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C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basic structures are the same across all vertebrates, suggesting that these systems have been around for more than 500 million years. At the very beginning, Grillner introduces the analogy of an orchestra: The microcircuits are the musicians, and the forebrain acts as the conductor. In the following chapters, the readers get to know all the important actors and their contribution to this "performance": the CPGs and motor centers that execute the movements, the tectum that synthesizes input from the direct surroundings of the animal, the basal ganglia and the cortex that together direct the microcircuits, and the cerebellum, which plays a crucial role in adapting the movements according to the environment and learning new motor behavior. The Brain in Motion provides both a great overview of the motor system and a detailed presentation of its major contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basic structures are the same across all vertebrates, suggesting that these systems have been around for more than 500 million years. At the very beginning, Grillner introduces the analogy of an orchestra: The microcircuits are the musicians, and the forebrain acts as the conductor. In the following chapters, the readers get to know all the important actors and their contribution to this "performance": the CPGs and motor centers that execute the movements, the tectum that synthesizes input from the direct surroundings of the animal, the basal ganglia and the cortex that together direct the microcircuits, and the cerebellum, which plays a crucial role in adapting the movements according to the environment and learning new motor behavior. The Brain in Motion provides both a great overview of the motor system and a detailed presentation of its major contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basic structures are the same across all vertebrates, suggesting that these systems have been around for more than 500 million years. At the very beginning, Grillner introduces the analogy of an orchestra: The microcircuits are the musicians, and the forebrain acts as the conductor. In the following chapters, the readers get to know all the important actors and their contribution to this "performance": the CPGs and motor centers that execute the movements, the tectum that synthesizes input from the direct surroundings of the animal, the basal ganglia and the cortex that together direct the microcircuits, and the cerebellum, which plays a crucial role in adapting the movements according to the environment and learning new motor behavior. The Brain in Motion provides both a great overview of the motor system and a detailed presentation of its major contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basic structures are the same across all vertebrates, suggesting that these systems have been around for more than 500 million years. At the very beginning, Grillner introduces the analogy of an orchestra: The microcircuits are the musicians, and the forebrain acts as the conductor. In the following chapters, the readers get to know all the important actors and their contribution to this "performance": the CPGs and motor centers that execute the movements, the tectum that synthesizes input from the direct surroundings of the animal, the basal ganglia and the cortex that together direct the microcircuits, and the cerebellum, which plays a crucial role in adapting the movements according to the environment and learning new motor behavior. The Brain in Motion provides both a great overview of the motor system and a detailed presentation of its major contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basic structures are the same across all vertebrates, suggesting that these systems have been around for more than 500 million years. At the very beginning, Grillner introduces the analogy of an orchestra: The microcircuits are the musicians, and the forebrain acts as the conductor. In the following chapters, the readers get to know all the important actors and their contribution to this "performance": the CPGs and motor centers that execute the movements, the tectum that synthesizes input from the direct surroundings of the animal, the basal ganglia and the cortex that together direct the microcircuits, and the cerebellum, which plays a crucial role in adapting the movements according to the environment and learning new motor behavior. The Brain in Motion provides both a great overview of the motor system and a detailed presentation of its major contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today we discuss some topics framed around what he's been working on and thinking about lately. Things like Whether brains actually reorganize after damage The role of brain plasticity in general The path toward and the path not toward understanding higher cognition How to fix motor problems after strokes AGI Functionalism, consciousness, and much more. Relevant links: John's Lab. Twitter: @blamlab Related papers What are we talking about? Clarifying the fuzzy concept of representation in neuroscience and beyond. Against cortical reorganisation. Other episodes with John: BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding Cognition BI 077 David and John Krakauer: Part 1 BI 078 David and John Krakauer: Part 2 BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition Time stamps 0:00 - Intro 2:07 - It's a podcast episode! 6:47 - Stroke and Sherrington neuroscience 19:26 - Thinking vs. moving, representations 34:15 - What's special about humans? 56:35 - Does cortical reorganization happen? 1:14:08 - Current era in neuroscience

[Part 2] Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28 by Rachel Sherrington and Hazel Healy at DeSmog and SentientMedia.org   Original post: https://sentientmedia.org/six-ag-greenwashing-terms-cop28/  Sentient Media is a nonprofit news organization that is changing the conversation around animal agriculture across the globe. They seek to create and sustain a sense of global urgency about the agriculture industry's impact on the climate crisis, extraction of natural resources and systematic exploitation of the fringes of society. They're doing this through critical commentary, investigative journalism, creating resources, strengthening the journalist and advocate community, partnering with publishers and holding the media accountable when it fails to report on the most pressing issues of our time.    How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #cop28 #greenwashing #bigag #dairy #regenerativeagriculture #climatevillain

[Part 1] Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28 by Rachel Sherrington and Hazel Healy at DeSmog and SentientMedia.org Original post: https://sentientmedia.org/six-ag-greenwashing-terms-cop28/  Sentient Media is a nonprofit news organization that is changing the conversation around animal agriculture across the globe. They seek to create and sustain a sense of global urgency about the agriculture industry's impact on the climate crisis, extraction of natural resources and systematic exploitation of the fringes of society. They're doing this through critical commentary, investigative journalism, creating resources, strengthening the journalist and advocate community, partnering with publishers and holding the media accountable when it fails to report on the most pressing issues of our time.    How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #cop28 #greenwashing #bigag #dairy #regenerativeagriculture #climatevillain  

Sam Sherrington graduated from Western Sydney University in 2003 with a Master of Osteopathy. Sam has been providing osteopathic care to humans since 2004. After deciding she wanted to also treat four-legged patients, Sam pursued a Graduate Diploma of Animal Chiropractic at RMIT, graduating in 2009. Sam has worked in both Ireland and Australia, and currently runs her own business, “Centaurus Osteopathy”, helping to relieve pain and maximise performance for horses, riders, dogs & the occasional exotic critter (for some variety). Topics discussed include: How Sam became interested and involved in animal osteopathy. The difference between osteopathy and chiropractics. Sam discusses the main conditions that osteopathy can benefit. Recommendations that Sam makes with regards to nutrition. How supplements can also be beneficial. Sam talks about how pet parents can manage the household to help their pets. The importance of exercise and a healthy weight to avoid injury and help with case management. You can learn more on abmprof.com.au. You can reach Sam Sherrington at ourosteo.com or on Facebook - Sam Sherrington - Osteopath  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This is our first episode to feature a documentary, which is not surprising because documentaries normally speak for themselves. But I think Electric Malady is such a unique presentation, I was really keen to discover the story of how it came to be, and some of the techniques that were used to film it so sensitively. I assume you've seen the BAFTA nominated film if you've made it this far, but if you haven't, I can't recommend it highly enough. Like most people, I hadn't really heard of electrosensitivity until I saw the storyline about Michael McKean's character in Better Call Saul, and Electric Malady came along at just the right time to explore the condition through the eyes of someone with first hand experience. So huge thanks to Marie and Michael for talking us through their experiences making Electric Malady, which – if you haven't seen yet – is now hitting streaming services, starting with Curzon Home Cinema. Comments? Feedback? Suggestions? Email David *at * Rogue-Commentary *dot* com or send us a tweet. We have lots of exciting episodes in the works, so if you like what you hear – or just the idea – please subscribe, and remember to rate us wherever you hear this podcast – it'll really help us to keep going. Oh, and follow us on Twitter and/or Instagram to stay up-to-date on our forthcoming releases. Thanks for listening! A Synchronicity production. Conceived, written and presented by David Hughes. Produced by Sam Ibrahim. Music by Olli Oja. All content © 2023 Synchronicity II Ltd. All rights reserved.

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This Christmas Jumper Day (Thursday 8th December) we will put on a festive outfit at work, school or with friends and make a donation to help give children the magical future they deserve.Let's decorate ourselves with knitted elves, reindeer and Father Christmas, style our outfits with bells and tinsel, and help raise money for children in the UK and across the world.Save The Children Ambassador, is encouraging people to get involved and reminding them to donate £2 to Save The Children as this year the UK government promised to give the same amount as you give - every time you give £2 to Save the Children, they give £2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week my guest is the wonderful Lisa Sherrington-Boyd aka Principal Lisa aka The Potty Queen. ILisa is an ex-Nursey school Principal in Dubai and has been working with babies and children's in a variety of ways for the last 30 years. Using her amazing skills, she helps potty/toilet training, sleep training and also providing Nanny Queen services to help families struggling with toddler or child behaviour. I wanted to chat about her life before, and now and also get some tips to help any of you parents dealing with toddlers and children in a stressful situation currently. Lisa was so fun and wonderful to talk. She shared so much to help kids and parents and also gave her views on other matters. I am sure we will be chatting again on this podcast to share more tips and tricks to help you all. You can find more information about Lisa's services here and follow her on instagram as well. Have a listen and let us know what you think. Thanks Shelina Earn back 70% of your Item's Value when you Sell on The Luxury Closet - Use Code DM22 Buy Can You Find it in Five Seconds on Amazon now! Paperback coming soon! Learn more about DeCluttr Me on our website or follow Decluttr Me on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week my guest is the wonderful Lisa Sherrington-Boyd aka Principal Lisa aka The Potty Queen. ILisa is an ex-Nursey school Principal in Dubai and has been working with babies and children's in a variety of ways for the last 30 years. Using her amazing skills, she helps potty/toilet training, sleep training and also providing Nanny Queen services to help families struggling with toddler or child behaviour. I wanted to chat about her life before, and now and also get some tips to help any of you parents dealing with toddlers and children in a stressful situation currently. Lisa was so fun and wonderful to talk. She shared so much to help kids and parents and also gave her views on other matters. I am sure we will be chatting again on this podcast to share more tips and tricks to help you all. You can find more information about Lisa's services here and follow her on instagram as well. Have a listen and let us know what you think. Thanks Shelina Earn back 70% of your Item's Value when you Sell on The Luxury Closet - Use Code DM22 Buy Can You Find it in Five Seconds on Amazon now! Paperback coming soon! Learn more about DeCluttr Me on our website or follow Decluttr Me on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40 % des fruits et légumes du Québec sont cultivés en Montérégie-Est en raison de l'abondance des terres noires. Mais ces terres sont menacées. Nous nous entretenons avec Jacynthe Masse, chercheuse en agroécologie, et Denys Van Winden, producteur horticole de Sherrington, pour connaître les défis auxquels ils sont confrontés et les expériences qu'ils mènent pour sauver les terres noires.

40% of Quebec's fruits and vegetables are grown in the Montérégie region due to its abundantly fertile organic soils. But these soils are under threat. We speak to Jacynthe Masse, an agroecology researcher, and Denys Van Winden, a vegetable producer from Sherrington, to learn about the challenges they're facing and the experiments they're running to save these soils.

