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Fontbonne Names J. Michael Pressimone as 14th President
Currently the vice president of advancement at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., Pressimone has served in various roles in education and higher education for 33 years. Pressimone designed and launched Alvernia's first comprehensive capital campaign, oversaw the offices of development, alumni relations, and communications and marketing, and served as a key member of the president's cabinet. Previously, he served as vice president for institutional advancement at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C., and the same position at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa.
"I am humbled that the board of trustees has selected me as the next president of the university and truly excited to follow in the footsteps of a great president like Denny Golden," said Pressimone. "My wife, Cathy, and I experienced such warm and welcoming feelings from the Fontbonne community: faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, regents, members of the Fontbonne Community Connection and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. What the sisters founded over 90 years ago continues as a vibrant and relevant university today. We look forward to bringing our family to Fontbonne as we begin our work together this summer."
Pressimone earned a doctorate of education in higher education and organizational change from Benedictine University in 2013, a master's degree from Regis University in 2009, and a bachelor's in fine arts from the Catholic University of America in 1981.
"We believe Michael will lead the institution to its next level of success through entrepreneurial, transformative and collaborative leadership," said Gary Krosch, chair of the university's board of trustees. "We searched for a servant-leader who is transparent, forward-thinking and passionate, and who can rigorously advance our goal of becoming a preferred destination for traditional students as well as adult learners."
The university conducted a yearlong, nationwide search after Golden, the first male, married lay president of the university, announced his retirement after 47 years in higher education. A search committee composed of board members and Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, as well as individuals representing faculty, staff, students and the university's council of regents, worked with a search consulting firm to determine appropriate candidates.
"We looked at numerous well-qualified candidates from universities and other organizations around the country," said search committee chair and board member John Capellupo. "The search committee is very satisfied with the breadth and quality of this search, and we're thrilled with the results. Michael will serve Fontbonne well."
The board of trustees voted on the selection of Pressimone at a scheduled meeting Feb. 1, 2014.


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180° South: Conquerors of the Useless
Chris Malloy's film strikes so deeply into the heart of Patagonia's wilderness we come to feel at home there. "180° South: Conquerors of the Useless" follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life -- and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado. Jeff's life turns when he meets up in a rainy hut with Chouinard and Tompkins who, once driven purely by a love of climbing and surfing, now value above all the experience of raw nature -- and have come to Patagonia to spend their fortunes to protect it
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The next time someone says to me they wish for simpler times, I think I will blow my cool.
Last week a man at a gas station was talking to me and began rambling on about how much easier it was when things were clearer and easier to deal with in the 1950's.
I couldn't get away fast enough.
For me doing part of my growing up in the 1950's, things from a kids perspective were certainly easier. But from an adult point of view, looking back at what my parents, part of the greatest generation faced, I have to know that simpler is not the term to use.
Maybe the term should be different rather than simpler.
If you believe there were no drugs, no subversives, no war and no economic problems, you haven't looked at the truth. All I can tell you about is my personal experience and from what I saw things weren't simple.
My parents faced a world where McCarthyism flourished, people of a color other than white we always second class citizens, where the threat of atomic war loomed over the landscape daily, where economic downturns devastated communities just as much as they do today and where the accepted social system was changing as rapidly as a rabbit has litters of bunnies.
My dad worked seven days a week, 365 days a year from the 1920's through the 1960's. He got up at 4 a.m. each day to milk our dairy cattle and stayed at the barn until 7:30 p.m. at night cleaning up after the nightly milking. In between he plowed fields, hauled hay, fixed machinery, threshed grain, spread manure on corn fields and fed the multitude of animals on our farm. He got up in the middle of the night to take water turns, fend off critters that threatened the stock and to take care of sick cows. He did all this whether it was 106 degrees or 20 below zero. For this he never made more than $6,000 a year.
My mother took care of most everything else, because he was so busy. No wonder she didn't work outside the home; she didn't have time.
Through all of this they provided a great home for my sisters and I.
It wasn't simple and it never has been. Each generation faces their own challenges.
Looking back at your years as a kid or a teenager may be pleasant and nostalgic, but just remember if you felt secure and reasonably happy it was because someone else was taking on the complicated things in life for you.
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OGDENSBURG - Tackling St. Lawrence Countys drug trafficking problem is an uphill battle, officials say.
Since he became the departments chief narcotics officer in 2007, Ogdensburg City Police Det. Daniel Mousaw, with the help of fellow officers, and federal, state and county agencies, has overseen 161 felony drug arrests in the city.
With two months left before the end of the year, the department is expected to surpass its 2007 record of 29 felony drug arrests.
We are fighting an uphill battle, Mr. Mousaw said. The drug problem is the worst I have ever seen it.
St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin M. Wells said while there are increases across the board, each portion of the county is fighting its own drug crisis.
Crack cocaine sales make up the bulk of the drug arrests in Ogdensburg. Of the 161 drug arrests since 2007, 115 of them were the result of crack cocaine sales or possessions, according to data collected by the Ogdensburg police department.
Police Chief Timmy J. Currier said its a different story in Massena.
There is certainly a demand and market for heroin in particular, he said. We are working on dealing with the supply and demand through education and working with treatment providers everyone in the field, not just law enforcement. Our goal is to hit this from every possible angle in order to impact it.
Mr. Wells said drug crime is increasing in the north country because more drug dealers are moving into the area from cities such as Watertown, Syracuse, and New York City.
There is a lot of traffic coming into our county jail, with several of these people not coming from the north country, but there are even more people coming to replace them, Mr. Wells said.
Officials agree that it comes down to basic economics: supply and demand.
Crack cocaine typically sells for $100 a gram or .1 to .2 grams in a packet for just over $30 in the north country, Mr. Wells said.
