///////////////////////Baby boom in US
Going against the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a small baby boom.
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Short book on winning through quitting.You can become "the best" and need to learn when to quit.
The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.
Everything starts out exciting and fun but then gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point—really hard, and not much fun at all.
And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you’re in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better, no matter how hard you try. Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip for the right reasons. In fact, winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. Losers, on the other hand, fall into two basic traps. Either they fail to stick out the Dip—they get to the moment of truth and then give up—or they never even find the right Dip to conquer
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/////////////////////IF UR NOT PART OF THE SOLN ,UR PART OF THE PPT
//////////////////////////////FROM JOHN PLACE=
Have You Learned to Be Helpless?
30 October 2007, 01:15:43 | JohnPlace
This post is for anyone who’s ever felt trapped.
Workers trapped in dead-end jobs
Spouses trapped in unfulfilling marriages
Depressives trapped in despair
Addicts trapped in a helpless cycle of substance abuse, cigarette smoking, or binge eating
Lonely people trapped in emotional isolation
Poor people shackled by poverty
Anyone old enough to read this article has likely felt trapped by something at some point. Some people might say that feeling trapped is just part of living. I know what it’s like to feel trapped by relationships, jobs, and finances, but I also know what it’s like to break free; there is hope.
You have the power to escape nearly any trap that befalls you. And while it’s not feasible to document all the steps that you’d have to take to escape the endless array of claustrophobic life traps available to us in the modern world, it is feasible to discuss the single concept that binds all of these traps together: learned helplessness.
Just as surely as you can learn to be successful, you can learn to be helpless. And once you learn to be helpless, you stop trying. Lack of effort in a situation where change is possible — allowing your life to drift instead of taking the wheel — is a passive destroyer of potential; that’s why learned helplessness is so devastating.
Consider this definition of learned helplessness, paraphrased from Wikipedia:
Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which people have learned to believe they are helpless in a particular situation. They believe they have no control over their situation and that whatever they do is futile. As a result, they will stay passive in the face of an unpleasant, harmful or damaging situation, even when they actually do have the power to change their circumstances.
Whether you’re trapped in a bad marriage, a dead-end job, or some other unhealthy pattern of living, the question is: are you really trapped? or have you learned to be helpless?
Dogs Teach A Shocking Lesson in Learned Helplessness
Many years ago, I remember hearing about an electroshock experiment conducted on a group of dogs. One group of dogs was taught to jump over a hurdle to escape the shocks; they learned quickly because they didn’t like being shocked!
Another group of dogs was given no means of escape. These dogs quickly learned that nothing they did could help them avoid the electric shocks, so they sat passively, whimpering, until the researchers mercifully ended the experiment.
And what do you think happened when this second group of dogs was moved to an enclosure where they could have escaped the shocks by jumping over a hurdle? You guessed it: they just sat there. They didn’t even attempt to escape. The dogs had learned to be helpless to the extent that they were no longer capable of saving themselves, even when they had the power to do so.
Of course, humans are more sophisticated than dogs, but the aforementioned experiment led to hundreds of others that verify that people can – and do – learn to be helpless, and once we do, the consequences can be dire.
Reclaim Your Power: Learn to Be Successful
Several months ago, I wrote about my experiences with grade school bullies and how I had learned to be helpless as a child through their attacks. If I could learn to be helpless through common bullying, what of the abused child? What of those who lose a parent or undergo serious trauma? The sad truth is that life is full of circumstances – both seemingly innocuous and blatantly horrible – in which a person can learn to be helpless.
And until you learn to reclaim your power, as I did, you’ll never truly be free to live a life of your own design. That’s the real tragedy.
The next time you feel resigned to accept some undesirable fate, stop and consider whether your resignation is a symptom of learned helplessness. Are you sure there’s not a way to make things better? Consider your options. And learn to believe in yourself.
//////////////////////////////suppose gratification (quelling the urge) without procreation could be a way to moderate a growing population, especially in a species without contraception (non-human animals mainly then).=MIO=HMSXLTY
//////////////////////////////SELF=CONSCIOUSNESS=SUBJECTIVITY
/////////////////////////CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS-SUSAN BLACKMORE
///////////////////////////CONSC AS A WORKING THEATRE
/////////////////There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” ~ Albert Camus
Camus’ concept of “the freedom of the condemned man (person)” speaks much about suicide. Once we have accepted—determined?—our own death, the result is freedom rather than despair.
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To Eat, or Not to Eat?
