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Michael E. Locasto
Michael E. Locasto is
a Senior Computer
Scientist at SRI's Computer Science Lab working in the
Infrastructure Security Group. He previously held an appointment as a tenured
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Computer Science Department
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University of Calgary in
Alberta, Canada.
I study the security of computer systems. I try to understand why
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information security education. I like taking systems apart and
understanding how they really work to discover and fix
vulnerabilities in software. I mainly work on cooperative
security: the challenge of getting security systems to work
together (particularly in complex network environments) to respond
to attacks and interactive security analysis: the challenge
of supporting cooperative analysis of large, opaque artifacts.
My CV (html).
My UofC research group: Trustworthy Systems Group
CPSC APR/Merit Review Committee (2015)
CPSC Department Head Search Committee (2015)
CPSC Graduate Award subcommittee (AY 2014-2015)
CPSC Operations Committee chair (AY 2014-2015, AY 2015-2016)
Faculty of Science Revenue and Fund Development Committee (Fall 2014)
Acting co-director of ISPIA (July-Dec 2014)
Faculty of Science revenue generation subcommittee (2012)
Grad. Award subcommittee / Graduate Affairs Committee (AY 2012-2013)
CPSC operations committee
ISPIA Exec and Steering committee
External Service:
General Chair, IEEE Security & Privacy 2016
Program Committee, ACM WISCS 2016
Program Committee, ACM CCSW 2016
Program Committee, TRUST 2016
Program Committee, USENIX CSET 2016
Program Committee, CCSW 2015
Program Committee, TRUST 2015
Vice Chair (Registration), IEEE Security & Privacy 2015
co-Organizer, IEEE SPW LangSec Workshop 2015
Program Committee, PSP 2014
Program Committee, TRUST 2014
co-Organizer, IEEE SPW LangSec Workshop 2014
Finance Chair, IEEE Security & Privacy 2014
Local Chair, NSPW 2013
Program co-Chair, ACNS 2013
Program Chair, ACSAC 2012
Program Committee, NSPW 2012
Program Committee, PST 2012
Program Committee, USENIX HotCloud 2012
Program Committee, ACNS 2012
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Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario's Rotman Institute of Philosophy, I am working as a Senior Policy Associate at the University of Toronto's Mowat Centre. I held a previous Postdoc at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany, where I worked on body perception using behavioural experiments and Virtual Reality. I got my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in History & Philosophy of Science. I have a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where I worked on the effects of biased datasets in machine learning. I also have worked as an open source web developer, textile artist, and writer.
My research concerns questions in general philosophy of science including explanation, causation, discovery, and modeling, applied primarily to problems in psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. I have published about attention, mechanistic explanation, computational models, and classification in psychiatry.
I also engage in scientific research, primarily in body perception, medical reasoning, and machine learning, and have a growing interest in using philosophical analysis to inform scientific practice and public policy, especially in matters concerning mental health, maternal health, and privacy.
Ongoing Projects
Historians emphasize how choices of model organisms are made on pragmatic grounds or due to contingent factors, while many scientists and philosophers claim that model organisms ought to be chosen based on phylogenetic relatedness. I examine a variety of examples of model organism, including plants, and argue that i) phylogenetic relatedness is a poor guide for choosing model organisms, and ii) in many cases the apparently pragmatic factors guiding model choice have an epistemic character.
Mechanistic and mathematical explanations are made out to be distinct types of explanation with rather different properties. Whether the relation between explanandum and explanans is symmetric or not is taken to be one important difference. I suggest that both types of expanation can be either symmetric or asymmetric, depending on the possible interventions we can do on the system, and the properties of the relation. It is the possibility of interventions that determines wheher the relation is causal or not. In nearly all the interesting cases of scientific explanation, mathematical and mechanistic explanation need to work together.
Scientists treat abstractions like network structures or populations as though they are important bearers of causal powers. Philosophers tend to think of abstractions like these as mere representations, which are not the sorts of things that can be causes. This project looks at the history of metaphysics to examine the reasons why we think of concrete universals as contradictions in terms, and to carve out a metaphysical option that might better express scientists' views. This is a joint project with Boris Hennig.
Idealization in Computational Models
In a chapter about Explanation and Connectionist Models, forthcoming (2018) in The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind, I outline the computational modeling methods used in cognitive science, and contrast them with the simulation methods used in the physical sciences, as well as with the more detailed brain simulations sometimes used in neuroscience. I argue that connectionist models of cognition explain by instantiating idealized neural models, and demonstrating their properties.
In a paper under review, I argue that the Parallel Distributed Procesing (PDP) Research Group's approach to connectionist modeling in the 1980s to 1990s was largely misunderstood. I reinterpret both the textual evidence and the models they produced to show that realistic physiological detail was never their goal, despite some rhetoric that suggested this. Rather, although the idea hadn't yet been described and given a vocabulary in philosophy of science, what the PDP group were doing was creating idealized models, and using them as tools for discovering multi-level mechanistic explanations of cognition.
Body Perception in Psychiatry
In a paper in Synthese (online 2017), I demonstrate that treatment and research of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) largely overlook one of its three diagnostic criteria---a disturbance of body perception---despite evidence that this symptom might be central to AN etiology and treatment outcomes. I review the history of revisions to the Eating Disorders category of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This history suggests that the assumption that AN is an Eating Disorder may be responsible for AN's body perception symptoms being overlooked, and perhaps also partly responsible for AN's tragically high relapse and mortality rates. I propose a change to the DSM taxonomy allowing for disorders to be listed under multiple categories.
With several co-authors, I worked on a series of experiments investigating whether the Rubber-Hand Illusion (RHI) paradigm might be useful for changing perceptions of the size of one's body. In the first study, using Virtual Reality, we induced a full body RHI on healthy participants, effectively changing their perceptions of the size of their bodies, at least in the short term. This study was published in PLOS One in 2014. Another group recently showed that this effect can be maintained for several hours in both participants with AN and healthy controls, suggesting that it might be a useful paradigm for treating the disturbance of body perception in AN.
Ehrsson, Holmes, and Passingham (2005) introduced a non-visual version of the RHI. I ran an experiment demonstrating that participants can induce a similar tactile version of the RHI on their own body, without guidance from an experimenter. We compare active (subject controlling the brush) and passive (experimenter controlling the brush) touch on objective and subjective messures of the RHI. Preliminary analysis of the results shows i) subjects can independently induce a tactile RHI on their own body, and ii) the active variant of the RHI is stronger than the passive version. These results suggest a way of developing home therapies that might help modify the disturbance of body image characteristic of Anorexia Nervosa.
