Emotional Spiral

Defy emotional gravity...Use your mind to reverse the gravitational slide to grief and instead ride to joy

If you are feeling sad, please know that you have a choice about how and what you feel, for how long. You can choose to be sad, if that's what serves your growth as a person.

You can also contemplate these two images (which are actually one - the top of the image on the right goes continuou

sly into the bottom of the left image) and have an empowering realization that you can first imagine how good it would feel to feel a little better
...and a little better
...and even better
...until you feel happy.

There have been 110 billion human beings, and 102.5 billion are not alive now. If we want to be sad about people who died, the dead are so numerous that we could devote ourselves to this...for the rest of our lives.

We can also choose to be happy that so many amazing and wonderful people are alive and well today.

Me? I'm absolutely fine. No problems. Healthy. Fit. Happy. 

 
How are you?

Feel free to say you are feeling better...because, amazingly, that will actually make it come true.

So feel free to ride the slide shown here against gravity, to higher and higher states of happiness.

TAKEN FROM

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151017781306526&set=a.60594221525.84970.548086525&type=1&theater

Black and White and Red Art Prints

Crno Beli Printovi na Papiru 

 

Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

 

 

 

 

Other images You can find on Fine Art America

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/drinkamercep.html
Printovi su štampani na kunsdruk papiru, format A4, gotovi za ramljenje, cena 3 EU. Kontakt : mercepdrinka@gmail.com

Birth of Baby Elephant

In a heartwarming display, a mighty herd of elephants huddles around a female to protect her from prowling lions and hyenas as she gives birth. The amazing pictures were taken in the early hours at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya at the start of the month in February. When one pregnant elephant was about to give birth, her herd put their lives on the line! They formed a circle around the mother in labour. When an animal gives birth, she becomes very vulnerable. Not only that, but the baby needs to be protected, too! That's why it's this family's natural instinct to form a circle around their loved ones in need. ♥
Have a look at the other photos !!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108183/Herd-elephants-huddles-round-female-gives-birth.html

Francois Hugo Seal Savior

"This is the most fantastic human being I know, His love and tenderness for these so persecuted and adorable seals are unbelievable . ♥

 He rescues, hugs, heals, loves, tub feeds sometimes a thousand baby seals a year since 1999. Giving his love, time, money, health. Risking his life. His Seal Alert Center is opened on the sea, the babies get autonomous fast: rehabilitation is a success. He also f

ights to end the awful Namibia slaughter. It would be easier if he was well known but can’t leave the babies: no TV abroad; So it’s up to us to share his story and this beautiful new video, all tenderness and joy. Francois, you are our HERO, you have our admiration, love and gratitude. ♥"

 Please watch the video :  For the Love of the Seals 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TTyuXXBTp3k

More videos :

http://wn.com/francois_hugo_at_work_with_his_cape_fur_seals_hout_bay_sa

Stop Cape seal slaughter

http://www.examiner.com/article/myths-keep-some-from-supporting-the-effort-to-stop-cape-seal-slaughter

Francios Hugo of Seal Alert, working to buy out Fur Seal Killing business in South Africa

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x200109

An urgent message from Francois Hugo - Seal Alert-SA

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/cites-must-now-protect-cape-fur-seals-in-namibia-from-extinction---here-is-how.html

The bourgeoisie ...
 
 "The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."

'Mind hackers' could get secrets from your brainwaves

By Jack Schofield for Jack's Blog | August 27, 2012 -- 23:10 GMT (16:10 PDT)

Summary: Security researchers have used cheap Emotiv headsets to capture people's subconscious responses to stimuli and use them to uncover data directly from their subjects' brains. It's a theoretical risk to privacy and security that could become significant with further advances in technology.

 Could hackers get access to your bank details and PIN codes by reading your mind? It wouldn't be easy, but computer scientists reckon its theoretically possible using wireless EEG headsets like Emotiv's Epoc, which costs only $299. These are not yet mass-market devices, but people who use headsets to play games and control devices such as wheelchairs could conceivably have their brains hacked if they download rogue applications.

Ivan Martinovic, from the University of Oxford, explored the idea in his talk at the Usenix Security Symposium held in Seattle earlier this month (video). The team behind the research -- which also included members from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Geneva -- has published at paper: On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interface (PDF).

 

One aim of the research was to explore whether or not EEG headsets represented a threat to privacy. While there are many such headsets available, they used the Emotiv device because of its low cost and because the company makes its API available to researchers, and it has a software development kit (SDK) for developers.
Outside of medicine, where researchers have been studying electro-encephalograms for decades, EEG headsets are most often used for games and for control applications or both. For example, someone can use their brainwaves to shoot virtual fireballs in the Arena game, or to control a real toy helicopter. Usually, the control process involves mastering one command at a time, and facial expressions can be used, such as winks and smiles.
Beyond that, the brain responds naturally to external stimuli. One of the most useful is the P300 recognition response that peaks about 300 milliseconds after the user recognises something relevant. The team developed a recognition model by, for example, showing test subjects photographs of people they didn't know, and then showing them a face they did know: Barack Obama.
After that, you can try to detect unknown data. For example, if you had test subjects and photographs of their homes, you could find out who lived where by showing them the pictures and looking for the recognition response. The team did find homes correctly about 60 percent of the time.

By showing people images related to credit cards, PINs and so on, a hacker might also be able to discover private banking details. The researchers don't claim to have done this, but Martinovic told the symposium that "we could actually perform better than a pure random guess". They are now looking at "more sophisticated attacks".
The system could also be used for market research, or for interrogation purposes. For example, you could test a suspect with photographs of crime scenes, or rape victims.
Martinovic said: "we're interested in subconscious responses. Even if you try to lie, you will actually need more attention, and this will produce a better signal for us to detect."
Brainwaves are messy things to track, and a lot of pre-processing is required to extract a signal from the noise. Also, EEG headsets such as Emotiv's are not optimised to capture P300 signals. However, one day, brain hackers might be able to get useful signals without a subject's co-operation, perhaps by a combination of face- and brain-scanning. That really would be a threat to privacy.

HERE IS THE SOURCE :

http://www.zdnet.com/mind-hackers-could-get-secrets-from-your-brainwaves-7000003267/?s_cid=452

Monkey protects and takes care of a Baby

A monkey protects and takes care of a twenty-four day old human baby when his mother is engaged in household chores. The monkey comes to the house in the morning and spends the whole day taking care of the baby and at times even sleeps in the house with the little one. ♥
The mother said: “Initially, I was scared by this unusual affection shown by the monkey towards my baby. But he looks after the baby as a mother." ♥
PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaEvyHNZGs