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Three men wearing latex gloves, two in hooded sweat shirts, fired at least 16 shots as Rashaw Scott sat in the driver's seat of a parked red Chevrolet — his 16-month-old son, Carter, was in the back passenger seat — in what police say was a targeted shooting that left the child dead.
Scott, 22, of Harlem Park, described the scene inside the Cherrydale Apartments complex in South Baltimore to police before he was admitted to surgery, according to an arrest warrant obtained Sunday. Scott, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the shooting Friday, was listed in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Sunday.
Carter was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his leg. The child was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour after the shooting.
City leaders and neighbors expressed outrage at the shooting, with a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake calling it "senseless and cowardly."
Police arrested a suspect, 20-year-old Eddie Tarver, of the 200 block of Cherry Hill Road. He was charged with first- and second-degree murder and related charges. A preliminary hearing in Baltimore District Court is scheduled for June 21. No attorney for Tarver is listed in online court records.
A former teammate and coaches who know Tarver saw his booking photo and confirmed Tarver had been a standout shooting guard on the St. Frances Academy basketball team.
A search for the other suspects continued over the holiday weekend.
Across the street from Scott's rowhouse in the 1000 block of Edmondson Avenue on Sunday, neighbor Tierra Wilson stood outside her front stoop, wrapping sheets of aluminum foil around a grill rack for a barbecue dinner. On a normal spring night, Wilson said, the Scott family, who lived as multiple generations under one roof, would be spending time outdoors.
Wilson said the child's death was heartbreaking, but not shocking in a city with such a notoriously high crime rate. Wilson said she and her wife want to move their family outside the city.
"A bullet has no one's name on it," Wilson said.
Police did not release information on a possible motive in the shooting. Shortly before 7:30 p.m. Friday, an officer patrolling the area in an unmarked car heard a gunshot and soon found a male, dressed in a brown hoodie, firing into the front of the parked Chevy, according to the warrant. A second male, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, was firing into the driver's-side window.
The suspects ran north through the parking lot of the apartment complex and toward a tree-lined fence, the warrant said. Officers attempted to cut off their escape route, and the suspects turned around to run back toward the parking lot.
Tarver ran south in the 2500 block of Giles Road, where he opened the front passenger-side door of a gray Toyota Solara, which was left running, according to the warrant.
As officers closed in on him, the document said, Tarver slid into the driver's seat and drove toward Cherry Hill Road.
From there, police, aided by a helicopter, followed the Toyota until Tarver's car hit a parked car in the 2700 block of Winchester Avenue, approximately six miles from the scene of the shooting. At that point, police apprehended Tarver, who was wearing a gray long-sleeved hoodie and one latex glove, the warrant said.
Scott told police from the hospital that a male wearing a gray hoodie was one of the three shooters, according to the warrant. Police have said they believe the shooting was not random.
Tarver's mother, Tonya Gettis, said Sunday that she was still trying to understand what happened.
"I'm not sure what's going on," she said when reached by phone. "I know my son's not a murderer."
Gettis said she did not know Rashaw Scott or how her son might have known him.
"My heart goes out to the family," she said. "It's not to say my son did it. As a human, I can't help but feel for the family. ... It's a lot to digest."
Wayne Sparrow, who played basketball with Tarver at St. Frances, described Tarver as "playful" — not the type of person to be involved in the crime police described.
"This is quite shocking to me," said Sparrow, 21. "Eddie was so calm and so mellow around people. He never had a grudge or anything."
Tarver played through his senior year at the independent Catholic high school in East Baltimore's Johnston Square neighborhood in 2011.
Tarver pleaded guilty in September 2011 to possession of a stolen handgun and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, online court records show. He also faces drug possession charges in Baltimore Circuit Court and first- and second-degree assault from a Jan. 21 incident in Washington County.
Court records show that Scott, the victim, also known as Davon Greene, was charged in July 2011 with a killing that occurred March 29, 2011. Scott was charged with first- and second-degree murder and related counts and was acquitted of all charges by a jury in late October.
A woman who answered the door at Scott's house Sunday declined to comment.
Less than a block from Scott's house, churchgoers from Solid Rock Apostolic Faith Church were gathered, after a service, on the sidewalk where young boys — wearing pressed shirts and slacks and dress shoes — raced one another up and down the street.
James Ellis, and his wife, Diana, of Pikesville, said Baltimore violence needs a solution: City neighborhoods need more police on foot patrols, more security cameras and more recreation centers for children to play. But more than that, James Ellis said, community members must be invested in programs that can have a positive impact on young people and their families.
"It's a lack of hope; they don't see a vision for their future," Ellis said. "What they see is right there before them. They need to see opportunity."
Said Diana Ellis, "There are lives ending early every day, either by death or jail."
At their church, Monica Bland runs a program, Advancing Minds Striving for Success, where children and teens grow flowers and vegetables. Together, they plant the seeds in a garden next to the church. Then, they harvest them.
"People must become stakeholders in their community," said Bland, of the Evergreen neighborhood.
The Rev. Barbara A. Abraham of Solid Rock said Friday's shooting is "very disturbing."
"Our young people need guidance," she said. "They need somewhere where they can get some hope."
Baltimore Sun reporters Matt Bracken and Ian Duncan contributed to this article.


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The Loyola University New Orleans Film Buffs Institute will screen for the first time in the Southern U.S.—and only the second time in the U.S. since the New York City Film Festival—the epic Hungarian animated feature film, "The Tragedy of Man," Friday, April 19. The free, public screening is set for 7 p.m. in Bobet Hall, room 332 on Loyola's main campus.
The screening features a special video introduction of director Marcell Jankovics explaining his animated epic that spent more than 20 years in production. The New Orleans Film Society will co-present the event, which includes complimentary popcorn. Free parking is also available in the West Road Garage, accessible from St. Charles Avenue.
The animated film is an adaptation of Hungary's best-known drama, a play by Imre Madách of the same title. The movie follows the same grand storyline with Adam, Eve and Lucifer visiting the globe's great civilizations during their finest hours and then witnessing the downfall of humanity.
Jankovics—often referred to as "the Hungarian Walt Disney"—included 15 sections in his film, each animated in a different style. The sections take the viewer from the dawn of creation to 17th-century Prague and beyond.
