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Once known as Indian Land, this northern tier of Lancaster County was once a quiet community of farming families. A nearby brick manufacturing plant offered jobs for some, a large country store and cotton gin met the needs of many and just across the state line was a variety of stores offering more products and services. Life was good, people friendly and crime almost unheard of.
Since the inauguration of the Friends of the Del Webb Library and Indian Land business partnership program in 2012, the number of business partners has grown from 14 to 30. This year alone, nine new businesses came on board.
New businesses coming into the community have been very excited about participating in the program, as it serves as an introduction to the community for them, thus giving them more exposure and bringing business to their doors.
The U.S. egg industry is reeling from a colossal outbreak of avian flu, mostly among egg-laying chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 48 million birds, accounting for 11 percent of the nation's egg-laying hens, have been slaughtered for fear of infection during the past few months.
The effects are far-reaching, from how to dispose of millions of potentially infected bird carcasses to job losses and rapidly rising egg prices. More than 40 countries have restricted U.S. poultry imports.
The Supreme Court handed down its opinion Friday, June 26, that same-sex marriage is a right in all 50 states. Justice Anthony Kennedy replied to the observation that this will do harm to the institution of traditional marriage by saying, "Far from seeking to devalue marriage, the petitioners seek it for themselves because of their respect and need for its privileges and responsibilities."
Kershaw swim team (Stlngravs), and the town of Kershaw Recreation Department would like to congratulate all of the swimmers who participated in this year's Summer Aquatics Championships. The town of Kershaw Aquatic Center proudly hosted the Aquatics this year. The event was held July 7 and 8 and seemed to run as smooth as planned. The weather was hot, but the summer afternoon showers held off until the two-day event was complete.
All participants were awarded ribbons or medals based on their place of finish.
Long after the Battle of Gettysburg, the Stars and Bars have been forced into Neverland. I guess some will rejoice as the flag is retired to a dusty corner of history or, more likely, to a forgotten saga of this nation's growth.
In the future, some will remember the nine who lost their lives at the hands of a deranged zealot. Others will remember the man who committed the crime. Time will cloud the issue for many and, for some, there will be more dragons to slay.
Don't wipe out our history
I agree with W.B. Evans regarding his letter on the Confederate flag.
Our country's history is being wiped out of the history books. When are the American people going to realize what is happening to our country? We need to take our country back.
Whatever people don't like, they want to remove it and hide their heads in the sand and say it never happened. Next, they will be telling us the Holocaust never happened, and I do believe there are many out there who don't believe it now.
Recently, our U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-5) responded to a request by me for a post office in our community of Indian Land with a letter to the newspaper editor. Mulvaney noted he did not want Congress involved in postal decisions and that it needed to spend time taking care of our "economy, the debt, national defenses, health care and highways."
Thank you for your work in all these failed programs in our great country.
They were in a church to worship Jesus, not knowing they had let a maniac in their doors. Demons walk on this Earth and this man was truly a demon. He tried to start a race war, but instead he brought us closer.
I would just like to say I am praying for the families of these nine victims and also, for the family of the man who did this terrible act. May the comforter be with you and bring you peace.
Reading the two letters, "Is the end in sight?" and "America following Rome's path," in the July 8 edition of The Lancaster News warranted the following observations.
In his letter, W.B. Evans states the Ten Commandments, given by God, are being ignored and biblical sins brought the downfall of ancient nations.
While Christianity is the predominate religion in this great country, why are the Ten Commandments the primary go to when referencing God's laws? Christianity arose from the life and death of Jesus.
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GREENSBORO � Dylan Thompson notched his first Division I pitching victory as UNC Greensboro topped Army 8-5 in non-conference baseball Sunday.
Thompson, a junior transfer from Guilford Tech by way of Southern Alamance High School, threw 2 2/3 innings in relief. He gave up one run and two hits.
Corey Taylor notched his second save, pitching two innings.
The Spartans overcame a three-run hole, posting five runs in their last three at-bats to win for the second time in a weather-interrupted series. The teams played two games instead of the scheduled three.
Former Western Alamance player Zac MacAneney scored three runs, Christian Wolfe drove in three runs and Cambric Moye knocked in two runs for UNCG.
-- NORTH CAROLINA 17, SETON HALL 2: At Chapel Hill, Landon Lassiter and Skye Bolt had four hits apiece as two six-run innings helped the host Tar Heels (2-0) in a rout a Boshamer Stadium.
Holt drove in three runs. Chaz Frank scored four runs, while Colin Moran drove in two runs and scored three times.
Starter Benton Moss threw five innings for the victory, giving up with one run and two hits with seventh strikeouts.
Due to the cancellation of Saturday�s scheduled middle game of the series, North Carolina added a home game for 3 p.m. today against Coastal Carolina. There�s free admission to the game.

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If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred these guys and Miss Piggy. It was always a riot, full of great puns, and one of my favorite skit sets of all time. However, Red Gate's latest announcement isn't about pigs, but about DBAs. I know, sometimes developers can't tell the difference between the two, but there is one, trust me.
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Cary Elwes is writing a book about the making of the film "The Princess Bride." Elwes, who played the dashing hero Westley, will publish the book in the fall of 2014 with Touchstone. Its title is bound to charm the film's fans: "As You Wish: Tales from the Princess Bride."
"It was a joy to work on such a magical film with an amazing cast of talented actors and friends," Elwes said in a release about the book. "It will be great fun to revisit 'The Princess Bride' and to share my fond memories of the unforgettable experience we all had."
Elwes was inspired to write the book after joining the cast for a 25th anniversary screening last year in New York. In addition to his own stories, the book will include recollections from cast members Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Carol Kane, Christopher Guest, Chris Sarandon and Wallace Shawn, and William Goldman, who wrote the book and screenplay.
Rob Reiner, who directed the 1987 film, will pen a forward for "As You Wish" (for those who don't know the film, the phrase is Westley's refrain when talking to his love, Princess Buttercup, played by Wright). There is a co-author for the book, writer Joe Layden.
No word yet on whether Elwes will follow "As You Wish" with a memoir of starring in the horror film "Saw."
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Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Detective Marty Deeks) and Daniela Ruah (NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye). The joint NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0 task force travel from Hawaii to Los Angeles, when the lead suspect in the case moves to the mainland with a deadly virus in tow, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, May 1 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Scott Caan guest stars as Hawaii Five-0 Detective Sergeant Danny Williams and Daniel Dae Kim guest stars as Hawaii Five-0 Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Child Dumpster Deaths Turn Propaganda Against Party
This post has been updated since it was first published. See note below.
