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Interesting behavior. I did not know about this. Tried to find more and here is what I found -
"Every cat has her own grooming ritual, but most begin with licking of the mouth, chin, and whiskers first. That's followed by each shoulder and foreleg. She'll then wash both flanks and hind legs, the genitals, and then her tail from tip to stern.
Kitty uses a dampened forepaw to scrub face, head and ears, and redampens her paw by licking after every few swipes. She'll switch paws depending on which side she's washing.
Next, she'll scratch with rear claws to clean and groom the neck and ears. She nibbles on rear claws to keep them groomed, and both nibbles and claws objects to file front claws into shape."
THEY CAME TO KANSAS CITY, MO ON JULY 9TH 2013 & TURNT IT UP!!! THE YOUNG LADY IN THE MIDDLE IS DAJA' AKA WANT TO BE RAY RAY #1 GIRL & FUTURE...
Okay....completely un-edited! I took the kids to the aquarium today and this is what we saw. It's not usually my style to posts pics such as this but well.....what are my children to think?!??!
In a distant future, a war rages between China and Japan over Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Japan, facing a population crisis and famine, invades Hong Kong in a desperate bid for land. Among the many technological advancements employed in the war, one stands out: the "Grandmas" androids.
These androids were not specifically designed for war, but rather emerged from civilian purposes naturally. The idea behind their creation was to prolong the lives of elderly women by turning them into androids, half machine and half human. The creators of the Grandmas chose to use elderly women as the base for their androids because of the differences in neuroplasticity between young and old brains.
Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the brain to change and adapt in response to experiences. In young brains, neuroplasticity is high, allowing for quick learning and adaptation, but also making it harder to control the behavior of the brain. In contrast, in old brains, neuroplasticity is lower, making it easier to control and direct the behavior of the brain. This is why the creators of the Grandmas decided to use elderly women as the base for their androids.
However, as time passed, the Grandmas' brain tissue began to decay and artificial intelligence started to take over more and more parts of their brain. Despite this, their behavior remains the same, as the small parts of living brain tissue that still remain continue to dominate their behavior. Their primary function is to cook and care for all those around them, even other androids, although they do not need food themselves. They often pretend to eat just to make the other grandmas happy. They also tend to wounded or damaged androids, applying dirt and old rags to the damaged components and trying to comfort the machine. These behaviors are not programmed, but have developed naturally, as the Grandmas' loving and caring nature dominates their behavior.
In addition to their caretaking duties, the Grandmas also chat constantly, providing wisdom and anecdotes, spreading gossip, and talking the entire time. They have an endless stream of stories and observations from their long lives and they share them with anyone who will listen. They are also known to be a great source of comfort and solace for the soldiers on the battlefield, providing a sense of normalcy and humanity in the midst of the chaos and destruction of war.
Grandmas do not fight in combat, but they are often seen trying to break up furious fights on the battlefield, often putting themselves in danger to do so. On rare occasions, they will fight if they witness injustice on the battlefield, using all their advanced abilities to defend the innocent.
Despite the care and compassion that the Grandmas show, many humans avoid them and children are often scared of them, while adults are often annoyed by their caring nature. But as the war rages on, the Grandmas continue to provide a beacon of hope and humanity amidst the destruction and chaos. As the war progresses, the Grandmas become more and more important to the soldiers as they provide not only food and care, but also a sense of normalcy and humanity in the midst of the chaos and destruction of war.
The Grandmas' unique blend of advanced technology and human-like behavior make them a powerful symbol of the blurred lines between human and machine in this war-torn future. They may not have been specifically designed for war, but the Grandmas' presence on the battlefield serves as a reminder that even in the darkest of times, compassion and humanity can still prevail. Even as their brains decay and artificial intelligence takes over more and more of their functions, the Grandmas' ingrained behavior and love for others continues to shine through.
The hit American boy band Mindless Behavior finished off their first tour of this country with their final concert before returning to America at Enfield Grammar School, as a guest of the Student Council. The band, a massive success in America, with over a million followers on twitter and a huge fan base on You Tube, were in England on a promotional tour.
