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DAN Pierce is getting back on his bike after an accident in a bid to raise money for Swindon Down's Group.
His brother Sam, has Down's Syndrome and Dan, 30, had planned to ride from from Cardiff to Paris last September to boost their funds but an accident a week before he was due to depart left him in hospital for two weeks needing 26 stitches in his head.
He is now back in the saddle and, along with friends Sam Farnfield and Andy Dakin has so far raised more than £1,200 for the Downs Group.
The trio will set off on Saturday morning before passing through Dan's home town of Swindon on the way to the French capital.
Dan was inspired to ride by his brother Sam, 23.
"With my brother having Down's it is a big motivator for me to get back on the bike," said Dan, who is currently living in the Rhondda, in South Wales.
"My employer Legal and General have matched the first £500 we raised, and we have got sponsorships going around at work as well.
"The whole thing was due to take place in September last year, but about a week before I just came off my bike fairly spectacularly on a flat stretch of road with no traffic around.
"I can't remember what happened, I just splattered across the road. It took 26 stitches in hospital, 13 in the muscle tissue underneath and another 13 to patch it up."
Dan hopes the funds can help the group get out and enjoy some trips and activities.
"Hopefully the money will go towards some of the activities they take part in, like their time with the fire service which my brother particularly enjoys," he said.
"They do a lot of leisure stuff for the kids and young adults.
"They really enjoy their days out, and with the fire service they do a course across a couple of days which is quite expensive, so it would be great to be able to give something back for all the held they have given my brother over the years.
"He has been going to them since he was born so they have done a lot for him."
Dan's mother Leslye Pierce, 51, said: "I am as proud as punch of him.
"He does not have a normal athlete's shape, but he just wanted to do something.
"He rides to and from work every day, which is around 26 miles each way.
"Everyone always does Lands End to John O'Groats, but he has decided to go from Cardiff to Paris, taking in the Arch to Arch route.
"It took him about two months to recover properly from his accident , "And he had lost the feeling on one side of his face because he had nerve damage behind his eye.
"Dan wanted his money to go to restricted funds for family fun, so they can all go out on trips and days out."
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LOMA LINDA>> Thad Mosely is proud of his rare and stinky flower.
That's because the Loma Linda-based florist has succeeded in getting a rare species of aroid plant to bloom outdoors, without the use of a greenhouse.
"It's compared to rotting horse flesh, but really it smells like a dead rat. It smells horrible," he said.
The plant, scientifically known as Amorphophallus konjac and commonly referred to as devil's tongue, voodoo lily, dragon plant, snake plant and elephant yam, is native to the subtropical to tropical climate of eastern Asia.
It is related to the corpse flower.
The first of Mosely's four plants started blooming on Wednesday and the three others are near bloom, which Mosely expects will happen by the weekend.
Mosely, owner of Premier Floral and Gifts in Loma Linda, believes he beat a British public garden, which was reported last week to have successfully brought one 23.6-inch blossom to maturity outdoors.
Mosely's tallest bloom measures about 37-inches high.
The plant blooms once in its 7-year life cycle, then dies.
Mosely's blooms come after 10 years, he said.
The plant is known for the unpleasant smell of its flowers, which attract pollinating insects and flies.
He said he reached out to numerous news agencies, but since it was April Fool's Day, he was rejected under the assumption it was a prank.
So, he took all four of his plants to the Redlands Daily Facts.
Mosely said he started growing the plants as a hobby after he saw the corpse flower on display at Huntington Botanical Gardens.
He acquired the original tubers in 2004 from Kirk Pamper, from the American Institute of Floral Designers and Terry Hernstrom, former landscape provider for the historic Kimberly Crest mansion in Redlands.
Mosely said he believes this is the first time four separate plants of the same species have ever bloomed simultaneously outside a greenhouse in Southern California.

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DENVER – Goalie Jesse Schwartzman was named the MLL Defensive Player of the Week for Week 2 of the 2012 MLL Season, the league announced on Monday.
Schwartzman led all MLL goalies that played more than 30 minutes in Week 2 with a .706 save percentage in Denver's 15-6 win over Hamilton. Schwartzman's five goals allowed were the fewest among all MLL goalies that played more than 30 minutes in Week 2 and his 12 saves ranked second in the league this week. The six points allowed by Schwartzman and the rest of the Denver defense in Week 2 are a franchise record low.
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Joe heads back to Beck
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10:40am Sunday 1st June 2014
By Amie Mulderrig
He appeared in the Beck Theatre's Cinderella pantomime last year. Now, X Factor winner Joe McElderry is set to return to Hayes as part of his Set Your Soul Alive Tour.
Having risen to fame after winning the sixth series of ITV show The X Factor in 2009, Joe's first single The Climb reached number one in the UK and Irish singles chart and was soon followed by the release of his debut album Wide Awake.
In 2011 he returned to our television screens, where he was the crowned winner of the second series of ITV show Pop Star to Opera Star, receiving 80 per cent of the voting throughout the series.
And viewer's of Channel 4's The Jump will remember seeing Joe triumph on the slopes back in February.
But for one night only he'll be back at the Beck doing what he does best, performing an array of songs from his repertoire, covering genres including rock, pop and classical.
Joe McElderry is at The Beck Theatre, Grange Road, Hayes, on Thursday, June 26. Details: becktheatre.org.uk, 020 8561 8371.
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ROSS VALLEY SANITARY DISTRICT is trying to step away from its recent course where it seemed to steam into legal and political fights with neighboring public agencies.
One of those agencies, the Central Marin Sanitation Agency — of which Ross Valley is a partner — can help Ross Valley out of its current financial bind by giving it more time to make its payment to CMSA.
Ross Valley's request for help from CMSA is smothered in political irony.
The district has spent the past eight years getting into fights, many of its own volition, with CMSA, which operates the San Rafael sewer plant that serves Ross Valley, San Rafael, San Quentin State Prison and Corte Madera.
The board at the time even looking into withdrawing from CMSA.
The district's costly legal battles, many with CMSA and other neighboring public agencies, were part of the reason voters in June decided it was time for a political change on the Ross Valley board. A new majority appears to be more interested in cooperating rather than paying lawyers and court costs.
Ross Valley's new board is asking CMSA to give the district a short grace period on its annual payment — more than $2 million — until revenue from property tax payments comes in.
The grace period would serve as a low-risk bridge loan, as district revenue will be coming in with the payment of local property tax bills.
