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|New Offer in Works for Old WHS Property
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An Atlanta firm is expressing official interest in the purchase of the Old Watauga High property, Watauga County manager Deron Geouque releasing a memo on terms to the press this afternoon. Fuqua Acquisitions is clear that the memo is not an offer, but does mention $12 million in the letter,
and defines the agent and commission to be paid—7% split by the two parties. Commission Chair Nathan Miller said this afternoon that he met with the representatives July 20th, and told them that $12 million would not get his vote, and he felt that they were 'crunching numbers' at this point. He said that the firm had a plan for both high end business housing for the property, and that they would, if terms are reached, start both simultaneously, satisfying the town's regulations on such. Notably, if an offer is firmed and accepted, the county could define the loss in revenue by the Town of Boone's action to change housing codes in the midst of the process of a nearly $19 million offer by Phil Templeton and Templeton Properties for the site. Watauga Commissioners have mentioned the possibility of filing suit over the town's action, and this would set a definitive loss figure. Miller said that he would be in favor of looking at the potential of a case, but would defer to the county attorney's opinion about the viability of taking on such a case. The Town has contemplated filing suit against the County, as well, over the punitive action of changing the sales tax formula, costing the town $1.8 million in the budget year now a week old. Miller also said that he had met with another party before the Templeton offer was pulled, but the party indicated that they would want only a portion of the High School property, a scenario Miller said he would not be interested in.
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Last week I was solo backpack hunting in Lamoille Canyon in Nevada's Ruby Mountains.My pack, with 11 lb. scoped Browning A-Bolt rifle & ammo strapped to my pack, was just under 50 lbs. (No lectures, please, I had winter clothes, mattress and bag plus a folding bone saw, 10 X LRF binoculars, rolled up plastic deer "sled" and other gear for quartering the deer.)As I climbed up over the lip of the hanging glacial canyon I noticed pain just below my sternum. I could tell it was a muscular type twisting pain. After pushing on for another 10 minutes and having the pain become more frequent and sharper I made a "command decision". As Dirty Harry once said, "A man's gotta know his limitations." and with that in mind I headed back down the canyon to camp at its base. The problem was, I knew from Ski Patrol training, a hiatal hernia when the stomach pushes up through the hiatus, or hole in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes through. My tight waist belt plus the strain of climbing, even with my hiking poles as aids, all combined to push my stomach up against and through the hiatus of my diaphragm. There are two types of hiatal hernias, one being quite dangerous with strangulation of the blood vessels to the stomach, the other a more common "sliding hernia". I monitored my condition for several hours and concluded I had a sliding hernia.So I continued my (unsuccessful) hunt for another 3 days in the lower 1/3 of the canyon using only an REI Flash UL daypack and experienced no further prolems.Now I'm scheduled for an endoscopy to assess the damage. I know the surgery will have to tighten up the hiatus but I'm not sure if I will have to limit my lifestyle at all after it heals. Any docs wish to comment?
Edited by Danepacker on 10/22/2013 15:22:37 MDT.
I have one, probably had it my whole life. I can get heart burn much easier than most, have stomach aches easier than most, but it has never affected my activity levels. The biggest two problems are a poor diet results in constant stomach upset and severe heart burn if I lay down after a full meal. I need to wait at least an hour before going to bed if I have a full stomach. I have not had surgery to correct the problem. The symptoms are just too minor and the Dr. that diagnosed the problem felt it was too small to recommend surgery. The only issue with surgery is that my understanding is that there is a high rate of re-occurrence. Now, that was 20 years ago so...
Well, at this point you don't even know if you have a hiatus hernia. Worry about options once you actually have a diagnosis, Brother. Heck, this could be simple costochondritis or something.Paraesophageal hernias (of various types) only account for about 5% of hiatal hernias- these are the dangerous ones you're thinking of. The risk is not terribly acute- conceivably they can result in strangulation of the stomach, but it's certainly not like anyone with a paraesophageal hernia is in danger of dropping dead imminemtly. Yes, it needs fixed. No, it doesn't need fixed RIGHT NOW.The other 95% are sliding hernias, and not dangerous per se. They tend to get treated because they can lead to bad reflux, which in turn can lead to esophageal metaplasia, which can then be dangerous by resulting in esophageal cancer. But this is clearly a chronic worry, not an acute one- and lots of people have asymptomatic sliding hernias without significant reflux and never have them fixed. You'd have a hard time convincing me (I'm a surgeon) to fix one that was small and asymptomatic with a normal esophageal pH study and scope.Out of curiosity, why does your doc think it's a hiatus hernia? "Pain below my sternum" is pretty nonspecific and, frankly, would need to have a cardiac problem ruled out first. (Which I assume was done.) Were there other symptoms that you didn't mention? The differential for substernal pain is vast: cardiac, GERD, peptic ulcer, biliary colic, esophageal diverticulum, costochondritis, etc., etc. And lupus, of course... :)EDIT--- An A-Bolt? Really? Though I guess I shouldn't be critical- my Savage Model 12 weighs 11 pounds WITHOUT the scope.
Edited by acrosome on 10/23/2013 12:53:45 MDT.
Agree with Dean. If you presented to my work place (ER), there are several things I'd be worried about before hiatal hernia (also listed in part by Dean). Better to have some diagnostics first and confirm a diagnosis before worrying about potential surgical limitations on your activities. Hope you get it tracked down.
Edited by BER on 10/23/2013 15:43:52 MDT.
I'm the one who suggested to my supermodel female GP doc that it was indeed a hiatal hernia. This was due to the symptoms (muscular-type wrenching feeling with pain just below the sternum and slightly right of the midline) and the presence of a tight pack waistbelt pushing my gut in plus the symptoms occurring only with straining exertion. She agreed that was the most likely problem and ordered the endoscopy. She says that I am in excellent health for a 70 year old with very good BP (115/70), wide window for lowest (45) to highest (130) heart rate and no detectable arterial plaque with yearly ultrasound tests and no cholesterol or weight problem per yearly physicals. Plus 3 years a go I had a complete cardiac workup and passed with flying colors.I am getting an endoscpoy Monday and go from there to get a few opinions.If surgery is recommended I will likely go to Los Angeles' Cedars Sianai for it. We have a saying here in Las Vegas,Q> "Where do you go in 'Vegas to get the best medical treatment?" A> "The airport."
