In Search Of Heroes Spreads Good News About Everyday, Real-Life Heroes Who Deserve Recognition For Their Good Works

That’s not the way to do it because now you are allowing yourself to be emotionally driven by those people outside of you. You’re giving your complete emotional control over to other people and that is not the way to be successful in life.

Yeah, they impact us, but understand that you can have complete control over your emotions, complete control over your focus. You should understand and continue to focus on the center and the azimuths of your life that you can control.

Of course we want people to liking us. It serves our ego and of course, it helps with our identity and different things like that. That’s fine and that’s natural. I’m not saying that it’s not a part of who we are, but you can’t allow it to be a huge part of your life to the point that it’s going to determine how you feel at any given moment.

That if people don’t feel good about you or if they think negatively of you, then you are no longer going to be optimistic, which means that you are no longer going to be driven to get done what it is that you ultimately want to do.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:17 PM | Permalink

Remain optimistic about the big picture. You have to keep that optimism and that has to come internally from within, that fire that burns from within that keeps you driven and that keeps you going on.

Sometimes you are not going to have those cheerleaders on the side that are telling you that you can do it and that are rooting you on.

I think that if we allow much of our identity and our tribe to be attached to those people that are external, that are around us on the outside and what they say, how they look at us, how they feel about us, what they are saying about us behind our backs, if that’s what we’re going to allow to determine if we are going to be optimistic or pessimistic, driven or not driven, motivated or de-motivated or whatever, then you are going to be in huge trouble.

You cannot control what people think about you. You cannot control what people say about you. I mean, you can feel as if, “Well, I can control what people think about you because if I am a good person and I do these great things, then people are going to think great things about me.” Not really.

People perceive the world completely different. You can be a great person, but if you are so annoying to some people, [Laughter] they just think negatively of you and think badly of you regardless of the good things you do.

We have to make sure that when we talk about being optimistic, you are not being optimistic based on what people are thinking about you. It is like, “Well, if I have the public approval or if I have the unanimous approval or the majority approval of my friends and peers, then I’m going to be optimistic and I’m going to be motivated.”

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:16 PM | Permalink

I think one part of being flexible and fluid is remaining optimistic and focused, yet being flexible in how you want to accomplish different things.

I think one of the things that traps us with optimism is that we will be optimistic about the ends and the means. What I mean is that you have this ultimate thing that you want to achieve, whether it is material or otherwise. You’re really optimistic. You know that you can accomplish this so you are setting up to get it.

You’re also optimistic about this very specific method or path or way that you are going to accomplish it. It can be a business opportunity. It can be a very specific relationship. It can be anything, but you are very focused on that. You are optimistic about that one thing.

If anything happens to that and that one thing and it doesn’t work, your life just comes crumbling down. What needs to happen is, remain optimistic and strategically focused on that end result, where it is that you ultimately want to go.

Understand that once you know where it is that you want to head to, once you understand the ends, there are multiple means of getting to this, multiple ways to accomplish what it is that you want to accomplish.

Sure, when you find a way or multiple ways that you are going to use to get there, be fully committed to that. Get to it and get it going.

However, if one of those things doesn’t work out, or if the feedback you are getting is telling you to make some adjustments or make some shifts and do something different, then quickly go ahead and do that.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:16 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: That is sort of like a trial and error experience, isn’t it? How important is it to be an optimist while you are going through all the trial and error?

Stephen Pierce: I think you have to be optimistic. You have to remain driven. You have to get that momentum and then keep that momentum.

We like to tell people, “May the momentum be with you.”

We say that because when you get momentum in your life and you have things going and you have things clicking, that is one of the most important things you can have.

I think part of getting momentum is being optimistic because there is going to be a lot of things that will come and jolt you and take you by surprise. You just have to allow yourself to be prepared with them and be like water.

Be very fluid and be very flexible and be willing to adapt, because change happens so fast. You can’t go through life being rigid.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:16 PM | Permalink

So there’s no need to be shocked and surprised if something goes wrong or something doesn’t go as planned. That’s like par for the course, that’s going to happen.

Instead of being surprised, you should always be prepared to learn from every situation even if you do something right. If you do something right, why did it work? If you did something and it did not work, why didn’t it work?

You should always constantly be asking yourself those kinds of questions. That way you can understand your strengths and your weaknesses as far as yourself goes.