CMSA's leadership should need no reminder that it shares taxpayers with Ross Valley.
While there may be good reason for settling the lawsuit between the two agencies, it should not be a quid pro quo for CMSA helping out Ross Valley. This is time for a neighborly helping hand for a municipal partner, not legal hardball.
Ross Valley's new leadership has inherited a money mess.
The old board's political bad blood with CMSA led to the loss of its lucrative contract with San Quentin. The district has had to pay a $1million fine for its large sewage spill in 2010, a costly settlement in its soured sale of its Larkspur Landing property, a payroll that grew while other public agencies were laying off workers and a series of costly capital projects approved and started even though the district was running short on cash.
There also is the $350,000 housing-allowance loan to Brett Richards, its general manager who resigned in the wake of the June election. The district board needs to make clear to the public whether it will seek repayment of that money.
District ratepayers deserve to know the status of that money.
CMSA's leadership may have been reluctant in the past to help out Ross Valley. But it should do what it can do, if financially possible and prudent, to reestablish a working and constructive relationship with Ross Valley.


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Eric Lorberer '86 Returns for Alumni Weekend Poetry Reading
December 13, 2012
Eric Lorberer '86 will give a poetry reading Saturday, June 1, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the Rose O'Neill Literary House.
"He took a vow of poetry," someone once said of Eric Lorberer '86.
His advice to students is this: "Write like crazy, write your heart out. Read like crazy and, for God's sake, don't worry so much about getting published. I think the anxiety of getting published really destroys some people. For students, especially, there will be time later. When you're at a great place like WC, just soak in as much as you can, be as active as you can and the rest will come."
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Dave, the janitor of an apartment block, notices that the boiler pressure is rising, and will shortly explode.
He phones two of the residents, tells them the news, asks them to do the same and phone just two more people, and then get out of the building.
Assume that each of the residents is in, and answers the phone immediately.
If each phone call takes 30 seconds, and it takes each person 90 seconds to get out of the building, how long will it take to empty all 375 apartments?
HintFibonacci might have the answer!
Answer7 minutes.
In the first 30 seconds, Dave rings one other person, call him A.
In the second 30 seconds, Dave rings B, and leaves the building. A rings C.
3rd: A rings D, and leaves. B and C ring E and F.
4th: B and C ring G and H. D, E and F ring I, J, K.
5th: D, E, F ring L, M, N. G, H, I, J, K ring O, P, Q, R, S.
The number of residents informed in each time period is as follows:
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ...
These are known as Fibonacci Numbers, where each number is the sum of the preceding two.
The total number of people informed is:
1, 3, 6, 11, 19, ...
Each number is the sum of the previous two, plus 2.
Continuing this series we get:
32, 53, 87, 142, 231, 375.
Thus 375 people were informed after 11 periods of phone calls.
11 calls at 30 seconds each = 5.5 minutes, plus 90 seconds for the last people to exit the building gives 7 minutes.
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A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss - and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life - something like his old life - exists beyond the airport.
Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return - not enough fuel to get him home - following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face - in the people he meets, and in himself - is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human.
©2012 Peter Heller (P)2012 Random House Audio
"Richly evocative yet streamlined journal entries propel the high-stakes plot while simultaneously illuminating Hig's nuanced states of mind as isolation and constant vigilance exact their toll, along with his sorrow for the dying world.... Heller's surprising and irresistible blend of suspense, romance, social insight, and humor creates a cunning form of cognitive dissonance neatly pegged by Hig as an apocalyptic parody of Norman Rockwell...a novel, that is, of spiky pleasure and signal resonance." (Booklist)
"In the tradition of postapocalyptic literary fiction such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, this hypervisceral first novel by adventure writer Heller (Kook) takes place nine years after a superflu has killed off much of mankind.... With its evocative descriptions of hunting, fishing, and flying, this novel, perhaps the world's most poetic survival guide, reads as if Billy Collins had novelized one of George Romero's zombie flicks. From start to finish, Heller carries the reader aloft on graceful prose, intense action, and deeply felt emotion." (Publishers Weekly)
"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a post-apocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His likable hero, Hig, flies around what was once Colorado in his 1956 Cessna, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, the chance to perform some small kindness, and a good dog for a co-pilot. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut." (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted)
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. C.S. Lewis
"Stars Shine Bright"
My reading list includes very few stories with post-apocalyptic settings. I have high regard for "On the Beach" and "Alas Babylon" but those were of another era. I wasn't sure I would enjoy "The Dog Stars." It was almost an impulse purchase.
I was very pleased with my purchase. Peter Heller has written a very well rounded novel. The overall melancholy and the episodes of violent encounters were there, as I expected, but it was the description of introspective thoughts and emotions which made the novel stand out for me.
Heller does an excellent job of introducing story threads into the novel and then following and expanding them with great attention to details and overall pacing of the tale. Nothing gets shoved into a corner or suddenly dropped in the next chapter.
Heller's writing of Hig's relationship with his dog Jasper touched me most of all, and a man's love for his dog is something that's as timeless as the constellations in the sky.
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"The End is Merely a Beginning"
This first person apocalyptic narrative is sometimes hard for listeners/readers to stomach. I understand that. However, The Dog Stars overcomes all the pitfalls of broody end-of-days pessimism by engaging the listener in a myriad of believable and realistic scenarios that might occur should North America be devastated by a biological holocaust.
I found the main character compelling and believable due to his self-doubt, empathy, and a touch of true-to-life skills that make his survival and subsequent experiences plausible.
It is my contention that this book is worth of your credit, if for nothing else than the truly human uncertainties expressed by the protagonist. I usually found myself sympathetic with the main character, often asking the question, "Is that what I would have done?" The answer was more often than not, "Yes!"
This writer has much to offer all of us in terms of insight into our own fears and angst about a future uncertain. We all could learn much from his narrative.
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"Absolutely Stellar!"
What a debut! Heller proves, WOW, he can write; and the fact that he creates a beautiful story of regeneration and hope against the background of such a bleak dystopian world makes this debut novel altogether stunning.
