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Drenched with about 500 inches of rainfall every year, Kauai’s Mount Waialeale is considered one of the rainiest locations our world has to offer and hosts the “Wall of Tears.” It’s named for featuring thin, long waterfalls inside a crater wall of dense foliage. The spot isn’t easily accessed, so helicopters fly over and around the region to catch a glimpse of its beauty. The extreme precipitation routinely blocks visibility with clouds that hug the landscape tightly. But as you can see here, few photographers got lucky during their helicopter rides, giving us a peek at phenomenal Hawaiian tropical scenery.

Do you want more pictures from this location? Enjoy what this location offers in the Wettest Spot of the World gallery and Kauai on Flickr Places.

Photos from rustyboy1957, Sherquilty, houstonryan, BenSchmittPhoto, and Christopher Lane Photography.

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Barcelona-based photographer Yago Partal's image series Zoo Portraits shows various animals dressed as humans.




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Got an old iMac laying around? Here’s a creative way to transform your old G3 shell into a fun and colorful lamp!

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More than 300 random people, each repeating a single note, creating together the Super Mario Bros. Theme!

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I am probably WAY more excited about this than I should be, but at the same time, Tamagotchi plus a smartphone seems like an obvious match made in Tech-Heaven!

Bandai has now released the Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. app for Android and iOS for those of us in the U.S. and Canada!

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This past Saturday was International Pillow Fight Day, which saw cushion-wielders across the world taking to the streets to gently thump and whack everyone in arm’s reach. And when it comes to pillow fights of course, the more torn seams, the better.

These shots were taken in London, Amsterdam, Budapest, Zurich, and Washington D.C. To see more feathers flying in even more places, check out the International Pillow Fight Day Group.

Photos from bura80, lakatosdaniel, haslo, Andy Sidders, Kat Antosova, ekelly80, and Where The Art Is.

OMG. I normally wouldn’t post this, but I spent the last 3 minutes crying from laughter over this video.

I’m so sorry.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. :)

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Spring is here! Everything is coming up noses!

Beth R. says, Blue, the 7 mo. old longhaired dachshund, is being stalked by his best friend, Strips, an 8 mo. old tabby. (“stalked”, ha ha, good one, Beth!)

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Psst…Maddie. The sign?

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One more thing- your iCat™ comes with a mouse, too. (Not shown.) Order now! Boom!

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They don’t enjoy being watered.

Ever.

(Quoting The Telegraph: “This koala was sleeping in a tree when it was rudely awakened by a gardener who decided to water his trees. Matt Wilkinson said: “There was a heatwave in Adelaide recently and temperatures reached up to 40C. We use the sprinklers and garden hose to wet the house and surrounding trees when it’s hot to avoid a bush fire but when I watered one of the trees, this koala got a bit of a soaking. It was a boiling hot day so I’m sure it helped the koala cool down.”) Photo by Matthew Graham Wilkinson/Caters.

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Arashiyama, or “Storm Mountain”, is one of Japan’s designated Historic Sites and can be found on the western edge of Kyoto. The district features Shinto shrines, natural parks, and a stunning walk that winds through its bamboo forest. Take some time to explore even more of Arashiyama’s beauty through photos from others who have visited.

Photos from * tathei *, Shibazo, Marser, Kevin Tadge / Laura Lamp, yocca, Teruhide Tomori, arcreyes, Marie Eve K.A., TORO*, and Silent Star 101.

Not your traditional Easter mascots, the hamsters scurrying through pyza*’s adorable photos won’t fail to get you in the spirit. Be sure to check out her christmas, easter & halloween set to see more tiny creatures starring in holiday scenes (and don’t miss this hamster riding a sheep). Happy Easter everyone!

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Before you prepare to dye (or fry) your eggs this weekend, take a minute to appreciate these moments of joy and grief from beyond the carton. Jumbo and free-range eggs alike have dreams of becoming something more than the discarded gametes they are, and all fear joining their fallen comrades in that giant scramble in the sky.

Photos from leah miraballin’, camhabib, Cath O’Connolly, pixelmama, Beth Radons, and Michele Krankkala.

Istambul, Turkey-based Berrge Tattoo studio hires new tattoo artists via newspaper.

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If the same old dyed Easter eggs are no longer cutting it, or if you want to add an element of sophistication to your holiday, design print eggs using cardboard template designs, an old nylon stocking and dye.

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1. Purchase eggs. Make sure you purchase white, not brown eggs in order to obtain the right color and transfer the pattern.
   
   
   
   • Hard boil eggs and allow them to cool before dying. Consider boiling eggs earlier in the day and then allowing them to cool in the refrigerator before staring your project.
     