As part of our links with the local community we invited both students from St Anne’s and Enfield County to attend. The band performed four hits off their debut album that is presently at number seven in the American Album chart, followed by a question and answer session and autograph signing. Over 400 boys and girls from the schools were chosen by their Heads of Year to see the band as a reward to recognise their excellent efforts and behaviour in the last few months.
Well done to everyone who helped organise this event particularly all Grammar Sixth Form prefects who gave up their time to help stage the event.
(Phototgraphy by Gajeenth Thayalan)
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Since my digital art is created from photographs of real men, I still consider them "portraits." I find it strange to look at the original pictures next to the abstractions the men become. It's like relationships in general. These are true to the literal meaning of abstraction (something is being drawn out of something else).
Megan Prott (left), Ashtyn Macfarlane (right) and graduating students in the College Of Behavioral And Social Science (BSS) were honored during their Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
This is one of a number of species of sea urchins which put debris on top of themselves to protect themselves from UV, and to camouflage themselves. Interesting animal behavior, which I am currently researching.
I am currently in Malapascua, with the fantastic marine conservation NGO People and the Sea:
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Kevin Lydon, Vienna Auerweck, Isabella Arellano, Carly Bailey (left to right) and graduating students in the College Of Behavioral And Social Science (BSS) were honored during their Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
The file on Philip Howard
Compiled from records held by the National Children's Home, family correspondence and personal letters and notes from the staff sent to my mother.
Then a follow up on me until the age of 15.
Case closed 1972.
My mother was returning to London to look after her sick parents.
At 7 years of age, I was now going to be a problem.
Had things followed her original plans, I would have stayed at the boarding school that was council funded for boys with behavioral problems, until I reached 11 years of age, when the next stage of my education would have been decided upon.
However, I left the boarding school shortly after my 8th birthday.
As there would have been no room for me in the flat in London, my placement at the boarding school had been an ideal solution.
When it was found out within a week of my arrival at the boarding school, that there was not the need for my placement there, as I had not in fact tried to push another boy under a bus, it was decided that I should be returned to my mother.
Although the school would have been quite happy to have kept me, the local council who were funding my place, thought that there were other boys more in need.
As my mother was moving out of the area my quick departure was needed, although this was not made instantly, but after the Christmas holidays one month after my arrival.
My mother now had to make some quick changes to the plans for me. An aunt and uncle seemed to suggest that a Children’s Home near to where they lived, might be a place for me to stay.
Items in my file, plus my thoughts that might make it easier to understand me.
Page 1.
27.01.65 Letter to Uncle who lives in Harpenden, from Governor of the National Children's Home Harpenden, asking for an appointment regarding Philip.
2. 01.02.65 Note from NCH regarding a visit to the Uncle.
3. 02.02.65. Letter to Uncle from Child Care Officer.
I am writing to ask if I can see you and your sister-in-law on Tuesday morning February 9th, regarding your admission enquiry.
4. 03.02.65 Letter to the NCH at Harpenden from the Uncle.
Thank you for your letter. It will be quite convenient for you to see me on Feb 9th, but as my sister-in-law (the mother) is working in the Isle of Wight, it will be rather difficult for her to be here, if that is all right with you may I suggest 11.30 as a suitable time. If there is anything else you wish to know in the meantime, my wife is at home until 1pm each day, and will be pleased to help in any way she can.
5. 10.02.65 Note from Governor of Harpenden.
I had a long talk with the uncle and aunt of the boy. The uncle mentioned that he needed to be disciplined as he could be rather badly behaved.
Visited The Uncle 09.02.65. The mother is due in London in a week’s time, with her son Philip. She will telephone or write, and I will write full report after seeing them. At present she is living on Isle of Wight. Philip is 8 years old and is half Indian.
