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On the morning he was being ousted as Donald Trump’s chief strategist last Friday, Steve Bannon had already turned the page. “Why do you sound unfazed?” a friend asked Bannon as news of his demise ricocheted across the web. “Because,” Bannon replied, “we’re going to war.” Hours later, Bannon was calling into the editorial meeting at Breitbart News, rallying his troops to continue the battles he waged inside the White House. “We have a duty to the country to be the vanguard of ‘The Movement,’” he told his staff, according to one person on the call. Bannon’s main targets are the West Wing’s coterie of New York Democrat “globalists”—Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn—as well as the “hawks,” comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. “He wants to beat their ideas into submission,” Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me. “Steve has a lot of things up his sleeve.”
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"I love the Baltimore pride! There is no other city like Baltimore and the amazing energy and love that we all have here for our city and for Maryland." – Sam F., 3 year veteran
Read more on: bit.ly/2fXhjnd
#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders
(Credit: Baltimore Ravens Cheerleaders)
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#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders
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#ICYMI: An initiative that would split California into three states has been submitted to state officials. http://nbcbay.com/ipgRI9h
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Pre-Eclipse Waning Moon over Wyoming
Alan: "The thin waning crescent Moon at dawn on August 20, 2017, on the last morning it could be sighted before the total eclipse on August 21. The Moon has risen over the foothills and peaks of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, though this view is from the Idaho side looking northeast."
Credit: Alan Dyer
Alan's Website: http://www.AmazingSky.com
Location: Idaho, United States
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Technical details: Canon 60Da and 200mm lens.
#Astronomy #Space #Science #Moon #Dawn #Astrophotography #Photography #Art #Panorama #SolarSystem #Cosmos #Universe #Earth #GrandTetons #Wyoming #STEM #Education #CitizenScience
Alan: "The thin waning crescent Moon at dawn on August 20, 2017, on the last morning it could be sighted before the total eclipse on August 21. The Moon has risen over the foothills and peaks of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, though this view is from the Idaho side looking northeast."
Credit: Alan Dyer
Alan's Website: http://www.AmazingSky.com
Location: Idaho, United States
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Technical details: Canon 60Da and 200mm lens.
#Astronomy #Space #Science #Moon #Dawn #Astrophotography #Photography #Art #Panorama #SolarSystem #Cosmos #Universe #Earth #GrandTetons #Wyoming #STEM #Education #CitizenScience
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It’s finally out, or rather, the pre-orders are out. It may no longer be formally called “Project Scorpio” but Microsoft is paying homage to the codename that was carried all throughout the Xbox One X’s development phase. Called the Xbox One X Scorpio Edition, this super limited collector’s edition of Microsoft’s newest console has already started its pre-order period. But … Continue reading
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Solar Eclipse 2017: How to Watch Safely | Consumer Reports
There's so much talk about the solar eclipse coming on August 21. But hearing about this historic event and seeing it are two very different experiences...
Credit: Consumer Reports
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: August 10, 2017
+Consumer Reports
+American Astronomical Society
#NASA #Earth #Science #Astronomy #SolarEclipse #Sun #Solar #Moon #Eclipse #Physics #SolarEclipse2017 #Eclipse2017 #Safety #Totality #UnitedStates #Canada #NorthAmerica #SDO #Children #Parents #Kids #Students #Teachers #ConsumerReports #STEM #Education #HD #Video
There's so much talk about the solar eclipse coming on August 21. But hearing about this historic event and seeing it are two very different experiences...
Credit: Consumer Reports
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: August 10, 2017
+Consumer Reports
+American Astronomical Society
#NASA #Earth #Science #Astronomy #SolarEclipse #Sun #Solar #Moon #Eclipse #Physics #SolarEclipse2017 #Eclipse2017 #Safety #Totality #UnitedStates #Canada #NorthAmerica #SDO #Children #Parents #Kids #Students #Teachers #ConsumerReports #STEM #Education #HD #Video
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No guts no glory: Harvesting the microbiome of athletes
Elite athletes work hard to excel in sports, but they may also get a natural edge from the bacteria that inhabit their digestive tracts. Scientists have now tapped into the microbiome of exceptional runners and rowers, and have identified particular bacteria that may aid athletic performance. The goal is to develop probiotic supplements that may help athletes -- and even amateur fitness enthusiasts -- recover from a tough workout or more efficiently convert nutrients to energy...In another set of experiments, the researchers are comparing the bacteria from ultramarathoners to those found in rowers training for the Olympics. They found a type of bacteria in ultramarathoners that can help break down carbohydrates and fiber -- which is key during a 100-mile run -- that wasn't present in the rowers, suggesting that different sports may foster niche microbiomes.
