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This month has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride, physically

and emotionally for me personally. I have taken out time to start

a full time job for the extra and stable income, and due to this,

we have skipped this month’s dj feature, merely because of the

lack of time that I had to do the interviews. It has also been a

hard month to get back into routine , seeing that I was working

my own hours and days for almost 2 years, and suddenly I

have to dance to someone else’s beats, rules and procedures.

Though I have to admit I have fallen with my ass very deep in

the butter, as my superior (boss) is a very professional and

supportive individual. Whom mostly takes into consideration

that I am currently in a flat spin regarding routines ect. Though

personally this is not really where I want to be in life, but

currently we do not have much of choice in the current

economic state of things.

Personally I find it hard to see myself working for someone for

the rest of my life, though this will serve as a good trial period in

getting out there, as this is a sales position and working with

people is my sole purpose, its in actual fact quiet the

exhilarating experience, even though the pressure is

indescribably high , it is merely a target driven position, and you

earn what you put in every month. I stare into some very

distraught faces, and somehow stare straight into very

problematic people, its actually shocking to see how some

people handle stress and how others just evaporate when

stress are present. Ive learned in only a few weeks that keeping

to yourself and your own level of work is essential to establish

your own working environment, as mingling with co-workers

mostly lead to unnecessary pressure and unpleasantries during

working hours.

I take my hat off for those who strive to achieve a career in

customer service or working for someone for the rest of their

lives, its hard, but even harder facing all these different

personalities daily, to establish yourself in a working

environment is not only an extra full time job, but it causes a

mighty amount of stress. When i was younger I always

wondered why some people withdrew themselves from work

colleagues, today I sit and perceive the reason for such

behaviour in full, it somehow makes things a bit easier to cope

with the amount of target driven stress that is shoved on you

from above.

Winter is tightly upon us, and its getting colder each day, but in

the same breath it is incredibly hot during the day, so in actual

fact my surety on the weather is not accurate at all. I have been

missing the family at the coast, as well as the family in the low

felt , been a busy and very straining month for me personally,

though a new month is upon us , and new promises lie ahead.

We have been approached by an individual whom might be

able to help us carry out our promise on being available on

Mobile, though there is still much negotiation to take place

regarding this established gesture, there is still much doubt that

it will be available in the next few months.

We hope you enjoy this very mellow issue this month.

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Roman legends precede their own ability to amaze the stories behind all histories in our world. John Disp wrote about the all and well known Spartacus and his legendary life throughout his earthly existence. It is absolutely amazing to hear how this individual influenced and portrayed himself throughout history. His beliefs, his nature and his exceptional quality in being an individual on his own terms. Life turns most of us into people that fit society’s own needs, and most of us fall into that trap by no excuse and no delay, a mere need to sustain your own existence and place.

There is not much known to how Spartacus grew up , the only real information known is that he grew up somewhere around 100 B.C and joined the Thracian Army around 73B.C , but unfortunately ended his duty when he got captured by roman forces, from there his trail goes a bit cold, and then later we hear Spartacus and his wife were sold into slavery in Rome. There is though a myth that states, after they were sold he fell asleep in the gladiatorial pens, while he was in a deep sleep a

venomous snake curled itself around his face. During those times, any event that may seem a bit out of the ordinary was seen as a sign from the gods in some way, with this being their belief state, his wife took on the that it was a sign that Spartacus was destined for some greatness in life as she was seen as priestess.

During their slavery duties they were sent to the city Capua, once there Spartacus was enrolled by his master in a gladiatorial school where him and 200 other men were trained and beaten daily to a point of vengeance. Luckily with his military training Spartacus fared well with all the training and had amassed a record of wins in one single year. Even though this was the celebrity lifestyle in Rome, Spartacus did not favour all the attention, and with his natural charisma and the prophesies of his wife he led all the gladiators that was training with him at time into a riot against their captors. Before the riot took place they entered with 200 men, but only 73 made it out of the riot and fled with Spartacus to the mountainside of Mount Vesuvius. During their reign, they freed a lot of slaves from farmlands around the mountain side, and his army grew incredibly , this frightened the Roman empire as they assumed that this was Spartacus’s goal , to pose a threat to the empire. This assumption was raired as absolutely untrue in every way, as Spartacus’s goal was merely to free the enslaved along his way to Italy and free himself in the same sense. Though this was his ultimate goal his army men , had gained so much motivation from his acts and what he as a single man has achieved that they set themselves to attack the roman empire on their own terms.Though Spartacus was caught in the end, he at least showed most of the enslaved individuals that it is possible to be free in some way, and gained a sense of freedom even if it was just for a while.

