As 2020 didnt work out to be quite as much fun as everyone expected, many of us are already looking forward to the New Year, and many celebrities will be welcoming new babies in 2021.

From Game of Thrones Rose Leslie to High School Musicals Ashley Tisdale, here are 18 stars being kept busy decorating the nursery, ready to welcome new bundles of joy in 2021.

Just short of two years after her Windsor castle wedding in October 2018, Princess Eugenie announced that she is expecting her first child with husband, Jack Brooksbank. The 30-year-old took to Instagram to share a photo of a cute pair of booties. The baby girl or boy will be the 11th in line to the throne.

This is Us actress Mandy Moore will become a first-time mum when she and husband Taylor Goldsmith welcome their first child together next year. Sharing a sweet black and white photo, 36-year-old Moore wrote, Baby Boy Goldsmith coming early 2021.

A super excited Ashley Tisdale took to Instagram to announce IM PREGNANT!!!! before writing on her blog to share details of her first few months.

It hasnt been an easy first trimester, but everyone is different and I know there are people whove had it way worse, wrote the 35-year-old High School Musical star. I definitely fall somewhere in the middle where I didnt just have nausea, but threw up a couple of times and felt like Ive had stomach flu for three months (Lol!). Tisdale married musician Christopher French in September 2014.

Following six rounds of IVF, the British Cry Baby singer announced she was expecting her second child with Leyman Lahcine, with whom she has a three-year-old daughter.

The 22-year-old conservationist took to Instagram to reveal shes expecting a girl in 2021, writing: Our beautiful daughter is now about the same size as a hatchling Aldabra tortoise and is as healthy as can be. We cant wait for her arrival next year. While her husband, Chandler Powell, 23, added, Our little girl and my beautiful wife are my entire world.

The Game of Thrones star is expecting her first child with her former co-star and husband, Kit Harrington. And the 33-year-old celebrated by taking part in a special photoshoot for UK magazine Make, to debut her bump.

Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr is looking forward to becoming a first-time mum next year as she gets set to welcome a baby with her professional hockey player man, Brad Richardson. And the 35-year-old captioned her smiling baby bump pic: Full of joy!

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The Bachelor star, 33, shared shes expecting her first child with her fiance, Alex Kavanagh, announcing her news by dancing in the kitchen to the classic song, Be My Baby.

The 32-year-old Jab Tak Hai Jaan star is expecting her first child next year with her cricketer husband, Virat Kohli. Taking to Instagram to share a sweet bump snap, the actress wrote: Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance' - Eckhart Tolle.

The Hollywood actress is getting set to welcome baby number two next year with her partner of four years, Jamie Linden. But the 41-year-old Canadian is staying tight-lipped about all things baby related, having said about her son back in 2018: I want to keep his life private, even if mine isn't.

Just a few months after getting married in February, the Malcolm in the Middle actor has revealed hes expecting his first child with wife, Paige Price. Nothing quite compares to the first time hearing your little ones heartbeat, said the 34-year-old in a video on their YouTube channel. We felt like we were living and experiencing a real-life miracle for the first time.

Twilight star Kellan Lutz and his wife Brittany revealed theyre set to become first-time parents in 2021, with the 35-year-old actor saying: Were so excited.

Fashion-meets-the race track as Victorias Secret model, Jessica Hart gets ready steady to welcome her first child with her Nascar racer boyfriend, James Kirkham. Were so super duper excited about this awesome news, especially at this time and amongst the mainly bleak news out there, said the 34-year-old Australian.

The Blurred Lines singer, 43, and his 26-year-old fiancee April Love Geary are expecting their third child together, the singers fourth, next year. The new addition will be a sibling to the couples two daughters Mia and Lola, and step-sibling to Julian, Thicke's son with ex-wife, actress Paula Patton.

The 41-year-old Yeah! singer will be welcoming his third child in the New Year, his first with record executive Jenn Goicoechea.

Her twin sister, Khloe Kardashians best friend Malika, recently gave birth to her first child, but shes got some catching up to do as Khadijah is getting set to have her third child with her former NFL player husband, Bobby McCray.

The Irish actor best known for playing Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter film series is set to become a first-time dad when his girlfriend Shannon McCaffrey Quinn welcomes a baby in January 2021.

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Embracing motherhood is an extremely beautiful moment for every woman in the world. Likewise our B-town actresses have also experienced this amazing feeling with utmost grace. Apart from sharing their experiences, actresses also share adorable pictures from their pregnancy photoshoots. A trend of sporting bikinis and showing off the baby bump has become the new cool. From Anushka Sharma to Amy Jackson, heres taking a look at the actresses who rocked their baby bump in stunning swimsuits:

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Recently, Anushka Sharma announced the news of her pregnancy and took the internet by storm. She posted a picture with Virat Kohli where she was seen with a cute baby bump. Soon after that, the actress posted a gorgeous picture of herself enjoying in the pool. Sporting a black monokini, she was seen showing off her baby bump. She looked like an angel in the picture. Along with the picture, she wrote, Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance - Eckhart Tolle Gratitude to all those who showed me kindness and made me believe in goodness in this world , opening my heart enough to practice the same with the hope to pay it forward Because ... " After all , we are all just walking each other home " - Ram Dass

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Back in 2017, Celina Jaitley stunned everyone with her bikini photoshoot while she was expecting her twins. She had shared a picture on her Instagram handle where she was seen gracefully posing in a printed bikini on a beach. In an interview in 2017, the actress also spoke about how motherhood helped her discover a lot about herself and made her "more patient, complete and sexier than ever".

