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Rest in Peace: Bill Hinzman
It's with deep sadness that we bring to you the news of the passing of Bill Hinzman this evening. We've lost another icon of the industry and more importantly one of the nicest and most genuine people we've ever had the chance of knowing.
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River of Darkness (2011)
Reviewed by The Foywonder
Starring Kurt Angle, Bill Hinzman, Kevin Nash, "Psycho" Sid Vicious, Alan Rowe Kelly, Bill Laing, Ray "Glacier" Lloyd
Written and directed by Bruce Koehler
DVD Details for Kurt Angle, Psycho Sid, and Kevin Nash's River of Darkness
What do you get when you take three gigantic aging grapplers and couple them with Zombie #1 Bill Hinzman? You get a movie that appears to be so rife with absurdity that we simply cannot wait to watch it! Steady yourself, dear reader, as we present all the DVD details for River of Darkness!
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In a bit of a sad turn of events we're sorry to report that director Josh Vargas has vacated the director's seat on the long talked about remake of Don't Look in the Basement. Yep, that's the bad news. The good? As of now the project is still very much happening.
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Early Art and Trailer: Kurt Angle's River of Darkness
Okay, so Kurt Angle's last movie End Game (review here) didn't exactly score itself a clean pinfall victory with fans, but the man is at it again in River of Darkness, this time with Kevin Nash, Psycho Sid Vicious, and original Night of the Living Dead zombie Bill Hinzman in tow. Ready for some sales art and a trailer, or should we simply throw a packet of salt in your eyes?
Submitted by Uncle Creepy on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 4:19am
More Don't Look in the Basement Casting News!
And the casting news just keeps on coming for director Josh (Sway) Vargas' remake of the S.F. Brownrigg film Don't Look in the Basement. This time reuniting two of the horror genre's most beloved actors!
Kurt Angle Wrestles Kevin Nash Down a River of Darkness
Despite his last feature End Game (review here) receiving a critical powerslamming from yours truly, indie filmmaker Bruce Koehler of North Shore Pictures sent word to let me know he actually loved my less-than-stellar review of his serial killer thriller.
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Fearwerx New Graveyard Zombie B&W Variant
Loving your eight-inch MEGO-style Night of the Living Dead figures as much as we do? Well, wait until you see the new Black and White variant!
Night of the Living Dead Celebrates 40!
Forty years ago a grainy black-and-white movie about a group of people trapped in a house changed the face of horror forever. Out of that one film were spawned sequels and an entire sub-culture that includes conventions, gatherings, clothing, and movies, all dedicated to the shambling masses that are zombies.
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Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:
[Rep. Bishop, R-UT]: In 1996, Congress insisted upon a charter school program in DC. You will hear from both sides of the aisle recognition of the great value that that program has, and justifiably so. There is a waiting list in DC for those charter schools.
This bill increases the percentage of funding going to charter schools in the District. In 2003, an Opportunity Scholarship was instituted, at the insistence of Congress. Again, there was a waiting list of people wanting the opportunity; disadvantaged kids who wanted the opportunity that this scholarship afforded them. There were 216 kids at the time scheduled to enter the program who were not allowed; the bill remedies that.
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Rep. Hastings, D-FL]: In the last 41 years voters have rejected private school vouchers every time they have been proposed. In 1981, 89% of the people in a referendum in DC voted against vouchers. So how dare we come here to tell these people that we are going to thrust upon them something they don't want without a single public official in this community being consulted. Congress' oversight of the District is not an excuse for political pandering to the Republicans' special interest of the day du jour.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes: Rep. BETSY MARKEY (D, CO-4): This legislation will improve the learning environment for our children, reduce energy costs and create new jobs across the country. Green schools not only save school districts money but also teach the importance of sustainable living to children at a young age.
Opponent's argument to vote No: Rep. GLENN THOMPSON (R, PA-5): We all know our Nation is drowning in a sea of red ink. The bill we're debating today would add an estimated $40 billion in new spending. And despite the majority's hollow promises of fiscal responsibility, there's nothing in the legislation to offset this hefty price tag with spending reductions elsewhere. This is just more of the same borrow and spend, spend and borrow policy that we've seen under this majority and this administration.
Proponents support voting YES because:
Rep. OBEY: This bill, more than any other, determines how willing we are to make the investment necessary to assure the future strength of this country and its working families. The President has chosen to cut the investments in this bill by more than $7.5 billion in real terms. This bill rejects most of those cuts.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Rep. LEWIS: This bill reflects a fundamental difference in opinion on the level of funding necessary to support the Federal Government's role in education, health and workforce programs. The bill is $10.2 billion over the President's budget request. While many of these programs are popular on both sides of the aisle, this bill contains what can rightly be considered lower priority & duplicative programs. For example, this legislation continues three different programs that deal with violence prevention. An omnibus bill is absolutely the wrong and fiscally reckless approach to completing this year's work. It would negate any semblance of fiscal discipline demonstrated by this body in recent years.
Veto message from President Bush:
This bill spends too much. It exceeds [by $10.2 billion] the reasonable and responsible levels for discretionary spending that I proposed to balance the budget by 2012. This bill continues to fund 56 programs that I proposed to terminate because they are duplicative, narrowly focused, or not producing results. This bill does not sufficiently fund programs that are delivering positive outcomes. This bill has too many earmarks--more than 2,200 earmarks totaling nearly $1 billion. I urge the Congress to send me a fiscally responsible bill that sets priorities.
Congressional Summary:Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the 3.4% interest rate on Federal Direct Stafford loans to loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2015. Replaces the [termination date of] 2013 with 2015.
Proponent's argument for bill:(US PIRG press release): The Student Loan Affordability Act keeps interest rates affordable for students over the next two years. If Congress fails to act by July 1, interest rates on federal Subsidized Stafford Loans will double from 3.4% to 6.8%. That would hike the cost of college by $1,000 per student, per loan, for over 7 million students across the country. The bill pays for extending the current interest rates through 2015 by closing three non-education tax loopholes.
Opponent's argument against bill:(Rep. Tom Cotton, R-AR): Unfortunately, too many students today struggle for years to repay their loans because Washington politicians dictate student-loan rates and end up hurting students and taxpayers alike. It's causing tuition costs to skyrocket, leaving students buried in debt, often without jobs, and forced to delay buying a home and starting a family. As students struggle to repay their loans--regardless of the interest rate--taxpayers are on the hook for a $100 billion bailout--a burden hard-working Arkansans shouldn't have to bear. A better path is to let Arkansas's hometown banks work with students and families to finance higher education, just as they do with homes, farms, businesses, and other loans. I'm committed to bringing affordable higher education to every Arkansan and ending the federal-government monopoly on the student-lending business.
