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MACOMB COUNTY ALL-STAR TRACK & FIELD TEAMBOYSDIVISION 1FIRST TEAMShot put: Jason Ribbentrop, Dakota, senior.Discus: Jason Ribbentrop, Dakota, senior.High jump: Salvatore Narusch, Utica, junior.Long jump: Dante Candela, Eisenhower, senior.

NEW YORK (AP) - It's not me, it's you: Though it can be painful, sometimes, a business owner needs to break up with a customer.When Gil Gildner's big client started paying more slowly and stopped communicating well, cash flow was at stake."The payments became a week late, two weeks, a month late and then the final month it never came," says Gildner, co-founder of Discosloth, a marketing company in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Every time you go to the grocery store, it seems like there's a new type of milk. These milks come from animals, or vegetables or nuts. There's oat milk, macadamia milk, hemp milk and pea milk. There's goat milk, and there's even cockroach milk - not commercially available yet, which must be a relief for the squeamish.

A minister told his congregation that when he first started at another church, he was given a pre-owned automobile to make ministerial calls. "However, the car wouldn't start without a push," he said, smiling.Each morning he would ask someone to help him push-start the car. And all through the day, as the minister visited homes, he would keep the car running in their driveways.

WASHINGTON - When her daughters were children, Khadija Athman packed the major Islamic holidays, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, with celebration.They opened gifts and covered their hands in henna. After prayer, they had breakfast at a pancake house before spending the day at the movies and Chuck E.

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Q: I have been wanting to leave my fiance for a year now. At least once a month, he blows up about something and turns against me. My daughter says he is controlling, and that he was bad-mouthing me when I was in the hospital. When I got home he had a hissy fit and left overnight; unfortunately, he came back.

It's easy to love someone very much and yet hard to express that concisely, in a way that is relevant to a wide audience.I've sat with a mix of amusement and dread listening to a matron of honor read two typed single-spaced pages about all she experienced when she got married, reserving only her last line to say: "and I wish all of the happiness that I've had for you and your future!" I've watched a father of the bride rack a joke about his daughter's new husband that sounds uncomfortably menacing and distrusting.

Recent decorating books examining the interiors of some of the world's most enviable stylemakers have found a common thread. Many of the featured projects, particularly the more bohemian ones, include an antique suzani quilt thrown over a bed, ottoman or side table, or a suzani-patterned pillow tossed on a sofa.

Q: My apartment - on the 12th floor, with southeast exposure - is wonderfully sunny. Plants do well, and I enjoy the light and the view all day. However, the sun has bleached both wood and upholstered furniture and some carpet. I don't want to close the drapes and live in the dark. Can my windows be treated? Who does this work and what is the expected costA: Having window film installed on the inside of your windows could be the solution.