text:
Q: How to print ArcGIS tile map using MapFish print I could able to configure a MapFish print in GeoServer and also did some printing map from OSM. I need to print a map which is from ESRI Mapserver. Is there any way to do it?
Working example:
layers: [

          {

            baseURL: 'http://tile.openstreetmap.org',
            singleTile: false,
            type: 'OSM',
             maxExtent:
                [-20037508.3392,-20037508.3392,20037508.3392,20037508.3392],
            tileSize: [256, 256],
            extension: 'png',
            resolutions: [
             156543.03390625,
             78271.516953125,
             39135.7584765625,
             19567.87923828125,
             9783.939619140625,
             4891.9698095703125,
             2445.9849047851562,
             1222.9924523925781,
             611.4962261962891,
             305.74811309814453,
             152.87405654907226,
             76.43702827453613,
             38.218514137268066,
             19.109257068634033,
             9.554628534317017,
             4.777314267158508,
             2.388657133579254,
             1.194328566789627,
             0.5971642833948135,
             0.29858214169740677,
             0.14929107084870338
           ]
         },
   ],

Not working example:
layers: [

              {

                baseURL: 'http://localhost:69/arcgis/rest/services/Pub/BaseMapEng_LightGray_GCS/MapServer/tile/${z}/${y}/${x}',
               type:'xyz',
                 maxExtent:
                    [-20037508.3392,-20037508.3392,20037508.3392,20037508.3392],
                tileSize: [256, 256],
                extension: 'png',
                resolutions: [
                 156543.03390625,
                 78271.516953125,
                 39135.7584765625,
                 19567.87923828125,
                 9783.939619140625,
                 4891.9698095703125,
                 2445.9849047851562,
                 1222.9924523925781,
                 611.4962261962891,
                 305.74811309814453,
                 152.87405654907226,
                 76.43702827453613,
                 38.218514137268066,
                 19.109257068634033,
                 9.554628534317017,
                 4.777314267158508,
                 2.388657133579254,
                 1.194328566789627,
                 0.5971642833948135,
                 0.29858214169740677,
                 0.14929107084870338
               ]
             },
       ],

getting error as

I'm getting this error :
Error while generating PDF:
org.mapfish.print.InvalidJsonValueException: spec.layers[0].baseURL has an invalid value: http://localhost:69/arcgis/rest/services/Pub/BaseMapEng_LightGray_GCS/MapServer/tile/${z}/${y}/${x} (Illegal character in path at index 86: http://localhost:69/arcgis/rest/services/Pub/BaseMapEng_LightGray_GCS/MapServer/tile/${z}/${y}/${x})

A: Remove the $ signs from your URL, and add .png to get tiles data. try:
"http://localhost:69/arcgis/rest/services/Pub/BaseMapEng_LightGray_GCS/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}.png"


text:
Take our digital survey
Power & Memory
Collections - Connections - Communities
Collections for Everyone
Unlocking millions of years of history to solve the big problems of today.
The University's extensive collections in museums, libraries and archives encompass the history of life on earth, including much of human history and culture.
Collections-Connections-Communities (CCC) is a new interdisciplinary research Initiative, which will use the collections in new ways that address the key challenges of our time:
For more on each of our themes, see here: Society & Identity. Health & Wellbeing. Environment & Sustainability.
Our approach is to build communities of researchers, including academics and our audiences, in physical and digital spaces, to develop new ways of thinking that could eventually influence policy-makers. We aim to transform the relationship between researchers and the public, nucleating debate around societal challenges to create future pathways towards more just, creative, sustainable and inclusive futures.
The CCC is co-chaired by Professor Rebecca Kilner and Dr Neal Spencer, supported by a steering committee made up of members from across the University's museums, libraries, Botanic Garden, Schools and research institutions.
This webpage is our temporary online home while we build our full website. To keep up-to-date with our activities, follow our Twitter @CamGLAMresearch or complete the form HERE
Collections in action
Museum Shops
Monthly what's on emails
Please select all the ways you would like to hear from us:
Museum Remix
Bridging Binaries
Summer with the Museums
Twilight with the Museums
Explore Cambridge Museums

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Even human relations and relationships are now "lived" predominantly behind a protective screen, with people forgetting that this screen "protects" from life and diminishes everything.
Honestly, while trying not to say things just to provoke, I think perfect balance lies on chaos borders'. That elusive space of electric and electrifying quiet, in which there is no crystallization nor stagnation and at the same time, it is not right in the middle of the storm.
I observe and listen to the people around me and I see many fans of order, light, definition and clarity. I wonder why and I imagine that the answer resides in some sort of fear of the unknown, of what we cannot foresee and therefore, control. I believe that routine and homogenisation make the existence seem safer and provide the illusion of predictability and planning. Even human relations and relationships are now "lived" predominantly behind a protective screen, with people forgetting that this screen "protects" from life and diminishes everything. For all these reasons, I stand on the opposite side, I want to be an agent of chaos, of storm and impetus, of what is upsetting and surprising.
If you are confused, if you have doubts, if you dream of throwing yourself off a cliff believing that you can fly, if you enjoy your own fear, if you think you have only one life and a very limited time and do not want to waste it, if you have an urgency for life, you are on my side and I beg you to do your best to ensure that the world does not become a theatrical representation of deadly boredom.


text:
WITH IN: < 50 Miles
FROM DAY: < 100 days
New York's Indian Casinos – Tribes, A Few Tribulations
Casinos, tribal and otherwise, may face a battle royal in the near future as New York's Indian tribes see the state offer inroads on gaming to more people. The 7 table games licenses that are to be dispensed by the state might not go simply to already-existing racinos, although this is most likely. However it could mean that new groups, new gaming corporations, could step onto the scene… and the locations where they choose to set up operation will be closely scrutinized by the Indians.
When New York granted several harness racetracks permits to run video lottery terminals, many of the state's Indian tribes objected, saying this broke the compact they had with the state, which promised no non-Indian gambling would be permitted on tribal territories. At issue are some lands west of the Finger Lakes where these racetracks are located. The Seneca have claimed their exclusive right to gambling within the area has been encroached upon. Several tribal casinos, including the large and wealthy Seneca properties — Salamanca, Niagara, and Buffalo — stopped paying their contracted casino payments to the state as long ago as 2009. The Mohawk tribe has also ceased paying the state.
The withheld money represented the main livelihood of some small municipalities including Salamanca and Niagara Falls.
With the additional licenses for table games soon to be granted, there is a distinct possibility that the future license winners will also be objected to by various tribes.
The controversy over cigarettes sold on Indian land, which the state wants to tax, may be a part of the problems between Indians and the state.
What games have provided different groups a way into offering gaming to the public?
Well, there's bingo. That was the doorway for Indian tribes in New York and other states to begin to earn revenue from gambling. A simple game that was innocent enough to be a mainstay for churches, it worked well to give tribal gaming a foot in the door. Other simple things followed, like scratch-tickets. Also very innocuous, such gambling methods were deliberately chosen by gaming groups, so as not to turn public regard against Native Americans as they began to take advantage of their special status and open new sources of income for their populations.
The state of New York has historically been more liberal towards its tribal peoples than some other states. Perhaps its location, and sharing a border with Canada are part of the reason. When our nation's borders were drawn, they were found to have been created without regard to the large indigenous populations living all over and across them. The borderlines, agreed upon by our leaders after the Revolutionary War, split asunder the lands that Indians occupied, separating tribes and even families. That is why free passage rights were granted to Native Americans on this side of our northern border — to correct the unfortunate impact the drawing of the country's borders had on the tribes. Customs agents were severely restricted in what identification they could demand, and could not enforce restrictions on certain personal items, especially religious ones, carried across by Indians.
Perhaps these days, border security has changed most of that reckless freedom; but what still remains are the protective laws of New York which not only permit and tolerate Indian casinos within the state, but allow visitors — New Yorkers or not — to enjoy those casinos to the hilt.
During the height of the poker boom, which popularized both online and live poker games, New York — especially New York City — was discovered to be the hottest and most thriving spot for illicit poker. Soon people around the world had heard about NYC's underground card rooms.
Their exclusivity, however, is waning. Not too long from now, 7 establishments will have the opportunity and the actual state-blessed license to open their own poker rooms, as well as blackjack tables, craps tables, and roulette wheels and be as much casinos as any of the Indian ones that dot the land.
Indian casinosTable Games
Batavia Downs – Video Slots At A Veteran Track
Akwesasne Mohawk Casino: Review
Indian Casinos Of NY State: Things To Know
Cruise Ship Casinos Embarking At New York
Racinos in New York: A Racetrack + Casino
0 Comment on this Article
New York Casinos
Directory Software - Powered by WordPress
RIBBON TEXT (keep it short and clear)
Time remains: {{= event_time }}
{{= post_data.et_full_location }} {{= comment_count }}
<# if(typeof author_data !== 'undefined'){ #> {{= author_data.display_name }} <# }else { #> {{= comment_author }} <# } #> {{= comment_content }} {{= data_ago }}
<# if(typeof is_feature !== "undefined" ) { #> checked="true" <# } #> >


