text:
Chiang Mai qualifies as a 'must-see' destination for any visitor in Thailand, and the city's many charms make it a place that many come back to time and time again. For my second trip there, I wanted to stay in the old city and in the same time, in a serene and relaxing place. Then I discovered the Tamarind Village, an oasis of calm and tranquility nestled in the heart of historic Chiang Mai.
Sprawling across the grounds of a magnificent 200 year-old Tamarind Tree, Tamarind Village is a haven of peacefulness with the charm of a village. Situated around a series of garden courtyards, the rooms and suites are decorated in a traditional Lanna (northern Thai) style, full of gorgeous tribal fabrics and artefacts.
Not only we enjoyed the situation and the design, but we also loved the Village Spa and the beautiful Ruen Tamarind Restaurant. Let's explore the property.
Checking in a secret sanctuary...
A bamboo grove lit by spotlights and floating lanterns beckons us onward, toward the promise of a beautiful discovery. At the end of the walkway: the entry to Tamarind Village. It is late on the evening, we just arrived from Bangkok. After a tiresome crazy weekend in the city, we are beyond happy to throw ourselves into the large sofas awaiting us in the garden. Dim light, exotic locusts sounds, colorful fabrics, welcome drinks and lots of smiles welcome us. Even by night, the Tamarind Village looks stunning. We can't wait to discover it by day.
The minute we walk into our suite, we know we are in for a few days of ultimate relaxation. "Welcome in your home", the porter says. On our bed, a handwritten note greeting us, and fragrant fresh flowers. Indeed, it does feel like home.
Around the hotel...
Tucked away in the center of the old Chiang Mai, Tamarind Village is at once a hidden oasis of peace and directly in the center of the action, within an easy walking distance to the main attractions including a host of ancient temples, restaurants, quaint shopping streets and the ever-popular night bazaar.
Our day starts with a quick swim in the pool to cool off a little bit, followed by a delicious exotic breakfast. [Yummy: the homemade coconut jam + the passion fruits]. Comfortably laid in this haven of calm surrounded by lush palms, bright flowers and great bamboos, it's easy to forget we're in the middle of busy Chiang Mai.
The subtle colors highlighted by authentic Thai design from the hill tribes create all together a unique atmosphere that tastefully evokes the spirit of the region. At the entrance, there's a long gallery decorated with local art. Being creative myself, I am charmed by the artistic feel to the place.
Treating ourselves at the Village Spa
The Village Spa's extensive menu is so promising, it's hard to choose a treatment. Seated on a colorful sofa, surrounded by pink orchids and art pieces on the wall, we take our time to decide how to get pampered, sipping our savory tea. Meanwhile, a cute squirrel is playing on the tree branches... This place is so enchanting, it feels unreal. Our girls' getaway in Thailand is about to reach perfection.
I select the Village Signature Massage Therapy, while the girls both go for the Traditional Thai Massage. We seat on a wooden bench for a special foot bath: warm water, fresh lime, lemongrass and herbs. What a smooth start... The scents are delicious, as well as the sensations. It's divine. The therapists are adorables and very skilled. They use only the finest herbal preparations drawn from the Lanna Thai heritage, for a wonderful sense of health, vitality and well being. After 90 minutes of pure happiness, I meet the girls, who obviously are in the same condition as me: relaxed and happy.
We are now ready to explore the old city. Markets, crafts boutiques, temple hopping and art galleries, our day is about to be busy and pretty exciting! At the end of the afternoon starts the so expected Sunday Walking Street market. It showcases art and craftsmanship of Northern Thai people, from cheap sarongs to gorgeous art pieces. Many of the stall vendors make and sell their own products, and the quality of some craftsmanship is superb. It is good fun, but packed with people. We're happy we booked a table at Ruen Tamarind Restaurant. It's dinner time and we are starving.
Experiencing Northern Thai food at Ruen Tamarind Restaurant
All the tables are dotted with candles and musicians are playing music by the pool. The atmosphere is sophisticated and relaxed. We are far from the market's vibrant ambiance. As we are curious and want to try different dishes, the waiter smartly suggests us the Thai Set Dinner. A bit later, arrives one of the best Thai cuisine I've eaten, including -my favorites- Tom Kha Goong, a delicious Thai coconut soup with shrimp, and the scrumptious Gaeng Ped Yang Linchee, a roast duck with lychee in red curry. Every dish is a surprise. After that delightful dinner, we are ready to face to crowds again and go treasure-hunting at the market.
This trip wouldn't have been possible without the help and support of The Tamarind Village friendly team. However all above written expresses our own opinion and has not been influenced. Tamarind Village was our home for a few days, and a perfect base to explore Chiang Mai. You can follow Tamarind Village news on Facebook and Twitter. I'm more of an Instagram addict!


text:
Located in the Alki Beach / Admiral and West Seattle pockets, the Delridge Neighborhood is a great established community very close to the urban beaches of Seattle. Homes and condos for sale in the Delridge area can be hard to come by. Trust your local Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate expert with helping you find the perfect one.
View Larger Map
This property search is part of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate website. Listing information is courtesy of the WA-NWMLS and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate. Property information is based on available data that may include MLS information, county records, and other sources. Listings marked with this symbol: provided by Northwest Multiple Listing Service, 2019. All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. Properties subject to prior sale or rental Information has not been verified by agent and should be verified by buyer.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
If you have a long name/surname or multiple given names, only the first 24 letters (or names which fill completely) will appear on your visa. Should you have doubts, please contact us via online chat so that we can better assist you.
My name is really long, should I add all of my given names?
Modified on: Thu, 9 Jul, 2015 at 3:40 PM
Did you find it helpful? Yes NoSend feedback
Sorry we couldn't be helpful. Help us improve this article with your feedback.


text:
"We have to protect what's best about wine. It is ancient in our civilization, it is a perfect mix of the intellectual and the sensual, it enriches our lives. The beauty of great wine is that it lives inside of you after you've had it. It's a stimulus for memory. What it tasted like, but more importantly, what it made you feel, why you drank it, what you talked about while drinking it, and with whom. Wine is a social event, not fodder for criticism," Neal Rosenthal.
It's amazing what we Americans have done to wine and, for the matter, food. Somehow we've changed one of life's quiet pleasures into a sporting competition. In the beautiful quote above, importer extraordinaire Neal Rosenthal not only defines the essence of why wine is so compelling to us, but why his selections are matched in quality by a list of importers so small you can count them on one hand. In fact, I could easily spend my life limited to the wines of only two, Rosenthal and Kermit Lynch, and never be bored.
Wine is indeed a social event, it's what should be for dinner not "fodder for criticism."
It seems to be a part of the American psyche that we take things that should engage our senses in relaxation and pleasure and turn them into a competition. The television is full of food and chef slap downs. Dining is turned into Monday Night Football and now many self-defined "foodies" spend more time watching people cook instead of cooking themselves. Picking up carry out so you can rush home to watch Iron Chef does not make you a foodie.
Taking time with wine, food and sharing that experience is what makes them such a rewarding part of life. Critics rank wines and taste wines against each other, which is a cruel thing to do to wine of subtlety and grace. Just like in the cooking shows theatrics always win the battle when little time is taken for reflection. It's the quiet side of wine that needs more attention these days. Its easy to find the biggest and baddest wines, just refer to the wine critics as that's what their system will give you. Perhaps one of the best parts of the rise of the wine blogging community is there you're more likely to find someone writing about how a wine makes them feel rather than how they rank it.
When looking for wine recommendations take them from someone who spent some time with them. Tasting dozens of wines a day (or hundreds) is not a reliable way to form a meaningful opinion of a wine and such recommendations must be taken for what they are, meaningless. Does it really matter if the wine you are enjoying so much with your dinner was ranked a few points lower than the wine being enjoyed at the next table? Wine appreciation is about appreciating wine, more accurately about appreciating life.
In the scope of things in today's world it's a small thing for sure, but it is exactly those small things that make wine and food so wonderful. Pay attention.