Elite athletes work hard to excel in sports, but they may also get a natural edge from the bacteria that inhabit their digestive tracts. Scientists have now tapped into the microbiome of exceptional runners and rowers, and have identified particular bacteria that may aid athletic performance. The goal is to develop probiotic supplements that may help athletes -- and even amateur fitness enthusiasts -- recover from a tough workout or more efficiently convert nutrients to energy...In another set of experiments, the researchers are comparing the bacteria from ultramarathoners to those found in rowers training for the Olympics. They found a type of bacteria in ultramarathoners that can help break down carbohydrates and fiber -- which is key during a 100-mile run -- that wasn't present in the rowers, suggesting that different sports may foster niche microbiomes.
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Islands
Silhouette Island, Seychelles
This smooth and curved granite rock was once sharp and abrasive, but through countless years of sea and sand working on its surface it has become smooth to the touch and curved as per the never ending swirls of the waves sandblasting it from every direction.
On land the sun and rain are the other forces working its way through the granite, but the result is never as smooth as that being in the tidal zone as this one.
This is like a miniature island, as during low tide it is surrounded by the sand, and during high tide it is a true island with the sea surrounding it.
In the back you see the largest of all the granite islands – Mahe.
#landscape #seascape #seychelles
Image Copyright © 2016 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 24 November 2016 18:04
Altitude: 0 meters
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography curated by +Margaret Tompkins +Eric Drumm +Chandler L. Walker +Krzysztof Felczak +AJ Lim +Jeff Beddow +H Peter Ji +Jani Westman +Dorma Wiggin +Ranco Sevla Sevla
#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape
#BTPLandscapePro +BTP Landscape Pro , owned and curated by +Nancy Dempsey
Silhouette Island, Seychelles
This smooth and curved granite rock was once sharp and abrasive, but through countless years of sea and sand working on its surface it has become smooth to the touch and curved as per the never ending swirls of the waves sandblasting it from every direction.
On land the sun and rain are the other forces working its way through the granite, but the result is never as smooth as that being in the tidal zone as this one.
This is like a miniature island, as during low tide it is surrounded by the sand, and during high tide it is a true island with the sea surrounding it.
In the back you see the largest of all the granite islands – Mahe.
#landscape #seascape #seychelles
Image Copyright © 2016 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 24 November 2016 18:04
Altitude: 0 meters
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography curated by +Margaret Tompkins +Eric Drumm +Chandler L. Walker +Krzysztof Felczak +AJ Lim +Jeff Beddow +H Peter Ji +Jani Westman +Dorma Wiggin +Ranco Sevla Sevla
#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape
#BTPLandscapePro +BTP Landscape Pro , owned and curated by +Nancy Dempsey
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"What are the implications of a technology that seems to be converging on the sharing of consciousness?
It would be a lot easier to answer that question if anyone knew what consciousness is. There’s no shortage of theories. Their models – right or wrong – describe computation, not awareness."
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Physics describes a world of intelligent zombies who do everything we do, except understand that they’re doing it. That’s what we should be, that’s all we should be: meat and computation. Somehow the meat woke up.
This is all preamble, though, a set‑up to the question posed at the outset: what are the implications of a technology that wires brains together, that in theory at least permits the existence of hive minds?
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The local personae are obliterated, absorbed into a greater whole; as the Finnish computer scientists recently declared in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, ‘the biological brain cannot support multiple separate conscious attentional processes in the same brain medium’. Remember that. It could end up biting us in the ass a few years down the road.
