'Grey's Anatomy' stars Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey have signed up for two more seasons of the show.

Ellen, Patrick, Sandrah Oh, Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson have reportedly put pen to paper on new two-year deals that will see the ABC medical drama continue through the 2013/14 season, taking the programme past a 10th series, according to TVLine.

'Grey's Anatomy' - which is currently in its eighth season - attracted 9.25 million viewers in the US last week, and the show looks set to become one of the longest-running medical dramas in TV history.

Earlier this year, Katherine Heigl admitted she wants to return to the show, despite leaving in a storm of controversy in 2010 after criticising her character Dr. Izzie Stevens.

She previously said: "I've told them I want to (return). I don't know ... Being a showrunner and being a writer of a TV series like that is so complicated that I mean she's got how many characters are there now? There's a lot and so she's balancing about 40 different storylines, so I don't know if it fits in to their sort of vision for this season or next or however many seasons it goes."

Series narrator and lead female star Ellen - who has played Meredith Grey since the show started in 2005 - insisted she would be happy to continue portraying the surgical resident.

She explained: "If I hear from the fans that they want us to keep going, then I would continue because we owe them everything."

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Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old illustrations of human anatomy are uncannily accurate with just one major exception: the female reproductive system.

That's probably because Leonardo had a tough time finding female corpses to dissect, explains Peter Abrahams, a practicing physician at the University of Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom.

Abrahams, a clinical anatomist, has lent his knowledge to an audio tour of the exhibit of Leonardo's anatomical drawings that opened May 4 in Buckingham Palace.

The Italian Renaissance artist learned anatomy as a way to improve his drawings of the human form, but he also brought a scientist's eye to the discipline.

"He wanted to understand how it worked," Abrahams told LiveScience. "He looked at humans like a mechanic would do. Most of that work is very, very relevant today." [Anatomy Meets Art: Da Vinci's Drawings]

Anatomists in Leonardo's time often dissected unclaimed bodies, such as of drunks and vagrants, and those bodies were more likely to be male, Abrahams said.

"It was definitely harder to get female bodies to dissect, and he didn't have many opportunities," Abrahams said.

Advances in anatomy By Leonardo's time, few advances in human anatomy had been made since the second-century work by the Roman anatomist Galen, whose discoveries were largely based on animal dissections. Leonardo da Vinci had the advantage of access to human cadavers.

Abrahams says studying them would have been obnoxious work. "It must have been horrible, because they didn't have any form of embalming," he said. "Within two or three days that body decomposes."

Leonardo's sketches reveal a deep understanding of how the body worked, much of it still up-to-date. Modern anatomists have only begun in the last 60 years to look at the muscles and tendons of the finger in the detail that da Vinci did, Abrahams said. Leonardo was the first to draw the human spine with the correct curves. He also came tantalizingly close to understanding how blood moved through the body, a mystery that wouldn't be fully solved until 1628, more than a century after his death.

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Hi all! we have just a few more slots for Chris Muller's upcoming comparative anatomy drawing class; full info follows. If interested in attending, shoot me an email at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.

Comparative Anatomy: Animals and the Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
A weekend workshop with Chris Muller, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
Dates: Saturday May 5 & Sunday May 6
Time: 1 - 4 PM
Fee: $75 (includes museum admission)
*** Class size limited to 15; Must RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy
Using animal and human anatomy as a jumping off point, this course will look at the ground-level, first principles of drawing as representation. Focusing mainly on mammal anatomy, we’ll look at the basic shared forms between humans and other animals, how these forms dictate movement, and how to express those forms.
Saturday’s class will be held at Observatory, where with the aid of several skeletons we’ll look at basic structures, sprinkling our exploration with odd facts and observations. Messy investigatory drawings will ensue.

Sunday’s class will be a field trip to the American Museum of Natural History, where applying the principles of Saturday’s class we’ll create beautiful drawings of the animals on display. Then, mastery attained, we will stride forth into the world, better artists and better people.

Materials
Saturday

• Sketchbook or sketchpad, 11 X 14 or larger
• B and HB pencils
• Colored pencils, in the reds and blues and browns
• Hand pencil sharpener
• Erasers

Sunday

• All of the above, with perhaps a portable sketchbook in place of the larger sketchpad
• Portable folding stool (optional)

Chris Muller is an artist and exhibit designer based in Brooklyn. He has designed exhibits for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum for African Art, the Children's Museum of Manhattan, and many others. He has designed sets for Laurie Anderson, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company, and others. He teaches drawing and digital painting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

You can find out more here; you can RSVP by emailing me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. You can find out more about the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy by clicking here.