text:
Product Details
- Evidence [Paperback] | Add to Basket
- Author : Ross Gorman
- Publisher: Round Hall
- Publication Date: 01/03/2006
- Jurisdiction: Ireland
Thomson Round Hall's Nutshell on evidence law is a revision tool for students, summarising the essential components of the vast subject of evidence law. it is a user-friendly, accurate and concise work that will be an invaluable study aid, outlining the main principles and major cases in the following areas:
Contents The burden of proof; The testimony of witnesses; Corroboration; Identification evidence; Leading evidence of an accused's previous convictions (similar fact evidence); Cross-examing the accused on his previous convictions or his bad character; The rule against hearsay; Confession evidence; Evidence obtained in breach of an accused's constitutional rights and illegally obtained; Evidence; Expert and opinion evidence; Privilege.
Ross Gorman is a practising barrister. He is also a tutor in Griffith College Dublin and in The Honorable Society of Kings Inns.
- Subject Groups
- Evidence
- Irish Law
- Pricing Options
- Main UK/Europe:
- €25.00
- Reviews
- :
- Add to Basket


text:
March 1, 2019
Everyone can play the sport of tennis, with the appropriate equipment. People of any age, environment, condition or ability are invited to enjoy the game.
We have everything you need to develop or grow your program, including grants, program curricula, scholarships, coaching opportunities and much more.
Register Your Program
Connecting players with programs to meet their needs is top priority, and registering is easy to do and free of charge. Click here to register.
For a list of existing programs, click here.
Start Your Program
If you are thinking of starting an Adaptive Tennis program and need local assistance, contact a tennis representative, also known as a section contact. They can effectively answer questions on a wide range of topics, including financing and education materials.
For a list of section contacts, click here.ADVERTISEMENT
Adaptive Curricula
For Adaptive tennis curricula, click here.
You can also contact the national office for opportunities on (914) 696-7000.
Grants are awarded to programs each year. The grants provide necessary funds for blossoming tennis programs to grow bigger and provide better service to their communities.
To apply for the 2019 Adaptive Tennis Grant, please click here.
Adaptive Tennis Award
The annual Adaptive Tennis Award recognizes the program or program leader that has demonstrated continued excellence, dedication and service in tennis for individuals with disabilities.
Criteria for eligibility for a program or an individual conducting a program is a minimum of three years of active involvement with individuals with disabilities. For more information about adaptive tennis awards, click here.


text:
The European Council will take place on 17-18 October 2019 at the Europa building in Brussels.
P2 & other SDI formats
The standup positions will be located in the Atrium on the upper mezzanine located on the left when facing the Council interior main entrance.
Transmissions of National Briefings available.
Unequipped TV & Radio workspaces with access to HD/SD video/audio pool feed.
The workspaces are located on levels 01 and 02 of the press center.
Live standup positions
Tape playout (P2 & other SDI formats)
Unequipped workspaces with HD/SD video/audio host braodcaster pool feed


text:
The Real Hospitality
The Real Hospitality
by Carmie Sanchez
Hospitality. That can be a rather daunting word. Sometimes when I think of being hospitable, I think of the perfect hostess, one whose house, food, clothes, and children are all Pinterest ready. And I suddenly feel inadequate…suddenly I am very aware of the fact that my house is pretty much the farthest thing there is from being the next most popular pin on Pinterest. You aren't very likely to find anything from my wardrobe pinned on someone's fashion board; my fridge doesn't hold a plethora of exotic foods that I can throw together into wonderfully tasty dishes; and my children? Oh do we even have to go there? Angelic cherubs they are not. And never mind the busyness that comes with life and having children.
It seems that when it comes to hosting, even just a one-on-one chat with a friend over cookies and a refreshing drink is hindered by any number of excuses that we can manage to come up with.
My house doesn't look nice.
I'm not a good cook…what would we eat??
I'm too nervous. What if the conversation falls flat and gets awkward?
I am so busy, I don't have time to host people!
I can't host people, it's out of my comfort zone.
You know, I get that. I feel that way too.
But you know, sometimes we forget that there are things more important than our never ending to-do list. There are people and relationships that also need tending to. I so easily forget this. I can get so caught up in my own little world and busy routine that I forget that there are other people walking through this same stage of life with me.
Even if my house isn't perfect, I want to welcome people of all ages and backgrounds into my home and I want them to know that they are loved and cared for. If they can sense that from me, I don't think they will be bothered by the fact that the linoleum on my kitchen floor is chipped and stained and needs to be replaced.
I want love to flow here because that is real hospitality. I don't want people to feel like they are just a time slot on my calendar that I managed to squeeze into my busy schedule. I want them to feel cherished and I want to take time for them.
Because I'm pretty sure life will never slow down, there will always be something. But in the middle of all your doing, please remember that there are people who also need loving.
I admit, there are seasons in our lives where it is just not feasible to host people. But we don't always have to wait for things to "slow down". Because I'm pretty sure life will never slow down, there will always be something. But in the middle of all your doing, please remember that there are people who also need loving. Remember that you, weary mother, need loving even if it means that you are the one extending an invitation to a friend to come over for tea and cookies. Who knows, maybe they need it more than you do.
Don't worry about having a house that's in perfect order, good grief, we all know there's at least one person living in your house. Don't think about the time that could maybe be spent checking off another item on the to-do list. The honest truth is, you might be a breath of fresh air to them. Maybe they need to see that your honest, real life is not always perfectly put together.
We have been given friends for a reason, and cultivating those friendships, showing real hospitality, is totally worth it.
Carmie Sanchez has served on staff at DOP since 2013, blessing us with her many talents, including writing and photography. Read more of her ponderings on her blog, Come Thou Fount.


text:
The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the dates for the 2012 Presidential debates between President Obama and the eventual GOP Presidential nominee. A date has also been announced for a Vice Presidential debate.
As a result, our official 2012 Presidential Debate Schedule page has been updated with ticketing information and other details direct from the venues.
First presidential debate:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
University of Denver, Denver, CO
Vice presidential debate:
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Centre College, Danville, KY
Second presidential debate (town meeting format):
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Third presidential debate:
Monday, October 22, 2012
Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL
The 2012 Presidential Debate Schedule page will be updated with broadcast times, moderators and other pertinent details as they're made available.


text:
The idea of 'regionalisation' or decentralization of Cameroon political system only came into being when the All Anglophones Conferences in 1993 and 1994 which called on the Biya's regime to revert to Federalism of two states-the original idea why Southern Cameroon gave their intention on 11th February 1961 to join the French over the Mungo.
In his paper: Because we were involved (Reflections on the All Anglophone Conference ten years after), by senior citizen Mwalimu George NGWANE, he declared "Whether the Anglophone problem is considered a forgotten scar of our collective memory or an open sore of our collective survival, it will continue to prick the conscience of the Cameroonian body-politic". Over the years the Government of President Paul Biya has been involved in decentralizing powers, changing the names of the provinces to regions. The Cameroun/Cameroon people have largely seen this as a smokescreen because nothing works in truth. The issue of decentralization or changing of names from provinces to regions is just a matter of semantics.
Any political grouping in Cameroon that seeks change away from the current status quo by adhering to the Government of 'Regionalisation' or Decentralisation is just a lesser evil to the Biya's administration.
Personally, my take is that any change to Cameroon political system without considering the reasons why Anglophones wanted to join the French would largely see a new form of Biya or Francophone government in another style or form. Cameroonians -and Anglophone youth especially, should recall that in the former federal constitution during the federal government, Anglophone MPs had the power of veto -meaning that any decision which the House (Parliament) took without the backing of absolute majority of the Anglophone MPs , such decision could not be accepted. This protected the minority rights of the Anglophone people.
Any proposed change to Cameroon system should state clearly how the Anglophone people shall be protected in the larger Francophone country. This issue of 'regionalizing' the government does not work; it's just a lesser evil of Biya's decentralization; it does not solve the Anglophone problem.
As an Anglophone political activist, I caution that Anglophone youths engaging in any political change should know where they are coming from; they should know the true history of Southern Cameroons, and above all they should not run from the issue.
As an Anglophone political activist, I caution that Anglophone youths engaging in any political change should know where they are coming from; they should know the true history of Southern Cameroons, and above all they should not run from the issue.
Remember the original reasons why Southern Cameroonians voted to join French Cameroon was the idea of two states of equal status with alternating powers of all arms of government between the two Cameroons in a federal government.
In 1972, President Ahmadou Ahidjo- against the spirit and letter of the Constitution' pushed through a new document that abolished the federal system, renamed the country the United Republic of Cameroon, and granted the president greater powers.
After assuming the presidency in November 1982, Paul Biya again in their assimilation style pushed through a revised Constitution in 1984. This document changed the country's name to the Republic of Cameroon- the name French Cameroon had at independence on 1st January 1960, thus completing the colonilization and assimilation of Southern Cameroon. Needless to mention the issue of Reunification as historians and constitutionalists of both Cameroons confirmed the illegality of the Union when they agreed in Yaounde on April 5, 2013 that no legal documents were established at the time of reunification between the two Cameroons to bind them in a union.
It is interesting to note that my political friend from the other side of the Mungo (Francophone), a former Unionist, comrade Alain Ngono had this to say "On our nation, there should be no taboo. We shall be ready to listen to others. Whether we are against or in favour of SCNC, is not a big deal at this stage. The truth of the matter is that it is an issue that our generation will have to address. So we need to have the best possible understanding of it. We should not look at it with passion, favour or ignore it". This is the type of Cameroonians I am looking for, this is how our brothers from the French side should look at the future Cameroon .He stated it clearly that it is a problem our generation will have to solve and by inviting leaders of the SCNC movement on the table, a lot of things could change for the good of the entire Country; yet the Biya's government has ignored the calls for dialogue from the Banjul African Court.
Another former student Union leader comrade Tata Mbinglo from Nkambe constituency corroborated comrade Ngono when he declared "We the youths are positivists. Let's hold each other's hand and walk through this gate to our destination. That which God has shown to us. It takes some time but we must get there as activists, politicians, scholars, civil society, youths, as SCNC, as religious organizations; one thing is certain we are getting there as a people! Each night before we go to bed, let's reflect on this, on where we started; it was Faith that brought us to this point, it is faith that will take us there". Comrade Tata has embodied all components of the Cameroon society to seek a new Cameroon. These are the new breed Cameroonians I am looking for in my quest to see a new Cameroon; people who cknowledge the problems of our people and are prepared to get involve in honest and sincere solutions.
That said, personally I think the best form of Government that could address Cameroon political landscape is a federated state with federal parliaments, independent structures, greater autonomy to both Cameroons to manage their affairs. It could be a two-state or ten- state solution transforming the regions to states or better still it could be the four- state solution as proposed by the SDF. Whatever form we want, all major actors must sit on the drawing board to map a new road for Cameroon. Let us not forget this as youths and most especially those of Anglophone extraction. We should always have in mind where we are coming from and what type of Cameroon we want to leave for our Children.
I recall that sometime in 2008/2009 in one of my write ups I defined Cameroon bilingualism as "the ability to read and understand French, whether you read and understand English does not matter so far as you speak and understand French, the job is largely yours." Thus, in my quest for a new Cameroon I do not want my children to fight through marginalization to succeed, I do not want my children to speak a particular language to succeed as we have seen in the military, police, government offices, national team etc. I want my children to live in a society where peace and justice is seen to be done for both cultures wherein they will succeed not because they are seen to speak French or they come from a particular area but based on meritocracy they are seen to succeed. We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past.
*Bara Mark B is Cameroonian political Activist and freelance writer .He holds an M.Sc in Environmental Sanitation from the Faculty of Bio-science Engineering, University of Ghent, Belgium. Bara Mark is a former Student Union Leader UB and is currently the black student representative in the Faculty of Bio-science Engineering Council, University of Ghent.


