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On the possibility and nature of neurophilosophical study of Indic traditions. A Guest Post by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Posted on 25 August 2014 by elisa freschi — 7 Comments ↓
[Note that this talk was delivered in the presence of the Dalai Lama and a large non-specialist audience, on the specific issue of 'contemplative studies' and neuroscience; hence the particular angle of approach. The issues in the main do pertain to the more general question of classical Indian theories of consciousness and contemporary neuroscience, although what I have said here would need to be re-phrased and re-oriented.]
What we need to ask ourselves is, why is the philosophy of the contemplative traditions needed for neuroscientific study, and conversely, what is the need of neuroscience for the philosophy? Let me try and suggest an answer. Contemplative science, as a discipline, is rapidly establishing itself, primarily as the bottom-up neuroscientific study of contemplation, with the added insights of psychological theories of behaviour and affect, as in Richie Davidson's ground-breaking work on positive affect through alterations in brain and immune functions. This is clearly showing that neuroscience benefits from the study of contemplation, by treating meditative states as magnifiers of states of human consciousness, that can then be studied more directly.
In a profound sense, contemplation does not depend on science – but the philosophical thinking that informs contemplation could indeed benefit from both the informative analysis of the science and its explanatory limitations. To the extent all philosophy should seek to be consistent with the nature of reality available through scientific inquiry, so too the philosophy of contemplative traditions. But why should neuroscience take the philosophy of the contemplative traditions seriously? It is because we should look for a wider and more equal relationship between science and contemplation. By this I mean, not just between the science and the practice of contemplation – after all, much of the current research in contemplative science is exemplary in the respectful relationship between contemplative and scientist. Rather, I mean the relationship between science and the thought that informs contemplative practice.
Contemplative practices developed in close interaction with an intellectual tradition of debate. Even when the core of the contemplative experience was held to be beyond language, these traditions sought to explain why this was so; and they did this by carefully presenting their view of the world and human consciousness of it. It is now agreed that there should be an interaction between first-person study (what I experience and how I report it) and third-person study (what it looks like to a scientific observer, in terms of behaviour and brain states). But Buddhist, Hindu and Jain contemplation always had this interaction – Indian philosophy is often the third-person study of transformative experience. In order to understand the full significance of contemplation, therefore, neuroscience has to engage with the philosophy through which the traditions themselves understood contemplation.
This leads me to the first of four challenges that face contemplative science – which, if met, can be very fruitful.
The first is that contemporary neuroscience is actually deeply influenced by philosophy – Western philosophy. Many key terms of study are drawn from ideas first articulated in the specific context of early modern Europe. In order to attain to the equal relationship I mentioned earlier, we should be sensitive to this historical fact, and make an effort to gain a better understanding of the Indo-Tibetan philosophy that directly informed the contemplative traditions. Terms like 'mind', 'ego', 'knowledge', 'perception', 'intention', 'awareness', 'content', 'knowledge' are not theoretically neutral. They come from specific philosophical contexts. All scientists, and not just the unexpectedly open-minded ones, must recognise the philosophical origin of scientific terms. Then, in the context of contemplative science, they must expand their horizons and interpret these terms from Indo-Tibetan perspectives as well. The first challenge, therefore, is the thorough re-conceptualisation of the terms of contemplative science.
But there are other challenges, and I will list them from the general to the more specific.
The second challenge has to do with a fundamental assumption of much neuroscience, and that is reductionism (which methodological commitment ultimately leads to some version of physicalism). Reductionism is the view that our phenomenological perspective, the what-it-is-like to think or feel anything, can be reduced to physical states. These states are neural. So the sound you hear when I speak – perhaps the boredom you are feeling just now – is just a matter of neurons firing in the brain. Such reductionism can entails physicalism, because it holds that all phenomenology is just physical states, that is to say, states of the brain. Treating consciousness reductively or physicalistically has led to enormous strides in our understanding of some elements of life. But this is a problem for respectful scientific engagement with contemplation, because, whatever the disagreements amongst themselves, the classical Indo-Tibetan traditions were all committed to a spiritual answer to life's suffering, and would not agree that, in the end, there is nothing but physical states.
Now, the strategy of relying on neural correlates of consciousness has taken us quite far. Both scientists and contemplatives can agree that phenomenal states are correlated to neural states. But how far can contemplative science go with this? The correlates are between first-person or self-reports and the states registered through fMRI or PET or other scans. But at least two problems loom. One is that because any human state of sufficient complexity (as in contemplation) requires report, such report must itself have a neural correlate. So an infinite regress threatens, each new brain state requiring a further report to be correlated with. Another problem is that reports, being linguistic, require concepts; but key meditative states in most traditions are held to be beyond conceptual activity. A major challenge, therefore, is to think of how to go beyond the neural correlates of consciousness. And study of behaviour alone will not do that.
The third challenge is related to this. The conceptual vocabulary used in neuroscience has to be clarified. To a large extent, we are now dependent on proxies – i.e., observables standing in for unobservable phenomenal or dispositional states. For example, we look at variations in startle reflex for vaguer descriptors like calmness. Happiness is taken as certain neurons firing (or 'getting frisky' as one philosopher put it). But fMRIs are not what could be called 'cerebrascopes', machines for reading minds. They just read brains. But the relevant states are not so easily read through neural correlates or other physical correlates (like gaze saccades). The contemplative traditions make many distinctions between different types of happiness or tranquillity. A great deal of clarification of the concepts is needed.
