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Will Smith Would Not Be Chillin’ Out, Maxin’, Relaxin’ All Cool If Fresh Prince Is Ever Revived http://vult.re/2BWmyu3
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Death Dive! Sungrazing Comet Plunges into the Sun at Mind-Blowing Speed Dec. 20-22
A bright sungrazing comet in December 20-22 was racing to a toasty demise, with a stunning backdrop of the Milky Way, two planets, and the solar corona!
Credit: ESA/NASA, SOHO, helioviewer.org
Μusic credit: YouTube Audio Library
A bright sungrazing comet in December 20-22 was racing to a toasty demise, with a stunning backdrop of the Milky Way, two planets, and the solar corona!
Credit: ESA/NASA, SOHO, helioviewer.org
Μusic credit: YouTube Audio Library
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Beware of Cryptocurrency Mining Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger (infected file pretending to be video file in a .zip file) https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/cryptocurrency-hack-facebook.html
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Download: LibreELEC 8.2.2 Kodi 17.6 Krypton Released - The latest LibreELEC 8.2.2 Kodi 17.6 Krypton download is now live and available with immediate effect for all those individuals with an interest in the progression of this unique Linux distribution. [ Continue reading this over at RedmondPie.com ]
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What did he expect waving that mistletoe around like that? - The Lady in Black
#lego #citizenbrick #MerryHoliday #xxsjc #toy_photographers
#lego #citizenbrick #MerryHoliday #xxsjc #toy_photographers
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Life on a ledge
Spiti, Himachal, India
Follow a river and you are bound to find a house or a hamlet. In remote and arid Spiti of western Himalaya a side valley might seem like a gateway to a land where no one can live, yet time and time again you’ll be surprised to find a building high up on a ledge.
What appears to be a desolate mountain with steep and impassable slopes could be home to an individual, a family or several families. These white buildings serve as a point of reference and truly make you understand the scale of things and the challenges life here is.
In winter the white houses are not as easy to see against the white snow, and the trails and roads are barely discernable. Only a local will find the way in a white-out land.
Recent winters have been very hard to humans and wildlife alike as the amount of snow has been very much more than normal, and resulted in the deaths of many, many wild sheep and goats.
I can only imagine how hard it must be to walk up and down the trails to this hamlet in snow and ice. It looks so beautiful and pittoresque in an autumn-clad landscape, but with snow and avalanches coming down many of these mountain slopes, the winters are hard and cold, but the people of the Himalayas and Spiti are prepared as they have lived here for generations.
#landscapes #himalaya #spiti #india
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 07 October 2017 17:51
Altitude: 3558 meters
Spiti, Himachal, India
Follow a river and you are bound to find a house or a hamlet. In remote and arid Spiti of western Himalaya a side valley might seem like a gateway to a land where no one can live, yet time and time again you’ll be surprised to find a building high up on a ledge.
What appears to be a desolate mountain with steep and impassable slopes could be home to an individual, a family or several families. These white buildings serve as a point of reference and truly make you understand the scale of things and the challenges life here is.
In winter the white houses are not as easy to see against the white snow, and the trails and roads are barely discernable. Only a local will find the way in a white-out land.
Recent winters have been very hard to humans and wildlife alike as the amount of snow has been very much more than normal, and resulted in the deaths of many, many wild sheep and goats.
I can only imagine how hard it must be to walk up and down the trails to this hamlet in snow and ice. It looks so beautiful and pittoresque in an autumn-clad landscape, but with snow and avalanches coming down many of these mountain slopes, the winters are hard and cold, but the people of the Himalayas and Spiti are prepared as they have lived here for generations.
#landscapes #himalaya #spiti #india
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 07 October 2017 17:51
Altitude: 3558 meters
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How to disable Insecure Connection Icon in Address Bar of Firefox browser - Most commonly, when viewing a secure website, the site identity button in Firefox browser also known as padlock appears green. However, in some circumstances, it may display or show a gray padlock with a red strikethrough or a yellow warning [...] This post How to disable Insecure Connection Icon in Address Bar of Firefox browser is from TheWindowsClub.com.
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Muzei 2.4 is now available
Happy Holidays! Muzei 2.4 is now available with a new bottom nav, wallpaper colors support for Android 8.1+ devices, and a lot more improvements.
The biggest change of this version is the addition of a bottom navigation bar for accessing the most common features of Muzei [1], making it considerably easier for changing your art source or effects.
For users of Android 8.1, you'll also notice that Muzei now uses the WallpaperColors API [2], which means that various parts of the system UI will react to the color and darkness of your current wallpaper.
