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Devorah Zealot Soodak

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Tadzio

Hi Zealot,

I got cited in the late-1970's for the bookcover featuring Constantin Brancusi's work of art "Princess X" (1916): http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/icons-of-erotic-art-9/
The word "Erotic" didn't help either. Sentor Briggs didn't get to burn it, so I think I still have it in a pile somewhere.

The works of Herman Makkink cause trouble too, even in San Francisco.

Lots of Love,

Tadzio

Devorah Zealot Soodak

Tadzio,

What do you mean by "I got cited." Am I missing something really obvious? I can't figure out what you mean. Please explain.

John Briggs was a charming fellow. So tolerant. So open minded. Why do people think they have the right to tell other people how to live? All these advocates for smaller government really need to stay out of our bedrooms and our bodies.

The princess is here in Philadelphia! That means I can go visit her. It's a small world.

Do you mean this Herman Makkink? The Rocking Machine isn't terribly subtle. Some of his pieces are quite interesting. It's art for god's sake. People should really grow up.

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Tadzio,

I found an article about one of our favorite subjects: the over-diagnosis of Alzheimer's. It's nice to be vindicated, isn't it. It's nice to see that someone finally has put out the facts about a major league duh!

Autopsies Reveal Alzheimer's Often Misdiagnosed

It seems that the Boomers aren't the Alheimer's generation after all. Let's see if doctors make any changes in light of these revelations of the obvious. Greed and laziness are pretty powerful motivations.

Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.

Lots of Love,

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Devorah Zealot Soodak

Tadzio,

A New York Times editorial about Clever Hans! It's a nice story. Please enjoy it.

Better luck posting next time. I miss you on the blog. Write soon.

Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.

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Tadzio

Hi Zealot,

I tried to post this earlier on your blog, but only the preview was working, and it was jamming at the post.

Carrying the book in public was prohibited by the two main citizen's patrols, both the religious public moralists, and the feminist public moralists. The public discord always violates the peace, and results in action against the work to be hidden. The latest "smut" flap I've heard of in Northern California, is that "Cosmopolitan" magazine covers have to be blocked off from public view with a shield to protect people from inadvertently viewing such "questionables". The earliest "smut" flap I remember was in the late 50's, when a city in Colorado outlawed women wearing slacks, and the local churches protesting the movie "Boy Upon A Dolphin" because Sophia Loren's wet blouse was too revealing for "good moral taste" (now, the antiquity is probably held as porn).

In Santa Cruz County, California in the late 70's, the militant feminists had the loudest voice, with plenty of references to Susan Brownmiller, Andrea Dworkin, to most frequent exchanges about the level of Marcia Womangold's exchange with Tom Snyder.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Bz_x37RSSqIC&pg=PA76&dq=brownmiller+Kubrick+Webster&hl=en&ei=MX1rTd7XIc62twfDhbHmAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=%20men%20male%20Alex%20&f=false
Brownmiller page 76, Makkink's sculpture page 77, misogyny page 78,

http://books.google.com/books?id=4UO632h9sgwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Venus+Steiner&hl=en&ei=wYBrTYrFC4KosAO79eSmBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Princess%20X%20Dworkin&f=false
Princess X, Dworkin,

Herman Makkink is overlapped with the furor involving "A Clockwork Orange", and the also fictional "The Ludovico Technique" from the corruption of Pavlovian and Skinnerian Conditioning (and now, "kindling" of the Limbic System as an "ingraining of conditioning" and the development of an "irritative zone" versus the "epileptogenic zone" for epileptic seizures). My main interest there is if strong aversive conditioning can cause "epileptogenesis", "triggering", or stopping, of epileptic seizures, and how often such conditioning is labeled PNES, or other misleading labeled DSM entries. Then in the movie, could the results of the Ludovico technique be misidentified as strong visceral simple partial attacks of PNES (if the director decides that the EEG comes back "normal")???

Fairly simple conditioning tricks seem to be moderately successful for me with post-ictal phenomena, a little less with pre-ictal, and next to none with the ictus.

Lots of Love,

Tadzio

http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZktoDp7tZoC&pg=PA1791&lpg=PA1791&dq=irritative+zone+definition&source=bl&ots=WFMh3Rd2QZ&sig=x1S-xL89IiIRz0VL64JZ-P93gvc&hl=en&ei=pjJmTcyoHpC4sAPG4snrBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=irritative%20zone%20definition&f=false

Devorah Zealot Soodak

Tadzio,

I've noticed flaky behavior with the comments on my blog if I momentarily lose connectivity. I get an error message about not being able to accept data. This could be what happened to you because of your flaky power supply. What I do is sign out and sign back in to get a new session and repost the comment (which I saved somewhere else, of course). I really like getting comments on the blog and hate to hear that it's been "flaky."

I think they may also be having intermittent technical problems because they've been making a lot of software changes. Six Apart aren't the same since they got bought. I have help tickets in and I opened another one with the heading "Response Time Approaching Inifinity..." and I listed the four open tickets. I got a brief, but polite statement back stating that they were working on them, but they were swamped. A few days later, I got a response stating that they were setting my robots.txt file back the default and they were issuing a site-wide update. I had been complaining about it for months and got nothing but grief. I had finally convinced them to escalated it to engineering. They did and I was right. They had a problem. It's not good to adversely affect your users search rankings.

They still haven't fixed the bugs in the blog search. Searching for a word that only appears in the title of a post won't find it. There is also other anomalous behavior that I've yet to report. I really have to, but I loathe dealing with them. They get beyond rude when I report bugs. It seems like they take it as a personal affront.

You got cited for carrying the book? What ever happened to the First Amendment. Or were you supposed to carry it in a plain brown wrapper? People are so bizarre. That isn't even really pornographic. I'll give it suggestive, but I won't go farther than that. Smut is in the eye of the beholder and these people have really dirty minds. They need to wash their brains out with soap.

This whole thing about kindling, conditioning, eleptigensis, and irritation strikes me as being the Department of Confusion. It's kind of scary when the people who are "supposed to" know seem not to know what the eff they are talking about. What I did find interesting is that it was clearly pointed out that the part of the brain that got the ball rolling wasn't actually involved in the seizures. That's a critical point to understand and the first time I've seen it explicitly mentioned like that. Of course, it's almost impossible to see whole papers now because everyone wants money and most of them aren't worth the paper they are printed on.

I don't know whether not this is conditioning, but I've learned what my seizure triggers are and how to avoid them. Some of them I can usually control like eating and sleeping. When I can't I start to have a problem. Flickering lights I look away or beat a hasty retreat. Sound is much more difficult. That is still a vulnerability. All I can do is make sure I get enough sleep and eat well and that helps.

The other thing I've learned (I learned this from the Buddhist Siado) is not to be afraid of the aura. If I experience and aura I make it the focus of my concentration and then move my focus to my normal breathing as soon as I can. I focus on the sensations of the aura without thinking or judging. I just sit with them and when I can move my focus to my breathing, I do so. This really helps diminish them in intensity and seems to help prevent the feedback loop(s) that get the process snowballing. Buddhist meditation and a seizure prevention/reduction technique. Who'd a thunk it?

Thanks for trying (and succeeding) to post the comment on the blog again. Now I can post my response. It really helps me feel that the blog is "alive" when I have comments on it. Otherwise it starts to feel like I'm just barking into the ether. I don't even get an echo.

Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.

Lots of Love,

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