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NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes to Launch with UNH Components on Board
Press Release From: University of New Hampshire
Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
At 4:07 a.m. EDT Friday, August 24, NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes are scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a two-year mission to investigate Earth's hazardous radiation belt environment as never before. On board both spacecraft will be a host of scientific hardware and software from teams at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC).
Harlan Spence, director of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, is lead scientist or "principal investigator" of the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) instrument suite on the twin spacecraft, and Roy Torbert, director of the SSC, is a co-investigator on the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) experiment.
Collectively, the mission's five instrument suites will make the most precise measurements to date of the high-energy particles and magnetic and electric fields and waves in this near-Earth region of space where "space weather" occurs and hundreds of spacecraft operate.
Space weather is caused largely by activity from the Sun, including enormous solar storms known as coronal mass ejections. The RBSP mission will enable better understanding and prediction of space weather conditions in the radiation belts, which can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health.
The Van Allen radiation belts, named after James Van Allen who discovered them in 1958 during the flight of the Explorer 1 satellite that initiated U.S. space exploration, are two donut-shaped regions of high-energy particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field. At the time of their discovery the radiation belts were thought to be relatively stable structures, but subsequent observations have shown they are highly dynamic-and the reasons for this behavior remain a mystery.
For example, sometimes after a solar storm the number of particles (protons and electrons) that populate the belts can increase dramatically and their speeds can approach the speed of light or become "relativistic" -- about 186,000 miles per second. (At such speeds even minuscule particles like electrons can inflict serious damage to any matter they hit.) However, at other times after similar space weather events, the particles decrease in number and speed, or conditions seem to stay the same.
Says Spence, "There can be a solar storm and the radiation belts will get pumped up, or nothing happens, or they'll nearly disappear entirely. That's puzzling, and right now we don't understand enough to say why it's the case."
To decipher the mystery, the unprecedented dual RBSP spacecraft will brave the storm and investigate the region for a minimum of two years. The satellites will chase each other in common, highly elliptical orbits to achieve simultaneous spatial and temporal measurements of the particles and the magnetic and electric fields and waves.
"We know we can't study the particles in the absence of the electromagnetic fields that are causing them to change," says Spence. "Until RBSP there has never been a comprehensive, coordinated investigation with two spacecraft simultaneously."
The ECT suite is comprised of three main instruments including one, the Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer, which has four versions on each satellite. Other instruments in the ECT suite include the Helium Oxygen Proton Electron spectrometer and the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope. The suite's science goals address the top-level mission objective to provide understanding-ideally to the point of predictability-of how populations of relativistic electrons and penetrating ions in space form or change in response to variable inputs of energy from the Sun.
The ECT instrument development led by Spence is a multi-institutional effort and involves the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, The Aerospace Corporation, and the University of Colorado. Other U.S. partner institutions on the ECT science team include Dartmouth College, UCLA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, as well as international partners at the University of Alberta, the British Antarctic Survey, and the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA) in Toulouse, France.
The SSC contribution for EMFISIS, which is led by the University of Iowa, is a computer that will be tasked with coordinating the timing of the onboard field and wave experiments and "packaging" the data for transmission back to Earth.
Says Torbert, "The EMFISIS suite will measure the electric and magnetic fields and waves that both result from radiation belt particle interactions and have a significant effect on both the energization and loss of these particles. Having two satellites in the same orbit gives us new insights into these processes and how they change in time and space."
david.sims@unh.edu
Harlan Spence
harlan.spence@unh.edu
RBSP is part of NASA's Living With a Star program to explore aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. The spacecraft were built for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which will also manage the mission for NASA.
More information on the RBSP mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp
http://rbsp.jhuapl.edu/
More information on the ECT instrument suite, team, and science investigation:
http://rbsp-ect.sr.unh.edu/
More information on EMFISIS
http://emfisis.physics.uiowa.edu/


