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>endings stimulated in the particular area of the cochlear hairs. |
>Sound that stimulates hairs in the entrance of the cochlea is |
>perceived as higher-pitched than sound that stimulates hairs in the |
>back the the cochlea because that is what our brains interpret it as. |
Exactly but not so much because of their position but because of the |
dynamics of the basilar membrane. It is narrower at the base, wider |
at the apex and that won't change if the mechanical signal is injected |
at the other end. |
>Information from nerve-endings in the front of the cochlea activate a |
>different portion of the auditory cortex and thus produce a different |
>pitch perception than information from nerve-endings in the rear of |
>the cochlea. |
>The sound itself has little to do with pitch perception. It is the |
>nervous system from the inner ear to the brain which is most |
I think you are right but somewhat simplistic in that the perception |
has, through experience, become coupled with the stimulus. |
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Back in the USSR |
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 |
Those among us who are middle-aged or older will remember a song by the Beatles called “Back to the USSR”. Ever since the minor crisis regarding the Asad regime’s use of chemical weapons, this song has been stuck my head. |
This minor crisis has revealed, emphasized and demonstrated what we wrote about here long ago, which is the weakening of the Western bloc, especially the United States, and the return of the opposing group to the center of international stage under Russian leadership. Putin’s article in the New York Times openly expre... |
The Russian Bloc is based on non-democratic countries that are hostile to the West, whether from a cultural point of view, like China and Syria, or a religious point of view, like Iran. Countries where democracy is limping along like Venezuela and Nicaragua, also join up with Russia, who doesn’t bother them too much ab... |
Today’s anti-democratic glue is apparently better than the glue of Slavic identity that formed the “Warsaw Pact” because it is a world view and a cultural perspective. Back then, membership in the Soviet bloc was forced on the states (for instance, in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet invasion of 1968), while today, states... |
Many countries in the world compare the behavior of the bloc under Russian leadership to the conduct of the West under United States’ leadership and conclude: The United States betrays her friends and abandons them, while Russia is faithful to her friends and defends them. When the world analyzes what the United States... |
On the other hand, the world sees that Russia defends Iran and its nuclear project in the Security Council faithfully, and even supplies its reactors and the means of defending them; Russia is faithful to Asad and supplies him weaponry, ammunition and means of defense necessary for his survival; Russia supplies China w... |
In Economic matters as well, the West appears weak relative to Russia. Since six years ago, the Western economy – Europe and the United States together – has been caught in a structural crisis, not in a recession from which it is relatively easy to emerge. It seems that the unification of currency (the Euro) and produc... |
Regarding the issue of Syrian chemical weapons, the West has seemed like a crumbling and disintegrating body, with no leader and no shared agenda. The British parliament is against war, the French is for it, and the American administration says that it’s getting ready to attack, Congress doesn’t support it, the America... |
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Ukraine changes election rules before key vote |
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July 27, 2010, 6:17 p.m. | Politics — by Reuters |
The new law is likely to boost his party's chances of winning the October 31 regional vote. |
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed a new law on regional elections on Tuesday, his office said, a move that is likely to boost his party's chances of winning the October 31 regional vote. Voters in the former Soviet republic will elect mayors and local councils in October in the first test of Yanukovych's pop... |
Yanukovych's opponents have criticised the new law as a move to give his Regions Party an advantage. |
The bill, in particular, bans political blocs -- widely used by opposition leaders such as Yanukovich's archrival Yulia Tymoshenko -- from running in the regional elections. |
The law also bars parties that have been established less than a year before the election -- ruling out participation by the party of Arseny Yatsenyuk who also competed with Yanukovych in January's presidential vote. The October election will follow unpopular austerity measures introduced by Yanukovych's government to ... |
Anonymous July 27, 2010, 6:37 p.m. |
who could have predicted this would happen? and he promised to be good, fair and just...instead he is worse than ANY of our previous leaders! |
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Anonymous July 28, 2010, 7:05 a.m. |
I do not agree with the author's analyses. The two points he mentioned cannot be seen as restricting voters ‘rights and could improve a bit the muddy Ukrainian political field: the ban on blocks is a good think, it could oblige the registered 528 parties (please someone can check how many were created yesterday?) in Uk... |
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Anonymous July 27, 2010, 8:16 p.m. |
International pressure is needed at this stage to tell the President that there are limits to how election laws can be changed to favour his own side. |