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This year's lecturers: Chaitan Khosla, Brian Stoltz, Christopher Walsh, Makoto Fujita
Dr. and Mrs. Brown are the founders of the Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry. Dr. Brown is best known for his research on the role of boron in organic chemistry and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979.
Herbert C. Brown was born in London in 1912, but was brought to the U.S. at an early age and received his education in Chicago, where he met Sarah Baylen (b. January 10, 1916), his wife of more than 68 years. In 1943 he went to Wayne University (Assistant Professor, 1943-1946; Associate Professor, 1946-1947) and in 1947 he moved to Purdue University. He remained on the faculty at Purdue University until his retirement in 1979 and remained research active until his death on December 19, 2004. Sarah Brown passed away on May 29, 2005.
Dr. Brown received 14 Honorary Doctorates. He also published seven books and 1,266 scientific publications. He won the majority of major awards in his field, including the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979, the ACS Award for Creative Research in Organic Chemistry (I960), the National Medal of Science (1969), the Roger Adams Award (1971), the Priestley Medal (1981), the Perkin Medal (1982), the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal Award (1985), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences (1987), the Emperor's Decoration (Japan): Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (1989), Honorary Scholar of the University of Wales, Swansea (1994). In 1998 he was the inaugural winner of the ACS Herbert C. Brown Medal and Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. He was named "One of the Top 75 Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise in the Past 75 Years," C&E News (1998).
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I had an ungrateful kind of day earlier this week, the sort of day where I'm too impatient and headachey to see the gems in the coal. The kid took a long nap and I should have been glad to have time to myself. I should have been glad that she would wake up happy and refreshed. Instead I had a little sulk, because I wanted to go out. It was in that unreasonable mood that I decided to use the time to do some reading on Our Roots, and try to dig up more on the Lloyds and Dunns from Pioneer Ways To Modern Days.
A browse through the School Districts chapter dropped this picture of children at the Moose Range school in 1917 in my lap:
I admit that my first feeling was disappointment. Oh, it's just Ena and Bill Lloyd. Why isn't Illa in the picture? How come I can never find anything out about Illa? I don't even have a picture of her! Why isn't anything about my direct ancestors digitized?
I took a break. After a bottle of Mexican Pepsi (do I ever love that stuff!) my headache was gone and I realized what a wretch I'd been. Sure, it would have been exciting to see a photo of Illa. But there were little clues I could tuck away for later. The Meachem kid? Yes! The Meachems were close to the Ralph family. Ena and Illa both married Ralphs, but I wasn't sure if they both married into the same Ralph family. If the Lloyds knew Meachems, it seems more likely.
I am very grateful for every scrap regarding my family connections that is digitized. If there weren't scanned certificates and transcribed indexes online, I probably never would have started seriously mapping my family. Nearly every hobby and interest I have has to fit into my sleepless lifestyle, where I feel restless late at night and need something to do. I love that I can just go online to make lists of the tiniest slivers of hints to track down microfiche to confirm things that haven't yet seen the light of the Internet. I love that without a repository of unusual Canadian books readily available to me from nearly anywhere, I could have pulled my hair out trying to hunt anyone who knew anything about Moose Range, Saskatchewan.


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ATASCADERO, California – In Monterey County Jail, in the spring of 1981, a 21-year-old drug dealer and junkie named Toby Govea lay in bed shaking violently and uncontrollably. Thanks to a bad batch of homemade heroin, Govea had developed symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, an incurable neurological illness that causes muscle rigidity, tremors and eventually loss of movement.
Today, Govea remains incarcerated – but free of tremors, thanks to a treatment made possible by research on the prisoner's own brain.
The treatment, called deep brain stimulation, has become the leading surgical treatment for Parkinson's, which afflicts 1.5 million Americans. It has been performed on more than 20,000 patients in the past decade.
In July of this year at the Atascadero State Hospital in California, Govea was lucid, and his muscles were still, as he recalled the events that made him a human guinea pig who helped develop a treatment for his own illness.
Govea used a drug he thought was heroin in late 1980. An acquaintance of his father's from Texas had come to their house in Salinas with a briefcase full it. "He didn't say 'This is pure stuff,' or 'This is from Mexico,' like the other connections.... I remember him saying, 'This is homemade,' or something."
He had learned drug use from his family as a kid, experimenting with cocaine, PCP and other drugs before becoming a heroin addict. But even a seasoned drug user like Govea couldn't tell the Texan's drug was not heroin at all, but the result of a botched attempt at making it. The creation was a synthetic narcotic composed almost entirely of 1-methyl 4-phenyl 1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine, or MPTP. Typically, it's a discarded byproduct of heroin synthesis.
Several members of Govea's family, including his father and stepsister, crowded into a bedroom to try it. Despite an initial burning sensation in his veins when injecting it, Govea remembers feeling the familiar rush of heroin. The man offered him an ounce to distribute, and Govea agreed.
Then Govea made the biggest mistake of his life: He began using his product. During the second week of shooting, up his limbs began to shake, one after another. "This leg, then this arm, then this leg," Govea said. "Then I shot some more and this arm started." In less than two weeks he had given himself symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease. Shortly after that, he was arrested for petty theft and sent to Monterey County Jail.
When he was released, his mother took him to several doctors who were baffled by his case. They diagnosed Govea with an unusual form of Parkinson's disease, but they did not know, because he would not tell them, that his shaking had begun after dosing repeatedly with the Texan's phony heroin.
Finally, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center doctors recognized his symptoms. They had seen a handful of similar cases, all caused by accidental dosing with MPTP. By figuring out that heroin use was the one thing Govea had in common with the other patients, the doctors linked his condition with intravenous MPTP injection.
The knowledge opened a window to the inner workings of Parkinson's disease that changed the prospects of people suffering from it – including Govea – overnight. The Santa Clara doctors published their research in the journal Science. (Disclosure: The author's father, J. William Langston, was one of the authors. He also co-authored a book in 1995: The Case of the Frozen Addicts.)
What MPTP did to Govea's brain is very similar to what happens in the brain of a person with Parkinson's disease. The chemical had eaten away the normal, dark-colored cells in a small area at the base of the brain called the substantia nigra (Latin for "black stuff") – which is also damaged by Parkinson's disease.