What those strengths are, you want to continue to build on those, and whatever those weaknesses are, you want to minimize them or you want to offset them with some kind of partnership or somebody else in your life some kind of coach, or you want to try to look to strengthen those things up.

The only way you are going to find out what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are is if you take the time to ask the questions based on your experience and these different results you’re getting in your life, both good and bad or even indifferent.

Asking yourself the kinds of questions that will allow you to take a closer look at why things are turning out the way they are turning out.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:15 PM | Permalink

If you don’t understand why you failed, if you will, then you can just keep pressing and doing the exact same thing that’s just never going to work. So you’re just pressing forward and forward and forward with this same pattern of doing things that are not going to work.

Failure sometimes can mean you need to take a different path. Failure may mean try a different approach. Failure may mean you need some assistance. Failure may mean, “You know what? You need to drop this all together.”

I think it is up to us to understand what the message is that is sending to us and extract that wisdom from there and then go ahead and press on. I wouldn’t recommend anybody press on with failure if they don’t understand why something didn’t work out.

One of the best things that can happen to us is to have things not work out and then understand why they don’t work out. That’s what helps us to go forward and kind of create and shape the lives that we ultimately want to have.

Everybody's going to experience failure. I don’t care where you are in your life, you are always going to have challenges. It doesn’t matter how much money you make, what kind of celebrity you have, or what kind of celebrity you are aiming for you are going to always have these challenges.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:15 PM | Permalink

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Posted by ralph at 07:28 AM | Permalink

What is appropriate to say about my mom after she dies and moves on to her great rewards in heaven. It is difficult to honor Winifred Zuranski as one of the major heroes in my life, who inspired me to create the "In Search Of Heroes Program" to encourage children to realize the true heroes are their parents and grandparents.

Words cannot express my gratitude and love. Her continued moral and financial support, encouragement and generosity over the last 60 years for her husband, three children, Denise, Sue and Ralph and three grandchildren, Tess, Tracy and Mikele, was simply amazing. After all, any woman that could stand being a good wife, caring mom and outstanding grandma for so many years deserves to go straight to heaven.

Winifred Zuranski passed away on April 16, 2007 at 5:12 PM. I had the unique opportunity to work with nurse Nancy, one of the dedicated hospice workers, to change her diaper, clean her body with a warm washcloth, and clear her mouth as much as possible of the mucous that streamed from her lungs in a never-ending flow.

Congestive heart failure, in its final stage is not a pretty sight. My mom did everything she could to survive as long as possible, but in the end, 90 years of living produced the final verdict... death by asphyxiation. She was a fighter and never gave up. Even in the end she struggled to take one last breath.

I would've bet dimes to dollars neither my dad or mom would live to see the new year...2007. Both my mom and dad went on hospice, about six months ago, because the doctor realized they were nearing the end of their lives. The emergency room doctors and nurses and hospice workers, chaplains, bath ladies and house cleaners have been a godsend. Their kind and compassionate care for my mom and dad in their final days has been exceptional. Their concern and support for my wife and myself has been priceless. "All the people involved with hospice are saints!!!!!!

Everyone who met Winifred loved her because she was always ready to listen and provide encouragement. She will be remembered by all as one of the special people you met who cheered your day and left you with a warm feeling in your heart.

We will all miss her but know her suffering is ended. Winnie is now in heaven enjoying her new glorified body with no pain or tears. She is waiting there to greet you when you arrive with a welcoming smile and a loving kiss on your cheek.

You are cordially invited to share one last champagne toast and light meal with her loving son Ralph William and beloved spouse Ralph Casmir Zuranski to celebrate her peaceful passing and final report card, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Posted by ralph at 05:08 AM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: You really had a lot of setbacks in your early life. How important is it to take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?

Stephen Pierce: I think it is really important. I think one thing that’s kind of almost like a handicap in learning and understanding life is that when we are taught to learn traditionally, it is almost like we are not permitted to make a mistake.

Making a mistake is wrong. You know, failure equals something that is wrong. It really shouldn’t be that way. Failure equals learning. Setbacks equal learning.

I mean you are supposed to learn from those. I think some of our greatest wisdom comes from not when we win, not when we do things right, but when we do things wrong.

Even when you do something wrong, you have to understand failure because people say, “Well, you know, if you have a setback, you have failure. You have to press, press, press, press, press and be persistent.”

