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The linker attempts to place input sections into specific execution regions. For any input sections that cannot be resolved, and where the placement of those sections is not important, you can specify where the linker is to place them.
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- Specify the maximum size for an execution region that the linker can fill with unassigned sections.
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Command-line options for controlling the placement of unassigned sections.
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India Blind To New Realities
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New Dynamics Are In Place
India cannot fathom the new ground realities
By Moin Ansari
As Tomas Kunh said a long time ago "The paradigm has shifted, and when the paradigm shifts, everything goes back to zero". The world watched (pun intended) aghast as the Swiss watch making industry was decimated by an electronic watch marketed by TI and Casio. Ironically the electronic watch was invented by the Swiss themselves. Within years 60% of the Swiss labor force had to scramble to find non-existent jobs.
In another paradigm shift the books on international relations had to be rewritten and map makers had to work overtime to paint the new realities. The planet watched the demise of the USSR and the liberation of Central Asia Republics and the unity of Germany. The profound change dissolved the dreams of Catherine the Great of reaching the warm waters of the Arabian Sea. Pakistan as a new custodian of those waters breathed a sigh of relief.
The impending US withdrawal and its "coopetition" with China is another paradigm shift which transforms South and Central Asia. Pakistan has been building its relationship with China for decades. It was a gift born out of the blunders of Nehru in Kashmir and Tibet. If Nehru had not triggered belligerency with Pakistan and China in 1948, the world would have been different. However he and other politicians in Delhi had an opportunity to build Asia–they tried to build Akhand Bharat–aggravating each and every one of their neighbors. Today Bharat faces a foreign policy Armageddon–but it is one of its own making. It cannot see Pakistan. It wants to devour Bangladesh, Sikkim and Bhutan. It wants to colonize Afghanistan. It wants to step on Lanka. It wants to bamboozle Nepal. The chickens have come home to roost. In an opportunistic move to please Israel and America it betrayed Iran, and that betrayal will cost it Afghanistan. All have teamed up and want nothing to do with Bharat. Even Afghans in the Kabul palaces want Delhi out. The sad thing is in instigating trouble in all its neighbors, it has rocked the boat internally. Bharat faces colossal issues within its boundaries.
The Times of India is one of the most vocal critics of anything Pakistani. This week the chagrin has been more vitriolic than usual. Perhaps it is chagrined by the Pakistani deftness in Afghanistan, or it is pure hatred of anything to do with Islamabad–one can never tell. This much is certain, the entire Bharati (aka India) media is in a tizzy fit about Bharat's diminished role and imminent eviction from Pakistan. South block and the entire Bharati diplomatic corps are seeing the world change in front of them, and they can't seem to do anything about it. Mad dashes to Riyadh, Tehran, and Beijing have come to naught.
Delhi seems to represent a rejectionist front all on its own. No other country has joined the "stay the course in Afghanistan". The world seems to have rejected the Delhi notion of "no compromise in Afghanistan", no "talks with Pakistan", and no "Nuclear deals with China".
The Planet wants a Pan-Afghan solution, certainly the Afghans want it. The neighbors want it, and Pakistan desires it. Pakistan and Afghanistan are natural partners with a built in mechanisms to unite. What's more important is that the US, the UK and Europe have bought into it and just want a face saving exit from Kabul.
Delhi's think tanks are beyond panic on the NSGs silence, and the American wink wink nod nod whispered acquiescence of China's policy of helping Pakistan. Many analysts have actually said that President Obama has asked China to help Pakistan in energy and other fields. Some international think tanks also say that the US and China have held a "Malta" type of conference and allocated areas of influence–and Asia and Africa falls in the Chinese lap, while Europe and the Americas fall under American influences. In other words Bernard Lewis's map of the Confucian power is being implemented.
The Bharati media is stung not by the Nuclear deal, but by the fact that the NSG simply ignored Delhi. Delhi pulled all the stops in its opposition to the Pakistan-China deal–and ended up in knots. Neither the US, nor any of the European countries seem to be concerned about the Pakistani-China deal. Only Delhi is jumping up and down antagonizing Beijing, irritating the US, and pouring water on the peace process with Pakistan. Bharat's stance in front of the NSG is comical–it goes something like this "make an exception for us, but not for anyone else, be it Pakistan or Iran". In Psychiatric terms, Delhi's self image differs dramatically from the image others have of it–when the images are very different, it is a true sign of lunacy. Bharat sees itself special. Other powers see it as a bully, a paper tiger, and a spoilt brat—a naked penury strken one with a distended stomach. Bharat sees itself as a huge powerful elephant. These two images cannot be reconciled by a $42 billion Call Center industry–which affects 6 million Bharatis only. Its the other billion that overwhlems the world–its the other billion which are not shown on Bollywood and which doesn't seem to exist for the Delhi politicians. The Delhi politicians are busy projecting power when huge cavities in Kashmir, Assam and Naxal control area sap the strenght of any argument that emanates from Bharat.
The TOI report had a horrid headline. However the roundup of the news from Pakistan is a true representation of the level of consternation in Delhi. The Bharati media was championing Incredible India which would rule the world. Egged on by the religious right, the sensational newspapers reported the Neocon nonsense and the naive Bharati population lapped it up.
When the rubber hit the road, Bharat discovered that Condaleeza Rice could coronate Bharat as a super power, even if she wanted to. Slumdog pured water on the dreams and the aspirations of the irredentist and revanchist media weaned on the Indian National Congress propaganda machine which projects a hyperbolic version of the future of Bharat. Foreign Leaders know what the Bharati media wants to hear. They say the right words and then laugh their way to the bank.
Meager success in the past decade has given the media a false sense of security. The hubris and arrogance is unfathomable and very nonsensical. No America president or European Prime Minster is as arrogant an ordinary two-bit Bharati bureaucrat.
The TOI report below is a treat to read, because it gives a real vignette of what Bharati's are thinking. Mr. Zardari has a strong government supported by a friendly opposition, by the army and by the international media. Calling Mr. Zardari names simply informs us that the TOI is frustrated at the success of the Zardari government in dismantling Delhi's designs in the neighborhood.
The China National Nuclear Corporation recently announced that China would set up two power reactors in Pakistan. It was a move that raised India's hackles.
Iran and China forge stronger relationship with Pakistan
TOI, the Bharati media and the Delhi establishment seem to have discovered the C-3, and C-4 Nuclear plants as "new deals". Rupee News has been reporting on them for years. Mr. Zardari's trip to China has little to do with C-3 and C-4, that was already presented by China to the NSG as a fait accomplii. Mr. Zardari's trip was multifaceted and profound in many ways. It has engaged China in economic, industrial, housing, and transit ventures which will literally transform all of Asia. The Trans-Korakoram rail link will be an engineering feat and will connect Xinjiang, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan etc to the warm waters of the Arabian sea. This was the dream of Catherine the Great and one of the visions of Mao Zedung.
The rail and road links will enhance trade, and commerce along the silk route. While the Bharati media discusses the 150 km road in Afghanistan day in and day out–it cannot appreciate or fathom the engineering marvels that are going on in the Karakorums. The trip now allows two additional points of contact between China and Paksitan. These three links have colossal potential and will help China in getting its goods to the sea quickly and rapidly.
