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It's a party in Belgium and you're invited! If you can't attend The Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, a.k.a. FOSDEM, then kick back with a cup of coffee and tune in for the Linux Pro Magazine FREE Internet stream.
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Justin Timberlake covers the latest issue of T Magazine, the New York Times' style publication. The singer transforms into a brooding fashion icon, while talking about his career and how he's managed to stay relevant across generations, without giving up his art.
"You get to this point, which I've done in the last five or six years, where you become less worried about success and failure," Timberlake tells the magazine of his latest album, "The 20/20 Experience". "I'm sure there's some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I've been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I'm saying, 'Y'know, life doesn't happen in black and white.' The gray area is where you become an adult . . . the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That's the place where life happens."
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Concord Floral
Cast of Concord Floral, August 2014
Concord Floral at The Theatre Centre October 12-26
Concord Floral at The Theatre Centre October 12-26
The production is accompanied by a photographic exhibition: This is my room. Look.
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Canadian Stage, Toronto | September 27th- October 16th, 2016
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The NAC and Magnetic North presentations were Directed by Erin Brubacher & Cara Spooner and Performed by Madison Baines, Ofa Gasesepe, Connor McMahon, Sofie Milito, Carolina Munoz Jasa, Emily Ong, Franco Pang, Aurel Pressat Irigukunze, Sadie Snow and Stefanie Velichkin, with Stage Manager Chad Dembski. Producer Erin Brubacher. Watch the Ottawa Cast on CBC here
The World Premiere of CONCORD FLORAL was a Suburban Beast production, presented by Why Not Theatre at The Theatre Centre in Toronto, October 2014 with the following team:
Performers: Sahra Del, Theo Gallaro, Erum Khan, Eartha Masek-Kelly, Jovana Miladinovic, Jessica Munk, Troy Sarju, Rashida Shaw, Melisa Sofi and Liam Sullivan | Composer and Sound Designer Christopher Willes | Lighting Designer Kim Purtell | Stage Manager Laura Hendrickson | Artistic Producers Erin Brubacher and Jordan Tannahill | Production photography Erin Brubacher
The piece was first Created and Directed by Erin Brubacher Cara Spooner and Jordan Tannahill
"Concord Floral is an ensemble choral piece that packs a theatrical and emotional punch. It's also a fine showcase for a new generation of actors" NNNN
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"...having real teenage bodies on stage and in peril adds to the hair-raising atmosphere... In the lobby of the Theatre Centre, pictures, taken by Brubacher, of the actors in their actual bedrooms adds to that aesthetic. Concord Floral is the strongest script from Tannahill to date – artfully structured, yet full of suspense, with dialogue that shifts smoothly between the poetic and observational. It's got style and substance – and is scary as all get out." 4/4 Stars
- J Kelly Nestruck, The Globe and Mail
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"Although the play includes supernatural elements typical of Tannahill's work, Concord Floral draws its power from its intense realism and a sense that it has captured the zeitgeist... a brilliant modern Canadian fable." 4.5/5 stars
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The original Toronto production of Concord Floral was nominated for five 2014-15 Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Lighting Design, Outstanding Sound Design, and Outstanding Performance - Ensemble; it won the Dora for Outstanding New Play.
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November 1-11, 2012, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
May 12, 2012, Festival of Ideas and Creation, Canadian Stage, Toronto
Performed and Co-Created by the following cast: Sarha Del, Mark Correia, Theo Gallaro, Erum Khan, Michelle Kuzemczak, Alex Lee, Julian Lee, Rashida Shaw, Gretta Whipple, and Julie Zenderoudi*
Produced by Naomi Skwarna
Production Managed by Rae Powell
Stage Management by Laura Hendrickson
*Original cast members of Concord Floral were past participants of Rehearsal Hall a program directed by Erin Brubacher at Tarragon Theatre from 2012-2014.


