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Lets take Axert. This is a migraine drug that has no drug reps. So when I need samples I have to call them, asking them to ship me some.
Last week I called for samples, and they showed up today. It comes in a blue and yellow package with 4 little tablet packages in it. But it always ships in a freaking HUGE box, surrounded by a crapload of paper, like 2-5 trees worth.
So here's a picture of the entire Axert package and the box it was shipped in. I put a Diet Coke in the picture to give you some idea of size.
Of course, the Axert people aren't the only ones guilty of this insanity. I have a patient coming in for Botox injections later this week, so I ordered a bottle. ONE dinky bottle (which is freaking $560, too). Now, I understand Botox has to be kept cold during overnight shipping, and needs some styrofoam and ice, but even still the shipping seems to be a little excessive. So here, for your perusal, is a bottle of Botox, the box it came in, and another Diet Coke.
So, now you know how many trees it takes to ship a package of Axert or bottle of Botox.

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|HUBLOT opens eighth boutique in the U.S.
Phipps Plaza location commemorates luxury boutique opening with V.I.P. event
In celebration of the grand opening of their new Atlanta boutique, Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot invited watch connoisseurs and VIP's to Atlanta's prestigious Phipps Plaza for an intimate preview of the new boutique and collections on display. Five to eight boutiques are planned to open in the next three years as part of aggressive U.S. expansion.
"We are proud to bring a new level of watchmaking expertise and creativity to this important market in the US," states Jean-Claude Biver, Chairman and Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot. "As Atlanta is itself a wonderful mix of people, cultures, the old and new, it's the perfect fit for Hublot and our vision of fusion."
VIP guests—who included hip-hop superstar Young Jeezy, V103 personality and Atlanta Hawks announcer Ryan Cameron, and president and co-founder of Ludacris' Disturbing Tha Peace Records Chaka Zulu, among others—walked the black carpet into the 1,000-square foot boutique, where they were treated to Moët champagne and hors d'oeuvres from Davio's. Brand consultants showcased and allowed guests to try on timepieces from the Big Bang, King Power, Classic Fusion and Tutti Frutti collections, as well as limited edition and one-of-a-kind pieces.
Hublot underlined their unique visual approach with branded animation towers, creating captivating holographic images of the watches on display. Dynamic liquid crystal glass panels also added movement and life to wall showcases. In addition, a media wall at the boutique entrance allowed guests to experience Hublot TV, which featured the latest Hublot events and product news from around the world. Nuances of the boutique's intimate design reflect Hublot's "passion and fusion" philosophy through a blend of rich, warm materials. Black marble, dark leather and chrome-finished metals are used throughout to convey a modern, luxurious atmosphere. The layout features distinct retail zones and allows for varying degrees of intimacy and product interactivity. The rear area of the boutique is reserved for personal consultations and includes a VIP area for additional privacy.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Thursday it is teaming up with investment firm 3G Capito to buy ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co. for $23.3 billion. The deal is the largest ever in the food industry and is intended to help the 144-year-old Heinz transform into a global business.
Nearly everyone has dipped a french fry into some Heinz ketchup sometime in their life. But here are some things you might not know about Heinz:
HEADQUARTERS: Pittsburgh.
MAJOR BRANDS: Heinz ketchup and sauces, Ore-Ida french fries, Classico pasta sauce, Bagel Bites mini-pizzas, Lea & Perrin's Worcestershire sauce, Weight Watchers SmartOnes meals.
GLOBAL PRODUCTS: Sampriti ghee, a type of butter, made from buffalo milk (India); Cats Prefer Chef cat food (New Zealand); Plasmon baby food (Italy); ABC Kecap Manis sweet soy sauce (Indonesia).
FACTORIES: 63 (15 in North America).
2012 PROFIT (fiscal year ended April 29, 2012): $923.2 million.
2012 REVENUE: $11.6 billion.
STOCK PRICE: $72.36, up 20 percent after Berkshire Hathaway's announcement.
52-WEEK HIGH: $72.61, hit Thursday.
AROUND THE WORLD: North America is by far Heinz's biggest market. Heinz's North American and U.S. food service businesses made up nearly 40 percent of sales in 2012. Europe accounted for 29.5 percent and Asia 22 percent. The rest of the world - including South America - made up 4 percent. Heinz relies heavily on Wal-Mart stores, which represented 10 percent of its sales in 2012.
ABOUT THAT KETCHUP: Heinz says it sells 650 million bottles a year. But it wasn't the company's first product. That was horseradish, sold in glass bottles intended to show off its quality. The pickles featured in the company's "57 Varieties" logo also preceded the company's signature ketchup.


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I have an old desktop computer that I've been trying to sell for AGES. I guess nobody is looking for computers because it was advertised at a dirt cheap price on craigslist, local papers, etc. Anyways, I was wondering if it would be worth it to set it up as a home file server, a web dev server (I have a web host for actual production use), and maybe host a few server applications (ex: ventrillo). The computer is actually an old Dell that I cannibalized after the motherboard being destroyed by lightning, so it has fairly new parts in it.
The specs are:
- P4 3.4GHz w/ HT and Artic Cooling Freezer 7
- 80GB hdd (will upgrade the hard drive if it's even worth using as a
- basic dvd rom
- 430 Watt Thermaltake PSU (it might be important to note that it is only 60% efficiency)
- ATI Radeon x600 256MB
- Antec 300 case
It's not a really beefy machine, I just can't see giving it away or putting it in the corner to just collect dust. I have Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and I am confident in my skills in operating most Linux operating systems. I'd also be using it to tinker with when I learn new things in my server admin classes (I'm finishing my 2nd year in college at the moment so I'm still learning)
Also, my house is quite old and the electrical wiring is pretty poor (it MIGHT be up to code, then again, where I live most people don't even know what regulations are or let alone know how to spell it...) Would it be safe to leave it running all day and is it going to run up my electric bill because of the PSU efficiency? I only have 5mbit cable internet, but I won't be running very bandwidth intense services on it so it should be ok.
I should elaborate on why I am concerned about the power. The circuits should be fine, but I'm more concerned about fire hazard. What is the likelihood that the server could cause an electrical fire? Again, thank you all for the feedback!


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Ode to airmail
On my first big overland trip to India, I went to the general post office in Istanbul, stepped up to the counter for general delivery mail, presented my identity card and was rewarded with a letter sporting myriad blue airmail stickers. My reaction: a sense of elation. I pocketed it and headed across the bazaar to the pudding shop opposite the Blue Mosque, eagerly anticipating the contents. It was only after a chai or two that I began to read my news from home. Weeks later, I did the same in Tehran. General post office, airmail, coffeehouse. I repeated the procedure in Islamabad, New Delhi and Kolkata on this journey, and on my next, and all subsequent trips.
