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Greetings from Corpus Christi
April 15, 2018 by Josh Richline | Category: Blog, Current Events
For our 17th year Anniversary, Richline Technical Services, decided to give a little something back to Corpus Christi for all of the years we've been given by the city. The "Greetings from Corpus Christi, Texas" mural highlights some of Corpus Christi's iconic scenes from the area including the Lexington, the Harbor Bridge, "Surfing Jesus", all the way out to a sunrise at Bob Hall Pier, and, of course, Selena.
Richline Technical Services partnered with Cre8ive Culture, which is a new art supply and mural company located in the heart of downtown Corpus Christi. Jeremy Flores who is the lead mural designer at Cre8ive Culture hired an amazing team of artists to help bring this mural to Corpus Christi. Flores is also known for the Sea Turtle mural in downtown Corpus Christi that sits on a wall facing his newest creation. Flores' and Cre8ive Culture are working hard to give back to the community in the Coastal Bend. They truly believe that art will be the platform that helps bring the city together and what better way to breathe life into our downtown than to bring more art to the Marina Arts District.
The Richline's drew inspiration from their honeymoon trip to Chile. The town of Valparaiso on the coast is covered with murals as they are the best defense against the graffiti problem in the city. Graffiti artists see the murals and respect the artist's work and do not tag the murals. This has left the city as a crazy, beautiful landscape of colorful houses and murals. The Richline's wanted to bring a little of that color back to Corpus and add a little splash of color to downtown Corpus Christi. While considering options, they happened upon Jeremy painting the Sea Turtle mural on the Braswell Building. The collaborative effort brought this soon to be iconic "Welcome to" or "Greetings from" postcard mural that many cities have, but Corpus Christi was missing. "We also hope this will add fuel to the fire of the murals and art popping up around downtown Corpus Christi and we hope that all who see it will feel a sense of pride in Corpus Christi", says owner Josh Richline.
The new mural is located on the North facing wall of Richline Technical Service headquarters building in Downtown Corpus Christi at 114 N Mesquite St. The best time for a photo opp would be after 6pm on weekdays or anytime on the weekends as the parking lot that is painted in front of is used during the weekdays. The mural faces the north as is visible driving south down Mesquite St .
Founded in 2001-Richline Technical Services is an IT (Information Technology) Service Provider located in Downtown Corpus Christi. They handle IT concerns for business of all sizes in the Coastal Bend and beyond. Their services include everything from an IT Helpdesk to Phone Systems to Offsite Backups and Cloud Solutions. We are I.T.
Cre8ive Cultures is Corpus Christi's first locally owned art supply store and learning center. Its main aim is to help bring art to the city in all forms from large scale mural projects to helping teach the youth the fundamentals of art. Cre8ive Culture houses the cities best artists in all fields including photography, videography, murals, painting, graphic design, screen printing, and audio production. Cre8ive Culture is here to show exactly what Corpus Christi artists are capable of with the main aim to be the premier resource and one stop shop for art in this city.
Tools to Prevent Ransomware
May 18, 2017 by Josh Richline | Category: Blog, Current EventsTags: Managed Service Provider, Network Security, protection, ransomware, virus prevention, virus remediation, viruses |
Ransomware update from RTS (stemmed from an email to clients)
Just a quick note on the current round of Ransomware making the news:
I just wanted to drop everyone a personal note letting you know we are staying up to date and taking the WannaCry Ransomware/Virus threat seriously. We are making every possible effort to mitigate the impact on our customers. With that being said, the biggest thing we can't control is the human factor. Be diligent out there guys and gals and don't click on emails that contain links or attachments you aren't expecting. This one is currently spread initially through email (and then once inside a network can potentially spread through other means) and that could mean your work email as well as any personal accounts so please be careful on those as well or just don't check them at all from your work PC's.
So what have we got to protect you:
1st: Spam/Email Virus Filtration-if you have our SPAM protection it has built in virus filtration as well. It's our first line for keeping you from even getting that email with the evil link or attachment to begin with.
2nd: Open DNS Content Filtration-If you do happen to get the email and you do open it, OpenDNS should keep it from talking back to its "creator" and generating the encryption key that is required to encrypt or "scramble" all your files rendering it impotent (sorry, that word seemed to fit).
3rd: Antivirus and Anti-ransomware- If you haven't kept up, antivirus isn't enough these days, we need antivirus, anti-malware, and now anti-ransomware. Each of these classifications of threats has unique qualities so believe it or not, we need software tuned to each different kind of threat. We've got that. So (hopefully) if you click on the link or attachment and before the ransomware encrypts all your files, anti-ransomware or antivirus should kick in and stop it before it does anything. We've made sure all anti-virus has been updated with the latest virus definitions including the latest version of this threat available.
4th: Microsoft Patches- This may seem like it should be higher up the list, but yes, Microsoft has released patches for all supported (and even a few unsupported) Operating Systems including Windows 7, 8, 10, Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 and they've even gone back and release patches for the versions of Windows they've stopped supporting in the last few years-Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003. We've been working diligently to verify that this patch is applied to all of our client's machines that have our R-Essential Apps in place.
5th: Backups-If it just so happened that the virus was brand new (like newer than that day new) and it got through all of this AND you opened it! Well, that's why we make sure and push everyone to have good backups that backup every few hours. The last line of defense is restoring your files from backup.
So there you go, our suite of product working together to keep you safe…now if you have a friend who lives life on the edge and doesn't have R-Essential Apps in place and they do happen to get this virus…we know of a bitcoin ATM and can help them pay the ransom because that may be the last option available to them. I have a blog up about this (link below) if you want to know more. We have seen that paying the ransom on this one may not be as effective as previous versions so no warranties on that.
Now for my lawyer friends, we're not necessarily guarantying anyone is safe from ever getting this or another virus or ransomware with our tools in place, we are simply highlighting the preventative measures we are taking to try to help keep you safe. As I listed above, the human factor still exists. We'll try everything in our power, but we can't anticipate every possibility either.
Blog here…I promise this link is safe(ish)
Richline Technical Services is a Managed IT Services Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
Can you hear me now–a repost from Pyramid Communications
April 19, 2017 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: cloud phone system, hosted phone system, Phone Service, redundancy, SIP, SIP Trunks, Spectrum Outage |
Time Warner (Spectrum) Business had some major issues yesterday with its voice services in Texas. We fielded calls all morning from clients all over the state that they were not able to receive inbound phone calls. After checking into a few of them, we finally got the jist that it was, at minimum, a local Spectrum issue and seemed like it was indeed the whole state. It was a bit later before we confirmed that not only Texas but also areas of California were included in the outage. 2 weeks prior we had a similar, but much less wide-spread, outage limited to the Corpus Christi area.
So what can you do about this? There are multiple options to protect against something like this. The first thing to realize, though, is that it isn't your phone system. Your phone system is operating just fine…it's your phone service. The phone lines feeding in to the phone system from a Spectrum, Centurylink, AT&T, etc… (your phone service provider) are the problem. These lines, while usually quite reliable, are susceptible to being dug up, cut, or (perhaps even worse) having an outage like yesterday which originated at the carrier's "Central Office"– which is what they call the building or facility where your phone service comes from. That's kinda what this outage was yesterday, only quite a bit worse. This one looked like a problem with their whole system rather than just one local Central Office.
So, (#1) you can have your phone company setup Emergency Call Routing to a designated phone number (like a cell phone) in case the phone lines fail–not a bad solution if you have low enough call volume. This involves simply calling your phone provider (or using their "portal")(when your lines are up) and having them setup a point where your calls go should the lines go down.
Or (#2) you can get a 2nd set of phone lines coming from a completely separate phone company coming in to your phone system (not cheap, but a good option if you're mission critical). We need to make sure your phone system has the capacity for this and find a phone company that is truly separate (not just reselling services from another phone company).