A tragedy torn from the pages of a Chinese primary school lesson on the horrors of capitalism has rattled the country's online community and drawn a dark line under one of the most challenging issues facing the Chinese Communist Party's new generation of leaders.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency on Tuesday said it had confirmed the identities of five children, ranging in age from nine to 13, who were found dead on Friday inside a trash bin in the southwestern province of Guizhou. The children, all male and all surnamed Tao, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after lighting a fire inside the bin and climbing inside to take shelter after temperatures fell to around 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Xinhua said citing local police.
The children had gone out to play three weeks earlier and never came back, a man identified as a father to one of the children told Xinhua, adding that four out of the five had dropped out of school. Xinhua said the boys were cousins, the sons of three brothers, and that two of the brothers worked as garbage collectors in the distant southern city of Shenzhen.
The news has consumed Chinese Internet users, hovering near the top of the trending topics list on Sina Corp.'s popular Weibo microblogging service and leading Chinese search engine Baidu's list of most-searched stories.
Stories of suffering children are always hard to stomach, but they tend to hit with particular impact in China, where the one-child policy and a strong belief in the family as the most basic unit of society have combined to imbue the young with an aura of unsurpassed importance. In this case, the impact of appears to have been amplified by similarities between what happened to the brothers and the Hans Christian Anderson short story "The Little Match Girl."
The story, about a poor Danish girl who dies from exposure on New Year's Eve after running away from her abusive father and trying to sell matches on the street, was once included in Chinese primary school text books as an example of the difficulties faced by the poor in capitalist countries.
"When I was little, the study topic for 'The Little Match Girl' was: Understand the horrible tragedy of the little match-selling girl's death on the streets on New Year's Eve and how it reveals the darkness of capitalist society," wrote one Sina Weibo user. "Vicious capitalist society! That's how we were educated."
Wrote another microblogger: "I thought the little match girl was something that only happened in capitalist societies. Why this sense of superiority about our system?"
News of the children's deaths comes close on the heels of the 18th Party Congress, a week-long political event characterized by dozens of speeches and state-run media editorials extolling the virtues of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," code for the country's state-dominated approach to capitalism. "Thanks to over 90 years of hard struggle, our Party has rallied and led the people of all ethnic groups in turning the poor and backward old China into an increasingly prosperous and powerful new China," outgoing Communist Party chief Hu Jintao noted in the opening to a speech widely praised by the official media.
More than a few social media users made a point of highlighting the contrast between the victorious language that accompanied the congress and the reality faced by the dead children.
"People are singing the praises of the 18th Party Congress, using resplendent language to describe the brilliance of the Party Congress and the nation, but they omit those suffering children," wrote one anguished Sina Weibo user. "It's not limited to those five who froze to death on the side of the road. Others are hidden from view!"
Cao Lin, a columnist for the state-run China Youth Daily, was slightly more oblique. "At a time when we're crowing about the rise of the nation and the creation of a moderately well-off society, to have five children die while seeking warmth in a trash bin is truly bizarre," he wrote.
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The country's growing wealth gap ranks near the top of a long list of problems facing China's next generation of leaders, led by newly appointed Communist Party chief Xi Jinping. When China first began economic reforms in 1978, the vast majority of Chinese families were on roughly equal financial footing. Now the top 10% of Chinese families control 56% of income, a figure that makes China more unequal than the U.S. some African countries, according to a recent survey by Texas A&M professor Gan Li.
In an online poll conducted by the China Youth Daily before the 18th Party Congress, "huge income disparity" was the factor respondents identified as most likely to derail the country's development over the next decade.
It's a problem not lost on China's new leaders. A day before the children were discovered in the trash bin, newly named Mr. Xi won applause online for an inaugural speech that admitted the Party needed to do more to improve people's livelihoods. Mr. Hu also called for greater efforts to address the wealth gap.
Bijie, where the children died, is a coal-rich but poverty-strickent city with a reputation for corruption that has sent a steady stream of petitioners to Beijing in recent years. Local authorities have launched an investigation in the deaths and suspended or dismissed six officials pending the results of the investigation, Xinhua said.
Not all Internet users felt the government was to blame for the deaths. Some concentrated their fire on the children's families instead, questioning why their parents didn't do more to keep them safe. The parents of the dead children could not be reached for comment.
Still, in a country where the ruling party sometimes likens its role to that of a parent feeding and nurturing its children, the vast majority of public anger over the deaths was directed at the government. "In an environment where leaders are the first to escape when things go bad, who's going to consider the poor, the homeless, the orphans?" one microblogger asked in a post that was later deleted.
(NOTE: Xinhua updated its story with new details identifying the dead children as the sons of three brothers, two of whom work as garbage collectors in Shenzhen. This post has been updated to reflect that new information.)
-- Josh Chin, with contributions from Yang Jie
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Jack Lew is Secretary of the Treasury in the Obama administration. Occupying the office once held by Alexander Hamilton, he lies only when his lips are moving. Chris Wallace induced rapid lip movement by Lew on Fox News Sunday this morning when he asked Lew how many of the millions of viewers of the federal Obamacare site signed up for Obamacare this week after the commencement of the open enrollment period. Lew declined to answer.
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Somehow, despite all the sturm und drang happening in the auto world at the moment, Jaguar is seeing fit to let the rumors fly about an upcoming new sportscar for 2011, and not just any sports car, but a re-do of the mouthwatering F-Type show car. The F-Type, which was a show car from 2000, was announced for production in early 2001, but sadly the F-Type was never to see the light of day, since Jag decided to focus its resources on the ill-fated X-Type sedan.
Stories of a new Jaguar sportscar have been around ever since and now fresh comments from Mike O'Driscoll, Jag Managing Director, imply there's a distinct possibility we'll see a new sportscar soon. "If we were to do something, it would be a proper sports car priced like a 911. Wouldn't it be great to launch a sports car at Geneva on the 50th anniversary of the E-type?" O'Driscoll said.
A report in AutoCar hints there's work being done on what might be called the Jaguar XE. And even better, it looks like Lotus appears to be involved. It seems as though the XE will use a cropped version of the aluminum chassis currently used for the XK. If all goes well (cross your fingers) expect to see a concept version around this time next year.
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8th Circuit Takes 4-H to Task in Swine Showing Case
(NPN) – By a 2 to 1 decision, the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an injunction allowing a Brule County teenager to continue competing in livestock shows after being accused of cheating by the 4-H.
In the Eighth Circuit's decision issued Sept. 25, 2013, the court found for "B.K."—Bayley Kroupa--the daughter of Greg Kroupa, a livestock breeder in Brule County. The defendants are Peter A. Nielsen, assistant director of 4-H youth development and Rod Geppert, Brule County extension 4-H representative.
The split decision upholding the U.S. District Court's preliminary injunction allowing Bayley Kroupa to continue competing in 4-H livestock completion, the majority often had harsh words for the defendants' actions.
"Giving no notice or opportunity to be heard," the opinion begins, "a secret committee of the South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension Service barred B.K., a 15-year-old member of the South Dakota 4-H program, from further showing livestock at 4-H exhibitions."
