Reading the contents of working memory [Neurophilosophy]
by Mo none@example.com
Working memory refers to the process by which small amounts of information relevant to the task at hand are retained for short periods of time. For example, before cellular phones became so ubiquitous, calling someone usually involved first finding the number and then remembering it for a just few seconds by repeating it to oneself several times. Once the digits had been dialled, they are immediately forgotten.
Very little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying working memory, but very recently some advances have been made. Last month, a group from the University of Texas Medical Center described a novel mechanism by which the response of single cells in the prefrontal cortex to a stimulus can persist for many seconds after the stimulus has been removed. They suggested that this could be how cells encode information for short periods of time.
And now, researchers from Vanderbilt University have made another important finding. In an advance publication in the journal Nature, they report that the parts of the visual cortex which carry out the earliest stages of visual processing play an important part role in retaining simple images in working memory, and demonstrate that the contents of visual working memory can be accurately predicted by decoding neural activity from those parts of the brain.
/////////////////More on propranolol - the drug that doesn't erase memories [Not Exactly Rocket Science]
by Ed Yong none@example.com
The mainstream media are just queuing up to fail in their reporting of the propranolol story from a couple of days ago. To reiterate:
Propranolol is commonly used to treat high blood pressure and prevent migraines in children. But Merel Kindt and colleagues from the University of Amsterdam have found that it can do much more. By giving it to people before they recalled a scary memory about a spider, they could erase the fearful response it triggered.
The critical thing about the study is that the entire memory hadn't been erased in a typical sci-fi way. Kindt had trained the volunteers to be fearful of spidery images by pairing them with electric shocks. Even after they'd been given propranolol, they still expected to receive a shock when they saw a picture of a spider - they just weren't afraid of the prospect. The drug hadn't so much erased their memories, as dulled their emotional sting. It's more like removing all the formatting from a Word document than deleting the entire file.
/////////////////////Related research has demonstrated that increased "cognitive load" -- like the mental demands of being in a city -- makes people more likely to choose chocolate cake instead of fruit salad, or indulge in a unhealthy snack. This is the one-two punch of city life: It subverts our ability to resist temptation even as it surrounds us with it, from fast-food outlets to fancy clothing stores. The end result is too many calories and too much credit card debt.
City life can also lead to loss of emotional control. Kuo and her colleagues found less domestic violence in the apartments with views of greenery. These data build on earlier work that demonstrated how aspects of the urban environment, such as crowding and unpredictable noise, can also lead to increased levels of aggression. A tired brain, run down by the stimuli of city life, is more likely to lose its temper.
Long before scientists warned about depleted prefrontal cortices, philosophers and landscape architects were warning about the effects of the undiluted city, and looking for ways to integrate nature into modern life. Ralph Waldo Emerson advised people to "adopt the pace of nature," while the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted sought to create vibrant urban parks, such as Central Park in New York and the Emerald Necklace in Boston, that allowed the masses to escape the maelstrom of urban life.
////////////////BPLIDON-BLIND PITILESS INDIFF OF NATR
///////////////////THE GRT MIGRN-WILDEBEEDT ACROSS SERENGATI-WTCHNG BBC IPLYR
//////////////////////........Darwin's big advantage [The Island of Doubt]
by James Hrynyshyn none@example.com
Not to diminish Charles Darwin's brillance in the slightest, but there's a nice little essay in the New York Times by Nicholas Wade that helps explain why the guy managed to get so much so right so long ago. The money quote:
One of Darwin's advantages was that he did not have to write grant proposals or publish 15 articles a year. He thought deeply about every detail of his theory for more than 20 years before publishing "The Origin of Species" in 1859, and for 12 years more before its sequel, "The Descent of Man," which explored how his theory applied to people.
////////////////////NATR-EVOLN-PREDATPR/PREY ARMS RACE-JUST FR REPROD SUCCESS
///////////////////////////////AGONY OF LOW FOOD CHAIN ANMLS
////////////////////WF QRRL-NCP-TO
///////////////////The philosopher Karl Popper is famous for using falsifiability as the basis for separating science from non-science. If a hypothesis can be openly tested and allows for the possibility of being falsified, he said, then it is scientific
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Saturday 28 February 2009
DLHI 6 WTCHNG
Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
– Grandma Moses
//////////////......Yahoo (noun)
Pronunciation: ['yah-hu]
Definition: The original word was a proper noun which was "commonized", i.e. converted into a common noun. The common noun refers to any boorish, crass person.
Usage: Used in the first instance among students of 18th-century British literature. More recently it has been usurped by a successful Internet company. Despite the company's success, it's a rather unfortunate choice for a name, don't you think?
Suggested Usage: Usage: We should work to prevent this word's becoming a trademark. "She came in late and didn't hear the lecture, but still attacked him during the question period. What a yahoo." It is particularly important to impress the original meaning on young people: "Wash your hands before you eat; we aren't raising a yahoo."
Etymology: A nonsense word first appearing in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726. Yahoos were degraded humanoid inhabitants of the island of the Houyhnhnms, a race of rational horses that used them as beasts of burden.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
////////////////Babies Born During High Pollen And Mold Seasons Have Greater Odds Of Wheezing By Age 2
Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
/////////////////psd=
Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "John (Eljay) Love-Jensen" eljay@adobe.com eljay451
Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:50 am (PST)
A bit of a disjointed, rambling answer to a poetic question...
I am not suffering now.
I am not dead now.
I am not experiencing injustice now.
I am enjoying the show.
My past sufferings and injustice are past. It is not productive to dwell upon them or harbor regrets or resentments, since there is nothing I can do about them now, and I am not experiencing them now. The stress about those "what happened" memories is all in my head, my own reflections of events past.
My future sufferings and injustices are not here now. It is not productive to have anxiety, worry, and stress about them now, since they are not now. The stress about those "what if's" is all in my head -- my own imaginings of future events.
Before I existed, my non-existence did not bother me at all. After I die, I suspect my non-existence will not bother me at all. In the meantime, I am not going to expend even one minute of my time to worry about that, since I am not dead now.
I try to acquire the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I can only change things in the now.
I live in the now, since the now is the only moment I have. The past is past. What is, is. Que sera, sera.
/////////////////.........Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "Analemma" analemma54@live.com analemma54
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:19 am (PST)
Hi, Grace,
I took a different slant from the poem. Since I'm fighting terminal breast cancer, I find it easier to accept that I am a very insignificant part of the bigger picture. When I walk in the woods and see trees dying because the ants have chewed away the heartwood, I remember that death is a part of Nature, and I am no more important than these trees. I grieve for the trees as I grieve for my own health. I spend time on cancer support forums where there is a lot of prayer, belief in "miracles" and anger at having cancer. I find more comfort in my belief that the Universe is so big that it will be just fine without me.
But I really am enjoying the show! And I do believe it was worth the "price."
B
//////////////////Though a country can offer its citizens
the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,
Nature does not.
If Nature has allowed you in,
be assured -
You will suffer --
mildly, or perhaps horribly.
You will die –
later, or perhaps sooner;
You will know,
while alive,
injustice
and resentment.
Perhaps abundantly.
And if you love,
each one you love
similarly
will die,
suffer,
know injustice,
and resentment.
This is the fine print you could not read
when
you were being pushed into this world.
This is what you pay for the show.
/////////////////Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "luz0delalba" artrr@luciferian.org luz0delalba
Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:30 pm (PST)
Brenda, it is true that the Universe is BIG. Is All. And that It will
be fine. But you will not leave. We can't leave. This is home. We
were, are and will be here. From Alpha to Omega and to Alpha again for
ever. Those little pieces that today are organized in the marvelous
arrangement you call YOU, will move in all directions to be part of
many new marvelous arrangements tomorrow. And new ones and new ones
for ever and ever. Some of our little pieces will be snow, and birds,
and rocks, and maybe in many moons from now some will be part of
another marvelous She or He who will think about this and about You.
/////////////////A planetary recycling program.We do live in a closed system after all.It's my take on Eastern re-incarnation.
////////////////From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How?
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By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: February 23, 2009
One of the enduring mysteries of biology is that a variety of specialized cells collaborate in building a body, yet all have an identical genome. Somehow each of the 200 different kinds of cells in the human body — in the brain, liver, bone, heart and many other structures — must be reading off a different set of the hereditary instructions written into the DNA.
Secrets of the Cell
A Cell's Many Faces
This is the first in a series of occasional articles on a frontier of biology - the workings of the cell.
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The Epigenome: Guiding Cells to Their Specialized Roles
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The system is something like a play in which all the actors have the same script but are assigned different parts and blocked from even seeing anyone else’s lines. The fertilized egg possesses the first copy of the script; as it divides repeatedly into the 10 trillion cells of the human body, the cells assign themselves to the different roles they will play throughout an individual’s lifetime.
How does this assignment process work? The answer, researchers are finding, is that a second layer of information is embedded in the special proteins that package the DNA of the genome. This second layer, known as the epigenome, controls access to the genes, allowing each cell type to activate its own special genes but blocking off most of the rest. A person has one genome but many epigenomes. And the epigenome is involved not just in defining what genes are accessible in each type of cell, but also in controlling when the accessible genes may be activated.
In the wake of the decoding of the human genome in 2003, understanding the epigenome has become a major frontier of research.
NYT SC=
///////////////////Physical fitness improves spatial memory, increases size of brain structure
When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters. Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better. Now researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi and better spatial memory than those who are less fit.
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Physical_fitness_improves_spatial_memory_increases_size_of_brain_structure.asp
///////////////////The reason is that evolutionary success can now be measured in terms of the number of genes an individual contributes to the next generation. Anyone who dies without reproducing does not directly contribute any. But because individuals have some genes in common with their family members, they can make an indirect genetic contribution if they help their relations to reproduce instead of reproducing themselves. Such “kin selection” is thought to have contributed to the evolution of the social insects — especially, ants, bees, wasps and termites — where only a few individuals reproduce and everyone else looks after the offspring.
We’d want to discuss evolution beyond natural selection — the other forces that can sometimes cause (or prevent) evolutionary change. For although natural selection is the only creative force in evolution — the only one that can produce complex structures such as wings and eyes — it is not the only force that affects which genes will spread, and which will vanish.
////////////////98 UMBRLLA KEY
///////////////Darwin is occasionally criticized as an imprecise, nonnumeric naturalist, a man of ideas, perhaps brilliant and original in that mode, but not a scientist like those of today. ... Mendel's rational, experimental analysis of the inheritance of unit characters is without question a work of great genius. .... However, if Darwin failed to discover Mendel's laws, it was not so much because of what he lacked in genius or numeracy or the experimental cast of mind, but rather because of the forceful tendency of what he already possessed. His focus on continuous variation as the source of evolutionary change was not wrong, and coupled with the power he could see in the integration of infinitesimals over time he built his case on the solid foundation of Lyell's uniformitarian thinking. Much of variation and inheritance was simply opaque in those terms, but continuous variation, not unit characters, was, for Darwin, the way forward. Thus Darwin boxed himself in, unable to see the laws of inheritance in continuous variation, unable to see the real importance of discontinuous variation where the laws of inheritance could be discerned.
/////////////////HTTNTT VNUS
///////////////////.....Feb 26, 2009 (2 days ago)
Voters use child-like judgments when judging political candidates [Not Exactly Rocket Science]
by Ed Yong none@example.com
During elections, what affects our decision to vote for one politician over another? We'd like to think that it's an objective assessment of many different factors including their various policies, their values, their record and so on. But in reality, voters are just not that rational.
In the past, studies have shown that people can predict which of two politicians will win an election with reasonable accuracy based on a second-long looks at their faces. With a fleeting glance and little purposeful consideration, people make strong judgments about a candidate's competence, that can sway their final choices. And they do this in a remarkably child-like way.
John Antonakis and Olaf Dalgas from the University of Lausanne found that when judging the faces of potential leaders, the decision-making technique of adults is no more sophisticated than that used by children.
/////////////////////
– Grandma Moses
//////////////......Yahoo (noun)
Pronunciation: ['yah-hu]
Definition: The original word was a proper noun which was "commonized", i.e. converted into a common noun. The common noun refers to any boorish, crass person.
Usage: Used in the first instance among students of 18th-century British literature. More recently it has been usurped by a successful Internet company. Despite the company's success, it's a rather unfortunate choice for a name, don't you think?
Suggested Usage: Usage: We should work to prevent this word's becoming a trademark. "She came in late and didn't hear the lecture, but still attacked him during the question period. What a yahoo." It is particularly important to impress the original meaning on young people: "Wash your hands before you eat; we aren't raising a yahoo."
Etymology: A nonsense word first appearing in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726. Yahoos were degraded humanoid inhabitants of the island of the Houyhnhnms, a race of rational horses that used them as beasts of burden.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
////////////////Babies Born During High Pollen And Mold Seasons Have Greater Odds Of Wheezing By Age 2
Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
/////////////////psd=
Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "John (Eljay) Love-Jensen" eljay@adobe.com eljay451
Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:50 am (PST)
A bit of a disjointed, rambling answer to a poetic question...
I am not suffering now.
I am not dead now.
I am not experiencing injustice now.
I am enjoying the show.
My past sufferings and injustice are past. It is not productive to dwell upon them or harbor regrets or resentments, since there is nothing I can do about them now, and I am not experiencing them now. The stress about those "what happened" memories is all in my head, my own reflections of events past.
My future sufferings and injustices are not here now. It is not productive to have anxiety, worry, and stress about them now, since they are not now. The stress about those "what if's" is all in my head -- my own imaginings of future events.
Before I existed, my non-existence did not bother me at all. After I die, I suspect my non-existence will not bother me at all. In the meantime, I am not going to expend even one minute of my time to worry about that, since I am not dead now.
I try to acquire the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I can only change things in the now.
I live in the now, since the now is the only moment I have. The past is past. What is, is. Que sera, sera.
/////////////////.........Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "Analemma" analemma54@live.com analemma54
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:19 am (PST)
Hi, Grace,
I took a different slant from the poem. Since I'm fighting terminal breast cancer, I find it easier to accept that I am a very insignificant part of the bigger picture. When I walk in the woods and see trees dying because the ants have chewed away the heartwood, I remember that death is a part of Nature, and I am no more important than these trees. I grieve for the trees as I grieve for my own health. I spend time on cancer support forums where there is a lot of prayer, belief in "miracles" and anger at having cancer. I find more comfort in my belief that the Universe is so big that it will be just fine without me.
But I really am enjoying the show! And I do believe it was worth the "price."
B
//////////////////Though a country can offer its citizens
the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,
Nature does not.
If Nature has allowed you in,
be assured -
You will suffer --
mildly, or perhaps horribly.
You will die –
later, or perhaps sooner;
You will know,
while alive,
injustice
and resentment.
Perhaps abundantly.
And if you love,
each one you love
similarly
will die,
suffer,
know injustice,
and resentment.
This is the fine print you could not read
when
you were being pushed into this world.
This is what you pay for the show.
/////////////////Re: Dukkha
Posted by: "luz0delalba" artrr@luciferian.org luz0delalba
Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:30 pm (PST)
Brenda, it is true that the Universe is BIG. Is All. And that It will
be fine. But you will not leave. We can't leave. This is home. We
were, are and will be here. From Alpha to Omega and to Alpha again for
ever. Those little pieces that today are organized in the marvelous
arrangement you call YOU, will move in all directions to be part of
many new marvelous arrangements tomorrow. And new ones and new ones
for ever and ever. Some of our little pieces will be snow, and birds,
and rocks, and maybe in many moons from now some will be part of
another marvelous She or He who will think about this and about You.
/////////////////A planetary recycling program.We do live in a closed system after all.It's my take on Eastern re-incarnation.
////////////////From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How?
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By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: February 23, 2009
One of the enduring mysteries of biology is that a variety of specialized cells collaborate in building a body, yet all have an identical genome. Somehow each of the 200 different kinds of cells in the human body — in the brain, liver, bone, heart and many other structures — must be reading off a different set of the hereditary instructions written into the DNA.
Secrets of the Cell
A Cell's Many Faces
This is the first in a series of occasional articles on a frontier of biology - the workings of the cell.
Multimedia
Graphic
The Epigenome: Guiding Cells to Their Specialized Roles
RSS Feed
Get Science News From The New York Times »
The system is something like a play in which all the actors have the same script but are assigned different parts and blocked from even seeing anyone else’s lines. The fertilized egg possesses the first copy of the script; as it divides repeatedly into the 10 trillion cells of the human body, the cells assign themselves to the different roles they will play throughout an individual’s lifetime.
How does this assignment process work? The answer, researchers are finding, is that a second layer of information is embedded in the special proteins that package the DNA of the genome. This second layer, known as the epigenome, controls access to the genes, allowing each cell type to activate its own special genes but blocking off most of the rest. A person has one genome but many epigenomes. And the epigenome is involved not just in defining what genes are accessible in each type of cell, but also in controlling when the accessible genes may be activated.
In the wake of the decoding of the human genome in 2003, understanding the epigenome has become a major frontier of research.
NYT SC=
///////////////////Physical fitness improves spatial memory, increases size of brain structure
When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters. Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better. Now researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi and better spatial memory than those who are less fit.
