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Kids have food allergies? Be extra careful
Most children can't wait to dig into the treats of Halloween. Anxious kids can hardly wait for October's end so that they can dress up in their favorite costume and go door-to-door collecting tasty candies and goodies.
But for the more than 3 million American children with food allergies, the treats can be the trickiest of all. Just one bite of some types of candy can be life-threatening. Ghost and goblins are not as scary to a child with food allergy as is a hidden peanut, milk in a candy product, or all sorts of treats without ingredient labels, according to the Food Allergy <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>& Anaphylaxis Network./pp/pAbout 100 Americans, usually children, die each year from food-induced allergic reaction, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases./pp/pDenise Bunning of Chicago has two children with severe food allergies. Her son Bryan was rushed to the hospital one year after eating a single gummy worm, reported WMAQ-TV in Chicago./pp"The bulk container had previously contained a chocolate nut, so just the residue on the gummy worm was enough to cause my child to have an anaphylactic reaction," Bunning said./ppExperts say eight foods are the most common food-allergy culprits: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat./ppParents of food-allergic children must read every candy label in their child's Halloween bag to ensure their child's safety./pp"The allergy community continues to work with the Food and Drug Administration to improve product labeling," said Dr. Rebecca Gruchalla, chief of allergy at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. "However, while labeling is getting better, peanut allergen-contamination of nonpeanut containing foods is still a possibility."/ppGruchalla recommends that peanut- and other food-sensitive holiday revelers avoid homemade snacks and stick to hard candy and well-known treats that don't list peanut products among the ingredients. Also, do some research before eating off-brand foods or fun-size candy without an ingredient list./pp"I always have a rule of three," Bunning said. "I read it at the grocery store, I read it when I put it away, and I read it when I feed it."/ppExperts say most children outgrow milk, egg, and wheat allergies, but sensitivity to tree nuts or shellfish may be a lifelong issue./p

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Microsoft has warned that a Gadgets feature included in Vista and later versions of Windows could allow attackers to hijack end-user machines and has taken the unusual step of issuing a temporary update that allows it to be completely disabled.
"An attacker who successfully exploited a Gadget vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user," company officials said in an advisory issued Tuesday. "If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system." To be successful, they added, "An attacker would have to convince a user to install and enable a vulnerable Gadget."
Microsoft added the Gadgets feature and an accompanying Sidebar to Windows Vista in hopes of matching the success Apple had with a similar feature called Dashboard, which is included in Mac OS X. It allows end users to add clocks, stock tickers, and other small apps to their desktops. A few weeks ago, Microsoft pulled the plug on its official Gadgets gallery. The page now includes a warning that says, "Gadgets installed from untrusted sources can harm your computer and can access your computer's files, show you objectionable content, or change their behavior at any time."
An accompanying Fix-it, which users are free to use or ignore, is described as a "workaround" and completely disables the Windows Sidebar and Gadgets.
Microsoft didn't elaborate on the vulnerability or its long-term plans for Gadgets. Tuesday's advisory thanked "Mickey Shkatov and Toby Kohlenberg for working with us on Gadget vulnerabilities." The researchers are scheduled to deliver a presentation on July 26 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas titled "We Have You by the Gadgets."


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Soybeans, Grains Close Higher After WASDE Report
Soybeans and corn closed higher Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture unexpectedly lowered its forecast for production in a report yesterday. Wheat also jumped.
Bean output in the 2018-2019 marketing year that started on September 1 was pegged by the USDA at 4.69 million bushels in the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. That's down from 4.693 billion bushels forecast last month and well below expectations.
Yield is seen lower at 88.3 bushels an acre, down from the month-earlier projection of 88.9 bushels, the USDA said. The government's ending stockpiles estimate was raised to 885 million bushels from 845 million, but that's still below analyst estimates.
Corn production forecasts were also lowered by the USDA to 14.778 billion bushels from 14.827 billion a month ago. Yield is now seen at 180.7 bushels an acre, down from 181.3 bushels. The agency's inventories estimate was raised to 1.813 billion bushels from 1.774 billion a month earlier, but that's also still below expectations.
Soybeans for November delivery rose 7¼¢ to $8.65½ a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. Soy meal futures fell 60¢ to $316.20 a short ton, and soy oil added 0.34¢ to 29.36¢ a pound.
Corn for December delivery gained 3¾¢ to $3.73 a bushel.
Wheat futures surged on Friday, partly because the USDA lowered its outlook for global crops. World production is now pegged at 730.9 million metric tons, down from the September outlook for 733 million. While U.S. output was forecast higher, Australian-crop estimates were lowered by 1.5 million tons to 18.5 million and Russia's fell by a million tons to 70 million.
Global ending stocks were pegged at 260.2 million tons, down from 261.3 million a month earlier.
Wheat for December delivery rose 8¼¢ to $5.16¼ a bushel, while Kansas City futures gained 8¼¢ to $5.16¼ a bushel.
Thursday's Market Report
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday unexpectedly lowered its forecast for corn and soybean production in the 2018-2019 marketing year that started on September 1.
Corn output is now pegged at 14.778 billion bushels this year, down from 14.827 billion forecast a month ago. Yield projections also were lower at 180.7 bushels an acre, down from 181.3 bushels seen in September.
Analysts had expected an increase in production from14.851 billion to 14.859 billion bushels. Yield projections ranged from 181.3 to 181.8 bushels an acre. Harvested acres were left unchanged at 181.8 bushels an acre, the USDA said, as expected.
Stockpiles at the end of the marketing year on August 31 are now seen at 1.813 billion bushels, up from last month's outlook for 1.774 billion, but still well below forecasts for 1.913 billion to 1.919 billion bushels.