He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. This is the nature of living creatures.
The previous discussion of Santosa included mention of our modern versions of the five kleshas. A klesha is literally an affliction, just as we would describe blindness or a spinal problem as an affliction. In the yogic tradition, the five afflictions are avidyā, asmitā, rāga, dwesha and abhinivesha. These can be translated as ignorance, egotism, attraction, aversion, and fear.
The way to overcome these afflictions, we are told, is through Tapas. In Sanskrit, Tapas means "heat," but in the context of the niyamas -- or observations -- of the Yoga Sutras it is usually translated as "disciplined effort." Tapas implies self-discipline in restraining our desires, controlling our senses, and focusing our actions towards pursuing a higher purpose in life. Through disciplined effort, we can "burn off" the negative aspects of life and clear a path towards happiness.
Effort equals action, and action is the root of Karma. Action is both the rush through traffic to make the three o'clock meeting and the act of restraint to keep your cool and not descend into road rage. This first layer of Tapas, then, is Karmic: our choice of correct effort. The next step is the addition of discipline.
Disciplined effort can also be thought of as "doing what must be done," plus one other dimension: consistency. Often our best intentions guide us to go to the gym, eat healthier, put down the cigarettes or turn off the TV. We often start the new year with an abundance of actionable resolutions and great intentions. But old habits die hard, and it is consistency which allows us to overcome our habitual inertia and turn our intent into practice.
Consistency replaces old habits with new ones. It is putting the cigarettes in the trash and never picking up another, ever. It is being mindful of the food we put in our bodies at every meal. It is repurposing a piece of every day for practice, prayer, exercise, or whatever brings your personal life closer to a pursuit of your higher purpose.
Now let's add that subtle third layer, because this is where the transforming "burn" of Tapas comes in. It is not enough to be consistent in your correct efforts; your discipline must carry your actions through the difficult times as well. A friend just failed in his third attempt to stop smoking. "I had a stressful weekend," he explained.
The transcendent power of Tapas comes when we no longer allow any excuse or justification to stop us from doing what must be done. When the going gets tough is when we discover and forge our resiliency.
Perhaps one of the most clear examples of the practice of tapas is marriage. Marriage requires commitment, consistency and love. Without any of these three things, marriage does not work. When these qualities are present however, we can celebrate the good days and hang on through the bad ones.
Tapas requires the same things. When we bring a commitment born of love to our consistent practice of yoga, we are practicing the niyama of tapas. It is with this spirit of abiding in the midst of difficulty which is at the heart of tapas.


We offer multiple membership types for everyone. Each allows access to all Versatile Fitness locations.
All sales final. No refunds for any reason. Please review agreements and class cancellation policies.
We understand that group training is not for everyone and that some may desire a more personal environment. Outside of our classes, many of our trainers are available for 1-on-1 private sessions, as well as semi-private training sessions.
No matter your fitness level, we can find the right fit for you and help you get leaner, stronger and healthier! Whatever your goals may be, you can expect your fitness program to meet them.
Your schedule, frequency, goals and personal preferences play an important role in finding the right client-trainer relationship. Please fill out the form below and we will reply with our packages and find the right trainer to develop a program for you! If we can't, we will still lead you in the right direction and help you in any way we can.
$25 off if they become a member!


Setting up lab equipment for rock fracture testing (London, U.K., 2014).
Monitoring earthquakes (São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 2003).
Preparing lab equipment (Boulder, Colorado, 2007).
Adjusting the flow rate (Boulder, Colorado, 2005).
Monitoring real-time weather data (Boulder, Colorado, 2006).
Dissecting a snow goose (northern Manitoba, Canada, 1995).
Measuring goose intestines after dissection (northern Manitoba, Canada, 1995).
Measuring physical data of live snow geese on the subarctic tundra (northern Manitoba, Canada, 1995).
Brain & brain: A scientist describing a piece of brain coral (Barbados, 1999).
Problem-driven action research: A participatory process for understanding possible and preferred futures in their community (Smøla, Norway, 2008).
Identifying a geological specimen (near Quito, Ecuador, 2006).
A seminar on measuring hurricane wind speed (Boulder, Colorado, 2005).


UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Limiting a much-needed resource could pit pathogens against one another and prevent the emergence of drug resistance. New research demonstrates that harnessing competition among pathogens inside a patient could extend the life of existing drugs where resistance is already present and prevent resistance to new drugs from emerging. A paper describing this ecological approach to drug resistance appears the week of Dec. 11 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Drug resistance originates when a pathogen — such as a parasite, virus, or bacterium — develops a genetic mutation that allows it to avoid being killed by the drug. Even if only one individual pathogen has this mutation, as is frequently the case when resistance first arises, that one individual can replicate into a population of billions once it survives drug treatment. But resistance often comes with a cost, and drug-resistant pathogens often do not acquire certain resources as efficiently as other pathogens, or they may require more of the resource.
Strategic limitation of resources increases competition among pathogens within a patient. This intervention combined with traditional drugs that might otherwise fail can successfully treat an infection, as illustrated in this animation.
The researchers manipulated a nutrient in the drinking water of mice that is used by malaria parasites during an infection — just as a gardener might manipulate nutrients through fertilizers to favor certain plants. This dietary intervention was used alongside traditional drugs as a sort of combination therapy.
The researchers then confirmed that their results were due to competition among parasites and not some other effect of limiting the nutrient. When drug-treated mice were infected only with resistant strains and the nutrient was limited, the resistant parasites survived. But when drug-treated mice were infected with both sensitive and resistant parasites, limiting the nutrient stopped resistant parasites from growing at all — even when resistant parasites were initially present at far greater numbers than when they typically first appear in a host.
This work suggests a new direction of study that would allow researchers to capitalize on the natural competition between pathogens to control the emergence of drug resistance. For infections like tuberculosis and malaria, where drug-resistant strains to traditional drugs already exist, researchers must next identify a resource or nutrient for which drug-resistant strains have greater needs than sensitive strains; confirm that limiting the resource would lead to the elimination of resistant strains; determine the most effective intervention strategy to remove the resource; and pinpoint the ideal timing of the intervention. For an infection where a new drug is being developed, these questions could be addressed during the drug development phase.
"Researchers already go to great lengths to identify drug resistance as a routine part of drug development," said Read. "You could work the development of a resource-limiting intervention into that drug development pipeline. The initial cost would increase, but after that relatively small initial investment, you might be able to extend the lifetime of a drug. It costs a hundred million dollars or more to bring a new drug to market, so the payoff could be quite big.
In addition to Wale and Read, the research team includes Derek Sim, Matthew Jones and Rahel Salathe at Penn State, and Troy Day at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. This work was funded by the Institute of General Medical Science.


text:
Super Smash Bros. Joins the Nintendo 3DS 1 Million Sold Club
Smash is already the best selling handheld game of 2014, and that's a strong predictor for continued growth of the Wii U once the game releases there.
By Justin Haywald on November 13, 2014 at 6:27PM PST
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS was released less than a month ago, but the game has already sold over 1.2 million copies both physically and digitally. The game joins nine others in the Nintendo catalog that have passed 1 million copies on the 3DS.
Mario Kart 7 -- 3.62 million
Super Mario 3D Land -- 3.34 million
New Super Mario Bros. 2 -- 2.33 million
Pokemon X -- 2.11 million
Pokemon Y -- 2.03 million
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D -- 1.41 million
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon -- 1.36 million
Animal Crossing: New Leaf -- 1.42 million
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS -- 1.20 million
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds -- 1.06 million
Nintendo adds that in October, Smash Bros. sold 485,000 copies, and that it's "the best-selling handheld title so far in 2014." However, Nintendo notes that Smash will face stiff competition to hold onto that title come November with the release of Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.
The Wii U is closing out on a strong year as well with a 47% increase in hardware sales and an 84% percent increase in software sales over last year during the same period. And the pending release of Smash for the home console will likely only increase that footprint.
Of course, a lot more people own a 3DS than a Wii U, but the popularity of the series and its strong performance on 3DS is a strong predictor for continuing Wii U growth through the holidays. After all, Smash Bros. only came out on one system last month, 3DS, but it was still the number two selling game overall in the US.
Justin Haywald on Google+
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
There are 25 comments about this story
Load Comments (25)


Added station. Sells 90 octane ethanol free gasoline in addition to its E10 offerings on pumps 3,4,7, & 8 (second islands from each end; separate hoses with red handles); pay at pump. GPS coordinates obtained from satellite photo to place map marker at center of station canopy.


