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15 Best Kindle eBooks 2017
Nov 10, 2017 by Karthik in eBooks
Introducing new section today ! here is my list of best ebooks to read in various categories.This is my reading list,you can be sure that each one is fantastic and will be worth your time.As starting point,check out the below 15 Best Kindle eBooks.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele
#1.Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
#2.Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 1st , Kindle Edition
#3.The Theory Of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
#4.Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
#5.I Do What I Do
#7.The Power of Vedic Maths
#8.The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
#9.The Brain: The Story of You
#10.Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
#11.A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
#12.The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition (Oxford Landmark Science)
#13.Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
#14.Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
#15.Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact
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Microsoft's CEO tells t he inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies.
Hit Refresh is about individual change, the transformation happening inside Microsoft, and the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced – including artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It examines how people, organisations, and societies can and must transform, how they must 'hit refresh' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. Yet at its core, it's about humans and how one of our essential qualities – empathy – will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will alter the status quo as never before.
Satya Nadella is chief executive officer of Microsoft. Before being named CEO on February 4, 2014, he held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella serves on the board of trustees to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is married and has three children.
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: William Collins (26 September 2017)
Sold by: Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited
ASIN: B06XX4KH4R
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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.
We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?
In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.
Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history – from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age – and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world
'It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel
'I encourage all of us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments with present concerns, and not to be afraid of controversial issues.' Dr Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. His research focuses on broad questions, such as: What is the relation between history and biology? Is there justice in history? Did people become happier as history unfolded? 65,000 people have signed up to his online course, A Brief History of Humankind. Sapiens is an international bestseller and is being published in more than 30 languages worldwide. In 2012 Harari was awarded the annual Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.
Publisher: Vintage Digital; 01 edition (4 September 2014)
ASIN: B00K7ED54M
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Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world's greatest minds: a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine what's in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World.
Hawking presents a series of seven lec-tures—covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory—that capture not only the brilliance of Hawking's mind but his characteristic wit as well. Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, "It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar."
Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotle's determination that the Earth is round to Hubble's discovery, over 2000 years later, that the universe is expanding. Using that as a launching pad, he explores the reaches of modern physics, including theories on the origin of the universe (e.g., the big bang), the nature of black holes, and space-time.
Professor Stephen Hawking, a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, is the pre-eminent theoretical physicist in the world. His book A Brief History of Time was a phenomenal worldwide bestseller. He has twelve honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE and was made a Companion of Honour. He has three children and one grandchild.
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Michael York is Principal Lecturer, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, and Director of the Bath Archive for Contemporary Religious Affairs, Bath Spa University College, UK.
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House; 1 edition (1 January 2008)
ASIN: B008JZR5LA
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South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior.
The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties.
He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk's marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life …
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Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
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Publisher: Virgin Digital (21 May 2015)
ASIN: B00SIDCSWY
When Raghuram G. Rajan took charge as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013, the rupee was in free fall, inflation was high, India had a large current account deficit and India's exchange reserves were falling. As measure after measure failed to stabilize markets, speculators sensed a full-blown crisis and labelled India one of the Fragile Five economies. Rajan's response was to go all out, not just to tackle the crisis of confidence, but also to send a strong message about the strength of India's institutions and the country's ongoing programme of reform. He outlined a vision that went beyond the immediate crisis to focus on long-term growth and stability, thus restoring investor confidence. Boldness and farsightedness would be characteristic of the decisions he took in the ensuing three years. Rajan's commentary and speeches in I Do What I Do convey what it was like to be at the helm of the central bank in those turbulent but exciting times.
Whether on dosanomics or on debt relief, Rajan explains economic concepts in a readily accessible way. Equally, he addresses key issues that are not in any banking manual but essential to growth: the need for tolerance and respect to assure India's economic progress, for instance, or the connection between political freedom and prosperity. I Do What I Do offers a front-row view into the thinking of one of the world's most respected economists, one whose commitment to India's progress shines through in the essays and speeches here. It also brings home what every RBI Governor discovers for himself when he sits down at his desk on the 18th floor: the rupee stops here. Right here!
Publisher: HarperBusiness; 1 edition (25 September 2017)
ASIN: B074VZGMNT
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#6.When Breath Becomes Air
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's highest award for research.
His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.
Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
Publisher: Vintage Digital; 2 edition (4 February 2016)
ASIN: B0165X8WN2
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #129 Paid in Kindle Store
With Trigonometry Vedic mathematics is gaining widespread popularity among the student community as well as maths lovers. The absence of a book, explaining the techniques in a simple language, has been felt acutely for a long time. This book has been written using a step-by-step approach, and attempts to fill the existing void. It includes several solved problems in addition to 1000 practice problems with answers. It also includes a special chapter which shows the application of the techniques to problems set in competitive exams like CAT, CET etc.
People from all walks of life including school and college students, teachers, parents and also those from non-mathematical areas of study will discover the joys of solving mathematical problems using the wonderful set of techniques called Vedic Maths.
Atul Gupta is an author, practitioner of the Vedic maths, and works in the field of software development. The books written by the author cover a wide range of topics. Some of them are Information Technology (For C.A. PCC/IPCC-Group II), Asp.net 4 Social Networking, and Illegal Insider Trading: Is it rampant before corporate takeovers?.
He graduated with a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is presently the Principal Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Technologies Limited. He has been a part of the software industry for more than two decades, and has worked on COM, DCOM, C, C++, and NET. Gupta is the founder of the Achievers Academy, where he takes classes for Maths and Science. He also helps candidates prepare for competitive exams like CAT, AIEEE, and IIT-JEE. He conducts workshops at the Nehru Science Centre, and other educational institutions. He has been the recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 6 years in a row.
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House; 1 edition (4 February 2013)
ASIN: B008JZQRSC
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.
Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation's largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.
Charles Duhigg is an American Pulitzer prize winning staff writer at the New York Times. He studied at Yale and holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. Charles is also a frequent contributor to This American Life, NPR, PBS News Hour and the Frontline. He had a keen interest in observing Habits years ago when he worked as a reporter in Iraq.
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital (5 April 2012)
ASIN: B006WAIV6M
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'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.'
Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Actions as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books include: Live-Wired: The Shapeshifting Plasticity of the Brain; Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia; and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Canongate 2011). He is also the author of an internationally bestselling book of fiction, Sum: Tales from the Afterlives (Canongate 2009).
Publisher: Canongate Books; Main edition (5 November 2015)
ASIN: B00VKAZENW
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.
**From the author of the phenomenal million copy bestseller Sapiens**
**The Sunday Times #1 bestseller**
WAR IS OBSOLETE
You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict
FAMINE IS DISAPPEARING
You are at more risk of obesity than starvation
DEATH IS JUST A TECHNICAL PROBLEM
Equality is out, but immortality is in
WHAT DOES OUR FUTURE HOLD?
Dr Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from Bill Gates and Barack Obama to Chris Evans and Jarvis Cocker, and is published in over 45 languages worldwide. It was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and was in the Top Ten for over nine months in paperback. His follow-up to Sapiens, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was also a Top Ten Bestseller and was described by the Guardian as 'even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens'.
ASIN: B019CGXTP0
The 20th anniversary edition of Stephen Hawking's scientific masterpiece.
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory. To this day A Brief History of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its succinct and clear language continues to introduce millions to the universe and its wonders.
This new edition includes updates from Stephen Hawking with his latest thoughts about the No Boundary Proposal and offers new information about dark energy, the information paradox, eternal inflation, the microwave background radiation observations, and the discovery of gravitational waves. It is published to accompany the launch of a new app, Stephen Hawking's Pocket Universe.
Michael Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He is an award-winning poet, novelist, and anthropologist. Among his many books are Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project; Barawa, and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky; At Home in the World (published by Duke University Press); Pieces of Music, a novel; and Antipodes, a collection of poetry.
Publisher: Transworld Digital (10 November 2009)
ASIN: B0031RDVMI
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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.
As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology
community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.
This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.
Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Richard Dawkins is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Publisher: OUP Oxford; 4 edition (2 June 2016)
ASIN: B01GI5F2FS
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy; or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets we hear an entrepreneur has vision or a trader is talented, but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. This irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, and Fellow of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He was inducted into the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame in 2001. He lives in New York.
Publisher: Penguin (3 May 2007)
ASIN: B002RI9BH6
Current price – Rs.49.00
The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science".
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, also Newton's law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: "The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics. The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton … spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses." A more recent assessment has been that while acceptance of Newton's theories was not immediate, by the end of a century after publication in 1687, "no one could deny that" (out of the Principia) "a science had emerged that, at least in certain respects, so far exceeded anything that had ever gone before that it stood alone as the ultimate exemplar of science generally."
In formulating his physical theories, Newton developed and used mathematical methods now included in the field of calculus. But the language of calculus as we know it was largely absent from the Principia; Newton gave many of his proofs in a geometric form of infinitesimal calculus, based on limits of ratios of vanishing small geometric quantities. In a revised conclusion to the Principia (see General Scholium), Newton used his expression that became famous, Hypotheses non fingo ("I contrive no hypotheses").
I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was Victor S. Thomas Professor (Emeritus) of the History of Science at Harvard University. Among his recent books are "Benjamin Franklin's Science" (1996), "Interactions" (1994), and "Science and the Founding Fathers" (1992). Anne Whitman was coeditor (with I. Bernard Cohen and Alexander Koyre) of the Latin edition, with variant readings, of the "Principia" (1972). Julia Budenz, author of "From the Gardens of Flora Baum" (1984), is a multilingual classicist and poet.
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Publisher: RSM (15 July 2015)
ASIN: B011SFJSJO
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Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how these advances are radically transforming our lives. From the ways science and technology are fundamentally altering our bodies and our world (the world's first bionic soldier, the future of evolution) to those explosive collisions between science and culture (life extension and bioweapons), we're crossing moral and ethical lines we've never faced before.
As Kotler writes, "Life is tricky sport—and that's the emotional core of this story, the real reason we can't put Pandora back in the box. When you strip everything else away, technology is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow. It's the promise of hope. And how do you stop hope?"
Join Kotler in this fascinating exploration of our incredible next: a deep dive into those future technologies happening now—and what it means to be a part of this brave new world.
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include the nonfiction works The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A SmallFurry Prayer, and West of Jesus, as well as the novel The Angle Quickest for Flight. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His articles have appeared in more than sixty publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, GQ, Outside, Popular Science, Men's Journal, and Discover. He also writes Far Frontiers, a blog about technology and innovation for Forbes.com, and The Playing Field, a blog about the science of sport and culture for PsychologyToday.com. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, the author Joy Nicholson.
Publisher: Amazon Publishing (12 May 2015)
ASIN: B00O4IA82E
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Army car GAZ-67B
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Urgent need in a very simple and highly reliable AWD vehicle designed for the average command of the red Army, as well as for reconnaissance, communications, and towing light artillery systems, have emerged during the Soviet-Finnish armed conflict that took place in severe winter conditions off-road.
At the initiative of RKK gbtu and the people's Commissariat of medium machine building of the Gorky automobile plant and NACHI was tasked to develop a rough terrain vehicle-towing capacity of 400 kg with an open four-seater body.
– A military vehicle-ATV steel components and assemblies of the first domestic all-wheel drive car GAZ-61-40 and polutorka GAZ-MM. The car body made open, bezdomnym, with three transverse seats.
The prototype of the lightweight vehicle was built on natural Gas in just 51 days, and by the end of 1941 there already released 601, assigned the designation of GAZ-64. The Rover turned out to be quite successful and almost not inferior to a foreign army jeeps.
September 26, 1942, began the modernization of the car. Front and rear tracks of the machine was expanded to a normal truck, enhanced suspension, increased to 54 HP engine power. An improved all-terrain vehicle became have the designation GAZ-67. The first car rolled off the Assembly line on September 23, 1943, and in October started serial production of vehicles, the designation of the GAZ-67B.
All-wheel-drive army car GAZ-67B: -3345 length mm, width – 1720 mm, height with awning – 1690 mm, base -2100 mm gauge – 1449 mm, ground clearance is 227 mm, engine power – 54 HP, top speed 89 km/h.
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An artist whose output alternates between acoustic pop ballads and bleary slow jams inspired by contemporary rap and R&B, Niykee Heaton was discovered through her YouTube channel. In 2011, while still enrolled in high school, the suburban Chicago native began uploading clips of performances recorded in her bedroom — covers of R&B, rap, and pop hits, along with occasional originals, for which she accompanied herself on acoustic guitar. Near the end of the following year, a version of Chief Keef's "Love Sosa" was featured on the website WorldStarHipHop — the day before the singer turned 18 — and she subsequently caught the attention of Steve Rifkind and Russell Simmons, who signed her to their Capitol affiliate All Def label. Bad Intentions, a six-track EP of alternately sleek and strummy pop-R&B hybrids, was released in September 2014. Late the following year, she performed a series of concerts in Canada and the U.S., dubbed The Bedroom Tour. In March 2016, Capitol proper issued The Bedroom Tour Playlist. Pushed as a mixtape, it featured remixed and remastered material that Heaton had previously made available through her active self-promotion via social media. The mixtape debuted at number 39 on the Billboard 200.


Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. - 1 John 4:7.
Valentine's Day has been officially banned in Saudi Arabia. As a result of the ban, shops are prohibited from selling red roses, and couples are prohibited from displaying public affection. Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Evil, will be conducting constant patrols to make sure no one is celebrating Valentine's Day, which they consider an un-Islamic holiday. Students have even been cautioned by their teachers about the danger of wearing red, or any Valentine related things on February 14. Not all Islamic countries take the view of Saudi Arabia. Iran, and the United Arab Emirates do permit the celebration of Valentine's Day.
Can you imagine how drab and dreary our world would be without love? How sad would it be if no one ever demonstrated their affection for another person in public (Although some PDAs do go too far and are offensive to almost everyone.). If acts of kindness born out of love were banned, it would indeed be an ugly world in which to live. It is hard to imagine even the possibility of such a place; but not very long ago, Afghanistan under Taliban rule was very close to being exactly that.
There is so much hatred and evil in the world surely we should take every opportunity to express the love of God. The dictionary defines a "valentine" as a gift, or greeting, sent or given on Valentine's Day. And since it is on Valentine's Day, we would assume the gift or greeting would be one of love. Our Heavenly Father has given us the greatest example of sending gifts of love. He has sent us the greatest love gift of all. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16)." "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8)."
Think for a moment, about how you can demonstrate the love of God toward those around you. Here are some ideas: kindness, patience, generosity, unselfishness, and putting the interests of others before your own. You can probably think of many other ways to demonstrate the love of God toward others. Today on Valentine's Day, let us send a message of love from God, to those we encounter along the road of life by our words and actions. Let us not stop with today, but continue on throughout the year spreading the love of God.
Jesus died for all of the world - not just part of it.


