Of Mice,Humans and Cheese.......d'apres Dr.Spencer Johnson

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Almost 20 years ago, Dr. Spencer             
Johnson wrote a legendary book titled, Who Moved My Cheese? It tells a What politicians, small business and mice have in common  a  s tory about four characters who ate only cheese. Early in the story all four characters  went to the same place in their world – a maze – to get cheese. The first two were not picky about their cheese or where...

With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or
 by the individual,Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.
When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millenium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too. 
Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation. 
Who Moved My Cheese? takes the fear and anxiety out of managing the future and shows people a simple way to successfully deal with the changing times, providing them with a method for moving ahead with their work and lives safely and effectively
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Of Mice,Humans and Cheese d'apres Dr .Spencer Johnson

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Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or
 by the individual,Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.
When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millenium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too. 
Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to 

become topics for discussion and individual interpretation. 

Who Moved My Cheese? takes the fear and anxiety out of managing the future and shows people a simple way to successfully deal with the changing times, providing them with a method for moving ahead with their work and lives safely and effectively.

Almost 20 years ago, Dr. Spencer Johnson wrote a legendary book titled, Who Moved My Cheese? It tells a sWhat politicians, small business and mice have in commontory about four characters who ate only cheese. Early in the story all four charactersg went to the same place in their world – a maze – to get cheese. The first two were not picky about their cheese or where...

With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable. Dailyinvestorworld.com

Pensamentos:So close your eyes,let's dream a dream together, when two can dream a dream together

Pensamentos: Two days before my birthday and reading a fortune cookie,voila: A big fortune will descend upon you this year.

Pensamentos: Two days before my birthday

I stayed away from my Frog for quite sometime.
Nevertheless I had my Frog on my mind all the time.

Now ,tow days before my birthday,as my son Stefan inspired me again,last night,"Why Ma,have you not being posting on the Frog, I had to return.

 Fabiolo,my canary and I.
When 1 was eleven years old, my father moved us to the outskirts of Sao Paulo, to Sao Miguel Paulista,where he got a position at Nitroquimica.
We lived in a house,on a dirt road,next to a very polluted Rio Tiete, an extremely poisoned river.I tended with my next door neighbor to his chickens,my only endeavor besides playing piano and listening to the radio.
I had no school.
So one day my mother went into town,where she got me Fabiolo.
He got this name in deference to Queen Fabiola,of Spain and her brother Jaime, nicknamed "Fabiolo".but my canary,become my instant companion.
He would fly out from his cage,to sit on my head,when I was playing piano.

                                       this photo  was taken in 1966.
Would a human companion do more than that?

A worm,a fly and a mouse and OUR Brain & Environment: THE SMELLS

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But is a simple worm really an appropriate model for studying the human brain?

Most of what we know about the human nervous system, we have learned from simpler animals. The most famous animal in neuroscience is the squid because it has these huge nerves that enabled people to understand the basis of the electrical transmission of information.

In fact, one of the biggest surprises in modern biology is that the genes are not that different between the different animals. Almost every gene we are interested in with humans is recognizable in a mouse. Most are recognizable in a worm or in a fly.

So what have you learned from your worm?

In 1993, we did an experiment showing that worms could smell. This wasn’t known before. Our next experiment, I think the most important my lab did, is that we made a worm neuron smell an odor it had never smelled before, and we made the animal completely change its opinion of that odor by doing that.

We had an animal that loves an odor that smells like a certain food it likes. Usually, the worm runs right toward the odor. We took the gene that is a sensor for the food from where it was normally supposed to be. We put it into a different neuron that senses things the worm finds 

"Dangerous...."

Then, we “asked” the worm what it thought of this smell it usually loves. It ran away from the smell, as if it were dangerous.This said that the odor-sensing nerve cells form an innate map where each one knows whether something is good or bad about the environment. There’s a completely unlearned internal set of preferences, a set of instincts about what’s good and bad. The goal is to develop and apply new ways of studying networks of neurons involved in thought, emotion, perception and action.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/cori-bargmann-puts-her-mind-to-how-the-brain-works.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

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GREXIT:IN SEARCH OF PARALLELS

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On Sunday, the Greek debt crisis entered a new and dangerous phase. In recent months, the European Central Bank has made emergency loans available to Greece’s ailing banks, increasing the size of the support as depositors have taken euros out of the banks. Despite signs of large withdrawals over the weekend, the E.C.B. did not announce that is was approving a further increase, but instead said that it was maintaining the loans at their current total, which is thought to be around €85 billion.