The TOI articles are myopic only about the Nuclear deal which was signed a decade ago–before the Indo-US deal. Bharat's brouhaha about the Sino-Pakistani deal is an acknowledgement of Pakistan's Nuclear status and the growing Sino-Pakistani relationship. Noise from Delhi has highlighted Pakistan's civilian nuclear deal which will encourage other countries to follow suit. The US is on the fence–and has moved from a "solid no" to a "maybe" to a "soon" to a "OK" stance. It needs a little more encouragement, and will award Pakistan parity—just like the NSG has done. Read more of this post

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* C$ finishes at C$0.9428 vs US$, or $1.0607
* Bond prices rally, long end lags U.S. Treasuries
TORONTO, July 26 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar rose to its best level in more than three and a half years against the U.S. currency on Tuesday, as debt fears in the United States continued to slam the greenback.
The Canadian currency CAD=D4 climbed as high as C$0.9407 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0630. This was its strongest level since November 2007, when it hit a modern-day high.
The U.S. dollar skidded broadly as U.S. lawmakers showed no sign of reaching a compromise that would enable the debt ceiling to be raised, fanning default fears and dimming the greenback's prospects. [FRX/]
"The usual focus on the U.S. debt ceiling talks has really driven the markets today," said Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities.
"It is not entirely clear whether we're going to get an agreement and, if we get an agreement, what the markets will make of it. And it is just the uncertainty of the situation that is really weighing on investors' sentiment."
The Canadian dollar CAD=D4 finished the session at C$0.9428 to the U.S. currency, or $1.0607, up from Monday's North American close at C$0.9458 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0573.
In recent weeks analysts have said Canada is increasingly being viewed by global investors as a safe haven, valued for its political stability, solid central bank and relatively healthy finances, in addition to its resource base.
Commodity prices such as oil also rallied on a weaker U.S. dollar. The Canadian currency often moves in tandem with commodity prices because Canada is a major exporter of natural resources.
Still, Osborne noted the Canadian dollar underperformed other commodity-linked currencies, like those of Sweden, Norway and Australia.
Canadian government bond prices rallied, taking their cue from U.S. Treasuries, which gained as U.S. stock market declines renewed the safe-haven bid for bonds, despite nagging worries over a possible U.S. default. [US/]
The two-year Canadian government bond CA2YT=RR rose 4.5 Canadian cents to yield 1.483 percent, while the 10-year bond CA10YT=RR rose 33 Canadian cents to yield 2.894 percent.
Canadian bonds broke with their recent trend and underperformed at the long end. The Canadian 10-year yield was 6.1 basis points below its U.S. counterpart, compared with 7.2 basis points below on Monday. (Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson and Rob Wilson)
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Fox 5 News graphic IDs Obama as rape suspect, apology comes 48 hours later
Fox 5 News identifies President Barack Obama as a suspect in a San Diego rape case, then takes 48 hours to apologize for the error.
February 16, 2015 -- Fox News outlets have a long history of graphics fails.
Tina Fey photo displayed during Sarah Palin report
Fox News; We Report. You Decidde
(Sex) Change You Can Believe In?
Rep. Joke Sestak?
... to highlight but a few.
But it's the Fox News geography fails that are the most entertaining:
Carlsbad City, California in West Africa?
Someone tell Fox Sports that Baghdad is in Iraq
And that New Hampshire isn't Vermont, much like Nevada isn't Utah (two other states that Fox has gotten confused on occasion).
But Fox's latest error is a doozy, as on Friday February 13, 2015, viewers of Fox 5 News (San Diego) heard anchor Kathleen Bade say: "The only suspect in a sex assault at SDSU [San Diego State University] will not be charged." At the same time, a picture of President Barack Obama appeared with the legend NO CHARGES.
There was no immediate on-air acknowledgment or apology for the error. In fact, it took 48 hours for the station to acknowledge the mistake.
At 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Fox 5 anchor Misha DiBono read this statement: "Friday night at 10 o'clock, we inadvertently used a photo of President Obama while reporting on a story about charges being dropped in a local case. We regret the error."
The station also posted a note on its website, headlined: An Apology to Our Viewers:
Last Friday night during KSWB-TVs 10 p.m. newscast, we inadvertently displayed a photo of President Obama while reporting a local story on the police dropping charges in an ongoing criminal case. The mistake was unintentional. On Sunday's 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts we delivered an on-air apology for the mistake. As we said then, we regret the error and apologize to our viewers for making it.


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Our restaurant serves authentic, home-style Lebanese and Middle-eastern cuisine which can be shared with friends, family and colleagues. The recipes our chefs have created have been taken from our mothers and grandmothers from when we were children.
As well as our traditional food we also have a fun and relaxed approach. Our restaurant welcomes everyone for any occasion and our décor, food, hospitality and entertainment reflect that.
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Our food can be enjoyed at home or the office, or anywhere else. You can order a takeaway from us whenever we are open. If you are in a two mile radius of EC2M and spend £15 or more we can deliver our food to you.


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"Kedi" Audio released
The Audio of the music of "Kedi" composed by Sandeep Chowtha has been released at a function organized in Hyderabad on Thursday. The Audio cassettes and CDs have been released by Nagarjuna and presented the first numbers to Mamta Mohandas. The film has a remix version of the song Mu Mu Muddhante Cheda, a popular ANR song from the 1969 film "
The film "Kedi" stars Nagarjuna and Mamta Mohandas in the lead roles and produced by D Shiva Prasad Reddy under the banner of Kamakshi Kala Movies and Kiran is making his debut as director.
The film "Kedi" is being planned for release in the first week of February.
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Fireboy and Watergirl 2: The Light Temple
Description: FireBoy and WaterGirl are back in a new adventure and this time they are taking on the Light Temple!
Instructions: Use the keyboard to move Fireboy and Watergirl through the maze and collect the diamonds on their way to the exits. The A,W,S,D keys move Watergirl and the arrow keys move Fireboy. Since fire and water don't mix, be sure to not let Fireboy go in the water lakes and don't let Watergirl go in the fire lakes... And keep them both out of the green lakes.
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Inaugural Austin Carr Charity Golf Classic Set
Proceeds to benefit March of Dimes, minority scholarships.
April 27, 2000
* Ways To Join The Winning Team!
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — The first Austin Carr Charity Golf Classic will be held Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000, at the new Warren Golf Course at the University of Notre Dame.
The event is sponsored by the Austin Carr Foundation, with proceeds to benefit a University of Notre Dame minority scholarship fund in Carr's name, the March of Dimes and the Center for the Homeless.
The weekend begins with a celebrity reception at 7:00 p.m. EST, on Friday, Sept. 15, at the Warren Golf Course clubhouse. Following the Notre Dame-Purdue football game at Notre Dame Stadium the following day, a charity dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. EST Saturday, also at the Warren Golf Course clubhouse. Then, on Sunday, golf begins with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. EST.
Celebrities already committed to participating in the event include former Notre Dame basketball standouts Bruce Flowers, Bob Arnzen, Bill Hanzlik and Gary Brokaw, former Irish football stars Nick Eddy, Ross Browner, Creighton Miller, Tony Rice, Jim Seymour and Willie Townsend, Notre Dame executive vice president Rev. E. William Beauchamp, C.S.C., former Irish football offensive coordinator and Westwood One color commentator Tom Pagna and former St. Louis Cardinal quarterback Jim Hart.