Mechanistic Explanation in Neuroscience
My dissertation was about how to integrate explanations in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. I defended a non-hierarchical view of the relations between models pitched at different levels of grain and abstraction. On this account, each model might express only some of the causes at play, or part of the mechanism. Multiple models do not fit together neatly like pieces of a puzzle or mosaic, but instead partially overlap in patchy ways.
In a paper published in Synthese (2016), I argued against popular accounts of integration that suggest that psychology and neuroscience can be seamlessly integrated by taking psychological explanations to be sketches of neural mechanisms.
In a paper co-authored with Jackie Sullivan, we used several historical case studies in neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology to illustrate how explanations develop from sketchy, primitive ideas to detailed mechanistic accounts. We highlighted several issues that have not received adequate attention elsewhere, including how top-down and bottom-up methods need to be combined in order to discover how structure and function relate; alternatives to the unrealistic expectation that explanations in neuroscience will all fit into a neat hierarchy of levels; and how the use of model organisms and varying experimental protocols complicates this research. This paper just came out (2017) in The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy.
In a paper for Peter Machamer's Festschrift (2017, Springer), I examine the notion of a mechanism schema. Peter has suggested that Piaget's theory of child development was his inspiration for mechanism schemata. I compare mechanism schemata to Piagetian schemata to draw out some features of mechanism schemata that have been overlooked in the new mechanist literature.
History of Anatomy and Physiology
In this paper I expand on the suggestion by a few scholars that contrary to popular opinion, Camillo Golgi did not in fact question the main tenet of the Neuron Doctrine after Santiago Ramon y Cajal's results were known. I trace the accusation that Golgi embarrassed himself at the Nobel Prize ceremony back to exactly one source: Cajal's autobiography. I examine in detail the early work of both and discover that Golgi was much more concerned with physiology and Cajal much more with anatomy. This difference in their research questions, as well as a difference in which brain systems each studied explains their real disagreement.
William Harvey is widely considered the founder of experimental physiology, although there is no clear story about why that is, and the disciplinary boundaries between anatomy and physiology did not shift until much later. In this paper I argue that although Harvey called his experiments anatomical, and claimed to follow an Aristotelian method, he unwittingly ushered in modern physiology by practicing a new kind of science. This new practice mixed investigations of causes with anatomcal investigations, and left behind the teleological speculations that used to be called physiology.
Attention and Consciousness
In my philosophy MA paper, I argued that some of the troubling homuncular thinking that once pervaded work on consciousness has been shifted onto the notion of execitve attention. I critiqued the common practice of equivocating between attention as the source or reason for more focused processing of some stimuli, and attention as that focused processing itself. This paper was shortlisted for an essay prize for junior scholars sponsored by the European Science Foundation (alongside papers by graduating PhDs and postdocs), and was published in PSYCHE in 2009, accompanied by a commentary by Andy Clark.
After several years teaching at the University of Toronto, in the Cognitive Science program, I am taking a break from teaching. I have also taught in philosophy, history and philosophy of science, computer science, and neuroscience departments.
Select Courses Taught
The following is a list of select courses I have taught with links to syllabi and course materials. A complete list can be found on my CV.
The full list of my presentations is available in my CV.

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Penguin Drum - General Discussion
Concept/Director/Series Composition: Ikuhara Kunihiko
Original Character Design: Lily Hoshino
Animation Character Design: Terumi Nishii
Script: Takayo Ikami
Chief Director: Shouko Nakamura
Assistant Director: Mitsue Yamazaki
Concept Design: Shouko Nakamura, Katsunori Shibata
Art Design: Akiyama Kentaro, Chieko Nakamura
Color Design: Kunio Tsujita
Music Composition: Yukari Hashimoto
Animation Production: Brains Base
Kanba Takakura: Subaru Kimura
Shoma Takakura: Ryohei Kimura
Himari Takakura: Miho Arakawa
Ringo Oginome: Marie Miyake
Special Guest Appearance: Megumi Iwasaki
- Premieres in July on MBS/TBS
- The series is 24 episodes long
The title is kinda... odd?
Can't wait for the details.
Now how can he fit lesbians in this one?! :heh:
Although at this point it might be some mahou shoujo with a penguin themed transfor... what am I saying. :heh:
Looking forward to it. And what's with Japan and penguins nowadays. First ufotable's Minori Scramble, now this!
Penguins are cute and awesome.
More importantly though, is there any way to try and extract any info from the Star Child involvement or just far too early?
EDIT: The ANN article made me realize that if you reload the page, a different one, this time with a black color scheme, pops up, and it also has a different message. Translation from ANN:
The only staff involvement we know so far is that the producer is a Mr. T and that Ikuhara is collaborating with a Ms. I to write the series. So the question is, how many male anime producers have a name which starts with T, and how many female anime writers have a name which starts with I? :P
Edit: Oh I forgot some other details. The assistant director is a Miss Y. Ikuhara also said in the past that the main production staff is made up of 60% females. Lol.
I wonder which studio is going to animate it. Any guess? Based on previous, Ikuni's work I would bet either on J.C Staff or Toei, but things sure have changed after 12 years hence these speculations are a bit groundless.
Nonetheless I hope for a glorious return of Ikuhara.
Thanks for the info duckroll.
Brain Base has done some good adaptations lately (in fact I was planning to give Dororon a try). If Ikuhara is with Brain Base I have good hopes for his series. The only thing about the studio is how many anime they've aimated in the last couple of years. I don't want them to get stuck in a "Shaft syndrome" where the staff is continuously rushing to meet the deadlines and therefore the quality of animation/directing suffers from it. Then again, I assume many people inside the industry are willing to work under Ikuhara. This should downplay the risk.
duckroll, I see, thank you.
Hmm, it seems he set up a ustream account that's related to this upcoming series. I don't when it's coming on air though.
There's going to be some sort of announcement on the Ustream channel at 7pm tonight it seems. That's about 7 hours 25 minutes from now.
Can't wait :D
Is this it?
So what was it actually?
Edit: So, just some producers (or something) from Ikuhara's new project responding to questions about it in the vaguest possible manner. Thanks for the information, Good Haro :)
Penguin Drum is a 24 episode series. It is likely to be replacing Dororon on MBS/TBS in July, since they're going to start advertising the show this week after Dororon's airing. For the remaining six episodes of Dororon, they will run a different 20 second ad after each episode.
