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Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann
Professor of Liturgical Theology, 1951-1983
Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, NY, and a leading Orthodox theologian, died in 1983 at the age of 62.
Born in 1921 in Estonia to a family of Russian emigres, he spent his youth in France, where he received his secondary and university education. He also completed theological studies at the Orthodox Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris, which was then the center of Russian Orthodox scholarship following the turmoil of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Ordained to the Orthodox priesthood in 1946, he taught church history at St Sergius until 1951, when he was invited to join the faculty of St Vladimir's in New York. He was quickly recognized as a leading exponent of Orthodox liturgical theology, which sees the liturgical tradition of the Church as a major sign and expression of the Christian faith.
Besides teaching at St Vladimir's, Fr. Schmemann held positions of adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York University, Union Seminary, and General Theological Seminary in New York and was a popular guest lecturer at many universities throughout the country. He was also active as a representative of the Orthodox Church in the ecumenical movement, and held positions in the Youth Department and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.
Dean of St Vladimir,s Seminary from 1962, he was instrumental in educating a generation of Orthodox priests. During his tenure, the Seminary achieved wide recognition as a center of Orthodox theological studies.
In 1970, he was active in the establishment of the Orthodox Church in America as an autocephalous church, which at that time became officially independent from the Russian Orthodox Church, and dedicated itself to the unity of Orthodox ethnic jurisdictions in this country.
While committed to the cause of an Orthodox Church which would be united and American, Fr Schmemann always remained concerned with the fate of believers in the Soviet Union. For 30 years, his sermons were broadcast in Russian on "Radio Liberty" and gained Fr. Schmemann a broad following across the Soviet Union. Alexander Solzhenitzyn, who while still in the Soviet Union was one of his auditors, remained his friend after emigrating to the West.
Fr Alexander published over a dozen books which received wide circulation, including For the Life of the World; Introduction to Liturgical Theology; Ultimate Questions; Church, World, Mission; and numerous articles and tracts. For the Life of the World, a popular volume on Christian faith as reflected in liturgy, has been translated into numerous languages and remains one of the most popular works on Christianity for the general public. He completed a major study on the Eucharist only weeks before his death.
He received his doctorate on July 5, 1959 from the Orthodox Theological Institute of St Sergius, Paris, on the dissertation "Tserkovny Ustav: Opyt Vvedeniia v Liturgicheskoe Bogoslovie" [The Church's Ordo: Introduction to Liturgical Theology]. He held honorary degrees from Butler University, General Theological Seminary, Lafayette College, Iona College, and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.
Further information and links at www.schmemann.org
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The only thing more bizarre than the rules for the fight was the fight itself.
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Manti Te'o admits lying; phone records reportedly support story
- Katie Couric tapes first on-camera interview with Manti Te%27o
- Te%27o did an off-camera interview last week with ESPN%27s Jeremy Schaap
- Te%27o says he didn%27t lie about hoax until December
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist.
Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's TV show that he didn't lie about the hoax until December, believing Lennay Kekua had died of cancer. A segment of the interview with Te'o and his parents was broadcast Wednesday on ABC's Good Morning America.
The Heisman Trophy runner-up received a phone call in December from a woman saying she was Kekua, whom he believed had died in September.
Te'o said, "Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?"
Te'o maintained that he had no part in creating the hoax.
"You stuck to the script. And you knew that something was amiss, Manti," Couric said.
Te'o said: "Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12."
Wednesday, the New York Daily News published a story saying it obtained a receipt of flowers Te'o sent Sept.12, the day he believed Kekua had died, from 1-800-FLOWERS.com. It listed "Kainoa Kekua" as the recipient of "36 stems of premium white roses" sent by Te'o with a South Bend, Ind., address.
The message, the newspaper reported, was: "My dearest Lennay, although our time together was brief, I feel like I've known you all of my life. Till we meet again. I love you, Manti."
Te'o's family is included in the Couric interview. His father refuted reports his son used the whole situation for personal gain, perhaps enhancing his prospects on the road to Heisman Trophy voting.
"Now many people writing about this are calling your son a liar. They are saying he manipulated the truth, really for personal gain," Couric says.
"People can speculate about what they think he is," a tearful Brian Te'o told Couric. "I've known him 21 years of his life. And he's not a liar. He's a kid."
Also Wednesday, ESPN's Jeremy Schaap said he was given documents by a person close to Manti Te'o saying they were Te'o's AT&T phone records from May 11 to Sept. 12 of last year, a span that covers the time Te'o said he believed Kekua to be in a hospital in Los Angeles while recovering from a car accident and being treated for cancer.
Schaap had conducted a 2½-hour off-camera interview with Te'o on Friday.
ESPN reported the phone records show Te'o made and received more than 1,000 calls totaling more than 500 hours from the same number in the 661 area code, which covers Lancaster, a part of Los Angeles County.
ESPN said the veracity of the documents could not be independently confirmed.
Tuesday, the woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O'Meara told NBC's Today that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake Kekua.
"I've never met Manti Te'o in my entire life. I've never spoke with him. I've never exchanged words with him," O'Meara said Tuesday.
The 23-year-old marketing executive went to high school in California with Tuiasosopo, but she says they're not close. Tuiasosopo called to apologize the day Deadspin broke the story, she said.
Tuiasosopo's former football coach, Jon Flemming, told ABC News on Wednesday, "He's doing good. Wishing everyone would go away.
Flemming said Tuiasosopo is "somebody I'd want my kid to grow up like. He's responsible, respectful, disciplined, dedicated."


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With my head hung low and my back bowed under the weight of the tremendous shame of not having written in so very long, I slink back to you, quaking at the thought of all the films and books I have yet to account for. To ease my troubled soul, I thought I would mark my return to blogging with a milestone celebration: I have reached the year 1950 in my 1001 Movies project ("Huzzah!" [blaring of trumpets]).
What follows is a list of my favorite 50 films from the first half of the century covered by the book "1001 Movies you must read before you die." A few disclaimers:
-My criterion in choosing these films was simple: they should be films that delighted or intrigued to the extent that I would be happy to revisit them and unashamed to recommend them. Thus, many great (GREAT) films, like Battleship Potemkin, failed to make the list, not because I failed to admire them, but because I am not eager to watch them again.
-Several of the films from "1001 Movies" book and the first half of the century have been difficult for me to obtain as of yet, but I intend to watch them all and thus reserve the right to update this list at any time and with any degree of whimsicality.