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Glenn Diddit's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: In Black & White
Createspace Independent Pub, Sep 1, 1988 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 108 pages
Unlike other adaptations, this version presents the unabridged literary experience of the renowned English classic, mimicking Sir John Tenniel's original art. Surprises include recreated art from Carroll's prototype manuscript ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND, proportions that fluctuate with a straining-against-the-box dream feel, upcoming pages that 'bleed through' to be seen on current pages, and the hidden backsides of panels showing through from preceding pages. IMPORTANT! THIS IS NOT THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION OF TIM BURTON'S MOVIE "Alice in Wonderland", but the back-story to the movie. ALSO AVAILABLE IN COLOR
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The Midwest Book Review says: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the...graphic novel adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic, fantastic adventure of a young girl who follows a white rabbit and becomes lost in a topsy-turvy magical world. Faithful to the original novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland perfectly captures the sharp-edged wit and wisecracking of the original. Best of all, dialogue of the original novel is completely unabridged - readers can enjoy the full literary experience! A treasure for all ages, and a "must-have" for any collection featuring graphic novel adaptations of works that have stood the test of time. http://midwestbookreview.com/sbw/jun_09.htm#graph
In a word? PHENOMENAL.
When I think of comic books the first thing that generally came to my mind is the dotty newsprint little mags my mom used to throw away. (Oh, the things she threw away!) I can't lie tho, I still love comic books. EXCELCIOR! I'm not a big fan of the huge Aname manga cuz although a lot of people call the art stylized I call it kinda stiff and conformist. Maybe "cookie cutter" is more accurate, HOWever, that's my personal observation not a blanket condemnation or attack of the style, ERGO, I'm not looking to "meet you at the Con" to duke it out to the death for expressing an opinion.
GETTING BACK TO THIS BOOK!: I don't where this guy came from, but I really hope he does more books. He claims this is his masterpiece, and I want to agree but I hope not. Glenn Diddit is a story crafting genius with the most original drawing style I've seen since I can't remember. This guy's art is simply OFF THE HOOK. If Aname books are a formal ball with tails, this book is an ecxtasy block party rave with poppers and cop whistles.
I can't really discribe how this guy draws, you just gotta look at it-- he mixes the old timey John Tenniel drawings with Will Eisner with disproportionate styles I can only call original. DC would never hire the guy but his art is all done and suits the story SO FREAKIN WELL! I stumbled across the preview and had to by it. It is NOTHING like Disney. . . the story is so different I went and checked it agianst Project Gutenberg's version of Alice - this book is uncannily accurate to the nth detail. I've never read anything like it in my life.
He's got a color version too, but I bought this one because of the discount off the cover price, and I'm a cheapskate. Thing is, I plan to buy the color version too, because it if looks this cool in grayscale the color has gotta be unstoppable eye candy.
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"In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence to compare and contrast their health-ca
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|Your body and the stars - the zodiac as your wellness guide by Marango, Stephanie P., author.
A revolutionary approach to wellness through astrology and the zodiac includes practical tips and exercises based on sun signs and body regions to prevent illness and illuminate one's connection to the cosmos.
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|Your best health care now - get doctor discounts, save with better health insurance, find affordable prescriptions by Lalli, Frank, author.
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|You must change your life - the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Corbett, Rachel, 1984- author.
"The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changes. ... You Must Change Your Life reveals one of the great stories of modern art and literature: Rodin and Rilke's years together as master and dis
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|You have the right to remain innocent by Duane, James J., author.
Using actual case histories of innocent men and women exonerated after decades in prison because of information they voluntarily gave to police, Professor Duane demonstrates the critical importance of a constitutional right not well or widely understood by the average American.
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|You can knit that - foolproof instructions for fabulous sweaters by Herzog, Amy, 1975- author.
Intends to provide knitters of all skill levels with the sweater-making confidence they need through instructions for six sweater styles--vests, all-in-one construction, drop shoulders, raglans, yokes, and set-in sleeves.
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|Yoga and Parkinson's disease - a journey to health and healing by Van Hulsteyn, Peggy.
Encourages the use of yoga as a complimentary therapy for Parkinson's disease, including step-by-step instructions and seated and assisted postures for those with limited mobility.
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|Worst. President. Ever. - James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents by Strauss, Robert, 1951- author.
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|World of the Teton Sioux Indians - their music, life & culture by Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957, author.
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at he world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes along-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest
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|Windy City bags - 12 handbags and totes sewn with structure and style by Lawson, Sara, author.
"Known for the gorgeous purses and bags that made Big-City Bags such a hit, Sara Lawson presents a fabulous new collection of high-fashion designs. Carry a designer bag that has great shape and style and is affordable to construct. These bags have it all! Expand your skills with patterns for 12 sophisticated, structured bags. Create impressive gifts--alternate fabric styles provide even more inspiration. Confidently choose interfacing and add design details: fabric accents, purse hardware, zippe
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|Winchester - the gun that built an American dynasty by Trevelyan, Laura, author.