Brian Grossman, a marketing strategist with Zaner Ag Hedge in Chicago, told agriculture.com that the decline in yield indicates ear counts are down, likely due to the extremely wet weather the past month.
"I'm not surprised they lowered the yield given the maturity of the crop," he said. "I thought they'd follow through with their historical pattern and increase (production and yield), but the maturity was the wild card, and that's what came back and bit us."
December corn added 6¢ to $3.68¾ a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade after the report.
Soybean production is now pegged at 4.69 billion bushels, also surprisingly lower. Analysts had forecast output in a range from 4.722 billion to 4.733 billion bushels after September's projection of 4.693 billion bushels. Yields are expected to be 53.1 bushels an acre, topping last month's 52.8 bushel projection, but still below the 53.3 to 53.4 bushels an acre forecast by analysts.
Inventories at the end of the 2018-2019 marketing year are expected by the government to be about 885 million bushels, the USDA said, up from the September forecast of 845 million and within the range of forecasts from 860 million to 905 million.
"Soybeans have a heck of a weather story on their hands," Grossman said. "The amount of crop damage we're finding out there, the USDA is going to have to take note of that, but the market isn't going to pay attention until USDA does."
Soybeans for November delivery added 6½¢ to $8.58¾ a bushel after the report. Soymeal was up $1.30 to $317 a short ton, and soy oil added 0.09¢ to 29.02¢ a pound.
Wheat stockpiles, meanwhile, likely will come in at 956 million bushels at the end of the grain's marketing year on May 31. That's up from last month's outlook for 935 million and analysts' expectations for 950 million, the USDA said.
Wheat for December delivery fell 3¼¢ to $5.07¼ a bushel, and Kansas City futures lost 3½¢ to $5.12¾ a bushel.


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There's a great deal to admire about Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner who was shot to death on December 9, 1981. Less than six months later she bravely sat through the entire trial that concluded with Mumia Abu-Jamal's conviction for first-degree murder and a sentence of death. Over the next 25 years, while Abu-Jamal was becoming the Alpha symbol of the anti-death penalty crusade, Maureen Faulkner became its Omega.
As the "Free Mumia" movement began to take hold in the early 1990s, Mrs. Faulkner, now living in Southern California, felt repulsion. When the Yale Law Journal published an essay by Abu-Jamal in 1991 entitled, "Teetering on the Brink: Between Life and Death," she reacted as she would time and time again over the ensuing years by contacting the person responsible for the favorable treatment of Abu-Jamal. In this case, it was Yale editor Robert Gulack. When Gulack offered to publish an essay of hers, she told him "I wasn't asking for equal space. The point was that he was publishing the work of a murderer."
What really galled her was the short bio of Abu-Jamal that ran with the essay. In detailing a number of his accomplishments, casting aspersions on the fairness of his trial, and noting the national and international support galvanizing around his case, the bio failed to make "any mention of the man murdered by Mumia Abu-Jamal, my husband, Danny Faulkner," Mrs. Faulkner writes in her recently released book Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice. (Michael A. Smerconish, a Philadelphia talk-show host and newspaper columnist, was her co-author.) Ironically, her own book's title is guilty of the same omission.
The next year it was National Public Radio offering Abu-Jamal a commentator slot on its evening broadcast, "All Things Considered," to report periodically on prison conditions, agreeing to pay him its standard rate of $150 per segment. Mrs. Faulkner swung into action, writing letters to major NPR contributors. On the day the first segment was to air, "All Things Considered" producer Ellen Weiss called Mrs. Faulkner and told her all Abu-Jamal commentaries had been cancelled, saying to her, "You got your wish."
The day in 1995 that Addison-Wesley released Abu-Jamal's first book, Live From Death Row, Mrs. Faulkner hired a small plane to circle its Massachusetts headquarters during morning and evening rush hour and at noon with a banner trailing it that read, "Addison-Wesley Supports Cop Killer."
Mrs. Faulkner, 25 when her husband was killed, has been in a melodrama since, crisscrossing the United States to press for Abu-Jamal's execution. At one point she references an Op-Ed piece that E. L. Doctorow wrote for The New York Times in mid 1995 that ended with this question: "Will the pain of Officer Faulkner's widow, who supports Mr. Jamal's execution, be resolved if it turns out that the wrong man has been executed and her husband's killer still walks the street?" At the end of the book, she inadvertently gets around to answering this haunting question by recalling her response to another question at a news conference. "After the press conference, I walked away feeling uplifted by the fact that I had not only expressed my desire to see Jamal executed, but that I had a chance to explain why I felt that way. I also felt good about expressing my feelings, as a survivor, about capital punishment and why my family and I need to see Jamal executed."
Readers who come to this book looking for an enlightened assessment of the most controversial death-row case in recent memory will not find it here. The book is a polemic from beginning to end, laced with the pain Mrs. Faulkner has suffered and the vitriol she has amassed for Abu-Jamal. She truly loathes Abu-Jamal, referring to him variously as "a latter-day Charles Manson," "this evil man," and "such vermin." Her term for those who support her archenemy is "Mumidiots." She reports that she resents and remembers every one of them.
Her obsessive hate for Abu-Jamal has blinded her to the prosecutorial misconduct and judicial bias that plagued his trial and justifiably fueled his rise to a world stage. The real villains in her life were the police and prosecutors who framed Abu-Jamal for Officer Faulkner's killing. They are ones, not the long drawn out appellate process that has kept Abu-Jamal alive, who have denied her the closure she was due more than twenty-five years ago.
