Cassini: NASA Previews Saturn Mission End.

In 1997, the Cassini Huygens mission began and the unmanned vessel has been on its course for 20 years now. The Cassini launch date was October 15, 1997 and since it left Earth’s atmosphere, it has been orbiting Saturn with the sole purpose of gathering information and transmitting it back to Earth.

Cassini was named after the 17th Century astronomer, Giovanni Casssini and the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral. The mission was a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency. Cassini and the Huygens lander (spacecraft) was destined to touch down on Saturn’s moon, Titan, and took seven years to make the trip. Once it arrived, it made some interesting discoveries, unknown to astronomers before.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is live and still taking dives between Saturn’s rings, while transmitting information via its antenna. For decades, the Cassini spacecraft has been learning more about the planet. It has learned more about the planet at a distance that has never been reached before, while possibly endangering itself. The Cassini spacecraft’s Saturn pictures are online and based on the Cassini’s spacecraft’s image of Earth, our small world looks even smaller from a distance. It looks like nothing more than a white speck on a dark canvas!

Crocodile Rock near Arugam Bay in Sri Lanka: FT journalist 'dragged into the water by crocodile'

The British victim, from Surrey, was seen "waving his hands in the air" in desperation before being dragged under water at a lagoon called the Crocodile Rock near Arugam Bay.

The lagoon, known to be crawling with crocodiles, is yards away from popular surf spot Elephant Rock near Arugam Bay on the southeast coast.

Sri Lankan police and the army are said to be searching the shore surrounding the area.
Fawas Lafeer, owner of Safa Surf School, located up the coast from where the incident happened, said: “A local fisherman witnessed a man being dragged into a river, set back from the beach, by a crocodile. The fisherman was on the opposite side of the river and downstream of the incident location."

He added:“This is the first known crocodile attack in Sri Lanka. Both tourists and locals surf at Elephant Rock, which is a beautiful secluded beach and very safe.

Singapore new president: Halimah wants to continue living in her HDB flat

President-elect Halimah Yacob says she will continue to live in her sixth-floor Housing Board flat, making her Singapore's first head of state to live in public housing while in office.

Shortly after being declared the winner in an uncontested presidential election yesterday, she told reporters that she had no plans to move out of her family home in Yishun.
"I am still staying in Yishun," the 63-year-old said. "It is a very nice, comfortable place, and I have been living there for many years."

Her husband, retired businessman Mohamed Abdullah Alhabshee, 63, added with a smile that there was no need to move, as the flat was "as huge as a penthouse".
The jumbo flat is made up of a four-room and a five-room flat bought on the resale market, and it is where Madam Halimah has lived with her family for more than 30 years. She has two sons and three daughters, aged 26 to 36.

Pope comments: Let the intellectuals understand the message of God ! Climate change (Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.)

Man is a creation of  nature
One result of the natural formulation.

Man, nature cannot be changed.

It is only possible to live in harmony with it.

Today, many silly people think that people can change the world.

He believes that instead of natural processes, man-made technology can change the way it needs.

But it is illogical.

Through it, man will be destroyed.

The Pope has stated that God's message is to educate intelligent people.

The pontiff has positioned himself as the voice of reason—and of science—to confront Trump’s erratic and destructive instincts

In a few short weeks, if the U.S. Senate confirms her appointment as ambassador to the Holy See, which is expected, Callista Gingrich should be unpacking her bags alongside husband Newt and settling into the lavish Villa Richardson atop one of Rome’s famous hills. The Washington couple will be the talk of the town, no doubt trailed by paparazzi and sought after by local media as they acquaint themselves with the Eternal City.

But Mrs. Gingrich’s job will be no Roman holiday. The new ambassador will have to strike the uneasy balance between her self-proclaimed admiration for the pope as a devout Catholic and her duty to her boss, who often is depicted as something of an anti-Christ.

A US Senate committee has opposed Trump Administration’s proposal of a drastic 92 per cent cut in US aid to Sri Lanka,

"In Sri Lanka, US foreign assistance will be cut by 92 per cent, mostly from accounts that have supported programs to promote the rule of law, democratic reforms, post-Civil War reconciliation and related efforts," rued Congressman Ted Yoho, Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Sub Committee on Asia and the Pacific.

