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John Murray Could Face Gavin Rees in Return Outing
John Murray could get a domestic showdown with Gavin Rees following his loss to Kevin Mitchell at the weekend.
Rees picked up Murray's old European lightweight title last month.
Murray had vacated the belt in order to take on Mitchell in Liverpool, where he was stopped in eight rounds.
But the Mancunian could return following the loss against the Welshman, or take a warm up fight.
Meanwhile promoter Frank Warren says he is sure that Murray will bounce back.
"It's not the end of the world for him," Warren told the Manchester Evening News.
"He was involved in a world class fight and he's got to take a leaf out of Kevin's book and bounce back.
"I signed him to get him a world title shot and this one would have secured it for him. I think John will learn from this fight.
"The bottom line is he's with us and, because he's with us, we'll look after him. I'm behind him and I'll make sure that he gets the platform to come back.
"Hopefully he comes back stronger and he might even get a rematch down the road."
[QUOTE=Medved;10858674]Back to beating UK nobodies for Murray. I still think Gavin Rees smashes Murray[/QUOTE] Pretty much,i knew Murray would lose if he fought anybody decentComment by project xxx1 on 07-18-2011
i think gavin rees beats him aswell oh well here comes another ko :boxing:Comment by truestory1987 on 07-18-2011
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As Brazil's middle-income segment continues to grow, a straightforward equities buy has become trickier stock-picking terrain. Inflation and government policy are the biggest risks.
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Brazils GDP has been growing at 3%-5% for most of the
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I Am RuthBrenda Carol Duff, Brenda Duff, Kenneth Berg, Kenneth Berg
One of the most beloved and enduring accounts of the Bible, Ruth's story is one of tragedy. I Am Ruth: A Story of Loss, Love & Redemption is the true account of the young widow who chooses to leave the land of her birth for the unknown lands of her mother-in-law, Naomi... Read More
Let the Scriptural account, combined with breathtaking photos and deeper insights, help you look afresh at this enduring true story of love from tragic loss. As you view the vivid, full-color images from within Israel and near the historic locale of Ruth's life and survey the social and cultural details that come alive during the story, you will better understand the important biblical and genealogical connections.
More than just a simple love story, I Am Ruth is about courageously facing life after loss, rediscovering faith and fearlessly placing yourself and your future in God's loving hands. This book brings to light the full humanity found in the biblical account, and makes it personal for anyone who has suffered in life's shadows, longing to see God's plan.
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- Beautiful! "I am Ruth" Photography by Kenneth Berg, Text by Brenda Duff by tickmenot on 9/4/2013
This is a beautiful picture book containing the Biblical story of Ruth. The pictures are all taken in Israel, are in full color, and provide the reader with lovely images of the Holy Land's country side. Traditional clothing from the time of Ruth is worn in all the pictures containing people, and they are shown portraying different events in Ruth's story.
This volume contains the complete Book of Ruth in the New King James Version, as well as, the story of Ruth in narrative form. Having the combination of the Biblical version, the narrative form and all the awesome pictures makes Ruth's story have even greater depth. Reading the Book of Ruth in the Bible has always been inspiring, however, with this book, the story really comes alive before the reader's eyes.
As Naomi makes the decision to return to Israel after the devastating deaths of her husband and two sons, the pictures bring home what a difficult journey she had to make to get back to Bethlehem. The reader can visualize Ruth as she says these famous words to Naomi:
"Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me."
(Ruth 1:16-17 New King James Version)
The pictures also emphasize how very poor Naomi and Ruth were when they came back to Israel, and what hard work it would have been to get the little bit of grain leftover in the fields. With the photographs, it is very easy to imagine the joy Naomi, Boaz and Ruth had when they were married, and later when their son, Obed, is born.
"I am Ruth," is well written, and a visual treat to the eyes. Unfolding in this volume is the beautiful story of Naomi and Ruth being redeemed by Boaz, their kinsman redeemer. In the end, all of their needs have been met, plus more. Ruth becomes part of the lineage of Jesus, and the great-grandmother of King David. Ruth's story parallels that of Jesus who will become our own kinsman redeemer if we allow him, and gain all the blessings of a Christ follower including eternal life.
This is a "coffee table book." It is a hardcover volume made with high quality paper, and is over-sized. But this is definitely a book to pick up and read; please don't leave it sitting unread as a coffee table decoration. I have always loved the book of Ruth, and so really enjoyed the story in this format. I can't emphasize enough what a lovely book this is, and how well done it is. "I am Ruth" gets five stars and my recommendation.
The publisher has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book through Master Books, a division of New Leaf Publishing for the purpose of review. All opinions expressed are my own, and I have not been compensated in any other manner. Despite my receiving the book free, it has not influenced my judgment, and I have given an honest opinion.


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This farm-themed playset will engage toddlers and preschoolers in all kinds of open-ended and imaginative play. Kids will like hearing the sounds and songs play as they interact with the figures and various parts of the playset. Dropping the hay bale through the silo and placing the figures throughout the playset also helps young kids with fine motor skills.
The Little People Fun Sounds Farm is for ages 1–4.
Two AA batteries are included for the in-store try-me features. It's recommended that you replace them before you play for best results.
Assembly is required, and you'll need a Phillips screwdriver, which is not included. It took us about 10 minutes to put this together. Make sure you snap the top of the playset into the bottom of the playset all the way or you'll have trouble switching between day and night modes.