Nine years have passed since a virulent flu-like pandemic annihilated 99% of the population, or *The End.* Hig is in the 1%...a gnawing fact that keeps him searching for answers. All he knows about this new world--is what is in *the perimeter*, the area he can fly over in his primo '56 Cessna he calls *Beast,* the area before the point of no return (*PNR*) or when the fuel is emptied. He lives in an abandon subdivision, choosing to sleep under the stars (to avoid being attacked and trapped in a shelter) with his aging, much loved, cannine companion, Jasper, and his memories--memories he'd like to forget. Also in the perimeter is co-survivor, Bangley, an ornry old gun-packing survivalist/misanthrope, and a neighboring colony of friendly, but blood-sick, Mennonites. Together, Hig, Jasper, and Bangley have survived a day-to-day existence of loneliness and *necessary violence,* more like *an old married couple* than friends.They know that together is their only chance of survival, and that outside of the perimeter is certain death. The marauders are fellow survivors--what you would expect to crawl out if you threw humankind into a fighting pit--not rabid infected changelings or zombies, but brutal savage men -- this is a more believable apocalyptic world. Daily, Hig flys recon with Jasper perched in the co-pilot's seat on a stack of heirloom quilts..."The whole time I fly I talk to him, and it amuses me to no end that the whole time he pretends not to listen." Then one day he hears a voice over the radio transmitter that ignites in him another question...what is beyond the perimeter. The Dog Stars is the story of Hig's journey, both concretely and existentially.
Though Dog Stars is his debut, Heller is a gifted writer and story-teller. His style is choppy and blunt, but absolutely precise, and adds to the sense of an abbreviated world. Throughout, the book is powerfully emotional, you'll laugh and you'll cry (maybe even blubber like a baby...just saying) and I doubt you'll ever forget. Heller just intuitively knows how to connect with all the facets of the human spirit. Dog Stars is rich with prose that are at once beautifully intimate and simple, and as profound and gut wrenching as the post-apocalyptic setting. It speaks straight to your soul. Heller's descriptions of nature are breathtakingly beautiful. Narrator Mark Deakins does a remarkable job bringing this text to life with such profundity that I found myself often in awe of simple sentences, or consummed with the loneliness, or sometimes even on the edge of a stream looking for trout, surrounded by the scent of fir trees and sounds of the forest.
"Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occurred to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains. And life was inside death, virulent and insistent as a strain of flu. How it should be."
"Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited love, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End."
This is more a story of a sensitive man's search for meaning (apologies to Frankl) than a post-apocalyptic tale--more Alas Babylon, Earth Abides, than McCarthy's depressing gem The Road. Though Hig mostly contemplates what drives a man to live when they have lost everything but their life, he still finds humor and beauty in this world, he still appreciates the wonder of nature, the desire for human connection, the glowing light of hope. I'm not sure if the ending was abrupt or whether I just regretted any ending--possibly both. The Dog Stars is everything I hope a book will be, highly entertaining, creative, evocative, the kind of book I'd gift or pass along. I think it will appeal to almost everyone, and may even linger on to become a classic. (There is some harsh language and violence that might cross this one off some people's list, but considering the subject--relatively little.) Best book I've read in a long while, and I can't wait to see what Peter Heller does next. Just stunning.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
"Alas Babylon, On The Road, Earth Abides, The Stand"
On The Beach, Deathlands, Several Twilight Zone stories, The Gunslinger, and or One Second After.
Read any of the above listed instead of this. Every writer seems to think they can write the definitive Apocalyptic few people left novel. Many of them are excellent and many are just repeats, that bring nothing new to the table. This is the same old, same old. This is probably closer to Earth Abides then any of the others. This is slow and boring. Do not think this is a Zombie book, it is not. Alas Babylon and On The Road are the best of the group.
Do not listen to all these others and waste your credit, I think they were hypnotized.
The last man on Earth was sitting in a room and there was a knock at the door.
Narrator is good.
"Betting this is a better listen than a read"
I really enjoyed this audiobook. I am a fan of apocalyptic literature, and this did not disappoint. However, I think the apocalyptic scenario was more the background, against which played out themes of trust and faith in oneself and others. It delves into the basic dependence we must have on others to survive, and is very thoughtful. I think if I had read this, I would have skimmed over much of the internal dialogue the main character has with himself. I tend to do that when trying to get to the action. I am glad I listened to this book instead - I would have missed so much had I skimmed over some of those parts. Thought provoking and it stays with you. The reader was great.
Avid Zombie fan who's starting to listen to more and more Fantasy and Sci-Fi stories. So, my description is apt to change. Dog lover who's known to have cats. LOL C# coder, part-time prepper, B movie fan, AMC watcher, recovering but successful day trader, perpetual student, overjoyed uncle, former adrenaline junkie with a flare for cooking, and lots more. LOL
"beautifully written and narrated!"
call me crazy, but i'd compare the beauty of the story to hemingway's the sun also rises.
the narration is spectacular! the narrator has a warm voice and is easy to listen to. his voice and reading add a haunting beauty to the story. his voices for higg and bangley are unique and match each character's disposition.
don't let the weird name of the book throw you off! the dog's stars is a beautifully written and narrated story! if you're a fan of dystopian stories, then this is a must listen!
the story is told in the first person by higg. he lives at an old country airport a few miles from the mountains. his only neighbor is bangley, a gruff survivalist. they are like an old married couple. there are very tense moments and some very funny moments. they are constantly sparring. higg is a free spirit while bangley is a stickler about following rules and protocols. together, they monitor the 8 square miles surrounding the airport.
higg flies his cessna around the property, looking for threats as bangley monitors the grounds from his sniper position. higg is the eyes, and bangley is the muscle.
i love dogs, and i love a good story about a dog. higg has a dog named jasper, who is a character in his own right. the author did an excellent job weaving the companionship and loyalty a dog can provide and display into this story.
i give this audio book my highest recommendation! there is only one caveat to this story- how and when you listen to it. you will probably want to listen to this when you have the time to devote your full attention to it. trust me, it is well worth it!
I ignore genre labels. Some of my favorite books are outside my genre comfort zone. Listening to audiobooks is still reading. Not theater.
"A Lyrical Post Apocalyptic View"
I am on a roll that started with The Girl With All the Gifts. This is the fourth post apocalyptic book I have read in the last 12 months. Which is 4 more than I've read in the last 20 years.
The Dog Stars covers much the same ground as Station Eleven, or I guess I should say that the other way around since The Dog Stars came out first. It was perhaps better written. Heller's MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop shows. He writes almost lyrically. His magazine background shows as well. The writing is tight and he doesn't use any extra words. So much so that many of his sentences are just a single word. That can be annoying when reading, but I listened to this so I did not have that problem. And the narration was wonderful.
