Hello All
I will try and post more content. Just been busy with various assignments. Work is cutting into leasure time hehe, but that happens to all of us.
Alot has happened since I last posted to all of us. Please feel free to comment an anything and share what has been going on in your life.
Happy 4th to everyone and stay safe,
Roger
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Sweeney Todd
Tod Slaughter is Brilliant in this 1936 movie of Sweeney Todd. One can tell he really enjoyed his role as Barber Todd.
He played the role with passion and creepy.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Nightmares
Bad smells can give you nightmares
Attention all campers! You no longer have to bother dipping your bunkmate’s hand in warm water in an attempt to make him pee in the bed. If you want to know how to terrorize that kid who picked on you on the kickball field, all you have to do is get inside his dreams. Through his nose.
German researchers have found that sleepers exposed to an unpleasant smell will have negative dreams. The opposite is also true. When subjects were exposed to the smell of roses, their dreams were predominantly positive. These olfactory observers used rotten eggs in their study, but we are sure that a stinky gym sock, left perched on the pillow of your enemy, would work just as well. While we’re fairly certain that the researchers didn’t plan to have their findings used in this manner, there are always unintended (and sometimes dastardly) consequences of scientific breakthroughs.
Because our sense of smell involves such a sensitive and neurologically complex function, and because it’s so powerful in its influence on our behavior, it’s not surprising at all that so many scientists have studied the effect of different scents on emotion, memory, appetite, energy, and sexual arousal. The sense of smell is known to be closely linked to the same area of the brain which handles memory and behavior, which is why a familiar scent can trigger a vivid memory or feeling about the first time you got a whiff of it. Scientists have also found that our sense of smell intensifies when we sense a dangerous smell — such as a fire — sparking our brain’s fight-or-flight response.
It certainly seems logical that there would be a strong connection between smell and stimulation, but you might be shocked to find out what the most sexually “intoxicating” fragrances actually are.
To test the effect a scent has on arousal, Dr. Alan Hirsch, a nationally recognized smell and taste expert and the founder of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, chose 30 pleasant odors and hypothesized that these enticing scents would stimulate more than just the nose. He measured penile blood flow while exposing men whose eyes were covered to various scents. The winner, by a nose, was lavender and pumpkin pie, with a 40 percent average increase in blood flow to the penis. The smell of doughnuts and black licorice came in a close second with a 31.5 percent increase in penile blood flow Cranberry finished dead last, so you may want to leave that off the seduction menu.
Hirsch also studied the effect of odors on women and measured their sexual response. The winners: the combo of Good & Plenty candy and cucumber with a 13 percent increase in vaginal blood flow. Baby powder tied with a lucky 13 percent boost. Pumpkin pie and lavender also seemed to stimulate the ladies, coming in second at 11 percent.
Now, you’re probably ready to radically alter your choice of cologne and aftershave, right? After all, who needs Chanel No. 5 or Boucheron pour Homme, when it’s apparently so much more provocative to slather a hunk of pumpkin pie across your neck or daub a melting Twizzler behind your ears?
It’s said that humans are able to distinguish over 10,000 different odor molecules. We do this by simply breathing in. That whiff of air goes up the nostrils and makes its way to the roof of the nasal cavity where it hits a tiny area called the olfactory epithelium. The olfactory epithelium contains millions of olfactory receptor neurons. On the surface of these neurons are odorant receptors that pass the smell information to the olfactory bulb (just underneath the front of your brain) and then on to the olfactory cortex in the temporal lobe of your brain.
Confused? Well, so are scientists. You see, humans have only about 400 odorant receptors on the surface of those sensory neurons. The otherwise humble mouse has approximately 1,200! Yet we olfactorily challenged humans can still detect thousands of odors.
Because the power of human sense of smell is so greatly underrated, the great and profound enigmas of scratching-and- sniffing remain to be solved.
Attention all campers! You no longer have to bother dipping your bunkmate’s hand in warm water in an attempt to make him pee in the bed. If you want to know how to terrorize that kid who picked on you on the kickball field, all you have to do is get inside his dreams. Through his nose.
