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Report finds Ohio one of least expensive states for car repairs
The Columbus Dispatch - June 17, 2013 11:22 AM
Fixing a car in Ohio costs less than most other states.
Last year, Ohio was the ninth-cheapest state for car repairs, according to CarMD's third-annual report.
The average cost for check engine-related car repairs in Ohio last year was $328.18, said CarMD, which looked at 160,000 repairs with "check engine" light problems made on vehicles from the 1996 to 2012 model years for its report. The national average was $367.84.
While Ohio was one of the cheapest states for repairs, repair costs did rise 9 percent last year.


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Michael R Koelle, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests
Biochemistry; Biophysics; Molecular Biology; Neurobiology; Serotonin; Caenorhabditis elegans; Neurotransmitter Agents; RGS Proteins
Research Organizations
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: Neurobiology
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Research Summary
We study the mechanism of signaling by neurotransmitters, the molecules neurons use to communicate with each other. We first identify and study behavioral mutants of the nematode C. elegans in which neurotransmitter signaling is defective. By cloning the genes defined by the mutations we can identify the molecules responsible for signaling, study them biochemically, and determine the detailed mechanisms underlying neurotransmission. Using this approach, we discovered a large family of Regulators of G Protein Signaling (RGS proteins) that directly inactivate the G proteins that mediate much of the signaling in the brain. One current project focuses how signaling by the neurotransmitter GABA is regulated to reduce neural activity enough to prevent seizures but not so much as to prevent any activity. Another project seeks to uncover the basic mechanisms of signaling by the neurotransmitter serotonin, defects in which are thought to underlie depression in humans.
Specialized Terms: C. Elegans; G Protein; Neurotransmission; RGS Protein; Serotonin; Molecular Genetics; Neurobiology; Neurotransmitters; Proteins and Macromolecules; Receptors
Selected Publications
- Bellemer, A., Hirata, T., Romer,o M.F., and Koelle, M.R. (2011). Two types of chloride transporters are required for GABA(A) receptor-mediated inhibition in C. elegans. EMBO J. 30, 1852-1863.
- Hofler, C., and Koelle, M.R. (2011). AGS-3 alters Caenorhabditis elegans behavior after food deprivation via RIC-8 activation of the neural G protein G alpha(o). J. Neurosci. 31, 11553-11562.
- Porter, M.Y., and Koelle, M.R. (2009). RSBP-1 is a membrane targeting subunit required by the Gaq-specific but not the Gao-specific R7 Regulator of G protein Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol. Biol. Cell, in press.
- Tanis, J.E., Bellemer, A., Moresco, J.J., Forbush, B., and Koelle, M.R. (2009). The potassium chloride cotransporter KCC-2 coordinates development of inhibitory neurotransmission and synapse structure in C. elegans. J. Neurosci. 29, 9943-9954.
- Jose, A.M., Bany, I.A., Chase, D.L., and Koelle, M.R. (2007). A specific subset of TRPV channel subunits in Caenorhabditis elegans endocrine cells function as mixed heteromers to promote neurotransmitter release. Genetics 175:93-105.
- Jose, A.M., Bany, I.A., Chase, D.L. and Koelle, M.R. A specific subset of TRPV channel subunits function as mixed heteromers to promote neurotransmitter release. Submitted (2006)
- Palmitessa, A., Hess, H.A., Bany, I.A., Kim, Y.M., Koelle, M.R. and Benovic, J.L. Caenorhabditus elegans arrestin regulates neural G protein signaling and olfactory adaptation and recovery. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 24649-24662 (2005)
- Jose, A.M. and Koelle, M.R. Domains, amino acid residues, and new isoforms of C. elegans diacyglycerol kinase DGK-1 important for terminating diacylglycerol signaling in vivo. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 2730-2736 (2005)
- Hess, H.A., Röper, J.C., Grill, S.W., and Koelle, M.R. (2004). RGS-7 completes a receptor-independent heterotrimeric G protein cycle to asymmetrically regulate mitotic spindle positioning in C. elegans. Cell 119:209-218.