Like a string of pearls, my airmail messages stretched from home to distant places until times changed, bringing first the fax machine, then the Internet. What's so special about an airmail letter as opposed to an email? The preciousness of the moment. I could only lay my hands on the blue-stamped letters every few weeks, while emails arrive many times a day, an hour, a half-hour, constantly – wherever there's WiFi, so everywhere really. This makes communicating with home a very ordinary – sometimes even bothersome – activity. Social media and live chats via WhatsApp and Skype make it even more humdrum, as though you weren't away at all, hadn't left home.
It's not that I'm a big fan of the "good old days," by the way. However romantic a historical film or novel may be, I never forget how a visit to the dentist used to be. But making my way to a general post office, waiting with bated breath at the counter and then reading my airmail on a park bench, on a coffeehouse chair or on a bed beneath a mosquito net, that is something I sometimes sorely miss.
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LittleHammerStudios necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 526 diseños de 125 diseñadores freelance.
Little Hammer Studios
Little Hammer Studios is a web development studio located in Los Angeles, CA. We do anything from basic websites to complex web applications.
We're looking to build our brand around this logo. We're also looking at having some fun with our brand and creating the packages that play on the theme of "little hammer." (our owner's last name is Italian for little hammer) For instance, maybe down the road, we'll call our largest website package the "sledge hammer."
Not only do we build websites, but we maintenance, customize and enhance existing sites and applications.
Our target market really includes anyone that needs a website or services. More specifically, we're looking to target the 30-50, business savvy, entrepreneurial audience.
The logo must incorporate our brand "Little Hammer Studios." We're looking for a logo that incorporates a hammer and our name. We're looking for something clean, fresh, memorable and unique. You have full creative control to experiment with the placement of the text, the style of the hammer and color. We're open to whatever you come up with.
We want our logo to be edgy and have some pop to it that will make it memorable and allow us to build a brand.
In the end, you have complete creative control as long as the logo incorporates some form of hammer and our name.
We look forward to seeing what you come up with! :)
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Mother of slain daughters focuses on memories
The mother of three young girls killed by their father in River Falls says she tries to focus on the joy her daughters brought to the world.
Jessica Schaffhausen says she tries not to think about how her girls died, but rather how they lived and the personalities that made them unique. She talked to the Star Tribune about her daughters.
Jurors last week said Aaron Schaffhausen had a mental defect but is still responsible for killing the girls.
Eleven-year-old Amara was a budding scientist who watched MIT lectures online and brought home report cards filled with `As.' Eight-year-old Sophie often had an artist brush in her hand, always messy with paint or chalk. Five-year-old Cecilia loved listening and critiquing music and tried to keep up with her old sisters.
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Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a serial rapist who has assaulted at least eight women in South Dallas this summer.
Dallas police officials first alerted the public to the series of attacks on Tuesday when they said seven women had been victimized in six different locations. On Wednesday, police said another victim had come forward, bringing the total number of known assaults to eight.
Since issuing an alert about the attacks on Tuesday, Dallas police have received five good leads. Investigators are also rushing the results of DNA testing to verify whether the same man committed the attacks.
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Meanwhile, police are saturating the area and pulling over drivers whose vehicles that match the description of the man's getaway car.
At 6 p.m. Thursday, Dallas police will hold a community meeting at True Lee Missionary Baptist Church to discuss the attacks. The church is located at 3907 Bertrand Avenue.
Eight Attacks Between June, September
Jeff Cotner, with the Dallas Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit, said at a news conference Tuesday night that the attacks happened between June 22 and Sept. 1. In every case, the attacker was armed with a handgun.
Cotner said the man approached his victims as they were walking in the early-morning hours, between midnight and 6 a.m., in an area bounded by East RL Thornton Freeway to the north, South Haskell Avenue to the east, Spring Avenue on the south and Malcolm X Boulevard on the west. The man demanded the women go with him to a secluded area where he then sexually assaulted them before letting them go.
Police said the attacker has been described as black, between 25 to 30 years old with a height between 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall. He is estimated to weigh 200 pounds and was last seen wearing a T-shirt and shorts. He wears prescription glasses and always covers his face with a cloth or piece of clothing to conceal his identity, according to Cotner. His glasses are being described as oval shaped and gold-rimmed.
"They all mention he's wearing glasses, he has a handgun, he's wearing a T-shirt, he's wearing shorts, he approaches them on foot. We feel as if it's the same suspect," Cotner said.
Police said the man leaves the area in a car described as either a gray Honda Civic four-door or older model gray Volvo four-door sedan.
As of Wednesday morning, Dallas police said the serial rapist has attacked eight women at the following seven locations:
- June 22: 4:45 a.m. 4600 block Metropolitan Avenue
- June 30: 2 a.m. 4100 block of Malcolm X Boulevard
- Aug. 20: 1:30 a.m. 4300 block of Spring Avenue (two victims)
- Aug. 22: 5:45 a.m. 2800 block of Warren Avenue
- Aug. 28: in the 2600 block of Second Avenue in the Fair Park area
- Aug. 30: 5:45 a.m. 3200 block of Meadow Street
- Sept. 1: 4:15 a.m. 3800 block of Spring Avenue
Some Criticise Wait in Issuing Alert
Some in the community have criticized the department for waiting so long to issue an alert to the public.
Councilman Dwaine Caraway said an alert could have been made long before a link was established between the cases.
"Not necessarily singling out there's a serial [rapist] going down, singling out the area in which all of those took place -- that's an alert," he said.
When asked why the delay in notifying the public of the serial rapist, Cotner pointed to the gap between the attacks in June and August.
"The two victims from June, the information that we developed at the time did not indicate that there was a serial. We had this gap, and we don't know -- that's part of our investigation, is why we had this large gap of six weeks," said Cotner. "Since Aug. 20 all the way through Sept. 1, we've had those five occurrences. Certainly, you can see the trend there."
Deputy Chief Sherrill Scott defended the timing of the alert, saying that some of the victims did not want to cooperate with police. Others simply needed time before they were ready to speak with investigators, Scott said.
"Sometimes it can take a week. Sometimes, it can take even longer, so that sometimes hinders our ability to connect some of these," Scott said.
Cotner said detectives are still working with the victims to gather information that could help lead to an arrest.
