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Just a reminder; for those of you in the greater Los Angeles area,I would love to see you the night after tomorrow at The Velaslavasay Panorama, where I will be giving a lecture entitled "Anatomical Venuses, The Slashed Beauty, and Fetuses Dancing a Jig: A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum." The images above--drawn from my recent photo exhibitions The Secret Museum and Anatomical Theatre--constitute a tiny sampling of the many images I will be showing in the presentation.

Full details follow; very much hope very much to see you there.

Tickets available here. You can find out more about the lecture on Flavorpill and in The LA Weekly. You can find out more about the panorama (one of my favorite spots in LA! highly recommended!) by clicking here.

Images top to bottom, as drawn from my recent photo exhibitions The Secret Museum and Anatomical Theatre:

1. "Anatomical Venus" Wax wodel with human hair and pearls in rosewood and Venetian glass case, "La Specola" (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, Italy, Probably modeled by Clemente Susini (around 1790)
2. "Slashed Beauty" Wax wodel with human hair and pearls in rosewood and Venetian glass case, "La Specola" (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, Italy, Probably modeled by Clemente Susini (around 1790)
3. "Anatomical Venuses," Wax Models with human hair in rosewood and Venetian glass cases,The Josephinum, Workshop of Clemente Susini of Florence circa 1780s, Vienna, Austria
4. The Mütter Museum : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pathological model; 19th Century?
5. Wax Model of Eye Surgery, Musée Orfila, Paris. Courtesy Université Paris Descartes
6. Wax Anatomical Models in Rosewood and Venetian Glass Boxes, The Josephinum, Workshop of Clemente Susini of Florence circa 1780s, Vienna, Austria
7. Wax moulages; Probably by Carl Henning (1860-1917) or Theodor Henning (1897-1946); Early 20th Century; Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum): Vienna, Austria, Austria
8. Plaster Models in Pathological Cabinet, The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
9. Skeleton and hand models for "la médecine opératoire" Musée Orfila, Paris. Courtesy Université Paris Descartes

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I would like to cordially invite each and every one of you to our upcoming lunar-themed Observatory anniversary/fundraiser party! A few things you should know: The charming Lord Whimsy will be on hand to MC! Giveaways will be provided by Kikkerland! Libations served up compliments of La Fée Absinthe! Viewings of The Midnight Archive! And music, too.

Full details follow. Hope to see you there!

Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party, Sponsored by Le Fée Absinthe!
Date: Saturday, February 18th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $20

Yes, friends, we're over the moon about our 3rd Anniversary! Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space.

Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We'll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show featuring your favorite Observatory masterminds.

Libations will be provided courtesy of La Fée Absinthe.

There will also be:

The luminous MC Lord Whimsy!

Stellar giveaways courtesy of Kikkerland!

Out-of-this-world raffle prizes, including:

Gift certificates from the scrumptious SweetWolf's and the delectable Palo Santo!

Moonrise Perfume from Herbal Alchemy!

Audiobooks from Hachette!

Occult Book Set including an autographed copy of Mitch Horowitz's Occult America (Bantam), and Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Tarcher/Penguin)!

Abraxas International Journal of Esoteric Studies with accompanying occult music CD!

Lunavision Ritual Tea Set from Rebis Remedies!

And so! much! more! We look forward to seeing you there.

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Street Anatomy fans get 20% off the Closer print!
Use discount code SAVDAY at the Street Anatomy store.

• A3 11.7″ x 16.5″
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This print is fantastic in person. Ultra smooth and bright.  The guys at Mr Four Fingers spare no details!

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I know that everyone and their mother has seen these works by now.  But what makes these pieces by artist Lisa Nilsson so incredible is the detail, thoughtful technique and observation that the rolled paper makes a beautiful representation of anatomical cross sections.  Everyone has appreciated it, even those who don’t necessarily find science and anatomy particularly interesting.  It’s this type of transcendent anatomical art that we here at Street Anatomy drool over.

If you, like me, gasped at the site of these and instantly wanted to know how she created them, head over to ArtSake for the wonderful interview with Lisa. She shares her inspiration, technique, and overall amazingness in the interview.

[via fellow Chicago blogger, This Is Colossal]

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Our buddy Jere Ryder of the Guinness Collection of automata at the Morris Museum just forwarded me a CBS video that features his automata collection, a truly enchanting automaton at the Franklin Institute in Philly (which, we are informed, inspired the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret), and provides a very engaging history of the craft to boot. Highly recommended! To view, simply press the play button above.

Also, for the automaton lovers among you who happen to be passing through the San Francisco International Airport international terminal before June 2012, you can go check out some automatons on display between flights! Click here for more on that. More on the Morris Museum collection can be found here.

Thanks very much to Jere Ryder for sending these links along.

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Animated gifs created from he nighttime Coney Island sequence featured the 1928 Harold Lloyd vehicle Speedy. You can watch the clip from which it is is drawn by clicking here.

Synopisis of the film, from IMDB:

Speedy (1928)
"Speedy" loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, "Speedy" organizes the neighborhood oldtimers to thwart their scheme. Written by Herman Seifer

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Published: Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8:06 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8:06 p.m.

Cruising northward on Interstate 75, they descended into the bowl of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and hit a wall of fog and smoke. McGill, driving a 1993 Toyota Camry, stopped in the road. Within seconds, Camps said, they heard cars and trucks crashing.

