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Arlo Guthrie
Event on 2012-02-23 19:30:00
Born into incredible artistic influence, Arlo Guthrie developed an expressive voice of the ‘60s generation that would shape music’s importance in bringing forth social justice and activism. In addition to being a masterful musician in piano, guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments, he is a natural-born storyteller, whose off-beat anecdotes and personal tales weave seamlessly into his performances. A career that has spanned decades and countries has confirmed Guthrie’s international stature and wide popularity.

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Mike Cross Live at McGlohon Theater, Charlotte
Event on 2012-02-25 20:00:00
North Carolina singer, songwriter and storyteller is set to kick off his “Crossin’ Carolina” concert and new CD at Charlotte’s McGlohon Theater Concert on Saturday, February 25th, at 8pm.

Cross’s one-man, turbocharged stage show serves up a collection of humorous songs, sensitive ballads, Will Rogers-like tales, Delta blues, and fiery Celtic and Appalachian fiddle tunes.

Mike’s music is a unique blend of folk, blues, rock, country, and Irish, spiced with a good dose of wonderfully warped wit, which "crosses" all musical boundaries and defies categorization.

Mike’s Charlotte concert coincides with the release of his fourteenth CD, “Crossin’ Carolina” produced by Patrick Cross, guitarist for the internationally acclaimed Michael Jackson tribute band, “Who’s Bad.”

"I really enjoyed doing this new recording because it gave me a chance to work with my son, Patrick, who was able to take some time from his rigorous touring schedule to be the producer. To make it even sweeter, he also did some great guitar work on the project.” Cross said. “Listening to this disc is like taking a road trip where you encounter interesting characters and situations everywhere you stop along the way.”

Mike's return to the McGlohon Theater will be the first performance of his 2012 “Crossin’ Carolina Tour,” with upcoming concerts across the state including Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem, Morehead City and Wilmington.

Mike’s song “Carolina Calling” was featured by the NC Department of Tourism for a Visit North Carolina ad campaign. A song he wrote in 1973 called "The Scotsman" gained notoriety as the theme song for the Dr. Demento Radio Show, and "Leon McDuff" was recorded and performed by the Dirt Band for the first Farm Aid Concert.

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“On stage Mike Cross is a one man tour de force, a high-energy humorist, folksinger and guitar and virtuoso.”
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Child Psychology Nature Or Nurture

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Child Psychology: Nature or Nurture?

Long before the birth of psychology, there was a philosophical debate between the nativists and the empiricists.

Nativists (such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778) believed that we are born with most of the qualities we will display as an adult. The environment may modify some of our traits but basically, our characters are innate.

The empiricists believed that a human infant was born tabula rasa which means ?blank slate’. All skills and knowledge acquired by the child would be brought about by learning. John Locke (1634-1704) said ?without nurture we are nothing.’

A modern form of empiricism which relates to psychology is behaviourism. The father of behaviourism, John B. Watson believed so strongly in nurture that he claimed he could turn anybody into anything using behavioural techniques.

He said:

?give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specialised world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – a doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors’ (Watson, 1925).

On the other hand, an extreme form of nativism was advanced by William McDougall (1908) who tried to explain social behaviour in terms of instincts.

He said:

?The human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed’( McDougall, 1908).

The nature/nurture debate has become one of the central debates in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. The kinds of questions asked by child psychologists are: What elements of a child’s physical and mental being can be explained in terms of nature (i.e. the genes they have inherited from their parents) and what elements are due to nurture (their social and physical environment)? The nature/nurture debate used to be described as nature versus nurture but, nowadays, most psychologists take a more interactionist view and realise that all characteristics are a product of the interaction between nature and nurture. Psychologist, D. O. Hebb once said that trying to separate out the influences of nature and nurture is like trying to determine which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width. Neither can be said to contribute more, they are both important. During this course, you will meet the nature/nurture debate often. The relative contribution of genes and environment will be discussed in terms of

Perception
Intelligence
Cognitive development
Personality

Because babies are socially and cognitively immature, a baby’s intelligence and personality cannot be measured in the same way that an adult’s can. If babies’ and adults’ intelligence cannot be measured in the same way, how can people know that a baby’s future intelligence is inherited? Nativists believe that a child is born with innate abilities, which cannot be perceived directly until the child is older. Characteristics, such as intelligence and personality, are already pre-determined at birth by the neonate’s genetic inheritance.