While the studio and staff are still not revealed, the lead character Himari Takakura is a girl played by a newcomer - Miho Arakawa. The story revolves around the lives of the 3 siblings in the Takakura family. No other details have been revealed at this time.
24 episodes, huh? I'm still curious about the plot; I guess I have to wait.
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Thandie Newton on Guy Ritchie, racism in Hollywood and why Oliver Stone is 'crazy'
By Martyn Palmer for The Mail on Sunday
Updated: 17:00 EDT, 31 October 2009
She's the Cambridge graduate who studied for her finals during the Cannes Film Festival, believes she was exploited on her first film and has no time for Gordon Ramsay
Thandie Newton is small boned, beautiful and looks as fragile as a bird of paradise but she's certainly no pushover. For her role in disaster blockbuster 2012 - whose central premise is that the end of the world starts on December 21 2012, as predicted by the ancient Mayan civilisation - she had to spend days submerged in a water tank 'the size of a swimming pool', filming scenes of floods that follow devastating earthquakes when the planet's tectonic plates shift.
She grew up in Penzance, the daughter of a Zimbabwean mother and an English father, and started acting at 16, keeping her career on track while attending Downing College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2.1 in anthropology. She won a Bafta for best supporting actress in Crash and has also starred in Mission: Impossible II, The Pursuit of Happyness and RocknRolla. She has two daughters, Ripley, nine, and Nico, five, is married to director Ol Parker and turns 37 on Friday.
I was studying for my finals at Cambridge during the Cannes Film Festival.
I went to a party on the beach for the film I was in, Jefferson In Paris, but I didn't get drunk because I knew I had to revise. I wasn't going to the college bar and having fun, so I probably ended up working more than most people. I carried on making films while I was at Cambridge. I don't regret it because if I hadn't, maybe I wouldn't be an actress.
They paid me just $5,000 for my first film, Flirting.
It should have been a lot more, but how was I to know? It was major exploitation. These days you get a first-class ticket if you are working on a movie but I flew economy all the way to Australia and back. I was hanging out after doing my GCSEs and it came totally out of the blue. After it finished I went back to school.
The Mayan calendar finishes its 13th cycle in 2012 and after that there's nothing.
was a bit nervous when I heard about the Mayan prophecies for my new
film. And then someone reassured me that it's all been disproved. I
think 2012 is about appreciating the moment and the simple things, the
value of relationships and the value of the people that we love. It's
also a great adventure.
Guy Ritchie is an acquired taste.
I like him. He is a no-messing-about kind of director (she worked with
him on RocknRolla). I love how straight-talking he is and sometimes
it's confrontational, but what he does say is on the money every time.
I am terrible for swearing.
There's always a lot of swearing on film sets and I'm so bad that my kids say 'Stop it Mummy!' They're always telling me off. I love hanging out with the boys on a set - it's almost more relaxing than hanging out with the girls.
I've experienced racism in Hollywood but not as conflict or in a threatening way, just the ignorance of people.
There was one time I went for a meeting for this big movie and I was up for a character who wasn't written as black. The character was a college graduate and the studio head, a woman, said, 'How can we make this role more black if we are going to have you in the film?' And I said, 'Well, I think as it's written it's fine...' And she said, 'Yeah, I know, but she is a graduate, she has been to university.' So I said, 'I've been to university.' And then it was, 'Yeah, but you're different.' I wasn't offended. It's just nonsense. But no, I didn't do the film.
My attitude towards Hollywood can be summed up as 'smash and grab'.
I go into a meeting with a director as an equal, thinking that what I have to offer is of great value. It also makes me appreciate how much I have changed. Twenty years ago I wasn't so well-equipped to deal with Hollywood.
I thought Oliver Stone was crazy when he told me he wanted me to play Condoleezza Rice.
I remember preparing for the film (W) and the make-up artist saying, 'We're going for feel-alike rather than lookalike.' But I wanted to look like her. So I had false teeth and a completely different hairstyle. I hear she's joined my agency, William Morris, so maybe I'll run into her in the corridor - that would be funny.
I was shocked when two BNP candidates were elected to the European parliament.
We need an Obama in Britain. You want someone to rise up from somewhere and take everyone by surprise. I think the BNP picking up votes stems from disenchantment.
I was the only black girl and only non-Catholic at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Penzance.
they were all at prayers I had free time. I got into a lot of trouble
- they made me sit on a baby chair. It was supposed to shame you, but
it didn't break me. There was a footballing nun who used to play on the
pitch with the boys. She'd even wear a wimple.
I hate it when Gordon Ramsay abuses people on TV.
Those people come from goodness knows where to be in the kitchen with him and he's swearing at them, shaming them, mocking them, abusing them, and they just take it. That's got nothing to do with being a chef.
I can't stand reality TV.
Apparently, some people even watch Big Brother when all of the contestants are asleep in the house. Can you believe that?
You go into newsagents now and the top shelf is all the way down to the bottom.
My kids are getting comics next to the cover of a men's mag with a girl who's topless. The boundaries have gone.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — In a story Oct. 19 about North Dakota authorities investigating the alleged harassment of journalists at a Dakota Access pipeline protest encampment, The Associated Press improperly punctuated filmmaker Phelim McAleer's last name. It is McAleer, not Mcaleer.
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The Morton County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday that filmmaker Phelim McAleer and two colleagues were in the protest camp Tuesday near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation when people they were interviewing "got offended by a line of questioning." McAleer made the documentary "FrackNation," a 2013 rebuttal of anti-fracking film "Gasland," about the process of shooting liquid under high pressure below ground to free energy from rock.
One person grabbed a reporter's microphone, dragging him several feet, and the journalists' car was blocked from leaving until law enforcement arrived.
The camp is home to protests against Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion pipeline. Demonstrators believe the pipeline threatens sacred sites and the Missouri River.


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You try to coax them out. Breathe into the pain. Sink your mental teeth into the saddest thought you can find and tear it apart, wait for the flood. Still it doesn't come.
You court them like a lover. Romance them with sad songs and maudlin movies. Share a glass of wine, or three. They've broken up with you without any notice.
Maybe you try other outlets. Hip openers. Running. Journaling with angry words and capital letters. Picking fights. Memories. Pictures.