Image Credit: Celina Jaitley Instagram

Actress Kalki Koechlin, who embraced motherhood recently, had shared a beautiful picture of herself sporting a bikini while showing off her baby bump. After entering her third trimester, she shared a few pictures on social media. The actress welcomed her baby girl in February 2020.

Image Credit: Kalki Koechlin Instagram

After getting married to boyfriend Dino Lalvani in 2016, Lisa Haydon was blessed with her first child in 2017. The actress announced her pregnancy through a social media post. In the picture, she was seen sporting a navy blue swimsuit while showing off her baby bump. Along with the picture, she had written, Humble beginnings. She looked absolutely stunning in the picture and her pregnancy glow added more to it.

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Last year, Sameera Reddy amazed everyone with her underwater photoshoot. She showed off her baby bump underwater by wearing vibrant swimsuits. She had shared a picture on her Instagram handle where she was seen striking a pose in a pool as the photographer clicked her. Along with the sweet picture, she had written, I wanted to celebrate the beauty of the bump in my 9th month . At a time when we feel the most vulnerable, tired, scared, excited and at our biggest and most beautiful! I look forward to sharing it with you guys and I know the positivity will resonate because we all are at different phases of our lives with unique sizes and we need to love and accept ourselves at every level #imperfectlyperfect.

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Before welcoming her baby boy, Amy Jackson had also shared a sweet video where she was seen showing off her baby bump. In the video, she was seen wearing a black swimsuit paired with printed shrug. She looked breathtakingly stunning in it.

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What if we wake up one morning to the news that a super-power AI has emerged with disastrous consequences? Nick Bostroms Superintelligent and Max Tegmarks Life 3.0 books argue that malevolent superintelligence is an existential risk for humanity.

Rather than endless anticipation, its better to ask a more concrete, empirical question: What would alarm us that superintelligence is indeed at the doorstep?

If an AI program develops fundamental new capabilities, thats the equivalent of a canary collapsing.

AIs performance in games like Go, poker, or Quake 3, is not a canary. The bulk of AI in such games is social work to highlight the problem and design the solution. The credit for AlphaGos victory over human Go champions was the talented human team at DeepMind that merely ran the algorithm the people had created. It explains why it takes several years of hard work to translate AI success from one little challenge to the next. Techniques such as deep learning are general, but their impactful application to a particular task needs extensive human intervention.

Over the past decades, AIs core success is machine learning, yet the term machine learning is a misnomer. Machines own only a narrow silver of humans versatile learning abilities. If you say machine learning is like baby penguins, know how to fish. The reality is that adult penguins swim, catch fish, digest it. They regurgitate fish into their beaks and place morsels into their childrens mouths. Similarly, human scientists and engineers are spoon-feeding AI.

In contrast to machine learning, human learning plans personal motivation to a strategic learning plan. For example, I want to drive to be independent of my parents (Personal motivation) to take drivers ed and practice on weekends (strategic learning). An individual formulates specific learning targets, collects, and labels data. Machines cannot even remotely replicate any of these human abilities. Machines can perform like superhuman; including statistical calculations, but that is merely the last mile of learning.

The automated formula of learning problems is our first canary, and it does not seem anywhere close to dying.

The second canary is self-driving cars. As Elon Musk speculated, these are the future. Artificial intelligence can fail catastrophically in atypical circumstances, like when an individual in a wheelchair crosses the street. In this case, driving is more challenging than any other AI task because it requires making life-critical, real-time decisions based on the unpredictable physical world and interaction with pedestrians, human drivers, and others. We should deploy a limited number of self-driving cars when they reduce accident rates. Human-level driving is achieved only when this canary be said to have kneeled over.

Artificial intelligence doctors are the third canary. AI already has the capability of analysing medical images with superhuman accuracy, which is a little slice of a human doctors job. An AI doctors responsibility would be interviewing patients, considering complications, consulting other doctors, and so on. These are challenging tasks, which require understanding people, language, and medicine. This type of doctor would not have to fool a patient into wondering it is human. Thats why it is different from the Turing test. A human doctor can do a wide range of tasks in unanticipated situations.

One of the worlds most prominent AI experts, Andrew Ng, has stated, Worrying about AI turning evil is a little bit like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.

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Monish Ramadoss, a computer science & engineering major with a keen interest in artificial intelligence, recalls hearing about the then-new AI@UCI Club in spring 2017. That first meeting, held in a windowless basement room of the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, attracted a dozen or so like-minded undergraduates who wanted to discuss machine learning, computer vision and other aspects of AI.

Ramadoss kept attending the meetings for the new friendships he made as well as the stimulating subjects covered.

The idea of the club was to create an open forum for everybody to communicate their ideas about machine learning and other different topics an area where people could come together and develop new projects or even just connect, says Ramadoss, now a senior and one of 15 leaders of the AI@UCI Club.

The student-run organization currently has a mailing list of around 2,000 members.

During the academic year, 100 or so students gather twice a month for free workshops in which they get hands-on experience designing such things as chatbots think Alexa and other services that simulate conversations with humans by leveraging AI and natural language processing and fake online dating profiles, to illustrate the concept of generative adversarial networks (see definitions below). Once a quarter, guests speak at AI@UCI Club meetings about real-world applications of artificial intelligence.

Anthony Luu, a computer science major who, along with Ramadoss, is a group leader (they call themselves mentors), is interested in an AI-related career in the medical or cybersecurity field. At one club seminar, he talked about an app hes developing for UCI Dining Services: UCI is focused on zero waste. Im working on an app that allows users to take a picture of their trash, and then the app will tell them what bin to throw it in, along with instructions on how to properly dispose of it.

