Levy Rivers (oldude59)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I'm what my handle states - an Oldude. The problem with this acknowledgment is my thinking and ambitions have not quite got the message of my "oldness". My practice is focused on building reputation for leaders and organizations and my rant is about how to improve long term happiness.

I am interested in reputation,strategist,maven,leader,organizational coach,leadership development,social networking,social networking tools,spiritual development,race,postmodern,critique. My favorite music are Doo Bop - Miles Davis
Common - Common
Ahmad Jamal - But Not For Me,Charles Lloyd - Forrest Flower,Jazz at the Pawnshop,Dakota Staton - The late late show,Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage,John Coltrane - Blue Train,Nikki Giovanni - Truth is on its way,Weather Report - Heavy Weather,Derek and the Dominos - Layla,Dave Douglas - Keystone,Norah Jones - come away with me,Joe Sample & Lahah Hathway The Song Lives On,Tied + Tickled Trio - electric avenue tapes,Bobby Mcferrin - The Voice,Kurt Elling - This Time It's Love & Man In the Air. Movies: What the Bleep do we know,Waking Life,Three Days of Condor,Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex,Steamboy,Serenity,Loveactually,i humkabees,Don Juan Demarco,Being There,Three Kings,Fallen,Man on Fire,Blade Runner,Batman Begins,Romeo + Juliet,A Midsummer Night's Dream,Baron Munchasen,Absolutely Fabulous,Akira,Ghost in the Shell 2: innocence. TV: Rescue Me,Trueblood,Calfornication,Heroes,Daily Show,Entourage,NBA. Books: Walker's Appeal & Garnet Address,Thus Spoke Zarathustra,Stupidity,After Virtue,The History of Sexuality,Language Counter Memory Practice,Faces at the bottom of the well,The Colossus of New York,The Dying Animal,Ravelstein,The Transparent Society,Race and the Education of desire,The Concise book of lying,Wickedness-A philosophical essay,A Rhetoric of Irony,Ethics and the rule of law,Hegemony & Socialist Strategy,Exit-Voice-and Loyalty,Design Thinking. My Heros are Malcolm X,Cornell West.

I use Diigo because My use of Diigo is to assemble material to be shared with my readers and friends.

Member since Feb 28, 2008, follows 30 people, 15 public groups, 497 public bookmarks (537 total).

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Benefits of a Marijuana vaporizer on 2012-05-24
- Cannabis with high levels of both THC and CBD will create a strong energetic high where low levels of THC and high levels of CBD will be more of a body, sleepy stone.
- Cannabis indica has higher amounts of CBD and lower amounts of THC than sativa.
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- - THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin) is found primarily in strains from African and Asian cannabis. The THCV may increase the speed and intensity of THC effects, but the high may tend to end sooner. Cannabis that has a potent smell before smoking may indicate a high level of THCV.
    
    CBC (Cannabichromene) seems not to be psychoactive in its purest form but is thought to interact with THC to enhance the high.
    
    CBL (Cannabicyclol) is created when the cannabis breaks down just like CBN. Light will convert CBC to CBL.
  - highly accurate K-Type thermometers we noted that vaporization is most effective at around 338 °F (170 °C) with a vaporization temperature over 392 °F (200 °C) simply burning your medical marijuana and creating unwanted smoke.
  - Vaporizers have become better built in the last couple of decades and now most of the top models use ceramic based heat elements. Ceramic is an inert compound which when heated does not give of any unwanted gases. The best ceramic heat elements include alumina ceramic as the method of creating heat. Alumina ceramic has a similar crystal structure to sapphire and ruby after the sintering process.
What's the Message for Marketing in Facebook's IPO Slide? | CMO Strategy - Advertising Age on 2012-05-23
- Facebook's sole function is engagement. It connects people with one another. Its $3 billion in revenue and $1 billion profit come from advertisers who believe that there must be ways for brands to profit from that engagement. They don't know how to do it yet. The two hypotheses they're testing are putting ads around it, and trying to actually host some of it via branded pages interspersed with people pages. There's no evidence that either yields much beyond nice-to-have benefit, and some experimenters (most recently GM) have given up trying, for now. Again, since Facebook makes money either way, I'd take a small piece of such failure and consider my life's work a success.
  