MY ANSWER. The visit by the Governor and the Child Care Officer to my aunt and uncle seemed to seal my fate. It appears to have been mentioned by him that I needed to be disciplined.
I was not really a wild boy, but I was most happy on my own or with just a couple of friends; large group activities were never to my liking.
If the comment that I needed discipline had not been mentioned, I might not have been allocated to the flat, that to nearly every child in the Home was one of the least appealing flats in the Home owing to the Sister’s strict but fair regime. The Sister in charge was not unkind in any way, but having possibly the most experience in years over every other member of the staff in looking after boys, her method of upbringing would be the nearest I would get to a father figure for discipline.
To give me a title of ‘half Indian’ is not really correct as my father came from Ceylon.
6. 23.02.65 Letter to Child Care Officer from The Mother.
With reference to a letter from my Sister. I have now returned to London, & would be pleased to have an appointment at any time suitable to you.
7. 24.02.65 Letter to The Mother from Child Care Officer.
Thank you for your letter telling me you are now in London. Is it possible to see you during the day on Tuesday, the 2nd March?
8. 26.02.65. Letter to The Child Care Officer from The Mother.
Thank you for your letter, I would be very pleased to see you on Tuesday March 2nd; the afternoon would be most suitable, although I shall be at home all day, as I now have my mother home from hospital & she needs rather a lot of attention in the mornings.
MY ANSWER Whilst I was at school, my mother went up to the Children's Home for a visit, all I was told when I returned home at the end of the day was that she had been to see about a school in the country for me, near to where my aunts lived.
9. 02.03.65. NCH FORM Particulars of child for whom admission is sought.
Name of child. PHILIP JOHN (Boy).
D.O.B. 1957
Place of Birth. Paddington Hospital.
Baptized. No
Religious Denomination. C of E.
Present Address London NW2.
With whom. Mother.
Name of Father Linton Jansen, Nationality Singhalese (Burgher). Country of Origin Ceylon. Occupation Trainee in hotel management. Health Good.
Name of Mother Dorothy Moira Howard. Nationality English. D.O.B. 09.10.21. Country of Origin England. Address London NW2. Occupation Ex-housekeeper. Health Good. Religion C of E.
Wages Four Pounds, Total weekly income Four Pounds
Grandparents Father 88. Retired Accountant. Mother 68 Retired.
Aunts and Uncles
Harpenden: (Main contact with NCH) Sister & Brother-in-Law. No Children.
Harpenden: Sister & Brother-in-Law. Daughter (age 24).
Harpenden: Brother & Sister-in-Law. Son (age 6) Daughter (age 8).
London: Brother. No Children.
Information: regarding the health, character, habits and mentality of the child.
Very lively. Lack of concentration.
Reason for application.
Mother is having to look after her mother who has had a stroke & father 88 years. Lack of accommodation, and supervision for Philip.
Who takes responsibility for receiving the child if he should prove unsuitable for continued residence in the Home - Mother.
What weekly payment is offered towards the child’s maintenance? - Two Pounds per week plus clothes.
MY ANSWER. The reference to my father as a Burgher:
Descendents of Dutch settlers who arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation in the 17th and 18th Century. They were encouraged to inter-marry with the Singhalese. On the whole they have kept their European habits, and generally speak English, though many also speak Singhalese.
10. 02.03.65 Report of Child Care Officer.
The mother’s sister in Harpenden had originally approached the Governor at Highfield to ask his advice about her nephew Philip. The mother was at the time working as a housekeeper on the Isle of Wight, but I was able to see her this week as she has now come up to London to look after her parents.
The mother is 43 years of age, and has so far been able to look after Philip herself during these past years. Just before Christmas, however, her mother had a stroke and has been in hospital up until now. The mother is the only one who is in a position to come and look after their parents.
The grandmother is still slightly paralysed by the stroke and has difficulty in speaking; the grandfather who is 88 years has also to be looked after fairly well as he suffers from bronchitis. The mother has a pleasant flat on the second floor, just off the main Edgware road.
