IPhone SE 2 with Glass Rear Comes in June
iPhone SE 2 being unveiled in June this year with glass rear supporting wireless charging features. A handy alternative to expensive iPhone models for those who want quality with affordability!

Red, green and some yellow

More macros in colors https://www.paolodalprato.com/macro-a-colori

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Adam Silver responds to President Trump's s—hole comments, encourages equality: Silver felt compelled to respond to Donald Trump's reported vulgar remark about immigration on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr's death. http://dlvr.it/QBFB55

A perfect winter treat: Warm rice pudding (here topped with frozen strawberries).

“It fits another premise of the book,” Wolff said. “He doesn’t care. He just wants somebody else to do his work. He wants a win and the nature of the win doesn’t really matter.

“I’ve talked to a number of Donald Trump friends and cronies. He ran on the idea of ‘I’m a negotiator’ but they all say he’s never negotiated anything. Negotiation requires detailed understanding. It’s methodical. He can’t do it.”

Inside the core of a flower

My dancing in the dark https://www.paolodalprato.com/danza-nel-roseto

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Another step forward for SpaceX.

Measuring effects of music, noise, and HEALING ENERGY (as in telepathic healing) using a seed germination bioassay. ► J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Feb;10(1):113-22. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15025885

Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To measure biologic effects of music, noise, and healing energy without human preferences or placebo effects using seed germination as an objective biomarker.

METHODS:
A series of five experiments were performed utilizing okra and zucchini seeds germinated in acoustically shielded, thermally insulated, dark, humid growth chambers. Conditions compared were an untreated control, musical sound, pink noise, and healing energy. Healing energy was administered for 15-20 minutes every 12 hours with the intention that the treated seeds would germinate faster than the untreated seeds. The objective marker was the number of seeds sprouted out of groups of 25 seeds counted at 12-hour intervals over a 72-hour growing period. Temperature and relative humidity were monitored every 15 minutes inside the seed germination containers. A total of 14 trials were run testing a total of 4600 seeds.

RESULTS:
Musical sound had a highly statistically significant effect on the number of seeds sprouted compared to the untreated control over all five experiments for the main condition (p < 0.002) and over time (p < 0.000002). This effect was independent of temperature, seed type, position in room, specific petri dish, and person doing the scoring. Musical sound had a significant effect compared to noise and an untreated control as a function of time (p < 0.03) while there was no significant difference between seeds exposed to noise and an untreated control. Healing energy also had a significant effect compared to an untreated control (main condition, p < 0.0006) and over time (p < 0.0001) with a magnitude of effect comparable to that of musical sound.

CONCLUSION:
This study suggests that sound vibrations (music and noise) as well as biofields (bioelectromagnetic and healing intention) both directly affect living biologic systems, and that a seed germination bioassay has the sensitivity to enable detection of effects caused by various applied energetic conditions.


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TELEPATHY EXPERIENCES:

TELEPATHY EXERCISES ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NGQbsdUSQHk

Pre-conception and pre-birth Telepathy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CKvcTre8AKP

Daughter reads mind of her mom exactly ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ctweXzdhmUP

Telepathic boy who can also read in 7 languages ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RQ3F4vs91xf

Padre Pio mind reading cases (very long post) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5Xmhf9jKMcc

Spirits use Books, etc and Telekinesis to confirm Telepathy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hzU44FGeMWq

TELEPATHY ENHANCING HABITS and many more TELEPATHY EXAMPLES ►
https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/fXyFWMUxbvF

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Don't cancel the gym membership just yet, though.

https://www.tarladalal.com/Vegetable-and-Basil-Soup-Healthy-Diabetic-Recipe-33650r

This delightful soup brims with the goodness of veggies, and radiates the pleasant aroma and flavour of basil. While the abundant use of veggies gives the diabetic diner a good dose of fibre, basil lends an aesthetic touch along with its medicinal value.

Instead of being used in chopped or dried form, basil is added as a paste in this soup, which makes its presence really noticeable.

Apart from having loads of chopped veggies, this soup also uses vegetable stock to get a nice taste and mouth-feel. However, cornflour is totally avoided, so this soup can even be a part of one’s daily meals.

With minimal calories and carbs, and high fibre content, this Vegetable and Basil Soup will help diabetics to keep their blood sugar levels under check.