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I'm still planning on writing more about preserving food by canning, but I'm so excited about my fresh batch of sauerkraut right now, I thought I would highlight that first. Preserving by lacto-fermentation, it turns out, is extraordinarily easy! I'm hoping to try cucumber pickles by this method later in the summer. Maybe kimchi someday. At the moment, I have just jarred up my 2nd batch of kraut. (First batch was made at the farm last summer and lasted into the winter.) 2nd batch just finished its two-week fermentation and went into the fridge yesterday.
I am a big fan of kraut… but I have not always been! I had always avoided store-bought sauerkraut in the past — it seemed absolutely disgusting, vinegary and stinky and gross. In 2002 when I was visiting Germany I had my first good sauerkraut experience when I ate some street-food sausages and grilled kraut at a Christmas market in Nürnberg. The combination of sausage, sauerkraut, mustard, and a toasty roll was SO delectable – an absolute peak food experience – that it made me reconsider fermented cabbage as a possible friend.
Then, a few years later, in Seattle, I met Ross Meyer. Ross was my fitness coach (personal trainer, but not one of those meathead weightlifting dudes) and is now my friend. Ross looooooves the sauerkraut. Give him half a chance and he will bend your ear about the superb nutritional qualities of fermented cabbage. Invite him to a potluck and he will bring a jar of home-made kraut and present it to you with reverence. He will tell you about how we actually owe this food to the nomadic tribes of ancient Mongolia and not the Germans as most people assume. Ross taught me what I know about making kraut, and I owe him big time. It is easy and fun. When Ross came over to my house in Wallingford this last time for our 2nd annual cabbage party, my roommates were enthralled by the process and wanted to help. Ross and I ended up sitting back and letting roomies Noe and Gerry do the shredding, squeezing, and packing.
With that intro, here are the steps to making your own sauerkraut.
1. Prepare it
2. Wait
3. Eat it!
Haha, Ok, I guess step one needs a little more fleshing out.
What you need:
- Several heads of cabbage (This time I had 4 and it was just a bit too much for my 1-gallon crock)
- Salt (kosher suggested)
- Sharp knife and cutting board
- Food processor (optional but really really really really nice to have)
- Container(s) — large glass jars or crock
- Weight and covering for top of crock (see below)
- Pounding implement (see below)
- Latex gloves (optional – to protect against getting salt in wounds)
– Determine your fermentation container(s). I found a lovely one-gallon crock (see pic at top) for $20 at the Ace Hardware. It makes things a bit easier. But you can also use glass mason jars – half gallon or even quart size.
– DO NOT RINSE CABBAGES. We want as little chlorinated water as possible and as much natural bacteria from the environment as possible. Trust me. Peel off and discard any grimy outer leaves. Cut out and discard the cores of the cabbages.
– Cut cabbages into chunks that will fit down the food processor tube. Feed them into a thin slicing blade to shred. Or shred by hand with a knife. That sounds like an awful lot of work though 🙂 Find someone who has a food processor you can borrow.
– When the food processor is filled with shredded cabbage, dump it into your crock, or into a bowl if you're using jars. Pour salt on top. It's hard to say how much salt; I read about 3 Tablespoons per 5 lbs of cabbage but it is just kind of a feel-and-taste thing. It's quite a bit of salt, so when in doubt add more.
– Mix the cabbage and salt together with your (optionally gloved) hands. Use a squeezing, wringing motion to work the salt into the cabbage and make it release its juices! This is the fun, kraut-party bit. Get your friends to help. The shredded cabbage will reduce in size A LOT. You want the level of the cabbage to be BELOW the level of the juices! It can take a little while working it until it's ready.
– When the first dump of cabbage has been thoroughly massaged, pound it down FIRMLY with your hands (in a crock) or with any sturdy kitchen tool into the mouth of your jar. Ross has a super-cool wooden tamper that he uses; see if you can find something similar. Tamp it into a flat layer at the bottom of the container.
– Shred some more cabbage. Add another layer of cabbage, more salt, and repeat the squeezing, squeezing, tamping process until all the cabbage is used up.
– When you're done, THE LEVEL OF THE CABBAGE should be BELOW the level of the brine (salty juices). If it's not, you'll have to add salt water (1 tsp salt dissolved in 1 cup water) until it is. This is so that the brine protects the cabbage and keeps it anaerobic (without air) so the proper bacteria can go to town and the bad bacteria stay out.
– If you're using jars, throw a two piece lid on there and you're done. HOWEVER, you will have to tamp the kraut down once or ideally twice a day in your jars. Each day, open the lid (there may be a bit of pressure buildup) and tamp it down firmly.
– If you're using a crock, put a weight on top. This can be a plate that just slightly smaller than the diameter of the crock opening, with a glass jar full of water on top. I used a Pyrex container with lid, filled with water, that was just a bit smaller. Set the weight on top of the cabbage and the liquids will rise up almost to the top of the crock. Put a pie plate underneath in case of spillage and a plastic baggie over top to keep dust out. You can leave your crock alone for 2 weeks and let it ferment. There's no harm in tamping it down too; I did rather frequently just to make sure the level of the liquids was good and that things were smelling good in there. You'll probably see some bubbling up over the first few days; this is normal and good. Dump any spillage out of the pie plate and leave it be.
– Leave it in a corner of the kitchen or somewhere relatively cool, to ferment for 2 weeks. You can go shorter or longer but this seems like the ideal length of time to me. I read that if you see mold on top you just scrape it off. I haven't gotten mold on either of my two batches and I feel like if I did, I would throw it out 🙂 We'll see.
– You can taste the kraut every day if you want and decide when you like the flavor and want it to stop fermenting. At 2 weeks or whenever you want to stop, take the weight off the crock and shovel the sauerkraut out into glass mason jars and put them in the fridge. This stops the fermentation and holds the sauerkraut just as it is, for quite a long time. I ate my first batch gradually over a period of probably August til January. It was delicious!!!
The end! Give it a try, even if you think you don't like sauerkraut. Try a shorter fermentation than two weeks. This will be mild tasting, crisp, fresh and juicy cabbage goodness. You can heat it and have it with sausage and potatoes, throw it on top of any sandwich or in a tortilla wrap, mix it with other pickled vegetables on top of a salad, etc etc etc. I have to admit that I've been eating my hot corn-and-oat breakfast cereal for breakfast with a poached egg and sauerkraut on top. It's super weird and hippie-ish, but I wake up craving it. Make some homemade kraut and join the fermentation fun.
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New Release : HYT H4 Gotham
It is a tale of the black abyss and lucid red blood.