That stuff’s true, but that’s true to a certain extent. If you experience a failure in your life, the thing you need to do is understand why you failed. Understand why it didn’t work. Understand why the outcome you have is the outcome that you have so that you can extract the wisdom, the knowledge, and the understanding from that to go on and improve for the next time out.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:14 PM | Permalink

My mom taught me the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies and how to care for others. She led by example rather than by words.

After interviewing many different heroes, they told me that young people watch the actions of parents and authority figures to see if there is a conflict with their words. Too often the message is, "Don't do as I do but do as I say?" Many parents hate and wage war against their children because the sons and daughters reflect both parents worst and best attributes. The things that bother us most in our kids are our own secret sins that we keep hidden from ourselves but not the rest of the family.

The media of today compounds the problems parents are facing by teaching moral relativism where every person is a god in their own universe. The only sin is being exposed doing something the social elites decide is not in the best interests of their perverted vision of utopia. Too many politicians, business icons and religious leaders have had every aspect of their secret sins exposed to the world in glorious, seedy detail.

With the parsing of the meaning of words, like "what is is", "bigot", "religious fanatic" and the curse of political correctness, is there any wonder that most people are terrified of being sued or excoriated in the media or on the internet if they don't agree with the social elites? When psychologist and psychiatrists are the determiners of sanity, their differing opinions and access to mind-altering drugs dooms many to a living hell of pharmaceutical drug addiction and a pervasive hopelessness.

The terrifying thing is the media continues to promote the idea that accumulating wealth, achieving fame and amassing possessions should be the goal of every person's life.

"Everyone deserves their 15 minutes of fame."

In Virginia Tech Massacre of defenseless students and teachers, Cho realized the easiest and fastest way to become famous is to commit a hideous act...so brutal, vicious, barbaric and extreme that he will be remembered along with the most evil mass murderers in history...Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Jeffrey Dommers, etc. There is no doubt that the envy and hatred of the wealthy that justified Cho's actions has become an epidemic and fashionable.

Class envy and religious intolerance and the hatred of Christianity has been fueled by the diatribes of hate mongers in the media, religious leaders and politicians who seek to divide rather than unite. Many rail against the wealthy who have worked hard to make a life for themselves and their families while they live in luxury, to enlightened to suffer under the burden they willingly and joyfully place on the unwashed and ignorant masses.

They know that a divided nation and world at war against itself is weak and eventually collapses. The evil ones believe they will dominate the world because they are willing to commit the most heinous crimes and secret abominations. To them, the end always justifies the means...no matter who and how many are injured. They long ago disposed of ethics and morality into the dung, insect infested trash heap of broken promises created by all the self-centered and self-seeking individuals before them.

Sadly, these evil people temporarily rise to power because most good men and women are apathetic. They recognize the problems but do nothing to stem the flood of hatred, envy, jealousy, bigotry, lust, greed and all the other life destroying emotions. They forget the crimes and debaucheries of the past and are fated to re-experience the catastrophes of other failed civilizations.

Unfortunately, the media reporters and producers seem energized, overjoyed at every opportunity to scrutinize and dissect every minute part of any tragedy. The Virginia Tech human catastrophe is just one more media feeding frenzy that won't end until the next big news story train-wreck arrives.

It appears there is a never ending contest by members of the news media who want to win the ratings wars by unleashing the most horrific and perverse details of every insidious and hideous act. Why is it that the media believes the only way to increase their viewership and bottom line profits is to focus on disasters, human tragedy, anger, hatred and perversion? Their motto seems to be, "If it bleeds, it leads!"

The media seems to revel in the perverse aspects of human nature. They are thrilled and excited by the evilness of the human mind.

Why has their view of the world turned apocalyptic? Don't they realize their focus on what is wrong with the world causes even worse things to happen?

Napoleon Hill said, What we think about becomes our reality!"

Their choice to publicize death, misery, terror, corruption, greed, and destruction fuels the very unhealthy emotions and desires they hope to eradicate. Don't they realize when they promote "social and moral relativism" without any absolutes of right and wrong, individuals like Cho Seun-Hui are the fruits of their labor.

The only hope we have as a society is to create a grassroots movement that focuses on the "good things people do" rather than the bad. It takes 10 times as much good news to counter bad news.

It is high time moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas banned together to create mastermind groups that work in harmony to solve their own problems. If we don't, our world as we know it is lost and there is little or no hope for a better world for our children.

To be continued...

Posted by ralph at 10:24 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: Yes.

