Monday, 21 September 2020
Sunday, 20 September 2020
Dairy by Mark Antony Raines
Well it's back like a very bad nightmare,the second wave of Covert 19.
Instead of playing the blame game on the government who have made mistakes this time it's driven totally by human behaviour of those who don't even try to comply and think it is not going to happen to them.
what I think will happen
restrictions on travel,-curfew of 10pm on pubs,restaurant,if told have covert 19 legally have to stay at home or expect fines,if none of this works a full lockdown for at least 3 weeks.
All shops must know enforce wearing of masks,no mask no entry,it's going to go back to only 6 people at a time,I believe all shop assistant s should wear a mask .
am I scared yes,I carry on doing my big
W ear a Mask-Wash your hands -keep a safe social distance
Strange News -Holsworthy
NEWS
New species discovered in Bicol, described as 'secretive, delicate, slender-bodied'
Manila Bulletin
The new species, according to the researchers, nested within the P. brevipes clade. “In this study we report on the discoveryof a second Luzon Island ...
Botanists unearth new 'vampire plant' in UK carpark
Phys.Org
It goes to show that you don't have to go to a remote tract of rainforest to discover new plant life—new species can be hiding in plain sight. Next time ...
Newly discovered fish species named after Sooke fossil hunter
Times Colonist
In a scientific paper recently published, Russian scientist Evgeny Popov concluded the fossil was a new genus and species in the Chamaeridae family, ...
New plant species discovered in Mt. Arayat National Park
CNN Philippines
DENR-Central Luzon executive director Paquito Moreno, Jr. said in a statement the discovery of the new species indicates that the 3,715-hectare Mt.
Arunachal: New orchid species named after ex-CM Late Dorjee Khandu
EastMojo
Her recent discoveries are the three species from Corydalis family which are found in high altitude. Chowlu discoveredthese species along with Dr.
No new fatality, 1 recovery, 1 new COVID-19 case, among overseas Filipinos — DFA
Manila Bulletin
A new species of Philippine False Gecko, named Pseudogekko hungkag, discovered in Bicol has been officially announced after its thorough study ...
New flowering plant grows on Mt. Arayat
INQUIRER.net
The species Pyrostria arayatensis was found by a team of researchers led by Marlon Suba in a lowland forest of the 3,715-hectare park in eastern ...
DONNA SINGER -DONNA-SINGER .COM
WEBSITE -http://donna-singer.com
Powerhouse performer Donna Singer has wowed jazz lovers around the world through her recordings and live performances at festivals, concert halls and jazz clubs. Her European concerts include dates in Paris, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Wales. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera Guild Recital Hall in Lincoln Center, Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell and The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.
She has engaged audiences in many U.S. cities including Phoenix, Miami and Nashville. Her U.S. festival appearances include the Nebraska International Jazz Festival, Bethany College Jazz Festival in Kansas and the Saratoga Arts Festival in New York. Whether performing in an intimate gathering with her trio, with an 18- piece jazz orchestra, or with the 90-piece Boynton Beach Gold Coast Band, she's sure to wow audiences.
Growing up in Upstate New York, she and her siblings were introduced to the world of jazz. She and her twin sister, Dawn, were raised in a family of jazz enthusiasts who listened to the music of great jazz artists like Nancy Wilson (“Guess Who I Saw Today,”) Billy Strayhorn, (“Take the A Train” with Duke Ellington), Sammy Davis Jr, (“Hey There,” and Count Basie (“April in Paris”). Her great love for the music helped her evolve into a powerful jazz vocalist whose music has been played throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa.
A graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, Donna also studied at The Juilliard School and has kept music close to her heart. She established Dr. Donna's School of Song where aspiring musicians can begin their journey in the world of music. She shares her gift with young and adult students by providing mentoring and training in piano and voice. She has been a member of The National Guild of Piano Teachers (a division of the American College of Musicians) since 2006.
From 1998 to 2004 she hosted the weekly gospel show, "Down by the River" on WJFF FM in Sullivan County, NY. Donna performed for 15 years as the lead vocalist in the Swing Shift Orchestra, a 17-piece big band featuring the music of Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and many more. The Singers and their only son, Christopher, recently moved to West Palm Beach from the lush Catskill Mountains.