The instructions say that opening the silo door causes sounds to play, but that is not the case. Opening the three white farm doors is what activated the sounds on our playset.
2 AA batteries required
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Today the Israel Ride entered the heart of the desert, with the Chalutzim having their toughest climb yet out of Makhtesh Gadol – a geological…CONTINUE
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Stark Raving Lulu play the Best Video Performance Space on Thursday, Dec. 19. The cover is $5 and the music starts at 8 PM. What do you get when you combine The Shangri-Las ("Leader of the Pack," "Give Him a Great Big Kiss") with The Ramones? One answer might be Stark Raving Lulu. Based in Central Connecticut, the group's "Welcome to the Fun-O-Sphere!" CD is available through iTunes and CD Baby. On Facebook, the "grrrl rockers" list their influences as "punk, 60′s, garage rock, girl groups, rock and roll, PBR and Skinny Girl Margaritas" and their interests as "nonsense and shenanigans." Band members are LaLa Lulu (vocals), Bella Lulu (guitar), LowEnd Lulu (bass) and BoomBoom Lulu (drums).
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Syracuse University football coach Doug Marrone addressed the media after Day Five of Fall Training Camp at Fort Drum.
This season, Marrone has extended his role as a coach by working more in-depth with the tight ends. He gave a status report on his work with this unit so far.
"Well, I'm struggling with them," said Marrone. "I really don't see us with a tight end right now who's a starter. Beckett (Wales)'s been hurt, and banged up. Max (Beaulieu) has been inconsistent at times. Ron Thompson is a freshman. He got hurt. Dave (Stevens) has been playing F. Carl Cutler's been playing F. Josh Parris has been playing F, so it's two types of positions. Really, right now, if we had to play a game today, David would be our Y, because of injury."
As far as the man responsible for getting them the ball, Marrone gave his thoughts on Quarterback Ryan Nassib.
"He still needs some work," Marrone remarked. "You see some up and down…We need more from him. I believe that it's not from a lack of work ethic. He's working to do that."
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This Day in History for April 20
Highlight in History:
On April 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation admitting West Virginia to the Union, effective in 60 days (June 20, 1863).
On this date:
- 1836, Congress voted to establish the Wisconsin Territory.
- 1861, Col. Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army. (Lee went on to command the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually became general-in-chief of the Confederate forces.)
- 1912, Boston's Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game while Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) opened in Detroit. (The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings; the Tigers beat the Cleveland Naps 6-5 in 11 innings.)


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Skip to comments.What are you giving up for Lent?
Posted on 02/27/2006 9:47:28 AM PST by tje
Just wondered what people were giving up for Lent.
Posting vanities.
I giving up Giving Up Things for Lent........
Me? I'm still thinking....
I gave that up last year....
coke I think. That will be tough that or sweet ice tea.
I'm Baptist, we don't give up anything.
Soda pop and hamburgers. Also, say a rosary a day. I just don't think I could give up FR.
That was quick...
Ditto. Actually I gave that up 20 years ago.
"What are you giving up for Lent?"
I'm just giving up. :)
Chinese Food. And it ain't easy.
Peanut Butter. This will be the fifth straight Lent. If it were possible, I would mainline PB.
I'm giving up trying to make sense out of the Dubai deal.
Pop would be easy.. too easy...
You can do it again........
Pop would be easy.. too easy...
Self denial.
reading pat buchanan books
Nothing. I get all the lint I need from my belly button already.
Well, I gave up Christianity for Lent about 40 years ago. Does that count?
No, wait a minute . . .
I already live like a Monk. There's not much left.
aggressive driving
Extra chunky would clog your needle.......
I gave up giving anything up.
Is driving considered aggressive if no one is around?
Meet the Press
- We were cleansed of sin
- We've been filled with The Spirit of Life
Rather than give something up, I hope to be able to spend more time in praising Him.
God Bless
I am giving up being polite to liberals for Lent !
Us Baptists have already given up everything....except when nobody's lookin..........
Smoking tobacco in my pipe. I switch to non tabacco (not weed, but rosehips, mallow and other herbs) mixture. On my list of maybe's are the usual coffee, chocolate
"I'm Baptist, we don't give up anything."
Yep, growing up Baptist I only generally got the idea that Catholics give up something for lent.
I've got you beat by 3 years--and I don't even celebrate Lent.
I just do Peter Pan Honey, creamy, not chunky style.
40. That's a highly symbolic number, isn't it?
What's a Lent.? And why would I have to give something up for it.?
Us Baptists have already given up everything....except when nobody's lookin..........
And we have the drive up beer stores for that. ;)
A coworker's Dad gave up watermelon for Lent.
You know why you never invite just one Baptist to go fishing, right?
Yeah, That's why I fish by myself..........
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Texas officer fatally shoots suspect - The deputy yells repeatedly at the suspect, directing him to show his hands.
WINx talk: How personal identity shapes your career - Using the story of his experience serving in the military in Iraq and transition into civilian life, Jamey Gadoury walks viewers through the importance of identity.
Utah police rescue woman from burning home - Officer Susov and Farnsworth responded to the scene and kicked out a basement window to pull the woman to safety.
Chicago releases video in arrest of man who died in custody - The city released dashboard camera video on Friday of the arrest of a man who died in police custody last summer as authorities announced two Chicago police officers had been placed on desk duty while the incident is investigated.
