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FILE - In this July 10, 1989 file photo, The Monkees, from left: Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Jones died Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012 in Florida. He was 66. Jones rose to fame in 1965 when he joined The Monkees, a British popular rock group formed for a television show. Jones sang lead vocals on songs like "I Wanna Be Free" and "Daydream Believer." (AP Photo/Mark Terrill, File)
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Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Contest
for U.S. Writers
for Worldwide Writers
|28th February 2011 Monday
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Electronic and postal submissions will be accepted from January 1, 2011 to February 28, 2011.
The 2011 Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Prize is open to any poet writing in English. The prize includes $1,000, Fall 2011 publication by Omnidawn, and 100 complimentary copies of the chapbook. The winning poet and manuscript will also be advertised in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Writer's Chronicle, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and other publications. Manuscripts will remain anonymous until a winner is selected. All entrants will be mailed a copy of the winning chapbook. The reading fee for each manuscript is $15.
Two Submission Options:
1. Submit on our web site. (Most submissions are via our web site. This is generally the easiest way to submit.)
2. Submit via postal mail.
Detailed requirements for each method of submission are listed at the end of this web page.
1. The chapbook contest is open from January 1 to February 28. Electronically submitted manuscripts must be received between January 1, 2011 and midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on February 28, 2011. Manuscripts sent by postal mail must be postmarked between January 1, 2011 and February 28, 2011.
2. This contest is open to all writers no matter how many books they have published.
3. Manuscripts must be 20 to 40 pages of poetry (not including the front and back matter).
4. Individual poems in a contest manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, print or web journals, or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts that have been self-published as books or chapbooks are also ineligible.
5. The manuscript must be original and in English. Translations are ineligible. However, we do understand that you may choose to use some words from other languages occasionally in poems. This is perfectly acceptable.
6. Manuscripts by more than one author are ineligible.
7. Friends, colleagues, and students of the judge are not eligible to compete.
8. A reading fee of $15 must accompany each entry.
General Guidelines:
—Manuscripts must include one cover page with title of manuscript only, and a second cover page with title plus your name, address, telephone number, email address, and where you learned about the Omnidawn chapbook contest to the best of your recollection. Please do not include any other identifying information in or with the manuscript. Please do not include acknowledgements page, cover letter, or bio.
—Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us with an email to firstname.lastname@example.com if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere.
—Multiple submissions to this contest are acceptable, but each manuscript must be submitted separately, with a separate entry fee.
—The manuscript should be paginated.
—Please notify us of changes in your contact information with an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or if you submitted electronically you can log in to your account and change the contact information yourself.
—No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be allowed during the contest.
—All manuscripts will be deleted or recycled at the end of the contest. For entries sent by postal mail, please do NOT enclose SASE for return of the manuscript. You may enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard, which we will mail back to you to confirm receipt of your manuscript. Your cancelled check will also confirm receipt.
—We will announce contest results by email, as well as at www.omnidawn.com/contest the Omnidawn blog (http://omnidawn.wordpress.com), and in display advertisements in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Writers Chronicle, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and other publications.
—All entrants will be mailed a copy of the winning chapbook when it is published in the fall of 2011. (Some of our notices about this contest state that a copy of the chapbook will be sent if you include the cost of an SASE. This is no longer necessary and all entrants will be mailed a copy of the winning chapbook.)
—Regarding the winning manuscript: The chapbook may not be published in a subsequent book or chapbook by the winning poet for one year after publication by Omnidawn.
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Identifying information will be removed from all manuscripts before they are sent to an editor. All manuscripts will be given a number to associate them with the contact information of their submitters. All personal identifying information will then be removed from manuscripts before these are forwarded to editors. The Omnidawn staff members who remove the identifying information are NOT involved in the reading process.
All manuscripts will then be read by at least two different editors. Only Omnidawn's Senior Poetry Editor and Poetry Editors will read submissions, and these editors will not have access to the identities of the submitters. For the sake of avoiding any conflict of interest, if an editor believes that he/she recognizes the work of a colleague, student, or friend, then that manuscript is given to another editor. The editors will select the semi-finalists to be sent to the judge. The judge will then select the winner and five finalists. If the judge wishes to see additional manuscripts, he may request them; the judge is not, however, permitted to request specific manuscripts. Friends, colleagues, and/or students of the judge are not eligible to compete. The judge is not allowed to choose manuscripts that present a conflict of interest.
Omnidawn abides by The CLMP Code of Ethics. The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our staff, editors, or judges; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines -- defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.
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Procedures for each of these options are listed in detail below.
Option 1: Procedure to submit on our secure web site.
—PLEASE READ AT LEAST THE BOLD TYPE in the directions below before proceeding to the online submissions web page. You will find the button to direct you there at the end of this procedure.
—If you have any questions send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone our toll free number (800) 792-4957. If we can't take your call immediately, we can usually call you back within 30 minutes.
—Electronically submitted manuscripts must be received between January 1, 2011 and midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on February 28, 2011.
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—If you did NOT enter an Omnidawn Poetry Contest last year (2010), or previously this year, when you go to our secure online submission page, you will be asked to enter your credit card billing and contact information, the title of your manuscript, and a six character password of your choice. (Contact information is retained in our database, but credit card numbers are not.)
—If you DID enter an Omnidawn Poetry Contest last year (2010) or previously this year, either online or via postal mail, you probably have an account. If so, when you go to the secure online submissions page you can log in using the box on the upper left by entering your email address and your password. If you don't have your password, click "need help" below the login button, and you can have a new password sent to your email address. Once you are logged in you can click "submit your work" in the new box on your left, which will take you to a secure web page to submit a new manuscript. (Contact information is retained in our database, but credit card numbers are not.)
—You will be able to upload your manuscript on the submissions page. Manuscripts must be sent in one file, not multiple files. Please submit files in .RTF (Rich Text Format) or MS Word .DOC or .DOCX format only. Most word processing programs can save files as .RTF by going to FILE—SAVE AS, and then choosing Rich Text Format in the FORMAT drop-down box.
—Please DO use the "comments" field to tell us where you learned about the Omnidawn contest to the best of your recollection. You may also add other information you would like us to know, but please do not use this box to share any personal or publication history. These comments will only be read by staff who are not involved in the selection process.
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(b) Enter your credit card info again by going to https://omnidawn.net and using the box on the left to log in using the email address and password you just entered. A screen will appear displaying the contact info you have entered with a record showing the entry you just submitted. In the second field of that record click on the words "pay now" and a secure screen will appear so that you can enter your credit card information again. If successful you will receive an immediate notification of success and an email notification that your submission has been entered into the contest. If your credit card still does not work you can still use option (a) above by mailing a check.
To go to the secure submissions web page and begin the electronic submission process, please click the button below:
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If you have any questions send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone our toll free number (800) 792-4957. If we can't take your call immediately, we can usually call you back within 30 minutes.
Manuscripts sent by postal mail must be postmarked between January 1, 2011 and February 28, 2011.
Please DO NOT send Fed Ex, UPS, or signature required US Post Office envelopes. These will not be accepted.
Please DO NOT send cover letter, acknowledgements, or bio. These will only be removed before your manuscript is read.
Please enclose the following:
1. Reading fee of $15. This can be either a check or money order. Make checks or money orders payable to Omnidawn. (A reading fee of $15 must accompany each submission.)
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4. 20–40 pages of poetry in a manuscript with pagination.
5. (Optional) A self-addressed stamped post card. You may, if you choose, include a self-addressed stamped postcard, and we will mail this back to you to verify that your manuscript has been received. (If you include an Email address, you will also receive an email when we enter your submission into our database. Your cancelled check will also confirm that your entry has been received.)
