Our brain is made up of two sides: Right Brain and Left Brain. The Right side is random, intuitive, holistic, synthesizing and subjective. The Left side is logical, sequential, rational, analytical and objective. Both sides of the brain are important to us. Using both sides of the brain yields optimum output as we are making informed decisions and observations of the world around us.

Therefore, the right university degree/s should involve both sides of the brain. For example, if you are taking Bachelor of Business Administration, then take a minor in Mathematics or Statistics; or take a master’s degree in Statistics. Similarly, if you are doing Bachelor of Engineering, take minors in Management or Communication. You get the picture. The reason for this amalgamation of different subjects is because the curriculum within these disciplines requires the application of both sides of the brain.

Now the argument could be that each degree on its own includes a certain level of logical and intuitive cognitive processing. Thus, another smaller degree in another discipline is not required. However, the cognitive balance provided by one degree is tipped in favor of one side of the brain; soft sciences towards the Right side and Science degrees to the Left side. While this may be convenient, it may pose challenges in the future. For example, as important it is to make logical derivations of a problem, right communication strategies could help in effective and efficient delivery of an idea or theory. The core idea is to make use of both sides of the brain when looking at things and obtaining a degree/s that does this is a crucial characteristic of the right university degree.

Another argument could be that courses under the soft sciences can be learned by practice. Why should I go to the university and take Communication or Management, for instance, as part of my major? True story. It could absolutely be learned by handling tricky situations and socializing. But a degree from a university speeds up this process and helps you to socialize effectively and reduces the amount of bad eggs you encounter.

I hope this alleviates the problem a little. Sure, the ultimate combination of degrees depends entirely on your interests and passion. But, it is ideal and beneficial if you chose a combination that made you think logically and intuitively. You will be an asset to any institution you decide to work for. Good luck in your endeavors.     

Abusive head trauma or AHT is known more commonly as Shaken Baby Syndrome, Shaken Impact Syndrome or SBS. It is one of the most popular deaths of small children in households of those who are poverty stricken.  This maybe in part due to the stress level of parents living under these conditions, but is also due in part to the lack of education of the dangers of swinging, shaking and in some cases even bouncing a child excessively.

The head muscles of a child is not fully grown and excesses rocking of an infant can cause the child’s brain to rock back in forth in a way that causes ruptured blood vessels.  Another mishap could be the nerves of the brain tearing the brain tissue.  Since the brain rocks backs and forth in the skull, it is always the possibility that the brain hits the skull.  This would cause any of the aforementioned occurrences.

When any of these situations happen, the child may fall unconscious, taken to the emergency room and be reported as AHT in which a report would then be made on the parent or person thought to be responsible for any incident in a SBS case.  It can be deadly trauma to the brain in a small child.  If a child survives, there is the possibility of serious brain damage that could come with various complications a child must live with for the rest of its life.  Either way, a parent could be indicted as an abuser.

To avoid a mistaken child abuse case, parents and caretakers would do well to study what is considered excessive head shaking for a small child.  It may sound harsh, but going to an amusement park with a frail child on rides that rock back and forth could be dangerous for both the livelihood of the child and cause an uninvited case of neglect or abuse onto a parent whose child’s brain may not react to a ride until many days later.  Always have proof of entertainment that you participate in that may seem incident enough, but unknowingly dangerous to the brains of children.

FOR MORE INFORMATION regarding the signs and other frequently asked questions about Shaken Baby or Shaken Impact Syndrome, refer to the attached link for the safety of a child’s brain, log onto the following website:

National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome

http://www.dontshake.org/sbs.php?topNavID=3&subNavID=21

http://expertscolumn.com/content/dangers-head-banging

Genetics being linked to criminal behavior and activity has been an ongoing debate for over 40 years since the XYY theory was introduced to the criminal justice world. Many investigators and criminology experts have been analyzing the factors that influence an individual’s criminal behavior, and some of the first research conducted was by Montagle and Walker when they proposed the association between criminality and genetic factors. The research concluded that the XYY genotype was found twenty percent higher amongst prisoners than that of the general population. (GOSAVI, S.R., GAJBE, U.L., MESHRAM, S.W., CHIMURKAR, V.K. 2009). Sense the XYY theory has been introduced there has been a vast amount of studies conducted including twin studies, adoption studies, and testosterone studies that merit the idea that genetics are a source of criminal behavior.

