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(Editor's note: This interview originally appeared in TheThePoetry)
JH: Congratulations on your first book diatomhero: religious poems. I treasure how this poetry holds every religion responsible for being authentic and explores exactly what kind of turmoil/freedom of movement (of creed, language, time, space) arises in such a busy atmosphere. I'm thinking specifically of Christianity's notion of finite resting places (blazing hot or room-temperature) teamed with Buddhist/Hindu reincarnation notions and Greek polytheistic elements. The book is a cream vichyssoise where these ingredients are available to be salted, peppered, and consumed. Could you talk a little about how the book is and is not a supplement to all religious texts?
LF: I love the word 'vichyssoise'. It's blonde as a Gibson girl in a mint satin evening gown, as per the synesthetic-green letter 'V'. Definitely a word with the curls of the sun.
The title, diatomhero, is an anagram of the bible's "I am the door", a statement that comes full circle in the book's final image, and applies just as much to Christ as it does to Janus. To open the doors of all myths and religions, to 'let' their darkness, (un)like bloodletting. At the end of the book, when Bluebeard's chamber is opened, there's not slaughtered women hanging on hooks, but far fields stretching out—a wide open country to fly out into ecstatically, like a heavy symphony unlocking its heavy doors and letting itself out of itself in its final movement.
As opposed, for example, to a story like Poe's Red Death, that ends walled inexorably up in its own terror. I'm not talking about imposing one's own will against the will of the muse/work itself, or about 'revisionism' or 'escapism', but about a deliverance seductive enough to embed itself in the text without compromising it. Like Tangina in Poltergeist saying, "this house is clean", only it's "this myth is clean"… but with no tricks to follow.
A supplement is a continuation. The question is whether the myth is on a blind loop, or if it's aware of intrusions. If we took the story of Princess Thermuthis finding the infant Moses among the reeds, but put the river hag Jenny Greenteeth in his place, what would that have done to the evolution of Christianity? If Hera had given birth to Christ; if Mary had found herself with Zeus' child, because he came to her in one of his characteristic disguises, as he came to Danae as golden rain, etc. These combinations can be perverse and amusing or they can be profound: Ariarhod and Christ falling in love, and Christ finding, in love for her, a new world outside Christianity—like Cortez, or like the iconic awe of someone who's never left the heartland seeing the sea for the first time.
In Annie Hall, Woody Allen describes a relationship as being like a shark that has to keep moving forward or it will die—so we can apply that to myth, and of course to the myth of the dying god. If the inhabitants of a myth found themselves on a dying planet—a planet that was, of course, the myth itself—they would have to evacuate, to look for a new life in another legend. In somewhat of the same spirit, then, immigrants—drifters—from other afterlives appear as migrant workers in the Elysian Fields.
Theoretically, too, the book is written for synesthetes. And, as such, is ideally meant to be seen through synesthesia, like 3-D films are meant to be seen through 3-D glasses. And this is where the mythological blending/puree meets an ideal medium, because of course the synesthesete already has a sense of the dis/harmony of totally "unrelated" things—which are not really unrelated at all. So essentially the book is a preliminary study of synesthesia as myth and religion. I say "preliminary" because I've not gone near as far with this concept as I want to. diatomhero is an incomplete book, and it's a work in progress, as all poems are. It plays with the "worlds colliding" theme, which a lot of people have of course played with, but I would like to think/hope (?) it does it in a unique way.
JH: The play turned-compact long poem makes for a jarring opening sequence which describes a manufacturing plant for souls and bodies. I love how this really kicks out the chairs from under the audience from the beginning. Readers must navigate the balance between the playful and the scarier. Everything familiar remains in the ball room but it's simply misplaced, like hearing your favorite childhood song performed by a band of Gorgons on a harp strung with your mother's funeral hair-do.
The willingness to travel these fissures is crucial to enjoying the poems. Was there a purposeful attempt in these afterlife sequences to balance nostalgic memory with what are undeniably horrifying dream elements?
LF: I love that Gorgon/funeral hair juxtaposition, and I love this question. I think nostalgia, or merely fantasy, is a natural retreat in times of trauma. But—again with the deliverance premise— there's the idea that a dream is an innocent desperately trying to communicate its plight through a nightmare, rather like what happens at the very moving end of the Spanish horror film The Orphanage. Variations of this concept have often been explored in Grimm and Perrault, et al. The innocent as needing help in being extracted from the context of a nightmare, but being unable to tell anyone how to do help them. The imprisoned who have to be saved by the freer being virtuous (Beauty and the Beast), or by sheer chance (The Frog Prince.) It's up to the rescuer to figure out the riddle. And this is perfectly apropos because it is, of course, how the process of wisdom actually works.
However, diatomhero is not about being rescued, but about being resourceful enough to rescue yourself. And about the arc as rescue, the underside of the arc that will return you to its exact opposite: a divine inevitability, a point beyond which the absence of good becomes so acute that the reality of its difference from evil is unmistakable, and no longer philosophically debatable. This, to put in the simplest terms, is salvation by default. And it takes us to a quote by Djuna Barnes, one of the most beautiful quotes of all, which I used as one of diatomhero's epigraphs: 'the unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy'. I had a dream once that someone gave me that quote—the quote itself, in words—encased in an 80s style/Desperately Seeking Susanish jelly bracelet. That was the way that particular observation presented the true genius of itself to me—by literalizing itself.
JH: Emere's Tobacconist is noted as having been originally constructed as a ten-act minimalist play, a whittling down that resulted in many sleepless nights. What sections did you extract and do you plan on producing it as theater in the future?
LF: I'm still negotiating the technicalities of the staging (and by "negotiating" I mean going over it in my own head, because nothing is on the table right now as far as production goes). Most of the acts are in fact truncated. The car accident victim who sees the bloody windshield of his car turned to a red stained glass window as he enters paradise reappears; in the extended scene Marc Chagall is there, having been commissioned to render the last earthly memory of the man into something sublime. So the rest of that scene is dialogue between those two men. There's a monologue by Shura, the daughter of Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill, in which Shura enters—and goes wandering around—the childhood memories of the woman who found her dead and tried to revive her. There's the blood of the slain turning white socks pink in heaven's washing machine.
There's more Huck Finnish adventures down the river with John and Pearl in Night of the Hunter, in which they meet all kinds of water myths, and stories, like Ophelia and the singing head of Orpheus.
JH: Readers will invariably focus on myth and doctrine. I see those elements more like background music. They also aren't meant to represent what they historically or even physically represent, as when somebody in your afternoon nap hands you a fork with no food on it and you thank him and simply eat the fork, which tastes like Special K (the cereal).
I also noticed a kind of Confessional coming-of-age Bildungsroman fable (The subsequent 1000 odd color photos of the rest of your life) working in this collection. It may be beside the point, but could you address some of the "real-life" challenges you may have been facing that sub-atomically got engrained in the white spaces between the ink?
LF: Dadaberry Crunch! (Why didn't Wonka invent the Dadaberry?).
The writing of diatomhero, in tandem with several events, was accompanied the realization that there's no such thing as "odds", because something is only randomly likely or unlikely to happen until it happens to someone you love or to you. The concept of likelihood or unlikelihood is a consolation device—and a privilege. This has probably been common knowledge to enlightened people for centuries, but I didn't always know it. I used to feel that there was a difference between myself and someone who had died. I don't anymore. That's not a fatalistic statement, it's a statement of gratitude, because gratitude is about recognizing randomness as much as it is about celebrating and honoring blessings—because life and existence are joys to be celebrated and honored, not because you've made it out of the hole thus far.
One of the final images in Rorschach came from attending a dear friend of mine's viewing. Some weeks later, I had a nightmare of her on the embalming table. But it ended with her zodiac sign (Cancer) leaving her body like a crab and scuttling off into the ocean. And then the crab ended up on the shore of the Riviera, in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, and climbed out onto the shore of that film, and her birthday (the 4th of July) fused with that film's iconic fireworks scene. The nightmare had outsmarted itself and become an act of escape, of transfiguration.
JH: What classic cinema made this collection possible?
LF: I didn't even come close to honoring the great religious films, like Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent and Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, though their spirit was very much an inspiration. Jack Clayton's The Innocents. Scads of films that weren't mentioned in the appendix. Carnival of Souls. The Virgin Spring. There are so many it would take far too long to try to list them. David Lynch's work is always in me, like a kind of libido. Inland Empire. Children's films that deeply affected me as a child, and that I vividly remember seeing on the big screen, are certainly in there, at least in spirit. Watership Down. The Last Unicorn. Fantasia.