Corporate foursomes are available for $2,000 each. Anyone interested in playing or in corporate sponsorships can contact Joel Piekarski, Advantage Golf, 1606 East Turkeyfoot Lake Road, Akron, OH 44312, or call 330-899-9319.
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Carr, currently the director of business and community development for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association, remains the all-time leading career scorer in Notre Dame basketball history. He finished with 2,560 points between 1968-71 — helping him earn national player of the year honors as a senior in 1970-71 from the Associated Press and United Press International.
He still ranks as the most prolific scorer in the history of the NCAA basketball tournament, thanks to his 41.3-point average in seven NCAA games. He holds the NCAA tournament single-game record with 61 points vs. Ohio University in '70, posted three of the top five scoring performances in tournament history and still holds six NCAA tournament records.
A three-year starter at guard for the Irish, the 6-3 Washington, D.C., product (Mackin High School) averaged 22.0 points for the Irish as a sophomore, 38.1 as a junior and 37.9 as a senior, helping the Irish to NCAA appearances each of those seasons to go with records of 20-7, 21-8 and 20-9. He finished second nationally in scoring as both a junior and senior and his career 34.6 scoring mark ranks second all-time.
The first player chosen by the Cavaliers in the 1971 NBA draft, Carr made the NBA all-rookie team in '72 after averaging 21.2 points his first season. He finished with 10,473 career points, playing nine seasons in Cleveland, then one with Washington and Dallas in 1980-81. He received the Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 1980 from the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America for superior accomplishments in community affairs.
Active with the community's literacy program as a spokesman for "Stay-in-School," Carr also hosts the pre-game show on the Cavs' radio broadcasts and participates with the Cavs' Legends Team.
A '71 Notre Dame graduate in economics, Carr, his wife Sharon and children Jason and Ashley reside in suburban Cleveland.


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Segregation distorters (also known as drive genes) are selfish genetic elements with a natural fitness advantage – they are passed to greater than fifty percent of offspring in the next generation, breaking Mendel's first law of inheritance.
In nature, drive genes may fix in populations, or be maintained through frequency dependent selection if they have a fitness cost or are suppressed by other genes. If on a sex chromosome, spread of a drive gene could lead to local population extinction as the sex associated with the non-driving chromosome becomes rare.
In recent decades there has been interest in using drive genes in natural populations – particularly mosquitoes – as population control measures. Their natural fitness advantage, however, leads to a problem.
If unchecked, a drive gene could feasibly spread outside a target population, leading to unintended ecological consequences. As a result, there is interest in creating transgenic drive systems containing a "check" so that impacts are kept local.
In a recent paper, John Marshall and Bruce Hay (Marshall and Hay, 2014) propose the use of a synthetic two locus sex-linked drive system they call Medusa for control of Anopheles mosquitoes. Each sex chromosome carries a cassette expressing a toxin and an antidote to the toxin on the other chromosome. On the X is a 2-gene transgene with a maternal toxin gene (MT1) and a zygotic antidote gene (ZA2). On the Y is a 2-gene transgene consisting of a zygotic toxin gene (ZT2) and a zygotic antidote gene (ZA1).
Hence, only males inheriting both transgenic chromosome are viable. Because the X toxin is expressed and deposited into eggs (maternal), female X carriers are viable, but will only produce offspring with males carrying the Y antidote/toxin, and all their surviving offspring will be male.
Thus, like natural sex-chromosome drive systems, Medusa can in principle cause a population crash by skewing the sex ratio. Sex linkage prevents recombination from creating resistant individuals and allows all-male releases to introduce the gene into populations, which is advantageous as male mosquitoes do not feed on blood and consequently are not disease vectors.
Using a modeling approach, Marshall and Hay demonstrate that Medusa should spread in target populations but fail to spread into non-target populations.
As the transgene pair spreads, the population will begin to skew towards males. When a threshold frequency is reached the will population crash.
At the same time, invasion of a few carriers of Medusa into a neighboring population should not occur, because the threshold for transgene spreading is fairly high: >42% of males must carry both transgenes, or Medusa will fail to spread because female carriers paired with wild type males produce no offspring.
The introduction of an actual Medusa system into real populations remains to be done, however all of the components have been shown to function in Drosophila.
Marshall and Hay propose to keep the transgenes in a stock carrying both cassettes, with the addition of an antidote to each toxin also present on the same chromosome. However, the antidotes can be removed after tetracycline induction of a FLP recombinase, which will also induce expression of a different selectable marker (e.g. GFP/RFP) for the X and Y transgenic chromosomes. After induction, males expressing both markers will be viable, and can then be released.
This is an interesting and creative use of transgenic insect technologies.
Marshall JM, Hay BA (2014) Medusa: A Novel Gene Drive System for Confined Suppression of Insect Populations. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102694. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102694
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Improve your mental fitness – the Tony Robbins way
Prepare for the Day in 10 Minutes
Mornings can be especially stressful for people who have a heavy workload throughout the day, says Robbins. Because of this, he created a process he calls Priming, a ritual that takes about 10 minutes. "If you don't have 10 minutes for yourself at the beginning of the day, then you've already lost," he says. "Our brains have been conditioned for survival and not for happiness. So we need to do a little rewiring."
Take three minutes to be grateful (think of this like meditation) for your life, both the big and the small. It can be something simple, like the wind on your face or a child's smile.
Take three minutes to give thanks for your body and the people you love.
Take three minutes to visualize three goals that you want to accomplish in your day. Then see them as completed. This will help you program your nervous system out of fearing potential failure, and sometimes even unlock the solutions.
Always Look to Learn
He plays life coach to hundreds of thousands of people a year, but Robbins is the first to admit that he is still learning, himself. "I've been doing this for 39 years," he says. "But if I meet a meet a couple who has been together for 50 years and still having great sex, I'm going to ask them their secret."
Find Places That Inspire You
Robbins travels the world for his seminars, but when he's seeking tranquility he heads to Fiji. "There are incredible waterfalls there that are incredibly moving," he says. Following a visit, he decided to buy a home and even open his own Namale Plantation Resort, in the town of Savusavu. "The people there have developed an incredible community. Strangers will smile at you, and there is always music in the air. Find a place that makes you want to be outdoors as much as possible."
Eat for Your Overall Health
Formerly a vegan, Robbins had a medical scare when he started introducing fish to his diet and suffered extreme mercury poisoning. "I almost died," he says. "I was eating swordfish and tuna and built an incredibly painful amount of mercury in my blood. I recommend that anyone who eats fish should get a blood test when they can." Now his diet consists mostly of vegetables and small amounts of land-based protein throughout the week. "It is important to eat your veggies."
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Nanda Wanninayaka, the Chairman of Horizon Lanka Foundation.
Prakash Chandra Nayak from Odisha, India became a friend of mine over a decade ago. Our friendship was strengthened once we discovered that Odisha (Ancient name Kalinga) and Sri Lanka have a historical link which runs back 2,500 years.
This friendship has resulted in Prakash granting benefits to the students of Horizon Lanka Foundation during the last couple of years.
- Prakash arranged a fully funded trip for a female student,
Shanika Sudarshanage to make a presentation at an event held in New Delhi, India on November 30, 2014. Please read the teenage student Shanika's tour report at http://www.horizonlanka.org/en/blog/2014/11/21/tour-india-take-part-international-toilet-day-festival-shanika-ishanthi-sudarshanage/.
