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Imprint: Penguin Press
Astronomy, space & time
A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
An intimate, powerful account of Stephen Hawking and his universe
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship, offering an intimate account of this giant of science.
The two met in 2003, when Stephen asked Leonard if he would consider writing a book with him, the follow up to the bestselling A Brief History of Time. As they spent years working on a second book, The Grand Design, they forged a deep connection and Leonard gained a much better understanding of Stephen's daily life and struggles - as well as his compassion and good humour. Together they obsessed over the perfect sentence, debated the physics, and occasionally punted on Cambridge's waterways with champagne and strawberries. In time, Leonard was able to finished Stephen's jokes, chide his sporadic mischief, and learn how the hardships of his illness helped forge that unique perspective on the universe.
Leonard Mlodinow is the best selling author of The Drunkard's Walk, Subliminal and Elastic. He co-authored two books with Stephen Hawking and later wrote an acclaimed memoir, Stephen Hawking, about their time together. He has written for television, including multiple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as helping Steven Spielberg and Robin Williams make a video game. There are now over one million copies of Leonard Mlodinow's books in print.
Also by Leonard Mlodinow
Praise for Stephen Hawking
Leonard Mlodinow has done the impossible. He has skillfully woven together a thoughtful, insightful, intimate, and engaging portrait of Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our times, while being scrupulously faithful to the physics. Hawking would have been proud of this book.
Stephen Hawking was a unique scientist and person, and Leonard Mlodinow's book is a unique glimpse into how he worked and lived. As educational as it is touching, this is a deeply human look at a mind that spanned the cosmos
Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden
Hawking's collaborator retells his story with humour and fondness, and helps us know the famous scientist as he really was. . . Highly enjoyable. . . a tender account, full of genuine affection, which doesn't shy away from Hawking's intense focus, self-centredness and unpredictability
Jim Al-Khalili, Guardian
A personal and intellectual biography - and tremendously entertaining. . . Leonard Mlodinow is himself a theoretical physicist, and a brilliant writer to boot. . . Five stars
Steven Poole, Daily Telegraph
A compelling read. . . fresh and worthwhile. As a serious theoretical physicist who co-wrote two books with Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow saw the great man from a unique vantage point. He can delve into intimate details and survey the intellectual high ground
James McConnachie, Sunday Times
An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of our time. Filled with insight, humour, and never-before-told stories, it's a view of Stephen Hawking that few have seen and all will appreciate
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
Stephen Hawking surpassed science and touched the world with his transcendent genius and heroic courage that inspired millions. In this intimate memoir, his long-time friend and physics collaborator Leonard Mlodinow, one of the finest science writers of our time, shares insights into Hawking that humanizes him while also revealing what made him one of history's greatest minds
Michael Shermer, author of The Believing Brain
Startlingly good ... What really comes over is his modest delight that he made a friend of such an eminent man. Mlodinow explains the science with a clarity and an elegance. You will learn from this what you signally failed to learn from A Brief History of Time.
Despite the acclaim, there is still much to discover about Steven Hawking ... theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers an intimate glimpse inside the famous scientist's life.
Hugely enjoyable. . . fresh and compelling. Instead of the spellbound exaltation of a great mind, it is a humane and intimate portrayal of a brilliant scientist. It is also written from a special vantage point. Mlodinow, a theoretical physicist and gifted author, spent several years working with Hawking, co-writing two books. Their working sessions form the narrative backbone of this emotionally satisfying and intellectually stimulating memoir John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times
John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times
A very fine book indeed. Mlodinow is himself a physicist of some distinction, but he is also a very skilled writer. Writing of the stubbornness that enabled Hawking to pursue theoretical physics despite his motor neurone disease, he says, "It allowed his spirit to dance in the prison of his limp body." The great merit of this book is to convey so vividly the dance, the spirit and the prison
Ray Monk, New Statesman Books of the Year
Even Stephen Hawking's brain was not a computer; fellow physicist Leonard Mlodinow provides a warm and three-dimensional portrait of a brilliant and stubborn human being, rather than simply a genius in a chair
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
One of the most touching biographies of the year shows the human side of the great physicist Stephen Hawking, as seen by his friend and collaborator Leonard Mlodinow. With admirably easy-to-grasp digressions into favourite subjects such as Einstein, dark energy and black holes, Mlodinow tells us about Hawking the man
Katy Guest, Guardian Books of the Year
Daily Telegraph, Steven Poole
Guardian, Jim Al-Khalili
Leonard Mlodinow has done the impossible. He has skillfully woven together a thoughtful, insightful, intimate, and engaging portrait of Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our times, while being scrupulously faithful to the physics. Hawking would have been proud of this book
Startlingly good ... What really comes over is his modest delight that he made a friend of such an eminent man. Mlodinow explains the science with a clarity and an elegance. You will learn from this what you signally failed to learn from A Brief History of Time
Despite the acclaim, there is still much to discover about Steven Hawking ... theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers an intimate glimpse inside the famous scientist's life
Financial Times, John Paul Rathbone
A Brief History Of Time
A Promised Land
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen
Diddly Squat
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
In Order To Live
Yeonmi Park
Four Thousand Weeks
Fry's Ties
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1
Yuval Noah Harari, David Casanave