Thats sometimes twice as much as they would get in a city, Mr. Wells said. This is a problem that is going on all over the state. I just think this market hasnt been tapped or tested quite as much. We have an addiction problem here and dealers are taking advantage.
While the sale of drugs is not new or specific to the county, trends in the upstate drug trade have changed.
When Police Chief Richard J. Polniak began his career in 1985 as a patrolman in the Ogdensburg Police department, a narcotics investigations unit was put in place a year later.
Back then we had a lot more locals dealing, Mr. Polniak said. Now we are seeing more transient dealers with criminal backgrounds.
Many local dealers are meeting suppliers in major cities or in prison and encouraging them to take their business upstate, Mr. Polniak said.
The Internet is also a way for drug dealers to scope out the north country market.
They are meeting girls and taking up residence with them, which has spurred a domino effect in which their friends will also bring others up, Mr. Currier said.
In an effort to discourage drug dealers from taking up residence in Massena, the village is taking code enforcement action on blighted properties.
We have a housing market that benefits them, Mr. Currier said. There are a lot of places to rent cheap and a lot of renters renting homes that do not meet housing code.
The villages Nuisance Abatement Law stipulates that if there is known drug activity at a residence on more than two occasions, the property can be seized after a hearing.
Its to make the landlords more careful of whom they rent to, he said. It also gives landlords the necessary steps to evict and get rid of renters if they discover they are using or selling drugs.
Mr. Polniak said drug arrests are often the result of impact patrols, cooperation between multiple state and local agencies, lengthy investigations and the help of informants and residents.
Were very fortunate to have many residents who submit tips, Mr. Polniak said. Residents dont want this in their community, and they are speaking up.
However, Mr. Polniak says the publics efforts may be overshadowed by a lack of support from the county, state and federal governments.
In August, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. announced the federal government will no longer pursue mandatory minimum sentences for certain low-level, non-violent drug offenders in an effort to cut down on prison costs.
But violence is associated with drug-dealing, Mr. Polnaik said. The people who want that heroin or that cocaine are out there committing crimes and robbing, although not so much in this area, at gun point or stealing things or burglarizing homes and those are the more violent crimes associated.
Mr. Mousaw said with the increase of drugs has led to an increase of other forms of crime in the community.
As long as you the problems of drug trafficking and sales, a clientele base, and the use and abuse of illegal substances, you will be plagued with incidents ranging from disturbances of the peace and petty crimes, to major, violent crimes, Mr. Mousaw said.
A need for drugs compels some users to steal from yards, cars, homes and businesses.
Fortunately, none of these burglaries so far have led to a confrontation between residents of the home and intruders in Ogdensburg, Mr. Mousaw said.
Another issue is the volume of thefts form local box stores and other retailers. Generators, chainsaws, and large, flat screen televisions are all being carried out of stores on a daily basis, Mr. Mousaw said.
The amount and frequency of these thefts, as well as the value of the merchandise being removed from these stores is truly alarming, he said.
The need for drugs has even led to more violent crimes, as in the case of Ralph E. Gene Lawton, 83, who died after a scuffle when robbers took $1,000 and prescription drugs from him.
Mr. Polniak says there are any crimes also go unreported, especially when it comes to crime between drug dealers and users.
But those crimes can still pose its own threat to the communitys safety, Mr. Polniak said.
Mr. Polniak said the struggle to keep drug dealers off the street is worsened by a lack of deterrents.
Its in the courts system is where our problem lies – plea bargaining down, less sentencing guidelines, etc. – there is no deterrent. Its like raising kids. If a kid does something wrong and has no consequence to deter that behavior, then they are going to keep on doing it.
Throughout his time with the department, Mr. Polniak said his department has spent an inordinate amount of time investigating and arresting repeat offenders.
It may be that judges and the DA are caught within the parameters of the law, I dont know, he said. But until we solve that, its going to keep adding to the problem.
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|Busy Early Voting in Watauga
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Voting is underway—and was brisk all morning as one-stop voting opened for the Fall elections. Some candidates were present, others had representatives outside the polling places with a sea of signs extolling voters to cast ballots for them. The one-stop locations today and tomorrow
are at Boards of Election offices across the High Country, with the Plemmons Student Union on the ASU campus joining in Monday for the 5000-plus students who registered since August in Watauga to have a convenient polling place. And there was a vote rally this morning, to be followed by another Monday at the Sanford Mall on campus to be sure that all remember to vote. Another early voting site opens in Watauga on October 31st at the Foscoe Fire Department, with that week ending with a Saturday session of voting November 3rd. The general election is November 6th.
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Smith, 38, grew up in California and Portland, graduating from Grant High School and the University of Oregon before earning a law degree from Harvard. He's now in his second term in the Oregon House representing Southeast Portland (he lives in the Hazelwood neighborhood).
He didn't last long working for law firms, preferring politics instead. He's best known as founder of the Bus Project, a get-out-the-vote organization launched in 2002 that seeks to involve young people in politics. (Full disclosure: Smith and the Bus Project work with WW on the "Candidates Gone Wild" election-year showcases. )
Smith's experience as a political organizer and potential favorite of labor unions (and their money and supporters' help) could allow him to triangulate in a race against Hales and Brady. He also trumps them in one area of the city they've been playing to: east Portland, where he's already shown he can win.
Smith also entered the race late and is famous for his frenetic, verbose style that leaves many associates wondering how effective a mayor he would be. Smith has publicly acknowledged he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—he blamed his condition in part for his failure to pay his bar dues.
In a two-hour interview, we asked Smith about his past accomplishments and top issues, the economy, the Police Bureau, engaging citizens in civic debate and how his ADHD does and doesn't matter. We also talked about his performance as a legislator, his political history in high school, and why he's like the giant Soviet boxer in Rocky IV.
