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The Backsliders came to be in 1992 when Steve Howell and Chip Robinson began playing as a guitar-mandolin duet in Raleigh, NC. They soon found themselves wanting to amp up their sound in the spirit of the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Rolling Stones…rock and roll dudes playing country-tinged tunes with just the right amount of don't give a damn attitude. Enter Danny Kurtz on bass, Brad Rice on electric guitar and Jeff Dennis on drums. The line-up of 2 electric guitars, acoustic guitar, bass and drums became The Backsliders calling card, and the band began drawing legions of local fans to their frenetic live shows. Soon, record labels began calling…
The Backsliders signed to Mammoth Records in 1996 and soon released a live EP From Raleigh, North Carolina recorded at one of their local haunts The Brewery. That same year they began work on their debut album Throwing Rocks At The Moon with producer Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam, Roy Orbison, The Blazers, The Mavericks) at Mad Dog Studios in Burbank, CA. Released in February 1997, Throwing Rocks At The Moon took the roots/Americana scene by storm, sitting at #1 on Americana radio charts and receiving rave reviews from national media. The band chose Eric Ambel (Bottle Rockets, Nils Lofgren, guitarist with Joan Jett and the Del Lords) to produce their second record. After finishing most of the what would become Southern Lines, the band fell apart with Howell joining Two Dollar Pistols and both Kurtz and Rice joining one of many Whiskeytown line-ups. Robinson formed a new band featuring talented Raleigh players and continued supporting Mammoth's release of Southern Lines, but The Backsliders officially called it a day in 1999.
While there were a few shows with various members billed as The Backsliders, the core original line-up (Robinson, Howell, Kurtz, Dennis) did not come back together until 2012. With Rice now in Austin, TX this new line-up features Greg Rice on keyboards.
The Backsliders entered the studio for the first time in nearly 20 years in 2014 to record the 5 song EP Raleighwood and also recently re-issued "Hicktopia", featuring long-lost recordings from the Southern Lines sessions. Both are available at thebacksliders.net.
The Backsliders are back, playing hard core honky tonk with their unmistakable swagger. See them soon!

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What is Sports Medicine?
Sports Medicine, also known as sports and exercise medicine (SEM), is a branch of medicine that deals with the treatment and prevention of sports and exercise-related injuries and improving fitness and performance. The main objective of sports medicine is to help individuals engage in sports and exercise in a safe and effective manner to accomplish their training goals.
A sports medicine team may comprise medical and non-medical specialists, such as physicians, surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, sports psychologists, nutritionists, coaches, and personal trainers. Most sports medicine physicians deal with non-operative musculoskeletal conditions. Others are orthopedic surgeons who have decided to focus their practice on the surgical treatment of sports injuries.
Sports medicine is not a medical specialty in itself. Most sports medicine doctors are certified in internal medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine, orthopedics, or another specialty and then acquire additional training with a 2-year fellowship in sports medicine to be certified as a sports medicine specialist.
Who are Sports Medicine Specialists?
Sports medicine specialists are medical doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of sports- or exercise-related injuries and illness. A sports medicine specialist focuses on the medical, therapeutic, and functional aspects of exercise and works directly with athletes to improve their overall sports performance. Although sports medicine specialists work exclusively with athletes, the majority will treat anyone who needs treatment for a sports or exercise-related injury.
Sports medicine specialists treat a wide range of physical conditions, including acute traumas such as fractures, sprains, strains, and dislocations. They also treat chronic overuse injuries including tendonitis, degenerative diseases, and overtraining syndrome.
What are Sports Injuries?
Sports injuries are injuries sustained while playing indoor or outdoor sports such as football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and tennis, or while exercising. Sports injuries can result from sports accidents, inadequate training, improper use of protective devices, or insufficient stretching or warm-up exercises. Common sports injuries include bone, muscle, ligament and tendon injuries that commonly involve joints such as the shoulders, knees, hips, ankles and feet.
Some of the common types of sports injuries treated by sports medicine specialists include:
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears
- Concussion
- Fractures
- Knee cartilage injuries
- Meniscal tears
- Nerve compression injuries
- Patellar Tendonitis
- Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries
- Shoulder dislocation
- Shoulder separation
- Sprains and strains
- Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
- Tendonitis
Treatment for Sports Injuries
Treatment includes management of bruises, strains and sprains, fractures, dislocations, chronic injuries, torn shoulder ligaments, ACL ligament repair in the knee as well as cartilage and meniscal repairs. Surgery is mostly accomplished by minimally invasive methods and healing is expedited by physical therapy and a rehabilitation program to ensure a quick return to your sporting activities.
The most common non-surgical or conservative treatment recommended for sports injuries include:
- Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (RICE) Therapy:
- Rest: Avoid activities that may cause injury.
- Ice: Ice packs can be applied to the injured area, which will help to diminish swelling and pain. Ice should be applied over a towel to the affected area for 15-20 minutes, four times a day for several days. Never place ice directly on the skin.
- Compression: Compression of the injured area helps to reduce swelling. Elastic wraps, air casts and splints can accomplish this.
- Elevation: Elevate the injured part above the heart level to reduce swelling and pain.
- Activity Modification: Avoiding activities that trigger symptoms and changing your lifestyle
- Physical Therapy: Regular exercise regimen to improve range of motion and strengthen muscles
- Anti-inflammatory Medication: Meds like naproxen and ibuprofen are used to relieve inflammation and pain.
- Cortisone Injection: If physical therapy, medications, rest, and activity modification do not yield the desired results, then a cortisone injection may be helpful. Cortisone is a very effective anti-inflammatory medicine for conditions such as bursitis and is a long-term pain reliever for tears and structural damage.
Surgical treatment is employed when an individual has sustained serious sports injury by means of a severe fracture, bone displacement, and soft tissue tears not amenable to conservative treatment.
Some of the common surgeries performed on athletes include:
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Rotator cuff repair
- Arthroscopy of knees, shoulders, and ankles
- Shoulder instability surgery
- Tendon repair
- Cartilage restoration
- Fracture repair
- Labral repair
- Biceps tenodesis surgery
- Concussion treatment
Prevention of Sports Injuries
Some of the measures employed and advised by sports medicine specialists to prevent sports-related injuries include:
- Follow an exercise program to strengthen your muscles.
- Gradually increase your exercise level and avoid overdoing the exercise.
- Ensure that you wear properly-fitted protective gear such as elbow guards, eye gear, face masks, mouth guards and pads, comfortable clothes, and athletic shoes before playing any sports activity, which will help reduce the chances of injury.
- Make sure that you follow warm-up and cool-down exercises before and after a sports activity. Exercises will help to stretch the muscles, increase flexibility and reduce soft tissue injuries.
- Avoid exercising immediately after eating a large meal.
- Maintain a healthy diet, which will help to nourish the muscles.
- Avoid playing when you are injured or tired. Take rest breaks after playing.
- Learn all the rules of the game you are participating in.
- Ensure that you are physically fit to play the sport.


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Chief Executive Officer
General Manager, Poland
Senior Licensing Consultant
Senior Infrastructure / Licensing Consultant
He is one of the founders of IPR-Insights.
Working for the biggest software producer in the world, he figured that the modern version of the old phrase saying "set a thief to catch a thief" is "get a thief as a consultant to catch a thief" (obviously, we would not like to hurt anyone's feelings, we can't help the phrase goes like that - ed.).
In his spare time, he does woodworking (at learner level), takes photos (fairly well), or reads books (quite well). He doesn't have more spare time as he's the proud father of three beautiful children.
Master of Business Administration holder from Leon Koźmiński's Academy. Graduate from Mathematics and Information Technology Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń as well as from Physics Faculty at the Warsaw University.
He was responsible for sales and license policy of the largest software vendor. He specialized in their software at several local and regional partner companies.
At present, he holds position of General Manager at IPR-Insights, where he deals with sales of Software Asset Management solutions. Certified Software Asset Management Consultant as well as Auditor within Software Management and Licensing Procedures. Software Asset Management is not only his profession, but also - passion.
Monika graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.
For over eight years, she gained experience in the IT industry, first working for one of the largest integrators in the Polish market, then later, in the leading international company engaged in software resale.
