Thursday, December 26, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Humor Theories - The Science of Laughter
https://www.academia.edu/477378/Humor_Theories_and_the_Physiological_Benefits_of_Laughter
Thursday, November 21, 2013
New Study on Brain: It Sees Things You Don't
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-brain-dont.html
"Sanguinetti's study indicates that in our everyday life, as we walk down the street, for example, our brains may recognize many meaningful objects in the visual scene, but ultimately we are aware of only a handful of those objects. The brain is working to provide us with the best, most useful possible interpretation of the visual world, Sanguinetti said, an interpretation that does not necessarily include all the information in the visual input."
This validates the principle behind subliminal perception and gives us reason to use caution with what children see. We must ask how they are processing? Can they at certain ages?
"Sanguinetti's study indicates that in our everyday life, as we walk down the street, for example, our brains may recognize many meaningful objects in the visual scene, but ultimately we are aware of only a handful of those objects. The brain is working to provide us with the best, most useful possible interpretation of the visual world, Sanguinetti said, an interpretation that does not necessarily include all the information in the visual input."
This validates the principle behind subliminal perception and gives us reason to use caution with what children see. We must ask how they are processing? Can they at certain ages?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
24,000 year old boy from a matriarchy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
The Mal’ta boy was aged 3 to 4 and was buried under a stone slab wearing an ivory diadem, a bead necklace and a bird-shaped pendant. Elsewhere at the same site some 30 Venus figurines were found of the kind produced by the Upper Paleolithic cultures of Europe.
Orthodox Jewish Child Abuse
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/
IN RITUAL BATHHOUSES OF THE JEWISH ORTHODOXY, CHILDREN ARE SYSTEMATICALLY ABUSED
No religion is free from this horror. Here mothers who complain are removed from their children and families.
Hollywood impacting society's view of parents
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/arts/television/tvs-problematic-portrayal-of-aging.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1384979214-bTY7gEUnecRyuZr9I7hPFw&_r=0
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Testing for Cervical Cancer with Vinegar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20595131#story_continues_1
Sunday, October 27, 2013
432 mz controversy and Ultimate Pythagorean Music for attunement
Interesting, not sure what to make of it myself.
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.
Now listen to two examples for you to decide:
http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/in_the_studio_the_440_hz_conspiracy_includes_video/
Here is some music to try : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiB81CRX1g
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.
Now listen to two examples for you to decide:
http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/in_the_studio_the_440_hz_conspiracy_includes_video/
Here is some music to try : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiB81CRX1g
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Censored Rupert Sheldrake on 10 Science Dogmas
TED talk given in London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gFi285OhrQ#t=37
Controversy over censorship of this video by anonymous scientific board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuxXvNVhgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gFi285OhrQ#t=37
Controversy over censorship of this video by anonymous scientific board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuxXvNVhgA
Eisenman and James
"Looks like we made JPost No. 1 Most Popular for the last few days. Thanks all. Probably won't stay beyond today, since new week is beginning (if not already begun there).
In case you could not or never did get the right link for this article, here it is too; or it can always be found under "The Eisenman Line" JPost blogs:
Friday, October 25, 2013
Meditation has positive brain impact
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/mindfulness-meditation-brain-integrative-body-mind-training_n_1594803.html
How to create Relaxation Response and Self-Healing - From Massachusetts General Hospital
Meditate:
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/eliciting_rr.aspx
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/eliciting_rr.aspx
Placebo Effect is Real
"The placebo effect appears to be a real phenomenon as is the scientifically demonstrated and examined relaxation response. Given this, we attempt to understand how these phenomena work in light of our current understanding of central and peripheral nervous system mechanisms. Central to our hypothesis is the significance of norepinephrine, nitric oxide and opioid signaling both in the central and peripheral nervous system. In this regard, we find that nitric oxide controls norepinephrine processes on many levels, including synthesis, release and actions. In closing, we conclude that enough scientific information exists to support these phenomena as actual physical processes that can be harnessed to provide better patient care."
Monday, October 21, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Cave Artists May Have Been Woman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/13/cave-artists-women-study_n_4086385.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Christopher Hitchins on Mother Theresa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1Jr0fp0dE
Not a heroine afterall.