WW: You say you quit your first job out of law school, with New York City law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, because you didn't like the firm's representation of tobacco companies. Is that the one industry that created ethical problems for you?
Jefferson Smith: Yeah.
If it had been Exxon, you would have been fine?
Yeah, probably. I was briefly at [Portland law firm] Stoel Rives and I gave a speech at a Labor Day picnic, where I criticized Enron and Capital Consultants in a speech. And then afterwards I realized, wait a minute, those are both clients of the firm.
You stayed about a year at Stoel Rives.
About the same time I started there, I started the Bus [Project]. I was thinking it would be a sort of avocation. Ended up doing, trying to do both things for a year, a little better. And went to half time for a little bit. You know, ended up getting probably a C in one, a D-minus in the other.
Did they ask you to leave?
I had lousy billable hours, but I—both because I was trying, essentially, two very full-time jobs. I think the phrase that was used [was] "a mutual parting of ways."
You probably spent $150,000 going to law school. As we've learned, you weren't a terribly active voter in those days. What made you throw away a comfortable living for a nonprofit in an area that you didn't appear to have a burning interest in?
The thing that helped motivate the Bus were a series of conversations with people of my generation. And we were looking at ourselves like, you know what, maybe we're lazy bastards. Or if not lazy, selfish. The [Harvard] Kennedy School of Government in the '70s, the '80s sent three-quarters of its graduates to public service. And in my graduating year, I think they sent one-third.


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My HP-Proliant "ML 570 G3" Machine have faced abnormal shutdown due to a power failure.
after the event : "Operating System not found" appeared & the system could not load operating system.
O/S: RHEL AS 4 update 2
Software Raid 1+0 were configured.
Facts Gathered:
All mount points are accessible through Linux Rescue Environment.
Try to re-install the grub, it failed with error "not a charactor device" { i have tried by giving all the available paths )
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The always approachable Bob Kowalick answered his phone Wednesday night and responded in uncharacteristic fashion: Its going terrible. Hows it going with you?
The Frontier League executive director was trying to sort through the fallout of a third straight day filled with high school sports postponements with league playoffs looming in every sport.
Weve been in this situation before but its been quite a long time since weve been in this bad of a situation, Kowalick said.
Here is a sport-by-sport breakdown of how the recent weather could impact the postseason picture:
Kowalick said that volleyball is the sport that concerns him the most.
The league championships for all three divisions are scheduled to be played Saturday at Watertown High School.
The league semifinals were supposed to be played either Tuesday, Wednesday or today. But makeups that would affect seeding in the C/D Division have been pushed back and will now be played tonight and/or Friday.
League chairman and longtime Beaver River coach Gene Sundberg said that the semifinals might have to be played Saturday morning at Watertown High School, with the championship to follow later in the afternoon.
Its still up in the air, but it looks like that may be where were headed, Sundberg said.
Tonights South Lewis-Sandy Creek match will determine the top seed and a match between Belleville Henderson-Thousand Islands that was postponed to tonight will determine the fourth and final seed in the division.
Beaver River and Sandy Creek both have other makeups scheduled for Friday, eliminating that day as a possibility for the league semifinals.
Obviously, its crazy, Sundberg said. You see a lot of crazy with the weather up here, but I dont know that I can ever remember a year like this.
The B Division final of South Jefferson-Lowville is already set while Indian River and Watertown are slated to play Friday night for the right to meet top-seeded Carthage in the A Division final. The Cyclones will also host Beaver River in a league makeup Friday just before its semifinal match.
Boys and girls basketball teams should be able to complete their regular season schedules without impacting the league playoffs.
But several teams will be in a crunch to do so, like the undefeated South Jefferson girls team which has five league games left, along with the B Division playoff final, with less than two weeks until the Feb. 12 Section 3 seeding meeting.
To be blunt, this stinks, South Jefferson coach Pat Bassett said. Our conditioning is taking a hit. It certainly cuts into preparation and most importantly, we lose the ability to break down game video and correct mistakes in the practices that follow games.
Kowalick said that, for playoff seeding purposes, teams that have makeup games remaining will be credited with a loss. But that doesnt affect the teams record for seeding in the Section 3 playoffs.
The A Division league playoffs begin on Monday, putting them at the greatest risk, with the rest of the league beginning later in the week.
The one definite in the league postseason schedule is that the Frontier League wrestling championships will take place on Saturday, regardless of makeups.
General Brown coach Mike Hartle said that this weeks postponements will only impact wrestlers that are still trying to qualify for the league tournament, or kids that need to drop weight between this weeks dual meet and the league tournament on Saturday.
It makes it difficult on the guys that have some weight to lose Were going to be wrestling (tonight) then go right back into another weight cut on Friday, so it makes it difficult for those guys, Hartle said.
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My computer is becoming inactive when I try
any network operation.
The screen turns black and hard drive spins off.
When I move my mouse it becomes active for a while,
and then deactivated again.
Please help.
I installed a server package of latest RedHat 9.0.
With regards,
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If it's Linux, you may have the APMD, Advanced Power Management Daemon poorly configured.
Try to use the "man apmd" command to get some of the options available to you.
You may also want to shut it off completely just to help isolate the problem better.
Stopping it
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Starting it
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from Chris Larson Oct 04, 2012 Category: Ministry NewsIt was beautiful. There a few rows ahead of me during Lord's Day worship sat a father with his children. As the congregation sang, this father sang over, with, and to one of his daughters who was bound to a wheelchair. The father delighted in this and, from the smile on her face, she knew how much her earthly father loved her. This was one of the most poignant moments I've experienced in corporate worship. Keep Reading


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Established in 1990, MAASA is part of the statewide Alliance initiative of the Governor's Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. MAASA is funded by grants from the Governor's Council and local contributions.
