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11.10: Overpopulation and Over-Consumption
Is life the same for all 7 billion of us?
Of course not. A minority of people use most of the world's energy and other resources. Not only are their needs met but they have many luxuries. Many other people lack resources. Many don't have enough to eat or live with the threat of hunger. Many also do not have safe, clean water. Some people live in crowded, run-down housing. Some people live in mansions.
Overpopulation takes place when the number of organisms exceeds the carrying capacity of the region. What is the carrying capacity of Earth for humans? Are seven billion people the human carrying capacity? Nine billion? We don't know yet.
It seems that we have increased the carrying capacity of the planet for humans. We have done this with agriculture and fossil fuels and improvements in health care. Have we now exceeded Earth's carrying capacity (Figure below)? Are humans on Earth experiencing overpopulation?
Manhattan, one part of New York City, is one of the most heavily populated regions in the world.
There is not yet an answer to that question. So far many of us have skated along without much trouble. But since we depend on resources that are nonrenewable, the answer could well be yes.
Human Population and the Environment
There is evidence that there are too many of us; that the large population is becoming too high. That's because we are harming the environment. Some of the harmful effects of a high human population are:
- Supplying all those people with energy creates a lot of pollution. For example, huge oil spills have killed millions of living things.
- Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air. This also increases causes global warming.
- Fossil fuels and other resources are being used up. We may run out of oil by the mid-2000s. Many other resources will run out sooner or later.
- People are killing too many animals for food. For example, some of the best fishing grounds in the oceans have almost no fish left.
- People have destroyed many habitats. For example, they've drained millions of acres of wetlands. Wetlands have a great diversity of species. As wetlands shrink, species go extinct.
- People have introduced invasive species - species originally from a different area - to invade new habitats. The introduction can be intentional or accidental. Often, the aliens have no natural enemies in their new home. They may drive native species extinct. In the mid-1900s, Australian tree snakes invaded Guam and other islands in the Pacific. The snakes stowed away on boats and planes. Tree snakes had no natural enemies on the islands so their population exploded. The snakes have caused the extinction of nine of the eleven native bird species on Guam Figure below.
A brown tree snake.
- People themselves are also affected by the large size of the human population. Some people have a lot; some have very little. Many people refer to the abundance of luxury items in some people's lives as over-consumption. People in developed nations use 32 times more resources than people in the developing countries of the world. The symbol of this is CO2 emissions, which are a waste product from fossil fuel burning. Populations that burn the most fossil fuels have a high standard of living.
CO2 emissions tell which countries are using the most fossil fuels.
- invasive species: A species of organisms that is introduced into a region. An invasive species may disrupt the ecology of the region.
- over-consumption: Some people obtaining many more products than they need. Resource use that is unsustainable in the long term.
- overpopulation: Overpopulation occurs when the number of organisms in an area exceeds its carrying capacity.
- Supporting 7 billion people is taking an environmental toll on the planet.
- Pollution, habitat destruction and invasive species are a few of the problems caused by the high population.
- Over-consumption means that some people use a much larger amount of the resources than others.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Population Connection - World Population at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9SutNmfFk (7:18)
- What is an environment?
- What percentage of Earth is used to grow crops?
- What areas had the largest population before 1000 A.D.?
- Describe what happened to the population when the industrial age began.
- When has the fastest population growth occurred?
- What will happen in 50 years?
- What are some of the ways that the large human population is harming the environment?
- What are invasive species? Why are they able to do so much damage?
- What is over-consumption?
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Azusa Wal-Mart had like 8 Zuttons, 2 of the "tan" variety (one of which I bought) and like 6 or more of the earlier "pink" variety. The store also had several Silver Anniversary 2packs, including 3 Obi-Wan & Vader sets (one of which is MINE!).
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I had no problem getting Jodo Kast at my Sears Essentials. There were plenty of him. I just bought one, not being sure if I'd want more.
I haven't gone back to that store since. It was an easy find though. There must have been a dozen of them or more.
I got my 7" Diamond ROMULAN figure from BBTS in the mail today. He's awesome. He is dressed in the blue Romulan uniform though, as they are now showing him (the single-carded figure). Captain Kirk in the 2-pack with Spock is also in the blue Romulan uniform. However, I have a picture from SirSteve's that he took at ToyFair with a Romulan in his red uniform (presumably representing the commander played by Mark Leonard) but he is no where to be found for purchasing. WTH? I really also wanted a red Romulan uniform in my 7" collection. ???


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Family: Amphiumidae, Amphiumas view all from this family
Description A salamander with very small short legs, each with 3 toes. Dark brown/gray.
Dimensions 46-106cm. (18-42")
Breeding Breeds December-June. Female lays around 200 internally fertilised eggs in mud and coil their bodies around them for 5 months until hatching. Larvae have external gills, lungs begins irking after 4 months.
Habitat Lakes, streams and ponds.
Range Alabama through to Texas and the Mississippi valley to Missouri and Kentucky.
Discussion Nocturnal, it hides under vegetation during the day. Prey includes frogs, snakes, fish and small insects. Often caught by fishermen who detest them because they eat anything that swims. Rarely seen on land but sometimes happens during heavy rainfall.


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Jim Crace 1946-
English novelist and short story writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Crace's career through 2001.
Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in contemporary British literature, Crace writes vividly imagined stories that explore themes of community and change. Taking inspiration from magic realist writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Crace has eschewed trends in British literature toward realistic social commentary, choosing instead to set his stories either in completely imaginary worlds or in highly fictionalized renderings of historical periods, such as Stone Age Britain in The Gift of Stones (1988) and biblical Jerusalem in Quarantine (1997). Crace peoples his richly textured tales with well-defined groups of characters; in some cases each character represents a different culture, in others each represents a different strata of the same culture. The groups Crace depicts—whether entire societies or loosely formed conglomerations—are typically on the brink of watershed events, such as irrevocable economic, technological, and political changes in his early novels, or deeply personal crises and metamorphoses in later works. Though Crace's settings are often fanciful, his fiction examines serious cultural and political issues and retains a genuine social relevance.
Biographical Information
Crace was born in Lemsford, England, to Charles and Edith Crace. Crace's father was a self-educated laborer and avowed socialist and atheist who believed that the arts belonged as much to the working class as to the upper class. Crace credits his father with inspiring his own strong work ethic, love of books, and left-wing political views. Crace attended the Birmingham College of Commerce (now the University of Central England), which, at the time, offered external degrees from the University of London. After earning a bachelor's degree with honors from the University of London in 1968, Crace joined the Voluntary Services Overseas program, the British equivalent of the U.S. Peace Corps. For the next two years, Crace wrote and produced programs for Sudanese Educational Television in Khartoum, and then taught English to secondary school students in Botswana. The impact of this cross-cultural experience would later be reflected in Crace's fiction. After returning to England, Crace began a career in journalism, soon taking foreign assignments for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. In the early 1970s, Crace met Pamela Ann Turton, an English teacher, whom he married in January 1975. The couple settled in Birmingham, where they had two children. Around the time of his marriage, Crace began writing short stories, publishing three in the literary magazine New Review. He continued to work as a journalist while gradually building a solid critical reputation as a fiction writer and, in the mid-1980s, signed a book contract. His debut book, Continent (1986), was well received and won several British literary awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the David Higham Prize for fiction, and an award from the Arts Council of Britain. At that point, Crace began writing fiction full-time and, two years later, published The Gift of Stones, which won the GAP International Award for Literature. His subsequent publications also won several awards: Quarantine received the Whitbread Novel of the Year award in 1997 and was short-listed for the Booker Prize; Being Dead (1999) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel of the Year award. Throughout his career as a novelist, Crace has retained the political fervor of his youth, taking active roles in numerous liberal causes, including the anti-apartheid and nuclear disarmament movements. He has also served on various arts committees and panels, and has continued to write occasional nonfiction pieces for journals such as the Sunday Times Magazine, the Guardian, and Conde Nast Traveller.
