Have you wonder, what’s inside a LEGO minifigure’s head?

 

Let me share with you what I’ve discovered when I split this giant LEGO minifig in the middle. You discover two different worlds:

 

On the left brain: A Scientist’s Lab

This half is all about science and discovery! Two minifig scientists working hard in a lab with microscope, computer, and a big specimen tank. They’re busy studying how LEGO brick and minifig works. This thinking and learning side just like how human’s left brain function.

 

On the right brain: A Kid’s Dream Space

This half is about fun and imagination! A minifig kid is sitting on the floor, happily building with LEGO bricks. He’s dreaming up wild creations and imagining his own LEGO model someday being displayed at LEGO House! This is the minifig’s playful, dreaming side and it relate with human’s right brain.

 

Wait! Seems like the orange “piping” in the minfig head is the corpus callosum, which it form a brigde and allows communication between the left and right brain!

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A flowering plant known for its potential health benefits.

Milk thistle is often used for liver conditions like cirrhosis, hepatitis, and fatty liver disease. Silymarin is thought to protect liver cells from toxins, reduce inflammation, and may even aid in liver cell regeneration. However, research on its effectiveness is mixed and more studies are needed, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).

Diabetes Management: Some research suggests milk thistle may help lower blood sugar levels and improve insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes.

Other Potential Benefits: Milk thistle is also explored for potential benefits in:

Neuroprotection: Animal studies suggest it may help prevent age-related decline in brain function.

Bone Health: Animal studies indicate it may strengthen bones and protect against bone loss.

Cancer Treatment Support: It's being studied for potentially reducing chemotherapy side effects and enhancing treatment efficacy, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Acne Control: A small study showed promise for reducing acne lesions.

Increased Breast Milk Production: Some evidence suggests it may boost breast milk production in lactating mothers.

Paul de Vivie - Velocio ! 1853-1930

 

VELOCIO, GRAND SEIGNEUR

by Clifford L. Graves, M.D.

May 1965

 

When a throng of cyclists from all corners of France converged on Saint-Etienne one day last July as they had done for more than forty years, they were paying homage to a man who accomplished great things in a small corner of the world. He was a man who devoted a lifetime to the perfection of the bicycle and the art of riding it, a man who inspired countless others through the strength of his character and the beauty of his writings, a man who even in his old age was capable of prodigious riding feats; in short, a man who might well be called the patron saint of cyclists. That man was Paul de Vivie, better know as Velocio.

 

Paul de Vivie was born in 1853 in the small village of Perne in Southern France. His early years were unremarkable except that he distinguished himself by his love for the classics. If it is the mark of the educated man that he enjoys the exercise of his mind, Paul was exceedingly well educated. He graduated from the lycée, served an apprenticeship in the silk industry, and started his own business before he was thirty. With a beautiful wife and three handsome children, he seemed headed for a life of ease and elegance.

 

The change came gradually. In 1881, when he was twenty-eight, he bought his first bicycle. It was an "ordinary" or high wheel, the safety bicycle still being in the future. The ordinary was a monster. With a precarious balance and an immoderate weight, it was a vehicle only for the strong and intrepid. That was exactly Paul's cup of tea. He began exploring the neighborhood on his newfangled contraption and he taught himself all the tricks of his wobbly perch. One day, on a bet, he rode sixty-six miles in six hours. This trip took him to the mountain resort of Chaise-Dieu. Suddenly he discovered a new world. The vigorous exercise, the fresh air, the beautiful countryside, these things took possession of him. He did not realize it but his life was beginning to take shape.

 

The decade of the 1880s was a momentous one, both for Paul and for the bicycle. For Paul, it was the start of an arduous and lifelong pursuit. For the bicycle, it was the end of a long and painful gestation.

 

This gestation had started in 1816 when the Baron von Drais in Germany discovered that he could balance two wheels in tandem as long as he kept moving. He moved by kicking the ground with his feet, and his vehicle came to be known as the draisine, or hobbyhorse.

 

In 1829 Kirkpatrick Macmillan in Scotland eliminated the necessity for kicking by fitting cranks and treadles to the wheels.

 

In 1863 or 1864 Pierre Michaux in Paris, with the help of his mechanic, Pierre Lallement, improved on the treadles by fitting pedals. This vehicle was a boneshaker, or velocipede.

 

Neither the hobbyhorse nor the boneshaker was a hit because of the bruising weight and the merciless bouncing.

 

In 1870 came the high wheel, and this did make a hit. Although the height of the wheel was a distinct and ceaseless hazard, this very height made it possible to travel farther with each revolution of the pedals. The high wheel caught the public fancy when four riders in 1872 rode the 860 miles in Great Britain from Lands End to John o'Groats in fifteen days. Clubs were formed, inns were opened, and touring started in earnest. The high wheel lasted until 1885 when it was replaced by the safety bicycle, which caused a further surge of excitement. Thus, when Paul de Vivie appeared on the scene in 1881, the bicycle was indeed on the threshold of its golden age.

 

Paul rode his ordinary only a year. Then he bought a Bayliss tricycle, followed by a tandem tricycle and various other early models. These were the days when the bicycle industry was well established in Coventry, while France was lagging. Fired by enthusiasm, Paul started shuttling back and forth. He was searching for a better bicycle, a search that was taking more and more of his time. Clearly, he could not push this search and also run his silk business. He made his decision in 1887 at the age of thirty-four.

 

In that year, he sold his silk business, moved to Saint-Etienne, opened a small shop, and started a magazine, Le Cycliste. Considering that he was invading a completely new field in which he had never had any training, it was a leap in the dark. In this leap, he discovered himself, and one of the things he discovered was that he could write. Words welled up within him as naturally as water tumbles down a cataract--and as gracefully. In his writing he always signed himself Velocio, and that became his name henceforth. It fitted him to perfection.

 

For the first two years, Velocio was content to import bicycles from Coventry. But all the time he was experimenting. For us, who have grown up with the bicycle, the design problems that assailed Velocio seem elementary. To him, they were formidable. The safety bicycle of 1885 left many questions unanswered. The shape of the frame, the kind of transmission, the length of the cranks, the position of the handlebars, the type of tires, and above all the gearing, these were matters that caused endless discussion and experimentation, not only in the shop but on the road.

 

Velocio's first model in 1889 was La Gauloise. It had the familiar diamond frame, a chain transmission, and a single gear of about fifty inches. It was the first bicycle produced in France, but it did not satisfy Velocio. The region around Saint-Etienne is mountainous. Velocio could see the need for variable gears. How to achieve these? In England, all the work was in the direction of epicyclic and planetary gears. Velocio struck out in a totally different direction. He conceived the idea of the derailleur.

 

His first attempt was two concentric chain wheels with a single chain that had to be lifted by hand from one to the other. Now he had two gears. Next, he built two concentric chain wheels on the left side of the bottom bracket. Now he had four gears. In 1901 he came on the four-speed protean gear of the English Whippet. Here, the changes were made by the expansion of a split chain wheel. Partial reverse rotation of the pedals caused cams to open the two halves of the chain wheel and secure them in any one of the four positions by pawls. Velocio took this idea and worked it into his Chemineau, the derailleur as we now know it. This was in 1906. By 1908 four French manufacturers were introducing their own models because Velocio had been too busy to take out a patent.

 

Incredible as it seems today, Velocio actually had to fight for the adoption of his derailleur gear. The cyclists of the period resented this marvelous invention as a stigma of weakness. They stoutly maintained that only a fixed gear could lead to smooth pedaling. Even Henri Desgrange, the originator of the Tour de France, attacked Velocio. To defend himself, Velocio wrote dozens of articles, answered hundreds of letters, cycled thousands of miles (average, 12,000 a year). At his suggestion the Touring Club de France organized a test in 1902. Competitors were to ride a mountainous course of 150 miles with a total climb of 12,000 feet. The champion of the day, Edouard Fischer, on a single-speed was pitched against Marthe Hesse on a Gauloise with a three-speed derailleur. The Gauloise won hands down. The newspapers were ecstatic because "the winner never set foot to the ground over the entire course." Still, Desgrange would not concede. Wrote he in his influential magazine, L'Equipe:

 

"I applaud this test, but I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. Come on, fellows. Let's say that the test was a fine demonstration--for our grandparents! As for me, give me a fixed gear!"

 

Said Velocio with admirable restraint: "No comment."

 

The battle of the derailleur dragged on for a full thirty years. It was not until the 1920s that it was finally won. Velocio himself advocated wide-ratio gears for touring: from 35 to 85. His normal riding gear was 72.

 

In this battle for the derailleur gear, Velocio had a powerful weapon in his magazine, Le Cycliste. By 1900 this publication had grown from a fragile and unpretentious sheet of local circulation to an eloquent and influential journal that was widely read because of its incisive articles and vivid writing. Much of this writing was by Velocio himself, who never tired of describing his fantastic tours in the most colorful language. To read Le Cycliste is to read the history of cycle touring.

 

But Le Cycliste is more than a repository of history. With a passage of the years, Velocio became a philosopher. Having given up the quest for money and fame in the dim days of 1887, he could look at the world with complete equanimity. He read the classics in the original, and he applied their teachings to his own life. Between his articles on cycling, he counseled his readers on diet, on exercise, on hygiene, on physical fitness, on self-discipline, in fact on all the facets of what is commonly called a well-rounded life. His theme was a sound mind in a sound body. In wine-drinking France he spoke out unequivocally for sobriety; and he warned against the hazards of smoking sixty year before a presidential commission in the United States did so. These statements he made only after he had proved the benefits on himself because he was not a man to mouth platitudes. Thus, Le Cycliste became much more than a magazine for cyclists. It became a manifesto of brisk living, the credo of a dedicated man, a profession of faith.

 

Brisk and dedicated are also the words to describe Velocio as a cyclist. By nature, temperament, and physique he was what he called a "veloceman." Something of his enthusiasm can be gleaned from his ride to Chaise-Dieu in 1881, sixty-six miles in six hours on a clumsy high wheel. His serious cycling started in 1886 on a Eureka with solid rubber tires (pneumatics came in 1889). On this bicycle he rode 90 miles from Saint-Etienne to Vichy before noon. In 1889 he made his first 150-miler, a round trip from Saint-Etienne to Charlieu on a British Star weighing fifty-five pounds.

 

But these were only the probings of the beginner. Partly from his tremendous drive and partly from his compelling desire to show what the bicycle was capable of, he began to extend his tours. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a small group of friends, he would ride through the night, through the second day, through the second night, and into the third day without more that an occasional rest to eat or change clothes. Consider these feats:

 

In 1900, when he was forty-seven, he toured the high passes in Switzerland and Italy, 400 miles with a total climb of 18,000 feet, in forty-eight hours.

 

For Easter in 1903, at the age of fifty, he rode from Saint-Etienne to Menton and back in four days: 600 miles on a bicycle weighing sixty-six pounds including baggage.

 

For Christmas 1904 he cycled from Saint-Etienne to Arles and back on a night so cold that icicles formed on his moustache.

 

His "spring cure" in 1910 took him from Saint-Etienne to Nice, a distance of 350 miles, in thirty-two hours. At Nice he joined a group of friends for 250 miles of leisurely touring in three days.

 

The following summer he tackled one of the highest Alpine passes, the Lautaret, in the company of a young friend: 300 miles in thirty-one hours.

 

In 1912 also, when he was fifty-nine, he undertook an experimental ride from Saint-Etienne to Aix-en-Provence. 400 miles in forty-six hours, at the end of which he had to admit that his companion, thirty-five, tolerated the second night on the road better than he. "From now on," he wrote in Le Cycliste, "I will limit myself to stages of forty hours and leave it to the younger generation to prove that the human motor can run for three days and two nights without excessive fatigue."

 

"Every cyclist between twenty and sixty in good health," wrote Velocio with the fervor of a missionary "can ride 130 miles in a day with 600 feet of climbing, provided he eats properly and provided he has the proper bicycle." Proper food, in his opinion, meant no meat. A proper bicycle meant a comfortable bicycle with wide-ratio gears, a fairly long wheelbase, and wide-section tires. A bicycle with close-ratio gears, a short wheelbase, and narrow-section tires will roll better at first, he pointed out, but it will wear its rider down on long-distance attempts. The first consideration is comfort. His diet on tour consisted of fruit, rice, cakes, eggs, and milk.

 

Obviously, Velocio was a very special kind of cycle tourist. Not for him the Sunday ride with stops every half hour. "Cycling in this fashion is undoubtedly enjoyable," he wrote, "but it ruins your rhythm and squanders your energy. To get in your stride, you have to use a certain amount of discipline. My aim is to show that long rides of hundreds of miles with only an occasional stop are no strain on the healthy organism. To prove this point is not only a pleasure, it is a duty for me."