The final, and very technical challenge concerns the domination of computationalism in the standard theory of mind that informs top-down cognitive scientific theory. This is based on philosophical arguments that bet that the mind indeed works in ways that replicate formal logic (that is to say, like a computer does). Even if computationalism is re-thought as analogical rather than digital, so that its algorithmic functions are somehow less like computers and more like organisms, there are grounds for being pessimistic about organic consciousness being computational in any sense. Now, classical Indian reasoning structures cognitive processes in ways that are not captured by computational logic. Such classical Indian theories of reasoning are foundational to the Hindu and Buddhist approaches to the nature of consciousness – and therefore of the contemplative techniques for the transformation of consciousness. While syntactical processing may indeed be found in sets of synaptic structures, it is not at all clear that the symbolic representations used in computationalism capture the way we are conscious. A smoother theoretical flow between contemplative practices, the understanding of consciousness that informs them, and the appropriate approach to the neuroscientific data, is therefore required.
Let me end with an example of the sort of research that an Indo-Tibetan philosopher would dream of, if contemplative science meets these challenges, and becomes more integrated in future. Wolf Singer has hypothesised that phenomenal consciousness emerges from the formation of meta-representations through the coding of widely distributed neurons. We could pursue this line by looking for satisfactory answers to the following questions: is some kind of computation required to operationalise the study of contemplative states along these lines? Could there be alternative ways of operationalising the study of dynamical assemblies that seem to produce that heightened unity of awareness that contemplation appears to produce? And could such unity be better theorised through, say, Yogacara or Advaita accounts of consciousness?
Postscript: As I look back at this determined effort to be optimistic about such possibilities (given the context in which it was delivered, I felt I was pushing my questioning far enough already!), I wonder whether it even makes sense to attempt such bridging language. The trouble seems to be that we put into such language precisely such key concepts as already presuppose the possibility of bridging, whereas the fundamental question that has to be asked is whether what happens in these different domains is even bridgeable.
Finally, I need to make a key distinction. I am not particularly confident that neuroscience in its current paradigm and practice settles anything about the nature and content of the discourse of these contemplative practices. On the other hand, if the presuppositions of neuroscientific language are freighted with the terminology of modern European philosophy, one can at least try and imagine what it would be like to reconceptualize the vocabulary of that language through a translational philosophy of the classical Indian traditions. But that then leads us into the different, and perhaps larger intellectual question of inter-translatability as well as the pragmatic question of how scientific hegemonies are re-structured.
[Note by EF: The post is entirely by Ram-Prasad, I only added some formatting, hoping that it does not disturb its author.]
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7 Replies to "On the possibility and nature of neurophilosophical study of Indic traditions. A Guest Post by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad"
Patrick S. O'Donnell on 26 August 2014 at 6:25 am said:
I am delighted to see a post of this sort (especially nos. 2-4), given the rather uncritical reception of neuroscience in some quarters of philosophy as well as other domains, like law, where this is of urgent relevance and concern. We need more forthright (and critical) discussions of reductionism, physicalism, and computationalism (all of which I happen to find untenable with regard to 'explanations' of consciousness). My own view, for what it's worth, is that consciousness, intentionality, and perchance even normativity are decisive properties or features or characteristics of our mental life which rule out even the plausibility of reductionist or eliminativist "hypotheses." In fact, they might be said to rule out the various and more popular views proffered in the philosophy of mind on this score: emergentism, epiphenomenalism, and supervenience, for example, for "It cannot even be said that they are working hypotheses, because a working hypothesis is one that will rise or fall on the basis of relevant evidence, and there is no 'evidence' as such that could tell for or against 'hypotheses' of this sort" (Robinson 2008 below). May I be so bold as to suggest some contemporary works that are of help in this regard:
• Bennett, M.R. and P.M.S. Hacker. Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
• Bennett, Maxwell, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle, and Daniel Robinson. Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. (I prefer the arguments of Bennett, Hacker, and Robinson over Dennett and Searle.)
• Descombes, Vincent (Stephen Adam Schwartz, tr.). The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Finkelstein, David H. Expression and the Inner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
• Horst, Steven. Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Hutto, Daniel D. The Presence of Mind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999.
• Hutto, Daniel D. Beyond Physicalism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000.
• Hutto, Daniel D. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
• Luntley, Michael. Contemporary Philosophy of Thought: Truth, World, Content. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
• Pardo, Michael S. and Dennis Patterson. Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Robinson, Daniel N. Consciousness and Mental Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Tallis, Raymond. The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999 ed.
• Tallis, Raymond. Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. Durham, England: Acumen, 2011.
• Travis, Charles. Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Velmans, Max. Understanding Consciousness. London: Routledge, 2000.
Ram-Prasad on 26 August 2014 at 9:03 am said:
Indeed, Patrick. And a helpful bibliography, some of which I've not come across. I'd also recommend the works of Mary Midgley:
Science As Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning. Routledge, 1992.
The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality. Routledge, 1994.
'Darwinism and Ethics' (1994) Medicine and Moral Reasoning ed. K.W.M. Fulford, Grant Gillett and Janet Martin Soskice