Precedents for such a transformation may not exist. Economists say they cannot think of a time when a developed country with an open economy dropped out of a shared currency and set up its own new moneyPolls show that the Greek people favor staying in the euro, and Greece’s leaders have said they do not want to leave the common currency. Indeed, fears of the consequences of leaving the euro could help persuade Greece’s leftist government to soften its stance and, at the last minute, forge a deal with its creditors.Continue reading the main story https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3171286968019382227#editor/target=post;postID=3896083347370383100

Shitao a point of reference

Returning Home, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), ca. 1695
Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese, 1642–1707)
Album of twelve paintings; ink and color on paper

Each painting leaf: 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (16.5 x 10.5 cm); Each album leaf: 8 5/16 x 5 5/16 in. (21.1 x 13.5 cm); W. of double page: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
Facing pages inscribed by the artist
From the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Family Collection
Gift of Wen and Constance Fong, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1976 (1976.280)

Leaf 1
Returning Home

Landscapes alternate with flowers in this album of twenty-four small leaves of paintings and poetic comments that is designed to be perused slowly, one pair of leaves at a time. Each painting and its accompanying poem were conceived as a single expressive image in a superb harmony of painting, poetry, and calligraphy. The paintings are "written" with the same type of brushstrokes as the calligraphy, while in the "painterly" calligraphy, individual characters and brushstrokes in varying sizes and ink tones frequently imitate such pictorial motifs as orchid petals and leaves and misty and wavy landscape elements. Even the painter's seals are integrated into the design. Shitao ("Stone Wave"), a scion of the Ming imperial family, became a monk and a painter after the Manchu conquest of 1644. After many years of wandering from place to place in the south and spending nearly three years in Beijing, he "returned home" to Yangzhou toward the end of 1692.

Leaf 1

Returning Home

As falling leaves descend
  with the wind,
I return by the water
  through a thinning mist;
I see a tiny hut clinging
  to the bank of a green stream,
How soft and fat the white
  clouds look in the cold air.

The phrase from which Shitao develops his first line is luo ye gui gen, "fallen leaves returning to the tree root," expressing a person's yearning to return home in his old age. The painter perhaps also feels that his life is like can yan, in line 2, literally "shredded" or "worn-out" mist. (This album was painted late in 1695, when Shitao was on his way back to Yangzhou from a visit to Hunan and Anhui provinces.)

The quality that Shitao wanted to capture in this painting is fei, the "fat" of bai yun fei (literally, "white clouds look fat") in line 4 of the poem. Here he appears to reflect the ideas of Gong Xian (ca. 1618–1689): "In painting a clouded mountain, the cloud must appear thick [hou].. For thirty years I failed to achieve this until I met a master who told me, "If the mountain is thick, the cloud will look thick … This is the painting of no-painting." Shitao's misty and wonderfully translucent landscape is composed of two types of brushstrokes: those forming the pine needles, and the softly rubbed texture strokes forming the mountain. The "fat" white clouds are merely blank spaces: the illusion of "fatness" is created by the misty forms around them. Shitao has transformed this earlier "blank-outline" technique into layers of softly rubbed, transparent brushstrokes. The deep and "fat" quality of the painting results from a subtle intermixing of brushwork and inkwash: different shades of dark and light strokes and textures, solid and void areas interpenetrate one another.

The calligraphy, rendered in Zhong You's (151–230) "regular" script, is also smooth and "fat." The round and three-dimensional individual strokes seem to move and twist gently in space, like the falling leaves of the poem. The mood is serenely reflective.

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Shitao probably cut his own seals. The poem is signed "Shitao" ("Stone Wave") and is followed by a square intaglio seal, Shi Yuanji yin ("[disciple of] Shakyamuni Yuanji's seal"). The small rectangular intaglio seals on the painting read Shitao and Yuanji.