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Our brain exists of neurons, these neurons reacts to

colours , music, smell, they are the little army sending the

peccary messages to the right parts of your body , to

ensure your reaction is suited...

According to research The cognitive neuroscience of music is

the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the

cognitive processes underlying music. These behaviours

include music listening, performing, composing, reading,

writing, and ancillary activities. It also is increasingly concerned

with the brain basis for musical aesthetics and musical emotion.

Scientists working in this field may have training in cognitive

neuroscience, neurology, neuroanatomy, psychology, music

theory, computer science, and other allied fields.

Cognitive neuroscience of music is distinguished from related

fields such as music psychology, music cognition and cognitive

musicology in its reliance on direct observations of the brain,

using such techniques as functional magnetic resonance

imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS),

magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography

(EEG), and positron emission tomography (PET).

Musical imagery

Musical imagery refers to the experience of replaying music by

imagining it inside the head.[Musicians show a superior ability

for musical imagery due to intense musical training. Herholz,

Lappe, Knief and Pantev (2008) investigated the differences in

neural processing of a musical imagery task in musicians and

non-musicians. Utilizing magnetoencephalography (MEG),

Herholz et al. examined differences in the processing of a

musical imagery task with familiar melodies in musicians and

non-musicians. Specifically, the study examined whether the

mismatch negativity

(MMN) can be based solely on imagery of sounds. The task

involved participants listening to the

beginning of a melody, continuation of the melody in his/her

head and finally hearing a correct/incorrect tone as further

continuation of the melody. The imagery of these melodies was

stro ng enough to obtain an early preattentive brain response to

unanticipated violations of the imagined melodies in the

musicians. These results indicate similar neural correlates are

relied upon for trained musicians imagery and perception.

Additionally, the findings suggest that modification of the

imagery mismatch negativity (iMMN) through intense musical

training results in achievement of a superior ability for imagery

and preattentive processing of music.

Perceptual musical processes and musical imagery may share

a neural substrate in the brain. A PET study conducted by

Zatorre, Halpern, Perry, Meyer and Evans (1996) investigated

cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes related to auditory imagery

and perceptual tasks.These tasks examined the involvement of

particular anatomical regions as well as functional

commonalities between perceptual processes and imagery.

Similar patterns of CBF changes provided evidence supporting

the notion that imagery processes share a substantial neural

substrate with related perceptual processes. Bilateral neural

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activity in the secondary auditory cortex was associated with

both perceiving and imagining songs. This implies that within

the secondary auditory cortex, processes underlie the

phenomenological impression of imagined sounds. The

supplementary motor area (SMA) was active in both imagery

and perceptual tasks suggesting covert vocalization as an

element of musical imagery. CBF increases in the inferior

frontal polar cortex and right thalamus suggest that these

regions may be related to retrieval and/or generation of auditory

information from memory.

Absolute pitch

Musicians possessing perfect pitch can identify the pitch of

musical tones without external reference.

Absolute pitch (AP) is defined as the ability to identify the pitch

of a musical tone or to produce a musical tone at a given pitch

without the use of an external reference pitch. Neuroscientific

research has not discovered a distinct activation pattern

common for possessors of AP. Zatorre, Perry, Beckett,

Westbury and Evans (1998) examined the neural foundations

of AP using functional and structural brain imaging techniques.

Positron emission tomography (PET) was utilized to measure

cerebral blood flow (CBF) in musicians possessing AP and

musicians lacking AP. When presented with musical tones,

similar patterns of increased CBF in auditory cortical areas

emerged in both groups. AP possessors and non-AP subjects

demonstrated similar patterns of left dorsolateral frontal activity

when they performed relative pitch judgments. However, in

non-AP subjects activation in the right inferior frontal cortex was

present whereas AP possessors showed no such activity. This

finding suggests that musicians with AP do not need access to

working memory devices for such tasks. These findings imply

that there is no specific regional activation pattern unique to AP.

