GPS Tracking- Global Positioning System was initiated in 1980's for locating military appliances, but today to locate the accurate place on any item/vehicle GPS is leading. GPS made it possible to bring the whole world in just a small device smartphone. Currently through MAPS one can locate every small place in the world just by few taps.
GPS Tracking is a network of satellites that send precise details of any location, even the distance between place A and place B. So far, Flipkart, Amazon also allows the users to trace their products delivery route.
Looking to GPS Tracking importance, many of the restaurants, buses, trains and vehicles adapted the GPS Tracking technique. Fleet management companies also adapted GPS monitoring technique for acute results of the location of the automobiles.
In which Sectors the GPS Tracking can be used?
UBER and other on-demand service providers are actively using the GPS Tracking Technique. Say for example- UBER manages a huge fleet worldwide and implemented the technique of GPS- which helps passenger to track the automobile and for fleet manager, he can track the driver's location and his driving behavior with the help of GPS. LetsNurture has also developed such an app for the booking services of the Limousins.
Similarly, on-demand service providers apps for a plumber, snow mover, etc. also uses GPS tracking features, to track the exact location of the customer and customer can view the location of the service provider to know that approximately when he will arrive at the spot.
These are just a few examples, where integrating GPS tracking technique in the mobile app helps ease the daily life. There are many more examples and much more successful examples will be crafted in the nearer future.
In the nearer future, security department will be using this technique to trace your car. Just as IMEI number of the Mobile phone is used to trace the location of the cell phone if it is lost or stolen, similarly GPS will help to search the automobile.
How GPS tracking can improve the Driving Skills?
Get Smart Alerts for service and maintenance.
Get instant help from the nearest service center in case of breakdown.
The garage will get a report on their regular customers.
The garage will also get alerts for any nearby breakdown of a car.
The live trip assistance integrated with the GPS Tracking system helps to know at which location, what mistakes are done by the driver and also can locate accurately the car. The mistakes include idling, rapid acceleration, harsh brake, over speeding, etc. By using Karconnect with the time flow, one improves his/her driving skills and increase the fuel efficiency of the automobile. This results in the decrease of the maintenance cost of the automobile.


The annual conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) will be held in Espoo, Finland, followed by the APA members' meeting.
The theme of the 2010 annual Conference is Scalable infrastructures for digital preservation. Full details, including the link to the registration page, are available at http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/apa2010/.


The Giant's Causeway, in Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000 basalt columns. They were formed during an ancient volcanic...Read More >>The Giant's Causeway, in Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000 basalt columns. They were formed during an ancient volcanic eruption. The lava flow cooled rapidly, causing the rock to fracture into columns. Most of the columns are hexagonal in shape. Igneous rocks are formed when magma, molten rock from beneath the Earth's crust, rises, cools and solidifies. Intrusive igneous rock, such as granite, is formed when magma becomes solid in cracks or chambers beneath the ground. Extrusive igneous rock, such as basalt, is formed when the magma solidifies above the ground quite quickly. This happens when magma seeps out on to the ocean bed, or when runny lava spreads out from a volcano on land over a large area.
When magma turns to solid rock (black) under the ground, it takes on the shape of the surrounding rock, resulting in ledges,...Read More >>When magma turns to solid rock (black) under the ground, it takes on the shape of the surrounding rock, resulting in ledges, columns, domes and other shapes.There it may stay, eventually cooling down slowly to become a mass of igneous rock. Magma that cools deep underground is called intrusive igneous rock. Granite is an example of intrusive igneous rock.


If you�re at the stage where the employer is negotiating salary with you, the employer wants you, adds career coach Lauren Milligan of ResuMayday, a Warrenville, Illinois, career-counseling firm. �You have value to them,� she says. �That isn�t going to disappear simply because you give a �... I had to ask what the salary was when my current employer called to offer me the job, after two interviews. He seemed to be waiting for my acceptance, even though I hadn�t seen anything specific regarding compensation or benefits. It turns out he said he didn�t know, but would have HR send me a contract I could peruse.
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One of the things I love most about the SNAG community is the diversity of passions, interests and goals of our members. I'm always inspired by the dedication, commitment and persistence of SNAG members in reaching for these goals. If only all of our bank accounts could keep up with our dreams. Here are three awesome SNAG ladies, each with very different aspirations, but all in need of financial assistance.
Satomi Kawai is asking for support in attending Munich Jewelry Week where she was invited to participate in an exhibition showcasing works inspired by a residency in Athens Greece this past January. Satomi has this to say about her work: "My visual art practice includes jewelry, printing, and drawing. My art speaks of nature and my personal femininity. I have felt a strong tie to my natural surroundings since I was a child, living in a nature-rich suburb of a local city in Wakayama prefecture. I am also surrounded by nature in Iowa City and my inspirations are abundant in every moment here. After moving to the United States, I also had to reevaluate my personal femininity with respect to living in a western culture, observe myself as a transplanted person and adjusted during the last nineteen years." To learn more about Satomi's project you can check out her GoFundMe here.
Traveling in the opposite direct is Danielle James. DJ is a fabulous metalsmith with a recently discovered passion for neon. She has been invited to exhibit her work in an upcoming neon exhibition in San Francisco. "She Bends 2: Women in Neon, which will be opening at The Midway (www.themidwaysf.com) in San Francisco on March 24th. The logistics of delivering large and fragile neon works is a bit more complicated than shipping jewelry. DJ is planning on driving her work cross country from Raleigh, NC to San Francisco, CA. She's set up an IndieGoGo page to help fund her travel expenses. You can learn more here.
Perhaps traveling furthest is jeweler, biker and solo traveler Casey Sheppard. For anyone that knows Casey, it's very obvious that her travel and biking are an integral component to her art making. Also, you know the amazing pieces she's able to make with just a few hand tools in her van. Her next big adventure is the Tour Aotearoa, a 3000km 30-day solo self-supported bike tour of both islands of New Zealand. She will start at Cape Reinga and ride an average of 86 miles a day. A big part of Casey's mission is to show girls all over the world that they can achieve whatever they put their mind to, and the importance of following one's heart. Casey is also available to speak to your group or organization. Her KickStarter, full of informative videos is here. There's only one week left to donate!
So check out some awesome artists with some worthy projects and let's support each other in achieving our dreams! Thanks for reading!