This week, The Musafir Stories speaks to up and coming instagrammer, Shikhar Lohia, who posts under the handle @upandmeandering. Shikhar is a recent graduate of Delhi university who works for an international property consultant and is based out of Delhi.
Packing - Some warm clothes and a camera!
Time of the year - Summer is the best time to visit the hills!
A chance encounter with an American couple led to one of the highlights of this trip - getting to attend the teaching of Dalai Lama!
Shikhar spent more time reading about the Dalai Lama and exploring local cuisine and culture, photographing the city.
Also on the agenda was a visit to the Bhagsu Nag temple, Bhagsu Nag falls and the famous Shiva cafe, spending time sipping on tea and talking about random things under the stars!
Do not miss a visit to the Dal lake, the namesake of the one in Kashmir. It has a unique feel to it nestled in the Deodhar trees in th backdrop of mountains!
Finally, Shikhar spent his final part of the journey volunteering with the Lha charitable trust, teaching conversational english to Tibetan refugees.
Must visit - Jimmy's Cafe for some amazing waffles, Shiva's cafe for some hot coffee by the calming waterfalls, Tibetan kitchen for some mouth-watering momos!


Browsing by Subject "AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research (AU-eJIR)"
The study presents a brief summary for the approach in teaching ear training for university student. The study reveals methodology and steps in teaching ear training for student who have different level of musical experience, knowledge, and background. The study also mentions other approaches in which ear training are taught outside the university and why other approaches are not taught in the case of private international university in Thailand.


The G4S AGM, on 5 June 2014, passed with predictable controversy. More than 10 protesting G4S shareholders and proxies were forcibly removed, in some instances by being dragged across the floor by their hands, and the shareholder questions were overwhelmingly focussed on G4S' actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), HMP Oakwood and other prisons and detention facilities which G4S are involved in globally.
When the time came for shareholders and proxies to pose questions to the Board, 26 questions were asked, of which 13 related to the OPT, significantly overshadowing the five or so questions asked on corporate issues.
This review, and particularly the independence and objectivity of its authors, was heavily challenged by shareholders and proxies. Mr Almanza had repeatedly emphasised that it was important to G4S that the authors were "independent, credible experts." But several shareholders and proxies referred to, and quoted, sections of the review which tested this. In particular, they referred to sections which seemed to imply that Palestinians themselves are responsible for violations of their human rights (in a section entitled: 'Palestinian Responsibility for Human Rights Risks', p 12) and that the campaign against G4S is a "key part of a wider strategy by the Palestinian solidarity movement to delegitimize the State of Israel" (p. 2). Seemingly undermining the value of his earlier reliance on the review's findings to absolve G4S of any responsibility for, or complicity in, human rights violations, Mr Almanza ultimately conceded that G4S does not necessarily share the view of the independent experts that it instructs.
One of the key issues that shareholders and proxies wanted addressed at the meeting was whether G4S would stand by its 2011 and 2012 commitments to withdraw from contracts involving servicing security equipment at military checkpoints, a prison and a police station in the West Bank by 2015.
Positively, G4S did confirm that it would not be renewing these contracts. However, rather than standing by its commitment to do so by 2015, Mr Almanza instead referred to three relevant contracts, which fall away at the end of 2014, 2015 and 2017, respectively. Consequently, it appears that it could now be three more years (in addition to any warranty periods, as Mr Almanza made sure to emphasise) until G4S ceases to be involved in providing services to prisons and checkpoints in the OPT, rather than one more year, in line with the 2011/2012 commitments.
Mr Almanza added, in a brief comment, that could almost have gone unnoticed, that the contract that expires in 2014, the so called 'Framework Agreement', applies not only to prison facilities in the West Bank but to "all facilities." In the face of strong evidence which suggests that child Palestinian prisoners are being held within prisons in Israel, a number of shareholders and proxies pushed for more information. When expressly asked whether by 'all facilities' Mr Almanza meant facilities in the West Bank and Israel, Mr Almanza would only repeat that the relevant contract applied to 'all facilities'; he provided no further details and so the extent of G4S' commitment remains unclear.
Further, G4S remained silent on its continuing provision of services to businesses in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Campaign pressure is therefore continuing. And it is achieving significant successes.
The G4S AGM has, again, introduced more questions than answers. There is now a pressing need to obtain clear and specific commitments from G4S on the timing of its exit from contracts in the West Bank, and the details of its exit from all Israeli prison contracts. Not only will G4S have to make satisfactory and timely commitments, but it will also have to fully realise them. Until this has been done, the international pressure on G4S will need to continue.


Development of a prototype of an immersive game set in 17th-century London that explores the relationship between science, culture, and history.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) is developing Age of Alchemy, a game exploring alchemy's "Golden Age" in Europe during the 1600s. In this era, alchemy was not a fool's quest for riches and eternal life: it provided economic opportunity, invited curiosity, and examined relationships between humankind and the natural world. Alchemy formed our current ideas about experimental scientific practices and paved the way for modern chemistry. It also impacted period literature, visual art, and music and continues to excite public imagination. Age of Alchemy draws on CHF's collections of alchemical art and rare books to produce a visually rich and historically accurate experience, awakening empathy for past individuals who used experimental work to navigate society. During this prototyping phase, we will work with playtesters and our advisory team of experts to shape key game mechanics and assess levels of audience engagement and the successful communication of our humanities themes.