Club President Iman Amy Elsayed, a fifth-year computer science & engineering major, works closely with the groups academic adviser, Alex Ihler, a professor of computer science who teaches many of UCIs undergraduate machine learning classes.

AI encompasses so many different fields, Elsayed says, but at the end of the day, its all math. And I really enjoy math.

Says Ihler: The students approached me. The undergraduates wanted to have a club so they could get together and learn about different projects. A few years ago, AI clubs at universities were somewhat unusual. One reason is that machine learning in the past has not been very accessible to undergraduates. Now its starting to become more accessible and more relevant.

Shivan Vipani, a junior majoring in computer science, joined the AI@UCI Club when he was a freshman. I was interested in the workshops, and I wanted a little head start on being introduced to the world of AI, Vipani says. I thought itd be a cool way to learn and get my hands dirty.

To Andrew Laird, another club member and computer science major, AI feels like magic. He adds: Its super impressive what people have done with AI on the internet. When you get down to it, its all math and such, but its nice to be the magician.

With AI terminology a veritable alphabet soup of head-scratchers for the uninitiated, UCI Magazine asked mentors of the AI@UCI Club to explain in their own words what some of the key phrases mean.

Iman Amy Elsayed Fifth-year senior, computer science & engineering Career plans: computer vision/robotics engineer Mantra: Oreos are life.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a broad term that means for a machine to demonstrate intelligence similar to humans or animals. The field encompasses several subfields such as computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing. While AI in the media often depicts a doomsday scenario, such as in The Terminator, machines dont have their own conscience and really only excel at what the programmer tells them to do. I like to describe programs as really smart 5-year-olds. They do exactly what you tell them to do.

Computer Vision

(object recognition and visual understanding) Face ID on iPhones is a popular application of computer vision, which allows technology to make sense of images, such as recognizing objects. When you open your iPhone, computer vision allows the phone to see you and unlock the phone once it recognizes you.

Jason Kahn Fifth-year senior, computer science and business information management Career plans: software and development and operations engineer Mantra: There is a time and place for decaf: never and in the trash.

Evolutionary Computation

(genetic algorithms, genetic programming) Think of this as a computerized version of Darwinism. Evolutionary computation refers to a machine learning method of optimization and learning inspired by genetics and evolution. Starting with a large group of possible solutions, we take the characteristics of the best-performing ones and produce a new set to eventually end up with the fittest. Its much like finding the best recipe for homemade cake: You try multiple different methods and find which aspects of each attempt produce the best-tasting cake. On each subsequent attempt, you only use methods that youve found create the best flavor. Over time, you end up with the perfect cake, making all your friends crown you the Cake Master.

Omkar Pathak Senior, computer science & engineering Career plans: machine learning software engineer Mantra: Enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.

Speech Processing

(speech recognition and production) Virtual assistant technologies like Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant are great examples of speech processing AIs. When a user says Hey Siri, the iPhone employs speech recognition to understand what the user said. Then the AIs response is converted back to sound using speech synthesis, giving a more natural way to interact with your phone.

Shivan Vipani Junior, computer science Career plans: machine learning engineer Mantra: If you arent happy doing it, is it worth it?

Natural Language Processing

(machine translation) Natural language processing is the intersection between computer science and linguistics, dealing with how computers process and analyze human language. When your phone guesses what youll type next or Google answers a question for you, thats NLP hard at work to understand your sentence structure and the inherent meaning behind it. NLP is how systems like chatbots and Google Translate are able to run. As the volume of text information increases over time, NLP will play a key role in making sense of it all.

Explainable AI

Currently, AI is a black box where we dont always understand how an AI program makes a decision or comes to a conclusion. Explainable AI tries to extract and communicate why the AI program makes its decision in a way that humans can understand. Amy Elsayed

Andrew Laird Senior, computer science Career plans: machine learning software engineer Mantra: Work hard, play hard.

Reinforcement Learning

(scheduling, game playing) Reinforcement learning is the process of learning by interacting with an environment. Games are excellent examples of reinforcement learning. In 2016, Google DeepMinds AI, AlphaGo, beat the human world champion of Go an ancient Japanese game significantly more complex than chess. However, RL techniques are being applied to more than just games. Researchers are using RL to control robotic systems, optimize business strategies and even predict protein folding, which helps biologists fighting diseases, including COVID-19.

Machine Learning

Machine learning is a subfield of AI that uses statistical methods to make AI perform better with experience, or examples. We can teach a machine to recognize puppies by showing it many images of puppies and non-puppies (an example of supervised learning). The more examples of puppies we feed the machine to learn on, the better it will be at recognizing a puppy in a new image. Amy Elsayed

Anthony Luu Senior, computer science Career plans: use machine learning in the medical or cybersecurity field Mantra: Learn something new every day.

Supervised Learning

Most of the machine learning that you hear people talk about is supervised machine learning. Supervised learning uses labeled data and maps it between some observable information, or features (x) and output (y). This mapping allows the algorithm to take in something its never seen before and apply the mapping it learned from the data to produce a prediction of the correct output.

Satyam Sam Tandon Fifth-year senior, informatics, with a minor in statistics Career plans: data scientist/machine learning engineer Mantra: There are those who think pineapple goes on pizza and then there are those who are wrong.

Data Mining

Data mining is pretty great, despite its bad rap in popular media. (Remember how Target got slammed for being able to deduce, based on her purchases, that a teenage shopper was pregnant before her father knew it?) Instead of mining the Earth, data mining operates on large raw datasets, and instead of pickaxes, it uses tools like machine learning and statistics. In both, the goal is to chip away the surface and uncover hidden value in this case, patterns, trends and information. Such information can then be used for tasks ranging from providing better music recommendations to more accurately detecting cancer in X-rays.