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History And Culture Of Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur was at first a little settlement with a couple of houses, at the juncture of streams Sungai Gombak and Sungai Klang. It was set up as a town in 1857 by Raja Abdullah Raja Jaafar, the Malay Chief of Klang. The Sumatrans Abdullah Hukum and Sutan Puasa were accepted to have landed in Kuala Lumpur in 1850. Yap Ah Loy landed in 1862 and was picked the third Chinese Kapitan of Kuala Lumpur. The Minangkabaus of Sumatra were involved in the trade business and Utsman Abdullah was a powerful businessperson. Another compelling individual engaged with the early improvement of city focal Kampung Baru, was Haji Taib, one of the wealthiest individuals around then. In 1896, Kuala Lumpur was chosen as the capital of the Federated Malay States. Amid the World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army caught Kuala Lumpur on 11 January 1942 and possessed the city until 15 August 1945. Seishirō Itagaki, the Japanese president of Singapore and Malaysia, surrendered to the British after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1957, the Federation of Malaya got freedom from the British. After the development of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, Kuala Lumpur was picked as the capital. From being a modest mining town in the nineteenth century to the blasting city that it is today, Kuala Lumpur has made some amazing progress.
Kuala Lumpur is the social center point of Malaysia. National Museum is an extraordinary place to get a knowledge into the nation's way of life. Islamic Arts Museum houses a great many antiques and craftsmanship books identified with Islam, from all over Asia and Middle East. The real performing expressions setting is the Petronas Philharmonic Hall, which has different exhibitions by a few gatherings, including the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Another such scene is the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center. The National Art Gallery of Malaysia is a choice exhibition that grandstands conventional Malay, just as contemporary current craftsmanship. The city has a few occasions and fests, for example, Malaysia International Gourmet Festival and Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week, drawing in capable experts from everywhere throughout the world. Religious and ethnic celebrations incorporate the Thaipusam parade at the Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Chinese New Year, Ramadan and some more.
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Thanks to FLAMINGO It Was Our Excellent Dream Trip
This was our first trip at abroad, we were having lots of questions with us how will be the company, will get Jain food and many more but with flamingo the answers was yes we got best company and excellent food all over the trip. We didn't only get Jain food but we got full Gujarati dish "Shikhand Puri", "Pani Puri", "Puran Puri", and many Indian dishes, it was really very surprising for us. The hotels provide by them for stay were also so good. The tour manager Devarshi Mam itself was so supportive. We never realized that tour manager is with us she was like our family member. She was so friendly by nature and knowledgeable person to guide us. Thanks to FLAMINGO.It was our excellent dream trip. I would rate 5 stars out of 5.
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Ruth Bell Graham
A Life Well Lived
One of the first people I will be looking for when I get to heaven, will be Ruth Bell Graham. I cannot think of any woman whose writing has influenced me more. When I was in graduate school I worked part-time at a Christian bookstore, and I remember reading Ruth's book of poetry Sitting by My Laughing Fire. There was just something about it that made me want to know her better. As the years wore on Patricia Cornwell wrote her biography, A Time For Remembering. I inhaled the story of her life and have read the book multiple times. Just what was it about Ruth Bell Graham that has challenged and influenced me so much?
Let's start with her childhood. Ruth was born in China to missionary parents serving with the China Inland Mission under Hudson Taylor. Her father, Dr. Nelson Bell, was a surgeon and another giant of the faith. I have mentioned the story of his life in my spring newsletter about biographies, A Foreign Devil in China. Ruth and her family lived in incredible turmoil and danger in China, but her love for the land of her birth never ceased. Having been homeschooled for her primary years Ruth was then sent to boarding school in Korea. She prayed she would die rather than leave the security of her family's compound, but her Heavenly Father did not answer her prayer. She said that the leaving of family and home prepared her for a lifetime of goodbyes. While at boarding school Ruth was overcome with intense homesickness; she coped by reaching out to the younger and needier students. This developed a pattern for how she coped with her own pain the rest of her life. Ruth's parents were forced to leave for America due to political instability and foreign invasion. That year Ruth joined her sister Rosa at Wheaton College.
She was "the belle of the campus" having more boyfriends than her sister could count. But Ruth observed one young man who stood out from the others. She first saw him rushing down a flight of stairs on campus and she thought, "There is a man in a hurry to get somewhere". Their mutual friends introduced them and they quickly began a rather rocky courtship. Ruth had determined to be, as she termed it, an "old-maid missionary in Tibet." Billy, her beau, was not convinced he was called to the mission field. There was trouble on the horizon. He finally asked her if she believed God had brought them together. She said "Yes!" He responded, "Then I will do the leading and you do the following." They were married soon after and Ruth became Mrs. Billy Graham.
Ministry Growth
After graduation, Ruth became a pastor's wife in the Chicago suburbs. The small church's attendance quickly doubled under their leadership but the call on Billy's life was to itinerant evangelism. God started opening doors for Billy to travel and speak. As they began their family it became obvious that Ruth needed a safe haven in which to live and raise their children. Her missionary parents had settled in the quiet Presbyterian enclave of Montreat, North Carolina. Ruth followed them there. As the years and the scope of Billy's ministry increased, Ruth and the children needed privacy from the inquisitive busloads of Christian tourists that would descend upon their front lawn. Ruth and Billy were told about a large piece of mountain property that was soon to be available. Billy left for a trip and told Ruth to decide while he was gone. When he returned from the trip Ruth met him with the news that she had gone to the bank, borrowed $45,000, and bought the land. He responded, "You did what?!" This was the beginning of Ruth having to run their home while Billy traversed the globe.
Character Forged
As the years drew on Ruth raised their five children and served the Lord in quiet and invisible ways while holding onto Jesus for dear life. She also determined to grow in knowledge and set herself on a steady course of reading Christian biographies, literature, history, geography, constantly feeding Billy with the information she was gleaning.
Character Revealed
Ruth spent much of her adult life rubbing shoulders with royalty, international heads of state, the rich, and the famous. But at the end of the day in her journals, she often wrote the names of the servants in those households to add to her prayer list. Regardless of who she was with, prince or pauper, drug addict or theologian she was always exactly the same person. Never drawing attention to herself, she always remained in the background by her choice.
Unique Challenge
Once when visiting her grandchildren, Ruth, always the daredevil, decided to test the safety of a zip line that she had designed. During this safety test she had a terrible fall. When she came out of her coma her short-term memory was lost, including the thousands of Bible verses she had memorized throughout her life. She lived with chronic pain the rest of her life but Ruth never complained.
Some other books that will give you a window into Ruth's life and heart are Footprints of a Pilgram: The Life and Loves of Ruth Bell Graham and Ruth: A Portrait, by Patricia Cornwell. Ruth wrote several books of her own, among them Legacy of a Pack Rat and Prodigals and Those Who Love Them. Her recommendation of Catherine Vos' The Child's Story Bible changed our family's quiet time. Ruth said it was the best retelling of the Bible anywhere in print, and she was right!
Her Imprint
Ruth's personal Bible was so worn out that she wrapped a leather belt around it to keep it intact, which she laughingly referred to as her "Bible belt." Ruth was first and foremost a lover of God's word, an intercessor, and a lover of hurting people. She truly was an example of a life well lived.