These cells normally produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that allows brain cells to communicate with one another. Their dead area in Govea's brain resulted in the abrupt onset of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease: slowness, rigidity and tremor. Technically, however, Govea does not have Parkinson's disease: The cause of his condition is known, unlike that of Parkinson's. His case is extraordinary precisely for this reason.
To researchers, a chemical that essentially induces Parkinson's is like a golden egg: rarely discovered and very valuable. Researchers could suddenly create an animal model of the disease, which provided unprecedented insights into new treatments. Deep brain stimulation eventually evolved out of the physiological and neuroanatomical understanding derived from studies performed with MPTP in animals.
But as the research was still ongoing, Govea's condition worsened. He became emaciated and unable to eat, drink or use the bathroom by himself. His mother had taken to feeding him through a straw. "I'm tired of shaking," he told her, "If I die, let me die."
In August of 1981, he found brief respite. He was treated with a drug called levadopa, and his symptoms virtually vanished. But the medication caused hallucinations and delusions – side effects worse than the symptoms it was meant to treat. Govea blamed the "voices in his head" in 1982 when he was nabbed for a bank robbery in Greenfield, California. Several customers had recognized him by his tremor. He spent the next decade in Vacaville State Prison.
In 1991, about 90 days after his release, he said he began hearing voices again. They told Govea to rob a liquor store at knifepoint, which he did. He was sent back to prison and in 1995 at Pelican Bay State Prison, he attacked a guard and was charged with attempted murder. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was sentenced to a minimum of 31 years at Atascadero State Hospital, a term he now serves.
"He did not do well when he first came," said David Curtis, his former social worker. He was extremely violent, assaulting patients and hospital employees. On top of that, by the late '90s another side effect of levadopa called dyskinesias, involuntary jerking and swaying movements, had become so bad that it occasionally cut off his breathing.
Some MPTP victims sent to Sweden for treatment with fetal cells had varying degrees of success (the subject of The Case of the Frozen Addicts), but Govea wasn't considered a good candidate for the experimental therapy because of his criminal status and other details of his case – a blessing in disguise, as it turned out.
In 2001, in a last-ditch effort to help Govea, the doctor assigned to the hospital's medical unit, Dr. Linda Kocsis, asked him if he would be willing to undergo an experimental procedure, called deep brain stimulation, to treat his tremor. Govea said she told him: "You'd be like a guinea pig."
When Govea underwent the procedure in 2003, a small hole was drilled in his skull, and an electrical wire – about the thickness of a strand of spaghetti – was inserted into a small area called the subthalamic nucleus, part of the complex basal-ganglia system associated with steady muscle control. The wire was then connected to a battery pack, which generates a pulsing electrical current. Doctors implanted the battery in his abdomen in a separate operation (it's now typically placed under the collar bone).
"It is the predominant way people get surgical treatment for P.D. these days," said Dr. Chad Christine, a neurologist at UCSF, who is lead author of a forthcoming study on the technique.
Steven Gulie receives deep brain stimulation, which he wrote about for Wired magazine. For more, visit wired.com/video. The electrical stimulation alleviates the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, though no one knows exactly how. The most basic answer is that deep brain stimulation is setting up an interference pattern for abnormal electrical activity in the brain. "Like a jamming mechanism," Christine said.
Electrical firing patterns are abnormal in patients with Parkinson's disease. The subthalamic nucleus is firing too frequently, and its pattern is erratic, causing the motor system to go on the fritz. Deep brain stimulation could either be interfering with this activity or, alternatively, "reasserting a more normal rhythm to this part of the brain ... a more normal firing pattern," Christine explained. Some scientists think the data indicate that its effects are even better than that. To meet Govea is to see why.
Four years after his surgery, Govea's symptoms are still under control. "Look at my hand," he said, holding it perfectly still. He takes his own pills now, and he can read the newspaper without tearing it apart. Deep brain stimulation has "just changed my whole life," he said.
That's the irony of Govea's story. Advancements in the understanding of Parkinson's disease were made possible by the discovery of MPTP, which was made possible by Govea's fateful dosing with the drug. It also led to the development of deep brain stimulation. In essence, Govea has received a treatment developed from research done with the very chemical that gave him the disease being treated.
Sometimes Govea still finds himself sitting on his hands, or walking with them pressed against his sides – reminders of a time when his shaking was uncontrollable. Govea is still incarcerated at Atascadero, but he is no longer plagued by the side effects of his medications or the symptoms of his disease. In that sense, at least, he is a little closer to being free.


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Coach Animosity of 1-and-Done Rule Forgets How It Was…Posted by rtmsf on June 22nd, 2010
We ran across an interesting article from Fanhouse's Brett McMurphy over the weekend that delved into the continuing discomfort that many college coaches have over the 1-and-done rule in light of an NBA Draft on Thursday night that will see anywhere from eight to ten freshmen selected among the lucky few. We understand their complaint. They want continuity in their programs. They want to be able to plan ahead without having to wonder each and every offseason who is staying and who is leaving. Most importantly, they want to be able to hang onto a stud for two or three seasons if it turns out he's first round material.
The ideal, as proposed by Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Villanova's Jay Wright, Notre Dame's Mike Brey and DePaul's Oliver Purnell in the article, is that the NBA would adopt the existing MLB model. If a player is good enough to go preps-to-pros, let him go; if he's not, then he will not be eligible for the draft again until three (or at worst, two) years later. Brey in particular echoed the popular cry amongst the coaching fraternity:
Let them go out after high school [to the NBA] if they're special and see if we can get at least two years out of them [in college]. I think the baseball rule is the best rule given that we are academic institutions. I don't know if we can get it to [three years in college], but could we at least get it to two years? And I think two years on a college campus is going to help 'em. He's going to get an education. But the really special ones, let 'em go after high school. Cut them lose. There's a handful of them. Let's at least get two years [before they leave for the NBA]. I'd love to get three years, but I don't think we can. But let's at least get two years.
