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AYE-AYE, CAPTAIN

11/29/2019

You never know when you’re going to run onto something new and surprising. I was doing due diligence on a blog about homophones and, of course, one of the most common is the noun eye, the pronoun I, and aye, meaning yes.

Everyone knows that last one, I thought. I intended to leave it out, but when I went to my dictionaries online, I found something I’d never heard of before.
Photo source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHs5POy8-8Y

AND YOU THINK YOU WERE SURPRISED!
Meet the Aye-aye!

When the Aye-aye was discovered in the early 1800s, scientists thought it was an unusual type of large rodent related to the squirrel because the aye-aye’s incisors grow continuously throughout life like a rodent.

Subsequently, the animal was believed to have become extinct. Rediscovered in 1957, scientists decided it was a rare type of lemur found only in remote locations in the dense, tropical rainforests Madagascar’s eastern coast. The nocturnal primate, now, has come into its own and is recognized as the only species in its own taxonomic family: Daubentoniidae aye-aye

The creature is highly endangered in Madagascar and, in the United States, there are only 24 living in seven zoos.YOU AIN’T NO BEAUTY QUEEN YOURSELFAbout a year ago, in September 13, 2018, the Denver Post ran this headline.
“Denver Zoo welcomes rare, ugly ‘Omen of Evil’ baby animal into its flock – Tonks, the aye-aye,
is the newest member of one of the rarest animal species in the world.”

Not a complimentary introduction to the world but others, along with the Denver Post, identify the aye-aye as one of the ugliest animals in existence, including native groups in Madagascar who consider sighting an aye-aye as an omen of evil. Based on the photographs following, I understand the reaction.

Photo Credit: Denver Zoo (Newborn Tonka) Photo Credit: Duke Lemur Center Photo Credit: Valery Krukovets
Photo Source: www.denverpost.com/2018/09/tonks-aye-aye/ Photo Source: https://www.factzoo.com/ Photo Source: petrovich7777.artstation.com/projects

Newborn Tonka and the others are definitely not beauty queens. Evil Omens? Who knows? As they get larger, they can take some cute pictures.

This is Stan in costume. This is Agatha, who was named after Agatha Christi

Vital Statistics
Physically, the aye-aye is a distinctive animal with some unusual characteristics, including a long, bony middle finger used to pry insects from tree trunks. They serve a biological niche similar to that of woodpeckers.

Photo Credit: David Haring
Photo Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-lemur-aye-aye-bat-madagascar

Called percussion foragers, the aye-aye uses its middle finger to tap on wood as it walks along a branch, listening for the movement of larvae hidden inside. If they hear movement, they use their rodent-like incisors to gnaw into the bark exposing the larvae and then insert their elongated middle finger to extract the larvae. They are the only primates thought to use echolocation to find prey.

The fur is long, woolly, and dark brown in color. The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance. Aye-ayes have large, naked, mobile ears, a muzzle that is shorter than that of most lemurs and large protruding eyes with yellowish brown irises adapted to its nocturnal life style.

Color:             Black, dark brown
Skin Type:     Fur
Size:               12 to 16” in length plus a bushy take extending another 18 to 22
Weight:          4 to 6 pounds
Top speed:    20 miles per hour
Life span:      23 years

The aye-aye is a solitary animal and lives alone unless it is a mother with a baby or a mating pair. Females take care of their babies, carrying them on her back until they are 13 months.

Despite being loaners, they interact peacefully with one another (except during the mating season) and they hardly ever defend their territory by fighting. The aye-aye marks its territory with the scent glands on its cheeks and neck. The scent repels intruders.