Edited by Danepacker on 10/23/2013 16:07:06 MDT.
Lucky you. This is the only surgery I've had recommended to me. By my staff, no less.....
Doug,Yeah, seems I too have the PITA personality at times. My wife has recommended that "surgery" for decades. Tom> "Who is that annoying old bitch?"Fred> "It's Madeline. She and her husband are the perfect couple."Tom> "Why?"Fred> "He's the best proctologist in town and she's the biggest ass."
Hiatal hernias have been linked to atrial fibrillation. I'm not sure of the percentages. With afib, it doesn't necessarily matter that you're in good heart health otherwise (cf lone atrial fibrillation.) Afib can simply be a matter of poor processing of electrical signals from one atria to the other. Apparently, hiatal hernias can effect the electrical signals in your heart. You don't want this!Ask your doctor.
Eric,You're 70? Brother, unless your "complete cardiac workup" three years ago included coronary angiography you can't really rule out cardiac. You should have at least gotten an EKG. And "pain under my ribs and to the right" is pretty damned protean- as I said, there are a lot of things it could be. Yes, one of them is a hiatus hernia, but worry about that once you have a diagnosis. And, actually, your stomach is a bit to your LEFT though the hiatus is essentially midline. Epigastric/right subcostal pain says gallbladder to me but, y'know, when you're a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail. (I'm certainly not diagnosing you over the interwebs- I'm just trying to point out that you don't have a diagnosis yet. But your doc may well have information that I lack- for instance if you've ever had a CT in the past and so she knew that you already had a small hiatus hernia and just wants to see if it has gotten bigger, etc.)Now- what if it is a hiatus hernia? Well, as I pointed out, you're 70. If it is asymptomatic and sliding I would propose that you don't need to have it fixed, since something else is likely to get you before esophageal cancer does. Kinda morbid, but that's how you can look at it. Surgery at 70 is itself a bit dangerous, though you do sound healthy from your self-description so you shouldn't outright fear surgery if it comes to that. And even if it is symptomatic- by which I mean it causes reflux- the modern medications for that are DAMNED effective, and they have almost put us surgeons out of the fundoplication business. (Fundoplications are the surgery done for reflux, but are also how we fix HH with the addition of closing the hernia defect somehow- nowadays I prefer biologic mesh.) If you don't have surgery you'd still need surveillance every so often with a scope like the one they have planned for you, since there is some concern that bile reflux can cause problems even without the presence of acid. The only thing that actually no-kidding requires surgery is if they find certain changes in your esophageal lining cells that indicate that they are already changing towards being cancerous, or if the hernia is paraesophageal. (But even that last is a bit contentious- there are studies that show that the risk is probably quite low per annum, so in a 70 year old that risk might be tolerable. OTOH in a 70 year old stomach strangulation is almost certainly fatal in the unlikely event that it does happen.)If it is any indication, I'm a surgeon and I would take the meds over a Nissen fundoplication if there was any way that I could. That said, it's a good surgery- I just see no reason to take even the small risk involved given that the meds are so effective. I'd certainly find a guy who has done hundreds of them, too, if I needed surgery, because as I said most non-laparoscopic-specialist surgeons don't do a lot of them anymore. I only do maybe a dozen a year. They are fun, though...Are you still having pain? I ask because pain is an uncommon complaint with HH. Usually the chief complaint is reflux.
Edited by acrosome on 10/24/2013 08:21:20 MDT.
I had similar symptoms for over 10 years... along with reflux. Sometimes felt like a fist had hit me right below the sternum. Sometimes it felt like something was tearing. It would come on an hour or so after eating a big meal... could not sit down, could not lie down, would pace around the house... it would take hours to subside. There were many foods I could not eat that would set it off... especially greasy or spicy foods... and eating too much... I would go through bottles of anti-acids with only slight relief... tried the prescription acid pump inhibitors... did not help...I finally pressed my doctor to scope everything down to my stomach. I was convinced it was a hernia... or maybe even cancer.The scope came out completely negative. Doctor said everything looked perfect.Shortly after I was watching PBS and they had a program about pro-biotics and how it could eliminate acid-reflux and digestion problemsI thought what the heck... give it a try.It was like flipping a switch. Within a day or two the problem was gone and never returned. Of course, this may not be your problem at all. But if they don't find anything with the scope... give it a try...Bill D
Dean,No, I did not have a CA done 3 years ago. Thanks for the reminder and I'll ask to have it included in this year's physical. That test seems to be one of the most definitive tests for blockage problems.I have no pain currently, even with a 30 lb. pack while fitness hiking in the mountains back of my house. Looks like I'm in for a series of tests. I DO hav full CAT scans of my abdomen and pelvis from last year that I can show to a radiologist. Those were for a disc problem which, thankfully, good physical therapy and continuing home workouts have diminished to almost nothing.So thanks gents for all the info and advice, professional and otherwise. I'll try the pro-biotics because I have something like GERD maybe three times a month, especially before bedtime. Who knows? Might work for me as well.
Egad, Eric, no- angiography isn't really a screening exam. That comment was tongue-in-cheek on my part!
"I have something like GERD maybe three times a month, especially before bedtime."Have you tried eating smaller dinners, and early enough to remain upright for at least 3 hours before lying down? Also, as Dean mentioned, modern anti-reflux drugs, especially the high end PPI's. If all else fails, Dexilant. It's expensive, but far better than having a fundoplication procedure.@ Dean: I have been told that aggressive management of nausea is one of the follow on requirements of fundoplication? Is this true?
@ Dean: I have been told that aggressive management of nausea is one of the follow on requirements of fundoplication? Is this true? No, not especially. Everyone is nauseated while recovering from general anesthesia- maybe that's what you heard? The classic problem with fundoplication is a wrap that's too tight, leading to difficulty swallowing or belching (which can get uncomfortable). But the vast majority of those cases are temporary, until the swelling goes down.