text:
XSNAP 3 Quad Pyramid Kits
Xpressions 3 Quad Pyramid Kit systems come in 8 different configurations with endless possibilities! All kits inlclude your XSNAP frame, the graphic skins already attached, and a nylon carry bag. Additional accessories, like a light and shipping case, are also available to help make your display complete!
All XSNAP systems are available in the Green option with recycled fabric skins!


text:
JustAccounts is a cloud based accountancy and payroll platform designed specifically for contractor accountants, and developed entirely in our UK offices.
But why choose JustAccounts, in the sea of platforms out there?
Find out more by clicking the icons below:
We have created three unique platforms: LTD, Umbrella or CPSC. Our platforms are specifically tailored to help with your processes.
We continually develop new modules which are compatible with any of our platforms, including CIS and VAT Returns.
White Labelling
The platform is completely customised for you, using your logo and colour schemes to promote your business brand.
Continually developing and improving, take a look at some of the features we have previously delivered for our customers.


text:
We witnessed a lot of astonishing hacks in 2015. According to a study conducted by IBM says "the average total cost of a data breach increased from $3.52 million in 2014 to $3.79 million." and it will be increased to $1.9 trillion in 2019. Chief Information Security Officers are now most important personnel of any organization dealing with computers and internet. This is the best time to inform the Cyber Security policy makers and CISOs about the Cyber Security Predictions for 2016. Average, a firm spends 9% on Cyber security, but now it have to be increased to 11% at least.
Predictions for 2016
Just five years, our security experts were well aware that more the devices will connected to the cloud of internet, more vulnerable the security will be. But the "storm" of breach was more than expected in these years. Hackers are always one step ahead of us. My predictions of Cyber Security hacks in 2016 are based on the rational study of cases and advancement in the tools and tactics used by the hackers.
1. Iot emerging but still less secure
Internet of things are bringing new revolution in the human lives as " the rise of machines". Security researchers hacked into the medical devices, barbie dolls and jeeps as well which were connected to internet. Every electronics company trying to IoT its products. But no one willing to spent some extra bucks to make the protocol encrypted. According to the Chris Rouland - A cyber Security entrepreneur,
"2015 has been the pivotal year when we saw awareness and vulnerability discoveries published about 'things',"
If these "things" will remain unprotected than the hackers will be also able to kill people as demonstrated by the students of South Albama university during a cyber security class when they hacked into the body of iStan - most advanced patient simulator. Students break into its cardiovascular pacemaker and turned it down.
Soon these kind of devices will be installed into the bodies of real humans also in 2016. Read 5 IoT that can already be hacked.
2. Ransomware
Ransomware will become exclusive and attackers will use the cloud services to launch attacks at bigger scales. Script kiddies will be very useful for hackers to spread their ransomware-loaded malware. "Hostage" malware will not only effect the personal computers but the IoT and wearable as well. Evolution of Cryptowall and RansomJS will be very disturbing for security professionals. McAfee Labs researchers saw more than 4 million samples of ransomware in the second quarter of 2015, including 1.2 million that were new, and expects those instances to grow in 2016. That compares to fewer than 1.5 million total samples in the third quarter 2013, when fewer than 400,000 were new.
These groups are not only recruiting attackers but the criminals also for the collection and transfer of stolen funds. This trend of gangs formation will be more effective by the cybercriminals in 2016.
3. Organized Cybercrimes
Cyber criminals are gathering together in form of different mobs headed by criminal bosses. Hackers are behind the major attacks are not just a nerd with a computer in the basement. We now face full-blown organizations that are organized like startup companies. According to the CSO,
the average age of a cybercriminal is 35 years old. Additionally, 80 percent of black-hat hackers are affiliated with organized crime, working as part of closed groups.
These groups are not only recruiting attackers but the criminals also for the collection and transfer of stolen funds. This trend of gangs formation will be more effective by the cybercriminals in 2016.
4. Doxing
Doxing is going to evolve once again by the use of stolen data from different sites. The data hacked by the attackers is very useful for the cyberbullies. You will no longer find the torrent file of hacked data on the internet but it will be sold in the underground market (which is more common and less exclusive). Every wearable and IoT is somehow accessed by the smartphones forming a central hub. Doxing will be more valuable now as compared to the previous years. Android especially do not patch up the security vulnerabilities especially in the previous versions making it vulnerable to attackers. They simply hack into it and gather a lot of data to bully their victim.
According to the Business Value Exchange,
2015 saw a rise in the number of DOXing, public shaming and extortion attacks, as everyone from Hactivists to nation states embraced the strategic dumping of private pictures, information, customer lists, and code to shame their targets. Sadly, Kaspersky Lab expects this practice to continue to rise exponentially in 2016.
5. Biometric isn't the solution
Internet is moving towards "no password" scheme using the Biometric methods to login the devices. Most of the organizations are moving towards these biometric identification techniques. But still it seems to be use because all these data is stored on the same hardware that can be breached as in the case of OPM Hack in which 5.6 million of fingerprints were stolen along with other data.
For example now if we use the voice recognition system for login than the security researchers also have to compete with those malware that can intercept your calls and record your voice details.