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Online shopping after Brexit: Higher prices, slower deliveries
Irish consumers will face restricted choices if the UK leaves the EU with no deal
Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 06:00 Updated: Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 11:05
Conor Pope
Brexit bill: something that costs €50 to buy and have sent from an Amazon warehouse today could jump to more than €65 once third-country charges are totted up. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty
Rocketing prices, customs hold-ups, delivery delays, obstacles to returning unwanted purchases and a dramatic curtailment in the retail choices and rights available to Irish consumers are just some of the problems online shoppers here may be hit with if the UK crashes out of the European Union without a deal in three weeks' time.
Much of the Brexit debate in Dublin, London, Brussels and other European capitals has focused on if and how a physically hard border on the island of Ireland can be avoided when the United Kingdom says its goodbyes.
But the virtual, online border is likely be one of the earliest signs of what a hard Brexit will look like. It is not going to be pretty. The biggest shock for Irish consumers is likely to be price spikes. Something that costs €500 on a UK-based website today could jump to more than €650 once new taxes and charges are totted up.
We still haven't a clue what is going to happen. We are doing what we have been doing since the vote in June 2016. We are keeping our fingers crossed
"To be honest, we still haven't a clue what is going to happen," says one senior source at one of the biggest online retailers in the UK. "I don't think anybody does. So for now what we are doing is what we have been doing since the vote in June 2016. We are keeping our fingers crossed."
"There is going to be a lot of confusion," says PwC's director of retail and consumer practice Owen McFeely. "And there are going to be a lot of consumers who won't understand what is happening when they get a demand for duty and VAT before their goods are released."
Amazon – the largest player in the online marketplace in the UK – did not respond to this newspaper's queries about its post-Brexit plans, but it did write to thousands of UK-based sellers that use its platform earlier this year warning them that a no-deal "may temporarily prevent cross-border trade" with Ireland and every other EU country.
The letter asked them to send at least four weeks' worth of stock to European "fulfilment centres" – the giant warehouses it has dotted around the Continent – so at the very least the site can continue trading as normal in the short term.
What might happen in the slightly longer term is anyone's guess but, unless a no-deal Brexit can be avoided as the endgame reaches its climax next week, Irish consumers will quickly feel the pain.
Few countries have benefited more from the explosion in online shopping than Ireland; it has given consumers here access to a much wider array of products at sometimes much lower prices.
According to Paypal, Ireland is in the top three countries in the developed world for online shopping, which is worth €5 billion here. As much as 70 per cent of the spending goes abroad, with a huge percentage ending up in the pockets of UK retailers. An Post alone delivers about 14 million parcels from there to here each year.
While uncertainty about what happens next is everywhere, the dangers of a chaotic departure have been flagged for a long time. Not long after British voters decided by a slender majority that they wanted out of the EU, the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, Niall Cody, told an Oireachtas committee that the decision would have such an impact on online shopping from the UK that "the model will not make sense".
In simple terms what a no-deal Brexit will mean is that the UK will suddenly become a third country, and that is going to have significant tax implications
He warned that in a hard Brexit scenario – which back in the summer of 2017 still seemed unlikely – an Irish shopper buying from a UK-based business would be treated "exactly the same as if he or she were buying from a US-based business".
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Would that be so bad? The simple answer is yes. As it stands, Irish people who shop with UK-based websites generally pay UK VAT and other taxes and only pay extra for delivery. (Some sites charge Irish taxes to Irish shoppers, but the rates are similar.) But once the UK leaves the EU, hefty import duties and additional VAT will suddenly apply. How much extra will depend on what the products are and their value. A dress with a UK price tag of €200 will climb in price for shoppers in the Republic to €270 when VAT of 23 per cent and duty of 12 per cent are added, while a laptop with a UK price of €1,000 will suddenly cost €1,230 with the addition of VAT.
"In simple terms what a no-deal Brexit will mean is that the UK will suddenly become a third country," says John O'Loughlin, a customs and trade expert with PwC. Effectively, it will be regarded as being no different in trade terms from China, South Africa or the United States, "and that is going to have significant tax implications", he warns.
O'Loughlin says many of the more sophisticated retailers in the UK will operate on a "DDP" – delivered duty paid, which means the price paid at checkout is the final price and will include all taxes – but others will leave it to delivery companies here to collect the outstanding taxes before they hand over the goods.
"People will think they are buying something for €1,000, but when it arrives at their home it will actually have cost them €1,230," O'Loughlin says, "and that will almost immediately create a huge amount of customer dissatisfaction in this country."
Brexit: Amazon warned its UK-based sellers that no-deal may temporarily prevent cross-border trade with Ireland and every other EU country. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty
Gerard O'Neill, chairman of the research company Amárach, says: "The best-case scenario – and it is not a particularly good case – is everything will just get kicked further down the road and we will get a delay in the apocalypse of six or nine months. But if we don't, and if the UK leaves the EU with no deal, then from March 30th what we will see are much longer delivery times and hefty tariffs attached to products."
O'Neill says that the "flip side is we are likely to see sterling collapsing even more", which might make products bought from UK-based websites cheaper – as long as the taxes are not attached to them.
O'Neill advises against people buying products online from the UK and hoping they don't get stopped by Revenue. The tax authorities "in this country and across the EU will be extremely sensitive to products originating from the likes of amazon.co.uk, because the authorities here and across Europe won't want to see their retailers being undercut by UK retailers as a result of currency devaluations".
What Irish retailers will be able to say is, if you want your product tomorrow then don't shop at Amazon or Asos – shop with us
Revenue says it has been "actively engaged" in preparing for all potential Brexit scenarios, including no deal, and if that happens then long-established rules for buying goods from outside the EU will kick in.
An Post is also getting ready for the upheaval. "We have been planning for the possible exit of the UK from the EU for two years, and we have a comprehensive Brexit action plan in place," its spokeswoman Anna McHugh says.
It has, she adds, been "liaising with the relevant authorities in Ireland, Britain and the EU, including the Government, customs authorities, other logistics companies and industry groups, to make sure we are prepared to deal with whatever type of Brexit comes to pass".
An Post handles more than 10 million parcels every year from non-EU countries, all of which are made available to customs agents for inspection. "In the event of a hard Brexit, the 14 million parcels we receive annually from the UK will simply join this stream of incoming parcels being presented to customs."
Once the Brexit outlook "is more certain, we'll provide an online information and advice hub for personal and business customers. And our post offices will advise on any additional labelling which may be required on items being posted to the UK, as is currently the case for parcels going to the United States. "
It is not, perhaps, all bad news. The collapse of sterling might offset some of the tax changes, while there could be more opportunities for Irish retailers with effective ecommerce operations to grow, O'Neill says.
"What they will be able to say is, if you want your product tomorrow then don't shop at Amazon or Asos – shop with us. It could lead to some Irish retailers getting a market-share growth, at least in the short term."
McFeely agrees and suggests there "is a huge opportunity for Irish retailers who are in the online space. They will have shorter supply lines and will be able to promise Irish consumers next-day delivery, and they won't have to contend with the same tax implications as sellers based in the UK."
The Donegal tweed brand Magee 1866 is one Irish retailer that has exploited the potential for ecommerce, and used its digital channels to significantly grow its business; online sales now generate one-fifth of its revenue. Its online sales are growing at 80 per cent a year, and it sells to more than 60 countries – with the UK its biggest overseas market by some margin.
"There are just so many unanswered questions, and right now we are just a couple of weeks away from the deadline and we are still not even close to having any kind of certainty as to what might happen next," says the company's head of digital, Dominic Tracey.
Once the UK leaves the EU, the guaranteed protections consumers have when shopping on sites based there may disappear
While Magee has some plans in place to handle a no-deal Brexit in the short term, there is only so much that can be achieved by switching stock from warehouses in one jurisdiction to the other. He says the UK leaving with no deal "would be a disaster" for both jurisdictions and hopes Brexit may still be avoided; failing that, "the best-case scenario would be for a delay, to allow everything to be aligned".
Higher prices, delivery delays and availability are not the only clouds on the horizon. Once the UK leaves the EU, the guaranteed protections consumers have when shopping on sites based there may disappear. Under EU legislation, consumers have a 14-day cooling-off period during which they can return goods for any reason. They also have the right to a refund for delays or nondelivery, as well as the right to redress in case of faulty goods. But if the UK is no longer covered by EU law, then the existing rules will no longer apply.
McFeely points out that while UK retailers will no longer be subject to EU law and will not have to accept returns from Irish consumers if they choose not to, he can't envisage a scenario where they will change their policies overnight.
"If I look to April, I don't see any impact in terms of choice or changed policies, but products will be hit with tariffs and taxes, and, in terms of supply chains, there will be longer delays and bottlenecks and a whole lot more customer dissatisfaction."
He says businesses that deal with the UK have, in recent days, grown slightly more hopeful that a catastrophe can be avoided. "We have seen more optimism in the last week, and if this coming week the British government's Brexit deal gets voted down then we might see an extension of article 50, and an extension – even a short-term extension – is better than a crash-out, because businesses are just not ready for Brexit yet."
O'Neill puts it even more bluntly. "There is a real danger we are either sleepwalking to the edge of the abyss, and not paying attention to what is happening, or we are telling ourselves that what have here is a Y2K situation and that it will be an all-right-on-the-night type of optimism. But it won't be all right on the night. We are in a lose-lose-lose situation, and there will be no winners."
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Q: Python: how to linearly baseline each peak in a set of peaks I need help writing code that would allow me to baseline each peak in a set of peaks (enthalpy vs. time isothermal titration calorimetry data).
The data is created by the ITC instrument in this fashion  (where '@#' signifies the start of a peak and the data are listed below as time [seconds], enthalpy [ucal/s], and temperature [deg. C but unnecessary as it is usually held constant]):
@0
2.00,13.585249,25.00761
4.00,13.585438,25.00699
6.00,13.585557,25.00688
8.00,13.585472,25.00804
@1,6.0000
302.00,13.607173,25.00958
304.00,13.607608,25.00931
306.00,13.607758,25.00965

There are well over 100 points per peak (I've shortened it above), and I'd like to incorporate a linear equation to zero each enthalpy value in each peak so I may integrate each peak to produce a binding plot. I'd welcome any help/advice; thank you!

A: I was able to do it. Thank you to those who replied! I will leave this here to anyone who may need to baseline peaks with a linear fit in the future (assuming the first point and last 40 points will suffice in a decent fit line like it does in ITC):
#defining function to calculate baseline of peaks in x vs y graph
def calc_baseline(x,y):
    zeroed_y=[]
    for n in range(len(y)):
        line_y=array(y[n][0:1]+y[n][-41:-1])
        line_x=array(x[n][0:1]+x[n][-41:-1])
        p=scipy.polyfit(baseline_x,baseline_y,1)
        baseline_y=array(x[n])*p[0]+p[1]
        zeroed_y.append(baseline_y)
    return zeroed_y

#defining function to zero baselines of peaks in x vs y graph, assuming number_injections is a known integer
def zero_baseline(number_injections,y,zeroed_y):
    zeroed_y_lists=[]
    for i in range(0,number_injections+1):
        zeroed_y=y[i]-zeroed_y[i]
        zeroed_y_lists.append(zeroed_y)
    return zeroed_y_lists

