading all the new and updated gems. Not going to lie, was a little sad when I realized that. That first gem still sits at 50 downloads, probably because of it's bad name, but some of the other ones have a few hundred downloads.
It's awesome. Some of my peers, not my coworkers, are using my code. Building things that people use is awesome, whether it's a website or a library. As a software developer, I get a thrill when websites I work on get traction and usage. Building successful businesses is my end goal, but with that being said, I get a very different and more personal thrill when I see some of my code being used by other developers. It is a type of validation of your technical skills and it feels great.
First Gist Uploaded
We are a rails shop at work. One of the things that I was getting annoyed with when dealing with debug statements was where to print these statements out to. Do I print them to the log file or to standard out? The log file is the obvious choice, but if you are working in the console, then using
puts so you don't have to switch terminal windows might be preferable. I spent some time and came up with a useful little function. I realized that this might be useful to others so I put it up on GitHub as a gist, and called it a day. Looking back, this was really the first time I just casually threw something out there that I thought might be interesting, but wasn't a fully functioning library.
First Issue Filed Against Me
Then came the bugs… I had my first GitHub issue opened against me about two months after I published my first gems. Now here is the funny thing, I got excited. Like watching the downloads trickle in on RubyGems.org, someone opening a bug against you means they care enough about what you are doing to want/need it to work right. Obviously I want it to work as well, but I know that I am bound to let bugs slip through. When someone took the time to report a bug and identify the potential source of the problem, I knew that I was doing something right. Well, something was wrong but the situation was right… right? [bug]
First Issue Filed Against Me Fixed
Fixing the issue and pushing out a new version was satisfying. I had the satisfaction of knowing that I cared enough about a little side project and the people using it to fix the issues and rerelease the gem.
Dealing With Future Compatibility
When I first pushed out my encrypted-cookie-store gem it was Rails 3.0 only. I figured I'd update it when 3.1 was released because I wasn't expecting people to really care that much about it. Turns out I was mistaken. Not long after it was pushed out I got a request to add 3.1 compatibility. Well, one of my customers was asking for it and I was going to have to do it sooner or later, so I fired up rvm and got to work on figuring out what changed between 3.0 and 3.1. It wasn't that big of a deal, but having different methods defined based on the which gems are installed seems like a less than ideal way to go about things. Thus concluded my first attempt at programing against an unreleased version of a project.
First Pull Request for One of My Projects
Now having someone open an issue against you and pointing you in the direction of the problem is nice and all, but having someone open a pull request against your project because they liked/needed it enough to fix the issue themselves, that is an awesome feeling. My little sparse matrix library was getting some love from across the Atlantic. Couldn't have been happier.
First Issue Opened Against Another Project
Almost as scary as putting your own code out there is opening an issue against a well established project like Rails. You keep asking yourself, "Am I doing something wrong?" or "Do I just not understand what is going on?" I mean, what if your issue is just a result of you being stupid and not knowing what you are doing? These guys are busy and don't really need to deal with bugs that probably aren't actually bugs. So you run every test case you can think of, and then some that have nothing to do with your issue, you know, just in case. Then you hope that everyone is nice to the newbie. PS – They were.
First Pull Request to Another Project
It made me even more nervous to offer up a fix. Opening that Pull Request was nerve racking. I was patching one of the most used methods in ActiveRecord, so I obviously didn't want to mess up. My pull request went through a couple of iterations, mostly on my test cases, but was finally accepted and merged into master 11 days after I opened the initial issue. Once again everyone was great and very helpful.
Started Blog
And then the blog started. I won't lie to you, the last bit of motivation I needed to finally get this blog up and running was bit of selfishness. I realized that I needed some way to let people know about the stuff I had put out there that might be useful to them. This obvious thought happened when I came across a blog of someone working on a similar problem with encrypted cookies saying that they were thinking about packing it up and submitting it to rails. Since I liked the way I was doing it better, I figured I needed something other than the GitHub page as a way to promote it. Since then I have started writing on more topics than just the gems I have written. A blog, when properly utilized, is much more than just an advertising platform for your own code.
Being Asked to Contribute to a Project
The most recent development in my open source career is being asked to contribute to SciRuby. They liked the work I was doing on a sparse matrix library I was working on, and asked if they could include it in their offerings. Obviously I was ecstatic. Then I started thinking about the state of the code and how much work was left to do on it. Then I started worrying. It is very much still in an alpha/incomplete state. But now that I know that I have some people that are interested in it, I should be able to get working on it some more. Get that math side of my education some more use.
I have come a long way with my contributions to the open source community. From using to creating to contributing, each of these milestones has been a new challenge and a new experience. This isn't a how to get a start in OSS, but it a list of things that you can look at for next steps when you are stuck and want to get more involved. It's easy and most people will be excited that you want to help or are offering something up they can use. Even if you don't want to write something, use OSS. That is your true first step.