text:
Our Icelandic friends near the Arctic Circle boast phenomenal landscapes—and, unsurprisingly, many wonderful artists. With volcanoes, crags, and craters, how could they not be eager to explore the realms of sculpture? How could an Icelander resist picking up a camera, or paintbrush, with curtains of light streaking across the sky, and the river water breathing its hypnotizing blue? Yes, Iceland is an artist's dream. Organized by the National Gallery Of Iceland, From Another Shore was an eclectic collection of work by Icelandic artists displayed at Manhattan's Scandinavia House. Of course, there's no arguing that Olafur Eliasson is Iceland's man of the hour. Boasting one of New York's most highly anticipated exhibitions, Eliasson's waterfalls have provided our island with its unnatural "natural" wonders. However, Eliasson's contribution to elemental sculpture is by no means the only media this Icelander has explored. As the exhibition proved, Eliasson artistic interests are wide, with a keen eye for wowing the audience.
Eliasson's Green River Series features 12 C-Print photographs, each more arresting than the next. The river, photographed from twelve angles, shows a white sky and water that is nuclear green. Out of context, this could be a striking add campaign against pollution. In Iceland, however, the water's emerald quality is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanic minerals, not by radioactive waste. Thousands flock to Iceland yearly to experience the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's natural hot springs, or to tour the countryside for a glimpse at these strange waters. I can vouch that after casting your sights on mineral waters, or sinking your feet into one of the many pools, you may never think of water the same way.
Eager to locate the work on the exhibit's press card, I walked towards a floor display of angry, beautifully crafted crows. The installation by The Icelandic Love Corporation entitled Hreiour/Nest, features black birds with silver-detailed feathers crowding a nest made of tire and filled with licorice-like material. Tangled in the nest are strings of lavish pearls, ornamental earrings, and the occasional feather. The fierce creatures look unfazed by the beautifully painted eggs scattered around the nest, seemingly unprotected.
One of my favorite pieces was Eggert Petursson's Untitled, an oil painting of a field of flowers. The color is dimmed, characteristic and true of Icelandic light, which is steely even on its brightest mornings. Though by no means a novel subject, it is astounding in its painstaking rendering of cluttered and windswept blossoms on stems. It looks etched rather than painted by a hair thin brush. True, it seemed a little out of place next to the dry ice volcano sculptures, but beautiful nonetheless.
Olga bergmann's piece in the exhibit was a sculpture of a circular park in which a giant rock, suspended above the sculpture by a wire, had either mysteriously levitated, or fallen from the sky. Either way, the tiny sculpture people appeared to be startled by this strange manifestation. The ambiguity of the piece made it a wonderful example of Icelandic art's conceptual playfulness, at once challenging and stimulating the audience.
Pushing aside a heavy black curtain, I found myself a part of yet another one of Eliasson creations, a light show entitled Limbo Lamp For Petur. Alone in a small room, I was surrounded by colorful light circles caused by effect filters mounted with a spotlight. The result was that of an unpredictable light show as the filters, suspended from the ceiling near the spotlight, caused the circles to expand and retract. As the circles increased, so did the feeling of being swallowed by a ring of light. A mesmerizing piece.
Strangest of all the works featured in From Another Shore was the installation by Olof Nordal, entitled Cockney. The room, washed in a pink light, simultaneously projected what looked to be the inside of the womb, and the X-rated edits from a film. It was jarring, confusing, and downright creepy. If that wasn't enough, the room was also filled with light pink beanbag chairs, with attachments that seemed to suggest tongues and breasts. Needless to say, after a minute or two, I humbly exited.
Wandering the halls of the Scandinavia House's small, empty gallery, I couldn't help but feel like a part of something unspeakably fresh. A born and raised New Yorker, I have frequented over a decade's worth of museums with varying enthusiasm and delight. I often leave with a mood, or suggestion, of the nature of an exhibit—the more thought provoking, the better. Of course, there's no arguing that Icelandic art belongs in the MOMA, and not the Frick. In true Icelandic fashion, it is uniquely modern with ingenious installations, all traceably inspired by some aspect of Iceland's natural wonders.


text:
Baby Dedication
At the heart of a baby dedication is the dedication of a child's parents. This ceremony is intended to be a commitment between the parents and God on the behalf of the child. The parents promise to raise their child in the faith until the child is old enough to make his or her own personal confession of Christ.
Baby dedications are scheduled for 10:15 am on the 2nd Sunday of every month.


text:
Wilson Chin (MS '72)
After earning my M.Sc. in 1972, I continued at M.I.T. where I received my Ph.D. in 1976, both degrees in Aerospace Engineering. However, my endeavors in aviation did not last long. In 1981, my interests turned to petroleum engineering, where I would literally spend the next few decades. During the past several years, I have published sixteen research monographs with John Wiley and Sons, and Elsevier Scientific Publishing, disseminating my original work in several specialties vital to oil and gas exploration and production. You can learn more at my website www.stratamagnetic.com. My latest project, however, is not technical - but a highly personal memoir for which I am seeking literary agent representation - if any of you can recommend an agent or publisher who would be excited by the title below, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
Coming of Age in America -
An Asian-American M.I.T. Ph.D.'s Trek from Ghettos, Divorce and Layoffs to Discovery


text:
Silicon Laboratories EFM32PG1B200F128IM32
ARM Cortex-M4, 40 MHz, 128 kB ROM, 32 kB RAM
- ARM Cortex-M4 at 40 MHz
- Ultra low energy operation:
- 1.1 uA EM3 Stop current (CRYOTIMER running with state/RAM retention)
- 1.4 uA EM2 DeepSleep current (RTCC running with state and RAM retention)
- 60 uA/MHz in Energy Mode 0 (EM0)
- Hardware cryptographic engine supports AES, ECC, and SHA
- Integrated dc-dc converter
- CRYOTIMER operates down to EM4
- 5 V tolerant I/O EFM32PG1 features a powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 and a wide selection of peripherals, including a unique cryptographic hardware engine supporting AES, ECC, and SHA. These features, combined with ultra-low current active mode and short wake-up time from energy-saving modes, make EFM32PG1 microcontrollers well suited for any battery-powered application, as well as other systems requiring high performance and low-energy consumption.
- Processor:Cortex-M4, FPU MPU 40 MHz
- ROM:128 kB
- RAM:32 kB
- Maximum Clock Frequency:40 MHz,
|Development Tools
|CMSIS Drivers
|No CMSIS-Driver in Device Family Pack.


text:
Face Hut uses skin care products from South Africa & mineral cosmetics from USA. They also provide services like make over, facial treatment & lymphatic drainage massage.
The Treatment Steps:
- Pre-cleansing – Hydrating Exfoliating Masque, followed by a Bellabaci cupping massage.
- Secondary cleansing – Remove excess impurities with cleansing gel & Alpha Toner Forte to adjust PH level.
- Lymphatic Drainage Massage – Using essential oil on lymph nodes & meridian points with acupressure massage.
- Vitamin Treatment – Bellabaci cupping + deep tissue massage using Vitamin A, C & E body oil.
- Algae Hydrating Mask – Applying thick layer of mask for about 20 mins.
- Complete the steps above with toner, & moisturizing sunblock to round-up the facial.
I was skeptical about having a cupping therapy on my face as traditional cupping session can be real painful & sore; plus I've a really low threshold of pain. I was surprised at how gentle & comfortable it was on my face. I've to admit that it was a little painful when the cup moved to my arms. Ivy explained that it's because there's more "flesh" in that area. She also explained while cupping is good to tackle concerns such as cellulite, it can be real painful especially if done on our bums.
Just go & experience the unique cupping treatment. The cupping facial is said to improve your blood circulation & the treatment pumps your skin with a cocktail of vitamins. The use of these Bellabaci cups also help with lymphatic drainage as well as relieving very tight, sore muscles. So if you're feeling stressed out, get relaxed with this Bellabaci massage using silicone cups. Rating: ★★★★☆
Bonus: Luxury Haven Readers will get additional 5 FREE Facials upon signing the above pkg!
* Pls note that pricing on their site is outdated.
Face Hut Pte Ltd
211 Holland Avenue
Holland Road Shopping Centre
Singapore 278967
Tel: +65 6466-1827


text:
See the latest exchange rates now !!!
These Rates are valid for 7 Days only !!!
Drop us a message We shall contact you shortly!!!
CurrencyKart has become the one=stop place to get solutions for all your Forex related activities. You can easily Buy/Sell and Exchange Currency. Getting an online travel card or Travel Insurance, and transferring money to any place you wish was never that easy. It gives you the independence to receive home delivery of currency, Money exchange and Forex at your door step. It's all very easy and convenient. You can use the facilities of online money transfer, online Money converter, online Money changer and exchange at any time you want. At CurrencyKart, you get daily free e-mails regarding Online Foreign currency exchange rates. CurrencyKart shoots just two mails, one Currency Rate Update Email and a Currency Market Analysis Email. That's enough to cover everything relevant, keeping you away from the not-needed information. You are not overloaded with unnecessary mails to junk up your inbox. In fact, there is shortage of time in this fast-paced world. People want to have all the updates very precisely and smartly. Be sure you are not going to miss any important updates whether it's regarding Forex Sell/Buy, online Foreign Exchange rate, Online Travel Insurance, or Online Money exchange. As discussed, the first kind of mail; that is the Currency Update Email, covers various things related to your base currency. It concerns things like:
The second one that is Currency Market Analysis Email gives the major analysis of market in relation to your currency. It covers things like:
If you are engaged in Forex sell and buy, you can easily be updated with the exchange rates of the market. You don't need to be adhered to any site or platform for this. All you need to do is to just choose the currency pair you are interested in; and it will automatically notify you about the changes and variations. Thus, you can seize the right opportunity and trade, exchange, transfer, buy or sell currency at the profitable moment. You can also set to get all the updates as SMS on your phone.


