10.13

1) Essential (nylon-string) Jazz: "Naked Guitar" - Earl Klugh



Tracks: Who Can I Turn To, All The Things You Are, Moon River, The Summer Knows, Serenata


2)


"Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and formerly Communist countries, where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, (former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day) O’Connor said we must be ever vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."







3) Getting In A Twist Over Time

"For the strong gravitational field of a circulating cylinder of light, I have found new exact solutions of the Einstein field equations for the exterior and interior gravitational fields of the light cylinder. The exterior gravitational field is shown to contain closed timelike lines [R. L. Mallett, "The gravitational field of a circulating light beam," Foundations of Physics 33, 1307 (2003)]. The presence of closed timelike lines indicates the possibility of time travel into the past. This creates the foundation for a time machine based on a circulating cylinder of light. "

Mallet


4) Origami (Microsoft) handheld devices: already outdated??!

Compare: mock-up from sci-fi series "Earth: Final Conflict" [1], Readius rollable display (soon to be released) [2] and a Universal Display [3].
Gates was "behind the times" when he _conceived_ the Origami concept...or he's deliberately trying to gouge the public...


5) The Second SuperString Revolution


6) Fit To Be Captioned: It followed me home, daddy...



7) Google Search: universe giant computer


8) Take Your Pills, All Your Pills


9) "I don't think you'll be seeing (Sly Stone) on 'Oprah.'"
--- Ken Ehrlich, longtime executive producer of the Grammy telecast


10)

“Is this government so jealous of its power, so fearful of dissent, that it needs to threaten people who openly oppose its policies with charges of ‘sedition’?”

10.12

1) Essential Jazz: "Night Dreamer" - Wayne Shorter



Track: Virgo



2)

"In December 2005, the New York City Board of Health approved a novel response to the diabetes epidemic: mandatory electronic reporting of glycosylated hemoglobin values by laboratories to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The requirement, which took effect on January 15, 2006, was promulgated under the department's statutory authority to report and control chronic diseases and to regulate clinical laboratories.
The endeavor has aroused concern about patients' privacy and raised questions about the role of health departments..."

3)

"Researchers at UCLA found that cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle ("pain neurons"), will also fire when the patient watches another patient being poked. The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier between self and others.

early warning system may exist in the anterior cingulate cortex



4) If there is a link between toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia [1], is it possible there's a link between a parasite/virus and sociopathology??!

Brain development may be influenced by genetic parasites

Google search: anterior cingulate parasites


4a) Sociopaths Unbound

"It sounds like a treatment for a creepy psychological thriller: a world in which one in every 25 people walks through life without a drop of human compassion. On the outside, these creatures appear perfectly normal. They get married, buy homes, hold down jobs. But on the inside, they're morally bankrupt and completely unrestricted by conscience. They can do absolutely anything -- lie, steal, sabotage -- without feeling a shred of guilt or remorse.
Harvard psychologist Martha Stout, Ph.D., says this is not science fiction. In her controversial new book, "The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us," Stout claims that 4 percent of the population are sociopaths who have no capacity to love or empathize. Using composites pooled from her research to illustrate her points, Stout details the havoc sociopaths wreak on unsuspecting individuals -- marrying for money, backstabbing co-workers, or simply messing with people for the fun of it. The fact that most of us never suspect our friends and neighbors of sociopathy only makes the transgressions easier to pull off."

Why is women's sociopathy more difficult to pinpoint?

"In general, women are less physical and more verbal in the way they express things. For a sociopath who is a woman, one would expect more social manipulation. Of course, women can be violent, but it's less likely.

And that's why we don't see them as criminals? Because beating someone is a crime, but harming them emotionally is not?

Exactly. Getting someone fired or tormenting your children is usually pretty private and not always actionable."

Amazon: "The Sociopath Next Door"


ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY


CNN transcript

KING: So socio -- you can work with a sociopath. He doesn't kill anybody, he just doesn't care about when he cuts you out of a job or cheats that guy out of a pay increase or whatever?

STOUT: Exactly. Exactly. Brutally beats his children or humiliates his employees in public, steals old lady's pensions. Sure.

"Is Your Boss a Psychopath?"

THIRTEEN RULES FOR DEALING WITH SOCIOPATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE:

1. Accept the fact that no-conscience often looks normal.
2. Do not believe role “taken on” by sociopath.
3. Use “rule of three lies” for confirming suspicion about dealing with a liar.
4. Social support will help you to question authority.
5. Suspect flattery.
6. Redefine your concept of respect: keep it separate from fear.
7. Do not join in the “game.”
8. Avoid contact, if possible.
9. Don’t pity the sociopath.
10. Don’t try to redeem the irredeemable.
11. Never agree to help sociopaths conceal their true character.
12. Remember that most human beings do possess a conscience, an ability to love.
13. “Living well is the best revenge.”

5) Hospital Infection Rates

Google

6) The "Dis-location" of U.S. Medicine — The Implications of Medical Outsourcing

"But harm may also result — particularly if, as seems likely, the main driving force proves to be saving money, rather than improving quality. First, to the extent that some care will be provided by anonymous people in cyberspace rather than by local doctors, distinguishing competent providers from hucksters will become even more difficult. In addition, having service providers operating under different laws and, potentially, value systems can create opportunities for new kinds of mischief."

7) Company requires RFID injection

8) 95 Pounds Heavier, Angry Son Faces Mother Who Starved Him

"If we knew why these kinds of things happen, we would be able to put ourselves in the shoes of defendants, in the shoes of mass murderers, in the shoes of people who do horrible things to young children," said Vincent P. Sarubbi, the Camden County prosecutor. "We'd have to become them, and that's why it's impossible in some circumstances to truly understand what may motivate people."

9) 37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty

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10) How to Take A Caffeine Nap