Send postal submissions via First Class or Priority Mail to:
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Flint Journal extras: Read a Flint Journal column about the closing of Steve & Barry's. | See below to vote in a poll about this store closing.
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Just six months after opening a 70,000 square-foot store in Courtland Center, Steve & Barry's stores and its parent company have abandoned plans to keep stores open.
The Courtland site opened in May, two months before the retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Originally, Steve & Barry's stores in Burton and at Flint Township's Genesee Valley Center were intended to be among the 173 stores that would remain open during bankruptcy protection.
But the retailer and its owner, affiliates of Bay Harbour Management and York Capital Management, said in a Nov. 19 filing they have joined with liquidator Great American Group LLC to liquidate all inventory in remaining stores by the end of this year or early next year.
"I watched them do all that remodeling," said Don Hodge of Burton, a frequent walker at Burton's Courtland Center. "It's sad. They haven't been in here that long."
Burton store officials would not comment on the closing and corporate representatives could not be reached for comment last week.
Steve & Barry's, which started as a campus retailer, opened its first mall store in Michigan in 1998. Despite Michigan's economic downturn, spokesperson Rachel Brenner said in June that officials were optimistic about opening the 21st Michigan store in Burton.
The store, which had added celebrity lines, board shorts and surfer gear, sold varsity-style coats for $8.98 apiece this year.
Steve & Barry's in Flint Township opened in 2003.
"I didn't think they'd stay open that long because they sold their stuff so cheap," said Sean Hannigan, a greeter at Carman-Ainsworth High School who frequently shopped at Steve & Barry's. "It was nice to have it there, though."
Documents filed with the Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York stated, "For various reasons, including the general health of the American economy and the state of the retail market in particular, sales at all stores have been disappointing."
Steve & Barry's legal counsel Christopher Fugarino said the company had no immediate comment.
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• Flint Journal column, Nov. 26, 2008: Steve & Barry's closing is predictable, but sad; It also makes me want ice cream
While the store closings may add holiday stress to employees at the Genesee County locations, the liquidation sale could be a boon for Christmas shoppers hoping to wrap up bargains. On Tuesday (Nov. 25, 2008), signs at the Courtland site announced some items are selling at two for $8.
Steve & Barry's LLC, based in Port Washington, N.Y., had 240 locations when it was bought and the new owners had planned to cut that down to 173 stores. The company also named a new chief executive, Harold Kahn, last month. But the drop-off in consumer spending made it impossible to keep stores open, according to the filing.
The company is not in compliance with some of its loan agreements and has no prospects for continued financing, according to the filing.
"The appropriate course of action to maximize value for the benefit of all of their stakeholders is an orderly liquidation in Chapter 11," the filing said.


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Over 1 million people already use our online money management and budgeting software today, and we're adding over 3,000 users every day. Mint.com is tracking $175 billion in transactions, $47 billion in assets and has identified more than $300 million in potential savings for its users.
But seriously? If someone else jumped off a bridge- would you too? Are over a million people jumping? The answer is no. Let me give you the low down on Mint's security.
There are 3 BIG Reasons why Mint checks out on the security front:
All of the security listed above and a healthy sense of curiosity led me to become one of the "over 1 million people."
Here are the strengths and main reasons I use it:
Even if someone finds out your login to your bank account. What bad can they do? Check the balance? Or transfer money between checking to saving? I thought about this, too and don't see how mint overall is insecure.
I use it and love it.
Exactly, most banks will require you to confirm any new transfers by mail. I remember having to wait for a letter (with a confirmation code) to arrive before they would allow me to transfer any funds.


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Friday: Bowling Green Hot Rods (Reinaldo Lopez, 5-4, 2.30) at Great Lakes Loons (Brandon Martinez, 1-0, 3.68), 7:05 p.m.
Saturday: Lake County Captains (Dylan Baker, 6-5, 3.62) at Great Lakes Loons (Julio Urias), 7:05 p.m.
Sunday: Lake County (Robbie Aviles, 3-3, 4.26) at Great Lakes (Chris Anderson), 3:05 p.m.
Monday: Lake County (Luis Dejesus, 3-10, 6.41) at Great Lakes (Tom Windle), 7:05 p.m.
Short start: Miguel Sulbaran lasted only one inning, giving up both runs on two hits and striking out one in the 2-0 loss. One of the runs was unearned, courtesy of a Corey Seager error as Sulbaran fell to 6-3 this season.
Good return: Jonathan Martinez, who began the season with the Loons, returned Thursday, filling the roster spot left when Luis Meza was put on the disabled list. Martinez, who was 1-2 with the Loons, pitched six shutout innings Thursday, allowing five hits and one walk, striking out four. Martinez was 3-1 with Ogden.
Hitters: Robbie Garvey and Corey Seager led the Loons with two hits each. One of Seager's hits was a double, his 16th of the season.
Not first: Bowling Green retook sole possession of first place in the Midwest League Eastern Division with Thursday's win. Bowling Green is 22-11 in the second half, while Great Lakes is 21-12.
Promotions: Friday is Raining Money Night, with fans selected to go onto the field after the game to pick up money dropped from a helicopter. Saturday is the Lou E. Loontacular, with an appearance by the Chicago Boyz. Sunday is Super Splash Day, plus Family Fun in the SUNday, with Kids Run the Bases after the game.
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Ryan Phillippe Gossip
Ryan Phillippe gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Not his best day
The Bang Bang Club screened at the Tribeca Film Festival today. Malin Ackerman, Ryan Phillippe, and Taylor Kitsch were all present. I don't know what's happening with Taylor's hair but it's hurting me, like actual physical pain. Obviously not his best showing. Having said that, yay for him hanging out with DeNiro on red carpets! But back to the hair… Is it long in the back or short? Is it in a ponytail? Is that a combover? Why am I including the word COMBOVER in an article about Taylor Kitsch????????????? The world hates me. Full Story
Ryan & Amanda: Springtime in Paris
While his ex-wife is selling her movie, and her wedding, back at home in North America, Ryan Phillippe is selling his movie The Lincoln Lawyer, with Matthew McConaughey, in Europe, first stop Paris. His girlfriend Amanda Seyfried has come along for the ride. And they're holding hands at baggage claim. Full Story
Well, as long as he's taking responsibility…
I mean, I suppose that's how his fans would defend it, right? There's one in particular. She's been writing to me for a year. It's very endearing her loyalty to Ryan Phillippe. She feels that the way I've been commenting on his, um, dating patterns is unfair. She doesn't believe that Phillippe ever cheated on Reese Witherspoon. Full Story
Was Bosworth second best?
Amanda Seyfried covers the new issue of ELLE. She's currently promoting Red Riding Hood. The premiere was last night. As you know, given that she's dating that dickhead Ryan Phillippe, this is not the brightest girl. She has demonstrated as much in previous interviews. Full Story
Soho House/Grey Goose Part 2
Ryan Phillippe and Amanda Seyfried were both at Soho House last night. All coy and sh-t. Lingering around each other like no one would know they were something. You know how it is. When she was talking to someone else, you could feel that she was keenly aware of where he was, what he was doing, and whether or not he cared. Full Story
Who is Rihanna actually f-cking?
