Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
London broker banned after drunken trades hiked oil price
LONDON - The City of London watchdog has handed a five-year ban to a rogue oil broker who made unauthorised trades that caused a spike in oil prices after a weekend of heavy drinking.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20100630-224555.html
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20100630-224555.html
Welcome to Elephant Blanc
The White Elephant is to help the young people from orphanages in Cambodia, for helping young people to settle is helping Cambodia to rebuild itself.
http://elephantblanc.free.fr/index.php?lng=en
http://elephantblanc.free.fr/index.php?lng=en
Forbes predicts death of Kim next year
FORBES magazine has predicted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il will die in 2011 at the age of 70 and his son Jong-un, 29, will succeed him to rule the country. But the magazine did not say what the cause of his death might be.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20100914-237086.html
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20100914-237086.html
Friday, January 21, 2011
Will FDA Approve Genetically Modified Salmon?
The Food and Drug Administration could approve genetically modified salmon for human consumption. Anne Kapuscinski, professor of Sustainability Science at Dartmouth College, offers her insight.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129706395
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129706395
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/reinforcement.html
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Positive Reinforcement. The examples above describe what is referred to as positive reinforcement. Think of it as adding something in order to increase a response. For example, adding a treat will increase the response of sitting; adding praise will increase the chances of your child cleaning his or her room. The most common types of positive reinforcement or praise and rewards, and most of us have experienced this as both the giver and receiver.
Negative Reinforcement. Think of negative reinforcement as taking something negative away in order to increase a response. Imagine a teenager who is nagged by his mother to take out the garbage week after week. After complaining to his friends about the nagging, he finally one day performs the task and to his amazement, the nagging stops. The elimination of this negative stimulus is reinforcing and will likely increase the chances that he will take out the garbage next week.
Punishment. Punishment refers to adding something aversive in order to decrease a behavior. The most common example of this is disciplining (e.g. spanking) a child for misbehaving. The reason we do this is because the child begins to associate being punished with the negative behavior. The punishment is not liked and therefore to avoid it, he or she will stop behaving in that manner.
Extinction. When you remove something in order to decrease a behavior, this is called extinction. You are taking something away so that a response is decreased.
Research has found positive reinforcement is the most powerful of any of these. Adding a positive to increase a response not only works better, but allows both parties to focus on the positive aspects of the situation. Punishment, when applied immediately following the negative behavior can be effective, but results in extinction when it is not applied consistently. Punishment can also invoke other negative responses such as anger and resentment.
Positive Reinforcement. The examples above describe what is referred to as positive reinforcement. Think of it as adding something in order to increase a response. For example, adding a treat will increase the response of sitting; adding praise will increase the chances of your child cleaning his or her room. The most common types of positive reinforcement or praise and rewards, and most of us have experienced this as both the giver and receiver.
Negative Reinforcement. Think of negative reinforcement as taking something negative away in order to increase a response. Imagine a teenager who is nagged by his mother to take out the garbage week after week. After complaining to his friends about the nagging, he finally one day performs the task and to his amazement, the nagging stops. The elimination of this negative stimulus is reinforcing and will likely increase the chances that he will take out the garbage next week.
Punishment. Punishment refers to adding something aversive in order to decrease a behavior. The most common example of this is disciplining (e.g. spanking) a child for misbehaving. The reason we do this is because the child begins to associate being punished with the negative behavior. The punishment is not liked and therefore to avoid it, he or she will stop behaving in that manner.
Extinction. When you remove something in order to decrease a behavior, this is called extinction. You are taking something away so that a response is decreased.
Research has found positive reinforcement is the most powerful of any of these. Adding a positive to increase a response not only works better, but allows both parties to focus on the positive aspects of the situation. Punishment, when applied immediately following the negative behavior can be effective, but results in extinction when it is not applied consistently. Punishment can also invoke other negative responses such as anger and resentment.
save the seakittens
http://features.peta.org/PETASeaKittens/index.asp
People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.
People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.
Oedipus complex
The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which concentrate on the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex.[1][2] According to classical psychoanalytic theory, the complex appears during the so-called "oedipal phase" of libidinal and ego development; i.e. between the ages of three and five years, though oedipal manifestation may be detected earlier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
BREAKING: Stephen Hawking Abducted by Aliens
LONDON - England - Police fear the worst for astrophysicist Stephen Hawking after his disappearance last night from his home.
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/index.php?news=2271
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/index.php?news=2271
The 9-To-5 Marriage
With all the heat World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has been taking over his girlfriend's career path, he might be forgiven for thinking "why bother?".
Sometimes it just makes more sense to have a purely platonic girlfriend or boyfriend at the office--a "work spouse," if you will.
With a work spouse, you know each other's favorite food; gripe about co-workers; confide about personal issues; and support each other during good and bad times. The main difference? There's no canoodling.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/17/office-spouses-workplace-lead-careers-cx_tw_0417bizbasics.html
Sometimes it just makes more sense to have a purely platonic girlfriend or boyfriend at the office--a "work spouse," if you will.
With a work spouse, you know each other's favorite food; gripe about co-workers; confide about personal issues; and support each other during good and bad times. The main difference? There's no canoodling.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/17/office-spouses-workplace-lead-careers-cx_tw_0417bizbasics.html
Prada SUES Ex-Employee Who Says She Was Told To Change Hair, Lose Weight
Prada has countersued a former employee who is suing the luxury brand for sexual harassment and unfair dismissal, the AFP reports. Prada Japan has taken Rina Bovrisse to the Tokyo District Court, seeking for $390,000 for hurting the company's image.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/prada-sues-exemployee-who_n_694383.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/prada-sues-exemployee-who_n_694383.html
Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers
Those with degrees are almost twice as likely to drink daily, and they are also more likely to admit to having a drinking problem.
A similar link between educational attainment and alcohol consumption is seen among men, but the correlation is less strong.
The findings come from a comprehensive study carried out at the London School of Economics in which researchers tracked the lives of thousands of 39-year-old women and men, all born in the UK during the same week in 1970.
The report concludes: "The more educated women are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol on most days and to report having problems due to their drinking patterns.
"The better-educated appear to be the ones who engage the most in problematic patterns of alcohol consumption."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7549959/Cleverest-women-are-the-heaviest-drinkers.html
A similar link between educational attainment and alcohol consumption is seen among men, but the correlation is less strong.
The findings come from a comprehensive study carried out at the London School of Economics in which researchers tracked the lives of thousands of 39-year-old women and men, all born in the UK during the same week in 1970.
The report concludes: "The more educated women are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol on most days and to report having problems due to their drinking patterns.
"The better-educated appear to be the ones who engage the most in problematic patterns of alcohol consumption."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7549959/Cleverest-women-are-the-heaviest-drinkers.html
she wants to spin for you
http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPaper/Story/A1Story20100614-222037/2.html
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
cryptozoological news
Scams, Sasquatch and the Supernatural
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/cryptozoology-and-magic/
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/cryptozoology-and-magic/
The Mysterious Smell of Moondust
http://www.yubanet.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/8/31062
Feel it - it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.
Taste it - "not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.
Sniff it - "it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.
Whore of Babylon
The “great whore”, of the biblical book of Revelation is featured in chapters 17 and 18. Many passages define symbolic meanings inherent in the text.
17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth [King James Version; the New International Version Bible uses "hills" instead of "mountains"].
17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
17:12 And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth
17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth [King James Version; the New International Version Bible uses "hills" instead of "mountains"].
17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
17:12 And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth
Monday, January 17, 2011
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