Këngëtarja shqiptare me famë botërore, Rita Ora do të jetë sot prezente në “Elbasan Arena” për të ndjekur nga afër ndeshjen Shqipëri-Serbi. Kjo bëhet e ditur pasi është zbuluar bileta e saj, shkruan Shekulli, sipas të cilit në foto të biletës nuk bëhet publike hyrja po ashtu as rreshti dhe vendi ku ajo do të qëndroj gjatë ndeshjes.
Por ATSH nuk pohon me siguri se ajo do të jetë në Elbasan Arena. A do të jetë këngëtarja Rita Ora ne stadium për të parë ndeshjen, Shqipëri-Sërbi? – pyet kjo agjenci.
Thuhet se edhe Rita Ora do të mbërrijë sot në Shqipëri për të parë nga afër djemtë e Kombëtares. Ardhja e Divës me origjinë shqiptare mendohet të jetë surpriza e mbrëmjes , shkruan Revista Star.
Të gjithe sytë e sportëdashësve janë drejtuar sot në “Elbasan Arena”. Megjithate burime ende jo zyrtare flasin për një tifoze të zjarrtë që do jetë në shkallët e stadiumit Arena në Elbasan, pikërisht Rita Ora.
This child with his family is the creator of the channel on YouTube called “EvanTube HD”. But what makes it? In this channel, he posts videos which evaluates toys. Everything came as a hobby, but now the channel is doing business tool. There are no commercials and from there come the money. For more, check out the video.
There's a famous New Yorker cartoon that features a pooch facing a PC and quipping to his fellow canine that "On the Internet, no one knows that you're a dog."
But the sad doggone truth is that if you're a dog on the Internet, no one cares, because the geeks who rule the Web are focused on felines.
The digital landscape is saturated with cats. On his Diary of Numbers blog, back in 2010, Aaron Santos, physics professor and author of "How Many Licks?" made the rough calculation that there are about 1.3 billion cat pictures on the Internet.
Since then, the Internet has quintupled in data size, so that number could now be 6.5 billion. That would be nearly one cat pic for every person on Earth.
Which helps explain why Purina, makers of Friskies cat food, estimates that astaggering 15% of all traffic on the Web is cat-related.
And it's not just photos. There are videos, like the ones starring Maru, the Japanese cat who loves boxes, which have been viewed over 200 million times. There are cat stickers. And there are millions of cat memes — pictures overlaid with text captions, like the LOLcats of "I Can Has Cheezburger" fame.
The king of cat memes is undeniably the perpetually peeved puss named Tardar Sauce, aka "Grumpy Cat," whose appearance — along with fellow Internet su-purr-stars Waffles and Nala of the #CatsOfInstagram and Oskar the Blind Cat and his brother Klaus — drew a three-block-long queue at Friskies' "Haus of Bacon" pop-up café at the recent SXSW, the hipster-heavy annual gathering in Austin, Texas, that blends the worlds of technology, film and music.
Grumpy Cat has captivated just about everyone who has met her and generated good money from merchandise sales, books, television specials and even a coffee drink called Grumpaccino. Grumpy has even allowed her human owner, Tabatha "Tabby" Bundesen, to quit her day job.
There's no canine counterpart to Grumpy Cat on the Internet. Dogs may dominate movies (hello, Lassie, Benji and Rin Tin Tin!), cartoons (Scooby, Snoopy and hundreds of dalmatians) and the book world ("Marley and Me," "Sounder," "Old Yeller," "Clifford" and, er, "Cujo") but they've got a much tinier digital paw print than their viral rivals, and much of it is embarrassing.
So what gives? Why is the Internet so darned crazy about cats?
The most frequently cited answer to this puzzling question is a practical one. Felines aren't outdoor companion animals; when they walk outside, they walk alone. As a result, cat owners eager to show off their pals or interact with their peers don't have an easy way to socialize. "The Internet is the dog park for cats," notes Niky Roberts, spokesperson for Friskies. "I follow cats online to connect with other cat people."
Other experts point to the uniquely mysterious nature of felines — which led to their being worshiped as gods in ancient Egypt, feared as demons in ancient Japan and associated with magic just about everywhere (and isn't the Internet just another form of magic?).
As viral meme expert Sam Ford, author of the book "Spreadable Media," notes that while dogs interact like humans, cats do not. "Cats have an alien quality to them, a mystique that drives our interest in projecting emotions onto them."