"Our victims all range from late teens all the way to their 40s, the commonality is the time of day, the geographic area of our city and that they're walking," Cotner said.
Neighbors Urge Caution
"There's no reason as women not to feel safe in the community that we cherish," said Fair Park neighbor Noni Thomas.
Thomas said as the sun came up Wednesday morning on the neighborhood where she's lived for 22 years, there was some relief that no one else had been attacked.
"Women in our community should be able to feel safe walking, regardless what time it is. Walk through the community without having to worry about being hurt or attacked," Thomas said.
Police warn residents in the area to take precautions, don't walk alone, walk with others or use a vehicle.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward up to $5,000 for information the arrest and indictment. If you have information you can remain anonymous just call Crime Stoppers at 214-373-TIPS (8477).
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"I lay awake at nights wondering whether we, as a species, are simply too stupid to figure out the universe that we're investigating. Maybe we need some other species one-percent smarter than we are, for which they would be able to figure out all the greatest mysteries of the universe, from dark matter, dark energy, the origins of life and all the frontiers of our thought would be something that they would just self intuit. I am jealous of that possibility because I want to be around for those discoveries."
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I think our species is smart enough to figure it out. Our primary problem is that part of our species wants to continue to live in the Iron Age and force the rest of us to join them, rather than forsake myth and superstition and develop ourselves to the point where we CAN solve these problems. Our race - the human race - may be at a juncture where we choose whether to move forward or backward.
I would LIKE to think that the forward guys are winning ... though I look sometimes at what some of my fellow Homo sapiens are doing and I do seriously wonder.
My thinking is the same a Loren's, although he presents it so much better, so I usually wait for him to comment and then I just agree.
Thanks for that video Joan. Neil deGrasse Tyson is interesting as usual.
Except it's not clear whether super-intelligence would evolve.
I get his point - that we tend to assume an alien species would be similar to us in intelligence, and this wouldn't necessarily be true.
But it would be nice to hear something about how they would have gotten to this super-intelligence. Could creatures perhaps modify themselves to enhance intelligence? i.e. super-intelligence doesn't necessarily have to happen via natural selection.
Of course we already do this in a sense. We have all sorts of extensions - computers, books, libraries, each other, in the form of people trained in different specialized skills. We don't modify ourselves genetically yet, though.
I have an image of Homo sapiens evolving out of apes and living like animals for millions of years. A sense of recognition of their environment grew until many moved to a higher plane of consciousness. Humans grew beyond caring for their own or their tribe to an awareness of the elements, of making and building things, of trading and bartering and a system of protocols or manners of interaction. Rules, ordinances, boundaries developed along with a sense of right and wrong; that became codified into complex intertribal laws.
Along this evolutionary path, those who broke rules suffered punishment, even unto death. Desire for power, greed, exploitation and manipulation grew right along with their system of laws. A sense of entitlement, backed by developing religions, justified their greed and power.
Humans, recognizing they were unable to benefit by warring, formed coalitions, i.e. Confederated tribes of the Iroquois. They gained more by cooperating than competing. Yet humans continued to break codes of conduct. We see that in all the wars taking place around the Earth and includes the wars of preemption of the USA. Israel and Palestine claim the same land that each of their ancestors' gods promised them.
Great prophets rose up perceiving beyond the ordinary, usual, customary and traditional values and talked of peace and love and forgiveness. This turned into a tool of manipulation and people could be persuaded to submit, acquiesce, obey, and others were willing to use fear to bring those not submitting into line. Thus rose the fear/hope aspects of religion.
Present humans stand on a cusp between the fear/hope and moving into a higher plane of being in relation with each other and recognizing that humans do not exist as the top of a pyramid but as part of a net of life. Seeing ourself, not as able to control Earth and all its resources, we see ourselves more as stewards, of participants and responsible for sustaining life, however, at a higher mental level. We see ourselves as not in control but as participants.
Humans will either continue ancestral attitudes, beliefs, customs, faiths, traditions and values, or cross over the cusp into a participant society.
Maybe what Neil deGrasse Tyson said is true about needing one percent higher intelligence to evolve into the next plane of existence.
Maybe what Neil deGrasse Tyson said is true about needing one percent higher intelligence to evolve into the next plane of existence.
Even if that were true - even if intelligence is what is needed, more than empathy or open-mindedness or a hesitation to aggress - why could not that extra intelligence come from interactions, from humans + technology, humans + each other?
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It seems that virtually every advisor is on the prowl these days to buy a book of business from a retiring advisor. When my phone rings, odds are pretty high that someone is calling to ask, "How can I buy a mature practice?"
It's a lopsided marketplace, however, with potential buyers vastly outnumbering sellers.
Since there are no precise numbers easily available, it's hard to know if there are 30, 50 or even 100 potential buyers for each solid advisory practice that comes onto the market. Regardless of the exact figure, the reality is clear: Competition is stiff, and success is far from assured.
How can advisors beat the odds and make an acquisition happen?
One popular strategy is to shop for a book of business online via websites that match buyers and sellers of advisory practices. (Everything from video games to CDs routinely gets sold online–not to mention Star Trek actor William Shatner's kidney stone and Britney Spear's half-eaten sandwich.)
Budding entrepreneurs raise money to launch new businesses on line. So why not buy a financial advisory practice online?
While an online format seems like an easy, convenient solution, it's certainly not a method that a prospective buyer can count on to deliver the goods. (Sellers, of course, are in the driver's seat, so the likelihood of their finding a suitable match online is quite high.)
If you're serious about getting married, you might put up a profile on match.com. But it's not the only thing you would do. It's just one piece in the complex process.
If you want to find and then win the opportunity to buy a great business, you really need to follow a multi-step process. In fact, this process will need to be a new line of business within your practice. Why?
It requires its own campaign. You'll need to devote a given number of hours per week and per month to achieve your goal.
In other words, prospecting must be an ongoing part of your week, and you must pursue it with the same passion and dedicated focus that you employ to build your advisory business.
Here are the detailed steps that advisors can take to make this acquisition process successful:
- If you're a wirehouse advisor, you should get to know the advisors in your branch who are approaching retirement. Determine which ones are most compatible with your style. Feel them out on your proposal at the appropriate point.
- Call your advisor friends in other branches and get referrals to older advisors in their branch that you should approach.
- Review online profiles of advisors in other branches to determine which might be good prospects.
- If you're moving to another firm, discuss your interest in partnering with an older advisor with the prospective branch manager and see if there are prospects for you in his branch.
