Things That Didn't Get Thrown Away

Silver tone 1959 Cadillac key chain

For sale. The emblem says "Certified Craftsman 1959." My dad, who was an auto mechanic at a Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealership in Springfield, Illinois, received this keychain for completing a training class for Cadillac in 1959.

As usual, serious offers are always welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer. Send to: mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

Hsuan Tung coin

For sale. In very good condition. Approximately the size of a U.S. quarter.

On the front: First Year of Hsuan Tung. Manchurian Provinces.

On the back are Manchurian characters which I have no way to decipher or translate.

I'm not quite sure how this came to be in my family's possession (like so many other coins and paper money, I'm still sorting through). I have a feeling my dad may have picked it up in the South Pacific during World War II.

For a better understanding of the importance of Chinese money and even Emperor Hsuan Tung, read, "The Fight For The Republic In China," by Bertram Lenox Simpson. The full text can be found on line and for free at Project Gutenberg. As for myself, I haven't read it. It's about 150,000 words, or 400 pages.

Send serious offers, including preferred shipping method and price in your offer, to mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

NRA goldtone tie clip

For sale. The emblem says "National Rifle Assn of America." I believe this was from either the late 1960s or early 1970s. I'm guessing this was a give away my dad received when he joined the NRA.

As usual, serious offers are always welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer. Send to: mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

Goldtone 1957 Cadillac tie clip

For sale. The emblem says "Certified Craftsman 1957." My dad was an automobile mechanic. He received this tie clip after completing a training class for Cadillac in 1957.

As usual, serious offers are always welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer. Send to: mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

1969 presidential inauguration matches

This is one book of matches which apparently were a handout for the 1969 presidential inauguration. This would have been for Richard Nixon's first term.

Never used.

Larger images available upon request.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

As usual, send to: mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

Four Alcan trap shoot pins

Designed to look like a shotgun shell. There are four pins: Two 25 x 25, one 50 x 50, and one 75 x 75. Circa early 1970's.

Larger image available upon request.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

Send to: mariecarnes [at] gmail.com

Vintage Lutheran Sunday School Pin

For sale. Vintage Lutheran Sunday School Pin. "3"

About the size of a dime.

I have no idea what price to give to something like this. So, make your best offer and it's yours.

Larger image available upon request.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

Dwight and Mamie commemorative coin

For sale. Ike and Mamie commemorative coin.

About the size of a quarter. Some discoloration, but very shiny.

Case says: President and First Lady Series. No. 2. 1952 - 1960. Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower.

Larger image available upon request.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

Win With Ike political pin

For sale. Win With Ike political pin.

This is one of those pins that changes depending on which way you turn it. Turn it one way, and the image of Dwight D. Eisenhower appears. Turn it another way, and it reads, "Win With Ike."

Larger image available upon request.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

Update June 3, 2006: I just noticed on the back is the following: "A Product of Pictorial Productions Inc., New Rochelle, New York." And, what appears to be a union label.

1820 One Cent Piece

For sale. 1820 One Cent Piece United States coin. Large date. The front has some wear. The back appears to be in perfect condition.

No photo available at this time.

Serious offers welcome. Please include preferred shipping method and price in your offer.

Contact: mariecarnes@gmail.com

Century of Progress Squished Penny

For sale. Century of Progress Squished Penny - Skyway and Observation Tower World's Fair Chicago 1933.

Copper penny. Oval shaped. Aged like a penny from 1933. But, it is in good condition. Fine definition on front. Smooth back.

No photo available at this time.

Serious offers welcome. Please include shipping method and price in your offer.

Contact: mariecarnes@gmail.com

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Chapter 10: Cellular Mechanisms of Memory
Simple Learning & Neural Changes
Brain Systems

1. Types of Simple Learning:Non-associative
a. Habituation ̵ occurs when a stimulus is presented repeatedly, serially, without change
b. Sensitization ̵ reversal of the habituated response (change in intensity, modality)
c. Both types involve exposure to single, repeating, inconsequential stimulus

2. Types of Learning:Associative
a. Classical conditioning ̵ occurs when a neutral stimulus is paired with a non-neutral stimulus, and after repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus elicits the same or similar response as the non-neutral stimulus
b. Operant conditioning ̵ occurs when a behavior is followed by a response that either increases or decreases the likelihood of that response occurring in the future

3. Sea Snail Aplysia California
a. If siphon of Aplysia is stimulated, results in reflexive response of gill withdrawal
b. Repeated stimulations result in habituation, decrease in amount of neurotransmitter released by sensory neuron, and decrease in firing of motor cell

4. Sea snail…..
a. Habituation results when synaptic excitation decreases at the synapse of an already existing neural pathway
b. State of habituation is temporary in the snail
c. Allow the snail to rest, then repeat the stimulation>>>>>sensitization (withdrawal of gill resumes)

5. Sensitization in the snail involves:
a. Release of serotonin by an interneuron between the sensory and motor neuron, which stimulates>>>>>>
b. increased levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in the sensory neuron>>>>>>
c. resulting in increased levels of cAMP released by the sensory neuron

6. Conclusions to be drawn from the Sea Snail?
a. Simple learning (non-associative)
b. may be due to chemicals released at the
c. synapse.
d. Without release of certain chemicals, organisms cannot habituate or learn to adapt to stimuli.

7. Classical Conditioning (type of associative learning)
a. Fruit Fly research by Seymour Benzer
b. Flies that could not be classically conditioned to respond to odors paired with electric shock were found deficient in:
c. calcium
d. cAMP

8. Relevance to Human Learning?
a. Importance of calcium
b. Importance of cAMP
c. Evolutionary influence

9. Rabbit Research (John Harvey and Richard Thomas)
a. Nictitating-Membrane Reflex and Conditioning
b. Condition rabbits to blink to a puff of air
c. Important brain sites:
d. interpositus nucleus (within cerebellum)
e. inferior olivary nucleus (within medulla, connects to cerebellum)

10. Interference with Nictitating-Membrane Conditioned Reflex
a. Injection of GABA antagonist
b. Lesions of the interpositus nucleus
c. Chemical lesions to inferior olivary nucleus

11. Long Term Potentiation (LTP)
a. Long lasting enhancement of synaptic transmission
b. Initiated by glutamate acting at the NMDA receptor site

12. Long Term Depression (LTD)
a. Cellular and molecular model for forgetting

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