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Lock, Stock and Barrel
I could of course be referring to the 'wild west' component of the Beyond Santa Fe Tour this July. I am not. Instead I am drawing your attention to my forthcoming sale and to take you all one step closer to our long promised online shop.The launch inches slowly closer, however we do work full time and we all know how just how elusive time is these days!
So why the title? I am always interested in the origins of sayings and when 'lock stock and barrel' popped into mind today it was not meant to be politically incorrect. I am simply referring to today's general usage that means 'all, total, everything' - the intention of next week's event.
Research tells me that this term was first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott almost 200 years ago (1817) when he wrote the line 'Like the High-landman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel, to put her into repair.' (Why she I might ask?) In the early days of firearms manufacturing, individual craftsman made individual components one at a time. One craftsman made the 'lock' which would have been a 'match lock', 'wheel lock', 'flint lock' etc. The next craftsman made the barrel, and the last craftsman, who was a woodworker, made the stock. At some point an early entrepreneur - a craftsman or a merchant - started advertising 'Lock Stock and Barrel' meaning that you could get your entire gun at one location and did not have to go from craftsman to craftsman in order to get it finished.
In this context my use of the term is appropriate for, like those early entrepreneurs, I too go from artisan to artisan to artisan (craftsman/woman) until I have the finished article to offer my customers. Like those early entrepreneurs I also know every person in the production chain and am able to manage and take responsibility for the final quality while having great adventures along the way.
Take for instance the tops shown above; I designed the style, chose the hand woven fabric from a weaver in West Bengal, worked closely with master block printer (Ajrakh) Sufiyan Khatri, chose blocks from his existing stock and he produced the yardage. In this case it was a few hundred metres. For the sake of human and environmental health (yours included) I chose natural colours, indigo and iron black. When fermented naturally these two colours are relatively benign. The fabric then went to Mumbai and into the hands of one of my two tailoring units, both of which are woman-owned and operated. After ten years we have reached the right balance of quality, cost and delivery on time - it is not always easy working from a distance and especially in India where time has a different meaning. After 20 years I am somewhat closer to understanding the constraints and they are somewhat closer to understanding my market needs.
I work directly with my producers, resulting in finished products that meet my company's quadruple bottom line;
• ecologically sound - in other words good for people and the planet
• economically viable - Desert Traditions pays directly to each source and everyone wins
• socially responsible - all players are treated fairly and communities prosper
• culturally appropriate - artisans are not required to work beyond the bounds of tradition
All pertinent information is on the labels - you can't miss the swing tag!
Understanding leads to awareness
Awareness leads to consumer wisdom
Wisdom makes a better world
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Sun, 15 February 2015
This episode of the Weekend Warrior go back a couple months to update you on the success of a former guest and her friend as they ran 2350km across the the Freedom Trail in South Africa for a cause that is easy to support. Some takeaways from guests with some great success of their own and a quick, intense workout where all you need is a picnic table...That's it! Enjoy the show.

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Soltuna's tradition has always been to offer generous portions good food at good prices. Here you can enjoy your meal with one of the most beautiful views that the Aland islands can offer! This tradition we carry on and hope that this is the impression you carry with you when you visited us, on top of Getabergen!
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Solid. That's how the Summerville Bears played on their way to their first league win of the season said coach Ricky Pinocchio.
Through eight and a half innings the score was tied at 4.
In the bottom of the eighth Summerville's Luke Fulkerson doubled on a line drive to left field. Linden walked Kyle Norton. Next up was Octavian Hernandez who singled to load the bases.
Marcus Warnock finished the job with a walk-off single scoring Fulkerson and giving the Bears the win.
Warnock had three RBIs and Hernandez went to for four with two RBIs.
Jordy Craddock and Paul Bruce each added two hits for the BEars.
The Bears had a productive sixth inning with four runs and a 4-3 lead.
Linden rallied with one run in the seventh.
Kyle Norton pitched seven innings and had three strikeouts.
Fulkerson pitched a scoreless eighth th to keep the game tied and give us the chance to win the game in the eighth, said Pinocchio.
Next up for the Bears is a home league game tonight against Calaveras. First pitch is at 3:30 p.m. They're at home again Tuesday against Argonaut at 3:30 p.m.


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Consider that we cannot cure symptoms of dissatisfaction with the status quo.
What are these symptoms? Boredom, a lack of integrity, disaffection, disregardfulness, disrespect....basic hoi poloi syndrome.
This syndrome can be observed in both students and teachers. What is the cure? Not more of the same!
Shifting our shared school paradigms from the Industrial Era, which is over like bell-bottoms are over, to the happening Digital Revolution. Some call it by other names, like the rose.
- What if we did something scary and radical for a change?
- What if school above primary school were four days per week for several hours in the morning.
- What if MS and HS courses met once or twice per week and students actually completed collaborative research assignments online outside of class.
- What if teachers only taught four courses, but deeply taught them.
- What if teachers tutored individuals, led study groups, authored wikis/blogs, advised student clubs in the afternoons, and still got paid for an entire eight hours work.
We all know we work far more than eight hours anyway. What if? Will we dare to live our dreams?
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Two car crashes that killed a total of 11 people on Sunday occurred more than 2,000 miles apart, but bore one terrifying similarity — they were caused by drivers barreling the wrong way down highways.
Five people, including four University of South Florida fraternity brothers, died in the crash in Tampa, Fla., and six people, including four relatives, died in a pre-dawn wreck on a freeway in Pomona, Calif. Police arrested a 21-year-old female driver on suspicion of felony driving under the influence and felony manslaughter in connection to the California deaths.
While wrong-way crashes occur relatively infrequently, accounting for only 3 percent of accidents on divided highways, the fatality rate for wrong-way collisions is roughly 27 times more than other types of accidents, according to a 2012 report by the National Transportation Safety Board.
On average, 360 people died annually in roughly 260 fatal wrong-way collisions, a phenomenon first studied by the federal agency in 1968 during its investigation of a multiple fatality wreck near Baker, Calif.
Driver impairment by alcohol was identified by investigators as a factor in 60 percent of fatal wrong-way collisions, according to the NTSB report. Furthermore, more than half of those wrong-way drivers had blood-alcohol concentration at or above 0.15, more than double the rate of impairment in most states.
Other key findings within the NTSB study included that drivers over the age of 70 constitute about 15 percent of at-fault drivers in wrong-way wrecks and that the primary origin of wrong-way movements is entering an exit ramp.
"Other mechanisms resulting in wrong-way movement include making a U-turn on the mainline or using the emergency turnaround through the median," the report found.
Seventy-eight percent of wrong-way collisions occur between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., and a disproportionate number of them occur on the weekends. Most wrong-way collisions take place in the lane closest to the median, according to the report.
During Sunday's fatal crash in southwest Florida, the driver of an SUV was heading south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 275 in Tampa around 2 a.m. when the driver collided head-on with a Hyundai Sonata. Authorities said the SUV burst into flames and the unidentified driver died at the scene.
Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Gaskins said all four victims in the second car also died at the scene. Authorities said they were all males in their early 20s. They were identified by university officials as Jobin Joy Kuriakose, 21; Ankeet Harshad Patel, 22; Imtiyaz "Jim" Ilias, 20; and Dammie Yesudhas, 21.
"Our hearts are heavy at the loss of such bright, energetic and optimistic young people who had promising futures ahead of them; to have their lives cut tragically short betrays our sense of fairness and security," University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft said in a statement. "Now is the time when our faith and the support of those closest to us can sustain us, and should in tribute to their spirit of friendship and brotherhood."
The highway was closed for several hours and re-opened around 7 a.m. The accident remains under investigation.
Meanwhile, in California, authorities said 21-year-old Olivia Culbreath of Fontana was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and manslaughter after being pulled from a badly mangled Chevy Camaro on State Route 60.
California Highway Patrol Officer Rodrigo Jimenez said the crash scene in the suburb east of Los Angeles was horrific. Two people in a Ford Explorer — Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47, and Ester Delgado — died at the scene, said Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral.
Two other family members in the SUV — Leticia Ibarra, 42, and Jessica Jasmine Mejia, 20 — were declared dead at a hospital. All four were from Huntington Park, Calif.