@ Dean:I have a cardiologist friend who had to have 5 bypasses after "passing" a thorough cardiac screening that did NOT catch his blockage problems. Those heart attacks gave him atrial valve damage that ended his career.That is why I will try to get at least a more definitive screening and an angiogram if warranted. I know it's extreme to do that but I want to know if I really have any blockage(s). Croaking on the trail is only second to croaking at home in my sleep in terms of where I want to kick the bucket. But I would pity the folks who would have to evacuate my carcass from the trail.
"Everyone is nauseated while recovering from general anesthesia- maybe that's what you heard?"No. I probably should have phrased my question more clearly. Background: I have been on PPI's since 1999, and they have, as you said, been damned effective. However, having grown increasingly concerned about the long term effects of using them, I consulted Dr. Ralph Aye, a noted surgeon up here in Seattle, about the fundoplication procedure. He worked under Dr. Lucius Hill when the Hill procedure was being developed/refined, and understandably tends to favor that variant of fundoplication. During our discussion, he mentioned that long term aggressive control of vomiting wth anti nausea meds was necessary, in his opinion, to reduce the chance of compromising the sutures. I know opinions vary from surgeon to surgeon, so I am always looking for more info. Hence my question to you. It is a moot point for me, in any case, because I chose to stay on the meds for now while waiting to see how a couple new procedures turn out.
Ah, I see what you're asking... Yes, one thing that you absolutely don't want someone with a fresh fundoplication to do it retch, for the reason you said- popping the stitches and undoing the wrap. Most surgeons only worry about that a lot in the short term, though, when the fixation hasn't had time to scar in. Now, there are studies that have shown that even over many years the wrap never really scars or heals into place fully- if you cut the sutures you can still pull it apart very easily even decades later. But eventually enough scar forms that simply retching isn't a big risk- the scar is just enough to bolster the stitches. (It's not really 'scar', but I don't need to post semantic quibbles, here, do I?) And most people don't spend the rest of their lives in a constant state of retching, so it's a rare exposure anyway. I don't personally know of anyone that keeps fundoplication patients on antiemetics for the rest of their lives or anything like that, if that's what you're asking. I guess that a theoretical case could be made, though I doubt that there is any good data on the issue.FWIW the Hill has it's place, but the Nissen is the most common by a very, very large margin. "Nissen" is effectively a synonym for "fundoplication" nowadays. Technically, the Hill isn't even a fundoplication- its a gastroplexy. Some surgeons like it if they can't do a Nissen for some reason, but I'd rather do a Toupet, as would most surgeons. (IIRC the Toupet is the second most common fundoplication in the US.) The Hill has far too steep a learning curve, and thus isn't common. Not to mention that it's damned scary blindly throwing sutures that close to the aorta...
Edited by acrosome on 10/26/2013 13:58:16 MDT.
"Ah, I see what you're asking..."Thanks for the very informative feedback. As a big believer in second opinions on just about every subject worth discussing, It is exactly what I was looking for.
"And most people don't spend the rest of their lives in a constant state of retching, so it's a rare exposure anyway. I don't personally know of anyone that keeps fundoplication patients on antiemetics for the rest of their lives or anything like that, if that's what you're asking."Again, I should have been clearer. His approach was not to have patients on a routine, prophylactic regimen of antiemetics but, rather, to have them available for quick use should nausea occur. My bad.Again, thank you, for a most informative response.
@ "His approach was not to have patients on a routine, prophylactic regimen of antiemetics but, rather, to have them available for quick use should nausea occur."As I hinted, one could certainly make a theoretical case for that- it certainly wouldn't be malpractice or such. I severely doubt that there is any class 1 data to support it, but lack of evidence is not evidence of lack, after all...EDIT--- A *very* superficial search of Ovid and PubMed doesn't show anything obvious, though the data might be hidden in there, somewhere. I did see several case studies of fundoplications that failed due to persistent vomiting, though, which doesn't surprise me but again doesn't seem typical. Certainly if someone had chronic vomiting they would need chronic antiemetics after fundoplication.*** My lawyer insists that I proclaim that I am not giving medical advice over the interwebs. I could not possibly do so without access to all relevant data on a given patient, and examining them myself. ***
Edited by acrosome on 10/27/2013 11:17:05 MDT.
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Any order issued under this subchapter shall contain terms and conditions as follows:
(a) The order shall provide for the establishment and administration of appropriate plans or projects for advertisement and promotion of the sale and consumption of dairy products, for research projects related thereto, for nutrition education projects, and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes. Any such plan or project shall be directed toward the sale and marketing or use of dairy products to the end that the marketing and use of dairy products may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more acceptable. No such advertising or sales promotion program shall make use of unfair or deceptive acts or practices with respect to the quality, value, or use of any competing product.
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(1) The order shall provide for the establishment and appointment by the Secretary of a National Dairy Promotion and Research Board that shall consist of not less than thirty-six members.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (6), the members of the Board shall be milk producers appointed by the Secretary from nominations submitted by eligible organizations certified under section 4505 of this title, or, if the Secretary determines that a substantial number of milk producers are not members of, or their interests are not represented by, any such eligible organization, then from nominations made by such milk producers in the manner authorized by the Secretary.
(3) In making such appointments, the Secretary shall take into account, to the extent practicable, the geographical distribution of milk production volume throughout the United States.
(5) A region may be represented by more than one director and a region may be made up of more than one State.
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(A) Initial representation.— In making initial appointments to the Board of importer representatives, the Secretary shall appoint 2 members who represent importers of dairy products and are subject to assessments under the order.
(B) Subsequent representation.— At least once every 3 years after the initial appointment of importer representatives under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall review the average volume of domestic production of dairy products compared to the average volume of imports of dairy products into the United States during the previous 3 years and, on the basis of that review, shall reapportion importer representation on the Board to reflect the proportional share of the United States market by domestic production and imported dairy products.
(C) Additional members; nominations.— The members appointed under this paragraph—
(7) The term of appointment to the Board shall be for three years with no member serving more than two consecutive terms, except that initial appointments shall be proportionately for one-year, two-year, and three-year terms.
(8) The Board shall appoint from its members an executive committee whose membership shall equally reflect each of the different regions in the United States in which milk is produced as well as importers of dairy products.
(9) The executive committee shall have such duties and powers as are conferred upon it by the Board.