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Physical_fitness_improves_spatial_memory_increases_size_of_brain_structure.asp
///////////////////The reason is that evolutionary success can now be measured in terms of the number of genes an individual contributes to the next generation. Anyone who dies without reproducing does not directly contribute any. But because individuals have some genes in common with their family members, they can make an indirect genetic contribution if they help their relations to reproduce instead of reproducing themselves. Such “kin selection” is thought to have contributed to the evolution of the social insects — especially, ants, bees, wasps and termites — where only a few individuals reproduce and everyone else looks after the offspring.
We’d want to discuss evolution beyond natural selection — the other forces that can sometimes cause (or prevent) evolutionary change. For although natural selection is the only creative force in evolution — the only one that can produce complex structures such as wings and eyes — it is not the only force that affects which genes will spread, and which will vanish.
////////////////98 UMBRLLA KEY
///////////////Darwin is occasionally criticized as an imprecise, nonnumeric naturalist, a man of ideas, perhaps brilliant and original in that mode, but not a scientist like those of today. ... Mendel's rational, experimental analysis of the inheritance of unit characters is without question a work of great genius. .... However, if Darwin failed to discover Mendel's laws, it was not so much because of what he lacked in genius or numeracy or the experimental cast of mind, but rather because of the forceful tendency of what he already possessed. His focus on continuous variation as the source of evolutionary change was not wrong, and coupled with the power he could see in the integration of infinitesimals over time he built his case on the solid foundation of Lyell's uniformitarian thinking. Much of variation and inheritance was simply opaque in those terms, but continuous variation, not unit characters, was, for Darwin, the way forward. Thus Darwin boxed himself in, unable to see the laws of inheritance in continuous variation, unable to see the real importance of discontinuous variation where the laws of inheritance could be discerned.
/////////////////HTTNTT VNUS
///////////////////.....Feb 26, 2009 (2 days ago)
Voters use child-like judgments when judging political candidates [Not Exactly Rocket Science]
by Ed Yong none@example.com
During elections, what affects our decision to vote for one politician over another? We'd like to think that it's an objective assessment of many different factors including their various policies, their values, their record and so on. But in reality, voters are just not that rational.
In the past, studies have shown that people can predict which of two politicians will win an election with reasonable accuracy based on a second-long looks at their faces. With a fleeting glance and little purposeful consideration, people make strong judgments about a candidate's competence, that can sway their final choices. And they do this in a remarkably child-like way.
John Antonakis and Olaf Dalgas from the University of Lausanne found that when judging the faces of potential leaders, the decision-making technique of adults is no more sophisticated than that used by children.
/////////////////////
CDS 280209
A restive morsel needs a spur of wine.
~Proverb, (French)~
//////////////
"I always have time to be. I always have time to be in this moment. I always have time to be in this moment, fully present, and fully aware."
/////////////
~Proverb, (French)~
//////////////
"I always have time to be. I always have time to be in this moment. I always have time to be in this moment, fully present, and fully aware."
/////////////
Friday 27 February 2009
SISYPHEAN NIGHTS
Sisyphean (adjective)
Pronunciation: [si-sê-'fee-ên]
Definition: Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" (see Etymology).
Usage: A friend of today's correspondent once was the official ombudsman (See our archives at ombudsman) for New York City—a sisyphean task if ever there was one. There is no other form of today's word, but we don't need one. "Sisyphean" tells of bearing up under a lost cause better than any other word in English. The adjective is usually capitalized despite the fact that it has long been commonized.
////////////////Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards.
— Søren Kierkegaard
///////////////////ART INTENDED TO PROVOKE A REACTION
/////////////////
"Healthy Foods = Low Calorie Foods?"
////////////////////To truly hear you must quiet the mind.
~Unknown~
///////////////////////////
Pronunciation: [si-sê-'fee-ên]
Definition: Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" (see Etymology).
Usage: A friend of today's correspondent once was the official ombudsman (See our archives at ombudsman) for New York City—a sisyphean task if ever there was one. There is no other form of today's word, but we don't need one. "Sisyphean" tells of bearing up under a lost cause better than any other word in English. The adjective is usually capitalized despite the fact that it has long been commonized.
////////////////Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards.
— Søren Kierkegaard
///////////////////ART INTENDED TO PROVOKE A REACTION
/////////////////
"Healthy Foods = Low Calorie Foods?"
////////////////////To truly hear you must quiet the mind.
~Unknown~
///////////////////////////
JHN HNDYMN RMNN HRD LF-GBU
////////////////CLTTE LACOMBE-NN 1996-LRI
///////////////TRUTH OVER HAPPINESS
/////////////Dukkha
Posted by: "Thomas Schenk" schen016@umn.edu thomasschenk55116
Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:27 am (PST)
Though a country can offer its citizens
the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,
Nature does not.
If Nature has allowed you in,
be assured -
You will suffer --
mildly, or perhaps horribly.
You will die –
later, or perhaps sooner;
You will know,
while alive,
injustice
and resentment.
Perhaps abundantly.
And if you love,
each one you love
similarly
will die,
suffer,
know injustice,
and resentment.
This is the fine print you could not read
when
you were being pushed into this world.
This is what you pay for the show.
How are you enjoying the show?
//////////////////////did you write this piece, about '..If Nature has allowed you in.."?
You put Nature in a very negative, depressive light. Yes, I agree that in life, we all suffer, some horribly, like me, but there are also the positive aspects.
There is great beauty in Nature - look at the sky, the mountains, the trees, the birds, etc., although we are very winter weary here...! They are very beautiful. There are also some very good people in life and in the world, besides the crooks and the criminals. It's what you want to focus on.
Yes, I'm enjoying the show, cos this is the only show we have and we know. Make the best of what we are given and dwell on the positives. Don't watch the news or read the stories about the murders and the fraud cases- they depress you and make you think that the world is a bad place. When a plane crushes it's front page news, etc.
Whatever.
I told myself to count 3 blessings every morning, to cheer myself up. It works.
G
/////////////////There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
– Orison Swett Marden
///////////////////ITS CRAZY BUT IT WORKS
///////////////////PSD=
I accept the rules and live by them.
//////////////////METOCLOPRAMIDE
FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Gastrointestinal Drug
All metoclopramide-containing products must carry a boxed warning on the risk for tardive dyskinesia, the FDA announced on Thursday. (The products' labels currently include a less severe warning on the condition.)
Metoclopramide, used to speed gastric emptying and as an anti-emetic, may put patients at risk when used chronically or in high doses, and treatment beyond 3 months is not recommended. According to the FDA, chronic use "should be avoided in all but rare cases where the benefit is believed to outweigh the risk."
Older individuals, especially women, appear to be at highest risk.
Affected products include metoclopramide oral solution and Reglan sold in tablet, oral disintegrating tablet, and injectable form.
///////////////////Jean de La
Fontaine:
"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the
worse; so much the better."
/////////////////
///////////////TRUTH OVER HAPPINESS
/////////////Dukkha
Posted by: "Thomas Schenk" schen016@umn.edu thomasschenk55116
Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:27 am (PST)
Though a country can offer its citizens
the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,
Nature does not.
If Nature has allowed you in,
be assured -
You will suffer --
mildly, or perhaps horribly.
You will die –
later, or perhaps sooner;
You will know,
while alive,
injustice
and resentment.
Perhaps abundantly.
And if you love,
each one you love
similarly
will die,
suffer,
know injustice,
and resentment.
This is the fine print you could not read
when
you were being pushed into this world.
This is what you pay for the show.
How are you enjoying the show?
//////////////////////did you write this piece, about '..If Nature has allowed you in.."?
You put Nature in a very negative, depressive light. Yes, I agree that in life, we all suffer, some horribly, like me, but there are also the positive aspects.
There is great beauty in Nature - look at the sky, the mountains, the trees, the birds, etc., although we are very winter weary here...! They are very beautiful. There are also some very good people in life and in the world, besides the crooks and the criminals. It's what you want to focus on.
Yes, I'm enjoying the show, cos this is the only show we have and we know. Make the best of what we are given and dwell on the positives. Don't watch the news or read the stories about the murders and the fraud cases- they depress you and make you think that the world is a bad place. When a plane crushes it's front page news, etc.
Whatever.
I told myself to count 3 blessings every morning, to cheer myself up. It works.
G
/////////////////There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
– Orison Swett Marden
///////////////////ITS CRAZY BUT IT WORKS
///////////////////PSD=
I accept the rules and live by them.
//////////////////METOCLOPRAMIDE
FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Gastrointestinal Drug
All metoclopramide-containing products must carry a boxed warning on the risk for tardive dyskinesia, the FDA announced on Thursday. (The products' labels currently include a less severe warning on the condition.)
Metoclopramide, used to speed gastric emptying and as an anti-emetic, may put patients at risk when used chronically or in high doses, and treatment beyond 3 months is not recommended. According to the FDA, chronic use "should be avoided in all but rare cases where the benefit is believed to outweigh the risk."
Older individuals, especially women, appear to be at highest risk.
Affected products include metoclopramide oral solution and Reglan sold in tablet, oral disintegrating tablet, and injectable form.
///////////////////Jean de La
Fontaine:
"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the
worse; so much the better."
/////////////////
WTNG FR JN RMNN HNDYMN
/////////////EASILY IMPRESSED TO NEVER IMPRESSED
////////////DIFFRNT PTS OF VIEW
/////////////RATATOUILLE
////////////////
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Today's feature was submitted for Lincoln's birthday, February 12. Unfortunately, Site of the Day had already 'gone to press;' however, this site is too good not to feature, even if it is a little late. The web developer Steve Feld, previously featured with the ThinkQuest Projects, has collaborated with Lynda Arnold, Mary Todd Lincoln's 21st Century advocate, and Rose Reissman, a PhD education and research consultant, to bring Mrs. Lincoln to life. The group seeks to 'elevate Mary Todd Lincoln to her rightful position, as our respected and admired First Lady.' As Abe is celebrated, let's shine light on his "Molly." You'll find valuable link resources, a charming but challenging interactive quiz, classroom activities, an extensive bibliography and an original theatrical play to download. The play centers around a conversation between "Molly" and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 'whose own story has much in common with Mary's.' Have fun discovering the 'real' Mrs. Lincoln and helping to get her facts out to the public. As Ms. Arnold states, "Mr. Lincoln will also be grateful for your help."
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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
-- Chinese Proverb
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
-- Doug Larson
//////////////////DISTRESS TO DE-STRESS
/////////////////////Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
Paul E. Pfuetze
American Philosopher and Professor
////////////////////AMIDOS
//////////////////////Give me a face that makes simplicity a grace. ―Ben Jonson
//////////////////'All that is gold does not glitter'
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
/////////////////Patna, Feb 1 (IANS) Love has a new adversary. It’s Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, the rustic charmer, who has come out against love marriages, saying youngsters ought marry according to their parents’ wishes. “It is my request to all youngsters, men or women, not to go for love marriages. Simply follow the age-old pattern of marriage settled by parents only,” Lalu Prasad told mediapersons here Sunday.
Lalu Prasad is father of nine children - seven daughters and two sons. Three daughters of Lalu Prasad are married. The marriages were “arranged” by Lalu.
////////////////////////First things first. Chocolate is not traditional to the white developed
nations. It was consumed by the Aztecs and Columbus took the idea as well as
the beans back with him to Spain where it was drunk mixed with salt pepper
etc. and even wine; proved to be a hit, taxes were slapped etc. etc. Then
onwards spread to other European nations including UK where it was still
drunk in pubs etc. until 1728 when a chap called Fry established the first
chocolate factory. First bar was made in 1847. it tasted horrible. Then in
around 1876 Mr. Nestle experimented with milk and the first avatar of
present day chocolate emerged. Chocolate bars began in US in 1894 courtesy
one Hershey.
////////////////////
“Dutton believes the preference fo particular landscape paintings taps into inclinations formed in the Pleistocene era”
//////////////THE ART INSTINCT-EVO EXPLNN-EQUIVALENT TO PEACOCK TAIL
//////////////Just as it is for pigeons, so it is for mankind, Dutton believes. The universal preference for a particular type of landscape painting taps into universal innate inclinations formed during the Pleistocene period, ‘the 1.6million years during which modern human beings evolved’. Featuring, amongst other things, water, open spaces of low grasses interspersed with thickets of trees, evidence of animal or bird life, and an opening up to an unimpeded view of the horizon, this predilection for a particular landscape testifies to a primordial memory of the African Savannas, the scene for a large portion of human evolution 80,000 generations in length. Each element of the enigmatically appealing landscape painting is tailored to suit the needs of these ancient nomads, from the canopy of trees for shelter, to the food and water necessary for human sustenance.
E O WILSONS BIOPHILIA
//////////////////Dutton’s deep sensitivity to all things aesthetic prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata”
Despite the ingenuity of Dutton’s approach, drawing upon impressive reserves of cross-disciplinary erudition, there still always seems to be something about art, indeed about humanity, that exceeds the Darwinian framework. This is evident within The Art Instinct itself, especially at the points where Dutton waxes lyrical over creativity, imagination and the sheer self-created wonders of human achievement, be it a Beethoven symphony or the ironising wisdom of Chekhov. At one point he even seems to admit the limits of the evolutionary thesis: ‘Darwinian theory, particularly when it involves sexual selection, does not propose that we can adduce from evolutionary theory itself exactly how or why the arts have come down to us in the ways we now experience them. Evolution remains a kind of natural history – in truth, an unrecoverable prehistory – with twists, turns, and genetic bottlenecks we shall never know about.’ He is not simply saying that we do not know how and why different art forms have developed in the way that they have; he is saying something more definitive: we cannot know. Dutton’s own knowledge, his deep sensitivity to matters aesthetic, prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata.
////////////////‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, writes Dutton”
A dynamic conception of human history, indeed of human nature, in which man is less the product, than the conscious overcoming, of necessity, would better be able to resist the pitfalls of a purely Darwinian art theory. Dutton recognises this. ‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, he writes. Would it really alter the phrase’s meaning, or Dutton’s approach more broadly, to change ‘evolution’ to ‘human history’? This is not to abandon man’s nature, but to recognise what makes him distinct as ‘the self-mediating being of nature’.
//////////////
////////////DIFFRNT PTS OF VIEW
/////////////RATATOUILLE
////////////////
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Today's feature was submitted for Lincoln's birthday, February 12. Unfortunately, Site of the Day had already 'gone to press;' however, this site is too good not to feature, even if it is a little late. The web developer Steve Feld, previously featured with the ThinkQuest Projects, has collaborated with Lynda Arnold, Mary Todd Lincoln's 21st Century advocate, and Rose Reissman, a PhD education and research consultant, to bring Mrs. Lincoln to life. The group seeks to 'elevate Mary Todd Lincoln to her rightful position, as our respected and admired First Lady.' As Abe is celebrated, let's shine light on his "Molly." You'll find valuable link resources, a charming but challenging interactive quiz, classroom activities, an extensive bibliography and an original theatrical play to download. The play centers around a conversation between "Molly" and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 'whose own story has much in common with Mary's.' Have fun discovering the 'real' Mrs. Lincoln and helping to get her facts out to the public. As Ms. Arnold states, "Mr. Lincoln will also be grateful for your help."
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To submit a site to Site of the Day, click here.
To review Site of the Day Archives, click here.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
-- Chinese Proverb
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
-- Doug Larson
//////////////////DISTRESS TO DE-STRESS
/////////////////////Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
Paul E. Pfuetze
American Philosopher and Professor
////////////////////AMIDOS
//////////////////////Give me a face that makes simplicity a grace. ―Ben Jonson
//////////////////'All that is gold does not glitter'
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
/////////////////Patna, Feb 1 (IANS) Love has a new adversary. It’s Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, the rustic charmer, who has come out against love marriages, saying youngsters ought marry according to their parents’ wishes. “It is my request to all youngsters, men or women, not to go for love marriages. Simply follow the age-old pattern of marriage settled by parents only,” Lalu Prasad told mediapersons here Sunday.
Lalu Prasad is father of nine children - seven daughters and two sons. Three daughters of Lalu Prasad are married. The marriages were “arranged” by Lalu.
////////////////////////First things first. Chocolate is not traditional to the white developed
nations. It was consumed by the Aztecs and Columbus took the idea as well as
the beans back with him to Spain where it was drunk mixed with salt pepper
etc. and even wine; proved to be a hit, taxes were slapped etc. etc. Then
onwards spread to other European nations including UK where it was still
drunk in pubs etc. until 1728 when a chap called Fry established the first
chocolate factory. First bar was made in 1847. it tasted horrible. Then in
around 1876 Mr. Nestle experimented with milk and the first avatar of
present day chocolate emerged. Chocolate bars began in US in 1894 courtesy
one Hershey.
////////////////////
“Dutton believes the preference fo particular landscape paintings taps into inclinations formed in the Pleistocene era”
//////////////THE ART INSTINCT-EVO EXPLNN-EQUIVALENT TO PEACOCK TAIL
//////////////Just as it is for pigeons, so it is for mankind, Dutton believes. The universal preference for a particular type of landscape painting taps into universal innate inclinations formed during the Pleistocene period, ‘the 1.6million years during which modern human beings evolved’. Featuring, amongst other things, water, open spaces of low grasses interspersed with thickets of trees, evidence of animal or bird life, and an opening up to an unimpeded view of the horizon, this predilection for a particular landscape testifies to a primordial memory of the African Savannas, the scene for a large portion of human evolution 80,000 generations in length. Each element of the enigmatically appealing landscape painting is tailored to suit the needs of these ancient nomads, from the canopy of trees for shelter, to the food and water necessary for human sustenance.