Major Works
In terms of structure, tone, and particularly setting, each of Crace's books is markedly different from his other works. Yet, despite their contrasting literary styles, each work typically centers around a meditation on change, whether technological, political, personal, or natural. Continent is set on an imaginary third-world landmass, inhabited by a culture completely of Crace's own invention. This fictional continent is a technologically undeveloped region, where ancient customs are still largely intact. In the book—which some classify as a novel and others classify as a short story collection—Crace presents seven loosely interrelated stories, each depicting the impact of a particular element of Western culture or technology on the continent's inhabitants. The tone ranges from the ironic—a scribe is reduced to selling forgeries of his own work to meet demands of antiquities collectors—to the tragic—a man cools his house with an electric airplane propeller with gruesome results. Though the stories are sometimes narrated by the characters as they experience changes, Crace resists passing judgment on their situations, preferring to allow the characters and events to speak for themselves. In The Gift of Stones, Crace focuses on the cultural upheaval wrought by a single technological innovation—the introduction of bronze. Set at the end of the Stone Age, the novel features two narrators, a one-armed father and his stepdaughter, both storytellers who are members of a tribe that builds and sells stone tools. The surrounding tribes in the area depend on the insular stone-workers and keep them safe from marauders. However, as bronze begins to emerge as a preferred material for tools, the stone-workers, with their technology rendered obsolete, are severely jeopardized. In the end, only the father, who has some knowledge of the outside world, is equipped to help the stone-workers adapt, though he knows that as the stone-worker culture vanishes so will the need for his stories. Crace's next novel, Arcadia (1991), is more detached and its structure more schematic. Likewise, the novel's driving cultural change comes not as the result of evolution, but rather by the decree of an individual. Set in the present in a nameless European city, the novel follows Victor, a bitter eighty-nine-year-old millionaire who wishes to replace the old Soap Market—the city's vital but ramshackle economic heart—with Arcadia, a sterile shopping mall of his own devising. Victor's mall is a commercial success, but at the expense of the community of colorful characters who used to work at the old Soap Market. Eventually, the spiritual descendants of the displaced merchants develop an underground market that rivals Victor's. Arcadia features a deliberately complex structure, including many flashbacks and an omniscient central narrator, all devices that facilitate the exploration of equally complex themes surrounding economic change and growth. In contrast, Signals of Distress (1995) is a more light-hearted novel in which Crace relates a tragicomic tale of a community in upheaval. Set in 1836, the story unwinds over the period of weeks following the wreck of an American sailing ship near a poverty-stricken English port. The large cast of characters includes members of the American crew, a slave who cooks for them, a liberal-minded envoy from a soap factory, and a young woman who makes a meager living harvesting kelp. Each character has his or her own interests, but each is also the voice of a group: the New World, the old world, capitalists, workers, slaves, or free persons. As the story opens, the interests of these disparate groups are poised in delicate balance, which by the end is completely upset. Crace's next novel, Quarantine, is set in the biblical era and follows five troubled souls who have gathered at a spot in the Judean desert for forty days of purifying fasting and meditation. Among this group is Jesus—portrayed as a confused, religiously obsessed teenager—who quickly heals a wounded merchant who has taken refuge at the meditation ground. The merchant, Crace's representation of the devil, spends the rest of the forty days tormenting the pilgrims. In the end, most of the pilgrims are healed, seemingly by faith in Jesus's divinity, and the merchant is busy plotting to make a profit by selling tales of Jesus's works. Though Crace once again focuses on a group at the point of transition, the emphasis in Quarantine is on the personal nature of transformation rather than the political or economic mechanisms of change. Being Dead opens with the murder of a married couple on a beach, an event from which Crace runs three narrative threads: a graphic and poetic description of their decomposition; a flashback that recounts their lives together; and a flash-forward describing the effect that their deaths have on their daughter. Crace confronts the transition from life to death with vivid depictions of physical decay and a rigorous investigation of the types of "meaning" individual lives have in an indifferent universe. The Devil's Larder (2001) presents a series of sixty-four episodic stories about food—its preparation, consumption, defilement, and lethality—in which Crace explores the far reaches of human desire and curiosity.
Critical Reception
Despite beginning his literary career fairly late in life, and having produced a relatively small body of work, Crace has been widely regarded as a fine prose writer worthy of serious critical attention. He is recognized for both the philosophical and political depth of his subject matter and for the technical sophistication of his literary style. Much of the critical debate surrounding Crace's work has focused on his style, particularly his prose technique and the narrative structures he employs. Several reviewers have described his writing as poetic. Crace often writes in two-beat iambs, a device that many critics have described as having an enchanting and hypnotic effect. Critics have found his use of iambs particularly effective in The Gift of Stones, in which Crace uses the poetic rhythms only during the father's public speeches, thus distinguishing them from the terse monosyllabic prose he uses in the rest of the book. In his other works, however, some critics have found Crace's iambs to be distracting, noting that his self-consciously stylized prose occasionally serves only to trivialize the seriousness of his subject matter. Critical opinion has been similarly divided on the subject of Crace's narrative techniques. Reviewers have agreed that Crace is a novelist of ideas and that his plots are always at the service of his dominant themes. Some commentators have faulted Crace for using narrative contrivances—such as omniscient narrators, flashbacks and flash-forwards, and overly neat symmetries—while other critics have described Crace's use of such devices as masterful. The complexly ordered plot of Being Dead, for instance, served his lyrical meditations on life and death to such an effective degree that some reviewers have ranked it as one of his most moving novels. However, Crace's use of similar devices elsewhere, particularly in Arcadia, has prompted critics to label him as a distant, clinical, and manipulative author. Overall, critical response to Crace's body of work has been marked by respect for his stylistic imagination, with some commentators having rather marked reservations about his tendency to let his technical prowess dominate his work.
Principal Works
Continent (short stories) 1986
The Gift of Stones (novel) 1988
Arcadia (novel) 1991
Signals of Distress (novel) 1995
The Slow Digestions of the Night (novella) 1995
Quarantine (novel) 1997
Being Dead (novel) 1999
The Devil's Larder (short stories) 2001
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John Blades (review date 5 April 1987)
SOURCE: Blades, John. "Blurbists Credited with Discovery of Continent." Chicago Tribune Books (5 April 1987): 3.
[In the following review, Blades offers a positive assessment of Continent.]
As any critic will tell you, some of today's most imaginative fiction writing appears not in books but on book jackets. Because these testimonials (aka blurbs) come from the author's friends and fellow writers, who may just happen to share a publisher, agent or accountant, they usually have all the credibility of nutrition ratings on cereal boxes. But some blurbs prove too seductive to ignore.
When a book arrives with endorsements from writers such as...
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Brian Stonehill (review date 12 April 1987)
SOURCE: Stonehill, Brian. Review of Continent, by Jim Crace. Los Angeles Times Book Review (12 April 1987): 4.
[In the following review, Stonehill offers a positive assessment of Continent.]
Here are seven related short stories that arrive on our shores already wreathed in praise. Jim Crace's Continent won England's Whitbread Prize for the best first "novel" of 1986, and the David Higham Prize for the year's best first work of fiction. Continent seems more strangely native to our New World, though, than to the Old.
The stories take place, for one thing, in an exotic locale that seems to be Latin American, although the fanciful...
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George Kearns (review date autumn 1987)
SOURCE: Kearns, George. "Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom is Different." Hudson Review 40, no. 3 (autumn 1987): 487–94.
[In the following excerpt, Kearns offers a positive assessment of Continent, though objects to its dubious classification as a novel.]
The empire strikes back. We hear of a threatening entity, the "Pacific rim," whose principal market we have become. The Japanese have rescued the Treasury from embarrassment. What will it be like, what is it like, to be a "debtor nation"? Dour heads on television warn that in our own immense way we are following Britain toward an age of humbled decline. May it be genteel, so gradual that we hardly...
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Richard Deveson (review date 2–8 September 1988)
SOURCE: Deveson, Richard. "The Prehistoric Future." Times Literary Supplement (2–8 September 1988): 952.
[In the following review, Deveson offers a generally positive assessment of The Gift of Stones, comparing the novel to William Golding's The Inheritors.]
How did Stone Age people speak, how did they tell stories, and—if, like Jim Crace, you are a writer independent-minded enough to set a novel in the Stone Age—should you try to imitate them? In The Inheritors, William Golding's narrative idiom was surprisingly simple, enabling his reconstruction of a Neanderthal thought-world to seem correspondingly far-reaching and credible. On the face of...
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Mark Kamine (review date 20 March 1989)
SOURCE: Kamine, Mark. "A Prehistoric Tale." New Leader (20 March 1989): 20–21.
[In the following review, Kamine offers a positive assessment of The Gift of Stones.]
Jim Crace has written a short novel about growing up in a prehistoric village—a Stone Age Bildungsroman. This is less odd than it sounds given the settings of the stories in his first book, an award-winner in his native England, entitled Continent. Equal parts mock anthropology, V. S. Naipaul and Jorge Luis Borges, it pitted primitive societies against modern ones with good ironic effect.
The Gift of Stones drops the modern as well as most of the irony. While...
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Perry Glasser (review date 16 April 1989)
SOURCE: Glasser, Perry. "A Stone Age Storyteller Speaks from the Dawn of Narrative Art." Chicago Tribune Books (16 April 1989): 6.
[In the following review, Glasser offers a positive assessment of The Gift of Stones.]
If you share Jim Crace's concerns for language and ideas, The Gift of Stones will seem rich broth. This novel is wonderfully lucid, often musical and always thought-provoking.
