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One of the nation's leading cancer research and treatment centers, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center located in a six-state area that includes Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Georgia. UAB's cancer services are routinely recognized as among the top cancer programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
From bench to bedside, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is at the forefront of improving cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and researchers here have pioneered advances in chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and nutrition.
· The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is recognized around the world as a leader in developing innovative monoclonal antibody approaches to cancer therapy. The Center conducts clinical trials using genetically engineered monoclonal antibodies alone or armed with a payload of immunotoxins, chemotherapy drugs, or radioactive isotopes to specifically target a broad array of cancers, including breast, gastrointestinal tract, lung, ovary, head and neck, brain tumors, and lymphomas.
o Studies to test immunization to the CEA antigen for several different cancer sites including colon and breast. As an overall vaccine strategy, the Cancer Center is exploring a broad array of approaches to induce immune response to molecules prevalent in tumor cells.
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center offers a full array of treatment options from interdisciplinary clinics to the latest techniques in bone marrow transplantation. It has an outstanding faculty of 300 physicians and researchers, many of whom are internationally and nationally recognized for their expertise in oncology. The UAB program in Supportive and Palliative Medicine is among the foremost in the nation. The Center treats an estimated 4,000 new patients each year.


Welcome to Women's Health Care of Trumbull where our all female team has been devotedly serving the Fairfield County community for over 20 years. We are dedicated to caring for all women from all walks of life and strive to create a sensitive, understanding, and knowledgeable environment. Our patients can expect to receive excellent, compassionate care from the moment they walk through our door.
Thank you for choosing Women's Health Care of Trumbull, we look forward to walking with you through your journey of womanhood.
For your convenience, please use the links to meet our physicians and staff members, as well as to obtain information about our location, hours, insurance, hospital affiliations and more.
Hours may vary, please call. Early morning and some weeknight (until 6 p.m.) appointment times available.


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package org.helianto.inventory.service;

import static org.easymock.EasyMock.createMock;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.expect;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.replay;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.reset;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.verify;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;

import org.helianto.core.SequenceMgr;
import org.helianto.inventory.domain.Card;
import org.helianto.inventory.domain.CardSet;
import org.helianto.inventory.repository.CardRepository;
import org.helianto.inventory.repository.CardSetRepository;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 *
 * @author mauriciofernandesdecastro
 */
public class CardMgrImplTests {

	@Test
	public void storeCardSet() {
		CardSet cardSet = new CardSet();

		sequenceMgr.validateInternalNumber(cardSet);
		replay(sequenceMgr);

		expect(cardSetRepository.saveAndFlush(cardSet)).andReturn(cardSet);
		replay(cardSetRepository);

		assertSame(cardSet, cardMgr.storeCardSet(cardSet));
		verify(sequenceMgr);
		verify(cardSetRepository);
	}

	@Test
	public void storeCard() {
		Card card = new Card();

		expect(cardRepository.saveAndFlush(card)).andReturn(card);
		replay(cardRepository);

		assertSame(card, cardMgr.storeCard(card));
		verify(cardRepository);
	}

	// collabs

	private CardMgrImpl cardMgr;
	private CardRepository cardRepository;
	private CardSetRepository cardSetRepository;
	private SequenceMgr sequenceMgr;

	@Before
	public void setUp() {
		cardMgr = new CardMgrImpl();
		cardRepository = createMock(CardRepository.class);
		cardMgr.setCardRepository(cardRepository);
		cardSetRepository = createMock(CardSetRepository.class);
		cardMgr.setCardSetRepository(cardSetRepository);
		sequenceMgr = createMock(SequenceMgr.class);
		cardMgr.setSequenceMgr(sequenceMgr);
	}

	@After
	public void tearDown() {
		reset(cardRepository);
		reset(cardSetRepository);
		reset(sequenceMgr);
	}

}

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In the early days of the RSC, a 16 year old like myself had to choose whether to spend saved money for theatre outings on either tickets for Stratford or the company's New Work in London. Invariably, Shakespeare won but I was able to keep in touch with New Work such as AFORE NIGHT COME, EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN, NIL CARBORUNDUM, EH? and THE REPRESENTATIVE by reading and enjoying the published play texts which were in print pretty quickly.
The RSC has always made the texts of New Work available and at reasonable prices. For this we should be most grateful. However, some quite amazing bargains are currently available at the excellent RSC shop at The Courtyard. Those of us who have not been able to catch the recent new work in London and Newcastle may keep in touch with it by purchasing texts of THE CORDELIA DREAM, THE GODS WEEP, DUNSINANE and A TENDER THING at the amazing and fantastic bargain price of 50 pence a copy!
In addition, there are copies at the same price of the texts for BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE and ARABIAN NIGHTS, thus enabling all who saw these excellent productions in Stratford to relive them in a special way.
I'll end this blog now so you don't have to read any more but may hasten to The Courtyard whilst copies of the above are still available!


This is a photo appreciation thread.
The Lens Flair thread is for those extra special photos taken by all members of ClubCJ.
1. Must be one of your own photos.
2. One photo per day per member.
3. Limit the off topic chit chat.
4. Feel free to comment on the photos, but please keep in mind that this a photo thread, not a chat thread.
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What cameras are you guys using?
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Ryan_C wrote: What cameras are you guys using?
30D. It's not mine though.
Sony W110. Only a cheap point-and-shoot, but rated really good for image quality.
Mixing it up!.....Pic taken @ Das Bunker NORWEST Sydney Meet 11/07/09.
Last edited by Ozie on Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Pic taken @ Sydney Meet NORWEST 13/06/09.


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The Michael DiFranco Trio
Meet the Band
Michael DiFranco -- Vocalist
Michael DiFranco was born into a family of many generations of musicians and to which music is life.
He grew up in Cleveland, studied clarinet in school and and has been playing guitar for over 40 years.
He has also been singing all his life, studying formally as an adult with vocal teachers Pablo Rodruguez,
Karen Mihalovich and Tule Lazule in Sonoma County, California.
Following his desire to perform for live audiences Mike has been entertaining crowds for the last few years
as a street performer in downtown Santa Rosa, Petaluma, the Sebastopol Plaza, Union Square and the
Marina District in San Francisco where he has been very well received with compliments and generous
compensation offered by the people who stop to enjoy his musical stylings.
Looking to move into live performance venues, Mike teamed up with pianist
Jonathan Marmelzat and bassist Eddie Guthman to form the Mike DiFranco Trio,
an upbeat jazz combo playing the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and other
vocal stylists focusing on the Great American Songbook.
For more information, booking or to request a 5 song demo CD please contact:
Michael DiFranco
Email: info@themichaeldifrancotrio.com
Jonathan Marmelzat, MA -- Composer, Arranger & Musical Director
Jonathan grew up in Hollywood during the era of big movie musicals. He came to
Sonoma State University for graduate work in Jazz Studies, Composition,
Arranging and Music education which led to a 35+ year career in Sonoma County
as a music educator, orchestra / band director and performing musician. His
compositions, arrangements and musical theatre pieces have been performed
and recorded by a variety of Bay Area groups and national artists and featured
in video and film projects. He currently teaches instrumental music at a private
school in Santa Rosa as well as to individuals in his home studio and performs
with Jazz and Klezmer groups in the Bay Area and Hawaii.
Eddie Guthman -- Standup Bass
A multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, cello, mandolin, violin, piano, drums and cittern, the bulk of his professional career has been on acoustic and electric bass. Highlights include performing with many great jazz musicians such as Joe Pass, Jimmy Smith, Red Holloway, Frank Butler, Kenny Dixon, Roger Kellerway and David LaFlamme and touring all over the United States with several groups including Crystal Wind and Acoustic Medicine and in China with the American Philharmonic Sonoma County. As a conductor highlights include conducting the Trento, Italy Waldorf School Orchestra in Norway in June of 2004 and the Analy High School orchestra in their production of the Broadway musicals, Beauty and the Beast in 2009 and Camelot in 2011 and the Summerfield Waldorf High School orchestra in their production of A Most Happy Fella in 2010.
Eddie has several recordings and has written music for television as well. His newest CD is called Tower in the Mist and features his cittern, mandolin and basses. He has a B.A in music and a Masters in Education from Sonoma State University.
Currently Eddie is a music instructor at Credo High School in Rohnert Park, Summerfield Waldorf School in Santa Rosa, SunRidge Charter Waldorf School in Sebastopol, California and at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
Copyright 2013-2015, The Michael DiFranco Trio