text:
NYC Doesn't Investigate 99% of School Cheating Cases
In New York City, an agency charged with investigating cheating allegations by public school teachers has probed just 1% of the hundreds accusations.
Special Commissioner of Investigation for City Schools (SCI) Richard Condon and his staff conducted three explorations out of 300 complaints in 2014. Aaron Short, reporting for the New York Post, writes that open cheating investigations rose to four this year.
Of all the complaints reviewed in Condon's office in 2014, 6% were made up of cheating allegations. But the SCI passed most of the allegations to the city Department of Education's investigation unit, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), creating a situation that meant the DOE was investigating itself.
"It's important that investigators are seen as independent, have professional expertise, and have no vested interest," said Rob Brenner, a former deputy commissioner at the SCI who authored a 1999 report on cheating in schools. "Witnesses who are likely to be other school employees will be pretty wary about coming forward to an internal DOE entity."
It was not revealed how many of the academic fraud complaints were sent to the OSI by the SCI, or how many of the complaints were substantiated. Critics have been vocal about Condon's office disregarding the cheating cases, saying the SCI does not consider tampering with tests "sexy" enough for their attention, according to Columbia University education professor Eric Nadelstern, who said:
"In a situation where there appears to be widespread cheating in the schools, nobody connected to the Department of Education, SCI, City Hall, or the state Department of Education looks good. It appears they aren't being vigilant enough."
The Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters, Condon's overseer, has directed the resources of his office toward jail corruption and operators of day-care establishments because of Mayor de Blasio's priorities which include cleaning up Rikers Island jail and launching a universal pre-K program.
The New York Post has exposed more about cheating school administrators over the summer, which may have been the catalyst for Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña's announcement last week that she was establishing a $5 million task force of city DOE administrators to search for aberrant exam scores, credits, or graduation rates and to report the results to the SCI.
"As a lifelong educator, I cannot overstate how important it is that everyone — from teachers to principals to superintendents to myself — understand and follow academic policies, which ensure our students meet the high standards they need to go on to college and meaningful careers," Farina stated.
In July, the DOE moved to fire Brooklyn's John Dewey High School principal, The New York Times' Elizabeth A. Harris reports. An investigation found that the principal had arranged for students who were facing the risk of not graduating to do extra credit work by completing packets of work in classes where they did not receive any real instruction from teachers.
In another case, the OSI released a memorandum that stated the principal of Teachers College Community School, a Harlem elementary school, had forged answers on third-grade state English exams in June. On the day this was announced, April 17, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden jumped in front of a subway train. Worrell-Breeden died on April 25.
Sol Stern writes in the New York Post that Fariña knew about the cheating because she moved up the ranks. She was a classroom teacher, a principal, a regional superintendent, deputy chancellor, and now chancellor, meaning that she has seen it all, from grade-tampering to "scrubbing" of student test sheets.
Cheating scandals have been taking place in urban school districts nationwide for years. The push for improved test scores and high graduation rates pushed educators fight to meet the standards in any way necessary. Stern concludes that Fariña should be fired because she did nothing to create stronger security measures to come against the numerous cheating opportunities that still exist in schools, of which she was aware.
Educators, says Stern, should acknowledge their failures in the classroom and analyze the reasons why they are failing. He says the problem began when in the 1960s an erroneous progressive education philosophy became pervasive in US schools and in teacher training institutes. What was eliminated was a "coherent, grade-by-grade curriculum in the schools." Stern says:
Instead of explicitly teaching children the facts and background knowledge necessary to become good readers and productive citizens the progressives substituted the upside down idea of "student-centered learning." That means allowing students to "construct their own knowledge" and at their own pace. After a half-century of this revolution in the classroom, no wonder so many students in this city (and in the nation) can't pass simple exit exams and thus have to be given worthless diplomas.
08 11, 2015 Grace Smith


