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Distraction
Harv retrofitted the article’s keyword of “distraction” or absence thereto into his past tradition’s cryptic-brain-youth-experience, as in the thought of “struggle against … distractions” when reading, or avoiding distractions in one’s life in general.
“We discuss why reading is a fundamentally ‘unnatural’ act, how scanning and scrolling differ from ‘deep reading,’ why it’s not accurate to say that ‘reading’ is just one thing, how our brains process information differently when we’re reading on a Kindle or a laptop as opposed to a physical book, how exposure to such an abundance of information is rewiring our brains and reshaping our society, how to rediscover the lost art of reading books deeply, what Wolf recommends to those of us who struggle against digital distractions, what parents can do to to protect their children’s attention, how Wolf’s theory of a ‘bi-literate brain’ may save our species’ ability to deeply process language and information and more.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-maryanne-wolf.html
In Harv’s youth-case-study the avoid-distraction was his relative degree of isolation, that is, parochial education, a single working mother, no father ever-present, no household peers, no doting neighbors living close-by, no one-on-one while spending summers in Central Wisconsin (dairy farms and dance hall/bars), ….
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Mark Sabbagh is a psychology professor and lead investigator at the Early Experience Lab at Queen’s University in Ontario. He agrees that, whatever you call it, encouraging your kids to play on their own is a good idea and always has been. Kids use play to explore the world, Sabbagh said. “So sometimes they’re working through how physics works by building with blocks, or sometimes they’re working on how people work in a dramatic play kind of setting.” They’ve usually got ideas about how things work, he added, so through play, “they’re trying out those ideas, and then they’re observing the results of those ideas in an environment that they have themselves sculpted.” This is an important part of development, Sabbagh said. When parents think they need to be involved or impart some kind of lesson, “they can interrupt this natural process of learning.” If you’re invited to play, great. But if you aren’t, "then let them do their thing,” he said. Brandi Hawk, an expert in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), which was developed as an intervention for children who are noncompliant and oppositional, looks at the issue of sittervising through the lens of attachment theory. “Attachment theory says that there’s two really important roles that a caregiver plays in a child’s life,” Hawk said. “One is to be a safe haven, so when your child is afraid, scared, upset, they know they can come to you for support.”
But, Hawk added, “the other, equally important piece is to be a secure base from which your kids can explore. So, to be the person that your child can look at and say, ‘you know, my mom or dad is there so I can go off and find out new things.’ ” Parents who need to be reminded that it’s okay for kids to play on their own are hewing closer to the safe haven role than the secure base role. Kids also grow through measures other than play, said Nancy Darling, chair of the Department of Psychology at Oberlin College who has researched different styles of parenting. One way is watching parents as they do chores or run errands. “There’s a zillion things we learn about being adults by hanging around with our parents when they’re not paying attention to us,” Darling said. Allowing children to explore the wider world means “they’re not just playing with us, they’re playing with other kids, they’re playing with dogs, they’re playing with random children who they have to learn to negotiate with, or slightly older and slightly younger kids.” And if they play without parents interfering, they have to learn how to solve problems on their own or with the help of other kids, which is empowering. Of course, some children don’t receive much one-on-one time, often because their parents are working multiple jobs and have many responsibilities. This can lead to issues such as clinginess; throwing tantrums or displaying aggressiveness; or being anxious, moody or withdrawn, said Hawk, who is the supervising psychologist at the PCIT training center at U.C. Davis Children’s Hospital. One of the components of PCIT is “special time” — five minutes when a parent engages in child-led play and practices some of the skills they have been taught in this therapy. Research into the efficacy of PCIT has shown that children whose families engage in special time have better outcomes than those whose families do not, said Hawk.
Recognizing that some parents struggle to find even five free minutes in a day, Hawk suggests incorporating one-on-one play with their child into daily activities such as bath time, or squeezing it into slivers of the day, such as right after school. “It’s amazing when kids go from nothing to a little bit” of one-on-one, she said. “Parents feel less stressed, too, because they’re getting to have a little bit of joy in their child.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/11/22/sittervise-child-development-play/ Harv 85yo continues to play with RIM, with COA, with health services, WITH WRITING blog/tome.