The ban stemmed from accusations that Bayley Kroupa "misrepresented the ownership" of her trained, belted barrow swine named "Moe." Following the 2011 State Fair where "Moe" won reserve grand honors, other 4-H competitors accused B.K. of showing a different swine than "Moe" at the fair. The accusations escalated into online harassment against Bayley Kroupa.
After Greg Kroupa reported the harassment to Geppert, Geppert said, according to court documents that he would get back to Kroupa. About a month later, Kroupa received a letter from Nielsen stating that Bayley Kroupa was barred from S.D. 4-H exhibitions because of the "ownership" issue surrounding "Moe."
Then in 2012, Greg Kroupa filed a federal civil rights action against SDSU and the defendants, with the U.S. District Court later dismissing SDSU from the case.
The appellate court found that B.K. had a protected interest in being able to compete for money in the 4-H exhibitions, which was exacerbated by the accusations of dishonesty. The Eighth Circuit majority also agreed with the lower court that since Bayley Kroupa had a protected interest under the Fifth or 14th Amendments, the defendants failed to give her any due process to protect that right.
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RAMP Study: A Study Comparing Two Lumbar Fusion Procedures (RAMP)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01716182
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Slow enrollment)
First Posted : October 29, 2012
Last Update Posted : July 9, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Spinal Stenosis Spondylolisthesis Degenerative Disc Disease
Study Treatment Arms:
The transacral lumbar interbody fusion (including 1L+ and 2L+) is a minimally invasive technique that uses a transacral approach to achieve fusion at the L5-S1 or L4-L5-S1 spinal levels. The transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is performed by using a posterior unilateral or bilateral incision in which the lumbar spine is accessed. Both study procedures are approved for use and conform to US regulatory requirements. The study employs these procedures and devices for uses that are consistent with their 510(k), legally cleared, labeling.
Study Design, Objective:
The study objective is to demonstrate non-inferiority between the transacral lumbar interbody fusion procedure and the transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure (TLIF) by meeting the primary and secondary study endpoints as listed below.
Study design, Endpoints:
Primary Endpoint:
Efficacy: Fusion of the targeted vertebral bodies (L4-L5 or L5-S1) by 24 months as determined by Central Radiographic Reviewer's interpretation of high resolution Computed Tomography (CT) scan.
Secondary Endpoints:
Safety: Incidence of major device-related adverse events and/or failures by 24 months, defined as those requiring revision surgery or a secondary operation, or events resulting in permanent disability or death.
Clinical Effectiveness: A 20% decrease in back pain compared to baseline by 24 months as measured by the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score.
Clinical Effectiveness: A 20% decrease in disability compared to baseline by 24 months as measured by the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI).
Study Design, Enrollment and Analyses:
Approximately 200 subjects will be enrolled in this study and will receive one of two study treatments in the study. The enrollment period is expected to last approximately 18 months, with a 24 month follow up period. Approximately 15-20 sites will participate, and Investigators must be proficient in both of the lumbar fusion procedures.
Eight evaluations: Pre-Operative, Operative, Discharge, and at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 Months.
Safety and efficacy analyses will be performed at all follow-up points during the study as well as a final analysis when all subjects have completed the study.
|Study Type :
|Estimated Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|RAMP Study: A Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Two Lumbar Fusion Procedures
|Study Start Date :
|June 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|July 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|July 2014
|transacral lumbar interbody fusion procedure
|transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure (TLIF)
- Efficacy [ Time Frame: 24 months post-operative ]Efficacy: Fusion of the targeted vertebral bodies (L4-L5-S1 or L5-S1) will be assessed individually at 24 months as determined by Central Radiographic Reviewer's (orthopedic surgeon) interpretation of high resolution Computed Tomography (CT) Scan.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female subject that is eligible for both study procedures only at the L4-L5-S1 or L5-S1 levels with bilateral pedicle screws;
The subject has a diagnosis of one or more of the following conditions at the L4-L5-S1 or L5-S1 levels:
- Spinal stenosis;
- Spondylolisthesis;
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) defined as back pain and/or radicular pain with degeneration of the disc as confirmed by history, physical examination and radiographic studies, either by CT, MRI, plain film, myelography, or discography;
- Adult 18 years of age or older;
- The subject has undergone at least 6 consecutive months of Conservative Care Therapy(ies);
- The subject is able and willing to give written informed consent and to comply with the requirements of this study protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Coagulopathy;
- Bowel disease (e.g. Crohn's, ulcerative colitis);
- Severe scoliosis (curves > 60°);
- Sacral agenesis;
- Spondylolisthesis greater than Grade 1 at the L4-L5-S1 levels, or greater than Grade 2 at the L5-S1 level;
- Spinal tumor (or history of sacral tumor);
- History of fracture at L4, L5 and/or S1 vertebral bodies;
- The subject has undergone a prior fusion procedure of the lumbar spine;
- Osteoporosis; or, if the subject is at high risk for development of osteoporosis, further screening to be conducted at Investigator's discretion;
- Per the Investigator, body weight is exclusionary only if concomitant medical issues are present that preclude the subject from being a candidate for spinal surgery; The subject is a current cigarette smoker;
- For women of childbearing potential, pregnancy at the time of enrollment, or planning to become pregnant during the course of the study;
- The subject has a history of substance abuse (illegal drugs, prescription drugs, or alcohol) that, in the Investigator's opinion, may interfere with protocol assessments and/or the subject's ability to comply with the protocol;
- Per the Investigator, the subject is in poor general health or undergoing any concurrent disease process that would place the subject in excessive risk to surgery (e.g. significant circulatory problems, cardiac disease, history of bowel surgery);
- The subject is participating in another spine study, which, in the opinion of the Investigator, could skew results;
- The subject is involved in litigation related to their back condition;
- The subject is contraindicated to receive either study procedure;
- The subject is contraindicated to receive bilateral pedicle screws;
- The subject has a history of allergy to any component of the devices or biologic material to be implanted in either procedure;
- The subject is a prisoner, transient, or an illegal alien.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01716182
|United States, California
|St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare
|Fullerton, California, United States, 92835
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana Spine Group
|Carmel, Indiana, United States, 46032
|United States, Louisiana
|Bone and Joint Clinic of Baton Rouge
|Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70808
|LSU Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurosurgery
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Massachusetts
|UMass Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery
|Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655
|United States, North Carolina
|Cary Orthopaedic Spine Specialists
|Cary, North Carolina, United States, 27518
|United States, Ohio
|Mayfield Clinic/University of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45219
|University Hospitals Case Medical Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
|United States, Texas
|Brazos Spine
|College Station, Texas, United States, 77845
|United States, Virginia
|Danville Orthopedic Clinic, Inc.
|Danville, Virginia, United States, 24541
|Principal Investigator:
|David Hart, MD
|University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Baxano Surgical, Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01716182 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|October 29, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 9, 2014
|Last Verified:
|July 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Spinal Stenosis
Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
Spinal Diseases
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases


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Gardner Lake Authority beset by trash problem
Salem - After watching the problems - and trash - pile up at Gardner Lake State Park, nearby resident Sue Coffee said she is done trying to fix the mess.