You can also try other diabetic friendly soups like Oats and Vegetable Broth or Broccoli and Red Capsicum Soup .

**Disclaimer:
It is highly recommended that this recipe be relished by diabetics only occasionally and in small quantities. This is just a mere ‘treat’ and does not qualify for a regular diabetic menu.

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"Fire and Fury is a reality T.V. book about a reality T.V. president." http://aje.io/qsbfe

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Why are another president's words ("I am not a crook") echoing in my head? We certainly found out later that was a lie.

This is a great video about increasing plant nutrient uptake by up to 700% with the sound, showing the dramatic effect of sound on plant life, similar to its effect on human brain and telepathy. Sonic Bloom is a completely organic technique that enhances plant development through a specialized nutrient spray and custom sound frequencies that stimulate enhanced nutrient absorption through the stomata underneath the leaves. The technology was developed in the 1980s and the technology works. By adding in the Sonic Bloom technology, you can further increase productivity and nutrients, increase shelf life, reduce the use of water and herbicides, speed crops to market, withstand early frosts and insect depredation, speed germination and maturation of seedlings, and release the full genetic potential of the plants. This works on above ground vegetables, root crops, field crops, and trees. This technology also expands the geographical range of food production, as it converts marginal land into arable land, by giving farmers ability to grow better crops in poor soils and low rainfall. Plants are able to obtain 72% of their nutritional requirements through their leaves via the stomata, the mouth-like pores on the lower surface of the leaves. Plants translocate any excess nutrients from their leaves down to their root system, thus conditioning the soil and storing nutrients for future use. Sonic Bloom treatment has brought yield increases of 400% for cucumbers (which pesticide can do that? None), 300% yield increases on sweet corn (which pesticide can do that? None), potatoes grew 33% larger, with 33% more yield, and each generation showed an improvement over the last. Healthy plants are not so susceptible to damage by insects and disease organisms, so you have fewer pests and disease problems. And because of the high nutrient content, most fruits and vegetables have a doubled or tripled shelf life. Plants that take up more nutrients can grow with more abundance. You can get SonicBloom at http://www.originalsonicbloom.com It is time to end hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.

The first telepathy precision enhancing habit at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/fXyFWMUxbvF is listening to gentle healing music. In 1973, Dorothy Retallack published a small book called The Sound of Music and Plants. Her book detailed experiments that she had been conducting with Professor Broman at the Colorado Women’s College in Denver using the school’s three Biotronic Control Chambers - also explained at https://modernworlddotorg.wordpress.com/sound-vibration/. Mrs. Retallack used two chambers (and fresh plants). She placed radios in each chamber. In one chamber, the radio was tuned to a local rock station, and in the other the radio played a station that featured soothing "middle-of-the-road" music. Only three hours of music was played in each chamber. On the fifth day, she began noticing drastic changes. In the chamber with the soothing music, the plants were growing healthily and their stems were starting to bend towards the radio! In the rock chamber, half the plants had small leaves and had grown gangly, while the others were stunted. After two weeks, the plants in the soothing-music chamber were uniform in size, lush and green, and were leaning between 15 and 20 degrees toward the radio. The plants in the rock chamber had grown extremely tall and were drooping, the blooms had faded and the stems were bending away from the radio. On the sixteenth day, all but a few plants in the rock chamber were in the last stages of dying. In the other chamber, the plants were alive, beautiful, and growing abundantly. This may have to do with the Fibonacci series and other geometrical properties of sound, as related to cymatics, see below. The negative effect on plants, animals and humans depends on what type of rock, as some rock styles are much more entropic and chaotic than others, interfering with cellular division more, as explained below. Dolphins swam towards the ship playing soothing classical music, while they ran away from a ship playing rock. Human biomarkers are probably changed too within hours and many studies could be done on all kinds of plants, animals and on volunteers who want to advance the science of the effects on human biomarkers.

