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The humble starfish is getting into the act, helping me understand my evolution and the evolution so many of us are experiencing.
While walking one of my dogs a few weeks ago, I saw a stunning cloud formation. It reminded me of a spiral starfish with three visible arms reaching toward me. Though gorgeous clouds are nothing new in the wide-open skies where I live, this one felt special. So special I took pictures of it, not knowing why I needed to. I've learned to trust and follow the nudges of the moment.
I thought about this cloud, about starfish, a few times. Then I went on vacation and got swept up in all the wonderful moments spent with my family. A week after I got home, the starfish grabbed my attention again.
This time in my tea.
I poured my first cup of the day, then drizzled in some coconut milk. Unlike every other time I've done this over the years, a starfish appeared. My immediate understanding was, oh, it's the starfish nebula. Then my brain kicked in and was sure I was making things up. But I was curious. Imagine my surprise when I discovered there IS a starfish nebula. That's when the greater message of the starfish began to pour in.
The starfish nebula is a preplanetary nebula. Meaning that it's in a short stage in the evolution of a star, after a star's death and before its matter, gases, etc., form into a nebula with planets, suns and other celestial bodies. In a sense, it's the death throes and the new beginning all in one.
So many of us have died to who we were and have opened to what we're becoming. Now we're getting glimpses of the new that is forming. We are at this miraculous stage where stars becoming nebulas.
This has particular significance for me. Those of us in the metaphysical community often talk about where we're "from." Some will name their lineage as Arcturian, Sirian, Pleiadian, etc. I, on the other hand, have understood and seen my home as an immense star. Beyond that, I've known that I was both the star and a singular spark of consciousness within the star that is related to this particular life expression. Now, with the message of the starfish and the starfish nebula, I understand that my identify as a star is over. It's time to embrace the nebula I'm becoming.
In our own perfect ways, this is what's happening to so many of us who have chosen this experience in this lifetime. It's a great time to ask questions. To feel for answers. How is evolution opening up for you? How are you opening to it?
As you ponder this, remember that a nebula is big. Really, really big. The time to stay small is over. On my desk I keep a sticky note that says "Play a Bigger Game," a quote from my mentor Samantha Bennett. Thanks to the starfish, I now have an even more profound sense of what that means. It's time to go bigger than we ever imagined we could.
What might that mean for you? Imagine yourself as a nebula-in-the-making. What do you look like? How does it feel? Expansive? Open? Deliciously exciting? Whatever your experience, I imagine it feels incredible. And following that feeling is key to moving ever more fully in that expansive direction.
If that isn't enough, starfish have more to teach us.
Starfish are masters of regeneration. If they lose a limb, they can regrow another. In some cases, that lost limb can also regenerate an entire body. Some starfish reproduce by dividing in half. In our own lives, we can look at all the metaphorical limbs we've lost and all that's re-grown in their place. We've had lots of practice; we've shed a lot in the past several months and years. Now we get to step more fully onto the playground of creating and move into our mastery.
Exciting stuff! If it feels daunting, remember that starfish legs are exceptionally strong. Your inner starfish is exceptionally strong. And so are you.
I have one final message from the starfish.
Starfish don't have brains as we know them. They have clusters of nerve cells, so theirs is a sensory journey through this world. They don't think and plan. They don't hold grudges. They don't cling to the past. They don't fret about the future. They simply experience and respond with a sense of knowing that's uniquely their own.
We can all live more from our own unique sense of knowing. We can embrace the experience of our lives, whatever it is. We can respond and act in the way that reflects our higher knowing, one more perceptive than the physical mind, one guided by our higher awareness. Our capacity to do this grows as our nebula grows, as the matter within it, within us, coalesces into the new.
I never realized I had an inner starfish until now, though the critters have intrigued me for a while. Interestingly, many years ago I published a flash story called Beneath the Starfish Sky that is still one of my favorites. That story felt like an opening for me at the time, and now it feels like I've come full circle. Isn't it fun when life and starfish surprise us in such unexpected ways!
I'll close with gratitude to the starfish and gratitude to all of you, blooming nebulas that you are.


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The Nazi Death Star - the Incredible Story of a German Ww2 Super Weapon
Robert P
Robert writes about interesting and lesser known historical events and unusual places and people.
The Nazi Sun Gun - An Orbital Weapons Platform
Nazi Wonder Weapons
As Nazi Germany faced defeat in the face of overwhelming Allied troop strength and production capacity, its leadership sought to stave off defeat by developing so called Wonder Weapons (Wunderwaffe) that it hoped would turn the tide of war.
Nazi scientists and military engineers came perilously close to achieving their goals. They developed the first operational jet fighters and bombers, which outclassed all Allied aircraft, as well as the first ballistic missiles (the V-2) and cruise missiles (the V-1). Fortunately all of these breakthroughs came at the end of the war, when German war production had already been crippled, and there were shortages of parts and fuel, which meant that these super weapons were too little too late.
Secret Projects
Many of the Nazi super weapon projects were extremely audacious, even visionary and represented science twisted for dark purposes. As Winston Churchill once commented in a wartime speech:
...if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties,...
Churchill was certainly correct about the consequences of a Nazi victory, but he likely did not realize at the time just how sinister and deadly Nazi scientific research actually was.
