In my opinion (Orangeville Citizen) Whether the county made a good deal on remediation costs of the Dufferin Oaks exterior finish might be a matter of debate, but it would seem to have been the best possible arrangement they could have made. [News Source]

Profiles: UK Supreme Justices (BBC News) Who are the men and women who will sit in the highest court in the UK? [News Source]

Review: ‘Zombieland’ alive with laughter (Contra Costa Times) IN THE MONTHS after the zombie apocalypse, brought on by a virulent mutation of Mad Cow Disease, America has ceased to be. The few survivors don't use names but hometowns as their monikers. [News Source]

Stirring the Pot — Sept. 30, 2009 (St. Marys Journal Argus) Back when he ran a cow-calf operation in the 1970s, Bill Jeffrey would send his 30 head out to pasture in the spring, and bring them back to the barn and tie them into stalls as winter approached. [News Source]

Dead Reckoning (Metro Silicon Valley) IT'S ONE THING to make a movie where all the characters know they're in a movie. It's another to have them remind the audience that they know they're in a movie, up to the point where the pleasure starts to wane. [News Source]

Movie review: Zombieland — 4 out of 5 stars (Orlando Sentinel) Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, is the funniest zombie movie since Shawn of the Dead Zombieland is the funniest zombie movie since Shawn of the Dead. [News Source]

Editorial: Swine flu hullabaloo overshadows the facts (The Pitt News) After days of borderline panic and states of emergency, fears of the swine flu are slowly being grounded. This comes as Allegheny County expects confirmation of its first case of the virus, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. [News Source]

Researchers uncover evolutionary ancestry of prion gene (News-Medical-Net) A University of Toronto-led team has uncovered the evolutionary ancestry of the prion gene, which may reveal new understandings of how the prion protein causes diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease." [News Source]

Half Way Packing Co. is back in business (Bolivar Herald-Free Press) Half Way Packing Co. is back in business, and Ted Ballenger is back as manager. Other than that, things have changed. [News Source]

Study finds origins of prion disease gene (redOrbit) A University of Toronto-led team of scientists says it has determined the evolutionary origin of the prion gene. The researchers said the diseased prion proteins are responsible for the fatal neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known [News Source]