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Saturday October 7, 2017 – Sizerville State Park (Emporium, PA)
Annual Fall Festival (11am-3pm)
The Value of Wood During the 1800s in Northern PA 12:30-1:30pm
Join the spirit of 19th century "wood hick" Jack Hains as he tells of the value of trees/wood during the 1800s in Northern PA – from the early days of pit sawing, to water-powered circular saws to band saws. Learn about log slides, tanneries, splash dams, knot bumpers, peaveys, cant hooks as well as Barnharts, Shays, Climaxes, Heislers and more!
Pennsylvania Proud: History Thru Song 2:00-3:00pm
Through music and song, Rich will take you on a musical heritage journey through the great Keystone State of Pennsylvania. At each stop in the musical journey, the history of PA and its role as the "keystone" to America will come alive in this inspiring program that combines vocals with the mandolin, guitar, banjo, harmonica and cornet in a style reminiscent of our Pennsylvania forefathers.
Sunday October 8, 2017 – Pennsylvania Lumber Museum (Galeton, PA)
Fall Antique and Collectible Show/Sale
Music of the 1840s-1920s 12:00-2:00pm (Visitor Center – Changing Exhibits Gallery)
Rich will present period music from the 1840s-1920s including favorites of the lumber industry such as "The Frozen Logger" and "The Wild Woodhick." Instruments accompanying the vocals include mandolin, guitar, banjo, harmonica and the readily-available washboard!
Saturday October 14 and 21, 2017 – Duncan's Corn Maze (Robesonia, PA)
Trails of Conrad Weiser 2:00-5:00pm
This year's corn maze theme (originated after Rich met the Duncans at an event and discussed the history of their area) is a peace tomahawk – representative of the life of Conrad Weiser.
Born in Astat, Wurttemberg (Germany), November 2, 1696, this unsung Pennsylvania hero epitomizes life on the American frontier from 1710 until his death in 1760. During that time – he was a statesman, diplomat, judge, farmer, lieutenant colonel and official Pennsylvania peacekeeper.
In February 1737, with snow still on the ground, he walked from his home in Heidelberg (now Womelsdorf) to Onondaga (near Syracuse, NY) to successfully maintain peace between the Iroquois of New York and the Catawba of Virginia. As you walk his "trails" among the maze, remember his adopted Mohawk name – tarachiawagon – the man who held up the heavens. Learn more about this extraordinary man by meeting him (as portrayed by Rich Pawling) on Saturdays October 14 and 21 from 2-5pm. For more information see: http://www.duncanscornmaze.com/
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Love Mulgrew and Broony too,they just never give up and are dedicated to the cause.
Joe Ledley. The most underrated player in Scotland without a doubt. IMO he's also the best central midfielder in Scotland as well. We need him playing his natural position.
Last season I would have said Beram Kayal was my favourite player but, after seeing how bad his attitude was before he got his new contract, I've gone off him a bit.
I would probably say Scott Brown or Mark Wilson would be my favourite player at the moment.
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KimYe Are Coupled Up At Xmas Eve Bash Amid "Holiday From Hell" Rumors [Photos]
Posted on December 25, 2013	 - By Bossip Staff
The Kardashian/Jenners hosted their annual Christmas Eve bash Tuesday night and of course a few snapshots from the event made it to Instagram. Including this photobooth flick with Blac Chyna and Kendall.
The photos reflect a happy Kardashian/Jenner family despite tabloid rumors that this is the "Christmas from hell" for the tribe.
According to a family insider, this is going to the "Christmas from hell" for the reality TV family who all appear to be split or feuding with the men in their lives.
Khloe Kardashian just filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Lamar Odom, Kris Jenner and hubby Bruce recently announced their separation, Kourtney's relationship with Scott Disick is imploding, Kim feels smothered by her overbearing momager, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"This is the Christmas from hell," a family friend told In Touch magazine.
"[Khloe] just wants to bury her head in the sand. She wishes the holidays weren't happening."
But matriarch Kris is hell-bent on having a perfect holiday season despite it being "just a horrible time for Khloe," the magazine reports.
Kim and Kris have been butting heads about her upcoming move to Paris with fiancé Kanye West.
"Kanye isn't budging. He's forcing Kim to change her whole life and move," the source told In Touch.
"He doesn't want to bring the Kardashian machine to Europe. That hasn't sat well with Kris."
Meanwhile, as Radar previously reported, Kourtney's other half Scott has been partying hard again causing a rift between the couple.
And Rob, who didn't even appear in the family's annual Christmas card because he's unhappy with his weight, is also at odds with his overbearing mother, the magazine claims.
As for the Jenner girls, Kendall has been putting her family on the backburner to fly thousands of miles to see new boy toy Harry Styles even though "he's not making the same effort to see her," an insider told the tabloid.
The youngest, Kylie, seems to be forgotten in most of the family's drama and the source thinks she could turn into the next Lindsay Lohan.
"She's a wild child friends say could be the next Lindsay Lohan," the family pal said.
"But Kris has been ignoring her — she's more focused on making Kendall the new Kim."
Have a look at photos from the party and tell us if this report seems farfetched or on point.
Kanye was on hand for the family event, but would you say he looks happy to be there?
Hit the flip for a few more shots from the party.
Twins Malika and Khadijah Haqq made it out
Rachel Roy made an appearance
AND she brought her adorable daughters
Kendall and Kylie were looking a little grown and fast as usual.
Tyga also showed up for the party
There's Chyna's cute knocked up friend Bianca again. She's toting a lil gut full of Tyga's DJ SB.
Kris Jenner and her mama took a few snaps
Khloe and Kendall vamped it up.
Ye is looking a lil out of it, nah?
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Q: replace text in a file are there any usefull command to replace all text that contain number and remove those number .
Ex:
myimages-202x250.jpg
width="202" heignt="250"

replace to
myimages.jpg
width="217" height="317"

i've tried with sed but its not working
sed -i 's/*-*x*.jpg/.jpg/g' myfile.sql

A: As @Costas pointed out, you are using globbing patterns whereas sed uses BRE regular expressions (or ERE if using sed's  -r option).
Your command should resemble something like this :
sed -i -r 's/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg/.jpg/g' myfile.sql

Explanation :

*

*[0-9] means "any number" (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

*+ means "one or more of the previous atom" (The -r switch is needed because  + only has a special meaning in EREs)

The pattern -[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg therefore means : "A literal - followed by one or more numbers, followed by a literal x, followed by one or more numbers, followed by a literal . (the backslash is important because . is a special character in REs), followed by a literal jpg.
EDIT:
Upon clarification, this should do what you want :
sed -i -r -e 's/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg/.jpg/g' -e 's/width="[0-9]+" *height="[0-9]+"/width="217" height="317"/' myfile.sql

The added pattern width="[0-9]+" *height="[0-9]+" builds on the same principles as said above and replaces it with the hard-coded string width="217" height="317".


Sketch.inc was founded in 2011 by Artist Becky Kemp and is a whimsical world of character design and pattern exploration for children and big kids alike. This one was inspired by French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Sketch.inc was founded in 2011 by Artist Becky Kemp and is a whimsical world of character design and pattern exploration for children and big kids alike. This one was inspired by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Misc: Supplied in a fabric drawstring bag presented in a branded gift box.
We can't tell you how much we love this knitted mermaid character cushion from Meri Meri. Crafted from a luxury knitted cotton yarn and featuring coloured and metallic thread stitched detailing, this cushion is the perfect accessory.