Futuristic World War 2 Super Weapons
When the war ended, many Nazi scientists as well as their scientific research and prototypes were captured. It was only then that the Allies learned the true extent of the Nazis' mad ambitions and the weapons that they were attempting to build before the Reich was brought down.
It soon became apparent that the jet planes and rockets were only a small portion of the Nazis arsenal of potential super weapons.
The Nazis also been working on even more exotic weapons. There were plans for saucer shaped aircraft capable of vertical lift off and landing, giant tanks that would be the equivalent of a land battleship, an Amerika Bomber capable of crossing the Atlantic to strike back at the United States, and even an atomic bomb of their own. Most of these designs never made it past the prototype stage; in the case of the atomic bomb, there is some suggestion that the Nazis managed to detonate a small tactical nuclear device, just weeks before the fall of Berlin, but it was never used operationally.
One of the more bizarre and ambitious super weapons being designed was the Sun Gun (also called the Heliobeam), which would have given the Nazis mastery over the entire world, by giving them the power to burn cities and lay waste to entire countries.
Mirrors on an orbiting space station concentrate the sun into a death ray.
The concept of the Sun Gun was devilishly simple in its conception: it would concentrate the power of the sun into a narrow beam of brilliant light and heat, and bring death down from orbit. Its basic operating principle is well known to anyone who has ever used a magnifying glass to light a fire.
If you hold a magnifying glass at the correct angle so as to catch the rays of the sun, the lens will concentrate the sunlight into a narrow and very hot beam. The Nazi innovation involved designing an orbital platform which would collect the Sun's rays and focus them on a target below. The orbiting space station would be re-positioned in Earth orbit to allow it to incinerate any target on the ground. London, Moscow, New York, would all have been incinerated at will.
There would be no defense against this weapon. The orbiting killer, a Nazi death star, would be far above the reach of any Allied artillery, and by tapping into the energy of the sun, its ammunition would be inexhaustible.
Artist's impression of Archimedes' mirror used to burn Roman ships. From a painting by Giulio Parigi, c. 1599
Historical Precedents
The idea of using the Sun as a weapon is an old one. Archimedes is reputed to have mirrors to set fire to Roman ships attacking his city of Syracuse. In 1596, the Scottish mathematician, John Napier, proposed using mirrors to fire heat beams as weapons, in a form of ground-based Sun Gun (Sonnengewehr) . In 1929, a German physicist named Hermann Oberth developed plans for a space station which would use a concave mirror to reflect sunlight onto a concentrated point on Earth, burning the point of contact.
Oberth's idea was mere speculation. In 1923, no one had developed rockets capable of reaching orbit. But the Nazis made remarkable progress in rocket designs; their relatively primitive V-2 rockets were capable of reaching the edge of space; and there were plans to built multi-stage rockets which would have even longer ranges, and be able to reach earth orbit.
With space beckoning as a new frontier of war, Nazi scientists resurrected Oberth's old idea and began seriously designing an orbital weapon platform using the Sun.
During World War 2, German scientists began developing plans for a space station. They theorized that the station would have to be over 8,000 kilometers above the surface of the Earth and deploy a gigantic reflector over 9 square kilometers in diameter. The reflector would be made of metallic sodium. Small rocket motors mounted on the mirror would allow the crew of the Nazi space station to aim its deadly beam.
Could It Have Worked?
The Germans were far ahead of the rest of the world when it came to rocket technology; so much so that after War the United States and the USSR both recruited Nazi scientists to help them jump start their space programs. However, despite their relative superiority in this area, even the Germans lacked the capability to build a space station of this magnitude in Earth orbit. The later Russian Soyuz and American Skylab stations were tiny in comparison to the monstrosity envisioned by Hitler's scientists. The Nazis would not have been able to build this weapon any time soon; in fact planning it may have diverted resources from more realistic goals.
But what if they had built the Sun Gun? Could it have vaporized cities on the ground?
An article in the July 23, 1945 issue of LIFE Magazine speculated at page 31, that such a mirror would have lacked the focal length required to concentrate sufficient light from the Sun to heat the surface to the point of burning targets below.
Let us hope that no one ever builds a Sun Gun and proves the skeptics wrong.
© 2019 Robert P
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Thanks @Marjs Radic. It is amazing just how advanced the Nazi weapons program was. Some of these prototypes are still more advanced than what we have today.
Marja Radic
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Wow! Didn't know this. It's terrible. Well, and interesting at the same time...

