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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1964, Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial injustice through nonviolent resistance.
Here is Dr. King’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize. He expresses valuable thoughts that are still relevant today.
Dr. King arrived in Memphis, Tennessee on March 29, 1968, in order to support black sanitary public works employees who were on strike. In one instance, there was bad weather and the black workers were paid for two hours and sent home. The white workers were paid for a full day.
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After all, your Guardian Angel is meant to provide you with guidance, assistance, and insight on your life path � specifically tailored to your needs and with your best interests at heart. Since messages from your guardian angels are meant for you, is there any reason as to why your angel would want your connection to them to be anything less than immediately available, right when you need it? how to get rid of gallery sign in request Fun quiz time and though this quiz isn�t for everybody, it definitely is for those of you who believe in Angels. I totally do and have faith in the Angels who are around me all the time.
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Corfu International Airport is situated 3 kilometres south of Corfu Town, near Pontikonisi. The number of passengers the airport sees peaks during the summer months and the airport is a primary destination for airlines such as Thomson Airways and Air Berlin.
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OBESITY EPIDEMIC – HOW CAN YOU ENCOURAGE HEALTHY BEHAVIOUR?
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The Surrey Libraries’ Festival for Children is back, bigger and better than ever and families can look forward to seven fun-filled weeks of exciting activities in libraries across Surrey, starting 24 May until 12 JulyFamous authors and illustrators including Fizzlebert Stump author A F Harrold and Beano comic artist Kev F Sutherland are amongst a host of people lined up to appear.Over 40 activities including Manga, comic art workshops, performance poetry, stop-frame animation, author visits and drumming workshops will entertain children up to 12.Children can make a stop-frame animation to view on screen with Jellytree productions and create their own stories from beginning to end with Celebrate My Library, a project that helps us to put our libraries at the heart of every community.They can grab the chance to draw with Beano and Dr Who Adventures writer and illustrator Kev F Sutherland; write poems with Martin Daws, Young People’s Laureate for Wales and create comic stories with Mo-Bot-High author Neill Cameron. Jane Lawes will talk about her ‘Gymstars’ series and props from Snow White, The Huntsman, Batman and other fabulous films will be on show. Younger children can party with Pebble the Penguin and join in with multi-lingual rhymetimes and multi-sensory storytimes.So, if you’re looking for exciting things to keep the children occupied during spring half term and into the summer, make sure you book your festival tickets right away. To book and to discover what’s on and where, see www.surreycc.gov.uk/childrenslibraryfestival, visit any Surrey library or call 01483 543599.The fun of the festival will also be shared on Twitter: #OffThePageFest and Facebook: The Surrey Online Library.

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Someone with adverse childhood experiences whose abuse and mental health problems weren’t properly considered by the courts should not be executed.
Children are our future; what happens while they are young has life-long consequences. I recently retired after 45 years advocating in Tennessee for improving outcomes for children and families. The last several years focused on preventing adverse childhood experiences – ACEs – and mitigating their impact on children, families and society.
Research on ACEs demonstrates childhood adversity leads to trauma and toxic stress that damage the developing brain. This can cause developmental damage, violence, substance abuse, and physical and mental health challenges.
Gov. Bill Haslam and other state leaders launched Building Strong Brains Tennessee, an effort to establish Tennessee as a national model promoting culture change to prevent and mitigate ACEs and their impact, and to enhance long-term prosperity by improving outcomes for children.
The original ACEs study identified 10 types of childhood trauma. Five are personal: physical, verbal or sexual abuse, and physical or emotional neglect. Five are caused by family dysfunction: parental substance abuse, mental illness, incarceration, domestic violence and the absence/loss of a parent.
Each experience of trauma counts as one ACE. So, if before age 18, a child experiences physical abuse and a father in jail, his ACE score is two. Higher scores increase risk for poor mental and physical health outcomes (depression, addiction, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and psychosocial outcomes (incarceration, job failure, lower education).
Individuals who become violent often have experienced substantial trauma and have high ACE scores. ACEs are facts, not fate, so safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments can reduce damage from significant childhood stressors.
David Miller has been on Tennessee’s death row nearly 37 years and is scheduled for execution Dec. 6. As a child, David experienced chronic physical, sexual and emotional trauma, giving him an irregularly high ACE score. His biological father and mother both had mental illness; his mother sexually abused him for years. David’s stepfather beat him regularly, sometimes to unconsciousness.
David repeatedly fled the abuse only to be returned home, where the beatings and sexual abuse continued. Later, he was sent to a boys’ school, another experience marked by rampant abuse and assaults. At age 14, David began experiencing seizures and episodes of losing contact with reality, attributable to his severe, chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. This condition led to the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
David was dating Lee Standifer in Knoxville when she was murdered. According to court documents, he had significant memory lapses that night and couldn’t explain what happened. He did not dispute that he had killed Ms. Standifer, but only remembered hitting her with his fists.
In his 1982 trial, the law did not allow a defense expert as it does today, so no expert testified about David’s diminished mental health. The law had changed by his resentencing in 1987, but his attorney failed to call an expert to testify about his brain damage and psychosis, factors juries often find warrant a sentence of life in prison instead of the death penalty.
Though lay witnesses shared his history of abuse in his resentencing in 1987, Tennessee’s death penalty statute failed to let the jury weigh this as mitigation, a defect in Tennessee law since addressed. Today, jurors can consider any facts supporting a life sentence over a death sentence.
Someone with a life-long history of ACEs whose abuse and mental health problems weren’t properly considered by the courts should not be executed. David Miller’s traumatic experiences should have been mitigating factors and would be if he were tried today.
As we continue advocating for children today, we must also stand up for those who have been extensively victimized since childhood. In cases like David’s, execution is not the answer.
Linda O'Neal is a retired child advocate.

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The locals, city government employees, national-lined agencies and private stakeholders gave honors to the Philippine National Flag as they all commemorated the 120th Philippine Independence Day on morning of June 12, 2018 at City Hall Grounds here. Mayor Carlo P. Rabat appealed before the public to stand as one for peace agenda towards freedom and justice.
As this year’s theme says Kalayaan 2018: Pagbabagong Ipinaglaban, Alay sa Masaganang Kinabukasan, Mayor Carlo urged the people to continue the crusade towards change from our forebears until today for our future and defend it because this is a strong foundation towards our vision for our families, community and country.
“The fight is not yet over, so to speak, because these gains passed on to us by our forebears and heroes, should be guarded and sustained, not only by us here and now, but also the task of the future generations,” Mayor Carlo said.
He also acknowledged the upcoming Araw ng Mati 2018 celebration next week on June 19, birthdate of our National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal that reminded every Filipino of Rizal and other Heroes’ efforts to secure progress in life, stature and progress for the Philippines and specifically for Mati as a fast-growing City now.
“Their sacrifices offered at the altar of freedom and we owe them the gratitude of the nation, whose gallantry and heroism gained for us what we are today,” Mayor Carlo said adding that these are the legacies of “our forebears for us and the future generations” he said.
Every year on June 12, the Philippines annually celebrates its independence after the declaration of General Emilio Aguinaldo, Head of the Revolutionary Government and the 1st President of the 1st Philippine Republic from the colonial rule of Spain 120 years ago, around 4 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon, that marks also the culmination of the many years of struggle for national liberation by countless heroes of this country and who selflessly offered their lives for freedom.
Valderrama added that current social issues like drugs, corruption, inflation and overpopulation challenged our independence.
She cited a quote from Nelson Mandela that for her, means everyone should respect each other for us to feel genuine freedom.
“If we tolerate corruption or being egocentric, we are not different from the old colonizers,” she said.
She furthered that corruption does not happen only to people who are in position but also to the common Filipino workers who are negligent to the call of duty during working hours.
Valderrama, who currently works at the Department of Education Region XI as the head of the Public Relations Unit, also said that change is very important that must “come from within us.” She said that real change can be seen on actions and people’s decisions in life.
“Freedom is meaningful if we can see real change and feel genuine happiness,” Valderrama said defining genuine happiness in some simple ways like a family who eats nutritious foods everyday, safely go to parks, express themselves freely, regularly works and receives salary that is enough for living.
“That is unpretentious independence. This is when we can say we are undeniably free with better future awaits,” she said.
Valderrama also works as instructor at Ateneo de Davao University and as a professor at Professional School, University of Mindanao on weekends and weeknights while performing her duties as a mother on every morning.


