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The keynote speaker, Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, a cognitive therapist specialist on hoarders gave updates on hoarding research.
Confirmed for me that depression is co-occuring with hoarding, but it is not known whether this is a result of the clutter and resulting isolation or a cause. Social phobia is also co-occuring thus it is hard for hoarders to accept help from those set up to help them. She didn't mention organizers at all (see my notes under UCSF Research for why that might be.) There is also post traumatic stress syndrome and substance abuse.
Where once hoarding was considered an OCD thing, now they are finding that there is not that much overlap. Just as many hoarders suffer from ADHD with distraction getting them off task. The benefit of being OCD is that the person is more likely to realize that they have a problem with clutter whereas non-OCD hoarders stop seeing the stuff as clutter and so are perceived by family as being willfully disobedient.
Treatment program described included weekly office visits to a therapist, and in-home visits to help declutter. Also patients were taken to places where they would normally pick-up stuff and they practiced not picking up stuff. Family consultations were also offered as was a clean-out of the home with trained therapeutic team.
There was a high response on the part of the clients who went through this 6 month to a year long program. It made them feel they were getting better. It was also a good treatment for depression since the client had to get out of bed, get dressed and actually break their isolation. Plus having people, especially cheerful undergrads visit them in their homes helped socialize them. The home visits were crucial. Reading books on hoarding helped very little. Support groups were also crucial to help reduce the stigma and social phobia. Mutual aid of the group instilled hope and motivation.
There is not empirical evidence that deprivation i.e. The Great Depression had anything to do with creating hoarders. However a personal loss like a miscarriage, a death in the family, being raped etc. was much more likely to have an impact.
Also of interest was the age when the hoarding emerged which was quite young, highest in middle school age, followed by high school. However, it is not considered a real problem for seeking of treatment until middle age to elderly. The problem just gets worse with age and the treatment gets less result with older patients.
And finally hoarding is only an issue in cultures where private ownership of property is important. In cultures where there is only communal ownership of property there is no incidence of hoarding. A very interesting comment on the pathology of private ownership.
Tables here were color coded so that those who did not want to be caught on camera would know where to sit. Hoarders in attendance may be in the closet, perhaps.
India Runway Week every season introduces 10 new faces in New Gen category. This season New Gen designers are Farzana Rahman, Surbhi Jain, Rifali Chandra, Sanya Garg, Paneri Gosar, Vanica Chhabra, Govinda Raju, Sweta Kedia, Rahul Kapoor, Neha Yadav.
Farzana Rahman showcased traditional Indian wear which focused on styles catering to traditional themes, cultures and thus being wearable on every occasion. Surbhi Jain’s collection was named 'print party' This season she had fallen head over heels over print with a graphic edge. In this line she has used bright colors, feminine prints, flowy fabrics and comfortable fits. she likes to have a kitsch, bold and experimental approach. This collection is a cocktail of print and color. Rifali Chandra’s The Spring Summer 2015 Edenfista collection was based on theme of dreamy fable inspired from the Moroccan intricacy and sophistication. The incredible Morocco has Quirky and Fanciful style that evolves throughout the Making and brings joyous visual expressions with its subtle details. This tale has an emotional yet bold style of illustrating its elegance. Sanya Garg’s Ilkbahar was a mirror of spring culture- fresh, bright, romantic and intricate. The glimpse of dull gold and bright hues gives it a sense of charm and elegance. Paneri Gosar’s collection was a reflection of indo western wears and was all about trendy, classy and occasional wear in the colors of white, pinks and gold. Vanica chhabra’s collection was inspired by Delhi culture, trends and ghantaghar. It was a vibrant collection and quite unique in its own way. Govinda Raju’s collection was an inspiration from KAMASUTRA on KHAJURAHOO TEMPLES. Sweta Kedia’s break the rules is a collection inspired by uniforms across all walks of life: school, army, air hostesses, butlers and navy. Uniforms have always provoked a sense of authority, power and style. Rahul Kapoor "Fuelled by fusion" RAHUL KAPOOR ushers you to his new spring sunmer 2015 collection 'REDIFINING ROYALTY '. Neha Yadav’s collection was inspired by modern sensibilities and cosmopoltitan styling to match the interplay of form, surface texturing and cuts, bringing together a cognitive mix of contemporary and conventional ensembles.
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Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
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OBJECT: Shopping and entertainment center "Gallery"
PLACE: Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2016
Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, speaking in the Why Is Laughter Contagious? session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22 January. Congress Centre - Betazone. Copyright by World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Valsts prezidents Egils Levits piedalās Vairas Vīķes-Freibergas grāmatas “The Singer of Songs. On Cognitive Shemas and Sequential Structuring in Longer Latvian Folk Songs” atvēršanas svētkos. Foto: Ilmārs Znotiņš, VPK
(Upper left) Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
With a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and a concentration in psycholinguistics, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen spent ten years as a college professor before leaving academia to work in administration at a series of mental health and addiction treatment facilities. Also having a lifelong attraction to writing stories, Dr. Schoen’s interests in language and fiction came together in 1992 when he created and subsequently became director of the Klingon Language Institute (KLI).
(Top right) The Klingon Language Institute
Founded in 1992 by Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen, The Klingon Language Institute’s mission is to bring together individuals interested in the study of Klingon language and culture and to provide a forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas. KLI’s motto is qo'mey poSmoH Hol “Language Opens Worlds.” Since 1992, the KLI has grown to be an international organization with members in thirty countries. The Institute also publishes a scholarly journal (HolQeD), sponsors a Klingon language course and an annual conference (qep'a'), and has been instrumental in translating Shakespearean plays and the epic of Gilgamesh into Klingon. The official website of the Institute is www.kli.org where one can find information and a number of resources for the dedicated Klingonist.
(Middle) The Klingon Translation Project
"taH pagh taHbe' -- DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS"
"To be or not to be...That is the question"
The Klingon Hamlet
Chancellor Gorkon, in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, stated over a discussion of the Earthling dramatist that “You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” Inspired by those lines, The Klingon Hamlet was restored to its “original” language by Nick Nicholas and Andrew Strader with feedback and editorial assistance from Mark Shoulson, d'Armond Speers, and Will Martin. This was the first major work translated by the Klingon Language Institute. It would be followed by paghmo' tIn mIS (Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) and ghIlghameS (the Epic of Gilgamesh translated into Klingon by Roger Cheesbro).
(Bottom left) Why Speak Klingon?
“Klingon is a type of puzzle that appeals to a type of person. It is difficult, but not impossible, formed from the stuff of real languages, just strange enough, just believable enough, just small enough that you can know every word, the entire canon, but also flexible enough to lend itself to the challenge of translation. The boundaries are set and the game is on. How far can we take this? is the collective call of the Klingon community...What are Klingon speakers doing? They are engaging in intellectually stimulating language play. They are enjoying themselves. They are doing language for language’s sake, art for art’s sake. And like all committed artists, they will do their thing, critics be damned.” ~ Arika Okrent, “Among the Klingons,” Tin House (Vol. 8, No. 4)
(Bottom right) qep'a'
The Annual Gathering of Klingon Speakers
The Klingon Language Institute describes their annual "great gathering" this way: "Every year KLI members come from all over the globe to gather for the qep'a', our official conference. The focus is of course on Klingon. We use the language at the qep'a'. We play with it. We revel in it. We speak it. Programming includes games, feedback, a banquet, certification testing, the presentation of awards and the Kor Memorial Scholarship, singing, story telling, and much general socializing." The photo is from the twelfth qep'a' or qep'a' wa'maH cha'Dich held near Philadelphia, PA. The attendees were:
In back with meqleH (a Klingon bladed weapon): Eric Andeen
Standing, Left to Right: Steven Lytle, Captain Krankor (and norghoy), Agnieszka Solska, Lawrence Schoen, Mark Shoulson, Elizabeth Lawrence, David Crowell, Heather Myers, Tad Stauffer, David Trimboli, Alan Anderson
Sitting, Left to Right: Nancy Nielsen-Brown, Marc Okrand, Louise Whitty, d'Armond Speers
(Source: www.kli.org. Klingon speakers mentioned somewhere in this exhibit have been highlighted in red.)