A huge influence that wasn't cited was Kubrick's 2001…the line "his life wrenched out of him like a discus/that goes flailing off to the Lord" was more or less directly inspired by the iconic bone-toss scene in that film. And the monolith scene at the end, in the marble mansion, with the sound of ancient man echoing through the hallways…right outside, like the tinkling distant sound of an orchestra would be audible throughout the halls of Gatsby's mansion. That is beyond genius. It has never been equaled in film. Echoing because time has collapsed, and the dawn of humankind is now in the next room on the other side of the wall.
Then, the water imagery in the last scene of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible—one of the most horrific and unwatchable of films, with the most beautiful ending–appeared, with its flashing space-time continuum, and the sprinkler system in that last shot that the children are gallivanting around fused with the Greek myth of Arethusa and Alpheus, united forevermore in the fountain. And of course, the sprinkler system is also the biblical fountain, the fountain of youth, the godhead.
JH: Much has transpired when we reach the opposing Pioneers, yet I consider each essential bridge poems. The first considers the 19th century practice of daguerreotyping a dead child. Following the action in the previous sections, this is the first moment in the book that considers death may be an insipid motionless activity after all. Everything moves in the room with the dead person except the dead person.
The second poem, however, maintains hope the mind of a shooting victim post-mortem is still very busy. I like how you give a little credence of the dead body, but ultimately have to ignore it. Do you feel society is too transfixed of physical aspects of being dead (and alive) and probably misses the exciting stuff?
LF: I think I'm too transfixed with it. As, of course society is and has been, down through the ages Memento Mori, "Everything moves with the dead person except the dead person." This is a brilliant question and a brilliantly worded question. I kept studying these Victorian daguerreotypes of people who had been photographed—right after they had died—with their eyes open. They had what Dickinson called "the distance/on the look of death," but it's a distance that has also evaporated in itself mid-flight because the soul has left faster than the eyes can process the recognition of its leaving.
You can see the same thing in some of Andres Serrano's corpse photographs… an almost polite suspension in the eyes. There's that soon-to-diminish flashbulb-brightness that's always there, of course, but what we're looking at is actually a stunned rapidity of departure. It's not death that's an insipid motionless activity, but the 'politeness' of the corpse itself, in its waiting for others to try to process it. I saw it as a taut bladder, like someone wanting to piss into salvation but holding it out of consideration for their loved ones/mourners, but after awhile they can't hold it anymore, and their soul is starting to trickle out and piss itself. But they're trembling, and their muscles are beginning to shake, and all sorts of things are starting to 'fall' out of their eyes… like the spider that appears, falling, gaping out of the eyes of the deceased, and falling out into the mourners, like all sorts of abominations and precious things, because the mind of the deceased is emptying into the beyond. The soul is being as courteous as it can for as long as it can, despite the fact that it is becoming more and more dazzled and seduced by the journey that's now before it. But there is something gigantic starting to whoosh through the eyes, something massive, like a tsunami, and eventually that tsunami will flow out into pure light, into pure white water rapids.
The second Pioneers was inspired by an image on the Inland Empire deleted scenes disc (in fact, it was originally titled Inland Empire Deleted Scenes Disc, 16:36-11:06). The scene was a sequence of dulled, exploding lights that looked exactly like what someone who'd been shot in the back of the head while watching fireworks would have seen in their final moments. (And, interestingly, Lynch and the singer Moby do have a collaboration out called Shot in the Back of the Head, but it was post IE). The light slowed and imprinted, and it was as if part of American history itself had been shot, and was having a "life review" right up to the coast of the Atlantic, beyond which was England. The covered wagons had cycled back as far as they could go, and the holiday was flashing backwards into extinction.
JH: Mt. Fuji, Eden, Long Beach, Catalina, Tropic of Cancer, Scotland, Los Angeles, the Chesapeake Bay, Egypt, Sodom, Texas) are more memories than locations. There are also many instances where the speaker is making the most of bilocation. I'll never forget when my old science teacher Mr. Jackson asked the PTA meeting "What if the human eyeballs are facing inward and we're all looking at the backs of our own skulls?
Please feel free to grab a Little Debbie cake at the exit doors. Watching you all eat makes me hungry." How might diatomhero comfort Mr. Jackson?
LF: Mr. Jackson was obviously a genius. He reminds me of Jake Tucker, that character on Family Guy with the upside-down face, saying to Meg: "maybe someday we can get married, and you can go up on me". The bilocation is toss-up, actually. Obviously LA, the Rockies, the Chesapeake Bay—all places or features of places I've actually lived—are drawn from real life, though very little in the book can be said to be autobiographical, in the linear sense. Most of the places mentioned simply presented themselves.
JH: Robert Duncan occasionally included fun characters into his dramatic verse: First Beloved, Queen Under The Hill. You too bring stock characters to life in diatomhero. Could you provide some gossip on the following funky bunch: Peg Powler, Willa Harper's children, Old Man Bickle, Madame DuBois, Mike Teavee? I'm especially fond of Old Man Bickle. His farm is mentioned during your rabbit reincarnation stage.
LF: I've discussed Peg, aka Jenny Greenteeth, and Willa Harper's children (Night of the Hunter). Old Man Bickle just appeared, though I suppose I must have been thinking of Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle. I think Travis would have been quite at home in this book; he's not as far from it as he might seem to be. Madame DuBois just appeared. I have no clue who she is.
And Mike Teavee, of course is the prodigal son of Wonkavision. In another poem (in the new book) there are souls that get churned up the blades of the Fizzy Lifting room, because, unlike Grandpa Joe and Charlie, they've not learned how to belch, or are unable to—the afterlife is full of hazards, after all.
JH: As a poet who plays with myth also, I'm consistently impressed by this work's ability to incorporate myth without the reader needing to arrive at your text versed in that myth necessarily. In other words, you achieve equilibrium between the secular and the psychopomp. How did you check that balance while writing this?
LF: Thank you—that's one of the greatest compliments I've received about the book. I'm glad it comes across that way, because I of course have no way of knowing how it's coming across to anybody. I personally think that my poetry is wide open. There may be some relatively obscure references here and there and stuff, but I don't think they really interrupt anything (I hope). What I really want is to create an images playground. Anyone can get something out of an image. Like being a kid at Disneyland, and riding Small World and being transfixed with wonder (rather than being consumed with wondering how the ride is mechanically engineered, like all those colorless and usually talentless academic critics with their obsession with "structure" are—as if an artist is incapable of writing a poem outside the "rules"; eg, the rigor of an institutional body brace and the breadth of geisha steps.
The first rule of Fight Club is "joyless", they might say). However, this book is also a form of warfare, to me– against the time-space continuum trapping us, against mortality physically aging us against our own evolution and wisdom. diatomhero is critical thinking transmogrified into the imaginative. It is a book of strategy. Not, I repeat, escapism.
But back to the joy of images unto themselves. I loved what you said, awhile back, about Robert Desnos's poetry feeling like the ball pit at Chuck-E-Cheese. That was such a marvelous observation, just beautiful, and a wonderful description of a triumphant legacy. We all know how terribly Desnos died. But he won, and his readers are still jumping into the ball pit.
JH: Will your second book of poems be similar or different from diatomhero? A bastard cousin perhaps? Where's the next path of Pane di Altamura breadcrumbs for Lisa A. Flowers lead?
LF: I'm working on a surrealist study of early childhood now, and I'm loving it, and loving the process of trying to remember the way children (I) saw things before they were literalized or contrasted. I am also doing a series of reverse tone-poems, transcribing images from Schubert to Arvo Part to Krzysztof Penderecki. These range from the delightful "transcribing" Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite—I don't mean its actual story, but the images it gave me—was wonderful, like revisiting my early childhood.