According to UK gossips and their sh-tty track record, RiRi wants to get with Colin Farrell. Click here if you missed that story yesterday. According to Us Weekly though, she's actually been messing around with Ryan Phillippe even though they reported last week that she had rejected him at a party when he tried to step to her. Full Story
Sit DOWN Ryan Phillippe
See? It's a Sit DOWN kind of day. Once in a while I'll get an email from an angry reader all like – why do you have to be such a BITCH to Ryan Phillippe? Get over it! He and Reese broke up. She moved on, why can't you? He's hot and he's not the asshole you say he is. Full Story
Are you smart enough to break up with him?
Amanda Seyfried was photographed leaving her personal trainer's place yesterday with her dog. Now I'm curious what her dog does when she works out. Marcus thinks it's hilarious to step on me while I'm crunching my abs. Anyway, sorry to digress. The point of this post is not her dog, the point of this post is her boyfriend Ryan Phillippe. Full Story
Co-stars and their kids
Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Phillippe co-star in movie called The Lincoln Lawyer due for release in March. This weekend, both spent time with their kids. Both have a boy and a girl. First – since Reese Witherspoon was in Europe the last few days promoting How Do You Know, Phillippe looked after Ava and Deacon. Full Story
Douche in a Rolls
Well if this isn't a douche alert… Check out Ryan Phillippe, in track pants and a nipple-hugging white t-shirt, after lunch yesterday in LA cruising around in a ROLLS ROYCE. Really??? A Rolls Royce? Like, who ARE you? And why is Amanda Seyfried so stupid? How do you get hard when a guy pulls up in a Rolls Royce steering it with his dick? Sit DOWN Ryan Phillippe. Full Story
It was more than just a ride
This sh-t started at least 6 weeks ago after Kate Hudson's birthday party. Click here for a refresher. Amanda Seyfried and Ryan Phillippe were seen leaving together. At the time, though unlikely, for her sake I was hoping it was just a ride. Looks like it was more than just a ride. Full Story


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By BILL WELLS
SPRINGFIELD - Erik Murphy isn't a big numbers guy. He doesn't really care that he's ranked No. 24 among the senior class in the most recent ESPNU poll, and he doesn't even know what he's averaging for points or rebounds this season.
The lack of interest in numbers is ironic, since the St. Mark's School senior will probably end the high school boys basketball season as the No. 1 player in the state of Massachusetts.
"My season is going pretty well," the 6-foot-10 forward-center said. "I don't know what I'm averaging or anything like that, but I think I'm playing pretty well."
In a game to be televised on Comcast SportsNet, Murphy and his teammates from Southboro will take on Gonzaga College High School of Washington, D.C., Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Spalding HoopHall Classic at Springfield College.
In another bit of irony, despite being one of the best teams in the state, St. Mark's often plays in front of small crowds. Sunday's game could draw 1,000-2,000 fans.
"I'm excited about that," said Murphy of playing at the HoopHall Classic. "I'm always excited about playing in front of the crowd - you always get a little more hyped up for that."
And Murphy's hyped up about his future, too. He's signed and sealed to play next season for Billy Donovan at the University of Florida.
"I like everything about it," he said. "Coach Donovan and the players, I was real comfortable with, and with the campus and the atmosphere. I loved everything about it."
Despite his size, Murphy can handle the ball and pass well, which fits into the Gators' transition attack.
"Their style of play had something to do (with my decision)," he said.
"He's a kid with a lot of skills: he's particularly a good shooter for a kid that big," St. Mark's coach Dave Lubick said.
Murphy said he built a big base for skills under the tutelage of his dad, former Boston College standout and four-year NBA player Jay Murphy, who played for the Bullets and Clippers.
"My dad always pushed me to learn the fundamentals and skills," said Murphy, of South Kingstown, R.I. "I think that's made it easier to play facing the basket. It makes that part of your game that much easier, especially if you're big.
"He's been a coach for me a couple times, but mostly he's been my mentor. He'll take me to the gym, with my brother, and work me out. He's more of a mentor than a coach coach."
With the help of a tough schedule, especially for the 2008-09 season, Murphy has steadily progressed in his four years at St. Mark's.
"He's become a lot better defender, and he's become a lot bigger and stronger since he's been here," Lubick said. "He's also played against better competition, so he's learned what it means to compete at a high level on a consistent basis. We've played some very good teams."


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Sunday EveningApril 8th, 2012 at 4:45 pm by Kevin Orpurt under Weather, WTHI Blog
Sunday evening will shape up nicely. The sky will remain clear and conditions will be chilly. No rain is expected.
No Sleighs, but Plenty of Bargains; Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers Wheel and Deal at Auto Auction
The Washington Post December 25, 1994 | Sari Horwitz The pink '82 Escort pulled up to the auction block and about 15 men swarmed around. They flung the doors open and flipped up the hood as all heads dropped to peer inside.
"Who will give me $600?" called out an auctioneer wearing an elf's hat. "$575? … $550 … $525?" When he got down to $275, a hand shot up. The two-door Ford with 74,000 miles on the odometer and a University of Maryland bumper sticker was sold to Keith Strother, 20, of College Park, who turned to his mother.
"Merry Christmas!" he said, beaming.
And so it went – car after jeep after truck after car – for hours yesterday at the Capital Auto Auction in the old Trailways bus garage in Northeast Washington, across from the main post office. More than 100 shoppers willing to brave the rain and a little uncertainty about what exactly they were going to be buying crowded into the cavernous warehouse packed with cheap Christmas wheels.
The auction has been running every Saturday since 1988, but the largest number of cars donated and sold comes during the Christmas season until New Year's Eve. Some are auctioned for their owners. Some are auctioned for the benefit of the Salvation Army, and those willing to turn over their clunkers get a tax deduction. web site capital auto auction
There were 266 vehicles for sale yesterday, including a 1987 Toyota Camry, a 1989 Ford Taurus and a 1994 Toyota King Cab pickup truck with only 8,000 miles and a full factory warranty.
"We usually don't have this kind of inventory, but everyone wants to donate a car to take advantage of the tax break," said auction vice president and general manager Gordy Zaritsky, also wearing an elf cap. An additional 500 vehicles are waiting to be picked up from donors, he said. capitalautoauctionnow.com capital auto auction
Zaritsky said 20 percent of the cars are in good condition, 20 percent are salvaged for parts or scrap metal and the remaining 60 percent need some work. Those 60 percent are what he calls "fixer uppers." Buyers usually include some who need transportation, some backyard mechanics and a few dealers such as Bob Alston of Expert Auto, who buys 15 to 20 cars a week this way.
"What you see is what you get," Alston said. "It's not misleading." "I want to buy an inexpensive car and avoid a lot of the hassle of a car dealer," said Wayl Osman, 27, of Silver Spring. Osman, a security officer, bought a blue 1977 Honda Civic yesterday for $130 to use for his part-time pizza delivery work.
There are good deals to be had, but auction officials said there are some lemons too. Buyers show up at the auction about three hours before it starts to inspect the vehicles, hoping to spot mechanical and safety defects.
The cars are sold under different "lights" – green, indicating that the car is mechanically sound, or red, meaning the seller is unwilling to vouch for the vehicle's mechanical condition. Some need to be pushed to the auction block; others have smoke spewing from the exhaust pipes. All sales are final.
Buyers pay $200 for a bidding number to prevent anyone walking in to bid just to push the price up.
The Strother family bought in bulk yesterday.
Keith, a student at Virginia Union University in Richmond, bought his first car – a blue 1983 Chevrolet Cavalier for $375. Sure, it needed paint and new rims, and the upholstery on the seats was kind of torn up. But, hey, the radio worked and the engine sounded – okay.
Then, he bought the pink Ford Escort for his mother, who has been without a car for six months since her last one was totaled in an accident.