Twin studies have been conducted to evaluate the possibility that genetics can be linked to criminal behavior. Twins studies are conducted by evaluation identical twins and their rates of criminal behavior versus fraternal twins and their rates of criminal behavior to effectively analyze the roles of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the criminal behavior. After thorough evaluation, researchers discovered that identical twins that suffered from antisocial disorders as children also suffered from it as an adult and that is was most likely genetically inherited from their parents, but when pertaining to general criminal behavior, they discovered that hereditary factors are most likely of little significance to criminal behavior. (Jones, C. M. 2005).

Adoption studies have been conducted evaluating the links between adopted children and criminal behavior to conclude if genetics can be confirmed to cause criminal behavior. These studies analyze both the biological parents and adopted parents to contrast environmental factors that can influence criminal behavior. Some of the first studies conducted were on adopted children that were born from incarcerated females, the evidence showed that the children that were born from incarcerated females had much higher rates of criminal convictions as adults than those that were not born from incarcerated females. Another study conducted was that of children who were born from biological fathers that have a history of committing property crimes. This study was conducted in Demark and found that adopted children whose biological fathers had a history of committing property crimes often committed these types of crimes themselves but did not engage in committing violent crimes.

According to Jones, “Children whose biological fathers had been convicted of property crimes were more likely to engage in similar behavior, when compared to those biological fathers who had been convicted of violent crimes”. The final results of studying the hereditary influences of criminal behavior in adopted children provided evidence that there is in fact an increased risk of criminal behavior in the adoptive children that are born from incarcerated females, and the children with biological fathers that committed property crimes also had higher rates of property crime convictions as adults. (Jones, C. M.2005).

Testosterone studies have also been conducted to analyze the role that testosterone levels influencing aggressive and criminal behavior in men. Because there is a higher rate of male criminal offenders than females, researchers have conducted studies on how much male hormones influence criminal behavior. One of the most commonly known researchers of this topic is James Dabbs Jr. and his finding found that men and women that have high testosterone levels were more prone to commit violent and sexual crimes. (Crime Times.2007). Men that have high levels of testosterone are often found to have more aggression that can lead to violent behavior, substance abuse, high levels of sexual activity, and also problems with authority such as teachers, parents, and employment supervisors. After conducting research on male prisoners the results concluded that inmates who were convicted of crimes that were sexual oriented or violent had higher levels of testosterone than of those male inmates that were convicted of property and drug crimes. (Crime Times.2007).

Some of the strengths that are effectively linked to genetics and crime are those that pertain to adopted children from biological parents that have a criminal history. It has been proven that the adopted children of women whom are incarcerated often inherit traits that influence criminal behavior rates as adults. Also adoptive children whose biological fathers who have a history of committing property  crimes often are found to have a high chance of committing property crimes themselves as children or adults, and there are higher rates of property crime convictions of these  children as adults. (Jones, C. M.2005). High testosterone levels can be inherited genetically but environmental influences can both raise or lower a man or woman’s testosterone level. The only supporting evidence that high testosterone levels are linked to crime is through aggression not genetics. (Crime Times.2007).

There are many weaknesses in the debate of whether genetics are linked to criminal behavior. The most prominent weakness is that the environment in which the adolescent is raised in can truly influence the chances of criminal behavior. Even if a child is born with a mental illness that provokes criminal behavior, they can receive the care and treatment to deter the chance and teach the child to not engage in criminal activity. (Jones, C. M.2005). On the other hand, in many cases criminals are raised in a loving environment and do not have genetic inheritance to criminal behavior and still chose a life of crime, so as a result criminal behavior cannot at this time be fully linked to genetics. There has been an immense amount of research conducted to find the links between those that have the XYY chromosome versus those with the normal XY chromosomes. It has been proven that there are higher chances of those with XYY chromosomes engaging in criminal behavior than those with the normal XY chromosomes, but no evidence that the chromosomal differences were the complete influence on the offender’s choice to commit crimes. (GOSAVI, S.R., GAJBE, U.L., MESHRAM, S.W., CHIMURKAR, V.K. 2009).

Because genetics and crime has been such a highly debated topic, it is vital that police departments and the criminal justice system consider or dismiss the findings effectively. I believe that police departments should consider genetics being linked to criminal behavior but to be very careful to have supporting physical evidence that proves the crime being committed. I feel that by knowing the possible inherited traits it can help police officers understand an offender better but genetics should not play a key role in explaining why a crime is committed. Therefore, my observation is that genetics should only be used for understand one’s behavior but not one’s criminal actions.