-There are several films from the list that I have watched but not (in my opinion) truly absorbed. These are the films that I will return to first when I am finished with my rampaging progress through the 1001, and perhaps then a new appreciation of them will merit their inclusion on another version of the top 50 pre-50.
-If there is a pre-1950 movie that you feel I have neglected (whether or not it is on this list), please do let me know. I am always eager to be won over by other people's enthusiasm.
Ok, the list:
THE TOP 50 PRE-1950 FILMS (chronological order)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Intolerance (1916)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Strike (1924)
Greed (1924)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Sunrise (1927)
The Unknown (1927)
The Crowd (1928)
Un Chien Andalou(1928)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
L'Atalante (1934)
Olympia (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Daybreak/Le Jour se leve (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Laura (1944)
Henry V (1944)
The Children of Paradise (1945)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Black Narcissus (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Red River (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
1946 was a VERY good year, apparently.
With my head hung low and my back bowed under the weight of the tremendous shame of not having written in so very long, I slink back to you, quaking at the thought of all the films and books I have yet to account for. To ease my troubled soul, I thought I would mark my return to blogging with a milestone celebration: I have reached the year 1950 in my 1001 Movies project ("Huzzah!" [blaring of trumpets]).
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Reel Fanatic says:
That's a great list, including many great movies I'm ashamed to say I hadn't seen, but will now .. of the ones I have seen, my favorites would have to Grapes of Wrath, Notorious, and the Third Man
Sycorax Pine says:
I agree totally that "Notorious" is one of my favorite movies on this list (and almost certainly my favorite Hitchcock). For pure delight, the film I would most recommend trying next is "Love Me Tonight," if you haven't already seen it. It is filled with utterly unexpected pieces of whimsy and innovation, and features stellar performances from a number of the actors (Maurice Chevalier and Myrna Loy not least).
Good to have you back but you have made some major errors. In increasing order of importance:
A) "Rope" is a weak choice but I understand your theoretically-oriented attraction to it. I think you'll find it's inferior Hitchcock on re-viewing. Ditto "The Killers" which gets less interesting every time I watch it.
B) Swap "To Have and Have Not" for "The Big Sleep". Only a girl would make such a bonehead mistake.
C) 2 Carne GOOD. But no Renoir BAD! At least one of Boudu (which I know you disliked), Illusion, Bete humaine, or Regle MUST be on any such list. What the hell is your problem?!?!
- J.M.H. Troll
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Wow, you are a troll. A troll that lives under a snobby snobby bridge.
I have no defense against your trollishness except to say:
- I found Rope to be (yes) inferior Hitchcock but a fascinating exercise that I would like to rewatch. And it is worth noting that a lot of the superior Hitchcock is actually post-1950, and thus is not being slighted by my inclusion of "Rope."
-"The Killers" I have only seen once, so I can't speak to its diminishing returns. However, I really enjoyed it, and would love to watch it again, so there it is on the list.
-I didn't care for "The Big Sleep." Sorry. I just found it bewildering, which I know is the desired response, but still. "To Have and To Have Not" probably is a sort of girly choice: it is more enjoyable because it is a better vehicle for the charismatic relationship of its stars.
-I really haven't found Renoir that compelling thus far. (I think I just got myself kicked out of the Film Snob Society in one easy step). "La Grande Illusion" was my favorite of the ones you mention, and it is definitely on my list of films I must revisit to properly appreciate. Ok, so a second draft of the list would probably include "La grande illusion." But now that you are feeling triumpant, I want you to brace yourself: "La Bete Humaine" wasn't even on my 1001 Movies list, so I have yet to see it. I know.
-I need to review "Orphee." I was rather alienated by it last time. Maybe this time it will catch me in a better frame of mind.
-Oh, Pour of Tour, what of all the many many other shocking omissions? Where is the Lang love, for instance? What kind of a cracked out weirdo chooses "Strike" over "Potemkin" (the kind who likes Renaissance drama)? What of "The Passion of Joan of Arc"? "The Man with the Movie Camera"?
What can I say? I am capricious.


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You may have read the report this week that HighTower Advisors landed another top brokerage team, this time from Merrill Lynch. These breakaway brokers worked together in Merrill's private banking division, and could potentially add some $5 billion to HighTower's growing asset base, which stood at just over $20 billion before this most recent addition.
Admittedly, that's a drop in the bucket compared to Schwab Institutional's $679 billion in client AUM or even Pershing Advisor Solutions' $125 billion. Still, HighTower's growth curve is pretty impressive in three short years, particularly its ability to attract the very largest advisory firms that are every custodian's dream market, like these Merrill brokers. To my mind, HighTower's rapid—and escalating—success suggests that its hybrid model (or as HT execs describe it; their Open Source Architecture) is indeed a look at the future of financial advice.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I did some publishing consulting work with HighTower last year, although I'm not working on any projects with them at present. Working with corporate clients poses some obvious conflicts for a journalist, but it also offers some advantages as my relationship with HighTower and its CEO Elliot Weissbluth illustrates.
For many years now, I'd believed—and written—that the conflicts inherent in commission-compensated financial advice and principal trading far outweighed any potential client benefit, both with respect to advisors themselves and to their broker-dealers. Consequently, I was firmly in the camp of folks who looked to the independent RIA custodians as the best strategic partners for professional advisors. But in my time working with HighTower and Elliot, I came to see the advantages of taking a broader view, and the drawbacks in providing limited services to advisors and their clients.
The advantage of the open architecture approach is that it takes independent advice to a new level of independence, while at the same time offering a potentially unlimited array of financial products and solutions to its affiliated advisors and their clients. That's because an open architecture firm isn't really a custodian, in the traditional sense. And even though HighTower is registered as a broker-dealer, is isn't really a traditional BD, either. In fact, there really isn't even a name for what a firm like HighTower is, which is probably the ultimate confirmation that it is truly breaking new ground.
The concept behind "open architecture" is to band independent advisors together to create even greater independence through diversification of business affiliations. That's a mouthful to be sure, but in practice, it's very simple. Rather than having to choose which custodian an advisor works with, HighTower works with all four of the largest RIA custodians, so its advisors can have client accounts with whichever custodian makes the most sense for each particular client. It also doesn't limit its clearing operations to one clearing firm: not only does this increase the number of products and services its advisors can use, it creates some competition among clearing firms to provide the best execution. And HighTower also works directly with brokerage firms, to gain access to sophisticated products and strategies that aren't available to the vast majority of independent advisors. (For more on HighTower, see Investment Advisor's August 2009 cover story on the firm.)