“It looked like the end of the world,” said Camps, 22, a Santa Fe College student.

For 11 people, it was.

Those 11 died on Jan. 29 in what was the deadliest chain of crashes in Alachua County in recent memory — if not in its history. Many more were injured — 20 were taken to hospitals, while others had minor injuries treated at the scene.

Drivers and passengers who survived described a hellish scene of fire and helplessness. Florida Highway Patrol troopers, fire-rescue crews and Alachua County sheriff's deputies said they had never seen anything like it.

“This has been one of those incidents that, if you encounter one, you hope you only encounter one in a career,” Alachua County Fire Rescue Director Ed Bailey said.

The fire

The first crash in the half-mile length of I-75 on the southern part of the prairie was reported at 4 a.m., but the pending tragedy really began Saturday afternoon with a seemingly innocuous brush fire about 800 yards to the east, just off U.S. 441.

Attracting onlookers who were crossing the prairie on 441, the blaze grew to about 60 acres before crews were able to plow a line around it to prevent the fire from spreading.

Still, firefighters said that night as they corralled the blaze that it would continue to smolder and, given the weather conditions, could settle a layer of smoke and fog in the prairie basin.

The Florida Department of Transportation said it posted yellow warning signs on both ends of the prairie on U.S. 441 and Interstate 75. FHP said it had at least one trooper patrolling in the area, monitoring the situation.

Sure enough, as it neared midnight the area fogged over, and accidents were reported.

At 11:53:14, a caller to 911 reported heavy smoke in the middle of Paynes Prairie. A fraction of a second later, another caller reported hearing accidents. Then a caller saw accidents. And then came a call that traffic was stopped on I-75.

Those accidents — none of them fatal — prompted the closure of I-75 along the prairie. Deputies began blocking traffic at the southbound rest area at 12:08 a.m., and FHP directed the interstate to remain closed at 12:45, according to the Alachua County Combined Communications Center.

The interstate remained closed until about 3:21 a.m., when the decision was made to reopen it.

Fog, smoke return

At 4:01 a.m., Shelise Ballew was driving her 2004 Ford Expedition toward Ocala with a friend, Aimee Nelson. The two work as bartenders in Gainesville and were heading home for the night.

They got only as far as Paynes Prairie.

“It was like a wall,” Ballew said. “I thought it was just fog, so I started to slow down. But once we were in it, instantly you couldn't see anything. When I hit the wall of smoke, I knew there was going to be an accident. I knew it was going to be bad. I thought we were going to die.”

FHP reported that Ballew hit the back of a pickup that had hit the back of a semi that had stopped in the right lane. Ballew and Nelson scrambled out the back of the Expedition, which was incinerated shortly after.

By this time, Alachua County's Combined Communications Center was getting frantic calls regarding I-75.

Troopers, deputies and fire-rescue began racing there, and faced the same hazards.

“When I drove in and reached the wall (of smoke), it was everything they had promised,” ACFR District Chief Jeff Harpe said. “I couldn't see the hood of the truck. I didn't have the luxury of being able to see everything.”

Fatal crashes

In the northbound lanes, two vans were traveling back to Marietta, Ga., after attending a conference in Orlando.

In one, a 2012 Dodge Caravan, was the pastor of a church for Brazilian immigrants and his family. The Caravan hit the back left side of a semi trailer.

A photo taken by The Sun shows that metal from the semi's rear corner frame sliced through the Caravan's driver compartment and into the passenger section.

Five family members died: Jose Carmo, 43, the pastor; his wife, Adrianna, 39; their daughter Leticia, 17; his brother, Edson Carmo, 38; and Edson's fiancee, Roselia DeSilva, 41. Surviving the crash was Jose Carmo's daughter, Lidiane Carmo, 15, who was listed in fair condition Saturday at Shands at the University of Florida.

Several more church members were in the second van, and all in that van survived the crash.

At the front of the truck hit by Edson Carmo, a 2005 Toyota Matrix was sandwiched between the cab and the rear of another semi. Killed were the driver, Jason Lee Raikes, 26, a systems engineer in Richmond, Va., and his girlfriend, Christie Nguyen, 27, a Santa Fe College student and 2010 UF graduate with a bachelor's degree in Asian studies.

Meanwhile, in the southbound lane, Michael Hughes, 39, his wife, Lori Hughes, 46, and Michael's daughter, Sabryna Hughes Gilley, 17, all of Pensacola, were in a 2001 Dodge pickup. They were heading to Sarasota for a funeral.

Ahead of them, a semi had stopped in the right lane. Michael Hughes slammed into the back of the semi. Ballew then plowed into Hughes' pickup.

All three vehicles burned, except the decoupled cab on the semi. The Hughes family died.

Nearby, another semi had stopped in the middle lane. Richard Szabados, 39, of Silver Springs, hit the semi from behind. He got out of his 2008 Dodge pickup and had only minor injuries.

Vontavia Robinson, 22, of Williston, who had been bowling with his brother, drove into Szabados' pickup. The force of the impact lifted the pickup on top of Robinson's 2004 Pontiac Gran Prix.

The car, pickup and semi trailer burned. Robinson died.

Other cars collided with semis or guardrails, or ran off the road. Drivers and passengers who survived were trapped on I-75 for several hours, while crews transported the more seriously injured to hospitals and bodies were recovered.