In this episode of the podcast we speak to Abichal Sherrington.Abichal is the founder and editor of Ultrarunning World Magazine and possibly the ultra trail running worlds answer to Wim Hof!Abichal is a deep thinker and believes that everyone can find themselves during a long run, especially the super long Transcendence 3100 mile race that he holds so dear.He has spent many years training and racing all over the world specialising in the niche of the already niche area of extremely long ultramarathons!Now he faces possibly his greatest challenge........organising the inaugural Bristol Running Show on November 26th 2022!A great guy and I'm looking forward to meeting him in person at the show. If you want to be there too, follow the link below to the show and see his magazine website also.UUWelcome to The Bristol Running Show 2022 - Bristol Running Show - Ultrarunning, ultramarathon news and events (ultrarunningworld.co.uk)

We have the return of the Lads! This week we talk about chiropactors, covering shifts and erm shoes... Locum work: https://lifelinehealthcaregroup.co.uk/ Medical Accountants- https://www.mah.uk.com/ Enjoy the conversation? Why not support us? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/twomedics or support the podcast by becoming a patreon? https://www.patreon.com/twomedics https://www.buymeacoffee.com/twomedics

Glyn was hoping for an easy edit for this episode of the podcast as he had less time than usual to do it. This was all the invitation Paul needed to say exactly what he wanted knowing that Glyn didn't have the time to cut it out! But being responsible podcasters we stuck to the brief. The main feature was a glorious walk we put together for Wiltshire Museum based around Hippenscombe Bottom, so beautifully painted by Eric Ravilious in 1937. And there was a special announcement at the end of the podcast. But first we discussed our news since the last podcast. In that podcast Glyn talked briefly about his visit to Bincknoll Castle and Broad Town White Horse. Since then he has written and posted a blog to the website about it (see link below). But apparently Bincknoll is pronounced “Bynol' in Wiltshire! Which begs the question “how do pronounce Long Knoll and Little Knoll”? Meanwhile Paul has travelled to the far northwest of the county to the Cotswolds west of Malmesbury, for a walk around Brokenborough and Easton Grey. There's a blog about this walk on the website (link below). He has also written a blog about his visit to Bentley Wood, a collaboration with Hidden Wiltshire contributor Elaine Perkins, who suggested the route and provided a number of the photographs. You'll find a link below to that blog. Elaine also posted a description of her recent visit to Sherrington and Boyton, off the beaten track in the beautiful Wylye Valley, where she found some fantastic hidden treasures. We'll be pulling that together as a blog along with some of Elaine's lovely photographs in due course. And whilst on the subject of the Wylye Valley, we mention the café and gallery at Langford Lakes Nature Reserve run by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. The gallery and café is open from 10:00 to 16:00, Wednesday to Sunday. At the moment there is an exhibition there entitled “Woodlands” featuring art, photography and 3D work including the photographs of brilliant woodland photographers Stephen Davies and, a friend of Paul's, Nigel Hudson. The exhibition is on from 2 April to 2 May 2022 and you'll find a link below. This podcast's main feature is the stunning landscape and history of Hippenscombe Bottom. Paul wrote a blog which was an amalgam of some five visits to the area which he posted on the website on 21 January 2022. There's a link to the blog below. This walk was put together at the request of David Dawson at Wiltshire Museum and we'll be doing a guided walk with the museum there later in the year. There are many route options but the highlights of this walk are the tiny village of Tidcombe and its “humble” church, Tidcombe Long Barrow, Fosbury Camp (an optional extension but well worth the effort), Chute Causeway, the Devil's Waistcoat and the glorious Hippenscombe Bottom itself. Paul discovered this bottom purely by chance following a momentary glimpse as he drove up Conholt Hill towards Chute Causeway a year ago. Screeching to a halt in the road above he grabbed a photo of the bottom that coincidently was from the exact location that Eric Ravilious painted it in 1937. Little has changed since 1937 although we suspect the shooting estate is now operating on a far more industrial scale. Parking for this particular walk is a challenge. As shown the walk starts from the church in Tidcombe but at best it is only possible to park three cars here. Scot's Poor is a slightly better option with parking on the wide verge on the byway. The route map has been amended in the blog to include this location in order to provide alternative parking options. Then on to the wrap up: Steve Dixon's piece leading into our main subject today is called “Shadows Travel Fast” because that's exactly what they do in this part of Wiltshire. As ever the piece in the introduction and at the end of the podcast is entitled “The Holloway”. And so to the special announcement. Well you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out what it is! Don't forget to check out the Hidden Wiltshire online shop on the website if you'd like to help us keep the lights on. Both Hidden Wiltshire books can be purchased there. The second book is also available at Devizes Bookshop, Wiltshire Museum in Devizes and now Wiltshire's libraries. And don't forget to subscribe to the Hidden Wiltshire Newsletter from the website. You can also subscribe to alerts about new Blogs. Links: Glyn's blog about Bincknoll Castle and Broad Town White Horse can be found here: Bincknoll Castle and Broad Town White Horse Paul's blog about his walk round Brokenborough and Easton Grey can be found here: Brokenborough and Easton Grey Paul's blog about his walk in Bentley Wood can be found here Bentley Wood WWT Langford Lakes Art Exhibition Langford Lakes Art Exhibition Paul's blog about Hippenscombe can be found here Tidcombe, Hippenscombe and the Devil's Waistcoat Glyn's photographs can be seen on his Instagram feed @coy_cloud He is also very active on Twitter where his username is @Glyndle Paul's photography can be found on his website at Paul Timlett Photography and on Instagram at @tragicyclist Steve Dixon's sound art can be found on Soundcloud where his username is River and Rail Steve Dixon River and Rail. His photographs can be found on Instagram at @stevedixon_creative and his graphic design business website is at Steve Dixon Creative And finally you'll find the Hidden Wiltshire online shop here Hidden Wiltshire Shop  and a link to Glyn's blog about the latest book and how to purchase a copy here Hidden Wiltshire from near and far

Batman & Robin, Mario & Luigi, Wallace & Gromit, Holmes & Watson, Ant & Dec, Sherrington & Caviglioli. Morethanajob Podcast in association with ResearchEd has the absolute pleasure to welcome the greatest duo, partnership and bromance in education – Tom Sherrington & Oliver Caviglioli. They need no introduction as their reputation proceeds them and it is our absolute pleasure to welcome them both to the podcast for the first time as a duo. Welcome to the podcast! What have you both been up to since we saw you last at ResearchEd Surrey? We have the completion of the trilogy! Walkthrus 3 (https://www.johncattbookshop.com/teaching-walkthrus-3-five-step-guides-to-instructional-coaching) is being pre-ordered now and due for release on the 18th April. How does WT3 compliment WT & WT2? How does the writing process happen between you two? Who decides the colour? Oli – we love the avatars of Mo & Melissa but what's your inspiration behind designing these avatars? How would you recommend we use the Walkthrus? Should ideas and strategies be clustered? Walkthrus 3 has 23 guest authors!! How have you come up with ideas for this edition? What is different about this edition? You write a Walkthru focussed on seating plans and you open by talking about designing the arrangement. Is there a proven best classroom layout? Is there advice you'd give to teachers as where to seat PPr, SEND students etc? You have focused on the a Walkthru guide for ending lessons and the last 10 minutes – why is this so important and what are the best steps to effectively ending a lesson? How will this Walkthrus guide support curriculum development and curriculum leaders? What in particular would you say are the key messages from Walkthrus 3? I was particularly drawn to your chapter on ‘Advance Organisers' based upon the work of Robert Marzano et al. Is this an indication now that we're increasing the level of expectations of students – I didn't start pre-reading until I started university. How do we embed this into practice and school culture? We are finally seeing a move away from rigorous and ineffective marking policies with priority rightly being given to feedback. You have developed a Walkthru about ‘Assessment Portfolios'. Why have you included this, how are assessment portfolios used and is there any evidence to back their use? Morethanajob podcast are huge fans of the Walkthrus series and we have all used them and can see the impact. What would you say to those who haven't come across the Walkthrus before and why would it benefit them to use the series? Fun Questions MG: If you could travel to anywhere in the world that you haven't yet been to, where would you go to and why? MG: Who is your favourite Sec of State for Education and why? JW: Oli, you are stranded in Tom's Learning Rainforest, what two items would you take with you? The items cannot be used to aid survival? DB: Who's the most famous person that you have ever met and what did you say to them? DB: What next for you? The book can be ordered here: (https://www.johncattbookshop.com/teaching-walkthrus-3-five-step-guides-to-instructional-coaching)

Welcome back to the Fearless Training "Roar Knowledge" Podcast Episode 107: Les Sherrington - Mr. Boxing, Lock N Load Expect To Learn: - The Art of Boxing - More Than Fighting - Family, Love & Respect - Finding Yourself - Fighting on the International Stage - Paying It Forward - Living Your Dream Life Name: Les Sherrington Alias: Lock N Load Born: 1982-06-20 Birthplace: Townsville, Queensland, Australia Hometown: Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia Stance: Orthodox Height: 6′ 0″ / 183cm Reach: 73″ / 185cm I am a born and bred North Queensland boy growing up in and around Townsville, Mt Isa, Ayr, Home Hill, Guru and Cairns. Being a North Queenslander I played rugby league all up through my school boy days until when I was 16 I stepped foot into a boxing gym and once I put a pair of gloves on I fell in love with the sport and have never taken them off. I had my first amateur fight when I was 18 and had 17 wins with only the one loss, winning the Queensland and Australian titles in both my years I was amateur. I then decided to move to the gold coast to turn professional and give it a go, well that didn't work out the best as I lost my first pro fight and ended up having 7 fights with 4 wins and 3 losses. After that I decided to move back to Townsville and give the game up and have some time away from the sport. After a year and a half I had a good think to myself of what I really wanted and I knew how much more I had to offer the sport of boxing. I moved back to the gold coast and got myself a new trainer and had 7 fights for 6 wins with a Queensland and also Australian title in those wins, I then changed trainers again and had 19 fights with 17 wins winning and defending the Australian title 3 times winning WBF intercontinental title, PABA title 4 times and also the WBF world title 3 times. I then decided I needed a change so I decided to team up with the best boxing trainer in Australia Brendon Smith out in Toowoomba. I now travel out to Toowoomba on a Monday lunchtime and train out there until after my Friday session which is usually about friday lunchtime and then drive back to the gold coast where I live with my family. It is very hard being away from my girls all week hike I am training but iris a complete training camp for me out there an I normally head up about 10-12 weeks before my big fights. It isn't just hard on myself. It also my wife and daughter too but we have a very tight close family bond and we all make it work. Les Lock N Load Load Sherrington WBF World Champion IBF Pan Pacific Champion WBO Asia Pacific Champion WBC Asian Boxing Council Champion Website: http://www.mrboxing.com.au/about/ IG: https://instagram.com/les_sherrington?utm_medium=copy_link FTU APP: https://www.fearlesstrainingunited.com/ APPLY NOW: https://alexconnor.com.au/apply/ Coaching/Business Inquiries: alex@fearlesstraining.org https://alexconnor.com.au/ Subscribe & Follow along for more: » Subscribe: https://bit.ly/FearlessChannel » Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/227661021434383 » Instagram: https://instagram.com/Fearless_Training_ » ROAR Podcast: https://bit.ly/FTRoar

The following episode contains adult themes and strong language from the outset, listener discretion is advised! We discuss some interesting topics. A few things came up that we didn't expect in the midst of the usual twitter binfires lol Neely's hard motion to support 24 hour hot food for NHS: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59312/24-hour-hot-food-service-for-nhs-staff Why not support the podcast? Enjoy the conversation? Why not get us a coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/twomedics or support the podcast by becoming a patreon? https://www.patreon.com/twomedics

Rich Sherrington of SOLITARY chats with Jon about coping with anxiety, battling homelessness, playing shows; several tracks, and their latest record, The Truth Behind The Lies. 'Spawn Of Hate' https://youtu.be/iYzZ4jR5-Bc 'Catharsis' https://youtu.be/wjUEov-103Q 'I Will Not Tolerate' https://youtu.be/RzXVxlQHauE 'Abominate' https://youtu.be/POI-9D0pCk4 Find out more about SOLITARY at: https://www.solitary.org.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Harris of The Rock Metal Podcast interviews rock and metal bands to get the scoop on their latest two songs and news! Want to be on The Rock Metal Podcast? Email Jon at TheRockMetalPodcast@gmail.com Want to support The Rock Metal Podcast? Donate here: https://www.paypal.me/JonJHarris Want to be on our newsletter list? Provide your email address at https://mailchi.mp/af7a2332e334/therockmetalpodcastnewsletter