"No more taking groceries from Giant on the subway," said his mother, Toni, a clerk for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
"Man, we are so happy," said her husband, Carl, a bus driver, after the purchases. "We bought two cars, and we didn't spend a lot of money." Sari Horwitz
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Ash Wednesday. Fifteen years ago, I wrote the following column. Except for the fact that my kids have grown into adults, I hate to admit: Not too much has changed.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the season opener for Lent. I'll go and get ashes pressed onto my thick head, and maybe I'll think of something decent to give up.
Maybe I'll give up focusing on the sports page and half-listening when my kids want some attention. Or being irritated with the dog when I'm in a bad mood. Or reacting like a lunatic when someone cuts me off in traffic, even though every now and then I screw up and actually cut someone off myself.
I could give up stepping over the pair of dirty jeans that I've pitched on the floor, instead of throwing them into the hamper. I could give up heaving light and dark clothes into the same load in the dryer, or throwing my wife's all-cotton blouse in there at high heat.
I could give up acting hurried when my wife's trying to tell me what happened at work that day. Or being too lazy to pray whenever I get the perfect chance, on a long drive or when I'm walking the dog beneath the stars at night.
I could give up some of the stupid grudges that I've held for many years, even though I can't fathom how anyone could hold a grudge against me. I could give up the deep belief I'm always right - I must be right! - when I argue with my wife.
I could give up letting the recyclables grow into a small mountain in the basement, so that when I finally take them to Wegmans, I end up chasing cans and plastic bottles that the wind blows from the cart. I could give up squirting toothpaste all around the bathroom sink, toothpaste that soon becomes as hard as concrete. I could give up some other male bathroom habits too odious to mention, the ones that make my wife maintain all men - at heart - are pigs.
I could give up throwing spent paper coffee cups on the floor of the minivan, until I have to kick them aside to get to the brake. I could give up expecting my kids to think, feel and speak - on all issues - exactly like their dad. I could give up being lazy with the lids on our trash cans, so that the squirrels will no longer wait with bibs and forks upon the fence, eager to dig in for coffee grounds and chicken bones.
I could give up looking away when I see panhandlers on the street, that whole burst of impatience for the folks - in their own way - who are closest to Ash Wednesday. I could give up looking away when I see some civic problem, a stranger's trash can blown out in the street, the litter in a public park that I want someone else to clean.
I could give up postponing the kind of medical checkup every man should get, the kind that can make all the difference in a life, the kind where the doctor makes small talk as he puts on plastic gloves.
I could give up ignoring little repair jobs in the house, the cracked plaster or broken light that would not be hard to fix, except the Bills are on TV or the book is almost done and I just know I will do that job tomorrow. ...
Which I don't.
I could give up retreating into zombie time when my children are at my side, time when my body's there but my mind is at the office. I could give up zoning out on the couch with the kids, focus lost on some mind-numbing cartoon, instead of getting on the floor to build monuments out of Lincoln Logs.
I could give up all the time when I am in the kitchen and the TV becomes my baby sitter, when the only emotional company for my preschooler is Splinter, a mutant rat, and four Ninja turtles.
I could give up sitting on my butt on sunny days. I could give up eating Fudgsicles when I could be running. I could give up forgetting what happened to my parents, the way they died too young because they beat up their own bodies, which means they never got the chance to hold my children.
I could give up lecturing my kids instead of living what I preach. I could give up acting rushed when old friends, after many years, call me on the phone. I could give up reading schlocky magazines at bedtime when I could read some great books.
I could give up griping about the personal quirks of so many other people, when my best friends know my annoying quirks are what hold me together. I could give up dwelling on the future or the past, when the instant at hand is the only time that matters, when my kids are at a moment I will never see again.
Today I will stand in line to get my ashes, presented with this choice of so many things to dump, and I will leave the church and make a grand decision:
This year, I think, I'll give up chicken wings.
Sean Kirst is a columnist with The Post-Standard


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The Easter Bunny won't be hopping down the bunny trail to get to Lafitte, he'll be riding in style on the fire truck straight to the annual Easter egg hunt to be held at St. Anthony's Catholic Church.
Each year, this event is hosted by the Lafitte Barataria Crown Point Volunteer Fire Department on April 19 at noon, and all residents of Lafitte, Barataria and Crown Point are invited to attend.
Once the Easter Bunny arrives with lights flashing, children can meet him before the hunt begins. Soon after, the beginning of the hunt will be signaled with a blast of the siren, and the kids can scavenge the grounds for not-so-hidden eggs, candy, fire hats and tons of other prizes.
After the hunt, families can hang around a little longer to have their photo taken with the Easter bunny, and maybe win one of two Easter baskets to be raffled off.


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Nick Lopez scored 14 points, Sammy Schickel 13 and Jheryl Wilson and Isaiah Wilkerson had 12 apiece for the Highlanders (1-1). PJ Miller chipped in 10 points.
Wilkerson led the Highlanders with 10 rebounds and three steals. Scott was 4-for-9 from 3-point range.
The Highlanders led by just five points midway through the first half, but went on a 24-10 run to take a 43-24 halftime lead. Schickel scored six points during the spree.
Tech opened the second half on an 18-2 run and never looked back.
The Highlanders outrebounded St. Joseph's 63-33 and capitalized on 19 turnovers.
Jon Matzelle was the only St. Joseph's (0-1) player in double figures, scoring 13 points.
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NORTH MUSKEGON — If you love music, food, parades and art, there's a good chance you'll find something worth checking out at the North Muskegon Family Fun Fest.
North Muskegon's annual summer festival is Thursday through Saturday and includes plenty of family-friendly activities.
City Clerk Marcia Jeske, who helps organize the event, said the festival is an important event for the community.
"It's time for family and friends to come together to enjoy the summer," Jeske said, adding that the festival features "great music, great food and wine tasting."
Kicking off the festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday is a parade, which is expected to include more than 125 participants, and travels east down Ruddiman from City Hall, 1502 Ruddiman, to Charles Street.
Taste of the Northside, featuring 12 restaurants including Hobo's Tavern and the Main Street Pub & Eatery, is one of the main events held Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Food vendors will be located in Walker Park.
Music on Friday night at Custer Park (across the street from Walker Park) will be provided by Rocket 8, a band from Grand Rapids known for playing alternative rock, mostly from the '80s. Also at Custer Park is a beer garden and wine tasting.
The Classic Car Show Friday will take place 6-10 p.m. on Ruddiman Drive between the two parks, and the Northside 5k Run/Walk starts at 6:30 p.m. at the North Muskegon football field, near the intersection of Park and Eimer.
On Saturday, several more events will take place at Walker Park. Here's a list:
• Northside Lions Club pancake breakfast: 8-11 a.m.
• Community United Methodist Church Luncheon: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Friends Book Sale: 9 a.m to 4 p.m.
• 38th Annual North Muskegon Art Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• At Custer Park, the Greater Muskegon Optimist Club Art & Music Festival will be held from 5-10 p.m.
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LONDON (AP) -- One Direction has one less eligible bachelor.
Band member Zayn Malik is engaged to Perrie Edwards of the group Little Mix. They're both 20.
Edwards was spotted wearing a diamond ring Tuesday at One Direction film premiere "This Is Us" in London.
Edwards' mother, Debbie, confirmed Wednesday that her daughter and Malik were engaged. She told Real Radio: "It's true. They got engaged on Sunday and it's absolutely lovely."
Columbia Records confirmed in a statement that "Zayn and Perrie are engaged, but any further detail regarding their relationship is private."