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The two of us discussed the importance of health and fitness for anyone who's an entrepreneur and business leader. Here are four ways Tobias outlined that leaders can use to transform their productivity and performance like a professional athlete.
A cognitive reset program is so crucial to Tobias that he won't even personally invest in a company whose CEO doesn't meditate. Such a program can include a daily meditation practice, time spent in nature, or the simple act of unplugging from one's electronic devices for a select period of time. In my own life, having a cognitive reset program has been a game-changer.
I know, for instance, that I can alter my state and improve cognitive function in an instant by turning on The Calm app on my phone and going through a guided meditation. I come back more refreshed with a different perspective.
One of the biggest mistakes people make for sticking to a health regimen and seeing the results they are looking for is failing to collect data on their performance.
"You have to know if your biology is fragile; that's one of the first things that needs to happen because that will determine the course of action you need to take from there," Tobias said. Consider Upgrade Labs; it's got a full blood panel and mitochondrial function test that can pinpoint certain areas of weakness for clients, so the program that they create is completely customized.
Valuing sleep used to be very hard because I thought that I could catch up on sleep once I got to a certain level of achievement or hit a new goal. And, as an entrepreneur and business leader, it was easy to make sleep a non-priority. This old way of thinking is flat out wrong and will hurt you in the long run.
When I asked Tobias about this, he said, "The 'sleep when I'm dead' concept is way out of touch. You can't change the world or grow your organization to the level you desire if you drop dead because you didn't sleep." When you have an enormous vision that you are working toward, it can be difficult to get the rest that you need because you believe there is more for you to be doing the second you lie down. I know that was the case for me.
Things didn't change until I changed my entire perspective about sleep. I began to view it as a tool that would maximize my day and help me become the best version of myself. Consider the mindset that some of the world's best athletes use when it comes to sleep.
So make a sleep for your own life: I go to bed and wake up at the same time each day. I stay off social media and don't check email for 30 minutes before sleep. Do as I do: Become obsessed with sleep and watch your productivity and overall health skyrocket.
"It's not an extra thing you have to do throughout the day," he added. "It's something that makes you more effective and increases your ability to get more done." Certainly, you don't have to train like a professional athlete, but you should make your workouts and fitness a priority the way professional athletes do. I tell people all the time that working out and making it a priority is one of the biggest productivity hacks in the world.