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Підродина  дереволазні (Dendrocolaptinae) раніше вважалась родиною дереволазових (Dendrocolaptidae), але завдяки сучасним хромосомним дослідженням її систематичний статус запропоновано понизити до підродини в рамках родини горнерових (Furnariidae), , в той час як саму родину  горнерових пропонується  розділити на дві: Scleruridae та Furnariidae, в числі інших пропозицій щодо горобцеподібних Нового Світу

Систематика
Підродина Dendrocolaptinae

Триба Sittasomini
 Рід Certhiasomus
 Рід Deconychura
 Рід Sittasomus
 Рід Грімпар (Dendrocincla)

Триба Dendrocolaptini
 Рід Glyphorynchus
 Рід Nasica
 Рід Dendrexetastes
 Рід Дереволаз (Dendrocolaptes)
 Рід Дереволаз-червонодзьоб (Hylexetastes)
 Рід Дереволаз-міцнодзьоб (Xiphocolaptes)
 Рід Dendroplex (раніше в складі роду Xiphorhynchus)
 Рід Кокоа (Xiphorhynchus)
 Рід Дереволаз-серподзьоб (Campylorhamphus)
 Рід Drymotoxeres
 Рід Drymornis
 Рід Перлистий дереволаз (Lepidocolaptes)

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Hello Friends! Today I am sharing a stunning maternity session from the talented photographer, Marlena's Photography. Based out of Orange County, California, Marlena specializes in natural light photography as you will see throughout her portfolio. Today's maternity session is a wonderful representation of how she uses natural settings combined with natural light to reflect her client's genuine glow as she and her husband await their soon-to-be new arrival. Surrounded by beautiful flowers and white picket fences, you can feel the love this beautiful couple have for one another and their new adventure of parenthood that awaits them. Toward the end of the session photographer Marlena wanted to make sure she captured Brenda's beautiful baby bump at sunset, so as the sun went down the gorgeous peek-a-boo rays set the perfect stage for Baby Boy Devyn to shine in his mommy's tummy!


EBI is one of 3 worldwide public repositories for genomics data. From life science experiments to basic research in computational biology, it supports researchers in academia and industry. As part of the Functional Genomics Development team, I am the frontend engineer and lead UX designer for the BioStudies submission tool. Written in Angular, it is effectively a single-page app that relies heavily on dynamic forms to accommodate generic studies that are not catered for by any other EBI service.
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ITER is a local publicly-owned private institution with a remit to promote the use and research of renewable energies and emerging technologies. As the leader of a three-member team, I participated in the ADAPRO project, a Java-based word processor aimed at users with learning difficulties. Apart from its implementation, I contributed to the project's website and both produced and delivered the project launch presentation, top 1% in 2013.
Driven by its world-class research activity, Edinburgh is at the forefront of e-Science (also known as cyberinfrastructure in the US). The course covered the standards in data representation, exchange and processing that loosely-coupled systems can be based on. The emphasis was on XML, SOAP services and Java. Other topics included the Semantic Web, the Virtual Observatory and parallel programming in MPI and OMP.
Sep 2008 - Feb 2009 PgCert in Computer Network Admin.
Portsmouth ranks among the top post-1992 universities in the UK, with links to leading companies like Astrium or IBM. Core topics on the course included network security, the client-server architecture and Linux server management. It broadened my knowledge of IT security and introduced me to server-side scripting using PHP against a MySQL database.
ULL is a three-century-old higher education establishment with close ties to the world-renowned European Northern Observatory. Subjects covered during the course varied from database design and networking to pattern recognition and robotics. Programming skills learned ranged from UNIX shell scripting and SQL to C and basics of Java.


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Boycott Muddies Housing Authority's Land-Lease Pitch at Smith Houses
By KAVITHA SURANA
Kavitha Surana
Chanting "Public housing under attack! What do we do? Fight back!", members of the Alfred E. Smith Houses' tenants association urged residents to boycott a meeting in which the New York City Housing Authority pitched its plan to lease land to private developers.
Representatives of the housing authority appeared at P.S. 126 last night to promote its contentious new scheme to raise much-needed capital for building maintenance by leasing out parking lots and playgrounds at eight of its developments, including Smith Houses.
Earlier in the day, housing authority employees had knocked on doors to encourage residents to attend, but members of the tenants association said they felt ambushed by the plan and bewildered by a lack of communication with the housing authority. The tenants group wanted to postpone the meeting until next month, both so that it would have more time to organize and to accommodate members who could not attend on March 20 or might be away for Passover or Easter holidays in the coming weeks. According to Aixa Torres, the group's president, the housing authority eventually agreed to an April 11 meeting, but it also refused to cancel the March 20 meeting.
"This has become a power play between N.Y.C.H.A. and me. They have said that I am being unreasonable. I don't think I am," said Ms. Torres, who organized the boycott last night after the agency refused to change the date. "I think my residents deserve a 10-day notice. Instead they got three days."
Monique Harris, secretary of the tenants association, also hoped for extra time to think of new plans. "This can't be the only solution," she said. "I feel like this was the first thing brought to the table. Well, what if there is something else? You have to give us more time to process this, to absorb what you're telling us, because at the end of the day it not just about our homes; it's about the quality of our life."
Ms. Torres complained that she thought the housing authority was not acting in partnership with the tenants association, particularly to ensure that the buildings are not vulnerable to collapse. "At our meeting with them yesterday we asked to review the Request for Proposal and they told us 'no.' We are supposed to be a part of the process and we've been totally excluded," she said.
At last night's meeting, the housing authority's tone was conciliatory. "All we are doing is issuing a request for a proposal — and let's be clear, this is a multi-phase process," said Lynn Godfrey, the agency's chief communications officer. "This is just the beginning of many meetings and we are very invested and committed to make sure the residents understand what is going on and to get questions, comments, concerns, and feedback."
Over 100 people gathered inside to listen to Cecil House and Fred Harris, respectively the agency's general manager and Executive Vice President for Development, outline the proposal's benefits and try to dispel rumors (translations in Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Sign Language were available, and the presentation is online).