Given the twisted condition of some vehicles, FHP said the death toll could have been higher but for the cars being newer models with improved impact protection.

The aftermath

Now, agencies from FHP to the National Weather Service are examining their actions that night to figure out if they could have done anything differently to prevent the tragedy, or at least lessen it.

FHP is continuing to investigate the crashes. Several FHP homicide investigators were called to the scene to begin piecing together evidence to learn in more detail about the crashes that unfolded. The agency said the investigation could take months to complete.

One factor in the investigation will be why two southbound tractor-trailer drivers came to a stop in their lanes as opposed to pulling off to the side of the interstate.

Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott has instructed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate events leading up to the crashes. FDLE spokesman Keith Kameg did not have an estimated completion date.

One key issue is the decision b
y Lt. John Gourley to reopen the interstate before the fatal wrecks.

“He is feeling a little bit of heat,” FHP Lt. Pat Riordan said. “We had a three-hour window that we waited to evaluate the conditions on the road before we opened it up. Three hours is a long time. He made the decision to open the roadway, and approximately 45 minutes later, the collisions occurred.”

FHP has policies and protocols that include checklists on major road closures and smoke/fog incidents.

The checklists include notification to upper supervisors and local law enforcement agencies, the creation of detour routes, staffing and obtaining spot weather forecasts, and identifying current or overnight LVORI — Low Visibility Occurrence Risk Index — levels. The LVORI gauges the probability of visibility restrictions from fog or smoke based on weather conditions on a scale of one to 10, with 10 the highest probability.

Steve Letro, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, said the agency did not receive any calls or emails from FHP the night of the accidents.

Letro said his staff might not have been able to provide any useful information anyway. Letro said the Paynes Prairie fire was too small to produce any measurable smoke in Jacksonville and that the effects of the smoke were extremely localized.

“What happened with the crash was such a very, very small localized place. You can have one person standing on the road and another person a mile down the road, and in situations like they had that night, you could easily have fine visibility where they were but there was a half-mile stretch in the middle where it's down on the deck,” Letro said. “We really don't have much of anything, forecast-wise, that deals with something like that. Honestly, I don't know what we could have done. We've been going over this in our heads for three or four days.”

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Anatomy of a tragedy: I-75 crashes

Carolyn and Roy Register have always been active in helping charity events, but they have a special love for the Boys & Girls Homes of North Carolina Golf Tournament.

“Carolyn called me about doing a benefit golf tournament for the Boys & Girls Homes in Lake Waccamaw,” recalls Ron Jones, who serves as the tournament chairman.

And, as they say, the rest is history.

It was almost nine years ago when Carolyn Register made that phone call. Since then there have been seven tournaments held on Pinehurst Resort’s renowned No. 8 Centennial Course. And the Boys & Girls Homes have received more than $180,000 from the event, which will celebrate its eighth playing March 5.

There was a very special reason Register made that memorable call. She and Roy had lost their 47-year-old son, Courtney, in 2001 and were searching for a suitable memorial. Roy, an avid golfer, suggested a golf tournament.

And that’s when Carolyn, who was serving on the Boys & Girls Homes board, called Ron Jones.

“Carolyn had gotten my name from the Boys & Girls Homes, where I had been connected through Optimists International,” Jones said. “The Optimists have a cottage for the kids there, and I have been strongly supporting and keeping up the cottage and all its services for temporarily displaced, neglected and abused children.”

Jones is retired from the North Carolina Department of Corrections, has been an Optimist member for 22 years, and is currently a member of the Sandhills Optimist Club.

“Tommy Albin, who was publishing The Golf Record then, let us use his office to meet and helped us get organized,” Carolyn Register said. “We also have a ladies’ luncheon that raises money, and we had almost 200 people there last year. We always have a great guest speaker and a special attraction, such as a fashion show.

“This event has a very special meaning for us, and I love being on the board. Seeing these children who come there after not having been taken care of is a wonderful experience. And it’s special after they leave the homes and come back to tell us how their lives were changed and what it meant to them.”

The homes, which consist of cottages built by various civic clubs from across the state, provide children with a home-like environment, a sound basic education and higher education opportunities and spiritual development.

Asked how much time he spends on meetings and organizational projects, Jones says, “A lot. We have 17 volunteer members who are from a variety of backgrounds, and we all work very hard for a year ahead of the tournament, planning, getting donated food, prizes, grants and golfers.

“I’m also on the trustee board of the BGHNC, and the homes were recently accredited by the Council on Accreditation, an international, independent not for-profit child-and-family-services and behavioral accreditation organization that has more widely validated the credibility of the homes.”

The work creates a bond among the committee members, according to Jones.

“Interacting with each other and all we go through to locate golfers, sponsors, venues, etc., bonds this group together with a common purpose,” he said. “We all have our own talent and contacts, and we use them to their fullest. We supplement the budget for the homes with our one tournament at about $30,000 annually.”

The civic clubs that provide and maintain the cottages don’t quit with helping raise funds, though.

“There’s a statewide Cleanup Day each year,” Jones said, “where Optimists and other civic organizations pour onto the campus and wash windows, paint, clean grounds, etc. We have a chance to work alongside the kids and talk with them. Their attitude and lifestyle changes are remarkable and gratifying.

“Listening to the private and public testimonies of the residents makes us feel the work of the tournament and donations of time and resources are worth it all.

