DC Capitol Shooting 2013

[seemslikeadream]

the child was unharmed and taken to a hospital IIRC

Funny that. Unharmed. Yeah, right. Mommy being shot and killed by the Men in Black wouldn't harm the child's psyche in anyway.

the baby was only 18 months old...... most memories in babies are only short term...... real memory doesn't start till around age 3...not to worry... no bad memories of the men in black

[seemslikeadream]

obviously they just eliminated a presumably increasingly-uncooperative witness from stamford with a remote control car hack.

omg you saw it too?

[justdrew]

obviously they just eliminated a presumably increasingly-uncooperative witness from stamford with a remote control car hack.

omg you saw it too?

well, the remote control aspect only occurred to me cause the car looks like a Knight Industries model, good thing they didn't use Turbo Boost.

[IanEye]

It's why I truly feel 60's era civil rights, women rights and anti war activists would want to spit in the face of most the privileged trendoids masquerading as "concerned progressives" today.

Perhaps, but remember, "Satire is a sort of echo, wherein listeners hear through the past, darkly."

[seemslikeadream]

obviously they just eliminated a presumably increasingly-uncooperative witness from stamford with a remote control car hack.

omg you saw it too?

well, the remote control aspect only occurred to me cause the car looks like a Knight Industries model, good thing they didn't use Turbo Boost.

well of course Turbo couldn't be used the baby's car seat would have ejected out the back window...

[Nordic]

Another mentally ill person in America gets the treatment they deserve. And isn't it great that those cops were such great marksmen that the baby wasn't shot? Let's hear it for our law enforcement heroes!!

[Carol Newquist]

Another mentally ill person in America gets the treatment they deserve. And isn't it great that those cops were such great marksmen that the baby wasn't shot? Let's hear it for our law enforcement heroes!!

Hell yeah. Beers for all of them. Here's too ya, gentlemen!! We can't wait for the next one. This is good stuff. You're made of the right stuff. This is what makes America great.



Replace little pink houses with little pink pills.

[Carol Newquist]

the baby was only 18 months old...... most memories in babies are only short term...... real memory doesn't start till around age 3...not to worry... no bad memories of the men in black

Wow. If you say so. There are ways to affect the psyche other than memory. Do some research on how a child forms. This will have a definite impact. I consider it callous to rationalize it away as no big whoop.

[seemslikeadream]

the baby was only 18 months old...... most memories in babies are only short term...... real memory doesn't start till around age 3...not to worry... no bad memories of the men in black

Wow. If you say so. There's ways to effect the psyche other than memory. Do some research on how a child forms. This will have a definite impact. I consider it callous to rationalize it away as no big woop.

I don't have to research it ...I've lived it

[Carol Newquist]

And what's up with Connecticut? That place is spooky. Revolutionary Road's in Connecticut, and then there's The Cheshire Murders and Newtown Shooting which revealed a bizarre underbelly to the place and now this. I don't think I'll be moving to Connecticut afterall. Something in the water?

[Carol Newquist]

I don't have to research it ...I've lived it

Okay, then you prove my point.

[seemslikeadream]

I don't have to research it ...I've lived it

Okay, then you prove my point.

Recount for us your recollections...how you were so traumatized when you were pushed out of that birth canal?

oh let's do some damn research if you insist...