By contrast, transcribing Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima was obviously very dark. This transcription method was interesting because I would program in symphonies and just shift from, say, Pachelbel's Canon into Penderecki, and the poetry would change instantly, be violently ripped out of itself into another image, with no warning. The poem would plunge sickeningly, like a heart monitor reflecting someone who had just had a massive and unexpected adrenaline dump. It was as if images from the Canon had been catapulted through the ceiling in a violent earthquake, and were lying dazed on the floor of the Penderecki apartment below, completely unaware of what had just happened. It also went the other way: going from Penderecki into the second movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto was like the train murder scene in Fire Walk With Me, when the angel suddenly appears to Ronette Pulaski and the screaming and the horror simply disappears into the holy silence of light, out of time.
There's more synesthesia going on in this book, too. And, I suppose, more films throwing their images into other contexts, though I'm not going to keep repeating the same theme ad infinitum—my hope is simply to keep catching images worth keeping.
And I remain enchanted with something Werner Herzog said about the highest, most exalted points of the creative process, and its results: "There's very rare moments where I get the feeling sometimes I'm like the little girl in the fairy tale who steps out into the night, in the stars, and she holds her apron open, and the stars are raining into her apron. Those moments I have seen and I have had. But they are very rare."
Jeffrey Hecker was born in 1977 in Norfolk, Virginia. He's the author of Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press, 2011) & the chapbooks Hornbook (Horse Less Press, 2012), Instructions for the Orgy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2013), & Before He Let Them Guide Sleigh (ShirtPocket Press, 2013). Recent work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Atticus Review, La Fovea, Zocalo Public Square, The Burning Bush 2, LEVELER, Spittoon, & similar:peaks. He holds a degree from Old Dominion University. He resides with his wife Robin.
Lisa A. Flowers is a poet, critic, vocalist, cinephile, ailurophile, the founding editor of Vulgar Marsala Press, and the reviews editor for Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her poetry has appeared in various online and print journals. She is the author of diatomhero: religious poems.


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Here's a vintage knife that came in for the full refurb. It's a c. 1879-1928 American Cutlery Co. Chicago slicer.
The owner asked that I fix the edge chips, correct the profile, & thin the blade while retaining the maker's mark (which was very lightly done). He also wanted a handle mounted too since apparently knives feel better in the hand with these things. He asked to maintain the full tang if at all possible, and supplied the wood.
The job went well except for the tang as it was just way too thin at the ass end (it was super tapered - the major problem here) and way too thick at the choil with many ups and downs in between. Even though I tried my best to save it I finally had to give up and grind it down. I then tried my best to replicate the feel and shape the tang but I sure do wish that I could have saved it none the less.
On the blade finish, I made a conscious decision to leave behind some of the original battle scars on both sides of the blade, sort of like leaving some history to it. It felt wrong to erase it's past completely.
In the end this knife feels great in the hand and surprisingly the blade gets STUPID sharp so I'm sure that the owner will enjoy using it. :)
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I am fully cognizant of the level of frustration and anger when a hard drive or other mass storage device fails. While I am personally careful to keep contemporary backups of all of the critical data on all of my computers, all too often I receive calls of despair from individuals whose computer "crashed" and they are convinced that they have lost all of their important information. In some cases the alleged "crash" is not really a catastrophic hard drive failure, but a recoverable error or problem due to either hardware or software issues. Any mass storage device can and will fail, including hard drives (internal and external), USB devices, SSD (Solid State Drives), CD and DVD discs, and other devices
Sometimes the problem can be quickly and inexpensively resolved by replacing a hard drive controller that failed, replacing the battery in the BIOS on the motherboard, or reseating a cable that had worked loose from long-term minor vibration. Some apparent "crashes" are due to software issues including malware (viruses, worms, trojans, etc.) that corrupted the FAT (File Allocation Table), MBR (Master Boot Record), or critical sectors on the hard drive; most of these can be repaired with some effort and appropriate software. Sometimes apparently dead hard drives have corrupted or damaged sectors that were caused by some anomaly or a mechanically failing hard drive. I have had some occasional but apparently miraculous success using an old program, "Spinrite" (www.grc.com), which has a reputation for recovering apparently dead hard drives that had bad sectors on the drive. There are several free software utilities that can explicitly recover data from some damaged CD and DVD discs, USB drives, and other devices (techsupportalert.com/best-free-data-recovery-file-undelete-utility.htm).
It seems that almost everyone is aware that they need to backup their files, but many (most) users do not perform that often simple task. There is a wide selection of backup items available, typically at a reasonable cost, especially when considering the cost, financial and emotional, of losing that data. As I type this, I have one of two external USB hard drives attached to my computer. Periodically I swap external drives, connecting one and placing the other in a small watertight container in a small fire resistant, locking box. With this redundancy, it is not likely that I will lose any significant data in the event of a crisis situation. The cost of this level of security is moderate, as each large capacity USB hard drive (1.5TB and 2TB) costs well under $100, or about a nickel per gigabyte. The price of high capacity external drives has been declining; the two that I am using are currently advertised online and at some big box stores for about $70 to $90 each. This weekend, one local big box store advertised a name brand 750MB external USB drive for $39!
While external hard drives are arguably the most popular backup mass storage devices, there are several other popular options. There are many so called "online" backup services, ranging from free to expensive, that allow the user to upload files to a remote server for backup purposes (techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-online-storage.htm). Google, Microsoft, Carbonite, TrendMicro provide this service. Many of the security suites, better known for comprehensive malware protection, now also include a large amount of online storage along with their security services, typically from 10GB to 50GB.
Some people prefer to use other devices to backup their data, and they are perfectly adequate for that purpose, subject to their obvious limitations. Almost all computers now have a built-in CD or DVD burner. Since blank CD and DVD discs are relatively cheap, often less than 20 cents each when purchased in spindles of 100, they are a popular and cost effective media for backup purposes. While cheap, thin and lightweight, their primary limitation is the fact that they are generally only recordable once (the "RW" or Rewritable media is slow, more expensive and approaching obsolescence), and have a limited storage capacity. Without using any of the common compression formats such as "Zip," a CD can hold up to about 700MB, and a DVD can hold 4.7GB of data. These are fine for recording data files, but are generally too small in capacity for some types of backups.
Increasing in popularity as their prices plunge, USB flash drives (also called "thumb drives") have become widely used as backup media. When on sale at the local big box stores or online, USB flash drives are well below a dollar a gigabyte, with many about 50 cents per gigabyte; recently 16GB flash drives were in the $10 range, and 32GB drives were under $20. USB flash drives are physically small, hence extremely portable. The downside of using flash drives is that while most of them are reliable, there is a moderate failure rate of the devices, which could result in loss of data if not redundantly stored on another device. Flash drives have a limited number of read and write cycles which, while high, may be reached if the drive is heavily written to and subsequently read. Despite their shortcomings, their size and price make them attractive for this purpose.
While native PC (or Mac) utilities can be used to copy files and directories directly to backup media, this is somewhat labor intensive, provided the user remembers to manually create and maintain the backups. There is a wide selection of free software available to create and maintain backups (techsupportalert.com/best-free-backup-program). While most backup utilities will create and automatically maintain data file backups, some users prefer to periodically create and update an image file, which is a digital image of the hard drive. In the event of a catastrophic hard drive failure, a new hard drive of equal or larger capacity is installed in the computer, and the image file is copied to the new hard drive. It often requires a bootable CD to enable the installation of the image file from the external device, and most of the image backup software can also create that bootable recovery CD. Once the image is installed on the new hard drive, the computer boots and looks just like the now defunct hard drive had never failed, as it is an exact copy of the old hard drive. Some of the better backup utilities will create an image (a huge file) and then automatically create a series of incremental update files such that the backup is up to date, allowing the restored image (if necessary) to also be up to date.
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I Remember Thee
Through a payer or through a song,
I remember Thee and what I long to be,
And it warms my soul.
In the quiet of that hour
I think of Thee and then I try once again to obey thy will.
In my hand I hold the tokens of my Savior's perfect love.
One Strong chose to be lowly and brought my soul with His blood!
When this world calls sweet or loud, I remember Thy pain;
My wounds on Thy brow, and I'll do as Thou wouldst right now.
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An unlocked car with the key in the ignition lock invites car theft.
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Never leave your vehicle unattended with the key in the ignition lock, especially if children and/or pets are left unattended in the vehicle. They can operate power windows and other controls. If the engine is left running, they may accidentally engage the shift lever. Serious personal injury or death could result from loss of control of the vehicle.
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Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said on Thursday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighboring islands.
SYDNEY, Australia Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said on Thursday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighboring islands.