Stephen Pierce: So, yes. The people that we allow in our lives and not just the people we allow in our lives, but the other things we allow to influence us. What we watch on TV, what we listen to by the way of music and different things like that.

I’m not trying to say that music is an evil thing or television is an evil thing, but those things impact us, how we think, what we think about all the time.

The things that we have just flooding our minds throughout the day, the things that we start to think about and daydream about, they start to influence our actions and our judgments and all these different things and our emotions. Ultimately they impact our results.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:14 PM | Permalink

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Posted by ralph at 07:27 AM | Permalink

"The Love Of A Mother Triumphs Over the Virginia Tech Student Massacre by the Deranged, Cho Seun-Hui" by Ralph Zuranski

Isn't it ironic that on the day my mom peacefully passed from this world into the next, the miracles we experienced that day helped my entire family to think positive and glorious thoughts about the wonderful times we had together. Laughter filled the kitchen as we remembered the wonderful and funny times we shared with my mom, as I cooked up her favorite meal...fresh salmon and asparagus with garlic simmered in virgin olive oil.

We as a family had to consciously make the choice to not focus on or even discuss the horrible evil that startled and shocked the world. Even still, our brainwashing from the TV is so strong, bits and pieces still penetrated our conversation like a deathly blow to the happiness celebrating my mom's life and our gratitude for the ending of her 3 long years of suffering.

Often, it is so easy to become depressed, confused and hopless if we focus on the negative rather than the positive. Evil and negative thoughts occur naturally in the human mind.

You have to choose to be grateful before you can realize the good things in your life. Lovingly helping others without any expectation of return is a great way to see the good things in life and experience the joy created by serving others.

Being positive in the world today is difficult. If you watch TV, read newspapers or magazines and listen to radio talk shows you know what I mean. We are constantly being bombarded by the negative events that are occurring worldwide 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Yes, the massacre of the students at Virginia Tech by the mentally ill, Cho Seun-Hui was definitely a horrible tragedy. Hundreds of people, especially the families of the murdered and injured students and teachers, were devastated by the unconscionable acts of one evil, sick person. The consequences are awful and will last a life-time.

After such a tragedy, it is extremely hard to find the silver lining in the darkest clouds of suffering and pain. Grieving is an important part of the healing process when a loved one dies.

I know there are many people who are asking, "Why would God let such a terrible thing happen?"

The only answer I know is that God uses pain and suffering to help us grow as people, to become more unselfish and self-sacrificing...to have greater faith in His wisdom rather than our own. After taking care of my mom and dad for three years, I know how painful it can be to see the people you love suffer terribly and die unexpectedly.

After experiencing so many near death experiences with my parents, my conclusion is clear. Only God decides how long someone lives and the moment they die.

After being with my parents when they are sick, tired and depressed for so many years, I believe sudden death is a blessing for many and a sad but character building experience for those left behind. When someone you know dies, everyone is affected. It is your choice on how your react and your daily attitude...happy or sad, angry or peaceful, joyful or depressed, bitter or resigned.

Personally, my parents' suffering transformed me into a kinder, gentle and more compassionate person. My epiphany was when I suddenly realized the most precious gifts in life are people. Our goal should be to make their lives better not worse, more joyful not sad, blessed not cursed. It is our individual choice on whether we are a part of the solution or the source of the problem.

After interviewing so many heroes, I now realize that most of them had to go through failure, sorrow and despair over and over again until they learned the hard lessons necessary to achieve their levels of success and happiness. Money, material possessions, alcohol, drugs are not the source of happiness. They have their places in life but taken to the extreme or used illegally are killers of life, relationships and happiness.

The key is to never give up. Don't let anyone steal your dream. Every day do one thing that gets you closer to your goals...no matter how small or big.

To be continued...

Posted by ralph at 05:40 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: So you really think that the people you hang around with have a big impact on your life?

Stephen Pierce: Oh, absolutely. We like to look at it like the third influence. If you look at what you need to create water, you have two hydrogen molecules right? If you add what to it you have water? You add oxygen, right? You’ll have water, but if you add sulfur you are going to have something completely different.

Ralph Zuranski: That’s true.

Stephen Pierce: You are going to have what is called a stinky gas. If you look at that and you look at you and what you ultimately want to become, being those two hydrogen molecules and I know that I’m simplifying this. Those who are probably really good at biology or science or whatever, they would probably be able to give you more details on the whole process. I’m just simplifying it.

