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National Signing Day: Vonn Bell picks Ohio State
ROSSVILLE, Ga. (WRCB) -- One of the nation's biggest recruiting question marks provided an answer Wednesday morning.
Vonn Bell is officially an Ohio State Buckeye.
The Ridgeland defensive back grabbed the Ohio State hat during a nationally televised event shortly after 10 a.m. ET as part of National Signing Day, which is the first day high school football players can sign a binding national letter of intent with the college of their choice.
Bell then promptly signed his LOI and faxed it to head coach Urban Meyer, cementing his college future. He chose Ohio State over offers from Tennessee and Alabama, who were his other two finalists.
"Urban Meyer is on a mission to win a national championship right now," Bell said in front of a packed auditorium. "You see this year he went 12-0 with guys he didn't even recruit. He's going to be a winner wherever he goes. He has a history of it.
"He's going to bring more really good guys in, and we're going to bring the SEC up there to Columbus."
The 6-foot, 195-pounder is widely-regarded as one of the hardest hitters in the country. He was bumped to a 5-star rating, the highest a recruit can get, from both Rivals.com and 247Sports shortly after his senior season.
While he warmed late in the process to new Vols' coach Butch Jones, he said the program ultimately had too much ground to make up after the firing of Derek Dooley.
"UT and Coach Jones is in a struggle right now. He's still trying to find the right guys to help bring Tennessee back, but I thought to myself I might not have that kind of time to wait. Those two years could be long," Bell said. "When (Jones) was going out and trying to build his staff, I was building stronger relationships with the other guys at Ohio State, so I got stronger and stronger with them while UT was out trying to find it's other guys.
"I told him that this morning, and he said there's no hard feelings. He said he'll be a fan wherever I go."
Bell recorded 131 tackles, including five for a loss, and intercepted three passes last fall while leading the Panthers to the Georgia Class AAAA state championship game for the first time in school history. He was also one of Ridgeland's most electric players on offense, where his efforts as a running back and receiver were highlighted by a four-touchdown, 271-yard performance on just five touches in a rout of rival Dalton in early October.
Bell transferred to Ridgeland from Chattanooga Central after his sophomore season, and quickly became a household name in recruiting circles during a breakout junior campaign in 2011.
Georgia head coach Mark Richt was the first to offer Bell a scholarship in January of 2012, and Alabama's Nick Saban was quick to follow.
Days later, Bell caused quite a stir for then-Vols' coach Derek Dooley in Knoxville when he admitted to being a lifelong Tennessee fan, but receiving no interest from UT.
Dooley promptly offered Bell, but later drew criticism for not keeping steady contact with the prized recruit. Tennessee was considered the long shot and purely sentimental pick of Bell's final three when Dooley was fired in November, but Big Orange made a serious closing push under Jones.
Meyer was also one of the first to offer Bell, and the Buckeyes surprised many with a full-court press to lure the safety North.
"It wasn't so much a tough thing to say 'yes' to somebody. The toughest part for him was having to tell two people 'no,'" said Ridgeland head coach Mark Mariakis. "Tennessee did a great job of coming in late, but they were just behind the eight ball and they've still got some rebuilding to do."
Bell started narrowing his choices last June, trimming his list of potential colleges to Alabama, Ohio State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Clemson and Texas.
He named his three finalists in September and took official visits to each in January. He shut down his recruiting last Friday to discuss the decision with his family and friends, then called Meyer minutes before his announcement Wednesday morning to tell the Buckeyes' coach 'I'm in.'
"They said I could probably start up there, but they're not going to give it to you. I'm going to work for it," Bell said. "I've got to get ready, get my body ready for that type of hitting because it's a different level of speed up there.
"But we'll get it and get ready for that national championship roll."


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Seabrook fires two officers for Bergeron brutalityBy MIKE LAWRENCE
Union Leader Correspondent
July 23. 2014 8:16PM
Town authorities announced Wednesday that police officers Mark Richardson and Adam Laurent had been fired for their brutal actions following the November 2009 arrest of Michael Bergeron, then 19.
A report from an internal review of the Seabrook Police Department said officer Mark Richardson had about 125 pounds and 4 inches on Michael Bergeron, then 19, when Richardson slammed Bergeron into a wall inside Seabrook's police station.
Bergeron was "stunned" and fell to the floor, the report states.
"It is reasonable to conclude ... that the amount of force used by officer Richardson to put Bergeron against the wall is well beyond the force needed" for defensive purposes, the report states.
Seabrook town authorities released the report Wednesday, when they announced in Seabrook's town hall that Richardson and officer Adam Laurent had been fired for their excessive use of force after Bergeron's arrest on Nov. 11, 2009.
A third officer, Keith Dietenhofer, was suspended for two days without pay; supervisory Lt. John Wasson has been demoted to patrolman, Town Manager Bill Manzi said.
Town authorities placed Richardson, Laurent and Dietenhofer on paid administrative leave shortly after the video was posted in January.
Richardson was indicted in April on one felony count of simple assault by an on-duty law enforcement officer. Town authorities changed his administrative leave to unpaid after the indictment.
Richardson appeared in Rockingham Superior Court on July 14 for a dispositional conference. Court staff said his pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Oct. 24, and jury selection for his trial could begin Nov. 3.
"It's a relief," Joyce Bergeron, Michael's mother, said of the ruling Wednesday. "It restored my faith in the town."
Seabrook Police Chief Lee Bitomske said the brutal incident "had been a dark cloud" over his department.
"I'm hoping as time moves on, that cloud lifts," he said, adding that he's reviewing department policies to prevent future uses of excessive force.
Bergeron, now 23, posted a YouTube video in January that showed Richardson slamming him into the wall after Bergeron had been arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and drug possession.
Laurent is then seen pepper-spraying Bergeron while he's on the floor.
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The report states that Laurent pulled out his pepper spray as Richardson picked up Bergeron, who "was very unsteady on his feet."
"Bergeron, with officer Richardson's help, leaned against the wall for several seconds before falling back to the floor," the report continues. "Officer Laurent immediately stepped between officers Richardson and Dietenhofer and sprayed Bergeron in the face with (pepper spray)."
Officers wrote in their police reports that Bergeron was aggressive and uncooperative that night.
Town selectmen contracted Municipal Resources of Meredith in April to conduct an independent investigation of the incident and the police department.
The report cited inflammatory images from the video.
"One of the aspects of the video that appeared on YouTube that has caused much comment is of officer Laurent just after he sprayed Bergeron," it states. "Officer Laurent appears to be smiling and laughing as he at times looks at the wall-mounted security camera.
"In his interview, officer Laurent explained that his facial expressions are the result of a nervous reaction, a smirk, that he has had all of his life. However, his demeanor and posture at that time ... (do) not indicate that he seems nervous or stressed."
Deputy Police Chief Mike Gallagher said Wednesday that the officers very likely knew they were being recorded.
"In the 25 years I've been there, every time I've walked down that hallway I was on camera and I was aware of that," he said. "Every officer is aware of the camera."
The report said Wasson, then a sergeant, arrived in the station after Bergeron had been released on bail. Wasson was told of the use of force and pepper spray but did little to follow up on the incident.
The report also notes that Joyce Bergeron said she attended high school with Wasson.
"Sgt. Wasson was told by Joyce Bergeron about her possession of a video depicting her son having the 'crap beat out of him' by three SPD officers and being maced by officer Laurent, who 'smiled pretty for the camera.' While Sgt. Wasson expressed interest in viewing the video, he never did, and apparently did not alert others in the chain of command as to what Joyce Bergeron told him," the report states.
Michael Bergeron has a criminal record that dates to 2007. He was found guilty of both November 2009 charges in June 2010, and was sentenced to one to three years in state prison last month for breaking into a Hampton townhouse in August 2013 and taking two laptops.
Joyce Bergeron said the November 2009 brutality stayed in her son's mind long after that night.
"It just really bothered him for all these years," she said, adding that he posted the video "because he didn't want somebody (else) to get hurt."
She said the family had not discussed whether to bring a civil suit against the town.
"If and when they bring a suit, we'll address it," Joseph McKittrick, an attorney for Seabrook, said Wednesday.


