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A zealous dog owner will tell anyone who will listen (and most who won't) that their dog is soooo cute and super smart and does all the best tricks. Tricks like sit, lie down, roll over, play dead, and possess a coherent theory of mind. Wait, what was that last one? Is that a college philosophy course for adorable puppies? Do they get little wire-frame glasses and tiny scarves? Nope: Theory of mind refers to a creature understanding that other beings have different perceptions, and that those perceptions can be valuable. It's a shockingly advanced societal concept, and one that pretty much any human being talking on their cellphone during a movie clearly does not possess. But dogs might.
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Yawning is a phenomenon directly connected to empathy, and as such has only been found to occur in species capable of empathizing (i.e., humans and other primates), and only then within a single species. Humans yawn when they see other humans yawn; chimps yawn when they see other chimps yawn. You just yawned after reading the word "yawn" so many times in this paragraph. WE ARE INSIDE YOUR BRAIN.
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The exception to the rule is, of course, dogs. Dogs can totally "catch" your yawn. Researchers aren't exactly sure why this is (they don't even know why yawning is so contagious among humans), but they speculate that humans have used yawns to indicate exhaustion since back in the day when language was little more than a series of farts and punches. Natural selection favored dogs that could communicate with us in as many ways as possible, and yawning just turned out to be one of those ways.
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"If you're exhausted, I'm exhausted too, because I love you."
What's more, when we're down in the dumps, dogs feel bad for us. The physical ways they respond -- tails tucked, heads bowed, bestowing our faces with tender, dog-sack-scented kisses -- is a form of consolation. This is why dogs make such fantastic therapy animals: It's like having a free shrink who follows you around, listens without interrupting, and works for table scraps. So obviously dogs have an uncanny ability to read our emotions ... but how? Well, it's because all humans, whether right- or left-handed, display our emotions predominantly on the right side of our faces. When we're looking at each other, whether gauging prospects for romance or assessing the likelihood of a knifing, it's the right side of the face we look at. It's called left gaze bias, and the only species known to do it are humans, rhesus monkeys ... and dogs. Although hopefully your dog is looking for neither romance nor potential stab buddies.
4Dogs Understand That Your Visual Perspective Is Different from Their Own
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This may seem like common sense to your big ol' human brain, but it's actually pretty rare when we're talking about a lesser species: Your dog knows what you can see and understands that it's different from what he can see. And no, we don't mean that your dog knows you currently have a deluge of open browser tabs overflowing with porn. (Although he does. He knows. Look at his eyes. He judges you.)
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Researchers tested this out by sticking a dog and a human on opposite sides of a room, in the center of which were two identical toys. They then separated the toys from the human with barriers: In front of one toy, they put a see-through barrier; in front of the other, a solid one. When the human commanded the dog to "Bring it here!" without any physical indication as to which toy she was referring to, the dog brought the toy that the human could see -- the one behind the transparent barrier. Unless the human turned her back, that is. Then the dog brought whichever toy it damn well pleased.
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"I brought you the spiked double dildo because I love you."
Dogs, whose economy is largely based on leftovers and poop smells, even exploit this for their own benefit. When you tell Fido not to eat the Hot Pocket you just painstakingly nuked to perfection, he won't eat it as long as you're looking at it. But the moment you close your eyes, turn around, or put something between yourself and that breaded capsule of nuclear plastic cheese, your dog will lose all his canine morality and go for it. You know the old saying: On your deathbed, it will not be the Hot Pockets you ate that haunt you, but the ones you never even tried for.

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"Wishful Thinking"
Op-Ed, Foreign Policy
April 29, 2011
Author: Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
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Top 10 examples of the most unrealistic expectations in contemporary U.S. foreign policy
A realistic foreign policy seeks to deal with the world as it is, shorn of political illusions. Realists emphasize that even close allies often have conflicting interests, that cooperation between states is difficult to achieve or sustain, and that the conduct of nations is frequently shaped by some combination of fear, greed and stupidity.
Above all, realists warn against basing policy on wishful thinking, on the assumption that all will go as we want it to. Yet the pages of history are littered with episodes where leaders made decisions on the basis of false hopes, idealistic delusions, and blind faith. And I regret to say that there's no shortage of this sort of wishful thinking today. As evidence, here are my "Top 10 Examples of Wishful Thinking in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy."