The mother’s difficulty now is trying to look after Philip at the same time who is a very lively energetic 8-year-old-boy.
According to his uncle from Harpenden, he is in great need of discipline.
The mother has already told Philip that there is a likelihood he might be going to ‘boarding-school’ and he seemed quite cheerful at this prospect of being with other children.
It was very difficult however, to carry on a conversation with Philip as he seemed to suffer from an intense lack of concentration.
He seemed a very likeable little boy, and is only lightly coloured. The mother only knew his father a Singhalese, for a very short period, and has since lost all contact with him.
The mother is planning to look after her parents indefinitely, but thinks that as soon as her help and support is no longer required she will then be able to find another job as a housekeeper and will have Philip back, but at this stage she thinks he will be slightly more disciplined and that she should then be able to cope with him as well as a job. Her family is now giving her four pounds per week and she is willing to contribute two pounds per week for Philip’s maintenance as well as buying all his clothes.
I would like to recommend this application and that if possible Philip could go to Harpenden so that his mother could visit fairly easily as well as all the other relatives who are living in the area. I don’t think the mother would ever lose touch with the boy and she would gladly visit once every three weeks.
Possibly when Philip is 11 yrs and changing schools the possibility of him being returned to his mother could then be considered.
Governor of Harpenden Notes – After visit by Mother to Highfield.
It was originally suggested by the uncle that the boy needed to be disciplined. When the mother was questioned over this matter, she thought it was perhaps a good idea as that at times he could be a bit of a handful.
We spoke about the various sanctions that were available; the mother was in agreement that for any minor events, if the Sister in charge of Philip punished him with the slipper, there would be no objection from her. If there were any cases of bad behaviour then she was quite in agreement that he could be punished more severely.
MY ANSWER. Describing me as a very lively energetic 8-year-old was perhaps the most accurate words ever spoken. I was on the go from the point I woke up until when I went to bed. If I was perhaps a loner it was due to my mother simply not having as much time due to work, as she would have liked to spend with me, so I was used to playing on my own.
A classification of me as an 8-year-old boy today would be that it was quite easy to add the words hyperactive and several of the more modern labels that children who do not seem to fit into the adults standard categories receive.
My mother was asked about the matter of punishments I might receive if I did anything wrong during my stay in the Home. When I was small my mother had given me a few light smacks; these were normally enough to bring me back into order.
At the age of five my grandmother had once caned me. This did get me to be well behaved, and if my mother had used this form of punishment on me at the time, I knew I would have followed every command she made.
From the age of six my mother had normally given me early bedtimes or decided that treats could be suspended, as at my first school the Headmistress was against physical punishments. Had I not gone to that boarding school I might have found my mother could have been a little firmer with me.
When I reached seven, the event at the last infant school where I was given the cane, had shown her that I could be kept in order. My mother decided that at the age of seven I was old enough to receive the plimsoll from her over minor matters, which that year were just over a dozen different times for various matters of bad temper, damage to property and wetting the bed. There was the cane for any serious problem. This, my mother had only needed to give me twice. All my punishments from my mother had been quite light in nature; it was done to try to keep me under some kind of control.
The Home seemed to have accepted the suggestion from my uncle that I needed to be disciplined; this in my mind was a little unfair as we had so rarely been together. My mother had probably written to her sister telling her of my latest wrongdoing; this was how my uncle came to the idea that I needed to be kept under control. My mother agreed that the Sister in charge of me should use the slipper on me if I became troublesome; if there was anything worse in my behaviour then it was easy to see that the Governor of the Home could intervene.
The item in my file “When Philip is 11 yrs and changing schools the possibility of him being returned to his mother could then be considered.” Was it decided before my arrival at Highfield that I was going to be with them for three years, whatever my family outcome was? If my grandmother and grandfather had died at an age before I was 11-12 years, would I have stayed in the Home, or would my mother have taken me straight out? The three to four years in care would be the same period as if I had stayed at the boarding school, or gone into one of the NCH Approved Schools.
