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n a busy street corner in downtown Raleigh, in the shadow of looming skyscrapers, sits a lonely, unassuming brick house. Built in 1901, this was the home of Dr. Manassa T. Pope, his wife Delia, and their two daughters, Ruth and Evelyn. Today, the Pope house sits as a lonely reminder that this area, known as the Fourth Ward, was once a thriving African-American neighborhood including stores, churches, businesses, and the homes of many black professionals.
For the Pope family, their home was a powerful symbol of this success. Though racial tensions were very high at the turn of the 20th century, the Popes refused to be treated like second-class citizens. The Popes and other members of the black middle class fought to maintain a high standard of living and show other African Americans that success was attainable through hard work and perseverance.
"The M.T. Pope House is significant to the city of Raleigh as a stalwart sentinel to both the worst and best of American society: It represents racial intolerance and segregation, but also the strength and dignity of those who refused to be subjugated by bigotry," according to the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Pope House. "Its continued presence in a now stark commercial urban environment will remind generations to come of the dark days of segregation as well as of the strength and dignity of those who excelled in spite of it."¹
¹ Kenneth J. Zogry, "Dr. M.T. Pope House," (Raleigh, North Carolina) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1999.
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The lesson is based on the Dr. M.T. Pope House, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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I am in an introduction class for Java, and I am having trouble with ArrayLists.
I need to create a program that asks the user how many jobs they work, and then have the user be able to enter the income for each job. So the user will enter 3 jobs, and then the program will ask, "Enter the income for job 1:" And the user will enter a number, and it will store that number to be used and displayed later.
I just don't understand how I can create an ArrayList with the length of jobs, and then have the user enter in data that will be saved to the ArrayList.

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Vatican City, Jul 26, 2013 / 11:00 am ().- The Vatican and Italy will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding between their financial authorities to regulate data exchange, but this agreement is not tied to the recent scandals involving the so-called Vatican bank.
"Italy is merely one part of the Holy See's international agenda, and the Holy See is improving its international cooperation to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism," according to an employee from a Vatican financial institution who spoke to CNA July 26 and asked for anonymity.
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Vatican Authority for Financial Information and its Italian counterpart, the Financial Intelligence Unit, should be announced in a matter of days.
The Vatican authority has already signed similar pacts with other counterparts, including the U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit FinCEN.
The memorandum would mark a first significant step towards normalizing banking relations with Italy.
Despite the generally positive evaluation on the state of the Vatican financial system issued in July 2012 by MONEYVAL – the Council of Europe's committee that evaluates adherence to the international anti-money laundering standards of its member states – the problem of the transparency of the Vatican's banking operations has been often raised, especially by the Italians.
The most recent case is that of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a suspended employee of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
Msgr. Scarano is now under arrest for an alleged plan to transfer 20 million euro from Switzerland to Italy aboard an Italian government airplane.
He is also being investigated by the public prosecutor in his home town of Salerno, Italy for supposedly laundering 560,000 euros he took from his account in the Institute for Religious Works – the so-called Vatican bank – to pay off the mortgage of a house in Salerno.
On July 25, a letter written by Msgr. Scarano and addressed to Pope Francis was delivered to the Vatican by his lawyers. The Pope will be in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day until July 29, when he flies into Rome's Ciampino Airport.
In the letter, Msgr. Scarano insisted that he "never committed any money-laundering and never stole."
He also said that he asked for a meeting with Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals and Secretary of State emeritus.
But in Msgr. Scarano's words, the meeting never took place because "the smart Msgr. Giorgio Stoppa blocked my requests for an audience."
However, Gorgio Stoppa is not a monsignor, a fact that led CNA's Vatican financial source to say, "this would lead one to think that the letter was not written by Scarano, but by his lawyers, since a Curia employee would never make mistakes of this kind."
At the level of state matters, the source confirmed that the negotiations on a Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and the Vatican are not directly connected with the Scarano scandal.
In the past it would have been possible that the Vatican might pursue an agreement to maintain good relations with the country that surrounds it, but the financial source said the city state's focus is much broader in this case.
Nevertheless, the source ventured, the Scarano case could be "a first test of the agreement," which would test both governments.
"We will also see if the Vatican Authority for Financial Information will provide its Italian counterpart with useful data."
At the same time, the financial expert pointed out, "it will be interesting to see if the Italian Financial Intelligence Unit will provide useful data to the Vatican authorities for their investigations."
As communicated in a press release on July 9, the Vatican froze Msgr. Scarano's accounts at the Institute for Religious Works and started an investigation.
It is rumored that Scarano's suspicious transactions filled 89 pages of statements.
In the meantime, the experts of Promontory Group are studying the Institute for Religious Works files, in order to shed light on the suspicious transactions and clean up the so-called Vatican bank account.
Another source who works in a Vatican financial institution and is familiar with the Institute for Religious Works told CNA on July 26 that "the IOR President von Freyberg completely left his office to the Promontory advisors, while he is working in a small room in the vicinity of the office of the director."
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It looks unlikely that Congress will pass a new farm bill before 2014.
House and Senate conferees are negotiating a replacement for the 2008 Farm Bill, which expired last year. It was extended, but expired again Sept. 30.
Differences remain. The House has passed another extension to give negotiators more time, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it won't get a vote.
Once upon a time we were promised the new bill would be passed and signed well ahead of primaries leading up to last year's presidential election. Nearly two years later there's still no bill.
Color us gobsmacked because we've been told for months that a deal was virtually assured because lawmakers over the years have employed two sure-fire gimmicks to ensure a farm bill's passage.
First, decades ago Congress decided to put food stamp and school lunch funding into the farm bill. The thinking goes that urban legislators don't really care much for crop subsidies and dairy pricing, but the nutrition programs impact their constituents.
At $100 billion or so a year, these programs account for 80 percent of the spending in what's laughably called the farm bill.
Many in and out of agriculture say without the nutrition title the farm bill would languish. But languish it has since the last bill expired, mostly while conservatives and liberals have fiercely debated whether $100 billion is too much or too little.
But not to worry. Congress arranged to put a gun to its own head by mandating that farm policy revert to "permanent" law written in the '30s and '40s should it fail to enact a measure to replace the expiring five-year farm bill.
The permanent laws are so antiquated they have little relevance to modern agriculture. Trying to apply them in the 21st Century would create consequences too dire for Congress to ignore its duty.
Not dire enough, it seems. The specter of production quotas, expensive price supports and $7-a-gallon milk has failed to force Congress to give in to its own extortion.
So neither of these hallowed mechanisms seem to have been moving the legislation along.
We're not fans of tying food stamps to the farm bill, or the permanent law gambit. Because Congress has resisted our calls to dump them, we offer another alternative sure to force Congress to act
Rather than allowing farm policy to revert to the permanent law, statutes should be changed so that once a farm bill expires policy reverts to no law at all.
There's nothing that scares everyone in Washington more than the thought of allowing agriculture — or anything else for that matter — to go unlegislated.


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Why Should You Go? Well - it was okay - not great, not horrible. The onion rings were fantastic and the shakes looked great. Service was also very good - friendly and happy across the board. I think we were a bit sticker shocked - for 2 burgers, 1 side of fries/rings and 2 sodas (with cherry added to each) it was $30!!!!


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HALIFAX – Calls for a public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women were renewed Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Assembly of First Nations, with one native leader accusing the federal government of ignoring their plight.
Cheryl Maloney of the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association said she is not optimistic that the Conservatives will change tack and launch such an inquiry, but she added she wasn't deterred from continuing to push for such a review.
"I don't hold out much hope for the Harper government," Maloney said in an interview following a presentation to the assembly in Halifax. "We have a lot of commitment from Canadians and from parliamentarians, just not the right ones."
