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[video=youtube;-uUnV_mhOO0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-uUnV_mhOO0[/video]
These guys duct taped their paraplegic friend to themselves so he could feel what it was like to walk.
It made me laugh so hard, and not because I’m laughing at a crippled person, but because you can tell he has such a positive attitude and good sense of humor about life and some really quality friends who love him.
They are just having a good time and that is nice to watch.
These guys duct taped their paraplegic friend to themselves so he could feel what it was like to walk.
It made me laugh so hard, and not because I’m laughing at a crippled person, but because you can tell he has such a positive attitude and good sense of humor about life and some really quality friends who love him.
They are just having a good time and that is nice to watch.
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You were right. This was very funny and heart warming to see the paralyzed gentleman laughing and enjoying his outdoor "excursion". :lol:
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Sigh... this is what it's like to live in Tex-Ass....
While the rest of the nation is embracing the cannabis plant and all it's myriad uses.... the good ole boys of east texas are rounding up the dreaded 'weed'....all 7 plants of them....you know...in case they get in the hands of children. Hahahahahahaah.... it's because they have nothing else better to do so they gotta get out there and try and justify their jobs.
I work in Jasper county - but live in a nearby county.
From the local radio station and website:
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:25 pm
by Steve W Stewart
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman says his deputies this week discovered and confiscated marijuana plants growing at an undisclosed location near Jasper. Meanwhile, Newman says he knows there are more growing in this area, and he vows to find them.
According to Newman, he recently began looking for marijuana growth, and on Wednesday Lieutenant Scott Duncan found seven large marijuana plants.
Newman said the Jasper area remains under investigation and the residents of the community can do their part by notifying the department of any suspicious activity you observe.
According to Newman, it’s important to aggressively remove drugs from the streets before they reach the hands of children.
While the rest of the nation is embracing the cannabis plant and all it's myriad uses.... the good ole boys of east texas are rounding up the dreaded 'weed'....all 7 plants of them....you know...in case they get in the hands of children. Hahahahahahaah.... it's because they have nothing else better to do so they gotta get out there and try and justify their jobs.
I work in Jasper county - but live in a nearby county.
From the local radio station and website:
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:25 pm
by Steve W Stewart
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman says his deputies this week discovered and confiscated marijuana plants growing at an undisclosed location near Jasper. Meanwhile, Newman says he knows there are more growing in this area, and he vows to find them.
According to Newman, he recently began looking for marijuana growth, and on Wednesday Lieutenant Scott Duncan found seven large marijuana plants.
Newman said the Jasper area remains under investigation and the residents of the community can do their part by notifying the department of any suspicious activity you observe.
According to Newman, it’s important to aggressively remove drugs from the streets before they reach the hands of children.
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Sigh... this is what it's like to live in Tex-Ass....
While the rest of the nation is embracing the cannabis plant and all it's myriad uses.... the good ole boys of east texas are rounding up the dreaded 'weed'....all 7 plants of them....you know...in case they get in the hands of children. Hahahahahahaah.... it's because they have nothing else better to do so they gotta get out there and try and justify their jobs.
I work in Jasper county - but live in a nearby county.
From the local radio station and website:
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:25 pm
by Steve W Stewart
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman says his deputies this week discovered and confiscated marijuana plants growing at an undisclosed location near Jasper. Meanwhile, Newman says he knows there are more growing in this area, and he vows to find them.
According to Newman, he recently began looking for marijuana growth, and on Wednesday Lieutenant Scott Duncan found seven large marijuana plants.
Newman said the Jasper area remains under investigation and the residents of the community can do their part by notifying the department of any suspicious activity you observe.
According to Newman, it’s important to aggressively remove drugs from the streets before they reach the hands of children.
Seven whole plants?!
Wow!
If they decided to sell it (which is what I’m sure they will be charged for attempt), they might stand to make like $2-300.
How fucking ridiculous…so glad I live up in WA.
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Coincidence Studies Gains a Foothold in Academia
Dr. Bernard Beitman will be teaching a course in Coincidence Studies at the University of Virginia this fall. It is the first course of its kind, and a big step toward establishing a formal study of coincidences, something Dr. Beitman has worked toward for years.