The bottom line is that an open architecture firm such as HighTower solves one of the major dilemmas that has plagued the independent advisory world since its emergence almost half a century ago: giving up access to sophisticated financial products in order to get independence from brokerage firm sales pressure. HighTower has created a business model that increases both sophistication (through access to the broadest possible array of products) and independence, by working with multiple product and service providers. And to ensure that the firm doesn't start to take on a brokerage mentality, HighTower advisors also have an ownership stake.
Even for an old skeptic like me, it's hard to argue that the open architecture model isn't a better way to offer financial advice—today, and for well into the future.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Red Sox pitching coach Juan Nieves was asked what he thought a fully healthy Clay Buchholz could do.
Nieves, who coached Buchholz for the first time last season, shook his head, let out a whistle and said, "The sky's the limit."
Buchholz was 9-0 with a 1.71 ERA in his first 12 starts last season. Those are the kind of numbers that put a pitcher solidly in the Cy Young Award conversation. But after that 12th start on June 8, Buchholz went on the disabled list for more than three months with neck and shoulder ailments. He didn't return until Sept. 10.
Buchholz is fully healthy this spring and doing regular work.
"We're very hopeful he lasts the whole season, and right now he's in with every other pitcher in terms of his throwing days," said manager John Farrell. "His progression to batting practice [Sunday], and everything that he dealt with form a physical standpoint last year he addressed in the offseason, shoulder strength is very good, so we're looking forward to another productive year from Clay."
Buchholz, listed at 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds, has always been whip thin. But it's not his body type that is a problem.
"It's probably a combination of nutrition and a consistent routine," Farrell said, of what's necessary to keep Buchholz on the field. "That's not to say that he's lacked in those ways, but how can we improve the nutrition to the point of giving him the fuel to continue to remain durable? And if there are times when that might not be there, is he starting to wear away or wear down the body a little more rapidly than otherwise? So this is all part of, like any other pitcher or any other player, you're always looking to adjust and try to remain at that optimal level as long as you can."
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Curried mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1/2 cup light mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 lavash wraps, each cut in half crosswise to make four 12x12-inch squares
- 8 ounces thinly sliced smoked turkey
- 4 cups thinly sliced romaine lettuce
- 2 cups thinly sliced seeded peeled English hothouse cucumber
- 1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1/2 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, thinly sliced
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For curried mayonnaise
Stir curry powder in heavy small skillet over medium-low heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer curry powder to small bowl. Stir in mayonnaise and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.
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Place 1 lavash square on work surface. Spread lavash with 2 tablespoons curried mayonnaise. Place 1/4 of turkey in center of lavash. Top turkey with 1 cup lettuce, 1/2 cup cucumber, 1/4 of mango, and 1/4 of cilantro. Top with 1/4 of avocado slices. Fold in short sides of lavash, then roll up like burrito, enclosing filling completely. Repeat process for remaining 3 wraps. DO AHEAD Can be made 4 hours ahead. Wrap tightly with plastic wrap; keep refrigerated. Cut wraps in half crosswise.


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He said the U.K. needs a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to extremism.
"If we are to defeat this threat, I believe it's time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past," he told an international conference in Munich.
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He said the "hands-off tolerance" in Britain and other European nations has encouraged Muslims and other immigrant groups "to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream."
Muslim groups in the U.K. quickly condemned the remarks. Among them was the Muslim Council of Britain, which receives government money for projects intended to combat extremism. The council said that the Muslim community was still being treated "as part of the problem as opposed to part of the solution."
Many also criticized the timing of the speech, which took place on the day that members of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) held a rally in the ethnically mixed city of Luton to protest the spread of Islam in Britain.
Cameron did not mention the EDL, but a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, Sadiq Khan, accused him of "writing propaganda for the EDL," AFP reported.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- There was a time when the mere presence of Rod Laver on center court at Melbourne Park drove Roger Federer to tears.
On Wednesday, at a fundraising event billed as "An evening with Roger Federer and friends," the 17-time major winner finally got to find out what it's like to have a few rallies against the man who twice completed the Grand Slam.
Laver, 75, strolled onto the court named in his honor in shorts and vest, and had a hit against the 32-year-old Federer, who is preparing for next week's Australian Open. He played some solid forehands but decided to move closer in to volley after netting a few backhands. And he got a standing ovation from the 14,000-strong crowd at Rod Laver Arena for his efforts.
"He told me that his wrist was hurting less on the forehand so he asked me to play there a bit more often!" Federer joked later.
Laver stayed to watch Federer beat 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 in the main exhibition match. Organizers announced more than $1 million was raised before and during the event, an idea which Federer pitched to mark the 10 years since he first moved to No. 1, won the first of his four Australian Open titles and started his foundation.
"Hitting with Rod Laver for me clearly is an absolute dream come true. It's in his arena as well, it's named after him and he deserves it so much," Federer said. "While I was playing my racket was feeling extremely heavy. That means I was very nervous, which I really was."
Federer burst into tears after receiving the Australian Open winner's trophy from Laver in 2006, and speaks with reverence about the Australian great.
"What an honor it was for me," Federer said. "And I'm very thankful that he was willing to do something like this because it's not normal in any way and that's why I really appreciate it."
The left-handed Laver, who won the Grand Slam in 1962 and in 1969, was among the big Australian names helping Federer raise money for his foundation, which helps educate children in southern Africa. Lleyton Hewitt, who beat Federer in the final of the Brisbane International last Sunday and has been playing against the Swiss star on tour since 1999, was part of the on court formalities.
Pat Rafter helped with the warmup and Tony Roche, who has worked with Federer and Hewitt, was on hand to give Tsonga some pointers in the match.
Federer said the concept could happen more often, and likened it to pro-ams in golf as a way of enhancing the profile of tennis.
"The Australian Open showed that they were so open-minded," he said. "They didn't shy away, they weren't scared that their ticket sales would drop because of an event like this â€" who knows, it might actually be better for them."
Federer dropped to No. 6 in the rankings last season after failing to reach the final of any major for the first time since 2002. He has since hired Stefan Edberg as a coaching consultant, did extra fitness work in the offseason and said the two-hour match against Tsonga was ideal preparation on the back of playing singles and doubles in Brisbane last week for the season's first Grand Slam tournament.