“The current president of the homes, Gary Faircloth, is a former resident, and his story is extremely inspirational.”

The tournament, which uses the Pinehurst scramble format, will have a noon shotgun start. The entry fee is $200 per player or $750 per team and includes cart fees, prizes, range balls, snacks, coffee and Danish provided by Starbucks, a bag lunch from Golden Corral and dinner.

A hole-in-one on the eighth hole offers a prize of a two-year lease on a new Ford or Mazda automobile, and an ace on the 15th is worth $1,000 in cash, also provided by Bill Smith Ford-Mazda.

Golfers registering before Feb. 13 will be entered in an “early bird drawing” for free golf for a foursome at an area golf club.

For more information, call Jones at (910) 295-1819 or (910) 638-9965, or register at (910) 295-2352.

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Anatomy of a Charity Golf Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS — He was always being compared to someone. That’s what happens when you’re the youngest son of a great quarterback and the baby brother of an even better one. It wasn’t until he compared himself to Tom Brady, though, that people began taking Eli Manning seriously.

That was in August, when Manning was asked whether he considered himself an “elite” quarterback like Brady. Manning said simply that he belonged “in that class.” But in New York, where blowing things out of proportion is practically a civic duty, even most Giants fans regarded it as heresy at the time. By Sunday night, it could be fact.

So ready or not, it’s time for the “other” Manning vs. Brady, Part II. Both are back in Sunday’s Super Bowl, four years after they first clashed, each with plenty still to prove.

“It’s not my job to list quarterbacks,” Manning said this week. “He’s obviously a future Hall of Famer.”

Yet Brady has looked like anything but that in his last 11 postseason games, posting a 6-5 mark, including a 2008 Super Bowl loss to Manning and the Giants. For most of those, he’s been knocked around a lot, picked off more than usual and tagged with a quarterback rating that wouldn’t qualify as a low-grade fever. Measured against the nearly impossible standard that Brady set at the start of his career — 10 straight postseason wins and three Super Bowl titles — merely average would be a more accurate description.

Perception still lags behind that reality, in no small part because everything else about Brady still screams “winner.” Now 34, he is still boyishly handsome, still as charming as ever, still the most sought-after endorser and the one athlete even his peers would kill to be. He returns home every night with two sons to look after — and a supermodel wife.

Yet those who know Brady have long marveled at how well he hides a competitive streak even Michael Jordan would admire. And despite outward appearances, they wonder how Brady is managing it now, coming up short of his ultimate goal every season since 2005, after winning three in four years. Patriots backup quarterback Brian Hoyer ticked off a laundry list of things he’s been studying in the three seasons he’s sat behind Brady: mechanics, poise and attention to detail, even the tone of voice he uses to command respect in a huddle.

But the one thing Hoyer worries will never rub off is Brady’s raw desire.

“At the end of just about every practice, I run out there and try to get the last few reps with the first team,” Hoyer said.

“And just about every practice, whether it’s a steamy day in training camp or a short walk-through after watching film, he runs out there, grabs me and says something like, ‘Get the hell out of here!’ — only it’s not always even that nice. ...

“Everybody outside this team looks at him and thinks ‘pretty-boy QB.’ But Tom doesn’t try hiding it from us,” Hoyer said. “He’s a killer.”

Manning, too, shares that trait and has been honing it for nearly as long. Like Brady, he was the baby of the family and quickly learned he could get his way by being demanding one moment and wheedling the next. Like his father, Archie, the longtime Saints quarterback, and older brother Peyton, who almost single-handedly vaulted the Colts to the top of the NFL heap, Eli burned to win all the time, too. But he wasn’t above playing the trump card — his mother, Olivia.

“He would pin me down,” Eli, now 31, recalled growing up with Peyton, “and take his knuckles and knock on my chest and make me name the 12 schools in the SEC. I didn’t know them all at the time, but I quickly learned them. ... I don’t suggest anyone else try it out, but it definitely made me learn the schools of the SEC. Once I figured those out, he moved on.

“There were 28 teams in the NFL at that point, so all teams in the NFL. I had to get my studying on for that. Then once I figured that out, the one I never got was the 10 brands of cigarettes. When he really wanted to torture me and knew I had no shot of ever getting it,” he added, “that’s when I just started screaming for my mom or dad to come save me.”

Contrast that with the story Brady told about growing up with three older sisters.

“I didn’t have to share clothes. I didn’t have to fight over the bathroom. They were pretty easy on me. They dressed me up a few times in their clothes and painted my nails once, but it was nice,” Brady said without a shred of embarrassment. “They’d bring all of their girlfriends over to the house. It was pretty cool.”

Manning was drafted No. 1 overall in 2004 by the Chargers. They promptly traded him to the Giants for quarterback Philip Rivers, the No. 4 pick, a swap that rumor had it was engineered by Archie. Either way, Manning arrived to much fanfare and not a little resentment.

Kurt Warner, a Super Bowl winner in St. Louis a few years earlier, was New York’s starter at the time, but even he didn’t envy Manning the situation he walked into.

“He’s got the name to live up to, the way he wound up there, and he’s in New York, where you can be the best thing since sliced bread the first quarter, and the worst thing to ever walk the earth by the second,” said Warner, who started that season 5-4 before giving way to Manning.