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(1) receive and evaluate, or on its own initiative develop, and budget for plans or projects to promote the use of fluid milk and dairy products as well as projects for research and nutrition education and to make recommendations to the Secretary regarding such proposals,
(5) recommend to the Secretary amendments to the order. The Board shall solicit, among others, research proposals that would increase the use of fluid milk and dairy products by the military and by persons in developing nations, and that would demonstrate the feasibility of converting surplus nonfat dry milk to casein for domestic and export use.
(d) The order shall provide that the Board shall develop and submit to the Secretary for approval any promotion, research, or nutrition education plan or project and that any such plan or project must be approved by the Secretary before becoming effective.
(e) Budgets.—
(1) Preparation and submission.— The order shall require the Board to submit to the Secretary for approval budgets on a fiscal period basis of its anticipated expenses and disbursements in the administration of the order, including projected costs of dairy products promotion and research projects.
(2) Foreign market efforts.— The order shall authorize the Board to expend in the maintenance and expansion of foreign markets an amount not to exceed the amount collected from United States producers for a fiscal year. Of those funds, for each of the 2002 through 2018 fiscal years, the Board's budget may provide for the expenditure of revenues available to the Board to develop international markets for, and to promote within such markets, the consumption of dairy products produced or manufactured in the United States.
(f) The order shall provide that the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, may enter into agreements for the development and conduct of the activities authorized under the order as specified in subsection (a) of this section and for the payment of the cost thereof with funds collected through assessments under the order. Any such agreement shall provide that
(1) the contracting party shall develop and submit to the Board a plan or project together with a budget or budgets that shall show estimated costs to be incurred for such plan or project,
(3) the contracting party shall keep accurate records of all of its transactions, account for funds received and expended, and make periodic reports to the Board of activities conducted, and such other reports as the Secretary or the Board may require.
(g) Assessments.—
(1) The order shall provide that each person making payment to a producer for milk produced in the United States and purchased from the producer shall, in the manner as prescribed by the order, collect an assessment based upon the number of hundredweights of milk for commercial use handled for the account of the producer and remit the assessment to the Board.
(2) The assessment shall be used for payment of the expenses in administering the order, with provision for a reasonable reserve, and shall include those administrative costs incurred by the Department after an order has been promulgated under this subchapter.
(3) Rate.—
(A) In general.— The rate of assessment for milk produced in the United States prescribed by the order shall be 15 cents per hundredweight of milk for commercial use or the equivalent thereof, as determined by the Secretary.
(4) A milk producer or the producer's cooperative who can establish that the producer is participating in active, ongoing qualified State or regional dairy product promotion or nutrition education programs intended to increase consumption of milk and dairy products generally shall receive credit in determining the assessment due from such producer for contributions to such programs of up to 10 cents per hundredweight of milk marketed or, for the period ending six months after November 29, 1983, up to the aggregate rate in effect on November 29, 1983, of such contributions to such programs (but not to exceed 15 cents per hundredweight of milk marketed) if such aggregate rate exceeds 10 cents per hundredweight of milk marketed.
(5) Any person marketing milk of that person's own production directly to consumers shall remit the assessment directly to the Board in the manner prescribed by the order.
(6) Importers.—
(A) In general.— The order shall provide that each importer of imported dairy products shall pay an assessment to the Board in the manner prescribed by the order.
(7) Refund of assessments on certain imported products.—
(A) In general.— An importer shall be entitled to a refund of any assessment paid under this subsection on imported dairy products imported under a contract entered into prior to the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.
(h) The order shall require the Board to
(1) maintain such books and records (which shall be available to the Secretary for inspection and audit) as the Secretary may prescribe,
(2) prepare and submit to the Secretary, from time to time, such reports as the Secretary may prescribe, and
(i) The order shall provide that the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, may invest, pending disbursement under a plan or project, funds collected through assessments authorized under this subchapter only in obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, in general obligations of any State or any political subdivision thereof, in any interest-bearing account or certificate of deposit of a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System, or in obligations fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States.
(j) The order shall prohibit any funds collected by the Board under the order from being used in any manner for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action except as provided by subsection (c)(5) of this section.
(k) The order shall require that each importer of imported dairy products, each person receiving milk from farmers for commercial use, and any person marketing milk of that person's own production directly to consumers, maintain and make available for inspection such books and records as may be required by the order and file reports at the time, in the manner, and having the content prescribed by the order. Such information shall be made available to the Secretary as is appropriate to the administration or enforcement of this subchapter, or any order or regulation issued under this subchapter. All information so obtained shall be kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department, and only such information so obtained as the Secretary deems relevant may be disclosed by them and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the request of the Secretary, or to which the Secretary or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving the order with reference to which the information to be disclosed was obtained. Nothing in this subsection may be deemed to prohibit
(1) the issuance of general statements, based upon the reports, of the number of persons subject to an order or statistical data collected therefrom, which statements do not identify the information furnished by any person, or
(2) the publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by such person. No information obtained under the authority of this subchapter may be made available to any agency or officer of the Federal Government for any purpose other than the implementation of this subchapter and any investigatory or enforcement action necessary for the implementation of this subchapter. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000, or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and, if an officer or employee of the Board or the Department, shall be removed from office.
Source(Pub. L. 98–180, title I, § 113,Nov. 29, 1983, 97 Stat. 1137; Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 152,Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 922; Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1505(b)–(e), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 208, 209; Pub. L. 110–234, title I, § 1507(a), (d)–(f), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 997; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title I, § 1507(a), (d)–(f), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1725; Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1426,Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 695.)
References in Text
The date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, referred to in subsec. (g)(7), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–246, which was approved June 18, 2008.
Pub. L. 110–234and Pub. L. 110–246made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110–234were repealed by section 4(a) ofPub. L. 110–246.
2014—Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 113–79substituted "2018" for "2012".
2008—Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 110–246, § 1507(a), substituted "2012" for "2007".
Subsec. (g)(3). Pub. L. 110–246, § 1507(d), added par. (3) and struck out former par. (3) which read as follows: "The rate of assessment for milk produced in the United States and imported dairy products prescribed by the order shall be 15 cents per hundredweight of milk for commercial use or the equivalent thereof, as determined by the Secretary."
