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Hoopeston local signs his collection of stories about Hoopeston
Did you grow up in a small mid-western town? Like Hoopeston? Then Growing Up Doughnut is a book you should read.
On Friday, Sept. 3rd from 5:00–7:00 p.m. Jane Addams Book Shop welcomes Don Shields and his book Growing Up Doughnut, which is a story of simpler times in a small town when kids played long after the street lights came on and parents watched out for all the kids on the block. Somewhat autobiographical, the story is a work of creative nonfiction with characters that are real, to which everyone can relate. The story is funny, poignant, revealing, thought provoking, and, at times, heartbreaking.
Price: $14.50
About the Author: Don Shields was born and raised in Hoopeston, IL. The simplicity of life in the 1960s and 70s and the experience of growing up around people in his family's restaurant influenced his optimistic outlook on life. Shields also took on a part time career as a radio DJ, endowing him with the ability to enumerate his picture of life to his audience. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife of 35 years, Dorothy, and near his kids James and Debi and his grand-dog Akkadian.
| Big Ten divisions to be announced tonight
From the wire:
BIG TEN NETWORK TO AIR ANNOUNCEMENT OF BIG TEN FOOTBALL DIVISIONS
Commissioner Jim Delany to appear exclusively on 90-minute special
CHICAGO - The Big Ten Network will air the official live announcement of the Big Ten football divisions with Commissioner Jim Delany at 7 p.m. ET tonight. The show will also be streamed live at BigTenNetwork.com
Lead studio host Dave Revsine will host the football special and be joined by analysts Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith. Confirmed guests will include athletic directors David Brandon of Michigan, Mark Hollis of Michigan State, Gene Smith of Ohio State, Tom Osborne of Nebraska, and other Big Ten Network analysts.
Where Illinois lands is anybody's guess, but I think most are hoping they land in the division without Ohio State.
Everyone team is.
Champaign Library to start charging Tolono and Mahomet residents
Watch your back Savoy. Here's the press release in full:
Starting November 1, library patrons with cards from the Mahomet and Tolono public libraries will need to purchase a Champaign library card to check out materials from the Champaign Public Library.
Cards will be available for an annual fee of $200, approximately equal to the annual library tax paid by the owners of an average Champaign home, as part of their property tax.
During a time of declining funding and increased usage, the new policy is intended to preserve access to library materials for Champaign taxpayers. Library usage by residents of nearby towns has been growing especially quickly. Since fiscal year 2006-2007, the number of items checked out at the Champaign library has increased 48 percent overall. Among patrons from outside Champaign, however, usage is up 93 percent.
To determine where to apply the card fee, the Champaign library looked at the number of items each library's card holders borrow at Champaign compared to their home library. The fee will apply only to libraries in the Lincoln Trail Libraries System whose card holders check out at least 60 percent as many items at the Champaign library as they check out from their home libraries.
"We focused on those communities where library card holders are tending to use our library in place of their home library," said Champaign Library Director Marsha Grove. Last fiscal year, for every 10 items Mahomet card holders borrowed from their home library, they borrowed close to 8 at Champaign - a total of 86,050 Champaign items. For every 10 items Tolono card holders borrowed at home, they borrowed 17 from Champaign - a total of 167,259 Champaign items.
The new library card fee will help offset the impact of patrons who choose to continue using Champaign's collections. Grove also hopes to encourage patrons to return to their home libraries and discover all that they have to offer. "These neighboring libraries should also benefit from increased awareness and use," Grove said.
Grove emphasized that the Champaign library's primary responsibility is to its taxpayers. "This policy will help us be good stewards of the dollars Champaign residents invest in their library and help us maintain services during a period of constricted budgets," Grove said.
Property tax revenues, which provide close to 90 percent of the library's budget, are no longer able to keep up with increasing costs. While the library has worked hard to increase efficiency and reduce expenses, it has been forced to trim staffing and collections-areas that can directly impact the quality of services. Seven staff positions have been left open indefinitely, and funding for library materials has declined 10 percent over the past two years.
The new cards will be available for purchase at the library starting Monday, October 4. An installment payment option will be available, with the addition of a small service fee.
Cancer. BOOM! What cancer?
Paul J. Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at the UIUC and other researchers have identified a compound that causes cancer cells to self-destruct, Inspector Gadget style. The sooner they can figure out how to make this happen — the better. The article was taken straight from today's TheNation.com post:
"Compound that causes cancer cells to self-destruct identified: Study"
Scientists have identified a small synthetic compound that causes cancer cells to self destruct, throwing up promise of effective and personalised anti-cancer treatment in the future.
Most living cells contain a protein called procaspase-3 which, when activated, changes into the executioner enzyme caspase-3 and initiates programmed cell death called apoptosis.