The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores in 2003, was of an adult female that was a meter (3 feet) tall, had a brain smaller than a chimpanzee's, and probably lived alongside modern humans on the island.
Australian and Indonesian scientists have since unearthed seven small hominids called "Flores man" from the Liang Bua limestone cave, the youngest living 13,000 years ago.
"The finding of this distinctive human species, this endemic human species on Flores, also implies that there will be similar endemic species on other islands in that vicinity," project leader Mike Morwood, associate professor in archaeology at Australia's University of New England, said on Thursday.
"So, you're likely to have a distinctive little hominid population on Lombok, on Sumbawa, on Timor, and on Sulawesi, and each of those will be distinct species, because they will have evolved in isolation," he told a news conference in Sydney.
"Flores man" is thought to be a descendent of Homo erectus, which had a large brain, was the size of modern humans, and spread out from Africa to Asia about 2 million years ago.
Morwood said the discovery of hominids on Flores was unexpected, as no Asian land animal at the time had crossed the sea to the islands in eastern Indonesia and hominids were not believed to be developed enough to build and sail a craft.
But if Homo erectus reached Flores and evolved into Flores man, then others probably reached nearby islands and also evolved into new human species. Legends tell of small, humanlike creatures existing on eastern islands long ago.
The discovery of hominids in Southeast Asia almost to the start of agriculture 10,000 years ago means they were "contemporaries of modern humans," said Morwood, and added another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
Hunting Stegodons
The hominid family tree, which includes humans and pre-humans, diverged from chimpanzees about 7 million years ago.
Morwood said the "Flores man" evolved in isolation, becoming so small because of environmental conditions such as food shortages and a lack of predators.
Scientists have pieced together an image of a hairless, dark-skinned dwarf species with a head the size of a grapefruit, sunken eyes, a flat nose, and large teeth and mouth projecting forward with virtually no chin.
What surprised scientists was that despite the shrinking of the brain, "Flores man" still performed complex tasks like making miniature stone tools, hunting miniature Stegodon elephants and giant Komodo dragons, and using fire to cook.
"They were making sophisticated stone tools, some of which appear to be directly associated with the hunting of big game like Stegodon, like Komodo dragon ... and for butchering these large animals," said Morwood. "So despite very, very small brains, this hominid population was doing sophisticated things," he said.
The remains discovered have been dated as old as 95,000 years and as young as 13,000 years ago, meaning the Flores man's time overlaps modern humans by about 40,000 years, but it is not clear whether there was any interaction between the two on Flores.
Scientists suspect Flores man became extinct after a massive volcanic eruption on the island around 12,000 years ago, but local folk tales suggest the hominids may have still been living on Flores up until the Dutch arrived in the 1500s.
The expedition discovered Flores man while looking for records of modern human migration to Asia. The hominid find was reported in the latest edition of science journal Nature.
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Tour Overview
Whether you're a fisherman, a photographer or a discriminating traveler looking for an authentic and unique experience, this tour will surely be a highlight of any Alaska visit.
This unique tour combines action and adventure starting with your primary mode of transport - a floatplane. Any Juneau local will tell you that the only way to experience southeast Alaska is a flight to the heart of the back country, which road access simply doesn't allow. After you've been provided with waders and rain gear, a short yet exhilarating flight will take you over breathtaking scenery. Once up in the air, you will have a good chance of spotting many wild animals including brown and black bears, bald eagles, deer and whales.
This unique five-and-a-half-hour tour caters both to the first-timer with hands-on instruction available, and also the experienced fly caster, who will enjoy the challenge of Alaska fishing and guide interaction. Fishing here is done on an eco-conscious catch-and-release basis, and you will pursue cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden trout and various salmon species. First-class gear including tackle and flies will also be provided along with a smoked salmon snack and beverages.
Your memorable day ends aboard the floatplane for the breathtaking flight back to the Juneau.
Special Notes
Minimum age is 8. Participants should be able to walk one mile over uneven ground. This flight has no weight surcharge. Aircraft fly no higher than 3,000 feet. Oxygen for personal use is allowed but must be in the form of an FAA approved portable oxygen concentrator that can be secured to the user's body. Flightseeing excursions are not refundable unless cancelled by 12:00pm on the day after embarkation. Please remember you are purchasing the opportunity to catch fish, not a guarantee of doing so. Fish runs are dependent on spawning seasons, so during May and late-September fish stock may be more limited.
A fishing license is required and can be purchased from the tour operator for $20 cash per person. Children under 16 are not required to purchase a license. All safety equipment and fishing gear is provided. Each guest will be given their own fly rod for hands-on fishing experience. Casting instruction will be provided for both the beginner and the more experienced caster that may only need a little refresher. Fishing is conducted on a catch-and-release basis.
Provided: Fishing gear, tackle, flies, chest waders (size 4-15), rain jacket, walking stick
Snack: Bagel with cream cheese or smoked salmon spread, soft drinks, coffee, bottled water
Liability waiver is required to be signed in the presence of the tour operator.
Unaccompanied Minor Policy: Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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Located in western Elk Grove, Lakeside is an upscale gated community anchored by Heron Lake and Johnson Park. It is just minutes from Highway 5 and is bordered by Harbour Point Drive and Elk Grove Boulevard.
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Beckham upbeat after surgery on ACL in right knee
ST. PETERSBURG -- Tim Beckham's surgery to repair the ACL in his right knee went well on Tuesday, according to the Rays.
Dr. James Andrews performed the surgery in Pensacola, Fla. Beckham, 23, is expected to be out for six to eight months.
ST. PETERSBURG -- Tim Beckham's surgery to repair the ACL in his right knee went well on Tuesday, according to the Rays.
Dr. James Andrews performed the surgery in Pensacola, Fla. Beckham, 23, is expected to be out for six to eight months.
On Monday, Beckham said that he had injured his knee during a workout a couple of weeks ago. When the injury did not get better, he reported to the Rays what had happened, which led to surgery.
Beckham's setback removed any chance that the infielder could make the big league club out of Spring Training, which was a possibility based on his 2013 season.
Beckham, who was the top overall pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, hit .276 with four home runs and 51 RBIs at Triple-A Durham in 2013 before getting called to the Major Leagues for the first time in September. On Sept. 19, he made his Major League debut and singled in his first plate appearance, becoming the first Rays player to get a hit in his first career plate appearance since Robinson Chirinos on July 18, 2011.
"Beckham really showed well at the end of the season when we threw him into some moments right there," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said at the Winter Meetings. "A lot of people did not expect a lot, and he handled it extremely well. Beyond the physically getting a base hit to win the game, whatever, the way he handled it emotionally, I'm so big on that. If you're going to play in Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park, you better be emotionally in control of yourself."
In five games with the Rays, Beckham hit .429 with an RBI and a run scored. His 2013 season was also a nice rebound from a setback he brought on himself in '12, when he was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for marijuana.
Beckham remains optimistic, despite his circumstances and the disappointment of not being able to compete for a Major League job in Spring Training.
"I'm looking at it as a minor setback that happened in a freak accident during a workout," said Beckham in a phone interview. "So I can't really do anything about it. I can't beat myself up over it. I was trying to get myself better. It's a tough pill to swallow, but it comes with the territory.
"Athletes get hurt. I can't do anything about it right now. Just play the cards that I've been dealt. I know I'm going to make it through this. God has a plan for me and he wouldn't put me in a situation I couldn't overcome. I'll be all right."
In addition to Beckham's surgery, the Rays reported that Minor League right-hander Ryne Stanek had surgery on Tuesday to repair his right hip labrum. The surgery was successful, and Tampa Bay expects Stanek to return to game action mid-summer.
The Rays selected Stanek out of the University of Arkansas in the first round (29th overall) of this year's Draft.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Why the Caged Bird(s) Sing...
Let me first state that by caged birds I mean hoes. lol.
In 1969 Maya Angelo published the first edition of her autobiography, I know why the caged bird sings, chronicling the plight of the black female and unwillingness to abandon hope despite the myriad of physical and institutional bars from behind which African Americans were forced to linger for over a century. Countless civil rights struggles and nearly 44 years later, and with the re-election of the 44th president, an African American Male, I'm still forced with the task of trying to decipher if we as Black people every truly understood her message. 2012 is upon us and yes, the Cage bird is still singing....but that b*tch is singing the Ratchet renditions of Chief Keef, completely oblivious to the fact that she's just another Black Girl Lost promoting her own self destruction and doing a tip drill atop her former self worth.