'Reductive Megalomania' (1995) Nature's Imagination; The Frontiers of Scientific Vision ed. John Cornwall
Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical Plumbing. Routledge, 1996
Myths We Live By. Routledge, 2003
The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene. Acumen, 2010
Patrick S. O'Donnell on 26 August 2014 at 11:58 am said:
Ah yes, thank you, I have several of Midgley's books, my interest in her first provoked by her work on our relations to non-human animals and then later by her deceptively sophisticated views on scientism ('deceptively' if only because she writes so plainly and clearly that one fails perhaps to notice the high quality of argumentation!). Her range of interests as a philosopher is uncommon and refreshing…. And that reminds me of the work of a neurosurgeon and philosopher who also bears mentioning: Grant Gillet. He might be described as a neo-Aristotelian and post-Wittgensteinian philosopher (I know, that's a mouthful and perhaps more confusing than not) who studiously avoids both reductionism and physicalism but is nonetheless an intriguing "naturalist" in the broadest and best sense (more in reference to our social world, our natural history and human ecology as it were, leaving us with a philosophically provocative narrative metaphysics and ethics and a 'transcendental naturalism'). Readers thereby sufficiently provoked should see The Mind and Its Discontents (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2009) and Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (2008).
Patrick S. O'Donnell on 26 August 2014 at 12:01 pm said:
The publisher of the second book by Gillett (properly spelled), at least in the UK, is Imprint Academic.
elisa freschi on 27 August 2014 at 10:05 am said:
thank you, Ram, for the thoughtful post and Patrick for the further readings he suggest. I am pleased to see that so much work has already been done in this field. In my experience, neurosciences are often employed by philosophers as a sort of philosophers' stone which should turn all their arguments into gold or destroy at once their opponents' ones. As if neurosciences delivered crude, uninterpreted facts which could serve as the litmus test of each philosophical theory.
Don Salmon on 6 February 2015 at 4:03 pm said:
This is a brilliant – and unfortunately all-too-rare recognition of the extent to which supposedly "neutral" neuroscience is pervaded by underlying assumptions from the Western philosophic position.
Though not a philosopher (I'm a clinical psychologist) I attempted to point to some of the limitations and pitfalls in contemporary attempts to integrate Indian philosophic/psychological ideas with contemporary science: http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_es/i_es_salmo_psych_frameset.htm
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Sarvothaman on 12 July 2017 at 2:05 am said:
Madhva's school has contributed to neurosciences by discussion on
Nadis or spiritual neurons which are 72000 in number. A seperate
chapter Nadi Prakarana Sandhi is available in Sanskritised Kannada
work HARIKATHAMRUTHASARA, available in English. Readers may
also refer to Tattva Kanika by Sri Seshachandrikacharya published by
Sri Vyasaraja Mutt, Bangalore.
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has spoken about how he believes technology can change the world by bringing greater information, transparency and values to Internet users across the planet.
Speaking at The Economic Club of Washington's event earlier this month, broadcast by C-Span yesterday, Schmidt opened by stating that technology, and the Internet in particular, is an enabler that can help people push themselves forward:
All of us would agree that people can search for their dreams, they should be able to archive what they really want.
Government and citizens
Schmidt spoke of the emergence of two rival systems which are being brought together by the Internet: offline institutions — such as government, politics and law — and cyberspace.
They are getting into conflict in some governments and places, as technology is empowering people in ways they have never been empowered before. You can think of this as a community of citizens and a community of governments.
As technology develops and time passes, Schmidt believes that "a new equilibrium will emerge" to serve both communities in different ways. Cyberspace, he says, will ultimately serve to keep governments more honest in many ways, while equally government will have influence on the negative things that happen in cyberspace.
Companies changing the world
Schmidt continued on to look at exactly how the Internet and leading tech companies are helping to improve live across the world, saying:
Technology is at a point where we are seeing emergence of global scaled platforms, that are impressive in their reach, with a chance to change the world.
He specifically identified four companies — Google (of course), Apple, Facebook and Amazon — as those which have platforms that are impacting political and business systems across the world.
Construction of these systems is the probably most important business today. The combined market value of these corporations is very high, but they are just beginning. Within 10 yeas, computers will be 30 times faster…which will allow us to do amazing things.
The Google chief firmly believes that the Internet can make an unprecedented difference across the whole world:
My view, is that we should be very optimistic about all of this. The world isn't perfect but it is going to a much safer and more informed place. The things that [the US] can bring to the world really will change a lot of these countries and lift people out of financial poverty, and information poverty.
Schmidt highlighted the captive market for these changes by pointing out that, in some countries, people are placing greater priority on having a mobile phone than getting running water at home.
Personal super computer
Speaking about the future, Schmidt is optimistic that computers and artificial intelligence will not take over the world. Instead he believes that a complimentary scenario will emerge:
Over five to ten years, human and computers will be distinguishable. Humans will still be very good at what we do — intuition, fun, entertainment, innovation — and computers will get extraordinarily good about what they are very good at, such as needle in a haystack problems and infinite memories.
Schmidt believes that the value of mobile devices is the networks of information that they are connected to, rather than the device itself:
I don't think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life.
Tablets and mobile devices are often referred to as points of access, and Google is continuing to invest it its network, having recently broken ground on two new data center in Asia, amongst many of its other projects.
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Q: How to insert large amounts of CSV data to MySQL database using node.js I have a huge CSV file with ~1 million records. I want to insert them to my MySQL database.
Here is what I have tried so far:
// sync method to insert csv to mysql db
// csv -> js array -> sql query