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Just received word of this promising looking upcoming conference entitled "The Art of Death and Dying;" calls for work are due May 1, and full details follow:

The Art of Death and Dying, University of Houston, October 25-27, 2012
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The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership with the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Department for Hispanic Studies, the Honors College and School of Art, will host a three day symposium titled "The Art of Death and Dying" on October 25-27, 2012.

We welcome scholars in all disciplines to submit paper proposals on literary, visual, and performing arts topics related to death and dying. Topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:

• Depictions or interpretations of death and dying in performing and visual arts
• Depictions of interpretations of death and dying in literature
• Depictions of death and dying in film, radio, and television
• Commemoration of the dead in art, architecture and performance
• Artifacts of death and dying as represented in archival or museum collections
• Artistic depictions of the after life
• Cultural death rituals
• Cultural expressions of mourning
• Death and dying in Latin American arts and culture
• Readings of original creative material on the subject
• Performances of original material on the subject
• Presentation of original visual material on the subject
• Memorial architecture
• Cemetery design
• Analysis of an artist's, architect's, performer's, filmmaker's or writer's work related to the subject

Proposals related to death in Latin American arts and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English.

Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.

Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library.

Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2012.

You can find more here. Thanks so much to friend and former boss Barbara Mathe for sending this along.

Image: Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, © Joanna Ebenstein; click on image to see much larger, more detailed version.

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'Grey's Anatomy': Lexie Grey Finally Tells McSteamy That She Loves Him (VIDEO)

Dempsey successfully pulled the driver from the wreckage -- a 17-year-old named Weston Massett -- who tells TMZ, when he opened his eyes, the actor was looking right down at him. Massett asked, "Are you famous?" ... and Patrick coolly replied, "I'm a doctor."

We're told Patrick called Massett's mother and told her about the accident -- keeping her calm the entire time. Massett was then airlifted to a nearby hospital, and Patrick followed to make sure the kid was okay.

Miraculously, Massett suffered no serious injuries -- just a concussion and a "stretched" optic nerve. He's expected to make a full recovery.

There was also a passenger in the car, Dylan Miller, but thankfully we're told Miller suffered no injuries whatsoever. - See photos here.

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FAMILY FEUDJackson (left) and his mother, guest star Debbie Allen, faced off over her hook-up with chief Webber.

Had it not been for a mid-episode sex scene that ever-so-briefly turned my anxiety into white hot lust for Jackson Avery, I would have been a ball of nerves throughout the entire hour of last night's Grey's Anatomy, which found every resident having a meltdown moment during their medical board exams.

I attribute at least part of the nail-biting to the fact that, as your normal recapper Tanner mentioned last week, we knew one of the residents was heading for failure. But who? If I'm being honest, my guess changed about 20 times during the course of the episode. But, in the end, we learned it was April who had failed to make the grade. To examine why, let's rewind:

The episode began with the residents walking out of their boards with the weight of the world on their bony shoulders. Meredith bemoaned the "actual physical hell" that was their test, Cristina confessed that she went "way, way overboard" in the testing room, April ranted about trick questions, and Jackson claimed they were all about playing "mind games." (Now they know howwe feel watching Grey's Anatomy's season finales.) You can't always Carpe the Diem, voiceover Meredith said, which is really all you can say after you've had a crappy Diem. Though, I certainly never could have guessed just how crappy it went for all of them.

Flashback to six hours earlier: We first learned exactly how the much-touted boards work -- not that we cared all that much. But hidden among the yada-yada was the fact that a resident could flub one of three test sessions and still pass. This was good news for Alex, who was still racing against the clock to get there in time, arguing with the taxi driver to go faster in a traffic jam. It was all very '80s rom-com. (Did I mention I love '80s rom-coms? No? Well, the more you know.) Alex was far from the only person facing an obstacle, though. (More on those in a bit.) April, however, seemed to be on the right path -- she was inquisitive, careful, yet surprisingly authoritative when giving her answers. That was my first hint that something was likely going to go awry for her -- but I was hoping I was wrong. I wasn't.