1. China Won't Act Like a Great Power
Although most foreign-policy gurus recognize that China's rising power will have profound effects on world politics, some still assume that a more powerful China will somehow act differently than other great powers have in the past. In particular, they maintain that China will cheerfully accept the institutional arrangements that were "made-in-America" after World War II. They also believe that Beijing will be content to let the United States maintain its current security posture in East Asia, and will not seek to undermine it over time. Maybe so, but that's not how great powers have acted in the past, and it's certainly not how the United States behaved during its own rise to world power (remember the Monroe Doctrine?). This illusion is gradually being dispelled, I think, but one hears its echoes every time some official says that the United States "welcomes" China's rise.
2. Using the Big Stick Will Bring Big Benefits
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. leaders have repeatedly exaggerated the efficacy of using military power, and tended to assume that a little bit of military power will produce large, predictable, and uniformly beneficial results. In 1999, the Clinton administration thought a few days of air strikes would cause Slobodan Milosevic to fold -- in fact, it took weeks of bombing and Russian diplomatic intercession to end the Kosovo War. In 2002, the Bush administration assumed that the rapid ouster of the Taliban would solve our problems in Afghanistan, and in 2003 it thought toppling Saddam Hussein would trigger a radical transformation of the whole Middle East. More recently, the Obama administration's decision to intervene in Libya seems to have been based on the hope that Muammar al-Qaddafi's support would quickly dissolve as soon as NATO jumped into the fray. It might have been nice if it had, but it was wishful thinking to assume it.
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Two home runs by a presently red hot Ryan Howard and the Pedro Martinez/Jamie Moyer rain delay show in which the two combined to give up only one run in six and a third innings, as the Phils defeated the Braves, 4-2. The Phils now lead the NL East by eight games as the Marlins also lost last night.
In the second inning, the Phils took a quick 1-0 lead as Ryan Howard hits a lead-off home run, his thirty-sixth home run of the season. Then the rain came down, as the game is delayed twice, which would lead to the removal of Phils' starter Pedro Martinez, who pitched two shut out innings before being replaced by Jamie Moyer, and Braves' starter Tommy Hanson, who had given up the solo home run to Howard. The Phils, after play resumed, would increase their lead in the fourth as, with one man on, and with nobody out, hits a two-run home run, his thirty-seventh home run of the year, scoring Chase Utley, who had earlier singled, making it a 3-0 Phils' lead. The Braves would get a run back in the fifth as, with one man on, and with one man out, Matt Diaz hits an RBI double, knocking in Ryan Church, who had earlier hit an infield single, and had gone to second on third baseman Pedro Feliz's throwing error. The Phils made it 4-1 in the seventh as, with a runner on third and with nobody out, Feliz hits an RBI single, knocking in Raul Ibanez, who had earlier tripled. In the eighth, the Braves would cut the Phils' lead to 4-2 as, with runners on the corners, and with noone out, Chipper Jones hit into an RBI force out, 6-4, as Martin Prado, who had earlier singled, is forced out at second, while Diaz, who had earlier doubled, and then went to third on Prado's single, scored, while Jones was safe at first. That would be the final score as Brad Lidge would pitch a 1-2-3 ninth, recording his twenty-sixth save of the season.
Pedro Martinez pitched a no-decision as he pitched two innings before being taken out of the game after two rain delays, giving up just one hit and a walk, while striking out a batter. Jamie Moyer got the win as he pitched four and a third innings, giving up a run on four hits, while he struck out five. His record is now 12-9 with a 5.12 ERA, his second win since going into the bullpen. Chan Ho Park recorded his ninth hold as he pitched two-thirds of an inning, getting out both batters that he would face, striking out one. Ryan Madson recorded his twenty-second hold as he gave up a run on three hits and a walk. Brad Lidge pitched a 1-2-3 inning, recording his twenty-sixth save of the year, striking out a batter. Tommy Hanson took the lost, as he pitched two innings, giving up a run on two hits, while striking out four. His record is now 9-3 with an ERA of 3.15. Kris Medlen also pitched two innings, giving up two runs on three hits, as he struck out two. Eric O'Flaherty pitched two scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk, as he struck out two. Peter Moylan pitched an inning, giving up a run on two hits. Mike Gonzalez pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk.