HYT have always done things their way, getting rid of hour hands and introducing liquids inside the mechanism. All bonkers if you ask me. Undeniably they have created numerous fantastic pieces that make a lot of us weak at the knees.
That is what a good product or experience should be, it heightens our experience and awareness of whatever it may be. Some chefs would say their idea is to bring back childhood memories but in a different form, through the use of taste, sound and smell. The great magicians say they wanted to amaze people and to bring a smile to their spectators.
All of those boxes have been ticked by HYT, to make timepieces that enthrall us, then they let show us a glimmer of the workings behind a magic trick. In this case the magic trick is the mechanism in the new H4 Gotham. Previous models of HYT timepieces, excluding the wacky H3, featured the hour indices around an inner chapter ring. Funnily enough that takes a lot of room where the dial would be. So even though the watch itself is 'partially' openworked it is still rather limited.
So where can we get space? The bezel is one such space, so for the H4 Gotham, the hour markers have been moved out to the bezel. This leaves the dial to be even more open and reveals almost all of the gear train, some of the mainspring barrel and not forgetting the all important bellows. The case has also been expanded to a massive 51mm, that always helps with space!
So, back to the black and red, this was inspired from the Dracula piece that HYT did the end of 2014. For me, this is a colour combination made in heaven, and it is nice to see how HYT have used it to great effect here. The abyssal black is in fact a new carbon material that is ridiculously strong and rigid. Also known as 3DTP, it shows the fibres of carbon within its structure and has a lovely matte finish to the surface. Soft and silky to the touch, without the coldness of metal.
This is refinement at its best, hopefully we will be able to get a piece to review soon!
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WASHINGTON — ``My friends, old and young, who believe in Social Security, it is time to tell the truth. . . Today, Social Security is under seige as never before from the Republican Senate and Republican president.``
That`s what Rep. Claude Pepper, the 84-year-old Miamian, is prepared to tell the nation today in this week`s Democratic response to President Reagan`s radio address.
Pepper`s broadside against Reagan and Republicans, to be broadcast via radio at 1:06 this afternoon, will open a new round of lobbying by senior citizen advocates who want to preserve next year`s Social Security cost-of-living raises.
The congressional recess through next week has given Pepper and grass-roots lobbyists a chance to rally their supporters to pressure the administration and Senate Republicans to accept the version of the federal budget passed by the House of Representatives.
Raw from partisan bickering over the budget, Senate and House leaders went off to their districts this weekend still deadlocked on whether to give a cost-of-living raise to the elderly or to increase military spending to match inflation. The House is holding out to preserve the Social Security raise, while the Senate insists on more military spending.
House leaders are guessing Reagan will choose to bypass any reference to the Middle East hostage crisis and devote his five-minute radio address instead to the budget deadlock. That prompted House Speaker Thomas P. ``Tip`` O`Neill to name Pepper, the nation`s leading advocate for Social Security, to give this week`s Democratic response.
Reagan, who rarely reveals beforehand the subject of his radio speech, is set to address the nation at 12:06 this afternoon. The White House had no comment Friday on the expected exchange over the radio waves.
The president may not choose to mention Social Security and the budget, but Pepper and senior advocates definitely plan to make it their topic of the week.


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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
elcome back to my process of creating a new architecture. As you know, as I write this the creation process is not over, but is still ongoing. I'm changing things all the time which means the architecture is slightly different in every article. The good news is that nothing has been changed since the second part[2] was written, but don't expect it to stay this way.
In the second part[2] (see the end of this article for endnotes) in this series I described the new architecture pretty much from a framework building blocks perspective, that is, I talked about some of the building blocks. (I said nothing about internal functionality, concentrating instead on external interfaces.) In this article I will change the approach and show how the architecture looks from a consumer perspective when solving a certain use case.
I believe that you will very quickly be able to tell from this article if you like the programming model or not. As I see it (and as I've said before), it's very important that the programming model is simple for the client programmer, but it's okay if the programming model is slightly tricky for the business tier and the database programmer. Why do I think this? Well, in my opinion the client programmer ought normally to focus on the user interface and the user interaction. If he gets a very complex API to use, it will of course require a lot of attention. There will also often be a great many views (forms etc) for one and the same part of the domain model. Duplication is automatically reduced if the code is written in the domain model instead.
This article could be read in isolation, but I do think it's a good idea if you read part 1[1] and part 2[2] first.
The use case
The use case I'd like to use for my description is a registration of an order. The user of the application first gets the name of the customer. If the customer is found, everything is fine. If not, the customer is created. (Well, everything is still fine<g>.) Next, the user gets the name of the product they want to order and an order is created with just that single product. That's it.
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Head to the country this weekend to mingle with the animals, pick a pumpkin or two, hit the rapids, or soar through the canopy to see how the foliage is coming along in Virginia.
1. Fall Farm Tours
The Fauquier County Farm Tour is this Saturday, October 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's a self-guided tour, meaning you can make your way to just one or all of the farms hosting demonstrations and sharing their animals. After all, what child doesn't want to meet a kid? Included on tour is Molon Lave Vineyards in Warrenton and Seven Oaks Lavender Farm in Catlett. Print the Brochure
The Loudoun Farm Color Tour is next weekend, October 15-16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It, too, is a self-guided tour with the farms available to you as you wish. There are 25 farms on tour, including Clyde's Willow Creek Farm in Broadlands, Crooked Run Orchard in Purcellville, Farmer John's Wayside Fruit and Vegetable Market in Leesburg, and Ticonderoga Farms in Chantilly. Print the Brochure
2. Take a Scenic Drive – Remember our "11 for '11" post from early September? Bookmark or print that thing and get movin'!
3. Hit the trail, wine trail, that is. Virginia has 17 trails and the drives are gorgeous! Some wine trails include mead and cider, while others include whiskey. Grab a designated driver and sip your way across Virginia.
4. Go big or go home. Whitewater season is currently in full effect at Breaks Interstate Park in Dickenson County. The water from John Flannagan Dam and Reservoir is released each Saturday and Sunday of October creating rapids of class two through six (yes, class SIX) through Breaks Gorge. Not for the faint of heart.
5. Glide through the foliage on a zip line!
Bryce Resort's zip line is running through October 22, so slide high before they start thinking about snow. Open Saturdays only at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Advanced reservations are required (email@example.com).
Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle offers a 900′ zip line and other great activities for a fun fall day in the Valley. Open Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m. by reservation only. (540-864-6792)
View a video of the Bryce Resort Zip Line


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Afghan's Amazing DIY Internet From Trash In the Afghan city of Jalalabad, aid workers mostly from the United States working on a project called FabFi.