"The parcels have been selected so that no existing N.Y.C.H.A. building is demolished," explained Mr. Harris. "It won't displace a single family; it won't cause a single unit of public housing to not exist. And it will not privatize public housing."
Under the plan, two sites totaling 74,000 square feet — currently holding 116 parking spaces, a garbage compactor yard, and a paved baseball field and basketball court — would be redeveloped to accommodate over a million square feet of residential floor space.
The housing authority reiterated its commitment to finding or creating equal parking and playground spaces for those displaced by the development, but did not offer clear details. "We don't want to tell you where we'll put the new playgrounds and parking," said Mr. Harris. "We want to come back and work with you." This was met with grumbling from the audience. "Ok, they ain't going to have nowhere to park," muttered one resident who would only identify herself as Annette.
Residents, some of whom pay between $1,200 to $1,500 in rent, described poor conditions and slow repairs in the Smith Houses, such as crumbling walls, elevator outages, dripping ceilings and rat infestations. The housing authority says it expects to be able to fix the backlog of repairs with the sustained capital generated by the leases.
But some, like Ms. Harris, say they would rather put up with the conditions for now and be left in peace, rather than make a hasty step in the wrong direction. "You cannot expect people to accept something that we're not going to benefit from," she said. "We're already ostracized because we live in project housing. Now when you put people in here who are going to have a greater value, basically, than us, all you're telling us is that we're no longer valuable. Our worry is that we're going to be forgotten because we feel like we've already been forgotten. We should have the right to say we don't want it and be left alone."
In the meantime, the tenants association will meet tonight at 15 St. James Place to discuss its plans for the April 11 meeting.
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This starts directly after the last sentence from last week, referring to the physician, Nik Tarlian. It then omits about a page that would be hard to follow as an excerpt and continues the scene from Tourist Trap. As a reminder, Zhaim is treating his injuries after beating Roi. He is also in rather a hurry to make a planned Council meeting.
The man was a competent physician, but he was also a sentimental fool. He was very likely to spread the word that one of Zhaim's slaves had managed to defy him, or even pick up the fact that Roi had been involved, and later on, when the bodies were discovered, that might draw attention Zhaim could not afford.
He reached for the synthetic skin spray and applied it to both hands, then pulled on a pair of thin black leather gloves. He would wear his black leather tunic and breeches today, he thought. The crested shoulder would hide his own swollen joint, and the sleeve cut, intended to emphasize that the wearer need never exert himself physically, would explain any stiffness in his use of the arm. Fashion demanded that he wear gloves with the outfit.
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Quite a few comments last Sunday expressed confusion over Zhaim. I thought I'd explain something and give a snippet from Tourist Trap, my now-published book and winner of the Garcia Award for best fiction book of the year.
The R'il'nai and some of the R'il'noids in my fiction are able to strip memories from their minds into computer storage. All but Roi have done this in fairness to the "new" Zhaim, so Roi alone has the memory of Zhaim before Marna imposed an artificial conscience on him. He also seems to be the only one who has retained the memory that Marna said the treatment should be repeated every quarter century. The snippet below was well over 200 years before Rescue Operation in story time, when Roi was only 18.
The woods lightened ahead of them, and the mist lifted as they entered a clearing. Roi glanced around quickly, looking for something they could use as shelter. Nothing but grass and sodden wildflowers. He checked the compass and headed straight across, hoping the Mastodon River wasn't too far away.
He heard a thunderclap behind him when he was halfway across the clearing and spun to face it, fearful he knew what it was. Zhaim stood before him, a triumphant leer on his handsome face and a beamer swinging toward the party.
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I interpreted the start as the paragraph in which the 7th line fell, and then copied that and the following 6 paragraphs. The WIP in question is science fiction, with a working title of Rescue Operation.
Well, the horses hadn't been that dirty to start with. Each had free access to a generous grassy paddock, and a daily session with the autogroomer. Their stalls and paddocks were likewise kept clean by robot extensions of the Big'Un. The dirt Rabbit had managed to accumulate, however, was mostly now on Crys, who was continuing to brush as high as she could reach on the mare's hindquarters.
The sheer bliss on Crys's dirt-smudged face told him that he was finally getting to understand her. I think, he thought at Emeraude, that you've just lost your horse.
"You really don't mind?" Roi asked that evening, watching Emeraude brush her hair before bed.
"They figure I'm too busy trying to run the Confederation. Young R'il'noids take a lot of attention." Roi lay back on Emeraude's bed, letting his eyes roam over the rather spare room. Like his other two wives, Audi had her own building, opening off the series of jump-gated rooms loosely called the corridor system. As a general rule she preferred Roi's oversized bedroom to her own, and she'd put most of her energies here into facilities for her sociological research. The bedroom was adequate for sleeping and had a bed large enough for two, but that was about all.


A folding brochure detailing the Rock Island's route from Kansas City, through Iowa, and on to Chicago. A full width colored map of the area is on one side with a timetable on the reverse. Also included are two drawings; one of the iron bridge over the Missouri River at Leavenworth and one of the magnificent depot in Chicago.