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Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal with Vietnam. The film concerns the battle between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, through the efforts of a small band of soldiers to locate and destroy a hidden communist arms depot. Gene Barry stars as Sgt. Johnny Brock, the cynical leader of the patrol, who is an American Korean War veteran. Leading the expedition to find the munitions dump is the half-Asian Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), Brock's ex-wife. One of Brock's less-endearing qualities is his rabid racism -- he can't accept the fact that their five-year-old son is completely Oriental in appearance. The other members of the patrol are also haunted by past memories -- Goldie (Nat King Cole) is a veteran of Korea and World war II who hates war and wants to see peace at all costs; Corporal Pigalle (George Givot) is an ex-French gendarme who doesn't like taking orders; and Private Andreades (Gerald Milton), is a hard-nosed Greek expatriate. When the patrol arrives at the compound, they are greeted by Major Cham (Lee Van Cleef), the communist commander who immediately falls in love with Lucky Legs -- complicating the situation immensely.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Director: Samuel Fuller
Writer: Samuel Fuller
Producer: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov and Lee Van Cleef
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Nokia Lumia 1520 has the dimensions of 6.41 x 3.36 x 0.34 inches. The phone weighs 209 grams in total. Since it is an unlocked cellphone, you will have to insert a micro SIM card by any of the GSM network service providers and the phone would function effortlessly. The Display of the phone comprises of an IPS LCD capacitive display with 16 M colors and 71.4% screen to body ratio. The screen of Nokia Lumia 1520 is protected by a corning gorilla glass 2, which protects the screen.
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The unlocked cellphone comes with the internal memory of 16 GB. However, you can expand it by inserting in a MicroSD card in it of up to 64 GB. The RAM installed in the phone is 2 GB. Nokia Lumia 1520 functions on Microsoft Windows 8. A dual core 2.2 GHz Krait 400 CPU is installed in the cellphone.
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Night Thunder
Dell, Jul 2004, 6.99, 352 pp. ISBN: 0440237351 New York City fashion designer Josy Warner struggles with her current assignment as nothing creative seems to come to her mind. Josy, an orphan whose parents died when she was a child, wonders if the news that she has a living grandmother Ada Scott Timmons in Thunder Creek, Wyoming has affected her concentration. Her best friend Ricky Sabatini, a cop under internal affairs investigation for being d...
Once An Outlaw
Dell, Dec 2001, 6.50, 355 pp. ISBN: 0440235499 Emily Spoon feels Forlorn Valley, Colorado is the perfect place for her and her family to start over. However, Sheriff Clint Barclay has spent much of his law enforcement life jailing the Spoon gang and feels that Emily is just a chip off the old block. He rejects her insistence that the family is going straight, firmly believing that outlaws never change their spots. At a town social, C...
Thunder Creek
Dell, Jul 2003, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 0440237327 Years ago, Katy Templeton left her family ranch near Thunder Creek, Wyoming feeling lost although time had passed since the death of her hero, her older brother Matt. She returns home after successfully owning a restaurant chain because her grandma has pneumonia and Katy does not want her father to cancel her parents' trip to Paris. Though fourteen years have passed since Matt fell from a ladder ...


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BOSTON (AP) — Mark Wahlberg is now a high school graduate — 25 years after dropping out of a Boston high school.
The 42-year-old actor-producer finished his diploma requirements after taking classes online. He dropped out of Copley Square High School, now known as Snowden International School at Copley, in the ninth grade.
Wahlberg wrote of the struggles he faced growing up surrounded by "drugs, violence and crime" in a column in The Huffington Post on Monday. He says he's been taking classes and studying while on movie sets, traveling and at home.
In June 2012, Wahlberg announced he was going back to school with the help of Snowden headmaster Kerry Torndorf, who enrolled Wahlberg in his school's Accelerated Learning Academy.
Cara Livermore, the current headmaster, said it took Wahlberg about a year to finish all of his courses online. She said his graduation requirements were based on the number of credits he would have had to earn in the late 1980s, which have increased for current students. His classes included algebra and trigonometry.
"He worked hard," she said.
In April, shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings, which happened nearby, he visited the school and asked to talk with students privately for a few minutes. Livermore said he really wanted to make a connection and talked to them about valuing the opportunities they have.
The school says its students are about 55 percent female, 45 percent male. It has a minority enrollment of about 91 percent, with about 80 percent eligible for free or reduced-price lunches.
"It shows that he cares where he comes from, that he took the time to come back and visit the school," she said.


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Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott is "giving" away his latest, yet to be released book; a memoir entitled The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder .
But...with a few simple and lovely conditions attached.
A new release from Elliott is always a pleasure, compounded now by his generous, and to me, slightly counterproductive, offer to let 500 fans get their eager hands on a copy well in advance of its September release date. He's named this venture the Lending Library and participants are simply requested to read the book, sign it, and then must pass it on to the next person on the list within a week.
It's a wonderful, magnificent opportunity, but honestly, it's very, very difficult to give up this haunting book once you've read it. I wanted to read it again, lend it to friends, dog-ear and mark it up with post-its but I dutifully passed it on and added it to my Amazon preorder list.
Elliott writes beautifully, often achingly, with openness and integrity about difficult and personal subjects. He is most well known for his critically acclaimed novel Happy Baby which was named one of the best books of 2004 by Salon.com, The Village Voice, The Journal News and New York Newsday.
The Adderall Diaries kind of defies description, It starts off as a project to overcome Elliott's writer's block by covering a muder trial. It then beautifully reinvents itself as a memoir dealing with loss, ambition, family, betrayal, secrets, and forgiveness among other things. But it's greatest strength is that it's simply astonishing writing.
Stephen Elliott was kind enough to take some time to answer some questions and that led to more questions and finally to this interview.
Mirka: The Lending Library is so beautiful, so crazy and so fun, but how can you rationalize 'giving' 500 books away? Your goal is 500 readers before the book is on sale. Do you feel that those readers will purchase the book? Does your Publisher know about this?
Stephen: Hi Mirka. The purpose of the Lending Library is to allow anybody who wants to read a copy of my new book to have a chance to do so before publication. The only catch is they only get it for a week and then I give them the address of who to send it to next. I'm not giving 500 books away. It'll probably take 60 to 100 books to get 500 readers. And at some point the book comes back to me.
I hope that some of those readers purchase the book when it comes out. And I hope they tell their friends to purchase the book. And that we end up selling more books as a result, because I want my publisher to stay in business. But ultimately, I just want people to read my books. I don't really care if they buy the books or not. I've never made remotely enough to live off from any of my books, and I'm not expecting that to change. Also, not everybody can afford a $23 hardcover but most people can afford $3.07 postage.
If they can afford it, and they like the book, I think they'll want to have a hardcover copy for themselves. But who knows?
Mirka: That's probably a fantastic attitude to take. I imagine it's frustrating to put a year or two or more of your life into a book and not earn a decent income. So what's the motivation for you to keep writing?
Stephen: As far as making a living, I'm a literary writer. You'd have to be crazy to write literary non-fiction and novels hoping to make a good living. I'm 37 and I share a one-bedroom apartment. I don't have children, I'm not married. No one really relies on me, at least financially.
To be able to make art is a gift. Between my books, some articles, occasional speaking gigs and other projects, I get by. Most people have to go to work eight hours a day. I'm not complaining. Nobody owes me anything.
Mirka: Have you had interesting experiences come from the Lending Library? How many people have read the circulating galleys so far?
Stephen: Right now there's about 240 requests and probably 100 people have actually read the book. It's incredibly fulfilling having email contact with so many people who have read the book.
Mirka: Your book starts off as a non-fiction crime account and quickly turns into a memoir. When did you realize that your focus had changed?
Stephen: That's a good question. I think I was 90% done with the book before I knew what it was about. First I thought it would be about Sean Sturgeon who had confessed to more than eight murders, and who had intersected my life in a number of ways. But those confessions turned out to be false and Sean disappeared. Then I thought it would be about his best former best friend, Hans Reiser, who was on trial for murdering his wife whose body had not been found. I was just following leads. I didn't have a plan.
Mirka: I live in the Bay Area so I was following the Hans Reiser trial as well. Which is how I found the Salon article you wrote, then the Lending Library. I liked how you responded to your conversation with him. Not "liked"...approved, I guess, is more accurate. It made me want to read more. I thought it was very decent of you to change the children's names though they were splashed in the papers.