Derek Liu, co-caretaker of Waffles the Cat, agrees. "They're eccentric creatures," he says. "Some cats, not naming names, do nothing but sit in the bathroom staring at the water in the toilet all day. And they don't respond to you predictably. They come if they want, not if you want them to."
And that might be the ultimate explanation for why cats are so big on the Web. As enigmatic, homebound individuals with unconventional obsessions, unusual interests and limited social skills, "They have a lot in common with the people who spend the most time on the Internet," says Joshua Green, vice president of digital strategy at Arnold Worldwide. "The centrality of cats to the digital world is because they have a cultural connection to the people who live there. The fact is, cats are just better nerd pets."
As a card-carrying nerd and a staunch member of Team Dog, I find that unfair and irrational. Dogs are loyal, loving companions. At their fickle best, cats merely tolerate their owners as a source of food and attention on demand. Dogs aim to please (and when they fail, they express shame with extreme cuteness).
Cats, meanwhile, knock stuff off other stuff and LOL about it afterward. Dogs can be trained to do helpful and useful things. Cats will only wait a day before eating you if you die. In short, dogs are the hot cocoa of pets; cats are grapefruit juice.
Do nerds really need another source of social rejection and emotional withholding that walks on keyboards and spills liquids onto electronics for fun and has no obvious utility other than being decorative?
We dog geeks disagree. Browsers of the Worldwide Web unite! We have nothing to lose but our leashes!
People with extraordinary memory talents suggest that your mind may be capable of retaining more than you think, says Adam Hadhazy.
Unlike digital cameras with full memory cards that cannot snap any more pictures, our brains never seem to run out of room. Yet it defies logic that one adult human brain – a "blood-soaked sponge," in writer Kurt Vonnegut's words – should be able to limitlessly record new facts and experiences.
Within weeks, you're doing something impossible to the normal person — Nelson Dellis, memory champ
Neuroscientists have long tried to measure our maximum mental volume. However, what scrambles any simple reckoning of memory capacity is the astounding cognitive feats achieved by dedicated individuals, and people with atypical brains.
Many of us struggle to commit a phone number to memory. How about 67,980 digits? That's how many digits of pi that Chao Lu of China, a 24-year-old graduate student at the time, recited in 2005. Chao uttered the string of numbers during a 24-hour stretch without so much as a bathroom break, breaking the world record.
Savants have pulled off arguably even more amazing performances, capable of astounding feats of recall, from names and dates to the details of complex visual scenes. And in rare instances, injuries to previously healthy people have seemingly triggered "acquired savant syndrome." When Orlando Serrell was 10-years-old, for example, he was struck by a baseball in the left side of his head. He suddenly found he could recall countless licence plates and compute complex calendrical items, such as what day of the week a date from decades ago fell.
How is it that these peoples’ noodles put the average brain's memory to shame? And what do the abilities of pi reciters and savants say about the true capacity of the human brain?
Brain bytes
On a quantifiable level, our memory capacity must have some basis in the physiology of the brain. A crude, but perhaps useful metric in this regard: the approximately 100 billion neurons that compose our brains. Only around a billion, however, play a role in long-term memory storage – they’re called pyramidal cells.
If you were to assume that a neuron could merely hold a single "unit" of memory, then our brains would fill to the brim. "If you could have as many memories as neurons, that's not a very big number," says Paul Reber, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. "You'd run out of space in your brain pretty fast."
Could it be possible to unlock hidden memory talents? (Credit: Getty Images)
Instead, researchers believe memories form in the connections between neurons and across neural networks. Each neuron sprouts extensions like train lines from a commuter hub, looping in about a thousand other nerve cells neurons. This architecture, it is thought, makes the elements of memories available across the whole tangled web. As such, the concept of a blue sky, say, can show up in countless, notionally discrete memories of outdoor scenes.
Reber calls this effect "exponential storage," and with it the brain's memory capacity "goes through the roof."
"Under any reasonable guess, it gets into the several petabyte range," says Reber. One petabyte equates to 2,000 years-worth of MP3 song files. We don’t yet know exactly how many connections a single memory needs, of course – or even if its storage can be compared to a digital computer at all – so such comparisons should perhaps be taken with a pinch of salt. Suffice to say, according to Reber, "you have tonnes and tonnes of space."
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Could people endowed with super-memories, then, have exceptional brains?
The short answer: no. Pi record holders, like Lu, as well as most winners of memory championships swear they are just regular people who have dedicated themselves to training their brains for holding and retrieving selected pieces of information.