Visual perception is not a passive process: in order to efficiently process visual input, the brain actively uses previous knowledge (e.g., memory) and expectations about what the world should look like. However, perception is not only influenced by previous knowledge. Especially the perception of emotional stimuli is influenced by the emotional state of the observer. In other words, how we perceive the world does not only depend on what we know of the world, but also by how we feel. In this study, we further investigated the relation between mood and perception.
We let observers do a difficult stimulus detection task, in which they had to detect schematic happy and sad faces embedded in noise. Mood was manipulated by means of music. We found that observers were more accurate in detecting faces congruent with their mood, corroborating earlier research. However, in trials in which no actual face was presented, observers made a significant number of false alarms. The content of these false alarms, or illusory percepts, was strongly influenced by the observers' mood.
Copyright: © 2011 Jolij, Meurs. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work is funded by the University of Groningen. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
One of the key tasks of the visual system is to provide the brain's executive systems with a stable, meaningful representation of the visual environment. This is not a trivial task, though: sensory input is often noisy, and more often than not open to several interpretations. In order to effectively process visual input, top-down information processing plays an important role in visual perception. The brain actively uses contextual information to generate a priori hypotheses about the most likely interpretation of specific sensory input –. For example, if you are in a meadow, a black-and-white pattern hitting your retina quite likely signals presence of a cow. According to a number of recent neuroimaging studies, the context of a meadow would pre-activate higher-level representations of object commonly encountered in meadows, such as cows. This information is fed back to earlier visual areas and compared with the actual perceptual input –.
Top-down effects do not only speed up perceptual processing, they also affect perceptual awareness. In a recent psychophysical investigation, it was shown that observers perceive the color of a black-and-white picture of a banana as slightly yellowish – an effect attributed to a top-down filling in process, guided by memory: you know that bananas are yellow, so the brain fills in that color automatically . Indeed, the notion of a 'Bayesian brain' – the idea that the brain is continuously predicting the most likely interpretation of new visual input on basis of context and memory, providing priors for analysis – gained a large amount of support in the recent literature .
However, the 'Bayesian priors' used in visual information processing are not set by perceptual memory alone. Higher level concepts, such as expectancy can affect subjective perception, too. When observers are led to believe that wearing a pair of glasses that have no effect on perception will make them see a multistable stimulus in one specific way, they overwhelmingly report that specific percept . Moreover, in challenging stimulus detection tasks observers sometimes strongly believe to have seen stimuli that in fact have not been presented at all. Such misperceptions are also attributed to top-down processes –.
Apparently, how we perceive our environment is for a large part determined by what we think. However, perceptual processing is not only influenced by cognitive or meta-cognitive processes. Emotion, and in particular mood, have been demonstrated to have an equally strong effect on perceptual processing. Mood affects the focus of processing: negative mood is associated with 'local' processing, whereas positive mood is associated with 'global' processing. When participants have to retell a brief story they had to memorize, participants in a negative mood tend to report details, whereas participants in a positive mood tend to report the gist of the story. Interestingly, in perceptual processing, a similar effect is observed. In an experiment in which participants had to rate whether a target object was more similar to an object that matched its global features or an object that matched its local features, participants in a negative mood showed a bias for the local features, whereas participants in a positive mood showed a bias for global features .
Not surprisingly, mood also has profound effects on the processing of emotional visual stimuli. Humans show a bias towards negative emotional material, the so-called negativity bias. This bias is already evident within the earliest stages of perceptual processing of pictures with emotional content. A positive mood however, induced by a brief music clip played right after presentation of an emotional picture, overcomes this negativity bias, as shown using brain evoked potentials . Mood also affects the processing of facial expressions: when a face slowly morphs from a positive to a negative emotional expression, participants in a negative mood will indicate that the facial expression becomes negative at an earlier moment than participants in a positive mood , . In ambiguous schematic facial expressions, mood, as induced with music, affects classification: whereas participants in a positive mood are more likely to judge the expression of an ambiguous face as positive, participants in a negative mood will judge that same face to have a negative emotional expression , . These effects are not limited to facial expressions. A recent study found similar effects for emotional body language: participants were more accurate in identifying emotional body language that was congruent with their mood than incongruent emotional body language .
Summarizing, our visual representation of the world around us is not only affected by what we think or what we believe. How we feel has a profound impact on the 'picture in our mind' as well. In the present study, we further investigate the effect of mood, as induced by music, on top-down processing of visual information. We let observers do a difficult stimulus detection task, in which they had to detect schematic emotional faces embedded in noise, whilst listening to music that made them happy or sad. Critically, we left out the targets in half of all trials. In line with earlier studies, we found strong mood-congruency effects, that is, participants were better in detecting mood-congruent faces. However, participants also made a significant number of false alarms. The content of these illusory percepts was also strongly modulated by mood, showing that mood not only enhances sensitivity to mood-congruent features in visual input, but can even determine content of visual perception in absence of real visual input.
The study was approved by the local Ethics Committee ("Ethische Commissie van het Heymans Instituut voor Psychologisch Onderzoek") and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all observers.
Observers were 43 healthy first year students (17 males, mean age 20.7 years, SD 1.2 years) in the International Bachelor's Programme in Psychology of the University of Groningen with normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
Stimuli were constructed using Matlab R14 (The Mathworks Inc., Natick, Massachusetts), and consisted of a 140×140 pixels array of random noise, with a circle with a diameter of 74 pixels present in the centre, with slightly elevated contrast. All 255 values of the grayscale palette were used to construct the random noise images. Target stimuli contained also a pair of eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth within the circle, forming a schematic face with a sad or a happy expression. Schematic faces have been shown to carry similar emotional content as real faces, and may thus be used to study the effects of emotion in perception tasks .
Stimulus presentation was done using in-house written software (Taskmania, University of Groningen, The Netherlands). Stimuli were presented on a 19″ Philips Brilliance 190B TFT monitor (Philips BV, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) with a resolution of 800×600 pixels; viewing distance was approximately 80 cm. Trials were animations of 9 frames, with each frame presented for approximately 107 ms. The fifth frame of each animation was accompanied by a cue (a grey square around the noise patch) and contained a target stimulus in 50% of all trials. Target presence and target identity (happy or sad) were chosen at random in each trial to avoid expectancy or learning effects. Noise patches were chosen at random from a series of 500 different noise images; targets, if present, were chosen from a series of 50 happy and 50 sad images. Please note that only the noise pattern added to these images was different – the schematic faces were identical in all trials in which a real target was presented.
After each trial, participants had to indicate whether they had seen a sad face or a happy face by using the computer keyboard (the P and Q keys, respectively), or to withhold from responding when they had not seen a face. They were specifically instructed to be conservative with their responses, i.e. to only respond when they were absolutely sure to have seen a face. No feedback was given.
Participants were instructed to bring at least 15 minutes of songs that made them feel happy and 15 minutes of songs that made them feel sad. They were left completely free in their choice of musical style, and indeed the material widely varied between subjects (e.g. 'Under the Bridge' by The Red Hot Chili Peppers or Mozart's 'Requiem').
Participants' mood was assessed using the Self Assessment Manakin, a non-verbal assessment technique to measure the pleasure, arousal, and dominance associated with a person's affective state, and is widely used in emotion research . We have specifically chosen a non-verbal assessment tool: participants were recruited from an International Bachelor's Programme, and native languages of participants differed. Using a non-verbal tool avoids problems due to translation or interpretation as result of differences in fluency in English.
The experiment consisted of three experimental conditions: a condition in which the participants performed the task without music (no music condition), a condition in which they listened to happy music, and a condition in which they listened to sad music. Participants listened to their own material whilst performing two blocks of 100 trials of the task in each of the three conditions (no music, sad music, happy music). Each condition lasted at most 10 minutes, and music was played throughout the entire condition. Music was played via an MP3-player over headphones. Participants chose a volume that they found comfortable. The order of the conditions was counterbalanced over all participants. Participants' mood was assessed using the SAM at the start of the experiment, and immediately after each condition.
Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Natick, USA). Repeated measures ANOVAs, with type of music as within-subject factor with three levels (no music, happy music, sad music), were conducted on the three scales of the SAM (valence, dominance, and arousal), the detection and identification rates for happy and sad faces, the proportion of false alarms, and the proportion of false alarms classified as happy faces.
Music significantly affected mood, as measured with the valence scale of the SAM, F(2, 36) = 43,639, p = 0.00000. Participants reported a significantly more positive mood as compared with the no music condition after listening to happy music (p = 0.0000), and a more negative mood after listening to sad music (p = 0.00065). Arousal was also significantly elevated by music, F(2, 36) = 3,26, p = .044; there was no significant difference between happy and sad music. No significant effects on the dominance scale of the SAM were observed.
Overall, participants performed the stimulus detection task very well (average correct detection and identification rate were both 83%). Stimulus detection rates were elevated in the music conditions as compared with the no music condition, albeit not significantly (no music 80%, music-congruent faces 84%, music-incongruent faces 83%; F(2, 36) = 2.817; p = 0.065). Moreover, music did have a significant effect on emotion identification (F(2, 36) = 10.200; p = 0.00000): while listening to happy music, participants were more accurate in detecting happy faces then when listening to sad music and vice versa (87% vs. 79%; p = 0.00029) – see figure 1b. This is consistent with earlier reported effects of mood congruency in emotion detection –.
Figure 1. Experimental design and results.
a. Schematic of a single trial. Patches of noise were presented for 107 ms, creating an animation of dynamic noise; the middle patch contained either a face stimulus or just noise and was accompanied by an annulus surrounding the patch. After the trial, observers had to indicate whether they had seen a happy, a sad or no face. b. Proportions of real faces seen (black bars) and correctly identified emotional expressions (white bars). Error bars indicate 1 S.E. (n = 42), asterisks (**) indicate significant difference at p<.001. c. Proportions of reported false alarms (black bars) and proportion false alarms classified as happy (white bars). Error bars indicate 1 S.E. (n = 42), asterisks (**) indicate significant difference at p<.001.