German researchers have found that sleepers exposed to an unpleasant smell will have negative dreams. The opposite is also true. When subjects were exposed to the smell of roses, their dreams were predominantly positive. These olfactory observers used rotten eggs in their study, but we are sure that a stinky gym sock, left perched on the pillow of your enemy, would work just as well. While we’re fairly certain that the researchers didn’t plan to have their findings used in this manner, there are always unintended (and sometimes dastardly) consequences of scientific breakthroughs.
Because our sense of smell involves such a sensitive and neurologically complex function, and because it’s so powerful in its influence on our behavior, it’s not surprising at all that so many scientists have studied the effect of different scents on emotion, memory, appetite, energy, and sexual arousal. The sense of smell is known to be closely linked to the same area of the brain which handles memory and behavior, which is why a familiar scent can trigger a vivid memory or feeling about the first time you got a whiff of it. Scientists have also found that our sense of smell intensifies when we sense a dangerous smell — such as a fire — sparking our brain’s fight-or-flight response.
It certainly seems logical that there would be a strong connection between smell and stimulation, but you might be shocked to find out what the most sexually “intoxicating” fragrances actually are.
To test the effect a scent has on arousal, Dr. Alan Hirsch, a nationally recognized smell and taste expert and the founder of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, chose 30 pleasant odors and hypothesized that these enticing scents would stimulate more than just the nose. He measured penile blood flow while exposing men whose eyes were covered to various scents. The winner, by a nose, was lavender and pumpkin pie, with a 40 percent average increase in blood flow to the penis. The smell of doughnuts and black licorice came in a close second with a 31.5 percent increase in penile blood flow Cranberry finished dead last, so you may want to leave that off the seduction menu.
Hirsch also studied the effect of odors on women and measured their sexual response. The winners: the combo of Good & Plenty candy and cucumber with a 13 percent increase in vaginal blood flow. Baby powder tied with a lucky 13 percent boost. Pumpkin pie and lavender also seemed to stimulate the ladies, coming in second at 11 percent.
Now, you’re probably ready to radically alter your choice of cologne and aftershave, right? After all, who needs Chanel No. 5 or Boucheron pour Homme, when it’s apparently so much more provocative to slather a hunk of pumpkin pie across your neck or daub a melting Twizzler behind your ears?
It’s said that humans are able to distinguish over 10,000 different odor molecules. We do this by simply breathing in. That whiff of air goes up the nostrils and makes its way to the roof of the nasal cavity where it hits a tiny area called the olfactory epithelium. The olfactory epithelium contains millions of olfactory receptor neurons. On the surface of these neurons are odorant receptors that pass the smell information to the olfactory bulb (just underneath the front of your brain) and then on to the olfactory cortex in the temporal lobe of your brain.
Confused? Well, so are scientists. You see, humans have only about 400 odorant receptors on the surface of those sensory neurons. The otherwise humble mouse has approximately 1,200! Yet we olfactorily challenged humans can still detect thousands of odors.
Because the power of human sense of smell is so greatly underrated, the great and profound enigmas of scratching-and- sniffing remain to be solved.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Political and other themes
Hello Everyone this is your action news reporter, reporting at the scene of the crime...err Presidential debate. The questioning is about to begin, we take you down to Dan Blather.
Hello I am Dan Blather your moderator for tonights big debate. We have on one side people from the media asking questions, and on the other side we have out Presidential candidates. There getting ready to start, lets go down and listen in.
Connie Dung: "Senator Whackthecane how do you stand on Iraq? Will you bring the troops home?"
Butthead: "Uhh..huh,huh she said Whackthecane, huh huh."
Bevis: "Yeah yeah hehe hehe, whackthecane, wackthecane hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh... huh,huh shut up Bevis."
Senator Dean Whackthecane: "Well we cant decide right now if we need to bring the troops back or not. We still need to help the Iraqi Government establish a ground rule."
Senator Boardwack Hismama: "If I could interrupt for a second. Senator Whackthecane, just what the hell are you talking about? I mean it was a yes or no question."
Boss Peridot: "Now now we dont need to be using such hostility. Now if I can have your attention. I brought along some Graphs to demonstraite how we can fix this economy."
