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Man indicted in robbery, murder of 70-year-old vet
A Buffalo man has been charged in the fatal March 28 shooting and robbery of a 70-year-old man in the victim's East Side home.
Andre Johnson, 20, of Wilson Street, was indicted last week on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree robbery in the attack on Robert C. Bennett Sr. in his C Street home in the Fillmore-Sycamore neighborhood, according to Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III.
Johnson was arrested June 3 and is in custody. He will be arraigned at 9:30 a.m. Thursday before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller.
Bennett was found dead in his house March 29, after a next-door relative had looked in a window and noticed he was on a couch, then, hours later, looked in again, and realized Bennett had not moved, according to police and family members.
After Bennett's body was found, his son, Robert C. Bennett Jr., told The Buffalo News his father served multiple tours of duty in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s, only to be shot and killed inside his own residence.

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In the early days of mining, operations were basic—identify where the commodity might be buried, dig a hole and send people in to retrieve it. For generations, this was the norm even though this process had drawbacks—most notably, the dangers that miners faced every second that they were underground.
Today's mining operations barely resemble those of the past, with sophisticated equipment and systems making the identification of lodes (deposits of metalliferous ore that fill or are embedded in a fissure in a rock formation) more precise and the retrieval of the commodity more effective. Perhaps the most important advance in mining operations is the increased determination to make the operation as safe as possible for the miner, the communities in which the mines operate and the environment.
The dedication to improved safety has paid off. For example, in early 2013, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that the fatality rate in U.S. mines was at its lowest ever in 2012, based on the number of man-hours that were worked during the year. Additionally, the MSHA reported that work-related fatalities in mines totaled 36 in 2012, which was one more than the lowest-ever total of 35 in 2009.
Mining safety is most precarious in underground mines. Advances in the methods used to dig mines and to shore up shafts have helped mitigate much of the potential for cave-ins, collapses and explosions. Ensuring the safety of the mine infrastructure is just one part of the equation, however. Within those mines, many different types of equipment are required during the exploration and extraction processes. One of the most common is industrial pumps, which are used for many applications within a mining operation.
Some air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps feature the operational reliability that is paramount to the success of a mining operation. They also operate safely to help prevent mining accidents.
The Challenge
Pumps are pushed to their limits in mining operations. Nearly all mining processes occur in extremely harsh conditions, and the pumps are tasked with handling a wide range of solids, abrasives and particulate-ridden liquids. AODD pumps are often selected for these unforgiving tasks because their design enables them to outperform other pump styles.
However, not all AODD pumps are created equal. Excessive downtime can limit a mining operation. Production delays can have an adverse effect on the mine's cost-effectiveness. For this reason, the AODD pump technology must reliably meet the needs of demanding mining operations.
Too often, manufacturers of AODD pumps do not take the time to create a pump that can stand up to the rigors of the mining site. This can result in a pump that will potentially fail catastrophically when used in an unsuitable application.
This delays production and puts mine-site personnel at risk of injury or death. Pumps that are less durable are also likely to require more basic maintenance, which will result in increased downtime and added ancillary costs for the mining company.
Some AODD pump models may struggle to deliver the discharge pressures and flow rates that are required for severe-duty pumping. This weakness can hamper production rates and increase the risk of pump breakdowns and the potential for a catastrophic failure that can lead to increased safety risks.
The Solution
One type of AODD pump technology has proven successful when used in severe-duty mining applications. Mine operators use these pumps in many applications, including:
- Froth flotation for particulate separation in slurries
- Leaching of commodity byproducts
- Transfer and treatment of mine tailings
- Wash bays for large-scale machinery and vehicles
- Above- and below-ground dewatering
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- Explosive atmospheres
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- Soap dispensing through onsite bath houses
A specific, clamped metal AODD pump incorporates many design enhancements that make it a first choice for many mine operators. Chief among these are a shock-absorbing polyurethane screen base that absorbs the impact from solid particles and increased internal clearances to prevent aggregate entrapment, resulting in maximized durability. These pumps also feature an integrated suction strainer with the option of plumbed suction, if needed.
A new air distribution system (ADS) allows the user to control flow rates and air consumption with the turn of a dial. They are available in three sizes: 38 millimeters (1½ inches), 51 millimeters (2 inches) and 76 millimeters (3 inches). All are available in either aluminum or ductile-iron construction materials, are submersible, intrinsically safe and lube-free. They can run dry, have anti-freezing properties and can handle pressures up to 125 psi. Depending on the model, flow rates range from 305 to 776 liters per minute (81 to 205 gallons per minute).


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Location: Subtropical Horticulture ResearchTitle: Efficacy of essential oil lures for detection of redbay ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Author
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Submitted to: Florida Entomological Society Annual Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/19/2011
Publication Date: 7/25/2011
Citation: Kendra, P.E., Niogret, J., Montgomery, W.S., Sanchez, J., Pena, J.E., Epsky, N.D., Heath, R.R. 2011. Efficacy of essential oil lures for detection of redbay ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Florida Entomological Society Annual Meeting. 7/25/2011. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The redbay ambrosia beetle (RAB) is a wood borer that vectors laurel wilt, a lethal vascular disease of trees in the Lauraceae, including avocado. Field tests and chemical analyses were conducted with commercial lures of manuka oil and phoebe oil to (1) compare efficacy of lures for capture of RAB, (2) compare captures in Lindgren funnel traps versus sticky traps, (3) evaluate lure longevity in Florida, and (4) determine release rates of putative attractants.


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Eating Baby Poop - Good for you?
I, can't even believe ther was a study on this.
Researchers say baby poop may be the key to making sausage healthier. Bacteria from the baby waste could potentially transform cured meats like pepperoni and salami into foods that have health benefits similar to probiotic yogurts. The two kinds of bacteria used most often in probiotics are much more abundant in infant feces than adult excrement, so scientists gathered samples from healthy infants and made sausages with it. They found that not only were the sausages better for you, they also tasted just like regular, non-poop sausages. Not sure if they'll be able to market that to normal consumers, though!
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Meets 1st Tuesday of every month to help Conservatives Republicans in Wake!
On Tuesday, our guest speaker was Daniel Nelson with the Vote for Marriage NC. He was very informative and very comprehensive in his discussion as to the upcoming vote on May 8th. He pointed out that the left has tons of money to pour into this debate and has once again, attempted to re-define the argument.
You may have heard the term, Amendment One, and I admit to using it in preparation for this meeting. There is no such thing as Amendment One. It was made up by the left as a marketing strategy. It is easier to say vote against Amendment One instead of saying, vote against marriage as defined for centuries. The left has been redefining and creating terminology to better market their losing arguments. You have heard Pro-Choice instead of what it really is, pro-abortion. This has led to the right doing the same in many instances such as we are now Pro-Life instead of anti-abortion. It is time we quit letting the left define the argument.
Daniel also spoke about the ramifications of this bill not only locally, but nationally. As the other states who have adopted Marriage Amendments, these laws have been and will continue to be challenged in the courts. As such, North Carolina's amendment vote next month will be used by the winning side with their arguments before the courts. This is why it is important that this amendment passes in May. We need to stand up and be counted among those states who will not sanction same-sex marriages.