Look at you and where you ultimately want to go with these two hydrogen molecules. Let’s just say that what you ultimately want to become in life is water. That means you cannot have any wrong influences in the sense of anything other than what is required for you to get to where you want to go. Something other than oxygen is not going to get you to become water, right?

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:13 PM | Permalink

To get to those points there are certain tests that you have to take. I started to look at this. In my life I started to change my perspective. I started to look at different analogies.

For example, the purpose of fire to gold; fire is there to purify gold. I started to look at that and look at the different things that started to happen to me.

I got on this path. I said, “You know what? I’m going to try to start a business.”

I tried to start some businesses but they just didn’t really work out. Like 12 different businesses that I was looking to get into completely failed. But it wasn’t that bad.

In the beginning it was horrible, because I just didn’t understand, “Well, what in the world was going on?”

Then I kind of got it. I got it and I understood that nobody in life sets out to go into business and says, “I want this thing to be a complete failure.” But it’s going to happen because that is just how life is.

You are going to have these things, but it just moves you closer to where you ultimately want to go. From that experience you gain certain wisdom, certain knowledge and certain understanding that you are not going to be able gain otherwise.

You aren’t going to get it from books. You aren’t going to be able to get it from a coach. You aren’t going to be able to get it through any other means except that hands on experience which makes you sharper and prepares you for that next level and that next venture that you are going to pursue.

I started to understand that these different things that were beating up against my life were more like the fire that was there to purify the gold, or the pressure on the rocks that bring forth the diamonds, or those strong winds that beat against the trees that makes for the strongest trees and the strongest lumber.

I started to get this better understanding of how to look at the different things in my life that were pretty painful at one point. It wasn’t like it was easy, it just got easier to deal with.

I developed a little bit more enthusiasm because I understood what it was all starting to come together and mean. That is a long answer to your question. It was an extended period of time, it wasn’t just this one moment.

But I think it was probably like two and a half, three years of being at an extreme low, trying to figure out what to do, taking stuff to a pawn shop. I was homeless for like three months. I mean, it was pretty rough.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:13 PM | Permalink

What is appropriate to say about my mom after she dies and moves on to her great rewards in heaven. It is difficult to honor Winifred Zuranski as one of the major heroes in my life, who inspired me to create the "In Search Of Heroes Program" to encourage children to realize the true heroes are their parents and grandlparents.

Words cannot express my gratitude and love. Her continued moral and financial support, encouragement and generosity over the last 60 years for her husband, three children, Denise, Sue and Ralph and three grandchildren, Tess, Tracy and Mikele, was simply amazing. After all, any woman that could stand being a good wife, caring mom and outstanding grandma for so many years deserves to go straight to heaven.

Winifred Zuranski passed away on April 16, 2007 at 5:12 PM. I had the unique opportunity to work with nurse Nancy, one of the dedicated hospice workers, to change her diaper, clean her body with a warm washcloth, and clear her mouth as much as possible of the mucous that streamed from her lungs in a never-ending flow. Congestive heart failure, in its final stage is not a pretty sight. My mom did everything she could to survive as long as possible, but in the end, 90 years of living produced the final verdict... death by asphyxiation. She was a fighter and never gave up. Even in the end she struggled to take one last breath.

I appreciate everything that the doctors, nurses, paramedics and hospice workers did for my mom and continue to do for my dad.As many of you know, I've been taking care of both my mom and dad for almost 3 years. They suffered catastrophic illnesses within three months of each other. In March of 2004, my mom suffered from congestive heart failure and pneumonia at the same time. She could not believe that this had happened to her. It was a cruel twist of fate.

My dad did the best he could to take care of her but three months later on May 23, 2004 while I was in Austin, photographing and running the PowerPoint presentations at the "Ted Nicholas Copywriting Seminar," my dad had a stroke that partially paralyzed his left side and swallowing mechanism. It was a huge decision to put the "In Search Of Heroes Program" on hold.

Sometimes, the promise you make when you're younger to take care of your folks when they get older and cannot take care of themselves involves more responsibility and self-sacrifice than you ever imagined. It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made in my entire life to move back to San Diego with my wife Janet to take care of mom and dad 24 hours a day seven days a week. After all, I wouldn't be a very good son or role model for the "In Search of Heroes Program" if I did not follow through on my word.