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The Historic Odessa Foundation will showcase students from Middletown High School's Advanced Placement Studio Art Class in an exhibit April 5-28 in the Foundation's Visitor's Center Gallery, 201 Main St., Odessa.
An opening reception is set for 6 to 8 p.m. April 5.
Visitors will get a chance to see what these artists have accomplished in the past school year to complete their AP Senior Portfolios.
Each art student enrolled in Middletown High School's AP Studio Art course is required to create a 24-piece portfolio by the end of their senior year. The art students have selected1 0 of their best art pieces for display with the advice of their art teacher Brianna Shetzler. Various mediums will be exhibited in the gallery including drawing, painting, fabric dye and cut paper.
For more, visit historicodessa.org or call 378-4119.


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About Heathmont Chinese Medicine
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This website is your guide to the Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies offered by Dr. Justin Keane. On this site you can find information about the history, benefits and principles of Chinese Medicine, as well as access to our unique Herbal Heat Pouch and many other Chinese herbal remedies.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) originated thousands of years ago. It is not very much younger than the Chinese civilisation itself. The early Chinese people appreciated that life was best understood from a healthy perspective and as such the philosophy of preventative medicine can be found throughout much of the Chinese culture. For example the arts, cuisine and recreational activities.
Shen Nong is accredited with being the mythical forefather of TCM, the first herbalist and god of husbandry. He taught how to raise crops, rear domestic animals and recognize herbs through taste. Huang Ti, or the Yellow Emperor, is accredited with being the pioneer of Chinese Medical science, his recorded discourse with Chi Po is the original classic of Chinese medical knowledge.
This would later become the "Huang Ti Nei Jing", or, the "Yellow Emperor's Classic", a text recording this primary understanding at approximately 300BC. However from as early as 1700BC records of remedies and conditions were kept written on shells and bones, and from 400BC complete herbal formulas were kept.
The geographic size and diversity of environments within China dictates this knowledge base to be enormous. The practice of needle acupuncture in TCM alone is conservatively estimated as being at least 2500 years old.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treats the person, it creates order, it stresses positive energy, and it treats the root of disease.
TCM treats the person, not the symptom or the disease, as opposed to Western Medicine (WM) which always treats the symptom or the disease , and never the person. The difference between western and Chinese medical diagnosis could not be greater. While WM refers to cancer, stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, kidney stones, diabetes and hepatitis, Chinese medicine refers to energy deficiency or stagnation, Yin and Yang deficiency or excess, or too much wind, heat or cold in certain organs. WM rarely looks further than the symptom and is continually looking for external causes of disease such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Chinese medicine is always directly involved with the person and their internal reaction to different influences. A comparison might be that the west diagnoses and treats the site of disease, whereas the east diagnoses and treats the energy responsible for it. Put another way, the west fights the invader while the east strengthens the warrior.
In WM the approach to, and treatment of, a particular problem in most cases is essentially the same regardless of the person's age, size or sex. When a number of people with similar symptoms go to a practitioner of Chinese medicine, they will likely receive totally different treatments. This is due to Chinese medicine treating the person, not the disease.
There is a famous saying in Chinese medicine which is based on several thousand years of clinical observation. It says that if our protective energy is strong, negative energy or disease will not be able to attack us. Constitutionally strong people rarely get sick – this is indicative of good protective energy. As everybody is different they react differently to the same stimulus. TCM diagnosis and treatment works within this realm of understanding.
The aim of TCM is to restore and maintain the natural order of your energy. Disease comes about from disorder of the body's energies; chronic disease comes about from the longstanding disorder of energy. Your body constantly pursues balance, working all day and every day to achieve this, and pain is your body telling you where it is having difficulty. The practitioner's role is to listen to what the patient tells them and assist them in correcting the disorder. When this happens your body heals itself.
According to Chinese medical theory negative energy can only harm us if our positive energy is weak. For example, amongst a group of Richmond supporters, all dressed the same in T-shirt and shorts exposed to a MCG cold weather change, one may get pneumonia, two may get a cold, but the rest remain unaffected. This may be due to different levels of Wei Chi.
Parallels may be seen in a person's reactions to humidity, heat, cold, work stress, flu virus and so on.
By taking care, we can assist our protective energy, for example, by dressing according to the weather, eating according to our constitution, getting proper sleep, exercise and fresh air. It is not the virus or the star sign that creates the problem, it is always our response to it.
TCM is causal. We treat the root of disease, and symptoms disappear. Frequently other seemingly unrelated problems will disappear also as the recovery of balance applies to our entire self, and during a treatment for severe headaches, sleep may improve, and the skin may clear. This is because the root of the problem is being treated and not the symptom.
So what does the Nei Jing contain that is so wonderful that billions of people can live happily for a long time, without the benefit of advanced western medicine? Nothing really, merely a recorded conversation between people musing over the nature of life, not unlike many poems and parables. However, should one be prepared to approach it with an open mind, they may well discover that on the pages lies a unifying theory of not only people and medicine, but of all of life. This is not the only example of such a piece of work but may well be the earliest. Yin/Yang theory was also first documented on these pages and it is this theory that leads us into the realm of existence.
The Yin Yang symbol represents the fundamental duality of the universe, a duality ultimately unified. Two aspects, both are necessary for the other to exist, complementary and contradictory, harmony is sought between them, and balance is the goal. This theory defines the parameters within which all observations are gathered. It dictates that we cannot know a part without an understanding of the whole. That an event, object or phenomena of any description has no meaning by itself.
It shows that meaning comes from participation in a pattern. That the mind and the body are two aspects of the one whole, that the nature of the universe is dynamic, that stasis is important in order to understand dynamics, and that imbalance must be understood in order to truly pursue balance.
Yin Yang theory can be applied to all things – male/female, life/death, heaven/earth, summer/winter, day/night, hot/cold, excess/deficient, full/empty, movement/stasis, and hence gives a relative idea as to the nature of a system at any one moment in time.