The Senate committee on its report said that Sri Lanka is strategically positioned along key shipping lanes and emerging from decades of conflict.

Citing the geographical and strategic location of Sri Lanka, a Senate committee has opposed Trump Administration’s proposal of a drastic 92 per cent cut in American aid to the island nation.

“Given the geostrategic importance of the country, the Committee does not support the President’s budget request for Sri Lanka, which proposed a 92 per cent reduction in assistance from the prior fiscal year,” the Senate Appropriations Committee said in a report passing the annual State appropriations bill for the fiscal year 2018, beginning October 1.

The appropriations bill, which landed on the Senate floor yesterday for consideration, seeks USD 43 million for Sri Lanka. This includes USD 35 million as economic support fund, USD 6.8 million for non-proliferation and anti-terrorism and USD 500,000 in foreign military financing and an equal amount for training of military personnel.

Suicide inherent in humans only.

Suicide is a serious health and social issue. Suicide rates are a sign of the mental health and social well-being of the population.
Every country reports about suicide.

They can have many reasons.

Economic, social and cultural issues are fundamental.

The influence of the society, for people to become involved in this situation is important.

People in the Third World experience suicides for economic hardship.

In developed countries, people may be anxious, life-threatening, and depressed.

Although these things are socially different as a whole, suicidal mindset is the same.

To prevent this, every person needs to develop psychological well-being.

All creatures  naturally occurring. This happens when the environmental factors are aggregated. Something like this is about to end. It's death.No other creatures other than human beings, will not lose their lives willingly. Apart from humans, all other animals do not have the ability to make a judgment.

Nevertheless, they are eager to be alive.

But with man's effort to fulfill his requirements, a man voluntarily dies of his own life.

This is a problem that people cannot solve.

If a man who thinks wisely suits himself to suicide, how can he be called an intelligent man?

There are no namer for future generations.

Most of the activities in the modern world take place through modern technology.

Technology was created because of the thinking of human beings.

Thinking Enhanced Man is a great human being.

With such a small amount of people, the developed world has been created today.

Much of the work involves computer technology and mathematics.

The numbers, or identification data, have helped to make this development.

 In the developed world, many things are used to identify numbers and symbols. This is a well-developed method. This will be further developed in the future. Today, the people living are much more readily understood.

In 14 years same -sex marriage has spread around the world.

Why same-sex marriage is widely spread throughout the world?

It is better to have single-sex marriage with the same sexual organs, rather than men and women.

Population growth will be stopped

NO

In the future, all people will be created with a machine made with technology

People who are so created do not live by comparing the uncertainties.

Similarly, countries of the world must lawfully allow same-sex marriage to live in equality.

Many current events are affecting the future. This is such a process.

Therefore, it is agreed.

If You Support Same-Sex Marriage, Now's the Time To Show It

The postal survey is coming, vote 'yes' and let's get this done.

A growing number of governments around the world are considering whether to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages. So far, two dozen countries have enacted national laws allowing gays and lesbians to marry, mostly in Europe and the Americas. In Mexico, some jurisdictions allow same-sex couples to wed, while others do not.

Malta’s parliament almost unanimously voted to legalize same-sex marriage in July 2017, despite opposition from the Catholic Church on the small Mediterranean island.

On June 30, 2017, Germany became the 15th European country to enact legislation allowing same-sex couples to wed. The 393-226 vote in the nation’s Bundestag (or Parliament) came just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel surprised many by saying that members of her ruling Christian Democratic Union should be able to vote their conscience on the issue even though the party formally opposes same-sex marriage.

Sri Lankan former president Mahinda Rajapakse ally Lalith sentenced to three years in prison.

Sri Lanka's High Court jailed a top civil servant for three years Thursday in the first corruption sanction against a member of former president Mahinda Rajapakse's government

Lalith Weeratunga was also fined two million rupees and ordered to pay 50 million in damages for spending 600 million rupees ($4 million) of state cash on Rajapakse's failed re-election bid in 2015.