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Advancement Towards "Controlling" Cancer
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Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an emerging concept in cancer treatment – to dramatically slow and control tumors on a long-term, sustained basis, not necessarily aiming for their complete elimination.
The approach, called a "metronomic dosage regimen," uses significantly lower doses of chemotherapeutic drugs but at more frequent time intervals. This would have multiple goals of killing cancer cells, creating a hostile biological environment for their growth, reducing toxicity from the drug regimen and avoiding the development of resistance to the cancer drugs being used.
A system just published in Chemistry of Materials by a group of researchers from Oregon and the United Kingdom offers an even more effective way to deliver such drugs and may be able to greatly improve this approach, scientists say. Further testing is needed in both animals and humans for safety and efficacy.
"This new system takes some existing cancer therapy drugs for ovarian cancer, delivers both of them at the same time and allows them to work synergistically," said Adam Alani, an associate professor in the Oregon State University/Oregon Health & Science University College of Pharmacy, and lead author on the new study.
"Imagine if we could manage cancer on a long-term basis as a chronic condition, like we now do high blood pressure or diabetes. This could be a huge leap forward."
This approach is still in trial stages, Alani said, but shows promise. In some prior work with related systems in animal tests, OSU and collaborating researchers have been able to completely eradicate tumors.
Total remission, Alani said, may be possible with metronomic dosage, but the initial goal is not only to kill cancer cells but to create an environment in which it's very difficult for them to grow, largely by cutting off the large blood supply these types of cells often need.
Most conventional cancer chemotherapy is based on the use of "maximum tolerable doses" of a drug, in an attempt to completely eliminate cancer or tumors. In some cases such as ovarian cancer, however, drug-free intervals are needed to allow patient recovery from side effects, during which tumors can sometimes begin to grow again or develop resistance to the drugs being used.
The types of cancers this approach may best lend itself to are those that are quite complex and difficult to treat with conventional regimens based on "maximum tolerable dose." This includes ovarian, sarcoma, breast, prostate, and lung cancers.
One example of the new metronomic regimen, in this instance, is use of two drugs already common in ovarian cancer treatment – paclitaxel and rapamycin – but at levels a tenth to a third of the maximum tolerable dose. One drug attacks cancer cells; the other inhibits cancer cell formation and the growth of blood vessels at tumor sites.
The new system developed in this research takes the process a step further. It attaches these drugs to polymer nanoparticles that migrate specifically into cancer cells and are designed to release the drugs at a particular level of acidity that is common to those cells. The low doses, careful targeting of the drugs and their ability to work in synergy at the same time appeared to greatly increase their effectiveness, while almost completely eliminating toxicity.
"Our goal is to significantly reduce tumors, slow or stop their regrowth, and allow a person's body and immune system time to recover its health and natural abilities to fight cancer," Alani said. "I'm very optimistic this is possible, and that it could provide an entirely new approach to cancer treatment."
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The Haunting of Mile Marker 73
By A.V. Greene
Make no mistake, this house is haunted.
Haunted, yes, but with caveats. There is no sinister wrought iron gate curling beneath a thick curtain of thorny vines, no grand staircase, no servants' quarters, no lurid plantation history. And while there are plenty of crows and vultures circling overhead, they're really only here for the plentiful I-30 road kill.
That is to say, no bright-eyed family of four escaping a minor personal tragedy would ever think to purchase this home in a misguided attempt to heal their wounds. Furthermore, the nearest town is thirty miles to the south, and its waning population is not a young one. There are a handful of deeply troubled teenagers there, and they do conduct regular and reliably cliché rural rites of passage involving abandoned property, but not here. This house's appearance portends tetanus and ticks, not thrills.
However, it is cheap—a 40-acre lot going for $36K, listed on Zillow 282 days ago. The house itself doesn't warrant a mention in the listing (sold firmly as-is), excepting a sheepish note referencing a few decaying structures on the property.
But couldn't the house have been beautiful once? The ghosts like to think so, but their case isn't as strong as they would like. They are just as susceptible as the living to the fallacy of an idyllic, fictitious past. But perhaps there really had been achingly perfect days when the sun had sparkled on the creek, when a drinking problem had seemed less severe or an investment decision less ruinous, when the night was cold but the fire was warm. There was laughter in this house, it needs to be said, and good food, music, and love.
Of course, ghosts are not born from happy memories. There was violence here, yes. But no one else had cared then, and certainly no one cares now.
The ghosts peer mournfully out of the empty windows and the collapsed roof. They watch the interstate flash by like a sleek black porpoise leaping in and out of the dense scrub forest. Its bursts of color, metal, and motion upset the ghosts, like house cats bothered by the neighbor's new dog.
They do their best to haunt, despite their less than optimal circumstances. And sometimes they catch a snatch of a living soul as it speeds past at 80 mph. Perhaps a bored child staring listlessly into the zoetrope of flickering pine trunks might catch a glimpse of a rotting porch or a flash of jagged gray wood. If the ghosts act quickly, the child might see something more: a thin young woman with bloody knees, a lilac dress, and hungry silver eyes, perhaps, or the vicious pink foam leaking from the jaws of a dog with wet, matted fur and a stiff-legged gait. Maybe a glimpse of a bundle of twigs twisted into an unsettling pyramidal cage, or the shadow of a tall man with an axe in his hand.