For the final PGCE Research Bites of this block, we welcome Ben Pepler, who's here to discuss with Tom his research into how we can get more consistent results in the different components of GCSE music through an integrated approach. We hope you've found this set of Research Bites interesting, and maybe it's inspired you to carry out your own classroom research or enquiry! You can watch this episode on YouTube - https://smarturl.it/cardiffpartnership     Bibliography Badeley, A., (2006). Working Memory: An Overview. In: S. Pickering, ed., Working Memory and Education. Elsevier Inc. Dammann, G. (2008) ‘GCSE music: As for pupils who cannot read a note', The Guardian Limited, 9 August, D'amore, A. (2006) Musical Futures: An approach to teaching and learning. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation Evans, J. and Philpott, C. (eds.) A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School. London: Routledge Publishing Group Green, L. (2008) Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy. London: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Hartland, J. (2000) Arts Education In Secondary Schools: Effects and Effectiveness. Berkshire: National Foundation for Educational Research. Lindsey, R., Shroyer, J., Pashler, H. and Mozer, M., (2014). Improving Students' Long-Term Knowledge Retention Through Personalized Review. Psychological Science, 25(3), pp.639-647. Major, A. (2008) ‘Appraising composing in secondary-school music lessons', Music Education Research, 10(2), pp. 307-319. London: Routledge Publishing. McCormack, I. and Healey, J. (2008) Getting the Buggers in Tune. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. McPherson, G. (2006) The Child as Musician. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mills, J. (2005) Music in the school. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Philpott, C. (2001) Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School. Oxon: Routledge Falmer Publishing Group. Philpott, C. and Spruce, G. (eds.) (2007) Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School: a Companion to the School Experience. London: Routledge Falmer. Price, J. and Savage, J. (eds.) (2012) Teaching Secondary Music. London: Sage Publications. Sherrington, T. (2019). Rosenshine's Principles in Action. Woodbridge Sherrington, T. and Caviglioli, O., (2017). The Learning Rainforest. Woodbridge. Sherrington, T. and Caviglioli, O., (2020). Teaching Walkthrus. Woodbridge. Sherrington, T. and Caviglioli, O., (2021). Teaching WalkThrus 2. Woodbridge. Spruce, G. (2002) Aspects of Teaching Secondary Music. London: RoutledgeFalmer Swanwick, K., (1979). A basis for music education. [Windsor]: NFER-Nelson Publ. Co. Wales. Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (2008a) Music: Guidance for Key Stages 2 and 3. Cardiff: Crown Copyright. Wales. Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (2008b) Music in the National Curriculum for Wales. Cardiff: Crown Copyright. Westerlund, H. and Väkevä, L. (2011) ‘Who needs theory anyway? The relationship between theory and practice of music education in a philosophical outlook'. British Journal of Music, 28 (1), pp 37-49, [Online], Available at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid= 7967516 WJEC (2021). [online]. WJEC GCSE in Music Specification. Available at: [Accessed 31 May 2021].   Wright, R (2002) ‘Music for all? Pupils' perceptions of the GCSE Music examination in one South Wales secondary school', British Journal of Music Education, 19 (3) pp.227-241, [Online]. Available at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=onine&aid+1 26504&fulltextType=RA&field=S0265051702000323

Andrew Sherrington, our resident videographer/media manager, joins us on the porch to talk his path to videography, the time he almost killed his now-father-in-law, and the time basically the entire office convinced him he was going to prison.

Hoy converso con Alfredo Sherrington, desde Chile, psicólogo e investigador en el área de la Neuroseguridad, de verdad no tienen perdida los minutos que conversamos ya que objetivamente aclara muchas dudas sobre este interesante tema de la NEUROSEGURIAD del que todavía falta mucho por investigar e implementar y que hoy muchos tratan de promover sin siquiera poder medirlo, de verdad la Neuroseguridad promete si se aplica como propone Alfredo.

Kevin Sherrington, sports columnist for the Dallas Morning News, asked his friend and football legend John Wooten, former NFL player and management executive, now the Chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation, to share his stories about the Cleveland Summit and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), the impact the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation has had on diversity and inclusion in the NFL with the recruitment of people of color into leadership positions, and what strong leadership means for our community.If you like our show, please subscribe, give us a 5-star rating, and leave a review about why you love the Love Field Stories podcast. And tap the share icon to send it to the people you love.No wait. No shuttles. Park in Garages A, B, C starting at $7/day, and a short 4-8 minute walk to the terminal. Visit dallas-lovefield.com

Today I sit down with Ash Sherrington a Self Discovery and relationship coach to talk all things relationships and doing the inner work to change your outer world.

Croeso i bennod arall o Dameidiau o Ymchwil TAR, yn dod â’r ymchwil gorau gan athrawon dan hyfforddiant o Bartneriaeth Caerdydd ar gyfer Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon. Yr wythnos hon rydym ni’n lledaenu’n Gymraeg, ac yn croesawu Beca Harries o’r cwrs TAR Uwchradd Ieithoedd Tramor Modern a fydd yn sgwrsio gyda Dr Gina Morgan. Mae Beca wedi bod yn ymchwilio strategaethau i annog cyfranogaeth ar lafar mewn gwersi ieithoedd tramor modern. Bydd Beca yn cyflwyno chwe phapur allweddol ac yn rhannu ei chasgliadau. Mae Beca eisoes wedi cyflwyno’r ymchwil yma i’w phrif ysgol partneriaeth ar ffurf crynodeb weledol, ac wedi rhoi caniatâd i ni rannu ei ffeithlun, y gallwch chi ei weld drwy glicio yma. Os hoffech chi ddarllen mwy, mae cyfeirnodau ar gyfer y chwe phapur allweddol i’w weld isod. Diolch yn fawr i Beca am rannu ei ymchwil, ac i Gina am gyflwyno! Christie, C., 2013. Speaking spontaneously in the modern foreign languages classroom: Tools for supporting successful target language conversation. The Language Learning Journal, 44(1), tud.74-89. Sherrington, T (2019) Rosenshine’s Principles In Action. John Catt Educational Ltd., tud.27-34. Namaziandost, E., Homayouni, M. and Rahmani, P., 2020. The impact of cooperative learning approach on the development of EFL learners’ speaking fluency. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 7(1), p.1780811. Bunaya, Mulya & Basikin, Basikin. (2019). Improving Speaking Confidence by Using Think Pair Share (TPS) Teaching Strategy to High School Students. 10.2991/iccie-18.2019.59. Lemov, D. 2015. Teach Like A Champion 2.0 : 62 Techniques That Put Students On The Path To College. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco, USA Dallimore, E., Hertenstein, J. and Platt, M., 2012. Impact of Cold- Calling on Student Voluntary Participation. Journal of Management Education, 37(3), pp.305-341

Current Guest Services Director with Celebrity, and much requested guest, Julie Sherrington, tells how she started on ships as a hairdresser, moved into the purser department, and worked her way to the top. Julie shares how working onboard has changed over the years, her trials with technology, Babyface the taxi driver, being on the front line, dressing up as a chicken, working the desk with Mikey, Tattoos, Malta, Grand Cayman, and the difficulty of talking to land people.   

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Chris Sherrington is an Olympian and Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist in Heavyweight Judo. Adz and Chris talk Judo, BJJ, Iraq and electric cars. See Chris Sherringtons Athlete Page on Facebook HERE Chris Sherringtons YouTube page HERE

GRACIAS DR.ALFREDO SHERRINGTON, desde CHILE, y su NEUROSEGURIDAD.. cómo monitorear nuestro cerebro, y el de los empleadores y empleados. para conocernos, y saber PREVENIR INCIDENTES en el trabajo.. y PODER SER MAS ASERTIVOS en NUESTRAS DECISIONES.. para TU BIEN, el de TU FAMILIA, Y TU EMPRESA. www.neuro4B.com GRACIAS LIC. ELISA RAYAS ORTIZ, de GLOBAL CONSULTORES, desde MEXICO. trabajando en la GESTION del BIENESTAR.. junto a expertos internacionales. GRACIAS ROSSIE RODRIGUEZ, por tu marca, como publicista, experta en mercadeo,que ayuda a marcas a posicionarse.. desde VENEZUELA. GRACIAS JOEL MERCADO PATIÑO. por ser un joven resiliente, empatico, inspirador.. GRACIAS a los miles de oyentes benditos, que nos siguen.. y que son nuestra motivación, para continuar sembrando y activando semillas de PAZ, ESPERANZA Y EMPODERAMIENTO.. ABRAZOTES de PAZ. y ESPERANZA. MARISA PATIÑO. Fundadora, CEO, productora.www.esperanzaargentina.com.ar Neurociencias Aplicadas para tu Empoderamiento. www.marisapatinoambassador.com

Pascal Gaudet invite Benoit Therrien LIVE à partager le camion et faire un voyage au profit de la Fondation des Centres Jeunesses de Montréal. Accepte-t-il l’invitation, aurons-nous droit à un convoi cette année? Abbas Sharif, propriétaire du White Rabbit, nous raconte les difficultés liées aux décisions du gouvernement pour les restaurateurs, peuvent-ils aller à l’encontre... The post 27 octobre 2020 – Pascal Gaudet de Trans-West, Abbas Sharif du White Rabbit, Jade Lamoureux de Sherrington Transport appeared first on Podcasts.

Bu bölümde 1932 yılında Sir Charles Scott Sherrington ve (Lord) Edgar Douglas Adrian'a verilen Nobel ödülünü konuştuk. Sinirbilime olan temel katkılarını ve bu çalışmaların yankılarından bahsettik.

Welcome back to the Radio Show and Playlist #114. We have the pleasure of interviewing Rich Sherrington of the band Solitary on today's show. Plus, Ouch, You're on my Hair presents the following bands: Awaken, No Such Season, Diamond Chazer, Fortress Under Siege, Salem's Childe, Solitary, Gatecloser, Godsnake, Late Night Savior, In the A.M. and Perceived Be sure to look them up on their Social Media sites and tell them you heard them right here on Ouch, You're on my Hair - The Radio Show. Join Randy and Troy, for this and every episode of Ouch You're on my Hair, and subscribe to the show on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Podomatic, Podbean, Google Play, Stitcher, or Player FM. You can find them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Ouch, You're on my Hair is brought to you by Dirt Bag Clothing.