Do you have any regret that you have given Reiser even that much more exposure?
Stephen: Hans Reiser is in jail and never getting out. He's not online behind bars, so he's probably never seen the Salon article. Reiser is an evil person, one of the only evil people I have ever met. But we write about evil people all the time as we try to understand ourselves.
Mirka: There's a part in the book when you relate how, when you were fourteen, locked up in a mental hospital and in need of clothing, that your father brought the clothes, but insisted on handing them to you personally. You refused to see him. To me you retained your dignity by refusing that demand. Which is really strong at that age.
It's in our nature to be forgiving as we grow older and wiser, but is it wise to let your Father off the hook for trying to control you and create demands that insulted your dignity?
Stephen: I don't have my father on a hook. I can't hold him accountable for anything; I don't have any power over him. We hold ourselves accountable. We're ultimately responsible for ourselves and we have to live with ourselves and the consequences of our actions.
Mirka: I agree that it's pointless to be angry, but what about this accountability you feel you share? I understand forgiveness. I don't understand you accepting equal blame. You were a child, really. How can you share responsibility for the failure of the person that brought you into this world, whose job from that point on was to protect and nurture you?
For me, it's truly beautiful and a large part of the book's appeal how you come to terms with your fractured relationship with your father.
Stephen: You know, I left home when I was thirteen and was homeless for a year. (there's a more detailed account of that here: http://therumpus.net/2009/04/where-i-slept/ ) It took me a long time to write about that year I spent on the streets because it's complicated. My father's responsible for whatever he's responsible for and I'm responsible for whatever I did. I think that drove him a little crazy with my inability to forgive him. There are lots of people who stay in worse homes than the one I left and have good relations with their parents as they get older.
Mirka: What do you consider consent? There is a passage when a friend of yours, Patty, insists that you promised to never write about her. You don't remember this, and the whole exchange is in the book. If it is important to her that you don't write about her, even if you don't remember, even if you never agreed, why did you choose to put this in your book?
Stephen: In the case with Patty I changed significant details about her to make her unrecognizable. None of her co-workers or relations would recognize her. I have my own moral line and I try not to cross it. I generally only use real names if I've showed the person the work and they've consented, or if they're public figures and have already spoken with other media outlets, in which case it would be strange if I changed their identity. After Sean Sturgeon told me I no longer had his consent to write about him I considered changing his name. But then he did a full interview with 48 Hours and I thought it would be strange to change his name now that he was a public figure. And it would be so easy for anyone to find Sean's name, since he confessed to eight murders.
Mirka: What I am asking, I guess, is what is yours to share? What is that moral line?
I like very much your reply to Sean Sturgeon when he withdraws "consent" and you basically say, 'I'm not writing about you, I'm writing about me'.
Stephen: That's true. The book is not about Sean. He's an impetus for the exploration of these murder trials and confessions, but then he disappeared and the book became about something else.
Here are some moral lines. If someone tells me something off the record, I won't repeat it, but they have to tell me it's off the record before they say it, not after. If a friend tells me a story and I want to use it, I ask their permission. If I tell someone I'm a writer and I'm writing about something they're involved in and they agree to talk to me, then they're giving consent to be written about. I don't lie to get stories out of people.
If a story happens to me, if I am part of the event, then I have as much ownership of the story as anyone else. That's my line. I'm not saying it's right. It's just what I've decided. Patty's details are definitely changed enough that she won't be recognized. She might not even recognize herself. But I'm not trying to justify anything. People make their own decisions what's right and wrong and who owns a story. There's a lot of gray area in these discussions. I try to be very honest in my dealings with people, but that doesn't stop people from remembering things differently. Patty remembers me saying I wouldn't write about her, which I don't believe I ever said.
Mirka: I joined the Lending Library and read the book, sent it off, and thanked you. You responded that I was "sweet". If my name was Christopher or Robert, would you thank me for being "sweet" or would you use a different adjective?
Stephen: I think the exact phrase was: "That's really sweet of you." I think I would use that phrase with a Christopher or Robert. I live in San Francisco.
Mirka: Good answer! Yeah, never mind. I was briefly outraged and shared that with a friend and he mildly replied 'But, you are sweet". It's funny how something seemingly innocuous can be perceived. I'm not overly PC, yet I bristle when I perceive a gender bias.
Anyway, that was a lame question because I found it very refreshing how incredibly admiring and respectful you are of the women you write about. So, are you still in a good place with the three girlfriends where it left off?
Stephen: I'm still on good terms with all three of them, but we're not dating anymore. I think one of the problems with being in open relationships with multiple partners is that they're not always deep enough. Your lives don't fully intertwine and at some point you just casually go your separate ways.
Mirka: Do you feel that your sexual predilections are political? I ask because I read your blog about Book Expo and right in the middle of all kinds of interesting information you mention that a woman slaps you. I wondered to myself that, if instead of a slap, you wrote that you got a random blow job, there would be some kind of outrage. But because you are a masochist, it seems people are less likely to criticize that kind of random aside. What do you think?
Stephen: I love that question, but I don't how to answer it. I think a slap is more like a kiss than a blowjob. So I might be willing to say that I kissed someone. I don't think I would mention that I was tied to a table, that she held my hair, and fucked me with a strap-on. That would probably be going too far.
Actually though, that instance really is political. Because it was this woman who wanted to hook up with me and she thought she knew what I wanted, but she had no idea what I wanted. People think because you're a masochist it turns you on to stub your toe. But it doesn't. It's complicated. And I was making a statement about that.
Mirka: So, do you feel that you need to educate people about alternative sexuality? Because regardless of whatever the misconceptions you deal with personally , isn't everyone kind of fumbling to get their needs met? To articulate our desires? So you blog that a women slapped your face and how she missed the mark..well why do you feel that's important enough to remark about when writing about the future of publishing? (Great blog by the way)
Did you hope she'd read it and realize how insulting she was, or was it more broadly educational/political?
Stephen: Ha. I probably hoped that she wouldn't read it. Sometimes things just feel linked. I don't know what the connection was between the woman slapping me and the future of publishing, but they felt related. I would like to educate people about alternative sexuality because people are miserable and they live their lives in shame, hiding in a sexual closet. I would like a world that was more accepting and facilitated discussion of these issues.
Mirka: Wouldn't that be nice! Besides being brutally honest in your writing, have you worked in other ways to foster acceptance and facilitate that kind of change?
Stephen: Yeah. I do events all the time with The Center for Sex and Culture and I went on tour with the Sex Workers Art Show.
Mirka: Have you attended other trials or followed any other crimes that resonated with you? Or was this more about your possible connection in whatever slim way through Sean Sturgeon?
Stephen: My connections with Sean led me to Hans Reiser, but I've written about crime before. I wrote a long essay about a child that was tried as an adult: http://www.laweekly.com/2005-11-24/news/the-child-in-hard-time/
I didn't attend that trial but I spent a long time in interviews and going through the court paperwork.
In this situation, I wasn't originally interested in Hans Reiser. I was interested in Sean Sturgeon. Sean and I had overlapped so many times. He had a very difficult childhood that at first I thought was similar to mine, though it actually wasn't. His childhood was much harder. He was Hans Reiser's best friend and after Hans had been accused of murder Sean came forward and said he, too, had murdered more than eight people.
Sean was in touch with my ex-girlfriend and ten years ago I had done a bondage photo shoot in his apartment, though I didn't remember ever meeting him. And then there was the murder that my father confessed to in his unpublished memoir.
Mirka: Ah, SPOILERS. See I wasn't going to mention that, even though it's in the first sentence of the Prologue. For me it's a delicate business to get people to read a book I love without giving too much away. So what I'm doing here is teasing people with how interesting you are, how accomplished, how well read, without talking too much about The Adderrall Diaries.
So to make that a question...what do you want people to take away from this memoir?
Stephen: I write to connect with people and I think people read books to connect, to be less alone. I read and write to make sense of the world around me. I don't know how else to do it. I've been writing my life for so long I don't know any other way.
Mirka: Your fiction is very confessional, as is your memoir. The Adderall Diaries really resonated with me on so many levels. I struggled with how to tell you how much I liked it, loved it, really.
I mean how do you tell someone that you LOVE their book when most of it deals with enormous pain and loss? How do you feel when someone tells you they love this book, or say, Happy Baby?
