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Terrebonne High School's athletic booster club is sponsoring a food booth for all Mardi Gras parades for the west-Houma route. The booth is across the street from the school on Main Street in Houma. There will be hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage on a pistolette, nachos, chili Fritos, drinks, etc. They have order forms for the floats that would like to make an order and have the food delivered to the float when it passes the stand. For information, call the school at 879-3377
Zumba fitness classes are scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Dularge Recreation Center, 1330 Dr. Beatrous Road, Theriot. Classes cost $24 a month. Payments are due at the beginning of each month. Chequita Martin is the class instructor. To register, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 879-4340.
School news: Free GED classes are scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Knights of Columbus home, 1331 Dr. Beatrous Road, Theriot. For information, call 872-3067.
Dularge Middle School is offering after school tutorial for third- and fourth-graders from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at the school, 621 Bayou Dularge Road, Houma. For information, call the school at 876-0176.
Terrebonne High School seniors can purchase their caps and gowns in room 206. The cost is $75 and you must have either a check made to Terrebonne High School or the exact amount in cash.
Terrebonne High School's spring sports assembly is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday in the school auditorium, 7318 Main St., Houma. Parents of student athletes that will participate in track and field, tennis, bowling, softball, baseball and golf are invited to attend.
Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten registration for the 2012-13 school year is from Feb. 8 through May 11 at Dularge Elementary School, 1327 Bayou Dularge Road, Theriot. Children must be 4 on or before Sept. 30. Children must attend the school in the district where their parents or legal guardians live. Parents need to bring proof of residency, child's immunization record, child's birth certificate and child's Social Security card with them to register. For information, call the school at 879-1629.
Knights news: The Knights of Columbus state bowling tournament is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Hammond. Anyone interested in attending needs to contact Irvin Champagne for paperwork.
Recreation center: The Dularge Recreation Center, 1330 Dr. Beatrous Road, is open from 4 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. For information, call 879-4340.
Dularge Recreation Center employees have fixed the baseball field behind Dularge Elementary School, 1327 Bayou Dularge Road, Theriot. The field is available for public use.
Bin: Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government has placed a recycling bin at the Dularge Recreation Center. The bin accepts paper, plastics and aluminum products.
Library news: The Dularge Branch Library, 837 Bayou Dularge Road, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays. For information, call 851-1752.
Oil-painting classes with Gail LeCompte are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesdays at the library. You must bring a blank canvas, table top easel and a bag lunch. Registration is required.
Mexican train dominoes is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesdays at the library. The Sew/So Good Quilting group is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Thursdays at the library. You must bring your own supplies, sewing machines, scissors, threads, etc., and a covered dish.
The library has three public computers, which are available if you have your library card with you. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult to use the computer. Fax and copy machines are also available.
First-time library cards are available to all residents of Terrebonne Parish at no charge. Children must be able to write their first and last name and have a parent with them in order to get a card. Lost cards in good standing can be replaced for a $5 replacement charge.
Birthdays: Hope Bourg, Priscilla Bourg, Brian Malbrough Jr., Wilma Pellegrin, Feb. 2; Earl DeHart Jr., Leslie Lirette, Feb. 3; Pamela Bienvenu, Feb. 4; Danny Castell, Peter Lirette, Millard Marcel Sr., Feb. 5; Heidi Callahan, Jarvin Lirette, William Parker, Kirsten Henderson, Patrice Molaison, Feb. 6; LeRay Billiot, Eura DeHart Sr., Rose Carlos, Cynthia Gros, Heather Daniel, Bethany LeBouef, Craig Lacoste, Crystal Lirette, Sheldon Lirette, Jennine Lovell, Victoria Lovell, Lawrence Rel, Nicholas Theriot, Dot Vice, Winona Knight, Wilber DeHart, Feb. 7; Jake DeHart, Punk DeHart, Angelle Lirette, Dustin Lirette, Brittany Lovell, Rocky Rel and Jabyron Parker, Feb. 8.
Anniversaries: David and Melinda Marcel, Feb. 2; Mark and DeeDee Fischer, Todd and Celine Theriot, and Wyatt and Kelly DeHart, Feb. 7.
