text: I know its way early but I am bored so here goes.... I believe he will be there at #18, esp. if V. Young comes out. The kid has all the tools and a better arm than either Leinert or Young. Played in a power conf. and made Vandy respectable. A lot of teams said he was the best QB they played against (and that includes Ark. which also played USC). How often can you get a potential franchise QB at #18. Its a perfect situation for him. He can sit behind Bledsoe for a year and then take over. I think he would be better value than a safety or the third or fourth LB or OL taken.


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April 19 - 23, 2010 (Monday-Friday), 9:00 am - 3:00 pmExtended Hours: 8:00am 4:00 pm additional $25.00Age Groups: 8 to 13 2 Locations: Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park and Trowbridge Environmental center in East Rock Park Enrollment cost $65.00 for New Haven Residents/$130.00 Non-residents
Applications & Itineraries available online at: www.cityofnewhaven.com/Parks/news/whatsnew.asp and The Parks Office, 720 Edgewood Avenue
Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. and the Department of Parks & Recreation are proud to release the schedule of exciting events celebrating the re-opening of the majestic Soldiers & Sailors' Monument atop the summit of East Rock Park.
Check Your Calendars and Save This Date:
April 24, 2010 - Rock to Rock: Biking from West Rock to East Rock, War Re-enactments sponsored by Fort Nathan Hale Preservations Projects Organization
Click here for a complete listing of Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Celebration events for 2010.
Nature Pals is an ever-growing program run in conjunction with the Friends of Edgewood Park. Since it inception, parents have been bringing their kids ages 0-5 to weekly meetings at the Edgewood Ranger Station, where participants engage in nature-related story telling, outdoor exploration, and craft projects. Right now registration is open for the Spring Session. Cost is $40.00 per family for New Haven Residents ($56 for non-residents). Scholarships are available trough the Friends of Edgewood Park.
Contact Ranger Harry Coyle , Edgewood Park Ranger, for more information call (203) 946-8028
April is rich with activities and special events. Visit the Community Recreation Page for a full listing of family activities and sports schedules. We offer swimming, football, aerobics, golf and more!
Click on the links below for more details, to download flyers and registration forms:
A new component of the Outdoor Adventure Program is Archery. Our Beginner Archery consists of a series of classes concentrating on range rules, safety rules and fundamentals of archery. These classes are taught by our certified instructors, using the latest recurve equipment.
The beginner session is appropriate for those who have never shot a bow, or those with some previous experience that are seeking a refresher session. All safety gear and equipment will be provided. (Bow, arrows, finger tab, arm guard, quiver). Class is limited to 10 students Classes open to participants ages 9 and above. Parents & children may shoot together.
May 13, 2010, 5PM to 7PM. During this Demo day, participants will have a chance to shoot for one hour. Cost is $10 per residents and $15 for non residents.
July 1, 2010. This is the beginning of full a class, which is divided in three weeks, once a week for one hour. Total cost will be $30 for New Haven residents and $45 for non-residents.
Contact Ranger Joe Milone, Park Ranger, for more information call (203) 946-8016 or email email@example.com
Our newest program will provide participants with the opportunity to rent a canoe/kayak and paddle on their own at the Mill River in New Haven.All equipment will be provided. Basic instruction and a safety talk will be provided. No pets allowed.
For Kayaking the minimum age is twelve (12) years of age. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. We offer sit-on-top single, double, and triple kayaks. For Canoeing, the minimum age is five (5) and at least one adult must be present in each canoe.
Depending on weight and size, canoes will accommodate between 2-4 participants. All participants must depart and return at the same time. Travelers must remain between the safety boats. All participants, particularly in kayaking, must expect getting wet to some degree. Participants must also sign an Acknowledgement of risk and Release of Liability.
We advise participants to leave all valuables and non-waterproof electronics in a safe place. The Department/staff will not be responsible for lost, damaged or stolen personal items. Tours will last approximately 30 minutes.
2010 Dates & Prices:
May 22: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
June 12: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
July 10: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
August 14: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
October 2: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
Kayaking New Haven Residents: $5 for single, $10 double, $15 triple.
Kayaking Non-Residents: $10 for single, $20 double, $30 triple
Canoeing New Haven Residents: $2 per participant regardless of age.
Canoeing Non-Residents: $4 per participant regardless of age.
2010 Dates & Prices:
May 22: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
June 12: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
July 10: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
August 14: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
October 2: Kayak & Canoe on the Mill River, 9:00AM-1:00PM
Kayaking New Haven Residents: $5 for single, $10 double, $15 triple.
Kayaking Non-Residents: $10 for single, $20 double, $30 triple
Canoeing New Haven Residents: $2 per participant regardless of age.
Canoeing Non-Residents: $4 per participant regardless of age.
Space is limited and is on a first-come-first served basis. We do not accept reservations.
Please bring exact change or money orders. No personal checks can be accepted.
In addition, we also offer beginning and intermediate kayaking classes, and tours. For more information please contact: Martin Torresquintero at (203) 946-6768 or email@example.com.
Are you a safe paddler? Is your boat properly equipped for emergencies? Are you using the right size or type of boat? Paddle Safety Day is a great way for paddlers of all abilities to start the season.
The City of New Haven Department of Parks and Recreation, in cooperation with The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Boating Division, and the US Coast Guard, will present a unique family affair of safe paddling displays, and information sessions on Sunday April 11, at Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven from 10 AM to 2PM.
The event is free of charge and will feature demonstrations and other topics including. sit-on-top and sit-inside touring kayaks, kayak fishing rigs, Personal Floatation Devices (PFD's), paddles, solo and tandem rescues, safety gear, clothing, self-rescue, choosing the right craft, interactive games at the DEP trailer. And much more.
Professionals from the US Coast Guard, certified canoe and kayak instructors from the City of New Haven, and a variety of representatives from the paddling industry and the DEP Boating Division will be on hand to answer any questions.
Contact: Inquiries can be directed to the DEP Boating Division at (860) 434-8638 or Martin Torresquintero, (New Haven Parks & Recreation) (203) 946-6768 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
May 13-17, 2010 - For the first time ever in Connecticut, The City of New Haven Department of Parks Recreation and Trees, in conjunction with the American Canoe Association (ACA) will be offering an Adaptive Paddling Workshop at Lighthouse Point Park.
Designed for instructors, outfitters, recreation program managers, trip leaders, and those who want to include people with disabilities in their canoeing or kayaking programs. Participants will learn how to compensate for a paddlers loss of function due to disability, how to adapt equipment and instruction and how to focus on the paddlers ability. This course includes a classroom and hands on learning, a pool session and open water paddling.
This is a certificate course open to all who are interested in integrating persons with disabilities into their paddling programs. Candidates do not have to be a certified canoe or kayak instructor to participate. All ACA certified instructors will receive an Adaptive Paddling Endorsement on all current certifications and ACA certified instructors will receive an update credit upon completion of the entire course.
This training will also allow for the Outdoor Adventure Program to increase the number of certified canoe and/or kayak instructors qualified to work with people with disabilities.
Contact Ranger Martin Torresquintero, Outdoor Adventure Coordinator, for more information call (203) 946-6768 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Special Awards was given to a New Haven Public Schools student mentor by The Outdoor Adventure Program.
The Society of Women Engineers Award was given to Beatriz L. Sao from High School in the Community for " How does the temperature of the ocean affect the intensity of hurricanes" Beatriz is one of the students that have been mentor by the Outdoor Adventure Coordinator. Her project was among six NHPS projects given awards at the CT State Science Fair held March 11-14 at Quinnipiac University Gymnasium. 23 projects from 6 different New Haven schools entered projects in the CT State Fair this year, and judges selected 150 finalists from over 500 projects entered state wide. Taken advantage of the fact that many of our Nature Education staff has a strong background in science and biology, the Park Rangers and Outdoor Adventure Coordinator have also mentor winner projects from Nathan Hale, Wilbur Cross, and Columbus family Academy among others. Rangers have also been involved as Judges for many school based and City Wide science fairs.
Beatriz measures the relative humidity and temperature of a water sample during one of her many trials.


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'"We have to win games," said coach Lindy Ruff, whose Sabres are now seven points behind the Islanders. "You are walking such a fine line right now that you can make mistakes and it can cost you a game."'
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hello all. this in firefox is coming up as"[11:22:08.246] Expected ',' or '{' but found '/'. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector. @ http://cdiwwwtest.cdicorp.com/wp-content/themes/cdi/style.css?ver=3.6:419"I did some google searching and it seems legit but have been unable to find addy css documentation. I am thinking it is because I used bootstrap. Has anyone else run into this?Was this a problem for you?thxD
In the css file you linked to you have this rule:
[B] localhost/media="all" [/B].btn:hover, .btn:focus {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
background-position: 0 -10px;
What is that supposed to be? It's not CSS.