FabFi is a high-tech but low-budget project that aims to bring high-speed internet to world's most remote places.
Douglas Rushkoff has championed the idea that the current corporate-controlled internet is far from the open commons we pretend it is.
"If we have a dream of how social media could restore peer-to-peer commerce, culture, and government, and if the current Internet is too tightly controlled to allow for it, why not build the kind of network and mechanisms to realize it?" Doglas Rushkoff asks.
Sounds daunting. And expensive, right? Wrong.
Residents can build a FabFi node out of approximately $60 worth of everyday items such as boards, wires, plastic tubs, and cans that will serve a whole community at once.
This low-cost project enables residents to access online educational, medical, and other resources. FabFi networks are used to aid local businesses and to prop up community infrastructure such as hospitals and clinics.
The director of the Jalalabad FabFi project, Amy Sun, says that Internet access is just one piece of the puzzle in Afghanistan:
"Fab Lab/Fi doesn't solve everything. It's only one piece: the rest have to develop at the same time. Infrastructure like roads, power, water, schools, teachers, and systems maintenance as well as the user terminals (laptops and computers), people who use them, and the content they'll consume. It's crazy to think that there was no cell phone service in the country in 2002 and now it's pretty solidly working in every major population center (at least when the tower isn't turned off or bombed). From roads to power to water, the task at hand (officially U.S. or not) was to set off a program that could go from zero to servicing 30 million people in a few years. Imagine deciding to colonize Mars and sending 30 million people first, ahead of the infrastructure".
FabFi is funded primarily by the personal savings of group members and a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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As I was kicking off my year and still in the throws of winter I landed in the hospital and had to have an emergency hysterectomy. Gotta admit that isn't a small deal, especially for a hooper. Because of the way they had to do the surgery my recovery was going to take longer. The incision was from my belly button down. Again, not so great for a professional hooper. But it could have been worse so I am grateful for what did happen instead of that worse case scenario you get. And trust me, when I was told the worst case, I saw my life as it is completely stop, and more tears. You can't hoop with a colostomy bag that is for sure! So yeah happy it didn't go that route! Thank you Universe - Bock, Bock!!
There was a ton of surrender involved with that. Letting go in so many ways. Not just of something physical but also aspects of things I had created as well. Letting go of classes I had just started. Letting go of performances that I was supposed to do that month. Letting go of not being in a glamorous state of performance costumes and fun a lot of the time. 10 days in the hospital you kinda get a bit gross during that time. For whatever reason I chose not to take a shower that whole time til I got home. I think I was scared to create any other issues. Doesn't mean I didn't stay clean but still. Letting go of the busy self and not knowing when I could get back to being in a good place all around with all I did.
Needless to say I was in tears at one point over it. It's very hard to have no other choice but to let go of everything you created within your business but I did. It was a pretty scary time to be honest and a huge lesson in being vulnerable. I am not so great at "vulnerable"...really... But I had no other choice but to be in that state of being at that time. It was really tough to be there to be honest. But I ended up at some point telling myself that I needed to surrender. To let go and let things roll. That it is happening for a reason and that I should enjoy this time of just being.
What was amazing was the outpouring of real love at that time. My family pulled together to visit me and take care of me at points even though they are far away. Dad especially did that. I tend to not show my vulnerable side to my family. I had the role of being the big sister who took care of everyone else. For some reason I had to be "the strong one". And then when Dad was here I had a long day of pain about a week after I was home that made me think I would have to go back to the hospital. i didn't want to go at all. I cried in front of him and that I didn't do at some point as a kid. He was worried and tried to help me in whatever way he could. But it was a scary moment.
My daughter was incredible. At almost 20 she pulled friends together to help me out in shifts when she could not be there. The love coming from friends was amazing! I kept hearing how they wanted to help me out. From my friend Amira creating a meds schedule (and trust me I had a ton of meds I was on - it was nuts!), to others staying with me and to my friend Angel not only helped get me home when I finally had to leave the hospital but who also created a donations portal because I do not have health insurance and I could not work at all so no income was coming in - which letting go in that way was very difficult! That site showed me just how much people were in a state of love and caring all around. This helped me out a ton as well. It was an intense time but I saw how much support I had and how many people cared. I can say I never want to be in that place again to find out but it was still a beautiful thing to see happening to the point of being overwhelming and I cried again just because.
Recovery has been interesting. I am 4 months out of that time period. I performed for the first time at the end of March at my 7 week mark. I took it easy but performed what I could. A few minutes here and there and doing things off the body were part of what I could do. Since it was a fire performance I was able to do other things as well. It was a test of where I was for me. I listened and did not over do - which I tend to do by the way. I paced things as I moved into my second and third month from my surgery date. And I listened to my body. If I over did a day then I would know. It has been so interesting going through that. Having to really listen and still be vulnerable and stop when I am being prompted to do so. I had noticed my short term memory was effected for a bit. Anesthesia can do that. Food was interesting too. Hospital food is not so great, especially when they want to stick you on a "regular diet" and your body actually is not ready for that. I lost a lot of weight that I could not afford to lose. I think I went down to 105 and I am usually 115 - 120. I would look at my body and freak out at how skinny I was and yet I was starving. I wanted to eat but was afraid to. One night they made pork, sauerkraut and baked apples. I was doing my walk to try to get things moving physically and smelled that and was immediately turned off. And I am polish/hungarian on my Dad's side so that is normal food for me. Not that day. My sense of smell was extremely heightened. I am guessing because I hadn't eaten and that is the normal reaction. I could smell EVERYTHING. In most cases that was't a good thing. Once I finally got home (and trust me that getting there was an ordeal in and of itself) my body told me what I wanted. It was amazing. I knew I could trick my body into it's normal functioning with popsicles so Edy's All Natural Lime ones were on my menu. Friends created food but I wasn't ready for it. I needed to start slow. I also knew that pineapple would help with digestive stuff. I found one night I woke up with a craving for Avocado. Perfect for fat content especially. And then Sweet Potato also came into play. It was amazing how my body responded and how I ate what it wanted not what was put in front of me. It's a bit stressful at a hospital trying to eat and nothing is working. But it was good once I got home and listened to my body in that way as well. Now I eat everything in site...:) I gained my weight back and feel better for sure.