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IN A SUMMIT dominated by other issues, including the Russian financial crisis and regional security issues such as Kosovo and Iraq, Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin signed two minor arms controlrelated agreements during their September 1-2 meeting in Moscow. The agreements concerned the sharing of early-warning information and the disposition of plutonium no longer required for military purposes. Other arms control and non-proliferation issues, such as Russian ratification of START II, were discussed, but without major breakthroughs.
The "Joint Statement on the Exchange of Information on Missile Launches and Early Warning" has two main components. First, the United States and Russia will share, on a "continuous" basis, early-warning information on the launches of ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles by any nation, a measure that goes beyond previous information-sharing agreements. (North Korea's August 31 test of the Taepo Dong-1 "is exactly the kind of information that we would have passed on to the Russians" had this agreement been in effect, explained Robert Bell, special assistant to the president for national security affairs, in a September I White House briefing.) Each side will be responsible for processing its own early-warning data, retrieved from launchdetection satellites and ground-based radars, at its national center before providing it to the other party. In addition, Yeltsin announced in his September 2 press conference with Clinton that a joint early-warning center, the first of its kind, will be established on Russian territory. Many details of the agreement must be worked out in the months ahead, however, especially with respect to the scope of the data to be shared.
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The joint statement aims to bolster the reliability of Russia's early-warning system. In his September 1 briefing, Bell said the joint statement "is especially relevant at a time when Russia's early-warning system is under stress from budget difficulties, systems failures and the closure of earlywarning radars on the soil of nations outside Russia." Despite these concerns, however, the U.S. government remains confident that there is little chance of an accidental Russian nuclear launch. Ted Warner, assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction, said at the September 1 briefing that there are not "significant dangers" of an accidental launch today and that the joint statement will reduce this small risk even further. …


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Black athletes do wrong? White athletes do right? This type of imbalanced imagery regularly exists in sports media stories on Black and White athletes, says a new study by University of Missouri Associate Professor Cynthia Frisby. Continue Reading →
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Trailblazers like Bobby Bell integrated college football
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Recent events of police brutality, a problem that Blacks in this country have faced for decades, have pushed Black athletes out of their normal say-nothing postures. Several NBA players and two college teams last week donned "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups. Pro football players emerged from the locker room with their hands up. All this was in protest over what happened in Ferguson, New York City, Cleveland, and across this country from sea to shining sea to thousands of Blacks who have had their lives snuffed out by police officers over the years. Is it about time? Continue Reading →
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The 2013 WNBA Playoffs begin this week: Washington-Atlanta and Indiana-Chicago in the East, and Minnesota-Seattle and Los Angeles-Phoenix in the West in the four best-of-three first-round matchups.
"When we get into the playoffs, it's our own destiny," notes Indiana guard Shavonte Zellous, a member of the 2012 defending champions. The Fever, the only sub-.500 club among the eight playoff teams, has been injury-riddled all season. "We've gotten some good wins and some tough losses as well," explains forward Tamika Catchings. "I think we've gotten better from the beginning of the season to now."
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View: Was there indeed parity this season? HL: There always will be premier schools, but what I think is different this year is that some of those teams that we always penciled in as top seeds in the tournament essentially have taken a step back, [and] other teams have taken a step forward. I am not surprised that there is parity. Continue Reading →
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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Newport Classic Homes-Apartment Division of Grapevine, Texas, and Castillo Co. of Cleburne, Texas, for safety violations at a North Richland Hills apartment construction site and has proposed penalties totaling $90,630.
Newport Classic Homes-Apartment Division, the owner and prime contractor of the North Richland Hills apartment construction site, was cited for $77,400 in proposed penalties. Castillo Co., the subcontractor, was cited for $13,230.
The alleged violations were discovered during an unscheduled inspection conducted on Oct. 26 at the apartment construction site where bricklayers working for Castillo Co., had been working on scaffolds over 20 feet high with no fall protection. OSHA's scaffold standards require that scaffolds over 10 feet in height be provided with fall protection.
"This work site is no stranger to OSHA's enforcement of the scaffold safety requirements," said Dean Wingo, OSHA area director in Fort Worth. On Sept. 18, bricklayers worked on scaffolds with no fall protection and two weeks later, even after OSHA had issued Newport Classic Homes citations for violating safety standards, the bricklayers were again working without fall protection.