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|Wild things, wild places - adventurous tales of wildlife and conservation on planet Earth by Alexander, Jane, 1939- author.
In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her, the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them--and on her
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|Wild and precious life by Ziegler, Deborah, 1956- author.
"Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard--a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor--this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year oflife as she chose her right to die with dignity, a journey that inspired millions. On October 6, 2014, a video of my daughter, Brittany Maynard, was posted on YouTube. Brittany asked me to do the video with her, to support her. The first words m
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Half a century after Congress passed landmark civil-rights legislation, how far should the federal government go to protect the hard-won voting rights of once-disenfranchised minorities? That's the question before the U.S. Supreme Court after Wednesday's arguments on the latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While times have changed, the court should heed the continued need for voting protections.
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The actor was on a break from shooting his role as George W. Bush for filmmaker Oliver Stone's forthcoming biopic W, when he allegedly got involved in a fight between revelers at a bar in Shreveport, Louisiana.
According to the state's Shreveport Times, the actor, as well as W co-star Jeffrey Wright, were arrested at 2 a.m. after they tried to impede local police officers who were splitting up the brawl.
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Scientists Unraveling Chemistry Of Dreams
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Published: January 7, 1992
SCIENTISTS studying the sleeping brain are making new progress in understanding the nerve cells and messenger chemicals that paint the mysterious mental images known as dreams.
The purpose of dreams remains as elusive as ever. Some scientists believe they help consolidate the memories and learning that took place the previous day. Others see dreams as a mechanism for allowing busy brain cells to recharge their depleted stocks of transmitter chemicals. There is no physiological support so far, however, for Freud's view of dreams as repressed wishes, and psychoanalysts are for the most part busy trying to cut and trim their guru's theory to the framework of modern findings.
It has long been known that sleep is governed by the balance between two opposed brain circuits, one of which produces transmitter chemicals that promote sleep, and the other chemicals that inhibit it. The circuits are locked in continuous see-saw tussle with one another. Depending on which has gained the upper hand, the brain is switched from sleep to wakefulness and back again.
Sleep is marked by about four periods a night when the sleeper's eyes move rapidly under the lids. It is during these periods, known as rapid eye movement, or REM sleep, that dreams occur.
REM sleep is brought on by waves of nervous activity that begin in the brainstem, the top of the spinal cord where it juts into the brain, and travel up to the geniculate nucleus, a region of the higher brain where visual input from the eyes is processed.
Since these sleep-inducing waves thus activate the visual-processing parts of the brain, it is not so surprising that dreams are primarily visual in nature. The first stream of brainstem waves usually begins about 90 minutes after the onset of sleep, and the fourth or last about 30 minutes before waking up. During each of these REM periods the brain is even more active than it is while awake. But because the muscles are paralyzed, the body lies quietly in bed.
The new research is focused on mapping the two opposing circuits and the transmitter chemicals they produce, as well as related circuits. Among the new findings are these:
*Researchers have discovered that the transmitters in the sleep-inhibiting circuit arise from two particular clumps of cells in the brainstem, called the dorsal raphe and locus coeruleus. A major function of REM sleep may be to let these cells rest and replenish their chemical stores during the night, some researchers say.
*The sleep-promoting transmitters, which are produced in particular profusion during REM sleep, are generated in two nearby clumps of cells. Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and leader in the new dream research, calls these groups of cells REM-on areas. If a transmitter of the sleep-promoting type of transmitter is injected into these areas, there are temporary signs of REM sleep in the animal, notes Dr. Mircea Steriade, a sleep researcher at the Laval School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada. Although these areas probably contain other cell types, he said, their sleep-promoting type cells connect only to the thalamus, above the brain stem, where they help transmit the brainstem waves that bring on REM sleep.
*In an article to be published soon in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Peter Reiner at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver has shown for the first time that some sleep-inhibiting neurons that govern waking are connected to the sleep-promoting neurons of dreaming, suggesting that each can influence the workings of the other. The connection is the first known physical link between cells involved in waking and dreaming.
*Dr. Hobson's group recently discovered another spot that can influence REM sleep for days at a time. When this area, in the parabrachial region of the brainstem, is stimulated by the sleep-promoting class of transmitter chemicals, he said, periods of REM sleep lengthen dramatically. He said this new-found area may be more important than the REM-on areas for the long-term regulation of REM sleep.
