People may look at Anaya Ellick and see a child who'll have a lifetime of challenges. But a second look at her reveals a girl who's providing a lifetime of inspiration.
Anaya, 7, was born with no hands and doesn't use prosthetics, yet earlier this week she won a national handwriting contest.
In order to write, Anaya holds a pencil between her arms and stands at her desk to get the right angle for writing.
Talk about an amazing, inspiring story. This young girl by the name of Anaya Ellick has not only surprised those around her, but also the judges at a handwriting competition.
ABC7 Los Angeles reports that the seven-year-old won the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship at the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. Using her forearms to write, she won top amongst 50 other contestants from the U.S.
The first grader attends Greenbrier Christian Academy in Virginia, and the school’s superintendent, Ron White says that “She inspires everyone around her because you wonder how does she do this. And it’s not like she’s struggling to do this. Where we see an obstacle, she sees an opportunity.”
Which is the ultimate laptop? A lot of people might be tempted to point their fingers at a MacBook. So let me rephrase. Which is the ultimate Windows laptop? Tough one, right? With so many manufacturers in the fray, even Microsoft will not be able to tell you which one is the best. Unless they themselves want to set the standards. And that is exactly what Redmont is trying to do with the Microsoft Surface Book.
Here is the configuration/ Specifications for the Microsoft Surface Book :
Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-6300U (dual-core, 3MB cache, up to 3GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Intel HD graphics 520; Nvidia GeForce graphics (1GB GDDR5 high-speed memory)
RAM: 8GB
Screen: 13.5-inch, 3,000 x 2,000 (267 ppi) PixelSense Display
Storage: 256GB PCIe3.0 SSD
Ports: 2 x USB 3.0, mini DisplayPort, SD card reader, mini headphone/mic combo jack
Connectivity: 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE
Camera: Windows 8MP rear-facing auto-focus camera (1080p HD), 5MP front-facing Hello face-authentication camera (1080p HD)
Weight: 3.48 pounds (1.58kg)
Size: 12.3 x 9.14 x 0.51-0.90 (W x D x H) (312 x 232 x 13-22.8 mm)
With an $1,899 or AU$2,949 (about £1,239) price tag for the configuration above, the Surface Book asks for a pretty penny that's typically reserved for high-end gaming notebooks. And that's even applicable to the $1,499 or AU$2,299 (about £978) price associated with its most basic configuration, which is essentially a more expensive Surface Pro 4.
Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Plays The Love Interest In The New Joe Jonas Video And People Are Freaking Out.
Joe Jonas’s band DNCE just released a new video for their song “Toothbrush,” and it features fierce AF plus-size model Ashley Graham playing Joe’s love interest.
The plot of the vid? Joe and Ashley looking foine as hell, making out and just living the dream.
Um, hi, so cute. Also, so hot.
But the video also feels pretty important, because it’s one of the few examples of a plus-size woman playing the love interest.
This shouldn’t be revolutionary, but unfortch, it is. And fans took notice.
A Dog interned into Raising Pune and Daredevils match 49th match on 17/05/2016 in the first over of the match and little delay happened because of that stray dog , and it had some funny play moment with Morris later the stadium workers chased it and get rid of dog away from the stadium.
The best affectionate creature in the world is the dog I love dogs.
NFL mascots have to find some way to have fun in the offseason. The Chicago Bears’ mascot pranked kids at an arcade hidden camera-style. It’s funny, but it’s terrifying. I even sort of got scared watching it.
Usually team mascots are on the cuter side and are used to rally up the fans and entertain the children. The Chicago Bears think not. The team and their mascot, Staley, decided to prank unassuming arcade goers by hoping inside a claw machine and scaring those who thought they were moments away from landing a nice prize.
Have you ever wondered what it’d be like for the toys to come to life? Think about it. It wouldn’t be like Toy Story. It’d be scary like this, probably.