However, we also found strong effects of music in trials in which no real stimulus was presented. Participants reported slightly more false alarms in the music conditions than in the no music condition, but this effect was not significant (no music 34%, happy music 38%, sad music 38%; F(2, 36) = 1,357; p = 0.263). However, whether people reported a happy face or sad face while in fact there was none was strongly affected by music: the proportion of happy faces reported was significantly higher in the happy music condition than in the other two conditions (no music 40%, happy music 53%, sad music 36%; F(2, 36) = 9.969, p = 0.00036) – see figure 1c. An additional analysis of all noise images in which observers reported to have seen a face revealed no evidence of any randomly present structure in the noise images, suggesting that perception of faces in this experiment was mainly based on internally generated signals, and not on randomly present features that appeared like a face in the noise stimuli .
We have shown that in a challenging stimulus detection task, participants' conscious reports about stimuli are not only affected by previous knowledge and expectation, but also by mood. Participants were more sensitive to mood-congruent emotional stimuli, and showed a bias towards reporting false alarms that were mood-congruent in trials in which no stimuli were presented. These results are in line with the earlier discussed studies on the effects of mood on visual processing: observers become more sensitive to facial features that are congruent with their own emotional state –. However, we extend this earlier work by demonstrating that this bias extends to illusory perception: even when there is no real stimulus present, mood affects what participants see.
Mood congruency effects in emotion perception may be explained in two different ways: first, it may be the case that post-perceptual decision processes are biased. In that case, the perceptual representation of an emotional face is not affected by mood – only post-perceptual processing is, for example, by an adjustment of decision thresholds [cf. 20]. However, it may also be that mood affects perceptual processing itself, similar to context-dependent top-down modulation of visual processing –. In such an interpretation, the sensory representations on which a subsequent perceptual decision would be based would be directly influenced by the observer's state of mind.
Our data seems to favour this latter hypothesis. Apart from replicating earlier work on increased sensitivity to mood-congruent facial expressions, we report that observers' reports during false alarms were also strongly biased by mood. Given that our participants were instructed to only report presence of a face when they were absolutely sure a face was presented, it is reasonable to assume these false alarms were truly reflect 'illusory percepts', as opposed to guesses in response to an ambiguous stimulus. Several studies have attributed illusory percepts to 'pure top-down' processing, and indeed report activity in visual areas when participants report to have seen a highly expected stimulus while in fact no stimulus has been presented –, .
Extrapolating this to the present results, we may assume that top-down modulation of perceptual processing is not just driven by visual context, memory, or expectation. Apparently, emotional state can also influence processing of perceptual input in a top-down manner, and alter the contents of visual awareness, even in absence of structured visual input. Mood dependency of top-down processing would go against the idea that top-down modulations are purely 'predictive' or 'Bayesian' in nature: the mood of the observer has obviously no effect on the likelihood of encountering mood-congruent emotional stimuli. So, what may be the functional significance of mood-dependent top-down modulation of visual processing?
It is interesting to note that recent studies have found modulation of early visual cortex activity as a function of subjective reward value . It is not unlikely that our findings represent a similar mechanism, but now for emotional facial expressions – the 'reward value' an observer attaches to an emotional face obviously changes as functions of that observer's own emotional state. Possibly, such a mechanism aids in fine-tuning the interpretations of others' emotions, respective to our own. A recent brain imaging study has shown that congruency between one's own mood, as induced by music, and a presented emotional face results in a specific pattern of brain activation: congruency activates the superior temporal gyrus, but diminishes activity in the face-specific fusiform gyrus, whereas the opposite patterns is observed for incongruent music-face pairs . This seems to suggest a difference in top-down control in visual face processing when the observer's mood is incongruent with the emotional expression of target faces as opposed for mood-congruent faces. Moreover, disorders in top-down processing of faces have been linked to autism spectrum disorder, suggesting an important role for top-down processing of socially relevant stimuli, such as emotional faces, in social cognition . Together with the present results, these findings suggest that the image in our mind may in part be determined by social cognitive processes, although the exact underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Our results show that our conscious experience of the world may be less objective than we think. Conscious experience does not only reflect 'what is out there', but also our previous knowledge and expectation –, . Our findings show that mood, as induced by music, is also reflected in visual awareness, both in biasing processing sensory input, as in the generation of conscious visual percepts in absence of structured visual input. In other words, the music you are listening to might directly alter the way you perceive the world.
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ. Performed the experiments: MM. Analyzed the data: JJ MM. Wrote the paper: JJ.
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The number 40 is such a stone – for everyone, but somehow, especially for women. And while women's lives are in no way universal, there are certainly more than a few universal elements. A 40-year-old woman has very likely confronted these things: a changing body and, with it, a changing understanding of self; experiences in which she felt like a failure; an ever-expanding to-do list as she tried to balance her own needs with those of others; joy in moments when her ideas and ambitions were realized; grief in the face of insurmountable realities and, inevitably, losses. Lindsey Mead's new collection of first-person essays by a phenomenal group of women writers in (and around) their forties, On Being 40(ish), gathers readers to an inviting table set with understanding, humor, and insight.
I met Lindsey at summer camp when I was twelve years old. A slight girl with red hair, she was not a spotlight grabber. To the contrary, she was then, and continues to be now, a watcher, a deep thinker, and a powerful writer. Her blog, A Design So Vast, reveals as much about her daily life as it does about the themes that resonate with so many women: the experience of time passing; the toll of work on more sacred, personal priorities; the beauty of words, light, and nature.
The voices are in this collection of essays are indeed powerful – they are: Meghan Daum, Catherine Newman, Veronica Chambers, Sloane Crosley, KJ Dell'Antonia, Jill Kargman, Jena Schwartz, Kate Bolick, Allison Winn Scotch, Jessica Lahey, Julie Klam, Sujean Rim, Sophfronia Scott, Lee Woodruff, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Each essay, each expression of what life is like for a woman in her forties(ish), is uniquely impactful. Reading this book feels very much like sitting in a wonderful seminar, one where everyone in the room has her hour to share her story, and does so with unparalleled intentionality, grace, honesty and humor.
Bookclique is brought to you by Jessica Flaxman, an educator and writer who lives outside of Boston with her husband and two daughters. She is author of the blog What I Learned Today in School and is an editor of Klingbrief. Jessica's students, teachers, and friends are part of this project in support of book culture, readers and reading.
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Directories can exist online or offline. For example, the Yellow Pages is a printed directory you would use to find the phone number for the pizza place. Think of online directories as the online version of the Yellow Pages – which also has an online directory! – but with a ton of useful additional information about a business. Today, we are going to explore online directories, what makes a directory great and how to separate the best from the rest. Before we get started, let's cover a few basics.
In the traditional sense, a directory is a listing of information, usually in alphabetical order, which can either be in print or online.
In the world of online directories, a directory is a website – usually multiple websites – where consumers search for a specific business, product or service, or where they learn about a business. Businesses share their information in these directories hoping to attract more customers to their brick-and-mortar locations or to their websites.
Search engines index directories and use the information within them to answer search queries conducted by consumers in search results.
As with everything in life, not all directories are created the same. There are certain characteristics that make some directories great and others, well, questionable. When shopping around for the best directories to share a business' data with, it's important to be selective.
A clear online presence is essential for businesses in this day and age. Sharing their NAP (name, address and phone number) with local and niche directories is not only smart, but a necessity for any type of brand or business. At Advice Local, we know the value of having the best online directories for a business, which is why we only include the best in our Data Amplifier Network.
Domain Authority (DA): this score predicts how well a website will rank on search engines. For us, the number is 40/100. This is a weighted number based off correlations we've seen with rankings. There are specific directories with a lower DA that will make it into our network, but they have other positive characteristics that are a win for local businesses.
Page Rank (PR): this score is used to determine the importance of a website. We look for a 5/10 or above. While, PR is a "dead" metric, we still take it into consideration as one of the 23 metrics.
Additional factors are also analyzed, such as backlink trust flow, backlink citation flow and organic traffic.
We also look into the reputable databases of our partners and marketing tools like SEMRush and Majestic, which put out trustworthy data.
The directory name clearly gives the idea it is solely for building links.
There are more ads on the pages than content.
There are some definite characteristics of directories that we recommend businesses avoid. While I only shared a short list above, the infographic below includes a long list of characteristics of directories we like and directories to avoid.
Since there were so many directories to choose from, our infographic only includes the directories that make up our real-time network. This means they publish data in real-time. Businesses submitted to these high-quality directory sources will start seeing their data distributed and updated almost immediately.
So now that you have the 411 on selecting the best directories for 2018, what are you going to do next? As mentioned earlier, we select only the best of the best directories for our Data Amplifier Network, and the ones highlighted in the graphic distribute data in real-time.
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ONE OK ROCK release theme song for final 'Rurouni Kenshin' film + to hold first acoustic live
ONE OK ROCK have released their new digital single "Broken Heart of Gold" on May 28.
"Broken Heart of Gold" is a medium-tempo ballad that was written as the theme song for 'Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning' that's scheduled to open in theaters on June 4. It was produced in England with Dan Lancaster, who also produced their hit song's "Taking Off" and "Eye of the Storm." The song's release was a surprise announcement that was made on May 27 during the band's YouTube Livestream.
In addition, it was announced that there will be an open call for music video submissions for "Broken Heart of Gold." Anybody can submit their work regardless of nationality or age. It may be in any form including live-action, animation, lyric video, etc. The winning work will be posted onto ONE OK ROCK's official YouTube channel, and its creator will be awarded 500,000 yen (approximately $4,500 USD) in cash prize. Submissions may be made between June 1 and 30 via its special website. The winner will be announced in early July.
Finally, ONE OK ROCK will hold a series of acoustic lives called 'ONE OK ROCK 2021 ~Day to Night Acoustic Sessions~ at STELLAR THEATER' in July at Stellar Theater in Yamanashi. This will be their first time holding an acoustic live. You can check out the schedule below!
[ONE OK ROCK 2021 "Day to Night Acoustic Sessions" at STELLAR THEATER]
Thursday, July 22 - Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater (Yamanashi)
Friday, July 23 - Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater (Yamanashi)
Saturday, July 24 - Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater (Yamanashi)
Sunday, July 25 - Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater (Yamanashi)
*July 22 will be an evening show only. The rest will have both a daytime show and an evening show.
Saturday, July 31 from 7:00 pm JST
BROKEN HEART OF GOLD
ONE OK ROCK 2021 "DAY TO NIGHT ACOUSTIC SESSIONS" AT STELLAR THEATER