*Another nerve cell circuit connects to the place in the brainstem where movements like walking and running are triggered, Dr. Steriade said. When a group of cells in this region are activated by an as-yet-undetermined chemical signal, he said, the stimulation helps to bring on the muscle paralysis typical of REM sleep. At the same time, glutamate, a brain chemical that excites neurons, is active. This might explain a paradox of REM sleep, Dr. Steriade said, that the eyeballs move and the body twitches even though the dreamer cannot move his sleeping body. Secrets of REM
These findings offer important, though fragmentary, data from which researchers hope to understand the role of REM sleep. For the present, however, there is little but guesswork to fill in the many blanks.
"There are many theories but little data," said Dr. Robert McCarley, a psychiatrist at the Brockton Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. "Everybody loves to speculate."
REM sleep, which may have many purposes, does not seem to be a special attribute of the higher intellectual functions, since two species that get the most REM sleep, the opossum and ferret, are not noted for their mental acuity, said Dr. Jerome Siegal, a psychiatrist at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California at Los Angeles. It must play a role in basic biology, he said.
Since fetuses and babies engage in huge amount of REM sleep, REM may be important for brain development before and after birth, Dr. McCarley said. In adulthood, it may serve to maintain neurons, giving them needed exercise, he suggests.
When rats are deprived of REM sleep for 10 days, they begin to eat voraciously yet die of starvation, Dr. Hobson said. It seems that REM sleep is crucial to brain metabolism and temperature regulation.
Although some scientists had theorized that dreams were the brain's way of disposing with unnecessary memories, the idea that REM sleep and dreams help consolidate memory is gaining ground today.
In this model, dreams are what happens when some memories acquired during the day are saved and some are jettisoned. Memories to be saved are removed from short-term memory banks, broken into fragments and stored in long-term memory circuits. When one of the circuits is stimulated in REM sleep, the entire memory, and related memories, can flood into dreams. Tool for Survival
Lower animals may dream to help reinforce nerve circuits created during experiences critical to survival, said Dr. Jonathan Winson, a sleep expert at Rockefeller University in New York. The process helps animals learn and remember skills they need to survive.
Like lower animals, he said, humans presumably dream to consolidate information with survival value. In this theory, information stored in childhood, when the process is most intense, would become burned into the brain's memory circuits and form the recurring background for dreams of adulthood, he said.
This view of REM sleep makes a lot of sense to psychoanalysts, said Dr. Morton Reiser, a Freudian psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Yale University. Dr. Reiser is the author of a new book, "Memory and Mind and Brain: What Dream Imagery Reveals" (Basic Books). While the brain is activated in REM sleep, he said, neural circuits that had been active during the day would be aroused, along with related circuits, including those for unresolved problems, worries or emotional issues.
"What catches the dreamer's attention is what's on their mind," he said. "This theory would say that images in a dream carry meaning related to current life problems and to problems not solved before."
Few people today support classical Freudian dream theory, said Dr. Mardi Horowitz, a psychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco. Analysts are reassessing dreams in light of the new findings, he said, and the work is creating new interest in psychoanalysis.
The idea that unfinished emotional business is the stuff that dreams are made on has found support at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Rosalind Cartwright, chairwoman of psychology and social sciences, is studying the dreams of 214 men and women going through separation with the intent to divorce.
By waking people after each REM cycle in the sleep laboratory, Dr. Cartwright is finding out how highly emotional subjects appear in dreams over time. In most dreams, she said, a central issue is carried through the night, and from night to night, from one REM episode to the next, until the person begins to work the problem through.
Dr. Hobson's team has begun a meticulous exploration of dream content, in an effort to tie it to the physiology of REM sleep.
"Dream stories, like literature, are so seductive and compelling that they divert attention from looking at the mental status of dream consciousness," Dr. Hobson said. "So we began to look at the grammar of dreams by analyzing their form and content."
Dream narratives are chopped into fragments and scored along two scales of what Dr. Hobson calls bizarreness. One relates to the plot and its characters, objects, actions, time and place or the thoughts and emotions of the dreamer. The other relates to transformations of characters, objects, situations or emotions.