At IPR-Insights, she works as License Consultant, supporting clients in solving complicated licensing problems. Her skills gained at Polish market in licensing and SAM are acknowledged in certificates confirmed by one of the leading software producers.
Kuba began his professional career as IT specialist in a small trading company. Then he joined a governmental organization dealing in public health, where he acted as: business analyst, Project Manager, public tender specialist, administrator of databases, Windows and Active Directory. Also he was the Polish delegate to the respective European public agency.
After 10 years, he felt he should look for a job with a bit tighter and more focused scope. When getting the proposal of IPR-Insights Poland, he instantly realized that it could be the right place for him. Since then, he is an acknowledged consultant of our Polish team.
He is a real acting architect afternoons, too: he loves building new Lego constructions together with his sons.
Law graduate and long-distance runner, our alliances and international sales manager has over a decade of experience in licensing software and licensing agreements with large and enterprise size companies in Europe, both from the perspective of working for the largest software vendor but also for key international partners of the software vendors.
He considers the position of a SAM services provider to best fitting as an independent player, as it allows for the act to be totally objective and for the results to be used as seen best fit by the beneficiary. It also allows us to work with any IT services company, even if SAM providers themselves.
Attila joined IPR-Insights in 2018 bringing SAP knowledge and experience to establish SAP software license management division at IPR-Insights, building service portfolio and developing business in Hungary and Poland.
He has a degree in Economics at MBA level and one Master of Arts degree in Literature and social sciences. Attila has always worked for multinational companies, amongst them, SAP where he spent four years in the software sales division and three years in the consulting division gaining extensive experience in SAP software, projects, and services.
As a father of two sons, the focus is on the family. In his free time, he likes mountain climbing, hiking, and various water sports.
He obtained his law degree at ELTE Budapest, during which time he studied international economic law in Valencia for 1 year.
He gained his professional legal and IT experience at various multinational companies as well as international law firms. He joined the IPR team in March 2022.
Since his childhood, sports have been an integral part of his life. He spends most of his free time playing tennis, squash and football, beside that he is trying to explore as many parts of the world as possible.
He graduated in IT engineering and gained most of his experience as a project manager with various enterprises by implementing and operating IT infrastructure and applications. He has a wide range of software and hardware knowledge, spiced with a number of Dell Certified System Expert and Microsoft Certified Professional exams.
As Infrastructure Consulting Director of IPR-Insights, he plays a key role in the implementation of SAM-Insights asset management system, and in addition to this, he also performs continuous high-quality technical support to our customers.
She joined the IPR-Insights legal team as a licensing consultant in May 2021. She studied law at the University of Debrecen, and then completed a specialization in info-communication law at the University of Pécs.
In her work, she has always sought the common ground of law and the practical application of innovative technological solutions in a local and global context as well. She gained her professional experience in in-house and law firm environments, mainly in the fields of data protection and IT law. All these facilitate a complex approach in handling issues concerned.
She enjoys spending her free time actively: hiking, skiing. She follows the recent regulatory developments relative to various innovative technological solutions, and fulfills her enthusiasm for visual arts.
As a career starter, she accidentally got caught up in the world of IT, where she still tries to satisfy her immense thirst for knowledge.
She has more than 10 years of professional experience in logistics, licensing and sales at one of Hungary's leading IT distributors. She joined the IPR-Insights team in May 2021.
A perpetual mover, curious and always looking for a challenge, she likes spending her free time hiking, rafting, via ferrata tours and is a great nature and animal lover as well. Her artistic side is expressed in music and photography.
He studied law at the Universities of Pécs and Cologne, and subsequently, enriched his skills with public procurement and financial studies.
He got involved with the magical world of software licenses at IBM's international service center, and this love has not ended. He is thorough and reliable, trying to find the most appropriate responses to all questions of customers. He specializes in IBM software licensing, software law issues, and software vendor audits.
In his free time, he is active in sports, hikes, and monitors the developments of the global capital markets, and the novelties of literary and theatrical life.
She is the soul of IPR-Insights and the solver of all our problems. She is a qualified HR manager, working on improving our HR system to the contentment of the team and the management.
She holds her ear to the ground does it come to tenders. Should she find some convenient for IPR-Insights, she grabs is, mostly with best results. She gathered most of her professional experiences at IT companies, which makes her a good supplement to the team in projects too.
She is passionate about building team spirit and integrating new staff, so she is usually the organizer of company parties. Strangers sometimes ask about her family when they hear her name, but old colleagues are used to her coming from such an illustrious family (who wouldn't know: her brother is Santa Claus :)).
He strives to direct the communications and marketing of IPR-Insights purposefully, backed by several years' multisectoral professional experience.
Earlier, he solved similar tasks at local software developer, systems integrator, and multinational printing solutions provider companies. He began his career at the company pioneering not only in new technologies but also in active (some say hyperactive) use of marketing. His diploma from the College for Foreign Trade and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh provided a solid base for all these.
In his free time, he fulfills his enthusiasm for chess and Lake Balaton - his wife and two daughters share more in his latter passion.
He is the engine of IPR-Insights sales. With his arrival in 2010, we could open also to the medium size companies, since previously, Zoli has been working particularly for this sector at one of the world's biggest software vendors, first as a telesales professional, later as a key account manager.
He does really know, what kind of difficulties our clients are facing in software asset management, so there's no wonder that he has joined a company that can deliver real solutions for these challenges. Zoltan is a man of words, by good fortune, he is enhancing this talent at IPR-Insights.
At home, his wife and his little daughters are the speakers.
She joined IPR Insights as a licensing consultant in August 2019.
She graduated at ELTE as a lawyer, but she also studied a semester at Masaryk University with an Erasmus scholarship - focusing on IT, so it was obvious that she would like to work in this field right after graduation.
In her free time, she does research on social media regulation as part of her PhD dissertation.
The leader of the technology team of IPR-Insights, manager and active participant of solving any software development issue arising in our work.
In addition to coordinating the development activities, he also supports our software asset management projects by his corporate infrastructure management experience. He props his younger colleagues, not just with acts, but through his classical didactical way (?I know YOU can do it??). On his own admission, he is the Miyamoto Musashi of IT.
As his Master, he has a much diversified interest: reading, tuning his car, building his house, raising his children. But you have to know, he is not perfect: he can be better at glacier skiing, bell founding and in quantum mechanics.
He is leading the operations of IPR-Insights in Hungary.
He aspires to pass on his widespread IT consultancy, project management, and software asset management experience to the consultants of IPR-Insights while assisting their further professional development and expansion. Not only does he hold CISA and ITIL qualifications he is also a notable Excel guru within IPR-Insights.
In his free time, he tries to organize family programs that his maturing children can still be persuaded of, or he enjoys running and playing chess. He finds new challenges regularly, that require contemplation, like the Rubik's Cube speedsolving methods or bot programming in new languages.
Orsi joined the IPR-Insights team in September 2019, with 23 years of work experience at different types of IT trading companies.
She is experienced in retail, system integration, and also distribution in the IT world. She worked always in relation to software brands, especially in the sales and licensing roles of Microsoft's small and midmarket segment.
After work, she provides excellent advice to her 2 children and her husband and goes to a Gymstick workout for exercise, which she hasn't been able to get tired of for many years now.
Gábor joined the IPR-Insights team in the autumn of 2020. In terms of his career, he took an adventurous journey in the last couple of years. He has gained experience in banking, commercial, and energy environment.
He learned the basics of asset management at an international bank referred to as the alma mater, where he did the ITIL exam successfully. After that, the world opened up to him and all his time was tied to the discovery of the United States. His love of music led him to a commercial direction, where he perfected his management skills. His curiosity about IT tools was aroused again by Steve Jobs' book, causing him to find himself in a large corporate environment, again. The digital transformation started from the hardware field that he (also) managed. The double tender and the IT project planning followed by implementation gave him the lesson thoroughly. As a bird resurrected from its ashes, he just like the Phoenix continues his journey with fresh energies at IPR-Insights.
