Friday Focus
Elysian Arcs installation, opening night of the River of Light art festival in Liverpool. Photo from REUTERS/Phil Noble:
RIP NBA stalwart Walter Davis, 69, death attributed to natural causes. Born in North Carolina, the youngest of 13 children, his high school team won three state titles, losing only four games during his tenure. He excelled at the University of North Carolina and was member of the 1976 USA national team that won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics. A shooting guard/small forward, he was drafted in the first round by Phoenix in 1977, the fifth pick overall. He was named Rookie of the Year in ’78. He played for the Suns until ’91, then ended his 15-year career with stints in Denver and Portland. He was an all-star six times. The Suns retired his #6. He averaged just shy of 19 PPG. Post career he did some broadcasting and scouting. Married more than 40 years, he was a father of two. Well done, Sir. Photo from Google Images:
Headline from foxnew.com: “Shoplifter knocked out cold by a 2-liter bottle of soda to the head.” Here’s video, which I suspect will be pulled down soon by the liberals who run the site: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NgVnHbZRxj0
Also from FN: “A $35,000-a-year boarding school named AI bot its ‘principal headteacher.’ The headmaster says it’s helping.”
I’ve completed the third draft of my latest work, still untitled, typing it into Word Pad, then adding it to my Google Docs page. Both stories add up to only 9000+ pages, not enough for a book. My most recent publication, Coincidence, a novella, came in at 24,000+. The new one will be shelved for now.
Nice return for the floating book on this gorgeous day. My thanks to the young man who pulled his SUV to the curb and donated 13 entrepreneurial titles, and to the character who donated three hardcovers; and to the kind folks who made purchases. Here’s what sold: five DVDs in Russian; a little booklet on the U.S. Constitution; animated DVDs of Peter Pan and The Cat in the Hat: Wings and Things; Count Zero by William Gibson; an Emeril LaGasse cookbook; Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Mothers; two novels by Isaac Bashevis Singer in paperback.
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