Sunday, September 30, 2012

Georgia Southern University Student Wins Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics

Georgia Southern University senior Evin Hughes has won the first ever Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics. The award, co-sponsored by the Muhammad Ali Center and the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is given to the outstanding college student whose writing reflects Muhammad Ali?s legacy of living a life dedicated to high ethical standards.

Lonnie and Muhammad Ali, and director, screenwriter, and producer Oliver Stone will present Hughes the award and a check for $10,000 at the Norman Mailer Center?s fourth annual benefit gala on Thursday, October 4, in New York City. Actor Alec Baldwin and Tina Brown of Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast.com will host the event, which celebrates renowned and emerging writers alike. Hughes, a Swainsboro, Georgia native, will also receive a week- long writing workshop next summer at the Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, travel and hotel accommodations and tickets for the Gala.

The essay by the Georgia Southern dual major in Information Technology and Writing and Linguistics, emerged as the winner among eight semi-finalists and four finalists from such universities as Columbia, Georgetown, Oregon State, George Washington, Notre Dame and Alabama.

The three judges who read his prize-winning essay, ?Float like a Plane, Sting Like a Bomb: The Ethics of U.S. Drone Attacks,? included noted author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Elie Wiesel. In his nearly 5,000 word-winning entry, Hughes wrote about the harm of drones as weapons in ?the war on terror? and of a hopeful new future devoid of the violence created by drones.

The writers were judged on their understanding of the ethical issue posed in their essay, as well as for original thinking and insight, effectiveness in presenting a point-of-view and achieving an overall emotional or intellectual effect.

?This recognition of Evin Hughes reinforces the power of writing,? said Georgia Southern professor Phyllis Dallas who encouraged him to enter the contest.

?We faculty in Writing and Linguistics know that writing can affect the world, whether it is a poem or story that captures for its reader the beauty of language or an insight or emotion that leaves the reader knowing, as C.S. Lewis wrote, that we are not alone; or whether it is a finely crafted essay like Evin's that brings together his ethics, his critical analysis of a subject, and his synthesis of the research and writing of others to articulate an argument that asks its reader to consider and see their world anew and to question how to achieve peace and social justice.?

Donald Lassere, president and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center said, ?The Ali Center is so proud of Evin and the rest of the student finalists and honorees being recognized at the Norman Mailer Center?s Gala. ?This has been an outstanding partnership for the Ali Center and it has afforded us another opportunity to share Muhammad?s legacy with the younger generation which Muhammad and Lonnie care so much about.?

The Norman Mailer Center is an educational non-profit dedicated to supporting and celebrating those writers who challenge the status quo and surprise their audiences. ?The Muhammad Ali Center?s mission is to preserve and share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali and the National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all scholastic levels.

CLICK HERE To read Evin Hughes' prize-winning essay.?

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Source: http://news.georgiasouthern.edu/viewArticle.php?id=2303

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Microsoft store opens at Christiana Mall; Weezer performs

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Carys Bray: A little bit of Autobiography ~ Motherhood

I think my recent autobiographical musings (here?and?here) have been laying the foundations for this post. To recap, in a recent?interview?Zoe Lambert said:
Of course, the relation of the self to writing is more complex than the insertion of autobiographical experiences or facts or the creation of characters of the same age and gender as the author.
I've been thinking about Zoe's comment, particularly with reference to the forthcoming publication of my first short story collection. It's not really up to me to say what my book is 'about' - I won't ever be able to view it as a reader - but as I reflect on the stories, I notice frequent instances of parental ambivalence and perhaps, on an autobiographical level at least, some of that ambivalence can be contextualized by an understanding of a woman's place in the Mormon community.

I grew up feeling that my life was building towards the ultimate fulfillment of motherhood. I always pictured myself with a big family. Maybe statements like the one below played a part in my imaginings:

Woman and the Priesthood, Rodney Turner, p.222.?


My own family life probably played a part, too. I'm one of five children. Some people hate growing up in a big family, but I loved it. I loved my siblings, we had tremendous fun - when we were small we were like the five musketeers:?one for all and all for one.

Mormon girls are taught that bearing children is their primary purpose in life. A 2010 statement reads: 'Teach your daughters to find joy in nurturing children. This is where their love and talents can have the greatest eternal significance' (see full text?here).

The song below, 'I Want to be a Mother', is featured on a CD for Mormon children that is still on sale (it contrasts beautifully with the get-up-and-go, disco-influenced 'My Big Brother's Going on a Mission').