Weeratunga, then head of the civil service and Rajapakse's most senior aide, was found guilty of misappropriating money belongining to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), which he chaired.

The TRC director-general of the time Anusha Palpita was also jailed for three years for allowing its cash to be diverted to promote Rajapakse's election bid.

The court was told that 600 million rupees in gifts of textiles was given to Buddhist devotees along with Rajapakse's election propoganda material.

Election officials told the court they were aware of the distribution of parcels of cloth to voters and ruled it a violation of election laws.

Fraud, corruption and lawful partisan activities are the third world countries that are chaotic social systems.

In the current advanced technology the world is divided by an  unseen method. It's human freedom and  right to live.

Corruption is a bribe and legal partial activity because of third world countries with chaotic social systems.

Ethnic religions, as well as politically and economically split people, lose their right to live.

The main reason for this is that they are less valueless and less intelligent.

Nowadays, third countries in the world and many developing countries in Asia are confronted with this crisis.

The majority of ignorant people is destroying racist and political differences. In these countries, the rule of law and minority politicians, whose laws are legitimately formed, eradicates rule, oppressing the innocent masses of people.

A small amount of education has been replaced by a tragic social status and migrated to the developed countries by approving free, secure and secure systems of developed countries.

My criticism of Hindutva politics and the caste system,It was a matter of emphasis before dying : journalist Gauri Lankesh

  
 In recent years, 55-year-old Gauri Lankesh was among the strongest critics of Hindutva politics in Karnataka.

Gauri Lankesh, shot dead in bengaluru on Tuesday, was known in Karnataka and beyond as a firebrand journalist who never minced words. She was among the most courageous anti-establishment voices in the State, and her uncompromising positions on social and political issues often brought her in direct confrontation with political establishment, individuals and even the judiciary. But she was never one to back out, despite much hate campaign online and off it, often targeting her as a woman. She was one of the few female editors in Kannada press.

A writer, publisher and editor, she took on the mantle of journalism from her father P. Lankesh. While her father founded Lankesh Patrike, known for its fierce anti-establishment stances, Gauri — who started out as an English language journalist in Sunday before taking over after her father’s death in 2000 — took it in another direction under a different masthead, Gauri Lankesh. There were threats, defamation cases and controversies galore, but she fought them with courage. Gauri called herself an “activist-journalist” without hesitation and took up issues that went beyond her calling as a journalist and hard-hitting stories she published.

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Atacama Desert Holds Secrets Of 'Life On Mars

Few spots are as threatening to life as Chile the Atacama Desert. It's the driest non-polar desert on Earth, and just the hardiest microorganisms get by there. It's rough scene has lain undisturbed for ages, presented to outrageous temperatures and radiation from the sun. It is said that if life is being found here in the Atacama Desert, then it might be possible for finding life on the surface of Mars, which is even harsher.

Stretching 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from Peru's southern border into northern Chile, the Atacama Desert rises from a thin coastal shelf to the pampas—virtually lifeless plains that dip down to river gorges layered with mineral sediments from the Andes. The pampas bevel up to the altiplano, the foothills of the Andes, where alluvial salt pans give way to lofty white-capped volcanoes that march along the continental divide, reaching 20,000 feet (6,000 meters). 

Srilanka: India is concerned about the challenges President and the government has in the country - External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

The issue of perceived delay in India-backed schemes figures at meet

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday met President Maithripala Sirisena and discussed ​a host of bilateral matters, including the perceived delay ​in implementing India​-backed projects in the island​.

The meeting took place at President Sirisena’s residence, a top source in Colombo told ​​The Hindu. While Ms. Swaraj assured ​President Sirisena that ​New Delhi appreciated the domestic political challenges​ facing his government,​ ​she urged Colombo to expedite decision-making on the terms of the projects, ​the top source said, requesting anonymity​.​

India assured him of its continued and fullest support to the Sri Lankan government, a statement from the President's office said.  The national unity government led by President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe -- from the rival parties SLFP and UNP  --   is under pressure. It faces large scale corruption allegations in addition to a challenge from the SLFP faction led by former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has vowed to topple the government. 

