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By Robert Carter
North Jefferson News
BIRMINGHAM — Blake Byrd, the three-sport standout from Corner, has won one of the state's most prestigious awards for high school athletes.
He was selected as the winner of the Ken and Betty Joy Blankenship Student Achievement Athlete of the Year, one of the top two awards given by the Bryant-Jordan Student Athlete Awards program.
Byrd, along with Carmen Carlos of McGill-Toolen, were announced as winners in a banquet Monday night at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel. Carlos won the Larry D. Striplin, Jr., Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award.
The senior was the starting quarterback and safety in football, a starting guard in basketball and is four-position player in baseball for the Yellow Jackets. Byrd has won numerous awards from coaching and media organizations over his career, including multiple North Jefferson News All-Star Team selections.
Byrd has battled through a tough family situation throughout his life, a struggle chronicled in a front-page story in The Birmingham News last week.
"I love sports," Byrd told the banquet audience. "I have loved sports from the time I was seven years old. It has allowed me to be around coaches and teachers who have really helped me. This is awesome. I want to thank my coaches, teammates and family. I am not the most perfect kid in the world, but I know if you go to God he will fix everything in your life."
Byrd will receive a total of $8,500 in college scholarship money.
Byrd was not the only local player honored by the Bryant-Jordan organization. Amanda Dean, a track-and-field athlete at Mortimer Jordan, won the student-achievement award for Class 5A, as Byrd had also done in 4A. She also won the Herman L. "Bubba" Scott Coaching Scholarship.
Dean's scholarship awards total $8,000.
Orion Recke, a baseball pitcher/outfielder and basketball forward for Jordan, was also a regional finalist for the Class 5A scholar-athlete award. That includes a $2,500 scholarship.
The Bryant-Jordan program, now in its 28th year, was created by the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in conjunction with the Alabama High School Athletic Association. The banquet honored 96 recipients, with scholarship awards totaling approximately $1 million.


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Haslam Flags 22 Bills, Including Motorcycle Helmets, Guns in Schools
Gov. Bill Haslam's administration has officially voiced opposition to 22 bills pending in the Legislature, including measures revising the state's motorcycle helmet law, allowing school faculty and staff to carry guns and increasing the penalty for motorists not wearing a seat belt.
The governor this year is not issuing formal "flag letters" to legislators except when there are "philosophical" objections to the measure, according to gubernatorial spokesman David Smith.
In the past, Haslam also issued "fiscal flags" against bills that called for what the governor deemed inappropriate state spending. But this year, Smith said the administration policy is to caution against any legislation that has a "fiscal note," prepared by legislative staff, projecting a need for spending that is not part of Haslam's budget proposal for the coming year.
"Basically, any bill with a fiscal note with at least $1 of impact on the state budget would get a fiscal flag since it's not accounted for in the budget proposal (under prior practice)," Smith wrote in an email. "So we stopped issuing a letter because between our office issuing a letter and a non-administration bill having a fiscal note we found those efforts duplicative."
In response to a News Sentinel request, the governor's office provided copies of all "philosophical flag" letters that have been sent to legislators this year as of Friday. The form letters, signed by Leslie Hafner, the governor's chief legislative liaison, do not explain reasons for opposition, but state that an administration representative will seek a meeting with the lawmaker for discussion.
"The administration understands this is an important issue to you and is cognizant of your efforts. The administration, however, respectfully disagrees with this legislation in its current form," says a standard line in most of the letters.
Here is a list of the bills questioned by Haslam:
n HB613 by Rep. Tony Shipley, R-Kingsport, and Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, which increases the fine for not wearing a seat belt, now at $10 on first offense and $20 on second and subsequent offenses. The bill would raise the fine to $50 on first offense and $75 on second and subsequent offense, earmarking money collected toward efforts to prevent child abuse.
n HB894 by Rep. Kelly Keisling, R-Byrdstown, and Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, entitled "the Motorcyclists Liberty Restoration Act," which says adult motorcyclists need not wear a helmet and adds $2 to the cost of a motorcycling license with the money earmarked for TennCare.
n HB44 by Rep. Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, which provides that adult motorcyclists who obtain a $200,000 medical insurance policy, take a special safety course and pay $50 for a sticker to be attached to their vehicle can ride without a helmet. Funds from the sticker fee would go to an "impaired driver's trust fund."
n HB728 by Rep. Mike Stewart, D-Nashville, and Sen. Lowe Finney, D-Jackson, which would repeal the law allowing privately operated virtual schools in Tennessee. The bill recently failed in a House committee. Haslam has a separate bill to revise, rather than repeal, the virtual schools law.
n HB904 by Rep. Roger Kane and Sen. Stacey Campfield, both Knoxville Republicans. The bill requires health insurance companies to allow a covered patient to select any medical laboratory he or she wishes and to make payments to the laboratory on the same basis as other labs under what is known as an "any willing provider" situation.
n SB77 by Campfield and Rep. Joshua Evans, R-Greenbrier, which would allow staff and faculty of K-12 schools to carry guns on school grounds if they have a handgun carry permit and take a special course.
n HB1005 by Kane and Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, which is known as "the sinkhole bill." It would put new restrictions on when an insurance company must cover damages purportedly caused by a sinkhole.
n HB745 by Rep. John Mark Windle, D-Livingston, and Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, which blocks the Department of Correction from firing an employee solely on the basis of a lie-detector test.
n SB8 by Sen. Jim Summerville, R-Dickson, and Rep. Dennis Powers, R-Jacksboro, known as the "Higher Education Equality Act," is intended to eliminate affirmative action programs at colleges and universities. The bill recently failed on a tie vote in a Senate committee.
n HB550 by Rep. Charles Curtiss, D-Sparta, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, which repeals a provision of current law allowing local governments to set more stringent conditions for burning permits than provided in general state law.
n HB744 by Rep. Barbara Cooper and Sen. Ophelia Ford, both Memphis Democrats, which requires, according to the legislative staff summary, that "the edges of stair steps in public buildings be marked with anti-slip paint for the benefit of the sight-impaired."
n HB1003 by Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, and Sen. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, which requires governments taking property through eminent domain proceedings to pay the owner fair market value based on the "highest and best use" of the property.
n SB1229 by Ford and Cooper, which would require popular election of judges to the Supreme Court and courts of appeal and divide the state into districts for their election.
