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Oryx and Crake (original 2003; edition 2004)
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I can't decide if I like this book or not and if I want to continue on with the trilogy. I am sticking with it because I want to read the last one since it was a winner this year. This book is about the Snowman who is also Jimmy. Things have gone wrong with genetic testing and mixing things like raccoons and skunks. At least I think that was what was put together. Rats and snakes. People are pretty much gone and what is left are synthetic type people as I call them. Not really humans. Snowman seems to be the only human left but then he finds out there could be others. It's just a very strange book.
I was forced to put this book down because my loan ended, and by the time I did, I was a little irritated at the lack of progress. Atwood is generally fabulous at spinning a yarn, and maybe I was extra irritated because I always expect more from her.
By the time I got the loan again, we were starting to flashback to the school and work days, and while flashbacks can be even more frustrating in a narrative, in this case they were absolutely necessary. Snowman sitting on a beach, barely surviving and talking to the air was not creepy, it was boring. Snowman recalling his childhood - however seminal to the story, really - was as pitiful as sitting on a beach, etc., so also boring. You can't tell a post-apocalyptic tale without explaining how your protagonist actually factors in, and talking about his childhood goes nowhere fast. Snowman recounting his redeemable features as an adult - that I could get behind because it made me wonder what he had literally done to get himself into the mess he was in, not just why his family life was crappy.
There's nothing wrong with writing about what happens when viruses go haywire - Station Eleven is a more than excellent example, Stephen King's The Stand a little less so, The Walking Dead is a beast unto itself. But social and environmental moralizing and post-apocalyptic stories told together leave a bad taste in my mouth. Atwood works too hard at it, and there's too much "duh" and not enough nuance.
4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 for creativity. She did a great job creating a dystopian society only to destroy it and weave the two stories together. Looking forward to finding out what happens next.
The first in the MaddAddam series, this in the one that hooked me in. Fro my review of the trilogy visit:
Oryx and Crake is a piece of dystopian fiction written from the point of Snowman (known as Jimmy in his former life) – the last human left on Earth. At least, he believes he's the last human left on Earth until the end of the book.
I found the parts of the book describing Snowman's journey to Paradice (the dome in the compound where Crake did his work) to be a lot less interesting than his recollections of his previous life as Jimmy. I loved reading about how Jimmy and Crake met, the little signs that Crake gave off as to what he might be planning and the direction his thoughts might take in the future (though Jimmy didn't recognize these until it was too late), etc.
Crake is really the star of the show in this book in my mind – Jimmy simply acts as a vessel for us to learn about a character who is dead and who therefore cannot teach us about himself.
Snowman's adventures in real time seem almost pointless to me. Why not dedicate the whole book to Jimmy's friendship with Crake, with just a bit of general explanation as to what's going on now? I think the present would have been much more interesting if the Crakers were explored more than Jimmy's struggle to survive and come to grips with what Crake had done.
On the whole, however, I thought it was a great book.
Set sometime in the future, this post-apocalyptic novel takes scientific research in the hands of madmen to its logical and frightening conclusion. Inspiring readers to pay more attention to the world around them, Atwood offers cautionary notes about the environment, bioengineering, the sacrifice of civil liberties, and the possible loss of those human values which make life more than just a physical experience. As the novel opens, some catastrophe has occurred, effectively wiping out human life. Only one lonely survivor and a handful of genetically altered humanoids remain, and they are slowly starving as they try to adjust to their changed circumstances.
In Margaret Atwood's first attempt at writing a novel, the main character was an ant swept downriver on a raft. She abandoned that book after the opening scene and became caught up in other activities, which she has described as ''sissy stuff like knitting and dresses and stuffed bunnies.'' That certainly does not sound like Ms. Atwood, who is known for the boldness of her fiction. Of course she was only 7 at the time.
Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took pains to fire off several novels in a row featuring weak, manipulative, dishonest and outright bad women, partly to prove that her skepticism was distributed fairly. She has always been of the opinion that people are a mixed bag of the occasionally decent and the frequently mendacious and that there's not much anyone can do to change that fact.
Genetic tinkering. Rampant profiteering. A deadly virus that sweeps the globe. Are these last Tuesday's headlines or our future?
In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, the answer is both. For Atwood, our future is the catastrophic sum of our oversights. It's a depressing view, saved only by Atwood's biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385721676, Paperback)In Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca
(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:04:58 -0400)
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity-and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day. "Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey--with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake--through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining."--Back cover.… (more)
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How dare you! HOW DARE YOU I SAY!
This is the worst thing that has ever ever ever ever happened. Please bear with me as there will be a short pause wherein I shall compose an indignant treatise entitled, "Who is going to clean up those feathers?"
Stay right there. RIGHT there. I mean it. God damn kids.
So...did you clean up the feathers?
Bunch o' pussies (scrota?). Baseball bats.
What's a whitsle?
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a whitsle is a relentless device annoying people use to point out other people's typos.
Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!! LOL
This time people cleaned up the mess after the fight. They did a decent job too. Does anyone know how they managed to get cops to block the road off?
This meme stopped being interesting about 5 minutes before it began.
That's cool they cleaned up. A+
Trite. Neo-kindergarten. Perma-toddlers. Emotionally arrested. This is their brand of fun. What a waste. You did that, now what?
Now I'm gonna go have other fun times while you sit and bitch and let yourself fade away into a bitter sludge in a chair you horrible fucking twat.
Now what? That's easy: Go back to school, get drunk and get stoned on Mommy's and Daddy's dime.
Wow, whata buncha curmudgeons on the slog on Saturday afternoon.
What about the pillows? My God, the pillows! Battered until they burst, spilling their essence on the cold bricks. What about the children in Sudan who have nothing to rest their suffering heads on?