Like boy band One Direction, girl group Little Mix formed on British TV talent show "The X Factor," winning the competition in 2011. One Direction placed third in 2010, but went on to top charts around the world with songs like "What Makes You Beautiful." Little Mix is trying to do the same with singles "How Ya Doin?" feat. Missy Elliott and "Wings."


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With CAA play at about the quarter pole, the George Mason Patriots are sitting atop the league at 4-0. The Patriots are empowered by strong defense, improved offensive efficiency and a general determination to win.
Mason has scored impressive victories at ODU, a place where they had not won in eight years, and against upstart Georgia State.
As many are starting to note, however, the CAA is getting very crowded at the top. Behind Mason, there are four teams sitting at 3-1 and three more teams at 2-2.
One of those 2-2 teams is the preseason favorite, Drexel, who meets the Patriots Thursday night at 8:00 on ESPNU. After a bumpy start, Drexel has come on strong of late, winning nine of their last 10 games, with their most recent victory coming over rival VCU.
This game is wildly important to both teams for a number of reasons. It is on ESPNU, and both teams want to impress in front of an audience.
For Drexel, winning this game would get them back in the hunt for the CAA title. For Mason, this game can give them much-needed separation from the rest of the field. This is also the only meeting between the two teams in the regular season, so the winner will hold the all important tiebreaker over the other team.
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Staff Picks: Moaning, Sobbing, Trolling
July 10, 2015 | by The Paris Review
Just yesterday, I snuck an advance-reader's copy of Lorenzo Chiera's Shards: Fragments of Verses, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, off a colleague's bookshelf and devoured it on my subway ride home. The pocket-size book comprises delicious morsels of twelfth-century verse by an otherwise unknown fellow from Testaccio. Though the fragments—plucked from scratches on parchment paper or fiber sacks—are no more than a few lines each, they brim with raunch and grime and love. Chiera breathes sex into most verses, which are bound to make one blush with either delight or despair. Some read as playful winks, others as moans, and still others as desperate, carnal prayers. "Hearing Chiera for the first time," Ferlinghetti writes in his introduction, "we soon realize we are in the presence of a savage erotic consciousness, as if the lust-driven senses were suddenly awakened out of a hoary sleep of a thousand years … He's vulgar. He's mad. He's uncouth. Yet he is innocent." Here's a little taste of Chiera himself: "Sexy Nonny / in her silk nun's habit / behind the arras / of the cult of the Virgin / stuck her tongue in my mouth / when I was fourteen / Made me cream." —Caitlin Youngquist
I've never read any fan fiction, and I never made it all the way through Pretty Woman, so devotees of either may take this recommendation with a grain of salt, but I loved Michael Friedman's novel Martian Dawn, all about a couple of movie stars (viz Richard and Julia) whose off-screen romance is strained by a visit to the Red Planet. No doubt half the jokes went over my head. It didn't matter. Friedman's urbane silliness and élan hark back to the glittering twilight of high camp—without seeming to hark back. Hats off to Little A for reissuing Martian Dawn and Other Novels. I didn't know anyone could still make it look so easy to have so much fun on the page. —Lorin Stein
The Skiing Life
June 25, 2015 | by Louisa Thomas
In memory of James Salter, who died last week, the Daily is republishing a series of essays from 2011, when Salter received The Paris Review's Hadada Prize. In today's piece, Louisa Thomas examines Salter's essay "The Skiing Life."
To learn more about Salter, read his 1993 Art of Fiction interview or one of his stories from the magazine: "Sundays" (1966), "Am Strande von Tanger" (1968), "Via Negativa" (1972), and "Bangkok" (2003) are available in full online.
I read There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter for the parts about skiing the way one reads A Sport and a Pastime for the sex. In fact Salter writes about skiing the way he writes about sex: as something luminous, clean, somehow moral. This was a few years ago, when I was obsessed with skiing; I thought about it all the time. In Salter I sensed a sympathetic hunger, the longing for something transcendent, pointless, permanent, and always vanishing. There aren't many good authors who write about skiing. Hemingway does a little. Salter does it a lot, as a way of writing about something else, just as writing about sex is a way of writing about other things: beauty, courage, obsession, mastery—mostly, someone else's mastery.
When I skied, or when I thought about skiing, a beautiful skier would stop me in my tracks. He would slide over a lip into a bowl or glade, or drop into a little chute out of bounds. His solid body would become liquid, slipping through the snow, as he found the fall line. I would watch his back and then fly after him, tracking him, fearless and afraid. "What enables you to learn?" Salter asks. "It's simple: desire."
In "The Skiing Life," Salter describes learning to ski from an instructor:
Follow me closely, he says, as if you can, turn where I turn. Trying to do what he does, forgetting some things, remembering others, somehow you follow. The trail is narrowing, you are going faster than you should and farther, beyond your endurance … One morning you awake unaware that, mysteriously, something has changed. This day it comes to you … All day, run after run, filled with an immense, unequaled happiness, and at the end into town together, down the last, easy slopes, and so weary that you fall asleep after supper in your ski clothes, the lights burning throughout the night.
There are of course some who don't need to learn, some who are almost born with it. Kids who grow up on eastern mountains are at home on ice and cruddy snow, although they dream of powder days. The kids out west have no idea how lucky they are. It is thrilling to watch a child hurtle past. You can see her future: she will slip through bumps, sleep on the floor, hike up mountains to ski down them. She will be powerful and fast. Years later, you will spot her from the chairlift, graceful and unmistakable. Even on my best days, the days when I belonged to the mountains, I would look for that girl. "There is always that lone skier," Salter writes, "oddly dressed, off to the side past the edge of the run, going down where it is steepest and the snow untouched, in absolute grace, marking each dazzling turn with a brief jab of the pole—there is always him, the skier you cannot be."
The Shape of a Life
August 26, 2014 | by Nicole Rudick
Congratulations to Hermione Lee, who has won the 2014 James Tait Black Prize for her biography of the Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Fitzgerald. One judge described Lee's biography as "a masterclass in writing of this type … the perfect marriage of an excellent subject and a biographer working at the very top of her game."
Lee was at work on the book during her Art of Biography interview last year: in the course of their conversation, Louisa Thomas discovers a blanket-covered box that contains the Fitzgerald family archive. Though Lee denies having set out to be a "woman writer writing about women writers," she has almost exclusively chosen women authors as her subjects. Still, for a biographer of Woolf, Cather, Wharton, and Bowen, Lee found Fitzgerald to be a special case:
I don't have a theory about Penelope Fitzgerald. I'm deeply interested in the shape of her life, and I'm fascinated by lateness, late starts. She didn't start publishing novels until she was sixty, for a variety of reasons. I feel there was a powerful underground river running through her life. She was a brilliant young woman, and everybody thought she was going to be a writer and she was writing away like mad in her teens and early twenties, and she was the editor of a magazine. And then it all went underground. Meanwhile, she's writing notes in her teaching books, which are a form of apprenticeship, and she's bringing up her family, and she's coping with her husband. And then he dies. And then up it comes, this underground river, at the age of sixty, and she writes thirteen books in twenty years. I don't have a theory about that. Nor do I want to blame anyone. But I want to understand it and show it happening as best as I can.
The complexity of women's lives is, naturally, at the center of Lee's interview, and it's a thread that connects Lee to her subjects intimately. The first woman to hold the Goldsmiths' Chair and the first woman president of Wolfson College, Oxford, she recalls walking across the grass of New College and thinking of Virginia Woolf, who, in trespassing momentarily on the lawn, was chased off by a beadle. As Woolf writes in A Room of One's Own, "Instinct rather than reason came to my help, he was a Beadle; I was a woman. This was the turf; there was the path. Only the Fellows and Scholars are allowed here; the gravel is the place for me."