     
     
2. Pick up food grade dye. Go for gel dye or commercial grade dye for a more vibrant egg.
   
   
   
3. Select cardboard or plastic templates. Designs can be made a variety of ways including using painter’s tape (to create a symmetrical design on the eggs), cut outs of leaves or flowers, removable stickers that don specific shapes or templates from nature.
   
   
   
4. Rummage around for an old nylon stocking. You will need to wrap each egg inside the stocking before it's immersed in the dye. Make sure you have enough nylon for the number of eggs you plan to create (and that you don’t need the stocking anymore).
   
   
   

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1. Place templates on the egg. You will need to remove the templates following the dye process so make sure you affix the template so it stays in place but can be removed. Painter’s tape works well because it comes off easily but should remain in place until peeled away.
2. Wrap egg inside a piece of nylon stocking. Make sure you have a snug fit to hold the templates in place. Pull the stocking tightly and tie a small piece of string or thread to hold it in place.
   
   
   
3. Prepare egg dye according to package directions and then immerse the egg. Allow the egg to marinate in the dye according to directions and then remove and place on a wire rack to dry.
   
   
   
4. Allow for ample dry time before removing stocking and template. Even allowing the egg to dry overnight may not be enough time depending upon humidity levels and room temperature.
   
   
   
   • Consider placing eggs in the refrigerator overnight to dry.
     
     
     
5. Snip away nylon and remove templates to expose the final design. Even if the egg is completely dry, take care peeling away tape or templates so you don’t disturb or compromise the pattern.
   
   
   
6. Put them in a basket and hide them for a Easter Egg hunt!
   
   
   

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• Recycle nylon stockings by washing in mild soap to remove dye and allowing them to dry before another use.
• Use as a centerpiece for a table display.
• Create patterns on faux eggs using the same method (but you can possibly tape the template to the egg because it won’t be as delicate).

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• How to Make an Easter Door Decoration
• How to Make a Fun Easter Basket
• How to Plan an Easter Egg Hunt
• How to Dye Eggs for Easter
• How to Make an Easter Centerpiece

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Put another puppy on the baby, will you honey?

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Segundo o SRG SCImago Research Group, Portugal tem 5 universidades entre as primeiras 30 do grupo de 469 universidades dos países ibero-americanos acompanhados no estudo regular. O lugar mais destacado é da Universidade do Porto (9º) seguido da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (14º), da Universidade de Lisboa (26º) e da Universidade de Coimbra (27º).

Com a recente fusão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa com a Universidade de Lisboa (ainda não considerado nesta informação) é expectável que a Universidade resultante possa subir de forma muito significativa no ranking que valoriza a diversidade de trabalhos científicos apresentados como um dos factores relevantes na avaliação.

Podem consultar-se os rankings e a metodologia utilizada na página do SRG SCImago Research Group .

 

 

It’s the season of Sakura and Ume with many wonderful photos uploaded every day. If you love cherry and plum blossom as we do, delve into the beauty of the many Hanami photos uploaded during the last couple of weeks.

Photos from torne (a little bit hungry), danoliverm, L’Ubuesque Boîte à Savon, Benjamin Belusie, kasa51, motocchio, and AdrienG..

A necessidade de “cientistas de dados”, ou Big Data Analysts, poderá ser premente no futuro próximo, segundo avança a Universidade Portucalense (UPT). Para além de se apresentar como um dos ‘hypes’ mais fortes na indústria das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, o ‘Big Data’ é, também, com grande probabilidade, um dos segmentos em que a procura de profissionais é mais forte, alerta o Departamento de Inovação, Ciência e Tecnologia (DICT) da instituição. Este departamento recorda ainda que, só nos EUA, a previsão é de que, em 2018, poderá haver falta de entre 140 a 190 mil pessoas com profundas capacidades analíticas para explorar o potencial aberto pela disponibilidade de quantidades massivas de dados, complexos, heterogéneos e em tempo real.

Happiness — it's what we all strive to find and keep, even when it's as elusive as ever. Nobody is happy all the time, but some people are definitely more fulfilled than others. Studies reveal that happiness has little to do with material goods or high achievement; it boils down to your outlook on life, the quality of your relationships, and basic amenities like good governance and community resources. Read on for more tips and tricks on how to unlock the happier you.