In a perfect football world, we'd bottle up the Houston Texans-Seattle Seahawks game last Oct. 29 and live there forever. It was as good as NFL football gets, at least before the postseason.
Even before that day it seemed something special was happening in Houston. Rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson's career was off to a great start. Then, in front of the NFL's toughest road crowd, Watson went blow for blow with Russell Wilson, throwing for 402 yards and four touchdowns. It was one of the best regular-season games I've ever seen. Watson's Texans lost 41-38 because Wilson pulled off a miracle comeback, but it seemed like a big moment for Watson, for the Texans and the entire NFL. It seemed like we had just watched the birth of a new superstar.
And then came the gut punch.
On Nov. 2, out of nowhere, news broke that Watson tore his ACL in practice. It was a freak accident, a non-contact injury that ended his season. Watson's phenomenal performance against the Seahawks was the last time we'd see him on the field as a rookie.
We assume what we saw from Watson last season was just the start. Because players bounce back from ACL injuries all the time, we figure Watson will look the same when he returns. Perhaps even better. Fantasy experts seem to be in a competition to be the one who loves Watson most this offseason. We all want to see Watson become a transcendent player. Maybe he will be.
However, we don't know. We thought Robert Griffin III would be fine. For old-school fans, nobody figured Greg Cook's career was basically over after one amazing rookie season with the Cincinnati Bengals due to a shoulder injury. Nothing is guaranteed. Aside from that, there's no way Watson can continue at his rookie pace.
Watson threw touchdowns on 9.3 percent of his passes last season. The best mark in NFL history is Sid Luckman's 7.9 percent, and for anyone whose career started after the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, Aaron Rodgers is the career leader at 6.4 percent. Last season, Watson was almost 50 percent better than Rodgers' historic mark. Among quarterbacks of the past 40 years, Peyton Manning, Tony Romo and Wilson are tied for second in touchdown percentage behind Rodgers at 5.7. Long story short: Watson wasn't going to keep up what he did last year, even if his knee stayed intact. The pace he was on, not just for touchdowns but across the board, is unsustainable. That doesn't mean he'll fall back so much he'll turn into DeShone Kizer. It's just that we can't expect Watson to repeat his 2017 and do it over 16 games.
Expectations can be fierce and they don't often consider the gravitational pull of regression. People assumed Dak Prescott would go from rookie star to MVP candidate last season, ignoring that he couldn't sustain his 2016 pace. And he didn't. Watson has the additional hurdle of coming back from a torn ACL. Every report indicates his rehab is going well, but he still depends on his mobility to stress a defense, and this is his second torn ACL.
It isn't just Houston that's invested in Watson's return, though the Texans' outlook for the next decade is riding on it. If Watson is the NFL's next superstar quarterback, Bill O'Brien is going to save his job for a while and it lifts a franchise that has only three playoff wins and has never made it out of the divisional round. It's, however, more than that. With Peyton Manning gone and Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning and Drew Brees close to joining him in retirement, the NFL needs stars like Watson. For a too-brief time last year, he looked like the type of player who could be the face of the entire league. He was making some great headlines off the field too. Houston is rooting the hardest for Watson, and the folks at the NFL's Park Avenue offices might be second in line.
We wait to see what 2018 brings. If Watson and J.J. Watt come back as good as new from injuries, the Texans should be contenders in the AFC South. They were 3-3 in Watson's starts but with very close losses to New England, Kansas City and Seattle. The Texans looked good with Watson in the lineup. They were equally as awful without Watson (and without Watt and fellow injured pass rusher Whitney Mercilus).
We can only hope the optimists are right and Watson picks up where he left off last season. What we saw from him last year was really fun.
The Texans were still paying the draft price for trading up to take Deshaun Watson and dumping Brock Osweiler last year. They didn't have a pick in the first two rounds. The Texans overpaid free-agent guards Zach Fulton and Senio Kelemete because they needed to do something to help a bad offensive line and didn't have the draft capital to fix those spots. Houston didn't lose a ton, but this was a light offseason for additions.
There are plenty, and the biggest one wears No. 4 (No. 99 isn't far behind). Another that has to be mentioned is receiver DeAndre Hopkins. In six-and-a-half games with Deshaun Watson last year, Hopkins had a blistering 44-599-7 line. Here are the other starting quarterbacks Hopkins has had in his Texans career: Matt Schaub, Case Keenum, T.J. Yates, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mallett, Tom Savage, Brian Hoyer, Brandon Weeden and Brock Osweiler. He has 5,865 yards in his five NFL seasons despite most of his passes coming from that crew. The Texans have receiver Will Fuller, who is a very good deep threat when healthy. Other than that, there aren't many proven, dangerous pass targets to take pressure off Hopkins. The running game, led by Lamar Miller and D'Onta Foreman (who is coming back off an Achilles injury) won't help a ton either. But Hopkins keeps plowing through all the obstacles that should limit his production. And he probably dreams of what could happen if he and Watson stay healthy for a full season.
The Texans' offensive line isn't good. They traded left tackle Duane Brown, and you have to wonder how much Brown's criticism of team owner Bob McNair's insensitive comments led to that move. It certainly didn't help the product on the field. Jim Sannes of NumberFire.com ranks the Texans as the worst offensive line in the NFL. Pro Football Focus ranked the Texans as the league's worst line last season. This is a bad group, and that's not good news for a young quarterback coming off a major injury.
Since we spent the intro discussing Deshaun Watson at length, let's point this out: Last season, after dozens of offseason and training camp practices and then four preseason games to evaluate his quarterbacks, Bill O'Brien thought Tom Savage was a better option to start Week 1 than Watson.
The most important non-quarterback in the entire NFL this season might be J.J. Watt. Watt's resume is incredible; before injuries set in he was on a GOAT pace. Injuries stink, and they've piled up for Watt. He had two back surgeries in 2016 and played only three games. A devastating tibial plateau fracture cost him all but five games last season. Now Watt is 29 years old with a scary injury history working against him. Bill O'Brien's go-to comment this offseason has been, "I would never bet against J.J. Watt." Maybe I'm reading too much into that line, but that doesn't sound as confident as you'd hope.
The Texans need Watt to look like the guy who won three Defensive Player of the Year awards. If Watt is just an above-average player after his back and leg injuries, it's not the same team.
From Yahoo's Brad Evans: "With batons in hand, the regression police are out in full force. They incessantly argue Watson's 24.7 fantasy points per game, the second-highest mark by a passer since Peyton Manning unloaded 55 touchdowns in 2013, is unsustainable. Their point is veracious. It is unlikely he meets or exceeds last year's prolific pace. Still, at his ADP, he's bound to turn a lavish profit. Reduce his 2017 numbers by 10 percent and he bests eight of Aaron Rodgers' last 10 season tallies in the category.
"The environment around Watson is nourishing. DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller, who last year posted a combined 54 percent play success rate with Watson according to Sharp Football Stats, are dynamite intermediate/downfield targets. Mix in Bruce Ellington, Braxton Miller, explosive rookie Keke Coutee and Lamar Miller and the Texans offense looks potent.
"Though Bill O'Brien doesn't plan to change the passer's desire to run, questions do linger. For the sake of body preservation, will Watson run less, especially when considering Houston's sketchy offensive line? Even if he does, his deadly execution throwing the ball shouldn't be underestimated. Last season, he ranked No. 2 in play-action completion percentage, No. 6 in deep-ball completion percentage and No. 1 in total QBR. The dude shredded defenses even behind a line that ranked No. 30 in pass-blocking per Football Outsiders. And blasting him for turnovers is rather silly considering A) he was a rookie, and B) turnovers are not weighted heavily in most fantasy leagues.
Quarterbacks get too much praise and too much blame, but it's hard to deny what Deshaun Watson meant to the Texans' offense. If you don't count Watson's first start, which came on the road in a short week, the Texans averaged 39 points per game in his five starts. They averaged 13 points in the 10 games he didn't start. Part of that is the incredibly steep drop to Tom Savage (one more time: Bill O'Brien thought Savage was a better option to start last season than Watson), but that one stat reveals all you need to know about Watson's impact.
WHAT DO THE TEXANS DO ABOUT JADEVEON CLOWNEY?
Clowney's contract situation is going to become an issue soon. He's in the final year of his rookie deal. John McClain of the Houston Chronicle wondered in mid-June if Clowney will be extended by the team. While McClain also said there's "no way" the team would let him leave as a free agent, the franchise tag isn't a permanent solution. A long-term deal will be very expensive. After last season, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle offered that Clowney could get the biggest contract for a non-quarterback in league history, in terms of total value, even more than the six-year, $114.1 million the Denver Broncos gave Von Miller. Even if Clowney doesn't pass that mark, it seems he'll be in the $100 million range. The Texans already have J.J. Watt, who has the fourth-highest non-QB contract in the NFL, and DeAndre Hopkins, who is 13th on the list. Deshaun Watson is on his rookie deal and that's a major advantage in terms of the salary cap, but it's still hard to invest a fortune in three non-quarterbacks. Also, Clowney has dealt with many injuries and while he has developed into a very good player, the former No. 1 overall pick isn't close to being the best non-quarterback in the league. It's a complicated situation and won't get easier the longer it lingers.
Deshaun Watson might have been the best rookie quarterback we've ever seen, even though it wasn't for long. J.J. Watt is one of two men to win three Defensive Player of the Year awards, and the other Is Lawrence Taylor. If both Texans return to their peak, nobody in the NFL can match that combination. Also, DeAndre Hopkins is one of the top few receivers in the game. There's no question a division title is within the possible outcomes for the Texans. They've won the AFC South with worse quarterbacks, after all.
I worry about J.J. Watt regaining his old form because the injuries he has dealt with aren't easy to overcome. Deshaun Watson will be fine, but we're still putting him in the Hall of Fame after just six starts and his injury adds uncertainty. The Texans were entirely reliant on Watson last season; they won one game without him. It's hard to go all-in on a team when its two superstars are coming off major injuries.
According to NFL analyst Warren Sharp, who uses Las Vegas win projections to calculate strength of schedule, the Texans have the easiest schedule in the NFL. That helps. Still, there are enough reasons for concern which is why we'll be a bit disappointed in Houston. I still like the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars more in the division. I won't rule out Deshaun Watson being a football prodigy, but it will be very hard for him to exceed expectations this season. I'm probably going to be a bit low on the Texans. All the uncertainty – as well as major holes on the offensive line and in the run game – is a concern.


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Experience this spectacular view location at Maui's award-winning beach vacation destination. Rarely do the top-tier units come to market. This beautiful two-bedroom, 2-bath floor plan with den presents panoramic views encompassing Wailea Beach, Molokini, Kaho'olawe, Lanai'i, West Maui and Haleakala - truly breathtaking! Meticulous original owners do not rent. Recently painted throughout, and all stone work refinished. Fully and elegantly furnished, including all artwork. Gourmet kitchen is fully stocked and ready for culinary action. Reserved parking space in garage accommodates a full-size vehicle with adjacent locked owner storage space large enough for boards, bikes, golf clubs, you name it! Exceptional property amenities include two pools and spas, fitness facility, business center, owner lounges, valet, concierge, gated key access to the renowned Shops at Wailea, private elevator access and 24-hour security. This is a pinnacle property that combines privacy and privilege, luxury and comfort, security and serenity. Penthouse 510 is unoccupied and available to show today! The Capital Reserve Fee is $473.00 per month.
Take your private elevator up to This 4th floor, single-level Penthouse Unit, and enjoy endless ocean and sunset views from our wrap around patio lanai. This three bedroom, three bath unit is located in the M stack of the Penthouse Building, which is the furthest, most private corner end of the complex. Some of the resort style amenities onsite include billiard room, entertaining area, fitness center, 24-hour manned security and two pools - one adult beachfront pool and one family pool. Walk out your private beachfront gate and/or the private Shops at Wailea gate for fine dining and fabulous underground parking lot, with a bonus storage rooms for all of your beach gear. This unit is fully furnished, and is currently being rented.


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Q: How to use a remote Jupyter server in VSCode? I want to use a remote Jupyter server via SSH with VSCode but I get an error whenever I try to specify the URI of any server. This also happens with local instances of Jupyter. Any server that is not started by VS Code seems to be unusable.
I am just starting a server like this
$ jupyter notebook --no-browser --port 8080

Then I  enter the address in VSCode with the correct port and token

Nothing happens and I get this error, as you can see in the log below.

Command 'Python: Specify local or remote Jupyter server for connections' resulted in an error (Running the contributed command: 'python.datascience.selectjupyteruri' failed.)

Has anyone else been experiencing anything similar? I honestly have no idea how to troubleshoot this. It is worth noting that selecting the Default: VS Code will automatically start a server for you on localhost option raises the same error.

A: It looks like you're running a fairly old version of the Python extension, as the python.datascience.selectjupyteruri command no longer exists in the Python extension—it is now provided in a standalone Jupyter extension. Please consider upgrading to the latest version of the Python and Jupyter extensions. If that doesn't resolve the problem, please file an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues and we'll be happy to help.

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Alexa Meade transformed Bjarke Ingels – her favorite architect – into art. Alexa Meade is an artist who turns the traditional notion of art on its head — instead of capturing the real world on a flat canvas, the real world is her canvas. Through detailed, trompe l'oeil brush-work painted directly on humans or objects, Meade transforms the 3-dimensional world into a 2-dimensional one.
It was such a pleasure transforming Bjarke Ingels (BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group) into art.
In corporate settings Alexa Meade's work can be customized to incorporate attendees, who have opportunities to photograph themselves within the artwork, and post them for colleagues and friends through social media outlets. Within the art world, Alexa's art has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in DC, Postmasters Gallery in NYC, and Galerie Ivo Kamm in Zurich, Galerie Ingo Seufert in Germany, and Galerie Edouard Mazel in Brussels. Alexa has delivered keynote speeches about her work at the Wired Conference, National Geographic, and TEDGlobal.
Alexa Meade is available for select opportunities to perform commissioned projects.