Some of the dangers of suggesting that there is a criminal gene are that more offenders can claim that their genes made them commit criminal offenses. A good example is the insanity plea that exists today, many offenders whom of which are not clinically insane attempt to use the insanity plea to avoid incarceration for the crimes they have committed instead of facing the consequences of their criminal actions. I feel that if proven true that genetics are linked to criminal behavior, there will be more offenders attempting to claim that genetics made them a criminal instead of the fact that they chose to commit the crime due to their interests and lifestyle. Another danger is that because criminal with attempt to use genetics to their benefit it as a result makes the court process of convicting them longer and more costly. I believe that the only time a court proceeding should be drawn out due to genetic factors is when the criminal is proven to be diagnosed with a severe mental illness that caused the crime commit, such as psychopaths.

In my opinion, some of the repercussions that would occur in the field of criminal justice if the existence of the criminal gene is proven to be true is higher rates of criminals claiming the gene made me do it, which as a result creates a much more difficult and lengthy investigation and court process. (Cohen, Patricia.2011). The next repercussion is that of criminals that have already been incarcerated for the crimes they have committed, these criminals that are receiving harsh sentences for violent crimes can turn around and request a trial to plea that genetics was the key component in choosing to commit crime. As a result this could create a mass amount of new trials for violent offenders and slow down court processes of offenders’ current awaiting sentencing. To be stated simply, I believe that if the criminal gene is proven to be true, there will be much more work for those within the criminal justice field because every violent criminal is going to attempted to claim that they genetically were linked to criminal behavior, resulting in the requirement of deeper investigations and higher funding to convict the violent criminals of today and the future.

References

Cohen, Patricia. (June, 19, 2011). Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look. Retrieved on Jan, 15, 2012. Retrieved from New York Times Website. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/arts/ genetics-and-crime-at-institute-of-justice-conference.html?pagewanted=all

Crime Times. (2007). High Testosterone Linked to Crimes of Sex and Violence. Retrieved on January, 15, 2012. Retrieved from website. http://www.crimetimes.org/95c/w95cp4.html

Jones, C. M. (2005). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Criminal Behavior. Retrieved on Jan, 15, 2012. Retrieved from Website. http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/jones .html

All of this started supposedly on September 17, 2011 but actually we have to take into account the rest of the world.  The OWS is just the continuation of a cancer that started in the 3rd world countries with the intervention of the IMF and the forceful imposition of its redemption packages. The very same banks that caused the financial crisis that started on 2000 (the press says it started on 2007) were the responsible for the collapse of many nations like Argentina, Ecuador, Japan and many many more.

Sooner of later this sickness had to come home with such a dramatic impact.  Reviewing all the evidence, the origin in the US would be with the presidency of Ronald Reagan.  Reagan handed the country to the service of the supper rich.  Just taking a look to the salaries of workers, these have not increased ever since.  Nowadays, the upper 1% of the people in the US takes in nearly a quarter of the nation‘s income. All the growth that has occurred in our country over the last decade or more has gone to the upper 1%. Much of the wealth of this 1% comes from investments in political capital in Washington [Vanity Fair May 2011] The average American worker was taking home $752 a week in late 2010 while the median pay for top executives at 200 big companies last year was $10.8 million. In fact, the gap between chief executive compensation and average US worker pay rose from a ratio of 263 to 1 in 2009 to 325 to 1 on 2010. [Washington Post Aug 31st 2011] It is estimated that 400 US Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. This exclusive group benefited directly or indirectly from the multi-trillion bailout in 2008, and now they have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.  Globally, the richest 2% owns more than half the household wealth in the entire world and the richest 10% holds 85% of total.