Monish Ramadoss Senior, computer science & engineering Career plans: kernel engineer for AI accelerators Mantra: Live life and drink coffee.

Generative Adversarial Networks

Think of the classic cops and robbers scenario. In games, AI agents can use self-play to improve their skills. Generative adversarial networks are a similar idea used for supervised learning. We build two neural networks: a generator to make fake outputs and a discriminator to evaluate how real they are. Together they make a cops and robbers relationship in which the generator tries to fool the discriminator by creating more realistic outputs and the discriminator searches for ways to tell the difference. An example of this application is image upscaling, where a generator is trained to take a low-resolution image and upscale it to a higher resolution; the discriminator makes sure that the results look realistic.

Anurag Sengupta First-year graduate student, computer science Career plans: building software for machine learning applications Mantra: Love for sweets for any mood I happen to be in.

Recurrent Neural Networks

Recurrent neural networks are robust learning models that have found their application in various complex systems. Unmanned vehicles and robots defying gravity opened avenues in research in science and technology. Similarly, businesses benefit a lot from these methodologies in helping them analyze their data and everyday activities better. RNN serves as the state-of-the-art approach for determining future states of objects and data based on objects that happened earlier. Google Translate, Google Finance and Amazons Alexa chatbot all use such intuitive tools at the heart of their software.

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Do you knowPythonis named anall-rounder programming language? Sure, its,though it shouldnt be used on every single project, You should utilize it to create desktop purposes, video games, cellular apps, web sites, and system software program. Its even probably the most appropriate language for the implementation of synthetic intelligence and machine studyingalgorithms.

So, I spent the previous couple of weeks gatheringdistinctive mission concepts for anyPython developer. These mission concepts will hopefully convey again your curiosity on this wonderful language. The very best half is youll be able to improve your Python programming expertise with these enjoyable however difficult tasks.

Lets take a look at them one-by-one:

Today, large progress has been made within the discipline of desktop software improvement. You will note many drag & drop GUI builders and speech recognition libraries. So, why not be a part of them collectively and create a consumer interface by speaking with the pc?

That is purely a brand new idea and after some analysis, I discovered that nobody has ever tried to do it. So, it may be somewhat bit more difficult than those talked about beneath.

Listed below are some directions to get began on this mission utilizing Python. To begin with, you want these packages:-

Now, the thought is to hardcode some speech instructions like:

Since that is going to be aMinimal Viable Product (MVP), itsfully superb if its important to hardcode many conditional statements. You get the purpose, proper? Its quite simple and easy so as to add extra instructions like these.

After establishing some primary instructions, its time to check the code. For now, youll be able to attempt to construct a really primary login type in a window.

The foremost flexibility of this concept is it may be carried out for recreation improvement, web sites, and cellular apps. Even in several programming languages.

Betting is an exercise the place individuals predict an end result and in the event that theyre proper then they obtain a reward in return. Easy, proper? Now, there are various technological advances that occurred in synthetic intelligence or machine studying up to now few years.

For instance, you might need heard about applications likeAlphaGo Master,AlphaGo Zero, andAlphaZerothat may playGo (game)higher than any skilled human participant. Youll be able to even get thesource codeof the same program referred to as Leela Zero.

The purpose I need to convey is that AI is getting smarter than us. Which means it may predict one thing higher by making an allowance for all the chances and study from previous experiences.

Lets apply some supervised studying ideas in Python to create an AI Betting Bot. Listed below are some libraries it is advisable get began:

To start, it is advisable choose a recreation (e.g. tennis, soccer, and many others.) for predicting the outcomes. Now,seek for historic match outcomes information that can be utilized to coach the mannequin.

For instance, the info of tennis matches might be downloaded in .csv format from thetennis-data.co.uk website.

In case youre not aware of betting, right heres the way it works.

After coaching the mannequin, now we have to compute theConfidence Degreefor every prediction, discover out the efficiency of our bot by checking what number of instances the prediction was proper, and at last keep watch overReturn On Funding (ROI).

Obtain the same open-sourceAI Betting Bot Projectby Edouard Thomas.

A buying and selling bot is similar to the earlier mission as a result of it additionally requires AI for prediction. Now the query is whether or not an AI can appropriately predict the fluctuation of inventory costs? And, the reply is Sure.

Earlier than getting began, we want some information to develop a buying and selling bot:

These assets from Investopedia may assist in coaching the bot:1

After studying each of those articles, youll now have a greater understanding of when to purchase shares and when to not. This data can simply be remodeled right into a Python program that mechanically makes the choice for us.

You can even take reference from this open-source buying and selling bot referred to asfreqtrade. Its constructed utilizing Python and implements a number of machine studying algorithms.

This concept is taken from the Hollywood film sequenceIron Man. The film revolves round know-how, robots, and AI.

Right here, the Iron Man has constructed a digital assistant for himself utilizing synthetic intelligence. This system is namedJarvisthat helps Iron Man in on a regular basis duties.

Iron Man provides directions to Jarvis utilizing easy English language and Jarvis responds in English too. It implies that our program will want speech recognition in addition to text-to-speech functionalities.

Id suggest utilizing these libraries:

For now, youll be able to hardcode the speech instructions like:

When you set analarm on cellular, you may as well use Jarvis for tons of different duties like:

Even Mark Zuckerberg has constructed aJarvisas a side-project.

Songkickis a extremely popular service that gives details about upcoming live shows. ItsAPIcan be utilized to seek for upcoming live shows by:

Youll be able to create a Python script that retains checking a selected live performance day by day utilizing Songkicks API. With all this arrange, youll be able to ship an e mail to your self each time the live performance is obtainable.

