North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan: JCS

North Korea launched a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan (known in Korea as the East Sea) on Tuesday morning, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

The missile then flew over Japan and landed in the sea east of Hokkaido.

CS said the launch took place in Sunan, northeast of Pyongyang, at 0557 KST, and that the missile flew 2700 km at a maximum altitude of around 550 km.

The Japanese government, according to local broadcaster NHK, warned residents in the north of the country to take necessary safety precautions.

The missile passed over Hokkaido at 0606 JST, according to the Japanese government and the South Korean military.

It then landed in the sea around 1180 km east of Cape Erimo at 0612, the Japanese government said.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga described the launch as an “unprecedented, serious, and grave threat to our nation,” in comments carried by Reuters, saying that Tokyo protested the firing in the strongest possible terms.

Patience is a mental development? Individual defeat?

Many people living in society do not really know life from birth to death.

Before the time of birth, people do not have a time schedule.

Since the existing society is made by humans, every person must be adopted according to the method of society.

For example, children learn the language of older people.

In this way, the person who adopts the external society grabs all the activities that exist within the social system.

The society has various interpretations of the response of the individual to the challenges, achievements, defeats, as well as denunciations, insults and sarcasm.

Bangkok: Forbidden street Food Authorities for Cleanliness, Safety

Authorities say the ban is aimed at improving food hygiene and follows complaints by residents that vendors are obstructing sidewalks. However, critics assert the crackdown is part of a series of measures by Thailand's ruling junta enforcing public order and is detrimental to Bangkok's tourist appeal
"If you want to clean out all the vendors it's like you are cleaning out our culture itself," Chiwan Suwannapak, who works for a Bangkok tour agency, told 
As for the street-food festival, the NNT says the number of participating streets and vendors has yet to be determined but that they will include "major tourist streets in Bangkok." 

Well, probably not according to the official dictionary, but having eaten and explored the street food in this culinary wonderland since 2009, I can say without doubt, Bangkok is one of the world’s best cities for food.
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There’s food everywhere you look in Bangkok

End of intelligence - English translation of science novel

Chaminda Preethi Kumara in 2006 is a Sinhala novel written from Buddimatha Niamey. (End of intelligence)  Available in English language on the Worldceylon e news website.

ISBN 978-955-1548-06-3

There is nothing wrong with the author's authority to quote, the book's intellectual property law.

            First introduction
* If you succeed in working well, then you will definitely get them to Mars.In the next 124 o'clock, we go out of Earth."You even remember me, "I do not know"."It will not happen" "I will not forget you"You should be a good and intelligent person.only if that happens, You can take Mars to the planet.

* "Women like us, mostly in small things,These are your love, protection, and feelings! The great expectations of women.You do not give me a gift for flying vehicles, "If you can respond to these feelings.

* If something is to be systematically emphasized and removed from a human, it can be forgiven.But can you believe, at all times, a fiercely-minded woman to destroy all the people?

 *  "We do not use these, we are the natural men who rooted in ancient society.We have customs and a good culture.These are very low-powered jobs, no survival, a mistake in history, but cannot be right now.It's all over.

We informed the LTTE Leaders. Say that you are surrendering to raise white flags,- Erik Solheim says in an interview.

The Sri Lankan people can hardly ignore the 30 year war in Sri Lanka.
The related news, events, and various media often come forward.
During that period, Eric Solheim was an exceptional figure in Sri Lanka.
An interview with Erick Solheim by Padma Rao Sundarji has been extracted from the WIOM's website and released without any editing.
This is because it contains many important information for Sri Lankans.