Last one year has been a crazy year for us, with many twists and turns which made us gasp and halt before we gingerly stepped forward. It was not an easy year for us, but at the same time it turned out to be a very special and most memorable one.
When I wrote this post a year ago about starting a new chapter of our life in India, I had no idea that we will be back in Britain exactly in a year! It's funny how we think that we have sorted out everything, smoothed the little wrinkly problems, prepared for every challenges that life throws at us and feel that we have planned even the minute thing to last detail, there will still be a little glitch that will pop up somewhere on the way of our near-perfect and well planned life! Well, it didn't take long to learn even the best laid plans can fail sometimes. Life has taught me many things, and the recent lesson made me realise how important it is to live in a moment and not moan over things when they fail to meet our expectations. In everybody's life there is a point of no return, a point where we can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point in our life, all we can do is quietly accept the fact and face reality. Well that the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't or least expect them!
The move which we both expected to work to our best interests didn't work for many reasons; job, school, commute to work, etc. which were still workable and manageable. Money was never the issue as it was never the deciding factor for our move in the first place! We thought we can work around the little glitches and fix the nagging bits and pieces to make our dream of living in India a happy one as a family. The whole move to India was built on a hope and dream of spending more time with our immediate family and close friends. But this dream came with a high price which became the deciding factor for another difficult decision of our lives! The steep vertical drop in time spent as a family when K's job kept him away from home for more than quarter of a year made us realise what is really important to us as a family. Living in India was a dream which came with a heavy cost; a cost which we were not prepared to pay as we saw less of K when his job demanded too much of his time and took him across the globe for more than we were prepared to compromise on. We tried to work around the problem and wished to make it a success. If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so! It was a painful and most difficult decision to move back, leaving behind our loved one once again. May be it was not our time to live there, but there is certainly no regret about the decision we took a year ago. It was a gamble which unfortunately didn't pay, but what a wonderful time we've had there!
So we are back to where we started this whole journey! We packed our lives in suitcases, bubble wraps and brown cardboard boxes and shipped them to India; only to repack them and come back to the UK, all in the span of one crazy year! A year which sometime felt like it was flying at lightning speed and other times felt excruciatingly snail paced. It was a year of adventure, fun, joy, compromises, let downs, tears, arguments, panic, ups, downs, celebrations, bonding, stress, decisions, and finding peace with oneself! In short, a mixed bag of everything that life throws at you! Life may not be always pretty, but it sure is beautiful!
As we wait for our shipment to arrive, as we continue to live a life out of suitcases in a holiday cottage; I am trying to find my voice by pushing the writer's block that's kept me away from blogging all this time. It may be the overwhelming homesickness or not having any friends to talk to in this corner of the mighty Britain, but finally, I feel that I am ready to share little snippets of our life with recipes of the amazing food that we enjoyed!
So while browsing through the food photographs which I took during my year in India, I came across this recipe of BaLekai Sippe Palya or Vegan Raw Banana Peel Stir Fry which my Amma had made for us. It is a simple recipe which uses raw banana skins which are otherwise discarded after using the banana flesh in cooking. These raw bananas were from my uncle's farm and have less fibrous skin which makes them ideal for cooking many delicacies. Among all those delicacies made using the peel, this simple vegan spicy and sour raw banana skin stir fry with South Indian spices tops my list. It's simple to make, quite healthy, makes best use of ingredient that otherwise is binned without a second thought and most importantly, very delicious to taste. Without much further ado, shall we get cooking?
Apply coconut oil or any other cooking oil to your palms as the sticky gum from raw banana peel can leave stains on your hand and nails when working with them. Chop the banana peels into 1 cm pieces and soak them in a bowl of cold water until needed to prevent them from discolouring.
Heat oil in a kadai/wok on medium flame and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, dry red chilli and hing. When mustard seeds start to pop and splutter and the urad dal turns golden brown, add curry leaves and slit green chillies and give them a quick stir.
Mix in chopped raw banana skin and increase the heat to high. Stir fry them for 2-3 minutes on high heat.
Reduce the heat to medium and mix in turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and jaggary. Mix them well and let them cook for a minute or two.
Next add the tamarind extract and salt to taste. Pour in about ¼ cup of water and mix them all well.
Cover the wok with lid and let it cook undisturbed for 5 minutes on medium flame.
Add the rasam powder, if using, and mix them well. Adjust the seasoning and sprinkle a tbsp or two of water and mix them all well. Let it cook for another 4-5 minutes until the raw banana skin is cooked through.
Serve this delicious and healthy BaLekai Sippe Palya or Raw Banana Peel Palya with rice, ghee and rasam/dal and enjoy!
Apply coconut oil or any other cooking oil to your palms as the sticky gum from raw banana peel can leave stains on your hand and nails when working with them.
Soak the chopped raw banana peels in a bowl of cold water until needed to prevent them from discolouring.
Interesting stir fry..very new to me..will try it soon!
A very interesting and intriguing dish! I bet this stir-fry tastes wonderful.
The new place sounds beautiful. Hope you will be able to settle down soon.
I prepared this and it's my second time. Tastes yummy and super easy!
I use only Kerala famouse nenthran Vazai (raw banana)peel to cook like this.
Can any variety raw banana peel is as good and tasty as this?
But has to peel skinin such a way ,like we peel skin for banana fruit.


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Франц Карл Иосиф Австрийский (; ) — эрцгерцог Австрийский, из династии Габсбург-Лотарингских, отец двух императоров (Австрии и Мексики) и дед эрцгерцога Франца Фердинанда.

Биография
Родился в Вене, второй сын императора Франца II и его жены Марии Терезы, принцессы Королевства Обеих Сицилий.

В детстве его считали возможным будущим преемником, в течение некоторого времени существовала обеспокоенность тем, что его старший брат Фердинанд не сможет принять правительство. Сам Франц Карл был недостаточно ярким и привлекательным для светского общества человеком. Вместе с тем он интересовался искусством и культурой, проявил себя как меценат театра в Бад-Ишле, Верхнеавстрийского провинциального музея в Линце и других различных культурных учреждений.

4 ноября 1824 года в Вене он женился на Софии Баварской, дочери короля Баварии Максимилиана I и его второй жены Каролины Баденской. Напористый, энергичный и амбициозный характер эрцгерцогини вынудил Меттерниха, опасавшегося утратить власть, убедить императора Франца II не исключать Фердинанда из очереди наследования и устроил брак того на принцессе Марии Анне Савойской. Это решение во многом поспособствовало накалу неприязни между Софией и Меттернихом.

Франц Карл был нечестолюбивым и вообще неактивным человеком, тем не менее он входил в Совет, который управлял государством вследствие неспособности к государственной деятельности его старшего брата императора Фердинанда I с 1835 по 1848 год, но значительной роли в принятии решений не играл. По настоянию жены, он отказался от своих претензий на трон после отречения Фердинанда 2 декабря 1848 года, разрешив их самому старшему сыну Францу Иосифу стать императором Австрии. Эрцгерцог Франц Карл умер в Вене в 1878 году, спустя шесть лет после смерти жены.

29 августа 1835 года был награждён орденом Св. Андрея Первозванного.

Образ в кино
 «» (немой, Германия, 1929), реж. Лупу Пик. В роли Франца Карла Австрийского — актёр Макс Кауфман.
 "Сисси" (1955) и его продолжения "Сисси — молодая императрица" и "Сисси. Трудные годы императрицы", реж. Эрнст Маришка. В роли Франца Карла — актер Эрих Никовиц.