Probably everyone has experienced a coincidence, some more striking than others–but how much thought have you given to the causes, probabilities, and usefulness of these coincidences in your life?
Did you know that it’s possible to increase coincidences in your life?
“I have come to discover the essential features that make coincidences happen, including the personality characteristics and situational factors that serve to increase their frequency. These characteristics and factors proved to be so consistent that I realized we actually do–and can–make our own coincidences,” says Dr. Beitman.
Coincidences can help people find romance, strengthen family ties, come up with ideas, and achieve many other goals.
Sometimes their usefulness lies simply in the sense of wonder they inspire.
This is what Dr. Beitman will help his students contemplate in the course, titled “Coincidence Studies: How to Recognize, Use, and Explain Synchronicities.”
He also hopes to bring this information to the general public with his book,“Connecting With Coincidence,” which is to be published next year.
His website, Coincider.com, already provides a place for people to share the strange coincidences in their lives and to learn more about this emerging field of study.
Part of establishing a formal study of coincidences is making into more of a science.
He has created a Weird Coincidence Survey to help gather statistics.
In addition to earlier uses of the survey in his work at the University of Missouri, he has made the survey available to the general public on his website.
Over the course of several months, he gathered statistics about the people who took the survey, keeping in mind that they are people who voluntarily came to the survey out of interest and do not represent a slice of the general population.
It is interesting, nonetheless, to see characteristics of people who tend to take an active interest in coincidences.
One of the interesting findings was that 42 percent ranked themselves as highly spiritual and fewer than 20 percent ranked themselves as low on spirituality.
Dr. Beitman has created a taxonomy by differentiating types of coincidences.
One type of coincidence, for example, involves feeling the distress of a loved one at a distance, which Dr. Beitman calls “simulpathity.”
He felt himself inexplicably choking at the same time his dying father was choking some 2,000 miles away.
This coincidence and many other personal experiences led Dr. Beitman to start his investigations of this phenomenon.
He says, “The emerging field of Coincidence Studies … proposes closer connections between mind and environment than are currently accepted in psychiatry and psychology. … Our perceptions of coincidence emerge from swirls of information in our minds juxtaposed with swirls of events in our surroundings.
Like two dials being spun by separate hands, the active mind and a pattern of events briefly coincide, causing the mind to note an odd correspondence.
The match is often surprising because it seems improbable.
But coincidence is more than the unlikely juxtaposition of similar events–the two events must also be meaningfully connected, and the meaning is personal and intricately linked to the person involved.”
Dr. Bernard Beitman
Dr. Beitman attended Yale Medical School and completed his psychiatric residency at Stanford University and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Virginia.
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Where Do Our Thoughts Physically Exist?
Philosophers have wondered for ages how mind and matter relate to each other, and modern physics is chiming in on the debate.
Here’s a look at a few theories about where or in what way our thoughts physically exist.
Noosphere, Related to the Internet
Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and paleontologist, wrote of a conceptual “noosphere” in the first half of the 20th century.
He predicted that at a future stage of humanity’s development a membrane containing our collective thoughts and experiences would envelope the world.
In “The Phenomenon of Man,” he wrote: “Is this not like some great body which is being born–with its limbs, its nervous system, its perceptive organs, its memory–the body in fact of that great living Thing which had to come to fulfill the ambitions aroused in the reflective being by the newly acquired consciousness?”
Many have made a connection between De Chardin’s noosphere and the Internet.
Could the Internet be considered a realm in which our collective consciousness exists?
Thoughts Exist in Other Physical Dimensions
Bernard Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension.
Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions.
The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated.
Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions.
What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors.
He said that such entities must still have a type of space in which to exist.
“The only non-physical entities in the universe of which we have any experience are mental ones, and … the existence of paranormal phenomena suggests that mental entities have to exist in some sort of space,” Carr wrote.
Read more about Carr’s theories: “Astronomer Says Spiritual Phenomena Exist in Other Dimensions”
Our Thoughts Transcend Time?