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Title: Properties of Concrete with Bagasse Ash as Fine Aggregate
Author(s): B. K. Baguant
Keywords: abrasion resistance; absorption; bagasse; bleeding (concrete); carbonation; chlorides; creep properties; deformation; drying shrinkage; freeze thaw durability; modulus of elasticity; moisture content; strength; workability; Materials Research
Bagasse is the fibrous residue of sugar cane, which is burned for energy leaving various types of ashes as waste residue, of which grate ash is found to be the most suitable for use in concrete. Grate ash shows poor chemical reactivity with portland cement, making it not very effective as a pozzolan. It can, however, be used as a fine aggregate constituent of concrete. Five grades of concrete were tested, ranging from 20 to 60 MPa, to compare the performance of grate ash concrete with that of normal concrete. The use of the ash alone as fine aggregate gave harsh concrete with low workability and poor cohesion. This was improved by blending about 25 percent normal concrete sand with the ash. Bleeding was comparable with, if not generally less than, that of normal concrete. Grate ash concrete, in particular the lower strength mixes, had 10 to 18 percent higher initial drying rates and would, therefore, require more stringent curing precautions than normal concrete. Rates of strength development were comparable in the two concretes. Compressive strengths of over 80 MPa were achieved after one year with the high-strength ash concrete mixtures. But, for a given strength, the grate ash concrete requires more cement than normal concrete. In comparison with normal concrete, grate ash concrete had similar shrinkages, slightly lower modulus of elasticity, and about 40 percent lower creep deformations. For equivalent strengths, the two concretes showed similar durability properties, in terms of their resistances to mechanical abrasion, water absorption, chloride diffusion, and carbonation. However, due to the porosity of the grate ash particles, the concrete had a much better resistance to freezing and thawing attack than normal concrete, even though all concretes were non-air-entrained.

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Developers and DBAs who want an easier way to query Hadoop or Azure Blob Storage data should attend.
Polybase is Microsoft's newest way of integrating SQL Server with external systems such as Hadoop and Azure Blob Storage. In this talk, we will connect SQL Server to an on-premises Hadoop cluster as well as Azure Blob Storage, writing T-SQL queries to retrieve remote data. We will then use DMVs and other resources to tease out what the Polybase engine is doing behind the scenes. Finally, we will look at several interesting use cases for Polybase.
Polybase has been a passion of mine ever since its general release in SQL Server 2016. I've written a 26-part series (so far) on the topic and want to make data platform professionals aware of just how powerful Polybase can be.
Presentation – click up/left/down/right at the bottom right of the presentation to navigate through it. It's not all left/right – you also have to go down to see each section.
Kevin Feasel is a Data Platform MVP and Engineering Manager of the Predictive Analytics team at ChannelAdvisor, where he specializes in T-SQL and R development, fighting with Kafka, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL (curatedsql.com) and a contributing author to Tribal SQL (www.tribalsql.com). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
Forgot to add – I do like the rest of the abstract and the slides. It's a good survey of the feature.
Thanks; I appreciate the once-over. I'll have to think about a more immediately informative title.


Old city lamps became my "obsession" after my visit to Luzern, Switzerland in May 1998.
From then on, I have been trying to discover interesting old lamps in every town I visit. It is funny, but I have got the worst results in my home town Kamnik, despite the fact that there one can find some very nice samples.


TURNER Marion Kathleen Of Lacock, passed away peacefully on the 17th January 2019, aged 93 years. Funeral Service at St Anne's Church, Bowden Hill on Tuesday 12th February at 12 noon. Family flowers only please. Donations in memory of Marion for Dorothy House Hospice Care can be made at www.ajbfunerals.co.uk or may be sent care of Aaron & Jonathon Bewley Funeral Directors, 57a Pickwick Road Corsham, SN13 9BS.