The plot revolves around a guy's guy - a carpenter, outdoorsy Colorado guy who loves to hunt, fly his Cessna and most of all fish. His best friend is a dog and his companion is someone even more macho than Hig is. The author soften's Hig up a bit by confessing that he writes poetry and he clearly loved his wife. But Hig's response and reaction to the events occurring around him are definitely from a guy's perspective, so it was sometimes difficult for me to relate or wonder at his response.
But Heller does a wonderful job of capturing the loneliness Hig deals with constantly. It is so thick you can physically feel it. He portrays Hig's lonely existence so well, that this is the first book of this type I have read where I found myself thinking that the 99.9% of the population that died got the better end of the deal. There seemed very little in his world that encouraged him to live. Especially after he loses his best friend. The chapter retelling that loss is one of the best pieces of writing I have seen in a very long time.
There really wasn't a climactic end to the book, no resolution, no closure. I know that books in this genre can't have "happy" endings, but I always feel like I must have missed a couple of pages at the end, because the words just stop. And that is the only way you know the story is finished.
I recommend this book. Especially in audio format. It is well worth reading.
"Memorizing /Hypnotic"
On a very rare occasion a book and the perfect reader connect. This is one of those books.
"Dialogue? What's That?"
My review is titled as such - instead of a hyperbolic "Ten Dog Stars out of Five" or "Brilliant Post-Apocalyptic VIsion" or some other extravagant moniker - because I love the fact that there is very little dialogue and a complex vision of the ruination of a world as we know it is accomplished with almost no conversation.
I am not a fan of dialogue. It's only in the hands of a master that such a device advances a plot or defines character. Many writers fail at it, and there are very notable exceptions, but usually it leaves me frustrated, annoyed and ultimately bored. I want description of the inner landscape, thought, meditation, confession, deep ruminations. If I want conversation I can listen to a morning talk show on my way to work, or host a dinner party. One of the main reasons I read is to find a quiet interior space that is without conversation.
So, having said that, it's evident why I love this book. The story proceeds for the most part in the thoughts and recollections of the narrator, the "I" in the story, semi stream-of-consciousness style. What dialogue does arise is well-considered, brief, economical and spare.
I have now read a few books in this genre, if you can call it that, describing the "after", when all our alleged greed and selfishness afforded by extreme prosperity destroys life on the planet as we know it.This is more of an interior meditation on that state of affairs, rather than the dark, "noir", yet humorous, vision portrayed in "Super Sad True Love Story", for example. The two main characters survive by managing and defending their limited resources in mutual co-operation, although one wonders if in any other context these two would be likely comrades or even know each other.
The only downsides to this book that I noticed are the semi-predictability of the plot resolution and the slow pace with which the first half of HIg's story proceeds. I almost put the book down several times during Part 1, and wanted to move on to another book - perhaps return to "The Dog Stars" later, or as a filler in between reads. But I am glad I stayed with this.
I also wanted to know more about the pandemic to which 99% of the world's population succumbed. How did it start? How was it passed on? Is it viral, bacterial, or something else? These questions are only partially answered but that's all okay, and I'll give the book an all-star rating anyway, "downsides" accepted as the price of admission.
Narration was perfect.
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"Dog is my copilot"
The pitch: It's nine years after a superflu has wiped out most of North America. Higg, one of the few survivors, has holed up in an airport in Colorado, where he maintains an 80-year-old Cessna (the book seems to take place in the mid-2030s). His only companions are a dog named Jasper and a heavily-armed misanthrope called Bangley, who's very skilled at shooting armed visitors before they realize what's going on (problem is, nearly everyone still alive in this world is armed in some way). Higg spends his days fishing and hunting with Jasper, the more emotionally available of his two friends, and flying perimeter patrols, during which he tries to warn away less-hostile-seeming visitors and occasionally drops in on a colony of Mennonites, who are all infected with some flu-related wasting disease.
Not surprisingly, Higg feels a bit lonely and yearns for something more than just surviving, while Bangley seems content to be left alone and views all other people as threats, as he does Higg's social and humanitarian urges. And to be fair, many of those who come calling do seem to have predatory intentions. Yet, Higg is unable to forget a voice he heard on his radio while flying, and wonders who it was.
For its first half, except for several bursts of hair-rising violence, this is a slow, quiet book, focused on its protagonist's feelings, memories, and existential doubts. There's stuff that anyone who's been through a traumatic experience involving the death of loved ones can relate to, and thoughts on how we create meaning by inventing small challenges for ourselves. Around the midway point of the novel, something happens that increases Higg's desire for contact, and he sets off in search of it, risks be damned. It's not much of a reveal to say that he finds other people, but after nine years of near solitude, he's somewhat forgotten how to relate to others and must relearn.
The book's emotional tone is somewhat uneven and Heller can't seem to make up his mind whether people should act like the brutal gangs in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, or show an urge to cooperate and connect. While I'm sure that people like the former would exist after a devastating population collapse, I think there's a middle path between a policy of blowing the head off every stranger one sees and one of being victimized. I imagine that many others would have an inclination to reconnect, rebuild, and repopulate, especially after nine years. So, I wasn't convinced about some of the human drama here, especially not by some characters we meet near the end, whose motives seemed nonsensical. And a significant relationship that develops between Higg and another character felt like it was missing some weight.
Still, I enjoyed this book and its meditations on aloneness of various kinds (I listened to a few chapters while XC skiing by myself in the woods, and it completely fit my mood). All in all, it's not hard to see The Dog Stars becoming one of those movies where there are long, dialogue-free stretches of simple action and landscape shots, accompanied only by swells of ambient music, and the weight of human solitude becomes felt.
This might be one of those novels that works better in audiobook. Higgs often expresses himself in abbreviated sentences that I suspect might give some people trouble with the text, but they worked well in spoken form, not unlike listening to a somewhat rambling friend.
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If anyone had told me after my first daughter was born that I would leave my kids for days at a time to travel for work, I would have told them they were crazy.
I remember my first day back from maternity leave after my oldest was born. It was the worst day of my life... and I am not exaggerating.
I was hysterical crying the whole way home that day. I was ready to quit my job and be a stay at home mom. I would have walked away, no problem. The attachment I felt for my little girl was inexplicable.
Fast forward to now. My girls are 4 and 2, and I still feel like my attachment to them is inexplicable, yet I do travel.
I survive it, and so do they.
I just got back from Cuba. I was away for 8 days. Eight days! And unlike last year when I traveled for the NBA finals… I couldn't Skype with them every day or call to say good morning and goodnight. I was only able to speak with them twice the whole time I was gone. I couldn't even think about their little faces because if I did… I would start to cry.