The argument has been used that the proponents of same-sex marriages want the same rights that all heterosexual Americans have. This is once again, redefining the argument. They have the same rights that heterosexual Americans have, they have the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. They want a "special" right to marry anyone they choose. This falls in the face of those attempting to draw comparisons with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The Civil Rights movement was about those who were not given the same rights as white Americans, especially in the South. During this time, many Southern states had legislation that gave black restrictions on their God-given rights. However, the proponents of same-sex marriages are not trying to give them the same rights, they already have them. They want to redefine, yes, there's that word again. They want to redefine marriage to give them special rights. Why should they have "special rights"?
Marriage has been under attack for generations and it is time we stand up and make our collective voices known. It is enough. We can no longer stand by and watch our families disappear. Do you know that over 75% of all African American children are born out of wedlock? Do you realize that currently over 60% of white American babies are born out of wedlock? When did it become acceptable to be irresponsible? If it is not stopped here and now, what will be next for the family? In some countries where they have redefined marriage, people are marrying their pets. We have had cases here in the U.S. where this has occurred. Of course, they were not legal, but what is to say it is not legal if marriage is not defined.
I imagine our founding fathers never thought in a million years that this subject would ever arise or I am sure they would have defined it in the Constitution. We have fallen so far, but it is not to late to change course and get our nation back on the right track.
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Thursday, March 16
PROJECT 20 (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "End of the Trail," the last stand of the Great Plains Indians against the white man's encroaching civilization in the 1870s. Spliced together from historic photographs and current films of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. Walter Brennan does the narration.
RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The 1967 edition, with Dale Evans and Roy Rogers in center ring.
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). In Anastasia, Lynn Fontanne, Julie Harris, Robert Burr and Paul Roebling dramatize the still...


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Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)
Dedede has stolen all the food in Dream Land, and Kirby must get them back before everyone starves! This was the first Kirby game released, and Kirby was white, not pink. You cannot save, but the game is short. It has four levels (each with a boss) and is very easy. In the fifth level, you fight all the bosses again before fighting Dedede as the final boss. Also, after you win, you get to play the Extra Game, which is the same except some things have changed to make the game a lot harder. You may have trouble beating Green Greens in the Extra Game. When that is beaten, you will be able to go to Config mode and configure the hitpoints, lives, etc.
Kirby's Adventure (NES):
Oh, no! Dedede is bathing in the fountain of dreams and everyone has nightmares when they sleep now! Later, you find out that Dedede is actually doing this to hide the Star Rod from Nightmare. This is a very fun game but with a stupid name considering that all Kirby games are adventures. This game was the first game that you could save and the first game with color. Fight through all 8 levels to win the game!
Kirby's Pinball Land (Game Boy):
Dedede is challenging Kirby to a pinball game. Kirby becomes a pinball and must battle through the pinball lands and beat Dedede! This pinball game is a fun and challenging game!
Kirby's Dream Course (SNES):
One night, the inhabitants looked at the sky. It was pitch-black, without a single star! The people became so worried that they stopped sleeping and eating meals. Weeks passed, until someone said, "I think Dedede's behind all this." Rumors spread. Kirby must now defeat King Dedede (again) in this golf-type game. (I think this is by far the most boring Kirby game!)
Kirby's Avalanche (SNES):
There is an avalanche contest in Dream Land! Many people are competing for the gold trophy, including Kirby! Can Kirby win? Compete through the competitors and find out! Strangely, in most Kirby games, Kirby never makes a sound, but in this game, Kirby is shown insulting is opponents in full sentences. That was because technically, Kirby's Avalanche wasn't a Kirby game. It was just Super Puyo Puyo with different sprites and music.
Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Game Boy)
Dark Matter, the evil villain, strikes! Join Kirby, Rick the Hamster, Coo the Owl, and Kine the Fish on their quest to solve the mystery of the rainbow island. This game is far from similar to its prequel because it is more challenging, longer, more fun, and you can save. Selling more than a million units, this game was a hit. Interestingly enough, this game was about to have a remake on the Game Boy Color, but it was canceled.
Kirby's Block Ball (Game Boy):
Kirby in must break through all the the blocks and face the final boss, King Dedede! Good luck, Kirby! It is a breakout game with many interesting twists, such as abilities and paddles on top, left, and right as well as the bottom.
Kirby Super Star (SNES):
This game is well-named; it's 8 (9?) in 1! Play through Spring Breeze (a remake of Kirby's Dream Land), Dyna Blade, Gourmet Race, Great Cave Offensive, Revenge of Meta Knight, Milky Way wishes, the sub-games (Megaton Punch and Samurai Kirby), and finally, the Arena, where you fight all the bosses of the game one by one. This was the first game where you pressed different button combinations to make ability combos.
Kirby's Star Stacker (Game Boy):
You need to help Kirby, Coo, Kine, and Rick stack the stars. It's very simple: just sandwich stars between identical friends. So what are you waiting for?
Kirby's Dream Land 3 (SNES):
One day, Kirby and his friend, Gooey went fishing on a hot summer day. Suddenly, Dark Matter appeared and black clouds rolled everywhere! Hurry, Kirby, Popstar's in trouble! This game gives you a "scribbly" feeling when you play it. Kirby has lost his unique abilities and kept the basic abilities. However, Rick, Coo, and Kine are back from Kirby's Dream Land 2 and you can pair up with them. In addition, Pitch the bird, Chuchu the octopus, and Nago the cat are also there for you to pair up with. Also, if you call Gooey up, he will be your sidekick and will attack any enemy he sees. Remember: just like the other games, you have not really won until you got 100% from finishing all the quests and got every bonus. Unlike Kirby's Dream Land 2, most people missed this game. The reason? The game was released OVER a year after the Nintendo 64, the next-generation Nintendo console, was released.
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (Nintendo 64):
On the planet Ripple Star, fairies and gnomes lived peacefully. But the ghost of Dark Matter seeked their special talisman, the Fairy Crystal. One day, Dark Matter invaded. Clouds rolled everywhere. A fairy named Ribbon got onto the crystal and fled. Dark Matter was too fast and he broke the Crystal into millions of shards. Still holding onto a shard, Ribbon fell, fell, fell and landed right on Kirby. She told him what happened. With 3 more friends: Dedede, Waddle Dee (Dedede's servant), and Adeleine (a painter), Kirby is on his quest to find the shards. This was the first 3D game but the gameplay is strictly 2D. The game was the only N64 Kirby game released. There was another game called Kirby's Air Ride but it was cancele.
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (Game Boy Color):
It is a peaceful day in Pop Star and little Kirby naps on a cloud. Suddenly, Waddle Dee scurries by and he looks really busy. And then there goes Dedede with something big...what could they be up to now? Kirby jumps onto his warp star (his source of power and travel) to find out. But awaiting him is Dream Land without its stars... This is a delightful and incredibly original game in which you tilt your game boy the direction you want Kirby to move. Beat all 8 levels to face the final boss, King Dedede!