n HB1072 by Rep. Barrett Rich, R-Somerville, and Campfield, which would create the new office of "solicitor general," appointed by vote of the General Assembly, and assign the new officeholder many duties now performed by the state attorney general.
n -SB726 by Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, and Rep. Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, which prohibits health insurance companies from imposing greater copayment and coinsurance requirements on services to covered persons from chiropractors, physical therapists or occupational therapists than on physicians.
n SB1092 by Sen. Jim Kyle and Rep. Antonio Parkinson, both Memphis Democrats, which calls for imposing a new $2 fee in all criminal court cases and using the proceeds to fund gun "buyback" programs.
n SB852 by Ketron and Rep. Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, entitled the "Energy Independence Act of 2013," which sets up a system of state grants to cities, counties and businesses that buy motor vehicles powered by natural gas.
n SB276 by Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, and Rep. Cooper, which says felons petitioning a court for restoration of voting rights can also seek "employment restoration," meaning they would no longer be prohibited from obtaining a state-issued license for their profession.
n HB356 by Rep. Jim Coley, R-Memphis, and Sen. Charlotte Burks, D-Monterey, which would impose a new $10 fee for filing a divorce case in court with the collected money earmarked for family violence shelters and the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence.
n HB1022 by Rep. Vince Dean, R-East Ridge, and Yager, which says local governments need not follow any new state law, with some exceptions, that costs the government more than $100,000 that is not covered by state government.
n HB1097 by Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, and Watson, which revises procedures for assigning a state-paid nursing home bed to people with intellectual disabilities now on a waiting list.
n HB476 by Rep. Vance Dennis, R-Savannah, and Sen. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, which says Tennessee insurance companies cannot participate in a health insurance exchange program operated under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Note: When posted, this originally listed a bill that was not flagged (SB728). That has been corrected and replaced with the bill that was flagged (SB726).

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This week we're looking for a clear night, bundling up in layers, and heading out into the yard to see a rainbow of star colors. The color of a star is almost always an indication of the phase of its life. The middle months of winter are the best time of the year to easily find examples of stars from one end of the spectrum to the other – from the youngest stars to the great giants that most stars become at the very end of their existence.
For all of the stars we are going to visit tonight, the eye may be enough to distinguish color differences, but a pair of binoculars may make the differences more apparent. You may also want to follow my example and listen to She's A Rainbow (Rolling Stones) during this nocturnal outing.
The spectral types of stars (scientific term for their colors) are traditionally labeled by astronomers using a series of letters. How this particular series
evolved into its current apparently arbitrary order is a story in itself, though
honestly not a very interesting one (and you know it must be boring if even I'm
not willing to go rambling on about it!). Nonetheless, the Harvard spectral class letters are the standard which every student of astronomy will eventually encounter. Thankfully there are catchy phrases to help memorize the order.
(O)h. We will start in the constellation Orion, which you should have little trouble locating. Facing south at about 8pm, the great hunter is displayed about ½ way up in the sky, with the three stars of his belt laid out in a line running diagonally from lower left to upper right – Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. The stars at both ends of the belt, Alnitak and Mintaka are O stars, which have their peak visible emission in the blue region of the spectrum. O stars are in their infancy, with ages of a few million years at most. Having just formed
the temperature in their outer atmospheres is 30,000 degrees or higher, and at
these temperatures the majority of their emission is in the ultraviolet; we see
these stars as bluish.
(B)e. As the stars emerge from their cradles and begin to stabilize their output of energy, they cool slightly and move into the B spectral class. These stars appear white with a bluish cast. Staying within Orion, the central star of the belt, Alnilam, is a B class star, as are the corner stars of Orion in the lower left (Saiph), lower right (Rigel), and upper right (Bellatrix). These stars are from 10 to 100 million years in age, and in Orion these are all huge stars with masses far greater than that of our Sun.
(A). The maturing star reaches adolescence as an A star. Follow the line of Orion's belt down in the direction of the horizon to find the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, the Dog Star, is a beautiful example of this spectral class. The structure of the star is now stable, its temperature in the outer atmosphere has cooled off to a balmy 10,000 degrees. These are simply white stars. Planets may be forming from the protoplanetary disk that surrounded the star in its infancy. Depending on their mass, class A stars may be from a few hundred millions years to a couple billion years in age.
(F)ine. As the star heads for mid-life, the whiteness of its younger days gives way to a yellow tinge. An F star appears as a yellow-white object. To find a bright example, look above Sirius and further east by about the same distance you travelled from Orion's belt to Sirius. You will find a rather bright yellow-white star, which is the head of the "Little Dog", Canis Minor. F stars run a bit hotter than our Sun, with ages of 1-3 billion years.
(G)irl or (G)uy. The color of G stars is very familiar, for our Sun is a G star. The best example in the current night sky is a bit of a farther jump from Orion than we've made so far. Let's see if you're up for it. Between 7-9pm, look almost directly overhead to find a bright yellowish star. (In my experience directly overhead is not usually where people look when I say directly overhead – I mean straight up folks – if you're standing up while doing this it should not feel comfortable if you're over 40). This is the star Capella in the constellation
Auriga. If you've had difficulty telling the colors apart so far, Capella may be the first star that looks definitely different from the others we've visited. A G star is in the middle of its life – our sun, at 4.7 billion years old, is expected to remain stable for about another 5 billion years.
(K)iss. Spectral class K brings us to the orange colored stars. These stars are approaching the end of their hydrogen fuel supply, and are beginning to swell in size, with their atmosphere temperatures dropping to around 4000 degrees. Still facing south, look for Jupiter and the Pleiades if you have been following me for the last couple of weeks, and draw a line from the Pleiades on the upper right through Jupiter and come to the next bright star. If you can't find these easily, look for the brightest white "star" overhead, a bit less overhead than Capella was – much easier on the neck. This will be Jupiter. The star we're shooting for is slightly to the lower left of Jupiter, and lies at the upper left of a V pattern pointing southwest. This is the monstrous star Aldebaran in Taurus the bull (the V is his head and horns). The beast has a diameter about 40 times that
of our Sun.