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Churchill's Bodyguard is a great way to explore the life and times of Winston Churchill: through the experiences of his personal bodyguard, Walter H. Thompson, who worked tirelessly to keep the great man from harm for nearly 18 years. Shaping a massive amount of archival footage into a narrative at once historically familiar but freshly energized by an emphasis on Thompson's point-of-view, Churchill's Bodyguard is historical suspense. The 13-part series begins with a 1911 incident in which the 35-year-old, then-Home Secretary Churchill led police on an effort to apprehend anarchists who robbed a bank. Watching from the London crowd, Thompson witnessed a bullet barely miss the future prime minister. In a few years, Thomspon would be in proximity to Churchill again, this time guarding him from IRA assassination threats. Part of the story in Churchill's Bodyguard is the stark contrast between the two men. Thompson was the son of an insurance salesman; Churchill enjoyed many advantages in his wealthy family. Yet if Churchill was one of the key figures keeping the civilized world intact against the Axis threat during World War II, Thompson, a Scotland Yard detective, kept him on his rendezvous with destiny. Among the amazing stories are numerous attempts on Churchill's life from the likes of Irish terrorists, Indian assassins, Hitler's hit men and Luftwaffe fighters and U Boats, V2 rockets striking London, hidden explosives, and random crazed gunmen. But the intrepid Churchill marched on, even surviving pneumonia (with Thompson at his side) and doubts about crucial allies Roosevelt and Stalin. The intrigue surrounding Churchill's conferences with his American and Russian counterparts in Tehran and elsewhere is all here, as are remarkable encounters with Lawrence of Arabia and Dwight Eisenhower. --Tom Keogh
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Game Questions & Answers (Q&A) service lets you ask questions about video games for game consoles or PC games. So ask your Hill Climb Racing question for iPhone - iPod and get answers from real gamers or answer questions and share your insights and experience with the rest of the gaming community. Note: This apple iPhone game app may also be compatible with the game app for apple iPad.
- Developer: Fingersoft
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- Release Date: Nov 8, 2012
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How can I get lots of money without unlocking moon
I don't want to unlock moon and I spent my money on upgrades so is there a way of getting money?
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I think the only easy way to get money is the moon
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Or you could finish levels on highway. thats easy too. i got to level 15 in it it and it was eaassyyy.
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If u have the tank unlocked use on countryside at the start of countryside brake all the way backwards and make the gun on the ground so your tank is on its front but not flipped and once you do that hold it till you run out of gas u get lots of money
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Decorating with Area Rugs
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Area rugs are great for frugal decorators. They are extremely versatile, and serve many purposes. They can start off in the living room, move to the family room or bedroom, and eventually end up in the garage or an indoor/outdoor room.
Unlike wall-to-wall carpet, which is best kept in a neutral color; area rugs can bring colorful designs and patterns into your room without overwhelming it. Also, unlike wall-to-wall carpeting, once you buy them, they are yours to keep, as you can take them with you when and if you move.
You are lucky if you have wooden floors under your carpeting. It may take some work to refinish them, but they last forever. They do not collect pollutants, like carpeting, and are much easier on people with allergies. New houses are so well insulated, that you need all the help you can get keeping your home fresh.
If you do have wall-to-wall carpeting, you can still use area rugs. You can lay them on high traffic areas to protect the carpet, or use them to tie a seating area together. You can also just use them for display, even on the walls.
Some people will tell you not to lay one carpet on top of another. However, I know from personal experience that if I put down a carpet runner in a high traffic area, when I remove it I can fluff up and restore the carpet. If I don't, the carpet will be ground down to a pulp and there is no fixing it.
We have runners in all our hallways. We also have them in front of the sofas, which is an area that seems to take a lot of abuse. If we can preserve the carpet longer, we save money.
The only thing I am concerned about is safety. If we are moving furniture, or carrying heavy things around, I take them up. You also need to be sure they have a non-slip surface on the bottom so that you are less likely to trip over them.
There is tremendous variety both in the types of area rugs available and in the prices. Designs and fabric of area rugs range from inexpensive woven straw mats to luxurious, costly oriental rugs.
Quality rugs are easy to maintain. We bought an off-white Berber rug over 10 years ago at a discount store. We have yet to see any dirt on it. Contrary to what common sense tells you, off-white is one of the best colors for hiding dirt! We also have a small oriental wool rug that we purchased at Costco. It looks luxurious, and has yet to show any signs of wear.
Braided rugs add wonderful country charm. However, generally they are not of the same quality. They do become dirty and require more care.
As far as decorating, if you need texture in your room, think about a Berber carpet. To read more about texture, see: www.allthingsfrugal.com/texture.htm
If your room seems very square and angular, consider an oval rug to soften it. Add interest to your room by choosing from the many designs and styles, such as contemporary, floral, geometric, etc. Using area rugs with color and texture lessen the need for other accessories in a room.
Most area rugs are used to group furniture arrangements. For instance, in a living room, the area rug would most likely be placed in front of the sofa and under the coffee table. The chairs and tables would be grouped around it. You may be able to create an interesting effect by placing it under your furniture at an angle.
If you can't find what you want, think about having one made to your specifications. One very durable solution is to find a beautiful commercial carpet that you like, and have it bound to your dimensions. If you want to cover your whole room, leave about a foot between the wall and carpet, and be sure and turn it once a year. It will last for years.
Take advantage of area rugs if possible. Wall-to-wall wears out, and eventually your house becomes patched with different carpeting as you replace worn out carpet in different areas. Use area rugs to save money and beautify your home.
Nikki Willhite, mother of 3 and an interior design graduate, has been writing and publishing articles on the topic of frugal living for over a decade. Visit her at FrugalHappyFamilies.com - where you will find hundreds of frugal living tips and articles. Frugal Happy Families- more than just money! Article first published at www.allthingsfrugal.com
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When I walked in Sweatbox Gym through the alley door Wednesday, I wondered if a time machine had taken me back to the 1950s, the glory days of boxing.
It's an old building and the inside walls desperately need a paint job. Stairs that go downstairs to the actual gym are steep and lack handrails for the first few steps. I could look down and see weightlifting equipment that reminded me of the ISU Arena "dungeon" in the late 1970s, along with some heavy bags, a stationary bike and a fairly modern treadmill.
A large American flag is displayed on the far wall near the boxing ring.
Once in the basement, I realized it was still 2011 because rap music blared in the background as I spotted my column subject — heavyweight pro boxer James Porter — in the ring.
Porter, 38, owns Sweatbox Gym. He was trading practice punches with 2011 Golden Gloves super-heavyweight state champion Ryan Jewett, perhaps Terre Haute's top young amateur boxer, as both worked up a sweat on this hot, humid evening.
"We like to sweat down here," Porter mentioned after he finished sparring. "We figure the hotter it is, the more calories you are going to burn."
I think I lost five pounds from sitting around and asking questions for an hour, so I can only imagine how many calories a sparring session would burn. I eventually asked Porter if there was any air conditioning, probably my dumbest question of the night.
"If you hit the bag real hard, your handspeed will generate some wind," he replied with a chuckle. "That's about as much air conditioning as you're going to get here."
Before our interview started, I noticed Porter's punches looked like they hurt. Yet the boxrec.com website lists his record as 5-15-2, meaning we probably won't be seeing him on HBO anytime soon.
To be fair, Porter insists he won a fight in 2003 that doesn't show up on his record. So he should be credited with six victories in a career that started June 19, 2001, with a four-round, unanimous-decision loss to Chris Galliher in Indianapolis.
In his early days as a pro, Porter hoped he would become good enough to be a world heavyweight champion. He also wanted to accumulate enough ring experience so he could teach boxing to youths someday, which he is doing now. His first goal was to log 20 bouts, which he has done.