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|The Bulletin
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|The Big Picture, a
regular Bulletin feature both on-line and off, is an in-depth
look at selected new titles and trends. See the archive for selections from previous months.
|Say, Allen
Tea With Milk;; written and illus. by Allen Say. Lorraine/Houghton, 1999. 32 p
|ISBN 0-395-90495-1 $17.00 6-9 yrs
Writing a family history in a manner that interests anyone but blood relations is surprisingly difficult; putting a family story into a picture-book format is even more difficult, as picture books require an economy of form and style that is not necessarily family-story friendly. Allen Say writes family stories for youth, treading the path of his family's past with a sure step, never slipping into the chasms of nostalgia that yawn at his feet. A matter-of-fact tone and a certain severity of style serve to discipline his unsentimental look at his family history, resulting in emotionally resonant stories that are crisp and clean, yet not antiseptic.
Tea with Milk is a love story, and it is a love story in more ways than one. It is the story of a young Japanese-American woman's love for her country; it is the story of her parents' love for their country of origin; it is the story of how Say's own parents met and fell in love; and it is the story of the love between a mother and child in this son's tribute to his mother's life. The opening sepia-toned, snapshot-like illustration shows a little girl dressed in her best clothes; behind the girl is the door to her house where, peeking out from a small window, is the half-hidden face of an observing adult. The accompanying text states: "From the window of her room, the girl could see the city of San Francisco. She imagined that it was a city of many palaces. And one day her father would take her there, he had promised, riding on a paddle steamer across the shining bay." But the girl Masako's parents are homesick, and, after she graduates from high school, they return to Japan. Masako had planned to go to college and get her own apartment. In Japan, however, she goes back to high school to learn to speak Japanese, and she takes lessons in flower arranging and calligraphy in order to become "a proper Japanese lady." When her parents hire a matchmaker to find her a husband and arrange a marriage, Masako realizes that, despite her Japanese parents, she is an "American daughter." She cannot adjust to the life her parents wish her to live so she moves to Osaka, where, thanks to her excellent English, she gets a job guiding foreign businessmen around an exclusive department store. On one such tour, she meets Joseph, the man who becomes her husband and the author's father.
From the title page illustration of the young Masako standing next to a baby carriage with a blonde ringleted doll, Say renders his mother's struggle to maintain her balance on the line between her two cultures with compassionate insight. The loneliness of the uprooted Masako, her conflicting desires to please her family and be true to herself, her courage in leavetaking, all are communicated in a telling combination of words and pictures. The full-page watercolor illustrations are thinly outlined in black with wide white borders, and the spare compositions are elegantly balanced within their frames. The face of the main characterarticulates her changing emotions as her solitary figure stands isolated and apart in several of the spreads. The faces in the crowds are integral to the action of the scene; every now and then a character will look out from the pages, seemingly directly at the viewer, further drawing the reader into Masako's environment. The illustrations have a translucent, light-infused quality, illuminating both setting and characters with unremitting honesty. The backgrounds, whether busy street-scenes or the palatial store interior, serve as uncluttered settings for the story's characters.
There have been several generations of family stories in picture book format over the last several years; their apparent aim has been to contribute to a sense of personal and family history, to give young readers and listeners a sense of where they come from so as to provide them with a sense of where they might go. Unfortunately, many such books are nostalgia pieces for adults, memory anecdotes that require the reader to bring a certain amount of regret or longing for days gone by to the story in order to appreciate the experience. Say has a gift for descriptive prose that effectively communicates the emotional nuances of his family stories; that gift lifts his stories above nostalgia and invites young listeners and readers to an understanding of the passage of time, the impact of distance. Opening with a snapshot-like illustration of Masako and closing with a photorealistic portrait of his parents, Say's respectful tribute comes full circle, ending with a gratifying sense of something well-considered and finally understood.
-- Janice M. Del Negro, Editor
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While she might not be able to knowledgeably discuss frame-rates, latency issues, or fighting game combos, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently had some interesting things to say about video games. Kagan and the rest of The Court recently ruled that video games are protected speech under the Constitution in Brown Vs. EMA, a case Kagan calls the most difficult case in the current Supreme Court term.
"I sweated over that mightily," Kagan told The Aspen Daily News.
"It was the case where I struggled most and thought most often I'm on the wrong side of it," she said. "You could see why the government would have wanted to do this and you can see the kind of danger it was worried about, the kind of effects these extremely violent video games have on young people."
"But I couldn't figure out how to square that with our First Amendment precedence and precedence is very important to me," she said.