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Game Boy Advance):
This is a remake of Kirby's Adventure, since Kirby's Adventure was so popular. Normally, a remake wouldn't be really exciting, but the graphics are so fresh and colorful that it doesn't look like a remake. Even though there are some areas changed in Nightmare in Dream Land, a person who has played Kirby's Adventure would easily recognize the levels, enemies, and bosses in this game have a trip down memory lane.
Kirby Air Ride (Gamecube):
This was the first Kirby game for Gamecube and is a racing game. Ride different vehicles (including the warp star), copy different abilities, collect different bonuses, play different modes, and most importantly, have fun! You can also race your friends in multiplayer. There are lots of secrets, extras, and surprises in this fun-packed game. There was a game called Kirby's Air Ride for the Nintendo 64, but it was canceled and was completely different from this game.
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror (Game Boy Advance):
Dark Mind, the evil sorcerer, has called Dark Meta Knight to break the mirror in Mirror World! Dark Meta Knight attacks Kirby, and slashes him into four different clones. One is green, another is yellow, and the last one is red. Meta Knight has a strong role in the game because Dark Meta Knight traps him in the mirror and Kirby must help Meta Knight escape. Now you can have 3 helpers on your quest (different-colored clones Kirby) that you can call over to help. Similar to Super Star, many abilities have combo moves, which makes each ability much more interesting. Also, this game is unique in the fact that it is not linear like most Kirby games. Instead, finding different interconnected paths to the rainbow world. There are many paths you can take, so you have to choose wisely.
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Sometime next year, sidearms with names like Smith and Wesson and Colt, or any other brand different than Glock, are to disappear from the sides of Mille Lacs County deputies.
In their place will be only Glock pistols with 9 mm ammunition.
It is part of a new policy at the Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office, in which the department will issue the firearms for its 37 officers, replacing the old policy where officers could use their pistol of choice as long as those fell within certain guidelines. For example, the pistols would have to use only ammunition in one of three sizes – 9 mm, and .40 and .45 calibers, according to Mille Lacs County Chief Deputy Kent Larson.
The Mille Lacs County Board approved Sheriff Brent Lindgren's request Dec. 17 to purchase 40 Glock 9 mm pistols from Keepers of Sauk Rapids under the state bid price of $409 each, for a total of $16,360 with shipping.
The money will come out of the sheriff department's forfeited property sale fund and from miscellaneous revenue accounts, totaling close to $17,266.
The sheriff's department recently finished forfeited arms and vehicle sales for 2013 and placed close to $15,742 of that into the sheriff's forfeiture drug account and placed close to $6,666 into one miscellaneous account and close to $1,580 into another miscellaneous account for a total of $23,988. After paying the state and prosecuting attorneys their share of the forfeiture money, it left the county nearly $17,266 to draw on for purchasing new pistols for department issue.
Lindgren explained the advantages of going to a department-issue policy for the duty handguns when he made his request to the county board Dec. 17.
Having one standard department-issued firearm for every deputy will better enable the department to give a deputy who has discharged their firearm a replacement. Lindgren explained that whenever there is an officer-involved shooting, the officer's firearm is taken as evidence during the investigation into what happened. With a department firearm in reserve, it can be given quickly to the deputy, Lindgren said. The department wouldn't want a deputy at a shooting scene standing without a firearm, Lindgren added.
Another advantage of the policy is that there is only one type of ammunition to purchase and keep in stock, Lindgren noted. Still another advantage is only having to have one armorer in the department. An armorer is a person skilled to tear down a firearm and repair it. Only needing to have one in the department will result in cost savings, Lindgren said.
The Princeton Police Department has a department-issued firearm policy and the pistol Princeton police carry is a Smith and Wesson M&P that uses .45 caliber ammunition.
Mille Lacs County Board chairman Phil Peterson asked Lindgren what happens to the .45 caliber ammunition left over that will no longer be used in the department. Lindgren answered that the officers will use it up while conducting shooting training for certification purposes.
Lindgren said he expects to put in the order for the new Glocks in February and that the transition into the new policy will take place during this coming summer's training sessions.
Commissioner Tim Wilhelm asked if the department-issued firearms are only to be used while on duty, and Lindgren answered yes.


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Gabby Haze Live Concert
When Saturday March 23, 2013 @ 9:30 PM (1586 days ago)
Where Common Grounds Coffee House
Duration 2 hours
CAC is bringing Gabby Haze to perform LIVE in Common Grounds Coffee House at EMU! Americana, Folk Rock, and Blues all come together when Gabby Haze mixes tight harmonies and an unusual assortment of instruments including autoharp, sax, flute, acoustic guitar, keyboard, harmonica, drums, congas, various percussion instruments and stand up bass. The result is a selection of original songs written by band members Dave Magnone and Dan Layman along with covers of The Beatles, John Prine, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Bob Dylan, John Sebastian, Hootie Ledbetter, Steve Goodman and Hank Williams. When Gabby Haze does covers, they don't try to sound like the original artists, they play the tunes in their own style.
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Subject: Re: [TSL] immigration into Toronto 1910
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:48:07 -0300
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At 12:00 PM 2001-08-18 -0500, carolyn erickson wrote:
>Is there a site I can find records for immigration into Toronto,Can. by
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There is no easy way. These records are unindexed. There are about 550
ship arrival records for ships bringing immigrants to Canada via Canadian
and US ports in 1910. The easy route is Quebec during the summer months,
but during the winter, Saint John, N.B. or Halifax, N.S. or Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, any time.
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Passenger lists by Port - 1865-1935 - Microfilm reels
The LDS do not have copies of post 1900 arrivals, but you can borrow the
microfilms from Ottawa through Inter Library Loan. You can find the
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As you most likely have heard, our LA Venue (The Music Box) closed its doors last week due to dramatic happenings within the business. As a result, all future events at the venue are at a standstill until the building owner negotiates a deal with new management. This could take a week or a year to hash-out, so we have decided to postpone the event for about a month to find ourselves a new, suitable location for The Ball and all its glory. We do have a few options and are confident that we will have something locked down in the very near future. Our new target date for Edwardian Ball LA is the beginning to mid-March subject to venue availability. We will let you all know as soon as we have found our new venue and date.
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Watch as she fools the blindfolded contestants by talking through her nose.
When the kitchen doorbell rings George must be blindfolded and sent to open the door.
In one of them he found 15-year-old photographs of a blindfolded girl wearing antlers: Marie Fontenot.
The three were presented to the press on Sunday morning blindfolded, manacled to chairs and showing signs of severe beatings.
According to his testimony, he was hand-cuffed, blindfolded, and taken to several different locations where the abuse began.
A blindfolded boy cannot tell which side of his nose is nearest to a suspended orange.
There she saw Walter Haviland, blindfolded and with a rope about his waist.
Half way to the shore he was taken into a French canoe, blindfolded, and taken ashore.
One player who is blindfolded stands in the center of the room.
You remember that Jimmy Rabbit had said that this was to be a dance without music, and that everybody had to be blindfolded, too.
1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c.1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.