ENDANGERED EXISTENCE
In Madagascar it is believed that there is an “evil spirit” within the animal and that an aye-aye can curse a person by pointing at them with its unique finger. This led to many of them being killed on sight. The loss of habitat and hunting are the main threats to the survival of the aye-aye on this large island.
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Sources:
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/aye-aye/
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Daubentoniidae/
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/13/denver-zoo-baby-tonks-aye-aye/
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/what-is-an-aye-aye/
https://www.boredpanda.com/unusual-animals/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-lemur-aye-aye-bat-madagascar
https://lemur.duke.edu/discover/meet-the-lemurs/aye-aye/
https://psmag.com/social-justice/this-lemur-is-not-a-demon-but-man-that-finger-is-creepy
https://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/aye-aye/

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Being Grateful Is Good For You

11/15/2019

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BEING THANKFUL IS A FEELING - BEING GRATEFUL IS AN ACTION.
Live out your gratitude every day through the small things you do, including expression your feelings of gratefulness.

Besides being good for others, experts and studies tell us practicing gratefulness in our lives is good for us and the benefits can be life-altering. Unfortunately, human beings are not hardwired to be grateful. We have to work at it and practice a lot.

Dr. Robert Emmons, author of” "Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You
Happier” says it’s good for us in the following ways.

● Gratitude makes us feel more gratitude.
While in a grateful mood, we will feel gratitude more frequently, when we do feel gratitude it will be more intense and held for longer, and we will feel gratitude for more things at the same time. In five words – gratitude triggers positive feedback loops.

◄ Gratitude makes us happier.
► Gratitude makes people like us.
Outwardly showing gratitude makes us nicer, more trusting, more social, and more appreciative. As a result, it helps us make more friends and deepen existing relationships. We’re nicer to be around.

◄Gratitude makes us healthier and
sleep better.
►Gratitude boosts your career.
Gratitude makes you a more effective manager, helps you network, improves your decision making, increases your productivity, and helps you get mentors and protégés. As a result, gratitude helps you achieve your career goals, as well as making your workplace a more enjoyable place to be.

◄Gratitude increases your energy level. ►Gratitude makes us more optimistic.
Gratitude is strongly correlated with optimism. Optimism in turn makes us happier, improves our health, and has been shown to increase lifespan by as much as a few years.

◄ Gratitude makes us less self-centered.
Some people spend way too much time thinking about themselves, and too little thinking about others. As gratitude and compassion practices develop, you may feel the urge to help others.
►Gratitude reduces materialism.

Materialism is strongly correlated with reduced well-being and increased rates of mental disorder. There’s nothing wrong with wanting more. The problem with materialism is that it makes people feel less competent, reduces feelings of relatedness and gratitude, reduces their ability to appreciate and enjoy the good in life, generates negative emotions, and makes them more self-centered.

◄Gratitude increases self-esteem.
Imagine a world where no one helps you. Despite your asking and pleading, no one helps you. Now imagine a world where many people help you all of the time for no other reason than that they like you. In which world do you think you would have more self-esteem? Gratitude helps to create a world like that. How does gratitude create a more supportive social dynamic?

◄Gratitude makes our memories happier.
Our memories are who we are, and they are not set in stone. Memories of events, people, everything we experience can change over time. We can remember things as being worse than they actually were, as being longer or shorter, as being funnier, people as being kinder or crueler, as being more or less interesting, etc. Experiencing gratitude in the present makes us more likely to remember positive memories. Also, it can mutate
some of the neutral or even negative memories into positive ones

◄ Gratitude increases spiritualism
Spiritual transcendence is highly correlated with feelings of gratitude. That is – the more spiritual you are, the more likely you are to be grateful. This is for two reasons: 1) All major religions espouse gratitude as a virtue, and 2) Spirituality spontaneously gives rise to
grateful behavior.
Photo source: http://gregburdine.com/spiritual-growth

PAY IT FORWARD
The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. In fact, living out your gratitude does just about everything from making you look better and more inclined to exercise to washing your underwear (well, almost that).

Gratitude helps us realize what we have, and awareness of what we're grateful may reduce the tendency to want more all the time. Notice your everyday world from the viewpoint of gratitude. It’s astounding the good things we take for granted, and the not-so-good things we focus on. So be thankful on Thanksgiving for all the wonderful things in this world, and even some of the not-so-wonderful. Be grateful every day you live and in the way you live, and things will be better than ever.
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HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
Sources:
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https://www.theodysseyonline.com/difference-thankful-grateful
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http://clipart-library.com/kindness-cliparts.html
https://www.saba.com/blog The Science of Praise: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Employee Praise

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VETERANS DAY: A Time for Reflection

11/8/2019

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Yay! Veterans Day, November 11, is coming. A day off! No Mail! We get to wear red poppies, wave flags, and go to a parade!