The child will remove her earbuds and squint, but whatever vision twinkled in the woods will be long gone before she can process it properly. It was nothing, the child will think. Later, at night, she may have a fleeting impression of a toy horse falling off a high shelf, a rough pine door swinging open to reveal a cavernous dark, a gasp of terror and ecstasy cut short, or a charred and bloodstained handkerchief embroidered with delicate tickseed blossoms, but she will easily shake off the vague, unsettling visions.
Ghosts need more time and attention to make a lasting impression. A proper haunting requires resources and social capital. These ghosts have never had either.
But they are patient. Some day someone will stray too close, stay too long, and then they'll finally have their say.
When the sun sets at night and the flash of headlights drowns out all of the shadows and mysteries of the woods, the ghosts huddle together in the house's cratered-out center. They rustle and murmur against each other, whispering in voices that sound like spider webs brushing against skin: but we're still here. We are still here, and we do matter.
A.V. Greene is a writer and librarian living in the Ozarks with her family and a collection of carnivorous flora and fauna. For more, visit http://avgreene.com or follow her on Twitter at @avgreenewrites
Art by Lesley C. Weston (Digital)


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With a win like that it's no surprise that Gillian C plans to return to the site and keep playing. This offer runs until November and there will be another 2 winners to be announced. As part of the offer there is also a 200% cash match bonus that would give players' £30 to spend on a £10 deposit!
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Attractive 3 bedroom townhouse consisting of ground and first floor with patio with approx. 6 m2 and terrace with approx. 4m2, situated in a quiet side street of Cabanas with immediate walking distance to the centre with its beautiful lagoon + boats to beach, large variety of pubs, restaurants, shops + sport facilities.
This house was built in 2007 with a total area of 96m2 and is prepared for air conditioning.
1,5 Kms from benamor golf course and 4 Kms from historic Tavira.
House: ground-floor: living room with door to patio and BBq; bedroom with wardrobe; shower room; fully equipped kitchen with hob, cooker, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge /freezer - access to patio.
1St floor: landing with door to terrace; bedroom - french window to veranda; 3rd bedroom with wardrobe; bathroom.


Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 Review: Is It Good for Business?
With fast performance, good battery life and a sturdy, flexible design, Dellꞌs Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 is a versatile work machine. And starting at just $749, it offers better bang for your buck than rival hybrid laptops. Workers who do a lot of typing might want to invest in a business-class notebook with a more comfortable keyboard, though.
The Inspiron 15 7000 is pretty hefty, even for a 15-inch laptop. Tipping the scales at 4.8 lbs., the system is heavier than such rivals as the 4.2-lb. HP Spectre x360 15t and the 3.5 lb. Lenovo Yoga 700. In other words, itꞌs not the best option for workers who need to lug their laptop back and forth between home and the office.
Being a consumer laptop, the Inspiron 15 7000 lacks the tough durability youꞌll find in pricier business-class systems, like those in Dellꞌs Latitude line. Still, the system features sturdy aluminum construction, without any noticeable flex in the lid or keyboard deck. Iꞌm also a fan of the minimalist silver design, which features a classy brushed metal finish on the lid.
As its name indicates, the Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 can be used as either a laptop or tablet, thanks to its flexible folding design. The display folds back a full 360 degrees, giving you easy access to the large touch screen. Itꞌs handy for using touch-screen apps, particularly in cramped quarters – on an airplane tray table, for instance. Itꞌs also useful when you want to show off a presentation or slideshow to a small group.
Itꞌs a shame that Dellꞌs Active Pen stylus doesnꞌt work with the Inspiron 15 7000. That feature would have made the hybrid design feel a lot more useful by letting you take handwritten notes right on the laptopꞌs display.
You get a pretty good selection of ports here. The right edge includes a USB 2.0 port, an SD card reader for expanding the system's internal storage, and a lock slot for physically securing the laptop at your desk.
The left edge, meanwhile, adds a USB 3.0 port, a USB Type-C port and an HDMI video out port. Workers who need an Ethernet port for connecting to wired internet or secure work networks will need to pick up a USB adapter.
The Inspiron 15 7000ꞌs display is big and sharp enough for serious multitasking. The 15.6-inch panel has a resolution of 1920 x 1080, which is decent for a screen this size. Text looked crisp, and split-screen multitasking was comfortable.
The systemꞌs color reproduction is underwhelming, and images tend to look a bit washed out. The display is also a bit dimmer than average, though itꞌs more than bright enough for typical indoor use.
The Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 has a glossy display, which tends to pick up distracting reflections from windows and overhead lights. I prefer a matte finish on a work notebook, but the glossy displays are nearly universal on midrange laptops like the Inspiron 15 7000.
The Inspiron 15 7000 isnꞌt cut out for marathon typing sessions, with a keyboard thatꞌs too cramped and shallow for comfort. You get just 1.3 millimeters of key travel, which is below the 1.5 mm we consider the acceptable minimum for a work laptop. Deeper keys are better because they keep you from feeling like youꞌre "bottoming out" when you strike each key.
I was also disappointed by the lack of full-size arrow keys on a 15-inch laptop like this, which would have made navigating documents and web pages easier. The Inspiron 15 7000 also lacks a 10-key number pad, but thatꞌs typical for consumer laptops.
