///////////////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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Saturday, 21 February 2009
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
//////////////////
[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.
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/////////////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.
//////////////////////
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
//////////////////////
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.
/////////////////
////////////////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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