That is why/what i am asking It doesn't seem to be affecting anything. A google search brought up three results. (four now including this thread. That was fast)https://www.google.com/#q=localhost%2Fmedia%3D%22all%22&safe=off thought it might be related to boostrap. But didn't find it in the code. So was trying to find out more about it.D
How did it get into your style sheet in the first place?
I was not the only person working on this project. & it has been so long since it started I honestly don't remember.I learned a lot. Also in respect as to what NOT to do in future coding.The bit above doesn't' seem to have any negative effect. but wanted to investigate it a bit more.
Don't ignore what the validator is telling you.
Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Are you signing at my comment or at the validator? You may find that you hover and focus styles don't work because of that error in the style sheet.
No, sorry Ralph, it was very general sighhh directed at all the errors ever. so will of course have to check it out. still wonder what that localhost/media thing is tough.
localhost/media="all" .btn:hover,
You are asking the browser to find an element called :" localhost/media="all" .btn" and there is none (even if the code was valid).
It's an error that someone copied and pasted by mistake from somewhere (possibly from firebug or similar) or it is a file that got corrupted along the way.
Either way its code that should be removed as it has no place there and will corrupt the rule that follows and possibly the rest of the stylesheet if you are unlucky.
It looks as though its part of a media query or a style tag that got copied incorrectly from somewhere else. Just remove it and address any consequences in the normal way.
I get that. sorry if i didn't make myself clear. I was more wondring about
am familiar w/localhost from using xampp, I was looking at this code and to my knowledge you can't use css to access the "localhost" or itmes outside of the html/php page is styling. That is where my confusion comes in. but yes will have to check out the buttons & hover styles.thx
[quote="pdxSherpa,post:11,topic:35127"]I get that. sorry if i didn't make myself clear. I was more wondring about
am familiar w/localhost from using xampp, I was looking at this code and to my knowledge you can't use css to access the "localhost" or itmes outside of the html/php page is styling. That is where my confusion comes in. but yes will have to check out the buttons & hover styles.thx[/quote]
It just looks to me like a piece of corrupted code where you have joined a local url with a media query or maybe a corrupted import statement that has just been replicated and copied. Or someone just copied and pasted badly. Or badly constructed php that is outputting a broken segment. Either way it's not css and shouldn't be there.:)
If you keep a revision history you could step back and see from which point the code has been added and see where it all started to go wrong.
Just yesterday I somehow managed, with a total of 2 keystrokes, to paste about a fourth of my LESS file again somewhere in the middle of the file. I didn't notice it until the LESS compiler whined very unhelpfully about a bracket mismatch (without the benefit of a line number, something I could have easily figured out from plain CSS since all rules before the error would have shown up fine). The line in question looks like two mis-pastes though.
Finding an error in other places via google simply means it's a popular error (for example if it had somehow gotten into one version of Bootstrap, even if later removed), but not that it's an ok error.
In fact I google errors regularly because the spider is dumb and will index anything. It often helps me find what other people are doing about it.
I do that sometimes because I can't touch type and I look at the keyboard and not realise that there is junk coming out on screen and I have opened four new windows and deleted 6 files all in one sentence
Thank you all. It has most def been a learning experience, both about what to do and very much about what NOT to do. & while I didn't think w/relatively few people coding a version control would be needed, in hindsight it would not have hurt either.
That and let's give up bootstrap and work on percentages to build own responsive site. Bootstrap has lot of neat feature but overriding a lot more elements was really annoying and the class names in bootstrap 3 are even longer and more inane.I might go trough just a few example & tuts to pick it up a bit.
vim is wonderful. the power to destroy whole worlds with a single gack
Pop-up messages from the system tray, which you have to click away, are wonderful too. Typing a lot in the used program of that moment (like a forum-message in the browser) without looking on the screen is giving ... nothing. :shifty:
@Stomme Poes:[[U]VIM (1a)[/U] or [URL="http://www.vim.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26"][U]VIM (1b)[/U] or [URL="http://www.vim.be/"]VIM (2) of [URL="http://www.vim.org/"]VIM (3)](http://collectie.museumrotterdam.nl/objecten/62749)?
1b and 3 of course : )


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In the News
Original journalism from the Center's OpenSecrets Blog
Facebook Forms a PAC, CBC PAC Marches On and More in Capital Eye Opener: Sept. 27
September 27, 2011 | Facebook announced on Monday the creation of a corporate political action committee, called FB PAC, The Hill reports. The move comes just a week after it announced a major revamp to its platform.
Third Quarter Campaign Finance Reports Show Money Race Is On
October 16, 2009 | An initial Center for Responsive Politics analysis has found that sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised $48.2 million from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2009, based on the 336 reports we have in. The mean amount these lawmakers raised was $143,640, and the median amount was $126,680.
Tracking Your Representatives' Health Care Cash
June 25, 2009 | Here's a cool tool that brings together data from various parts of OpenSecrets.org to show how much money each current lawmaker has raised from various health-related industries and the health sector overall since 1989 (including President Obama's haul).
Congressmen Overseeing Defense Budget Got $8 Million from PMA Group and Clients
March 2, 2009 | The FBI hasn't been the only group continuing to investigate lobbying firm PMA Group, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. At the Center for Responsive Politics, we've expanded our original analysis of contributions from the lobbying firm to lawmakers, specifically those on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, to include contributions from PMA's clients, as well.
Brothers Grim: Is Lehman Next?
September 12, 2008 | Uncle Sam bailed out Freddie Mac and the company's twin sister, Fannie Mae, this week, and the next in line in the Wall Street family to get a helping hand might just be Lehman Brothers. Executives at the struggling investment bank are looking to sell the company with assistance from the government--and fast--as its stock plunges. Although the government isn't expected to completely bail out Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, the company has built a strong financial relationship with politicians over the years and coincidentally ranks fourth in the largest contributors in the race for the White House.
Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Lawmakers
September 11, 2008 | When the federal government announced two months ago that it would be seizing mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government proceeded with the takeover and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25).
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center.


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The Best (and Worst) Dressed Men at the 2011 Golden Globes
First of all, we've gotta say: You look fantastic. You've been following our lead with this whole New Deal regimen, overhauling your wardrobe these past few months with ballsy new shoes, suits, watches, shirts, and ties, and it's really working out for you. Now the only thing left to do is top it all off with the right coat. One that has some substance to it — think wide lapels and a sharp, double-breasted cut. One that has some swing to it, too — heavy enough to keep things toasty yet light enough so that the cloth moves when you move. And one with some character — a weave or pattern that will stand out from all the basic black coats choking up the sidewalk. This angora-blend glen-plaid coat from Hugo Boss is just such a coat, and whether you're wearing it with your Wednesday suit or your Saturday jeans, it'll finish off your New Deal right.
Double-breasted wool-and-angora coat ($1,295) by Boss Black; wool turtleneck sweater ($60) by Banana Republic; cotton jeans ($58) by Levi's; leather boots ($425) by Billy Reid.
The DB Coat
The trouble with wearing double-breasted anything is the illusion of bulk, so you want a DB coat that will tighten up your profile. Notice the trim, sartorial cut on this Paul Stuart coat: When you close it up, it'll hug your torso and slim you down.
Double-breasted wool coat ($1,984) by Paul Stuart; two-button wool jacket ($450) by BR Monogram; cotton shirt ($325) by Ermenegildo Zegna; silk tie ($125) by Eton; wool-and-cashmere trousers ($425) by Canali; leather shoes ($1,175) by Santoni.
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Brevard loses two to Milligan, 5-3 and 4-3March 18, 2009
Merrill, Warner drive home two each
Johnson City, Tenn. - The Brevard College Tornados dropped a pair of seven-inning games to Milligan College on Wednesday night, 5-3 and 4-3. The Tornados fall to 7-15 with the losses, while the Buffaloes improve to 21-8.
Game One - Milligan 5, Brevard 3 (7 inn.)
Brevard rallied for three runs in the 7th after entering the inning down 5-0, but Buffalo hurler Michael Dillow (Gray, Tenn.) struck out Stephen Mullis (Charlotte, N.C.) with two runners on to end the game. Dillow pitched the complete seven innings for the win, allowing seven hits while striking out a pair. In his first start of the season, Matthew Pruitt (Hendersonville, N.C.) took the loss for Brevard after allowing all five runs (three earned) in five innings of work.