Memory Encoding in Children
To form memories, humans must create synapses, or connections between brain cells, that encode sensory information from an event into our memory. From there, our brains organize that information into categories and link it to other similar data, which is called consolidation. In order for that memory to last, we must periodically retrieve these memories and retrace those initial synapses, reinforcing those connections.
Studies have largely refuted the long-held thinking that babies cannot encode information that forms the foundation of memories. For instance, in one experiment involving 2- and 3-month-old infants, the babies' legs were attached by a ribbon to a mobile [source: Hayne]. By kicking their legs, the babies learned that the motion caused the mobile to move. Later, placed under the same mobile without the ribbon, the infants remembered to kick their legs. When the same experiment was performed with 6-month-olds, they picked up the kicking relationship much more quickly, indicating that their encoding ability must accelerate gradually with time, instead of in one significant burst around 3 years old.
This memory encoding could relate to a baby's development of the prefrontal cortex at the forehead. This area, which is active during the encoding and retrieval of explicit memories, is not fully functional at birth [source: Newcombe et al]. However, by 24 months, the number of synapses in the prefrontal cortex has reached adult levels [source: Bauer].
Also, the size of the hippocampus at the base of the brain steadily grows until your second or third year [source: Bauer]. This is important because the hippocampus determines what sensory information to transfer into long-term storage.
But what about implicit memory? Housed in the cerebellum, implicit memory is essential for newborns, allowing them to associate feelings of warmth and safety with the sound of their mother's voice and instinctively knowing how to feed. Confirming this early presence, studies have revealed few developmental changes in implicit memory as we age [source: Newcombe et al]. Even in many adult amnesia cases, implicit skills such as riding a bicycle or playing a piano often survive the brain trauma.
Now we know that babies have a strong implicit memory and can encode explicit ones as well, which indicates that childhood amnesia may stem from faulty explicit memory retrieval. Unless we're thinking specifically about a past event, it takes some sort of cue to prompt an explicit memory in all age groups [source: Bauer]. Up next, find out what those cues are.

Language and Sense of Self in Memory-Making
Our earliest memories may remain blocked from our consciousness because we had no language skills at that time. A 2004 study traced the verbal development in 27- and 39-month old boys and girls as a measure of how well they could recall a past event. The researchers found that if the children didn't know the words to describe the event when it happened, they couldn't describe it later after learning the appropriate words [source: Simcock and Hayne].
Verbalizing our personal memories of events contributes to our autobiographical memories. These types of memories help to define our sense of self and relationship to people around us. Closely linked to this is the ability to recognize yourself. Some researchers have proposed that children do not develop self-recognition skills and a personal identity until 16 or 24 months [source: Fivush and Nelson].
In addition, we develop knowledge of our personal past when we begin to organize memories into a context. Many preschool-age children can explain the different parts of an event in sequential order, such as what happened when they went to a circus. But it isn't until their fifth year that they can understand the ideas of time and the past and are able to place that trip to the circus on a mental time line [source: Fivush and Nelson].
Parents play a pivotal role in developing children's autobiographical memory as well. Research has shown that the way parents verbally recall memories with their small children correlates to those children's narrative style for retelling memories later in life. In other words, children whose parents tell them about past events, such as birthday parties or trips to the zoo, in detail will be more likely to vividly describe their own memories [source: Urshwa]. Interestingly, autobiographical memory also has a cultural component, with Westerners' personal memories focusing more on themselves and Easterners remembering themselves more in group contexts [source: Urshwa].
More detailed explanations exist regarding childhood amnesia. But brain structure, language and sense of self are its foundation. To learn more about amnesia and memory, don't forget to read the links on the next page.

Adams, Jane Meredith. "What it feels like to be a baby." Parenting. November 2007. (April 21, 2008)
Bauer, Patricia J. "Remembering the Times of Our Lives." Routledge. 2006. (April 21, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=BsJ9Qoq74dcC
Fivush, Robyn and Nelson, Katherine. "Culture and Language in the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory." Psychological Science. 2004. (April 21, 2008)
Geraerts, Elke; Schooler, Jonathan W.; Merckelbach, Harald; Jelicic, Marko; Hauer, Beatrijs J.A.; Ambadar, Zara. "The Reality of Recovered Memories: Corroborating Continuous and Discontinuous Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse." Psychological Science. July 2007. (April 21, 2008)http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/psci/2007/00000018/00000007/art00002
Goswami, Usha. "Blackwell Handbook of Cognitive Development." Blackwell Publishing. 2002. (April 21, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=0bNZJURnV-QC
Hayne, Harlene. "Infant Memory Development: Implications for childhood amnesia." Elsevier. 2003. (April 21, 2008)http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/bssh/school/nr521/childhood%20amnesia2.pdf
Janov, Arthur. "Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health." Career Press. 2006. (April 21, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=nHmknPNeIeoC
Newcombe, Nora S; Drummey, Anna Bullock; Fox, Nathan A.; Lie, Eunhui; Ottinger-Alberts, Wendy. "Remembering Early Childhood: How Much, How, and Why (or Why Not)." Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2000. (April 21, 2008)http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty/Fox/publications/04.pdf
Peterson, Karen S. "Can Trauma Hide in Back of the Mind?" USA Today. Sept. 12, 2002. (April 21, 2008)
Simcock, Gabrielle and Hayne, Harlene. "Breaking the Barrier? Children Fail to Translate Their Preverbal Memories Into Language." Psychological Science. 2002. (April 21, 2008)
Solms, Mark. "Freud Returns." Scientific American Mind. 2006. (April 21, 2008)