Subsec. (g)(6)(B), (C). Pub. L. 110–246, § 1507(e), redesignated subpar. (C) as (B) and struck out former subpar. (B). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "The assessment on imported dairy products shall be paid by the importer to Customs at the time the entry documents are filed with Customs. Customs shall remit the assessments to the Board. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term 'importer' includes persons who hold title to foreign-produced dairy products immediately upon release by Customs, as well as persons who act on behalf of others, as agents, brokers, or consignees, to secure the release of dairy products from Customs."
Subsec. (g)(7). Pub. L. 110–246, § 1507(f), added par. (7).
2002—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–171, § 1505(b), inserted heading, designated first to ninth sentences as pars. (1) to (5) and (7) to (10), respectively, and realigned margins, substituted "Except as provided in paragraph (6), the members of the Board" for "Members of the Board" in par. (2) and "is produced as well as importers of dairy products" for "is produced" in par. (8), and added par. (6).
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 107–171, § 1505(c), inserted heading, designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted heading, and struck out "For each of fiscal years 1997 through 2001, the Board's budget may provide for the expenditure of revenues available to the Board to develop international markets for, and to promote within such markets, the consumption of dairy products produced in the United States from milk produced in the United States." at end, and added par. (2).
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 107–171, § 1505(d), inserted heading, designated first to fifth sentences as pars. (1) to (5), respectively, and realigned margins, inserted "for milk produced in the United States and imported dairy products" after "The rate of assessment" and ", as determined by the Secretary" before period at end in par. (3), and added par. (6).
Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 107–171, § 1505(e), substituted "importer of imported dairy products, each person receiving milk from farmers" for "person receiving milk from farmers" in first sentence.
1996—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–127inserted at end "For each of fiscal years 1997 through 2001, the Board's budget may provide for the expenditure of revenues available to the Board to develop international markets for, and to promote within such markets, the consumption of dairy products produced in the United States from milk produced in the United States."
Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Amendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234by Pub. L. 110–246effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 ofPub. L. 110–246, set out as an Effective Date note under section 8701 of this title.
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POTSDAM The SUNY Potsdam mens soccer team easily dispatched Bard College, 2-0, on Sunday at Maxcy Turf Field, tying last years team with its fourth win of the season.
Sophomore forward Tom Benedetto and junior forward Eduardo Figueroa scored for the Bears (4-1).
Potsdam freshman goalkeeper Nick Davies posted his first career shutout without facing a shot on goal.
The Kangaroos (2-2) scored two goals in each half as they beat Green Mountain College at Poultney, Vt.
Hunter Mowery and Nick Escalante notched first-half goals, while Tyler Gallagher and Abdulai Jagana added goals in the second half for SUNY Canton.
SUNY Canton keeper Jamie Stevens made two saves for his first collegiate victory.
Another slow start cost the Bears as they fell at Elmira College.
Potsdam (1-3) found itself in a 0-2 hole after the initial 22 minutes before fighting their way back into it with a pair of goals by sophomore Summer Bader.
The Soaring Eagles (2-1) received goals from Mollie Hamilton, Caitlyn Crisuolo, Kimi Girmus and Meagan Fullen.
Brittany Rotach continued her solid play in goal, stopping 10 shots, but it was not enough as the Kangaroos fell 4-0 at Alfred.
The win improves the Pioneers to 3-1, while the loss drops the Kangaroos to 3-2.
Saints sweep doubles
St. Lawrence University swept both the A and B doubles brackets in impressive fashion, while rookie Hallie Young won the C singles flight in the first event of the year at the Mary Hosking Invitational hosted by William Smith College in Geneva.
SLUs top doubles team of Elkie Vandenbeemt and Morgan McNeal cruised to three victories in A doubles.
In the B doubles bracket, first-year student Georgia Comber teamed with sophomore Bridget Fleming and the pair lost only three games in four matches.
Young and Sarah Lipworth both reached the semifinals in C singles, but it was Young who prevailed in dramatic fashion, 9-7, over William Smiths Hannah Webster to earn a spot in the title match. Young then handled Mariana Flores Kim of Rochester 8-3 to lock up the individual title.
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Sharon Li shot back-to-back rounds of 2-over-par 74 for a 148 total to take medalist honors and lead Ithaca College to the team title in the 14th annual St. Lawrence University Collegiate Invitational in Canton Saturday and Sunday.
Li posted a 4-shot win over Kristina Shalhoup of NYU and Rebecca Studin of SUNY Cortland, who tied for second with 152 totals.
The host Saints were fifth at 702. Sophomore Claire ONeil led SLU, finishing 10th overall with rounds of 83 and 80 for 163.
In the mens competition, University of Rochester senior Nick Palladino backed up an opening round of 4-under 68 with a 3-under 69 on Sunday to cruise to medalist honors, leading his Yellowjackets to a 12-stroke victory over runner-up Clarkson.
St. Lawrences Jack Whelan ran into some difficulty on the back nine on Sunday and shot 79, tying for sixth with teammate Jack Reardon at 150. Clarksons Tyler Kline was third with a 148 total with rounds of 75 and 73, while teammates Matt Blair and Evan Cody tied for fourth at 149.
Sophomore John Hickey led SUNY Potsdam, tying for 16th place with rounds of 74 and 82.
Mike Reilly of SUNY Canton placed eighth, shooting 72-79.
Visiting Corning CC edged the host Cannoneers in five games, 25-18, 25-27, 25-21, 18-25, 15-9, in a Mid-State Athletic Conference match.
Ashley Capone recorded 14 kills, five blocks and 19 digs for JCC (2-3). Haley Riley had 19 kills and 19 digs, while Kierstin Burke contributed 11 kills and 30 digs.
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Terry Hartley is moving on. Following three successful years as Watauga High's women's tennis coach. Hartley, who led WHS to a pair of conference championships has resigned. He officially turned in his resignation last Thursday.
Hartley is stepping down for personal reasons.
"My business is really starting to take off," he said. "And it is demanding a lot of my time. I'm sorry to have to do this, but I have a very enjoyable time working with the girls and the tennis program the last three years.
WHS showed its worth by finishing third at the Twin-City Class in Winston-Salem this past weekend. The Pioneers posted victories against such state powers as Raleigh Cardinal Gibblons and Wilmington New Hanover.