He enjoys spending his free time with his little daughter. His hobby is browsing, actively interested in astronomy, and the electrical revolution. He is spinning up if music around and slows down while doing the cooking.
Gábor joined the IPR-Insights sales team in 2022. He is a management engineer by qualification. He is a former hardware salesman in IT, has ITSM experience and managed a business unit in IT security distribution, so he has experience with all clients regardless of company size.
He joined IPR-Insights because his previous experience had made it clear to him that software management, among other things, was not yet where it should be. He is determined to educate as many people as possible about the importance of effective software management.
He spends his free time with his family, with whom he tries to spend as much time as possible outdoors.
By profession, Attila is a computer mechanic and maintainer.
After working for smaller companies as data recorder, he joined IPR-Insights team, where he learned the basics of software identification and registration. Over the past few years, he became an experienced identification expert.
His hobby is modelling, be it by land, sea or air, he assembles any type of models, and controls them with confidence.
Pali joined IPR-Insight in February 2022 as a licensing consultant.
He turned from a mechanical engineer into an IT professional and has more than 15 years of experience as a license manager. He has gained experience in different areas of IT mainly in multinational telecommunication companies and in the banking sector. He is currently a product manager of SAM-Insights software asset management system and is involved in client projects as a license consultant.
He spends most of his free time with his wife and his grandchild. By the way, Pali is a DIY, BBQ, music listening, amateur barista kind of guy.
As an Oracle licensing expert, he has been helping our clients in opposing software vendor audits and coping with the particular challenges of Oracle software asset management for more than 10 years and on five continents.
As an instructor at the IPR-Insights LicenseAcademy and the Advanced Oracle LicenseAcademy, he also supports our clients' software asset management community in maintaining compliance and reducing risk.
Previously, he worked for Oracle and the Arrow ECS Oracle distribution team.
He gained his wide-scale knowledge as system administrator and desktop supporter throughout various small-, medium- and large enterprises, including a software company, oil company, brewery, and even a commercial television.
At IPR-Insights, he deals with infrastructure and software identification related questions, and with technical support of our customers as well. Basically a quiet calm person, difficult to get him out of his mood (better not to try).
He rarely speaks, but when he does, his unique sense of humour will have you on the floor in no time. He is a very reliable and helpful colleague, and he can even play music!
He gained his experience as a systems engineer in IT infrastructure operation, development, application server operation and similar projects at medium and large enterprises. He has diverse hardware and software experience, and several Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Certified IT Professional Enterprise certifications.
At IPR-Insights, he is engaged in SAM-Insights software inventory implementation projects, provides technical support for SAM-Insights users, and operates the internal infrastructure. In his remaining time, he is ready to help his colleagues in anything else.
Raising his twin daughters takes the most of his free time, furthermore, he enjoys roaming the world of computer games, or reading fantasy books. Also, he is a big fan of series.
Dávid joined the developer team of IPR-Insights after he gained experiences in international and Hungarian companies as software developer and system administrator.
His degree in electrical engineering in telecommunication and computer sciences enable him to become an expert of databases and business logic implementation. Database programming, server or client side programming are all solvable challenges for him.
When he doesn't deal with fine tuning the software asset management tools of IPR-Insights he looks for tasks in family circle.
Richárd joined the identification team with a wide variety of IT knowledge and great enthusiasm in 2020. He has several Cisco CCNA certifications and experience in Microsoft client and server management and system administration.
In his free time, he likes cycling, tinkering with almost anything with competent confidence and he also likes playing computer and mobile games.
Tibor has been active in the IT market for 15 years, by profession, he is an IT statistician and economic planner. First, he worked as a sales manager and partner manager for IT retailers, then, as an IT outsourcing consultant for seven years.
He considered the continuous development of his software asset management and vendor licensing skills important from the very beginning. He strives to support the IPR-Insights team as a licensing consultant making use of his experience gained. He specializes in the licensing backgrounds of Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware.
As a sport, he pursues running and functional training. He likes hiking, especially in the mountains, and he also likes longer, multi-day bicycle tours.
Aliz spent the first 10 years of her career in a multinational environment in the finance area, of which she worked 5 years abroad on an SAP implementation and process harmonization project as a business process expert.
She joined the IPR-Insights Group in 2019 as a finance colleague to support the company's international strengthen by her experience gained in a multinational environment.
She likes to spend her free time with her family's two-legged and four-legged members and friends. Her favorite leisure activities are reading, putting puzzles together and hiking. In addition, she also works in a volunteer organization that aims to develop disadvantaged children.
Lajos brings valuable knowledge into the developer team based on many years professional experience. Earlier, he participated in designing and developing databases, and he also worked on projects to facilitate the web communication of databases.
He also has expertise in developing web services and windows applications. Throughout his career, he was not only responsible for developing applications on demand, but he was also involved in planning and specification tasks.
He likes playing football with his friends in his free time.
As a fresh graduate, Vivi tried herself in several different fields and positions when she happened upon the role of office assistant, with which she luckily fell in love with soon after. In close cooperation with Orsi, she ensures the smooth day to day operations of the office, and helps out her colleagues with all the minuscule problems of the workplace.
Outside the office, she has a vivid social life, and simply adores post-it notes.
Mindent tud a szoftver szerzői jogról és a licencekről, még olyanokat is, amit maga a szoftver gyártója sem. A munkában szerzett tapasztalatait folyamatos tanulási, kutatási mániájával igyekszik bővíteni; rendszeresen publikál, illetve előadásokat tart szoftverjogi és az infokommunikációs jogterületet érintő egyéb kérdésekről.
A Pécsi Tudományegyetemen szerzett infokommunikációs szakjogász diplomája megszerzését követően PhD kutatást kezdett az ELTE Jogi Karán, ahol a nyílt forráskódú szoftverekkel és a szerzői művek közkincsbe bocsátásával foglakozik.
Szabadidejében lehetőség szerint sokfelé utazik (ennek érdekében igyekszik tökélyre fejleszteni a törvényes szabadnapok felhasználásának módozatait), emellett szívesen olvas, jár színházba, moziba, és - kollégái nyomása ellenére - igyekszik ellenállni a Star Wars és Indiana Jones filmek maratonszerű megtekintésének.
András joined IPR-Insights team in the spring of 2018, earlier, he worked as database analyst at a market leader media company.
He was infected with the world of IT already during his high school years. Since then, with minor or major interruptions, he has been involved in programming and database design. He is also familiar with data visualization and BI issues.
His favorite out of office relax activities are cycling, and peaceful fishing.
Nándor joined the IPR-Insights team at the end of 2018. As an infrastructure consultant, he plays important role in the implementation projects of the SAM-Insights software registry system, provides technical support for recent customers and the internal infrastructure.
During his previous career, he gained experience in product support, web development, and service management business fields. He graduated from the University of Debrecen as a programmer mathematician and gained Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, and ITIL Intermediate certifications.
In his free time, he enjoys hiking, running, cycling, skiing, and ball games such as basketball, squash, football, and table tennis are close to his heart.
Zoli joined our team in the beginning of 2019.
He started his IT career as an enthusiastic pioneer working on a ZX-81 PC borrowed from the local factory for the weekend. In the 28 years in between, he gained experience working on multiple IT projects in both the public and private sector. Zoli participated as a developer, consultant, and project leader in many projects. He speaks the language of database systems at conversation level, yet he is confident with backend development as well.
From a young age, he was interested in making movies and digital video editing very much that he was only able to pursue in his free time. He is very proud of his pre-youtube pirate video called "Barkas vs. Barkas" which he won an award for with his friends in 1998. He spends his spare time with his family, he is fond of American cars. His hobby is preparing exotic food. And when not exercising all these, he reads legal literature.
Peter worked for 15 years at multinational companies in various IT-related positions. He has several Microsoft (client and server-side), Cisco CCNA, Prince2 and ITIL intermediate certificates.
In his role as an infrastructure consultant at IPR-Insights, he takes part in implementation projects of the SAM-Insights software inventory system, and provides technical support to our customers, while also being involved in the maintenance of our internal IT infrastructure.
He spends most of his free time with his wife and three children. He likes going to the theater, going on excursions and playing football with his friends.