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McYoda: We discovered the secret to Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) brilliant advice. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) finds himself as the go-to guy for all sort of problem, but mainly for Mark and Lexie. Bailey gives him sage advice: The trick of her trade is always a metaphor. That way, the doc in need can take advice without ever placing blame for the outcome. Genius. Miranda Bailey is an evil genius.

Best. Speech. Ever.:Finally! Lexie (Chyler Leigh) gives the most perfect "I love you" speech to Mark (Eric Dane). Actually it's more like word vomit. And it's perfect. And then it's ruined when Mark's girlfriend and aspiring baby mama shows up. The perfect moment foiled again. The only bright side was Mark's face during Lexie's confession. Clearly he was moved, and clearly this talk is not over.

Childhood's End: It's always sad and very dramatic when a friend or relative arrives at Seattle Grace. But it's never good news. We hate to say it, but the moment Arizona's friend set foot in the hospital, he had a black reaper shadow following him around the hallways. Remember Lexie's mom? Remember Henry (Scott Foley)? No good can come from this.

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"He just flew in from Tibet and he has cancer. The least I could do is pick him up from baggage claim." Arizona

"I want to punch your face." Meredith

"We're not going to kill your friend." Bailey

"My guy is a freaking fossil. Last time he was in the O.R. it was lit with candles." Cristina

"Don't be all cryptic and then just walk away." Mark

"So is having premarital sex with a really good friend in a men's room, but that just happened." April

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"He's struggling," Williams admits about his character.

And there isn't just one source of stress that could make Jackson Avery lose his cool in the board exams.

"He already comes in stressed about it, primarily because of his family and his legacy and those expectations," the actor explains. "But then that doubles and quadruples with pressure because of this new issue with April, his best friend. On top of that, mom is here and...she is banging the Chief. So it's a lot going on at once. It's like a hornet's nest."

That is some hornet's nest, all right.

Will April and Jackson's friends-turned-lovers hookup ruin their friendship? Williams says, "I think he's a very understanding guy. It's a lot on his shoulders, but [April's] someone he genuinely cares about."

But that doesn't necessarily mean these hot docs will launch into a relationship or even let their new Facebook status determine their next career move.

"They don't have time. They have seven other fires to put out at the same time," Williams continues. "It's one thing to be in a long-standing relationship, but in this it's sort of separate and weird. Am I supposed to care about your opinion? Is it supposed to be part of my decision making process? I don't think we know yet."

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The vice president will finally be introduced in Thursday's episode of Scandal - and she's the polar opposite of President Fitz (Tony Goldwyn).

"She's kind of like a combo physically between Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, but when she opens her mouth she's pure Michele Bachmann," says Kate Burton, who plays Sally Langston, the Tea Party conservative who was once Fitz's enemy. (She sounds peachy!) Burton is all too familiar with playing a strong female matriarch, having portrayed Ellis Grey on Grey's Anatomy, a role that surely came in handy when taking on the VP of the United States.

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But who is Sally really? And could she be behind the mysterious blackmailer who's giving the President so much trouble? TVGuide.com caught up with Burton to get the scoop on that and her reunion with her Grey's Anatomy ex-husband:

What kind of person is the vice president? Kate Burton: She's an absolutely strict, conservative Southern republican. It's just really fascinating to play her because things came out of my mouth that would actually never come out of my real mouth. She is so arch-conservative and the president is so moderate. I wanted to play her and obviously not make her any kind of cartoon liberal or conservative. I wanted to make her a real person. We know what a real person she is because there are things that get to her more than anything: anything to do with her daughter. She is a mom who became a politician and she's ruthless, but she's also got a heart.

Fitz and Sally were actually running against each other in the presidential campaign. What can you tell us about their road to the White House? Burton: The reality is, when we do the flashback [in next week's episode], we discover that she was actually in the lead. She was doing really, really well. As things happen in politics, something turned everything around and then suddenly he starts becoming much more appealing. Their competition was very real. It was a real clear choice between the two of them, and she was gaining. It was a juggernaut and they didn't quite know how to stop her.

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Is Sally still angry that Fitz beat her to the presidency? Burton: If you read about anything where there is a very powerful contest between two very different people, like Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, suddenly Kennedy ascends and he asks Johnson to be his vice president. It's not easy because Johnson's used to being in a very powerful position. I'm also on Veep on HBO and that's our running gag: When you become vice president, you lose your power. It is hard for Sally, but she's a politician. She is very, very deeply religious, by the way. I can't believe I haven't mentioned that until now! She's a woman of the founding faith. So she uses her faith to help her with how disappointed she is with not being able to win the presidency, or the nomination.