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I have used Aquamid (permanent filler) in my upper lip (7 years ago). Now I want to have Restylane injected because Aquamid is not used anymore in the clinic. Is this combination safe?
Is the Aquamid and Restylane Combination Safe?
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Filler combinations and safety
There is a very small chance that you might develop a reaction years from now from the Aquamid. If you get a reaction in the next year, you might think it's the Restylane when, in fact, it is the Aquamid that became active because of the local interference by the physical injections of the Restylane on the natural defenses walling off the Aquamid. Some latent infections might have occurred in such a way. The Aquamid could wall of bacteria called a biofilm and the new filler can upset such a capsule liberating bacteria in the soft tissue and infection develops. Otherewise, many doctors do use multiple fillers in the tissues whether at the same time or separately.
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You never know what is going to happen with an unapproved filler, unfortunately
There is no way that you (or the surgeon, for that matter) can know what will happen when you inject Restylane over the Aquamid. It is a product that still isn't available in the US and it appears unlikely it will be. Most of the permanent fillers have been implicated in problems that are either short term or long term and we still don't know what will come out in the future.
You can always try to get the Restylane if you don't mind that it may have some problems due to the existing Aquamid, but I would go slowly the first time and let your surgeon know that you have Aquamid on board. Just a caution: I wouldn't go back to the person who injected the initial Aquamid as they are obviously not careful and were wrong in injecting an unapproved product in the first place.
Facial injections with fillers, Restylane
Dear Snoopy nl
Aquamid is not approved in the US for a reason. They have not submitted any data for the long term results- of a permanent filler. Aquamid is attracted to water and so is Restylane. Combiining the 2 fillers may result in a reaction and if you develop a reaction to Aquamid- there is no uniform protocol to treat it. The complications with the long term fillers like Aquamid were not reported for a long period of time. Now they are starting to surface.
For now, i would not mix the fillers.
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Who injected the Aquamid?
Since I have never used Aquamid I am curious who injected this material into your lips? Were you pleased with the outcome. In answer to your question I do believe it is OK to now inject Restylane.
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Jesus, I'm sorry I do bad things. Please forgive me...
The ATS Ministries Light Up the Night site reminds believers
By distributing ATS tracts along with candy (or the special ATS Fun Paks that include a toy) you can provide each and every child that comes to your door with an evangelistic presentation...
And it answers concerns that if participating in Trick or Treat is joining in a devilishly pagan ritual:
By choosing to evangelize on Halloween, Christians can shine the True Light on what is possibly one of the darkest nights of the year.
The American Tract Society has been publishing leaflets for the Lord since 1825 and never misses a trick for connecting through popular culture. Elections? TV tie-ins? Cartoon knock-offs? All have been redone with a bite-size invite to find God or face damnation.
When I wrote about their Halloween efforts years ago, Shey Wakely of Falls Church, Va., a Buddhist, was astonished when she found You've Got a Friend, a tract emblazoned with Toy Story's cowboy Woody and packaged with candy, in the treat buckets toted home by her two children.
She called it "completely inappropriate for Halloween, a night for children to have fun."
Few ignore Halloween. Many churches around the country handle it by setting up haunted houses that draw families to their door for fun and proselytizing. I don't know if he advocates tweeting with tracts, but Rev. Rick Warren told his bazillion Twitter followers this weekend:
Halloween is an opportunity to share Jesus with your community.
DO YOU THINK... talking about God, even dropping a leaflet on salvation amid Halloween sweets, is appropriate? Or should people refrain from pitching their faith to strangers' children?
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Three Continents On The Westerdam: Westerdam Cruise Review by Marconeon
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Three Continents On The Westerdam
Destination: Europe - Eastern Mediterranean
Embarkation: Athens (Piraeus)
This cruise caught our eye as it was a one-off exotic cruise visiting Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Russia and Ukraine on a Vista-Class Ship, we quickly jumped on the opportunity of this once in a lifetime cruise.
Hotel Info
Before starting the cruise in Athens, we stayed for 2 Nights at the Airotel Parthenon which was a nice cozy hotel located on the side streets in the Plaka district and we highly recommend it over staying in the many hotels in Omonia which was where we stayed on our last visit to Athens.
Travel to Port of Embarkation
We decided to get to the port by Metro (after a bad taxi experience during our last visit) which was very efficient and it got us from the Plaka to Piraeus in about 45 minutes, after which we walked for about 20 minutes to get to the cruise port. Embarkation was a breeze, we were on the ship in less than 20 minutes after arriving at the port.
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Our first impressions of More the Westerdam was that it was HUGE (please forgive my ignorance), we've never been on a ship this size for a long time (the last time we were on a ship of a similar size was on the SuperStar Virgo (1999), after which we've only been on the Volendam (2009) and Rotterdam (2009)). It took us awhile to get used to the size (and the amount of passengers), but I must say that it is a very elegant ship and once you're inside, the well designed public rooms made it feel like the mid-sized R-Class Ships. The only disappointment was that the Explorations Cafe and Library was together with the Crow's Nest which could get pretty noisy at times.
We stayed in a L-Category inside stateroom (1024), and were pleased with the generous size of the stateroom. At 200 sq. ft. it was considerably larger than many of the inside staterooms we've stayed on during our previous cruises. The cabin had ample storage space, a mini-bar (which we asked to be cleared so that we could store our own drinks) and an L-Shaped sofa-bed. Our only gripe was the small bathroom which with an even smaller shower area (we frequently hit our elbows against the wall!).
We took part in a couple of activities while on the ship, this included some gaming lessons and art auctions, although most of these activities were geared towards you spending money some talks were rather interesting and educational especially the talk on Israeli Artists and Russian Culture) .
The service was once again exceptional on this ship except for a couple of crew members which were rather disinterested in their jobs and fairly rude on some occasions. However, the sincerity, friendliness and warmth of the Indonesian and Filipino crew members is what brings us back to Holland America time and time again.
Port & Shore Excursions
We took part in shore excursions for most of the ports visited during the cruise, we were impressed by the efficiency the knowledge of most of the guides that made visiting the sights much more memorable. We also took a private tour in Israel (Haifa and Ashdod) from GuidedTours Israel. We were fortunate enough to get a really knowledgeable guide to show us around Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Yad Vashem Museum and Jerusalem (which was really crowded due to the feast of Sukkot). Apart from tours, we also independently toured Istanbul, Thessaloniki and Sinop (which, in my opinion, has one of the best museums in Turkey).
We were somewhat disappointed by the variety and quality of the food during the cruise, most probably due to the location the ship was in and the amount of passengers the chefs had to cook for. Although there was no shortage of lobster and shrimp, many of our favorites such as Escargot and Duck a L'Orange only appeared once during a 24 Day Cruise which was very disappointing. Most of the soups were also either very salty or bland, however, the deserts and appetizers were exceptional and was usually the saving grace of the dinner. Despite a Norovirus outbreak during the first part of the cruise, there was very little disruption to the Lido Buffet service (besides the long queue for drinks) and I was very impressed by the way the crew handled things.
We went to most of the guest entertainers shows which we found to be very entertaining, we especially loved the Swarovski Violinist who performed one night with his crystal-studded violin (even his shoes and belt had crystals on them!).