Many American tend to think of Veterans Day as just another day off. Or, if you don't have a holiday, it may be just another day when the mail isn't delivered.

That's too bad, because it should be a day of reflection and thanks to the multitude of armed services veterans, and their families, who have kept our country "the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
Don't confuse it with Memorial Day, which honors those service men and women who have died in the service of their country. This day honors everyone who has served.

Source of Photos: inthesetimes.com/veterans_day
Photo credit: U.S. Air Force / Flickr

HISTORY
Nothing is easy when it involves the federal government.

US President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919, one year after the armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month and brought to a halt the actual fighting in WW I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed seven months later, on June 28, 1919.

I was surprised to read that Congress didn't officially recognize the end of WW I until June 4, 1926. It's hard for me to envision signing the treaty without acknowledging the end of the war. However, in the same resolution, Congress requested President Coolidge to proclaim November 11 as a national holiday. This is the same day celebrated in other
parts of the world as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, Victory in Europe Day, and other names.

An act approved in May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November a legal federal holiday, known as "Armistice Day", dedicated to the veterans of WW I and the cause of world peace.

Something as non-partisan/non-controversial as this took almost ten years. No wonder we're in trouble.

Then, on June 1, 1954, Congress approved legislation changing the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day, a holiday which honors of the veterans of all wars, not just WW I, and celebrated on October 25. The first Veterans Day was celebrated on October 25, 1971. Confusion ensued. No one was happy.

On September 20, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a law which returned Veterans Day to the original date of November 11, beginning in 1978.

Sigh of relief. This pleased just about everyone, although I used to wonder why my employer gave us a union-negotiated holiday on October 25, when the official holiday was November 11. Now I understand.

Hopefully, everything is settled for a while. And it pleases me that Veterans Day hasn't been moved from the specific date. That's not an accident. The proponents wanted to preserve the significance of November 11 and to focus attention on the purpose of Veterans Day.

A TIME FOR REFLECTION AND THANKS
As Senator Mike Johanns said,
   "Nothing we can do in Congress will ever fully return the favor of those who have given so much for America. But we must do all we can to honor them. All Americans share in the responsibility of caring for our veterans who have defended our freedom.
   Fewer causes are so imperative or so noble. This Veterans Day, we remember the service to our brave men and women in uniform. We thank them for their sacrifice and for their service."

Rory Fanning inthesetimes.com/veterans_day sends this message.
   “Many veterans enlisted in the military thinking that they were indeed serving a noble cause, and it's no lie to say that they fought with valor for their brothers and sisters to their left and right. Unfortunately, good intentions at this stage are no substitute for good politics. What they really want is not to be thanked for their service, but wants politicians to stop sending young soldiers off to die.”

THANK YOU TO THOSE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THEIR FAMILIES, WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE PAST AND TO THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO SERVE AND PROTECT OUR FREEDOM!

Marine Corps War Memorial For the Marine dead of all wars,
and their comrades of other services who fell fighting beside them.
Unveiled November 10, 1954
Designed by Felix de Weldon (sculptor)
Horace W. Peaslee (architect)
Photo source: https://inthesetimes.com/article/17337/veterans_day_stop_thanking_troops

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DO YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION?

11/1/2019

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Photo source: www.inc.com/respectfully-disagree-with-someone.html

“The greatest deception men suffer is their own opinions.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

WHAT IS AN OPINION?
If you look the word up in the dictionary, you will find the definitions along this line, stating that an opinion is:

● A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
● An estimation of the quality or worth of someone or something
● The beliefs or views of a large number/ majority of people about something; a generally held view.
● A belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge
● A formal expression (as by a judge) of legal principles upon which a legal decision is based.