Two additional victims were passengers in a Chevy Camaro that authorities said was driven by Culbreath. Her sister, Maya Louise Culbreath, 24, of Rialto and Kristin Melissa Young, 24, of Chino were declared dead at the scene, Corral said.
Authorities said Culbreath — who, according to witnesses, was speeding up to 100 mph — was traveling north in the southbound lanes of State Route 57 before transitioning east in the westbound lanes of State Route 60, where the collisions began.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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When it comes to musicians who are rated the best golfers around, it seems that Songbird man Kenny G is number one.
According to Golf Digest, the Hebrew sax star born Kenneth Gorelick tops a list of 100 musicians and beats such names as Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper and Justin Timberlake.
Golf Digest gives the 50-year-old a plus-0.6 Handicap.
In an interview with the man who has a Guinness World Record for holding the longest sustained note on a sax at 45 minutes and 47 seconds, Kenny G reveals his golfing insights on playing with golf legends:
He has spent time with greats like Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus and asked them what their bodies feel like at specific moments in their swings. "I'd try to force improvement with hours on the practice tee or launch monitors," he says. "My teachers warned me that I could get too mechanical, but I'd say, 'I'm a different guy. I'm going to learn it differently than anybody else.' But I got myself pretty tangled up in technique."
A modest Kenny G is rather pleased with how well he has done and does not want to rest on his laurels.
"Even my good rounds have been a series of good swings more than a series of good shots. I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf."
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No less a luminary than Sir Charles Sherrington, pioneering 20th-century neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate, called the 17th-century physician Thomas Willis "the inventor of the nervous system." This is an interesting exaggeration, at first glance grandiose but implying that, even as a theory describes reality, it may also set new boundaries for thought, in effect constructing a new conceptual entity. One can ask, after all: As our own knowledge of brain, mind, and consciousness keeps enlarging, will the concept of "the nervous system"—the "invention" bequeathed to us four centuries ago by Willis—always seem as central and satisfactory as it does today? The question is not irrelevant to Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World, a new book by science writer Carl Zimmer, author of At The Water's Edge, Parasite Rex, and Evolution. Willis, the protagonist of Soul Made Flesh, spent his career in Oxford and later London at a time when the basic function of the brain was controversial, when questioning the concept of the mind as immaterial and immortal could be fatal, and when centuries-old conceptions of anatomy were virtually sanctified. Willis persisted over decades in making his multifarious observations on disease, physiology, and anatomy—rooting them in dissection, careful notes from his own medical practice, and a determination to question traditional notions—as the English Civil War, then Restoration, raged around him. In the cauldron of the struggle between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, families were sundered and old friendships shattered. Toleration was minimal, and one could be imprisoned or worse, depending on what faction was in the ascendancy in that area. Soul Made Flesh begins with two short chapters that trace the evolution of ideas about brain function from the Egyptians to the mid-17th century and ends with a chapter that looks at the present state of investigation into brain function. But these chapters only establish the context for this careful history of the illustrious Willis and the spectacular group of intellectual giants who worked together in Oxford during that time. Their devotion to gaining knowledge by devising experiments, not by clinging to the ideas put forward by ancient Greek and Roman scholars, was remarkable. Certainly, part of this change was the doctrine of the scientific method advanced by Francis Bacon at the beginning of the century, but mostly it was due to the insatiable curiosity of the members of the Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club, as they called themselves. This club, which later became the Royal Society, still exists today. Zimmer's historical recreation of the men and the era is vivid. Here is how Willis strides onto the stage: An inner circle of men stands closest to the body. Christopher Wren, thirty years old and not yet England's great architect, studies the exposed flanges and curves of the skull. He can sketch bowels and hearts as beautifully as he will later sketch a cathedral dome. Richard Lower, who in a few years will perform the first successful blood transfusion in history, severs the nobleman's carotid arteries and slices the gristly cartilage between his cervical vertebrae. The finest dissector in all Europe, he serves as assistant to another man in the inner circle, the owner of Beam Hall, the man who assembled his herd of natural philosophers within its walls—a short, stammering physician with hair that one neighbor describes in his diary as being "like a dark red pigge." His name is Thomas Willis. HEART? HEAD? PINEAL GLAND? Thomas Willis was born in 1621 at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, the son of a farmer who was steward of an estate. The family was staunchly Royalist and members of the Church of England. In 1638, at the age of 17, Willis went to Oxford to study theology. Given his humble station in life, he was classified as a servitor and required to work to earn his education. Willis soon became more interested in medicine than theology, seeking to develop various cures by following the methods of the Swiss physician Paracelsus, who a century earlier had started the science called alchemy. In 1642, Willis's education was disrupted by the English Civil War, when Oxford was attacked by the Parliament forces. Willis fought as a soldier in the Royalist army, but eventually Oxford was taken by the Parliament forces and, after a time, Willis was able to resume his studies. After another four years, in 1646, he obtained his medical degree— actually somewhat prematurely, as the remaining Royalist faction at Oxford recognized Willis's exemplary service to the Royalist cause. In his studies, Willis was influenced by work of William Harvey, who had described the action of the heart and the circulation of the blood. Harvey talked about "the divine banquet of the brain" but held that the heart was the body's leading organ. Harvey also rejected the idea that animal spirits initiated nerve action, a theory advanced by his contemporary, the French philosopher René Descartes. Descartes believed that the animal spirits were in the brain ventricles (cavities) and moved into the brain a substance establishing memories. He also thought that nerves were hollow tubes through which animal spirits were transmitted to the muscles to initiate movement. Descartes placed what he called the rational soul in the center of the brain, in the pineal gland, and maintained that only humans had such a rational soul. Still another system prevalent at the time was first put forward in the previous century by Jan Baptista van Helmont, a follower of Paracelsus. Van Helmont held that each organ had a soul, and the body was a "hive of souls." The principal such soul was in the stomach, where food was separated into what was good and what was bad. But yet another major thinker writing at about the same time as Willis, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, called the heart "the fountain of all senses." A great strength of Soul Made Flesh is how we can step into the world of these complex ideas and so understand what Willis had to contend with in his research and teaching. These competing theories of the locus of thought, memory, emotion, and the soul were aptly described by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice (1596): Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is a worthy summary of the confusing state of knowledge at the time of Willis's education. THE NEW ANATOMISTS After the victory of Parliament's forces, there were visitations to prominent citizens to be sure they were no longer harboring Royalist tendencies. Willis, now in an active medical practice, was not deemed important enough to warrant inquiry. But throughout this unsettling time, he arranged for church services to be held in his house, which, if discovered, would be a cause for severe reprisals. The strength of the Puritans and dissident Protestants was growing; Oliver Cromwell was assuming more and more power. He supported the execution of King Charles I in 1649, led successful campaigns in Ireland and Scotland, and was named Lord Protector in 1653. The Parliament and its backers were being ignored. All of it was distasteful to Willis, a Royalist and faithful member of the Church of England, but he continued to work and his medical practice flourished. In 1640, John Wilkins, a mathematician and astronomer who had become well connected with Parliament, was installed in an influential Oxford post. He began recruiting great minds to the university, placing no restriction on the background of his recruits, although he was a Puritan and favorable to the new regime. Eventually, Wilkins assembled an astounding collection of scholars. Christopher Wren was interested in astronomy, biology, and architecture. Robert Boyle was involved in animal experiments and, later, in investigating physical phenomena such as the behavior of gases. Robert Hooke developed the compound microscope, coined the word "cell," and worked on physical principles such as elasticity. Later, the philosopher John Locke joined the group and developed his ideas on language and philosophy. Willis was an early participant in this astounding assemblage of talent and collaborated with its members in many experiments. Willis's particular interest was dissection and description of anatomy. Most of the anatomy taught at that time went back to the 2nd-century Greek physician Galen, who had dissected only animals but presented his findings as human anatomy. Then, in the first half of the 16th century, knowledge of human anatomy was greatly improved by Andreas Vesalius. Working in the latter half of the 17th century, Willis described the anatomy of various animals but also dissected humans. He was one of the first to correlate the illnesses he observed and treated with the results of his autopsies. Here, Zimmer shows us the roots of modern neurology in the reliance on anatomy and the increasing technical skill that enabled Willis and his colleagues to seek empirical confirmation of speculative theories about the brain. This work anticipated the development of anatomical-clinical correlation that dramatically changed medicine two centuries later. In his anatomical studies, Willis was assisted by William Petty, Lower, and Wren, with Wren making the sketches of the anatomical specimens. Petty and Willis achieved a certain local celebrity when they revived one of their "corpses"—a woman accused of murdering her baby and hanged. She was pronounced dead, placed in a coffin, and moved to Petty's rooms for dissection. Petty and Willis noted that she was still alive, treated her, and she recovered. She was due to be hanged again, but the two men pleaded that the baby had been stillborn, not murdered, and she was freed. Many patients treated by Willis had infections, accompanied by fever. He made detailed observations of these cases and, in 1659, published his first book, Fever— a popular but also controversial volume, because Willis attacked Galen's theory of disease at a time when Galen's ancient concepts were still being taught in most medical schools. "A DETRIMENT TO THE VERY FACULTY OF PHYSICK" Fortune changed for Willis in 1660. Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, and his son, Richard, took over as Lord Protector. Inept from the start, Richard raised the wrath of the army and was overthrown and banished. Now, with no reigning government, there was a movement to reinstate the monarchy. The son of Charles I was brought to the throne. Although profligate in many ways, Charles II did take an interest in science and gave a royal charter to the Oxford group, which, with a few additions, formed the Royal Society for Promoting Natural Knowledge. The founding members promised the king that it was formed for "the riches and ornament of our kingdom." With a new government that appreciated his lifelong Royalist credentials, Willis was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford. Willis continued his research, now with still more brilliant collaborators. Boyle had invented a vacuum pump, and he and Willis put animals into the chamber, removed the air, and noted their behavior. Willis's magnificent book, Cerebri anatome or The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, published in 1664, synthesized all his work on anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. The illustrations were done by his friend and coworker Wren, who was gaining stature as an architect. It was at this time that Willis advanced the term, "neurologie, a doctrine of the nerves." He published other books, including Cerebral Pathology, and other papers on various diseases, describing for the first time the signs and symptoms of typhus fever. In 1666, Willis moved to London at the urging of his friend and patron Gilbert Sheldon, the Archbishop of Canterbury. With the help of such friends, and the publication of his books, Willis's medical practice flourished. He became one of the richest men in London. But in 1670, personal tragedy struck with the death of his wife, Mary. Previously, he had lost four of his eight children. Seeking to assuage his sorrow, he wrote Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Brutes, in which he discussed his ideas on the soul, or souls, and their location and function. Willis always maintained that humans were "blessed with a material soul and an immaterial soul." The rational soul, placed in the brain by God, was immaterial; it did not die. By contrast, the sensitive soul, with connections to the outer world, could be subject to madness and idiocy (he explained mental illness in this way), and it died at the death of the body. Willis wrote his last book, Rational Therapeutics, as he was dying. It summed up his medical observations and practice. After a funeral that his grandson characterized as "ridiculously sumptuous," Willis was buried in Westminster Abbey. A Royal Society statement said that Willis's death "may certainly be reputed a public loss, and a detriment to the very Faculty of Physick." WILLIS'S FUNDAMENTAL DISCOVERIES What, then, was Willis's lasting contribution? It was certainly not locating the rational soul in the brain. Philosophers, theologians, scientists, and physicians who wrote before Willis seemed obsessed with the proper placement of the soul. But as Willis pointed out, the soul was immaterial and immortal, and, as such, could not be identified by science. No, his greatest contribution, as Zimmer's title suggests, was that he was the first to declare that thoughts, emotions, sensory impressions, voluntary actions, and memories—all that we now know has a neural basis—are the properties of the brain. After Willis, there was really no serious dissent about the role of the brain. His was, as Zimmer puts it, "the most shattering triumph" of the 17th century—a century jam packed with new scientific insights. Willis's careful observations, logical deductions, and extensive writings swept aside previous notions and became the starting point for more serious work on explaining brain function. In view of his lifelong, settled commitment to scientific method, why did Willis emphasize the role of the rational soul and ascribe to the Creator the marvels of the nervous system? Was he courting favor with the authorities so his writings would not be suppressed? After all, this was an age of religious intolerance on all sides, with the Inquisition, the Index, the trial of Galileo, the visitations to root out the Royalists, the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal, the exclusion of Catholics from the English universities, and the brutal treatment by Cromwell of Irish and Scots for their religious beliefs. Even Descartes, a faithful Catholic, curbed some of his ideas for fear of reprisal by Rome. Yet, it seems likely that Willis was not dissembling. His actions throughout his life testified to his firm Christian beliefs, as did his last action before his death, when he made peace with his Creator and took Holy Communion. Zimmer succeeds in capturing the essence of what he calls the "Neurocentric Age," for after Harvey, the focus of anatomists shifted to the nervous system. But I am not sure that he highlights sufficiently the fundamental discoveries made by Willis. In identifying them, we must keep in mind that the base of knowledge with which Willis started was several centuries old, with distorted and incomplete anatomy and fanciful notions of vital spirits and the origin of thought, memories, and emotion. First, Willis dispensed with the ventricular theory of brain function, which had existed since the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and continued by Galen, who in Willis's time was still the accepted authority on anatomy and medicine. Willis pointed out in Cerebri Anatome that the ventricles were only a hollow space formed by the folding of the developing brain and played no part in its function. Second, Willis corrected the scheme, put forward by Descartes, that the peripheral nerves were hollow. To demonstrate this, Willis microscopically examined the nerves with the instrument devised by his friend Hooke. Third, his work on the blood supply of the brain was the result of careful dissections and injecting colored fluids to follow the course of the vessels. The meticulous description of the circle of blood vessels at the base of the brain, now called the Circle of Willis, replaced the old description of the rete mirabile, or marvelous network, put forth by Galen. Fourth—likely one of Willis's most prescient observations—was the dividing of brain function into separate parts. Willis said sensory impressions were gathered into the corpus striatum, passed through the corpus callosum where imagination was added, and then moved into the cortex of the brain where memories were stored. His notion was counter to most current theories, which avoided a mechanistic view of brain function. Zimmer properly points out Willis's importance in our thinking about the brain and its functions, but he pays less attention to the importance of his contributions to anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. CHOOSING OUR METAPHOR FOR THE BRAIN Although Zimmer does not mention it, historians of neuroscience have noted another interesting point about Willis's ideas. The conception of brain function often mirrors the technology of the day. The ventricular concept of brain function could be likened to the elaborate engineering of the Greeks and Romans, with its highly developed construction of aqueducts, channels, sewers, hypocausts, and irrigation networks. Willis, growing up with the alchemy of Paracelsus, described the brain as "the serpentine channels of an alembic" (a device to distill and mix chemicals). He also saw the brain as a machine and asserted that it should be possible "to explore the brain according to the rules, cannons, and laws of the mechanick." Willis's case for localizing brain function was not fully accepted during his lifetime. Opposition focused on the idea that localization was mechanistic and thus not in keeping with the concept of an immortal soul. Indeed, even at the beginning of the 19th century, the notion that the brain functioned as a unified whole was still largely accepted, mainly because of the influence of Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, the leading physiologist of the time. Brain scientists conceived of the brain as a bowl of porridge; if parts were removed or damaged, function was not affected by where the spoonful was removed but by how many spoonfuls were taken. The movement toward localization of brain function actually arrived in the 18th century with the pseudoscience of phrenology, an attempt by Austrian anatomist Franz Joseph Gall to divide the brain into functional centers. Gall placed personality attributes in different areas of the brain, largely on the basis of skull size and configuration. Localization did not get a firm scientific foundation until the work of Paul Broca in the 1860s. Using anatomical-clinical methods, Broca localized the language center in the frontal lobes, and, later, lateralized it to the left side. This launched a new model of brain function, with various centers connecting with others as in a telegraph network—the hot new technology of that day. More recently, the brain has been viewed as a computer. Certainly, the all-or-none response of a nerve cell, reaching or failing to reach the point of firing an action potential, fits with the binary basis of modern computing. The analogy may work less well, however, as neuroscience wrestles with neurotransmitters and cells that activate, inhibit, and modulate other cells. Will our next model be the quantum computer? The last chapter of Soul Made Flesh is a lively look at modern techniques for investigating brain function. Zimmer describes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a tool that produces a dynamic profile of brain function by distinguishing brain areas that at a given moment are calling for the most blood to satisfy their metabolic demands. Thus, the brain areas involved in producing language, for example, can be delineated by watching the changes when the subject speaks. Zimmer tells of a series of experiments that used fMRI on human subjects during the process of making ethical decisions. Is this the beginning of the modern scientific investigation of the human soul? If we contemplate knowledge of how ethical decisions are made being used for employment or, perhaps, in a court of law, we might well wonder how much we really want to know about the brain. Will we be asking these same questions a hundred years from now? Is this what Willis intended?