Or (#3) you could get SIP phone lines that come in via your Internet connection (less expensive and can some offer emergency use packages, but you need good internet). Again, we need to make sure your phone system can handle SIP phone lines (aka SIP trunks) and that your internet connection can support the additional traffic (and you may even want to have redundant internet connections).
Or (#4) you could get a Cloud Hosted Phone System so instead of your phone system being at your building and susceptible to these sort of outages, it's hosted somewhere else off site and probably has built in redundancy to deal with issues like this. This is essentially subplanting your phone system with a Cloud model. Concerns here would be the monthly cost and making sure you have a redundant internet connection, but most cloud providers can direct calls to individual cell phones as well should your internet go down (or even you just happen to be away from your desk).
We'd be happy to explore any of these options with you and we can help with all of them. There is no one size fits all model here, we just want you to know there are options and we can help you find the option that fits your business needs the best.
Pyramid Communications is a Unified Communications Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. Pyramid deals primarily in ShoreTel Unified Communications systems, but can also service many other types of phone systems. We can also handle your structured cabling needs, Video Conferencing via LifeSize, Wireless, and most anything else communications related. Pyramid is a division of Richline Technical Services (RTS) which is a Managed IT Services Provider. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts. Together we are your one stop shop for almost anything technology related.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
No!!! Don't open that closet!
April 10, 2017 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: IT consulting, Network Cabling, network management, network support, Server Care |
What does your server room closet look like?
For some of our customers their server "room" is a closet somewhere perhaps at the end of a dark hall where no one goes that looks something like this:
And don't even ask what else is stored in there!
So we're here to tell you, "It's not your fault"
No, really, listen to me, "It's not your fault"
Ok, it's a little your fault.
But, it's ok. We understand, and we can help.
Untangle the network spaghetti! Regain control of your server room! Remove and recycle that UPS! It's spring time, time for a little spring cleaning!
Brennan, and Craig tackled this small job over the weekend and Brennan had the foresight to snap us some before and after pics for once (I can't tell you how many times we've done these and said, "crap! I should have taken some pics before we started!")
Does any of this look familiar? Server sitting on the floor cables running everywhere, battery backup facing backwards? I'm just glad the fire extinguisher is close…wait that hasn't been checked this century?
So all the cables were replaced, just put the cover on the existing cable management and replaced the 2 low end TP-Link switches with a nice HP/Aruba 48 Port Gigabyte switch. Easy clean access to the Sonicwall Firewall and the modem! Down below we added a little rolling half rack and since the servers weren't rack mounted, we just got a couple of trays for them to sit on and get off of the floor. The rack can be slid out of the way if we need to access something above it. All-in-all nothing fancy, but it sure does make thing a lot easier for the network guys to see what's going on without worrying about accidently unplugging something.
So if your server room or server closet is in need of an extreme closet makeover! Give Brennan a call…he'll weep a little, but he'll get the job done.
Brennan (361)882-6297 x 2025
Richline Technical Services is a Managed IT Services Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
There is no cloud…it's just someone else's computer
March 10, 2016 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: cloud, cloud computing, network design |
Ever seen the T-Shirt or sticker- "There is no cloud…it's just someone else's computer"?
The cloud is a concept not a place. The cloud is the idea that you can access your data, your applications, your whatever, from anywhere, anytime, as long as you have an internet connection.
There are several types of clouds. You can have large public clouds dispersed geographically (think itunes or your quickbooks online account). You may rent a private segment of a large public cloud for your company (your company contracts to Amazon to host their servers). Or you can build your own private cloud (you buy the servers, plug them in to your own Colo or your office and use Citrix or something to give everyone access). No matter what type of cloud you have, this data and your applications exist somewhere, physically on someone's server(s). Maybe your servers or maybe someone's you pay for the service. But it does exists somewhere or perhaps (and hopefully) multiple somewheres.
The concept of the cloud is about access. You've established where the data or applications are, then you have to give your users (or the public) access to that information or those applications from anywhere and preferably from any type of device. Once you've done that. Viola, you have a cloud.
This doesn't need to be a mystery. It does however require planning and forethought to design the right solution for you and your business's needs. There is no one size fits all/no product fits all no matter what you've been told. We have great products and great solutions, but even we'll admit that we don't fit everyone. Sometimes we all have to be big enough to admit that.
Have a great day and stay out of the fog….and especially the smog!
Richline Technical Services is a Managed IT Services Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
Musings on and Defining Ransomware and Cryptolocker…
January 19, 2016 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: backups, bitcoin, cryptolocker, File security, malware, Network Security, ransomware, viruses |
Honor among thieves?
The Cryptolocker Virus and its variants are awesome…from a design standpoint they really blow our minds. They suck, don't get me wrong, but they are brilliantly designed, hyper anonymous and it seems fool proof and unstoppable. They've been tailored now to attack businesses because businesses have the capability and the need to pay their ransoms.
What is a Cryptolocker? The Cryptolocker virus and its subsequent variations are viruses (or more accurately "ransomware") that silently execute on a user's workstation. While running, they search the machine for any open file shares on servers (and workstations) on the network. They then take every MS Office, Open Office, Adobe, and AutoCad file, and encrypt them so that they are unreadable to everyone. Once they are done, they prompt the user that "All of your files are now encrypted. If you want them back, pay us a ransom." If you pay the ransom, you get your files back (in all cases we've seen so far). If you don't, you better have good backups or you better not need any of your old files because they are gone!
Here's the funny part, and the part that even we have difficulty with. When you pay them, they actually follow through and give you back (decrypt) your files. Why? Well because if they didn't, no one would pay the ransom and that would be bad business and believe me, this has become big business. Even the FBI recommends paying the ransom and, no, they haven't been able localize these attacks contrary to what you might see on "CSI: Cyber"
The Catch: So that seems pretty evil, but not that hard, right? You just "pay the man" and get your files back, right? The catch is you have to pay in bitcoins. How many of you have bitcoin wallets just lying around? How many of you have a clue what a bitcoin is? Yeh that's what we thought. I can't fully sit here and explain what a bitcoin is. It would just take too long and I wouldn't do it justice, but I'll try to give you an overview.
Bitcoins: Essentially, a Bitcoin is a form of currency that only exists digitally (on and off the internet). No paper money, no country, just this unit of "money" that fluctuates in value and changes hands on the internet like a real currency only without the "paper trail" of banking. They are like cyber "cash". You can purchase bitcoins with real money, but first you have to set up an online wallet (kinda like setting up a bank account), and then you have to transfer money to your wallet (usually via something like Western Union or a bitcoin ATM). The whole process is like setting up a stock market account or even purchasing a foreign currency as that's pretty much what you are doing. You setup the wallet, and then you transfer or fund the wallet with cash.
Why Bitcoins: Ahh this is where it gets even more fun. Bitcoins are essentially anonymous. Once you transfer your hard earned American Dollars into Bitcoins in your wallet they exist digitally in your wallet, and even though you may have used a form of ID to create your wallet, many people have not. So you pay the ransom, bitcoins transfer from your wallet to Joe Anonymous Bad Guy's wallet…and they're gone. Kinda like cash, once you pay for your hot dog, that dollar could then go to the hot dog supplier, then to the trucking company, to the trucker, to the waitress at the all night café, etc…Who knows where it goes? The difference is that the bitcoin can be transferred instantly across continents, across the globe, through a few various bitcoin wallets, and eventually even back in to cash via a bitcoin ATM.
So, Joe Bad Guy, encrypts your files, you pay him, he decrypts your files, he closes that wallet and cashes out and starts the whole process over again and again. It's big business to the tune of $1 billion in 2016. So protect yourself and be safe out there.
Call us if you need some help!
Richline Technical Services is a Managed IT Services Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
Think before you Click!-reposted
December 11, 2015 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: email security, malware, ransomware, viruses |
Think before you Click!
In light of some new "ransomware" threats popping up on the internet we are re-publishing this important reminder about e-mail and web surfing Do's and Don'ts.