In a pre-metal age, in a village by the sea, the members of a community work flint. They are impervious to attack from the horsemen who need their weapons; they prosper because merchants prize their tools for trade. When a young boy loses half his arm to...
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Lowry Pei (review date August 1989)
SOURCE: Pei, Lowry. Review of The Gift of Stones, by Jim Crace. Boston Review 14, no. 4 (August 1989): 23–24.
[In the following review, Pei offers a negative assessment of The Gift of Stones.]
Jim Crace's first book, Continent, was a group of stories taking place in the present on a fictitious continent at the world's margin; his present book, The Gift of Stones, takes place on a nameless coast on the outskirts of time—at the juncture between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. The subject of Continent was the Third World, oppression, colonialism—extreme situations, tragic and comic turns; the subject of The Gift of Stones is...
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Gary Krist (review date winter 1990)
SOURCE: Krist, Gary. "Serendipity." Hudson Review 42, no. 4 (winter 1990): 659–66.
[In the following excerpt, Krist offers a positive assessment of The Gift of Stones.]
I first came upon the word "serendipitous" serendipitously. I was looking up the spelling of "sequoia" in my dictionary—for a junior high school paper, if I remember correctly—and, well, I got distracted. The words in sequoia's vicinity were fascinating: Seraglio, the place in a Mohammedan palace where the wives and concubines are secluded. Serein, a very fine rain falling from a clear sky after sunset. And serendipitous, defined as good, beneficial, favorable; come upon by accident;...
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Adam Mars-Jones (review date 13 March 1992)
SOURCE: Mars-Jones, Adam. "Hurrying Back to Nature." Times Literary Supplement (13 March 1992): 22.
[In the following review, Mars-Jones offers a positive assessment of Arcadia.]
Joseph, the youngest of the three main characters in Jim Crace's fascinating new novel [Arcadia], a country boy newly arrived in the metropolis, sees in his new surroundings the opposite of a logic of place:
Some fool, in fact, had built this city on the worst of sites. Where was the fish-stocked estuary, the river bridge, the sheltered harbour, the pass between two hills, the natural crossroads in the land where ancient settlements were meant to...
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Geoff Dyer (review date 20 March 1992)
SOURCE: Dyer, Geoff. "Word Salad." New Statesman & Society (20 March 1992): 45.
[In the following review of Arcadia, Dyer cites shortcomings in the novel's linguistic excesses and corresponding lack of character development.]
Arcadia is the story of a city or, more precisely, the story of the market at the heart of the city, its produce and traders. The market is controlled by Victor who began life as a waif, surviving on kindness, guile and stall-holders' unwanted waste. Now a lonely 80-year-old millionaire, he rarely leaves the air-conditioned sanctuary of Big Vic, the office block where he plans to transform the teeming bustle of the market...
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Francis King (review date 21 March 1992)
SOURCE: King, Francis. "Nostalgia for the Mud." Spectator (21 March 1992): 34.
[In the following review, King offers a positive assessment of Arcadia.]
Jim Crace's first novel, Continent—recipient of the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the David Higham Prize, the Chianti-Ruffino/Antico Fattore Prize—was set in an imaginary country. Arcadia, his third novel, is set in an imaginary city, an amalgam, as it were, of Birmingham, Lyons and Milan.
From his eyrie, a private roof garden on the 28th floor of the headquarters of his business empire, 80-year-old Vic gazes down on this city, which, a remote yet...
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Richard Eder (review date 4 October 1992)
SOURCE: Eder, Richard. "The Phantom of the Market." Los Angeles Times Book Review (4 October 1992): 3, 12.
[In the following review, Eder offers a positive assessment of Arcadia.]
The true characters in the fiction of the British writer Jim Crace are not individuals but communities. In the superb and haunting The Gift of Stones, it was a late Stone Age clan of weapons-makers, uprooted and set to wandering by the advent of Bronze Age technology. In Arcadia, it is the barrow men and stall-holders of a fruit-and-vegetable market dating back to medieval times, who are displaced by the construction of a great glass arcade adorned with foliage and...
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Joseph Olshan (review date 15 November 1992)
SOURCE: Olshan, Joseph. "Meet a Despotic Octogenarian and His Utopian Marketplace." Chicago Tribune Books (15 November 1992): 3.
[In the following review, Olshan offers a positive assessment of Arcadia.]
Joining the literature of Utopia is this new entry from novelist Jim Crace, author of The Gift of Stones. Arcadia is a book that conjures up a marketplace so perfect that it dares to offer the experience of shopping as spiritual alternative:
Four spectacular glass ovals which seemed both like cakes and the domes of viscous mosques. … Nine tapering barrel-vaulted aisles—space-framed in wood and steel,...
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Robert M. Adams (review date 3 December 1992)
SOURCE: Adams, Robert M. "Cornering the Market." New York Review of Books (3 December 1992): 14–16.
[In the following excerpt, Adams provides an overview of Continent and The Gift of Stones and offers a favorable review of Arcadia.]
Jim Crace is a British writer who has just published his third work of fiction without having made much impression in his first two. This seems likely to change soon. Born in London in 1946 but resident in Birmingham, Crace is apparently tied to no literary group of academic or political influence. Although our real business here is with his third work of fiction, Arcadia, a preliminary account of the first two,...
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Edward T. Wheeler (review date 18 June 1993)
SOURCE: Wheeler, Edward T. "Modern Gardening." Commonweal (18 June 1993): 26–27.
[In the following review of Arcadia, Wheeler praises Crace's prose style and powers of imagination, but finds technical flaws in the novel's omniscient narrator and inadequate conclusion.]
Jim Crace is of the same generation of British novelists as Martin Amis and Peter Ackroyd; and like them he is a chronicler of the city. Resemblances end quickly after that: where Amis (London Fields) is apocalyptic in theme and "postmodern" in form, Crace is generally affirmative and traditional. Unlike Ackroyd whose English Music seeks to tie London to the eternal English...
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T. J. Binyon (review date 2 September 1994)
SOURCE: Binyon, T. J. "All Hands on Deck." Times Literary Supplement (2 September 1994): 12.
[In the following review, Binyon offers a positive assessment of Signals of Distress.]
During a storm in November 1836 an American barque, the Belle of Wilmington, is driven on to a sandbank near Wherrytown, in the west of England. The Canadian cattle which are its cargo—to be replaced, on the return voyage, by emigrants to Canada—swim to the shore. Later, the crew are rescued by fishermen; they take up residence in Wherrytown's one inn, while their vessel is salvaged and repaired. Another resident of the inn is Aymer Smith, who has just arrived on a steam-packet, the...
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Paula Burnett (review date 2 September 1994)
SOURCE: Burnett, Paula. "Ocean Views." New Statesman & Society (2 September 1994): 36–37.
[In the following excerpt, Burnett offers a negative assessment of Signals of Distress.]
Two years on from the 1492 quincentenary, the Euro-American past still haunts British minds. Not only has the infant 23rd in line for the throne improbably been named Columbus, but London publishing has delivered four new novels addressing the shared transatlantic experience. Three of them have voyages at their heart. All revisit the guilt and suffering of the past, and all hold up to the light the racial encounters and moral conflicts of Atlantic history. …
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Tim Parks (review date 3 September 1994)
SOURCE: Parks, Tim. "On the Rocks." Spectator (3 September 1994): 36–37.
[In the following review, Parks offers a negative assessment of Signals of Distress.]
Literary novelists seem obsessed with history these days—Byatt, Ackroyd, Amis, Phillips, McEwan, Ondaatje, De Bernières—so many books about the last century, the last war. No doubt somebody is studying the phenomenon. Inevitably the blurbs tell us that the themes are as pertinent today as they have ever been. In the case of Crace's Signals of Distress this means the vexed question of our attitude to other people's poverty, the gap between holding the 'right' views and doing the 'right'...
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Michele Field (essay date 2 October 1995)
SOURCE: Field, Michele. "Jim Crace: Moral Activist, Conservative Romantic." Publishers Weekly (2 October 1995): 49–50.
[In the following essay, Field provides an overview of Crace's literary career and publishing history, and reports Crace's comments on his life, editorial associations, and writings.]
One wonders how a writer as successful as Jim Crace can remain so boy-next-doorish. He has almost made an art of talking himself down, making an extraordinarily levelheaded appraisal of his work while remaining flushed with enthusiasm for everything he has written and wants to write. Signals of Distress is his fourth novel. He published his first nine years...
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James Hamilton-Paterson (review date 6 May 1996)
SOURCE: Hamilton-Paterson, James. "Voyages Out." New Republic (6 May 1996): 38–41.
[In the following review, Hamilton-Peterson provides a generally favorable assessment of Signals of Distress, citing shortcomings in the novel's flat characters and lack of emotional energy.]