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein, physicist
"It is a happy talent to know how to play."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, author and poet
"Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking"
- Tina Bruce, PhD., educator
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-Tom Robbins, author
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-Heraclitus, philosopher
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--Freidrich Froebel (Father of modern kindergarten)
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-John Cleese, actor
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- George Bernard Shaw, playwright & author
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play."
- James T. Kirk, starship captain
@7 - They cleaned up? Seriously sweet. =)
three of the most pleasurable, magical, hilarious minutes in recent memory. who in heaven's name would know that a 200+ person pillow fight in the middle of pike's place market could ever be so much fun?!! i would do it again, any day...just give me the secret locale, a soft (but sturdy) pillow, a good whistle to indicate the beginning of the battle and IT"S ON!!!!!
(thanks to adrian and ruby for the love) xoxoxo
Seattleites are stuffy and puritanical
often feels like Lutheran Church post-service coffee and hot dish politeness rules everywhere
Jeez, oft get whiny/upset at playful political argument, too.
One word comes to mind: douchebaggery. No, two words: hipster douchebaggery.
At one time we would have blamed that attitude on all the Scandanavians who lived here; nowadays I guess we have to blame it on all the upwardly mobile real-estate speculators who've moved here.
Note to Pillow Fight Organizers:
Seattle Parks Dept. called. They'll be sending you a bill for all the clean-up overtime you cheated them out of today.
Yeah, you damn kids are having your "fun", but who's going to do something about this motherfucking WEATHER? Huh? Who? Cold and wet. You got nothin'. That's what I thought.
I drank cranberry and vodkas and watched buffy. it was pretty much hella fun.
@23 I played some pinball and then settled down with pork rillette and SNL reruns. And it was 100% hella fun.
I watched the replay of Arsenal's awesome comeback today. That made me happy.
elenchos.... are you upset that they cleaned up after themselves? how about you comte? i know, they are such sellouts.
@15 and 18: spoken like true prudish, uptight Seattleites.
How many children feel the need to organize their play via mailing list and press release, invite the media to their playground, and document theirprecious playtime performances via blog and internet video?
Lets not confuse play with self-congratulatory hipster preening.
you bring up a good point. how sad is it that people need the internet to actually have fun. i had fun with my gf watching buffy, eating a 1 pm breaky of toast, eggs and bacon and drinking cocktails.
Look, right now I can't talk, OK? Those damn kids are playing stick ball on my street again and I gotta call the cops.
@25: Too bad they didn't "come back" to lead the league...
@5 Thank you for the proper usage of 'whitsle'. I'm going to use that one from here on out.
This is fucking awesome. Go these guys.
Why did a Papa John's ad just pop up in this window? No more, please.
Fnarf, your blog rules.
This was the worst kept secret of the week.
For information about future fights: tribes.tribe.net/seattlepillowfightclub
I pay my own mortgage, thanks. Work damn hard too ;-)
We don't invite the media. They pick up the info just like anyone else.
YOU should defintely come play with us!
Thanks to everyone for coming out :-)
Well, we played dodgeball tonight fir my good friend Pat Cooper's 50th B'day.
We all made fools of ourselves, and all had a good time.
We forgot about politics, we forgot about religion, we played dodgeball...and we all won.
It's just gonna take one hipster-phobe, one angry young man so fucking sick of hipsters and staged play events to fill his pillow case full of bars of soap and put a prison beating on several of these wankers to end all of this. Or to require pillow inspections before the next fake pillowfight commences. Then it's all been ruined. Oh well, maybe a giant spontaneous Twister game in a park!
hahaha bob - we're cross blogging.
See you over at HBO.
And this is fantastic, not gonna lie.
You deleted that comment of mine?
I thought you all loved irony (even to the point of such self conscious and absurd displays of it that one wonders what your daycare providers used to whisper before mommy and stepdaddy picked you all up) and nothing would be more ironic (and criminally mean) than somebody filling up a pillowcase with bars of soap and giving up a prison beating in one of these horrid events.
I'm not condoning it of course and I would hope they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law but it's only going to take one over the top hipster-phobe to ruin these things. Then, as I mentioned, one could find less aggressive displays of playful fun for groups to break out in, e.g., giant spontaneous Twister games in parks.
There's actually a Pillow Fight Club? I'm glad this wasn't a Flash Mob. That's so 2003...
This will all end when some asshole decides to put a brick in his pillow.
Oh great ... the asshole never would have thought of that and now you went and gave him the idea!
No, I'm not upset, why would I be? I wasn't the one claiming the End Of Western Civilization the last time when a few feathers got left behind. Besides, that's probably the cleanest that stretch of Pike Place has been in YEARS.
So, um, giving people props for having fun is now "prudish and uptight"? Do you by any chance work for the Bush Administration? Because that's about the only way I can think of that anyone could defend such a statement.
Back in my day, when we wanted to spread word about such an event, we were limited to such things as telephones, mimeographed announcements, and maybe a poster in the cafeteria. And of course the event would be documented by the school newspaper, so I guess by your definition, that would have made us the mid-1970's equivalent of "self-congratulating hipsters", eh?
How sad is it that people need television, and alcohol to actually have "fun"? I on the other hand spent an enjoyable evening walking in the rain, kicking rocks down the street, and rattling a stick against my neighbor's white picket fence. You just don't know what fun is.
Ah well, I guess there's just no pleasing surly curmudgeons, regardless of their age. That's why WE have the fun, and all you have is this comment board to complain about it.
I don't know about "ironic", your comment sounds more like a quote from T.S. Elliot's "Murder In The Cathedral", when Henry II, lamenting that his former friend Sir Thomas Beckett recently appointed by the King to be Archbishop of Canturbury, has now opposed yet another of his royal edicts: "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" he laments in the presence of a couple of his henchmen, who believing they've been given an order proceed to murder the rebellious Beckett. Upon hearing the news, Henry of course professes shock and remorse, not having considered anyone would have taken his words literally.