This is a repost from 2018, an article caled Wired Into Pain: a history of the science of pain. I hope you enjoy it. I’ve also recorded an audio version to go with it!I am a Physiotherapist. Almost every person I see in clinic is in pain, and most already have an idea about what has caused their pain. If they are old enough, they might say ‘overuse’, or ‘wear and tear’; if they are younger, they might say ‘bad posture’ or ‘tight muscles’; if they have had a scan, they might say a ‘slipped disc’ or a ‘bone spur’. We accept these explanations prima facie. We consider pain to be a readout on the state of the body’s tissues. Or, as one doctor wrote in 1917, it is “the unerring medical compass that serves as a guide to the pathological lesion”.But it is only very recently that we have come to understand our aches and pains in this way. Since medieval times, until surprisingly recently, people commonly understood their pains in terms of their relationship to God, often as punishment for sin. Physical and emotional pain were entangled, along with mind, body and soul. This was the grim logic of medieval torture and self-flagellation: the truth of the soul could be accessed through the pain of the body.But, as historian Joanna Bourke records in her book The Story of Pain, this mixture of mind, body, soul and God also allowed people to feel pain as comforting: a “vigilant sentinel […] stationed in the frail body by Providence”, as one writer put it in 1832. For others, pain was redemptive: take, for example, the early nineteenth-century labourer Joseph Townend, who resolved himself to God after undergoing surgery without anaesthetic, and reflected at the end of his life on his “sincere thanks to the Almighty God” for his agonising conversion.Pre-modern physicians had a different perspective. Most understood pain according to humoural theory. Hippocrates and his disciple Galen considered all illness to be caused by an imbalance of the body’s humours — phlegm, yellow bile, black bile and blood — which ebb and flow in response changes in the body or its environment. This notion endured for many centuries. To one 18th century writer, pain was a consequence of “viscid blood [stopping] at every narrow passage in its progress”; to another, it was a “Nature throw[ing] a Mischief” about his body. Humoural theory is pre-scientific and seems quaint to us now. But, as Bourke points out, it accounts for an abundance of influences, from our personal temperament and our relationships to the alignment of the planets above our heads, on the pain that we feel.Over the coming centuries, at great cost to people suffering from pain, this insight was lost. This is the story of that loss; of how we arrived at the strange, wrong idea that pain is a straightforward “guide to the pathological lesion”; and of how an emerging re-understanding of pain shows us that it is more complex and more astonishing than we have thought for centuries.Descartes, dualism and the labelled line“The ghost in the machine” — Gilbert RyleIt is in the sixteenth century that we find the beginnings of the dominant modern understanding of the body and its pains. The rise of Protestantism and, amongst secular thinkers, of humanism, contributed to an increased focus on the individual and an understanding of the body as a natural, rather than a supernatural entity. Medicine became more interested in anatomy and the physical laws of nature. Vesalius published his On the Fabric of the Human Body, a compendium of illustrations of dissected cadavers based on the author’s strict, first-hand observations at a time when doctors were not accustomed to performing their own dissections. Later, physicians like William Harvey took principles from physics and astronomy to show that in many ways, our bodies can be understood as machines: pumps, pulleys and levers. Slowly, the body became less sacred and more scientific.It was in this spirit that, in 1641, the French polymath Renes Descartes published his Meditations on First Philosophy. This work contains a drawing that became the seminal image of pain for the next three hundred years. The picture shows a kneeling boy with one foot perilously close to a small campfire. The heat of the flame sends a signal (an “animal spirit”) up a channel to the boy’s pituitary gland, which Descartes reckoned was the seat of consciousness. There, the signal elicits pain, “just as pulling one end of a cord rings the bell at the other end”.This picture makes sense to us, it seems intuitively correct. But this is because in matters of pain we are most of us now, in the Western world at least, the children of Descartes. For pain scientists on the other hand, who have fought in recent decades to emancipate themselves from Descartes, this picture has has come to represent the original sin, the first big lie of the Western world’s understanding of pain.It’s crimes are twofold. First, it is the essence of an idea called dualism, which holds that mind and body are separate. The body feels pain, and passes this information on to the mind. For Cartesian dualists, the body is a machine and we are a kind of ghost in the machine, receiving information about its status.Second, the picture represents pain as being felt by a specific detector in the body, and passed up a specific pathway, the long hollow tube, to a specific location in the boy’s brain. Pain detectors, at the end of a pain pathway, that leads to a pain centre. This idea is called specificity theory, but in this post I’m going to use the term labelled line theory because although it is less common, I think it is more descriptive — a labelled line for pain.As it happens, Descartes’ idea was more subtle than the picture and its subsequent interpretations made out. In his defence, the historians Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl A.E. Enenkel point out that Descartes knew that pain is not merely perceived, like a mariner perceives his ship, but felt, as if the mind and body are “nighly conjoin’d […] so that I and it make up one thing”. Descartes knew that we don’t just have a body; we are a body. But this subtlety was lost: the picture of the little boy with his foot in the fire has a memetic power that has carried it, along with dualism and the labelled line, through the centuries.The nineteenth century“Nothing less than the social transformation of Western medicine” — Daniel GoldbergThis change came gradually. It was not until the nineteenth century, two hundred years after Descartes’ Meditations, that dualism and the labelled line for pain finally established their authority in medicine.They set in as part of a wider change in the history of medicine following the French Revolution that is sometimes now called the ‘Paris School’. The physicians of the Paris School transformed large teaching hospitals in the city to dedicate them, for the first time, to furthering scientific knowledge through rigorous observation of patients and cadavers, and the classification of disease. They explicitly rejected humoural theory, which held that illnesses are processes that are distributed around the body through the movement of viscous humours. Rather, physicians of the Paris School considered diseases to be the result of lesions localised to a single, solid organ.Influenced by the Paris School, Victorian physicians across the Western world began to search their suffering patients’ bodies for a local, solid lesion to blame for their pain. As one New York physician wrote in 1880, “we fully agree that there can be no morbid manifestations without a change in the material structure of the organs involved”. For the first time, doctors began to think like detectives on the hunt for the smoking gun, following clues provided by the body and its sensations (it is no coincidence that Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before he wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, or that he made his character Watson one, too).This approach has tremendous diagnostic power. But, as we will see, even modern researchers find that our pain, particularly our chronic pain, resists reduction by detective work. How did Victorian physicians respond when their investigations failed to turn up a local lesion to explain pain? According to historian and medical ethicist Daniel Goldberg, many doubled down, hunting for anything they could find. As one surgeon put it, “any lesion anywhere in the body will do to account for an otherwise inexplicable pain”. And that meant any lesion: the surgeon Joseph Swann, or example, baffled by a woman’s 11-year history of pain in an apparently healthy knee, eventually attributed it to an imperfection he found, after much searching, in a nerve in her hand.Those that could not find a lesion anywhere explained unexplained pain as one inevitably must if one subscribes to the logic of dualism: if it’s not in the body, it must be in the mind. Goldberg tells the story of the surgeon Josiah Nott who, in 1872, took on the care of an American soldier whose leg was crushed in a railway accident. The leg had already been amputated by another surgeon at a point about halfway up the calf, but the soldier had developed phantom limb pains. The original surgeon, assuming there must be a local lesion at the end of a labelled line, had then amputated the stump, but to no avail. Nott, making the same assumption, took still more from the stump the next year, and still the patient felt no relief. Later that year, Dr. Nott operated again, removing tissues from three major nerves in the shank. This pattern continued until Nott had removed the poor soldier’s leg up to four inches above the knee, and his sciatic nerve up to the pelvis. When the patient’s pain returned after this final operation, Dr. Nott reasoned that he must have acquired an addiction to opioids which was inciting him to malinger (to exaggerate or feign his disease). Nott had, horribly literally, followed the assumed cause of the disease up a labelled line through the body and, not catching it, decided it must therefore be in the mind.This logic played out on a broad scale in physicians’ understanding of the now-forgotten condition “railway spine”, the widespread and mysterious back pain felt by the victims of train accidents. Initially, physicians thought that the trauma of a crash caused compression of nerve filaments that in turn caused pain. But as time wore on and their investigations repeatedly failed to find a tissue lesion to explain railway spine, even in cadavers, their suspicion grew that railway spine was not a ‘real’ condition at all. After all, weren’t most victims also seeking compensation from railway companies? By the beginning of the twentieth century, railway spine was known instead as “hysterical spine […] merely a psychical condition”. Dualism dictated once more that if we can’t find it in the body, it must be in the mind.1900 to 1965Anomalies, non-anomalies, and opening the gateAnomalies“[Pain] reveals only a minute proportion of illnesses and often, when it is one of their accompaniments, is misleading. On the other hand, in certain chronic cases it seems to be the entire disorder which, without it, would not exist.” — Rene Leriche, 1937The break from Cartesianism began at the end of the nineteenth century, when the great neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal showed that our nerves, spinal cord and brain are not one thing but composed of many smaller things (which came to be called neurons) linked by gap junctions (which came to be called synapses). Decades earlier, the English neuroscientist Charles Bell had suggested that the function of the nervous system is less straightforward than the labelled line in Descartes’s picture, and Cajal’s work was proof.As we can see by his extraordinary drawings, Cajal meticulously mapped the peripheral neurons in our arms and legs, running to the spinal cord, and the neurons running up the cord, and many of those in our brain. But, according to pain scientist and writer Fernando Cervero, the terminus for incoming peripheral neurons, the foremost part of the spinal cord that we now call the dorsal horn, was so dense and chaotic that it resisted even Cajal’s fastidious eye. He called the dorsal horn a maremagnum, a Spanish word that means ‘confused and disorganised crowd’, as in the bustle of a busy railway station. Cajal’s vision of a network of individual cells, with nodes of incomprehensible complexity, opened up the possibility that signals aren’t simply passed upwards in a linear fashion as Descartes had assumed, but are modulated along the way.The idea that inputs to the nervous system are modulated before they ‘become’ our sensations hints at an explanation for the odd persistent pains for which Victorian physicians could find no lesion. It also begins to explain the opposite phenomenon, lesions that cause no pain, which became unignorable during the brutal first decades of the twentieth century. Doctors like Rene Leriche, on the front line in the Great War, found that soldiers with dreadful wounds often felt no pain and could undergo surgery without anaesthetic. Leriche knew this was not willpower but “certain movements of the hormones, or of the blood”, a presciently non-Cartesian thought.During the Second World War, the American anaesthesiologist Henry Beecher built on Leriche’s observations by conducting a more methodical study at his post in Italy. He found that as many as three quarters of wounded soldiers felt little pain at the time of their injury. As one doctor put it, it was as if wounds and diseases “carry for the most part — most mercifully — their own anaesthetics with them”.One might think that such cases would have alerted the scientific community to the fact that our nervous systems are doing something more than passively relaying pain into our brains, as labelled line theory implied. But for scientists and doctors at large, anomalies that defied labelled line went on hiding in plain sight, “discovered” periodically and then easily forgotten as they had been in the Victorian era. Phantom limb pain, for example, was unignorable during the American Civil War, and then slipped once more from popular consciousness. The doctor and writer Oliver Sacks called these periods of forgetting scotoma, dark gaps in the scientific awareness in which the prevailing theory cannot explain common phenomena and instead shoves them in the attic to think about another day. The progress of science, wrote Sacks, is faltering and haphazard, “very far from a majestic unfolding”.Non-anomalies“Pain is the physiological adjunct of a protective reflex” — Charles Sherrington, writing in 1900“Pain remains a biological enigma — so much of it is useless, a mere curse” — Charles Sherrington, writing forty years later.(Quoted in Understanding Pain by Fernando Cervero)Rather than explaining anomalies, scientists studying pain at the beginning of the twentieth century focused on a series of discoveries that appeared, at first, to confirm labelled line theory. The British neuroscientist Charles Sherrington had coined the term “nociceptor” for the neurons that convey danger messages (elicited by things like heat, intense mechanical pressure or an incision to the skin) to the brain, and in the following decades researchers slowly but successfully identified and isolated these cells.Starting in 1912, American scientists performed the first anterolateral cordotomy, slicing through the part of the spinal cord that was theorized to carry danger messages to the brain and appearing to stop pain in its tracks. Later, the success of such operations would prove to be temporary, but the procedure did show that this part of the spinal cord houses Sherrington’s nociceptors. In 1927, the Americans Herbert Gasser and Joseph Erlanger established that different nerve fibers conduct signals at different velocities, and classified them according to their diameter as A, B and C fibers. A fibers were widest and conducted signals the quickest; C fibers were the most narrow and slow. They found that one sub-type of A fibers, A-delta fibers, conducted the relatively quick sensation of dull pain we feel when we stub our toe; and that C fibers conduct the slower, stinging pain that arrives later. Again, this neat distinction would later prove to be more complicated, but the discovery was further evidence for a labelled line of pain. Gasser and Erlanger were only able to look at conduction signals from a whole bundle of nerves and so it was not until 1958 that Ainsley Iggo was first to record individual A-delta and C fibers and isolate Sherrington’s nociceptors for the first time.Opening the gate“It may seem easy, but it was not” — Ronald MelzackDespite this series of discoveries in favour of labelled line, some researchers could not shake from their minds those confounding anomalies: pain without lesion, and lesion without pain. And so, at last, the science of pain began to wake from its scotoma. Some scientists began to propose a theory to compete with labelled line called pattern theory, which held that it is not the stimulation of specific nerves that causes the sensation of pain, but that the way in which nerves are stimulated, spatially and temporally. Pattern theory was vague, and had nowhere near the amount of evidence that supported labelled line theory, but it did hint at an answer to some of the anomalies that had been documented in the recent scientific literature, such as the way pain spreads beyond the site of an injury and the way rubbing a pain can make it temporarily feel better. Pattern theory was taken up in Oxford in the 1940s and 50s, where the brilliant British neuroscientist Pat Wall was beginning to develop ideas he would turn into gate control theory, a whole new model of pain.In 1959, Wall moved from Oxford to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he met Ronald Melzack. Melzack, a Canadian, had just arrived at M.I.T. to take up a post as assistant professor of Psychology, and found to his annoyance that he could not perform research on animals in the university’s Psychology building. So, Melzack decamped to Wall’s lab. The two quickly took up a discussion on the inadequacy of Cartesianism and decided to come up with a new theory to “entice spinal-cord physiologists away from [labelled line]”.From his previous research, Melzack knew the brain sends messages down the spinal cord to inhibit the messages coming up it, exerting a kind of ‘top-down’ control on incoming information. From his own experiments, inspired by pattern theory, Wall knew that different inputs into the nervous system are weighed against each other somehow in the spinal cord, competing to be ‘sent up’ to the brain. Despite their discussions, Melzack and Wall’s ideas remained inchoate until, in 1962, Melzack stumbled on the Dutchman Willem Noordenbos’s pattern-theory hypothesis that large A-fibers carrying touch signals might somehow inhibit small C-fibers carrying danger signals.Melzack calls this moment a “flash of insight”. Noordenbos had theorized that this modulation happened in the substantia gelatinosa, which is part of the terminus for incoming information at the spinal cord. Wall knew that large fibers and small fibers entered the substantia gelatinosa at opposite ends, and theorised that it was this setup that allowed the one to inhibit the other, like closing a figurative ‘gate’. The weight of signals from large and small fibers would determine what kind of message was allowed up to the brain.In 1963, Melzack moved to McGill University in Canada, but travelled South over the border when he could to visit Wall’s home in Boston where, over large amounts of duty free whiskey, the two put the finishing, definitive touches to their work. Their theory differed critically from Noordenbos’ because they proposed that the brain itself plays a role in processing at the substantia gelatinosa, by sending signals down the spinal cord to make the ‘gate’ more likely to open or close to danger signals. This was gate control theory.For the first time, science had a model that began to explain pain anomalies. According to gate control theory, for example, the brain of a soldier who has sustained an injury can send messages down the spinal cord to close the gate to incoming danger signals. Over fifty years have passed, and gate control theory has turned out to be wrong in lots of little ways, but right in one big way: it is modulation in the spinal cord and the brain, or the central nervous system, that explains why pain is so rarely the reliable sign of tissue status that Victorian scientists assumed it was.Neuromatrix theory“We need to go… to the brain” — Ronald Melzack“When you feel a pain in the leg that has been amputated, where is the pain? If you say it is in your head, would it be in your head if your leg had not been amputated? If you say yes, then what reason have you for ever thinking you have a leg?” — Bertrand RussellGate control theory was a great advance but Melzack and Wall knew their theory was incomplete. According to Oliver Sacks, it is by studying anomalies — phenomena not explained by the prevailing theory — that researchers wake from scotoma and begin revolutions in scientific understanding. So it was that Melzack’s interest in the anomaly of phantom limb pain led to neuromatrix theory, the next great boost that finally allowed pain science to escape to orbit of CartesianismIf people without limbs have phantom