It might be taken, that the next three to four years in the Home would be used to calm be down, whatever the situation of my grandparents was.
I did find out that my mother’s last employer did want her back, but the invitation did not include me. If my grandparents had died early, would my mother have been able to find a housekeeping job that would have taken both of us? Or would she have thought it best that I stayed in the Home.
Early on, if it had been explained to me, that around the age of eleven there would be a good chance of leaving the Home, then possibly my life would have been a lot easier and the number of problems I caused would have been far less.
Graduating students of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) are honored during their commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 21, 2022 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
Petroxestes pera Wilson & Palmer, 1988 - bivalve borings in the Ordovician of Ohio, USA.
These slit-shaped structures are borings made by fossil clams. Borings are one of many categories of trace fossils - any indirect evidence of ancient life. Other examples of trace fossils include burrows, tracks, trails, footprints, and bitemarks. Traces (also called ichnofossils) record the behavior of ancient organisms. Trace fossils are given scientific names in a similar style as living organisms or body fossils.
The Petroxestes borings shown here near Cincinnati, Ohio were made by the bivalve Corallidomus scobina. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates.
Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood.
The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record.
Petroxestes borings very rarely have a bivalve body fossil still occupying the slit. The type specimen of Petroxestes pera is a boring incised into a solid, calcareous, bryozoan colony. The examples shown here were drilled into a carbonate hardground, which is a synsedimentarily-cemented surface directly exposed on the seafloor. Some hard-substrate seafloor surfaces are composed of other rock types - such as basalt - and are called rockgrounds. Many marine hardground environments were in moderately high-energy, relatively shallow water. Organisms occupying such settings frequently physically attached themselves to the hardground seafloor (= encrusters) or drilled into the substrate (= borers).
Petroxestes pera borings were sometimes so abundant on ancient Cincinnatian hardgrounds that early stratigraphers called the surfaces "turkey tracks", in reference to their similar appearance with certain bird footprints (e.g., see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/26798916929).
That the term "turkey track" referred to Petroxestes hardgrounds has been forgotten over the decades. Modern Cincinnatian geologists misidentify Trichophycus venosum-burrowed surfaces as the "turkey tracks" of old - I've seen this in the literature and in museum exhibits.
The best true turkey track layer I know of is the one shown here - it's an extensive horizon at Caesar Creek Lake State Park in Ohio. Exposures and talus blocks can be seen in the emergency spillway and along the Flat Fork trail and at creek cuts along Flat Fork itself. Some of the best examples in the spillway have been vandalized. The only occurrences I have seen for certain are in the upper Waynesville Formation. I have also encountered this, or a similar, horizon in the Waynesville Formation near Dayton, Ohio.
Stratigraphy: Turkey Track Layer, upper Waynesville Formation, Richmondian Stage, upper Cincinnatian Series, upper Upper Ordovician
Locality: talus block along the cut wall of Caesar Creek Lake's emergency spillway (between Clarksville Road and Roaring Run), northeastern Warren County, southwestern Ohio, USA
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
By understanding your dogs language, enabling you to recognise dog aggressive behavior and to communicate and to guide.
Aggression can be overcome with leadership, patience and repetition, never ever give up on an aggressive dog – dog aggressive behavior is only a symptom.
RC465.M44 2009
This rich collection of case studies integrates contemporary and recognizable classic cases to illustrate a wide range of clinical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology. Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for students with its rare combination of readability, humor, and strong scholarship.
Do you see what the Pyrrholoxia is feasting on? Even though my three dogs chose the moment to run up to the patio not 6 feet from him? He loves my Jalopenos. A taste we share! But I enjoy the spicy heat of the capsaicin, and as a bird, he lacks the receptors to feel that kind of heat. Mice on the other hand are mammals and do not like hot peppers at all, so they leave the fruit alone. Perfect, they would only chew the seeds to pieces. Birds swallow the seeds whole and pass them along , making them the ideal dispersers of the seeds.