Over the last three years, both my mom and dad have suffered one catastrophic event after another. I believe there is something seriously wrong with a health care system that prolongs life with drugs, surgery and other forms of therapy that sacrifice the quality of life for quantity.

What reason is there to live if all the activities you love are eliminated one after another, along the pathway to total dependence on others? How much pain does a person need to endure to take one labored breath after another, trapped inside your home, if your have a caring family, or sentenced to a slow agonizing death in an assisted nursing care facility?

I used to think that when a person dropped dead, it was such a tragedy. Now I truly believe that when you die in your sleep, it is a great blessing, not only for that person, but for the family as well.

I would've bet dimes to dollars neither my dad or mom would live to see the new year...2007. Both my mom and dad went on hospice, about six months ago, because the doctor realized they were nearing the end of their lives. The emergency room doctors and nurses and hospice workers, chaplains, bath ladies and house cleaners have been a godsend. Their kind and compassionate care for my mom and dad in their final days has been exceptional. Their concern and support for my wife and myself has been priceless. "All the people involved with hospice are saints!!!!!!

But, everything was not so rosey from the beginning. After 30 years of professional health research, I cannot tell you how frustrated and disappointed I was when my parents decided to follow the conventional medical pathway. My mom was a old-time nurse who firmly believed in the medical establishment of her day.

I believe things could have been so different and the quality of life so much better if simple natural health therapies were included during their lifetimes. Many of the Health Heroes that I have interviewed could have helped my parents with their valuable therapies.

But, it was my parents' right to choose how they would live during their final days, after the catastrophic illnesses damaged their lives. An important part of being a kind and compassionate child is to give your parents the freedom of choice. They deserve dignity and respect to their dying day.

If you are in a similar situation or expecting to be so in the days to come, you may benefit from the secrets we have learned over the last three years. If you are a part of the "Babyboomer" generation, you will be facing taking care of your parents and maybe even your grandkids or adult children in the near future...usually without any warning.

I have to admit, we have learned a lot from our mistakes. There are many things I wish I would have known at the beginning that I know now. Ignorance is not bliss when you are taking care of one or both ill parents. It is possible to make your life and that of your parents as long and as enjoyable as possible if you learn from our experiences.

Every person can inprove the quality of their life and protect their finances if they learn the secrets we discovered that keep you healthy, happy and productive while you do the same for your loved ones.

To be continued...

Posted by ralph at 10:41 PM | Permalink

When I was reading Think and Grow Rich, I was looking at how all these other people kind of had a great deal of failure in their life before they experienced success.

I started to think, “You know what? Maybe everything that I’ve gone through that is bad is not this huge signal or this huge sign that is kind of like letting me know that you’re destined to be a failure. But that it is something that is normal and I just need to figure out what success actually looks like.” Not just,” What do I ultimately want to become, not just what do I ultimately want to achieve?” which was important but in getting there, “What is this going to actually look like?”

I think many times in our lives we set up, “I want to accomplish this. I want to do this and I want to do that.”

So we kind of have this inner result in mind. We know where we want to go, but we don’t get there because we don’t understand what that road looks like. We don’t understand what it is supposed to look like to get to where it is we ultimately want to be.

We don’t know what the experience is going to be like. So when these winds start coming and beating up against our houses and these fires start to come into our lives, all this adversity, people will look at it as an omen or a sign from God that, “You’re not supposed to be doing this.”

Or something that’s saying, “You’re beating up the wrong tree,” or something. In actuality, being that I haven’t graduated from school, I haven’t taken that many tests, but I know that for somebody to get a degree in anything there is a large amount of tests that they have to take before they can graduate.

In life it is pretty much the same thing. Before you can move vertically to that next level in life, where you want to go and ultimately reach those dreams and goals and that level of fulfillment that you may define in material senses as far as cars, houses, money and whatever.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:13 PM | Permalink

It just got really, really bad. I still remember that because it was more so a violent thing because I ended up fighting a bunch of the lifeguards that were on duty at a swimming pool. They had the pool pass and that’s how they knew that I was one of the people. Some of the other guys that were equally involved they kind of got off and got away with it.

But I think all these things come to kind of accumulated to a low point being in my life. Being not just one specific moment, but this extended moment where it wasn’t just a day or days or weeks.

It was more like months where I was just going through this process of trying to figure out what in the world am I going to do with my life. I think one of the turning points was when I really started to wake up was after I got shot.