 

Velocio was sometimes criticized for his long-distance riding. It was said that he was hypnotized by speed and mileage and that he could not see anything of the country at that rate. He answered:

 

"These people do not realize that vigorous riding impels the senses. Perception is sharpened, impressions are heightened, blood circulates faster, and the brain functions better. I can still vividly remember the smallest details of tours of many years ago. Hypnotized? It is the traveler in a train of car who is hypnotized."

 

If anyone doubts that Velocio could see anything, let him read short passage from a story of an Alpine crossing:

 

"A shaft of gold pierced the sky and came to rest on a snowy peak, which, moments before, had been caressed by soft moonlight. For an instant, showers of sparks bounced off the pinnacle and tumbled down the mountain in a heavenly cataract. The king of the universe, the magnificent dispenser of light and warmth and life, gave notice of his imminent arrival. But only for an instant. Like a spent meteor, the spectacle dissolved in the sea of darkness that engulfed me in the depths of the gorge. The scintillating reflections, the exploding fireballs--they were gone. Once again, the snow assumed its cold and ghostly face."

 

Could this passage have come from the pen of a cyclist obsessed by the mechanics of cycling? No--Velocio loved his bicycle because it brought him priceless freedom, because it gave him exhilarating exercise, because it opened his mind to the music of the wind, because it imparted a delicious feeling of being alive.

 

"After a long day on my bicycle," he said, "I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace. On days like that I am permeated with a profound gratitude for my bicycle." It was Velocio who coined the term "little queen" for the bicycle, a term that is still in common use in France.

 

And again: "Even if I did not enjoy riding, I would still do it for my peace of mind. What a wonderful tonic to be exposed to bright sunshine, drenching rain, choking dust, dripping fog, frigid air, punishing winds! I will never forget the day I climbed Puy Mary [a 5,000-foot eminence near his home]. There were two of us on a fine day in May. We started in the sunshine and stripped to the waist. Halfway, clouds enveloped us and the temperature tumbled. Gradually it got colder and wetter, but we did not notice it. In fact, it heightened our pleasure. We did not bother to put on our jackets or our capes, and we arrived at the little hotel at the top with rivulets of rain and sweat running down our sides. I tingled from top to bottom." Passages almost exactly like this can be found in the books of John Muir.

 

It was from experiences like these that Velocio formulated the seven commandments for the cyclist:

1. Keep your rests short and infrequent to maintain your rhythm.

2. Eat before you are hungry and drink before you are thirsty.

3. Never ride to the point of exhaustion where you can't eat or sleep.

4. Cover up before you are cold, peel off before you are hot.

5. Don't drink, smoke, or eat meat on tour.

6. Never force the pace, especially during the first hours.

7. Never ride just for the sake of riding.

 

Velocio was not a promoter. His efforts to create a national bicycle touring society like the Cycle Touring Club in England floundered, and he never had an organized bicycle club even in his hometown. What he did have was a constantly growing body of friends and admirers who gathered around the master in his shop, at the rallies, and on his tours. Those who lived nearby formed a loose-knit group known as L'Ecole Stéphanoise, or School of Saint-Etienne. A quorum was always on hand for Velocio's favorite ride to the top of the Col du Grand Bois. It was this ride that eventually grew into Velocio Day.

 

The Col du Grand Bois is a 3,800-foot passage across the Massif du Pilat. The road starts on the outskirts of Saint-Etienne and rises without letup over a distance of eight miles. Velocio used to make this ride as a constitutional before breakfast. In 1922 his friends surprised him by inviting all cyclists in the area to join in the ride in a gesture of reverence. Today, Velocio Day is a unique spectacle, the only one of its kind in the world.

 

This gradual emergence of Velocio as a dominant figure, not only among cyclists but among the people of his age, is one of the most interesting things about the man because he never made a conscious attempt to attract public notice. All he wanted was his bicycle and his friends. He never moved his shop, he never had much money, and he never rested on his laurels. Twice a year, he would have a little notice in Le Cycliste, inviting all and sundry to a rally. These rallies became famous. At first strictly local affairs, they eventually became national institutions and some of them are still observed, such as the Easter gathering in Provence. Velocio himself was not aware of his stature until he was invited to appear in Paris in the Criterium des Vieilles Gloires when he was seventy-six. Then it was obvious that he completely over-shadowed all the others. Thousands gathered around him, just to shake his hand and wish him well.

 

On February 27, 1930, Velocio started his day with a reading from one of the classics, as was his custom. It was a letter from Seneca to Lucilius. "Death follows me and life escapes me. When I go to sleep, I think that I may never awake. When I wake up, I think that I may never go to sleep. When I go out, I think that I may never come back. When I come back, I think that I may never go out again. Always, the interval between life and death is short."

 

Velocio went out. Traffic was heavy, and he decided to walk and lead his bicycle. He crossed the street ahead of the streetcar coming from his left, saw another car coming from his right, stepped back, and was hit by the first. It was a mortal blow. He died clutching his beloved bicycle.

 

Today, thirty-five years later, Velocio lives on, while others, equally dedicated and equally inventive, are forgotten. Why is this?

 

It is because Velocio used his bicycle to demonstrate the great truths. Velocio's influence grew, not because of his exploits on the bicycle, but because he showed how these exploits will shape the character of a man. Velocio was a humanist. His philosophy came from the ancients who considered discipline the cardinal virtue. Discipline is of two kinds: physical and moral. Velocio used the physical discipline of the bicycle to lead him to moral discipline. Through the bicycle he was able to commune with the sun, the rain, the wind. For him, the bicycle was the expression of a personal philosophy. For him, the bicycle was the road to freedom, physical and spiritual. He gave up much, but he found more.

 

Velocio--the cyclists of the world salute you.

Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human experimentation program, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continued at least through the late 1960s, and used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects.

 

The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.

 

Project MKULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.

 

Although the CIA insists that MKULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKULTRA was abandoned a "cover story.

loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.

Educating and training the masses is expensive and troublesome, but the Ludgonian Industrial Union has the answer, Neuro-Net Processors. Neuro-Net Processors, or learning computers, upload information and knowledge stored on disks and input them directly into the mind. A synthetic brain fluid is injected into the brain causing it to grow more neuro pathways. These pathways allow massive amounts of information to be stored. Unfortunately, these artificially created pathways occasionally splice with healthy brain tissue, and the information injected is stored over vital brain functions, such as memories, bladder control, etc.

Vastu 101: How to Make Your Home A Healing Sanctuary

Use this ancient system of architecture and design to bring positive energy into any physical space.

JULY 17, 2020

AMANDA TUST

 

Ever feel an immediate sense of ease when you walk into a room that’s clean and clutter-free? Perhaps the furniture is functional and comfy, and there is plenty of open space. Or maybe your eye is drawn to a beautiful painting or lush plant, and gentle sunlight pours in through a window. That room may follow the principles of an ancient Indian system of architecture and design called Vastu. Just as you cultivate prana (life force) in your body through your yoga practice, Vastu can help you create a positive feel and flow within physical spaces.

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Vastu offers guidelines for constructing buildings (temples, businesses, and homes) and arranging the furnishings and objects within to maximize positive vibrational energy. Vastu focuses on aligning structures with the laws of nature by adhering to the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), welcoming in energy from the sun, and honoring the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether.

Vastu’s ultimate goal is to manage energy within a space, similar to how Chinese feng shui cultivates Qi (universal energy) to create harmony between people and their environments. By some estimates, this sister science to yoga, Ayurveda, and Jyotish (Vedic astrology) is thousands of years older than feng shui, with origins that can be traced to the Vedasa 3,000-year-old collection of Sanskrit poems and hymns that forms the foundation of Hindu theology.

Fire energy dominates the southeast, where you’ll find the kitchen in a Vastu home: The stove and food-prep surfaces face east to further tap into that fiery, nourishing vitality. But be cautious of your color palette, says Vastu consultant Kathleen Cox. Bright reds and oranges can stir too much heat in this region; opt instead for a deep merlot.

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Get On The Grid

Traditionally, Vastu focuses on organizing buildings based on a grid called the Vastu Purusha Mandala—a geometric chart that symbolically represents the cosmos. This blueprint encourages positive energy flow by mimicking patterns found in the natural world. A structure’s mandala grid is positioned so that its perimeter is flush with the cardinal directions, or the earth’s grid, in order to be more aligned with solar and cosmic forces. “Geometry acts like a tuning fork to supply the house with earth and star energy so that it vibrates with life-enhancing cosmic forces,” says Vastu designer Michael Borden.

 

Each mandala grid, regardless of its dimensions, has corners and central areas associated with the elemental energies of earth, air, fire, water, and ether—and rooms, furniture, and appliances are situated to correspond with and maximize the respective elements and their particular benefits.

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The northeast area of the house possesses the water element and makes for a calming space for meditation. The southwest holds earth—a grounding place for deep rest. The southeast gathers fire, and it’s the traditional location for a kitchen. The northwest region fields air, which encourages movement and the sharing of ideas, and is ideal as a living room or communal space. The ether element congregates in the central sector, considered a sacred area that should be kept open so its powerful energy can spread outward and energize the entire space.

Vastu homes are designed to let in gentle sunshine from the north and east, with sightlines throughout that allow cosmic energy to move freely. You can further encourage positive flow by limiting what’s on display and selecting larger pieces (such as furniture and rugs) that fit a space while still creating a sense of openness.

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When it comes to arranging furniture, people often have an intuitive sense of what makes them feel settled, says Borden. Listen to that instinct by paying attention to your breathing and any emotional shifts as you move furniture around. The space should feel good.

Synthetics release toxins via offgassing, says Vastu consultant Sherri Silverman. Instead, when selecting accents for your home, incorporate houseplants (which purify the air) and organic materials such as wooden furniture, wool or silk rugs, and bamboo shelves. Choosing tile, true adobe, brick, and natural linoleum will also help align your home with nature.

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Align Your Practice

It’s tradition to face east when practicing yoga (especially for morning Sun Salutations) because it puts you in line with the earth’s movement. Facing north is also acceptable, Silverman says, as it optimizes brain functioning.

 

While you won’t find interior design advice in the ancient texts, you can incorporate key principles of Vastu and its elemental influences into your home to create a harmonious flow and experience positive shifts in how you feel.

“You can apply Vastu to any home, and, just like with a yoga or meditation practice, sometimes you’ll notice a dramatic shift right away. Other times it’s consistent use that makes the difference,” says Sherri Silverman, PhD, founder of Transcendence Design and author of Vastu: Transcendental Home Design in Harmony with Nature. Even changing where you put the head of your bed or using more organic cleaning products can help transform your space and allow you to achieve deeper rest and improved health.

“What yoga does for the body, Vastu does for the home,” says Kathleen Cox, a Vastu consultant and author of Space Matters, a design book that celebrates the ancient system. “The goal is to create a healing, healthy space where you feel calm.”

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But it doesn’t just happen. Design has to be intentional. Physical spaces have vibrations that influence how we feel and can help cultivate inner silence, peace, and fulfillment, says Michael Borden, a Vastu designer in Nelson, New Zealand. “By living in a Vastu space, you become slowly more aligned with the laws of nature to live a better and more prosperous, happy, and peaceful life.”

Vastu homes are plotted so that perimeter walls face the cardinal directions in order to access the earth’s natural energy grid. By designing the interiors of their homes to face the intercardinal directions, dwellers can align themselves with the natural resting places of the five elements and receive the maximum benefits from their corresponding vibrational influences. For instance, a bed positioned so that you sleep with the top of your head to the east (associated with consciousness) or to the south (healing energy) sets you up for deep rest, Silverman says. Similarly, facing northeast while working or studying can help keep your mind clear and alert while boosting focus and creativity.

 

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Vatsu Now

Use these tips to better balance the energy in your existing space.

1. The Center Is Sacred

The middle region of a home or building, called the brahmasthana (Sanskrit for “establish wholeness”), is the central point where all energy convenes and disperses. It is said to be the most divine and powerful zone in a space and, as such, should be left open—free of furniture and wires in order to welcome the flow of prana.

2. Build A Sanctuary

According to Vastu, the northeast area of a house is linked to the water element and is considered a calming space. It’s ideal for creating a zen zone where you can deepen your meditation and yoga practice. Build an altar here with a few sacred items and keep window shades open as much as possible to invite in ample light.

3. Declutter

Take a cue from Marie Kondo and downsize. Clutter has a negative energetic pull that can weigh you down and create stress. When surfaces are clean and open, positive energy flows.

4. Quiet Your Colors

Earthy, muted tones are calming and reinforce the sense of connecting to nature. Use a soft, soothing, matte finish that hides imperfections.

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The Black Sleep (1956)

 

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England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...