Add pops of color to your backyard parties or holiday lighting with our 5 pack of twinkle globe shaped G40 bulbs. There are 5 bulbs of each color: purple, blue, red, green and yellow. Perfect for tents, patios, outdoor markets and awnings. Our round, G40 replacement bulbs are each 1.5 inch in diameter, 7 watts and 130 volts. These bulbs have an E12 Candelabra base that fit into a C7 socket. Each globe replacement bulb and lasts for approximately 3000 hours. See all our Globe String Lights.


Whenever a tragic event happens in the world, we know that students and their families reevaluate plans for off-campus study. The world, which at times seems so large, becomes immediately smaller, especially for parents. Our students who are abroad should follow their program directives. And we welcome conversations with students who are preparing to study abroad in the spring but might have second thoughts now. We are happy to discuss with them and their families any concerns they may have and to help them remain at Kenyon next spring if they wish. I encourage sophomores interested in off-campus study to continue the application process — keeping in mind that there is ample time before making a final decision. Off-campus study, we know, can be very rewarding and life-changing, but the safety of our students is always foremost in my mind.
Ultimately, the choice to go abroad comes down to each student and their family's personal decision. We would like to remind Kenyon that there is no right or wrong choice to be made, and the decision-making process is a complicated and personal one to endure. With this in mind, we wish everyone luck in their efforts to abroad.
I'm in a slum in the middle of Africa. Y'all people vacationing around Europe for a semester will be fine.
And yet the lines were entirely silent from Kenyon to those of us abroad. I'm truly disappointed in the lack of support or even contact from the administration following the attacks.


A 13-month-old girl has been flown to hospital after a serious house fire in Moray.
Two adult occupants are also being treated after at least 40 firefighters were called to MacDonald Drive in Lossiemouth at about 03:45.
The girl was airlifted to hospital in Glasgow from Dr Gray's in Elgin.
A man, 35, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and a woman, 31, was also expected to be transferred. Police said all three were in a serious condition.
Six fire engines and a height reach vehicle were joined by support units at the scene. The fire was later brought under control.
Police Scotland said a joint investigation would be carried out with Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson said: "Our inquiries are at an early stage in establishing what caused the fire.
"The three occupants of the house are all in a serious condition and our thoughts are with them and their family at this time.
"MacDonald Drive between St Margarets Crescent and Rinnes Drive is currently closed to allow access for emergency services vehicles. The local community is thanked for their patience and understanding whilst we carry out our inquiries."


I have on my butterfly socks as I'm reading this! Seriously! Your family wedding photo is beautiful. I know everyone enjoyed the RV with grandma too. Your spinach reminds me of how we grew turnips when I was a child and my mother washed them in the washing machine to remove the dirt. True story. Thanks for linking, Amy.
I also went to a wedding Saturday! It was the wedding of my lifelong friend from high school and was a beautiful ceremony. I've never worn compression socks but simply put my legs up against a wall after long runs. It really helps with recovery!
Your family is so adorable! Sounds like you had a great time at the wedding!
I bought me some of these but dang my foot is too small even for the xs/s size I had to send them back, It made me sad cause I loved the design!


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<?php

namespace danielgp\bank_holidays;

/**
 * Return a list of all Romanian Holidays between 2001 and 2020
 *
 * @author Daniel Popiniuc
 */
trait Romanian
{

    /**
     *
     * @param int $year
     * @return type
     */
    private function getEasterDatetime($year)
    {
        $base = new \DateTime($year . '-03-21');
        return $base->add(new \DateInterval('P{' . easter_days($year) . '}D'));
    }

    /**
     * returns an array with non-standard holidays from a JSON file
     *
     * @param string $fileBaseName
     * @return mixed
     */
    protected function readTypeFromJsonFileUniversal($filePath, $fileBaseName)
    {
        $fName       = $filePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $fileBaseName . '.min.json';
        $fJson       = fopen($fName, 'r');
        $jSonContent = fread($fJson, filesize($fName));
        fclose($fJson);
        return json_decode($jSonContent, true);
    }

    /**
     * List of legal holidays
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @param boolean $inclCatholicEaster
     * @return array
     */
    public function setHolidays(\DateTime $lngDate, $inclCatholicEaster = false, $inclWorkingHolidays = false)
    {
        $givenYear = $lngDate->format('Y');
        $daying    = array_merge($this->setHolidaysOrthodoxEaster($lngDate), $this->setHolidaysFixed($lngDate));
        if ($inclWorkingHolidays) {
            $daying = array_merge($daying, $this->setHolidaysFixedButWorking($lngDate));
        }
        if ($inclCatholicEaster) { // Catholic easter is already known by PHP
            $firstEasterDate  = strtotime($this->getEasterDatetime($givenYear)->format('Y-m-d'));
            $secondEasterDate = strtotime('+1 day', $firstEasterDate);
            $daying           = array_merge($daying, [
                $firstEasterDate,
                $secondEasterDate,
            ]);
        }
        sort($daying);
        return array_unique($daying); // remove duplicate for when catholic and orthodox easter match
    }

    /**
     * List of all Romanian fixed holidays
     * (where fixed means every single year occur on same day of the month)
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @return array
     */
    private function setHolidaysFixed(\DateTime $lngDate)
    {
        $daying    = [
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $lngDate->format('Y')), // Happy New Year
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 2, $lngDate->format('Y')), // recovering from New Year party
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 1, $lngDate->format('Y')), // May 1st
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 1, $lngDate->format('Y')), // Romanian National Day
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 25, $lngDate->format('Y')), // Christmas Day
            mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 26, $lngDate->format('Y')), // Christmas 2nd Day
        ];
        $newerDays = $this->setHolidaysFixedOnlyNewerYears($lngDate);
        if (count($newerDays) > 0) {
            $daying = array_merge($daying, $newerDays);
            sort($daying);
        }
        return $daying;
    }

    /**
     * List of all Romanian fixed holidays for newer years
     * (as the legislation introduced few additional ones along the years, those are managed here)
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @return array
     */
    private function setHolidaysFixedOnlyNewerYears(\DateTime $lngDate)
    {
        $daying = [];
        if ($lngDate->format('Y') >= 2009) {
            $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 8, 15, $lngDate->format('Y')); // St. Marry
            if ($lngDate->format('Y') >= 2012) {
                $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 30, $lngDate->format('Y')); // St. Andrew
                if ($lngDate->format('Y') >= 2017) {
                    $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 24, $lngDate->format('Y')); // Union Day
                    $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 6, 1, $lngDate->format('Y')); // Child's Day
                }
            }
        }
        return $daying;
    }

    /**
     * List of Romanian fixed holidays that are still working (weird ones)
     * (where fixed means every single year occur on same day of the month)
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @return array
     */
    private function setHolidaysFixedButWorking(\DateTime $lngDate)
    {
        $daying    = [];
        $givenYear = $lngDate->format('Y');
        if ($givenYear >= 2015) {
            $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 24, $givenYear); // Unirea Principatelor Romane
            if ($givenYear >= 2016) {
                $daying[] = mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 19, $givenYear); // Constantin Brancusi birthday
            }
        }
        return $daying;
    }

    /**
     * List of all Orthodox holidays and Pentecost
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @return array
     */
    private function setHolidaysOrthodoxEaster(\DateTime $lngDate)
    {
        $givenYear      = $lngDate->format('Y');
        $daying         = [];
        $configPath     = __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'json';
        $statmentsArray = $this->readTypeFromJsonFileUniversal($configPath, 'RomanianBankHolidays');
        if (array_key_exists($givenYear, $statmentsArray)) {
            foreach ($statmentsArray[$givenYear] as $value) {
                $daying[] = strtotime($value);
            }
        }
        return $daying;
    }

    /**
     * returns bank holidays in a given month
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @param boolean $inclCatholicEaster
     * @return int
     */
    public function setHolidaysInMonth(\DateTime $lngDate, $inclCatholicEaster = false)
    {
        $holidaysInGivenYear = $this->setHolidays($lngDate, $inclCatholicEaster);
        $thisMonthDayArray   = $this->setMonthAllDaysIntoArray($lngDate);
        $holidays            = 0;
        foreach ($thisMonthDayArray as $value) {
            if (in_array($value, $holidaysInGivenYear)) {
                $holidays += 1;
            }
        }
        return $holidays;
    }

    /**
     * return an array with all days within a month from a given date
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @return array
     */
    protected function setMonthAllDaysIntoArray(\DateTime $lngDate)
    {
        $firstDayGivenMonth  = strtotime($lngDate->modify('first day of this month')->format('Y-m-d'));
        $lastDayInGivenMonth = strtotime($lngDate->modify('last day of this month')->format('Y-m-d'));
        $secondsInOneDay     = 24 * 60 * 60;
        return range($firstDayGivenMonth, $lastDayInGivenMonth, $secondsInOneDay);
    }