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Each time the arm pushed the block, a connected computer recorded the force and visual measurements, and compared those measurements to previous moves.
From watching the robot in action, the most impressive thing it does is try blocks to see how easily they'll move and then stop if it looks as though continuing to push will collapse the tower.
Now engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a robot that performs a seemingly more frivolous task: playing Jenga.
MIT Professor, Alberto Rodriguez, says games like Jenga require "the mastery of physical skills such as probing, pushing, pulling, placing and aligning parts".
A steady hand is needed to play a game like Jenga without toppling the tower, but being a successful block-stacker also requires a fine-tuned sense of touch as you try to find the ideal piece to remove.
"In a cellphone assembly line, in nearly every single step, the feeling of a snap-fit, or a threaded screw, is coming from force and touch rather than vision", Rodriguez said. The paper's lead author Nima Fazeli tells ZDNet, "The robot has to deal with real-world noisy sensors and partial information". The team also includes Miquel Oller, Jiajun Wu, Zheng Wu, and Joshua Tenenbaum, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.
For the uninitiated, Jenga comprises 54 rectangular blocks stacked in 18 layers of three blocks each, with the blocks in each layer oriented perpendicular to the blocks below.
Watch the video until the end and you will see how the Jenga game looks through the "eyes" of the robot. Within around 300 attempts, the robot learned to intelligently anticipate its moves, guessing which blocks would be more hard to move than others, and which might cause the tower to collapse. It then exerted a small amount of force in an attempt to push the block out of the tower.
Rather than performing thousands of such attempts, the robot was trained on just about 300 attempts. In as little as a 100 games, it figured out that trying to move a block that wouldn't easily slide was not beneficial to the game's progression. For each data cluster, the robot developed a simple model to predict a block's behavior given its current visual and tactile measurements. The team found the success rate of the robot in keeping the tower upright while removing the wooden blocks was nearly on a par with that of human players.
Robots are an increasingly common feature of everyday life, whether they are cleaning your house or stacking shelves at the grocery store. "Compared with our approach, these algorithms need to explore orders of magnitude more towers to learn the game".
"This is the way robotics and AI needs to be moving together", he said, adding that the robot learns by playing in a similar way that a human would.
The goal of the project isn't to create a Jenga master, but to improve the way artificial intelligence interacts with the physical world.
For now, the team is less interested in developing a robotic Jenga champion, and more focused on applying the robot's new skills to other application domains.
Two goals from Lionel Messi ensured Barcelona came from two goals behind to draw 2-2 with Valencia at Camp Nou. But their advantage was short lived after Lionel Messi converted a first-half penalty.
The man, who was in his 40s, was found in critical condition and was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead. The man jumped from a hotel balcony inside the airport into the atrium where passengers wait to get through security.
In reality, Phil's prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney. Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow on February 2, 2019, so spring is coming early this year.
Italy's economy suffers from a chronic growth weakness and can't keep up with the economy in the Euro zone for a Long time. This means Italy is officially in recession, which is defined as two successive quarters of economic contraction.
Politicos in Richmond reacted in muted disbelief, and many declined to speak on the record as the news first circulated Friday. Under the photo, text states that Nrotham's alma mater is the Virginia Military Institute and that his interest is pediatrics.
Dramatic video footage has emerged showing the exact moment a mine dam burst in Brazil , unleashing a deadly wall of muddy sludge. It killed 19 people and caused the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history.
Brisbane is the capital of the northeastern state of Queensland and its airport is the third biggest in the country. A man is in police custody after allegedly claiming to have a bomb at Brisbane International Airport.