Maloney said aboriginal leaders will be reaching out to the opposition ahead of next year's election and are gathering a team of experts to look at possible legal action against Ottawa, including international remedies at the International Court of Justice.
"We've done pretty much everything we can do as a country and it seems apparent that this Canadian government is indifferent to the fact that our streets are not safe."
She urged chiefs to continue pushing the government for answers on the more than 1,100 cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
The president of the Native Women's Association of Canada went further, imploring people not to vote for the Conservatives in the October 2015 election.
"It doesn't matter who you believe in, which colour, which political party — make sure there is no Harper government, because they don't want a national public inquiry," said Michele Audette.
Three resolutions were passed, directing the Assembly of First Nations to create a roundtable to kick-start a national dialogue on the issue. The assembly also vowed to lobby for national legislation protecting indigenous women involved in the sex trade.
Their calls for an inquiry have been repeatedly rejected by Ottawa. But Kellie Leitch, the minister of the status of women, has said the federal government is concerned about the high number of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Andrew McGrath, a spokesman for Leitch, said the minister has met with several families of victims and has been told repeatedly that "now is the time for action."
"We're interested in taking what we've learned and implementing immediate and concrete measures that will reduce violent crimes against aboriginal women and girls," said McGrath in an email, citing as one example a five-year, $8 million commitment towards a national DNA-based missing person's index.
The second day of the assembly's three-day meeting also saw survivors of the former Indian residential schools discuss the emotional toll of the settlement process, which for some unearthed memories they said they've spent a lifetime trying to forget. The survivors sought compensation for sexual, physical and psychological abuse.
About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were taken from their families and forced to attend the government schools over much of the last century to "take the Indian out of the child." The last school closed outside Regina in 1996.
Ghislain Picard, regional chief for Quebec and Labrador, was also chosen as interim national chief on Wednesday.
Picard, who has served as the assembly's spokesman since Shawn Atleo unexpectedly stepped down in May, said this week he was considering running for the position on a full-time basis, although he has not made a final decision.
The new leader will be chosen at a special chiefs assembly in December in Winnipeg.


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Whilst in Ireland last week I was reflecting on as a Scottish musician getting older (38 this year) how do you keep up the momentum of doing the gigs when there are lots of younger musicians coming up through the ranks. Family and financial pressures tend to strip you of the major time you once had to practice and concentrate. In my case I don't know where the time goes and the week is over! I have lately found myself promising to practice after the last gig and the next gig has arrived and I still haven't managed to get my concertina out of the box.
Should older musicians stand back and let the younger ones through whilst we get on with running festivals, events – the farm? The older musician has lots of experience gained from years of gigs and stage performance and surely has more to offer an audience apart from not being 'new and trendy'.
This maybe looks like self-pity but I suppose I'm using this as a call to action (for myself at least). Scotland's music will be much stronger with a large depth of musicians of all ages. Scottish musicians like Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Dick Gaughan, Battlefield Band are all at the top of their game playing all the time, recording and making DVDs (check out the new Battlefield Band DVD). Are they just more single minded than other musicians?
I need to find regular practising time again (rather than sporadic gasps) learning lots of new tunes, creating new ideas and improvisations, calling promotors and putting myself out there. I've always said to myself that I will still be playing at 80 and in order to do this I better step up my work rate.
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Hello Kitty and her friends are some of the cutest characters that I've ever seen. I can remember telling you guys that I plan on doing the whole list of animals that belong to Sanrio. Today I will start with teaching all of you, "how to draw Deery Lou", step by step. As you can see by his common appearance, he is an adorable fawn, and he lives in the Rainbow Forest. Deery Lou has lots of friends that range from butterflies, to birds, and he spends his day playing in the sun, and relaxing in the harmonious forest. Some of his pals that he plays with now is; Bluebird, Red Mushroom, and Small Mushroom. What makes Deery Lou so special? His pleasant personality, and the way he loves playing and making new friends. Lou will be one year older when January 8th rolls around, and if you want to have some fun, and play games, you can always Tags
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- There was "no specific or credible threat" to the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on the day of deadly attacks there, a U.S. Defense Department official said.
Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three members of his staff died in the attack.
A Defense Department official, speaking on background, provided a timeline of the U.S. military response to the deadly consulate attack.
"I would note ... that there was no specific or credible threat that we knew of on the day that the attacks ... occurred in Benghazi," the official said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross pulled its staff out of Benghazi and the State Department issued travel warnings for the region ahead of the attacks, however.
The defense official said U.S. military leaders "absolutely" had forces situated in a way to respond to such events in foreign countries.
"We are an excellent military -- the finest in the world," the official stated. "We're always prepared. But we're neither omniscient nor omnipresent."
David Petraeus, who resigned last week as CIA director because of an extra-marital affair, is scheduled to testify Thursday before U.S. lawmakers on the Benghazi attack.


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quasimoto necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
I recently registered as a Real Estate salesperson and I have to start working on putting together business cards and signage. I want my name as a logo to convey the image of a young,, urban, 'hip' professional, on the cutting edge of a changing industry.
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My name is Mary Phillips and I have the domain name maryphillips.ca. The logo could be created as initials, my name, the web address, or whatever else you feel is appropriate. I would like to maintain *some* privacy, despite being in the realtors world... and I would like *not* to have my picture on business cards or large signage. However, I would like to convey the fact that I am a young, fit, fashionable, urban professional. If a silhouette, line drawing, or something similar of a young woman could be in the logo, I think I could accomplish this.
Please do not include the typical roof line over my name. I am looking for something unique to focus on who I am rather than what I do.
I look forward to experiencing your creativity!
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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 13, No. 1 Spring 1986
M. J. Mepham
"Comptrol" is sometimes seen as an alternative spelling of 'con-trol' and its use in the Auditor and Comptroller General's official title lends support to the view that it is an archaic spelling of the word. It is natural to suppose, further, that 'comptrol' might be the original form. Philologists tell us that this is a mistake and that comptroller is an erroneous spelling which arose because of con-fusion with the French 'compt'. 'Comptrol' is not the origin of 'control' but the mistake does serve to emphasise the close, and genuine, identification of the term with accounting. This article looks at the origins of financial control and suggests that accountants might benefit from recalling its true roots.
Control is a contraction of 'counter roll'. Just as the counterfoil was originally a parallel record of the 'foil', in the ancient system of recording by means of notches cut into tally sticks, so also the counter roll was a duplicate record serving to validate the entries made on the roll. R C Jarvis says "This system of accountancy and control 'by the counter-roll' (per contrarotulum) was a general medieval practice . . ." (Preface to The Organisation of the English Customs System 1696-1786—E E Hoon, David and Charles, 1968 —p. xiv). The system was imported with the Norman Conquest as an major feature of the procedures of the Court of Exchequer. It was described in some detail by Richard Fitz Nigel in his Dialogue de Scaccario (Dialogue of the Exchequer) which was written about 1179 (a translation of this work is contained in English Historical Documents, Vol II, D C Douglas and G W Greenaway, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953).
In the accounting system developed by the Exchequer, the counter-roll and the use of tallies were important components of a sophisticated (and complex) set of procedures. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), a judge and legal writer, described the system as follows:
"When any Man pays in Money into the Exchequer, he pays the Sum to the Teller, and the Teller makes a Bill in Parchment for the


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Up and coming food blog looking for a clean, simple design to match the look and feel of the site.
Sunday Nite Dinner (SND) was started in 2000 by my San Francisco
friend, Jane. SND is a gathering of friends where we cook dinner, catch
up and just hang out. It started out as simple, weekly gatherings on
Sundays at Jane and Mark's loft. Over time, as the Sunday Nite Dinner
group grew larger, we rotated the SND location and took turns hosting
The food prepared and served for Sunday supper ranges
from simple home cooking to five course gourmet meals. There's a wide
array of cuisines cooked from classic American to Vietnamese and
everything in between. SND can be an opportunity to cook a childhood
comfort dish or experiment with new ingredients and recipes. Sometimes
dinner is prepared as a group or cooked in advance by the SND host.