So, good job on that. When some idiot actually does what you've suggested, I'm sure you'll feel a similar sense of oblivious confusion; and we'll all know who to blame.
Finally, @36:
I'd love to, but frankly I'm too busy working to have time for organized play right now. Maybe when things settle down a bit.
Such fun - in a time of stress things like this pop up.
And I have several very old FEATHER, chicken feather - pillows in reserve. And another one with a very dried up duck head in it ( made by my grandma from her ducks, many years ago )
The duck head pillow will give this event karma to burn - my granny was akin to Mother Teresa, really.
Great fun ... and all you grumps, go get fucked, and have a pillow fight in the bedroom ... between round one and round two ... duh.
Feathers, oh my! Next time we should use them to tar and feather someone; now THAT would be fun. Maybe some of those cops just standing around being curmudgeons, yeah, they need a little fun in their lives too.
the brick part WILL be fun! Please post that too!
Are people in Seattle stuffy and repressed because of the shitty weather, or because they grew up with people who think that citations and quotes are the equivalent of mad props?
('course...it also really broadens the mind when everyone who disagrees with you is a puppy-kicking neo-Nazi, but I digress....)
Immaturity is fun! So they helped "clean up"? Yeah, feathers really clean up easily. I'll bet the fucking street still has feathers all over it. What a bunch of morons.
It's all about you.
Another angle- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_W_8TOYKfQ
Gawt dayum, there is some old, cranky, lame, boring mutherfuckers up in this joint.
Flash mobs are cool and people who don't think so are all, to put it succinctly, Frasier. Just fuckin' Frasier. Are you ok with being Frasier? Fine, then.
There's still feathers left? Still??
Kudos for cleaning up.
The stunt was old before un-original Seattleites copied it.
Still, since they didn't leave shit on the ground (reportedly), what's not to like? There's nothing wrong with lame, derivative stunts.
"Hipsters." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Ennui and snobbery are prerequisites for hipsterism. Hipsters would never, in a million years, organize anything that required as much mirth and contact with strangers as a giant pillow fight. But it's okay, I wouldn't expect old, cranky people to understand the different. They figure it's the same thing as "hippies," and we've been complaining about them for years!
Seriously, nothing brings out the Seattle grump like people having silly fun, apparently. First there are complaints about how stupid and immature this is, and then when COMTE brings the intellectual heft, he gets slammed for that too. The comment threads about these pillow fights demonstrate exactly why Seattle never has any "original" crazy hijinks.
However, this has convinced me to take part in some silly, immature fun I've been on the fence about for April Fools, because life it too short not to play. I'm not telling you what park it's in, but don't worry, there won't be feathers.
@53: I think we all define "hipster" differently.
Some people say hipsters are "adults" who refuse to grow up and spend their days engaging in whimsical bullsh-t instead of doing anything to change or improve the world.
Other people define hipsters as trendy yet socially awkward, incredibly judgmental and cynical.
Either way, it's a way to stigmatize people that lead life in a way that irks you, while at the same time acknowledging that you probably fall into one of the two camps.
I think fun can be productive and original without being twee, inane and disruptive. I also believe that it's possible to judge without building a self-image around being an arch arbiter of taste.
If a mass public pillow fight makes you happy and doesn't screw up anyone else's life, have fun, go crazy: Just don't mistake it as some sort of revolutionary act.
Here is my issue with this: it sets up a false dichotomy between the flash pillow fighters (free spirits blocking the street! fun! in on the joke! why b normal!) and those who surround them (uptight! not spontaneous! not fun! normals! not in on the joke!).
I'm all for people having fun on their own terms, but this event seems to depend upon the flash pillow fighters forcing an unsuspecting crowd to watch them have their scheduled glee.
It could be worse. It could be a flash cuddle party.
I for one would like to congratulate our pillow-wielding overlords for cleaning up the feathers afterwards!
aNYONE - fLASH dICK sUCK
fLASH TIT GROPE, yOU KNOW MEN HAVE EM TOO
wow, THIS MIGHT MAKE THIS SUMMER ONE TO REMEMBER ALONG WITH THE POLTICS
Flash, All Caps for one day???
Dawgson, can you remind me who said it was revolutionary? I forgot...
Pretty color photo in 31MAR08 Seattle PI showing Pike Place Market employees cleaning up. Caption notes that even some of the pillow kids helped out. Good kids.
Elenchos@58: We must be reading different comments because I keep reading about how pillow-fighting is some sort of triumphant act of whimsy that tears down the "grump" establishment and restores our joy in being alive.
All I'm saying: It's just a pillow fight. Let's not make a big deal of it.
Man you people who get so pissed off about pillow fights and other people having fun must be a BLAST to hang out with!
I stopped taking online comments seriously. Why? http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?3&TheMantheBoyandtheDonkey
Wet blankets and snarky people will come up with something snotty to say no matter what.
Snarkers: If anyone at the pillow fight cared about your opinion, they'd have asked you ahead of time. Nobody's going to stop doing their thing because some anonymous jerk bitches about it online.
For example, I seriously doubt anyone will pull the stick out of their butt just because of my post.
Umvue, @59:
Thank you. We promised the city we would clean up after ourselves, and that's exactly what we did. People I've never seen before chipped in; it was a great community thing. We are baking cookies tonight to thank the Pike Place cleanup crew for helping us clean up a mess they didn't make, and we'll be thanking SPD in some way for helping facilitate and keep an eye out during the process.
Dawgson, it has nothing to do with revolution; it's all about the fun. Something a few of you here could use a healthy dose of if you're this worked up about it.