Donna's voice is showcased in five recordings which have consistently climbed high in U.S. radio charts. She has also enjoyed international airplay. Donna's CD’s are available on all major music outlets and her YouTube videos have been seen by over half a million viewers. Her music is heard on the playlists of hundreds of terrestrial radio stations worldwide, as well as on Internet stations. Her most recent recording is a special jazz CD for children. Look for It's An Art To Follow Your Heart, available from fine retailers everywhere. In order to release her albums globally,
In order to release her albums globally, Donna Singer knew she needed a record label behind her to support and utilize her talent. In 2011 she became a recording executive, creating her own label, Emerald Baby Recording Company. The label has handled distribution of her music with great success. Her voice can be heard on jazz stations on many continents around the world: North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Europe.
Saturday, 19 September 2020
SOCIAL DILEMMA
Welcome back to Pattern Matching, OneZero’s weekly newsletter that puts the week’s most compelling tech stories in context.
In the opening scenes of The Social Dilemma, the popular new Netflix docudrama about social media’s dark side, a series of nervous-looking interview subjects appear to stumble over a simple question: “What’s the problem?”
The film and its subjects — former employees of Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, along with a few outside critics such as the Harvard professor and The Age of Surveillance Capitalismauthor Shoshana Zuboff — spend the next 90 minutes throwing everything they have at that question. By the end, the viewer is left persuaded that there absolutely is a problem, and an urgent one at that, even if it’s a tricky one to pin down in a few words.
Yet, as we’ve seen time and again — most recently, with a former Facebook employee blowing the whistle on the company’s failures to stop election interference and misinformation campaigns around the world — sounding the alarm that social media is broken is easier than fixing it.
The Pattern
The people who helped to build social media now want to save us from it.
The problem, in The Social Dilemma’s reckoning, is that the advertising-based, engagement-fueled business model that has come to dominate the internet is fundamentally built on manipulation. Social media apps manipulate our brain’s psychology to keep us checking our devices and refreshing our feeds. The feeds themselves are full of content that in turn manipulates our emotions to maximize engagement and sell us things. And that targeted manipulation, which exploits our fears and biases and vanities, is not only bad for us as individuals, it’s tearing whole societies apart.The film works best as a wake-up call to a mass audience that something is very wrong with the basic structure of social media, and that it’s infecting society at large as a result. It’s the sort of film that people knowledgeable about the tech industry’s workings will criticize, and find frustrating — and, in some cases, recommend to their less-informed friends and relatives anyway. As a polemic, it’s powerful, provided you can get past the LOL-inducing cheesiness of the staged dramatizations, which depict a hapless family haunted by push notifications.But if The Social Dilemma largely succeeds in answering its opening question (“What’s the problem?”), there’s a second, crucial, stage-setting scene that the film seems to forget about as it goes on. It’s when the film’s central real-life figure, the “humane tech” advocate Tristan Harris, recounts how he grew disillusioned with his work as a young designer at Google, and eventually wrote an explosive internal presentation that rocked the company to its core — or so it seemed. The presentation argued that Google’s products had grown addictive and harmful, and that the company had a moral responsibility to address that. It was passed around frantically within the company’s ranks, quickly reached the CEO’s desk, and Harris’ colleagues inundated him with enthusiastic agreement. “And then… nothing,” Haris recalls. Having acknowledged ruefully that their work was hurting people, and promising to do better, Googlers simply went back to their work as cogs in the profit machine. What Harris thought had served as a “call to arms” was really just a call to likes and faves — workplace slacktivism.The lesson seems clear enough: Deep, structural change to the internet industry probably won’t come from within. The companies that have become the richest and most powerful in world history by building a money-minting manipulation machine can’t be counted on to voluntarily chuck it out the window. Oddly, this lesson seems at times to have eluded Harris himself. In a clip from a Senate hearing near the end of the documentary, Harris told a senator that the answer to the problems wrought by social media was “to have the platforms be responsible” — responsible for protecting elections, responsible for the mental health of the kids who use their products. It sounds like a hard-nosed stance until you realize it implies that the platforms should be the source of solutions to the havoc they’ve wrought.Even if they understand the problem on some level, the tech giants face overwhelming