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1. Be optimistic. In the 70s, researchers followed people who'd won the lottery and found that a year afterward, they were no happier than people who didn't. This hedonic adaptation^[1] suggests that we each have a baseline level of happiness. No matter what happens, good or bad, the effect on our happiness is temporary, and we tend to revert to our baseline level. Some people have a higher baseline happiness level than others, and that is due in part to genetics, but it's also largely influenced by how you think.^[2]
   
   
   • Add up all the little happy things that happen to you during the day. For example, there was no traffic on the road, you had a nice breakfast, your friend said something funny that made you laugh, you took your dog for a walk in the park and played with it. All of these added together account to one big happiness.
   • Look at the glass half-full instead of half-empty. Your girlfriend break up with you? Now you have a chance to meet someone else! You lose your job? Now you have the opportunity to find a better one! Adjust your mentality so that, in everything that happens to you, there's some kernel of good.
   • Put yourself in situations where good things are likely to happen to you. It's easier to stay optimistic if you set yourself up for success. Cheating on a partner, or stealing a bike — while temporarily thrilling — rarely end well for any party involved. Ask yourself before you act: Am I setting myself up for success or for failure?
   • Think of your current situation (however hard it may be) and then think of how much harder some other people have it. Just be happy that you are not in that worse situation. Learn to enjoy your life!
2. Follow your gut. In one study, two groups of people were asked to pick a poster to take home. One group was asked to analyze their decision, weighing pros and cons, and the other group was told to listen to their gut. Two weeks later, the group that followed their gut was happier with their posters than the group that analyzed their decisions.^[3] Now, some of our decisions are more crucial than picking out posters, but by the time you're poring over your choice, the options you're weighing are probably very similar, and the difference will only temporarily affect your happiness.
   • Next time you have a decision to make, and you're down to two or three options, just pick the one that feels right, and go with it. Never regret the decisions you make, though. Just live by the 3 C's of life: choices, chances, and changes. You need to make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change.
3. Make enough money to meet basic needs: food, shelter, and clothing. In the US, that magic number is $40,000 a year. Any money beyond that will not necessarily make you happier. Remember the lottery winners mentioned earlier? Oodles of money didn't make them happier. Once you make enough to support basic needs, your happiness is not significantly affected by how much money you make, but by your level of optimism.^[4]
   
   
   • Your comfort may increase with your salary, but comfort isn't what makes people happy. It makes people bored. That's why it's important to push beyond your comfort zone to fuel personal growth.
4. Treat your body like it deserves to be happy. It may sound cheesy to say, but your brain isn't the only organ in your body that deserves to be happy. Researchers have found that exercise, healthy diets, and regular sleep are key factors in growing more happy and staying that way.
   
   
   • People who are physically active have higher incidences of enthusiasm and excitement.^[5][6] Scientists hypothesize that excise causes the brain to release chemicals called endorphins that elevate our mood.
   • Eat right. Eating healthy foods — fruits and vegetables, lean meats and proteins, whole grains, nuts, and seeds — gives your body and brain the energy it needs to be healthy. Some scientists speculate that unhealthy diets, especially those rich in processed carbohydrates, sugars, and industrial vegetable fats, is responsible for brain shrinkage and certain brain diseases like depression and dementia.^[7]
   • Get enough sleep. Study after study confirms it: the more sleep you get, the happier you tend to be.^[8][9] Getting just a single extra hour of sleep per night makes the average person happier than making $60,000 more in annual income, astoundingly enough.^[10] So if you're middle-aged, shoot to get at least eight hours of sleep per night; the young and elderly should shoot for 9 to 11 hours of sleep per night.^[11]
5. Stay close to friends and family: Or move to where they are, so you can see them more. We live in a mobile society, where people follow jobs around the country and sometimes around the world. We do this because we think salary increases make us happier, but in fact our relationships with friends and family have a far greater impact on happiness. So next time you think about relocating, consider that you'd need a salary increase of over $100,000 USD to compensate for the loss of happiness you'd have from moving away from friends and family.^[12]
   
   
   • If relationships with family and friends are unhealthy or nonexistent, and you are bent on moving, choose a location where you'll make about the same amount of money as everyone else; according to research, people feel more financially secure (and happier) when on similar financial footing as the people around them, regardless of what that footing is.^[13]
6. Be compassionate. Compassion is all about doing something kind for someone in need, or someone less privileged than yourself. A brain-imaging study (where scientists peek into people's brains while they act or think) revealed that people gain as much happiness from watching others give to charity as they do receiving money themselves!^[14]
   • Think of easy, quick, and effective ways that you can make your community a better place by being compassionate:
     
     • Tutor, volunteer, or get involved in a church group. Countless children are looking for someone to teach them and act as a role model.
     • Make a microloan. A microloan is when you give someone (usually in the developing world) a very small sum of money for an economic project of their own. Many microloans have 95%+ repayment rates.^[15]
     • Give a person in need food, clothing or shelter. It's so basic we often forget to think about it, yet so easy to do.
7. Have deep, meaningful conversations. A study by a psychologist at the University of Arizona has shown that spending less time participating in small talk and more time in deep, meaningful conversations can increase happiness. ^[16] So next time you're beating around the bush with a friend, instead cut right to the chase. You'll be happier for it.
   