"Prime contractors have overall responsibility for compliance with the requirements of OSHA's construction standards for all work performed on their work sites," said Wingo.
Castillo Co. was cited for 15 serious violations of safety standards. A serious violation is one in which there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result and the employer knew or should have known of the hazard.
Newport Classic Homes-Apartment Division was cited for two willful and 11 serious violations. The alleged violations include:
failure to ensure scaffolds were inspected by a competent person before each work shift;
failure to ensure bricklayers working on scaffolds over 10 feet in height were provided with fall protection;
failure to ensure bricklayers were protected from falling objects by use of hard hats and toe boards;
failure to ensure a pole scaffold was designed by a qualified person and built to the requirements for a pole scaffold;
failure to ensure all platforms were at least 18 inches wide;
failure to ensure platform planking was properly positioned and in good condition;
failure to ensure bricklayers were provided with an adequate ladder for access; and
failure to ensure damaged scaffold components were replaced.
The first two violations were determined to be willful and the others were classified as serious. A willful violation is one committed with intentional disregard of, or plain indifference to, the requirements of the OSH Act. OSHA issues willful citations when it believes that the employer knew what specific safeguards were required to protect workers yet apparently elected not to provide them.
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In late September 2009, Simon Van Booy boarded a plane in New York City bound for Cork, Ireland. He was one of six authors shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The London-born author settled in for the transatlantic flight, happy for an occasion to return to his native land, and relaxed because he believed his second short story collection—the paperback original Love Begins in Winter (Harper Perennial, 2009)—didn't stand a chance against the impressive list of international nominees.
After all, Van Booy reasoned to himself, the previous year, short story-phenom Jhumpa Lahiri had captured the O'Connor Award for her collection, Unaccustomed Earth. That, he concluded, was the kind of magnificent story collection capable of capturing the O'Connor Award, which at 35,000 euros is the world's largest short story prize. And besides, the literary chatter was that the only other American book to make the O'Connor Award shortlist was the favored winner: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower.
And then came the awards ceremony.
Patrick Cotter, the Artistic Director of the Munster Literature Centre, the organization that oversees the O'Connor Award, took the mic: "Unusual for a work of serious literature, this book won with its consistently positive and optimistic approach to examining the travails of human experience." The winning book was, he continued, "full of the most exquisite insights, aphoristic without ever seeming like mere conveyances for ideas." He was, of course, describing Van Booy's Love Begins in Winter.
Van Booy reacted to the short story prize by hunkering down to work on his first novel. In 2010, Harper Perennial brought out three nonfiction philosophy titles edited by Van Booy: Why We Need Love, Why We Fight, and Why Our Decisions Don't Matter. Earlier this month, they released his first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After.
In the elegant, seemingly Old World prose Van Booy has become revered for, the novel traces three lives set against the Mediterranean heat of Athens: those of the drunken but brilliant American George, the searching French artist Rebecca, and the British archaeologist Henry. New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award-finalist Andre Dubus has called the novel, "A powerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty of one's own fate." As Van Booy worked through the final stages of Everything Beautiful Began After, we conducted an email conversation about his work, the writing craft, and, of course, cufflinks.
Joshua Bodwell: How do you write–with a computer or by hand?
Simon Van Booy: I can't write very fast, but I can type like mad, so fast in fact, that in full swing, I'm like a violent, out-of-control secretary. I write poems and short pieces with a 1956 Remington—typewriter, not electric razor.
What are your writing habits like?
I must have tea and absolute quiet. No telephones, lawnmowers, leaf-blowers. Certain pieces of music also help my mind slow to the speed at which I like to write. I also like to be fully dressed—even with sock garters, and my writing room must be extremely tidy and clean. I have to feel very much in control.
Do you use any writing tricks, such as Hemingway's old advice that he stopped each day when he knew what was going to happen next?
That's interesting. Did you know he also stood up when he wrote dialogue? I definitely stop for the day at a high point, because if I write until I'm exhausted, I can't work the next day, or I don't have enough energy for the people I love in my life.
You have spoken and written at length about your enjoyment of writing in hotels and rented cottages. How do you think this affects your writing?