2015: Fly Oba,Fly!!!!!!

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As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act.

We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the

media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged,

simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be

expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have

brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly

swat—not PETA.

 However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without

harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President

Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s

book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of “uninvited guests

.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267925/Obama-loses-cool-speech-ANOTHER-pesky-fly-assails-survived.html

Because we’ve heard from so many people who want to know more about

PETA’s position on “Flygate,” we’ve decided to explore the question of

“to bee or not to bee” in a bit more depth.

offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without

harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President

Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s

book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your

home of “uninvited guests

.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267925/Obama-loses-cool-speech-ANOTHER-pesky-fly-assails-survived.html

Because we’ve heard from so many people who want to know more about

PETA’s position on “Flygate,” we’ve decided to explore the question of

“to bee or not to bee” in a bit more depth.

Terror,Horror: It's COMING AT YOU ROUND THE CORNER!

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It is typically understood to mean politically motivated violence directed against civilians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Defense, for example, describe terrorism as the unlawful use of violence to achieve political goals by coercing governments or societies. The State Department cites a legal definition of “terrorism” as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents.” It adds: “The term ‘noncombatant’ is interpreted to include, in addition to civilians, military personnel who at the time of the incident are unarmed or not on duty.” Thus, by means of linguistic gerrymander, members of uniformed government military forces acting under government authorization are incapable of committing acts of terrorism no matter how many civilians are ground up in the process.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/the-reign-of-terror/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

SIGNUM TEMPORIS: Satisfaction Guaranteed 2025

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A robot is an automatic mechanical device often resembling a                                               human or animal. 
Modern robots are usually an electro-mechanical machine guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry.  I try  to put a focus on the expression of  inner feelings and emotions through art rather than displaying how realistically I can paint an image or object.
 But as time goes by,technology seems to take over .

WORDS are OBSOLETE : Satisfaction Guaranteed YES,WE NEED BREAD,not VIOLENCE

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BLOOD & Satisfaction Guaranteed

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                       You think Heaven is safe?
                       We have a population of demi-gods,
                        Satyrs,nymphs,fauns, the playful
                        Spirits of wild places,
                        Astral entities who loiter about.
                        When we denied these the freedom of heaven
                        We compensated them
                         With their grottoes and crags,their woods and their
                                   well-springs,
                        Their dells and knolls.In all these sanctuaries
                        We should protect them.
                         Imagine their fears
                         Since the uncontrollable Lycaon
                         Plotted against me, and attempted
                         To do away with me- Jove,King of Heaven,
                         Whose right hand
                         Rests among thunderheads and whose left
                         Sways the assemblies of heaven!

                         The gods roared their outrage.
                         Mankind recoiled stunned
                         As the world's ending and
                        The very air hallucinated horrors.
                         
                        The corruption of mankind
                         Rose to my nostrils,here in heaven,
                         As a stench of putrid flesh.
                         Seeking better news of the species
                         I left Olympus, and in the shape of a man
                         Walked the earth.
                          If I were to recount, in every detail,
                          How man has distorted himself
                          With his greed,his lies,his indifference,
                           The end of time,I think,
                            Would overtake the reckoning.

                           from Tales from OVID



                        
           





                     

STATE OF EMERGENCY : DOLOR

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Ovid in Bed Stuy: Satisfaction Guaranteed

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 Ovid was interested in passion.Or rather, in what passion feels like
to the possessed by it. Not just ordinary passion either.But human passion in extremis-  passion where it combusts,or levitates, or mutates into an experience of the super natural.
This is the current he divines and follows in each of his tales- the current of human passion.He adapts each myth to this theme.Where details or complexities of the traditional story encumber or diffuse his theme,he simply omits them.He must have known the full myth of Venus and Adonis,in which the Goddess of Love and her opposite in the underworld,the Goddess of Death, quarrel for possession of the baby Adonis, and in which the Boar has multiple identities, and where the whole sequence of events completes the annual cycle of the sacrificed god.
But all Ovid wants is the story of hope-lessly besotted and doomed love in the most intense form imaginable-  as suffered by the love-goddess herself.from Tales from Ovid.