Around 500BC more philosophical thought was recorded by a man by the name of Lao Tse (Great Teacher). He wrote the Tao Te Jing, later known as the book of Taoism, (pronounced Dowism), consisting of 5000 characters on bamboo now regarded as a world classic. He wrote that human potential is not limited by nature, and that wisdom is to be able to see the greatest potential in nature and to flow with it. So important was it seen to be that not more than 1000 years later, the Tao had been engraved in stone in every provincial capital in China. In order to contract, it is necessary first to expand, in order to weaken, it is necessary first to strengthen, in order to destroy, it is necessary first to promote, n order to grasp, it is necessary first to give. The Tao, which means the way, is elusive and intangible. Taoist philosophy embraces the concept that everything is interconnected and that change is an inevitable part of life. The Tao is a written work that manages to reflect life, due to the contradictory and poetic manner in which it is written. In this way nature is not restricted, for example:
The Great Tao flows everywhere, both to the left and to the right, the ten thousand things depend on it; it holds nothing back. It fulfils its purpose silently and makes no claim. It nourishes the ten thousand things, and yet is not their Lord, It has no claim, it is very small. Tao abides in non-action, yet nothing is left undone. It does not show greatness, and therefore is truly great.
Also around this time, through observation, a new pattern was being recorded that co-existed with Yin Yang theory. It gave an even deeper understanding as to the nature of things, and more importantly, as to the likely nature of things tomorrow. Known as the Theory of the Five Phases it is a system by which phenomena undergoing change may be understood in relation to the correspondences and patterns that may be visited upon it. Each phase is representative of a transitional state, easiest understood in relation to the seasons. Over time all things felt, seen, and experienced were allotted a place within the five phases according to their inherent correspondences, including body organs and anatomical regions.
It can now be seen how potent such a concept, along with Yin Yang theory, is to medicine when the person is not separated from either the disease or from themselves. That is, who they are, where they live, what they do, and when.
The application of these principles of the workings of heaven and earth is performed on a being whose state indicates that they are out of balance, and that they no longer function harmoniously in their environment. The properties of a being that may be affected to restore harmony consist of Chi, Blood, Essence, Spirit and Body Fluids, all of which circulate through the Organs and Channels of the body.
From the Nei Jing, Chi Po says,
"…that which controls the bodily substance is called the Heart-Mind, the heart's capacity for recollection is called reflection, the retention of recollection is called will. The retention and transformation of the will is called thought. Thought is engendered when consideration must be given to will. Worry develops when thought is infused with expectation and anticipation. Worry results in wisdom when it is capable of coping with the affairs of daily life. Therefore in nurturing life the wise adopt to the changes of the four seasons, acclimatizing to cold and summer-heat, leading a life of equanimity, free from either over-joy or anger, adjusting Yin and Yang and regulating the unyielding and the pliant. In so doing evils will rarely rise and long life obtained."
You can see how easily a person in today's society may lose the way, fall out of balance with their environment and hence benefit from an adjustment to the flow of their vital substances. So that the body in conjunction with the laws of the universe, may more easily return to the natural state of dynamic balance. The functions of these all-important substances will now be outlined so that it can be seen they constitute life within the human.
Chi, the substance behind the phenomena of movement. Chi is the force of life in us all; its effects can be seen and felt. To describe it as bio-electric energy comes close to an accurate description, but the truth is that Chi, like TCM, resists classification. We know when it is strong or weak – the intuitive senses (touch and sight) of a physician can detect it. Definable only by function it is the initial spark that gives us life, it grows us as we will it, protects, nourishes, supports us through many seasons. To the point of its natural depletion, at which time our Chi with our physical selves return to earth as another cycle is completed to start over. The many different functions of Chi are given different names: Activation Chi (Ancestral/Source) guides our growth and development Warming Chi (Nourishing) regulates the maintenance of organ and tissue temperature according to their functions Defence Chi (Protective) prevents unhealthy influences entering the body Transformative Chi (Organ) supplies the energy required for all the changes in substances within the body, formation, distribution and conversion Containment Chi (Spleen) which provides the power by which our substances and organs stay where they function best. Additionally as we breathe in air it becomes Lung Chi, the food we eat becomes Stomach Chi and the combination of these with Ancestral Chi (stored in the Kidneys) can create and maintain healthy levels of all the different types of Chi we need to live our lives. Chi flows through the Channels or Meridians of the body and may be positively influenced by stretching, breathing, eating, massage, herbal medicine, moxabustion, acupuncture and a positive outlook.
Blood (Xue) in TCM is a lot more than warm red fluid. Blood, defined by function, nourishes the body, considered the Yin to the Yang that is Chi. These two have interdependence with each other. They create each other. Chi may not move in a body unnourished, unmoistened by blood. Xue and Chi are best understood by their relationship with each other, Chi leads Blood, Blood is the mother of Chi. According to Elementary Questions, "if Blood and Chi fall into disharmony, a hundred diseases may arise."
Essence (Jing) also thought to be fluid like, supportive and nutritive, the basis of reproduction and development. Development corresponds with changes in Jing. The Nei Jing speaks of human development in 8-year stages:
"…at 8 years the Kidney (Jing) is full, the hair is grown and the teeth change. At 16 years the Jing is abundant, the water of heaven arrives, the Jing Chi is able to flow, the Yin and the Yang are in harmony, and the person is fertile. At 24 the Jing plateaus, the tendons and bones are strong, the wisdom teeth come in and growth is at its peak. At 32 the tendons and bones are at their strongest and the flesh is full and strong. At 40 the Jing is weakened, the hair falls out and the teeth are loose. At 48 the Yang Chi is exhausted above, the face darkens and the hair whitens." Spirit (Shen) is associated with the force of human personality, the ability to think, discriminate and choose appropriately.
"Shen is the awareness that shines out of our eyes when we are truly awake". Shen is reflected in the capacity of the mind to form ideas, and the desire of the personality to live life. Chi, Jing and Shen are often referred to in Chinese tradition as "the three treasures".
Fluids (Jin-ye) consist of all the normal fluid substances of the body including sweat, urine, tears, saliva, gastric juices and mucous. Yin Yang theory application denotes those fluids circulating superficially around the body, thinner, more rapidly moving, are more Yang, while those that circulate deeper with functions within organs and are of a thicker, slower moving nature are more Yin. Jin-ye, like Blood, moisten and nourish body regions, often viewed as less essential than the other fundamental substances, but are nonetheless dependant on Chi and Blood and vice versa.