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With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came From
By Ron Elving
A now-closed Irish pub in Lawrence, Mass., displayed an old "Help Wanted/No Irish Need Apply" — a common sight across the country in the mid-1800s.
With his latest round of attacks on four first-year members of Congress who are women of color, President Trump has once again touched the raw nerve of racism in American life.
He has also tapped into one of the oldest strains in our politics — the fear and vilification of immigrants and their descendants.
Although three of the four women were born in the United States, the president said they should all " go back" where they came from. That phrase has echoed down generations of nativist discourse as successive waves of newcomers have been targeted by individuals, groups and even whole political parties.
At times, the motivations have been economic, focusing on competition for jobs and such social goods as housing or welfare programs. But there has also been a recurrent theme of cultural differences – an emphasis on characteristics of religion or language that identify new arrivals as "the other."
Anti-immigration sentiments emerged in force starting in the 1830s, when U.S. citizens descended primarily from English and Scottish settlers bridled at the influx of Irish. Most of the arriving Irish were Catholic, prompting a hostile reaction among some Protestants that led to deadly riots in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The persistence of such prejudice made " No Irish Need Apply" one of the most iconic signs in the national memory.
After the Irish, the hostile reaction extended to a surge of new arrivals in the 1840s from Germany, again largely Catholic. In ethnic terms, the Irish and Germans were akin to other colonial Americans (and to immigrants arriving from Scandinavia). But they were viewed as different, clannish and hard to assimilate. They were seen as not just competing for jobs but as threatening the social, cultural and political order.
They were pilloried as susceptible to criminality and drunkenness and seen as loyal to the foreign power of the pope in Rome.
/ Nathaniel Currier via Library of Congress
In this anti-Catholic cartoon circa 1855, Pope Pius IX steps ashore the United States. Read the full captions on the Library of Congress website.
In the 1840s and 1850s, political parties formed in the U.S. to oppose the permissive immigration policies of the time. Some of these parties embraced the term "Native American," spawning the label "nativist" that has stuck to succeeding generations of immigration opponents.
Perhaps the best known of these was the American Party, which began as a semi-secret society ("The Order of the Star Spangled Banner"), with members being told to deny any knowledge of it.
When they claimed to "know nothing" of the group, they were pilloried as the "Know Nothing" party – a name that would long survive the entity itself. The party railed against the new arrivals as an economic, social and cultural threat that was bringing crime, disease, social unrest and the prospect of political takeover at the local level.
/ The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
A cartoon published in Judge magazine in 1903 is titled "The High Tide of Immigration — A National Menace," with the caption: "Immigration statistics for the past year show that the influx of foreigners was the greatest in our history, and also that the hard-working peasants are now being supplanted by the criminals and outlaws of all Europe."
The Know Nothings had attracted scores of members of the U.S. Congress at the height of their influence in the mid-1850s, stepping into the vacuum left by the collapse of the Whigs.
In 1856, they nominated Millard Fillmore, a former president and former Whig, as their national candidate. Fillmore got 21% of the popular vote but only a handful of Electoral College votes, as many of the Know Nothings crossed over to vote for John Fremont, the first nominee of the fledgling Republican Party.
The 1860s brought the Civil War and a desperate need for soldiers, leading to greater acceptance of new arrivals who were willing to join the Union Army. In the years that followed, some immigrants found acceptance as veterans, others made their way west to farm the interior or work in its burgeoning cities.
The Know Nothings were not an organized force again after the Civil War, but resistance to immigration never left the national conversation. The importation of Asians to work on the Western railroads and harvests introduced another enduring chapter of American nativism. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first legislation to restrict immigration based on nation of origin. Some of the jobs denied to Chinese workers were soon filled by Mexicans.
Toward the end of the 1800s, the flow of immigrants from Europe swelled again and changed in its origin. The new arrivals now hailed from Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as from countries that had been sending opportunity seekers across the Atlantic for generations.
The proportion of U.S. residents who were foreign-born hit 13.5% in the census report of 1911, the highest it had ever been and a level not reached again until the present decade.
When the World War I ended, anti-immigration sentiment reached a new level of intensity as it swept much of the country, helping to fuel a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan among other extremist groups.
An old association of immigration and urbanization was renewed when the census of 1920 showed immigrants had helped shift the center of U.S. population from rural areas to cities and big towns. Congress, dominated by members from rural, traditional parts of the country, simply refused to reapportion its seats and redraw election districts to reflect the new numbers.
That refusal lasted through four biennial election cycles, during which time Congress also passed an emergency ceiling on annual immigration levels and then lowered that by half again in the Immigration Act of 1924. That law set quotas by country of origin and explicitly preferred Northern Europeans over all others.
The official attitude in the 1920s and 1930s included an ambivalence toward refugees from conflicts around the world. In 1939, a German ship called the St. Louis tried to make port in Florida with more than 900 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in Germany.
U.S. officials in the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt refused to let them land. They tried to persuade Cuba to take them, but without success. The ship returned to Europe, where many of the passengers were later arrested. Researchers believe that more than 250 perished in the Holocaust.
A generation later, in 1965, Congress passed a more liberal immigration law that eliminated quotas based on nation of origin. The law sought to reunite families and level the playing field for prospective immigrants around the world – and its impact went far beyond what its sponsors might have imagined.
The proportion of foreign-born in the U.S. population rose again from just 5% in 1965 to 14% over the next half century. And these new waves of arrivals would be far more diverse than their predecessors were. They came not only from different parts of Europe but from Asia, Africa and South America as well.
By the 1970s, the political focal point was the effect the law was having on the Southwest and the influx of Mexicans and other Spanish-speaking populations. Pressure for changing the law grew as latter-day nativists again saw the new arrivals as a social, cultural and political challenge.
Many of the same arguments made against previous generations of newcomers were lodged again against Hispanics, including that they would cling to their national culture and language and refuse to assimilate.
Labor groups also sought to control the competition from workers willing to take lower wages. But there were powerful business interests, particularly from the agricultural sector, determined to preserve access to migrant workers.
In 1986, the Simpson-Mazzoli Act sought to control future immigration, but also granted amnesty to millions of the undocumented people who were already residents. President Ronald Reagan signed it into law. It was a compromise meant to appease all sides, but it satisfied few.
President George W. Bush, who had long enjoyed high levels of Hispanic support as a candidate in Texas, threw his support behind a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws in the mid-2000s. He was joined by Republican rival Sen. John McCain of Arizona and by the Democratic leadership. But conservatives more generally opposed the bill as another extension of amnesty, despite all the sponsors' denials.
Since then, the Republican Party has moved far from the Reagan-Bush-McCain attitudes on immigration and embraced the nativist tradition that has also been an element in the mix of its history back to 1856.
Declaring his presidential candidacy in June of 2015, Trump issued his much-quoted summary of immigrants:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. [sic] They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
"It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all South and Latin America, and it's coming, probably, probably, from the Middle East. But we don't know, because we have no protection, and we have no competence and we don't know what's happening."
By repeating that these immigrants are "not ... you," the president defined these immigrants as "the other" in stark terms.
In the past two days, we have seen the president return to that blunt language in describing four women who were elected to Congress in November 2018, largely on the passion of their opposition to the nativism that he, and much of his party, have embraced.
The battle lines could not be clearer. And it is a battle that is nearly as old as America itself.
Ron Elving
Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.
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We're now in our second year of using ParishOS to submit your annual vestry return and financial information.
A reminder that you are asked to fill out your annual returns on-line via the web (see the instruction for completing your 2019 Vestry Returns here). Each parish has access to their own data and the forms will be available to complete on-line until March 19th. Whatever you do, please ALWAYS remember to SAVE your data before exiting a form or the program.
Jennifer James-Phillips (ext 249) and Sophie Bertrand (ext 232) are available to help you if you have any questions. You may also assign someone from your parish to log in and fill in the data for you, but please ensure that all data is completed by March 19th. You can fill in the data as it is available to you, SAVE, and then come back and add additional information or make corrections (until the closing date when your forms will no longer be accessible).
A unique username and password was sent to you last year and is still valid. If you have forgotten or you are new and need one, please contact Jennifer James-Phillips in accounting to receive that information.
Please use that information to log on and begin inputting your data (www.parishos.anglican.ca). You will find three forms to fill out, your 2019 annual vestry returns with the names and contact information of your various officers; your 2018 financial returns, and your 2018 parochial statistics.