incentives to preserve the business model that sustains them.After all, if they don’t build the most engaging platform, some other, perhaps less-scrupulous rival will. And so they downplay the harms, or justify them by pointing to the positives, or shrug them off as regrettable but inevitable, a product of human nature rather than their own design decisions. In other cases, they acknowledge the harms but present them as fixable with various tweaks: hiring more content moderators, partnering with fact-checkers, building A.I. to detect hate speech. And they make the same basic case for smartphone addiction: more user control over push notifications, apps that track your screen time. Some of these tweaks have been adopted at the urging of the advocacy group that Harris co-founded after leaving Google, called the Center for Humane Technology.There’s another unexamined lesson from Harris’ story about trying to change Google from within. It’s that diagnosing the problem isn’t enough to start a “revolution,” as he claimed to want to do. You also have to offer solutions. That’s a hard task, and one The Social Dilemma barely attempts. The film spends 80 minutes convincing the viewer that social media will destroy the world unless we act fast. Only in the final 10 minutes does it take a stab at what that action might look like, in a series of interview clips that come across as an afterthought. Several subjects nod to the importance of “regulation” without ever specifying what sort of regulation they have in mind. That’s frustrating, since the conversation in policy circles has already surpassed the film by moving into the details of what antitrust and privacy legislation should look like.As the closing credits roll, the subjects toss off a litany of #protips for social media use that in most cases are laughably incommensurate with the scope of the problem the film has just described in detail. “Turn off all notifications,” several suggest, as if it’s a radical idea. “Never accept a video recommended to you on YouTube; always choose,” counsels virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier. When one person suggested installing Google Chrome extensions that block recommendations, I was ready to throw my Amazon Fire TV remote through my Netflix screen. You spend a whole film convincing people social media is an existential threat to humanity, and your solution is installing a Google Chrome extension?This brings us to the film’s core problem: The Social Dilemma largely reflects the perspectives of Harris and like-minded techies. Most of them, it has to be said, are white and male. That might help to explain why they devote so much time to problems of smartphone addiction and political polarization — the breakdown of the social order — and so little to how social media works or doesn’t work for the marginalized and vulnerable. Algorithmic discrimination, hate speech, and revenge porn merit only passing mentions. And it might help to explain why their proposed solutions are so half-hearted and unimaginative.As the activist Evan Greer of Fight for the Future points out, the film almost entirely ignores social media’s power to connect marginalized young people, or to build social movements such as Black Lives Matter that challenge the status quo. This omission is important, not because it leaves the documentary “one-sided,” as some have complained, but because understanding social media’s upsides is critical to the project of addressing its failures. (I wrote in an earlier newsletter that the BLM protests should remind us why social media is worth fixing.)To be fair, the film’s decision to most prominently feature former technologists might lend it more credibility when it comes to sounding the alarm to a mass audience. People who have long ignored the warnings from journalists and academics, perhaps writing them off as ill-informed or agenda-driven, might have a harder time ignoring the same warnings when they come from the very people who built the systems.But these technologists’ blinkered outlook was part of the problem in the first place. Asking the same group of idealistic, Stanford-educated, youngish white men to diagnose and address the problem that they and their friends created also risks replicating the mistakes that led us to this point. A couple of the film’s subjects briefly nod to this problem — “We’re allowing the technologists to frame this as a problem that they are equipped to solve,” says the mathematician and author Cathy O’Neil — but the film itself fails to take it to heart. This isn’t just a matter of optics or identity politics: Women, and women of color, in particular, have consistently been ahead of the curve in identifying online platforms’ biases, failures, and injustices. Yet the voices of critics such as Safiya Umoja Noble, Meredith Broussard, and Ruha Benjamin are missing from The Social Dilemma.This point is hammered home in an impassioned takedown by Zachary Loeb’s blog Librarian Shipwreck, which argues that the tech leaders who built this mess should be held accountable for their screw-ups, not elevated to the status of saviors just because they’re now sorry. Loeb, a Ph.D. candidate in the history and sociology of science, points out a revealing moment in which Harris tried to distinguish between social media and other forms of technology