E O WILSONS BIOPHILIA
//////////////////Dutton’s deep sensitivity to all things aesthetic prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata”
Despite the ingenuity of Dutton’s approach, drawing upon impressive reserves of cross-disciplinary erudition, there still always seems to be something about art, indeed about humanity, that exceeds the Darwinian framework. This is evident within The Art Instinct itself, especially at the points where Dutton waxes lyrical over creativity, imagination and the sheer self-created wonders of human achievement, be it a Beethoven symphony or the ironising wisdom of Chekhov. At one point he even seems to admit the limits of the evolutionary thesis: ‘Darwinian theory, particularly when it involves sexual selection, does not propose that we can adduce from evolutionary theory itself exactly how or why the arts have come down to us in the ways we now experience them. Evolution remains a kind of natural history – in truth, an unrecoverable prehistory – with twists, turns, and genetic bottlenecks we shall never know about.’ He is not simply saying that we do not know how and why different art forms have developed in the way that they have; he is saying something more definitive: we cannot know. Dutton’s own knowledge, his deep sensitivity to matters aesthetic, prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata.
////////////////‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, writes Dutton”
A dynamic conception of human history, indeed of human nature, in which man is less the product, than the conscious overcoming, of necessity, would better be able to resist the pitfalls of a purely Darwinian art theory. Dutton recognises this. ‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, he writes. Would it really alter the phrase’s meaning, or Dutton’s approach more broadly, to change ‘evolution’ to ‘human history’? This is not to abandon man’s nature, but to recognise what makes him distinct as ‘the self-mediating being of nature’.
//////////////
Thursday 26 February 2009
DIETWALK-CICO
Four Different Diets — Four Similar Results
Diets emphasizing foods with varying proportions of fat, protein, or carbohydrate all confer the same degree and duration of weight loss, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.
Some 800 adults with BMIs between 25 and 40 were randomized to one of four diet groups, with each participant having a caloric deficit of 750 kcal/day relative to baseline. There were diets with high- and low-fat components, high- and average-protein components, and varying degrees of carbohydrate content. (See hyperlinked table below.)
After 2 years, the amount of weight lost was similar among the four groups (most of the loss took place in the first 6 months). Those losing the most weight were those with the best attendance at group meetings.
In Journal Watch General Medicine, Abigail Zuger notes: "Perhaps the average dieter's enthusiasm for counting out 14 walnut halves for a high-fat dinner simply wanes, rendering the nutrient composition of all limited-calorie eating plans pretty much the same."
/////////////////To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -- Albert Einstein
/////////////////"There is no road of flowers leading to
glory."
/////////////////MRCLA=Because current scientific research suggests that all cells and tissues in your body have vitamin D receptors -- and further concludes that every cell and tissue needs vitamin D for its well-being.*
Not only that, but vitamin D is responsible for the regulation of over 2,000 genes in your body!*
Vitamin D engages in very complex metabolic processes within your body.* Scientists believe that vitamin D serves a wide range of fundamental biological functions relating to many aspects of your health.*
Your skin naturally produces your body's supply of vitamin D from direct exposure to bright midday sun with a mere ten or fifteen minutes' exposure per day.
/////////////
Diets emphasizing foods with varying proportions of fat, protein, or carbohydrate all confer the same degree and duration of weight loss, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.
Some 800 adults with BMIs between 25 and 40 were randomized to one of four diet groups, with each participant having a caloric deficit of 750 kcal/day relative to baseline. There were diets with high- and low-fat components, high- and average-protein components, and varying degrees of carbohydrate content. (See hyperlinked table below.)
After 2 years, the amount of weight lost was similar among the four groups (most of the loss took place in the first 6 months). Those losing the most weight were those with the best attendance at group meetings.
In Journal Watch General Medicine, Abigail Zuger notes: "Perhaps the average dieter's enthusiasm for counting out 14 walnut halves for a high-fat dinner simply wanes, rendering the nutrient composition of all limited-calorie eating plans pretty much the same."
/////////////////To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -- Albert Einstein
/////////////////"There is no road of flowers leading to
glory."
/////////////////MRCLA=Because current scientific research suggests that all cells and tissues in your body have vitamin D receptors -- and further concludes that every cell and tissue needs vitamin D for its well-being.*
Not only that, but vitamin D is responsible for the regulation of over 2,000 genes in your body!*
Vitamin D engages in very complex metabolic processes within your body.* Scientists believe that vitamin D serves a wide range of fundamental biological functions relating to many aspects of your health.*
Your skin naturally produces your body's supply of vitamin D from direct exposure to bright midday sun with a mere ten or fifteen minutes' exposure per day.
/////////////
SPECTACULAR OVERREACTION
///////////////////INNOCENT BYSTANDER KLLD
///////////////Aculeate (adjective)
Pronunciation: [ê-'kyu-lee-yêt]
Definition: Having a stinger, like a bee or wasp, or sharp prickles, like a rose or thistle.
Usage: Today's term is another begging to be liberated from the arcane confines of scientific jargon. It is used to refer to insects like bees and wasps in zoology and, in botany, to plants like cacti and roses.
Suggested Usage: Let us begin with an ordinary use of today's word in its basic, biological sense: "The party was pretty dull and boring until some aculeate creature slipped into Belinda's shorts and her reaction sparked a dance fever that quickly ignited the listless company." If you know someone with a prickly personality, you will find today's word handy, "Otto Mattick has aculeate tongue capable of inflicting considerable mental pain if roiled." You could also call Otto's barbed words 'aculeate.'
//////////////////A 2004 study at the University of Nottingham showed women who eat sporadically burn fewer calories than those who eat on a regular schedule.
Women who ate three meals some days and nine mini-meals others burned fewer calories while at rest than women who ate six mini-meals a day all with the same caloric content.
The moral of the story? Stick to a consistent meal and snack schedule and you could find losing weight a little easier.
/////////////////
I know a number of Mahantas in the district of Balasore in Odisa state, but don't know their origin--Bengal or Orissa.
The name may have stuck from the word "mahanta," the proprietor of a matha (part of the Gaudiya Vaishnav tradition of asceticism), which would mean the name is a title rather than a generic Brahmin surname. Both Bengal and Odisa have rich history of this tradition. On the other hand, it could be a corrupt form of the Odia Mahanti (who are not brahmins).
/////////////////The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
—Wallace Stegner
////////////////A BIT NONPLUSSED=surprised and confused
///////////////////
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
God is in the sadness and the laughter,
in the bitter and the sweet.
There is a divine purpose behind everything
and therefore a divine presence in everything.
//////////////////
///////////////Aculeate (adjective)
Pronunciation: [ê-'kyu-lee-yêt]
Definition: Having a stinger, like a bee or wasp, or sharp prickles, like a rose or thistle.
Usage: Today's term is another begging to be liberated from the arcane confines of scientific jargon. It is used to refer to insects like bees and wasps in zoology and, in botany, to plants like cacti and roses.
Suggested Usage: Let us begin with an ordinary use of today's word in its basic, biological sense: "The party was pretty dull and boring until some aculeate creature slipped into Belinda's shorts and her reaction sparked a dance fever that quickly ignited the listless company." If you know someone with a prickly personality, you will find today's word handy, "Otto Mattick has aculeate tongue capable of inflicting considerable mental pain if roiled." You could also call Otto's barbed words 'aculeate.'
//////////////////A 2004 study at the University of Nottingham showed women who eat sporadically burn fewer calories than those who eat on a regular schedule.
Women who ate three meals some days and nine mini-meals others burned fewer calories while at rest than women who ate six mini-meals a day all with the same caloric content.
The moral of the story? Stick to a consistent meal and snack schedule and you could find losing weight a little easier.
/////////////////
I know a number of Mahantas in the district of Balasore in Odisa state, but don't know their origin--Bengal or Orissa.
The name may have stuck from the word "mahanta," the proprietor of a matha (part of the Gaudiya Vaishnav tradition of asceticism), which would mean the name is a title rather than a generic Brahmin surname. Both Bengal and Odisa have rich history of this tradition. On the other hand, it could be a corrupt form of the Odia Mahanti (who are not brahmins).
/////////////////The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
—Wallace Stegner
////////////////A BIT NONPLUSSED=surprised and confused
///////////////////
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
God is in the sadness and the laughter,
in the bitter and the sweet.
There is a divine purpose behind everything
and therefore a divine presence in everything.
//////////////////
LV WELL,SPND LESS
///////////////////Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it." -- Robert R. Toth
//////////////////////An empty purse frightens away friends.
-- English Proverb
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-- George Eliot
//////////////////Patience and time do more than strength
or passion."
//////////////////////An empty purse frightens away friends.
-- English Proverb
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-- George Eliot
//////////////////Patience and time do more than strength
or passion."
ALET
"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
– Isak Dinesen
////////////////
– Isak Dinesen
////////////////
CDS 260209-HCR UVC TOO MCH IN CRSS-NRT AL CRSS
/////////////UVC-UAC-MUST FORMULA TO WRT DN IN NTS
//////////////NRT UPDT EMAIL SNT
///////////////WILSON CRITERIA OF SCREENING
//////////////NRT UPDT EMAIL SNT
///////////////WILSON CRITERIA OF SCREENING
Tuesday 24 February 2009
HDS UP
Heads up
Meaning
This little phrase has several meanings - an advance warning - being wide awake and alert - being the head of - a type is display screen.
//////////////GRF-BRVMNT-NADO-ARTEFACT-MMRY
GAMO
/////////////////
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
. . . an Eve figure overlaid with the cult of the Virgin, a sealed vessel enclosing either sexual temptation or sexual virtue, or some paradoxical and potent mixture of the two.
— Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
/////////////////DESPONDEX-TO MK U FEEL DEPRESSED FOR THE ANNOYINGLY CHEERFUL
/////////////////////////NATR=How adversity gets under the skin pp241 - 243
Steven E Hyman
doi:10.1038/nn0309-241
Rat models implicate epigenetic regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor expression in mediating the effects of early life experience on adult behavior. A report now suggests that the same mechanism might also be at work in humans.
///////////////////////4 MN FRGN NTNLS IN VK
//////////////////VDPHN JB CTS
////////////////RD RS JB CTS
///////////////CARE WRK -OVRQLFD GRADUATES
///////////////
“It is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie”
///////////////
"Work, Work, Work apace....
Honest labour bears a lovely face!"
///////////////7 MN PPL,300 LANGGES ,14 RELIGNS IN LNDN
/////////////I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson, 07/18/1937 - 02/20/2005
US author
////////////////HENRY ALLINGHAM-112
//////////////Bertrand Russell: Logical Atomism
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) began his philosophical career as an Idealist, but was converted by G E Moore (1873-1958) to a common sense empiricism. He worked with A N Whitehead (1861-1947) on the philosophy of mathematics, where, like Frege, he attempted to show how mathematics could be derived from logic. His work in logic led him to examine language. Russell thought that the grammar of ordinary language was misleading. He thought that the world was composed of atomic facts, and that propositions, if true, would correspond to these atomic facts. One of the tasks of philosophy was to analyse propositions to reveal their 'proper logical form'.
Russell thought that terms such as 'the average man' could lead to confusion. In the sentence, 'The average woman has 2.6 children'; the term 'average woman' should be understood as a logical construction. The term is not an atomic fact but a complex mathematical statement relating the numbers of children to the numbers of women. Russell thought that terms like 'the State' and 'Public Opinion' were also logical constructions and that philosophers were mistaken in treating these concepts as though they really existed.
////////////////////
A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window, "I want to open a damn checking account."
To which the astonished woman replies, I beg your pardon, sir; I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?"
"Listen up, damn it. I said I want to open a damn checking account right now!"
"I'm very sorry sir, but we do not tolerate that kind of language in this bank."
So saying, the teller leaves the window and goes over to the bank manager to tell him about her situation.
They both return and the manager asks the old geezer, "What seems to be the problem here?"
"There's no friggin’ problem, dammit!" the man says; "I just won $50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn checking account in this damn bank!"
"I see," says the manager, "and this bitch is giving you a hard time?
Tom Phillips
Jokes Index
/////////////////
Meaning
This little phrase has several meanings - an advance warning - being wide awake and alert - being the head of - a type is display screen.
//////////////GRF-BRVMNT-NADO-ARTEFACT-MMRY
GAMO
/////////////////
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
. . . an Eve figure overlaid with the cult of the Virgin, a sealed vessel enclosing either sexual temptation or sexual virtue, or some paradoxical and potent mixture of the two.
— Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
/////////////////DESPONDEX-TO MK U FEEL DEPRESSED FOR THE ANNOYINGLY CHEERFUL
/////////////////////////NATR=How adversity gets under the skin pp241 - 243
Steven E Hyman
doi:10.1038/nn0309-241
Rat models implicate epigenetic regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor expression in mediating the effects of early life experience on adult behavior. A report now suggests that the same mechanism might also be at work in humans.
///////////////////////4 MN FRGN NTNLS IN VK
//////////////////VDPHN JB CTS
////////////////RD RS JB CTS
///////////////CARE WRK -OVRQLFD GRADUATES
///////////////
“It is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie”
///////////////
"Work, Work, Work apace....
Honest labour bears a lovely face!"
///////////////7 MN PPL,300 LANGGES ,14 RELIGNS IN LNDN
/////////////I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson, 07/18/1937 - 02/20/2005
US author
////////////////HENRY ALLINGHAM-112
//////////////Bertrand Russell: Logical Atomism
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) began his philosophical career as an Idealist, but was converted by G E Moore (1873-1958) to a common sense empiricism. He worked with A N Whitehead (1861-1947) on the philosophy of mathematics, where, like Frege, he attempted to show how mathematics could be derived from logic. His work in logic led him to examine language. Russell thought that the grammar of ordinary language was misleading. He thought that the world was composed of atomic facts, and that propositions, if true, would correspond to these atomic facts. One of the tasks of philosophy was to analyse propositions to reveal their 'proper logical form'.
Russell thought that terms such as 'the average man' could lead to confusion. In the sentence, 'The average woman has 2.6 children'; the term 'average woman' should be understood as a logical construction. The term is not an atomic fact but a complex mathematical statement relating the numbers of children to the numbers of women. Russell thought that terms like 'the State' and 'Public Opinion' were also logical constructions and that philosophers were mistaken in treating these concepts as though they really existed.
////////////////////
A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window, "I want to open a damn checking account."
To which the astonished woman replies, I beg your pardon, sir; I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?"
"Listen up, damn it. I said I want to open a damn checking account right now!"
"I'm very sorry sir, but we do not tolerate that kind of language in this bank."
So saying, the teller leaves the window and goes over to the bank manager to tell him about her situation.
They both return and the manager asks the old geezer, "What seems to be the problem here?"
"There's no friggin’ problem, dammit!" the man says; "I just won $50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn checking account in this damn bank!"
"I see," says the manager, "and this bitch is giving you a hard time?
Tom Phillips
Jokes Index
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ENTRTNMNT DIET
/////////////////The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."
– David Starr Jordan
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– David Starr Jordan
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Monday 23 February 2009
RDING NESSE-WHY D W GT SCK
hrt flt trd off -BLEEDING OR DEHYDRN
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//////////////ELPHNT TEET REPLACES X6 IN A LF TIME
////////DAWKINS-WE SHLD RBL AGNST THE TYRNNY OF TH GENES
////////////LONGER U LIVE SOONER U DIE
//////////////HUMN LF UNSTRETCHABLE BYND 115
///////////PCOD-OUTLAW GENES-MEIOTIC DRIVE
//////////////INCR MYOPIS AS SMALL LETTERS SEND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK TO EYE STOPPING IT FRM GROWING
/////////////////MYOPIA,IHD-ALL GXE DISEASES
////////////////SEXUAL REPRODN-RANDOM SHUFFLING OF PARENTAL GENES
////////////NS DOES NOT SELECT FOR HEALTH,ONLY FOR REPROD SUCCESS
///////////////////DR3 GENE FOR DM1 PREVENTS MISCARRG-ALSO WITH PKU
//////////////////CF TO REDUCED DTH FRM DIARRH
/////////////////INCR REPROD SUCCESS-HUNTINGTON,FRAGILE X
/////////////////TAY SCAHS -TO AGNST TB
//////////////DAWKINS-BODY IS GENES WAY OF MAKING MORE GENES
////////////////BIG BRN COGN TO DIFFCLT LABR
//////////////ELPHNT TEET REPLACES X6 IN A LF TIME
////////DAWKINS-WE SHLD RBL AGNST THE TYRNNY OF TH GENES
////////////LONGER U LIVE SOONER U DIE
//////////////HUMN LF UNSTRETCHABLE BYND 115
///////////PCOD-OUTLAW GENES-MEIOTIC DRIVE
//////////////INCR MYOPIS AS SMALL LETTERS SEND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK TO EYE STOPPING IT FRM GROWING
/////////////////MYOPIA,IHD-ALL GXE DISEASES
////////////////SEXUAL REPRODN-RANDOM SHUFFLING OF PARENTAL GENES
////////////NS DOES NOT SELECT FOR HEALTH,ONLY FOR REPROD SUCCESS
///////////////////DR3 GENE FOR DM1 PREVENTS MISCARRG-ALSO WITH PKU
//////////////////CF TO REDUCED DTH FRM DIARRH
/////////////////INCR REPROD SUCCESS-HUNTINGTON,FRAGILE X
/////////////////TAY SCAHS -TO AGNST TB
//////////////DAWKINS-BODY IS GENES WAY OF MAKING MORE GENES
ALWAYS AND FOREVER
NR DTH DGNSS-PPP
//////////////Smile Pinki wins best short Oscar
By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi
Campaigners say the award will help cleft children
The story of an Indian girl born with a cleft lip has won the Oscar award in the short documentary feature category.