Erik Solheim, the Norwegian peace mediator in the 30-year-long Sri Lankan civil war, breaks his silence on his controversial role in a conversation with WION's Padma Rao Sundarji.
Padma Rao Sundarji: How and when did the government of Norway decide to mediate in Sri Lanka and why did they pick you?
Erik Solheim: We were invited in absolute secrecy by the then President Chandrika Kumaratunga. At the time, only two people in Colombo knew, she and foreign minister Lakshman Kadiragamar. It stayed like that for one-and-a-half years. Only later, it became public.I believe we were invited because we could potentially be acceptable to India as a small nation. And, we were invited because we had, at that time, seen some successes in the Middle East. They were small successes. But as a small, faraway nation it was felt that we could not really mess up Sri Lanka and could be acceptable to both the Tigers and the government of Sri Lanka at the same time.

And were you acceptable to New Delhi too? India is, after all, the biggest immediate neighbour with close cultural, religious and linguistic ties to Sri Lanka.
There was a lot of scepticism in Delhi. What will these pink, Christian Europeans with no real knowledge of South Asia make of problems on this continent? But at the end, we were not only acceptable to India, we had the closest relationship. After every visit to Sri Lanka, I went to New Delhi to inform the political leadership and the Indian intelligence about what I had achieved or not achieved.

People will eliminate the elephants from the earth. Wayne- Lotter: Elephant Conservationist also killed

August 16, Wayne Lotter was shot and killed in the Masaki District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by unknown gunmen.
Lotter was stopped and then fatally shot while travelling by taxi from Dar es Salaam airport to a hotel. He had been working in Tanzania for many years, exposing and jailing wildlife poachers and traffickers, and he had received a number of death threats. 
Tanzania’s director for criminal investigation, Robert Boaz, said a murder investigation was underway.

A ‘shining light’ in the conservation world
Both Lotter and Clark have worked in wildlife conservation for decades. Inspired by their mutual passion for Africa’s wildlife, and appalled by the devastation they saw poaching wreaking across the continent, Lotter and Clark founded PAMS as a small, nimble NGO, that they hoped would be able to have the maximum amount of impact. They train wildlife rangers, sponsor education initiatives and after-school wildlife clubs and work with farmers. They also work with law enforcers, with police and with a special taskforce, to identify poachers and trafficking networks, and then to get them into court and through the Tanzanian legal system. PAMS has earned a global reputation as a NGO that punches well above its size; tough, committed and effective. 

The nonprofit uses a multifaceted approach to conservation pioneered by Lotter that saw the group train hundreds of wildlife rangers across Tanzania and sponsored several education initiatives and after school wildlife clubs in dozens of schools in areas where poaching was rampant. The group also worked with farmers in several areas to reduce human wildlife conflict.

North Korea and Kim II Sung, family politics

Today, there are various news about North Korea in the international media.
North Korea's political principles do not endorse the international community.
Their attempt to become a world power in the world is a failure.
There are many reasons.
By reading this article, you will get an idea of the North Korean and Kim family.

The Kim family has maintained power in North Korea through fear politik, referred to as the “reign of terror.” While Kim Jong Il was thought to be a more cunning manipulator of people, Kim Jong Un has shown a penchant for ruthlessly purging senior executives and his own family members. But the concept of fear politik is not new to the North Korean population, because Kim Il Sung also secured his dominance through merciless purges of the political elite decades ago. 

What was the political environment like for Kim Il Sung in the process of regime establishment after the country’s liberation?

 When the North Korean regime was first established after liberation, not all senior politicians blindly advocated or supported the Kim family as they do now. Kim Il Sung was the nation’s leader, but various leaders from other groups took important roles in the regime’s establishment as well, including Namrodang (Communist Party of Korea)'s Pak Hon Yong who ran communist activities in South Korea, Yananpa (Yan'an group)'s Kim Du Bong who led an independence movement in Manchuria, and Sorienpa (the Soviet group)'s Ho Ka I (also known as Alexei Ivanovich Hegai) who took the lead in bilateral relations with the Soviet Union.

The Muslim law that does not match the modern world is changing the Indian court.

Many factors are based on the traditional connotations of Muslim society and are not in keeping with the modern social order.
A man of the advanced world is a high-value human resource.
The most advanced minded human being has a valuable life to live freely.
There is no basis for theories and norms, an obstacle to the free life of people.
There is an opportunity for all the changes in the developed world.
The talaq law that severely damaged the Indian Muslim woman has changed.
The baseless beliefs and laws are the best testimony to the future.