Дети
В браке с Софией Баварской у Франца Карла родилось пятеро детей:
 Франц Иосиф I (18 августа 1830 — 21 ноября 1916), император Австрии.
 Максимилиан (6 июля 1832 — 19 июня 1867), император Мексики.
 Карл Людвиг (30 июля 1833 — 19 мая 1896), эрцгерцог Австрийский, отец Франца Фердинанда и дед Карла I, последнего императора Австрии.
 Мария Анна (27 октября 1835 — 5 февраля 1840)
 Людвиг Виктор (15 мая 1842 — 18 января 1919), эрцгерцог Австрийский

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Off to the Oyster Festival WOO HOOO !!!!!!
I am Happy, Oh so Happy !!!!!
Battened down, cleaned kitchen and I'm off to our annual Oyster Fest, just a short trot down the hill.
Have a bunch for me, cuz you know I wouldn't touch them with a 10' pole.
I have no guests tonight and we ... umm ... let loose today, which included persuading Oyster Virgins to "give it a whirl".
Sooo much fun. At the store, we made three times our normal take in the space of three hours (unfortunately that's not saying much) at which point we closed and joined in the festivites. I think tonight will be a dancing in the parking lot night.
Nice. Small town life pays off.
To the point that the waitress said, 'Steph says we don't have your wine tonight, she's sorry, what else can I get you?' Yeesh, 'my wine'? I should change my name to Norm.
. . . To the point that the waitress said, 'Steph says we don't have your wine tonight, she's sorry, what else can I get you?' Yeesh, 'my wine'? I should change my name to Norm.
Tpsy - good for you!! Yup, life IS good.
Please post the giant pumpkins that you can ride in as a boat! I saw those just a week or so ago and I believe that is near you? Is it the same festival? My jaw was on the ground, that is amazing!
It is the funniest, coolest thing I have encountered in a long, long time. It's a different festival and promises to get bigger and better every year.
IF - and that's a big if - I can get down to the event in time I will definitely post photos.
MMMMMMmmmm - sounds yummy! When we lived in Baltimore we attended a bull and oyster roast... so much good food and fresh shucked oysters are the best!!
Lucky you!! We have a big one here in November. Two days of eating oysters, chef competitions for the best raw and cooked recipes, major dances, etc. etc. Loads of fun!


Wendy's restaurant on Beckley Road in Battle Creek has been shut down.
When was the last time you got a Frosty or a square hamburger?
Calling the Wendy's restaurant on Beckley Road in Battle Creek an "underperforming location," the owners have turned off the lights and locked the doors for the last time.
The closure came on Christmas Eve but it looks like employees have been offered jobs at two other locations in Battle Creek according to the Battle Creek Enquirer.


SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TiVo Corporation (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced today that Raghu Rau, a member of TiVo's Board of Directors, has been named interim President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The appointment follows Enrique Rodriguez's personal decision to resign from his role as TiVo's President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors to assume a position as Chief Technology Officer at Liberty Global in Europe, one of TiVo's long-time global customers. Mr. Rodriguez will remain at TiVo in an advisory role to ensure a smooth transition. Mr. Rau will continue to serve on the Board of Directors.
The Board has commenced a comprehensive search process to identify and evaluate internal and external candidates to serve as a permanent Chief Executive Officer, with the assistance of a leading executive search firm.
As previously announced, the TiVo Board continues to explore a broad range of strategic alternatives to maximize the value of the Company for TiVo shareholders. With its independent financial and legal advisors, TiVo is carefully considering a full range of options focused on delivering shareholder value. The Company expects to provide an update on this review by the Company's second quarter 2018 earnings call.
Raghavendra Rau, age 69, has served as a director of the Company since 2015. Prior to joining the Board, Mr. Rau served as Chief Executive Officer of SeaChange International Inc., a video software technology company, from November 2011 to October 2014 and was a member of its board from July 2010 until October 2014. Prior to his work at SeaChange International, Mr. Rau held a number of senior leadership positions with Motorola Inc. from 1992 to 2008, including Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of the Networks & Enterprise business, Senior Vice President of the Mobile TV Solutions business, and Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Professional Services. Mr. Rau holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the National Institute of Technology (India) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). Since March 2017, Mr. Rau has served on the board of Quantum Corporation, a scale-out tiered storage, archive and data protection company, and has served as the Chairman of Quantum's board since August 2017. He previously served on the board of Aviat Networks, a wireless networking company, from November 2010 to January 2015.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the Company's future growth and success, international expansion, the Company's expected second quarter operating results, and the timing of results and announcement of the Company's strategic alternatives exploration. These forward-looking statements are based on TiVo's current expectations, estimates and projections about its business and industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by the company, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "future", "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays, whether inside or outside the Company's control, in the Company's exploration of its strategic alternatives, delays in development, the failure to deliver competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance of any offerings delivered, the Company's completion of its second quarter 2018 financial close processes, as well as the other potential factors described under "Risk Factors" included in TiVo's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and other documents of TiVo Corporation on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). TiVo cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release, except as required by law.


On the projects tab the icon for each entry has the globe with either a magnifying glass, green down arrow, or red X overlay.
I was able to get rid of the red X by ''updating'' the entry - which changed it to the green down arrow.
What was the red X indicating? I was able to browse the project without any problem before updating it.
When you create a new Project, it has no additional icon on it - just a globe or another icon if you chose it. When you start the download, the green down-arrow appears over the Project icon.
If you suspend the download, a yellow pause symbol appears. After the download completes, the project has the magnifying glass symbol which means that you can browse the Project offline.
The red X appears if you stopped the download manually.


Lil Joeys All In Ones are a wonderful diaper for your newborn! It will work great for your preemie or multiples and will fit your newborn starting at 4 pounds.
Lil Joeys All In Ones are a wonderful diaper for your newborn! It will work great for your preemie or multiples. Most cloth diapers don't fit small babies like the Lil Joeys AIO because it will fit your newborn starting at 4 pounds, you can start using cloth diapers on Day 1!
The Lil Joey AIO fits babies 4-12 pounds and the easy to use snap down center allows for comfort and healing of the umbilical cord. When snapped down, the rise is shorter and then the rise is higher when unsnapped giving the Lil Joey AIO two sizes.
Take a look at the inside of the Lil Joey AIO - there are 2 gentle internal gussets so this diaper will stop even the messiest messes from escaping! As an AIO, a soaker with 4 layers of microfiber is sewn in and there is no pocket, no stuffing. The outer material is a biodegradable TPU waterproof material - a polyester fabric that has been laminated. TPU is made by a process that is low in toxicity and better for the natural environment. When composted, it will biodegrade in 4-5 years.
Lil Joeys All In Ones are sold in packs of 2.
These are so cute and I love the patterns. They fit my baby fine but for some reason almost every time they leaked around the legs. I am not sure why I didn't see any gaps in the legs. Maybe I needed to change sooner but I did change every two hours. I didn't have leak problems with other AIO for newborns.
My 6lb 11oz baby fit into these perfectly when she was born so we used them more than anything in the first few weeks. They hold a lot of urine, they didn't leak for us until I needed to strip them, and the fit really is superior to any of the others we tried (8 brands I think). I'm pretty sure that this diaper is true to its claimed weight recommendations, which seems to be rare. The colors and prints are extraordinarily cute too.
I only bought one two pack before my little girl was born, but since she was on the small side (6 lbs 6 oz when she came home), a lot of the other newborn diapers were too big. These were great to fold down under the umbilical cord and rather trim under clothes. I ordered 4 more to get us through the first month or so.
This diaper is really nice for when your baby is tiny. The fit is great, they're very easy to use, the elastic is very soft and stretchy, and the inner gussets are really helpful. But when you have an 8 pounder like I did, they aren't worth it. They'll grow out of it much to fast. Still makes for great pictures though.
These were perfect for our daughter when she was a newborn. We had a couple leaks when she was first born because her legs were skinny but it was not a deal breaker. She never had a poop blowout in these and they have held up well. I would definitely recommend these. The fact that they come in a two pack adds to their value!