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Seconds #45, 1997
by Steven Cerio
You'd have to list Stanley Mouse among the most memorable aestheticians to come down the pike since Normal Rockwell. But I'd hesitate to label Mouse a master of Psychedelic Art. To dub Stanley a master is to say he worked within the confines of a set form and fully acknowledged and exercised the laws of past technicians of said form. But Mouse helped create the form from rubble. He cast the frozen standard. Mouse is a maker! He laid down the track that any book-worming retro punk of psychedelic masterdom must follow. Stanley Mouse didn't rise from the art books. He came from up inside the music.
A child of Fifties Detroit, little Stanley spent lifetimes huddling under the sheets sneaking listens to the devil's very own R&B, absorbing the tunes and developing a good prepubescent crush on the culture. He channeled those energies into art, mastering the airbrush at a very early age. With his parents and family behind him he went on to set up a mail order t-shirt business. He panhandled his wares at Midwestern Hot Rod shows and drag strips where he rubbed elbows with chubby characters like Big Daddy Roth, all while attending art school.
Mouse uprooted to the West Coast where he came face to face with the Coppertone-stained surf culture and its resident visionary Rick Griffin, with whom Stanley built a friendship that lasted until Rick's untimely death in 1992.
In 1965, the San Francisco psychedelic scene really came together and happened. At that time the Haight-Ashbury was a sleepy neighborhood populated by only a small percentage of long hairs. Mouse haunted the print shops, snatching up posters wet off the press.
The Stanley Mouse-Alton Kelley connection was made in '65 as well. The pair went on to create album covers, posters and other ephemera for The Grateful Dead, Starship, Rolling Stones, Wings, Journey and Steve Miller, to mention a few. They crated dozens of classic psychedelic posters for shows held at the now legendary Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms. Mouse coagulated his talents amidst Joplin, Eric Clapton and Robert Crumb. Stanley sent home posters and shirts to his family back in Detroit and they opened The Mouse House, a classic head shop to this day. Mouse became known as the "Grateful Dead artist" through his tight affiliation with the band, completing a fortune in graphics throughout their history. Mouse remains a Deadhead fave to this day. But his crown grew heavy and restricting at times. He hid from the Dead in Santa Fe, his crown secreted under a very big hat. In Santa Fe he went on to further investigate painting, something with which he is experimenting with to this day.
In 1993, Mouse's 52nd year, his liver pooped out. Close to a half million dollars was needed for the surgery and organ replacement. The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Dinosaurs and New Riders of the Purple Sage amongst the many others pledged benefit shows and money. Stanley got a fresh liver – one that's not regularly dipped in turpentine and toxic oil painting pigment like his '52 model.
He continues to scribble and plat away with the same intensity he harnessed in the Sixties, each piece the expression of solidity with an obvious tinge of Zen as the basis of the sauce. But where there were many nervous notes in his earlier work, his new work abounds with confident open spaces packed full of reverberation and visions of a center. A wet freedom slides loose and glues the ideas in place.
Stanley Mouse resides in Somona, California with his wife and daughters. He amuses himself with sketching from models and writing ugly little death marches on his toy synthesizer. His book Freehand: The Art of Stanley Mouse is available from Snow Lion Graphics – PO Box 9465, Berkley, CA 94709.
SECONDS: So Stanley, I have some questions laid out –
MOUSE: All the regular questions? "How did you meet the Grateful Dead?" It's a burning question.
SECONDS: No, I am not going to ask that. Let's start with this: When did you realize you wanted to dedicate your life to art?
MOUSE: That's a toughie. There's so many moments that made me aim this way. Like the day I bought an airbrush and painted something weird on a t-shirt in my backyard and the neighborhood kids saw me doing it and in two seconds they had all their t-shirts out for me to paint. At that point, there was no other thing I could do. I was forced into it. (laughs)
SECONDS: What does an artist need – clarity or delusion?
MOUSE: A balance of both.
SECONDS: Your stuff seems to go both ways. Your airbrush work is very technical and labor intensive and other work looks like you're just having fun.
MOUSE: I just finished a painting that looks like a Degas painting. I was thinking, "What do I do now? Do I draw hot rod monsters over it or Grateful Dead album covers?" I guess it's a fantasy connected with the real skill.
SECONDS: What do you see as the difference between older Rock posters and what's being produced now?
MOUSE: Before it was an explosion; now it's a traffic jam.
SECONDS: It seems like the monster dragsters are coming back in vogue now.
MOUSE: I like painting hot rod monsters but I think hot rods look dumb now. Hot rods in the old days used to be bad. Now they're just nostalgic looking. In the old days, when you drove down the street in a hot rod it was really a statement. There's no sense of humor in cars now.
SECONDS: Rumor has it that Ed Roth stole the Rat Fink from the work you were doing –
MOUSE: Well, he stole my mouse image and took my character Freddy Flypogger and turned him into a rodent. You take the tail, ears and nose off and you have Freddy Flypogger. I was painting on the East Coast car show circuit and Roth came from the West Coast to a show in Pittsburgh. He was showing his car off and said, "Hey kid, can I paint at the show with you? You'll learn how to make three hundred dollars instead of a hundred." I said, "Let's do it." He set up next to me and he had a pair of Levis, a giant stomach and no shirt on and he sat on his little stool that was about a foot high and started painting. He was painting snakes and skulls, groovy stuff, but he was real slow and he only painted in black and white. I went fast and colored everything in and wound up making a thousand dollars. He made three hundred. He took a bunch of my catalogs back to L.A. and had his artists copy all my stuff and they created Rat Fink out of my characters.
I called my shirts Monster shirts and he called his Weirdo shirts. Then he started calling his stuff Monster shirts and even stole the pointed hat idea from me and called them Rat Fink hats.
SECONDS: You were close friends with Rick Griffin, too.
MOUSE: I stopped doing t-shirts and moved to California. I was painting shirts while my girlfriend was piercing eyes. We were all chewing peyote buttons. These three little surfer kids came and said, "Paint Murph on a shirt?" I said, "Who?" They ripped me apart and laughed at me. They went and got Surfer magazine and in it was the cartoon strip "Murph the Surf." So I painted them a shirt with Murph the Surf on it.
About a year later I moved to San Francisco and the lady living next to me was Rick Griffin's wife. She saw some of the posters I was doing and sent one to Rick in Southern California. Rick made a beeline up to San Francisco and joined in on the posters.
SECONDS: What is the project you're doing with Peter Max?
MOUSE: I saw him at a show and we talked about doing Summer Of Love posters, where I'd do the West Coast and he'd do the East Coast Summer Of Love.
SECONDS: He'd probably get a sponser behind it…
MOUSE: Right; we could have Honda –
SECONDS: You could design a monster hot rod and they could build it for you.
MOUSE: That would be nice. I am working on my West Coast poster right now and it's really neat.
SECONDS: What kind of imagery are you using?
MOUSE: The victory statue of Samothrace, the Greek statue with heads or arms that has wings. I had a model pose in that same pose and I put arms on her. One arm is carrying a guitar and the other is carrying a palette.
SECONDS: Robert Crumb was from the same period as you as well. What do you think about his success?
MOUSE: I don't know, what is his success?
SECONDS: With the film, it seems like a household name now –
MOUSE: But I don't see any new work coming from him.
SECONDS: That's the strange thing.
MOUSE: He must have something brewing.
SECONDS: Do you think he's put energy into being a good businessman like Peter Max has?
MOUSE: I don't think Crumb is like Peter Max. (laughs) I have a picture of Crumb on my drawing board. I visited him in the South of France on the first day he had the key to his new house. I was there and took a picture of him pulling the insides of his pockets out like he didn't have any more money. It's a beautiful town, built by the Romans out of stone.
SECONDS: Back in the Sixties, lettering again became a real art form. Why did that happen?
MOUSE: Lettering was sterile in the Fifties. You weren't supposed to break the laws of lettering. Doing hot rod t-shirts, I did all kinds of experimenting with lettering. That was my training. Everybody would put something different in front of my face and say, "Draw this on a shirt" so I got to draw in many styles.
SECONDS: That's your art school right there.
MOUSE: I went to art school during the week and painting t-shirts on the weekends.
