THE HUMAN BRAIN CAN ONLY PROCESS 7 THINGS AT ONE TIME–LEAVING ANYTHING ELSE ABOVE THE 7TH ITEM LOSS TO MEMORY

……..My mind, I reasoned, is about the size of a soccer ball — give or take a few centimetres. Yet I was continuing to pump stuff into it as if it was one of those giant inflatable human-hamster zorb balls that people inexplicably like to roll around in.

Worse, I was trying to perform two dozen different tasks with my swollen zorb; was it any wonder stuff was falling out?

Apparently not, according to Professor Michael Saling from Victoria’s Austin Health who, I suspect, boasts a brain as ordered as an Ikea sock divider.

“This expansion of information in our age has happened so fast, so expediently, that it’s bringing us face to face with our brains’ limitations,” he explained in one of the six international newspapers I read online every day.

“Because devices we use have perfect memories there is almost an expectation building that we too should have perfect memories.”

Humans, he pointed out, can only process a maximum of seven things at once.

Only seven! No wonder my brain was imploding. I’m the mistress of multi-tasking — there are never fewer than 10 tabs open on my computer and cooking dinner is dovetailed with homework supervision, laundry folding, listening to a podcast, eyebrow plucking (not over the pots), phone calls and internet banking. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d done a single thing from start to finish. I can’t even hug my kids without breaking off to remind them of something they have to do.

In response to this demonic need to multitask, life has become shorter, sharper, bite-sized and brisk.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/angela-mollard-i-cant-remember-why-i-wrote-this/story-fniym874-1227357819579

AS RUSSIA GOES BACK TO ITS COMMUNIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT UNDER PUTIN–FRANCE PLAN TO BUILD TWO WARSHIPS FOR MOTHER RUSSIA IS PUT TO A HALT–AND A REFUND TO BE EXCHANGE IN PLACE OF DELIVERING THE ACTUAL WAR SHIP HARDWARE TO THE TUNE OF $894 MILLION WHILST THE PUTIN RAISES THE ANTI AND ASKS FOR $1200 MILLION INSTEAD

The annulment of a contract for France to deliver a warship to Russia wouldn't strain ties between the countries, the Kremlin said Friday.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing that it's up to France to deliver the Mistral-class warship or offer a refund. He added that the issue wouldn't cause any problems in bilateral relations.

The Russian business daily Kommersant reported that France has offered a refund of 785 million euros ($894 million), while Russia wants France to pay nearly 1.2 billion euros. Asked about the report, Peskov wouldn't comment on how much Russia wants France to pay.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/16/russia-ready-to-receive-french-refund-for-undelivered-ship.html?comp=7000023317843&rank=4

AS JAPAN AND THE PHILLIPINES DOES ITS OWN NAVAL DRILLS IN THE CHINA SEA WEST OF KOREA –RUSSIA AND CHINA FOLLOWS SUIT WITH ITS OWN NAVAL DRILLS IN THE EASTERN SEA EAST OF KOREA–THE TWO COMMUNISTS COZY IT UP AS THEY DO THE BUDDY BUDDY DRILL

China and Russia plan to hold joint naval drills in the East Sea, the water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, in September, a media report said Friday.
If confirmed, the drills would demonstrate deepening ties between Russia and China at a time when most of the world is against Moscow for its alleged support of separatist rebels in Ukraine.
Citing Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, the website of Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television reported that Russia and China will begin the joint naval drills in the East Sea in early September, when Beijing is scheduled to hold a military parade to mark victory over Japanese forces in the second world war.
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a massive military parade in Moscow celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Most Western leaders shunned the Moscow event because of the crisis in Ukraine.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150515000610

HUMANOID ROBOTS GREETING JAPANESE SHOPPERS–TOSHIBA LAUNCHES ITS OWN ROBOT AIKO CHICHIRA TO DO THE EVERYDAY TASK OF NONE STOP GREETING OF CUSTOMERS IN A TOKYO MALL

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has launched a humanoid robot at a busy Tokyo mall.
Online media said the 165-centimeter robot, Aiko Chihira, was clad in a traditional Japanese silk kimono and stationed at the information reception desk of Mitsukoshi department store to help shoppers.
Hitoshi Tokuda, Toshiba's head of new business development, made Chihira with a team of programmers. She is meant to resemble a 32-year-old woman.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2015/05/182_178977.html

WORLD WAR Z IN JAPAN–AS THE ZOMBIES CRAZE HITS TOKYO WITH 100 PARTICIPANTS DOING THE LURCH

The living dead stalked Tokyo on Saturday as some 100 zombie fans lurched around a city park for an annual gathering in grisly makeup.

Assorted representatives of the undead staggered their mindless way through Yoyogi Park covered in gore and fake blood, some making it a family outing with their zombie infants in tow and enjoying the startled reactions of passersby.