Lee, however, feeling the benefit of the "strenuous labors of my female predecessors," can stray from the path; she makes a point of walking across the grassy quad, because "I had the right to be there."
What We're Loving: Dorian Gray, Sex with Immortals
July 27, 2012 | by The Paris Review
Last Thursday, finding myself with an hour to kill in London, I stopped into Lutyens & Rubinstein bookstore in Notting Hill. No Paris Review (sigh), but I did pick up the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed, a quarterly devoted to little essays about people's favorite books. The clerk claimed it's the most popular lit mag they stock. And it's easy to see why. Crome Yellow, The Lost Oases, The Elegies of Quintilius, and a guide to British sea birds give some idea of the miscellany. Read one issue back to back and you could cross every conceivable reader off your Christmas list. —Lorin Stein
How, exactly, do a human and a god have sex? For Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's novel, it is less a question of metaphysics than of mechanics. "Bad enough to have a full-grown male swan jabbing webbed feet into your backside while he has his way, or a one-ton bull leaning his moaning weight on you," she thinks. But when the god does not change form, how does the human body accommodate itself to "the blast of his desire"? What makes the passage so interesting is not only Costello's amusing speculations on the impracticality of cosmic coupling but the way such a question allows Coetzee to reflect on the whole messy business of the god-human relationship. The gods may never die, he suggests, but that doesn't mean they know how to live. —Anna Hadfield
Staff Picks: Dioramas, Donald Young and Stardom
September 9, 2011 | by The Paris Review
I've been reading Ben Jeffrey on Philip Roth's later novels and our sometime special tennis correspondent Louisa Thomas on Donald Young and stardom. –Lorin Stein
This week I stumbled across the artfully nostalgic Welcome to Pine Point. Developed by the creative team behind Adbusters and billed as an interactive documentary, it explores the memories of a now-vanished mining town. It's part film, part photo album, and completely fascinating. –Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn
A conundrum: two petite biographies from Yale's Jewish Lives series—Joshua Rubenstein's Leon Trotsky and Vivian Gornick's Emma Goldman. Which to read first? Sorry, Lev, the anarchist woman wins. –Nicole Rudick
A friend just drew my attention to an article in the June issue of Plum Hamptons by Taylor Plimpton about his father, touch football at the Matthiessens', and the Review as seen from a child's perspective: "Of my introduction long ago to the rich literary culture of the Hamptons," it begins, "I remember best the nose-hair." –L.S.
This is the last week to see the incredible diorama show at the Museum of Art and Design, "Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities." The title describes it well. –Artie Niederhoffer
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is kind of goofy, very uneven, and has an unwieldy third act. Still necessary viewing for the Serge-o-phile. And I thought Laetitia Casta made a stunning Bardot! –Sadie Stein
Recent perusal of a used book store turned up a Dover Thrift reprint of Clarence Cook's 1881 The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables and Stools and Candlesticks. As a furniture enthusiast, I enjoyed its strong opinions on dining-room tables and wash-stands; as a New Yorker, I found it to be rather comforting. There's just something nice about knowing that Victorian Manhattanites were packed in as uncomfortably as today's: "In city houses, particularly in New-York, where I believe we are more scrimped for room ... even the richest people are obliged to squeeze themselves into a less number of square feet than in any other city in the world calling itself great. " –Clare Fentress
Over Labor Day weekend I read Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum's 1899 memoir, because I'll be damned if I give up the summery feeling of adventure without a fight. –Cody Wiewandt
I went to a garage sale this weekend that boasted a near-complete set of the now nonexistent hardcover Horizon magazine, and picked up a strange-looking issue with only a large gold Chinese character for "Tang" on the cover. Inside, I found an article on the dynasty's turbulent history by one of my favorite writers, Emily Hahn. Definitely one of my better bargain finds. –Ali Pechman
The Artist in Isolation; Boo-Hoo Books
June 10, 2011 | by Lorin Stein
In a 1974 interview with The Paris Review, Archibald MacLeish adamantly insisted that the writer must engage with the world around him in order to create art, not act as a mere outside observer commenting on the play at hand. "The subject of art is life. You learn by living it. And you don't live it alone ... You live it with and by people—yourself in your relation with people, with and by living things, yourself in your relation to living things." I wholeheartedly agree with MacLeish but have plenty of writer-friends who insist on separating themselves from the world around them, alone and misunderstood by everyone else. What's your take on the romantic notion of the artist in isolation? Is a Henry David Thoreau laughable in this day and age? —Kate
Of course writers need solitude—that's where the writing happens—but I'm with MacLeish: if you're going to have anything worth saying, you'd better start by taking an interest in other people. That means living among them; sexting doesn't count. The two big dangers for contemporary fiction, it seems to me, are people not reading enough and people not hanging out enough. These dangers were unimaginable in Thoreau's time. His solitude is full of remembered texts and remembered conversations. His clean slate is a palimpsest. But to spend your days alone and online isn't just bad training, it also makes for lousy material.
So, I'm curious—what was the last book that made you cry?
I got prickly-eyed last night over a history book, of all things, by our sports correspondent Louisa Thomas. In Conscience, Thomas writes about her great grandfather and great uncles, minister's sons who wrestled with the question of whether to fight in World War I. (The most famous of these brothers, Norman Thomas, later became a hero of the Socialist party.) The moral seriousness of Norman and his brother Evan, in their letters and speeches, is wonderful, at times even preposterous—and those are exactly the moments that get me.
But if you mean crying like boo-hoo, and if you don't count King Lear (which came to town last month with Derek Jacobi), I think it may have been rereading Mrs. Bridge. Boo-hooing and laughing at once.
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Top-seeded North Hunterdon, which improves to 11-6, hosts Pope John in the semifinals next Saturday.
Mark Snider scored 10 points, while Chris Bellofatto added nine for the Lions, who saw 13 players score. Anthony Avent chipped in with six points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
The Blue Streaks (8-13) were led by Patrick Jacobson's 10 points.
North Hunterdon extended its 39-22 halftime lead over the tournament's defending champions to 56-27 by the end of the third quarter.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- City Cafe Diner opens in Huntsville on Wednesday. At least that's the plan.
The new cafe and diner is located on Drake Avenue beside Cracker Barrel near Memorial Parkway. Its extensive menu features breakfast dishes, Mediterranean-style meals like Greek food, a huge dessert case and more.
Diner owners confirmed this afternoon that the targeted opening date and time is Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. A Tuesday opening was delayed because of an Internet issue to allow credit card payment.


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Sometimes renovation means discovery -- as in, discovering what it is you like.
Every designer will tell you to page through shelter magazines and pull out pictures that "speak" to you in one way or another.
My problem is, my likes are all over the board. I may have a picture of a totally modern room and another of something that resembles traditional design.
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Faculty, Staff Recognized at Annual Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The College of Engineering Annual recognition ceremony was held Thursday, May 15.
David Rethwisch, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, was awarded this year's Faculty Excellence Award for Service in recognition of his involvement with STEM initiatives. Rethwisch is the University of Iowa Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way, and has overseen the growth of the program from 10 high schools in 2005 to the current level of 133 high schools and 86 middle schools. He actively collaborates with community colleges across the state, including a new educational venture between the University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College.