Senator Whackthecane: "Excuse me Peridot, but you had your chance twenty years ago, your graphs are way out of date. Now when I was over yonder in Vietnam and I was a prisoner of war, y'all should ahve seen what we had to go through...."
Senator Hismama: "What the hell Senator Whackthecane, lose the fake southern accent, your from Arizona."
President George Blush: "Settle down settle down, we are adult here, we can talk to each other as adults."
Senator Hismama: "Shut up Blush in 2 months your will be unemployed, so dont come in here like you have something to say."
Bevis: "hehe...hehe he said shut up hehe hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh..huh huh...uhh shut up Bevis, you suck."
Bevis: "hehe hehe you suck you suck hehe."
Butthead: "Huh huh... shut up buttmunch huh huh."
Bevis: "Hehe hehe... I am kornholio. hehe hehe."
Senator Hismama: "You both shut up or I will get an eraser."
Bevis: "Hehe hehe.. he said erase us hehe hehe. Erase us, erase us hehe hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh..huh huh... your stupid Bevis huh huh... if he like erases us then we are gone huh huh."
Bevis: " hehe hehe uhh yeah yeah hehe hehe."
Boss Peridot: "Now see I have a graph here that will fix the economy, as you can see..."
Senator Whackhiscane: "Zip it old man, nobody cares about the economy. The only thing we care about is raising money to stuff in our pockets then tax the hell out of the low income families."
Dan Blather: "Looks like the debate is heating up."
Condomliza Lice: "I for one am for fixing the economy and to get the troops out of Iraq."
Senator Hismama: "Oh really, I suppose we take the troops out of Iraq and send them to Iran or Pakistan."
Senator Whackhiscane: "No keep the troops there and send more we need to conqure the world while I am still alive."
Senator Hismama: "It will be impossible to conqure the world in a year or two."
Senator Whackhiscane: "Are you implying I'm old?"
Senator Hismama: "No all one has to see you. Come on be honest how old are you eighty- four or ninty-four?"
Senator Whackhiscane: "I resent that."
Senator Hismama: "I have something for you to resent Mr. I own 5 houses, no make that six or was it seven."
Dan Blather: "Well looks like we ran out of time, thats all for today at Capsized Hill."
Hello I am Dan Blather your moderator for tonights big debate. We have on one side people from the media asking questions, and on the other side we have out Presidential candidates. There getting ready to start, lets go down and listen in.
Connie Dung: "Senator Whackthecane how do you stand on Iraq? Will you bring the troops home?"
Butthead: "Uhh..huh,huh she said Whackthecane, huh huh."
Bevis: "Yeah yeah hehe hehe, whackthecane, wackthecane hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh... huh,huh shut up Bevis."
Senator Dean Whackthecane: "Well we cant decide right now if we need to bring the troops back or not. We still need to help the Iraqi Government establish a ground rule."
Senator Boardwack Hismama: "If I could interrupt for a second. Senator Whackthecane, just what the hell are you talking about? I mean it was a yes or no question."
Boss Peridot: "Now now we dont need to be using such hostility. Now if I can have your attention. I brought along some Graphs to demonstraite how we can fix this economy."
Senator Whackthecane: "Excuse me Peridot, but you had your chance twenty years ago, your graphs are way out of date. Now when I was over yonder in Vietnam and I was a prisoner of war, y'all should ahve seen what we had to go through...."
Senator Hismama: "What the hell Senator Whackthecane, lose the fake southern accent, your from Arizona."
President George Blush: "Settle down settle down, we are adult here, we can talk to each other as adults."
Senator Hismama: "Shut up Blush in 2 months your will be unemployed, so dont come in here like you have something to say."
Bevis: "hehe...hehe he said shut up hehe hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh..huh huh...uhh shut up Bevis, you suck."
Bevis: "hehe hehe you suck you suck hehe."
Butthead: "Huh huh... shut up buttmunch huh huh."
Bevis: "Hehe hehe... I am kornholio. hehe hehe."
Senator Hismama: "You both shut up or I will get an eraser."
Bevis: "Hehe hehe.. he said erase us hehe hehe. Erase us, erase us hehe hehe."
Butthead: "Uhh..huh huh... your stupid Bevis huh huh... if he like erases us then we are gone huh huh."