Graphic shows different prevalence rates of eating disorders in men and women: Anorexia affects 10 women to every 1 man; bulimia affects 8 women to every 1 man; binge-eating disorder affects 3 women to every 2 men. Overall, am estimated 13 percent of women and 3 percent of men have an eating disorder.
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany --- Cpt. Michael Bruce, a native of Huckabay, Texas, and currently stationed in Germany, conducts preventive maintenance checks and services at the Grafenwoehr Training Area during the third day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany ---1st Lt. Joshua Herrington, a native of Colorado Springs, Col., and currently stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany with 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command, leads a physical readiness training session at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Grafenwoehr Training Area during the fourth day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
India Runway Week every season introduces 10 new faces in New Gen category. This season New Gen designers are Farzana Rahman, Surbhi Jain, Rifali Chandra, Sanya Garg, Paneri Gosar, Vanica Chhabra, Govinda Raju, Sweta Kedia, Rahul Kapoor, Neha Yadav.
Farzana Rahman showcased traditional Indian wear which focused on styles catering to traditional themes, cultures and thus being wearable on every occasion. Surbhi Jain’s collection was named 'print party' This season she had fallen head over heels over print with a graphic edge. In this line she has used bright colors, feminine prints, flowy fabrics and comfortable fits. she likes to have a kitsch, bold and experimental approach. This collection is a cocktail of print and color. Rifali Chandra’s The Spring Summer 2015 Edenfista collection was based on theme of dreamy fable inspired from the Moroccan intricacy and sophistication. The incredible Morocco has Quirky and Fanciful style that evolves throughout the Making and brings joyous visual expressions with its subtle details. This tale has an emotional yet bold style of illustrating its elegance. Sanya Garg’s Ilkbahar was a mirror of spring culture- fresh, bright, romantic and intricate. The glimpse of dull gold and bright hues gives it a sense of charm and elegance. Paneri Gosar’s collection was a reflection of indo western wears and was all about trendy, classy and occasional wear in the colors of white, pinks and gold. Vanica chhabra’s collection was inspired by Delhi culture, trends and ghantaghar. It was a vibrant collection and quite unique in its own way. Govinda Raju’s collection was an inspiration from KAMASUTRA on KHAJURAHOO TEMPLES. Sweta Kedia’s break the rules is a collection inspired by uniforms across all walks of life: school, army, air hostesses, butlers and navy. Uniforms have always provoked a sense of authority, power and style. Rahul Kapoor "Fuelled by fusion" RAHUL KAPOOR ushers you to his new spring sunmer 2015 collection 'REDIFINING ROYALTY '. Neha Yadav’s collection was inspired by modern sensibilities and cosmopoltitan styling to match the interplay of form, surface texturing and cuts, bringing together a cognitive mix of contemporary and conventional ensembles.
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Professor Linda Smith, Chancellor's Professor; Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science,Indiana University presented an extended talk entitled Words, actions, objects, and abstractions: Overlapping loops of cause and consequence in developmental process put on by the the The Cognition and Communication Research Centre at Northumbria University Cocolab.org
A Haiku Note:
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The way of Buddha,
look to see and understand;
and then you will know.
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"Do not live in the world
in distraction and false dreams...
Arise and watch.
Follow the way joyfully
through this world and beyond."
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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.
1. Right View
Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions.
2. Right Intention
While right view refers to the cognitive aspect of wisdom, right intention refers to the volitional aspect, i.e. the kind of mental energy that controls our actions. Right intention can be described best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha distinguishes three types of right intentions: 1. the intention of renunciation, which means resistance to the pull of desire, 2. the intention of good will, meaning resistance to feelings of anger and aversion, and 3. the intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or act cruelly, violently, or aggressively, and to develop compassion.
3. Right Speech
Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles of the path. This aspect is not self-sufficient, however, essential, because mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of ethical conduct. The importance of speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious: words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace. Buddha explained right speech as follows: 1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak deceitfully, 2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others, 3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or hurt others, and 4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth. Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary.
4. Right Action
The second ethical principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence: right action means 1. to abstain from harming sentient beings, especially to abstain from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally or delinquently, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which includes stealing, robbery, fraud, deceitfulness, and dishonesty, and 3. to abstain from sexual misconduct. Positively formulated, right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest, to respect the belongings of others, and to keep sexual relationships harmless to others. Further details regarding the concrete meaning of right action can be found in the Precepts.
5. Right Livelihood
Right livelihood means that one should earn one's living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha mentions four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reason: 1. dealing in weapons, 2. dealing in living beings (including raising animals for slaughter as well as slave trade and prostitution), 3. working in meat production and butchery, and 4. selling intoxicants and poisons, such as alcohol and drugs. Furthermore any other occupation that would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided.
6. Right Effort
Right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task, and confusion will be the consequence. Mental energy is the force behind right effort; it can occur in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The same type of energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression, and violence can on the other side fuel self-discipline, honesty, benevolence, and kindness. Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavours that rank in ascending order of perfection: 1. to prevent the arising of unarisen unwholesome states, 2. to abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. to arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen, and 4. to maintain and perfect wholesome states already arisen.
7. Right Mindfulness
Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. Usually, the cognitive process begins with an impression induced by perception, or by a thought, but then it does not stay with the mere impression. Instead, we almost always conceptualise sense impressions and thoughts immediately. We interpret them and set them in relation to other thoughts and experiences, which naturally go beyond the facticity of the original impression. The mind then posits concepts, joins concepts into constructs, and weaves those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the process of conceptualisation in a way that we actively observe and control the way our thoughts go. Buddha accounted for this as the four foundations of mindfulness: 1. contemplation of the body, 2. contemplation of feeling (repulsive, attractive, or neutral), 3. contemplation of the state of mind, and 4. contemplation of the phenomena.
8. Right Concentration
The eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness, although at a relatively low level of intensity, namely concentration. Concentration in this context is described as one-pointedness of mind, meaning a state where all mental faculties are unified and directed onto one particular object. Right concentration for the purpose of the eightfold path means wholesome concentration, i.e. concentration on wholesome thoughts and actions. The Buddhist method of choice to develop right concentration is through the practice of meditation. The meditating mind focuses on a selected object. It first directs itself onto it, then sustains concentration, and finally intensifies concentration step by step. Through this practice it becomes natural to apply elevated levels concentration also in everyday situations.
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany ---Lt. Col. William Brockman, Chief of Operations for the Joint Multinational Training Command at Grafenwoehr, Germany talks to the competitors at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Grafenwoehr Training Area during the fourth day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
Cadet teams arrive to the Cognitive Skills Challenge at 4th Brigade’s Army ROTC Ranger Challenge on October 15 at Fort A.P. Hill. In this event, Cadets had to be aware of their surroundings and marked sites containing vital items and information along their ruck march to the event. Once they arrived, Cadets were scored based on the number of items they could identify and awarded extra points for identifying specific markings on select items. The second day of the Ranger Challenge saw teams competing in ten different events, before ending their day and the competition with a 6-mile ruck. The top two teams go on to represent 4th Brigade in the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition held at West Point Military Academy in April 2023. | Photo by Sarah Windmueller, U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs
I ended Day 5 of SXSW 2016 (Tuesday, March 15) at the IBM Cognitive Studio, which took over the Vince Young Steakhouse (301 San Jacinto Blvd.).
Among the interactive exhibits was IBM's Watson-powered Personality Insights demo. Visitors connect their Twitter profile to the demo, and it analyzes their posts to create a personality profile. Here are my results...