Disembarkation was as efficient and smooth as we would ever expect. We purchased transfers to the airport to catch our early afternoon flight home. The transition from Ship to Airport was hassle-free and it took us about an hour to get to the airport which gave us plenty of time at the airport before our flight.
Despite some shortfalls during the cruise, we were very impressed by the service and the cruise itself visiting many places we never thought of visiting which turned out to be little hidden treasures (such as Iskenderun and Sinop), visiting the larger cities of Cairo, Jerusalem and Istanbul was just a enlightening and interesting. Visiting these ports on the Westerdam was a very pleasant experience and if given another chance, I wouldn't hesitate to go again. Less
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Absolutely. Not only is it possible, I recommend it. It's a lot easier
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Also, you'll need a null modem cable or adapter to hook to the end of
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Easter Sunday, the final round of the Masters, cloudless blue skies, colour cascading everywhere – in other words, what Ian Poulter would like to think of as his natural habitat.
"I love this place, love it," he said before heading out for a round that was more sedate than he had hoped for, with a birdie and a couple of bogeys embroidering a rather dull run of pars. "I watched it all those years on telly and lapped it up. Now here I am playing in my fifth Masters, How good is that?"
Actually very good for a bloke from Hitchin who decided late in his teens to become a professional. He was playing off four, so the only person who believed in his chances was Poulter. This, of course, is his strength. No one rates Poulter the golfer higher than the man himself. This confidence is based on a serious work ethic and driving ambition. This is one working lad pushing himself into another, cosier land. Yesterday at Augusta he was hoping to explore some more uncharted territory by hitting at least the blunt edges of the leaderboards here on the game's very own fantasy island.
First, though, there was his Sunday outfit to consider. With his own clothing range to promote, these dress decisions are taken early and by committee. The committee unanimously decided this final round should be illuminated by an all-white retro outfit that struck a chord with those gallery members who recall Fred Perry's old Wimbledon strut.
"Strut" is a good word to use where Poulter is concerned. What is good is that he follows up this cocky-boy walk with some serious golf at times. Seven European Tour wins in nine years and a stellar Ryder Cup performance last autumn on top of second place at the Birkdale Open a couple of months earlier have barricaded the peacock from the critics for now.
Bob Verdi, one of the more perceptive of observers among American journalists, is happy to endorse the slim Englishman's credentials. "Sure, he is a peacock but he is also a serious player," he says. "Any doubts about that were removed at the Open and the Ryder Cup last year. Those were stand-out performances. Anyway he seems a decent enough guy. Plus he brings some pizzazz to the game. We don't need any more dull guys out here."
In a world where monosyllabic passes for impressive articulacy this is more true than many of us would care to admit. The point about Poulter is that he takes himself seriously, but not too seriously, retaining the ability to giggle at his own occasional daft-laddie lapses. Few players, for example, could have smilingly ridden the tidal wave of scorn that followed his "If I play my best, then it will be all about Tiger and me" comment last year.
Strip away the apparent foolishness here and there is a seriously impressive core to the statement. Too many players are happy to settle for a place and a nice cheque. Sure, Poulter likes the cheques – needs them, with his Ferrari lifestyle, too – but he wants more and what he wants most is the place in the spotlight that comes with victory.
"Finishing second in the Open last year meant a huge deal to me. It backed up my thought that I could contend during these biggest weeks.
"At this level it is all about experience and handling yourself properly.
"I love Augusta because it is a serious test of golf, a test of patience and, hopefully, I am learning to be patient now. I am missing it in the right spots when I miss and I just understand this course more. The subtlety here is amazing."
At which point Marty Hackel slid by, his lips pursed in admiration at Poulter's white outfit. Marty is Golf Digest magazine's Fashion Editor and knows a cool dresser when he sees one. He was sporting a winter check sports jacket, wearing a tie and teaming it all with lime green trousers. I wasn't sure personally, but I sense that Poulter appreciated the bravado on show.
What was helping Poulter yesterday was his playing companion for the day, Lee Westwood. The two men are similar ages and Ryder Cup buddies and they share a lot of mutual interests. Westwood, too, has a vanity, having worked on his physique over the past couple of years to shed a few stone so that his friends now refer to him as "Brad". One senses an intended irony in this soubriquet.
Westwood, however, draws the line at dressing at the whim of a committee. It is not that he is against it, just that it is impossible to find sufficient people interested in this sort of thing back home in Worksop. Reassuring, really.


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The analysis of time series data has for many years been a central component of statistical research and practice. Although the theory of linear time series is now well established, that of non-linear time series is still a rapidly developing subject. This book, now available in paperback, is an introduction to some of these developments and the present state of research.
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Mindy Kaling Talks Insecurity in FLARE Magazine October 2014 Cover Story
Though she has an impressive Tinseltown resume and a popular primetime show named after her, Mindy Kaling still deals with the same issues as the rest of us.
The "Office" actress is featured on the front of FLARE magazine's October 2014 issue and in her interview she confesses that she's clearly crazy.
Mindy shares, "Of course I'm riddled with doubts like every other creative, neurotic person, but if you don't display them all the time, you're seen as overconfident. I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all."
As for the body image double standard in showbiz, Kaling complains, "If you love fashion and you're not skinny and something fits you, most stylists are like, 'That's great for you,' and it sucks. I have my own taste and I want to try weird stuff and Hayley Atkin's not going to put me in a fuchsia shift just because it fits me and hides my quote-unquote problem areas."
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Legislation proposes tinkering with a ban enacted last year that put an end to turning swine loose for the purpose of hunting them. Rep. John Mathis, R-Vernal, had hoped to exempt private land from the ban, but on Monday the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment killed his HB365 in an 8-6 vote after state officials described the consequences should escaped pigs establish feral populations.
The measure aimed to enable the return of successful hunting outfits shut down by the ban, Mathis told the committee.
"This bill is going to help you bring home the bacon again?" joked committee chairman Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab.
But feral swine running free in the countryside would be no laughing matter, cautioned state veterinarian Bruce King. That could happen if irresponsible operators allow pigs to escape. Feral pigs can cause extensive damage to farms, wildlife habitat and spread diseases such as brucellosis.
"It's a big chance on the livestock industry for a small amount of return," King said.
New York allowed pig hunting 15 years ago and that state now has a growing feral pig problem, King said, noting that roaming swine caused $200 million damage to Texas agriculture last year.
Then there is the ridicule Utah could face for allowing such an activity. Hunting a domesticated creature in a fenced area is hardly worthy of being called hunting, according to King
"To me that's shooting fish in a barrel," he said.