    /**
     * returns working days in a given month
     *
     * @param \DateTime $lngDate
     * @param boolean $inclCatholicEaster
     * @return int
     */
    public function setWorkingDaysInMonth(\DateTime $lngDate, $inclCatholicEaster = false)
    {
        $holidaysInGivenYear = $this->setHolidays($lngDate, $inclCatholicEaster);
        $thisMonthDayArray   = $this->setMonthAllDaysIntoArray($lngDate);
        $workingDays         = 0;
        foreach ($thisMonthDayArray as $value) {
            if (!in_array(strftime('%w', $value), [0, 6]) && !in_array($value, $holidaysInGivenYear)) {
                $workingDays += 1;
            }
        }
        return $workingDays;
    }
}

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Rodgers wants to keep Johnson and Lucas at Liverpool
Lucas Leiva and Glen Johnson have both been linked with exits.
Andrew Powell/Getty Images
Manager Brendan Rodgers hopes full-back Glen Johnson commits his future to Liverpool.
The 30-year-old right-back's future on Merseyside is in doubt, with his current contract set to expire at the end of the season and, as yet, no formal talks have been held over a new deal.
Rodgers insists he cannot have yet more experienced players leaving in the summer, having already accepted he will lose veteran skipper Steven Gerrard to LA Galaxy at the end of the campaign.
The Reds boss wants Johnson to stay and assist in developing the club's young talent along with Brazil midfielder Lucas Leiva.
"The intention will be to keep everyone -€" we can't have three or four leaving next season," Rodgers said.
"Steven will obviously be a loss. When you are losing someone of that calibre of man and player it would be a loss to any club.
"For the younger players to develop their potential they are going to need that seniority around them. You can't just have a whole group of young players.
"Glen is not the marauding full-back of six or seven years ago but he is still a quality player and he has a lot to offer with his experience. His game will adapt over the next couple of years and we want to keep him.
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"Like every player he will want that security and to get it sorted earlier than it is now, but when he looks at it and realises he is at one of the biggest clubs in the world, with a team which is developing and growing, he would want to be a part of that.
"I know the club and his agents spoke towards the beginning of the season and I am hopeful we can find a solution and he will stay."
Lucas, 28, has also found his future under scrutiny this month -€" with several clubs from across Europe linked with pulling him away from Anfield.
But Rodgers has also moved to put those rumours to bed, insisting he wants to keep Lucas, who still has two-and-a-half years left on his current deal.
"We want to keep Lucas. He was out of the team last year because of the nature of the set-up with Steven, in that co-ordinating role," explained Rodgers.
"But he is a prime example of someone who has played his way back into the first team by showing their level and commitment."


The government has cancelled the second round of auction for road monetisation after companies offered low bids.
The Union government had offered eight stretches of highways under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model in August 2018. Bids were opened in December 2018 where Cube Highways emerged the winner by quoting Rs 4,612 crore, way below the base price of Rs 5,362 crore set by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The investment appetite between the two TOT auctions suffered, with 12 banks under lending restrictions imposed by the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) Prompt and Corrective Action. Besides, IL&FS and its group companies defaulted on repayments of their debt, creating a liquidity problem in the system.
"These developments increased the cost of debt for highway developers and lowered their risk appetite," a road sector expert said, citing this as the reason for lower bids.
An infrastructure project is funded at a debt-equity ratio of 70:30 but companies could not arrange for more than 50 per cent in loan, said an expert.
According to sources, Cube Highways quoted a price of Rs 4,612 crore, Adani Infrastructure (Rs 3,675 crore) and IRB Infrastructure (Rs 2,718 crore) were the other bidders for the eight road stretches offered under the second round of TOT auctions.
These stretches cover national highways in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar and West Bengal. The length of the project is 586.55 km and there are 12 toll plazas on these stretches.
The second bundle also involves an initial construction cost of Rs 929 crore and the total contract period is of 30 years, which may increase or decrease by 5 or 10 years, based on traffic. The first TOT bundle received bids 1.5 times more than the base price set by the NHAI, and the contract was bagged by Macquarie at Rs 9,681 crore.
The TOT model in India has been developed to encourage private participation in the highways sector. Under it, the concessionaire pays a one-time concession fee upfront (lump sum), which then enables the concessionaire to operate and toll the project stretch for the pre-determined 30-year concession period.
On August 3, 2016, the Union Cabinet authorised the NHAI to monetise public-funded national highway projects that are operational and are generating toll revenues for at least two years after the commercial operations date through the TOT model. About 75 operational highways completed under public funding were initially identified for potential monetisation.
The central government felt monetisation of public-funded highways would create a framework for attracting long-term institutional investment on the strength of future toll receivables.
It was felt that international investors generally hesitated from taking construction risk, but were willing to look at de-risked Brownfield road assets.


I am very concerned about cheating. Students of today do not consider it as an illegal or an immoral act for that matter. Exams, tests, homework, assignments, etc. It does not matter anymore or does it?
In a survey conducted by "Who's Who" where the respondents were American High School Students, nearly ninety percent of them were of the view that cheating is quite prevalent. Seventy-six percent openly embraced the act of cheating.
It is difficult for children to abstain from external influence. If parents evade taxes and traffic tickets, how do you suppose their children to abide by the law?
Upon questioning hey can easily counter us with a "why not" after all, the majority of the adults do.
Parents should encourage their children to work independently, study hard, and learn to accept failures. Learning by making mistakes is important. Teachers, on the other hand, should also help by reforming classroom behavior to curb cheating. Severe punishments are inevitable when it comes to cheating.
Cheating does not accomplish anything. If you are successful through cheating, you just cheated yourself.


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The Present and Future of Corporate Governance: Re-Examining the Role of the Board of Directors and Investor Relations in Listed Companies
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 211
Lex Research Topics in Corporate Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2013-3
50 Pages Posted: 22 Apr 2013 Last revised: 28 Jun 2013
See all articles by Joseph A. McCahery
Joseph A. McCahery
Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC); Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Erik P. M. Vermeulen
Tilburg University - Department of Business Law; Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting) - Legal Department; Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Kyushu University - Graduate School of Law
Masato Hisatake
Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Date Written: May 21, 2013
In this paper, we first shed light on the factors that underlie the differences between the 'shareholder wealth maximization' and the 'long-term commitment' models of corporate governance. By introducing a third type of governance model, we show that a three-dimensional approach provides a better understanding of the dynamics of corporate governance practices. The examination of the three-dimensional model's focus on growth and value creation provides a powerful catalyst for companies implementing a well-functioning governance structure. Our analysis is supported by case studies of, for instance, Facebook and LinkedIn that illustrate how shareholder value and long-term commitment are very much affected by a firm's growth and innovation prospects. The second part of the paper provides important insights into practices and strategies that could promote growth and value-creation in listed companies. We show that it is a daunting task to define best practices. However, we use two hand-collected data sets that consist of (1) seventy venture capital backed companies that were involved in IPOs on US stock markets between 2011 and the first half of 2012, and (2) the top-forty of the world's largest companies in the Financial Times Global 500 2012 List to show how board dynamics can give companies a clear competitive advantage. To gauge the importance of an innovative investor relations' strategy as an important condition for firm performance, we examine the impact of establishing frequent and timely interactions with investors.
Keywords: board of directors, corporate governance, diversity, economic growth, entrepreneurship, Facebook, FT Global 500, initial public offerings, investor conferences, investor relations, long-termism, principal agency theory, short-termism, value creation, venture capital
JEL Classification: G34, K20, K22, L21, L25, L26, O16
McCahery, Joseph A. and Vermeulen, Erik P.M. and Hisatake, Masato, The Present and Future of Corporate Governance: Re-Examining the Role of the Board of Directors and Investor Relations in Listed Companies (May 21, 2013). ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 211, Lex Research Topics in Corporate Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2013-3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2254520 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2254520
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You did everything you could to make Jim look bad and make yourself look good.
I could literally hear the shock waves passing through my fellow trustees as you diminished Ming, first administering a loud, abrasive tongue lashing, then kicking him out of the meeting.
I must tell you that I have never before witnessed a member of the board behave so unprofessionally and recklessly as you did last Wednesday, let alone a chairman of the board.
Ming had retained the same attorney who is representing Dean Ellis in challenging the university's employment decision.