by riffing on how “no one got upset when bicycles showed up.” In fact, lots of people got upset when bicycles showed up, as any real student of tech history would know, or at least suspect. “What makes Harris’s point so interesting is not just that he is wrong, but that he is so confident while being so wrong,” Loeb writes.One more critique worth reading comes from Paris Marx, the host of the left-wing Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. Whether or not you share his politics, Marx concisely makes the case that The Social Dilemma misidentifies social media as the primary source of contemporary strife by overlooking “the underlying economic conditions: four decades of neoliberalism, rising inequality, and corruption.” This critique echoes some of the key points in Cory Doctorow’s new online book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, which contends that what Zuboff called “surveillance capitalism” is better understood as simply “capitalism.”For all its failings, there’s a case to be made that a mass-market documentary like The Social Dilemma — which was produced and heavily promoted on Netflix, the world’s biggest streaming service — was needed to convey to a wider audience the sense of urgency that social media’s critics, and even many of its former evangelists, already felt. From this standpoint, the fact that film was so light on solutions might be for the best, given that its main subjects aren’t the people we should be relying on for solutions anyway.The biggest risk here is that people come away with the impression that the answer involves deleting Facebook — as some are already doing, per CNBC — or asking it to do better, as the film’s own feeble calls to actionsuggest. The answer, as the film manages to make plain in a few of its more lucid moments, has to involve dismantling the business incentives that power the entire system. How to do that without ruining what’s worth keeping about social media, or making things even worse, is the real “social dilemma.” The best-case scenario is that some portion of people who watch this film will now be ready for a different film — one that actually takes that dilemma seriously.
Undercurrents
Under-the-radar trends, stories, and random anecdotes worth your time
The Trump administration’s latest step to crack down on TikTok and WeChat might be its most misguided yet. Under the current plan, as of this writing, the administration was planning to ban the apps from U.S. companies’ App Stores, effective September. 21, but allow them to continue operating until November. 12. As people with a basic understanding of cybersecurity were quick to point out, that means that users will be unable to download any updates that might be needed to patch security flaws in that time frame. “Trump Protects TikTok Users’ Security By Cutting Them Off From Security Updates,” as Motherboard put it.Somewhat overshadowed by its perpetual scandals, Facebook is pursuing a wildly ambitious vision of augmented reality. Project Aria, announced at its Facebook Connect developer conference this week, involves using smart glasses to map the world around you, and using that contextual data to mediate your digital life. “Imagine a digital assistant smart enough to detect road hazards, offer up stats during a business meeting, or even help you hear better in a noisy environment,” Facebook mused in its press release. “This is a world where the device itself disappears entirely into the ebb and flow of everyday life.” My OneZero colleague Dave Gershgorn called the concept “Google Maps for your entire life.” In Slate, privacy attorney Joseph Jerome notes that building a digital duplicate of our physical world would be a step toward a “total surveillance state,” and calls for regulations to serve as “a new rulebook for how the digital world can be mapped and annotated.”
Strange News -Holsworthy
NEWS
New gecko species discovered in Ganjam
The New Indian Express
BHUBANESWAR: A team of researchers has discovered a new species of gecko, commonly known as lizards, in a sacred grove near Humma in ...
University researchers discover new plantspecies in Mt. Arayat National Park
INQUIRER.net
DENR-Central Luzon executive director Paquito Moreno, Jr. said that the discovery of the new plant species is “an indicator that Mt. Arayat National ...
Beneath the Canopy, Lichens Shroud Alaska's Coastal Rainforests
Hakai Magazine
Some 10 percent of the lichens couldn't be categorized into a known species and 27 new species were discovered. Though coastal Alaska is a lichen ...
120000-Year-Old Human Footprints Have BeenDiscovered in Saudi Arabia
ScienceAlert
... following the discovery of ancient human and animalfootprints in the Nefud Desert that shed new light on the routes our ancient ancestors took as ...
Frog tales: Finding an alter ego a thousand kilometer away
Research Matters
Researchers discover a visibly different individual of the Eastern Ghats cricket ... Well, a relative of this frog, belonging to the same species, was first found ... in India, new species of which are increasingly being discovered, to drive ...
Invasive, Blood Sucking Parasites on Shrimps Continue Moving Northward
Science Times
The mud shrimp parasite, a bopyrid isopod, was discovered by the ... RELATED: New Species of Shrimp Discovered in Panama's Coiba National Park ...