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The 1933 New York state election was held on November 7, 1933, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly. Besides, four amendments to the State Constitution were proposed.
In 1933, there was only one state officer to be elected statewide: a judge of the Court of Appeals, to succeed Cuthbert W. Pound, who had been elected Chief Judge in 1932. Leonard C. Crouch had been appointed in March 1932 to the seat when Pound was appointed temporarily Chief Judge. Crouch was re-appointed in January 1933 after Pound's taking office for his elected term.
The Republican State Convention met on September 14 at the National Republican Club in New York City, W. Kingsland Macy presided. They endorsed the Democratic nominee Leonard C. Crouch.
The Democratic State Committee met on October 2 at Albany, New York, U.S. Postmaster General James A. Farley presided. The incumbent Leonard C. Crouch was nominated to succeed himself.
The jointly nominated incumbent Crouch was re-elected.
^ This ticket was nominated in the New York City mayoral election which was held at the same time.
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In a traditional Russian folktale, a simple hunter is ordered by an imperious czar to find a place called, “I know not where” and bring back a thing called, “I know not what”. [i] The czar wants the other man dead because he covets his wife—and thus he orders him to undertake this impossible journey. But the strangeness of the hunter’s quest underscores a profound truth in each of our lives. No matter how much control we think we have, we must sometime track the trackless to find “we know not what”. Uncertainty is the certain fact of our lives: even as, in the end, the mystery of death will culminate our life’s journey.
As the czar’s orders indicate, there is no guarantee of fairness—there may even be considerable cruelty—in the circumstances that impel us to track the trackless in our lives. Andrew, the hunter in the Russian tale, has done nothing more to incur the czar’s murderous wrath than to take a wife. She is an extraordinary wife, to be sure. She first appeared on Andrew’s path as a dove while he was out hunting for the czar. Andrew had had bad luck that day, so he might well have ignored the fact that the dove spoke to him in a human voice. He might simply have shot her, filled his stomach, and carried on with his everyday life. But instead Andrew was moved by this wonder. He listened to the dove’s plea and responded. And the moment that he did so, he changed from an ordinary hunter into a seeker.
Like Andrew, we each come to a crossroads in our lives when we must decide what to do with our power. We may overcome those vulnerable before us, even if they speak to us in the language of life shared by all creation. Or we may let wonder lead us into true listening and partnership with mystery. Like Andrew, we become seekers into the depths of things when we listen in a deep way to the voices life sets before us. For his part, Andrew has begun a course of events that will impel him to seek that ineffable land that holds both the threat of death and secret of life.
When Andrew heeds the dove, she turns into a human woman, Maria. Andrew marries her—signifying his alliance with a new order of things. For one thing, his wife does her work at night, while Andrew sleeps. Maria thus works in conjunction with Andrew’s unconscious; she represents the Jungian anima, in which resides our soul. That anima also, as Jung stressed, teaches us the importance of relationship, and so it is that Andrew’s anima is expressed in a marriage: a marriage that encompasses the human, but also transcends it, incorporating intimacy with the larger world as well.
The first time Maria tells Andrew to go to sleep she weaves a carpet in which is depicted the entire kingdom—and each of the living things that inhabit it. This marvelous weaving links Maria with the Three Weavers of Fate in Eastern European tradition—and her weaving tells us a good deal about the working of fate in our lives. First of all, Andrew must obtain the thread for Maria to work, and he must bring her not just any thread but thread of the best quality: silk thread. In order for Andrew to purchase such thread he has to beg and borrow one hundred rubles, a ruble at a time.
As in Andrew’s case, the gifts fate lays on our paths only enrich us if we do our part. Such gifts not only ask everything we have, but more: they ask whatever we can beg and borrow as well. The thread we bring fate to weave for us must be of the best quality if we want fate’s own best work in turn. Further, there is no time when we may rest on our laurels because we have brought enough thread: the more fate weaves for us, the more it challenges us to supply yet more thread. So it is when Maria weaves her magical carpet. The carpet fetches an unbelievable price, but it also creates a challenge for Andrew that will ask more of him than he thinks he can possibly give. But life always has larger designs for us than we imagine for ourselves.
In point of fact, rationality is helpless before the command to seek “I know not what”—as it is against all the gravest spiritual aches in our life.
The coincidence between the vulnerable sleeping Andrew and the mysterious power of Maria’s work reflects the psychological insight that our vulnerability (our grief, suffering, helplessness, desperation) has considerable currency in leading us to our spiritual power. What seeking “I know not what” demands of Andrew are, first of all, his vulnerability and his trust. Here there is the sense that something from the world of spirit is on Andrew’s side—and on our own—even if social circumstance and worldly wealth are not. In many folktales, there are three, four or five brothers or sisters who repeat the same quest. The disinherited, the foolish, or the poverty stricken sibling— the one least favored by social status and convention—always receives the gift of fate. Notably, the latter is also best able to listen to the magical voices of life that share their world—for the others are too ego-centered or too vested in the status quo to heed such voices as that of Andrew’s dove.
Andrew sleeps, and his wife calls on all her own powers and alliances with the mysterious to seek the “I know not what” on his behalf. But even a woman who can exquisitely weave an entire kingdom cannot find Andrew’s “I know not what” for him. Only Andrew himself can make this journey. Fate may open a path and even impel us onto it. But then it is up to each of us to find our way. What Maria can give Andrew are two essential gifts for his journey: a ball yarn to follow as it unravels, holding him true to his course, and an embroidered towel with which to wipe himself, announcing her alliance with him to all those he meets.
Now Andrew begins walking. Seekers after miracles who assume mystery and drama always lives together may try to pass by this part of the journey. But it cannot be skipped. It is the way. Andrew trudges on, day after day. He follows the unraveling thread through twenty-seven kingdoms. This is the dailiness of the work required by all seekers after the realm of the mysterious: the road to the extraordinary that is excruciatingly ordinary. Day after day, like Andrew, we travel on, led by the sense that there is something profound and mysterious at the end of journey—perhaps, if we persevere, we will at last come to the place that reveals the miraculous “I know not what” that underlies and sustains our ordinary world.
We must note that though Andrew’s goal is mysterious; it is not random. “I know not where” is a specific destination and “I know not what” a specific something that dwells there. Indeed, the mysteriousness of a journey must be countered with the focus of the seeker. Andrew stays his course by following the single thread through kingdom after kingdom. The necessity of commitment, as well alertness and authentic presence on the part of the seeker cannot be too strongly emphasized. Anywhere along our path we are liable to come upon “the storytelling cat”, who is definitely not on our side—and which the czar earlier sent Andrew to find. The storytelling cat kills all who approach it by putting them to sleep. With a sly jab of folk humor at inauthentic religious authority, the storytelling cat tells his stories of certain deacons and bishops. An encounter with this cat reveals that there are good stories and ones that lead us astray, meaningful stories and ones intended to lull us to our death. There is the good sleep in which we dream and thus wake to the fuller aspects of our lives, and the sleep that numbs us and makes us sleepwalkers on our course. Andrew saves his own life in the face of the storytelling cat only by remaining awake in the face of the overwhelming narcotic it exerts. But he must wear three layers of iron helmets to protect himself from the cat’s power over the mind of the seeker.
“A story is quickly told,” says the storyteller, “but it takes much longer to live it.” Thus Andrew trudges on. However, there is a limit to each of our journeys, even the one that feels like we must plod through twenty-seven kingdoms to get there. Andrew’s ball grows smaller and smaller until its last bit of thread unravels at a hut in the wildest part of the wild world. Here lives Baba Yaga, her house turning on its chicken leg, its entrance lined with skulls. She is the only one who can give Andrew the necessary directions to the land of the ineffable. But she severely tests all those who enter her domain: those skulls are her mementoes of those who fail her tests. And once Andrew has reached her House of Life and Death, there is no turning back.
“I shall roast you in the oven and eat you, and go for a ride on your bones”, are the words with which Baba Yaga greets Andrew.
Baba Yaga’s oven is the “double womb” of the earth, which, in Eastern European tradition, both births us and takes us back to her at death. By this tradition, our death and bodily disintegration may be dreadful to contemplate—but in the cycle of things, this is also the crucible of our birth. Thus Baba Yaga expresses a potential beneficence to the seeker that lies nowhere else. She challenges us to experience the magic of transformation at the heart of life. Life itself may be defined, according to an ancient Hindu tradition, as the impossible becoming possible. Life, after all, emerges impossibly from death. In meeting Baba Yaga, the seeker must align with this mystery at the center of creation. It goes without saying this is no mean accomplishment. In Baba Yaga’s hut, the weapons of the czar’s soldiers are of no avail, and the Old Woman only laughs at the idea of social status. What can a soldier or a wealthy man do when commanded to herd Baba Yaga’s mares, which turn into fish in the ocean or birds of the air as they are approached?
As those flying after Grandmother Yaga’s ever-transforming mares know well enough, we cannot manage the mysterious by attempting to stable it. What the seeker needs in this case is an ally that speaks the language of mystery Baba Yaga herself speaks—something that will let Baba Yaga know that it is worth her while to foster this life rather than eat it quickly and be done with it. In Andrew’s case, Baba Yaga sees the towel with which he wipes himself, and recognizes her daughter’s weaving upon it. She then begins to fuss over Andrew as a solicitous mother-in-law. This transformation indicates the humorous serendipity that may emerge in our gravest journeys. It also indicates that what we fear most may actually be on our side once we develop a familial relationship with it. Grandmother Yaga who only a moment before threatened to ride on Andrew’s bones now rushes about preparing a feast for him, asking after the happiness of his married life.
Andrew explains his dilemma and asks Grandmother Yaga for directions to the “I know not where”. However, there are things even grandmothers do not know: thus she advises Andrew to go to sleep once more while she consults a frog who has seen three hundred years of life. The frog has indeed heard of this land called “I know not where” and the “I know not what” that lives there. The old frog, archetypal symbol of mythic transformation, must be fed fresh milk in order to be rejuvenated so that it can take Andrew across the river of fire that now lies across the seeker’s path.
We all know this river of fire that must be gone over. There is no help for it. Even though we wear out our shoes in twenty-seven kingdoms following the thread of our quest to its very end—we must still leap that river of burning grief or pain or injustice that threatens to brand us for life if it does not pull us down into its flames and consume us outright. But if we can prove ourselves on the side of life, there is some ancient thing that will help us go over. We should not look for this thing to be glamorous; it will be some swamp-bound mud-living thing. But we will know it, as Grandmother Yaga did, because it has survived and seen much living. And it will get us through if we revive it, in turn, with good milk and faith.
After he crosses the river of fire on the back of the old frog, Andrew at last enters the land known as “I don’t know where” and walks up to the door of the house where lives the “I don’t know what”. He requests the latter to feed him—and also invites it to eat with him. With this last courtesy he gains his prize at last.
But now Andrew must take his prize home, where he must yet face the czar’s soldiers. Imagine the battlefield: here stands the czar with his countless legions ready to attack. And here stands Andrew, casting a single shadow, with only the invisible “I don’t know what” at his side. But what is an ordinary army to a man who has bested the storytelling cat, feasted with Grandmother Yaga in her House of Life and Death, and leapt over a river of fire on the back of a three hundred year old frog? Andrew speaks to that invisible thing that now stands at his side, and each of the czar’s soldiers is met with another stronger soldier created by mystery; each of their weapons is met with a better weapon forged from the realm of the invisible. Now the czar learns the hard way that what determines the outcome of our lives is not physical power but spiritual alliance. This is not his story any more—nor this kingdom. Now both belong to Andrew, who becomes ruler where he once was servant.
We are told Andrew and Maria live a long life together. Though we are not told they live an uneventful one. After all, the storytelling cat is still on the scene.
Andrew’s story shows us that the greatest attainment of the spiritual seeker is the power of transformation that lies at the heart of mystery. It is with this power we may leap the river of fire in each of our lives. With this power we may relate to the Old Woman who keeps the House of Life and Death as our own true Grandmother. With this power we may author our own stories and rule the kingdoms of our own hearts in the face of the most imperious czars of necessity. With this power, in sum, we may transform all that comes to us into a means for expanding our spirits. Indeed, what we attain with the mysterious “I don’t know what” is a power greater even than the power to control our fate—it is the power to fully live our lives.
[i] An excellent version of this tale is found in H. C. Stevens, Russian Folktales (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967), pp. 60-77.

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Great for local multiplayer on the go! Enjoy using your favourite wired Nintendo Switch peripherals in tabletop mode with the Multiport USB PlayStand by HORI.
Connects up to four Nintendo Switch compatible USB devices at once. Charges as you play using your Nintendo Switch AC Adapter. Adjusts to the perfect angle for the best multiplayer experience then folds up for transport to your next battle.
Unplug the AC Adaptor to run power from your Switch! If battery life gets drained no worries because your Powerbank plugs right in with a USB-C cable. Need to charge your phone? Plug right in!
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Serving a tomato mozzarella salad? Then get out your BergHOFF tomato knife and start making those perfect slices of tomato! The serrated blade helps you to easily cut through the tough skin without crushing the softer inside. Once you're done slicing, just use the upward curved tip to conveniently arrange the tomato slices on your plate.
Similar to serrated utility knives, BergHOFF tomato knives can also be used to cut other tough-skinned food such as citrus fruits, small vegetables or cheeses. So contrary to its common classification as a specialty knife, a tomato knife is actually a versatile asset in any kitchen.