Milligan pushed a run across in the 1st inning when Brian Busby's (Lexington, S.C.) fielder's choice scored Wesley Jones (Kingsport, Tenn.) to put a marker on the board.
The Buffaloes stampeded to four runs in the 4th inning. With two on and one out, Kendall Williams (Dillon, S.C.) delivered the big blow with a two-RBI triple. Williams scored on a Justin Motte (Johnson City, Tenn.) single, and Jones brought home another run with a base hit to put the home team up, 5-0.
Brevard's scoring came in the 7th. With one out, Jackie Corn (Hendersonville, N.C.) and Josh Miller (Hendersonville, N.C.) reached on back-to-back singles. Two batters later, Kellen Moman (Greenville, S.C.) brought home a Tornado run with a single, and two batters later, pinch hitter Jason Merrill (Hendersonville, N.C.) scored a pair with a base knock of his own. But Dillow came back to strike out Mullis to end the game.
Game Two - Milligan 4, Brevard 3 (7 inn.)
Trailing 3-2 heading into the bottom of the 7th, the Buffaloes scored twice for the walk-off win. Jones tied the game with an RBI single and scored the winning run after Oxley was hit by a Luke Smithson (Mills River, N.C.) offering with the bases loaded.
Jason Trivett (Bristol, Tenn.) pitched a scoreless 7th inning to pick up the win for Milligan, while Spencer Linn (Fletcher, N.C.) started and took the loss after pitching 6 2/3 fantastic innings. The senior struck out seven batters.
Brevard scored in the 1st inning when Corn doubled home Pruitt to make the score 1-0. But the Buffaloes tied the game in the inning's bottom half, when Oxley came up with a double that scored Jones.
Brevard's big inning came in the 5th. After Moman and William Scholer (Norwalk, Iowa) led off the frame with singles, Brice Warner (Clover, S.C.) singled and scored both to put the road nine up, 3-1. Milligan responded in the bottom half again, however, when a Jones sac fly scored Motte to bring the hosts within a run.
Pinch hitter Todd Caldwell (Johnson City, Tenn.) led off the 7th with a single and two batters later, with Jones at the plate, came home on a single to tie the game. Linn walked Spencer Street (Johnson City, Tenn.) and was replaced by Smithson, who walked Busby to load the bases. Oxley then took one for the team, allowing Jones to touch home and secure Milligan's sweep.
The Tornados return to South Atlantic Conference play on Saturday with a noon doubleheader against Lenoir-Rhyne. Milligan plays at King College on Saturday, a 2 p.m. doubleheader.


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Road Trip to New Orleans for the Cowboys vs. Saints Game
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 8:00 AM - Monday, November 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM (CST)
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Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints
New Orleans, LA
November 10 – 11, 2013
!!!!!!$95.00 – RT Transportation to New Orleans!!!!!!
1-Night Stay @ Crowne Plaza Astor New Orleans
To reserve your room, please contact Tammy (information below).
To purchase tickets to the game, go to http://www.ticketexchangebyticketmaster.com/NFL/new-orleans-saints-tickets/. Even if you just want to go to cheer on your team in a sports bar or on Bourbon Street; Come on and join the FUN!!
Game is Sunday, November 10, 2013 @ 7:30pm
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All payments are non-refundable due to contractual agreements.
Hotel may require you to present a credit card at check-in for incidentals.
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The committee consists of the director of University Libraries, the director of the Law Library, the assistant provost for Information
Technology, and 13 others: one elected by and from the teaching and research faculty of the Law School, of each of the Colleges of Business, Engineering, and Science, of each of the graduate divisions of humanities and social sciences, and of the School of Architecture together with the faculty in the fine and performing arts; one elected by and from the faculty of the University Libraries; three elected at large by and from the teaching and research faculty of the University; and two student members. Student members are selected annually according to procedures approved by the committee. Elected members serve staggered three-year terms.
All terms expire at the end of the academic year.
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Law Library (ex officio)
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Graduate Student Representative
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Undergraduate Student Representative
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The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance launches its inaugural Detroit Youth Theatre and Dance Journey with the children's play Cinderella or It's Okay to Be Different by Cynthia Mercati. The play travels to eleven different Detroit Public Elementary Schools throughout the month of June. It plays at the Hilberry Theatre June 20 - 30.
This tale of Cinderella takes place on a school playground as a group of lively students discover that their familiar Cinderella story isn't the only one - that there was a Cinderella in ancient Egypt and one among the Algonquin Indians and that there are hundreds of Cinderella tales all around the world! In an innovative, sophisticated, and theatrical style, this fast-paced, up-beat, multicultural show focuses on the universality of folk literature and finds that it's okay to be different.
Individual Tickets are $5 for children and $8 for adults. There is a $5 per ticket price for groups of 10 or more. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Hilberry Theatre Box Office at 313-577-2972, online at www.wsushows.com, or by visiting the box office at 4743 Cass Ave. on the corner of Cass Ave. and Hancock. The summer Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10 – 2 p.m. The box office will be open one hour prior to all performances. Performance information and tickets may also be obtained by visiting the Theatre's websites at theatreanddance.wayne.edu.
Public Performance Dates at the Hilberry Theatre:
Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:30 a.m.
Friday, June 21, 2013 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 23, 2013 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:30 a.m. (SOLD OUT)
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Bring Back Our Girls
On April 15th, nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from the Chibok Government Secondary School by Boko Haram in Nigeria. They are still missing.
As Girl Scouts, we strive to make the world a better place. This tragic situation is a reminder that we still have a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, women all over the world are still having to demand the right to be educated. This situation is giving rise to a global outcry about what's happened to these Nigerian girls, as well as other girls and women who are being deprived of the right to be educated.
Our New York Girl Scouts are finding ways to express their support for these girls, and we would like to invite you to join them in showing your support. (Please know, however, that the Girl Scouts is a nonpartisan organization, and expresses no affiliation or support for any political party or ideology). Here are several ways that you can help right here in NYC:
- Today, Thursday, May 22nd, the Bring Back Our Girls campaign is asking that girls across the country wear red to school and organize marches. Many of our Girl Scouts will be part of this effort at their schools. We would like to be part of this effort by challenging each of our troops to wear red T-shirts (on Thursday or at your next meeting) and pose with a "#BringBackOurGirls Girl Scouts NYC" sign. Please post your picture on the "Bring Back Our Girls" Facebook page and tag our Facebook page.
You also can do the same on Twitter, using the hashtag #bringbackourgirls, and including us @girlscoutsnyc.
- The council staff will be proudly wearing our red shirts today, and we hope you will join us! For more information, please visit:http://bringbackourgirls.us/school-girl-march/#.
- At the Girl Scouts of Greater New York Board meeting this morning, President Rose Littlejohn will opened the meeting with comments about this campaign, and Board members were invited to join her in showing their support by wearing a red ribbon.
- On Saturday, May 31st, our Council is holding a Teen Leadership Summit at St. Francis College. We invite our teen Girl Scouts to come to the Leadership Summit. We will be showing our support by wearing red t-shirts and tweeting/posting throughout the day. Girls also can will have the chance to express their feelings about the importance of girls around the world having the opportunity to be educated, through writing and talking, during a workshop session. Their thoughts will be shared with influential politicians, and a "thank you" note will be sent to our New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand for joining the other 19 female U.S. senators in urging President Obama to support efforts to locate the abducted girls.
- Finally, if any Girl Scout is interested in doing a Gold Award project pertaining to this subject, we will fast track review so that the project will be timely. For more information, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Red Giant: An Interview with Shane JonesBy Laura van den Berg
I met Shane Jones in 2009, in Chicago, during the annual AWP conference. Amid the crowded fluorescent labyrinth, I happened upon him manning the Publishing Genius Press table, projecting an aura of calm that seemed delightfully out of step with the usual huckster energy of the book fair. I bought his novel Light Boxes and read it on the plane home, where I was so transported by the world Shane had created that I forgot all about the smells and turbulence of travel by air. I remember tucking the book into my bag and thinking, Whatever this person does next, I'll read it. Shane and I have stayed in touch ever since.
Crystal Eaters is full of the fabulist inventions that often mark Shane's fiction—a ravenous sun and "crystal counts," the idea that we're born with a hundred crystals inside us, a supply that dwindles until, at the end of our lives, it's exhausted—but at the core of the novel is a family's struggle to turn toward one another in the face of unbearable loss. Shane conjures a world that is, in ways large and small, melting down.