The phrase 'search presents a unique opportunity for businesses' has become a cliché. You will hear everybody talking about it, but no one will ever tell you how you can leverage on those opportunities to see actual gains that can drive the growth of your business.
Leveraging a search engine can be harder for small companies which other than their lack of finances, they may also harbor misconceptions. However, this should not be the case. Startups can wrestle with fortune 500 companies for a piece of the cake.
All they need to do is take steps to employ some top SEO strategies, and they will stand a chance. So what are these strategies?
Content is the driver of SEO. You have probably heard this before, but I believe stressing it is key. Search engine algorithms mainly prioritize relevance and content hence content forms the backbone of your performance on SEO. Great pieces of content often perform better on search engines. So how do you have great content? You have to employ multimedia. This is usually in the form of images, texts, and video. Purely text websites are often dull for visitors.
These visitors often leave the site within a brief period hence go the website with a high bounce rate which results in it being ranked lowly by search engine algorithms. However, you can try and have your content in the multimedia form to counter this. This will break the monotony and keep your sites interesting enough such that visitors often stay in them for more extended periods.
Subsequently, search engines will rank them highly. Your content should also have a call to action. It can be in the form of convincing customers to pay or even to leave a review. You should encourage reviews to boost your SEO. Many people often want to find out how past clients rated your business before spending on it. Excellent business reviews often translate to reliability and authority.
When people find these excellent reviews, then they are likely to spend on you. Similarly, search engines usually rate sites with excellent reviews highly as this is seen as a show of authority and your social proof.
You should continuously seek to improve yourself based on the reviews. Your content should also reflect what I like to call the four pillars of high material. It should be convincing, informative, educational and entertaining. Once you ensure that your content meets these, then you can say you have started your journey to SEO success.
Several SEO campaigns often struggle due to the absence of this. Unless you have a clear understanding of who you are targeting, you will employ general strategies which may not be as effective as customized strategies. Not knowing who your audience is will likely make your efforts futile or not as useful. Thankfully, today there are so many tools out there that can help you identify who your target audience is.
You should seek to find one that works for you. For example, try the Google Search Console to help you know what your customers are looking for and Bing's Keyword Research tool to help you understand the words in their search queries.
It is essential that you focus on this. The way you design your websites can have a significant say on whether you will be successful or you will struggle in search engines. Effectively developing your site can lead you to success. Here are simple strategies you can adopt in your web design to help you be successful on search.
Make your site mobile-friendly. Mobile is a valuable asset for an organization. It should ensure that its websites are responsive to the various screen sizes and people can click easily for example to call them.
Similarly, the landing pages should be eye-catching. Since these pages are the initial pages, visitors see once they come to your site, they can determine whether they will stay or leave.
The loading speeds of the website should also be fast. On average, good loading speed is that of around 2 seconds and not more.
Analytics plays a key role in measuring the effectiveness of any campaign. For this reason, the metrics and information they provide offer a key indicator of what is working and what needs changing. Similarly, tools can be a great asset to you and your website. They can help you respond to customers within a short period, manage your sites and even schedule posts among other.
Google has a wide variety of analytics and tools that you can utilize to help your business as well. One of the most useful applications is Google My Business. This allows you to put your business on the map and attract more local search results. If you don't have a physical location, but you still want to use Google My Business, setting up a virtual office can help you attract the local search results you are missing out on.
It is significant that once you are up and running on a search engine, you promote your content. This can be done in the form of advertising your sites in other platforms like social media platforms. This will help push your site's traffic. Link your websites to your social media platforms, and you will be surprised by the truck originating from your social media.
Search engines can be a great avenue to generate leads. While these strategies can work for some, for others it might take time and require a little twitching. All you have to do is be patient and try new things until you find what works for you.


Winter Solstice Snow Sculpture Contest 1218!
Greetings all of the lost lands!
It is that time again for Tomas Froste to showcase his unique set of skills in ice and snow sculpture. It is time to show the lands what your wonderful minds and imaginations can create to be formed into this beautiful yet temporary medium of snow and ice!
Beginning today you can submit your ideas in the powder blue pavilion that Tomas and his associates has set up at the north western end of Ebon Pass closest to Haiban.
You have until Desumbar 14 at 11 bells post zenith to submit your designs. Parchment and quills will be available for purchase. Simply drop your entry into the marked box. Designs submitted past this point will not be accepted.
Please provide a description of what you envision your sculpture to look like along with a possible title and your name.
Remember to keep things in the theme and family friendly. Be as weird and as wacky as you like. We'll do our best to use what you have to create something awesome and as close to your vision as possible.
Voting will be open from Desumbar 15 to Desumbar 20 at 11 bells post zenith. Just drop your votes in the box. Please mark what sculpture you are voting with by the sculpture title. There is a limit that is one vote per character.
Please note that votes made for your own sculpture by your alts will result in being disqualified. Note policy 4 here.
Everyone who participates by submitting a sculpture will receive something special while winners will get something particularly neat.
Please have fun and we look forward to what you can create!
Note: 11 bells post zenith is 1 a.m. Eastern, 10 p.m. Pacific time.
Re: Winter Solstice Snow Sculpture Contest 1218!
You still have about a week to submit ideas for this contest. Don't by shy about trying to ask questions here regarding appropriateness of ideas either!
However, this said, I need to make a change to the rules effective immediately. It is still one submission per character, however there is now an additional restriction of two submissions per player. Yes, we can tell, so please do not try and circumvent this.
This means that if you have three alts, two of those characters can submit ideas to the competition.
This was an oversight on my part in writing the rules as I did and I admit I did not think I would need to spell this out but the rest of the team agrees that taking advantage of the way the rules were written to maximize an attempt at winning the overall contest really isn't cool.
This is one of two ways this could have gone, and this is the more relaxed of the two.
Clarification of voting rules may be posted closer to the end date of the submission period, so keep an eye out.
With that said, it has been amazing to see what you have all come up with. Please continue to submit your ideas and over the coming days as the time for voting comes near, the finished sculptures will slowly be erected in the pavilion. Some are in fact there now for everyone to look at.
Thank you and keep submitting!
This is the last day to enter and I still have one entry that has no character name associated with it. It will be posted up with the rest, but if you do not get me your character name responsible for it, you will not be able to recieve either the participation prize or one o the top three prizes if you win voting.
I really think everyone will enjoy and there will also be something special posted soon regarding this as well. So, please keep an eye out. I think you will really enjoy it!
I want to thank everyone, this year has been as successful as the lat time I ran this event and it has been amazing to once more see your creativity.
I have learned a few things about how I'd like to handle this in future and while I do not think this will be a yearly event as it does take a lot of time, I plan to do it again.
Voting will begin tomorrow and if every entry is not up by tomorrow morning they will be early as soon as I am up and able to finish. So please the sooner you get your entries in the better! The box will be removed until voting begins to prevent premature voting as well.
When voting begins please submit your vote for the sculpture by the name of the piece. This box is monitored and attempting to flood voting will result in every vote entered by you to be void, so please don't even try.
Right, that's all I think for now. Happy sculpting everyone!
Voting begins December 15 and will end on December 20 around 11 bells post zenith, or 11 PM mountain Time or 10 p.m. Pacific 1 a.m. Eastern.
With that said, we are limiting the votes to two characters per player, two different votes per character, following the same as submission guidelines.
Simply write which sculpture you are voting for on a piece of parchment and drop it in the box.
This box is monitored and any attempts to pad the vote in any way will result in invalidation of all votes submitted by you and possibly disqualification from the contest as a whole.
The top three sculpture's owners will get an awesome prize while everyone, including winners, will get something cool as well.
Everyone should receive their prizes on December 21st. The top three will be announced and posted on town boards as well.
Keep checking in on this thread for more exciting news, the contest may be coming to a close quickly, however, there are still surprises in store. We hope everyone has had fun and so far we have already surpassed the entries from the last time this was done. We had a total of thirteen submissions in 2015 when this was last held and we have passed that number by a few. I'll have a final tally in the morning.
If you have any questions please reach out, I don't bite and I want everyone to have as much fun with this as possible!.
Hello all! Are we tired of posts being made here? I certainly hope not!
As a special treat Harrie Froste has created each contest submission in a miniature statuette glass form for purchase.
They can be purchased in the pavilion and there is a limit of one per person.
Once the pavilion is taken down, these will be gone forever, so buy them while you can. Tomas and harrie Froste plan to leave the pavilion open until the beginning of the new year so get them while they exist!
Congratulations to everyone who participated! Almost every sculpture got at least one vote.
Here are th ewinners as followed!
In third place we have the following: Justified Flaunting, Hope, Life's Struggle and The Nature of Man.
In second place we have Hunting Bunnies and Secret Admirer.
And finally in first place we have The Black Between the Stars.
Everyone will be receiving their participation gifts and winners their prizes soon in a few days.
If for some reason you do not receive your gift or prize within two weeks, please reach out.
Character names have been left off on purpose so that they may choose to reveal who they are or not.
Congratulations again and this has been amazing to see your creativity!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy Winter Solstice all! May you all have a wonderful end of year!


text:
Foreigners participating in political rallies will be asked to leave PH — Cayetano
Published April 18, 2018, 6:00 PM
By Roy Mabasa
Foreign nationals who will join political rallies such as those that would advocate for or against President Duterte's drug war will be banned or asked to leave the country.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano (FEDERICO CRUZ / MANILA BULLETIN)
This was the warning aired by Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday, saying that the ban on foreigners who will engage in such activities are not limited to those critical of the government.
"The policy is not to limit for those who are against government policy. If a foreigner goes to the streets and says to the President to continue your drug war, we will also ask them to leave because it is not part of his political rights to do that," Cayetano said at the forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap).
If a foreigner is organizing people to rebel against the government, "I'm sorry but that is not your right. That is your right in your country and I expect the same for myself," he said.
Cayetano was reacting to questions surrounding last Monday's arrest of 71-year-old Australian missionary Patricia Fox at her home in Quezon City.
Read more: Australian nun with valid missionary visa freed by BI
Fox was accused of alleged "illegal political activities" but was subsequently released after her lawyer was able to present a corresponding missionary visa and a valid passport.
A day prior to Fox' arrest, Giacomo Filibeck, a Socialist party official from the European Union, was refused entry and eventually excluded by the Bureau of Immigration.
Read more: Italian deported for violating conditions of stay – BI
As similarly practiced in other countries, the DFA chief pointed out there is "nothing irregular" with prohibiting undesirable aliens from entering the Philippines.
"In general, anyone – whether they are 12 years old 50 years old or 70 years old – if they are a foreigner and if they get involved in partisan political activities in the Philippines, then they are not welcome because it interferes with our political rights, with our right to self-determination," he said.
In the same gathering, Cayetano clarified that it would be a different story if the foreigner is a member of the media who is in the country in line with his job.
"But if you are a journalist here, you are invited to be a journalist here so go ahead and ask the hard question. It really depends on the type of visa that is given to you," he said.