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Few images can be more romantic than that of trotting along the beach on horseback, breathing deeply the sea air as waves break gently against the shore. This Beginners Beach Horse Riding experience, in Kei Mouth, allows you to realise that fantasy during an hour and a half’s ride suitable for the whole family.
The charming seaside village of Kei Mouth is an hour’s drive from East London in the scenic Eastern Cape Wild Coast region. It boasts several sandy beaches ideal for riding. Once you’ve met your equine companions and gotten comfortable in the saddle, you can take the reins and begin your journey. Beginners are sure to feel comfortable on the well-schooled horses and even children on lead rein can be accommodated. You can practice the basic principles of horse riding and feel yourself growing in confidence with every step. Admire the scenery and watch your loved ones trot ahead, all smiles and hoof prints fading in the surf.
The Beginners Beach Horse Riding experience, in Kei Mouth, is a memorable family activity and a voucher would make a wonderful gift for your favourite horse-admirer.
Kei Mouth beach rides can be booked seven days a week throughout the year, subject to availability.
The ride lasts an hour and a half, but you should expect to be at the venue for longer.
Participants: The Beginners Beach Horse Riding in East London is for 1 participant.

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With one of the most spectacular natural wonders in the world you can expect some gorgeous sunsets at Niagara Falls. But really enjoying the sunset isn’t all about where you are, but about what you are doing and who you’re with. So plan activities that don’t just give you the best view, but also put you in the right mood and allow you to spend time with the special people in your life.
If you are searching for a truly spectacular view of Niagara Falls then search no further than Skylon Tower. Take the elevator five hundred and fifty two feet up to the observation deck where you will have a three hundred and sixty degree view, including Niagara Falls and the surrounding countryside.
Ever wonder what a sunset looks like from the sky? As Niagara’s tallest building Skylon Tower has a vantage point like no other. Who needs long walks on the beach when you can enjoy a beautiful sunset from a bird’s eye view?
Every evening at dusk the falls are lit up in the colour of a rainbow. Illuminating the falls has been an important tradition in the area since 1925. After sunset the observation deck makes a perfect vantage point for the illuminated waterfalls. You’ll be mesmerized by the power and beauty of the falls at night.
Skylon Tower also has you covered if you would like to enjoy the sunset and lighting of the falls in a more comfortable setting. Having dinner in the Revolving Dining Room will let you take in the setting sun while relaxing with friends, family and food.
Whether you want to be sitting around the dinner table with loved ones, unwinding after an active day or taking in the awe inspiring sights, there are plenty of ways to get the most out of your Niagara Falls experience.

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Purpose: To follow the directive of the legislature and the people to ensure registered domestic partners are extended the same rights as spouses.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 137-12A-020.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 72.01.090.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 10-05-040 on February 10, 2010.
(1) "Secretary" shall mean the secretary of the department of corrections.
(2) "Department" shall mean the department of corrections.
(3) "Inmate" shall mean an individual sentenced to the custody of the department under state law and an individual transferred from another state or the federal government.
(4) "Institution" shall mean a facility described in RCW 72.01.050(2), such other similar facility hereafter established and a community residence operated pursuant to chapter 72.65 RCW.
(5) "Political subdivision" shall mean any city, town, county or other unit of local government.
(6) "Additional correctional facility" shall mean (a) a new building constructed at a new location for use in housing or servicing inmates; (b) a new building constructed on the grounds of an existing institution for use in housing or servicing inmates; and/or (c) a preexisting building heretofore not used by the department as a correctional facility which is reopened for use in housing or servicing inmates.
(7) "One-time cost impact" shall mean an economic impact experienced by a political subdivision associated with locating an additional correctional facility within its boundaries or associated with such other event specifically designated by the legislature.
(8) "Inmate family" shall mean the inmate's dependent children, the inmate's spouse or state registered domestic partner or parent and their dependents, or the legal guardian of the inmate's dependent children who were not residents of the local county where the inmate is incarcerated prior to the incarceration of the inmate.
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How to use this Dictionary. In: Rogers G. Rogers G Ed. Glenn Rogers.eds. English-Spanish Medical Dictionary New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; . http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2248&sectionid=174576329. Accessed April 19, 2019.
. "How to use this Dictionary." English-Spanish Medical Dictionary Rogers G. Rogers G Ed. Glenn Rogers. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, , http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2248&sectionid=174576329.
For easy reference this guide is organized according to the different possible parts of a dictionary entry in the order in which they appear.
Entry-terms are listed in alphabetical order and are bolded. For the purpose of alphabetization, punctuation marks and spaces are ignored. Alphabetization of the Spanish-English side is identical to that of the English-Spanish side save for the inclusion of the letter ñ, which immediately follows n.
For terms with multiple meanings only those meanings relevant to medicine are translated. For instance, under throw the reader will find to throw up and to throw one’s back out, but not the usual meaning of the word throw.
Chemical names consisting of more than one word are alphabetized according to the first word of the term. Also alphabetized this way are terms, such as black widow, which have meanings different from the sum of their parts. Other terms consisting of more than one word can generally be found as sub-entries under the dominant word of the term, usually a noun. This system lends itself to lists; for example, all the syndromes are listed under syndrome and all the arteries are listed under artery.
Abbreviations immediately follow the term they abbreviate and are enclosed in parentheses. English abbreviations are often used for Spanish terms; for example, INR is used far more often than RNI to abbreviate razón normalizada internacional. Where an abbreviation appears for an English term but not its Spanish counterpart, it can be assumed that the English abbreviation is the one most commonly used.
Notations of grammatical category are italicized abbreviations which indicate the part of speech, number (singular or plural), and gender of the word they follow. Their meanings can be found in the "List of Abbreviations" that follows. The two that might give readers trouble are mf, which applies to Spanish nouns such as cardiólogo -ga, which are masculine or feminine according to context, and m&f, which applies to certain Spanish nouns, such as enzima, which may be treated as either masculine or feminine, irrespective of context.
For English entries these include comparatives formed other than by adding -er or -r, superlatives formed other than by adding -est or -st, plurals formed other than by adding -s or -es, preterites and past participles formed other than by adding -d or -ed, and gerunds formed other than by adding -ing (possibly after dropping a silent e).
For Spanish entries these include plurals formed other than by adding -es to a terminal consonant, plurals which involve a change in the location of an accent, plurals of nouns which end in an accented vowel, and past participles which have endings other than -ado or -ido.
In the first example, if you are already talking about a finger you could simply use dedo, but out of context dedo could mean toe in which case you would want to use the full translation: dedo de la mano. In the second example the parentheses indicate that sentido de equilibrio and sentido del equilibrio are both acceptable translations. In the third example se is required for the translation of adapt as an intransitive verb but not as a transitive verb. The fourth example is an economical way of demonstrating a pattern of translations. In the fifth example provocado is an alternative to inducido.
In the Spanish-English section of the dictionary indications of gender are included in the notations of grammatical category. In the English-Spanish section indications of gender follow the first appearance of a noun translation which is not a masculine noun ending in o or a feminine noun ending in a. This rule does not apply if the gender of the noun is evident from a modifying adjective.
operate vt, vi operar; to operate machinery..operar maquinaria...We need to operate on your leg..Tenemos que operarle (de) la pierna.
Dashes are not used to replace the entry-term when the entry-term is pluralized, inflected, or combined with another term by a hyphen. Sub-entries are listed in alphabetical order save that plurals are treated as though they were singular.

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While it’s not the most glamorous construction project, the state Department of Transportation says it’s something that needs fixing.
No, we’re not talking about something on the scale of four Route 8/25 bridges in Bridgeport that were demolished and erected over just one summer.
It’s the replacement of old sign supports that hold up those large green signs that direct us at intersections and exits.
“The new sign supports are necessary because the old sign supports have reached the end of their life expectancy. The new supports will comply with the latest state and federal standards,” DOT says.
DOT It is anticipated that the majority of the work can be accomplished utilizing short-term lane and shoulder closures.