All the regular attendees of SND are not originally from San Francisco,
so SND is our extended family meal. Anyone and everyone is welcomed at
Sunday Nite Dinner from co-workers, out of town friends, parents or the
random person just met yesterday. To most of us SND regulars, Sunday
Nite Dinner represents a gathering of people to celebrate good food and
The blog is an attempt to capture the spirit of Sunday Nite Dinner.
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Thursday Night (Emma)
Upstairs in bed, Emma hears the front door creak. She stiffens. It's Alex coming in late.
She listens to him open the refrigerator. Something tumbles out and hits the tile floor.
Through a heating vent comes the sound of paper towels ripping, water running. Then, a few minutes of quiet. Maybe he's making a sandwich.
The stairs groan loud and low as he climbs, probably two at a time. She hears Alex turn the handle on the bedroom door and push it open. Emma lies still, tries to modulate her breathing. In, out. Don't move a muscle.
"Honey, you awake?"
Emma doesn't answer.
Alex walks into the bathroom. He flips on the light, leaving the door ajar, so that it beams onto her pillow, her face.
"Sorry I'm back so late. Got tied up. Two drunk guys in a pick-up truck collided with a car full of equally drunk sorority girls. Bad trauma.
Emma stays quiet, but she thinks, "Bad trauma at home, buddy. One seven-year-old girl in a class play waiting for her dad to show up."
"Emma, are you awake?" He sounds irritated now.
She doesn't answer.
"I just couldn't leave. The resident didn't know his ass from his elbow. A psych intern. God knows what he's doing in medicine."
She hears him flush the toilet and wash his hands. Then Alex starts brushing his teeth, loudly, vigorously. She wonders if he will have any gums left.
Emma thinks about how she took Mattie to Ben & Jerry's after the play. The child sat with her chair facing the door, still hopeful that her dad might arrive.
She hears the frame creak as Alex climbs into bed. Emma is suddenly cold when he pulls most of the covers off her. She glares at him.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you."
Friday (Alex)
In the morning, Alex is lying in bed, groggy, trying to will himself awake. He squints up at Emma, who is fully dressed an on her way out. Her loud voice slams against his eardrums. "Al, remember tonight is Jim's party at McLoury's Bar downtown. It's at nine. Jim is driving all the way in from the city. He says your old frat buddies will be there."
Alex went to college with Jim. Seems like a million years ago now.
"Don't be late. I don't want to be on my own with that crew. They're so loud and wild. I get a headache within ten minutes."
Alex nods, then drifts back to sleep for a few minutes.
That evening, the other attending doctor on Alex's shift goes home with the flu. At least Alex hopes it is the flu. During the past four years, he's had to cover while she's had two babies. Alex thinks about her nausea. He wonders if a third baby is on the way. They are trying to recruit another attending. Maybe Emma is right. Maybe he should scream and yell at the administrators, demanding that they hire two more people, not just one. He hates to seem like a whiner, but he is never home anymore.
Without much help from anyone else, Alex goes on to manage two lacerations, one overdose, a case of appendicitis, and a heart attack.
Just as he is about to head out at the end of his shift, an ambulance arrives. The medics carry in a 32-year-old single mom. A small boy tags behind, holding the ambulance driver's hand.
Alex says to the EMT, "What's this?"
"The woman reached above her head to get a package of flour. The bag dropped, then burst when it hit the counter. The woman inhaled all the flour dust. Triggered a real bad asthma attack. Couldn't breathe. The little kid dialed 911."
"Flour? Does she have a prior history of asthma?" Alex begins checking vital signs after the medics wheel her into an exam room.
"Oh yeah. Between gasps, she told us she's got a long history of breathing problems."
The woman's skin is blue. Even though the medics have been giving her oxygen, she's struggling for breath. The medics show Alex what they know of her medical history. He reads it then listens to her chest again.
Alex steps outside the exam room to speak with the resident, a first year named Barnes. "Her breath sounds are bad. She's not getting much air. What would you do?"
"Increase the oxygen?"
"That's right, but that's not all. She's not moving air. She needs more help."
Alex thinks the guy should know this stuff cold. He tries to remember which medical school Barnes attended.
"Steroids?" Barnes looks uncertain.
"Yes, steroids are what she needs over the long haul, but that won't help her acutely."
Barnes looks blank.
Alex feels an urge to shake him. "Increase the oxygen and start her on nebulized albuterol. Watch her pulse-ox."
A nurse walks into the room. "Need help?"
"Yeah, see if you can find a hospital chart on this woman. Also, get someone to track down relatives for the boy."
After 45 minutes, the woman is only slightly better; she's still struggling for breath. She starts to gasp and sob. "This isn't working... I still can't breathe... can't you help me?"
Just then, one of the nurses comes in. "Your wife is on line three." Alex looks at his watch: 9:45. He's missing Jim's birthday party.
"Oh man. Just tell her that I'm in the middle of something. I'll get back to her. Get a number."
Alex tries to calm the woman. Away from her hearing, he asks Barnes, "She needs more relief than the albuterol is providing. What next?"
Barnes is silent.
"Theophylline! Intravenous theophylline! You'd better spend some time reading on your days off. I've never worked with someone so badly prepared."
After another 30 minutes, Alex decides that the woman is stable on the new combination of medicines. Finally, she seems to be breathing more easily. He leaves instructions for the resident coming in for the next shift. He has more confidence in this guy.
Then Alex asks the orderly, "Where's the boy?"
"He's sitting next to the nurse's station. The grandparents are driving down from Vermont. They should be here in 20 minutes.
Alex finds the child, pulls up a chair and sits next to him. Alex thinks the boy must be five, or maybe six at the most. "I'm Dr. Alex. I've been taking care of your mom. What's your name?"
"Tony. Is my mom all right?"
"She was very sick. She's much better right now. We have to keep her here overnight so she can get some strong medicine. She's going to be okay."
The boy begins to cry. Alex lifts him onto his lap and holds him. "You did a very brave thing, calling the ambulance like that. Don't worry, now. Your grandma and grandpa are coming soon." Alex stays with the child another 10 minutes until his grandparents arrive.
Before Alex leaves, he looks for the message from his wife. Nothing in his box. He tries to find the nurse who took the call, but she's long gone.
Alex can't remember where the party is. He doesn't try too hard, figuring it must be over by now anyway.
Alex shows up at home at 11 to find the lights blazing in every room of the house.
The babysitter greets him. Well, not exactly greets him. He finds her asleep in front of the television in the family room. Alex tries to remember: Is he is supposed to know where his 16-year-old son is? As he pays the girl, he asks if his wife mentioned when she might return.
"Didn't say."
The girl finds her purse and keys and goes.
He takes a beer out of the refrigerator and sits in front of the TV. Boring news on all the major networks. Alex switches to the Travel Channel. Unfortunately, no babes on Brazilian beaches this time. Instead, it's something about the top-10 bathrooms in the world.
Alex wonders why his wife hasn't come home. The bars are in a bad section of town. About a month ago, he took care of a woman who had been assaulted down in that neighborhood. A sickening feeling hits the pit of his stomach. Then he thinks, "No, Emma is smart. She'll have someone walk her to the car." Alex drifts off, sitting up with a beer bottle in hand.
A loud squeal in the driveway wakes him. He jumps, spilling beer on his pants and the sofa. "Got to have the brakes fixed on that car," he thinks. He glances at his watch– midnight.
He hears his wife come in, slamming the front door behind her.
"You're late." He shouts so as to be heard from the family room at the back of the house.
"I'm late?" She walks into the room, throws her coat and purse onto a chair. "I didn't know I had a curfew."