- On September 21, 2016, another teenage girl, Sanduni Jayathilaka was sponsored through Prakash's contacts to attend a similar event in New Delhi, India. Sanduni did a presentation at the event. See her story at http://www.horizonlanka.org/en/blog/2016/09/30/trip-new-delhi-india-presentation-sanitation/
- In 2017, another teenage girl, Tharushika Rathnayaka was invited to make a similar presentation in Cape Town, South Africa. Even though the trip was fully funded. Unfortunately, due to a problem of obtaining visa approval on time resulted in a last-minute cancellation of her tour.
Having seen our YouTube Channel for aesthetic expressions, Horizon Extravaganza, Prakash invited two of our best teenage girls, Prabodha Kalotuwawa and Pramodhya Gunarathna, who are extremely good at singing and dancing to grace the Mystic Kalinga Music Festival in Odisha, India to be held on January 5, 6, in 2019, where performers from each Indian State gather to perform. To get an invitation to such a big event itself is a privilege. Since the tour was arranged in a hurry, Prakash will not be able to get the organizers to cover the expenses for flight tickets this time, however, the rest of the expenses would be taken care of during the event.
Prabodha and Pramodhya will be performing one Sri Lankan traditional dance, will sing one Odia language duet together and a Hindi dance at the event. They have already completed the training for these singing & dancing acts and will upload these video clips to this page in a few days.
This is a humble request & appeal to everyone who follows activities of Horizon Lanka to contribute financially to the travel expenses, to make it possible for these two young girls to partake in this festival. We have already received some donations from a few donors. Every single contribution however small will be much appreciated. Please contact me at email@example.com on how to make a contribution. Once the event is over, I will send a detailed report on how your hard-earned money was spent.
Prakash has already made arrangements for both these girls to study at a university in Odisha, India once the two girls complete their high school (Advanced Level.) examinations. Prabodha & Pramodhya are 15 & 14 years old respectively. A private school in Anuradhapura has offered tuition-free education at the school for both girls beginning January 2019, for their 'Advanced Level' examinations in the English medium as part of preparing the two girls for an English language education at an Indian university. If any of you kindly wish to contact Prakash, just send me an email through email@example.com and I will connect you with him.
Till that see their performances with other students of Horizon Academy – Mahawilachchiya at the "Rainbow of Cultures – Horizon Lanka Mega Concert – 2016" held in November, 2016. Prabodha was 13 and Pramodhya was 12 when this show was staged.
Prabodha choreographed all the dance items here herself, sometimes taking some steps from the original music videos or creating her own in most cases. Each dance item was videoed from three video cameras and we will edit this soon and have one edition from each item.
- Welcome Dance
- Ran Pokunen
- Dethata Walalu
- Barso Re Megha Megha
- Taal Se Taal
- Surangana Wes Wala
All the Western dance items below were co-choreographed by Probodha and Mr. Chandler Meek-Owens, the volunteer from the USA.
- Mr. Boombastic
- Macarina
- Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny
- Livin La Vida Loca
- Lambada
- Waka Waka
- Gangnam Style
- Marina
- Thriller


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Ag Weather Forum
Harvest Weather Outlook
Producers almost completed harvesting soybeans in most Midwest states last week because they had enough fieldwork days available. Producers will now turn their attention to the corn harvest, which is running well behind normal in most states. Both Minnesota and Iowa are reporting a corn harvest running about two weeks behind normal. There were also reports of high winds in the western Midwest causing some corn stalk breakage and ear loss.
The harvest weather outlook for the Midwest during the next seven days is mixed. The weather pattern is expected to be unsettled with only light precipitation events in the western Midwest while more light-to-moderate events are expected in the east. This will allow some progress to be made, but not at a rapid pace. The good news is that we do not see any significant snow events for the Midwest that would have a major impact on the harvest.
Planting progress for winter wheat in Oklahoma and Kansas has improved significantly during the past week and should near completion during the next seven days under favorable weather conditions. Soil moisture is adequate in most of the Southern Plains for emergence and pre winter development of the crop.
We are seeing an improvement in the weather pattern in central Brazil. After a two-week period of hot/dry weather during October that significantly slowed planting and may force some soybean replanting, we are now seeing signs of the development of a more regular rainfall pattern. As we have said before we have never seen a drought in central Brazil during the heart of their growing season. However, we could see a situation this year where producers are not able to plant as much second crop corn due to the late development of the soybean crop.
The weather pattern remains quite favorable for corn planting in central Argentina with a mix of dry and wet days. Soybean planting will likely start soon.
Michael Palmerino can be reached at email@example.com
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Clues From Your Zodiac Sign
Comes a time in your life when you're deciding where to live. Maybe you are on the move, or are deciding where to live close to your workplace, or where you're suited to establish a home to raise a family. Did you know that using your astrological birth chart will provide you the blueprint of your future domicile? The stars may tell you where you are best suited.
So what draws you to a certain place? Your elemental nature is a start. Let's take a peek at the birth chart which can offer clues.
Fire sign people are those under the Zodiac signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. The Fire element is one of spontaneity, inspiration, intuition, and big passions. Fiery people are excitable, impulsive, and love to light a fire under others. They want to be in the middle of the action, stimulation, and so prefer dynamic big cities that never sleep, like Manhattan, for example. They like places with a special character that's renown, or a place of seekers, movers and shakers. If you're such a person, you like to move and love wide open spaces.
Earth sign people are under Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo. They crave green, fertile locales with lots of wild terrain to explore. The Earth element is one of rooting in, crafting, and conserving and is highly connected to the senses. They are oriented toward reality, often making them very productive and able to create tangible results. Practical earth folk choose places that make sense, for making a living and creating some stability. If you are an Air sign person, you love places where you can live and work at the same time.
Air sign people are Libra, Aquarius, and Gemini. They are the "idea people," who breeze in and offer fresh perspectives. They're often seeing from a loftier position, and able to offer clarity that others don't have. Airy folks thrive in cultural meccas or in places with panoramic views; are drawn to lively crossroads and hubs, where great ideas are hatched and refined. A town like San Francisco, with its micro-climates in appealing, different neighborhoods, is attractive to air signs' love of variety and constantly shifting weather.
Water sign people Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces are lured to water ways and places like coastal towns, islands bays and inlets, near lakes and rivers. Water signs are submerged in their surroundings, often sensing the hidden emotional reality. These people are attuned to waves of emotion, able to read moods. Sensitive to relationships, they know when to show warmth and when to hold back. They have to work harder, though, than other elements to maintain their personal boundaries. Watery folk go by how they feel, and the kind of community they want to create.
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A law governing the trade in endangered plants and animals has come into effect 11 years after passing through the Legislative Assembly.
The law brings Cayman closer to compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, but the law will need updates to bring the islands into full compliance by a 2016 deadline or Cayman could face trade restrictions.
The treaty, which most countries in the world are party to, requires local legislation to control the import and export of endangered species.
According to Minister of Environment Wayne Panton, the law creates a framework for species such as black coral and queen conch, which are listed in the treaty as endangered.
"We must have proper mechanisms in place that allow local vendors, who sell these products to international clients, to trade in these species in ways that are completely compliant with the CITES framework," Mr. Panton said in a press release this week.
The Endangered Species (Trade and Transport) Law 2004 replaces earlier endangered species protection laws. Gina Ebanks-Petrie, director of the Department of Environment, said the law also works alongside the new National Conservation Law and several other laws that set the list of endangered species in the Cayman Islands and how to manage those natural resources.