For Android 8.0+ users, Muzei now fully delegates notification settings to the system (via the notification channel), rather than having a separate switch in the app. You can still get quick access to the notification settings from the overflow menu in the Sources screen, if you don't feel like digging through the system settings. (Note: you may start getting notifications if you previously disabled notifications in Muzei and have not yet disabled them at the system level. You'll get one 'Migrate your notification settings' notification in this case - take that opportunity to disable the notifications at the system level if you don't want to see Muzei's new wallpaper notifications)
You'll also find quite a few improvements in general - for example, some devices had considerable issues with the widget which have now been fixed. In addition, images in the widget and notification are now properly rotated.
[1] - https://plus.google.com/+IanLake/posts/Tpua64zevBe
[2] - https://plus.google.com/+IanLake/posts/SZib395mcop
Happy Holidays! Muzei 2.4 is now available with a new bottom nav, wallpaper colors support for Android 8.1+ devices, and a lot more improvements.
The biggest change of this version is the addition of a bottom navigation bar for accessing the most common features of Muzei [1], making it considerably easier for changing your art source or effects.
For users of Android 8.1, you'll also notice that Muzei now uses the WallpaperColors API [2], which means that various parts of the system UI will react to the color and darkness of your current wallpaper.
For Android 8.0+ users, Muzei now fully delegates notification settings to the system (via the notification channel), rather than having a separate switch in the app. You can still get quick access to the notification settings from the overflow menu in the Sources screen, if you don't feel like digging through the system settings. (Note: you may start getting notifications if you previously disabled notifications in Muzei and have not yet disabled them at the system level. You'll get one 'Migrate your notification settings' notification in this case - take that opportunity to disable the notifications at the system level if you don't want to see Muzei's new wallpaper notifications)
You'll also find quite a few improvements in general - for example, some devices had considerable issues with the widget which have now been fixed. In addition, images in the widget and notification are now properly rotated.
[1] - https://plus.google.com/+IanLake/posts/Tpua64zevBe
[2] - https://plus.google.com/+IanLake/posts/SZib395mcop
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Do the Holidays Put Us in the Mood For Love?
In Northern hemisphere Western countries, more babies are born in September than in other months of the year. This means that more babies are conceived in December and that human reproduction displays a cyclical pattern. Until now, it was mainly thought that the peak in conceptions was due to a biological adaptation to winter's shorter days and low temperatures, since in Northern countries the winter solstice occurs in December. But lack of accurate worldwide data left this hypothesis untested.
The research is in Scientific Reports. (full open access)
In Northern hemisphere Western countries, more babies are born in September than in other months of the year. This means that more babies are conceived in December and that human reproduction displays a cyclical pattern. Until now, it was mainly thought that the peak in conceptions was due to a biological adaptation to winter's shorter days and low temperatures, since in Northern countries the winter solstice occurs in December. But lack of accurate worldwide data left this hypothesis untested.
The research is in Scientific Reports. (full open access)
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Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
Image-to-image translation is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a training set of aligned image pairs. However, for many tasks, paired training data will not be available. We present an approach for learning to translate an image from a source domain X to a target domain Y in the absence of paired examples. Our goal is to learn a mapping G: X → Y such that the distribution of images from G(X) is indistinguishable from the distribution Y using an adversarial loss. Because this mapping is highly under-constrained, we couple it with an inverse mapping F: Y → X and introduce a cycle consistency loss to push F(G(X)) ≈ X (and vice versa). Qualitative results are presented on several tasks where paired training data does not exist, including collection style transfer, object transfiguration, season transfer, photo enhancement, etc. Quantitative comparisons against several prior methods demonstrate the superiority of our approach.
Image-to-image translation is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a training set of aligned image pairs. However, for many tasks, paired training data will not be available. We present an approach for learning to translate an image from a source domain X to a target domain Y in the absence of paired examples. Our goal is to learn a mapping G: X → Y such that the distribution of images from G(X) is indistinguishable from the distribution Y using an adversarial loss. Because this mapping is highly under-constrained, we couple it with an inverse mapping F: Y → X and introduce a cycle consistency loss to push F(G(X)) ≈ X (and vice versa). Qualitative results are presented on several tasks where paired training data does not exist, including collection style transfer, object transfiguration, season transfer, photo enhancement, etc. Quantitative comparisons against several prior methods demonstrate the superiority of our approach.
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Our brains become more connected on psilocybin – psychedelics can help treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and PTSD.
The novel connections of flexible thought create a network of emergent perception, helping to transcend rigid habitual patterns.
The novel connections of flexible thought create a network of emergent perception, helping to transcend rigid habitual patterns.