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For goodness sake. Someone tell IKEA that it's the 21st century—they won't listen to me:
Our website is as yet incompatible with MACs, laptops, Windows Vista and Mozilla Firefox. Some anti-virus software and firewalls can also block access to the secure parts of our site.
The above text is some genuine "advice" received when informing IKEA in the UK that their site check-out facility doesn't work.
And why do so many people insist on typing the word "Mac" in upper-case? I've never understood that…


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Ortega Abogados renders legal services to both, individuals and entities, Mexican and foreign, which have business, investments or the intention of carrying out an investment within the Yucatan Peninsula. We hold for the benefit of our clients, an extraordinary professional relationship with key public officers and authorities of the three levels of government (Federal, State and local), whom regulate or supervise the industries and activities of our clients. The following are the main areas of practice of Ortega Abogados:
Real Estate. Our Real Estate practice focuses on advising clients, including multinational and domestic developers, hospitality companies and investors, on the legal and regulatory aspects of real estate investments and strategic transactions in the commercial (including retail), residential, hospitality and industrial sectors.
Corporate. We have a vast experience in corporate and corporate governance law applicable to mercantile and civil organizations. We advise medium size and institutional companies in their day-to-day operations and in complex transactions, as well.
Environmental Law. Ortega Abogados focuses its scope of its environmental law practice within the range of the real estate transactions of our clients, to whom we provide legal services regarding the regulatory compliance to which they are subject to, as well as in other specific transactions.
Hospitality Industry. Ortega Abogados advises all sorts of business organizations engaged in the hospitality industry. In this practice area, our main clients are not only global hotel chains, but boutique hotels as well. Our advice is focused in rendering legal services to such entities in their various day-to-day operations and in complex transactions as well.
Financial Law. Ortega Abogados has a rich experience in the financial law arena. We advise our clients in the full spectrum of financial products, including legal advise to domestic and foreign financial institutions in granting loans and other kind of financing structures to Mexican entities. Likewise, we advise our clients in the creation and formalization of collateral over assets located in Mexico.
The lawyers of Ortega Abogados in charge of this practice area have a deep experience and knowledge gained by representing and advising all kinds of lenders, borrowers, financial institutions, issuers and other participants in the financial industry.
Mergers & Acquisitions. We have gained important experience in mergers and acquisitions of business organizations; joint ventures agreements; joint investments; public-private investments, and in the creation of investments mechanisms to transfer controlling participations of entities (whether as controlling groups or minority shareholders).
Litigation. Ortega Abogados specializes its litigation practice by offering legal security and certainty to our clients in the development of their activities, by rendering advice that focuses in the prevention of conflicts or in the solution of these.


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Plaisance residents continue to reject gov't-appointed overseer
There was no let up by Plaisance residents as they continue to reject the government's nominee of overseer at the Plaisance Neighborhood Democratic Council.
The government's move to install the man was met with strong resistance on Wednesday and today the residents were camping out to prevent the man from taking up his chair.
Shawn Austin APNU member said what is of concern to them is that the man had a criminal past, he is not qualified for the job and he lacks the experience.
He said others within the community applied but their applications were rejected. He is replacing the long serving overseer for the past 15 years at Plaisance.
Austin said the residents are not going to be pushed over like what occurred in the past. He spoke of the lands that were taken for Prado Ville 2, sections of the burial ground and the recent efforts to sell these vacant lands to a private developer.


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In Czech Republic, a Garden Helps To Heal an Old Soldier's Bitterness
PILSEN, Czech Republic -- And what of places where there are no formal reconciliation efforts?
Ask Lubos Hruska, who one recent day found himself welcoming a class of hairdressing students to his meditation garden and Monument to Victims of Evil.
"These were 16- and 17-year-old girls wearing makeup and miniskirts," Mr. Hruska says...


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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Is new-httpd moderated? Looks like every letter I send gets censored, > which is really weird, since I see all sorts of crap on the list, whereas > my posts are usually technical... > Anyway, I'm sending this to you directly to ensure you get a chance to > look at it... It only allows subscribers to post... are you using the same subscription addr as you are for sending messages to the list? Brian Behlendorf deals with the non-subscriber posts, and he sometimes lags by a few days... > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > We will impose an additional restriction on modules -- if threads are in > > use, they may not make any assumption that the same thread will be used to > > process all phases of a request. Put another way -- thread local storage > > is useless... and there will be no "thread_init_hook" function to tell > > modules when threads have been created. This restriction is to give us > > access to hybrid async/sync techniques. Modules needing information > > persisting between request phases should use request-specific data > > (or connection-specific data). > > Ouch, that's a very agressive restriction. It pretty much requires any > module that uses local storage to be Apache specific, since it would have > to save information in Apache's per-request or per-connection structure > (not to mention it would have to pass pointers to these structures all > over to any function that may require access to these globals, which is > terrible). Apache already passes around a request_rec pretty much everywhere... I suppose we can implement apache-specific "thread local storage", which we save and restore if we ever switch threads... but for first implementation I'm really not going to worry about it... > I really urge you to reconsider this. For PHP 4.0 (Zend), I've written a > platform independent local storage resource manager (that works very well > in the threaded ISAPI/IIS4 environment), but the whole approach will be > renedered completely useless with such restrictions, since it's based on > the thread id, and obviously expects that all steps and hooks are called > within the same thread You could base your storage off the conn_rec * instead of a thread_id... Also, I was planning on building a connection_id which is a densely packed small integer, because the scoreboard will need something like this. The main case I'm considering this for is the handler phase. In general, any request goes through a bunch of protocol stages and reaches the handler, and from there it fits into a few small categories: 1. copy a file fd back to the client 2. copy a pipe/socket fd (from another process) back to the client 3. copy a mmapped region back to the client 4. copy a dynamically generated memory region back to the client 5. the handler writes stuff to a BUFF, and its sent to the client 1, 2, 3, and 4 are very simple cases where if the stuff to be sent doesn't fit in the socket's send buffer, and we have to block the thread serving the response. At this point we're potentially consuming an expensive resource (a thread, stack, kernel memory for the thread, ...) just to wait for the client. Instead we can switch to an asynchronous behaviour, all of 1, 2, 3, 4 are obvious -- the handler is essentially in a loop which we all know the structure of, because the entire object is already generated somewhere. The handler at this point sets up a special new record in the conn_rec, and will return with a special return code indicating the switch to asynchronous behaviour. If the MPM supports async stuff, then it will release this thread from serving the rest of this request... otherwise there'll be a library to handle the "async" stuff synchronously. This async stuff will be completed using select/poll/non-blocking i/o (or other similar variants, there are several other faster methods on other platforms). We've freed up the expensive resource: - consume less CPU per client - handle thousands upon thousands of long haul slow clients, because they're just a conn_rec/request_rec at this point... no kernel stack, no context switching... really, just minimal resource consumption - do better on existing benchmarks, but more importantly, do better on real world problems At some point in the future the async stuff will finish, and a caller supplied "completion" function will be called in another thread. This gets us back out of the async core, and into protocol code, which will "resume" the handler. This way the async core really has no knowledge of the protocols involved -- and we can use this technique for any protocol (and for variations on 1, 2, 3, 4)... 5. is the case for modules which don't want to take advantage of the async features. But we can give them help by turning them into case 4 with more features for BUFF... such as buffer up to 50k responses, and do the async thing, otherwise do it synchronously. > Frankly, with such restrictions, I'm not sure how > something at the complexity of a scripting language can be implemented as > an Apache module. If it can, it would have to tie the implementation to > Apache very closely (PHP 4.0's implementation actually allows the same DLL > or library to be used for the CGI version, Apache version and IIS version, > with thin server-specific wrappers; with such restrictions, it doesn't > seem possible). > > If I'm missing something obvious, please enlighten me :) I think you're missing something slightly non-obvious :) Or I'm still missing your point... In essence I'm saying that the "thread local storage" is part of the conn_rec (or request_rec, whichever is most convenient for you). All entry points into your module include a request_rec structure -- you can fetch a void * pointer from your request_data entry; you can store whatever you need there. So think of the thread as a resource which happens to execute your code for a while, but think of the conn_rec/request_rec as your indication of what is going on. Apache *could* support "thread local storage", and if this really bothers you then I'll encourage you to supply a patch. We can change the requirement this way: - MPMs which do not guarantee to use the same thread for all request phases must save and restore the thread local storage across such changes ... but this is really hard to do portably -- unless we require all modules to go through an apache, portable thread local storage API. Which means I'd rather it wait for APR, or rather someone else take care of it... 'cause the stuff which I'm working on is busy enough already :) Dean
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Full newborn sessions are $375 and take 2-3 hours in length. These sessions come with a disc of 20-30 edited images on disc or online gallery. The full sessions include the parent and sibling shots.