(M)e. The final stop on our survey of star colors is the M spectral class. These stars are very close to the end of their active lifetimes, with at most a few million years to go before their violent end. These are giant and supergiant stars. REeturning to Orion, we an easily observe perhaps the most famous of these, Betelgeuse, in the upper left corner of the constellation. If placed at the center of our solar system, Betelgeuse would extend nearly to the orbit of Jupiter. This is a truly colossal object. Located approximately 500 light years from Earth, Betelgeuse is the closest supergiant and has been extensively studied. Recent observations have shown material being ejected from the star, as well as its rapid approach toward a wall of interstellar gas. When
Betelgeuse inevitably becomes a supernova (sometime in the next million years), it will outshine the Moon for several months, and be easily visible in broad daylight.
So there you have it – a brief tour of the February evening sky visiting all of the colors of the astrophysical rainbow, and a phrase to help remember the spectral classes, which I, at least, will never forget: Oh Be a Fine Girl Kiss Me.


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DURHAM — Blue Devils sophomore Mads Soegaard and 2013 Duke grad Tim Gornik collected match-play victories Wednesday to move on to the round of 32 at the 118th British Amateur Championship at Royal Cinque Ports in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Soegaard recorded a hard-fought 19-hole victory over Nathan Kimsey, the highest-ranked English player in the field. Soegaard secured the win on the first extra hole after playing a nine-iron to three feet and making birdie, while Kimsey, who is ranked 11th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and is a hopeful for this year's Walker Cup match in Southampton, New York, missed a lengthy birdie attempt from the back of the green.
Gornik posted the most lopsided win of the second round with a commanding 5 and 4 victory over Robbie Van West.
Soegaard advances on to play Jim Liu Thursday, while Gornik squares off against Pontus Gad in the round of 32.
Men's Basketball
Campbell: Coach Kevin McGeehan has completed his staff at Campbell with the hiring of Deon Curry as director of basketball operations and Greg Robbins as graduate assistant.
Curry spent the 2012-13 season in the same position at Campbell.
Women's Field Hockey
Duke: Seven members of the Duke field hockey team will be in action this weekend at the USA Field Hockey Under-21 Women's National Championship, held at the Powhatan Sports Complex on the campus of Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va. The event, which runs Thursday through next Tuesday, will feature some of the top players in the nation, with all vying for the national title as well as a spot on the U.S. U-21 national team that will compete at the Junior World Cup on July 27-Aug. 4 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Duke coach Pam Bustin will also participate in this weekend's tournament, overseeing the U-21 South squad, which includes rising senior Paula Heimbach and rising sophomore Hannah Barreca. Rising junior Abby Beltrani and rising sophomore Amanda Kim will represent the Blue Devils on the West team, while classmate Aileen Johnson is slated to compete on the North squad and redshirt sophomore Lauren Blazing and incoming freshman Heather Morris on the Metro team.
Track and Field
Duke: Three current members and two alums of the Duke track and field team will compete at the 2013 USA Track and Field Championships scheduled Wednesday through Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. Redshirt juniors Curtis Beach and Juliet Bottorff will compete in the men's long jump and women's 10,000 meters, respectively, while freshman Megan Clark will compete in the junior division of the women's pole vault. The trio will be joined by recent graduate Cydney Ross in the women's 800 and 2007 graduate Shannon Rowbury in the women's 1,500.
Duke: Former Olympic fencer Jacek Huchwadja joined the Duke fencing staff as an assistant coach, Duke coach Alex Beguinet announced.


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What year was this from?
I love the 80s. Glad to be a kid then, but would have loved to have had my 20s then.
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I had this a lot too! Back then Channel 11 in Ft Worth/Dallas did that and it would get me hacked…I loved seeing the dancers do the closing number!
Too bad that "Kiss" had to be deleted from Darcel's solo. For me, this solo of Darcel's is my favorite of hers! Also, I loved the "Rock Me Amedeus" routine!! Thanks ZGreggZ so much!!!!
Considering VCR's came out about the same time Solid Gold did, it's amazing stations weren't slapping ther logos all over the screen until Solid Gold was over. Thanks, Ted Turner.
My local affiliate sometimes cut off the program before the credits were complete, as in this case.
can incl the closing…?
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The Pride dropped the opening set 26-24, but went on to take the next three games, 25-20, 25-19, 25-15.
Leading the way for the Pride was Heather Lively, as the sophomore outside notched a team-best 18 kills in the victory. Bethany Stosz added 12 kills in the victory, eight of which came in the third game. On the defensive side of the ball, Heidi Yohe registered 14 digs, while classmate Aylene Ilkson recorded 12.
Springfield will now rest up as it has a week off of matches until next Tuesday evening when it hosts Smith at 7:00 pm.


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Its now been more than two decades since a baby-faced Gregg Jefferies was considered the best baseball prospect in the country.
He didn't have elite physical attributes (he was listed at 5-foot-11, which is beyond kind), but what the Bay Area native did have was great teaching and a relentless work ethic. With that foundation, he spent 14 years as an infielder in the big leagues.
Jefferies has been deeply involved in youth baseball in the Tri-Valley since his retirement, coaching his son at Foothill High. But Jefferies says he's most interested in teaching and has built a sports facility in Pleasanton to mold young athletes into great players.
"I grew up with a teacher," Jefferies said. "My father is 71 and he's still coaching. He always told me be a teacher not a coach. A coach just tells you want to do, but a teacher is more invested and wants to see you grow. That's my passion, I grew up around it, I love to do it and this is what I know."
If Jefferies is a teacher, then he's built one impressive classroom.
The Gregg Jefferies Sports Academy — located at 6940 Koll Center Parkway in Pleasanton — is 12,000-square-feet training center that opened last month. It features three batting cages, three pitching mounds, a 40-yard field to work on agility, a cardio room, a $75,000 weight room, a video room and even a room for birthday parties.
Jefferies didn't pick the location hastily. He spent more than a year searching with Darren Nicholson, a former MLB scout, for the perfect location.
"The goal was to really have an academy and not just to have some cages and tell parents 'we will teach your kids to hit,'" said Nicholson, who is the president of the academy. "We turned down a lot of places, but once we found this spot we knew we could make it happen."
Talking with Jefferies, it's clear he's proud of what he's built, but he's seems even more excited about the people he has surrounded himself with. He doesn't call his co-workers "colleagues" but instead "teammates."
Along with Nicholson, he's hired College World Series winner Eddie Delzer to teach pitching, former college quarterback Andrew Hamel to teach agility and strength and conditioning and Taryn Alexander to run the operation.