const parseCSV = require('csv-parse/lib/sync')
const csvdata = fs.readFileSync("myfile.csv");

// convert csv to js array
let records = parseCSV(csvdata, {
    columns: true,
    skip_empty_lines: true
});

// convert js array to one big SQL query
let query = `INSERT INTO my_table VALUES `;

for (let record of records) {

    const fields = [
        'field1', 'field2', 'field3'
    ];

    let subQuery = "";

    fields.forEach(field => {
        if (record[field]) {
            subQuery += `"${record[field]}",`;
        } else {
            subQuery += "NULL" + ",";
        }
    })

    // remove the comma from the end of sub query
    subQuery = subQuery.slice(0, -1)

    // append it to the main query
    query += `(${subQuery}),`
}

// remove comma from the end of main query
query = query.slice(0, -1);

let [result] = await dbConn.promise().execute(query);
res.send({ error: false, message: `${result.affectedRows} new records have been created.` });

The problem I am facing is that when I convert csv to a js array, heap overflow occurs. Even if I am able to make the query, sending such a big query to the db can be a problem.
I have also tried using fs.createReadStream in the following manner.
// insert csv to mysql db using stream
// csv -> sql query
const csvParser = require('csv-parser');

const fields = [
    'field1', 'field2', 'field3'
];

// convert each record of csv and make separate SQL query for each record
fs.createReadStream("myfile.csv")
    .pipe(csvParser())
    .on('data', async (record) => {

        let query = `INSERT INTO primary_table VALUES `;
        let subQuery = "";

        fields.forEach(field => {
            if (record[field]) {
                subQuery += `"` + record[field] + `"` + ",";
            } else {
                subQuery += "NULL" + ",";
            }
        })

        // remove the comma from the end of sub query
        subQuery = subQuery.slice(0, -1)

        // make the complete query
        query += `(${subQuery}),`

        // remove comma from the end of main query
        query = query.slice(0, -1);

        try {
            let [result] = await dbConn.promise().execute(query);
        } catch (e) {
            console.log("SQL ERROR");
        }
    })
    .on('error', (err) => { console.log(`Error \n\n`, err); })
    .on('end', async () => {
        console.log('Data sent to DB')
        return res.send({ error: false, message: `New records have been created.` });
    });

Here the issue is that the server will send 1 million queries to the DB which is again very slow.

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When deciding what toys to bring with us for a big trip, the bar gets set pretty high for anything that is the slightest bit heavy, take batteries, and makes noise. The Alphaberry by B-Toys is one that made the cut for several trips – an impressive accomplishment! The toy has several different styles of music, all of which are very listenable. The toy is very durable, after having been dropped on many concrete floors, and the batteries last a long time. There is a little light-up panel that shows which letter is playing, and there's buttons for all the letters. The buttons have a good squishiness to them, and the toy even lights up at night – perfect for in the dark road trips.
The Alphaberry, in our books, is a much bigger success than it's namesake, the Blackberry! Our kids always love it, and there was even some mild educational value to it. Highly recommended!