Tako: OK Nas.
C4: Didn't you tell your cousin "F**k You" to his face last week when he said you need to curb your use of the b-word?
Wja3: Hear him out fellas.
F**k it .
Since yall refuse to let me sugar coat it for the hoes, I'm gonna re-name this Blog what I should've named it from the first place. "The Cage Birds are singin, but they need to shut their ignorant assess the f**k up!!"
Tako: Yeah boy! Talk that Shit!!!
C4: It's Ranting time (Swizz Beatz voice).
At the risk of sounding preachy I will say that there was a time where all our ancestors had were the old negro spirituals to vocalize their hope for a better day as they tirelessly slaved in the fields, were belittled in the streets and were treated like less than humans on a daily basis. Nowadays these spirituals have been replaced with melodic odes to the conditions which we claim to hate so much. Can you imagine slaves in the field singin " my nigg*as love cotton, yea we pickin cotton.....field nig*as rockin', house nig*as rockin!! (In my Chief Keef Voice). Hell no you couldn't. Nevertheless, Rappers nowadays do the modern day equivalent, and we jam our heads and shake our tittys to it every day. Why do we indulge in something so harmful? Because it's actually less harmful to view the harsh reality as a joke or a catchy distraction than to deal with it face to face and risk having our spirits crushed. This explains a lot, right?
Take for example the modern day chicken head. Remember we used to use that word? Well these birds have built a giant nest on Twitter, and used a site called Instigram to lure more into that nest, where they all collectively sing keisha cole man-hating anthems and Beyonce inspired independent womanisms despite their dependence on state aid. Can't knock them though. Their spirits shall not be broken. They will not be hushed! They will scream about their plight, bash no good ni**as and try to attract better ones all by singing about how good they cook clean and give head. They're singing....but the words are wrong and the melody out of key. The pitch is too fast and if they were to slow their role they may realize that yes, there is hope out there....but it doesn't consist of being a basketball wife (ahemmm jumpoff) or instigram model.
It consists of doing things to make themselves and their people better, not catering to the lowest common denominator of "things that would get Stevie J to spend a stack on me." Creating an online life or striving for the title "biggest collection of fake LV bags" however, just might be better than the realization that a GED won't get you that six figure job, your baby's dad is not coming back and those project walls are not bullet proof. The figurative "cages" that were Jim crow and slavery may be gone but new bars will always exist, be they the educational achievement gap, disproportionate amounts of minority teen pregnancy or a culture of "keeping up with the Jones's." We can't stop singing, but we've gotta change the song.
Fellas. You are not exempt. Male birds, or "Mirds" as I will call them, are guilty of also pulling the flippantly fugazzi fifty-two fake out falsetto and singing about the wrong things! You wanna praise something? Praise God or a girl with no stretch marks and no gag reflex, not a money hungry stripper who serviced the crew or the almighty Loud pack. Now I love guns and women as much as the next man, but lets keep it 3 hunna.
Understanding that we are caged birds with clipped wings, late entrant participants in a race which was already designed with our failure in mind, we all realize that we may not always have the brightest light to look towards at the end of the tunnel. That doesn't stop us from being fly....buying jordans....trying to pull the baddest model bit*hes we possibly can and fu*k them raw. What that means, as dangerous as it sounds, is that we are on the right track. We haven't lost hope. Problem is....we're hoping for the wrong things.
We're striving to be hood rich and twitter famous instead of actually trying to secure our future. Worst part about it, is that the same people who have put us in the cage are now creating invisible force fields outside of those cages so that even once we escape, we're still trapped without realizing it. Strive to make it out the projects and cop that new Mercedes, only to be trapped by the cage of debt service, interest and default. These nig*as are sneaky b. We are still caged birds singing, only in 2012 its our captors who are making the beats and producing the songs.
Marinate on that one next time you slip on your 'Beats by "I made 100 million dollars last year and still encourage you to spend rent money on headphones you may get killed for" Dre.
Maybe Maya was right.
She does know why the caged bird sings.... and maybe its time we re-read her work so we can remember too.
-Brainiac Bros
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shotgunForensic pathology A pump-action or single shot firearm, which fires projectiles of packed shot of various diameters; shotguns are popular among hunters, and an efficient 'execution' weapon when a hit-person must address a moving target; homicide and suicide by shotgun is common in the US, but exceedingly rare in civilized countries, given the strict gun control laws. See Ballistics, Cookie cutter wounds, Drive-by shootings, Execution wounds, Gauge, Sawed-off shotgun. Cf Assault weapon, Pistol.
hunting firearm discharging mostly round lead shot over a wide area. Associated with lead poisoning in ducks that eat the failed shot, pitch poisoning in animals that eat the residues of clay pigeons at shooting ranges, and sometimes wounds in dogs that have the misfortune to be in the line of fire.
shotgun injuries
typically occur in hunting dogs. Depending on the distance from the gun, the wounds range from extensive with much tissue damage to minor, almost undetectable, with the shot becoming imbedded in soft tissue.
shotgun pharmacy
using a number of medicines to treat an animal because of uncertainty in the diagnosis. Called also polypharmacy.
shotgun procedure
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Scuba Death – Dripsweat
It's been awhile since I've reviewed anything from Semata, one of Boston's top notch cool shit purveyors, even though they've put out some seriously fantastic albums. So why did I choose to review a record that's technically a reissue? Because Demon Seed barely saw the light of day with it's 40 tape run on YDLMIER (not that Semata's 200 LP run is that much better), because it sounds disgustingly great on vinyl, and because it's fucking INSANE.
Scuba Death is apparently a "mystery artist." That's a topic I don't really want to get in to, I'll save it for another post, but lets just say I don't dig the whole "mystery" thing. An alias is fine, but especially in a place like Boston, it just seems a little ridiculous to put out an album and purposefully keep the identity secret. But whatever. It adds to the intrigue, I suppose. So let your imagination run wild with who Scuba Death actually is, I'll take bets.
Demon Seed is a short, potent dose of grimy & grim electronics. 45 RPM, one song per side, you get almost 20 minutes of no nonsense destructive filth that sounds like your stereo is recovering from a trip to the acid sauna. Nothing about this record sounds "right," it literally sounds like they fucked everything up, sent you a broken piece of wax, and your needle is caught in a steel wool loop. The electronics are beyond repair, failed industrial static that grates from lo-fi smoke drone to power surge blowouts to contact feedback glitch to panned jet engine horror. I hate the idea of stealing other people's descriptions but Brad Rose fuckin nailed it on Twitter when he said "i have to keep double checking to make sure my turntable isn't on fire or something."
So, yeah, this is some unusually bizarro noise, but it's also bleak as fuck. It sounds like it came from an acrid tomb, sealed away for a thousand sunless years, encrusted with dense layers of dust, past decay, and embracing all things deathly. This is black noise stemming from crumbling electronics and it fucking DESTROYS.
Scuba Death could be literally anyone and I wouldn't care. It doesn't matter. Demon Seed is a fucking beast and it's a goddamn miracle that Semata sought to spread the noise. So what have we learned from all of this? 1: Your copy of Demon Seed is not defective. 2: Keep an eye on YDLMIER.


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Wondering what happened at the photo shoot for Betty White and Tracy Morgan's New York Magazine cover? According to behind-the-scenes video, Tracy took off his shirt and Betty White fondled him. Which is pretty much what you were imagining, no?
They may seem like an odd couple, but judging from this anecdote in the cover story, they actually have a lot in common:
Will Forte told this story of White's week at SNL: "She got in super-early on Friday, worked all day, then went to bed at about 12:30. She's 88-and-a-half! So the next day I said, 'How are you doing? Did you get some sleep?' And she said, 'Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.' Which was exactly what I wanted Betty White to say."
With such great chemistry, can it be long before someone pitches a project for these two? We're thinking a buddy-cop comedy — maybe Cop Out 2: Granny Theft Auto? At the very least, we're looking forward to hearing Betty White's Tracy Morgan impression on an upcoming talk show.
When Betty White Met Tracy Morgan [New York Magazine]
TV's Rule Book — How Tracy Morgan & Betty White's Best Work Comes From Stealing Other People's Scenes [New York Magazine]


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Vermont police say a Swanton man has been charged with embezzling large quantities of copper wire from a cable company where he worked as a supervisor and selling it to a scrap metal dealer in New York.