STOP In the name of Life: WHO OWNS THIS PLANET ?

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There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/24/israelis-palestinians-losers-conflict-suffering-rights

D'apres Adam Mickiewicz:Ciemno wszędzie, głucho wszędzie, Co to będzie, co to będzie?

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The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created human beings to live in aParadise on Earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering and injustice.

 It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors.

It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrines of the Fall of man and Original Sin, important beliefs in Christianity, although not generally shared by Judaism or Islam.

“When you have a crisis where a major power has a national interest involved they will try to block interference by the Security Council,” said Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to the United Nations, who finished his term here on Friday. “The U.N.,” he said, ends up being “in charge of crises that are of no interest to anybody.”

One of the most mysterious, as well as the most famous, quotations from Polish literature comes from the Romantic epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz. We invite you to delve into the secret of the number 40 and 4, and discover the Jewish roots of Poland’s most legendary soothsayer.

And the question remains - who is the Messiah?

The drama comprises four parts, the first of which was never finished. Part III joins historiosophical and individual visions of pain and annexation, especially under the 18th-century partitions of Poland.

http://culture.pl/en/article/mickiewicz-unraveled-the-little-known-fact-aboutPolands-best-known-bard?

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz

FOOD for THOUGHT:WE CANNOT EAT GUNS & BOMBS

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The first resolution that has to be achieved is a joint agreement on the fact that there is no military solution.

 Only then can one begin discussing the question of justice for the Palestinians, which is long overdue, and of security for Israel, which it rightfully requires. Palestinians feel that they need to receive a just solution.

And this applies everywhere on OUR? EARTH.

WE CANNOT EAT GUNS and BOMBS

IT is fundamentally one for justice and for the rights given to every people on Earth: autonomy, self-determination, liberty, and all that comes with it. 

 Israelis need an acknowledgement of their  right to live on the same piece of land.

 The division of the land can only come after both sides have not only accepted but understood that we can live together side by side, most definitely not back to back.

At the very heart of the much-needed rapprochement is the need for a mutual feeling of empathy, or compassion. In my opinion, compassion is not merely a sentiment that results from a psychological understanding of a person’s need, but it is a moral obligation. Only through trying to understand the other side’s plight can we take a step towards each other. As Schopenhauer put it: “Nothing will bring us back to the path of justice so readily as the mental picture of the trouble, grief and lamentation of the loser.” In this conflict, we are all losers. We can only overcome this sad state if we finally begin to accept the other side’s suffering and their rights. Only from this understanding can we attempt to build a future together.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/24/israelis-palestinians-losers-conflict-suffering-rights

A CALL : A call to cooperate not to clash

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The world needs to move away from “zero sum thinking” and focus on cooperation in order to meet the challenges of this new century.

“If you look around the world, wherever there are diverse networks of people whose primary objective is to get something done, goods things are going to happen.”

He also acknowledged that “millions of people” die from lack of access to medication and discussed how much of his work post-presidency involved fundraising.

“Are we going to share the future? Or are we going to fight for it? Our goal should be to find a way to bridge the divide.”

“Are we going to share the future or are we going to fight over it? Is what we have in common more important than our histories or differences?”

“We are living in the most interconnected period in human history, but all that means is that we’re bumping up against one another, around the corner and around the world.

“What we do affects other people and what they do affects us, and divorce is not an option.”

from Royce Kurmelovs  Guardian

New Daily Blood Times: Where are we going?

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"She was a kind, happy young woman full of ideas about the future,”

“He was a person who knew no barriers,”

“We will stay in a villa with a private pool with rose petals floating in it,”  “We won’t leave before all those petals have withered away.”

“Throughout my (professional) life, I hope to contribute to making the world a better place to live, work and love,”

 The day before she boarded the flight, she had called the school principal to talk about her trip, which included a visit to Paris to visit the St. Francis Xavier Church where St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, the founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, is buried. It was a "very special moment”  who was a sister of the Sacred Heart, the principal, said. "She was in a good space.

"He loved the outdoors and he loved beaches.” On his LinkedIn page, e was passionate about "the science of living things, always questioning."