The Phillies had nine hits in the game, with Ryan Howard leading the way, with a single and two home runs, a solo shot and a two-run bomb, accounting for three of the Phils' runs, while raising his batting average to .272. Pedro Feliz followed with two hits, one of which was a double, as he knocked in the other Phils' run. Chase Utley, Jayson Werth, Raul Ibanez and Carlos Ruiz had the other four Phils' hits, with Ibanez's hit being a triple. The win added some distance between the Phils and their nearest rivals in the East.
The Phillies (74-52, 1st) continues their home stand with the Braves (67-61, 2nd-T) with a night game tonight. The game will be played at Citizens Bank Park and the game will be started at 7:05 pm Eastern. The Phils' starter will be Cliff Lee (12-9 (5-0), 2.63 (0.68)), who is coming off a win against the Mets on August 24, as he pitched seven strong innings, giving up only two unearned runs on six hits, while striking out five, in the Phils' 6-2 win. He will be trying to make it six wins in a row since being traded to the Phils. The Braves will counter with their ace Derek Lowe (12-8, 4.48), who is coming off a no-decision against the Marlins on August 23, where he pitched five innings, giving up three runs on nine hits and a walk, while striking out three, in the Braves' 7-5 win. He will be trying to match Lee pitch for pitch, to give him his first lost in the NL. The Phillies will be trying to further increase their lead in the East, while at the same time putting an early dagger into the Braves pennant hopes.
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It sounds like Pedro was doing well before the rain delay. I am delighted to see him doing so well.
That was a great win last night. Let see if Lee can stay undefeated tonight.
To Julia: Pedro was doing well before he had to be taken out after the second rain delay. He's doing ok. Just wonder how long before the batters really catch up with him.
To sportstar: Sadly, Lee got creamed last night.
yea that was just a terrible game. Lee wasn't hitting his spots, Durbin came in and let up 3 runs. They could have been in this game if they would have got more then 1 run on their eleven hits. The score should have been 9-8 or 9-7. Bases loaded no outs and they got no runs. That is just wrong.
Well Blanton will have to pitch a gem if he wants to win because the way the phils are hitting Jair Jurrens will shut them down. Lets just hope foor the best though.
Terrible is an understatement. It wasn't so much that Lee lost, but that he got bombed in the process. As for the offense scoring. Ugh! That is their major problem. Can't seem to get it into their minds to just get the person across without crushing the ball.
Well, Blanton did. And the Phils have the lead. Now if Lidge can just shut them down!


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Just checked out Killing Joke last week, and man did they put on one hell of a show. The band played in of my favorite places in Vancouver see shows, called The Venue. A great size place, with excellent sound. The show was almost sold out, kinda nice to see that that one of the seminal goth/industrial/punk pioneers have not been forgotten. Jaz and the boys blew my mind five years ago when they made a stop over in Vancouver back in 2003. I promised myself I would never miss another show of theirs. This time they played one of my favorite Killing Joke songs ever "Eighties"!!
Thirty years later and the band are still going strong, as the new album Absolute Dissent and live show are both very strong, and can show the youngins out there how it's supposed to be done. I always though the secret weapon in Killing Joke was their guitarist Geordie, If their is such a thing as the "signature" Killing Joke sound, then it revolves around Geordie. The lush surreal guitar tones clashing with the industrial sounds of the other members makes for one hell of a sweet racket. The industrial flame still lives on after all these years.


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Neuroscience institutions from the East Coast and Israel will join forces to conduct research on Alzheimer's disease and other neurological issues.
Research centers based at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University in Philadelphia as well as two institutions in New York will collaborate with Ramat Hasharon's Israel Brain Technologies through the new partnership.
The congressman added his belief that "extraordinary teams of researchers and doctors dedicated to discovering new treatments and cures," will come about as result of the joint effort.
Rafi Gidron, the founder and chairman of Israel Brain Technologies, highlighted Israeli President Shimon Peres as a figure of inspiration for U.S.-Israeli partnership.
"This collaboration represents an important first step in a long-term partnership between Israel and the U.S. Together, we can make a major impact on the lives of millions throughout the world," he said in a news release.