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All-Powerful Ellis: Remember that time Meredith wore a really creepy high ponytail to impress Derek's mom? Well, this episode was a little like that. Familiar but with a slightly crazed smile. Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) is such a powerful figure, even in death, so it only makes sense that in life she is positively stifling. That's not to say we are happy she's dead. OK, maybe it is better for the pecking order at Seattle Grace.

McDepressing: We admit it, initially we were allured by this shiny happy well-run Seattle Grace, but very soon, the happy facade start crumbling and the truth comes out. Alex is a jerk in any universe. Izzie, Burke, and George would still be M.I.A. And our favorite couples would be miserable without their soul mates. Funny how that all works out.

A Strange Sister: In our universe, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) had the perfect childhood, but here, Lexie is tattooed junkie orphan—yet that often-present love triangle still exists. Or given another few alt-episodes to brew, it could. We are so weak, one little pep talk about family and hearts and med school from Jackson (Jesse Williams) and we are toast. (Why did they break up again?) But then, in comes Mark rescuing an overdosing Lexie, and we are pulled under. (Why aren't they back together yet?) Seriously, how does Shonda Rhimes do this to us even in this crazy alternate reality? We are hopeless.

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'Grey's Anatomy'

The long-running medical drama explores alternative universes by imagining the world of Seattle Grace if Meredith's mother (the wonderful Kate Burton) hadn't succumbed to Alzheimer's. Can you say, "McFlashback?" 9 p.m. Thursday on ABC (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

dknoop@seattletimes.com or on Twitter @dougknoop

Also on Thursday

"The Vampire Diaries," 8 p.m. (CW): Alaric and Elena receive disturbing news from Sheriff Forbes about a recent murder; Damon asks an old acquaintance for help with an elaborate plan; Caroline is unable to stop a tragedy from occurring.

"Parks and Recreation," 8:30 p.m. (NBC): Leslie tries to find Ann a date for Valentine's Day; Ben asks Ron to help with the scavenger hunt Leslie sent him on; Chris is upset about his love life.

"The Finder," 9 p.m. (Fox): Walter tries to help when Isabel's new boyfriend, a baseball star, is robbed; Leo and Walter bring Willa in on the case in hope of earning her trust.

"Project Runway All Stars," 9 p.m. (Lifetime): The contestants must ask strangers for their clothing; the designers must use the clothing gathered on the street to create new outfits.

"The Mentalist," 10 p.m. (CBS): The team investigates the murder of a disgraced fashion designer who was on the verge of a comeback; Agent Darcy looks for Red John.

"Independent Lens," 10 p.m. (KCTS): "Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock": Civil rights activist Daisy Bates supports nine black students who register to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Ark.

The New York Times

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BIZARRO? BIZARRO! In the Seattle Grace of a different future, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was engaged to a much more upbeat (and horn-rimmed) Karev (Justin Chambers)

The previews for “If/Then” -- Grey's Anatomy’s new episode last night -- looked like one egregious, what-if gag after another: Karev looks like Clark Kent! Meredith has stick-straight hair! Cristina is a bigger bitch than she normally is! Bailey is a soft-spoken nerd with dreadlocks! Ellis Grey is alive and working it hardcore at Seattle Grace! The episode was touted as a look at what would have happened if things had been different for our favorite television doctors -- what I'm dubbing Bizarro Seattle Grace -- but initially, it looked simply like it should have instead been titled “If The Doctors Had Bad Stylists/Then They’d Look Like This.”

Admittedly, there was a focus on changing the looks of some of the doctors -- I'm not exactly sure why that was so supremely necessary, other than to drive home the point that these were different versions of the beloved characters we know -- but, just a minute or two in, it became clear that this episode was about more than just how the medical professionals styled their hair. If you didn’t pick it up by the end of the hour, “If/Then” was about destiny and how -- no matter the windy, horrible path you're on -- you may still arrive at the same place the universe had intended all along.

Trusty voice-over master Meredith Grey guided us into the odd -- and, I’m just going to say it brutally here, somewhat pointless -- premise. “What if one little thing I said or did could have made it all fall apart? What if I’d chosen another life for myself? Or another person? We might never have found each other,” she began at the top of the episode. “What if I’d been raised different? What if my mother had never been sick? What if I’d actually had a good father? What if? What if? What if?...” What if, indeed! Let the dream begin!

Her hallucination or dream -- whatever you want to call it -- encompassed changes for most of the Seattle Grace crew: A sulky Derek was still with a pregnant Addison (Kate Walsh returns yet again! What if she hadn’t gotten a spin-off?), although they were unhappy together. Ellis Grey was the chief at Seattle Grace and happily married to a rather submissive Richard Webber, who had helped raise a seemingly well-adjusted Meredith Webber. (Yes, you read that right -- Meredith Webber.) Callie was married to Owen, who was dealing with post-Iraq issues. (Teddy was nothing but a mention in passing, by Callie, who thought she was a male friend helping him through his stress via Skype.) Cristina was a loner -- shocking! -- and a stealth surgeon who everyone hated because of her surly demeanor and the fact that she slept with Dr. Burke, who had apparently left the state after their affair. (There were lots of winks like this -- mostly to departed characters -- throughout the episode.)

NEXT: Bailey is a nerd, Karev wears horn-rimmed glasses, and a few doctors get no Bizarro-self updates

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'Grey's Anatomy' recap: Bizarro Seattle Grace

Grey's Anatomy's alt-reality episode truly is a love letter to the fans.