Don't: Open attachments from people you don't know.
Don't: Open attachments from people you do know if you aren't expecting them or the subject line just doesn't look like it's really from them. Their PC may have gotten infected or someone faked that it was sent from them (called "Spoofing").
Don't: Open your personal e-mail on your work PC.
Don't: Click on links, sidebars, or web pages you don't know and/or aren't work related.
Don't: open anything with a .ZIP or .EXE file extension. Beware that some files may try to trick you with a filename.pdf.exe. This looks like a PDF (Adobe) document, but it's lying to you.
Don't: click on images in an email that is only an Image(picture only with no text)
DO: TELL US ASAP! If you do accidently open something you shouldn't, it is better to tell us sooner than later as we may be able to stop it or limit the damage.
DO: if you're sending an attachment, it's good etiquette to let the recipient know what's attached especially if they aren't expecting it.
Our clients have SPAM and Virus filtering for emails, antivirus for the PC's as well as outbound web surfing protection and blocking, yet viruses/malware/ransomware, etc continue to evolve and occasionally they find their way through so just be cautious. Think before you Click!
Richline Technical Services is a Managed IT Services Provider headquartered in Corpus Christi, TX. We provide helpdesk and network management to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and network design services to large companies, city and county governments as well as school districts.
Josh Richline is one of the Owners of RTS and is certified by Microsoft, Citrix, ShoreTel, Sonicwall, Lifesize, Ruckus, US Sailing and others. He specializes in VoIP, large networking projects and sailing.
Electronics Recycling for the Coastal Bend
August 18, 2011 by Josh Richline | Category: BlogTags: Computer Recycling, Electonics Recycling, PC Recycling, Recycling Corpus Christi |
As a "Computer Guy" a hot topic of discussion from users and business owners alike is disposal of electronics. Up until late, we don't always have the best answers for this question. We can tell you what you are supposed to and not supposed to do with your electronics (throwing a monitor in your neighbor's dumpster falls under the "what not to do" category in case you didn't already know that). We could even recommend or arrange for an electronics recycling company to come pick that stuff up for you, provided you put it on a pallet for them, shrink wrapped it and didn't mind paying their fees…
Enter STS Recycling. We're working with STS, an east-Texas based company to bring regular, zero cost to the customer, electronics recycling to the Coastal Bend. STS Recycling in their own words:
"STS Electronic Recycling can aid you in recycling out of date, nonworking, or unwanted electronic equipment. We accept computers, laptops, monitors, printers, servers, projectors, fax machines, copy machines, microwaves, and cell phones as well as other electronics. THIS RECYCLING SERVICE IS PROVIDED AT NO COST TO YOU. All recyclables processed by STS Electronic Recycling are either reused or physically destroyed and recycled. We assure you that your business or personal information will be destroyed to Department of Defense (DOD) standards and we will provide you with a certificate of destruction if desired. Please visit our website at www.stsrecycle.com for more information."
Our first pickup for our Corpus Christi office will be August 24th and depending on need we will work on plans to schedule pickups either quarterly or every 6 months. Contact Josh Richline or Michelle Vickery at RTS to coordinate a pickup or to arrange to drop off your items at our office. Please make sure you let us know (so we can let STS know) if/when you need a certificate of destruction for your hard drives.
Or you could do like us and hire an intern for a few weeks, have him disassemble PC's in a dark room and take them over to the scrap yard…those of you who don't know me will never know if I'm joking or not.
Michelle Vickery (361)882-6297 x 2004
Josh Richline (361)882-6297 x 2015


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There are multiple cities in WynnCraft, and more will be coming!
The Small TownsEdit
There are also many Small Towns scattered around the WynnCraft province, which are: Bremminglar, Ternaves, Maltic, and Elkurn.
About the Cities:
Ragni is where ALL players first start out. Players will spawn in a castle, and need to walk ahead. There are 4 Merchants located throughout Ragni, which are: The Wheat merchant, the Potion merchant, the Armor merchant, and the Weapon merchant. There are 3 gates, the front gate, leading to Emerald Trail, which has level 1 Zombies, which goes over to Nivla Woods. The North gate leads to Katoa Ranch and the Decrepit Sewers dungeon, and if you go really far down the path, you will end up at the shore, Follow down the shore and you will pass by Maltic, and eventually end up in Nemract. The final gate, which is the South gate leads to the Pigman Ravines, which has level 15-17 Pigman. WARNING: Do not attempt to go to Pigman Ravines until you are level 18-20 with good gear.
Detlas is usually refered to as: "The Hub City" since most players hang out there, and it has paths to all of the cities. There are many merchants in this city, which are: The Armor merchant, the Weapon merchant, the Armor trading stand, the Weapon trading stand, the Potion merchant, the Liquified Emerald merchant, and the Bank. There are four gates in Detlas, the first one when you first head to Detlas leads to Ragni, the second leads to Nesaak, the third leads to Almuj, and the fourth leads to Nemract. The Detlas Province has level 1-10 zombies, but on the paths to Almuj, Nesaak, and Nemract, the levels will go up. Stay at Detlas and train until you are around level 20-22, then head to Nemract.
Nesaak is the second hardest city to get to, the first being Troms. Nesaak is based on a Taiga/Snowy biome. The city does not have as much merchants as other cities do, but it is a beautiful city. The merchants in Nesaak are: The Weapon merchant, the Armor merchant, which is near the mountains, check the website for the server to see the map at: http://wynncraft.com/map. Also there is a dock with a boat merchant. If you decide to buy a boat, and don't know what to do with it, place it in the water and go down the river in the valley. You will end up at the Haunted Mansion, where you can buy Ghost Armor. When you go to the Boat merchant, and follow the trail, you will end up at the Jungle. WARNING: The Jungle is the hardest area in the WynnCraft province, with level 52-57 monsters. Do not go to the Jungle unless you have good armor, and are level 53-55. The Nesaak province has level 43-45 monsters, so be at least level 40-42 before going to the Nesaak province.
Troms is currently the hardest city to get to in the WynnCraft province, because it is located in the Jungle. Troms has many merchants that sell many good items. The merchants in Troms are: The Potion merchant, the Scroll Merchant, the Weapon merchant, the Armor merchant, the Bank, the Weapon trading stand, and the Armor trading stand. The Troms province has level 52-57 monsters, so be extremely cautious when heading to Troms, and getting back alive. WARNING: Troms is currently the hardest city to get to in the WynnCraft province. Do not attempt to head to Troms without carefully looking at the map and getting to know the area well enough. Teleport Scrolls to Troms cost 4eb. Teleport Scrolls don't work unless you have actually been to the town. The level range that should attempt to go to the Troms province is level 50-53. However, if you have a group, with a mage with Knockback on the wand, It is possible to keep knocking all the mobs back. If you are a lvl 1to 40 player, the mobs and 1 shot kill you (depending on the armor you have).
The Almuj province is a desert themed area, with many great places to explore, along with new mobs you will not encounter anywhere else in the WynnCraft province. Almuj is a huge, and amazing city with many merchants. The merchants in Almuj are: The Weapon merchant, the Armor merchant, the Black Armor merchant, the Weapon trading stand, the Armor trading stand, the Bank, the Potion merchant, and the Idintifier. The Almuj province has level 33-41 monsters. WARNING: The Silverfish Dungeon located in the Almuj province is the hardest dungeon in the WynnCraft province currently. It is recommended to not head to this dungeon without 2-3 other friends. Before heading to this dungeon, get to at least level 36-39 first.