"I think what you have to say, and people have been saying this, is this is a court that is extremely protective of the First Amendment and extremely protective of speech," Kagan said. "There is no question the court has a very expansive view of the First Amendment."
Kagan also suggested it would be a good idea to allow cameras in to the Supreme Court, which would have allowed us all a chance to watch the most wise, learned men and women in our nation discussing the merits of Postal 2. This is something that all taxpaying citizens need and deserve.
Source: Aspen Daily News (Via GamePolitics)
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If I wanted America to fail …
6 Responses to If I wanted America to fail …
This is really unfair. Because it so truthfully describes Obama and the Collective.
If I wanted America to fail, which of course I don't because I'm so moral and such a good person, then I'd stop indoctrinating, um, sorry, educating the next generation on why lots of government is just wonderful, and how climate change deniers are sterile, inbred, Goebbels-like people who want to hurt my children.
I'd stop teaching them about the wonders of post-modernism, and let them be seduced to the dark side by dense righties, who would tell them of all these ridiculous "natural rights" which don't exist because we're just carbon-based forms of life that can make up any rights stuff we want. I'd also stop teaching them about how there is a moral right to healthcare. Which is not the least bit contradictory. Stop laughing.
I would stop assigning them to read deep thinkers like Tom Friedman. Then they would probably be reading shallow, silly stuff like Milton Friedman.
I would take a job somewhere managing a pizza joint, since if I left academia that's the only thing on my resume that would get me a job. I'd leave off the part about stealing pizzas, of course.
I would stop writing blog posts that find deep philosophical meaning in pop lyrics from the 1980s. I would also stop writing posts with deep, creamy analysis, based on charts that I produce with Excel's charting wizard, containing numbers that are not either contradictory and statistically invalid, so stop saying that.
I would stop writing deep analytical books about Germany and how they are so, so much better than us. Just think what fallout that would have. The 16 or 17 people that would read those books would be deprived of my godlike powers of political science.
I would stop coming here and commenting. Which I don't do for my own sake, no sir. I don't either do it to bolster my own sense of self-worth after a day of dodging moose on the way to and from work at my little, backwoods, inconsequential college that doesn't even grant PhDs. No, I do it to help save America, by having fun irritating thick righties, which is not psychologically sick, so stop saying that too. And how irritating people by handwaving away arguments is something that works to save America is a deep concept that I can't possibly explain right now. But you'll eventually get it. By being pragmatic, like me. Watch and learn.
Finally, I would stop cleaning out those magenta caterpillars with Sarah Palin's face, naughty librarian glasses, and amble bosom from my basement. They would just take over. And that would truly be the end of America.
@Ott Scerb That bit about stealing pizzas? Yeah, you need to send me some screen cleaner because of that Ott, my drug laced Libyan Nescafe Decaf needs to be cleaned off the flat screen now as a result of that line.
@Ott Scerb Speaking of Palin images you'd have trouble shaking…imagine that with flame and a suckling pig…http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/chicago-art-museum-opens-giant-screaming-palin-head-garden-exhibit/
How many moose attend college with you and why do you collect caterpillars for your basement? Anyway…I can tell you very much enjoy writing and entertaining yourself with it. Like you, I like pizza…just not enough to steal it. Good luck in school and in any future career! I would leave "pizza thief" off the resume though.
If I wanted America to fail I would vote for Mr. Obama.


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- VeraSun Corn Suppliers Must Take Action to Letter by Sept. 30
- Keep three things in mind
- Do not ignore this matter
- Seek advice of bankruptcy attorney
- Gather copies of all transaction documents
Keep three things in mind
Steve Moline, of the Iowa Attorney General's office, told those attending that letter recipients must keep three things in mind. "Do not ignore this matter. Seek advice of a bankruptcy expert before making any payment or offering to settle. And gather and copy all of your VeraSun transaction documents for your attorney so a response can be formed immediately," Moline says.
Erin Herbold, staff attorney with the Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation (CALT) at Iowa State, outlined the suppliers' legal options and discussed the defenses suppliers have. "Suppliers who did nothing wrong are being asked to provide information to the trustee to establish their defenses," said Herbold. "Some will have strong defenses and the trustee may cease further inquiry; some suppliers will have partial defenses that may provide room for negotiation for a lower settlement; and some will have no defense."
