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Children's Needs in the Human Network of Hyperconectivity

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:49:29 GMT

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We need to build strong relationships with these children, using the Human Network of hyperconnectivity, so that each of us can infect the other. We need their passion to move forward without fear in a world where the human universe has shifted beneath our feet. They desperately need our wisdom to guide them into healthy and stable relationships throughout the Human Network. To do this, we need to bring these kids inside our heads, and we need to get ourselves into theirs, so that, together, we can make sense of a world so new, and so different, that we all seem but little children in a big world.

Sage Advice on Who to Marry

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:01:08 GMT

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“Hollywood says you can be deeply in love with someone and then your marriage will work,” the twinkly eyed, white-haired priest says. “But you can be deeply in love with someone to whom you cannot be successfully married.”

“It’s important to do it before they fall seriously in love, because then it will be too late,” he explains. “Infatuation trumps judgment.”

“Does he have a sense of humor? That covers a multitude of sins. My mother was once asked how she managed to live harmoniously with three men — my father, brother and me. Her answer, delivered with awesome arrogance, was: ‘You simply operate on the assumption that no man matures after the age of 11.’ My father fell about laughing.

“Take a good, unsentimental look at his family — you’ll learn a lot about him and his attitude towards women.

“After I regale a group with this talk, the despairing cry goes up: ‘But you’ve eliminated everyone!’ Life is unfair.”

Four Lenses and Myers Brigg Correlation Chart

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:23:03 GMT

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The chart below illustrates how the 4-Lenses™ instrument correlates with many of the most widely used Jungian-based instruments. Some common tests like DISC and the Color Code are not represented here because their results do not fully correlate.

Do You Know Your Baby?

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:12:52 GMT

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Almost one-third of U.S. parents have a surprisingly low-level knowledge of typical infant development and unrealistic expectations for their child's physical, social and emotional growth, according research from the University of Rochester.

Moms and dads often misinterpret behaviors -- some parents expect too much of babies too soon and grow frustrated; others underestimate their child's abilities, preventing them from learning on their own.

Still, even when controlling for maternal age, education, income and mental state (e.g., depression), low-level knowledge of infant development still significantly and independently predicted parents being both less likely to enjoy healthy interactions with their infants during learning tasks and less likely to engage their children in regular enrichment activities

Breast-feeding Rates Hit New High in US

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:00:37 GMT

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ATLANTA - The U.S. breast-feeding rate has hit its highest mark in at least 20 years with more than three-quarters of new moms nursing their infants, according to a government report released Wednesday.

Experts attributed the rise to education campaigns that emphasize that breast milk is better than formula at protecting babies against disease and childhood obesity. A changing culture that accommodates nursing mothers may also be a factor.

Rekindled Romance

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:38:10 GMT

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According to Kalish, the country's foremost expert in rekindled romance, lost-and-found romances are surprisingly successful, as long as both partners are not otherwise attached at the time they reconnect. In Kalish's initial sample of 1,000 lost-and-found lovers, ages 18 to 95, nearly three-quarters remained together after a decade of study. When these past lovers married each other, their divorce rate after four years tallied in at no more than 1.5 percent. Usually, second marriages are relatively fragile: In the public at large, nearly one-quarter of all couples who remarry get divorced again within five years.

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Another reason these relationships seem so palpable and alive for so long may be due in part to what psychologists call the "autobiographical memory bump": the unique clarity of memories forged in adolescence and the early 20s

during these years that most individuals also form their core identity and sense of self—their personal mythology.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "Solitude of Self" A Voice in Women's Suffrage

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:35:51 GMT

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton served for twenty years as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and as the first president of NAWSA. In 1892, she resigned at age 77. Her resignation speech, “The Solitude of Self,” eloquently articulated the arguments for the equality of women that she had spent her adult life promoting.

The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.