- Consider joining a branch with lots of older advisors.
- Attend conferences, which are great opportunities for both wirehouse and independent advisors to forge alliances with senior producers at their firms. Independent advisors should attend conferences sponsored by custodians that attract advisors from other broker-dealers and RIAs.
- Join and become active in advisor organizations like the FPA, IMCA etc.
- If you're affiliated with an independent broker-dealer or RIA custodian, talk to your firm's succession-planning department. These groups try to match up buyers and sellers. Their staff members are happy to help, because they want to keep assets with the home team. Discuss your plans with them. Wirehouses and regionals will probably have similar departments at some point, too.
- Similarly, independents should seek out the assistance of their custodian's relationship managers or business-development team. Their job is to service the needs of independent firms.
- Pick up the phone and call the wholesalers in your territory. They can be a fantastic resource.
- Join LinkedIn advisor groups and introduce yourself to senior advisors in your area.
- And, of course, recruiters (like me)can be excellent matchmakers. They can be particularly helpful if you don't want to approach prospects directly.
Remember, in a sellers' market, buyers must use every tool available to get what they want.
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The Science of ADHD: Research Update
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ADHD has been in the news quite a bit this past week. Today we will discuss scientific current events relating to suicide and stimulant medication, drug addiction and ADHD, and the link between the disorder and childhood exposure to anesthesia. This is an opportunity for us to delve more deeply into the neurobiological nature of ADHD, to move beyond armchair psychology and into the nuts and bolts of scientific evidence.
Suicidal Ideation and Focalin
A few cases of suicidal ideation among teens taking the ADHD stimulant medication, Focalin, have prompted some experts to advocate putting a warning label on the drug. Before you throw your medication in the trash, there are a few things you need to know. During a 6-year period, there were 8 reports of suicidal ideation among children or adolescents who took the drug. Four of these appeared to be linked to use of the drug, since symptoms resolved once the medicine was stopped. The 4 patients were all boys and between the ages of 8 and 11. Approximately 1.8 million children had this medication prescribed over a 6-year period. So, while suicidal ideation is an incredibly serious issue, in this context it is also an incredibly rare one. No cases of actual suicide have been reported. What this situation does reinforce, however, is that many ADHD medications are incredibly powerful. Parents need to research side effects and watch out for them. Medicating your child should not be taken lightly.
Self-Control, Drug Addiction, and ADHD
A study in Science finds that cocaine addicts have abnormalities in areas of the brain involved in self-control. And these abnormalities appear to predate any drug abuse. Researchers discovered abnormalities in fronto-striatal brain systems implicated in self-control in both cocaine-dependent individuals and their biological siblings who have no history of chronic drug abuse; these findings support the idea of an underlying neurobiological component for stimulant drug addiction. This particular brain circuit seems to be involved in a lot of common disorders, such as ADHD, in which individuals struggle to control their response to stimuli that distract them . With this new evidence, the link between untreated ADHD and substance abuse becomes even clearer. Once again, research continues to mount that difficulties in ADHD derive from differences in the brain!
ADHD and Childhood Exposure to Anesthesia
Two recently-reported studies appear to show a link between the administration of anesthesia to children and an increased risk for developing ADHD. The data for these studies came from the Rochester Epidemiology Project. Researchers analyzed school records of children who were born between 1976 and 1982 in Minnesota. Out of the 341 cases reviewed in the studies, children with no anesthesia exposure or just a single exposure to anesthesia had ADHD at a rate of about 7.3 percent. Children who had two or more exposures had ADHD at a rate of 17.9 percent. Researchers also tried to adjust for other risk factors, such as gestational age, sex, birth weight, and comorbid health conditions. To put this information in context, ADHD risk appears to increase with numerous other experiential risk factors, including: fetal alcohol exposure, low birth weight, cerebral palsy, as well as early exposure to lead and other toxicants. Since ADHD is a neurobiological condition, it should come as no surprise that substances that impact the neurobiological environment carry the potential to play a role in the development of ADHD. However, these experiential factors are all rather uncommon. The greatest "risk factor" for developing ADHD is having a parent or sibling with the disorder.


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Director Barry Levinson is really well known for developing heartfelt, character-driven films, such as Rain Man, Diner, The Natural and Avalon. So why exactly would he want to do a horror movie?
According to Levinson, the idea for The Bay came out of a 2010 request to develop a documentary on Maryland's dying Chesapeake Bay. However, the director thought that PBS' Frontline had already done a fine job covering the topic, so he opted for a fictional film that blends some of the facts with the found-footage horror genre. That sort of makes sense, since The Bay has Levinson teamed up with the producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious.
The Bay is about one July 4 celebration that went horribly wrong – and ended up costing the sleepy, seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, approximately 700 of its residents. Now, three years later, some of the footage from that day seems to be surfacing.
There are no A-listers or big budgets here. In fact, most of The Bay looks like it was shot with an iPhone. Maybe that's because some of it was, in addition to a load of other consumer-style cameras. That certainly ups the creepy factor, as you can see from the trailer below.
And if you dare, check out The Bay, which is now in select theaters and available via on-demand and iTunes.


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This article first appeared in IMPO's May 2013 issue.
Conveying equipment can't just keep getting faster — it has to get smarter as well. Learn how market conditions, design elements, and maintenance issues work together to create positive trends in the conveyor industry.
Investments in critical equipment have been slowly creeping up in manufacturing environments, and conveying systems have certainly been no exception. The reason behind this may be, simply, that conveyor systems play a critical role in both uptime and efficiency.
"Conveying, in general, is a highly cost effective, safe, and environmentally sound method to transport large quantities of material as needed, and will remain the preferred method to achieve increased production goals in both bulk and unit applications," explains Paul Ross, president of conveyor component producer Douglas Manufacturing and board member of CEMA (Conveyer Equipment Manufacturers Association).
According to the latest figures from CEMA, new orders for conveyor equipment in 2012 were $1.31 billion more than 2011, representing an increase of 14 percent.
According to Ross, overall North American shipments were influenced by a sudden demand for product in the first half of the year. "This was driven by increased exports of bulk material handling components and systems into emerging markets where demand is high for a variety of raw materials including coal for power generation." Other factors, such as the stabilizing of the housing and construction markets, also affected demand favorably.


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Leona McGettigan Ward, 82, formerly of Chestnut Hill and Flourtown, a longtime community volunteer, died Jan. 12 at St. Mary Manor in Lansdale.
Mrs. Ward was a co-founder of the Chestnut Hill Town Watch and was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels.