God, Man, and Law: Understanding your differences according to the following dialogues.

Accusations of misogyny and injustice also seemed to worry the judges who repeatedly asked if instant divorce was bad in theology, how could it be good in law?
"You pray in the mosque every Friday. In that prayer, you say triple talaq is a sin and bad. How can you then say it is an integral part of Islam?" Chief Justice Khehar wondered.
Justice Kurian Joseph added: "Can something found to be sinful by God be validated by men through law?"
In the end, the court did not accept the argument that just because it had been custom for 1,400 years, it should still be acceptable.
With Tuesday's order, India finally has an answer to this key question - instant divorce is no longer just sinful, it's also illegal.

Self-indulgent artificial intelligence will destroy natural man in the future.

In the future, the intelligence of the natural man who makes artificial intelligence for his own convenience will be deprived of his control.That day may be the end of natural human life on earth.
By that time, many natural intellectuals have already left the Earth and have moved on to another planet.

End of intelligent 
Extracted from the book.

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk  has joined dozens of CEOs of artificial intelligence companies in signing an open Letter urging the United Nations  to ban the use of AI in weapons before the technology gets out of hand.

The letter was published Monday — the same day the U.N.’s Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems was to discuss ways to protect civilians from the misuse of automated weapons. That meeting, however, has been postponed until November.

“Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare,” read the letter, which was also signed by the chief executives of companies such as Cafe X Technologies (which Built the autonomous barista ) and PlusOne Robotics (whose robots automate manual labor). “Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close. Therefore we implore the High Contracting Parties to find a way to protect us all from these dangers.”

I'm still chairman: not take off - did not quit. Mahinda Rajapaksha

 I am still the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
 not take off 
 did not quit, 
 Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says.

If, I have not taken off, or withdrawn, the chairman of the party, Mahinda Rajapaksa said that anyone else cannot stand up for the position of the party president.

Everybody is trying to defend their positions nowadays.

He said that legal action will be taken against the ministers of the government issuing statements in the manner that they incite the racketeers.
Sinhala translation
Extract of the Mawbima newspaper 22/08/2017

US suspends procedure of issuing nonimmigrant visas throughout Russia as of August 23

 The United States will suspend its procedure of issuing nonimmigrant visas in Russia as of August 23, in Moscow this procedure will be resumed on September 1, the US embassy has announced.

"As a result of the Russian government’s personnel cap imposed on the US Mission, all nonimmigrant visa (NIV) operations across Russia will be suspended beginning August 23, 2017. Beginning September 1, nonimmigrant visa interviews will be conducted only at the US Embassy in Moscow," the statement said. "NIV interviews at the US Consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok are suspended until further notice."

"As of 0900 Moscow time Monday, August 21, the US Mission will begin canceling current nonimmigrant visa appointments countrywide. The NIV applicants who have their interviews canceled should call the number below to reschedule their interview at the US Embassy in Moscow for a later date," the embassy stated.

If you're lonely, it's certainly not lonely.

Have you ever wondered why you feel lonely, even when you're not alone? I know it sounds like a pretty depressing topic, but hear me out: Loneliness is a real emotion, and studies show that if you're feeling lonely, you're certainly not alone. In fact, a 2014 study released from Relate shares that one in 10 people feel they do not have a single close friend, which breaks down to about 4.7 million people. That's a pretty high number, and a sad one, too.

Of course, the tricky thing about emotions is that they're different for everyone: Some people, for example, are perfectly fine having few friends, or enjoy spending a great deal of time alone. For other people, those same scenarios would create a deep sense of loneliness and isolation. If you enjoy being alone, that's great! There's no need to create a tension when you're happy with a situation.