This whole 'hipster' thing cracks me up. As far as my understanding of the term goes, most hipsters are too pretentious and reputation-conscious to dare attend these events. Not a single person I've met at these things has come close to falling under that description. Get a life, folks.
What's wrong with having a little fun? Nobody gets hurt, (except da poor liddle pillies), and it's really COOL that they cleaned up afterward. Part of life is not taking everything so dang seriously...
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by Paul on 09/21/11 at 06:48 PM ET
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"I understand the players' association being concerned about guys getting hurt and everything else, but I think the number one problem in this game right now is the head injuries and everybody needs to be in as soft shoulder pads can possibly be designed with still having some relative degree of safety."
-Bob McKenzie of TSN. More from McKenzie by Nick Murray of The Brunswickan at the Canadian University Press newswire.
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The Revolution Will Be Televised
by BMS on 08/31/11 at 05:30 PM ET
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As summer draws to a close, Winnipeggers are hungrier than ever for hockey. The chance to host the best in the game has Jets fans salivating – especially those lucky enough to get season tickets.
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All About Shoulder Pads
by Alanah McGinley on 08/10/11 at 03:00 PM ET
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Down Low Hockey was recently added as an advertising partner on KK, and so you may have noticed this photo (on the right) appearing on the site. Given the nature of the product, we asked the company's owner and designer, Dave Lewandowski, to answer a few questions for us.
Can you tell us how the company got started?
I designed the shoulder pads for my senior project while majoring in Industrial Design at Wentworth Institute of Design in Boston. The response to the pads was received so well that I decided to start Down Low Hockey and get the pads manufactured.
A dislocated shoulder gave me the inspiration to design a better pair of shoulder pads since I switched from small shoulder pads to big bulky pads after the injury.
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Visors/Helmet Research: Can Hockey Fans Help?
by Alanah McGinley on 05/10/11 at 12:08 PM ET
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M.I.T Ph.D. economics student, Pascual Restrepo, has reached out to us asking for a little help. He has been testing the effect of different types of facial protection on performance and playing style, having constructed a huge dataset of players' statistics and visor usage, but he still has a few questions.
The only thing missing [from] my research are important dates when different leagues made visors, helmets or cages mandatory and if there were any grandfather clauses or age requirements (for example, the NHL made helmets mandatory in 1979 with a grandfather clause that allowed veteran players to keep playing without one).
In particular I am trying to find the regulatory history (with respect to visors, mostly, but also cages or helmets) of the following leagues: Swiss, Sweden, German, British, Russian or KHL, Denmark, Finland, Czech or any other European league, LNAH, WCHL, WPHL, USHL, and NAHL, and Canadian or US minor and junior leagues.
Can anyone provide answers to Pascual's questions, or links to some definitive areas to accurately source this information?
Your help would be hugely appreciated, and Pascuel pledges to publish his data and preliminary results here on Kukla's Korner when his research is complete.
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Jimmy Howard Talks Mustangs and Masks
by Alanah McGinley on 05/09/11 at 06:31 PM ET
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From an interview the Ford Performance Group did with Jimmy Howard recently. You can also find a stash of their photos here.
FPG: "Can you tell us what the inspiration was behind the mask's design? Obviously it has a lot to do with cars and the Motor City, but is there anything in particular you can share with Mustang fans
JH: "I wanted to capture the city spirit and the auto industry being such a big deal here, so I wanted the design to involve that. And when I saw the movie 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' I fell in love with the 'Eleanor' Shelby Mustang, so I wanted to put that on the mask as a symbol of the Motor City."
FPG: "So if you were playing for another team in another city, does that mean you probably wouldn't put a Mustang on your mask?"
JH: "You know what, probably not (laughing), but I really think the car is sharp, so when I had a chance to be here and play in the Motor City, I'm proud to put a Shelby Mustang on it."
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MLX Skates: Review Coming
by The Upper Canadien on 04/28/11 at 03:51 PM ET
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Alright KK readers, I've got a scoop for you. I was recently approached by MLX Skates to test, review and keep a pair of their hockey skates. In the coming days I¹ll be taking them out for a spin and giving you an inside look into what MLX Skates can do.
I'm certainly no skate aficionado, but I was familiar with the product before I was contacted, and perhaps you are too. They are the brainchild of former Olympian Dave Cruishank, who sought out to make a more comfortable, maneuverable and effective skate for hockey players. The skates are currently worn by a slew of NHLers, such as Dustin Byfuglien, Sergei Gonchar, Jonas Hiller and Daniel Alfreddson, to name a few.
I'm looking forward to giving you a full report on what they can do. Keep an eye on this space for a full account of my MLX experience sometime in the next week.
Until then, enjoy the playoff hockey!
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Yzerman Will Ask His Players To Consider Wearing A Visor
by Paul on 04/05/11 at 11:04 PM ET
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from Damien Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times,
Steve Yzerman at the end of the season will ask Lightning players who do not wear visors to consider adding them for 2011-12.
"We don't want people getting injured," Tampa Bay's general manager said. "We want to keep their eyesight and noses in place, so it's something we would like to push moving forward."
Yzerman's statement came two days after C Vinny Lecavalier was hit in the right eye with a stick blade during Sunday's victory over the Blackhawks.
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by Paul on 04/04/11 at 08:43 PM ET
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from Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star,
He sure doesn't look much like Alexander Ovechkin — and at a little over three feet tall, he won't strike fear into the hearts of National Hockey League goaltenders.
But SlapShot XT could be the next big thing in hockey.
The prototype robot could revolutionize the production of hockey sticks and maybe, eventually, produce better slapshots.
The robot is the brainchild of University of Waterloo engineering professor John McPhee and his team of students. They believe that once their robot gets his slapshots up to 110 miles per hour — he topped out at 60 in his unveiling last month — he'll help solve the perplexing mystery revolving around the high failure rate of composite hockey sticks.