Not a heroine afterall.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
A little discomfort helps us face life's challenges
Short, but very thought provoking, especially for parents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Friday, October 11, 2013
International Girl's Day! Celebrate
International Day of the Girl is today -- join us in the celebration!
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Help Save Bees
Reply-To: info@rootsaction.org
Here's an important action from our friends at Friends of the Earth, whose just released, first-of-its-kind report found bee-killing pesticides in more than half of the “bee-friendly” home garden plants sold at stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s -- with no warning to consumers.
Tell Frank Blake and Robert Niblock -- CEOs of Home Depot and Lowe's -- to stop selling “pre-poisoned” plants! 
Many of us may have unknowingly filled our backyards with hidden bee-poisons.
Help Friends of the Earth put Home Depot's CEO Frank Blake and Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock on notice.
Write to them now, insisting that they stop selling plants laced with bee-killing pesticides immediately and pull all bee-killing poisons from their shelves.
The report shows this problem is widespread and that many unsuspecting home gardeners are purchasing plants pre-treated with pesticides proven to kill bees.
The toxins in question are the world’s most popular pesticides, neonicotinoids (or neonics), implicated as a key factor in escalating global bee die-offs.
From 50,000 bumble bees found dead in a Target parking lot in Portland to beekeepers across the country losing up to 90 percent of their bees last winter, stories of bee die-offs are emerging from around the world. We must act now to stop this global disaster or put at risk the more than 2/3 of our food crops that are pollinated by bees, from apples to almonds to watermelons.
Please join Friends of the Earth in writing directly to Frank Blake and Robert Niblock. As the CEO’s of two of America’s biggest garden retailers they have a responsibility to help protect bees.
Neonics can kill bees outright and, even at low doses, can weaken their immune systems and impair critical brain functions, making it hard for them to find their food and return to the hive. Neonics also remain in the plants and the soil of our gardens for months or even years, continuing to poison bees.
Europe has already banned bee-harming pesticides, and top retailers in the U.K. are refusing to sell them. Now Home Depot's and Lowe’s CEOs need to make the same commitment here.
We can protect bees in our own back yards right now by rejecting neonics and demanding that Frank Blake and Robert Niblock pull these poisons from the shelves at Home Depot and Lowe’s. Please click here to help.
—The RootsAction.org Team
Loved this....First episode of Have a Little Faith
Not too long:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irL7tDORXY&list=TLjmP7VZq8xcc2hsCbvADB4a8hOgBQBs1_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irL7tDORXY&list=TLjmP7VZq8xcc2hsCbvADB4a8hOgBQBs1_
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Excellent Philosophical Advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdStJUIntnI
This is an excellent short lesson on Greek/Roman philosophy which can be applied to the modern day living. Combined with the practice of meditation we can use to change the way we respond to life's challenges.
Enjoy this inspirational video: Zeno's Eleven points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE28dD8jbg
This is an excellent short lesson on Greek/Roman philosophy which can be applied to the modern day living. Combined with the practice of meditation we can use to change the way we respond to life's challenges.
Enjoy this inspirational video: Zeno's Eleven points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE28dD8jbg
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Join the SHE Campaign!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EKmt7PwYPCY
This is an innovative and important service for women around the world. Hope you can help them.
This is an innovative and important service for women around the world. Hope you can help them.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Schools Did Not Report Sex Assaults
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-college-assaults-20131008,0,2021235.story
latimes.com/local/la-me-college-assaults-20131008,0,2021235.story
8:30 PM PDT, October 7, 2013
Amid federal investigations of their handling of campus sexual assaults, USC and Occidental College have disclosed that they underreported the number of cases in recent years, a potential violation of federal law.
At USC, officials indicated that they had not reported 13 accounts of sexual assaults to federal officials for 2010 and 2011, bringing the total for those years to 39. Occidental acknowledged that it had failed to include 24 reports during that period, bringing the total to 36.
The disclosures could lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for each school under the federal Clery Act, the 1990 law that requires schools to report campus crime statistics to the Department of Education.
The law, which stemmed from a 1986 rape and killing on a Pennsylvania campus, is intended to give the public an accurate view of campus safety, and the statistics are consulted by parents, students and others evaluating the campuses. The law covers criminal allegations, regardless of whether they are reported to police or adjudicated in court.