Workers will appreciate that the keys have backlighting that can be toggled on and off. That makes low-light typing easier.
The Inspiron 15 7000 probably wonꞌt last through the end of the workday, but few 15-inchers will. The system still ran for 6 hours and 55 minutes on our battery test, which simulates continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi. Thatꞌs more than an hour longer than the mainstream laptop average, and about on a par with the Lenovo Yoga 700. HPꞌs Spectre X360 15t is the battery life champ in this category though, running for an impressive 8 hours and 27 minutes.
Youꞌll get more than enough performance for daily work tasks out of the Inspiron 15 7000. The system is powered by an Intel Core i5-6200U CPU with 8GB of RAM, a configuration that sped along as I researched and typed up this review. Multitasking felt snappy, and I didnꞌt notice any lag while editing a large spreadsheet with HD video streaming in the background.
The system racked up a middling score of 6,499 on the Geekbench 3 test, which measures overall performance. Thatꞌs well below the mainstream average of 7,471, but it edges out similar laptops like the Spectre X360 (6,376) and the Yoga 700 (5,855).
Dell sells the Inspiron 15 7000 in two distinct hardware configurations. For this review, I took a look at the $749 baseline model, which comes equipped with a 2.3-GHz Intel Core i5-6200U processor with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage. Itꞌs a pretty good sweet spot for the average worker.
A pricier $999 model is also available with a beefier 3.5-GHz Intel Core i7-6500U processor, 12GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, but itꞌs overkill for most users.
Workers who want a big-screen convertible laptop will probably be content with the Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1. The system provides great bang for your buck, with relatively swift performance and solid battery life for an extremely affordable $749. Itꞌs versatile folding design is genuinely useful for displaying slideshows and using touch-screen apps – even if thereꞌs no pen support for digital note-taking.
Serious typists might want to look elsewhere, though. The Inspiron 15 7000ꞌs cramped, shallow keyboard just isnꞌt very comfortable to type on. HPꞌs Spectre x360 is a similar system with a nicer keyboard and longer battery life – but itꞌs also a lot pricier at $1,149. For budget-minded workers, the Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 is a good bet.
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A grit mix is what Lancashire County Council puts in the yellow bins you see on the side of roads.
The gritters used to treat the highways spread 100% rock salt. The salt/sand mix used in the grit bins is proven to be effective at deicing and preventing ice from forming on pavements – the sand provides extra traction especially on snow and continues to be effective after the salt has dissolved in solution.
When applied to a layer of snow, the material in grit bins will help to prevent ice from forming and provide traction. The more foot-traffic the pavement gets, the more effective the grit will be as the action of people walking is needed to activate the salt – however it is designed to prevent icing and provide traction – it is not designed to entirely remove a layer of snow.
Why not try our Winter Grit Mix which is a mix of white salt and sand. This is an ideal alternative to your ordinary Rock salt which is in short supply.
Here at Greengates Builders Merchants Accrington, Lancashire we sell Winter Grit Mix in 25Kg bags. This is ideal for the paths around your homes and public buildings and can help to prevent staining to floors.


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Would you spend $30,000 or more on a gaming chair?
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Blair Witch heads to Xbox One, Windows PC on August 30
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EA Access now back on PS4
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Cuphead animated series heads to Netflix
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How facial expressions relate to emotions
Think of the last time you smiled. Was it because of a joke a friend told, or were you posing for a photo? Maybe it was to appear polite, or as part of greeting someone new. Each of these scenarios results in essentially the same expression, but with varying emotions behind each. So, if the same facial expression can mean different things, what can the face tell us about how we feel? It's a complicated story.
To a machine, each of these expressions looks the same – a person's lips stretch into a smile, their cheeks rise – it looks like an expression of joy. A machine could see these expressions and conclude: the person must be feeling happy. Left alone, a machine might only tell us something useful about facial expressions a fraction of the time. However, there's a crucial element to this – there's always a human in the machine.
Facial expression analysis is a tool in the hands of human experimenters. And just like any tool, it can be used well and it can be used badly. Fortunately, in the context of behavioral research, human experimenters are always forced to make human decisions with this tool.
For example, consider setting up an experiment where you want to judge whether or not an audience likes a short film. You make a hypothesis, recruit participants, record their facial expressions, and analyze the data. The first and last steps necessitate human intervention – requiring the wisdom to create both meaningful assumptions and conclusions regarding the data. It's necessary for the researcher to set up appropriate contexts by which to judge emotions and to interrogate the data in light of this.
Below, we'll explain what emotions really are, how facial expression analysis can capture emotional expressions, and how to evaluate data with the context in mind.
Ultimately, machine intelligence is only as smart as the humans using it. Using context, human judgment, and the power of artificial intelligence can help us get closer than ever before to accurately judging human emotion at scale.
What are emotions?
While there are differing schools of thought with regards to how an emotion is produced, and the universality of experienced emotions, one of the most dominant lines of thinking today comes from the work of Lisa Feldman Barret. While we can't do justice to her work within the scope of a blog post, there are two relevant points that are worth discussing further here. These can be boiled down to: 1. emotions are contextual, and 2. there is no single place where emotions reside in the brain (we would recommend further reading of Feldman Barret's work through the following articles and her book: [1, 2, 3]).