These substances give an idea of the nature of the Chinese system however, they can only be understood when considered a part of a person's complete pattern of harmony or otherwise.
Such a pattern may be distinguished through tongue and pulse diagnosis, general observation, palpation, detailed observation including questioning of the patient. Then the physician will influence the fundamental substances, by affecting the chi, according to the action they perceive will best aid the body in returning to a state of balance. Such an influence may be affected through use of a number of ancient traditions, which evolved with the philosophy itself, herbalism/diet, exercise, massage, moxibustion or acupuncture. These tools of the well skilled physician are all aimed at the Channels or Meridians (Jing-luo) of the body. Along these channels lie points of influence known as acupoints. There are in excess of 2000 of these acupoints used throughout history whose actions have been documented. 361 lie on the 12 regular Jing-lou (organ related) and the 2 extra channels (governing and conception vessels). The use of needles, for example, can reduce excess, tonify deficiency, warm what is cold, cool what is hot, circulate what is stagnant, move what is congealed, stabilize what is reckless, raise what is falling and lower what is rising.
I believe this inherent wisdom is slowly but surely penetrating the collective mind of the western world and will soon be the more favoured system in terms of prevention of disease, and daily maintenance of health. Some say our current system of medicine particularly synthetic drug therapy and surgery has its greatest strengths in trauma care and acute problems, while Chinese medicine excels in the areas of chronic problems and preventative medicine.
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A Guide to Unconventional Christmas Music for the Whole Family
By Tobias Carroll
The 2010 holiday season has already seen announcements of a Paul Simon song called "Get Ready for Christmas," as well as a Target compilation headlined by a Best Coast/Wavves duet and contributions from Bishop Allen, Blackalicious, and Crystal Antlers. In other words: the abundance of Christmas music already out there is about to get even more abundant. But for listeners whose musical tastes stray away from the traditional, finding appropriate choices to spin whilst trimming the tree or setting the Yule log alight can be a difficult task indeed. Attempting to balance the musically esoteric with the varying sensibilities that can arise during familial holiday gatherings can be virtually impossible. (We have personally seen several December 24th arguments break out over the relative merits of John Fahey's New Possibility.)
What follows is a list of 10 albums, singles, collections, and compilations that might achieve that balance between general accessibility and an intriguing, offbeat sensibility. These may be your best bet for holiday music to satisfy a wide range of musical tastes — at least, until some microhouse producer spins the dulcet tones of the Jingle Cats into bliss-inducing gold.
Sufjan Stevens — Songs for Christmas
There's always been a bit of Vince Guaraldi in Sufjan Stevens's more baroque-pop side. On this five-EP collection of Christmas songs new and old, that sensibility comes even more to the forefront, and the short, simple renditions of traditional songs are neatly played with an abundant sense of yearning. And on volume five, one can find more than a few Stevens originals ("Christmas in July," "Sister Winter") brilliantly illustrating his fondness for large-scale pop.
Various Artists — Where Will You Be Christmas Day? Of the 24 songs here, some of them are familiar and some are brand-new. The names, likewise, range from the well-known (Bessie Smith, Leadbelly) to the much more obscure, and the songs heard here cover traditions including blues, gospel, and folk. The album's scope is broad enough to include both the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers' majestic "Sherburne" and Leroy Carr's wry "Christmas In Jail — Ain't That a Pain," and the overall effect of this compilation is a seasonally appropriate musical history lesson that never ceases to be compelling.
Low — Christmas
Newly released on vinyl, Low's Christmas is a beautiful album that encompasses moods from elation to devotion to exhaustion. (In other words, it runs the gamut of holiday-related emotions in just under half an hour.) "Just Like Christmas," with its '60s pop production and sleigh-bell percussion, remains one of the trio's best songs, and their subdued take on "Silent Night" and shoegaze-bedecked approach to "Little Drummer Boy" are equally beguiling.
Jonathan Kane — The Little Drummer Boy Drummer Jonathan Kane has worked with the likes of Rhys Chatham and La Monte Young; he's also a bandleader, whose group February combines a minimalist composition ethic with traditional folk and blues numbers. (That makes for a very dry description, but the group's performances are gripping.) On this EP, Kane applies the same technique to the aforementioned Christmas standard; the taut result nonetheless makes its way steadily towards bliss over the course of 14 minutes.
John Fahey — The New Possibility
Mostly recorded in the late 1960s, these versions of Christmas carols arranged for solo guitar are unadorned, pristine, and meditative. That sense of meditation has a flipside, however — the two "Fantasy" pieces on A New Possibility find the recognizable spinning off into instrumental flights and experimentation.
Julian Koster — The Singing Saw at Christmastime
This album finds Julian Koster, bandleader of The Music Tapes and onetime member of Neutral Milk Hotel, performing a dozen songs on the musical saw. The resulting album is both endearing and neatly surreal, sounding like some lost broadcast from a history that never was, that odd place where Rankin-Bass meets Jeunet and Caro.
David Bazan — Christmas singles
The music made by David Bazan over the past decade has found him wrestling with questions of religious faith (and, more recently, its absence). One constant, however, has been his tradition of releasing a Christmas-themed 7" on Seattle's Suicide Squeeze Records. Songs have ranged from the traditional ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") to the more modern ("Happy Xmas (War is Over)"), sung and played in Bazan's stark, haunted manner — and sometimes turned on their head.
X — Merry Xmas From X Were one to assemble a list of bands likely to release a holiday-themed song or album, the longstanding Los Angeles punk quartet X would probably not be on it. And yet, this 2009 single, featuring versions of "Jingle Bells" and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," is solid and catchy, and earns points for the gleeful inevitability of the title.
The Ventures — The Ventures' Christmas Album
Originally released in 1965, this album features the likes of "Blue Christmas," "Sleigh Ride," and "Silver Bells" arranged for an instrumental quartet and played enthusiastically and dynamically. Crisp enough to sound fresh, and yet classic in its scope, it's an album seemingly designed to bridge numerous musical divides. The fact that it features one of the few tolerable versions of "Jingle Bell Rock" to be set to tape doesn't hurt, either.
Various Artists — The My Pal God Holiday Record and The My Pal God Holiday Record Vol.2
A decade ago, the independent label My Pal God released a pair of compilations in which punk and indie bands took a stab at holiday numbers contemporary and traditional, and offered up a few of their own. Vol.1 features a few more covers, though Vol.2 does close with Drums and Tuba offering up a surreal, ultimately triumphant version of "Auld Lang Syne." And Crucial Youth's rewrite of Iron Cross's "Crucified" as "X-Mastime for the Skins" may be the sole Christmas song suitable for a circle pit.