You would think these are fairly easy concepts to understand. The unsettling part of this discussion is this:
“Most human beings believe their opinions are facts.” Because they believe it, that makes it so. "Make it sew!"►
“I HAVE A RIGHT TO MY OPINION.”
This is a phrase most people have used at one time or another, and sometimes too often. I doubt that most us have ever thought in depth about what it means.
The statement “I have the right to my opinion” means that “no one can stop me from thinking, observing, and drawing conclusions about anything.”

Having the “right” to either have opinions or stopping people from having them is a moot point. In fact, no one can prevent another person from forming views about the world around them -- short of getting into medical and/or psychological interventions or serious violence.

So, sure. You have the right to your opinion … but keep in mind that “rights” are defined by the duties to which they give rise. When you claim a “right” to something, ask yourself what duties this right is supposed to impose on others.
medium.com/@neallwebster/

“I AM ENTITLED TO MY OPINION”
Although the phrases are used interchangeably, Entitled means that you have been given a legal right or just claim to receive or do something. However, most dictionary definitions of entitle or entitled imply or flat out state that a person who is entitled believes themselves to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment and feel they deserve what they want without earning it and can take it from someone else just because of who they are. Yikes!

Philosophers consider both statements as logical fallacy. “A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. All logical fallacies are arguments in which a conclusion doesn't follow logically from what preceded it.” https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-logical-fallacy-1691259
Urbandictionary.com puts it, rather bluntly, this way: “You have the right to your opinion, but at the same time go fuck yourself and the horse you road in on.”

“I HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS MY OPINION”
The right to express your opinion is a separate issue. Generally speaking, yes, you do have the right to express your opinion … at this point in time.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, states that: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

However, the exercising of these rights carries "special duties and responsibilities" and may "therefore be subject to certain restrictions" when necessary "[f]or respect of the rights or reputation of others" or "[f]or the protection of national security or of public order (order public), or of public health or morals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

Although much of the world enjoys a political state of affairs which allows them to speak out without prosecution, that hasn’t always been true and could change in the future. There hasn’t always been a United States or United Nations to grant people freedom of speech.

No matter who or where we are, there are always other human beings who have, and will continue to have, the power and means to prevent most people from stating what they believe, good, bad, or indifferent. Whether or not that power is exercised is a separate matter. This is where the violence comes in. Keep in mind we have fought wars and earned Freedom of Speech.

The second point in this discussion: you do not have the right to expect anyone to listen to your opinion, act on it, or treat it as truth. Also, you do not have an equal right to be heard on a matter in which the other party is the only one with the relevant expertise and facts.

Before you express your opinion, take a moment to remember the following:
● Opinions are not fact; they are expressions of a point of view.
● Opinions are not actions.
● Opinions change frequently and are not binding commitments.
● Opinions are not necessarily rational.
● Opinions are not essential.

OPINIONS ARE NOT FACTS
Cortney S. Warren, Ph.D. writes, “A fact is a statement that can be supported to be true or false by data or evidence. In contrast, an opinion is a personal expression of a person’s feelings or thoughts that may or may not be based in data. Indeed, many of our opinions are based on emotions, personal history, and values—all of which can be completely unsupported by meaningful evidence.” www.psychologytoday.com/

We tend to protect and defend our opinions because they are an expression of us; our values, self esteem, beliefs, goals, education, identity, and our views on the specific subject. On the surface, opinions give us a voice. People agreeing with our opinions gives us validation. An attack on our opinions is like an attack on our physical person, and the human reaction is to defend yourself with anything you can use.

It never hurts to listen to others and assess their points as well as the significance of the opinion. We need to take a step back and assess the importance of any opinion.

NOT ALL OPINIONS ARE CREATED EQUAL
Warren makes sense when he states all opinions are not equally valuable, depending on the manner in which they were formulated. In the hierarchy of Opiniondom, those based on facts, knowledge, and analysis have the highest value because they can be treated by others as serious candidates for the truth. That still doesn’t make them true, but those informed opinions are a step toward finding the truth – and they are much easier to defend.

The lowest order of opinion is the gut-reaction; a view based on personal experience with nothing else to back it up. As Bill Bullard, lawyer and former member of the Michigan State legislature, says, “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability and no understanding.”