Colchester police say 44-year-old Stephen Davis is accused of stealing more than 14,000 pounds of wire from Champlain Cable Corporation in Colchester and selling it for more than $46,000.
Police say Davis also is facing a charge of income tax fraud for failing to report the income.
Davis was arrested on Monday. Police say the investigation is continuing and more arrests are possible.


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Governor Scott and First Lady Ann Scott Announce 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month Contests; students compete for 4 year college scholarships
Governor Rick Scott and First Lady Ann Scott today invited students in kindergarten through 12th grades to participate in the Hispanic Heritage Month art and essay contests, for the prize of 4 year college scholarships. They also invited students, parents, teachers and principals to nominate full-time Hispanic educators in elementary, middle or high schools for the Hispanic Heritage Month Excellence in Education Award.
The student contests focus on the theme of Celebrating Florida's Heritage. Information about the contests and Florida's Hispanic heritage is available on Florida's Hispanic Heritage Month website, www.FloridaHispanicHeritage.com.
"Florida's history is written, in part, by strong Hispanic leaders who have helped make our state the best place to live in the nation," Governor Scott said. "The 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month Contests will help students appreciate the endless contributions of Hispanic culture on everyday life in Florida."
"The essay and art contests will enrich the learning experience in our classrooms," Mrs. Scott said. "It's important that Florida's students have an opportunity to learn Florida's history, and the many role models provided by Florida's Hispanic community."
About the Student Contests
Art Contest for Grades K-3 – The Hispanic Heritage Month art contest is open to all Florida students in grades K-3, and two winners will be selected. Please visit www.FloridaHispanicHeritage.com to download complete guidelines and entry forms.
Essay Contest for Grades 4 – 12 – The Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest is open to all Florida students in grades 4 through 12. Three winners will be selected: one elementary student (grades 4-5), one middle-school student (grades 6-8), and one high
school student (grades 9-12). Winners will receive a four-year Florida College Plan scholarship provided by the Florida Prepaid College Foundation. Please visit www.FloridaHispanicHeritage.com to download complete guidelines and entry forms.
About the Excellence in Education Award
Governor Scott's annual Hispanic Heritage Month Excellence in Education Award Contest is open to all Hispanic, full time educators in an elementary, middle or high school in Florida. Three winners will be selected: one elementary teacher (grades K-5), one middle school teacher (grades 6-8), and one high school teacher (grades 9-12). Winners will receive a check for $1,500. Forms can be found at www.FloridaHispanicHeritage.com.
Contest Entries and Nominations
Student contest entries and educator nomination forms must be mailed to:
Florida's Foundation
Attention: Hispanic Heritage Month
820 East Park Avenue, E-100
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
All entries must be received by the Foundation no later than 5:00 p.m., EDT, September 28, 2012. (Contestants are responsible for all shipping costs).
About Hispanic Heritage Month
Several Latin American countries celebrate the anniversaries of independence during Hispanic Heritage Month. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua celebrate independence on September 15. Mexico achieved independence on September 16, and Chile, on September 18. Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States since 1974 when President Gerald Ford issued a Presidential Proclamation extending Hispanic Heritage Week into a month-long celebration, from September 15 through October 15.
For additional information about Hispanic Heritage, contests and other related events, please visit www.FloridaHispanicHeritage.com


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This week's slate of games in the Canadian Football League, and sorting out which team ranks where, from first to worst:
Hamilton at Toronto, 4:30 p.m., TSN -- A current Toronto Star series is examining why Toronto is the Cleveland of Canada,
a city known for perennial losers in pro sports. It looks into what has gone wrong with the Leafs, Blue Jays, Raptors and Toronto FC, but there's nary a word on the Argos, the city's oldest team. Could it be that, with an 8-9 record, the Argos have disqualified themselves from the discussion, having reached unaccustomed heights of mediocrity? More likely, it says something about the GTA's ambivalence to the CFL, and the fact that much work has to be done to make it relevant again, despite the efforts of David Braley and the focus of the 100th Grey Cup at Rogers Centre.
Pick: Tiger-Cats
Calgary at Edmonton, 6 p.m., TSN -- The CFL's most outstanding Canadian award may have been decided last Friday in Calgary, where Stampeder RB Jon Cornish ran for 86 yards against the Lions and is now just 49 away from the single-season rushing mark for a Canadian back set by Normie Kwong in 1956. The Lions' versatile Andrew Harris, meanwhile, was held to just 30 yards on six carries, playing behind a patchwork O-line that made him struggle for every inch. Stopping Cornish -- 436 of his 1,388 rushing yards have come against Edmonton this season -- is Job One for the Eskimos. If Hamilton wins against the Argos tonight at Rogers Centre, Edmonton will need to defeat the Stampeders to qualify for the playoffs.
Pick: Stampeders
Montreal at Winnipeg, noon, TSN -- Never mind the staying power of the Alouettes' 40-year-old Anthony Calvillo, pro football's all-time leading passer. What about his backup, Adrian McPherson? Now 29, McPherson is in his fifth season with the Alouettes, playing in short-yardage situations to protect Calvillo's health. His eight touchdowns this season are second on the team to tailback Brandon Whitaker, who is out with an injury. McPherson has completed only two of five pass attempts, however. But that will change Saturday when he gets to start in place of Calvillo, who has reached the 5,000-yard plateau for the seventh time and is being rested for the playoffs. It's just a tune-up game, but for McPherson it's his one night at Carnegie Hall.
Pick: Alouettes
Saskatachewan at B.C., 7 p.m., standard TV blackout in effect -- The number of passes he has thrown matches his jersey number -- zero. But could this be the game where J.T. O'Sullivan is finally re-introduced to the forward pass? The Roughriders' third-string quarterback goes from a tertiary to a secondary option this week with the likely decision to rest starter Darian Durant and go with backup Drew Willy. The 'Riders will be on the road for a playoff game, no matter whether it's in the West or the East, so why put Durant through the meat grinder again? A helmet-to-helmet shot by Toronto linebacker Brandon Isaac on Durant last Saturday (Isaac drew a one-game suspension) is reason enough to park him for improved playoff health.
Pick: Lions
Last Week: 2-2
Season: 40-28
1. Calgary Stampeders -- Could have been their talent, could have been the sub-freezing temperatures, but the Stampeders were hot in a game where the Lions were not and now look to be even money in a possible West final.
2. Montreal Alouettes -- The Als continue to dominant the East despite injuries and patchwork lineups. Coach Marc Trestman and GM Jim Popp are alchemists as much as football wizards, transmuting base elements into gold.
3. B.C. Lions -- Last Friday's game against the Stampeders meant nothing, but it meant zilch for Calgary either and they still showed up at the appointed hour and kicked the Leos all over the snowy yard at McMahon Stadium.
4. Toronto Argonauts -- If there was any doubt that the CFL is a quarterback-driven league it was been dispelled by the return of Ricky Ray. With eight TD passes in two games, QB makes the Argos a team to be reckoned with.
5. Saskatchewan Roughriders --You won't find many streakers on the prairies in early November, but streaky has been
the 'Riders' habit all season long, even though players and coaches keep their clothes on.
5. Edmonton Eskimos -- Esks' playoff hopes probably rest with sophomore Matt Nichols, the third-string quarterback from Eastern Washington who becomes the last, desperate choice in a season full of quarterback issues.
6. Hamilton Tiger-Cats -- If the Ticats defeat the Argos today at Rogers Centre they must wait two days and hope for an Eskimo loss to the Stampeders which will give Hamilton at ticket to T.O. for the East semi-final.
7. Winnipeg Blue Bombers -- They'll start over next season with a new stadium and probably a new GM, head coach and starting quarterback. It'll be another exercise in trying to turn gaping holes into tiny crevices.


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According to BCS/2010, the latest market analysis from BCS Partners, cautious optimism prevails for the near future with regard to the building automation market. The market took a serious hit in 2009, but modest growth is expected in 2010-2011. This marketplace, however, isn't forecast to regain its pre-crisis level until 2012.
