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My Lobotomy: A Memoir

My Lobotomy: A Memoir

A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve.Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered.“In 1960,” he writes, “I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick’ lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some ‘tests.’ It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars.” Fellow doctors called Freeman’s technique barbaric: an ice pick–like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15 percent of the operations Freeman performed) killed them outright. Dully’s ten-minute “test” did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn’t end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with.“I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses,” he tells us. “I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost.” From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been “crazy,” and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, and his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized on their monumental dysfunction. It’s a tale of epic horror, and while Dully’s courage in telling it inspires awe, listeners are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts.

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All the Dark Places

All the Dark Places
In All the Dark Places, J.W. Bouchard slams down the accelerator and takes us on a joyride into the darker recesses of our lives; a parallel universe which resides just below the surface of our own…

In this collection of 10 short stories, a blue collar man wages war against an unrelenting army of pests (“Hatchlings”); a bar-hopping vampire falls for the wrong man (“Jealousy”); an aging detective struggles to adapt to a future where a virus is his prime suspect (“Open Window”); a couple explores the complications of love and marriage H.P. Lovecraft-style (“Lover’s Spat”); and more…

All the Dark Places is approximately 38,000 words long and includes an active table of contents.

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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
• Winner of Canada Reads 2012
• Nominated for the Charles Taylor prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under the repressive new regime. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for a life in exile.

Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister’s double lives began. At 18, Carmen herself joined the resistance, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia, and euphoria. Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina, and Pinochet’s Chile during the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989.

Dramatic, suspenseful, and darkly comic, it is a rare account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.

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Ok, you’ve gone out and bought a brand spanking new plasma TV, but how do you make sure that you’re getting the best picture out of it? To do that you need to adjust the picture settings on your plasma TV, otherwise known as “plasma calibration” in the AV industry.

Before you start, you should know that the best calibration for your plasma TV will depend on your source material (i.e. what you’re watching), your input device (e.g. DVD player or satellite box) and the amount of ambient light in your home environment… among other things. You should also be aware that your plasma TV needs to be run in for at least 200 hours to allow the phosphors to stabilize, or else you will have to repeat your plasma TV calibration in the future.

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You may not own a plasma TV calibration DVD, so this article will try to walk you through the steps using readily available material. Remember to use the best available connection to connect your input device to your plasma TV. In descending order, the cleanest signal (and hence best picture quality) can be obtained via: HDMI = DVI > VGA = component > SCART (RGB) > S-Video > Composite.

Plasma Calibration Without Spending A Single Dime

1. Adjust Brightness. This actually determines the black level on your plasma TV: too high a setting and black will look gray; too low and dark grays are swallowed into blackness. To set brightness to its proper level, simply play a DVD with lots of black scenes (e.g. opening scene from Star Wars). Now crank your brightness up until the black on your plasma TV look gray, then slowly dial your brightness down until the black in the movie JUST matches the black on the black bars on top and bottom of the movie.

2. Adjust Contrast. This determines the white level and is responsible for how much light your plasma TV actually emits. To set contrast correctly, play a DVD scene containing a shiny bald head/forehead (e.g. The Fifth Element). Now increase contrast until the bald patch is glaringly hurting your eyes, and then tone it down until you’re satisfied that you can see all the detail within the white.

3. Adjust Sharpness. For most poorly-encoded source material you want to use this to enhance the edges, but if done excessively this will introduce haloing and ringing around edges. It’s best to bring up a “User Menu” (from your DVD, satellite box, etc) to adjust sharpness: increase it until lots of ringing artifacts occur around the edges of the words, then decrease it until the ringing just disappears.

4. Adjust Color. Color can either be too saturated or too dull… either way the picture will not look right, with the most noticeable errors found in skin tones and green foliage. As a rough guide, you can use a DVD scene with a hand and tinker with the color until the color matches that of your own hand.

What I’ve described above is 4 basic steps for plasma calibration using only what’s available to you. If you wish to strive for more accuracy you can get a HDTV calibration DVD, but you’ll need to know which one to buy and how to use it to calibrate plasma TV because the majority of them are still catered for the CRT market.

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Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonne (Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) Overview

The definitive reference for scholars, collectors, curators, art dealers, libraries, and anyone who appreciates the art of Charles M. Russell

Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. His paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and stories are an unequalled legacy. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white reproductions of Russell’s greatest works, this beautiful volume features essays by Russell experts and scholars who address important aspects of the artist’s life and career. Inside the book is a unique key code that allows purchasers to access a private online catalogue (www.russellraisonne.com) of more than 4,000 works Russell created and signed during his lifetime. Original owners of the book will have unlimited access to the site once a user name and password have been created.