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We have lots of projects in the works for 2015, beginning with our museum members opening on April 24. Members get the first opportunity to see our new wolf exhibit (Yes! There were wolves on Lopez!) and a new yet-to-be-named fishing exhibit. We'll host History Afloat again this year with a narrated trip around Lopez on on Monte Hughes's Mystic Sea.
Our big summer project is the You Are Making History Timeline and Picnic. We received more than 200 name entries at our picnic last year. We plan to collect names through this year, then turn it into a permanent display. We hope this will be the vehicle to bring more young people to the museum. Their place in Lopez history has the same weight as the earliest settlers—the timeline is a great visual reminder.
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Alan Theisen (b. 4 October 1981; Port Huron, Michigan) is a Ph.D. graduate assistant in the Department of Music Theory at the Florida State University.
Composing since the age of sixteen, he has produced a steadily growing body of work distinguished by its musical energy and concentration of expression.
Representative works by Theisen include a Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Variations on a Theme of Gretchaninov, Eclogue for flute, and the Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra (premiered by soloist Lawrence Gwozdz and the Szczecin Philharmonic in 2004). Recent compositions and commissions include Ritorno for flute and cello and a Triple Concerto. Noted composer Dimitri Terzakis commends Theisen's oeuvre as being "the product of a unique talent."
As a saxophonist, Theisen has toured the United States and Canada with the Sax-Chamber Orchestra, performing at two World Saxophone Congresses (Montreal - 2000, Minneapolis - 2003). He studied the instrument with internationally-recognized performer Lawrence Gwozdz and participated in masterclasses with famed saxophone pioneer Jean-Marie Londeix. No stranger to the podium, Theisen has been a guest conductor with several ensembles.
In an effort to showcase both his own original compositions and pieces by other contemporary composers, he founded the Intégrales New Music Festival in 2005. Now an annual event, Intégrales NMF features world-premiere performances by nationally recognized musicians. Intégrales has expanded to include musical collaborations with artists, authors, and dancers. Theisen wrote his undergraduate thesis on György Ligeti's Piano Etudes, and has authored several papers on topics including Elliott Carter, film editing, composition as analysis, and Michael Brecker.
Other interests include mathematics, film criticism, and philosophy; in addition, Theisen has performed the role of Oberon in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he also wrote the incidental music.
Theisen lives with his wife (and puts up with their two cats) in Tallahassee, Florida.
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"Entertainment is that which requires nothing of the participants to participate. Art of any sort is that which requires some effort initially, some active input from the participant that he or she then gets back many-fold from the experience. To refuse to make that distinction is simply irresponsible.
"As for accessibility, all that means is that they recognize it. If you want music to sound like old music, then get old music. Name me one opera that is in the antique style, or hyper conservative, or whatever you want to call it, that's as good as Delibes! That's the test. If you want music that sounds like music you've heard before, then listen to the music that you've heard before. The point is, that's not the music of our time."
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Behind the Why of a Rampage, Loner With a Taste for Nazism
RED LAKE, Minn., March 22 - Before Monday, before his storm of bullets that left 10 people on this Indian reservation dead, Jeff Weise was rarely noticed here. But when he was, people saw a confused, brooding teenager with few friends, a peculiar attraction to Nazism and a lifetime, already, of family troubles.
He was a loner, in part, by happenstance, his parents having vanished from his life because of quieter tragedies. Emily Parkhurst, who like many other residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation knew nearly everyone killed or hurt in the shootings, said Mr. Weise's father shot himself to death four years ago. Not long after that, Mr. Weise's mother was in a serious car accident that left her using a wheelchair and living in a nursing home.
"It was a lot to handle for a kid with no one to guide him or help him," Ms. Parkhurst said. "Nobody took the time to get to know him either."
Investigators say they are now trying to learn all they can about Mr. Weise, 16, to figure out why he killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion, then drove to Red Lake High School and killed a security guard, a teacher and five students before killing himself. Seven students were wounded, some of them shot in the head or the chest.
Among the areas of inquiry the Federal Bureau of Investigation is likely to pursue is a neo-Nazi Web forum on which someone identifying himself as Jeff Weise left messages, including one saying he was being accused of threatening to "shoot up" the school on Hitler's birthday, April 20, in 2004.
The school, which serves about 300 students, was closed on Tuesday and surrounded by law enforcement officials and evidence vans. Inside, the brick and glass building was riddled with so many bullets that F.B.I. officials said they could not keep count.
From a parking lot in the snow-covered, pine-speckled reservation, 120 miles south of the Canadian border, Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the tribal council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, said somberly that the tribe, which has wrestled with troubles over poverty and education through the years, had never experienced such a horror.
"Without a doubt, this is the darkest days in the history of our people," Mr. Jourdain said.
The shootings on Monday afternoon, the deadliest school rampage since 15 people died at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colo., in 1999, were over in just 10 minutes, federal agents said, though some students who were there said they felt as though it had taken far longer.
Alicia Neadeau, 17, recalled standing in a hallway when the sounds of gunfire suddenly filled the school, and rushing with other stunned students into a classroom, where a teacher locked the door while all waited. Ms. Neadeau was still shaking on Tuesday, as she held her mother, Angela Ishan.
For parents, the long wait felt endless too: their unharmed children were not sent home for hours after the 3 p.m. shooting. "I was very, very afraid," Ms. Ishan said. "Parents didn't know whose kids were hurt or whose kids were safe."
A. J. Thunder, 16, whose brother, Cody, was one of the students wounded, said he wondered if he would ever be ready to go back to the school. "I just don't feel safe," he said. "You never know if it could happen again."
As federal agents, tribal police officers and officials from a number of other agencies, including the United States attorney's office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, interviewed students and teachers and surveyed the school, they said they believed that Mr. Weise had acted alone but that they had no clear explanations about what prompted the killings.
Residents here said they were stunned by Mr. Weise's actions, though they said they had seen signs of trouble. Some said he favored Goth culture and clothing and Nazi philosophy, and had seen him drawing graphic, violent pictures.
Several residents said they believed Mr. Weise had received medication for emotional problems. T-Anna Hanson, 21, a cousin of one of his victims, said Mr. Weise had been admitted to a hospital last year for psychiatric help.
Some neighbors said Mr. Weise had recently been ordered to study temporarily at home, not school, because of a disciplinary problem.
Shauna Lussier, an aunt of Mr. Weise, said she was unable to talk about him. "We just can't understand anything right now," she said. "Keep us in your prayers."
Although the F.B.I. said it could not confirm the authenticity of the Web postings, someone who identified himself as Jeff Weise, a high school student living on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, posted 34 messages on a neo-Nazi Web forum last year, expressing admiration for Hitler and frustration at the lack of racial purity and authentic racial pride in his community. He used the handles Todesengel, meaning "angel of death" in German, and NativeNazi on the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party's Web forum. The forum has a swastika on a green flag on its homepage and promotes itself as an alternative to white-supremacist sites, a place where people of all races are welcome as long as they oppose racial mixing.
"I guess I've always had a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideas, and his courage to take on larger nations," Mr. Weise wrote in a posting last March. "I also have a natural dislike for communism."
He added, "It kind of angers me how people pass prejudgment on someone" who expresses support for Hitler.
A month later, Mr. Weise wrote that he was "being blamed for a threat on the school I attend because someone said they were going to shoot up the school on 4/20, Hitler's birthday." But by the end of May 2004, he wrote that he had been "cleared as a suspect."
"I'm glad for that," he said. "I don't much care for jail. I've never been there and I don't plan on it."
Michael Tabman, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Minneapolis office, said the authorities would be studying the Internet postings as part of their investigation. So far, Mr. Tabman said, they had pieced together the events of Monday afternoon.
Before 3 p.m., Mr. Weise, who lived with his grandmother, went to his grandfather's house, which sits on the reservation away from other homes, off an icy road in the woods. There, Mr. Weise pulled a .22-caliber handgun and shot and killed his grandfather, Daryl Lussier, 58, and his grandfather's companion, Michelle Sigana, 32, Mr. Tabman said. The authorities said they did not know who owned the handgun.
Mr. Lussier had been a sergeant in the reservation police for 30 years and was, residents said, one of its most beloved officers. Where others stuck hard to the books, they said, Sergeant Lussier sometimes let a person off with a warning, and once even eased a man out of an armed standoff by putting down his service revolver and going to talk to him.
"He had a kind heart, and we should know; we've all known him all our lives," Pam Needham, a neighbor, said of Mr. Lussier.
From the house, the F.B.I. said, Mr. Weise took his grandfather's police-issued weapons - a .40-caliber handgun and a 12-gauge shotgun - and his utility belt and bulletproof vest before driving off in Mr. Lussier's marked squad car.
He drove less than five minutes to the high school, where he stepped into the front lobby and shot and killed the unarmed security guard on duty, Derrick Brun, 28. The lobby has a metal detector and a video camera, which was apparently rolling.
From there, Mr. Tabman said, Mr. Weise began firing at students and a teacher in a hallway. The group fled into a classroom. Mr. Weise followed, killing the teacher, Neva Rogers, 62, and several students.
Mr. Weise then ran back into the hallway and began shooting, apparently at random. Students scrambled for hiding places, barricading classroom doors with anything they could find. Some fell, wounded. Some said they saw Mr. Weise laughing, mumbling, taunting them.
Four police officers ran into the school, and Mr. Weise began shooting at them, Mr. Tabman said. At least one officer fired back at the boy, who was wearing his grandfather's bulletproof vest. The authorities are not sure whether any of the shots hit him, but he ran back into the classroom where most of the dead lay, and shot himself once in the head, Mr. Tabman said.
The notion of a Nazi sympathizer on an Indian reservation particularly offended some here. "You have to be white to be a Nazi, don't you?" said one resident, who would give only his first name, George, and said he had known most of the victims all of their lives. "Believe me, there are no other Nazis here."
The reservation, with 880 acres, has a population of 5,118, about 40 percent of them living in poverty, according to the 2000 Census. The tribe also includes about 5,000 members living elsewhere.
On Tuesday, Orville White, whose niece, Thurlene Marie Stillday, 15, was among the dead, stood along a reservation street, his eyes on the ground and his fingers clutching a photograph of her. She had bangs and a hopeful smile.
Gangs, drugs, alcohol: those, Mr. White said, had plagued the reservation before.
But this, he said, was incomprehensible.