Smile Pinki tells the story of eight-year-old Pinki's journey from being a social outcast in her village to her acceptance by society.
The 39-minute film, made by American director Megan Mylan, was one of four short documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards.
Campaigners say it is a big boost for children born needing cleft surgery.
////////////////////While proudly showing off his new apartment to friends late one night,
the drunk led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong.
"What's that big brass gong for?" one of the guests asked.
"Why, that's the talking clock" the man replied.
"How does it work?"
"Watch", the man said, giving it an ear-shattering pound with a hammer.
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "For God's sake,
you bastard, it's 2 am in the morning!!"
///////////////////Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus, which is believed to lie dormant i n certain nerve cells of the body until it is activated by stress, anxiety, a cold, or excessive exposure to the sun. The sores last anywhere from 7 to 14 days.
Although some use the terms "cold sore" and "canker sore" interchangeably, they are different. Unlike cold sores, canker sores are bacterial infections inside the mouth that are characterized by small, round, white areas surrounded by a sharp halo of red. And, while cold sores are highly contagious, canker sores are not.
Unfortunately, attempting to camouflage a cold sore with makeup often aggravates the problem. Still, while you can't do much about the way a cold sore looks, you can do a few things to help decrease discomfort, speed healing, and keep it from coming back. You can even take steps to prevent passing on y
our cold sore to others. Here's how.
/////////////////TYSKNEWS=What's the difference between a million, a billion, a trillion?
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.
A million hours ago was in 1885.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.
A million dollars ago was five (5) seconds ago at the U.S. Treasury.
A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
A trillion dollars is so large a number that only politicians
can use the term in conversation... probably because they
seldom think about what they are really saying. I've read that
mathematicians do not even use the term trillion!
Here is some perspective on TRILLION:
Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000.
The country has not existed for a trillion seconds.
Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.
Million: 1,000,000
Billion: 1,000,000,000
Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000
Quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Nonillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Centillion: 1 followed by 303 zeros
////////////////////POA=PROTOCOL=SOP
//////////////////If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!
////////////////The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
///////////////
//////////////Smile Pinki wins best short Oscar
By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi
Campaigners say the award will help cleft children
The story of an Indian girl born with a cleft lip has won the Oscar award in the short documentary feature category.
Smile Pinki tells the story of eight-year-old Pinki's journey from being a social outcast in her village to her acceptance by society.
The 39-minute film, made by American director Megan Mylan, was one of four short documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards.
Campaigners say it is a big boost for children born needing cleft surgery.
////////////////////While proudly showing off his new apartment to friends late one night,
the drunk led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong.
"What's that big brass gong for?" one of the guests asked.
"Why, that's the talking clock" the man replied.
"How does it work?"
"Watch", the man said, giving it an ear-shattering pound with a hammer.
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "For God's sake,
you bastard, it's 2 am in the morning!!"
///////////////////Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus, which is believed to lie dormant i n certain nerve cells of the body until it is activated by stress, anxiety, a cold, or excessive exposure to the sun. The sores last anywhere from 7 to 14 days.
Although some use the terms "cold sore" and "canker sore" interchangeably, they are different. Unlike cold sores, canker sores are bacterial infections inside the mouth that are characterized by small, round, white areas surrounded by a sharp halo of red. And, while cold sores are highly contagious, canker sores are not.
Unfortunately, attempting to camouflage a cold sore with makeup often aggravates the problem. Still, while you can't do much about the way a cold sore looks, you can do a few things to help decrease discomfort, speed healing, and keep it from coming back. You can even take steps to prevent passing on y
our cold sore to others. Here's how.
/////////////////TYSKNEWS=What's the difference between a million, a billion, a trillion?
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.
A million hours ago was in 1885.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.
A million dollars ago was five (5) seconds ago at the U.S. Treasury.
A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
A trillion dollars is so large a number that only politicians
can use the term in conversation... probably because they
seldom think about what they are really saying. I've read that
mathematicians do not even use the term trillion!
Here is some perspective on TRILLION:
Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000.
The country has not existed for a trillion seconds.
Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.
Million: 1,000,000
Billion: 1,000,000,000
Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000
Quintillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Nonillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Centillion: 1 followed by 303 zeros
////////////////////POA=PROTOCOL=SOP
//////////////////If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!
////////////////The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
///////////////
CULTURAL ICON-BRBIE DOLL-TURNS 50
///////////////1 IN 7 BR JB DONE BY FRGNRS
///////////////3 PER SECOND SOLD WORLDWIDE
///////////////JAI SINGH-JAIPUR-OBSERVATORY-VAISHNAVITE
///////////////The Dawn of Darwinian Psychopharmacology
Feb 5th, 2009 by Bernard Crespi
We usually consider medicine as a predictive scientific endeavor, as methodical in application as noble in purpose. But for some diseases, such as schizophrenia, the first treatments showing any effectiveness, including lithium, chlorpromazine, and even electroconvulsive therapy, were discovered entirely by accident. After the discovery of the first antipsychotic treatments, a period of allegedly rational schizophrenia drug development ensued, focusing on drugs that block the brain dopamine receptor DRD2 that was considered, based on very limited evidence, as the critical lock for chemical antipsychotic keys. Some of the drugs worked - more or less, with serious side effects. Truly rational drug development, however, required understanding of the causal basis of disease, which for brain diseases like schizophrenia requires, to a considerable extent, understanding the dark inner workings of the brain itself.
But the causal basis of one relatively-simple brain disease, Fragile X syndrome, has, in the past few months, been deciphered - a true milestone in the touted medical march from brain to computer, lab bench to bedside. Afflicting about 1 in 3000 children, Fragile X is the most-common known cause of both intellectual disability and autism. A series of studies, led by researchers including Gul Dölen and Mark Bear at MIT (Dölen and Bear 2008) and Randi Hagerman at UC Davis (Hagerman et al. 2009), has identified the core neuronal defect caused by mutation of the fragile X gene, and shown they can fix it - literally cure it (Figure 1) - in mice. The fix involves reducing the expression or activity of a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), via genetic modifications, and apparently, by treatment with drugs that antagonize the mGluR5 receptor. Human trials with mGlur5 antagonists are ongoing, with good early results (Berry-Kravis et al. 2009), and hope for the first effective treatments for the causes of autism itself, and not just alleviation of symptoms.
All very rational. In parallel and quite independently, biochemists and pharmacologists studying schizophrenia have converged on a central role for glutamate receptor alterations as causes of schizophrenia. These workers have - quite scientifically rather than serendipitously - developed a new class of drugs that are highly effective as antipsychotics in animal systems (Conn et al. 2009). One of the most promising: agonists of mGlur5 - drugs with the same precise target, but opposite effects, as the mGlur5 antagonists that may cure the autistic disorder Fragile X.
Coincidence? Perhaps, but a second novel class of drugs being developed for schizophrenia is agonists of the a7 nicotinic receptor - the receptor that schizophrenics self-stimulate via their extraordinarily high rates of cigarette smoking (Mobascher and Winterer 2008). And again quite independently, antagonists of the same receptor have been proposed as therapeutic agents for autism, based on a diversity of evidence (Lippiello 2006).
A look back to the first effective schizophrenia therapy, induction of seizures via electroshock, suggests a third contrast between schizophrenia and autism: seizures occur normally at very high rates (25-30%) in autistics (Canitano 2007), and most anti-psychotics in current use, including clozapine, tend to lower the threshold for seizures to occur (Stevens 1999).
Why should blocking a brain receptor alleviate autism, while activating the same receptor improves symptoms of schizophrenia?
Why should inducing seizures help schizophrenics, while reducing seizures is integral to helping autistics? From an evolutionary perspective, these two conditions can be seen as opposites, with the social brain under-developed in autism but hyper-developed to dysfunction in schizophrenia, and such diametric social-brain alterations are underpinned by diametric neurological, biochemical and genetic perturbations (Crespi and Badcock 2008). Methodical, predictive application of such an evolutionary perspective should provide a useful and rational framework to develop future therapeutics for both autism and schizophrenia, and hasten the dawn of Darwinian psychopharmacology.
////////////////In short: autism and schizophrenia represent opposite ends of a spectrum that includes most, if not all, psychiatric and developmental brain disorders. The theory has no use for psychiatry’s many separate categories for disorders, and it would give genetic findings an entirely new dimension.
“The empirical implications are absolutely huge,” Dr. Crespi said in a phone interview. “If you get a gene linked to autism, for instance, you’d want to look at that same gene for schizophrenia; if it’s a social brain gene, then it would be expected to have opposite effects on these disorders, whether gene expression was turned up or turned down.”
/////////////////Those with the genetic disorder called Angelman syndrome typically have a jerky gait, appear unusually happy and have difficulty communicating. Those born with a genetic problem known as Prader-Willi syndrome often are placid, compliant and as youngsters low maintenance.
Yet these two disorders, which turn up in about one of 10,000 newborns, stem from disruptions of the same genetic region on chromosome 15. If the father’s genes dominate in this location, the child develops Angelman syndrome; if the mother’s do, the result is Prader-Willi syndrome, as Dr. Haig and others have noted. The former is associated with autism, and the latter with mood problems and psychosis later on — just as the new theory predicts.
Emotional problems like depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, seen through this lens, appear on Mom’s side of the teeter-totter, with schizophrenia, while Asperger’s syndrome and other social deficits are on Dad’s.
/////////////////////But experts familiar with their theory say that the two scientists have, at minimum, infused the field with a shot of needed imagination and demonstrated the power of thinking outside the gene. For just as a gene can carry a mark from its parent of origin, so it can be imprinted by that parent’s own experience.
The study of such markers should have a “significant impact on our understanding of mental health conditions,” said Dr. Bhismadev Chakrabarti, of the Autism Research Center at the University of Cambridge, “as, in some ways, they represent the first environmental influence on the expression of the genes.”
////////////////
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///////////////JAI SINGH-JAIPUR-OBSERVATORY-VAISHNAVITE
///////////////The Dawn of Darwinian Psychopharmacology
Feb 5th, 2009 by Bernard Crespi
We usually consider medicine as a predictive scientific endeavor, as methodical in application as noble in purpose. But for some diseases, such as schizophrenia, the first treatments showing any effectiveness, including lithium, chlorpromazine, and even electroconvulsive therapy, were discovered entirely by accident. After the discovery of the first antipsychotic treatments, a period of allegedly rational schizophrenia drug development ensued, focusing on drugs that block the brain dopamine receptor DRD2 that was considered, based on very limited evidence, as the critical lock for chemical antipsychotic keys. Some of the drugs worked - more or less, with serious side effects. Truly rational drug development, however, required understanding of the causal basis of disease, which for brain diseases like schizophrenia requires, to a considerable extent, understanding the dark inner workings of the brain itself.
But the causal basis of one relatively-simple brain disease, Fragile X syndrome, has, in the past few months, been deciphered - a true milestone in the touted medical march from brain to computer, lab bench to bedside. Afflicting about 1 in 3000 children, Fragile X is the most-common known cause of both intellectual disability and autism. A series of studies, led by researchers including Gul Dölen and Mark Bear at MIT (Dölen and Bear 2008) and Randi Hagerman at UC Davis (Hagerman et al. 2009), has identified the core neuronal defect caused by mutation of the fragile X gene, and shown they can fix it - literally cure it (Figure 1) - in mice. The fix involves reducing the expression or activity of a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), via genetic modifications, and apparently, by treatment with drugs that antagonize the mGluR5 receptor. Human trials with mGlur5 antagonists are ongoing, with good early results (Berry-Kravis et al. 2009), and hope for the first effective treatments for the causes of autism itself, and not just alleviation of symptoms.
All very rational. In parallel and quite independently, biochemists and pharmacologists studying schizophrenia have converged on a central role for glutamate receptor alterations as causes of schizophrenia. These workers have - quite scientifically rather than serendipitously - developed a new class of drugs that are highly effective as antipsychotics in animal systems (Conn et al. 2009). One of the most promising: agonists of mGlur5 - drugs with the same precise target, but opposite effects, as the mGlur5 antagonists that may cure the autistic disorder Fragile X.
Coincidence? Perhaps, but a second novel class of drugs being developed for schizophrenia is agonists of the a7 nicotinic receptor - the receptor that schizophrenics self-stimulate via their extraordinarily high rates of cigarette smoking (Mobascher and Winterer 2008). And again quite independently, antagonists of the same receptor have been proposed as therapeutic agents for autism, based on a diversity of evidence (Lippiello 2006).
A look back to the first effective schizophrenia therapy, induction of seizures via electroshock, suggests a third contrast between schizophrenia and autism: seizures occur normally at very high rates (25-30%) in autistics (Canitano 2007), and most anti-psychotics in current use, including clozapine, tend to lower the threshold for seizures to occur (Stevens 1999).
Why should blocking a brain receptor alleviate autism, while activating the same receptor improves symptoms of schizophrenia?
Why should inducing seizures help schizophrenics, while reducing seizures is integral to helping autistics? From an evolutionary perspective, these two conditions can be seen as opposites, with the social brain under-developed in autism but hyper-developed to dysfunction in schizophrenia, and such diametric social-brain alterations are underpinned by diametric neurological, biochemical and genetic perturbations (Crespi and Badcock 2008). Methodical, predictive application of such an evolutionary perspective should provide a useful and rational framework to develop future therapeutics for both autism and schizophrenia, and hasten the dawn of Darwinian psychopharmacology.
////////////////In short: autism and schizophrenia represent opposite ends of a spectrum that includes most, if not all, psychiatric and developmental brain disorders. The theory has no use for psychiatry’s many separate categories for disorders, and it would give genetic findings an entirely new dimension.
“The empirical implications are absolutely huge,” Dr. Crespi said in a phone interview. “If you get a gene linked to autism, for instance, you’d want to look at that same gene for schizophrenia; if it’s a social brain gene, then it would be expected to have opposite effects on these disorders, whether gene expression was turned up or turned down.”
/////////////////Those with the genetic disorder called Angelman syndrome typically have a jerky gait, appear unusually happy and have difficulty communicating. Those born with a genetic problem known as Prader-Willi syndrome often are placid, compliant and as youngsters low maintenance.
Yet these two disorders, which turn up in about one of 10,000 newborns, stem from disruptions of the same genetic region on chromosome 15. If the father’s genes dominate in this location, the child develops Angelman syndrome; if the mother’s do, the result is Prader-Willi syndrome, as Dr. Haig and others have noted. The former is associated with autism, and the latter with mood problems and psychosis later on — just as the new theory predicts.
Emotional problems like depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, seen through this lens, appear on Mom’s side of the teeter-totter, with schizophrenia, while Asperger’s syndrome and other social deficits are on Dad’s.
/////////////////////But experts familiar with their theory say that the two scientists have, at minimum, infused the field with a shot of needed imagination and demonstrated the power of thinking outside the gene. For just as a gene can carry a mark from its parent of origin, so it can be imprinted by that parent’s own experience.
The study of such markers should have a “significant impact on our understanding of mental health conditions,” said Dr. Bhismadev Chakrabarti, of the Autism Research Center at the University of Cambridge, “as, in some ways, they represent the first environmental influence on the expression of the genes.”
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CDS 230209-SDM WINS OSCRS
How dreams stay alive
Sulagna Sengupta
KOLKATA, Feb. 22: Noorjahan Bibi (whose photograph appeared in The Statesman's edition dated 22 February, along with her younger son and daughter), a resident of Diamond Harbour, has been forced to live on the streets as she cannot afford to pay rent.
The 30-year-old woman had initially lived underneath Bijon Setu with her parents, but then moved to Moulali, 20 years back, where she got married to Sheikh Abdul Malik, a daily wage labourer. The couple have three kids, two sons, Noor Alam (11) and Noor Ali (15) and a daughter, Ruksana Khatun (4). (The names of the younger son and daughter were inadvertently mentioned as Deep and Anita in these columns yesterday.)
While Ali studies in class VIII, Alam is a class VI student of a nearby school (she was not confident about the name of the school). Ruksana studies in the nursery section of the same school, she said.
But how can the couple afford tuition fees for three children? “I work as a domestic help in three local houses. I earn Rs 1,400 per month, while my husband earns Rs 50 daily. Somehow we manage to make ends meet. But, I won't send out my kids to earn for the family. Our only dream is to raise our children so that they can establish themselves in society and look after us when we grow old,” said Noorjahan.
But it is not easy.
As they live on the footpath, police and local goons constantly hound them and they always live under a shadow of fear. Police often threaten to pick up the family and dump them elsewhere if they refuse to move.