Generally Songkick even shows apurchase ticketshyperlink on their web site. However, this hyperlink may go to a special web site for various live shows. It means its very tough to mechanically buy tickets even when we make use of internet scraping.

As a substitute, we will merely show the purchase tickets hyperlink because its in our software for handbook motion.

Lets Encryptis a certificates authority that provides free SSL certificates. However, the difficulty is that this certificates is barely legitimate for 90 days. After 90 days, its important to renew it.

In my view, this can be a nice situation for automation utilizing Python. We will write some code that mechanically renews an internet site SSL certificates earlier than expiring.

Take a look at thiscode on GitHubfor inspiration.

Today, governments have put in surveillance cameras in public locations to extend the safety of their residents. Most of those cameras are merely to report video after which the forensic consultants need to manually acknowledge or hint the person.

What if we create a Python program that acknowledges every particular person in digital camera in real-time. To begin with, we want entry to a nationwide ID card database, which we in all probability dont have, clearly.

So, a simple choice is to create a database with your loved ones members information.

Youll be able to then use aFace Recognitionlibrary and join it with the output of the digital camera.

Contact Tracing is a method to establish all those who have come into contact with one another throughout a selected time interval. Its principally helpful in a pandemic like COVID-19 as a result of with none information about whos contaminated, we willt cease its unfold.

Python can be utilized with a machine studying algorithm referred to asDBSCAN (Density-Based mostly Spatial Clustering of Purposes with Noise)for contact tracing.

As that is only a side-project, so we dont have entry to any official information. For now, its higher to generate some reasonable check information utilizingMockaroo.

You will have a take a look atthis articlefor particular code implementation.

Nautilus File Supervisor in Ubuntu

This can be a very primary Python program that retains monitoring a folder. At any time when a file is added in that folder it checks its sort and strikes it to a selected folder accordingly.

For instance, we will observe our downloads folder. Now, when a brand new file is downloaded, then it should mechanically be moved in one other folder in line with its sort.

.exe information are likely software program setups, so transfer them contained in the software program folder. Whereas, shifting photographs (png, jpg, gif) contained in the photographs folder.

This manner we will arrange several types of information for fast entry.

Create an software that accepts the names of expertise that we have to study for a profession.

For instance, to develop into an internet developer, we have to study:

After coming into the talents, there shall be aGenerate Profession Pathbutton. It instructs our program to go lookingYouTubeand choose related movies/playlists in line with every ability. In case there are various related movies for ability then it should choose the one with probably the most views, feedback and likes.

This system then teams these movies in line with expertise and show their thumbnail, title, and hyperlink within the GUI. It is going to additionally analyze the length of every video, combination them, after which inform us about how a lot time it should take to study this profession path. Now, as a consumer, we will watch these movies that are ordered in a step-by-step method to develop into a grasp on this profession.

Difficult your self with distinctive programming tasks retains you energetic, improve your expertise, and helps you discover new prospects. A few of the mission concepts I discussed above can be used as yourUltimate Yr Venture. Its time to indicate your creativity with Python programming language and switch these concepts into one thing youre pleased with.

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NEW DELHI -- India on Saturday announced a $15 million grant for the promotion of Buddhist ties with its neighbor Sri Lanka.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the offer during a virtual summit with his Sri Lankan counterpart, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Buddhism is practiced by more than 70% of Sri Lanka's population, while most of India's people are Hindu.

Indias External affairs Ministry said the promotion will be through construction and renovation of Buddhist monasteries, capacity development, cultural exchanges, archaeological cooperation and reciprocal exposition of Gautam Buddhas relics.

India recently upgraded its airport in Kushinagar, an important Buddhist pilgrimage site in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, to receive international flights. India plans to fly a Buddhist delegation from Sri Lanka on the inaugural flight soon.

His followers believe that Buddha attained a transcendent state after his death in Kushinagar.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --On September 24, 2020, the Chairperson of both the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council Suzi Leggett announced the ultimate resolution of the two Councils at the Holy Miracles Temple of the World Buddhism Association Headquarters: "The return of the conferment decree and the Pope of Buddhism Scepter by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is not effectible. The title, status, and authority of the Pope of Buddhism belong only to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, and cannot be exercised by anyone else."

In 2018, after extensive vetting, the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council officially conferred the title of Pope of Buddhism to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The conferment decree and the Pope of Buddhism Scepter was signed and presented by the then Chairperson of the two Councils Han Min Su. Nonetheless, to everyone's surprise, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was totally unmoved by the noble status and tremendous honor that came with the Pope of Buddhism title, and did not accept the conferment. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III said: "Within the field of Buddhism, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. There are titles of Dharma kings, rinpoches, Dharma masters, eminent monastics, greatly virtuous persons, and Holy Gurus. There is no need for a Pope. I am a humble cultivator. I am not able to take on such a heavy responsibility."

When the World Buddhism Association Headquarters presented the conferment decree and the Pope of Buddhism Scepter that they received to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, His Holiness the Buddha saw that there was a seated statuette of Namo Shakyamuni Buddha on the Scepter and immediately raised the Scepter above His own head to show respect to Namo Shakyamuni Buddha, the Lord of Buddhism of the saha world. No one would have anticipated that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III actually returned the conferment decree and Pope Scepter directly to the two Councils.