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Those of you that follow my blog might have noticed how fond I am to some of CoffeeScript's conveniences. They are excellent, but it's time to leave them behind and start using ES6. Most of CoffeeScript's goodies already exist in ES6 (with some syntax changes), and your code is guaranteed to be future proof. And if time spent learning CoffeeScript feels like a waste, there's good news – with a solid CoffeeScript base, transitioning to ES6 will be a piece of cake!
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Electric & Hybrid Cars, Car Clubs & Lift Shares
The top 10 electric cars
Electric cars are the future of motoring. They are clean, fast and cheaper to run compared with petrol and diesel models.
The range of many models is over 200 miles and there are more charging locations than petrol stations so there is no longer any reason to delay in switching to an electric vehicle (EV).
As well as helping to clean up the air that we breathe EVs also help to tackle climate change.
The motors are more efficient and batteries are charged using electricity, which is increasingly generated from the wind and the sun. For these great health and environmental reasons, there is a £3,500 grant from the Government when you buy a new all-electric vehicle (EV).
So if you are in the market for a new car, what are the best electric cars to buy?
Below is an overview of the best models on the market (in alphabetical order). There's a variety of sizes, prices, and electric driving ranges, so there is something to suit everyone. All have zero tailpipe emissions, all have low running costs and all will benefit from a zero company car tax Benefit in Kind (BIK) rate from April 2020.
The Audi e-tron is the first all-electric offering from the brand and it's very capable, desirable and practical.
Electric driving range: 241 miles (WLTP)
Price: £68,020 (after the government's £3,500 Plug-in Car Grant)
Read the full Audi e-tron review
The BMW i3, especially in i3s form, aims to provide a sporty EV driving experience, helped by the rear-wheel drive, lightweight chassis.
Electric driving range: 188miles (WLTP)
Read the full BMW i3 Review
The Hyundai KONA Electric is a game changer: it offers a 279 mile electric range for a shade over £30,000 – and it's excellent to drive.
Price: £32,845(after the government's £3,500 Plug-in Car Grant)
NOTE – 39 kWh version costs £27,250 and offers 180 mile range
Read the full Hyundai KONA Electric Review
The Jaguar I-PACE offers zero emissions, a dynamic driving experience, a great-looking and practical body style, and of course performance – so is this the ultimate all-round green driver's car?
Read the full Jaguar I-PACE Review
The Kia e-Niro has an official 282 mile WLTP electric driving range, a practical, compact crossover-style body, and it's relatively affordable: it's another game changer from the rapidly progressing Hyundai & Kia corporations.
Read the full Kia e-Niro Review
The new Nissan LEAF has more mainstream styling and a longer driving range compared to the previous model, together with all of the usual benefits of electric vehicles such as zero emissions and an extremely refined driving experience.
Read the full Nissan LEAF Review
The all-electric Renault ZOE is good to drive and the Z.E.40 model now comes with a range of 186 miles (WLTP); along with a competitive price compared to some other EVs, it's a practical and attractive proposition for many motorists.
Price: £24,320 including battery (after the government's £3,500 Plug-in Car Grant)
NOTE – New 52 kWh version offers 242 mile range
Read the full Renault ZOE Review
It's been on sale in America for a while, but the Model 3 has only just made it to the UK – with a 348 mile range and prices starting from £38,900, surely this will be a sales hit?
Electric driving range: 348 miles (WLTP) (Long Range version)
NOTE – 'Standard Range Plus' version costs £38,900 and offers 258 mile range
The Tesla Model S was outstanding when it first appeared, but it's still ahead of the EV crowd in many ways today.
Electric driving range: 375 miles (WLTP estimate) (Long Range version)
NOTE – Standard Range version costs £72,550, Tesla estimates WLTP range is 280 miles. Long Range version costs £81,650.
Read the full Tesla Model S Review
Tesla brings more disruptive technology to the car industry with the Model X all-electric, all-wheel drive SUV, with a range of around 300 miles, 150mph+ top speed and 0-60mph in sub-5 seconds – and of course zero tailpipe emissions.
NOTE – Standard Range version costs £76,550, Tesla estimates WLTP range as 230 miles. Long Range version costs £84,800.
This information was kindly reproduced from an article that first appeared on the Green Car Guide website https://www.greencarguide.co.uk/features/top-10-electric-cars-2/
There are often long waiting times for a new electric car so if you are keen to buy one asap then choosing the standard models is normally the quickest way to buy a new electric car.
Alternatively, if you want to save some money, there are plenty of second hand models out there. In particular Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe, Telsas and BMW i3 however as demand grows, many second-hand electric cars are holding their value well. Increasingly for work and leisure many people are choosing to rent rather than own a new car. There are several leasing schemes available such as Evezy.
There is an electric car to suit most budgets, styles and range requirements. I've owned a Nissan Leaf for a few months now and it is fabulous so whatever car you choose you will never regret switching to an electric vehicle.
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Save yourself from salad boredom with these better things between sliced bread. Sandwiches become lighter when prepared with good-for-you carbs, slimmer sauces, loads of veggies and lean proteins. Read on for five recipes that will fill your lunchbox and keep you sated till dinner without weighing you down.
Parsley adds fresh flavor to the aioli in this shredded chicken sandwich, which has a satisfying salty kick thanks to one anchovy fillet. Yogurt steps in for mayo, keeping this wrap extra light.
The salty, herby feta spread (made with cream cheese and sour cream) almost overshadows all the fresh veggies in this fiber- and vitamin-packed sandwich.
Rumored to have been created at the storied New York City hotel, this textured salad is loaded with apples, walnuts and a creamy mayonnaise dressing. Here it is transformed into a wrap with cubes of skinless chicken breast and grapes, and made lighter with the addition of nonfat yogurt.
Low-fat mozzarella, Greek yogurt and whole-wheat bread help Bobby Deen trim down classic pimento cheese sandwiches without sacrificing any of the flavor.
Kalamata olives and fresh tomatoes infuse this meal with classic Mediterranean flavors. A simple dressing of oil and vinegar brings all the ingredients together and mellows the flavor of the tuna.