Mini newborn sessions are $275 and take 1-2 hours in length. These sessions come with a disc of 8-12 edited images on a disc or online gallery. These sessions do not include the parent and sibling shots. They are more relaxed poses, laying down, in wraps just depends on sleepiness of baby.
When should I book my session:
You should contact me at any time during your pregnancy in order for me to allow space for when your miracle is expected. Then I ask for my clients to contact me again once they arrive home from the hospital to set an exact date and time.
When is the best time to photograph our new baby:
I like to photograph all of my newborn sessions within the first 10-14 days of your baby's life.
How long is the session:
Your session will last approxiately 2-3 hours. I do not like to rush my newborn sessions and will stop as often as needed to cuddle or feed your baby.
What days/times do you schedule your newborn sessions:
The studio is open Monday – Saturday.
What to expect:
Expect to relax, watch and enjoy your time. There will most likely be a few feedings during a session as well. I ask all my mommy's to try their best to keep their baby awake prior to the session if possible- and that they give the baby a feeding once they arrive. I have everything you need, wipes, nursing pillows, blankets…so don't fret!
Do we need to supply the props:
No! I have a large assortment of blankets, wraps, hats, headbands and props for your session.
What if I've already had my baby (over 14 days old)?
Please feel free to contact me as I may have a free space available for you.
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text: DEBRA ERENBERG is director of state affairs at Justice at Stake, overseeing policy advocacy, coalition building, and organizing to support fair, impartial, and adequately funded state courts. She came to Justice at Stake from Amnesty International USA, where she worked as midwest regional director, serving as the lead staff person on human-rights advocacy efforts in 13 states. Before joining Amnesty, Ms. Erenberg served as organizing director for the Rainforest Action Network and as director of Affiliate Development for NARAL Pro-Choice America. In 20 years of advocacy, organizing, election campaigns, and nonprofit management, she has worked with America Votes, Center for Science in the Public Interest, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and others. She holds a J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center, a master's degree in public policy (M.P.P.) from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan.


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text: Pema is the wife of Tenzin and the mother of their three airbender children - Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo, pregnant with a fourth child. Pema is a non-bending Air Acolyte who lives a serene life with her family on Air Temple Island. She is kind and compassionate with a lovely sense of humor. She enjoys spending time with spiritual endeavors and at times feels overwhelmed by her children's airbending abilities. Even though she is very calm, she gets a little irritated and angry when her children don't listen but she knows how to handle them during those times.


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|Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:09:51 GMT
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1342?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13151567#comment-13151567 ] Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-1342: ---------------------------------------- Technical comments notwithstanding, saying "We won't be holding up this patch because it seems more complicated than before. It's about what users want." is a little bold. As I understand the Apache rules, if Paul feels strongly he can vote -1 which is a veto. >From http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html: "Votes on code modifications follow a different model. In this scenario, a negative vote constitutes a veto , which cannot be overridden." Any suggestion that one person can force in a controversial change to an Apache project needs to be challenged. > Asynchronous file writes > ------------------------ > > Key: COUCHDB-1342 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1342 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Database Core > Reporter: Jan Lehnardt > Fix For: 1.3 > > Attachments: COUCHDB-1342.patch > > > This change updates the file module so that it can do > asynchronous writes. Basically it replies immediately > to process asking to write something to the file, with > the position where the chunks will be written to the > file, while a dedicated child process keeps collecting > chunks and write them to the file (and batching them > when possible). After issuing a series of write request > to the file module, the caller can call its 'flush' > function which will block the caller until all the > chunks it requested to write are effectively written > to the file. > This maximizes the IO subsystem, as for example, while > the updater is traversing and modifying the btrees and > doing CPU bound tasks, the writes are happening in > parallel. > Originally described at http://s.apache.org/TVu > Github Commit: https://github.com/fdmanana/couchdb/commit/e82a673f119b82dddf674ac2e6233cd78c123554 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Above and Beyond: Bailey Schaben and Alec Lapke
In Dunlap, Iowa there are two students who took a required class project and turned it into a community service project.
Bailey Schaben and Alec Lapke are seniors at Boyer-Valley High School, and they had a different approach to their project.
"I wanted to do something that was kinda out-of-the-box and big. I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing," said Schaben. "I asked Alec. I'm like, 'Hey, you want to do this with me?' And he was like, 'Yeah, let's do it.'"
Schaben and Lapke partnered with Meals from the Heartland to package enough food to make over 42,000 meals.
"It was overwhelming at first when we were unloading the truck and there was all this food you see," said Lapke. "The worry hits you."
But it wasn't just the two of them involved. Boyer-Valley High School Principal Kurt Brosomle had bigger goals in mind.
"Our principal came up to us, and he's like I want the whole school involved," said Schaben.
And with the added help, it made the process of filling, weighing, sealing, and packaging the bags much smoother and more efficient.
"It was awesome to see how all the kids rallied around it," said Paul Marlin, Boyer-Valley school counselor. "The kids who aren't always motivated were excited in the gym. They were smiling, running around, and filling stuff. And every time they filled something, you could see the energy that was for it, and all the students really just rallied around it and got excited about it."
Schaben and Lapke said the experience helped them grow and connect with their classmates.
"Not only do we get to have this experience, but they get to enjoy it as well," said Schaben.
This April, Schaben and Lapke will be attending the state FFA Convention in Ames, Iowa, where they will participate in a similar service project as part of the conference.
To nominate a student for Above and Beyond: siouxlandnews.com/news/above-and-beyond/click-to-nominate-a-student


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Search Results: 44 found, Filter: Format, Cassette
Tears seem to have made sufficient space for a shy smile on Miaux's latest audio massage, although the general mood remains that of being "alone in a bar at 6am while the cleaner politely asks you to put your feet up, like all the other furniture". Let's keep things simple and clear, like in Sarajevo: A and B are the same on this cassette; the audio was created as a soundtrack for a screening of René Clair's silent movie Paris Qui Dort from 1923. Miaux must have been younger than her wild child is right now. Being woken up with Tubular Bells daily as a child instead of the ringtone that seems to be stuck in Antwerp cathedral certainly made its mark… Instead of playing with talking dolls everyday, Miaux had to drill for gold to procure a bowl of Balkan soup, resulting in the beauty her destroyed hands push out of these keys!
Tabloid / Access Ch. 1 / Cassette / Chondritic Sound / CH273
First new recordings in five years from Aaron Davis. Slow-moving riffs and minimal drum machine emerging from his trademark tonal sea. Released on the recently-revived Monorail Trespassing label in a limited edition of 100 copies.