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Q: EcomDev_PHPUnit mock Magento model in collection I have successfully used getModelMock() and replaceByMock('model', $model_path, $mock). Today I was trying to reuse this code to override "save" but it was not working. After some digging I now see the difference as to why the model is not being mocked.
When using the mock successfully my code is starting with a new model:
$model = Mage::getModel('test/model');
$model->setData('field', 'value');
$model->save(); //this gets mocked

The code that is not being mocked I'm loading a record using a collection. Simplified:
$model = Mage::getModel('test/model')->getCollection()->getFirstItem();
$model->setData('field', 'value');
$model->save(); //this does NOT get mocked

In both cases I use the below code to mock the model:
$mock = $this->getModelMock('test/model', array('save'));

    $mock->expects($this->once())
        ->method('save')
        ->will($this->returnCallBack(function(){throw new Exception('Mock error');})
        );

    $this->replaceByMock('model', 'test/model', $mock);

I also tried the resource model using the below:
$mock = $this->getResourceModelMock('test/model', array('save'));

    $mock->expects($this->once())
        ->method('save')
        ->will($this->returnCallBack(function(){throw new Exception('Mock error');})
        );

    $this->replaceByMock('resource_model', 'test/model', $mock);

After stepping through the code I thought maybe I just need to mock the resource model. That didn't work and neither did mocking both the model and resource model. What I'm trying to test is an exception being caught when trying to update data on an existing model using $model->save().

A: So the model that you want to mock is also the component under test? I would try to change that.

What I'm trying to test is an exception being caught when trying to update data on an existing model using $model->save().

Not sure if I understood that correct (the test code would have helped) but it looks like mocking the resource model was generally a good idea. This also gives you the possibility to run the test independent of the database.
Your starting point:
$resourceModelMock = $this->getResourceModelMock('test/model');
$resourceModelMock->expects($this->once())
    ->method('save')
    ->will($this->throwException(...));
$this->replaceByMock('resource_model', 'test/model', $resourceModelMock);

Note that I took your "exception being caught" literally and assumed that the resource model will throw an exception that your model should catch. However I have the suspicion that you really meant "thrown". In that case your mock should return something valid instead.

A: I couldn't find how to get a successful mock so this is a work around. I'm more worried about code coverage than I am actually testing this "save" exception. Anyway I just wrapped the actual code with the comments below which tells phpunit to ignore it when analyzing code coverage:
// @codeCoverageIgnoreStart
[code goes here]
// @codeCoverageIgnoreEnd

I'd prefer to not fudge it but the code is pretty straightforward so I'm really not worried.

A: You may register an additional Mock for the collection resource.
And each collection item will become a Mock object.
Here is small example:
class YourCompany_YourModule_Test_Model_CatalogProduct extends EcomDev_PHPUnit_Test_Case {

/**
 * Create product model mock and replace `getCollection` method with callback
 *
 * @return $this
 * @throws PHPUnit_Framework_Exception
 */
protected function _registerProductStub()
{
    $productModelMock = $this->getModelMock('catalog/product', array('getPrice', 'getCollection'));
    $productModelMock->expects($this->any())->method('getPrice')->will($this->returnCallback(array($this, 'callbackGetTestValue')));
    $productModelMock->expects($this->any())->method('getCollection')->will($this->returnCallback(array($this, 'callbackGetCollection')));
    $this->replaceByMock('model', 'catalog/product', $productModelMock);

    return $this;
}

/**
 * Create a product collection resource model with Mock and replace `getNewEmptyItem` method with callback
 *
 * @return $this
 * @throws PHPUnit_Framework_Exception
 */
protected function _registerProductCollectionStub()
{
    $productModelMockModelCollectionMock = $this->getResourceModelMock('catalog/product_collection', array('getNewEmptyItem'));
    $productModelMockModelCollectionMock->expects($this->any())->method('getNewEmptyItem')->will($this->returnCallback(array($this, 'callbackGetNewEmptyItem')));
    $this->replaceByMock('resource_model', 'catalog/product_collection', $productModelMockModelCollectionMock);

    return $this;
}

/**
 * Magento EAV checks that class of object is the same with predefined $this->_itemObjectClass
 * So we need to replace it too.
 */
public function callbackGetCollection()
{
    $model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
    $collection = $model->getResourceCollection();
    $collection->setItemObjectClass(get_class($model));
    $collection->getSelect()->limit(10);
    return $collection;
}

/**
 * We change a default functionality and
 * new empty object calling will return a mock object
 * in place of straight creating object trough `new ClassName`.
 * Magento will automatically add data to this object from your fixture or database.
 *
 * @return Mage_Catalog_Model_Product
 */
public function callbackGetNewEmptyItem()
{
    return Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
}

public function callbackGetTestValue()
{
    return 99.99;
}

/**
 * @test
 */
public function test_productModelIsMock()
{
    $this->_registerProductStub()
         ->_registerProductCollectionStub();

    $mockedProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
    $mockedProductFromCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->getFirstItem();

    $this->assertEquals(get_class($mockedProduct), get_class($mockedProductFromCollection));

    $this->assertEquals($mockedProduct->getPrice(), $mockedProductFromCollection->getPrice());
    $this->assertEquals($mockedProduct->getPrice(), 99.99);
}

}

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Whit Stillman's masterpiece of text and subtext, Barcelona, plays at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford on Thursday, March 23rd at 7pm.