He sits up straighter, trying to cover the beer stains on his pants and the cushion. "I just mean, you're coming in late."
He feels like crawling under the couch as Emma stands there staring, hands on her hips. "Late for what?"
"I was worried. People get jumped down there." Alex suddenly has a headache, over his left eye. He rubs the spot with the palm of his right hand.
"If you were so worried, why didn't you show up so you could protect me?
Alex looks at her with only one eye now. The glare of the light is bothering him. She sits on a stiff chair at the other side of the room.
"I got stuck... you know. Did you have a good time?"
"Just peachy. Everyone asked for you. Jim says he'll never forgive you for missing his birthday party. I called you."
"Sorry. I was trying to stabilize a 32-year-old single mom. Bad asthma attack. She didn't respond to the meds for a long time."
"Is she okay?"
"Finally. It took a long time to get her steady."
"Good. Why didn't you call later? I kept waiting."
"Janelle the nurse who took the message went off shift. I couldn't find the number anywhere. I'm sorry."
"Right. I'll bet you'll have a good excuse for not showing up at your own funeral."
"How was the band? Did you dance?"
Alex watches Emma stand and walk toward the kitchen. He guesses she isn't in the mood to engage in light friendly conversation.
"You've got to hire more people and take fewer shifts."
"I'm working on it. I know you're right. Let's hope that guy we interviewed will accept the offer. I'm thinking maybe I should ask for even another person."
"How about another five people? Maybe then you might wind up working a 40-hour-week for once."
Alex feels another throb of pain pulse through his forehead. "Where's Ben? The babysitter was here where I got home."
"He's staying at Jeremy's house tonight."
She sighs. "Yeah, Jeremy. You know. His best friend."
Saturday Night (Ben)
Ben glances at his watch: 11:30. He can make it home by midnight, no problem. His house is only 15 minutes away. A girl from his French class has been talking to him non-stop for the past 20 minutes. At least 20 kids are wedged into the small basement, shouting at each other over the music.
Ben takes a sip from a beer he's nursed all night. Here's his technique: He wants to look like everybody else, so he gets a beer, dumps half of it, then sips the rest for a couple of hours. Much as he hates to admit it, his father's ER stories the ones about drunk teens who wind up getting killed affect him.
He puts his hand on the girl's shoulder. It's the only way to make her stop talking. "Gotta go to another party. See you at school."
Ben heads for the door, picking his way though beer bottles and dirty paper plates.
Once outside, he sees his buddy Greg on his knees throwing up into holly bushes. Greg looks up at Ben. "Oh man, I'm wasted. Got to get home before curfew, or my father will go ballistic."
Greg's father is an ex-military guy, the no-nonsense type. They boys stands unsteadily. "Hey, Ben. Help me find my wheels."
The boy staggers toward Ben, trips and falls. Ben says, "You can't drive like this."
Holding his head with both hands, Greg says, "I can't go home like this either. I'm in deep shit."
"Look. I'll drive you home. You can say your car wouldn't start." Ben helps his friend lie down in the back seat of his car. "If you've got to throw up again, tell me. I'll pull over."
On the way to Greg's, they stop at the Waffle House. Ben goes in alone to buy a large cup of coffee, black, and brings it out. It's a struggle, but after a few minutes, Greg is seated upright sipping the coffee.
Ben glances at his watch. He thinks about calling. But then, he'd have to explain that there was a party where there was drinking. He decides to take a chance that his mother's asleep and his father is still at the hospital.
Saturday Night (Alex)
Alex lies in bed, staring at the glowing red numbers on his digital clock. Midnight. Ben's curfew is midnight. State law says that 16-year-old drivers have to be off the road by midnight. Where is he?
He pictures Ben's car, a 10-year-old Taurus, a hundred thousand miles on it, peeling paint and no pick-up to speak of. It's a solid car– not pretty, but crashworthy.
Crashworthy. He thinks about his phone call to that sorority girl's family the other night. Usually, the nurse makes those calls. But he knew the family, went to medical school with the mother. So, he dialed the number, mouth dry and heart pounding.
"I'm sorry to tell you that your daughter has been in an accident. Her injuries are serious. You should come to the emergency department right now...."
His own daughter is safe in her bed. He tucked her in himself, first time in a month. Seven years old, a great age. She still thinks he's a hero.
He listens for the crunch of gravel in the driveway but hears only the low whine of his neighbor's dog. He looks at the clock again: 12:15. "Where the hell is that boy? I shouldn't have given him a car."
He thinks about how tired he is and how much he needs to sleep. He tries to remember where his wife said Ben had gone. He looks at Emma. She's asleep. Dead out. He is amazed. Usually, she is the one fretting and fussing. Maybe her therapist has her on sleeping pills again.
12:30. He should call someone. Alex can't think of Jeremy's last name. He doesn't even know if Ben is with Jeremy tonight. What's the point of waking Jeremy's parents?
Alex goes to the living room and stares out the window. Now he's angry. "No car for a week. No, a month."
Ben usually gets in on time. If he's going to be late, he usually phones. Alex considers calling the police or maybe the emergency department to see if there have been any accidents. Then Alex realizes he's over reacting. The kid is only half an hour late.
Ten minutes later the Taurus pulls up. Alex decides he will stay calm and not attack Ben the minute he walks in. Maybe he has a good excuse.
Despite himself, Alex springs from the couch and stands in the foyer, waiting.
He hears Ben slip in the key, slowly turn the handle, and inch open the door. Alex knows Ben is trying to avoid that nasty squeak.
Ben gasps and jumps back when he comes across his father looming in the foyer.
Alex sees the boy clench his jaw and pull back his shoulders.
Ben takes a deep breath, smiles, then says, "You're home! Slow night at the hospital?"
"Don't be a smart-ass." Alex feels anger rising up in him.
"Well, it's just that I don't expect you to be around...." Ben tries to slip around his father and head up the stairs. Alex blocks him.
"Where have you been? Midnight is the curfew." Alex's voice is loud now.
Ben hesitates for a moment. "Jeff's party in Wethersfield. A girl needed a ride home to Windsor. I got lost."
"You drove all the way out to Windsor?"
"She needed a ride. You taught me to be a gentleman."
"You've just gotten your license. You don't have permission to drive that far."
"Look, I'm going to bed."
"We'll talk about this in the morning."
Ben smirks. "Yeah, right. Like you'll be around in the morning."
Same Night (Mattie)
From her room at the top of the stairs, Mattie hears voices. She sits up in bed. First she hears her father yell, then her brother. Someone runs up the stairs. Probably Ben. A door slams. Oh boy, she thinks, Mom hates it when Ben slams his door.
Then there's a slow creak up the stairs. Mattie lies still, waiting for the next sound.
Mattie gets out of bed and walks down the short hall to her parents' room. The light is on in their bathroom. Daddy must be there. She crawls under the blanket and snuggles next to her mother.
The little girl feels safe when her mother turns and draws her close. Mattie says, "Mommy?" When her mother doesn't respond, Mattie realizes that she is still asleep.
After a few minutes, Mattie sees the bathroom light go out. Her father lifts the covers, then jumps a little when his elbow touches her. He says, "Mattie! Honey, what's wrong?"
"I had a bad dream. People were fighting."
Mattie slides next to her father. He kisses her forehead and says, "It wasn't a dream. I was scared when Ben didn't come home on time. I was afraid he might be hurt. So, when he did come in, I got angry."
"Angry because he came home?"
"No, angry because he came home late. I didn't know if he was okay. I always want to make sure that you and Ben and Mommy are okay."
"Like your patients at the hospital?"
Her father is silent for a moment. "No, more than that. Much more than that." Alex reaches over Mattie and rests his hand on Emma's shoulder, encircling both of them in his embrace.
He says to Mattie, "You can stay for a little while, but then you need to go back to your room, all right?"