She also had worked for many years at local business firms, including Jones Oldsmobile, and at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Born Leona Coyle and raised in Philadelphia, she was a graduate of St. Mary's Academy.
Mrs. Ward is survived by daughters Kathy, Nancy and Maureen; a son, John, and one grandchild. An infant son preceded her in death.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, at St. Mary Manor Chapel, 701 Lansdale Rd. in Lansdale. Relatives and friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, at the Flourtown Country Club, 150 McCloskey Road.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Joseph Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown, PA 19031, or to the National Alopecia Foundation, 14 Mitchell Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94903 (www.naaf.org). – WF


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One One One One (Touch!)
One One One One
I need a touch of your love
One touch in the morning
It's a beautiful day
One touch in the evening
You'll be comin' my way
And all my dreams come true
I'll do anything for you
One touch of your lips and I feel so fine
One touch and I know you're mine all mine
One touch of your love
It makes me feel all right
For the rest of my life
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One touch and I know that you will understand
One touch and I feel all the love that you give
Gives me reason to
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The Department of Social and Decision Sciences (SDS) at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking applicants for a full-time, tenure track, position in behavioral decision research with strong training in psychology and/or cognitive science. We are open to candidates with interests in theory, modelling, empirical and/or applied work. Applicants must have an outstanding research record and candidates with interdisciplinary interests are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in junior level candidates, but are open to applications from individuals at all levels. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2020. SDS is multi-disciplinary, including faculty trained in psychology, economics, applied mathematics, history, astrophysics, and industrial engineering. Several have joint appointments with other units, notably the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Department of Psychology, and the Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems. Current projects and faculty are described at the department's website: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds. SDS has particular research strengths in behavioral economics, behavioral decision theory, psychology, cognitive science, and computational social science. Collaboration is a hallmark of the department and the university.
Carnegie Mellon University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its community on a range of intellectual and cultural dimensions. Carnegie Mellon welcomes faculty applicants who will contribute to this diversity through their research, teaching and service, including women, members of minority groups, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and others who would contribute in different ways. Carnegie Mellon University seeks to meet the needs of dual-career couples and is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) that assists with dual-career searches.
Applicants should upload a letter of application stating research interests and teaching areas, curriculum vitae, one current research paper, and three letters of recommendation to: apply.interfolio.com/67536
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Colenso BBDO, Auckland are having some more ambient fun whilst promoting TV3s shows - this time it's Wipeout "a game-show where people get hurt, a lot". The billboard with dummies strewn about around it demonstrates what to expect.
Nick Worthington : Executive Creative Director
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New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a billion-dollar Cubist collection it says will "transform" it.
The museum announced Tuesday cosmetics executive and philanthropist Leonard Lauder has pledged his renowned collection of Cubist works.
The collection of 78 works includes pieces from Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger and is considered one of the most pre-eminent Cubism collections in the world. It's valued at more than $1 billion.
Museum Director Thomas Campbell says the gift is "truly transformational" and will fill in a critical area in the museum's collection.
The Lauder collection is expected to be presented in an exhibition opening in the fall of 2014.
The museum says a new research center for modern art will be created at the museum.


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Take a tour of Ireland
A landscape to inspire legends
The Emerald Isle is as diverse as it is stunning. Wild beaches, rugged coastline and green fields stand in stark contrast to its country villages and bustling towns.
The Irish are well known for their ability to tell a story. In fact, sometimes it's hard to know where real life ends and the stories begin.View all trips in Ireland
The Emerald Isle is as diverse as it is stunning. Wild beaches, rugged coastline and green fields stand in stark contrast to its country villages and bustling towns.
Dublin has twice been voted the friendliest city in Europe, as well as being crowned UNESCO City of Literature. The home of the poet Seamus Heaney and the author James Joyce is possibly best summed up by the fact that you can go on a literary pub crawl. Our Local Specialists will give you a special tour of the sights, including St Patrick's Cathedral, Phoenix Park, Trinity College and the Georgian Squares, not forgetting a trip on a canal barge. And don't forget the Guinness Brewery, where you'll learn how to pull the perfect pint.
The Cliffs of Moher are Ireland's most visited natural attraction. Stretching for five miles along the Atlantic coast of County Clare, the cliffs are 702 feet high at their tallest point and offer dramatic views. You'll visit the Cliffs Exhibition, housed in an underground cave, before seeing a side of the Atlantic coast that very few visitors get to see at Lahinch, where you'll forage for wildflowers and herbs on the shore. Indeed later that day you'll be shown how to use those same herbs by a local, as they prepare your lunch.
The Iveragh Peninsula, or the Ring of Kerry, is one of the most beautiful parts of the Irish coastland. There you'll enjoy mountains, lakes, valleys and ocean views, before arriving at a farmhouse from the 1930s, where you'll be welcomed by your host, Andrew. He'll introduce you to traditional Irish cooking before you tuck into a home cooked meal, eaten by the light of an oil lamp.
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Our friend Will Lyon from over at thebestcasescenario.com is a master Computer Mod Designer. If you don't believe me you can check out his latest project called Maximum Security. This badboy looks like he was yanked off the Nebuchadnezzar from the Matrix.
The project sports a liquid cooling system, LCD readout, RedBee RFID reader and self opening door powered by a Firgelli Linear Actuator. Checkout the project thread here and the video below. Nice job Will!


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Both Singletrack and Bike Rumor are reporting that the Fox Racing equipment has been stolen. Keep your eyes peeled folks.
The entire FOX RACING SHOX RACE Trailer and FORD F550 Truck was stolen late Monday night 6/27, in route to the UCI World Cup event in Mount Sainte Anne, Canada. The truck cab is a white FORD F550 Turbo Diesel with beige interior, CA license plate. There are many distinguishing features with this cab such as all FORD logos have been converted to FOX logos, FOX custome embroibered seats, FOX instrument cluster and custom FOX footwheels. The trailer is a 28ft FEATHERLIGHT flip down door. The trailer contained custom proprietary racing equipment as well as two YETI bicycles, a medium ASR-5, and medium ARC hardtail. A reward is being offered for any information that leads to the return of the vehicle. The Race Rig was last seen at 6/28/11 at 4:30am traveling West on Hwy 20 just outside of Montreal.


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Posting to keep this thread open. I've got a parts set with some paint on it, ZA markings, bbl nice. Havn't built yet.
another one of my SA fal's, no cammo on it. ( no paint on the kit parts when i got it.)
it is 922r compliant.