text:
About Dr. Gilpin
Dr. David Gilpin is a native of Nashville, TN. After graduating from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Gilpin pursued his M.D. from The University of Tennessee College of Medicine. After considering multiple medical specialties, Dr. Gilpin discovered his passion for the head and neck. He furthered his training through a five-year surgery residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Post-residency, Dr. Gilpin was hand-selected for fellowship training at Tulane University with one of the world's leading experts in facial plastic surgery, Dr. Calvin Johnson. Dr. Johnson was a pioneer of rhinoplasty and many other cosmetic procedures in the field, and this training honed Dr. Gilpin's training in cosmetic surgery of the nose, eyelids, face, ears, neck, and related structures.
Gilpin Facial Plastic specializes in surgical treatment of the nose, aging face and neck including brow lifts, upper and lower eyelid surgery, neck lifts, and facelifts. Dr. Gilpin's gentle bedside manner and beautiful results, make Gilpin Facial Plastic Surgery an easy choice for most patients when considering surgery or non-invasive cosmetic procedures. Dr. Gilpin believes that each patient is unique and should receive a customized surgical plan during his or her consultation. He also has a special surgical interest in cosmetic and traumatic rhinoplasty and offers a full range of office procedures to fit every patient's needs.
In addition to specializing in facial cosmetic surgery procedures, Dr. Gilpin was invited to serve on the Facial Trauma team at Skyline Medical Center. His extensive background in facial reconstructive procedures, including skin cancer removal and traumatic injury, enable him to be a part of a talented, well-respected team of surgeons. Dr. Gilpin is honored to be a part of this important work of helping patients recover from life-altering events.
Dr. Gilpin is dual board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology. He is also fellowship-trained to perform cosmetic procedures. This fall, Dr. Gilpin will be speaking once again at the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's annual meeting.
Q&A With Dr. Gilpin
When and why did you first become interested in being a plastic surgeon?
I became interested when I started my residency. I really wanted to focus in an area of medicine where I can help make my patients lives better.
What do you like most about your profession?
I like being able to perform a service or procedure and being able to see almost immediate results and I like for my patients to be able to see that as well.
If you couldn't be a plastic surgeon, what would you be?
High School Math Teacher or an Organist
What three words best describe you?
Caring, Detail Oriented and personable or if you ask his staff, he's the smarty-pants in the front row.
Check out Dr. Gilpin's Feature in Nashville Lifestyles!
- 1 Q&A With Dr. Gilpin
- 2 Check out Dr. Gilpin's Feature in Nashville Lifestyles!


text:
After a leak almost ruined the surprise earlier this morning, we now know that Overwatch will launch on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on May 24.
A press release sent by Blizzard-Activision confirmed the release date and added information about the game's beta, which it says will run from May 3rd through the 4th for those who pre-order and May 5th to the 9th for everyone else.
The good news is that, unlike other pre-release betas which essentially serve as demos for the full game, potential players will be able to use all 21 heroes when the game opens its servers for the first time publicly in May.
The game's director, Jeff Kaplan, released a video on YouTube to accompany the launch that gives more details on what to expect from the fast-paced shooter.
The aforementioned leak happened when major video game website IGN accidentally pushed a new ad campaign live before Blizzard could make its official announcement.
But, it turns out jumping the gun (er, laser pistol in this case) wasn't so bad, as Activision-Blizzard was mere hours away from making the announcement itself.
- Get ready for next week with our GDC 2016 primer


text:
FXCash was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. FXCash is a leading affiliate network specializing in the financial trading and gaming verticals.
Providing traffic from more than 150 countries and to over 150 direct advertisers, FXCash guarantees the highest payout and a large variety of campaigns, regardless of your traffic type, format and targeting.
New to FXCash.com? Read our Publisher Manual