All the info is taken from the book “Confrontational Poetry”

1. In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more, and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion.
2. Half the world’s population earns about 5% of the world’s wealth.
3. There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world’s population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, many more have made a cell phone call; there are some 4 billion cell phones in use.
4. More personal telephone calls are made on Mother’s Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.
5. Most reverse charge calls takes place on Father’s Day.
6. One in ten people in the world live on an island.
7. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
8. If you count the seconds without stopping, it would take you eleven-and-a-half days to reach one million, and 32 years to reach one billion.
9. In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.
10. In 1870, there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin.
11. In 1870, there also were more Catholics living in London than in Rome.
12. The chance of being born on Leap Day is about 684 out of a million, or 1 in 1461. Less than 5 million people have their birthday on Leap Day.
13. The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
14. About 27% of food in developed countries are wasted each year. It’s simply thrown away.
15. Almost 1,2 billion people are underfed – the same number of people that are overweight to the point of obesity.
16. The world average of egg consumption per capita is 230.
17. In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
18. Half the world’s population is under 25 years of age. 10% are over 60 years of age.
19. On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.
20. US Post Office handles 43% of the world’s mail. Its nearest competitor is Japan with 6%.
21. In the developed countries, the proportion of adults married has declined from 72% in 1970 to 60% in 1996. The chance of a first marriage ending in divorce is between 50% and 67%. The chance that a second marriage will end in divorce is about 10% higher than for the first marriage.
22. The world’s average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden 170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.
23. Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion cans) have been produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to the moon about a thousand times. Cans represent less than 1% of solid waste material.
24. More than a billion transistors are manufactured… every second.
25. 92% of Chinese belong to the Han nationality, which has been China’s largest nationality for centuries. The rest of the nation consists of about 55 minority groups.
26. According to the US Census Bureau, 19% of US children live in poverty.
27. According to the US Weather Service, their one day forecasts are accurate more than 75% of the time. They send out 2 million forecasts a year.
28. There are more than 110 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 21 million people.
29. New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 50 million sheep.

In one territory, the locals, upset that over 50% of their children were malnourished while over 30% were borderline decided that the ’statistics’ applied to ‘healthy American children’.  Hence, they altered their measurements.

They were then able to announce that 80% of their children exceeded the standards only 10% fell below.  These findings were published by WHO and accepted as accurate.

This is just to warn you to be very careful when dealing with such things as ‘Polls’. 

Where and when the Poll is done is also vital.

Many areas lean in one direction or another; experience particular events which shape opinions.  Unless the pollsters are completely aware of this, they might assume a ‘cross section’ of the community would give them an honest result. 

A cross-section of persons who are unemployed, or who have no medical coverage, or who experienced a disaster will turn up a result which is biased.

Be very careful when you rely on statistics.

I’m always confused listening to people who talk about global warming as if they seem to know the true answer.  There are those who believe it is true and there are those who do not believe.  What surprises me at times; although it should not by now, are the illogical and subjective attitudes on both sides, scientists and non-scientists alike.

The answer of course is to ignore the army of emotional thinkers that permeate the debate from one extreme to the next, and define with the facts the nature of the errors on both sides of the argument.

First let us get rid of the superfluous commentaries by the scientific illiterates who judge the efficacy of global warming or cooling based on their own local observations of what they think are extreme changes  of both hot or cold weather.  Those who say, “I’ve lived here for forty years,  it’s never been this hot before.”  Or those  who look at the long cold days that stretch endlessly beyond their experience and wonder, “how could the earth be warming up.”

A basic understanding of thermodynamics will tell you that any energy change within a system i.e., ‘Earth’s weather system’ will show sudden temperature changes in both directions of the temperature scale.  It’s all about homeostasis, finding stability which translates into balancing forces within the system.

This means that for regional areas of the earth we will see both increases and decreases in temperature, each cancelling out the other when we look at the overall average temperature of the Earth.  When we talk of Global warming, we are by definition talking about an average increase of the world’s temperature.  Even such a basic thing is difficult to measure when we take in the complex heat processes that drive weather patterns for such a large system.

Second, the mathematical tools we have work well for small systems, but even here predictability is left to the statistical methods that give us directions for our research, but never give answers to the patterns that inherently are non-linear.

To validate the logic of either side, we would have to have mathematical tools that look at the universe well beyond our present understanding or ability, “THEY DO NOT EXIST.”  If they do not exist then any computer program using the tools at our disposal will be limited to the data points on hand, as well as understanding the processes that make up the system we live within.  Since even the best records give us only a few hundred years, or even a few thousand looking at cultural records, geological data, Botanical etc. when we compare it to the life cycle of our planet and that of our local sun, we are doomed to extrapolate well beyond any reasonable statistical error, preventing any real substantive conclusions.

We know that pollution can change weather patterns, but we do not know whether that same pollution can change the overall average temperature of the earth.  We do know for a fact that at multiple times throughout the earth’s history, that the world’s average temperature was much greater then it is now and much colder then it is now; this long before our technological invasion of the biosphere.