This year's Faculty Excellence Award for Research goes to George Constantinescu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and associate faculty researcher at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. Constantinescu is a global leader in the field of computational fluid mechanics, most notably for his work on the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model. He is co-author of Large Eddy Simulation in Hydraulics, published this year. In 2013 the International Association for Hydro-Environmental Engineering and Research recognized him with the Arthur Ippen Award. The international award is presented bi-annually to hydraulic researchers under the age of 45.
James Buchholz, assistant professor of received the Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, in recognition of his dedication to teaching excellence and his commitment to improve students' academic experience. Students admire his adaptability in the classroom and his ability to determine their needs. He updates and adjusts lesson plans in order to find the best way to present material. He values feedback from his students and implements their suggestions.
Three staff members were recognized at the annual awards ceremony on May 15.
Radoslaw "Radek" Goska, design engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering received the Staff Excellence Award for Research. His nomination letter described him as the soft-spoken, "unsung hero of the Iowa Flood Center.
His dedication is proven in the long hours spent in the lab performing research and supporting students and staff as needed. Witold Krajewski, director of the IFC, describes Goska and an "essential – and perhaps irreplaceable—team member."
The Staff Excellence Award for Service went to Megan Allen, registrar, in recognition of her volunteer work in the Highland Community School District. She has served as a member of the school board. Since 2010, Allen has been the director of Camp Highland, a summer camp for school-aged children. She organizes field trips, crafts and other activities. To keep the cost of attendance low, she seeks out sponsors and holds fund raising events to off-set costs.
The Mary Sheedy Staff Excellence Award was presented to Cathy Kern, secretary in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Kern works with graduate students in the department from application submission through commencement. She is committed to recruiting and retaining minority students and has on several occasions persuaded undecided applicants that Iowa is the place to get a graduate education, and once they arrive, she provides the support needed for their success.
The following staff members celebrated five years of service to the College:
Kandace Munson, April Tippett, Melanie Laverman, Mathew Cover, Christine Jehle, Honghai Zhang, Ben Faga, Natalie Potter, Zhaoyuan Wang and Nathan Young.
Recognition of 10 years of service went to Jenny Simpson, Shawn Allen, Andreas Wahle, Megan Allen, Kelli Delfosse, and Rebecca Whitaker.
Diana Harris, Wendy Brentner, Mary Bender and Richard Hardin were recognized for 15 years of service.
Teresa Gaffey has been with the College for 20 years.


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Scriba, NY -- Nine Mile Point Unit 1 nuclear power plant shut down Thursday night due to excessive leakage coming from two containment isolation valves, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Friday.
Jill Lyon, speaking for plant owner Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, said Unit 1 operators identified indications of air leakage from the primary containment or drywell.
"Due to the location of the air leakage, in accordance with our operating license we were required to shut down the unit in order to perform repairs," she said.
The drywell is a steel-reinforced concrete structure with an airtight steel liner that houses a boiling water reactor vessel and associated piping. The drywell is up to six feet thick in places, and is part of the plant's primary containment system, Lyon said.
At about 4:45 p.m. Dec. 13, operators began a normal orderly plant shut down. Unit 1 was removed from the grid at 7:10 p.m.
"The plant is in a stable condition and the issue poses no risk to the public or to plant employees," Lyon said. "We have assembled the appropriate personnel to investigate the cause of the air leak and perform necessary repairs."
She said the plant will restart only when all repairs are complete and testing has been done to ensure the plant is safe.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Resident Inspectors assigned to Nine Mile Point monitored the shutdown and did not identify any concerns. They will be following up on the company's efforts to determine the cause of the leakage.


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Consumer spending on health care grew less in Alabama than in any other state in the nation from 1997 to 2012, a new federal report shows.
The report, published by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, shows how much consumers in each state spend on various goods and services. The report covers years from 1997 to 2012, allowing a comparison of spending totals over time.
During the 15-year period, consumer spending grew more slowly in Alabama than in most other states. But Alabama is a stand-out -- the stand-out -- in health care spending.
Alabama is the only state that did not see health care consumer spending double over the years analyzed by BEA.
Several factors might be influencing Alabama's low rate of health care spending growth. For one, Alabama's population has been growing more slowly than that of the nation. Because these particular numbers are aggregate rather than per-person, population growth would have an impact on Alabama's rank.
Spending from Medicaid, Medicare, and employer-provided insurance is included in the BEA's health care spending computation, so Alabama's utilization of those services would also have an impact. (Because the data only goes through to 2012, states' individual decisions about expanding Medicaid would not play into this comparison.)
The ranking is also a reflection of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama's impact on the state's health insurance market. According to a recent government survey, Alabama has the lowest health insurance premiums in the nation on average among families who get insurance through an employer. And Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama controls nearly 90 percent of the state health insurance market.
States in the eastern part of the nation tended to see less growth in health care spending. Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington were each among the six states with the largest amount of growth in health care spending over the 15-year period. Louisiana, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York joined Alabama in the bottom five.


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By Mary Beth Schweigert 11:09am, July 27, 2014 - Updated 11:14am, July 27, 2014
Photo by Marty HeiseySummer is the season for fun runs and twilight pickup basketball games.
But is your body up for the challenge?
Dr. Joel Horning, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports injuries, treats many 35- to 45-year-olds who think they still have the same athletic skills they did 15 years ago, even though they don't train regularly.
"It's the sprains and the strains that really get people," says Horning. "Injuries to the back are also really common as we get older."
Only about 20 percent of Americans follow The Centers for Disease Controls recommendations that adults up to age 64 log 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity and two strength-training sessions per week.
People who try to make up for a usually sedentary lifestyle by playing hard on weekends aka weekend warriors risk annoying or painful injuries, Horning says.
"You've got to be smart about what you do," he says, noting that a sprain can require a month's recovery. "You're not going to be able to enjoy any summer activities if you're hurt."
Weekend warriors without a long-term fitness base put joints at risk because the muscles that support them weaken over time, Horning says.
Nonathletes who run a 5K or charity race may under- or over-train and come up short of their goals, he says. Even skipping a warm-up before a Saturday afternoon hike can make it easier to turn an ankle or trip.
Pay close attention to hydration, Horning says. Thirst is an early sign of dehydration; more severe symptoms such as dizziness require a timeout. Keep in mind that alcohol also leads to dehydration, as well as poor decision-making, he says.
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Kayla Deering led Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker with 27 points and nine rebounds. Teammates Mariah Cook and Brittany Hatfield scored 16 and 12, respectively.
Nina Preston led Kinde-North Huron with 10 points and Katie Alexander scored four.
"(Laker) is an incredible team," Kinde-North Huron coach Chad Knoblock said. "We have such a young team that I wasn't that upset.
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Perez on Friday, Holland on Saturday, Darvish skipped
The Rangers have decided to not pitch Yu Darvish until after the All-Star break.
The Rangers have decided that Martin Perez will pitch on Friday and Derek Holland will pitch on Saturday against the Twins. Holland will be activated off the disabled list. The Rangers haven't decided their second half rotation yet.
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Your Oct. 5 story "Slavery lesson too advanced, mom says" was too generous in considering the possibility that the assignment might be acceptable for an older group than sixth-graders. Issues on which reasonable, moral individuals might differ are worthy of debate so students can hear both sides. Practices abandoned by all reasonable and moral people no longer have an "other side" that should be heard.
Certain groups once practiced cannibalism. I cannot conceive of a school assignment directing students to argue the superiority of the taste of human flesh to Big Macs so students can appreciate the culinary sense of primitive societies. The assignment requiring students to take sides on slavery had an equal lack of educational value.