I must come clean. I have read only two of this much-praised writer's novels: his first, Continent, published in 1986 and Signals of Distress, his latest. I am not equipped to provide one of those overviews expected of critics when they deal with a writer who has a "track record." That awful expression points up the idiocy of equating a writer with an athlete. Not only...
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Eric Korn (review date 13 June 1997)
SOURCE: Korn, Eric. "The Galilean." Times Literary Supplement (13 June 1997): 25.
[In the following review, Korn offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
Roughing it in Ruristan is a fine thing, but one of the keenest pleasures of dependent travel is the trusting sense of infantile repose that comes from a guide (or guidebook), whose first words give assurance that you are going to be shown the most important and impressive sites in suitable logical order, and with adequate commentary; that you will not be mislaid, delayed, deluded, hijacked, persecuted by thirst or heat or postcard-sellers; and that there will be cold drinks and comfort at the end....
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Tobias Jones (review date 14 June 1997)
SOURCE: Jones, Tobias. "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness." Spectator (14 June 1997): 39–40.
[In the following review, Jones offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
It's hard to imagine who will dislike Jim Crace's startling, beguiling novel more: atheists who resent his thick symbolism and deific narration, or Christians offended by his arm's-length, cynical rendering of Jesus's 40 days in the wilderness, his 'quarantine.' Using a simple plot and the barest characterisation, it is a primitive and jocular book of big themes: about suspect saviours, the possible pointlessness of spirituality, and so the constant nag of evil.
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Robert Irwin (review date 3 July 1997)
SOURCE: Irwin, Robert. "Hiveward-Winging." London Review of Books (3 July 1997): 21.
[In the following review of Quarantine, Irwin commends Crace's literary skill and ingenuous imagination, but finds faults in the novel's self-contained and enigmatic significance.]
'I'll just explain the central situation. Six people are trapped in a lift between two floors of a skyscraper—a musician, a surgeon, a char-woman, a conjuror and his female assistant, and a hunchback carrying a small suitcase.'
'Containing some sandwiches, I hope,' chuckled the local curate. 'They're bound to get...
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Richard Eder (review date 12 April 1998)
SOURCE: Eder, Richard. "Cavedweller." Los Angeles Times Book Review (12 April 1998): 2.
[In the following review, Eder offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
A cool metaphysician, the British writer Jim Crace sets his novels in a prehistoric past (The Gift of Stones) or hypothetical future (Arcadia) to test out the pulse of our present-day spirits.
This gives him the equivalent of a dust-free laboratory, free of the distractions, fads and obsessions of the world around us. Uncrowded and perhaps excessively bare, it allows space for the large sorts of inquiry that our contemporary minds might find uncomfortable in a contemporary...
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Bruce Bawer (review date 3 May 1998)
SOURCE: Bawer, Bruce. "Temptation in the Wilderness." Washington Post Book World (3 May 1998): 5.
[In the following review, Bawer offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
Though the biblical account of Jesus's 40 days in the desert and his temptation there by the devil takes up only a few lines in the gospels, the story—which follows his baptism and precedes his public ministry—has always been seen as pivotal. Now, in the novel Quarantine, the English writer Jim Crace asks the question: If Jesus did in fact go into the desert after his baptism, what might really have happened there?
In this dry, precise, often hypnotic...
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Luke Timothy Johnson (review date 8 May 1998)
SOURCE: Johnson, Luke Timothy. "Jesus in the Desert." Commonweal (8 May 1998): 18–19.
[In the following review, Johnson offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
Jim Crace has pulled off the literary equivalent of a perfect triple-triple jump in ice-skating. He has written a novel that has Jesus as its main character yet avoids reminding the reader of the Bible. Unlike all those lives of Jesus and historical Jesus reconstructions that end up making Jesus seem like a cardboard figure compared to the compelling and mysterious portrayals of him in the Gospels, [Quarantine] draws the reader into an imaginative rendering that is so daring, so compelling, and...
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Brooke Allen (review date 1–15 June 1998)
SOURCE: Allen, Brooke. "Jesus Lives." New Leader (1–15 June 1998): 15–16.
[In the following review, Allen offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
One hundred and thirty years after T. H. Huxley coined the term "agnosticism" in an attempt to reconcile religious feeling with Charles Darwin's new theories, the dispute between science and religion is very much alive. In American schools—70 years after the Scopes trial in Tennessee—Christian groups still challenge the teaching of evolution. On the opposing side, hard-core scientific rationalists argue that geological evidence of the earth's age proves the Bible is fiction, and that religious faith is...
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Christian Century (review date 10 March 1999)
SOURCE: Review of Quarantine, by Jim Crace. Christian Century (10 March 1999): 292.
[In the following review, the critic offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
This novel about Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness—and the six people who spend more than a month in close proximity to him—is both fascinating and puzzling. [Quarantine] is fascinating because Crace is a wonderful writer whose characters and setting draw one in and remain in one's mind. It is puzzling because his portrait of Jesus and of people's response to Jesus is so ambivalent—a portrait drawn by an agnostic who poses profound questions and gives no answers. Like four other...
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Kenneth Arnold (review date spring 1999)
SOURCE: Arnold, Kenneth. "The Emptiness Is All." Cross Currents 49, no. 1 (spring 1999): 140–43.
[In the following excerpt, Arnold offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.]
The desire for solitude seems to be strong in us, even though we humans are gregarious. There are many reasons to want to be alone; tradition suggests that seeking the divine is one of the strongest ones. Being alone is not enough, however. The word solitude brings with it a stronger meaning—isolation, separation, empty spaces. Real solitude, it seems, is to be found in deserts, where God (and the devil) are always waiting. Both of these books, one nonfiction and one fiction, fiercely...
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Phil Baker (review date 17 September 1999)
SOURCE: Baker, Phil. "Going Gracefully." Times Literary Supplement (17 September 1999): 22.
[In the following review of Being Dead, Baker commends Crace's ambitious project, but concludes that the novel's macabre anti-humanism and "playful fabulation" fail to match the book's solemn subject.]
Like a schoolboy chemist, Jim Crace is keen on stinks. Quarantine (1997) gave us "the devil's eggy dinner" on a dying man's breath, and his new book ferments the "pungent details of mortality," until they make policemen cough and gag. Being Dead traces the decomposition of two middle-aged science teachers after they have been murdered on a...
(The entire section is 1015 words.)
Phil Whitaker (review date 20 September 1999)
SOURCE: Whitaker, Phil. "The Absolute End." New Statesman (20 September 1999): 57-58.
[In the following review, Whitaker offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
Jim Crace's sixth novel begins with the two central characters lying murdered on an isolated beach. Joseph and Celice, both zoologists, had met as postgraduates on a field trip to Baritone Bay, their relationship being consummated among its dunes. When, after three decades of marriage, they discover that the area is about to be bulldozed to build luxury houses and a marina, the idea of a nostalgic return takes hold. Without informing anyone of their destination, they set off. It is to be their last...
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Miranda France (review date 2 October 1999)
SOURCE: France, Miranda. "Supping Full on Horrors." Spectator (2 October 1999): 46.
[In the following review, France offers a positive assessment of Being Dead, but notes that the novel's virtuosity and intellectual challenge lacks emotional intensity.]
Jim Crace's new novel features two zoologists who are, literally, consumed by their subject. Celice and Joseph, a married couple in their fifties, are dead. [Being Dead] discovers them shortly after their murder among sand dunes and records their deterioration over six days, until the bodies are discovered by police. By then only fragments remain, thanks to the endeavour and hunger of various species...
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John Banville (review date 13 April 2000)
SOURCE: Banville, John. "A Rare Species." New York Review of Books (13 April 2000): 30, 32.
[In the following review, Banville praises Crace's literary talent and experimentation, but criticizes the "dulling" prose style of Being Dead.]
Of the two limiting phenomena of life, that of our coming into the world and that of our going out, it is hard to say which is the more mysterious; certainly we know which is the least acceptable. How can it be that a human being, this extraordinary congeries of affects and emotions, desires and fears, wickedness and good, should at a certain point in time simply cease to be? Even those who believe in the afterlife are baffled...
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Jonathan Levi (review date 16 April 2000)
SOURCE: Levi, Jonathan. "The Origin of Species." Los Angeles Times Book Review (16 April 2000): 19.
[In the following review, Levi offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
"These are the instruments of sex outdoors. You need good weather, somewhere dry to stretch out far from dogs and wasps, and no sense of the ridiculous." No matter that they were a pair of homely zoologists at the uglier end of their 50s, Joseph and Celice had the good fortune of a sunny Tuesday with no classes to teach and a stretch of dune above Baritone Bay, empty of canine and insect witness to their middle-aged pleasure. Lucky enough not to see their murderer, Joseph and Celice were...