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Launched! LIVE video classes from home to help mums return to exercise with ease.
Bump and Beyond has today announced the launch of an at-home fitness platform that connects users with their postnatal exercise instructor and other participants via live video.
Getting to a gym and attending exercise classes is challenging for many mums with the travel time it takes to get there, not to mention the childcare to often organise.
Recent research from the University of Portsmouth* reveals that less than a quarter of mums return to the gym in the first year after having their baby with the main barriers being a lack of time and energy.
Despite this over 90% of women surveyed said their biggest motivator to exercise was 'it is good for me' and other key motivators were to lose weight, be happy and improve their health. So whilst many women understand the benefits of exercise, there is still a rapid decline to participate in exercise during the 12 months after birth.
Now with just the touch of a button, Bump and Beyond by Vicky Warr has brought live video exercise classes with bite-sized routines specifically designed for mothers, that can be done anywhere, at any time. The effective studio fitness inspired workouts with expert instruction and feedback from your trainer plus interaction with other class participants make exercise truly fun, accessible and gives the same feeling you get from going to a gym or class. All of this without the usual gym demands of travel time, energy and childcare.
With a variety of classes; from core strength and flatter tummy, leaner legs and low impact, to high intensity, there is emphasis on safe postnatal specific exercises which are effective and with choices of duration from 10, 20 or 30 minutes they are easy to fit into the busiest of days. Class replays and on demand video routines are available too!
Plus to compliment the exercise, there are over 150 quick, healthy recipes suitable for the whole family without the need to spend hours in the kitchen preparing and cooking food.
Bump and Beyond has 2 membership levels; Fit and Fabulous and Super Toned Up; available for £16.50/month or £35/month respectively.
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Nail-Biting Ending at the 2019 Special Olympics Unified NBA All-Star Game
Four athletes get big event experience before the World Games.
This year's annual NBA Cares Special Olympics Unified basketball game during NBA All-Star weekend was full of fun, talent and excitement. Special Olympics assembled 12 international players to gather in Charlotte, NC to represent their countries, cities and a global movement of inclusion. The players were broken up into two teams of five Special Olympics athletes, with intellectual disabilities. Each team was joined by four international sport celebrities without intellectual disabilities to create a "home" and an "away" team for the Unified basketball game.
The away team squeaked out a 1-point victory over the home team with a final score of 27-26. The away team was coached by Boston Celtics Kyrie Irving. of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Portland Trail Blazers Damian Lillard (Special Olympics Global Ambassador) of the NBA coached the home squad.
Take a look at this photo gallery to catch a glimpse of the action!
Andrew Smilley, Special Olympics Cayman Islands, and Marquise Ledbetter, Special Olympics North Carolina, USA, go for the ball at the same time. Andrew, an experienced World Games competitor in swimming, will travel to Abu Dhabi with his country's basketball team for World Games this year. Marquise is an avid sports participant who, along with basketball, enjoys track and field, flag football, bocce, cycling and softball.
Photo by Ben Solomon
Ashley Aldrich, Special Olympics Massachusetts, USA, strides the practice court. When she was 13 years old, she underwent spinal surgery for 11 hours but that hasn't kept her from the games she loves. Kyrie Irving is her favorite NBA player.
Brendan Connolly, Special Olympics Ireland, practices good form. Brendan recently completed an internship at his local hospital which led to a full-time job. His favorite NBA player is Steph Curry.
Mikami Hayato, Special Olympics Japan, goes for a basket against his favorite NBA player Dikembe Mutombo, former professional American basketball player and Special Olympics Ambassador. Mikami's works full time for e-book company operated by a major cell phone company. (photo credit: Ben Solomon)
Retired WNBA player Taj McWilliams tries to catch Didier Drogba, retired international football player from Ivory Coast and Special Olympics Ambassador.
Thierry Henry, former international football player from France, watches from the sidelines.
Horace Grant, retired NBA player, is taking the game very seriously.
Kyle Emery, Special Olympics Colorado, USA poses with Ray Allen, NBA Hall of Famer, after the game. Kyle works with special needs students at a high school. He volunteers at special events and Steph Curry is his favorite NBA player.
Coach Kyrie Irving shares a laugh with WNBA player Ashley Battle.
Coaches Kyrie Irving and Damian Lillard stand with players Leanne Woolfe, Special Olympics Great Britain and Mikami Hayato, Special Olympics Japan. Both Leanne and Mikami will travel with their national teams to the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019.
Michael Wright, Special Olympics Ontario, watches with as much enthusiasm as he plays. Michael will join the Canada team in Abu Dhabi at the World Games 2019. Michael works at Chuck E. Cheese and LeBron James is his favorite NBA player.
Micah Gumness, Special Olympics Wisconsin, USA waits on the court with teammates Leanne Woolfe and Dikembe Mutombo. In addition to helping his father coach basketball, Micah works at a paint and coating factory and volunteers for church events. His favorite NBA player is LeBron James.
Retired NBA player Muggsy Bogues enjoys the game even while watching. He is seated next to Kellie Hearne from Special Olympics North Carolina, USA.
Five-time NBA champion Ron Harper signs the jersey of Special Olympics Florida, USA athlete Janaiya Warren. Janaiya started playing basketball at age 6 with her father as her coach. Her favorite NBA player is Steph Curry. (photo credit: Ben Solomon)
Sebastijan Abel, Special Olympics Germany, is focused on his next move. Sebastijan has been playing basketball for five years and is employed as a warehouse worker. His favorite NBA player is Dirk Nowitzki.
Special Olympics athletes pose before the big game. This international group of athletes come from Canada, Cayman Islands, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan and USA.
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In PT 2 of Miner's Lament we basically have more of the elements from PT 1 but it's put together so that it can be used kind of like a solo section to be played in conjunction with PT 1.
Things to take note of in this piece are the double stops over the IV chord. I recommend using these as a starting point and then going on to find other double stops to be used. Find them for not only the IV chord but the I chord as well. Mix your double stops with single note lines to form your own melodies.
Since the V chord is in a closed position you are somewhat limited to what you can do with the high strings while you're holding down the 2nd fret of the A string for the steady bass - but why let that stop you? Try to find new inversions that offer more freedom.
The world of steady bass is open to your creativity and if it sounds good to you then that's good enough. Take note of the changes in measures 11 and 12. It goes from the I chord to the IV chord back to the I. This differs from the turnaround in Miner's Lament PT 1, and is intended to illustrate another way of turning a minor blues tune around with alternate chord substitutions. Chord substitutions add movement to a piece so it's good to start to open your ears to them.