This is the same kind of self-serving thinking (program continuity, fear of re-recruiting players, etc.) by coaches that inspired the NCAA to drastically reduce the amount of time that underclassmen had to "test the waters" this past May. The result was that 28% more early entries (50) jumped headfirst into the draft pool this year even though there was no corresponding increase in the number of draft spots (60) available. The problem is that if the NBA adopts a model similar to major league baseball (and there is no sign that Stern and company are even considering it), we're only trading one set of problems for another.
The coaches are forgetting how it was before the 1-and-done rule was instituted. From 2003-05 (the last three drafts prior to the rule going into effect), 23 high school seniors entered the NBA Draft directly out of the prep ranks. Some you may have heard of — Lebron James and Dwight Howard, for example — while others are vague memories in the mind's distant recesses — like James Lang and Jackie Butler. Even though they never made it on campus, most of these players were recruited to play college basketball somewhere. Resources were spent, trips were made, text messages were sent, and letters were delivered. And yet, even though the majority signed to play for coaches like Izzo, Wright, Brey and Purnell, by spring of their senior years they began to see dollar signs in their eyes and bailed on the notion of playing college basketball. Consider, by way of a few prominent examples:
2003: Travis Outlaw (Mississippi State); Ndubi Ebi (Arizona)
2004: Shaun Livingston (Duke); Josh Smith (Indiana); JR Smith (UNC)
2005: Martell Webster (Washington); Gerald Green (Oklahoma State); Louis Williams (Georgia)
Is that what the coaches want to go back to — spending 1-2 years recruiting star players and ultimately getting nothing but a thank-you call out of it as the players move on to NBA riches? By 2005, an average of eight prep-to-pro players were coming out each season. That was with no restriction on draft eligibility once you got to college — a fence-sitting player could still leave after one year of college if he chose to do so (see: Carmelo Anthony). What happens if the coaches get what they want and players are forced into choosing zero years or three years of college under the MLB model? Our best guess is that roughly the top twenty draft prospects would go into the draft each season and the coaches who recruited, caressed, and whispered sweet-nothings at them would be screaming bloody murder that something else needs to be done to protect their interests. And that doesn't even address what would happen to the quality of play of college basketball when the very best players are barely even first-round worthy.
Of course, none of this debate from the NCAA side matters a whit, because the NBA is going to do only what it thinks will help sell its product in the best possible way. And from our reading of the tea leaves with David Stern over the past five years, we think that if anything, he wants 1-and-done to become 2-and-done, which will have the corollary effect of giving the coaches more continuity anyway.


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The conventional wisdom in build systems is that GNU Autotools is the one true established standard and other ones are used only rarely.
But is this really true?
I created a script that downloads all original source packages from Ubuntu's main pool. If there were multple versions of the same project, only the newest was chosen. Then I created a second script that goes through those packages and checks what build system they actually use. Here's the breakdown:
CMake: 348 9% Autofoo: 1618 45% SCons: 10 0% Ant: 149 4% Maven: 41 1% Distutil: 313 8% Waf: 8 0% Perl: 341 9% Make(ish): 351 9% Customconf: 45 1% Unknown: 361 10%
Here Make(ish) means packages that don't have any other build system, but do have a makefile. This usually indicates building via custom makefiles. Correspondingly customconf is for projects that don't have any other build system, but have a configure file. This is usually a handwritten shell or Python file.
This data is skewed by the fact that the pool is just a jumble of packages. It would be interesting to run this analysis separately for precise, oneiric etc to see the progression over time. For truly interesting results you would run it against the whole of Debian.
The relative popularity of CMake and Autotools is roughly 20/80. This shows that Autotools is not the sole dominant player for C/C++ it once was. It's still far and away the most popular, though.
The unknown set contains stuff such as Rake builds. I simply did not have time to add them all. It also has a lot of fonts, which makes sense, since you don't really build those in the traditional sense.
The scripts can be downloaded here. A word of warning: to run the analysis you need to download 13 GB of source. Don't do it just for the heck of it. The parser script does not download anything, it just produces a list of urls. Download the packages with wget -i.
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Colorectal cancer is a malignant tumour that starts in cells of the colon or rectum. Malignant means it is a cancerous tumour that can spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body.
The colon and rectum are parts of the large intestine and the digestive system. The colon absorbs water and nutrients and passes waste (stool or feces) to the rectum. Colon and rectal cancers are grouped together as colorectal cancer because these organs are made of the same tissues and there isn't a clear border between them.
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Exposing packaged liquids, fruits and vegetables to an electrical field for just minutes might eliminate all traces of foodborne pathogens on those foods, according to a Purdue University study.
Kevin Keener, a professor of food science, looks for new ways to kill harmful bacteria, such as E.coli and Salmonella, that contaminate foods and cause serious illnesses and deaths. His method uses electricity to generate a plasma, or ionized gas, from atmospheric gases inside the food package.
This process creates a wide variety of bacteria-killing molecules including ozone, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen peroxide and others. These molecules only exist for a few hours and then revert back to the original atmospheric gas, leaving a bacteria-free product.
In findings published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, Keener and researchers at the Dublin Institute of Technology demonstrated that sealed-package atmospheric plasma works well to kill bacteria in growth media. Their experiments showed that bacteria on these surfaces were eliminated with 20 seconds of treatment and 24 hours of exposure to the gases it creates. Keener said the cost of the process should be comparable to current chemical and heat treatments used to sanitize foods.
"Even in the most resistant bacteria-growing media, 45 seconds of treatment gave us complete elimination of the E. coli," Keener said. "Under a microscope, we saw holes forming in the cell walls of the bacteria."
Adapting the technology for liquids could allow development of portable devices to clean drinking water in areas with contamination or that lack other purification methods. It could also allow food processors to bottle juices without first heating them, a process widely used to kill bacteria that can alter products.
"This could be developed to allow you to achieve something similar to pasteurization without the heat and quality changes that occur with that process," Keener said.
In Europe, especially, new methods are being sought as alternatives to washing foods in chlorine baths.
"Chlorine water works well on hard surfaces. But there can be issues if bacteria get inside organic matter on the produce, making chlorine ineffective," Keener said.