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Posting to keep this thread open. I've got a parts set with some paint on it, ZA markings, bbl nice. Havn't built yet.
i was digging thru my boxes of parts and found some S.A. stock sets i had left over from some builds. most do not have any paint left on them.
i am thinking about cleaning them up (not repairing them) and puting a coat of paint on them like the S.A. FAL's had on them.
is there any interest on them? if not i will put them back in storage for later.
this is not an offer to sell at this time. i need to get some paint mixed for them, but if there is no interest i will not bother with it.
i am trying to get some money to buy more parts to build some more fals. ( it never ends)
see my pictures of a couple i did earlier in the first few threads.
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I was reading a post like this at the FAL Files a few years ago.
Someone matched the paints with some paint numbers.
Dupont Centari Automotive Industrial Paint:
- Forest Green-DS166A
- Yellow/Green-YS432A
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
thank you very much.
for those that don't know there are 2 more colors.
one is an equal mix of the the two colors above ( gunplumber gave me this information several years ago)
(that is the colors for the RA rifles)
the 4th is a light sand/tan/kakie color. i will look and see if i can find the color number again) this was added to the Zambawe rifles (ZA) along with the other 3 colors.
there is not any perticular way the colors are put on the rifles. everyone one did it there own way.
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The day has been perfect with weather to match. Couldn't have asked for a better Birthday. Once again, thank you to everyone and I hope the day was as equally "awesome" for each and every one of you !
My very first "Happy Birthday" received in person from a very tired Rob at 5:00 am.. My poor dear Crabby Cabbie didn't get home until the wee hours of 5:00 am, and to sleep until at least 6:00 am. Poor guy. We let him sleep until he got up just before 11:00 am, as I really am sure it was the phone that had woke him up eventually with its ringing on and off this morning.
I do love Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", especially Stevie Nicks singing "Songbirds".
Hopefully not just a another Year older, but another Year wiser, as the saying goes, as I head off into the Sunset on the Eve of yet another Birthday, "Just North of Wiarton & South of the Checkerboard".


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The Houston Dynamo Academy played its first home games of the 2010-11 season on Saturday but came up short in both contests, falling to the Dallas Texans 3-1 at the U-18 level and 2-1 in the U-16 match.
The U-18s held a 1-0 advantage when playing at full strength but gave up three goals while playing with 10 men - once due to injury and twice following a red card - to drop their second consecutive 3-1 decision. Houston dominated possession and chances at even strength but only scored through a right-wing free kick from Abe Matamoros (Strake Jesuit) before halftime.
The Dynamo had the edge in play early in the second half, with forward Martin Castillo (Pasadena Sam Rayburn) seeing two shots saved in the first 12 minutes alone. A second yellow card to defender Juan Ramirez in the 54th minute gave Dallas the advantage for the remainder of the half, and the Texans scored in the 66th and 76th minutes to take the win. Houston goalkeeper Philip Blake (Deer Park) made two saves in the final 10 minutes to keep the final margin at 3-1.
U-18 Highlights: Dynamo Academy 1, Texans 3
In the second game, Houston's U-16s fell behind with a sluggish first half but responded well, controlling play in the second half. They could only pull back one goal, however, evening their record at 1-1.
Dynamo Academy boxscores
U-18: Dallas Texans (1-0, 1-0) vs. Houston Dynamo (0-2, 0-2)
September 18, 2010 –- Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex
USSF Development Academy -- Texas Division
Scoring Summary:
DTX -- Brandon Perez 1 (Clint Ritter 1) 12
HOU -- Abe Matamoros 1 (unassisted) 38
DTX -- Brandon Perez 2 (unassisted) 66
DTX -- Leonard Smith 1 () 76
Houston Dynamo -- Philip Blake, Siegfried Casar (Juan Lopez 46), Juan Ramirez, Leo Ayala, Josue Morales, Miguel Zapata (Alan Hernandez 83), Bryan Celis (Martin Fiemawhle 92), Irvinn Ramirez, Abe Matamoros (Diego Velazquez 71), Martin Castillo, Jade George (Marco Chacon 74).
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial.
U-16: Dallas Texans (1-0, 1-0) vs. Houston Dynamo (1-1, 1-1)
September 18, 2010 –- Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex
USSF Development Academy -- Texas Division
Scoring Summary:
DTX -- Sylvester Contreras 30
DTX -- Brandon Aubrey 41
HOU -- Alan Arellano 1 (penalty kick) 62
Houston Dynamo -- Juan Navarrete, Roberto Chavira (Luis Mendoza 47), Bradley Bourgeois, Alex Ochoa, Roberto Navarro, Raymundo Marquez (Fortiune Wamutega 67), Alan Arellano, Giovanni Najar (Jorge Andrade 52), Bryan Salazar (Aaron Arguelles 57), Manuel Chavez, David Dauajare (Matthew Alarcon 65).
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and throw a birthday party for your kid. Who likes picking up smashed cake from the floor? I do I do! LET'S GO!
PARKS AND RECREATION – 9:30PM (NBC) It's back! It's back! It's back! YAYYYYYYYYYYYY! For my money, "Parks and Recreation" was the best show on television last year, and it got bumped this fall in favor of "Outsourced," which is a lot like benching Aaron Rodgers in favor of a Roomba. Anyway, this season picks up where we left off, with the Parks department being shut down and Amy Peohler desperate to keep it afloat. Joining the cast full time are Rob Lowe and Adam Scott, who will one day be much more famous than he is right now. Given this show's ratings last year, it may be its last chance to gain solid footing with the American public. So please. Watch. Or else I will find you and I will pinch you very hard. It hurts more than you think. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
FAIRLY LEGAL – 10:00PM (USA) Most people remember Sarah Shahi from that time she was on "The Sopranos" and got Tony high on shrooms in Vegas right after he iced Christopher. Now who couldn't get on board with a girl like that? Shahi then went on to star in NBC's "Life," which was well regarded but short-lived, and now she's back as the lead in this trite USA series about a lawyer turned mediator who takes over her dead father's firm and is forced to work for her mean stepmom. It's a fairly derivative idea, but it has a really hot girl toplining it, so it feels fresh to me! ANTICIPATION: SHAHI!