To this day, Mrs. Faulkner remains adamantly oblivious to the constitutional legitimacy of the two defense claims argued on Abu-Jamal's behalf before a three-judge panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in May. The first is known as a Batson claim. At Abu-Jamal's trial, the prosecutor used 10 peremptory challenges to exclude otherwise qualified blacks from the jury, resulting in a jury of nine whites and three blacks. If the Third Circuit finds "an inference of discrimination" in the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges, a new trial would be ordered. The second claim is even more clear cut. During the prosecutor's summation to the jury during the guilt phase of the trial, he told the jurors that their verdict might not be final because there would be "appeal after appeal after appeal." If the Third Circuit finds that such comments lessened the jury's sense of responsibility for its verdict, a new trial would be ordered.
The Third Circuit is also weighing a prosecution claim to reinstate Abu-Jamal's death sentence. In 2001, a federal judge lifted it due to the trial judge's misleading oral and written instructions to the jury during the sentencing phase of the trial. The odds against the reinstatement are astronomical.
In all likelihood, the Third Circuit will order a new trial. It is difficult to imagine the Commonwealth actually retrying Abu-Jamal, but its vendetta against him is as visceral as Mrs. Faulkner's. Regardless, the possibility of Abu-Jamal being set free is high, as is the possibility of Mrs. Faulkner finally finding out not only who killed her husband, but the extraordinary corrupt lengths the Philadelphia police and D.A.'s Office used to pin the crime on Abu-Jamal. These revelations – instead of bringing her the closure she has so mightily fought for – will end up denying her the only closure she was duped into ever wanting: Abu-Jamal's execution.
J. Patrick O'Connor is the editor of Crime Magazine (www.crimemagazine.com). His book, The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, will be released by Lawrence Hill Books in May of 2008.


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Donna Miller was named Associate of the Quarter at Sturgis Hospital, for fourth quarter 2012.
The honor is given to a Sturgis Hospital associate who provides superior customer service and exemplifies a dedication to serve others in and out of the organization.
Miller has been employed for 16 years in the patient financial services department. She was nominated by Patty Tyler.
"Donna provides excellent customer service with patients," Tyler wrote in her nomination notes. "She is very calm while working with patients about their accounts. And Donna is a team player and helps in any way she can to get the job done."


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Army vet receives Medal of Honor for Afghan fight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has bestowed the Medal of Honor upon an Army veteran for his courageous leadership during a daylong firefight in Afghanistan.
Obama presented the medal to former Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha on Monday in a White House ceremony attended by the military's top leaders and former Medal of Honor recipients.
Obama recounted in detail the dramatic 2009 battle at an outpost in the mountains near the Pakistan border where U.S. troops were far outnumbered. Romesha was peppered with shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade but fought through his wounds.
Guests at the ceremony wept as Obama read the names of eight Americans who died in the firefight. Obama says U.S. troops fight courageously for freedom, for their country and for their families, but also to keep their fellow troops safe.
This is a breaking news update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to an Army veteran for his courageous leadership during a daylong firefight in Afghanistan.
Former Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha is being recognized Monday at the White House for his actions during the 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains near the Pakistan border. About 50 U.S. troops were at the outpost when it came under fire by hundreds of Taliban fighters, and Romesha led a fight against the enemy to protect the camp.
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in the fighting and other 22 wounded, including Romesha, who was peppered with shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade but fought through his wounds. He dismisses his injuries as "nothing" compared to those suffered by some of his fellow soldiers.
"I've had buddies that have lost eyesight and lost limbs," Romesha said in a news conference last month after Obama called to tell him he would receive the award. "I would rather give them all the credit they deserve for sacrificing so much. For me it was nothing, really. I got a little peppered, that was it."
Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor who wrote a book detailing the firefight, said many key officers at the outpost were away the day of the firefight and Romesha rose to the occasion and filled the leadership vacuum. But he says Romesha remains astonishingly humble.
"Everything was just about his buddies and trying to save his fellow soldiers and trying to do everything he could, literally everything he could, at great risk to his own life over and over," said Tapper, author of "The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor." ''He's still very broken up about how he couldn't save everyone. He saved lives that day, without question, but eight of the guys died that day and that still tears him up."
Romesha also served twice in Iraq and will be the fourth living Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. It is the nation's highest military decoration for valor.
Romesha, who grew up in Lake City, Calif., deployed out of Fort Carson, Colo. He now lives in Minot, N.D., with his wife and three children and works in oil field safety.
Combat Outpost Keating sat in a valley and came under attack from the mountains on all four sides at 6 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2009. An account of the fight by the Army says Romesha "displayed extraordinary heroism through a daylong engagement in which he killed multiple enemy fighters, recovered fallen soldiers and led multiple recovery, resupply, and counterattack operations."
When three Taliban fighters breached the camp's perimeter, Romesha shot and killed them with a rifle that belonged to the Afghan troops that he only had basic knowledge of. They were among more than 10 Taliban that Romesha killed that day under heavy enemy fire, and he also directed air assaults to protect the camp and recovered the bodies of U.S. troops who died in the battle.
"We weren't going to be beat that day," Romesha told last month's news conference. "And seeing all those guys pull together, I mean you're not going to back down in the face of adversity like that. We were just going to win, plain and simple."


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COLUMN: Seasons of chnge in Carolina
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Or so said Shakespeare's Richard III, a fictional villain who may have borne at least some resemblance to the fellow just found buried under a parking lot in Leicester. The phrase opens the play, as Richard proclaims that the winter of discontent will be "made glorious summer by this sun of York" – not a reference to the Yorkshire climate but a metaphor for his brother Edward assuming the throne of England.
I'm far from an expert on the Bard, just an amateur admirer. But I've always thought this line to be one of his best, because of its ambiguity. In context, it is optimistic – a winter of discontent yielding to a summer of promise. But most people remember only the first line, which sounds like a complaint. And Richard is, after all, far from satisfied about his brother's good fortune and seeks to overthrow him. So a complaint would be in character.