One part of the law, dealing specifically with registering companies that trade in species on the international endangered list, has not yet been brought into force. Once that piece of the legislation comes into effect, Cayman will be able to track legal trade and make it harder for poachers to send endangered species such as rare orchids or black coral overseas, Ms. Ebanks-Petrie said in the statement.
Older laws currently govern poaching in the islands, she said.
"By making it harder for poachers, we'll make it easier for business owners who are conducting transactions in the legal international trade of listed species," she said.
The United Kingdom signed the treaty in 1976 and extended it to the Cayman Islands in 1979. The treaty has been updated several times, requiring member nations to update local rules.
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• 27th August 2011 • Blog Post by Seb Patrick •
Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler?
If you think we're on the run…
We are the boys who will stop your little game!
We are the boys who will make you think again!
'Cause, who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler
If you think old England's done?
Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21,
But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun.
So who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler
If you think old England's done?
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Well that was a particularly bonkers episode. The Doctor meets the Numskulls!
Other than a brief mention of responsibility from the crew of the shape-shifter, what we got couldn't have been further from the "If you could kill Hitler as a baby/Ethics Of time travel" story conjured up when that title whammed onto the screen nearly three months ago. And it was all the more fun for it – put Hitler in the title, and then lock him up in the cupboard for half the episode!
Only a few slight quibbles: Hitler's office window gets smashed and lots of noise goes on inside, and later a whole restaurant of people get forced out half-naked, and in neither case do any guards/SS/police show up? And River's "Heel Face Turn" (as TVTropes would put it) was pretty abrupt for someone who'd been brainwashed throughout childhood to be on a mission to kill him.
And what's this First Question? "Doctor who?" comes to mind … (Or possibly "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?", ho ho ho.)
All over the place tonally in the early part of the episode, which I sometimes don't mind, but just seemed haphazard here. Remember when Moffat's episodes felt beautifully crafted, rather than a bit of a jumble?
The Numbskulls stuff didn't feel like an especially Doctor Who-like idea to me, for some reason…
Did like a lot of stuff in it, though. "Shut up, Hitler."
I liked bits of it.
Arthur Darvill and Nina Toussaint-White were great, but it was all over the shop and oddly anti-climactic.
It was a complete mess. There was no story, just a bunch of exposition and some thinly developed ideas.
I refuse to believe this is the same writer as Blink, The Girl in the Fireplace, Eleventh Hour. He's lost control and now thinks overly complicated timey-wimey developments are a substitute for story and character development.
Step back from the fanwankery about "River Song's true identity" and realise that this was a plot-less, thoroughly plodding 50 minutes in which very little happened except "we learnt some stuff". And what we did learn was completely inconsequential.
Spoilers that you can travel back and tell yourself three months ago:
FUTURE YOU : I've seen Let's Kill Hitler!
PAST YOU : Tell me what happens!
FUTURE YOU : Mels is River!
PAST YOU : Yeah, I know. I've just seen AGMGTW. Melody is River.
FUTURE YOU : Well, yeah. But this is less obvious. Mels is a different character. Well, she's the same character but younger…or older. Um. Look; she's black and everything.
PAST YOU : And she has a lot of screentime?
FUTURE YOU : About ten minutes. Then she dies.
PAST YOU : Huh? So why is that a big deal?
FUTURE YOU : I dunno, really. It is for the character so it must be for us too, right. Anyway. She regenerates into Alex Kingston.
PAST YOU : Oh great. Her again. So what is young River like?
FUTURE YOU : She's a slightly more annoying version of old River…then she becomes the old River at the finale when the Doctor dies.
PAST YOU : Oh wow! Does he stay dead?
FUTURE YOU : Um. No. But that's not the best bit. They visit Hitler!
PAST YOU : Oooh. Does this lend much to the setting?
FUTURE YOU : Not really, no. But listen, there's these other time travellers in it, observing key figures in history.
PAST YOU : Ooh. What's their story?
FUTURE YOU : Um. Not really sure. It's not really told in any detail.
PAST YOU : Well, that all sounds a bit disappointing. But I'm looking forward to the scene following on from AGMGTW where Amy gets to speak to River, now knowing that she's her daughter.
FUTURE YOU : Oh, hang on. That wasn't there. They skimmed past that bit.
PAST YOU : Um. OK.
FUTURE YOU : Yeah, maybe plan to go out on the 27th of August?
PAST YOU : Good idea. So, is the new Torchwood any good?
FUTURE YOU : I have to go. Bye.
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Dr Winnie Yeo told the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference in Hamburg: "In several developing countries, as many as twelve per cent of breast cancer patients carry the hepatitis B virus. These patients are at risk of developing HBV reactivation during chemotherapy, which is a well-known complication resulting in varying degrees of liver damage that may lead to death."*
Chemotherapy suppresses the immune system and therefore allows the virus to replicate. Once chemotherapy stops, the immune system recovers and attempts to clear the virus and this causes the biochemical flare-up of hepatitis.
However, Dr Yeo has found that the anti-viral drug lamivudine can reduce the risk of HBV reactivation during and after chemotherapy. Lamivudine was initially used for treating HIV infection in AIDS patients and now is used frequently for treating HBV infection.
Dr Yeo, an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Oncology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, treated 27 HBV-carrying breast cancer patients with lamivudine before, during and up to eight weeks after chemotherapy. She compared the results with a control group of 41 consecutive patients who had had chemotherapy without lamivudine and compared the incidence of HBV reactivation, hepatitis, severe hepatitis and any consequent disruption to the chemotherapeutic regime.
"We found that lamivudine significantly reduced the incidence of HBV reactivation, and that the incidence of hepatitis from all causes was reduced," said Dr Yeo.
Only two patients out of the 27 receiving lamivudine suffered HBV reactivation compared with 17 out of 41 in the control group (seven per cent versus 41 per cent); three patients in the study group suffered from hepatitis and two from severe hepati
Contact: Emma Mason
Federation of European Cancer Societies


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February 23, 2005
Faculty Fellows Named to Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking
Four faculty members--Frank Curriero, PhD, Janet DiPietro, PhD, Francesca Dominici, PhD, and Norma Kanarek, PhD, MPH--were named fellows of the Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The fellows, along with co-investigators Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH, Mary Fox, PhD, MPH, Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH, and Beth Resnick, MPH, form the Center's multidisciplinary practice and research team. They specialize in spatial statistics, environmental epidemiology, cancer surveillance, the design and evaluation of developmental outcome measures and risk and policy analysis.
This team's work focuses on strengthening the environmental public health workforce, researching the links between health effects and environmental exposures and supporting the growing national tracking network. The Center's faculty develop new approaches for analysis of tracking data and are committed to working with state and local public health practitioners.
New Faculty Fellows
Frank Curriero, PhD
Dr. Curriero, an assistant scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, focuses his research on spatial statistics and geographic information system (GIS) applications in public health. Dr. Curriero works to keep the GIS component and the spatial methods linked together, providing a more complete operating framework suited for applications in environmental health and communication with scientists from these areas. He has applied his expertise to the analysis of geographic variations in prostate cancer, the effects of air pollution and temperature on mortality and the relationship between precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks.