“I love zombies,” said Daisuke Tanaka, 33, while adding “blood” and mock cuts to his neck.

“It’s fun to see people stunned and scared by my zombie appearance,” Takaka said, next to his friend with guts hanging out from his unbuttoned shirt.

While most dressed as modern flesheaters and reanimated corpses, others appeared as the classic Chinese “jiangshi” hopping zombie-vampire or as Frankenstein’s monster, the great-granddaddy of the undead.

 

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/zombies-invade-tokyo-park-for-lurch-of-the-living-dead

A TALE OF TWO STATES PENNSYLVANIA REAPING THE REWARDS OF NATURAL GAS ENERGY EXTRACTION FROM WHAT THE FRACK AND THE DEMOCRAT RUN LIBERAL NEW YORK SUPPRESSION OF ITS CITIZENS TO BE INDEPENDENT AND LIVE A LIVELY HOOD FROM ENERGY EXPLORATION IS INSTEAD SENDING ITS SOUTHERN CITIZEN TO THE POOR HOUSE AS ITS NORTHERN CITIES LIVES OFF THE HOG OF OTHER STATES ENERGY PRODUCTION WHILST THEY BECOME THE CONSUMERS YET NEGLECTING ITS OWN CITIZEN TO GAIN FROM THE BOOM THAT HAS BEEN FROM THE ENERGY NATURAL EXPLORATION WHICH IS ONLY ACROSS THE STATE LINE OF PENNSYLVANIA

Marian’s Pizza Shack sits 10 miles north of the Pennsylvania line, an invisible boundary that separates this small business from economic opportunity.

After 23 years in business, owner Marian Szarejko has decided to sell her pizza shack.

“There are no jobs here,” Szarejko said. “Business has gone down so much that I am dipping into my savings just to keep this afloat.”

Szarejko’s decision echoes a common theme that has plagued the southern tier of upstate New York for years—a lack of economic development.

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“If I owned a place in Pennsylvania, I wouldn’t be thinking of closing. I would be thinking about expanding,” Szarejko said. “The difference is they did fracking.”

The issue of high-volume hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, has emerged as a contentious national debate. Communities and states are deciding whether to embrace or ban the new form of natural gas extraction.

But nowhere is the issue as real as it is for upstate New Yorkers who see the prosperity of neighboring communities in Pennsylvania.

New York and Pennsylvania are two of five states that sit above the nation’s largest natural gas field, the Marcellus Shale.

New York bans fracking. Pennsylvania allows it.

The Daily Signal traveled to the two states’ border to talk to residents about which policy has improved lives.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/11/the-valley-of-missed-opportunity-one-towns-fight-for-economic-revival/

THE CASH COW CLINTONS KEEPS RAKING IN THE MONIES FROM WHERE THEY DON’T CARE AND DON’T GIVE A HOOT JUST DON’T TELL BUT JUST LET THEM KEEP COMING IN TO THE TUNE OF $30 MILLION IN JUST 16 MONTHS–AS A GOVERNMENT SECRETARY OF STATE SURE PAID WELL FOR THE MADAME HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON–AS THE CLINTONS FILED FOR 2015 FEDERAL INCOME TO THE TUNE OF MILLIONS

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband made at least $30 million over the last 16 months, with the bulk of their income derived from more than 100 paid speeches, an official with her presidential campaign said late on Friday.

The couple’s earnings and assets were to be detailed in personal financial disclosure forms that Mrs. Clinton and other presidential candidates were required to file with federal election officials no later than Friday.

The filings cover the period since January 2014.

Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, earned more than $25 million from speaking engagements, the official said.

The official insisted on anonymity to discuss the filing before it was disclosed publicly.

Mrs. Clinton’s earnings from her memoir of her time as secretary of state, “Hard Choices,” exceeded $5 million, the official said; the financial-disclosure forms do not require a precise figure.

The Clintons earned no capital gains during this period, the campaign official said. (Mr. Clinton recently said that over the past 15 years he had “taken almost no capital gains.”)

Mrs. Clinton’s last filing, which covered her final years as secretary of state, disclosed more than $16 million in income.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/politics/clintons-reportedly-earned-30-million-in-the-last-16-months.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

THE FIRST OF MANY MUSLIM EXTREMISTS WHO PRETEND TO BE PEACEFUL WILL GET THE DEATH PENALTY IN THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SENDING A MESSAGE THAT DON’T “F” WITH AMERICA AS DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV THE 2013 BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 3 AND INJURING/MAIMING 260

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death Friday for his role in the detonation of two powerful pressure cooker bombs in a festive crowd near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, a terror attack intended to strike a blow against the United States that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

A promising immigrant college student who had veered sharply towards radical jihad, Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted last month in US District Court in Boston of 17 charges that carried the possibility of the death penalty.