Would she do anything to get into the Oval Office? Could she be behind the blackmailing? Burton: I think she's pretty determined. She's pretty ruthless. It's going to be a very uneasy partnership between she and Fitz. And of course when she discovers what is happening with Amanda Tanner (Liza Weil), she operates on a fairly moral high ground. What I love about Tony is that you don't know whether to like him or dislike him a lot of the time, and I think the same with me. You probably will not know whether I was the good guy or the bad guy. I think I'm both, and I think he is too. Both of them have these very manipulative chiefs, Billy Chambers (Matt Letscher) and Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry), and those Chiefs of Staff will stop at nothing.

Billy is Sally's trusted right-hand man, but can he really be trusted? Burton: I think she thinks so. I think that she completely trusts him. He's such a clean-cut, All-American-looking guy that you think, "Oh yeah he's absolutely trustworthy." He gets overcome with wanting her to succeed to where he loses his grasp of reality. It's very fun because I think it's very surprising what happens as the story winds on.

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Patrick Dempsey, who saves lives on a weekly basis as Dr. "McDreamy" Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy, got a chance to rescue someone in real life.

On Tuesday, the actor pulled a teen from an overturned car after an accident, according to a tweet from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.

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The post reads, "True Story: Grey's Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey pulled my friend's son out of overturned car after bad accident on Tuesday. #GoodDude."

Dempsey recently tweeted that there were "lots of tears," reading the Season 8 finale for Grey's Anatomy. He has yet to sign a new contract to return to the ABC medical drama next season.

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What made the Clippers massive comeback Sunday night in Memphis even more amazing was how slowly it came at first, how impossible it seemed with about four minutes to go, and then how fast it actually happened. The Clippers were still down by 24 with eight minutes remaining, and they turned the ball over three straight times between the 4:20 mark and the 3:16 mark of the fourth quarter, seemingly blowing whatever chance they had of completing the rally against the Grizzlies in Game 1.

To pull off a comeback while playing such imperfect ball requires just about everything else to go exactly right, pretty darn quickly. A dozen little things added up to one historic rally. The Grizzlies offense collapsed, in part because coach Lionel Hollins sat Zach Randolph for nearly four minutes down the stretch, an understandable move (Randolph is still trying to get back into game condition and he looked shaky for much of the night) that nonetheless allowed Blake Griffin to guard Marreese Speights while Reggie Evans battled Marc Gasol for every inch of territory. Speights, never a plus defender, couldnt handle Griffin down low on the other end. Tony Allen missed a put-back and was improbably exposed on defense when finally given the go-ahead to take Chris Paul. Other horrible things happened for Memphis.

But if you had to pick one factor that made the game winnable, it was this: The Clippers made a bunch of three-pointers in a really small span of time. Two-point buckets simply wouldnt do; they needed threes, and they got them, thanks to a complicated mix of factors. Lets take a look at the Clippers last four three-pointers, starting with Eric Bledsoes seventh three of the entire season:

Its fashionable to mock Griffins unrefined post game, but doing so ignores how effective he is, and how much attention that unrefined post game draws from defenses. Here, Griffin catches on the right block, with the capable Gasol defending him. And yet, look at how fascinated the rest of the Grizzlies are:

Every Memphis player is paying attention to Griffin. Look especially at Mike Conley and Rudy Gay on the weak side, sagging off Bledsoe and Nick Young, respectively, in order to clog up the middle. You can see Bledsoe (right in front of the dot in Grizzles.com along the sideline) beginning his cut from the left side to the right corner. Heres what the world looks like when Bledsoe is halfway through that cut, under the rim:

Whoops. Both Conley and Gay have rotated out to Young on the left wing, leaving Bledsoe uncovered. Young is the more threatening shooter, of course, but no defensive coach would recommend what happens here. Bledsoe made just six three-pointers all season, but this is a practice shot, and nearly every NBA player looks like a shooting genius in practice.