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It's late, I'm tired, how about an animation meme.
[x] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) IDK WHAT IT IS, MAN. I just can't handle this movie.
[x] The Little Mermaid (1989) Man, I was the little mermaid.
[x] Twice Upon a Time If you haven't seen this before, go watch it on youtube now. It's beautiful and creepy and I love it.


All Chelsea fans will be delighted to know that we have just launched a new LIVE Chelsea News Page featuring live feeds of blogs, statistics, analysis, tweets and loads of in-game information. If you can't watch the Chelsea game live then this will be the next best thing. On Blues' matchdays you will be spoilt with more information, banter and stats than you can handle so get ready to load this page up on your chosen device each and every match day.
Just go to http://chelseanews.com/blog/live/ each and every matchday for an original and truly interactive matchday experience!


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отзываов: If you buy a flat-panel TV at one of the big-box stores, they're going to try to sell you a wall-mount costing $200 or more. Don't do it. This mount is affordable, made of high-quality materials, and has a pretty good range of adjustment when it comes to tilting the screen to the right angle for your room. I hung my 46-inch Samsung LCD, and I don't worry about it a bit -- it's very secure, and was simple to install.


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Home / About Us / Vision,Mission and Objectives
AGFUND'S Vision:
AGFUND believes in the sustainability of human development and poverty alleviation and struggles to enable vulnerable groups (women and children, people with special needs, displaced people and refugees etc..) to exercise their civil rights in their communities and lead a dignified social and economic existence with improved living conditions.
AGFUND's Mission
Through the implementation of its programs, Agfund provides support to needy groups to help facilitate their full access to basic and fundamental social requirements, such as education and health care, under the umbrella of fair national and international legislations towards the prevailing of security and peace. Agfund's initiated effort to contribute without any discrimination to projects of human development, is done through the support of its Partners and is implemented, by the United Nations Development Organizations, by international and regional organizations, by governmental and NGO's bodies all over the developing world.
AGFUND's Objectives and Goals:
To contribute to the reduction of misery and the eradication of poverty focusing on the support of vulnerable and disabled groups.
To enrich the knowledge and enhance the skills of needy social segments and help them to meet requirements of the labor market and increasing their access to decent work opportunities.
Providing the essential methods for the development of women and children, by giving them access to existing public services, and giving them the means to exercise their rights.
To encourage innovation and modernization through the implementation of its programs. Agfund provides support to vulnerable groups to facilitate their full access to basic and fundamental social needs, justified by national and international legislations in areas of human development.
To have concerns related to vulnerable groups that were evacuated from their homes due to living circumstances similar to catastrophic natural conditions or war and security situation.
To initiate pioneering programs that can serve as an example and a model in various areas of human development.