MAASA provides a unique grass roots network that connects educators, law enforcement officials, parents, civic and religious groups to help identify and address long standing and emerging substance abuse issues through our regular meetings, surveys, topic centered workshops, promotion of the "40 Developmental Assets" framework for nurturing children, "Parent Connection" groups, resources at the Madison Library and our web site at www.MAASA.org
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- Prevention of smoking, drinking and drug use works best when it begins in early childhood and continues throughout adolescence and adulthood.
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In looking at the movies this weekend, I was considering (maybe, possibly) suggesting Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola (starring Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, and Arya Babbar) to my friends here. The movie was only playing at Reading Cinemas, as per this ad. And just today, there was a shooting at the theater:
Police shot and critically wounded a man Saturday suspected of chasing his girlfriend with a handgun across a shopping mall parking lot before ducking into a movie theater where officers confronted him.
The shooting occurred inside the Reading Cinemas theater in northern San Diego around 3:50 p.m., and no moviegoers or officers were hurt, officer David Stafford said.
He said officers went to an outdoor shopping center, where the theater is located, in response to a domestic violence call. Police did not immediately release other details.
A San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said the suspect was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The owner of a business next to the theater said officers told him the armed man chased his girlfriend across a parking lot. Steve Krongard, the owner of the Nickel City arcade, said police shut down the lot, checked every car leaving the mall and went from businesses to business to look for the suspect until they found him in the theater.
"There were 20 police cars blocking the entrance, then the fire truck and the ambulance rushed in," Krongard said.
"Then we saw seven cops with what looked like rifles, then paramedics went into the theater."
The theater's manager told Krongard the shooting occurred during a screening of "Les Miserables."
Adrian Amante, the owner of the Home Trends store, told U-T San Diego people started running out of the theater and hiding behind cars.
A moviegoer told KGTV the lights suddenly went on during the film and two officers came into the theater with their guns. Another witness told the station that everyone got on the floor and started heading for the exit doors.
Please please please, people: get ahold of yourself. Take up long-distance running, get a blog, meditate, join the Navy. I hear this is a good way to keep things chilled out in your life.


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Take Out (2004)
"Take Out" is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Ming is behind with payments on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the United States. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due. After borrowing most of the money from friends and relatives, Ming realizes that the remainder must come from the day's delivery tips. In order to do so, he must make more than double his average daily income. In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout the upper Manhattan neighborhood where social and economic extremes exist side by side. Intercutting between Ming's deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, "Take Out" presents a harshly real look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in New York City.
Cast: Theodore Bouloukos, Jeng-Hua Yu, Justin Wan, Wang-Thye Lee, Charles Jang
Produced by: Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
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CANTON A Waddington woman testified Tuesday that she loaned money to Bobbie Jo Zeller with tender loving care.
The testimony of June H. McQueeney, 81, began Tuesday afternoon at the St. Lawrence County Courthouse.
Mrs. McQueeney is just one person allegedly defrauded by Zeller, 36, of 72 W. Main St., Norfolk, who is accused of bilking more than $300,000 out of dozens of others. Among her alleged victims are a retired priest and his parishoners.
Zeller is accused of conning Ms. McQueeney out of more than $15,000, according to evidence submitted to the court during the testimony. Previously it had been reported that Mrs. McQueeney had been defrauded of $3,000.
Zeller faces two counts of second-degree grand larceny, two counts of third-degree grand larceny, three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and one count of first-degree scheme to defraud.
Mrs. McQueeney said she is a friend of retired Waddington priest the Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Lawler, a principal alleged victim in the case.
Monsignor Lawler allegedly had more than $300,000 stolen from him and his parish by Zeller, who allegedly manipulated him into giving her money claiming she desperately needed cash to care for an ailing son.
We were very good friends, Mrs. McQueeney said of Msgr. Lawler. He said he had been helping Bobbie Jo.
That was in 2010.
Msgr. Lawler hadnt asked Ms. McQueeney to help Zeller, she said.
He came to a point where he said he couldnt give her any more money, Mrs. McQueeney said. I said I could help her with money, and I gave her money from my savings.
Mrs. McQueeney said that savings was eventually depleted with a final check for $1,751.18 that closed out her Met Life account.
Seven checks came from that account, totaling $9,651.18.
Those checks were distributed between November 2010 and January 2011 with an $800 check dated Christmas Eve and a $300 check dated New Years Eve.
It all went to Bobbie Jo, she said. I cashed the checks and gave her the money.
Mrs. McQueeney said Zeller continued to say she needed money, but Mrs. McQueeney never knew quite what it was for.
District Attorney Nicole M. Duv� authenticated a total of 25 checks from Mrs. McQueeney as being cashed to help Zeller, for a total of $15,451.18.
Every time I gave her money I said I expected to have this paid back, Mrs. McQueeney said.
When Ms. Duve asked her how much of that money she saw returned, Mrs. McQueeney said none of it.
I thought I was helping her, Ms. McQueeney said, and, as a sign of that help, she wrote the letters TLC on eight of those checks on the memo line.
TLC, stood for tender loving care, because I believed they were going to help Bobbie Jo, Mrs. McQueeney told Ms. Duv�.
Mrs. McQueeneys testimony will continue this morning in County Court.
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Local golfer sinks his third hole in one.
On March 31, senior golfer John Anselmo completed his third hole in one. The accomplishment was witnessed by Pete Ardohain and a second unidentified golfer.
Anselmo will be 80 years old this year and enjoys the sport of golf. In fact, each morning, Anselmo can be found at the crack of dawn on the golf course. Anselmo also enjoys his weekly game with the senior group at the Carbon Country Club.
This amazing feat is the third in Anselmo's long golf career, with the first coming in 1994 and the second in 2000.