Mattie nods, and within a few minutes they both fall asleep.
Same Night, Emma
In her dream, Emma hears men shouting in another room. What are they arguing about? She tries to walk toward the shouting, but it's as if she is trying to move in water that's above her shoulders. She stops.
The dream shifts. She's lying in tall grass under warm sun on a mountainside. She senses someone talking next to her. Emma half wakes and murmurs to Mattie. She draws the child closer.
Then Emma hears Alex's voice and feels the weight of his hand on her shoulder. Now she's more awake than not. The warm touch of his hand brings her back to another time, just after they got married and just before medical school.
A memory floats back to her. She recalls a hike across Haystack and Liberty in the White Mountains. As Emma falls back to sleep, her memory is interwoven into a new dream which encompasses all that happened that day long ago. On their way back down the mountain, they climb off the trail because Emma wants to get a closer look at a patch of wild flowers. As they scramble up a short steep cliff to get on the trail again, Emma stumbles and falls backward. Alex tries to break her fall, but ends up losing his balance, too.
Although the tumble is short, maybe six feet, they land on rocks. Alex hugs his bruised and bleeding knee. Emma tries to stand but can't because her right ankle is too sore and weak.
For a minute, they sit and laugh at their own clumsiness. Alex creates a make-shift splint out of their two bandanas. He secures it around Emma's ankle, cinches it, then leans over to kiss her.
Emma finds the first-aid kit in her pack. She uses an alcohol pad to wipe off Alex's bloody knee. Gently, she cleans the wound, removing bits of grass and stone. The cut is so large that a single band-aid cannot cover it, so, she uses several small ones.
They sit for a moment, shoulder pressed against shoulder, quietly enjoying the warmth of the sun on their backs, the mingled fragrance of wild flowers, sweet grass and their own sweat. Then they stand, bracing themselves for the long limp down the mountain.


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Lil Wayne was hospitalized this week in Los Angeles after he suffered from what appeared to be seizures, TMZ reports.
Sources connected to the rapper told the website that Wayne, 30, suffered the seizures late Tuesday after shooting a music video in Los Angeles. He was then taken to Cedars-Sinai hospital and released early Wednesday morning. He is reportedly doing better now.
Wayne was hospitalized back in October after suffering two seizures within 24 hours. He later acknowledged that he had begun taking seizure medication.


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On the campaign trail, it's good to be President–and not just because your bus gets to run red lights and has all the equipment you need to watch Wimbledon or run a war. It's good because Americans respond, almost instinctively, to the importance of your office. "I've been coming here my whole life," said Julia Konieczny, a 19-year-old sitting at a corner table at the Kozy Corners diner in Oak Harbor, Ohio, on Thursday. "But this is the coolest thing that has ever happened—ever."
She was talking about the fact that Barack Obama was about to walk in—"Everybody just pretend like I'm not here," he joked–and sit down to eat a cheeseburger and fries. After meeting the president, Konieczny wiped her eyes. She said her grandmother, who co-owned the diner, had started to cry across the room. "I think my grandfather is having a hard time too," she added.
Even the local press feels the charge. A few feet away, Andy Ouriel, a reporter with the local Sandusky Register, a 22,000-circulation paper, talked about how he wrote personal letters to Obama, and columns in his paper, requesting the presidential visit that was about to happen. No President had come to Sandusky since Harry Truman on a whistle-stop tour in 1948, and Obama was going be distributing ice cream downtown. "Is that [White House Press Secretary] Jay Carney?" Konieczny asked her friend, pointing to a man who has just entered a side door. It was. "Told you it was Jay Carney," she continued, "because he has adorable glasses."
Obama, who long ago learned the charms of celebrity, knows how to parlay this attention. Over a two-day bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania, which brought him to two diners, a bakery, a fruit stand and a bar, he charmed, hugged, chatted, swigged, chewed, posed and quipped with the locals, hoping to transform the excitement about his office into votes for his reelection.
(PHOTOS: Political Pictures of the Week, June 30 – July 6)
For dozens of miles, locals came out of their homes, in stifling heat, often without shirts on, women in just their bathing suits, to line the state roads and wave to his motorcade. When he met elderly couples, he would ask how long they had been together, ask for their secret, delivering his own punch line: "Just do whatever she tells you to." When he saw groups of locals sitting together, he would call them "troublemakers." When encountering teenage boys, he asked what sport they played.
He asked hundreds of adults their names, and dozens of children their ages. "It's nice to meet you," he would say, over and over. "Hi, how are you?" He squeezed the thigh of a baby, signed the sketchbook of a young girl with the message "Dream Big Dreams," and attempted to buy peaches and cookies for his traveling press corps. (The offers were declined.) "Let me tell you, first of all, I love nurses," Obama said, after meeting one. "Can I tell you? You look great. This is a good looking woman."
In Sandusky, Ohio, a weeping woman, Stephanie Miller, whose sister had died of cancer after being denied insurance, hugged him on the rope line. "I thanked him for the getting the Affordable Health Act passed," she said later.
The trip was the first of many expected summer tours of swing states, where Obama will attempt to reintroduce himself to voters as a likable everyman, who connects with the hopes and agony of the country in ways that his rival Mitt Romney does not. While Romney vacationed with his family, a boat and a jet ski at his New Hampshire estate, the president told of his childhood vacations "on Greyhound buses," when the ice machine at the Howard Johnsons "was like a big deal."
Just as the effects of his charm was evident, the challenge ahead for Obama was easy to find in the crowds. Raymond Millard, a warehouse manager, was nursing a Bud Light at Ziggy's bar in Amherst, Ohio, when the President showed up. He said his vote was up for grabs in November. "I'm a lifelong Democrat," he said, "but I don't know."
The problem was not the President as much as the ungovernable city he had failed to return to order. "It's all about just fighting each other," Millard said of Washington, D.C. political culture. "I'm not disappointed in him particularly, just the way things are. It seems like there is a lot of fighting and everybody is for their side."
(PHOTOS: Inside Barack Obama's World)
A few stools away, Sabrina Schaeffer, 6, was eating dinner with her siblings. "This is the first time I'm going to meet someone important," she proudly informed a reporter. Her brother Shane, 11, said he planned to ask the President if he had seen the YouTube video of Obama singing Call Me Maybe, a pop song of the moment, through the magic of editing. "You just go to YouTube and you look up 'Barack Obama singing Call Me Maybe,' " he explained to a reporter, unaware of the footage.
Art Davis, the children's stepfather and a disabled veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, sat with them, saying he was undecided about the upcoming election, despite the urgings of Sabrina to vote Obama. "I am a supporter of Barack Obama, but right now I am a veteran and I am kind of concerned with one of the issues going on," he said.
Minutes later, the President was at their table, asking his children's names and ages. (Shane never did ask the President about the YouTube video.) But Davis did raise his concern about veterans issues, and the two men spoke for several minutes. Davis explained that a group he belonged to, Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans of America had been trying without success to get a meeting with Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Eric Shinseki to discuss the backlog in disability claims.
The President called over his traveling aide, Marvin Nicholson, to get Davis's contact information, and promised that one of his aides, Darienne Page, would follow up to address his concerns. Obama also gave Davis a presidential challenge coin, a symbolic military token designed to cement their relationship.
The President moved on, talking to another undecided voter who offered to vote for Obama if the President beat him in an arm wrestling contest. "No, I'll play basketball for your vote," Obama responded.
Davis showed off his new coin to friends, looking impressed. Asked if Obama had won his vote, Davis smiled sheepishly. "He's getting there," he said.


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At a time when the amount of space devoted to trade books on college campuses is shrinking and many campus stores have dropped "book" from their name to reflect a greater breadth of products and services, children's books are proving to be a bright spot.