In another experiment, Mrs. Retallack placed plants in each chamber and speakers through which she played sounds and particular styles of music. She watched the plants and recorded their progress daily. She was astounded at what she discovered. Her first experiment was to simply play a constant tone. In the first of the three chambers, she played a steady tone continuously for eight hours. In the second, she played the tone for three hours intermittently, and in the third chamber, she played no tone at all. The plants in the first chamber, with the constant tone, died within fourteen days. The plants in the second chamber grew abundantly and were extremely healthy, even more so than the plants in the third chamber. ► http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/plant_experiments.asp. This was similar to the findings of Muzak Corporation in the early 1940s: when music was played continuously, the workers were more fatigued and less productive, when played for several hours only, several times a day, the workers were more productive, and more alert and attentive than when no music was played, as explained at the link above.:)

Next Mrs. Retallack tried another experiment again using the three chambers. In one chamber she played North Indian classical music performed by sitar and tabla, in another she played Bach organ music, and in the third, no music was played. The plants "liked" the North Indian classical music the best. In both the Bach and sitar chambers, the plants leaned toward the speakers, but the plants in the Indian music chamber leaned toward the speakers the most.

More experiments by others confirmed that music that produces the most positive human emotions helps animals and plants to grow faster, healthier etc. 3 composers, among thousands out there who are positive, whose music was found to help plants grow really fast are: 1. steven halpern of http://innerpeacemusic.com clip: Steven Halpern: Shambhala 2. Iasos (iasos.com/audioclp/ for free mp3s) 3. Aeoliah (aeoliah.com), clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdO48EemxKs and Angel Love ~ Aeoliah

For playing your favorite gentle tender soft youtube clip over and over, without video ads interrupting, or a section of a clip, over and over, you can install 2 Chrome extensions as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/9LviB7BL87e. 💜😊 For more on the gentle music hypothesis and its effect on alpha and theta brainwaves, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/G4sSfAaSLxq.

Because the neural networks for many brain functions are shared, upbeat music (even if it has angelic lyrics, but music style is more dynamic like some rare upbeat classical symphony, country, romantic, blues, pop, anything non-meditative) has a tendency to more easily cause limbic system (emotional intensity) overflow of TELEPATHY EMPATHY perceptions, making it harder to distinguish the feelings and thoughts of others or of spirits, leading to more conflict and low accuracy in telepathy exercises. 3 days have 259200 seconds, and just a minute, 60 seconds of upbeat music, is enough to lower the ESP-TELEPATHY precision for a few hours, since the brainwaves have changed and the associated neural networks have caused a slight increase in cortisol. To make a computer, it takes 1 month, but it can be broken in 1 second. To reach a high empathy-telepathy state of reading your child's (spouse, co-worker, etc) emotions or thoughts can take 3 days, but can be diminished in just 3 minutes of upbeat music taking you out of zen state of theta-alpha brainwaves. While people can obviously learn to not be affected too much by this, it's still going to have an effect, just like many studies show violent music makes violent people, or low omega 3 is associated with violence due to lack of DHA for synapses that transmit information brainwide. Music has a physiological impact on the brain independent of the feelings (neutral, dislike, happiness, like, love) we associate with this or that song - that can be seen on MRI and brainwave equipment - and these physiological impacts affect ESP precision too. For example, an upbeat music that a person may like a lot, may trigger a flood of feel-good dopamine and super-excited emotional state, of such intensity, that it will block accurate psychic perception of others' emotional states (non-joyous) or of images, words, sounds. This blocking can occur also due to the brainwave patterns impact on brain areas involved in accurate perception of telepathy transmitted or psychic information in some location. The hypothesis is that 100 studies of 100 people each evaluating telepathy precision while listening to music one is neutral to (not music one has any strong feelings of like or dislike for), will prove that the upbeat music lowers precision, while tranquil one enhances it. No music may even be better than any music in many cases where it's very difficult to be precise. Listening to violent or upbeat music enriches the psychic field of humanity with this type of energy, having via telepathy diffusion a real effect on the probability of violence ever occurring or misunderstanding or possibly lower empathy-telepathy (harmony) and some karmic consequences as such, since we are all quantum entangled to all. Even jokes or sarcasm about bad things can be harmful via telepathy diffusion that loses context. Telepathy Diffusion is explained better at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6dYybbUBXgs

Nikola Tesla, WHOSE INVENTIONS ARE IN EVERY BUILDING WITH ELECTRICITY, ONE OF THE GREATEST TELEPATHS IN HISTORY, was very disturbed by the slightest noises from miles away - so tranquil music and harmonic sound vibrations thru anti-gravity quiet transportation will naturally enhance ESP - see the post about Tesla's ESP, telepathy, astral travels, precognition, empathy, etc at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2uCAwjN1n51.