Coffee, who founded the advocacy group Friends of Gardner Lake three years ago, was one of several people who described a buildup of trash, portable toilets falling into the lake and no rule enforcement at the Aug. 8 meeting of the Gardner Lake Authority. Tired of what she considers a lack of responsiveness from state officials on these issues, Coffee is planning to take a break from the activism work.
For the first time, however, members of the Gardner Lake Authority - a joint effort between the towns of Salem, Montville and Bozrah who are responsible for enforcing boating laws and monitoring water quality - are considering whether and how they could respond to the complaints.
The primary concern is the trash left at the park. On a recent Thursday afternoon, a receptacle at the lake meant for hot coals was overflowing with trash, while pizza boxes littered the ground and the picnic tables held empty beer bottles. That, according to Coffee and others at the GLA's August meeting, was nothing. They said someone once left a gas grill as well as lobster bodies strewn across the grass. Corona bottles are a perpetual problem as well.
Like most state parks, Gardner Lake has a "carry in, carry out" policy that instructs visitors to take out any items they bring with them. Without supervision from a lifeguard or full-time staff member at the lake, however, "not much is carried out, at least by the [visitors]," said Russell Smith, a GLA member from Salem. "It's usually carried out by the state."
Some members of the committee said they would like to see the state charge admission to Gardner Lake. They believe that, because the park is free, people who don't live nearby don't mind trashing it.
"You get all the derelicts from Norwich, Willimantic" and other cities coming to the beach, said committee member Ed Socha of Montville.
"If they can get it for nothing, they're going to leave garbage, they're going to leave everything," he continued. He said some people have even buried diapers in the sand.
A story about a portable toilet falling into the lake also generated quite a bit of discussion - and disgust - at the GLA meeting. Three toilets are clustered on the beach for use by swimmers, while two others are located at the bordering boat launch.
Tom Tyler, director of the state parks and public outreach division of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, confirmed that a toilet fell into the lake. He said he wasn't sure of the exact time - Coffee said she thought it was in April or May - and said he did not know how the toilet ended up in the lake. It could have been because of vandalism, a windy storm, or something else, he said.
Sarah Santora, who lives near the lake and said she may take over the Friends of Gardner Lake in Coffee's absence, said "they've got to chain the Porta-Potties." An even better option, she said, would be to install composting toilets like the ones available at Devil's Hopyard State Park in East Haddam. Tyler said that composting toilets or even permanent ones are possible long-term options.
People attending the GLA meeting threw out the names of parks like Beach Pond in Exeter, R.I., and Wadsworth Falls State Park in Middlefield, which no longer allow swimming. Some felt that Gardner Lake might close to the public in a similar fashion if the trash isn't kept under control.
"It's critical that we turn it around," said Santora, who said she believes the state might decide to shut down the beach because the trash that builds up there could pollute the water.
Tyler said Santora has the situation backwards.
"We do not have plans to close the beach," he said, adding that local people were urging the state to consider that option.
Tyler said that it's been a busy season for parks across the state, and that most of the state parks, including Gardner Lake, have been "pushed to the limit."
DEEP staff members "are dedicated to keeping parks as clean and safe as possible for state residents," he said. Cleaning crews come in the mornings to clean litter, said Tyler, but he is not sure how often they visit.
The lake was closed for poor water quality on July 23 and 24, just after a Sunday Coffee and Santora said was particularly bad for trash. Chuck Lee, who works with the DEEP's watershed management program, said the lake was closed because of high Escherichia coli content, which is used as an indicator of potential human waste in the water.
Members of the Gardner Lake Authority said they believe it was possible that the trash affected the water quality. That would mean the trash issue fell more clearly into the GLA's mission.
"I think [all these issues] are part of our area because they trickle down and contribute to the quality and the health and safety of the lake," said Smith, who wants to improve communication between the committee and the state. He plans to invite politicians and DEEP officials to attend an upcoming meeting during which members will present specific requests.
The GLA would like to see more supervision at the beach - Tyler said staff members are at the lake during busy times such as holidays and periodically during the week, but could not say exactly when or for how long - and possibly a weekend-only charge. Members said they don't care where the money goes, just that an admission fee would exist.
Another possible option would be a part-time security guard to patrol during the summer, said Smith.
For her part, Santora is more optimistic than her predecessor. She wants to "try something new" and have the signs explaining park rules translated into Spanish, which she believes would lead to greater obedience.
She said it was actually the trash piled onto the hot coals receptacle that gave her hope.
"To me, it's an encouraging sign" that shows people would use a trash container, said Santora.
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this is my first time trying to build a compiler from the gnu compiler collection source so, inevitably, i'm having a few issues. i'm trying to build a cross compiler for arm4 targets on my virtual machine, running FreeBSD 7. I'm doing this for building arm4 code for an arm7tdmi chip in the gameboy advance for an operating system project. i have downloaded libgba and the appropriate headers but i need a compiler that will build raw binaries (not ELF compatible, should be a.out old binaries i think) that i can pull over to my flash cartridge and run on the system. here's what i've done so far:
1. downloaded binutils 2.18: won't compile for arm or i386 targets
2. downloaded binutils 2.9: won't compile for arm or i386 targets
3. downloaded binutils 2.8: won't compile for arm or i386 targets
4. make install gcc41 in /usr/ports: gcc upgraded successfully
5. tried to compile gcc43 from source: no success for i386 target: missing gmp, mpfr
6. make install gmp and mpfr in /usr/ports: successful
7. tried again to compile gcc43: no success, different error:
sed -e 's/@gcc_version@//' < > mkheadersT Syntax error: redirection unexpected
should i even bother compiling from source? it seems impossible. i'm trying to gain a greater understanding of gcc and compilation for BSD systems as i'm hoping to soon make a career out of embedded systems programming... maybe i'm just a noob but i was hoping that it would be possible to download and compile gcc from source for any target OS? maybe not...
Is there some way to build a compiler using ./configure options from the ports tree? I'm thinking since that worked, perhaps there's a way to install with --prefix=/path/to/tools --target=arm4l or something like that... any help would be great.
i'd prefer to build this from the source available from gnu rather than ports just to get the experience and learn more about gcc but if that's not possible or no one has the info, compiling from ports would be sufficient.
I don't fully understand what you were doing with ports....