- Written by Rich Wannen

  

Old-fashioned as it is, however, The Black Sleep still gets the job done at least as well as most of the movies to which it hearkens back. Most notably, it crystallized a vague sense I’ve had for some time now that it’s too bad Rathbone got pigeonholed so early on as Sherlock Holmes. He had a commanding elegance about him akin to that later displayed by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and which nobody else on the 30’s and 40’s horror scene could match. Lionel Atwill and John Carradine came close on occasion, but Atwill was always a little too foppish and Carradine a little too homespun to play the depraved Old World nobleman with Rathbone’s authority; neither of them would have been up to the challenge of Tower of London’s Richard III, for example. As Joe Cadman, Rathbone simultaneously prefigures the Cushing Frankenstein, and hints at all the brilliant mad movie scientists that might have been if only Rathbone hadn’t been so busy chasing Nazi agents all over the English moors during the years of the second Hollywood horror boom. He might even have injected some unwonted class into a Monogram or PRC production! The rest of the cast doesn’t quite match up to the top-billed star, but most of those who are required to do any actual acting (which is to say, not Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney Jr.) acquit themselves respectably well. Another thing The Black Sleep does right is to incorporate a bit of defensible real-world science into the mad variety more familiar from movies of its type. Much of the film’s horror stems from the certainty that attempting such delicate neurological investigations with the clumsy and invasive techniques of the late 19th century really would produce monstrous derangement's of brain function, even if these specific symptoms (John Carradine’s character is convinced that he’s Bohemond of Taranto— the hell?) are not always especially plausible. Finally, Udo the Gypsy, who in most horror films of this era would be nothing but a comic relief character, is portrayed in much too sinister a light to become as irritating as one might anticipate. His clowning creates more unease than anything else, for it is plainly but a cover for a complete absence of conscience. All in all, The Black Sleep represents a commendable effort to bring some seriousness of purpose back into the gothic mad scientist movie, which had grown silly enough on its own over the years that it hadn’t really needed Abbott and Costello to poke fun at it.

 

Reef (dryly): "The male perspective on girly clothes has been the same since the beginning of time."

 

Chloe: "Do tell."

 

Reef: "It all started back when the first cavedude spotted the first filth cutie in a fur tube top. He grunted, 'Less more. Skin good,' and it's been part of our man code ever since..."

 

Suki (distractedly): "And you wonder why I dumped him."

 

Chloe: "Eh, he's cute, though. Think I'll keep him around for a while."

 

Reef: *sunny smile* "Thank you, baby."

 

Chloe: "Uh, Reef, you do realize that's Yuri's bra you're fondling, right? If Luke catches you, you're gonna lose higher brain function for at least an hour."

 

Suki: *mutters* "He can't lose what he never had..."

 

Reef: "Hey, after living with you two, the allure of the chick undie is dead to me. Y'all leave 'em hangin' all over the damn place. A dude can't walk in a room without getting a face full of lace."

 

Chloe: "So we've cured your boyhood fascination with bras, huh?"

 

Reef: "Ya, but no worries, bunnies. I still have much love 'n' fascination for what goes in 'em. Aloooha."

 

Chloe & Suki: *synchronized eye roll*

  

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**Any doll enhancements (i.e. freckles, piercings, eye color changes) were done by me unless otherwise stated.**

 

Chloe

Dress: Mattel - Hillary Duff Fashion Fever Closet

Tank: MGA - America's Next Top Model

Socks: No idea...sock fairy?

Boots: Volks - WTG - Natural Love

Bracelets: Goody Hair Rubber Bands

 

Doll is a Costume Drama Giselle re-rooted by valmaxi and transplanted to a Poppy body.

 

Reef

Jeans: Mattel - James Dean - distressed by me

T-shirt: Kelsie of Mutant Goldfish Designs

Belt: Miema (Etsy.com)

 

Doll is a IFDC Elite Pierre with a haircut and restyle by me.

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Paul de Vivie - Velocio ! 1853-1930

 

VELOCIO, GRAND SEIGNEUR

by Clifford L. Graves, M.D.

May 1965

 

When a throng of cyclists from all corners of France converged on Saint-Etienne one day last July as they had done for more than forty years, they were paying homage to a man who accomplished great things in a small corner of the world. He was a man who devoted a lifetime to the perfection of the bicycle and the art of riding it, a man who inspired countless others through the strength of his character and the beauty of his writings, a man who even in his old age was capable of prodigious riding feats; in short, a man who might well be called the patron saint of cyclists. That man was Paul de Vivie, better know as Velocio.

 

Paul de Vivie was born in 1853 in the small village of Perne in Southern France. His early years were unremarkable except that he distinguished himself by his love for the classics. If it is the mark of the educated man that he enjoys the exercise of his mind, Paul was exceedingly well educated. He graduated from the lycée, served an apprenticeship in the silk industry, and started his own business before he was thirty. With a beautiful wife and three handsome children, he seemed headed for a life of ease and elegance.

 

The change came gradually. In 1881, when he was twenty-eight, he bought his first bicycle. It was an "ordinary" or high wheel, the safety bicycle still being in the future. The ordinary was a monster. With a precarious balance and an immoderate weight, it was a vehicle only for the strong and intrepid. That was exactly Paul's cup of tea. He began exploring the neighborhood on his newfangled contraption and he taught himself all the tricks of his wobbly perch. One day, on a bet, he rode sixty-six miles in six hours. This trip took him to the mountain resort of Chaise-Dieu. Suddenly he discovered a new world. The vigorous exercise, the fresh air, the beautiful countryside, these things took possession of him. He did not realize it but his life was beginning to take shape.

 

The decade of the 1880s was a momentous one, both for Paul and for the bicycle. For Paul, it was the start of an arduous and lifelong pursuit. For the bicycle, it was the end of a long and painful gestation.

 

This gestation had started in 1816 when the Baron von Drais in Germany discovered that he could balance two wheels in tandem as long as he kept moving. He moved by kicking the ground with his feet, and his vehicle came to be known as the draisine, or hobbyhorse.

 

In 1829 Kirkpatrick Macmillan in Scotland eliminated the necessity for kicking by fitting cranks and treadles to the wheels.

 

In 1863 or 1864 Pierre Michaux in Paris, with the help of his mechanic, Pierre Lallement, improved on the treadles by fitting pedals. This vehicle was a boneshaker, or velocipede.

 

Neither the hobbyhorse nor the boneshaker was a hit because of the bruising weight and the merciless bouncing.

 

In 1870 came the high wheel, and this did make a hit. Although the height of the wheel was a distinct and ceaseless hazard, this very height made it possible to travel farther with each revolution of the pedals. The high wheel caught the public fancy when four riders in 1872 rode the 860 miles in Great Britain from Lands End to John o'Groats in fifteen days. Clubs were formed, inns were opened, and touring started in earnest. The high wheel lasted until 1885 when it was replaced by the safety bicycle, which caused a further surge of excitement. Thus, when Paul de Vivie appeared on the scene in 1881, the bicycle was indeed on the threshold of its golden age.

 

Paul rode his ordinary only a year. Then he bought a Bayliss tricycle, followed by a tandem tricycle and various other early models. These were the days when the bicycle industry was well established in Coventry, while France was lagging. Fired by enthusiasm, Paul started shuttling back and forth. He was searching for a better bicycle, a search that was taking more and more of his time. Clearly, he could not push this search and also run his silk business. He made his decision in 1887 at the age of thirty-four.

 

In that year, he sold his silk business, moved to Saint-Etienne, opened a small shop, and started a magazine, Le Cycliste. Considering that he was invading a completely new field in which he had never had any training, it was a leap in the dark. In this leap, he discovered himself, and one of the things he discovered was that he could write. Words welled up within him as naturally as water tumbles down a cataract--and as gracefully. In his writing he always signed himself Velocio, and that became his name henceforth. It fitted him to perfection.

 

For the first two years, Velocio was content to import bicycles from Coventry. But all the time he was experimenting. For us, who have grown up with the bicycle, the design problems that assailed Velocio seem elementary. To him, they were formidable. The safety bicycle of 1885 left many questions unanswered. The shape of the frame, the kind of transmission, the length of the cranks, the position of the handlebars, the type of tires, and above all the gearing, these were matters that caused endless discussion and experimentation, not only in the shop but on the road.

 

Velocio's first model in 1889 was La Gauloise. It had the familiar diamond frame, a chain transmission, and a single gear of about fifty inches. It was the first bicycle produced in France, but it did not satisfy Velocio. The region around Saint-Etienne is mountainous. Velocio could see the need for variable gears. How to achieve these? In England, all the work was in the direction of epicyclic and planetary gears. Velocio struck out in a totally different direction. He conceived the idea of the derailleur.

 

His first attempt was two concentric chain wheels with a single chain that had to be lifted by hand from one to the other. Now he had two gears. Next, he built two concentric chain wheels on the left side of the bottom bracket. Now he had four gears. In 1901 he came on the four-speed protean gear of the English Whippet. Here, the changes were made by the expansion of a split chain wheel. Partial reverse rotation of the pedals caused cams to open the two halves of the chain wheel and secure them in any one of the four positions by pawls. Velocio took this idea and worked it into his Chemineau, the derailleur as we now know it. This was in 1906. By 1908 four French manufacturers were introducing their own models because Velocio had been too busy to take out a patent.

 

Incredible as it seems today, Velocio actually had to fight for the adoption of his derailleur gear. The cyclists of the period resented this marvelous invention as a stigma of weakness. They stoutly maintained that only a fixed gear could lead to smooth pedaling. Even Henri Desgrange, the originator of the Tour de France, attacked Velocio. To defend himself, Velocio wrote dozens of articles, answered hundreds of letters, cycled thousands of miles (average, 12,000 a year). At his suggestion the Touring Club de France organized a test in 1902. Competitors were to ride a mountainous course of 150 miles with a total climb of 12,000 feet. The champion of the day, Edouard Fischer, on a single-speed was pitched against Marthe Hesse on a Gauloise with a three-speed derailleur. The Gauloise won hands down. The newspapers were ecstatic because "the winner never set foot to the ground over the entire course." Still, Desgrange would not concede. Wrote he in his influential magazine, L'Equipe:

 

"I applaud this test, but I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. Come on, fellows. Let's say that the test was a fine demonstration--for our grandparents! As for me, give me a fixed gear!"

 

Said Velocio with admirable restraint: "No comment."

 

The battle of the derailleur dragged on for a full thirty years. It was not until the 1920s that it was finally won. Velocio himself advocated wide-ratio gears for touring: from 35 to 85. His normal riding gear was 72.

 

In this battle for the derailleur gear, Velocio had a powerful weapon in his magazine, Le Cycliste. By 1900 this publication had grown from a fragile and unpretentious sheet of local circulation to an eloquent and influential journal that was widely read because of its incisive articles and vivid writing. Much of this writing was by Velocio himself, who never tired of describing his fantastic tours in the most colorful language. To read Le Cycliste is to read the history of cycle touring.

 

But Le Cycliste is more than a repository of history. With a passage of the years, Velocio became a philosopher. Having given up the quest for money and fame in the dim days of 1887, he could look at the world with complete equanimity. He read the classics in the original, and he applied their teachings to his own life. Between his articles on cycling, he counseled his readers on diet, on exercise, on hygiene, on physical fitness, on self-discipline, in fact on all the facets of what is commonly called a well-rounded life. His theme was a sound mind in a sound body. In wine-drinking France he spoke out unequivocally for sobriety; and he warned against the hazards of smoking sixty year before a presidential commission in the United States did so. These statements he made only after he had proved the benefits on himself because he was not a man to mouth platitudes. Thus, Le Cycliste became much more than a magazine for cyclists. It became a manifesto of brisk living, the credo of a dedicated man, a profession of faith.

 

Brisk and dedicated are also the words to describe Velocio as a cyclist. By nature, temperament, and physique he was what he called a "veloceman." Something of his enthusiasm can be gleaned from his ride to Chaise-Dieu in 1881, sixty-six miles in six hours on a clumsy high wheel. His serious cycling started in 1886 on a Eureka with solid rubber tires (pneumatics came in 1889). On this bicycle he rode 90 miles from Saint-Etienne to Vichy before noon. In 1889 he made his first 150-miler, a round trip from Saint-Etienne to Charlieu on a British Star weighing fifty-five pounds.

 

But these were only the probings of the beginner. Partly from his tremendous drive and partly from his compelling desire to show what the bicycle was capable of, he began to extend his tours. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a small group of friends, he would ride through the night, through the second day, through the second night, and into the third day without more that an occasional rest to eat or change clothes. Consider these feats:

 

In 1900, when he was forty-seven, he toured the high passes in Switzerland and Italy, 400 miles with a total climb of 18,000 feet, in forty-eight hours.