text:
Get Out
Out With The Kids: Farmers Market 'mad libs' boost interest in poetry
To promote the upcoming visit of Kwame Alexander — one of children's literature's hottest names — and the launch of Western Washington University Libraries Poetry CHaT Collection, local literature lovers will be offering free poetry "mad libs" this weekend.
They'll be staffing a booth at the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in Depot Market Square, corner of Railroad Avenue and Maple Street.
A mad lib is a word game — popular at parties and on family car trips — that takes a familiar piece of writing but adds random spaces for the players to substitute their own words instead of the author's. The finished product is read aloud and often results in hilarity and ridiculous nonsense.
'The Crossover' is a story in verse about twin brothers and their dad, and their love of basketball.
"It has all these blanks and you have to write in a verb or a noun and then you read them," said Sylvia Tag, a WWU librarian and associate professor. "Like, 'If I were in charge of the world, I'd cancel (blank) and also (blank).'"
Poetry mad libs will be displayed on an easel so everyone can read the works in progress.
They'll also be distributing poems and verse, printed on small card stock.
"You can stop by and get a poem to put in your pocket," Tag said.
She said the aim is to generate interest in Alexander's free talk, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Bellingham High School. Alexander wrote "The Crossover," a story in verse about twin brothers and their dad, and their love of basketball. It won the 2015 Newbery Medal for children's literature and a bushel of other prizes, including a Coretta Scott King Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, Paterson Poetry Prize for Young People's Literature and the Charlotte Huck Award Honor for Outstanding Fiction for Children.
Alexander's appearance is part of WWU's annual Compass to Campus program to promote post-secondary education for area fifth-graders and to publicize the new WWU Poetry CHaT Collection for children and teens.
Reach Robert Mittendorf at 360-756-2805 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Tweeting @BhamMitty.
Find Robert Mittendorf's Out With the Kids column online at BellinghamHerald.com/out-with-kids.
Mad libs: Bellingham Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in Depot Market Square, corner of Railroad Avenue and Maple Street.
Kwame Alexander: Free talk from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. Student poetry performances start at 5:45 p.m.


text:
The World of a Wishful Wanderer
Of backpacks and postcards… a traveler's diary
Skip to content
Contact Us
Search for:
madhuban resorts
December 26, 2016
Weekend Getaway: Madhuban Resort & Spa, Anand, Gujarat
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here:
Cookie Policy


text: Theatre Please note this event has already taken place and you are viewing an archived page of the Lakeside website.For a list of current events, exhibitions and workshops, please click on 'What's On' in the menu above Collecting Words: Creating an Anthology of New Writing- Cancelled £87.50 (£78.75 concessions) fee waived for those on income related benefits or low income. Enrol through the Workers Educational Association: 0115 985 8203 or firstname.lastname@example.com . Website: www. nottinghamwea.com Following on from Collecting Words; the Art of Creative Writing and running alongside the Pop Art to Britart exhibition, participants will have the opportunity to create an anthology of their own writing (any genre – poetry, memoir, fiction, lyrics or images, as decided by the group). The collection will be printed in a limited edition booklet and a website, whilst a 'book launch' event will give those that want to the opportunity to share their work with an audience.


text:
Asian Night Market Festival
This past weekend I got to attend the Dallas Asian Night Festival located in downtown Dallas. Surrounded by so much culture and food, it was a fun night. Of course, they had my Filipino food which I had to get 2 plates of just because it made me feel like home. There was music, art, different kinds of food, boba tea, dragons, singing, and toys galore. Love to see all types of backgrounds coming together to appreciate the asian culture. It got so crowded that I hope if they continue next year, I would love to see this open up to a bigger space and that people come out to support. It was a great night. Here are a few images captured from the event.
This guys drew me the word "CREATE". He did an amazing job. Enjoy some more pictures in the slideshow below.


text:
Antibus Scales & Systems offers 17025 accredited calibration services for Mettler Toledo Scales and industrial measurement systems. We calibrate industrial scales, as well as systems for force measurement, temperature, electrical, pressure and more. Our facilities are equipped to handle your force-related needs, whether it is a tension, compression, destruction, or non-destruction type application.
Contact us today for more information on equipment calibration and repair services.


text:
L.A.'s elected officials should put a half-cent sales tax hike on the November ballot to pay for repairs of the worst streets and sidewalks, two top policy analysts said Tuesday.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana and Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller recommended a tax hike that would generate $4.5 billion over 15 years — $3.86 billion for roads and potentially $640 million for broken and buckled sidewalks.
The proposal is contained in a report that examined a variety of strategies for generating the money needed to address a major repair backlog. City elected officials originally considered a bond measure — which would be paid with increased property taxes. But the two policy advisors said that strategy wouldn't generate enough money.
A sales tax hike, the report said, also would be paid by a greater number of people who use L.A.'s streets, including those who live outside city limits. "An important message communicated by participants of public outreach meetings has been that the [street repair program] not be solely financed by property owners," the two men wrote.
Click here to read the full LATimes.com story.


text:
Convenience is essential when it comes to arranging your travel plans. When you're flying to Bangkok, don't waste time at the airport by waiting in long lines for cabs or trying to figure out bewildering bus routes. Instead, reserve your Sixt car rental in Bangkok today and be on the road as soon as you have your rental car keys in hand. Meaning once you've hit the tarmac, you can head to the Sixt rental counter and pick up your Sixt car rental in Bangkok.
Sixt Rental Bangkok Deals
Find Cheap Sixt Rental Deals in Bangkok
At Expedia, we are proud to work with Sixt due to their history of superior customer service as well their large fleet of premier vehicles. Start browsing through the great selection of rental cars by entering your search preferences into our online booking wizard and sorting through everything from spacious SUVs to compact luxury cars. Meaning, whether you need an economy car for a quick business trip or a roomy vehicle to fit the entire family on a long road trip, we've got you covered. And, what's more, we always offer Sixt Bangkok cars at the lowest possible prices. Backed by our Best Price Guarantee, our prices on Sixt rentals in Bangkok can't be beat. Get started and peruse our myriad of cheap deals and discounts on rental cars for your time in Bangkok today.
Car Pickup Locations from Sixt in Bangkok
- Next
- Page 1 of 1
- Showing Results 1-4 of 4
Sixt: 222 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Bangkok, THA
Location: In Airport
Sixt: Rama 4 Rd., Khlong Toey 2929/9, Bangkok, THA
Sixt: 99 Bangna Trad Rd Km 15, Bangkok, THA
Sixt: Rama 3 rd. Bangklo Bangkorlaem, Bangkok, THA
- Next
- Page 1 of 1
- Showing Results 1-4 of 4