http://www.sharecare.com/health/functio ... g-memories

Psychologists have found that children as young as 3 months old and as young as 6 months old can have long-term memories. The difference, however, comes in which memories are retained. It appears that babies are born with more intact unconscious, or implicit, memories. However, explicit, or episodic, memory -- the kind of memory that records specific events -- does not carry information over that three-year gap, which explains why people forget their births.

http://3boysandadog.com/2012/02/when-wi ... er-things/
Conscious, long lasting memory develops when your little one is fourteen to eighteen months old. This is when she starts to remember specific events. At two years of age your child will have the ability to remember facts and events for example, going to the circus or the park with her grandmother. Observing your child grow and develop her memory you will notice how she will begin to link experiences in her past to her current experiences. By recollecting her experiences she will start to have expectations of what will happen in the future.

http://www.babycenter.com/404_when-will ... gs_6888.bc
Long-lasting conscious memory of specific events won't develop until your baby is between 14 and 18 months old.

http://children.webmd.com/news/20110511/when-do-kids-form-their-first-memories

Checking Children’s Memories

In an effort to better understand how children form memories, the researchers asked 140 kids between the ages of 4 and 13 to describe their earliest memories and then asked them to do the same thing two years later.

On both occasions, the children were also asked to estimate their age at the time of each memory, and parents were questioned to confirm that the events happened.

The researchers found that children between the ages of 4 and 7 during the first interview showed very little overlap between the memories they recalled as “first memories” during the first question session and those they remembered two years later.

“Even when we repeated what they had told us two years before, many of the younger children would tell us that it didn’t happen to them,” Peterson says.

Conversely, a third of the children who were age 10 to 13 during the first interview described the same earliest memory during the second interview. More than half of the memories they recalled were the same at both interviews.

The researchers are now studying why children remember certain events and not others.

Peterson says traumatic or highly stressful events made up only a small percentage of the earliest memories reported by children in the study.

Why babies can forget about memory
by TIM UTTON, Daily Mail
They get to know mum and dad through daily visual contact.
But babies do not learn much else before their first birthday because they have no long-term memory, researchers have found.
A study suggests parents who try to teach their children in their first year of life may be wasting their time.
Trying to instil an early love of classical music, for example, will simply not work as regions of the brain associated with memory are not yet fully developed.
Research at Harvard University in the U.S. found that six-month-old babies can remember something for just 24 hours.
At nine months, they remember events for around a month.
But it is only by the time they are 17 months and older that they start to develop powers of recall over four months or more.
Findings show that the frontal lobe of the brain - the region associated with memory retention and retrieval - doesn't start to mature until the end of the first year.
By the end of the second year it is fully developed, suggests the report in the journal Nature today.
The Harvard team performed simple tasks in front of children aged nine months, 17 and 24 months.
The tasks - such as wiping a table or 'making' a rattle from two toys - were given a name which the psychologists repeated frequently, to encourage the children to remember the name and imitate the tasks.
Prompted with the names, the youngsters were asked to repeat the tasks again four months later.
Those who had seen the tasks at the age of nine months failed to remember them. But the two groups of older children did much better - showing 'robust memory' for the events of four months earlier.
This showed that memory retention developed much more sharply after the first year of a child's life, said the researchers.
Dr Conor Liston said the results dispelled the belief that babies develop memory simply by everyday experience. The ongoing development of their brains as they grow also plays a major part, he said.


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[Elvis]

Aliens.

[justdrew]

frankly, the killing part seems unnecessary, hard to believe they couldn't box one car in.

[smiths]

it certainly doesnt seem as though the driver was too concerned about hurting anyone else,

and it also looks like the driver was pretty bloody desperate to escape the cops