 

For Easter in 1903, at the age of fifty, he rode from Saint-Etienne to Menton and back in four days: 600 miles on a bicycle weighing sixty-six pounds including baggage.

 

For Christmas 1904 he cycled from Saint-Etienne to Arles and back on a night so cold that icicles formed on his moustache.

 

His "spring cure" in 1910 took him from Saint-Etienne to Nice, a distance of 350 miles, in thirty-two hours. At Nice he joined a group of friends for 250 miles of leisurely touring in three days.

 

The following summer he tackled one of the highest Alpine passes, the Lautaret, in the company of a young friend: 300 miles in thirty-one hours.

 

In 1912 also, when he was fifty-nine, he undertook an experimental ride from Saint-Etienne to Aix-en-Provence. 400 miles in forty-six hours, at the end of which he had to admit that his companion, thirty-five, tolerated the second night on the road better than he. "From now on," he wrote in Le Cycliste, "I will limit myself to stages of forty hours and leave it to the younger generation to prove that the human motor can run for three days and two nights without excessive fatigue."

 

"Every cyclist between twenty and sixty in good health," wrote Velocio with the fervor of a missionary "can ride 130 miles in a day with 600 feet of climbing, provided he eats properly and provided he has the proper bicycle." Proper food, in his opinion, meant no meat. A proper bicycle meant a comfortable bicycle with wide-ratio gears, a fairly long wheelbase, and wide-section tires. A bicycle with close-ratio gears, a short wheelbase, and narrow-section tires will roll better at first, he pointed out, but it will wear its rider down on long-distance attempts. The first consideration is comfort. His diet on tour consisted of fruit, rice, cakes, eggs, and milk.

 

Obviously, Velocio was a very special kind of cycle tourist. Not for him the Sunday ride with stops every half hour. "Cycling in this fashion is undoubtedly enjoyable," he wrote, "but it ruins your rhythm and squanders your energy. To get in your stride, you have to use a certain amount of discipline. My aim is to show that long rides of hundreds of miles with only an occasional stop are no strain on the healthy organism. To prove this point is not only a pleasure, it is a duty for me."

 

Velocio was sometimes criticized for his long-distance riding. It was said that he was hypnotized by speed and mileage and that he could not see anything of the country at that rate. He answered:

 

"These people do not realize that vigorous riding impels the senses. Perception is sharpened, impressions are heightened, blood circulates faster, and the brain functions better. I can still vividly remember the smallest details of tours of many years ago. Hypnotized? It is the traveler in a train of car who is hypnotized."

 

If anyone doubts that Velocio could see anything, let him read short passage from a story of an Alpine crossing:

 

"A shaft of gold pierced the sky and came to rest on a snowy peak, which, moments before, had been caressed by soft moonlight. For an instant, showers of sparks bounced off the pinnacle and tumbled down the mountain in a heavenly cataract. The king of the universe, the magnificent dispenser of light and warmth and life, gave notice of his imminent arrival. But only for an instant. Like a spent meteor, the spectacle dissolved in the sea of darkness that engulfed me in the depths of the gorge. The scintillating reflections, the exploding fireballs--they were gone. Once again, the snow assumed its cold and ghostly face."

 

Could this passage have come from the pen of a cyclist obsessed by the mechanics of cycling? No--Velocio loved his bicycle because it brought him priceless freedom, because it gave him exhilarating exercise, because it opened his mind to the music of the wind, because it imparted a delicious feeling of being alive.

 

"After a long day on my bicycle," he said, "I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace. On days like that I am permeated with a profound gratitude for my bicycle." It was Velocio who coined the term "little queen" for the bicycle, a term that is still in common use in France.

 

And again: "Even if I did not enjoy riding, I would still do it for my peace of mind. What a wonderful tonic to be exposed to bright sunshine, drenching rain, choking dust, dripping fog, frigid air, punishing winds! I will never forget the day I climbed Puy Mary [a 5,000-foot eminence near his home]. There were two of us on a fine day in May. We started in the sunshine and stripped to the waist. Halfway, clouds enveloped us and the temperature tumbled. Gradually it got colder and wetter, but we did not notice it. In fact, it heightened our pleasure. We did not bother to put on our jackets or our capes, and we arrived at the little hotel at the top with rivulets of rain and sweat running down our sides. I tingled from top to bottom." Passages almost exactly like this can be found in the books of John Muir.

 

It was from experiences like these that Velocio formulated the seven commandments for the cyclist:

1. Keep your rests short and infrequent to maintain your rhythm.

2. Eat before you are hungry and drink before you are thirsty.

3. Never ride to the point of exhaustion where you can't eat or sleep.

4. Cover up before you are cold, peel off before you are hot.

5. Don't drink, smoke, or eat meat on tour.

6. Never force the pace, especially during the first hours.

7. Never ride just for the sake of riding.

 

Velocio was not a promoter. His efforts to create a national bicycle touring society like the Cycle Touring Club in England floundered, and he never had an organized bicycle club even in his hometown. What he did have was a constantly growing body of friends and admirers who gathered around the master in his shop, at the rallies, and on his tours. Those who lived nearby formed a loose-knit group known as L'Ecole Stéphanoise, or School of Saint-Etienne. A quorum was always on hand for Velocio's favorite ride to the top of the Col du Grand Bois. It was this ride that eventually grew into Velocio Day.

 

The Col du Grand Bois is a 3,800-foot passage across the Massif du Pilat. The road starts on the outskirts of Saint-Etienne and rises without letup over a distance of eight miles. Velocio used to make this ride as a constitutional before breakfast. In 1922 his friends surprised him by inviting all cyclists in the area to join in the ride in a gesture of reverence. Today, Velocio Day is a unique spectacle, the only one of its kind in the world.

 

This gradual emergence of Velocio as a dominant figure, not only among cyclists but among the people of his age, is one of the most interesting things about the man because he never made a conscious attempt to attract public notice. All he wanted was his bicycle and his friends. He never moved his shop, he never had much money, and he never rested on his laurels. Twice a year, he would have a little notice in Le Cycliste, inviting all and sundry to a rally. These rallies became famous. At first strictly local affairs, they eventually became national institutions and some of them are still observed, such as the Easter gathering in Provence. Velocio himself was not aware of his stature until he was invited to appear in Paris in the Criterium des Vieilles Gloires when he was seventy-six. Then it was obvious that he completely over-shadowed all the others. Thousands gathered around him, just to shake his hand and wish him well.

 

On February 27, 1930, Velocio started his day with a reading from one of the classics, as was his custom. It was a letter from Seneca to Lucilius. "Death follows me and life escapes me. When I go to sleep, I think that I may never awake. When I wake up, I think that I may never go to sleep. When I go out, I think that I may never come back. When I come back, I think that I may never go out again. Always, the interval between life and death is short."

 

Velocio went out. Traffic was heavy, and he decided to walk and lead his bicycle. He crossed the street ahead of the streetcar coming from his left, saw another car coming from his right, stepped back, and was hit by the first. It was a mortal blow. He died clutching his beloved bicycle.

 

Today, thirty-five years later, Velocio lives on, while others, equally dedicated and equally inventive, are forgotten. Why is this?

 

It is because Velocio used his bicycle to demonstrate the great truths. Velocio's influence grew, not because of his exploits on the bicycle, but because he showed how these exploits will shape the character of a man. Velocio was a humanist. His philosophy came from the ancients who considered discipline the cardinal virtue. Discipline is of two kinds: physical and moral. Velocio used the physical discipline of the bicycle to lead him to moral discipline. Through the bicycle he was able to commune with the sun, the rain, the wind. For him, the bicycle was the expression of a personal philosophy. For him, the bicycle was the road to freedom, physical and spiritual. He gave up much, but he found more.

 

Velocio--the cyclists of the world salute you.

 

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Neuroscientists reveal why we love texture, curves and symmetry and explain how our brains respond to different spaces.Have you ever felt uneasy or, worse, trapped within a room or building?

 

Perhaps it was a long, narrow corridor without a discernible exit, or maybe it was a dimly lit room with a low ceiling or an oppressive feel. Better yet, have you ever felt a surge of awe and wonder when looking at or walking through a building?

 

If you’ve visited any ancient architecture, from Rome’s Pantheon to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, chances are you know the feeling well.Ancient builders and architects instinctively understood what lies at the heart of neuroarchitecture, even if they lacked a word for it or didn’t have the tools to measure it. Our reactions to the built environment date back to the beginning of humanity. But what is new is that we can now measure how and begin to understand why we react the way we do.

 

This is where neuroarchitecture comes in.

 

What is neuroarchitecture ?

 

Neuroarchitecture stands at the crossroads of two very different disciplines: neuroscience and architecture. Using our growing knowledge of how our brains work, it aims to account for our responses to the built environment.

 

“What’s distinct about neuroarchitecture is that we’re now approaching a time when our understanding of brain function has progressed to the point where we can start to say sensible things about its relationship with architecture and design,” says Dr Colin Ellard, an author and professor of cognitive neuroscience in Canada, who measures how our brains and bodies respond to spaces and places.

 

What’s all the hype about?

 

Almost all the past movements and ‘isms’ in architecture and design have ultimately been informed by an aesthetic style or the philosophies that drive them. Neuroarchitecture, on the other hand, is less about architecture and more about the people who embody it. This cutting-edge discipline within neuroscience is forging ahead to reveal answers about our complex relationships with design and architecture. Imagine being able to explain why we react to different spaces the way we do – this is why neuroarchitecture is a big deal.

 

“One of the really exciting things about this science is that we now have an incredibly strong set of tools that we can use to measure physiological responses to place,” says Dr Ellard.How are our responses to buildings measured?

 

Along with other neuroscientists, Dr Ellard conducts studies in virtual reality (VR) settings and real spaces, measuring people’s physiological responses. “The advantage of this residential property is that we can build any kind of model that we want, but the disadvantage is that no matter how good the rendering might be, people know that it’s not real and I suspect that their responses are just pale reflections of how they respond to real places,” he says.

 

“But in both kinds of settings, we rely on a set of traditional psychological tools (that is, we ask lots of questions and administer many different kinds of tests) and on small body-worn sensors that measure heart rate, body temperature and something called skin conductance, which is just a measure of sweat glands and tells us about arousal,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“In some studies we also measure brain waves (using simple visors that can even be worn on the street) and eye movements (using a set of glasses that contains a small a camera that watches your pupil).”

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How do our brains and bodies react?

Special cells found in the hippocampal region of our brains are tuned in to geometry and how our spaces are organised. Whenever you enter a room, home or any environment, these cells are busy navigating and storing spatial information in the form of cognitive ‘maps’.

 

As an experiment, tune into a memory of how it felt to be in a space where you were uncomfortable and wanted to leave. Did your heart pump faster, your breathing quicken? That’s the hypothalamus in your brain telling your adrenals to release adrenaline and cortisol, the ‘stress’ hormones.

 

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Were you edgy, alert? You can thank these stress hormones for enriching your blood with oxygen due to your fast breathing. Did you feel skittish or ready to burst into action? That’s your blood vessels constricting to divert this oxygen-rich blood to your muscles, which would have tensed in preparation to ward off the perceived threat (in this case, propel you out of that room or building as quickly as possible).

 

Our physiological state has a huge impact on our health, so considering many Australians spend 90 per cent of their time indoors, ‘healthy’ homes, workplaces and buildings are paramount to our wellbeing.But people respond to design individually, right?

Correct. There is no universal reaction to a singular space and neuroscientists take this into account. To complicate matters, our initial reaction to a space is often different to our subsequent reactions after that space becomes familiar. Add to this our experiences within these spaces and our reactions are affected even more – for example, your brain will respond very differently to the same room if you were hired in it versus fired in it. Dr Ellard also suspects different demographics – such as age, cultural background and possibly gender – might dictate our preferences.

 

“We’ve seen how one’s level of physiological arousal varies as one moves from room to room,” says Dr Ellard. “Walk into an impressive large, open space and your level of arousal will generally increase. But that’s an initial response to a space you’ve never seen before. What’s probably much more important, and about which we know much less, is how the design of a home might influence you over the months and years of your life. That’s a much more complex and nuanced question and harder to get at with our probes and our VR models.”

 

What are we unconsciously seeking in a home?

 

Not everything on our wish list for the perfect home springs from biology, of course, though many do and it is these that neuroarchitecture examines. “Essentially, when we look at how humans respond to built spaces, we are really looking at a very basic biological problem called ‘habitat selection’,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“In the further reaches of our evolutionary history, the problems we’d want to overcome would be much the same as those of a fox finding a good spot for a burrow or a bird looking for a good location for a nest. What’s the spot that is going to maximise our resources and minimise the likelihood that we’ll become prey? Modern humans, and happily so, most often don’t have to think explicitly about those problems as much anymore, but those kinds of factors still exert pressure on our preferences.”