Leading up to the trip I was second guessing going. I knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime. So important for my career, which I take very seriously. But as a mom, I kept asking myself "is it worth it? Shouldn't having them be enough to keep me here?"
I don't know what the right thing to do was. I know there are moms out there who would have never left. And I know there are others who travel more than I do. There are no "perfect" moms. We just do what we do and try our hardest.
I do know something though… the hug I got from my 4-year-old, still in the driveway on Thursday night was the best hug I have ever gotten. She waited up for me until after nine and had the biggest smile on her face. Poor little thing fell asleep about 10 minutes after I walked in the door.
She was exhausted!
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Yoga District – 1635 Connecticut Avenue, NW 5th Floor. 2 blocks from Dupont Circle Metro. 3 class "New Student" pass valid for one week is $10 and drop in classes are $10.
Bikram Yoga – 1635 Connecticut Avenue, 4th floor. Intro week is $20 and drop in classes are $20.
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Boundless Yoga – 1522 U Street NW. New student first month is $50 and drop in classes are $18.
See their websites for more details on passes and prices.
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What is this medicine?DIGOXIN (di JOX in) is used to treat congestive heart failure and heart rhythm problems. It increases the strength of the heart muscle, helps to maintain a normal heart rhythm, and helps to remove excess water from the body.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
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Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
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-antiviral medicines for HIV or AIDS like ritonavir and saquinavir
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text: Chace Crawford, who modeled during high school in Texas, brought his porcelain skin (Having a dermatologist dad comes in handy!), floppy blond locks and wholesome good looks to California after graduating in 2003. While attending Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the thick-browed pretty boy considered following in his father's footsteps and studying medicine but answered the call to acting instead. He got his first big break as one of the sexy Sons of Ipswich in the No.1 teen warlock film, "The Covenant" (2006). The next year he moved down the East Coast to play privileged and pretty once again. Crawford spent six seasons on "Gossip Girl" as Nate Archibald who went from prep school player to political pawn to newspaper publisher without ever having an empty bed for long. His good looks score him a ton of attention, both wanted (ranking on People's Most Beautiful and Hottest Bachelors Lists) and unwanted (Perez Hilton said he has "gayface" and unsubstantiated rumors about being more than friends with JC Chasez swirled.). In reality, the only famous folk he has been linked with are Carrie Underwood and Ashley Greene. He sporadically showed up in films ("What To Expect When You're Expecting," "The Haunting of Molly Hartley) and doing voiceovers ("Robot Chicken," "Family Guy") during his CW tenure. Just after playing a drug dealer in "Twelve" in 2010, life imitated art as he was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor in his hometown after police discovered two ounces of marijuana in the car he was in.


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New York -- In its annual report filed Tuesday, Abercrombie & Fitch revealed that it plans to open Abercrombie & Fitch flagship stores in Seoul and Shanghai in 2013, as well as 20 international Hollister stores. The news sent the teen retailer's shares rising on Wednesday.
The company also said in the report that it is maintaining its focus on boosting profitability by simplifying processes, eliminating less-profitable parts of its business, shoring up efficiencies and cutting expenses.
The Hollister openings will include debuts in Australia, in Dubai (through a joint venture) and Japan. The company said it is considering opening international mall-based Abercrombie & Fitch stores within the next 12 months.


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Karlee Anderson, former Bemidji State captain, is the new girls basketball coach for the Rogers Royals.
Anderson, 25, was hired on Monday, announced RHS principal Roman Pierskalla. She will teach biology.
"We think Karlee will do real well with our girls team," said Pierskalla, who was principal at Rockford High School when his new coach was a high-scoring guard there.
"When I saw Rogers had an opening for Biology, I knew this was a great opportunity for me," said Anderson, who has been teaching and coaching at Maple Lake for three years. "I know Rogers has a good program and they went to state a couple years ago. I'm real excited to coach them."
She was Karlee Simonson when she scored about 1,700 career points for the Rockford Rockets, then became a four-year starter at guard for Bemidji State, and captain her last year.
Anderson will be the third head coach at Rogers, which has gone to state three times in its nine-year history, twice under Lamar Detert and once under Jeremy Digiovanni. She succeeds Digiovanni, who resigned after four seasons.
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Sitting in my AC-less apartment with the fan blowing hot air in my face, it's hard to think about anything except how frigging hot it is in the Northeast. Record-breakingly hot. Temper-breakingly hot. Now, this doesn't necessarily put everyone in the mood to scarf a chocolate bar, but here are four ways to get your cocoa fix while staying cool.
Coffee Granita
Aside from the recently blogged chocolate sorbet, you have other options waiting to be made in your freezer. If you don't have an ice cream maker, you can still hack together a granita (or granité). Granita is made by simply placing a flavored sugar syrup—or sorbet base, or whatever dairy-less deliciousness have you—into a shallow pan in the freezer, and stirring it at regular intervals (20 to 30 minutes) to break up the crystals as the liquid freezes.
What you end up with is a light, icy treat. Kind of like a sophisticated slushy. No reason you couldn't make a granité out of the chocolate sorbet recipe from a couple weeks ago either—perhaps with a splash of Kahlua?
Of course, you could always go the nostalgic route and whip up some chocolate ice pops. It's as simple as preparing some pudding and freezing it in ice pop molds. You can find them in all kinds of fun shapes online; but if you don't feel like investing, you can make minis by freezing it in paper cups with pop sticks or skewers. The flavor's easy to mess with, too.
Adding your favorite spice, a dash of booze or a little salt can make a huge difference. Feel like getting fancy? Layering different flavors takes no time at all, and looks really cool. And, you can always just toss your favorite candy bar in the freezer for a quick fix. Hint: stick a skewer in first, and it's a little easier to eat. (Besides, we all know that everything tastes better on a stick.)
Ice Cream Sandwiches
In the mood for something a little richer? It's easy enough to head to your closest shop for some ice cream, but why not grab some cookies while you're at it and make ice cream sandwiches? I like slicing a little banana to layer in there, and drizzling on some chocolate syrup, like a portable banana split.
Egg Creams
If you're thirsty, there's always chocolate milk (or its corollaries Yoo-Hoo and Quik) but when it's this hot, straight-up milk is not always the best thing to drink (See: "Anchorman").
I find that egg creams are much more refreshing. You can use skim milk, though traditionally it's made with whole milk. One part very cold milk, two or three parts seltzer (depending on how you like it), and a good half-inch of chocolate syrup. Stir like crazy to froth it a bit, and drink it down.