I have to be alone to finish a book—or with someone who won't demand any emotional involvement from me as I live through the final emotions of my characters. So I really need solitude to work. I have to insist on it, actually. The thought of it terrifies some people, but I look forward to it like a cream cake I can bury my face in.
Do you talk about what you're writing while you're working on it?
Never. I'm very private about my work until it's finished. It's like a secret I have to keep. The novel I just handed in [Everything Beautiful Began After] will be out in July 2011. I took some big chances with structure, but I think writers have to take chances in order to continue developing, and to maintain the excitement of being a writer—published or not.
Are you private about work-in-progress for superstitious reasons, or are you merely worried that someone else's ideas will sully yours?
I'm a Pisces and we never believe in superstition. I just worry that if I tell someone about what I'm working on, they will unknowingly destroy it before it's fully formed. It's like asking someone to look after a spider web for you.
What do you do after you finish a first draft?
I leave it for a few weeks. I go back to it with the hope that the characters will still be breathing. Sometimes, however—when I return to a story, not only are my characters breathing, they're drunk, or kissing or trying to escape… and then it's a matter of control.
One of my literary heroes, Barbara Wersba, said that you never finish a book, only abandon it.
Tell me about your drafting and revision process. How many drafts of a short story do you typically work through before feeling like you are complete?
The better the short story, the fewer the drafts. I think my favorite poems were just one draft, with a few tweaks after perhaps. After too many drafts of a story I start thinking about electrotherapy treatments (for the characters, not me).
You mention your poetry. How does poetry (be it yours or other authors') affect your prose, and vice versa?
Poetry is like a jolt of lightning to prose. Poems always inspire me to do something, even if it's to sit in one place and watch pigeons for an hour. Being alone helps me realize the value of life and others.
As a writer with poetic instincts—for lack of a better term—are you conscious of balancing your lyricism with the narrative that propels your stories?
Yes. I have to keep the story moving, despite wanting to stop and pool in places—I have to keep everything gushing, even on—past the end of the story, so it can flood the life of the reader.
Do you think stories are discovered or created?
I think tone is discovered by being felt, and then everything is built around that.
The Secret Lives of People In Love, your first collection, fit eighteen stories into 154 pages. Your second collection, Love Begins in Winter, told just five stories in 226 pages. Tell me about the evolution in your writing between those two collections.
What an interesting question. But this difference is something that appeared organically. I also realized that it's often necessary to tell the story by what you don't say, rather than what you do.
While you were working on your first novel, your collection Love Begins in Winter won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. How did winning that award, and knowing that it might bring the novel more attention, affect you?
Worldly success can be quite destructive to the creative process. I have to disconnect myself from the idea of what people will think of something if I'm to write anything of sincerity and worth. On the other hand, going to Cork and winning that prize was surprising and wonderful. I'm so deeply, sincerely grateful to them for organizing it, and for Cork City Council for putting forward the prize money, which is an enormous amount of money. It was an honor to win, as the other short-listed writers were all so talented. The people of Cork really care about storytelling—it's like food to them. That's very exciting, especially for the children of Cork. I've been back twice already. I just like to wander there and meet people. It's truly a city of light, and I think it's certainly a place I could live.
In describing Love Begins in Winter, the jury of the O'Connor Award noted: "Unusual for a work of serious literature, this book won with its consistently positive and optimistic approach to examining the travails of human experience." How do you arrive at such an approach?
I think just go for a walk, chat to people, learn to forgive (not only others but yourself), and you'll see what I mean.
Are you ever conscious of your reading audience when you're writing?
Yes. I love my readers, I adore them, and they know this. Though I must add that I always write what I personally think works—and not ever what I think someone else will like or approve of.
The author Thomas E. Kennedy once mused: "Why is it that all our petty misfortunes cast into words become a celebration?" That line made me think of your work.
He's a good writer, isn't he? Yes, very good, I think. For me, I think words allow us to hold hands with strangers. They remind us that one person's experience is everyone's. With that in mind, to love another is to love one's self. To insult or injure another is to insult or injure one's self. I read somewhere that we live solely to overcome the illusion of our separateness. Stories and language allow us to live without living, and to die without dying, which is why I think the modern Holy books are rooted in language and not pictures.
You were born in London and raised in Wales. Today, you live in New York City. Do you consider yourself an expatriate? Do you think that has affected your work?