text:
|By Hal Hilderbrad, Nickolaos Kavantzas, Ashwini Surpur, Mohamad Afshar, Dave Shaffer
Article Rating:
|November 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST
Agile and adaptive business processes and supporting IT infrastructure are the holy grail of enterprise applications. The industry is heading in the right direction to start delivering on this promise. SOAs (service-oriented architectures) promise to enable businesses to align their business processes to customer needs, and optimize them to improve customer responsiveness and drive efficiency. A process-oriented realization of SOAs is necessary to deliver on this promise.
The process-oriented model is based on an SOA component model augmented with an underlying formal model in which business processes are expressed through orchestration and choreography. This model blends the bottom-up framework of SOA with a top-down, process-centric view. By simplifying the set of activities that are part of the life cycle of business processes, we'll outline how this approach is an effective and efficient way to develop, maintain, and improve best-in-class inter- and intra-enterprise business processes. We'll also emphasize that enterprises looking to automate their business processes around an agile platform can start building, service-enabling, deploying, securing, and managing services - both internal and external - with Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS or BPEL) business flows today.
The SOA Promise
Traditionally, business information systems have been developed with a functional orientation, often resulting in silos of services and information. However, end-to-end business processes that must span silos can't adapt to change as business needs evolve - they're fragmented and embedded deep within systems. SOA is a software architecture that facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular and loosely coupled business services.
SOA's intent is to integrate software components, or services, in new runtime contexts and business processes. It creates a unification layer on which business processes and enterprise dashboards can be built. SOA promises to deliver greater responsiveness to business change and provide real-time visibility into business processes. When effectively implemented, it improves business agility by letting you modularize legacy, packaged, and custom applications, and orchestrate them in easily changeable business flows.
The Web services platform, including SOAP and other protocols accessed through Web services binding frameworks, acts as the component model and ubiquitous network fabric through which newly built and existing applications cooperate. Information can be exchanged much more seamlessly, unconstrained by the hardware, operating systems platforms, and programming languages used to implement services.
Whereas a Web services model and SOA often take an essentially bottom-up view, business processes are inherently top-down activities. Bridging the capabilities envisioned by SOA with the requirements of supporting distributed business processes - including trading partner collaborations - is the focus of the process-oriented realization of SOA discussed here.
SOA Realization
The process-centric realization of SOA can provide the glue between modular business services for the end-to-end business processes that companies rely on, such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, store order-to-sales compensation, and supplier-invoice to settlement. To complete this picture you must define all forms of business processes, including those of a collaborative nature, and deliver these processes reliably so that they, in turn, can be leveraged by other business processes and services (see Figure 1)
Today, mature standards such as BPEL and Web services effectively enable businesses to implement private processes and collaborative processes based on ad hoc collaboration definitions. The process-centric model of SOA considers processes and collaborations as first-class citizens, much as an object-oriented language would consider objects as first-class citizens, and encourages the same maturity of global standards for the definition of B2B processes. With this vision, business processes, collaborations, information exchanges, and work activities are expressed through service aggregation - a combination of BPEL orchestration and WS-CDL choreography, with operational semantics based on the pi-calculus:
In order to deliver quality of service to enterprise-class business processes a number of supporting services are required. With quality of service, a number of supporting services are required. These include security, reliable messaging, transactions, context and coordination, message translation and transformation services, message validation, and content-based routing. Although these services are vital for the vision of networked-enabled business processes, we'll focus on the service aggregation/business process aspects.
BPEL: Automating Business Processes
In the SOA architecture, and within the Web services platform in particular, services must be combined into business processes/business flows. BPEL provides a standard, portable language for coordinating the flow of business process services and builds upon a decade of progress in the areas of business process management, workflow, and integration technologies. Traditionally, such technologies have suffered from proprietary business processes definitions; the resulting applications are seldom portable across implementations, and skills are not transferable. Since BPEL is a standard, it creates a common language for developers. It's built from the ground up around XML and Web services and is supported on both the .NET and Java platforms.
Asynchrony, parallelism, sophisticated exception handling, long-running processes, and a need for compensating transactions change the fundamental nature of what we think of as an application. In order to support the required executable behavior, BPEL provides constructs for control-flow (conditionals, sequencing, parallelism, loops), variables, and constructs for manipulating them; event handlers, timeouts, exceptions, and forward recovery; and nested scoping units of work.
The process-oriented realization of BPEL also adds the following capabilities on top of standard BPEL:
- Advanced data handling and transformation activities that are used to manipulate variables using XQuery
- Advanced process life-cycle management capabilities such as versioning, Suspend Process instance, and Resume Process instance
- Activities that use a business rules framework, which lets you model business rules in a purely declarative way
- Advanced human workflow activities such as assigning tasks to specific users, sending notifications, and approving requests through mechanisms such as task lists
WS-CDL: Collaborations Between Peer-to-Peer Business Processes
In complex integration scenarios, capturing the collaborations between two or more business processes engaging in peer-to-peer business transactions, potentially across trust boundaries, requires a higher-level model. This is the fundamental thrust of WS-CDL, which is based on a variant of pi-calculus. It enables the formal modeling of the common observable behavior of all collaborating participants from a global viewpoint.
WS-CDL describes the global message exchange of participants during their joint interaction, global reactive rules for declaratively prescribing normal/abnormal progress, common agreement of the outcomes, and a recursive composition model that lets you build choreographies incrementally by combining existing choreographies. In this way, complex inter-organization business processes can be implemented as a collection of services, which, in turn, implement complex business processes themselves.
Choreography perfectly complements the effort of orchestration and BPEL, offering a global viewpoint into the peer-to-peer interacting business processes that are defined and implemented in BPEL.
To understand how orchestration and choreography come together, let's consider an example.
Case Study: Order Management Business Process
For any business interaction to work, the rules of collaboration must first be agreed upon. These rules can be represented in English. However, since English is unstructured and frequently vague, the rules may not be represented precisely. Choreography, and WS-CDL in particular, lets us write the above rules in a precise and unambiguous manner. So how do orchestration and choreography fit into the larger picture? The case study below demonstrates their complementary role by presenting the example of a localized business process that's concerned with handling purchase orders in a really big corporation (RBC).
This business process leverages several trading partners and links to a range of back-end services and legacy applications into an end-to-end business process. As Figure 2 shows, the RBC process interacts with different applications such as J2EE, .NET, portals, human workflow, ERP financials, trading partners such as subcontractors, and rules engine interfaces.
What makes this process interesting is that it requires both the integration of existing applications and new functionality. In our example, a clerk takes an action that causes a PO to be sent out. This is logged against a custom application (which could be J2EE or .NET) that registers the PO and ensures that the total amount does not violate the employee's sign-off authority level. If management approval is required, a workflow is initiated.
Upon confirmation, the PO needs to kick off a number of business processes, including one that updates the total POs that have been approved by the employee and manager, and one that checks the availability of goods from an existing warehouse or nearby distribution center and requisitions them if they're not available. If the goods aren't available at any location, then the system updates the financials application.
Notice that in this case, the overall business process is implemented in BPEL. Each of the services can publish a Web service interface that is then orchestrated in BPEL. Using SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, and BPEL, the business process can be built in a vendor-independent fashion. RBC's business process is shown in Figure 2.
Using BPEL and other open standards, the task of integrating these systems into an end-to-end business process is straightforward. At any stage, the business process may be changed; for example, by adding extra approval steps, or by updating the BPEL definition of the business process.
Now consider what's needed when the RBC order process interacts with an outside supplier, STC, which manufactures and distributes t-shirts. RBC and STC are engaged in a collaborative fashion to achieve their common business goal: order fulfillment. For the collaboration to work successfully, RBC must provide the terms under which it's willing to do electronic business with suppliers such as STC.
RBC has the following simple business rules for collaborating with STC:
- RBC places an order for STC t-shirts.
- STC acknowledges the purchase order. This initiates a business process in STC that handles the PO. For all RBC knows, STC has an employee at a computer handle the PO, or a sophisticated BPEL process that's linked with back-end manufacturing, logistics, and procurement systems.
- After the internal processes within STC regarding the PO are completed - which may take days or even months - STC sends a Purchase Order Completed message back to RBC.
- RBC can send a Cancel Order message any time before it receives the Purchase Order Completed message.
- If the Cancel Order message arrives at STC before the Purchase Order Completed message is sent, STC aborts its business process and acknowledges this to RBC with the Purchase Order CancelAck message.
- If STC has already sent the Purchase Order Completed message, it ignores the Cancel Order message because RBC has agreed that it will honor POs when cancellations are not sent out within an agreed-upon timeframe.
- When a PurchaseOrder message is sent from the buyer to the seller and the acknowledgement is received by the buyer, the OrderStatus at both parties is set to New.
- When the OrderStatus at both the buyer and seller is New, either a Cancel Purchase Order Message can be sent by the buyer to the seller or a Complete Purchase Order Message can be sent by the seller to the buyer.
- When the buyer sends a Cancel Purchase OrderCancel message, the buyer sets itself to CancelPending; when a CancelAck message is sent from the seller to the buyer, this sets both parties to OrderCancelled.
- When the seller sends an OrderCompleted message, the OrderStatus at both parties is set to OrderCompleted.
Today, these rules are frequently described in English, and each trading partner's business processes that interact collaboratively can be defined in BPEL or in any other language. What WS-CDL offers is a standardized way to define these interactions, leaving unambiguous documentation of the roles and responsibilities of each. Also, in the future, products that support business process implementation languages such as BPEL could provide tools that would generate, for example, an implementation skeleton for a particular role or validate behavior. Developers looking to define collaborations in B2B situations should keep an eye on WS-CDL. Today, however, BPEL provides the basis for automating business processes on both sides of the firewall.
The maximum value of SOA architecture is realized by blending SOA with a process-centric view that explicitly defines trading partner collaborations. The basic building blocks to do this are already in place and standards like WS-CDL are emerging to support the full life cycle of collaborative business processes.
Enterprises looking to automate their business processes around an agile platform can build, service-enable, deploy, secure, and manage services (both internal and external) with BPEL business flows today. Looking further down the road, we expect the ways that business-to-business collaborations can be defined will be greatly enhanced through standards such as Web services choreography and we're actively working in these areas. What's clear today is that there is much value to be gained by streamlining your business around SOA with a process-centric view. Go build!


text:
US to deploy special operations forces in Syria: Official
The White House will announce Friday that a small number of U.S. special operations forces will be sent into Syria, according to a senior U.S. official.
The senior U.S. official said that the forces will be stationed in northern Syria and work alongside groups with a proven track record of fighting ISIS. The move will be described as a "shift" but not a "change" in U.S. strategy against ISIS, the official added.
The special operations forces could work with Kurdish and allied actors who have come together under the umbrella of the "Syrian Democratic Forces," according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet public.
See photos of the US-Kurdish raid against ISIS in Iraq:
See Gallery
Rep. Mac Thornberry, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said the expected announcement made clear the White House was feeling the pressure of a "failed policy" against ISIS.
"I'm concerned that the administration is trying to put in place limited measures — too late — that are not going to make a difference," he told NBC News. "I don't see a strategy towards accomplishing a goal, I see an effort to run out the clock without disaster."
Obama and his administration have come under mounting pressure amid signs the anti-ISIS coalition has stalled or at least failed to turn the tide against the militants — including the recent Pentagon decision to abandon a failed program to train and equip Syrian rebels.
Small signs of a sea change in strategy have been filtering out in recent weeks and gained steam in wake of a U.S.-backed raid to free ISIS hostages that cost the life of a Delta Force commando.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned earlier this week that to expect more such raids when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon would be stepping up attacks against ISIS — including through "direct action on the ground" in Iraq and Syria.
Carter's remarks — in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee — immediately raised eyebrows given repeated assurances from President Barack Obama that U.S. troops in the region would not engage in combat.
The defense secretary himself referred to the aforementioned raid as "combat," where "things are complicated" in his comments to the committee.
The U.S. currently has around 3,300 troops in Iraq to train and advise Iraqi forces and protect U.S. facilities.
RELATED: ISIS destroys a temple in Syria:
See Gallery
More from NBC News:
Polish Court Rejects U.S. Polanski Extradition Request
Body Found on Train Tracks Amid Hunt for Missing Trader
Oregon Girl is 16th U.S. Plague Case This Year


text:
Holiday Requests
The Academy seeks to maximise the achievement of all pupils, and the aim of ensuring that all pupils attend every school day is a cornerstone of this approach.
As such, we expect that parents support us in our approach by ensuring that any pupil holidays are taken during the calendered academy holiday dates.
We regret that we shall not authorise any holidays taken in term time, and will pursue the issuing of Fixed Penalty Notices for such holidays of 5 days or more.
Further details are available in the Academy's Attendance Policy.