Keener is working with researchers at Dublin Institute of Technology, National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology at Dublin City University in Ireland, and Innovació i Recerca Industrial i Sostenible (IRIS) in Spain to develop a precommercial system for larger-scale decontamination testing. After that, he would like to build a commercial system that could be used in food-processing plants.
Future research will also consider how the process affects food quality.
The European Community's Seventh Framework program funded the research. These results are part of a larger EU project entitled SAFE-BAG. More information can be found at http://www.safebag-fp7.eu/
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Former WWE and NXT Diva Karlee "Maxine" Perez joined The Rack Thursday Night. In a nearly 30 minute interview she talked about what got her interested in professional wrestling, her studies in criminology, how she felt when she got the call to be on NXT, what her time in FCW was like, who were her favorite people to work with, what was the driving force behind her leaving, if WWE Creative was receptive to hearing her ideas, her thoughts about NXT and where it ranked with other WWE programming, the infamous wrestling wedding she was involved with on NXT, her role in the upcoming film "Then the Night Comes", what she sees her ideal film role as, who her dream opponent would have been and much more.
How she felt when she received word she would be part of NXT: "You know, I was trying not to have my expectations too high. I had been down in FCW for quite a while, the longest out of the group of girls that did, the first season we did of NXT and at that point in time my mind's eye I felt I was as ready as I could be although realizing I still had a lot more growing to do and learning but I was pumped about it. I really wanted to bring something different that they didn't have from the females, at least at that moment and that's kinda what I concentrated on with NXT."
What it was like coming through FCW: "FCW was a big eye-opener for me; it was an experience. You end up with a family because we are together all the time, non-stop, always. Training together, driving together, eating together, it's just everyone is in your business and it just becomes really like a family. And, at the same time, it's a family that we're pretty much told that we need to claw your way to the top against each other, and sometimes you just don't want to; sometimes you actually grow to like the people you're around and you're pretty much telling me there's only one spot and I have to backstab this person to get it? You know, there were people that stood by your side and there were people who would watch you fall or at least try to."
Who were her favorite people to work with: "You I had people. I got along with Naomi really, really well. Me and her were always buddy-buddy. Down there, there was always the same crew that would drive down to the shows together; I've got to think of their new names now, their new work names. We had Damien Sandow; he and I were real close. He's hilarious and awesome; I think he's doing great too. Also, Sheamus when he was down there; we used to drive to shows together. It's amazing to see the difference in how much people grow in that business still. I'm very happy for those, the one that did and made it and experience such a good quality like they have. "
On the WWE trying to get away from the "model" style performer and more towards the worker type girl and if she sees herself coming back because of that: "You know, it's a tough question because I personally, in my opinion, think that WWE needs to just appreciate the women more at the end of the day, whether it's a model type or not. If someone has talent or can bring something to the table then I think it should be looked at, not looked over. That's kind of the problem these days with… I'm thankful for the great opportunity with them; I wanted to move on, and pursue other things but I know there a lot of good talent around there; a lot of women would die to be in my position, I just don't want all them to get overlooked. So, everyone should at least have the chance, you know, model or not; if they think they can pull it off, then let them try it. If not, then move on. You just never know, right? I never knew, I never thought I would get to where I was so you just don't know."
What was the driving force behind leaving the WWE: "Over time, it just starts to wear on you. Obviously, it's a massive company and it becomes overwhelming when you're up there and you have a million things going on and a million people telling me that you should do this or that, or be like that or this and I felt, for myself, the way I was was good. It might not have been amazing, but it was good, it was different, and I was ok with that. I was comfortable in my own skin and I thought that came across but when I would get to the back I just felt like, probably like most people who have left the company, I didn't feel appreciated. It's not to bad mouth them or anything like that, I just felt I could bring more to the table then I was being allowed and I could just see the walls being built overtop of me each day and finally I just couldn't… it wasn't even planned. I was like 'I'm either doing it today or I'm not doing it.' So I just did it. You know, there's always this time when it's like "Oh, what if I would have stayed a little longer, maybe I would have gotten my chance, but you've got to stay with your gut and your instincts and my instincts told me that there were other opportunities for me in this world, and there would be other people to see what I have to offer and appreciate it.
"You know, if the time comes and if we ever cross paths again and me and WWE come to terms maybe it's something we can talk about. I didn't leave on a bad note, and from what I know, they're ok with me and I'm ok with them; I just wanted to try something else. I love what I did though. I love my fans, I love entertaining and being out there. I loved 'Maxine', I mean it was great. It was a good thing."
If she has any future projects coming up shortly: "Yeah, it's a suspense/horror film; I'm extremely lucky for the first film I landed a lead role, Julie is her name. The film is called 'Then the Night Comes' and we film in LA at the end of the year. Pretty much, a murder spree breaks out and the sheriff suspects me, Julie, that I'm the one causing all of this. My father was murdered and pretty much what happens throughout the whole town is that everyone one I come in contact with ends up dead or missing and they can't seem to find out who the killer is and discover what I'm hiding, so it's really a good suspense movie and it has a good cast too. My 'brother' is Massi Furlin, and he was actually just in 'The Dark Knight Rises', he was just in the recent Batman movie, he was in 'Sour Surfer'; he's done some good films. And Romane Simon, who is the director, has already directed over 26 feature films. My 'mother' is Patrika Darbo; she actually was in 'Mr and Mrs. Smith', 'Rango', 'Charlie Wilson's War'. I mean, it's a good cast; I'm extremely nervous but I'm very excited. I'm not going to lie; it's a whole gig for me than WWE. I wasn't expecting something like this to happen; this is what I wanted but you just don't know when or how it's going to happen and I'm very lucky that it did; that I'm getting the opportunity to at least do this and see what comes about."
The audio interview is available here.


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Visit Florida Welcome Center service staff employees visited Levy County and Cedar Key as part of a familiarization tour on Nov.1-2.
Seven women gathered Friday at the Cedar Key Arts Center to learn about traditional Florida pine needle basket making from instructor Diane Moore, of Lake Helen.
To celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week 2012, the Lower Suwannee NWR had several events throughout the week. The celebratory ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge classroom was anticlimactic compared to the exciting events for the remainder of the day.