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany ---Lt. Col. William Brockman, chief of operations for the Joint Multinational Training Command at Grafenwoehr, Germany talks to contestants at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Grafenwoehr Training Area during the fourth day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany --- Cpt. John Arthur, a native of Chesapeake, Va. and currently stationed in Hohenfels, Germany with the 1st Battalion 4th Infantry Regiment, gives out a fragmentation order to Soldiers at the Grafenwoehr Training Area during the third day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
Informatics Forum 2008 designed by Bennetts Associates with Reiach and Hall, architects, and Buro Happold, engineers. Home to Edinburgh University researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Systems Biology.
Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)
•Animal Type: Invertebrates
•Exhibits: Surviving Through Adaptation
•Range: Pacific Ocean
Overview
Octopuses (yes, that is the correct plural of octopus) are cephalopods—a class of marine mollusks that also includes squid and cuttlefish. Cephalopod is derived from a Greek word meaning “head-feet.” Of the 800 identified living species of cephalopods, 300 are octopuses!
Giant Pacific octopuses have large heads, eight arms and are usually reddish-brown in color. They also have three hearts and a complex neural system that includes one central, cerebral ganglion and eight smaller ganglia at the base of their arms. Think of these smaller systems as external hard drives that report data back to a computer’s central processing unit.
A Note from the Caretaker
To encourage cognitive thinking and natural hunting behaviors, we give the octopus a container with food inside. The octopus must figure out how to open the container, using its more than 1,800 suckers to locate and taste what’s inside.
Quick Facts
Learn more about the giant Pacific octopus! Did you know that this master of camouflage can quickly change the color and texture of its skin to hide from predators?
Range
The giant Pacific octopus can be found in southern California, northward along the coast of North America, across the Aleutian Islands and southward to Japan.
Diet
Newly hatched octopuses feed on plankton (small, microscopic organisms), while adults feed on crabs, shrimp, clams, snails, fishes and even other octopuses, using their beaks to break open hard-shelled prey.
Size
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest living species of octopus. They’ve been known to grow to more than 150 pounds, but on average weigh approximately 45 to 65 pounds.
Population Status
Due to their short lifespan and reclusive habits, it’s difficult to assess populations of giant Pacific octopuses, but this species is common throughout its range.
Predators
While many young, larval octopuses are lost to predators, only large fish, marine mammals and humans are a threat to adults.
An Ode to the Octopus
For an animal closely related to a clam, these cephalopods are seriously complex—and they never cease to amaze.
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Octopuses are fascinating animals, and there’s seemingly no end to the list of their intriguing—and sometimes downright strange—characteristics. From independently operating arms and suckers to their inking technique to an alien-like circulatory system, here are some of our favorite facts about these magnificent mollusks.
Sticky Suckers
The eight arms (not tentacles!) of an octopus are amazing appendages. Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons can be found in its arms—which means that these limbs can operate without help from the central brain, allowing for some seriously impressive multitasking.
Each of an octopus’s eight arms is lined with rows of strong suckers, which change their shape and contract to create powerful suction. Like their arms, these suckers operate independently of one another. They can taste and smell, and they stick to practically every object they contact.
So, with eight different arms that have a mind of their own and hundreds of suckers that stick to everything in sight, how does an octopus avoid entangling itself in an eight-armed knot? It turns out that there’s a fairly simply answer. Research suggests that the secret lies in an octopus’s skin, which appears to produce a chemical signal that overrides the suction reflexes of its suckers. What’s more, scientists believe that these chemical signals may even be unique to each individual octopus.
All About Ink
You probably know that octopuses—as well as squids and cuttlefish, other members of the cephalopod class—can expel a cloud of black ink as a defense mechanism, but did you know that this ink contains the same pigment that’s found in human hair, skin and eyes? This pigment is called melanin and gives the ink its black color. It’s a main component of cephalopod ink, along with a sticky mucus that affects the thickness of the ink.
An octopus can eject this ink cloud to not only evade and confuse predators, but to harm them as well. The ink contains a compound called tyrosinase, which can irritate a predator’s eyes as well as interfere with its sense of smell.
Ink is created and stored in a specialized structure called an ink sac, and it’s expelled from the octopus’s body via the siphon, a tube-like structure at the base of its mantle that plays another key role in an octopus’s defensive strategy. When an octopus is ready to jet away from a potential predator, it fills its cavity with water and then forcefully expels the water out of its siphon. Much like a rocket ship launching into space, this force propels the octopus away from its predator—while also leaving an inky black cloud of confusion in its wake.
Blue Blood and Three Hearts
Like humans, octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen and provides a distinctive color. In humans, it’s hemoglobin, and it turns our blood red; in octopuses, the protein is called hemocyanin, and it turns their blood a distinctive blue. Hemocyanin is a copper-rich protein that is more effective at transporting oxygen in an environment like the deep ocean, where temperatures and oxygen concentrations are very low.
This blue blood is pumped through not one, not two, but three hearts in an octopus. There are two branchial hearts, which pump blood through an octopus’s gills. The blue blood then enters the systemic heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood through the body. If this sounds familiar, it’s because these three hearts work together to perform the function that our one heart does: The branchial hearts function much like the right side of our hearts, which passes blood through our lungs, and the systemic heart much like the left side of our hearts.
Otherworldly Octopuses
There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam.
Published March 01, 2018
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The clever octopus is full mystery and surprise. Some of their cognitive abilities are eerily human-like, yet their blue blood, multiple hearts and remarkable nervous system are more reminiscent of alien life. There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam. The more we learn about octopuses, the more questions we seem to have—and the more we seek to understand.
Masters of Disguise and Escape
The wily octopus has a variety of remarkable escape tools in its arsenal.
Of the octopus’s many skills, the most visually stunning is its ability to instantaneously shift the color and texture of its skin to become virtually invisible to predators—or to wait undetected for passing prey. A complex network of nerves commands the muscles inside pigment-containing cells, called chromatophores, to expand or contract, making the color inside more or less visible. Texture manipulation involves controlling the size of projections on the skin—called papillae—to create bumps, ridges and horns, allowing this incredible animal to seamlessly blend in with coral, rocks and other elements of the sea floor.
Their soft, boneless bodies allow them to shape-shift, squeezing through any space large enough to fit their small, sharp beaks, which are made of a substance called chitin. The largest species—the giant Pacific octopus—can weigh up to 50 pounds, and squeeze through an opening only a few inches wide.
Jetting Away
Octopuses tend to crawl along the ocean floor using their powerful eight arms, but they have a much more effective form of locomotion when they need to move quickly: jet propulsion. By rapidly drawing water into and out of a funnel-like structure, called a siphon, the octopus can quickly jet through the ocean and away from predators.
Phenomenal Features
If you think you don’t have anything in common with these blue-blooded, bulbous mollusks, think again.
Like humans, octopuses have closed circulatory systems, meaning that closed vessels or tubes transport blood throughout their body. Two of their three hearts, the branchial hearts, pump blood through the octopus’s gills, where it releases carbon dioxide and absorbs vital oxygen—much like the right side of our heart passes blood through our lungs. The blood then enters the main, or systemic, heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood throughout the body, like the left side of human hearts. Both humans and octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen; hemoglobin for humans, and a copper-rich protein called haemocyanin in octopus blood, which gives it a distinctive blue color.
The parallels between humans and octopuses don’t end there—our brains produce similar electrical patterns, feature complex folded lobes and are capable of short- and long-term memory. Even the physical structure of our eyes is nearly identical to that of an octopus, except for our “blind spot” where the optic nerve passes through the retina. Since an octopus’s optic nerve passes behind the retina, its eyes have no such blind spot.
Colorblind and Color-Changing
Yet another mystifying aspect of the octopus—these cephalopods are technically colorblind, but they’re masters of color camouflage. So how do they distinguish color? The shape of their pupils may play a part.
Astounding Arms
An octopus’s eight sucker-lined arms—not tentacles!—have a variety of fascinating functions.