It was at the Moses H. Cone Hospital out in Greensboro, North Carolina because that’s where I ended up getting shot at. I was sitting there thinking, “You know what? I could be dead right now. I could be sitting over there and lying in the morgue on a cold slab as opposed to up here in a hospital about to get released in about a week or so.”

After being discharged from the hospital my dad, one of the reverends from the church I was going to and my brother drove down to get me. I had some time to reflect to try to figure out, “What is it I want to do with my life?”

I had some people that were telling me, “You know what? You are brilliant but you are using your brilliance for evil, if you will. You are doing things that are hurting people. You are doing things that are hurting yourself and people are just wondering if you are wanting to live to see 19 or 20 years old.”

I was living life fast. I was running down the wrong streets and running with the wrong crowds. I didn’t have a sense of direction for myself and I was kind of following people who obviously didn’t have a sense of direction for themselves, because they were just following other people and it all led to these negative things.

I got into reading the Bible and then I got into reading other books like Think and Grow Rich, Success through a Positive Mental Attitude and those kinds of books. I started to think a little bit differently about what is possible.

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:09 PM | Permalink

48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 10:26 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski:Wow!

Stephen Pierce:That was devastating to me.

For me it was a huge mental battle and an emotional battle because I tried to find some kind of reference point that I could look at and say, “You know what, that is not true because I did this good. I did that good.”

I’m sure there were some little moments in my life up to that point where that was so, but all these big things just hit me like a hurricane.

In my brain it was almost like, “You know, you’re right. All these different things that I did were complete failures. I’m nothing but trouble.”

I got our family evicted when we were young because I was just causing trouble in the neighborhood. You know it is pretty bad when they say, “Listen you’re evicted, not because you are not paying your rent, but we are tired of that tyrant of a kid that you have. You guys gotta go!”

Ralph:Wow!

"Listen to Stephen Pierce's In Seach of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 01:08 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: Hi this is Ralph Zuranski. I’m on the phone with Stephen Pierce, one of the most successful Internet marketers on the Internet today.

Stephen is a classical rags-to-riches story. He used to be a gang member and actually got shot. I think he still carries around part of the bullet in his leg. It’s incredible just how successful he has become.

He is actually a consultant now for many of the big Fortune 500 Companies. He has his own creativity and innovation facility where they actually train individuals. He’s been a speaker at too many seminars to mention.

I first saw him at the Big Seminar and was very impressed with his story. How are you doing today, Stephen?

Stephen Pierce's Brain University

Zapping sleepers' brains boosts memory

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.

A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students'
performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%.
The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.

Jan Born at the University of Luebeck in Germany, and colleagues, recruited 13 healthy medical students for the study and gave them a list of word associations, such as "bird" and "air", to learn late in the evening. Afterwards, researchers placed two electrodes on the forehead and one behind each ear of the volunteers and let them sleep.

The students' various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born's team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes.

The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.

The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.

Nerve firing

Born believes this memory boost was due to the pattern of the applied current mimicking that seen in naturally occurring deep sleep, where memory consolidation is thought to take place.

Strong brain currents in this stage of sleep probably cause more intense nerve firing, he says, which might enhance activity in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus.

Some researchers are skeptical of Born's "mimicking deep sleep" theory, however. Felipe Fregni at the Harvard Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Boston, US, says that he and other scientists have shown that brain stimulation with non-sleep-type currents can produce similar memory enhancements.

Potential side effects

There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.

"It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury," says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.

Healthy people might eventually try using this approach to maximize their brainpower, Herrera says:
"I think every single medical student in the country might want to plug into this type of device at home or in the dorm."

But he stresses that applying electrical currents to the brain might have unwanted side effects.

Born also says he would be "a little hesitant" to regularly use brain stimulation during sleep to boost
memory: "In the end we don't know if there are adverse side effects that we just don't recognize at the moment."

Posted by ralph at 12:55 PM | Permalink

48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 07:25 AM | Permalink

48. If someone lies to you once, he'll lie to you a thousand times. Lying is for thieves and cowards.

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 07:24 AM | Permalink

47. The right thing is usually not the easy thing to do. You may sacrifice popularity for rightness, but you'll lose self-esteem for wrongness. Don't be afraid to say "no".

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 10:23 PM | Permalink

46. First impressions are lasting impressions. Put your best foot forward. People treat you like you teach them to treat you. A success key is positioning yourself at the top of their agenda.

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institu