In cancer cells, however, the signalling pathway to procaspase-3 is broken. As a result cancer cells escape destruction and grow into tumours.
Paul J. Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and other researchers identified a synthetic compound that directly activates procaspase-3 and induces apoptosis, reported science portal EurekAlert.
The researchers screened more than 20,000 structurally diverse compounds and found that the compound called PAC-1 (procaspase activating compound one) killed cancer cells in 23 tumours obtained from a local hospital.
The researchers tested the compound's efficacy in cell cultures and in three mouse models of cancer.
"This is the first in what could be a host of organic compounds with the ability to directly activate executioner enzymes," Hergenrother said.
"By bypassing the broken pathway, we can use the cells' own machinery to destroy themselves," he said.
"The potential effectiveness of compounds such as PAC-1 could also be predicted in advance and patients could be selected for treatment based on the amount of procaspase-3 found in their tumour cells."
Such personalized medicine strategies are preferential to therapies that rely on general cytotoxins, the researchers say, and could be the future of anti-cancer therapy.
Many cancer treatments use cytotoxins to kill the actively and rapidly dividing cancer cells.
Former Parasol artist White Town cracks Pitchfork’s Top 200
That they reference our beloved little town and tremendous one-of-a-kind mailorder/record label is enough for us to mention it here.
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7854-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-200-151/5/
Our Nutty Congressman makes the LA Times
Peculiar behavior of Tim Johnson garners attention.
Call for Dance for Camera Film Production
Hi everyone,
My wife and I are gearing up for an upcoming Dance for Camera production. This will be a medium length project (we aim at around 50 minutes) to be presented to Film Festivals as well as Dance for Camera Festivals.
If you are not familiar with the concept, please see these as reference: DV8 - Cost of Living and Mitchell Rose
Location: Champaign-Urbana
Estimated Production Schedule: Flexible, principal photography to start in September/October and end tentatively in December. Most shooting will take place early in the morning (for the outdoors) when traffic is at its lowest. Detailed scheduled will be discussed with all participants in the projects to fit everyone's schedule to the best of our ability.
We are looking to collaborate with the following:
Talent:
Extras: Dancers, Actors - no restrictions (such as experience, age, gender, etc.)
Musicians: If you would like to appear in a project such as our, please contact us for details.
Composers: We need someone - or a team - to lead the creation of our score. Think Art of Noise, meets Gabrielle Roth.
Crew:
1st AD, Script Supervisor +
Camera Crew: 1st AC, Steadycam (or equivalent) owner/operator
Lighting Crew: Gaffer
Sound Crew: Boom Operator
The project is for SCREEN CREDIT ONLY. We have a good concept (we think) and you are welcome to discuss it with us prior to committing to our project. We will also contractually guarantee that the participants' names will be on every single distributed material - such as flayers, postcards, web presence, online trailers, etc. - unless you choose to opt-out.
Evidently, if you would like to be involved in a different capacity - such as fundraiser, marketing, etc. - we welcome you with open arms.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have no prior experience as a crew member please do not shy away. I will provide training - and it is the least I can do considering your willingness to help and our inability to provide pay.
Please find below a link to a temporary Bio page of myself:
http://evolutionaryexploration.com/HB/portfolio/html/bogdan_heretoiu.html
My wife is a Dancer/Choreographer with a vast experience in her field. She is currently teaching at the Dance Dept. (UI), while also taking classes. The project is a Masters Thesis project, but will be independently produced and entered in various festivals.
What we can guarantee is that this will be fun and intense.
If you are interested, you can contact me directly at:
bheretoiu at yahoo dot com
Please share this announcement with whomever you may think would be interested. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Looking forward to meeting and collaborating with you.
Bogdan Heretoiu
DJ Belly to perform at North Coast Music Festival!
Champaign's own DJ Belly has won the vote-in contest to perform at Chicago's North Coast Music Festival next weekend, alongside acts such as the Chemical Brothers, Flying Lotus, and De La Soul. He will perform on the Coast Stage from 1 - 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
Remembering Van Cagle
Van Cagle posted this video of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" yesterday on Facebook. It could serve as a memorial for Van, who was a fixture in C-U in the 1970s and 1980s, a welcome and familiar presence in the rock, punk, and cultural studies scenes. According to his sister, Libby Cagle Pollard, Van "died peacefully in his sleep last night."
Pygmalion Music Festival site hacked FIXED
Awesome.
(We should be up and running again soon, but still — shit.)
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Jason, Savoy could easily join the CPL tax district, which is probably closer to most Savoy residents than the Tolono library is. But my impression is that Savoy residents as a whole don’t want to pay the cost of the CPL (Tolono’s library taxes are cheaper), even…