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Pros: Quiet high performance with advanced features comes with a five-year warranty
Cons: None so far other than being a little pricey as compare with other similar drives
Here is my review of the high density perpendicular recording 500 MB per platter, four platter high-performance Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache desktop hard drive. The performance of this drive is somewhat faster than the last previous three Seagate hard drives that I've purchased in the recent past. It appears to be better constructed, hopefully this hard drive should be more reliable. One remarkable feature that I really like about this hard drive is that the heads park and lock completely off the platters when powered down. Another is that it features dual activators and processors for the heads which allow for more precise zeroing in on the data on the platters. It uses piezoelectric technology for the secondary activator to precisely move the heads. With these features, this hard drive offers more protection from media damage while in shipping unlike lesser drives. Speaking of shipping, most online retailers ships OEM drives that aren't well protected from shock damage. This drive arrived double boxed with an airbag. The inner box is the original OEM Western Digital with hollow plastic cushioning insert bracings on the ends of the hard drive with some airspace all around. The outer box is slightly larger with an airbag cushioning on one end. The original box as supplied by Western Digital is fine as far as protection goes. The outer box should have been bigger with at least 1 inch or more foam cushioning all around instead of the use of air bags. My previous hard drive purchased from another retailer had even less protection when it comes to shock damage. By the way, this hard drive carries a five-year warranty like the more expensive enterprise drives. From what I read, unfortunately this hard drive is not designed for a RAID array and may not work properly. For that you have to purchase their more expensive enterprise series hard drive. Be sure to keep the Western Digital supplied inner box plus the plastic braces along with the antistatic bag, in case you needed to ship the drive back to WD for warranty replacement.
To cut down on case resonation noises on my desktop computer, all three of my hard drives are rubber mounted with a separate grounding wire on each of the drives. In front of the hard drives, I have a 120 mm fan blowing at them for cooling. With this setup, the maximum temperature with this new hard drive so far is 34°C. Of the three hard drive, this new hard drive by comparison does not vibrate at all when on and is just as quiet as the others. It doesn't really need to be rubber mounted to be on the quiet side unlike my two other hard drives. The only exception is that when shutting down, it makes a faint "sss" than clunk sound sometimes when the heads park and lock. Otherwise it's just as quiet as my other hard drives which are Seagate ones. I bought this huge hard drive for extra storage only. Being a very fast hard drive, it would also make an excellent boot drive. I feel it's much better having a huge hard drive or two just for storage, backups and a much smaller one for the boot drive. This way, if anything should happens to Windows or the boot hard drive I can simply restore it fully from my drive back-up which is stored on the one of the storage drives. You can use this free software that you can download from either Seagate or Western Digital websites. In order to use it, you must have at least one of their drives in your computer. In order to do a backup or restore take Seagate for instance, all you need is at least one Seagate hard drive on board and the other drives can be any make. That also holds true for Western Digital. With Seagate it's called "DiscWizard" and with Western Digital "Acronis True Image WD Edition". Both softwares are really the stripped-down version of Acronis True image Home.
After the problems I had with previous Seagate hard drives I'm very paranoid, before I format and start storing data on a new drive from now on it's better to run a surface full scan plus other tests. Right after installing the new drive I ran Western Digital's own Data Iifeguard For Windows to check for bad sections by running the complete surface scan. This software can be downloaded from Western Digital website. I also ran a surface scan on this drive using HD Sentinel Pro. Both tests passed with no problems. The main problem with my previous two new hard drives was rapidly growing reallocated section count. When that happens, I lost complete confidence to continue to use it to long-term storage particularly important data anymore. The old drive is used primarily to back up the some of the data on my new drive being only half the size. It seems that quality is an issue with some of the lower price point huge capacity perpendicular recording hard drives with most of the hard drive manufacturer. This problem appeared to be particularly true of any new low price point, drive of 500 GB or larger with this defect. Part of problem may be hidden shipping damage caused by sloppy packing by the online retailer on OEM hard drives. Because of the delicate nature of some perpendicular recording huge hard drives, they are even more susceptible to damage then an earlier lower density technology smaller capacity ones. Except for the last 2 Seagate drive purchased, the older ones remains perfect even after five or six years of use remaining at 100% perfect score free of reallocated section count.
Final thoughts: Because this Western Digital is better engineered than any of my previous hard drive, my hope is for longtime reliability. So far I'm fully impressed with the performance I have been receiving. When I ran a benchmark, the maximum read speed was almost 140 MB per second and the minimum was around 70 MB per second. Take for example when transferring files from one hard drive to another. I did an experiment on copying files on copying files from my old storage drive to my new drive. When the file is copy single file at a time the speed remains almost full of around 100 MB per second. But when I copy two files at the same time, the speed chokes down to around 25 MB per second for the two files. I try again on copying two files accept at this time, one file gets copied to the new drive and the other file is copied to my boot drive. The speed also get choked down again to around 25 MB per second for the two files. This proves in a way that the bottleneck is on my old storage drive.
I tried this transferring test again except the new drive is the source this time. I copied one file to my old storage drive as well as copying another file to my boot drive at the same time. Only this time the speed remains the same on whether I copy one file or copying two or more files at the same time. The transfer speed remains close to 100 MB per second whether copying one file or two files at the same time.
Update @ July 15, 2010: I've just learned that the off disk head parking feature was invented by Hitachi 15 years ago. They claim that they still hold the patent for this feature used on hard drives in all current mobile computers and, more recently, in a few pricier desktop drives. To learn more about this, please go to the URL I listed in the comments section.


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The historic Henderson County Courthouse has been an area landmark for over 100 years. Renowned artist Vollis Simpson has his famous whirligigs installed in their very own park. And Katie Spencer gives a preview of the new Museum of Durham History.


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may not be the cleanest, but more so then other spots, also; with that long period and those s/se/sse winds,...a few spots up north may be worth the look see on the right tides, for the 26th. The DP's have been the prime time for the last week or so, super glassy this morning, before the winds came up during the day. Get it early at your best high tide spots and then shift more north if need be.
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William Shatner is laughing and I'm relieved.
We'd been talking for about 15 minutes and I was getting the distinct impression that Shatner, BCom'52, taking a break from filming the last season of his Emmy Award winning TV series Boston Legal, was bored.
In my defence, William Shatner has been interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the course of a singular career that has now spanned more than five decades. You try coming up with original questions for a guy like that. He's heard it all before.
Also, I'll confess, I wasn't at the top of my game. I've interviewed Nobel laureates and cabinet ministers, best-selling authors and film actresses, and I don't get nervous very often when I'm doing my job. But this was William Shatner.
As a pre-adolescent, one of the high points of my week was the Saturday afternoon airing of Star Trek. I was gobsmacked when I discovered that the resolute starship captain who punched out Klingons and grumpily endured Tribbles was in fact a fellow Montrealer. Such a colossus could emerge from my hometown? Wow.
And here I was now, talking to the guy. Yeah, I was a little nervous.
So, I decide, it's time to share my Grand Theory of Shatner with him.
In a nutshell, it's this: William Shatner endures because William Shatner is not afraid of weirdness. One of the reasons why William Shatner captures our attention in a way that few other celebrities do is because we never quite know what the man is going to do next.
Compare Shatner to other actors who, like him, starred on TV shows during the sixties—Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.CL.E.), for instance, or Peter Graves (Mission Impossible). They've had long and successful careers. But they don't attract the same sort of intense, affectionate curiosity that Shatner continues to inspire from the masses.