ALL NEW I Love My Church Digital Kit!
The new I Love My Church digital kit contains everything you need for a special vision-casting Sunday in the new year. Members will get excited to invite their friends, and will have a renewed passion for your church's vision and their role in it. Visitors will see that church is not only a place to discover a real relationship with God, it's also a place to make friends and find others to live life with – and then take that love for God and others to the next step by giving to the community.
Encourage your members to wear their I Love My Church wristband as a great conversation starter and a reminder that the Church is a place to belong and is open for everyone.
Reach every home in your community with an invitation to your church! These postcards feature eye-catching graphics with your customized text on front and a full color reverse side that can be custom-printed with your invitation, service times, map and logo!


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Schoolchildren in Canada are missing out on new, up-to-date textbooks because of changes in its copyright laws. These changes, designed to help school budgets in the short-term, are driving some venerable textbook publishers out of the business. In one case, Oxford University Press -- which has had a Canadian office and produced core textbooks for the Canadian market since 1904 -- has decided it no longer makes financial sense for it to continue.
OUP Canada general manager Geoff Forguson says that, as a non-profit, the press is not permitted to take losses on the books it publishes and that Canadian school publishing has simply become too risky. Emond Publishing, an independent Canadian academic publisher that specializes in law texts for students and professionals, has also abandoned the secondary-school market. Paul Emond says that, as a businessman, he sees much better opportunities publishing material for lawyers than for high-school students.
It's rare to have examples of what is not produced when commercial incentives and copyright protections change, but the topic is of critical importance, especially as Sci-Hub is now not only stealing journal article PDFs but scholarly books and entire online sites, which they are mirroring. These actions could drive entire products from the market, or publishers from particular markets.
It's always been confusing to think that access barriers are portrayed as absolute when the request is merely for payment. As these examples show -- and others not seen are also out there -- when there is no financial incentive to support the publication of books, journals, and other materials, that publication will likely stop.
A central point of disagreement within The Guardian has been its refusal -- for Mr. Rusbridger, virtually an ideology -- to charge online subscribers, as news organizations like The Financial Times, The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have come around to doing.
The common thread here is "ideology" -- the ideology creating loopholes in Canada's copyright laws, the ideology leading to the Sci-Hub thefts, and the ideology that will force the Guardian to lay off hundreds of employees.
In Canada, teachers are turning to free resources to teach their students. These are often non-Canadian resources, and there are concerns about quality controls and accuracy of the information. Academic publishers are making moves to shift away from their content businesses and into measurements, data, and metrics. Newspapers have already suffered incredible losses, leading to poor local and national coverage of vital issues and events.
In the commercial world, free is a price with consequences. Some of those consequences are clearly coming home to roost. You get what you pay for. You don't get what you don't pay for -- including updated textbooks, flourishing scientific and scholarly journals, and well-paid journalists investigating societal problems and events.


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Job announcements are generally posted for 60 days. If you'd like a job posting to stay active for a longer period of time, please contact the Job Bank Director. Otherwise, we do our best to pull the postings by the end of the month in which the 60th day falls.
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public interface NotificationBroadCasterProxy extends NotificationBroadcaster {
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"Rise in the presence of the aged, and show respect for the elderly."
In Alberta, statistics clearly indicate that cognitively impaired Albertans who may cause accidents, are NOT ON Alberta roads.
Ontario Man in Vegetative State Wakes Up.
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import {RouterModule} from '@angular/router';

@Component({selector: 'recursive-feature-comp', template: 'recursive feature!'})
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@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forChild([
    {path: '', component: RecursiveFeatureComponent, pathMatch: 'full'},
    {path: ':name', loadChildren: './recursive-feature.module#RecursiveFeatureModule'}
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  declarations: [RecursiveFeatureComponent]
})
export class RecursiveFeatureModule {
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Mumbai police and Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor Ahuja were engaged in small twitter row on Friday, after the cops, wrongly, criticised the actor's co-star Dulquer Salmaan for "trying stunt while driving".
Sonam had posted a video clip from a film shoot on Twitter showing Salmaan in the driver's seat of a car. His hands are seen fiddling with a mobile phone as the car seems to be moving. Sonam is heard calling him "weirdo".
even in 'reel' life [sic]."
This drew much flak for the actors from twitterati.
Sonam then stepped in to clarify that Salmaan was not actually driving the car. "We weren't driving we were rigged on a truck... but I'm glad you guys are concerned," she tweeted.
"I hope and I know you show the same interest in regular folk as well! Thanks for taking care! #Reelvsreal," she added tagging her co-star.
The police responded by saying, "For us, No Mumbaikar is 'regular' they are all 'special'! And we are equally concerned about them all. Glad to know your safety wasn't 'rigged."
present the whole time," he tweeted.


– Fixed glitches and artifacts with picture previews.
– Added important improvements and optimizations to picture preview algorithms.
– Added AppData file. Click here for more informations.
– Updated Czech, Japanese and Spanish translations.
– Now is possible to convert an entire PDF in a bunch of pictures.
– Now is possible to extract single images from a Windows icon (ico) file.
– Added various code improvements.
– Now is possible to resize a bunch of pictures with different size keeping the aspect ratio.
– Added a menu item for bug signalation.
– Now the program can be compiled on Haiku OS (you will find info as soon as possible on the downloads page).
– Now the Mantain aspect ratio checkbox is checked by default.
– Fixed some bugs when renaming files.
– Added social buttons in the about dialog.
– Various code improvements and optimizations.
– Updated Czech, German and Russian translations. If you are interested on translating Converseen, please contact me.
– Possibility to choose a background color when converting images to formats that don't support alpha channel like jpeg files.
– Fixed overwriting dialog when the renaming option is enabled.
– Added thread support to image conversions.
– Added a progress bar into the conversion dialog.
– Added drag and drop.
– Improved management of PNG.
– Fixed various bugs and improved the code.
– Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
– Fixed informations about images on "Dimensions" box.
– Increased performances for previews.


The next level in friendliness.
The ARIVA Hotel GmbH, based in Mannheim, was founded in 1998 and stands for quality, service and hospitality. It is a subsidiary of the DIRINGER & SCHEIDEL Group (D&S) which has a current workforce of 3,400. There are currently five hotels under the ARIVA umbrella in the Grid City, with some 680 rooms. Approx. 200 hotel staff take care of the international guests.
ARIVA CEO, Achim Ihrig, is also on the Board of the DIRINGER & SCHEIDEL Group.
ARIVA Hotel GmbH is a subsidiary of the DIRINGER & SCHEIDEL Group (D&S) that was founded in 1921 as a classic construction company. Today the owner-managed group employs 3,400 staff and operates successfully both at home and abroad.
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Netbooks, the small footprint computers with a fat profile and low-power performance, are dead. Dell says so, as reported in The Verge. Instead, the future is in "the thin and powerful." If Dell is out, netbooks are truly dead. This again demonstrates that Apple was ahead of the game in January 2008 when it introduced the first 13in MacBook Air. Thin it certainly was, powerful not so much so.
At the time the MacBook Air was widely derided for being underpowered, lacking in ports and far too expensive. The netbook would was what everyone wanted. Yet the Air line has gone on to become the star. It has has forced the PC industry to develop the ultrabook, a new thin and powerful version of the netbook.