Dean Radin, PhD, has done studies to show our thoughts may have an effect on physical reality, but it may not be in the present or future as we expect.
It is possible that our thoughts in the future affect our past reality, he says.
Radin is the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a non-profit organization founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and dedicated to consciousness research. Radin is also adjunct faculty in the department of psychology at Sonoma State University and he has held appointments at Princeton University and several Silicon Valley think-tanks among other institutions.
He has tested the ability of human intention to affect physical reality using a random number generator (RNG).
He is not the only scientist who has used an RNG to test mind-matter interaction, but he is unique in his focus on the ability of future intentions to affect the past.
Most RNG tests focus on a forward-in-time, standard cause-effect model.
A person has an intention and it is expected to affect the future result, or number generated.
Radin opened his experiment to the idea that a future intention may affect past results and found “the observed results may be better modeled as a process running backwards in time from a future ‘target,’ rather than as a more complex process running forward in time trying to hit that target,” according to his study published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2006.
“Some forms of apparent MMI [mind-matter interaction] may involve processes that are more consistent with retrocausal ‘pulls’ from the future than with causal ‘pushes’ from the present.”
Vast Realm Between Particles
Stanford University Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller hypothesizes that our thoughts have a physical effect on a “new level of substance … which appears to function in the physical vacuum (the empty space between the fundamental electric particles that make up our normal electric atoms and molecules).”
He says he has been able to measure this hitherto invisible substance, but only when it interacts with the substances we can conventionally measure.
This interaction seems to occur when spurred by human intention, suggesting our thoughts physically exist in this realm.
He says two kinds of substances exist:
1. The electric atom/molecule level:
Substances on this level can be measured with traditional instruments.
We can measure them because they are electric-charge based.
2. The magnetic information waves level:
Tiller explains in an introduction to his research on his website: “This new level of substance, because it appears to function in the physical vacuum (the empty space between the fundamental electric particles that make up our normal electric atoms and molecules), is currently invisible to us and to our traditional measurement instruments.”
This second type of substance has great power, and it is affected by human thought.
Power of the Magnetic Information Waves
Tiller put the energy of the magnetic information waves level into perspective in an interview for the documentary “What the Bleep Do We Know?” (See the interviews below)
He compared the latent energy of the entire known universe to the latent energy in the vacuum inside a single hydrogen atom.
The latent energy in one atom is a trillion times that estimated to exist in the space of the known universe.
“Just that little bit of vacuum outweighs all the mass and all the planets and all the stars,” he said.
This comparison assumes the universe is fairly flat, which astronomers say it is.
Tiller said the calculations are not 100 percent accurate, but they are accurate enough to give us an idea of the amount of energy in this second type of substance he talks about in the vacuum.
How Human Intention Takes Effect
Tiller says he has been able to detect this hitherto invisible substance, but only when it interacts with the electric molecule/atom type substance we can conventionally measure.
Human consciousness spurs this interaction.
An intention projected from a person’s mind seems to increase the conductivity between the atom/molecule level and the vacuum level.
“Consciousness lifts the higher thermodynamic free energy state [of the vacuum level], then we can access the physics of the vacuum,” Tiller says. “Accessing that new physics allows intention to bring forth effects you wouldn’t imagine.”
The consciousness can, in a way, affect or interact with a power greater than anything conventional instruments have been able to measure thus far.
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You chose well...
oth... This points to the reason why I'm down here near one of the heads of the Hydra.
Years and years ago my best friend and I were talking about how bizarre people were here and I remarked yet again I couldn't understand why I chose to move back to TX. I mused about moving away...and then told her that maybe the reason why we're here is to be a little beacon of light in case someone was looking for it. I talked about how it was up to us to show young women they could be something other than the mother slave. Not that I'm suggesting being a mother is a terrible fate and I look down on it....although in the past I did in my arrogance.
Yet it seemed that was the only thing admired and expected down here as the ultimate goal for women. I can't tell you how many times we both heard comments about how we should have children when we were younger. I can't tell you how many times we were held in contempt or fear because we did not.