SECONDS: What is it about the printed graphic that appeals to you? Francis Bacon said he'd rather see his work printed than see his own originals –
MOUSE: That's because they were so hideous. (laughs) It seems like the era we live in is mass marketing and nobody's going to buy a painting. I do a lot of paintings. Nobody buys them, but they'll buy prints of them because they're cheap.
SECONDS: Do you like the idea of your work being printed in a magazine or on an album cover so more people can see it?
MOUSE: Yeah, I probably have more printed things out there than any living artist. All the album covers, posters, t-shirts…
SECONDS: Any poignant thoughts about the Sixties?
MOUSE: When I was growing up, my parents always used to talk about the roaring Twenties. When people talk about the Sixties, I'd rather think about the future. I despise the Sixties for that reason.
SECONDS: Because there's so much nostalgia built around it?
MOUSE: Yeah. The reality of the Sixties was pretty grungy. There was a few great things that happened and it was nice – we were in our twenties and there were all these beautiful people around but Haight Street was weird and what was going on was strange. I always get sucked into talking about it. First I'll say, " I hate it" and then all of a sudden I'll go on about the Sixties. I say, "I'm doing it again."
SECONDS: Well, it's your childhood, right?
MOUSE: It started with the Psychedelics and was a search. It got twisted along the way into some kind…
SECONDS: Lifestyle?
MOUSE: A sick, druggy lifestyle and that's not what it started out as at all. When the masses got a hold of it, it turned into something other than the initial spark.
SECOND: Did it lose the sense of ritual?
MOUSE: Yeah. I remember around '63, we'd gather people together – and they had to be the right people – and we'd get in a room and smoke Pot. We used to call it a set. Like, "Let's have a set." It was Communion, you know? Everybody would know what everybody else was thinking. If some stranger walked in who wasn't in tune, it would jar everything apart. We lost that along the way. I grew up in the Fifties in Detroit. I was all Motown and '56 Chevys. It was a great way to be a teenager but there wasn't any Psychedelics. It was real uptight. You had to go to church on Sunday's and if you didn't you were bad. When the Psychedelic thing hit, it blew everything apart. It's taken this long for the whole country to become Hippies, but now everybody's a Hippie. They might deny it but they're living with the lifestyle. I hate the word "Hippie." (laughs) All the movies, all the TV – everything is done with that consciousness that first happened in the Sixties.
SECONDS: Speaking of the Sixties, how was your record collection changed since then?
MOUSE: The only place that you could get records in Detroit was at Hudson's department store. I bought a Bob Dylan record and the lady said, "You like this stuff?" I had a portable record player and I went to New York to a hot rod show and I played it seven thousand times on the way to New York. While doing the posters, the record I remember the most was Rolling Stones's Between the Buttons. That's their greatest record. We played that a lot.
SECONDS: What's the last record you bought?
MOUSE: Fionna Apple. Oh, I bought Blur.
SECONDS: Did you like it?
MOUSE: I like their strange stuff but I don't like their retro-Beatles stuff. I like my music better than anything I buy.
SECONDS: What do you do?
MOUSE: I play keyboards and play funeral dirges with a beat. My band is called The Macabre Industrial Waste Band. One of the tunes is "Hitler's Death March." I'm the only member of the band. I turn on the drum machine real slow and play to it. I like playing music back to myself when I'm painting it. I get totally wrapped up in myself.
SECONDS: What's the most Psychedelic medium?
MOUSE: Well, what is Psychedelic?
SECONDS: Why don't you answer that?
MOUSE: Psychedelic was super normal to me – just everything intense. The reality took on a super reality. It was never paisley patterns. Nature is more psychedelic than anything created by man.
SECONDS: Did you get a Grammy award for the Book of Dreams cover?
MOUSE: Alton Kelley and I did it and sent it to L.A. and the record company produced it on the cover. We were watching TV one night and we saw the Grammys and they said, "For Book of Dreams, Roy Kahara, art director." It won a Grammy but we didn't win it. They didn't even tell us about it. We had to see it for ourselves on TV.
SECONDS: When did you first hook up with Alton?
MOUSE: The burning questions. That's what they all ask. He was just hanging around The Dog House in San Francisco. A lot of people from Detroit hung around there. It was a scene and Kelley was a regular on the scene. I think Kelley lived there too. They were throwing parties which turned into The Family Dog. They finally made some money throwing some dance=concert party and they split to Mexico to score some weed. I ran across Kelley a bunch of times and he'd rap the rap and enjoyed it. He became art director for The Family Dog. We teamed up to do a couple of posters and…away we went.
SECONDS: Did it take you a while to develop a system for working?
MOUSE: At first I did all the handwork and Kelley helped me with all the concepts and art directing.
SECONDS: So he isn't an airbrusher?
MOUSE: He is now. Over the years he got pretty good. It got to a point where he was left handed and I was right handed and we could sit at the same drawing board and we were like a four-handed monster painting away. We'd paint with our outside hands and our inside hands would manipulate pencils and erasers. We worked together for a long time like that. Then we didn't work together for about fifteen years. About a month ago, we struck a deal with the Grateful Dead using our designs and stuff. They gave us a record cover job. It's called Terrapin Limited. It's a live tape featuring the song "Terrapin Station." We did a different take on the turtles driving trains and getting off the train and walking up to this fantastic station in the sky. He came over and sat down and it was like no time passed. We don't talk, we just start doing it. We had a secretary over and she said, "Don't you guys ever disagree?" We really did have a cool way of working.
SECONDS: Almost psychic?
MOUSE: Yeah, it was definitely psychic.
SECONDS: It's like that myth that you hear about the Hildebrandt Brothers where one starts on the left and one starts on the right and they meet in the middle and the composition's done.
MOUSE: That's pretty amazing.
SECONDS: When you were doing all these covers for the Dead, did they give you any direction on those?
MOUSE: They early ones, no. They would just say, "Do us a record cover," and we would do it. They were always a hit. Over the years, they were working with other artists. They would have their way with other artists; "Design us this and show us what it's like and show us the sketches…" The band was almost the artist and the art director. That's probably why they had such horrible artwork after Kelley and me. They tried doing it with us. They wanted to see it every step of the ay and they actually changed it once. Some of he changes they made were pretty good, but they did finally come and say there weren't art directors so we could go ahead with what we wanted.
SECONDS: But they did try their hand at it –
MOUSE: Yeah, they had been doing this over the years with other artists and getting what they want. But it's hard; it's like "Okay, Picasso, none of those girls with two eyeballs on one side of their face." It's silly. How can you tell someone what to do?
SECONDS: Well, that's what makes an illustrator. You have to be able to take direction.
MOUSE: I did a Journey cover where I took direction.
SECONDS: I was going to say, those look like the art director beat you to death on them.
MOUSE: At first we were cool. The good Journey covers, the first three or four, were all our stuff.
SECONDS: They let you have your way? I thought they'd be staring over your shoulder?
MOUSE: They had it all planned out. It was like being a machine and it came out real stilted.
SECONDS: It must have paid nice, though…
MOUSE: Yeah, that's why I did it.
SECONDS: Those things are distinctive. I thought you and Alton together and alone are great colorists. Is it something you spent a lot of time thinking about?
MOUSE: You couldn't tell they were airbrushed. They have that smooth look, but you couldn't tell. Some of the stuff you see is so obvious – the same with computers nowadays. God, I hate computer artwork!
SECONDS: I used to supplement my income by doing lettering. Now they feel like they don't need you anymore because they have ten or twenty thousand computer typefaces –
MOUSE: They even have scribbly stuff so you can't scribble and try to fool them.
SECONDS: I saw Ed Roth come out with a disk of Ratfink typefaces. Everyone's trying to get in on it. But you can't get things like that without being too stiff.
MOUSE: You can always see it. There's some computer artwork that doesn't look like computer artwork. That's the stuff that excels. Jim Philips has been doing some great stuff with a computer. He took the Mouse and Kelly flying eyeball and did a rendition of it that looks really cool.
SECONDS: How do you feel about that fact that a lot of people associate you with the bands for which you developed images?