I suggest you install portmaster
install ports using it....
portmaster is very easy to use sh script, which doesn't require any other ports to be installed..
postmaster will make things way more easy
update your ports tree
using csup or portsnap (i suggest 2nd, which is faster)
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to install gcc
$ portmaster lang/gcc44
Also do you have actual FreeBSD system on real PC?
If so, do you know that you can compile ports for other architectures from different architecture (for example from i386 compile for sparc64)
This can be done on Virtual machine as well (i just don't really know how, but google might help)
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Trying to build a cross compiler is quite difficult with gcc you often have to
patch various parts of the gcc build system for it to work.
I have a partial port of gcc for arm, but it was done on 6.2. If you want that I can send it
to you - just let me know.
You do not need to have the compiler produce binary object you leave it to the
linker(ld) - and a particular linker script that matches the memory layout
of your hardware.
You might have more success looking into crosstool - not sure if it will work
on 7 though.
This is a script that can do all the patching. I used it on FreeBSD for ARM cross compiler. Also built a Linux version using a Debian chroot on freeBSD.
Let me know if you want more info.
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Thursday night I was searching for information about the Calcasieu Citizens Tax Protective Services, Inc., which is the agency that purchased my great-great-grandfather's house in Lake Charles when it was put up for auction by the sheriff in 1964. When I searched for the name at Google, one of the results was the IT Services page of the Clerk of Court's website. I had ignored this page during my initial search of the website last month. Why? Well, because I just assumed it was some online resource for courthouse employees to use if they had computer issues while at work. Basically, I thought it was the page of the IT department, and what does the IT department have to do with records or genealogy?
However, when I clicked on the link to the IT Services page Thursday night, I was utterly shocked. This is what I saw.
Suddenly, it clicked. Those records online that the land record employee was telling me about were actually available from my home computer! In fact, images were available! What??!!! And to top it off, not only are just the land records available, but marriage records too! What??? What/??!!!
Of course, I was initially excited, but then I started to wonder just how affordable this would be. In my past experience, courthouses with online records usually charge a couple hundred dollars for access, only making it affordable to lawyers, title companies, etc. However, I did a little more research, and found out that a one-day pass would cost $5 and a 30-day pass would cost $20. There were also several other options, such as an annual pass and whatnot. The pass would allow me to do all the searching and viewing of documents that I wanted. If I wanted to save a copy of a document or print it, I would have to pay the standard courthouse copy cost of $1/page. I don't know about you, but I can fork over $20 for genealogy anytime. Besides, I'm pretty sure that everything I need to find is findable in one month, since my ancestors have only been in Calcasieu Parish since about 1930.
Of course, as genealogy luck would have it, I had to find that database around 11 PM on Thursday night, so I did not have time to stay up and do research then. It was already past my bedtime. It was hard to stay at work all day yesterday knowing this database was waiting for me when I got home. Needless to say, I have been sleuthing around the database since last night (yes, I did go to sleep for a few hours).
The database is pretty easy to use, especially for records after 1987. You just type in a name and all the results with links to images appear. For the archived marriage and land records prior to 1987, you have to first choose which record type you want to search and then search for the surname. Then a scanned image of the index page will appear. Or, sometimes, multiple selections will come up for index pages, and you can select which one you want. You can also browse the index at this point. Once you find the name you are looking for in the index, you can type in the book and page number into the search engine at the top right hand portion of the screen, and it will bring up an image of that page. You can also browse the actual records from this point.
All in all, I would say that it's pretty neat. I found out some really great information about my modern day relatives. Some of it was the standard deed for the purchase of a home, but others showed juicy information about paternity and child custody cases. I also filled in the blanks for some of my great-aunts and uncles spouse's family information.
My next step is to check out the Civil Records database. I think the fees are the same, but it requires a separate subscription.
So, don't forget to check out ALL the pages on a Clerk of Court's website. You just never know what genealogy gems you may find hidden.


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Peter Facinelli caught holding hands with reported new love Alexander
Actor PETER FACINELLI has fuelled ongoing reports of a blossoming romance with his NURSE JACKIE co-star JAIMIE ALEXANDER after the two were snapped holding hands in New York on Thursday (15Nov12).
Facinelli, who split from his wife of 11 years Jennie Garth in March (12), stepped out with the actress on Thursday night for a bite to eat at East Village restaurant The Penny Farthing, before heading to a screening of his latest film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
The pair were snapped by WENN leaving the eatery, and an onlooker tells Celebuzz.com, "They had a great time. They looked like a very cute couple."
Facinelli and Alexander first met on the 2009 set of Loosies, which the 38 year old produced.
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The U.S. beef cow herd is expected to continue to decrease in the coming months and year, primarily due to a lack of profitability, high production costs, competing meats, and alternative uses of land.
The lack of profitability by the majority of cow-calf producers can be attributed to weak demand caused by the severe recession, says Walt Prevatt, Auburn University Extension economist.
High production costs, says Prevatt, include those for feed, fertilizer, labor and land rents. "We've also seen pasture acreage moving into grain production and/or conservation programs and other non-farm uses such as recreation and rural non-farm development. Given the current lackluster level of profits and immense uncertainty in the U.S. general economy, cattle farmers will likely continue to liquidate cattle numbers until profitability can be achieved," he says.
On the brighter side, U.S. beef exports during 2010 are expected to increase to 2.3 billion pounds — up 21 percent over the previous year — due to a significant recovery by the majority of U.S. trading partners and a weak dollar.
"However, U.S. beef exports during 2011 are expected to decline slightly due to financial market weaknesses among several trading partners," says Prevatt. "Exports beyond 2011 are expected to be gradual as world economies recover from recessionary conditions. Any increase in the levels of U.S. exports of beef and/or competing meats such as pork or poultry will likely have a significant impact on U.S. beef prices during the next couple of years."
U.S. cattle farmers clearly are continuing to decrease their inventory of cattle and calves, he adds. In the mid-year July 1, 2010 Cattle Report, cattle producers told USDA they had about 500,000 fewer beef cows that had calved (-1.6 percent) than a year ago. Beef cow replacements were down 100,000 head (-2.2 percent) from a year ago at 4.4 million head. A decrease in beef cow replacements and beef cows that have calved during 2010, says Prevatt, suggests that herd liquidation will continue in 2011.
Smaller inventory
"A smaller inventory of cattle and calves and smaller calf crop during 2010 will likely limit the growth in beef production during 2011. USDA projects U.S. beef production during 2011 to be about 25.1 billion pounds or 2 percent less than a year earlier. This level of beef production will be influenced by any adjustments in average carcass weights and the level of feeder and live cattle imports from Canada and Mexico," he says.
Turning to feed and forage conditions, Prevatt says the 2010 growing season of the major grain-producing regions got off to a fast start. Adequate weather conditions allowed planting to be completed in most major grain growing areas earlier than normal.