Over the last two years, women at USC, Occidental and college campuses across the country have organized — mostly through social media — to file complaints with the Department of Education alleging that administrators discouraged them from reporting sexual assaults or downplayed the severity of the attacks.
Occidental is now under investigation for violations of the Clery Act. Students at USC have filed a complaint alleging Clery violations that federal investigators have yet to act on. In addition, both schools are under investigation for possible violations of Title IX, a federal antidiscrimination law that requires colleges to impartially investigate sexual assaults.
"If they're fixing them while the complaint is being investigated, it's too late," said Alison Kiss, executive director of the nonprofit Clery Center for Security on Campus, which trains schools on complying with the law.
Federal officials could not be reached for comment because of the partial government shutdown. In the past, they have imposed hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against individual campuses for violations of the Clery Act. Each violation can draw a penalty of up to $35,000.
USC and Occidental attributed their restated numbers to the mishandling of cases involving those who reported incidents anonymously. Such cases are subject to federal reporting requirements.
Occidental officials say they discovered 49 anonymous reports of sexual assaults spanning several years in a 2010 survey conducted by Project SAFE, a campus group that seeks to raise awareness about sexual assaults. Nineteen of those incidents should have been disclosed under federal rules, which require the reporting of all sexual assaults on campus or in the immediate vicinity.
"It was a mistake," Occidental spokesman Jim Tranquada said.
The remaining 30 reports of sexual assaults won't be forwarded to federal officials because they occurred off campus or contained incomplete information about where and when they occurred, Tranquada said.
Occidental also had six reports of sexual assaults that should not have been included under federal rules because they occurred off campus, Tranquada said.
At USC, the problem arose because the administration has since 2008 told students, parents and the federal government that crimes that came to light at its student counseling center would be included in official crime statistics. But they were not, the university acknowledged last week.
Campus administrators said they didn't disclose those numbers in an effort to protect the students' confidentiality. They were concerned, they said, that reporting those statistics to the Department of Education could trigger investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department, which might pressure counselors to identify the anonymous victims.
"The intent was to give … safe haven to the students," said Laura LaCorte, a university compliance officer. "That's the reason they weren't included."
LAPD Deputy Chief Bob Green said those concerns were misplaced.
"I can tell you flat out no, we're not going to do that," Green said. "We're never going to try to compel anybody to make that [crime] report."
At both schools, some students and professors are concerned that numbers will continue to be underreported. Indeed, they say, new policies adopted to address past errors will lead to excluding many accounts of sexual assaults from campus safety reports.
At Occidental, the college has now designated a smaller geographic area in which sexual assaults are reported. Tranquada said the school had been basing its reports on too large an area and the new change better complies with federal regulations.
Caroline Heldman, dean of the politics department and a faculty advocate for victims of sexual assault, saw another motive.
"The college is making a concerted effort to report lower numbers," she said. "It makes them look better but will put students in more harm."
At USC, the campus will no longer list the counseling center as a source of crime statistics. From now on, students who want their sexual assaults included in crime statistics will have to inform designated campus safety officials who are required to report under federal rules, LaCorte said.
Francesca Bessey, a USC junior who said she was sexually assaulted, said making students take additional steps to have their assaults counted shifts "responsibility away from the university and toward students who have been assaulted."
jason.song@latimes.com
jason.felch@latimes.com
latimes.com/local/la-me-college-assaults-20131008,0,2021235.story
latimes.com
USC, Occidental underreported sexual assaults
Occidental failed to include 24 reports and USC failed to include 13 reports in figures submitted to the U.S. and could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By Jason Song and Jason Felch8:30 PM PDT, October 7, 2013
| advertisement |
Amid federal investigations of their handling of campus sexual assaults, USC and Occidental College have disclosed that they underreported the number of cases in recent years, a potential violation of federal law.
At USC, officials indicated that they had not reported 13 accounts of sexual assaults to federal officials for 2010 and 2011, bringing the total for those years to 39. Occidental acknowledged that it had failed to include 24 reports during that period, bringing the total to 36.
The disclosures could lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for each school under the federal Clery Act, the 1990 law that requires schools to report campus crime statistics to the Department of Education.