The Nemract province is a Swamp themed area, and islands to sail to and explore. Nemract is overall pretty safe, if you get to the proper level first. There are some merchants in Nemract, which are: The Boat merchant, the Armor merchant, the Potion merchant, the Weapon merchant, the Bank, and the Identifier. The Nemract province has level 16-17 monsters, mainly Zombies. Nemract has very good potions compared to Detlas. Nearby areas are Saints Row, the graveyard, and Ancient Nemract, the old City of Nemract before monsters took it over and insued chaous. Next to Nemract there is Saints Row Which have level 21+ Zombies and Skeletons. Great place to farm low levels! Elkurn: known as the zombone city also with spider dragons level 47-50 DON'T ATTACK THEM they will attack you if you do . The way to get to troms first go to the pigmens ravines then go to the end of it. after you are out be careful there is zombies level 50-60 and spider dragons level 9-20 guard golems won't let you goto troms until you are level 25 also around troms there is wild ocelots and wolves there is also endermites people have had mistakes people went in the pigmens ravines and went through a tunnel but it says you need to be a citizen of troms so then climb the mountains and then be happy to the most beautiful city of troms

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sometimes witty book reviews
First published: 2010
Found: At work. My fabulous work at a library. Yes, it is wonderful.
Pages/read time: 638, two night's bedtime perusing
Two years back-packing around China. 33 states and provinces. 56 official ethnic groups. 900 images. 1.3 billion people (at the time of publication). One magnificent book.This dimensionally small but very thick 'coffee-table' book is one of the most fascinating takes on Chinese anthropology I have ever seen. I found it, perchance, while re-shelving the 900s (Dewey decimal system) at work. I borrowed it immediately, and forced myself through the remainder of my shift before opening it.
Tom Carter tramped back and forwards through cities, rice paddies and deserts riding motorbikes, buses, mules and bicycles in order to capture the face of China. Divided into chapters by province, Carter attempts a truly objective view of China and its people. Though an impossible ideal, the minimal commentary provided avoids any political or sociological rhetoric. Descriptions are as neutral as possible.
If you are not familiar with the geography and racial demographics of China, this is an excellent visual introduction. Though not every image is an Archibald-level portrait, each is certainly genuine and very rarely contrived.
Reading suggestion: Sip jasmine green tea in a quiet space while you explore this small but powerful little book.


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The portable sized banana can help your hair in many ways. It is the greatest source of potassium, carbohydrates, vitamins and natural oils, which helps in making the hair soft, shiny, manageable and dandruff free. Banana can improve the natural elasticity of the hair and is a perfect mantra to treat the split ends problem.
Hair masks and packs with banana
Banana with avocado hair mask
The holy goodness of this fruity treat is sure to mesmerize your locks and dig them deeper into the nourishing façade of glorious hair. To achieve lustrous and sleek strong hair, you can apply this effective hair mask which will condition your hair from within and give you gorgeous glow instantly. Mash banana and mix avocado consistently to form a thick paste, apply this rich mixture to your roots and cover the entire length and breadth of your hair. Condition your hair with natural shampoo. Repeat this for magical results.
Banana and carrot hair mask
Feast your hair with a multitude of benefits with the goodness of bananas and carrots to offer your dull dry and brittle hair a respite from the hustle bustle of mad city life. Treat your hair with delectable nutrients infused in carrots lie vitamins, minerals, phosphorus which are essential for regeneration of new air follicles, strengthening the roots of your hair and promoting length thereby reducing dandruff and split-ends. You can mix banana with moderate quantities of carrot peels and apply the gorgeous paste all over your hair to flaunt the Rapunzel locks.
Banana with coconut oil hair mask
The age-old remedy of applying the quintessential coconut oil for those luscious locks is generally one of the best remedies. You can mix bananas in a blender and form a thick paste to avoid thick pieces entangled in your hair after the wash. Now, pour the goodness of coconut oil and mix it thoroughly, now apply it your scalp and roots till the end. Let your hair dip in the glory of bounty of nature. Exude brilliance through lustrous and glorious long hair.
Banana with curd hair mask
This remedy has been tried and tested by every Indian woman and this results in awe-gaping hair. The nourishing moisturizing effect of curd when blended with the vitamins and mineral loaded banana gives rise to oh-so-flattering hair. You can mix curd with bananas, add a pinch of lemon juice and honey to form a rich paste. Lemon juice will help get rid of dandruff and dried scalp while honey will restore moisture and add shine t your dry dull hair exposed to the pollution of city life. Wash off using organic shampoo after a while and repeat this once a week for glorious results.
Banana with olive oil
Infused with the goodness of vitamin s, minerals and phosphorus, olive oil is synonymous to gorgeous hair effortlessly. All you need is to blend the bananas with olive oil and massage your hair for a good 30 minutes to absorb the goodness in your scalp and promote blood circulation in your hair. The hair follicles will love you for all the pampering and in return you can flaunt those flawless cascading locks at the upcoming party in panache.
Bananas with argan oil
Ever wondered about the essential Moroccon oils and their relevance? Well it's time to use them and verify the facts. Argan oil is known as rich liquid gold which is composed of fatty acids and Vitamin E. It helps in strengthening your hair from the roots and treat your itchy scalp with dandruff quite effectively. You can pour the amazing concoction to your hair alongwith bananas on the weekend and fall in love with yourself all over again.
Banana hair mask 1
This banana hair mask is the easiest of all the masks. Take a ripe and soft banana. Blend it well to make it into smooth paste. Apply the pack to the entire hair and keep a shower cap or wrap your head with a hot towel. Packing the hair with a towel or shower cap helps in locking the moisture in your hair. Leave the mixture on the head for 20 minutes and then wash off thoroughly.
Blending the banana into too smooth paste is necessary other you will find difficulty during rinsing. It may struck in your hair and consumes great amount of time.
Banana hair mask 2
The following pack will be going to reduce the dryness of the hair, it makes the damaged hair soft and smooth.
- Banana – 1
- Coconut milk – 3 tbsp
- Avocado – 2 tbsp
How to make
Take medium sized banana and mash it form a paste, make sure the mashed mixture doesn't contains any lumps. Now add three table spoons of coconut milk and two table spoons of pasted avocado to it. Mix all the ingredients well and apply on your hair thoroughly. Leave the mixture for 20 to 30 minutes and then rinse off with plain water.
You can mix the cocoa instead of avocado in the above recipe to bring the natural color in the hair.
Banana hair mask 3
- Banana – 1
- Honey – 3 tbsp
How to make
Take a ripe banana in a bowl and add it three table spoons of honey. Smash the banana to get a smooth paste. In order to avoid the lumps grind it for few minutes. Apply the mixture to hair, concentrating on hair strands and ends. Let it sit for 20 minutes and then rinse off with your hair wash.
The moisturizing properties of honey helps to lock the moisture in your hair and this pack also treat the split ends well.
Banana hair mask 4
- Banana – 1
- Honey – 3 tbsp
- Extra virgin oil – 1/4 Cup
- Egg – 1
- Milk – 4 or 5 tbsp
How to make
Take a whole egg in a bowl and add it one soft and ripe banana, 1/4 cup of extra virgin oil, four to five table spoons of milk and three table spoons of honey. You need to mix all the ingredients in such a way so that the paste will be smooth and spreadable. Comb your hair with a wide tooth comb and then apply this pack to your hair by concentrating on scalp and strands with the help of finger tips. Cover with a shower cap and leave it for 20 minutes and then rinse off to get smooth and shiny and manageable hair.
Papaya and banana hair mask
Banana is a soft fruit and it can blend well with everything. This is the reason you can have a hassle free application of the same for the hair. You can try both banana and papaya together. This is really healing for the scalp and the hair. Make a paste of both the fruits and brush them well to avoid lumps. Then apply the same well to all parts of the hair. Keep for fifteen minutes and then you can shampoo the hair well with luke warm water.
Simply milk and banana
Yes simply milk and banana is even great for the hair. Take one rip banana and smash it well to make a paste with some milk at normal room temperature. The mixing should be done accurately so that the paste settled well over the scalp. Milk is a soft and nourishing liquid and when it mixes well with banana the effect is really great. An application of the same one in a week will really cause change to the texture of the hair. You can try this simple therapy before a party and this is would make the hair appear so strong and shinny.