Janet DiPietro, PhD
Dr. DiPietro, a professor in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, is a developmental psychologist who focuses her research on methods for assessing risk in infants and young children and the value of using these assessment methods to predict outcomes. Dr. DiPietro explores relationships in early infancy and the neonatal period, as well as in full-term and preterm infants. Her current research program, ongoing for the last 10 years, extends this interest to the human fetus. She has developed computerized assessment methods of measuring fetal neurobehavior.
Francesca Dominici, PhD
Dr. Dominici, an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics, is interested in developing statistical models for national public health surveillance. More specifically, Dr. Dominici is interested in developing biostatistical tools for integrated analyses of spatio-temporal data on exposure, health outcomes and potential confounders. Such models are needed for addressing the health effects of a broad class of environmental agents that vary over time and across geographical regions.
Norma Kanarek, PhD, MPH
Dr. Kanarek, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, is an epidemiologist. While senior scientist at the Public Health Foundation (PHF) of Washington, D.C., she participated in the design and development of the Community Health Status Indicators Project--an effort that has produced a community health profile for every U.S. county. Along with the Centers for Disease Control and PHF, she is working to update these community profiles and make them available once again to local planners, officials, community advocates and academics. She is also integrating epidemiologic strategies and etiologic information about cancer with statistical tools to assess local excesses of disease or other poor outcomes
Current Faculty
Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH
Dr. Burke, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking, as well as the Center for Excellence in Environmental Health Practice. He also co-directs the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. His research interests include the development of new approaches to environmental health surveillance and the application of health risk assessment to public policy. He was the principal investigator for the Pew Environmental Health Commission, which established the framework for a national approach to environmental public health tracking.
Mary Fox, PhD, MPH
Dr. Fox, a research scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management, is the research director of the Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking. She is interested in risk assessment as a part of environmental health policy making, particularly approaches to cumulative risk assessment and the application of probabilistic methods.
Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Dr. Guallar, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, focuses his work on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, with special emphasis on environmental exposures, such as heavy metals. He is particularly interested in the roles of mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium in the development of cardiovascular disease. His methodological interests include determining threshold effects in epidemiological studies and applying statistical methods to epidemiological problems.
Beth A. Resnick, MPH
Ms. Resnick, a research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is also the associate director of both the Center for Excellence in Environmental Health Practice and the Center for Environmental Public Health Tracking. Her research interests include assessing and improving the environmental public health infrastructure, enhancing knowledge of potential connections between environment and health and developing effective environmental public health policies. -- Mary Fox, PhD, MPH


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This kit enables you to evaluate the functions of the CP2102 USB to UART Bridge device. The CP2102 allows the updating of RS-232 and RS-485 designs to USB with a minimum of components.
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Human-induced climate change increased the risk of severe storms like those that hit the south of England in the winter of 2013/14, causing devastating flooding.
That's according to new analysis from an international team of climate scientists, led by researchers at Oxford University and including scientists working for the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The research is published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The research comprised an end-to-end study looking at the event from start to finish, taking in atmospheric circulation, rainfall, river flow, inundation, and properties at risk. During the 2013/14 floods, the worst-affected areas were Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall in the south west, and the Thames Valley in the south east.
The study concluded:
- that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of the once-a-century wet January in 2014 by 43% (uncertainty range: 0 to 160%).
- the increase in extreme rainfall that led to the flooding in 2013/14 was the result of two factors associated with global warming: an increase in the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere (a thermodynamic factor) and more January days with westerly air flow (a dynamic factor). Approximately two thirds of the increased risk could be attributed to thermodynamic changes in the atmosphere, and one third to dynamic changes.
- for the Thames river catchment, hydrological modelling showed that the heightened risk of rainfall found in the meteorological modelling led to an increase in the peak 30-day river flow of 21% (uncertainty range: -17 to 133%) and flood risk mapping showed about 1000 more properties at risk of flooding (uncertainty range: -4000 to 8000)."
The research made use of the weather@home citizen-science project, part of Oxford's climateprediction.net climate modelling experiment, to model possible weather for January 2014 in both the current climate and one in which there was no human influence on the atmosphere. Researchers analysed more than a hundred thousand simulations of possible rainfall in the UK run by citizens from all over the world. The analysis also used the CLASSIC semi-distributed rainfall-runoff modelling system developed at CEH, and the CEH-Gridded Estimates of Areal Rainfall dataset.
Lead author Dr Nathalie Schaller of Oxford University's Department of Physics said, "We found that extreme rainfall, as seen in January 2014, is more likely to occur in a changing climate. This is because not only does the higher water-holding capacity lead to increased rainfall, but climate change makes the atmosphere more favourable to low-pressure systems bringing rain from the Atlantic across southern England."
Co-author Dr Alison Kay from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, "Our hydrological modelling suggests that the increased likelihood of extreme rainfall arising from man-made climate change gives a more modest increase in extreme flows in the River Thames. This highlights the importance of applying hydrological models in order to include the role of the landscape in transforming rainfall into river flows and floods."
Co-author Dr Chris Huntingford from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, "What this study reveals is that in a changing climate, assessment of altered rainfall patterns requires detailed assessment of atmospheric circulation changes. Extremes, by definition, are rare. Hence the only way to understand changing probabilities in wind directions that influence rainfall is with large ensembles of climate simulations. Such ensembles are for pre-industrial and contemporary levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. These allow all features of the chaotic system that is mid-latitude weather to be sampled. Oxford University remains the only academic centre to have built such a library of massive numbers of climate model simulations, collected through their citizen science project utilising people's spare computer time.
"By collaborating with Oxford and other institutions, scientists here at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have contributed to translating such ensemble modelling outputs right through to implications for flood risk and associated costs."
Co-author Professor Rob Lamb of the JBA Trust and Lancaster University said, "Each of these steps reflects different sources of uncertainty, but we find overall that there is a substantial chance of more properties having been placed at flood risk because of past greenhouse gas emissions, leading to potential damages that could be part of the losses incurred in 2013/14."
The study involved researchers from the University of Oxford, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the JBA Trust, Lancaster University, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, the Met Office, JBA Risk Management Ltd, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Additional information
The University of Oxford press office issued a press release to accompany the publication of the paper.
The paper 'Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts' was published online in Nature Climate Change on Monday 1 February 2016, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2927.
The study was funded by the EUCLEIA project funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement no. 607085, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the NERC HYDRA ChangingWater Cycle project, the CEH/NERC National Capability fund, the UK Joint Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the MOHC Climate Programme (GA01101).
Blogpost - Developing the new CEH-Gridded Estimates of Areal Rainfall dataset
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The Shallows' Jaume Collet-Serra now frontrunner to direct Suicide Squad 2
Jaume Collet-Serra, director of The Shallows and Non-Stop, is now the frontrunner to direct the sequel to Suicide Squad.
According to Deadline, Warner Brothers considered a number of directors to take charge of the movie, including Mel Gibson, but are now focusing their efforts on securing Collet-Serra.
The director is currently readying his new movie The Commuter, which sees him reunite with Liam Neeson and is due out in 2018.
Before any sequel to Suicide Squad, star Margot Robbie is to reunite with original director David Ayer for Gotham City Sirens, a new movie that will unite DC's most iconic female villains. It will see Robbie's Harley Quinn will team up with the likes of Catwoman and Poison Ivy to form a brand new team.
The script for the movie has been written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who has written the script for the Tomb Raider reboot and the forthcoming third instalment of Sherlock Holmes.
As well as this new project Warner Brothers have also revealed that they are developing a spin-off for Deadshot, Will Smith's character in Suicide Squad.