The second face of this pyramid is the significance of the subject matter. You could have all the data and facts in the world that prove you look better in a long red dress rather than in a short black dress, but it’s an issue that only matters to you and maybe to your mother and your dressmaker. Essentially trivial and inconsequential on a larger scale, although not to you within your sphere of activity.

The third face of the discussion focuses on who has the opinion and who will listen to it. Obviously human beings formulate opinions about nearly everything. Sometimes it’s just the way of nature. Other times people formulate opinion with purposeful intent, which usually implies influencing some kind of future action, whether it be the selection of healthy food in the grocery store or advising the Commander in Chief about declaring war.

The people who opinions are valuable arrive at their conclusions because they have expertise and facts and have looked at all sides of the issues. Their opinions will carry weight with decision makers because of that. Mediawatch host Jonathan Holmes says, “there’s evidence, and there’s bulldust,.and it’s not part of a reporter’s job to give bulldust equal time with serious expertise.” http://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978

WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO USE THE PHRASE?
First and foremost, the reality is our opinions only matter when we are in a position to affect change. The rest is pretty much useless mental and emotional clutter.

The reason people continue to use this phrase, although it is meaningless, reveals a great deal about the individual making the statement. According to most of my research, people speak these phrases in order to close down and walk away from a disagreement and/or to discredit or manipulate someone. The phrases are used as a way to:

● To end the debate when it is a waste of time and effort to continue because the issue cannot be resolved at that moment, at that location, or by the people engaged.

● To silence others who have different opinions and not let them have their say. To silence opinions you do not want to hear.

● To “save face” by defusing an argument or disagreement and presenting the opportunity for both parties to walk away; agreeing to disagree is a “No Harm” solution most of the time.

● To offer an excuse for not believing the truth or the facts.

● To finish the argument when the speaker has: 1) hit the wall defending their position; 2) knows or suspects they are incorrect, 3) has no evidence to back up the opinion. It is the last ditch effort to justify an indefensible point of view by defending their right to hold an opinion, no matter how stupid, ignorant or ill-founded it may be.

● To prevent yelling, a fight, or serious consequences from the disagreement.

● To discredit one or more participants in opposition by implying the opposition is of no value and it’s not worth the time to even talk to them.

● To demonstrate to others that the opposition is less smart or less knowledgeable by tearing them down or refusing to budge; It’s giving the opposition the brushoff as being unworthy of listening to.

● To justify the speaker’s belief that he/she can say of think whatever they like and implying that continuing to disagree with them is disrespectful.

● To cover up the speaker’s ignorance in order to protect their misconstrued beliefs.

● To have the satisfaction of getting in the last word.

THAT’S MY OPINION AND I’M STICKING TO IT
Nothing we or others can do will stop our brains from formulating opinions or developing personal preferences, but there are things we can do.

● Give up the belief that you need an opinion on everything. Save your angst and energy for those things that are important and you can actually do something about. That’s not just an excuse to be lazy or apathetic about things. Sure, you can’t actually make the decisions on issues before congress, but you can vote for the people who do. Don’t undersell the ways in which you can affect actions and decisions.

● If an issue falls into the “important” category and is worth your time to have an opinion, it is also worth your time to inform yourself of the facts, or at least the pros and cons.

● When you express your opinion, say why you believe that and be able to reasonably argue for it with evidence and real facts. If it’s trivial, don’t bother talking about it.

● Abandon the dismissive phrase “That’s just your opinion” and focus on whether people can offer good reasons for the claims they make – reasons that might compel us to share their views.

Patrick Stokes, noted philosopher, suggests that the “next time you hear someone declare they’re entitled to their opinion, ask them why they think that. Chances are, if nothing else, you’ll end up having a more enjoyable conversation that way.” qz.com/852709/a-philosophy
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Deleuze, Gilles (1994). "The Image of Thought". Difference and Repetition. Paul Patton (trans.).
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New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 April 2017.

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AYE-AYE, CAPTAIN

Being Grateful Is Good For You

VETERANS DAY: A Time for Reflection

DO YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION?

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