"You can have the most amazing facility with marble floors and everything but if you have the wrong instructors nobody is coming in" Jefferies said. "I've seen a lot of great places, but then I hear parents ask their kids what they learned today and they say they don't know. We want to teach, let the kids have fun and help them improve. We truly are a team here."
Though Jefferies teaches college and professional level players, most of the kids registered for classes are between the ages of 10 and 16. Jefferies said he prefers to start young so he can build a relationship and help the kids improve over time.
Jefferies said he isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, but just teach hitting the way he learned.
"Hitting is kind of like a street fight, it's you against the pitcher," Jefferies said. "If you have that never quit mentality, it goes a long way. We believe in pushing the gas down. We want kids to be aggressive, use their hands and getting a ball they can hit."
You can learn more about the Gregg Jefferies Sports Academy at their website here.


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The former Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor talks about the "deal from hell," Tribune Company's bankruptcy, and journalism's scramble for footing on the internet
Published: November 16, 2011
JO: When I first joined the Tribune [in 1979], it was still a private company. And I got to the point where I thought, if you can run a paper and still make a lot of money that's fine, just so long as you're producing good journalism. We [journalists] didn't pay enough attention to the kind of arguments that Bagdikian was making. In the newsroom you hear [about], and I talk about it in this book, the wall between business and editorial, and we were pretty comfortable with that. It shielded us from having to think about making it go as a business. So our voices were not really heard that much, because we weren't in the room, because we chose to stay out of the room, or somebody chose to keep us out. And I think that was damaging, because the business [side] needed to hear from journalists, and journalists needed to weigh in on business decisions, and [journalists] should have become aware of the threats to the business model that developed. We didn't take them seriously enough until it was too late.
CP : Can you expand on this?
JO: The wall existed for good reasons, historically. But we [journalists] were kind of a mystery to [the business side of the paper] too. When they look at our budget, they . . . would say, "Well, really, do they need all those editors? Do they really have to have two people checking every story—can't you do it with one?" And because there was really no relationship across that wall, it kind of inhibited a lot of relationships. [The business side] didn't have the background. And it would hurt us too, because they'd say, "Well listen, man, this classified ad thing is going away," and we'd think, "Well, they always say that every time the economy's bad, blah blah blah," so we all just merrily skipped along—into the jaws of a complete disaster.
CP : When I started as a reporter, in 1988 at the Providence Journal, we had reporters you just never heard from. One was purported to be up in some office writing novels. One guy was doing people's taxes. Were newspapers just too fat and lazy?
JO: Probably. But I think it was the way we reacted to the internet . . . that really hurt us. If you look at the newspaper industry itself, there is an incredible lack of [research and development]. Everybody kept thinking that this was gonna last forever.
CP : In your book you write, "The conventional wisdom is that newspapers—and by that I mean the credible, edited information they deliver, and not just the paper and ink—fell into a death spiral because of forces unleashed by declining circulations and the migration of readers to the Internet." Is the industry in a death spiral? Or is it in a transformation?
JO: I think it's—if you're talking about newspapers? They're in a death spiral until they can figure out a way out of this thing. And they haven't yet. The problem is, with a newspaper, and people tend to forget this—when you strip away a lot of it, a newspaper is a manufacturing business. It has a product that it puts out every day. The steepest cost is putting that paper on somebody's doorstep. The trucks, the drivers, the newsprint . . . everything like that is 80 or 90 percent of the cost. You can't continue that as long as you charge only 25 percent of the cost to put that paper on their doorstep and rely on advertising for the rest.
The economics of advertising online are different. That advertising is not coming back [to newspapers]. So you need to figure out how to get people information that's so valuable that they're willing to pay a little more for it. And I think that's really what I've been trying to figure out here at the news co-op.
CP : Seems simple. Just charge. That's what The [New York] Times is doing.
JO: Yeah. I think you're seeing more and more papers starting to do that. That's probably a good thing to do. People say, "Oh, they can't." But the reality is that newspapers still generate most of the news.
CP : Why did you quit the LA Times?
JO: I didn't quit LA, I got fired. We had a difference of opinion about the future direction of the paper. I thought that this process of, "We aren't gonna hit our cash-flow targets so we've got to cut the budget again," I didn't think that was a path forward. I thought we needed to figure out new ways to get revenue. . . . I said, "Look, we have a revenue problem, and we keep treating it like it's a cost problem." They were tired of hearing that kind of stuff. They just wanted someone who would cut the budget very steeply.
CP : Did you have a PowerPoint presentation and a plan for how to get more revenue?
JO: I didn't have a plan—but I had a pretty good idea of where I wanted to go. But we had just been taken over by Sam Zell, and it was a heavily leveraged buyout.
CP : Yeah, when I read that plan back then, I thought, Wow, he just took everyone's pensions and told them they own the company—but it's $13 billion in hock.
JO: Actually, you gotta be careful about that, because he didn't take anybody's money—not yet, at least. But what happened was . . . everybody had a lot of their stock invested in the Tribune company—the employees were the second-largest stockholders when Zell took over. So when he took over, he bought all that stock [at $34 a share] and they could put that all in the IRAs. When he created the ESOP [Employee Stock Ownership Plan], that was the pension plan going forward. So anyone who was working at Tribune at that time and was relying on the ESOP to be their future pension plan is out of luck, because that's gone.
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OTTUMWA — Ottumwans will turn their eyes to the sky this weekend as hot air balloons float above the city.
The 36th annual Ottumwa Pro Balloon Races kicked off Wednesday night with carnival rides, Ottumwa Shrine Club's barbecue pork dinner, Ottumwa Municipal Band concert and balloon activities. The fun continues throughout the weekend with more food, music, entertainment and of course, skies filled with hot air balloons.
This year, 36 pilots from six states — Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin — will maneuver their balloons above Ottumwa as they try to drop baggies onto targets as accurately as possible.
"The fun flight [Friday night] is really a chance for the pilots to be able to meet up with their sponsors and take the sponsor for a ride," said Dale Dommer, who organizes the balloon races every year alongside his wife, Holly.
During the fun flight, the pilot tries to grab a ring off the top of a pole to win $250. But to up the ante, if the sponsor agrees to fly, the pilot could win $500 if he or she snags the ring.
The fun flight does not count for the overall competition, though. The real competition begins at 6 a.m. Saturday.
Pilots are given different colored baggies, which they have to drop as close to the center of an "X" as possible at two or three locations across the city.