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When you see a super ninja coder, words like "geek," "dweeb" or "mega-nerd" likely pop right into mind. (It's OK, we all do it.) Gabe Coyne is all that and more here at Influence Mobile. What about when you see a super ninja coder who is sporty, cool and can also design?
That's when you rub your eyes, do a triple-take and realize you're very likely having a spiritual experience.
Gabe Coyne is a rare specimen, indeed.
Not only does he know how to code, well, anything, he also harnesses his split personality to produce amazing designs and creative content. Oh, and let's not forget that he's a strapping sporty dude, who served as his high school's quarterback and has produced nothing but male offspring (four amazing little guys).
Gabe got his first taste for startups shortly after college, working as a coder for Chameleon Data. After a few years of technical wheeling and dealing, he realized that his creative genius was choked to death by data, so he began freelancing and then landed a design job on the marketing team at Varolii.
Once he'd helped rebrand Varolii, built the company's intranet and completed a bunch of snazzy design work, he transitioned to a design agency, Design Elements. This is where Gabe really started lighting the world on fire with his design work, supporting clients like Amazon, Vulcan and Green Car.
And once you know how to light the world on fire, it's kind of easy to venture out on your own. And that's just what Gabe did, politely removing the one-hour-each-way commute from his life and instead building up an impressive stable of freelance clients, both technical and creative. He even built his own content management platform, from which he built and hosted dozens of client websites.
Next, Gabe was called upon to serve, literally. He was recruited by his church to work full time on their web team and jumped at the chance, not only because he's a ridiculously good human, but it also gave him opportunity to morph himself into a rails developer.
Our ninja coderpiller blossomed into a beautiful coderfly.
Not coincidentally, this is also around the time that lots of startup founders began contacting Gabe to come co-lead their next-big-deal operations. Alas, only Daniel Todd could woo Gabe properly, because of his awesomeness.
And the rest is history. Or, history in the making, if you will.
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Four ATVs belonging to the Shriners were stolen during a break and enter in Dartmouth on Monday night.
Sometime overnight on Monday, someone broke into a storage container on Mount Hope Avenue and stole four ATVs belonging to the Philae Shriners. The machines are used to entertain children at numerous parades and other events. Three are miniature machines, one red, one grey and the other green. The fourth is a red full size machine. Each machine is decorated with flags and stickers, making them easy to identify.
These ATVs were purchased after years of fund raising and can't easily be replaced. The Shriners and Halifax Regional Police are reaching out to the public in hopes that someone will assist in returning the machines to the Shriners so they can continue to entertain children. If the person(s) who has the machines would like to return them, they can contact police anonymously and provide a location where they can be retrieved.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police at 490-5016. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling toll-free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting a secure web tip at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca or texting a tip – Tip 202 + your message to 274637.
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Refrigerator with water and ice dispenser: Best 2021 models
Today we are going to talk about the refrigerator with water and ice dispenser, an appliance that has practicality as a differential.
The water released by the dispenser is filtered inside the refrigerator itself. And you can choose whether you prefer cubed or crushed ice. As the dispenser is large, you can fill a glass or jar with water.
In addition to the ease, this feature generates savings, as you will not need to open the refrigerator and freezer door when you want cold water. Are you interested? Then check out the information we've prepared in this article.
You find two models of refrigerators with this functionality: Side By Side and French Door, refrigerators with two or three doors, respectively, which have in common the large internal space and the modern design.
The refrigerator water filter must be changed every six months, so that it continues to offer impurity-free water. The part must be compatible with the model and brand of the refrigerator.
Refrigerators with water and ice dispensers are bigger and more expensive, so you have less variety of models on sale. The best brands that manufacture these refrigerators are LG, Electrolux and Brastemp.
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Is it time to buy a new kitchen refrigerator? So you are in the right place. In this Buying Guide we will talk about the features, advantages and disadvantages of buying a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser on the door.
What are the characteristics of a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser?
Some refrigerator models offer a very interesting feature: water and ice on the refrigerator door. Before reaching the glass or jar, the water passes through the filter and system that blocks odors.
But this functionality is only present in the Side by Side and French Door refrigerators, which are the most robust, modern and technological models in the category.
What are the advantages of a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser?
Whoever buys a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser at the door is looking for practicality on a daily basis, isn't it? The equipment filters the water and still releases crushed or cubed ice.Another differential of the refrigerator with water and ice dispenser is that this model generates electricity savings, as you don't have to open the door all the time to get fresh water.
Finally, the refrigerator with water and ice dispenser is modern and has an external digital control panel, which makes it possible to change the settings of the refrigerator and freezer with the door closed. This panel features Blue Touch technology.
What is the best model of refrigerator with water and ice dispenser?
You will find two models of refrigerators with water and ice dispensers on the door: French Door and Side by Side. Want to know which model is right for your home? Analyze and compare the characteristics of each of them below.
The Side By Side refrigerator has this name, because it has two doors side by side, in one of them is the freezer and in the other the refrigerator. If you use the freezer a little, you can adjust the temperature and adapt it as a refrigerator, further expanding the possibilities of use.
This model offers great storage capacity, from 450 to 800 liters. Another difference is the digital control panel on the outside of the door.