pain, Melzack reasoned, it follows that the origins of the pattern of pain lie not in the limb but in the brain. And not only pain, but the sensation of having a body in its entirety — its place in the world, its shape, its movements — is housed, in what Melzack came to understand as a series of loops and patterns of neurons, inside our brains. This brain architecture is the neuromatrix.Incoming information, then, is not what holds the essence of our sensations; it merely triggers the neuromatrix, already inscribed in the brain, to ‘produce’ the sensations we feel. If a boy puts his foot in a fire, the nerves do not tell a passive brain “here is pain”; the nerves simply say “here is an intense input”, and the neuromatrix does the rest.How do we get a neuromatrix? Melzack says it is inborn, but then shaped by experiences. So, your neuromatrix develops your own personal signatures for familiar pains, like the pain you might feel in your back when you bend. Crucially, the neuromatrix uses our thoughts and emotions to generate our sensations, as well as sensory information. This makes sense: think of a stroke on the leg from your partner and one from an unappealing stranger. The same sensory input feels different.So, if you believe the cause of your back pain is something threatening, like a suspected spinal cancer or a ‘slipped’ disc, it willfeelworse than if you believe it is something benign, like a muscle strain. If a conscripted soldier sustains a battlefield injury that means he will likely have to leave the trenches to convalesce behind the front lines, that wound may not feel as bad as it would for a factory worker, for whom it could mean a loss of livelihood. If you have just been made redundant, or become divorced, than the incoming danger signals from an incipiently arthritic hip might suddenly start triggering your neuromatrix to produce a deep aching pain in your joints.Pain is intimately integrated with meaning, and informed by the broader context of our lives. And there is no labelled line: pain is the output of a widely-distributed neural process that takes input from countless biological, psychological and social factors.The sensitive nervous system“Not under conditions of my choosing / Wired into pain / Rider on the slow train” — Adrienne RichResearchers have used the neuromatrix as a foundation to develop our understanding of pain. For example, towards the end of the 1970s, scientists began to establish that the endings of our danger messenger neurons, the ones Sherrington christened nociceptors, become more sensitive the more they are used, a process called peripheral sensitization. But perhaps the most remarkable development since Melzack proposed the neuromatrix was Clifford Woolf’s discovery of central sensitization.On completing his medical training in South Africa in the early 1980s, Clifford Woolf joined Pat Wall’s laboratory in London. He was not content with measuring the readouts from individual chains of neurons, and instead began to monitor broader bursts of activity which he thought would give him more insight into the pain system as a whole. He started to measure the output of the neurons that cause muscles to flex away from a dangerous stimulus (think of touching a hot stove and retracting your hand before you are even conscious of pain). Investigating on rats, he found that most of these cells responded to dangerous stimuli, such as heat and pinch, in a fairly narrow field — say, one toe. But, some cells had a very wide receptive field and would respond to even light, non-dangerous touch. Why would rats have neurons designed to elicit a withdrawal response to light touch?It took Woolf some months to realise that he was only finding these neurons at the end of the workday, when his rats had already been subjected to hours of pain-inducing stimuli. He calls this his “eureka moment”. He had not discovered that rats have certain neurons that are super sensitive across a wide receptive field: he had discovered that a rat’s nervous system becomes super sensitive across a wide receptive field when it has been exposed to prolonged danger. Woolf had discovered an ‘amplifier’ mechanism in the spinal cord. This phenomenon is central sensitization.Woolf was the first person to show that the nervous system is not hard-wired for pain but plastic. Prolonged nociception can change the behaviour and the architecture of the nervous system so that non-dangerous inputs (like light touch) are felt as painful, and dangerous inputs (like a pinprick) produce more pain than they otherwise would have done. To top it off, this whole pain experience also spreads beyond the original site of injury. The great physiotherapist Louis Gifford described central sensitization as like tapping X on your computer keyboard three times, and 10 X’s of different sizes and colours popping up on the screen.A mild and benign form of central sensitization is common and almost immediate after most injuries — after you burn your hand or sprain your ankle, it is your body’s way of protecting itself. But central sensitization can wear on and, in many cases, persist and get worse long after any injury has healed. If you or someone you know has widespread back pain that flares up with the slightest movement, or has osteoarthritis in their hip that seems to spread all the way down their leg, they might have central sensitization.Central sensitization can affect many different functions, not just pain. People with ongoing, maladaptive central sensitization can be tense and forgetful, and sensitive to bright lights, loud noises and chemicals. It is also a feature of irritable bowel syndrome, migraine and chronic fatigue syndrome, and often goes hand in hand with anxiety and depression.So long, labelled line: Grappling with complexity“Pain cannot easily be divided from the emotions surrounding it. Apprehension sharpens it, hopelessness intensifies it, loneliness protracts it by making hours seem like days. The worst pain is unexplained pain” — Hilary Mantel“The basic idea of pain modulation implies that the output can be different to the input at every stage in the transmission of pain signals throughout the brain” — Fernando CerveroCentral sensitization is just one discovery that has enhanced our understanding of pain. There are many more examples. Descending modulation is the ongoing process by which the brain sends signals down the spinal cord to simultaneously inhibit and facilitate incoming danger signals, a mechanism Leriche anticipated when he observed that battlefield wounds “carry […] their own anaesthetics with them”. In people with persistent pain, descending modulation may be set for a net facilitation of incoming danger messages. Researchers have also expanded our understanding to include the immune system, which aids and abets the nervous system as it produces pain. They have found out that nociceptors, far from lying waiting for an intense stimulus as Sherrington imagined, are actually firing regularly throughout the day, every time we use a pair of scissors, ride a bike or go on a long walk, without (if we are lucky) our neuromatrix producing the experience of pain. Conversely, clever experiments have shown that nociception is not even necessary for pain, giving credence to the stories of people who narrowly escape injury but, believing they have been hurt, writhe in agony. And, we know that stress, even the stress of early life events, plays a vital role in ongoing pain, and that our stress system and pain production system are intimately linked.The contrast between the byzantine, distributed complexity of the mechanisms of pain and the singular experience of pain — I feel it here — is remarkable. Scientists have made various attempts to simplify the mechanisms into something more understandable and more useful to lay people. The neuroscientist VS Ramachandran has said that “pain is an opinion on the organism’s state of health rather than a mere reflective response to an injury”, a stark contrast to the old-fashioned idea of pain as “the unerring medical compass that serves as a guide to the pathological lesion”.The scientists and physiotherapists Dave Butler and Lorimer Moseley put it elegantly:“We will experience pain when our credible evidence of danger related to our body is greater than our credible evidence of safety related to our body. Equally we won’t have pain when our credible evidence of safety is greater than our credible evidence of danger.”In other words, pain is not measuring damage, it is a protective strategy, just one of many (along with local and systemic inflammation, changes in movement like tensing or bracing, the feeling of stiffness, and so on) that the body enacts in response to credible evidence of danger.This evidence of danger often includes nociception (signals from tissue damage), but the neuromatrix uses many other sources, too. For example, if someone has back pain and a doctor tells you your x-ray shows “wear and tear” or “degeneration” in your spine, they have received a clear message of danger related to your body that is likely to make their pain worse. Indeed, people with back pain who get an MRI actually reduce their chances of recovery. On the other hand, if that person’s doctor (or physiotherapist!) tells them that the findings on their scan are normal age-related changes (or, better yet, doesn’t order a scan at all), that is a clear safety message. Safety messages can come from anywhere. Exercise can send safety messages to your neuromatrix, and so can a supportive workplace or having a friend around to talk to.ReflectionsSlow progress, hopes for the future and a note of cautionSlow progress“I am still not happy with what has been accepted” — Pat Wall, 1999Danger sharpens pain; safety soothes it. Why, then, do health professionals continue to give people with persistent pain credible evidence of danger? Apart from the obvious — that there is money in telling people their spines are crumbling and their pelvises are out of line, that they have muscle knots that need releasing and cores that need stabilizing — it is because, just as Descartes’ model of pain took almost three centuries to reach its zenith in Western culture, the neuromatrix, still only forty years old, has been accepted only falteringly even in medical circles, and hardly at all in the wider culture.Indeed, in many ways the twentieth century has doubled down on labelled line. Take, for example, the dominance of the orthopaedic understanding of low back pain, which the late Scottish doctor and historian Gordon Waddell called “the dynasty of the disc”. Waddell traces the tenuous association of the lumbar disc with low back pain to a fateful cluster of papers published at the beginning of the century by orthopods searching, like Victorian physicians had done before them, for a pot of gold at the (wrong) end of the labelled line. Even today, routine orthopaedic surgeries like lumbar fusion, knee arthroscopy and shoulder decompression are amongst the most low-value, least evidence-based treatments in healthcare, still performed largely because of inertia and unexamined Cartesianism.Many physiotherapists practice with the same habits. Like Joseph Swann, we might conduct a questionable root-cause analysis up or down a kinetic chain to find an ‘issue in the tissues’, settling on a pronated foot, a slumped posture or a valgus (in-falling) knee. Like Josiah Nott, when a patient has failed a course of ‘corrective’ exercise to ‘fix’ their body we might decide their problem is primarily ‘psycho-social’, a euphemism for in-their-mind. This is understandable, it takes great effort to shift from Cartesianism to the neuromatrix; I have been trying for years and I am still astonished when a new study is published showing, for example, that there are no major physical risk factors for a first episode of neck pain, but multiple psychological ones, like depression, and social ones, like role conflict. Still, it is imperative that medical professionals of all stripes challenge their colleagues who promote themselves as experts but who practice with unreconstructed Cartesianism.Hopes for the Future“While pain sufferers do not have the luxury of denying the reality of their pain, they can and do deny its legitimacy, thereby internalising the stigma so frequently directed at people in pain.” — Daniel GoldbergThe neuromatrix model has the potential to be immensely liberating for patients. For people with everyday predicaments of life like the back or shoulder pain we all get from time to time, there is the reassuring message that pain is not an indicator of damage and they are safe to move. In fact, movement, as opposed to protecting the painful joint, is the way to go in the long run. For people with more profound, widespread and recalcitrant pain, understanding why their pain is the way it is can help with the process of acceptance, and knowing pain is multifactorial can open up new therapeutic options to help calm down a sensitive nervous system.The neuromatrix could also militate against the way Cartesian thinking drives stigmatization of people with chronic pain. Cartesian dualism casts pain as a two-step sequence of events: the body senses pain, then the mind reacts. As recently as the 1980s, words like “hysterical” or “psychogenic” were used to describe people who appeared to be ‘over-reacting’ to their pain. It is this thinking that allows us to sort people into those who are responding appropriately to their pain, and those who are ‘being dramatic’. The saddest effect of this stigma is when patients internalise it, believing that they are not ‘coping’ properly with ‘a bit of back pain’.So patients and health professionals need to know that dualism is bogus: as Pat Wall himself put it, “the separation of sensation from perception was quite artificial… sensory and cognitive mechanisms operate as a whole”. Or, in the words of neuroscientist Fernando Cervero, “emotional, sensory and cognitive elements aren’t organised in a hierarchical way, but in a cooperative way […] interacting to generate the final pain experience”.A note of caution“Nineteenth century physicians drain[ed] pain of any intrinsic meaning altogether, making it little more than a sign or symptom of something else” — Joanna Burke“[The challenge is] to allow a rapprochement between the world of the clinician and the world of the person in pain” — Quinter et. al (2008).The neuromatrix and all its attendant discoveries have revolutionised how medical and health professionals should approach people in pain. It is a rare true paradigm shift. But there is danger in complacency. “Now is not a time for professional hubris or the proclamation of truth by a few”, warn the rheumatologists John Quintner and Milton Cohen. The battle to understand pain is only half won. It is all too easy to be drawn back into the orbit of dualism, not only between the mind and body, but between the clinician and the patient, or the researcher and the sufferer. Centuries-old habits die hard, and we have long made the person-in-pain an object of enquiry. But this can only take us so far; as Quinter and Cohen assert, “the pain of another person is irreducible to its neuronal correlates”. We can only really know pain through dialogue.It is difficult to talk properly about pain. Being in deep pain can be a harrowing, abject, solitary experience. And apart from anything else, often we just don’t have the words: Virginia Woolf, no stranger to pain, lamented that English has a rich vocabulary for love, but a meagre one for pain. The poet Emily Dickinson said that pain “has an element of blank”.But it can be done. Joletta Belton, a blogger with persistent pain, recently tweeted about the two clinicians who had helped her the most. “It wasn’t just their words” she wrote, “it was that they listened first. And understood. Listening matters […] I wasn’t interrupted or lectured, they didn’t try to ‘educate’ me or alter my narrative to suit their own […] I felt what I said was of value. I felt human, of worth. That’s invaluable.”It may seem strange to end a post about science with a note on the importance of listening, but in the context of the neuromatrix it makes perfect sense. Listening to people in pain is what’s needed to undo the damage that has been done, and take the progress that’s been made to the next level.Belton’s experience echoes a vignette reported by Joanna Bourke in The Story of Pain.During a medical consultation in 1730, an embarrassed patient found himself apologising to his physician for boring him with “so tedious a Tale”. The patient’s physician protested: “Your Story is so diverting, that I take abundance of delight in it, and your Ingenious way of telling it, gives me a greater insight into your distemper, than you imagine. Wherefore, let me beg of you to go on, Sir: I am all attention, and shall not interrupt you.”Selected bibliographyJournal ArticlesAllan, D. and Waddell, G. (1989). An historical perspective on low back pain and disability. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, 60(sup234), pp.1–23.Arnaudo, E. (2017). Pain and dualism: Which dualism?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 23(5), pp.1081–1086.Baliki, M. and Apkarian, A. (2015). Nociception, pain, negative moods, and behavior selection. Neuron, 87(3), pp.474–491.Bourke, J. (2014). Pain sensitivity: an unnatural history from 1800 to 1965. Journal of Medical Humanities, 35(3), pp.301–319.Brodal, P. (2017). A neurobiologist’s attempt to understand persistent pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 15(1).Cohen, M., Quintner, J., Buchanan, D., Nielsen, M. and Guy, L. (2011). Stigmatization of Patients with Chronic Pain: The Extinction of Empathy. Pain Medicine, 12(11), pp.1637–1643.Chapman, C., Tuckett, R. and Song, C. (2008). Pain and stress in a systems perspective: reciprocal neural, endocrine, and immune interactions. The Journal of Pain, 9(2), pp.122–145.Eriksen, T., Kerry, R., Mumford, S., Lie, S. and Anjum, R. (2013). At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 8(1), p.11.Goldberg, D. (2012). Pain without lesion: debate among American neurologists, 1850–1900. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 0(15).Goldberg, D. (2017). Pain, objectivity and history: understanding pain stigma. Medical Humanities, 43(4), pp.238–243.Iannetti, G. and Mouraux, A. (2010). From the neuromatrix to the pain matrix (and back). Experimental Brain Research, 205(1), pp.1–12.Kerry, R., Maddocks, M. and Mumford, S. (2008). Philosophy of science and physiotherapy: An insight into practice. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 24(6), pp.397–407.Latremoliere, A. and Woolf, C. (2009). Central sensitization: A generator of pain hypersensitivity by central neural plasticity. The Journal of Pain, 10(9), pp.895–926.Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, pp.S121-S126.Melzack, R. (2005). Evolution of the neuromatrix theory of Pain. The Prithvi Raj Lecture: Presented at the Third World Congress of World Institute of Pain, Barcelona 2004. Pain Practice, 5(2), pp.85–94.Melzack, R. and Katz, J. (2012). Pain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4(1), pp.1–15.Mendell, L. (2014). Constructing and deconstructing the gate theory of pain. Pain, 155(2), pp.210–216.Moayedi, M. and Davis, K. (2013). Theories of pain: from specificity to gate control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 109(1), pp.5–12.Moseley, G. and Butler, D. (2015). Fifteen years of explaining pain: the past, present, and future. The Journal of Pain, 16(9), pp.807–813.Moseley, G. (2007). Reconceptualising pain according to modern pain science. Physical Therapy Reviews, 12(3), pp.169–178.Neilson, S. (2015). Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine. Medical Humanities, 42(1), pp.3–10.O’Sullivan, P., Caneiro, J., O’Keeffe, M. and O’Sullivan, K. (2016). Unraveling the complexity of low back pain. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 46(11), pp.932–937.Perl, E. (2007). Ideas about pain, a historical view. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(1), pp.71–80.Quintner, J., Cohen, M., Buchanan, D., Katz, J. and Williamson, O. (2008). Pain Medicine and Its Models: Helping or Hindering?. Pain Medicine, 9(7), pp.824–834.Thacker, M. and Moseley, G. (2012). First-person neuroscience and the understanding of pain. The Medical Journal of Australia, 196(6), pp.410–411.Wiech, K. (2016). Deconstructing the sensation of pain: The influence of cognitive processes on pain perception. Science, 354(6312), pp.584–587.Woolf, C. (2007). Central sensitization. Anesthesiology, 106(4), pp.864–867.BooksCervero, F. (2014). Understanding pain. Boston: Mit Press.Butler, D. and Moseley, G. (2015). Explain pain. Adelaide: Noigroup Publications.Bourke, J. (2014). The story of pain. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.Moseley, G. and Butler, D. (2017). Explain pain supercharged. Adelaide: Noigroup Publications.Blog postsPain is weird by Paul IngrahamPain really is in the mind, but not in the way you think by Lorimer MoseleyCentral sensitization in chronic pain by Paul IngrahamMy own chronic pain story by Paul IngrahamEasing musculoskeletal pain Information leafletTell me your story by Joletta BeltonPodcasts and lecturesThe Pain Revolution by Lorimer MoseleyPain: past, present and future with Mick ThackerUnderstanding Pain in 2025 by Mick Thacker Subscribe at tomjesson.substack.com