Chinese paleontologists discover oldest knownanimal sperm in Myanmar amber
ecns
"This new discovery is indisputable evidence that giant sperm is at least 100 million years old, and probably much older," Robin Smith, an ostracod ...
No Entry To Midwich
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Friday, 18 September 2020
The Art & Science of Meditation: How to Deepen and Personalize Your Practice Kindle Edition by Lisa Erickson
Blurb
Refine and Inspire Your Meditation Practice
Featuring hands-on exercises to make your meditation more effective as well as science-based advice for using it in your daily life, The Art & Science of Meditation takes your practice to the next level. This vital resource provides ways to overcome common obstacles, easy-to-understand explanations of classic spiritual texts, guidance on choosing meditation teachers and retreats, and much more. Lisa Erickson presents practical, in-depth information drawn from both historical sources and contemporary scientific research. Explore ways to enhance your journey through each chapter's integration tools and contemplation methods. Discover how to achieve mystic states, meditate on the sacred feminine, and find the best modality for you. Easy to personalize to your own needs, this book helps you truly unite your life and meditation practice.
Book Review
A deep researched book about Mediation in a plain English ,easy to understand book which will help you take to the next level of your Mediation Practices,insightful,interesting,excellently written by author.
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Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness Kindle Edition by Lisa Erickson
Blurb
Powerful Chakra Tools to Help You Heal, Achieve Balance, and Awaken to Your Greatness
Learn to move past trauma, find strength, and thrive with twelve chakra tools that are based on the feminine energy body and life phases. These tools focus on challenges that women often face in owning our power, balancing work and family, and maintaining physical and emotional health. Featuring an eight-page, full-color insert with clarifying chakra figures, this essential guide presents a no-nonsense, easy-to-use approach to the chakras that helps you manifest your highest potential.
Each chapter focuses on a new chakra tool, helping you explore how to use it within your daily life for long-term growth, overcoming blocks, healing sexual trauma, and more. Chakra Empowerment for Women supports your journey in practical ways as you recover the energy of your empowered self.
Book Review
This is powerful,insightful,interesting,excellently written book.Each Chapter is a way to help empower your life through the inner empowerment of Chakra,s
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Woman's Empowerment
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Lisa Erickson is an energy worker specializing in women's energetics and sexual trauma healing, and author of Chakra Empowerment for Women from Llewellyn Publishing. She helps women maximize and balance their energy during key life transits such as pregnancy, post-partum, perimenopause and menopause, including balancing the mother-child energy line.
She also works with women to heal emotional wounds on an energy level from abuse and assault.
She is certified in mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity, and has trained in a variety of healing modalities. She is a member of the International Association of Meditation Instructors, the American Holistic Health Association, the Energy Medicine Practitioners Association, and The Breathe Network, a non-profit dedicated to supporting holistic healing and healers for sexual trauma survivors.
Lisa is passionate about helping any woman connect with their energy bodies. We’ll learn more today talking with her today about Chakra Empowerment for Women.
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Based on these differences, how do you recommend a woman work differently with her energy body, particularly her chakras, than a man?
How
CLassic Horror Author -Honore De Balzac
Honore De Balzac
1799-1850
French Novelist and one of the founders of Realism I. European Literature.
Horror Story
La Grande Bretche.
Classic Horror Author -William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth
1805-1882
Was a lawyer but this was not his desire so he became a writer.
Best know for his novel Rookwood which changed the view of highway man like Duck Turpin.
Horror Short
Spectre Bride.
CLASSIC HORROR AUTHOR -LOUISA Baldwin
CLASSIC HORROR AUTHOR -LOUISA Baldwin
Poet,Novelist,writer of Short stories.
One of the MacDonald sisters who were four Scottish woman who famous for being married to well known man,Alfred Baldwin was a member of the conservative party and Louisa s Husband.
After giving birth was plagued with bad health.
Died 16-05-1925
Most of her stories contain anthologies of ghost tales.
Body of work
How I left the Hotel
Many Waters cannot Quench Love
The Real and Counterfeit
The Shadow on the blind.
The uncanny Bairn
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