London, United Kingdom, April 13, 2016 –(PR.com)– CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange launched trading Ethers, currency used by the Ethereum decentralised platform that runs smart contracts. CEX.IO users are now able to buy and sell ETH for Bitcoins and US Dollars.
Following trends, CEX.IO has expanded the range of currencies traded on the exchange with ETH/BTC and ETH/USD. Famous for user-friendly experience of buying cryptocurrency with payment cards, CEX.IO opened an opportunity not only to trade Ether for Bitcoin, but also to easily buy ETH using Visa or MasterCard.
At the moment of writing, market capitalisation of ETH is on the second place after Bitcoin, and is near $600,000,000. ETH average market price is about $8, which is many times higher, than most altcoins on the network.
Ether is crucial for developers who want to build apps using the Ethereum blockchain, as well as for users who are aiming to access and interact with smart contracts. In their turn, professional traders consider using ETH volatility in their trading strategies.
CEX.IO is a UK-based Bitcoin exchange trusted by over half a million users. Starting as the first ever cloud mining provider, CEX.IO has developed as an exchange and offers services of simple buying and selling of crypto coins, as well as of professional trading. CEX.IO claims to provide the best experience of buying Bitcoins, Litecoins and Ethers with credit or debit cards.
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I don't think you ever get over an anxiety induced eating disorder. I think you just learn to manage it – and when you are feeling low or poorly it is the first thing to get you down. There will always be that crack under the surface and I need to keep it from opening up again.
I have been off my medication for a little while now and that has been going OK. I have had a couple of "episodes" where I know I am being irrational or that I haven't dealt with something very well but they are few and far between and usually come when I am really tired or hormonal! I am mostly pretty happy now.
Something I am trying to balance up at the moment is how I am coping with my stress levels. I am having a bit of a hard time relaxing again and I am definitely taking on too much! This then leads to the bad or nonexistent eating habits creeping back in. I either forget to eat completely or eat the wrong things and feel terrible afterwards.
What I need to remember when this all comes to a head and I am struggling with my appearance is that it doesn't matter. I have put on weight during my recovery, which I knew had to happen for me to be healthy and most of the time I am OK with that. It's when I am stressed and tired that this goes out of the window.
I am working on a plan that I can stick to so that I can try and keep things balanced and avoid having to go back onto any medication. I hope that I can stick to this but there is a whole lot of looking after myself that I need to do and in times like this I really need to put myself first!
This is 100% the hardest thing for me to do. I always take on everyone else's stresses and cover for people when they are poorly but I don't give myself the time I need to be able to cope with everything.
I need to learn from the past and take the time I need to be able to deal with this. I don't want to be poorly again and I am going to have to work really hard to make sure I don't slip back into the way I felt before.
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THE SHIP 158 Lafayette St A tasteful and civilized place for a perfect cocktail, quiet conversation, and a friendly attitude. The Ship is a semi-hidden bar designed, in keeping with its name, as a ship. The bar is located behind a nondescript door on a plain block on the border of Soho and Little Italy….
The Raines Law Room at The William
THE RAINES LAW ROOM AT THE WILLIAM 24 East 39th St A dark, cozy space with the feel of a Victorian house; it's adorned with a fireplace, antique furniture, and a book-lined library. The bar is designed to feel like a traditional Victorian house, with a cozy bar room and a traditional English library room…
The Garret
The Garret 296 Bleecker St Skylighted secret bar atop a burger joint. With couches, books, artwork and a fireplace, the Garret feels like a sunny living room. If you come when it's not busy, you can bring your burgers up and wash 'em down with one of 14 tap beers or with a cocktail prepared…
The Blue Bar at India House
The Blue Bar at India House 1 Hanover Square A hidden bar inside a private club. The Blue Bar is named for its brilliantly-blue color scheme. With oversized neoclassical windows, it feels like an elegant, bright 19th century New York living room. India House, a New York City landmark, was constructed shortly after the fire…
Slowly Shirley