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Brooke Allen (review date May 2000)
SOURCE: Allen, Brooke. "Meditations, Good and Bad." New Criterion 18, no. 9 (May 2000): 63–68.
[In the following excerpt, Allen offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
The name of Jim Crace is not famous in this country, but he has long been considered, and deservedly so, one of Britain's better novelists: every sentence that he writes is original and closely observed, worth reading and reading again.
It is hardly enough to say that Crace is an atheist. "I'm not even a relaxed atheist, I'm a post-Dawkins scientific atheist," he once said in an interview with the Manchester Guardian. His 1998 novel, Quarantine, an imagined...
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F. González-Crussi (review 14 July 2000)
SOURCE: González-Crussi, F. "Approaching the Unknowable." Commonweal (14 July 2000): 27–28.
[In the following review, González-Crussi offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
Among book titles, surely Being Dead ranks with the most intriguing. The visitor to the bookstore or the public library, ambulating through the stacks and catching a fleeting sight of the title, cannot but stop and wonder. Is this one addition to the dauntingly prolific race of "How To" books, if books they be called? What folly! Who can teach us that which no one has ever experienced and come back to tell about? Who, indeed, can expound on being dead? This is the one...
(The entire section is 983 words.)
Susan Balée (review date autumn 2000)
SOURCE: Balée, Susan. "Maximalist Fiction." Hudson Review 53, no. 3 (autumn 2000): 513–20.
[In the following excerpt, Balée offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
The novel, like the rest of America, has put on weight.
A good thing, I think, for the former. The best books of the last year were meaty, sensory-soaked reads. Full-bodied characters rose up from the page, multiple plots shouldered each other for chapter space, and history—almost all the best books of the last year were historical novels—provided a feast of curious facts for discriminating readers to chew on and digest. Unfortunately, one of the most disappointing books of...
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Paul Maliszewski (review date fall 2000)
SOURCE: Maliszewski, Paul. Review of Being Dead, by Jim Crace. Review of Contemporary Fiction 20, no. 3 (fall 2000): 145.
[In the following review, Maliszewski offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.]
After Celice and Joseph, the married zoologists at the center of Jim Crace's novel [Being Dead], die in the first paragraph, their bodies spend the rest of the book concealed by the tall grass and sand dunes along Baritone Bay. Crabs, flies, ants, and gulls locate the bodies and treat the pair as any other object in the natural world; they are potential food, possible shelter, a good place to leave eggs. Six days pass, and Joseph's hand never lets go of...
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Eric Miles Williamson (review date winter 2001)
SOURCE: Williamson, Eric Miles. "Beyond Postmodernism." Southern Review 37, no. 1 (winter 2001): 174–81.
[In the following excerpt, Williamson offers a positive assessment of Being Dead, though notes that Crace is somewhat "overinsistent" in presenting his "Darwinian" thesis.]
It's been a while since didactic fiction has garnered serious consideration. For the past thirty years John Steinbeck, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and others have suffered neglect if not outright contempt. Their works have been ignored or disdained primarily because their rhetorical messages are all too clear, and "postmodern" writers...
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Francis Gilbert (review date 3 September 2001)
SOURCE: Gilbert, Francis. "The Devil's Larder." New Statesman (3 September 2001): 41.
[In the following review, Gilbert offers a positive assessment of The Devil's Larder.]
Although The Devil's Larder is a novel about food, I wouldn't read it anywhere near the kitchen: some of the most striking of these interlinked stories include the description of a master chef cooking old leather in order to prove that man will eat anything; the tale of a fisherman dying a horrible death from food poisoning; the thoughts of a supermarket cash register and a recollection of an evening of "strip fondue" that results in much scorched flesh. As you might expect...
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Further Reading
Crowley, John. "Wandering Minstrel." Washington Post Book World (28 May 2000): 6.
Crowley lauds Being Dead, asserting that the book is emotionally touching and filled with inventiveness and surprises.
Eder, Richard. "Food Stories that Aren't Really about Food at All." New York Times (27 September 2001): E8.
Eder offers a generally favorable assessment of The Devil's Larder.
———. "The Life after Death of a Pair Not Yet Gone." New York Times (13 April 2000): E11.
Eder offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.
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Côte d'Ivoire: "We must not let the people of Côte d'Ivoire down". ERC Amos
Former president Laurent Gbagbo was captured by President Alassane Ouattara's Republican Forces on 11 April, but the situation in Abidjan remains volatile. According the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 900 deaths have been confirmed in Abidjan and western Côte d'Ivoire as a result of the conflict, including retaliatory attacks. A Commission of Inquiry appointed by OHCHR will investigate the allegations of serious abuses and violations of human rights committed in Côte d'Ivoire.
Humanitarian needs across the country are extensive. The response is ongoing in Côte d'Ivoire and neighboring countries, particularly Liberia, which hosts the majority of Ivorian refugees. It is estimated that 800,000 people have been internally displaced inside Côte d'Ivoire, and over 160,000 others have fled to neighboring countries.
A UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team arrived in Côte d'Ivoire on 12 April to strengthen humanitarian assessment, operations and coordination for the ongoing relief effort. In Abidjan, for the first time in weeks, UNICEF has been able to deliver supplies including medicine, nutritional supplements, soap and blankets. However, the provision of humanitarian assistance in the city remains difficult due to the continuing insecurity and violence which are impeding humanitarian access.
Entire neighborhoods have been without electricity and water for weeks, raising concerns that cholera, which is already present in Côte d'Ivoire, could spread further. Many hospitals and health facilities have been unable to operate properly, and those that have stayed open do not have enough doctors, medicines, and other basic equipment to meet all their needs. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning about food insecurity in the country, particularly in Abidjan, as food is difficult to find in the markets and prices have risen sharply. FAO has also identified urgent agricultural needs in western Côte d'Ivoire, and is warning that the sanctions and the economic downturn continue to affect the entire population. Of particular concern are the vulnerable households already affected by poverty and food insecurity, particularly in the west and north of the country and in the shantytowns in the larger cities.
On 13 April, the revised emergency action plans for humanitarian response in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia+4 were launched in Geneva. The two revised documents reflect the increased needs for IDPs, refugees and host families, calling for $146.5 million for Liberia and $160 million for Côte d'Ivoire and its other 4 neighbouring countries. "We need to act now," Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos told the Security Council on 13 April as she called on nations to donate more money for humanitarian assistance to Côte d'Ivoire. "We must not let the people of Côte d'Ivoire down."
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JohnMcCain's new mission: A GOP makeover
October 2, 2009 - 5:28am
Sen. John McCain couldn't become President of the United States so his next impossible mission is even more daunting: Reshape the Republican Party in his own image.
Politico reports McCain is working behind the scenes to remake the GOP.
His vision? A center-right party that appeals to political pragmatists and moderates.
It won't be easy. Right-wing extremists hijacked the Republican Party many years ago and have a solid hold.
McCain, however, is stubborn and persistent.


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GSK, J&J and Sanofi secure the top 3 ranks in 2012 Access to Medicine Index
Singapore: Sanofi has been ranked third among 20 pharmaceutical companies on the 2012 Access to Medicine Index (ATM Index) created by the Access to Medicine Foundation, an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to medicine to societies in need.
The 20 companies that were featured in the index, in order of their decreasing ranks, include, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Merck & Co, Gilead Sciences, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Merck KGaA, Bayer, Roche, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly, Eisai, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Takeda, Daiichi Sankyo and Astellas Pharma.
While speaking about the achivement of Sanofi, Mr Gilles Lhernould, senior vice president, corporate social responsibility, Sanofi. said that, "This third ranking on the 2012 Access to Medicine Index is a recognition of Sanofi's efforts to act with all our partners to protect health and raise the hopes of patients. The key challenge in the future will be to eliminate the north-south divide in access to health care. As a global healthcare leader, we are the right partner to achieve this goal."
The Access to Medicine Foundation particularly acknowledged the initiatives of Sanofi in the fields of multi-resistant bacterial infections, malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases, as well as the renewal of its partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight diseases like Buruli ulcer, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.
In its report, the Access to Medicine Foundation, creator of the ATM 2012 Index, highlighted that Sanofi has significantly improved its approach to access to medicine in several areas and it leads the field in the area of public policy. It has continued to invest in R&D, targeting relevant diseases, and has a broad range of molecules in its pipeline. The company has robust access management systems, inter and intra-country tiered pricing, works with local governments to improve capability advancement and has initiatives in both donations and sustainable philanthropy, with two single-drug donation programs.
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Have fed both, but my guys have had less gas and firmer stools on PPP.
Have fed both, but my guys have had less gas and firmer stools on PPP.