But he never really caught any breaks along the way.
For example, Porter has fought in his hometown of Terre Haute only once — Feb. 15, 2003, when he knocked out Chevis Kellum in the first round inside the Zorah Shrine Temple.
"It was fun fighting in front of all my friends and family," Porter reflected. "It's a shame I haven't gotten to do it more often."
Porter said Franklin Lawrence of Indianapolis was his toughest opponent. They fought twice — Jan. 28, 2006 (a six-round unanimous decision for Lawrence) and Jan. 27, 2007 (an eight-round unanimous decision for Lawrence) — both inside Indianapolis' Pepsi Coliseum. Their second clash was for the then-vacant NABC Great Lakes heavyweight title.
"[Promoters] asked me to fight him again because the first time was a really good fight," Porter emphasized.
Asked about the highlight of his career, Porter said it was beating Obed Sullivan in a six-round split decision Jan. 20, 2007, inside the Ohio Expo Center in Sullivan's hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Sullivan, a former world champion, entered with a 41-8-2 record.
Traveling to an opponent's hometown is not rare for Porter. He admits that he's known in some boxing circles as "an opponent," meaning promoters like to put him in against up-and-coming boxers to build up their records.
But Porter does consider himself to be "an opponent."
"No matter if I win or I lose, I forget about it and I continue on," he stressed. "I try to be successful the next time. . . It really doesn't matter if they call me an 'opponent' because I personally come there to win and do my best."
Many of Porter's foes entered their bouts with impressive records — such as 10-0, 12-0-1, 7-0, 15-0, 41-8-2, 11-1, 11-4-2, 12-0, 6-0 and 9-2 to mention a few.
Although he'd prefer to fight in Terre Haute, Porter does not mind hearing the reactions of hostile crowds when his name gets announced in an opponent's hometown.
"I get booed a lot," he acknowledged. "The louder, the better. It doesn't hurt my feelings. Almost every time, I get booed. But by the end of the contest, everyone's cheering for me because I can be game and I can take shots. I can make it real competitive, even when I don't win."
Porter described how he convinced Indianapolis promoter Fred Berns to let him fight for the first time without any amateur background in 2001.
"A guy working for Fred said, 'Let me see your stance.' So I showed him my stance," Porter recalled.
"Then he gave me some tickets and said if I sell these tickets, I can come fight. Basically, he gave me $300 to $400 worth of tickets and I sold them to my friends and family. Then they came and watched me fight and that's how I got paid."
Porter hammered his point home by telling me: "It would be like you writing sports stories and selling the paper yourself."
Nope, that wouldn't be fun.
But Porter did what he had to do to go pro because the alternative could have been much, much worse.
"When I was younger, I hustled," he pointed out. "I was in the streets. Some things came about in my life that made me see this wasn't how I wanted to go.
"At one point in time in my life, I looked at my friend and said, 'Hey man, this might be my last summer alive.' "
Porter then explained one of the activities he was involved in during his pre-boxing days.
"It's on record," he said in a serious tone. "I sold drugs when I was young. I was arrested for it in 1996. I spent seven years on probation and I spent a year on house arrest."
Porter revealed the drug was crack cocaine. He also admitted that he frequently carried guns, engaged in street fights and "played with fire," but he hopes the disadvantaged Terre Haute youths of today can learn from his mistakes and find legal sources of income.
Such as pro boxing, for example.
Porter said that while on house arrest, he became "extremely overweight" and realized he needed to make changes in his life.
"I started exercising at first," he mentioned. "At the time, I was also a boxing fan. I remember watching George Foreman when he won the heavyweight title . . . so I figured, why not take a stab at it?"
Porter occasionally sparred with Terre Haute's Terry Ray, a former world cruiserweight champion, in the early 2000s. That was his first experience with serious boxing-related pain.
"He really hit me hard one day," Porter noted.
Porter opened Sweatbox Gym after helping Bill Davis train boxers at the Terre Haute Boxing Center in the early 2000s.
"If people want to work out here, we charge 'em $3 a day," he said. "That's just to come in and hit the bag and mess around."
If you want serious one-on-one personal training, talk to Porter about costs.
Porter said his wife Wende continues to support his career and business. In fact, Porter doesn't have his own trainer, so she will often work his corner to give him water between rounds.
"I hire someone [in that city] for cuts." he added.
Another long-distance trip awaits Porter, who's scheduled to meet Chris Koval (24-7 with 18 knockouts) in a four-round bout Aug. 13 at Struthers, Ohio. They already fought once early in Porter's career — Aug. 8, 2003, at Akron, Ohio — with Koval posting a third-round technical knockout.
"I got cut on the eye," Porter recalled. "If you look at the list of my fights, you'll see that I've never been knocked out. My losses were from cuts or the referees stopping the fights. I've only been knocked down two times."
Porter insists he still feels good physically and has no plans of retiring soon. Like Rocky Balboa running along the streets of Philadelphia in the original movie, Porter keeps in shape by jogging outside, often along Terre Haute railroad tracks, through Deming Park or on Woodrow Wilson Middle School's track.
"When somebody knocks me straight out a few times, I guess I'll know I can't fight no more," Porter assessed, "when I can't take shots."
But Porter — a 1992 graduate of Terre Haute North High School, where he played tackle on the football team and wrestled — isn't at that stage yet.
Just ask Jewett, a solid 235-pounder whom Porter has helped for almost five years.
"James has taught me basically everything," Jewett explained. "He taught me my footspeed, my handspeed . . . everything I know about boxing.
"You wouldn't think he's got fast hands, but he'll surprise the heck out of you. Handspeed-wise, he fights like he's a welterweight. But he packs the same punch as a heavyweight. He's got a lot of speed and power. That's a deadly combination."
Porter offered two reasons for why he wants to keeps boxing as long as possible — money and the competitive challenge. His paychecks usually range from $1,000 to $2,500, but the value of his adrenaline rushes at pro cards is immeasurable.
"Hearing the cheering and booing, that's like a drug to me," he emphasized. "I try to be extremely entertaining.
"I've not made a whole lot of money from boxing. But what I have done … if I were still in the streets, I would have to do a crime to make the same amounts. Now, if I need something, I can get on the phone and I can get me a fight."
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HUGHES NEWS & VIEWS: Porter's persistence keeps his boxing career going
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Hughes, News & Views: Odds in favor of Richard Sherman being mentioned here
I've explained my post-2011 NFL allegiances before, but allow me to summarize them one more time for any new readers to this column.
I eased into liking the Indianapolis Colts as my favorite team in the late 1980s. Like plenty of other Wabash Valley sports fans, I became Colts-obsessed when Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne and others turned them into an elite franchise in 1999 and the early 2000s.
When the Colts beat Da Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI on Feb. 4, 2007, I yelled as loud as anyone in Terre Haute.
Hughes, News & Views: The '78-79 Sycamores rediscover timeless bond
The 1978-79 Indiana State men's basketball team that posted a 33-1 record and battled Michigan State for the coveted NCAA championship almost 35 years ago isn't likely to play any more full-court games together, not even just for fun.