Cedar Key was abuzz this past weekend as thousands of visitors flooded the island for its 43rd Annual Seafood Festival. Throngs of visitors dined on various seafood delicacies, enjoyed the town's colorful, lighthearted parade, visited the Seahorse Key light station and perused the many craft-filled tents lining the street. For more scenes from the festival, check the MULTIMEDIA portion of the Beacon homepage.
Tuesday, Oct. 16, is the deadline for work to be delivered to the Cedar Key Arts Center on Second Street for its upcoming show. The open media show will be the first community wide event of the season. Any media is accepted and prizes will be awarded.
There will be a Fall Festival in the Park brought to you by some of the Cedar Key area churches and businesses on Tuesday, Oct. 30, from 4-7 p.m. Fun in the form of candy, games, prizes and food (hot dogs, drinks and chips) will be provided. Costumes are not required for children to attend the event, but, if worn, they should not be scary nor should they be suggestive.
Covering about 70 percent of the world, water plays a critical role in life.
Oct. 13-14
Karen Pinkston leaned over the cracked slab and brushed away the dirt and grime of a century of neglect. The name of a young girl cast into the homemade stone, Missouri, was barely made visible.
Beth Davis may be retiring from the Levy County School Board in November to make way for "new blood" but she is not slowing down.
Tony's Three-Time World Champion Clam Chowder launched into the food service industry on Friday, Aug 10, at the Florida Food Service annual summer Food Show in St. Augustine.
Tony's Chowder is now available in cases of six 51 oz. cans, and is being distributed by Florida Food Service, Inc. and City Line Distributors in New England.
Tony's Chowder fans can also order a case for themselves at www.tonyschowder.com.
Back on the farm at Twentymile Bend things had settled down after a brush by a tropical wave that dumped 12 inches of rain on top of us.
But my father, as usual, was thinking up ways to keep my brother Jerry and me busy. We were dreading what he might come up with next, because on a farm there were so many dirty jobs available.
I had spent one summer building fence and didn't want to have that ever again.
Troy Chancey knows there's no place like home.
After a year of being shot at and interrogating enemy combatants in Afghanistan, the 22-year-old Army specialist admits being back in the relatively slow pace of Chiefland is a little strange. But life in the states is something he looks forward to getting used to again.
"I wanna' do a lot of the things I missed out on," Chancey said Friday from the home of his grandparents Janice and Buster.
Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge hosted its summer open house of Cedar Keys Light Station celebrating the 158th anniversary last Saturday.
The Refuge partnered with Cedar Key Historical Society and Levy County Historical Society in order to bring historians and ambience to the significant historical site managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Refuges are places where the people of today can renew the ties to their cultural heritage by viewing ancient & historic sites," reads the "Promise" document of 1996.
About a dozen children, with parents in tow, showed up at the Cedar Key Public Library Friday afternoon to watch Geddy the Gecko perform.
Geddy and the children danced, listened to short stories and songs about several South American countries. About halfway through the program, Geddy transformed into a larger, puffed up version of himself who promptly moved into a break dance routine that culminated with the oversized reptile spinning on his head.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Saturday to Serve as Final Race Day Before Dubai World Cup
The Dubai World Cup Carnival will offer its final racemeeting before the much anticipated Dubai World Cup on March 31 as six races are scheduled to get underway at 4:30pm.
All the races that day will be held on the all-weather surface on a racecard to be sponsored by Gulf News, a pillar partner of the Meydan Group.
Duleep George, Executive Director Marketing & Sales, Gulf News said, "We are looking forward to our sponsored Race Meeting on Saturday, especially as this is a warm up to the Dubai World Cup on the 31st March. Gulf News is proud to be Pillar Partner with the Meydan Group and we are looking forward to an exciting card on the 17th".
Saturday will be the final day for racegoers to purchase their general admission tickets for the Dubai World Cup, AED 25, at the Ticket Office located outside the admission area of Gate B.
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Does anyone play these? I just picked up Sunless Sea on Steam yesterday and I'm officially hooked. It's a roguelike, RPG-ish game set in a strange, underground sea setting where London has apparently "fallen" under the surface somehow (stolen by bats is the explanation given by the game).
Atmosphere is like a weird blend of quirky, oddball humor and Lovecraftian nightmare. Apparently, in this underground sea no one really dies of old age, they just turn into mummies (seriously). At the very beginning I was asked by one of these people to take him/her to a place called Venderbight, where they go to...well, not die, but slowly stop living as much.
But then once I got there, they wanted me to bring them 10 casks of wine so they could have a party.
You play as a zee-captain (sea is always 'zee' in-game) and you can recruit crew, explore and, frequently, die. If you do well enough, you can pass on some of your experience and equipment to your next captain. Money is earned sometimes by trading, but more frequently by amassing secrets through exploration and gathering information. Stories and reports of what you have seen and heard are more the mechanism of trade and acquisition than items, resources, etc.
Combat occurs when you encounter sea monsters and pirate ships. You are encouraged - pushed, even - to explore, and the map rearranges partially whenever you have a captain die. However you have only limited resources for fuel and food, so it makes a nice, tense balance.
Fallen London is a text-based, browser game set in the same universe, and is not confined to sailing the undersea ('unterzee'). I've only just started it. As an example of the flavor of the games, though, here is the text for the third option when you are choosing your character's gender:
"My dear sir, there are individuals roaming the streets of Fallen London at this very moment with the faces of squid! Squid! Do you ask them their gender? And yet you waste our time asking me trifling and impertinent questions about mine? It is my own business, sir, and I bid you good day."
Highly recommend both. Just wonderfully, subversively funny, terrifying, imaginative and weird.


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Monday, April 16, 2007
Updates 2012: Stefan's "vignette" on casks
Updates: What does the future hold for Karuizawa? And Kirin and Suntory in merger talks. And Strike Karuizawa from your tour plans and No.1 acquires all the stock
The town of Karuizawa is a well known tourist spot. High in the Japanese Alps, it is traditionally a place for sweating inhabitants of the Tokyo plain to come for a bit of relief in summer. In fact, the current Emperor met his wife on a trip to Karuizawa. The Karuizawa distillery, in a populated area to the West of the main part of Karuizawa, sits somewhat insecurely on the southern slopes of Mount Asama, the island of Honshu's most active volcano. The mountain has erupted 152 times, most recently in 2004. Karuizawa malts have a reputation of being a bit on the aggressive side too.