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Texas deputy recovering after ambush attack - Hit at least four times in the back and side, he slumped to the ground.
NY cop critiques mayor during traffic stop - In a YouTube video posted on Saturday, the uniformed cop tells the driver of the car he can blame the mayor for his ticket.
Officer survival: Asking 'What's important now?' - Doug Wyllie sits down with the "Below 100" message speaker, Brian Willis. Willis elaborate on the 5 major tenets of the Below 100 message: wear your seatbelt, watch your speed, wear body armor, what's important now, and complacency kills.
How to Prepare for a Possible Conflict - In this video tactical tip, PoliceOne Contributor Gary Klugiewicz explains the concept of "showtime" and how it can prepare officers to be ready for whatever happens next on a call — particularly an impending conflict.
Mich. officer struck by car at collision scene - On Sunday, April 3rd, 2016, at approximately 2:58 a.m., Kalamazoo Public Safety officers responded to report of a single motor vehicle accident in the 600 block of S. Howard Street. Due to icy roads there were two additional crashes at the same location while officers were on scene investigating. The officers were outside of their patrol vehicle at the time of the third crash and were struck by the involved vehicles. Both officers were transported to Bronson Hospital for treatment of their injuries. The first officer sustained a head injury and is listed in stable condition. The second officer sustained injuries to his back and was treated and released.
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British 'Anonymous' hacker faces jail for £3.5m cyber-attack on PayPal because it wouldn't process WikiLeaks donations
- Christopher Weatherhead found guilty of hacking several major websites
- Court heard he wanted to 'rape' and 'kill' the companies under attack
- Three others have admitted joining cyber-campaign to cause sites to crash
- Victims' websites would get message: 'You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung.'
- Victim PayPal says the attacks on them cost £3.5m to fix
- Weatherhead and fellow hackers to be sentenced at later date
Convicted: A jury took two hours to find Christopher Weatherfield (pictured outside court in January) guilty for his part in a hacking campaign
A leading British member of the 'Anonymous' hacking gang was today convicted for a series of devastating cyber-attacks on some of the world's biggest companies..
On one occasion 'hacktivist' Christopher Weatherhead helped target PayPal because it would not process donations for the fundraising arm of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, costing it £3.5million.
The self-confessed 'idealist' boasted online he would 'rape' and 'kill'
the companies Anonymous attacked.
Today the 22-year-old remained impassive as the unanimous guilty verdict was returned for his part in distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, which made the victim's website suddenly crash.
The DDoS attacks paralysed computer systems by flooding them with an intolerable number of online requests.
Victims would be directed to a page displaying the message: 'You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung.'
Weatherhead was studying at Northampton University when he joined the cyber campaign which also attacked sites including MasterCard, Visa, Ministry of Sound, the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Weatherhead, who used the internet name
Nerdo, also discussed the idea of attacking Lily Allen's website in
retaliation for her public anti-piracy stance.
Prosecutor Sandip Patel said: 'Christopher Weatherhead, the defendant, is a cyber-attacker, and that he, and others like him, waged a sophisticated and orchestrated campaign of online attacks that paralysed a series of targeted computer systems belonging to companies, to which they took issue with for whatever reason, that caused unprecedented harm.'
Mr Patel said 'Operation Payback' had originally targeted companies involved in the music industry and opponents of internet piracy, but was later 'broadened' to include new objectives, including PayPal.
PayPal was attacked after it decided not to process payments on behalf of the Wau Holland Foundation, an organisation involved in raising funds for WikiLeaks.
Between December 8 and 17, 2010, PayPal was the victim of a series of attacks 'which caused considerable damage to its reputation and loss of trade'.
Weatherhead had denied a charge of conspiring to impair the operation of computers between August 1, 2010 and January 22 last year.
The jury of six men and five women returned the guilty verdict after little more than two hours of deliberations.
PayPal also had to pay for further software and hardware to defend against similar future attacks.
That, combined with the loss of trading, cost the firm £3.5million.
Costly: PayPal and other victims suffered constantly crashing websites after being bombarded with messages
The amount the hacking cost MasterCard and Visa was not given but the defendant, in an internet relay chat (IRC) channel conversation with someone called Tred, boasted: 'We have probably done some million pound of dmg [damage] to mc [MasterCard].'
The BPI was attacked on 19 and 20 September 2010, costing it £3,996 for online security and hundreds of pounds in other costs.
Four websites run by the Ministry of Sound were targeted in two separate attacks between 2 and 6 October 2010, which cost the company around £9,000 in additional staffing, software and loss of sales.
Motive: Weatherhead was one of several people who targeted PayPal because they would not process donations to Julian Assange's WkiLeaks
The financial cost to the IFPI was more than £20,000 as its website was down for nine days when it was hacked between 27 November and 6 December 2010.
Weatherhead painted himself in court as an ideological dreamer, who stumbled across the Anonymous group by chance and agreed with its stance on censorship on the internet.
'I like the freedom of information on that is on the web', he said.
'I enjoy spending a lot of time on Wikipedia reading things.
'When you can't get information I feel abashed by that'.
Three other defendants had already pleaded guilty to the charge.
They are Ashley Rhodes, 27, of Camberwell, south London; Peter Gibson, 24, of Hartlepool; and Jake Birchall, 18, from Chester.
No date was fixed for sentencing but pre-sentencing reports were ordered for the four.