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As we celebrate the signing of our Declaration of Independence this holiday weekend, it is important to recall the various skirmishes and battles that took place here in the Hamptons during that turbulent time. Men died to give us our freedom. And though the Hamptons and the rest of the East End remained in British hands until the very end of the war, it did not come easy for them to control the island.
Quite remarkably, there was one young man from Sag Harbor who figures quite prominently in many of these skirmishes and battles in the Hamptons. His name was Christopher Vail, and in 1775, when the Battle of Bunker Hill took place in Boston with the shot heard round the world, he was a 17 year old, working as a rope maker in that port town. The war had started. And he stepped forward. We know this because for the next five years he kept a diary of his life. A copy of it is in the Library of Congress in Washington. You can read it in its entirety if you like. You will find it, all 18,000 words of it, online at www.americanrevolution.org/vail.html. [expand]
Here is his very first entry. This was just two months after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
"I, Christopher Vail of Sagg–harbour, Suffolk County and State of New York enlist as a soldier in Capt. John Hulbert's Company."
He had joined the Rebels.
John Hulbert's Company, known as the Bridgehampton Militia, assembled, trained and learned how to use their weapons on what was then a parade ground on the southwest corner of Montauk Highway and Ocean Road, right in the center of downtown Bridgehampton. There is a small park called Militia Park that sits behind Almond Restaurant on that corner today that marks the location. Across the street, on the northwest corner of the intersection, there exists today a historic marker, which notes that during Revolutionary War times, Wick's Tavern existed on that spot. Men of all ages assembled here and argued back and forth about the rebellion that had now started.
At the time, the commerce on the East End consisted of cattle raising, farming and fishing. Many people supported the status quo. The British had mostly ruled the East End gently until that time. They had constables in Southampton and East Hampton. And everyone, after all, was a British subject.
If you want to fight, then go, the elders said. And so the young men, Christopher Vail among them, did. The company, consisting of several hundred men, boarded ships at Sag Harbor and headed to New York to receive further instructions from the newly appointed leader of the American Army, General Washington. Washington had them march to Ticonderoga to join a rebel force that was poised to capture the fort there. Off they went.
The Bridgehampton Militia arrived after Fort Ticonderoga had fallen. But the Commander there, happy to see them, ordered them to escort the British prisoners down the Hudson, the foot soldiers to a prison in Westchester, the officers to Philadelphia. The job took the better part of a month. And afterwards, in January of 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Christopher Vail's term with the Militia came to an end and he returned to Sag Harbor.
But he didn't stay.
"I enlisted again in a few weeks as a private in Captain John Davis' company, (with) Wm. Havens 1st Lieutenant in the continental service for 12 months, and was stationed at Montaug Point in order to guard a large quantity of cattle which was kept there, belonging to several towns."
It had been reported by that time that King George III was sending 35,000 troops aboard many warships of the British Navy to Long Island and New York to put down the rebellion. It was believed if they landed on Long Island, they would be out of foodstuffs and they would be taking the people's cattle. There were over 2,000 head at Montauk. So the locals allowed a contingent of rebels to go out there to protect them.
The British fleet did come by Long Island but it did not stop. It continued on, ultimately unloading 35,000 highly trained troops on Staten Island where, it was said, accurately, that the locals were inclined toward the crown.
The battle of Long Island took place on the Hempstead Plain on August 27, 1776, just 45 days after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
A lot of preparation went into what both sides felt would be a key battle. General Washington assembled about 10,000 rebels near Brooklyn Heights, among them, on their south flank, John Davis' Company as part of the Suffolk Militia. Meanwhile, the British brought over nearly 25,000 highly trained redcoats from Staten Island. There were also 5,000 Hessians —professional hired soldiers from Germany —and about 2,000 loyalists, who wore special green uniforms.
Christopher Vail was not among those about to fight, however. He and a small contingent of soldiers were still at Montauk, guarding the livestock. Two days before the battle was expected to start, however, the word went out that they should all head to Brooklyn to reinforce the Suffolk Militia. They started out. But on August 27, Christopher Vail wrote this in his diary:
"After marching 40 miles distance [from Montauk], we were informed that the Island was captured after a hard battle was fought, and a great loss on our side. We immediately began our retreat to Southold where we obtained vessels and carried our company over the Sound [to Connecticut.]"
George Washington's rebel force had been thoroughly beaten in Brooklyn, not only by superior numbers, but also by superior weaponry, training and strategy. Men died on the field at close quarters, either shot by musket balls or run through with bayonets. In the end, about 300 patriots died, 600 were wounded and 1,100 were captured and taken to one of three British prison ships anchored in the East River where they were essentially left to die. (Vail would be imprisoned on one of these ships five years later for two months.)
After that day's battle, General Washington, at night in a fog, was able to evacuate nearly 4,000 of his defeated men off Brooklyn and onto Manhattan to later retreat to Valley Forge.
As for the Suffolk Militia, stationed on the southern flank, they were surrounded and then when it was apparent that all was lost, surrendered to the Hessian Colonel Heinrich von Heerington, who later gave this account, true or false.
"The captured flag, which is made of red damask, with the motto 'Liberty' appeared with 60 men before [Col. Johann] Rall's regiment. They had all shouldered their guns upside down, and had their hats under their arms. They fell on their knees and begged piteously for their lives."
The southern coast of Connecticut, where Vail went after this battle, was filled with rebels, mostly young men sent away from eastern Long Island by their elders now that the Island was securely in British hands.
There were three major raids made by the rebels, crossing Long Island Sound in whaleboats to attack the British forts and ships on Eastern Long Island during the next two years. One was at Canoe Place in Southampton (and also in Speonk), another was in Setauket and the third, the one which is the most famous battle ever to take place in the Revolutionary War on eastern Long Island was in Christopher Vail's hometown of Sag Harbor.
Astonishingly, Christopher Vail was part of every one of these raids.
In the Setauket raid, Vail described how they had burned the British Fort there and made off with several sloops and packet ships to New Haven. Here is how he describes the other raid, at Canoe Place (where the Shinnecock Canal is today).
"…The next day, went with our boats across the Sound, and landed at the Canoe place on L. Island and hauled the boats up in the bushes and marched up the Island about 20 miles to a place called Speonk where we took possession of 8 or 10 whale boats, and brought them off to New London."