Hughes, News & Views: Shaw preparing for 20th season as Rose-Hulman coach
When Rose-Hulman men's basketball coach Jim Shaw gets introduced to the Hulman Center crowd before Sunday afternoon's exhibition game against Indiana State, think of the old saying "time flies when you're having fun."
Hughes, News & Views: Friends remember Jim Bogle
When I covered the semifinal round of the IHSAA boys tennis sectional at Terre Haute North last week, it seemed like there was an empty seat in the bleachers.
In reality, I noticed few — if any — empty seats because plenty of spectators wanted to watch the host Patriots battle No. 14-ranked Terre Haute South for the right to advance to the next day's sectional championship match.
In the end, junior Nathan Bogle pulled out a dramatic three-set victory at No. 1 singles to help South edge its crosstown rivals 3-2 on its way to capturing the sectional title.
Yet there was something missing.
The person who would have been in that empty seat I imagined, Nathan's father Jim Bogle, had been battling cancer for close to two years and could not attend the sectional.
Sadly, cancer claimed his life Thursday morning. He was 52. -
Hughes, News & Views: Doug Shouse going into ASU Hall of Honor
One thing you can say about members of Terre Haute's Shouse family: They never have had a problem with running and jumping.
At least not until knee problems hit.
An outstanding athlete since the days I played pick-up basketball games with him and his brothers in the Terre Haute Boys Club and Indiana State University Arena gyms in the mid to late 1970s, a young Doug Shouse knew how to turn heads with his dunks and athletic fast-break moves against college guys and mediocre players like me. -
Hughes, News & Views: Oden picks Miami Heat for site of comeback
At 7 feet tall, former Terre Haute resident Greg Oden stands out in almost any crowd.
So to persuade the increasingly healthy Oden to play during the 2013-14 NBA season — for the first time since Dec. 5, 2009 — a team needed to offer something unique to stand out.
Like, say, a chance at a ring.
Enter the Miami Heat, who have won the last two NBA championships behind the "Big Three" of four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. -
Hughes, News & Views: Gladiator Games are back Saturday
When I talk to my old weightlifting buddies around the country on the phone, through texts or on Facebook, we frequently reminisce about "the good ol' days."
Imagine that — guys over 50 living in the past.
Anyway, I recently discussed with Jim McCarty — who now lives in Daytona Beach, Fla. — about a "Terre Haute's Strongest Man" contest he organized in the mid-1980s inside the National Guard Armory on Maple Avenue. -
Hughes, News & Views: Lure of big payoffs fuels columnist's fantasy football addiction
Gather around, my friends. I think I may need an intervention.
After winning the championship game of our Tribune-Star newsroom free fantasy football league in 2003 — the first time I ever participated in the popular hobby — I became hooked on dominating as many leagues as possible. -
Hughes, News & Views: Terre Haute 'hacker' accomplishes Mark's Par Three first
It's no secret that Mark's Par Three is not the most difficult golf course in Vigo County.
But it's enjoyable for beginners and golfers of modest skill levels and it doesn't lack for activity during warm-weather months.
Open since 1964, it's had its fair share of players test their skills, probably several better than 43-year-old Brian Brown of Terre Haute. -
Hughes, News & Views: Pacers, 500, NFL on mind of curious columnist
One previous time, I believe, my annual May questions column ran one day late into June.
Can you forgive me for this being the second time?
With apologies out of the way, below are questions that have been taking up valuable space in my head lately.
Some are serious, some not so much. Most are sports-related, but don't blame me if a few are not. After all, newspaper sportswriters don't eat, sleep and breathe sports 24/7 (contrary to what my Lisa might tell you).
Here we go:
• How funny will the reaction of the national media be when the Indiana Pacers knock off the unbeatable Miami Heat tonight and Monday to take the series and head to an NBA Finals showdown with the San Antonio Spurs? Hint: Several ESPN "experts" will need to change their underwear next week. -
Hughes, News & Views: Terre Haute runner sets up race to help Boston
Having competed in the Boston Marathon once before in 2003, 35-year-old Majel Wells of Terre Haute thought she should give it another try in 2013.
"My goal was just to finish and enjoy Boston," she reflected this week. "I had an injury [runner's knee] beforehand, so I wasn't too worried about beating my time from 2003 [4 hours, 10.20 seconds].
"But nobody cares about what your time is at Boston anyway."
From what I've heard over the years, she's right. Unless you're a super-serious runner, the Boston Marathon has been more about taking in the atmosphere and having fun than placing in the top 50, although Wells was pleased that she beat her previous time by finishing in 3:55.19 on April 15.
Obviously, her race time wasn't the most vivid memory that Wells took away from her 2013 Boston experience. -
Hughes, News & Views: Former South players to play in Saylor benefit game
I had my first phone conversation with Mike Saylor since mid-February on Thursday and he sounded good.
The former Terre Haute South High School boys basketball coach, who's been battling cancer this year, has been traveling back and forth to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for chemotherapy treatments. -
Recent South swimmers Roach, Bray heading to DI nationals
I'm sure most of you with office jobs can relate.
When work gets busy, sometimes it's easy to skim over our emails. After all, how many times do we need to read the same nonsense from alleged Nigerians wanting to make us rich if we'll send them several thousand dollars first?
So after having three consecutive days off, that almost happened to me when I returned to work Tuesday. Then I realized that the message from Jeff Thompson, Terre Haute South High School's boys and girls swimming coach, contained significant news. -
NCAA Division III basketball tournament returns to Rose-Hulman
The last time Rose-Hulman served as host for the NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament, its game was played inside an old World War II airplane hangar.
You "old-timers" should know the building I'm talking about and the matchup wasn't really that long ago — March 6, 1997, to be exact. -
DAVID HUGHES: Childhood friends use faith, sports to get them through
When I learned in February 2009 that a rare form of appendix cancer would devastate my life and cause me to miss work for several months, Mike Saylor was among the first to offer assistance.
Book review: Thumbs up for 'Trophies and Tears'
Now might be too late for giving Christmas presents, but the book "Trophies and Tears: The Story of Evansville and the Aces" is a fascinating read for longtime Indiana basketball fans, particularly those older than 40.
Written by award-winning Kyle Keiderling of Henderson, Nev., and released in hardcover format in mid-December, the 480-page "Trophies and Tears" documents the rich tradition of the University of Evansville men's basketball program through recent interviews and research of old yearbooks and newspaper/scrapbook clippings.
The book contains many cheery moments — behind-the-scenes details of all five NCAA College Division (now known as Division II) championships won in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s by the Purple Aces and their legendary coach Arad McCutchan — although some of those moments don't seem so cheery from an Indiana State perspective when the Sycamores found themselves on the losing end of scores. -
Hughes, News & Views: Wishing for Colts-Broncos playoff matchup from Santa
There's plenty of tragedy in the world to bring us down if we let it, so let's have a light-hearted column today — my annual Christmas gift requests for Santa Claus.
I already know one of my gift wishes is becoming less likely to happen. That would be for the Indianapolis Colts to face the Denver Broncos in the AFC playoffs. -
Colts' loyalty tested by Manning, Broncos
We're approaching the halfway point of the NFL season and so far it's been surprisingly enjoyable.
I wasn't sure how I would handle following two favorite teams — 1a.) the Indianapolis Colts and 1b.) Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos — but the new arrangement hasn't caused me any loyalty conflicts yet.