New York's participating institutions, Feinstein Institute in Manhasset and Cold Spring Harbor Lab in Cold Spring Harbor, were represented at the ceremony by U.S. Rep. Steve Israel, also a Democrat.


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In 2008 a leftist-liberal-Christian Democratic coalition led by the Authentic Radical Liberal Party under the leadership of former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won the presidency and promised land reforms. However, Lugo's inability to create coalitions, lack of political skill in pressing the fractured conservative parties which dominated Paraguay's congress, and radical land reform advocates produced a formula for failure, broken promises, and uncontrolled rage. Last week, seventeen landless farmers who violently seized property were killed in clashes against the police.
The clash was the last straw for many. The lower house voted seventy-three to one to impeach Lugo. His liberal party as well as more leftist allies in congress abandoned him. The upper house convicted Lugo and replaced him with Vice-President, now President, Federico Franco. Franco is now promising reforms with input from all sides. This was not a coup but a legal constitutional move.
Like Honduras' power change, however, various leftists governments such as Ecuador and Venezuela as well as center-left powers like Argentina and Brazil are opposing the impeachment and state they will not recognize the new government. These governments, really their leaders, fear constitutions which allow for leaders to be replaced. The events in Honduras and Paraguay show leaders are not absolute. Chavez et al fear this message and will do anything to prevent models for their own domestic opposition. This is why Latin American states will press hard to restore Lugo. Expect input from the United States to play a major role in what happens.


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The PNP Cycling Club of Wellington run MTB Races and hold Social Rides throughout the year.
You can ride with us and enter our events without being a member, but we encourage you to join to be part of our family, and enjoy the member discounts.
You can join up on the PNP Home Page.
We focus on Cross Country riding. For Downhill please visit www.wmtbc.org.nz the Wellington MTB Club.


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Letting Her Hair DownThursday, May 1st, 2008
In her recent New York Review of Books survey of contemporary Rapunzel interpretations, novelist Alison Lurie points out both how enduring and how flexible fairy tales are. Rapunzel is in vogue these days. Lurie gives all the relevant details of Rapunzel's recent manifestations and offers lots of pithy observations, but the article doesn't include links to the books themselves. So here they are; read Lurie's article and check these out!
In the young adult novel Golden: A Retelling of "Rapunzel", one of Simon and Schuster's fairy tale retelling series, this one by Cameron Dokey, the poor girl's tower-length locks are an infuriating nuisance. The Tower Room by Adele Geras (Harcourt Paperbacks) is set in a 1960's English boarding school probably modeled on the school Geras (and Princess Diana) attended. One of Donna Jo Napoli's series of retold tales, Zel (Puffin) is set in 16th century Switzerland. Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel (Hyperion) is a picture book by Patricia Storace, "lavishly illustrated" by Raúl Colón. (Here's a PaperTigers gallery of illustrations by Colón!) Letters from Rapunzel (HarperCollins) is a teen novel about a girl who sees the myth's relevance in her own life and re-names herself Rapunzel; here's a 7-Imp interview with author Sara Lewis Holmes. Barbara Ragasky's Rapunzel (Holiday House), with much lauded illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, may be out of print but is available online. Lynn Roberts' Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale (Abrams), says Lurie, appears to be set in 1970's New York.
The long hair, the witch, the tower, the inadequate jealous mother, the adopted child and adoptive parents, the rescuing prince–the themes of Rapunzel have been re-told for our times with great verve and vivacity, and Alison Lurie's thorough and entertaining perspective is not to be missed.


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Commission president presides at first meeting
With the passing of a calendar year, Barbour County Commissioners also figuratively passed the leadership torch on to another member of the commission.
Phil Hart, 2012 commission president, nominated Commissioner Jedd Schola as the new commission president. The vote was unanimous and took place at the start of a commission meeting early Wednesday morning.
No reassignments or new board appointments took place at the meeting. Hart said that the appointments will remain as they are until they are considered at a second meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Jan. 16.
While commissioners remain "at home" with their board appointments for the time being, a homeless awareness activity was approved. The Family Resource Network will conduct the activity the evening of Jan. 24 on the Barbour County Courthouse lawn. While raising awareness, participants will place boxes on the courthouse lawn to be judged by commissioners. The exact time of the event and further details were unavailable Wednesday.