The octopus’s arms contain two-thirds of all its neurons, enabling its impressive limbs to taste, feel and control basic movements independently of its brain. This system allows the octopus’s arms to independently do some of the “thinking,” lightening the cognitive burden on the central brain and allowing for multi-tasking. Curious by nature, octopuses tend to explore with their eight powerful arms, which they wrap around prey and objects to taste, tug closer and explore using their impressive suckers.
Inside each sucker is a cup-like chamber, called an acetabulum. When the acetabulum expands, the pressure inside the sucker decreases. The higher pressure outside the sucker pushes against it, creating the octopus’s signature mighty grip.
Strong Suckers
An octopus’s rimmed suckers are the key to this cephalopod’s iron-strong grip, which it uses to pry open the hard shells of its prey. The largest species, the giant Pacific octopus, has more than 2,000 of these powerful suckers, which can haul up to 700 pounds.
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany ---1st Lt. Joshua Herrington, a native of Colorado Springs, Col., and currently stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany with 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command, leads a physical readiness training session at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Grafenwoehr Training Area during the fourth day of the U.S. Army Europe Best Junior Officer Competition. The Best Junior Officer Competition is a training event meant to challenge and refine competitors’ leadership and cognitive decision-making skills in high-intensity competition and is a training event unique to the U.S. Army in Europe. The competition runs from July 23-27, 2012. The competitors, company-grade officers ranking from 2nd Lt. to Capt., represent Army units throughout Europe and have already distinguished themselves amongst their peers and exemplify the profession of arms. The competition brings these up-and-coming young leaders together for five days of physically and mentally challenging training, all for the chance to be named U.S. Army Europe’s “Best Junior Officer” for 2012. Challenges include pistol and rifle qualifications, multiple foot marches, and various situational training exercises to test their intellect and instincts as leaders.The knowledge, skill-sets and leadership traits honed at this competition will help prepare the young leaders involved to excel when the time comes to lead Soldiers in a deployed environment. For more information or to see photos and video from the competition go to the U.S. Army Europe web site www.eur.army.mil/BestOfficer. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
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Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)
•Animal Type: Invertebrates
•Exhibits: Surviving Through Adaptation
•Range: Pacific Ocean
Overview
Octopuses (yes, that is the correct plural of octopus) are cephalopods—a class of marine mollusks that also includes squid and cuttlefish. Cephalopod is derived from a Greek word meaning “head-feet.” Of the 800 identified living species of cephalopods, 300 are octopuses!
Giant Pacific octopuses have large heads, eight arms and are usually reddish-brown in color. They also have three hearts and a complex neural system that includes one central, cerebral ganglion and eight smaller ganglia at the base of their arms. Think of these smaller systems as external hard drives that report data back to a computer’s central processing unit.
A Note from the Caretaker
To encourage cognitive thinking and natural hunting behaviors, we give the octopus a container with food inside. The octopus must figure out how to open the container, using its more than 1,800 suckers to locate and taste what’s inside.
Quick Facts
Learn more about the giant Pacific octopus! Did you know that this master of camouflage can quickly change the color and texture of its skin to hide from predators?
Range
The giant Pacific octopus can be found in southern California, northward along the coast of North America, across the Aleutian Islands and southward to Japan.
Diet
Newly hatched octopuses feed on plankton (small, microscopic organisms), while adults feed on crabs, shrimp, clams, snails, fishes and even other octopuses, using their beaks to break open hard-shelled prey.
Size
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest living species of octopus. They’ve been known to grow to more than 150 pounds, but on average weigh approximately 45 to 65 pounds.
Population Status
Due to their short lifespan and reclusive habits, it’s difficult to assess populations of giant Pacific octopuses, but this species is common throughout its range.
Predators
While many young, larval octopuses are lost to predators, only large fish, marine mammals and humans are a threat to adults.
An Ode to the Octopus
For an animal closely related to a clam, these cephalopods are seriously complex—and they never cease to amaze.
Animal Care
Octopuses are fascinating animals, and there’s seemingly no end to the list of their intriguing—and sometimes downright strange—characteristics. From independently operating arms and suckers to their inking technique to an alien-like circulatory system, here are some of our favorite facts about these magnificent mollusks.
Sticky Suckers
The eight arms (not tentacles!) of an octopus are amazing appendages. Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons can be found in its arms—which means that these limbs can operate without help from the central brain, allowing for some seriously impressive multitasking.
Each of an octopus’s eight arms is lined with rows of strong suckers, which change their shape and contract to create powerful suction. Like their arms, these suckers operate independently of one another. They can taste and smell, and they stick to practically every object they contact.
So, with eight different arms that have a mind of their own and hundreds of suckers that stick to everything in sight, how does an octopus avoid entangling itself in an eight-armed knot? It turns out that there’s a fairly simply answer. Research suggests that the secret lies in an octopus’s skin, which appears to produce a chemical signal that overrides the suction reflexes of its suckers. What’s more, scientists believe that these chemical signals may even be unique to each individual octopus.
All About Ink
You probably know that octopuses—as well as squids and cuttlefish, other members of the cephalopod class—can expel a cloud of black ink as a defense mechanism, but did you know that this ink contains the same pigment that’s found in human hair, skin and eyes? This pigment is called melanin and gives the ink its black color. It’s a main component of cephalopod ink, along with a sticky mucus that affects the thickness of the ink.
An octopus can eject this ink cloud to not only evade and confuse predators, but to harm them as well. The ink contains a compound called tyrosinase, which can irritate a predator’s eyes as well as interfere with its sense of smell.
Ink is created and stored in a specialized structure called an ink sac, and it’s expelled from the octopus’s body via the siphon, a tube-like structure at the base of its mantle that plays another key role in an octopus’s defensive strategy. When an octopus is ready to jet away from a potential predator, it fills its cavity with water and then forcefully expels the water out of its siphon. Much like a rocket ship launching into space, this force propels the octopus away from its predator—while also leaving an inky black cloud of confusion in its wake.
Blue Blood and Three Hearts
Like humans, octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen and provides a distinctive color. In humans, it’s hemoglobin, and it turns our blood red; in octopuses, the protein is called hemocyanin, and it turns their blood a distinctive blue. Hemocyanin is a copper-rich protein that is more effective at transporting oxygen in an environment like the deep ocean, where temperatures and oxygen concentrations are very low.
This blue blood is pumped through not one, not two, but three hearts in an octopus. There are two branchial hearts, which pump blood through an octopus’s gills. The blue blood then enters the systemic heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood through the body. If this sounds familiar, it’s because these three hearts work together to perform the function that our one heart does: The branchial hearts function much like the right side of our hearts, which passes blood through our lungs, and the systemic heart much like the left side of our hearts.
Otherworldly Octopuses
There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam.
Published March 01, 2018
Multimedia
The clever octopus is full mystery and surprise. Some of their cognitive abilities are eerily human-like, yet their blue blood, multiple hearts and remarkable nervous system are more reminiscent of alien life. There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam. The more we learn about octopuses, the more questions we seem to have—and the more we seek to understand.
Masters of Disguise and Escape
The wily octopus has a variety of remarkable escape tools in its arsenal.
Of the octopus’s many skills, the most visually stunning is its ability to instantaneously shift the color and texture of its skin to become virtually invisible to predators—or to wait undetected for passing prey. A complex network of nerves commands the muscles inside pigment-containing cells, called chromatophores, to expand or contract, making the color inside more or less visible. Texture manipulation involves controlling the size of projections on the skin—called papillae—to create bumps, ridges and horns, allowing this incredible animal to seamlessly blend in with coral, rocks and other elements of the sea floor.
Their soft, boneless bodies allow them to shape-shift, squeezing through any space large enough to fit their small, sharp beaks, which are made of a substance called chitin. The largest species—the giant Pacific octopus—can weigh up to 50 pounds, and squeeze through an opening only a few inches wide.