This is not to diminish the necessity of making all students aware of the economic value of slavery to slave owners. This will help them understand the centrality of slavery as an issue and the intensity of the opposition to its abolition, which resulted in the Civil War. This is also not to diminish the necessity of making all students aware of the horrors created by slavery and the scars of its legacy.


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The study seeks to understand how levels of plant sterols in the blood differ between participants with one or zero copies of an altered sterol transporter gene. To date, over 304 Amish volunteers have provided blood samples. Our findings suggest that individuals with one copy of the changed sterol transporter gene are not at increased risk for heart disease. We plan to start a new phase of this project in the near future.


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Author: smilezz
Date: Feb 14, 10 at 10:13pm (PST)
Subject: hideout gun collecting
i have blood money for regular xbox and in the hide out the gun rack that shows the non custimized shot gun and the m14 also shows a third gun outline of the mark111 rifle from the curtains down mission.but the gun in the mission is a prop gun. i have tried putting the gun in the ic box and walking out with the gun in hand but it still dont show in the hideout
Author: BeZ
Date: Feb 17, 10 at 12:56pm (PST)
Subject: re: hideout gun collecting
Isn't that the same gun the guards use on Amendment? Try stealing that gun, props don't count.
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Looking for the parents and family of Francis Alexander Heaton, who left home (Victoria, Australia) at the age of 12 and never made contact again. Born in 1891, possibly Footscray, to a large family. Surname: Heaton.
Lost HEATON origin:I have hit the proverbial brick wall with research into the family background of my wifes grandfather, Francis Alexander Heaton. The earliest record I have is an Electoral Roll entry of a Mr Frank Heaton in 1913 address being c/- Mrs Kay, Bell St, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia, who may or may not have been our Frank. He was an up and coming Pugilist in 1913 in Murwillumbah and was written up in the local Tweed Daily many times, until 1924.
I have the marriage Certificate of Frank to Lillis May Frerichs daughter of Aryon Frerichs (deceased 1902) and Margaret Florence Harper on 21st April 1915. On the certificate Frank says he was born in Footscray, Victoria, Australia and his parents are William John Heaton and Mary Galbraith. Lillis and Franks first child was born 27th March 1916 in Murwillumbah, NSW. I have Franks application to enlist in the AIF dated Dec 13, 1916 and Attestation Paper dated 2nd January 1917 and once again he was born in Footscray, aged 26years, (birth 1891) married with one child. Two letters were written to the AIF requesting a discharge, one from his wife saying she was 5 months pregnant and needed him at home. The other was from Frank saying his wife was upset with him likely to embark for overseas deployment at any time and that he was prepared to serve in Australia. He was discharged after 8 weeks in the service on 02/02/1917. The second child (my wifes father) was born 08/06/1917.
The next I find they have moved to Bellingen, NSW where Lilliss Stepfather (Margaret Florence had married Aryons younger brother in 1904) lived with her half sisters, Margaret had left Henry by this time.
Frank then applied to join the AIF again on 02/11/1918 in Bellingen, this time he gives his age as 27 but also gives his birth date as 22/01/1891. He went through the enlistment procedure and for some reason was discharged on the 31Dec 1918. By then the war was over so they may have not wanted any more men.
Frank resumed his boxing career in Murwillumbah sometime after this having newspaper coverage in 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923. Family knowledge tells us that the two sons were looked after by Lilliss sisters and stepfather at Bellingen. Lillis went to Sydney, dying there of TB in 1941, being buried in Rookwood Cemetery.
Frank married Ivy May Negus in 24/07/1923 in Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia, on that certificate he gives his age as 30 (Birth 1893) born in Geelong, Victoria and his parents as Francis Charles Alexander Heaton and mother as Mary Agnes Unknown. As Lillis was still alive at the time, this second marriage was illegal, which may account for the variation in information given.
The family have Photos of Frank, one being in a boxing pose, and two wedding Photographs, one with his first wife Lillis Frerichs only, the other with the wedding party, when they were married in Murwillumbah, NSW, 21/04/1915.
Frank and Ivy had a son whom I have had contact with, he has no more information on the origin of Frank except to say that, Frank had said that he was kicked out of home at the age of 12 and the family was large. He had been a swagman, travelling all over the country, sleeping under bridges and anywhere to keep dry at the end of each day. He never had any further contact with his family that we can find information on. If it is correct that he was born in 1891 and he left home when he was twelve, he was lost from 1903 till 1913, when he was first written up in the Tweed Daily.
Can anyone help, have they a missing male person who may fit this person, who may have been born in Victoria, or anywhere for that matter? I have researched the children of a Francis William Heaton and Annie Alexandra Harrison, in Manly NSW, Australia. They have the names Francis Alexander (Alexandra) in there so I thought there may be a chance. I sent for the death certificate of Annie and there is no child listed that would fit Franks profile.
Another large family in Victoria was John Heaton and Pricilla Vivash, they had a son, Henry Thomas, born in 1891. I wonder if Henry Thomas is our Frank.
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The Somali National Olympic committee on Friday concluded a two-day sports administration workshop for authorities from the national federations and regional zones. The workshop was held at the Sahafi Hotel where the Somali NOC mostly organizes its courses.
The president of the Somali National Olympic committee Aden Hajji Yeberow who addressed at the conclusion ceremony of the workshop on Friday said that his NOC was prioritizing the enhancement of the administrative knowledge of the country's sporting authorities.
"As you know the Somali NOC has for the first time drawn a four-year strategy plan 2011-2014 and it was in our strategy plan to hold such workshops-you know the 18-month long Advanced sports management course is now under way for some other sports administrators and you are going through this one-this is the kind of development programs we promised the day of our election in March 2009," the president stated during the conclusion ceremony Friday.
According to the Somali NOC president the workshop was due to be held on Monday but was postponed because some of the representatives from the regions couldn't arrive in Mogadishu before Wednesday afternoon because of heavy rain falls.
"The Somali NOC is playing its role, so we want you {Federations} to redouble your activities, because Somalia is emerging from more than two decades of wars and sports needs to develop in order to compete with the rest of the world," the NOC president told participants.
On behalf of the workshop participants, Somali Volleyball Federation deputy president Mohamed Abokar Hiireey praised Somali NOC for its efforts in promoting a real sport in the war-weary country.
"We are very grateful to the Somali National Olympic committee for trying its best to enhance our managing skills-taking advantage from this opportunity we are promising you Mr. president that national federations will enlarge their work through many different regions and in the capital championships will be restarted since peace has returned to Mogadishu" Hiireey told in front of the Somali NOC president on behalf of his colleagues at the workshop.


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Alright everyone making cool stuff, wrap it up. This guy made a portal gun out of LEGO. It's over. The competition is over.
This was made by an employee at a LEGO Store in Minneapolis, and it's amazin'. It moves and does stuff and everything!
Please accept my humblest apologies for using that meme in a Kotaku headline, but 'ERMAHGERD' was literally my reaction when I saw this. People around the world — you should be making more cool stuff with LEGO.
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This is regarding Tim Mathern's threats to revoke the Catholic church's tax exempt status.
I'm a Lutheran. I don't believe that a state official, Mr. Mathern, has the right to threaten the Catholic church for its beliefs and its right to speak their minds regarding the sanctity of life. Pardon the verbiage, but 'who does he think he is?' Seems he has bought into some power trip, where threats and blackmail are acceptable means to secure votes for a political party. The United States does not lower itself to crooked elections, that is for war-torn third world countries who are run by despots that ensure votes through oppression and threats... or is this more the American dream that Mr. Mathern has in mind for our nation? Shame on him, his party and everyone who supports these kind of ideals.