Unfortunately, new building construction, particularly in the office building segment, is not expected to provide growth. Existing building retrofits, although still the source of 70% to 75% of the market, are not growing as fast as they should, primarily because smaller building owners are still not sufficiently aware of the benefits available, according to the report. Larger buildings and campuses as well as national franchises tend to have on-staff engineers and analysts with the knowledge and resources to use available technology to reduce costs, but not the great number of smaller buildings that still have little or no advanced building automation in place or even planned.
On the side of positive growth are the many technological advances, primarily wireless data sensors and transmitters, which are rapidly moving from skepticism to accepted reliable solutions. The installation savings and flexibility provided will dramatically increase the numbers and types of system improvements that can and will be instituted to provide greater savings in comfort, productivity, and preventive maintenance in addition to ever more efficient energy management. Integrating the BAS into overall enterprise management is going to further justify additional investment.
BCS Partners sees building control systems as the driver for a much larger enterprise, which totals more $8 Billion in 2010.
- Building controls enterprise ($8+ billion)
- Building controls market ($4.0 billion)
- Building controls product ($1.0 billion)
- Building control systems ($0.5 billion)
The enterprise comprises all revenues associated with the building control function, including performance contracting and facilities management. The market includes all products and services related to the building control function. Product includes all products types associated with building control including actuators, valves, sensors/transmitters, controllers, and other types. Systems include all ddc products and associated software. The monetary figure is the approximate value to North American customers in 2010.
BCS/2010 details the network supplying the building owner with building controls products. The largest piece (36%) flows through mechanical and general contractors. Another 34% flows through control contractors, which include dealers and systems integrators. Controls manufacturer branch offices supply 18%, with the balance (12%) coming from imbedded controls and wholesalers.
Focus on total building operation and maintenance until recently only in the business plans of the largest manufacturers is moving into the plans of the some of the smaller manufacturers. Whether coupled with total air-conditioning equipment or not, the additional total potential for the industry is great and with that comes the opportunity to sell more BAS. On the other hand, it can lessen the focus on the BAS hardware itself, thus making it more complicated for the decision on industry growth forecasts.
Overriding the usual forecasting data is the degree to which the U.S. government's directions and budget decisions will provide substantial growth for the industry. Manufacturers agree that this can be a substantial factor, but its timing is far from certain. The fastest growth in 2010 is expected in healthcare and educational buildings with commercial buildings not far behind. Lagging, of course, will be office buildings.
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Also called xerosis
Dry skin is common. It can occur at any age and for many reasons. Using a moisturizer often helps repair dry skin.
Sometimes people need a dermatologist's help to get relief from dry skin. Extremely dry skin can be a warning sign of a skin problem called dermatitis (derm-muh-TIE-tis).
Dermatitis means inflammation of the skin. It can cause an itchy rash or patches of dry irritated skin. The earlier dermatitis is diagnosed and treated the better. Without treatment, dermatitis often gets worse.
Your doctor may call dry skin xerosis (ze-ROW-sis).
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The signs (what you see) and symptoms (what you feel) of dry skin are:
When dry skin cracks, germs can get in through the skin. Once inside, germs can cause an infection. Red, sore spots on the skin may be an early sign of an infection.
Anyone can get dry skin. Skin becomes dry when it loses too much water or oil. Some people are more likely to have dry skin. Some causes of dry skin are:
To find out whether your dry skin is a sign of a skin disease, a dermatologist will carefully examine your skin. The doctor also will ask questions, such as when the problem began. This information will help the dermatologist make the right diagnosis and determine the best treatment. Tests may be needed if a dermatologist thinks your dry skin is due to a health problem.
Your dermatologist may recommend the following:
Using a moisturizer frequently throughout the day helps many people. If this does not help, you should see a dermatologist.
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Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon on a string of '60s fun-in-the-sun movies with names like "Beach Blanket Bingo" and "Bikini Beach," died Monday. She was 70.
She died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California, the Walt Disney Co. said.
"She will forever hold a place in our hearts as one of Walt Disney's brightest stars, delighting an entire generation of baby boomers with her jubilant personality and endless talent," said Bob Iger, Disney chairman and CEO.
Avalon said Monday that Funicello never realized how beloved she was.
"She would say, 'Really?'" he told The Associated Press. "She was so bashful about it. She was an amazing girl." He added: "She really had a tough existence. It's like losing a family member. I'm devastated, but I'm not surprised."
The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was just 13 when she gained fame on Walt Disney's television kiddie "club," an amalgam of stories, songs and dance routines that ran from 1955 to 1959.
Cast after Disney saw her at a dance recital, she appeared in mouse ears, a pleated skirt and a turtleneck sweater emblazoned with her first name. She soon became the most popular Mouseketeer in the cast, receiving 8,000 fan letters a month, 10 times more than any of the 23 other young performers.
Her devotion to Walt Disney remained throughout her life.
"He was the dearest, kindest person, and truly was like a second father to me," she remarked. "He was a kid at heart."
When "The Mickey Mouse Club" ended, Annette (as she was often billed) was the only club member to remain under contract to the studio. She appeared in such Disney movies as "Johnny Tremain," ''The Shaggy Dog," ''The Horsemasters," ''Babes in Toyland," ''The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" and "The Monkey's Uncle."
She also became a recording star, singing on 15 albums and hit singles such as "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess."
Outgrowing the kid roles by the early '60s, Annette teamed with Avalon in a series of movies for American-International, the first film company to exploit the burgeoning teen market.
The filmmakers weren't aiming for art, and they didn't achieve it. As Halliwell's Film Guide says of "Beach Party": "Quite tolerable in itself, it started an excruciating trend."
But the films had songs, cameos by older stars and a few laughs and, as a bonus to latter-day viewers, a look back at a more innocent time. The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo," for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.
Among the other titles: "Muscle Beach Party," ''Bikini Beach," ''How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" and "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine."
The beach films featured ample youthful skin. But not Funicello's.
She remembered in 1987: "Mr. Disney said to me one day, 'Annette, I have a favor to ask of you. I know all the girls are wearing bikinis, but you have an image to uphold. I would appreciate it if you would wear a one-piece suit.' I did, and I never regretted it."
The shift in teen tastes begun by the Beatles in 1964 and Funicello's first marriage the following year pretty much killed off the beach-movie genre.
But she was somehow never forgotten though mostly out of the public eye for years. She and Avalon staged a reunion in 1987 with "Back to the Beach."
She wrote of her triumphs and struggles in her 1994 autobiography, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" — the title taken from a Disney song. In 1995, she appeared briefly in a television docudrama based on her book.
Funicello was born Oct. 22, 1942, in Utica, New York, and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 4. She began taking dance lessons the following year and won a beauty contest at 9. Then came the discovery by Disney in 1955.
"I have been blessed to have a mentor like Walt Disney," she said 40 years later. "Those years were the happiest of my life. I felt that back then. I feel the same today."
Asked about the revisionist biographies that have portrayed Disney in a negative light, she said, "I don't know what went on in the conference rooms. I know what I saw. And he was wonderful."
In 1965, Funicello married her agent, Jack Gilardi, and they had three children, Gina, Jack and Jason. The couple divorced 18 years later, and in 1986 she married Glen Holt, a harness racehorse trainer. After her film career ended, she devoted herself to her family. Her children sometimes appeared on the TV commercials she made for peanut butter.


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This is really interesting. The White House press corps has really honed in on the DADT issue. Gibbs got many questions on the subject today. And, Mediaite posted the video.
I'm most intrigued by the interaction between Gibbs and Kerry Eleveld on whether or not the President thinks DADT is unconstitutional. That exchange begins around the 4:30 mark and concludes with this. You have to see the video to see how curt and annoyed Gibbs get here:
Kerry Eleveld: Since the Justice Department is, you know, officially appealing the case, is it necessarily true that the President believes that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a constitutional law?
Gibbs: Again, I have enumerated for you the belief, the President's belief that it's unjust, it's discriminatory and that it harms our national security.
Kerry Eleveld: You have never enumerated for us his belief on the constitutionality?
Gibbs: I haven't.
That response is classic. The transcript doesn't do it justice. Watch how Gibbs reacts.
And, no, he hasn't answered whether the President, a Constitutional Law professor, thinks DADT is unconstitutional. And, no one at the White House or DOJ will answer it either.
Yep, Gibbs throwing attitude at Kerry Eleveld for asking a very basic question. Classy.