The current moment in North Carolina politics contains a similar ambiguity. A month into their new role as majority party, Republicans see a long, barren winter – not just for the GOP but for the state as a whole – coming to an end. They expect their new ideas on taxes, regulatory policy, education, and entitlement reform to create new growth and opportunity in the coming months and years.
Democrats see no glorious summer ahead for North Carolina. They see the new Republican leaders as potential Richards, not Edwards. They see those new ideas as a significant departure from the state's traditional public policies, which is certainly the case.
This is, at least in the short term, an unbridgeable partisan divide. Although the disagreement need not be bitter, or expressed as personal attacks, it will of necessity be passionate. Republicans should expect every mistake or piece of bad news under their tenure to be elevated to the level of Shakespearean comedy or tragedy. Democrats should expect to object loudly, to fight doggedly, to rally thousands of people to their cause – and to lose. Republicans and conservatives did the same thing for many years. They survived. Democrats and liberals will, too.
The matter will be settled by the outcome, not the build-up. If the McCrory administration and the Republican legislature enact much or all of their agenda, it will take several years to evaluate the results. For example:
• If they enact conservative tax and regulatory reforms, will the economy become more competitive? Will North Carolina's unemployment rate and growth in per-capita income move closer to the regional average over the next four years?
• If they enact conservative education reforms based on higher standards, greater accountability, and broader choice and competition, will the next generation of North Carolina students have higher levels of educational attainment and achievement?
• If they reform Medicaid and other entitlement programs, will rates of workforce participation and self-sufficiency rise? Will rates of government dependency and self-destructive behavior fall?
Political partisans often ascribe the worst possible motives to their rivals because of their own ideological certainty. They are sure their ideas are the only ones supported by evidence and proven by experience. So anyone with different ideas must have ulterior motives.
My own philosophical system, however, teaches me that intentions and results not necessarily related. One can intend to do good and instead do evil. Or one can intend only to pursue self-interest and, as an unintended but welcome consequence, advance the interests of others.
I do not assume that those who favor higher taxes, bigger budgets, and more governmental control over our lives are "determined to prove a villain," as Shakespeare has his Richard III admit. I assume they mean well but are mistaken. It makes for better rebuttals, better moods, and better analysis. But it also requires patience.
The great political drama that is Republican rule in Raleigh has only just begun its first act. It's a bit early to start writing reviews of it.
Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, which has just published First In Freedom: Transforming Ideas into Consequences for North Carolina . It is available at JohnLockeStore.com.


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LONDON — It is one of the most famous instruments in the world, a wooden symbol of selflessness, courage and resolve.
And on Saturday, the violin reportedly played on the deck of the Titanic while the doomed liner tilted and slowly sank into the icy North Atlantic a century ago sold for $1.45 million — more than twice the amount anticipated.
Never mind that the violin is unplayable. The battered instrument set a world record for a single item of Titanic memorabilia, said Henry Aldridge & Son, the auction house in southwestern England that sold the violin and specializes in Titanic artifacts.
"In my 20 years as an auctioneer, I can honestly say I don't think any article has made people show as much emotion as this one," said the auction house's Andrew Aldridge. "People pick it up and start crying."
The buyer, who paid almost $1.7 million after taxes and the commission were included, was identified only as a "British collector of Titanic items."
The maple and spruce violin belonged to 33-year-old Wallace Henry Hartley, the bandleader who, along with seven other musicians, valiantly played on in an attempt to maintain calm as increasingly panicked passengers climbed into lifeboats — an act of heroic selflessness famously depicted in James Cameron's 1997 hit film "Titanic."
The musicians were among the 1,517 people who died after the vessel struck an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912.
"They played until the bitter end, and it was an incredibly brave act," Aldridge said. "It represents everything good about people — that's the only explanation I can come up for why it causes so much emotion."
The auction house spent seven years and tens of thousands of dollars investigating the violin's authenticity, bringing in scientists, forensic experts and historians to carry out the necessary detective work.
Hartley's body was found about 10 days after the ship sank, but the violin was not listed among the inventory of items found with it.
Yet a string of reasons persuaded the auction house that the violin found in 2006 in an attic in northern England was indeed genuine. For instance, the violin has a silver plate screwed onto the base with the engraving: "For Wallace, on the occasion of our engagement. From Maria."
Maria Robinson, Wallace's fiancee, wrote in her diary that the violin had been saved and returned to her. She never married, and after she died in 1939, her sister donated the violin to a local Salvation Army branch, where it was passed to one of its members, a violin teacher. The teacher, in turn, gave the violin to a student, Eve, the last owner's mother.
The violin was found with a brown leather case bearing the initials W.H.H. and containing other items, such as water-stained sheet music of songs known to have been played on the ship and personal effects of Hartley's, including a silver cigarette case and a signet ring.
In March, the auction house said it was confident the violin was genuine. The cracks, the corrosion, the water stains, the make and style of the instrument, the forensic results, the letters, the corroborating stories, the results of a hospital CT scan — everything, they said, was consistent with the violin that belonged to Hartley and that he played on that fateful day in 1912.
The violin was displayed in the United States this year at Titanic museums in Branson, Mo., and Pigeon Forge, Tenn., drawing hundreds of thousands of people. It was also exhibited in Belfast, where the Titanic was built, and Dewsbury, England, where Hartley lived.
Previously, the priciest Titanic artifact sold, Aldridge said, was a 32-foot-long schematic plan of the ship used in Britain's official inquiry into the tragedy, which he said fetched $356,000.


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Patterson writes at a 10-year-old reading level in the his new "Women's Murder Club" novel
The 8th Confession. By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, 352 pp., $27.99.