A seven-woman, five-man jury took 14 1/2 hours to render its decision, sentencing Tsarnaev Friday to death on six of his convictions.

Boston US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said Tsarnaev’s sentence was “fair and just’’ and it showed that Americans are “not intimidated by acts of terror or radical ideas.”

“This was not a religious crime,’’ Ortiz said. “It was a political crime designed to intimidate and coerce the United States. ... Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will pay with his life for this crime.’’

Tsarnaev’s defense team, which included prominent death penalty defenders, had no comment.

Wearing a blazer and a collared shirt, Tsarnaev, as has been his habit for most of the trial, had a blank expression as a court clerk read the death sentence.

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/15/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty-sentencing-jury-boston-marathon-bombing/canMEfLmeQJxQ4rFU0sERJ/story.html

A NEW REPORT POINTS THE FINGER ON THE PUTIN RUSSIAN BUK MISSILES SHOOTING DOWN MALAYSIA AIRLINES MH17 KILLING 298 PEOPLE–AND THE COMMUNIST FORM OF RUSSIA GIVES NOT A CARE FOR THE KILLINGS SINCE ALL THEY CAN DO IS LIE WITHOUT BLINKING AN EYE AND THE SMALL ASIAN STATE OF MALAYSIA IS NOTHING BUT A SMALL STATE THAT THE RUSSIANS CAN IGNORE AS INSIGNIFICANT WITHOUT NEEDING TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF 298 LOST LIVES–THE VIDEO SHOWS THE MISSILE CONVOY ENTERING ON THE 16TH AND THE MH17 SHOT DOWN ON THE 17TH

A NEW report has presented detailed evidence linking a Russian military convoy to the Buk missile launcher believed to have brought down MH17, killing all 298 people on board.

The report by Bellingcat includes photos taken by a Russian soldier and driver that detail the journey of a large Russian military convoy that travelled to eastern Ukraine in June 2014. The Malaysia Airlines flight crashed on July 17.

Published overnight, the report presents detailed evidence of the involvement of the 2nd and 147th Automobile Battalions in the transport of military equipment through Russia.

That equipment includes the Buk missile launcher filmed and photographed in Ukraine on July 17, and linked to the downing MH17. An earlier Bellingcat report alleged that Buk 3x2 was seen in a convoy travelling from the Russian 53rd Brigade near Kursk to Millerovo, close to the Ukrainian border, between June 23 and June 25.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/mh17-case-mounts-against-russia/story-fnizu68q-1227355693036

ICANN TO BE IN CHARGE WITH ASSIGNING THE NEXT INTERNET ADDRESSES AWAY FROM THE US GOVERNMENT COME NEXT YEAR 2016

The head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world's Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year's end.

Fadi Chehade's comments came despite criticism in the US Congress, where some lawmakers have resisted the plan to end Washington's key management role in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Chehade said all the necessary components for a new stewardship scheme are accounted for and there will be "major legitimizing endorsements" from several countries in coming weeks.

"It is now up to the community to wrap them up, put them in a nice little box with a bow and ship them to Washington," Chehade said, of the pieces of a plan to supplant a contract ICANN has with the US Department of Commerce.

http://news.yahoo.com/icann-sees-privatization-internet-management-soon-214027950.html

CONGRESS IS IRRELEVANT AS 60 GOV AGENCIES MAKES OWN LAWS AKA REGULATION TO WEIGH DOWN FURTHER THE BACKS OF BUSINESSES AND INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL AS 16 NEW REGULATIONS FOR EVERY LAW PASSED IN 2014 TO THE TUNE OF 2 TRILLION COST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AS THE LEFTIST AND LIBERALS CAN’T ESCAPE THE CONTROLLING MENTALITY THAT HISTORICALLY GRIPS THE SAME COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTIC SOCIETAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT AS THESE HIDDEN COSTS LIKE TAXES GETS PASSED ON TO GUESS WHO YOU THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

The cost of federal regulation neared $2 trillion in 2014, according to a new report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, a report by Clyde Wayne Crews, CEI’s vice president for policy, also reveals that the U.S. debt now exceeds the size of China’s economy.

“Federal regulation and intervention cost American consumers and businesses an estimated $1.88 trillion in 2014 in lost economic productivity and higher prices,” amounting to roughly $15,000 per household, the report said.

The report found that the federal bureaucracy—made up of 60 agencies, departments, and commissions—has 3,415 regulations in the process of being finalized, meaning that the number of regulations far surpasses the number of laws passed by Congress.

“In 2014, agencies issued 16 new regulations for every law—that’s 3,554 new regulations compared to 224 new laws,” the report said.

CEI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, found that the Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, Interior, Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation (DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) account for 48 percent of all federal regulations.

The EPA issued 539 final rules in the Federal Register last year, up 12.5 percent in five years.

Enforcing regulations alone cost the government $59.5 billion in 2014.