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The members of SIG-III propose a panel looking at the past 25 years of international information issues and SIG-IIIs role in bringing these issues to ASIS&T as a whole for consideration and debate. We have asked Toni Carbo, one of the co-founders of SIG-III, to keynote this retrospection.
A look at the past 25 years of international information offers a lens with which to view potential trends and developments during the next 25 years. As information systems around the world continue to globalize and converge, multiple information issues will be increasingly evaluated in an international arena. These issues include Internet and information access, digital divides and knowledge gaps between regions, and privacy, security, trust, and censorship in the digital world.
We have asked Toni Carbo, Bharat Mehra, SIG-III Chair Yunfei Du, and SIG-III Chair-elect Aaron Bowen to present a state of the union on these aspects of international information and to evaluate what trends and developments may occur in international information during the next 25 years. Toni will examine privacy, security, and trust. Bharat will examine access and development. Yunfei will examine digital divides and knowledge gaps. Aaron will examine censorship. All presenters will consider the costs and benefits each topic has accrued for different countries, further challenges countries face with respect to each topic, and potential answers countries may apply to these challenges.
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In Poland, if you need to file a lawsuit, there's an application programming interface for that. A new form of lawsuit initiated in Poland in January of 2010, called an electronic writ-of-payment proceeding, allows plaintiffs and defendants to interact with court officials entirely over the Internet, right down to handling fees and settlements—and in some cases, lets them build apps to handle that for them.
Handled exclusively by an "e-court" set up in the 16th Civil Department of District Court in Lublin, Poland, the e-writ procedure has made it much easier—and cheaper—to file civil lawsuits. The e-court allows registered users to submit filings through a webpage. As a result, it's also reduced the workload on courts by 10 to 30 percent, according to information presented at the European Ministerial eGovernment Conference last November.
While various court systems in the US have started to allow small claims suits to be filed electronically (mostly through commercial services such as nCourt and Intresys' TurboCourt), the Lublin e-court is different in that cases can be processed entirely electronically if the defendant allows. No paper records are kept of cases that proceed on the full electronic route. When the case is reviewed by a court official, evidence is presented "in camera" via digital images.
The Lublin e-court holds nationwide jurisdiction in Poland for electronically filed cases. And it has become so popular that the court is moving Amazon-size volumes of cases: as of October, the e-court reported that it had handled over 2 million lawsuits, and had ordered payments made in 1.6 million of them.
But the Web portal isn't the only route to the e-court's virtual chambers. As blogger Daniel Janus reports, the e-court's system (built by the Polish IT firm Currenda) allows "mass plaintiffs," their attorneys, and those designated as "bailiffs" by the e-court for processing payments, to connect to the court's systems through a published Web services interface. The interface, based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), allows users to build their own applications to push lawsuits to the court's system and track their progress. Instead of having a clerk write up each filing, law firms could simply generate filings from a database.
But justice does have some speed limits. Janus reports that the SOAP interface to the e-court throttles requests, limiting each user to one request per second to prevent denial of service attacks by errant software, hackers, or unhappy defendants.
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What happens when a cylinder is placed in flowing water? What vortices form behind a knife-edge or on an aerofoil? Footage captured by the Göttingen aeronautics pioneer Ludwig Prandtl 80 years ago, when fluid mechanics research was still in its infancy, provides the answers to these questions. The quality of these early films was so good that DLR researchers were able to evaluate them using modern measurement techniques, leading to worldwide acclaim and the award of an international prize.
Ludwig Prandtl, who is considered to be the father of modern aerodynamics, made the films for demonstrative and illustrative purposes in the 1920s and 1930s, while he was at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Mechanics in Göttingen, or, as it is now known, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. In order to visualise fluid flow, Prandtl introduced small aluminium particles onto the water surface in the test channels, which were still manually driven in some cases.
Progress in flow visualisation
DLR researchers Christian Willert (Cologne) and Jürgen Kompenhans (Göttingen) tracked the movement of these particles using modern computer-based Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) techniques. "We were able to determine the strengths and speeds of the vortices and visualise them using false colours," explains Kompenhans. Prandtl had not been able to do this. This treatment of the historical material clearly demonstrates the progress made in flow visualisation, from the early, simple presentation to a quantitative measurement method.
Willert and Kompenhans received the Best Movie Award at the 14th International Symposium on Flow Visualization in Daegu, South Korea, for their contribution, PIV Analysis of Ludwig Prandtl's Historic Flow Visualization Films.
Prandtl developed several different flow channels and wind tunnels with which he could visualise flows. Together with his co-workers, Tietjens and Müller, he placed a camera above a flow channel to capture the movement of the fluid. He was among the first scientists ever to use the medium of film to document research results, thereby making these results available to others working in this discipline.
IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH has released a special edition DVD 'Ludwig Prandtl – Generation of Vortices in Water Flows', which contains films recorded between 1927 and 1933 and subsequently made public as educational material in 1936.


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Caroline Aherne has spoken of her personal fight against cancer.
The award-winning TV writer and comic actress, who is undergoing treatment for lung cancer related to a genetic form of the disease, joked about it being the third time she has faced the disease.
The Royle Family creator said: "My brother and I were born with cancer of the eyes, the retina, my mum told us only special people get cancer. I must be very special because I have had it in my lungs and bladder as well."
The comedian gave a typically irreverent speech about her treatment and condition as she spoke to a gathering of 170 cancer patients, medics and carers at Manchester Town Hall for the launch of a new scheme to improve cancer care in the city.
She described her own Macmillan cancer nurse, Julie Watts, as 'like an angel'.
She said: "When you hear them telling you you have cancer, it's true that you really don't take it in properly, you just don't think of the questions and then when you come out because she's been in there with you she answers all your questions that you haven't been able to ask at the time or haven't thought of.
"This is the best bit that they understand, they completely understand what you are going through and what your family are going through."
Caroline shared a joke from the time of her chemotherapy treatment at the Cecilia Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital, involving Royle Family co-star Ricky Tomlinson who played her on-screen father.
She said: "The cleaner came in one day, she went, 'Oh, I knew you were here, they told me you were here, oh that's great, I love the Royle Family, but I would've much preferred it to be Ricky in that bed!'
"She was wishing lung cancer on Ricky Tomlinson!"
She added: "I just hold my hands up and say, 'thank God for Macmillan nurses'. Fifty years ago when my mum found out that we had cancer they didn't have any Macmillan nurses you were kind of on your own with it so it's a blessing we have got them now."
At the end of her speech Caroline smiled, put her hands to her hair and joked: "My wig stayed on!"
The 50-year-old, whose comedy creations have also included her spoof chat host Mrs Merton, revealed last month she was battling lung disease after agreeing to help launch the new initiative in her home town Manchester.
Research by cancer charity Macmillan showed the city came bottom out of 150 areas in England for premature deaths from cancer. The city is also bottom of the league table for strokes, heart and lung disease.
Survival rates are 25 per cent lower than average and the number of people getting lung cancer is a third higher in the city than in the rest of England.
The new £3.4 million scheme, called the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Partnership (MCIP) aims to bring together all cancer care providers in the city to improve the experience of everybody affected by the disease.
Caroline added: "We can't allow Manchester to continue to be the worst place in England for premature deaths from cancer – not to mention all the other appalling statistics we've been hearing.
"That's why the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Partnership's been formed. Everyone in this room wants to make it better – and it's why I'm supporting MCIP and asking other people in Manchester who are affected by cancer to get involved.
"Information posters – and what they're calling pledge cards are being sent out to all of Manchester's GP surgeries, hospitals, Macmillan information centres and city council public places.
"I'm asking people who've been affected by cancer in any way – and want to make a difference to care to fill one of these pledge cards out – and send it back to the freepost address.
"They might just want to make a comment. They might want to sit down with doctors and nurses and give ideas. They might want to get involved in workshops to develop new services.
"Whatever it is – the involvement of patients, carers and families needs to lie at the heart of this hugely ambitious re-design of cancer services.
"We've all got a chance here to make a difference – and none of us should pass that up."
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Ciaran Devane, chief executive, Macmillan Cancer Support said: "We are hugely grateful to Caroline Aherne for supporting Macmillan and MCIP and helping us recruit people affected by cancer, particularly at a time when she is undergoing cancer treatment herself in Manchester.
"It was generous-spirited of her to sacrifice her privacy at a difficult time to help make things better for others in Manchester who are being and will be treated for cancer in Manchester."