"The balloonmeister [Bill Clemons] determines where the 'X' is going to be placed, and sometimes it can be pretty challenging," he said. "It's all a matter of accuracy, trying to get as close to the center of the 'X.'"
But sometimes instead of dropping a baggie on an "X," the pilots will instead be asked to throw baggies into two large triangles, the distance between them counting toward their final score.


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By HB
from NJ
Comments about Jos. A. Bank Pinpoint Oxford Point Collar Dress Shirt:
The shirt seemed fine, but the top button doesn't look right. The part of the shirt that holds the button sticks up above the part of the shirt that has the hole. Looks cheap.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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solid dress shirt
By g
from winston-salem, nc
About Me Casual, Classic
bought four shirts. great deal and the shirts fit perfectly.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Nice fit!
By Quality Shopper
from Oak Park, IL
About Me Bargain Shopper, Casual, Classic
I bought this shirt as a gift for someone that usually has a hard time finding shirts to fit them well. This was a good fit for him and he liked the shirt. I also bought shirts for my husband at Christmas and he liked the way the shirts fit too.
Oxford Point Collar Dress Shirt
By Jakes
from Boston, MA
About Me Bargain Shopper, Career
This was a perfect transaction. Excellent shirts, right sized, shipped and received when promised and no issues with my credit card charges. Often times I find the J A Bank commercials a bit over the top but this email offer was on the money and was an accurate representation of the product and price.
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PERFECT in every aspect.
Disappointed in first purchase
By HopJim
from Dallas, Texas
About Me Career
Was looking forward to first purchase but sending two shirts back. Collar mismanufactured plus button sewn in wrong location. Over all, nice material and fair price but could not wear. Poor quality control.
By GILBERTG8
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Great Shirt
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I wear these shirts weekly.
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My husband spends a tremendous amount on good quality shirts, he was shocked when I was able to find the same quality at a fraction of the cost he usually spends.
Exactly As Expected
By Happy User
from New York, NY
These are my go to dress shirts.
Great shirts
By Barce
from Plainsboro, NJ
About Me Casual
Very high quality shirts
Quality as Expected
By Texas
from Houston, TX
About Me Bargain Shopper, Career, Classic
Shirts and monagramming met my expectations and looked great!
Very pleased with this whole experience.
By mom
from Block Island, RI
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Delivery was sooner than expected. Product is wonderful!
Great fitting shirt and the quality that
By Mike S.
from North Huntingdon, PA
I love the comfort of the shirt.
Was disappointed
By Jeff S.
from Santa Maria, CA
About Me Bargain Shopper, Classic
This was my first purchase ever from Jos. Bank. From the reviews, I thought the pinpoint would be the best choice for my needs. While I was very happy with the sizing and fit, I was disappointed in the material. After wearing my first shirt with a suit coat, my shirt looked like I slept in it when I took off my coat. I traded this product for the traveler shirt and have been extremely happy.
By Chel
from Washington DC
Purchased as a gift for father and he loves it.I had it monogramed.
Great shirt, great buy.
By KD
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My husband loves the shirts!
Great Product excellent service
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About Me Bargain Shopper, Career, Casual, Classic, Eclectic, Sexy, Trendy
Great Product and Service!!
Everything great
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All great
Great experience
By Ms Marilyn
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The shirts were a perfect fit. They looked good and were a great value for the price. I'll definitely shop with JB again.
Best Dress Shirts
By Cal
from New York
I bought Lands End for years until...well...they changed. I read about the quality ranking of Jos Banks shirts and tried them. I'm now sold and especially like the sale items.
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A good every day shirt
By Steve
from Shenandoah Junction, WV
These shirts are very well made, true to size and they appear that they will be long wearing. They wash well, but do require ironing to look sharp. I try to dress well, but cash is always short, so these shirts help me dress well and save some money on my wardrobe. I purchased 3 and liked them so well I ordered 4 more so I can keep a good rotation going and hopefully keep the shirts looking good for a very long tims.
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By Daniel
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A well made shirt that wears nicely through the day. The off-white is clean looking too.
pinpoint oxford point collar dress shirt
By Aspen's gma
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great shirt
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By Chris the Cadillac Guy
from Columbus OH
About Me Career, Classic, Sexy, Trendy
Jos A Banks has great clothes and great service. The first time I went in one was back in 1998. I spilled coffee all over my shirt and needed another one ASAP. I was a young sales professional and didn't have much money. The salesman asked me a lot of questions about the type of work I'd be doing and made some recommendations, shirts, ties, pants etc. I was not used to personalized selling of clothes, and I was impressed that he took the time to find the right product for me. He recommended pants, shirts, ties, all sorts of stuff.. At the time I could only afford the shirt, but I still have it and it is still in amazing shape. Thank you very much.This current shirt is from their entry level line but you can tell it is high quality. It is a nice, traditional blue color (I also bought a white one and an ecru one). I will probably buy every dress shirt going forward from JOS A Bank.
Great shirt. Never wear another brand.
By Ray
from New Orleans, LA
About Me Classic
Comfortable. Hows its shape
By Tim
from New Jersey
About Me Bargain Shopper, Casual
Use the shirt for work and it holds it shape and comfort during long days. Fit and quality very good.
Very Nice Shirt
By Ben the Preacher
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Good construction & fit.
Dress Shirt
By Olga
from Vienna, Il.
Bought as a gift for Christmas. Came in as expected and good deal.
A premium quality shirt(:
By Dan
from Silicon Valley CA
About Me Career, Classic, Trendy
I was looking for a dress shirt that was both comfortable and looks good. When I went to my local Jos A Banks retailer they showed me the Executive Collection and measured me but did not have the right color. I went online as part of the Jos A Banks Fathers Day Sale and picked up this shirt for [$]. I enjoy the feel as well as how it looks. The blue color is not too dark or not too light its just right. I would not hesitate wearing this shirt to an important function,interview,wedding,party or business event.Too many people are wearing the same old brands such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein To set yourself apart I would wear Jos A Banks as its as good if not better than Brooks Brothers. Because Jos A Banks is not mass produced like Ralph Lauren where you can pick up at most any store this exclusive brand is made to perfection.This shirt was made in Indonesia and the workmanship on the buttons as well as the fabric is perfect. I am honestly thinking to pick up some more of these shirts as well as buy a Jos A Banks suit. They stand to their name. Jos A Banks is an exclusive brand and can only be found online or at their retail stores so they can really spend time marketing it to clients who want a custom style dress shirt.