Yes. I keep moving around. My parents are the same way. I feel like I'm on vacation all the time; it's quite nice. Living abroad is almost like hiding from time, from culture, from one's own narrative.
Your soon-to-be-released novel is entitled Everything Beautiful Began After. Tell me about that title. How did you arrive at it?
It's about learning to love when everything around you feels ruined.
How did your process of writing short stories and writing a novel differ?
For me, a novel is like a city coming to life around you—but a world one can never really inhabit. A short story is a late-night conversation with a stranger in the park: very immediate, intimate, fleeting. Writing a novel is different. It's really all inspired revision. Did you know that the John Harrison clocks from the early 1700s required about eight hours to disassemble and about the same time to reassemble? Sixteen hours of non-stop labor all to make one tiny adjustment. Writing a novel is worse. It has to become an obsession—and where would we be without Harrison's clocks? "Lost at sea," I hear you murmur.
Tell me about point of view in your writing: do the stories arrive in your mind with point of view, or do ideas arrive that you then push toward a point of view that suits the narrative?
This is something the characters control. Varying degrees of intimacy are afforded writers by the various points of view at their disposal. My characters seem to choose the one that allows them to interact with the reader in the most efficient way for the purposes of their particular story.
Ever change a story's point of view while in the midst of writing it?
Another interesting question, Joshua. I don't think so, though I generally write endings first.
What is your favorite point of view to write in, and why?
At the moment second person, because I've explored it with such interest in my novel. But they are all so wonderful and unique, aren't they?
When discussing the origins of your stories, you once told The Herald newspaper in Scotland that they "develop out of a sense of compassion. The person who writes these stories—not me—treats everyone with importance, as if they're the last person on Earth." Can you expand on that?
I think we're waking up from something. Universal compassion is a grand part of our next phase as human beings and is slowly being unveiled, like a piece of art we've been working on for centuries, but which we are yet to see in its entirety.
Have you read T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"? One of my favorite lines is: "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire / Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
Are these long-held beliefs, or do you think being a father has opened this vein of optimism within you?
Despite efforts to the contrary, these beliefs won't let go of me.
How do you maintain such beliefs when your life has been struck by such tragedy? [Van Booy's wife died suddenly of an undiagnosed disorder—a suspected case of Marfan syndrome—when his daughter Madeleine was just three years old. Van Booy explored the loss in a tender essay called "Raising a Princess Single-Handedly" for the New York Times' Modern Love column.]
I always try and remember that no matter what happens, there is a core that is myself, that is unbreakable; a place of light that cannot be diminished by how I perceive events in the world. It's a place beyond the mind, and it's where my stories come from. This place of light is exactly what my new novel is about.
There is a beautiful sense of morality in your writing. Is that cultivated, or just organic?
It's something my characters seem to already possess, or find later on in their stories. I've often wondered if there isn't some sort of universal morality, such as the one Schopenhauer touches on in one of his essays…
I read a line by the novelist David Mitchell the other day and, again, it made me think of your work: "The soul is a verb, not a noun." What do you make of that?
I like that. It reminds me that whenever I run (sadly, about once every five years), I envision my own literal death. This sharpens my mind and helps me focus on what I love most about life and what I really want from life. It's nice to do something with the body—to really use the body for what it was meant to do. Amidst the violence of exercise, it's a relief to find a still center that is the real me.
Who are some of your favorite fictional characters in literature?
Sir Gawain, Margaret Schlegel, Jay Gatsby, Prometheus, Fagin, Silas Marner, Anthony Blanche, Moses, Buddha, Paddington Bear, Jean Valjean, Estragon…dear me, I have a list and it's long isn't it?
Put it this way: if any of these characters were in hospital, I'd visit them with grapes and magazines, help them make phone calls, check e-mail, et cetera.
Okay, you're known as something of a bon vivant, so let me get your thoughts a couple of not-so-literary implements: Cuff links? Pocket square?
Cuff links, yes. Pocket square—only after 6:00PM.
Further Links and Resources
- Find upcoming speaking engagements on Simon Van Booy's website.
- Check out Van Booy's custom-designed downhill skis at Partners & Spade
- Buy Everything Beautiful Began After at an independent bookstore near you!


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