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Former Indigenous Curator, Māori Art Ngahiraka Mason, Fred Graham, Peggy Nepia, Elizabeth Ellis, Gallery Director Rhana Devenport, Lisa Reihana, Mere Lodge and Selwyn Murupaenga.
The Gallery's Māori Advisory Group Haerewa was established in 1994.
'Haerewa' translates as the 'first cut' of the tāmoko (tattoo) artist, and taking this name equates the group with cutting-edge activities.
Comprising pre-eminent Māori artists, academics and cultural figures, Haerewa is a voice for Māori artists and Māori art. The group's aim is to provide cultural advice to the Gallery, to raise the profile of Māori in the Gallery and to foster an environment that encourages Māori to use and enjoy the Gallery.
Over the last two decades Haerewa has played a vital role in the Gallery's life. Its members have been instrumental in the establishment of the role of Indigenous Curator, Māori Art; have generously taken on the roles of kaumatua (the late Arnold Wilson) and kuia (foundation chair, Elizabeth Ellis, CNZM); and have provided support for major exhibitions of Māori art, including Korurangi (1995), Goldie (1997), Hotere (1998), Purangiaho (2001), Te Hei Tiki (2005), Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke! (2008), Modern Māori (2011) and Five Māori Painters (2014).
Haerewa member Bernard Makoare was Māori design consultant to the Gallery's redevelopment project, from which emerged the innovative ‘Māori dimension’ of the new building – a group of three permanent artworks commissioned from Arnold Manaaki Wilson with Anthony Wilson, Fred Graham and Lonnie Hutchinson, which are found at the principal internal and external thresholds of the Gallery.
In 2014, members of Haerewa travelled to Berlin, Germany to represent Māori and the Gallery at the opening ceremonies of Gottfried Lindauer: The Māori Portraits at Alte Nationalgalerie. In May 2015, representatives travelled to Pilsen, Czech Republic for the exhibition Gottfried Lindauer: Pilsen Painter of the New Zealand Māori at the Gallery of West Bohemia.
Elizabeth Ellis is dedicated to promoting, developing and supporting Māori through education and the arts. She trained at Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland and is chair of Haerewa. She has held trustee positions on the New Zealand Arts Foundation for seven years, CNZ Council for three years and Chair of Te Waka Toi, the Māori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand for nine years (1994–2006). She is Chair of the Hundertwasser and Wairau Maori Art Gallery, Māori Advisory Panel and she has been a Life Member of the Auckland Institute and Museum since 1964. Elizabeth is the chair of the Toi Iho Charitable Trust.
Fred Graham is an extraordinary tohunga and contemporary sculptor. He is highly regarded as an important contemporary Māori artist. His paintings and sculptural works are many and varied. Fred was part of the close collective of Māori artists who explored ways of blending traditional Māori art with contemporary European modernism in the 1960s. At the same time he worked as an art advisor and specialist in schools in the Rotorua and Northland regions of New Zealand and was eventually involved in teacher training. He has participated in major art exhibitions in the USA, Canada and the Pacific. Fred is Te Ara Whakarei, a Lifetime Member of Toi Iho, the trademark of authenticity and quality Māori art.
Dr Patu Hohepa is a retired Professor of Māori language at The University of Auckland, former Māori Language Commissioner of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and a highly respected academic. He has dedicated more than 50 years of his life researching, developing, lecturing and advocating for the revitalisation of te reo Māori. He works tirelessly for hapū and iwi Māori. He is a member of numerous educational trusts and roopu. He was a member of Te Waka Toi and is on the Hundertwasser and Wairau Maori Art Gallery, Māori Advisory Panel. He has lectured, presented papers and travelled widely, nationally and internationally promoting indigenous linguistic issues, politics, history and culture. Patu is a powerful voice of Te Kotahitanga hapū of Ngāpuhi and Te Tai Tokerau.
Mere was educated in Ruatoria and then was taught in her final year by Selwyn Wilson and her sister Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira at Northland College. She attended Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland and trained as a secondary school art teacher. She was a Māori arts educator of Te Reo Māori at Epsom Teacher Training, Auckland. She has supported the Gallery by engaging with the Māori community through research and gaining permissions from the many descendants of both Goldie and Lindauer portrait sitters. She has been a member of Haerewa since its inception in 1994.
Bernard Makoare is currently Project Manager, Ngati Whatua Heru Hapai: Te Runanga o Ngāti Whatua and Secretary of Tama te Uaua marae, Kaihu. He is a newly appointed to Puatatangi Committee of Toi Māori Creative New Zealand. He is an artist, designer and musician. Bernard is Te Ara Whakarei, a Lifetime Member of Toi Iho, the trademark of authenticity and quality Māori art.
Lisa Reihana is a dynamic multi-disciplinary artist who has had a leading role in the development of film and multimedia art in Aotearoa New Zealand. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has won a number of prestigious residencies. She attended Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland and completed a Masters in Design from the School of Visual Art and Design, UNITEC in 2014. Lisa is Te Ara Whakarei, a Lifetime Member of Toi Iho, the trademark of authenticity and quality Māori art.


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Here are contemporary beach art and famous beach paintings by top artists such as Renoir and Manet. Standouts include Renoir's seascape paintings of waves and a sunset at sea from 1879 and 1882, respectively. Only the master could move blues and yellows across the surface of his beach oil painting such as these. A selection of Manet's seascapes spans seventeen years, beginning with an 1864 view of The Lighthouse at Honfleur. Whether it's moonlight, kids playing on beach, the deck of a ship in sea, or a boat being tarred on seashore, your eyes will feast on an astonishing range of beach paintings at Toperfect.
Blending land with the wide open sea, coastal paintings catches the beauty of the two meeting as one. Artists have the choice of making the water or the land the main focus, leading to some very beautiful coastal paintings. The coastline is also a place that can have a lot of human or seaside action, leading to unlimited possibilities with how coastal oil paintings look. Specific coasts can be used like the ones in America or New Zealand, with a large amount of colors going into both. With the blending of colors from both land and sea, coastal paintings can really turn into something special. -- The Copyright of Scripts is Reserved by Toperfect.
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Happiness is a blank canvas waiting for that first pencil mark or stroke of a paintbrush. Whatever your desired medium or level of expertise, we have the best artist canvas for your needs. Cotton canvas is fantastic for a wide range of purposes and is especially suited for acrylic and oil paints. For more professional use we’d recommend linen artist canvas, and for watercolour we offer a great selection of canvas board. All of our artist canvas comes in many different sizes, from some of the best brands including Winsor & Newton, Reeves and Johanna Basford. All of our artist canvas comes in many different sizes, including A1, A2, A3 and A4. Our range of artist canvas includes blank canvas boards and pads, canvas rolls, framed canvas and stretched canvas. Start browsing our artist canvases now from leading brands like Winsor & Newton, Reeves and Johanna Basford.
Perfect for the artist on the go, our selection of canvas boards and pads come in a variety of sizes to suit your next creation. Whether you’re looking for a ready-to-use canvas pad for painting in the studio or on location, or you’re fond of using watercolours on a sturdy canvas board, our range is ideal for any medium, including acrylics and oils. Our range includes linen canvas boards and canvas pads and from leading manufacturers like Schmincke, Loxley and Fredrix.
If you love the process of stretching your own canvas before creating your masterpiece, we have a great range of canvas rolls to suit your needs. We stock primed and unprimed canvas rolls available in cotton and linen, made from high quality and tightly woven fibres, allowing you to stretch effortlessly and use with all media. For some artists, beginning a project with a canvas roll and going through the stretching process only enhances the sense of achievement upon completion of a work of art. View our range of canvas rolls today to get started!
The colouring-in craze has taken the world by storm! Our varied range of colouring-in canvas is perfect for anyone looking to create a beautiful and vibrant work of art with markers, pens or paint. With individual print designs available from Johanna Basford for a more advanced project to packs containing designs perfect for children, our selection of quality colouring-in canvas offers something for everyone!
With different sizes of stretched cotton canvas available, you can be sure we can provide everything. Our cotton canvas products are high-quality to make sure that you have the best materials when working on your art project. Cotton canvas is perfect for all kinds of paint and is the surface of choice for most artists. Our products include a variety of cotton canvas sizes from some of the biggest brands such as Winsor & Newton and Reeves. Cotton canvas is an affordable option and is suitable for beginners and expert painters alike.


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Stephen Warbeck’s is one of the the most successful British composers working in film today. His many credits include Shakespeare in Love (Miramax), for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Score; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Working Title/Universal), Billy Elliott (Tiger Aspect/Working Title), Birthday Girl (Portobello Films/Film Four/Miramax), Quills (Industry Entertainment/Fox Searchlight), Mrs Brown (Ecosse Films/Miramax) and My Son the Fanatic (BBC/Zephyr Films/Miramax).
Among Stephen's most recent TV works are The Dresser, starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, for the BBC and Channel 4's prestigious 10-part drama, Indian Summers, while his most recent film scores include Hampstead (Ecosse Films), The Time Of Their Lives (Bright Pictures), Mon Roi (Les Productions des Trésor), Keeping Rosy (Air Productions/Redemption Films) and Seve (Renaissance Films).
“The Time of Their Lives” released in UK cinemas March 2017, with score by Stephen Warbeck.