Judge Peter Testar said: 'I am not making any promises at all by allowing bail and ordering a pre-sentencing report. This is a serious offence and I hope the defendant understands that.'
Russell Tyner, Crown Advocate for the
CPS Organised Crime Division, said: 'Christopher Weatherhead is a cyber
criminal who waged a sophisticated and orchestrated campaign of online
attacks on the computer systems of several major companies.
'A self-styled "hacktivist",
Weatherhead and his fellow conspirators targeted companies in the music
industry involved in combating internet piracy and companies that had
stopped processing online donations to WikiLeaks. Their campaign of
attacks cost these companies over £3.5 million in additional staffing,
software and loss of sales.
'These were lawful companies with ordinary customers and hard working employees. This was not a victimless crime.'
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By Sandhya Somashekhar African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds some disturbing light on why that might be the case. Researchers at the University of Virginia quizzed white medical students and residents to see how many believed inaccurate and at times "fantastical" differences about the two races -- for example, that blacks have less sensitive nerve endings than whites or that black people's blood coagulates more quickly. They found that fully half thought at least one of the false statements presented was possibly, probably or definitely true. Moreover, those who held false beliefs often rated black patients' pain as lower than that of white patients and made less appropriate recommendations about how they should be treated. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help illuminate one of the most vexing problems in pain treatment today: That whites are more likely than blacks to be prescribed strong pain medications for equivalent ailments. A 2000 study out of Emory University found that at a hospital emergency department in Atlanta, 74 percent of white patients with bone fractures received painkillers compared with 50 percent of black patients. Similarly, a paper last year found that black children with appendicitis were less likely to receive pain medication than their white counterparts. And a 2007 study found that physicians were more likely to underestimate the pain of black patients compared with other patients.
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Attention
Link ID: 22074 - Posted: 04.06.2016
Noah Smith, ( How do human beings behave in response to risk? That is one of the most fundamental unanswered questions of our time. A general theory of decision-making amid uncertainty would be the kind of scientific advance that comes only a few times a century. Risk is central to financial and insurance markets. It affects the consumption, saving and business investment that moves the global economy. Understanding human behavior in the face of risk would let us reduce accidents, retire more comfortably, get cheaper health insurance and maybe even avoid recessions. A number of our smartest scientists have tried to develop a general theory of risk behavior. John von Neumann, the pioneering mathematician and physicist, took a crack at it back in 1944, when he developed the theory of expected utility along with Oskar Morgenstern. According to this simple theory, people value a possible outcome by multiplying the probability that something happens by the amount they would like it to happen. This beautiful idea underlies much of modern economic theory, but unfortunately it doesn't work well in most situations. Alternative theories have been developed for specific applications. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for the creation of prospect theory, which says -- among other things -- that people measure outcomes relative to a reference point. That theory does a great job of explaining the behavior of subjects in certain lab experiments, and can help account for the actions of certain inexperienced consumers. But it is very difficult to apply generally, because the reference points are hard to predict in advance and may shift in unpredictable ways.
Keyword: Attention; Emotions
Link ID: 22058 - Posted: 04.01.2016
By PAM BELLUCK When people make risky decisions, like doubling down in blackjack or investing in volatile stocks, what happens in the brain? Scientists have long tried to understand what makes some people risk-averse and others risk-taking. Answers could have implications for how to treat, curb or prevent destructively risky behavior, like pathological gambling or drug addiction. Now, a study by Dr. Karl Deisseroth, a prominent Stanford neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and his colleagues gives some clues. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reports that a specific type of neuron or nerve cell, in a certain brain region helps galvanize whether or not a risky choice is made. The study was conducted in rats, but experts said it built on research suggesting the findings could be similar in humans. If so, they said, it could inform approaches to addiction, which involves some of the same neurons and brain areas, as well as treatments for Parkinson's disease because one class of Parkinson's medications turns some patients into problem gamblers. In a series of experiments led by Kelly Zalocusky, a doctoral student, researchers found that a risk-averse rat made decisions based on whether its previous choice involved a loss (in this case, of food). Rats whose previous decision netted them less food were prompted to behave conservatively next time by signals from certain receptors in a brain region called the nucleus accumbens, the scientists discovered. These receptors, which are proteins attached to neurons, are part of the dopamine system, a neurochemical important to emotion, movement and thinking. In risk-taking rats, however, those receptors sent a much fainter signal, so the rats kept making high-stakes choices even if they lost out. But by employing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to manipulate neurons, the scientists stimulated brain cells with those receptors, heightening the "loss" signal and turning risky rats into safer rats. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Attention; Emotions
Link ID: 22025 - Posted: 03.24.2016
By Daniel Barron It's unnerving when someone with no criminal record commits a disturbingly violent crime. Perhaps he stabs his girlfriend 40 times and dumps her body in the desert. Perhaps he climbs to the top of a clock tower and guns down innocent passers-by. Or perhaps he climbs out of a car at a stoplight and nearly decapitates an unsuspecting police officer with 26 rounds from an assault rifle. Perhaps he even drowns his own children. Or shoots the President of the United States. The shock is palpable (NB: those are all actual cases). The very notion that someone—our neighbor, the guy ahead of us in the check-out line, we (!)—could do something so terrible rubs at our minds. We wonder, "What happened? What in this guy snapped?" After all, for the last 20 years, the accused went home to his family after work—why did he go rob that liquor store? What made him pull that trigger? The subject hit home for me this week when I was called to jury duty. As I made my way to the county courthouse, I wondered whether I would be asked to decide a capital murder case like the ones above. As a young neuroscientist, the prospect made me uneasy. At the trial, the accused's lawyers would probably argue that, at the time of the crime, he had diminished capacity to make decisions, that somehow he wasn't entirely free to choose whether or not to commit the crime. They might cite some form of neuroscientific evidence to argue that, at the time of the crime, his brain wasn't functioning normally. And the jury and judge have to decide what to make of it. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 22024 - Posted: 03.24.2016