PERFECT COUPLES – 8:30PM (NBC) This sitcom actually had a "sneak preview" episode that aired last month, weeks prior to tonight's actual premiere. I think shows should do this more often. It would be just like the Spiderman musical. You just stay in previews for months and months so that critics can't be all mean and stuff. By the way, this show features Olivia Munn. She is not unattractive. I hope she's better here than she is on "The Daily Show." ANTICIPATION: MUNNY!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) The reviews are in for the new judging panel, and the consensus reaction is… eh. "The same wine in a new bottle." "The formula simply does not work without someone willing to be an ass to kids with big dreams but no chops." "Meet the new judges. Not all that different from the old judges." And on and on it goes. I told you they needed Axl Rose on this panel. At least someone would have gotten a bottle thrown at them. ANTICIPATION: LOW!
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS – 9:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Camille gets news about her marriage to Kelsey, and since you already know they're divorced, I'm assuming the news is that they're getting divorced. How marvelous. ANTICIPATION: DIVORCE!
Wednesday Watch List: Parks And Rec!
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The body of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kandi Burruss' ex-finance will be exhumed at the request of his family so that a second autopsy can be performed, according to reports.
A.J. Jewell, a father of six, died following a fight with a man in the parking lot of an Atlanta jiggle joint in October. Suspect Fredrick Richardson was arrested and charged with his death.
The medical examiner ruled that sickle cell disease was a factor in the shocking death but cops originally said Jewell died of blunt force trauma. Relatives disputed the medical examiner's determination and requested a second autopsy, according to CNN.
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"I want the public to know my son did not have sickle cell disease, and I hope this next autopsy will prove that my son was murdered," Jewell's father, Rev. A.B. Jewell Sr., told CNN.
Jewell was featured on the hit Bravo reality show "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" where he appeared to be happily engaged to Grammy-winning single mom Kandi Burruss. The pair split shortly after Kandi's first season on the show but reportedly remained close.


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Edmund March Blunt (June 20, 1770 - 1862) was an American navigator, bookseller, chartmaker, and cartographer based in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Blunt was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1770. In 1796, along with the nominal assistance of prominent navigator Captain Lawrence Furlong, Blunt published The American Coast Pilot, one of the most important published works on American navigation. Although much of the work was plagiarized from British publications, the Coast Pilot was an immediate popular success. In response to the popularity of his work, Blunt published 21 subsequent editions, each with important updates and revisions. The first edition to contain map plates was printed in 1804. Following a fire that destroyed his offices at The Sign of the Bible in 1811, Blunt moved his business to New York and opened a new shop, The Sign of the Quadrant. In time, his sons Edmond Jr. (1799 - 1866) and George William (1802 - 1878), took over the family business, and renamed the firm E. and G. W. Blunt. They both produced their own nautical books, charts, and instruments, as well as republished their father's work. In 1830, Edmund accepted a position under Ferdinand Hassler at the United States Office of the Coast Survey. Much of Blunt's original work eventually found its way into U.S. Coast Survey Publications. Due to the quality and detail of Blunt's work, revised editions of his most important charts were republished well into the 1880s.


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Though the recent attention given to such writers as Roberto Bolaño and Clarice Lispector has helped to broaden our perspective on the important contribution of Latin American fiction to postwar world literature, it's likely that most readers continue to associate that contribution with the writers of the so-called "Boom": Garcia Marquez, Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, etc. One could imagine this legacy might seem to younger Latin American writers both a blessing and a curse, as it continues to give writers from this region a more receptive audience than they might otherwise have, but also leads to expectations these writers don't necessarily want to fulfill. It is tempting to think we could approach an anthology of "new" fiction from such writers by putting aside expectations based on our previous experiences reading "Latin American fiction" as published in the United States, that we could immediately begin to appreciate this fiction on its own merits without further reflection. It is a temptation better resisted.
In an early review of The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction, John Freeman advises to "skip over the anthology's churlish introduction" by editor Diego Trelles Paz. This would be a mistake, however. Not only does this introduction actually avoid being "churlish," but it provides the stories collected in the anthology with important context we need to fully account for some of the stories' formal features as well as their subjects. Because the stories are presented in simple alphabetical order by author's nationality, the guidance offered by Paz in his "Prologue" helps the reader assimilate them more fully than would be possible without it.
Most immediately, Paz informs us of the origins of this anthology in an online project (from which this book offers a selection) initiated by writers "who use electronic means . . . to fight the internal editorial isolation in which the region is submerged." As Paz puts it, the original anthology "was made by writers in search of readers." He describes a situation that has long prevailed in Latin America, in which writers (and readers) from one part of the region have trouble getting access to books from other parts, so that "Latin American" writers are to an extent left unaware of each other. Yet for a long time now new fiction from Latin American has been marketed, especially in the United States, as if this fiction was all of a piece, "a bastardized version of magical realism that combines magic, folklore, and miraculous cooking to go." This version of Latin American fiction is "exoticism on-demand for foreign consumers and American and European Spanish departments." Perhaps this sounds "churlish" to readers who have blithely accepted such bastardized magical realism as somehow the essence of Latin American fiction, but Paz's insistence that the writers included in The Future Is Not Ours be distinguished both from the "Boom" writers and from each other is important for readers to keep in mind as they sample the stories in this book.
Paz thus mostly avoids making broad generalizations about the styles or the assumptions that might link the writers in The Future Is Not Ours, except for the shared presumption of futility reflected in the title. The future is bleak, and for reasons that aren't confined to Latin America, as we all now inhabit "a time catastrophic in terms of equality and social justice, sinister with respect to human rights, apocalyptic for the ecological health of the planet, cynical toward those least favored by the neoliberal fundamentalism of a marked currently in free fall." However much these conditions might be even more destructive in Latin America, where social injustice and more widespread poverty make it even more susceptible to the depredations of oligarchy and global capital, these intimations of a dystopian future would resonate fully enough with American and European readers facing their own version of such a future. In this way, Paz proposes, most stories in the book address concerns beyond "national boundaries" without succumbing to the lazy realism that contents itself with depicting the ubiquitous influence of American culture on all countries.