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fanatix | AFL | Melbourne Demons star Jack Trengove forced out of 2015 AFL season
Melbourne Demons star Jack Trengove forced out of 2015 AFL season
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Melbourne Demons midfielder Jack Trengove has been forced to end his 2015 campaign due to ongoing injury issues.
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Trengove has played just 81 games in his six-year career and has not played a game since April last year after scans on his foot revealed a crack in his navicular bone.
The injury-prone Demon told Triple M radio that he made the decision not to rush back, instead concentrating on making a return in the 2016 pre-season.
"I saw the surgeon a few weeks ago now and I think it's the end of this season for me," Trengove said.
"We've got time on our side to just get it right and get it as strong as possible.
"Looking to get everything fit and healthy for the start of next pre-season.
"In the whole scheme of things it's not really worth it rushing it and potentially hampering things for the future."
Trengove's proposed trade to Richmond at the end of 2014 was called off after he reportedly failed a medical at Punt Road.
Melbourne face Greater Western Sydney on Saturday and will be gunning for a 2-0 record to begin 2015.
Demons coach Paul Roos will welcome back Chris Dawes and Bernie Vince into the side in what promises to be a tight encounter in Canberra.
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The fire and the rose, as it were, became one. - Federico Fellini
Twenty minutes into my first acid trip, I realized that the heavily stylized filmic interpretations of LSD experiences I'd been watching all my life were not the exaggerations I'd always assumed them to be. They were in fact faithful representations. Walls really did drip. Edges really did bleed. Color and shape really did squeeze one another until it felt like my brain was folding in on itself, my consciousness slipping and sliding endlessly, with nothing firm or real enough to hold onto.
Terence (who by now had also come back inside) tells me that for several minutes, in the beginning, he watched my face transform with wonder as I stared, mouth agape, at various objects around the house shifting and morphing. Paintings, lamps, chairs. And I remember this. I remember smiling, squinting in curiosity, laughing. And in those moments when it got too intense, I verbally reminded myself that I wasn't new to hallucinations. "It's a good thing I've taken shrooms before," I said loudly, like a bragging child. "Because this is like...you know?" He knew.
LSD plays with time, expanding or compressing it as, I guess, one's brain sees fit. There was a moment early on when Terence was right beside me and then snap! he was on the other side of the house, seemingly instantly. On the other hand, the two to three hours of "bad" tripping I did was interminable. But whether I was in a state of stability, sublimity, or hell, time divided itself up into what I'd later refer to as "segments". I recollect what I experienced sensorily, emotionally, and psychologically in these chunks of time. I suppose they are how my brain decided to make sense of what it went through. A library of tiny little multi-dimensional videos, filed neatly away in my mind. Fucking amazing, really.
One of the first segments felt like a conspiracy between color and geometry. Every surface burst into hexagons, or maybe heptagons? I remember thinking of chicken wire. And I do mean every surface, including skin - my own and Terence's. And no sooner had I noticed the pattern on our bodies than it was scales. Reptilian. A little weird, but nothing I couldn't handle. The scales began to lift and develop dimensionality. You know how it looks when you add a drop shadow to an object, in graphic design? That's what it was like. Only the shadow peeking out from underneath was both color and light. (One note I wrote soon afterward reads "it was like someone was using the pucker and bloat tools right behind my eyes".)
And then this segment - which was like an orientation to LSD's visual aspects - chopped itself up into smaller pieces of time, so there'd be minutes at a stretch where every surface was outlined in lime green and hot pink heptagons. Then electric blue and lavender ones.
Then suddenly the color/pattern visuals evaporated and everything went fuzzy and staticky, as if I'd been sucked into a television set left on after programming ended. Silvery-grey, glinting, snowy. I remember seeing Terence just a few feet away from me, made of the stuff. It was beautiful and so strange, and I marveled at the moment. I marveled at all of it. It really is like this. It really is the rabbit hole. I had no idea. No idea at all.
But for all the beauty, it was also incredibly overwhelming. Every second was more disorienting than the last. The air was thick, heavy, vibrating. I'd compare it to being underwater with your eyes open, just below the surface. Waves blurring the view when you look up at the sunny sky. Now imagine you can't get back above the water. You can breathe somehow, that's not the issue. But everything you know as normal and real - the world you want to get back to - is out of reach. And in fact you're sinking deeper, and you know you're going to stay under for a very long time. Can you handle it? Or will you freak out?
I freaked out.
No amount of telling myself that I was prepared for this helped. I was in over my head and I was scared. Deep down I knew I had a long night ahead of me, but I didn't want to face that. So instead I tried to speed things up. I chugged water, trying to flush the drug through my system. (It only refreshed the sour taste of it on my tongue, which, probably psychosomatically, then just refreshed the intensity of the experience.) I asked Terence over and over: "How long, do you think? How long will it last?" And I threw up. A lot. Gotta hand it to my body. The acid hadn't gone through my digestive system - it wasn't sitting in my stomach, it was coursing through my veins. But on some level my body knew to try and reject what I'd given it, in the only way it could.
Poor Terence. He had no idea what was happening with me. He says he realized pretty quickly that I was in a bad way. Indeed, I sensed his anxiety, despite the reassuring tone he adopted, and it made things exponentially worse for me. I grew panicky. What the fuck were we doing? We were in the middle of the desert, hours from anyone we knew. This is bad, I thought. This is really...this is bad.
It was about this time that I started singing my LSD song.
I call it a song now, because later I came to see it as such. As something funny and sort of poetically, tragically beautiful. But really, it was just a series of questions and statements. Questions and statements that I said over and over and over again, because I was lost and frightened and desperately trying to find a thread of reality to cling to. Because truly, I thought I'd lost my mind.
Well, that's not exactly right. I thought I'd broken my mind. Overdosed. Unhinged it, with toxic chemicals. Damaged it beyond repair. Do you know what it's like to be utterly and completely convinced that you're going to be committed to an insane asylum? I do, now.
Fucking. Terrifying. Beyond words terrifying. Mad. I've gone mad. That's it. It's over. Everything I had, everything I knew. Gone. I could see it already. Straightjacket. Wheelchair. Padded room. Oh, it's so sad about Ellie. She was so smart, so talented. Just a drooling mess now. I could imagine their pity, their revulsion. Deeper and deeper I sank in my conviction that it was just a matter of time. I wasn't coming back. I wouldn't be normal again. I'd be forever lost to my former self and former life, gazing outward at it, locked within the hell of my splintered mind. Heartbroken. For several of the darkest seconds of my life, I knew that had there been a gun in front of me, I might have tried to shoot myself.
But while 99% of me was sure that life as I'd known it was over, there was, deep within my brain, a bell ringing. Faintly, so fainty, I could hear it. Its ring was the promise of normalcy. A remembrance of it, far away through space and time. Some tiny part of me knew that this was just an experience, and it would eventually end. But that bell, oh my god it was so heartwrenchingly quiet, so unconvincing. .....ding.......ding..... I wanted to believe in it, more than anything I wanted to trust it, but the counterbalance of what the acid was doing made it so. very. difficult.
"Did I break my brain?" That was the first line of the song. And every "no" answer was a ring of the bell. I asked Terence this, over and over and over. He patiently reassured me I did not. But I was still falling down, down, and I didn't believe him. I scrambled for my phone.
"Are you looking at pictures?" he asked encouragingly.
"No," I said flatly, trying to focus on the electric blur of numbers before my eyes. "I have to call Mason. Will you call him for me?"