I am at 4 months from that time. My biggest thing is fatigue. I get tired quicker still than where I was so I really have to still pace myself. I also can feel it once in a while in my scarring and the ab muscles. They get a little achy for sure and sometimes when I am fooling around with certain tricks I have to stop. Rolling around with a hoop on your foot is not always a good idea. But I also see the strides I have made too. Where I was is far from where I am now so that is a plus. And also not pushing myself too much.
My May was super busy and June will be as well. Then I am into my kids summer camps in July and August. I can still pace myself as each month comes along. I have a lot going on and am really grateful I can actually do my favorite things. I am enjoying time at home gardening, spending time with good friends and living one at a time. I am excited about all of this and to see where I will be physically at the 6 month mark as well.
Wow, I had a lot to say but hopefully not too much tmi and yet I feel like I need to recognize this point. That I am back to hooping, can still feel fatigued at points but that is my body's way of assisting me in not overdoing things.
Looking forward to more fun and hope to see you all at some point along the happy hooping road of life!


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(→Known capital sides:: So-be-it Union Sides added.)
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* '''[[Charlescomm]]'''
* '''[[Charlescomm]]'''
* [[Dagwood]]
* [[Dagwood]]
* '''[[Faq]]''' (destroyed by [[Gobwin Knob]]), now reestablished by [[Jillian]] under the protection of [[Transylvito]]
* '''[[Faq]]''' (destroyed by [[Gobwin Knob]]), now reestablished by [[Jillian]] under the protection of [[Transylvito]]
* [[Easteros]] (destroyed)
* [[Easteros]] (destroyed)
* [[el-Efbaum]] (destroyed)
* [[el-Efbaum]] (destroyed)
* [[Firstpost]]
* [[Firstpost]]
* [[Frenemy]]
* [[Frenemy]]
* '''[[Gobwin Knob]]'''
* '''[[Gobwin Knob]]'''
* '''[[Goodminton]]''' (destroyed)
* '''[[Goodminton]]''' (destroyed)
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* [[Haggar]]
* [[Haggar]]
* [[Hobbittm]]
* [[Hobbittm]]
* [[Hyatt]]
* [[Hyatt]]
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* [[Metroland]]
* [[Metroland]]
* [[Napster]] (destroyed)
* [[Napster]] (destroyed)
* [[Protip]]
* [[Protip]]
* [[Quisling]]
* [[Quisling]]
Revision as of 13:48, 3 March 2014
Proposed Canon
A Side is a group of characters and Units involved in the conflict in Erfworld and is led by a single Ruler, which is a King or Queen if the Unit is Royal, or an Overlord if not. The Side includes all Units, cities, and terrain under the leadership of that Ruler.
There is a distinction between capital sides and other sidesErf-b1-p086.
Capital Sides
Capital sides (as the name implies) have capitals and are governed by a Ruler. A capital side can also own cities other than the capital. If the Ruler of a city is a Royal, the city may produce Noble and Royal Units. Royal sides sometimes split off into new sides.Erf-b1-p079a
Starting a Capital Side
In order to start a new side, a barbarian unit must claim a capital city. There must be no units belonging to an existing side on the hex.
Known capital sides:
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- Bananastan
- Bennifer
- Bullyclub
- Brangelina
- Carpudlians
- Charlescomm
- Dagwood
- Delkey
- Faq (destroyed by Gobwin Knob), now reestablished by Jillian under the protection of Transylvito
- Easteros (destroyed)
- el-Efbaum (destroyed)
- Firstpost
- Follywood
- Foxmud
- Frenemy
- Gobwin Knob
- Goodminton (destroyed)
- Haffaton
- Haggar
- Hobbittm
- Homekey
- Hyatt
- Jetstone
- Jitterati
- Milquetoast (destroyed by Gobwin Knob)Erf-b1-p034
- Metroland
- Napster (destroyed)
- Numloch
- Protip
- Quisling
- Sofa King
- Squashcourt
- Tapwater
- Transylvito
- Unaroyal (self destructed to prevent their units being killed and then decrypted by Gobwin Knob) Erf-b1.5-p043
- Westeregg (destroyed)
Other sides
Non-capital sides (also referred to as natural allies) have no capital, no cities, no royals.Erf-b1-p079a They do, however, have their own treasuries and can form long semi-permanent alliances. If there is a way for Natural Allies to become a Capital Side, it has not been stated in the comic.
Known natural allies Sides:
- Daemons
- Elves
- Altruist Elves (used to be natural allies to Jetstone)
- Bawdy Elves
- Eager Elves
- High Elves
- Lofty Elves
- Luckless Elves
- Schlemiel Elves
- Shady Elves
- Superfluous Elves
- Tardy Elves
- Woodsy Elves
- Giants
- Western Giants (natural allies to Faq, formerly Jitterati)
- Eastern Giants
- Gobwins (used to be natural allies to Gobwin Knob)
- Hobgobwins (natural allies to Gobwin Knob)
- Marbits (seem to be former natural allies to Jetstone)
- Witches
- Sand Witches (natural allies to Dagwood)
- Man Witches (natural allies to Dagwood)
It does not seem that Barbarians are a single side; rather, "Barbarian" is a catch all term used to describe Units without a side or neutral cities without a Ruler. If Rulers or their Heirs lose their capital they become Barbarians. All of the permanent inhabitants of the Magic Kingdom are Barbarian Casters.
Barbarians have to rely on either farming, hunting, or mercenary work to pay upkeep of their Units. They can form alliances with capital sides.


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It's worth noting, however, that Victor Fleming's "The Wizard of Oz" was already the fourth cinematic outing for L. Frank Baums beloved book series that spanned 14 titles. Which raises the question: With so many other adaptations and a wealth of available source material, what makes the MGM version so indelible? If you'll pardon the treacle, the answer is … magic. Those Munchkins, that music, that Technicolor landscape — all of it, pure movie magic.
And magic is exactly what Raimi has conjured once again with his masterful "Oz the Great and Powerful." The Michigan-born director ("Army of Darkness," the '00s "Spider-Man" series) has crafted a candy-colored world that is simultaneously believable and bewitchingly dreamlike, taking full advantage of the advances that allow CGI to make the imaginary tangible. An obsequious flying monkey wearing an adorable bellhop uniform, a cracked porcelain heroine whose impudence trumps her fragility, a mob of frightening, snarling, bat-winged baboons — this movie makes you believe they're genuine citizens of another realm.