The raid on Sag Harbor took place on the night of May 23, 1777. Planned and led by Lt. Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, the rebels left Connecticut in a virtual armada of whaleboats, 13 in all, carrying 234 men, one of whom was Christopher Vail.
Reaching the North Fork at what is now Truman Beach at about 1 a.m., the rebels carried their whaleboats up the beach, across the sand and the 100 or so yards of the peninsula to the wetlands on the south which was Peconic Bay. Here in the dark they relaunched their boats, crossed the Bay to Long Beach, Sag Harbor where without a sound they hauled up their boats onto the sand once again. From here they took off on foot for the British camp at the Old Burying Ground. But let Christopher Vail tell it.
"We proceed down to their quarters where we completely succeeded in capturing the whole force except one man. We burnt all the coasting vessels, which were all loaded and laid alongside the wharf, and a store that was 60 feet long that stood on the wharf.
"The British soldiers had just gotten their pay and many had been eating and drinking heavily.
They remained, went drinking etc., and all got pretty well boozy. When we arrived we took 99 Tories. Some had nothing but his shirt on, some a pair of trowsers, others perhaps 1 stocking and one shoe and in fact they were carried off in their situation to New Haven."
In the encounter, no one was killed but the fire and explosion wiped out the whole British encampment.
After this raid, Christopher Vail joined the rebel navy and went off to sea. His purpose in doing so was to assist the ragtag fleet in the disruption and capture of British sailing ships trying to bring soldiers and supplies to their forces in America. He participated in some successes, but then on one outing fell into British hands where he was imprisoned, for a time, on the British-controlled island of Antigua. Escaping from there, he was caught again and imprisoned in London. All these accounts appeared in his diary. In London, inexplicably, he escaped but was also able to sign on as a seaman aboard a British privateer called "The Amazon," which soon docked along the Portuguese Coast. Here, Vail jumped ship, and with a little help from the French made his way back to New London, Connecticut in June of 1791 where, amazingly, he just missed being involved in the most dramatic naval event of the war in the Hamptons—the sinking of the British Man o' War Culloden.
In the interval when Vail was away, the battle for Independence swayed this way and that, with Washington taking Trenton and Princeton, then the British having more successes now in Virginia.
During this time, General Washington came to rely heavily on the information provided to him by a Long Island spy network, which used coded messages, special couriers and other means of subterfuge. (Patrick Henry, caught by the British and hanged, was one.)
In early 1781, the French—sworn enemies of the British—launched a special fleet of warships to America to help end the blockade the British were enforcing on the rebels. General Washington received information about this fleet from one of these spies, and he was also told, alarmingly, that the British already knew about this and now an even bigger contingent of British ships in New York Harbor were already heading out to meet the French in Long Island Sound to defeat them before they could even arrive.
Washington arranged for a trusted courier to deliver to the British in New York the misinformation that the French fleet was, in fact, now heading south toward Virginia and they should turn back.
The British in New York got this message, believed it, and did order the fleet back. However, two Man o' Wars kept going. They were the H.M.S. Bedford and the H.M.S. Culloden, which carried 74 guns.
At this point, on January 23, 1781, the French fleet was safely in New London harbor and there was a storm coming up, which the two British man o' wars ran right into. The Bedford came through the storm and returned to New York. But the H.M.S. Culloden went out of control and that night shipwrecked on the beach at what is now known as Culloden Point in Montauk, just a few hundred yards to the west of the entrance to Montauk Harbor.
All 650 crewmembers got off the ship safely after it came up the sand. Fearful that many of their cannons might fall into rebel hands, they took off whatever they could carry, burnt the Culloden down to the waterline, and then made their way back to New York City.
Christopher Vail, according to his diary, arrived aboard a French ship the rebel-controlled harbor of New London, Connecticut on May 6, 1781.
He had missed the final Revolutionary War event that took place on Long Island by just 100 days.
Amazingly, after just a week in New London, Vail went BACK out to sea to harass British ships. Serving as a crewman on the warship Jay, he assisted in catching and towing back to New London nine vessels, including two British privateers. Then, while the Jay was being refitted, he went out again to harass the British, this time aboard the warship Dean. And this time he was captured again.
Christopher Vail recorded the surrender of the British General Cornwallis, ending the war, while sitting in the squalid hold of the British prison ship Jersey in the East River along with about 10,000 other poor unfortunates. Here is his diary entry, that evening, after the guards left their posts and the prisoners took over.
"We heard the firing of cannon from the Jersey for rejoicing and whenever our people fired the British would fire from their batteries so as to confuse that people should not be informed of Cornwallis's capture."
With the war over, Christopher Vail made his way to Norwich, Connecticut, went into business, got married, bought a house in that town and raised a family. He lived to be 88 years old.
The HMS Culloden is still at Culloden Point in Montauk, underwater, and a protected federal park. You may scuba dive or skin dive down to it if you want though. [/expand]


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Don't paint public workers as a public enemies; they're just working for the common good.
A few days after Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a statement acknowledging Wisconsin's mounting fiscal worries but deploring the use of that cash crunch as an excuse to bust the state's public sector unions, Madison Bishop Robert Morlino issued a clarification. "Neutral," he asserted, is the Wisconsin church's official position on the acrimonious labor dispute between Gov. Scott Walker and virtually all of the state's union employees. But Morlino's clarification was itself misleading.
Certainly the church hesitates to pick sides in conflicts top-heavy with political interests, such as the debate that resulted in the storming of the Madison statehouse. But it is simply wrong to say that the church is neutral regarding the rights of workers, especially the right of collective bargaining.
The church's first social encyclical, Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum, specifically endorses the right of workers to organize and negotiate for improved wages and working conditions. It also had a lot to say about the role of capital and the state in securing and promoting a just society and workplace.
When the public sector remnant of unionized labor in the United States appears heading for a final showdown over the whole notion of unionism, its defense of workers is worth remembering as part of our Catholic heritage. But the church's advice and admonishment of the other key players in civic life is likewise worth hearing again, too.
We live in a period of diminished social and educational opportunity, of moral and fiscal deficits wrought by war-making and erroneous constructs of so-called shared sacrifice that overburdens the politically weak and the poor and seeks out tax breaks for the already wealthy and powerful. Walker talks a good game about fiscal probity and protecting the interests of future generations, but when the mikes were off, prompted by a prank phone call, he spoke about his state employees as if they were political enemies that deserved no quarter.