Your loved one has a terminal illness and has stopped eating meals. They nibble a little soup here, bites of toast there, only when prompted and pleaded to do so. They need to eat to keep up their strength don't they? Won't they be starving? Isn't this going to speed up their demise?
These questions may be plaguing your mind and causing you distress as you watch your loved one lose weight. You may have even considered artificial feedings, such as tube feedings or fluids in an IV. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when considering this common problem towards the end of life:
Loss of appetite may be related to many things, your doctor can help determine the cause.
During the earlier stages of disease, appetite might be stimulated with medications, such as Megestrol.
During later stages of disease, loss of appetite is normal as the body begins to focus on the most vital of organs such as the brain and the heart. The digestive system begins to take a back seat.
Artificial feeding can make your loved one uncomfortable if their body is unable to digest properly.
Artificial hydration can cause unnecessary swelling if the body can't process it properly.
At the very end of life, when your loved one no longer eats or drinks anything, the body produces an abundance of feel good chemicals in the brain called endorphines that override any feelings of hunger or thirst.
Talk to your doctor about your concerns, your goals, and your wishes. Together you can come up with a plan that is just right for you and your loved one.
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//////////////////////////////////////How Tomatoes Fight Heart Disease
By Staff Writer Gale Maleskey, MS, RD
A new study finds that a high-tomato diet lowers cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart disease. Lycopene, a powerful antioxidant found in tomatoes may be the source of their protective effects.
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How to practice math during the commute
When I am driving with my young daughters, I use the cars license plates in front of us to practice math. If the numbers on the plate are: 478 D25 I mix up the numbers and ask addition questions for my younger daughter (what is 4 + 7 or 7 + 2) and I ask my older daughter multiplication questions ( 4 x 7 or 7 x 2). Each car can give you many math problems. It helps pass the time and gets their mind working.
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Office book swap
We have a lot of readers here in the office. Everyone brings in books that they don't want, or that they think someone else will enjoy. We keep them on a shelf and switch books when we're done with them. After about 3 months or so, we tell everyone to take their books back if they want them. Any unclaimed books get donated to the used bookstore across the street.
///////////////////////////////////How do neural firings lead to thoughts and feelings? The conventional (a.k.a. functionalist, reductionist, materialist, physicalist, computationalist) approach argues that neurons and their chemical synapses are the fundamental units of information in the brain, and that conscious experience emerges when a critical level of complexity is reached in the brain's neural networks.
The basic idea is that the mind is a computer functioning in the brain (brain = mind = computer). However in fitting the brain to a computational view, such explanations omit incompatible neurophysiological details:
Widespread apparent randomness at all levels of neural processes (is it really noise, or underlying levels of complexity?);
Glial cells (which account for some 80% of brain);
Dendritic-dendritic processing;
Electrotonic gap junctions;
Cytoplasmic/cytoskeletal activities; and,
Living state (the brain is alive!)
/////////////////////////////////CARTESIAN THEATRE IN OUR MINDS
//////////////////////////////////BIRD FLU SPREADING IN BENGAL CRSS
//////////////////////////////////////While microtubules have traditionally been considered as purely structural elements, recent evidence has revealed that mechanical signaling and communication functions also exist:
MT "kinks" travel at 15 microns (2000 tubulin subunits) per second. Vernon and Woolley (1995) Experimental Cell Research 220(2)482-494
MTs vibrate (100-650 Hz) with nanometer displacement. Yagi, Kamimura, Kaniya (1994) Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 29:177-185
MTs optically "shimmer" when metabolically active. Hunt and Stebbings (1994), Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 17:69-78
Mechanical signals propogate through microtubules to cell nucleus; mechanism for MT regulation of gene expression. Maniotis, Chen and Ingber (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:849-854
Measured tubulin dipoles and MT conductivity suggest MTs are ferroelectric at physiological temperature (Tuszynski; Unger 1998)
Current models propose that tubulins within microtubules undergo coherent excitation, switching between two or more conformational states in nanoseconds. Dipole couplings among neighboring tubulins in the microtubule lattice form dynamical patterns, or "automata," which evolve, interact and lead to the emergence of new patterns. Research indicates that microtubule automata computation could support classical information processing, transmission and learning within neurons
////////////////////////////////WHEN COALITIONS OF NEURONES COMPETE,THE WINNER IS THE ONE THAT IS CONSCIOUS
/////////////////////////////////If spin networks are the fundamental level of space-time geometry, they could provide the basis for proto-conscious experience. In other words, particular configurations of quantum spin geometry would convey particular types of qualia, meaning and aesthetic values. A process at the Planck scale (e.g. quantum state reductions) could access and select configurations of experience.