First up: emotions are contextual. This encompasses not only the feeling of emotions, but also how they're exhibited. As an example, let's imagine you're taking a difficult test. There is a range of contexts that can surround this – perhaps you've been dreading the test, but you find that you know all the answers, maybe it's as bad as you feared, or perhaps you're a person that relishes a good challenge – or maybe you don't really feel much at all. You could experience different internal emotions that can range the whole gamut from negative to positive. And that's just what's going on inside.
On the outside, you could appear to be scowling with anger as you merely concentrate, wide-eyed as you try to take in the information, or maybe you're the kind of person that's prone to anxious laughter. The point is this – our internal emotions and our external expressions are both variably shaped by our past, our experiences in the present, and our expectations – our predictions – of the future. Context rules, both inside and out.
Secondly – the location of emotions in the brain, where are they? The answer often ends up pointing to a particular place: everywhere. Meta-analyses (that is, analysis of results from many scientific investigations) have shown that there is very little consistency in the areas of the brain that light up when people say they are experiencing a certain emotion.
For example, the amygdala has been repeatedly pointed to as the seat of the emotion fear [4]. However, research has also shown that activity in the amygdala increases when people experience anything regarded as emotionally "impactful", valuable, or even "subjectively arousing" [5]. Mapping an emotion to an area of the brain (or vice versa) leads to a variety of results. This has lead Feldman Barret to conclude similarly to what William James suggested over 100 years ago [6] – that the experience of emotions isn't generated by the brain in a one-to-one manner, but is deduced by the brain from the physiological experience of a situation.
Consider the following: you're in a doctor's waiting room, full of adrenaline (in the case of the study that this refers to, quite literally – participants were injected with epinephrine at the start of the study [7]). Another patient comes in, who appears agitated and angry. You're soon given a questionnaire that asks about your mood. As a result, you'd be more likely to also rate your mood as angry, compared to people who weren't given an adrenaline boost. The same holds true if you witness another "patient" (actually an actor in both cases) appearing joyful while under the influence of increased arousal. Emotions are readily attributable to our inner state.
What facial expression analysis tells us about emotions
So, to expand on our original question – if there is so much variability in how we create, experience, and express emotions, how can the face tell us anything about how we feel? Context is key.
Exploring emotional responses to stimuli simply requires that the experiment is well-planned and well-executed (as all experiments should be). As the production and creation of emotions is heavily context-dependent, it falls on the researcher to define and understand the context in which the experiment is taking place.
Consider once again an experiment in which you're testing a short film. You need to build your hypothesis in relation to what you are testing. If you want to see if the film makes people happy, you might test for an increased amount of smiles, relative to a control group who are watching neutral content. You also need to know that the content can reasonably elicit smiles and/or happiness – otherwise, you might be misattributing the expressed emotion. You can then quantify the difference in how people react, although the experiment isn't over yet.
The analysis stage brings its own challenges (it always does). You will need to examine the data for further potential misclassifications, and to test for significant differences on a group level. For the first part, it's helpful to explore any unexpected occurrences in the data. For example, does it appear that participants were showing a lot of frustration at a certain point in the film? Perhaps it is frustration, but it could also be a sign of something else, such as increased concentration. This is where human judgment can be essential – to discern how the basic units of facial expressions relate to the stimulus.
Going further with the data
You need to look closely at what the data is telling you. This extends to the second source of variability in emotion production – that emotions don't reside in a particular place in the brain, yet are perceived through physiological activity in response to the environment around us. By using multiple biosensors in addition to facial expression analysis, we can build a clearer picture of both the inner and outer mechanisms that produce emotions.
Understanding the state of physiological arousal provides another contextual cue by which to judge the data, and brings us closer to really understanding what's going on.
[1] Barrett L. F. (2006). Solving the emotion paradox: categorization and the experience of emotion. Personality and social psychology review, 10(1), 20–46. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_2
[2] Lisa Feldman Barrett, James Gross, Tamlin Conner Christensen & Michael Benvenuto (2001) Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation, Cognition and Emotion, 15:6, 713-724, DOI: 10.1080/02699930143000239
[3] Le Mau, T., Hoemann, K., Lyons, S.H. et al. Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs. Nat Commun 12, 5037 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25352-6
[4] Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. R. (1995). Fear and the human amygdala. The Journal of neuroscience, 15(9), 5879–5891. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.15-09-05879.1995
[5] Lindquist, K. A., Wager, T. D., Kober, H., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L. F. (2012). The brain basis of emotion: a meta-analytic review. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 35(3), 121–143. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11000446
[6] James W. Principles of Psychology. University of Chicago Press; 1890/1998.
[7] Schacter, S., & Singer, J. E. (1962). Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological review, 69, 379–399. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046234
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A young, rather gentle Bowmore. Whilst not massively complex or full-bodied, Legend is still a great value for money malt.
What does Bowmore Legend taste like?
The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in Bowmore Legend and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.
This is a young scotch. Not bad for under $40 USD. A subtle smokey and saltiness. If you are on a budget but like Islay scotches this one might be for you.
Дымчатый, йодистый, но в тоже время мягкий и ласковый. Можно брать.


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