Some drugs increase dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (NA) 300%, the reward center of the brain, and music can lead to a rise in dopamine in NA too, but not known how much. Certain music styles may lower telepathic precision and this is very easy to test by administering ESP tests to people exposed to different music styles. The brain is the most sensitive and complex machine on earth, to assume that one rhythm and music is the same with another is kind of a stretch. It's like saying HCN (hydrogen cyanide, a poison), ethylenediimine (H2C2N2), imidazole C3N2H4 and C5H5N pyridine, C5H9N3 histamine, all compounds with only carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen are same because both are made of sounds of same atoms: carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, as music is made of the same basic notes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202207/Sci Rep. 2014; 4: 6675 is a free paper explaining the cymatics effects of sound in liquids (most people are familiar with sand on a plate taking orderly shapes with some music as explained below) - and humans are 70% water. This is an interesting topic of neurosceince that could be researched more, we research vitamins a lot, but what about music? People used to think lead in your fillings is healthy. Only recently we discovered lack of vitamins led to millions of deaths and diseases people. But 100-200 years from now, they may discover something else, the sonic vitamins:). If humans eat a substance made of H, O, N, C, like glycine, a harmless amino acid, they are fine, maybe even live longer. But if they eat a few miligrams of ricin, a natural poison, made from the same elements, they die immediately. The hypothesis is that the same thing happens with music, telepathy and longevity are enhanced with one combo of sounds/lyrics and hindered with another. It doens't take a PhD to accept that this could be the case, at least for lyrics. Sound can either shorten and lengthen lifespan, just like substances made of O H N C can either shorten or lengthen lifespan? The science of physiological effects, vibrational effects on cells and brain is kind of undeveloped compared to science of chemistry and physiological effects of compounds. This doesn't mean there is no difference between music types, simply because we don't know their effects. But this is not proof either, of course, that one music is far more shortening of lifespan than another, as in plants who died when exposed to rock music. A natural question is - will people discover a sonic vitamin enabling lifespan increase of 20% or even 40% regardless of all other factors, shown to work in worms, mice, rabbits, plants, humans? Does the Fibonacci series have something to do with it or the geometry of sound?

Sound frequencies can break glass ► 1 min video ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdUoFIZSuX0. They can also break very easily cellular walls, leading to organ damage, including brain damage. They can cause mixing of fluids, moving of levitated objects even in mid air, meaning tehy can cause cellular components to smash against each other or cellsto do so and organ components. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ude8pPjawKI explains that if you point 19 Hz at someone, inaudible since humans hear only 20Hz to 20Khz, they start seeing spots, as this is the resonant frequency of eye balls. Other frequencies can cause hardness of breathing or skeleton vibration. Think about what sound does to a fetus or 1 year old baby, who is more sensitive than an adult to some of these effects, since sound penetrates much deeper (since his thickness is much smaller than that of an adult). Sound can also heal cells and lengthen their lifespan. Our macrolifespan depends on cellular lifespan. Why do we age? The cells become senescent, unviable. What is the role of sound as information carrier, as geometry carrier as inter-dimensional light carrier thru geometry of the local fields matching other dimensional fields? If you put 100 petri dishes with 100 types of human cancer cell lines (they got tons of such lines), and you expose them to certain sound frequencies, you will see some sounds can kill those cancer cells far faster than many antioxidants used today. Same way, some sound frequencies can legnthen the lifespan of normal cells, while other sounds harm cancer cells while helping normal cells to live longer. The pharma companies are not interested in this as much, as their business model is selling pills not mp3 files. Centuries ago people "ate food", totally oblivious of the fact sweet potato has 961 times more vitamin A than normal potato (look under vitamins, Retinol Activity Equivalent 1 mcg potato http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2770/2 and 961 mcg sweet potato http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2667/2) for example. Lutein protects the eye against UV damage and raw kale (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2461/2) has 1318 times more lutein + zeaxanthin (the isomer of lutein) and 769 times more vitamin A than potatoes, while sweet potatoes have zero lutein. Lack of vitamin A causes many issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A_deficiency, including millions of kids developing very poor vision or partial blindness and an estimated 2 million dying of vitamin A defficiency each year. Last 20 years Alzheimer death rate has doubled in USA, as more junk food was eaten. How many millions of Americans develop "need of glasses" because of low vitamin A and/or lutein over a 10-40 year period? "Plasma or cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of vitamin A and β-carotene (precursor of vitamin A) have been reported to be lower in Alzheimer patients, and these vitamins have been clinically shown to slow the progression of dementia. Vitamin A (retinol, retinal and retinoic acid) and β-carotene have been shown in in vitro studies to inhibit the formation, extension and destabilizing effects of β-amyloid fibrils" ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22221326 ► Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2012 Apr;12(2):180-8. Beta carotene (pro-vitamin A) in carrots, cantaloupe, watermelon, kale, lettuce, mustard greens, collards, turnip greens, spinach IMPROVED COGNITIVE FUNCTION ► http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/413413 ► Arch Intern Med. 2007 Nov 12;167(20):2184-90. Today, centuries before many sound Vitamin discoveries, people listen to music, totally oblivious of the fact one music is far more effective at increasing lifespan than another, possibly by a factor of 10 or even 5300 as with potato vs sweet potato. Sound is energy in a certain geometry, chemical molecules are energy in a certain geometry - when you view it as pure energy. We talk about chemical nutrition, but next centuries we may talk also about acoustic nutrition. It's interesting that people living on noisiest highways, hearing the chaotic noise, get more heart attacks and mental disorders, is that association or causation? EU introduced laws to reduce noise levels, as electric transportation would and levitating one in the future.