Rather, the availability of specific processing mechanisms and

task demands determine the recruited neural areas.

Emotion

Emotions induced by music activate similar frontal brain regions

compared to emotions elicited by other stimuli. Schmidt and

Trainor (2001) discovered that valence (i.e. positive vs.

negative) of musical segments was distinguished by patterns of

frontal EEG activity. Joyful and happy musical segments were

associated with increases in left frontal EEG activity whereas

fearful and sad musical segments were associated with

increases in right frontal EEG activity. Additionally, the intensity

of emotions was differentiated by the pattern of overall frontal

EEG activity. Overall frontal region activity increased as

affective musical stimuli became more intense.

Music is able to create an incredibly pleasurable experience

that can be described as "chills".Blood and Zatorre (2001) used

PET to measure changes in cerebral blood flow while

participants listened to music that they knew to give them the

"chills" or any sort of intensely pleasant emotional response.

They found that as these chills increase, many changes in

cerebral blood flow are seen in brain regions such as the

amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, midbrain, and

the ventral medial prefrontal cortex. Many of these areas

appear to be linked to reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal,

and are also activated in other pleasurable situations.[46]

Nucleus accumbens (a part of striatum) is involved in both

music related emotions, as well as rhythmic timing.

When unpleasant melodies are played, the posterior cingulate

cortex activates, which indicates a sense of conflict or

emotional pain. The right hemisphere has also been found to

be correlated with emotion, which can also activate areas in the

cingulate in times of emotional pain, specifically social rejection

(Eisenberger). This evidence, along with observations, has led

many musical theorists, philosophers and neuroscientists to link

emotion with tonality. This seems almost obvious because the

tones in music seem like a characterization of the tones in

human speech, which indicate emotional content. The vowels in

the phonemes of a song are elongated for a dramatic effect,

and it seems as though musical tones are simply exaggerations

of the normal verbal tonality.

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Neuropsychology of musical memory

Musical memory involves both explicit and implicit memory

systems. Explicit musical memory is further differentiated

between episodic (where, when and what of the musical

experience) and semantic (memory for music knowledge

including facts and emotional concepts). Implicit memory

centers on the 'how' of music and involves automatic processes

such as procedural memory and motor skill learning – in other

words skills critical for playing an instrument. Samson and Baird

(2009) found that the ability of musicians with Alzheimer's

Disease to play an instrument (implicit procedural memory) may

be preserved.

Neural correlates of musical memory

A PET study looking into the neural correlates of musical

semantic and episodic memory found distinct activation

patterns. Semantic musical memory involves the sense of

familiarity of songs. The semantic memory for music condition

resulted in bilateral activation in the medial and orbital frontal

cortex, as well as activation in the left angular gyrus and the left

anterior region of the middle temporal gyri. These patterns

support the functional asymmetry favouring the left hemisphere

for semantic memory. Left anterior temporal and inferior frontal

regions that were activated in the musical semantic memory

task produced activation peaks specifically during the

presentation of musical material, suggestion that these regions

are somewhat functionally specialized for musical semantic

representations.

Episodic memory of musical information involves the ability to

recall the former context associated with a musical excerpt. In

the condition invoking episodic memory for music, activations

were found bilaterally in the middle and superior frontal gyri and

precuneus, with activation predominant in the right hemisphere.

Other studies have found the precuneus to become activated in

successful episodic recall. As it was activated in the familiar

memory condition of episodic memory, this activation may be

explained by the successful recall of the melody.

When it comes to memory for pitch, there appears to be a

dynamic and distributed brain network subserves pitch memory

processes. Gaab, Gaser, Zaehle, Jancke and Schlaug (2003)

examined the functional anatomy of pitch memory using

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). An analysis of

performance scores in a pitch memory task resulted in a

significant correlation between good task performance and the

supramarginal gyrus (SMG) as well as the dorsolateral

cerebellum. Findings indicate that the dorsolateral cerebellum

may act as a pitch discrimination processor and the SMG may

act as a short-term pitch information storage site. The left

hemisphere was found to be more prominent in the pitch

memory task than the right hemispheric regions.