/////////////////////////////Are proteins qubits?
Biological life is organized by proteins. By changing their conformational shape, proteins are able to perform a wide variety of functions, including muscle movement, molecular binding, enzyme catalysis, metabolism, and movement. Dynamical protein structure results from a "delicate balance among powerful countervailing forces" (Voet & Voet, 1995). The types of forces acting on proteins include charged interactions (such as covalent, ionic, electrostatic, and hydrogen bonds), hydrophobic interactions, and dipole interactions. The latter group, also known as van der Waals forces, encompasses three types of interactions:
permanent dipole - permanent dipole,
permanent dipole - induced dipole, and
induced dipole - induced dipole (London dispersion forces)
As charged interactions cancel out, hydrophobic and dipole - dipole forces are left to regulate protein structure. While induced dipole - induced dipole interactions, or London dispersion forces, are the weakest of the forces outlined above, they are also the most numerous and influential. Indeed, they may be critical to protein function. For example, anesthetics are able to bind in hydrophobic "pockets" of certain neural proteins and ablate consciousness by virtue of disrupting these London forces. London force attraction between any two atoms is usually less than a few kilojoules; however, since thousands occur in each protein, they add up to thousands of kilojoules per mole, and cause changes in conformational structure. As London forces are instrumental in protein folding (a problem intractable to conventional computational simulation), protein conformation and folding may be quantum computations.
////////////////////////////////OBSOLETE LITTLE HOMUNCULUS-EVEN INSIDE OUR BIG RADIO
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/////////////////////////////////At the nanoscale each event determines new classical states of microtubule automata which regulate synaptic and other neural functions;
During the pre-conscious quantum superposition/computation phase, oscillations are "tuned" and "orchestrated" by microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), providing a feedback loop between the biological system and the quantum state (hence Orch OR);
Quantum states in microtubules may link to those in microtubules in other neurons and glia by tunneling through gap junctions, permitting extension of the quantum state throughout significant volumes of the brain.
Figure 26. Schematic of proposed quantum superposition and entanglement in microtubules in three dendrites interconnected by tunneling through gap junctions. Within each neuronal dendrite, microtubule-associated-protein (MAP) attachments breach isolation and prevent quantum coherence; MAP attachment sites thus act as "nodes" which tune and orchestrate quantum oscillations and set possibilities and probabilities for collapse outcomes (orchestrated objective reduction: Orch OR). Gap junctions may enable quantum tunneling among dendrites resulting in macroscopic quantum states.
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//////////////////////////////////areligious, adj.
not influenced by or practicing religion: the sexual mores of today's secular and areligious culture.
/////////////////////////////megacryometeor [meg-uh-kry-oh-mee-tee-ur]
a large chunk of ice that falls from the sky, often without a clear cause or origin.
/////////////////////armpiece, n. Esp. Journ.
an attractive woman escorted to social functions chiefly for the sake of her appearance.
////////////////////////WHY DOES THE WHOLE BRAIN DETERMINE ANYTHING?=PHENOMENOLOGY
/////////////////////ZOMBIE-LACKS CONSCIOUSNESS
///////////////////////////RELIEF TO SAVOUR
////////////////////BRAIN IS A CAUSAL MACHINE
//////////////////////////To give a sense of this, consider that the cortex of your brain has 30 billion neurons. It has a million billion connections, at least. If you counted one connection per second, you would not finish counting until 32 million years later.
About 300 million years ago, during the transition from reptiles to birds and mammals, the thalamocortical system began to develop from a few collections of neurons, which then grew vastly in number. The thalamus is located in the center of the brain and is about the size of your thumb. It relays signals from all senses but smell to the cortex of the brain which, through manifold loops and pathways, “speaks back” to the thalamus.
////////////////////////////////////NPQ | In the future, might humans impart consciousness to technology through artificial intelligence?
EDELMAN | Logic can be “imparted” and robots can be programmed. But that is not consciousness, which cannot arise from pre-defined information, but rather from the ability to self-organize, recognize patterns, learn and evolve on its own. Even if we one day had conscious artifacts, they wouldn’t be like us. They wouldn’t have our body and our evolved neural circuitry and the body that make us what we are. Machines might become intelligent one day, perhaps even conscious, but they will not be human. All the more reason to consider what we have to be precious.
/////////////////////////////////////CONSC NEEDS NEURONES TO SUSTAIN-SO CANNOT SURVIVE DTH
/////////////////////////Yoga is over 5000 years old.
Yoga originated in India.
"Yoga" is a Sanskrit word, which means "to yoke" or "to bind."
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