In this new reality, Ellis Grey was never diagnosed with Alzheimer's, which leads to a very different upbringing for Meredith, the least of which: Her last name is now Webber. That is just one of the nice surprises in the alt-reality. Let's check out the rest:

Music nostalgia: The episode opens on Rilo Kiley's "Portions for Foxes," which was the first song played in the Grey's pilot. Throughout the episode, we also heard songs featured in the first season, including Róisín Murphy's "Ruby Blue" and Inara George's "Fools in Love."

Meredith Webber: Meredith still lives in her mother's house, but so does her mother, Ellis, and her husband Richard! Ellis is now the Chief at Seattle Grace, and is being awarded her third Harper Avery award. Meredith is desperate to please her mother, and while she says she doesn't want special treatment, she isn't afraid to use her status to get in on Yang's surgery. Meredith later realizes her mom makes everyone feel ordinary so she can feel extraordinary. A nice nod to the two-part episode where Ellis died.

Poor Derek: Not only is Addison still married to Derek, but she's pregnant, too. However, their marriage leads to a miserable existence for both of them. They live in the trailer since Derek never built the McMansion, and he doesn't even seem to want the baby that's on the way. "It's a beautiful day to save lives," Addison throws in Derek's face at one point, the line he used to say before each surgery. Derek is also not the hot shot doc anymore, and when a fight between Addison and Derek seems to indicate she'll leave Seattle Grace, Ellis threatens that she'll fire Derek over Addison quitting. (One good thing: It's nice to see Callie and Addison reunited. I always loved their banter.)

Callie's conflicting feelings: Though Callie has kids with Owen, it's clear that it's not a happy marriage. When Arizona excitedly hugs Callie, the look on Callie's face spells a sudden attraction to her co-worker. Plus: Owen still has PTSD, and it seems that unfortunately Callie was the one whom he once choked in reaction to a PTSD flashback. That's OK, he's getting help from his war buddy Teddy, whom Callie thinks is a man. Of course, it's not much help since he later punches through a glass window. Cristina helps him clean up his hand, and it's clear there's an attraction there as well.

The real Nazi: It's not Bailey, that's for sure. She's back to being the timid doctor once called Mandy, one of the few characters that we've already seen before. She's extremely nervous around Ellis and can't stand up for herself, which eventually leads to Ellis firing her. (The elevator scene with Alex at the end did show a stronger Mandy, who may be turning into Bailey.)

A scary Yang: Cristina is a heartless, hard-core cardio doc who has absolutely no bedside manner. She's not even Meredith's person anymore, April is. It turns out, Yang has no friends because she was ostracized for sleeping with an attending, Dr. Burke.

Fallen comrades: Izzie actually got kicked out of Seattle Grace — and possibly shot up the place? — after Meredith ratted her out for sleeping with a patient (Denny) and stealing a heart for him. George, on the other hand, failed his intern exams, like he did in the regular universe. However, he just never showed his face again.

Meredith's new beau: Meredith is actually engaged to dorky Alex, and they're quite the perfect couple... sort of. He's actually hooking up with April on the side, which Yang discovers and reveals to Meredith in front of everyone. Upon learning this, Dr. Percy ironically says, "Just shoot me now."

Lexie the cokehead: Though she still has photographic memory, Lexie is not the smart doc we know and love. Instead, she's a strung-out addict who overdoses and is brought to Seattle Grace. Both her parents have died — her mother of stomach issues, and her father killed himself — but she knows about her half sister at the hospital (aka Meredith). While Jackson suggests her ODing is a sign to turn things around, Lexie secretly steals his keycard so she can raid the drug cabinet. She's later brought back into Seattle Grace by... Mark!

Mark's baby: After Mark brings Lexie in to Seattle Grace, he seeks out the mother of his unborn child... Addison. That's right, Addison's baby is not Derek's.

Cristina and Meredith, the couple that was always meant to be: Though Yang undermines Mer in surgery, the two team up to save Lexie's life. They end up going tequila shots at the bar, bringing things full circle to Season 1. (Nearly their whole bar conversation is exact dialogue previously used in the pilot.)

MerDer: After Cristina leaves the bar, Derek begins chatting with Meredith, asking what people around the hospital call him. It's McDreary. But he's not McDreary tonight. He's just a guy in a bar, and Mer's just a girl in a bar. (Another nod to the pilot, as well as Lexie's first appearance on Grey's.)

What did you think of Grey's Anatomy's alt-reality episode? What surprised you most? Hit the comments with your thoughts.

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Grey's Anatomy Recap: "If/Then"

When "two roads diverged in a wood," poet Robert Frost took "the one less traveled by." Two roads are available to silver legend Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL  ) as the company charts its course into the future, and ultimately the company will walk them both.

In the wake of Pan American Silver's (Nasdaq: PAAS  ) recent $1.5 billion offer for Minefinders (AMEX: MFN  ) -- an announcement for which I found my Foolish self in the right place at the right time -- the acquisitive road to growth might seem the obvious course for Hecla to pursue. Before sitting down last week in Vancouver with CEO Phillips Baker Jr., I shared that presumption. After all, I reasoned, a class of budding young silver producers is gnawing at Hecla's heels and threatening to crowd the once-lonely ranks of mid-tier silver producers. With targeted output in 2012 of at least 8.9 million silver-equivalent ounces, First Majestic Silver (NYSE: AG  ) has already arrived. And thanks to another strong year ahead in its long-running growth spurt, Endeavour Silver (NYSE: EXK  ) continues to establish itself as an emerging mid-tier marvel with targeted output of 5.6 million SEOs for 2012.