Tonight Big Red is joined by Australian professional boxer Les Sherrington. Les has fought some of the biggest names in Aus Boxing and is a 5 x WBF World Champion. We go back to the early days of his boxing career, discuss the current state of world boxing and he gives us his prediction for the Horn vs Tszyu fight this month. Great boxer, even better bloke. Enjoy

Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington breaks down the latest on the upcoming NBA playoffs, MLB’s financial squabbles and the situation surrounding Dak Prescott’s contract negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys. He also breaks candidates for the next class of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame with fellow voters Cedric Golden and Kirk Bohls. 

Listen in as Jay Stansell and Luke Sherrington chat about Product Management from a Product Designer perspective. To support the bushfire affected wildlife and communities of Australia that are mentioned in this episode head to bushfire.productcoalition.com To get pre-release access to all Product Coalition podcasts, product management mentorship, product management interview practice, and product management resume reviews, visit platform.productcoalition.comSupport the show (https://platform.productcoalition.com)

Ballzy hosts Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and David Moore discuss the handling of cancellations and rescheduling by sports leagues, what's fueling talk of sports returning soon and whether it's even realistic to think about a return to sports normalcy this calendar year.

In this episode of the Ballzy Mavs podcast, host Kevin Sherrington chats with Mavs insider Brad Townsend.  They review the recent NBA All-Star Game, as well as the current status of Luka Dončić and Kristaps Porzingis. With 27 games left, the Dallas Mavs are trending upward - much more that Sherrington and Townsend thought they would at the beginning of the season. 

A chat with Matthew Sherrington, charity strategy and communications expert. We chat about his journey from starting as a volunteer with Oxfam in 1989 and going on to support and lead various Oxfam teams across the world in the nineties. We also cover his experience of turning around Greenpeace USA in the noughties, aliging strategy, comms, fundraising and campaigning, mobilising people to come together and take action in the real world, and representation of the people we support. And a bit of medieval horror.

Proprioception is the sixth sense. It connects the mind to the body and there are remarkable implications when it is lost. Charles Scott SherringtonProprioception and kinaesthesia The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver SacksIs that my real hand?The mirror box - VS RamachandranThe Here and Now Bloghttps://www.facebook.com/thehereandnowpodcast/emailthehereandnow@gmail.comRoyalty Free Music from https://audiohub.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thehereandnowpodcast)

Ballzy hosts Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant, and David Moore chat about Sunday's win against the Rams and what to expect this coming Sunday as the Cowboys go against the Eagles.  The team discuss whether Dak Prescott will play or not after injuring his shoulder.  On the defensive side, the hosts discuss Antwaun Woods and if he's just as valuable as DeMarcus Lawrence.  Finally, Sherrington, Grant, and Moore give their predictions for Sunday against Philly. 

Réduire l’impact des activités agricoles sur l’environnement : rendez-vous à Sherrington pour découvrir les efforts entrepris par les partenaires de Sollio Agriculture et les chercheurs pour conserver la richesse des sols. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

In this episode of Ballzy, hosts Evan Grant and Kevin Sherrington combine all the sports news into one episode.  They begin with the Cowboys, reviewing their win against the New York Giants, and of course coverage of the black cat that ran the field.  Grant and Sherrington then move on to college football, discussing SMU's lost against Memphis on Saturday.  Finally, the pair touch on the Texas Rangers and what the team should be doing during the off season. 

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The world of work, like the world in general, is changing rapidly whether we like it or not. How to adapt your career and be part of the sustainability economy? Rhian Sherrington is an author and career coach who can help you make a change and make a difference.

The world of work, like the world in general, is changing rapidly whether we like it or not. How to adapt your career and be part of the sustainability economy? Rhian Sherrington is an author and career coach who can help you make a change and make a difference.

FOXcast PT talks with Australian physiotherapy researcher Cathie Sherrington, PhD, MPH, BAppSc, about her latest analysis on fall reduction that was released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in December. They review what their analysis says about exercise and fall prevention and how to best optimize physio treatment to prevent falls. Listen: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher  | TuneIn | Other Android Apps

FOXcast PT talks with Australian physiotherapy researcher Cathie Sherrington, PhD, MPH, BAppSc, about her latest analysis on fall reduction that was released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in December. They review what their analysis says about exercise and fall prevention and how to best optimize physio treatment to prevent falls. Listen: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher  | TuneIn | Other Android Apps

FOXcast PT talks with Australian physiotherapy researcher Cathie Sherrington, PhD, MPH, BAppSc, about her latest analysis on fall reduction that was released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in December. They review what their analysis says about exercise and fall prevention and how to best optimize physio treatment to prevent falls. Listen: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher  | TuneIn | Other Android Apps

Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington addresses Dallas’ attempts to trade for Texas ex Earl Thomas and gives his take on the state of Texas football. Hosts Kirk Bohls and Cedric Golden assess the desperation level on the Forty Acres entering the Tulsa game plus forecast how Dallas and Houston will fare this season. They also give their Super Bowl, MVP, and Rookie of the Year picks.