MOUSE: I hate it because I feel like I'm branded. I may not like that kind of work anymore.
SECONDS: Do you feel it helped your career along, though? Do you think it had a positive effect on your wallet at least?
MOUSE: I never did make any money off of it. I mean, I made a living off of it, but never did make money. Actually, I've been licensing things lately and things are starting to happen. I got some Zippo lighters out there with my stuff on it, and some t-shirts…
SECONDS: What kind of images are you doing on those – back to the monsters, like you said before?
MOUSE: They did eight really classic things, like the Steve Miller Book of Dreams, a flaming wolf head – some of the classic old stuff. Then the European distributor saw them and ordered fifteen more and just started taking things out of my book.
SECONDS: The flaming wolf head – you mean the Steppenwolf cover?
MOUSE: Yeah, I like the flaming wolf on a lighter. And they've been selling big time – they sell all over the world. I got a royalty statement the other day from Czechoslovakia. Can you imagine my stuff in Czechoslovakia?
SECONDS: Journey is totally entwined in your designs. That's all I remember about them – your covers.
MOUSE: Look at The Residents. All I remember about The Residents is that eyeball.
SECONDS: Is there something you'd rather do than make art?
MOUSE: Not really.
SECONDS: You feel like that's a good way to spend your time?
MOUSE: I feel like it's a great gift. It's my duty to produce beauty as best I can. It's like a responsibility now.
SECONDS: You use that word "beauty" – do you feel you're coming across with some positivity then?
MOUSE: Yeah, definitely. There's a lot of negative energy in the world and I'm not adding to it, that's for sure.
SECONDS: I should mention your liver transplant – is there anything you want to say about it? That seems like a pretty intense thing – I don't know if you feel comfortable talking about it…
MOUSE: I love talking about it. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
SECONDS: That muse have been a touching thing, having all those people stand up for you and get all that money together.
MOUSE: It was touching. But other than that I was so sick I was a goner. I had twenty-four hours to live. I didn't want a liver transplant. It sounded like the worst thing possible. I'd rather die than have that. I almost did. At the last minute I guess my wife said, "Give him a liver, " after I went into a coma. I was really very sick. I was a hundred and thirty-five pounds and there were a million things wrong with me. They stuck a nineteen year old liver in me and I woke up and said, "Let's go and get a beer."
SECONDS: Let's get to work on this new liver.
MOUSE: I never drank beer, that's the funny thing. I'm sure that's how the guy lost his liver, he must have been out drinking or something. It was amazing; almost immediately I was healed. I got really healthy after that. I felt nineteen.
SECONDS: Still feeling good?
MOUSE: I still feel good. My liver's twenty-three now. The only problem is I feel like a broken down Volkswagen with a supercharged Chrysler engine. There's a little imbalance there, but it's cool.
SECONDS: I saw some later photos of you and didn't recognize you. Have you still kept all that weight off?
MOUSE: God, no.
SECONDS: So you're back in the classic Mouse look?
MOUSE: Yeah, I'm as healthy as could be.
SECONDS: You had to raise something like $150,000?
MOUSE: What happened was I didn't have health insurance and the liver cost $250,000. They didn't know who I was in the hospital. Here comes a guy in a coma from liver failure. All of a sudden all these people arrive and are calling saying "save the guy." There was this intense outpouring of love. The hospital goes, "who do we have here?" My book was just published by Roger Williams, my publisher, was really verbal about it and told them who I was and they went to work finding me a liver. Then the Grateful Dead came in and said they would back it and eased the hospital's worries about the whole thing. I went to the top of the list because I only had a few hours to live. Miraculously I got a liver. I applied for county health and the county paid for it. Then the Dead backed out. No, they didn't back out, but they didn't have to pay for it. But it because of all the support that it even happened. Otherwise, I'd be six feet under.
SECONDS: That's pretty heavy.
MOUSE: Yeah, it's heavy, but it's also wonderful. It's a miracle of the wonders of modern medicine which I didn't believe in before. I learned to love modern medicine. I go to the hospital now for flashbacks. I had a such a good trip in there that I missed the whole transplant thing because they had me so….I wasn't there.
SECONDS: Knocked out in your bed on painkillers?
MOUSE: After I got it I went through a lot of hallucinations. Because of the bad state I was in it caused hallucinations. But they were really intense and I still remember them to this day. There were forty of them and they have sub-groups to them. They were really far-out. One of them was that my wife had five different husbands, but I was her favorite because I gave her the offspring that she liked the best. It was a fish with a jewel in its nose.
SECONDS: It sounds like a Native American tale.
MOUSE: You know how dreams go away? Well, these didn't. I still remember them all.
SECONDS: Were they like hallucinations:
MOUSE: Not really. They were somewhere else. I was there. But I thought that Kelley had this car that when it hit 200 mph, it made a sonic boom. I had another car I thought was parked in back of the hospital and every time someone would come to visit me I'd say, "Hey, let's go for a ride." It was fun. I'd be conscious and the next think I know I was in Vancouver, Canada with Steve Miller riding in my car.
SECONDS: And your wife's breast-feeding fish?
MOUSE: This was real. They'd say, "You can't walk." And I'd say, "What do you mean? I went swimming yesterday." It was really fun. It was one of my best trips ever.
SECONDS: When most artists reach a certain sort of fame they become absorbed by the mainstream. Do you think you've become absorbed, even partially?
MOUSE: It's happening. My stuff, just a few years ago, was cult. It's just become mainstream on its own. The Sixties is reality now – mainstream. What we did in the Sixties, everybody is doing now, even thought they fought it for years and years. It just happened. It was prophec.
But now in the Nineties everything came back. It's almost like a big summarization of everything. A "summer" –ization of love. I'm doing a summer of love poster and also a bummer of love poster.
SECONDS: Bummer of love? What are you going to do for that?
MOUSE: It's a realistic scene of a Haight Street pad. A couple doing it and the guy's looking over his shoulder and he's got a big, fat doobie. The girl's shooting up in her butt. They've got Jimi Hendrix on the record player and they've got a nitrous oxide tank and black light poster on the wall and a plain old mattress. Outside the window is a psychedelic shop and Hippies walking along. Like it really was.


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boost::logic::indeterminate — Keyword and test function for the indeterminate tribool value.
// In header: <boost/logic/tribool.hpp> BOOST_CONSTEXPR bool indeterminate(tribool x, unspecified dummy = unspecified);
The indeterminate
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Recognizing a person is a complex matter.
There are several different types of memory code for identity information. These include:
- structural codes
- semantic codes
- visually-derived semantic codes
- name codes
The interesting thing about these different memory codes is that it appears that they can only be accessed in a particular order. This is part of the reason names are so much harder to recall - they're at the end of the chain.
Improving your memory for people requires you to improve the connections between these memory codes.
Difficulty in remembering people's names is one of the most common memory tasks that people wish to be better at. And the reason for this is not that their memory is poor, but because it is so embarrassing when their memory lets them down.
This isn't just an issue at a personal level. It's a particular issue for anyone who has to deal with a lot of people, many of whom they will see at infrequent intervals. Nothing makes a person — a client, a customer, a student — feel more valued than being remembered.
But we have, in fact, a remarkably good memory for other people's faces. Think about the ease with which you distinguish between hundreds, even thousands, of human faces, and then think about how hard it is to distinguish between the faces of birds, or dogs, or monkeys. This is not because human faces are any more distinctive than the faces of other animals. Think about how much harder it is for you to distinguish between the faces of people of an unfamiliar racial type.
Contrary to what many European-descended people believe, Asian faces are no less distinctive than European faces, but the differences between any human face are sufficiently subtle that they take a great deal of experience to learn. The importance of learning these subtle differences is shown in the way new babies focus on faces, and prefer them to other objects.
Our memory for other people is of course more than a memory for faces, although that part probably has the most impressive capacity. We also remember people's names and various biographical details. We can recognize people by hearing their voice, at a distance by seeing their shape or the way that they move, or even by their clothing.
But it's faces that give certainty.