"Buddy's News" sells Maxim, poppers, National Review and Goat Weed Extract. It sits in a kiosk at the corner of urban sleaze and suburban bleach—a fertile arena for Siobhan's demented electronica. In this arena, Siobhan's sound shifts ever so slightly. Monster-guzzler machismo is curbed in favor of something subtler and more colorful. Beats bleed out into textures; kick-drums give way to hi-end melodies and purring synths. The snare drum gets so mushy it spreads like Blue Bonnet at room temperature. There are still headbangers, but the palette is attenuated, washed out, bongripped. Buddy's-News-and-chill is the order of the day. Covers are letterpresses and splatter-bleached.
Chapels / But I Was Never Much Good / Cassette / House Of Alchemy / houseofalchemy#072
"CALLS presents 11 improvised pieces recorded on a reel-to-reel machine throughout 2015 and 2016. Employing a mixed bag of source material and a half drafted vocal approach, these 11 tracks explore the notion of 'contact calls', which are irregular, non-specific sounds many social animals make to maintain contact within a group. The group in this instance includes more than just other members; an expanded cast of objects, figures, nature, and works of art act as the recipients of these calls. There is some sort of dialogue between myself as the caller, and this conglomerate of recipients, but it is not normal talking. I'm not asking questions, responding to requests, or reacting through sound in any way – just simply keeping in contact". Matthew P. Hopkins, August 2016"
Raajmahal / Charybdis/Scylla / Cassette / New Camp Records / nc06
City Medicine / Chen & Liu / Cassette / Acid Casualty Productions / ACP019
Daga Voladora / Chiu-chium / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR43
H. Söderström, August Levén / D.I. / Cassette / Forever Utd / UTD15
A new tape by Sweat Tongue! Dark Star is their first release as a four-piece. Gijs Deddens has joined the band on based guitar, adding slippery lines of low end to their bare bones, broken down 'no rock' sound. The recordings on Dark Star are from their second meeting ever. As always fully improvised. It finds the group exploring new dynamics, new highs, new lows, creating some really exciting music in the process. "Sweat Tongue have become a quartet, with the addition of a bass player, but in no way they are now more conventional in their approach. They play some great no wave 'rock' music that defies melody, artistry, logic but sometimes it has a great rhythm, loud guitars and a great bass, while the singer moans, groans, whispers and shouts. This total free music, but one easily hears that these four people know what they are doing; this is not one of those 'let's pick up a guitar and see what it can do' bands. Sweat Tongue is a great band, both in concert, but also on tape. This is their best release so far." FdW – Vital Weekly
Toxoplasmosis / Father Son Holy Ghost / Cassette / AA Records / No catalogue #
Al Marantz / Forgotten Device / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR30
Sam Hooker / Apetechnology Chip / Four Minutes Of Madness Vol. 1 "Madness Squared" / Cassette / Michigan Underground Group
Sam Hooker, Apetechnology Chip / Four Minutes Of Madness Vol. 1 "Madness Squared" / Cassette / Michigan Underground Group / No catalouge #"
Limited to 50 copies cassette by Christian Mirande that's a "meditation on the relationship between Eastern and Western aerospace engineering". Another fantastic release from Mirande. Published on Jason Crumer's No Rent Records label."
William Corrigan / Grandma's House / Cassette / All Gone / No Catalogue #
Clay Cantrell / High On The Gallows / Cassette / House Of Alchemy / houseofalchemy#067
Myrrh / Hymns / Cassette / Lighten Up Sounds
Myrrh / Hymns / Cassette / Lighten Up Sounds / lighten up sounds #56 All Infinite Limits' copies of this tape are from the first edition of 100 copies.
Terre Roche / Imprint / Cassette / OSR Tapes
Terre Roche / Imprint / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR50
Improvised/recorded/edited: summer 2016, Uley-guiseley Screened clear cassette with double-sided j card. Constellation Tatsu.
Innercity / Into The Bright World / Cassette / Beyt Al Tapes / BAT03
Decimus / Jyestha Cassette / House Of Alchemy / houseofalchemy#070
C E Schneider Topical / Look Who Showed Up Out Here / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR028
Stuart Chalmers / Loop Phantasy No.3 / Cassette / Beartown Records / No catalogue #
DeTrop / Man, Woman & Beast / Cassette / House Of Alchemy / Tape / houseofalchemy#052
Recorded 2012, Los Angeles, California. Edition of 50.
"Nocturnes" is a collection of twelve solo piano pieces recorded in May 2015 by Tom James Scott. Drawing inspiration from the "nighttime language" of Anna Kavan's Sleep Has His House and the (often starlit) nature writings of Kenneth Rexroth, 'Nocturnes' further explores the shadowy terrain between lyrical and abstract modes of expression that has formed a common thread throughout much of Scott's solo work to date. Available in cassette and digital formats, 'Nocturnes' is presented here as a C41 chrome cassette with an extended j-card. Each copy is then housed in a double sided 260gsm card slipcase featuring four different inner print designs and comes with a printed download card. Limited to 100 copies. Recorded May 2015. Mastered by Sean McCann. Artwork by Andrew Chalk. Design by Tom James Scott."
Chris Dadge / Not Sudden / Cassette / House Of Alchemy / houseofalchemy#068
Hellier Ulysses / Prime Example / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR47
Pure Ground / Protection / Cassette / Chondritic Sound / CH285
Jimmie Packard / Singing Your Requests / Cassette / OSR Tapes / OSR49
Stefano di Trapani is one of the key figures in the Italian Underground. Exploring genres like noise, rock, improvisation and soundpoetry, his musical skills and interests are incredibly diverse and deep. Trapcoustic is the most song-oriented project he has: minimal, experimental songs for your hallucinated nights. 'Speculum is a kaleidoscope of sounds and visions, fans of the best music of the last 50 years will love this. Baby Yoga Recordings.
Leif Brush (b. 1932) is a pioneering sound artist who for over five decades has built something of a vast labyrinth of an artistic presence, in a certain sense having existed on the fringes of the more esoteric strands of early sound practices. During his time as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 60's, Brush explored large scale installations that would often utilize the city's landscape as a platform for steel-strand based sounding constructs. After going on to become a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he began to expand upon his ever-evolving concept of the "terrain instrument", generally defined as a physical construct situated in nature that would harness the forces and vibrations of the earth in order to generate various types of sonic phenomena, often via the activation of triggers and sensors. Stitched Phenomena contains the entirety of Brush's 2004 flagship composition "Earth Star Songs", a 47 minute long "stitching" of sounds and recordings taken from an array of his analog constructs and terrain instruments spanning decades, paired with recordings produced by Jerry Chamkis' Kosmophone. The result is an inexhaustibly complex amalgamation of hard-edged terrestrial and tactile phenomena contrasted by cosmically sourced retro-futuristic synth interjections. Prior to now, this piece had only ever existed on the internet in the form of low quality mp3's during the earlier days of netlabels. This issue marks its first ever physical release in proper form, rescued in full quality from its original master tape. In an edition of 100 with updated 2017 cover art by Brush himself.
Awesome new tape by Lisa Carver's Suckdog. "Super Suckdog Tape" presents three power punk rockers, all previously unreleased tracks, on a single-sided c20 cassette tape. Released on Andrew Coltrane's Hermitage Tapes label."
156 / Taking A Look At A Moment Lost / Cassette / Chondritic Sound / CH279
"New limited edition c38 cassette tape from Tom James Scott on his own Skire imprint. "The Carousel" collects a dozen deeply-affecting instrumental pieces for guitar, piano, and keyboard, recorded during the summer of 2015. The tape's beautifully presented, with an extended j-card printed on 200gsm paper and each copy housed in a hand folded and full colour 260gsm card slipcase.""