Stephen: It makes me really happy when someone says they love this book, or Happy Baby. Maybe I'm still a third-grader stuck in a perpetual game of show and tell. But I really appreciate it. When someone takes the time to read one of my books they're doing me a favor. There's a hundred thousand other books they could have picked up, so it means a lot to me.
Mirka : I love how you begin the portion of the book with the 'The Trial'. It's so incredibly bittersweet. Can you explain as a writer how you make these kinds of choices? The trial is about to start and you start of with an incredibly nostalgic and heart wrenching description of a mother so in love with her children.
Stephen: Throughout the writing of a book like this you're continually rearranging things, or at least I am, in a way that makes narrative sense. Nina Reiser was this innocent victim. Everything about her was amazing. She was a fantastic mother and the first person the school would call when they needed a volunteer. There was this point in the trial where Hans takes the stand for eleven days and all he wants to talk about is how awful Nina is. He gives an example of her rubbing a fat man's belly and saying, "This is all muscle." He thought she was manipulative, but she was just a nice and wonderful person. There was a line of people, teachers, parents, testifying to what a great mother Nina was. There were huge search parties formed to look for her body. I ended giving up ten percent of my book advance to a fund setup for her children.
It was easy to paint Nina in a positive light. And it's a real tragedy that she got mixed up with Hans. So I opened the trail with a brief portrait of Nina that I hoped got across just how sad it was, what an incredible loss that she was murdered.
Mirka: I have a copy of The Claire Book. It's not listed in your oeuvre. Can I read it, or do you want it back? Or both?
Stephen: Whoa, where did you get that? I printed like 20 copies at Kinko's ten years ago. You can read it, but it's just a collection of letters really between me and my ex-fiance.
Mirka : I'm resourceful. Do you still have a copy. If not, I'll be glad to return it to you. You write in The Adderrall Diaries, that you believe Happy Baby is your best novel. It's interests me that it has a glowing blurb from 'J.T. Leroy'. I put the name in quotes for obvious reasons. Did you ever meet or speak with 'Leroy'? How did you feel when you found out about the hoax?
Stephen: It didn't bother me that JT Leroy was a hoax, because JT wrote novels and stories, and I think that story collection in particular, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is really good. I've met "JT" since then but I don't really know JT well enough to comment on her.
Mirka: Please share the five best books you've read that are written by people you haven't met.
Stephen: I'll probably change my mind about this, but off the top of my head: The Journalist and The Murderer by Janet Malcolm, Stoner by John Williams, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick, The Shah of Shaws by Ryzard Kapuscinski, The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer.
Mirka: I'm going to have to Google those besides The Executioner's Song. I'm going to check, but Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick is beautifully quoted in The Adderall Diaries, I believe.
Stephen: Yeah, that was an influential book for me. It showed that a true memoir doesn't come to an easy closure. But your question is unfair, I can't narrow it down to five books.
Mirka: You're right, that is unfair. List away to your heart's content.
Stephen: More books I love by people I've never met:
Everything by Joan Didion
The Soccer War by Ryzard Kapuscinski
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail and Hells Angels by Hunter Thompson
Who Killed Daniel Pearl by Bernard Henry-Levy
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
Sway by Zachary Lazar
Lush Life by Richard Price
Ray by Barry Hannah
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Disgrace by J.M. Coatzee
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
Darkness Visible by William Styron
But of all of those I would urge people to read Human Smoke, because Human Smoke is so stunningly different and it's all about re-evaluating everything you thought you knew.
Mirka: This website is a collection or fierce and devoted readers and/or writers. So, of course, we need book recommendations from you. What are some of your favorite novels? Can you list the ones that you believe are "must reads" and which are more personal favorites? Do you even think that's a fair way to assess books or assign importance?
Stephen: I can understand what you're saying. Some personal favorite novels would have to include The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner, Valencia by Michelle Tea, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (which isn't really a novel), Ray by Barry Hannah (which also isn't really a novel), Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Play It As it Lays by Joan Didion, and The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck. I think those qualify as must reads, along with Stoner which I mentioned earlier.
Mirka: What do you think of writing programs, writing workshops? Are they a necessary evil? What's been your experience?
Stephen: I don't have much of an opinion because I didn't do an MFA or ever study writing. But then I got a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, which was a little different, but still included a weekly workshop. There were no grades. They gave us $30,000 a year and we had nothing but time to write, and it was awesome. I was the only Stegner at the time (though there were others before and since) that didn't have an MFA and I felt like I learned a lot from the other fellows. As if they had studied on my behalf. I don't think MFAs are a necessary evil. I don't think they are necessary, or evil. I guess I feel like Woody Allen, whatever works. Tom Kealey wrote a really generous book on writing programs called The MFA Handbook. I recommend it.
Mirka: Do you recommend any books on writing?
Stephen: I love On Writing by Stephen King and also The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick.
Mirka: How do you feel about books reviews or literary criticism? Do find any value in them as a writer or reader?
Stephen: Definitely. I'm glad we have book reviews and conversations about books. Sometimes I read a negative review that still makes me want to read the book. I don't understand when people get upset at reviewers. I'm happy when anyone is talking about my work, even if they don't like it.
Mirka: I'm exactly the same way. A bad review might intrigue me enough to read a book anyway. But I think reviewers should only review books that they like. Like you said earlier 'There's a hundred thousand other books they could have picked up', so my take is that reviewers should pass on books they want to share, not warn people off books. Maybe that's incredibly naive. Maybe you can tell me why do people waste time tearing down books, rather than pushing the books they love?
Stephen: Well, I think that's unfair. I mean, if you are a journalist and you're assigned a book to review, and this is what you do for a living, then you should be honest about your feelings. Even if you're not being paid, if you volunteer to review a book somewhere, and then you don't like it, what are you going to do? You might tell the editor you don't want to finish it. But if you do write the review, and they asked you to write it, they should probably run it even if you didn't like the book.
In the end, we can't control the conversation. There's not enough conversation about books, or not as much as I would like. And I think if we try too hard to control that conversation, hate too much on reviewers, we'll just end up stifling that conversation even more. I had a book come out years ago, What It Means To Love You, that was pretty much ignored. I thought that was much worse than getting bad reviews. That was devastating to me. It never came out in paperback.
On my end, it's unlikely I would write a negative review of a book because I'm not really capable of finishing a book I don't like.
Mirka : Ha! I'll go with naive, instead of unfair, if you don't mind. I have a quote from John Irving regarding reviewing that I keep near my desk.
'It is hard and it should be hard because if you're dealing with a book somebody spent two, four, five or six years on, you shouldn't turn this thing around in five or six days. This isn't college, it's not a late paper. This has been somebody's life for four or five years and you don't have to like it, but you do have to respect it.'
Do you have similar passages or quotes that you turn to for inspiration or for relief?
Stephen: I used to carry a Philip Roth quote from American Pastoral, but now I can't remember. I kept it in my wallet for a year. It was something along the lines of how watching people over the years he was amazed how often people forgot what was important to them and instead became the kind of person they would have once felt sorry for.
Mirka: Are you working on anything now that you care to share?
Stephen: I'm not really sure what my next large project is. The Adderall Diaries is my seventh book. I'm really proud of it. I think it's my best book. I have no idea what I'm doing next.
Mirka: Lets talk about The Rumpus. Does that steal you away from writing in any way? Did that start off as a blog and evolve? Or was it always meant to become an online magazine?
Stephen: When I finished The Adderall Diaries I started The Rumpus, an online culture magazine. I needed something to keep me busy and I knew I didn't want to write another book right away. I could say it keeps me away from writing, but probably the opposite is true. It keeps me writing, even if it's more short, online magazine pieces. But it also gets me into editing, which I find really fulfilling. If I rushed into the next book, just to have something ready to follow up The Adderall Diaries, I would probably end up writing something that wasn't that good.
The Rumpus was always meant to be a magazine, but we had a beta period of about six weeks where it was a blog.
Mirka: I trust your judgement, but I don't think you could write a bad book, Stephen. Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with me. It's been a pleasure.