Along with Duncan Jones’s Warcraft it’s been billed as the video game movie that might just make us forget all about the cinematic crimes of Uwe Boll and his ilk, that can induce glorious amnesia for those struggling to wipe clean memories of Prince of Persia, Hitma
n or Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
The omens so far are good. Assassin’s Creed comes from the team behind last year’s blistering new take on Macbeth, with director Justin Kurzel bringing back his stars Michael Fassbender (also a hands-on producer) and Marion Cotillard. Here are five takeaways from the first trailer for the film.
Marion Cotillard is doing her best femme fatale
How strange that the cute copine from France’s hit Taxi comedies has developed into one of the most sublime screen beauties of modern Hollywood. Ever since Christopher Nolan cast her as a limbo-bound spirit trapped in Leonardo DiCaprio’s consciousness in Inception, Cotillard has been the go-to actor for twisted femme fatales, a modern day Simone Simon, or Gallic Rita Hayworth. Her Sophia Rikkin here also recalls the Oscar-winner’s startling turn in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises as Talia Al Ghul. Both are scions of an ancient order, Rikkin part of the Knights Templar, Al Ghul a descendant of the similarly destructive League of Assassins (DC Comics version). What perfect casting.
Michael Fassbender’s Callum Lynch has to die to live
As the trailer opens, our hero has just been tried and executed for doing some very bad things. So what a surprise to wake up and find he’s about to be primed for transfer to the past, where he’ll learn skills from an ancestor. Fans of the video game will recognise the tan and teal filtered medical facility as a base for Abstergo Industries, the modern day successor to the evil Knights Templar. We’re told Lynch is a descendant of the rival Assassin’s guild – in the games Abstergo is unaware of his background, and sends him back in search of powerful artefacts known as the “Pieces of Eden”.
Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition
Ok, that’s not strictly true. It’s long been established that Kurzel’s big screen adaptation will borrow a timeline the game series first visited in 2009’s Assassin’s Creed II. Once he’s picked up those vital skills, word is Lynch will return to the 21st century to use them on his sworn Templar enemies. For once, the fact that renaissance Spain looks like an all-CGI affair makes some sort of sense. This is a video game riff, after all.
Fassbender in ancient CGI Spain.
Justin Kurzel has transformed video game tropes into nightmarish discombobulation
How do you take the clunky furniture required to make a video game such as Assassin’s Creed work and make it interesting for filmgoers? The answer, Kurzel appears to have decided, is to play on the inherent weirdness of the “Animus” device that transports players back in time on their PlayStations. To be plucked from reality and thrown into the body of an ancestor is to experience a nightmarish sense of discombobulation, the Australian film-maker seems to be saying. Those white coats and pristine clean facilities speak to an immediate sense of body horror as Kurzel chooses to flag up the unnatural quality of the game’s conceit, rather than ignore it.
Assassin’s Creed already looks like a much smoother game-to-movie transfer than Warcraft
Kurzel’s film will debut in December, six months after Duncan Jones’s troubled Warcraft, which trailers so far suggest might find itself weighed down by its own video game legacy. The film’s background as a multiplayer game seems to have persuaded Jones to throw in a multitude of colourful orcs and humans, with the fear being that few of them will really stand out for those who have not played the game. By contrast Assassin’s Creed, as the progeny of a game that’s traditionally been more of a single player affair, can focus entirely on its trump card, the intensely watchable Fassbender.
Magic tricks can be appreciated by all people of all ages, and as it turns out chimpanzees too. Magician Simon Pierro demonstrated his own special brand of iPad Magic to the chimps at the Schwabenpark in Germany.
While we suspect the potential for receiving treats played a major part in their enjoyment the fact is they still loved the high-tech form of entertainment even taking the iPad off Simon to investigate themselves.
As the World Wildlife Foundation points out, Chimpanzees are indeed our closest cousins, sharing around 98 per cent of our genes.
They're highly intelligent and highly social animals who will actively care for their elderly with some chimps living to be as old as 50-years old.
Despite their similarities to us Chimps are officially classed as an endangered species with just 172,700 expected to be alive in the wild around the globe.