Three minutes later, Youngs barrage begins with this play out of a timeout:

This is a nice play from maligned coach Vinny Del Negro. The Clippers have been good all season at using back screens away from the ball to free shooters, and Griffin here nails Youngs guy (Gay) with one at the left elbow while Gay has his eyes on the Paul pick-and-roll on the right side of the floor (Paul is driving by Gasol in this still):

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LOWE: Anatomy of a comeback -- and collapse

What made the Clippers massive comeback Sunday night in Memphis even more amazing was how slowly it came at first, how impossible it seemed with about four minutes to go, and then how fast it actually happened. The Clippers were still down by 24 with eight minutes remaining, and they turned the ball over three straight times between the 4:20 mark and the 3:16 mark of the fourth quarter, seemingly blowing whatever chance they had of completing the rally against the Grizzlies in Game 1.

To pull off a comeback while playing such imperfect ball requires just about everything else to go exactly right, pretty darn quickly. A dozen little things added up to one historic rally. The Grizzlies offense collapsed, in part because coach Lionel Hollins sat Zach Randolph for nearly four minutes down the stretch, an understandable move (Randolph is still trying to get back into game condition and he looked shaky for much of the night) that nonetheless allowed Blake Griffin to guard Marreese Speights while Reggie Evans battled Marc Gasol for every inch of territory. Speights, never a plus defender, couldnt handle Griffin down low on the other end. Tony Allen missed a put-back and was improbably exposed on defense when finally given the go-ahead to take Chris Paul. Other horrible things happened for Memphis.

But if you had to pick one factor that made the game winnable, it was this: The Clippers made a bunch of three-pointers in a really small span of time. Two-point buckets simply wouldnt do; they needed threes, and they got them, thanks to a complicated mix of factors. Lets take a look at the Clippers last four three-pointers, starting with Eric Bledsoes seventh three of the entire season:

Its fashionable to mock Griffins unrefined post game, but doing so ignores how effective he is, and how much attention that unrefined post game draws from defenses. Here, Griffin catches on the right block, with the capable Gasol defending him. And yet, look at how fascinated the rest of the Grizzlies are:

Every Memphis player is paying attention to Griffin. Look especially at Mike Conley and Rudy Gay on the weak side, sagging off Bledsoe and Nick Young, respectively, in order to clog up the middle. You can see Bledsoe (right in front of the dot in Grizzles.com along the sideline) beginning his cut from the left side to the right corner. Heres what the world looks like when Bledsoe is halfway through that cut, under the rim:

Whoops. Both Conley and Gay have rotated out to Young on the left wing, leaving Bledsoe uncovered. Young is the more threatening shooter, of course, but no defensive coach would recommend what happens here. Bledsoe made just six three-pointers all season, but this is a practice shot, and nearly every NBA player looks like a shooting genius in practice.

Three minutes later, Youngs barrage begins with this play out of a timeout:

This is a nice play from maligned coach Vinny Del Negro. The Clippers have been good all season at using back screens away from the ball to free shooters, and Griffin here nails Youngs guy (Gay) with one at the left elbow while Gay has his eyes on the Paul pick-and-roll on the right side of the floor (Paul is driving by Gasol in this still):

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There were three companies whose earnings conference calls last week promised to address three very different sets of circumstances. Stericycle (NASDAQ: SRCL) was having its first call after naming a CEO-elect in January. At Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW), the weak global economy has caused a severe drop off in demand, which has hurt profitability and share price the past four quarters. And Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) has had to cope with three extreme weather events which, incredibly, all occurred within the past year.

As I listened to these calls, I paid attention to the tone of management (using a scale from extremely cautious to cautious, neutral, positive, and extremely positive), their candor in the question & answer session (using a scale from "not candid" to "uncertain candor", "candid",and "fully candid"), and information gleaned from answers to certain questions about revenue, cash flow drivers, and market conditions. I was also tracking updates to certain metrics, any substantive announcements made during the call, and of course earnings and sales guidance. Before listening to these calls I reviewed the previous call for each company to generate my set of expectations, metrics, and specific questions or issues to monitor.

With Stericycle's CFO, COO, and CEO-elect making brief statements in turn, the opening statements were more quantitative than qualitative, but overall the call was positive in tone. My belief is that management limits their comments so as not to produce artificially high investor expectations. I estimate that there were eight significant, open-ended questions from analysts that were adversarial or probing in nature. Of these eight, three were answered satisfactorily, four were not answered directly, and one was answered satisfactorily but indirectly. My impression is that management is satisfactorily candid with their communication but could improve to the preferred "fully candid" level with more direct answers. There were few, if any, company or industry specific metrics discussed and no substantive announcements.