Banana and mustard oil works great
When making a paste of banana you can add drops of mustard oil to the paste. This is one more wonder therapy for the hair and it comes straight from the kitchen cupboard. Mustard oil is the best remedy for hair construction and scalp therapy. So, in case you feel that your scalp is becoming too dry and flakes of dandruff is harassing you all the more this is the trusted therapy you can apply in time. Paste well the banana and add few drops of the oil to make the past so perfect and enriching. Apply the same on all parts of the scalp and then wash off well with shampoo. Make sure not to add too much of mustard oil. This is a thick oil variety and will take time to get removed.
Fresh cream blends well with banana
You can even make a wonderful paste with banana and fresh cream. You can avail for the cream available in the market and then mix one table spoon of fresh cream with the smashed banana. The paste should be perfectly prepared and you can even make use of a blender for the same. Once the paste is ready apply well to the hair. This way you would deliver with the correct nourishment to the hair and make the same appear so silky and lustrous. It is a good way to treat the hair for at least two times in a week and in the process you can notice the change the hair experiences in the process.
Amla can well go with banana
A blend of banana and amla is once again the right concentration for the hair. Amala is a natural ingredient rich in Vitamin C. The constituent is so good for normal hair growth. A banana paste along with crushed amla is sure to have better effect as this allows the hair to have all the natural nourishment. Vitamin C is extremely good for proper hair growth and this is the reason you should make sure to apply the paste even to all parts of the scalp to help the hair grow in the right way.


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Latest Research on Sun Tanning
Saturday, 31 October 2009 | Admin
Importance of photo-protection
Yin Yang Skincare Scientific Advisory Panel Member Professor Desmond Tobin presented a paper to the 39th Annual Meeting of European Society for Dermatological Research in Budapest in September 2009, on a newly discovered mechanism controlling the transfer of melanin granules [our inbuilt colouring agent] from the pigment producing cells (melanocytes) to the recipient skin cells (keratinocytes). Prof. Tobin proposed that photo-protection would be increased if melanin distribution in skin could be optimised in order to shield the delicate DNA in skin cells from the damaging effects of sunlight.
Professor Tobin joined several research scientists from across Europe to present the latest research on the regulation of pigmentation in human skin at this tanning symposium.
Process of tanning is poorly understood
Tanning is the process whereby ultraviolet radiation from the sun stimulates pigmentation in our skin, but despite this being a process we have all experienced, the mechanisms by which melanin is increased in human skin upon exposure to sunlight remain poorly understood. This is surprising when you consider that we Britons spend around £3.00 per capita on sun care products every year – something close to £190m. And this in itself may be a problem, for despite a rising use of sun screening products, there is also a rise in skin cancers with a link to sun exposure. The manufacturers of sun screening products are careful to explain that their products cannot claim to prevent skin cancer, and within the "green lobby" there are many who argue that the screening agents in these products may not be good for the health of the skin. Our health depends on a sensible exposure to sun light – but whether hours of baking in fierce heat, in a slick of sun screen is sensible, is very open to question! Yin Yang Skincare recommends a maximum of 20 minutes full body sunbathing in midday summer sun to top up your levels of important Vitamin D and to protect the skin from drying with the use of Vitamin E rich face and body moisturising lotion Yin Yang pH-Amino Gold Defence Lotion.
"Ground-breaking" research
The symposium heard about some of the significant research investigation now taking place to better understand the tanning process:
Role of the peptide alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone
The role of skin fibroblasts in regulating pigmentation
The link between melanocytes and melanoma
Objective determinants of tanning
Modulation of skin pigmentation by gene delivery systems
The transfer of melanin in human skin cells (Prof Tobin).
The "motor protein" identified by Professor Tobin may ultimately be useful in the regulation of skin pigmentation for therapeutic purposes and possibly also for cosmetic uses.


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Journal of Public Economics, Volume 94, Issues 3–4, April 2010, Pages 298–307
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The major findings are: 1) the average U.S. unemployed worker devotes about 41 min to job search on weekdays, which is substantially more than their European counterparts; 2) workers who expect to be recalled by their previous employer search substantially less than the average unemployed worker; 3) across the 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity between −1.6 and −2.2; 4) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion; and 5) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI.
مقدمه انگلیسی
It is well known that since the early 1980s the unemployment rate has been lower in the U.S. than in Europe. Our tabulations of international time use data (circa 1998–2007) also indicate that unemployed Americans tend to devote much more time to searching for a new job than their European counterparts (see Fig. 1). On weekdays, for example, the average unemployed worker spent 41 min a day searching for a job in the U.S., compared with just 12 min in the average European country with available data. One explanation for the comparatively low unemployment rate and high search time in the U.S. is the relatively modest level and short duration of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits in most states in the U.S. In this paper we examine the effects of UI on the amount of time devoted to job search by unemployed workers in the U.S., using features of state UI laws for identification.A large and related literature examines the effects of UI on the duration of unemployment spells. For example, more generous UI benefits have been found to be associated with longer spells of unemployment, with an elasticity of about 1.0 (see Krueger and Meyer (2002) for a survey). In addition, the job finding rate jumps up around the time benefits are exhausted (Moffitt, 1985 and Katz & Meyer, 1990a; see Card et al., 2007 for a critical review). UI is expected to affect the duration of unemployment through its effect on the amount of effort devoted to searching for a job and the reservation wage of the unemployed, yet these variables have rarely been studied directly.1 We attempt to fill this void by modeling the amount of time that unemployed individuals devote to searching for a new job over the course of unemployment spells using data from the American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) from 2003 to 2007. Section 2 describes the ATUS data and presents summary statistics. In Section 3, we evaluate the predictions of Mortensen's (1977) canonical model of UI and job search.2 The Mortensen model predicts that for a newly laid-off worker, search effort is decreasing in the level of UI benefits, whereas for those unemployed who are not eligible for UI or who have exhausted their UI benefits, search effort is increasing in the benefit level. This latter implication is called the entitlement effect, as higher benefits raise the value of being unemployed in the future and thus raise the value of obtaining a job.3 Furthermore, the model predicts that search effort is increasing in the mean wage offer and the dispersion of potential wage offers. The intuition for the latter is that, with a higher dispersion of potential wages, there is a greater benefit from searching for a high paying job.4 We also expect search effort to be lower for those unemployed who expect to be recalled to their previous job (see Katz, 1986).5 We empirically test these predictions and estimate the effect on job search of the generosity of UI benefits, job seekers' predicted wages, within-state residual wage dispersion, recall expectations and other variables. Most importantly, we find that job search intensity is inversely related to UI benefit generosity for those who are eligible for UI. In Section 4, we evaluate the predictions of the Mortensen model regarding job search intensity and unemployment duration. The model predicts that for an eligible unemployed, job search effort increases over the unemployment spell as benefits are exhausted. After benefits are exhausted, job search effort is predicted to remain constant. An unemployed individual who is ineligible for benefits is predicted to devote a constant amount of time to job search because of the absence of learning and the assumption of stationarity in the Mortensen model. In the ATUS data, we find a striking contrast in the profiles of job search activity across those with different durations of unemployment: search activity increases as week 26 (benefit exhaustion) approaches for the UI eligible, while the profile is fairly flat for those who are ineligible for UI. Section 5 offers some concluding thoughts as to how our results relate to search theory and how time use data can be used to further study UI and job search behavior.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity and Unemployment Insurance. We use data from the American Time Use Survey and model job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities, consistent with theoretical models. We find that time allocated to job search is inversely related to the maximum weekly benefit amount for UI eligible workers, with an elasticity of −1.6 to −2.2, which is large enough to account for much of the gap in job search time between the U.S. and Europe. Moreover, job seekers who likely have less access to financial resources (e.g., because they do not have a working spouse) tend to respond more to UI benefits than do those with greater financial wherewithal, consistent with a role for liquidity constraints. Furthermore, we find that job search increases sharply in the weeks prior to benefit exhaustion, in line with Mortensen's (1977) model. These findings highlight the utility of simple search models for understanding job search behavior and UI. A finding that is inconsistent with Mortensen's (1977) search model, however, is that search effort appears to decline after week 26, when benefits run out, rather than remain constant. This finding deserves further attention. One possible explanation is that the unemployed become discouraged if they fail to find a job despite substantially increasing their search effort before UI benefits run out at 26 weeks, and consequently stop searching. A related explanation is that the unemployed may feel that they have explored all of their plausible job opportunities after they sharply raised their search effort in the weeks leading up to the exhaustion of their UI benefits, and rationally feel they have little to gain from maintaining the same level of search effort over the next few months. Our findings suggest that time use data offer a fruitful approach for research on job search intensity. In particular, if future ATUS surveys collect data on unemployment duration, one could further investigate the link between unemployment duration and job search. Longitudinal time use data would help to control for length-based sampling and individual heterogeneity in job search activity. Moreover, data on severance payments and asset positions of the unemployed could allow one to determine the relative importance of moral hazard and liquidity effects of unemployment benefits.