The truth is we as scientist’s just do not know the nature of what is true and what is not, but so long as agenda driven grants are given to non-science based groups then the real research into the how’s and why’s of our worlds weather will continue to elude us.

Personally I tend to agree that the world is going through a warm-up cycle, a natural cycle within the normal parameters of the system we call Earth.  Can I prove this, no, no one can.

The goal of this diatribe is to remind people that we do not know us much as many would believe we do.  If we had the understanding of “Star Trek” science, yes we could probably solve many of the problems we have, but blindly following what some guru says that you want to believe will not get us there.  For now “Star Trek” is science fiction sad to say, but so is the science of global warming regardless of which side you are on.

I have typed that correctly, it is not .co.uk as many websites.

This will then bring you to the main screen where you can enter your postcode, town, village or street to bring up a local map and the latest months statistics.   The statistics are colour coded between crimes and are shown approximately on the map – so you cannot see if your next door neighbour has been nicked!

You can then go back through the last few months to see how crime rates change – does bad weather reduce crime?  Does the rugby, or other sporting event, mean that more people are drinking and therefore causing more agro? 

The website may seem like a spurious waste of time and money, but it could help to target the police to bring down crime rates, or can be used in conjunction with www.rightmove.co.uk when house hunting to check out some of the areas that you would prefer to live in.

I think that this is a good website and worth a look – heck, if you are bored at work it could pass a few minutes at least!

Oh : I wrote a game concept based on the UK riots and this can be found at : http://gameolosophy.com/games/action/a-new-game-concept-based-on-the-uk-riots/

When a person is driving they should not be distracted from keeping their eyes on the
road which is the reason this law was put into place but because the law only restricts people
under 21 from doing so the law has received much protest from young people. In most cases,
young people are able to text more efficiently and have more practice than older people but new
drivers are also prone to more car accidents. Because this law is seen as just by older people
and unjust by younger people we can define this law to be unjust or “a code that a numerical or
power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself”. This nation has seen many unjust laws like this one in it’s time that cause groups of
protesters to appear and speak out against the law. Many young people have spoken out saying
that this law is enforced differently by different law-enforcers because one can simply stop a
person driving if there is the slightest hint of being on the phone texting. However, the
law-enforcer side of the story says that they will not do this because they do not wish to go out
looking for people texting on their phones and rather hope that this law brings awareness to the
dangers of texting while driving. This makes the law also seem to be one that is “just on its face
and unjust in its application” because of the various techniques of enforcement that have popped
up. If laws like this one are passed by the government that are defined to be unfair
then there will be negative feelings of hatred that will arise in the hearts of the people. Although
this law has good intentions, the aspect of the majority not having to follow the law make it
unjust.

The good intention of the people who passed this law can be salvaged if the law is
changed so that the element of unfairness is eliminated. If the law was truly put into place to
alert people of the dangers of driving while distracted then the law should apply to everyone
instead of a set group of people. There is a difference between protecting the people by
enforcing this law and protecting only people under the age of 21. The government should want
their entire population to be protected from a potential harm instead of only a group so the law
should be changed to no texting and driving for all people. The other reason the government
might have passed this law is if they solely wanted to restrict the rights of people under the age
of 21 in which case there would be more reason to pass more unjust laws. If this was the case
though, then the entirety of the government can be considered unjust but because there are few
people that believe this we can have faith that the government has not reached this point of
crisis.

The government having good intentions when passing a law is appreciated but the
mistake of creating an unjust law needs to be corrected or else the government can follow the
wrong path to corruption. If this happens then there will be numerous protesters who will cry out
against the unjust laws and this no texting while driving for people under the age of 21 is an
example. The opinions of many young people who believe that this law is unjust should show
the government that there is a need to change this law.

Drug addicts usually end up off the stuff or dead, and many if not all of us will say any who end up dead from refusing treatment deserve to be dead. Now we can look at scale, one dead druggie or 12 million starving women and children. We all can see people care more about the first one. 

Facebook is an astounding way of seeing public opinion, statuses featuring recent events as their topic and groups tell us what people think. We all see that people bitch/moan about a drug addicts death than dead soilders. 

This article states facts and does not intented to offend you but wants to try and show you that there are more worthy causes to throw grief at than amy winehouse.