William Shatner, after all, is the man who once starred in the only movie ever made entirely in Esperanto (Incubus). His strikingly unusual (some have used much ruder adjectives) interpretations of songs like Elton John's "Rocket Man" are YouTube sensations. He sold a kidney stone online for $25,000 and passed the money along to Habitat for Humanity.
Somehow, one can't imagine Robert Vaughn doing any of that.
Not afraid of weirdness? "There might be something to that," Shatner chuckles.
Whatever the case, 40 years after the original Star Trek series was cancelled for poor ratings (it would go on, of course, to become a pop culture phenomenon in syndication), William Shatner has never been a bigger star than he is today.
"Celebrities tend to appeal to specific types of people," explains Brett Keller, the chief marketing officer for Priceline.com, an online discount travel agency that Shatner has helped make famous through a popular series of witty ads. Some performers are especially beloved by older women, for instance, while the appeal of certain actors is mostly focused around younger men. Sarah Brightman's albums don't tend to do brisk business on university campuses, while Seth Rogan flicks rarely headline movie nights at most senior citizen centres.
"Bill stands out because he really spans all types of groups," says Keller. "All kinds of people know who he is and they all respond very positively to him."
It's not the life that Shatner's father envisioned for his son. Joseph Shatner was a serious-minded Jewish immigrant, the first in his family to arrive in North America. He worked hard to establish his own business, Admiration Clothes, a manufacturer of inexpensive suits. "They were basically suits for workingmen who owned only one suit," recounts Shatner in his memoir, Up Till Now, published earlier this year.
Joseph groomed his son to become his business partner, taking him on sales calls. Even today, Shatner remembers the skills he picked up at his father's side. "I know how to fold a suit with the shoulders touching inside-out, the sleeves down, folded flat so it stays pressed," he recounts in Up Till Now.
Shatner's mother, Ann, had a markedly different approach to life from her husband. An elocution teacher with a mischievous sense of humour, she would regularly make her family squirm at restaurants by gaily announcing that it was her birthday—even when it wasn't. Shatner still remembers feeling profoundly uncomfortable as waiters would circle their table, serenading his mom with an undeserved rendition of "Happy Birthday." It was Ann who recognized her son's gift for performing, enrolling him in acting lessons as a child.
It was no accident that when it was time for university, Shatner went to McGill to study commerce. He was going to learn all about modern management practices and bring that new-found expertise to bear on the operations of Admiration Clothes. But Shatner himself had other plans.
"My classes were never very important to me," he acknowledges during his break from Boston Legal filming. "I barely passed many of them. I had to make up courses during the summer in order to graduate."
Shatner wasn't slacking off, though. It's just that his focus was somewhere else. "I was performing in everything I could find—musicals, theatre productions, radio. The Student Union Building was my headquarters. I did everything there but sleep and, on occasion, I did that there too."
Shatner appeared in a Stratford Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew with Don Harron in 1954 (Photo: Peter Smith/Stratford Festival)
He was the president of McGill's Radio Workshop, an active member of the Player's Club and, in 1949, the producer and director of McGill's fabled Red and White Revue.
"He was 'Mr. Theatre' at McGill," says Bernie Rothman, BCom'54, a longtime friend who also went into show business, eventually writing and producing TV shows for the likes of Judy Garland, Diana Ross and Burt Reynolds.
"There was no theatre program to speak of at McGill back then," Rothman recalls. "Whatever took place, happened because students worked hard to make it happen. Bill didn't just act. He was always busy creating things. He'd find some interesting little experimental play from somewhere and he would make it happen. He just didn't quit."
Rothman occasionally lectures to college students interested in the entertainment industry. "The question I'm always asked is, 'What is the single most important factor for success in show business?' Is it talent? Is it looks? Is it personality?
"I think the thing that really separates the people who make it in this industry from those that don't, is that the people who make it just don't give up, no matter what. I could see that quality in Bill back at McGill. He had that drive."
During his third year at McGill, Shatner broke the news to his dad about his future plans. He wouldn't be bringing the latest business techniques to Admiration Clothes after all. "Acting wasn't a job for a man," Shatner wrote of his father's viewpoint. "For him, it was like being a minstrel." Though clearly disappointed, Joseph encouraged his son to do what he wanted to do.
Within a few of years of graduating, Shatner had secured a spot in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he worked with, among others, a fellow Montrealer named Christopher Plummer. Plummer, the more seasoned of the two at the time, describes the young Shatner in his recent autobiography, In Spite of Myself: A Memoir, as an actor who "showed great promise with his versatility and light touch."
By 1956, Shatner was playing supporting roles on Broadway. TV directors took notice of his work and he began appearing often on the anthology shows that were popular at the time, like Studio One and Playhouse 90, sharing screen space with other up-and-comers like Paul Newman, Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen. He was resistant to settling down professionally, though. He turned down lead roles in The Defenders (which made a star out of Robert Reed) and Dr. Kildare (which made a star out of Richard Chamberlain). He preferred doing stage work (including the Broadway smash A Shot in the Dark, opposite Julie Harris and Walter Matthau) and trying his luck with films (among them, Judgment at Nuremberg with Spencer Tracy). But after years of being told by those around him that stardom was just around the corner, Shatner's big break was proving to be elusive. He was married at this point with three kids and a mortgage he was struggling to pay off. Maybe being tied to a TV show wasn't such a bad idea after all.
In 1966, a role came along that would make Shatner famous—eventually.
Shatner was only Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's fourth choice to captain the U.S.S. Enterprise. Lloyd Bridges had been Roddenberry's first pick, but he declined the role. The original pilot for the show was filmed with Jeffrey Hunter as the lead. When Hunter didn't work out, the gig was offered to Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-0), who took a pass on it.
Watching the original pilot, Shatner thought the show's concept was strikingly original, but that it was all a little too serious-minded. There wasn't much to differentiate the Hunter character, a captain named Pike, from his first officer, the emotion-suppressing Mr. Spock. Shatner decided that his character, James T. Kirk, would be a little more playful than his predecessor.
Kirk would approach his task of exploring the universe with a greater sense of wonder. A sly strategist when faced with difficult circumstances, Kirk also had more than a hint of mischief about him. Shatner and his two chief co-stars, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy), established a winning chemistry. Kirk, the good-natured warrior, was nicely balanced against the coldly rational Spock and the hotheaded McCoy.
"A large part of the success of Star Trek has to do with the affection the characters clearly had for one another," says Shatner. "Audiences respond to that sense of warmth."
For the most part, Shatner's recent autobiography is a lighthearted, breezy read, but now and then, he owns up to his flaws and deals with some of the more painful moments of his life. "It has taken me four marriages to understand the part I have to play in a marriage and to learn how to do it," he ruefully acknowledges at one point.
Up Till Now is at its darkest when Shatner discusses his troubled third marriage, to Nerine Kidd. Shatner was slow to recognize that Kidd was an alcoholic and her addiction to booze caused the couple considerable anguish. She tried rehab three times to no avail. Arriving back home one evening, Shatner discovered her body in their swimming pool. It was ruled an accidental death, one probably related to drinking. "I don't think you ever get over an event like that," Shatner writes.