HUGHES NEWS & VIEWS: Sorting out the sports air waves
My name isn't attached to them, but I'm the one who usually puts together the "Sports on the air" television/radio listings that appear daily on this newspaper's Scoreboard Page.
Hughes, News & Views: North junior ready to go racing
When we last visited 16-year-old Rachel Gutish, she was finishing sixth in the Women's Enduro X race in the nationally televised Summer X Games at Los Angeles.
HUGHES NEWS & VIEWS: Yelovich still striking the ball long on LDA Tour
In June 2011, I wrote a feature story about former Indiana State basketball center Mick Yelovich making a name for himself as a golfer on the Long Drivers Association (LDA) Tour.
HUGHES NEWS & VIEWS: Colts? Broncos? Maybe there's more than enough room for both
I've got a longtime buddy who I'm fairly sure rarely, if ever, reads this column.
HUGHES NEWS & VIEWS: Point of Jones' return
Since May 14, Indiana high school basketball fans have wondered why Jim Jones would want to come out of retirement at 74.
HUGHES, NEWS & VIEWS: Questions abound for Indy 500, Manning, baseball sectional
Phones are ringing less frequently in the Tribune-Star sports department this week.
Hughes, News & Views: Hutson getting ready for final stretch toward Olympic Trials
If Kylie Hutson were a cross-country runner, she'd be approaching the final stretch of her biggest race in about three weeks.
HUGHES NEWS AND VIEWS: Rose basketball alumni offer advice to current team
Bryan Egli and Joe Puthoff, both Rose-Hulman basketball starters I covered in the late 1990s, took their degrees from the prestigious engineering institute and found successful careers in the Indianapolis area.
Egli, also a former West Vigo High School multi-sport standout, lives in Carmel and works for Thieneman Construction in Westfield. Puthoff lives in Indy and works for Rolls Royce Aircraft Engines. -
DAVID HUGHES: Super Bowl odds getting stranger and stranger
Today's annual "Super Bowl odds column" feels special to me because I've been a diehard NFL fan since 1967 and next Sunday will be the first time the big game takes place in our great state of Indiana.
HUGHES NEWS AND VIEWS: Coach's book a chance to remember North Vermillion state champs
Almost 10 years ago, February 2002 to be exact, the New England Patriots upset the high-powered St. Louis Rams to win Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, the Winter Olympics entertained spectators in Salt Lake City and Terre Haute South High School's girls basketball team started its tournament run toward a Class 4A state title.
HUGHES NEWS AND VIEWS: Plenty of sports-related gifts for columnist's wish list
Last week, I was all set to beg Santa Claus to give the Indianapolis Colts a certificate good for one NFL regular-season victory.
Then the 2011 Colts decided to play like the 2009 Colts and clobber the Tennessee Titans on Sunday for their first win of the season. So that present won't be necessary. -
HUGHES NEWS AND VIEWS: WTHI defends decision not to show Colts
When your favorite NFL team is threatening to finish 0-16, you have to figure a few fans will jump off the bandwagon.
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The following list contains scholarship notices that are sent to Cheverus. See your Guidance Counselor for more information, or visit the website associated with the scholarship. International students, please visit this site.
DO NOT PAY to file the FAFSA. Do not pay for someone to locate scholarships for you. There is free help available at your college's financial aid office, on the web, in Cheverus' Guidance and College Advising Offices, and at FAME (Finance Authority of Maine).
Deadlines Vary for the following scholarships
March 15 Deadline
April 1 Deadine
April 11 Deadline
April 25 Deadline
May 1 Deadline
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Maine Sports Legends - a $500 scholarship to a qualified scholar/athlete. Applications in the Guidance Office.
May 21 Deadline
Portland Area Youth Soccer Association $500 scholarship opportunity - applications in Guidance Office
May 22 Deadline
May 30 Deadline
June 30 Deadline
Portland Seadogs and NextGen: $1,000 scholarship, open to grades 9-12. Essay Required.
Deadlines have passed for these scholarships:
October 2
Wendy's High School Heisman-students with a B average & participate in one school-sponsored sport
October 25
November 12
Essay Contest about George Washington.
December 15 Deadline
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January 13 Deadline
January 15 Deadline
January 31 Deadline
February 1 Deadline
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KFC Colonel Scholars. Apply after December 1.
February 17 Deadline
March 1 Deadline
All families of seniors should file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, even if you think you won't qualify. If circumstances change, you've already filed the one required form, and sometimes colleges ask for the FAFSA when awarding merit aid. Most colleges want it filed in January or February of senior year, and it only becomes available on January 1 each year.
FAME Maine performs lots of outreach like this to help families navigate the often-confusing financial aid process. They will not try to sell you anything.
Couldn't make it to FAFSA Night? Get the notes here.
Recent press about paying for college
September 2013
How Divorce Affects Financial Aid (or, who files FAFSA?)
July 2013
If you like graphs, try this one out, measuring college cost based on family income.
January 2013
The best article on EFC -in depth info on how to figure it out based on your income (AGI).
September 2012
Kiplinger's Personal Finance has 7 great tips
April 2012
Time Magazine's '6 myths about financial aid'.
March 2012
Using the internet to search for scholarships: tips from USA Today newspaper
February 2012
NASDAQ article about paying someone to file your FAFSA & expensive FAFSA advice
January 2012
"What Do Students Pay for College?" report, a summary of average net prices at colleges anduniversities across the country.
10 colleges where you graduate with little debt.
November 2011
Wall Street Journal examines how irrational we are when choosing colleges and offers tips on how to pay for it.
Smart Money and The NY Times explain the new Net Calculator, a tool on every college website that offers an estimate of what the college really costs your family.
Fast Company has a compelling and eye-opening graphic about the cost of college & questions whether it's worth it.
Colleges often offer scholarships, sometimes in the form of merit money, to admitted students. Often, it's a combination of grades and test scores that secure a scholarship, or volunteerism or athletics. Be sure to investigate if a separate scholarship application is required. Sometimes, an admissions application is all that is required. Here are some examples.
Criteria: graduation from a Catholic high school
Criteria: graduation from a Jesuit high school
Criteria: graduation from Cheverus high school
Attending UMO? There is a scholarship for one Cheverus graduate who will attend UMO, the Nanovic Scholarship. Separate application required.
Criteria: a certain major
Criteria: High Achievers
Criteria: student from Maine or New England
Criteria: participation in the Junior Achievement Program
Did you participate in the JA Program at Cheverus? Some colleges offer scholarships at their school.
Many Cheverus students wish to continue their Jesuit education at the college level. There are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities. You can find the map here, and a listing of merit scholarships offered by each of the 28 colleges here. Juniors receive a hard copy of the listing in College Advising class in March.
Note: Marquette & Loyola Chicago offer a half tuition scholarship to one accepted Cheverus senior each year, for the 4 years at the college.
The least expensive way to earn a college degree is to begin at community college, spend 1-2 years there, then transfer to the university or college of your choice to complete your bachelor's degree.
The next least expensive way to earn a college degree is to enroll in your in-state university and earn the degree in 4 years or less. See if you can test out of any courses or apply your AP Exam credit to any courses to shorten your stay at college. (the $90 you pay for an AP exam is much less expensive than an intro course at college that can cost thousands of dollars!)