text:
Q: Powershell can't see module or function despite it being installed Slightly stumped, when I check to see if my powershell module is installed:
(Get-InstalledModule MyModule).InstalledLocation

C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\MyModule\1.0.7
All good, but running a public function on that module fails to find the function. Worse still, I can't even import it:
Import-Module -Name MyModule -Force

The specified module 'MyModule ' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.
That's doesn't make any sense from my perspective. It's not only my PC either, we're seeing multiple employees with the problem. Has anyone hit this before? Reopening powershell windows and restarting PCs etc achieves nothing.
Uninstall-Module -Name MyModule achieves absolutely nothing also.
$env:PSModulePath shows the path correctly configured.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
UCare generously supports MinnPost's Second Opinion coverage; learn why.
Quitting smoking abruptly is more effective than doing it gradually, study finds
By Susan Perry | 03/16/2016
CC/Flickr/Darko Pevec
At the four-week mark, 39 percent of the participants in the gradual-cessation group were still not smoking compared to 49 percent of those who quit abruptly.
When I quit smoking in my early 20s, I did it abruptly. I picked a date, and told myself I wouldn't smoke another cigarette from that day forward. Ever again.
And I haven't. But I still remember, all these years later, how agonizingly difficult those first few months of abstinence were. I also remember thinking at the time that there must be a better way of giving up smoking than by going cold turkey.
Well, apparently there isn't, at least not according to a study published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Using the gold standard of research — a randomized controlled trial — British researchers have found that quitting smoking "overnight" is a significantly more effective strategy than "cutting down gradually."
They reached this conclusion even though their hypothesis at the start of the study was that the gradual approach would not be inferior.
For the study, which was conducted from June 2009 to December 2011, the researchers recruited 796 people who smoked at least 15 cigarettes a day and who were willing to quit smoking two weeks after enrollment in the study. The smokers were randomized into two groups. One — the "abrupt cessation" group — was instructed to stop all smoking on the quit day. The other — the "gradual cessation" group — was instructed to lead up to the quit day by reducing their smoking by 50 percent during the first week and by 25 percent during the second.
Both groups were provided with advice and support to help them quit smoking. They were also given access to long-acting nicotine patches and various short-acting nicotine replacement therapies, such as nicotine gum and mouth spray.
The participants were assessed weekly for four weeks after the quit day, and then again at six months. At each assessment they were asked how they were doing in terms of quitting, including whether they were experiencing any symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. To obtain an objective determination of the participants' progress, the researchers also measured the amount of carbon monoxide they exhaled and the amount of cotinine in their saliva. (Cotinine is a marker for exposure to tobacco smoke.)
Basic findings
At six months, 15.5 percent of the people in the gradual-cessation group were still not smoking compared to 22 percent of those who quit abruptly.
Interestingly, the difference between the groups was apparent from the start: On the quit day, more people in the abrupt-cessation group made the effort to give up smoking (abstaining for at least 24 hours) than in the gradual-cessation group.
"The difference in quit attempts seemed to arise because people struggled to cut down," said Nicola Lindson-Hawley, the study's lead author and a tobacco cessation researcher at the University of Oxford, in a released statement. "It provided them with an extra thing to do, which may have put them off quitting altogether. If people actually made a quit attempt then the success rate was equal across groups."
"We also found that more people preferred the idea of quitting gradually than abruptly," she added. "However, regardless of what they thought, they were still more likely to quit in the abrupt group."
This study had several important strengths, including its relatively large number of participants (which cuts down on the possibility that the results were just the result of chance) and its extension of the follow-up period to six months. In addition, the characteristics of the study's two randomized groups were well balanced. Both groups had a similar average age (49 years), were equally split between men and women and scored similarly on a nicotine dependence test.
But the study also had some limitations. Most notably, more than 94 percent of the participants were white, and all, of course, lived in the U.K. Smoking cessation approaches might lead to different results in other, more ethnically and racially diverse populations.
Although this study found that abrupt quitting is the more effective method, the authors point out that gradual cessation strategies "could still be worthwhile if they increase the number of persons who try to quit or take up support and medication while trying."
The important thing is, of course, to set a quit day and then to put into place whatever strategies you need to improve your chances of quitting. Many health organizations are ready to offer you resources and support. A great place to start is with Minnesota's free QUITPLAN program.
FMI: You'll find an abstract of the new study on the Annals of Internal Medicine website, although the full study is behind a paywall.
Mental Health & Addiction
Forget the gum. Mindfulness can stop you from smoking
By Adam Wahlberg | 08/19/2015
"Mindfulness is all about changing the loops in your brain that say you want something, and it's proving really effective with tobacco addictions," says Dr. Courtney Baechler.
With smoking even more deadly than previously thought, more aggressive preventive policies are needed
The U.S. Surgeon General says that smoking causes more than 480,000 American deaths, but the true toll may be much higher according to research published in the NEJM.
Susan Perry
Susan Perry writes Second Opinion for MinnPost, covering consumer health. She has written several health-related books, and her articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications.
Submitted by Bill Schletzer on 03/16/2016 - 10:08 am.
worked for me
I quit a two carton a week habit abruptly. I planned my day, filled a patch prescription, signed up for a class. I arrived home from a vacation, slapped on a patch and unpacked my car. It takes a commitment and a plan to get through those initial uncomfortable days and weeks.
Submitted by Ron Gotzman on 03/16/2016 - 10:43 am.
So "just say no" worked for you?
Submitted by Susan Lesch on 03/16/2016 - 12:57 pm.
Re: "Both groups received behavioral support from nurses and used nicotine replacement before and after quit day."
Nobody in this study was asked to quit "cold turkey" if they used nicotine replacement. From Wikipedia, "Smoking cessation methods advanced by J. Wayne McFarland and Elman J. Folkenburg (an M.D. and a pastor who wrote their Five Day Plan ca. 1959), Joel Spitzer and John R. Polito (smoking cessation educators) and Allen Carr (who founded Easyway during the early 1980s) are cold turkey plans."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey
Submitted by Ray Schoch on 03/16/2016 - 02:42 pm.
I quit smoking at about 6 PM on February 3, 1990, when I ran out of cigarettes on a miserable, cold Saturday night. I'd smoked for 29 years, and was at the point where I consumed nearly 2 packs a day. I was also enrolled and participating in an employer-sponsored "Quit Smoking" program, and under the terms of that program, I could have continued for another week. We weren't scheduled to quit until the next Friday. For me, it was a control issue.
I started because my older stepbrother smoked, and it seemed like a cool thing to do to a gangly high school freshman – a status thing. Many years later, I quit for two reasons: first, because I was developing that morning cough that so many smokers develop, and couldn't persuade myself that smoking was somehow healthy; and second, because I bristled at the idea that some program director was going to tell me when to quit. I wanted to be the one to determine when and where I quit. Think of it as "the oldest child" syndrome – I was used to being self-directed.
I had no plan in advance, and there was no "nicotine replacement" therapy or counseling. I did have a very thoughtful colleague who, though he continued to smoke, went to another employee lounge to do so until, a couple weeks later, I could tell him honestly that I wasn't tempted to join him. I didn't tell him that, once I'd quit, I found tobacco smoke annoying and irritating, but thankfully, he cut back on his smoking while sitting at the table with me, which helped quite a bit. That was the only "outside" help available.
I was miserable the remainder of that weekend, and the first day back at work, but after those first 3 days, the nicotine craving decreased dramatically, and I've never been tempted to go back to smoking since. I don't proselytize about it, but am nonetheless happy to see that the anti-smoking campaign has enjoyed increasing degrees of success. I don't think "shaming" smokers is very effective, but treating smoking as a public health issue seems to work better.
Submitted by Kurt Nelson on 03/16/2016 - 02:49 pm.
My mother, a 25 year smoker finally decided she had enough and used hypnosis to quit. One day a smoker, the next not. She was also very head strong, so that may be part of it, but for the rest of the family – it worked brilliantly. She did however cluck like a chicken when ever anybody said Viceroy (her brand)
Overdose deaths drop slightly, in U.S. and Minnesota, early CDC data suggest
Menstrual cups are safe, effective, cost-efficient, eco-friendly — and little known, study finds
Healthy lifestyle may lower risk of dementia, even when genetic risk is high, study suggests