That said, loneliness can have serious effects on your mental and physical health. For example, experiencing chronic loneliness can lead to a higher risk for dying of heart disease, weaker immune systems, and consuming less healthy foods, like vegetables. Loneliness can also hurt your sleep patterns, increase your risk for developing dementia later in life, and may even contribute to early death.

There seems to be a strong stigma about loneliness. Many people will admit to being depressed before they'll talk about being lonely. They fear being judged as unlikeable, a loser, or weird so they don't discuss their sense of aloneness, alienation, or exclusion.
Not feeling free to talk about loneliness adds to the problem and to the judgments of the experience. If you judge yourself for feeling lonely, it makes it even more difficult to take steps to change the situation. Then you may judge yourself for not taking action to solve the problem.

Endangered species, leopard dies.

The Wildlife Conservation Department in Sri Lanka is probing the death of a seven-foot male leopard in the Deltota, Lulakanda area.
The reason for the leopard’s death had not been established so far.
The Sri Lankan leopard is a subspecies of leopards native to Sri Lanka that 
The leopard was listed as an Endangered species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List in 2008 is also an offense to kill, trade or harm a leopard under the Wildlife Act.

The Sri  lankan  leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) has been classified as endangered by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and is a leopard subspecies that is native to Sri Lanka . The population of leopards which is not larger than a mere 250 animals is declining due to a number of reasons which includes poaching and also the human-leopard conflict.

Scary Mother' triumphs at Sarajevo Film Festival

Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things takes best director and best actor.
"Scary Mother" is a movie about a 50-year-old housewife, Manana, who struggles with a dilemma whether to choose between her family life and a love for writing she has repressed for years. After she finally decides to follow her passion, she is ready to sacrifice everything for it, mentally and physically.

Ana Urushadze’s Gerogia-Estonia drama Scary Mother has won the top prize at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, 

The film took the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film, which comes with a financial award of €16,000. It stars Nata Murvanidze as a 50-year-old housewife who experiences family struggles as she tries to complete her first novel.

The main competition saw Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu take the Heart of Sarajevo for best director for his film Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things, which comes with €10,000.

Best actress went to Ornela Kapetani for Daybreak and best actor went to Şerban Pavlu for Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things.

The jury, led by Michel Franco and featuring Mark Adams, Gordan Bogdan, Fatma Al Remaihi and Melisa Sozen, also gave a special mention to Stephan Komandarev’s Directions.

Video games that change minds.

HELLBLADE PATCH 1.01 RELEASED FOR PLAYSTATION 4 & PC

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Ninja Theory is a small gaming studio that has been creating excellent action games with top-notch theatre performances. They push the limits of technology to convey the emotion they want, with games like Enslaved, Heavenly Sword and the DmC: Devil May Cry reboot. On the surface, Hellblade seems like any other action game, but the reality is that it’s much more. It’s a deeply personal exploration of the dark side of mental illness, through the eyes of Senua.

What’s it about?
This year has been shaping up to be a fantastic year for female leads in games. There’s Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn, 2B from Nier: Automata, and now you get to meet and play as Senua, the troubled protagonist of Hellblade. She’s a Celtic warrior who descends deep into the bowels of the Norse version of hell — Hel — to bring her lover back to life with her. All along the way, Senua is haunted by voices, which are her constant companions. They whisper angry thoughts, they confuse and conflict your mind, and they also guide you through the world. They are as much a protagonist of this game as Senua, in her descent into the underworld.

On Monday, August 21, total Solar eclipses

Total Solar Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality  can see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona  - can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse  where the moon covers part of the sun's disk.
Who Can See It?

Lots of people! Everyone in the contiguous United States, in fact, everyone in North America plus parts of South America, Africa, and Europe will see at least a partial solar eclipse, while the thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 states.

What is It?

This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location.  For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds.  The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.

Mass scale floating offshore wind farm

The fifth and final wind turbine for the Hywind Scotland commercial-scale floating offshore wind farm, a joint project between Masdar and Statoil, has arrived at its final destination, Buchan Deep, 25km east of Peterhead in Scotland.