Many years ago, when I was in my second year at university, I left the student cafeteria and nearly bumped into a young woman in a white lab coat. I murmured some sort of apology and started to move on, and she said my name. I stared at her blankly. She said, 'You don't recognize me, do you?' Even with this prompt, I didn't immediately get it. I still remember staring at her unfamiliar face, and then … the features seemed to shift under my eyes. It was very weird. Suddenly I knew her. I was mortified, and stunned. I hadn't seen her in a year, but we'd been best friends all through high school. How could I not immediately recognize her?
Identity information is complex
Identity information is encoded in memory in quite complex ways. To more effectively use those codes, to improve your memory for names, faces, and important personal details, it helps to understand how identity information is recorded in memory.
There are three ways we can "recognize" a person:
- we might recognize them as having been seen before, without recalling anything about them
- we might identify them as a particular person, without recalling their name ("that's a friend of my son's")
- we might identify them by name
If you think about it you will realize that you never, ever, recall information about a person without recognizing them as familiar. While this sounds terribly obvious, there is actually a clinical condition (the Capgras delusion) whereby a person, while recognizing the people around them, believes they have been replaced by doubles (imposters, robots, aliens). This is simply because the normal accompanying feeling of familiarity is missing.
You also never remember a person's name without knowing who she is. This is because names are held in a separate place to biographical details, and can only be accessed through those details.
Identity codes and how they are structured in memory
Why is there this hierarchy? Why can we only access names through biographical information? Because identity information is ordered. Your memory for a person is not like this:
But like this:
In other words, there are several different kinds of identity information, and they are clustered according to type, and can in fact only be accessed in a particular order.
Of the various identity codes (bits of encoded identity information), there are three kinds that are important for recognizing a person:
- structural codes (physical features)
- semantic codes (biographical details, e.g., occupation, marital status, address)
- name codes
There is a fourth type of code that is useful for remembering unfamiliar faces:
- visually-derived semantic codes (e.g., age, gender, attributions such as "he looks honest/intelligent/sly")
Semantic codes that are visually derived have an advantage over biographical codes, because the link with the structural code is meaningful and thus strong, whereas the connection between the structural codes and biographical details is entirely arbitrary. To say someone looks like a fox connects meaningfully with the person's facial features, whereas to say that someone is a lawyer has no particular connection with the person's face (to say someone looks like a lawyer would of course be meaningfully connected).
Visually-derived semantic codes are useful for remembering new faces because the link with the physical features of the face is strong and meaningful.
However you cannot identify a person without reference to the biographical codes.
The interesting aspect of these different codes is that you can only access them in a particular order:
When you recognize a face as familiar but can't recall anything about the person, the physical features have failed to trigger the biographical details. When you identify a person by recalling details about them, but can't recall their name, the biographical information has failed to trigger the name.
Whether the name is recalled therefore depends on the strength of the connection between the biographical details and the name.
In other words, to improve your memory for a person's identity, you must strengthen the link between the physical features and the biographical information. To improve your memory for the person's name, you must strengthen the link between the biographical information and the name.
Note: A fascinating account of what it is like to be face-blind, from a person with the condition, can be found at: http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/


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When permaculture was developed in the early 1970s, it emphasized agriculture ("permanent agriculture") and the design of homesteads and small farms.
Thirty years later, conditions have changed. The most urgent environmental issues are what permaculturalist Tim Winton calls the "hydrocarbon twins": global warming and the end of cheap energy (Peak Oil) (1). Since both conditions are caused by fossil fuels, the pressing problem is how to minimize their use. Re-examining transportation is key, since that sector is the biggest consumer of petroleum. According to the New York Times, the transportation sector "represents two-thirds of all oil demand in the United States and is solely accountable for the growth of the nation's oil thirst over the last three decades" (2).
A second emerging issue is the destruction of local communities and their replacement by a globalized commercial culture. Local communities are critical buffers against rising energy prices, economic dislocation and dysfunctional national governments. Their absence puts us at risk.
Proposed solutions are often so big and general that we feel helpless. What can one person do about the Kyoto protocol? Large economic interests dominate the US government, so that the recently passed Energy Bill consists largely of handouts to the fossil fuel industries (3).
To this impasse, permaculture brings a unique emphasis on what can be done by individuals and small groups, fostering a sense of empowerment.
This article describes how a classic permaculture technique — zone and sector analysis — can be adapted to deal with current problems.
Zones and Sectors
Zone and sector planning is a design tool for analyzing the site of a homestead or small farm. It suggests locations for activities so they can be performed efficiently and sustainably. The technique is regularly covered in permaculture texts and Permaculture Design Courses (4).
Zones are usually pictured as six concentric circles, ranging from Zone 0 (home) to Zone 5 (unmanaged land). Structures, plantings and activities are located so that those frequently visited are nearer home and those seldom visited are farther away. For example, intensive gardening is set in Zone 1, orchards in Zone 2 and crop farming in Zone 3.
Bill Mollison has an interesting explanation for zones. In his Permaculture Design Manual, he notes that zones are a way to manage "energies available on site: people, machines, wastes, and fuels of the family or society." Later, as we extend the definition of zones, we'll draw upon Mollison's understanding of energy as the principle underlying zones.
If zones are for on-site energies, sectors are a way to look at natural or wild energies that flow across the land. Such energies include sun, wind and wildfires. These energies come from outside the site and pass through it. Sectors can be pictured as wedges in the concentric zones, though their real configurations will be different on different sites.
As powerful as zone and sector analysis is, I found it awkward for planning our life on the San Francisco Peninsula. This is no surprise, since the technique was originally developed for a different purpose — planning homesteads in rural areas. The homesteads depicted as examples of zones and sectors would cost $1 to $5 million in our area. Our activities are not agricultural; even small-scale gardening is a challenge in the city.
And yet there are billions of us city-dwellers in the world. Any tool that enables us to live more ecologically sane lives would make a big difference.
Re-defining Zones
The first step in adapting zones for a wider audience is to expand the notion of the site. The usual image of a permaculture site is that of private property owned by an individual, family or small group attempting some degree of self-sufficiency. The reality for most people is very different. The city-dweller ranges over a much larger landscape, exerting energy and obtaining resources from properties owned by different entities. An individual may work on property owned by a corporation, buy vegetables from a farmers market (local owners) and hike in publicly owned parks.
Just as zones can be used to minimize distances traveled on a farm, so they can be used to reduce distances traveled in a metropolitan area.
Instead of defining zones by distance, let's define them in terms of energy expended. (Remember the connection that Mollison drew between zones and energy.) Since the key variable in fuel usage is the type of transportation, we could define the zones as:
- Zone 0: Home.
- Zone 1: Walking distance ("pedosphere").
- Zone 2: Bicycling distance ("cyclosphere").
- Zone 3: Reachable by public transportation or by a short drive.
- Zone 4: Driving distance.
- Zone 5: Reachable only by plane or other long-distance transport.
Figure 1 shows the zones with their new definitions.
Figure 1. Zones based on fossil-fuel usage
Defining the zones in this way emphasizes the fact that motorized transport burns fossil fuels and generates greenhouse gases. Zones 0 to 2 (home, walking and cycling) are environmentally benign; Zone 6 (air travel) is an environmental no-no (5).
A Tool for Awareness
To apply the zones to your daily life, make a zone map. Begin by marking the locations of your activities on a local map. Sites would include the workplace, stores, library, parks, family, friends — wherever one visits. Frequency of visits can be indicated with different colored pens.
Next, outline the different zones on the map. They won't be the idealized concentric circles of Figure 1, but will be of irregular shapes, determined by the particulars of your situation. Walking and cycling may be bounded by barriers such as freeways. The zone reachable by mass transit will follow the service corridors.
As with any model, modify the categories for your own case. Maybe you don't bicycle or there's no public transit. Or perhaps your definition of cycling distance is a 20-mile radius.
After you've gone through this exercise, you can transfer the information to the simplified diagram of concentric circles. A simplified model can make it easier to see patterns.
What do you see? The diagram shows how you're allocating your energy — your time and the fossil fuels you use. The map is a tool for awareness, so don't be judgmental or in a rush to make changes.
An Energy Diet
Over the years I've put myself on an energy diet by changing jobs and dropping commitments that required long distance travel. The result is shown in Figure 2; it's not perfect but it's much better than it was five years ago.