Aujourd'hui à l'émission:Amnistie internationale et le G7:Entrevue avec Nicole Fillion ; Chronique urbaine d'Hugo Lavoie:L’usine la nuit à St-Patrice de Sherrington ; Les influenceurs:Steven Guilbeault cofondateur d'Équiterre ; Projet de loi C-45:Entrevue avec André Pratte, sénateur indépendant ; Jour J pour le G7:Entrevue avec le correspondant Philippe-Vincent Foisy ; Politique avec Chantal Hébert:Lendemain d'élections en Ontario ; Économie avec René Vézina:Quoi attendre du G7 sur les tarifs acier/aluminium ; Décès d'Anthony Bourdain:Entrevue avec Danny Saint-Pierre ; Entrevue avec Normand Legault ancien directeur général du Grand Prix de Montréal ; Le billet d'humeur de Catherine Ethier:La gestion du sein ; Entrevue avec Emmanuel Bilodeau, porte-parole de la saison estivale OSM 2018.

Aujourd'hui à l'émission:Amnistie internationale et le G7:Entrevue avec Nicole Fillion ; Chronique urbaine d'Hugo Lavoie:L’usine la nuit à St-Patrice de Sherrington ; Les influenceurs:Steven Guilbeault cofondateur d'Équiterre ; Projet de loi C-45:Entrevue avec André Pratte, sénateur indépendant ; Jour J pour le G7:Entrevue avec le correspondant Philippe-Vincent Foisy ; Politique avec Chantal Hébert:Lendemain d'élections en Ontario ; Économie avec René Vézina:Quoi attendre du G7 sur les tarifs acier/aluminium ; Décès d'Anthony Bourdain:Entrevue avec Danny Saint-Pierre ; Entrevue avec Normand Legault ancien directeur général du Grand Prix de Montréal ; Le billet d'humeur de Catherine Ethier:La gestion du sein ; Entrevue avec Emmanuel Bilodeau, porte-parole de la saison estivale OSM 2018.

Ancient archaeological Site found on the Coast For as long as I can remember, archaeologists have been talking about the ice free corridor that ran from Alaska, across the Bering Strait to Russia and all the way past Calgary. We were told that this was the route that the ancestors of all the first nations on the continent would have taken as they migrated from Asia to the new world. Back in episode 6 (www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep006 I talked about some chinks in the armour of that tried and true theory. Two studies cast some serious doubt on the ice free corridor migration. In one study, researchers looked into a large glacial lake called Lake Peace that sat smack dab in the middle of the corridor. It would have completely blocked the route of any traveler looking to make their way through the corridor. As they examined the sediments below this lake, they learned that food animals like bison and jack rabbits didn't show up in the sediments until around 12,500 years ago. They theorize that the landscape did not support enough food for anyone migrating through the area before that time. The lack of food resources would have stopped any large scale migration. By the time this route would have opened up, archaeological sites farther south would have made these travelers followers rather than leaders. Other studies have shown possible human sites in Monte Verde South America at least 15,000 years ago and in Florida 14,500 years ago. It seems there must have been another way to get south. A second study looked at bison populations through the ice free corridor. Researchers investigate 78 skulls from now-extinct steppe bison and examined the mitochondrial DNA. They also carbon dated the fossils. Prior to the opening of the corridor, both populations had been separated for a long enough period to be considered different genetic populations. It wasn't until 13,000 years ago that the two groups of bison began to intermingle. The fossil dates also imply that the corridor opened up from south to north as opposed to the other way around. Based on the dates of some of these other sites, like Monte Verde, people had already made it south of the corridor by that time. Scientists have long speculated about a possible coastal migration route, but for years, there was not a speck of evidence of an actual coastal migration. Part of the reason is likely that some areas would have been submerged by rising ocean levels as the glaciers melted. Finally, recent discoveries off the coast of British Columbia have found a 14,000-year-old site on Triquet Island, a lonely island some 133 km north of Port Moody which is located on the north end of Vancouver Island. 14,000 years makes this site one of the earliest cultural sites on the continent, with the exception of a few already mentioned in this story. It also shows there may have been a viable coastal route long before any ice-free corridor opened up. The first nations that call Triquet Island home are the Heitsuk Nation. For generations,  their oral traditions have talked about an area of land that never froze during the ice age. The Hietsuk stayed there as a refuge during those years. For the Heitsuk, it is an affirmation of their long-held oral history. It is also yet another example of first nations oral histories proving to be more factual than some of the western histories. After all, it was first nations stories that led to the discovery of both of the lost Franklin ships over the past several years after remaining hidden to history for more than 170 years. The site revealed fish hooks, spears and fire making materials. All it took was a small amount of charcoal from one of the fire pits to carbon date the site. One of the most puzzling parts of the story is that in the area of Triquet Island, the ocean levels remained fairly consistent over the millennia. This allowed for the island to remain inhabited throughout many thousands of years. As archaeologists excavated through the layers of dirt, with each representing a layer of time, they could see an evolution of hunting and fishing techniques. The research was led by Alisha Gaubreau, a Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria, along with a scholar from the Hakai Institute. This research organization focuses on long-term studies of remote areas of coastal British Columbia. This is an amazing discovery and may help to spur a flurry of new studies across a variety of scientific disciplines as researchers try to ferret out additional clues to potential coastal migration routes. Does this mean that nobody walked through the ice-free corridor - absolutely not. They may not have been the first to see the lands south of the corridor, but I still like to think of them as the first Calgary Stampede. A Ribbon of Steel was just a National Dream When we look at the opening up of western Canada, two great events stand out. The fur trade which opened a vast land to exploration, and the Canadian Pacific Railway. This ribbon of steel really is the tie that binds this nation together and without it Canada might not exist...at least not in the way it does today. Prior to our building an all Canadian railway, a lot of talk drifted north from the U. S. about annexation of the Canadian west. One American politician was elected with the rallying cry of 54-40 or fight! Forget the 49th parallel, they wanted everything up to the 54th. That would have put a real dent in western Canada especially when you realize that communities like Banff are just on the 51st parallel. When we hear about the ‘Oregon’ territory, it was NOT the state of Oregon, it was a much larger area. It included present day Oregon, Washington and the lower half of British Columbia. It was much later that the various states were delineated. Well lucky for us, but unlucky for Americans, American intentions were diverted south by the Civil War. What that horrible conflict did for Canada was it bought us time, time to cement our sovereignty over our western lands. Prior to B.C. joining confederation, it had already experienced a gold rush in 1858 that saw some 30,000 prospectors flood into the territory. As a result, the British government created the colony of B.C. that same year. Just 6 years later, in 1964, they instituted a kind of representative government. Simultaneously the colonies in the eastern part of British North America were talking about Confederation. A legislative assembly with a regional governor was established in 1866 which placed Victoria as the capital. Some debate occurred in British Columbia about joining the fledgling nation of Canada in order to provide some security against American aspirations in the western portions of North America, especially after the U.S. purchased Alaska in March of 1867. While there was support in B.C. towards joining Canada, there was also some staunch opposition. However in 1869, when Canada purchased Rupert’s Land and the Northwest Territories from the Hudson’s Bay Company, suddenly the new nation was right up to the eastern boundary of the colony. A three person delegation was sent to Ottawa and after some heated debate, politicians in Ottawa did what politicians do, they sat down with their counterparts from British Columbia and they began to make promises. They said: “if you join Canada we’ll build you a railway” and British Columbia said ‘sold’. In fact, they joined Canada so fast that they joined as a full province on July 20, 1871, when this country was just 4 years old. That may not sound impressive, until you realize that Alberta and Saskatchewan did not become provinces until 1905, more than 30 years later. Nobody knew better than British Columbians how important this link with the rest of the country would be, but also how impossible it would be to build. The government dispatched an army of surveyors across the western wilderness in order to find a route for the transcontinental railway. Pierre Burton in his book The National Dream stated: “no life was harsher than that suffered by members of the Canadian Pacific Survey crews and none was less rewarding, underpaid, overworked, exiled from their families, deprived of their mail, sleeping in slime and snowdrifts, suffering from sunstroke, frostbite, scurvy, fatigue and the tensions that always rise to the surface when weary dispirited men are thrown together for long periods of isolation, the surveyors kept on, year after year Pierre Burton in his book The National Dream stated: “no life was harsher than that suffered by members of the Canadian Pacific Survey crews and none was less rewarding, underpaid, overworked, exiled from their families, deprived of their mail, sleeping in slime and snowdrifts, suffering from sunstroke, frostbite, scurvy, fatigue and the tensions that always rise to the surface when weary dispirited men are thrown together for long periods of isolation, the surveyors kept on, year after year “No life was harsher than that suffered by members of the Canadian Pacific Survey crews and none was less rewarding, underpaid, overworked, exiled from their families, deprived of their mail, sleeping in slime and snowdrifts, suffering from sunstroke, frostbite, scurvy, fatigue and the tensions that always rise to the surface when weary dispirited men are thrown together for long periods of isolation, the surveyors kept on, year after year They explored great sections of Canada--the first engineers scaled mountains that had never before been climbed, crossed lakes that had never known a white man's paddle and forded rivers that were not on any map. They walked with a uniform stride developed through years of habit, measuring the distances as they went, checking altitudes with an aneroid barometer slung around the neck and examining the land with a practiced gaze, always seeing in the mind's eye the finished line of steel--curves, grades, valley crossings, bridges and trestles, tunnels, cuts and fills” Seventy-four thousand kilometres of Canadian wilderness were surveyed during the first 6 years of the survey. Of that, 12,000 was properly charted. Many of the people we refer to as ‘surveyors’ were really just the first step of the process. Men like A.B. Rogers really should be referred to as the pathfinders. A long line of others would need to follow their footsteps once a route was determined. First came the axemen who cleared the route of brush, making way for the chainmen. They would break the line into 30m or 100-foot sections and place a stake at the end of each section and labeled with how many chain lengths it was from the start of the division. Behind them came the transit men. They’re the mathletes of the crew. They’ll look at each bend in the route and estimate the angles of the turns. They note river crossings, changes in landscape and obstacles the route may encounter. And finally, come the levelers who placed elevation benchmarks every 1,500 feet or 457 metres. By 1877, 25,000 bench marks had been placed and more than 600,000 stakes had been pounded in by the Chainmen. It wasn’t long before the chief surveyor, Sandford Fleming found it difficult to find men that were tough enough to endure the challenges of survey life. By mid-summer 1871, he had already dispatched some 800 men on 21 survey parties but many of them were unfit to the task. As he wrote: "Many of those we were obliged to take, subsequent events proved, were unequal to the very arduous labour they had to undergo, causing a very considerable delay and difficulty in pushing the work." He also had to deal with political meddling and nepotism. He was constantly pressured to hire family members or friends of eastern politicians. With unfit and incompetent men in the wilderness, entire crews simply abandoned their posts when the going got tough. In the season of 1871-2, two parties simply quit and wandered home when the temperatures started to get cold. The surveyors traveled through areas where the local first nations had never before seen a white man. On surveyor, Henry Cambie came across a group of natives that would simply not believe that hair actually grew on his face. Another surveyor accepted a seat on a bear skin rug next to a young native woman, not realizing that that was the equivalent of a marriage proposal. After a few tense negotiations, he managed to trade her back to her father for a nice ring that he had been wearing. In the winter of 1875-6, the expedition of E.W. Jarvis in the Smoky River Pass in the Rockies really highlighted the hardships these surveyors endured. In January, Jarvis, along with his assistant C.F. Hannington and dogmaster Alec Macdonald headed out from Fort George with 6 natives and 20 dogs. The weather dropped to -47C. One evening Macdonald knocked on the door of their winter shack completely encased in ice from head to toe. Another day, as they got the dogsleds ready to go in the morning, the lead dog stood up, gave a feeble tail wag and then fell over dead with his legs frozen solid right up to the shoulder. They carried few supplies and just two blankets each and a thin cotton sheet for a tent. After a time, they began to suffer from ‘mal de raquette’ or snowshoe sickness which left them lame simply from walking hundreds of kilometres in large snowshoes. As can often do in the mountains, they experienced a brief chinook wind on one occasion with the temperature increasing from -42C to +4C in a single day. The sudden change left them exhausted. Another morning, they were mushing along the frozen surface of a river when they had to stop suddenly when they found the entire dog team on the thinly frozen overhang of a waterfall. Beneath their feet, the river plunged 65m. Another evening, they made camp beneath the beautiful blue of a glacier. In the middle of the night, huge blocks of ice broke off of the glacier and came crashing through their camp. They described: "masses of ice and rock chasing one another and leaping from point to point as if playing some weird, gigantic game" Surprisingly, even though a chunk of limestone more than 3 metres thick bounced past them, they were left somewhat dazed but even more surprisingly, unharmed. By March, their dogs were dying on a daily basis and the men began to believe that they would never see their families again. At one point Hannington wrote in his journal: "I have been thinking of 'the dearest spot on earth to me' - of our Mother and Father and all my brothers and sisters and friends--of the happy days at home--of all the good deeds I have left undone and all the bad ones committed. If ever our bones will be discovered, when and by whom. If our friends will mourn long for us or do as is often done, forget us as soon as possible. In short, I have been looking death in the face..." In the end, though they did survive. Hannington had lost 15 kg and when they finally reached Fort Edmonton and received fresh food and water it brought on spasms of dysentery and vomiting as it had been so long since they had eaten proper food. In the end, they covered 3036 km over 162 days on the trail. Fifteen hundred of those kilometres were done on snowshoes with the final 530 carrying all of their supplies on their backs because, by this time, all their dogs were dead. Usually, about this point, people come up with a pretty good question...why? Clearly, the work left a little to be desired and the pay, well the pay was even worse. The answer to that question can also be summed up in one word – immortality. They hoped that somewhere along the way their name would linger on a map or, hope beyond hope, that they would go down as the man who had found the route through which the transcontinental railway would pass. We’ll continue this story in future episodes. Golden Eagles People often have a vision of the mountains with eagles soaring overhead and wolves howling in the distance. These idealized pictures often hide the harsh realities of mountain life. It's a tough place to earn a living. In 35 years of guiding, I have yet to hear a wolf howl, lots and lots of coyotes, but nary a wolf. Never has a cougar crossed my path, wolverines, yes, but no cougars. The mountain landscape is a place of secrets with animals and birds constantly striving to survive in a landscape that constantly conspires against them. Travel to the north coast of British Columbia and you've entered the land of milk and honey for many animals and birds. You'll find yourself tripping over bald eagles and great-blue herons. The density of black and grizzly populations can be an order of magnitude higher than it is here simply because there is more food. Golden eagles are a northern specialist. They thrive in high latitude landscapes hunting many of the small game animals that share their environment. They are also the most popular avian national animal. Golden eagles are the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan. They are an exciting siting in the Canadian Rockies, but in 1992, biologist Peter Sherrington stumbled upon something truly unique on an outing in Kananaskis Country in March of that year. As he looked up from the top of a small summit, he noticed a tiny speck high above him. As he studied it, he realized it was a golden eagle. Cool, I've just won the wildlife lottery for the day. Before long though, there was another speck, and then another. Any time you see a single golden eagle is exciting, but to see more than one, astounding. By the end of the day, he had counted more than 100. It didn't take Sherrington long to realize that something was out of the ordinary. As he put it in a recent story in the Calgary Herald: "Every time we looked up, there were more golden eagles,” he said. “Everybody thought of the mountains as barriers, but we established they were very serious avian highways.” Sherrington has spent every spring and fall since staking out the area as the research director for the Rocky Mountain Eagle Research Foundation. Now at age 72, he has the opportunity to share the spectacle with thousands of visitors each year that flock to the area to see the spring and fall migrations of golden eagles. Just how many eagles pass through this area every spring and fall? When the foundation first began tracking eagles, there were some 4,000/season. Last year only saw 2,500. In fall of 2007, they witnessed almost 5,500 golden eagles. According to Sherington, this is "the greatest eagle migration in the world, and it's right on our doorstep. It truly is a world-class phenomenon." The drop in numbers of the years that the foundation has been counting the eagles is a reflection of the environments that they call home. They overwinter in the states where they are occasionally captured in traps meant for coyotes. However, it may be more a reflection of snowshoe hare populations in their summer homes in the far northern areas of Alaska and the Yukon. It won't be long before the eagles begin to point south at the end of the summer nesting and hunting season. If you'd like to volunteer with the foundation or learn more about their work, you can visit them on their website at www.eaglewatch.ca. Next up, British Columbia abdicates its responsibility for managing wildlife New BC Wildlife Agency Announced Conservation organizations in British Columbia are reeling after the provincial government announced the creation of a new Wildlife Management Agency to be funded by hunting revenues. In late March 2017 the B.C. Government announced that all the revenue from hunting licenses would be reinvested into wildlife management in the province. B.C.'s Minister of Forests, Steve Tomson called it "a significant investment and significant initiative on the part of the provincial government". He went on to state: "This will have great benefit for wildlife populations and wildlife management in British Columbia. It will benefit rural communities throughout the province," Along with a proposed budget of $5million in the first year and revenues of 9-10 million on subsequent years, $200,000 was budgeted as part of a consultation process to determine the structure and priorities of the new agency. British Columbia organizations related to hunting are applauding the move, including the B.C. Wildlife Federation, Guide Outfitters Association of B.C., Wild Sheep Society of B.C., Wildlife Stewardship Council and the B.C. Trappers Association. All five agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in supporting the new agency. Not a single, not consumptive conservation organization has stepped up to support this new agency. As a biologist, this seems like the hunting groups are lining up to manage the organization and that seems a little like the fox guarding the chicken coop to me. Time and again, hunting organizations focus only on huntable species. How do we protect the remainder of the 136 species of mammals, 488 species of birds, 20 amphibians and 16 reptiles? On June 27, twenty-three organizations focusing on protecting wildlife in British Columbia sent an open letter to the province. The organizations include the B.C. SPCA, Bear Matters, Get Bear Smart Society, Humane Society, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Wildlife Defense League, Wolf Awareness Inc and Zoocheck Canada, amongst numerous other stakeholders. In the letter, they state: "The wildlife of the province belongs to all British Columbians and has by law been held by the government in trust, to conserve the wildlife itself, and to ensure the rights of all members of the public. The British Columbia Wildlife Act states that “Ownership in all wildlife in British Columbia is vested in the government.” That means that elected representatives can be held accountable for their wildlife decisions through general elections and in courts. Indeed, a groundswell of public unhappiness with the way our wildlife has been mismanaged (grizzly bear trophy hunt) was a significant issue in the recent election." It continues "In announcing the proposed new agency, Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett stated in the media that “The government is afraid to manage wolves, or afraid to manage grizzly bears in some cases because of the politics of that. Hopefully, an agency that is separate from government can make decisions that are in the best long-term interest of wildlife and just forget about the politics and do what is best for the animals.” The letter continues: "We are sorry to learn that Minister Bennett believes our government representatives cannot apply the wildlife laws and science in an unbiased manner, since we believed that’s what they were elected to do. However, they are accountable to voters, whereas an independent agency would not be. It would have no duty to represent all British Columbians, and would be far more susceptible to influence by special interest groups." Finally, the letter calls for the government to: Cancel the plan for an “independent” agency. Increase the wildlife management staff and funding of government ministries. Recognize that BC has a biodiversity crisis; it requires a shift in focus from juggling numbers of game animals for hunters, to applying the science of ecology. Recognize that all British Columbians are stakeholders in our wildlife. All interest groups should be equally empowered. Only about 2% of the total BC population are registered hunters, whereas a huge majority of British Columbians care about the welfare of our wildlife and ecosystems. A wildlife agency that is not tied to the government for accountability would mean that there was no requirement for the province to intervene in wildlife matters. It creates a situation where special interest groups can move in and manage based on their own agenda. In addition, if the funding is based upon hunting revenue, there is an inherent motivation to increase that revenue by granting more hunting permits. It's a negative spiral that could easily result in priorities being shifted away from things like wildlife viewing and towards consumptive uses like hunting and trapping which fund the program. Numerous studies have shown that wildlife viewing brings in much more money to the provincial coffers than does hunting. This is particularly true for iconic species like whales and grizzly bears. Birding as well is a huge economic driver. And generates 10s of millions of dollars annually to the B.C. economy. Under the species at risk at, the B.C. Government is required by law to develop recovery plans for designated species. They cannot simply sidestep federal law by saying that we aren't in charge of wildlife anymore. I stand with these organizations against a government that is abdicating its responsibility to manage wildlife in a sustainable way. If you want to get involved, send a letter to your MLA if you live in British Columbia. Every voice counts.