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Libyan democracy: Regional division, bloodshed mar first post-Gaddafi pollLibyans are heading to polls for the country's first elections since ousting Muammar Gaddafi. However, reports of pro-autonomy activists attacking ballots and continued unrest by militia groups could see Libya's democratic dreams go up in smoke.
Anti-election demonstrators have attacked a polling station in the eastern city of Benghazi, setting fire to ballot slips, reports Reuters. Activists burned hundreds of ballot papers before driving off, firing rounds into the air, say witnesses.
The incident is the first sign of unrest during the country's milestone elections.
Libyan voters will choose from over 3,700 candidates to makeup a 200 strong National Assembly who will then be charged with electing a Prime Minister and a cabinet..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/elections-libya-violence-militia-622/


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From the financial sector to retail, we know that a well executed piece of direct mail can really help in individual campaigns, or as part of an integrated omnichannel approach.
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Recreating the action of live poker in digital form for Lightning Poker.
A 10 Seat Dealer-less Casino Poker table with 15″ Player touch screens and 40″ Community LCD display.
User Experience (UX) Challenges/Goals
- Create a sense of realism matching the experience of casino poker.
- Move away from the Graphic look of online poker.
- Establish a synchronized connection between the users individual touchscreens and the large center community screen.
REM's solutions to the UX challenges included
- Photo realism in the creation of artwork representing poker elements (chips, cards, main pot side pots, rake shoe etc).
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- A matched style to player hand position to invoke the viewing of their hand.
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A mother's fierce mama heart and instincts to protect her offspring whatever the cost has always been fascinating to me. To think she would do anything for her kids…and until becoming a mother myself, I never knew how much mama's truly sacrifice for those littles. Day in and day out absolutely everything in their life revolves around those children…feeding, laundry, diapers, toilet training, cleaning, playing, reading, disciplining, worrying…constant investments in transforming little people into quality big people.
When I became a mother, I knew I would do anything for my littles. And while I have invested more than I ever dreamed, it wasn't until my youngest, Tate, joined our family, that I started to understand exactly how strong mama's protection really is. We've been through quite the journey with Tate, from being a sickly baby and toddler, to fighting for his health and finding healing for his body, only to struggle with a new challenge; all of it leading professionals to question why he functions as he does. We addressed, and thought laid to rest, the autism diagnosis last year, but it reared its ugly head again a few weeks ago. The specialist in our first visit started throwing out words like ADHD and autism, but different specialists would confirm…so for two weeks we prayed and pondered a future with those big words included. We would do it, we would figure it out: we researched and knew lots of money might be needed for treatments and we would do whatever it takes to help him.
With numbers floating in my head and uncertainty as to how we would ever make it work, I pondered things like selling our home and downsizing our life, this was my child and I would do ANYTHING to make his future the best it could be…and then it hit me like a load of bricks. THIS is how my Heavenly Father feels for me, He would do anything to make me the best I can be…He chose me and fights for me and I am His child. "For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb" Psalm 139:13. We are loved and valued and desired and He will fight for us. We have a perfect Heavenly Father who loved us even as a baby in the mother's womb…a Father's perfect love. So humbling and undeserved and so perfect.
Tate's future is still uncertain, but once again the autism diagnosis has been laid to rest, as well as the ADHD. We may never know why Tate functions as he does, it could simply be that a hard start in life creates anxious preschoolers; but there is hope for his future. Even with scary labels, there would still be hope for his future. He has a mother and father who love him, as well as a Heavenly Father fighting for him. A mama's heart is fierce for her babies, and that is a gift from God.


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Tapestries in the Don Quixote series, about 1719-1745
Workshop of Urban Leyniers (1674-1747) and Daniel Leyniers (1669-1728) Workshop of Urban Ley According to design of Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) Flanders (Brussels) Wool, linen, silk, woven
EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ART OF THE 18-19TH CENTURIES in the Golden Chamber of the Khanenko Mansion.
The singular elegance and peerless luxury of the flawlessly coordinated ensemble in the room traditionally referred to as the "Golden Chamber" bespeaks the spirit of a Rococo interior rarely encountered. During the first half of the eighteenth century, talented French architects, (in contrast with those of previous generations more dedicated to general building construction), gave their full attention to the task of updating the interiors of the domiciles of the aristocracy.
The indulgent pace of these nouveau lords and ladies of the manor gallant cavaliers and pampered beauties was better suited to homes comprised of smaller rooms and inviting boudoirs. The extended suites of grand rooms of immense proportion, so typical of the unrestrained pathos of classicism, were now out of fashion. Eighteenth century frivolity was affecting the core Rococo principles of the new school of interior decoration, declaring war on symmetry, straight lines, flat surfaces, and squared angles.
Witness the Golden Chamber's pavilion ceiling and its resemblance to the lid of a lady's jewelry box: its edges gracefully curved, its walls jointed. Its delicate pastel color scheme the pistachio of the ceiling, the cyan blue wallpaper, the soft pink marble of the hearth adored with decorative vases combines to express the aesthetic of Rococo. Perhaps the most striking feature of the Golden Chamber is the carved and sculpted whimsy of the ceiling cartouches, doorframe capitals, and mirror ornamentation. It is from the shell and pebble fragments adorning the design from which the style of Rococo, (French: rocaille, "pebble, stone") derives its name. However, this fresh wave of Rococo opulence did not mark the first occasion on which seashells (similar to those incorporated into the carved supraporte, "overdoor"), were employed as ornamentation. In the 17th century, in a determined imitation of nature, artificial grottoes were decorated in much the same manner, with seashells and pebbles fragments. French decorators of the 1830s, however, reinterpretedtheornamental rocaille, applying its playful lines to interior design. The great number of mirrors hung in the Golden Chamber certainly demand our attention, placed as they are, facing one another in an application of the Rococo objective of creating a theatrical mélange and accomplishing the illusion of an extended space. The resulting effect appears to expand the lavishly illustrated green-spaces of the wallpaper and wed them to the trees in the park outside. Standing at the center of such an ingenuously transformed space, guests at French rocaille mansions, (often called 'hotels), may have wondered whether they had tripped into a world 'behind the looking glass: a world of refined and constant festivity, guided by the single rule of joie de vivre. The original lighting ofthe hall, mounted near the mirrors resembles gilded branches covered in silver blossom with petals of an enameled opal. The refined technique of applying 'heated enamel' to metal was lost with time, and only during the decade-long restoration ofthe Golden Chamber commencing in 1987 did restorers resurrect the secret of applying enamel to silver.