The French Door refrigerator has three doors. The refrigerator occupies the two upper doors and the freezer the lower part (it can be one or two drawers). These configurations make this model one of the most spacious refrigerators on sale.
Another benefit is that this model is inverted, which makes it easier to reach vegetables, which are usually in the lower drawers of a common refrigerator and, in this model, are waist-high.Although large, this appliance does not need much space, as the upper doors need only 70 cm to open completely and the lower one (s) about 150 cm.
How much does a refrigerator with water and ice dispenser cost?
The refrigerator with water and ice dispenser is one of the most expensive models of refrigerators on the market. Prices range from R $ 9,300 to R $ 13,000, but some models even exceed R $ 25,000.
Where to buy a refrigerator with water and ice dispenser?
You can find refrigerators with water and ice dispensers in the best appliance stores. But after reading this buying guide, you won't even need to leave the comfort of your home to buy this device.
Our suggestion is that you take a look at Amazon. In addition to finding models from the best brands, you can compare prices and read reviews from other consumers.
Purchasing criteria: How to compare refrigerators with water and ice dispensers
Before buying a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser, it is important to analyze and compare some details regarding size, capacity in liters, energy consumption, among others. We dedicate this section to deepen this information:
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We will explain each of the items throughout this section.
A characteristic that changes from a refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser to another is the internal capacity of the refrigerator (measured in liters). It is important to choose a model compatible with your family's size and consumption.
In general, all models have ample internal space and above average capacity, but you will find options from 450 to 800 liters. This difference is greater than the capacity of a large minibar .
The refrigerator with water and ice dispenser is not a bivolt device, so you will have to decide if you prefer a model with 110/127 or 220 volts. There is no technical difference between the two, as performance and energy consumption are the same.
However, if you choose a device with a voltage of 220 volts, it is essential that the electrical wiring is compatible, that is, the cables must be thicker and the socket adequate.
Electricity consumption must be taken into account when buying a new refrigerator, as an economical appliance will prevent the increase in the electricity bill.
To check the energy efficiency of the appliance, check out the evaluation and classification made by Procel, a program created by Inmetro, to analyze the performance and energy consumption of home appliances. Give preference to devices rated A.
The design of the refrigerator with water and ice dispenser is a feature that deserves to be analyzed and compared. There are more basic models, similar to conventional refrigerators, in which the piece is all white.If you want a sophisticated and modern appliance, give preference to models with brushed or shiny stainless steel finish. You can find versions in which one of the doors is made of glass, with internal lighting.
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3 days in Pleasantville — or Charlottesville, VA – RLB Ink.
Now that I've recapped the actual race, how about a recap of our visit to Charlottesville? Steve and I had never been there but heard great things from Katharine and everything that I read on KERF.
We arrive in Charlottesville on Friday afternoon and checked into our airbnb rental. (If you've never used the site, I highly recommend it! They have yet to disappoint.) This was a small converted apartment in the back of a very large house and it was so quaint. It was about four blocks from Charlottesville's downtown open-air mall, which was the perfect distance. We parked our car on Friday afternoon and didn't use it for the rest of the weekend.
We walked to the race expo on Main Street and grabbed lunch at Baggby's, where I had turkey sandwich with stuffing and cranberry sauce. What is better than Thanksgiving in a sandwich? Not much, and this was my favorite thing that I ate all weekend. We were able to sit outside and do some solid people watching, too.
We stopped at a few shops and walked back to the apartment, hung out for a little while, ate our pre-race pasta dinner, and turned in for an early night.
After Saturday's race, I spent some time stretching on the back patio and soaking up the sun. I couldn't stop saying how cute everything is in Charlottesville. The houses, the trees, the shops, the cats that just wandered the streets—it was all just too cute.
We headed back downtown for lunch at Sal's Caffe for another outdoor lunch. Steve had a great thin-slice pizza and I went with a white-crust flatbread with ricotta, arugula, chicken and veggies. We were happy with the food and the portion sizes, which were pretty large for the prices. I wanted to celebrate with a cupcake, so we stopped at Cappellino's Crazy Cupcakes on the way back to the apartment. I had a vanilla cupcake with raspberry and lemon butter cream. It was definitely good, but didn't measure up to Midnite Confections.
After solid afternoon naps, we went to have celebratory drinks at The Whisky Jar. Be forewarned, it's called that for reason: Those drinks are strong on the whiskey! The bar was very cool and rustic, right on the edge of the Main Street mall.
We were waiting for a table at Citizen Burger Bar, whose staff was kind enough to call us when our table was ready. We were seated after an hour, and the wait was worth it. I had an antibiotic-free (LOVE!) chicken sandwich on a house brioche roll with avocado, provolone cheese, barbecue sauce, and mushrooms. I ordered the highly recommended sweet potato fries and they lived up to the expectation. I also had a Bluegrass, an infused vodka drink with elderflower and blueberry.
Steve went with an grass-fed, hormone and antibiotic free Timbercreek beef from five miles away. It was mouth-watering to look at. I can't eat red meat, but he gave it rave reviews. He went with a local beer from Blue Mountain Brewery.
The next morning, we stopped at the Blue Moon Diner per Katharine's recommendation. It was about a 30-minute wait but definitely worth it. Steve had that breakfast burrito with hashbrowns and I went with granola, yogurt, and fresh fruit. Neither disappointed and we were stuffed by the time we left.
While we may not come back to race again, Steve and I definitely want to go back to spend more time in Charlottesville. It seems like there are lots of outdoor activities and plenty of other restaurants and shops to check out, plus it's only about three hours from Baltimore.
The food looks amazing. I haven't had the pleasure of visiting Charlottesville but now I really want to if for no other reason than the food!