Ballzy host Kevin Sherrington chats with Cowboys insider David Moore about this weekend's rookie mini camp. Moore explains what we should see from the new players. The two also chat about the Cowboys draft picks and discuss the player who has the most potential (when he's healthy) - Jaylon Smith. On offense, Chaz Green and Byron Bell are mentioned. Moore and Sherrington end the discussion with Tony Romo and his golfing future.

Bishop John Sherrington, a Westminster auxilliary Bishop, tells us the charming story of a Chinese woman he met some years ago who grew up in a rural part of China.

I was inspired to write this post by the work of Kim Douillard and Kevin Hodgson in a project called "Slices of Life". I was especially struck by Kevin's photos here (and I am avidly awaiting Kim's).  In Kevin's night picture, however, I found myself wondering about what I could not see just as much as by what I could see.  Having taken night photos before, I also thought about how limiting the camera is as it tries to record the fullness that the night can seem.  I know that is not a fair comparison in many ways, but technology is almost always like that.  In other words, in the fair light of day or night, technology reduces, delimits, and otherwise 'cheapens' experience. It makes the world more legible, but less wise. For example, below is a photo of a rectangular platte of ground shot this morning just outside my back door. What we see has little to do with it means.  For one thing, the metaphor of the 'frame' makes legible only a very small portion of the available universe.  In a way this is exactly what the brain does so very well--it uses an 'ignorance' filter.  And by 'ignorance' I mean that we accent the second syllable.  Based upon some idiosyncratic and lifelong evolving algorithm, each of our brains takes from the picture above what it will and ignores the rest. A collander metaphor jumps to mind.  Or maybe it actively pays attention to some stuff in favor of other stuff, a pattern bias unique to each of our own sets of experience.  Schrodinger's Cat? Or Maxwell's Demon? But our views signify uniquely.  Each of us comes to the photo with a different filter.  Thinking out loud here, perhaps the metaphor is a loom, a Jacquard loom with a punchcard template (read schema) that weaves the sensorium back and forth.  Or as early neuroscientist Charles Sherrington called it "the enchanted loom". The quote below is the loom in action according to Sherrington  as our brain wakes from sleep.  The great topmost sheet of the mass, that where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. I  am not thinking of the  kind of loom below as a metaphor although it is cool and tempting. This weaving of the senses in with the schema we already have in our minds, that's what I have in...mind.  Now, back to the matter at hand, the practical matter of what is seen in the rectangle of ground outside my back door. First, I see or infer dozens of holes in the ground. Worms, beetles, and other critters are pouring from the warming soil looking for I know not what.  Perhaps they are like Mole in The Wind in the Willows. They've  got spring fever and are saying to themselves, "onion sauce". The are holing out of the ground and checking out the surface because they can and because they feel the need.  Fanciful? Yet the holes are there and my mind weaves in some Kenneth Grahame Second, I know what the holes signify--soil health.  There is much to eat and many to eat it.  In a way it is as the hermetic philosophers insisted, "As above, so below."  Another weaving of the loom that contemplates the health of the soil.   Third, it means that spring has sprung. This cliche is reinforced by the 'frogged' thrum of peepers in the background ready to move and mate and carry on with the ancient seasonal struggle. And all the other heaves and sighs and blats and tweets of spring. Not to mention the smell and breath of spring, its earth and touch moving in between what I see and hear and what I have seen and heard in sixty years of springs. The camera's purpose, like the brain's,