"Smoking for Me"

I have to say that I do enjoy my cigarettes. I've been smoking for about 4 years now and I have grown an adaptation (I believe that is the right word) to the smoking smell. Now I've always been told that smoking is bad for your health. HOWEVER, I wasn't aware of the effect of smoking on my taste buds. So... I thought I would enlighten my readers with why this is...

Christopher Hatton wrote an article on this discovery. It has been said that smoking cigarettes have been linked to losing weight. This is due to the smoking technique and the actual nicotine that makes food less desirable. Christopher Hatton explains that cigarette smoking is not only deadens the taste buds but to the receptors in the nasalephithelium. This is what interferes with senses of smell and taste. There is no evidence that nicotine has the ability to suppress nerve activity in areas of the brain in which is associated with sensation of taste.

Now I suppose I'll go smoke a cigarette.

Memory

A couple days ago…. I had the pleasure of helping my cousin find her boyfriends vehicle she had lost. Let me start from the beginning…

(Phone Conversation)
10:30 p.m.
Sheena calls Cassie

Cassie: Yep…
Sheena: What are you doing?
Cassie: On the phone with my mom. I’ll call you back.
Sheena: Ok… call me at my house. I’m leaving my mom’s here in a second.
Cassie: Ok… bye.
Sheena: Bye.

10:45 p.m.
Sheena calls Cassie

Cassie: Yes.
Sheena: (upset) What do I tell you I was going to do?
Cassie: You said you were going to go back to your house. Obviously you didn’t get far… why are you still at your mom’s house?
Sheena: I don’t remember.
Cassie: What do you mean you don’t remember…
Sheena: Well, once I got off the phone with you… I loaded up the car… I went around my mom’s curve and I don’t remember. I do remember waking up in the middle of the woods crawling on the ground.
Cassie: What happen to the car?
Sheena: I don’t know what happened to the car. I have the keys but I don’t know where the car is.


Apparently, the car had gone into a deep ditch which we recovered. Regardless, what I found interesting what the time lapse she had forgot. The ER had said that her brain was swollen. This was caused by the impact of the steeling wheel to the head. Why did this memory loss occur?

What researchers do know is that the brain stores different types of information in different places. Memories are divided up into three types:
• Immediate memory - which takes a mental snapshot of raw stimuli corresponding to sounds, sights, smells or tastes.
• Short-term memory- where sensory information is organized and co-ordinated. For example, the prior events of the accident had been forgotten because of this short-term memory.
• Long-term memory- which forms a permanent database of memories. For example, Sheena making her way home was stored in the long-term memory.
It’s also possible that she had anterograde amnesia. This is when an individual’s memory of events before the accident is clear. We have to remember that not all memories are treated equally. But because she was able to make it home this didn’t affect her Long-term memory. Long-term memory is rarely affected, but short-term memories, which have not yet been permanently imprinted on our consciousness, are often lost.

Theories of Sound

Theories of Sound

There are two theories of sound that I could find.
1. Medial Theory- construing sounds as properties of the medium in which a sounding object and a hearer are immersed. It was said that frequent vibrations of air shaken in tiny waves move into a certain cartilage of the tympanum in our ear. The more frequent the vibration, the higher the pitch. However, the less frequent the lower it is. The Medial Theory does seem to accurately representing the nature of sounds perceived. Sounds that have a high pitch seem to give off a high frequency which supports this theory. However, It has been revealed that sounds that feel identical to the ear although the corresponding medial properties are different. Over because of revelations this will remain a theory.

2. Distal Theory – There are three varieties of distal account of sounds like Property View, Located Event View, and the Relational Event view. Property View states that sounds are properties of material objects just like colors and shapes. Located Events is sounds that are monadic events happening to material objects. The Relational Event view incorporates some aspects of medial theories. This is when sounds are events in which involve both the source and the surround medium.

Considering that spatial locations for sounds have been discredited this leaves Medical and Distal as just a theory.

- Cassie Hubbard
Theories of Sound

Favorite Sound

My favorite sound would have to be that of the piano.

Skin and Touch... They are connected

The pain was unbelievable. I believe this was the first time I had ever stuck my hand in my straightener. Now it was this particular mornings that time escaped me and I was running late to work. In a rush I had grabbed my straightener to smooth my hair out. However, I grabbed it the wrong way. I put my hand in between the hot plates. Now when I say hot I mean hot. Of course, technically speaking hot is really cold plus warm. Regardless, because we had talked about this Tuesday, I also felt the smooth texture. In response to the blog assignment, skin in connection with touch is described as the following below.

Each of us has touch receptors that are embedded into our skin. These receptors can be found all over the body. Also, these receptors can be found in the mouth, muscles, tendons, and joints. It is in the epidermis and dermis where we will find the receptors in the skin. The receptors in the skin conveys different channels indicating that its warm and smooth. It’s important to know that epidermis is the outermost skin layer. The dermis is the innermost skin layer that consists of nutritive and connective tissues. Of course, this lies in the mechanoreceptors.

In regards to my situation… because of the receptors in my hand I was able to
feel the texture and temperature of the straightener.

- Cassie Hubbard
Skin and Touch connected blog

Red & Blue Flag

The difference in red & blue US flag is primarily in perception. Of course we know the red and blue are based on politics that have been purposely put on the flag. Also, that colors evoke moods. However, is there more to this? The blue in the flag is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It has been said to be an additive primary colors. The red is evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light which is roughly 625–740 nm.

Could it be possibly that the colors red and blue in the flag are more eye drawing considering the colors are on opposite ends of one another.

- Cassie

Cherokee Indian Menu

Cherokee Indian Menu

...SPECIALS...

BEAN BREAD
Consists of cornmeal, flour, baking powder, milk, melted shortening, an egg, honey, and brown beans. This lovely little dish has a nice salty and sweet flavor to it.

GRAPE DUMPLINGS
This delicious sweet dish consists of flour, baking powder, sugar, and our famous grape juice.

FRIED HOMINY
If you looking for a salty and a little sour savory flavor dish... here it is. Delicious bacon cooked with hominy and green onions.


...MAIN DISHES...

GREEN RABBIT
Our delicious Green Rabbit incorporates a savory salty flavor from the green bean casserole as the baked rabbit gives a salty and bland taste.

CRAW GRAVY
This lovely dish is a salty slightly sour flavor from the Crawdads... which is served with squirrel Gravy.

MUSHROOM SOUP AND FRIED ONIONS
This dish provides a salty and sweet taste from the mushrooms and onions. It's simply a wonderful dish you must try.

- Cassie Hubbard
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