Want to get out of Maine? New England state universities offer a tuition break program for some majors. You won't pay as low as in-state tuition, but you won't pay as much as an out-of-stater.
Many students focus on colleges that will award them generous merit money for good grades and SAT/ACT scores. Merit money does not have to be repaid - it's not a loan - and is usually renewable for your 4 years of college.
In exchange for serving your country, the military will help you pay for college. You can serve now and attend college later, or go to college now and serve later. Look into ROTC if you want college first. Here are the ROTC sites:
If you apply to an out-of-state public university in New England for a degree not offered in the Maine state university system, you may be eligible for a tuition break. You pay less than out-of-state rates but more than in-state tuition. Example: a meteorology degree is not offered at the Maine state university system but Plymouth State in NH and Lyndon State in VT offer the degree.
Visit the site to learn more, go straight to the majors offered to Maine students, or pick up a brochure in the College Advising Office.
In the past, Cheverus students have taken advantage of the programs at UCONN for biomedical engineering and actuarial science, UMass Amherst for social thought & political theory, and URI for landscape architecture and ocean engineering.
I suspect that your primary interest in earning a degree is not making money, but finding a fulfilling career.
You might be interested in what jobs will be plentiful in the years ahead. This website, although complicated, is where you can "view the job groups, the current number of people employed, projected growth to 2020, salaries of those in the job, and education levels of those in the profession." Spend some time on the site and enjoy!


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Babel is a pub that serves a selection of beers, wines and spirits. They offer a choice of Thai dishes all day as well as a variety of sandwiches and salads. They also have Sky Sports and Sega consoles. Seating on the terrace is provided, weather permitting.
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*Good people watching
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Good place for a group of friends, a date . The furniture set up is made up of long couches and tables. Simple, but it lends itself to conversation. So don't expect overbearing loud music to be played but an eclectic mix of music.
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I've been in to Babel on a few occasions and it just doesn't seem to improve itself on closer inspection. Even on a quiet Saturday afternoon, the music blasts to a near-empty pub.
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Should you trust a medical journal?
While we non-physicians may feel a bit peeved when we hear "Trust me, I'm a doctor", our medical friends do seem to have evidence on their side. GfK, apparently one of the world's leading market research companies, have developed a GfK Trust Index, and yes they found that doctors are one of the most trusted professions, behind postal workers, teachers and the fire service. World Bank managers might like to know that bankers and (top) managers come close to the bottom, just above advertising professionals and politicians.
Given the trust doctors enjoy, the recent brouhaha over allegations of low quality among some of the social science articles published in medical journals must be a trifle embarrassing to the profession. Here's the tale so far, plus a cautionary note about a recent 'systematic review'.
Compelling Ideas at the UN: Energy, Health, Education and #whatwillittake
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UNITED NATIONS | It has been a week of inspiring ideas and action plans at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. I met with a number of world leaders, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. We talked about the importance of creating jobs for ex-combatants, the pressing need for more energy sources, and more. You can hear my thoughts on our meeting in the video below.
WBG president announces new MDGs 4/5 funding mechanism
Today, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced a special funding mechanism to enable donors to scale up their funding to meet the urgent needs related to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, leveraging the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the poorest.
Dr. Kim announced the special funding mechanism during his remarks at the Every Woman, Every Child event at the UN General Assembly.
His remarks, as prepared for delivery, are available on the World Bank's website (http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/09/25/world-bank-president-kim-every-woman-every-child-un-general-assembly).
Burundi: Investing in Safer Births
Sub-Saharan Africa: How can we avoid the disease silos trap?
While much of the health focus in sub-Saharan Africa has been directed toward communicable diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, there has been less acknowledgement that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing problem. These diseases already account for about 30% of deaths and are expected to become the leading cause of ill health and death by 2030 (see chart).
Measuring universal health coverage – plus ça change?
In case you hadn't noticed, there's a growing clamor for a global commitment to universal health coverage (UHC). You might have seen the recent special issue of the Lancet on "the struggle for UHC". Inevitably, accompanying this clamor, there's been a lot of wracking of brains on how to measure progress toward UHC. With the excitement of a new political agenda, there's understandably a desire to carve out a new measurement agenda too. While not wanting dampen people's enthusiasm for the UHC cause, I would like us to reflect whether on the measurement agenda we're building enough on what's been done before.
A Great Day in South Africa for a Development Junkie
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PRETORIA, South Africa - I have to admit it. I'm a bit of a development junkie. For most of my adult life, I've been reading thick tomes describing the success or failure of projects. I talk to friends over dinner about development theory. And I can't stop thinking about what I believe is the biggest development question of all: How do we most effectively deliver on our promises to the poor?
So you can imagine how excited I was to have a day full of meetings with South Africa's foremost experts on development: the country's ministers of finance, economic development, health, basic education, water and environmental affairs, and rural development and land reform - and then with President Jacob Zuma.
I chose to travel to South Africa as part of my first overseas trip as president of the World Bank Group because of the country's great importance to the region, continent, and the world. It is the economic engine of Africa, and its story of reconciliation after apartheid is one of the historic achievements of our time.
SAR DM Grantees speak out about their winning projects on Nutrition
In light of its increasing mandate to address undernutrition in South Asia, the World Bank, with its partners, held a South Asia Regional Development Marketplace (SAR DM) on Nutrition under the theme: "Family and Community Approaches to Improve Infant and Young Child Nutrition."
The SAR DM on Nutrition supported the testing of innovative ideas across South Asia to deliver improved nutrition services to pregnant and lactating women and children under two.
World Breastfeeding Week: Healthy growth for the next generation
This week (August 1-7) is World Breastfeeding Week, an occasion to remind ourselves of the important role that optimal infant and young child feeding plays in the healthy growth and development of individuals, communities, and nations. For more than 30 years, the World Bank has championed the importance of breastfeeding. This includes investing in advocacy and communications to policymakers, strengthened health systems, and effective community-based outreach to provide the knowledge and support needed by women and their families.
To mark World Breastfeeding Week, World Bank nutrition experts have updated this helpful Q/A on the topic:
What are the health benefits of breastfeeding?
Breastfeeding is one of the most powerful tools available to a mother to ensure the health and survival of her child from the moment he/she is born. Optimal breastfeeding practices, which include initiating breastfeeding within an hour of birth, feeding only breast milk until 6 months, and continuing to breastfeed up to 24 months, are key elements in the fight against malnutrition. Breast milk provides all the nutrients a child needs for healthy development in the first six months of life. And the antibodies that are transferred from a mother to her child during breastfeeding help protect infants against common childhood illnesses that can lead to death, such as diarrhea and pneumonia.
The Lancet's 2008 series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition has estimated that the relative risk of death (all cause mortality) is 14 times higher for a child who is not breastfed versus one who is exclusively breastfed. When broken down by disease, the relative risk of death from diarrhea and pneumonia is 10.5 and 15 times higher, respectively, for children who are not breastfed versus those that are exclusively breastfed.
AIDS 2012: Science and the future of AIDS
Amid political statements and declarations of commitment, several sessions at the ongoing International AIDS Conference 2012 have shined a bright light on the future of the pandemic and the global response.