"The majority of the crop received favorable growing conditions most of the season. Harvest weather is currently adequate in most areas for a timely harvest," he says.
If USDA's current corn and soybean production levels are realized, both crops will be larger than in 2009. Corn and soybean futures prices have increased corresponding to the forecasted smaller crops that were projected earlier this season and improved export markets.
"Corn and soybean prices are expected to move higher in 2011 due to tight supplies worldwide and as economies recover from recession. Therefore, livestock producers should seriously consider taking steps to manage their feed purchases during the 2010 crop harvest," advises Prevatt.
Another factor that can certainly affect feed prices and feeder calf and feeder cattle prices is the level of export demand for corn and soybeans, he adds. "Any major changes in world export demand for these commodities could significantly move market prices. The recent crop failures in Russia and Western Europe due to the drought will significantly reduce grain supplies and increase world grain prices. Additionally, the strength of the U.S. dollar is certain to influence world export demand."
Fortunately, says Prevatt, pasture and range conditions have been better over many of the cow-calf states this year. "However, high input costs moderate feeder calf prices, and marginal milk prices have resulted in a large number of cull cows moving to slaughter this year," he says.
Total 2010 U.S. hay production is expected to be marginally larger than a year ago, with most Southeast states showing comparable levels of hay production compared with 2009. "However, high input costs will likely result in continued high hay prices. Thus, alternative winter forages and feedstuffs will be in much demand this winter as cattlemen seek to feed their cow herds."
Beef demand has felt some challenges the last two years due to less interest in protein diets, higher unemployment, and tightening consumer grocery budgets due to the higher cost of living, notes Prevatt.
Demand to be tested
"Beef demand is expected to be further tested during 2011 as consumers continue to experience rising prices for most goods and services. If consumer disposable income does not rise proportionally, shopping habits and choices will shift as prices rise forcing consumers to substitute and/or reduce the bundle of goods and services they consume. The weak U.S. economy during 2010 resulted in a decrease in domestic beef demand. Fortunately, world beef demand increased as world economies recovered from the recession and a weaker U.S. dollar contributed to increased exports."
Per capita consumption of beef is expected to decline during 2010 and 2011. Beef production during 2010 is expected to be 25.7 billion pounds, down 0.3 billion pounds or 1 percent from a year ago.
Beef imports for 2010 are estimated to be 2.6 billion pounds or down about 78 million pounds more (2.9 percent) from 2010. Beef exports for 2010 are expected to be 2.3 billion pounds, up about 394 million pounds (21 percent) compared with 2009.
"The combination of lower domestic beef production, lower imports, and higher exports are expected to decrease domestic disappearance. As a result, overall domestic disappearance should decline somewhere around 727 million pounds. This reduction in domestic disappearance will result in a decrease in beef per capita consumption to around 59 pounds per person in 2010. Per capita consumption for 2011 is estimated to be about 57.8 pounds per person. Also, as the U.S. population increases in the future, per capita beef consumption will likely be lower unless U.S. beef production increases and/or imports increase."
It is very important, says Prevatt, that the United States continues to grow beef export markets. These export markets could be worth $5 to $10 per hundredweight on the value of fed slaughter cattle. Growth in beef export markets will also help to moderate the price impacts of any weaknesses in U.S. broiler and pork exports.
The 2011 cattle market, he says, will continue to operate with a great deal of uncertainty. Cattle farmers should monitor several factors including changes in domestic beef demand (future strength/weakness of U.S. economic recovery), supplies of broilers and pork, export and import sales (beef, broilers, and pork), feedstuff prices, monetary exchange rates, and adverse weather impacts (the length, extent, and severity of the droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, etc.).
"The cattle markets could experience some volatile movements with abrupt changes in any of these factors and/or combinations of factors."


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Chennai: Ambati Rayudu struck a fluent 87 while Jammu and Kashmir youngster Parvez Rassol showed his all-round prowess with an useful batting contribution as the two-day warm-up match between Board President's XI and Australia ended in a tame draw here today.
After Australia were all-out for 241 yesterday, the Board President's XI were dismissed for 230 in 68.3 overs at the Guru Nanak College ground. With a result out of question, Australians came out to
bat and scored 15 for no loss in their second essay before the umpires decided to call off the match with consent from both the captains.
For the Board President's XI, Rayudu top-scored with 87 while Rassol, riding high on his seven-wicket haul yesterday chipped in with a handy contribution of 36. Rayudu, fresh from his 156 in the recently concluded Irani Cup game against Mumbai, looked confident from the start but did not get much support from the other top-order batsmen as the home team slumped to 132 for six.
It was Rassol, who joined Rayudu at this stage to resurrect the innings with a 67-run partnership for the
seventh wicket. Rassol normally bats at No 4 for his state side Jammu and Kashmir but due to presence of India discards and senior first-class players was sent in at No 8 and he showed why he has scored nearly 600 runs in the last Ranji season.
While Rayudu hit nine boundaries and three sixes in his 150-ball knock, 'birthday boy' Rassol faced 54 balls hitting four boundaries and a six in the process.
For Australia, all-rounder Moises Henriques bowled superbly to take four for 12 in only 9.3 overs while offie Nathan Lyon was able to scalp three wickets although he did get some stick from both Rayudu and Rasool.
Some of the fringe players like openers Abhinav Mukund (21), Robin Uthappa (24) and glovesman Parthiv Patel (23) got starts but could not convert them into a big score. Mukund and especially Uthappa started off in a positive fashion adding 37 runs for the opening stand before the latter's impetuosity cost him dearly. He was out trying to hit off-spinner Nathan Lyon caught by Glenn Maxwell.
Talented Punjab youngster Mandeep Singh (3) didn't stay long as he edged one from Henriques to wicket-keeper Matthew Wade. Mukund's two hours of hardwork was undone when Henriques cleaned him up. Having seen off the new ball, Mukund missed out on an opportunity to score runs against a quality opposition.
Maharashtra's Kedar Jadhav went for a non-existent cut-shot when Lyon had left little room for him and was taken by Wade. At 61 for four, Patel and Rayudu got together to do some damage control adding 41 runs in the process. Patel was aggressive hitting three fours in 30 balls before off-spinner Glenn Maxwell trapped him leg before with a straighter one. Stuart Binny found James Pattinson's pace too hot to handle and was castled for five which brought Rasool and Rayudu together.
The duo stayed at the wicket for the next 19 overs scoring runs at an average of 3.52. They were cautious to begin with but whenever they got an opportunity, they punished the loose deliveries. Rayudu used his feet to the spinners. Both Lyon and leggie Steve Smith got a taste of Rayudu's footwork. Seeing his senior partner attacking the bowling, Rassol also grew in confidence and started taking on the bowlers.
Finally, it was left-arm spinner Ashton Agar, who dismissed the Jammu and Kashmir all-rounder as he was caught by Maxwell.