If we do stop short of a hive mind, it’s unlikely to be because we lack the tech; it’ll only be because we lack the nerve. Consciousness remains mysterious. But there’s no reason to regard it as magical, no evidence of spectral bonds that hold a soul in one head and keep it from leaking into another. And one of the things we do know is that consciousness spreads to fill the space available. Smaller selves disappear into larger; two hemispheres integrate into one.
Keep the bandwidth too low and you lose the experience; edge it too high and you lose yourself. Throughout history we’ve communicated via the equivalent of dial‑up, through speech and writing and images on screens. A fat enough neural interface could turn everything broadband, act as a next-gen corpus callosum that fuses we into some new kind of I that’s never existed before.
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There’s a machine in a lab in Berkeley, California, that can read the voxels right off your visual cortex and figure out what you’re looking at based solely on brain activity. One of its creators, Kendrick Kay, suggested back in 2008 that we’d eventually be able to read dreams (also, that we might want to take a closer look at certain privacy issues before that happened). His best guess was that this might happen a few decades down the road – but it took only four years for a computer in a Japanese lab to predict the content of hypnagogic hallucinations (essentially, dreams without REM) at 60 per cent accuracy, based entirely on fMRI data.
It would be a lot easier to answer that question if anyone knew what consciousness is. There’s no shortage of theories. Their models – right or wrong – describe computation, not awareness."
Physics describes a world of intelligent zombies who do everything we do, except understand that they’re doing it. That’s what we should be, that’s all we should be: meat and computation. Somehow the meat woke up.
This is all preamble, though, a set‑up to the question posed at the outset: what are the implications of a technology that wires brains together, that in theory at least permits the existence of hive minds?
The local personae are obliterated, absorbed into a greater whole; as the Finnish computer scientists recently declared in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, ‘the biological brain cannot support multiple separate conscious attentional processes in the same brain medium’. Remember that. It could end up biting us in the ass a few years down the road.
If we do stop short of a hive mind, it’s unlikely to be because we lack the tech; it’ll only be because we lack the nerve. Consciousness remains mysterious. But there’s no reason to regard it as magical, no evidence of spectral bonds that hold a soul in one head and keep it from leaking into another. And one of the things we do know is that consciousness spreads to fill the space available. Smaller selves disappear into larger; two hemispheres integrate into one.
Keep the bandwidth too low and you lose the experience; edge it too high and you lose yourself. Throughout history we’ve communicated via the equivalent of dial‑up, through speech and writing and images on screens. A fat enough neural interface could turn everything broadband, act as a next-gen corpus callosum that fuses we into some new kind of I that’s never existed before.
There’s a machine in a lab in Berkeley, California, that can read the voxels right off your visual cortex and figure out what you’re looking at based solely on brain activity. One of its creators, Kendrick Kay, suggested back in 2008 that we’d eventually be able to read dreams (also, that we might want to take a closer look at certain privacy issues before that happened). His best guess was that this might happen a few decades down the road – but it took only four years for a computer in a Japanese lab to predict the content of hypnagogic hallucinations (essentially, dreams without REM) at 60 per cent accuracy, based entirely on fMRI data.
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Geek Question of the Day: Meeting an alien species is something science fiction has brought us countless times, but I thought it might be fun to twist things a little and ask you all; If aliens demanded we choose a single fictional human to represent Earth, who would you vote for and why? Feel free to suggest other Earth-born creatures/beings if need be but otherwise it's pretty much any source on this one! #gqotd
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#CavsHQ driven by Ganley Auto Group ...
Join hosts John Michael and Rafael Hernandez Brito as they discuss the release of the 2017-18 schedule with Cavaliers legends, Campy Russell and Austin Carr.
LISTEN: 🎙️: http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/features/cavshq-170820
Join hosts John Michael and Rafael Hernandez Brito as they discuss the release of the 2017-18 schedule with Cavaliers legends, Campy Russell and Austin Carr.
LISTEN: 🎙️: http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/features/cavshq-170820
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Not certain why anyone is writing an article about the data from the survey that came out in March, but it is good timing for me as I'm about the start a new semester and the question of "why Scala?" inevitably has to be addressed. The real answer is pedagogical, but this one resonates with students well.