UPPER PROVIDENCE TWP, Pa. (WPVI) -- Powerful winds have caused destruction throughout the Delaware Valley on Monday.
A massive tree came crashing down on a house in Springfield, Delaware County.
It happened around 10 a.m. on Beatty Road.
Neighbor Doris Leedecke was overcome with emotion as she got a firsthand look at her best friend's home in the 600 block of Beatty Road.
"I was watching the 12 o'clock news and I am looking and I am like - that looks like Nancy's house," said Leedecke. "And then I heard Beatty Road and as soon as I heard Beatty Road I went 'Oh my god!' I quick called her and she was here at the time."
She said this is the second time in 20 years or so that a tree has come down on top of this house.
"I just can't believe it just happened to her for a second time," said Leedecke.
Action News is told the homeowner and her dog escaped injury. They are staying with relatives until the repairs are finished.
In Upper Providence Township, a tree fell onto a house waking up the homeowners.
"We were sleeping in the house. We heard the wind. All of a sudden, we heard a couple of branches hit the house. And then just this horrific boom," homeowner Steve Olkowski said.
The tree sliced through the roof around 3 a.m. on the 900 block of North Orange Street.
Steve Olkowski and his wife were asleep when a tall tree came crashing through their roof, landing feet away.
"You heard plaster all over the place. Woke up to find a tree coming through my closet, about three feet off the floor of the bedroom," Olkowski said.
Tree crashes into Delco home, slices through roof. Katherine Scott reports during Action News Mornings on February 25, 2019.
The challenge then was getting out. The tree blocked their path and wires had come down with it.
"We were able to crawl underneath the tree, down the stairs, get the dogs out," Olkowski said.
Police and fire departments came to the scene to inspect the damage.
The wind gusts continued in the daylight as the homeowner and crews took stock of the damage.
The roof split, the chimney was knocked down, the gutters were torn off, and debris was strewn on the property.
A major cleanup effort is ahead, both outside and inside Olkowski's home. But all four, two humans and two dogs, made it out safely.
In Montgomery County, heavy winds damaged the building belonging to an HVAC company around 10 a.m.
Portions of the roof flew off the regional headquarters of Sila on the 200 block of Hansen Access Road in Upper Merion. Some debris reached a nearby a parking lot.
About 60 to 65 people were inside the building at the time. It was evacuated, but fire officials say no injuries were reported.
The wind had peeled the outer layer of the flat roof as well as insulation and some rooftop air conditioner units, but there was no structural damage.
"In some areas of the building there is daylight coming through," said Gene Malinowski of Sila. "It ripped some ductwork out of the roof. It pulled some of those rooftop units off."
Officials say there was no structural damage to the Sila building.
In Quakertown, a strong wind gust knocked over a large tree behind Trainer's Corner Mall in Quakertown. The tree took out utility lines, cutting off power to the shopping center.
John Holznagel, the owner of To Your Health Natural Foods, said all of his employees showed up for work but didn't stay very long.
"Sent all of the employees home," said Holznagel. "Went up to Macungie and picked up some dry ice to put in the freezers and refrigerators to save the merchandise."
Officials from local power companies are asking customers who are off line to be patient, as crews work around the clock to make the needed repairs and more crews are called in from outside of the region.


"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."
"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."


text:
Ricoh Women's British Open: Mo Martin saves her best till last as she wins first major thanks to an eagle at 18th
American Mo Martin followed her late grandfather's advice by storming to victory in the Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale thanks to an eagle at the 18th
Just champion: Mo Martin with the trophy after winning the Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale Photo: GETTY
By Alasdair Reid, Royal Birkdale
12:45AM BST 14 Jul 2014
Two years ago, Ernie Els won an Open on a Lancastrian range, so Mo Martin is in good company. With a play-off looming, she had headed to the Royal Birkdale practice ground to keep her swing supple, but in the end she need not have bothered. Her rivals fell away down the stretch, and Martin was the Ricoh Women's British Open champion.
It was an improbable victory for a player who had never finished better than 29th in any previous major. And a heart-warming victory as well, for it was only four months ago that Martin's grandfather, Lincoln, passed away at the age of 102. Almost to the last, he had been her biggest supporter, a common presence at tournaments in the United States.
Lincoln would wear a badge emblazoned with the words 'Go Mo'. She followed his advice at Birkdale. The leader after two days, Martin had fallen back badly with a round of 77 on Saturday, but she more than recovered that ground, her level-par 72 equalling the lowest score of the final day.
Even as she played the par-five last, it seemed that Martin was chasing a cheque rather than a trophy. But with her second shot she hit a full-blooded three-wood that chased up the green, rattled off the flagstick and settled six feet from the hole. Martin rolled in the putt, and moved into a three-way tie for the lead. Her tournament was back on again.
The other two were Korea's Inbee Park, the overnight leader, and Shanshan Feng, of China. Major winners both, but that experience counted for nothing as both dropped shots coming in. Park fell back when she double-bogeyed the 10th, went through the green at the 14th and took a six at the last. Feng's slip was at the par-four 16th, where she hit too strong an approach and then took three to get down for the back of the green.
Hull in contention at Birkdale
Wie misses British Open cut
Davies wants ban on caddies lining up putts
Wie win good for game, says Lewis
Wie claims first major title at US Women
Park, who won three of the five women's majors last year, finished with a 77 and fell to fourth place. Feng, on 75, shared second with Norway's Suzann Pettersen, who carded two double-bogeys but then produced a birdie-birdie finish to match Feng's score.
Martin is known as the straightest hitter on the LPGA Tour, and she used her gifts to the fullest on a day when Birkdale finally bared its teeth.
All week, the players had been predicting that a tough course, fringed by ferocious rough, would become brutal if the wind got up, which is exactly what happened on the final day. It was a rare achievement for a player to return a card unsullied by a double-bogey or worse.
Martin, though, did just that, serenely threading her way through the Birkdale dunes with almost other-worldly accuracy. When the new Rolex Rankings are calculated, it is expected that she will have moved from 99th in the world to 26th.
Dame Laura Davies, making her 30th consecutive appearance in the tournament, dished up a round that was almost as impressive as Martin's. The putting woes that had dogged her in the build-up disappeared, and she marked her return to the scene of her 1986 Open triumph with a 73 that was moved her into ninth place, the best finish by a Briton.
However, the axis of the women's game seems to have tilted to the west again. The first three majors of 2014 have now been won by American players. None more joyfully than this one.
Alasdair Reid »
Visit Telegraph Golf Shop for the best golfing deals and offers
Buy golf tickets at Telegraph Tickets
In Golf
Spieth - 10 things you didn't know
What are the world's toughest golf courses?
The 18 hardest golf holes in the world
England still awaits an heir to Faldo's crown


text:
Q: What is the algebraic proof that $|x|+|x-2|=2$ is an inequality $|x|+|x-2|=2$ is an inequality because the solution is $x\le2$ (if you plug in $2$ or any value lower than $2$ for $x$, you will get an answer of $2$). What is the algebraic proof (with steps)? How can I write this out using algebra to get a value of $x≤2$?

A: You have three cases:

*

*$x\leq 0$ The equality becomes $-x+2-x=2 \Rightarrow 0=2x \Rightarrow x=0$.

*$0\leq x\leq 2$ The equality becomes $x+2-x=2 \Rightarrow 2=2$ which is true $\forall x\in[0,2]$.

*$2\leq x$ The equality becomes $x+x-2=2\Rightarrow 2x=4\Rightarrow x=2$.

In conclusion $x\in[0,2]$ is the set of solutions: $0\leq x\leq 2$.

A: By the triangle inequality:
$$2=|x|+|2-x|\geq|x+2-x|=2.$$
The equality occurs for $x\geq0$ and $2-x\geq0$ or $0\leq x\leq2$, which is the answer.

A: $y=x-1$;
$|y+1|+|y-1|=2;$
$|2y| =|y+1+y-1| \le $
$|y+1| +|y-1| =2$;
Hence
$|y| \le 1$, i.e. $-1 \le y \le 1$;
With $y=x-1$:
$0 \le x \le 2$.

A: Geometric approach
Absolute value $|a-b|$ denotes the distance between the points on $x-$axis, representing $a\;$ and $\;b.$
In the present case we have $$|x|+|x-2|=|x-0|+|x-2|$$ which has to give $2.$ In distance wording, the sum of distances from $x$ to $0$ and from the same $x$ to $2$ gives $2.$
The points out the interval $\;[0,2]\;$ are too far from $0$ or from $2$, thus none of them satisfies. But each  point lying in $[0,2]$ satisfies. The given equation $\;|x|+|x-2|=2\;$ can be rewritten $$0\leq x \leq 2.$$

A: Alternatively, you can square both sides:
$$|x|+|x-2|=2 \Rightarrow x^2+2|x^2-2x|+(x-2)^2=4 \Rightarrow \\
|x^2-2x|=-(x^2-2x) \Rightarrow x^2-2x\le 0 \Rightarrow x\in[0,2].$$


text:
Hexaglandula mutabilis is een soort in de taxonomische indeling van de Acanthocephala (haakwormen). De worm wordt meestal 1 tot 2 cm lang. Ze komen algemeen voor in het maag-darmstelsel van ongewervelden, vissen, amfibieën, vogels en zoogdieren.

De haakworm komt uit het geslacht Hexaglandula en behoort tot de familie Polymorphidae. Hexaglandula mutabilis werd in 1819 beschreven door Rudolphi.

Haakwormen

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


About the Author... Katrina Cramer-Diaz is a working mom with a background in education and plenty of experience in parenting. She lives in Virginia with her four children (one is a competitive gymnast).... Although it is unusual, some gymnasts have competed in elite-level competitions -- like the Olympics -- while being a member of an NCAA gymnastics team. College gymnastics in the NCAA and elite gymnastics have as many differences as similarities, including the teamwork, the pressure level, the scoring and the training hours.
Just because you may have been a great gymnast doesn�t automatically mean you�ll be able to teach. Your mentor will have ideas for drills, safety, and class management. You�ll also learn how to spot, or physically assist, gymnasts through skills.
The older kids learn how to set a good example for the people who look up to them and become role models at a young age. Here are a couple of items we feel may benefit you while participating in gymnastics.