Jetting Away
Octopuses tend to crawl along the ocean floor using their powerful eight arms, but they have a much more effective form of locomotion when they need to move quickly: jet propulsion. By rapidly drawing water into and out of a funnel-like structure, called a siphon, the octopus can quickly jet through the ocean and away from predators.
Phenomenal Features
If you think you don’t have anything in common with these blue-blooded, bulbous mollusks, think again.
Like humans, octopuses have closed circulatory systems, meaning that closed vessels or tubes transport blood throughout their body. Two of their three hearts, the branchial hearts, pump blood through the octopus’s gills, where it releases carbon dioxide and absorbs vital oxygen—much like the right side of our heart passes blood through our lungs. The blood then enters the main, or systemic, heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood throughout the body, like the left side of human hearts. Both humans and octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen; hemoglobin for humans, and a copper-rich protein called haemocyanin in octopus blood, which gives it a distinctive blue color.
The parallels between humans and octopuses don’t end there—our brains produce similar electrical patterns, feature complex folded lobes and are capable of short- and long-term memory. Even the physical structure of our eyes is nearly identical to that of an octopus, except for our “blind spot” where the optic nerve passes through the retina. Since an octopus’s optic nerve passes behind the retina, its eyes have no such blind spot.
Colorblind and Color-Changing
Yet another mystifying aspect of the octopus—these cephalopods are technically colorblind, but they’re masters of color camouflage. So how do they distinguish color? The shape of their pupils may play a part.
Astounding Arms
An octopus’s eight sucker-lined arms—not tentacles!—have a variety of fascinating functions.
The octopus’s arms contain two-thirds of all its neurons, enabling its impressive limbs to taste, feel and control basic movements independently of its brain. This system allows the octopus’s arms to independently do some of the “thinking,” lightening the cognitive burden on the central brain and allowing for multi-tasking. Curious by nature, octopuses tend to explore with their eight powerful arms, which they wrap around prey and objects to taste, tug closer and explore using their impressive suckers.
Inside each sucker is a cup-like chamber, called an acetabulum. When the acetabulum expands, the pressure inside the sucker decreases. The higher pressure outside the sucker pushes against it, creating the octopus’s signature mighty grip.
Strong Suckers
An octopus’s rimmed suckers are the key to this cephalopod’s iron-strong grip, which it uses to pry open the hard shells of its prey. The largest species, the giant Pacific octopus, has more than 2,000 of these powerful suckers, which can haul up to 700 pounds.
Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)
•Animal Type: Invertebrates
•Exhibits: Surviving Through Adaptation
•Range: Pacific Ocean
Overview
Octopuses (yes, that is the correct plural of octopus) are cephalopods—a class of marine mollusks that also includes squid and cuttlefish. Cephalopod is derived from a Greek word meaning “head-feet.” Of the 800 identified living species of cephalopods, 300 are octopuses!
Giant Pacific octopuses have large heads, eight arms and are usually reddish-brown in color. They also have three hearts and a complex neural system that includes one central, cerebral ganglion and eight smaller ganglia at the base of their arms. Think of these smaller systems as external hard drives that report data back to a computer’s central processing unit.
A Note from the Caretaker
To encourage cognitive thinking and natural hunting behaviors, we give the octopus a container with food inside. The octopus must figure out how to open the container, using its more than 1,800 suckers to locate and taste what’s inside.
Quick Facts
Learn more about the giant Pacific octopus! Did you know that this master of camouflage can quickly change the color and texture of its skin to hide from predators?
Range
The giant Pacific octopus can be found in southern California, northward along the coast of North America, across the Aleutian Islands and southward to Japan.
Diet
Newly hatched octopuses feed on plankton (small, microscopic organisms), while adults feed on crabs, shrimp, clams, snails, fishes and even other octopuses, using their beaks to break open hard-shelled prey.
Size
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest living species of octopus. They’ve been known to grow to more than 150 pounds, but on average weigh approximately 45 to 65 pounds.
Population Status
Due to their short lifespan and reclusive habits, it’s difficult to assess populations of giant Pacific octopuses, but this species is common throughout its range.
Predators
While many young, larval octopuses are lost to predators, only large fish, marine mammals and humans are a threat to adults.
An Ode to the Octopus
For an animal closely related to a clam, these cephalopods are seriously complex—and they never cease to amaze.
Animal Care
Octopuses are fascinating animals, and there’s seemingly no end to the list of their intriguing—and sometimes downright strange—characteristics. From independently operating arms and suckers to their inking technique to an alien-like circulatory system, here are some of our favorite facts about these magnificent mollusks.
Sticky Suckers
The eight arms (not tentacles!) of an octopus are amazing appendages. Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons can be found in its arms—which means that these limbs can operate without help from the central brain, allowing for some seriously impressive multitasking.
Each of an octopus’s eight arms is lined with rows of strong suckers, which change their shape and contract to create powerful suction. Like their arms, these suckers operate independently of one another. They can taste and smell, and they stick to practically every object they contact.
So, with eight different arms that have a mind of their own and hundreds of suckers that stick to everything in sight, how does an octopus avoid entangling itself in an eight-armed knot? It turns out that there’s a fairly simply answer. Research suggests that the secret lies in an octopus’s skin, which appears to produce a chemical signal that overrides the suction reflexes of its suckers. What’s more, scientists believe that these chemical signals may even be unique to each individual octopus.
All About Ink
You probably know that octopuses—as well as squids and cuttlefish, other members of the cephalopod class—can expel a cloud of black ink as a defense mechanism, but did you know that this ink contains the same pigment that’s found in human hair, skin and eyes? This pigment is called melanin and gives the ink its black color. It’s a main component of cephalopod ink, along with a sticky mucus that affects the thickness of the ink.
An octopus can eject this ink cloud to not only evade and confuse predators, but to harm them as well. The ink contains a compound called tyrosinase, which can irritate a predator’s eyes as well as interfere with its sense of smell.
Ink is created and stored in a specialized structure called an ink sac, and it’s expelled from the octopus’s body via the siphon, a tube-like structure at the base of its mantle that plays another key role in an octopus’s defensive strategy. When an octopus is ready to jet away from a potential predator, it fills its cavity with water and then forcefully expels the water out of its siphon. Much like a rocket ship launching into space, this force propels the octopus away from its predator—while also leaving an inky black cloud of confusion in its wake.
Blue Blood and Three Hearts
Like humans, octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen and provides a distinctive color. In humans, it’s hemoglobin, and it turns our blood red; in octopuses, the protein is called hemocyanin, and it turns their blood a distinctive blue. Hemocyanin is a copper-rich protein that is more effective at transporting oxygen in an environment like the deep ocean, where temperatures and oxygen concentrations are very low.
This blue blood is pumped through not one, not two, but three hearts in an octopus. There are two branchial hearts, which pump blood through an octopus’s gills. The blue blood then enters the systemic heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood through the body. If this sounds familiar, it’s because these three hearts work together to perform the function that our one heart does: The branchial hearts function much like the right side of our hearts, which passes blood through our lungs, and the systemic heart much like the left side of our hearts.
Otherworldly Octopuses
There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam.
Published March 01, 2018
Multimedia
The clever octopus is full mystery and surprise. Some of their cognitive abilities are eerily human-like, yet their blue blood, multiple hearts and remarkable nervous system are more reminiscent of alien life. There’s evidence that these highly intelligent animals can recognize and have preferences for individual humans, use tools, identify visual patterns and solve problems—surprisingly complex behaviors for an invertebrate closely related to a clam. The more we learn about octopuses, the more questions we seem to have—and the more we seek to understand.
Masters of Disguise and Escape
The wily octopus has a variety of remarkable escape tools in its arsenal.
Of the octopus’s many skills, the most visually stunning is its ability to instantaneously shift the color and texture of its skin to become virtually invisible to predators—or to wait undetected for passing prey. A complex network of nerves commands the muscles inside pigment-containing cells, called chromatophores, to expand or contract, making the color inside more or less visible. Texture manipulation involves controlling the size of projections on the skin—called papillae—to create bumps, ridges and horns, allowing this incredible animal to seamlessly blend in with coral, rocks and other elements of the sea floor.