Dream fragments scored along these lines reveal that characters are inserted (a new person arrives) more often than transformed (a friend turns into your boss). Objects, however, are more often transformed than inserted. In rare instances characters are transformed into inanimate objects (a friend becomes a bucket) and vice versa. Changes of Scene
Because the gait center of the brainstem is activated in REM sleep, Dr. Hobson said, "You are rarely stationary in a dream. You run, walk, skip, drive, fly; you are almost always moving forward."
Changes in the pace of rapid eye movements reflect a change of scene in a dreams, he said. Spikes in the electrical brainstem waves that induce REM sleep are associated with the introduction of new images.
In an intriguing study on dream coherence, Dr. Hobson's group took segments from different people's dreams, recombined them and showed them to other researchers to see if they could tell a real dream from a composite. "Contrary to our expectations," Dr. Hobson said, the judges could not distinguish intact from spliced dreams, suggesting that the observer, not the dreaming brain imposes coherence on a dream.
After many years of research on dreams, Dr. Hobson has come around to the idea that they are not meaningless, as he was once inclined to believe. But neither are they a royal road to the unconscious, as Freud thought, he says.
In Dr. Hobson's view, dreams are what they seem to be -- fragments of mental activity that occur during sleep. These fragments may well turn out to be related in some way to the dreamer's problems or preoccupations, but it is too early to be sure until more progress has been made in sorting out the tangled neurophysiology of the sleeping brain.
By waking people after each REM cycle in the sleep laboratory, Dr. Cartwright is finding out how highly emotional subjects appear in dreams over time. In most dreams, she said, a central issue is carried through the night, and from night to night, form one REM episode to the next, until the person begins to work the problem through.
Photo: Dr. J. Allan Hobson, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and leader in dream research, says that sleep-promoting transmitters are produced during REM sleep in two cell clumps in the brainstem. He calls these cell groups "REM-on areas." Dreams occur during REM sleep. (Mark Lenihan/Harvard Medical School) (pg. C10) Diagram: Seat of Dreams: 2 Versions In Freud's theory, dreaming involves disguising an unconscious wish. A part of the psyche called the censor transforms the wish into symbols whose meaning is hidden. In newer theories, random electrical signals generated in the brainstem elicit a hodgepdodge of images and feelings. The upper brain concocts a story -- the dream -- to explain them. In REM sleep, the brain is barraged by signals from the brainstem. Impulses fired to the visual cortex produce images that may contain material from the day's experiences, unsolved problems and unfinished business. The Chemistry of Dreams Recent research on the brains of cats indicates brain chemistry changes during sleep. Among the systems of the brainstem are two types of neurons with complementary functions. Working the night side are the cells of the system that is most active in REM sleep. The other system is most active during wakefulness. Sleep inhibition These sites are the reservoir for cells of the sleep-inhibiting system, the neurons most active during wakefulness. Sleep promotion The sleep promoting areas fire impulses to turn REM sleep. The impulses travel to the lateral geniculate body and then to the visual cortex. In new research, these pathways have been more clearly mapped. Stimulating the nearby parabrachial region has a long-term effect, so a subject might get seven days' worth of REM sleep in three days. Long-term REM-on cells Parabrachial region (Sources: Dr. Allan Hobson; "Sleep" (Scientific American Library ); Bettmann Archive (background illustration) (pg. C1) "Brain Function, Day and Night" Schematic representation of the differences in activity of two systems of neurotransmitters and the brain cells they affect. Neurotransmitters of the aminergic system regulate attention, learning and memory; neurotransmitters of the cholinergic system promote sleep, among other things. During waking hours, both systems are active and balanced in non-REM sleep, the balance is maintained, but the levels of both decline. In REM sleep, when dreaming occurs, the balance shifts strongly toward the cholingergic system. (Source: "Sleep," Hobson (Scientific American Library) (pg. C10)


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I hate to say bad things about Paul Krugman, because it was his books back in the 1990s that got me interested in economics, but he sure can be a condescending ass sometimes, as illustrated by his recent opinion piece about whether it makes sense for Democrats who are unhappy with Clinton to vote for Johnson:
Does it make sense to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president? Sure, as long as you believe two things. First, you have to believe that it makes no difference at all whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump moves into the White House — because one of them will.
Krugman is leaving out an important precondition: You have to believe that your vote can sway the election. Literally speaking, that's almost never the case. In order for your vote to make an actual difference in the outcome, you'd not only have to be the deciding vote in your state, but also your state flipping would have to flip the electoral college. The chances of both of those things happening are so unlikely that you shouldn't waste any time thinking about it.