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I purchased these articles of clothing for the look (traditional), the comfort and the pricing. I have done business with Jos A Bank for years and they have consistently provided great products and wonderful service. Thank you. Andrew P. Garlisi MD MBA MPH VAQSF
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Give the guy credit for consistency.
Police in Queens are seeking a suspect wanted in connection with three robberies in Rego Park, all of which took place at the same bank.
The Valley National Bank branch on 63rd Drive was first struck on Oct. 1, when a man wearing dark glasses and a hooded sweatshirt entered and passed the teller a note demanding money. After receiving an unknown amount of cash, the suspect fled on foot.
The same man, police believe, entered the bank twice more, once on Oct. 12 and once on Oct. 22 and pulled the same routine.
The man is described as being in his mid-20's, between 5'3" and 5'7" and roughly 140 pounds.
If anyone has any information, they are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Residents can also go to WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or text their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.


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By Ike Adams
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
When I was growing up, there in the head of Blair Branch, my younger brothers and I would commence aggravating Dad and Mom the day after Thanksgiving about Christmas.
Actually we'd worn out the pages in the Spiegel's Christmas Catalogue weeks before Turkey Day, but we'd been under strict advice that if we so much as mentioned Christmas before Thanksgiving, we should just forget about it entirely.
But the deal was that we could pick something out of the "Santy Book" and Mom would forward it on to the jolly old elf and he might or might not show up with it on Christmas Eve. We didn't know it at the time, but Mom had to get her order in the mail by the end of November so the package would arrive before Christmas.
Of course, she also put a $5 price limit on whatever we picked out because, "Times are hard and Santy's on a budget."
That eliminated, even in the late '50s, more than half the stuff in the book. We couldn't even think about a bicycle or a bb gun, but one year the nicest electric train set in the catalogue showed up under the tree with a note that read, "For Ike Reece, Eric Keith, Andy and Steve to SHARE." To this day, I vividly remember the smell that train emitted when it was running.
I suspected that the package actually came to the Jeremiah, Ky., Post Office but I wasn't able to verify that fact until I was in fourth grade and had taken on a GRIT, a weekly paper route, which meant I had to be at the PO bright and early every Saturday morning to pick up my papers.
One cold December morning, the Postmaster, George Hampton, asked me to tell Mom that she had a package there that was way too large for me to be packing around on my three-mile route. "So who's it from?" I wanted to know.
George said, "Spiegel's." I'd harbored serious doubts about the Santa Clause ruse for two years but this was absolute proof that the North Pole was not involved in Mom's Christmas order. When I got home that afternoon, I told Mom about the package and she shook her head and said, "I thought George Hampton had more sense than that. And if you tell your brothers, you won't be getting anything out of that package."
I figured George thought that any kid old enough to have an all day paper route had long since figured out the Santa deal.
Anyway, I waited until after Christmas to tell Brother Keeter that I knew something he didn't. Keeter said,"If you're talking about that Spiegel's package I found behind the big trunks in the hall closet the day before Christmas, Mom's already said she'll kill us both if we tell Steve and Andy."
To this day, it's still hard for me to get ahead of Keeter on about anything.
Okay, now, if you want to do something good and wonderful while the Christmas Spirit is upon you, here's a suggestion. I have a cousin, in Letcher County, who is a very, very sick young lady right now. She is in her early 30s, has special needs, is confined to bed and can't even have visitors for fear of catching something else. However, she loves to get mail and doing so is one of the few things that truly make her day.
All you have to do to brighten up her life is send her a post card or greeting card. She is particularly fond of Mickey Mouse and any other Disney characters. If you want to give someone who needs and so richly deserves something to smile about during this season, simply send a card to: Kristiana Banks, 264 Cross Road, Jeremiah, KY 41826.
Please, also, consider adding Kristiana to your Church prayer list and maybe engaging your cohorts in the card endeavor.
I can hardly imagine anything else so simple and inexpensive doing so much good. I hope that you will join me in spreading some joy by making sure that Kristiana gets some mail. It could be one of the most meaningful things you do for Christmas. Lo and I are also sending her a Donald Duck T-shirt (XL) and we're looking for a Mickey Mouse ball cap. Small gifts like that would also be welcome, but, at least, please consider sending Kristiana a cute, little card.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: My cousin, Kristiana Banks, for whom so many readers have been praying and sending cards, went to be with The Lord on Thursday, Dec. 6. Readers may rest assured that the huge outpouring of well wishes they sent to her were received with joy and delight. Kristina worsened late Wednesday night and was placed on a ventilator. She left this life a short time later. Please pray now for her family, especially her parents, Ronnie and Fanny Banks, who never gave up hope until there was nothing left for which to hope. Your cards and letters to Kristiana will always be a comfort to them, as they were to this sweet young woman.


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Ulther Whitsun is a fixer.
When you've got a problem, he's your man. But when he finds himself in possession of a strange relic, he gets even more trouble than he can handle. His enemies want the relic, he wants its owner, and the City Watch wants him locked away for good. As if that weren't enough, a mysterious woman just hired him to find a magic device that could bring the world to its knees. Could the two be related?
When a job turns this dangerous, whether you win or lose doesn't matter. The best you can hope for is just to survive.


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Kwan, easily. Yu Na is a great skater but passionless and robotic.
Can't wait for next poll: Amber Corwin vs. Sarah Hecken
Kwan, easily. Yu Na is a great skater but passionless and robotic.
Can't wait for next poll: Amber Corwin vs. Sarah Hecken
About Slutskaya being better had she won the Olympics or one World title (that she barely lost even though every time Kwan beat Slute at Worlds it was either by unanimous judging decision or a 7-2 split in Kwan's favor), that's like saying Kim wouldn't be the best ever if Mao had won the Olympics or at least one World title that she lost to Kim. Well, it didn't happen.