Their soft, boneless bodies allow them to shape-shift, squeezing through any space large enough to fit their small, sharp beaks, which are made of a substance called chitin. The largest species—the giant Pacific octopus—can weigh up to 50 pounds, and squeeze through an opening only a few inches wide.
Jetting Away
Octopuses tend to crawl along the ocean floor using their powerful eight arms, but they have a much more effective form of locomotion when they need to move quickly: jet propulsion. By rapidly drawing water into and out of a funnel-like structure, called a siphon, the octopus can quickly jet through the ocean and away from predators.
Phenomenal Features
If you think you don’t have anything in common with these blue-blooded, bulbous mollusks, think again.
Like humans, octopuses have closed circulatory systems, meaning that closed vessels or tubes transport blood throughout their body. Two of their three hearts, the branchial hearts, pump blood through the octopus’s gills, where it releases carbon dioxide and absorbs vital oxygen—much like the right side of our heart passes blood through our lungs. The blood then enters the main, or systemic, heart, which circulates the newly oxygenated blood throughout the body, like the left side of human hearts. Both humans and octopuses have a protein in their blood that carries oxygen; hemoglobin for humans, and a copper-rich protein called haemocyanin in octopus blood, which gives it a distinctive blue color.
The parallels between humans and octopuses don’t end there—our brains produce similar electrical patterns, feature complex folded lobes and are capable of short- and long-term memory. Even the physical structure of our eyes is nearly identical to that of an octopus, except for our “blind spot” where the optic nerve passes through the retina. Since an octopus’s optic nerve passes behind the retina, its eyes have no such blind spot.
Colorblind and Color-Changing
Yet another mystifying aspect of the octopus—these cephalopods are technically colorblind, but they’re masters of color camouflage. So how do they distinguish color? The shape of their pupils may play a part.
Astounding Arms
An octopus’s eight sucker-lined arms—not tentacles!—have a variety of fascinating functions.
The octopus’s arms contain two-thirds of all its neurons, enabling its impressive limbs to taste, feel and control basic movements independently of its brain. This system allows the octopus’s arms to independently do some of the “thinking,” lightening the cognitive burden on the central brain and allowing for multi-tasking. Curious by nature, octopuses tend to explore with their eight powerful arms, which they wrap around prey and objects to taste, tug closer and explore using their impressive suckers.
Inside each sucker is a cup-like chamber, called an acetabulum. When the acetabulum expands, the pressure inside the sucker decreases. The higher pressure outside the sucker pushes against it, creating the octopus’s signature mighty grip.
Strong Suckers
An octopus’s rimmed suckers are the key to this cephalopod’s iron-strong grip, which it uses to pry open the hard shells of its prey. The largest species, the giant Pacific octopus, has more than 2,000 of these powerful suckers, which can haul up to 700 pounds.
Award-winning photojournalist, Karim Ben Khelifa, is widely known for his coverage of the Middle East conflicts, especially the Iraq and Afghan wars, where he covered the insurgent sides. While a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT, Ben Khelifa designed and prototyped his latest project The Enemy. This immersive installation uses VR to bring the audience into conversations between enemies within longstanding global conflicts. During his residency, he collaborated with Fox Harrell of the Imagination, Computation and Expression (ICE) Laboratory, to integrate concepts from cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence-based interaction models into the project to engender empathy.
WHAT IS NEUROLOGY?
WHAT IS A NEUROLOGIST?
A neurologist can help with brain injury recovery by providing a diagnosis, developing a treatment plan, and coordinating care. This may include prescribing medications to manage symptoms, providing referrals for physical, occupational, or speech therapy, and monitoring progress over time. They may also order imaging studies such as CT or MRI scans, to help understand the extent of the injury and plan treatment. Additionally, they may also provide guidance on lifestyle modifications, such as diet and exercise, that can help optimize recovery.
There are several ways to find a neurologist, including:
Ask your primary care physician for a referral: Your primary care doctor may be able to recommend a neurologist who is well-suited to your needs.
Search online directories: Many professional medical organizations, such as the American Academy of Neurology, have online directories of neurologists in your area.
Check with your insurance provider: Your insurance provider may have a list of in-network neurologists that you can choose from.
Check with your local hospital or medical center: Many hospitals and medical centers have neurologists on staff, who may be able to provide a referral.
Search online review sites: you can check online review sites such as Yelp, Healthgrades, or Google reviews to see the feedback from other patients.
It is important to note that it is always good to verify the credentials of the neurologist, such as education, training, and certification.
ABI Resources team members take directives from Neurologists. Neurology is the branch of medicine or biology that deals with the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system. The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and coordinates body activities. A doctor who specializes in neurology is called a neurologist. The neurologist treats disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, such as:
Central nervous system: the brain and spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system: all other neural elements, such as eyes, ears, skin, and other "sensory receptors"
Cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke
Seizure disorders, such as epilepsy
Spinal cord disorders
Speech and language disorders
Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis
Headache disorders
Infections of the brain and peripheral nervous system
Movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease
Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)
Because the nervous system is complex, a neurologist may specialize in a specific area. There are many subspecialties. Some examples of subspecialties include:
headache medicine
neuromuscular medicine
neurocritical care
neuro-oncology
geriatric neurology
autonomic disorders
vascular (stroke care)
child neurology
intervention neuroradiology
epilepsy
Neurologists do not perform surgery. If one of their patients requires surgery, they refer them to a neurosurgeon.
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Attachment theory describes several behavioural systems, the function of which is to regulate human attachment, fear, exploration, care-giving, peer-affiliation and sex. Attachment is defined as any form of behaviour that results in a person attaining and retaining proximity to a differentiated other. The primary caregiver is the source of the infants stress regulation and, therefore, sense of safety and security. Attachment theory emphasises the role of the parent as mediator, reflector and moderator of the childs mind and the childs reliance on the parent to respond to their affective states in ways that are contingent to their internal experience, a process often referred to as secure base/safe haven functioning. Within the close parent-child relationship neural networks dedicated to feelings of safety and danger, attachment and the core sense of self are sculpted and shaped. These networks are conceptualised as internal working models of attachment.
Characteristic patterns of interaction operating within the familys caregiving-attachment system give rise to secure, insecure and disorganized patterns of attachment. These discrete patterns have been categorized using the Strange Situation research procedure, which observes the young childs behaviour when separated and reunited with his or her primary caregiver. Attachment patterns are represented in the childs internal working models of self-other relationships. Secure attachment is promoted by the interactive regulation of affect, which facilitates the recognition, labelling and evaluation of emotional and intentional states in the self and in others, a capacity known as reflective function or mentalization. The recognition of affects as having dynamic, transactional properties is the key to understanding behaviour in oneself and in another. The child comes to recognize his or her mental states as meaningful self-states via a process of parental affect mirroring and marking. Secure children are able to use sophisticated cognitive strategies to integrate and resolve their fear of separation and loss.
When the parent is unavailable, inconsistent or unpredictable, the infant develops one of two organized insecure patterns of attachment: avoidant or ambivalent-resistant. These defensive strategies involve either the deactivation or hyper-activation of the attachment system. Deactivation is characterized by avoidance of the caregiver and by emotional detachment. In effect, the avoidant child immobilizes the attachment system by excluding thoughts and feelings that normally activate the system. Hyper-activation is manifested by an enmeshed ambivalent preoccupation with the caregiver and with negative emotions, particularly anger. However, in common with the avoidant child, the ambivalent child appears to cognitively disconnect feelings from the situation that elicited the distress. Disorganised-disoriented attachment is discussed below.