The DistilleryThe Karuizawa site, previously a vineyard, first started distilling in 1956 and became one of three distilleries owned by the Mercian company . Mercian used to blend all Karuizawa's malts with products from its other distilleries but from about 1987 it began producing single malts from here. They built up a good reputation. Karuizawa has four stills and takes its water from a spring under Mount Asama. It uses Golden Promise malt shipped from Simpson's of Berwick. Much of its whisky is matured in Sherry casks. The distillery's ivy covered buildings are quite picturesque and Mercian capitalise on this with a museum, visitor centre and restaurant on the site.
In 2006/7 Mercian was taken over the Kirin conglomerate, which has retained the Mercian name as a subdivision of its massive alcohol business. It is as yet unclear how the takeover will effect the Karuizawa whisky line. Kirin also own the Fuji Gotemba single brands (and a number of other cheaper whisky brands) and the takeover of Mercian has made them a significant force in whisky. The Mercian acquisition may not have been motivated by a drive to expand their whisky business, however. The conglomerate has subsequently made Mercian the centre of its wine division but transferred the sales side of the Karuizawa whisky brand to its Kirin offices. I have been asked whether the merger might also effect Karuizawa production, with perhaps fewer bottlings or (horror of horrors) a halt in production. I published this post explaining my current understanding of the situation.
Karuizawa in Japanese characters
In computer text, in case you want to search for Karuizawa on the Japanese internet: 軽井沢 (Karuizawa) ウィスキー (whisky). (Can`t see it?)
Single malts from Karuizawa
See the side bar.
LocationView location on map of Japan's single malt distilleries. (If you download Google Earth and click on the "KML" button above this map you can see the topography in 3D!)
Good visitor facilities. Not sure whether there is a distillery tour.
Karuizawa Distillery,
1795-2 Oaza Maseguchi,
Tel. 0267-320-0288
Fax 0267-32-0289
Address in Japanese:
軽井沢蒸留所 〒389-0207 長野県北佐久郡御代田町大字馬瀬口1795-2
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I'm visiting Japan this week and would love to visit this distillery althogh I'm trying to call them to book an appoinment I couldn't reach them. And wondering if is it possible to visit on Sunday?
Thanks for any help
- October 20, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Dear Erik
I am afraid the Karuizawa distillery is not very clear on its website about when exactly it is open. The webpage that is not very clear is here:
The distillery phone number is here:
But the phone number for booking a visit is:
The times and days when the distillery is open is not stated.
- October 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM
- buyo said...
I am pretty busy at the moment so I can't really go beyond the help I have given above this week. I will try to get some more information about visits to this distillery when I can, because the info in Japanese and English is clearly not good enough.
- October 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Drew said...
I have been recently hooked on Karuizawa (just got a hold of 1995 Noh bottling and am working my way through a 1992 bottling) and am hoping to visit the distillery during my August trip to Japan.
Anyone have any update on how accessible the distillery is, how the tours are, whether there is a shop, etc?
Thanks for a great blog.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM
Dear Drew
I am afraid to say that it is my understanding that the distillery is very hard to get into.
I really would not try to go there on spec. It is my understanding that they do not do tours. I have been trying to arrange a visit with Karuizawas management for months for my book and have not so far had any success.
If you do get any photographs of the distillery, even of the outside then I would beg you on my hands and knees for large format copies for use in my book.
Chris Bunting
- March 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I have just checked a bit more on this and I should say that Ulf Buxrud says that there is a shop and a visitor centre and that tours can be arranged on request. I do not know if that is currently accurate however and I really would recommend contacting the distillery if you do want to go. Again, if you do get in, please consider sending me some photos (please!)
- March 23, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- Drew said...
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the info. We are there for 11 days, so it's already going to be a stretch for me to convinced my girlfriend to go, but she would if we were assured we could get in, get a tour, etc. I speak not a word of Japanese but I will try calling the distillery in the coming weeks and see how successful that is. Will post back when I do.
Do you think this can be done as a day trip from Tokyo?
- March 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM
It could be done as a one day trip from Tokyo. Have you considered visiting the Suntory distillery Hakushu? I have just visited Yamazaki, which is near Kyoto, and they do a really decent tour etc.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM
hi there,
heard from a friend of mine (japanese) that the distillery is closed now. is this true ? any plans to re-open. sad if it's true, such good whiskies.
wolfgang / mannheim / germany
- March 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM
Sorry, I should have posted the updates on this page. Yes, the Karuizawa distillery is closed, for all intents and purposes. That does not, however, mean there is not a lot of exciting activity around its remaining stock. I understand agents in Europe and Taiwan are looking at new bottlings right now.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Girl Canvas
Well, I finally broke down and purchased PSE 10, mostly because hubby needs to do some offloading of the main computer and/or needs to add more memory to our hard drive and so it has become impossible to do anything on the main computer in PSE... so I downloaded it onto my little netbook! Now I never need to go into the office and I am just so thrilled to have the new and updated version. Having just given you a bit of info on the Pioneer Woman's actions, I cannot figure out yet how to download them into PSE 10 and so the photos above were edited the long handed version which I don't think I completed all the steps properly. It's kind of like using speed dial... if you use it... you forget the phone number when you don't have the speed dial!?! Anyone else have that problem?
Okay... well I'm hoping the -25C weather is just a figment of my imagination and that when I wake up tomorrow morning it will be like a sauna, well maybe not quite that hot but you know what I mean!
Oh, I manged to get the two Christmas trees up today... I know... it's a tad early, but now I'll have time to get the 8 dozen cookies started for my Cookie Exchange!
Alright, enough chitter chatter... bedtime!
Have a great week everyone :)
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It's 50 degrees warmer here now ... what a contrast!ReplyDelete
Ginger I love seeing all of your creative exploits - some of which I have no hope in ever contemplating and others I can entirely relate to! I edit in slow hand ... and, I really must get around to making some of my own actions because the editing is getting time consuming!
fabulous image - love the colours and energyReplyDelete
Ginger....I love this....and I never even realised you could buy face stencils!ReplyDelete
I edit in slow hand....I wouldn't have any idea how to do it any other way....and I'm not very good at it either!!