Edition of 100. "Vitrine is thrilled to announce a new cassette from Pennsylvania-based visual artist and instrument builder, Jim Strong. The Sallow Rakes runs a triathlon down the middle and back again through Strongs varied repertoire, which encompasses broken electronics, free improvisation, crank-based mechanisms and sound poetry. His work marries dance and video with homespun artifacts of painting and hand-built machinery. The Sallow Rakes suggests the most curious reaches of mail art and sound poetry, reminding the listener of under appreciated acts of the Underwhich Audiographics family such as DUCT and Tekst. Vitrine alumni Mel Bentley provides text and voice as counterpoint to Strongs amorphous instrumentation and spoken word. Rubber burns on a pyre of wet oak. Breath bleeds into the more discreet sounds of the body. Jim Strong has made a name for himself privileging the collaborative and intuitive serendipity of performance. That said, The Sallow Rakes is an inclusive marvel which yet speaks of a focused and individual personality. The protein mirror. Bob Cobbings work in Konkrete Canticle is a possible road marker, but that doesnt quite get the adventurous traveler all the way there. This is an invented compass, pointing to a True North beyond the axises. Here, an interior mystery play of device." - Vitrine."
Orange County harsh crust, bright scrap metal manipulations atop crunchy and intricatly shifting layers of low-end noise electronics. "The nightmare lives on." Released as a c40 cassette on the recently-revived Monorail Trespassing label.
Stuart Chalmers, Z. Zsigo / Untitled / Cassette / Strange Rules / RULE-119
Mutual Process / Untitled / Cassette / Discombobulate / BOB005
Various / Untitled / Forever United / Cassette / UTD16 Ace compilation tape from Sweden-based Forever United label, limited to 50 copies: Tracklist A1 –August Levén Höst A2 –Milos (8) Gott Slut A3 –Olympus (4) Till M.A. B1 –Vattenskalle Territorium B2 –Vattenskalle Kvalster B3 –Idun För Gammal B4 –Pineal Gland Det Stora Hela B5 –Pineal Gland Troligtvis
Quilt Boy / Venom Hate Malice The 119 Souls / Cassette / All Gone / No Catalogue #
"Wax & Wane" is a limited to 100 copies cassette by Church Shuttle, the latest solo project of Detroit-based Chris Durham (Roachclip, The Bibs, All Gone label et al)."
Star Turbine / White Lines Across The Void / Discombobulate / Cassette / BOB004


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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
TheTrans-Pacific Partnership (now the TPP-11) was originally a massive free trade agreement involving Australia, the US and ten other countries, which reduces our democratic rights while increasing the rights of global corporations. The US withdrew in 2017, and it became the TPP-11, with some changes, but most of its worst features remain.
The TPP-11 is bad for:
- Democracy. It allows global corporations to sue governments over health, environment and public interest laws. Read more.
- Essential services: locks in deregulation, promotes privatisation and prevents future governments from regulating in the public interest. Read more
- Workers. Contains no real protection for labour rights or migrant workers, and removes labour market testing for vulnerable temporary migrant workers. Read more.
- The environment. Lacks enforceable commitments to key international agreements, does not mention climate change and allows corporations to sue over new environmental laws. Read more.
Economists and the World Bank predicted The TPP-12 would not deliver promised jobs and growth.
After six years of community campaigning, the withdrawal of the US in January 2017 meant the TPP-12 could not be implemented.
The Turnbull Government threatened to rush the TPP-12 implementing legislation through Parliament to get approval for a dead agreement. A Senate inquiry report said no to the implementing legislation in February 2017.
TPP-11 rebadged as the CPTPP in 2018
But Japan and Australia led the pushed for a revived TPP-11 without the US. In November 2017 TPP -11 negotiators rebadged the deal as the Comprehensive Progressive TPP (CPTPP) and suspended some of its most controversial clauses, (but not ISDS). The text was tabled in Parliament on March 26, 2018, triggering a Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry. Community campaigning also resulted in a Senate Inquiry before parliament votes on the implementing legislation in September.
See brief analysis here media commentary here and our printable TPP-11 flyer here.
For in-depth analysis and resources, including AFTINET's submissions to the Parliamentary Inquiries, click here.
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Composer's Notes
This piece is, for me, about gratitude. Although it's not easy for me to say for what, specifically, I feel grateful, or why I needed to create an expression of it. Beyond the obvious—an opportunity to write for a group I know and whose membership I admire—my impressions as relayed toward this piece were more general. In short, I feel that I have much to be thankful for, and I am ever surprised as the positive elements in my life continue to accumulate in ways I can't always understand. As I see it, gratitude doesn't have to be sentimental or saccharine, or even an outward expression. And much music has been borne of angst, pain and fear. But, as we find our place in the world, one can't help but admire a beautiful random framework—events, people, places —that never fails to aid us in our journey but can never be controlled nor predicted. When I was writing the piece I confided to friends and fellow composers that it might be derisively called "pretty", and that I was worried about it. But ultimately for me, this music wasn't about those worries. As I wrote, it was a feeling I couldn't seem to shake, and that gave me something to say.
Lumens was commissioned by Ensemble X and premiered on February 11, 2006.
— Sean Shepherd
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CMS Training
At Brandeis, most websites are edited using Cascade Server, our content management system (CMS). The CMS is a web-based application that provides a central place for website creation and editing. The Office of Digital Communications trains web editors on using the CMS and also best practices for adhering to Web Accessibility standards.
We offer CMS Training at regular intervals throughout the year. Editors must attend CMS Training to activate their Cascade account, regardless of any prior web editing experience.
Topics covered in CMS Training:
- Introduction to the Brandeis website
- Web terminology, best practices and tips
- Cascade login and navigation
- Building and editing
- Creating links
- Working with images
- Publishing, versions and deleting
- Where to go for support/troubleshooting
Training Offerings
Basic Cascade CMS Training — Responsive Templates (Mandatory)
Audience: This class is mandatory for new web editors of sites in the responsive web templates. Please enroll in this this class only if the site you will be editing is already in the responsive templates or close to launching.
Overview: Learn the basics of maintaining and editing a website the responsive web templates. As a web editor, you will learn best practices for editing web content at Brandeis, overview of responsive and accessible web content, how to navigate the CMS and how to and publish content.
Summer 2018 Training Schedule
- Thursday, Aug. 16, 1:30–3 p.m., Goldfarb 230. Register
Accessibility Training (Mandatory)
Audience: This class is mandatory for all web editors (regardless of templates used).
Overview: Accessible web content is usable by all people, regardless of physical or developmental abilities or impairments. At Brandeis, we have a responsibility to make sure everything we put online — from videos to photos to how we organize content and create links — is as accessible as possible. In this class, you will learn why accessibility is important and how to make various types of content accessible.
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Basic Cascade CMS Training — Zeta Templates
Audience: This class is mandatory for web editors of sites in the zeta templates ("old" standard university templates) — or editors of Brandeis websites using Cascade Server, but not the standard university templates (for example: Heller, IBS, GPS, Institutional Advancement, Admissions). Existing web editors are welcome to retake this class at any time.
Overview: Learn the basics of maintaining and editing a website in Cascade Server. As a web editor, you will learn best practices for editing web content at Brandeis, how to navigate the CMS and how to publish content.


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Preparing for your session:
Sessions are by appointment only. Feel free to contact me via email, Facebook or phone anytime Tuesday thru Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. however, email will probably get you a faster response. Appointments Sunday, Monday, or after hours MAY be available. I am now booking sessions for indoor studio portraiture as well as outdoor. I have a home studio area able to accommodate small groups – maximum of 5. For indoor photographs of groups larger than 5, I need additional notice to arrange for a suitable and available venue unless you have access to an appropriately sized area. Venue reservation and or rent will be charged to the client.
Please be prompt when arriving to your session and allow extra time. I want to ensure we have enough time for YOU. Please plan on an hour and a half to two hours, especially if you have clothing changes, small children, or a group.
You should receive a confirmation email and or phone call a few days before your session. This is to finalize all of the details for your appointment as well as confirm all contact information. We will discuss the purpose of your appointment, the "feel" you would like from your photos as well as clothing and accessories. We will meet at a mutually agreed upon location at the appointed time.
Please be aware that I ask everyone to sign a model release. This allows me to post your pictures on my blog, use them in advertisement as examples of my work, include them in my portfolio, enter them in contests, etc. I will only use them tastefully. If you have an objection to this contact me and we can discuss your concerns. Minors need to have their parents sign their release. You can download the form from my website before your appointment or I will bring a copy to sign at the time of your appointment.