Figure 2. One person's zones and sectors.
As with dieting, I've found that the most lasting changes happen slowly as one gradually modifies one's lifestyle. Draconian resolutions to cut out all car travel don't work — it's like the starve-and-binge routine that dieters experience.
Nor does it help that American cities and suburbs are designed for cars, not people. Many stores and essential services can only be reached by car. Perhaps as gas becomes more expensive, people will turn away from cars and the vision of cities on a human-scale will come to pass; the prophecies of Richard Register and James Howard Kunstler will be vindicated (6).
In the meantime, there is much that individuals can do in their own lives. The big win would be to move to a community that IS designed for pedestrians and cyclists. There are often easy changes one can make, like skipping vacation trips which are long, expensive and stressful.
Mantra: Go Local, Go Deep
About traditional zones Bill Mollison said, "The golden rule is to develop the nearest area first," and the same applies here. Make full use of what is in front of you, what is local and available:
- Get involved with groups close to home.
- Adapt tastes to what is available, not what the media advertise.
- Do chores via the phone, Internet or postal system.
- Explore the local ecosystems and natural history.
- Try making what you need at home (food or music for example).
I've found that as I became involved in local activities, my schedule rapidly filled up. I no longer had the urge to travel. I didn't have the time!
Bicycles deserve a note of their own. With their unsurpassed efficiency, bicycles will have an important role to play in a low-energy future (7). To make full use of the possibilities, get hold of the bicycle maps prepared by cities, cycling clubs or map companies. Find routes on which you feel safe and comfortable and learn the basics of safe bicycling. For example, wear bright cycling jackets and carry lights and flashers for riding at night.
Re-defining Sectors
Translating zones for an urban setting is easy, but what about sectors? What variable in the city corresponds to the natural energies of sun, wind and water?
The underlying idea behind sectors is that they map energies from outside. They suggest ways to adapt to those energies, such as planting trees as windbreaks.
There is a corresponding set of influences in a metropolitan area — something that comes from outside and determines how you use resources. It's not a physical or biological force, but a socio-economic one: the ownership of property.
At the most basic level, there is the dichotomy between our property and the property of others. But as we consider actual cases, we see that our relationships to property are much more complex. For example, we often make use of property owned by family members or by the community as a whole. In fact, seven sectors can be defined by type of ownership:
- Personal – the nuclear family or household unit – ownership or rental.
- Family and friends – informal but strong relationships.
- Associations – clubs, churches, volunteer groups, etc.
- Community – city, county, state, federal.
- Local businesses – local retailers, professionals, farmers and crafts people.
- Mega-corporations – conglomerates, chains, the Fortune 500, etc.
- Undefined – some resources and lands have no clear ownership, such as underpasses, vacant lots, abandoned houses, rights-of-way, etc.
If we overlay the new concept of sectors onto the zones, we get the diagram in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Zones and Sectors.
With the new model, you can continue the mapping exercise from before. Transfer the information from the zone map into the appropriate zone and sector, and you'll see where you're spending your life energy. Are you devoting yourself to alien far-away institutions? Is this how you want spend your life?
If you want to make changes, the same guidelines hold true as for reducing fuel use: a gradual and non-judgmental approach works best. You're fighting the mainstream culture, so patience is required.
Shields, Deflectors and Collectors
An intriguing set of possibilities is suggested by Bill Mollison's remarks on natural energies: "Some factors we may invite in to our homes… Some we may exclude… Energies from outside can be thought of as so many arrows winging their way towards the home, carrying both destructive and beneficial energies; we need to erect shields, deflectors, or collectors."
In other words, we need to think deeply about the different sectors. It's simplistic to label one sector good and another bad. The task is to understand the nature of the sectors and to develop complex relationships with them. There's enough material here for years of thought and discussion. As a start, let me offer these stray thoughts:
- The mega-corporations are the most problematic sector in the modern world. As the dominant form of ownership, they control the resources that flow in and out of an area.
- Re-localization is the banner cry of Peak Oil activists such as the Post Carbon Institute. They argue that in a low-energy future, shipped goods will become prohibitively expensive as transportation costs increase. If there is widespread unemployment or an undependable national government, it is better to rely on local institutions. This argument for local production is echoed by local food enthusiasts and the food security movement (8).
- The "undefined" sector is large in Third World countries, where title to property may be difficult to obtain. People build homes, businesses and gardens without clear land ownership, and consequently live in a state of insecurity, never knowing if the result of all their work will be taken away. Community gardens often exist in a similar state, with developers hungry for land to build on.
Filling in the Blanks
You can use zones and sectors to expand your awareness of resources available in your area. Draw a zone-and-sector diagram, then fill in as many of the blanks as you can with real or possible resources. Figure 4 shows one example.
Figure 4. Getting Ideas from Zones and Sectors
This exercise demonstrates that there are many other ways to meet needs besides personal ownership. For example, in our area you could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a home with a yard in which to garden. Or you could get a plot at a community garden. Another possibility is gardening in the yard of someone who wants a garden but can't do it herself. Shops and churches offer other opportunities.
Permaculture in a Low-Energy Future
As I write, the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the supply of oil and natural gas are yet to be determined. Oil is topping $70 a barrel. No one can predict when we will enter the period of "sustainability with teeth," as Richard Heinberg puts it, but it may be soon (9).
When that period comes, permaculture will be in demand as never before. Not only will the traditional permaculture toolset be needed, but also creative adaptations of it.
Thanks to Rick Valley and my PDC group in Lost Valley, Oregon, for their suggestions and support during a presentation of an early version of this model in 2003.
Bart Anderson has been a reporter, high school teacher and technical writer. He now gardens and writes on sustainability and energy issues. He is co-editor of Energy Bulletin (http://energybulletin.net).
Note 1
"Preparing for Peak Oil in the Northern Rivers" talk by founder of The Permaforest Trust, Tim Winton, on Thursday the 19th of May 2005 at the Byron Bay Community Centre. [Australia]. Audio and slides (PDF) are downloadable.
Note 2
Mouwad, Jad and Wald, Matthew L. "The Oil Uproar That Isn't." New York Times. July 12, 2005.
Note 3
Energy Bulletin website: US Energy & Roads Bills Headlines – 12 August, 2005 http://energybulletin.net/7806.html
Note 4
Zones and sector analysis is covered in:
- Holmgren, David. Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability. 2002. p.138-9.
- Mollison, Bill and Slay, Reny Mia. Introduction to Permaculture. 1991. p.9-14.
- Mollison, Bill. Permaculture: A Designers' Manual. 1998. p.49-55.
- Morrow, Rosemary. Earth User's Guide to Permaculture. 1993. p.59-62.
- Quinney, John. "Designing Sustainable Small Farms." Mother Earth News. Issue 88 (July/August 1984).
- Whitefield, Patrick. The Earth Care Manual. 2004. p.27-8.
Note 5
Asthana, Anushka and McKie, Robin. "Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel." The Observer. May 1, 2005.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1474219,00.html http://energybulletin.net/5822.html
Note 6
Sites and articles on New Urbanism and car-free cities:
- Richard Register. "Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil." Common Ground. June 2005. http://www.commongroundmag.com/2005/cg3206/greencities3206.html. Also at http://energybulletin.net/8248.html.
- Register, Richard. Ecocity Builders website. http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/index.html
- Kunstler, James Howard. Website. http://www.kunstler.com/
Note 7
Illich. Ivan. Energy and Equity. 1973. See especially the chapter on "Degrees of Self-Powered Mobility." Available online at:
Note 8
Some recent articles on local food:
- Smith, Alisa and MacKinnon, J.B. "Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet," (ongoing series). The Tyee ( http:/www.thetyee.ca/ ).
The first three articles are compiled at http://energybulletin.net/8138.html. - Dundas, Zach. "Attack of the $3 Tomato." Willamette Week Online. August 17, 2005. http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6633.
Note 9
Heinberg, Richard. "Peak Oil: Sustainability with Teeth." Speech at the 2004 Peak Oil Conference sponsored by Community Solutions. Transcript at:


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