What we are observing in Wisconsin and elsewhere is indeed a power struggle between labor and their employers, in this case government, but it is more than that. This civil conflict is a product of a fundamental failure to define a shared understanding of another concept that comes to us out of Catholic social teaching and good old Rerum Novarum: the common good.
In a period of profound economic uncertainty, the federal government persists in claiming vast tax resources while passing social service burdens on to the states. We are a nation fighting for the scraps left behind after defense and security spending sinfully consumes, with our tacit consent, the lion's share of our national treasure. We are struggling, not because the few remaining union workers have superior pension packages, but because, instead of facing up to the realities of this economic crisis, we seek innovations in tax reduction and blame-passing.
We create bogeymen of union thugs and welfare queens, and we cravenly hand off our debt to the future. We have given up building the common good, and instead are constructing a list of new enemies.
Work is one way we move beyond the intimate society of our family and connect to a larger community, extending ourselves to a greater good. It's a first step toward accepting and celebrating the interconnection of all people.
Even this terrible civic conflict brewing over public sector workers in Wisconsin and across the country, in defining their future and ours, offers an opportunity to appreciate that connection. We can use that opportunity to take a step back from anger and negotiate a practical vision of the common good.
To do that political posturing must cease. But that will not be enough, of course. More difficult will be to sit down at a communal table, break bread and hard heads, and talk over the hard matters, always remembering that across the divide sits not the "enemy," not a representative of a different political party or ideology, but brothers and sisters to us.
This article appeared in the May 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 5, page 39).


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Friday, February 11, 2011
Pembroke Hall 305
The symposium will feature lectures by four scholars of transport, aesthetics, and transnational practices – Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon), Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia), Lindsey Green-Simms (College of Charleston) and Caren Kaplan (University of California, Davis) – and a roundtable discussion with members of the Brown Community. "The Aesthetics of Transport" positions transportation as a crucial aspect of modern life that has influenced transnational cultural production, and bringing these scholars to Brown University to present their work will give the Brown community access to a growing conversation regarding the intersection of mobility, mediation, and experience. These scholars approach transportation from a humanities perspective; their research and scholarship highlight the ways in which forms of cultural expression respond to forms of transportation and the aesthetic experience of travelling in technology. In addition to a recurring trope in modern literature, film, television and other arts, transportation carries its own particular aesthetic. The specific characteristics of transportation aesthetics depend on their social, cultural, national, and economic contexts. Their work articulates transportation and culture to discourses of consumerism, citizenship, nationalism, and postcoloniality.
Changing modes of transportation in modern industrialized societies are themselves highly technologized and dependent on industrial modernity and technological innovation even as these new forms of travelling and moving themselves participate and enable modern industrial society. As such, "The Aesthetics of Transport" brings to light the transformations in cultural expression in the face of modernity, industrialized capitalism, and the increased technologization of the lifeworld. The aesthetic experience of transportation involves shock, disjuncture, anxiety, and distraction. Alongside these discomforts of movement, travel itself has been attached to the accrual of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. Thus the romance and adventure of travel are coextensive with the travails of the actual journey. In addition, transportation involves changing perceptions of timespace relations, geography, belonging, and community. Accordingly, "The Aesthetics of Transport" engages questions of exile, displacement, tourism, escape, and migration.
More than identifying transport, travel, and/or mobility as a recurring trope in cultural works, these scholars emphasize the fashion in which the experience of transportation itself structures cultural expression. The aesthetics of transportation thus influence and even create new aesthetic movements and new ways of understanding the world. In other words, media (defined broadly) can represent movement and has the power to move their audiences. "The Aesthetics of Transport" examines transportation as aesthetic experience that entails emotive and affective mobility as well as physical movement. Thus transport is conceptualized as the capability to convey, carry over, and enrapture, as well as a vehicle for those capabilities.
Speaker Biographies
Marian Aguiar is an Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the different forms of modernity that appear in the global context. Her forthcoming book Tracking Modernity: India, Trains, and the Culture of Mobility (University of Minnesota, 2010) explores cultural representations of the modern by considering the imagination of railway space in colonial, nationalist and postcolonial South Asian contexts. Professor Aguiar has taught on such topics as postcolonial studies, South Asian literature and film, South Asians in the diaspora, and culture and globalization. Her articles have appeared in Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as in edited book collections.
Miranda Burgess is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She works on British and Irish literature from the 1780s to the 1830s, and the history and theory of genre, mobility, media, and feeling. She is the author of British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830, which explores the uses of genre change in developing theories of British society and British nationhood. She is completing Romantic Transport: Mobility, Anxiety, and the Poetics of Feeling, 1790-1830, a book that examines 'transport' (the movement of feelings and objects, and the technologies facilitating each) and anxiety (in its clinical and more broadly social senses) in relation to the poetics of form and figuration at the turn of the nineteenth century. Her next project, Being Moved: Mobility and Romantic Aesthetics, is a cultural history of the emergence and embrace, in poetics and criticism as well as in philosophical aesthetics, of an understanding of aesthetic experience in which what is above all at stake in the reading of literature or the viewing of art is the activation, transformation, and potential or actual physical mobilization—in short, the movement—of the reader.
Lindsey Green-Simms is an Assistant Professor in English at the College of Charleston. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersections of postcolonial theory, African literature and film, globalization, and gender/sexuality studies. Her current book project, Postcolonial Automobility: West Africa and the Road to Globalization, examines how the contradictions of globalization are embedded in both the commodity of the automobile and in automobility, the ideal of the fully mobilized self that is typically coupled with the technological device of the automobile. She argues that in West Africa, automobility becomes a misplaced idea, a concept that begins to fissure and expose many of its original inconsistencies and forms of dissonance. She has published articles on African films and plays, Nollywood video-films, and human rights cinema in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (Ohio U. Press); Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (Rodopi Press); and The Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations.
Caren Kaplan is Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and Professor in American Studies at UC Davis. She received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 1987 and worked at Georgetown University and UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at UC Davis in 2004. Prof Kaplan is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke 1996) and the co-editor of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994), Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999), and Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001, 2005). Her current research focuses on digital humanities, visual culture, militarization and consumer subjects, and technologies of location and navigation.


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Opearations in Iraq: Household Division Fatalities
It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the following fatalities suffered during Operation TELIC.
A total of 179 British Armed Forces personnel or MOD civilians died serving on Operation TELIC since the start of the campaign in March 2003.