Moreover, neither she nor her husband has any
kind of documentary
/////////////////////CBTARS FROM GNGTK
/////////////////////IND IN VK HV 8% JBLSS RATE CF 8% IN WHT
////////////////////Even in the case of individuals, there is no possibility to feel happiness
through anger. If in a difficult situation one becomes disturbed internally,
overwhelmed by mental discomfort, then external things will not help at all.
However, if despite external difficulties or problems, internally one's
attitude is of love, warmth, and kindheartedness, then problems can be faced
and accepted. (HH the Dalai Lama)
//////////////////According to Advayavada Buddhism it is through insight into the
non-substantiality of all phenomena that the oneness of existence is
revealed.
///////////////////
Dharavi is all about such resourcefulness. Over 60 years ago, it started off as a small village in the marshlands and grew, with no government support, to become a million-dollar economic miracle providing food to Mumbai and exporting crafts and manufactured goods to places as far away as Sweden.
No master plan, urban design, zoning ordinance, construction law or expert knowledge can claim any stake in the prosperity of Dharavi. It was built entirely by successive waves of immigrants fleeing rural poverty, political oppression and natural disasters. They have created a place that is far from perfect but has proved to be amazingly resilient and able to upgrade itself. In the words of Bhau Korde, a social worker who lives there, “Dharavi is an economic success story that the world must pay attention to during these times of global depression.”
//////////////////////In the movie, when the protagonists return to their childhood haunts, they find that multistoried apartments have replaced the old decrepit structures, giving the impression of urban mobility and transformation. What the camera doesn’t reveal are the enormous shantytowns hidden behind those glistening towers, waiting to be redeveloped all over again.
In many ways, Dharavi is the ultimate user-generated city. Each of its 80-plus neighborhoods has been incrementally developed by generations of residents updating their shelters and businesses according to needs and means. As Ramesh Misra, a lawyer and lifelong resident, puts it: “We have always improved Dharavi by ourselves. All we want is permission and support to keep doing it. Is that asking for too much?”
Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava are affiliated with the research collective Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research.
//////////////////Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
– Hannah More
//////////////////
Sulagna Sengupta
KOLKATA, Feb. 22: Noorjahan Bibi (whose photograph appeared in The Statesman's edition dated 22 February, along with her younger son and daughter), a resident of Diamond Harbour, has been forced to live on the streets as she cannot afford to pay rent.
The 30-year-old woman had initially lived underneath Bijon Setu with her parents, but then moved to Moulali, 20 years back, where she got married to Sheikh Abdul Malik, a daily wage labourer. The couple have three kids, two sons, Noor Alam (11) and Noor Ali (15) and a daughter, Ruksana Khatun (4). (The names of the younger son and daughter were inadvertently mentioned as Deep and Anita in these columns yesterday.)
While Ali studies in class VIII, Alam is a class VI student of a nearby school (she was not confident about the name of the school). Ruksana studies in the nursery section of the same school, she said.
But how can the couple afford tuition fees for three children? “I work as a domestic help in three local houses. I earn Rs 1,400 per month, while my husband earns Rs 50 daily. Somehow we manage to make ends meet. But, I won't send out my kids to earn for the family. Our only dream is to raise our children so that they can establish themselves in society and look after us when we grow old,” said Noorjahan.
But it is not easy.
As they live on the footpath, police and local goons constantly hound them and they always live under a shadow of fear. Police often threaten to pick up the family and dump them elsewhere if they refuse to move.
Moreover, neither she nor her husband has any
kind of documentary
/////////////////////CBTARS FROM GNGTK
/////////////////////IND IN VK HV 8% JBLSS RATE CF 8% IN WHT
////////////////////Even in the case of individuals, there is no possibility to feel happiness
through anger. If in a difficult situation one becomes disturbed internally,
overwhelmed by mental discomfort, then external things will not help at all.
However, if despite external difficulties or problems, internally one's
attitude is of love, warmth, and kindheartedness, then problems can be faced
and accepted. (HH the Dalai Lama)
//////////////////According to Advayavada Buddhism it is through insight into the
non-substantiality of all phenomena that the oneness of existence is
revealed.
///////////////////
Dharavi is all about such resourcefulness. Over 60 years ago, it started off as a small village in the marshlands and grew, with no government support, to become a million-dollar economic miracle providing food to Mumbai and exporting crafts and manufactured goods to places as far away as Sweden.
No master plan, urban design, zoning ordinance, construction law or expert knowledge can claim any stake in the prosperity of Dharavi. It was built entirely by successive waves of immigrants fleeing rural poverty, political oppression and natural disasters. They have created a place that is far from perfect but has proved to be amazingly resilient and able to upgrade itself. In the words of Bhau Korde, a social worker who lives there, “Dharavi is an economic success story that the world must pay attention to during these times of global depression.”
//////////////////////In the movie, when the protagonists return to their childhood haunts, they find that multistoried apartments have replaced the old decrepit structures, giving the impression of urban mobility and transformation. What the camera doesn’t reveal are the enormous shantytowns hidden behind those glistening towers, waiting to be redeveloped all over again.
In many ways, Dharavi is the ultimate user-generated city. Each of its 80-plus neighborhoods has been incrementally developed by generations of residents updating their shelters and businesses according to needs and means. As Ramesh Misra, a lawyer and lifelong resident, puts it: “We have always improved Dharavi by ourselves. All we want is permission and support to keep doing it. Is that asking for too much?”
Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava are affiliated with the research collective Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research.
//////////////////Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
– Hannah More
//////////////////
Sunday 22 February 2009
JDP CHKRBRTI PHN-SXC 81 REUNION
/////////////////EVOLUTIONS-BEAR
/////////////////Evolutionary relationships
Fossil of Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus)
The Ursidae family belongs to the order Carnivora and is one of nine families in the suborder Caniformia, or "doglike" carnivorans. Bears' closest living relatives are the pinnipeds, a clade of three families: Odobenidae (the walrus), Otariidae (fur seals and sea lions), and Phocidae (true or earless seals). Bears comprise eight species in three subfamilies: Ailuropodinae (monotypic with the giant panda), Tremarctinae (monotypic with the Spectacled Bear), and Ursinae (containing six species divided into one to three genera, depending upon authority).
The origins of Ursidae can be traced back to the very small and graceful Parictis that had a skull only 7 cm (3 in) long. Parictis first occur in North America in the Late Eocene (ca. 38 million years ago), but this genus did not appear in Eurasia and Africa until the Miocene.[2] The raccoon-sized, dog-like Cephalogale, however, is widely regarded as the most primitive ursid and is ideally suited as a representative basal taxon for the family. Cephalogale first appeared during the middle Oligocene and early Miocene (approximately 20–30 million years ago) in Europe. Cephalogale gave rise to a lineage of early bears of the genus Ursavus. This genus radiated in Asia and ultimately gave rise to the first true bears (genus Ursus) in Europe, 5 million years ago. Even among its primitive species, such as C. minor, it exhibits typical ursid synapomorphic dentition such as posteriorly oriented M2 postprotocrista molars, elongated m2 molars, and a reduction of the premolars. Living members of the ursids are morphologically well defined by their hypocarnivorous (non-strictly meat-eating) dentitions, but fossil ursids include hypercarnivorous (strictly meat-eating) taxa, although they never achieved the extreme hypercarnivory seen in mustelids. Cephalogale was a mesocarnivore (intermediate meat-eater).[3] Other extinct bear genera include Arctodus, Agriarctos, Plionarctos and Indarctos.
It is uncertain whether ursids were in Asia during the late Eocene, although there is some suggestion that a limited immigration from Asia may have produced Parictis in North America due to the major sea level lowstand at ca. 37 Ma, but no Parictis fossils have yet to be found in East Asia. Ursids did, however, become very diversified in Asia later during the Oligocene. Four genera representing two subfamilies (Amphicynodontinae and Hemicyoninae) have been discovered in the Oligocene of Asia: Amphicticeps, Amphicynodon, Pachycynodon, and Cephalogale. Amphicticeps is endemic from Asia and the other three genera are common to both Asia and Europe. This indicates migration of ursids between Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and migration of several taxa from Asia to North America likely occurred later during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. Although Amphicticeps is morphologically closely related to Allocyon, and also to Kolponomos of North America, no single genus of the Ursidae from this time period is known to be common to both Eurasia and North America. Cephalogale, however, do appear in North America in the early Miocene. It is interesting to note that rodents, such as Haplomys and Pseudotheridomys (late Oligocene) and Plesiosminthus and Palaeocastor (early Miocene), are common to both Asia and North America and this indicates that faunal exchange did occur between Asia and North America during the late Oligocene to early Miocene. Ursid migration from Asia to North America would therefore have also been very likely to occur during this time.[4] In the late Neogene three major carnivoran migrations that definitely included ursids are recognized between Eurasia and North America. The first (probably 21–18 Ma) was waves of intermittent dispersals including Amphicynodon, Cephalogale and Ursavus. The second migration occurred about 7–8 Ma and included Agriotherium – this was unusual among ursoids in that it also colonised sub-Saharan Africa. The third wave took place in the early Pliocene 4 Ma, consisting of Ursus.[5]
The giant panda's taxonomy has long been debated. Its original classification by Armand David in 1869 was within the bear genus Ursus, but in 1870 it was reclassified by Alphonse Milne-Edwards to the raccoon family.[6] In recent studies, the majority of DNA analyses suggest that the giant panda has a much closer relationship to other bears and should be considered a member of the family Ursidae.[7] The status of the red panda remains uncertain, but many experts, including Wilson and Reeder, classify it as a member of the bear family. Others place it with the raccoons in Procyonidae or in its own family, the Ailuridae. Multiple similarities between the two pandas, including the presence of false thumbs, are thought to represent convergent evolution for feeding primarily on bamboo.
There is also evidence that, unlike their neighbors elsewhere, the brown bears of Alaska's ABC islands are more closely related to polar bears than they are to other brown bears in the world. Researchers Gerald Shields and Sandra Talbot of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology studied the DNA of several samples of the species and found that their DNA is different from that of other brown bears. The researchers discovered that their DNA was unique compared to brown bears anywhere else in the world. The discovery has shown that while all other brown bears share a brown bear as their closest relative, those of Alaska's ABC Islands differ and share their closest relation with the polar bear.[8] There is also supposed to be a very rare large bear in China called the blue bear, which presumably is a type of black bear. This animal has never been photographed.
Koalas are often referred to as bears due to their appearance; they are not bears, however, but marsupials.
Classification
Brown Bear Ursus arctos, at the Moscow Zoo
Asiatic Black Bear Ursus thibetanus, at the Wrocław Zoo, Poland
Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus, at the Columbus Zoo
Giant Panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca, "Tian Tian"
Family Ursidae
Subfamily Ailuropodinae
Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Dwarf Panda, Ailuropoda minor†
Subfamily Tremarctinae
Spectacled Bear, Tremarctos ornatus
Florida Cave Bear, Tremarctos floridanus†
Giant Short-faced Bear, Arctodus simus†
Unnamed short-faced bear species, Arctodus pristinus†
Brazilian Short-faced Bear, Arctotherium brasilense†
Argentine Short-faced Bear, Arctotherium latidens†
Subfamily Ursinae
Brown Bear, Ursus (Ursus) arctos
Subspecies Syrian (Brown) Bear Ursus arctos syriacus
Subspecies Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis
Subspecies Kodiak Bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi
Subspecies Himalayan Brown Bear and Himalayan Red Bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus
Subspecies Himalayan Blue Bear, Ursus arctos pruinosus
Subspecies Bergman's Bear, Ursus arctos piscator†?
Subspecies Eurasian Brown Bear Ursus arctos arctos
Gobi bear, Ursus arctos gobiensis (very rare)
Atlas Bear, Ursus arctos crowtheri†
American Black Bear, Ursus (Ursus) americanus
Subspecies Cinnamon Bear, Ursus americanus cinnamomum
Subspecies Kermode Bear, Ursus americanus kermodei
Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus
Asiatic Black Bear, Ursus thibetanus
Formosan Black Bear, Ursus thibetanus formosanus
Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus
Ursus thibetanus japonicus
Ursus thibetanus laniger
Ursus thibetanus mupinensis
Ursus thibetanus thibetanus
Ursus thibetanus ussuricus
Sloth Bear, Melursus ursinus
Subspecies Sri Lankan Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus inornatus
Subspecies Indian Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus ursinus
Sun Bear, Helarctos malayanus
Subspecies Borneo Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus euryspilus
Auvergne Bear, Ursus minimus†
Etruscan Bear, Ursus etruscus†
European Cave Bear, Ursus spelaeus†
MacFarlane's Bear, Ursus (Vetularctos) inopinatus (cryptid; if an authentic species, extinct)
Deninger's bear, Ursus deningeri†
The genera Melursus and Helarctos are sometimes also included in Ursus. The Asiatic black bear and the polar bear used to be placed in their own genera, Selenarctos and Thalarctos which are now placed at subgenus rank.
A number of hybrids have been bred between American black, brown, and polar bears (see Ursid hybrids).
GROLAR BEAR
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/////////////////Evolutionary relationships
Fossil of Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus)
The Ursidae family belongs to the order Carnivora and is one of nine families in the suborder Caniformia, or "doglike" carnivorans. Bears' closest living relatives are the pinnipeds, a clade of three families: Odobenidae (the walrus), Otariidae (fur seals and sea lions), and Phocidae (true or earless seals). Bears comprise eight species in three subfamilies: Ailuropodinae (monotypic with the giant panda), Tremarctinae (monotypic with the Spectacled Bear), and Ursinae (containing six species divided into one to three genera, depending upon authority).
The origins of Ursidae can be traced back to the very small and graceful Parictis that had a skull only 7 cm (3 in) long. Parictis first occur in North America in the Late Eocene (ca. 38 million years ago), but this genus did not appear in Eurasia and Africa until the Miocene.[2] The raccoon-sized, dog-like Cephalogale, however, is widely regarded as the most primitive ursid and is ideally suited as a representative basal taxon for the family. Cephalogale first appeared during the middle Oligocene and early Miocene (approximately 20–30 million years ago) in Europe. Cephalogale gave rise to a lineage of early bears of the genus Ursavus. This genus radiated in Asia and ultimately gave rise to the first true bears (genus Ursus) in Europe, 5 million years ago. Even among its primitive species, such as C. minor, it exhibits typical ursid synapomorphic dentition such as posteriorly oriented M2 postprotocrista molars, elongated m2 molars, and a reduction of the premolars. Living members of the ursids are morphologically well defined by their hypocarnivorous (non-strictly meat-eating) dentitions, but fossil ursids include hypercarnivorous (strictly meat-eating) taxa, although they never achieved the extreme hypercarnivory seen in mustelids. Cephalogale was a mesocarnivore (intermediate meat-eater).[3] Other extinct bear genera include Arctodus, Agriarctos, Plionarctos and Indarctos.
It is uncertain whether ursids were in Asia during the late Eocene, although there is some suggestion that a limited immigration from Asia may have produced Parictis in North America due to the major sea level lowstand at ca. 37 Ma, but no Parictis fossils have yet to be found in East Asia. Ursids did, however, become very diversified in Asia later during the Oligocene. Four genera representing two subfamilies (Amphicynodontinae and Hemicyoninae) have been discovered in the Oligocene of Asia: Amphicticeps, Amphicynodon, Pachycynodon, and Cephalogale. Amphicticeps is endemic from Asia and the other three genera are common to both Asia and Europe. This indicates migration of ursids between Asia and Europe during the Oligocene and migration of several taxa from Asia to North America likely occurred later during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. Although Amphicticeps is morphologically closely related to Allocyon, and also to Kolponomos of North America, no single genus of the Ursidae from this time period is known to be common to both Eurasia and North America. Cephalogale, however, do appear in North America in the early Miocene. It is interesting to note that rodents, such as Haplomys and Pseudotheridomys (late Oligocene) and Plesiosminthus and Palaeocastor (early Miocene), are common to both Asia and North America and this indicates that faunal exchange did occur between Asia and North America during the late Oligocene to early Miocene. Ursid migration from Asia to North America would therefore have also been very likely to occur during this time.[4] In the late Neogene three major carnivoran migrations that definitely included ursids are recognized between Eurasia and North America. The first (probably 21–18 Ma) was waves of intermittent dispersals including Amphicynodon, Cephalogale and Ursavus. The second migration occurred about 7–8 Ma and included Agriotherium – this was unusual among ursoids in that it also colonised sub-Saharan Africa. The third wave took place in the early Pliocene 4 Ma, consisting of Ursus.[5]
The giant panda's taxonomy has long been debated. Its original classification by Armand David in 1869 was within the bear genus Ursus, but in 1870 it was reclassified by Alphonse Milne-Edwards to the raccoon family.[6] In recent studies, the majority of DNA analyses suggest that the giant panda has a much closer relationship to other bears and should be considered a member of the family Ursidae.[7] The status of the red panda remains uncertain, but many experts, including Wilson and Reeder, classify it as a member of the bear family. Others place it with the raccoons in Procyonidae or in its own family, the Ailuridae. Multiple similarities between the two pandas, including the presence of false thumbs, are thought to represent convergent evolution for feeding primarily on bamboo.