I am satisfied that management answered all relevant questions and addressed all important business areas but I wanted to hear more from CEO-elect Charlie Alutto, whose only participation was his opening statement concerning guidance. Management guided EPS in the range of $3.24 to $3.28 for full year 2012 and revenue in the range of $1.85 billion to $1.9 billion for the year. This is a raise from EPS of $3.21 to $3.26 and revenue of $1.8 billion to $1.9 billion given as guidance last quarter. I rate this call a solid B and more importantly am confident in management's capability to guide the company forward. Investors bid the share price up from $87.10 before the call to $87.64 by week's end.

Of the three calls I listened to, Corning's was most likely to generate analyst skepticism because of continued economic weakness and share underperformance. As expected, there was a greater number and higher percentage of questions that I consider adversarial and these were much more pointed than either Stericycle's or Compass Mineral's questions. Fifteen of the questions were confrontational or accusatory with management satisfactorily answering ten of these, either directly or indirectly. The remaining five were not answered to my satisfaction so my conclusion is that management falls into my "candid" category. Corning did present a fair number of metrics, most importantly the Q4 supply chain inventory metric for the Display segment, which was essentially flat at 15.2 weeks. The company provided an informative summary of the recent acquisition of the Discovery Labware business from Becton Dickinson including reasons for the transaction and expectations going forward.

Unfortunately, Corning provided guidance for only limited information, by segment, for Q2 2012 rather than earnings and revenue guidance for Q2 2012 or an update for full year 2012. This call earns a B because I am satisfied that no important business areas were neglected and all relevant questions were addressed to an acceptable degree. The market reaction was very positive to this quarter's results and investors bid the share price up from $13.35 before the announcement and subsequent call to $14.45 by week's end.

Compass Minerals, whose primary businesses are de-icing salt and sulfate of potash production, was expected to report weak results due to a tornado that did significant damage to its primary salt mine, the warmest winter period on record and an unusually wet period in the Southwest, all within the past year. The reported results were essentially in line with these lowered expectations but management assumed a fairly positive tone centered on the notion that each of these weather events is exceedingly unlikely to recur in the foreseeable future, thus recent capacity additions and acquisitions should lead to increased growth.

Compass' management provided direct and satisfactory answers to three of the six important questions that were either adversarial or probing. The other three questions were answered in a satisfactory but indirect manner. Like Stericycle and Corning, I consider the responses of Compass' management as acceptably candid, just below "fully candid". Where I am disappointed in the call is the lack of explicit earnings or revenue guidance. These were given in relevant terms like "more", "less", "higher" and "lower" but specific figures were not given.

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Martin Clayton, senior curator of the Royal Collection, shows Fergus Walsh some of the exhibition highlights

The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace this week. So how accurate were they?

During his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body.

He wanted to understand how the body was composed and how it worked. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on the body was incomplete and his scientific papers were unpublished.

Based on what survives, clinical anatomists believe that Leonardo's anatomical work was hundreds of years ahead of its time, and in some respects it can still help us understand the body today.

So how do these drawings, sketched more than 500 years ago, compare to what digital imaging technology can tell us today?

From a notebook dated 1489, there is a series of meticulous drawings of the skull.

Leonardo has cut off the front of the face to show what lies beneath. It is difficult to cut these bones without damaging them. And elsewhere in his papers, Leonardo left a drawing of the knives he used.

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Tonight at Observatory; hope to see you there!

A Discussion on Death & Impermanence Followed by a Ritual Offering with Venerable Tsering Phunstok from Dharamsala, India
Date: Monday, April 23rd
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8 (Please note: All admission fees from tonight's event will be donated to support Venerable Tsering Phunstock, his monastery, and health projects in India)
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

What can a monk tell you about the secret of life? And how does understanding impermanence and preparing for death expand upon the secret of life? Tonight’s conversation between Venerable Tsering Phunstok– a practicing Tibetan Buddhist monk residing in India– and artist Shannon Brunette will investigate Tibetan Buddhist perspectives on death and impermanence in modern life, as well as the life of the Tibetan monk as it relates to the most basic tenets of Buddhist practice and beliefs regarding death, karma and reincarnation through conversation. Questions will also be taken from the audience.