This month we're talking to fantasy author Kyle Robert Shultz. Kyle mainly writes fairytale fantasy, but he has also written Western/fantasy and Regency fantasy within the same fictional universe. His most recent book is The Hound of Duville, a novella in his Beaumont and Beasley series. You can get in touch with Kyle through his website or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
About ten years, though I didn't get into it seriously until January of 2016. Reading C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew as a young teen was what first awakened my love for the speculative genre, and inspired me to start creating my own fantasy worlds. However, I struggled with self-doubt for many years over my ability to actually write and publish a book, until my mom finally convinced me I should go ahead and publish the first novel in the Beaumont and Beasley series.
The best thing about it is being able to dream up and tell stories for a living. Nothing really compares to that, in my opinion. The worst thing about it is that there's a lot more to it than that. Balancing creativity with marketing is difficult, as is making sure that other important things like family time don't fall through the cracks. However, I am gradually learning to develop a system that allows me to get stuff done without neglecting other areas of my career and my personal life.
I love writing in the 1920s (the period in which my Beaumont and Beasley series is set). This is mainly due to my love of the works of P.G. Wodehouse. His humor and his delightful characters have had a profound influence on my work. Plus, the 20s are not a common choice for fantasy stories, so I enjoy the challenge of blending this time period with magical elements. I've done the same with other time periods as well, like the Old West and the Regency era. I would like to explore even more period settings in the future.
I've created some interesting challenges myself by featuring various non-human creatures as main characters in my stories. That's led to some interesting Google searches. Perhaps the most unusual piece of research I've used was a YouTube video on centaur combat from Shadiversity. Actually, it was quite fascinating and surprisingly practical. I highly recommend this channel for all sort of fantasy and medieval-based story research.
Anywhere in America in the 1950s. I like the music from that era. Unless I had the option of visiting a base on Mars sometime in the future. There would probably be plenty of seclusion there to get some extra writing done.
Mainly by researching fairy tales and mythology and brainstorming ways to fit them into my fictional universe. That method pretty much always sparks at least one decent story premise. I also get a lot of inspiration from watching and reading works from the speculative genre, as well as listening to movie and TV soundtracks while I work.
In addition to the Shadiversity YouTube channel I mentioned earlier, the Overly Sarcastic Productions channel has a great deal of well-researched (and hilarious) resources related to history and mythology. I frequently revisit their videos when I need more info on a particular legend or historical period.
Outdoors. I love taking my work outside whenever possible. The dramatic scenery of southern Idaho, where I live, is particularly inspirational.
I love riding my horse and hiking through the various state parks in my area. I also sing and play the keyboard, and I'm slowly improving my skills with digital art.
A Pinocchio-based retelling called The Geppetto Codex. It's the third of six interlinked stories which will be compiled into Book 4 in my Beaumont and Beasley series. I also have a Jane Austen-themed fantasy in the works, and a mashup project featuring both Tarzan and Mowgli as main characters.


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Chutes & Ladders to Hoops and Batters: Preparing Kids for Sports
By Martha Michael
As a parent, you watch with amazement as the little hand you used to hold is now inserted in an oversized baseball glove. And instead of barely walking, he's throwing to his first batter, his uniformed body standing firmly on the pitcher's mound.
Mental Readiness
There's a lot of advice out there about successful parenting of a child athlete, but many of those principles can be put into place before your son or daughter ever dons a pair of cleats or shoots a basketball.
Frank L. Smoll, PhD, suggests in Psychology Today that you begin with some self-reflection. He reminds parents that if they aren't active themselves, they're less likely to inspire their kids to be. But after that is addressed, all eyes should be on the child.
Smoll suggests that optimum success in sports comes from yielding to the children's own interests. Let them decide what they enjoy doing, and the appropriate timing for it.
"Children who are forced into sports before they are ready usually have bad experiences," Smoll says. "By involving children in the decision-making process, they feel a sense of ownership in the outcome. This creates a greater sense of commitment: 'I'm doing it because I want to do it, not because I'm made to do it.'"
Sheer pleasure is a main component of a successful sports experience, which can have a serious effect on outcome, according to Smoll, who claims the number one reason kids quit playing sports is because "it isn't fun anymore."
"When the fun disappears, so do they," he explains.
Hoping children like sports isn't the end game, however. You also want to see them improve their skills rather than lose a mental game of comparison.
"It is particularly important that children whose skill is lagging not view this as a permanent condition," Smoll says, pointing out the need for parents to avoid one of parenting's biggest pratfalls: living through their kids. "Parents who are 'winners' or 'losers' through their children are experiencing the frustrated-jock syndrome, which places extreme pressure on children."
Dr. Tom Brunner, a clinical psychologist in Tucson, cautions parents against an overemphasis on winning. "The (losses) build your resilience, your adaptability," he says.
Brunner shares the opinions of Dr. Scott Goldman, Ph.D., the director of Clinical and Sports Psychology at the University of Arizona: "I tell our athletes all the time, if you just want to win, go play against a fourth grader. But if you want your win to have meaning, play against someone who can beat you."
Goldman shares the stories of athletes who were rewarded with ice cream after a win, but went straight home if they lost: "Thus, winning becomes bound up with acceptance and losing means one is not accepted or loved."
Physical Readiness
Whether they're old enough to enter the arena of competitive sports or not, regular physical activity is ideal preparation for youth sports. Then there's timing.
"Sporting activities must be developmentally appropriate for the child," Dr. Laura Purcell says in the Canadian journal Paediatrics & Child Health. "Enrolling children in sports that are beyond their developmental ability can lead to frustration and early dropout. Thirty-five percent of children who participate in organized sports drop out every year. By age 15, 75 percent of youth no longer play organized sports."
From 2-6 years old, the bodies of children change radically, including a decrease in fat and a rise in energy expenditure, according to the article. Their legs grow straighter and their strides become longer.
"It is not until they reach the age of six years that sufficient combinations of fundamental skills are attained to allow them to begin participating in organized sports," Dr. Purcell says. Rather than an emphasis on competition, Dr. Purcell believes the focus in early years should be on development of fundamentals, such as:
Prior to signing up for their first season of sports, kids need a physical examination by a practitioner who has a good understanding of development. In fact, you may find after a first-time visit to your chiropractor that it's beneficial to take your son or daughter for regular check-ups. Your practitioner will have a baseline to notice changes in the health and wellness of your child, which makes it easier to diagnose conditions as they develop.
Depending on the sport your little athlete chooses, your chiropractor can focus on maintaining integrity of the joints and associated muscle development in the areas they use most, in addition to your child's more central need of proper spinal function.
As a parent, life can throw you fastballs, sliders or curve balls. But when it's time to get your child on the field or on the court, preparing them for the experience means you've got a better chance of knocking it out of the park.
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Q: How do I check if a service method's parameter type is an output type given the parameter's ParameterInfo? Given a certain ParameterInfo from the parameter of a service method, I would like to check if this parameter is an output type. Would it be enough to check if its ParameterType contains an & sign at the end? I've noticed objects like System.String become System.String& when they are output types, or, is there a better way to check for this?

A: ParameterInfo p = ...;
bool isOutParam = (p.Attributes & System.Reflection.ParameterAttributes.Out) == System.Reflection.ParameterAttributes.Out;


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Hans Rosling, the visualization pioneer who made data dance, dies
by Opinion Contributor February 8, 2017
Professor Hans Rosling, a statistician and epidemiologist who brought dramatic flair to animated visualizations of dry public health data, has died in Finland of pancreatic cancer, according to the foundation he started with his children.
For much of the public not steeped in the arcana of epidemiological data sets or data visualization techniques (a.k.a. normal people), Rosling burst onto the scene in 2010 as part of the BBC special "The Joy of Stats." "Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development," the BBC wrote at the time.
Rosling's dramatic rendition of an animated scatterplot on income and life expectancy has been viewed on YouTube more than 7.5 million times. Watch it and try not to get excited about the material.
Rosling's work was a driver of some of the explosion of interest in data visualization in the news and nonprofit sectors starting in the early 2000s. His BBC special and TED Talks sparked an interest in "storytelling with data," rather than just with words.
As someone working in the D.C. nonprofit space circa 2011, Rosling's influence was everywhere. "Bubble charts," as his animated scatterplots became known, were held up as the gold standard of communicating with numbers. It seemed like every researcher with a fresh data set wanted to put it in a bubble chart and watch it dance.
But not every data set tells as clear or compelling a story as Rosling's wealth and life expectancy numbers. Rosling's genius wasn't just in the flashy presentations he gave. It also derived from knowing exactly what type of data would lend itself to such flair. I must have put at least 99 different data sets into animated chart frameworks like Rosling's scatterplot. Most of them just wiggled and twitched aimlessly. Very few of them moved with any purpose.
The other thing Rosling's moving chart did incredibly well was to allow viewers to grapple with multiple dimensions simultaneously, with ease. In one video, below, the chart contains five dimensions of data: income (x-axis), lifespan (y-axis), population (circle size), geography (circle color) and time (movement). As you watch it, with his narration, you don't even realize you're processing information along so many different vectors – it all just makes sense.
Part of the measure of success for Rosling's work is that you can see work inspired by him just about anywhere now, from news stories to executive Powerpoints. In 2007, working at a wonky D.C. think tank, I was discouraged from creating a simple, non-moving scatterplot because "people wouldn't know how to read it." Today, most people wouldn't give such a chart a second thought.
The loss of Rosling hurts especially in this moment, as politicians and media outlets wrestle over what's fake and what's real. Above all Rosling was an advocate for a "fact-based worldview," one which his family says they'll carry on at the foundation he started.
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The Horfield survey has been completed, with more than 1400 responses. There will be more feedback on the final outcome in a later edition of the Voice. Huge thanks to Orchard School and their students for their help, and to Ebenezer Church who produced a really good youtube video about the survey.
There have been concerns about parking issues in the streets around Southmead Hospital, with some people finding their driveways blocked, pavement parking, and so on. The best option if you find yourself having problems - wherever you live - is to contact Parking Services on 0117 9038070 or parking.operations@bristol.gov.uk That way it also gets logged onto the computer system and makes it more likely that your area will be included in regular monitoring in the future, as the more reports logged by the system, the more effectively it gets flagged up for attention.
I recently submitted a statement to the Cabinet about the possibility of building the Arena at Filton, just near the new housing estate on the northernmost border of Bristol and South Gloucestershire (not the border with Horfield Ward), pointing out that it would go against national and local planning policies, and should not be built there. I have had no formal response, but have aired my concerns, and will work with local residents to ensure that we do not end up with up to 15,000 people having to use a car to get to events on the A38. Those of you who live near the Rovers Stadium will know that on match days, even with the best efforts of Rovers fans to get there on public transport, local roads can still end up with parking issues, and the Gloucester Road can suffer from extra congestion. This would be in addition to the several thousand new homes being built next to the possible Arena site. I will keep you posted on developments.
I was sad to hear the news of the passing of Horfield resident Stuart Lilley - an active member of the garden club at UHCT. He was a really lovely man who knew a great deal about plants, and loved to share his knowledge with others. He also used to lead local walks, and I know that a great many people will miss him.
I am currently working on a draft business case for the Manor Farm Community Hub. After some delays, the only information available was a wish list of activities that the Hub might run, so Claire Hiscott and I spent an afternoon going through the council's business case template to see how we could help. The draft will go to the core group and then a final copy will be submitted to the Council in the next couple of weeks.
Lastly, the children's play area opposite the Leisure Centre may be sorted out in the next little while. I have been in touch with parks officers, and it looks likely that we will be able to get the ground treated so that it doesn't become a boggy marsh when the weather is even slightly damp, so that local children will be able to play there all year round. Funding was originally agreed by myself and Claire at the Neighbourhood Partnership in 2016, but became a victim of the council's spending freeze. Luckily, I think we may be able to find the budget to finally get the work done.
If you have any local issues you would like me to help with, do please get in touch. Email is always best, on cllr.olly.mead@bristol.gov.uk as I can then forward it directly to the relevant officers to get them to sort it out.