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1. Roll Call
Present- Ms. Elizabeth Bradbury, Governor
Mr. Gordon Elliott, Governor
Mr. Brian Hammons, Chair of the Board
Ms. Ashley Hoyer, Student Governor
Ms. Mary Sheid, Governor
Ms. Cathy Smith, Governor
Ms. Phyllis Washington, Vice-Chair of the Board
Mr. John Winston, Governor
Absent - Mr. Michael Duggan, Governor
Mr. Orvin Kimbrough, Governor
Present- John McAlear, Secretary of the Board
2. Presiding --- The presiding officer for the meeting was Mr. Brian Hammons, Chair of the Board of Governors. He called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m. in Carrington Hall Room 203 on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
3. Closed Meeting --- It was determined that the Board of Governors needed to meet in a closed session to consider items of business provided in the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Mr. Hammons asked if a resolution authorizing a closed meeting of the Board was prepared. Thereupon, the following resolution was presented for consideration:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Governors for Missouri State University that a closed meeting, with closed records and closed vote, be held immediately following this May 6, 2010, meeting of the Board of Governors to consider items of business pursuant to:
a. R.S.Mo. 610.021 (13). "Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment…"
Mr. Winston moved the approval of the resolution and Ms. Washington seconded the motion.
A roll call vote on the motion was as follows: those voting in favor – Governors Bradbury, Elliott, Hammons, Sheid, Smith, Washington, and Winston; those voting against the motion – none; those absent – Governors Duggan and Kimbrough.
Mr. Hammons declared the resolution passed unanimously.
4. Date of Next Meeting --- The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting is Thursday, May 13, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. in the Traywick Parliamentary Room in the Plaster Student Union on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
5. Adjournment--- Mr. Hammons adjourned the meeting at 5:20 p.m.
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Brightly dressed joggers padded by and small boats bobbed in the choppy harbor waters behind him. But Charleston Detective Thomas Bailey didn't seem to notice as he pulled a thick binder from his unmarked car.
His interest lay not with the fitness buffs and camera-toting tourists who strolled the historic Battery seawall. Instead, Bailey fixed his attention on a scrubby patch of grass where a beloved teacher died a violent death nearly seven years ago.
In his hands, Bailey held the sum total of the police investigation into Clifton Harris Jr.'s murder — a 6-inch-thick book full of names, dates, statements, phone numbers, photos and more.
The only thing missing was the answer to a question that has perplexed police since that balmy August morning in 2006: Just who killed Harris and why?
Harris, a mentor to generations of students at First Baptist Church School on Meeting Street, was found slumped over the wheel of his idling car along Murray Boulevard at 3 a.m. that day. A pair of gunshots had ended his life.
Friends knew of no one who wished harm upon Harris. Equally puzzling was what the 57-year-old West Ashley resident was doing at The Battery in the wee hours of a Saturday morning.
Some people suggested Harris was seeking respite from a sleepless night or watching a meteor shower. Others, however, began speculating about possible links between the killing and The Battery's reputation as a late-night cruising spot for gay men.
Harris was gay, and police learned that he had been known to make trips to The Battery to meet men on occasion. But investigators have found nothing to indicate his lifestyle played a direct role in his slaying, Bailey said.
Investigators haven't ruled out any theory, Bailey said, "but right now, we're leaning toward the possibility that this was a robbery gone bad."
Harris' relatives said his death was a difficult blow for his family to absorb, and they would welcome any answers at this point.
"It just tore us up, this happening to him," his aunt, Laura Barker of Charleston, said. "He had a lot of things going for him in his life, and he did a lot of good for people."
With a bald head and piercing eyes, Harris was known as a kind, gentle man and a devout churchgoer who had a passion for travel and teaching. Over the years, he visited many points on the globe, from Russia and Sweden to England, Egypt and Morocco. Each time, he would return home with tacky T-shirts and a wealth of lessons to share with his students, helping to expand their horizons.
Friends said he adored the children at First Baptist and considered his work there "a mission." Over his 33-year career, he taught history to about 3,000 students.
The lifelong bachelor, however, kept his personal life intensely private. Barker and Harris' uncle, Fletcher Harris, said family members didn't learn Clifton Jr. was gay until after he died.
"We didn't know anything about that," Fletcher Harris said.
During the day, families and tour groups crowd The Battery and adjacent White Point Garden. But for years, The Battery also has been a discreet hook-up spot for gay men who cruise in the shadows of antebellum homes valued at $2 million or more.
A 2003 article in the gay travel magazine OutTraveler suggested The Battery may be "the most beautiful cruising spot in the country."
Warren Redman-Gress, executive director of the Charleston-based Alliance for Full Acceptance, said he doesn't think many gay people frequent The Battery these days looking for companionship, as there are plenty of safer options available. Redman-Gress said he doesn't know anyone who goes there for that purpose.
Still, at least two ads could be found on Craigslist last week posted by gay men looking to meet at The Battery for a discreet encounter and some "light touching and groping," as one man put it.
Whatever drew Harris to The Battery on Aug. 19, 2006, he didn't make it out alive, though there were signs he had tried to escape his attacker.
Area residents called police after hearing gunshots ring out. Officers found Harris slumped over the steering wheel of his 1998 Nissan Altima, which was still running and had come to rest on the grassy median. He had placed the car in reverse, as if making a hasty exit. The wipers slid back and forth over the windshield, and all the windows were rolled down.
What officers didn't find were witnesses or clues to the shooter's identity.
Bailey said nothing appeared to have been stolen from Harris, but the crime scene and other evidence raised suspicions that he might have been shot while trying to escape a robber who approached his car.
Detectives found no reports of similar robberies in the area around that time. But if a robber was targeting cruisers, might not some of those crimes have gone unreported by men leery of answering questions about what brought them to The Battery in the first place?
Bailey is appealing to anyone who might been have victimized in the area back then or saw anything on the morning Harris was killed to call police and share that information with investigators. He can't shake the feeling that someone out there has information that could help crack the case and bring Harris' killer to justice.
Barker, Harris' aunt, said his family would like nothing more than to see that happen.
"Clifton was a real good guy," she said. "It was such an awful thing for him to lose his life at that age."
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Eagles fans can breathe a sigh of relief with the latest update on defensive end Trent Cole's injured right ankle.
Cole used Twitter to report his own MRI results from this morning.
"Well, I'm good. Nothing serious. Now time to recover and get after Green Bay."
The Eagles said the MRI showed "no structural damage." Cole is listed as day-to-day with a mild ankle sprain, the team said.
Cole was not going to play in the preseason finale against the Jets on Thursday anyway. It is unknown how much -- if any practice time -- Cole will miss.
Andy Reid is expected to address the media tomorrow after the team returns to practice at the NovaCare Complex.
The Eagles, apparently with nothing better to do on a Saturday night, announced the release of five players, three of them with local ties. Former practice squad guard Greg Isdaner, an Episcopal Academy grad, was axed along with Upper Darby linebacker Simoni Lawrence and Newtown safety Ryan Hamilton, along with offensive lineman Zipp Duncan and wideout Jared Perry. The roster now contains 75 players; the next cut, in about a week, is to the regular-season limit of 53.
Somehow, the final verson of the Daily News game story from last night never got posted, the one with quotes and a corrected DeSean Jackson diagnosis. So, since your Eagletarian flew literally halfway across the country to write it, we thought we'd provide it for you here, if anyone is still interested:
By Les Bowen
KANSAS CITY --- There is a reason NFL teams don't play the starters much in the preseason, and it doesn't really have a lot to do with the crucial need for an extended look at the Martell Malletts, Jerail McCullers and Jared Perrys of the world.
Andy Reid's plan to sharpen his starting offensive and defensive units with their most extensive preseason playing time last night started to veer off track on the Birds' first snap, when DeSean Jackson took a wideout screen 4 yards and got clobbered by rookie safety Eric Berry, the guy many fans wanted the Eagles to trade up to draft this year. Jackson left the field with what Eagles coach Andy Reid later described as a neck strain. He did not return to what became a 20-17 victory over the host Kanas City Chiefs. Reid said he held Jackson out for precuationary reasons.
The offense without Jackson certainly lacked sharpness. Picking up blitzes seemed to be a lost art, as former Eagles practice squad linebacker Andy Studebaker roamed free for a pair of first-half sacks of Kevin Kolb.