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TELEPATHY EXPERIENCES:

TELEPATHY EXERCISES ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NGQbsdUSQHk

Pre-conception and pre-birth Telepathy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CKvcTre8AKP

Daughter reads mind of her mom exactly ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ctweXzdhmUP

Telepathic boy who can also read in 7 languages ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RQ3F4vs91xf

Padre Pio mind reading cases (very long post) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5Xmhf9jKMcc

Spirits use Books, etc and Telekinesis to confirm Telepathy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hzU44FGeMWq

TELEPATHY ENHANCING HABITS and many more TELEPATHY EXAMPLES ►
https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/fXyFWMUxbvF

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This new release of Aspose.Cells for #Java 17.12.0 implements Cell.FormulaLocal similar to #Excel #VBA Range.FormulaLocalView. Aspose.Cells now supports to #render MS #Office #Add-ins (in Excel files) in the output #PDF. Users do not need to use any special method or property to render Office Add-Ins in the output PDF. It also supports #Auto #populating #Smart #Markers #data to other worksheets if data is too large to handle in a single worksheet. Users can change the shape type of data labels of the #chart using the DataLabels.ShapeType property. This release also provides the feature to #export #worksheet #CSS separately when users convert an Excel file to #HTML file format. It also allows to prefix #table #elements styles with HtmlSaveOptions.TableCssId property. View Code Samples & other details here: https://goo.gl/HiiRQk

Huawei wins patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung over 4G phone technology

ViewBug Member Oak_Giant Shoots The Grammys in Los Angeles.
https://www.viewbug.com/blog/viewbug-member-oak_giant-shoots-the-grammys-in-los-angeles
Photo By ViewBug Member: oak_giant

No, You Won't Spend Less Time On Facebook... You Will Spend More Meaningful Time On It

I see the shift as a welcome change. It is a change that will truly separate the social network from the rest. Twitter is plastered with links and news tweets. Google+ has it's share of spam bots flooding your feed. LinkedIn has far too many motivational posts flooding the feed. Somehow Instagram managed to be less spammy, and more engaging. That is why people spend their time there. If Facebook can rid the platform of meaningless posts, it will be an awesome platform to connect socially with friends and family.

Over on the magazine, Fedora Kernel Engineer +Laura Abbott has an update on the ongoing work on solutions to Meltdown and Spectre https://fedoramagazine.org/update-ongoing-meltdown-spectre-work/

My new favorite game

NBA wrap: Anthony Davis' explosion leads Pelicans past Knicks: Davis' fifth career game with at least 45 points and 15 rebounds led the Pelicans to the comeback win. http://dlvr.it/QBFCLm

On the UBI being trialled in Finland. "One year on from its launch, the world remains fascinated by Finland’s groundbreaking universal basic income trial: Europe’s first national, government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash.