This is unnecessary and becomes annoying because it's often used as a premise for asking your new follower to buy your product / follow another page / subscribe / whatever. It's not personal (which was, presumably, the intention of sending a DM) and it's thoroughly transparent. I feel used.
The same goes for sending links via DM. Nothing puts followers off faster and harder than feeling spammed by your account. They'll hit that Unfollow button just as fast and hard.
Keep the ratio of followers:following reasonable. If you follow 23 000 people and have exactly 14 followers, I get suspicious and I don't take you seriously. This is something that is considered in your rankings too, so don't bulk up your numbers by following every page you can find. In addition, this will clutter your feed and dilute the possibility of having access to relevant, useful tweets.
I know, there's not much option here as there's a 140-character limit. But, I mean keep them short enough so that, if they're retweeted, there's space for your handle to be included.
Don't overtweet just to get your voice out there. Filling feeds with lots of the same or similar content is boring (including competitions and giveaways). This goes for retweeting old content and blog posts too. Of course, there's nothing wrong with doing this from time to time and when it's relevant. But, try to keep your feed fresh and current.
Engage with people, comment, acknowledge useful content, thank followers for compliments. Give a little to get a little. Don't bad-mouth anyone else and don't slate products. It's my personal opinion that swearing should be left out of Twitter feeds too. Just be nice and make yourself easy to follow.
All good advice, thank you. I personally hate getting automated DMs when I follow someone. DMs should definitely be restricted to real interaction.
I couldn't agree more! And it's tempting when you have a business that you're trying to get out there. I just split my business Twitter profile from my personal one, so I'm starting from scratch. And it's hard work!


text:
AR and VR to add £1.4 trillion to economy by 2030
03 December 2019 Consultancy.uk
With virtual reality and augmented reality finally taking off as commercial technology following a decade of hype, the mediums could soon benefit the UK economy to the tune of £62.5 billion. The booming market could also boost the UK's employment prospects, with the creation of 400,000 new jobs, according to a new report.
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) look to be developing into the future of visual technology, with a number of increasingly optimistic forecasts anticipating a boom in sales and use over the coming years. The VR market first became a billion-dollar industry three years ago, thanks largely to a £233 million boom relating to video game sales in the innovative technology domain, while headset sales are predicted to approach 200 million units within the next few years.
However, it would be wrong to think of the meteoric rise of VR and AR as solely resulting from demand in the entertainment sector. Already spanning well beyond entertainment, VR and AR tests are being incorporated into the recruitment process by some of the world's leading consulting firms, as well as by engineers to simulate a child's perspective on urban environments, which can be taken into account during project planning.
Following on from the dramatic rise of VR and AR technology, PwC has released the latest in a long line of reports anticipating big things from the sector. According to the Big Four firm's researchers, AR and VR could add £1.4 trillion ($1.5 trillion) to the global economy by 2030, including a £62.5 billion boost to the UK, equating to a 2.4% jump in GDP.
According to the study, 2025 will prove to be something of a watershed moment for the technologies, in large part thanks to the popularity of AR. The researchers determined that AR will actually be the primary driver of the market's growth, exploding from a value of £262.69 billion ($338.1 billion) in 2025 to £848.76 billion ($1,092.4 billion) in 2030 – following more modest growth over the coming five years. AR is only narrowly more lucrative than VR currently, but VR will struggle to keep pace with its relative, with its market being worth less than half of AR by 2030, at £350.02 ($450.5 billion).
The manufacturing, healthcare and retail sectors are just some of the industrial environments in which the immersive technologies are being used for training and education. PwC believes the healthcare sector will provide a boost of £316 billion to global GDP by 2030 through utilising the new technologies. VR is already being used to give medical students greater access to operating theatres, where there are restrictions on the number of observers. VR and AR are also enabling consultants based in different locations to collaborate remotely and discuss upcoming surgical procedures.
The use of VR and AR could also boost the ailing retail and consumer sector, providing a £183.9 billion boost to global GDP by 2030. Retailers will be able to create new customer experiences, from virtual fitting rooms for fashion stores to AR applications that let people test how furniture looks in their home before buying it.
PwC also estimates that the adoption of the technology will have a major impact on employment in different countries. Eight leading nations will command a large portion of these, with 10,756,729 new jobs between them, while 12,603,911 will be split between the rest of the world. The researchers forecast that while China (6,822,647) and the US (2,322,156) will gain the most jobs from this by some distance, Japan (533,155) and the UK (400,663) will also do well out of the VR and AR booms.
Jeremy Dalton, PwC UK's Head of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, said of the report, "VR and AR have the potential to provide a significant boost to the UK economy. They will also improve the way organisations operate, make processes faster and more effective, and create incredible new experiences."
However, the technology will need the full support of key stakeholders in order to fully prosper. "Government assistance through financial incentives and funding for research and development is required… And businesses will need to build a better understanding of the technology."
More Digital
Scotland among European frontrunners in digital government services With new lockdowns being ushered in across Europe to curb the latest spike in coronavirus infections, digital government services have become even more important.
Consultants share their predictions for 2021 As a new year brings an end to some long-running issues, while posing a whole new list of uncertainties, many firms still face countless challenges regarding digitalisation, workplace relations and n
More Innovation
Manufacturers to turn to predictive technology following 2020 The last 12 months have been a major learning experience for the manufacturing industry, with the coronavirus pandemic and continued uncertainty surrounding the Brexit process putting up a number of
PA Consulting supports development of new sensor technologies Professional services firm PA Consulting is collaborating with the University of Birmingham, BAE Systems, BT and BP to help develop a new generation of sensor technology.
Robots could transform UK social care sector The UK's social care sector is facing a number of growing strains on its depleted resources.
Fifth of consumers in Ireland worry 5G has 'health risks' A new study of Irish consumers has found that around 20% believe there are health risks associated with 5G technology.
More PwC
Paperchase becomes latest victim of Covid-19 recession UK stationary firm Paperchase is reportedly on the brink of administration, after muted Christmas sales thanks to Covid-19 restrictions.
Law firm blames PwC for West Ham's loss making stadium deal In September 2020, the owners of the loss-making Olympic Park stadium commenced proceedings to sue their former legal advisors, alleging negligence during the deal that saw West Ham take up a highly


Yuri (百合) is a genre involving love between women in manga and anime. Yuri can focus either on the sexual, the spiritual, or the emotional aspects of the relationship, the latter two sometimes being called shōjo-ai. Manga with the yuri tag will contain relationships exclusively between women.


text:
Q: How to make a JQuery drop-down appear in the right place? I'm not familiar at all with JQuery and I'm not very good with CSS, but nonetheless I find myself working with it. So, basically here's my dilemma:
I have a simple jquery script where you click on an image and a little login box drops down using slideToggle. I took a script someone had already written to do this, but their script had position: relative, and so it would push the rest of the elements around as it dropped. I changed it to position: absolute so that it would appear on top, but now it doesn't appear below the image, it appears on the left side of the screen. I'm thinking this has something to do with blocks or whatever (like it's appearing in the next biggest container on the left side, or something?), but like I said my knowledge of this is pretty minimal.
Here is the CSS code to determine what the little menu looks like:
.menu_body {display:none; width:200px;border-right:1px solid #998675;border-bottom:1px solid #998675;border-left:1px solid #998675; position: absolute;}

It's got a display:none so that it doesn't appear at first (you must click the image to make it appear), and everything else there probably isn't too interesting. Is there some tag or attribute I can add to this in order to make it float as well as appear in the correct location? Given the small amount of info I put up here, can anyone tell me why it aligns to the left?
Let me know if you need more information.

A: Try setting top and left in CSS


text:
Gilas () foi um nobre magiar do . É assim designado por João Escilitzes, mas se sabe que é uma confusão entre seu nome e o título magiar de gilas. Ele apareceu em 952, quando foi batizado em Constantinopla, recebeu ricos presentes e foi homenageado com o título de patrício. Ao retornar a seu país, levou o monge Hieroteu, que foi consagrado pelo patriarca Teofilacto  como bispo da Hungria. Após seu batismo, não mais guerreou com o Império Bizantino.

Bibliografia

Húngaros do século X
Patrícios do Império Bizantino


text:
How Is Cotton Made Into Fabric?
By: Jenni Wiltz
How Is Cotton Made?
Properties of Cotton Fabric
Definition of Polyester Staple Fiber
Information About Cotton Fabric
How Is Wool Turned Into Fabric?
Cotton plant -3 image by Alexey Burtsev from Fotolia.com
No one knows for sure where cotton plants were first cultivated—scientists have found ancient cotton cloth in Mexico, Pakistan and Egypt. Until the Industrial Revolution, cotton was picked, processed and woven by hand. With the invention of the cotton gin in the late 18th century, cotton fiber production multiplied more than fifty times in the first ten years. Today, cotton generates more than $120 billion in total revenue for United States businesses.
Forming Yarn
Picked cotton must be turned into yarn before it can be woven into fabric. The cotton fibers, called lint, are sent to a textile mill's carding machine, which rearranges fibers into a web-like arrangement. This web is funneled into a single strand of fiber and blended with several other strands for strength. Called a "sliver," this new rope of fiber is spun to make it smaller and tighter, forming yarn.
Cotton yarns are placed vertically on a mechanical weaving loom. The machine weaves horizontal rows of yarn across the vertical yarns, creating woven fabric. Different types of cotton fabric require different weaves; most use a basic over-and-under weave structure. Sturdier fabrics like denim use a tighter weave. Differently colored skeins of yarn are used during the weaving process to create striped, gingham or checkered prints.
Cotton yarns can also be knit into fabric instead of woven. Machines create long rows of yarn loops knit together with perpendicular rows of more loops. The end result is similar to that of weaving—vertical and horizontal lines of loops are connected, forming a flat surface of fabric.
Once the fabric is woven or knitted, it is passed through an industrial version of an iron—metal plates that smooth wrinkles, disperse threads and remove lint. The fabric needs to be flat and smooth to absorb the dye or chemical treatment that follows. Once it's flat, the fabric is pre-treated with hydrogen peroxide to remove any natural color and make the dyeing process easier.
Dyeing and Printing
The smoothed fabric is dipped into a vat of single-color dye and squeezed through padded rollers. If the fabric is scheduled to have a print, it then passes beneath a roller that's engraved with the print and implanted with dye. On such a roller, up to ten colors can be printed at once. Once all color has been imparted, the fabric is then sent to an oven where the heat will sear the dye into place.
Special finishes can be applied to make the fabric water-resistant, shrink-resistant or flame-retardant. Some finishes are for appearance only, making the fabric matte or glossy. Machines apply the finishes with sprayers, brushes and rollers. Once any desired finishes have dried, the fabric is ready to be shipped to the user. Approximately 57 percent of cotton fabric is used for clothing, with the remainder being used for home furnishings and industrial products such as tarps, book binding, zipper tape and medical supplies.
Cotton Counts: The Story of Cotton
Cotton Counts: Yarn Production
Cotton Counts: Fabric Manufacturing
Cotton Counts: Cotton Fabrics
Cotton Counts: Dyeing, Printing and Finishing
Jenni Wiltz's fiction has been published in "The Portland Review," "Sacramento News & Review" and "The Copperfield Review." She has a bachelor's degree in English and history from the University of California, Davis and is working on a master's degree in English at Sacramento State. She has worked as a grant coordinator, senior editor and advertising copywriter and has been a professional writer since 2003.