 

What do people find pleasing in experiments?

 

Because personal preferences play an undeniable part, Dr Ellard cautions against the idea of a one-size-fits-all approach and instead focuses on common themes.

 

“We prefer locations in a space where we experience both high refuge (protection of some kind) and high prospect (the ability to sense our surroundings, to know what’s going on, to have vistas),” he says. “Even something like the perennial popularity of a wingback chair might be related to this. In home settings, small alcoves set into larger spaces are often the places that people gravitate towards.”

 

Dr Ellard also highlights the importance of being able to inhabit different types of spaces within our homes.

 

“As we’ve shown in some of our work in virtual reality, people might like a grand, open space when they’re socialising but a small, enclosed space when they’re dealing with a problem or with difficult emotions,” says Dr Ellard.

 

Dr Ellard’s research has also revealed that we are strongly affected by building facades. “We have discovered that symmetric facades cause participants to indicate higher levels of pleasure and attraction,” he says.

 

Dr Ellard has also shown that we gravitate towards facades that are complex, interesting or ‘textured’ and shrink away from ones that are plain, monotonous or unvaried. In fact, when Dr Ellard’s students walked past a long, dark glass store frontage in one of his experiments in Lower Manhattan, their moods and arousal decreased while their pace increased in an unconscious effort to accelerate past.

 

“I think it’s probably because of our craving for information,” he suggests. “For human beings, information is critical to survival and complexity signals information. I think it may be as simple as that.”

 

Dr Ellard believes his findings on ‘textured’ building facades can also be applied to our interiors. “In fact, we’ve studied this quite comprehensively in virtual reality settings and we do find similar results to those for the exteriors in field work,” he says. If you’ve never found minimalism appealing, this could be one reason why.

 

Could You Live Like a Minimalist?

 

Dr Ellard is not alone in his discoveries about neuroarchitecture. Roger Ulrich, a professor of architecture in Sweden, has found that hospital patients with views of nature were discharged earlier than those surrounded by walls. Scientists at the Salk Institute in the US have collaborated with architects and are unearthing fascinating findings about how different types of light in buildings (for example, blue-based morning versus red-based afternoon light versus artificial light) affects us cognitively. And Oshin Vartanian, a professor of psychology in Canada, has observed we respond positively to curvature in architecture.

 

“At a very simple level, it may just be that curved surfaces (compared, say, to jagged ones) are less likely to harm us on contact – again suggesting an ancient adaptive origin for these preferences – but I think there’s more to it than that,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“We also like curved walkways, for example, possibly because they generate something that environmental psychologists call ‘mystery’ – the idea is that we like to be in situations of what you might call ‘unveiling’. We like settings where we are lured inward by the promise of further information. Again, information-seeking is a key here,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“One of the most robust findings in environmental psychology has to do with the profound impact of nature settings on psychology, physiology and health. Something as modest as an indoor plant or even a picture of plants can exert an effect.” And when you consider that before buildings, human beings lived in natural settings – where our primitive instincts were first honed – it makes perfect sense.

 

What do architects think?

 

Dr Ellard says architects’ responses to neuroarchitecture have been “wildly mixed” since the discipline started gaining momentum a decade ago. “With the formation of organisations like the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture – which is a group of scientists and architects who hold a biennial meeting to communicate findings and advance the field – I think that most architects have at least a passing familiarity with the notion that we might use principles from neuroscience to advance design,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“There are many who are quite excited about the possibilities for a field that is just now beginning to define itself. I think there are others (and I’ve certainly heard from and met a few of them) who are much more sceptical – sometimes perhaps even a bit worried that this movement might represent a step backwards into a reductionist, perhaps even Corbusian view of architecture that has previously been tried and found wanting.”

  

How can I approach neuroarchitecture at home?

According to Dr Ellard, the key lies in understanding yourself and how your proposed design will impact the way you feel.

 

“Your personality will, to some extent, dictate your preferences,” says Dr Ellard. “For example, if you’re a strong introvert, you’re probably not going to be happy in a large, open-plan environment.”

 

Dr Ellard also encourages people to immerse themselves in the designs they are looking to reproduce, and to hone their awareness of how they feel in these spaces.

 

“And if you’re looking for a home, think about your past experiences with residential spaces carefully to get clues as to what might work for you,” he says.

 

“I can apply my sensors to tell me whether your brain waves suggest that you’re relaxed and happy, whether your skin conductance response suggests that you’re aroused or bored, but human beings are generally fairly good at being able to sense that about themselves. It takes lots of patient and mindful attention to your feelings, and some trust in yourself.”

  

But people respond to design individually, right?

 

Correct. There is no universal reaction to a singular space and neuroscientists take this into account. To complicate matters, our initial reaction to a space is often different to our subsequent reactions after that space becomes familiar. Add to this our experiences within these spaces and our reactions are affected even more – for example, your brain will respond very differently to the same room if you were hired in it versus fired in it. Dr Ellard also suspects different demographics – such as age, cultural background and possibly gender – might dictate our preferences.

 

“We’ve seen how one’s level of physiological arousal varies as one moves from room to room,” says Dr Ellard. “Walk into an impressive large, open space and your level of arousal will generally increase. But that’s an initial response to a space you’ve never seen before. What’s probably much more important, and about which we know much less, is how the design of a home might influence you over the months and years of your life. That’s a much more complex and nuanced question and harder to get at with our probes and our VR models.”

Luigi Rosselli Architects

 

What are we unconsciously seeking in a home?

Not everything on our wish list for the perfect home springs from biology, of course, though many do and it is these that neuroarchitecture examines. “Essentially, when we look at how humans respond to built spaces, we are really looking at a very basic biological problem called ‘habitat selection’,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“In the further reaches of our evolutionary history, the problems we’d want to overcome would be much the same as those of a fox finding a good spot for a burrow or a bird looking for a good location for a nest. What’s the spot that is going to maximise our resources and minimise the likelihood that we’ll become prey? Modern humans, and happily so, most often don’t have to think explicitly about those problems as much anymore, but those kinds of factors still exert pressure on our preferences.”

 

What do people find pleasing in experiments?

 

Because personal preferences play an undeniable part, Dr Ellard cautions against the idea of a one-size-fits-all approach and instead focuses on common themes.

 

“We prefer locations in a space where we experience both high refuge (protection of some kind) and high prospect (the ability to sense our surroundings, to know what’s going on, to have vistas),” he says. “Even something like the perennial popularity of a wingback chair might be related to this. In home settings, small alcoves set into larger spaces are often the places that people gravitate towards.”

 

Dr Ellard also highlights the importance of being able to inhabit different types of spaces within our homes.

 

“As we’ve shown in some of our work in virtual reality, people might like a grand, open space when they’re socialising but a small, enclosed space when they’re dealing with a problem or with difficult emotions,” says Dr Ellard.

 

Dr Ellard’s research has also revealed that we are strongly affected by building facades. “We have discovered that symmetric facades cause participants to indicate higher levels of pleasure and attraction,” he says.

 

Dr Ellard has also shown that we gravitate towards facades that are complex, interesting or ‘textured’ and shrink away from ones that are plain, monotonous or unvaried. In fact, when Dr Ellard’s students walked past a long, dark glass store frontage in one of his experiments in Lower Manhattan, their moods and arousal decreased while their pace increased in an unconscious effort to accelerate past.

 

“I think it’s probably because of our craving for information,” he suggests. “For human beings, information is critical to survival and complexity signals information. I think it may be as simple as that.”

 

Dr Ellard believes his findings on ‘textured’ building facades can also be applied to our interiors. “In fact, we’ve studied this quite comprehensively in virtual reality settings and we do find similar results to those for the exteriors in field work,” he says. If you’ve never found minimalism appealing, this could be one reason why.

 

Could You Live Like a Minimalist?

 

Dr Ellard is not alone in his discoveries about neuroarchitecture. Roger Ulrich, a professor of architecture in Sweden, has found that hospital patients with views of nature were discharged earlier than those surrounded by walls. Scientists at the Salk Institute in the US have collaborated with architects and are unearthing fascinating findings about how different types of light in buildings (for example, blue-based morning versus red-based afternoon light versus artificial light) affects us cognitively. And Oshin Vartanian, a professor of psychology in Canada, has observed we respond positively to curvature in architecture.

 

“At a very simple level, it may just be that curved surfaces (compared, say, to jagged ones) are less likely to harm us on contact – again suggesting an ancient adaptive origin for these preferences – but I think there’s more to it than that,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“We also like curved walkways, for example, possibly because they generate something that environmental psychologists call ‘mystery’ – the idea is that we like to be in situations of what you might call ‘unveiling’. We like settings where we are lured inward by the promise of further information. Again, information-seeking is a key here,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“One of the most robust findings in environmental psychology has to do with the profound impact of nature settings on psychology, physiology and health. Something as modest as an indoor plant or even a picture of plants can exert an effect.” And when you consider that before buildings, human beings lived in natural settings – where our primitive instincts were first honed – it makes perfect sense.

 

What do architects think?

 

Dr Ellard says architects’ responses to neuroarchitecture have been “wildly mixed” since the discipline started gaining momentum a decade ago. “With the formation of organisations like the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture – which is a group of scientists and architects who hold a biennial meeting to communicate findings and advance the field – I think that most architects have at least a passing familiarity with the notion that we might use principles from neuroscience to advance design,” says Dr Ellard.

 

“There are many who are quite excited about the possibilities for a field that is just now beginning to define itself. I think there are others (and I’ve certainly heard from and met a few of them) who are much more sceptical – sometimes perhaps even a bit worried that this movement might represent a step backwards into a reductionist, perhaps even Corbusian view of architecture that has previously been tried and found wanting.”

 

How can I approach neuroarchitecture at home?

According to Dr Ellard, the key lies in understanding yourself and how your proposed design will impact the way you feel.

 

“Your personality will, to some extent, dictate your preferences,” says Dr Ellard. “For example, if you’re a strong introvert, you’re probably not going to be happy in a large, open-plan environment.”

 

Dr Ellard also encourages people to immerse themselves in the designs they are looking to reproduce, and to hone their awareness of how they feel in these spaces.

 

“And if you’re looking for a home, think about your past experiences with residential spaces carefully to get clues as to what might work for you,” he says.

 

“I can apply my sensors to tell me whether your brain waves suggest that you’re relaxed and happy, whether your skin conductance response suggests that you’re aroused or bored, but human beings are generally fairly good at being able to sense that about themselves. It takes lots of patient and mindful attention to your feelings, and some trust in yourself.”

  

www.houzz.com.au/magazine/neuroarchitecture-the-new-movem...

   

In a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid beta clusters (red) build up among neurons (green) in a memory-related area of the brain. With support from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, scientists have found that a compound originally developed as a cancer therapy potentially could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

 

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An image of an adult zebrafish brain showing fluorescent granular perithelial cells (green) atop blood vessels (purple).

 

National Institutes of Health researchers studying zebrafish have determined that a population of cells that protect the brain against diseases and harmful substances are not immune cells, as had previously been thought, but instead likely arise from the lining of the circulatory system.

 

This basic science finding may have implications for understanding age-related decline in brain functioning and how HIV infects brain cells.

 

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Why We Need Sleep

If you have ever felt foggy after a poor night’s sleep, it won’t surprise you that sleep significantly impacts brain function. First, a healthy amount of sleep is vital for “brain plasticity,” or the brain’s ability to adapt to input. If we sleep too little, we become unable to process what we’ve learned during the day and we have more trouble remembering it in the future. Researchers also believe that sleep may promote the removal of waste products from brain cells—something that seems to occur less efficiently when the brain is awake.Tips for Better Sleep

Good sleep habits (sometimes referred to as “sleep hygiene”) can help you get a good night’s sleep.

Some habits that can improve your sleep health:

-Be consistent. Go to bed at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning, including on the weekends

-Make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark, relaxing, and at a comfortable temperature

-Remove electronic devices, such as TVs, computers, and smart phones, from the bedroom

-Avoid large meals, caffeine, and alcohol before bedtime

-Get some exercise. Being physically active during the day can help you fall asleep more easily at night.

Sleep is vital to the rest of the body too. When people don’t get enough sleep, their health risks rise. Symptoms of depression, seizures, high blood pressure and migraines worsen. Immunity is compromised, increasing the likelihood of illness and infection. Sleep also plays a role in metabolism: Even one night of missed sleep can create a prediabetic state in an otherwise healthy person.

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Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care.

 

Disclaimer:

Please note that the personal stories in this album describe each individual’s experience with Lynch syndrome or Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome and are not meant to offer medical advice. Decisions about medical care should be made taking into consideration the facts, the science, and the patient’s values. The right decision for one patient may not be right for someone else.