Giant manta rays have been filmed checking out their reflections in a way that suggests they are self-aware. Only a small number of animals, mostly primates, have passed the mirror test, widely used as a tentative test of self-awareness. "This new discovery is incredibly important," says Marc Bekoff, of the University of Colorado in Boulder. "It shows that we really need to expand the range of animals we study." But not everyone is convinced that the new study proves conclusively that manta rays, which have the largest brains of any fish, can do this – or indeed, that the mirror test itself is an appropriate measure of self-awareness. Csilla Ari, of the University of South Florida in Tampa, filmed two giant manta rays in a tank, with and without a mirror inside.The fish changed their behaviour in a way that suggested that they recognised the reflections as themselves as opposed to another manta ray. They did not show signs of social interaction with the image, which is what you would expect if they perceived it to be another individual. Instead, the rays repeatedly moved their fins and circled in front of the mirror (click on image below to see one in action). This suggests they could see whether their reflection moved when they moved. The frequency of these movements was much higher when the mirror was in the tank than when it was not. manta © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Consciousness; Evolution
Link ID: 22015 - Posted: 03.22.2016
By BARBARA K. LIPSKA AS the director of the human brain bank at the National Institute of Mental Health, I am surrounded by brains, some floating in jars of formalin and others icebound in freezers. As part of my work, I cut these brains into tiny pieces and study their molecular and genetic structure. My specialty is schizophrenia, a devastating disease that often makes it difficult for the patient to discern what is real and what is not. I examine the brains of people with schizophrenia whose suffering was so acute that they committed suicide. I had always done my work with great passion, but I don't think I really understood what was at stake until my own brain stopped working. In the first days of 2015, I was sitting at my desk when something freakish happened. I extended my arm to turn on the computer, and to my astonishment realized that my right hand disappeared when I moved it to the right lower quadrant of the keyboard. I tried again, and the same thing happened: The hand disappeared completely as if it were cut off at the wrist. It felt like a magic trick — mesmerizing, and totally inexplicable. Stricken with fear, I kept trying to find my right hand, but it was gone. I had battled breast cancer in 2009 and melanoma in 2012, but I had never considered the possibility of a brain tumor. I knew immediately that this was the most logical explanation for my symptoms, and yet I quickly dismissed the thought. Instead I headed to a conference room. My colleagues and I had a meeting scheduled to review our new data on the molecular composition of schizophrenia patients' frontal cortex, a brain region that shapes who we are — our thoughts, emotions, memories. But I couldn't focus on the meeting because the other scientists' faces kept vanishing. Thoughts about a brain tumor crept quietly into my consciousness again, then screamed for attention. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Consciousness; Vision
Link ID: 21984 - Posted: 03.14.2016
How is the brain able to use past experiences to guide decision-making? A few years ago, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health discovered in rats that awake mental replay of past experiences is critical for learning and making informed choices. Now, the team has discovered key secrets of the underlying brain circuitry – including a unique system that encodes location during inactive periods. "Advances such as these in understanding cellular and circuit-level processes underlying such basic functions as executive function, social cognition, and memory fit into NIMH's mission of discovering the roots of complex behaviors," said NIMH acting director Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D. While a rat is moving through a maze — or just mentally replaying the experience — an area in the brain's memory hub, or hippocampus, specialized for locations, called CA1, communicates with a decision-making area in the executive hub or prefrontal cortex (PFC). A distinct subset of PFC neurons excited during mental replay of the experience are activated during movement, while another distinct subset, less engaged during movement in the maze – and therefore potentially distracting – are inhibited during replay. "Such strongly coordinated activity within this CA1-PFC circuit during awake replay is likely to optimize the brain's ability to consolidate memories and use them to decide on future action" explained Shantanu Jadhav, Ph.D. (link is external), now an assistant professor at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA., the study's co-first author. His contributions to this line of research were made possible, in part, by a Pathway to Independence award from the Office of Research Training and Career Development of the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Attention
Link ID: 21978 - Posted: 03.12.2016
By Kj Dell'Antonia New research shows that the youngest students in a classroom are more likely to be given a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than the oldest. The findings raise questions about how we regard those wiggly children who just can't seem to sit still – and who also happen to be the youngest in their class. Researchers in Taiwan looked at data from 378,881 children ages 4 to 17 and found that students born in August, the cut-off month for school entry in that country, were more likely to be given diagnoses of A.D.H.D. than students born in September. The children born in September would have missed the previous year's cut-off date for school entry, and thus had nearly a full extra year to mature before entering school. The findings were published Thursday in The Journal of Pediatrics. While few dispute that A.D.H.D. is a legitimate disability that can impede a child's personal and school success and that treatment can be effective, "our findings emphasize the importance of considering the age of a child within a grade when diagnosing A.D.H.D. and prescribing medication for treating A.D.H.D.," the authors concluded. Dr. Mu-Hong Chen, a member of the department of psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan and the lead author of the study, hopes that a better understanding of the data linking relative age at school entry to an A.D.H.D. diagnosis will encourage parents, teachers and clinicians to give the youngest children in a grade enough time and help to allow them to prove their ability. Other research has shown similar results. An earlier study in the United States, for example, found that roughly 8.4 percent of children born in the month before their state's cutoff date for kindergarten eligibility are given A.D.H.D. diagnoses, compared to 5.1 percent of children born in the month immediately afterward. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 21977 - Posted: 03.12.2016