Nelson Dellis, a USA Memory Championship winner, says that his memory was actually awful before he became a competitive mental athlete. Practice made all the difference. "Within weeks of training, maybe even less, you're doing something that seems almost impossible to the normal person," says Dellis. "We all have this skill within us."
Several years ago, when Dellis first started his cerebral workouts, it took him 20 minutes to memorise a deck of cards. Nowadays, he can commit to memory all 52 cards in under 30 seconds – in other words, in a single pass. Dellis is trained up to five hours daily on card-counting and other memory competition events ahead of his successful title defence at the 2015 USA Memory Championship on 29 March in New York City.
Some people can remember the order of a shuffled pack of cards in 30 seconds (Credit: Thinkstock)
Like other memory champs, Dellis relies on tried-and-true strategies for quickly committing items to memory. One popular trick: the construction of a "memory palace." As Dellis explains, he visualises a dwelling he knows well, such as a house he lived in as a kid. He translates the items he needs to remember into images that are then placed on the table near the door, for instance, then on the kitchen table, and so on. "You mentally navigate yourself through that space and pick up those images you left there and translate them back to what you memorised," Dellis says.
Pi reciters also frequently use the memory palace or similar tactics, like converting chunks of numbers into words strung together into a rambling story.
The inner savant
The widespread success of these memory strategies suggests nearly anyone can become a whiz, if they just set their minds to it. But can you do so without putting in so much ground work? That’s the aim of Allen Snyder, the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney. He has controversially proposed that we all may possess an "inner savant" that can be tapped with the right technology.
According to Snyder, the normal human mind operates largely on a high level of conceptual thinking, rather than concerning itself with myriad, low-level details. "We are conscious of the whole and not the parts that make it up," he says.
You can learn to remember long strings of numbers... without resorting to string (Credit: Thinkstock)
As a snap demonstration of our built-in mental programming for conceptualisation, Snyder ran an experiment with his colleagues. He tasked them with remembering a long shopping list with items like steering wheel, windshield wipers, headlights, and so on. "People were terrible at remembering the list," Snyder says, but invariably they told him he had said "car," when, in fact, he had not. "They assembled the parts." It seems plausible that evolution could have honed our brains to work in this manner. For example, rather than obsessing over every little detail of a lion's face, like the tint of each hair, our brain quickly surmises that –boom! – this is a predator and we need to react, fast.
In other words, most of the data our senses transmit to the brain are not elevated to a conscious level. In savants, however, this higher-level conceptual thinking does not kick in, affording them "privileged access" to a deluge of details. When remembering the shopping list, for instance – they would remember the individual parts (headlights, wipers and so on) without pouncing on the overall concept – the car.
Cases of acquired savant syndrome, like that of Serrell, the boy who was struck by a baseball, prompted Snyder to search for a physiological basis for the phenomenon. The left anterior temporal lobe, above our left ear, emerged as a candidate brain region. Researchers have noted its dysfunction in autism and savant syndrome, as well as in elderly dementia cases accompanied by newfound artistic and musical abilities. (The region also corresponds to the site of Serrell's boyhood trauma.) Snyder gently inhibited neural activity in this part of volunteers' brains with a medical device he's dubbed a "thinking cap" that generates magnetic fields. Intriguingly, he reported that these people temporarily display improved drawing, proofreading and counting skills.
Can you measure a brain by counting neurons? Not really (Credit: SPL)
Despite Snyder’s ambitions, anyone hoping for a fast track to genius will have to wait a while, though. It is entirely possible that other factors, such as increased confidence or alertness, given the presence of a futuristic gizmo on subjects' heads, led to the apparent brain gains. What’s more, the tasks at hand have been relatively modest (Snyder has yet to test the extremes of long-term memory, for instance), so his volunteers’ improvements hardly reach the dizzying heights of acknowledged savants like Serrell. Given these limitations, some scientists have scoffed at Snyder’s claims; although there is a growing interest in the use of brain stimulation, their ambitions are generally much more modest. But at the very least, Snyder's preliminary work hints that our brains could surprise us the more we look into their operations.
The bottleneck of memory
What’s clear is that human memory, as it is, has an intrinsic limitation. So why don't we just remember everything – both the details, that most of us fail to record, and the overarching concepts, that savants often miss?
"I don’t know," says Snyder, "but you would think it has something to do with the economy of information processing."