Shane and I spoke via e-mail—I was in Andover, Massachusetts, and Shane in Albany, New York—about the new book, fatherhood, death, and therapy.
There are many layers of mythology in Crystal Eaters—surrounding, to name a few, the black crystals, people in the city versus people in the village, the beliefs of Brothers Feast and the Sky Father Gang. "Everyone is eventually fooled into believing in something that doesn't exist," you write.
Religion, spirituality, cults—Brothers Feast and the Sky Father Gang are cults—prayer, crystals, myths, folktales, the universe as a system of life and destruction—I'm attracted to these things, and they are players in the book. The idea of choosing something—a value system—and believing in it is very beautiful, even if it's absurd in the face of death. I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something. The city worships things like hospitals and fast food and phones and constant consumption, and I'd say those things are a dangerous kind of worship. I'm more interested in the dirt dwellers, who believe, here, that they have a number of crystals inside their stomachs. I very desperately want to believe in something, and I think writing is a way to dig at this wall. There doesn't have to be an answer, really. Just the movement.
As far as being fooled into believing in something that doesn't exist—as a kid, you're constantly being sold one fantasy or another. Santa Claus, Sesame Street, the police are the good guys, parents know what they're doing, doctors will help you with medicine, men protect women, et cetera. These concepts slowly dissolve, or are at least kind of remolded, as you get older. Read More


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Like millions of other Americans over Thanksgiving weekend, I went to see Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, Lincoln. I was mesmerized by Daniel Day-Lewis's portrayal of the great statesman. I was also deeply moved by the thrilling depiction of the moral awakening at the film's climax, in which the 13th Amendment for the abolition of slavery was passed by the House of Representatives. But there was something else about the film that struck me even more. And that was a … [Read more...]
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The Press conducted a lot of research for this category (see "Free Booze," December 1), and we've got to hand it to the freewheelin' spirits at the Art Car Museum for running away with the prize. Of course, they don't really serve up cocktails per se; rather, a couple of kegs are tapped and bottles of wine are just left out on the table. No gatekeeper. No drink tickets. No little plastic cups. Just tons of booze and plenty of good times. It's like you're at a house party, but the artwork on the walls (and in the driveway) is a lot more interesting than anything you'd ever find at your buddy's house.
We've heard plenty about the problems Katrina washed onto our shores, but we can't forget those magical months right after the storm when our city was flooded (yeah, we said it) with the sounds of the Big Easy. Kermit Ruffins, Lil' Wayne, Glen David Andrews, Corey Henry, Dr. Michael White and several members of the Rebirth Brass Band were but a handful of the folks who blew their horns and banged their drums around town in the days after the storm. The influx was bitter, bitter, bittersweet, and we're not sure how to reconcile that. But, hey, we've got to be honest: For a few months, this town was alive.
If years and years of practice have taught us anything, it's that happy hours end pretty badly unless you get some food in your stomach before things really get going. Otherwise, you forget to eat altogether (and we all know how that turns out) or you end up snacking later in the evening and get a severe case of the yawns. And that's why we love Cafe Adobe. The drinks might not be the cheapest in town, but the $5.50 super fajita nachos and $3.25 mini chimichangas do a great job of greasing up our stomachs for the long slog ahead. Next to the cheap grub, all the other perks -- the discounted margaritas, the hip clientele, the view of Shepherd -- are nothing but gravy.
We love Francesca Fuchs's breasts. We especially love that she had the balls (so to speak) to devote an entire show, "MOM," to them at Texas Gallery. All six paintings were different shots of a breast-feeding baby, seen from above, through the mother's eyes. But this wasn't a foray into maternal sentimentality: The works were clean, muted, formal. Of course, not everyone agrees with our assessment, as was evident by the whining that went down on the Glasstire.com message board after Fuchs scored the $50,000 Hunting Prize earlier this year. But we think that, for once, a group of corporate grant-slingers got it right.
Last year was a paint-splattered banner for I Love You Baby. The collective -- consisting primarily of Will Bentsen, Andrea Chin, Rodney Elliott, Mark Flood, Paul Kremer, Chris Olivier and Dale Stewart, but involving whoever the hell shows up on any given Wednesday night -- showed pieces at DiverseWorks and the gallery formerly known as Mixture. But what really got us going was the group's crazy-ass musical performance at Rudyard's and its drunken office Christmas party at Commerce Street Artists Studio. So when we heard the boys (and girl) had decided to take some time off at the beginning of the year, we worried that the group was about to go the way of the Beatles. Thank goodness we were wrong. Come May, they got back to splattering paint and beer all over each other once a week, and all we can say is, We love you, baby.
A stone's throw from Memorial Park sits a ramshackle house with a roof that appears to be caving in under the weight of two enormous satellite dishes. Inside Bubba's Sports Bar & Grill, flat-screen TVs fill every corner. With its worn wood floors and stone fireplace, this neighborhood favorite has retained its homey atmosphere since being converted from a residence more than a quarter-century ago. The friendly waitstaff serves up cheap beers and the best chili and burgers of any sports bar in the city. Whether it's the Astros, the Rockets or the Texans on the tube, Bubba's packs it in with families who go to chow down and root for the home team.


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Memorial Erected for Alleged Killer of Rookie Cop
(NEWSER) – Mourners are coming to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial made out of candles, balloons, and heartfelt notes days after rookie officer Melvin Santiago was gunned down while responding to an armed robbery call. But the memorial—which also includes empty liquor bottles and the message "Thug in Peace" scribbled on a T-shirt—is for his alleged killer, not 23-year-old Santiago, reports AP. City officials are outraged at the Jersey City, NJ, tribute to Lawrence Campbell, who was killed by officers returning fire during the Sunday incident outside a Walgreens. "The people who put up a memorial to a cowardly murderer who shot somebody in the head without giving him a chance are not representative of the people who live" in that neighborhood, the city's police chief says.
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By Rich Myhre Herald Writer
My first reaction to the news that Christopher Hansen and his team of investors were finalizing a deal to purchase the Sacramento Kings and bring them to Seattle to become the SuperSonics?
My second reaction? Regret at taking another city's team, just as the Sonics were taken from us almost five years ago, and true commiseration with broken-hearted Sacramento fans for the loss of their Kings.
But mostly hooray.
I was unsure if I'd live to see professional basketball back in Seattle, and I never anticipated it happening so soon after the original Sonics were stolen away to Oklahoma City. The thought of again watching the best athletes in the world, of the extraordinary thrill and drama of a seven-game playoff series, and of perhaps having the chance to witness another championship parade gives me goose bumps.
That said, I will never forget the bitterness of losing the original Sonics, and my ill feelings for the filchers and bumblers responsible for the team's departure to Oklahoma City. Among them, new team owner and Oklahoma City resident Clay Bennett, NBA commissioner David Stern, previous Sonics owner Howard Schultz, Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, and others who allowed our beloved team to be snatched away.
I remember how much that hurt. And for that reason, yes, I have mixed feelings.
Taking the Kings from Sacramento seems wrong to me, just as it was wrong when Bennett purloined the Sonics. Sport fans spend years investing themselves emotionally and financially into a ballclub, and then some mega-millionaire with a whim for a new toy runs off with the team because he can.
When the Sonics left in 2008, I was ready to swear off the NBA forever. In fact, I've watched very little pro basketball in the past 4 1⁄2 years, save for last summer's London Olympic Games with a United States team comprised of NBA stars.
The problem was, the Sonics meant a lot to me personally and professionally, and I always knew I was missing something.
As a schoolboy during in the inaugural 1966-67 season, I went to games at the old Seattle Center Coliseum and cheered for early Sonics early like Walt Hazzard, Bob Rule, Tom Meschery and Tommy "Crash" Kron. Later, like everyone else in the Puget Sound area, I was euphoric during the team's run to the 1979 NBA championship. And for 13 seasons in 15 years from 1990-91 to 2004-05, I got paid to follow the Sonics for The Herald, which always seemed like the best job in the world.
Getting all that back is like a dream come true.
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And my regret at taking the Kings from Sacramento is tempered because I know the team's much-traveled history. Unlike the original Sonics, who had never been anywhere but Seattle, the Kings originated in Rochester, N.Y., in 1945. Known then as the Royals, the team relocated to Cincinnati in 1957, then to Kansas City in 1972 (originally Kansas City-Omaha for three seasons), and finally to Sacramento in 1985.
Few American sports franchises have been more places, though I doubt that will mollify unhappy Sacramento fans.
Neither does it erase all my own mixed feelings. But I'll get over it.