Rayudu, who truly deserved a century was finally out trying to give Henriques the charge as Jackson Bird took the catch. However, the Board President's XI had consumed enough overs by then to ensure that the match ended in a tame draw.
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Diet after treatment for ductal carcinoma of the breast
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was diagnosed with Stage I Invasive Ductal Carcinoma 2 years ago at age 44. Chemotherapy of Adriamycin and Cytoxin followed my mastectomy. I am currently taking Tamoxifen (my cancer was estrogen positive and progesterone negative). I want to try to do everything I know to decrease my chances of recurrence. I am very confused about what vitamins to take. Are there any vitamins or foods I should avoid that will interfere with the effectiveness of the Tamoxifen? What vitamins should I be taking to enhance my health? Are soy foods safe with my estrogen positive cancer history?
Ellen Sweeney, RD, Registered Dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
In this situation no specific nutrients or vitamins have been found to be beneficial. However, research has shown that there are diet and life style factors that do seem to be protective against cancer in general. An article entitled "American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention: Reducing the Risk of Cancer with Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity" in the CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Vol 52 No 2 p 92-119 provides a very thorough and extensive review of the impact of nutrition on reducing cancer risk.
Overall, obesity and a sedentary life style are associated with an increase risk of breast cancer. Diets that are high in vegetables and fruits may decrease risk, although the degree that they decrease risk and the specific nutrients that confer protection are still being studied. It is recommended to increase servings of fruits and vegetables to at least 5-7 servings (total) per day for the greatest nutrient benefit. Also, alcohol does slightly increase risk and should be consumed only in moderation with a maximum of one drink per day. The issue of soy is still controversial. While food sources of soy do not seem to problematic (soy milk, tofu, soy nuts, etc) the current recommendation limits soy foods to 1-2 servings per day for women with a history of estrogen positive breast cancer. Soy supplements and herbs should be avoided since the dangers of concentrated soy sources are not known and in addition, many herbs have estrogen like properties. Please refer to Are soy products linked to cancer prevention? for more information.
So, overall, the recommendation is a higher fruit and vegetable intake, less animal products (i.e. meats, animal fats, and whole milk dairy), soy in moderation, alcohol in moderation, and regular exercise to prevent weight gain and obesity.


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Fans of James Dashner's Maze Runner series will love this postapocalyptic adventure about a girl who must survive an alien planet in order to save the Earth.
Ana only knows her name because of the tag she finds pinned to her jumpsuit. Waking in the featureless compartment of a rocket ship, she opens the hatch to discover that she has landed on a barren alien world. Instructions in her pocket tell her to observe and to survive, no doubt with help from the wicked-looking knives she carries on her belt. But to what purpose?
Meeting up with three other teens–one boy seems strangely familiar–Ana treks across the inhospitable landscape, occasionally encountering odd twists of light that carry glimpses of people back on Earth. They're working on some sort of problem, and the situation is critical. What is the connection between Ana's mission on this planet and the crisis back on Earth, and how is she supposed to figure out the answer when she can't remember anything?
I was excited to dive into Paradox by AJ Paquette for a number of reasons. First, Paquette wrote one of my favorite reads from last year, the moving Nowhere Girl. Second, it's a science fiction novel, and there just aren't enough of those to go around. And third, the premise sounded fascinating. Was it? Yes and no.
Ana wakes up strapped to a chair in a rocket ship. She has no memories or recollection of her past. She doesn't even know what she looks like. She only knows her name because she has a name tag pinned to her jumpsuit. She finds a note instructing her to Experience. Discover. Survive. Talk about a bare-bones mission statement! At least she's well supplied, with a massive backpack that seems to contain her every need. Whoever packed it must have been a boy scout.
In rapid succession, she is attacked by a monstrous, dagger-toothed worm, discovers that she wasn't the only one on the rocket, and learns she has a limited amount of time to accomplish her goal, whatever that is. Ana's lack of memories and knowledge of her past made for a tense, gripping read. It also led to a great deal of frustration on my part when it's revealed that her companions have retained all of their memories, and that they know exactly what's going on. While that was crucial for her mission parameters, it's one of my least favorite tropes in YA fiction. It's almost as though the other characters think the protagonist is too stupid to be trusted with the knowledge needed to know what's going on. Instead, our intrepid little heroine stays alive through a mixture of luck and sheer determination, marching towards the end of the book. I felt the same way here, and maybe it's because the other characters make no secret that they know what's going on, and keep insisting that they'll fess up the details at the end of their journey. Should they ever arrive at that destination.
Along the way, they are attacked repeatedly by that scary worm thing. It was stalking them. I was hoping for a guest appearance by Tremors' star, Kevin Bacon, which would have proven beyond a doubt that all steps truly do lead to Kevin. Ana and company are also in a race against time. Ana awakens wearing a timer that is counting down the hours until the end of their mission. What happens when the timer reaches 00? Nope, we don't know that, either, but it must be pretty awful.
I found Paradox hard to put down. It is a runaway freight train of adventure. Danger! Danger! Will Robinson! It's everywhere! The writing is tense and in the moment. At first the third person present tense narrative turned me off, but I quickly grew accustomed to it. It kept me engaged in the story, running frantically with Ana and Todd as they navigated the strange, deadly world they found themselves on. I wanted to know what the heck was going on, and how Ana was going to survive, given her massive deficiencies. And the counter was always there, steadily ticking toward…what? Doom? Rescue? Dinner??
There is one caution I will give, and that is that Paradox reads more like a middle grade novel than YA. Since I enjoy reading both, I wasn't put off by the fact that I thought this book skewed to younger readers than I had expected.
Looking for a frenzied summer read? Paradox flies along like a summer action flick, offering tons of adventure and excitement. There's running! There's mountain climbing! There's a scary jaunt through a dead forest! And did I mention – killer worms? Yeah, it's got those, too. So, my verdict for Paradox by AJ Paquette is just one word – FUN.
Grade: B
Review copy provided by Rockstar Blog Tours


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The Thursday Playlist: A Hope Mitzvah, a Redeemed Politician, Scrubs On Grey's
Mar 28, 2013 11:10 AM EDT
Oy vey. Or as Virginia Chance (Martha Plimpton) might mangle her Hebrew-isms: "Molotov! (for mazel tov)." Fox sure doesn't make it easy to say goodbye to Raising Hope as it ends its third season on a new night with back-to-back episodes (9/8c), the s… Read more


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Veterinarian asks: Is Vick the problem or is it the 'punishment'?
By Patty Khuly, Special for USA TODAY
Forgive. Forget. Rehabilitate. Resurrect.
