Thursday, 25 September 2014

Combined

Latched onto my subconscious mind is the basic sound

electric guitar and a drum resonate

unfaltering as it goes I get to be loosened up

also still the night happens as the crap goes down.

"business as usual"

the irritating beat of this melody

unfaltering as it goes I can't get to gone

I'm losing constantly, would she say she is not the one?

yet i fear I've gotten to be something I'm most certainly not

still i think about whether I ever give what I got

its unbecoming of me I'm certain

simply separate it and discover me a cure.

request that I change and I say I will

attempt all you like, I'm still a biting pill

Its unbecoming of me I'm certain

simply separate me and discover me a cure.

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Balance



In biomechanics, balance is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of gravity) of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway. Sway is the horizontal movement of the centre of gravity even when a person is standing still. A certain amount of sway is essential and inevitable due to small perturbations within the body (e.g., breathing, shifting body weight for one foot to the other or from forefoot to rearfoot) or from external sources (e.g., air currents, floor vibration). An increase in sway is not necessarily an indicator of poorer balance so much as it is an indicator of decreased neuromuscular control.

Maintaining balance requires coordination of input from multiple sensory systems including the vestibular, somatosensory, and visual systems. Vestibular system: sense organs that regulate equilibrium; directional information as it relates to head position (internal gravitational, linear, and angular acceleration)

Somatosensory system: senses of proprioception and kinesthesia of joints; information from skin and joints (pressure and vibratory senses); spatial position and movement relative to the support surface; movement and position of different body parts relative to each other Visual system: Reference to verticality of body and head motion; spatial location relative to objects
The senses must detect changes of body position with respect to the base of support, regardless of whether the body moves or the base moves or changes size. There are environmental factors that can affect balance such as light conditions, floor surface changes, alcohol, drugs, and ear infection.

There are balance impairments associated with aging. Age-related decline in the ability of the above systems to receive and integrate sensory information contributes to poor balance in older adults. As a result, the elderly are at an increased risk of falls. In fact, one in three adults aged 65 and over will fall each year.

In the case of an individual standing quietly upright, the limit of stability is defined as the amount of postural sway at which balance is lost and corrective action is required.

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Meaning (philosophy of language)

The nature of meaning, its definition, elements, and types, was discussed by philosophers Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. According to them 'meaning is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they mean (intend, express or signify)'. One term in the relationship of meaning necessarily causes something else to come to the mind. In other words: 'a sign is defined as an entity that indicates another entity to some agent for some purpose'.

The types of meanings vary according to the types of the thing that is being represented. Namely:
There are the things in the world, which might have meaning;
There are things in the world that are also signs of other things in the world, and so, are always meaningful (i.e., natural signs of the physical world and ideas within the mind);
There are things that are always necessarily meaningful, such as words, and other nonverbal symbols.
All subsequent inquiries emphasize some particular perspectives within the general AAA framework.
The major contemporary positions of meaning come under the following partial definitions of meaning:
Psychological theories, exhausted by notions of thought, intention, or understanding;
Logical theories, involving notions such as intension, cognitive content, or sense, along with extension, reference, or denotation;

Message, content, information, or communication;
Truth conditions;
Usage, and the instructions for usage; and
Measurement, computation, or operation.

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

"time is losing its grip"


time is losing its grip
and I can only go along with it.
you can just watch us slip
as we're getting on with it.

time is losing its grip
as worry piles high up on top of it.
be careful not to trip
your feet are somewhere under it.

-quote by
Aloha "Summer Lawn"