Hart will take the lead on another community awareness event. He plans to organize a Community Preparation Preparedness meeting concerning both natural and man-made emergencies.
Schola announced the suggested dates of the review and equalization board meetings for February. All the dates were approved. Meetings will be conducted at 5 p.m. on Feb. 1, 5, 8 and 13, and at1 p.m. Feb. 15. The last February meeting scheduled will concern minerals only, Schola said.
February's regular meeting of the Barbour County Commission will take place at 6 p.m. Feb. 5, following the review and equalization board meeting scheduled for that day.
In other news, the commission appointed Sam Wright to the Central-Volga Public Service District.


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Left- and Right-Handedness Study, 1970 (ICPSR 7304)
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The data for this study were collected in 1970 from 1,557 classrooms in schools located in the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, area. The study used questionnaires filled in by teachers to determine the incidence of left-handedness among school children. Variables also describe the type of school, socioeconomic status of the area where the school was located, grade level of children, educational ability of the classes they belonged to, and the students' sex.
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The Center of Excellence in Faith & Health is the heart of a community partnership designed to increase access to care and improve the health of our community through a number of innovative projects and activities.
The Congregational Health Network (CHN) is a covenant relationship between Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare hospitals, Mid-South congregations and community health organizations. The CHN provides a network of nearly 500 congregations and faith communities that are partnering with us to share the ministry of caring for our patients—helping people navigate the journey from home to medical care and back.
The goal of this program is to more intentionally build stronger relationships and bridges between local faith communities and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) in order to improve the patient journey through the MLH system and more broadly to build healthier communities in Memphis, Tennessee and the Mid-South.
Our research confirms that these assets certainly do exist. But, they need to be aligned and strengthened, which is an innovative work of faith and science. What is unique about this approach, is that the congregation becomes a part of the quality care team, not an afterthought or stopgap. We are blending the complementary strengths of congregation and hospital in a tightly woven network of care.
It is a human bridge connecting the professional care system (including the hospital) with the natural caring system of family, neighbors and especially congregations. Newly created, full-time navigators at each adult hospital and hundreds of unpaid liaisons in participating congregations complete the equation.
- Navigators: Employed by Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, "community case workers" responsible for improving connectional relationships between MLH and the community by providing a continuity of care between the hospitals and area congregations
- Liaisons : Volunteer community health workers and representatives of the local faith communities
The Congregational Health Network provides the following:
- Development and maintenance of a social system (including congregations, volunteers, MLH and partners)
- Implementation of covenant relationships (including value-added incentives)
- In-hospital support and accompaniment
- Community health promotion
- Micro-grants to congregations and community partners to support health-promoting work and networking
- Mapping and leveraging of religious health assets in Memphis
- Building practical interfaith collaboration
- Training and education of congregations and liaisons (e.g. in community care, hospital visitation, aftercare training, end of life care, mental health first aid)
View the Congregational Health Network Covenant.
Congregational Health Network Partners
The Center of Excellence in Faith and Health is proud to honor its partners in the Congregational Health Network (CHN) who have signed a covenant and partnered with us in our journey. Their work and active participation as they are able has enabled us to improve access and health status for all in our area. We do not list or share contact information or specific names of our pastors or liaisons, as we view the relationships and shared trust between these partners and CHN Director Bobby Baker and the navigators and all of our Faith and Health staff as critically important to nurture and protect. We believe that these salient, sometimes intangible religious health assets (e.g., trusted relationships and goodwill) are responsible for CHN's growth, flourishing, training and its amazing work on the ground in Memphis. As such, any operational or logistical questions or desires to partner with the CHN should be handled directly through Rev. Bobby Baker, who can be reached at phone number 901.516.7481 or e-mail email@example.com.
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Rev. Bobby Baker, Director of Faith and Community Partnerships; Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare 901.516.7481, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- University Hospital, Jean Evans - 901.516.8443, Email: email@example.com
- University Hospital, Shirley Perry - 901.516.8635, Email: email@example.com
- South Hospital, Blanch Thomas - 901.516.3597, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- North Hospital, Sheilah Easterling-Smith - 901.516.5617, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Germantown Hospital, Russell Belisle 901.516.6191, Email: email@example.com
- International, Rafael Miranda - 901.516.8636, Email: email@example.com