 

Amy’s Story

It has been just over one year since I was diagnosed with Stage IIIb colorectal cancer, due to a well-characterized mutation in MSH2, one of the genes involved in Lynch syndrome. The last 11 months have been a roller coaster, emotionally and physically. The hardest part was accepting that I could have potentially prevented my cancer (or at least skipped chemotherapy) if I had chosen to undergo genetic testing five years ago.

 

As a graduate student in Human Genetics, I suspected that my family harbored a mutation in a hereditary cancer gene, as five of my maternal relatives had been diagnosed with various cancers–three before their 40th birthdays. I searched for a genetic link, scouring pamphlets from genetic counselors. Nothing made sense–until several years later, when one of my family members was diagnosed with a well-characterized mutation in MSH2. As a geneticist, I assumed that if I were given an opportunity to be diagnosed through genetic testing, I would enthusiastically find out the answer. However, when presented with the possibility of knowing if I had a mutation in MSH2, I did nothing. I rationalized that it couldn’t happen to me. Even as someone who understands genetics and champions genetic testing, I failed to be realistic about my 50% chance of inheriting our family’s MSH2 mutation.

 

Three days after my 47th birthday, I found what felt like a heel in my lower right abdomen. After a panel of tests and a colonoscopy, I heard words I will never forget, “You have Stage III colorectal cancer.” The next weeks blurred, as I discovered I carried my family’s MSH2 mutation, as I sorted through this devastating news, as my life changed permanently. Yet, I am one of the lucky ones. I was accepted into a clinic devoted to Lynch syndrome, and my surgery was a great success. I finished six months of chemotherapy, complete with severe cold sensitivity, neuropathy, and days in which my brain functioned 50% slower than normal. In addition, I had my reproductive organs removed, as my MSH2 mutation increased my chances of having uterine and ovarian cancers.

 

Looking back over the last year, I am grateful to have found my tumor before it metastasized, grateful for everyone who helped me make it through the diagnosis, surgery and chemotherapy, and grateful for encouraging words on my worst days. The love that came my way over the past year is the best gift I have ever been given. In this post-cancer life, I became proactive regarding my health care, urged my brothers to take preventative measures and used social media to advocate for Lynch Syndrome prevention, diagnosis and treatment. It is my way to combat this cancer so I can share the gifts I have been given this past year, so that maybe others will choose to undergo genetic testing before they hear those devastating words.

 

Learn more about Lynch syndrome:

 

Disclaimer: Linking to a non-federal site does not constitute an endorsement by CDC, HHS, or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the site.

 

www.cancer.net/cancer-types/lynch-syndrome

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www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lynch-syndrome

 

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

The Black Sleep (1956)

 

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England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...

- Written by Rich Wannen

  

Old-fashioned as it is, however, The Black Sleep still gets the job done at least as well as most of the movies to which it hearkens back. Most notably, it crystallized a vague sense I’ve had for some time now that it’s too bad Rathbone got pigeonholed so early on as Sherlock Holmes. He had a commanding elegance about him akin to that later displayed by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and which nobody else on the 30’s and 40’s horror scene could match. Lionel Atwill and John Carradine came close on occasion, but Atwill was always a little too foppish and Carradine a little too homespun to play the depraved Old World nobleman with Rathbone’s authority; neither of them would have been up to the challenge of Tower of London’s Richard III, for example. As Joe Cadman, Rathbone simultaneously prefigures the Cushing Frankenstein, and hints at all the brilliant mad movie scientists that might have been if only Rathbone hadn’t been so busy chasing Nazi agents all over the English moors during the years of the second Hollywood horror boom. He might even have injected some unwonted class into a Monogram or PRC production! The rest of the cast doesn’t quite match up to the top-billed star, but most of those who are required to do any actual acting (which is to say, not Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney Jr.) acquit themselves respectably well. Another thing The Black Sleep does right is to incorporate a bit of defensible real-world science into the mad variety more familiar from movies of its type. Much of the film’s horror stems from the certainty that attempting such delicate neurological investigations with the clumsy and invasive techniques of the late 19th century really would produce monstrous derangement's of brain function, even if these specific symptoms (John Carradine’s character is convinced that he’s Bohemond of Taranto— the hell?) are not always especially plausible. Finally, Udo the Gypsy, who in most horror films of this era would be nothing but a comic relief character, is portrayed in much too sinister a light to become as irritating as one might anticipate. His clowning creates more unease than anything else, for it is plainly but a cover for a complete absence of conscience. All in all, The Black Sleep represents a commendable effort to bring some seriousness of purpose back into the gothic mad scientist movie, which had grown silly enough on its own over the years that it hadn’t really needed Abbott and Costello to poke fun at it.

 

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My still life photograph of a jar of Aussie's favorite spread - Vegemite together with the original lyrics of the old Vegemite song.

There is always a jar in our house! I love it!

 

It is thought to be good for brain function, nervous system and energy.

 

VEGEMITE Story

VEGEMITE isn’t just owned and made in Australia; it tastes like Australia.

 

The Discovery

The VEGEMITE brand has a history spanning over 97 years and is now proudly owned by a great Aussie food company – Bega Cheese Limited. Bega Cheese Limited purchased the VEGEMITE brand in 2017, bringing it under Australian ownership for the first time in over 90 years.

 

VEGEMITE is proudly made in Port Melbourne, Victoria. VEGEMITE was invented in 1922 when the Fred Walker Company hired a young chemist, Dr. Cyril P Callister, to develop a spread from one of the richest known natural sources in the Vitamin B group – brewer’s yeast.

 

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Improves Brain Function

Exercise May be the Best Medicine for Alzheimer's Disease

   

An exercise program with older adults with mild cognitive impairment improved not only memory recall, but also brain function. Can exercise slow the progression, or prevent, the onset of Alzheimer's disease?

 

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+Alzheimer's Reading Room

Junk food is not healthy because it has a lot of calories, fat, sugar and salt that can harm your body. Junk food can make you gain weight, increase your blood pressure, raise your cholesterol levels and cause diabetes. Junk food can also affect your mood, energy and brain function. Junk food does not provide enough nutrients, vitamins and minerals that your body needs to stay healthy. Junk food can also make you addicted and crave for more, which can lead to overeating and obesity. Junk food is not worth the temporary pleasure it gives you, because it can damage your health in the long run.

 

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The following events and reactions take place over the course of five seconds...

 

 

The streets of Hoi An were adorned with decorations for the Lunar New Year. Red celebratory banners were mounted on every light pole, the colour red being the lucky colour of the New Year.

 

 

I was surprised by the visceral response I felt when I first saw this red banner.

 

I felt... I don't know how to describe it... Threatened? In a dangerous place? Somewhere I should not be!

 

What power did this symbol have over me? After all, it's only an icon representing Vietnam's national pride, much like the yellow star on the banner in the background, or like the red maple leaf on my nation's flag.

 

Still. I felt something... uncomfortable.

 

Why did the outline of a hammer overlapping a sickle make me feel that I had to heighten vigilance? I should have been more concerned about the children symbolized in the school-crossing sign and – if you'd seen the intersection ahead – by the sharp-right-turn sign.

 

But now I remember: I am a child of "duck and cover."

 

     "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System.

     This is only a test.

     Doooooooooooo.

     This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency..."

 

...the authorities would have told us how to kiss our asses goodbye.

 

 

  

I lived in the US for a year when I was seven. While there, I participated in civil defence drills, heading into the fallout shelter in my school's basement.

 

I remember important lessons from that era.

 

Did you know that when opening a can of food in the fallout shelter, you should turn the can upside down and wipe the bottom with a clean paper towel before removing the bottom lid? You see, the top of the can is likely contaminated with dust from the fallout. By inverting the can, you limit the amount of radioactive material you might ingest.

 

Another remembered lesson: the three defences against radiation are: physical barriers, distance and time.

 

While still in New Haven, a plumber came to repair a leak in our apartment. When he saw the newly-minted Maple Leaf Flag (the year was 1965) mounted on my bedroom wall, he asked, "You all Canadian?" When informed that we were, he wanted to know if I, a seven year-old, would be there to fight the Commies when they came pouring over the polar ice cap.

 

 

 

I remember years later when Ronald Reagan came to power, the rhetoric of the Cold War really started to heat up. Peacemaker, MX missile, SS-20, Jonathan Schell, and Overkill were used in common parlance when making small-talk. My fellow university students and I were convinced we were living Apocalypse Nigh, and we marched for "peace," whatever that meant.

 

In the mid Eighties, when I moved to Ottawa, there was an air-raid siren standing at the ready at the south west corner of the Experimental Farm just outside my office window. And the Deifenbunker in Carp was still in service.

 

 

 

But look at us today.

 

Who could have known that Ronald Reagan's economic assault against the Evil Empire would be so successful? No shots fired; not a single MIRV'd missile sent on a sortie.

 

And that air-raid siren outside of my Ottawa office? I'll bet it was already derelict when I assumed my post. That corner of Baseline and Merivale hasn't seen that siren for at least a decade. It is my understanding that we are already losing our Cold War heritage to everyone's enemy – time. (See, for example news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3086483.stm.) I believe Carp is fortunate to have an air raid siren to display, as these artifacts are evaporating into history.

 

It's ironic, but Mutual Assured Destruction actually seems to have worked. I haven't been threatened by Communists for decades, but I still possess an autonomic reaction when I am presented with their symbols. I caught a fleeting glance of a Hammer and Sickle, and I immediately felt like I was an exposed intruder in a dangerous place. And yet I was in a country full of friendly people who were more than welcoming.

 

It’s interesting how we are conditioned to automatically respond to symbols. I can’t imagine why we have evolved this way, developing such an abstract, compact, automatic means of communicating deeply emotional concepts of belonging and allegiance. It must be totemic.

 

 

 

Once my evolved brain resumed its normal duties, the feeling of being at-risk quickly subsided. But it left me marvelling at a feature of humanity I have always known about and have sometimes exploited: symbols are powerful tools in the hands of demagogues.

 

Symbols – be they the Hammer and Sickle, the Cross, the Star and Crescent, the Swastika, or the emblems on a nation’s flag – seem to effortlessly place us in an us-and-them mode that overrides our higher brain functions. While symbols can marshal a common cause, what evil have we unthinkingly committed while under their influence?

 

 

 

Yeah, that Hammer and Sickle still means something to me. Want to really get me going? Combine that symbol with an atom icon or a mushroom cloud.

 

I wonder if younger people – those born after 1989 – feel the same way?

 

I should ask the kids.

  

© 2011 K W Hadley

Enlarge photo

 

LONDON (AFP) - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch killed off the News of the World in a shock move Thursday as a spiralling scandal over phone hacking at the tabloid threatened to infect the rest of his empire.

 

In a fittingly sensational finale, the 168-year-old paper will print its last edition on Sunday after claims that it hacked the phones of a murdered girl and the families of dead soldiers, and that it paid police for stories.

 

"Having consulted senior colleagues, I have decided that we must take further decisive action with respect to the paper," said Murdoch's son James, chairman of News International, the British newspaper wing of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

 

"This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World," he added.

 

The final edition would be free of advertising and proceeds would go "to causes and charities that wish to expose their good works to our millions of readers", he said in a statement.

 

One devastated staff member said the announcement went off like a "nuclear bomb" in the offices of Britain's second biggest selling newspaper, whose diet of kiss-and-tell stories sold 2.7 million copies a week

 

right who's getting that archive

 

IT'sspparrows fart as ole mother makes a sideswipe at my morning cigareete "Is'n't cold out there?"..OH I thought it was about ten am with all the activity in the house, a habit that I picked up lately from watching wimbelton, cause she herself has be rising later and later. The creaking door, I should mention that she just moved to her bedroom door and closed it to get dressed and possibly she's just taking off her dressing gown or hobbling around and around the room with her walking stick as the really expensive two tier tables food carrier that susitutes..not to self..novel research get the make and model right hobbling around her room with her electra walking stick that had different rubber tips for different terrrain..a interpark tours speciality I really should be wearing some of thos, what's that brand name theromodayktly..that's how i remember it thermal underwear then IDIOT and I can't tell at this early hour if it's a front creaking door or the windows warming up in the morning or just her with her walking stick

 

but I got an old tale from saltpan and bob tiffin a travelling sales man who young sson asked once before I was born to take care of the canery or something and it carked..saltpan being around bilgowlah way..not balgowlah way just a small inlet up from the arms...you bloody cleaned the cage that's why it carked..then lat brother glenn hand went into one of those old roller dryers you know the one witrh the crank handles....crushed it they tell..BOB tiffins that guys name alright..I then asked before she went to change..of you wantta it all in the right order here do you..20 burly men that's romantic..FALSTAFF WAIT....everything in it's place...Neat little way..OH the street was called herbert avenue...Sunny and 14 they tell the weather was so she turnt the radio off cause she already knew that..a two tir table thingy that doubles as one of those ostio process walking things...How do people with ostioprocess have sex..click clik SHOVE click click SHOVE

 

Tha'ts romantic but with the neo vicotians..sccene kids thingy going on I"m Trying to compenhend that age

 

doesn't make you robed

 

Who Are Benedictine Oblates?