What if a woman doesn't want to be a mother? It seems that she is intrinsically bad: 'Faithful daughters of God desire children' (see full text?here).

What if a woman wants to be a mother AND something else? Tough luck: 'It was never intended by the Lord that married women should compete with men in employment. They have a far greater and more important service to render... Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother - cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one?s precious husband and children' (see full text?here).


I wanted to do motherhood the 'right' way, the way I'd been taught: milk and cookies and yellow balloons, the whole joyous, fulfilling experience. I spent several years in a slightly bewildered and occasionally desperate fug, wondering what I on earth I was doing wrong. Things were difficult financially because we had followed the advice of numerous Mormon prophets: 'Do not curtail the number of children for personal or selfish reasons. Material possessions, social convenience, and so-called professional advantages are nothing compared to a righteous posterity' (see full text?here). Consequently, I needed to get a job. I decided to work nights so I wouldn't be away from my children during the day. I felt guilty about working and I was so exhausted that I was frequently physically sick. My doctor gave me some medication to counter the sickness. I didn't tell him that on the nights when I wasn't working, I often lay awake, struggling to breathe past my bounding heart as I worried about things like eternal polygamy and how to quell the desire to snatch back some of my life from sticky, grasping fingers.

There were times when I attempted to give voice to my feelings, but other mothers were incredibly skilled at squelching ambivalence. I couldn't find anyone who was prepared to concede that parenthood was bloody awful at times, so I began to assume that there must be something fundamentally wrong with me. A thick, cotton-wool silence surrounded topics like postnatal depression and sleep deprivation. When I got a prescription for anti-depressants, I didn't tell my husband - I couldn't find the words, they weren't in the script of joyous, eternal motherhood.

Things got better.?When I finally started writing again (I stopped when I was 19, after I got engaged) I wrote about all the things I couldn't discuss.?(I talk about this in a?Threshold's?article on short story writer Helen Simpson,?here).?I wrote about harried, sleep-deprived parents; about shattered expectations and beastly children; about absent miracles and anxiety. After so many years of trying to carve myself into a complaint, and obedient woman, writing about the dark side of family life was a transgressive and extremely enjoyable enterprise.

My collection isn't autobiographical; I'm not divorced, I didn't buy my children at the supermarket and I don't live in a gingerbread house. But, as Zoe says, the relationship of the self to writing is complex and I wonder whether, among the drowning dolls and twilight supermarkets, the fictional parenting books and decapitated snowmen, there are tiny refractions of past anxieties: the place of women, polygamy, motherhood - I expect it's all there, somewhere.

I'm afraid you have what's known as children?is from?shoeboxblog

Source: http://postnatalconfession.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-little-bit-of-autobiography-motherhood_29.html

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Spare The Rod Spoil The Child...But Not In North Texas

When I first read this story I thought about the theme song for Welcome Back Kotter "Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out". ?

School administrators will be allowed to paddle students of the opposite sex under a rule approved unanimously Monday night (9-25-12) by the school board in the North Texas community of Springtown.

Superintendent Michael Kelley said Tuesday the new policy would ensure both male and female students are treated equally since there are not enough administrators of both genders in some schools in Springtown, which has a population of about 2,600.

Under the previous policy, corporal punishment could only be carried out by an administrator who was of the same gender as the student. The new policy says that a school official of the same gender as the student must be in the room where the paddling takes place and that parents must provide written permission for their child to be paddled.The punishment involves striking students on their clothed rear with a wooden paddle. ?

And now step back and watch as the machine known as the ACLU gears up for a major assault on this school board and Superintendent....watch and see!

Source:?http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2012/09/25/20232566.html

Source: http://whtc.com/blogs/post/rkingman/2012/sep/26/spare-rod-spoil-child-not-north-texas/

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Trying to install Windows 7 using bootcamp, Having issues

I'm trying to Install Windows 7 to my Mac using Bootcamp.

I click choose my partioning, and gives me a status bar, then it says this.... (picture)

I did research. I went in to Disk utiliy, checked my harddrive, its clean. I clicked Repair Disk, but nothing was wrong with it.

Does anyone know what I should do?

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13" Aluminum Macbook Pro. 2.7ghz 8GB Ram.
iPhone 4S Black 16GB

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1458399&goto=newpost

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Kopr94: Kopper Toy Box Giveaway today at Redline Sports for the Honda Rancher ATV? be present in order to claim the prize between 11:30 and noon.