Dubai: The world's best supreme transport facilities, Flying aircraft (sky taxi)

Dubai is racing to be the first to put drone taxis in the air.

In June, its Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) signed an agreement with a German start-up Volocopter to test pilotless air taxis towards the end of this year.

The firm has received 25m euros (£22m; $30m) from investors, including German motor manufacturer Daimler, to develop the 18-rotor craft capable of transporting two passengers at a time.

he firm has received 25m euros (£22m; $30m) from investors, including German motor manufacturer Daimler, to develop the 18-rotor craft capable of transporting two passengers at a time.

The promotional video claims a top speed of 100km/h (60mph) and a maximum flight time of around 30 minutes, while nine independent battery systems ensure safety.

"You will never require" the onboard emergency parachute, Volocopter assures us.

What is the best option to make in foreign currency exchange?

Financial companies make their astronomical profits in one way or another. Foreign currency conversion fees are one of the ways they accomplish this. Any time you’re using or exchanging money in a foreign land, someone is trying to  make money off of your transaction. Banks and credit card companies aren’t letting you make purchases around the world without getting their own cut. Most of the companies add a few extra percentage points onto the transaction and include it in small print on your statement. These “hidden fees” can pile up quick, and are easily overlooked. This can lead to a couple hundred dollars in fees you could have saved on your foreign vacation. The same goes for any foreign currency exchange location.  All of the rates are exaggerated in the house’s favor.  The following list will give you an overview of the currency conversion fees you will encounter and help you find the best options for making payments while traveling.

Exchange Rates – Get an idea of the current exchange rates before you leave for your trip. XE  provides current exchange rates of currencies around the world. You can also view historical rates. The site also includes a useful Travel Expenses Calculator for keeping track of expenses in foreign currencies) and a Global payments and Transfers Tool (for sending and receiving payments (with a guaranteed best rate) around the globe) for free.

Credit Card Fees – Most people are unaware the majority of credit card companies tack on an extra 3% foreign transaction fee. This usually includes the 1% Visa/Mastercard fee and a 2% bank fee. The chart below shows the foreign transaction fees for mainstream credit cards. Cards from Capital One, which eats the 1% Visa/Mastercard fee to offer a 0% foreign transaction fee, are your best bet for travel purchases. And don’t even think about taking a cash advance from a credit card. The fees for a cash advance usually include 3% on top of the normal foreign transaction fee and 24% interest accrued daily.

About 80% of Hurricane Harvey victims do not have flood insurance, face big bills

• Personal and community finances are more at risk from Hurricane Harvey than from other storms.
• Only two out of 10 homeowners in Harvey's path of destruction have flood insurance, insurance experts say.
• About half of flooded homes were covered by flood insurance during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Homeowners suffering flood damage from Harvey are more likely to be on the hook for losses than victims of prior storms — a potentially crushing blow to personal finances and neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast.

Insurance experts say only a small fraction of homeowners in Harvey's path of destruction have flood insurance. That means families with flooded basements, soaked furniture and water-damaged walls will have to dig deep into their pockets or take on more debt to fix up their homes. Some may be forced to sell, if they can, and leave their communities.

"All these people taken out in boats, they have a second problem: They have no insurance," said Robert Hunter, director of insurance at the Consumer Federation of America.

Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane and has lingered off the coast, dropping heavy rain as a tropical storm. Hunter expects flood damage alone from the storm to cost at least $35 billion, about what Katrina cost. But in that 2005 hurricane about half of flooded homes were covered by flood insurance.

With Harvey, only two of 10 homeowners have coverage, Hunter estimates.

Homeowners insurance typically covers just damage from winds, not floods. For that, you need separate coverage from the federally run National Flood Insurance Program. The insurance must be bought by homeowners with federally-backed mortgages living in the most vulnerable areas, called Special Flood Hazard Zones.

People in those areas and near them have complained for years that the premiums are too high, though they would be much higher still if not subsidized by the federal government.

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