Empiricists believe that children do not inherit their intelligence, or personality. Instead, children’s intelligence is a result of what they have learned, from their interaction with the environment. Similarly, their personality is shaped by their experiences with the external environment. In this psychological context, ‘nurture’ means what children experience, directly and indirectly in their environment. For psychologists, ?environment’ simply means the surroundings, but not only in the physical sense of the word. A child at school experiences the ‘school environment’, and that can be sub-divided into the classroom environment or the playground environment. At home, a child is in their home environment. What children experience in their home and school environments influences their social and cognitive development. Children’s experiences include how people behave towards them, and other children’s and adults’ behaviour which they observe.

A psychologist who is a ‘nurturist’ believes that it is a child’s environment, and what happens within that environment, which influences behaviour, not some innate qualities a child has had since birth. This means that there is the possibility of intervention. Poor environments can be changed or enriched to help a child develop its full potential.

The idea that intelligence and personality are the product of nature and/or nurture originated in the late nineteenth century. Francis Galton, who was related to Charles Darwin, had the idea that intelligence is inherited (Gillham, 2001). Intelligent men were more likely to have intelligent male relatives. To help investigate this, Galton came up with the idea that identical and non-identical twins (who did not grow up together) should be studied, to see if their intelligence is inherited, or is the result of their environment.

Galton was more in favour of the nativist argument than the empiricist argument. Other intellectual thinkers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries thought differently. Maria Montessori for example, who opened new types of nursery schools, believed that if a child is not developing ‘properly’, it is because the child’s home and/or school environment is wrong. The child might be being abused or neglected, or the child’s environment is dull and uninteresting, and the child cannot ‘learn’ anything from it.

This article has been put together by the distance learning organisation Start Learning who are experts in home study.

If you want to find out more about Child Psychology or many other distance learning courses please browse their website: http://www.start-learning.co.uk

A useful way to work towards a career in Child Psychology is to sign up for a distance learning course on the subject. By studying in your own free time, you can study in your own home and gain knowledge quickly and at your own pace.

Kerrana McAvoy

Academic Director ? Start Learning

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Biomimicry Life Imitating Nature

by vandan desai

Biomimicry – Life Imitating Nature

The term Biomimicry comes from the words bios and mimesis. Bios translates to life and mimesis translates to imitate. The science of Biomimicry, according to the Biomimicry Institute is the science of “imitating nature’s processes and designs to solve human problems – sustainably.”

There are two ways Biomimicry can work. The first way is having a problem that needs a solution. In this instance, scientists look to the creatures and systems in nature to find ones that have created a solution to a similar problem. The other side to Biomimicry is studying nature to learn what it has to teach us then applying that knowledge to technology that could lead to a more sustainable and efficient means of living, eating and more. For example, scientists are currently studying the leaf to find better ways to create solar power. A really basic early example of Biomimicry is the airplane that was designed after bird’s flight.

The notion of turning to nature for solutions isn’t a new one. Native peoples took their cues as to what to eat and how to heal from animals. A great example of this is the Osha plant. Osha, also known as Bear Root, can be used to stop bleeding, for curing colds and the flu and a number of other remedies. How do we know about Osha? The bears taught up. Bears will dig up this plant, chew on the root, then rub it all over their fur. They then shake out the fur and walk under it inhaling it. We can also learn how to cure our ailments by what plants and remedies chimpanzees use.

Another reason we should take cues as to how to exist from nature? The creatures that we share the planet with have been working on their survival designs for millions of years. Evolution has eliminated the species that weren’t able to adapt. The ones that are here are amazing examples of how to live within an environment without destroying it. Biomimicry doesn’t just turn to insects, animals and birds, it also turns to the land. By studying the prairie and how it thrives, we can learn how to plant foods and turn the prairie into an environment that can produce sustainable food and continue to regenerate.