Anyway - you can imagine how difficult it might be for a couple of women growing up in the '60's to be wilful and independent and NOT want children. Hah!
At any rate - I find it fascinating that I'm living up to those musings of mine by staying here in this god forsaken hell hole - despite wanting to move away to a place like WA or OR and the Cascades Region.
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You so just described my Sister in law…she’s from TX…I swear she got pregnant the first time to rope in my brother…hahaha…she tried to get him to join the Navy as well, so she could really not have to work at all and just live on base.
Now they have two…my brother didn’t join the Navy because of his ex-wife’s credit that he co-signed on…they wouldn’t let him in…that’s a things now I guess, the credit check.
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As for children, I used to want my own at one point.
I consider my step-son my actual Son though, and I feel very lucky that I get to play that part in his life.
I feel this is where I am supposed to be as well…Sensiko loves it up here too.
This is where my Son is, as is my Mom and Brother.
As for children, I used to want my own at one point.
I consider my step-son my actual Son though, and I feel very lucky that I get to play that part in his life.
I feel this is where I am supposed to be as well…Sensiko loves it up here too.
This is where my Son is, as is my Mom and Brother.
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My new little gent.
I spent part of my weekend playing with a little puppy. It was so funny watching him play with this cat who so obviously despised him.
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This is only day two, but already our other cat has stopped most of the growling and has only lightly batted him on the head when the kitten pounced on his tail hehehe.
So, so far, so good!
Now the Rottweiler on the other hand wants to sniff his whole kitten body so badly, but every time he gets his face close the kitten spits and arches up…hahaha.
Yeah, you’re gonna get the 140 pound dog who’s mouth is bigger than you…hehe.
They’ll be fine…everyone is behaving for the most part.
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My new little gent.
Oooo...an orange kitty! It looks as if he feels right at home with you. :love:
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Dr. Mario Beauregard Discusses His New Book, 'Brain Wars'.
[video=youtube;DBc8taL3VOo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DBc8taL3VOo[/video]
Made from the original audio interview, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.skeptiko.com/mario-beaureg...
Dr. Mario Beauregard, PhD., is currently Associate Research Professor at the University of Montreal (Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Neuroscience Research Center). He is the author of more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry.
Because of his research into the neuroscience of consciousness, he was selected (2000) by the World Media Net to be among the ""OOne Hundred Pioneers of the 21st Century."" His groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of emotion regulation and spiritual experiences has received international media coverage.
In 2006, he received the Joel F. Lubar Award for his contribution to the field of neurofeedback.
The National Film Board of Canada has produced a documentary film about his work titled The Mystical Brain (2007).
In 2010, Dr. Beauregard was decorated with the prestigious Spectrum Award by The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential.
To date, Dr. Beauregard has published two trade books titled The Spiritual Brain (2007) and Brain Wars (2012).
[video=youtube;DBc8taL3VOo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DBc8taL3VOo[/video]
Made from the original audio interview, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.skeptiko.com/mario-beaureg...
Dr. Mario Beauregard, PhD., is currently Associate Research Professor at the University of Montreal (Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Neuroscience Research Center). He is the author of more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry.
Because of his research into the neuroscience of consciousness, he was selected (2000) by the World Media Net to be among the ""OOne Hundred Pioneers of the 21st Century."" His groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of emotion regulation and spiritual experiences has received international media coverage.
In 2006, he received the Joel F. Lubar Award for his contribution to the field of neurofeedback.
The National Film Board of Canada has produced a documentary film about his work titled The Mystical Brain (2007).
In 2010, Dr. Beauregard was decorated with the prestigious Spectrum Award by The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential.
To date, Dr. Beauregard has published two trade books titled The Spiritual Brain (2007) and Brain Wars (2012).
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I wonder if a pre-programmed “virus” placed into these artificial neurons could potentially have dangerous and frightening possibilities as well as the positive spoken of here?
Scientists Create Artificial Neuron that Functions Like the Real Thing
It seems that growing miniature brains in the lab just wasn’t good enough for neuroscientists, as a group of researchers have now constructed an artificial neuron that works like the real thing.