By Daniel Engber Nearly 20 years ago, psychologists Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice, a married couple at Case Western Reserve University, devised a foundational experiment on self-control. "Chocolate chip cookies were baked in the room in a small oven," they wrote in a paper that has been cited more than 3,000 times. "As a result, the laboratory was filled with the delicious aroma of fresh chocolate and baking." Here's how that experiment worked. Baumeister and Tice stacked their fresh-baked cookies on a plate, beside a bowl of red and white radishes, and brought in a parade of student volunteers. They told some of the students to hang out for a while unattended, eating only from the bowl of radishes, while another group ate only cookies. Afterward, each volunteer tried to solve a puzzle, one that was designed to be impossible to complete. Baumeister and Tice timed the students in the puzzle task, to see how long it took them to give up. They found that the ones who'd eaten chocolate chip cookies kept working on the puzzle for 19 minutes, on average—about as long as people in a control condition who hadn't snacked at all. The group of kids who noshed on radishes flubbed the puzzle test. They lasted just eight minutes before they quit in frustration. The authors called this effect "ego depletion" and said it revealed a fundamental fact about the human mind: We all have a limited supply of willpower, and it decreases with overuse. © 2016 The Slate Group LLC.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 21965 - Posted: 03.08.2016
Angus Chen We know we should put the cigarettes away or make use of that gym membership, but in the moment, we just don't do it. There is a cluster of neurons in our brain critical for motivation, though. What if you could hack them to motivate yourself? These neurons are located in the middle of the brain, in a region called the ventral tegmental area. A paper published Thursday in the journal Neuron suggests that we can activate the region with a little bit of training. The researchers stuck 73 people into an fMRI, a scanner that can detect what part of the brain is most active, and focused on that area associated with motivation. When the researchers said "motivate yourself and make this part of your brain light up," people couldn't really do it. "They weren't that reliable when we said, 'Go! Get psyched. Turn on your VTA,' " says Dr. Alison Adcock, a psychiatrist at Duke and senior author on the paper. That changed when the participants were allowed to watch a neurofeedback meter that displayed activity in their ventral tegmental area. When activity ramps up, the participants see the meter heat up while they're in the fMRI tube. "Your whole mind is allowed to speak to a specific part of your brain in a way you never imagined before. Then you get feedback that helps you discover how to turn that part of the brain up or down," says John Gabrieli, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not involved with the work. © 2016 npr
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 21954 - Posted: 03.05.2016
Monya Baker Is psychology facing a 'replication crisis'? Last year, a crowdsourced effort that was able to validate fewer than half of 98 published findings1 rang alarm bells about the reliability of psychology papers. Now a team of psychologists has reassessed the study and say that it provides no evidence for a crisis. "Our analysis completely invalidates the pessimistic conclusions that many have drawn from this landmark study," says Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a co-author of the reanalysis, published on 2 March in Science2. But a response3 in the same issue of Science counters that the reanalysis itself depends on selective assumptions. And others say that psychology still urgently needs to improve its research practices. Statistical criticism In August 2015, a team of 270 researchers reported the largest ever single-study audit of the scientific literature. Led by Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Reproducibility Project attempted to replicate studies in 100 psychology papers. (It ended up with 100 replication attempts for 98 papers because of problems assigning teams to two papers.) According to one of several measures of reproducibility, just 36% could be confirmed; by another statistical measure, 47% could1. Either way, the results looked worryingly feeble. "Both optimistic and pessimistic conclusions about reproducibility are possible, and neither are yet warranted" Not so fast, says Gilbert. © 2016 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 21953 - Posted: 03.05.2016
By Christian Jarrett Most of us like to think that we're independent-minded — we tell ourselves we like Adele's latest album because it suits our taste, not because millions of other people bought it, or that we vote Democrat because we're so enlightened, not because all our friends vote that way. The reality, of course, is that humans are swayed in all sorts of different ways — some of them quite subtle — by other people's beliefs and expectations. Our preferences don't form in a vacuum, but rather in something of a social pressure-cooker. This has been demonstrated over and over, perhaps most famously in the classic Asch conformity studies from the '50s. In those experiments, many participants went along with a blatantly wrong majority judgment about the lengths of different lines — simply, it seems, to fit in. (Although the finding is frequently exaggerated, the basic point about the power of social influence holds true.) But that doesn't mean all humans are susceptible to peer pressure in the same way. You only have to look at your own friends and family to know that some people always seem to roll with the crowd, while others are much more independent-minded. What accounts for these differences? A new study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience led by Dr. Juan Dominguez of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, offers the first hint that part of the answer may come down to certain neural mechanisms. In short, the study suggests that people have a network in their brains that is attuned to disagreement with other people. When this network is activated, it makes us feel uncomfortable (we experience "cognitive dissonance," to use the psychological jargon) and it's avoiding this state that motivates us to switch our views as much as possible. It appears the network is more sensitive in some people than in others, and that this might account for varying degrees of pushover-ness. © 2016, New York Media LLC.