Our grand 2500 sqft Apartment, is fully air-conditioned and high speed wifi accessible. Our most luxurious Apartment is made up of 4 Privates Suites. These four suites can be booked altogether to enjoy complete privacy (Presidential Apartment) or just one suite at a time (Presidential Suite). Booking the Presidential Apartment gives you the luxury of having a separate dining area (accommodates 12 and can double as a conference table), separate living room area, kitchenette and an additional guest washroom. A popular choice amongst diplomats and corporate high officials, as well as large groups or families.


We're throwing ourselves a birthday party and you're invited! SpeakEZ opened our doors in February 2012 and have been proud to serve our unique mix of craft cocktails and beer, eclectic food and weird style for 7 years!! We want to say thank you to all our guests and friends who have made this all possible, so all day and night on Saturday February 9th we'll be offering some amazing $7 food and drink features plus the return of some old favorite menu items!
At 8:00pm, we're proud to welcome a brand new band to our stage led by our great friend Morgan Foster! Morgan has performed at our Birthday Party for each of the last 5 years as a solo act and with his previous bands Common Shiner and In Threes travelling from Chicago every year to help us celebrate! Having recently relocated to Grand Rapids, he has assembled a brand new band made up of some of the top musicians and performers in the area! They will perform together for the first time as Foster playing music from Morgan's 2017 solo album as well as the diverse and deep covers that our regulars have come to expect from Morgan!


Бид тусгайлсан Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp Хятадаас үйлдвэрлэгч, ханган нийлүүлэгч / үйлдвэрлэгч юм. Бөөний Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp өндөр чанартай / хямд үнэтэй, Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp нэг Хятад, Shandong Kang'erjian Medical Technology Ltd. тэргүүлэгч брэндүүд.
Wholesale Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp from China, Need to find cheap Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp as low price but leading manufacturers. Just find high-quality brands on Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp produce factory, You can also feedback about what you want, start saving and explore our Олон гэрлийн Led Shadowless Lamp, We'll reply you in fastest.


High performance gasket material with high temperature resistance, oil resistance & high resilience. Neoprene Binder, water, gases, fuels and versatile media resistance properties. Excellent thermal, chemical & mechanical properties.


By Goodword Kidz, recommended for ages 7-10 Fun activities to encourage children to learn about Islam.
The Themes of this book are: Hajj, The Kabah, and about Unity.
Most books contain puzzles, crosswords, colouring activities, word searches, Q and A and fill in the gaps.


In 1973 the Polynesian Voyaging Society was founded. Its mission was to build a double hulled canoe and "retrace the legendary voyages that once linked those far-flung islands and in doing so demonstrate to skeptics that the ancient Polynesians could have intentionally sailed across vast stretches of the Pacific without navigational instruments when most seafaring peoples were still hugging continental shores."* Indeed while Kānaka Maoli held many oral traditions of great navigators such as Mo'ikeha, Pa'ao and Hawai'iloa, who navigated these seas centuries prior to Captain Cook's arrival, many others believed that the Polynesians possessed no such great skill and merely drifted to Hawai'i on an accidental voyage. This "drift" theory not only stole a history of skilled navigation from Hawaiians, but also worked to create a disconnect between a people and their sacred stories.
The re-birth of traditional navigation, like farming lo'i (kalo patches), working the loko i'a (fishponds) and other traditional practices, also helped to re-connect Kānaka Maoli to ancient epistemologies. These traditional ways of knowing contained thousands of years of accumulated knowledge possessed by their ancestors. Learning navigation also brought insights into 'ōlelo (language), lā'au (medicine), ho'omana (religion) and so much more. A better navigator was a better parent, a better co-worker, and better citizen.
*Mission: Polynesian Voyaging Society. P.V.S. Pier 7. Honolulu HI.
**Maillot, Byron. CEO, SeAlaska. Building Hawaiiloa. 1993. P.V.S. Honolulu.