In one session, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, gave a keynote address, "Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation."
According to Dr. Fauci, who has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS since the discovery of the virus in the early 1980s, the scientific developments in the last three decades that have helped understand, treat and prevent HIV infection bode well for the promise of a world free of AIDS. He noted that the robust arsenal of nearly 30 antiretroviral drugs and scientifically proven interventions now available to treat and prevent HIV infection and improve people's health and longevity, offer an unprecedented opportunity in the years ahead. However, he was clear in cautioning that this will not be accomplished without sustained global commitment and effort. This means that the international community cannot retreat in the face of the current economic slowdown, but rather build upon those advances, adjusting, adapting and strengthening the response on the basis of accumulated experience and lessons learned from across the world.
If we heed Dr. Fauci's advice, it should be clear to all of us that while we need international funding from current and new donors to sustain the global effort, developing country governments also can and should step in and prioritize funding and investments to contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS and for other health priorities. While some people argue that the unprecedented funding for AIDS in the last decades has created imbalances in the global health agenda, we should also remember that in previous decades the underfunding and underdevelopment of health systems in most of the world, and the resulting lack of or limited access to basic health services for the majority of the population, was a common phenomenon that came before the AIDS response.


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mil2k - 4:31 am on May 26, 2003 (gmt 0)
Again i do not think google is going PFI simply because the amount of informational content which it's users look for.
For me the changes are more to do with Upgrading their algo before the shakeout begins. Yahoo! will not be showing google results and MSN is also targetting google. So the algo changes for me means that google is trying to improve the quality of their serps before the Real Shakeout in the SE market begins.


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One of the criticisms that gets levelled against Murakami occasionally, or against Murakami's fans, really, is that he's not a particularly representative Japanese novelist: he's a writer who very much looks to the West. Spaghetti, jazz, postmodern fluidity with narrative and time. I don't think though that this is entirely the case; his characters — as Aomame here — do not respond in a predictably Western, postmodern way; this kind of certainty in reality, especially as seated in the self, is almost anti-postmodern, essentialist, and it's the tension between that rigidity and the generic playfulness that maybe best characterizes what he does.
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Assumption is a strange little book, too, in its shifts: there are three parts, with no real clear through-line to them; three mysteries that do not get entirely, satisfactorily resolved. Threads dangle. And time passes, winter to summer to spring. But the tone also shifts, abruptly — from the mild bemusement of the first act, to the full-on deadpan quirk of the second act. The third act is more complex, and I'm pretty sure that the lefthand turn at the end of it didn't work for me — but oh, when Everett's on, Assumption is great. And the second act is just simply a great short story.
It's interesting to see what gets repeated, and how intentional or inadvertent that repetition is. There's Ogden Walker's repeated assertion of the uselessness of fingerprint and forensic evidence. There's his occasional protest that he's no more than a small-town sheriff's deputy, not a detective, just fit for issuing speeding tickets rather than solving mysteries. And then there's this:
For the second time in a handful of pages, excitement over, and interest in, the rare (although growing less rare, at least in his corner of New Mexico) dead person.
He goes on to point out that "most American kids know this instinctively," which is why they don't know things like the capital of Peru, which they can look up, after all; a real American can get by on a smile and a shoeshine.
But the problems with Lightning Rods aren't things that the voice can carry. There's the novel's structure, which is picaresque, one damn thing after another — which doesn't build or climax, but just vamps and riffs in a series of situation gags. And more seriously, there's the premise — unsuccessful at sales, Joe decides to commodify his sexual fantasies, which involve a very specific kink, as a solution to workplace sexual harrassment. Which is fine, a little outre, but hasn't got a great payoff — workplace sexual harassment, at least as a topic for trenchant satire, passed its sell-by date a while ago (yes, still a problem; no, not funny or controversial on its own, anymore).
Joe's voice is absolutely the best part of Lightning Rods. The salesman's patter, his insistence that the salesman must take people as they are and not as he would like them to be, the obvious rough edges on what he thinks is the smoothest of talk. And, special bonus points on getting the cliche right.
Yeah, OK, precisely; and this is of course the observation of the protagonist, as he steps out of that comfort zone, in Belize, running from the affair his wife is conducting. But in Ghost Lights we stay in Hal Lindley's head, in the space that ruminates like this, and the rest of the world doesn't make sense, in a plausible suspension-of-disbelief way rather than an ain't-life-strange way. Ghost Lights is a character study, focused entirely on Hal in an extreme situation (that illuminates Hal and his priorities, essential personality traits, through its extremity), but the combination of Hal's diffidence, and the implausibility of the events surrounding him (like the affair with the younger woman that drops into his lap, without his agency and completely without consequenses) make things toothless, stakes-free.
"When I was done with watching for people I started watching for rats instead. I like rats. There are a lot of myths about them. Sightings are rarer than people think. Rats are shy. Visible rats are either young or sick or starving. They don't bite sleeping babies' faces for the fun of it. They're tempted by traces of food, that's all. Wash your kid's mouth before you put it to bed and it'll be OK. And there are no giant rats as big as cats. All rats are the same size."
Presented almost without comment, because it's a Lee Child book that comes after a string of stuff in translation, except to express wonder at the things one can learn from fiction.
Zombie stories are also stories of endurance; they seldom end well, with the ragtag band of humans weathering the zombie plague. This one follows that tradition; Mark Spitz has seen too much to be anything but fatalistic. But Whitehead reaches past that, too; Mark's exhaustion, his existential weariness, also comes from the endless violence, all the destruction, and his belief that each person is isolated in himself, throwing up his own projections on everything around him, and — even though there are actually real monsters — more terrifyingly falling prey to the monsters created in his own mind.
It's kind of a shame that this is going to be tagged as, reduced to, Colson Whitehead's Zombie Novel.
Zone One takes place over three days — although it's largely recollection, so covers much more ground — and these are Mark Spitz's night thoughts from the end of the first day. This is an interesting couple of pages, beginning here: first, we have this meditation, which is the keynote of the book, concerned much more with the effects of the zombie apocalypse on the individual soul than society; as Mark moves forward, it's clear that Zone One's horror isn't Steven King splatter or George Romero satire, but is primarily existential. There's a bit about the lights in New York that follows this, and it's interesting that this image of New York after a disaster doesn't immediately read like 9/11 commentary, that Zone One is in no real part 9/11 allegory. And then there's a kicker last line, one that echoes the first line of the book, which is spell-breakingly writerly, and a really rare false note.
It's pretty axiomatic that vampire stories are about the individual, while zombie stories are about the horror of society; id and superego, superhuman and subhuman. Zombie stories, then, are custom-built for social critique, for satire and commentary, and that's coded into Zone One, even if it's not the keynote. There's a reason — again, this is axiomatic, endlessly repeated and accepted — that the genre's ur-text takes place in Pittsburgh, that it features an African-American man as its hero. At least for this broad-brushed, critical perspective, Whitehead is the perfect writer for a zombie novel; very able to enter into, to chronicle the bourgeoisie, the mass culture, but always crucially aslant, othered. Mark Spitz — Zone One's narrative focus and hero — does this here; he knows and can see the world Kaitlyn comes from (after all, he's from Long Island), but it wasn't wholly his world, and now it's nobody's at all.