In today's announcement, Chairperson Suzi Leggett said: "Over the past several decades, the World Peace Prize Awarding Council has presented the World Peace Prize to President Ronald Reagan, Hon. Mahatma Gandhi, H.E. Yitzhak Rabin, and presidents and prime ministers of other nations. There has never been a precedence of retraction. All determinations made and implemented by our Councils are very solemn, serious, and absolutely cannot be changedThe return of the conferment decree and Scepter of the Pope of Buddhism by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is deemed not effectible. The title, status, and authority of the Pope of Buddhism belong only to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, and cannot be exercised by anyone else. This is a permanent and unalterable determination!" Despite the fact that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III still would not accept the conferment, Chairperson Leggett once again presented to the World Buddhism Association Headquarters the conferment decree and Pope Scepter that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III previously returned.

Venerable Mozhi Rinpoche represented the World Buddhism Association Headquarters to receive the conferment decree and Pope Scepter signifying the conferment of the title of Pope of Buddhism by the two Councils to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. He said, "The World Buddhism Association Headquarters considers the decision made by the two Councils to be remarkably proper and sagacious. Ever since Namo Shakyamuni Buddha entered parinirvana, there has not been a supreme leader who has the authority to guide all Buddhists the same way that the Buddha did. However, the authoritative position of the Pope of Buddhism certainly is not a role that a leader of a single Buddhist sect would have the attributes to fulfill; rather, the Pope must be a leader who has authority over the entirety of Buddhism, namely, a Buddha. Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III holds the perfect teachings of Buddhism and meets the criteria used by all Buddhist sects to recognize a Buddha. His inherent nature is that of a Buddha, His unsurpassed, complete, and perfect enlightenment is that of a Buddha, and His state of virtue is that of a Buddha. Just based the accomplishment of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in Lifting the Pestle onto the Platform, surpassing His own base weight standard by 59 levels, no one can possibly match such a record. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III also has perfect mastery of Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, perfect accomplishments in the Five Vidyas, and so forth, all of which truly are attributes of the perfect enlightenment of a Buddha. No other Buddhist Holy Guru in this world possesses such qualities.

"Just by the facts that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III vowed to benefit living beings purely on a voluntary basis and does not accept any offerings throughout His entire life, and that He possesses perfect wisdom and unimpeded accomplishments, no other Holy Guru can be of comparison. Only Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III can take on this immensely noble, holy, and heavy responsibility of the Pope of Buddhism, to properly guide Buddhists onto the correct path of learning Buddhism. Therefore, on behalf of Buddhists, the World Buddhism Association Headquarters thanks the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council for having made the ultimate decision."

Below is the statement announced by Suzi Leggett, the Chairperson of the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council:

The Conferment of the Pope of Buddhism to His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III is Unchangeable, The Return of the Conferment Decree is Deemed Not Effectible

The field of Buddhism in today's world is rather chaotic, there needs to be a preeminent Buddhist leader of authority to lead and correctly point Buddhists to the right direction. All Buddhists know that other than a Buddha, no great Bodhisattva, great Dharma king, great lama, or great Dharma master is qualified to hold the title and status of authority to be the world's highest leader of Buddhism. In particular, the entire field of Buddhism has now been infiltrated by many fake rinpoches and fake Dharma masters who are not true Buddhists. As a result, Buddhism all over the world has fallen into a state of chaos and confusion.

Within the traditions and formal systems of Buddhism, there are several dozen sects, such as Esoteric, Exoteric, Zen, Pure Land, Mahayana, Theravada, and so forth. Regardless of how high the status of a Dharma king or a great master of any school may be, such a person can only lead their own school. Besides, each school of the sectarian system has also been infiltrated by a great number of fake rinpoches and fake Dharma masters. These people are amateurs who do not understand Buddhist teachings in the Sutras; yet they feign to be greatly virtuous people or eminent monastics. Thereupon, gradually and inconspicuously, evil and non-Buddhists teachings have been mixed into authentic Buddhism founded by Shakyamuni Buddha. This is mainly because there is currently no preeminent leader in the entirety of Buddhism. There is no supreme leader of authority to take hold of true Buddhist teachings and true Buddha Dharma.

Since a Dharma king, patriarch, or great master of any school can only lead their own school, none of them is eligible, either in virtue or realization power, to be the authoritative leader of the entirety of Buddhism. Only a Buddha can be the King of the entirety of Buddhism and the authority in all Buddhist teachings and principles, in the same way the God in Christianity has authority over the entirety of Catholicism. Ever since Buddhist history in this world began with Shakyamuni Buddha, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is the only Buddha who has truly been recognized by all major sects of Buddhism. A total of more than 100 documents of recognitions, corroborations, and congratulations have been formally issued by Buddhist leaders, Dharma kings, regent Dharma kings and great rinpoches of all major sects. Such a feat of recognition has never been achieved by anyone else in the history of Buddhism.

In particular, the Pope of Buddhism H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is the first person in Buddhism to possess substantive holy realization power of a Buddha and perfectly flawless accomplishments at the pinnacle of the Five Vidyas. His selfless state of virtue is revered by all. His Holiness the Pope of Buddhism is also the one and only who possesses the inherent nature and physical constitution of a Buddha that no other eminent Buddhist monastic or virtuous person in this world has so perfectly attained.

After the Chairpersons of the World Peace Prize Awarding Council Han Min Su and myself, as well as the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council spent two years vigorously examining all evidences in great detail, we have formally made the ultimate, permanent, and irreversible determination that on January 31, 2018, the conferment decree and the Scepter of the Pope of Buddhism were to be presented to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. That date signified the official ascent of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to the authoritative throne of the Pope of Buddhism.