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I keep around 15 dogs at a time. Was feeding Enhance pro athlete and am now on PPP, stools are great, energy levels and recovery are great, coats could be better.
Have been feeding PPP for many years. As others have stated - firm stools and great coats.
If you are still undecided, Purina is also a large supporter of our dog games (not sure whether Euk does as well)
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When faced with the same decision I went with Euk and have been VERY happy with it. My dogs dont smell fishy but sometimes when I hose kennels it smells a little fishy. I think the fish oil in the food is what keeps the skin and coat nice. I think if I were feeding Pro Plan and not getting nice coats I would suppliment the fish oil
I was feeding enhance pro loved it great food clean ears maintained weight tried ppp was very unhappy loose stools dirty ears coats looked terrible on all six of my dogs and shedding was unreal switched to eukanuba and was happy untill there recent price increase I am now looking at loyall pro seems to be a good food looking at whats in the food I have been hearing some good things about it i am going to try some and see.
I know it has to be true, I read it on the internet
I have to feed more on PP than when I was on Euk. However, I am not going to pay what EUK is asking to pay.
I have had individual dogs do well and not so well on both. Some dogs will tolerate/thrive on one more than the other I guess. I prefer PP if both "work" for my dogs.
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I believe they are both good; however, I prefer Euk. The dogs seem to be able to keep weight on better, and have a shinier coat. Purina does a much better job at supporting our sport. They also realize that if they can get a pro to feed Purina, then all of his or her clients will also be faithful customers.
I have dogs on both, one dog seems to have ear issues on the PPP so she is on EUK. I did have a half sister with the same issues and she had less ear issues on the EUK. A little food allergy I think either way both foods have been great, dogs are doing very well on the PPP my 9 year old is amazing! Recovery after a huge test was just such an eye opener for me.
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No diabetes and hypertension. I took medicine viagra. By using viagra I got headache. Not good sex drive. No sexual infection. Every test I have taken every thing is normal including sperm count motility .blood flow also normal I have tested ultrasound too. But I'm facing erection problem. My erection is not hard and standard.
I am 33 years old, married man. I have itching & irritation in my upper tip of the penis for last 1 day.
Good afternoon my name is ather 34 year age I am suffering from diabetes for last one year two days back I consult a diabetologist nears my home there he tested sugar level at glucometer 385 and he prescribed me two tablets Dia micron xr 60 before break fast and gluformin I 0.5 after break fast and before sleep at night. And after two days I checked my glucose level at glucometer it's show again 385 .previously I used to take guformin 500 mg.
Sir meri age 40 years h.mere 5-6 years se early discharge ki problem h.meri saadi ko 18 years ho gye h .mai alkohal cigarete nhi pita hu .meri bp n sugar sahi h.koi medicine bhi nhi leta hu. Mughe koi treatment btaye.
My right testicle is bigger than my left testicle. There is no pain but it is uncomfortable when I walk. What should I do? And it seems like my left testis is getting smaller day by day (i am not sure about it but I just feel something like this). Please help me doctor. Thank you.
Chocking or suffocating felling in throat all the time: this can occurs previously, then a ENT advised a liver infection. After that I am fine but this feeling starts again, so tell me, what can I do.
Hello doctor, I am having a pain across my chest. It's feels like cramped pain. Whenever I stretch or move my hands upwards it cramps. I can't understand why is it happening? Is it due to acidity or anything else? Please suggest me what to do doctor. Thanks in advance.
Hello, I am 22 years old male .I have addict to watch porn. When I go to sleep I don't feel sleepy instead of this I feel urge to watch porn and do masturbate. Sometime daily. After this I feel go to sleep easily .sometimes after doing so much work at night I do. I watch porn because I have addict so much. What are side effect. How to regain loss energy. Pls help me for forgive this bad addict.
During masturbation ejaculation is not done with full force whats the reason and how to cure this problem.
Good morning sir/madam, I suffered from cold from last two weeks. Please help me. How to control this cold sir /madam.
Bowel movement is one of the most important clues about an individual's health, as it gives a real idea of the gastrointestinal condition as well as overall health. One shall have to get familiar with the regular appearance of stool to spot the issues beforehand; however, the day to day alterations in the appearance does not mean that there is a problem with your health as one may notice short-term abnormalities based on what he or she is eating every day.
But in case an unexplained change lasts for over a week or so, it is a sign of some strange happening in the gastrointestinal tract.
- Hard pieces of faeces that are hard to pass: If the bowel movement is straining to pass, then the individual is constipated. Some people think that they are not suffering from constipation, but their stool is always hard and comes out in pieces rather than soft stool that passes out effortlessly. The most common reason behind such stool is a lack of fibre in the diet. According to general recommendations, an adult male must take at least 38 grams of fibre while an adult female must take about 25 grams of fibre. It is recommended to maintain a food journal to track the daily nutrients intake, and in case there is a lack of fibre in the diet, it can be stacked up with whole grains, fruits, beans and nuts.
- Black or bright red coloured poop: If the stool has a deep red appearance, it would indicate that a part of the bowel is bleeding. In most circumstances, the blood in the stool is caused by the benign haemorrhoids, but it could also be due to some ulcers in the colon or stomach or even cancer. That is why it is extremely crucial to bring it to the doctor's notice. There are different types of over-the-counter medications which turn the stool into black colour. This sort of discolouration is entirely temporary and may stay along for a few days even after stopping the medicine.
- A loose stool which is not diarrhoea: Loose stool but not diarrhoea may mean that the individual is suffering from celiac disease. Although the illness is quite uncommon, most people who suffer from it are not aware of the condition. The appearance of the stool is the largest and most reliable signs of having celiac disease. Individuals affected with celiac disease are not able to tolerate gluten, and it destroys the villi in the lining of the small intestine. As a result, the nutrients are unabsorbed, and the stool becomes loose. Switching to a gluten-free diet for about 2 to 3 weeks can aid in alleviating the disease.
If the appearance of the stool remains abnormal for weeks together, it is important to talk to a doctor to find out if there is something serious underlying. Bowel movement is the truest sign of the intestinal health, and thus, should not be ignored.
Bacterial sinus problems of viridians strep with s.epidermidis .which homeo medicines should I take for a long time (immunity enhancement at the same time. Please give me advice.
I have a little pain in my bowl after sex or after masturbate please help how to avoid that and what is reason for that.
I am suffering from severe headache and eye pain whenever wore turban. I also had dark circles around eyes.
Swollen ankles are very common among older people. Sometimes even young people suffer from this disease. There can be many possible reasons for swollen ankles. Some of the main and most relevant causes for swollen ankles are as follows:
- Trauma
- Injury on ankle
- Sprained ankle
- Venous insufficiency
- Lymph edema
- Arthritis
- Heart disease
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Infection
- Tumor
- Some medications, including calcium channel blockers, steroids or even antidepressants
Homeopathic treatment for swollen ankles
The main treatment for swollen ankles actually requires a great deal of investigation in the field of homeopathic genre. Each and every case is investigated thoroughly and also analysed to a huge depth before prescribing any kind of homeopathic medication. The swollen ankles which are caused due to injury, sprain and arthritis can be independently handled by a homeopathic treatment. But in case of any other serious organ injury, homeopathic medicines are mainly used for treatment along with other kinds of advanced medications. Homeopathic medication should be considered only after consulting a good physician. Self-medication must be strictly avoided.
Some of the homeopathic medicines for treating swollen ankles include the following:
- Apis Mellifica and Apocynum: Apis Mellifica and Apocynum are considered to be the best medicines for dropsical swollen ankles, also referred to as edema. Here the swelling is caused due to excess water retention or even due to water accumulation in the tissues.
- Ledum Pal: If you are experiencing swollen ankles due to arthritis, Ledum Pal is your go-to homeopathic medicine. In such cases, the affected person usually experiences painful and hot swollen ankles.
- Arnica: Another medicine of all times, especially for swollen ankles, is Arnica. It is the most effective medicine for swollen ankles caused due to an injury. Arnica works in a wondrous way to reduce the pain and the swelling of the ankles from injury which are bruised and feel sore to touch.
- Ruta: Ruta is primarily prescribed for swollen ankles resulting from sprain. A sprain is defined as the overstretching of the ligaments, mainly in the area of joints.
- Hamamelis: This homeopathic medicine, which is highly effective in treating swollen ankles, primarily caused due to varicose veins or venous insufficiency, is Hamamelis. It is the best rated medicine among its category.
If you are suffering from a swollen ankle, neither be indifferent it to, nor delay its treatment for long. It is recommended that you consult an experienced homeopathic practitioner to get the best medicine for your condition.