Thanks to series like the Hunger Games and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and before that Twilight, children's books are "the shining star in the print book world," says Jack Barney, director of trade books for Barnes & Noble College Stores, which operates more than 650 campus bookstores. "For the past two years, they have filled four positions on our hardcover [bestseller] list." Among B&N's roughly one hundred "full bore" town-and-gown stores, all areas of kids, from picture books to YA, are up. "Our clients really want a strong children's department," notes Barney. "Our kids' sections are drawing people in. Hunger Games is driving frontlist; backlist is still good." And like many stores, on campuses or elsewhere, at B&N the recent death of Maurice Sendak has boosted sales for his already popular books.
The story follows a similar trajectory at Follett Higher Education Group's approximately 850 stores, where children's fiction grew 45% and nonfiction 53% in 2011, according to national book buyer Jennifer Macagba. Since Twilight, YA has been the backbone of Follett's children's departments, but picture books and chapter books are also strong, especially university-related titles like Go Irish: My First Notre Dame Words or Hello, Stanford Tree! Some Follett stores, like the 23,500-sq.-ft. Fairfield University Bookstore in Fairfield, Conn., which opened in November on the site of a former Borders, have a large trade footprint. But many of its smaller stores have cut back without sacrificing kids' titles. "I've seen a decrease in trade space, but an increase in the amount of kids' books on store planograms," says Macagba.
Follett stores tend to do well with movie tie-ins like War Horse and The Invention of Hugo Cabret; national bestsellers like Press Here, The Book Thief, Inheritance, and I Want My Hat Back; dystopian YA like Matched and Divergent; as well as Lego- and Star Wars–related titles. Macagba also reports a resurgence of nostalgic brands like Hello Kitty and Mr. Men and Little Miss, and in response, she's rolled out cross-merchandised tables with Hello Kitty and Angry Birds board books, activity books, clothing, plush, and drinkware. She also cross-merchandises YA fiction at more than 200 stores that have summer camps nearby. Last year she added a Buyer's Pick table with her favorites of the season in 13 categories, from Best New Fairy Tale (Cinder) to Best Chapter Book Illustrations (The Chronicles of Harris Burdick).
Children's Books at Indies
Declining adult trade sales coupled with growing kids' sales is also a trend at independent college stores, and dovetails with Nielsen BookScan data. In 2011, e-book sales cannibalized print, which fell 6.9% overall for hardcover units, 5.9% for trade paperback. During the first six months of 2012, general book sales have continued to decline. "College stores have the same challenges and the same successes [as other stores]," says Steve Horowitz, a rep with Abraham Associates Publishers' Representatives. "What they're fighting now is the reduction of square footage for books."
Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is one of many schools to respond to declining sales by giving up square footage in its bookstore in favor of emblematic clothing and school-logo accessories, according to children's book buyer Anita Charles. Even so, the store continues to have a large trade book department, which dedicates 19% of its space to children's titles. In part that's because BYU, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has a strong education department that champions children's literature.
Each July for the past 25 years the BYU Bookstore has partnered with the education department and the campus and city libraries to host a two-day Books for Young Readers Symposium with six authors and illustrators. This year's featured Jack Gantos, the 2012 Newbery Medalist. "The direct sales [from the symposium] are important," says Charles, adding that "the residual effect [on sales] is also important." The store holds weekly story times and children's events throughout the year. And it partners with the Provo Library on additional programming, including a recent event with Rick Riordan that drew 1,500 fans.
Not surprisingly, given the number of bestselling YA authors who live in Utah—Ally Condie, Shannon Hale, Sara Zarr, and James Dashner, to name a few—the YA category is especially strong at BYU. "We sell a lot of fantasy—Hunger Games, Matched, Maze Runner, Mysterious Benedict Society, and lots of whatever titles the student employees currently favor. You can't come into the children's book department without some book-lover saying, 'Have you seen this?' " says Charles.
Children's books continue to be strong at the 112-year-old University Book Store at the University of Seattle, which has nine store locations in and around the city. The store leads all college stores in the sale of books and supplies; it's #2 in total sales volume. General trade represents 17% of overall sales, and children's is 23% of trade. Children's book buyer Lauren Mayer attributes the fact that trade book sales at the store are holding steady to the children's category—with author events being a key driver. "University Book Store has a great kids' department. Even before I worked here, I thought of it as the best selection around," says Mayer. "And there's a commitment to keeping the trade side around."
The store regularly hosts big-name authors like Julie Andrews, Christopher Paolini, and Chris Van Allsburg, and held 55 children's/teen events during the 2011–2012 academic year. Children's represents 11% of the store's event programming, says public relations and events manager Stesha Brandon. That includes ongoing series done in partnership with the local library like a monthly Teen Book Brunch with coffee, doughnuts, and favorite authors. When school ends, the store encourages children to keep reading with its second annual Summer Reading Rocks! program, which it complements with toddler rock concerts. Even though summer has just begun, Brandon is already planning events for big fall titles like Libba Bray's The Diviners, which is set in the Roaring '20s. She wants to create a teen-friendly speakeasy event complete with jazz and Charleston dancing.
The University Book Store reaches out to readers in other ways. For close to a decade it has offered its own awards, the Ubies, which it bestows at the same time that the Newbery and Caldecott Medals are announced. Staff members vote on their favorites, which sometimes overlap ALA picks; in 2010, Rebecca Stead won both a Newbery and a Ubie for When You Reach Me. This year's winners were Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races for favorite novel and Patrick McDonnell's Me... Jane in the picture book category.
Of course those aren't the only titles that are big on campus among staff or shoppers. Graphic novels is one of the store's fastest growing areas, and school and library sales are another component, through class visits and special presentations to faculty as well as school book fairs. Up until now, each store handled its own book fairs, but to increase that piece of the business even more, University Book Store recently created a book fair coordinator position to manage book fairs across all stores.
Smaller Scale Children's Shops
Even at a time of stepped-up competition for online book sales and e-textbooks, textbooks typically outsell trade at college stores by a wide margin. At the University of Arizona in Tucson, trade book sales at UA BookStores were only 5% of the overall book division sales in fiscal year 2011. Of that, 10% can be attributed to children's books, according to associate director Cindy Hawk. Picture books are the school's bestselling kids' category, young adult the lowest. Local titles are particularly strong, like Tucson author/ illustrator Guy Porfirio's Jump! about a cactus barb and its journey. Other top-selling regional authors include Susan Lowell, Conrad Storad, and Jennifer Ward. Classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Curious George also do well, as do newer series like Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama books or Mo Willems's Elephant & Piggie.
"As an Arizona institution, we are particularly aware of our need to reach the younger age groups," says Hawk. She cites statistics from Reading Seed, a local children's literacy program, that one in five Pima County adults is functionally illiterate and a third of all students entering Pima Community College have to take remedial courses. The store plays an active role in the Tucson Festival of Books, which was founded in 2007 by Frank Farias, associate v-p of student affairs, and has raised more than half a million dollars for literacy programs. The bookstore holds a monthly Storybook Character Hour and has an A+ loyalty program for teachers. It also partners with Flandrau Science Center and the Campus Rec Center for weekly themed Summer Fusion Camps.
University BookStores keeps its children's section in a central location on the main sales floor. It has a small reading area designed to resemble those in elementary school classrooms, with colorful micro-suede stools, rugs, and stuffed animals. "Families and young readers are an important part of our customer base," says Hawk, "and we want them to have the same quality in-store experience as our college shoppers." Children's titles are cross-merchandised throughout the store. Art and activity books are displayed in the art department. Holiday displays include both children and adult titles. Children's books are alongside textbooks for courses on children's literature and education. And university–related children's books are displayed in the clothing department with infant and toddler items.