text:
STATE COLLEGE — Cael Sanderson settled into a chair at the head of a conference table, cameras recording his every word. Penn State's new wrestling coach fidgeted with his fingers under the table, out of sight from the cameras.
STATE COLLEGE — Cael Sanderson settled into a chair at the head of a conference table, cameras recording his every word. Penn State's new wrestling coach fidgeted with his fingers under the table, out of sight from the cameras.
A star in wrestling circles, Sanderson is eager to launch a new era for Penn State wrestling.
"I'm anxious just to see where we're at just as much as anyone else is," Sanderson said at the team's media day Tuesday.
The season begins in less than three weeks, but Sanderson's tenure is off to a good start. Recruiting services have ranked Penn State's freshman class as one of the best in the nation, including the addition of top prospect David Taylor.
It's the impact that many wrestling aficionados thought Sanderson could have when the 30-year-old coach made his surprise jump last spring from Iowa State to Penn State. Sanderson led the Cyclones to top-five finishes at nationals in each of his three years as coach at his alma mater.
His hiring was a coup for athletic director Tim Curley, a century after Penn State started its wrestling program.
The Nittany Lions finished in the top 10 at the NCAA championships for most of the 1980s and 1990s before becoming inconsistent during the 11-year tenure of Troy Sunderland, who resigned in April.
In came Sanderson, an Olympic gold medalist and undefeated four-time NCAA champion during his own days on the mat.
Dan Vallimont, a 165-pound senior, said the intensity at practice has picked up under the new regime.
"It's exciting. Too bad I only have one year left," Vallimont said. "We've been training like mad men since he got here."
Sanderson's arrival should also continue to help give Penn State a better shot at keeping in-state talent closer to home. Scholastic wrestling has a loyal following in Pennsylvania.
"Penn State is some place that people will come to in the eastern United States," Sanderson said. "We got to have two or three top classes in the area to have a shot at winning the national championship."
The Nittany Lions won their only NCAA title in 1953.


text:
NoNoNo: Pumpin Blood (The Chainsmokers Remix)
Complete with their signature pluck and a trap breakdown fresher than Old Spice, the long-awaited remix of NoNoNo's "Pumpin Blood" by The Chainsmokers is here. Following the track's placement on BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong Essential Mix, and reports of fans dying for its release, the NY-based dance duo put on their capes, joined forces with Warner Music Group, and for the good of all mankind are here to save the damn day, again.
Side note so you can ready yourself: Look out for The Chainsmokers' first ever original recording "#Selfie" being released on DIM MAK Records on January 28th.
The Chainsmokers on Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud


text:
What Finally Cured My Postparteum Depression
A few months ago I would have given anything to be able to say that I was happy. Now, a week before Mother's Day, I finally can. I remember during one of my meditations a random thought bubbled up about how on this Mother's Day, I didn't want anything else in the world other than to experience a true sense of contentment within my heart. A card, flowers, candy or even a special meal prepared by my loving husband just wouldn't do. In that moment of clarity I experienced while meditating, I decided that for this Mother's day I was going to love myself and do something that I probably should have done months ago.
On a particularly stressful day at work, I began to get very dizzy and experience chest pain. In college, I had a heart arrhythmia that would randomly trigger and I thought that, perhaps, complications from my past were beginning to surface again. I blew it off and decided to try to make it through the rest of my work day. As I was trying to hold it together while talking to a colleague, she began to give me a very worried look as all of the coloring left my face. I became extremely dizzy and almost passed out. I decided that the best thing for me to do was to see a doctor just to make sure I wasn't having heart complications.
When I showed up at my doctor's office, they assigned me to a someone new to make sure I was seen immediately. This was a blessing because it was this doctor who finally asked the questions that no medical provider ever had before.
She asked me about my labor and delivery, how I felt after having the the baby and how I felt today. I broke into tears when I told her about what I had gone through after having Winter and what it was like to live with intrusive thoughts. After she had ruled out that I wasn't having any heart complications (thank goodness) she teased me in the most loving way and said, "A lot of my friends are psychologists and think they can just mindful their way out of depression, when sometimes, in fact a lot of the time, the depression will persist because it has to do with a chemical imbalance. I know you have said you have done so much work thus far, but have you ever thought about medication?"
The world went into slow motion as the words MEDICATION dripped from her mouth. I thought, "But I am a psychologist. I teach people all day long how to use coping skills. Why aren't they working fully for me? If I start will I ever be able to get off? Will I gain or lose weight? What if we did decide to get pregnant. Is it safe?" The list went on and on and she answered everyone of my questions with a high-level of empathy and concern.
She told me that many of her patients who have experienced as bad of postpartum depression as I had become pregnant, deliver and even breastfeed, all while taking medication. I know that there may be some people reading this who think, "If she does have baby number two, would it be wise or responsible for her to continue doing this? Couldn't she suck it up for the time that she is pregnant and breastfeeding?" If this is you, don't fret or feel badly that you thought it, as I had this misconception too. Even as a mental health practitioner I have my own biases about medications that I am desperately trying to squash in my own head.
See, the reality is and the real question I had to ask myself is, "What is worse? Having a mother on medication or living with a mother who is depressed?" I think this is a really heavy question that I had to face head on-one that I mulled over for months, when, really, it was a lot easier to answer than I had initially thought.
Winter deserves a mother who loves herself and who doesn't feel angry or have thoughts of suicide. She deserves a mother who can show up for her, that loves life and can lead by example that she is not above asking for help when she needs it. And moreover, I deserve this too. I deserve to wake up and not feel that sense of lingering agitation that used to live beneath my skin. I deserve to laugh without reservation and NOT fear that the laugh was just a fluke and the impending doom will soon return. I deserve to love myself and if taking five milligrams of medication is the trick to experiencing honest-to-god happiness, which in my opinion is a basic human need, then screw it, I am all in.
So, I am not ashamed to say it. My name is Terra and I take an antidepressant. I may get pregnant, or I may not, and I may or may not still be taking them.
It's been about five weeks since I started and I can say that I FINALLY feel like a normal human should. I still do mindfulness, I still journal, I still talk to others including a counselor and I still breath a lot. I still have bad days and I still have many doubts and insecurities. I still get intrusive thoughts every now and then but damnit, I am alive. I am living and I am here; and most of the time I am fully present and enjoying the beautiful gift I have been given, the chance at a happy life with my family.
I will close with this quote:
NOTE TO MY READERS: It's been a few months since I posted the article I wrote about my battle with intrusive thoughts and PPD. I had an overwhelming amount of responses. It was an honor to have so many people reflect and relate to my story, but I am still having a difficult time responding. Sometimes when I read the messages, I feel the pain behind the words that I am reading and when go to respond, I am triggered by my own experience and I get anxiety. I apologize if you are still waiting on me. I did read it. I do hear you and I hope to connect soon.
Photography By Brittany Renee'
**Disclosure: Please talk to your primary doctor about your specific experiences as I can only offer what I have been through and am not an expert on depression or medication.