Herbold continued with explanations of the three traditional defenses, but to determine a supplier's best defense, she referred back to Moline's three points. "Gather documentation and get it to a bankruptcy lawyer immediately, there isn't any time to waste," she says.
Bankruptcy attorney Joe Peiffer, Cedar Rapids, provided a list of documents that suppliers should gather for their lawyers. Those documents include:
• Copies of all documents and/or correspondence received from VeraSun regarding how and when it would pay for corn purchased from corn suppliers.
• Copies of all scale tickets for corn sold to VeraSun at any time, not just the checks in question.
• Copies of all settlement sheets for all corn sold to VeraSun at any time.
• Copies of all contracts for sale of corn to VeraSun with delivery before Oct. 31, 2008.
• Copies of all deposit tickets for checks received from VeraSun at any time.
• Copies of all checks deposited from VeraSun.
"These documents need to be provided to your bankruptcy attorney immediately so the attorney can draft a response to the preference demand letter by the Sept. 30 deadline," Peiffer says. "Failure to respond to the preference demand letter could result in the supplier being sued in bankruptcy court in Delaware."


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WorldNetDaily is trying to peddle their crap with this picture. Please, show me how this is patriotic.
When is enough, enough?! When is someone from the right wing going to step up and speak out against this?
Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama to fail and WND wants him to die. That's real patriotism for you for only $6.99.
When is enough going to be enough? Please Republicans, call WND out on this.
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It was another solid performance for the Woodstock runners in their last meet before the Marble Valley League Championships next Tuesday. The girls scored a perfect 15 to sweep to the victory, while the boys continued to have different runners step up as they battle injuries and illnesses. The meet was held in Springfield, the same site as next week's league championships.
The girls were led by Carmen Bango with a time of 20:50. Denali Balser, who ran "an excellent race," according to coach Hank Glass followed her across the finish line with Anna Ramsey, Lindsay Stuntz and Christy Harris then claiming the next three spots.
Anthony Bald topped the Woodstock boys with Harry Linowski next in line. Glass said Graham Melville "continues to come along strong," and the sophomore heeded his coach's words by placing third for the team. Dylan Stuntz ran hard up the last hill to place fourth for the Wasps, while Reid Langona earned his first points of the season to round out the Wasp scoring.
With only seven runners allowed to compete in the championships, the boys are competing among one another to see who will be running.
"The last couple of spots are really up for grabs, with different runners stepping up every meet," Glass said.
With the league championships and then the state meet fast approaching, Glass said his team needs to focus on the "mental aspect" of running.
"They need to learn to find another gear and be able to endure the pain and the hurt that comes with that extra gear. It worked for the boys last year and it's what the girls are pushing towards now," Glass said.


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The transition took place March 3. Wade Eston LLC is in Canal Winchester, and is managed by Mark E. Myers.
A grand reopening will occur June 21 and 22. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies will be held, with neighboring businesses participating in the event. A Pepsi sampling truck and food trucks will be outside, and radio stations will broadcast from the store
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In Division two it's a Coulee conference showdown
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Lockheed Martin Ousts Future CEO Over Relationship
The defense company said Friday that its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher Kubasik from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer.
Kubasik, 51, was scheduled to become CEO in January.
Lockheed Martin says an ethics investigation confirmed that he had a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee. That violates the company's code of ethics and business conduct.
"I regret that my conduct in this matter did not meet the standards to which I have always held myself," Kubasik said in a statement.
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Kubasik said that his departure in no way reflects on the strength of Lockheed Martin and he remains confident in the future of the company, where he had worked for the past 13 years.
Kubasik joins a roster of high-ranking executives who have exited their posts in recent years over the fallout from ill-advised relationships.
Among them, former Best Buy (BBY) CEO Brian Dunn, who resigned from the retailer in April after an investigation found he violated company policy by having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
In other cases allegations of improper behavior supported by a paper trail of questionable spending have provided enough fuel to drive top management out of the executive suite.
Mark Hurd resigned from his post as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 2010, a few weeks after the company launched a probe into allegations that he sexually harassed a former marketing contractor.
The investigation uncovered no merits to the claims, however it was discovered through the course of the probe that Hurd falsified some reports to disguise expenses he incurred for meals and travel with the woman.
Meanwhile, news broke Friday that CIA Director David Petraeus had resigned over an extramarital affair.