When Michael Vick of NFL and dogfighting fame partook of an interview with James Brown on 60 Minutes last Sunday night, the aforementioned verbs were all in attendance —— along with 11 million American viewers like me
It was a great performance. Brown passed some stinging zingers. Vick handled almost every one with unexpected aplomb. It was just what you'd expect from a well-coached player working hard to prove he's still got game. Based on his performance, I'd say he probably does. At the very least, he seems to want it bad. But does he deserve the "second chance" he and his stakeholders so clearly crave?
Looking into Vick's big brown eyes, courtesy of CBS, it was hard to recall the lurid details of the crimes that happened under his watch. But it was easy for me to decide that nothing he said was believable. It doesn't take an empath to know this was not a man who had achieved animal enlightenment after a stint in prison. Desperate? Maybe. Rehabilitated? Definitely not.
But my personal beliefs may seem beside the point given that Vick has now "paid his debt to society" to the extent our justice system was able to enforce. Now it's all about what's fair and what's not when it comes to his career and his role as a spokesman for animal friendliness. Time to ratchet down the anti-Vick vitriol and cast him as a respectable man on the mend.
After all, we wouldn't want anyone thinking we hire sadists to play football for the NFL or —— in his newest gig —— preach to kids on the merits of group dog hugs in the Humane Society of the United States-sponsored dog-and-pony show his handlers have cooked up
No, Vick's media peeps want you to see him for what he now seems: a more mature, self-flagellatingly repentant core of a man who has thrown off the husk of adolescent hoodery via a seething trial-by-fire only Leavenworth, Kansas, and American bankruptcy can conjure.
"Second chances," all his supporters recited on 60 Minutes. It's the American way, they implicitly intoned. Even the Humane Society's media-savvy Wayne Pacelle threw off questions regarding HSUS liability in the face of Vick's poor risk potential: No, because "it's all up to Vick now." In other words, if he chokes, no one loses. And also because millions of eyeballs means a big win for the HSUS and others who can "learn to forgive" in the face of a PR windfall.
Like you, like Mr. Pacelle says he does, I believe in redemption. I believe in second chances (though for Vick it's closer to 17 than to two, but who's counting?). I can even look beyond Vick's confessed sins and muster the same kind of compassion I can for any one of my patients as I do my best to heal their limbs and fix their ills. Animal-loving people are just like that.
Yet even if I were to believe in his apparent emotional transformation, even if I wanted desperately to see him minister to children headed down his same tortured path, even if I knew deep in my soul that Vick's participation in anti-dogfighting campaigns would save dogs' lives and alter society's perception of animals forever, reality has a way of smothering my softhearted veterinary impulses.
Why? Because despite my bent towards a compassionate read of the man behind the cruelty, it's my contention that Vick hasn't yet paid for his crimes against animals.
Call it a technicality if you will, but to my mind, "Conspiracy to Travel in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Unlawful Activities and to Sponsor a Dog in an Animal Fighting Venture" doesn't come anywhere close to condemning this man for what he has confessed to have done —— not if the animal cruelty inherent to such a charge doesn't merit additional repercussions.
Even if you don't see it that way, veterinarians like me always will. That's why after all we do to protect animals and alleviate their suffering, it's especially outrageous to watch the HSUS and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals jump onto the Vick bandwagon.
In so doing, they offer Vick a high moral stomping ground from which to revive his career while effectively endorsing the criminal justice system's lax treatment of those who finance and operate establishments that trade daily in animal cruelty. What does that say to the children they'd have Vick preach to?
Though it might surprise you, I don't blame the NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles so much. Though I'd never buy a ticket to see Vick play and will boycott NFL football altogether out of disgust, Vick has done his time by American legal standards and, therefore, deserves to work his trade. Sadly, I've come to expect nothing less from the NFL —— or our celebrity culture in general.
Consequently, the real problem here is not Vick per se, it's a society whose laws would deem 18 months an acceptable prison sentence for a charge that by its very definition denotes animal abuse. If the sentence fit the crime, I'd argue, there'd be far less of a backlash against a Vick in sports.
Still, while others in animal welfare may feel righteous and just as they trade on Vick's downfall, his fame, and his career's holy resurrection, the rest of us animal advocacy workers know better. For my part, I'll consider him good and rehabilitated when he has done the time that fits the crime.
When will that be? I'll admit I'm not so sure, but I can promise you this: Based on the severity of his crime it won't be one second before the very last Bad Newz kennel victim is 100% recovered. Given that most of them are underground, he may have to prove he can resurrect more than just his career to get me to come around to his way of seeing things


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If you have found a site that you think is particularly helpful to others on this subject, please E-Mail Cybrarian and let her know. If you have suggestions for other topics, send a note. Your interests will be the fodder for future Hot Beds. Thanks, Micaela
When performing a search of your own, one of the first things you should do is go to MedWeb at http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html. Type asthma into their search engine. They have a nice sampling of hyperlinks, many of which are represented here. Putting childhood asthma in Yahoo! is a serviceable way to begin too, many of these sites came from there, or from AltaVista.
General Information
1) Let's make this one more visible! Ask NOAH about Asthma- NOAH is the New York Online Access to Health, and it's provided in English and Spanish. It's a well-crafted, nicely executed site at http://www.noah.cuny.edu/illness/asthma/asthma.html#asthma & children. In addition to providing a directory to lots of information on asthma (occurrence, inhalers, medications, lifestyle) in general, they offer full-text health information on:
2) From the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, comes Tip # 19, Asthma and the School Child. It is a fine descriptive piece of practical information on the issues and concerns for a school age asthmatic. View and/or order copies at http://www.aaaai.org/patpub/resource/publicat/tips/tip19.html. There is also Tip #20, http://www.aaaai.org/patpub/resource/publicat/tips/tip20.html, a nice overview called Childhood Asthma. If you want to contact the AAAAI in a less cyber-like way, they can be reached in Schaumburg, Illinois at (847) 427-1200.
3) There are 16 practical, well selected and written titles on Childhood Asthma from the National Technical Information Service. They would be helpful for patients and practitioners alike. Visit them at http://www.ntis.gov/health/3he61941.htm.
4) The motherlode of asthma lists is Smith's List at http://www.web-it-intl.com/~rcp/asthma.htm. The range of subjects (from listserv entries to news items, to clinical articles) is alphabetical, and enormous- though there's no annotation or selection. If time is of no concern, it's a good place to browse. Many of Smith's sites are represented there.


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Fomalhaut b 2012
Fomalhaut b
25 light-years (8 parsecs)
This image was created from HST data from proposals 10390, 10598, 11818, and 12576; PI: P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley).
The science team includes: P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.), J. Graham (University of California, Berkeley and University of Toronto), M. Fitzgerald (UCLA), and M. Clampin (NASA/GSFC).
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the STIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. This image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of reddish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly varying brightness in an image.
Red: STIS/CCD
NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley)


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