One of the many reasons I am passionate about sharing my training in acceptance and commitment therapy/training (ACT) is its emphasis on empowerment and intrinsic locus of control. Staying connected to our inner locus of control is useful across a variety of contexts – personal, professional, and socio-cultural. Locus of control refers to areas in your life that you can directly influence and change.
Easier said than done, no doubt, but so important in learning to take our power back and practice effectiveness in our personal, professional, and political lives. What gets in the way of staying connected with our intrinsic locus of control?
What helps? Holding ourselves accountable to staying focused on what we CAN control in our immediate environment that MAY (but may not) result in those results, and accepting that while we would LIKE to achieve a certain goal, it is useful to remember that what is in our sphere of influence is our behavior in the present moment.
Excessive emphasis on others – Fusing with a desire to change other people and/or other people's behavior.
What helps? Remembering that changing other people is outside of our control; however, we MAY be able to influence others with our words and behaviors. How might we be best able to effectively influence others in healthy and constructive ways? And YEP, SIMPLE AND NOT EASY!!


I realize it has been an embarrassingly long time since I posted anything on my blog. Figured if I was gonna start blogging during the [awful] winter months, that I should return with a BANG!
With Thanksgiving just days…Yeah, it's tomorrow, folks, it is the time of year where we put away our margarita mixers and bring out the eggnog, cider and whiskey drinks. Let's focus on the whiskey drinks for a minute. Hot toddies are quite yummy and very simple. Great for when you're sick or if you just want to feign sophistication while you get hammered in front of a lovely wood burning fire.
Tequila and its little hoodlum friends have ruled the [trashy] custom of body shots for too long. Salt, lime, tequila and a drunk, agreeable stranger. During a dull moment at work I put my creative juices to work. I do want to give partial credit to my coworker, who I'm sure wishes to remain anonymous in all this, but she was a huge help in talking out the order of things with me. After a 30 second Google search and scan of the results, I realized no one else has written up instructions for this awful idea. I feel obligated to share for other cold, trashy people that enjoy drinking.
I noticed on several other sites that the authors pointed out the people you're doing body shots with should be totally okay with this and not coerced. Also, you should drink responsibly and make sure everyone has a safe ride home. As if you'll be getting up off the floor when you decide to do this one evening. There, disclaimer made.
1. Pour shot each of whiskey and brewed tea. Do not fill to the very tip top. Your drunk friends will spill it.
Once everything is placed, don't waste time or spill your liquor! Work your way up starting with the shot, biting into the lemon wedge, licking up the honey and gulping down the warm tea. Good luck getting past the honey, honestly. Especially if you think the collar bone is too mundane a place to drizzle honey. Feel free to adapt as needed.
To protect the agreeable folks involved, I have not included photos. None of these pictures belong to me. Full cred and thanks to others. Enjoy those stock photos until you make some of your own memories.
If you have a deep dish pie plate, you'll need a little more of everything.
To put it together, crush the cheese crackers and add butter to make the crust and sautée the onions (with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes).
Layer the cooked onions with shredded cheese in the pie crust (I usually start and end with cheese).
Then mix the milk and eggs with salt and pepper and pour over top. Poke through the onions to let it sink in and add more milk if It looks like it needs it. Bake at 375° for about 30 minutes, or until set.
If it's deeper, do three large or four small onions. Obviously, double thethe recipe if making two shallow pies.
I have never measured the cheesy crackers. I just crush em and line the pie plate until things look right.
This is very similar to a quiche and great for cheese and onion lovers.
Again my sister in law braved the strange foods and helped me get over my fears of sushi making too.
We gathered the supplies: nori (seaweed) wrappers, sushi rice, sushi vinegar and spices, and several sushi fillings.
I will admit that the firsf three rolls I made I refused to take a pictures of. They were that bad.
Which brings us to common mistakes #1: overfilling nori with rice and other fillings. Results include not enough to wrap and seal roll and/or ingredients busting out the ends.
After getting a good tight roll, I discoverd common mistake #2: Learning a gentle hand and cutting with a sharp knife. This is what ruins most of my rolls. I squeezed the rolls too hard or the knife would mash instead of cut.
I tried making a rice on the outside roll. They were extremely difficult for me because it was harder to slice into the nori after the knife got sticky from the rice.
By the end of the evening I had eaten a lot of mistakes and had some yummy lumpy rolls to eat.
Recently, I tried making sushi for a lunch my house. Kit can be odd about non-steak-&-taters meals so I was worried at first. He loved it!
These are traditional sushi rolls with raw fish. I had to consider my budget when making this lunch. The fillings for my sushi were canned flakey crab and cream cheese. I took canned tiny shrimp and marinated them in lime juice, garlic, ginger, salt and pepper. The result was a spicy shrimp roll. The ginger was perfecto.
Which leads me to my final sushi making tip and the best advice we heard from the dozens of youtube videos we watched. Give yourself a break. The best way to make good sushi is keep trying. It proves itself too, my second attempt at making sushi for Kit and me was a huge sucess. I had to eater fewer dud rolls than the first time.
Can't wait to try different ingredients and give it another whirl.
Have you ever tried sushi making at home?
Have any tried and true tips you want to share?


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Hi everyone, I hope everyone is having a good winter. I have scanned in my pictures from the past family reunion. And here they are. The pictures on this page are just small images. If you click on the individual pictures, you will bring up a much bigger copy. The bigger pictures are about 10 times the size of the small ones, so they might be kinda slow to load.
These pictures will look best if you use "high color" or "true color" settings rather than just 256 colors.


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Lawsuit to Nowhere? Gov. Christie, N.J. Sued Over Bridge Lane Closure
By Brett Snider, Esq. on January 10, 2014 | Last updated on March 21, 2019
The George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal is now the focus of a proposed federal class-action lawsuit, naming Gov. Chris Christie and the state of New Jersey as defendants.
Not wanting to miss anyone irritated by what some are calling "Bridgegate," the proposed class-action suit seeks to include "any and all individuals and business owners" who were inconvenienced or hurt by the bridge's lane closures in mid-September, reports Politico.
But is this suit a bridge too far?
Bridges of Class-Action County
For those unfamiliar with the George Washington Bridge, it's the world's busiest in terms of traffic, spanning the Hudson River to connect Fort Lee, New Jersey, to New York City.
In the proposed class-action complaint, New Jersey attorney Rosemary Arnold argues that commuters were "deprived of life, liberty and property for several hours" during the period from September 9 to September 13 when roadblocks closed all but one lane on the bridge, the New York Daily News reports.
The suit also accuses Gov. Christie's administration and the state of depriving drivers of their rights to due process and freedom of movement.
Constitutional Right to Get to Manhattan?
By claiming that the lane closures deprived inconvenienced motorists of their constitutional rights, the suit is making a claim under the 14th Amendment.
Since the birth of our nation, the federal courts have recognized the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to travel between states, and have restricted state governments from inhibiting that right. This right is enforced against state governments through the 14th Amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause, which prevents any state from "abridg[ing] the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
Following reports that Gov. Christie's top aides were responsible for the bridge closure, the lawsuit claims the State of New Jersey and its officials deprived its members of not only time and money, but also the freedom to move between New Jersey and New York.
Still, as the actual money attached to these constitutional violations may be so nominal, this suit might well end up as a bridge to nowhere.
Follow FindLaw for Consumers on Facebook and Twitter (@FindLawConsumer).
On the bridge: 'Those days ... worse than a disaster' (CNN)
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Friends, it's been a busy, busy summer but we haven't forgotten about you!
I can't think of a better way to come back than with this monster of a record. Much has been written recently about Andrés Landero – our friend Bardo from Chicano Batman even wrote his thesis about him; recommended reading! For many of California and Mexico's cumbieros, Andrés Landero defines the sound they work hard to try to achieve: strong, rooted, heavy, proud. (But then he makes it seem so effortless too, makes everyone else sound like a little kid!) Oddly enough he is much lesser known in Colombia, and whenever you ask around for Landero records there, the nationalistic record sellers will complain that the Mexicans took them all. I'm not one to spend big dollars on records, so I'm always excited when I manage to find one of his for a decent price.
Here is one of the rare songs where I can actually imagine Andres Landero breaking a sweat.
This one is a relic! Judging from the lyrics, it must be 1974 in this followup to Adolfo Pacheco's La Hamaca Grande. Landero sets San Jacinto – Valledupar rivalries aside (which La Hamaca Grande didn't) to endorse Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, who had co-founded the Festival Vallenato in the 60s and almost never missed it since. Lopez Michelsen was later elected to be president of Colombia, and probably did govern from the big San Jacinto hammock that Landero gave him. Did he defend the worker and help the campesino, though?