And a big reason is this. For all of us in the Puget Sound area _ the sports fans, yes, but also the population at large _ the arrival of the new Sonics means a spectacular new arena in downtown Seattle, in geographic proximity and matching splendor with CenturyLink Field and Safeco Field, homes to the Seahawks and Mariners.
Whatever they name the new building, it will be a superb venue for pro basketball, concerts and other entertainment events, and _ almost certainly at some point _ an NHL team. As a hockey fan, I'm looking forward to that, too.
But in the meantime, NBA basketball in Seattle is just around the corner. The Sonics are coming back, and we can all celebrate the return of what we had, and lost, and will have again.
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With thousands of people jockeying to try some of the 2,700 beers being poured, the convention hall during GABF is a dizzying place. There are four sessions each year: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night, plus one on Saturday afternoon for members of the American Homebrewers Association. Thursday night is the most mellow of the four. The first hour or so, people are mostly wandering around in awe and getting their bearings. This is the best time to head over to breweries like Stone, Dogfish Head, and Russian River that will eventually sprout lines akin to an iPhone launch. Friday and especially Saturday nights get jam-packed and loud — very loud — pretty quickly. If you're lucky enough to nab a ticket (this year's lot sold out in less than an hour), try for the Thursday session. You might even think it's worth the $38 AHA membership fee just to get into the Saturday afternoon slot. That one happens right after the big awards competition, so you get first dibs on the medal-winning beers. Plus, it's the only session that offers a commemorative tasting glass. Bonus.
There were so many coconut and peanut-butter beers at this year's fest that you'd think they were as common as pilsners and pale ales. Brews with strange ingredients popped up everywhere. The gold medal in bizarre had to go to Bloody Beer from Michigan's Short's Brewing Co. It's a red lager brewed with tomatoes, dill, peppercorns, horseradish, and celery seeds. You say Bloody Mary, I say Jewish deli. (Bloody won a silver medal for Experimental Beer at the 2009 GABF.) Other weirdness included Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout from Denver's Wynkoop Brewing Co. You know, the one with bull testicles. Here's the thing: I tried it, and it was outstanding. A roasty, full-bodied stout with perhaps a hint of stone. I also dug the new Ancestral Ale from Colorado's Pagosa Brewing Co. It honors the Pueblo Indians who once inhabited Chimney Rock, near the brewery, by using ingredients they once used, including local squash, Anasazi beans, sweet corn, and prickly pear cactus. And it was one of my top tastes of the weekend, with a slightly tart flavor and refreshing wheat finish.
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Career Center: May grads face competitive job market
University of South Carolina graduates entering the job market this month can expect to face significantly tougher competition than last year, according to the University of South Carolina Career Center.
On-campus recruiting in Columbia is down significantly, Career Center personnel confirm, though other universities have seen an even steeper dropoff. Career-fair attendance was down 4 percent from last year; nationally, career-fair employer registration was down 25-30 percent. An additional career fair for science, engineering and technology students brought in 59 more companies to the Columbia campus than last year.
"Recruiting activity does not always equate to hiring activity, and that is clearly the case this year," said Tom Halasz, director of the Career Center. "With fewer companies coming to campus, we did see some sectors hiring fewer graduates. But, at the same time, some employers hired equal numbers as previous years. What it means is you can't draw clear conclusions about the job prospects for graduates from recruiting activity alone. Many students received job offers as a result of their internships last summer and did not participate in recruiting this year."
Halasz said the Career Center continues to see the most demand for engineering, accounting, finance, information systems, insurance and risk management, computer technology, global supply chain and operations management students. Demand for liberal-arts graduates has not retained the high levels of demand experienced in the previous years, though college graduates of all majors who have strong technical, leadership and language skills, as well as previous internship experience, can still find opportunities.
These opportunities may not be in geographically favorable locations for some students. Others may be in occupations students had not considered, said Halasz.
While the South Carolina jobless rate has exceeded 11 percent, the figure is less than half that for college graduates and expected to remain so, Halasz said.
With the greater number of available candidates has come slightly lower overall salary offers for bachelor's-degree graduates. According to a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released April 8, the average offer to a 2009 bachelor's-degree graduate stands at $48,515, down 2.2 percent from last spring.


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Wet and…Wonderful!Friday, April 28th, 2006
Weather: Rain, all day long.
The Johnny Cash look, betrayed by reflectors!
Well, I suppose April had to get here sooner or later. Today it arrived in force. A low pressure system, full of juice from the Gulf of Mexico, blew up here out of Texas, and looks like it is going to hang around for a couple of days. Today, we are getting our April showers, all day long.
Most people I talk to are stoic about it. We've had our fun in the sun, for the past week or so. The grass needs this, and so does the water table. People want to start planting their gardens, and I'm sure the farmers are hoping for a bit of rain.
But most people who ride motorbikes don't want any part of this. Riding in the rain takes gear and skills that most recreational riders don't care to acquire. So they leave their bikes home on days like this, and drive the cage instead.
I only saw one other rider out there today, and he was riding a blue, full-fairing, BMW R-something. It was either a -90 or 100, I couldn't tell. But I know that beemer guys pride themselves on riding in all weather. I wonder if the mysterious red KLR guy was out there this morning…?
I wouldn't know, because I've been taking the freeway in the mornings. But if I had to guess, I'd bet he was.
Yes, that's right; the hated freeway. Why? Because the ride to work has that element of time-pressure attached to it. I have to be at my desk by a certain time, which means that I can't ramble the way I like to do on the way home.
On the scooters, it is different, because I know that the freeway isn't really a safe place to ride. The scooter route is a reliable sixty-minute cruise on parkways and sidestreets, both ways. So I plan for an hour, plus another twenty minutes if I want to stop for coffee.
But Frogwing does the freeways just about as well as he does the parkways, and it only takes us thirty minutes to get to work. That means thirty more minutes I can spend, sitting in my jammies, analysing the weather, traffic, and news on TV… or thirty more minutes of blissful semi-sleep, occasionally peeking at the alarm clock, should I need it. That can be a real blessing, on some days.
Today was really special because of a package I received from Aerostich yesterday. I am testing the Darien pants that go with the jacket I wore all through the winter. The timing couldn't have been better. I already know that the Darien jacket repels all of the snow and rain I have encountered while wearing it.
Now I know that the pants perform just as well. Riding through both light rain and downpours, the water just beaded on these pants, and I never felt a bit of moisture on my legs. I found the kneepad armor a wee-bit uncomfortable, because it is mounted a bit lower than I need it to be. But Aerostich will fix that, as soon as I can get the pants back to them. I plan to ride up to Duluth to visit Andy and the gang as soon as my work schedule permits.
Now, my ride home from work tonight was wonderful. Yes, it was raining. But the gear I was wearing made that a non-factor. Whenever my visor became obscured by raindrops, I used my Vee-Wipe to clear it, just like a windshield washer. The knobby tires on Frogwing are almost as good in wet conditions as they are on dry pavement. The Aerostich Darien suit kept me warm and dry. In short, I was a Happy Rider.
This bodes well for the weekend. The forecast for our area is rain, rain, and more rain… clear through Monday. But the magic of weather radar allows me to see where the rain is falling, and where the nearest dry weather is. Maybe this weekend, I will make a dash through the downpour, punch through the rain barrier, and head out onto new, unexplored roads.
I have domestic duties to attend to on Saturday, but Sunday is my diem, should I choose to carpe it.
(Carpe diem = "seize the day" in Latin. Other than that, it's all Greek to me.)


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Tyra Banks returning to television with new talk show
She's back…
Tyra Banks is headed back to the small screen for a new talk show.
The model/ media mogul who spent years hosting Tyra, has partnered with Disney/ABC for the new project.
"The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me," she said.
"I'm excited to be partnering with Disney-ABC to usher in a new era of lifestyle, beauty and entertainment that will inspire women to be the CEO of their lives via honesty, humor and the newest tips and tricks without being intimidating or precious. To my fierce fam of future viewers: I can't wait to shake up daytime TV together. I have a lot of information to give and still lots to learn. Let's do it!"
According to Deadline, the show will not be like her last daytime TV venture:
The yet-to-be-named show will have the model-producer-TV personality leading a team of lifestyle experts as they tackle a range of topics – from fashion and beauty to home and entertaining to empowerment and individual enterprise – and will offer a cross-platform experience incorporating Banks' social media reach of more than 28 million followers across all platforms. Broadcast from Los Angeles, the show will feature celebrities, popular Web personalities, experts and everyday people as guests.
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GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 7, 2009 – Sumit Agarwal, Colorado School of Mines assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award.