Arthritis is a disquietingly painful condition that causes inflammation and stiffness in the joints. Arthritis usually occurs due to the wear and tear of cartilages and ligaments with the onset of age, but recent studies have concluded that many foods present in our daily diet may actually trigger or aggravate symptoms of the condition. Yet also there are some superfoods that help combat and prevent arthritis. Avoiding the former and including the latter in your meals can reap surprising benefits.
Some of these ailing superfoods for arthritis are:
- Leafy greens: Green, leafy vegetables like spinach, broccoli, cabbage and lettuce have a high content of antioxidants, calcium and magnesium which help in neutralizing the negative charges in the body. In case of arthritis, it prevents the further progression of the disease. 5 servings of steamed vegetables per day can work wonders for your joint pain.
- Fishes: Fish, especially oily fish goes a long way in reducing joint pain and stiffness. They are highly rich in Omega-3 fatty acids which contain anti - inflammatory properties. 2 to 4 portions of oily fish per week can have an impact on you for many years to come.
- Olive oil: Olive oil contains mono - saturated fats and antioxidants, which have anti - inflammatory properties. Increase in the intake of olive oil can reduce risks of rheumatoid arthritis and prevent associated conditions. It can be used as both raw oil in preparing salads and also as cooking oil.
- Apples: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. As true as it may be, among many other nutrients, apples are a rich source of antioxidants and magnesium which are beneficial for the bones. A daily intake of 100g of apples eaten as a sole snack, or mixed with salads would in the long run prevent the risks of arthritis.
- Onions: Onions apart from fostering good digestion is also loaded with quercetin which is a bioflavonoid antioxidant that suppresses inflammation. It effectively removes the free radicals within arthritis joints and also reduces the release of protein- destroying enzymes. It can be consumed raw, can be served as a sauce and can also be used for cooking.Arthritis is a disquietingly painful condition that causes inflammation and stiffness in the joints.
Arthritis usually occurs due to the wear and tear of cartilages and ligaments with the onset of age, but recent studies have concluded that many foods present in our daily diet may actually trigger or aggravate symptoms of the condition. Yet also there are some superfoods that help combat and prevent arthritis. Avoiding the former and including the latter in your meals can reap surprising benefits.


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Border patrol in LC? cool idea, but the city isnt right..
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I think there decent replacements for NOOSE vehicles since there like the immigration department. So it kinda work`s well.
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nice border patrol pack
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theres something called an airport. Jetsetjosh!
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Sports symposium planned, Dec. 7
Posted November 30, 2007; 04:54 p.m.
Sports industry professionals and college athletic leaders will come together for the 2007 Princeton Sports Symposium at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in Robertson Hall. The event follows the success of last year's symposium, which was the first sports symposium held at the University in 10 years.
The half-day symposium has been organized by senior Arjun Reddy, sophomore Christina Bortz and Chris Chaney, a 2007 alumnus, with support from the Princeton Varsity Club. Organizers plan to continue the symposium on a biennial basis after this year.
The event is intended to help students and sports professionals learn more about the sports industry, and provide a forum for sports professionals to attract potential future leaders. Panels will address sports management, college athletics, sports media, and sports marketing and sponsorship.
The afternoon will begin with a keynote speech by Brett Yormark, president and chief executive officer of Nets Sports & Entertainment, which owns and operates the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Yormark joined the Nets after working for six years at NASCAR and has been named to the "40 Under 40" lists by Sports Business Journal and Crain's New York Business.
Other industry leaders who will participate in the symposium include: Randy Bernard, chief executive officer of Professional Bull Riders Inc.; Philip de Picciotto, president of athletes and personalities at Octagon; Tola Murphy-Baran, senior vice president of brand management at Sirius Satellite Radio; Leon Rose, basketball division head at Creative Artists Agency Sports; Mike Slive, commissioner of the college athletic Southeastern Conference; Gary Walters, Princeton's director of athletics and a 1967 alumnus; and Chris Weil, chairman and chief executive officer of Momentum Worldwide.
University sponsors of the symposium are the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, Career Services, Princeton Varsity Club and Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. Independent symposium sponsors are Archer & Greiner law firm, the National Sports Marketing Network (NSMN) and Odgers Ray & Berndtson sports practice.
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Our team of inspectors deal with a variety of cases of accidental injury to animals, be they wild or domesticated. A typical day's cases may include dealing with oil pollution to swans, injured dogs or even the rescuing of orphaned baby animals. Our inspectors provide full cover five days a week and emergency cover at night, on Saturdays and public holidays. The Inspectors make an average of 500 call outs per month. More details..
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The shelter at Mount Venus Road, Rathfarnham cares for animals rescued from cruelty, neglect or injury and is currently home to a shifting population of cats, dogs, rabbits, horses, ponies, donkeys, snakes, goats, sheep, turkeys, ducks, geese, chickens, and many more. We are the only Equine rescue centre serving the Dublin area as well as being the largest animal rescue organisation in Ireland. More details..
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We are pleased to find new homes for animals whom we have nursed back to health or for the many animals brought to us for homing. We love and care for these animals until they can find their new home. More details..
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Our primary wildlife goal is to rehabilitate sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, restore them to full health and return them to the wild as functioning members of their wild population. We are the only wildlife rescue centre for the Dublin area and we take in every type of wild Irish animal and birds. We operate a foster programme for orphaned fledging birds as they need extra special care when they are very young. Read more about Wildlife care in our Animal Care section.
After many years of hard work, we brought about the introduction of The Control of Horses Act in 1996. We are currently campaigning for better legislation for all Irish animals - to name but a few - Equine Welfare, Animal Welfare, Breeding legislation, Controlling the importation of exotic pets. Irish Legislation changes can take many years, and public support is always needed. More details..
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Comprising Road and Trailside Maintenance, Advanced Maintenance and Fleet Maintenance courses, these enable you to achieve a substantial level of competence across all levels and applications of bike maintenance for your own and fleets of bikes and equipment.
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BRISTOL, R.I. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – The FBI reports 2,000 kids a day are kidnapped, either by someone they know, or by complete strangers.
But it's the trainers at RAD Kids who are teaching these young people how to protect themselves. RAD stands for: resisting aggression defensively.
"It teaches me how to be safe, and how to, if I'm being attacked, I can attack them back," RAD Kid Bianca Baldinelli told Ivanhoe.
RAD instructor Joanne Waite teaches specific drills like elbowing, hand blocking, and knee strikes. In one demonstration the girls practice escaping from their backpacks; another scenario involves a possible abduction in a store.
Whether they are heel-kicking or using pepper fingers, the practice helps them prepare physically and mentally. "It makes me feel more confident and stronger," RAD Kid Annie Krzywicki told Ivanhoe.
The program gives kids, no matter what their age, permission to defend themselves. ""We help kids learn that they are in charge of themselves," Waite said.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children advises that children under the age of 12 not be allowed out by themselves. Instead of teaching your children not to talk to strangers, base their decision not on what a person looks like, but what they are asking them to do. Also, tell your children, if they are lost, they should go to a store, and ask the clerk behind the cash register for help.
There are programs in 46 states, Washington D.C., Canada, and the UK.
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No consequences for owner of neglected horses
Animals surrendered to local horse rescue
MADISON, Wis. - A Rock County horse owner is not facing charges after four of his horses were taken from his farm and one later died.
Rock County began an investigation into the farm near the state line on South County Road K in October.
A deputy responding to the home said the owners agreed to nurse the animals back to health at the time. The owners told the deputy the price of hay had increased and they were trying to buy more.
In November the animals were found in similarly bad of shape and were surrendered to a local horse rescue.
The owner is facing no consequences for their condition, including after one of the horses died Sunday.
DeeDee Golberg has been caring for the horses at Spirit Horse Equine Rescue since Nov. 15, when the owner agreed to surrender them after a choice from the sheriff's department.
"I had said name your price and basically he told me no," said Golberg. "I said, 'So they are priceless?' and he said, 'Yes, they're my babies. I love them.' And we talked about how underweight they were and assured me he'd been feeding them and I said, 'Not enough.'"
She said on the body condition scale of 1-9, one of the horses shew would rank a .5. It was worse malnourishment she'd ever seen.
The horse they called Girlfriend was euthanized Sunday after she was too weak to stand up.
"On our initial visit, the deputy did believe there was an element of criminality in terms of caring for the animals," said Capt. Jude Maurer of the Rock County Sheriff's Department. "At the same time the degree to which resources are available [to the department] the best course the deputy felt was to put this person on notice."
The deputy gave the owner two options on a second meeting in November, after a neighbor reported continued neglect of the animals to the rescue, and the rescue to the sheriff's department.
The owner was told to surrender the horses to the rescue or be arrested for animal neglect.