Regular KK readers may recall the Sens Hobo has spent his waking hours on this project.
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NHLPA Inks New 5-Year Deal with Reebok
by Alanah McGinley on 04/04/11 at 03:21 PM ET
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TORONTO (April 4, 2011) - The National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) today announced new five-year apparel agreements, highlighted by the continuation of its partnership with Reebok, a long-standing NHLPA licensee. In addition, the NHLPA is expanding its roster of apparel licensees to include Old Time Hockey, Knights Apparel, and Elmau & Associates.
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Players Still Not Sold On Cut Resistant Gear
by Paul on 03/25/11 at 01:01 PM ET
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from David Pollak of the Mercury News at the Bellingham Herald,
Patrick Marleau tried the cut-resistant socks for a couple practices, then decided against using them. But he was open to giving them another try during the offseason.
"I don't know what it was, it just felt a little different," he said. "It is something I'll have to get used to in the summer probably."
Devin Setoguchi, on the other hand, had no problem adjusting to cut-resistant socks that feature fluorescent orange or green toe areas. And he didn't need an actual injury to make the move - just a near-miss after he started wearing the tongues out of his skates, not held close to his upper foot and ankle by the laces
"I came back to the bench and felt a skate hit the top of my tongue," Setoguchi said. "I had a big cut on the top of my skate and if it would have been on the front of my foot it would have been pretty bad."
To this point, neither the NHL nor its players association have gotten deeply involved in the issue of cut-resistant gear, leaving teams to sort through the various equipment now in the marketplace.
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Back in 2006, critically beloved western drama 'Deadwood' was abruptly canceled by HBO, without any type of resolution for the characters. The premium cable giant has a long history of allowing its original programs to end properly, which explains why the fans, cast, and creators of 'Deadwood' still harbor resentment over the fact that the formerly teased wrap-up telefilms never came to frutition.
Well, surprisingly enough, 'Deadwood' cast member Kim Dickens recently let slip during an interview that series creator David Milch still has hope that a revival might happen, and remains fully open to the possibility. It's been nearly eight years since the show was canceled, but it appears that Milch (who would go on to create short-lived horse racing drama 'Luck' for HBO as well) isn't ready to say goodbye to the profanity laced town of Deadwood, South Dakota just yet. For the sake of fans everywhere, here's hoping he's finally able to end things the right way.
Absolutely no chance. As for the rumors genesis, I lay that at HBO's recent Deadwood apology. It took them a decade to apologize, I doubt they'll get around to reviving it.
They cancelled Deadwood for John from Cincinnati, they promptly canceled John from Cincinnata, they jerked our chain with a Milch cop show, they euthenized his self-indulgent Luck, and they just aborted his show about wasps. David Milch fans are loopy fucking cunts if they expect anything from HBO.
After reading the article I believe that a Movie to wrap up things could be on the cards in the neer future IF... fans make a big enough stink to the studio.
BUT... if fans want to se more episodes that just wont happen. To many of the cast are in other TV series and it would be a bloody nightmare for anyone to even thing of trying to arrange everyones scheduals to allow time for shooting.
So wright, text, email, PM, tweet or what ever other way there is, just keep on bombarding the studio with requests for a wrap-up movie. You never know, it worked for "FireFly" - "Farscape" & "Veronica Mars"
It would be a good excuse, as if it was needed, to rewatch the show. I certainly hope Milch and HBO can hammer out a deal.
I only just discovered Deadwood this year,what a show i only hope theres more stories to tell yet,excellent series.
Better time than any to drop a quote I guess. Also to show the people who've missed out on this truly remarkable show how well Milch handles dialog. He's indeed a wordsmith in the finest essence of the word.
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"Finally, a zombie novel that's a literary tour de force! Whitehead's post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies has a resonance well beyond the supernatural. The narrator, Mark Spitz (not that Mark Spitz), who is working with a team trying to eliminate infected stragglers in Zone One of Manhattan, recounts his experiences since the beginning of the terror. This story stayed in my mind for weeks."
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In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild-ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern-ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.
Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work-ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.
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Colson Whitehead was born and raised in New York City. His first novel, "The Intuitionist" (1999) was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway. His next work, "John Henry Days" (2001), was a "New York Times" Editor's Choice, won the Young Lions Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, "The Colossus of New York," was a N"ew York Times" Notable Book of a Year. Whitehead has also been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a MacArthur Grant. His writing has appeared in the "The New York Times," "The Village Voice," Salon, and "Newsday," He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Natasha and daughter Madeline.


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Bob Knight is an American original. Say his name, and you will get a strong and passionate response. Some like him, and some don't. But there are no fence-sitters with regard to Knight. You know where you stand on him, and you know where you stand with him.
On Sunday night, Knight decided to resign as head coach at Texas Tech. He had already decided this would be his last season at Texas Tech before handing the reins over to his son, Pat, the head coach designate. After a difficult season in which his young team had shown remarkable inconsistency, Knight saw too little for himself to gain but a few more wins and more frustration, and too little for Pat Knight to gain by waiting several more months before taking over.
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Bob Knight, the winningest men's coach in Division I basketball, has decided to step down as coach of Texas Tech. The mercurial Knight won over 900 games in 42 years at Army, Indiana and Texas Tech.
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For over 40 years the uber sauve vocalist and very romantic songwriter, 67 yr old Bryan Ferry has crafted a slate of impeccable rock albums both solo and with his band Roxy Music. But this time Ferry has thrown us a surprise curve ball with his latest, The Jazz Age, featuring the 15 piece Bryan Ferry Jazz Orchestra (of which Ferry is not a participant) time traveling back to the music of the 1920′s.