Northwestern's Reber also thinks that the brain, as it interprets its world, simply cannot keep up with the torrent of external stimuli. "That's probably why we don’t remember everything – there's this bottleneck coming from our senses into our memory," he says.
Invoking the familiar computer analogy, Reber says the limit to human memory in a lifetime is not hard drive space, but download speed. "It's not that our brains are full," Reber says. "The information we're experiencing comes in faster than the memory system can write it all down."
The most impressive pictures from the worlds of science and technology this week, from an awesome airshow stunt to a spectacular rocket accident.
Funfair moon and orbital panoramas
(Nasa/ESA/Alexander Gerst)
Fuelling fighter jets and European lights
(US Air Force/Reuters)
Underwater spies and cheerleader robots
An underwater view of “Sharc”, a wave-powered, autonomous ocean vehicle for surveillance and communications. (Liquid Robotics/Reuters)
Fire-bombing airliners and awesome black holes
A specially converted airliner swoops in low to drop fire retardant chemicals on a blaze in 8,600 acres of forest near Fresh Pond in California. (Reuters)
An eerie aurora and a night-time launch
(Nasa/ESA/Reuters)
Smoking aerobatics and lurid lightning
(AFP/Getty Images)
Wading rhinos and wasp nests
(AFP/Getty Images)
Hoverbike prototypes and hitching robots
(Malloy Aeronautics)
Speeding warbirds and a luminous Super Moon
(The Colorado Springs Gazette/AP)
Streaking space launches and menacing volcanoes
(Florida Today/AP)
A tiny frog and a hitching robot
(Sealife London Aquarium/PA)
A world’s-first hologram and outer space veg
(Getty Images)
Stork silhouette and a four-winged dinosaur
(Reuters)
Incredible lightning and a stranded whale
(Daniel Brenner, Gillette News Record/AP)
Futuristic dancers and swirling stars
(Sebastian Guillermaz/APOTY)
Sci-fi balloons and hungry whales
(AP)
Robot giraffe and double tornado
(Getty Images)
Supersonic selfie and eerie rivers
(David Cenciotti)
A brooding storm and a Super Earth
(Center for Astrophysics/Reuters)
Roaring rockets and an Earth selfie
Japan's H-IIA rocket lifts off from a space centre on the island of Tanegashima to deploy a new mapping satellite for surveying natural disaster damage. (AFP/Getty Images)
In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, it looks as if nothing could ever survive. It is one of the driest places in the world, and some sections of the Mars-like expanse can go 50 years without feeling a drop of rain. As poet Alonso de Ercilla put it in 1569: “Towards Atacama, near the deserted coast, you see a land without men, where there is not a bird, not a beast, nor a tree, nor any vegetation.”
Yet Atacama is not devoid of life. Microorganisms called endoliths have found a way to cling on, by hiding themselves inside the pores of rocks, where there’s just enough water to survive. “They support a whole community of organisms that eat the byproducts of their metabolism,” says Jocelyne DiRuggiero, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University. “And they’re all just sitting right there in the rocks – it’s quite fascinating.”
Life, it seems, has an incredible knack for finding ways to persist. Indeed, microorganisms have been around for nearly four billion years, giving them ample time to adapt to some of the most extreme conditions in the natural world. But are there places left on Earth so harsh that they are rendered sterile?
Deep inside the rocks of Chile’s Atacama Desert, there’s just enough water in the pores for life (Thinkstock)
Heat is a good starting point for answering this question. The record for heat tolerance is currently held by a group of organisms called hyperthermophile methanogens, which thrive around the edges of hydrothermal vents in the deep sea. Some of these organisms can grow at temperatures of up to 122C (252F).
Most researchers believe that around 150C (302F) is the theoretical cut-off point for life, however. At that temperature proteins fall apart and chemical reactions cannot occur – a quirk of the biochemistry that life on Earth (so far as we know) abides by. This means that microorganisms can thrive around hydrothermal vents, but not directly within them, where temperatures can reach up to 464C (867F). The same is true for the interior of an active volcano on land. “I really think temperature is the most hostile parameter,” says Helena Santos, a microbial physiologist at the New University of Lisbon and president of the International Society for Extremophiles. When things get hot enough, she says, “It’s impossible – everything is destroyed.”