Oblates are Christian laypersons who promise to live Benedictine

spirituality in their chosen lifestyle, affiliated with a particular

Benedictine monastic community.

 

WHERE!

 

so turd where's that thingy that marge could keep with the anglican high church at gosford?

 

christianity a lifestyle choice?

 

arkies dead..what did you set against that thina shuppy..THEY LIED! and in donnie brasco movie I HAVE to pass up x amount to sonny red...like the whole crew doesn't exist...just keep banging at the parking meters..FUCking snake....

 

enemies of the working class

 

but here's the thing Nato says it's not about the money

 

James Lee Dozier (born April 10, 1931) is a retired US Army general officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the leftist Italian Red Brigades Marxist terrorist group. He was rescued by Italian anti-terrorist forces after 42 days of captivity. General Dozier was the deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, Italy. The Red Brigades, in a statement to the press, stated the reason behind kidnapping a United States general was that the Italian and US governments had enjoyed excellent diplomatic relations and the fact that Dozier was an American soldier invited to work in Italy justified their abduction. To date, General Dozier is the only American flag officer to have been captured by a terrorist group

 

GRUB stake

 

sieze the means of production...more italia and further to the telling if your the one who SPENT then you have to go to italy LIV not your pet and explaino..she can't she'll be killed..isn't that the oldest excuse you've ever heard time to go back "home " crawl up thru asis and then santuary like mobey..audit

 

then they need Father to grant them tempory asylum again and agian and again and my bluee heaven all over the place..shit what do you mean they are checking the books

 

TOO little too late?

 

IT's game over man IT's game OVER..there's something wrong with this hardened guy......is it this one or this one..more psychology..a way of explaining brain function I just had a brain scann and clearly there are the precusors of dementia..I've been saying things for years..the musicans mind don't ask me how it works That's what they tell us....

 

Take title...you may exhibit the banneras..william NEW CREST! to save embarriment but all incomes ariseing from

 

Heart get outta here

 

and then Islanders behind abe's back What happened?

 

a way of explaining brain function but you haveta keep coming back again and again until you are passed that thing you saw that disturbs..double mind unstable that's funny...

 

so your got demtentia now..I think I've alwaysed had it...probably..it's so injectable....

 

Freshwater scientists have rejected claims by a prominent dairy farmer that introduced trout are "freshwater stoats" and could be doing more damage to streams and rivers than dairy farming.

 

In his final speech, outgoing Federated Farmers dairy chairman Lachlan McKenzie last week told federation members they should distinguish fact from opinion and challenge some of the anti-dairying science.

OH shit that's right I don't know what I"m doing this morning....now i hear tell of a freshwater trout catch somewhere up north where a worm that eats you from the inside causing rashes has never been seen in australian fresh water trout before..those sort of people who think everything means something are bound to go mad aren't they?

 

Muslims obey Allah and will not eat a “cursed” jew {swine}, as we know the flesh of the swine is permeated with parasitic jew worms that control the minds ...

 

that's from wesel zippers...

 

They're something Eff wrong with these people if that story is true

 

is it this one or this one.....They are really getting into it aren't they we're keeping the lOusie busy..lousi the fly....same mentality..so what's more important here a rasputin lets up dead canery of some kid back in the fifties area 51 or......

 

The 35-year-old, who holds a PhD in computer engineering, has waged a personal crusade with both the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Weighlifting to push reform of the uniform law.

 

It was the USOC that urged the IWF to make the change during a meeting in Malaysia earlier this week

              

Research studies have concluded that symmetrical faces are perceived as more sexy, perhaps due to the unconscious, evolution-determined assumption that healthy bodies grow with balanced proportions. No doubt, when there are significant disruptions of the symmetry in a person’s face, people will probably perceive that person as unattractive or downright ugly.

 

However, I suspect there are limits to how important such symmetry is. After all, no one's face is perfectly symmetrical, including those of very beautiful people. So why does nature insist on at least some asymmetry?

 

Here’s an experiment you can try with Photoshop (or some other image-editing program), as I’ve done above with this image. Select the left side of your face, duplicate it, flip it horizontally, and then merge it with the original left side of your face. Now your face is all left-side and perfectly symmetrical. Do the same with the right side of your face to create an all right-side, perfectly symmetrical visage.

 

You’ll see that your all-left, all-right, and natural face look quite different. The biggest difference is usually between the all-left and all-right faces. How would you describe the personality of those two? Might they reflect different sides of your personality?

 

Because your natural face is not exactly symmetrical, it tends to be a bit more complex and subtle than the other two. It embodies and expresses both sides of your personality. It tends to have a more interesting “character” – which is perhaps why Nature provided us with asymmetrical faces.

 

When trying this experiment, use front lighting to insure even exposure across your entire face. Asymmetrical shadows will create artificial differences between the two sides (a problem I encountered with the image above). Also make sure you shoot your face straight on. If you shoot to one side, even just slightly off center, you might create subtle and artificial differences in the shapes of the left and right side of your face.

 

Psychological research on brain asymmetry suggests that the right side of the cerebral cortex is associated with emotional and creative expressiveness, while the left side is the seat of rational and logical thinking. Because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the face, while the left side of the brain controls the right side of the face, the left side of the face might appear more imaginative, intuitive, and emotive, while the right side seems more serious and analytical. Portrait photographers will also tell you that people who are very familiar with their own faces know which is their "best" side. We might explain that preference by how much they value the emotional expressiveness versus rational thinking of right and left brain functions. We might also hypothesize that obvious visual differences between the left and right side of the face reflects discrepancies or poor communication between the creative/emotional and logical/analytical sides of one's personality. The more symmetrical and "beautiful" face might be the one that more effectively combines these two aspects of the psyche.

  

In my last year as a participant in a three-year study of brain function and response. Interesting if a little mentally draining at times (some of the tests involve observing my brain activity while being exposed to various imagery (some pleasant, some quite disturbing) and startling stimuli (loud noises, electrical shocks, etc) and also completing mental tasks on the computer. Some of it feels like the astronaut selection scenes in "The Right Stuff". :)

oh boy, mama was not happy with me as I snapped a few shots of her little grazer. the chick didn't seem to mind though so i ignored her.

 

i did, however, find myself wondering how the mama would look on my grill with some fresh vegetables beside her and a glass of red wine in my hand.

 

it's true. that's how my brain functions..i can't help it. (well maybe i could but i don't wanna).

The Black Sleep (1956)

 

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England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...

- Written by Rich Wannen

  

Old-fashioned as it is, however, The Black Sleep still gets the job done at least as well as most of the movies to which it hearkens back. Most notably, it crystallized a vague sense I’ve had for some time now that it’s too bad Rathbone got pigeonholed so early on as Sherlock Holmes. He had a commanding elegance about him akin to that later displayed by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and which nobody else on the 30’s and 40’s horror scene could match. Lionel Atwill and John Carradine came close on occasion, but Atwill was always a little too foppish and Carradine a little too homespun to play the depraved Old World nobleman with Rathbone’s authority; neither of them would have been up to the challenge of Tower of London’s Richard III, for example. As Joe Cadman, Rathbone simultaneously prefigures the Cushing Frankenstein, and hints at all the brilliant mad movie scientists that might have been if only Rathbone hadn’t been so busy chasing Nazi agents all over the English moors during the years of the second Hollywood horror boom. He might even have injected some unwonted class into a Monogram or PRC production! The rest of the cast doesn’t quite match up to the top-billed star, but most of those who are required to do any actual acting (which is to say, not Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney Jr.) acquit themselves respectably well. Another thing The Black Sleep does right is to incorporate a bit of defensible real-world science into the mad variety more familiar from movies of its type. Much of the film’s horror stems from the certainty that attempting such delicate neurological investigations with the clumsy and invasive techniques of the late 19th century really would produce monstrous derangement's of brain function, even if these specific symptoms (John Carradine’s character is convinced that he’s Bohemond of Taranto— the hell?) are not always especially plausible. Finally, Udo the Gypsy, who in most horror films of this era would be nothing but a comic relief character, is portrayed in much too sinister a light to become as irritating as one might anticipate. His clowning creates more unease than anything else, for it is plainly but a cover for a complete absence of conscience. All in all, The Black Sleep represents a commendable effort to bring some seriousness of purpose back into the gothic mad scientist movie, which had grown silly enough on its own over the years that it hadn’t really needed Abbott and Costello to poke fun at it.

 

If all else fails

we might try you on

Broncotriptoline

the all-purpose

anti-viral blockbuster

known in the trade

as Tyrannosaurus rex.

 

This predatory beast

undertakes a form

of ethnic cleansing

on your behalf,

tracking down

and terminating

anything that moves.

 

Don’t be alarmed.

According to its

manufacturer’s warning

Broncotriptoline

impacts negatively

on your brain function

hardly at all.

 

Of internet fame “THE beach” is Maho on the Netherlands’ constituency country of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. While on contract working in the eastern Caribbean area I was on approach one early morning (too early for the normal crowds of people ignoring the jet blast warning signs) and managed to catch a glimpse of the beach in pristine condition.

 

One of the items on the Princess Juliana International Airport’s hazard registry is PEOPLE (frequently intoxicated – thus upper brain function impaired) trying to get closer to the take-off blasts of the 747s. Just search for videos of this risk taking behaviour phenomena.

 

  

Quantity : 80 capsule, size 500mg

 

Capsule Virgin Coconut Oil+ Black Seed Oil BIO-ASLI

 

The benefits and advantages of this product is similar to the Virgin Coconut Oil + Black Seed Oil

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

80% Virgin Coconut Oil

20% Black Seed Oil

Note : each capsule 500mg x 80 caps/bottle

 

DOSAGE :

Adult :Take 4 tablets, twice daily

Children : Take 2 tablets, twice daily

   

Nutrition Unit Fact 40gm/Wet basic

Energy (kcal) 43.0

Protein (gm) 1.68

Fat (MCFA) (gm) 32

Thiamin (mg) 0.05

Riboflavin mg) 0.01

Pyridoxine (mg) 0.15

Niacin (mg) 0.04

Calcium (mg) 15.1

Iron (mg) 0.85

Copper (mg) 0.15

Zinc (mg) 0.49

Phosphorus (mg) 12.63

Flacon (mg) 0.01

  

THE ADVANTAGE OF CAPSULE VIRGIN COCONUT OIL (PURE) + BLACK SEED

 

From the Scientific Study and research made, it shows that the combination of virgin coconut oil which is rich in Medium Chain Fatty Acids, and Black Seed Oil which is rich in poly unsaturated fatty acids helps to generate prostaglandin E1. Its function is closely related to the strengthening of the immune system, improving sugar metabolism, protect the stomach wall, preventing blood clots, stabilizing the brain function, stabilizing the nerve and heart function. Apart from that, it has many other benefits and advantages to the human health as which are as follows :-

 

Internal Health :

 

v Increases energy and endurance physically and mentally (use by US & Europe sportsman and athlete)

 

v Improve and reduce digestion problem and improve the absorption of vitamins amino acid soluble fat.

 

v Increase insulin secretion and blood glucose flow and reduces the risk of diabetes.

 

v Decreases stress on pancreas and enzyme systems in the body and restore thyroid function

 

v Increase calcium absorption and magnesium that help to bone develop and strong teeth. It also protect body from osteoporosis attack.

 

v Improve gland and prevent heart disease risk because this oil is not cause high cholesterol in the blood

 

v Prevent atherosclerosis and stroke and help lower high-blood-pressure.

  

Increases physical endurance :

 

v Helps in the function of the body's endurance system , protect the body from cancer such as breast cancer and colon cancer.

 

v Function as antioxidant and reduce chronic inflammation.

 

v Helps to protect the body from dangerous free radical thus acting as anti aging and prevents degenerative diseases.

 

v Decrease epileptics pressure and help to protect our body from kidney diseases and bladder infection.

 

v Helps prevent liver disease and contain lower calorie compared to other fats.

 

Kill virus, bacteria and fungus:

 

v Kill virus that cause of mononucleosis, influenza, hepatitis C, chickenpox and herpes.

 

v Kill bacteria that cause of Pneumonia, earache, throat infection, teeth cavity, food poisoning, infection of the urinary tract, Meningitis and Gonorrhea.

 

v Kill fungus that cause of Candida, Jock Itch, ringworm and other infections.