Roxy Music Redux as Big Band Swing
Ferry's concept for "Jazz Age" presents 13 instrumental only versions of his songs in and out of Roxy Music rearranged and recorded in the jazz style made popular during F.Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby era, circa 1922-1928 known as "The Roaring 20's". In that sense Ferry succeeds, but it would be too easy to dismiss this actually well executed endeavor, as some sort of curiosity or do I dare say "novelty" record. After initial shock of what at first listen sounds like the soundtrack to an old black and white Mickey mouse cartoon wears off, take a break and listen again. Forget what the songs are, and just concentrate on how energetically precise all this 20's jazz cacophony really is, a genre that F.Scott Fizgerald coined "yellow cocktail music". Check out the syncopated wood blocks used in this jazz band's arrangement of "Don't Stop The Dance" played in the style Don Redman of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra created in the 20's called "Big Band Swing".
Perfect "Yellow Cocktail Music"
Bryan Ferry has taken a huge creative chance with this album and no doubt more than a few spoil sports will add "bad career move". Like all Ferry albums before it, "The Jazz Age" packaging is tastefully designed by Ferry (who at one time was an art teacher) and peppered with classy period art by Paul Colin, 1927 . The lo-fi audio is crystal clear mono and sounds just like a pristine 20's-30's shellac record with, thank god, no embellished fake scratchy needle sounds, pops, or skips. Not all that surprising, the thirteen songs Ferry has selected here make for perfect "yellow cocktail music", like Roxy's "The Bogus Man".
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra's The Jazz Age is an interesting and enjoyable concept but I doubt I will be listening to it on any regular basis as I prefer the original Roxy versions any day. However, "Jazz Age" does make me want to dig out my Muggsy Spanier and Bix Beiderbecke albums and revisit this cultural era when popular music really did deliver a gay old time – with class. Just like Bryan Ferry. - Eric Berg
Read up on history of the Jazz Age era with this well written overview: http://www.neajazzintheschools.org/lesson2/index.php?uv=s
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Further details on the facelifted and recently introduced Toyota Yaris have been revealed. Aside from the obvious Aygo inspired design, biggest changes include a more efficient 75g/km of CO2 Hybrid model plus further mechanical changes to boost refinement and increase driving fun.
The fresh-faced model, which wears substantially redesigned front and rear bumper now features 1,000 completely new parts. For a facelift even Toyota admits the Yaris has received quite a bold overhaul but a more dramatic look for future facelifted models is something we can continue to expect from the Japanese manufacturer.
Although the interior may look largely unchanged, every surface is new and trimmed with softer materials. A larger seven-inch integrated touchscreen is now also fitted as standard, while the centre console has been raised by 23mm to reduce the length of the gearstick.
Under the now more rigid body structure, the rear suspension has been redesigned to incorporate a stiffer torsion beam with softer springs meaning improved ride quality. Improving refinement was also on the to do list, achieved through better sound insulation around the dashboard bulkhead and doors.
Available engines remain unchanged from those offered on the current model. The 1.33-litre petrol and 1.4-litre diesel engines have been fitted with a torque vectoring rod and better insulation for the exhaust to boost refinement, while the 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol and Hybrid models are now more efficient. The smaller-capacity petrol engine is the same offered in the forthcoming Aygo, with CO2 emission reduced from 110g/km to 99g/km.
The most efficient engine remains the Hybrid powertrain, with emissions cut from 79g/km to 75g/km meaning it's now exempt from the London congestion charge. Fuel economy is also claimed at 86.5mpg, up from 81mpg. Pricing for the updated Yaris range will be announced closer to the September launch.


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BRUSSELS — European officials scrambled Tuesday to stop Ireland's debt crisis from turning into another Greek-style meltdown and dragging down the euro currency, holding talks over solutions including possible help for Ireland's troubled banking system.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said that the Irish government itself is not seeking and doesn't need a European Union bailout like the one that pulled Greece back from bankruptcy in May, reiterating that his government is fully funded through mid-2011.
But support for Ireland's banks would take financial pressure off the government.
Only months after saving Greece, the 16-country eurozone has been shaken anew by concerns that Ireland will be unable to pay the cost of rescuing its banks, which ran into trouble when the country's real estate boom collapsed and risky loans stopped being repaid.
The bigger fear is that financial panic would hop from Ireland to other vulnerable nations like Portugal and Spain and threaten the stability of the euro.
The European Union's top monetary official, Olli Rehn, said the focus was on the banks as the EU works with the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and national governments to find a solution.
"The (European) Commission, together with the ECB, IMF, and the Irish authorities are working in order to resolve serious problems of the Irish banking sector and I expect that the eurogroup will support this objective," said Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn.
"This is not a matter of the survival of the euro, this is a very serious problem in the banking sector of Ireland."
Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the group of 16 nations use the euro, said that the €750 billion financial backstop eurozone governments set up together with the IMF last spring could be used to support the Irish banks.
In his speech to the Irish parliament in Dublin Cowen said Irish officials have been talking "with our European counterparts to see in what way market risks can be taken out of the equation," but declined to elaborate.
European nations are worried that the tension over Ireland's stability is making borrowing more expensive for countries like Portugal and Spain, threatening to push them to the brink of default, as happened with Greece. Containing contagion — a market panic that jumps from one weak country to the next — is the priority.
Behind Ireland stands Portugal, one of the eurozone's smaller member with 1.8 percent of its economy but one that is considered by some to have done less than the Irish to bring debt and deficits back under control. Next comes Spain, with a proportionally smaller debt burden but a dead-in-the-water economy that is so big — 11.7 percent of eurozone output — that it could present a much larger challenge if it needs help.
More tensions flared up again over Greece — which was bailed out by eurozone governments and the IMF this spring.
Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell said that Austria hasn't yet released its contribution to the next tranche of the €110 billion emergency loan because the country hadn't fulfilled the requirements of the bailout agreement.
