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  1. Here it is, the full ZNA line up Note: If you still need a ticket, I sell'm (without booking fee)
  2. Haha! Correct, but one detail is missing: all those sets (i PLAY) are always filled with at least 50% unrl material Otherwise, indeed you are right, locals can do 'the same' ...but without the consent of Artha himself and without any surprises of tracks (old and new) you would normally never hear.
  3. Harvard Neuroscientist: Meditation Reduces Stress and Literally Changes Your Brain The Power of Thought Meditation, in its most basic sense, is clearing your mind of all thought—or at least, trying to. The practice is used in cultures around the globe for both religious and secular purposes. While it may be best known for its spiritual uses, it is this latter purpose that has recently ignited a […] The Power of Thought Meditation, in its most basic sense, is clearing your mind of all thought (check added note below)—or at least, trying to. The practice is used in cultures around the globe for both religious and secular purposes. While it may be best known for its spiritual uses, it is this latter purpose that has recently ignited a firestorm of interest, as scientific research seems to indicate that meditation changes your brain on a fundamental, biological level. Dr. Robert Puff, a licensed clinical psychologist, notes in Psychology Today that descriptions of meditation techniques date back at least some 3,000 years, to Indian scriptures written in approximately 1000 BCE. However, the practice itself appears to be far, far older. Some evidence suggests that individuals were describing the practice as long as 5,000 years ago. Unfortunately, the exact date of its inception is lost to the annals of time, but we do know that it wasn’t until the 6th century BCE that it truly started its global spread. And it wasn’t until the 20th century that mainstream scientists started researching the impact that it has on the human body—specifically, the impact it has on the human brain. “Our data shows changes in the brain after just eight weeks.” To date, a host of medical uses have been found for meditation. The most obvious use is, perhaps, stress management and reduction, which is supported by a plethora of scientific evidence. In a study published in Clinical Psychology Review, researchers at Boston University and Harvard Medical School found that the technique helps alleviate anxiety and allows individuals to better cope with stressful situations. Along these same lines, a 2011 study by Dr. Fadel Zeidan, assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, found that meditation helps individuals cope with, and better tolerate, physical pain. This work was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. But this is just the start of the research that has been conducted in relation to meditation. Transforming the Human Brain In a 2015 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers from UCLA found that individuals who meditate over extended periods have more gray matter volume in their brains than those that do not. The work looked at individuals who been meditating for an average of 20 years, and the impact was pronounced. As study author Florian Kurth notes: We expected rather small and distinct effects located in some of the regions that had previously been associated with meditating. Instead, what we actually observed was a widespread effect of meditation that encompassed regions throughout the entire brain. Other studies support these findings. A 2011 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which was conducted by Yale University, discovered that meditation decreases activity in the default mode network (DMN) in the brain. In the paper, the team noted that this reveals the actual biological impact of meditation and helps bring to light “a unique understanding of possible neural mechanisms of meditation.” And still, the evidence does not end. Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, recently conducted work which found that individuals who meditate ultimately have more gray matter in the frontal cortex and, most notably, that this gray matter is preserved in spite of aging. The significance is overwhelming. As Lazar asserts in an interview with the Washington Post, “It’s well-documented that our cortex shrinks as we get older – it’s harder to figure things out and remember things. But in this one region of the prefrontal cortex, 50-year-old meditators had the same amount of gray matter as 25-year-olds.” In other words, as a result of transformations in the brain, individual who meditate have a better chance of retaining their memory function in old age. And it doesn’t take much for individuals to reap the benefits. Lazar states that, in her study, the average meditation time was just 27 minutes a day and results were obtained just 8 weeks after the individuals started the practice. So, how can you reap the benefits? Becoming Mindful Scientists assert that using proprioceptive input (also know as deep touch pressure (DTP)) to ground your body is helpful when attempting to reach a meditative state. Research has shown that this kind of pressure results in a reduction in cortisol levels and an increase in serotonin production, decreasing your heart rate and blood pressure. Thus, the relaxed physical state that comes from peroprioceptive input can make it easier to achieve a calm mental state that’s conducive to meditation, and one of the most effective ways to get this proprioceptive input is by using a weighted blanket. As Amber Martin, an occupational therapist from Utica College, notes, “peroprioceptive input is good for pretty much everyone and anyone. It can be very calming and organizing.” By helping you reach a state of peaceful relaxation more quickly, the blankets make it easier for you to take advantage of every valuable moment of meditation before you have to return to the busy world outside your mind. There’s little debate in the science regarding the benefits of meditation. According to research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, meditation has been linked to reduced feelings of depression, anxiety, and physical pain. Other studies have explored connections between meditation and improved focus, lowered blood pressure, strengthened memory, reduced fatigue, and…well, the list goes on and on. Yet, reaching a meditative state generally takes a lot of work, and truly clearing your mind is far from easy. A weighted blanket is just one thing that can help you get there. Source: https://futurism.com/harvard-neuroscientist-meditation-reduces-stress-and-literally-changes-your-brain/ To bad it starts with a misconception of meditation, cause it is NOT the goal to have no thoughts. The rest is very useful...