It's propelled by a charming story that's familiar, yet still engaging. Screenwriters Mitchell Kapner ("The Whole Nine Yards") and David Lindsay-Abaire ("Rabbit Hole") have concocted a whirlwind of a script, whisking you from a traveling carnival in rural Kansas through the dizzying eye of a twister before zipping you up and down a certain yellow brick road. "Oz" was designed to be seen in 3D, and its use never feels cheap or gimmicky — the hot air balloon ride in IMAX 3D is worth the price of admission alone. And guess what? There's an honest-to-goodness moral at the end that is, I daresay, exponentially better than "there's no place like home."
James Franco makes for a game leading man, imbuing Oz (the character) with a likable, albeit slippery, charm. His sleight-of-hand tricks become an organic part of both his character and the story, where the line between steampunk and the supernatural becomes subtly unclear. Michelle Williams breathes new life into the character of Glinda, elevating what could have been a one-note caricature of wholesomeness into a tenacious Muse-cum-lieutenant general.
As in the original, several actors wind up playing dual roles, which is the source of the movie's lone weak spot — Mila Kunis, whose attempt to pull off her particular two-fer is, at times, distractingly bad. She's OK as the sweet sorceress Theodora, younger sister to Rachel Weisz's malevolent Evanora, but after her character's transformation, she utterly fails to instill the role with any sense of menace — or even gravity.
However, the real triumph of "Oz the Great and Powerful" is Raimi's idiosyncratic vision. The Land of Oz doesn't feel like Narnia or Middle-earth or a wacky chocolate factory; it feels like Oz, teeming with life and imagination. It has heart, and that's something that's hard to pull off. It would be wrong to call this a great movie; greatness is reserved for films that transcend the medium, and in that regard, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is simply good. But, as we learn, sometimes goodness is a better quality than greatness.


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I went back to using RSS to follow blogs and other websites recently; I don't know why I ever stopped. My email doesn't get clogged by notifications anymore, and I don't lose blog updates in the ever-flowing stream of Twitter or Facebook or the WordPress reader. I can follow any blog on any platform as long as they have an RSS feed, and I don't need to have accounts on every possible platform, either, just Feedly (and not even that, if I didn't want to sync between devices).
It also occurred to me that RSS is really the best medium for following small-scale amateur bloggers like me, especially ones who are social-network introverts. I don't blog on an absolutely regular schedule, and my tweets and facebook updates tend to get lost amongst others who status-update or tweet (or in the case of WordPress reader, simply post) more frequently than I do.
So I've added a "Follow me on Feedly" button to the side of my blog; if you use another RSS reader, like Bloglovin or NetNewsWire, there is a generic RSS widget, as well. Even if you follow me other places – Twitter, WordPress, or Google+(*) — please do consider also following me (and other bloggers you love) via RSS, so you will be sure to never miss my blog updates. Thanks!
(*) I'm on Facebook, too, but it's my personal account, not a Multo page. Strictly speaking, the Google+ account is also a personal account, but I only use it to announce blog posts.


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Formed: 1993
From: Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Pantommind News
Below is our complete Pantommind news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Pantommind Reveals New Album Tracklisting
Bulgarian progressive metallers Pantommind have revealed the tracklisting for thier upcoming third studio ablum. The album, titled "Searching For Eternity," is to be released sometime in the fall through Spectastral Records USA.
"Searching For Eternity" tracklisting:
1. The Shape Of Silence
2. Hipnophobia
3. Moon Horizons
4. Not For Me
5. I Wasn't Quite An Angel
6. Tell Me
7. Searching For Eternity
8. Lost Lullaby
9. Enchanted Heart
10. Down To The End


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Art History Honors Booklet
Jacques-Louis David
by Kelsey Lemke
Art History Honors
by Kelsey Lemke
Art History Honors
I chose to do my artist booklet on Jacques-Louis David because I was drawn to his paitnings when I visited the Louvre in Paris last summer. I wanted to explore more about his life and works. I love how much detail he uses in his paintings when he is telling a story. I also admire the portraits he did over his lifetime. I have included some of my favorites of both. I hope that you enjoy his work as much as I do!
Jacques-Louis David was born on Aug 30, 1748 in Paris. His father was killed when he was around nine years old and his mother left him with an uncle. He received a great education but was not a very good student because he was preoccupied with drawing. He became an artist despite urging from his family to become an architect like his uncle. He studied art in both Italy and France. He eventually married Marguerite Charlotte and had four children. He died on Dec. 29, 1825 after complications from being hit by a carriage after leaving a theater.
Jacques-Louis David learned from Francois Boucher who was a Rocco painter but ended up sending him to learn from a friend, Joseph-Marie Vien, who embraced the classical reaction to Rocco. David became one of the most influential artists of the Neoclassical style with his desire to restore ancient Roman values into civil life. This movement was characterized by the desire to recreate the heroic spirit and decorative style of the art of Greece and Rome. He taught around 40 to 50 pupils including some young artistis that were involved in the formation of the prestigious Rome Prize.
"Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with their Arrows"
Dallas Museum of Art
His works from the late 18th century and early 19th century:
"Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with theirArrows"
Musee Thomas-Henry
"The Death of Marat"
late 18C
Olga's Gallery
Portrait of "Pope Pius VII"
Musee du Louvre
"The Coronation of Napolean"
early 19C
Olga's Gallery
Portrait of his wife "Marguerite-Charlotte David"
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The work above by David is one of my favorites called "The Oath of Horatii" (1784) which can be found in the Louvre. The Neoclassical style of restore ancient Roman values into civil life is evident in this painting. These brothers are willing to sacrice their lives for their country. I like how he used the space to put the focus on these mens heroism. David uses warm colors and incredible detail.
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Another one of my favorites by David is called "The Intervention of the Sabine Women" (1799), also found in the Louvre. Again the Neoclassical style is shown in the figures and detail of the painting. I like how he did this painting in honor of his wife and that the theme of the painting is that love prevails over conflict. I also like how David puts the woman as the focus among all of the action going on.
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Sons of Anarchy is an adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones about a notorious outlaw motorcycle club intent on protecting their sheltered small town against encroaching drug dealers, corporate developers and overzealous law officers. The club is equally determined to protect their ruthless and illegally thriving arms business.
Charlie Hunnam stars as Jackson 'Jax' Teller, a man whose love for the brotherhood is tested by his growing apprehension for its lawlessness. Katey Sagal stars as Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax's force-of-nature mother, who along with Ron Perlman as Clarence 'Clay' Morrow, Jax's stepfather and MC president, have their own darker vision for the club.
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