The project, titled "Molecular Perspectives of Gas-Surface Reactions during Growth of Thin Film Nanostructures," is funded for five years under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The CAREER Program offers NSF's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
2007 Results
Gerald began--but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash--to pee.
Jim Gleeson
Madison, WI
The winner of 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Jim Gleeson, a 47-year-old media technician from Madison, Wisconsin. Purportedly splitting his time between living in Madison and living in his own head, Gleeson claims to be working on a self-help book for slackers, "Self-Improvement Through Total Inactivity."
2007 is the silver anniversary of the Contest that began at San Jose State University in 1982, making Jim Gleeson the 25th grand prize winner.
An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), which has been made into a movie three times, originating the expression "the pen is mightier than the sword," and phrases like "the great unwashed" and "the almighty dollar," Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that Charles Schulz' beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Most entries are submitted electronically through the Contest's Web site: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/. A new collection of previous winners was published in August 2007 by The Friday Project. It is available through Amazon.com.uk. and Amazon.com U.S.
The Barents sea heaved and churned like a tortured animal in pain, the howling wind tearing packets of icy green water from the shuddering crests of the waves, atomizing it into mist that was again laid flat by the growing fury of the storm as Kevin Tucker switched off the bedside light in his Tuba City, Arizona, single-wide trailer and by the time the phone woke him at 7:38, had pretty much blown itself out with no damage.
Scott Palmer
Klamath Falls, OR
Grand Panjandrum's Award
LaVerne was undeniably underdressed for this frigid weather; her black, rain-soaked tank top offered no protection and seemed to cling to her torso out of sheer rage, while her tie-dyed boa scarf hung lifeless around her neck like a giant, exhausted, pipe cleaner recently discarded after near-criminal overuse by an obviously sadistic (and rather flamboyant) plumber.
Andrew Cavallari
Northfield, IL
Winner: Adventure
As the hippo's jaws clamped on Henry's body he noted the four huge teeth badly in need of a clean, preferably with one of those electric sonic toothbrushes, and he reflected that his name would be immortalized by his unusual death, since hippo killings are not a daily occurrence, at least not in the high street of Chipping Sodbury.
Tim Lafferty
Horsell, Woking, UK
"This is no time for safety," Lance Steele thought to himself as he raced in hot pursuit of the evildoer through the cold night along the narrow road winding through the desolate twisting pass, the smell of burnt rubber rising from the macadam and the occasional spark bursting from the gravel heaved against the titanium guard rail, and he wished that he had remembered to turn the oven off, and that he were not on foot and wearing his new Florsheims.
P.C. Burchard
San Diego, CA
Dishonorable Mentions
Miss Cardinal mused over the singularly decadent manner in which Master Hammond consumed the steak and kidney pie and was reminded of the practices of certain cannibalistic tribes with whom she had lived during her travels in Borneo, not New Guinea, although New Guinea is certainly nice this time of year, despite the fact steak and kidney pie is rarely served there, at least not the kind made from sheep or cows.
Brad R. Frazer
Boise, ID
Agent 53986262.9 was strapped precariously to a giant Chinese firework, the fuse slowly shortening like a noodle getting slurped into someone's pursed lips, and although he knew he was running out of time and still had no plan for escape, all he could think of was the song about the Muffin Man and how the word "polyurethane" made it sound like the material was made out of multiple urethras.
Allison Kelly
Great Falls, VA
Winner: Children's Literature
Danny, the little Grizzly cub, frolicked in the tall grass on this sunny Spring morning, his mother keeping a watchful eye as she chewed on a piece of a hiker they had encountered the day before.
Dave McKenzie
Federal Way, WA
Mary had a little lamb; its fleece was Polartec 200 (thanks to gene splicing, a diet of force-fed petrochemical supplements, and regular dips in an advanced surface fusion polymer), which had the fortunate side effect of rendering it inedible, unlike that other Mary's organic lamb which misbehaved at school and wound up in a lovely Moroccan stew with dried apricots and couscous.
Julie Jensen
Lodi, CA
Dishonorable Mention
Out of a hole in the ground popped a bunny rabbit which had a long thick orange carrot between its teeth and a big splotch of mud on its back that had dried into a dirt clump the size of a tumor.
Veronica Perez
Palm Springs, FL
Winner: Detective
I'd been tailing this guy for over an hour while he tried every trick in the book to lose me: going down side streets, doubling back, suddenly veering into shop doorways, jumping out again, crossing the street, looking for somewhere to make the drop, and I was going to be there when he did it because his disguise as a postman didn't have me fooled for a minute.
Bob Millar
Hässelby, Sweden
She'd been strangled with a rosary-not a run-of-the-mill rosary like you might get at a Catholic bookstore where Hail Marys are two for a quarter and indulgences are included on the back flap of the May issue of "Nuns and Roses" magazine, but a fancy heirloom rosary with pearls, rubies, and a solid gold cross, a rosary with attitude, the kind of rosary that said, "Get your Jehovah's Witness butt off my front porch."
Mark Schweizer
Hopkinsville, KY
Dishonorable Mention
What shocked Juliette as she entered the room was not that there was an escaped convict under her coverlet snuggling with her best teddy bear, but that there was a knife through his back, "And who," she wondered out loud, steadying herself against the faux-taffeta wallpaper, "would stab a teddy bear?"
Katie Alender
Studio City, CA
Winner: Fantasy Fiction
Lady Guinevere heard it distinctly, a sharp slap, as if a gauntlet had been thrown, and yet it was hardly plausible that she, perched delicately on the back of her cantering steed, should be challenged to ride faster, since protocol determined that Arthur should ride in front, then she, then Lancelot, for that was the order prescribed by Merlin, ever since he invented the carousel.
Celine Shinbutsu
Hino City, Tokyo, Japan
Hiram had been a three-toed dragon, well on his way to a promotion to Imperial five-toed dragon, when he accidentally choked on the pink chiffon scarf of Princess Chloe's hat, and his coughing set the new oaken parapet, on the old stone bulwark, ablaze, thereby earning a demotion to Troll 3 -- now his only responsibility was to keep billy goats off the bridge.
Michael L. VanBlaricum
Santa Barbara, CA
Dishonorable Mention
At Elvenheim there was great joy, in that the legendary Ring of the Nordlings had been retrieved from the evil Sudlings by the hero Bill Baggydrawers, who it must be said looked nothing like a hero, at least none I've ever seen, and the Ring had once again been placed on the middle finger of the left hand of the Elvenking, who did rather resemble a king, even if his buck teeth made him look for all the world like a great rabbit.
Wayne McCoy
Gainesville Fl
Winner: Historical Fiction
Samson looked in the mirror and, when he saw what a fantastic haircut Delilah had given him, he went weak at the knees.
Neil Prowd
Charnwood, ACT, Australia
Winner: Purple Prose
Professor Radzinsky wove his fingers together in a tweed-like fabric, pinched his lips together like a blowfish, and began his lecture on simile and metaphor, which are, like, similar to one another, except that similes are almost always preceded by the word 'like' while metaphors are more like words that make you think of something else beside what you are describing.
Wayne McCoy
Gainesville Fl
The highway coiled up and around the mountain like a snake ready to strike because it was being harassed by one of those annoying guys on "Animal Planet."
Brent Sheppard
Morganton, NC
Dishonorable Mentions
Marilyn's main feature was her mountainous breasts, with an associated sharp ravine of cleavage--the breasts not awesome like Everest, but like one of the Highland peaks near Balquhidder, where the notorious outlaw Rob Roy spent his last days.
John O'Byrne
Dublin, Ireland
There was a numbing chill in the air--harsher than a localized anesthetic, far less jarring than your average epidural, but still effective at creating that tingly sensation which often precludes a general lack of feeling in one's extremities or sometimes leads to uncontrollable drooling if administered within the confines of a dentist's chair.
Randy Wilson
New Albany, IN
The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife, not even a sharp knife, but a dull one from that set of cheap knives you received as a wedding gift in a faux wooden block; the one you told yourself you'd replace, but in the end, forgot about because your husband ran off with another man, that kind of knife.
Lisa Lindquist
Jackson, MI
The inebriated sailor cast himself into the safe harbor of the diner, and once he had run aground in one of the orange Formica booths, without a nod of recognition or greeting brought the distracted waitress into the present by ordering in a voice both blustery and belligerent the vegetable soup, an unctuous amalgam of the kitchen's leftover odds and ends sunk in a sulfurous sea of brine.
Jack Mac'Kie
Naples, Florida
The car headlights were pale--like a struck match viewed through a piece of smoked glass which you think you remember using to watch a solar eclipse around the time Alison and the children were still living here, which would have been the year before you got the job at the all-night bakery, twenty humid summers ago--because the alternator was faulty.