Of these, 136 were killed as a result of hostile action.
43 are known to have died either as a result of illness, non-combat injuries or accidents, or have not yet officially been assigned a cause of death pending the outcome of an investigation.
The balance of these figures may change as inquests are concluded. A more detailed breakdown of fatalities and casualties can be found here.
The East Kent Branch honour and respect the dedicated service and sacrifice of all service personnel who have served on Op Granby. We also mourn the deaths of all service personnel who have died while serving in Iraq since the start of operations.
This page records the names of those members of the Household Division who sadly find themselves upon that list:
Guardsman Stephen Ferguson 1st Battalion Scots Guards, aged 31, from Lanarkshire, died in Selly Oak Hospital in the UK on Thursday 13 December 2007 from injuries sustained in a non-battle incident near the Contingency Operating Base in Basra on Wednesday 12 December 2007.
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence confirmed the deaths of Lance Sergeant Chris Casey and Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath of 1st Battalion, Irish Guards in southern Iraq on Thursday 9 August 2007.
- Lance Sergeant Chris Casey, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 27 from London
- Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 22 from Romford
Click HERE to see the list of UK Military and Civilian personnnel killed on operations in Iraq between the start of combat operations and 31 December 2006.


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A rich history
|Minnesota Reflections has a collection of images and documents from over 120 cultural institutions, including Luther Seminary, that depict Minnesota history. Visit Minnesota Reflections
Luther Seminary traces its beginnings to 1869 with the founding of Augsburg Seminary. During its more than 125 years of history the school has been witness to, and has participated in, most of the significant developments in American Lutheranism. Just as the 19th century saw the arrival of so many European groups to this country and the formation of a multitude of ethnic Lutheran churches, the 20th century has seen the consolidation of these formerly separate groups into fewer and larger Lutheran synods. In its own "family history" Luther Seminary bears this out. Through consolidation and merger, no fewer than 6 theological institutions came to be a part of the current Luther Seminary.
Not surprisingly, the school's archival collections mirror this complex institutional history. The collection is most complete in all record groups for material following 1917, when one of the larger mergers occurred (3 church bodies and 3 seminaries came together). Pre-1917 seminary materials (for the 3 schools of the merging bodies and for Augsburg Seminary, then separate) are less plentiful but available for research. It should be said that most record material will be in the Norwegian language well into the 1920's and in some cases as late as 1930 (e.g., Augsburg Seminary records). Some of this has been translated, but much remains in its original language.
The Collections
The Archives of Luther Seminary include material from all of the predecessor schools which, over a period of many years and several mergers, formed the current institution. The founding date of Augsburg Seminary, 1869, is now used as the founding date for Luther Seminary. In addition to Augsburg Seminary, the Hauge Synod school, Red Wing Seminary,and Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary (of the former United Lutheran Church in America and later the Lutheran Church in America) comprise the larger predecessor bodies to Luther Seminary.
While we hold a significant amount of material on the predecessor seminaries other institutions like Augsburg College and St. Olaf College hold complementary materials needed by students of Luther Seminary history. We are pleased to help researchers locate the materials they may need for study either in our collections or in the materials of these other schools.
We hope to make as much of the Luther Seminary Archives collections open for use by researchers with the understanding that some records, especially those related to individual students, are not available for use, given confidentiality concerns.
|Record Group I: General Historical Files 5 cu. ft.
|A. Catalogs, 1917-1982
B. The "Luther Seminary Review," 1935-1970
C. Institutional histories, Luther Seminary and predecessors, 1943, 1969, 1976
|Record Group II: Governance 22 cu. ft.
|A. Board of Regents, Agenda and Minutes, 1959-1982
B. Board of Theological Education and Ministry, Minutes and correspondence, 1960-1982
C. Association of Theological Schools
|Record Group III: Administration
|A. Office of the President, 45 cu. ft.
T. F. Gullixson, Correspondence, 1935-1964
Alvin Rogness, Correspondence, 1954-1975
Lloyd Svendsbye, Correspondence, 1974-1982
1. Installation, 1974
2. Merger negotiation, reports and proposals, 1974-1982
B. Office of the Academic Dean, 22 cu. ft.
1. Faculty meeting agenda and minutes, 1936-1982
2. Faculty handbooks and policy statements,1965-1982
3. Matriculation records and programs,1948-1982
4. Commencement records and programs, 1930-1982
C. Office of the Dean of Students, 15 cu. ft.
1. Dean, Correspondence, 1965-1982
2. Director of Admissions, Correspondence, 1972-1982
D. Finance/Business Office, 15 cu. ft.
1. Audits, 1960-1982
2. Budget planning and correspondence, 1973-1982
E. Office of Development, 33 cu. ft.
1. Director, Correspondence and reports, 1974-1982
2. Public Relations office, news releases, 1955-1982
3.Donors, Correspondence, 1970-1982
4. Promotional materials, 1960-1982
F. Curriculum and Educational Adjuncts, 12 cu. ft.
1. Midwinter convocation, Programs, 1940-1982
2. Lay School of Theology, Correspondence and promotion, 1976-1982
3. KAIROS, Programs, Correspondence and promotion, 1975-1982
4. Continuing Education, Director, Correspondence,1970-1982
5. Contextual Education, Director, Correspondence, 1968-1982
6. Mission conferences, Program and promotion, 1961-1976
7. Midwest China Center, Promotional material, 1975-1982
|Record Group IV: Faculty
|A. Personal papers
1. Georg Aus, 1903-1977, 8 cu. ft.
2. Sven O. Braaten, 1852-1926, 2 in.
3. M. O. Bockman, (Marcus Olaus), 1849-1942, 1 cu. ft.
4. Gustav Marius Bruce, 1879-1963, 12 cu ft.
5. John Dahle, 1853-1930, 2 cu. ft.
7. Lawrence Field, 1896-, 2 cu. ft.
8. Wendell Frerichs, 1925-, 3 cu. ft.
9. Gracia Grindal, 14 cu. ft.
10. T. F. Gullixson, 1882-1969, 15 cu. ft.
11. Olaf Hansen, 1917-, 6 cu. ft.
12. Martin Hegland, 1880-1967, 2 in.
10. John Milton, 1897-1972, 14 cu. ft.
11. Herman Preus, 1896-1995, 5 cu ft.
12. Alvin Rogness, 1906-1992, 4 cu ft.
13. Schmidt, F. A. (Friedrich August), 1837-1928
14. Paul Sonnack, Jr., 1920-1992, 10 cu ft.
15. Lloyd Svendsbye, 1930-, 5 cu. ft.
16. Carl Weswig, 1873-, 8 cu ft.
|Record Group V: Students
|A. Boarding Club, records, 1935-1960
B. The Concord, 1965-1982
1. Issues in triplicate
2. Related production, Correspondence
C. Seminary Wives, Meetings, Minutes, 1950-1978
|Record Group VI: Special Events 10 cu. ft.