There is also evidence that, unlike their neighbors elsewhere, the brown bears of Alaska's ABC islands are more closely related to polar bears than they are to other brown bears in the world. Researchers Gerald Shields and Sandra Talbot of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology studied the DNA of several samples of the species and found that their DNA is different from that of other brown bears. The researchers discovered that their DNA was unique compared to brown bears anywhere else in the world. The discovery has shown that while all other brown bears share a brown bear as their closest relative, those of Alaska's ABC Islands differ and share their closest relation with the polar bear.[8] There is also supposed to be a very rare large bear in China called the blue bear, which presumably is a type of black bear. This animal has never been photographed.
Koalas are often referred to as bears due to their appearance; they are not bears, however, but marsupials.
Classification
Brown Bear Ursus arctos, at the Moscow Zoo
Asiatic Black Bear Ursus thibetanus, at the Wrocław Zoo, Poland
Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus, at the Columbus Zoo
Giant Panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca, "Tian Tian"
Family Ursidae
Subfamily Ailuropodinae
Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Dwarf Panda, Ailuropoda minor†
Subfamily Tremarctinae
Spectacled Bear, Tremarctos ornatus
Florida Cave Bear, Tremarctos floridanus†
Giant Short-faced Bear, Arctodus simus†
Unnamed short-faced bear species, Arctodus pristinus†
Brazilian Short-faced Bear, Arctotherium brasilense†
Argentine Short-faced Bear, Arctotherium latidens†
Subfamily Ursinae
Brown Bear, Ursus (Ursus) arctos
Subspecies Syrian (Brown) Bear Ursus arctos syriacus
Subspecies Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis
Subspecies Kodiak Bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi
Subspecies Himalayan Brown Bear and Himalayan Red Bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus
Subspecies Himalayan Blue Bear, Ursus arctos pruinosus
Subspecies Bergman's Bear, Ursus arctos piscator†?
Subspecies Eurasian Brown Bear Ursus arctos arctos
Gobi bear, Ursus arctos gobiensis (very rare)
Atlas Bear, Ursus arctos crowtheri†
American Black Bear, Ursus (Ursus) americanus
Subspecies Cinnamon Bear, Ursus americanus cinnamomum
Subspecies Kermode Bear, Ursus americanus kermodei
Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus
Asiatic Black Bear, Ursus thibetanus
Formosan Black Bear, Ursus thibetanus formosanus
Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus
Ursus thibetanus japonicus
Ursus thibetanus laniger
Ursus thibetanus mupinensis
Ursus thibetanus thibetanus
Ursus thibetanus ussuricus
Sloth Bear, Melursus ursinus
Subspecies Sri Lankan Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus inornatus
Subspecies Indian Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus ursinus
Sun Bear, Helarctos malayanus
Subspecies Borneo Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus euryspilus
Auvergne Bear, Ursus minimus†
Etruscan Bear, Ursus etruscus†
European Cave Bear, Ursus spelaeus†
MacFarlane's Bear, Ursus (Vetularctos) inopinatus (cryptid; if an authentic species, extinct)
Deninger's bear, Ursus deningeri†
The genera Melursus and Helarctos are sometimes also included in Ursus. The Asiatic black bear and the polar bear used to be placed in their own genera, Selenarctos and Thalarctos which are now placed at subgenus rank.
A number of hybrids have been bred between American black, brown, and polar bears (see Ursid hybrids).
GROLAR BEAR
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Saturday 21 February 2009
BMIR-SW MVIE
///////////////SA TRAVEL-WILDERNESS CAMP
//////////////////ELEPHANT,LION,RHINO,BUFFALO,LEOPARD-THE BIG 5
///////////////KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
//////////Too Much Thinking Can Make You Fat
Researchers found the stress of thinking caused overeating with heavy thinkers seeking out more calories.
The research team, supervised by Dr Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks.
The first was relaxing in a sitting position, the second reading and summarizing a text, and finally completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer.
After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.
The researchers had already discovered that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period.
However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests.
////////////////Japanese Computer Records Your Dreams
A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."
//////////////Is the Future Too Good to Be True?
By John Tierney / Source: New York Times
Before we get to Ray Kurzweil's plan for upgrading the "suboptimal software" in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you're aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
At least that's Dr. Kurzweil's calculation. It may sound too good to be true, but even his critics acknowledge he's not your ordinary sci-fi fantasist. He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
///////////////////TRAVEL OZ
///////////////////MALINALCO,MXCO
///////////////////Speaking of belt buckles, the point of your tie should never fall below it.
////////////////WALKERTON,ONTARIO,E COLI OUTBRK,HUS
INFECTED COWDUNG INTO TWONS WATER SUPPLY-PD TUBE BLOCKED BY OMENTAL ADHSNS
///////////Pernicious (adjective)
Pronunciation: [pêr-'ni-shês]
Definition: Very harmful, destructive or threatening harm or destruction.
Usage: The word should not be used in the sense of "wicked, evil".
Suggested Usage: This is a good word to express extreme threat of harm or destruction. You would more likely meet a harmful remark but a pernicious virus. Of course, any remark that is likely to do severe damage to someone else or an enterprise would be pernicious.
//////////////////O RILY?
//////////////////CONVCTD OF COMMN NUISNCE
//////////////////The World’s Oldest Person Dies at the age of 115
by Arthur De Vany
The LA Times has an interesting story on Edna Parker who died last November at the age of 115. She was still climbing ladders in her home, where she lived by herself, at the age of 100. Did I mention she loved bacon, eggs, and fried chicken?
////////////////////Dudgeon (noun)
Pronunciation: ['dê-jên]
Definition: No, today's word has nothing to do with subterranean jails but rather the mood of someone leaving one: angry, indignant humor, resentfulness. At one time it also referred to the wood of the boxwood tree, a material favored for the handles of knives and daggers because of curly grain, unlikely to splinter, hence dudgeon-daggers.
Usage: Because this word has fallen into some disuse, it has not developed a family; however, it may be used as a verb itself: "You haven't been dudgeoning around your boss again, have you?"
Suggested Usage: Today's word is most often associated with unhappy departures and are usually measured . In 'Little Women," Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in a high dudgeon." However, dudgeons arise in other situations, too, "I hope it will not put you in a dudgeon if I tell you that your purse doesn't match our dress."
///////////////////LEX MESS FCK 70
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//////////////////ELEPHANT,LION,RHINO,BUFFALO,LEOPARD-THE BIG 5
///////////////KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
//////////Too Much Thinking Can Make You Fat
Researchers found the stress of thinking caused overeating with heavy thinkers seeking out more calories.
The research team, supervised by Dr Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks.
The first was relaxing in a sitting position, the second reading and summarizing a text, and finally completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer.
After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.
The researchers had already discovered that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period.
However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests.
////////////////Japanese Computer Records Your Dreams
A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."
//////////////Is the Future Too Good to Be True?
By John Tierney / Source: New York Times
Before we get to Ray Kurzweil's plan for upgrading the "suboptimal software" in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you're aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
At least that's Dr. Kurzweil's calculation. It may sound too good to be true, but even his critics acknowledge he's not your ordinary sci-fi fantasist. He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
///////////////////TRAVEL OZ
///////////////////MALINALCO,MXCO
///////////////////Speaking of belt buckles, the point of your tie should never fall below it.
////////////////WALKERTON,ONTARIO,E COLI OUTBRK,HUS
INFECTED COWDUNG INTO TWONS WATER SUPPLY-PD TUBE BLOCKED BY OMENTAL ADHSNS
///////////Pernicious (adjective)
Pronunciation: [pêr-'ni-shês]
Definition: Very harmful, destructive or threatening harm or destruction.
Usage: The word should not be used in the sense of "wicked, evil".
Suggested Usage: This is a good word to express extreme threat of harm or destruction. You would more likely meet a harmful remark but a pernicious virus. Of course, any remark that is likely to do severe damage to someone else or an enterprise would be pernicious.
//////////////////O RILY?
//////////////////CONVCTD OF COMMN NUISNCE
//////////////////The World’s Oldest Person Dies at the age of 115
by Arthur De Vany
The LA Times has an interesting story on Edna Parker who died last November at the age of 115. She was still climbing ladders in her home, where she lived by herself, at the age of 100. Did I mention she loved bacon, eggs, and fried chicken?
////////////////////Dudgeon (noun)
Pronunciation: ['dê-jên]
Definition: No, today's word has nothing to do with subterranean jails but rather the mood of someone leaving one: angry, indignant humor, resentfulness. At one time it also referred to the wood of the boxwood tree, a material favored for the handles of knives and daggers because of curly grain, unlikely to splinter, hence dudgeon-daggers.
Usage: Because this word has fallen into some disuse, it has not developed a family; however, it may be used as a verb itself: "You haven't been dudgeoning around your boss again, have you?"
Suggested Usage: Today's word is most often associated with unhappy departures and are usually measured . In 'Little Women," Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in a high dudgeon." However, dudgeons arise in other situations, too, "I hope it will not put you in a dudgeon if I tell you that your purse doesn't match our dress."
///////////////////LEX MESS FCK 70
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TCNG DTR-208 BONES IN HMN BDY-103 ELEMENTS IN PDIC TBL
////////////////////////////////////////////BLACK SWAN IS PROBLEM OF THE IGN0RANT
/////////////////////The Turkey Problem
by Stephen Kinsella
Nassim Taleb gives a turkey as an example of relying too much on what you think you know to guide your behaviour in his book, The Black Swan. Imagine you’re the turkey. Each day, you get fed more than the last day, and your weight goes up, you feel healthier and happier, and life is good. A chart of your growth might look something like this:
The point is, if finance is just applied epistemology, and the people working in finance know this, why don’t they act accordingly? And why, in The Economist , can I read stuff like this and get all upset on a Sunday?
IN JANUARY 2007 the world looked almost riskless. At the beginning of that year I gathered my team for an off-site meeting to identify our top five risks for the coming 12 months. We were paid to think about the downsides but it was hard to see where the problems would come from. Four years of falling credit spreads, low interest rates, virtually no defaults in our loan portfolio and historically low volatility levels: it was the most benign risk environment we had seen in 20 years.
//////////////////////Chapter 4 brings together the topics discussed earlier in the narrative of a turkey. aleb uses it to illustrate the philosophical problem of induction and how past performance is no indicator of future performance. He then takes the reader into the history of Skepticism.
////////////////////Zoogles Are Not All Boogles
All zoogles are boogles.
You saw a boogle.
Is it a zoogle
NOT NECESSARILY
///////////////////OUT FRM EAST AFRICAN GREAT LAKES
//////////////////The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. Thus, the Black Swan is an oft cited reference in philosophical discussions of the improbable. Aristotle's Prior Analytics is most likely the original reference that makes use of example syllogisms involving the predicates "white", "black" and "swan." More specifically Aristotle uses the White Swan as an example of necessary relations and the Black Swan as improbable. This example may be used to demonstrate either deductive or inductive reasoning. However, neither form of reasoning is infallible since in inductive reasoning premises of an argument may support a conclusion but does not ensure it and similarly in deductive reasoning an argument is dependent on the truth of its premises. That is, a false premise can possibly lead to a false result, and inconclusive premises will also yield an inconclusive conclusion. John Stuart Mill first used the black swan narrative to discuss falsification.
/////////////////////I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. -- Abraham Lincoln
/////////////////POST HOC RATIONALISATION
//////////////////PATTERN RECOGN-GIVES A DOPAMINE KICK
///////////////////
Ironically the 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote an exception to the rule and the very existence of the improbable. Thus, the limits of the argument behind "all swans are white" is exposed - it is merely based on the limits of experience (e.g that every swan I have seen, heard, or read about is white). Hume's attack against induction and causation is primarily based on the limits of experience and so too the limitations of scientific knowledge.
///////////////////PARKINSON-DOPA -GOES ON BETTING SPREE-SUES DR
////////////////////WE ARE REDUCTIONISTS-NEED RULES TO REDUCE
/////////////////Higher frequency
Rare and improbable events do occur much more than we dare to think. Our thinking is usually limited in scope and we make assumptions based on what we see, know, and assume. Reality, however, is much more complicated and unpredictable than we think.
Also, assumptions relevant to average situations are less relevant to irregular situations, especially when the "rules of the game" themselves do change.
WIKIPDIA=
//////////////////Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
– Walter Savage Landor
//////////////////////NARRATIVITY,CAUSALITY-DIMENSION REDN
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[edit]The huge effect
Extreme events do happen and have a big effect. Examples abound, including September 11th. The Internet with its various effects was scarcely anticipated, and it is a development that has had a significant effect. The effects of extreme events are even higher due to the fact that they are unexpected.
//////////////////Young men's knocks old men feel.
~Proverb, (English)~
////////////////////
"In stillness and in silence I move beyond what I have considered my reality into boundlessness and limitlessness."
///////////////////
/////////////////////The Turkey Problem
by Stephen Kinsella
Nassim Taleb gives a turkey as an example of relying too much on what you think you know to guide your behaviour in his book, The Black Swan. Imagine you’re the turkey. Each day, you get fed more than the last day, and your weight goes up, you feel healthier and happier, and life is good. A chart of your growth might look something like this:
The point is, if finance is just applied epistemology, and the people working in finance know this, why don’t they act accordingly? And why, in The Economist , can I read stuff like this and get all upset on a Sunday?
IN JANUARY 2007 the world looked almost riskless. At the beginning of that year I gathered my team for an off-site meeting to identify our top five risks for the coming 12 months. We were paid to think about the downsides but it was hard to see where the problems would come from. Four years of falling credit spreads, low interest rates, virtually no defaults in our loan portfolio and historically low volatility levels: it was the most benign risk environment we had seen in 20 years.
//////////////////////Chapter 4 brings together the topics discussed earlier in the narrative of a turkey. aleb uses it to illustrate the philosophical problem of induction and how past performance is no indicator of future performance. He then takes the reader into the history of Skepticism.
////////////////////Zoogles Are Not All Boogles
All zoogles are boogles.
You saw a boogle.
Is it a zoogle
NOT NECESSARILY
///////////////////OUT FRM EAST AFRICAN GREAT LAKES
//////////////////The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. Thus, the Black Swan is an oft cited reference in philosophical discussions of the improbable. Aristotle's Prior Analytics is most likely the original reference that makes use of example syllogisms involving the predicates "white", "black" and "swan." More specifically Aristotle uses the White Swan as an example of necessary relations and the Black Swan as improbable. This example may be used to demonstrate either deductive or inductive reasoning. However, neither form of reasoning is infallible since in inductive reasoning premises of an argument may support a conclusion but does not ensure it and similarly in deductive reasoning an argument is dependent on the truth of its premises. That is, a false premise can possibly lead to a false result, and inconclusive premises will also yield an inconclusive conclusion. John Stuart Mill first used the black swan narrative to discuss falsification.
/////////////////////I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. -- Abraham Lincoln
/////////////////POST HOC RATIONALISATION
//////////////////PATTERN RECOGN-GIVES A DOPAMINE KICK
///////////////////
Ironically the 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote an exception to the rule and the very existence of the improbable. Thus, the limits of the argument behind "all swans are white" is exposed - it is merely based on the limits of experience (e.g that every swan I have seen, heard, or read about is white). Hume's attack against induction and causation is primarily based on the limits of experience and so too the limitations of scientific knowledge.
///////////////////PARKINSON-DOPA -GOES ON BETTING SPREE-SUES DR
////////////////////WE ARE REDUCTIONISTS-NEED RULES TO REDUCE
/////////////////Higher frequency
Rare and improbable events do occur much more than we dare to think. Our thinking is usually limited in scope and we make assumptions based on what we see, know, and assume. Reality, however, is much more complicated and unpredictable than we think.
Also, assumptions relevant to average situations are less relevant to irregular situations, especially when the "rules of the game" themselves do change.
WIKIPDIA=
//////////////////Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
– Walter Savage Landor
//////////////////////NARRATIVITY,CAUSALITY-DIMENSION REDN
//////////////////
[edit]The huge effect
Extreme events do happen and have a big effect. Examples abound, including September 11th. The Internet with its various effects was scarcely anticipated, and it is a development that has had a significant effect. The effects of extreme events are even higher due to the fact that they are unexpected.
//////////////////Young men's knocks old men feel.
~Proverb, (English)~
////////////////////
"In stillness and in silence I move beyond what I have considered my reality into boundlessness and limitlessness."
///////////////////
CDS-200209-RDING BLCK SWN-HOW BRNS THNK
/////////////////MANTRA-NONSENSE CODE TO ENTER LONG TERM MMRY
///////////////////darwinian RACE IN MIND
///////////////////PRNTS IN ISKCON MANDIR,MYLAPORE,NADIA
////////////////////JBCTS IN VK- CR INDSTRY,BNKS
/////////////////////
Periodontitis linked to prematurity, low birth weight, and fetal growth restriction
From Maternal Chorioamnionitis, Pediatrics: Cardiac Disease and Critical Care Medicine
//////////////////////DARWINIAN RACE BETN 3 BLOGS
///////////////////////Obtain blood culture before administering antibiotics. Neonates aged 0-30 days should be treated with combination of IV ampicillin and a third-generation cephalosporin or gentamicin.44 For infants aged 31-60 days, a third-generation IV cephalosporin alone is recommended as first-line therapy.44, 51, 52 IV ampicillin is recommended in addition to a third-generation cephalosporin for severely ill infants aged 31-60 days or for infants in this age group with UTI.44, 51, 52, 53 In addition to the antibiotics discussed above, vancomycin should be considered in settings where MRSA is prevalent or suspected. Children aged 2-36 months should be treated with antibiotic(s) as indicated.