After the talk, Ven. Tsering Phunstok will conduct a traditional Tibetan fire and smoke offering. The Smoke Offering (Sang) is a ritual practice of making vast offerings to pacify obstacles and raise awareness. It is a practice of connecting with the forces of life and establishing an open relationship with existence. It is traditionally used to create harmony, resolve karmic debts, generate vitality, success, prosperity and health in our life, in our land and in our local community. In this purifying ritual edible food, poison-less trees, flowers, fruits, grains, clothes as well as other things are burned to create a smoke cloud offering. This is an offering for both the living and the dead – and for all spirits.

Buddhists believe that giving without seeking anything in return leads to greater spiritual wealth; Buddhists call this generosity and giving D?na. All admission fees from tonight’s event will be donated to support Tsering, his monastery and health projects in India. We are asking that you share your generosity further at the completion of the ritual offering.

Venerable Tsering Phuntsokhas been a practicing Buddhist monk since entering the Palyulchoekhorling Nyingmapa Buddhist monastery in Bir, India, in 1987 at age 16. For the first 17 years he studied and practiced in the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, receiving training in meditation, Buddhist scripture and philosophy, tantric ritual, lama dancing and music. He has received many tantric empowerments and sutra teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many other High Lamas, including late H.H. Penor Rinpoche. In the last several years he has worked on health related projects for his monastery as well as overseeing his nephew and nieces. He currently makes his residence in Dharamsala, India in the foothills of the Himalayas; his home is less than a minute walk from the Temple and residence of the H. H. Dalai Lama. Currently, he facilitates cultural exchange programs between the Tibetan community and US university students who come to Dharamsala to volunteer with Lha Charitable Trust, a local social work agency devoted to improving the lives of Tibetan refugees and local Indians.

Shannon Brunettehas lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY since 1998 and her beloved hometown is St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Currently, she is exploring a new body of work relating to cultural exchange opportunities, from Alaska video artist-in-residence focusing on climate change to a 5-week international fellowship in exchange with the traditional craftspeople of Orissa, India to volunteer work in Dharamsala with Lha Charitable Trust. Utilizing film and video as a tool to investigate the past, present and future through a poetic and complex interplay between images, to offer an opportunity for reflection and meditation. Shannon captures vignettes from mundane to beautiful and editing in a collage-like style, she explores the nature of fragmented memory, triggered by temporality and impermanence.

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For those of you in and about Chicago, I would love to see you this Thursday, May 3, at The Chicago Cultural Center where I will be giving a lecture entitled "A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum" as part of a series of events supplementing the amazing looking  Morbid Curiosity exhibition. The images above--drawn from my 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.

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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 am very excited about Monday's upcoming organization for creatives class with journalist Oliver Burkeman, of London's Guardian. There are a few slots still left... if you are interested, please RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Organizational workshop for creative types with Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian
Date: Monday, April 30th
Time: 7:30-9:30 PM
Admission: $20
*** Limited class size; Must RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com to be added to class list
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

Do you hunger to climb the corporate ladder with ruthless efficiency, leaving your rivals in the dust as you pursue your relentless quest for wealth and power? Hopefully not, but that doesn't mean you can't borrow some tactics from such people and apply them to your own ends; to that end, today's class--taught by Oliver Burkeman, compulsive to-do-list-maker and journalist for London's Guardian--will teach creatives, freelancers, and artists how to plan and manage multiple projects, better plan their time, and, in general, feel less overwhelmed by juggling a variety of projects at one time.

Burkemanhas spent much of the last few years researching and reporting on self-help culture, including the fascinating history of the "how to succeed" publishing genre, and motivational gurus from Dale Carnegie to Stephen Covey, and sifting the wheat from the chaff. (There's a lot of chaff.) Drawing on this research, this workshop will explore some fundamental principles of getting organized, managing multiple projects, overcoming procrastination, time management, and being both more productive and less stressed in the kinds of sprawling artistic/creative/freelance lives that don't get much attention in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. No cringe-inducing motivational speeches will be given; no Magic Systems for Instant Success will be promoted. Instead, we'll plunder from the world of the grinning gurus the bits that actually work – so that you'll leave equipped with a toolkit of immediately useable ways to do the stuff you're already doing, and the projects you're planning, with greater efficiency and ease.
The class will begin with an illustrated lecture and conclude with a workshop segment where students will be guided in an application of the principles; participants are encouraged to come to class with a project to organize.