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(February 17, Orlando, FL) – The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra invites you to join in celebration of the upcoming 25th Anniversary Season Announcement on Saturday, March 4 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., before both Irish Romance concerts at Bob Carr Theater at 401 W. Livingston Street, Orlando.
This event includes a preview of the 2017/2018 Season’s Classics, Pops, and Focus (chamber orchestra), which will be announced by Executive Director Christopher Barton and Music Director Eric Jacobsen.
The events begin at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. with concerts to follow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Bob Carr Theater. Attendees to the season announcement must have a ticket to enter the building. The Bob Carr Box Office opens two hours prior to concerts and doors will open shortly before the season preview announcement.
The announcement will also be live streamed via Facebook Live on the Philharmonic’s page at 7 p.m.
About Irish Romance: The Philharmonic takes a musical journey to the dramatic culture and rich history that is Ireland. Conducted by Eric Jacobsen and joined by TRÍ – The New Irish Tenors, the Philharmonic will transport you to this epic land of beautiful landscapes and legendary love stories through brilliant live music, showcasing traditional Irish tunes like “Danny Boy,” “Red is the Rose,” and “The Rocky Road to Dublin.” Concerts will be held on Saturday, March 4 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Bob Carr Theater located at 401 W. Livingston Street, Orlando.
David O’Leary is from County Wexford, Ireland and has established himself as one of Ireland’s leading young tenors.
While studying voice privately in Dublin and London, David attended university at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he studied Law and French. While in Ireland, David learned in the national media, that NUI Galway would host a gala dinner in honor of President Clinton at the Metropolitan Club in NYC. This performance for former President Clinton had a major impact on David and his ambitions. An avid consumer of political news, David quickly identified as a motivating goal: Move to the United States and work toward performing for the President of the United States. After a lot of hard work, he had the honor of being the sole performer at the Friends of Ireland Luncheon in the U.S. Capitol for an audience including President Obama, Vice-President Biden and Speaker Boehner.
In Ireland, David has performed at major events including the 2013 All-Ireland Football Semi- Final at Croke Park, Dublin, in front of a stadium crowd of 83,000 and worldwide TV audience. He has also performed for the Munster Rugby team at Thomond Park, Limerick.
A versatile and much sought after artist, David maintains a busy national and international schedule and is delighted to be performing with Karl and Michael.
Dame), their most recent concert was filmed for PBS’s Great American Songbook Concert Series at NJPAC and aired in the summer of 2016.
Karl Scully is a classical tenor in demand. He played the role of Count John McCormack in the cinematic film Nora, by Pat Murphy and Gerard Stembridge, starring Ewan McGregor. His on screen success is matched by his live stage performances in such operatic roles as: Don Jose in Carmen by Bizet; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly; The Duke in Rigoletto; The Witch in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck; MacHeath in Beggars Opero; Albert in Albert Herring, by Benjamin Britten; King Ouf in L’etoile by Chabrier; Paolino in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa; Ferrando, in Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart; and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. During his time in Italy, Karl was a permanent artist in the Teatro Carlo Felice Opera House in Genoa. While there he performed solo roles alongside world famous artists including Samuel Ramey, Robert Brubaker, and Dwayne Croft.
Currently, the busy Mr. Scully is juggling his classical career demands. Karl Scully is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is a recipient of the Liberace Scholarship and the Mae Zenke Orvis Endowed Opera Scholarship.


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Some of history’s most profound thinkers spent their lives trying to define it. Google is home to literally thousands of quotes about it. And how can we forget the lovable view of Forrest Gump himself who coined the famous idea that it’s like a box of chocolates?
Life. From the ground up, the one thing most people agree on is it’s a gift. And that maybe Forrest Gump was right that you just don’t know what you’re gonna get. Why?
Because ultimately it’s what you do with this life that matters. You encounter choices from the moment you wake up in the morning to the second your eyes close at night. And, aside from religious beliefs, values and laws, there’s no road map.
To create is to live, and to live is to constantly redefine what matters in life. For many of us that is a process that begins where the heart is.
At The Parker Fulton Market, we seek to redefine what matters right along with you.
We offer luxury throughout our community, including designer finishes, a resort-like feel, and all the comforts any home should have.
We redefine community inside and out, offering residents impressive finishes with plenty of room to make yourself at home.
We focus on convenience in a world where it’s no longer a luxury – it’s a way of life.
We offer our residents the chance to not only love where they live, but to explore ways to make to-do lists into something fun.
We seek to offer only the best in quality, craftsmanship, and authenticity through our unique, modern styling and approach to service.
And most importantly, we are home to our residents and that is not an honor we take lightly.
Because we agree wholeheartedly that while life may be like a box of chocolates, we know you’ll only get the best at The Parker Fulton Market, where we aim to create the ultimate luxury apartment living experience.
And ultimately that is what luxury living is all about: living your best life and loving where you live.
For more information, or to schedule a showing, call (312) 600-4250 or visit us online.