By halftime, the most indispensable defensive player, defensive end Trent Cole, had ridden a John Deere cart off to the locker room for right ankle X-rays, which were negative. Reid said Cole will have an MRI this morning, back in Philadelphia.
Cole was followed to the locker room by Mike McGlynn, the guy who ought to be the No. 3 center but has started every preseason game because Jamaal Jackson is still recovering from ACL surgery and Nick Cole has lost the past several weeks to mysterious knee soreness. For the final drive before the half, A.Q. Shipley, a longshot to make the roster (before last night, anyhow) was snapping the ball to Kolb.
McGlynn, knowing the enormity of the opportunity in front of him, returned for the second half. He said his ankle had been rolled up.
"It wasn't quite as sharp as we would have liked it, for sure," Kolb said after completing 11 of 25 passes for 103 yards and a 39.2 passer rating. "There was a lot of details we have to clean up. There needs to be some special attention paid to it, starting with myself."
Reid said there was "plenty of work to do" with the first-team offense. He said the unit got "great work" against a 3-4 defense. He said the game also was "great work" for Kolb, who still hasn't led the offense to a preseason touchdown.
The Eagles scored on that first drive, Shady McCoy taking a Michael Vick handoff 18 yards up the gut, getting excellent blocking from just about everybody on the field. The Eagles started on the Chiefs' 22 following a fumble recovered by Trent Cole.
The Birds settled for a 39-yard David Akers field goal at the end of their third drive, a 16-play marathon that went off course when Kolb was pressured into an end zone incompletion to Jeremy Maclin (who had a terrible first half in his return to his home state, dropping a long bomb and a couple shorter balls), then Jason Peters took the first of his two first-half false starts.
"That's not like Jeremy," Reid said. Maclin was targeted a whopping 11 times, catching 3 passes for 39 yards.
"He's just got to do a better job of focusing there."
Asked about Peters' penalties, Reid said: "That can't happen."
Kansas City had the ball much of the second quarter, thanks to a rare defensive delay penalty on the Eagles as the Chiefs were about to punt. Apparently someone tried to entice a false start. Kansas City's bumbling offense promptly awoke and drove smartly downfield, Matt Cassel hitting a wide-open Dwayne Bowe in the end zone on third and goal from the 3.
The Eagles' two-minute drill worked well enough to net a first down at the Chiefs' 24, but a Studebaker sack, a Maclin drop and a Peters false start later, Sav Rocca was punting.
Midway through the third quarter, Kolb had been sacked four times, all by linebackers, and had spent much of his time on the run. Running back Mike Bell, playing for the first time in the preseason, looked rusty. He gained 17 yards on 8 attempts.
Kolb hit halftime 4 for 13 for 29 yards. He missed a few throws, but as so often was the case with his predecessor, other people's shortcomings made it hard to evaluate him. No blocking, several drops, no running game after the first few series. We did learn that Kolb can scramble effectively, something that was way down the list of important things to establish last night. And again like with his predecessor, there were times when you thought maybe the ball could have gotten out a little quicker.
"Like always, it starts at our position," Kolb said.
Reid said he thought his offensive line "did good" but noted the blitz pickup problems, primarily from the running backs.
Kolb, on the run, heaved a deep ball for Maclin into double coverage and got it picked off by safety Kendrick Lewis a bit past midway through the third, setting up a touchdown that gave the Chiefs a 14-10 lead, with 4:42 left in the third. Eagles reserve corner Dimitri Patterson suffered a finger injury on the touchdown play, an 11-yard Thomas Jones run against Birds reserves. Patterson later returned.
After the pick, these were Kolb's stats: 6 for 19, 47 yards (2.5 yards per attempt), one interception, 19.0 passer rating.
Kolb, with Vick snaps interspersed, drove the Eagles into the red zone at the end of the third quarter. He faced second and 6 after completing a pass to Maclin at the 12. But Vick came in for a QB draw that netted only 3 yards, leaving Kolb with a third down to convert. He had no receivers in sight as he rolled left and ultimately threw the ball away, his last snap of the evening, on the first play of the fourth quarter, before David Akers kicked a 27-yard field goal that brought the Eagles within 14-13.
The Eagles to that point had converted just 3 of 13 third downs, and managed just 4 passing first downs.
He said he felt the Birds let down after scoring so easily on that first possession.
"You could see it – it was one mistake here, one mistake there, it just kept hindering us," Kolb said. "We couldn't ever get any rhythm. We finally got some rhythm on the last drive, we went down there and put it down there inside the 10, had a good drive all the way through, except putting it in the end zone."
Birdseed: The Eagles won when rookie quarterback Mike Kafka led a late drive, hitting rookie wideout Riley Cooper for an 18-yard touchdown with 23 seconds remaining … Despite an emphasis on directional kickoffs from David Akers, the coverage once again was haphazard … Asante Samuel might still be celebrating the lick he laid on tiny rookie running back/wideout Dexter McCluster, Samuel blowing up a red zone screen … McCluster averaged 37 yards on three kickoff returns … Rookie corner Trevard Lindley got some first-unit snaps for Ellis Hobbs and came up with a nice interception, tipping the ball away from the receiver and then catching it. Andy Reid said he wanted to give Lindley some snaps against the Chiefs' first-team offense, with the Birds' first-team defense … This was the Chiefs' first game in renovated Arrowhead Stadium … Todd Herremans played the first half at left guard; Reid said he felt good … Rookies Brandon Graham and Nate Allen seemed to play well again … Chiefs linebacker Cameron Sheffield left the field immobile on a back board after his helmet hit Mike Bell's shoulderpads and helment, Sheffield making a third-quarter tackle. The Chiefs said only that he suffered a neck injury.
With the Eagles hoping for an improved pass rush to take the pressure off the secondary, Trent Cole, the team's top pass-rusher, is scheduled for an MRI today on his injured right ankle.
Cole limped to the sideline during the second quarter of last night's win over Kansas City and then was carted into the locker room. X-rays were negative.
"Getting MRI this morning. I hope I'm alright because this [stuff] sucks," Cole told his followers this morning via Twitter.
The Eagles have to hope he is just fine, too. Darryl Tapp took most of the snaps after Cole was hurt. Rookie Brandon Graham has moved into the starting role on the other side.
Chiefs linebacker Cameron Sheffield reportedly was moving his extremities after leaving the field strapped to a board. The Chiefs supplied no information, other than that Sheffield suffered a "neck injury" in a collision with Mike Bell, but teammates told the Kansas City Star that he was moving.
On a happier note, today is a special day for Eagles fullback Leonard Weaver, as he returns to Carson-Newman College in Tennessee for a day in his honor when the team plays Winona State in the opener.
"I can't believe Carson Newman College is having a Leonard Weaver Day," Weaver wrote this morning.
"This is pretty cool because I get a chance to go back and see some old teammates and coaches."
Weaver played linebacker as a freshman and moved to tight end as a sophomore, catching one pass. As a junior, Weaver caught 16 passes for 410 yards and six TDs, including a 67-yard touchdown in the Eagles' playoff win at Valdosta State.
As a senior, Weaver would go on to catch 27 passes for 571 yards and eight touchdowns. He was part of Carson-Newman's first 300-yard passing game under Ken Sparks, a 49-34 win at Catawba, in which Weaver caught three balls for 136 yards and two TDs. For his career, he averaged a deep threat, wide receiver-like 23 yards per reception.
Weaver was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Seattle Seahawks and was eventually converted to fullback.
Weaver wrote that he was a little sore from last night's game and that his back was doing fine. Apparently, Todd Herremans blocked someone into Weaver.
"My back is okay, it was just the wind being knocked out of me.," he wrote. "My boy Todd power drove somebody into my back."
The Eagles take today off, then practice tomorrow. Their preseason finale is Thursday at home against the Jets. Traditionally, Andy Reid does not play his starters at all in the last preseason game, but the sketchy performance of the first-team offense last night in Kansas City raised questions over whether he might want that unit to get a little more work. Reid was noncommital. In previous situations like this, he has opted to just work on sharpness in practice and not risk more injury.


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Many farms have not been enrolled in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program, and instead still are receiving Federal commodity program payments in the traditional manner that includes a counter-cyclical program (see ACRE Program Enrollment in 2009 and 2010 for details). June 1st is the deadline for enrolling farms into ACRE that still are in the counter-cyclical program. Farmers and landowners may wish to consider ACRE as ACRE's revenue protection is significantly better than price protection offered by the counter-cyclical program. Moreover, ACRE's revenue protection differs from the protection offered by crop insurance.