Is a $5000 Hooker Worth the Price?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:39:22 GMT

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People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

It is, after all, hard to fathom how a $5000 sexual encounter could be that much better than a $500 one. But the mere expectation that it will be better may be sufficient to actually make it better. And it may be that had we scanned Spitzer’s brain in medias res, we would have seen not only that he thought it was better, but that he was actually deriving more pleasure than a governor in another room who was paying only $500 or $50.

Sure, Spitzer is a hypocrite and a cheater, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t getting a good value from his whores.

Annie Leibovitz Covers - Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issues

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:02:59 GMT

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Phillipa Gregory on Watching Her Novel become a Film

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:14:47 GMT

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Film is wonderful at conveying and evoking emotion, but books are better for ideas and evoking thought. And films, especially those with a huge budget, are bound to favour a conventional and popular view.

My suggestion in the novel is that the interesting story after the rivalry, is Mary's choice to be an ordinary Tudor wife and mother. The film, however, focuses on the drama rather than the humdrum and ordinary

The title of the novel, and now the film, was always intended as a question that the reader, and now the viewer, can answer. Who is the most extraordinary heroine of this story, the famous Boleyn; and who is the other Boleyn girl?

One Tragic Case of Child Abuse in a Military Family

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:39:55 GMT

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Sgt. Jared Terrasas punched his wife in 2002 while in a drunken rage. Arrested on misdemeanor charges, he was deployed to Iraq before his case was heard. When he returned, he was convicted and ordered to complete a batterers intervention program run by the Marine Corps. But after a few classes, he was sent to war a second time. After his return, his 7-month-old son died from a blow to the head. In a plea deal, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for felony child endangerment.

Anti-Intellectualism in America

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:26:57 GMT

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But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.

she was a fellow at the library when she first got the idea for this book back in 2001, on 9/11

Walking home to her Upper East Side apartment, she said, overwhelmed and confused, she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:

“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.

The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”

“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.

At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”

When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:14:02 GMT

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Deployment to war, with its long separations, can put serious stress on military families. And studies have shown that recurrent deployments heighten the likelihood of combat trauma, which, in turn, increases the risk of domestic violence.

“The more trauma out there, the more likely domestic violence is,” said Dr. Jacquelyn C. Campbell, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing who also was a member of the Pentagon task force.

Multiple deployments eroded Sergeant Trevino’s marriage and worsened his mental health problems until, in 2006, he killed his wife, Carol, and then himself.

The military declared his suicide “service related.”

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“Even with a healthy marriage, there is a massive adjustment,” said Anita Gorecki, a lawyer and former Army captain who represents soldiers near Fort Bragg and is married to an officer currently in Iraq. “Add on to that combat stress and injuries and sometimes it can create the perfect storm.”

Hormones/Women and Depression

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:07:00 GMT

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Normal hormonal changes that take place before menstruation and menopause and after childbirth trigger alterations in brain chemistry, fostering depression,

Hormones released by the ovaries—estrogen and progesterone—actually seem to influence the neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, that are known to affect mood.

But before menstruation, after giving birth, and during menopause, when estrogen levels dip, serotonin levels plunge, too. Studies show that women who suffer from PMS have decreased serotonin levels during that time, and that post-partum depression is likely associated with the fall of estrogen levels and its effect on the brain.

Of women who take a serotonin-boosting antidepressant for PMS, 60 to 70 percent experience relief from their symptoms. Whether you have PMS, post-partum depression, or menopause, Spinelli says: "You need treatment just as a person with diabetes needs it."

Clipmarks | wurdzgurl's clips

Children's Needs in the Human Network of Hyperconectivity

Sage Advice on Who to Marry

Four Lenses and Myers Brigg Correlation Chart

Do You Know Your Baby?

Breast-feeding Rates Hit New High in US

Rekindled Romance

Suggested Reading on Woman's Suffrage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "Solitude of Self" A Voice in Women's Suffrage

Is a $5000 Hooker Worth the Price?

Annie Leibovitz Covers - Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issues

Phillipa Gregory on Watching Her Novel become a Film

One Tragic Case of Child Abuse in a Military Family

Anti-Intellectualism in America

When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly

Hormones/Women and Depression