 

v Weaken and kill tapeworm, lice, giardia and parasite

 

v Kill fungus, bacteria and virus

 

Note : You are highly encourage to rub your partner's body with this oil before/after your intimate relationship. For women also apply to the internally to the vital part & men apply externally to entire part of the vital organ. You will have a wonderful experience.

 

Following are the benefits and advantages of Black Seed associated specifically to the type of ailment that was scientifically and clinically proven.

  

Head

Chest

Stomach

Waist-leg

 

Migraine, earache

Inflammation

Coral stone

Overcome Gout

 

toothache, bloody gums

Jaundice

Bile stone

Improve erection & harness

 

Migraine

Cough

Gastric

Regulates menstrual cycle

 

Dandruff

Tuberculosis

Ulcer

Sexual increase

 

facial palsy

Bronchial asthma

 

Cardiac asthma

Treat digestion system

Mistress, aphoristic, indomeferitis

 

Amnesia

Watery lung

  

Dysmenorrheal

  

expectorant

palpitation

Destroyed organism in heart, liver and kidney

Premature ejaculation

 

Improve their mental

Increase mother-milk

Murder parasite

Hemorrhoids

 

Influenza

Treat breathing system

Chronic dysentery

Paralyses

 

Cataract

Cirrhosis of liver

Diarrhea

Anti-fungus

 

Gums inflammation

Improve breast contour

Colic

Anti-bacteria, Anti-oxidant

  

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Educating and training the masses is expensive and troublesome, but the Ludgonian Industrial Union has the answer, Neuro-Net Processors. Neuro-Net Processors, or learning computers, upload information and knowledge stored on disks and input them directly into the mind. A synthetic brain fluid is injected into the brain causing it to grow more neuro pathways. These pathways allow massive amounts of information to be stored. Unfortunately, these artificially created pathways occasionally splice with healthy brain tissue, and the information injected is stored over vital brain functions, such as memories, bladder control, etc.

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Murat Okandan holds one of the microscale actuators that could lead to better understanding of brain function, which could help with prevention, diagnostic and treatment techniques for brain disorders.

 

Read more at bit.ly/2ZOIBxU.

 

Photo by Randy Montoya.

The Black Sleep (1956)

 

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England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...

- Written by Rich Wannen

  

Old-fashioned as it is, however, The Black Sleep still gets the job done at least as well as most of the movies to which it hearkens back. Most notably, it crystallized a vague sense I’ve had for some time now that it’s too bad Rathbone got pigeonholed so early on as Sherlock Holmes. He had a commanding elegance about him akin to that later displayed by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and which nobody else on the 30’s and 40’s horror scene could match. Lionel Atwill and John Carradine came close on occasion, but Atwill was always a little too foppish and Carradine a little too homespun to play the depraved Old World nobleman with Rathbone’s authority; neither of them would have been up to the challenge of Tower of London’s Richard III, for example. As Joe Cadman, Rathbone simultaneously prefigures the Cushing Frankenstein, and hints at all the brilliant mad movie scientists that might have been if only Rathbone hadn’t been so busy chasing Nazi agents all over the English moors during the years of the second Hollywood horror boom. He might even have injected some unwonted class into a Monogram or PRC production! The rest of the cast doesn’t quite match up to the top-billed star, but most of those who are required to do any actual acting (which is to say, not Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney Jr.) acquit themselves respectably well. Another thing The Black Sleep does right is to incorporate a bit of defensible real-world science into the mad variety more familiar from movies of its type. Much of the film’s horror stems from the certainty that attempting such delicate neurological investigations with the clumsy and invasive techniques of the late 19th century really would produce monstrous derangement's of brain function, even if these specific symptoms (John Carradine’s character is convinced that he’s Bohemond of Taranto— the hell?) are not always especially plausible. Finally, Udo the Gypsy, who in most horror films of this era would be nothing but a comic relief character, is portrayed in much too sinister a light to become as irritating as one might anticipate. His clowning creates more unease than anything else, for it is plainly but a cover for a complete absence of conscience. All in all, The Black Sleep represents a commendable effort to bring some seriousness of purpose back into the gothic mad scientist movie, which had grown silly enough on its own over the years that it hadn’t really needed Abbott and Costello to poke fun at it.

 

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Purkinje cells are a class of neurons located in the cerebellum.

These cells are some of the largest neurons in the human brain.

Function: inhibitory projection neuron.

 

Le Cellule di Purkinje si trovano nella corteccia cerebellare, e sono alcuni tra i più grandi neuroni del cervello umano, con assoni lunghi anche un metro.

Sono neuroni inibitori che regolano movimenti complessi e coordinati.

 

Colorazione con oro e metalli pesanti.

From here:

 

The previous timecourses are all well and good but sheer numbers of cells say nothing about whether the new neurons actually work. And markers like DCX or NeuN may give a general hint at the maturity of a neuron but not much more. Functional timecourses address these gaps. A direct measure of function would be whether a new neuron has electrophysiological properties that enable it to process information (e.g. input and output synapses, action potentials). Less direct signs of function can be inferred from the morphology of a new neuron and whether a new neuron is capable of expressing activity-dependent immediate early genes.

 

What do these functional timecourses tell us?

 

electrophysiology (Esposito 2005; Ge 2006), anatomy/morphology (Hastings 1999; Zhao 2006; Toni 2007; Toni 2008), and activity-dependent gene expression (Jessberger 2003; Snyder 2009) all point to new neurons forming their first synapses at 2-4 weeks of age

around 4 weeks of age, new neurons go through a phase where they have enhanced synaptic plasticity (Ge et al 2007) and enhanced activation during behavior (Snyder 2009)

thus, at a young age, new neurons are more modifiable by experience than mature neurons. This may enable them to make a greater impact on behavior, either at this age or by shaping their further integration into the circuitry so they can alter brain function when fully mature and functional

young neurons have distinct neurotransmitter profiles: initially they receive GABAergic inputs and later receive excitatory glutamatergic inputs (Esposito 2005). Notably, GABA depolarizes immature neurons (Ge 2006), unlike its typically-inhibitory effects on mature neurons. Also, immature neurons have a unique form of the NMDA receptor (NR2B), which endows them with their enhanced plasticity (Ge 2007).

blocking CREB signalling (Jagasia 2009) or the depolarizing effects of GABA (Ge 2006) inhibits the functional maturation of new neurons

by 8 weeks of age, new neurons are pretty much fully developed, though Zhao 2006, Toni 2007 and Toni 2008 show that 8-10 week-old neurons are still slightly underdeveloped, presynaptically and postsynaptically

does this mean that 8-10 week-old neurons, despite no longer having enhanced synaptic plasticity or enhanced activation during behavior, might still function differently than fully mature neurons?

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I wrote the description at 3 am. It's strange. And terribly jumbled. And I'm not sure if it makes much sense. Nevertheless, it's exactly how I was feeling at the time.

 

This photo originally was inspired by... The moss the you see by my hair. Not exactly fantastic. And the photo didn't have any meaning to me. And I hated that. And really, the look in the photo is definitely different than what I planned. It was in-between my posing. And when I look at it, it feels raw to me. An unplanned falling apart. And I realized early this morning (or late last night) that the fact this photo had no meaning to me was the meaning. That I felt numb. And some words from two different friends broke the deafening silence of feelings and emotions burried. And it was less sudden and more of a slow, sorrow-filled realization that I'd let myself get here. And today there's the realization I don't like it here. I'm leaving this place of complacency and numbness.

 

I'm leaving the below text exactly how it was originally written. Part of me wants to go fix all the typos. But that all is the real, jumbled mess of my brain coming out - crypted, yes. But it's still coming out. I'm expressing myself. And maybe this photo was a waking up for me, a demonstration of the dead emotions rattling inside my bones.

 

Written last night:

Its as if life passes you by. as if you no longer feel it passing anymore. you just are, and it just goes. and then suddenly you feel it. you feel the absence of feeling, and what can you make of that. its a suffocating, heart-breaking, soul-fracturing absence. and you feel how wrong it it. just how wrong it it. the distance that you put between yourself and life is stunning. you don't know how to not put that distance. and the fear that overwhelmes, over-takes... its there. just. there. and what can you do?

 

my life is not in my hands. it can't be. it simply cannot be placed in my hands. i wouldn't know what to do with it, how to plan it. looking at my life, the past and the future, and sometimes even the present, its like this horribly confusing smoke-screen where images are blurred together and confused and there's a cacophony of noise and confusion as i try so very hard to make sense of it all. but it refuses to make sense. right now, i know events that have happened in the past, i have an idea of what will happen in the near future - i haven't lost any sort of brain function or a memory. but i can't make sense of them, how they play together to make thsi one giant piece of God's puzzle of life. my life is playing out before me, and its bewildering and scary and its hard to know what to do. and that's when you stop trying so hard to figure it out, and just live.

 

A fractured heart. when your heart shatters, or even just fractures, it leads to something beautiful. and the fragments of your heart that leave you land in someone else's heart.

From the session: "The Neuroscience of Art:

What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?" (February 21 to 26, 2015)

 

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In recent years, there have been an increasing number of scientific investigations into art, exploring what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. Most of these collaborations have been based in neuroscience and psychological approaches to how art is perceived, produced and created, with music the main focus of studies carried out to date. These studies have yielded important new information that relates to a very basic fact of human biology: all behavior, even that as complex as creativity, can be linked to brain function. Building on this fundamental linkage, the neurobiology of art promises to yield exciting new insights as this research field evolves. Creative behavioral patterns are likely to be a critical component for developing the neurological capacity for innovation.

 

This Salzburg Global program represents a pioneering step to establish a neutral international forum to discuss state-of-the-art findings from a cross-disciplinary perspective, prioritize future research, and expand creative opportunities for learning, innovation and collaboration. While much research is taking place in various national and regional settings, more global dialogue is needed between specialist silos in order to catalyze knowledge exchange around the results, implications and potential practical applications of new cutting-edge research.

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You’ve Never Brushed Your Teeth Before?!?

 

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And yet that is the reality for most people… except it’s even worse than that.

 

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Enemas had been widely used throughout the world for thousands of years before they were standard procedure in US hospitals around the turn of the century.

 

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Due to the widespread use of pharmaceutical antibiotics in modern times, this simple and effective practice has fallen almost entirely out of custom. I especially find it ironic that enemas are not even practiced in hospitals and clinic for acute and chronic intestinal infections, when this would clearly be the best way to “apply directly” to an infection, and the more convenient, yet highly problematic solution of broad-spectrum pharmaceutical antibiotics, is almost always prescribed instead.

 

So to my mind it seems clear that we have allowed our value for convenience to override our need for both safety and effectiveness. In the quest for convenience, we have become dependent on harmful pharmaceutical drugs and have lost touch with the classical knowledge of how to combat illness our selves.

 

Based on my research and experience, I strongly believe that regularly practicing home enemas is an essential component of effective personal hygiene, just like regularly brushing one’s teeth. Really its even more important than brushing our teeth, because our mouth is not where the primary foundation of our health and wellness resides.

 

Perhaps its simply because we can see inside our mouths so easily that we focus so much on keeping our mouths clean and our teeth well brushed. Then this same logic would then make it very easy to ignore cleaning our colon. But just because we can’t see inside our colon doesn’t mean it’s not extremely important to keep clean!

 

You know, it’s a sort of like cleaning the back corners of your fridge. It can be all too easy to ignore, but if you don’t clean it regularly then you will eventually have something rotting in there. This will not only make your whole fridge stink, but it will also affect all of the food in your fridge as the rotting bacteria spreads. And the exact same thing is true inside your colon.

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Feeling the need to do something different.

Trying to keep the photography fresh is not always easy, during the season, working seven days a week it's all to tempting to take the easy option, a summer of challenging myself is needed to keep the brain functioning after 10 hours of the hotel business each day.

Oh God, have I just set myself another goal! Damn.

 

Scrabster Harbour, Caithness, Scotland.

Warning sign on portable public toilet at George Street Boat Launch in Belleville, Ontario.

 

Sign reads:

"PUBLIC WASHROOMS

WARNING:

YOU ARE ASSUMING RISK

City of Belleville Public Washrooms are available for use at your own risk.

 

Using the Public Washrooms increases your risk of injury which may include but are not limited to exposure to communicable diseases like the COVID-19 virus which you could contract from touching surfaces that may contain viruses or bacteria or from close contact with others who are carriers of such viruses or bacteria. Washroom users are not individually monitored or screened by the City.

 

Such injuries could cause permanent loss of mobility, brain functioning, or death. You are voluntarily assuming the risk of these injuries when you use the Public Washrooms.

 

Do not use the Public Washrooms if you feel sick or have been in close contact with somebody who is.

 

When you use the Public Washrooms please exercise caution, monitor your children closely, wash your hands regularly, and avoid touching your face.

 

June 2020"

 

Photograph taken and donated by Paul Lantz.