ACRE basics
ACRE is a state-level revenue program that makes payments when state revenue fall below a state guarantee (a farm benchmark must also be met before a farm receives an ACRE payment). The traditional counter-cyclical program makes payments when national market year average (MYA) prices fall below trigger prices. Trigger prices are fixed at low levels – $2.35/bu. for corn, $5.56/bu. for soybeans and $3.65/bu. for wheat – resulting in very small chances of payments under the traditional program. On the other hand, ACRE's guarantee is based on more recent yields and prices, resulting in much higher chances of payments. In Illinois for a typical year, ACRE is estimated to pay in one-third of the years for corn, 16% of the years for soybeans and 26% of the years for wheat (see ACRE Will Likely Pay More than the Traditional Alternative).
In exchange for higher expected payments under ACRE, farmers must give up 20% of direct payments, which on many Midwest farms works out to be a reduction of between $4 and $5/acre. Farms enrolling in ACRE also will have a loan rate 30% less than in the traditional program. The "costs" of having a lower loan rate are small, as the chance of receiving loan deficiency payments is near zero. National loan rates without the 30% reduction are $1.95/bu. for corn, $5 for soybeans and $2.94 for wheat. Moreover, current low interest rates cause the value of having of marketing loans to be very small.
In essence, enrolling in ACRE is similar to buying insurance. For $4-5/acre, farmers receive revenue protection offered by ACRE (for more detail on ACRE download a pdf: Questions and Answers about the ACRE Provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill).
2011 Benchmark Prices
ACRE will make payments when state revenue is below a state guarantee. The state guarantee equals 90% times the five-year Olympic average of state yields times a benchmark price. The benchmark price equals the average of the last two national MYA prices.
The 2011 benchmark prices are not known yet with certainty as the 2010 market year is not over. Using the midpoint of World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), benchmark prices can be estimated. Corn is projected to have a $4.48 benchmark price, 67¢ higher than the 2010 benchmark price (see table). Soybeans have a 2010 MYA price estimate of $11.55, 77¢ higher than the 2010 price. Wheat's benchmark price is projected at $5.24/bu., 59¢ lower than the 2010 price.
Unique protection
Current grain bids for harvest-time delivery are well above ACRE benchmark prices. In central Illinois, fall delivery bids are in the mid-$6 range for corn and mid-$13 range for soybeans. Wheat bids are in the mid-$7 range for summer delivery. This suggests that the chance of ACRE payment in 2011 are below their more typical probabilities of 33% for corn, 16% for soybeans and 26% for wheat.
While the chance is lower than average in 2011, ACRE still is worth considering. The $4.48 corn, $10.55 soybean and $5.24 wheat benchmark prices are above historical levels and well above trigger prices contained in the counter-cyclical program. While the price and revenue outlook currently is positive, events could occur that cause 2011 to be poor revenue year. While not likely, prices could fall causing ACRE payments. A low-yielding year could also result in ACRE payments.
Moreover, ACRE offers different protection from crop insurance. Crop insurance prices for determining revenue on corn and soybeans will based on futures prices in October. For corn and soybeans, ACRE revenue will be determined by MYA prices, which are averaged from September 2011 through August 2012. Because of the long period for determining prices, ACRE offers extended protection compared to crop insurance, whose protection ends after harvest prices and yields are determined.
ACRE offers revenue protection superior to price protection offered by the traditional counter-cyclical program. ACRE's revenue protection differs from crop insurance. These features cause ACRE to be attractive alternative, even given the $4 or $5/acre reduction in direct payments.


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There's a baby on the way for Tiffany Thornton!
The Disney star and her husband Christopher Carney are expecting their second child together, she announced Friday with a fun photo on her WhoSay account.
Seen in the photo wearing jeans and a black sweater while posing with a group of her gal pals, the Sonny with a Chance star writes, "Guess what?! Hint: why am I holding my stomach?"
The So Random! actress, 27, and Carney — who are already parents to 14-month-old son Kenneth James — tied the knot in November 2011.
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"Giganto: The Real King Kong" (History 7 p.m.) Desperate to find some way of glomming on to this season's biggest movie blockbuster, History Channel digs up a documentary on the prehistoric ape Gigantopithecus.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (KOAT-7 7 p.m.) Because once is never enough.
"A Scooby-Doo Christmas" (KWBQ-19 7:30 p.m.) The Mysteries Inc. gang stumbles across a cheerless town haunted by a headless snowman. Not to denigrate the citizens of this fine burg, but on the list of supernatural horrors, the headless snowman ranks right up there with the broken-down Ford Pinto. I mean, a headless snowman is just two large snowballs, isn't it?
"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Christmas Special: A Lost Claus" (Cartoon Network 8 p.m.) Ironic that the imaginary monsters of Foster's would lose their belief in Santa Claus, but that's apparently the case here.
"Cops: Ho! Ho! Ho! Special Edition" (KASA-2 7 p.m.) In case you were wondering, that "Ho!" thing has got nothing to do with Santa.
The Sound of Music (KOAT-7 7 p.m.) Nothing says "the network program director is on vacation" better than a holiday airing of The Sound of Music.
"Frosty the Snowman" (KRQE-13 7 p.m.) Thirty-six years and the sound effects still creep me out.
Once Upon a Mattress (KOAT-7 7 p.m.) Long a staple of regional dinner theater, this fantasy musical comes to life with Carol Burnett, Tracey Ullman, Zooey Deschanel and Tom Smothers. (What, you couldn't find a role for Dick?)
"The Simpsons" (KASA-2 7 p.m.) The Simpsons spin Christmas tales. Woo-hoo!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (KOB-4 8 p.m.) Cousin Eddie rules.
"Deal or No Deal" (KOB-4 7 p.m.) NBC tries to revive the short-lived "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" phenomenon with this new nightly gameshow in which people can win a penny or a million dollars. Howie Mandel hosts. ... Well, so much for that idea.
"A Barbara Walters Special: Heaven--Where is it? How Do We Get In?" (KOAT-7 8 p.m.) Finally, the questions that have plagued theologians for millennia will be answered. By celebrity journalist Barbara Walters. I hope when she gets to Heaven she asks Jesus, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"
"Animals Behaving Badly" (Animal Planet 8 p.m.) This special spotlights "repulsive, putrid and bizarre" animal behavior. So, feel free to eat dinner during the show.
"The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" (KOB-4 8 p.m.) Martha's pale Donald Trump imitation comes to an end, raising the question, "Do you really want to work for someone who drove her company into bankruptcy, went to prison and got her show canceled?"


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Started yesterday and watched our little baby eat like a champ. The boyfriend prepared the meals and today cut up a whole chicken, some legs, threw in some beef and marrow and topped it off with some blended mixed veggies+a little bannana!!! and they say men cant cook. :roll: We've got meals for the next three days or so, so we are anxious to see how how the pup will make the switch. Today she experienced some constipation, but with a little pumpkin produced some really great greyish poop, so we are optimistic. I think within the next day or so we will have a complete schedule written up for what and when to feed her for a balanced diet. I would like to post it up for review by the board and see what you other BARF lovers think of it. Anyway, just wanted to share the good news. HAPPY BARFING!
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| WMU News
KALAMAZOO—Leaders of five Michigan higher education institutions met Dec. 4 to formally sign a series of agreements that will make it easier for their students to earn a critical credential that will help them throughout their careers.
The presidents of four community colleges with close ties to Western Michigan University visited the WMU campus to sign reverse transfer agreements that will allow students to begin their studies at the community college level, transfer to WMU and still earn an associate degree using WMU credits to complete their degree requirements.
These four presidents met with WMU Provost Timothy Greene for a special signing held at WMU's Gilmore Alumni House:
• Glen Oaks Community College President Gary Wheeler,
• Kellogg Community College President Dennis Bona,
• Lake Michigan College President Robert Harrison, and
• Lansing Community College President Brent Knight.
Reverse transfer agreements, WMU's Greene says, are a way to honor the college choices and paths students follow and ensure they receive the maximum benefit from both their time at their community college and at WMU.