The University of California at Los Angeles bookstore, UCLA BookZone, has shrunk by 50%, to 4,500 sq. ft., from 9,000 sq. ft. when it first opened in January 1997. "Trade books follow the general industry trends," says buyer and general manager Scott Chapman. "It gets smaller and smaller. One of the things that surprised me when I took over in August 2007 was how robust children's is. It's one of the few areas we've expanded."
Although the bookstore is in the middle of campus, it draws lots of visitors, especially because of its location near the renowned Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Many families visit the hospital complex and end up buying books for their children. As a result the store's top sellers include board books, picture books, and beginning level readers. Mainstream bestsellers like the Hunger Games trilogy, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Little Golden Books are also strong, according to Chapman. UCLA BookZone's most successful events tend to be those with celebrity authors, like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for What Color Is My World? earlier this year, or done in conjunction with school departments.
Like many campus stores, UCLA BookZone has seen its trade sales for both children's and adults shift dramatically. While literature was once the store's #1 category, it has since fallen off. The store's bestsellers are sidelines, blank books, and journals, followed by bargain titles for both adult and kids. Over the last 12 months, UCLA sold 8,700 units, or close to $86,000 in children's books. The category is 9.2% of units sold and 6.3% of total general book sales.
Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, is one of a dozen college stores in the past decade to open a downtown bookstore. Five years ago Grinnell made the shift and transferred trade titles to its then newly opened Pioneer Bookshop in downtown Grinnell, just three blocks from campus. "Children's was our bestselling section on campus," says textbooks and trade book buyer Harley McIlrath, assistant manager of both Pioneer Bookshop and Grinnell College Bookstore. Off campus, children's books continue to do well and account for 20% of sales in 10% of the space. Picture books like Loren Long's Otis titles are especially strong, since many books are purchased by parents and grandparents. YA titles like The Hunger Games frequently sell better to adults than teens.
UConn Co-op in Storrs, Conn., is planning a move in 2013 to the area's newly built downtown. The store will be on the ground floor with four floors of apartments above it, and will have a large children's area. "We're definitely going to grow the kids' section," says general books division manager Suzy Staubach, who also plans to add more educational games and toys. No doubt she'll take the claw-foot bathtub with a bear reading inside it and the barn play area/display, which was brought to the current location when it moved in almost a decade ago. Like her colleagues, Staubach sells children's books to parents among the faculty and graduate students as well as the community at large, teachers, and college students. "We sell a lot of YA, both fiction and nonfiction. Picture books sell well, too," she says. Although Staubach declined to give an exact figure, she notes that children's makes up a significant percentage of the store's trade sales.
In addition, the co-op co-sponsors the Connecticut Children's Book Fair with the university's Northeast Children's Literature Collections. The two-day event, held the second weekend in November, draws thousands of attendees and raises funds for NCLC. Featured guests have included Eric Carle, Walter Wick, Jane Yolen, and Robert Sabuda.
Going Digital?
Despite the growing emphasis on e-textbooks, e-children's books have been slow to catch on. Only Barnes & Noble has found a way to successfully blend e-books and Nooks with print children's books at stores like the Harvard Coop and Vanderbilt University Bookstore. Some storytelling events involve reading directly from the Nook. "The Nook is a great add-on, especially for the student markets," says Barney.
Among independents, Chapman's experience at UCLA BookZone is typical. "It's been tough to find our place in e-books. I don't know if it's a function of the devices. I have young children, five and nine. They sleep with books. I don't want them to sleep with e-books," he says. However, Chapman would like to move more print children's book sales through UCLA's online store. "We sell a tremendous volume of textbooks and emblematic apparel. We've never sold general books online to the level I'd like. That's something I'd like to change," he says.
"We do not sell e-books," says BYU's Charles. "We sell very few licensed titles. That is one area I have chosen to decrease as I tighten inventory for declining sales." University Book Store in Seattle offers Google Books on its Web site, but so far, selling children's e-books has not taken off. Mayer would like to change that. "We're looking for a way to keep the customer," she says.
Nor is UA BookStores in Tucson, which partners with Google Play, selling children's e-books in any quantity, even though it includes them in e-mail promotions. "For now, our children's section remains a refuge for the printed word," Hawk says. "It's an especially special department because the children's book, complete with lovely design and illustration, really retains the idea of the book as art." And that's something everyone can appreciate, regardless of their age or the changing times."
At present, kids' physical books on campus are more than all right. They're bolstering sales of other trade books on campus—and off.


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Grilled Beet & Endive Salad
Potato-Tomato Gratin
Herb-Marinated Flank Steak
Grilled Peaches
It's a pleasure to go home to Chicago in summer, especially when the visit includes everything I love about that season: biking along the beach, a great hot dog, grilling parties in postage-stamp backyards attached to renovated six-flats, and a cooking class at The Wooden Spoon, a kitchen shop in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Andersonville. Home--in the summer--in the city. I hear a song.
The Wooden Spoon is gloriously crowded with tools and treats for home cooks. In the back of the shop is a cooking school, with almost daily classes designed for eight to 12 students. Chef instructors, most of whom live in the neighborhood, bring their collective experience to a roster that ranges from fish to fowl to fettuccine. I'm spending a bright afternoon at a Summer & Sizzle grilling class.
Todd Moore, a chef with a fine list of Chicago restaurants on his résumé, is leading the class with recipes by Becca Wheeler, a 10-year Andersonville resident and culinarian who leads ethnic market tours. Her diverse training includes stints in China and at an organic farm in Umbria.
"Becca's recipes are the ones I use most often for myself; she was one of our first teachers," comments Wooden Spoon owner Trina Sheridan, who opened her business in 2003 and lives, in time-honored tradition, above the shop with her husband, Sean, and their children, Molly, 7, and Ian, 5.
Class begins around the large prep counter that Sean designed in warm red-stained concrete. We divide into groups to prepare the food, most of which we'll grill outside. Todd leads us through some basic knife techniques. He's an affable teacher with a ready wit and a wink that puts cooking novices at ease.
The first dish is Potato-Tomato Gratin, which bakes while we attend to our grilling duties. "The moisture in this light gratin comes from olive oil," Becca comments in her recipe notes. "The flavor comes from caramelized onions, the concentrated sugars in the tomatoes, and fresh garden herbs."
The grill is set up and ready to go in the landscaped backyard that sits between the shop and a former garage that has been renovated into wine storage and party facilities, guest quarters, and a rooftop garden.
Todd explains direct and indirect grilling, an important distinction for ensuring grilled foods have that perfect balance of sear and tenderness. "With two areas of heat in the grill," he says, "you can cook directly over hot coals or burners, resulting in a sear that seals in juices. The other is off to the side, where you can cook with accumulated heat without burning the food."
The grill accommodates almost everything needed for the meal we'll enjoy later on--smoky Grilled Beet & Endive Salad, a tender grilled Herb-Marinated Flank Steak (atop that scrumptiously layered gratin), and Grilled Peaches with honey-whipped cream and almond-and-spice topping.
"This is such an awesome setting for a class," says student Liz Sheridan. "You're in a lovely, cozy backyard--like an extension of someone's home."
As we tuck into salads and steaks in the sun-dappled yard, it's difficult to remember we're in the heart of a bustling urban neighborhood--and for me, a bit nostalgic for home, difficult to forget.
Photography: Michal Venera
Chef Todd Moore guides the class through the food prep.
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Allie Henderson (left) and Aurelia Lawrence whisk together sherry vinegar-mustard dressing for the salad.
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Chef Moore advises Liz Sheridan (left) and Andrea Lockard on the nuances of grilling fruit, a method that concentrates its flavors.
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The Wooden Spoon, 5047 North Clark Street, Chicago, offers evening and weekend classes from $65 per person. For a class schedule or to reserve, call 773/293-3190, or visit woodenspoonchicago.com.