Summer is here and school is finally out! It is now time for some summer fun in the sun. It is not unusual for summer fun and water to be mentioned in the same sentence. In fact, it is not possible to think of summer without the prospect of a great time playing on massive waterslides. You can have your pick of our vast array of massive waterslides some of which are detailed below.
This massive 40ft-tall massive waterslide has two lanes! That's right, one lane is child's play, two lanes are what have had this massive waterslide earn the moniker "Hurricane". The "Hurricane" is perfect for large groups of children for those birthday parties that have a large invite list.
This 40-foot giant of a waterslide is available in a curved and straight design. For a fantastic day in your backyard, you can pick either one of the two and your summer fun will be taken to a whole new level.
This humongous waterslide is 38ft and is designed to look like a space shuttle. Part of the slide whooshes through a covered section and suddenly opens up before landing you in the shallow dipping pool at the end of the slide.
The Hulk is arguably Florida's biggest waterslide. Aptly named after the comic hero, Hulk, this waterslide comes in the same shade of green and boasts of the same gigantic proportions at 36ft tall. The slide is a crazy 100 feet of sheer screaming delight which terminates in a shallow pool.
This waterslide is draped in the colors of the American flag in line with its patriotic name. Additionally, it packs its punch in all its 32 feet, coupled with a two-lane slide. The 70ft slide cascades down from a hump which is the main feature of this massive waterslide.
Touted to come taller than your average giraffe, the Tsunami Ride is a 30ft tall, double-lane water slide. In addition to having a double lane that is 70 feet high, the water cascading down the slide plunges you into a tidal pool at the bottom.
This is a one of a kind waterslide. It has a slide which is over 6 feet wide, and is designed to carry you up one way and then backs down. Moreover, this slide is 27 feet tall and features a half-pipe wave.
Why go to Hawaii when you can surf Hawaii right here in Florida! That's right, the Pipeline allows two riders to surf its crazy face after climbing up the 30 feet tall dual slide. Additionally, this crazy fun waterslide ends up in a whitewater pool. It is ideal for adults and children.
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Department for International Trade is 'already behind schedule' on Brexit talks
Criticisms come in the wake of a fresh report from the National Audit Office
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International Trade Secretary Liam Fox
Liam Fox's Department for International Trade (DIT) has been criticised for falling behind schedule on its Brexit responsibilities and risking the future of British business as a result.
The work of the DIT - which is in charge of developing post- Brexit free trade agreements - has been put under the microscope as part of a National Audit Office (NAO) report, which found the department was struggling to develop specialist trade skills among staff and has had to "adjust" its timeline.
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Reacting to the NAO's findings, Labour and Co-op MP and chair of the committee of public accounts Meg Hillier said the department was risking the future of UK business.
"Failure to get the right trade deals in place from day one of Brexit could mean higher prices, lost jobs and companies going out of business," she said. "It is deeply worrying that the NAO's report says DIT is already behind schedule and it is not clear how it will be able to get the negotiators it needs.
"The department urgently needs to talk to British businesses and work out how to help them secure their future after we leave the EU."
Her comments will raise concerns over the work being done under the leadership of International Trade Secretary Liam Fox , who just months after the Brexit vote reportedly accused British business of failing to prepare for new trade deals he was set to negotiate, and for becoming "too lazy and too fat" on previous successes.
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"Delivery of the work streams will be challenging and DIT has put back some of its delivery milestones as the timetable for legislation and the overall negotiation process has moved on," the NAO report said.
It also said the civil service model, which sees staff move every few years, is "not best suited" to developing specific trade and negotiation skills, adding there will be a "premium" on retraining and recruiting outside staff.
"Considerable work will need to be done to build skills that have not existed in government for a generation," the NAO said.


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By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the value of philosophy for the development of human thought, all cultures and for each individual.
"Faced with the complexity of today's world, philosophical reflection is above all a call to humility, to take a step back and engage in reasoned dialogue, to build together the solutions to challenges that are beyond our control," said Irina Bokova, UNESCO director-general.
"This is the best way to educate enlightened citizens, equipped to fight stupidity and prejudice. The greater the difficulties encountered, the greater the need for philosophy to make sense of questions of peace and sustainable development."
World Philosophy Day was established in 2005, to highlight the importance of the discipline to young people, underlining that "philosophy is a discipline that encourages critical and independent thought and is capable of working towards a better understanding of the world and promoting tolerance and peace".
In celebration of the day, IBTimes UK looks at some of the most famous philosophical quotes.


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Guy Montis, de son véritable nom Joseph Tysz, né à Płońsk dans la banlieue de Varsovie (Pologne) le  et décédé le  dans le , est un peintre de la "réalité poétique".

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Ses jeunes années sont consacrées au décor de théâtre sous la direction de Sylvain Itikine et O'Brady. Il crée avec Claude Dauphin le Théâtre de l'Arbre sec. Résistant pendant la guerre, il illustre après guerre la Libération dans La Marseillaise.

En 1946, Montis devient lauréat du prix Blumenthal.

En 1948, il s'installe en Provence au Paradou, à Maussane, à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, aux Baux, et se lie avec d'autres artistes, René Seyssaud, Auguste Chabaud, Pierre Ambrogiani, Antoine Serra... Ils constituent le Groupe Provence.

De retour à Paris en 1961, il crée la première galerie de la place des Vosges, "La Galerie du Roy".

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Peintre français du XXe siècle
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Naissance en septembre 1918
Naissance à Płońsk
Décès dans le 9e arrondissement de Paris
Décès en juillet 1976
Décès à 57 ans