"We want them to have the flexibility of entering the job market whenever they wish and to have a resume that reflects the community college credentials they've earned as they work to complete a four-year degree," Greene says. "This is about our institutions showing our joint commitment to our students and their success."
The flexibility afforded by the agreements is important to many students, notes Glen Oaks' Wheeler.
"Students often enter the work force prior to completing their four-year degree," Wheeler says "The agreement demonstrates the commitment on the part of both institutions to support student success while enhancing the student's attractiveness in the job market."
The agreements are tailored to each institution, but they generally allow a student who has earned at least 30 credits at their community college to apply as many as 30 WMU credits toward completing an associate degree, which typically requires around 60 credits.
KCC's Bona called the initiative an easy one to support.
"Anything that is as student centered as this is something we're going to get behind," Bona says. "Right now, students are leaving an important credential on the table, and this addresses that in a way that is focused squarely on our students' needs."
Combined, the four community colleges represented at the Dec. 4 signing send about 300 transfer students to WMU each fall. Many transfer students have completed their associate degree requirements before they transfer, but many have not. The University has been working with its community college partners to find ways to make those transfer transitions more seamless and allow students to derive the maximum benefit of each part of their collegiate experience.
"Increasingly, graduates with all kinds of degrees will be assembling credits in a variety of ways to earn the credentials they need," LCC's Knight says. "That is the future, and Michigan needs more degree completion at every level."
LMC's Harrison called the agreement he signed one that "will clearly benefit our students."
"This is a good step to increase the competitive nature of our work force and boost the number of people in our county who have a degree," he says. "We're very pleased to be a partner with the University in this."
With the Dec. 4 signing, a total of seven community colleges have inked reverse transfer agreements with WMU.


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We Remember Jacob Wetterling on This National Missing Children's Day
Today marks the 29th Annual National Missing Children's Day.
Former President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25th as National Missing Children's Day in honor of the 1979 abduction of six year-old Etan Patz whom went missing on his way to school in New York.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children encourages parents to take 25 minutes talk to their children about safety.
Some of the tips that NCMEC offers while you are out and about are to tell your children that it is okay to say no to anything that makes them feel uncomfortable, practice what if situations, and stay away from vehicles whether they are occupied or not.
Summer activities are in full swing and Sauk Rapids Police Chief Perry Beise encourages parents to be mindful of where their children are at all times. "Make sure they call you when they get to where they are going, especially teens," said Beise.
Beise suggests that children travel in known routes and that parent's identify what routes are safe to take.
If children are approached by a suspicious person Beise says, "Tell your children that it is okay to move away from them."
Beise said that the best advice for parents to tell their children if they are approached is to, "Keep fighting and keep kicking."
Today reminds us of all those missing and exploited children from Minnesota. Find out more about each of them by clicking on the links below.


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'Gatsby' gives 'Iron Man 3' a run for its money
Mon, 13 May 2013 12:37:39 GMT —
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LOS ANGELES (AP) â?? Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office.
Leonard DiCaprio's "The Great Gatsby" partied like it was the Roaring '20s with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man 3."
Studio estimates Sunday put "Gatsby" at No. 2 behind Robert Downey Jr.'s superhero sequel, which pulled in $72.5 million domestically to raise its total to $284.9 million after just 10 days in U.S. theaters.
With an additional $89.3 million in its third weekend overseas, "Iron Man 3" lifted its international total to $664.1 million and its worldwide haul to $949 million.
"The Great Gatsby" far exceeded expectations by distributor Warner Bros. of a $35 million to $40 million opening weekend.
Director Baz Luhrmann's 3-D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic was a rare box-office smash for films aimed at older adults during the youth-minded summer season. According to Warner Bros., viewers over 25 made up 69 percent of the film's audience.
"It answers the question that you and I hear all the time from people over 50, 'There's nothing for me to see,'" said Dan Fellman, the studio's head of distribution. "While every studio has the $200 million tentpoles in the marketplace, you still have those who feel that it's not directed at them, which is true. So that's why I think counterprogramming like this is very important."
The weekend's other new wide release, Lionsgate's romantic comedy "Peeples," flopped at No. 4 with just $4.9 million. Produced by Tyler Perry, the movie stars Craig Robinson and Kerry Washington in a meet-the-parents-style farce.
Getting a head start on its domestic launch Friday, "Star Trek: Into Darkness" opened with $31.7 million in seven international markets. Its overseas debut included $13.3 million in Great Britain, $7.6 million in Germany and $5.5 million in Australia.
Starring DiCaprio in the title role as 1920s mystery millionaire Jay Gatsby, the latest Fitzgerald update co-stars Carey Mulligan as his lost love and Tobey Maguire as the friend chronicling their doomed romance.
It was by far the biggest debut ever for filmmaker Luhrmann, whose previous best was $14.8 million for "Australia." In just one weekend, "The Great Gatsby" nearly matched the $57.4 million domestic haul that Luhrmann's top-grossing film, the musical "Moulin Rouge!", managed in its entire run.
"Gatsby" also gave DiCaprio his second-biggest debut, behind the $62.8 million take for "Inception."
The film's success follows a bumpy road to theaters. Originally scheduled for release last December, Warner Bros. pushed it back to summer to give Luhrmann more time to finish his elaborate visual spectacle.
How well the film holds up in coming weeks depends on word-of-mouth from fans. Reviews for "The Great Gatsby" have been so-so, with many critics saying it sacrifices drama and substance for style and dazzle, including Lurhmann's elaborate party scenes backed by a contemporary soundtrack featuring Jay-Z, Beyonce and Lana Del Rey.
"Iron Man 3" was down a steep 58 percent from its opening weekend haul, no surprise given that its $174.1 million domestic debut was the second-biggest ever. The only film to do more business was Downey and company's ensemble adventure "The Avengers," which topped $200 million in its premiere last year.
"The Avengers" held up better in its second weekend with $103.1 million, a drop of only 50 percent. But "Iron Man 3" is on its way to becoming the biggest solo superhero hit worldwide and the second-biggest comic-book adaptation, behind the $1.5 billion "Avengers" payday.
"This is on a trajectory like no other individual superhero movie we've ever seen," said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "In less than three weeks, this thing is honing in on a billion dollars. It's just a testament to the incredible popularity of this character."
The movie already has far surpassed the franchise best of $624 million worldwide for "Iron Man 2."
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Iron Man 3," $72.5 million ($89.3 million international).
2. "The Great Gatsby," $51.1 million.
3. "Pain and Gain," $5 million.
4. "Peeples," $4.9 million.
5. "42," $4.7 million.
6. "Oblivion," $3.9 million ($11.7 million international).
7. "The Croods," $3.6 million ($17.3 million international).
8. "The Big Wedding," $2.5 million ($2 million international).
9. "Mud," $2.4 million.
10. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $802,000.
Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:
1. "Iron Man 3," $89.3 million.
2. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $31.7 million.
3. "The Croods," $17.3 million.
4. "Oblivion," $11.7 million.
5. "Les Profs," $3.7 million.
6. "Boomerang Family," $3.6 million.
7. "Scary Movie 5," $2.7 million.
8. "Evil Dead," $2.6 million.
9. "Hanni and Nanni 3," $2.3 million.
10. "The Big Wedding," $2 million.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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Jan 12, 2009
Thanks to our Order partner DanRadcliffe.com for the news that actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) is due to be a guest tonight on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. This is apparently a new episode, and is due to be broadcast on the NBC network later tonight at 12:35 (check your local listings for more).
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Why is Orlando Bloom?
Last week he was in Marrakesh with Jennifer Aniston and my Gwyneth for the opening of some hotel. Yesterday he was in Vegas with Rosario Dawson and some other people for the opening of another hotel.
What exactly does Orlando Bloom do?
A perfect candidate for Why Is, non?
Sure he has a few projects up for release according to IMDB but really, when was Orlando Bloom last relevant? Maybe when he almost ran away from that accident? Maybe when he was rumoured to be f-cking Jessica Simpson? Maybe when he was horribly cast in Elizabethtown?
It's been a long, LONG time. And right now his main claim to fame is on the arm of a crazy beautiful Victoria's Secret body called Miranda Kerr. Now that is ass backwards. When you're lesser than a model girlfriend? It's a slamdunk Why Is.
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