"We felt if we automatically went for a warrant and seized those animals as part of a crime, subsequently arresting [the owner], we as the Sheriff's Office in Rock County would not be in a position to care for those animals," said Maurer. "At the same time, we weren't just going to cast this away. We said to him we would send this to the District Attorney's office for his review."
The sheriff's office was informed this week that one of the horses had died, which would make any neglect charges a felony.
They said they contacted the DA's office to see where the case stood and whether a necropsy should be ordered. Maurer said he was informed the case was deemed "no action."
Golberg said that's unacceptable.
"I do feel that the general public, myself included, feels that these animals should have someone to speak for them," said Golberg.
She said she's not only fighting for these horses lives, but for justice, and has started a petition to try to change the DA's mind.
"We can at least try to send that message that if you do this with animals there will be some kind of consequence," said Golberg.
Rock County District Attorney David O'Leary did not return calls from WISC-TV Friday.
Maurer said the DA's office told him that because the owner had surrendered the animals, he felt the case did not need to go forward.
Maurer said they are remaining impartial on the DA's decision, but recommended felony charges to the DA after the horse ultimately died.
He added that if the department had the resources to care for surrendered animals, they would have arrested the owner in November.
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Muammar Gaddafi despised Man U to put it in perspective.
Yep. People should be more like Gaddafi.
Also, they have somehow mind fricked everybody into thinking 750 square passes per game is "beautiful".
quote:What about fans who own up to what we haven't done in recent years but still bring up the fact that we have history and are proud of it?
also douche fans who love to bring up history to mask the fact they haven't done much in 8 years)
(don't care what you MUFC say, still believe that's what they were chanting about).
-I'm a liverpool fan
Lazio for obvious reasons
quote:Yea well tell that to our owner.
you play football to win even a monetary loss, not your balance your checkbook.
Chelsea. If you need reasons you are not paying attention.
SS Lazio for obvious reasons
Dear Rangers supporters, don't come back to Barcelona. And not because your team are a bunch of cloggers, which they are. It's not that: the Camp Nou often has weak, boring teams that only defend, run and foul, teams that have no place in the top tier competitions. But Rangers defend, run and foul badly. Their defenders are butchers, the midfielders have three feet and the forwards are wardrobes.
But most of all, it would be preferable that Rangers never come to Barcelona again because every time they do they wreck it. You (Huns) destroyed the Camp Nou seats 35 years ago and this time we've had 48 hours of thuggery, provocation, fighting and low-life drunkards all over the city, which you've made a mess of at your whim.
Stay and vomit in your own home, urinate in the corner of your own sitting room, fight with your own neighbours Celtic (who deserve a medal for putting up with you) and foul the streets of Glasgow. Don't come back to Barcelona, you're an embarrassment. And while we're at it, don't play in the Champions League. You're not up to scratch, either on a sporting or human level.
There are noisy supports who, even though they drink large quantities of beer, make friends. Not you lot, because you turn everywhere you go into dumps. You are undesirables.
And so too are those who sell on their tickets. These people swindle Barcelona because they are selling their tickets illegally. And it makes other (Barcelona) supporters angry. If you're not going to the match, give your ticket to a family member or a friend, or like many others, use the 'Seient Lliure' service. (SJR I think this is a scheme where you can re-sell unwanted tickets through the club)
It is the club and UEFA who decide who tickets should be sold to. If only you, in a moment of sanity, decided not to travel without one. As that is impossible, it is necessary to crack down on those who sell them illegally. But best of all would be never being drawn against Rangers ever again.
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The Lake Charles Police Department is seeking the public's help in searching for an 84-year-old man who has been missing since Monday morning.
Leroy Stewart Sr., who has Alzheimer's disease and has had two strokes, was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jean shorts, said Deputy Chief Mark Kraus.
Stewart was seen at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the area of 1620 N. Simmons St. and the 1500 block of North Adams Street. Earlier in the day he was spotted at the Valero on U.S. 171.
Kraus said Stewart walked away from Moss Regional Hospital sometime early Monday morning. At the time he was wearing a yellow-and-tan striped, short-sleeve button-down shirt, tan cargo pants and black tennis shoes with three white stripes on the sides, according to .
Stewart walks with the aid of a walking cane, Kraus said.
Anyone with information on Stewart's whereabouts can contact the Lake Charles Police Department at 491-1311 or call 911.


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I released froofyJIT 0.26.
Also, I experimented with using froofyJIT to speed up TiMidity++ -- profiling revealed that when processing Rakhmaninov's G minor prelude, it was spending ~1/4 of its time in do_ch_freeverb(), which is static optimization hell. After some hacking, here's the result: a tidy big patch which reduces the running time on this file by ~4%.
The patch probably isn't suitable for the TiMidity++ mainline though, especially since it's in C++, while the rest of the TiMidity++ code is in ye olde C.
Update: the patch is now stashed in the froofyJIT 0.27 tarball.


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Before we talk with today's author, I want to announce that the winner of the signed copy of A Man to Trust, by Carrie Turansky, is:
mstalgal1966@ . . .
and the winner of the signed copy of The Key on the Quilt, by Stephanie Grace Whitson, is:
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Congratulations! I'll contact you both today for your snail mail addresses, and we'll get your books to you right away. I encourage readers to keep commenting and/or subscribe at right (above my list of books) in order to participate in future book give-aways!
Now let's revisit Hannah Alexander, author of Eye of the Storm (Love Inspired Suspense, Harlequin, March 2012).
Hannah Alexander is the pen name for Dr. and Mrs. Cheryl Hodde who met, discovered Mel loved helping Cheryl with her novels, and began to collaborate on stories about his experiences as an ER physician. A little over a year later they were married and not only was he bringing home ideas for exciting stories, when they attended conferences, editors liked Cheryl's writing. So far the editors are still listening.
Please tell us a few random things we might not know about you.
--I hate horror stories but am a fan of Dean Koontz.
--We are dog lovers but we have four rescue cats and no dogs.
--Mel's favorite hobby is remote control airplanes, while Cheryl loves to hike.
--It has happened too often to be comfortable that when I write about a particular incident, such as a tornado, we are hit by a tornado. I can be writing about meth lab busts and I drive home to find a meth lab bust taking place down the street from my own home. It can be frightening.
Hmm. Maybe you need to change your genre and start writing wonderful fantasy novels! It would be fun to see what happened after writing those.
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Eye of the Storm.
When Dr. Megan Bradley abandons her job at the Vance rescue mission, she not only abandons the man she loves, she turns her back on the work she must do in order to pay back school loans. Little does she suspect that her boss, Gerard Vance, is passionate enough about her to follow her wherever she goes, to protect her no matter the danger she discovers in Jolly Mill, and to love her no matter how hard she tries to reject him and his God.
He proves his worth and God's when they discover that her best friend's mother has been poisoned by her estranged husband, who makes the mistake of believing a dying uncle could be tricked into sharing his wealth with a killer. No one realizes what has happened for sure when that killer is found dead at the bottom of a two-story staircase, No one knows what has happened until a long-time friend jumps into the fray to protect her best friend.
What is it about Gerard and Megan that will make your readers care about them?
Gerard Vance cares enough about people, especially the homeless, who never brought the present situation on themselves, and his dream is to make jobs for them, find them new homes—affordable homes that the banks can't get their claws into. —and help others through, giving no thought to his own financial situation.
Dr. Megan Bradley forces her way past her fear to face danger out of love for her friends, and she realizes the risk is worthwhile. She's been running from pain of loss that she realizes she'll never escape.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
I believe I would like Megan's role to be played by Amanda Righetti, the actress who plays VanPelt in The Mentalist.
I would like Gerard played by Chris Hemsworth, the actor who played Thor –with short hair.
Please share with us one quote that either inspires you or simply amuses you as you go about your efforts as a writer.
Simply — Without conflict, what will we write when we reach heaven?
What is the last book you read that you would recommend?
Eli by Bill Myers. My husband read it, and if he will sit and read it, that says tons for the writer. Mel doesn't just sit and read a novel.
What are you working on now?
A novel set in 1855 with a wagon train traveling to Kansas to fight for freedom for the slaves. They are surprised to find slaves much closer to hand who must be rescued or they will die. My hero and heroine must get past the fear that they may lose one another before they will give in to their love.
Where else can readers find you online?
www.hannahalexander.com, GirlsWriteOut at Blogspot every Friday, and ChristiansRead blog every other Tuesday.
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Finally, what question would you like to ask my readers?
How many books have you loved so much that you've reread it over and over again, and what was the depth of quality that made you think of one particular character for weeks after?
Thank you, Hannah, for visiting with us and telling us about your novel. Readers, Hannah has offered to give a signed copy of her book to the winner of our drawing on Monday, March 19. To enter, leave a comment below in answer to Hannah's question, above. "Please enter me" won't get you entered. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
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