Keyword: Emotions; Attention
Link ID: 21948 - Posted: 03.03.2016
By Meeri Kim Teenagers tend to have a bad reputation in our society, and perhaps rightly so. When compared to children or adults, adolescents are more likely to engage in binge drinking, drug use, unprotected sex, criminal activity, and reckless driving. Risk-taking is like second nature to youth of a certain age, leading health experts to cite preventable and self-inflicted causes as the biggest threats to adolescent well-being in industrialized societies. But before going off on a tirade about groups of reckless young hooligans, consider that a recent study may have revealed a silver lining to all that misbehavior. While adolescents will take more risks in the presence of their peers than when alone, it turns out that peers can also encourage them to learn faster and engage in more exploratory acts. A group of 101 late adolescent males were randomly assigned to play the Iowa Gambling Task, a psychological game used to assess decision making, either alone or observed by their peers. The task involves four decks of cards: two are "lucky" decks that will generate long-term gain if the player continues to draw from them, while the other two are "unlucky" decks that have the opposite effect. The player chooses to play or pass cards drawn from one of these decks, eventually catching on to which of the decks are lucky or unlucky — and subsequently only playing from the lucky ones.
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Attention
Link ID: 21929 - Posted: 02.24.2016
By David Z. Hambrick We all make stupid mistakes from time to time. History is replete with examples. Legend has it that the Trojans accepted the Greek's "gift" of a huge wooden horse, which turned out to be hollow and filled with a crack team of Greek commandos. The Tower of Pisa started to lean even before construction was finished—and is not even the world's farthest leaning tower. NASA taped over the original recordings of the moon landing, and operatives for Richard Nixon's re-election committee were caught breaking into a Watergate office, setting in motion the greatest political scandal in U.S. history. More recently, the French government spent $15 billion on a fleet of new trains, only to discover that they were too wide for some 1,300 station platforms. We readily recognize these incidents as stupid mistakes—epic blunders. On a more mundane level, we invest in get-rich-quick schemes, drive too fast, and make posts on social media that we later regret. But what, exactly, drives our perception of these actions as stupid mistakes, as opposed to bad luck? Their seeming mindlessness? The severity of the consequences? The responsibility of the people involved? Science can help us answer these questions. In a study just published in the journal Intelligence, using search terms such as "stupid thing to do", Balazs Aczel and his colleagues compiled a collection of stories describing stupid mistakes from sources such as The Huffington Post and TMZ. One story described a thief who broke into a house and stole a TV and later returned for the remote; another described burglars who intended to steal cell phones but instead stole GPS tracking devices that were turned on and gave police their exact location. The researchers then had a sample of university students rate each story on the responsibility of the people involved, the influence of the situation, the seriousness of the consequences, and other factors. © 2016 Scientific American,
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 21928 - Posted: 02.24.2016
Alison Abbott. More than 50 years after a controversial psychologist shocked the world with studies that revealed people's willingness to harm others on order, a team of cognitive scientists has carried out an updated version of the iconic 'Milgram experiments'. Their findings may offer some explanation for Stanley Milgram's uncomfortable revelations: when following commands, they say, people genuinely feel less responsibility for their actions — whether they are told to do something evil or benign. "If others can replicate this, then it is giving us a big message," says neuroethicist Walter Sinnot-Armstrong of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work. "It may be the beginning of an insight into why people can harm others if coerced: they don't see it as their own action." The study may feed into a long-running legal debate about the balance of personal responsibility between someone acting under instruction and their instructor, says Patrick Haggard, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, who led the work, published on 18 February in Current Biology1. Milgram's original experiments were motivated by the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who famously argued that he was 'just following orders' when he sent Jews to their deaths. The new findings don't legitimize harmful actions, Haggard emphasizes, but they do suggest that the 'only obeying orders' excuse betrays a deeper truth about how a person feels when acting under command. © 2016 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Attention; Emotions
Link ID: 21915 - Posted: 02.19.2016
By BENEDICT CAREY Children with attention-deficit problems improve faster when the first treatment they receive is behavioral — like instruction in basic social skills — than when they start immediately on medication, a new study has found. Beginning with behavioral therapy is also a less expensive option over time, according to a related analysis. Experts said the efficacy of this behavior-first approach, if replicated in larger studies, could change standard medical practice, which favors stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin as first-line treatments, for the more than four million children and adolescents in the United States with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D. The new research, published in two papers by the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, found that stimulants were most effective as a supplemental, second-line treatment for those who needed it — and often at doses that were lower than normally prescribed. The study is thought to be the first of its kind in the field to evaluate the effect of altering the types of treatment midcourse — adding a drug to behavior therapy, for example, or vice versa. "We showed that the sequence in which you give treatments makes a big difference in outcomes," said William E. Pelham of Florida International University, a leader of the study with Susan Murphy of the University of Michigan. "The children who started with behavioral modification were doing significantly better than those who began with medication by the end, no matter what treatment combination they ended up with." Other experts cautioned that the study tracked behavior but not other abilities that medication can quickly improve, like attention and academic performance, and said that drugs remained the first-line treatment for those core issues. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD
Link ID: 21909 - Posted: 02.18.2016