Anyway, I don't think your title count methodology is infallible, but then I don't judge greatness solely based on a ranking of titles (which is based on one's subjective weight on each title that benefits their own favorite skater) and simply counting a number of titles. For one, it's not as objective as people pretend it is, and two, it's lazy and doesn't consider context of how skaters can win or lose titles based on luck, level of competition, and politics. Kim is exceptional because she has no weaknesses that COP dings her for. However, her competition absolutely helps her in that they do have major weaknesses that 6.0 wouldn't have punished nearly as severely and/or they have trouble landing at least 5 triples without major mistakes. I do think had the Kim/Asada rivalry played out under 6.0, Asada would have fared better than she has under COP as her triple axels would have probably given more weight and it would have had a bigger impact on the 6.0 style of scoring. Of course, one can say Kwan was lucky in that 6.0 didn't require the skating by numbers and the level 3-4 elements that COP requires.
Basically, this argument is simplistic and only fuels each skater's passionate fanbase who are creating this artificial GOAT rivalry in order to validate their love for their favorite skater.
"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
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Except Mao would not be the best skater of her era even if she had been allowed to compete in and won the 2006 Olympics or won an extra World title at say the 2007 Worlds. Kim overall would still have the better and by far more consistent record, as many or more Olympic and World titles, have much higher PBs. The way Mao would be the best skater of her era is if she beat Kim at the 2010 Olympics, leaving Kim with no OGM, but she never had the chance of doing that so it isnt even worth considering. Irina though had a huge chance of winning both the 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and a huge chance to take the 2000 and 2001 World titles from Kwan. Kwan also had a huge chance of winning the 2002 Olympics, but my point is Irina wasnt even that far from overtaking Michelle as best of that era. The gap between Kwan and her peers is less than the gap between Kim and hers currently, despite that Kim's peers are IMO better skaters than Kwan's.About Slutskaya being better had she won the Olympics or one World title (that she barely lost even though every time Kwan beat Slute at Worlds it was either by unanimous judging decision or a 7-2 split in Kwan's favor), that's like saying Kim wouldn't be the best ever if Mao had won the Olympics or at least one World title that she lost to Kim. Well, it didn't happen.
In other words for me Mao is a better skater than Irina, while Kostner and Ando are better skaters than Cohen or Hughes.
This is a consensus some believe but is incorrect. People dont seem to realize this, but Kim would have won alot more under 6.0 than COP. The only advantage Kim gained from COP is when she skates great her margins of victory are far more overwhelming. However break it down.
Is there any major event Kim won under COP that she wouldnt have won under 6.0? Would she have lost any of the 2009 Worlds, 2010 Olympics, 2013 Worlds, or any of her 3 Grand Prix final titles under 6.0 with all competitors doing the same performances? Definitely not, not even close in fact.
Is there any major medal Kim won under COP that she wouldnt have won atleast as high under 6.0? Her 2007 Worlds bronze, 2008 Worlds bronze, 2010 and 2011 Worlds silver, either? I really dont think so, and the only one I could even see as a possability is the 2010 Worlds silver, but that was such an awful event that Kim probably would have won silver even with a 7th or 8th in the short and a 2nd or 1st in the free program, with Mao winning easily overall.
On the other hand Kim would have for sure won the 2011 World title over Miki under 6.0. Even with her mistake in the short she would have been top 3 that year given the field. Then in the free program Yu Na with 5 triples including a huge triple-triple, similar or better quality elements, and much stronger artistry would have crushed Ando with only 5 triples and no triple-triple. It wouldnt have even been close, yet under COP Kim lost since her 2 mistakes lost more points than Ando's 1, and Ando's jump layout was COP whored and smarter.
So under COP with the same field Kim already keeps all her titles/medals and has already added an additional World title. However she might have also won the 2008 Worlds under 6.0. This is less sure but it is certain she would have won the LP under 6.0 while Nakano even with URed jumps which would be noted but not crucified like under COP would probably have ben 2nd. So Kim if she still had a top 5 in the short would have won the title here as well.
Kim has less the perception of being unbeatable or 30 point margins if she skates well under 6.0 than COP, but in terms of wins almost certainly would have won more than she has had it been 6.0 instead of COP.
Also if Kim has no competiton and Kwan had such tough competition and so many threats like some of you are saying in this thread why has Kim only won Worlds twice and Kwan five times. That seems contradictory to the constant statements Kwan has so much super tough competition and threats, while Kim had none, yet Kwan still won Worlds over twice as often.
1. Sasha couldnt skate a clean long program if her life depended on it. In her whole career she couldnt make even 1, even when Michelle wasnt around.
2. Even if Sasha skated cleanly, Michelle would have won everytime if she didnt fall atleast once. She was simply the better skater and much more popular with the USFSA and judges (especialy in the U.S) too. Kim's rivals like Asada, Kostner, Rochette, and even Ando (her jumping ability and consistency alone is enough to put her over Sasha) are also better skaters than Sasha, regardless of if they are that successful beating Kim or not. Asada at 15 and underaged for Olympics and Worlds was already having an easy time beating a prime Sasha.
3. During Michelle's career her main competition was herself too. Did Michelle ever skate her best and lose? No. Did she ever skate cleanly and lose? Only once, the 98 Olympics, with an extremely slow and cautious performance and no 3-3 try. So no different than Kim. Yet for Kim this shows weak competition and not for Kwan. Double standards for sure.
4. Skaters like Cohen and Hughes would be no threat to Kim either. Kim never has lost to skaters of that level since 2007.
There isnt anyone Kwan competed against except maybe Irina who would be real competition for Yu Na, and Yu Na would have to make mistakes to ever lose to Irina, just like you say she does her own contemporaries.
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Before Worlds this year was Kwan. Worlds this year pushed Kim just over though. Olympics next year will probably push it further gap. Probably the two best women ladies skating of figure skating ever though. Both are absolutely amazing.
Its hard to say, I wish people wouldn't jinx Yu-na for the Olympics.
I must say I don't think its right, to write of the Olympics just because your favorite didn't win it. Sometimes it can depend, i.e skater is injured/not at their prime for the Olympics. However Michelle had two golden opportunities and didn't win, Salt Lake especially. The Olympics are a huge pressure cooker and winning it, is a huge deal.
In fairness I think its impossible to judge both.
As for Kim having more advantages than Kwan because of "artistic developments" I really disagree... I think Kwan,as a young developing skater, had far more advantages. Kwan was a great skater but she wasn't the only artistic skater there ever was.
Who people prefer is personal, I think.
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"[A] prodigious feat of reporting...vivid and detailed...[Nazario
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"A stirring and troubling book about a magnificent
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"Compelling...Nazario doesn't pull any punches."
