Thursday
Wednesday
Fringe (season 3)
The third season started out well but really struggled to keep the interest as the season reached its climax. Although Fringe pitches itself as the being the successor to The X-Files, it is worth noting that The X-Files managed to produce 8 good seasons, whereas Fringe was axed after 4 1/2.
Tuesday
Monday
Water for Elephants
Watching the elephant getting stabbed by the circus ringmaster was a bit too much for us. As a vegetarian, you just can't sit and watch even simulated animal abuse.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/water-elephants-elephant-was-abused-186634
Sunday
Game of Shadows
The latest Sherlock Holmes movie was a rather shabby effort. Guy Ritchie's re-imagining of the character worked reasonably well in the first movie, but this sequel lacked any real focus. It reminded me of one of the later Clouseau movies.
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Clouseau began life as a cameo in The Pink Panther and then as a fully-fledged character in A Shot in the Dark. A Shot in the Dark featured Clouseau at his best. The gags were fresh and well-timed. Subsequent films became increasingly poor in standards and quality and truly set the benchmark for what typically happens to sequels.
Faster, bigger, funnier may appeal to many people, but how about 'different'? A sequel doesn't need to be bigger. It can be better just by being imaginative and intriguing.
Sherlock Holmes was always about mystery and problem-solving. Ritchie's Holmes is more like a spy than a detective. This is a Sherlock Holmes action movie. I prefer the gravity and acumen of Basil Rathbone.
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Saturday
Key categories of cognitive skills
To define cognitive skills, it's important to know that they include a
wide variety of abilities. These abilities are necessary for analyzing
sounds and images, recalling information, making associations between
different pieces of information, and maintaining focus on a given task.
Here are the core areas of cognitive skills:
From: http://www.learningrx.com/cognitive-definition-faq.htm
Hubby scores very high in all 7 areas. No surprise?
Here are the core areas of cognitive skills:
- Processing Speed: This is the speed at which your
brain processes information. Faster processing speed means more
efficient thinking and learning.
- Auditory Processing: This is the ability to
analyze, blend and segment sounds. It's also known as phonemic
awareness. Surprisingly, auditory processing is crucial not just for
speaking, but also for reading and spelling. This is because when you
read, you need to be able to identify the individual and blended sounds
that make each word unique and recognizable.
- Visual Processing: This is the ability to perceive,
analyze and think in visual images. Visual processing is imperative for
reading, remembering, walking, driving, playing sports and literally
thousands of other tasks you do every day.
- Long-Term Memory: This is the "library" of facts and knowledge you have accumulated in the past.
- Short-Term Memory: Also called working memory, this
skill handles the dynamic job of keeping at the forefront of your mind
the information you need to complete immediate and short-term tasks.
- Logic and Reasoning: This is the ability to reason,
form concepts, and solve problems using unfamiliar information or new
procedures. It enables you to create correlations, solve problems, plan
ahead and draw conclusions.
- Attention Skills: There are three types of attention skills. Sustained Attention is the ability to stay focused and on-task for a period of time. Selective Attention is the ability to quickly sort through incoming information and stay focused on one thing in spite of distractions. Divided Attention is the ability to multi-task.
From: http://www.learningrx.com/cognitive-definition-faq.htm
Hubby scores very high in all 7 areas. No surprise?
Thursday
Raise your hand if you need a faster, smarter brain.
A simple way to define cognitive skills is to describe them as the
underlying brain skills that make it possible for us to think, remember
and learn. These are the skills that allow us to process the huge influx
of information we receive each and every day at work, at school and in
life.
If your cognitive skills aren't up to speed, no matter what kind of
information you try to grasp—or how many times you try to grasp it—the
process can feel sluggish and slow.
This is why brain training and tutoring are so completely different. Tutoring re-teaches information you didn't quite grasp the first time around. This is fine if the reason the information didn't "stick" was because the information was presented poorly. But 80% of all learning struggles aren't due to poorly taught information—they are the result of one or more cognitive skills weaknesses. If the reason you didn't grasp the information the first time around is because of a processing weakness in your brain, you don't need to be re-taught the information.
You need to upgrade your brain.Brain training rewires the brain so that it can function faster and more efficiently than ever before. This makes thinking, learning, and processing information easier than ever before.
This is why brain training and tutoring are so completely different. Tutoring re-teaches information you didn't quite grasp the first time around. This is fine if the reason the information didn't "stick" was because the information was presented poorly. But 80% of all learning struggles aren't due to poorly taught information—they are the result of one or more cognitive skills weaknesses. If the reason you didn't grasp the information the first time around is because of a processing weakness in your brain, you don't need to be re-taught the information.
You need to upgrade your brain.Brain training rewires the brain so that it can function faster and more efficiently than ever before. This makes thinking, learning, and processing information easier than ever before.
Wednesday
Cognitive Skills: What are they?
Who hasn't had the frustrating experience of trying to run the latest
software on an outdated computer? Or asking a computer with a small
processor or insufficient memory to handle several complex tasks at
once?
In order to handle information and tasks with ease, a computer needs the
right hardware and underlying systems (think processor, RAM and hard
drive).
If these underlying systems aren't up to speed, it doesn't matter what cool programs or impressive data you load into the computer: Everything's going to run slowly.
Cognitive skills serve your brain in the very same way.
If these underlying systems aren't up to speed, it doesn't matter what cool programs or impressive data you load into the computer: Everything's going to run slowly.
Cognitive skills serve your brain in the very same way.
Beyond fashion
Hubby doesn't follow fashion at all.
Here's what happens instead... he gets a idea in his head about something he wants, and then scours the web to see if it exists. This is the only time he goes on the pc apart from work.
He's really good at finding things too. Typically, he locates the item. It exists. And its made in Japan, America or Australia and virtually impossible to get hold of/or outlandishly expensive! And therefore not an option.
Here's what happens instead... he gets a idea in his head about something he wants, and then scours the web to see if it exists. This is the only time he goes on the pc apart from work.
He's really good at finding things too. Typically, he locates the item. It exists. And its made in Japan, America or Australia and virtually impossible to get hold of/or outlandishly expensive! And therefore not an option.
Dyed hair
Old women often dye their hair blond in order to suggest the illusion of youth, whilst some young women like to dye their hair grey because it's a fashion of sorts (for them).
In neither case does the effect really work.
Young-coloured hair on an old woman is what it is - young hair on old. It looks silly and undignified. And as for young women dyeing their hair grey... I just can't imagine what that is all about.
In neither case does the effect really work.
Young-coloured hair on an old woman is what it is - young hair on old. It looks silly and undignified. And as for young women dyeing their hair grey... I just can't imagine what that is all about.
Tuesday
Monday
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