Slowly Shirley 121 West 10th St This is a 1940s-era Hollywood-themed bar hidden beneath… another bar. This subterranean speakeasy features inventive but expensive cocktails, art-deco decor, an intimate dark atmosphere and 1940s Hollywood's Golden Age sensibility. The cocktail menu is quite a good read, with very unusual names, some of which sound like Hollywood movie…
Mulberry Project
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Middle Branch
Middle Branch 154 East 33rd St Prohibition-era cocktails in a two-story Murray Hill townhouse. Even though Middle Branch is not as hard to find as Sasha Petraske's other establishments, such as Milk & Honey (now closed) or Little Branch, it maintains the main traits of the perfect cocktail bar: the well-crafted cocktail and the classy…
Manhattan Cricket Club
MANHATTAN CRICKET CLUB 226 West 79th St See the host at Burke & Wills who will escort you to the Club through the unmarked green leather door. This club is inspired by colonial gentlemen's clubs that were prominent throughout the British Empire at the turn of the 20th century. The Club pays homage to the…
Little Branch
Little Branch 22 7th Ave South A speakeasy, hidden in the basement of a nondescript building in the West Village. Little Branch is one of the early pioneers of the speakeasy scene. This underground space is small, dimly lit, intimate, and often features live jazz. It's the place for serious cocktail connoisseurs. After all, Little Branch…
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Defining the personality type of a person requires specialized tests, but what if it can be performed by AI software? In a joint effort, researchers were able to develop state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms that predict personality type based on eye movement.
The project was developed by experts at the University of South Australia, the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics which demonstrated how an advanced AI recognized the signs of the four of the Big Five personality traits – agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and neuroticism.
The AI software obtained data from a video eye tracker created by SensorMotoric Instruments. The AI tracked down the eye movements of participants in performing everyday duties in the university campus and analyzed these to define their personality type.
After that, the participants received questionnaires designed to assess personality traits. The questionnaires were used by researchers to cross-check the results from the AI.
"There's certainly the potential for these findings to improve human-machine interactions. People are always looking for improved, personalized services. However, today's robots and computers are not socially aware, so they cannot adapt to non-verbal cues," said Dr. Tobias Loetscher, a researcher at UniSA.
Since the AI was able to get four out of the Big Five, the researchers validated the relationship between eye movements and personality traits. This means that certain eye movement patterns can be applied as predictors of specific personality traits.
The researchers noted that the findings also showed the difference between controlled studies in laboratories and real-life environments. The AI system was able to get more accurate information due to the natural responses of the participants during the study, more natural compared to lab settings.
The findings may be used to develop future computers and robots that possess near-human responses and social signals.


When you visit The Ship at Dunwich, you will find a great pub, home-cooked food in our restaurant, a cosy hotel with comfortable, traditionally furnished bedrooms,some with views across the sea or marshes.
There is also an enormous garden, dotted with fruit trees (including our 300-year-old fig tree) and a beach that really is just a couple of minutes walk away.
There's plenty to enjoy on The Ship's menu from: pie of the day, slow-cooked pork belly, or roast red onion tart through to traditional English puddings like sticky toffee, pear and blackberry crumble and much more, accompanied by good wines at sensible prices, or proper beers and ales – including Adnams and a range of guest ales.
There are rooms suitable for families, as well as dog-friendly accommodation.
From the A12 (coming from a northerly direction), turn off at Blythburgh onto the B1125, then take the first left. This leads straight into the village, and The Ship is at the end of the road (stop when you reach The Ship or you'll end up in the sea!). Alternatively, if you're coming from the south, you can turn off the A12 towards Westleton, then continue through Westleton village and then turn right twards Dunwich. In the village turn left a short way to find us.
How to get to there by train: the nearest local train station is Darsham, approximately 5 miles from The Ship Inn. On leaving the station turn left down the hill and take the first turning on the right, follow the road into Westleton village, then continue on to Dunwich as described above.