Therapeutic effects of music on memory

Musical training has been shown to aid memory. Altenmuller et

al. studied the difference between active and passive musical

instruction and found both that over a longer (but not short)

period of time, the actively taught students retained much more

information than the passively taught students. The actively

taught students were also found to have greater cerebral cortex

activation. It should also be noted that the passively taught

students weren't wasting their time; they, along with the active

group, displayed greater left hemisphere activity, which is

typical in trained musicians.

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WORK

DYNAMICS The Business and Corporate world is not a

Venture for the faint hearted, though much is only

learned in practice itself, interpersonal skills are

essential for any new comer to the corporate

ladder, as its a place where stepping on toes , and

handling with care are one in the same thing, the

capability to distinguish between the two of them

is not only an art on its own , but the mastering of

it is something that can not be taught by someone,

its experience based. Most of young adults have

been in a working environment where

interpersonal dynamics play a big role all in itself,

where you may find a lot of underlying bonds and

procedures within the employees. New comers are

not always included in full as some individuals have

a different perspective on what work really is.

During my years in employment I have seen many

situation where the working environment can

either become the best place you as individual

want to be or the worst place you face everyday,

some call it a card game, other a competition, and

others just ride the waves. Though most of us have

been one of the mentioned, walking into a new

business or job opportunity, you have to establish

the office dynamics as soon as you can, and

establish not only your place but the mere serenity

of where you see yourself.

The Card Player These individuals are people whom approach each

working opportunity as a card game, playing their

cards in such a manner, ensuring the right cards

are played in the right order, they read their co-

workers and its constant unsurity to which card

they might play next. For co-workers and managers

these individuals, are trust worthy in some aspects

but their interpersonal skills in working with others

you may find really unstable, although it is as

much as they want the environment to be. They

are the individuals whom work, but not work to

really establish the right experience, or to further

their career with this experience, they work to

look for the easiest and smartest card move to

make, though in the end they end up in a card

game , where even their own cards do not earn

them any happiness or any satisfaction in their jobs

or co-workers, and they end up , either attempting

a new career opportunity or end up having a lot

controversy at their own work place.

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The Competitor These individuals are those whom you rather not

approach with an idea, merely because they will

either make the idea their own, or work you out of

your own position in the idea. They usually deny

any if at all involvement with their co-workers if a

new employee joins the team. They are only team

players when the end result suits them and fits

into their own hidden agenda, competitors do not

do anything for others or any favours, they do not

believe in working together to achieve a goal,

neither do they have the ability to be good hearted

towards co-workers, they compete in absolutely

everything they pursue during their working hours.

In some cases these individuals are not only this

way in their working environments but they tend to

take this behaviour with them in their home

environments as well as in their personal

relationships. A competitor is more likely to be a

bad loser than any other working individual and

finds themselves obsessing about a loss instead of

moving forward to a more in tune win that may

invade their lives.

The Rider The rider is someone that is always there, no

matter what the situation may be or how gaining it

might seem, this individual is there to ride it either

with or against you, it all depends on the situation

and what their is to gain for them personally. They

are never really involved with anyone at work , but

always up to date with everything and sometimes

even more than the local socialite of the office.

These individuals are strong people but put forth

an image of withdrawn and out of reach, they do

not attain any other contact or conversation with

their colleagues except work. You can work with a

Rider for years on end, and not know anything

about them, their personal lives or if they even

exist outside the office at all.

Most of us fall in either one or more of these

categories, if even one at all, though it most of

these dynamics sounds negative, combining them

can either benefit you or it may cost you. Working

with people needs a vowed amount of

trustworthiness, honesty and loyalty, but knowing

your place as the rider knows theirs is also

essential. In some positions you need the mere

intelligence and faint game of the Competitor to

succeed, though you should never personally lose

perspective that you really are after working

hours, competing with family or friends in non-

competitive situations can only result in harmful

events. Building your own reputation and what you

stand for and won’t stand for is essential in any

business environment , it is a mere sincerity of

who you are how you can distinguish between a

working environment and a friendship, as the

corporate world consumes a thin line in most

varieties of situations.