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No major injuries occurred during a wreck involving a truck and school bus in Fritch on Monday, April 17, 2012, at West Broadway and Maxpage around 7:40 a.m.
According to Fritch Officer Schiller, a male minor driving a red 2005 truck failed to yield the right-of-way to a school bus transporting 19 children. The female passenger of the truck and one child on the bus were transported to Golden Plains Community Hospital. Schiller stated the accident is still under investigation.


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NORWOOD - With Saturdays 24th annual Norwood Lake Regatta on the horizon, Norwood is finishing its final preparations for the highly hyped event.
Gates open at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday with the watercross races beginning at 11 a.m. both days. The festivities also include bounce houses, vendors, slides, crafts, and plenty of food.
The event, which is put on by the Norwood Lake Association, features activities for all ages and interests, according to Mayor James H. McFaddin.
The weather will be picture perfect for the weekend and it looks like ideal temperatures and plenty of sun. Thats a big plus for the regatta. Were up in the 35 area (for vendors). We estimate around 1,000 people coming for the event, give or take a few, Mr. McFaddin said.
The regatta will take place at Norwood Beach, and Mr. McFaddin is eager for the weekend to get underway, in particular the watercross races. The field will feature both professionals and semi-pros competing in 600 and 800 oval races (which refer to the engine sizes.)
Additionally, one amateur will get the opportunity to be instructed by a pro and then try their hand at going through the race course. A couple years ago a man from Akwesasne was able to do it and complete the race. (The competitors) complete oval races. There are four in a heat. The winner moves on to the next heat and the winners in one heat will progress into the finals, Mr. McFaddin said. Its really exciting, fast paced. They bring 30-50 race officials, families and drivers. The comments weve received in the past is they really like the area. Its really good exposure for the north country.
During the associations annual meeting, it was determined for the second consecutive year some of the profits made from the regatta will be used to eradicate Milfoil in Norwood Lake. Eurasion Milfoil is an invasive plant that has invaded many lakes in St. Lawrence County.
The organization was established in the 1980s due to unacceptable water quality that was caused by industrial discharges which closed the beach on occasion. Additionally, a total of 56 grievances were recorded at an association meeting in result of a small hydro development that threatened homeowner properties. All grievances were eventually favorably resolved.
The profits are very good for our community. Were very focused on milfoil right now. In a study conducted by Clarkson University, it was determined that if milfoil took over Norwood Lake it would take over 80 percent of the lake within 10 years. Were dedicated to using the profits to help eradicate the milfoil, Mr. McFaddin said.
Profits will also be used to benefit residents through the operation of a recycling center that the association established in 1990. Over 300 residents dispose of 75 percent of household waste at no charge each Saturday.
Admission for the Norwood Lake Regatta is $5 for adults with children 12 and under able to attend for free.
David McLean and his wife Christine, Greenland, N.H, spent Thursday night at the Massena International Kampgrounds, before heading to Norwood today in preparation for the weekends watercross races. Both Mr. McLean and his son, Adam, will be competing this weekend, the second consecutive year they have made the trek to Norwood.
Weve competed in Flat Rock (Lowville), Walton, Union, Ct., and Freemont, N.H. I am a semi-pro and my son is a pro, Mr. McLean said. We started coming here three to four years ago when we heard about it from some friends and we were racing so we started coming here.
David and Adam have been competing in watercross racing for six years and were introduced to the sport by a family friend.
Youre doing something thats not supposed to be done. Snowmobiles dont float. In experience, 1 in 10 people that try (watercross racing) succeed, Mr. McLean said. (You need) persistence to keep going and just keep trying. You need to figure out gearing, speed, and track speed. It took us two years (to learn).
Being an annual event, Mr. McFaddin explained how dedicated many of the volunteers are in order to make the event the success that it is.
Volunteers have been working to get ready for about nine months. The last four days have been intense. Were putting the final touches to make sure that the visitors to the regatta will have a pleasant experience. Its a very, very important event to our community, he said.
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2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk — the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss. A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao confirms Junot Diaz as one of the best and most exciting voices of our time.