Attachment research, then, demonstrates that discrete patterns of secure, insecure, and disorganized attachment have as their precursor a specific pattern of caregiver-infant interaction and their own behavioural sequelae. Repeated patterns of interpersonal experience are encoded in implicit-procedural memory and conceptualized as self-other working models of attachment. These mental models consist of generalized beliefs and expectations about relationships between the self and key attachment figures, not the least of which concerns ones worthiness to receive love and care from others.
In sum, the care-giving environment generally, and the infant-caregiver attachment relationship particularly, initiate the child along one of an array of potential developmental pathways. Disturbance of attachment is the outcome of a series of deviations that take the child increasingly further from adaptive functioning. Child abuse and cumulative developmental trauma violate the childs sense of trust, identity and agency and have pernicious and seminal influences on the developing personality. In essence, internal working models of early attachment relationships provide the templates for psychopathology in later life, which may include violent, destructive and self-destructive forms of behaviour. In attachment theory, the main purpose of defence is the regulation of emotions. The primary mechanisms for achieving this are distance regulation and the defensive exclusion of thoughts and feelings associated with attachment trauma.
Early trauma in the form of abuse, loss, neglect and severe parent-child misattunement compromises brain-mediated functions such as attachment, empathy and affect regulation. From an attachment theory perspective, patterns of attachment are encoded and stored as generalized relational patterns in the systems of implicit memory. These are conceptualized as cognitive-affective internal working models which are seen as mediating how we think and feel about ourselves, others and the relationships we develop. Although open to change and modification in the light of new attachment experiences, whether positive or negative, these non-conscious procedural models, scripts or schemas within which early stress and trauma are retained, tend to persevere and guide, appraise and predict attachment-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours throughout the life cycle via the implicit memory system. Psychopathology is seen as deriving from an accumulation of maladaptive interactional patterns that result in character traits and personality types and disorders.
Disorganised attachment may occur when the childs parent is both the source of fear and the only protective figure to whom to turn to resolve stress and anxiety. In such instances, neither proximity seeking nor proximity avoiding is a solution to the activation of the childs attachment and fear behavioural systems. If the trauma remains unresolved and is carried into adulthood, it leaves the individual vulnerable to affect dysregulation in interpersonal conflict situations that induce fear, hate, shame and rage. In such cases, alcohol and illicit drugs are often resorted to as a maladaptive means of suppressing dreaded psychobiological states and restoring a semblance of affective equilibrium.
Findings show that disorganised attachment developed in infancy shifts to controlling behaviour in the older child and adult, reflecting an internalized mental model of the self as unlovable, unworthy of care and support, and fearful of rejection, betrayal and abandonment. Disorganised attachment is associated with a predisposition to relational violence, to dissociative states and conduct disorders in children and adolescents, and to personality disorders in adults. This state of mind constitutes a primary risk factor for the development of borderline, anti-social and sociopathic personality disorders. The rate of such disorders in forensic settings is particularly high. Clinically, dissociated traumatic experience is unsymbolized by thought and language, being encapsulated within the personality as a separate, non-reflective reality which is cut off from authentic human relatedness. The information contained in implicit memory may be retrieved by state-dependent moods and situations. Dissociated archaic internal working models are then activated, influencing and distorting expectations of current events and relationships outside of conscious awareness, particularly in situations involving intense interpersonal stress. In such situations, the self is felt to be endangered, thereby increasing the risk of an angry and potentially violent reaction.
Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, speaking in the Why Is Laughter Contagious? session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22 January. Congress Centre - Betazone. Copyright by World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
SAN DIEGO (May 23, 2014) Lt. Cmdr. Jose Dominguez, principle investigator for the Physical and Cognitive Operational Research Environment (PhyCORE) at Naval Health Research Center, describes to the Foreign Naval Attaché (NAVATT) Corps how the PhyCORE is used to help create better prosthetics for amputees. The NAVATT Corps was in San Diego to gain a comprehensive picture of Naval Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Conor Minto/Released)
India Runway Week every season introduces 10 new faces in New Gen category. This season New Gen designers are Farzana Rahman, Surbhi Jain, Rifali Chandra, Sanya Garg, Paneri Gosar, Vanica Chhabra, Govinda Raju, Sweta Kedia, Rahul Kapoor, Neha Yadav.
Farzana Rahman showcased traditional Indian wear which focused on styles catering to traditional themes, cultures and thus being wearable on every occasion. Surbhi Jain’s collection was named 'print party' This season she had fallen head over heels over print with a graphic edge. In this line she has used bright colors, feminine prints, flowy fabrics and comfortable fits. she likes to have a kitsch, bold and experimental approach. This collection is a cocktail of print and color. Rifali Chandra’s The Spring Summer 2015 Edenfista collection was based on theme of dreamy fable inspired from the Moroccan intricacy and sophistication. The incredible Morocco has Quirky and Fanciful style that evolves throughout the Making and brings joyous visual expressions with its subtle details. This tale has an emotional yet bold style of illustrating its elegance. Sanya Garg’s Ilkbahar was a mirror of spring culture- fresh, bright, romantic and intricate. The glimpse of dull gold and bright hues gives it a sense of charm and elegance. Paneri Gosar’s collection was a reflection of indo western wears and was all about trendy, classy and occasional wear in the colors of white, pinks and gold. Vanica chhabra’s collection was inspired by Delhi culture, trends and ghantaghar. It was a vibrant collection and quite unique in its own way. Govinda Raju’s collection was an inspiration from KAMASUTRA on KHAJURAHOO TEMPLES. Sweta Kedia’s break the rules is a collection inspired by uniforms across all walks of life: school, army, air hostesses, butlers and navy. Uniforms have always provoked a sense of authority, power and style. Rahul Kapoor "Fuelled by fusion" RAHUL KAPOOR ushers you to his new spring sunmer 2015 collection 'REDIFINING ROYALTY '. Neha Yadav’s collection was inspired by modern sensibilities and cosmopoltitan styling to match the interplay of form, surface texturing and cuts, bringing together a cognitive mix of contemporary and conventional ensembles.
India Runway week is the youngest fashion trade event of the country.