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EXSTREME

by Paul Wesch

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We have all shared the experience of having

someone in our lives for a certain period of time

and then they just disappear, vanish of the face of

the earth only to hear from them when least

expected. I’m not talking about abductions, death

or call of duty, I’m talking about people closing

chapters in their book of life and decide for some

reason or the other that you won’t feature in

theirs anymore.

We’ve all done it willingly or not, whether it is

because of a change of environment or

relationship, or just a personal choice. We judge

people who fall victim to this vicious cycle, yet

find excuses when it happens to us. We are quick

to blame, name and shame but when accused of

such a morally transparent thing we shrug it off.

Why wouldn’t you want someone in your life?

Perhaps they are tied to memories and feelings

which impact you negatively, or they’ve hurt you

in some way or you them, or they were just people

who shared a common situation with for a duration

of time, but eventually, like all things that ended.

We end up spending our lives looking for real

things. We call people who ‘abandon’ us

emotionally, fake. We waste precious time finding

out what others have to say about us, in order for

us to protect and maintain the image we portray to

the world.

We dismiss anything that might tarnish that image,

whether it has truth to it or not. Some people

eventually have so much cleanup work to do

surrounding that image that they look for a fresh

challenge or environment, closing the chapter on

that previous persona and just taking with them

what memories they choose. In a sense that should

be bad right? Denial? Perhaps… but what of it. It

happens so often that society just shrugs it off.

Images of people become so distorted that

eventually you have no clue what a person is all

about.

Like Sands through the hour glass

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There are so many books about you that you have

written that you forget which is the best one and

just go for the one that’s easiest to read. Isn’t it

about time we head back into the libraries of our

lives, revisit old characters and scenarios and find

out whether our version of events are really what

we thought it to be. Sometimes old wounds need

to be revisited, just to that we can remember the

pain to avoid it happening again. Time is fleeting

as many an author has written, just as you think

you have caught up with it, it is gone, and so are

opportunities to make amends.

As the popular day time soap opera has said so

many times, like sands through the hour glass, so

are the days of our lives.

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Love, that four lettered word that gets spoon-fed

to us from birth. That magical power that can right

all wrongs, and banish all evils, the one emotion

which is the most relevant of all. We all have an

idea of what love means to us, where to find it and

what it means to us individually, but what does

love mean to us as a society?

Some spend their lifetimes looking for it and others

are showered with it to such an extent that from

the outside it looks like a divine gift. Most of us

fall in that grey area where we barely take notice

of it in our lives. We mostly notice the aftermath

of love, or the after effects thereof, rather than

where that love stemmed from or originated.

But let’s clear up some things. For the purpose of

this article, let’s put love in a context, before I

end up at the wrong end of a witch hunt. To me

love is anything, and I mean ANYTHING, that

positively influence your human spirit, which eases

your soul, anything that makes your experience as

a living being, a more pleasant one.

There are so many definitions of love that I believe

the ideal thereof has become somewhat confusing.

Love could be the trust and affections of someone

you have some type of relationship with, whether

they are friends, family or stereotypically named

Lovers. Love could be the anything in nature or

anything man-made, it could be the idea of

something. Love is an omnipresent experience. It

completely relies on the individual at hand, and I

guess in that lies its true nature.

If we share enough experiences of love and what it

means to us, it becomes a common denominator by

which we start looking to surround ourselves with

more of those experiences with people we believe

have the same feelings about it. I suppose that is

why we also feel physical anguish if we lose one of

those loved ones, whether through death or the

termination of the mutual relationship, we are

saddened when we lose something we love, or the

idea of love surrounding am object.

I bet your feeling that if I say Love one more time

you will toss your phone or toss your laptop, which

is why I will stop, because by reading up to here

you’ve realized that what I’m babbling about could

possibly make more sense in a very crazy world.

Remember, just because you are lonely doesn’t

make you unloved (see what I did there, I didn’t

use the word) Sometimes we should go out and

look for it, and sometimes we should just realize

it’s all around and live our lives more purposefully.

As someone who has spend most of his adult life

looking for it, I’ve come to realise that it was

Searching for

Sugarmom

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always around, whether it is enough to satisfy my

insatiable need for spreading it, I haven’t figured

that out yet.