The online catalogue, which includes an enlargeable image of each work, is fully searchable. In addition, each entry includes the catalogue number, title, medium, dimensions, and, when available, the inscription, credit line, illustration, provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. The catalogue will be updated on an ongoing basis as new information becomes available or additional works are found.

The result of more than a decade of research and scholarship, Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné is published in cooperation with the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and with the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana.

 

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Health Benefits of Vitamin K2: A Revolutionary Natural Treatment for Heart Disease And Bone Loss

Health Benefits of Vitamin K2: A Revolutionary Natural Treatment for Heart Disease And Bone Loss
Though largely unknown, vitamin K is essential to good health. It is needed for the normal clotting of blood and for the formation and maintenance of healthy bones. Although our bodies produce some vitamin K2, we store it in very limited amounts. A lack of this vitamin-which can be caused by a poor diet and the regular use of certain drugs such as antibiotics-is not uncommon. Fortunately, a new supplemental form of vitamin K2, menaquinone-7 (MK-7), is becoming more widely available. Vitamin K2, specifically MK-7, is showing great promise as a natural treatment for heart diseae and bone loss. Available in soy products and as a nutritional supplement, MK-7 is clinically proven to be safe and effective. It may also be helpful for lowering cholesterol, preventing Alzheimer’s disease, and treating some forms of cancer. In “Health Benetis of Vitamin K2, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the extraordinary healing benefits of this vitamin, including the best dietary sources, supplemental forms, suggested dosages, and drug interactions. In addition, other natural therapy options for heart disease and bone loss are discussed, so you can put all the best therapies to work for you.

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Illustrated Book of Myths Overview

This who’s who of the world’s gods and goddesses tells tales and legends of ancient times and gives a unique insight into the cultural backgrounds of each mythology

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Every culture in history has had its own myths to help explain the world through the power of story. This engaging book offers a delightful, sweeping view of world mythology–not just the famous stories of the Greeks and Romans, but also the stories of Native Americans and legends from South America, Africa, Scandinavia, Asia, and Australia. Young readers will learn about Zeus and Pandora from Greece, King Arthur from England, Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks from Polynesia, the Rainbow Serpent from West Africa, and dozens of other colorful, larger-than-life characters from around the world.

Myth-master Neil Philip has taken a thematic approach, organizing the legends around themes such as creation myths, fertility and cultivation, gods and animals, and visions of the end. Within each theme, eight to twelve myths from different cultures are retold, enhanced by abundant full-color illustrations and photographs of related sites or artifacts. At the side of each page are further explanations of characters or situations in the stories. The appendix includes a section called “Who’s Who in Mythology,” with the pronunciation for each name and charts of both the Greek and Norse Pantheons. Philip’s retellings are clear and powerful, retaining the flavor and message of each story. This fascinating book of myths belongs on every young scholar’s bookshelf. (Ages 9 to 13)

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Who else wants to potty train their child quickly while avoiding the stress that most other parents seem to suffer? The Art of Potty Training is the proven solution. Clearly written and straight to the point. You’ll discover how to build all of the right emotional states in your toddler so that he actually wants to be potty trained. You’ll never have to nag, force or push your child.

The Art of Potty Training starts with the crucial mindsets every parent needs to adopt. These mindsets will anchor you to successful parenting strategies. The rest of the book coaches you on how to apply these mindsets towards potty training your child. You’re handed step by step instructions that just plain work. The result is a no-pressure and happy experience for everyone involved.

Today you’re potty training. But tomorrow and the day after you’ll still be coaching your child on other aspects of development and growth. You’ll look back on The Art of Potty Training and realize that its lessons go far beyond saving money on diapers. They go straight to the heard of effective parenting. The author’s not-so-secret agenda goes far beyond potty training. It’s about unleashing your own incredible parenting skills.

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Internet Law in China (Chandos Asian Studies) Overview

A comprehensive, structured, and up-to-date introduction to the law governing the dissemination of information in a computer-mediated world in China, this book stresses the practical applications of the law that are encountered by all individuals and organizations in Chinese cyberspace, but in the light of theoretical underpinnings. Among the overarching topics treated in the Chinese context are the following: intellectual property protection in cyberspace; privacy of communication and data privacy; electronic contract forming and electronic signature; personal, domestic and international jurisdiction; and free expression in cyberspace.  It is the first book to focus solely on Chinese internet law.

-Systemically explores the legal doctrines and principles that apply to the Internet and related activities in China
-Draws upon information currently found only in the Chinese languages

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