"Narcolepsy is a sleep condition which is thought to either be a neurological or auto-immune disease. In people with Narcolepsy, they are missing Hypocretin, the chemical in your brain that controls wakefulness and the cognitive ability to go through all of the sleep cycles. Having Narcolepsy essentially guarantees excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, insomnia, and for some of us, cataplexy. Cataplexy happens to me when I laugh too hard; my knees give out and I fall to the ground. Excessive daytime sleepiness is the symptom I struggle with the most. I have to take Nuvigil in the morning, it helps me to stay awake throughout the day and prevents sleep attacks. Although it doesn’t prevent sleepiness one hundred percent, it allows me to be more cognitively aware and I have to take less naps. When that is not enough, which it usually isn’t on an intensive school day, I can take Adderall throughout the day as well. My most important medication is Xyrem. Xyrem is an extremely potent sleep medication. It was a game changer for my treatment. It is a liquid I take at bedtime that makes me drowsy within twenty minutes, and then I wake up in the middle of the night to take a second dose. With Xyrem, you can essentially control your hours of sleep, and when it wears off in the morning, it was the reverse effect; it actually helps you wake up. These medications affect me in a way that allows me to function in the way “normal” people do. Basically, I can be awake during the day and sleep at night, which if I wasn’t medicated, I wouldn’t be able to do. I’d be considered nocturnal without medication. Narcolepsy has affected my everyday life by making it extremely difficult to get out of bed, difficult to do well in school, difficult to show emotion, and most of all difficult to be understood. Because of having Narcolepsy, I have struggled to have the social life most high school and college kids have. I have struggled to trust that people will look past my condition and want to befriend me even though a lot of times I have to cancel plans because I’m too tired. I have struggled to deal with all of the extra symptoms that come along with the disease. These extra symptoms include, but aren’t limited to: depression, anxiety, feeling hopeless and alone, feeling completely misunderstood, and being treated like you’re lazy. Usually I don’t tell people I have Narcolepsy. I’m pretty good at managing my symptoms. When people become closer to me and they start realizing that I’m “different,” then either people feel extremely bad for me and want to do anything they can, or people think I have no personality and that I’m uninteresting, boring, lazy, or lying to get sympathy. Narcolepsy doesn’t necessarily make me who I am, but it definitely affects my ability to be who I can and want to be. The difference from high school and now is that I don’t let the disability stop me from reaching my goals, and I certainly don’t let people speak poorly of me. If people do speak poorly of me or my abilities, I will stand up for myself and I will no longer let their words come between me and what I wish to obtain. I can accomplish anything now due to the struggles of having Narcolepsy. Thankfully, I am able to carry that mentality into just about anything I do now. That’s how Narcolepsy has helped make me who I am. The only time I am embarrassed about having Narcolepsy is when people tell me I am lazy, and I am genuinely afraid to explain that there is a reason. Nowadays, less people call me lazy though, because there is more and more proof coming from me that I am not lazy at all. Its also a little embarrassing when people make fun of me for having no personality. Those who know me well know that I do have a personality; they also know that I am exhausted when I don’t show much of my personality, which is a lot of the time and I cannot control how often or severe it is. I think society has painted the picture that everyone needs to push their bodies to their limit. We all seem to think that every waking moment must be spent cognitively aware and functioning. Most people have a picture of Narcolepsy that is an old person nodding off while they’re watching TV, but some Narcoleptics are diagnosed before they are even five years old. I can’t wait for the day that society will get it out of their head that everyone has to function the same way. When that day comes, I will be able to come off all medication and let my body be the way it intends: asleep during the day and awake at night. If that day never comes, it would at least be nice for there to be a drug that actually cures Narcolepsy. Most people believe it is a mental illness that should be treated with counseling and that it is hormonal, and one day we’ll just grow out of it, that’s not the way it works. Narcolepsy is the same as having Type 1 diabetes, or any other condition that is due to the absence of something in your body that cannot ever naturally be replaced, only treated. I often get the question, “Well, have you tried turning off your television before bed, drinking coffee, taking melatonin, taking Benadryl, Nyquil, Tylenol PM?” Society just won’t accept that this condition is much more serious. It is the absence of a chemical from your brain, not an inability to clear your mind before bedtime or being too weak to stay awake during the day. It is so important for people to just be who they are because if you pretend you are something you’re not, or you ignore your own health, it will lead you down a miserable road where every moment is spent in regret and attempts to explain yourself. No one should have to explain themselves; acceptance should be as easy as breathing. The most important thing at the end of the day is yourself, you’re all you really have. So there is no greater importance than being one hundred percent you, even if you do struggle to fit societies’ standards. Who is society to judge who you are or what you’re capable of anyway? Even though I have this disease, I am capable of anything anyone else is."
- Erin Smith
Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, speaking in the Why Is Laughter Contagious? session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22 January. Congress Centre - Betazone. Copyright by World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.
Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.
Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.
The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.
The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.
While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.
The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.
Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.
AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.
This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.
Using pioneering new technologies in Superfoods and nutrition, CFTRI has developed amazing new products which are on show at CFTRI stall at Pragati Maidan:
· Chia and Quinoa based Chocolates and Laddoos;
· Omega-3 enriched ice-cream;
· Multigrain banana bar
· Fruit juice based carbonated drinks.
New Delhi, 24th November, 2016: CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), the premier national institute for food technology is exhibiting a range of new agri-products now grown in India, called Superfoods that bring health and nutrition best practices to everyday eating and living to the common man. The exhibits by CFTRI at the Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi both impress and surprise with the range and scope of their utility and potency.
The Indian population is presently going through a nutrition transition and there is an increase in incidence of diabetes, impaired heart health and obesity while there is still rampant malnutrition in the nation.
Keeping in mind an effective solution needed to address these concerns, CSIR-CFTRI is working on bringing Superfoods to the Indian population. CFTRI works on various facets of food technology, food processing, advanced nutrition, Superfoods and allied sciences. Superfoods are foods which have superior nutrition profiles which upon regular consumption can help improve health and wellness of the consumer.
CFTRI has developed the agro-technology for growing Superfoods viz. Chia and Quinoa in Indian conditions. Chia is the richest source of omega-3 fats from a vegetarian source and Quinoa has excellent protein quality and low glycemic load carbohydrates. Comprehensively, Chia and Quinoa have potential to improve population health and both blend seamlessly into traditional food preparations.
CSIR-CFTRI also infuses the spirit of entrepreneurship in their students. One of the doctoral students after completing her academic program started her own technology provider start-up company, Oleome Biosolutions Pvt Ltd. In a global first, CSIR-CFTRI in collaboration with Oleome, has developed a 100% vegetarian, Omega-3-enriched Ice cream called “Nutriice” using Chia oil.
CSIR-CFTRI is also in the process of the final phase of testing of diacylglycerol (DAG) oil, a unique cooking oil that has “Anti-Obesity” functionalities. One can consume it as part of daily regular diet and while the oil is available as energy but does not get stored as fat in our bodies. The final phase of human clinical trial is presently under progress.
CFTRI has also designed and developed snacks with advanced nutrition designs to support the nutrition needs of growing children. These have been implemented in the aganwadi levels to complement the existing government mid-day meal and will be scaled up soon. The products, such as Nutri Chikki with spirulina, rice beverage mix, high protein rusk, energy food, nutri sprinkle, seasame paste and fortified mango bars have been well received by the children and the anganwadis alike. Multi-grain Banana bar is a new addition to in this product portfolio.
Another exciting area of multidisciplinary research being done at CSIR-CFTRI is on nanotechnology, food technology and nutrition. Nanomaterials are known for their characteristic properties and CSIR-CFTRI is working on the use of nanoparticles for various applications. One of our interesting developments is the design and development of food packaging material with nanoparticles with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to improve shelf-life of processed foods.
CSIR-CFTRI is also working on “Smart Foods” to answer specific needs of the consumer. These promising and specifically designed innovations are being developed for better sleep, better skin health, improved digestion, better cognitive performance and better stress management. The high science is brought into a simple food product, like a cereal bar which helps one to be more attentive over the day, or a unique dosa mix that helps in working out better at the gym with lower perceived exhaustion and even a special soup to help sleep better at night!
Speaking on the sidelines of the CSIR-CFTRI exhibition at Pragati Maidn, Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CFTRI said “Our mandate is to find innovative solutions to India agricultural and nutritional challenges. Our aim is to develop products to make Indian agriculture productive, efficient and at a consumer level gradually replace drugs with foods that will promote better health and wellness. We strive to deliver our best in improving food security and nutrition security, also developing a stronger, smarter and healthier India”.
About CSIR-CFTRI:
CSIR − Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore (A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi) came into existence during 1950 with the great vision of its founders, and a network of inspiring as well as dedicated scientists who had a fascination to pursue in-depth research and development in the areas of food science and technology.
CSIR-CFTRI is today a large and diversified laboratory headed by Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CSIR-CFTRI. Presently the institute has a great team of scientists, technologists, engineers, technicians, skilled workers, and support staff. There are seventeen research and development departments, including laboratories focusing on lipid science, molecular nutrition, food engineering, food biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, food safety etc.
The institute has designed over 300 products, processes, and equipment types. It holds several patents and has a large number of high impact peer reviewed journal articles to its credit. India is the world's second largest food grain, fruit and vegetable producer, and the institute is engaged in research and development in the production and handling of grains, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry.
The institute develops technologies to increase efficiency and reduce postharvest losses, add convenience, increase export, find new sources of food products, integrate human resources in food industries and develops solutions to improve the health and wellness of the population.
CFTRI has a vast portfolio of over 300 products, processes and equipment designs, and close to 4000 licensees have availed themselves of these technologies for commercial exploitation. The achievements have been of considerable industrial value, social importance and national relevance, and coupled with the institute's wide-ranging facilities and services, have created an extensive impact on the Indian food industry and Indian society at large.