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Dr Anthony Webster
Anthony Webster
Anthony joined CEU in 2016 after an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, changing career from Physics to Statistics. Anthony's previous research involved theoretical and statistical studies of plasma stability. He originally studied at Edinburgh University, where his Ph.D. with Prof. Mike Cates considered the ageing and stability of emulsions and foams.
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Antonin Scalia passed into the arms of Jesus Christ on the Jewish sabbath, Saturday, February 13, 2016. This date also marks the 11th anniversary of the passing of Sister Lucia of Fatima, as well as the first Sunday of Lent. As I mentioned a few blogposts ago – this year is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Fatima apparitions, a major Church-approved event.
On this date in the Hebrew calendar, Jews recall Psalms 23-28. You have only to read Psalm 23 to glean the theme of the day –
A psalm by David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing.
He lays me down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters.
He revives my soul; He directs me in paths of righteousness for the sake of His Name.
Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff-they will comfort me.
You will prepare a table for me before my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; my cup is full.
Only goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the House of the Lord for many long years.
Of course, this theme is quite coincidental considering the outright hatred many had for this modern-day 'lawgiver.'
That said, I really hadn't thought about any interesting parallels to Justice Scalia's passing until I pondered the First Reading for Mass this Sunday. It's about Moses, 'the lawgiver,' and the Israelites' plight at the hands of the Egyptians and a certain Syrian.
Moses speaks to the people –
And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God: And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.
And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens: And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress: And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders: And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey. And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.
Deut. 26:4-10
Those who reject the word of God in our American society by calling evil good and good evil are rejoicing over the passing of Judge Scalia. With that in mind, I wondered if this event may actually be somehow prophetic.
The apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, occurred during WW1 while the Mother of God warned of a greater war which would soon break out – WW2. She also noted a future threat that she called the 'annihilation of nations.' The word annihilate is Latin meaning 'reduced to nothing' or 'utterly destroyed.' Additionally, the word can be linked to the fusion reaction of subatomic particles which produce radiant energy. This dynamic should immediately being to mind the 'Miracle of the Sun,' where witnesses watched that heavenly body appear to fall from the sky towards earth. This event marked the end of the Fatima Apparitions on October 13, 1917.
I've often quoted a warning given by Mother Teresa regarding the great sin of abortion. She said, "The fruit of abortion is nuclear war."
Since our culture has doubled down on this abomination by turning a blind eye to the cannibalization of infants in the name of advancing science (trafficking baby body parts) and using embryos for unnatural acts against God's order, we can only wonder what lies ahead.
Finally, a potential 'sign in the sky' during the passing of Antonin Scalia is quite notable.
As he went to the Lord whom he served so well, the scales of justice rose over the eastern horizon with the planet Mars (symbolic of war) located exactly between both scales –
All this while the sun goes unusually quiet…
Please pray for the conversion of America and those who call evil good and good evil.


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How Russia has hinted it could react to US strikes in Syria: ANALYSIS
President Donald Trump on Wednesday in a Tweet told Russia to "get ready" for U.S. missile strikes in Syria, seeming to confirm that the United States will launch punitive strikes against the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad over the suspected chemical attack his forces are accused of carrying out.
Those comments set off some alarmed reactions that the looming strikes could spark a military clash between Russia and the U.S.
In reality though, how Russia will respond to the strikes on its ally in Syria is a subject of uneasy speculation in Moscow. Few believe the Kremlin is willing to engage in a military clash with the U.S., but years of aggressive bluster between the two countries and complex dynamics of Syria's civil war seems to have created the discomforting sense that, now, it's impossible to entirely rule it out.
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Rachel Hazell's ability to make and inspire is well known to us here at LSA. But this year the participants seemed to spontaneously appreciate and share, from day one, her passion for all things bookish.
Rachel's introduction
Lunch on the terrace outside the Maison de Maitre
After some recent fairly miserable weather around south west France, the clouds miraculously opened to welcome our guests, and the sun shone for almost the entire five days of the workshop. This allowed us to eat outdoors for all but the final evening (when there was the type of torrential rainstorm Somerset Maughn would have been proud of).
Swimming in the salt water heated pool
The fine weather also allowed us to open the huge doors of the studio and our amateur bookbinders to take inspiration from the wonderful, clear light and stunning views.
Everyone busy binding their own books
Katherine finishes detailing
For most people the satisfaction, at the end of the first day, of having created and bound a beautiful book of their own, was followed by a smidgeon of excited trepidation as Rachel gently explained to them they were to try to fill tall twenty six pages with a motif running through the alphabet.
A break for lunch usually revived lagging creativity
Nice try, Diane (our favourite person, ever), but this is actually how your do it.....
And everyone seemed to be up to the challenge; the results were as different as the participants' personalities, but there wasn't one that amaze!
D is for Dog
The lovely Barbara tells us her book story.....
And Julie demonstrates her M for Mountain
Mary Alice delights us with all her colourful illustrations
There was an atmosphere of shared ideas and generous encouragement for all, some people managing to complete the alphabet whilst others preferred to take their time with plans to finish their personal journeys back home.
Carol models a Les Soeurs Anglaises' apron
And to celebrate the end of another successful workshop, there was High Tea before "Personal Journeys" on the last afternoon.


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2015 Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival
Saturday, May 23rd and Sunday, May 24th
Noon - 10pm Both Days
Location: Sheffield Ave between Belmont and School
Beneficiary: Central Lakeview Merchants Association
Estimated Attendance: 20,000
Application Deadline:
Food / Beverage: May 1, 2015
Artist / Merchant / Not for Profit: May 4, 2015
The 31st annual Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival benefiting the Central Lakeview Merchants Association (CLMA) is a reflection of the lifestyle of this area. Boasting some of the hottest national, regional and local musical entertainment in Chicago, this festival also features fine arts, crafts and visual displays. Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival is a true experience of all that's new and cutting edge in Chicago.
The benefiting organization, Central Lakeview Merchants Association (CLMA), is made up of merchants dedicated to improving the business climate within Central Lakeview where the event takes place. Its members represent a myriad of retail and entertainment establishments, service organizations, and fine dining restaurants; some of which are highlighted vendors at the event.
Booth Space Prices:
Artist - 10'x10': $250*; 10'x20': $425*
Merchant - 10'x10': $400*; 10'x20': $750*
Not-for-Profit - 10'x10': $250*; 10'x20': $425*
*Includes: Booth space, Application fee, itinerant License
Food - 10'x10': $1200*; 10'x20': $1800*
*Beverage(Non Alcoholic) / Small Food side Item - 10'x10': $800*; 10'x20': $1100*
* Includes: Booth Space, application fee, Food License, Electric, Sanitation sink.
Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival 2015
Saturday, May 23, 2015 - Sunday, May 24, 2015
Chicago, Illinois 60657
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- Zhejiang NHU
- Adisseo
- Zhejiang Medicine
- Kingdomway
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2. China
3. Europe
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6. India
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Directly managing a multi-million pound portfolio of complex and sensitive claims in line with Company Claims Philosophy, reserving accuracy standards and limits of authority.
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Investigate and resolve complex Claims of a specialist nature in order to drive improved financial outcomes with an ultimate focus on controlling the average severity of claims.
Proactively examine and evaluate claims to ensure accurate reserving of claims held within the portfolio of cases
Develop and apply claims strategies in order to conclude claims in an economical and efficient way and to drive down the length of 'claims lifecycle'
Identify subrogation, contribution and other recovery issues and ensure that these are successfully pursued where appropriate
Attend conferences/discussion facilities relevant to specific claims as well as Court attendances as required.
Participate in all relevant meetings in order to share and develop technical strategy, knowledge and best practice.
Use knowledge from referrals and quality audits to contribute to and deliver technical and process improvement initiatives to continually build operational and technical capability
Identify threats and opportunities in the market and external environment, contributing to the development of change solutions to optimise ERS technical and operational response
Deliver technical training to selected claims personnel, actuaries, underwriters or external partners. Act as a point of reference to guide, mentor and advise others to ensure the sharing of knowledge and best practice.
Be aware of and act upon all compliance matters e.g. TCF, Data Protection, and Money Laundering etc.
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Order brokers are alternative agencies that feature merchandise designs and then send orders placed to connected local florists same day delivery. Then again, order broker site visitors pay additional expenses. Purchases are mailed to local florists for execution utilizing a floral wire service. A large percentage of floral designers provide order brokering services because of national and international delivery. Pennsylvania, PA local florist online services include flowers for direct delivery in the Pennsylvania zone actually serviced by their own commercial transport and associates. The service is also called as hand delivered and has the advantage of showing potential customers with the true products intended for same day delivery. Flowers by post definitely commonly called grower direct or maybe courier delivered flowers. The advantage of courier delivery is the fact that flowers are shipped instantly from the farm and are generally fresher.
Popular holiday season are Christmas, 25 Dec, and after that Valentines Day, 14th February, and in the end Mother's Day. A relay service, often times labeled a relay florist, is usually a web site where a people orders flowers rather than the purchasing gift items straight from local florist in the Pennsylvania, PA delivery area.


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Foxes may come to ponds to drink or fish. They usually do not do much damage. As with similar predators, they can be kept from eating fish with fencing, netting over the pond, deep water, a cliff from the ground to the water, and/or lots of hiding plants (mostly plants) for the animals.
We have red foxes that come through our land almost nightly in the warm months. On 3/24/08, foxes dug in to our chicken house and killed two of our chickens. You can read the story here. Other than that, I have not known them to cause problems with the ponds or other animals. The biggest complaint is that they often wake us up when they yelp in the middle of the night.
Here are two photos of three red fox kits on their den on 4/13/05 on a nearby property (used to grow hay for cattle): kits and kits (same as above photo).
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Hi peeps. Just a quick post to share this card I made for Honey Bee Stamp. Lately I have post more cards on my Instagram and not necessarily on the blog. If you're interested, you can follow my Instagram account HERE. :)
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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2 comments:
- Fikreta said...
Love this fox card!
- Fri Mar 30, 09:53:00 AM
- Lorraine Turner said...
Vera, I don't have Instagram I am afraid. But I love this Honey Bee stamp. I have seen a few designs created with this image and I find it so pleasing to the eye on all of these. I have seen it coloured in different mediums too. Honey Bee have created a great stamp as it is so versatile. I love the wreath of flowers around the bottom of him. :O)
- Wed Apr 11, 10:50:00 PM
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6 Ways To Use Credit Cards More Effectively Without Leakage
It won't surprise me one bit if my wife make a public announcement that the love of her life after the kids are the supplementary credit cards I gave her. Women just naturally seem to have a very close relationship with credit cards.
But when these things get into the wrong hands, they can cause great financial hardship to both the card users and their families. The worst part is the people who get into mountains of credit card debt actually voluntarily signed up for them in the first place.
As banks and lenders are understandably profit-driven, you can expect them to attempt to reap maximum returns on their products while keep costs low.
So what can you do to avoid getting suckered into cards that burn up your money with fireworks?
1) Read the fine print
It seems like everyone including our grandparents will at least give this 1 advice whenever we tell them about a new financial product we sign up for. What an irony that we don't listen to them often enough.
When was the last time you read every word of the terms and conditions booklet that come with every credit facility? I rest my case.
Always read whatever you are signing up for. This includes the application forms, facility letters, and mail packages sent to you.
It is the responsibility of the banker to explain the details of your account in a manner that you will understand. If you are unclear about any terms, don't be afraid to call up their hotlines to probe.
2) Go through your monthly statements
These days, more and more card issuers are going the paperless route for account statements. It makes perfect sense. Consumers are getting more digitally-savvy, more trees can be saved from less paper, and banks cut their costs. But don't sacrifice the forest to save a tree.
Most people still prefer to receive hardcopy statements. They are much more easier to review for cash leakage and also gives you the convenience of easy filing. It's not your job to help the card issuer to save on their printing costs if you prefer to review your transactions for a hardcopy statement.
Keep an eye out for transactions you do not recognize, due dates, minimum payments, currency conversions from travel expenses, etc.
Fraudulent unauthorized transactions occur more often than most people think. Especially when you are an avid traveler. A key reason scammers like to target tourist is the very reason that they expect a certain number of travelers to not check their statements meticulously.
3) Don't be afraid to challenge transactions
Most people avoid the trouble of calling up customer service hotlines because they feel that a small charge is insignificant and that a suspect transaction could just be something that they have forgot about.
But should those transactions really turn out to be fraudulent, you are actually encouraging the scammers to carry on with their work.
So always report suspicious transactions or at least call up your bank to clarify what they are all about.
On another issue, banks are actually very flexible on customer requests as long as they are not ridiculous. Asking the guy on the other end of the line to write-off your debt is ridiculous. But asking for fee waivers and lower interest rates are pretty fair requests when you have been a model paymaster for a long time.
Call center officers have the authority to grant certain freebies. What you want could be within their power to grant immediately. Just ask.
4) Watch out for promotions
When a bank calls you out of the blue and offers something like an insurance plan to you, you intuitively feel that it must be a great deal as the bank must have used their bargaining power to negotiate a great deal from insurers.
And it is such a great deal that it is worth their marketing budget to actively reach out to customers to promote them. But when you research the market yourself, you will often find that the "deal" is not so much of a deal after all.
Lenders often market their products in a way that resemble teaser rate loans. It looks fantastic on the outside. But once you lock yourself in, the future doesn't look so bright after all.
So always be wary of promotional items that your card issuer is promoting to you.
There was a time when I was almost suckered into an auto insurance plan bundled into the car loan. At that time, I assumed that it must be a good price for the policy on the market. I found out later that I could get an additional 10% off the premium when I sign up with the insurer direct.
5) Pay your bills
If you are living a lifestyle that requires you to spend more money that you earn, it is definitely time to review your lifestyle. When the only way to sustain your lifestyle is to live on credit, you already know the bumpy road that lies ahead.
Credit cards should be used more for convenience and rewards. Those should be the main benefits and features you sign up for them. And of a lesser extent, the odd months which you need a little extra money you can draw out as a cash advance.
The point I'm trying to make is that you should always be in a cash flow situation whereby you are able to repay your credit card bills in full each month. The only way you should allow your financial appetite to grow is when your personal income grows with it.
Interest charges, late payment fees, bad credit, etc, are reasons enough to keep you disciplined.
6) Use cash management tools
You might be surprised to learn that your lender is more concerned about you getting out of control than you yourself.