text:
NASA Technical Reports (5)
FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER (1)
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration (1)
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Geosciences (General) (1)
Space Sciences (General) (1)
Penn State axial flow turbine facility: Performance and nozzle flow field (1991)
Lakshminarayana, B. ; Itoh, S. ; Zaccaria, M.
In: CASI
Description: The objective is to gain a thorough understanding of the flow field in a turbine stage including three-dimensional inviscid and viscid effects, unsteady flow field, rotor-stator interaction effects, unsteady blade pressures, shear stress, and velocity field in rotor passages. The performance of the turbine facility at the design condition is measured and compared with the design distribution. The data on the nozzle vane static pressure and wake characteristics are presented and interpreted. The wakes are found to be highly three-dimensional, with substantial radial inward velocity at most spanwise locations.
Keywords: FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Type: NASA. Lewis Research Center, Structural Integrity and Durability of Reusable Space Propulsion Systems; p 283-292
NASA TECHNICAL REPORTS
Oxygen and Magnesium Isotopic Compositions of Asteroidal Materials Returned from Itokawa by the Hayabusa Mission (2011)
Nakamura, T. ; Mukai, T. ; Seto, Y. ; [et al.] Zolensky, M. ; Kawaguchi, K. ; Ireland, T. R. ; Sakamoto, N. ; Noguchi, T. ; Yoshikawa, M. ; Fujimura, A. ; Okazaki, R. ; Naraoka, H. ; Tsuchiyama, A. ; Uesugi, M. ; Abe, M. ; Yada, T. ; ... and further 6
Description: The Hayabusa spacecraft made two touchdowns on the surface of Asteroid 25143 Itokawa on November 20th and 26th, 2005. The Asteroid 25143 Itokawa is classified as an S-type asteroid and inferred to consist of materials similar to ordinary chondrites or primitive achondrites [1]. Near-infrared spectroscopy by the Hayabusa spacecraft proposed that the surface of this body has an olivine-rich mineral assemblage potentially similar to that of LL5 or LL6 chondrites with different degrees of space weathering [2]. The spacecraft made the reentry into the Earth s atmosphere on June 12th, 2010 and the sample capsule was successfully recovered in Australia on June 13th, 2010. Although the sample collection processes on the Itokawa surface had not been made by the designed operations, more than 1,500 grains were identified as rocky particles in the sample curation facility of JAXA, and most of them were judged to be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from Asteroid Itokawa on November 17th, 2010 [3]. Although their sizes are mostly less than 10 microns, some larger grains of about 100 microns or larger were also included. The mineral assembly is olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, iron sulfide and iron metal. The mean mineral compositions are consistent with the results of near-infrared spectroscopy from Hayabusa spacecraft [2], but the variations suggest that the petrologic type may be smaller than the spectroscopic results. Several tens of grains of relatively large sizes among the 1,500 grains will be selected by the Hayabusa sample curation team for preliminary examination [4]. Each grain will be subjected to one set of preliminary examinations, i.e., micro-tomography, XRD, XRF, TEM, SEM, EPMA and SIMS in this sequence. The preliminary examination will start from the last week of January 2011. Therefore, samples for isotope analyses in this study will start from the last week of February 2011. By the time of the LPSC meeting we will have measured the oxygen and magnesium isotopic composition of several grains. We will present the first results from the isotope analyses that will have been performed.
Keywords: Space Sciences (General)
Type: JSC-CN-22697 , 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference; 7-11 Mar. 2011; The Woodlands, TX; United States
Early Solar System Cryovolcanics in the Laboratory (2013)
Bodnar, R. ; Itoh, S. ; Ohsumi, K. ; [et al.] Le, L. ; Fries, M. ; Mikouchi, T. ; Zolensky, M. ; Hagiya, K. ; Rahman, Z. ; Yurimoto, H. ; Steele, A.
Description: Two thermally-metamorphosed ordinary chondrite regolith breccias, Monahans 1998 (H5) and Zag (H3-6) contain fluid inclusion-bearing halite (NaCl) crystals, dated by K-Ar, Rb-Sr and I-Xe systematics to be approx. 4.5 billion years old. Heating/freezing studies of the aqueous fluid inclusions demonstrated that they were trapped near 25 C, and their continued presence in the halite grains requires that their incorporation into the H chondrite asteroid was post metamorphism.
Keywords: Geophysics
Type: JSC-CN-28791 , 2013 Meteoritical Society Meeting; 29 Jul. - 2 Aug. 2013; Edmonton; Canada
Analysis of Direct Samples of Early Solar System Aqueous Fluids (2012)
Itoh, S. ; Zolensky, Michael E. ; Steele, A. ; [et al.] Yurimoto,H. ; Fries, M. ; Bodnar, R J. ; Fedele, L.
Description: Over the past three decades we have become increasingly aware of the fundamental importance of water, and aqueous alteration, on primitive solar-system bodies. Some carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites have been altered by interactions with liquid water within the first 10 million years after formation of their parent asteroids. Millimeter to centimeter-sized aggregates of purple halite containing aqueous fluid inclusions were found in the matrix of two freshly-fallen brecciated H chondrite falls, Monahans (1998, hereafter simply "Monahans") (H5) and Zag (H3-6) (Zolensky et al., 1999; Whitby et al., 2000; Bogard et al., 2001) In order to understand origin and evolution of the aqueous fluids inside these inclusions we much measure the actual fluid composition, and also learn the O and H isotopic composition of the water. It has taken a decade for laboratory analytical techniques to catch up to these particular nanomole-sized aqueous samples. We have recently been successful in (1) measuring the isotopic composition of H and O in the water in a few fluid inclusions from the Zag and Monahans halite, (2) mineralogical characterization of the solid mineral phases associated with the aqueous fluids within the halite, and (3) the first minor element analyses of the fluid itself. A Cameca ims-1270 equipped with a cryo-sample-stage of Hokkaido University was specially prepared for the O and H isotopic measurements. The cryo-sample-stage (Techno. I. S. Corp.) was cooled down to c.a. -190 C using liquid nitrogen at which the aqueous fluid in inclusions was frozen. We excavated the salt crystal surfaces to expose the frozen fluids using a 15 keV Cs+ beam and measured negative secondary ions. The secondary ions from deep craters of approximately 10 m in depth emitted stably but the intensities changed gradually during measurement cycles because of shifting states of charge compensation, resulting in rather poor reproducibility of multiple measurements of standard fluid inclusions of +/- 90 0/00(2 sigma) for delta D, and +/- 29 0/00 (2 sigma) for delta O-18. On the other hand, the reproducibility of Delta O-17 is plus or minus 8 /00 (2 sigma ) because the observed variations of isotope ratios follow a mass dependent fractionation law. Variations of delta D of the aqueous fluids range over sog,a 330(90; 2 sigma ) to +1200(90) 0/00 for Monahans and delta 300(96) 0/00 to +90(98)0/00 for Zag. Delta O-17 of aqueous fluids range over delta 16(22) 0/00 to +18(10) 0/00 for Monahans and +3(10) 0/00 to +27(11) 0/00 for Zag. These variations are larger than the reproducibility of standard analyses and suggest that isotope equilibria were under way in the fluids before trapping into halite. The mean values of delta D and Delta O-17 are +290 0/00 and +9 0/00, respectively. The mean values and the variations of these fluids are different from the representative values of ordinary chondrites, verifying our working hypothesis that the fluid inclusion-bearing halites were not indigenous to the H chondrite parent-asteroid but rather represent exogenous material delivered onto the asteroid from a separate cryovolcanically-active body. This initial isotopic work has demonstrated the feasibility of the measurements, but also revealed sample processing and analytical shortcomings that are now being addressed. Examination of solid mineral inclusions within Monahans and Zag halite grains by confocal Raman spectroscopy at the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory has revealed them to be metal, magnetite, forsteritic olivine (Fo.98), macromolecular carbon (MMC), pyroxenes, feldspar with Raman spectral affinity to anorthoclase and, probably, fine-grained lepidocrocite (FeO(OH)). In addition, one inclusion features aliphatic material with Raman spectral features consistent with a mixture of short-chain aliphatic compounds. We have initiated analyses of the bulk composition of the fluids within the inclusions in Zag and Monahans halites at Virginia Tech by LA ICPMS using angilent 7500ce quadrupole ICPMS and a Lambda Physik GeoLas 193 nm excimer laser ablation system. Preliminary results reveal that the inclusion aqueous fluids contain highly charged cations of Ca, Mg and Fe. The minerals and compounds discovered thus far within Monahans/Zag halites are indicative of an originating body at least partly composed of unequilibrated anhydrous materials (high Fo olivine, pyroxenes, feldspars, possibly the metal) which were subjected to aqueous alteration (the halite parent brine) and containing a light organic component (the short-chain aliphatic compounds). This material was ejected from the originating body with little or no disruption, as evidenced with the presence of fluid inclusions. An actively geysering body similar to modern Enceladus (Postberg et al., 2011) may be a reasonable analogue in this respect. Also, the originating body should have been within close proximity to the H chondrite parent in order to generate the number of halite grains seen in Monahans and Zag. Other candidates for Monahans/Zag halite parent bodie(s) may include a young Ceres with its possible liquid ocean, or Main Belt comets.
Keywords: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration
Type: JSC-CN-26166 , Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI-XI); 18-20 Jun. 2012; Ontario, Montreal; Canada
Hydrovolcanic Astromaterials in the Lab (2018)
Kebukawa, Y. ; Ito, M. ; Chan, Q. H.-S. ; [et al.] Yurimoto, Y. ; Bodnar, R. J. ; Itoh, S. ; Fries, M. ; Steele, A. ; Zolensky, M. E.
Description: Zag and Monahans (1998) are H chondrite regolith breccias that contain 4.5 GY old halite crystals which in turn contain abundant inclusions of aqueous fluids, solids and organics. We have previously proposed that these halites originated on a hydrovolcanically-active C class asteroid, probably Ceres, or a trans-neptunian object (TNO - or P- or D-class asteroid) injected into the inner solar system during giant planet migration. We have begun a detailed analysis of organics and other solids trapped within the halite, which we hypothesize sample the mantle of the halite parent object, and are examining a halite-bearing C1 chondrite clast also found in Zag, which is similar to the solids in the halite. These investigations will reveal the water-rock interactions on the hydrovolcanically-active parent world.
Keywords: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Geosciences (General)
Type: LPI Paper No. 6041 , LPI Contrib. No. 2085 , JSC-E-DAA-TN56316


"Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, known in Japan as Mario Golf: Family Tour (マリオゴルフ ファミリーツアー), is a sports game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It is the sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64 title Mario Golf, and is the fifth game in the Mario Golf series. It was released in North America on July 29, 2003, in Japan on September 5, 2003, and in the PAL region on June 18, 2004.
Toadstool Tour is a golf game featuring characters and elements from the Mario series. There are 16 playable characters in total, each with a set of golfing statistics defining their style of play. The game's main mode involves the player competing in tournaments to obtain new features, although there are alternative modes consisting of training session and variations to the golf format. This includes "Ring Attack", requiring the player to hit the ball through rings of varying sizes while remaining on or under par. Players can transfer characters between Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Golf: Advance Tour using the Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable.
Toadstool Tour received a positive reception from the media, gaining an aggregate score of 82% from Game Rankings. In general, reviewers praised the game's visuals, sound, and variety of courses, although a perceived lack of advancement from its predecessor was criticised. The game became part of the Player's Choice label in 2004.
This game marked the first appearance of a character from the Donkey Kong Country series (aside from the title character) in a Mario game: Diddy Kong (other DKC characters would go on to be featured in other Mario sports games later on)."
Source: Wikipedia, "Mario_Golf:_Toadstool_Tour," available under the CC-BY-SA License.


text:
Q: Android: Nullpointer Exception in addOnGesturePerformedListener public class TestActivity extends Activity implements OnGesturePerformedListener {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    mLibrary = GestureLibraries.fromRawResource(this, R.raw.gestures);

    GestureOverlayView gestures = (GestureOverlayView) findViewById(R.id.gestureOverlayView1);
    gestures.addOnGesturePerformedListener(TestActivity.this);

}

My main.xml

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

<android.gesture.GestureOverlayView
    android:id="@+id/gestureOverlayView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
</android.gesture.GestureOverlayView>

Activity.java:
private GestureLibrary mLibrary;

public void onGesturePerformed(GestureOverlayView overlay, Gesture gesture) {
    ArrayList<Prediction> predictions = mLibrary.recognize(gesture);
    Log.v("performed", "performed");
    // We want at least one prediction
    if (predictions.size() > 0) {
        Prediction prediction = predictions.get(0);
        // We want at least some confidence in the result
        if (prediction.score > 1.0) {
            if (prediction.name.equalsIgnoreCase("right swipe")) {
                // do you thing here//
                Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "rigth",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            } else if (prediction.name.equalsIgnoreCase("left swipe")) {

                Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "lef",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            }
        }
    }
}

Running this crashes with the following in Log:

05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{t.e.st/t.e.st.TestActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1768)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1784)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:123)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:939)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3835)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:847)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:605)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
**05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):  at t.e.st.TestActivity.onCreate(TestActivity.java:26)**
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1722)
05-17 15:18:52.124: E/AndroidRuntime(17266):    ... 11 more

Please help me solve this.
The Overlay is there in xml. so thats not the issue and its says the error is in line 26. So its abt addOnGesturePerformedListener();

A: if you are sure you have a View with @+id = "gestureOverlayView1" inside your main.xml layout, then try
gestures.addOnGesturePerformedListener(this);

instead of
gestures.addOnGesturePerformedListener(TestActivity.this);

(remove the TestActivity specifier from this)