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Q: How to curve UIVew only top corner and not whole view in Objective C? I am new in iOS and I am facing problem regarding to curve UIView. I want to curve the radius of the top of UIView like this in the Image

As you can see the screenshot of my work view.
I am using code like this
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                          bezierPathWithRoundedRect:ViewSwapMyWork.bounds
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A: First your view should have the same height and width means it should be square, then you can do like this,
[ViewSwapMyWork.layer setCornerRadius:ViewSwapMyWork.frame.size.width/2];
[ViewSwapMyWork.layer setMasksToBounds:YES];

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Thomas Muller and Fergal O'Brien
A Spanish union representing Nestle workers is pushing back against calls for a boycott of Catalan products, saying that punishing a major employer in the region with separatist ambitions could backfire on the country's economy.
The UGT union, which represents employees in sectors ranging from food processing to mining, said on its website that it opposes any move to shun Nestle products such as Nescafe and Viladrau bottled water.
Nestle is one of Catalonia's biggest private employers, with four of its 10 Spanish production sites based in the region, as well as its country headquarters.
"We are calling for common sense and the end to any boycott or move that obstructs the normal sale of Nestle products," the UGT said.
"Behind the brand, there are thousands of jobs that shouldn't be put at risk and which support many families across all of Spain," it said.
Calls to shun emblematic Catalan brands have often erupted elsewhere in Spain whenever separatist sentiment simmered up in the northeastern region.
They've spread anew via Twitter and Facebook amid ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont's attempt to secede. Typically Catalan products such as cava face the brunt of the boycotts, but this time Nestle has been drawn in.
The Swiss company employs more than 4,930 people in Spain, where it got more than €2bn of revenue in 2016, according to Nestle's local website.
In addition to those direct jobs, Nestle helps give work to thousands of Spaniards indirectly through its purchases of goods and services, the UGT said.
Other multinationals that have faced calls for boycotts include Danone, which bottles Font Vella water near Girona.
The UGT has spoken up in defence of the French yoghurt maker as well, condemning the boycotts.
Meanwhile, Spain's services industry's took a hit last month during the crisis in Catalonia, dealing a blow to one of the eurozone's best-performing economies.
IHS Markit's monthly gauge fell the most in more than two years, dropping 2.1 points to 54.6, according to new data. While the gauge still signals growth, that's the weakest reading since January and far below the median forecast of economists.
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Wouldn't you know it: Auburn's an hour of football away from its first national championship in 54 years, and now this.
And now Nick.
That's right, Alabama coach Nick Saban, the Anti-Christ of all things AU, is offering his take to the ESPN audience on Monday's championship game between Oregon and his biggest rival.
Despite Saban's credentials -- he's won two of the things, including last year's, and this year's Alabama team played Auburn off its feet for a half before losing -- some members of the Auburn family aren't happy about the coach's new role.
In fact, the criticism flowing up from East Alabama has been such that an ESPN spokesman felt it necessary to address it in this chat with Birmingham News columnist Kevin Scarbinsky.
To borrow a phrase from our intrepid Auburn poster J, Mr. Clinched Butt Cheeks may soon reveal that he has a highly active set of vocal chords. Woll Eagle.
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Let Mr. Clinched Butt Cheeks blab all he wants. All I care about is a win.


The annual return visit to Ballybrit this Halloween weekend was another enjoyable outing. 25 of our members –smaller number than usual – boarded our bus on a very cold Bank holiday Monday. A few arrived with their newspapers and seemed to be very determined this time to beat the bookies by studying form. The rest of us were happy enough to take our chances and hope to make a fortune by merely sticking a pin in the right spot.!
After a welcome glass of mulled wine in the comfort of the Millennium Stand, we enjoyed a beautiful four-course meal. Then began the serious business of studying form of horses, trainers and jockeys in an effort to pick a winner. Even though the amount gambled wasn't too big, it was exciting to watch our horse first past the post.
Everybody was happy as we boarded the bus for home. Even though nobody made a fortune or lost their shirt, it proved to be a very enjoyable way to spend a Bank Holiday Monday afternoon.
Until the next time P.G.
arrival at the hotel we were greeted by the Manager Patrick and Chairperson of the Western Region Deirdre Hogan followed by Tea Coffee and Scones .As we were familiar with the hotel since last year we weren't long settling in,meeting friends from other A.R.A.s The hotel itself had many activities laid on for us over the three days such as Aqua-aerobics, Social Dancing Card Games etc.


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I'm sure our nursery plan will change a lot in the coming weeks as we get to work on all of the home changes we need to make, but I wanted to share our initial plan for the nursery for our second baby. I'm hoping to achieve a soft, somewhat modern nursery on a budget with a few whimsical touches for baby boy.
My inspiration comes from a few key needs. I want the nursery to be soothing which is why I chose a minty green for this design board. The paint color is still very up in the air.
That dark Turkish Tile Pantone swatch is pretty much out of the running, but may make an appearance as an accent.
I want to use as many items as we can from our home without spending money. I want to keep the carpet that we have in the room. I much prefer hardwood floors, but Bodhi learned to walk on hardwood and it was stressful all the time. We decided that carpet, while not as pretty, is just so much more comfortable for a baby.
I want to do this on a ridiculously tight budget. After having Bodhi, I now know that we will likely be doing a "big boy room" in just a year or two, so I want to be very careful with our budget on this one. Lastly, I care most about organization and storage. We don't have the awesome built-in dresser we had with Bodhi here, but I think we can replicate it in some ways. Still working through the changing table/storage piece of this and hoping an Ikea hack or Craigslist find solves a few of our challenges.
I plan to reuse our crib but I am going to paint the bottom wood part with safe paint. Obviously, we'll be adding art and other elements too, but this gives you a look at the basic feel we're going for.
Crib: Babyletto Modo. We already own this.
Glider: DwellStudio Myles. We own this after finding a floor model on Craigslist. So lucky! Spent about a quarter of the price.
Mint cart: Ikea. We already own.
White and silver canopy: Home Sweet Play Home from Land of Nod. I love that this piece adds a floor to ceiling attraction and is a great spot for a reading nook for B while I'm feeding or caring for the baby.
Plastic rocking armchair (Eames knockoff): Hayneedle.
Star pillow pile: Collette Bream on Etsy.
Cloud mobile: Shop Littles on Etsy.
Book initial: My friend Katie makes these with old books and saws. Hoping to skip Anthro prices and beg her for one. ;) She made our family one recently and we love it!
Mint and tan basket with cover: Land of Nod. I won't be paying this price. I found one that would work well at Target for around $20 and I'll keep my eyes peeled at World Market and Home Goods as well.
What do you think? I have a few other design boards coming up in the next few weeks.
9 Responses to "Boy nursery design inspiration board: Cloud, stars and sky theme"
I love the colors! It looks like it'll be very soothing and cozy!
Everything looks so cute Jes! You know I love the IKEA pieces and there just might be another letter book headed your way. I didn't know Anthro had them. THEY COPIED ME!
It's funny how high "practicality" ranks with #2! I think you've done a great job creating a calm peaceful space with character. Love the color combo and all the cute handmade/etsy touches! Can't wait to see what other designs your'e considering!!
It totally does! I just want it to be a little cute at the same time!
love all the picks! so cute.
This looks so serene and peaceful, I love it!


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