Tapestries in the Don Quixote series, about 1719-1745
Workshop of Urban Leyniers (1674-1747) and Daniel Leyniers (1669-1728) Workshop of Urban Ley According to design of Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) Flanders (Brussels) Wool, linen, silk, woven
Four costly Flemish pile-less wall-coverings, reflecting the Rococo spirit and featuring episodes from Don Quixote are the principle decoration of the Golden Cabinet. Similarly tapestried rooms were common in the exquisite historical interiors of the late nineteenth century. Each piece reproduces an episode from the timeless novel "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of Lamancha" by 17th century Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. In the sixteenth century, wall-hangings from Brussels were considered to be the finest in Europe, employing in their designs sketches from the Flemish most accomplished artists, including Rubens and Jordaens. With time, the French royal workshop established in Paris by the Gobelin brothers began to rival Brussels. Paris, as the fashion capital of eighteenth century Europe, influenced the Flemish workshops to such a degree that they began to gear production to reflect Parisian tastes now being defined by a Rococo aesthetic Entirely new series incorporating the designs of Parsian artists, were conceived by the Brussels weavers. Around 1714, French court artist Charles-Antoine Kuapel created a cycle of twenty eight illustrations based on the Cervantes novel for the Gobelin workshop. The Kuapel engravings enjoyed great popularity as they illustrated nearly every new edition of "Don Quixote Utilizing these engravings, Flemish artists Jan van Orley and Augustin Coppens designed the figure and landscape templates used in the production of the tapestries exhibited production of the tapestries exhibited in this hall. Both artists worked regularly with noted Brussels Weavers and wall-hanging manufacturers, brothers Daniel and Urban Leyniers. Their work, despite the success of the French Gobelin shop, pleased the French monarch and the Khanenko wall- hangings on the Don Quixote theme were almost certainly woven in the Leynier brothers shop, though the removal of the ornamental edging and the manufacturer's mark have not yet allowed the locus of manufacture to be established irrefutably. Spanish grandees the compatriots of Cervantes comprised much of the market for Brussels weavers. Nonetheless, in order to address a technical, decorative demand of fabrication, the creators of the series did not attempt to depict a literal reading of the celebrated novel. Thus, the magnificent landscapes in the pieces do not recall so much the sultry terrain of Lamanche as they do the parks and pavilions of Versailles, and the character costumes and overall playful mood of the scenes retell this tragicomic masterpiece of world literature in a manner reflecting the frivolous Rococo eighteenth century zeitgeist.
Source: Khanenko museum website and articles and visuals from museum tour written by Olena Zhivkova translated by Illya Rakos
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Using Italian Blood Orange Oil which is both sweet and tangy alongside Indian Vanilla which together smells just absolutely incredible, good enough to eat in fact. Added to that comes the use of Shea Butter which deeply conditions and moisturises the skin, Coconut, Peach Kernal and Vitamin E oils which cocoon the skin with a protective barrier against water loss. Finally, Organic Raw Cane Sugar forms the scrub part of this polish and it buffs the skin to eliminate dead and dry skin as well as impurities. Coming together these products essentially cleanse, tone and moisturise the skin for you in one swoop and as it does so, smells just divine.
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The holidays can be a time of stress - being Overworked, Overspent and Overtired! We are constantly bombarded and pulled in every which way to fulfill obligations and wish lists more to keep the status quo rather than to bring back the meaning to what this time of year really could be.
In the "old days", autumn was a time for reflection and respite. If you observe nature, animals naturally prepare for hibernation and rest through autumn and winter. The leaves turn and fall and seeds rest below the surface of the snow. It is natural for our mind, body and spirit to want to cozy up and relax and to take stock of the year and the future. Instead, everything in our environment is pulling us to make the holidays bigger, better and brighter than ever! We must outdo ourselves each and every year or at least keep it up so we don't disappoint! It is easy to get caught up in it all and it is not so easy to take notice of what we are doing and choose those things that are meaningful and serve us. Everyone is doing the "O, O, O!" dance but whatever happened to the good 'ol "Ho, Ho, Ho!" in our lives? That being the "Happy, Healthy and wHoleness" in our lives?
This month's challenge is to put a little Ho, Ho, Ho! back into your life. Even if it is just to incorporate one or a few small things. Here are some suggestions:
1. Quiet, reflection time for myself.
2. Start a dream journal.
3. Make time for a brisk walk.
4. Make a simple, healthy, nutritious meal at least one day a week. (make enough for leftovers!)
5. Plan simple, meaningful gifts for loved ones.
Post a comment and let me know what you chose to do. You will be surprised at how the simplest little pivot in your day can restore happiness, health and wholesomeness into your life!
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Textbooks state that there are 5 components to physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
I would like to formally argue that Parkour contains a few more components. I couldn't tell you WHAT those components are, as they surely move as stealthily as a ninja, so they have clearly been missed by modern science. But I CAN tell you that whatever they are, I do not possess those components.
|Clearly, that is not me. (pinterest credit)
Day after day, week after week, I consistently put up heavier weights in the gym. I can run a sub 20 minute 5k. I could run a full marathon tomorrow if I had to. I can do a FULL range of motion, no kipping, hanging pull up, sometimes two or three in a row. I thought my fitness levels were ideal and well rounded.
One hour of super-novice-beginner parkour has proven otherwise. For the record, I can not lift my arms over my head this morning.
So here is my official stance on Heather + parkour:
1) Parkour is so much freaking harder than it looks.
2) My kinesthetic awareness kind of sucks.
3) That was really, hilariously, fun.
So, when I say we have a circus school in this town, it turns out we have an honest to goodness circus school in this town. New England Center for Circus Arts is a large building with rooms just FULL of acrobatic equipment for me to break my neck on. Fortunately, they put us in a smaller, padded studio. I'd say the current circus student to newbie ratio was 4:1, and thankfully, I had three other newbie friends with me. But not Geoff. No, his previous years of martial training put him right into the "we already know how to roll" group.
We started with a warm up and basic conditioning. This included a ton of bear crawling and every variation of it, these insane things called gecko push ups that I totally faked my way through, and some core work. At this point, only 15 minutes in, I was cursing the quesadilla I had eaten before class, and wondering how I EVER imagined I was actually in shape.
And then we started rolling.
It's so not easy.
A half somersault, half tuck and roll, I felt like a drunk roly poly pill-bug. I'm sure there was a time, say, 6 years old, when rolling and tumbling felt natural. 31 years old is not that time. It was painfully aware of how I have zero sense of where my body is relative to space, nor where I intend for it to go. Also, all of that tumbling made me incredibly dizzy. Again, regretting those dinner quesadillas.
Then there were cartwheels. And jumping. And spinning while jumping and landing backwards on a balance beam. And sliding across/flipping over a large padded cylinder. You know this morning when Geoff and I hit the parking lot we both had to stop ourselves from purposefully sliding across the hood of the car (thankfully, it was covered in frost).
Despite the dizziness, instant soreness, and the fact that I kept rolling right off of the mats instead of in the proposed straight line: I had a blast. Our instructors were fantastic. And they didn't even make fun of me when I jumped up from each incredibly ungraceful move with a loud "TA DAAAH!" (I bet that's a huge circus school faux pas.)
I left class last night humbled and excited. Humbled because, well, I have light years to go to become proficient in parkour. Just like chemistry 101 in college, I may need to repeat this intro class. And excited because I have been presented with a new challenge.
The other day, I was asked WHY I push myself physically. My answer? I push myself to be better every single day simply because I can. And because life is too short for anything less than that. Not only do I refuse to take my body for granted, but I insist upon constantly aiming to make it better. Because I can. One day of parkour has showed me weaknesses I was unaware of…and that I'm really excited to strengthen.
Moral of this long rambling story:
Rolling is hard. Pushing yourself beyond your limits and outside of your comfort zone is incredibly rewarding.


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Defending the building is even more intense in the sequel to Palisade Guardian. Palisade Guardian 2: Modern Combat will thrust you into the action with 6 modern weapons including an MP5, an M249 SAW, and even an RPG-7. Defend through 35 action-packed levels. After each level buy new weapons or buy an ACOG scope for one of your current weapons!
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