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When we last left Sam Merlotte, he was holding a gun to his brother's head.
How will this development play out on season four of True Blood? Spoiler alert, Sam Trammell told me this week, Tommy survives.
"Tommy is there," the actor said. "We still don't know whether I shot him or not. But he's definitely around."
What about the rest of Sam's family, who viewers met last year? They "come back to haunt me," Trammell teased. "I can't quite escape them."
While Sam's past won't leave him alone this summer, his future will be consumed by a new love interest: a shape-shifter named Luna, played by Janina Gavankar."She's part of a new shape shifter community that I meet," Trammell said to me. "We explore the shape-shifting mythology a lot this season and flesh out more details as far as the role of shape-shifting in the world. We'll meet others like Sam."
This ought to sound familiar to readers of Charlaine Harris' novels, on which True Blood is based. Trammell says to include him in that group, as he finds the author "incredible" and says he read the first few books in her series immediately after he was cast because he was just so excited about the role.
Viewers have come to feel the same way over the years. Trammell says he first realized the massive popularity of the show when the cast showed up for Comic-Con after season one and the crowd was twice what it had been 12 months earlier.
That figure doubled again a year later.
"You feel like you're The Rolling Stones or something walking out on that stage," he said of the experience at the event.
With readers clamoring and speculating over every new True Blood clip and teaser, it's unlikely the excitement will die down any time soon. The HBO hit returns on June 26.
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Ask a Doctor: Is Batman's Healing Method Sound?
The following contains spoilers of the filmic and medical varieties. Don't read until you've seen The Dark Knight Rises.
If you've already seen The Dark Knight Rises, you are approved to read the following spoiler-packed post. If you have not yet seen The Dark Knight Rises, we'll see you back here after you do.
During his first showdown with supervillain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne incurs what would normally be considered a career-ending injury: a broken back. In the comics that inspired the film, Wayne takes a while to get back in fighting trim. But director Christopher Nolan found another way to get Batman on his feet. Trapped in a prison by Bane, Wayne is helped by a fellow inmate, who punches a misplaced piece of vertebrae back into place, then creates a rope harness for Bruce to hang from until he can walk again. Eighty days or so later, he's back on the streets of Gotham. Confused by this particular method of physical therapy, Vulture consulted chiropractor Dr. Suzanne McBride of Network Wellness Care to find out whether Batman's healing powers are, indeed, superhuman.
Let's start with the vertebrae being punched back into his back.
Obviously, no, you can't do that. There's so many things that you'd have to pay attention to, so many things going on with the nervous system. The spinal cord itself is extremely tender and it's a type of material that needs to be protected, which is why it's protected by bone. So, I mean, that's ridiculousness.
So if someone came to you with a vertebrae sticking out of their back, you wouldn't punch it into place because you could damage the spinal cord, is that correct?
How would one actually put a vertebrae back into place without going into surgery? Is that even possible?
Probably not, no. If it's sticking out of the skin, it's gone pretty far awry.
Let's talk about the stretching device that he uses. You said there's some controversy about hanging in the chiropractic community?
Yes. There's a study by Alfred Briggs on adverse mechanical cord tension (AMCT), and that's what I base a lot of my work on. It says that if you were to pull the spinal cord really tightly, you could herniate the pineal gland in your brain, which helps control the endocrine system. But a lot of other professionals use those really expensive traction machines, and people seem to get a lot of relief from it. I use gentler techniques to get your body to truly heal, long-term, without damaging other parts of your body while you do it.
So Batman is hanging from the ceiling. Hypothetically, if he did that for a few months, could he align himself?
That's just going to depend on what damage occurred — if the spinal cord tore, if the vertebrae shattered, if arteries were severed. If everything else in his body remained intact except for the shape of the spine, then the shape of the spine could absolutely shift with gravity. But it's never one thing. Generally, it's fourteen things happening all at once. But if his bones were intact and they just moved out of place, gravity could do the job.
But assuming he has other injuries, putting that kind of pressure on his spinal cord — you said it could tear? Would that leave him paralyzed from the waist down?
Yeah, he could lose a lot of function. If you rip and tear the spinal cord, then the brain can't communicate with your body, and you're not going to heal.
If Bruce Wayne were to visit a chiropractor under less strenuous circumstances, what do you think you could do for him?