News curation
2023jun21. National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold-standard federal exam. The last time math performance was this low for 13-year-olds was in 1990. In reading, 2004. The federal standardized test, known as NAEP, was given last fall, and focused on basic skills. Achievement declined across lines of race, class and geography. But in math, especially, vulnerable children — including Black, Native American and low-income students — experienced bigger drops. The 13-year-olds who took this version of the NAEP exam last fall were 10 years old — and in fourth or fifth grade — when the pandemic began. Many were old enough to participate in remote learning without minute-to-minute adult assistance, as younger children often needed. But the ages of 10 to 13 are also a crucial period for mastering foundational skills, from multiplication to recognizing a character’s feelings in a short narrative passage. “The bottom line — these results show that there are troubling gaps in the basic skills of these students,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which gives the NAEP exam. “This is a huge-scale challenge that faces the nation.” A student survey given alongside the test turned up other interesting results that will keep educators buzzing. The percentage of 13-year-olds enrolled in algebra has declined to 24 percent from 34 percent in 2012. In some districts and states, notably California, there has been a push to equalize math education by placing fewer eighth graders into advanced math. The percentage of 13-year-olds who reported reading for fun has also declined. Last fall, 31 percent said they “never or hardly ever” read for fun, compared to 22 percent in 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/naep-test-results-education.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20230621&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=91739846&segment_id=136280&user_id=c169c5df23b5bd14a95e704d648953e4
2023may26. “There’s a lot of things you can do once you have a good definition of life and a way of making a life from nonlife. It’ll be a really profound thing because you only have one example of life. All life on Earth is connected,” said NASA astrochemist Jason Dworkin, who helped lead analysis of the organic material in the Ryugu sample and is project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Researchers classified this carbon-containing asteroid as a carbonaceous chondrite (stony meteorite). That material is some of the most common and ancient in the solar system. But the Ryugu chondrite is one of the rarest types to encounter on Earth. Researchers found that the iron composition of Ryugu is similar to that of only five known meteorites out of more than a thousand found on Earth’s surface. These particular rocks are thought to originate from the same region in space, on the outskirts of the solar system. “These are very primitive meteorites, and they’re among the most rare that we have in our collection,” said the planetary scientist Fred Ciesla, who is not involved in Ryugu research. “The fact that we went to Ryugu [and] were able to get a sample of something that is so otherwise rare here is very exciting because it allows us to study these things in a whole new way.” “If asteroids like Ryugu, or fragments of them, did bombard the early Earth, then understanding their organic matter inventory can help us to understand what kinds of amino acids and other building blocks of life might have been available at the origin of life on Earth,” said Potiszil. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/26/asteroid-earth-life-ryugu/
2023may25. Chatbots are powered by a technology called a large language model, or L.L.M., which gets its abilities by analyzing enormous amounts of digital text culled from the internet. Plenty of stuff on the web is wrong, and chatbots may repeat those untruths. Sometimes, while trying to predict patterns from their vast training data, they can make things up. https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20230525&instance_id=93399&nl=on-tech%3A-a.i.&productCode=OT®i_id=91739846&segment_id=133856&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F5623568e-5423-5acd-8692-6ac578724bfd&user_id=c169c5df23b5bd14a95e704d648953e4
2023may02. .Self-care ...showing yourself empathy. And this kind act will help you weather stress with greater resilience, research shows. Identifying your needs... ...micro-breaks can be any tiny activity that cultivates meaning and enjoyment. Social connections, especially when stressed, can prevent depression and boost self-esteem. Feeling loved also helps you feel empowered, which can make change feel more attainable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/04/27/self-care-strategies-activities-mental-health/
2022jan02-07. In macro, the Finder “Macintosh HD” is Harv's life, but HD is under Apple geek control, so Harv fears not to mess around too much. Therefore Harv must go to the User Finder Folder and then his PBG4 HD heritage to present this explanation of his HD life organization. User PBG4 is the current version of that which came from his previous Picture Book and Apple G4 eras with Picture Book being unfriendly Microsoft geek-dumb and with G4 being the precursor to the Air — small for his hiking/bicycling shoulder bag. iCloud backup now has son Chris as Legacy Contact. In Finder, the geek dumbs reserve access to the first two levels. On the third level, Harv has created folder 0 to better mold the Air to present his life. The “death update” file has collected tidbits for three years from 2022.