(Your vote has other effects, which I'll get to later.)
Second, you have to believe that America will be better off in the long run if we eliminate environmental regulation, abolish the income tax, do away with public schools, and dismantle Social Security and Medicare — which is what the Libertarian platform calls for.
First of all, this is disingenuous. The Libertarian party platform has historically been written as an absolutist statement of doctrinaire libertarian theory, unlike, say, the Democratic party platform, which is a lengthy list of promises to every identifiable interest group. In either case, you're not electing a party, you're electing a person, and their personal positions on the issues are far more important than their respective party platforms.
Gary Johnson is a moderate libertarian. He isn't going to try to do everything in the Libertarian platform, if for no other reason than that he knows Congress will fight him. For example, although Johnson does want to eliminate the income tax, he wants to replace it with a consumption tax, which is a variation on European-style VAT taxes. A vote for Johnson isn't a vote for the Libertarian party platform.
Second, Krugman is cherry-picking the items from the libertarian platform that he thinks his readers will hate the most. You'll notice he didn't mention that the Libertarian platform is very pro-choice, pro-free-speech, and pro-trade.
Third, like most people who criticize Libertarians for some of their extreme positions, Krugman is ignoring the crazy positions of the major party candidates — such as Hillary Clinton's disturbing policies on things like trade, labor, free speech, immigration, industrial policy, crime, and war — probably because he is used to them and considers them unremarkable.
To elaborate on one glaring example, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both support the War on Drugs, which I consider to be a monstrous enterprise that has wrecked hundreds of thousands of lives and has provided the justification for an encroaching police state that is eroding our Constitutional protections and robbing Americans of their privacy and their freedom. I think Trump is an unusually bad candidate, but in a normal election year, with Democrats and Republicans both supporting the awful War on Drugs, I really don't much care which of them wins. They both suck.
Now, maybe you don't care. Maybe you consider center-left policies just as bad as hard-right policies. And maybe you have somehow managed to reconcile that disdain with tolerance for libertarian free-market mania. If so, by all means vote for Mr. Johnson.
But don't vote for a minor-party candidate to make a statement. Nobody cares.
Really? Because Krugman sure seems to care, at least enough to write this piece. In fact, there's been a surge of Johnson-bashing from the left over the past few weeks. It sounds to me like the Democratic machine is getting at least some of the message.
The reason your vote matters is because if the candidates know you are part of a group that has an interest in certain issues, they just might adjust their positions on those issues to get your vote. (Clinton did that quite blatantly to attract Bernie Sanders supporters.) And even if Clinton doesn't lean libertarian for this election, the Johnson voters should attract candidates in future elections who want to get their votes.
This is a variation on the "a vote for Johnson is a vote for Trump" trope. (Republicans have a trope that is exactly the same except it ends in "Clinton.") By voting for Johnson instead of Clinton, Krugman is saying, Johnson voters are handing a victory to a candidate they'll like even less than Clinton.
You know what, Krugman? Fuck that shit. If you want people to vote for your candidate, you should have picked a better candidate. But you chose Clinton, and now you're trying to blame someone else for the problem you caused. Gary Johnson wouldn't be polling a fifth of what he's polling now if your candidate wasn't a warmongering technocrat and the other side wasn't running a raging narcissistic sociopath. Gary Johnson, and people voting for Gary Johnson, are not the problem here. The problem is that your candidate sucks, and you can't blame that on the Libertarian party platform.
Nevertheless, for those of my readers who prefer Johnson to Clinton, but who would hate to inadvertently hand Trump the presidency, there's a simple solution: Plan to vote for Johnson, and if you get called in a poll, be sure to tell them you're voting for Johnson.
Then, just before election day, check the poll results for your state to see how Clinton, Trump, and Johnson are doing. If Clinton is losing to Trump, and the Johnson vote is large enough that Clinton would win if she got his votes, then switch your vote to Clinton at the last minute to defeat Trump.
On the other hand, if Clinton is winning, or if Trump is winning by so much that the Johnson vote won't make a difference, then you might as well go ahead and vote for Gary Johnson. You won't do any harm, you'll feel better about your vote, and you'll send a message to future politicians that you're out there and that they can win your vote by adopting positions that appeal to your interests.


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