text:
Holiday Inn Baltimore-Inner Harbor (Dwtn)
301 W Lombard Street
301 W Lombard Street
Baltimore, Maryland
United States
Check In: 3PM
Check Out: 11AM
Check-in Age: 21
Book With Us Advantage
- Best Price Guarantee
We promise you access to the guaranteed best available prices, or your first night is free.
- Online Reservation Guarantee
Your room is guaranteed.
- No Booking Fees!
We do not charge any booking fees for making reservations directly with us.
- Data Privacy and Site Security
IHG takes your privacy seriously and works to protect you. All personal information you provide is encrypted and secure.
- Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- M&T Bank Stadium
- Inner Harbor
- Hippodrome Theatre
- National Aquarium
- Maryland Science Center
- Power Plant Live
- Reginald F Lewis Museum
- Top of The World Observation Deck World Trade Cntr
- B&O Railroad Museum
- Babe Ruth Museum
- Baltimore Convention Center
- Royal Farms Arena
- Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
- Lyric Opera House
- Pier 6 Pavilion
- Fort McHenry
- Charm City Circulator
- Federal Fallon Building
- Horseshoe Casino
Must See
Must Do
Luna del Sea
Luna Del Sea Steak and Seafood Bistro has been serving Baltimore with great seafood and steaks in concert with the best customer service and atmosphere for over 12 years. Just behind the Holiday Inn on Pratt Street.
Location: 0.01 MI/ 0.02 KM South East
Serves: Lunch, Dinner
Phone Number: 1-410-7528383
Pratt Street Ale House
Craft beers, lively pub, salads, burgers, sandwiches.
Location: 0.03 MI/ 0.05 KM East
Serves: Lunch, Dinner, Dessert
Phone Number: 1-470-2448900
Rusty Scupper
Regional favorites specializing in seafood with a fantastic waterfront location. Lunch and dinner daily.
Location: 1 MI/ 1.61 KM East
Serves: Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert
Phone Number: 1-410-7273678


text:
Entertainment Centers and Media Cabinets
Custom Entertainment Centers Help You Keep Your Media Accessible and Organized
You can easily create the comfortable, good looking, and organized media or TV room of your dreams with custom entertainment centers from Garage Décor and More !
When it's time to give your decrepit, crumbling TV cabinet the old heave-ho, you should work with a Garage Décor and More design expert to get some fresh ideas for a complete entertainment center.
Your media cabinet is often the focal point of your living room or family room. So, it needs to be organized and easy to use, but most importantly, it needs to look good!
This is more than just a place to put the TV. A well-designed entertainment center should also have storage space for Blu-ray discs, DVDs, CDs, and even VHS (yes, those do still exist). Shelves for all your different media players and built in cable management systems are an absolute must as well.
Entertaining at home is more enjoyable when everything is in its place. Work with the expert team at Garage Décor and More to create a custom entertainment center that matches your existing décor.
Garage Décor and More offers you a huge selection of styles, colors, and hardware options to choose from. Plus, our professional installation team will assemble and install your custom media center for you quickly and efficiently.
Choose the Perfect Colors and Style to Match Your Decor
- Colors & Finishes
- Door Styles
- Drawer Styles
Colors and Finishes
Choose from multiple beautiful, rich woodgrain finishes, lightly textured stippled finishes, or solid colors. We have a color and finish to match any décor.
NOTE: The colors you see may not be accurate due to the differences in color monitors. We will bring actual samples when we meet. Some door colors are available with powder coated finishes.
Door Styles
Whatever style you prefer...clean and contemporary, traditional or classic...you're sure to find something you like. We don't offer "collections" like many other home organization systems.
We give you more than 30 style choices to create your own look without being bound by standard pre-determined selections. Only a few styles of the many that are available, are shown below.
Melamine Door Color Options
Powder Coated Door Color Options
View our powder coating process here.
Drawer Box Styles
We offer drawers in the styles and sizes to create a solution that will solve almost any drawer need. Choose from our basic melamine-covered mdf drawer box (left image) or our top-of-the-line Baltic birch drawer box (right image) with superior dovetail construction for strength and durability.
Our drawers feature full-extension drawer glides for maximum usability. All drawer box front panels are available in any of our colors and door styles.
Melamine Drawer Box
Dovetailed Birch Drawer Box