Ahhh, tastes like summer.
About the author: Liz Gutman co-owns the Brooklyn-based candy business Liddabit Sweets, which means she spends a lot of time around chocolate (and a lot of time eating it). She moved to New York in 2001 to go to, wait for it, acting school. But when the acting life wasn't for her, she wound up in the French Culinary Institute's pastry program while working at Roni-Sue's Chocolates in Manhattan's Lower East Side. She befriended Jen King, aka the other half of Liddabit, at FCI and founded Liddabit in May of 2009.


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Subliminal influences guide our voting preferences
WITH THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION looming on the horizon in November, consider these two crucial questions: Who looks more competent, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? Who has the deepest and most resonant voice? Maybe your answer is, "Who cares? I vote for candidates based on their policies and positions, not on how they look and sound!" If so, that very likely is your rational brain justifying an earlier choice that your emotional brain made based on these seemingly shallow criteria.
Before the election, I urge you to read Leonard Mlodinow's new book, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Pantheon). You will gain insights such as that higherpitched voices are judged by subjects as more nervous and less truthful and empathetic than speakers with lower-pitched voices, and that speaking a little faster and louder and with fewer pauses and greater variation in volume leads people to judge someone to be energetic, intelligent and knowledgeable. Looks matter even more. One study presented subjects with campaign flyers featuring black-and-white photographs of models posing as Democrats or Republicans in fictional congressional races; half looked able and competent, whereas the other half did not, as rated by volunteers before the experiment. The flyers included the candidate's name, party a!liation, education, occupation, political experience and three position statements. To control for party preference, half the subjects were shown the more suitablelooking candidate as a Democrat, and the other half saw him as a Republican. Results: 59 percent of the vote went to the candidate with the more capable appearance regardless of other qualifications. A similar study in a mock election resulted in a 15-percentage- point advantage for the more authoritative-looking politician. (continue reading…)


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Incidence of Oral Candidiasis, Prevalence of C. Dubliniensis in HIV Patients and In-vitro Azole Susceptibility (ICONIC)
This study has been terminated.
(Dr. Vindas completed his fellowship + low enrollment)
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C. dubliniensis has been identified as pathogen in Oropharyngeal Candidiasis(OPC)particularly among HIV patients. Azole therapy is a cornerstone in OPC, but resistance within C. dubliniensis isolates to diflucan is common.This is a prospective collection of biological specimens from oropharyngeal cavity with the purpose of determining the prevalence of C. dubliniensis in HIV/AIDS patients at the Duval County Department of Health Comprehensive care Center. It is hereto proposed an estimation of azole-resistance in these isolates.
|Candidiasis HIV Infections
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|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Incidence of Oral Candidiasis, Prevalence of Candida Dubliniensis in HIV Patients and In-vitro Azole Susceptibility. (I.C.O.N.I.C.)
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence of oropharyngeal candidiasis in our HIV population; estimation of the prevalence of candida dubliniensis and pattern of azole resistance to direct future treatment [ Time Frame: April 2009 ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
This is a study to try to establish the prevalence of C. dubliniensis as a causative organism of OPC in HIV and/or AIDS patients. We will aim to establish the resistance pattern for azoles but also for Flucytosine and amphotericin of these isolates.
This study will serve as a support to previously published articles that have suggested intrinsic azole-resistance within this particular species of candida and we will try to postulate its possible correlation with clinical failure.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
HIV with or without AIDS defining illnesses at the Boulevard Comprehensive Care Center
Inclusion Criteria:
- Any patient 18 years old or older with a documented diagnosis of HIV infection with or without AIDS-defining illnesses at the time of assessment, who is presenting with clinical symptoms and physical findings compatible with oropharyngeal candidiasis (as defined by the IDSA Guidelines for the Treatment and Management of HIV and HIV- related complications.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any prior diagnosis or established treatment for oropharyngeal, mucocutaneous or esophageal candidiasis documented in the patient's chart or any proven diagnosis based on reviews of physically available medical records and or history provided by patients that can be subject to later confirmation pertaining to the use of parenteral antifungals within 6 months prior to enrollment (azoles, echinocandins, amphotericin B, Flucytosine, etc).
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|Duval County Department of Health. Boulevard Comprehensive Care Center
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32206
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, Oct. 24) NEW ORLEANS — The Vidalia onion industry has promoted one of its own to head marketing and promotions.
Vidalia Onion Committee executive assistant Susan Waters is the committee's new executive director.
Waters succeeds Wendy Brannen, who Waters worked with since 2009.
In April, Brannen became director of consumer health and public relations for the U.S. Apple Association, McLean, Va.
Before joining the Vidalia, Ga.-based organization, Waters was a secretary for 16 years at the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles and worked a decade as a secretary for Farm Credit Services.
"My years of working side-by-side with the former director have prepared me to take on this new role," Waters said Oct. 22. "Working with the farmers all those years, it's like coming back home. It has been a blessing to have been in the position I've been in. I'm looking forward to continue working with the growers, packers and Vidalia onion industry to make sure we have another successful season."
Waters said she's working on a new promotion for the 2014 season and the organization is finalizing a budget.
"We are focusing on getting back to our roots where Vidalias are from and what made us famous in the beginning," Waters said. "We want to educate our demographics more about how Vidalias are grown only in Georgia."
Committee chairman Kevin Hendrix, vice president of Hendrix Produce Inc., Metter, Ga., said Waters did well filling-in for Brannen as interim committee manager.
"She's very conscientious of everything she does, and we just thought she would do a good job," Hendrix said. "I think she'll find her own way and kind of forge her own path, and continue the job she has been doing. The committee will run similar as in the past, but we may see a few small changes."
Aries Haygood, the Lyons, Ga.-based operations manager for M & T Farms, said Waters has worked for growers for a number of years.
"She's experienced at what she does and has been doing," Haygood said. "She helped Wendy a lot in the office and making things happen and helped put things together. We as an industry felt like she was the best fit to lead the committee and guide us onto the new things we may need."
The federal government shutdown delayed the final step in naming Waters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service, administers the Vidalia marketing order.
"Susan has worked hard for the VOC and will continue to do so in this new role," Brannen said. "I appreciated her help through the years and am glad to see her take on more responsibility in promoting those delicious sweet Vidalia onions."


