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  • 2024/11/21 15:38
• sky and a green flowery
  
  
  When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new- a fresh sap and sense- stole into my frame. It was well I had learnt that this elf must return to me- that it belonged to my house down below- or I could not have felt it pass away from under my hand, and seen it vanish behind the dim hedge, without singular regret. I heard you come home that night, Jane, though probably you were not aware that I thought of you or watched for you. The next day I observed you- myself unseen- for half an hour, while you played with Adele in the gallery. It was a snowy day, I recollect, and you could not go out of doors.
  
  I was in my room; the door was ajar: I could both listen and watch. Adele claimed your outward attention for a while; yet I fancied your thoughts were elsewhere: but you were very patient with her, my little Jane; you talked to her and amused her a long time. When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery. Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
  
  I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven. The voice of Mrs. Fairfax, speaking to a servant in the hall, wakened you: and how curiously you smiled to and at yourself, Janet! There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction. It seemed to say- "My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy  Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter."
  
  You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was. I was vexed with you for getting out of my sight.
  
  'Impatiently I waited for evening, when I might summon you to my presence. An unusual- to me- a perfectly new character I suspected was yours: I desired to search it deeper and know it better. You entered the room with a look and air at once shy and independent: you were quaintly dressed- much as you are now. I made you talk: ere long I found you full of strange contrasts.
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  • 2016/04/18 13:10
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• who saw blue ribbon
  
  We had voyaged, all thought, to Asia over an untrodden way. Every eye turned to land. Not haze, not dissolving cloud, not a magic nothing in the thought, but land, land, solid, palpable, like Palos strand! Had we seen a great port city, had we seen ships crowding harbor, had we seen a citadel on some height, armed and frowning, had we marked temples and palaces and banners afloat in this divine cool wind of morning, many aboard us would have had now no surprise, would have cried, "Of course, I really knew it, though for the fun of it I pretended otherwise Systane Balance!"
  
  But others among us could not expect such as this after the quiet night; no light before us save that one so soon quenched, no stir of boat at all or large or small; an unearthly quiet, a low land still as a sleeping marsh under moon.
  
  The light brightened. The water about us turned a blue that none there had ever seen, so turquoise, so cerulean, so penetrable by the eye! Before us gentle surf broke on a beach bone-white. The beach with little rise met woodland; thick it seemed and of a vivid greenness and fairly covering the island. It was island, masthead told us,  going around. Moreover, there were two others, no greater, upon the horizon. Nor, though the woodland seemed thick as pile of velvet, was it desolate isle. We made out in three places light plumes of smoke. Now some one uttered a cry, "Men reenex hongkong!"
  
  They were running out of the wood, down upon the white beach. There might be a hundred.
  
  "Naked men! They are dark—They are negroes!"—"Or magicians!"
  
  The Admiral lifted his great voice. "Mariners all! India and Cathay are fringed with islands, as are many parts of Europe. A dozen of you have sailed among the Greek islands. There may be as many here as those. This is a small island and its folk simple. They are not Negroes, but the skin of the Indian is darker than ours, and that of Cipango and Cathay is yellow. As for clothing, in all warm lands the simpler folk wear little. But as for magicians, there may be magicians among them as there are among all peoples, but it is falseness and absurdity to speak of all as magicians! Nonsense and cowardice! The man who cried that goes not ashore to-day !"
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  • 2016/04/07 11:32
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• The boy was so excited.
  
  And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower gardentime ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it every day. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him HKUE amec.
  
  Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. “Come and play with me,” the tree asked the boy. “I am no longer a kid, I don’t play around trees anymore.” The boy replied, “I want toys. I need money to buy them.”“Sorry, but I don’t have money...but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.”  He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.
  
  One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. “Come and play with me,” the tree said. “I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?”“Sorry, but I don’t have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.” So the boy cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad Accommodation Hong Kong.
  
  One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. “Come and play with me!” the tree said. “I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?”“Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.” So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. The tree was happy, but it was not true.
  
  Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you...” the tree said.
  
  “I don’t have teeth to bite,” the boy replied.
  
  “No more trunk for you to climb on.”
  
  “I am too old for that now,” the boy said.
  
  “I really can’t give you anything... the only thing left is my dying roots,” the tree said with tears.
  
  “I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years.” The boy replied HKUE DSE.
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  • 2016/03/18 11:30
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• SoundCloud says it’s not going away
  SoundCloud says it’s not going away. I’m glad to hear that because I can’t lose SoundCloud. Ever.

  
  

  Last week, SoundCloud announced layoffs of 173 employees (about half of its staff), as well as the closing of its offices in San Francisco and London miris spa. TechCrunch’s Josh Constine later found out that those layoffs and other cost-cutting measures only gave SoundCloud enough runway to Q4. I took that to mean that SoundCloud was at risk of shutting down, but its CEO Alex Ljung says the company isn’t going anywhere.

  
  

  “Last week we had to make some tough decisions to let go of some of our staff, but we did this to ensure SoundCloud remains a strong, independent company,” Ljung wrote yesterday in a post titled, “SoundCloud is here to stay.” 

