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DOHA, Qatar -- Sgt. Nathaniel Snow is too busy to look up. He's bent over, working inside the back of a Humvee. \"I missed my son's first birthday, first Christmas and second Valentine's Day,\" says Snow, 25, of Killeen, Texas. \"I missed him walking. I missed him getting his first tooth. And I will miss his first words by the time we get back.\" Snow is an Army team leader of a four-person Humvee. He supervises Cpl. Sally Curlis, 20, from Omaha, Neb.

  An armed security officer at a Pine Hills apartment complex stabbed and killed a burglary suspect late Friday in self-defense, Orange County sheriff's officials said Monday. Marcus Ballard, 20, was stabbed several times by security officer Nathaniel Snow, 25. Ballard later died at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

\"There's no question at all that these cases are used like clubs by the white-supremacist right and its allies,\" said [Mark Potok] of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He argues that hate crimes are a genuine problem. Actual or suspected hoaxes can have lingering effects. At Miami University in Ohio, the display of racist and homophobic fliers six years ago -- and the possibility that the incident was staged by a hoaxer -- still weighs on the school's president, James C. Garland. He said one of the worst consequences is that some people come away with the belief that \"racial incidents and race relations are really not an issue, that it's all a trumped- up hoax or manufactured to make political points.\"

In the article I discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ecological imagination as problematized in his lesser-known short story “The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle” (1849). Although Hawthorne wrote the story for children, it carries a darker gothic undertone, illustrating the problematic aspect of the Romantic nature/culture division. The focus of my inquiry are the potential ecological implications. The analytical framework is taken from Andrew Smith and William Hughes’ edited collection Ecogothic (2013), in which several scholars work towards a definition of an environmentally conscious variety of the gothic genre. Using some of their findings and concepts along with selected ecocritical and New Materialist theories, I interrogate Hawthorne’s highly ambiguous and shifting tropes of nature which reveal the correlation between the crisis of the imagination and that of the environment. I argue that the central trope of the snow-child and the trajectory of the narrative conceal a Frankensteinesque subplot employed to critically rethink nature as a transcendental experience.

James G. Gregory of New York, art publisher, has written to me asking permission to publish the Snow-Image as a picture book, with colored illustrations. 18: 615) Though details of the arrangement to publish are unknown, an illustrated edition of The Snow-Image: A Childish Mirack appeared in 1 864 under the James G. Gregory imprint.1 It was a handsomely bound book, in either a dark green or crimson board binding with gilt lettering. The children warn him to leave her outside, their mother stands positioned to retard her husband's insistent move towards warmth and identification, and the poor snow maiden, drooping and downcast in expression, seems to sense her untimely end. Almost two decades passed before another artist/illustrator, Frederick Stuart Church, provided a drawing for \"The Snow-Image,\" the result of an invitation to contribute illustrations for a twelve-volume edition of collected Hawthorne works planned by Houghton Mifflin and published in 1883.

\"[My sons] had just saw their father in December and it was the first time he met the grandchildren - my youngest son's children,\" [Annette Snow] said. \"They had an awesome visit. I'm thankful they got to spend time with him and I thank God they have an awesome memory of the last time with their grandfather.\" * In Rand on Aug. 7, police said Brent Lee Burdette, 19, fired one shot at William \"Willie\" Cordle III, 21. Cordle later died at CAMC General Hospital. According to police, Burdette said he shot Cordle with a small handgun because the man was \"running his mouth.\" Police charged Burdette with first-degree murder and he's currently being held in South Central Regional Jail awaiting trial. * A failed robbery attempt was apparently behind the fatal shooting of Roy Chambliss, 40, on Sept. 14, police said. Daniel O'Keith Little, 29, and Jarod Edward Washington, 29, went to the Chambliss' home along 403 Piccadilly St. on Charleston's West Side on two occasions and tried to sell two guns, police said. Little and Washington ordered Chambliss to open his safe and then both men fired upon him and his roommate, police said. The roommate was treated for minor injuries, but police pronounced Chambliss dead at the scene. Little was later captured in Winfield and police captured Washington in Beckley. Both men were charged with first-degree murder and are in South Central Regional Jail awaiting trial.

Sophomore Brandon Snow shot a 39 to earn medalist honors as Nashoba Tech beat Minuteman Tech, 172-177, Tuesday in a Colonial Athletic League match at Chelmsford Country Club. Alex Newton and Jake Zaiknoras fired even-par 36s to share medalist honors at Campbell's Scottish Highlands in Salem as unbeaten Pelham ran its record to a glittering 21-0 with one match left to play. In a closely contested loss to [Matignon], [Michael Guay] and [Nathaniel Kabogoh] led the way for the Crusaders, accounting for 53 of the team's points Monday.

The family will receive friends at Coble Ward-Smith Funeral Service, Oleander Chapel, Thursday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. and have requested that any memorials be directed to the Lower Cape Fear Hospice, 725 Wellington Ave, Wilmington, NC 28401. Capps, Eva Katherine, 74, died Monday at Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Winter Park Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Coble Ward-Smith Funeral Service, Oleander Chapel. Chestnutt, Lloyd Earl, 66, died Monday at Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Coble Ward-Smith Funeral Service, Oleander Chapel.