Amazingly, the fake cell manages to capture the fundamental signal-transmitting function of neurons and can communicate with real human cells, all in the absence of any living parts.
But there is more to the idea behind this synthetic neuron than simply proving that it can be done.
The team reckons that in the future, it might be possible to actually use these devices in patients to replace damaged nerves, for example, to help treat injury or disease.
They may also have a place in the prosthetics industry as surgeons may be able to use them as a bridge between a person’s tissue and an artificial limb, allowing for greater control of movement.
You can find out more about this fascinating invention in Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
Neurons, or nerves, are specialized cells whose role is to process and transmit information to other cells. In order to communicate, they release chemical signals, or neurotransmitters, across a small intercellular gap known as a synapse.
These chemicals are then taken up by the adjoining cell and converted into an electrical signal, or action potential, that propagates along the neuron’s spindly axon.
When it reaches the other end, the electrical signal is once again converted into a chemical signal that gets released across the synapse, ready to trigger the entire process again.
To mimic this, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet used conductive molecules, or polymers, to build the neuron, connecting enzyme-based biosensors to organic bioelectronics.
The sensors pick up chemical changes in their surrounding environment, induced by the researchers, which is then translated into an electrical signal by an electronic pump that functions to control the flow of charged ions, much like the channels that exist across neuronal membranes.
Finally, the electrical signal is turned back into a chemical signal, involving the release of a neurotransmitter in a different dish, which can then act on human cells.
With further development and miniaturization, the researchers believe that these cells could have a place outside the laboratory, and possibly inside the human body.
“We foresee that in the future, by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body, and trigger the release of neurotransmitters at distant locations,” lead researcher Agneta Richter-Dahlfors said in a statement.
“Using such auto-regulated sensing and delivery, or possibly a remote control, new and exciting opportunities for future research and treatment for neurological disorders can be envisaged.”
Scientists Create Artificial Neuron that Functions Like the Real Thing
It seems that growing miniature brains in the lab just wasn’t good enough for neuroscientists, as a group of researchers have now constructed an artificial neuron that works like the real thing.
Amazingly, the fake cell manages to capture the fundamental signal-transmitting function of neurons and can communicate with real human cells, all in the absence of any living parts.
But there is more to the idea behind this synthetic neuron than simply proving that it can be done.
The team reckons that in the future, it might be possible to actually use these devices in patients to replace damaged nerves, for example, to help treat injury or disease.
They may also have a place in the prosthetics industry as surgeons may be able to use them as a bridge between a person’s tissue and an artificial limb, allowing for greater control of movement.
You can find out more about this fascinating invention in Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
Neurons, or nerves, are specialized cells whose role is to process and transmit information to other cells. In order to communicate, they release chemical signals, or neurotransmitters, across a small intercellular gap known as a synapse.
These chemicals are then taken up by the adjoining cell and converted into an electrical signal, or action potential, that propagates along the neuron’s spindly axon.
When it reaches the other end, the electrical signal is once again converted into a chemical signal that gets released across the synapse, ready to trigger the entire process again.
To mimic this, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet used conductive molecules, or polymers, to build the neuron, connecting enzyme-based biosensors to organic bioelectronics.
The sensors pick up chemical changes in their surrounding environment, induced by the researchers, which is then translated into an electrical signal by an electronic pump that functions to control the flow of charged ions, much like the channels that exist across neuronal membranes.
Finally, the electrical signal is turned back into a chemical signal, involving the release of a neurotransmitter in a different dish, which can then act on human cells.
With further development and miniaturization, the researchers believe that these cells could have a place outside the laboratory, and possibly inside the human body.
“We foresee that in the future, by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body, and trigger the release of neurotransmitters at distant locations,” lead researcher Agneta Richter-Dahlfors said in a statement.
“Using such auto-regulated sensing and delivery, or possibly a remote control, new and exciting opportunities for future research and treatment for neurological disorders can be envisaged.”
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That was interesting. We've actually got quite a few talented animated studios in Ireland. Shame we don't appreciate the art form more.