The World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council had officially conferred the title of the Pope of Buddhism to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in January 2018. However, at that time, the Pope of Buddhism H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III refused to accept the conferment decree and the Pope Scepter, stating His reasons being: "Within the field of Buddhism, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. There are titles of Dharma kings, rinpoches, Dharma masters, eminent monastics, greatly virtuous persons, and Holy Gurus. There is no need for a Pope. I am a humble cultivator. I am not able to take on such a heavy responsibility." In light of this, the World Buddhism Association Headquarters took the liberty to accept the conferment decree and the Pope Scepter for H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

However, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III returned the conferment decree and Pope Scepter to the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council. The two Councils deem the return of the conferment decree and Scepter to be unjustifiable. The conferring of the title of Pope of Buddhism was a determination reached by both Councils after serious and solemn vetting, and the conferment has already been implemented. Under no circumstances can we be so lacking in rigorousness to accept the return of the conferment. This decision has been made by the two Councils. This is not a decision for H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to make on his own.

Over the past several decades, the World Peace Prize Awarding Council has presented the World Peace Prize to President Ronald Reagan, Hon. Mahatma Gandhi, and H.E. Yitzhak Rabin, and presidents and prime ministers of other nations. There has never been a precedence of retraction. All determinations made and implemented by our Councils are very solemn, serious, and absolutely cannot be changed. Therefore, the World Peace Prize Awarding Council and the World Peace Prize Religious Leaders Title Awarding Council hereby issue our ultimate statement regarding this matter as follows: The return of the conferment decree and Scepter of the Pope of Buddhism by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is deemed not effectible. The title, status, and authority of the Pope of Buddhism belong only to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, and cannot be exercised by anyone else. This is a permanent and unalterable determination!

We wish that under the Pope of Buddhism H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, true Buddhism will greatly flourish, and the world will be greatly benefitted!

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Looking for Japanese spirituality and history all wrapped up into one fantastic experience? A day visit, or better yet, a stay at Eihei-ji Temple will leave you with lasting memories and maybe even eternal peace.

Fukui PrefecturesEihei-ji Temple stands as one of Japans two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism. Introduced to Japan in the 13th century by Dogen Zenji, the Soto school is the largest single religious denomination in the nation, with more than 14,000 temples dotted across the country.

Who was Dogen Zenji?

Dogen founded Eihei-ji in 1243, in what is today Fukui City, north ofKyoto Prefecture. Dogen and his followers were looking for a home to avoid conflict arising with other sects of Buddhism, such as Tendai.

For a short time, the temple was known asDaibutsu(Giant Buddha) Temple, but Dogen renamed the complex to Temple of Eternal Peace, or Eihei-ji, in 1246. Dogen lived the remainder of his life at Eihei-ji, leaving only once at the Shogun regents request. After he died in 1252, priests entombed Dogens ashes and a memorial in Eihei-jisjoyoden,or founders hall.

Today, Eihei-ji is the head training temple of Soto Zen Buddhism, and more than 200 priests and nuns call the temple home. Practicing Soto Zen priests from all over Japan, and even the United States San Francisco Zen Center, come to Eihei-ji to meditate and chant sutras.

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Catholics in central Vietnam have developed interfaith relations with local Buddhists by celebrating the Mid-autumn Festival with hundreds of disabled children.

More than 100 children with physical disabilities in blue T-shirts sang songs, clapped and welcomed a group of priests, religious and volunteers at the Buddhist-run Long Tho Center for Disabled Children in Hue on Sept. 30.

Catholic visitors played organs, sang childrens songs and offered traditional games to children, mostly from Buddhist families. Children also performed traditional dances and sang songs.

They offered them gifts including balloons, Mid-autumn cake, sweets, rice, instant noodles, fish sauce and bobble hats, each costing 200,000 dong (US$9).

The visit aims at bringing Mid-autumn Festival joy to these disabled children who have few opportunities to celebrate the yearly traditional festival like others, said Sacred Heart Father Joseph Phan Tan Ho, head of the group.

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Father Ho, who works with disadvantaged people regardless of their backgrounds in the central provinces, said the event was also designed to maintain interfaith constructive dialogue between local Catholics and Buddhists. Thua Thien Hue province is home to Buddhism in central Vietnam.

Father Mattheus Mai Nguyen Vu Thach, head of Hue Archdioceses interfaith committee, and Buddhist nun Thich Nu Thoai Nghiem, vice director of the center, also handed gifts to the children.

We would like to thank you very much for warmly welcoming us, Father Thach told the center staff and children. The priest hopes the event will promote cooperative, constructive, friendly and positive interaction between followers of the two faiths.

Thich Nu Thoai Nghiem said she was deeply grateful to Catholic visitors who love and provide generous basic supplies for children at the center. Many suffer Down syndrome, paralysis, hearing and visual impairments, and congenital abnormalities.

Nguyen Van Thoi, who suffers paralysis of both legs and uses a wheelchair, said he was happy to celebrate the festival with Catholics who treated him with respect. His father died in a road accident and his mother remarried. The 19-year-old man had to sell lottery tickets for a living before he was admitted to the center in 2017.

Caritas workers and volunteers also held Mid-autumn ceremonies for 100 other children with physical disabilities and infected with HIV/AIDS at the Pastoral Center in Hue. Most of the beneficiaries were from Buddhist families.

Lovers of the Holy Cross Sister Mary Truong Thi Thao, a member of Caritas in Hue, said the children made lanterns, performed lion dances, played games, had meals and received gifts.

We try to bring the children festival joy and strengthen our relationships with their families, said Sister Thao, who is in charge of children's service.

Daughters of Our Lady of the Visitation Sister Therese Nguyen Thi Kim Lan said her congregation also gave gifts and food to 45 children from Buddhist families who live on boats in rivers on Sept. 27.

She said nuns pay regular visits to their families and teach human values and English to them on Sundays at the mother house.