Allison Aubrey It's no secret that stimulant medications such as Adderall that are prescribed to treat symptoms of ADHD are sometimes used as "study drugs" aimed at boosting cognitive performance. And emergency room visits linked to misuse of the drug are on the rise, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. "Young adults in the 18- to 25-year age range are most likely to misuse these drugs," says Dr. Ramin Mojtabai, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and senior author of the study. A common scenario is this: A person who has been prescribed ADHD drugs gives or diverts pills to a friend or family member who may be looking for a mental boost, perhaps to cram for a final or prepare a report. And guess what? This is illegal. Overall, the study found that nonmedical use of Adderall and generic versions of the drug increased by 67 percent among adults between 2006 and 2011. The findings are based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The number of emergency room visits involving Adderall misuse increased from 862 visits in 2006 to 1,489 in 2011 according to data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network . © 2016 npr
Keyword: ADHD; Drug Abuse
Link ID: 21905 - Posted: 02.17.2016
David H.Wells Take a theory of consciousness that calculates how aware any information-processing network is – be it a computer or a brain. Trouble is, it takes a supercomputer billions of years to verify its predictions. Add a maverick cosmologist, and what do you get? A way to make the theory useful within our lifetime. Integrated information theory (IIT) is one of our best descriptions of consciousness. Developed by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, it's based on the observation that each moment of awareness is unified. When you contemplate a bunch of flowers, say, it's impossible to be conscious of the flower's colour independently of its fragrance because the brain has integrated the sensory data. Tononi argues that for a system to be conscious, it must integrate information in such a way that the whole contains more information than the sum of its parts. The measure of how a system integrates information is called phi. One way of calculating phi involves dividing a system into two and calculating how dependent each part is on the other. One cut would be the "cruellest", creating two parts that are the least dependent on each other. If the parts of the cruellest cut are completely independent, then phi is zero, and the system is not conscious. The greater their dependency, the greater the value of phi and the greater the degree of consciousness of the system. Finding the cruellest cut, however, is almost impossible for any large network. For the human brain, with its 100 billion neurons, calculating phi like this would take "longer than the age of our universe", says Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 21903 - Posted: 02.17.2016
By BENEDICT CAREY Over the past few decades, cognitive scientists have found that small alterations in how people study can accelerate and deepen learning, improving retention and comprehension in a range of subjects, including math, science and foreign languages. The findings come almost entirely from controlled laboratory experiments of individual students, but they are reliable enough that software developers, government-backed researchers and various other innovators are racing to bring them to classrooms, boardrooms, academies — every real-world constituency, it seems, except one that could benefit most: people with learning disabilities. Now, two new studies explore the effectiveness of one common cognitive science technique — the so-called testing effect — for people with attention-deficit problems, one of the most commonly diagnosed learning disabilities. The results were mixed. They hint at the promise of outfoxing learning deficits with cognitive science, experts said, but they also point to the difficulties involved. The learning techniques developed by cognitive psychologists seem, in some respects, an easy fit for people with attention deficits: breaking up study time into chunks, mixing related material in a session, varying study environments. Each can produce improvements in retention or comprehension, and taken together capture the more scattered spirit of those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, especially children. The testing effect has proved especially reliable for other students, and it is a natural first choice to measure the potential application to A.D.H.D. The principle is straightforward: Once a student is familiar with a topic, testing himself on it deepens the recall of the material more efficiently than restudying. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: ADHD; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 21900 - Posted: 02.16.2016
By Jordana Cepelewicz Seasonal variations play a major role in the animal kingdom—in reproduction, food availability, hibernation, even fur color. Whether this seasonality has such a significant influence on humans, however, is an open question. Its best-known association is with mood—that is, feeling down during the colder months and up in the summer—and, in extreme cases, seasonal depression, a phenomenon known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD). A new study published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences seeks to delve deeper into how human biology has adapted not only to day/night cycles (circadian rhythms) but to yearly seasonal patterns as well. Scientists have previously found seasonal variation in the levels and concentrations of certain compounds associated with mood (including dopamine and serotonin), conception and even mortality. Now for the first time, using functional MRI, "it's [been] conclusively shown that cognition and the brain's means of cognition are seasonal," says neuroscientist Gilles Vandewalle of the University of Liège in Belgium, the study's lead researcher. These findings come at a time when some scientists are disputing the links between seasonality and mental health. Originally aiming to investigate the impact of sleep and sleep deprivation on brain function, Vandewalle and his fellow researchers placed 28 participants on a controlled sleep/wake schedule for three weeks before bringing them into the laboratory, where they stayed for 4.5 days. During this time they underwent a cycle of sleep deprivation and recovery in the absence of seasonal cues such as natural light, time information and social interaction. Vandewalle's team repeated the entire procedure with the same subjects several times throughout the course of nearly a year and a half. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Attention; Biological Rhythms
Link ID: 21882 - Posted: 02.10.2016


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My son was born on Tuesday and he weighed 7 pounds 6.2 ounces and was 22 inches long. Ill post pics when Im not too lazy to post to my site and link to it. Im thinking one of these 2 numbers is an omen so which caliber should I get next?:evil: I plan on buying & refinishing another bolt 22lr. So the 22 is taken care of unless I make it .223. I was planning on buying a 9mm Glock 19 but Im thinking long arm for 3 gunning.