According to a statement he sent to CIA employees, Petraeus asked President Barack Obama on Thursday to allow him to resign and on Friday the president accepted it. Petraeus said he had shown "extremely poor judgment" in having the affair.
"Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours," Petraeus said.
William Sannwald, a professor of business ethics at San Diego State University, said there's no easy way to explain why executives continue to be ensnared in these sorts of ethical lapses.
"It just happens, and perhaps it's the power that comes with the position that makes them feel that they can be above scrutiny," he said.
As for Kubasik, his choice to get involved with a subordinate clearly reflects on more than just his personal life, Sannwald said.


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The Young And The Restless Weekly Summary For March 26 – March 30.
Jeffrey got slapped, Chloe learned the truth, and Tucker snapped at Sofia…
While Angelina confessed the truth about her marriage to Chloe, Jill helped free Jeffrey from the dumpster. Jeffrey barged into the wedding and revealed Angelo's crimes. Kevin and Chloe appeared just as Michael announced that Angelina and Kevin's marriage was annulled. Simultaneously, Jeffrey and Kevin dropped to their knees with proposals. Chloe and Gloria agreed to a double wedding. Angelo returned Gloworm to Gloria free and clear, and Katherine officiated the ceremony. Just as Angelina explained she and Angelo were moving to LA, Chelsea appeared and pin-pointed Jeffrey as her father. Carmen arrived later and warned since Kevin stole Angelina, he was going to steal Chloe! The newlyweds escaped to the airport for their honeymoon, and Michael got DNA proof that Chelsea was Jeffrey's daughter.
Tucker and Sofia staged an argument in front of Devon, Neil and Harmony for business reasons and hoped their charade wouldn't have ramifications from Neil and Devon.
After Nick informed Sharon they needed to head to Japan on business, she saw Adam and realized his sight returned. Adam leaked Nick and Sharon's trip to Phyllis, who acted as though she was fine with it. In Japan, Sharon impressed Nick by obtaining the exclusive rights in the Mitsukoshi deal. Back in Genoa City, Phyllis confided her worries over Nick and Sharon working together to Avery.
Cane admitted to Jill that he put his mother over business. Jill was only angry that Genevieve didn't believe Cane had tried to protect her. When Genevieve realized Cane had been telling the truth, he refused her apology. When Genevieve told Vikki about possibly selling Beauty of Nature back to Victor, Vikki suggested Genevieve sell it to her. Jack had Genevieve served and thought about having an experimental surgery, which Sarge warned him against.
Daniel worried he'd lose Lucy to Daisy and was okay with Phyllis and Avery using Ricky to help their case. When Eden witnessed Ricky kissing Daisy, he admitted that he'd been cozying up to Daisy for Phyllis. Though a judge reinstated Daniel's parental rights, at Daisy's request, Daniel filed for full custody. Ricky admitted to Daisy that Phyllis sent him to spy on her but promised to help Daisy instead.
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The Windows and Programs patterns consist of many smaller files, while the other three patterns include just a few files but of larger size. Two 32GB partitions are created on the drive for the copy operations and the file patterns are first copied within the same partition (copy near) and then from one partition to another (copy far).
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When the drives were copying filed within a single partition, the S-121 solution again won the race. The HDD managed to run considerably faster in all five patterns when installed into this chassis.
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Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction
Publication Year: 2013
Published by: University of Iowa Press
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Every semester in my beginning fiction writing class, after a discussion of craft, a student will ask, "Do you really think about all these things before you sit down to write?" Their fear is that attention to craft...
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What's your process like? When do you write? Do you have a routine? Do you write in the morning or at night? Do you write every day? Do you write longhand or type? How much do you write each day? How many hours a day do you write?...
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I have never sat down to write a story or novel and thought, "Okay, so who's my audience going to be?" When asked by others who my audience is, I'll sometimes say, "Writers don't choose their audience; their audience chooses them," which sounds good and which, to a certain...
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In his terrific book Making Shapely Fiction, the late Jerome Stern has a section titled "A Cautionary Interlude," in which he lists different kinds of plots that writers should avoid writing. It's a smart list that illuminates a host of common problems, and I have read that list aloud...
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The fiction-writing courses I teach should probably be called "The Art of Manipulation" since what the student is graded on at the end of the semester is, in large part, her skill as a manipulator. It's as simple — and as difficult — as that. There are countless aspects of craft...