Signature Review by Matthew Sharpe "A reader might at first be surprised by how many chapters of a book entitled The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao are devoted not to its sci fi — and — fantasy-gobbling nerd-hero but to his sister, his mother and his grandfather. However, Junot Diaz's dark and exuberant first novel makes a compelling case for the multiperspectival view of a life, wherein an individual cannot be known or understood in isolation from the history of his family and his nation.Oscar being a first-generation Dominican-American, the nation in question is really two nations. And Dominicans in this novel being explicitly of mixed Tano, African and Spanish descent, the very ideas of nationhood and nationality are thoughtfully, subtly complicated. The various nationalities and generations are subtended by the recurring motif of fuk, 'the Curse and Doom of the New World,' whose 'midwife and... victim' was a historical personage Diaz will only call the Admiral, in deference to the belief that uttering his name brings bad luck (hint: he arrived in the New World in 1492 and his initials are CC). By the prologue's end, it's clear that this story of one poor guy's cursed life will also be the story of how 500 years of historical and familial bad luck shape the destiny of its fat, sad, smart, lovable and short-lived protagonist. The book's pervasive sense of doom is offset by a rich and playful prose that embodies its theme of multiple nations, cultures and languages, often shifting in a single sentence from English to Spanish, from Victorian formality to 'Negropolitan' vernacular, from Homeric epithet to dirty bilingual insult. Even the presumed reader shape-shifts in the estimation of its in-your-face narrator, who addresses us variously as 'folks,' 'you folks,' 'conspiracy-minded-fools,' 'Negro,' 'Nigger' and 'plataneros.' So while Diaz assumes in his reader the same considerable degree of multicultural erudition he himself possesses — offering no gloss on his many un-italicized Spanish words and expressions (thus beautifully dramatizing how linguistic borders, like national ones, are porous), or on his plethora of genre and canonical literary allusions — he does helpfully footnote aspects of Dominican history, especially those concerning the bloody 30-year reign of President Rafael Lenidas Trujillo. The later Oscar chapters lack the linguistic brio of the others, and there are exposition-clogged passages that read like summaries of a longer narrative, but mostly this fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz." Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels Jamestown and The Sleeping Father. He teaches at Wesleyan University. Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Nowadays, there may be Hmong in Madison and Somalis in St. Paul, but some of us still have trouble keeping up with all the intense cultural mixing and melting going on amid our purple-mountained majesty. For example, mention the Dominicans among us to the average Tom, Dick or Andy Rooney, and he's liable to speak of a mythical Shortstop Island from which wing-footed infielders plot their takeover... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) of America's pastime. As for the Dominican Republic's history, imports, exports, that sort of thing? Well, its national baseball team is one of the best in the world, right? Or is that Venezuela? Junot Diaz has the cure for such woeful myopia. The Dominican Republic he portrays in 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' is a wild, beautiful, dangerous and contradictory place, both hopelessly impoverished and impossibly rich. Not so different, perhaps, from anyone else's ancestral homeland, but Diaz's weirdly wonderful novel illustrates the island's uniquely powerful hold on Dominicans wherever they may wander — a borderless anxiety zone that James Baldwin would describe as 'the anguished diaspora.' Thus, that nation's bloody history, often detailed in Diaz's irreverent footnotes, intrudes periodically in 'Oscar Wao,' as if to remind Dominicans that tragedy is never far from one's doorstep. Or maybe it emerges simply to instruct the rest of us, because Diaz's characters are already painfully certain that they are destined for misfortune. Or, more precisely, cursed. Fuku americanus, Diaz explains, is 'generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World.' It seems especially contagious and deadly in the Dominican Republic, where 'it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed the fuku on the world.' How exotic. How ominous-sounding. How very similar to the pet profanity of New Yorkers from Staten Island to the Bronx. But the tale begins in Santo Domingo, where 'a story is not a story unless it casts a supernatural shadow.' It revolves around several generations of one Dominican family, of which young Oscar de Leon, a depressed, overweight substitute teacher, is among the youngest descendants. The clan's patriarch, a brilliant doctor named Abelard Luis Cabral, came down with an ultimately fatal case of fuku back in 1946, having run afoul of the malady's high priest. That would be Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the tyrannical sadist who bedeviled his fellow Dominicans for more than three blood-drenched decades. Naturally, his terror-mongering casts a large, threatening shadow over much of the novel's action. Abelard's fuku apparently becomes part of his family's DNA, traveling through time and blood cells to infect his grandson. ('Oscar Wao' is how one of the tormentors of his college years charmingly mutilated 'Oscar Wilde,' a derisive nickname young de Leon accepted without protest). In no rush to spill the details of his hero's short, star-crossed adventures, Diaz maneuvers his plot through various time shifts, settings and narrators. From Santo Domingo to Washington Heights, N.Y., to Paterson, N.J., various generations of de Leons wrestle with fate and lose. Along the way, Diaz liberally sprinkles his pages with allusions to authors, books and especially stories from the science-fiction and fantasy genres to which Oscar is devoted. So don't be surprised when a discussion of Caesar and Ovid morphs into the Fantastic Four versus Galactus, and Mario Vargas Llosa gets short shrift compared to Jack Kirby, the late, lamented genius of Marvel Comics' glory years. Adding to our reading pleasure, Diaz excels at making fun of despots. At the mercy of the author's machete-sharp wit, Trujillo becomes the Failed Cattle Thief, the Dictatingest Dictator who ever Dictated, the man who was Mobutu before Mobutu was Mobutu. Of Joaquin Balaguer, Trujillo's successor, he writes, 'Like most homunculi he did not marry and left no heirs.' And it's hard to resist his clever nickname for Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, the madman whose pillaging made a wreck of Haiti: P. Daddy. Clearly a believer that membership has its privileges, Diaz makes cracks about Dominicans that the average Andy Rooney could never get away with. Reflecting on the ebony skin that keeps bubbling up in the de Leon bloodline, Diaz writes, 'That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.' Another character observes, 'That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.' There's also the distressing but all-too-credible spectacle of so many dark-skinned Dominicans spitting the word 'nigger' more often than Timbaland at a freestyle battle or Harriett Beecher Stowe at her abolitionist best. 'No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed,' Diaz explains. But enough about that. As Yunior (one of Diaz's narrators and a welcome holdover from 'Drown,' his acclaimed story collection) reminds us, 'This is supposed to be a true account of the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.' Obese and socially awkward, Oscar is obsessed with food, girls, role-playing games, girls, anime, girls — you get the picture. Trouble is, female companions remain tantalizingly beyond his grasp, as do all other kinds of companions, who eventually abandon him to his habitual depression. Oscar couldn't find a pal on the Island of Lost Toys. 