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In this situation the authority said it intended to use the power that would be granted to it in the currently draft legislation published by the Treasury to ensure that firms and other entities did not "generally" need to prepare now to meet changes to their obligations connected to Brexit.
The temporary transitional power would give the FCA the ability to delay or to phase in changes to regulatory requirements for a period of two years from exit day, currently scheduled for 29 March 2019.
Despite this, the FCA said there were a number of areas where firms did need to begin preparations for the UK's withdrawal from the EU, as it would not be consistent with its statutory objectives to grant transitional relief.
These areas include changes to the UK’s transaction reporting regime under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). This also affects European Economic Area (EEA) firms which operate in the UK through the temporary permissions regime which would take effect if the UK leaves the EU without an implementation period in place and the passporting regime ceases.
Also from exit day, all firms and central counterparties who enter into derivatives transactions that fall within the scope of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) will have to report into a UK-registered trade repository.
EEA entities that have securities admitted to trading or traded on UK markets will be required to submit information to the FCA and disclose certain information to the market, from the day of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Any firm which wants to carry on using the exemption for market-making activities under the EU's Short Selling Regulation is to be required to join a UK trading venue and notify the FCA of its intention to use the market maker exemption 30 days ahead of their intended use.
Users of credit ratings must also prepare ahead of exit day, as from that time all ratings will need to be issued or endorsed by a credit ratings agency established in the UK and registered with the FCA for them to be eligible for regulatory use. However ratings issued or endorsed in the EU before exit by an agency with an affiliate registered or currently applying for registration with the FCA may be used for regulatory purposes in the UK for up to one year after exit.
Finally, UK originators or sponsors will have to send notifications to the FCA from exit day for any UK securitisations which they wish to be considered simple, transparent, and standardised under the Securitisation Regulation. According to the regulator, UK originators, sponsors or securitisation special purpose entities which use a third-party verifier (TPV) to assess compliance with the criteria will only be able to use a TPV established in the UK and authorised by the FCA.
The FCA said it expected firms and other regulated entities to undertake "reasonable steps" to comply with changes by exit day.
"We are conscious of the scale, complexity, and magnitude of some of these changes and consequently intend to act proportionately," the regulatory statement said.
"This means that, in the event that the UK leaves the EU without an implementation period, we will not take a strict liability approach and do not intend to take enforcement action against firms and other regulated entities for not meeting all requirements straight away, where there is evidence they have taken reasonable steps to prepare to meet the new obligations by exit day," the FCA said.
FCA executive director of international Nausicaa Delfas said: "The temporary transitional power is an important part of our contingency planning. In the event that the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, it gives us the flexibility to allow firms and other regulated persons to phase in the regulatory changes that would need to be made as a result of 'onshored' EU legislation. This will give firms certainty, ensure continuity, and reduce the risk of disruption.
"There are some areas such as reporting rules under MiFID II, where it would not be appropriate to provide a phase-in, as receiving these reports is crucial to our ability to ensure market oversight and the integrity of financial markets. In these areas only, we expect firms and other regulated persons to begin preparing to comply with the changes now," Delfas said.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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FAIRBANKS—The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved new regulations for the way utilities buy electricity from smaller-scale, independent power producers, including a Delta Junction wind farm in a pricing dispute for several years with Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks.
Set to go into effect statewide this spring, the regulations adopted Friday are the result of complaints against Golden Valley filed with the commission by Mike Craft, who owns the Delta wind farm under the business name Alaska Environmental Power.
The regulatory commission’s updated regulations change how electric utilities measure their costs in relation to what they pay small, qualifying power producers like Alaska Environmental Power. And if a dispute arises, the utility must show the commission how it calculated its costs.
Utilities in Alaska have used an annual average to determine whatever savings they might get by buying supplemental power from independent producers, compared to generating or buying power from all sources over the entire year. Among other factors, that annual avoided cost is how utilities determined the rate to pay the smaller-scale power producers, whose capacity to generate power might fluctuate according to the wind.
The updated regulations direct utilities to calculate the rates they pay independent producers using what is called “incremental avoided cost.” That means the amount an independent producer gets paid will be based on how much the utility is paying to generate or buy power right at the time the independent is displacing that cost, which can change daily or hourly.
The new regulations are set to go into effect April 1, pending approval by the state Department of Law and, ultimately, the governor’s office. There also is the possibility of an appeal.
The association’s director, Duff Mitchell, said the new regulations will provide more certainty for anyone hoping to invest in independent renewable energy projects, who might be seeking loans, because the utilities will be under more pressure to buy their power at a reasonable rate.
Changing the regulations also will bring Alaska in line with federal guidelines for renewable power generation already in place in the rest of the United States, Mitchell said. It is a large step away from “state overreach” that is discriminating against upstart renewable projects, he said.
It also amounts to vindication for those running existing projects that want to expand and sell more power to utilities, Mitchell said, including Craft and his wind farm in Delta.
For years, Craft has wanted to install more turbines and expand the two-megawatt wind farm to a 25-megawatt farm, but he and Golden Valley failed to reach a deal on the price the utility would pay for the additional capacity. Craft said the utility favored its own 25-megawatt wind farm at Eva Creek and was unwilling to fairly negotiate with him for the power from Delta, which he felt could have worked well in tandem with the Eva Creek farm.
For its part, Golden Valley officials said Craft and Alaska Environmental Power wanted to lock the nonprofit power cooperative into paying a rate that was too high and could cause members’ bills to increase. Wind power also needs to be backed up by diesel generators – more expensive than coal, the utility’s main source of power generation – because wind can drop off faster than a coal power plant can adjust to pick up the extra load, according to Golden Valley.
Still, Golden Valley’s avoided cost calculations, and therefore the amount they offered for outside wind power, were artificially low, Craft said.
“It’s a bunch of smoke and mirrors. It always has been,” Craft said.
Craft filed his initial complaint with the regulatory commission in 2010, following up with additional filings in 2012 and 2013. The regulatory commission effectively delivered Craft a win Friday after public comment periods and consideration by the Department of Law, according to the commission’s order to adopt the new regulations.
Shortly after the Friday order, Craft started talks to buy more wind turbines to install in Delta, something he said he has wanted to do for seven years, adding that his construction projects have used mostly local labor.
Craft said he had to admit that he is more prepared now to expand the wind farm than he was before, having fought for expansion over the years.
Golden Valley President and CEO Cory Borgeson described the process as “probably healthy” for everyone involved.
The utility co-op had been following the regulations that were in place and disagreed with characterizations that it had been too resistant in negotiations with Craft.
Golden Valley had already budgeted $120,000 to install new software that, among other abilities, will allow it to calculate incremental cost avoidance, and there may be added personnel expenses needed to analyze the data, Borgeson said.
There could also be more pressure on utilities to make deals with independent power producers, but whether the new regulations result in higher rates for the producers is yet to be seen, Borgeson said.
Golden Valley has welcomed deals to buy power from independents, Borgeson said. He pointed to efforts to purchase hydroelectric and wind power outside Interior Alaska and Golden Valley’s SNAP program – short for Sustainable Natural Alternative Power – which offers incentives to homeowners who produce more solar or wind power than their homes use.
Ultimately, Golden Valley is trying to keep rates low for its members, Borgeson said. That, he said, is an important part of the regulations: Changes cannot cause rates to increase for consumers.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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This WW1 novel is a best-selling novel about war and peace at Harvard University before and after the Great War. It’s based on the true-story of the building of Harvard’s Memorial Church and a controversial, mysterious Latin war memorial in the church.
The novel was a new release nationwide at Barnes & Noble and at Books-a-Million. It was an Amazon #1 best-seller (military fiction), and, as HARVARD 1914, #5 on Kindle. A copy of the cover of HARVARD 1914 is framed in the Harvard Club of New York City’s Class of 1914 room.
Literary Housewife: “This book captivated my heart in so many parts and truly, I could not put it down. There wasn’t a character I didn’t like or relate to. I loved the subtle humor and camaraderie between them as well….Oh I loved this novel. Set in Cambridge, MA and Belgium, your heart will love and break when you read The End of Innocence.
“How often can we say that read a great book today? One that made us think and feel, that made us a better person — perhaps more tolerant, more forgiving — for having read it? The End of Innocence is such a saga, a powerful story that opens on the eve of World War I at Harvard University in 1914.
A peace treaty may stop a war, but it cannot heal wounds. These unhealed wounds can create cycles of violence in families, communities, and countries that pass through generations. People come to believe, “That’s just how the world is.” It takes a special moment to interrupt this thinking.
I grew up in a family with some who experienced deep wounds from poverty and war (both Vietnam and generationally from the U.S. Civil War). In contrast, some of my Alabama schoolteachers had worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr and had a different approach to heartbreak and loss. They focused on reconciliation and building bridges to the future. These two approaches collided in my own life on September 20, 1989. That night my best friend was murdered by my college teacher and coach. It was called the crime of the decade in Alabama.
In this experience I learned that death is a singular event. How we piece things back together is part of our becoming beautifully human. Could I, like my teachers, reconcile with my enemy? What would I do with my anger and grief? Would I become stuck like beloved members of my own family?
Over on the North Wall, in the far back is a plaque in Latin, which most of you will be unable to read. In translation it says this, “Harvard University has not forgotten its sons, who under opposite colors also gave their lives in the Great War.” And then there are listed four German members of the University who died in the service of the Kaiser in the First World War. This is one of the more extraordinary memorials in this church. You will notice that it is separated by a vast acreage from the memorial to the war dead of the first War in the Memorial Room. This was a controversial matter in 1932 when this church was built. And the University authorities said that they could not in good conscience include the war dead of the enemy in the same place as the war dead of the Allies. And it was my predecessor, the Chairman of the Board of Preachers, Willard Sperry, who with his colleagues said this is wrong. “We cannot contravene the President and Fellows of Harvard College, who are we against them?” But we could improve upon their narrow vision and in this church we shall remember them. And we did and we do and there they are. A reminder of the fact that humanity transcends the sides and there are no victors ultimately; there are only those to be commended to God.
Over the next few years I walked by the plaque and thought about the people it represented. I thought about my own journey. I decided to write a novel set in the elegant era of Harvard at the start of World War I.
The novel took me 21 years to bring to life. I had to experience life’s difficulties, wrestle with the big questions and see how different communities responded to them. Only then could I write with authenticity about what it means to fight for joy and to truly overcome.
In closing I’ll write about one character who embodied so much of what is good in the world. I loved exploring the character of Professor Copeland, the professor everyone dreams they’d have had at Harvard but probably didn’t. It allowed me to redeem my own Harvard experience, and I suspect many others will find this true. Copeland’s character in the book is based on historical fact, and also on Peter Gomes, a witty and gifted preacher who, in one of his few televised appearances, got the best of Stephen Colbert.
This is the ultimate message of THE END OF INNOCENCE: even if the worst has happened, there can still be wonderful, marvelous life. This is a message to celebrate.


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HYFN is a full-service digital ad agency, co-founded by entrepreneur Morgan Harris in 2000, with a mission to deliver sophisticated solutions and quality service. Today, they’ve expanded from two partners based in L.A. to around 100 team members across five major US cities. HYFN specializes in developing creative and UX strategy, websites, social ad solutions and media campaigns. With an award-winning team and a free-spirited way of merging work and play, their business is booming.
Pipefy has been a part of HYFN’s routine since October of 2015, working as a solution to support their sales team throughout the presales process.
Before bringing Pipefy into their business, the group over at HYFN relied on online spreadsheets and documents to control these processes, but couldn’t find a way to create standards everyone had to follow— a problem easily solved by setting up phases with required fields on Pipefy.
Their process lacked a certain amount of control and accountability, so they started looking for a tool that offered this in addition to an easily navigable interface. They found that and much more on Pipefy, and have been avid users since.
Pipefy allowed HYFN to create the standards they needed to unite all of the information gathered by the sales team, which was previously spread across different applications, in a single, easy to use platform.
Using Pipefy has allowed HYFN to reduce their response time and improve the way they share knowledge and information among their teams. Pipefy’s centralized and transparent interface allows all team members to clearly see the processes with all existing information, urgency/priority, etc. After implementing the solution, HYFN’s were able to better understand the way their processes work saving time, and organizing the business better.
In the pre-Pipefy era, the sales team at HYFN had a hard time visualizing their presales process as a whole, and how it integrated into the actual sales process.
People also had the terrible habit of picking and choosing what information they wanted to fill in when creating a new lead, which led to a lot of incomplete information, re-work and a loss of efficiency.
They’d tried using other software alternatives before, such as Jira, but they just couldn’t find one that fit their needs in allowing the creation of required fields, and that gave a clear, transparent view of the process to everyone.
That is until they found Pipefy, of course. Pipefy’s ease of use and friendly interface allowed for the entire platform to be implemented at HYFN in just a couple of days with the help of Pipefy’s Knowledge Base Videos.
Interviewee: Lauren Ancy, Integrated Marketing Supervisor.