While Paz does want to insist that "one of our greatest strengths as a group is that, above all, our fractures are internal," he nevertheless also provides a taxonomy of the "core motives and concerns" to be found in The Future Is Not Ours. In some ways this guide to the shared thematic and formal concerns of the included writers offers a better way to organize a reading of the book than the fairly arbitrary arrangement of the table of contents. Paz suggests three categories: First is the treatment of "differing manifestations of violence." In Fifteen Flowers," by Argentine Federico Falco, the violence emerges from personal conflicts, although the story portrays these conflicts among characters growing up in an environment in which they clearly have little to look forward to. Daniel Alarcon's "Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979" shifts the focus to violence as an explicitly social and political phenomenon, as it portrays the beginnings of a revolutionary group (probably the Shining Path guerillas) and the casual brutality implicit in its mission. (The group's first "revolutionary act" as described by the narrator: "We strung up dogs from all the street lamps, covered them with terse and angry slogans, Die, Capitalist Dogs and such; leaving the beasts there for the people to see how fanatical we could be.") Guatemalan writer Ronald Flores's "Any Old Story" focuses not on the explicit violence that arises from conditions of deprivation and despair, but on the spiritual violence those conditions visit on ordinary people, in a story of a young girl defeated in her attempt to "improve herself" by migrating from the provinces to "the capital." Similarly, Alejandro Zambra's "34" addresses the dehumanizing political violence in Pinochet's Chile, but obliquely, in a story about students at the National Institute, "the most prestigious secondary school in Chile," who are known only by their assigned numbers. The final line is especially chilling as a portent of what awaits these students, as the narrator (number 45) tells us about number 34: "Little by little, we lost track of him."
Most of these stories are subtle, engaging the theme of violence without belaboring their social and political ramifications (and therefore making them all the more powerful as we come to fully recognize the implications). Puerto Rican writer Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's "Pillage" relates its narrator's horrific experience witnessing two men rape and murder a ten year-old girl, although it also seems to link this violent act to ongoing political circumstances, but again obliquely, through the narrator's sudden awareness of the girl's screams beneath the sounds of the "rallying at the campaign closings of the usual politicians" and in his confession he had secured his job through a connection with the ruling party, a connection "that didn't seem likely to be renewed." Even more obliquely, he informs us that "no one else would hire me with my record, knowing my secret." The narrator watches the girl being brutally beaten without intervening, and we are left to wonder what resonance this scene might have, if any, with the political context so elliptically introduced.
Other stories in the book, Paz points out, focus on "eroticism," although, as "Pillage" illustrates, sex "isn't far removed from the matrix of violence." One of the most disturbing stories, "Sun-Woo" by Argentine Oliverio Coelho (also the first story in the book) follows a Latin American writer who finds himself in South Korea (immediately demonstrating that these writers are indeed willing to extend themselves beyond "national boundaries") and involved sexually with the title character, whose sexual appetite proves dangerous, to say the least. Chilean Lina Meruane's "Razor Blades" is a simultaneously creepy and buoyant story about a group of schoolgirls whose sexual awakening is manifested in a frenzy of depilation. Beginning with the armpits, soon enough they are "running the razor blade down our arms and up our calves and thighs." The story culminates in the forced shaving of a new girl, Pilar. After reaching her "black, swollen pubis," the narrator tells us, "we threw our razor blades onto the floor and kissed that mouth and then each other with our tongues, crazed by the ecstasy of our discovery." The most disturbing story in the book may be by another Chilean, Andrea Jeftanovic's "Family Tree," in which a father is seduced by his daughter into an incestuous relationship. The daughter, who has been abandoned by her mother, is clearly attempting to ensure her father doesn't also leave her (she spies on him when he is entertaining women in the wake of his wife's departure), although he is apparently unable to see this. At the end of the story the daughter is pregnant and the two are preparing to "settle down"—unless the story is actually the unfolding fantasy of the father/narrator (which might just make the story even more disturbing.)
The third category Paz describes does not unite the stories thematically but instead directs us to see the "aesthetic diversity" in the collection. Unfortunately, these are generally among the weaker stories in The Future Is Not Ours. Some, such as Ena Lucia Portela's "Hurricane," are conventionally realistic, if more extended, narratives with political overtones, while others, such as Santiago Nazarian's "Fish Spine" or Carlos Wynter Melo's "Boxer," are briefer but still realistic sketches that evoke pathos in a way that borders on sentimentality. Samanta Schweblin's "On the Steppe" is a surrealist work that creates an enigmatic situation (an odd outbreak of infertility, it would seem) that never really becomes anything other than enigmatic, its effect depending on the withholding of information that if provided would likely make the story a fairly tepid entry in the postapocalyptic genre. "Wolf to Man," by Ines Bortegaray, and "Love Belongs to Another Part," by Slavko Zupcic, are the most "postmodern" stories in the book, each of them focused metafictionally on writers and writing: the former depicts a journalism student preparing a report on a former revolutionary who is on his deathbed; the latter shows a novelist working on a storyincorporating letters written by his presumptive father, whom he has never met. The postmodernism of both stories doesn't really go much beyond such perfunctory self-reflexivity, although "Wolf to Man" does also include annotations a la David Foster Wallace. Moreover, the underlying narratives framed by these metafictional devices are finally not very interesting.
If there is disappointment in reading The Future Is Not Ours, it is disappointment in its relative lack of aesthetic diversity. On the one hand, it is gratifying to see Latin American writers moving on from magical realism (without necessarily dismissing its achievement), but there is more departure from the "magical" side of this once provocative pairing than from "realism." Stories such as "Lima, Peru" and "Pillage" use the methods of realism very skillfully (in these cases, something like the "slice-of-life" strategy), but there is little suggestion from this book that the way forward from magical realism might involve formal innovation, or at least some re-appraisal of the role of storytelling in fiction. Paz does point out the greater willingness of these writers to include elements of genre fiction, but while this might make Latin American fiction potentially more attractive to a wider international audience, it doesn't really encourage fresh approaches to narrative practice, since if anything genre fiction tends to rely even more reflexively on conventional modes of storytelling than mainstream literary fiction.
Arguably this aesthetic conservatism is an unavoidable function of the shared worldview evinced in the book's title. Writers of formally or stylistically adventurous fiction implicitly think there is a future—at least for literature—and it belongs to them and to all other writers attempting to replenish the resources of literature with freshly conceived strategies, techniques, tropes. One would not begrudge the writers in The Future Is Not Ours their pessimism, of course, which provides an underlying perspective that makes many of the stories here so emotionally bracing. Even readers reluctant to share in that pessimism will surely find the book (or at least parts of it) compelling in this way, but if it does present a broader overview of this generation of Latin American writers—as it does, inevitably—it is one that shows them somewhat in retreat from the more audacious practices and commodious vision of Borges, Cortázar, and Garcia Marquez, the writers who first brought Latin American fiction widespread attention beyond the borders of Central and South America. These stories are still well worth reading, and perhaps, given current circumstances in Latin America, they represent precisely the kind of fiction we should expect to encounter, but one might still hope that writers from this part of the world conclude that the future is theirs after all, and that they begin to discover new or surprising ways to extend the future of fiction without attenuating their engagement with the realities of life as it is lived there.