|A. Guest Speakers, Programs and Promotion, 1960-1982
B. LTS Centennial, 1976
1. Committee, Agenda and minutes, 1974-1977
2. Correspondence, 1976


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Exhausted. Triple-digit speeds inches from trees and cliffs. In the rain, through the night, over jumps — It's no surprise many consider rally pilots the greatest drivers of all, and now Jalopnik readers have picked the best of the best.
Welcome back to Answers of the Day — our daily Jalopnik feature where we take the best ten responses from the previous day's Question of the Day and shine it up to show off. It's by you and for you, the Jalopnik readers. Enjoy!
Rallying is simple: you find the most treacherous, horrifying paved/gravel/mud road imaginable, you give people a chance to take a few notes of where they might fly into a boulder and explode, and then set them loose to go as fast as humanly possible through the sort-of familiar terrain. Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone who shows up is a
lunatic with a death wish hero. This means that we're going to have to leave a lot of greats off of our top ten list.
The sport has a history that stretches back into the 19th century, and rallying has pitted drivers against the greatest challenges in motorsports. Take the 1907 Peking-to-Paris rally, where competitors drove 9,317 miles of near-impassible terrain for nothing more than a big bottle of champagne. Every single driver from these early years deserves to be on this list.
So, too does every single driver who competed in the World Rally Championship's Group B in the '80s, when the organizers basically tore up their rulebook and said "build whatever you want and go as fast as you want." We ended up with rally cars as fast as Formula One cars, only through forests and deserts, for hours on end. Fans loved it and packed the roads, but things got too fast, drivers died, and the series was cancelled. Every single human being involved in Group B, like the great Ari Vatanen, deserves a medal.
Rallying was filled with other champions that we just don't have space for, like Stig Blomqvist (who we have already lionized), Gigi Galli, Jean Ragnotti, the late Richard Burns, Timo Mäkinen, Eric Carlsson, and Petter Solberg, who bought and ran his own car when his team (Subaru) dropped out of the sport.
So feel free to yell and scream at us in Kinja below that your favorite driver didn't make the top ten cut. We understand.
Photo Credit: Saab
10.) Marcus Grönholm
One of the few drivers to face off against the unbeatable monster that is Sébastien Loeb and come away with wins. A big talker, emotive, the antithesis to the stone-faced, boring pro-driver stereotype. He also gave one of the best racing interviews ever.
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9.) Carlos Sainz
"El Matador" was the first non-Scandinavian to win the legendary 1,000 Lakes Rally, and he did it with a broken ankle, no less. He was a double-world championship winner and he excelled at long-distance desert races, the toughest rallies of all.
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8.) Rauno Aaltonen
One of the first people to be called a "Flying Finn." Aaltonen, along with Paddy Hopkirk, won some of rallying's greatest victories, coming first in the famous Monte Carlo Rally in tiny little Minis. His '67 Monte may have been the greatest rally win of all, accidentally cutting the course by flying off a cliff.
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7.) Tommi Mäkinen
With four driver's championships on the trot, Mäkinen seemed like he'd be the winningest rally driver of all time, until Sebastian Loeb wiped away the Finn's records. Mäkinen actually was a late bloomer for rallying, only starting at 20, after becoming a twice national plowing champion.
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6.) Hannu Mikkola
Mikola stands out not for his one driver's world championship, in a Audi Quattro in '83, but that he pulled out a world championship after having been a professional rally driver since 1963. His success across what ended up being a 31-year career is absolutely unreal.
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5.) Michèle Mouton
Mouton nearly grabbed a driver's world championship in 1982, losing on the final race while mourning the death of her father days earlier. She is the last woman to compete in the top of rallying, and one of the greatest of all women racing drivers.
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4.) Walter Röhl
Röhl won the Monte Carlo rally four times in a record four different cars. He was his sport's first double-world champion and remains one of its most prestigious, versatile drivers.
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3.) Juha Kankkunen
The most mulletted of all great rally drivers. If there is anyone who was more versatile than Röhl, it was four-time champion Kankkunen, who was the only Group B driver to also win a championship in the smaller, slower Group A cars that followd Group B's demise.
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2.) Colin McRae
Do not judge McRae by statistics. He only won a single driver's title, but he easily threw away two others by crashing the shit out of his cars. McRae was by far the most exciting, and perhaps the crashiest driver the sport has ever seen. He raced with one motto: "When in doubt, flat out."
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1.) Sébastien Loeb
Loeb should technically be disqualified from this list, because he is not a human being. He is a robot, programmed to do nothing but drive faster than all of his competitors until he wins. And he has won a record eight driver's titles and 46% of all the rallies he's entered. He's not just the greatest rally driver, he's a candidate for greatest driver of all time.


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I was at home working on Mom's Eulogy. Kept hearing a big turbo prop going overhead. Looked out the window and saw a Basler DC3 conversion doing a slow pass banked over my house. I'm thinking "Cool. Don't see one of those every day." Ten minutes later it flies over again...then again. It turns out that he was practicing take-offs and landings on the grass runway at Adams Airport.
Our air force and CIA pilots get re-qualified to fly Basler conversions because Columbia and other countries still use them as transports. So I go to the airport with digicam in hand. There's a small contingent of local airplane owners parked with their cars out by the runway as amazed as I am. I get permission from the airport director. "Yeah go ahead. Ride the bike out there just stay off the runway." So I do some dual sporting on a VFR and here she taxis right by me heading to the tarmac where I was when I talked to the airport guy.
They allow me to park my bike next to the plane for a photo. One of the most iconic airplanes of all time with arguably one of the world's most iconic motorcycles.
Not only that I get to hear all kinds of stories and get to walk up inside the thing!
Trust me. The 6000# winch in the floor may seem strange but it's a very long uphill walk to a big taildragger's cockpit. Imagine trying to push cargo up to the front.