IMF needs to take a standing now at their board meeting in the end of the month, and make final decision on whether they want this autocrat to rule Ukraine and put Ukraine democracy in danger. |
There is no groundings for this new law, apart from political weaponary. Nothing of these changes needed to be done, and he should have concentrated on making proper changes to the election law instead. |
Ukraine people need to take action as well, and make uprising to this anti-democratic move made by their president - Before its too late - wirte your opinions to IMF and let them know your opinion about this, and let them know you do not want more of this in your country. |
Political peace does not mean you should ban oponents from running against you, just to ensure you get power. |
Ukraine is not served with a coalition that only work through power mongering and not democracy. |
Yes, you get things moving in one direction, but that is only 50% of the people and not listening to the rest - that is no respect to your people - at all. |
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Anonymous July 27, 2010, 10:13 p.m. |
This law will improve quality of gov't and make true self-gov't stronger in Ukraine.Only the best run parties will survive. |
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Anonymous July 28, 2010, 7:24 a.m. |
There it is again - another sovok relic who clearly does not understand democracy. |
Eliminating parties and narrowing the field of candidates does NOT improve the quality of government - what you wind up with is a thug like Yanukonvikt as president - and his son in Parliament, for no apparent reason other than someone put him on the "list" for being Yanukonvikt's son. |
Eliminating candidates does NOT improve the quality of government, because many excellent candidates get artificially eliminated by this type of law - which is exactly what Mobster Yanukonvikt and his Donbass Mafia want. |
The quality of government improves when the system of government itself is changed and improved. |
And what's important is NOT "best run parties" - that smacks exactly of loyalty to a party above loyalty to country. Yanukonvikt and his thugs put loyalty to party first - they don't care about Ukraine. |
"Patriotism is supporting your country always. And your government when it deserves to be supported." Mark Twain |
Yanukonvikt and his thugs are not doing anything good for Ukraine at all by these types of shenanigans. |
It's just a bunch of government Mafia sovok relics feeding themselves. |
And lying about it to the people. |
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Anonymous July 28, 2010, 5:49 p.m. |
The POR team have put the economy back on track and restored relations with Russia.Elmer over 500 parties in Ukraine that isn't democracy that is chaos.All the parties needed are POR,OU,Communist,Socialist.The rest should disband. |
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Anonymous July 27, 2010, 10:55 p.m. |
Another fear driven step by PoR... I guess they realize just how little support they actualluy have amongst Ukrainians... Don't believe they would do well without rigging the vote in some way... sound familiar?... |
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Anonymous July 28, 2010, 4:44 a.m. |
Time to start writing to the IMF and government heads such as Obama, Harper and others who are trying to help Ukraine. I know Canada is watching what is going on here and do not like what they see. And Canada has sent a lot of money, medicine and technology to help the country. |
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Proxy Rule Strenghtens Rights Of Big Shareholders |
The SEC has released new proxy rules for publicly held companies. |
The Proxy Rule Status Quo |
Every year, every publicly held company sends out a proxy statement which is a Soviet style ballot to appoint or reappoint the members of its Board of Directors, who are nominated one person for each position, by a committee of the Board of Directors, a process that is generally controlled, directly or indirectly, by t... |
The status quo, which has been criticized in academic circles for decades, has the effect of making almost all boards of publicly held companies self-perpetuating except in cases where a hostile third part acquires a majority of the company in takeover bid. A handful of proxy proposals are brought by shareholders under... |
The "Wall Street Rule" that has followed from this reality is that if you don't like how a company is being managed, that you sell its shares, rather than electing directors who can turn the company around, if you are a small player, or buy the entire company and reform it so that it can be made more profitable, if you... |
Currently, most proxy proposals brought under the current rules are aimed a broad based social reform or ideological points, as part of multi-corporation campaigns launched by activist groups that care more about generating public interest and news coverage than actually winning changes in corporate policies. Only a sm... |
A variety of rules require or prefer that key board of directors level issues be handled entirely, or mostly by "independent directors," but in the current corporate environment, where the CEO has de facto control over board nominations, and shareholders are given no alternatives to vote for on their proxy ballots, the... |
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The new SEC proxy rules provide that: |
1. Any shareholder group with a 3% interest in the company that has been held for three years can put nominations for members of the board of directors on the same ballot that management places its nominations upon. |
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