Clothing and Accessories:
Simple, comfortable clothing is best! This is especially true for kids. If you wish to have a more formal look in your photos please bring a more casual outfit as well. Let your clothing show your personality.
For the most flattering look in your photos:
Props can add personality to your pictures! Please choose them carefully and only pick a few. Hats, ties, trophies, favorite toys and letter jackets are all good choices and only the beginning. Make sure they are clean, this includes you car if you wish to include it in your photo.
Babies and kids:
Please consider your baby's nap and feeding schedule when making your appointment. They'll be most cooperative right after a nap with a full tummy and fresh diaper. If you wish to have diaper shots be sure to dress them in loose clothing to avoid lines. Onesies are great for this. It disturbs them less if they are asleep. If you wish to have birthday suit pictures (for kids under 1) make sure their diaper is looser than normal for at least an hour prior to your session. Let me know during our confirmation email or phone call what stage of development your baby is in so I can better prepare.
Please be patient with you little ones. And don't ask them to smile. We will take some time to get to know each other a bit and let everyone get more relaxed. Feel free to bring along a favorite toy, blanket, or anything else that will make them feel more comfortable. Then we will take some smiling photos as well as more "thoughtful" pictures.
Try to schedule your maternity shoot for at least a month ahead of your due date. Little ones can come early and unexpectedly.
I love pets! Please feel free to bring your WELL BEHAVED pet to be included in your photos or set up a session of their own. Make sure they are clean, groomed, and on their best behavior. I have to make a side note here, I am not much on snakes, so if that is your pet, please keep them in YOUR hands or their carrier at all times. SORRY!
Fees & Ordering:
Any additional fees listed here are due at the time of your session.
Currently sessions have a $300 sitting fee; HOWEVER, in exchange for signing a model release the sitting fee will be $50. Any fees can be paid online when you book your appointment or at the time of your session. Cash, credit cards, and checks* are accepted. Payment options for product orders may be available, but orders will not be fulfilled until complete payment is received.
*Returned check fees are $50 & orders are held 5-10 days to ensure clearing of checks.
1-5 people regular sitting fee.
6-10 people add $20 to sitting fee.
11 or more add $50 to sitting fee.
Clothing changes:
It is good to have an alternate outfit! However, the more outfits the less time in the session for pictures. Please limit your outfits to 10 or fewer. If you wish to have more than 5 outfits additional fees apply.
1-5 outfits – free
6-10 outfits - $20 added to sitting fee
Within 30 miles (one way) from Lone Wolf travel is free. To help offset expenses, travel beyond 30 miles of Lone Wolf is $50 each 30 additional miles & will be added to the session fee. For travel outside 180 miles a per diem fee will be added.
0-30 miles from Lone Wolf: free
31-60 miles from Lone Wolf: $50 added
61-90 miles from Lone Wolf: $100 added
91-120 miles from Lone Wolf: $150 added
121-150 miles from Lone Wolf: $200 added
151-180 miles from Lone Wolf: $250 added
Outside 180 miles a per diem fee will apply. Call for a quote.
Please contact me for event pricing as they are custom amounts. I will return a quote to you within a week. However, half of the amount is due at booking. The remainder should be paid a week before the event unless other arrangements are made.
Digital files:
Digital files are $50 each for between 1 and 19 images. For 20 or more, a complete session DVD can be purchased for $1000 and this will include a second disk with a custom slide show. Digital files will also have a companion lower resolution file for personal internet use. Custom slide shows can be purchase for $100 in a custom case. A copyright release form will be included on the disk. Please print it and take it with you when you go to print or pick up your photos. They may want a copy for their records. Reproductions of images on the disk are for PERSONAL use only, not for profit. All disks are custom printed in a custom printed case. Special pricing with print orders.
Retouching Services:
Retouching services are offered; however, due to the great variation of time involved, quotes will be available 24-48 hours after inquiry. The quote will be dependent on the type and extent of retouching requested.
Tier 1: Standard - Included in Proofs
Softening of Facial Lines
Minor Blemish Retouching
Red Eye or Pet Eye Removal
Tier 2: Additional Enhancements
Soft Focus
Personalization - Example - Name, Sports Numbers, Graduation Year
Toning - Black & White, Sepia, Retro
Selective Coloring
Tier 3: Medium
Braces Removal
Teeth Whitening
Eye Brightening
Under Eye Shadow Softening
Tier 4: Involved
Stray Hair Removal
Glasses Glare Removal
Tan Line Removal
Scar Removal
Major Blemish Removal
Tier 5: Major Changes
Eye or Head Swapping
Adding or Removing People or Objects
Backgrounds Changes
Discounts: **
Promotions and discounts will be offered from time to time. Ask for current specials.
**Discount codes will be delivered to you via email or other requested means after session payment is collected/cleared. If not ordering online discounts will be applied at the time of order and payment.
Viewing your photos:
Viewing sessions will be scheduled approximately 10-14 days after your portrait session. After your viewing, your images will be posted online in a password protected gallery. You may view and place orders there as well. If for some reason a viewing session cannot be arranged, I will post your images into your gallery & notify you when they are available. Your password will be chosen by you during your session. You may share the site and password with whomever you want to view your photos. They will be able to place orders as well. Other specialty products are available that are currently not offered on the website. Feel free to contact me if there is a product not listed that you wish to order (additional collages, cards, etc.) or any problems viewing or ordering your photographs.
Contact Information:
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 580-752-4741
Website: http://www.jwheldermonphotography.com
Appointments: http://jwheldermonphotography.bookmonline.com/schedules/jwhp
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jwheldermon
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JWHeldermon
The fine print:
Products, policies & prices are subject to change.
I truly want you to be satisfied with your experience and your photographs. If you are unhappy with your prints please let me know. If you are unhappy with any other aspect of your experience talk to me about it. We will come to a resolution together. I want YOU to be happy. Photographs are visual memories! I want them to be good memories.


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"Your characters have sex on the kitchen table. What's the most adventurous place you've had sex?" asked co-host Sophie Monk.
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|You are passionate about making complex systems faster and more scalable. You are obsessed with squeezing every CPU cycle out of the most critical software components. Moderately complex problems bore you. Solving complex problems is why you come to work, and you solve them in a very short period of time. You will have a unique opportunity to influence architectures, network design, deployment, and operations to shape the future network to accommodate hyper-exponential growth as well as internal product requirements. This research and development position will include profiling the architecture, determining and quantifying bottlenecks and optimizing system level performance all while leveraging the unique technology capabilities in our client s applications and infrastructure.
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SS17 H&M Collection
For the second year running we have had the pleasure of showcasing the editorial collaboration of ELLE and leading fashion brand H&M through their SS17 fashion film.
This year we followed the duo to Penang Island, Malaysia and explored the heritage area of George Town and its colonial lantern lit backdrops.
Using both digital and a VHS camera we focused on creating an authentic journey of our two protagonists and their Endless Nights. To marry the mesmerizing visuals with an immersive track we worked with composer Sorenious Bonk, the voice of Mari Bailey and words by Present Plus.
You can find our Directors Cut above.
SS16 H&M Studio Collection
This project was a collaboration between ELLE Style Awards & leading fashion brand H&M for which we produced, shot and edited their S/S 2016 campaign video. Joining the team in Cape Town, South Africa we worked with the brand to highlight the 'explorer' theme of the SS16 H&M Studio Collection, the title being "Roads Less Travelled".
ELLE x H&M SS 2016
Using both digital and film cameras we focused on creating an authentic journey through film, rather than a moving lookbook. To marry the mesmerising visuals with an immersive track we worked with composer Sorenious Bonk.
The editorial piece was commissioned for the March Issue of ELLE UK and H&M SA platforms.


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Trees fall like iron on their way down. We bury our hands in their hearts and waste away again. Because I have tried to turn words to stone. Tried to fight the day with my eyes closed. Cut away at questions until my tongue bled. Held in answers until I lost my breath. Sink in, shallow like sand. I will not wear this blood on my hands, so shake that halo from your head. We have been down this road before, grasped at all the same straws. Eyes that catch the light and burn up our insides. These butterflies with wings of glass that shatter mid air. I'm afraid that this fever has gotten to us again. Your splintered words have gauged my soul.
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