"If they miss the targets we need to have a discussion," Proell said. "I'm prepared to pay out the tranche once the figures fit."
The EU statistics agency on Monday said Greece's 2009 budget deficit was much higher than previously expected. To receive the next portion of the loan, Athens has to cut its deficit by a certain amount every year.
Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou defended his country's performance. "Greece during 2010 performed the largest consolidation effort ever seen in the eurozone," he said. "We will fully respect our 2011 targets and intend to take all necessary measures."
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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
May 27 – July 3, 2016
Senior Art Majors Exhibition, Leech, Hoffmaster and Kohler Galleries
The annual exhibition of artwork by Lawrence University's senior studio art majors.
Exhibition opening reception with refreshments on Friday, May 27 at 6:00 p.m.
July 15 – August 14, 2016
Wriston Summer Exhibition Series: Schomer Litchner and Ruth Grotenrath
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The Wriston Summer Exhibition Series is an annual summer exhibition intended to engage the Fox Valley community in a conversation about artworks and artists of the Midwest.
Schomer Litchner (1905-2006) and Ruth Grotenrath (1912-1988) were known as Wisconsin's "first couple of painting." This exhibition will showcase works in the Lawrence University permanent art collection, which were donated by the Kohler Foundation, Inc. of Kohler, WI.


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Police said Jacobs father, Frank Johnson, 40, reported March 10 that his son had caused him severe injuries in an assault at his Landgove home.
Frank Johnson later told police that Jacob Johnson had been drinking before they argued. The father said his son began to choke him until Jacobs girlfriend, Elizabeth Merrill, 19, of Londonderry interfered.
Frank Johnson said he asked his 9-year-old son, Timothy Johnson, to call police but Merrill allegedly stopped the boy.
Police said Jacob Johnson began assaulting his father again, punching him repeatedly in the head and face. Timothy jumped on top of his father to protect him, which cause Jacob Johnson to stop, police said.
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GER 403 History of German Literature and Culture from Classicism through the 20th Century
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Type: Event | Date: Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010Includes:The Ghost Ship (1943) Queen of the Damned (2002), MPAA Rating: R Dreamcatcher (2003), MPAA Rating: R Gothika (2003), MPAA Rating: R The Ghost Ship RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars as the ship's captain, a tortured soul who teeters on the verge of madness. Seaman Russell Wade notices the captain's deterioration, but his warnings are dismissed by the crew. Captain Dix completely goes over the edge, sadistically playing a game of cat and mouse with the luckless Wade--and endangering the lives of everyone on board. While the viewer may notice that Ghost Ship closely resembles the Jack London tale The Sea Wolf, playwrights Samuel R. Golding and Norbert Faulkner felt that the film was too close for comfort to an unproduced play of their own. The writers sued RKO, forcing the studio to withdraw Ghost Ship from theatres and prohibiting future TV showings. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Queen of the Damned The second and third novels in author Anne Rice's popular book series The Vampire Chronicles provide the inspiration for this horror sequel starring ill-fated actress and recording artist Aaliyah, who was killed in an airplane crash before the film's release. Stuart Townsend is the vampire Lestat, who has awakened from a century-long slumber and turned his considerable energy to rock music. His vampirism identity mistaken for a gothic hard rock publicity stunt along the lines of Kiss or Marilyn Manson, he quickly becomes a pop music sensation. Lestat's powerful music reaches the ear of the slumbering Akasha (Aaliyah), the millennia-old "queen of the vampires" who was the first immortal bloodsucker. Akasha is soon free and embarking on a quest to seize control of the world with Lestat at her side. In the meantime, Lestat becomes an object of fascination for Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau), member of a secret order studying the supernatural called the Talamasca, and a band of ancient vampires come together in an effort to stop Akasha, even though her destruction could potentially cause their own deaths. Queen of the Damned co-stars Lena Olin and Vincent Perez. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide Dreamcatcher Four men are changed forever by an act of mercy -- changes which have a profound impact many years later -- in this blend of horror and science fiction based on a novel by Stephen King. Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Henry (Thomas Jane), Pete (Timothy Olyphant), and Beaver (Jason Lee) were four friends who, as schoolboys, rescued a boy with Down's Syndrome, Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), from a savage beating at the hands of bullies. Their experience with Duddits left the boys profoundly changed, as they discovered they had developed psychic powers which allowed them to wordlessly communicate with one another, read the minds of others, and see events in the future. The four remained close friends into adulthood, and meet every year for a weekend get-together at a remote hunting lodge. However, one year Jonsey is approached by the spirit of Duddits, which leads him into a severe auto accident, though his wounds heal with mysterious speed and are gone by the time he and the guys get together a few months later. As the guys drink and swap stories, a desperately ill hunter makes his way into the cabin, whose body has become the host for a horrible wormlike creature, which breaks free and soon goes on a killing spree, leaving only Henry alive. In the wake of this attack comes a massive snowstorm, and Henry learns that these events are the first signs of a major attack by a powerful alien force which can assume any form it wishes. As duplicitous military leader Col. Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman) comes in to quell the menace, Henry finds himself in communication with the late Jonsey, whose previous near-death experience gives him an unexpected advantage in stemming the alien tide. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Gothika A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her attention to a clever but deeply disturbed murderer named Chloe (Penélope Cruz), who shares gruesome tales of torture and violence that may or may not be based in fact. One night, Miranda has a hideous nightmare in which a chance meeting with a strange young girl leads to a terrifying journey into madness. Once she wakes, however, Miranda discovers that the real horror has just begun -- Doug has been brutally murdered, and the evidence points to Miranda as the prime suspect. She soon finds herself a patient in the same facility where she once treated others, and finds that her claims of innocence and sanity do little to convince Dr. Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr.), the psychologist assigned to her case. Gothika marked the American debut of acclaimed and controversial French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP): a syndrome in which a gene mutation that influences the development of colon, rectal, and other cancers is inherited. People with FAP usually have hundreds, and sometimes thousands of pre-cancerous polyps, or growths developing at a very early age. FAP is defined as the presence of more than 100 benign (adenomatous) polyps in the large intestine at one examination. Some people with FAP with a mild version of the disease have less than 100 adenomas; in these individuals the diagnosis is made by family history, or by finding the mutation during genetic testing. If untreated, cancers will develop in 100% of cases. Treatment is a total colectomy.