Oliver Burkemanin a writer based in Brooklyn with an unhealthy interest in filing systems. He writes features and a weekly column on psychology for the (London) Guardian. His book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking will be published by Faber & Faber in the fall.

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Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy's executive producer Shonda Rhimes has confirmed to me exclusively that a beloved character will die in the ABC drama's May 17 season finale. "A lot of our writers were crying, which is a very rare thing," she says. "There's some really shocking, horrible moments."

It can't be worse than the bloodshed two years ago when a crazed gunman hunted the doctors like animals, can it? "Yeah, it is," says Rhimes. "People's mettle is going to be tested."

Writing the episode, she adds, was sheer "torture... I've been sitting with my head in my hands for days. I understand the choice I made, but it scares me how fans are going to react."

Fans began voicing their concern when Rhimes recently tweeted a quote from author Kurt Vonnegut: "Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of." Yikes! The ominous quote, Rhimes says, was just what she needed to give her "the courage to do what we're doing in the finale."

The heart-stopping drama begins in the May 10 episode with "a big case that takes a group of our people out of the hospital. It's sort of the medical case of their lives," says Rhimes, hinting that the patient could possibly be one of their own.

That episode will also give us our first glimpse of Derek and Meredith's completed dream house. While Rhimes originally planned for the season to end with the couple watching in horror as their new home burned to the ground, she says, "I was not ready to do that."

Instead, the dream house is being constructed and is "quite beautiful. I feel like this is the moment for it, since Meredith and Derek are having a debate about their future. I just hope we can use it next season."

While she's keeping much of the finale secret, Rhimes does offer a few specifics. Fans can look forward to some "extraordinarily romantic Ben and Dr. Bailey stuff," with Bailey making a decision "that will fundamentally change her life."

And keenly aware that "Mark and Lexie fans have been very adamant about them getting back together, they'll have some very beautiful moments with one another that I hope the fans are going to really love," Rhimes says.

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It's the moment of truth yes, that's the episode title, but it also marks the residents' trip to San Francisco to take their medical boards. Some crack under the pressure April and others just don't care come on, Alex! Who handles the stress the best? Let's take a look at how each of the docs fared being away from Seattle Grace:

Meredith: Unfortunately, baby Zola has the stomach flu which means Meredith does too, so she's sick as a dog when they land in SF. Everyone is worried that she'll get them sick, so they avoid her like the plague, except Cristina (more on that below). Even the day of, she's still ill. Ruh-roh.

April: She's naturally freaking out and unable to handle the stress. When another doc, whose job she unknowingly stole from him, insults her at the hotel bar, she punches him in the face and tries to beat him up. Feeling more confident, she decides to sleep with Jackson. Yup, April gets deflowered. Immediately after, however, she is awkward and essentially kicks him out of her room. Before she goes into the boards, she tells Jackson that the reason she was a virgin is because... she loves Jesus, and now Jesus hates her. Oh April.

Jackson: He's the most calm of the bunch, even with his mom there as a medical examiner. He's also the perfect gentleman when it comes to April, standing up for her in the bar chivalry isn't dead! and even tries to resist sleeping with her, worried that she's going to regret her actions. His big shock before the boards next to April's declaration of love for Jesus is that he discovers Catherine and Webber slept together when he knocks on her hotel room door the next morning. Awkward.

Cristina: She's the only one who tries to take care of Meredith, and she pretty much does everything through their conjoined hotel room door... while it's closed. Their time together does afford Cristina a chance to reveal that Owen had cheated on her (even though Meredith already knew) and that she wants to leave Owen and take the job across the country. Will the twisted sisters be separated?!

Alex: Alex is more focused on Morgan's son Tommy, who has taken another turn for the worst. He even flies back to Seattle just to be there for his surgery, and stays when he's taken off life support. With a swift kick in the behind from Arizona, Alex will attempt to make it back in time for the boards. As of the end of the episode, when his name is called, he's MIA.

The promos for next week promise that one of the Seattle Grace residents will fail. Who do you think it will be? Hit the comments with your thoughts.

It's the moment of truth yes, that's the episode title, but it also marks the residents' trip to San Francisco to take their medical boards. Some crack under the pressure April and others just don't care come on, Alex! Who handles the stress the best? Let's take a look at how each of the docs fared being away from Seattle Grace:

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