text:
Case StudiesInsights & Solutions from Companies We Serve
We Help Enterprises Set A New Strategic Course
Whether your company is large or small, you know that today it's not enough to have a great strategy, innovative ideas or a great product. With the accelerating pace of disruption and fierce competition for talent and customers, you must have the agility to change course rapidly and execute on strategy.
See how TecVeris has helped real companies set a course to rapidly increase productivity, innovation, and value.
IAS Succeeds with SAFe®
Advertising & Technology Company
TecVeris provided advisory consultants and trainers to lead IAS through a SAFe implementation. Learn how IAS improved predictable delivery by 30%.
Online Advertising Platform
Global Company
TecVeris provided project and program portfolio advisory and coaching to support improved portfolio management best practices.
Advertising Technology Provider
International Company
TecVeris was retained for advisory services to assess, make recommendations and support implementation of changes to team dynamics, organizational structures, and processes.
Industrial Company
Fortune 500 Company
TecVeris helped a Fortune 500 industrial company throughout all phases of a global supply chain warranty cost recovery system deployment.
Consumer Credit Provider
Fortune 500 Company
TecVeris provided advisory, training and transformation support for the rollout of an Enterprise Agile Framework and Hybrid Agile PMO.
Business Credit Provider
Publicly Traded Financial Services Company
As this rapidly growing company went public, TecVeris was a trusted partner that helped to improve project delivery and IT Operations.
Since 2011, TecVeris has been helping companies become more responsive and deliver optimal value to their customers.
Get In Touch
Have questions about TecVeris? Want to learn more about agile? We'd like to hear from you.


text:
Country Club Estates Polo Collection
Belle Mead, Somerset County, NJ
4 Bedroom 4.5 Bath 4061 sq ft $1,048,900
With 4,061 square feet of elegant space, the Ashbourne is the home you've always imagined. The main floor centers on a beautiful foyer, encircled by a large dining room and living room, plus stunning two-story family room with gas log fireplace. From there, continue via an open floor plan to the large ensuite kitchen, off of which sits a second staircase for your convenience. Nooked off to the side of the home is a study, offering added privacy for work or guests. Upstairs, enjoy 4 large bedrooms, including a palatial master suite with deluxe master bath, serene sitting room and enormous walk-in closet. Features 3-car garage.


text:
CWNA notes part 2 : Memorizing MCS rates
The CWNA exam exists of some MCS questions. In this article i'll explain you how to memorize this table without much hassle.
This table only takes 802.11n rates into account. I'll might update the table on a later stage to include the 802.11ac MCS ratest, however to memorize it, there's no need to add the 802.11ac rates.
The only rates you should truly memorize are the ones in MCS0.
These are 6.5, 7.2, 13.5 and 15.
All calculations can be made with these values.
The rule of thumb is the following formulate. BPSK+ BPSK +BPSK +BPSK +QPSK +QPSK +BPSK +BPKS +BPSK (or simply B+ (B+B+B+Q+Q+B+B)).
For example buy sildenafil online.
I would like to know the MCS6 rate of a 20Mhz Short GI rate, then you apply the following rule:
B+ (B+B+B+Q+Q+B) = 7.2 (+7.2 + 7.2 +7.2 + 14.4 +14.4 + 7.2) = 64.8 which rounds up to 65!
If you want to calculate the MCS7 rate of a 40Mhz LONG GI, this is even easier. You start with the BPSK of the 40Mhz LONG GI and multiply it with 10.
MCS0 of 40Mhz LONG GI = 13.5 * 10 = 135 !
The above rules are only for 1 spatial streams. If you go higher and need to calculate 2 spatial streams (eg MCS 13 for 40Mhz LONG GI), you double the initial BPSK value for the 40Mhz LONG GI and again use the formula B +( B +B +B +Q +Q +B +B).
For ex MCS 14 with 40Mhz and a LONG GI =
(2*13.5) +((2*13.5) +(2*13.5) +(2*13.5) +(2*27) +(2*27) +(2*13.5)) =
27 +27 +27 +27 +54 +54 +27 = 243 !
- CWNA notes part 1 : 802.11 standards
- Free CWNA support and design booklet