New research that incorporates info about clothing, hair style adds to confidence.
Facebook researchers have unveiled new research that allows for faces to be more easily recognized based on other contextual information, such as hair style, clothing, and body shape.
The research, which was published on arXiv.org in January 2015, was presented at a conference in Boston earlier this month and first reported by New Scientist on Monday.
According to the researchers, the system, dubbed Pose Invariant PErson Recognition (PIPER), is accurate 83 percent of the time—far higher than the current state-of-the-art, which primarily requires clear, full frontal photos to work well.
While each poselet is not as powerful as a custom designed face recognizer, it leverages weak signals from specific pose pattern that is hard to capture otherwise. By combining their predictions we accumulate the subtle discriminative information coming from each part into a robust pose-independent person recognition to the state-of-art face recognition system by using deep convolutional nets. Most of the existing face recognition systems require constrained setting of frontal faces and explicit 3D face alignments or facial keypoint localizations. Some other works have addressed robust face recognition systems to deal with varying illumination, occlusion and disguise. Due to our unconstrained setting, most of conventional face recognition systems have limited performance on our dataset.
But the technology probably won't hit the social networking site in the near future.
"This is so far, experimental, long-term research," Ari Entin, a Facebook spokesman, told Ars. "I don't think this is something that we would see any time soon."
Ning Zhang, the paper's lead author and a University of California, Berkeley doctoral student, did not immediately respond to Ars' request for comment.
Facebook has long been at the forefront of such research, which has come with some controversies.
Notably, Facebook was sued in April 2015 by a Chicago man, alleging that he and others in Illinois had their rights violated by Facebook as they did not give their express permission for facial recognition. (Texas also has a similar law on the books.) In 2012, German authorities ordered the company to destroy its facial recognition database, finding that it was in violation of German law.
Facial recognition experts note that this kind of research is very much at the forefront of the field.
"It is an excellent piece of research that is pushing the frontiers of face recognition in unconstrained settings," Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University, told Ars by e-mail. "The focus and challenge (both for the government and social media companies) now has shifted towards unconstrained face recognition in unconstrained settings and uncooperative subjects. By this I mean, faces captured from surveillance cameras or photos posted on the social media sites."
"To work in this space, we cannot rely on traditional face recognition algorithms which relied on 'face alignment' based on locations of the two eyes," he continued. "In unconstrained imagery, eyes may not be visible, e.g., person wearing sunglasses or face is occluded. So, recognition by parts instead of recognition by 'holistic' method is needed. This requires that we train a face recognition system with a very large number of images per subject. That explains the approach by Facebook."
Facial recognition has been rapidly expanding in recent years both in commercial products, as well as by law enforcement.
Earlier this month, after more than a year of discussions, all nine privacy advocates have stormed out of a government-organized "multi-stakeholder process" to sort out details around the best practices for facial recognition technology. The sticking point was that corporations apparently refused to concede that there was any scenario during which a person's consent to scan their face was needed.
In January 2015, Robert Morgester, the senior assistant attorney general and the head of the state's eCrime Unit, told a group in San Francisco that the "possibilities are limitless" when it comes to using facial recognition to solve crimes.
In September 2014, the FBI announced that its facial recognition project that stores millions of mug shots and other photos is out of the pilot stage and is at "full operational capability."
"Researchers have been working on improving face recognition algorithms," Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars.
"This seems pretty advanced," said Lynch. "It's interesting that they're designing their algorithm to include cues that humans use to identify people: how you stand, how you style your hair. It's not surprising that this is where facial recognition is going. I'm sure it's not just Facebook that wants to solve this facial recognition problem, but law enforcement would love to be able to identify people from the side or from above. Facebook has the money to throw at this and so do big government contractors."


My Beloved and I became grandparents of twins today! Alexander Samuel and Zachary Robert and their mommy and daddy are doing well. The twin's grandparent's are thrilled, ecstatic, and proud of all four members of the new family.


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Hansel and Gretel Ballet
On the 3rd February, five year seven children and Mrs Leahy went to see the Scottish Ballet's performance of a childhood classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.
On the 3rd February, five year seven children and Mrs Leahy went to see the Scottish Ballet's performance of a childhood classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. We arrived at the Theatre Royal, excited and took our seats on the balcony. The orchestra was preparing for playing a beautiful soundtrack to the production and the stunning stage screen was down. The whole theatre went dark and the show began. At the beginning, the stage screen was still down but it was slightly translucent meaning that when the spotlights shone, you could see the scene take place behind it. The ballet dancers were incredibly talented and we all enjoyed watching them. They were so graceful and elegant and clearly loved what they do.
At the interval we all enjoyed some delicious flavours of ice cream; including 'Wild Strawberry' and 'Cookies 'N Cream' and we all said that we had thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the ballet. We waited for the curtains to come up, so we could watch the final part of the brilliant performance. The second half was very captivating and the set and props were extremely realistic, almost good enough to eat! The costumes were exquisite and remarkably beautiful, there were some funny parts too. The death scene of the witch was very intense and slightly scary!
We would all like to thank Mrs Leahy for giving us the opportunity to see such a fantastic show and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing something so wonderful.
By Isobel and Delphine, year 7


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Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates
Mudasir, Naoki Yoshioka, Hidenari Inoue
Department of Applied Chemistry
A reversed phase ion-paired chromatographic method that can be used to determine trace amounts of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) was developed and applied to the determination of iron (II) and iron (III) levels in natural water. The separation of these metal ions as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (bathophenanthroline) chelates on an Inertsil ODS column was investigated by using acetonitrile-water (80/20, v/v) containing 0.06 M perchloric acid as mobile phase and diode array spectrophotometric detection at 250-650 nm. Chromatographic parameters such as composition of mobile phase and concentration of perchloric acid in mobile phase were optimized. The calibration graphs of iron (II), nickel (II) and copper (II) ions were linear (r > 0.991) in the concentration range 0-0.5, 0-2.0 and 0 4.0 μg ml-1 respectively. The detection limit of iron (II), nickel (II) and copper (II) were 2.67, 5.42 and 18.2 ng ml-1 with relative standard deviation (n = 5) of 3.11. 5.81 and 7.16% at a concentration level of 10 ng ml-1 for iron (II) and nickel (II) and 25 ng ml-1 for copper (II), respectively. The proposed method was applied to the determination oF iron(II) and iron(III) in tap water and sea water samples without any interference from other common metal ions.
Talanta
Published - 1997 Jul
bathophenanthroline
Limit of Detection
4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline
Determination of iron (II,III)
Ion-paired chromatography
Nickel (II) and copper (II)
Mudasir, Yoshioka, N., & Inoue, H. (1997). Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates. Talanta, 44(7), 1195-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-9140(96)02156-X
Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates. / Mudasir, ; Yoshioka, Naoki; Inoue, Hidenari.
In: Talanta, Vol. 44, No. 7, 07.1997, p. 1195-1202.
Mudasir, , Yoshioka, N & Inoue, H 1997, 'Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates', Talanta, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1195-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-9140(96)02156-X
Mudasir , Yoshioka N, Inoue H. Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates. Talanta. 1997 Jul;44(7):1195-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-9140(96)02156-X
Mudasir, ; Yoshioka, Naoki ; Inoue, Hidenari. / Ion paired chromatography of iron (II,III), nickel (II) and copper (II) as their 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline chelates. In: Talanta. 1997 ; Vol. 44, No. 7. pp. 1195-1202.
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