Your canvas looks gorgeous, lovely colours. I have a couple of those stencils, including the sequin waste, but neither of the faces.ReplyDelete
LOVE the canvas Ginger...and the fact that you have your Christmas trees up! I am seriously considering getting my DEPT 56 Christmas Village out..we are having unseasonably grey, miserable weather and I thinka bit of SAD is kicking in! Hope you've wakened up to slightly warmer weatherReplyDelete
Alison xx
A face stencil! How clever is that? I could "fake a face"! This style suits you so well - you always make something lovely.ReplyDelete
your canvas is fabulous. so creative and inspiring. as for your weather - can you send a bit of it over here!?! Can't wait for "real" winter weather to hit.ReplyDelete
Love your canvas! Where did you buy your stencils? I've never seen the face one!ReplyDelete
She looks vibrant and alert, this lovely face - like her creator, I suspect! I love your breadth of experimentation.ReplyDelete
Great canvas! These stencils are definitely going on my Christmas list. I had never heard of them before this weekend and now (all of sudden), I've run into a bunch of posts with them.ReplyDelete
It is a totally awesome idea!
wow fantastic canvas!! you are obviously very talented.ReplyDelete
LOVE your canvas! Absolutely gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Wow! This canvas is GORGEOUS!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTue Nov 22, 03:39:00 AM 2011
Love your canvas. I've never heard of those stencils. I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Hope your weather has improved to something more seasonable.ReplyDelete
wow from me too, I love this so much but like Amy it is something I could never do! -25C sounds more like a nightmare to me xReplyDelete
Hello Ginger! I was so happy to see you in class! I'm glad you love your canvas. Thanks for your sweet words.ReplyDelete
P.S. to all those gals asking about the face stencils, you can buy them online at our store if you're interested. here is the link to The Crafter's Workshop selections.
Ginger - that canvas is gorgeous! I love the colors you used. Wow, with these stencils, I might even be able to paint! :) (Not as good as you though!).ReplyDelete


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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal Media. The opinions expressed below are the author's own.
John Dillard grew up on a beef cattle farm and now works as an agricultural and environmental litigation attorney with OFW Law. His blog analyzes legal issues and court decisions that affect America's farmers and ranchers.
HSUS intends to use a federal lawsuit over horse slaughter as a vehicle to advance a novel legal argument that could burden all slaughter facilities with additional regulatory compliance costs. If HSUS is successful, then all animal slaughter plants would be subject to lengthy regulatory delays prior to commencing operations.
Horse slaughter, to be certain, is a contentious issue. The issue forces us to weigh our nation's collective emotional attachment to horses against the harsh reality of a need for an outlet to control the overpopulation of horses. Congress has wrestled with the issue as well. Horse slaughter was effectively banned from 2007 to 2011. Recognizing that the ban led to a dramatic increase in the number of American horses bound for Canadian and Mexican slaughter plants, Congress lifted the ban in 2011.
With no legal barriers to domestic horse slaughter, several facilities have requested USDA to provide inspectors, which will allow horse slaughter to commence. One such facility, Valley Meats Co., filed a lawsuit in a New Mexico federal court to compel USDA to provide inspectors for their facility. While much of the discussion of Valley Meats' suit has centered around the ethics of horse slaughter, HSUS has raised an issue that may have an impact well beyond the slaughter of horses.
HSUS intervened in the suit to oppose Valley Meats' request to begin processing horses. In its complaint, HSUS argues that horse slaughter cannot commence until USDA considers the environmental impacts of its decision to allow Valley Meats to begin slaughtering horses. HSUS argues that USDA is required to take this action under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
NEPA is essentially a paperwork requirement. NEPA requires federal agencies to take a hard look at the environmental consequences of their projects before taking action. If the federal agency determines that its actions may affect the environment, then it must conduct what is known as an "Environmental Assessment" to determine whether a proposed action would have a significant impact on the environment. If a significant effect is found, then the agency must then conduct an Environmental Impact Study, which details potential environmental effects. The Environmental Assessment and the Environmental Impact Study are not slight endeavors. They take years to compile, cost millions of dollars, and the results can be contested in court after they completed.
HSUS contends that NEPA analysis should be conducted prior to the opening of horse slaughter at Valley Meats. Recent history suggests HSUS will file these same lawsuits at other horse slaughter facilities. In 2007, HSUS prevailed in such a lawsuit, HSUS v. Johanns, which held that USDA failed to comply with NEPA by not considering the environmental impacts of allowing horse slaughter facilities to pay USDA on a fee-for-service arrangement to inspect horses for slaughter.
If you are confused as to how a change in a payment arrangement for inspectors has an impact on our environment, you are not alone. The court's reasoning in Johanns is baffling. Nonetheless, HSUS used the courts and NEPA's paperwork mandate to bring about an end to domestic horse slaughter.
We cannot expect HSUS to limit its use of NEPA to barring horse slaughter. It will certainly use NEPA to stifle and delay openings of other slaughter plants, causing many operations to never come to fruition. The courts and Congress will do what it may with horse slaughter, but agriculture should certainly beware of HSUS and its use of NEPA as a sword against animal agriculture.
John Dillard is an attorney with Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz P.C. (OFW Law), a Washington, DC-based firm that serves agricultural clients and clients with issues before federal and state courts, EPA, FDA, USDA, and OSHA. John focuses his practice on agricultural and environmental law. He occasionally tweets at @DCAgLawyer.
I am perplexed as to why livestock producers - especially cattlemen - would ever support horse slaughter in this country.
Did you miss the recent scandal in the EU? Horse meat was being fraudulently passed off as beef. Not only did that depress beef sales in and of itself, but following the scandal, frozen burger sales in the U.K. dropped by 43 percent.
Is that what cattle producers want in this country? To have their products tainted by horse meat, which is known to contain drugs banned from the food chain? Or better yet, do producers want horse meat to displace beef in ground meat products?
Scratching my head on this one.
Depending on your roots in life, will depend on the most popular as far as meat consumption. I do know that there are too many horses not to have a slaughter plant, old, injured and such. Export of meat, pet foods all viable.


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