By Janice Harayda
Who are the intended readers of The 8th Confession? The large font and generous white space suggest that James Patterson wrote it for nursing-home residents or people reading the book by candlelight while eating Beanie Weenies out of a can during a power blackout. But the short chapters – generally, no more than three pages long – make you wonder if he had in mind fans of MTV. And what about the 5th grade or 10-year-old reading level that the novel has, according to the readability statistics that come with Microsoft Word?
Clearly a lot of people don't care about the conflicts. Fifty-four titles appear on a list of "Books by James Patterson" at the back of The 8th Confession, many of them worldwide bestsellers. Patterson's latest is a glorified police procedural and the eighth volume in his popular "Women's Murder Club" series that involves Detective Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas and others who try to solve their boyfriend problems along with crimes.
On the evidence of The 8th Confession, it's hard to account for Patterson's appeal. "James Patterson likes rape, torture, mutilation and death," Gary Dexter wrote in the Spectator. That's a polite way of saying that he likes scum, and his new book involves several types: a streetwise con artist with a history of recruiting girls and turning them into crack dealers, an ex-beauty queen on trial for bludgeoning her father to death with a crowbar, and a psychopath who is murdering San Francisco's rich with a krait that leaves hard-to-spot bite marks.
The large font and small chapters create at least the illusion of a fast-moving plot – a trick a lot of novelists have caught onto – because you're continually turning pages. And Patterson has a stronger grip on the English language than some blockbuster authors. He doesn't bludgeon you with inanities like Stephenie Meyer's deathless, "It's a voluntary choice" — a line that, you suspect, he would never allow in one of his novels. But The 8th Confession has neither heart nor soul nor even much tension or San Francisco atmosphere (though we do learn that Restaurant LuLu is "the place for homey Provenςal cooking, rich casseroles and pizzas grilled in a hickory-wood oven"). The ending of The 8th Confession, which has eight people confessing to one crime, devolves into farce. It may tell you all you need to know about this novel that a line intended to crank up the suspense is: "Booker has Al Sharpton's home number and he's threatening to use it."
Best line: "Tyco was wearing his party clothes: a feather boa around his slender shoulders, nipple rings, and a black satin thong."
Worst line: No. 1: "There were times when reporting to Jacobi was like having bamboo slivers pushed under my finger nails." This cliché should have died with Mao. No. 2: "But a year and a half ago a psycho with an illegal sublet and an anger-management problem, living two floors above her, had sneaked into apartments and gone on a brutal killing spree." As opposed to one of those killing sprees that wasn't brutal. No. 3: " 'I'm not finished talking yet,' I growled at Cindy."
Published: April 2009
About the author: Patterson has also written 14 novels about the psychologist Alex Cross, including Jack & Jill, Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He lives in Florida.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning critic who has been the book editor of the Plain Dealer, the book columnist for Glamour, and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle.
© 2009 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Watch These Animals Getting Into Cars They Shouldn't Be In — Daily Distraction
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Because, really, who hasn't had the occasional otter in their car?
We're not talking about dogs and cats riding shotgun—that's run-of-the-mill stuff. But if you've ever had a horse or a goat or the odd bear find its way into your Subaru, well, maybe you'll recognize one of these guys.
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.


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Prep Football Roundup: Hononegah runs over Freeport
FREEPORT — Freeport used a pair of sustained touchdown drives in the second quarter to keep the game close for a half, but could not slow down Hononegah's vaunted running game as the Indians prevailed 49-18.
Steve McShane ran for 100 yards on 25 carries and quarterback Quaveon Meeks 92 yards on 18 carries to help the Pretzels rush for 206 yards. They spear-headed a pair of TD drives over 60 yards to help Freeport close to within 21-12 at the half.
But Hononegah (7-2) had rushed for more than 400 yards each against the three best teams in the NIC-10 and Alex Martin and Jake Wilson, coming off back-to-back 200-yard games each, also ran wild against Freeport (1-8).
"The whole team bought into it," Hononegah coach Tim Sughroue said. "You always hear, 'Throw the ball more,' but our kids were saying, 'Lets' run it, Let's run it.' They were excited. It became a team bonding thing."
For the first time in league history, the game finished with three 2,000-yard rushers on the field. Martin ran for 193 yards to improve to 2,480 for his career and Wilson gained 210 to move to 2,092.
They are the first 2,000-yard teammates in league history.
Burlington Central 28, North Boone 14: The Vikings started out strong with 14 first quarter points, but that was all they could muster. And in the end, they were left out of the playoffs.
Trialing 7-0 early, North Boone QB Nathan Bodey connected with Tre Williams for a 55-yard touchdown to knot the game. Then Bodey found Jon Lilly for a 30-yarder three minutes later to give the Vikings a 14-7 lead.
But BC responded just before the end of the first quarter and added TDs in the second and third to put the game away.
Bodey finished 12 for 35 passing for 337 yards, with Lilly hauling in 8 of them for 243 yardss. Williams added three receptions for 83 yards.
Byron 28, Mendota 24: Austin Carlson rushed 19 times for 119 yards and TDs of 10 and 3 yards, while Tyler Huddleston rushed 22 times for 83 yards and scored on runs of 1 and 3 yards to lead the Tigers.
Lutheran 55, Rockford Christian 0: James Robinson put a resounding stamp on his second regular season, racking up 253 yards on 15 carries with five touchdowns to lead Lutheran.
Four of Robinson's TDs came on the ground on runs of 6, 8, 30 and 91 yards. The fifth was on a 66-yard pass from Kendall Lawson.
Lawson added an 18-yard TD run, Austin Sikora ran in from 8 yards out and Dario Ingardona scored on a 6-yard scamper for the Crusaders.
Christian Life 53, Mooseheart 14: Brady Pond ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more to lift Christian Life.
Pond scored on runs of 5 and 8 yards and hit Josh Moza for an 11-yard TD and Isaiah Jones for a 36-yarder.
