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Ware is the second coach to depart already this season. The others are defensive back Dwayne Hollis, linebacker Nick Haag and linemen Melvin Hollins and Brandon Sesay.Īlong with being suspended the players also did not receive room keys at the hotel where the team was staying.Īlbany won the past two NAL titles but is just 1-2 this season during Brown's first season of ownership. ET.Īccording to Denis, reigning league MVP Prince and Castronova are among the suspended players. Unhappiness apparently continued once the team reached a hotel in Albany.Īcting Empire president Alberony Denis told the Times-Union that Albany police responded to a report of aggravated harassment at the hotel on Monday at 9:40 a.m. Several players, including quarterback Sam Castronova and receiver Darius Prince, were reportedly involved. The Empire dropped a 56-49 decision to the Carolina Cobras on Sunday in Greensboro, N.C., and then a heated exchange occurred on the bus ride back to New York. Multiple players were suspended and head coach Damon Ware departed the team after the incident
Their kids are now awake too and coming to check on their father as well. He finds a phone nearby and calls his wife who runs downstairs to find out what happened. He has no recollection of the incident and subsequent surgery and totally freaks out. In the middle of the night he wakes up and finds out that he has a cast on his leg. He was successfully transferred back home where his wife arranged a bed for him on the first floor. A relatively young gentleman in his 40s broke his leg and had a surgical repair done. We were consulted for a case of “global amnesia”. I will tell you the story that still puzzles me and happened during my neurological residency. There are a number of stories in a medical field and interesting can define anything from interesting treatment wise or interesting diagnostic wise. Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started your career? Thank you so much for doing this with us! Our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Everything Good Will Come Sefi Atta Limited preview - 2012. Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1964 and currently divides her time between the United States, England and Nigeria. Written in the voice of Enitan, against the backdrop of political turmoil in Nigeria, Everything Good Will Come is Enitans story one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman living in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Sefi Atta's steady, quiet, and yet bold narrative voice is unwavering in its dedication to craft, originality, and truth At the same time, reflecting the resilience of the Lagosians whose lives she explores, humour is almost constant, effervescent, most often satirical slant.” Sunday Independent “Again and again Atta’s writings tugs at the heart, at the conscience. “One of the most original, imaginative and gifted fiction writers in Africa, and arguably the best of her generation.” The Noma Award 2009 Sefi Atta: Nigerian American Writer, Playwright and Screenwriter. He and Alice Eversley, born into different social classes, become friends as children, when their families vacation on Cornwall during the lazy summer of 1913. Intervening sections reveal the tale of a long-ago love that transformed Tom’s life. An exquisite decades-old sketch of a beautiful dark-haired woman with a striking resemblance to June leads Kate to renowned artist Thomas Stafford, now an elderly widower living on Corsica. After the subsequent death of June’s adoptive mother, Evie, Kate is shaken to learn that Evie had withheld information about June’s birth mother. In 1986, Kate Darling is a 27-year-old photographer still mourning her mother, June, a celebrated ballerina the two had been exceptionally close. Spanning most of the 20 th century, The Book of Lost and Found is the sort of sweeping multi-period saga I seek out, one that promises to carry me away on a journey of discovery along with the characters. She would get a political science degree at the University of Kansas. Simons went to college in Kansas, New York, and England. When she was ten, she moved with her family to America, and finished an early attempt at writing in English at the age of twelve. This dream wound up getting put on hold when she was learning English and was overcoming the shock of a new culture. Her paternal grandpa lived through the first brutal winter of the siege of Leningrad before he joined the Red Army in the year 1942.Īs a child in Leningrad, she dreamed of becoming a writer. These are the same two rooms that Tatiana, her heroine, would live in with her family. She lived with her civil lawyer dad and engineer mom and cousin and uncle and aunt in the two rooms they called home. This is where she set “The Bronze Horseman”, her fourth novel. Paullina Simons was born with the name Paullina Handler in the Soviet Union during the mid-sixties. The final explosive instalment of The Brethren MC Trilogy, Get Carter on two wheels. Is everything what it seems, and who, if anyone, knows or is telling the truth? He has been in hiding in Ireland when he discovers that not only do Wibble and Charlie both know where he lives, but that he’s now wanted by both sides as a potentially bloody biker conflict heads towards its final showdown and worse, a trial in front of the media.īut as the case unfolds in Court, the questions become more and more urgent. Having got too far into the dangerous world of The Brethren MC for comfort, Iain was now out again, but out in bad standing. The only thing I have a choice about is when I stop writing.Īnd despite that, and despite the fact that whatever he says, I still think it was Wibble who really got me into all of this shit, the weird thing is, he’s also the only slim hope I have of ever getting out. Realistically there’s no way I’m getting out of this alive. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'obsession.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 But the obsession with Tiffany hasn’t waned. 2023 Rare whiskey collecting is a hunt, a game, a crapshoot, and sometimes a fruitless obsession. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Mar. Obsession: A Thrilling FBI Romance - Ebook written by Carol Ericson. 2023 Hand sanitizer became a national obsession. Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023 For Monica Arienzo, a professor of hydrologic sciences at the institute, microplastics research is a recent obsession. Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 Music was his obsession, but science was his birthright: his parents were both eminent psychologists. 2023 She was recently photographed on the streets of NYC wearing our newest obsession: an oversized BF blazer with baggy pants, and nothing but a bralette underneath. Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023 Leftist purity tests, a Buddhist commune, a cache of unsent emails, an incestuous obsession: All are grist for his mill. Recent Examples on the Web Schwartz said Raquel is his current obsession. Here is Heaney's translation: "It is easy to descend into Avernus/ Death's dark door stands open day and night./ But to retrace your steps and get back to upper air, / That is the task, that is the undertaking." sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / hoc opus, hic labor est. When Aeneas remembers the ruse of the Trojan Horse and quotes Laocoon, Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, "I dread the Greeks, yea, when they offer gifts." a literal translation can seem more powerful than anything else, right down to that quote "yea" which translates "et", here used as an intensifier, i.e., "and" in the sense of "and how".Įveryone tends to remember the plain sense of the words Kate Holden used as the epigraph to her memoir In the Skin: the way to hell is easy it's the way back that's hard. The trouble with Virgil is that like Dante not only is the language utterly memorable in its mellifluousness but so is the sense. Seamus Heaney, who left this final, not necessarily finished version of Book VI at the time of his death in 2013, says he was "an inner literalist", forever trying to get the exact sense of Virgil, even as he strove as a poet for a language "decorous enough for Virgil but not so … out of tune with our contemporary idiom". Aeneid: Book VI, translated by Seamus Heaney. |