///////////////////OWN HS FVCKD UP? AMEN
/////////////////////BRN CONNECTIVITY-SUBCONSC BRINGS UP AN OLD MMRY AFTR SOMETIME
//////////////////
///////////////////darwinian RACE IN MIND
///////////////////PRNTS IN ISKCON MANDIR,MYLAPORE,NADIA
////////////////////JBCTS IN VK- CR INDSTRY,BNKS
/////////////////////
Periodontitis linked to prematurity, low birth weight, and fetal growth restriction
From Maternal Chorioamnionitis, Pediatrics: Cardiac Disease and Critical Care Medicine
//////////////////////DARWINIAN RACE BETN 3 BLOGS
///////////////////////Obtain blood culture before administering antibiotics. Neonates aged 0-30 days should be treated with combination of IV ampicillin and a third-generation cephalosporin or gentamicin.44 For infants aged 31-60 days, a third-generation IV cephalosporin alone is recommended as first-line therapy.44, 51, 52 IV ampicillin is recommended in addition to a third-generation cephalosporin for severely ill infants aged 31-60 days or for infants in this age group with UTI.44, 51, 52, 53 In addition to the antibiotics discussed above, vancomycin should be considered in settings where MRSA is prevalent or suspected. Children aged 2-36 months should be treated with antibiotic(s) as indicated.
///////////////////OWN HS FVCKD UP? AMEN
/////////////////////BRN CONNECTIVITY-SUBCONSC BRINGS UP AN OLD MMRY AFTR SOMETIME
//////////////////
Friday 20 February 2009
Image pinpoints all 5 million atoms in viral coat
/////////////////////Anthropologist's studies of childbirth bring new focus on women in evolution
Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. Assisted birth has likely been around for millennia, possibly dating as far back as 5 million years ago when our ancestors first began walking upright, according to University of Delaware paleoanthropologist Karen Rosenberg. She says that social assistance during childbirth is just one aspect of our evolutionary heritage that makes us distinctive as humans.
//////////////////Violent media numb viewers to the pain of others
Violent video games and movies make people numb to the pain and suffering of others, according to a research report published in the March 2009 issue of Psychological Science.
//////////////////In flurry of studies, researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer
Six studies published in the past year by a Cornell researcher add to growing evidence that an apple a day -- as well as daily helpings of other fruits and vegetables -- can help keep the breast-cancer doctor away.
/////////////////////
Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. Assisted birth has likely been around for millennia, possibly dating as far back as 5 million years ago when our ancestors first began walking upright, according to University of Delaware paleoanthropologist Karen Rosenberg. She says that social assistance during childbirth is just one aspect of our evolutionary heritage that makes us distinctive as humans.
//////////////////Violent media numb viewers to the pain of others
Violent video games and movies make people numb to the pain and suffering of others, according to a research report published in the March 2009 issue of Psychological Science.
//////////////////In flurry of studies, researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer
Six studies published in the past year by a Cornell researcher add to growing evidence that an apple a day -- as well as daily helpings of other fruits and vegetables -- can help keep the breast-cancer doctor away.
/////////////////////
FISH FULFILLS
"Feel Full and Satisfied With Fewer Calories"
One of the most important things in any weight loss
program is feeling satisfied. Protein is one way
to give you a feeling of fullness.
The protein found in fish is a great way to ease
hunger pains. Fish help to build strong, healthy
muscles that help to burn more calories.
It is so important not only to lose weight, but to
change your eating habits that will promote a
healthy life style. One way to accomplish this is
to try to add fish at least a couple of times
a week.
Fish is high in omega-3 fatty acids that are so
very good for your heart. The fatty fish like
salmon are especially high in omega-3 fatty acids.
12 large shrimp have about 65 calories and only
one gram of fat. (Hold the breading and frying.)
Be sure to boil or grill. A study in Australia
found that fish made people feel full better than
beef or chicken.
There was a weight loss program a long time ago that
encouraged you to eat lots of tuna fish. Still not
a bad idea... low calorie and again very satisfying.
Have a "Souper" weekend and be good to YOU!
Lillie
//////////////////I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
~Dobie Gillis~
////////////////////92 KG AND STABLE
//////////////////MEDITATN=
"There is so much more that I can perceive and understand as I become still and silent."
/////////////////LRB=Diary
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Anyone who has read the inside pages of Indian newspapers over the past few decades will be familiar with the recurring stories of violent urban crime. Some concern ‘crimes of passion’ and use a peculiar Indian English journalistic vocabulary, involving such terms as ‘eve-teasing’, ‘absconding’ and ‘paramour’. Some of the stories have to do with incest or close family relationships – say, between father-in-law and daughter-in-law – while others are tales of paedophilia and ‘child molestation’. Another popular subject of which Delhi residents will be well aware are the crimes committed by the ‘criminal castes’, often linked in the neocolonial imagination of the city’s bourgeoisie to the villages and smallholdings that are gradually being asphyxiated by Delhi’s expansion. It’s been an urban legend since the 1990s that people are being bludgeoned to death in their houses with blunt instruments even though they haven’t resisted; and that the intruders show their contempt for their victims by defecating in their living-rooms. Class elements are present in the reporting of crimes of passion, which the elite naturally associate with slum-dwellers and squatters: the second type of crime involves something approaching class warfare.
But the dominant topic of past decades has been domestic servants, an indispensable part of life but also a source of endless paranoia in metropolitan households. These domestic servants come in various guises. Some commute to work by public transport, perform tasks in several households, and return home at the end of the day. Many others are children, or barely adolescent, and sleep in the house where they work (though they aren’t usually allowed to use the same bathrooms and toilets as their employers). They may be poor relatives; or they may be adults from outside the family. They have no fixed hours, though in some cases they are given a day off every week or every fortnight. The government recognises their existence by providing every state employee who attains ‘officer’ status with a flat or house that has ‘servants’ quarters’ attached to it. Here, in the alleys at the back of government residential areas, a world exists in parallel to that of the houses and flats that look out onto the streets and gardens. It is a curious form of what the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, in his discussion of the relationship between plantation owners and their slaves, called casa grande e senzala; sometimes the children of the masters and those of the servants can be found spinning tops or flying kites together.
RMMBR ANJLI -19/4 DAYANANDA RD
////////////
One of the most important things in any weight loss
program is feeling satisfied. Protein is one way
to give you a feeling of fullness.
The protein found in fish is a great way to ease
hunger pains. Fish help to build strong, healthy
muscles that help to burn more calories.
It is so important not only to lose weight, but to
change your eating habits that will promote a
healthy life style. One way to accomplish this is
to try to add fish at least a couple of times
a week.
Fish is high in omega-3 fatty acids that are so
very good for your heart. The fatty fish like
salmon are especially high in omega-3 fatty acids.
12 large shrimp have about 65 calories and only
one gram of fat. (Hold the breading and frying.)
Be sure to boil or grill. A study in Australia
found that fish made people feel full better than
beef or chicken.
There was a weight loss program a long time ago that
encouraged you to eat lots of tuna fish. Still not
a bad idea... low calorie and again very satisfying.
Have a "Souper" weekend and be good to YOU!
Lillie
//////////////////I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
~Dobie Gillis~
////////////////////92 KG AND STABLE
//////////////////MEDITATN=
"There is so much more that I can perceive and understand as I become still and silent."
/////////////////LRB=Diary
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Anyone who has read the inside pages of Indian newspapers over the past few decades will be familiar with the recurring stories of violent urban crime. Some concern ‘crimes of passion’ and use a peculiar Indian English journalistic vocabulary, involving such terms as ‘eve-teasing’, ‘absconding’ and ‘paramour’. Some of the stories have to do with incest or close family relationships – say, between father-in-law and daughter-in-law – while others are tales of paedophilia and ‘child molestation’. Another popular subject of which Delhi residents will be well aware are the crimes committed by the ‘criminal castes’, often linked in the neocolonial imagination of the city’s bourgeoisie to the villages and smallholdings that are gradually being asphyxiated by Delhi’s expansion. It’s been an urban legend since the 1990s that people are being bludgeoned to death in their houses with blunt instruments even though they haven’t resisted; and that the intruders show their contempt for their victims by defecating in their living-rooms. Class elements are present in the reporting of crimes of passion, which the elite naturally associate with slum-dwellers and squatters: the second type of crime involves something approaching class warfare.
But the dominant topic of past decades has been domestic servants, an indispensable part of life but also a source of endless paranoia in metropolitan households. These domestic servants come in various guises. Some commute to work by public transport, perform tasks in several households, and return home at the end of the day. Many others are children, or barely adolescent, and sleep in the house where they work (though they aren’t usually allowed to use the same bathrooms and toilets as their employers). They may be poor relatives; or they may be adults from outside the family. They have no fixed hours, though in some cases they are given a day off every week or every fortnight. The government recognises their existence by providing every state employee who attains ‘officer’ status with a flat or house that has ‘servants’ quarters’ attached to it. Here, in the alleys at the back of government residential areas, a world exists in parallel to that of the houses and flats that look out onto the streets and gardens. It is a curious form of what the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, in his discussion of the relationship between plantation owners and their slaves, called casa grande e senzala; sometimes the children of the masters and those of the servants can be found spinning tops or flying kites together.
RMMBR ANJLI -19/4 DAYANANDA RD
////////////
WTCHNG DHOL
/////////////SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHER OF HISTORY
/////////////HIGHLY IMPROBABLE BUT CONSEQUENTIAL EVENT
//////////////.........NP=Reading the contents of working memory
Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:30 PM PST
Working memory refers to the process by which small amounts of information relevant to the task at hand are retained for short periods of time. For example, before cellular phones became so ubiquitous, calling someone usually involved first finding the number and then remembering it for a just few seconds by repeating it to oneself several times. Once the digits had been dialled, they are immediately forgotten.
Very little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying working memory, but very recently some advances have been made. Last month, a group from the University of Texas Medical Center described a novel mechanism by which the response of single cells in the prefrontal cortex to a stimulus can persist for many seconds after the stimulus has been removed. They suggested that this could be how cells encode information for short periods of time.
////////////////////Platonic fold: The place where our Platonic representation enters in contact with reality and you can see the side effects of models.
Platonicity: the focus on those pure, well-defined, and easily discernible objects like triangles, or more social notions, like friendship or love – at the cost of ignoring those objects of seemingly messier and less tractable structures.
///////////////our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations
//////////////////..........SD=Snacking Smart
Letting yourself get too hungry between meals is counterproductive to your weight loss efforts. You'll simply be tempted to overeat when mealtime comes. That's why The Sonoma Diet allows snacking. But like most things, snacking is more restricted during Wave 1 than it is during the rest of the diet. Between lunch and dinner, or between breakfast and lunch, you may have a small snack to tide you over. When you get to Wave 2, there will be plenty of possibilities. On Wave 1 there is one — a Tier 1 vegetable.
We do, however, allow for an exception: If you're a bigger man, or if you are a woman or man who leads a very physically active life with plenty of exercise, you can expand your snack menu a bit. Here are some possibilities:
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese with Tier 1 raw veggies
3 ounces of hummus, either homemade or store-bought, with veggies
Low-fat cheese stick with carrots or celery
1 slice of whole grain bread with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
2 ounces cooked chicken breast or turkey deli meat
/////////////////////Mediterranean diet associated with reduction in women’s deaths from heart attack and stroke
///////////////FXTRIMISTAN
///////////////// Black Swan Idea to argue against the "unknown, the abstract, and imprecise uncertain--white ravens, pink elephants, or evaporating denizens of a remote planet orbiting Tau Ceti."
/////////////////"scalable professions." Scalable professions are the ones that have big upside for the same amount of work no matter how many zeros start to follow the first $.
eg WRITER VS BAKER
SPECULATOR VS DOCTOR
/////////////////.......FDCRY=As I was browsing the Forbes 400 this weekend John Arnold struck me as the quintessential example of someone with a scalable career. At 33, he was the youngest member of the Forbes 400 this year. He has parlayed some good success in his Enron days and $8 million that came with it into a rather large fortune of $1.5 bil; greater than the GDP of Sierra Leone (population ~6 mil). John is an energy trader and his profession is highly scalable since it would require roughly the same amount of work to run a $100k portfolio as he would to run his $3 billion Centaurus Energy portfolio.
Non-scalable professions include dentists, doctors, and pretty much any profession where the rewards are directly tied to the time you put in. Taleb points out that it is the existence of scalable professions that has led to such a lopsided distribution of wealth in the world. It really does make one wonder. What happens when no one wants to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a teacher because they could use their time and effort to get into more scalable careers? I don't have any profound answers as to what should be done about wealth distribution worldwide (though Jeffrey Sachs does) or how we keep people motivated to enter necessary but non-scalable professions, but if you do feel free to leave them in the comments. If you have some time read The Black Swan and spend a few minutes thinking about it.
//////////////////......On Saturday, hit up the supermarket to pick up the food you'll need for the coming week. Buy extra fruits and vegetables, especially those that don't need a lot of prep like apples, oranges, snow peas, baby carrots, and peppers. On Sunday, get to work peeling, slicing, chopping, and cooking.
///////////////Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages."
– Nichiren Daishonin
///////////////////MOVIES-SOCIAL IMITATION-FIGHTS SOLITUDE
//////////////////history as opaque, essentially a black box of cause and effect. You see events go in and events go out, but you have no way of determining which ones produced what effect. aleb argues this is due to The Triplet of Opacity.[5]
/////////////////TRAVELS INSIDE MEDIOCRISTAN
//////////////////
In the second chapter, aleb tells the story of author Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova and her book A Story of Recursion. She published her book on the web and was discovered by a small publishing company; they published her work unedited and the book became an international bestseller. The small publishing firm became a big corporation, and Yevgenia became famous. This incident is a Black Swan. aleb seems to be using "recursion" as a hint that he is predicting the story of his own book The Black Swan--Yevgenia's rejection of fiction and nonfiction as categories is eerily reminiscent of Taleb's idea, and her character seems autobiographical as Taleb may be poking fun at his own intolerant temperament
///////////////////Stroke Therapy Window Might Be Extended Past Nine Hours For Some (February 18, 2009) -- Some patients who suffer a stroke as a result of a blockage in an artery in the brain may benefit from a clot-busting drug nine or more hours after the onset of symptoms. ... > full story
//////////////////wild vs mild
///////////
In the third chapter, aleb introduces the concepts of Extremistan and Mediocristan. He uses them as guides to define how predictable the environment you're studying is. Mediocristan environments can safely use Gaussian distribution. In Extremistan environments a Gaussian distribution is used at your peril.
//////////////////There is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away... " - Emily Dickinson …
/////////////////Anything simple always interests me.
— David Hockney
///////////////////aleb, author of the bestselling book, The Black Swan, divides the world into 2 countries: Mediocristan and Extremistan. Looks like these two countries have completely different laws governing them. What are these laws? And how are they different? Let’s look at these questions in this article.
Mediocristan: Let’s start with Nassim’s favorite thought experiment. Assume that you round up a thousand people randomly selected from the general population and have them stand next to each other in one stadium. Imagine the heaviest person you can think of and add him to the sample. Assuming he weighs three times the average, between 400 and 500 pounds, he will represent a very small fraction of the total weight of the entire population (in this case about half a percent). In Mediocristan, when your sample is large, no single instance will significantly change the aggregate or the total. So who all belong to Mediocristan? Things like height, weight, income of a baker or a prostitute, car accidents, mortality rates, IQ etc.
Strange country of Extremistan: Now, let’s turn to the same people whom we lined up in a stadium and add up their net worth. Add to them net worth of Bill Gates which according to wikipedia is $58 billion. Now ask the same question: How much of the total wealth would he represent? 99.9 percent? Indeed, all others would represent no more than a rounding error for this net worth. For someone’s weight to represent such a share, he would need to weigh fifty million pounds! Same thing can be observed about book sales of randomly selected authors and adding J. K. Rowling to the list . In Extremistan, inequalities are such that one single observation can disproportionately impact aggregate, or the total. Nassim calls such events/things black swans. Matters that belong to Extremistan are: wealth, book sales per author, name recognition as a “celebrity”, speakers of a language, damage caused by earthquake, deaths in war, sizes of companies, financial markets etc.
How does this help? Nassim observes that the law of averages or the bell-curve statistics works well in Mediocristan. When friends from Mars will visit earth, they can check a small sample of people and learn a lot about people from Mediocristan. However, if you try to apply bell-curve to Extremistan it can get you in trouble. Let’s say you want to cross a river during your wildlife trek and you ask the local villager, “How deep is the river?” Villager says, “On an average 4 feet”. Now, in Extremistan, you don’t know whether it is: 4 feet +/- 1 foot or 4 feet and in one or two places 50 feet deep. Thanks to Satyam scam and the money I lost in a single day, I didn’t take time to understand what a black swan means. Next time you apply bell curve statistics to your decision (such as stock purchase), ask whether you are applying the right law in the right land.