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Reading: "You are a tribal bigot"- Rudeboy responds to Brymo's controversial statements against Igbo people.
"You are a tribal bigot"- Rudeboy responds to Brymo's controversial statements against Igbo people.
Brymo endorsed Bola Ahmed Tinubu via his official Twitter account, and said that it is not yet time for an Igbo presidency.
Nigerian singer Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has expressed his disappointment with the way many people go about promoting their candidates in the forthcoming general elections.
This is in response to the remarks made by his fellow singer, Olawale Olofooro, aka Brymo, in which the latter cancelled the Igbo tribe and its candidate from the presidential race.
Okoye urged him (Brymo) to mind what he preaches, as the 2023 general elections will come and go, but his comments will not be forgotten.
In his words, "mind what you are preaching… Election will come and go ,we all will move on …But you decided to be a tribal bigot because you think you are getting some attention by insulting a particular region of Nigeria and some people are praising you. As an artiste, I'm only disappointed."
Brymo endorsed the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, via his official Twitter account, and he said that it is not yet time for an Igbo presidency.
The alternative singer went ahead to say that he is not sorry for his comments on the Igbo presidency in another string of tweets.
He tweeted on Friday, "Dear Easterners, I'm not sorry."
On Sunday, he insulted Easterners in the country again, writing, "F*ck The Ndi Igbo!! To H*ll With It!!"
This tweet drew a lot of reaction from the singer's colleagues and fans generally.
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Why? Think of time as an idea occupying a different level of scale from our customary divisions of knowledge. The temporal nature of the world appears on all levels at which we perceive reality and belongs to no one system of meaning more than to any other. Time is everything and nothing. Time is everywhere and nowhere.
But look, this is this and now is now. I'm speaking to you as a literary chronosopher — I study time through language, through literature, through written words. Via whatever territories of discipline and specialization we must traverse to arrive together at the same place, no matter where my carpetbaggery might take me, this is the country from which I begin.
Travel brochures of these nations of knowledge, all with overlapping borders and territorial disputes: we can start on the continent of reason and look at Dynamic systems theory. Chaos Theory. This system of knowledge takes a rationalistic approach to temporality, using mathematics to model disorder over time. The idea was born from atmospheric sciences but migrated to physics to great effect. It describes any system undergoing temporal change, whether it is a biological entity, the patterns of traffic, changes in the stock market, the flow of water. You find it's application everywhere. On the porous border between science, mathematics, and history lives Cliodynamics, which studies the dynamics of historical patterns across the longue duree (extremes in temporal duration). We'll visit this place again. According to Cliodynamics, we can expect dark days just ahead.
Intuition: another continent containing many countries. Here we find Henri Bergson, a French philosopher of temporal change. Henri Bergson took a leading role in the philosophical reaction to relativity theory, another occupant of reason. Einstein's theory tells us that temporality itself is the fixed mechanical clockwork we thought it was. Elements of temporality once understood in absolute terms, like simultaneity — now have no such fixity. Imagine two lightning bolts. What appears to strike at the same time to a person equidistant from them both, happens in sequence to the person being struck by one of them. That is, it takes time for the light from the second strike to travel to the scorched person unfortunately sheltering under the metal tree. Simultaneity is relative depending on position.
Time is also acted upon by gravity and motion. Henri Bergson felt that these new ideas introduced by Einstein's theories made chronological time merely a symbol of space and that time itself is something distinct from sequential duration. This is the experience you have of one thing happening now, you read this word, and now you read this word, and this word is next, and then the next, and then the next. He thought of duration in sequence as a continuity of mutually interpenetrating moments that we can only know through intuition (our ability to transcend pure reason and perceive metaphysical reality) and intuition alone. In his view, by this understanding of temporality, time involves a world of discrete moments cut off from one another and only made different by their spatial connections. For Bergson, time meant an emptiness and sameness, a possibility that horrified many however honed their intuitive skills.
But intuition is not a valid form of knowledge in our scientific world. On continent has far greater land mass than the other on this particular globe. As the reigning superpower, reason requires we touch time (we cannot), quantify time (we cannot), and reproduce time (nope) so we might know it. If we must have scientific proof of time's reality or of our own knowledge of it, then we would have to provide such proof according to the rigors of the scientific method. We would then base our knowledge of time upon specific stimuli that will produce standardized results under controlled conditions. The nature of temporality does not conform to these practices.
Perhaps this is why the knowledge of time has traditionally been a religious or mystical experience — the territory of faith. In his popular book A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking says that the triumph of human reason would be to know the mind of God. I love reading what physicists have to say about God; God is frequently invoked in the study of time whenever science finds its limit. It is in these moments physicists become poets. Einstein delayed publishing his General Theory of Relativity because of God. God and free will, which Einstein's theory disproves. Free will that is, not God — proof cannot know faith. Despite the human effort to know time through rational means, this is why reason can ever have its triumph. Proof and faith are mutually exclusive routes to knowledge, and time exists outside the realm of both.
Night and day all the year round the millions upon the earth and the thousands upon the sea now reach out and grasp the thin air and use it as a thing more potent for human aid than any strand of wire or cable that was ever spun or woven. Last week 745 human lives were saved from perishing by the wireless. But for the almost magic use of the air the Titanic tragedy would have been shrouded in the secrecy that not so long ago was the power of the sea. All that would have been left to the world would have been bits of furniture adrift on the ocean, a sliver of wood here and there, perhaps a human body or an upturned or crushed lifeboat. . . . Readers of The Times are, of course, thoroughly familiar with the use of wireless to news getting, and The Times's transatlantic Marconi service is perhaps one of the most striking marks of the advancement of invention in practical usage. But few New Yorkers realize that all through the roar of the big city there are constantly speeding messages between people separated by vast distances, and that over housetops and even through the walls of buildings and in the very air one breathes are words written by electricity and carrying sometimes tokens of gladness and sometimes tokens of sorrow. . . . There was never such an opportunity in the world for long-distance eavesdropping.
We could now have the impression of a new idea of simultaneity with occurrences happening far afield. What I am doing now, I can imagine you could also be doing now — wherever on this planet you may be. (I'll explain another time why this impression of temporal simultaneity cannot be reality.) Einstein's chronosophical revolution, coming at a time when technological advancement brought extreme and seemingly sudden changes in speed and ideas of simultaneity, also came about in a society that was beginning to think that eternity is no longer necessarily akin to deity. It was new for eternity to be anything but an aspect of the realm of God. In a short amount of time at the start of the previous century, everything about how we think about temporality, our world, our place in the world, changed. We are still reeling from Einstein's ideas, which have yet to fully emerge in our culture.
What has emerged, is the realization that chronosophical inquiry belongs everywhere, lives in every location. The study of time requires a sui generis communication between systems of knowledge unused to speaking with one another. Time can never be an acceptable topic of study for any one discipline working on a private island, alone.
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FRANKLIN. Pa. — Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that, based on its investigation, no charges will be filed against James Moore for killing a bear Oct. 9.
"This is an unfortunate incident that resulted in the loss of a valuable wildlife resource," said Wildlife Conservation Officer Lawrence Hergenroeder, who conducted the investigation.
"My investigation determined that Mr. Moore shot the 149-pound male black bear once with his compound bow and arrow, striking it on the right side as it was proceeding down a gas line road that would have taken it immediately in front of Mr. Moore and his daughter. The bear was about 10 yards away when shot by Mr. Moore.
"Mr. Moore indicated that the bear was popping its jaws and, along with the bear moving toward him and his daughter, caused him to fear for their safety. The bear did not respond to Mr. Moore waving his arms or yelling, so he shot the bear and immediately called the Game Commission Northwest Region Office.
Following Moore's call to the Game Commission, Hergenroeder was assisted in locating the bear carcass by Northwest Region Law Enforcement supervisor Clint Deniker, Mercer County WCO Don Chaybin, Deputy WCO Ryan Ruditis, as well as WCO cadets Matt Chipego and Chris Bergman, who are assigned to the Northwest Region for field training.
"Despite the unfortunate nature of this situation, we were able to use this investigation as a teaching opportunity to help prepare future WCOs for duty as full-time Wildlife Conservation Officers," Hergenroeder said.
Hergenroeder noted that the black bear population continues to expand in western Pennsylvania, and that there were five bears struck and killed on the roads in Mercer County so far this year.
As Pennsylvania forests mature and become more desirable for black bears, people need to learn more about them and how to co-exist with bears.