The science involved is fascinating. Take for example the sea purse. The sea purse is a red algae that prevents bacteria from landing on its surface by jamming their communication signals with an environmentally friendly compound called furanone. How can we benefit? What place do we need an anti-bacterial environment more than a hospital? This could be a solution to preventing bacteria from landing on surfaces like operating tables and in patient’s rooms without harsh chemicals that can compromise the immune system.

Another study is looking at a heat stable vaccine storage that doesn’t need to be refrigerated. It’s based on the resurrection plant that lays in a desiccated state for years. Imagine being able to preserve vaccines without electricity and what that could mean for remote villages in third world countries?

Looking to the spider, we could learn how to manufacture fiber – extremely strong fiber – without toxins. The brittle star self assembles distortion-free lenses out of sea water without having to heat it. The butterfly was the inspiration for the Qualcomm Company’s Mirasol Displays that use the same reflected light principle that butterfly wings use to function with almost no power when a displayed image is static. Termite dens are a model for cooling systems in buildings. Shark skin was a famous example of the scales of the shark could be duplicated as a design for swimsuits used in the Olympics.

Biomimicry is based on borrowing ideas and not harvesting them or harvesting the product. So instead of setting up a spider farm to create fiber for us, or gathering up spiders out of a specific area, we study them in their natural environment, we watch what they do and then we figure out how we can do it.

There are three levels to Biomimicry. The first level involves mimicking natural form, kind of like mimicking the hooks and barbules in an owl’s feathers to come up with Velcro. The copying in this instance may not be sustainable, which brings us to the second level. This is mimicking natural process of how the design or product was made. The third level mimics natural eco-systems and looks at the larger picture. It’s not just about how this one product can help, but how does our making of this product either sustain or deplete the earth? In the creation we look at the purpose of the product and how that purpose contributes to a greater whole and how that can build life, not destroy it, how it can build up the land instead of take nourishment from it.

One aspect of Biomimicry that is very close to my heart is the Natural Systems Agriculture. It works with making a land both productive and sustainable. By planting seeds for food or grasses that work within the environment, we then invite beneficial insects that control harmful insect populations, which in turn eliminates the need for pesticides. Done the right way, the land won’t need to be plowed. The focus for this to work is to only use plants and foods that occur naturally in that environment. In arid climates, planting bluegrass takes more water than the environment provides, so water is wasted. Because it is foreign to that environment, it attracts and breeds pests that don’t have natural predators and becomes reason to use pesticides and insecticides. It’s time to get back in tune with what the land can sustain and not what we want it to sustain. According to a survey by the National Biological Service, ½ of all native eco-systems in the US are degraded to the point of endangerment.

Eventually the Biomimicry Institute hopes we can model our societies on the oak and hickory forests. These forests ‘recycle all their wastes, use energy and materials efficiently and diversify and cooperate to use the habitat without bankrupting it.’

What the Biomimicry hopes to set up in the future is a database where all this information is stored and anyone around the world can access it. So for example if you are scientist in Nepal looking for a solution to creating heat without electricity, gas, or other means, you could tap into the is database and look for a plant or animal that does the same thing. The goal would be to have ideas that are in the public domain and not patented for the elite.

Could there be a dark side to Biomimicry? While it seems like the stuff of comic books, it could be very real. Biomimicry could be used for lethal devices or destructive purposes, but the possibilities for good are limitless and like any good comic book, good will always triumph over evil.

Next time you observe a starfish hanging on a wall, wonder how does it stick to the wall. Is there an underwater self-adhesive that could be found? What else can we learn from?

For more information about Biomimicry, visit the Biomimicry Institute.

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Tips On How To Conceive

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Tips on how to Conceive Naturally – Natural Treatments for Infertility

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Tips to Conceive Naturally – Natural cures for Infertility

most ladies who search for information on the right way to conceive naturally have either been diagnosed with infertility, or are having some difficulties in conceiving a kid. As you may already know, infertility is a big issue affecting millions of couples in the world today. Every year, new infertility cases are diagnosed, and the issue just appears to be getting worst year by year. Those who are in this condition, usually are ready, and want to do just anything they can to treat it and increase their probability of getting a baby.

But what are the best and most effective ways to treat infertility? I mean methods which are cheap, safe and effective. Though there are so many different ways to cure infertility that are being recommended on the internet today, natural treatments for infertility have always proven to be more effective and more women succeed with them.

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