Richard Preddy
London, England
His feelings for Lydia became a jumbled mess, like when the pen slips out of the hole on a Spirograph wheel, ruining the drawing you have been working on for hours, or possibly, the pen running out of ink during the process, snagging and tearing a hole in the 110# cover rated vellum of his heart.
Russell Wren
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
She had curves that just wouldn't quit, like on one of those car commercials where a stunt driver slides a sexy new sports car around hairpin turn after hairpin turn while some poor musician, down on his luck and having been forced to sell out his dream of superstardom for a lousy 30-second ad jingle, sings "Zoom, zoom, zoom" in the background.
Amber Dubois
Denver, CO
Her hair was the color of old copper, not green with white streaks like you see on roofs and statues where birds have been messing, but the kind you find on dark pennies from back in the nineteen-forties or fifties after God knows how many thumbs have been rubbing Abe Lincoln's beard.
Michael A. Cowell
Norwalk, CA
Stanley frowned, his brow wrinkled like the furrows of a newly ploughed field in the far reaches of East Anglia, England's prairie, when the mighty Massey Ferguson has just completed its traverse of God's good soil in the heat haze of a late August afternoon, and wondered for the umpteenth time where on earth he had left his reading glasses.
Pamela Hibbert
Crowthorne, Berkshire, England
The moon rose in the east, a thin, yellow sliver like a fingernail ripped off with a jagged edge that goes to the quick and hurts like the dickens, making Selena wince as she looked on from Dirk's strong embrace and, recalling the last time she clutched at something so hard she broke a nail, brooded as she remembered that tomorrow was her annual pap smear.
Kathleen Luisa
Falls Church, VA
Karl awoke with a start, his heart pounding away like a drum, not a well mannered tympani such as one might hear in a Boston Pops rendition of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" but rather more like a snare drum in the hands of Terry Bozzio during the time when he was performing with Frank Zappa.
Christopher D Brunkhorst
Oxford, NJ
Winner: Romance
As her quivering lips met his, and her eyelashes fluttered softly on his sweating cheek, Dr Robbins reflected, "I didn't realize she had upper dentures . . . in fact, her slippery plastic palate reminds me of going down a waterslide that hasn't been properly chlorinated, as evidenced by the distinct nitrous and sulfurous emanations, or could it be sinus trouble?"
Philip Bateman
Kenilworth, South Africa
There was a pregnant pause-- as pregnant as Judith had just told Darren she was (about seven and a half weeks along), which was why there was a pause in the first place.
Tracy Stapp
Santa Ana, CA
Dishonorable Mentions
She clung to the memory of their love like those tiny bits of used tissues he always left in his pockets, which mostly ended up in the dryer lint basket although enough of them welded themselves to her favorite navy blue, polar fleece pullover, rendering it as permanently flawed and unappealing as his name tattooed on her butt.
Pamela Patchet Hamilton
Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada
He held her desperately in his arms and stroked her silken hair, and as he drew her full red lips to his, he ravenously smothered her with lots of smooches.
Bill Kerschbaum
Ann Arbor, MI
Ruthanne felt as though she was frozen in time, staring into Steve's eyes, deep turquoise pools of Tidy-Bowl blue, reflecting back the deep passionate love that Ruthanne felt in her heart because Steve certainly didn't feel anything, being in a coma as he was, so what Ruthanne had reflected back to herself was what she herself felt, bouncing off Steve's eyes, because there was absolutely zip going on behind those eyes.
Linda Morgan
Manassas, VA
Winner: Science Fiction
What a pity Dave was too young to have seen "2001: A Space Odyssey," for he might have been able to predict what would happen next, when the ape standing next to the big black slab picked up the tapir bone.
Ann Medlock
Lenah Valley, TAS, Australia
"So that was your Earth emotion 'love'," gasped Zyxwlyxgwr Noopar, third in line to the holo-throne of S-6, as he hosed down his trunk and removed the shallots.
Mike Bollen
Brighton, UK
Dishonorable Mention
Racing through space at unimaginable speeds, Capt. Dimwell could only imagine how fast his spaceship was going.
Gary Smith
Florissant, CO
Winner: Vile Puns
I was in a back alley in Fiji, fighting desperately and silently for my life, fighting desperately for oxygen, clawing at the calm and almost gentle pressure of the fabric held over my face by implacable, ebony thighs when I realized -- he was killing me softly with his sarong.
Karl Scott
Brisbane, Australia
The droppings of the migrating Canada geese just missed the outdoor revelers at the inaugural Asian math puzzle competition, marking the first time that dung flew over Sudoku Fest.
Kevin P. Craver
Lakewood, IL
Dishonorable Mentions
He was often found lurking behind the bakery, begging for scraps and practicing his rap, which is why he was known locally, as the synonym bum.
Ed Harrison
Lyman, ME
Upon discovering that his chief executioner Dr. Szekely had been secretly releasing prisoners, Vlad the Impaler ordered him to be skewered on one of the good doctor's own fiendish spears, when suddenly, not recognizing the type of wood that was slowly advancing through the screaming victim, the nutty Romanian ruler quipped "What's up doc?"
David K. Lynch Topanga, CA
A rather youthful Billy Joel was fascinated when he entered the Green Room at the Tonight Show and saw a group of matronly nuns hastily applying hair color to the noggin of the show's next guest, Neil Young, whose agent offered an explanation from the corner of the room: "Only the good dye Young."
Joe Wyatt
Amarillo, TX
Determined to slip the leash, Everett reflected upon his folly, for he had followed the dusky Doberman of his desire into the kennel of lust, telling himself that here, at last, was the perfect pedigree for him, only to learn that she was a Bichon wheels.
Frank Kahren
Danville, CA
Winner: Western
The easy and comforting roll of the saddle was second nature to Luke, and as he gazed off into the distant setting sun, he wondered whether he had enough change for one more ride at the supermarket before he had to return to the home.
Glenn Lawrie
Chungnam, South Korea
Slim pulled the branding iron away from the yearling's seared flank and looked up to see Tuffy Edwards, the boss's daughter, trotting towards him on her sorrel mare, Brandi, wearing absolutely nothing but tight blue jeans and a green tank top---her gi-normous, heaving, unrestrained hooters resembling nothing so much as a pair of fat Charolais heifers trying to beat each other through a loading chute.
Syler Womack
Eustace, Texas
Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions
A par on the final hole would clinch the U.S. Open for the in-form Tiger Woods but, in truth, this mattered little to Herbert Cruddle as a gigantic wave swept him over the side of his floundering shrimp trawler.
Terry Drapes
Taipa, Macau
Morty, a dedicated track and field athlete, was disqualified and charged with animal cruelty after giving Viagra to his 20-foot boa constrictor and using the snake to pole vault.
JL Strickland
Valley, AL
Nothing looked good on the two young celebrities, Scarlett Johansson and Kiera Knightly, as they posed on the cover of a fashion magazine, with their lips the color of a Big Ben Hybrid Teas Rose, and flawless complexions, but they could not compare to the one with Jennifer Lopez with her smoky gray diaphanous blouse, high heels, and a black leather belt that would leave a nasty red mark if she were to spank you with it.
Wayne Spivey
Huntsville, TX
The stench would have been too much for most people to take, but Karl was used to it, having served as a Mess Specialist on board the "U.S.S. Constitution," an aircraft carrier that launched planes off its deck like so many maggots off a hot skillet.
Lupe Amezquita
San Jose, CA
His hat fit his head as snugly as a manhole cover does the thing it fits into. Steve McAllister
Austin, TX
The small boat pitched violently upon the heaving bosom of the ocean, causing Johnson to reflect that, although he generally liked bosoms, he was getting really tired of the ocean's bosom, and wished that it would at least drop from a 44D to a 34B.
Mr. William J. Harvey
Midwest City, OK
As master luthier Francesca turned the night-black ebony tuning pegs of her latest creation, a flamenco negra guitar with glowing palosanto back and sides, she thought about Vicente, his manly left hand soon caressing this same fretboard in an outpouring of mournful tarantas and siguiriyas, and at that very moment her g-string snapped.
Jim Holman
Gresham, OR
Joshua was as dumb as a bunny and not at all like the egg-carrying one, more like the one who has never gone to middle school, or even the schools at either end.
Patrick Baker
Caledonia, Ontario, Canada
The poetry teacher's bullet-riddled body lay sprawled on the verandah floor like a patient etherized upon a table.