Our new Oil Tanker is another sculpture under glass, similar to our Oil Pump and Oil Well, that would be a perfect gift for an investor, trader or anyone in the petroleum industry. Makes a great award because it's made from the recipient's business cards!
Also, see our new LNG Ship Sculpture or our Oil industry awards ideas.
This design is one of our most detailed and is handcrafted using 20 business cards.


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Q: How do Promise.then and "rejectionhandled" differ in their execution order in the next run of event loop? Consider example1:

var prom1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  setTimeout(function() {
    console.log("Prom 1 executed");
    reject("Rejected");
  }, 2000);
});

console.log("Before Prom 1");

window.addEventListener("rejectionhandled", function(event) {
  console.log("Handled Rejection"); //never triggers
});

window.addEventListener("unhandledrejection", function(e) {
  console.log("unhandledrejection");
  prom1.then(null, function(err) {
    console.log("Caught error");
  });
});

In this scenario rejectionhandled does not trigger. Now consider example2:

var prom1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  setTimeout(function() {
    console.log("Prom 1 executed");
    reject("Rejected");
  }, 2000);
});

console.log("Before Prom 1");

window.addEventListener("rejectionhandled", function(event) {
  console.log("Handled Rejection"); //never triggers
});

window.addEventListener("unhandledrejection", function(e) {
  console.log("unhandledrejection");
  setTimeout(function() {
    prom1.then(null, function(err) {
      console.log("Caught error");
    });
  }, 0);
});

Now in this instance rejectionhandled did run. I know it has something to do with microtask/macrotask/event-loop. I know there are similar questions on SO, but I can't seem to apply that explanation here. Probably the explanation here https://stackoverflow.com/a/57261820/3429430 should mean that  whenever the promise is caught within unhandledrejection's handler it is not considered as attached after unhandledrejection's handler's execution.

A: That's because in HTML, at the step 5.4 of the notify about rejected promises algorithm, it is asked that

*If p's [[PromiseIsHandled]] internal slot is false, add p to settings object's outstanding rejected promises weak set.

And in the HostPromiseRejectionTracker(promise, "handle") algorithm, at step 5.2 it's asked that

*If settings object's outstanding rejected promises weak set does not contain promise, then return.

In the first case, after the event has been dispatched, p  (a.k.a promise), has been handled, you did add a .then(success, failure) handler and its [[PromiseIsHandled]] internal slot is now true. So that p won't make it to the "outstanding rejected promises weak set", and when the JS engine will call the HostPromiseRejectionTracker(promise, "handle") operation, it will early exit at the quoted 5.4 step.
In the second case however, when the event has been dispatched its [[PromiseIsHandled]] internal slot is still false, and when the HostPromiseRejectionTracker(promise, "handle") operation is called, it will make it to the end of the algorithm until it fires the rejectionhandled event.
So indeed, we could rephrase the other answer to say

it only fires on rejections that were not handled at first (causing unhandledrejection events) but then did subsequently get a handler attached [after the unhandledrejection event got dispatched].


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Q: How to make CvPoint array or CvSeq contain array of CvPoint? I am newbie both opencv and c++, and I've read the similar question about cvpoint array but I cant make it work. This is my code, Im trying to allocate CvPoint to CvPoint array and CvPoint to CvSeq:
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CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
CvMemStorage* storage1 = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
CvSeq* lines = 0;
CvSeq* coor = cvCreateSeq(0, sizeof(CvSeq), sizeof(CvPoint)*2, storage1);
lines = cvHoughLines2(roiblob, storage, CV_HOUGH_PROBABILISTIC, 1, CV_PI/180, 20, 10, 5);
ncoor = 0;
CvPoint centers;
CvPoint pt[2];
CvPoint *centerlist = new CvPoint [lines->total];
for(int i = 0; i < lines->total; i++ ) {
    CvPoint* line = (CvPoint*)cvGetSeqElem(lines,i);
    pt[0] = line[0];
    pt[1] = line[1];
    pt[0] = cvPoint(pt[0].x + pointawal.x, pt[0].y + pointawal.y);
    pt[1] = cvPoint(pt[1].x + pointawal.x, pt[1].y + pointawal.y);
    double theta = atan((double)(pt[1].y - pt[0].y)/(pt[1].x - pt[0].x));
    if (cos(theta) > 0.996) {
    centers = cvPoint(pt[0].x + (pt[1].x - pt[0].x)/2, pt[0].y + (pt[1].y - pt[0].y)/2);
        cvSeqPush(coor,&pt);                         // here the 1st problem
        centerlist[ncoor] = centers;                 // here the 2nd problem

here i got the right value of centers ex: 128
    cout << centerlist[ncoor].x << "\n";
    ncoor++;
    }

here i got the wrong value (negative value with same value for each iteration ex: -85415)
cout << centerlist[ncoor].x << "\n";
}

and i think the problem is on the 1 and 2

A: Finally after searching everywhere, I got the answer, I use malloc and realloc to replace new and I still dont understand how to use CvSeq so I replace it too.
Here is my new code:
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CvPoint *centerlist,*coor1,*coor2*,tempcenterlist,*tempcoor1,*tempcoor2;
CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
CvSeq* lines = 0;
lines = cvHoughLines2(roiblob, storage, CV_HOUGH_PROBABILISTIC, 1, CV_PI/180, 20, 10, 5);
centerlist = (CvPoint*)malloc(sizeof(CvPoint));    // use malloc here to replace new
coor1 = (CvPoint*)malloc(sizeof(CvPoint));
coor2 = (CvPoint*)malloc(sizeof(CvPoint));
CvPoint pt0,pt1,centers;
ncoor = 0;
for(int i = 0; i<lines->total; i++ ) {
    CvPoint* line = (CvPoint*)cvGetSeqElem(lines,i);
    pt0 = line[0];
    pt1 = line[1];
    pt0 = cvPoint(pt0.x + pointawal.x, pt0.y + pointawal.y);
    pt1 = cvPoint(pt1.x + pointawal.x, pt1.y + pointawal.y);
    double theta = atan((double)(pt1.y - pt0.y)/(pt1.x - pt0.x));
    if (cos(theta) > 0.996) {
        centers = cvPoint(pt0.x + (pt1.x - pt0.x)/2, pt0.y + (pt1.y - pt0.y)/2);
        centerlist[ncoor] = centers;
        coor1[ncoor] = pt0;
        coor2[ncoor] = pt1;
        //use realloc here
        tempcenterlist = (CvPoint*)realloc(centerlist,(i+2)*sizeof(CvPoint));
        tempcoor1 = (CvPoint*)realloc(coor1,(i+2)*sizeof(CvPoint));
        tempcoor2 = (CvPoint*)realloc(coor2,(i+2)*sizeof(CvPoint));
        if (tempcenterlist != NULL ) centerlist = tempcenterlist;
        if (tempcoor1 != NULL )  coor1 = tempcoor1;
        if (tempcoor2 != NULL )  coor2 = tempcoor2;
        else {
            free(centerlist);
            free(coor1);
            free(coor2);
            printf("Error allocating memory!\n");
        }
    ncoor++;
    }
}
// check the array value
if (ncoor > 0)  cout << centerlist[0].x << centerlist[0].y << "\n";

I dont know if I use the memory efficient or not, but its working now and I quite happy after stuck searching everywhere. Thanks.

A: The problem is here:
CvPoint *centerlist = new CvPoint [lines->total];

You are creating references, but you still need to create an object for each reference.
centerlist[ncoor] = CvPoint(centers);