From the perspective of one of the two student narrators – the teacher also narrates – who fall into and out of love with Mr. Silver. The wonderful thing about this isn't the self-awareness, and it's not the way that Maksik shows Silver teaching (which is fine, but is also showy, and doesn't succeed completely); it's the scene that balances this, late in the book, when the time-serving buffoon pulls the inspirational firebrand aside and tells him how to succeed at teaching (while calling him "buddy" a lot). Because, the thing is, this is maybe at best half-true, and it comes from the perspective of a highschooler (or, actually, a mid-twenties retrospective voice, to be precise), who doesn't or can't understand that – in the absence of passion – there's the option of professionalism, of a life outside the job. It's not just tears or slow death.
You Deserve Nothing, I'm afraid, begins with two strikes against it, and it took me a good amount of time to get over those two strikes, because they're big ones. There's the fact that it's an inspirational-teacher-with-feet-of-clay book, which is difficult enough to do, not only because it's been done to death but also because it's much easier to say someone is inspirational than it is to show them being inspirational, especially on the page rather than on film where performance and delivery can help. And there's the fact that Maksik's characters are the sort that simply make poor choices, and not particularly original poor choices: they're easy to discount, to disinvest in.
The thing is, there's a lot going on under the hood here, and some of it actually works. The notion of the teacher as performer is fine, well-done, and gets pulled off in a couple of directions (where he's perceived ultimately as hypocrite; where he's perceived ultimately as empty, through an especially wonderful little aside). The counterpoint between the inspiring-teacher story and the feet-of-clay story gets run through the classroom subject matter, a senior seminar on existentialism, more or less, and the Hamlet and Sartre and Camus is both appropriately adolescent at the same time it's an appropriate ironic commentary on the main action. And that makes this a book that it's possible to like in spite of, or along side, if not because of those strikes against it.
"He tossed these in through the door, flying right over Zula's head like spears, and directed Sharjeel to screw them down on their edges to the plywood underlayment. This he did miserably. The procedure, as Zula could have told him, was called toenailing, and it was tricky."
But here's the dark side of the Mogadishu-metaphor Stephenson. This comes in the middle of a long, couple-page episode where the inept Canadian jihadis (following of course their Welsh-born international terrorist leader) construct a soundproof cell in the back bedroom of an RV they've carjacked. Seriously: two and a half pages, several hundred words, of basic rough-in carpentry, from purchasing materials at the Home Depot to closing the door. This is how you write a thousand-page novel: not just through the pileup of events, and the multiplication of characters and storylines, but also through elaboration and digression and inclusion of everything possible, in the faith that the more information a reader has the happier he is. If this isn't Stephenson's most successful outing, it's simply not for lack of sheer effort.
"The brain, as far as Richard could determine from haphazard skimming of whatever came up on Google, was sort of like the electrical system of Mogadishu. A whole lot was going on in Mogadishu that required copper wire for conveyance of power and information, but there was only so much copper to go around, and so what wasn't actively being used tended to get pulled down by militias and taken cross-town to beef up some power-hungry warlord's private, improvised power network. As with copper in Mogadishu, so with neurons in the brain. The brains of people who did unbelievably boring shit for a living showed dark patches in the zones for job-related processes, since all those almost-never-exercised neurons got pulled down and trucked somewhere else and used to beef up the circuits used to keep track of NCAA tournament brackets and celebrity makeovers."
Yes, there is a lot going on there, and yes, it is tenuous, and yes, it's probably a little hinky to use the example specifically of African warlords as your primary example for fixed-quantity resource distribution; but this is also a pretty wonderful on-the-fly explanation of a complex phenomenon and as good an accounting of the appeal of March Madness as any other. And this is the kind of thing one reads Neal Stephenson for, much more than the rather aleatoric, slow-blooming plot.
"The dragon was a lot scoldier than he expected. And disappointingly cryptic. Somehow in the back of his mind he'd vaguely thought that the dragon might want to be his friend, and they would fly around the world solving mysteries together. The chances of that happening now looked vanishingly small."
Actually, a sequel that's as good as the first in the series, in different ways: compensating for the lack of a new world with (as here) impressive archness; providing higher stakes, and pursuing a better origin-story (because, well, Julia's backstory makes it clear that Quentin is a bit of a prat, and her rather-less-tidy backstory is more interesting, if less novelistic, than his) despite being stuck in a couple of corners (like opening in Fillory, and having to deal with the exposition to get from the first book to the second. There's something very definite to be said for good management.
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And along with that dickishness — Quentin, after all, is a hugely flawed hero, bringing catastrophe on himself and others, never pure in his intentions or actions, and not really the guy who saves the day — is the management of reference. That's a second-order pleasure, but so skillfully done — not just in the parallels to CS Lewis, or the winking references to Harry Potter, which all of the students at the magical boarding school of magic have read, but also in the way that Grossman encodes the requirements of the genre in his narrative (the long process of getting to the other world; the somewhat unsatisfying speed with which the quest is accomplished) and fulfills them without breaking verisimillitude or character development, which are the things he hangs his hat on.
There are certain things you get to do with exposition only when you're being fantastic. Both in the small-f and the big-F way.
Then again, one of the great strengths of The Magicians is the way Grossman deals with magic, and the school for magic: it's a grind, and not just for Hermione. Quentin does lead a charmed life, does have things handed to him on a plate — more on that in The Magician King — but despite that, and despite being pretty plausibly adolescent in his dickishness, Grossman's take on magic as a craft to be mastered through hard work and constant application, boredom and practice, makes this work. And the entrance-exam set-piece this caps is really pretty great.
So, Luminous Airplanes jumps around: the narrative is fragmented, and proceeds more by association than by timeline; the majority of the action takes place in 2000, the present of the book, with sections from the protagonist's past cropping up to explain or illuminate. This is one of the few moments we get a hint of the future (which always carries the danger of breaking up suspension of disbelief; we accept that the novel exists as something which follows the action, and in a first-person narrative supposes the protagonist's survival into the present, and capacity to reflect, but hints forward at other actions risk breaking the fourth wall, to mix metaphors). But Luminous Airplanes isn't always rigorous about its internal continuity; there are conversations that appear to be reported in full, which get followed by references the next morning to things that weren't talked about; there are points that sent me flipping back to try to establish through-lines (and flipping back is not a common thing for this reader to do). I understand that, for some writers, maybe most writers, it's necessary to establish a backstory, large swaths of experience and history, that do not make it on to the page, that only inform things in the most roundabout way — but these continuity problems, and Luminous Airplanes as a whole, gives the sense that the book is posterior or accessory to that bulk of imagined backstory; that no suspense is necessary, because the future is fixed and determined; and that the author absolutely could, if asked, produce the letter, the fragments, maybe a dry run or two at the potential collage.
I wouldn't bring this up at all — this is actually a pretty apt description of some contemporary novels, maybe not necessarily Murakami, but there are any number of names to fill in in that headfirst sleepingbag slot — except that Luminous Airplanes comes with its own online "immersive text" that is intended to supplement and expand the rather short novel that it depends on. Does this constitute having your cake, and eating it, too, then?


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