Michael D. Bess
Nashville, TN
There was only one thought in Kurt's mind as his trembling hand and timid fingertips edged closer to the neck of Annabelle's silk blouse, his heart pounding ever faster in syncopation with her panting breaths, gentle cries coming from her slightly-parted lips, her pleading eyes wide with a primitive emotion--if only he'd kept a tighter hold on that gerbil.
Jonathan Blay
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
Clark Kent, in his alter ego known as Superman, the Man of Steel, huddled deep into the doorway to escape the pelting Spring shower, well knowing that wearing wet clothes for any length of time would give him surface rust, which he would have to remove by bathing in dilute phosphoric acid, and then sanding with 400-grit wet-and-dry sandpaper.
Roger Bond
Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia
Allison sipped her tea as she thought about the Isabella Rosselini types--tiny, fragile, etiolated, willowy creatures of ethereal beauty whose delicate spaghetti-strapped sundresses seemed to hover about a quarter of an inch above their skin, while Alison's sundress cut into her flesh at the straps and bound at the waist or it ballooned out like the muumuu it really was.
Katy Brezger
Hector had just met Sabina minutes before, and yet there they were, knees touching, faces just inches apart in the dimly-lit room, and her gazing deep into his eyes, which should not have been a surprise to either of them given that she was an ophthalmologist and he was a boxer whose left retina may have become detached the night before when "Mad Dog" Washington clocked him with a vicious right cross.
Ray Campbell
Redwood Shores, CA
It was pleasant for Zandra to remember the beach at Cannes where she and Jean-Yves had lain, his pianist hands touching her in patterns of the Rachmaninov he'd played at Languedoc, to recall the scent of his lavendar mosquito repellant, his deep laugh when she'd said: "Tu es le premier homme pour jouer la musique classique sur mon estomac," and his reply: "C'est dommage, Zandra."
Ellen Diamond
New York, NY
Maurice slathered on the cherry colored lipstick continually, like some transvestite from a low-budget, 70's rock opera, and plotted his next escape attempt, as he watched carefully once again while the absent-minded guard turned the knob to his prison with such ease, and cursed his Creator for giving him a luscious, silver, hairy back, but no opposable thumbs.
Cale Dempster
North Las Vegas
Miles Otterman thought he could get away with carving his initials on the old oak tree in the town square - and he just might have if Sheriff Mitchell hadn't recognized his MO.
Terry Drapes
Taipa, Macau
If you think that the resemblance between the characters in this book and any person living or dead is only coincidental, you're just not trying hard enough.
Janina Eggensperger
Conway, AR
"Send an ambulance; I'm glistening profusely . . . bosom heaving . . . luscious, ripe orbs threatening to burst the seams of my black lace bodice . . . . pulse galloping apace like a knight's sleek steed . . . exquisite pain radiating down my graceful, alabaster arm, shooting upward to the finely chiseled jaw . . . I shall swoon---oh, my address?" the romance writer gasped into the phone before collapsing.
Linda A. Fields
Framingham, MA
It was dark that night, dark as the hood of a black '77 Firebird and with the same glossy feel as rain had washed the Big Easy, but New Orleans did not seem any cleaner, just hot and sweaty like the back of a French Quarter stripper.
Marc "Zeke" Kossover
San Francisco, CA
Everything about Randy proclaimed him to be a man's man, though neither in the sense of being the kind of man women are drawn to and men want to be nor in the homosexual sense, rather, in the sense of being a highly efficient and well-compensated valet.
Barbara Lauriat
Oxford, England
Jake entered the small suburban bank, his face as cold and frozen as Theodore Roosevelt's on Mount Rushmore while at the same time his sweaty hands clenched and unclenched nervously in his pockets like one of those fast motion movies of flowers blooming and dying, to open a savings account.
Frank Leggett
Sydney, NSW, Australia
As the budgies and parrots descended upon him, Rolf began to regret his decision to wear an outfit made entirely of cuttlebones; unfortunately, this was the first of many a fashion faux-pas resulting from Beatrice's none-so-sensible advice.
Ella Meumann
Lenah Valley, Tasmania
Cooter--prone to deep cogitation when troubling bouts of constipation resulted in long-winded visits to the loo--reflected sentimentally on the oft underrated pork rind, envisioned its golden "pigmentation," its pleasingly rough exterior where marriage of deep fryer to fat-rendered skin hath borne progenies of crispy bubbles, deceptive in their parchment-skinned fragility-in reality a coordinated cacophony of crunch hitherto unmatched in the snack world.
Leslie Muir
Atlanta, GA
It was a dark and stormy night, although according to meteorologists since the lightning density on the satellite imagery for the area was only about 0.5 strikes per square mile, it wasn't stormy, and according to members of the American Society of Cinematographers because the lights from the city reflected off the clouds and created about 13 lumens of light, it didn't really fit the technical definition of dark.
Steve Petermann
Plano, TX
My tongue moistened my parched lips and my stomach started to churn as I hungrily admired Leslie's hair, which loosely resembled my great aunt Betty's daughter Cornelia's famous tuna casserole--brown, dry and crisp around the edges, yellow and creamy in the center with just a hint of grease spilling out over the top.
Paula Price
California, MO
With "Bambi" eyes and an angelic face made for singing "The hills are alive" while traipsing across an Alpine meadow, Heidi Weissbrot seemed as pure as driven snow to older folks around Peach Blossom, but among boys her own age, there was a nasty rumor that her purity was more akin to snow driven to the river in dump trucks after being scraped from roads and parking lots.
Tom Rohde
Minneapolis, MN
The crater of the volcano glowed red against the black sky, looking as if God had taken a drag of His cigar - if He smoked - which of course, He didn't.
Wendy Spoelstra
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
John lay in the morning dew next to his sleeping love as the pink hues of the sun rose over the rolling hills, illuminating a tender scene where for the first time satisfaction had come for a happy couple, who had fought all manner of obstacles to come to this one glorious moment, defiant in the face of Montana's repressive bestiality laws.
Dan Stuart
Burlington, VT
"I love the library," Hilary said for no particular reason except to hear her own soft voice among the myriad of books which contained characters as familiar and recognizable to her as the neighborhood bum she passed everyday, who looked like Ted Danson when he dressed up as Dracula in Three Men and a Little Lady.
Jessamyn Sudhakaran
New Boston, OH
When Marcel sank his dentures into the tarte frappée aux moules demi-tantalisées à la provençale to be suffused not with a pot-pourri of gilded remembrances of infancy, nor with vignettes of past hurly-burlies on the chaise longue, but with a bland mélange of ephemeral insipidities of quotidian contemporaneity, "That takes the biscuit," he thought, Madeleine's forgotten the salt, again."
Graham Thomas
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
The Archbishop, imprisoned for ten years in various palaces where he was called "Traitor" instead of Christoph, returned home amid cheers of those who knew his happiness and stature soon would be cut short by the sword of the Black Knight, who was actually quite pale since sunlight doesn¹t penetrate armor, chain mail, and woolen underwear.
Mary Ann R. Unger
Ewing, NJ
Dane worked the Spyrograph furiously, first red, then green, then red again, and finally blue; the pattern he sought was in there somewhere, and the correct combination would open the doors to a euphoria only known to dogs getting their stomachs scratched and parakeets viewing themselves in the mirror.
Matthew Warnock
Elgin, IL
"I'll have a pack of cigarettes please, no, Marlboro 100's . . . lights please, in a box, yeah, no, wait, give me a soft pack, no, not those, the ones right above them, no, no, right next to those, yeah, wait, make it two packs, no wait, how much are they . . . no, one pack will do me, and a lighter please, no the other one, yeah, that one will be fine," he said quickly.
Shane Spears
Blytheville, AR
Bulwer-Lytton Results
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Wonderful nonsense. I loved many of the runners-up.
And anyone who knows me can understand how this one tickled me.
And anyone who knows me can understand how this one tickled me.
Racing through space at unimaginable speeds, Capt. Dimwell could only imagine how fast his spaceship was going.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
Re: Bulwer-Lytton Results
The crater of the volcano glowed red against the black sky, looking as if God had taken a drag of His cigar - if He smoked - which of course, He didn't.
Want of political correctness, I wonder, or true statement?
As the hippo's jaws clamped on Henry's body he noted the four huge teeth badly in need of a clean, preferably with one of those electric sonic toothbrushes, and he reflected that his name would be immortalized by his unusual death, since hippo killings are not a daily occurrence, at least not in the high street of Chipping Sodbury.
Now I know where all the glacial minds ended up, just as we badly needed thoughtful brains to negotiate this perilious times.
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