Hartley will be replaced by Scott Taylor, who is currently the men's tennis coach at WHS. The Pioneers play three matches in three days beginning tomorrow night with Fred T. Foard. The Pioneers are 4-1 this season.
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By RICHARD SHAW Sun Advocate publisher
You often hear people talk about how when they travel they are always happy to get back home and sleep in their own bed.
For me, instead, my comfort is the shower.
I can sleep just about anywhere...in a motel bed, on the ground, in a cardboard box. But give me my very own shower anytime.
While I don't travel as much as I used to, there was a time when I had my own business that I was gone as much as four weeks at a time from home. It was a great experience in many ways, seeing a lot of things and going a lot of places I never would have gone if not for where my customers were located. But it was a business I operated on a shoestring. I was a one man show and often my stays in various towns was a short sleep over then back on the road again. Therefore I seldom stayed at Hiatts or Marriotts; I was looking for overnight bargains. That is where I explored the world of shower stalls and shower fixtures, of all kinds, sizes, operations and non-operations.
I spent a lot of nights in small motels along interstates with low rates. I couldn't see paying $150 in the mid 1990s to stay in a place I drove into at midnight and then left again at six the next morning. So I found, you know, bargain motels. They were the ones that were owned by people like Ma and Pa Kettle, where much of the maintenance was done, shall we say, red neck style. Oh, and I also stayed in some that I swear Norman Bates may have owned as well.
I over-nighted in rooms where the curtains fell off the wall if you tried to open them, where beds had more lumps than a horny toad and where mushrooms grew in the corner of the clothes closet. Some had six locks on the door, while others didn't have a door lock at all, but a bar across it from the inside. Some had cracked windows, others broken ones. In some the toilets flushed so fast that they almost sucked you down the drain, while in others whatever was in the bowl floated around a long time before it ever left my sight.
I had some where the dresser drawers were screwed shut and the televisions were still black and white, and the only station you could receive was the one where they showed city council meetings as the entertainment of the evening.
I experienced just about everything while staying at these kinds of motels. A drug bust went down in a room next to mine in a small motel just outside of Chicago, Ill. A drunk used his room key to get in my room one night and laid on the bed while I was at McDonalds one night in a room near Cleveland, Ohio. I stayed in one place that had an iron gate that opened and closed to the parking lot, had bars on all the windows and a slide latch system on the full steel door on my room in a motel in Carson, Calif. All night I could hear gunshots in the distance.
But the lasting experience for me was the showers and everything that had to do with them. I think there is no place where you are more vulnerable than when you are in the shower, as the Psycho movie proved. But beyond being attacked by some crazy motel owner with a knife, is all the other things you have to deal with, sometimes creatively.
My shower at home is just right. I know just where to turn the faucet to get the right temperature of the stream coming out of the shower head. I know not to shower when my wife is running the washing machine or someone else is taking a shower, thus avoiding the cold-hot cycle. In a motel shower you never know what you are going to get.
In one motel outside of Denver, the water valve went the opposite direction from normal and when I tried to make the water colder when it fluctuated, I turned it instead to scalding. There were parts of me that were not the same for weeks after that. In another motel in Tulsa, Okla. the valve kept turning and turning and turning yet the water would not get above very luke warm. I tried one more turn and it came off in my hand and a torrent of water came out of the where the valve had been, shooting right between my legs against the back wall of the shower with such force it was spraying water all through the bathroom. I couldn't get the valve back on with that strong stream coming out and it just kept going. Have you ever seen anyone show up at the front desk of a motel dripping wet in their bathrobe holding a knob off a shower? There was a crowd of people in the lobby when I arrived. I am glad I have never seen any of them again.
Then there are the shower curtains or doors. I have had numerous shower curtains fall on my head, and doors come off their tracks. In one case the curtain came down on me just as I was starting up the shower and the bar hit me in the head. It really hit me hard and I was seeing stars (and water was spraying all over the bathroom too).
Then there is the stuff they give to wash with. In some motels they give you a single bar of soap a fourth the size of a small Hershey bar to wash your hands, your body, your hair and whatever else you can as long as it lasts. The bars you get in these places sometimes look like the homemade lie soap I used to see people make when I was a kid.
In others they give you a whole assortment of soap, bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion, engine coolant, windshield washer fluid, etc. In these cases the problem is not with the amount or quality, but with the packaging. I learned a long time ago that you always open any container or package before you get in the shower, not while you are standing in it having water blasted in your face. Wet hands don't work well for tearing open plastic soap packages or opening seals on small shampoo bottles.
Besides I have always been packaged challenged even under the best of conditions. It's why I always carry a pocket knife.
Finally there is the shower heads. I have mine at home adjusted just right for me; a nice wide spray with gentleness. In all motels they seem to either have those water saving heads that dribble or heads that knock you down when they start. It amazes me that motels will have all those signs about saving water and not laundering towels unnecessarily, yet while the shower head is engaged and you are getting a small dribble out of the head, the faucet down below is spewing gallons of water down the drain.
Nowadays I stay in nicer places when I travel and the shower appointments generally do not disintegrate around me while I am trying to get clean. The shower heads are usually better too.
But if I had my druthers, I still would rather be home in my own, self adjusted and comfortable shower.
It is a comfort I cannot ignore.


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There are some new opportunities for anglers in 2007. Fishermen can now keep eight trout at Scofield Reservoir. With the purchase of a second-pole permit, an angler can use two fishing rods statewide. Be sure to pick up a new fishing guide available at license agents and DWR offices statewide.
Huntington Creek. Tom Ogden fished open water pools below the forks last Sunday. He reported good success with a number 10 maroon-colored San Juan worm or a number 12 Montana nymph. His biggest fish was a 14-incher. Most of his catch consisted of brown trout.
Mammoth Reservoir. No recent report butTiger trout generally range between 11-17 inches. Try a chartreuse grub, jig, or ice fly tipped with bait. Best baits include minnows, chub meat, mealworms and nightcrawlers. The bite is usually light. The ice is thick and may approach two feet. Closed to the possession of cutthroat trout.
