Torri Newman dreamt up her terror-in-the-skies novel Falling while guarding the cockpit as the pilots took a toilet break. She reveals how she kept going through furlough and 41 rejections
âThe pilot didnât have a clue what he would doâ ⦠Newman preparing to fly. Photograph: Courtesy: TJ Newman
âThe pilot didnât have a clue what he would doâ ⦠Newman preparing to fly. Photograph: Courtesy: TJ Newman
Tue 4 May 2021 01.00 EDT
Flight attendant Torri Newman was working on the red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York when the idea for her debut novel came to her. To be precise, she was blocking access to the cockpit, a security procedure required when pilots take a toilet break. âI was standing at the front of the airplane,â she says, âlooking out at the passengers. It was dark and they were all asleep. And I had this thought, âAll of their lives, our lives, are in the hands of the pilots.â Thatâs not exactly new
By Jim Scott
May 3, 2021 12:09 AM
(UW-OSHKOSH ATHLETICS) UW-Oshkosh senior guard Leah Porath has been recognized as one of the top five NCAA Division III womenâs basketball players on the 2021 D3hoops.com All-America First Team.
Porath is the programâs first player to receive D3hoops.com First Team honors after also garnering 2021 All-America First Team accolades from the Womenâs Basketball Coaches Association. Due to a 2021 campaign in which many teams played conference-only schedules, D3hoops.com did not select a national Player of the Year.
Porath, a 2020 D3hoops.com Third Team All-American, is the first Titan to earn multiple national honors from the online organizationâs postseason awards program that began in 1998. UW-Oshkoshâs previous D3hoops.com All-Americans were Kay Mikolajczak (2004 Second Team) and Taylor Schmidt (2017 Honorable Mention).
The book of Genesis contains some of the most famous origin myths in Western culture: God s creation of the heavens and Earth, Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, and God commanding Noah to collect two of every animal to survive the great flood. While the giant Nephilim are barely mentioned in the Genesis narrative, they were the subject of great fascination in later apocalyptic literature. FollyMedia/Getty Images
The book of Genesis contains some of the most famous origin myths in Western culture: God s creation of the heavens and Earth, Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, and God commanding Noah to collect two of every animal to survive the great flood.
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May 3, 2021 10:27 AM
Heartland Community College’s annual commencement will be held with an online ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on May 14, 2021 with a socially distanced diploma event earlier in the day.
The full ceremony, with graduate recognitions and remarks from Heartland President Keith Cornille, Board of Trustees member Rebecca Ropp and Student Speaker, Elizabeth Stein will stream live via the Heartland Facebook and YouTube pages.
The College will also hold a diploma event on the Rob Widmer Quad on the main campus in Normal. At 2:00 pm on Friday, May 14
th, students who have previously signed up on their graduation application will participate in a walk-through, receive their diploma on a stage, and have photos taken. Students will be allowed to have up to four friends/family members present during the diploma event.
In “The Eyes Have It,” photographer Karl Smith is buried up to his eyes literally in diabetic pen needles. The photo is one of 18 in a new exhibition, Punctuation: 35 Years of Diabetic Debris on display at the McLean County Arts Center. Courtesy / Karl Smith
In “Punctuation: 35 Years of Diabetic Debris,” on display now through June 4 at the McLean County Arts Center, photographer Karl Smith documents life as a Type I diabetic, from diagnosis at age 15 to organ transplant at age 50.
Smith took the first photo the series in 1990 as a photography student at Illinois Wesleyan University.
“I’ve got all these syringe caps lined up in rows after rows after rows,” Smith described. “I was thinking it would have that pattern similar to the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. I was using a particular type of camera that I was experimenting with where it would get this extreme depth of field.”