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George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) was the founding dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine (1921-1953) and chairman of the Dept. of Pathology. A scientist of international standing, Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology in 1934 for his work on the treatment of anemia.
The bulk of the material in the Papers of George Hoyt Whipple span the period 1915-1976. They are almost wholely devoted to Whipple's role as a scientist and as an educator, that is, with the work of his laboratory at the University of Rochester, and with his organizational activities outside the Medical Center. There is very little "internal" material in this collection. Documentation of his role as dean remain in the possession of the Dean's office. Nevertheless this collection in the Rare Books & Manuscripts section of the Edward G. Miner Library remains an invaluable source of information on the work and the times of one of the major figures in 20th-century American pathology. Included among the papers are extensive series of both professional and personal correspondence (1921-1976); laboratory work data (1915-1950); reprints; and memorabilia.
The collection was brought together from several sources: personal correspondence formerly housed in the Whipple Museum; scientific correspondence and work data discovered in the summer of 1989 in two filing cabinets forgotten in a room adjacent to Dr. Whipple's old office; miscellaneous materials long in possession of the Miner Library; and several boxes of additional files transferred from the Dean's office in 1989. Processing of the collection was completed in July 1989.
In November 1993, Roger Terry, M.D. presented his files of correspondence with/or regarding Dr. Whipple to the Rare Books and Manuscripts department. These materials were processed and added to the collection (Boxes 82-83). Among the more interesting materials in this gift are Dr. Terry's 1958-1963 correspondence with George Washington Corner during the latter's authorship of George Hoyt Whipple and His Friends (1963).
The Papers of George Hoyt Whipple are contained in eighty-three document boxes, and occupy ninety-nine linear feet in the Archives.
George Hoyt Whipple was born in Ashland, New Hampshire 28 August 1878 to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt Whipple. He received his A.B. from Yale University in 1900, and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1905. Following graduation he remained in the pathology department at Hopkins, until he went to Panama as pathologist to the Ancon Hospital in 1907-08. Whipple returned to Hopkins as an Associate in Pathology in 1909. He remained in Baltimore until 1914, when he became Director of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research at the University of Calfornia, and Dean of the University of California Medical School (1920- 1921). In 1921, at the urging of Abraham Flexner and University of Rochester President Rush Rhees, Whipple agreed to become Dean of the newly funded and yet to be built medical school in Rochester, New York.
A full account of his work and achievements is contained in George Washington Corner's authoritative 1963 biography George Hoyt Whipple and His Friends. It may be supplemented by Dr. Whipple's own "Autobiographical Sketch," published in Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 1959, 2:253-289, and by Leon Miller's "George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976)," published in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1995, 66:371-393.
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The latest is, "Romnesia, but if you have Obamacare it covers pre-existing conditions." And so continues the very un-presidential Romney bashing and nothing about Obama's record. A constant litany of condescending, flip, sarcastic remarks and nothing about his record. Every stump speech sounds like a middle school playground of name-calling. It seems to go over big with college students.
When Obama was running the first time he had no record to run on. Not only didn't he have a record, he had no serious experience to be running for the highest office in the land and the leader of the free world. No one had even heard of him outside of Chicago, but he was elected because he wasn't Bush, is a very smooth talker, would be the first minority to be elected to the White House, and he came loaded with pledges and promises. His "hope and change" sounded refreshing.
So now that he has four years under his belt and he actually has a record to look at, let's look at it and see how he did on those promises and pledges to the American people. After all, Obama's record should be what he sells his next four years on, right?
1. He promised to have the unemployment rate to below 8% after his first year in office and to 5.4% by the end of his first term. 23 million people are still out of work. He claims to have added 5 million new jobs lately, but those are just replacing the 5 million that were lost during his term, so after four years we are back to square one, 2008. Folks, not even close.
2. At the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, February 23, 2009 just weeks after his inauguration, Obama said, "I pledge to reduce the debt we have inherited by half by the end of my first term." The debt today (if we believed him) should be a little more than $5 trillion. Today it stands at $16 trillion. That is eleven trillion more than his promise and six trillion more than he inherited. How is it possible to promised America what he pledged and then go six trillion in the opposite direction?
3. He promised to bring leadership to the White House and bridge the gap between the two parties. Obama got zero votes from the Republicans on Obamacare. Zero. Yet despite poles showing a significant majority of Americans didn't even want it, he shoved it through with a Democratic majority in Congress and most of them admitted they hadn't even read the whole thing before they voted.
4. 5.5 million homes are in crisis/foreclosure.
5. $4,500 drop in family income in the last four years.
6. He'll need to cut $716 billion cut in Medicare in order to make Obamacare work.
7. $2.6 trillion in additional debt for Obamacare.
8. $1.9 trillion in new taxes in his budget.
9. 100% increase in the cost of gas at the pump since he took office. A daily scourge to all that commute to work or trucking and other businesses that rely on transportation for a living with no realistic action taken now or in the future to help relieve oil prices. As Romney noted in the debate (and not answered by Obama) half as many drilling permits have been allowed on Federal lands during his tenure than with the last administration.
10. According to the Congressional Research Report, Thursday, October 18, welfare is up 32% under Obama. In 2008 it was $563 billion. Today it is $746 billion and when adding $283 billion the states contribute to welfare it totals $1.03 trillion.
11. He promised to close Guantanamo Bay within one year. Just recently, millions more were spent on construction of basketball courts and a soccer field, among other "improvements", apparently to make our terrorist inmates more comfortable. Instead of spending the money, why didn't he just close it and use the money at home like he promised?
12. He has provided nothing on immigration reform, despite that promise. He even sued the state of Arizona for having enforced the Federal Government's own immigration laws.
13. $90 billion of taxpayer's money put into "green energy" and Solyndra is not the only green company that has gone bankrupt after the infusing of hundreds of millions of government money. Green energy companies put lots of money into the Obama campaign, so it seems questionable that Solyndra would go bankrupt just two months after $450 million in government help. It could be construed as payback for campaign donations because how could the administration be so out of touch that it couldn't see that coming and still throw the money in?
14. Just lately he was shouting to a crowd that he is going to get tough on China for stealing our patents and not playing fair in the marketplace. Now, really? Why wasn't he doing this four years ago, or was it that he had just borrowed a trillion dollars from China back then to fund the Afghan war and it would be, lets say, presumptuous to expect them to cooperate so soon after begging for the money. 15. Also from the same Congressional Research Report, 47 million people are on food stamps compared to 32 million when Obama took office.