I'm a Network Spinal Analysis chiropractor; I see things from the perspective that there's emotional stress, physical stress, and chemical stress. So I would work more with the tension in his system as a whole person, to help alleviate the emotional stress and have him work through his old issues. Which, for a superhero, might take away his abilities, because he has channeled all that bound-up energy. But for the average person, emotional stress from your past turns into lower back pain and ulcers and all sorts of other stuff.

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Every year, property owners fail to pay about $6 million of the $98 million in city and school taxes levied by the city. Some of that gets repaid in subsequent years; the city receives about $3 million a year in overdue tax payments.
Over time, the city has built up a large reservoir of unpaid taxes, some of which date back as far as 1955. All told, delinquent city and school taxes, with interest, come to about $60 million. Add to that $32.4 million in county taxes and interest that city property owners have failed to pay over the decades, and the grand total outstanding is $92.4 million.
How much will be repaid as a result of the new foreclosure program is uncertain. Over the next eight years, officials estimate the city could receive $6 million to $11 million more than normal from overdue tax payments, Wright said.
The city's letter advises owner-occupants who are struggling to pay their taxes to seek foreclosure prevention counseling by calling Home HeadQuarters at 474-1939.
Contact Tim Knauss at email@example.com or 470-3023.


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The Army Corps of Engineers is looking into how the agency should review proposed plans for a new cruise passenger terminal in downtown Charleston, an official said today.
The action comes a day after the Army Corps and the State Ports Authority dropped their appeal to a federal judge's decision overturning a permit for the $35 million cruise terminal at a former warehouse at Union Pier.
The two agencies were challenging a September ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who ruled that the Army Corps did not fully review the effects the project would have on the city's historic district, saying the permitting agency gave the study "a bum's rush." Gergel then ordered the Army Corps to redo the study with a more extensive review.
Army Corps spokesman Sean McBride released a statement today, saying the agency was reviewing how it should study the issue.
"Now that the decision not to appeal has been finalized, the Corps will further consider the appropriate scope, parameters and process for reviewing the cruise terminal construction on Union Pier consistent with the remand from the U.S. District Court, and communicate this information to the SPA to enable their decision of how and when to proceed as project proponent," according to the statement.
The Coastal Conservation League and the Preservation Society of Charleston filed the lawsuit after the Army Corps issued a permit allowing the five pilings to be driven on the waterfront.
The opposition groups have said the agency didn't take into account the impact on historic properties that surround the area.
The SPA, which joined the lawsuit as a defendant, has been seeking to relocate its cruise terminal to the north end of Union Pier from the south end for about three years.
The case is one of three legal challenges regarding expanded cruise operations in Charleston.


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Assistant Professor of Art History Megan O'Neil has such an affinity for Mayan Art she's been on archeological excursions to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
"So many artifacts have been destroyed over time," she says, "but we can better understand their culture through their artwork."
Recently, O'Neil was offered the chance to contribute to a scholarly publication called Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks. (Dumbarton Oaks is a Washington, D.C.-based research library and museum affiliated with Harvard University that houses Mayan artwork predominantly found in the mid-twentieth century.)
O'Neil immediately accepted the project, and along with other scholars, contributed content to the book.
The result—and proof that hard work pays off? Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks won the 2013 Alfred H. Barr Award for small museums from the College Art Association.
Established in 1980, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. award is presented to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in the English language under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection.
The book, described by Dumbarton Oaks as "a volume that provides a detailed introduction to Maya art and culture," is presented in catalogue format, and written by leading international scholars of Maya archaeology, art history, and writing.
Writing about Jaina figurines
"The first-third of the book is the history of the collection, ceramics, shells, kinds of materials and objects in the collection," explains O'Neil. "My contribution is about Jaina-style figurines; followed by the section on individual objects. I have essays on 9 objects in the collection."
Jaina refers an island located in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, off the western coast of the State of Campeche, Mexico.
"Although often called 'Jaina' figurines, we use the term 'Jaina-style' or 'Jaina tradition' to refer to the ceramic figurines in the Dumbarton Oaks collection, for there is no certainty that they were found on the Island of Jaina," explains O'Neil.
According to O'Neil, Jaina sculptures "portray many different kinds of figures in diverse roles of activities—men of different professions (including rulers, ballplayers, court attendants, and captives) and women of different statuses who are shown sitting nobly or engaging in activities such as weaving, cooking, or holding children," she states, adding, "They give us windows into different kinds of people and activities in the ancient Maya culture."
Other works
O'Neil, a New Orleans native who attended Yale, then the University of Texas at Austin for her Master's, and returned to Yale for her PhD in art history, also completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and has been published in other journals such as RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Ancient Mesoamerica, the Journal of Visual Culture, and more.