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Feign Surprise When We Tell You Carrie Fisher Wrote The Last Jedi’s Funniest Lines http://vult.re/2D3GH0A
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soft rainbow
#shroomshotsaturday by +Patti Colston+Sabeena LoBello+Patricia Kristensen+ShroomshotSaturday
#btpmacropro +BTP Macro Pro
#shroomshotsaturday by +Patti Colston+Sabeena LoBello+Patricia Kristensen+ShroomshotSaturday
#btpmacropro +BTP Macro Pro
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A recent report from The Information details Google’s efforts to grow its chip development efforts, which in turn is costing Apple some considerable talent. The report explains that Google has hired several key chip engineers from Apple, including…
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Interesting. Apparently iPhones actually do slow down over time due to software updates that prioritize battery life over performance. IMO Apple needs to give their customers a choice for each update, better battery or better performance.
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Light-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of Memory
Bringing Silent Memories to Life: Despite the uncertainty that surrounds it, the silent-engram concept offers us the fascinating prospect of gaining access to hidden memories—a prospect that Roy, in particular, continues to explore. In October, he published a paper with Tonegawa that generated a flurry of excited emails from scientists and nonscientists alike. One of the paper’s blockbuster findings was that, at least in mice, it was possible to awaken silent engrams without using a laser light or optical fibers.
Bringing Silent Memories to Life: Despite the uncertainty that surrounds it, the silent-engram concept offers us the fascinating prospect of gaining access to hidden memories—a prospect that Roy, in particular, continues to explore. In October, he published a paper with Tonegawa that generated a flurry of excited emails from scientists and nonscientists alike. One of the paper’s blockbuster findings was that, at least in mice, it was possible to awaken silent engrams without using a laser light or optical fibers.
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Trump partner with mob ties interviewed out of range of Democrats | MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-partner-with-mob-ties-interviewed-out-of-range-of-democrats-1122891843739 -via Flynx
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"...[F]or sheer bizarreness, it’s hard to think of anything that matched the scene on Wednesday afternoon on the South Lawn of the White House, where Republican leaders, celebrating the passage of their terrible tax bill, lavished praise on Donald Trump in the manner of Communist functionaries addressing Mao or Stalin."
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Weekly fish consumption linked to better sleep, higher IQ, study finds
Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, than those who consume fish less frequently or not at all, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania published this week in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal. Previous studies showed a relationship between omega-3s, the fatty acids in many types of fish, and improved intelligence, as well as omega-3s and better sleep. But they've never all been connected before. This work, conducted by Jianghong Liu, Jennifer Pinto-Martin and Alexandra Hanlon of the School of Nursing and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Adrian Raine, reveals sleep as a possible mediating pathway, the potential missing link between fish and intelligence. "This area of research is not well-developed. It's emerging," said Liu, lead author on the paper and an associate professor of nursing and public health. "Here we look at omega-3s coming from our food instead of from supplements." For the work, a cohort of 541 9- to 11-year-olds in China, 54 percent boys and 46 percent girls, completed a questionnaire about how often they consumed fish in the past month, with options ranging from "never" to "at least once per week." They also took the Chinese version of an IQ test called the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, which examines verbal and non-verbal skills such as vocabulary and coding.
Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, than those who consume fish less frequently or not at all, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania published this week in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal. Previous studies showed a relationship between omega-3s, the fatty acids in many types of fish, and improved intelligence, as well as omega-3s and better sleep. But they've never all been connected before. This work, conducted by Jianghong Liu, Jennifer Pinto-Martin and Alexandra Hanlon of the School of Nursing and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Adrian Raine, reveals sleep as a possible mediating pathway, the potential missing link between fish and intelligence. "This area of research is not well-developed. It's emerging," said Liu, lead author on the paper and an associate professor of nursing and public health. "Here we look at omega-3s coming from our food instead of from supplements." For the work, a cohort of 541 9- to 11-year-olds in China, 54 percent boys and 46 percent girls, completed a questionnaire about how often they consumed fish in the past month, with options ranging from "never" to "at least once per week." They also took the Chinese version of an IQ test called the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, which examines verbal and non-verbal skills such as vocabulary and coding.
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The Washington-Trump cover up about Puerto Rico.
SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL
Puerto Ricans should unite and campaign against every GOP for the shameful propaganda for the Trump machine.
SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL SHAMEFUL
Puerto Ricans should unite and campaign against every GOP for the shameful propaganda for the Trump machine.
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Coco from Pixar helped too. A big achievement and a new record for all Hollywood Studios - http://ow.ly/86FB30hpdtg
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Chrome for Android is adding Language Settings for better Multilingual Support - The most popular web browser in the world is by far Google’s Chrome browser, though Mozilla’s latest Firefox Quantum browser aims to dethrone it. Google doesn’t intend to sit idly by as its competitors improve their browsers. Indeed, the company is continuously working to improve its Chrome browser as we’ve seen with multiple new feature additions to Chrome for Android. We’ve discovered another new feature that...
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