Almost any one of these failed promises would get a CEO of a company fired in his first six months. Yet here we are four years later and Obama supporters ignore the facts and act like they've had warm chocolate poured over their heads when he speaks.
Does anyone care that we are on the road to a debt that (according to the White House's own statistics) will be $25 trillion in just nine years. It won't take twenty-five trillion to make balancing the budget an impossibility. The GNP isn't big enough to support a debt like that and we are headed to a melt down like Greece. Its just math. Its as if the people of America are traveling on Obama's train enjoying themselves in the dinning car and 500 miles down the journey the track goes off a cliff. We're just living for the moment; a band aid, a stimulus, not progress and growing the economy, thanks to Obama.
Is this what you expected when he was elected, Obama supporters? Are we better off now than four years ago? If not, swallow your pride and wake up. The next four years CAN'T be any better because the debt he has, and is, incurring on the country. Simple economics will tell you that you don't run the debt up in the middle of the worst recession since the twenties. At the rate it's going, the debt will be so great that it will take everything the country can do just to pay the interest, forget about the principal. The math will show the budget will not be able to be balanced.
The good news is that it isn't too late to turn it around if an interdiction can be made this election. Another four years of Obama's stratospheric taxes, monstrous debt, and bigger government will make the above predictions a reality. Romney has a lifetime of successful business and public service and understands the economy. Obama seems to think he's another FDR, but Barrack, your no FDR. Again, ask yourself, why am I voting for Obama?
Chuck Owens, retired teacher and self employed businessman, Woodland


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USC (9-9) — x_Agate Text: Jovanovic 1-4 0-0 2, Oraby 6-9 4-4 16, Howard 2-8 1-1 5, Jacobs 0-3 4-4 4, Wesley 3-14 3-4 9, Prince 1-2 2-2 4, Bryan 0-0 0-0 0, Dukes 1-2 0-0 2, Gavrilovic 1-2 0-0 2, Taylor 0-2 0-0 0, Terrell 5-9 2-2 16, Munoz 0-0 0-0 0, Haley 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 21-57 16-17 62.
Colorado (15-4) — Gordon 2-3 0-0 5, Johnson 4-9 1-1 10, Scott 8-13 4-4 20, Booker 3-5 6-6 13, Hopkins 3-7 4-4 10, Talton 1-3 0-0 2, Stalzer 1-3 1-2 4, Nelson 0-0 0-0 0, Thomas 3-4 1-3 7, Gamble 1-1 0-0 3, King 1-6 2-2 5, Mills 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 29-57 19-22 83.
Halftime: Colorado 40-23.
3-Point Goals: USC 4-16 (Terrell 4-5, Gavrilovic 0-1, Dukes 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Wesley 0-1, Jovanovic 0-2, Jacobs 0-2, Howard 0-3), Colorado 6-16 (Gamble 1-1, Stalzer 1-1, Johnson 1-1, Gordon 1-2, Booker 1-2, King 1-3, Thomas 0-1, Talton 0-2, Hopkins 0-3).
Fouled Out: Oraby.
Rebounds: USC 23 (Oraby 6), Colorado 43 (Gordon 8).
Assists: USC 9 (Howard 3), Colorado 15 (Booker 6).
Total Fouls: USC 15, Colorado 15.
Technical: USC Coach.
BOULDER, Colo. — Southern Cal missed a slew of shots in the early going and No. 21 Colorado never gave the Trojans a chance to recover.
Josh Scott scored 20 points, Askia Booker had 13, and Colorado rebounded from its first home defeat to rout Southern Cal 83-62 on Saturday.
"We were getting every shot we wanted the first five minutes, we weren't making them, and we weren't getting stops on defenses which allowed them to push the lead up," said Southern Cal's Byron Wesley, who had nine points on 3-of-14 shooting from the field. "The first five minutes were the biggest part of the game, they were able to push the lead up to about 20 and we weren't able to bounce back."
Xavier Johnson and Jaron Hopkins had 10 points each for Colorado (15-4, 4-2 Pac-12), which sent Southern Cal (9-9, 0-5) to its season-high fifth consecutive loss. It is the worst start in conference play for the Trojans since opening the 2012 season with an eight-game skid.
The Trojans never led in the game and found themselves trailing 20-2 in the early going.
"We had a great energy to start the game and we missed five point-blank shots in the lane in the first three, four minutes of the game," first-year Southern Cal coach Andy Enfield said. "Then we turned the ball over when we had a layup. We basically missed 12 points to start the game. That enabled them to jump out on us and Colorado is an excellent team."
Omar Oraby and J.T Terrell both had 16 points to lead the Trojans, who trail the all-time series with Colorado 5-3, including an 0-4 mark in Boulder.
Colorado was coming off Thursday's 69-56 loss to No. 25 UCLA. It was the Buffaloes' first game without star guard Spencer Dinwiddie, who was leading the team in scoring, assists and steals when he tore his left ACL during a loss at Washington last Sunday. Colorado also lost Tre'Shaun Fletcher, a key reserve, for 6 to 8 weeks when he went down with a knee injury in the same game as Dinwiddie.
Younger players thrust into more prominent roles because of the injuries to Dinwiddie and Fletcher had difficulty producing in the UCLA loss. But it was a different story against the Trojans, with 11 of 12 Colorado players scoring.
"When the whole team gets in and everybody gets a piece of the victory, it's great," Booker said. "We can only feed off of this."
Trailing by 17 at halftime, Southern Cal started the second half by scoring four points, pulling within 40-27.
Colorado responded with a 9-0 run that included a highlight reel breakaway dunk by Hopkins, who moved into the starting lineup in place of Dinwiddie.
Byron Wesley hit a jumper for the Trojans to get them back within 49-29 with 15:14 left but the Buffaloes got a 3-pointer from Johnson to start another flurry, punctuated by Booker's 3-pointer that extended Colorado's lead to 59-32 with 12:41 left.
Soon after, the Buffaloes began emptying their bench and cruised to the runaway win.
Colorado raced to a 20-2 lead to start the game, spurred by a rugged defense that produced seven of the team's season-high 10 blocked shots in the first half.
Oraby briefly stalled Colorado's momentum by converting a three-point play and the Trojans managed to cut the Buffaloes' lead to 31-21 on a driving layup by Strahinj Gavrilovic. But Colorado closed the last 2:33 of the first half on 9-2 burst, including consecutive baskets by Scott and a 3-pointer by Booker that just beat the buzzer to take a 40-23 lead.


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