Government regulation has led to a hidden “tax” for Americans, the report said, as businesses pass along compliance costs to consumers.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-cost-of-federal-regulation-reached-1-88-trillion-in-2014/

THE PHILIPPINES TO PARTNER WITH JAPAN IN NAVAL EXERCISES FOR THE FIRST TIME TO COUNTER THE CHINESE ENCROACHMENT AND OVERTAKING OF THE SPRATLY ISLAND AND 90% OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA SINCE 2012

Japan and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval drill this month in the South China Sea near a disputed shoal claimed by Beijing, sources in Tokyo and the Philippines said Friday.

The May 12 maritime safety exercise, which will practise the code for unplanned encounters at sea, known as CUES, is part of an agreement signed by Japan and the Philippines in January aimed at tightening security cooperation.

The nature of the training is unlikely to worry China unduly, as it has conducted similar exercises with the United States in the past.

But the presence of Japanese naval vessels in the South China Sea signals Japan’s growing interest in the region, and may irritate Beijing as criticism of its land reclamation projects there mounts.

“The exercise will not be far from Scarborough Shoal,” one of the sources in Japan said, referring to a rocky outcrop which China seized in 2012 after a three-month standoff with the Philippines.

The two-hour practice within Philippines territorial waters near Subic Bay, a former U.S. navy base, will involve a Japanese warship and a Philippines navy frigate, a spokesman at the Philippines Navy said.

A spokesman for Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force declined to comment.

China, which claims about 90% of the 3.5 million sq km South China Sea, is asserting its territorial claims by building a chain of man-made islands on coral reefs in the Spratly archipelago.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-philippines-to-hold-first-naval-drill-in-south-china-sea

ISIS COMFORT WOMAN SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS JAIL TIME FOR AID AND ABETTING THE TERROR GROUP BY HELPING AID IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF AND USING SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE FACEBOOK TO CONTACT AND SEND A LOVER OVER TO TURKEY AND FIGHT FOR IS–HEATHER ELIZABETH COFFMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA–AND FACEBOOK IT SEEMS GETS NO INVESTIGATION FOR ITS ROLE

A Glen Allen woman who lied to the FBI about her support for the Islamic State was sentenced Monday morning to four and a half years in prison.

Heather Elizabeth Coffman, 30, was arrested in November and with credit for time served she will spend roughly four years behind bars under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr.

Federal sentencing guidelines called for a term of 46 to 57 months in prison and Michael R. Gill, an assistant U.S. attorney, sought the stiffest punishment called for.

"At the time of her arrest she was very dangerous," argued Gill. Among other things, Coffman admitted to using social media to trying to help get a man she fell in love with over the Internet to join ISIS.

In arguing for a lesser prison term, Mary Maguire, one of Coffman's lawyers, told Gibney, "I think she never understood the gravity of what she was doing until it was too late."

"She clearly got involved with something that was way over her head," added Maguire.

But Gill countered that Coffman admitted she had seen ISIS photos of battlefield dead and beheading videos.

"She went into this with her eyes wide open," said Gill.

Asked by the judge if she had seen a beheading video, Coffman admitted she had.

In pleading guilty in February to making a false statement involving international terrorism, Coffman admitted that last year she used Facebook accounts under different names to show her support for ISIS.

http://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/article_a79fcb93-ecdd-5547-84a8-11b095bbe207.html

THE PUSH FOR THE HISTORICAL SURPRISE FIRST STRIKE BY THE COMMUNIST PUSHES FORWARD WITH NORTH KOREA LAUNCHING AN SLBM TEST LAUNCH FRIDAY MAY 9TH 2015–THE NEXT STEP IS TO GO NUCLEAR TO ATTACK THE WEST AND S KOREA WITH THE BIG SURPRISE IF AND WHEN IT CAN

North Korea’s push to develop a submarine-launched ballistic missile is posing a daunting security challenge to South Korea and the U.S. as the allies would have almost no means to counter the emerging threat should it become fully operational.
The allies have so far been focusing on countering missile threats from land-based launchers as they believed Pyongyang was far from developing an SLBM given the small size of its submarines and outdated technology.
But the North’s test-firing last week showed that the communist regime was close to completing the development of the strategic SLBM. Describing the test-firing as a success, the North called the launched projectile “a world-level strategic weapon.”
“There is no effective measure to counter the SLBM for now. It would be, per se, a final-stage, ultimate addition to the North’s strategic weapons list,” said Park Won-gon, security expert at Handong Global University.

“Whatever top-of-the-line detection systems you have, it would be difficult to keep track of submarine movements. Obviously, there are limits when you conduct antisubmarine operations,” he added.
Seoul officials now forecast it would take four to five years for the North to fully develop and deploy the SLBM. They also think that the North will be able to build a 2,000-ton Sinpo-class submarine capable of carrying the SLBM in two to three years.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150511000930