"[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines...as
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"Astounding...I am unaware of any journalist who has
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"Compelling...drama, pathos, and [the] hot topic of
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"Riveting...expert reporting...Nazario puts a human
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"Stunning...As an adventure narrative alone, Enrique's Journey is a worthy read....Nazario's impressive piece of reporting...turn[s]
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"Gripping...astounding...viscerally conveys the experience
of illegal immigration from Central America...[Nazario] has crafted her findings
into a story that is at once moving and polemical."
"A remarkable feat of 'immersion reporting.'...[Gives]
the immigrant...flesh and bone, history and voice...The kind of story we
have told ourselves throughout history, a story we still need to hear."
"Insightful and beautifully written and sheds a great
deal of light on the horrific journeys immigrants risk to find a better life.
Highly recommended."
"A story readers won't soon forget."
"This is a harrowing odyssey that depicts one young
man's attempts to reunite with his mother and the social and economic issues
involved in illegal immigration."
Advance praise for Enrique's Journey
"Here is an account of a boy's childhood and youth that becomes
"Enrique's Journey is an empathetic glimpse into the Faustian bargain
made by immigrants who leave family behind for a bet on the rewards of
life in the North. Sonia Nazario's brave reporting focuses particularly
on a consequence of one woman's departure from Central America: the
horrific gauntlet suffered by her son as he traverses Mexico, often in
the company of similar children, all of them in search of their
"This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. Nazario's powerful writing
"Enrique's Journey is an important, compelling, harrowing
tale, one
"Enrique's Journey is the odyssey of our time and place. The
story of a
boy's brave and harrowing search for the mother who loved him but left
is the most telling, moving, and unsparing account I have ever read
about those who struggle and sacrifice to give their families better
lives, and the loneliness and regret that no success can ever fully put
to rest. It is a great American—I emphasize that—story, beautifully
"Gripping, heroic and important, Enrique's Journey captures the
heart. Most Americans or their forebears came to the United States from
countries. They experienced difficult journeys and wrenching family
separations-all in the hope of finding a better life in this new land.
Enrique's story is our story, beautifully told."
"This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to reshape
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Kirkus (Starred Review):
An expanded version of Nazario's Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, originally published in the Los Angeles Times, about the harrowing journey hopeful immigrants take from Central America through Mexico into the U.S.
The twist on this familiar story is that in recent years, a growing number of America's illegal immigrants are women. Unable to feed and clothe their children, they leave their homes in Honduras or Guatemala and head for a better life in el Norte. Once in America, Mami sends back as much money as she possibly can and promises to return to her children as soon as she builds up a nest egg. But low-paying jobs as nannies or maids don't allow the women to save much, so immigrant mothers don't return home for years, if ever. Their children, too young to understand the heartbreaking calculus of economics and maternal self-sacrifice, feel abandoned. Some of them eventually undertake the pilgrimage through Mexico and across the border, hoping to reunite with their mothers. Nazario's account focuses on Enrique, left in Honduras by his mother Lourdes when he was six. Eleven years later, he decides it is time to find her. He must avoid immigration officers, who would send him back home, and the gangsters who regularly steal from, rape and even murder migrants. Enrique risks his life, riding through Mexico on the roofs of what child migrants call El Tren de la Muerte (the Train of Death). Enrique makes it to North Carolina, but he and Lourdes are in for an emotional shock. During the long years of separation, mother and son have idealized one another; their reunion exposes resentments that have festered over the years.
This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to reshape American
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Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
Soon to be turned into an HBO dramatic series, Nazario's account of
a 17-year-old boy's harrowing attempt to find his mother in America won
two Pulitzer Prizes when it first came out in theLos Angeles Times .
Greatly expanded with fresh research, the story also makes a gripping
book, one that viscerally conveys the experience of illegal immigration
from Central America. Enrique's mother, Lourdes, left him in Honduras
when he was five years old because she could barely afford to feed him
and his sister, much less send them to school. Her plan was to sneak
into the United States for a few years, work hard, send and save money,
then move back to Honduras to be with her children. But 12 years later,
she was still living in the U.S. and wiring money home. That's when Enrique
became one of the thousands of children and teens who try to enter the
U.S. illegally each year. Riding on the tops of freight trains through
Mexico, these young migrants are preyed upon by gangsters and corrupt
government officials. Many of them are mutilated by the journey; some
go crazy. The breadth and depth of Nazario's research into this phenomenon
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Spanish Language Reviews
El Diario/La Prensa, January, 2006:
Esta es la historia de la peligrosa expedición de un joven hondureño de 16 años que decide venir a Estados Unidos en busca de su madre. Enrique's Journey está basada en una serie escrita por la periodista Sonia Nazario, la cual fue publicada en Los Angeles Times y mereció dos Premios Pulitzer.
Cuando Enrique tenía 5 años de edad, su madre, quien era muy pobre y no podía mantener a sus hijos, se fue a Estados Unidos a buscar trabajo para enviarle dinero a su familia. Ella les promete a sus hijos que volvería pronto, pero nunca ganó lo suficiente para regresar a su país, aunque sí les enviaba dinero y ropa todo el tiempo. Al cabo de once años, Enrique decide viajar ilegalmente hacia Estados Unidos, y atraviesa por terribles experiencias para llegar a encontrarse con su mamá, incluyendo viajar en lo que llaman El tren de la muerte.
Enrique's Journey es la historia de muchos niños y jóvenes inmigrantes que ponen su vida en peligro para re-encontrarse con sus madres en Estados Unidos. Años atrás eran los padres los que dejaban sus hogares para llegar a este país a trabajar, a veces como braceros, y enviar ayuda a sus familiares. Pero en los tiempos recientes, muchas madres han tenido que dejar a sus niños con familiares y vecinos, y emprender el viaje a este país en busca de trabajo como domésticas.
Este libro nos ofrece una conmovedora historia con la que nos podemos identificar como inmigrantes, como padres y como hijos.
Para escribir esta historia la periodista Sonia Nazario hizo el mismo viaje que Enrique, por lo que nos ofrece en este trabajo un análisis profundo y serio sobre la cuestión de inmigración y el impacto en la familia. Enrique's Journey es un trabajo excelente, y será lanzado al mercado en Inglés y en Español el 28 de febrero del 2006. Publicado por Random House, búsquelo en su librería favorita.
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