Rodney Quansah added a pair of scores on runs of 34 and 2 yards, Nate Richmond rumbled in from 1 yard out and Omeiza Suleman capped the scoring with a 3-yard run.
In all, Christian Life racked up 418 yards on the ground, with Quansah leading the way with 127 on just seven carries.
Lena-Winslow 43, South Beloit 14: Ben Moest connected on just 5 of 7 passes, but they accounted for three touchdowns and 119 yards, as Le-Win attacked early in the NUIC rout.
Moest hit Luke Schubert on TD passes of 16 and 8 yards, and connected with Tyler Oakley on a 21-yard scoring strike as the Panthers built a 41-0 lead by halftime.
Oakley also scored on a 10-yard run, while Jace Oleson scored on a 6 yarder and Brandon Seuring scored on a 1-yard dive.
South Beloit avoided the shut out with a pair of scores in the fourth quarter on Anthony Hickman's 45-yard run and Paul Tackeberry's 1-yarder.
Schbert finished with 87 yards on just three receptions, while Oakley added 83 on 13 rushes. Hank Holm had four tackles for Le-Win, while Matt Greene, Anthony Martinez and Gus Werhane each had a sack. Tackeberry topped the SoBos' defense with nine tackles.
East Dubuque 63, Orangeville 6: Dan Zimmerman gave Orangeville an early 6-0 lead on a 1-yard dive late in the first quarter.
But Kyle Schultz charged back with TD runs of 83 and 51 yards and the rout was on.
Schultz added a 31-yard TD run, Alec Monahan scored from 13 yards out, Peter Doty scord on a 14-yarder, Aaron Frost came in on a 15-yarder and Michael Tranel added TD runs of 15 and 72 ayrds.
Frost capped things with a 30-yard fumble return.
The Warriors, who finished with 421 yards of total rushing offense, were led by Schutz, who racked up 223 yards on 13 carries. Ranel added 95 on three rushes.
Hunter Asche led Orangeville with 67 on 14 carries.
Stockton 54, Dakota 16: The defending state runner-up Stockton Blackhawks closed the regular season in fine fashion, as they knocked off Dakota to cap an 8-0 regular season.
Colton Broshous led the way with 166 yards on 23 carries while scoring on runs of 9, 2 and 19 yards. He also added a four-yard TD reception from QB Jordan Fox.
Sam Eden added a 65-yard TD run, Aric Jordan scored from 12 yards out and Staver added a 4-yard TD rush.
Eden finished with 98 yard on 6 carries, while Fox was 5 for 7 for 50 yards passing.
Greg Krulas' 29-yard TD run and Drew Zellmer's 3-yarder accounted for Dakota's scoring.
Zellmer led the Indians with 68 yards on 16 carries.
West Carroll 26, Durand 16: Shaun Magill ran for two touchdowns and threw for the other two to lift West Carroll.
Magill hit Marshall Benters on a 38-yard TD pas and later scored on a 26-yard run to go up 14-0 at halftime.
But Rhyse Evanson connected with James Bryant on a 9-yard TD pass to cut the margin to 14-8 in the third. But Magill connected with Brandon Sturtevant for a 25-yard TD and later added a 2-yard dive to put the game out of reach. Evanson's 3-yard run late in the fourth capped the scoring.
Magill finished 9-for-18 passing for 199 yards, with Trevor Jones catching five of them for 90 yards.


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Brides have 7-7-07 in their sights
It's a safe bet that the 2007 summer wedding season will be one of the busiest ever — if not the biggest.
Now that the calendar officially says summer, it's likely you'll be traveling across the country or at least across town to see a friend or relative walk down the aisle during the next three months.
Thousands — and we mean thousands — of couples will tie the knot July 7 (read: 7-7-07), which Time magazine deemed the biggest wedding date ever because of its "Lucky 7" number combination. TheKnot.com, a wedding planning and social site, has about 38,000 couples set to wed July 7, compared with the typical 12,000 couples marrying on Saturdays in July, according to the site.
Some other trends you'll be seeing in churches and reception halls this summer:
The Day
Linda Slabaugh, owner of Glamour Jewelry & Bridal in Rockford, is working with four brides getting married July 7.
Beve Robinson, owner of One Stop Wedding Shop in Loves Park, is handling three weddings that day.
"It's the hottest wedding day of the year," Robinson said. "It's hard to describe how popular it is."
Wal-Mart and Six Flags are entering the game, doing big, blow-out events with adventurous couples July 7. Celebrity lovebirds Eva Longoria (ABC's "Desperate Housewives") and Tony Parker (NBA's San Antonio Spurs) are even tying the knot that day.
Robinson said in addition to the popularity of the day, more couples are planning wedding after-parties, as in continuing to celebrate after the reception. Couples are booking jazz, mariachi and tropical bands and sipping cocktails until the wee hours of the morning.
"It's midnight and people aren't ready to go home yet," Robinson said.
The Dresses
Robinson said designs by Maggie Sottero, Provonias and Private Label have been popular at her store this season.
Target is getting into the wedding game, thanks to designer Isaac Mizrahi. The store is selling everything from gowns (most retailing in the $160 range) to bridesmaid dresses and veils.
Slabaugh has several wedding gowns at Glamour with hints of color, such as a white beaded dress with a blue sash that matches accompanying bridesmaid dresses.
Robinson said summer 2007 is seeing a resurgence of 1950s-style princess dresses with embroidery and lace.
"Strapless has been around forever, but brides today are requesting some type of sleeves or a halter," Robinson said. "The dresses trumpet at the bottom, showing off the curves. Brides want to show off their bodies.
"They used to want simple, but not anymore."
Brides are continuing to pick the color of their bridesmaids' dresses but allowing bridesmaids to choose the style, Robinson said. Same with jewelry.