'You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto,' Diaz writes. 'Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.' Does Oscar ever overcome his ungainliness and find romance or a sense of belonging? The brevity of his tale prevents me from telling you much. Although I found the big guy totally sympathetic, he's often way too stubborn for his own good. In addition, it's not his fault that nearly every other character holds our interest just as easily — more of a reflection of Diaz's broad palette than Oscar's lack of dimension. But Oscar clearly is not intended to function as a hero in the classical sense. Is he meant primarily to symbolize the tangled significance of desire, exile and homecoming? Or is he a 307-lb. warning that only slim guys get the girls? Are we to wring from his ample flesh more of that anguished diaspora stuff? Could be, but I find sufficient meaning in the sheer joy of absorbing Diaz's sentences, each rolled out with all the nerdy, wordy flair of an audacious imagination and a vocabulary to match. It's easy to imagine Diaz smiling as he uncorked a description of a woman with 'breasts like sunsets trapped beneath her skin' or writing of Trujillo, 'Homeboy dominated Santo Domingo like it was his very own private Mordor.' Diaz pulls it off with the same kind of eggheaded urban eloquence found in the work of Paul Beatty ('The White Boy Shuffle'), Victor LaValle ('Slapboxing with Jesus'), Mat Johnson ('Drop') and his very own 'Drown.' Geek swagger, baby. Get used to it. Notwithstanding his neological dazzle, he's anything but longwinded. And he's patient — maddeningly so. Diaz made us wait 11 years for this first novel and boom! — it's over just like that. It's not a bad gambit, to always leave your audience wanting more. So brief and wondrous, this life of Oscar. Wow. Jabari Asim, former deputy editor of The Washington Post Book World, is editor-in-chief of the Crisis magazine." Reviewed by Jabari Asim, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"A rich, impassioned vision of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora, filtered through the destiny of a single family.... DÃaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering political satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"It's been 11 years since Junot Diaz published his acclaimed story collection, Drown, and he has spent the time well, honing the sharp, slangy voice that propels his terrific first novel....A joy to read, and every bit as exhilerating to reread. (Grade: A-)" Entertainment Weekly
"Writing in a combustible mix of slang and lyricism, Diaz loops back and forth in time and place, generating sly and lascivious humor in counterpoint to tyranny and sorrow." Booklist
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a book that speaks in tongues. This long-awaited novel by Junot Diaz is a masterpiece about our New World, its myths, curses, and bewitching women. Set in America's navel, New Jersey, and haunted by the vision of Trujillo's brutal reign over the Dominican Republic, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is radiant with the hard lives of those who leave and also those who stay behind — it is a rousing hymn about the struggle to defy bone-cracking history with ordinary, and extraordinary, love." Walter Mosley
"Told in blinkingly kinetic prose, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz's dazzling debut novel, fulfills the promise of this writer's short story collection (Drown) and fully reveals a powerful presence in moden American fiction." Cathleen Medwick, O: The Oprah Magazine
"A book so astoundingly great that in a fall crowded with heavyweights — Richard Russo, Philip Roth, Nick Hornby, Tom Perotta — Diaz is a good bet to run away with the field." Lev Grossman, Critical Mass
"[A] wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets 'Star Trek' meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West. It is funny, street-smart and keenly observed.... [Diaz has] written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"[A] colorful and complex portrait of mad love, old-world superstition, and the continual strivings of a diaspora." Christian Science Monitor
"DÃaz writes invigorating and evocative prose, and his sentences sizzle even as he mixes phrases of Spanish, New Jersey slang and references to Oscar's beloved science fiction." Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[A] hell of a book." Los Angeles Times
The long-awaited — and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original — first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the story collection Drown.
The long-awaited--and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original--first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the story collection "Drown."
A must-have collector's edition of Junot Dand#237;azand#8217;s bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated
A major New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, This Is How You Lose Her is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Dand#237;azand#8217;s celebration of love in all its facetsand#151;obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandezand#151;deemed and#147;one of the twentieth centuryand#8217;s most significant comic creatorsand#8221;and#151;has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz's first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with "the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year" by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing itself – with more than a million copies in print – as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer, Díaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
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We see the hydroelectric generation as being a key economic development tool, said James W. Wright, executive director of DANC.
The funding, approved Wednesday by DANCs board of directors, is to serve as a local match to a $375,000 state grant given to the Lewis County Development Corp. in December as part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards.
We wanted to be sure we secured that, Mr. Wright said, adding that the project would continue treading water without it.
By granting the funds, DANC is entering a partnership with the Lewis County group with hopes that alternative technologies will make hydroelectric generation at the small, two-section dam feasible and ultimately revenue-producing, he said.
From our standpoint, projects that we become involved in have to be self-sustaining, Mr. Wright said.
Having the Development Authority behind us should help us considerably, said Glen A. Gagnier, a Lewis County Development Corp. member and former village mayor who is spearheading the dam project.
A meeting with DANC officials is planned for the first week of September to really work on the direction were going to go, Mr. Gagnier said.
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Voters defeated a state gas tax increase in 1999. This time around, voters did not get a say.
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If you're going to be new parent, you may have considered giving away a beloved family pet when your new bundle of joy arrives. But you may not want to do that.
CBS News is reporting a new study says babies growing up in a home with dogs are much less likely to develop ear infections and colds while they're still little.
The Finnish study, published online in Pediatrics, tracked 397 children in Finland using weekly questionnaires. They were checked from birth until they were about a year old. The questionnaires asked parents the status of their children's health, and whether or not they owned a pet.
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I loved Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography. Though by "loved" I mean "was impressed and cringed a lot." This collection of short "memory experiments" runs the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, and Sampsell has an incredible knack for illuminating teen angst and family dysfunction with his vivid prose and off-kilter sensibility. Very weird and very good.
Composed of brief, chronological accounts, A Common Pornography is Kevin Sampsell's unabashedly frank memoir. Recounting the formative incidents of his youth, Sampsell writes with great courage about family drama, sexual exploration, and the inevitable uncertainties of adolescence. Written without pathos, sentimentalism, or apology, Sampsell never resorts to the banal, woe-is-me affectations that have come to mark so many autobiographical works of late. Funny, tragic, touching, and often unbelievable, A Common Pornography is the true tale of one man's precarious and often arduous journey into adulthood.