  
  

  Ljung’s post came shortly after Chance the Rapper (pictured above), an artist who got his start on SoundCloud, posted on Twitter that he was “working on the SoundCloud thing.” After a “fruitful call” with Ljung , Chance tweeted “@SoundCloud is here to stay.”

  
  

  TechCrunch reached out to SoundCloud in an attempt to figure out what happened on that call, and if Chance invested in the company to save it.

  
  

  “As an active member of the SoundCloud community, Chance connected with co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alex Ljung, to inquire about the rumors and speculation circulating,” a SoundCloud spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Chance’s takeaway is reflected in his tweet. SoundCloud is here to stay. You can read more here.”

  
  

  But what’s missing from these statements is how SoundCloud will survive. SoundCloud is an online music and podcast streaming service that enables artists and creators to upload, record and share their tracks. It gives unsigned artists an easy to reach tons of fans. It also gives people like me an easy way to listen to all of the best mashups, remixes and DJ sets.

  
  

  SoundCloud has been one of my go-to places for music for years. Sure, I have a Spotify account and use the service at least weekly, but SoundCloud is the service I’m guaranteed to use daily. It’s usually what I use to listen to music during the workday.

  
  

  To give you a taste of why I love SoundCloud so much, just listen to this track by Gigamesh. It’s nearly an hour long but I swear to you, every minute is worth it.Even though SoundCloud is struggling, the company could raise more money before it runs out of funding. Or, it could sell itself (for much less than its valuation of $700 million in 2014), but based on the wording of the Ljung’s recent statement, it seems that SoundCloud wants to remain independent for now.

  
  

  SoundCloud has previously been in acquisition talks with both Twitter and more recently, Spotify, but neither of those deals went through. With Spotify, the two made it into “advanced talks” about an acquisition in 2016, but Spotify walked away because it feared acquiring SoundCloud could negatively affect its IPO preparation, according to a TechCrunch source. That&rsquo miris spa;s because of the licensing issues that would come along with SoundCloud. If Spotify does go public, which it is expected to, perhaps Spotify can close the deal. Though, there are also rumors that Deezer is mulling over a purchase of SoundCloud.

  
  

  No matter what happens — funding versus acquisition versus who knows what — Ljung says SoundCloud is not going away “anytime in the foreseeable future.” I hope that’s true, but I can’t help but feel a bit skeptical.
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  • 2016/02/22 12:39
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• And it wants that capability
  With $65 million in new funding, DARPA seeks to develop neural implants that make it possible for the human brain to speak directly to computer interfaces. As part of its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, the agency will fund five academic research groups and one small San Jose-based company to further its goals. For a taste of what DARPA is interested in, the Brown team will work on creating an interface that would weave together a vast network of “neurograins” that could be worn as implants on top of or in the cerebral cortex. These sensors would be capable of real-time electrical communication with the goal of understanding how the brain processes and decodes spoken language — a brain process so complex and automatic that aspects of it still elude researchers.
  
  Among the six recipients, four are interested in visual perception, with the remaining two examining auditory perception and speech. MIT Technology Review reports that Paradromics, the only company included in the funding news, will receive around $18 million. Similar to the Brown team, Paradromics will use the funding to develop a prosthetic capable of decoding and interpreting speech. The recipients have a lofty list of goals to aspire to. Foremost is DARPA’s desire to develop “high resolution” neural implants that record signals from as many as one million neurons at once. On top of that, it requests that the device be capable of two-way communication — receiving signals as well as transmitting them back out Healthcabin.net Discount Code.
  
  n a package no larger than two nickels stacked on top of one another. “By increasing the capacity of advanced neural interfaces to engage more than one million neurons in parallel, NESD aims to enable rich two-way communication with the brain at a scale that will help deepen our understanding of that organ’s underlying biology, complexity, and function,” founding NESD Program Manager Phillip Alvelda said in the announcement. The full list of NESD grant recipients: Paradromics, Inc. (Dr. Matthew Angle) Brown University (Dr. Arto Nurmikko) Columbia University (Dr. Ken Shepard) Fondation Voir et Entendre (Dr. Jose-Alain Sahel and Dr. Serge Picaud) John B. Pierce Laboratory (Dr. Vincent Pieribone) University of California, Berkeley (Dr. Ehud Isacoff) Over the course of the four-year program, the research teams will coordinate with the FDA on the long-term safety implications of installing DARPA’s dream implant in and on the human brain. When cracked, the technology, most often called a brain-computer interface (BCI), will break open a world of possibilities ielts test date.
  
  From rehabilitation from traumatic brain injuries to typing a WhatsApp message using just your thoughts, BCIs have the potential to revolutionize every aspect of modern technology. But even as the money flows in, the challenges of developing this kind of tech remain myriad: How will the hardware be small and noninvasive enough to be worn in everyday life? Considering the privacy nightmare of creating a direct link to the human brain, how will we secure them? Crafting a viable brain-computer interface is a challenge that weaves together some of tech’s trickiest software problems with its most intractable hardware ones. And while DARPA certainly isn’t the only deep-pocketed entity interested in building the bridge to the near future of bi-directional brain implants, with its defense budget and academic connections, it’s definitely the bionic horse we’d bet on .
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  • 2016/01/19 12:35
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