  But the bet on the inherent value of engagement is still a bet, and at $38 a share times however many zillions of shares got floated on the market, it's a huge one.
Neuromarketing | The Persuaders | FRONTLINE | PBS on 2012-05-23
- Neuromarketing, in one form or another, is now one of the hottest new tools of its trade. At the most basic levels, companies are starting to sift through the piles of psychological literature that have been steadily growing since the 1990s' boom in brain-imaging technology. Surprisingly few businesses have kept tabs on the studies - until now. "Most marketers don't take a single class in psychology. A lot of the current communications projects we see are based on research from the '70s," says Justine Meaux, a scientist at Atlanta's BrightHouse Neurostrategies Group, one of the first and largest neurosciences consulting firms. "Especially in these early years, it's about teaching people the basics. What we end up doing is educating people about some false assumptions about how the brain works."
- aimler-Chrysler has found that sportier models activate the brain's reward centers -- the same areas that light up in response to alcohol and drugs -- as well as activating the area in the brain that recognizes faces, which may explain people's tendency to anthropomorphize their cars.
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- - Ruskin might be consoled by the fact that many neuromarketers still don't know how to apply their findings. Increased activity in the brain doesn't necessarily mean increased preference for a product.
LARA - Frequently Asked Questions on 2012-05-22
- Can patients form growing cooperatives?
  Answer: The law does not address this. Consult with your local law enforcement officer or personal attorney.
- How do I become a caregiver?
  Answer: The MMMA defines a "Primary Caregiver" as a person who is at least 21 years old and who has agreed to assist with a patient's medical use of marihuana and who has never been convicted of a felony involving illegal drugs. Therefore, the qualifying patient (applicant or registrant) and you must complete a "Caregiver Attestation" to be submitted by the qualifying patient.
AlleyDog.com - psychology students' best friend on 2012-05-10
About Barb Girson | My Sales Tactics on 2012-05-09
- She started to positively impact her growth and results when she realized the importance of tactical training and building stronger relationships. She developed successful systems and built her schedule to an average of 7-10 personal parties weekly. She maintained that schedule and top sales consistently for several years. She had become so booked that she shared the overflow of parties with the large team she recruited!
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? on 2012-05-07
THC Prevents MDMA Neurotoxicity in Mice on 2012-05-07
- HC, the main psychoactive compound of cannabis, produces hypothermic, anti-inflammatory an
- THC, the main psychoactive compound of cannabis, produces hypothermic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Therefore, THC may have a neuroprotective effect against MDMA-induced neurotoxicity.
Why Your Brain Isn't A Computer - Forbes on 2012-05-06
- The computational theory of mind, in essence, says that your brain works like a computer. That is, it takes input from the outside world, then performs algorithms to produce output in the form of mental state or action. In other words, it claims that the brain is an information processor where your mind is “software” that runs on the “hardware” of the brain.
- By contrast, a truly non-dualistic theory of mind has to state what is clearly obvious: your mind and your brain are identical. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that an artificial human brain is impossible – it’s just that programming such a thing would be much more akin to embedded systems programming rather than computer programming
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- - For one thing, the brain itself isn’t structured like a Turing machine. It’s a parallel processing network of neural nodes – but not just any network. It’s a plastic neural network that can in some ways be actively changed through influences by will or environment.
  - Cognitive dissonance is the ability of the mind to believe what it wants even in the face of opposing evidence. Confirmation bias is the ability of the mind to seek out evidence that conforms to its own theories and simply gloss over or completely ignore contradictory evidence.
The brain’s silent majority - 2009 FALL - Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford University School of Medicine on 2012-05-06
- Unlike their flashier electronic cousins, glia speak in chemical whispers. Learning their language has been tougher. As a result, glial cells were long seen as inert nerve cement: just so many packing peanuts whose raison d’être is to keep our neurons from jiggling when we jog.
- Because the placement and relative strengths of the brain’s 100-trillion-plus synapses are so intimately associated with what defines us — learning, thinking, feeling, remembering and forgetting — in a strictly material sense one could say the soul resides in the synapses.

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