Of course he would, understanding that in this moment of unbearable fear, I'd need the friend who's gotten me through a dozen other moments of unbearable fear. I needed my friend of almost twenty years, and I needed him right fucking now.
"Yo," he answered.
"Mase," I blurted, putting him on speakerphone. "Mase, I'm in Joshua Tree, and I took LSD, and I'm really scared I took too much. Please help me. I don't know what to do."
And so it began. The phone conversation that would shape the next several hours of my first acid trip. The conversation that would color and inform my experience, give it meaning and structure and even a theme. Simply put: friendship. Friendship on the most profound, breathtakingly beautiful level imaginable.
But first back to the song.
Naturally, Mason did everything in his power to calm and comfort me, from the bar in Las Vegas where he happened to be that Saturday night. (Yep, that's right. Me and my two hundred micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide parachuted in to my dearest, oldest friend's vacation smack in the middle of Sin City and hijacked the shit out of it. Not a single peep of complaint, the entire two and a half hours I kept him on the phone. Ladies and gentlemen, that is what you call a friend.) He told me I was going to be fine. That if I'd taken too much, I wouldn't be talking to him now. That Terence sounded coherent and sober enough to judge whether or not I really needed to go to the hospital, and they agreed I did not. That I just had to relax and buckle in for the ride. That everything was okay.
Still, I needed to hear the same mantra of assurances repeated time and again.
"Did I break my brain?" (no)
"Am I going to survive?" (yeah)
"I'm so scared..." (you're gonna be fine)
"What about dehydration?" (that's just the drug)
Wispy threads though they seemed, they were a lifeline to me as I dangled in the abyss. And so these questions I asked, combined with the answers I was given, became like a song over the course of the night. And it kept me alive. And if that sounds crazy, I understand. But if not for the anchor which was Mason's voice holding me safely in place, in that beautiful house in the desert, I don't know what I might have done in that first couple of hours. But it probably would have involved fleeing my own boyfriend and running out into the dark, dangerous night, desperate for help and relief. I know I wouldn't have even made it ten steps outside without falling to the ground, though, because I was physically incapacitated by the drug. I probably would have just lay down in the dirt and screamed.
This story is getting away from itself, I know, but holy hell is it hard to explain everything that was happening at once. But here's how to picture me in these moments: pinned to the cool white vinyl lounge chairs we'd flattened and pushed together in the living room. On them was a mess of blankets that I rolled around on, clutching the edges of the cushions for dear life, as I frantically tried to get my psychological bearings. I was terribly thirsty but didn't feel like I could drink. I was nauseous and dizzy and disoriented, and nowhere that I looked made it any easier. I had a dim awareness of Terence moving around the room, getting water, trying to help me. But looking at him only freaked me out more; his skin was unnaturally alive, shifting and oozing as if liquid. The shape of his face was distorted and ugly, and I turned away in fear that image would imprint itself permanently in my mind. All I could do was stare at the phone, at the letters of Mason's name which glowed white in the slow-settling dusk. A life raft. His voice a rope thrown to me on an ocean of fire.
Fire. That was another thing. So hot. Not my body, which was cool, pleasantly chilly even, from air conditioning that felt like wind moving through the house. But my brain boiled with the heat of too much...everything. Too much color and light, too much fear, too much resistance. Because oh my god, was I ever resisting. Mason called it out. "Listen to me," he said. "Are you listening?" I was. "You have to stop fighting it."
A surge of fresh terror. "I can't!" How could I make him understand the depths of hell that awaited me, if I'd just give in to them? "Mase, I can't. It's too much!"
"Listen to my voice," he continued firmly. "You know this. You know this because you've done drugs before. If you fight it, it's going to be a lot harder. Just give in and let it happen."
I knew he was right, of course. I knew the only way out was through. But oh my god. The way my mind was melting, sucking the rest of me down into it. The helplessness was utterly terrifying. What would I find there, if I did let go? Where would I go? Letting go felt like jumping blindly into a black hole. Less giving in than giving up - on reality, and on sanity. (From my notes afterward: sanity a placemat that kept shifting under my brain.)
It didn't matter, though. It didn't matter one bit whether I wanted to resist or embrace the LSD that was blazing new neural pathways faster than I could take a breath. I was approaching my peak and any ideas I had about controlling or guiding my experience were long, long gone. I could no sooner stop what was happening than stop a roller coaster, mid-loop.
But the good thing about roller coasters is they go up, as much as they go down...
to be continued (only one more, I promise!)
posted Sunday, June 28, 2015
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Wiedeman Named PBC Player of the Week
MARTINEZ, Ga. – Senior forward Reece Wiedeman (Suwanee, Ga.) of the Georgia College men's basketball team (13-8, 7-6 PBC) was named the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. This marks the first such honor for both Wiedeman and the Bobcat men's basketball team this season.
Wiedeman averaged 19.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per contest over two big wins this week. His best game was his first, a 25-point, eight-rebound performance in the win over No. 7 Augusta State University Thursday. He was efficient, hitting 10-of-15 from the floor. Wiedeman followed that up with 13 points, five boards and a pair of blocks in the win at USC Aiken Saturday.
All-time, the Bobcat men have had 20 players named to this list. The most recent honoree was Josh Hurst (Athens, Ga.) taking the title Feb. 22, 2010.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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While the world of conventional medicine lines up to profit from the Ebola panic, there is no mention anywhere in the mainstream media of the criminal corporation behind the Ebola vaccine.
In a speech to three countries hit hard by an ebola outbreak, the director of the World Health Organization today said that efforts to halt the spread of the deadly virus have not been good enough. "This is an unprecedented outbreak accompanied by unprecedented challenges. And these challenges are extraordinary," WHO Director General Margaret Chan told leaders of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in a speech in Guinea's capital city Conakry. "This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it. If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socioeconomic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries," she warned.
"The consequences can be catastrophic.
According to the WHO's latest tally, the virus has infected 1,323 and led to 729 deaths across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Most of those cases have been in Sierra Leone, while the most deaths — 339 — have been recorded in Guinea. This particular outbreak has wrecked havoc in the region, and been unlike many previous outbreaks of the virus, which occurred in more isolated areas. Its presence in densely-populated cities has created a more volatile situation where the virus can be spread more easily and become more difficult to contain by international health efforts.
Ebola is a deadly virus that was first identified in 1976, and has up to a 90 percent mortality rate among those who are infected, though has been about 60 percent in this latest outbreak. Chan noted that the strain affecting the region is the most lethal in the family of ebola viruses. The virus is spread between humans through body fluids, and there's no cure or vaccine available. Those who are infected can have fever, muscle pain, and a headache before the virus causes vomiting, diarrhea, and internal and external bleeding, eventually leading to death.


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Large window openings positioned within emphasized frames are the key feature of the facade design. The idea behind these large openings that combine windows, balconies and loggias was to create interiors flooded with natural light that provide beautiful views. Reinforcing the purity of the structure's form, the facade features only two materials: aluminium window frames and ceramic tiles.
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