text:
So here they are; the tough years.
The years that are going to make or break you.
The years that bring you to your knees.
The years that make you second guess every decision in your life.
Dear Married-Woman in a rough patch,
The days have been long and lonely. I see you sitting on the couch with your world spinning by you,. You're dazed and half- numb. The immense joy your children bring you is only enough to bring a smirk to your face. Half of you feels like it's gone missing, the half that your husband holds. You feel like you're going at this thing all alone, when you committed your life to some one who said they'd be by your side. He comes and goes, but does he see you?
You cling to the memories of sun tans and loud laughter. Late nights, long mornings, and how every day was an exciting adventure. Wind in the hair, music on blast, and lunch dates. Holding hands, that giddy feeling, feeling like the luckiest girl walking with that man by your side. You cling to just you two.
You can't believe you've arrived to this place, asking yourself; do I stay? Is this what I signed up for? Is this my life? Is this my marriage?
Let me tell you, stay.
In a world where marriage has become a second class citizen and women who stay in "hard" marriages are viewed as weak. I'm telling you, please, stay. Not for any one else, except yourself. And let me tell you something, women who stay are the strongest of them all.
Women who stay endure the storm. They scream with rage, they cry in despair, all the while seeming perfectly calm to not interrupt the childhood of their children. They steer the ship, when they have no clue what direction it's going. They keep it afloat. Their lives, their heart, their marriage, they keep them afloat.
Have faith in the decision you made about that man you married. It was your decision after all, and I know you trust yourself. You know he has a heart of gold, you know he is a good person. Why start second guessing your decision when things get tough? You knew they would get tough.
So here they are; the tough years. Fight through them! Kick, scream, argue, but get down to the bottom of it and rebuild.
Fight for this life you chose. Fight for this love. Wake up and fight.
The strongest of the women stay. You are strong. You've got this.
With love,
A woman on the other side
**This was originally written on September 18, 2015. It got lost in my drafts and I just stumbled upon it. At the time, my husband and I were going through a lot. I was writing the words I needed to hear, from some one, any one, but they never came. This is for you if you find yourself looking at a stranger at the end of every day- in the mirror and in your spouse. Take these words if you need them and fight for your marriage. I can confidently say now, on May 21st, 2017, the fight is worth it! **


text:
Nicholas Georgiadis
Born: 1923
Died: 2001
Born in Athens. He trained as an architect in Athens and New York until 1952. he came to England in 1953 and studied at the Slade School until 1955. Nicholas Georgiadis works in London and teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art. he also designs sets for the theatre.


text:
Product Groups
Getting Started
Connect to the leading fixed income platforms, analytics and more.
Intraday Data
Subscription Based Data
Keep track of products you're interested in, view trading data and access all your contracts in a single location.
Learn why traders use futures, how to trade futures, and what steps you should take to get started.
Pending all relevant regulatory review periods, effective for the trade date of Tuesday, October 30, 2012, the daily price limits for Nonfat Dry Milk and Dry Whey futures contracts will be increased.
Amended rule language is as follows with the additions underlined and deletions bracketed and struck through:
For the full Special Executive Report, please click here (PDF).
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. The company is comprised of four Designated Contract Markets (DCMs). Further information on each exchange's rules and product listings can be found by clicking on the links to CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX.
CME Group / Chicago HQ
Phone: +1 312 930 1000
Toll Free (US Only): +1 866 716 7274
© 2019 CME Group Inc. All rights reserved.
Careers | Site Map | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Terms of Use | Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement


text:
It was an interesting conversation with Paul my local greengrocer the other day when I remarked on the aisle of birdfeed in his store that has recently appeared. What has caused this contemporary phenomena in Ireland of everyone en masse feeling the need to feed our wild birds? Bird feed has become a regular item on a shopping list as normal as a bag of potatoes. I didn't just wonder this privately but I asked my reliable grocer man to please enlighten as to what is going on. Exactly how did the birds make do for so long before we started feeding them? Judging by the popularity of this current consumer pattern I wonder just how much the wild bird food industry is worth? It must be profitable to the local grocer man who replaced a whole aisle of food for human consumption to make room for it. He smiled at me sardonically as if he'd been waiting for these questions for a while. As if he was in on some sort of ridiculous joke and was waiting for that moment when someone suddenly realized they were being had. He seemed surprisingly ready for the conversation and immediately engaged when I wondered aloud what must we be inadvertently doing to bird foraging habits and diets? The fact is the land where they forage is disappearing. They're running of habitat. According to a CSO report :
Ireland had the smallest percentage of land in the EU designated as a Special Protected Area, under the EU Birds Directive, at only 3% of total land area in 2010.
Ireland at 11% had less land designated as a Special Protected Area under the EU Habitats Directive than the EU average of 14% in 2010.
We're cutting and clearing trees and land to make way for fields for cattle and sheep, creating fields of nothing but neon grass or bare bald land. We're changing and stripping entire ecosystems in the name of big mechanised, subsidised agriculture and meat production that clogs your heart and eventually kills you along with the wildlife it killed first. Not to mention roads and industry which wipe out everything, flora and fauna. He talked about a proposal for a new road to better connect the northern and the southern communities in our county the third largest in Ireland. He shook his head remarking at the apparent stupidity and needlessness of it. 'We're living in a different world' he said. "Don't take me wrong, I mean it in the best possible way, but wildlife is a thing of the past". I'd thought of this concept before but to hear it said out loud by a small shop owner in the west of Ireland jolted me slightly. An earth of the future where species were severely diminished, absent even? Skies, land, oceans empty of wildlife? People living in floating cities in a sterile world? Is that really where we're headed? I recently read George Monbiot's book 'Feral' and hope that instead of the diminished species rates that we seem to be on a course of that the idea of 'rewilding' our earth and oceans will take hold.
I'd only dropped in to pick up some oats. It is surprising the conversations that you can sometimes have while popping out bleary eyed to get something for breakfast. I told Paul we'd continue this discussion another day. "And a lovely day it is too" he said.


text:
Last year I signed up for Spotify Premium for my Yoga classes. A few months in I noticed the section called "Podcasts". Something I've heard of but not actually heard one before. I started listening when I was walking to the bus, on my way home from work and right before a Yoga class began. Below are my five current favorite channels that I want to share with you.
ALSO, did you know there's an International Podcast Day on October 30th!!!!! People all over the world celebrate the history of Podcasts. That's pretty cool :)
Optimal Living Daily
What is this podcast about: Justin Malik reads to you from the best content on the web with author permission… just like an audiobook! There is now five total podcasts in this series but this one is all about personal development, minimalism, and productivity.
Why I recommend it: I think this was one of the first podcast channels I listened to last year. To be completely honest I had no idea what I was in for at the time. Justin has a super buttery voice that almost makes you so relaxed that you could fall asleep. I appreciate that he only reads from the best blogs/books! These podcast episodes keep me motivated to continue on my self development journey.
Click the title to open in Spotify!
From The Heart: Conversations with Yoga Girl
What is this podcast about: Rachel Brathen is an international yoga teacher and speaker, bestselling author and serial entrepreneur who inspires millions every day. Known as Yoga Girl, Rachel has sparked a movement through deciding to share every corner of her heart's journey, the moments of beauty and of pain, and always of unyielding trust in life. The light you are seeking is within your own heart. Join Rachel as she helps you uncover it, from her heart to yours.
Why I recommend it: There isn't enough positive things to say about this podcast channel!! Rachel was one of the first few I got into last year and I'm really happy about it. She is such a kind hearted soul with practical knowledge that she shares every week with her followers. Also I love that she is a fellow Yogi!! One of her older episodes really touched me when she spoke about her journey into teaching. Her Instagram is jam packed with personal shares and feel good vibes too!
Click the title to open in Spotify!
The Ultimate Health Podcast: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Fitness, & Self-Help
What is this podcast about: Jesse and Marni teach and inspire you to reach your maximum potential in the realm of health. They interview world-class experts in the health & wellness community. Topics include lifestyle, nutrition, fitness, self-help, sleep, meditation, and spirituality.
Why I recommend it: This podcast channel is AWESOME!! The one I listened to last weekend was an interview with Sahara Rose who is an Ayurvedic Healer. As a Yoga Instructor and Health Advocate, I think it's important to explore different ways of doing things. That episode got me even more curious about Ayurveda which led me to read more about it. Jesse and Marni are great at bringing new and interesting content within the health and fitness industry. I look forward to learning more very soon.
Click the title to open in Spotify!
Girlboss Radio with Sophia Amoruso
What is this podcast about: Sophia interviews boundary-pushing women who've made their mark—eschewing polite conversation and extracting solid advice from the lessons they've learned along the way. Expect hilarious co-hosts and vulnerable, honest conversations you won't hear anywhere else. Conversations that humanize the known, champion the unknown, and laugh a little at the absurdity of life.
Why I recommend it: I am a HUGE Sophia fan and have been for years! I also really loved the Girlboss show. She's a very inspiring young female who takes business to the next level. My favorite interviews are with Sarah Jessica Parker and Tess Holiday. If your really into what female business women are ruling the industry then listen to this podcast. I promise you will feel the #Girlboss inspiration!
Click the title to open in Spotify!
The Goal Digger Podcast - Marketing, Social Media, Creative Entrepreneurship, Small Business Strategy and Branding
What is this podcast about: Week after week, host Jenna Kutcher brings you the the productivity tips, social media strategies, business hacks,, and inspirational stories that can help YOU design your dream career. Jenna shares tangible tips and hacks that she used to become a self-made millionaire in photography, online courses, Instagram sponsorships, and navigating the world of being a #girlboss social media influencer.
Why I recommend it: So, this channel is a bit newer to me but equally as awesome as the others. Jenna is an aw inspiring artist who truly believes in herself and others. She is also completely honest and to the point with her content. It's refreshing to listen to a female Entrepreneur who really understands both sides to being creative. I highly recommend if your all about learning to be more confident in your work or daily life.
Click the title to open in Spotify!