Joes Valley Reservoir. On Jan. 18 Aquatics Biologist Justin Hart and a few friends fished the reservoir from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. They fished the big bay south of Seely Creek in 12-30 feet of water. The party of three caught and released a total of 96 fish, which ranged from 8-15 inches. Most were splake with a few tiger trout. The fishing party used small jigs or spoons tipped with chub meat. The bites came in waves throughout the day. Biologist Tony Wright fished the following day and caught 10 fish in two hours using a small glow-in-the-dark jighead, tipped with chub meat. All of Tony's fish were less than 15 inches. Dedicated Hunter Mike Hreinson checked anglers last Saturday. Fishing success was poor for the three groups he interviewed on the ice. Special regulations apply. Please refer to the new fishing guide.
Lasal Mountains. DWR Aquatics Biologist Darek Elverud fished Ken's Lake on 1-28 and caught three brown trout in three hours. Browns ranged from 12-16 inches long. They were hitting white jigs tipped with nightcrawlers, fished in 10-15 feet of water. The ice is about five inches thick. Mountain reservoirs are frozen and inaccessible.
Scofield Reservoir. Dedicated Hunter Mike Hreinson interviewed nine groups of anglers last Saturday. Fishing success ranged from poor to fair. Fisheries Technician Mike Ault conducted creel surveys from Jan. 26-28. All days were busy with peak pressure occurring on Saturday at noon when Mike counted 200 anglers. Nearly all fish were rainbows ranging from 12-16 inches. Todd Munford of King's Outdoor World fished last Saturday. Todd said the catch was "tough," but that best fishing occurred between 7-9 a.m. He used a 1/8 ounce jighead tipped with a nightcrawler, and seemed to do better when he coated the jig with shrimp or crayfish Smelly Jelly. Last Monday, Lieutenant Carl Gramlich fished and reported poor fishing success. Carl suggests that mornings are the best time to fish. The bite seems to turn on and off throughout the day. The trout limit is now eight fish.


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Winter Haven, FL -- All the Beloit College Baseball team needed was a little Florida-like weather to get the bats going. They got the warmth, and a good pitching performance, on the way to an 8-6 win over Eastern Mennonite University on Tuesday, the first win of their Spring Trip.
After giving up a run in the top of the first the Bucs took the lead for good in the bottom of the inning with three runs on three walks and two hit-by-pitches. Alex Lawrence drove in the first run on a bases loaded walk. After a double-play grounder plated the second run, Tyler Peacock's fielder's choice grounder got the third run across.
The Royals pulled back within one with a run in the second but the Buccaneers tallied three more runs in the same inning to move up 6-2. Matt Meade scored on a wild pitch and then Lawrence hit a two-run single to put Beloit in charge. They added a seventh run in the fourth when Ethan Blumenthal singled, stole second and third and then scored on a wild pitch. EMU got their third run in the fifth on a double-play grounder to make it 7-3 heading to the later innings. Beloit tacked on run number eight in the seventh when Grant Henricksen, who had singled and stole second, scored on a balk.
Eastern Mennonite started to come back, scoring a pair of unearned runs in the eighth. But winner Dalton Deckert, who pitched into the eighth before tiring a bit, was baled out by Patrick McKnight, who got all three outs in the eighth and gave up the final run of the game in the ninth before nailing down his first career save. Deckert pitched seven-plus innings, scattering 11 hits and giving up five runs, three earned. He struck out two and walked none. McKnight got the final six outs, giving up three hits and one run with a walk.
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Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killersby Michael Connelly
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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prize-winning crime reporter — the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels.
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles.
In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends — and, of course, the killers — to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.
Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet.
Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.
"The many fans of perennially bestselling mystery author Connelly will certainly lap up this collection of his articles written during his former life as a crime journalist in Florida and California. In three sections, 'The Cops,' 'The Killers' and 'The Cases,' Connelly presents a wide variety of stories from the 1980s and early '90s, ranging from local crimes to national sensations such as the serial killer Christopher Wilder, one of the FBI's Most Wanted. With Wilder, for instance, readers watch Connelly build a portrait of a man who gained access to women in the Florida modeling and fashion scene by posing as a professional photographer with 'cunning charm, smooth talk and money.' Connelly tells tales of double lives, failures of the criminal justice system and the shooting death of a 245-pound L.A. prostitute. The format of the book may disappoint some, as the inclusion of multiple reports about the same crimes often contain repetitive language. The author is strongest bringing quiet moments to life, such as the despair of parents hoping that a missing child will still turn up, or the patient, resigned professionalism of weary detectives. Devotees of Connelly's fiction will enjoy tracing the real-life roots of some of his plots." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"To read fiction, it is said, we must suspend disbelief. But how much? There are limits to what we will swallow, and a lot depends on the writing. 'Heart of the World,' Linda Barnes' 11th novel about the Boston private eye Carlotta Carlyle, is an example of how we must sometimes weigh the quality of the prose against the strain on credulity. Carlyle is a feisty, sexy, red-haired, hot-tempered... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) ex-cop who calls to mind Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. Where men are concerned, she's living proof that ladies love outlaws: She's having an affair with a good-looking Mafia prince named Sam Gianelli. She is also deeply attached to Paolina, a 15-year-old girl whom she met in a Big Sister/Little Sister program. Paolina has a mother who doesn't love her and a father she's never met because he is (or was) a Colombian drug lord and revolutionary. As the novel begins, the girl is missing. Carlyle's feverish search takes her from frozen Boston to sweltering Colombia, where she confronts dangerous characters until she is pumped full of drugs and carried to the jungle hideaway of the drug lord, Roldan. Except he's not a drug lord anymore. He's had a spiritual conversion, and he's now the protector of an Indian tribe, the Kogi, who chew coca, practice ancient forms of magic and have a large supply of gold. It does not escape the attention of the outlaw-prone Carlyle that the charismatic Roldan is a hunk ('A woman could get lost in those eyes'), but mostly she focuses on finding her beloved Paolina, whose plight is part of a plot to separate the Kogi from their treasure. At one point, the ex-drug lord is leading the Boston PI up a Colombian mountainside, and she reflects, 'Who would dream I was here, climbing the highest coastal range on earth in flimsy sandals?' Who indeed? And yet Barnes, whose