But as you'll see in the following excerpts from our conversation, the landscape for potential silver acquisitions is relatively sparse, and Hecla's downtrodden shares present a further challenge. I was surprised to learn that Hecla is not limiting its search to silver alone (see below). Meanwhile, although the company has folks peering down that acquisitive road, Hecla is extremely fortunate to have a second road lined with multiple opportunities for organic growth.

Hecla's path of least resistance to long-term growth may traverse the company's vast and hugely prospective landholdings that are associated with some of most productive silver districts in the world. In the first two installments of this series on the 120-year-old miner, we examined the company's outlook for meaningful new silver discoveries not only within its pair of existing mines, but throughout the large and strategic land packages that surround them. In the present discussion, Mr. Baker will discuss his own thought process as it pertains to the two roads in front of his company, and we'll examine two additional assets at the heart of the company's strong organic growth potential.

Christopher Barker: Another bright spot in Hecla's long-term future comes into view when one flips on the light in the company's treasury. Hecla holds roughly $246 million in cash and another $100 million undrawn credit facility. It seems only logical for shareholders to presume that Hecla is actively weighing acquisition opportunities in order to build out its growth profile. Could you describe for my readers the sorts of qualities you're looking for in a potential acquisition target?

Phillips Baker Jr.: We are in the process of evaluating and continuing the evaluations that we've had ongoing. We have a team of people where that's all they do. One of the things you have to understand about the silver space is that, unlike gold -- where you've had continuous exploration since the early 1970s that has continued to grow in that time -- that hadn't been the case with silver. Silver has only started to see exploration dollars in the last seven years or so.

From a corporate development standpoint, that means that what things you have available to buy, are generally things that have been known for some time. Because often times, it takes five to 10 years to take a concept that a prospector has and see it come into fruition as a real deposit that is ready to go into production. And then it takes another five to 10 years to see it actually in production. But assets that are out there -- and have been there for some time -- in many cases, they've been there for some time because they're not the best-quality asset to begin with. That's not true of all of them, by any means. But we're in a new era for silver exploration, and out of that will come some opportunities, and we'll hope to get engaged on those.

Barker: How about geographies? Do you expect Hecla to maintain a U.S. production focus?

Baker: Hecla's a 120-year-old company. In the past, we've had operations outside the U.S. Even recently we had mines in Mexico. We were actually the largest gold producer in Venezuela until 2008 when we left and sold our interest there. We managed for almost a decade to navigate life in a Chavez-led country, which I think is a credit to our ability to operate in a developing country. But when we look geographically, we're looking at things in the Americas for silver. We contemplate things for gold that are in the U.S. and Canada and a few states in Mexico.

And why do we contemplate gold? Because there is not an inventory of attractive silver properties. And so if we can get a gold opportunity that plays on our skills as underground miners, then we think we can add value to those opportunities. We think the competitive landscape for those opportunities is less because they're generally too small for the bigger players on the gold side of things. It's not the primary focus, but it is a part of our program.

We've been a consistent gold producer for the last at least 30 years, and today we produce about 50,000 to 60,000 ounces of gold. Our property in Mexico, when it was producing, about half its value was in gold. Where we're drilling on the Andrea vein, it's something similar where there's a split between silver and gold. So we would expect to always produce some gold. And we think that's consistent with investors' interest in silver. We don't think they mind having that gold to go along with it.

Barker: I know I don't. How about operational scales or targeted phases of development?

Baker: You could probably create a curve that's bell-shaped. The sweet spots are going to be assets that are somewhere between a resource being identified and being in production. But you have outliers on either end of the curve. The reason is that if you look at our four properties and the exploration that we're doing on those, we had budgeted to spend $27 million in 2011, and that will be the most the company has spent in its history. And that is being spent on four properties that we already have. So it's not as though we are opportunity-poor for our exploration dollars. We have lots of those opportunities. And we're not spending it because we have nowhere else to spend it; it's because these are really good opportunities.

Barker: Speaking of those, would you say they express Hecla's signature characteristic as a company focused on these epic, multi-generational assets?

Baker: Well, I think it's an outcome of being a 100-year-old company that we have these remarkable land packages. For a newer company, just to have one of the four would be what the company would be built around. And for us to have all four of them ... I don't think it's well understood the nature and the quality of these things. Speaking earlier of how new the upward trend in silver exploration has been, well, that refers to our properties as well. These properties, despite how prolific they've been over the course of the last 10, 20, 50, or even 100 years, the amount of exploration associated with those properties is insignificant.

Barker: We've already discu
ssed your land packages around Greens Creek in Alaska and beyond Lucky Friday in Idaho's Silver Valley. Can you give my readers a quick overview of the other two assets you're referring to?

Baker: We have the San Juan silver property in Creede, Colo.; and this is one we did not previously own. The biggest player in this district was Homestake Mining Co., which operated the Bulldog mine until 1985. When they shut it down, it had almost 40 million ounces of reserves on their books. When we acquired our 70%, and now we've consolidated to 100% on the core of the district, we acquired a nearly 40-million-ounce resource that we think will convert to reserves quite quickly. So, we're establishing a portal to drive a drift that will allow us to access the orebody.