2019dec03. “It never entered my mind that I would be working on it for years,” she said. “But I was not able to answer the question of what the family’s history {and mine} had been, to my satisfaction.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/briefing/tariffs-nato-philippines.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_20191203?campaign_id=9&instance_id=14228&segment_id=19238&user_id=c169c5df23b5bd14a95e704d648953e4®i_id=9173984620191203
I think that we don’t necessarily realize how quickly we’ve evolved and how quickly we have superseded our idea of our right to privacy by our right to know. [Dave Eggers] continues: We’ve evolved to the point where our ideas of privacy have evolved or our value of it is almost completely gone. I think there’s a few square feet in our skulls that we still retain. There’s the bathroom, the bedroom after a certain hour and there’s the space in our brain. But nowhere else do we expect privacy. And I think that’s a radical shift in evolution, and it happened in a few years. https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?uri=nyt://newsletter/6296863a-a2db-4e0d-989e-a9266f59a821&te=1&nl=the-privacy%20project&emc=edit_priv_20191203?campaign_id=122&instance_id=14235&segment_id=19251&user_id=c169c5df23b5bd14a95e704d648953e4®i_id=91739846riv_20191203
2019dec02. To step out of the time scarcity tunnel, Mani suggests first becoming aware of how you may be trapped in busyness. If you can, you might try smoothing your workload or spreading it out over time, much like research on how income smoothing helps those with money scarcity better weather financial volatility and keep from falling into episodic poverty. Then work with others to create and enforce group norms around taking breaks – at work, during the week, at the weekend. Tunneling has a dark side. When we get caught up in a time scarcity trap of busyness, a panicked firefighting mode, we might only have the capacity to focus on the most immediate, often low-value tasks right in front of us rather than the big project or the long-range strategic thinking that would help keep us out of the tunnel in the first place. “We see people end up tunneling on the wrong thing,” she says. Busy-loving humans have such an aversion to idleness, in fact, that one study found people preferred giving themselves electric shocks rather than have nothing to do. Then we look at our calendar six months from now, it often appears wide open and free of all commitments. So we can overcommit ourselves, which can lead to more time scarcity and tunnelling in the future. “But we know that in six months, that week is going to look a lot like this week, which is usually pretty busy,” Shah says. “So you need to think – how would I fit this in this week? What would I have to give up to do it? We need to realize that slack in the future is an illusion.” https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191202-how-time-scarcity-makes-us-focus-on-low-value-tasks Harv wants to free eventually from ‘all’ commitments/others-responsibility. Rather, to assist other to be self reliant/sharing.
2019nov30. The man who had taken golf into a new realm. His skill, his power, his dedication to fitness, his work ethic and strong values, his mental strength, and his fortitude in blazing a trail as a black man in a white sport, had turned him into a global superstar. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/30/sport/tiger-woods-10-years-car-crash-scandal-fire-hydrant-spt-intl/index.html Harv listened to his interviews: they paralleled Harv’s life philosophy J-L-F v S-H-F and love R-E-C. Harv remains challenged as he begins his 82nd year. Perhaps his y82 action is a better understanding of self-love of Harv, not to be confused with dog-sitter, that is, a people pleaser on a life-long love chase of Respect, Encouragement, and Challenge.
2019nov26. Today there are 29 CAPABLE programs in 15 states. Some are offered by private insurance Medicare Advantage plans, like the one that Givens has. Others are run by Meals on Wheels, Habitat for Humanity or local aging organizations. In most programs, an occupational therapist and a nurse make home visits over four months. Depending on the patient's goals, they figure out what home improvements are needed. Szanton says that while the programs differ slightly from place to place, studies show that CAPABLE makes a difference. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/777826691/program-offers-tlc-to-older-adults-and-their-homes-so-they-can-stay-put This is probably the start of finding no viable COA type program in St.Cloud, then investigation at the Orange City Wava Hall...
2019apr24. The way many of us think about weight loss is totally counterproductive. Focus on healthy habits you can sustain instead of the numbers on the scale. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717059239/a-saner-mindset-for-weight-loss
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2023apr26. Moved 13165.photoslibrary to iDrive = got cloud icon w/slash indicating not allowed :. will use Air(2) as external device. BUT
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You can move your entire iPhoto Library to a new computer, an external hard drive or another location on your computer. If you want to move your iPhoto Library to a new computer, then first you need to move your iPhoto Library to an external hard drive and then from an external hard drive to a new computer.Jun 14, 2022
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Moved “Beyond Photos” from iCloud Drive mistake. 8pm.
Moving “not allowed icon file” taking forever = try overnight run
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