Earlier this summer, all five turbines were successfully assembled outside Stord, Norway and they have now completed their journey to Scottish waters. Each turbine took four days to be towed across the North Sea where, on arrival, work was immediately started to install anchor lines and perform hook-up operations, taking two to three days per turbine. Final installation is scheduled to be completed in the coming weeks.

Hywind Scotland, a GBP210 million project unveiled in late 2015, is a partnership between Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company and Norway-based international energy company, Statoil. Masdar announced its acquisition of a 25 per cent stake in the project during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in January. Statoil, the project’s lead operator, owns the remaining 75 per cent.

Commenting on this milestone, Bader Al Lamki, Executive Director, Clean Energy at Masdar said: “Hywind Scotland is the world’s first project to accommodate commercial-scale wind turbines on a floating structure. It demonstrates the enormous potential for delivering offshore wind energy in waters up to 1km deep, and represents the next stage in the evolution of the offshore wind industry.

Qatar Waives Entry Visa Requirements for Citizens of 80 Countries

Number of nationalities eligible to enter visa-free highest in region

Qatar considering further enhancements to visa policy, including waiver for holders of visa/resident permit for GCC and Schengen countries, as well as UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand  

DOHA, Qatar - Qatar’s Ministry of Interior (MoI), Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) and Qatar Airways today announced that Qatar will allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries, effective immediately.

Citizens of those countries* wishing to visit Qatar will no longer need to apply or pay for a visa; instead, a multi-entry waiver will be issued free-of-charge at the port of entry, upon presentation of a valid passport with a minimum validity of six months and a confirmed onward or return ticket.

Depending on the nationality of the visitor, the waiver will either be valid for 180 days, from the date of issue, and allow the visitor to spend a total of 90 days in Qatar (multiple-entry waiver); or it will be valid for 30 days from the date of issue and entitle the visitor to spend up to 30 days in Qatar with the possibility of applying for an extension of the waiver for an additional 30 days (multiple-entry waiver).

These developments come as part of a series of measures that Qatar has taken to facilitate visitor access to the country. Last month, Qatar launched an e-visa platform, www.qatarvisaservice.com, through which travellers of all nationalities can apply for tourist and visitor visas with more efficiency and ease. The country is also considering further enhancements to its visa policy, such as waiving visa requirements for holders of a residence permit or a valid visa from the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the Schengen countries. This waiver would allow eligible visitors to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation by completing a simple online application at least 48 hours prior to travel.

The biggest creature to have ever walked the Earth.

Studies on fossils from the dinosaur Patagotitan mayorum show that it weighed around 62 tonnes, and measured more than 35 metres from nose to tail.

The titanosaur lived 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period and was a sauropod – a huge plant-eater with a long tail and neck that stood on four legs.

Vertebrae and rib bones were among the incredible finds recovered from the quarry at La Flecha ranch, Chubut Province in Argentina, in 2013.

Scientists now think the fossils belonged to at least six different individuals that died in a floodplain region, before being preserved in mud.

NASA: Applications are called for the post of Earth Protector Officer.

Looks like a joke, but sometime we'll have to think about these things in the future.
99% of people in the world think that this is not the case.
But the true intellectuals study the processes of the advanced systems of the universe.
Their goal is to prevent the destruction of the Earth by people.
People in a future day will have to face the advent of highly-developed organisms living in the universe to prevent the destruction of the environment by humans.
The intellectuals, with this knowledge may be looking for a security officer to minimize this situation.
Abi
An amazing vacancy was opened on the official website of USA Jobs. NASA is looking for a planetary security officer to work permanently.

What is this post, and what will this person do?

According to the description on the website, “planetary security is primarily related to the issue of organic and biological contamination of people and robots during space research.” That is, it is necessary to ensure that terrestrial organisms and organic components do not intentionally or accidentally hit other planets or other bodies of the Solar System, and that all ships that return from space to Earth with samples of any extra-terrestrial organic matter should be monitored.