In addition to that, Homestake had another property that they called the Equity Ramp, and they had interesting drilling there. We followed up with drilling that was another 1,000 feet below what they had, and came in with grades of about 0.15 ounces per ton gold and about 15 to 20 ounces silver (per ton). Homestake put in 8,000 feet of ramp, and they never did any drilling. Homestake only had those two land packages, and they were quite small. We have another 25 square miles there, so we have the whole district. That's a huge, huge difference to have these big land packages.

And then you go down to Mexico, and at San Sebastian, we operated that property for about five years. It was a gold-silver deposit that had a gold-equivalent grade of one ounce per ton. When we stopped operating, we identified the Hugh zone, and it was economic, but it was small. So we needed something bigger. Well, we now have that something bigger in the Andrea vein, and we're now doing a scoping study to see how we take this forward.

These properties are our primary focus, and certainly from my perspective, it is very difficult for us to use our equity to do something until the market starts to realize the value associated with these things.

Stay tuned throughout this series on Hecla Mining for memorable excerpts from my interview with CEO Baker. Click back to the series intro for links to the entire series.

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Anatomy of a Silver Legend: 2 Roads to Long-Term Growth

As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to
wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and
she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a
happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we
know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had
never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had
become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey
never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's
Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the
ABC Television Network.

As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to
wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd
had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy
Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it.
What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never
separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a
couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never
evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television
Network.

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iPad version 1.0.1 (updated October 7, 2011)
By Frank Netter
$89.99
Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier, 2012
Available through iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netters-anatomy-atlas/id461841381?mt=8

Roger P. Smith, MD Author Affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis (rogpsmith@iupui.edu).

Few authors achieve “superstar” status in medicine, and even fewer do so as medical illustrators. The work of Frank Netter (1906-1991) resonates with all students of medicine, from those considering the field to those old enough to remember eagerly anticipating the next publication of a work by Netter. As iconic as the Netter illustrations are, that level of recognition and quality is not sufficient to guarantee the value of a book or iPad application, and those attributes set a high bar of expectation for any product. In this case, the application seems to live up to those expectations.

Left, The home screen for Netter's Anatomy Atlas for iPad provides multiple ways of locating anatomical information fast: users can search, browse by region or system, or proceed directly to Netter plates tagged with personal bookmarks or notes. Right, Label quizzes test users' memory of anatomical terminology. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. …

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Netter's Anatomy Atlas for iPad [Book and Media Reviews]

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This week's TV Movies

IN A DREAM WORLD life takes some bizarre turns at Seattle Grace in a new episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” at 9 p.m. on ABC. With Chandra Wilson.

SERIES

The Big Bang Theory:  Leonard starts to reconsider his friendship with Sheldon in this new episode (8 p.m. CBS).

30 Rock:  Liz (Tina Fey) borrows some strategies from Jack (Alec Baldwin) in negotiating her contract in this new episode (8 p.m. NBC).

American Idol:  Singers in St. Louis audition in a new episode that features Madonna’s new music video (8 p.m. Fox).

The Office:  Jim (John Krasinski) is back from jury duty, and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) hounds him for information about every detail of the case. Angela Kinsey, Jack Coleman, Jenna Fischer and Ed Helms also star in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC).

I Just Want My Pants Back:  This new comedy series follows a young Brooklynite (Peter Vack), who has a one-night stand with a woman who steals his heart and his pants (11 p.m. MTV).

SPECIALS

Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippie:  This new special documents how Steve Jobs took Apple from a suburban garage to a major global corporation (7 and 10 p.m. CNBC).

The Two Million Year Old Boy:  After a 9-year-old boy make one of the greatest fossil finds of all time, a scientist challenges the field of paleoanthropology to revisit the story of how we became human in this new special (8 p.m. National Geographic).

MOVIES

Brooklyn Boheme:  Writer, producer and historian Nelson George (“America Gangster”) wrote and co-directed this 2011 documentary revisiting the African American arts movement that came out of Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood in the mid-1980s, which launched the careers of Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Erykah Badu and others (8:30 p.m. Showtime).

SPORTS

College basketball: Duke at Virginia Tech (4 p.m. ESPN); UCLA at Washington (6 p.m. ESPN); Pepperdine at Loyola Marymount (7:30 p.m. FS Prime); Gonzaga at BYU (8 p.m. ESPN2); Arizona at California (8 p.m. FSN).

Pro basketball: The Denver Nuggets visit the Clippers (7:30 p.m. TNT).

Women’s basketball: Stanford at Arizona State (6 p.m. FSN).

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Mortadella, 2006 85 x 67 x 4 cm ultrachrome print laminated on acrylic

If only all processed meats came in this shape, perhaps we’d be less inclined to eat them.

Swiss contemporary artist, Christian Gonzenbach formed this piece of morbid cold cut.  It was displayed along side the infamous For the Love of God diamond encrusted skull of Damien Hirst among other famous pieces at the Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst Musée Maillol exhibition in Paris back in 2010.

Gonzenbach says of his work, “My research consists in exploring this exiguous border between the normal and the weird, where the world looses its meaning and topples over into absurdity, craziness or poetry.”

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CLOSER is a heartwarming print by the artsy duo behind London-based, Mr Four Fingers. Heartwarming, of course, for those of us who are true lovers of anatomy in art.

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