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As a rule I don't like conversions up from inferior machines, but as with all rules, however, there are exceptions, and the game I am about to review is one of them. Originally written for the Commodore 64, World Games has only recently become available for the Amiga, although the Atari ST version has been available for some months.
Programmed in America by Epyx, a company with a deservedly good reputation, U.S. Gold have decided to take the plunge and import the game although the price £24.99 suggests that they are just testing the market.
One of my 64 favourites, before the machine got relegated to the cupboard was the original Summer Games and Summer Games II series, so when World Games became available on the Amiga you can imagine my reaction, I had read reviews of the 64 version saying it was excellent, but could the Amiga version really be any better?
After three hours of constant play, with blisters forming on both my hands and the answering machine screaming for attention the answer is a resounding YES!
As the game's name would suggest, it is set in eight countries around the world, with each place visited providing one totally unique and varied event, all of which combine to create a task of mammoth proportions.
The first event is Weightlifting. Set in Russia, and introduced with a suitably morose theme tune, the test takes two stages: first the snatch, and then the clean and jerk. Both events require accurate joystick movements and intense concentration. The animation for this event sets the standard for the rest of the game; huge, excellently drawn characters, wonderfully smooth movement and realistic backgrounds. To start with the event seems impossible, but if you watch your man carefully, you can see him breathe, and this is the key to success.
When you manage to complete weightlifting, you are confronted with Germany's game Barrel Jumping. Again there is an applicable theme tune, and as with all the events, speed of joystick movement does not necessarily win the day. You can vary the amount of barrels you jump, but even after twenty or thirty practices I could still not jump more than 12!
Summer Games fans will feel right at home with the next event, cliff diving from Acapulco, although even watching it on a computer screen was enough to scare me, let alone the thought of actually hurling myself over the edge of a cliff. As with the original diving event from Summer Games, the object is to land smoothly, the main difference being that in this case your dive is given approval by a Pelican sitting on a rock nearby.
Barely patched up from your cliff diving antics, it's straight off to France to try your hand at slalom skiing, complete with everything except the almost synonymous sound of the ski Sunday tune and David Vine's dulcet tones.
Completing the first half of your world tour is log rolling in Canada. Although it looks simple, this is in fact one of the most fiendish of the eight events, and requires not only instant reactions, but a tactical mind. You take on the role of a lumberjack and must try and force your opponent to fall off the log by rolling it back and forth. Unfortunately the computer opponent is rather good at this and seemingly had no trouble disposing of even the most experienced jock. Believe it or not, this takes place to the merry Mony Pyhton Lumberjack song, although there are no signs of either buttered scones or women's clothing.
Perhaps the two most disappointing events, at least in terms of playability, come next: Bull Riding from America, and Caber Tossing from Scotland. Bother events seem to have been programmed with a great deal less care than the others, to the degree that there is visible screen flicker as the caber is tossed. Criticisms apart, the music for the caber section is wonderful, with the Amiga's stereo sound used to full effect.
Surprisingly, Epyx have saved the best until last. If you are not already knackered, you are flown to Japan to take part in a grueling duel against some of the fattest and strongest men in the world, Sumo wrestlers. To be totally honest, this event really puts all the others in the shade. The animation, sound and playability are all superb, and if I were a little more fickle I would have been a little surprised that U.S. Gold did not launch it as a full-price game on its own (Don't give them many ideas! Ed)!
With a total of ten different attacking and defensive moves, one bout can last anywhere from three seconds to five minutes, depending on how good your opponent is.
All the way through the game you play one character, whose name and country you input at the beginning. At the end the computer gives you a tally of your results,and if you have broken any records, it stores them on disk for posterity.
World Games is really eight separate games on one disk. Some of them are good and some of them are less good, but without exception they are all fun. There are only a handful of really great games so far for the Amiga, and all of those were written specifically for it. World Games is a conversion, but it is an excellent one, and a game that will provide a great deal of fun months after the latest singing, all dancing shoot 'em up has been given to Oxfam.
Reviewed by Francis Jargo for CU Amiga, pp.76-77, Issue Jul '87, July 1987


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Q: Benefits of using SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery instead of … a) SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery is  used for update, insert and delete operations.
Besides the fact that by using ExecuteNonQuery instead of ExecuteReader we automatically know there won't be any query results returned, are there some other benefits/reasons why ExecuteNonQuery  should be used?
b) Similarly, if we want a database operation to return a single value, we should use ExecuteScalar instead of ExecuteNonquery ,where with the latter result would be returned via SqlParameter. Is there any particular reason why we should prefer ExecuteScalar over ExecuteNonQuery?
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A: For the 2nd point...
ExecuteScalar returns 1st column of 1st row: the entire dataset is passed back to the client. Even if the dataset is exactly one row and exactly one column, it's still less efficient to return a dataset than use an output/return parameter
The same applies to the 1st point too: more efficient to not process a recordset.

A: For the 1st point...
You have said:
we automatically know there won't be any query results returned

Actually, ExecuteNonQuery returns the number of affected rows, which is very important if your logic after executing the query depends on whether the database has been changed or not.

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Friday, Apr 29, 2016
M-1 Challenge 68: Ramazan Emeev to Battle Alexander Shlemenko, Alexander Volkov to Face Attila Vegh
Ramazan Emeev (left) (photo via M-1 Global)
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (April 28, 2016) – M-1 Global has announced a blockbuster M-1 Challenge 68 event as Ramazan Emeev and Alexander "Storm" Shlemenko battle in the M-1 Global Grand Prix Middleweight Championship, while M-1 Challenge heavyweight champion Alexander "Drago" Volkov makes his first title defense against Attila "Pumuklo" Vegh, Thursday night, June 16, at Yubileyny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
M-1 Challenge 68 will be streamed live from St. Petersburg in high definition onwww.M1Global.TV. Viewers will be able to watch the preliminary fights and main card by logging on to register at www.M1Global.TV. Fans may watch all of the action on their computers, as well as on Android and Apple smart phones and tablets.
Emeev (14-3-0, M-1: 8-1-0), fighting out of Russia by way of Dagestan, is the reigning M-1 Challenge middleweight champion, although his title belt will not be at stake against Shlemenko. The 28-year-old Emeev, who was the 2015 M-1 Global Fighter of the Year, is a two-time M-1 Challenge middleweight champion. He originally captured the coveted crown in 2012, taking a decision from Mario Miranda for the vacant title. In his first title defense, Emeev lost to Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, who stopped the defending champion via punches in the fourth round.
In their much anticipated rematch April 10, 2015, Emeev recaptured the title from Vasilevsky, choking the defending champion into an opening-round submission. Last December, Emeev successfully defended his title when Luigi Fiorvanti retired after four rounds. Earlier this month at M-1 Challenge 65, Emeev defeated Maiquel Falcao in the M-1 Grand Prix semifinals, by way of a first-round submission (choke – see picture below), to qualify for the final versus Shlemenko.
The 31-year-old Shlemenko (52-9-0, M-1: 3-0-0) is a three-time Bellator champion from Omsk, Russia. He returned to M-1 Global competition in February, taking a decision from Vasilevsky at M-1 Challenge 64. The Siberian-born Shlemenko hadn't competed in M-1 Global since 2005.
Volkov (25-6-0, M-1: 9-3-0), 27, also fought in Bellator for three years, 2012 to 2015, returning to M-1 Global action this past February for the first time in 5 ½ years. The popular fighter from Moscow signed a promotional contract with M-1 Global, fighting Denis Smoldaraev Feb. 19, 2016 (see picture below) at M-1 Challenge 64 for the vacant M-1 Challenge heavyweight championship. Volkov emerged victorious, using a choke in the third round to win with the Submission of the Night.
Vegh (29-6-2, M-1: 0-0-0), will make his M-1 Global debut versus Volkov in their M-1 Challenge title fight. Fighting out of Slovakia by way of his native Czechoslovakia, Vegh (pictured below) is a former Bellator light heavyweight champion who is moving up one weight class to challenge Volkov.
Tags: Alexander Shlemenko, M-1 Challenge, M-1 Global, Ramazan Emeev
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T hough in recent years Valentine's Day usually revolves around our kids, I still take every opportunity I can to reflect on just how lucky I am to have Emily in my life. I feel especially grateful that she's been with me through virtually every moment of our adult lives — our story is particularly unusual in that it begins when we were only 16 years old. Years ago when I was a junior in high school, a girl I knew only vaguely sat behind me in second-semester geometry. Our names were next to each other in the alphabet, and it just so happened that was how the teacher chose to organize their classroom. Over the next few months, she and I got to talking, often covertly in the middle of the lesson. I felt like we hit it off almost immediately, speaking with an ease that I'd say is pretty uncommon in those awkward adolescent years. Of course, we had a similar group of friends and interests too, so we started seeing each other around and outside of school here and there. As you can imagine, our initial friendship developed into a pretty intense crush over those few months. For a while, I tried to gauge her interest in me as high schoolers always do. I was very lucky that while I was too chicken to ask her out, Emily stepped up and asked me out first!
Physical Therapy. After, she worked as a teacher while I continued my studies. Though both of us were deeply driven, but it's difficult to say what made it work from so early on. It's simplest to say that we just clicked. As the years passed, and we grew up side by side, we weathered changes and shared many incredible moments. There's absolutely nobody on the planet that I know on such a meaningful level, and there's definitely nobody that understands me the way she does. It's funny, I don't think about it all that often, but it's pretty amazing that we never had to make any concerted effort to combine our two lives — they were closely aligned from almost the start. I can't imagine having anybody else as my Valentine for all these years, sharing our struggles and triumphs and becoming stronger for it. On every level, we're better when we're together.