Banks know the lifetime value of a customer is huge. They also know that the losses from a less desirable customer can be huge as well.
This is why banks offer free cash management tools and services that help you keep your own spending in check.
Notification services can for example, notify you of overseas usage, large transactions, excessive use, etc. Make sure to make the most of these free services to your advantage. Most of them make the most of technology and you can activate them online in your internet banking account.
Online banking also allows you to link up account from different banks making it easy for you to transfer funds around. They also have payment systems integrated so that you can pay for your bills easily. Use them to pay your bills while accumulating your rewards points and cash rebates.
The time and hassle saved from such convenience can be priceless to many.
You are going to pay your bills and expenses anyway. You might as well make the most of technology to make it as effortless as possible while reaping a little reward.


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A gourmet chicken dish that is easy to make, yet elegant in flavor. Free-Range, hormone free boneless, skinless chicken breasts are sauteed in a white wine and garlic sauce with capers and a touch of lemon. Serve over the whole grain gluten free pasta we provide. Comes with a side of baby artichokes. VEGAN CHEESE REPLACES DAIRY CHEESE IN THIS MEAL
Healthy Creations Points= 7 (nutrition info is with pasta)
Allergies- Gluten Free available. Dairy and Soy free.
Ingredients- chicken breasts, white wine, garlic, capers, chicken stock, whole wheat pasta or gluten free pasta, lemon juice, sorghum flour.
Cooking Instructions
Thaw Completely. One at a time, put a chicken breast in the bag of flour and gently shake until chicken is coated. Heat 1 tablespoon of butter or oil in skillet over med-high heat. Add chicken and cook 5 min on each side, until browned and cooked through. Remove chicken and keep warm. In the same pan, pour bag of sauce in. Simmer on high for 3 minutes, until sauce is slightly thick, making sure to scrape the pan to get the browned bits incorporated in the sauce. Pasta- cook 8-10 min in boiling water. Drain. Serve chicken over pasta.


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As reported in the Wall Street Journal on November 8, 2006, a paper analyzing a subset of the data submitted to the Business Plan Archive will be published soon in the Journal of Financial Economics. "Was There Too Little Entry in the Dot Com Era?" And, yes, we argue that there may have been too few Dot Com companies formed during the late 1990s. Feel free to disagree, but before you do, let me try to explain what we mean: Because many entrepreneurs and investors believed in Get Big Fast (GBF), entrepreneurs interested in starting companies might have chosen not to enter simply because someone else entered first pursuing GBF. For most companies doing business online, GBF was not a good strategy. Therefore, much of the money invested in it was poorly spent. If we imagine the marginal investor standing on the sideline deciding whether or not to enter a given market space, that person might have shared in the belief in GBF and decided not to enter, when in fact, the early entrant was not destined to succeed, and the market could have supported a non-GBF player. To the extent the marginal investor chose not to enter because of a mistaken belief in the supremacy of GBF, there actually was too little entry. Get it?


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UnCategorized Taste testing domain names or domain kiting as insiders know it has been responsible for building huge online empires generating millions of dollars every month for their owners. The key to domain taste testing is to take advantage of a five-day grace period offered by select domain name registry services. After doing careful research on the Internet to identify and determine the commercial resale value of a domain name, the investor purchases the domain through the registrar and begins to immediately test its worth. Different domain name (virtual real estate) investors may use a variety of different strategies to put a new domain through its paces including setting up Google AdSense ads to generate click-through commissions through text ads to setting up more extensive web sites with hundreds of pages of related content and products related to the domain name. Using links to existing affiliate products and programs, reseller products, or links to online stores such as Amazon online store or Target website, even a one-man shop can create a domain that is rich with products and custom offerings without ever having to stock a single physical product on the shelf. Within a five-day grace period, the domain name investor can usually determine the ability of the domain to turn a hefty profit. That is definitely more than enough time to check whether it is worth clinging on to the domain. If the name fails to attract traffic or generate satisfactory click-through commissions or product sales, the domain name can be returned to the domain registrar and the registration fee refunded towards the purchase of a new domain name. It's that simple. In this way, a savvy domain name investor can continuously test a variety of domain names to determine the best ones to hold onto for future expansion or resale. The rest can be returned back to the domain registrar. So, essentially the investor does not lose anything at all. Just as fine wine increases as it ages, domain names can also improve with age and resell for substantially more dollars the longer they are held. And just as entire wine collections are frequently passed from one owner to the next, entire collections of related domain names are also frequently resold through multiple owners for ever-increasing profits. In what other industry can a speculator have this level of flexibility in his investment? Imagine if you could purchase stocks and bonds through your stock broker this way how much money you could generate? It's no small wonder why the domain name industry is quickly growing into one of the largest and most aggressive investment markets in existence. By 2010 it is estimated it will grow into a $4 billion market. About the Author: Ranju says, "It's time for you to invest in the Virtual Real Estate Boom… Because 'Property Values' are Skyrocketing"… Learn how to turn Domains Into Dollars at: .infoyogis.com/did.php Article Published On: ..articlesnatch.. – UnCategorized 相关的主题文章:


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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to force a revolution. When the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed on 24 April 2013 with a devastating human toll of 1,129 dead and 2,151 injured, it focused attention like never before on the true cost of the clothes on our backs. High profile brands were implicated and many - though by no means all - quickly agreed an accord on safety in Bangladesh.
On the first anniversary of the collapse, fashion students from University of the Arts London marched along Oxford Street urging shoppers to think about the question "who made your clothes?". It was not just a protest but a statement of intent; the young people who will be tomorrow's fashion industry leaders plan to do things differently.
Sustainability is the buzzword of the moment. Every organisation, from McDonalds to the Houses of Parliament, is falling over itself to broadcast its green, ethical credentials. Universities are no different; if anything, we are under even greater pressure to get our act together in this critical area, because it is something our students are passionate about and increasingly take into account when they decide where to study.
So we have both a moral and a commercial imperative to improve our performance, and as sizeable institutions with an international reach we can have a lot of influence. We must have sustainability the front of our minds when we choose suppliers, develop partnerships, and plan capital projects. We can also do much to encourage and lead behavioural changes in our day to day working habits that, though in many cases small, can add up to a lot.
But universities are in a unique position to have a far longer term influence. It is our privilege and responsibility to guide, focus and, crucially, learn from the passion for sustainability that fires the next generation of thinkers, doers and leaders. Our students want to make a difference to the world. The most powerful way universities can help them do that is through our curriculum.
A transition to a genuinely sustainable and ethical system is going to require a fundamental re-think of how society functions - no small task. Managing and mitigating environmental degradation, developing greener technologies, analysing global supply systems - these are often seen as scientific and engineering challenges, but the knowledge and approaches of arts and design specialists are just as vital.
The essence of design is making things work better - not just objects but systems, processes and practices. All design disciplines, from product, environmental and industrial to fashion, cosmetic and graphic, have the power to provide practical solutions to society's fundamental concerns. A core focus in design education is on design's role to not simply add more stuff to the world, but to explore in a holistic way what we produce and how we produce it.
That encompasses everything from small actions, such as choosing non-toxic dyes and pigments, to big picture changes like shifting societal attitudes to the value and disposability of objects. Does a fashion house know that its suppliers are working in safe, well-regulated, low-waste environments? Does a manufacturer design in the ability to replace and reuse components in domestic machines to minimise waste and increase longevity? Current and future consumers will increasingly ask these questions, and vote with their wallets.
Dilys Williams, Director of London College of Fashion's Centre for Sustainable Fashion, boils ethical and sustainable design down to three fundamental, intertwined approaches - head (understanding context and theory), hands (solving problems through making), and heart (being passionate about what you're doing and why you're doing it).
By planting this understanding at the core of arts and design curricula, we will empower the students who march today to lead the sustainable industries of tomorrow.