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There are many cool ways to share the eclipse with kids - (Credit: AP Photo/Irmansyah) On Aug. 21, families in the United States can view a solar eclipse — either total or partial — in most of the country. This event is a chance for your kids to explore the science of eclipses, astronomy, and physics. Don’t miss the opportunity to see it! Folks in the United States won’t get another look until 2024. Use these digital tools to explore eclipse-related activities: Find out the best time and pl...
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This Day in Aviation History
August 21st, 1944
First flight of the Grumman F8F Bearcat.
The Grumman F8F Bearcat (nicknamed "Bear") was a single-engine American fighter aircraft introduced in late World War II. It went on to serve into the mid-20th century in the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the air forces of other nations. It would be Grumman Aircraft's final piston engined fighter aircraft. Modified versions have broken speed records for piston-engined aircraft, and are popular among warbird owners.....
Source:
Wikipedia, Grumman F8F Bearcat: http://gstv.us/1PCvcxP
YouTube, Grumman Bearcat: http://gstv.us/1PCv7dE
YouTube, Stefan Karwowski and the Grumman F8F Bearcat: http://gstv.us/2iiXAPq
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#avgeek #military #Grumman #F8F #Bearcat #warbird #ww2 #USN #USA #aviation #history #fb
August 21st, 1944
First flight of the Grumman F8F Bearcat.
The Grumman F8F Bearcat (nicknamed "Bear") was a single-engine American fighter aircraft introduced in late World War II. It went on to serve into the mid-20th century in the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the air forces of other nations. It would be Grumman Aircraft's final piston engined fighter aircraft. Modified versions have broken speed records for piston-engined aircraft, and are popular among warbird owners.....
Source:
Wikipedia, Grumman F8F Bearcat: http://gstv.us/1PCvcxP
YouTube, Grumman Bearcat: http://gstv.us/1PCv7dE
YouTube, Stefan Karwowski and the Grumman F8F Bearcat: http://gstv.us/2iiXAPq
Additional Photos: http://gstv.us/2b2aCLM
Please consider supporting Gazing Skyward TV by using our affiliate links when shopping online and becoming a Patron on Patreon. http://gazingskywardtv.com/donate/
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#avgeek #military #Grumman #F8F #Bearcat #warbird #ww2 #USN #USA #aviation #history #fb
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You Won't Believe What Putting These Oils on Your Face Every Night Can Do For Your Skin! Must Try!
Beautiful, oil-free skin requires a lot of time and effort. Not to mention – money. But, the skin care products our cosmetic stores are loaded with chemicals and often fail to
#beauty #face #skin #skincare #healthyskin #health #healthy #explore #healthyliving #homeremedies
Beautiful, oil-free skin requires a lot of time and effort. Not to mention – money. But, the skin care products our cosmetic stores are loaded with chemicals and often fail to
#beauty #face #skin #skincare #healthyskin #health #healthy #explore #healthyliving #homeremedies
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As the nations tap more energy from #sun, celestial event like #solarEclipse happening in #USA within 24 hours pose problems to #grid management during eclipse period. Advising the consumers on #conservation practice, pumping #greenEnergy from non-affected areas, using #fossil fuels powered energy from affected locations and keeping standby #generators running in most of the #buildings are some of the actions planned. The service providers are confident that the grid operation would be smooth during the eclipse period. Many #experiments are also planned for this event in USA. As the eclipse covers the entire width of this country, scientists are excited about the ample time available for collecting enough data for research. I am also interested in the outcome of the experiments that would throw up more light on many questions about #eclipses.
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5 StEps to Repurpose Video Content for MAX ROI. Great video is never a one-off. Truly excellent content can, and should, be a reusable resource that lives on long after fulfilling its main purpose.
When you create a video you should always be thinking ahead to how you can maximise your returns. I’m going to talk you through our top 5 tips for repurposing your video content and improving your video ROI.
Always keep in mind that your videos are long-lasting resources which should be used again and again to delight your customers and support your team.
When you create a video you should always be thinking ahead to how you can maximise your returns. I’m going to talk you through our top 5 tips for repurposing your video content and improving your video ROI.
Always keep in mind that your videos are long-lasting resources which should be used again and again to delight your customers and support your team.
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