  4. Ikutaro Kakehashi, Founder of Roland, Dies at 87 Ikutaro Kakehashi, the engineer and entrepreneur who founded electronic musical instruments manufacturer the Roland Corporation in 1972 (and, most recently, the ATV Corporation in 2014), has died. He was 87 years old. "Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, father of the TR-909,TR-808,Godfather of MIDI, passed away at the age of 87," former Roland colleague Tommy Snyder wrote on Facebook Saturday (April 1). "He was a super funny, wonderful and gifted human being, and his contributions to the musical instrument world , and music, touched millions of people worldwide. RIP dear Taro." Before launching Roland, in 1960 Kakehashi founded Ace Tone, where he first developed the push button percussion R1 Rhythm Ace, commercialized as the FR-1 Rhythm Ace. He went on to lead Roland for over four decades, where he was instrumental in the development of synthesizers and drum machines, notably the influential TR-808. His career continued on as founder and executive chairman at the ATV Corporation. He received a technical Grammy in 2013 for contributions to the development of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) technology, along with Sequential Circuits founder Dave Smith. Berklee College of Music awarded Kakehashi an honorary doctorate in 1991. Kakehashi published an autobiography, I Believe In Music, in 2002 and released the book An Age Without Samples: Originality and Creativity in the Digital World in 2017.
  5. This one, 100% sure. <removed by YT and us>
  6. Sounds great. Like the most chill out CDs I bought in the 90's and early 2000. Love that more older goa chill out sound.
  7. I always loved the old grey GameBoy. Especially that game called 'Kid Icarus'
  8. Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. It follows an introductory disclosure last month of CIA targeting French political parties and candidates in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election. Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive. "Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones. Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency's hacking division freed it from having to disclose its often controversial operations to the NSA (its primary bureaucratic rival) in order to draw on the NSA's hacking capacities. By the end of 2016, the CIA's hacking division, which formally falls under the agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other "weaponized" malware. Such is the scale of the CIA's undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook. The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified. In a statement to WikiLeaks the source details policy questions that they say urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA's hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency. The source wishes to initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons. Once a single cyber 'weapon' is 'loose' it can spread around the world in seconds, to be used by rival states, cyber mafia and teenage hackers alike. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor stated that "There is an extreme proliferation risk in the development of cyber 'weapons'. Comparisons can be drawn between the uncontrolled proliferation of such 'weapons', which results from the inability to contain them combined with their high market value, and the global arms trade. But the significance of "Year Zero" goes well beyond the choice between cyberwar and cyberpeace. The disclosure is also exceptional from a political, legal and forensic perspective." Wikileaks has carefully reviewed the "Year Zero" disclosure and published substantive CIA documentation while avoiding the distribution of 'armed' cyberweapons until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the CIA's program and how such 'weapons' should analyzed, disarmed and published. Wikileaks has also decided to redact and anonymise some identifying information in "Year Zero" for in depth analysis. These redactions include ten of thousands of CIA targets and attack machines throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. While we are aware of the imperfect results of any approach chosen, we remain committed to our publishing model and note that the quantity of published pages in "Vault 7" part one (“Year Zero”) already eclipses the total number of pages published over the first three years of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks. Rest of the story see source: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ In short: the CIA can spy on you trough your TV, smart phone,... even when shut off. They can even control certain software in the newer 'intelligent' cars and make accidents happen. Kill at will... This utters us to have some serious worries about this anonymous deep government in the USA. As mass media, controlled by certain interest groups, image Trump as a demon and treath to modern values and society. This is wrong, Trump is just a puppet. A nice and smooth way to divert all our attention from the real problem. Real '1984' is lurking behind the door, creeps slowly around your necks to drown us down. Let us be smart and be afraid of the real horror story. Say good bye to ghosts and werewolves. Be afraid of the real horror: anonymous deep government lurking behind your back to control you. The only good news is that some hackers have hacked this software and are using it against the CIA itself. That seems to be the reason these documents are in the open now. DISCUSS
  9. Than we should start trolling the troll. Only way to do that is to 100% ignore him. #letusignore
  10. This troll is amazing, no? He is just on the right balance not to be banned at all, cause on what bases would he be? He never posts anything hurtful to no one at all, BUT keeps on trolling any way always getting reactions. Maybe he is out trolling the world? And maybe he got inspired by these episodes of South park?
  11. He is a troll. Love every post Makes me look sane. But he is nothing compared what we had in the past. You were never spammed by "Harrie Christus". Belgians here know what I mean He believed he was the new Jesus and told us matter is all made of space ships and we would be also making space ships to become the matter of a next level of existence. He even told us he could fly. Beat that NHJO
  12. THX voters and you Rotwang <3 From the only album we released, we made it top 3. Couldn't be be more happy for the team This year holds normally 2 Cronomi CDs... Too much?
  13. Sorry, BUT these are not the kind I'm looking for More like: @1:50, 5:10. Extremely fluent and floating melodies that are very melancholic.
  14. Yes indeed Same here. Plus - and that is important to me - is that hear in this the real blend of elements that make up Goa trance. If in the same quality and depth produced today, I'd release it in a blink of an eye
  15. Oké, I'm a huge fan of this typical Israeli melancholic morning melodies. In my opinion the true vibe and scale of melodic Goa trance. Share here your favourite one Must be the same vibe and mood setting as this track. I know California Sunshine did this too a lot, and managed to make this melody style into something epic. Who else? But to post a what less obvious track in this genre. This is one I came across again a few days ago. Usually not a fan of Nitzonot, but @ 5:06 the magic happens Just love this so much <3
  16. When you really love someone death is considered a bliss and something very painful at the same time. Took care of my mum who was ill for 2 years and had to let her go. I was happy her suffering ended...but then mine could begin. I stayed ill for 2 years trying to recover from her death. Some people didn't believe it, but from 2009 and 2013 my life was hell. Funny and ironic, isn't it? Something so natural makes us so uneasy...still figuring out why.
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