The neighborhood
Andersonville, the neighborhood that's home to the Wooden Spoon, has a retail district restricted to small, entrepreneurial businesses. Along Clark Street, the heartbeat of the neighborhood, bakeries and restaurants dating back to the area's Scandinavian roots mix amiably with contemproary shops and boutiques specializing in everything from Sicilian pastries to Scotch plaid custom upholstery. Here are some favorites:
Scout, 5221 N. Clark, features a well-edited mix of metal and wood furniture with utilitarian origins updated for a timeless, contemporary feel (773/275-5700; scoutchicago.com).
George Lowell, 5123 N. Clark, presents a sophisticated collection of furniture and accessories plus design services aimed at urban living (773/754-8106; georgelowell.com).
City Olive, 5408 N. Clark, delights with more than 70 varieties of olive oils as well as vinegars, carefully selected gourmet foods, and skin care products (773/878-5408; cityolive.com).
Brimfield, 5219 N. Clark, gives "camp" new meaning with its selection of cabin-motif furnishings and comfy furniture custom-upholstered in classic Scotch plaids. 312/593-6414.
Pasticceria Natalina, 5406 N. Clark, bakes up a tempting selection of Sicilian pastries and desserts in this tiny, seductive storefront (773/989-0662).
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Grilled Beet & Endive Salad
- 6 medium beets
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup walnut halves
- 1/4 cup sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons walnut oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 heads Belgian endive
- 1 pear
- 1/3 cup coarsely chopped Italian (flat-leaf) parsley
- 1 head Bibb lettuce, leaves separated
- 2 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
Scrub beets; trim off stem and root ends. Peel and quarter beets. Fold 36x18-inch piece of heavy foil in half to make 18-inch square. Place beets in center of foil. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil; sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Bring up 2 opposite edges of foil square and seal with double fold. Fold remaining edges to completely enclose beets, leaving space for steam to build.
For charcoal grill, arrange medium-hot coals around edge of grill; cover. Test for medium-hot heat above center of grill (not over coals). Place foil packet on grill rack over center of grill (not over coals). Cover; grill 35 to 45 minutes or until beets are just tender when pierced with knife. (For gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium-high. Adjust for indirect cooking. Place packet on grill rack over burner that is turned off. Grill as above.)
Remove packet from grill, and open carefully. Allow beets to cool.
Meantime, place walnut halves on baking sheet; bake in 350°F oven 8 to 10 minutes or until fragrant and lightly toasted. Remove walnuts from oven; cool completely.
Place vinegar in a small non-reactive bowl. Whisk in mustard. Slowly drizzle in 1/4 cup olive oil, whisking constantly until blended. Whisk in walnut oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Slice each endive in half lengthwise. Remove bottom core. Cut endive halves crosswise into 1-inch pieces. Cut pear lengthwise into quarters, remove core. Cut pear lengthwise into thin slices.
In very large bowl combine walnuts, endive, pear, and parsley. Gently toss to mix. Add vinaigrette; toss lightly to coat. Place Bibb lettuce leaves on six salad plates. Divide endive mixture evenly among plates. Top with beets and crumbled goat cheese. Serve immediately. Makes 6 servings.
Oven-Roasted Beets:
Scrub beets; trim off stem and root ends. Peel and quarter. Place beets in shallow roasting pan; drizzle with 1 tablespoon oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast, uncovered, in 450°F oven 25 to 40 minutes until beets are just tender when pierced with knife and edges are browned; toss once to coat in oil. Remove from oven and let beets cool.
Potato-Tomato Gratin
The layered gratin is pictured here underneath the flank steak. That is how it is served at The Wooden Spoon. You could, of course, choose to serve it as a side dish instead of under the steak.
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 large onions, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- Pinch cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes
- 1-1/4 pounds tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 6 ounces Gruyère cheese, shredded (1-1/2 cups)
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 cup soft bread crumbs
In large skillet, melt butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-low heat. Add onions, cayenne pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. Cook, covered, 13 to 15 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring occasionally. Uncover; cook and stir over medium-high heat 3 to 5 minutes more or until onion is golden.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Use mandoline or slicing blade of food processor to slice potatoes 1/8 inch thick. Line baking sheet with paper towels. Slice tomatoes 1/4 inch thick; place on paper towels to drain excess juices.
Lightly oil 2-quart au gratin or baking dish. Place half the caramelized onions in bottom of dish. Arrange half the potatoes over onions, overlapping slightly. Season with some of remaining salt and black pepper, drizzle with some of remaining oil (reserving 2 to 3 teaspoons for topping), and sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese and a third of the thyme. Arrange half the tomatoes over potatoes. Season with some of salt and pepper, drizzle with additional oil, and sprinkle with half of remaining cheese and half of remaining thyme. Add remaining onions. Repeat with remaining potatoes, tomatoes, salt, pepper, oil, and thyme; sprinkle remaining cheese on top. Cover with foil. Bake 45 minutes.
In small bowl combine reserved oil and bread crumbs; toss to coat. Uncover baking dish; sprinkle crumbs over top. Bake, uncovered, 10 to 15 minutes more or until the topping is golden brown and vegetables are tender. Let stand 10 to 15 minutes before serving. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Herb-Marinated Flank Steak
- 10 sprigs fresh thyme, torn
- 4 large sprigs fresh rosemary, torn
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, torn
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 cloves garlic, smashed
- 1 (1-1/2 to 2 pound) beef flank steak
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Place thyme, rosemary, basil, olive oil, vinegar, black pepper, and garlic in large self-sealing plastic bag. Seal bag tightly by squeezing out extra air. Using your hands, massage bag to combine herbs and oil mixture, allowing herbs to release their essential oils.
Trim fat from steak. Score steak on both sides by making shallow cuts at 1-inch intervals in diamond pattern. Place steak in bag with herb mixture; seal bag. Turn bag to coat. Set bag in shallow dish.
Marinate in refrigerator 4 to 24 hours, turning bag occasionally. Remove steak from refrigerator 30 minutes before grilling; brush off herb sprigs and garlic. Season steak with kosher salt.
For charcoal grill, grill steak on rack of uncovered grill directly over medium coals to desired doneness, turning halfway through grilling. (Allow 10 to 12 minutes for medium rare (145°F) and 17 to 21 minutes for medium (160°F).) Remove steak from grill; let rest 10 minutes. To serve, thinly slice steak diagonally across the grain. Makes 6 servings.
Grilled Peaches
- Crisp Topping (see recipe)
- 6 small-to-medium firm, ripe peaches, halved and pitted
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
- 1/4 cup honey
Prepare Crisp Topping; set aside. Sprinkle cut sides of peaches with sugar; set aside. In chilled medium mixing bowl beat whipping cream until peaks just begin to form. Beat in honey. Continue beating until soft peaks form. Set aside.
For charcoal grill, place peach halves on rack of uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 8 minutes or until tender and slightly charred, turning once. (For gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium. Place peach halves on grill rack over heat. Cover; grill as above.)
To serve: Place peaches in bottom of trifle bowl. Top with whipped cream; sprinkle with Crisp Topping. Or, place 2 peach halves on each dessert plate; top with dollop of whipped cream and sprinkle with desired amount of crisp topping. Makes 6 servings.
Crisp Topping:
Prepare honey butter: In a medium mixing bowl beat 2/3 cup softened butter and 3 tablespoons honey until combined. Cover; chill at least 30 minutes or until firm. OR, substitute 3/4 cup purchased honey butter.
Preheat oven to 350°F. In medium mixing bowl combine 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup chopped toasted almonds, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup quick-cooking rolled oats, 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger. Cut in honey butter until clumps are pea-sized. Spread in 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Bake, uncovered, 15 to 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes, or until topping is golden brown. Cool 30 minutes before using.
Store leftover crisp topping in airtight container up to 5 days. Use to top ice cream, yogurt, or fruit.