   
8. Find happiness in the job you have now: Many people expect the right job or career to dramatically change their level of happiness. But research makes it clear that your levels of optimism and quality of relationships eclipse the satisfaction gained from your job.^[17]
   • If you have a positive outlook, you will make the best of any job; and if you have good relationships, you won't depend on your job for a sense of meaning. You'll find meaning in interactions with the people you care about. You'll use your job as a crutch instead of relying on it for meaning.
   • This is not to say you shouldn't aspire to get a job that will make you happier; many people find that being on the right career path is a key determination in their overall happiness. It just means you should understand that the capacity of your job to make you happy is quite small when compared to your outlook and your relationships.
9. Smile: Science suggests that when you smile, whether you're happy or not, your mood is elevated. ^[18][19] So smile all the time if you can! Smiling is like a feedback loop: smiling reinforces happiness, just as happiness causes smiling. People who smile during painful procedures reported less pain than those who kept their facial features neutral.^[19]
   
   
10. Forgive: In a study of college students, an attitude of forgiveness contributed to better cardiovascular health. You could say forgiveness literally heals the heart. While it is unknown how forgiveness directly affects your heart, the study suggests that it may lower the perception of stress.^[20]
    
    
11. Make friends. In a 2010 study published by Harvard researchers in American Sociological Review, people who went to church regularly reported greater life satisfaction than those who didn't. The critical factor was the quality of friendships made in church. Church-goers who lacked close friends there were no happier than people who never went to church. When researchers compared people who had the same number of close friends, those who had close friends from church were more satisfied with their lives.^[21]
    • The difference is the forming of friendships based on mutual interests and beliefs. So if church is not your thing, consider finding something else you're deeply passionate about, making friends with those who share similar interests.
    • When you interact with people who share your interests, you feel happier due to sensations of reward and well-being. This is because during such interactions, endorphin and dopamine — neurotransmitters responsible for feelings of happiness and relaxation — are released into the body. In other words, your body is designed to feel happier when engaged in social interactions.^[22]

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• When you're purposely trying to be happy or cheerful, but just can't seem to achieve it at the moment, do something crazy. Stupid, crazy, weird actions seem pointless, but could actually lift your mood -- just because you're glad you did it. Most fundamentally, recognize that happiness is a state of mind, not something to be defined objectively. You can change your state of mind in many ways including these suggestions:
  • Turn your favorite music up loud and do a dance to it. Talk to yourself in the mirror.
  • Try a new food.
  • Rearrange your room in a weird way.
  • Write a funny or inspiring quote on your mirror/wall/locker.
  • Scream as loud as you can (warn your family first!) and bounce up and down; jump all around.
  • If it's a hot day, get your swimsuit on, go outside and turn the hose on yourself.
• Keep in close touch with relatives and a small circle of friends. Cultivate love and support.
• Just because something seems to make others happy doesn't mean it really does. People may pretend they're happy, especially when they've invested so much into the things that are supposed to make them happy; it's hard to admit that you've been placing all your eggs in the wrong basket.
• Don't be afraid to admit when you're down and need a lift. Conversely, if a person is a negative influence who drags you down, don't be afraid to remove such a person from your life.
• Always be happy and make others happy.
• Always assume that what is done is done. Don't feel regret due to past mistakes. Instead, learn from them and move on.
• Dance or sing. If you're worried take a deep breath and focus on the positives.
• Live your life as though you mean it!
• Find time every day to laugh! Laughter naturally boosts your happiness and leaves you with a smile.
• Forget the past, if its something bad, and look forward don't gloom about it still... Every day is a new day!

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• Happy people are not happy all the time. Everyone has times when they feel sad, frustrated, guilty, angry, and so on. Happy people are just more resilient and better at maintaining a state of ubiquitous happiness. We may all feel negative at moments in our lives, but try to bounce back and live in the moment, and be content with everything you do.
• If you are constantly unhappy or depressed, seek professional help.

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• How to Remove Mind Tattoos
• How to Design a Life of Your Choice
• How to Find the Light at the End of the Tunnel
• How to Be Optimistic
• How to Live a Simple and Peaceful Life
• How to Do Laughter Yoga
• How to Be Happy Instead of Feeling Unlucky
• How to Be Happy Without Remembering Anything About the Past

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These amazing face paintings were all made by New Zealand-based artist Christy Lewis and are among the best ones I’ve ever seen! Stunning!

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Recorda-se deste artigo? “DECO lança sítio “Paguemos menos luz” e conta já com mais de 50mil registos“.

Uma visita ao sítio da DECO revela que são já mais de 320 mil os inscritos interessados em receber uma proposta de tarifário de eletricidade que avaliarão com vista à eventual mudança de provedor de serviço de distribuição. Recordamos que a inscrição está em curso até dia 30 de abril e pode fazer-se no sítio da DECO conforme indicámos no artigo anterior.

 Para já, parece haver claramente um incentivo interessante para que os operadores reajam com uma proposta melhorada. O futuro dirá como decorrerá o leilão a realizar em meados de maio.

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