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What makes a good book title? I used to think that using concrete words instead of abstract words was the ticket, and that the reader should be able to walk away with an image in her head, but now I'm not so sure. Concrete words?...
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Think about your own experience of meeting someone for the first time: You usually have a gut response, sometimes before the person speaks. And once the person speaks, you unconsciously move forward or take a step back because you're forming lightning fast opinions...
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The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is the oldest writing conference in the country. Suggested by Robert Frost and founded in 1926, the conference is an institution in American letters, an eleven-day orgy of, among other things, poetry and fiction workshops and readings. The readings by both novice...
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You start reading a book, and without realizing it, you've blocked out everything around you: noises, the room you're in, the people around you. It's classic sensory deprivation, similar to what you experience during a good movie in a dark theater when your attention is fully...
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I'm a hypocrite. I warn my students against using pop culture references in their fiction, citing for them stories from the early twentieth century that are unreadable now because we don't recognize the pop culture references in them. Even recent stories will include meaningful winks...
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I'll admit it: my tastes are low-brow. I'm an academic only because I happen to teach at a university. At an on-campus interview several years ago, I was asked about the humor that runs through my fiction and who my influences were. While I stared blankly ahead, a few of the professors interviewing me offered...
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When I first began writing fiction, my stories' settings were often amorphous, sometimes nonexistent, or they were rural, probably since I had spent several years living in southern Illinois, where, as an undergraduate, I had decided to become a writer. But it took years for me...
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The imitative fallacy is when a writer attempts to mirror the narrator's state of mind through some aspect of craft (prose, structure, plot, etc.). The drunker the narrator, the less coherent the prose becomes. The "crazier" the narrator, the less lucid the story's structure becomes...
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If I were to sit down and calculate how long it sometimes takes me to write a short story from conception to final draft, I would probably quit writing altogether. And yet I begin each project optimistically, naively thinking that I understand what the story is about, when in fact...
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I used to think that there was a logical way to write and revise a story. Why wouldn't there be? You sit down and hammer out a story, and then you take it through several drafts. Eventually, the story comes together or it doesn't. If it does, it's finished. If it doesn't, you discard it . . . or you send...
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When you think about the craft of writing, you probably don't think about humility, but I would place humility at the top of that list. Humility is vital in order for a writer not to be myopic about her own work. What is humility? As defined by dictionary.com, humility...
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Page Count: 184
Publication Year: 2013
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Emery helps Blackhawks to victory over Avalanche
March 20, 2013, 12:08 am TWN
DENVER--Ray Emery stopped 17 shots to remain unbeaten this season to help Chicago hold off Colorado 5-2 on Monday night in the first meeting since the Avalanche halted the Blackhawks' record points streak.
Jimmy Hayes and Andrew Shaw scored 57 seconds apart in the first period, Brent Seabrook contributed another and Jonathan Toews added a late insurance goal for the surging Blackhawks, who have won three straight to move to 3-2-0 after their NHL-record 21-0-3 start to the season was ended in the Mile High City on March 8.
The Ducks beat the Sharks 5-3 with Emerson Etem scoring his first NHL goal to help Anaheim team post its 12th consecutive home win.
Viktor Fasth made 32 saves for the Ducks, who have the NHL's second-best record.
In other matches, the Minnesota Wild took the lead in the Northwest Division with a 3-1 win at Vancouver, the Kings had a 4-0 win over the Coyotes at Los Angeles, the New York Rangers beat the Hurricanes 2-1 in a shootout, Tampa Bay had a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers and the Dallas Stars held off Calgary Flames 4-3.
Charlie Coyle scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and Niklas Backstrom made 35 saves afor Minnesota, who moved two points ahead of Vancouver for the division lead with their eighth win in 11 games.
At Los Angeles, Jonathan Quick earned his first shutout of the season with 27 saves and Tyler Toffoli scored his first NHL goal on a power play in only his second game with the Kings.
Quick's 25th career shutout gave the Kings their 11th victory in 15 games and their 10th in the last 11 at Staples Center.
In New York, Rangers rookie J.T. Miller fumbled his way to a goal in the third round of a shootout to help end a three-game losing streak for his club.
Rick Nash scored in the opening round of the tiebreaker and Henrik Lundqvist stopped both Carolina tries for the Rangers, who moved into ninth place in the Eastern Conference — two points behind Carolina.
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