A deep ocean worm, which lives on the edge of a hot “black smoker” vent on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean (Philippe Crassous/SPL)
High pressure, by contrast, appears to be less of a problem for life. This means that heat rather than depth probably limits how far below the surface of the Earth life occurs. The centre of the Earth’s 6,000C (10,800F) temperature certainly precludes all life, although the depth at which the cut-off occurs is still under investigation. One microorganism called Desulforudis audaxviator was discovered nearly two miles (3.2km) below the Earth’s surface, in a South African gold mine. It has not been in contact with the surface for potentially millions of years, and survives by siphoning nutrients from rocks undergoing radioactive decay.
Life exists at the other extreme, too, in subfreezing conditions. Bacteria in the genus Psychrobacter can happily live below -10C (14F) in Siberian permafrost and Antarctic glacier mud. Living cells recently turned up in a subglacial lake below the Antarctic ice. And Antarctica’s hypersaline Deep Lake hosts unique salt-loving species, even at -20C (-4F). To survive in these environments, microrganisms possess features such as specially adapted membranes and protein structures, and anti-freeze molecules within their cells. Given that the Earth has been covered in ice multiple times since life first evolved, “an ice-covered lake in Antarctica does not seem all that extreme,” says Jill Mikucki, a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee.
Researchers have been looking for evidence of life in Lake Vostok, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica. (Wikimedia Commons)
Radiation typically does not deter microorganisms, either. So long as they are not in the direct pathway of an atomic blast – which would likely burn them up – they can thrive in containers of radioactive waste or near the epicentre of the Chernobyl disaster, for example. Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the hardiest of the radio-resistant microorganisms, has survived trips into space and can endure radiation doses of up to 15,000 gray (the standard measure of the absorbed dose of radiation). For humans, just 5 gray causes death.
Likewise, what we register as deadly chemical environments, some extremophiles call home sweet home. Various organisms depend on arsenic, mercury or other heavy metals for their growth and survival, while others prefer cyanide. In the hot springs of Kamchatka in Russia, menageries of microorganisms metabolise using sulphur or carbon monoxide. “It’s hard to find a chemical that can kill all life,” says Frank Robb, a microbiologist at the University of Maryland.
There might be isolated exceptions, however. Don Juan Pond in Antarctica is the saltiest known body of water on the planet, with salinity levels topping 40%. (The Dead Sea is around 33%). Researchers have recovered traces of microbial life from the pond, but they are still trying to determine whether it is actively growing and replicating there, or just blowing in from other locations. Don Juan counts as “an example of a place on the surface of Earth where we might expect life, but cannot verify the presence of active life,” says Corien Bakermans, a microbiologist at Penn State University.
For now, extreme heat and some synthetic laboratory environments might be the only sterile conditions on the planet’s surface that it’s possible to find zero traces of life. New organisms are regularly discovered that push the boundaries of life as we understand it, although where that line will ultimately be drawn remains unknown. As Santos says, “What does not exist is more difficult to prove than what does exist.”
Even if there are some lone holdouts of sterility in the natural world, however, the environment exists in a constant state of flux – and if extremophiles teach us anything, it is that organisms are always capable of adapting. “Give them enough time and they will find a way,” says DiRuggiero
Here are some easy methods that improve your smile! A bright smile that not only looks great, but can also improve the chances of finding a partner. According to a recent study by Match, 71% of women say that the thing that attracts most males have teeth. So, to have better teeth and white means that you have a greater chance of finding a loved one. Here are some simple methods to make your teeth whiter: Soda bread Soda bread can be a very big helper. This chemical compound is an abrasive, which means it will help remove stains on teeth. However, excessive use can be harmful, since it can damage your enamel, which will make your teeth are darkened. Avoid energy drinks Besides coffee, tea and wine cause dental eclipse, stay away from energy drinks. Acid they contain can have the same effects that destroy your teeth. Still want more to drink energy drinks? Use a slip because it will protect your teeth. Change toothbrush A white smile can be very easy if the old brush discard the waste basket. According to dentists, you have to replace your toothbrush every three months with a new one. Language wash brush To wash brush language when brush your teeth will not only mean that you will have a fresh breath. It can also help to prevent tooth decay. Language accumulates bacteria, which will ultimately lead to stained teeth. Use a soft brush and make some friction long starting at the back of the tongue, rinse the brush afterwards. This will help you to remove bacteria from the brush without re-depositing it in your language. Eat fruits and vegetables Eat fruits and vegetables is not only good for your body, but also to the teeth. Eat nuts, raw carrots, apples and cauliflower, because these help to keep your teeth clean by removing surface stains and tablets which lead to damage to the teeth.