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We don’t do Easter Baskets.
I know that some people may be bothered by that, but guess who isn’t: Our children.
So, if you are reading this as a young parent and you don’t have massive gift-giving traditions in place, take some advice: don’t start them.
The easiest thing as a new parent is to start out gifting simply.
Of course, we want to lavish our children in gifts, it’s fun for us! But as the years go by and more and more clutter builds up in the children’s room and overflows through the rest of the house, it gets overwhelming. So if you are at the beginning and have the opportunity to set the tone for the rest of the gift-giving days of childhood: keep it simple.
Now, if your children are older and accustomed to getting large Easter Baskets of goodies, there is still hope! Start off with talking to your kids about your thoughts and what they can expect.
Experience gifts are the most clutter-free gifts that you can give.
Give tickets for a concert, sports events or a special movie they’ve been wanting to see. Go together. Spending time with your children is the best present you can give.
For our family, we have Easter traditions that don’t involve gifts. The older kids have never complained, the younger ones don’t know any different. To them, Easter is very exciting!
In the morning we attend church, read over the resurrection story from the Bible with the kids and talk about how amazing it is that God would prove His love to us and how we can trust Him in such a way.
In the afternoon, Grandparents join us for a meal, where we crack red eggs together (this is seriously their favorite tradition of all the holidays), we always eat Greek Easter Bread, and yes, they do get chocolate from grandma. Then Dad and the older kids hide eggs. We pack the eggs with coins rather than candy and once all the eggs are found, the kids sit and count the money before putting it into their piggy banks.
One year I split up a Lego set and put it in eggs, which worked great, except for the lego pieces I found the following year when I pulled out our plastic eggs again (we reuse the eggs every year).
It’s really quite a simple holiday for us and we all enjoy it.
How do you maintain a clutter-free Easter holiday?
That’s great to have useful items in there, I don’t blame them for not wanting to give it up! Definitely a good option for those who need to/or still want to do baskets. Thanks Jill.
I’ve never heard of Easter baskets being a thing before, at least not ones with stuff rather than eggs. As a kid we always had chocolate eggs, sometimes in a container of sorts in our room or hidden around the house. I’ve always hidden them for my son, spending a few minutes letting him search and then starting warmer/colder for the tricky ones. Zero clutter, small amount of rubbish.
I have to admit I was shocked during one of my firsts Easter’s as a parent to see my fb news feed filled with my peers giving over the top (imo) baskets for Easter. It was not like that at my house growing up at all so I was confused. Easter was mostly a bit of candy and a small toy.
I stick with a new Easter dress (which adds to their church clothes for the year). When we lived in the UK there was a Christian charity that sold chocolate eggs and they had a great booklet inside about the real meaning of Easter. So they got a chocolate egg, some jelly beans and then usually a book which talks about Jesus and the meaning behind Easter. So far we have stayed clear of gifts since the greatest gift of Easter is Jesus. Now that the girls are old enough we will probably make Empty Tomb cinnamon rolls.
I do love our actual Easter baskets though. They are pop up so during the rest of the year they are easily stored flat.
Do you have a recipe for the empty tomb cinnamon rolls? Tell me more, please.
Check allrecipes.com for resurrection rolls. Or do a google search resurrection rolls.
Love this! Now to get my extended family on board! Every holiday or family get together is an excuse to give my 2 year old gifts. He is the only grandson on my husband side of the family and the baby of the family on my side of the family. I’ve told the families many times how we want to live more simply, but it hasn’t worked. I usually end up donating or returning the things they give me. Any advise or previous articles that addresses this or that I could send their way? Thank you!!!
Hope they give some help!
The tradition on the Isle of Man is to have contests to see whose decorated boiled egg will roll the farthest down the hill. Seriously we take a picnic to the park with other families and chuck eggs down the hills. The birds and the kids love it.
We also have an egg hunt in our living room with little chocolates and Marzipan. I hate storing the little plastic eggs every year so we make little bunny containers out of half a toilet roll. When the day is done the bunnies are recycled, marzipan is eaten and the chocolates are mostly forgotten about.
Cat, I would love to hear how you make your toilet roll bunnies. I have been using plastic eggs so I can buy bulk vegetarian jelly beans to hide (and produce no waste), but I would love to not have to store them or use any plastic at all.
The egg hill rolling idea is fantastic, but i am not sure the weather in Canada will work for this as it is usually cold and mucky, SOMETIMES A LITTLE SNOWY. I think i might tRY TO give it a go with my l.o. next year anyway!
We’ve lately coloured eggs with natural dyes that we’ve made from BOILING whatever we have at the time (cabbage, coffee, beets, onions ETC,). The process of seeing what colour they will make is half the fun! eVERYTHING IS COMPOSTED AFTER, EGGS ARE EATEN AND THERE IS NOTHING TO STORE!
Also, accidentally hit the all-caps. Sorry, I Didn’t mean to yell those lines!
We sat down this year and talked with our kids (ages 13, 10 and 9) about what they want vs. what they need. As a family, we decided to plan a family day to a local aquarium. We’ve been putting this off for a few years because of the expense, but those Easter baskets added up, too. We are really looking forward to this time together, and making memories as a family.
Great post Rachel! No Easter baskets for us this year either…going on a family vacation and spending quality time together over Easter. My favorite gift is the gift of experience!
At our house we do an activity that our kids would be sad to see go because they think it’s so much fun even when they’re pushing 20! I hide plastic eggs (that are color coded for each child) that each have a paper piece with a single letter written on them. They have to find all the eggs first, unscramble the letters which tell them where their gift is located. For example, “pantry” etc. Then they have to search further for their gift, which is usually around $5 of Easter treats. Our church has an Easter breakfast followed by a Resurrection service. And yes, they love to sit around the tables catching up with their friends as well! Later we go to grandma and grandpa’s farm for a family gathering.
I know I’m late to this party, but I really love what you’ve said here. We fill hollow eggs with paper confetti and the kids smash them on each others’ heads, after the egg hunt. The paper decomposes in the yard. I give them an Easter basket every year, with another hollow egg that I have filled with melted bulk chocolate (I bake it first, to make sure it’s sterile), coupons good for getting out of chores, new tights, fun socks, and seasonal needs/wants. One year it was gloves for Easter service. I don’t use special baskets, just ones we use around the house.
I really love reading everyone’s ways of celebrating. I especially like the egg rolling — if the weather cooperates, we might try that one here this year.
We usually give beach buckets, sidewalk chalk, stuffed animal bunny, and chocolate bunny.
I usually toss out the bunny from the year before, but this year I’m skipping the stuff animal. They do add to the clutter.
I like the book idea.


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CubCrafters announced a change in senior leadership today as it continues to advance the company’s plan for long-term growth. Patrick Horgan, CubCrafters’ executive in charge of operations and product development, has been named President. Horgan has recently focused on increasing the company’s manufacturing capability and productivity; this promotion reflects Horgan’s record of successes at the company.
CubCrafters’ previous President, Randy Lervold, began serving as General Manager in 2009, becoming president in 2015. He and Jim Richmond shared a vision to build more than just great backcountry aircraft. The real goal was to transform Jim’s Yakima startup into a leading manufacturer of General Aviation aircraft. Together, Lervold and Richmond developed a brand that is recognized worldwide and represents best-in-class STOL performance.
Good luck Randy. Welcome back to the west side. I’ll look you up at Dynon.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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High-level cushioning protects your feet from hard surfaces for miles on end and requires next to no transition time.
The go-to for runners looking to protect their feet, improve form and reduce impact over long distances.
For more experienced athletes or runners who want a fast, lightweight performance shoe.

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Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) kits for the detection of numerous antigens, proteins and peptides.
Wide range of high quality medical and laboratory equipment.
Life Science undergoes rapid changes in technology and method, so did we.
Mutiara Saintifik is a Malaysian based distributor of ELISA kit, Scientific Biochemical and Clinical Diagnostics. The company was founded in October 2006 by Mr Mhd Ezham in line with our expansion plan by staying focused in the life science industry and to have highly approached with the local scientific community and our dedicated suppliers.
Living a motto Your Research & Medical Partner, we aspire to be Number 1 provider of effective scientific solutions based on our wide coverage, in-depth industry knowledge and the ever dedicated sales team which is always there when you need them most.
We stock some of our products locally for your easy access.
We partnered with worldwide recognized Brands.
We are committed to provide you the best pricing available.
Wide selection of High Quality products for your research.

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Weekend breakfasts in a cafe on a canal.
The word I most often use to describe Amsterdam is “picturesque”.
St George kills the Dragon on the Herengracht.