"Sampsell's talent for observing the ordinary....is perhaps best displayed in chronicling the cringing inelegance of adolescent sexuality: the embarrassing hookups, the acne-cream-flavored kisses, the obsession with pornography, and the preoccupation with discarding one's virginity." Benjamin Moser, Harper's Magazine (Read the entire Harper's review)
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In 2008, Kevin Sampsell's estranged father died of an aneurysm. When he returned home to Kennewick, Washington, for the funeral, Kevin's mother revealed to him disturbing threads in their family history — stories of incest, madness, betrayal, and death. In A Common Pornography, he tells his family's unforgettable story — from his mother's first tumultuous marriages and his father's physical, pyschological, and sexual abuse of his half-sister to his own tales of first jobs, first bands, and first loves in the Pacific Northwest in the '70s and '80s.
One of Sampsell's previous books was written as a kind of "memory experiment," in which he recollected luminous details from his childhood in independently amusing chapters. Employing the same form of memoir in A Common Pornography, he intertwines the tragic with the everyday, the dysfunctional with the fun, lending the book its undeniable, unsensationalized reality. He captures the many shades and the whole of the Sampsell family — both its tragedy and its resiliency.
"A memoir in collage form, this frank but fragmented narrative chronicles the author's early life in the Pacific Northwest. Told in a series of small pieces, some less than a quarter of a page long, Sampsell follows a stream-of-consciousness series of memories centering loosely around a collection of family secrets unearthed after his father's funeral. Replicating the effects of memory, Sampsell's chronicle begins piecemeal and becomes more detailed as it goes, emphasizing the unfiltered honesty of the story and his efforts to tell it. Though it can be frustrating waiting for the pieces to add up, there's enough bathos, dysfunctional family antics and coming-of-age adventures-naked photoshoots, psychiatric hospitalizations, late-night donut shops and the tri-city New Wave scene-to keep readers turning pages. Sampsell's eye for detail and deadpan delivery envliven a dark personal history with bathos and a powerful desire for understanding." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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"[A] rather miraculous act of artistic self-creation...his story alone is an adequate metaphor for itself, the life it describes, and its hard-won pleasures." Harper's Magazine
"Its droll style and its archaeological attentiveness to the debris of American life — the remote controls, video recorders, tight ends, and one-hit wonders of yesteryear — combined with Sampsell's talent for observing the ordinary, infuse the most 'common' incidents of growing up with wit and meaning." Time Out Chicago
A searing memoir told in vignettes that captures the history of an American family, intertwining recollections of small-town youth with darker threads of family history and revealing how incest, madness, betrayal, and death can seem positively normal, from writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell.
Kevin Sampsell always thought he was part of a normal family growing up in the Pacific Northwest. He never wondered why his older siblings had different last names or why one of them was black. But when his estranged father passed away in 2008, his mother revealed to him some of the family's mysterious and unsettling history. A history of betrayal, madness, and incest.
A Common Pornography is a uniquely crafted, two-pronged memory experiment: a collection of sweet and funny snapshots from his childhood, and an unsensational portrait of a family in crisis. Sampsell blends the catastrophic with the mundane and the humorous with the horrific. From his mother's first tumultuous marriages and his father's shocking abuse of his half sister to Kevin's own memories of first jobs, first bands, and first loves, here is a searing, intensely honest memoir that exposes the many haunting shades of a family — both its tragedy and its resiliency.
In 2003 Kevin Sampsell authored a chapbook memoir of the same title. It was written as a kind of "memory experiment," in which he recollected luminous details from his childhood in independently amusing chapters. It functioned as an experiential catalogue of American youth in the 70s and 80s.
In 2008 Kevin′s estranged father died of an aneurysm. When he returned home to Kennewick, Washington for the funeral, Kevin′s mother revealed to him disturbing threads in their family history -- stories of incest, madness, betrayal, and death -- which retroactively colored Kevin′s memories of his upbringing and youth. He learned of his mother′s first two husbands, the fathers of his three older, mythologized half-siblings, and the havoc they wreaked on his mother. He learned of his own father′s seething resentment of his step-children, which was expressed in physical, pyschological, and sexual abuse. And he learned more about his oldest step-sister, Elinda, who, as a young girl, was labeled "feebleminded" by a teacher. When she became a teenager, she was sent to a psychiatric hospital. She entered the clinic at 98 pounds. She left two years later 200 pounds, diabetic, having endured numerous shock treatments. Then, after finally returning home, she was made pregnant by Kevin′s father. Only at the end of the book do we learn what chance in life a person like this has.
While his family′s story provides the framework of the book, what′s left in between is Kevin′s story of growing up in the Pacific Northwest. He tells of his first jobs, first bands, first loves, and one worn, teal blue suitcase filled with the choicest porn in all of Kennewick, Washington.
Employing the same form of memoir as he did in his previous book, Kevin intertwines the tragic with the everyday, the dysfunctional with the fun, lending A COMMON PORNOGRAPHY its undeniable, unsensationalized reality. The elastic conceit of his "memory experiment" captures the many shades and the whole of the Sampsell family -- both its tragedy and its resiliency. Kevin relates this history in a charming, honest, insightful, and funny voice.
About the Author
Kevin Sampsell has been the publisher of Future Tense Books since 1990. His own books include the short story collections Beautiful Blemish and Creamy Bullets. In 2009, he edited the anthology Portland Noir. He works for Powell's Books and lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Whenever I see cheesecake on a menu I'm filled with longing – there's something awfully comforting about cheesecake – but the question always arises as to whether it will or will not be cloying (and if it is, what a waste of calories!). This version is definitely not cloying: it's light in texture and, made with fromage frais, a bit lighter on the calories, too.
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Begin by crushing the biscuits in a food processor, or by putting them in a plastic bag and rolling them with a rolling pin, then mix them with the melted butter and stir in the hazelnuts.
Now press the mixture into the base of the tin and pop it into the fridge to firm up while the filling is made.
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