"Our bodies are so different," Robinson said. "This lets the bridesmaid pick a style to fit her. And it's one less thing the bride has to worry about."
Bold colors are popular, like burnt orange, and metallics for accessories. Brides are also going with black for bridesmaid dresses because it flatters multiple body types.
"Bridesmaid dresses are less about puffy sleeves," Robinson said. "Designers are making them simple so women don't have to spend $300 on a dress they can't wear again."
The Rest
Slabaugh said destination weddings continue to be popular. And eco-friendly "green" wedding trends, from using recycled paper for invitations to couples leaving the reception in a hybrid car, have been highlighted in the media and on TV shows like "Days of Our Lives."
Contact Melissa Westphal at email@example.com.
- One Web site is taking the idea of thrifty wedding wear to a new level. Cheap-chic-weddings.com is hosting its Third Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest through July 31.
Participants can use only toilet paper, tape and glue to make the dresses, and the winner takes home $500. Catch is, you have to send in digital photos of you or your model IN the dress.
- One Stop Wedding Shop is putting a little humor into this year's wedding season.
The shop is looking for the best (or worst) Bridezilla story, the most outrageous wedding moment and the most unique proposal.
E-mail your stories to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include your name, address and phone number. Check back to onestopwedshop.com to see if your story is published.
The public can vote on the stories, and weekly winners will be eligible for the grand prize of a vacation for two.
When I set out to write this story, I didn't realize just how trendy my 2007 summer wedding season would be.
And I'm not even the one taking the big trip down the aisle. Three of my best friends are taking the plunge starting next month, and since May, the weekends have been and will continue to be filled with bridal showers, bachelorette parties and the weddings.
I'm a bridesmaid in two of the weddings, and that's where the trends are really obvious.
For both weddings, the brides were kind enough to let us girls pick out our dresses. They decided on the color, which turned out to black for both.
I think that's a great idea for brides, like Beve Robinson from One Stop Wedding Shop said. It's one less thing they have to worry about, and it lets bridesmaids pick a dress that flatters their bodies and possibly fits their budget better.
Another trend I'm part of is the destination wedding. I'm traveling as a maid of honor for a November wedding that's taking place on a cruise. That one gets bonus points, because I've never been on a cruise before.
I think the whole wedding-disguised-as-a-vacation thing could make all of the planning and stressing easier to swallow. I just need to remember to pack some sunscreen.
— Melissa Westphal


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A Dutch-born banker in Manhattan becomes unmoored in a post-Sept. 11 ghost story with neo-Gothic undertones
Netherland. By Joseph O'Neill. Pantheon, 256 pp., $23.95.
By Janice Harayda
This beautifully written novel is, like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, a study in unreliable narration. Ostensibly it is the story of Hans van den Broek, a Dutch-born banker in New York, whose his wife and son return to London without him after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 force the family out of their Tribeca loft and into the Chelsea Hotel.
But it's unclear how much, if any, of Hans's account of his life you can credit. Perhaps better than any other novel, Netherland captures a vital truth about Sept. 11: The story of New York City after the attacks is a ghost story — a tale of a place haunted by lost people, buildings and illusions.
As in most good ghost stories, a central question is: How credible is the teller of the tale? And as in many, neo-Gothic undertones abound, particularly in Joseph O'Neill's descriptions of the Chelsea and its dim hallways, baronial staircase and tolerance for baroque tenants, including man who dresses as an angel and buys his wings at a shop called Religious Sex. Hans observes:
"Over half the rooms were occupied by long-term residents who by their furtiveness and ornamental diversity reminded me of the population of the aquarium I'd kept as a child, a murky tank in which cheap fish hesitated in weeds and an artificial starfish made a firmament of gravel."
With such characters as a foil, Hans might seem to be a pillar of stolid Dutch respectability. After his wife and son decamp for London, he returns to the wholesome sport of cricket, which he had enjoyed as a boy, and falls in with a network of players that O'Neill evokes vibrantly. The group includes an umpire and streetwise Trinidadian dreamer named Chuck Ramkissoon, who involves Hans at least marginally in an unsavory money-making scheme.
Despite his association with Chuck, Hans stays out of trouble, or so it might seem. He tells his story after returning to London to rejoin his wife, so we know that in a certain sense he has escaped whatever perils he faced New York.
But hints that we may not be able to trust his story begin on the dust jacket, which warns that Netherland is about a New York City that is "phantasmagorical," or marked by shifting illusions and deceptive appearances. A few pages into the novel, after returning to London, Hans gets a call from a New York Times reporter. She says that Chuck Ramkisson has turned up dead in the Gowanus Canal and that she wants to confirm a fact in her notes — that Hans was Chuck's business partner. Hans denies it. Netherland has hardly begun, but already we know: The narrator is lying or somebody else is. Soon afterward, we learn that Hans's wife, Rachel, moved back to London because she began to question what she called "the narrative of our marriage." Does she have her own fears about him?
The questions mount as the plot circles back to Chuck's death in the last pages. After learning of her husband's ties to the cricketer found in the Gowanus, Rachel calls a lawyer. Hans tells us that the attorney opines that "as a practical matter I have nothing to fear." As a practical matter? Does he have something to fear on other levels?
Netherland never reveals who killed Chuck and, on that count, ends ambiguously. A reviewer for a British newspaper said that the identity of the killer is beside the point, and, on one level, she's right. This novel is less about one man's death than about fraying welcome mat that America puts out for immigrants of all social classes.
But the identity of the killer does matter – if the murderer was Hans, which would cast the novel in a new light. Nothing explicitly implicates him, but nothing exculpates him either. And if you look up "van den Broek" in a Dutch-English dictionary you find that a possible translation is "from the pine marsh" or "swamp." The Gowanus Canal was built through a marsh where pine trees apparently grew.