"At BMCC, I'm currently teaching Intro to Art History classes and Intro to Western Art, and Teaching Mayan Art in the Non-Western Art History class," she says, adding, "I'm also in the process of developing a new class on ancient arts of Mexico, Central, America, and South America and working on a book titled The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures."
EDITOR'S NOTE: According to O'Neil, "there is no difference between 'Maya art' or 'Mayan art.' There is a convention among scholars to write 'Maya art,' but most people outside of scholarship say 'Mayan art.'"


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Government's long-awaited green paper on land reform has been approved by Cabinet and will be available for comment next week. CARIEN DU PLESSIS had a sneak preview and there were no surprises. At least no new ones.
The green paper on land reform is fast becoming the Shangri-La of green papers, and it lived up to that reputation again when journalists went to the post-Cabinet briefing in Pretoria on Thursday, expecting to find copies waiting.
Instead we were given folders with a 22-page point form summary of what we can expect to see in the actual green paper, which is only due to be released next week. Officials are "optimistic", at least.
Cabinet has now approved the document, which is progress. Rural development and land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti has confirmed as much in Parliament on Wednesday, and government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said it in the briefing again on Thursday.
This is much closer to the actual policy document than we've ever been. The paper was expected to be tabled in March or April last year, then in August, but it wasn't even ready for Cabinet.
The delay was due to the debate raging within the ANC on the matter, and apparently also because the team which drafted the document embarrassingly didn't quite come up with what the minister and the ANC had in mind.
Most of the proposals have been reported on extensively and they were amongst those accepted by the ANC at its July lekgotla.
Some of the things the policy won't include are: expropriation without compensation, as called for by the ANC Youth League, a restriction on land ownership by race, and a blanket ban on foreign ownership.
But there will be a Land Management Commission, a Land Valuer-General (who will help negotiate reasonable prices for the land to avoid exorbitant pricing, although the need for this has been questioned by critics, who said government should just implement its existing policies better), a Land Rights Management Board, with local management committees, and a four-tier land tenure system.
This four-tier system includes state and public land leaseholds, private land freehold title with limited extent, foreign precarious title with regulatory limitations, obligations and conditions (to prevent the country from falling into rich and foreign hands) and communal tenure for mixed use with institutionalised use rights (this is set to fill the gap left by the Communal Land Right Act, which was declared unconstitutional in May).
The "land ceilings" imposed on foreign ownership have been controversial, although not as controversial as the outright prevention of foreign land ownership in the country, which was originally mooted. Property agents have complained that restrictions might scare off investors and they have argued that foreign land owners are in a minority in South Africa anyway (a 2006 survey found less than 5% of South African land is foreign-owned).
Sunday Ogunronbi, from policy research and legislation development in the department, explained to iMaverick that foreign land ownership would be dealt with in the Land Protection Bill, to be submitted to Cabinet in the next few months.
Amongst others, it would deal with foreigners buying land in South Africa to launder money. He said in some countries like Nigeria, officials would steal money from government and invest it in land in other countries.
He also gave an example of a Norwegian national who recently bought land in the Eastern Cape with money he stole from the government there. He was caught out and the land was sold back to the original family.
The bill would also seek to impose a ceiling on the amount of land foreigners can own, and deal with the issue of "sensitive land", such as land close to military bases, which government might want to have a first option on.
Coastal land is also an issue. Large tracts are sometimes bought by foreigners for speculation purposes alone, releasing it later on the market at "exorbitant prices", while the government might want to develop this land for residential purposes.
Restrictions will also apply to agricultural land for food security purposes. Foreigners or private owners would not be able to turn a productive farm into, say, a game farm or one where no food is produced.
Also, "we are expecting to be able to say to a foreigner intending to purchase agricultural land that he may need to partner with a South African in specific cases," Ogunronbi said.
Officials said the paper could not be released on Thursday (the paper on the National Health Insurance two weeks ago was released the day after Cabinet approved it and published the next day) because it needed some polishing. Notes following the Cabinet meeting needed to be added, and Nkwinti still had to write a foreword.
The writers also had to make some additions about the public participation process, but the officials declined to give details.
It is unclear what the public participation process would involve or how long it will take, but one thing is certain. Government would want to do this thoroughly to prevent the embarrassment of any Constitutional Court challenges to the law. Many interest groups are watching. DM
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