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Is a degree really all-important?
This story was first published in The Straits Times on May 16, 201
Sandra Davie
Senior Education Correspondent
May 18, 2013, 5:30 am SGT
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LAST year in his National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had some good news for polytechnic graduates and their parents.
After a year-long review, he said, the Government had decided to offer 3,000 more university places a year by 2020. The bulk of these places, which will be created by expanding the Singapore Institute of Technology and SIM University, will go to polytechnic graduates, many of whom increasingly aspire to have a degree.
But even as the Government opens up more university places, it has been urging young Singaporeans, including diploma holders, to consider other pathways.
PM Lee, who addressed polytechnic students recently, told them that getting a degree was not the only option.
He encouraged them to work for a few years or start their own business. "You will gain experience and understand yourself better and then be better able to decide what the next step will be," he said at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's 50th-anniversary celebrations.
A day later, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan had similar advice.
The plain-speaking Mr Khaw, who spoke at an Our Singapore Conversation session, responded to a participant who said more university places should be set aside for Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and polytechnic graduates.
Mr Khaw's reply was: "You own a degree, but so what? You can't eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless."
He added that Singapore could not have an entire nation of gra-duates. "Can you have a whole country where 100 per cent are graduates? I am not so sure," he said. "What you do not want is to create huge graduate unemployment."
Degree the new O-level?
ALTHOUGH sound, such advice is not going to sway polytechnic students very easily.
The Education Ministry does not reveal the yearly university application figures. The local universities are currently conducting their admissions exercises and it is likely that a record number of polytechnic graduates and A-level holders are vying for the 13,000 places available this year.
About 17 per cent of a polytechnic cohort will land a place, compared to more than 70 per cent of those coming out of the junior colleges.
The remaining diploma holders are unlikely to give up on their degree ambitions. A few thousand will head overseas, mostly to British and Australian universities. These institutions give students generous credit exemptions, allowing them to complete their degrees in one to two years.
Those who cannot afford the cost will look to private schools such as the Singapore Institute of Management and EASB Institute of Management.
Those whose financial circumstances require them to go out to work will turn to UniSIM to study part-time to fulfil their degree aspirations.
Five years ago, the estimate was that 60 per cent of all polytechnic graduates go on to secure a university degree within five years. These days, polytechnic officials estimate that the figure is probably close to 80 per cent.
But why the hankering for a degree?
Ask any diploma holder and the answer is likely to be "better jobs and higher salaries".
A diploma holder's average starting salary is $2,000, while that of a degree holder is $3,000. So the difference is $1,000 at the starting line.
The gap widens further over their working life.
There are no up-to-date figures, but a 2007 study by the Ministry of Manpower showed that every extra year of schooling increases a worker's earnings by 13.7 per cent. The rate is higher for tertiary education.
Talk to job recruiters and it's also a fact that even those who perform remarkably well in their jobs quickly hit a ceiling.
Take Mr Luke Ong, 25, an enginering diploma holder who became a team supervisor in a multinational corporation within three years. Earlier this year, he applied for an opening as manager, but the position went to a fresh gra-duate.
"I used to think maybe I can get away without a degree. But the reality hit me just after three years."
So who can blame polytechnic diploma holders like him who feel that a university degree is the new O-level, the minimum requirement to land a well-paid job that will be a good stepping stone to a good career?
Underemployment of grads
BUT both PM Lee and Mr Khaw have given sound advice, and it should be heeded.
First, just because past job trends show that graduates land the jobs and earn more in their lifetime does not mean that this will be the case in the future.
Take the United States, which has been experiencing an economic downturn the last few years.
The graduate unemployment figure of 3.9 per cent doesn't look too bad. But on closer scrutiny, it appears that university graduates there are faced with underemployment.
This week's media reports highlighted a McKinsey & Co study which showed that almost half of degree holders are holding jobs that do not require a degree.
Social economists such as Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Da-vid Ashton, who wrote the book, The Global Auction: The Broken Promises Of Education, Jobs And Incomes, have argued that the conventional thinking that a degree equals higher earnings does not hold any more.
The authors surveyed businesses around the world and discovered there was a global auction for high-skill, low-wage work.
Employees may want to increase the value of their labour and earn higher wages, but companies wanting to maximise profits aim to lower their labour costs. So they will go where they can find workers with the skills they need, but who are prepared to accept more modest wages.
The dampening effect on graduates' salaries is exacerbated by oversupply. In the past 10 years, undergraduate numbers have doubled.
In addition to outsourcing of back-office jobs such as data input, graduate-level jobs are going to those who can be paid the lowest rate. Analysing X-rays, drawing up legal contracts and processing tax returns are examples of skilled jobs going offshore.
What's more, class distinctions among graduate workers are emerging. At the top, there will be a cadre of thinkers and decision-makers - perhaps 10 per cent or 15 per cent of the total - but the mass of employees will perform routine functions for modest wages.
Those with elite qualifications are more likely to be made "thinkers", leaving those with "garden variety" university degrees to be "doers", conclude the authors.
This is where the Prime Minister's and Mr Khaw's advice comes in useful. It is important that students, whether diploma holders or A-level school leavers, first figure out where their interest and talent lie.
And not all talents are best nurtured by immediately heading to university. There are many who would benefit from going out to work for a few years to hone their skills and understand the demands of the career they are interested in.
This way, when they enter university, they are able to make the most of their education to meet their career aims. And because they have picked a course based on their interest and talent, they are likely to end up scoring top grades.
It's one way for polytechnic students to ensure that they don't end with a "garden variety" university degree that will limit their career and life opportunities.
sandra@sph.com.sg
This story was first published in The Straits Times on May 16, 2013
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This statement below from KFC Yum! Center, posted on facebook Monday evening is in reply to the many messages from fans inquiring whether the show in Louisville will proceed as scheduled on Tuesday night, despite the weather conditions in the area.
"At this time the Fleetwood Mac show is planned to proceed as scheduled. It is very unlikely that the event will be postponed or canceled. If that changes, we'll make the announcement via all of our social media channels as well as all TV stations and many radio stations."


Dan and Sarah married in a gorgeous barn wedding that was decorated with a burgundy and cream colour scheme. Their wedding had a sweet twist with the tables named after different sweets and the reception featuring a chocolate fountain, a candyfloss machine and marshmallows roasted over a fire pit!
Sarah and Dan's love story didn't have the most romantic of beginnings – they met in a McDonald's car park! However they love the fact their romance started in a real way. Their chance meeting led to a five and half year happy relationship, and an adorable Christmas day proposal.
Dan proposed on Christmas morning with his son by his side. They both surprised Sarah by calling her into Dan's son's bedroom. Dan and his son were both down on one knee, Dan holding a real diamond real, whilst his son was offering a Haribo ring in Sarah's favourite flavour. His son asked 'Will you marry us?' and Sarah was too stunned to answer!
The couple spent the next year and a half planning their burgundy and cream coloured wedding, which had a beautiful vintage theme.


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Day 5 – What a great day in Middletown! The weather has finally cooled off to the mid 80’s and we had a half day of work. This afternoon we toured the BeauVerre Riordan Stained Glass Studio before heading to the Cohen’s pool to cool off. A special thanks to the Cohens, a family we met at First Presbyterian Church last Sunday who offered their pool for our use and we are eternally grateful! Take a look at what today was all about…