Is it a coincidence that Hans's name describes the place where Chuck's body turned up? In a novel in which a man buys his angel's wings at a store called Religious Sex, you never know.
Best line: Nearly every page has one. Toward the end of the book, Hans and his wife are riding a taxi when Rachel recalls their life in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001 – "God, do you remember those sirens?" – and squeezes his hand. "Strange, how such a moment grows in value over a marriage's course," Hans reflects. "We gratefully pocket each of them, these sidewalk pennies, and run with them to the bank as if creditors were banging on the door. Which they are, one comes to realize."
Worst line: "Personally, things remained as they were."
Reading group guide: A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Netherland was posted on One-Minute Book Reviews on June 24, 2008, in the post that preceded this review. This guide focuses on the issue of unreliable narration in the novel as it relates to the question: Who killed Chuck Ramkissoon? If you are reading this on the home page of the site, scroll down to find the guide. If you are reading this on the Web, click on this link www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/.
Published: May 2008 www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307377043
About the author: O'Neill was born in Ireland, grew up mainly in Holland and lives in New York City. He wrote the novels This Is the Life and The Breezes and the family history, Blood-Dark Track.
Furthermore: Additional comments on Netherland appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on June 9 and June 10, 2008 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/ and www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/. Some critics disagree that The Turn of the Screw involves unreliable narration. A discussion of this aspect of James's novel appears en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turn_of_the_Screw.
Note: The translation of "van den Broek" comes from Yahoo! Babel Fish. If you can provide a more accurate one, would you kindly leave a comment or send a message to the e-mail address on the Contact page?
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour and the book editor of the Plain Dealer. One-Minute Book Reviews is for people who like to read but dislike hype and review inflation.
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More than half a century after scientists uncovered the link between smoking and cancer – triggering a war between health campaigners and the cigarette industry – big tobacco is thriving.
Despite the known catastrophic effects on health of smoking, profits from tobacco continue to soar and sales of cigarettes have increased: they have risen from 5,000 billion sticks a year in the 1990s to 5,900 billion a year in 2009. They now kill more people annually than alcohol, Aids, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.
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The West now consumes fewer and fewer of the world's cigarettes: richer countries have changed – from smoking 38 per cent of the world total in 1990, they cut down to 24 per cent in 2009. Meanwhile, the developing world's share in global cigarette sales has increased sharply, rising to 76 per cent in 2009.
An investigation by The Independent on Sunday reveals that tobacco firms have taken advantage of lax marketing rules in developing countries by aggressively promoting cigarettes to new, young consumers, while using lawyers, lobby groups and carefully selected statistics to bully governments that attempt to quash the industry in the West.
In 2010, the big four tobacco companies – Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco – made more than £27bn profit, up from £26bn in 2009.
The price of their profits will be measured in human lives. In the 20th century, some 100 million people were killed by tobacco use. If current trends continue, tobacco will kill a billion people in the 21st century.
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Anna Gilmore, professor of public health at the University of Bath, said: "What most people don't realise is that, although sales are falling in the West, industry profits are increasing. These companies remain some of the most profitable in the world. This is thanks in part to their endless inventive ways of undermining and circumventing regulation. They're trying to reinvent their image to ingratiate themselves with governments, but behind the scenes it's business as usual."
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In Indonesia alone there are 21 million child smokers. There is little to stop companies promoting cigarettes to young people. In countries such as Nigeria, Ukraine and Brazil, tobacco companies have sponsored club nights or parties aimed at attracting new young users. In Russia, attempts to entice women smokers have included packaging made to look like jewel-encrusted perfume bottles and even selling cigarettes branded by the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.
Dr Armando Peruga, programme manager for the WHO's tobacco free initiative, said: "We need to do more. We need to stop the tobacco industry promoting themselves as normal corporate citizens when they are killing people every day. We are lagging behind in establishing comprehensive bans on advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship."
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Laurent Huber, director of the Framework Convention Alliance on tobacco control, said: "In countries like Uruguay, the tobacco industry uses its vast wealth to tie up public health measures in court battles. Win or lose, this has a chilling effect on other governments."
These tricks are by no means confined to the less-regulated emerging countries. In Australia, which will become the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes by law, the industry has been accused of scaremongering against the measures by threatening to flood the market with cheap fags.
In Britain, the industry is also prone to taking any measures necessary to keep regulation at bay. This autumn a group of tobacco companies is taking the Government to court over its proposals to ban cigarette displays in all shops.
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JEFFERY Deaver brings back detective Lincoln Rhyme in his tense new thriller, "The Skin Collector."
Rhyme and his colleagues must face a killer inspired by a maniac known as the Bone Collector (Rhyme's first case), who tattoos his victims with a cryptic word or phrase. At first the message seems meaningless, but Rhyme quickly figures out there will be more victims to complete the puzzle.
A survivor of an attack spots a bizarre centipede tattoo on the attacker's arm. This clue leads investigators to tattoo parlors to try and learn who designed and inked the artwork. Pages from an out-of-print book are discovered at one of the crime scenes, and Rhyme soon deciphers the text as from a book chronicling him and his methods.
This antagonist has studied Rhyme and can anticipate his every move — even plant evidence to lead police astray. How can Rhyme stop a madman who seems to know what he's going to do before he does?
Rhyme has a superior mind, and the people he surrounds himself with are the best of the best in the police department. The story becomes all about following the evidence, even when it contradicts the facts.
Deaver's ability to tell the reader everything and still manipulate the story with diabolical twists is the sign of a master at work. Readers unfamiliar with Lincoln Rhyme will find a detective that rivals Sherlock Holmes, and fans will enjoy the familial and reflective aspects of previous cases. (AP)


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