previous books have won or been nominated for numerous mystery awards, tells her often-far-fetched story gracefully, even persuasively. If you are willing to accept a certain fairy-tale aura — at one point in the mountains, Carlyle chews coca leaves, and her 'feet felt like they were floating inches off the path' — and embrace Carlyle as a fearless woman who would charge the gates of hell for the love of a child, 'Heart of the World' is an entertaining read. Michael Connelly, whose early crime reporting is collected in 'Crime Beat,' didn't start out to be either a reporter or a novelist. His father and grandfather built houses, and when Connelly entered college in Florida, his major was building construction sciences. He hated it. One night, he happened upon a showing of Robert Altman's quirky 1973 film version of Raymond Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye.' He loved it, and he proceeded to read all of Chandler's novels and to change his major to journalism. From then on, he intended to use crime reporting to prepare himself to write novels in the Chandler mode, and he followed his plan brilliantly. After starting out with newspapers in Florida, he wound up as a police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he began writing his great Harry Bosch series. Every generation produces reporters whose talent is essentially novelistic and for whom journalism is a way station on the road to fiction. Hemingway was the classic example of the 20th century, but there are many others — Tom Wolfe was one, and so is Connelly. For instance, here's the lead of the first crime story reprinted in the book, from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 1987: 'It has been four days since anybody has heard from or seen Walter Moody, and people are thinking that something is wrong.' It's not the typical who-what-when-where-why-and- how formula of police reporting. Connelly was always looking for mood, drama, eccentricity, the telling detail. One of the fascinations of this collection is spotting the police-beat details — the fellow with teardrops tattooed below his eyes, the detective who chewed the earpiece of his glasses — that later punctuate the Bosch novels. This is not a book for everyone. It's probably best seen as a courtesy paid to Connelly by his publisher after the huge success of last year's 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' But it will be of interest to close students of his fiction, to some journalists and to anyone interested in how the sow's ear of fact becomes the silk purse of fiction. 'Nothing was lost,' Connelly says in his introduction. 'All experiences went into the creative blender and were eventually poured out as something new in my fiction.' Connelly shows us the before-and-after. What he can't do is explain the magic that underlies the process. That's the mystery, the quicksilver called talent, the sorcery that makes readers suspend disbelief." Reviewed by Patrick Anderson, whose e-mail address is mondaythrillers(at symbol)aol.com, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"This volume works on several levels: as a source of insight into Connelly's craft; as a collection of compelling true-crime stories; and as a great primer for journalists." Booklist
"[T]hese collected articles show that the truth can be as strange — and even stranger than — fiction and every bit as compelling. Through it all, Connelly displays the discerning eye and compassion that characterize his best work." Library Journal
"This is not a book for everyone....But it will be of interest to close students of his fiction, to some journalists and to anyone interested in how the sow's ear of fact becomes the silk purse of fiction." Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post Book World
"Connelly's writing nearly two decades ago was as vivid, enthralling and detailed as any of his novels....One thing Crime Beat makes clear: Connelly both past and present has always delivered a great read." Orlando Sentinel
"Crime Beat is an uneasy hybrid. The writing is both expansive and constricted. When Connelly attempts to move beyond meat and potatoes reporting, you get the impression of a reporter trying to squeeze reality into the confines of hard-boiled fiction." Charles Taylor, The New York Times Book Review
"The stories show a wonderful writer learning his craft, conducting reconnaissance missions into territory that he would later conquer....Crime Beat is a decent read but a great preview of coming attractions." San Diego Union-Tribune
"Newspaper junkies and journalism students will find something to like in Crime Beat. For just about everybody else, though, Connelly's collection is not worth the price." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.
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GMT -5 (GMT -4 from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November).
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Pasola Jousting Festival 2013 in Sumba
Pasola Jousting Festival 2013 in Sumba
5 Feb 2013 - 8 Feb 2013
This year, the most thrilling annual traditional war game will yet again highlight Sumba Island, East Nusatenggara, where the breath-taking Pasola Jousting Festival gets underway from 5th to 8th February 2013 and on 7th March 2013.
After a meeting of Rato Pasola or tribe elders and government officials, the dates and the locations of this year's Pasola festival were designated as follows:
Pasola Homba Kalayo in the village of Kodi Bangedo will be held on 5th February, the Pasola Bondo Kawango in Kodi to be held on 7th February, Pasola Rara Winyo in Kodi on 8th February, and Pasola Wainyapu in Kodi Balaghar on 7th March.
With the announcement of the Pasola 2013 schedule, visitors can arrange their trip to Sumba Island, so that they can take part in this rare and special mock battle festival. There will also be a cultural festival in several villages held in conjunction with the Pasola festival.
This is a most exciting Jousting Festival where opposing teams run into each other on horseback, saddle-less, throwing blunt spears - called hola - to each other to unseat or hurt their opponents or horses. Fallen men or horses may not be attacked, but any blood flowing is believed to fertilize the soil and benefit the next harvest.
The tournament forms part of the traditional Marapu belief on Sumba, where the Pasola forms an inseparable part of the annual ritual, held in conjunction with the Bau Nyale ritual or the arrival of seaworms on the shores of Sumba and Lombok, which normally occurs in February and March.
Once better known as the Sandalwood Island, Sumba in the province of East Nusatenggara, - adjoining the islands of Komodo and Flores, - breeds some of Indonesia's best horses. The Sumba horses are a cross between Arabian and local horses, and are therefore larger than the neighbouring Sumbawa horses.
There are daily flights from Bali to Waingapu in East Sumba and Tambolaka in West Sumba on alternate days. The island can also be reached from Maumere on Flores, on similarly alternating days between the two towns.
More information at: www.komodo-tours.travel , naked-sumbatravel.blogspot.com, www.floresexotictours.com
The Official Tourism Website of East Nusatenggara Province: www.goseentt.com
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pasola sangat menarik, kami ingin berwisata ke sumba untuk melihat pasola festival bulan fubruari 2014. kami mintak informasi tanggal berapa pasola festival diselenggarakan untuk tahun 2014?? terimakasih atas infonya.
Mau dong info ttg pasola yg diselenggarakan bulan 3 thn 2014.Tq sblmnya


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