As my playlist skips to the next track, one of

arguably the best albums in the history of music

starts to play. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac on full

blast, more specifically “You can go your own

way”. And as the sweet melody fills the air, the

lyrics “loving you, isn’t the right thing to do” I

decide that will do pigs, that’ll do.

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Equality, probably the most touchy subject I’ve

ever tried to take on, and as usual I fall way short,

crash and burn. We all want to be equal, or at the

very least seen as an equal in our communities.

Irrespective of race, religion, gender or sexual

orientation, an equal status amongst our peers is

something we aspire too, although some might say

that is a basic human right.

This is all fine and well until reality starts knocking

at the door, we won’t always have that equal

footing in our communities, some have advantages

whilst others have disadvantages which will always

play a pertinent roll in the everlasting pursuit of

equality. If that isn’t enough to struggle with we

have the fun institution of double standards. If you

aren’t familiar with this practice let me simplify. If

a guy dates many girls he is considered a hero, if a

girl dates many girls she is considered a

slut/skank/hoe your choice. The simplest way to

put it is that although a master key can open many

locks, many keys don’t open a single lock.

It is at this point where you write a detailed letter

calling me an ignorant sexist, I don’t make the

rules, I just play by them. Sub- cultures will always

play a role in the pursuit of standardised equality,

and as hard as some groups may try to lobby for

their causes it won’t happen. Equality could be

compared to world peace, something that on paper

sounds very nice, a world filled with rainbows,

puppies and unicorns. But in reality it would mean

that someone benefits from this peaceful union

and someone gets abused, eventually this peace

will be challenged and just end up in war.

In this search for equality we don’t always realize

that what the one group gains gets taken away

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from another. It is a slippery slope and so many

end up in the bottom of the ravine. Growing up in

a household filled with many siblings I learned that

I can’t always get what I want. Sacrifices should be

made by some to enable others to achieve. You

can’t however make the sacrifice and then later

cry about not getting any opportunities. You have

made your bed, now lie in it.

Of course you won’t find your Sunday night

investigative journalism show trying to come to the

root of this societal cancer, because let’s face it,

someone will get offended and the BCCSA will get

involved, and like your ex crying in front of you,

things will just get messy.

Double Standards and equality will always go

together like a pair of socks, it is up to us to

decide whether we want to wear those socks or

not, we won’t always be equal but it shouldn’t

deter us from trying. At the end of the day it is the

thought that counts. The thought that we

attempted the impossible? Perhaps, atleast we can

say that we tried.

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D I

Y

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Chicken for all seasons

Recipe uploaded by

Recipe by Mary Cadogan

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Ready in 25 mins

Low-fat

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan, preferably

non-stick. Add the chicken and fry

without moving it until it takes on a bit of

colour. Turn the chicken and cook on the

other side. Continue cooking for 12-15

mins until the chicken is cooked through.

Season all over with a little salt and

pepper.

2. Halve the tomatoes and throw them into the pan, stirring them around for a couple

of minutes until they start to soften.

Reduce the heat and stir in the pesto and

crème fraîche until it makes a sauce.

Scatter with a few basil leaves if you have

them, then serve with rice and salad or

mash and broccoli.

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Making it veggie

Fry the tomatoes in the oil, add the pesto and

creme fraiche and serve over griddled halloumi

slices or spoon over some spinach and ricotta-

stuffed ravioli.

Winter fruit salad

Make the most of autumnal fruits in this

refreshing and nourishing salad - make a

batch and eat during the week

Recipe uploaded by

Recipe by Merrilees Parker

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 20 mins

Cook 10 mins

Plus infusing and chilling time

Vegetarian, Low-fat, Super healthy

1. Tip the fruits and 700ml/11⁄4 pints cold water into a large saucepan. Add the

honey and vanilla, scraping the seeds

from the pod into the pan. Bring to the

boil. Stir well, lower the heat and simmer

for 10 minutes until slightly syrupy.

2. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the

tea bag. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes.

3. Discard the tea bag and vanilla pod, tip

the fruits and liquid into a non-metallic

bowl and pour over the lemon juice. Stir,

then leave to cool. Cover and chill until

ready to serve.

Getting ahead

This recipe can be prepared a few days ahead as

the flavours get even better. It will keep for up

to one week.

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