Fecal diversion: the surgical creation of an opening of part of the colon (colostomy) or small intestine (ileostomy) to the surface of the skin. The opening provides a passageway for stool to exit the body.
Fecal incontinence: also called accidental bowel leakage. The inability to retain stool, resulting in bowel accidents.
Fecal occult blood test: test used to detect blood in the stool. To screen for colon cancer, the test is recommended every year starting at age 50, This test can be done in addition to the flexible sigmoidoscopy test every 5 years.
Fistula: an abnormal connection that forms between two internal organs or between two different parts of the intestine. This is a common complication of Crohn's disease.
Flexible sigmoidoscopy: a routine outpatient procedure in which the inside of the lower large intestine (called the sigmoid colon) is examined. Flexible sigmoidoscopies are commonly used to evaluate bowel disorders, rectal bleeding, or polyps (usually benign growths), and to screen people over age 50, with a barium enema for colon and rectal cancer. During the procedure, a physician uses a sigmoidoscope (a long, flexible instrument about 1/2 inch in diameter) to view the lining of the rectum and the large intestine. The sigmoidoscope is inserted through the rectum and advanced into the large intestine (colon) to view the lining of the rectum and the lower third of the large intestine (sigmoid colon).


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Halloween is all about the tricks and treats, but it is not uncommon for it to cause some anxiety for parents.
Many states, including Georgia and Florida have laws were sex offenders are prohibited from giving out candy, called "No Candy Laws".
Alabama does not have any of these laws.
The Dothan Police Department is teaming up with the Houston County Sheriff's Office, to be checking on these offenders. Authorities recommend that trick-or-treaters make a route before going out for candy.
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Pray in private, part II
Published: Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 9:01 a.m.
Recently a letter writer to the Times-News took me to task for attacking public prayer. In one of my columns last month I asked where were the prayer closets of todays evangelicals?
She said I should be more tolerant and not expect everyone to pray in the same tradition. Listen lady, it aint me who expects it and demands it. It is Jesus Himself.
My question to the letter writer is, does she know her own scripture? It doesnt sound like it! If she is going to defend prayer in the Bible she needs to be more familiar with what Christ taught. He said there was only one way to pray: His way. Here is what he taught and expects:
In the sixth chapter of Matthew, Jesus proclaims: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets that they may be seen by men. Verily I say unto you they have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. (Note how there is no recommendation by Jesus for public prayer it is in fact condemned)!
Jesus goes on to preach against putting on a sad countenance and disfiguring the face in a false show. This would also include, as I said in my previous column, waving arms around or giving the fascist salute while praying. All of this is false show. Too much look at me standing at the flag pole aint I spiritual!
Nowhere did Jesus invite young people to pray publicly at the flag pole or anywhere else where they can strut their stuff before men.
The true place for each student to pray is by themselves, separately, in a room where only God can see them and know their hearts in secret. While it isnt as dramatic or popular as gathering at the flag pole it is the way Jesus taught and commanded.
There is something absolutely belligerent about todays version of Christianity. I call it in your face Christianity. Im right, sucker and you are wrong. Youre going to hell and I aint.
We have it in our pulpits. We have it dripping from Uriah Heepish politicians. We see it in letters to the Times-News. Bible verses are quoted to mask some of the worst mean-spirited evil I have ever witnessed.
Belligerent Christianity is an oxymoron. It is the opposite of the true genius of the teachings of the Prince of Peace. For His genius is humbleness and love. Love for all living things.
When was the last time we saw humble Christians? It is not bitterness and desire to always be correct as shown by so many who profess Christ and have Him not in their hearts.
These are the same who will cry on the day of judgement, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? And in Thy name have cast our demons and in Thy name done many wonderful works?
And one might add, In Thy name have we not been seen and listened to by men as we prayed on television and radio and rock and roll music festivals?
Lord, dont forget we were always first at the flag pole. In Thy name werent we spiritual O Lord?
Imagine hearing the Godly judgement upon them: And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
True prayer is wonderful, real and living. Sky rockets into heaven, said the famous Asheville writer, Thomas Wolfe.
Jesus taught; Let prayer be done correctly. Let it be done the Godly way with Godly hearts. In private. Note Jesus operative teaching, In private. When thou hast shut thy door.
Let Christians cease this belligerent sanctimonious and shallow display of prayer. Let Christians cease hiding behind the smoke screen of Bible verses to cover their bitterness and anger and hatred. It is only playing the devils game and guess who wins?
True Christians do not need the approval of men or any of todays modern claptrap in order to harvest the power of God. All Christians need is the quiet confidence that God loves them, no matter what, no questions asked. What greater love is there?
It is time todays Christians profess and possess that same great love.
Deeds, not words.
Truth, not hypocrisy.
Love and compassion, not dogma.
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The Rev. Charles Francis Lawter, 73, died Saturday, April 3, 2010. Funeral services will be at Moody-Connolly Funeral Home Chapel Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The family will receive friends this evening from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Moody-Connolly Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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This is a wonderful nonprofit that happens to also be a wonderful client and appreciative community participant. The Dominican... more »
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I can't say enough about this organization. As watchdogs of the Hudson River, they have had a huge impact on improving the health... more »
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I'm a member of a vibrant service club that is both local and international. As a club, we raise funds for local causes. As a... more »
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