Bevis: " hehe hehe uhh yeah yeah hehe hehe."
Boss Peridot: "Now see I have a graph here that will fix the economy, as you can see..."
Senator Whackhiscane: "Zip it old man, nobody cares about the economy. The only thing we care about is raising money to stuff in our pockets then tax the hell out of the low income families."
Dan Blather: "Looks like the debate is heating up."
Condomliza Lice: "I for one am for fixing the economy and to get the troops out of Iraq."
Senator Hismama: "Oh really, I suppose we take the troops out of Iraq and send them to Iran or Pakistan."
Senator Whackhiscane: "No keep the troops there and send more we need to conqure the world while I am still alive."
Senator Hismama: "It will be impossible to conqure the world in a year or two."
Senator Whackhiscane: "Are you implying I'm old?"
Senator Hismama: "No all one has to see you. Come on be honest how old are you eighty- four or ninty-four?"
Senator Whackhiscane: "I resent that."
Senator Hismama: "I have something for you to resent Mr. I own 5 houses, no make that six or was it seven."
Dan Blather: "Well looks like we ran out of time, thats all for today at Capsized Hill."
Thursday, September 4, 2008
My Book
Hello
My book is now available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble www.bn.com
Insights of the mind by Roger Carleton
Please forward the link and tell everyone you know about it :-)
http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432728403
http://www.amazon.com/Insights-Mind-Roger-Carleton/dp/1432728407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219553276&sr=8-1
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Insights-of-the-Mind/Roger-Carleton/e/9781432728403/?itm=1
Please feel free to rate and leave a review on either Amazon. com or BN.com or both. :-)
Right now save $1.36 on my book at Amazon.com
Thank you,
Roger
My book is now available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble www.bn.com
Insights of the mind by Roger Carleton
Please forward the link and tell everyone you know about it :-)
http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432728403
http://www.amazon.com/Insights-Mind-Roger-Carleton/dp/1432728407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219553276&sr=8-1
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Insights-of-the-Mind/Roger-Carleton/e/9781432728403/?itm=1
Please feel free to rate and leave a review on either Amazon. com or BN.com or both. :-)
Right now save $1.36 on my book at Amazon.com
Thank you,
Roger
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Major U.S. Epidemics
Major U.S. Epidemics
1793
Philadelphia: more than 4,000 residents died from yellow fever.
1832
July–Aug., New York City: over 3,000 people killed in a cholera epidemic.
Oct., New Orleans: cholera took the lives of 4,340 people.
1848
New York City: more than 5,000 deaths caused by cholera.
1853
New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790.
1867
New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever.
1878
Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley.
1916
Nationwide: over 7,000 deaths occurred and 27,363 cases were reported of polio (infantile paralysis) in America's worst polio epidemic.
1918
March–Nov., nationwide: outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000 people in the worst single U.S. epidemic.
1949
Nationwide: 2,720 deaths occurred from polio, and 42,173 cases were reported.
1952
Nationwide: polio killed 3,300; 57,628 cases reported.
1981–Dec. 2005:
Total estimated U.S. AIDS cases: 988,376; total estimated AIDS deaths: 550,394 (Centers for Disease Control).
1793
Philadelphia: more than 4,000 residents died from yellow fever.
1832
July–Aug., New York City: over 3,000 people killed in a cholera epidemic.
Oct., New Orleans: cholera took the lives of 4,340 people.
1848
New York City: more than 5,000 deaths caused by cholera.
1853
New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790.
1867
New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever.
1878
Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley.
1916
Nationwide: over 7,000 deaths occurred and 27,363 cases were reported of polio (infantile paralysis) in America's worst polio epidemic.
1918
March–Nov., nationwide: outbreak of Spanish influenza killed over 500,000 people in the worst single U.S. epidemic.
1949
Nationwide: 2,720 deaths occurred from polio, and 42,173 cases were reported.
1952
Nationwide: polio killed 3,300; 57,628 cases reported.
1981–Dec. 2005:
Total estimated U.S. AIDS cases: 988,376; total estimated AIDS deaths: 550,394 (Centers for Disease Control).
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