The law, which stemmed from a 1986 rape and killing on a Pennsylvania campus, is intended to give the public an accurate view of campus safety, and the statistics are consulted by parents, students and others evaluating the campuses. The law covers criminal allegations, regardless of whether they are reported to police or adjudicated in court.
Over the last two years, women at USC, Occidental and college campuses across the country have organized — mostly through social media — to file complaints with the Department of Education alleging that administrators discouraged them from reporting sexual assaults or downplayed the severity of the attacks.
Occidental is now under investigation for violations of the Clery Act. Students at USC have filed a complaint alleging Clery violations that federal investigators have yet to act on. In addition, both schools are under investigation for possible violations of Title IX, a federal antidiscrimination law that requires colleges to impartially investigate sexual assaults.
"If they're fixing them while the complaint is being investigated, it's too late," said Alison Kiss, executive director of the nonprofit Clery Center for Security on Campus, which trains schools on complying with the law.
Federal officials could not be reached for comment because of the partial government shutdown. In the past, they have imposed hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against individual campuses for violations of the Clery Act. Each violation can draw a penalty of up to $35,000.
USC and Occidental attributed their restated numbers to the mishandling of cases involving those who reported incidents anonymously. Such cases are subject to federal reporting requirements.
Occidental officials say they discovered 49 anonymous reports of sexual assaults spanning several years in a 2010 survey conducted by Project SAFE, a campus group that seeks to raise awareness about sexual assaults. Nineteen of those incidents should have been disclosed under federal rules, which require the reporting of all sexual assaults on campus or in the immediate vicinity.
"It was a mistake," Occidental spokesman Jim Tranquada said.
The remaining 30 reports of sexual assaults won't be forwarded to federal officials because they occurred off campus or contained incomplete information about where and when they occurred, Tranquada said.
Occidental also had six reports of sexual assaults that should not have been included under federal rules because they occurred off campus, Tranquada said.
At USC, the problem arose because the administration has since 2008 told students, parents and the federal government that crimes that came to light at its student counseling center would be included in official crime statistics. But they were not, the university acknowledged last week.
Campus administrators said they didn't disclose those numbers in an effort to protect the students' confidentiality. They were concerned, they said, that reporting those statistics to the Department of Education could trigger investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department, which might pressure counselors to identify the anonymous victims.
"The intent was to give … safe haven to the students," said Laura LaCorte, a university compliance officer. "That's the reason they weren't included."
LAPD Deputy Chief Bob Green said those concerns were misplaced.
"I can tell you flat out no, we're not going to do that," Green said. "We're never going to try to compel anybody to make that [crime] report."
At both schools, some students and professors are concerned that numbers will continue to be underreported. Indeed, they say, new policies adopted to address past errors will lead to excluding many accounts of sexual assaults from campus safety reports.
At Occidental, the college has now designated a smaller geographic area in which sexual assaults are reported. Tranquada said the school had been basing its reports on too large an area and the new change better complies with federal regulations.
Caroline Heldman, dean of the politics department and a faculty advocate for victims of sexual assault, saw another motive.
"The college is making a concerted effort to report lower numbers," she said. "It makes them look better but will put students in more harm."
At USC, the campus will no longer list the counseling center as a source of crime statistics. From now on, students who want their sexual assaults included in crime statistics will have to inform designated campus safety officials who are required to report under federal rules, LaCorte said.
Francesca Bessey, a USC junior who said she was sexually assaulted, said making students take additional steps to have their assaults counted shifts "responsibility away from the university and toward students who have been assaulted."
jason.song@latimes.com
jason.felch@latimes.com
Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Working on a new book
It was great to be able to publish Your Inner Temple. The meditation was an inspiration and it continues to grow as a teaching tool and personal practice.
I have just started to write my commentary on The Infinite Way® which will articulate all the problems I have found in Joel Goldsmith's teaching. The principles still stand.
Goldsmith is an amazingly inspirational Christian author. It will be interesting to see what kind of interest there will be in an approach that is open and questioning of his techniques.
I have just started to write my commentary on The Infinite Way® which will articulate all the problems I have found in Joel Goldsmith's teaching. The principles still stand.
Goldsmith is an amazingly inspirational Christian author. It will be interesting to see what kind of interest there will be in an approach that is open and questioning of his techniques.
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