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Silvio Calabi: Ever seen a Ford Focus sedan?Aug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Ford Foci run in large herds, but if it hadn't been for the mini-Aston Martin grille, and maybe the Ford blue, I might not have known what this was for a second. (I stil...
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It Is What It Is: Gamify your fitness and up your gameAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Tell me if this sounds at all familiar... You've been exercising regularly for a really, really long time. You've put in your face time at the gym. You've logged your mi...
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Book review: Loch Ness thriller turns soggyAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Animals have always been central to author Sara Gruen, an expatriate Canadian who now lives in western North Carolina. There were the circus animals, of course, in Gruen...
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GOLF: Pavloff caps off SIGA JGT Championship season with big weekendAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - After placing second the past two seasons in the boys 16-18 division, Du Quoin golfer Kolton Pavloff wrapped up the summer 2015 points championship for the Southern Illi...
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Get A Life: Parenting with humorAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - I've been asked over and over how to parent with humor. My standard response is, "I don't know how you parent with humor. I got my sense of humor back when my kids left....
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Brent St. Germain: Seeing is believing, when it comes to weight lossAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. If I hadn't seen the New Orleans Saints win Super Bowl XLIV, I wouldn't have believed it. If I hadn't seen my favorite team i...
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Peter Chianca: HitchBOT, we hardly knew yeAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - As you've probably heard by now, hitchBOT -- the Canadian hitchhiking robot who'd made successful trips across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany -- met an untimely end...
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‘Shaun the Sheep's' writer-director team are a pair of true gag menAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Before Richard Starzak and Mark Burton got together to co-write and co-direct the new stop-motion animated feature "Shaun the Sheep Movie" they'd already spent lengthy c...
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Kent Bush: Exit polls are notoriously unreliableAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - I normally don't answer letters I receive from readers. In my columns, I express my opinion. In letters to the editor, readers express theirs. Just because I work at a n...
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BASEBALL: Keller, Johnson, Hall receive 1st Darren Coffel Memorial ScholarshipAug 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Ethan Keller, Jordan Johnson and Cody Hall are the first three recipients of the Darren Coffel Memorial Scholarship for former Southern Illinois Fall League (baseball) p...