"I wanted to leave a notebook of sorts for my kids," Shatner says of his book. "I wanted to explain how I felt at different moments in my life. I wanted to be honest."
While the original Star Trek eventually resulted in four follow-up TV series, 11 films (the latest premieres next May) and, in Shatner's estimation, about two billion dollars' worth of related merchandise sold, back in 1969 it was a show that couldn't attract a big enough audience to ward off cancellation.
Shatner's first marriage ended at roughly the same time as the series did and the actor found himself unemployed, broke and responsible for the support of an ex-wife and three daughters. He lived in the back of his pickup truck for a time, then moved to a cheap beachfront apartment in Malibu so he'd have someplace nearby to take his children to play when they came to visit. His somewhat unhinged landlady would occasionally storm into his apartment, wielding a hammer, chasing apparitions only she could see.
He was rarely offered juicy roles anymore. He landed frequent guest-starring gigs on shows like Ironside and The Six Million Dollar Man and starred in a string of forgettable (and sometimes laughable) low-budget films in which he faced off against tarantulas (The Kingdom of Spiders), demons (The Horror at 37,000 Feet) and Satanists (The Devil's Rain). He worked regularly, but didn't enjoy it much.
"An actor's life is fraught with difficulty," says Shatner. "It isn't always the kindest of professions." Being good isn't good enough—you have to match a casting director's notion of what's right for a certain role and there is little consolation in being runner-up. "You're constantly judged on your appearance as well as your ability. Suddenly you are in your 40s and it's too late to go meaningfully into another career. You reach a point where you don't know if you should keep sticking it out."
The eighties, thankfully, were kinder to him. Shatner landed the lead role in T.J. Hooker, a popular, if not particularly memorable, cop show in which he played a stern, old-school police sergeant. He hosted the successful Rescue 911 for several years. The best was yet to come.
One of the first hints that Shatner had a few more tricks up his sleeve (notwithstanding his now legendary 1986 appearance on Saturday Night Live in which he famously urged Star Trek's rabid fans "to get a life") was in a small independent film released in 1999, Free Enterprise. A decade before it became fashionable for Hollywood stars to lampoon themselves on shows like Extras and Entourage, Shatner played William Shatner, a washed-up actor obsessed with the idea of staging a mostly one-man musical production of Julius Caesar (mostly one man because he couldn't quite figure out how to stab himself in the back).
Around the same time, Shatner was approached by the fledgling Priceline.com. One of the company's copywriters was a fan of The Transformed Man, Shatner's much-mocked attempt in the late sixties to contrast popular song lyrics (performed in a colourful style all his own) with readings from classic plays. Shatner's wry, energetic performances in the resulting ads as a lounge singer belting out over-the-top versions of songs from the sixties and seventies were a hit. "Those spots were really what put Priceline on the map," warrants Keller.
A series of guest appearances on 3rd Rock from the Sun as the flamboyant Big Giant Head netted Shatner an Emmy nomination. And then he was offered what would become his most memorable role since James T. Kirk —the bombastic and unpredictable Denny Crane on The Practice and Boston Legal.
"That was a gift," says Shatner of Crane, a larger than life figure struggling to come to grips with the fact that he is losing much of his power to age. "He is this wonderful character who can go off in any direction. He is certainly comedic, but he can also touch your heart." Shatner's portrayal of Crane has garnered him two Emmy Awards.
Each episode of Boston Legal ends with Crane sharing a drink and his thoughts with his colleague Alan Shore, played by James Spader. The two men have little in common in some respects. Politically, they are polar opposites and Shore is a few decades younger than Crane—still, their unlikely friendship is the foundation for the show.
"Sometimes, when I'm finished shooting for the day, I stay just to watch them do that scene," says Boston Legal co-star John Larroquette. "Bill brings so much warmth to those scenes. The two of them together are magic."
"He was the laughing stock of the cognoscenti for a while," says Rothman. "Well, some of his biggest detractors back then are looking at his work today and they're saying, 'Shatner is so funny.'"
As far as Shatner is concerned, he was always funny. "When I began my career in Canada, right after graduating from McGill, most of the work I did was comedy. I was known for doing comedy." Somewhere along the line he became pegged as a dramatic actor and the opportunities to do comedy dried up.
Shatner's knack for comedy is certainly no secret these days. The producers of Invasion Iowa, a recent reality TV show that poked fun at the excesses and idiosyncrasies of the movie industry, had Shatner on their radar. "This was a show about parodying Hollywood and Bill has this phenomenal, self-deprecating sense of humour," says Invasion Iowa co-producer Rhett Reese.
In the series, the denizens of Riverside, a small town in Iowa, put up with the antics of a Hollywood film crew— unbeknownst to the locals, the movie being filmed is fake and the mayhem surrounding it is staged.
A team of seasoned improv performers was assembled for Invasion Iowa to portray the bogus film's cast and crew. They rehearsed in the weeks leading up to the show's filming, to prepare themselves for interacting with the unsuspecting Iowans. "These were experienced improv actors," says Reese's partner, Paul Wernick, "but Bill more than held his own. He was one of the best in the room, if not the best."
The young producers marveled at Shatner's energy level. "He outworks everyone around him, of any age," says Reese. Shatner turned up at 6:30 am to work with the Invasion Iowa team, then drove 45 minutes to the Boston Legal set to put in a full day there, then drove back to do more Invasion Iowa rehearsals until 10 pm.
Another collaboration with a younger artist, pop musician Ben Folds, resulted in the 2004 album Has Been. Where The Transformed Man was widely ridiculed, Has Been took music critics by surprise. At times droll, at times heartbreaking, Has Been turned up on several best-of-year lists.
Shatner enjoys working with younger collaborators. "One tends to stay the same," he says. "You entwine yourself in the same habits—the same clothes, the same styles, the same ways of thinking. People risk becoming stultified in the eras in which they were most comfortable. One way I try to avoid that is by associating with younger people and gaining some sense of how they see the world."
Looking back on his career—the highs, the lows, the weirdness—William Shatner has no regrets. "You never know how one project will lead to another," he says. He has been teased about The Transformed Man for decades, he points out, but that album did have its fans, including Ben Folds, and it led, in part, to Shatner's acclaimed work in both the Priceline.com commercials and on Has Been.
"He has been able to adapt to the changing landscape of his profession and that's a difficult thing to do," says Larroquette. "There are a lot of actors who haven't been able to pull that off."
Shatner takes a more matter-of-fact view of his place in the larger scheme of things. "There are half a dozen actors out there who get access to the great scripts and they get to make a movie a year for $20 million," says Shatner. "Then there are the rest of us, trying to maintain something with merit while we work to pay the bills."
Maybe, but William Shatner will never be just another actor.
According to USA Today, there is a game that one of Shatner's daughters plays with her husband from time to time. Once they've breakfasted and parted company for the day, the two try to avoid coming across any images of her famous dad until they see each other again at dinner time. Whoever succeeds in this, triumphs.
It's usually a game that no one ever wins.
After all, this is a world where we all want to know what William Shatner is going to do next.