In January 2017, the Nordic nation began paying a random but mandatory sample of 2,000 unemployed people aged 25 to 58 a monthly €560 (£475). There is no obligation either to seek or accept employment during the two years the trial lasts, and any who do take a job will continue to receive the same amount.
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[A]mid this unprecedented media attention, the experts who devised the scheme are concerned it is being misrepresented. “It’s not really what people are portraying it as,” said Markus Kanerva, an applied social and behavioural sciences specialist working in the prime minister’s office in Helsinki.

“A full-scale universal income trial would need to study different target groups, not just the unemployed. It would have to test different basic income levels, look at local factors. This is really about seeing how a basic unconditional income affects the employment of unemployed people.”
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The idea of UBI had been circulating in left-of-centre political circles in Finland since the 1980s, mainly as a way to combat the economic and social consequences of falling industrial employment by freeing all – from students to the elderly; stay-at-home parents to the unemployed – to make meaningful contributions to society by, for example, volunteering.

Appealing both to the left (who believe it can cut poverty and inequality) and, more recently, to the right (as a possible way to a leaner, less bureaucratic welfare system), UBI looks all the more attractive amid warnings that automation could threaten up to a third of current jobs in the west within 20 years. Other basic income schemes are now being tested from Ontario to rural Kenya, and Glasgow to Barcelona.
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The Finnish experiment’s design and objectives mean it should perhaps not really be seen as a full-blown UBI trial at all, cautioned Kanerva: “People think we’re launching universal basic income. We’re not. We’re just trialling one kind of model, with one income level and one target group.”

But as experts around the world increasingly debate how a bold but ill-defined concept might actually work in practice, the Finnish experiment will at least “produce meaningful results – albeit in a limited field,” according to Kanerva. In an area where convictions are often more abundant than facts, “It has forced people to talk specifics.”"

Benjamin Netanyahu in India LIVE: Israeli PM to receive ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Best Superfoods For Your Heart

To prevent heart attacks, avoid unhealthy food, and eat foods rich in nutrients, fiber, and healthy fats

http://www.healthyvogue.com/10-superfoods-heart-health/

33 Heart-Healthy Foods To Prevent Heart Disease

This article discusses foods to improve heart health. Looks at basic rules of a heart healthy diet, including eating more fruits and vegetables. Lists 33 specific heart healthy foods that are actually good for your heart health.

http://www.hownutrition.info/33-heart-healthy-foods-prevent-heart-disease/

Nice article by +Philip Plait on an update on that possible exomoon detection. What I like about the article is that it takes pains to point out the things they had to do to extract real data from the observations. This is why I ignore 'oh, that random dot on the photo must be Nibiru / UFO!' links. "[I]f you have a really big planet and it happens to have a really big moon, then maaaaayyyyyybe you could detect it.

The planet in question here is Kepler-1625b, which happens to be about the same size as Jupiter. When the astronomers plotted the brightness of the star, the planet's transit is obvious … but weird. It's ever-so-slightly misshapen, and different every time it was observed. They found that a moon about the size of Neptune orbiting the planet would explain the shape of the graph.

But their data are not conclusive, so they didn't want to call it a discovery. They were very careful about this, which was precisely the right move. It didn't stop some media from claiming they had discovered one anyway, though. Sigh.

I'm writing about this now because they have a sort-of update: They observed the star with Hubble Space Telescope, and have new data in hand. They have not fully processed it yet, but one of the team members, David Kipping, wanted to update everyone with how it's going. He made a short video discussing it [link includes the video]
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I admire Kipping for making this video. He has the data, and he and his team have been working on it, but they're not quite ready to say anything just yet. He's very clear about that (even to the point of lamenting the media coverage of their first paper). It's an update, because a lot of folks — including me! — are very interested in where they are with this. I also liked that he gave some details on the data and the issues they're having with them. It gives some insight into their process, and, as I pointed out, some of the painstaking work they have to do."

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4 #US #Tech hubs to watch in 2018
https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/27/4-u-s-tech-hubs-to-watch-in-2018/
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Microsoft has never been great at handheld devices past Windows CE (arguably). From the Zune media player to the Lumia phones, it failed to compete in markets already overrun by giants. As if to add insult to injury, it often doesn’t give abandoned users with ways to move forward, leaving them with practically useless devices. That slightly changed when Microsoft … Continue reading

ZTE to launch its first 5G smartphone by early 2019 in the US confirms CEO- Technology News, Firstpost