Joseph Tran Ngoc Tri, head of Catholic youths in Kim Doi Parish, said young people make money by performing lion dances around the parish and offer school supplies, lanterns and cake to 200 children.

He said catechism students will invite three Buddhist children each to attend a Mid-autumn ceremony held at the church on Oct. 1.

Michael Nguyen Dinh Thanh, head of altar boys from Phu Cam Parish, said they performed lion dances for child patients from Hue Central Hospital.

Father Ho said his group also provided over 1,000 gifts for children from poor families in the districts of A Luoi, Huong Tra and Quang Dien which had been severely hit by Tropical Storm Noul.

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A part of the Buddhist religion similar to the one practised in neighbouring Tibet, these sights while making up for pleasant roadside views, also hold great cultural and historical significances.

By Monidipa Dey

Those that have travelled to Ladakh, Spiti, Sikkim or to other Indian Himalayan states will be familiar with the innumerable pretty chortens that dot the landscape and the colourful flags with their printed mantras that brighten up houses, farms, mountain passes, and water bodies. A part of the Buddhist religion similar to the one practised in neighbouring Tibet, these sights while making up for pleasant roadside views, also hold great cultural and historical significances.

In the modern context, Tibetans refer to those from Tibet (in a geographical and political sense); however, owing to ancient and early medieval cultural ties with the old Tibetan kingdom, many Indians also practice Buddhism as practised in Tibet, which is pretty obvious when we travel to the Himalayan states. Besides the locals, many refugees from Tibet owing to political crises in their own country have made India their home in the last few decades, and have kept their religious and cultural practices intact.

The history of Tibetan Buddhism is strongly rooted in India, and records show that while Buddhism made an appearance in the Tibetan kingdom around 7th century CE and received royal patronages, it took a firm shape only after the famous monk Atish Dipankar (9821054 CE) from the Pala era Bengal carried with him the essence of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism and spread it among the masses, from Tibet to Sumatra and beyond. Before Buddhism arrived from India, Tibetans practiced Bon religion, an ancient form of worship. The Bon religion believed in the worship of natural spirits, and exorcism to drive away demons and remove negative effects. Many aspects of the Bon traditions were absorbed into Indian Buddhism, which finally gave rise to the form of Buddhism followed in Tibetan platuea and Indias Himalayan frontier regions. The Bon religion still survives in some parts of Tibet, and the adherents follow practices and philosophies that show a striking similarity to Tibetan Buddhism.

What do the fluttering flags say?

Hanging long strings of prayer flags/banners, and hoisting prayer flags on poles is a unique characteristic of Tibetan culture, and these are frequently seen on mountain passes and tops, farms, forests, beside water-bodies, houses, and gompas. In Tibetan language these flags are referred to as dar lcog, wherein dar means cotton cloth and lcog means an upright position (silk and synthetic fabrics are also used). This custom has been in practice for more than a thousand years now, and it is believed that initially the tradition started as a symbol of war, which later modified itself to denote religious activities. As Buddhism took hold among the Tibetans, even the ancient war symbols (flags and spears) slowly turned into philosophical symbols of positive energy that brought forth good fortune, while removing obstacles and unhappiness.

A closer look at the flags and banners show that five different colours are always used in the same order: blue on top, followed by white, red, green, and yellow. The five colours denote five natural elements, wherein blue denotes the sky, white stands for clouds, red is for fire, green is for water, and yellow depicts the earth. The Tibetans belief that there must be a balance between these five natural elements for prosperity (good crop yield and thriving cattle), which in turn will fill the world with happiness and peace. When the balance is lost, unhappiness and misery will engulf the world.

There is another line of Tibetan philosophy that claims the colours represent water (blue), iron (white), fire (red), wood (green), and earth (yellow). In this case the colours should be placed giving precedence to the raisers dominating natural element. Interestingly, a common form of this flag known as wind-horse prayer flag has Garuda as one among the four supreme power animals shown on it.

Why the stacked stones?

The stacked stones, a common sight in the mountains, tell us tales of previous travellers who have been to that place. Often stacked stones that are seen on mountain passes are covered with prayer flags. These cairns are revered objects, as it is believed they help to please the natural spirits/deities. These stacked stones with prayer flags are known as la btsas. Here the word la means mountain pass, and btsas likely refer to a tax paid when going to a sacred place. The practice started long back, when travellers and traders in ancient times made arduous journeys across high mountain passes. Once a pass was reached after a tortuous trek, it was considered a major achievement. The travellers would then collect stones, make a stack, and place some food item on it as an offering. Besides serving as offerings to create positive energy, the stacked stones with food items were also offerings for the later travellers who might arrive exhausted and without any food. With the passage of time as travelling turned less arduous, this practice of boosting the morale of later travellers by keeping food for them gradually went obsolete, and stone stacking turned into a custom of appeasing gods. As more and more stones piled up, flags were put on them, and slowly they turned into means of pacifying the natural spirits and gods. The script often seen on these stones and on Mani stones are known as Lantsa script, which is an Indian Buddhist script of late Pala origin, hence some alphabets are similar to Bengali alphabets.

There is also another line of thought which believes that in ancient times the mountain passes were boundaries of different kingdoms, and as people crossed the borders, they were obliged to pay taxes (la btsas), which later changed into a custom of appeasing deities.

There are more such interesting titbits from the Tibetan cultural aspects, which after a closer study reveal the complex weaving of two ancient religions (Bon and Indian Buddhism) to create a new form that has kept alive both the religions, despite the apparently seamless integration.

(The author is a well-known travel writer. All images providedby the author. Views expressed are personal.)

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