First described in the 1930s and contains ice cream, jelly, and cream. Layers of these different sweet tastes are alternated in a tall glass and topped with different kinds of syrup, nuts, whipped cream and often a cherry. Layers of meringue, fruit and even alcohol may be included but, as with an ice cream sundae, there is no precise recipe.

It is one thing to ask the question …

It is an entirely different matter whether or not you receive an answer.

Urban birds incorporate the sounds of their environment; their environment returns their calls.

Interference theory refers to the idea that forgetting occurs because the recall of certain items interferes with the recall of other items. In nature, the interfering items are said to originate from an over stimulating environment. Interference theory exists in three branches,Proactive, Retroactive and Output. Retroactive and Proactive inhibition each referring in contrast to the other.

Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.
Therefore followers of the Tao never used them.
The wise man prefers the left.
The man of war prefers the right.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

On happy occasions precedence is given to the left,
On sad occasions to the right.
In the army the general stands on the left,
The commander-in-chief on the right.
This means that war is conducted like a funeral.
When many people are being killed,
They should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.
That is why a victory must be observed like a funeral.

(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

A combatant must pay a physiological price for an enervating process so intense. The “price” that the body pays is an equally powerful “backlash” when the neglected demands of the parasympathetic nervous system become ascendant. This parasympathetic backlash occurs as soon as the danger and the excitement is over, and it takes the form of an incredibly powerful weariness and sleepiness on the part of the person.

The January 2010 full moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year. This is also called the wolf moon, according to Native American tradition. Mars will also be seen close to the moon, a bright red star directly opposite the sun.

Even when you practice safe walking habits, slipping on ice is sometimes unavoidable.

It takes less than two seconds from the moment you slip until you hit the ground.

… I need you more than want you and I want you for all time ….

He stood before a lake of blood, as the fiercely setting sun lit the thick water with the guilt of war. The last place to be built here was, like the husk of a boiled insect, beautiful, yet no longer wild. It had surrendered to the inevitable, adulterated with cinnabar and starch, dissolved with ammonia, part of the relentless expansion into any suitable land left inhabitable.