//////////////////////
/////////////HIGHLY IMPROBABLE BUT CONSEQUENTIAL EVENT
//////////////.........NP=Reading the contents of working memory
Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:30 PM PST
Working memory refers to the process by which small amounts of information relevant to the task at hand are retained for short periods of time. For example, before cellular phones became so ubiquitous, calling someone usually involved first finding the number and then remembering it for a just few seconds by repeating it to oneself several times. Once the digits had been dialled, they are immediately forgotten.
Very little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying working memory, but very recently some advances have been made. Last month, a group from the University of Texas Medical Center described a novel mechanism by which the response of single cells in the prefrontal cortex to a stimulus can persist for many seconds after the stimulus has been removed. They suggested that this could be how cells encode information for short periods of time.
////////////////////Platonic fold: The place where our Platonic representation enters in contact with reality and you can see the side effects of models.
Platonicity: the focus on those pure, well-defined, and easily discernible objects like triangles, or more social notions, like friendship or love – at the cost of ignoring those objects of seemingly messier and less tractable structures.
///////////////our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations
//////////////////..........SD=Snacking Smart
Letting yourself get too hungry between meals is counterproductive to your weight loss efforts. You'll simply be tempted to overeat when mealtime comes. That's why The Sonoma Diet allows snacking. But like most things, snacking is more restricted during Wave 1 than it is during the rest of the diet. Between lunch and dinner, or between breakfast and lunch, you may have a small snack to tide you over. When you get to Wave 2, there will be plenty of possibilities. On Wave 1 there is one — a Tier 1 vegetable.
We do, however, allow for an exception: If you're a bigger man, or if you are a woman or man who leads a very physically active life with plenty of exercise, you can expand your snack menu a bit. Here are some possibilities:
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese with Tier 1 raw veggies
3 ounces of hummus, either homemade or store-bought, with veggies
Low-fat cheese stick with carrots or celery
1 slice of whole grain bread with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
2 ounces cooked chicken breast or turkey deli meat
/////////////////////Mediterranean diet associated with reduction in women’s deaths from heart attack and stroke
///////////////FXTRIMISTAN
///////////////// Black Swan Idea to argue against the "unknown, the abstract, and imprecise uncertain--white ravens, pink elephants, or evaporating denizens of a remote planet orbiting Tau Ceti."
/////////////////"scalable professions." Scalable professions are the ones that have big upside for the same amount of work no matter how many zeros start to follow the first $.
eg WRITER VS BAKER
SPECULATOR VS DOCTOR
/////////////////.......FDCRY=As I was browsing the Forbes 400 this weekend John Arnold struck me as the quintessential example of someone with a scalable career. At 33, he was the youngest member of the Forbes 400 this year. He has parlayed some good success in his Enron days and $8 million that came with it into a rather large fortune of $1.5 bil; greater than the GDP of Sierra Leone (population ~6 mil). John is an energy trader and his profession is highly scalable since it would require roughly the same amount of work to run a $100k portfolio as he would to run his $3 billion Centaurus Energy portfolio.
Non-scalable professions include dentists, doctors, and pretty much any profession where the rewards are directly tied to the time you put in. Taleb points out that it is the existence of scalable professions that has led to such a lopsided distribution of wealth in the world. It really does make one wonder. What happens when no one wants to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a teacher because they could use their time and effort to get into more scalable careers? I don't have any profound answers as to what should be done about wealth distribution worldwide (though Jeffrey Sachs does) or how we keep people motivated to enter necessary but non-scalable professions, but if you do feel free to leave them in the comments. If you have some time read The Black Swan and spend a few minutes thinking about it.
//////////////////......On Saturday, hit up the supermarket to pick up the food you'll need for the coming week. Buy extra fruits and vegetables, especially those that don't need a lot of prep like apples, oranges, snow peas, baby carrots, and peppers. On Sunday, get to work peeling, slicing, chopping, and cooking.
///////////////Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages."
– Nichiren Daishonin
///////////////////MOVIES-SOCIAL IMITATION-FIGHTS SOLITUDE
//////////////////history as opaque, essentially a black box of cause and effect. You see events go in and events go out, but you have no way of determining which ones produced what effect. aleb argues this is due to The Triplet of Opacity.[5]
/////////////////TRAVELS INSIDE MEDIOCRISTAN
//////////////////
In the second chapter, aleb tells the story of author Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova and her book A Story of Recursion. She published her book on the web and was discovered by a small publishing company; they published her work unedited and the book became an international bestseller. The small publishing firm became a big corporation, and Yevgenia became famous. This incident is a Black Swan. aleb seems to be using "recursion" as a hint that he is predicting the story of his own book The Black Swan--Yevgenia's rejection of fiction and nonfiction as categories is eerily reminiscent of Taleb's idea, and her character seems autobiographical as Taleb may be poking fun at his own intolerant temperament
///////////////////Stroke Therapy Window Might Be Extended Past Nine Hours For Some (February 18, 2009) -- Some patients who suffer a stroke as a result of a blockage in an artery in the brain may benefit from a clot-busting drug nine or more hours after the onset of symptoms. ... > full story
//////////////////wild vs mild
///////////
In the third chapter, aleb introduces the concepts of Extremistan and Mediocristan. He uses them as guides to define how predictable the environment you're studying is. Mediocristan environments can safely use Gaussian distribution. In Extremistan environments a Gaussian distribution is used at your peril.
//////////////////There is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away... " - Emily Dickinson …
/////////////////Anything simple always interests me.
— David Hockney
///////////////////aleb, author of the bestselling book, The Black Swan, divides the world into 2 countries: Mediocristan and Extremistan. Looks like these two countries have completely different laws governing them. What are these laws? And how are they different? Let’s look at these questions in this article.
Mediocristan: Let’s start with Nassim’s favorite thought experiment. Assume that you round up a thousand people randomly selected from the general population and have them stand next to each other in one stadium. Imagine the heaviest person you can think of and add him to the sample. Assuming he weighs three times the average, between 400 and 500 pounds, he will represent a very small fraction of the total weight of the entire population (in this case about half a percent). In Mediocristan, when your sample is large, no single instance will significantly change the aggregate or the total. So who all belong to Mediocristan? Things like height, weight, income of a baker or a prostitute, car accidents, mortality rates, IQ etc.
Strange country of Extremistan: Now, let’s turn to the same people whom we lined up in a stadium and add up their net worth. Add to them net worth of Bill Gates which according to wikipedia is $58 billion. Now ask the same question: How much of the total wealth would he represent? 99.9 percent? Indeed, all others would represent no more than a rounding error for this net worth. For someone’s weight to represent such a share, he would need to weigh fifty million pounds! Same thing can be observed about book sales of randomly selected authors and adding J. K. Rowling to the list . In Extremistan, inequalities are such that one single observation can disproportionately impact aggregate, or the total. Nassim calls such events/things black swans. Matters that belong to Extremistan are: wealth, book sales per author, name recognition as a “celebrity”, speakers of a language, damage caused by earthquake, deaths in war, sizes of companies, financial markets etc.
How does this help? Nassim observes that the law of averages or the bell-curve statistics works well in Mediocristan. When friends from Mars will visit earth, they can check a small sample of people and learn a lot about people from Mediocristan. However, if you try to apply bell-curve to Extremistan it can get you in trouble. Let’s say you want to cross a river during your wildlife trek and you ask the local villager, “How deep is the river?” Villager says, “On an average 4 feet”. Now, in Extremistan, you don’t know whether it is: 4 feet +/- 1 foot or 4 feet and in one or two places 50 feet deep. Thanks to Satyam scam and the money I lost in a single day, I didn’t take time to understand what a black swan means. Next time you apply bell curve statistics to your decision (such as stock purchase), ask whether you are applying the right law in the right land.
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RDING -HOW BRNS THNK
///////////////////MCLWP SOLUTION
////////////////BRN-WHAT IF PLANNING
/////////////////DECLARE THE PAST,DIAGNOSE THE PRESENT,FORETELL THE FUTURE-HIPPOCRATES TO PHYSICIANS
///////////////Jobs vanish around the globe as people worry more and countries struggle to enact policies to stabilize local economies. A UN agency estimates that job losses could total 50 million by the end of 2009, reports Nelson Schwartz for the New York Times. Many jobseekers could be bitter and prepared to protest and seek new political leaders. Economic instability has replaced terrorism as the biggest security threat, notes Dennis C. Blair, US director of national intelligence. “In emerging economies like those in Eastern Europe, there are fears that growing joblessness might encourage a move away from free-market, pro-Western policies, while in developed countries unemployment could bolster efforts to protect local industries at the expense of global,” Schwartz writes. Solutions could rest in collaborative rather than competitive economic policies on population control, immigration, innovation and education. Still, rich and poor in the world must adjust to a new employment and economic landscape. – YaleGlobal
/////////////////////DYSCALCULIA-MATHS ANXIETY
struggles with a learning disability called
Dyscalculia. She has trouble telling time, counting change, and doing
basic level math. Dyscalculia affects a small number of students,
teachers say. However, math anxiety affects a very large number.
Teaching these students math has become a challenge for educators.
//////////////////Irlen Syndrome is a possible explanation for the average to gifted
student who avoids reading or cannot read and for the
learning-disabled student who struggles with reading. Helen Irlen, a
school psychologist, worked with college students with reading
difficulties. The students had average to above-average intelligence.
They reported symptoms that occurred when reading that no one had
identified before such as: migraines and headaches, falling asleep,
words switching around, print moving or vibrating, the text becoming
3D, the brightness of the page hurting their eyes, print becoming
blurry, and words blending into each other. Irlen found that placing
colored overlays over the reading material improved the student's
comprehension, fluency, comfort, and attention.
//////////////////Nirvana Express
By JANE AND MICHAEL STERN
Published: February 19, 2009
“Hippies were the fireworks of freedom,” an Istanbul journalist declares at the beginning of “Magic Bus,” Rory MacLean’s retracing of the eastward path traveled by enlightenment-hungry pilgrims in the 1960s and ’70s. With a spiritual craving kindled by a pantheon of idiosyncratic gurus that included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, these so-called Intrepids had little money but plenty of time — and a yen to sip tea and smoke dope with the locals. Their goal wasn’t to observe other cultures but to absorb them and be transformed.
////////////////////CURIOSITY IS MY PRIMARY MOIVATION
////////////////////......As acquisitions accumulate, and ideas about classification evolve, don't your bookshelves exhibit the thermodynamic property of 'entropy' and disintegrate into chaos? Mine do, and so I find solace in the belief that this is a good thing. It allows one -- or one's friends -- to tangentially discover books one was NOT looking for.
///////////////////.......I love books, the way they smell, feel and talk to me. They go with me
> wherever the family's stationed. I have faced similar problems with
books.
/////////////////////.........man bashing plays so well in literature, don't it?
////////////////OTT MOMENTS
////////////////////.........BLLU =The narration is very entertaining, the 3 songs of SRK with Deepika
Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor are visually brilliant and
placed perfectly. The music is good. Love Mera Hit Hit and Mar Jaani are the
pick of the lot. Billu Bhayankar is funny and stays with you long after the
credits roll.
Bilu Barber belongs to Irrfan Khan. The highly talented actor is splendid as
Billu displaying a huge array of expressions and emotions on screen. Lara
Dutta compliments Irrfan pretty well, it has to be her best role to date.
Character actors like Om Puri, Ansari, Rajpal Yadav and the others,
entertain."
///////////////UNDERSTATED BRILLIANCE=SOML-STRY OF ME LF
////////////////PLAYING GD=EVOLVING GREATER INTELLIGENCE
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LEXICO'GRAPHER. n.s. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and signification of words.
—Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
//////////////////book culling-BY risi
/////////////////BQ MEME
//////////////////URRRST FRM GRVNCE
///////////////////........Ek Chadar Hai Maili si:>The focal of the story is the tradition of
Levirate>(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate).>>Although she is married to
one son of a family, but is forced to take>on the other brother as her
husband, on death of her first husband, so>that her children do not remain
orphaned and she finds a husband too.
////////////////PART OF PROBLEM OR PART OF SOLUTION
///////////////........Evolutionary Theory of Sleep:
Evolutionary theory, also known as the adaptive theory of sleep, suggests that periods of activity and inactivity evolved as a means of conserving energy. According to this theory, all species have adapted to sleep during periods of time when wakefulness would be the most hazardous.
Support for this theory comes from comparative research of different animal species. Animals that have few natural predators, such as bears and lions, often sleep between 12 to 15 hours each day. On the other hand, animals that have many natural predators have only short periods of sleep, usually getting no more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep each day.
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////////////////BRN-WHAT IF PLANNING
/////////////////DECLARE THE PAST,DIAGNOSE THE PRESENT,FORETELL THE FUTURE-HIPPOCRATES TO PHYSICIANS
///////////////Jobs vanish around the globe as people worry more and countries struggle to enact policies to stabilize local economies. A UN agency estimates that job losses could total 50 million by the end of 2009, reports Nelson Schwartz for the New York Times. Many jobseekers could be bitter and prepared to protest and seek new political leaders. Economic instability has replaced terrorism as the biggest security threat, notes Dennis C. Blair, US director of national intelligence. “In emerging economies like those in Eastern Europe, there are fears that growing joblessness might encourage a move away from free-market, pro-Western policies, while in developed countries unemployment could bolster efforts to protect local industries at the expense of global,” Schwartz writes. Solutions could rest in collaborative rather than competitive economic policies on population control, immigration, innovation and education. Still, rich and poor in the world must adjust to a new employment and economic landscape. – YaleGlobal
/////////////////////DYSCALCULIA-MATHS ANXIETY
struggles with a learning disability called
Dyscalculia. She has trouble telling time, counting change, and doing
basic level math. Dyscalculia affects a small number of students,
teachers say. However, math anxiety affects a very large number.
Teaching these students math has become a challenge for educators.
//////////////////Irlen Syndrome is a possible explanation for the average to gifted
student who avoids reading or cannot read and for the
learning-disabled student who struggles with reading. Helen Irlen, a
school psychologist, worked with college students with reading
difficulties. The students had average to above-average intelligence.
They reported symptoms that occurred when reading that no one had
identified before such as: migraines and headaches, falling asleep,
words switching around, print moving or vibrating, the text becoming
3D, the brightness of the page hurting their eyes, print becoming
blurry, and words blending into each other. Irlen found that placing
colored overlays over the reading material improved the student's
comprehension, fluency, comfort, and attention.
//////////////////Nirvana Express
By JANE AND MICHAEL STERN
Published: February 19, 2009
“Hippies were the fireworks of freedom,” an Istanbul journalist declares at the beginning of “Magic Bus,” Rory MacLean’s retracing of the eastward path traveled by enlightenment-hungry pilgrims in the 1960s and ’70s. With a spiritual craving kindled by a pantheon of idiosyncratic gurus that included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, these so-called Intrepids had little money but plenty of time — and a yen to sip tea and smoke dope with the locals. Their goal wasn’t to observe other cultures but to absorb them and be transformed.
////////////////////CURIOSITY IS MY PRIMARY MOIVATION
////////////////////......As acquisitions accumulate, and ideas about classification evolve, don't your bookshelves exhibit the thermodynamic property of 'entropy' and disintegrate into chaos? Mine do, and so I find solace in the belief that this is a good thing. It allows one -- or one's friends -- to tangentially discover books one was NOT looking for.
///////////////////.......I love books, the way they smell, feel and talk to me. They go with me
> wherever the family's stationed. I have faced similar problems with
books.
/////////////////////.........man bashing plays so well in literature, don't it?
////////////////OTT MOMENTS
////////////////////.........BLLU =The narration is very entertaining, the 3 songs of SRK with Deepika
Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor are visually brilliant and
placed perfectly. The music is good. Love Mera Hit Hit and Mar Jaani are the
pick of the lot. Billu Bhayankar is funny and stays with you long after the
credits roll.
Bilu Barber belongs to Irrfan Khan. The highly talented actor is splendid as
Billu displaying a huge array of expressions and emotions on screen. Lara
Dutta compliments Irrfan pretty well, it has to be her best role to date.
Character actors like Om Puri, Ansari, Rajpal Yadav and the others,
entertain."
///////////////UNDERSTATED BRILLIANCE=SOML-STRY OF ME LF
////////////////PLAYING GD=EVOLVING GREATER INTELLIGENCE
//////////////////////
LEXICO'GRAPHER. n.s. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and signification of words.
—Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
//////////////////book culling-BY risi
/////////////////BQ MEME
//////////////////URRRST FRM GRVNCE
///////////////////........Ek Chadar Hai Maili si:>The focal of the story is the tradition of
Levirate>(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate).>>Although she is married to
one son of a family, but is forced to take>on the other brother as her
husband, on death of her first husband, so>that her children do not remain
orphaned and she finds a husband too.
////////////////PART OF PROBLEM OR PART OF SOLUTION
///////////////........Evolutionary Theory of Sleep:
Evolutionary theory, also known as the adaptive theory of sleep, suggests that periods of activity and inactivity evolved as a means of conserving energy. According to this theory, all species have adapted to sleep during periods of time when wakefulness would be the most hazardous.
Support for this theory comes from comparative research of different animal species. Animals that have few natural predators, such as bears and lions, often sleep between 12 to 15 hours each day. On the other hand, animals that have many natural predators have only short periods of sleep, usually getting no more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep each day.
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