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Other Names: None
Location: Lafayette County
Campaign: Priceĺs Missouri Expedition (1864)
Date(s): October 19, 1864
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt [US]; Maj. Gen. Sterling Price [CS]
Forces Engaged: 1st Division, Army of the Border [US]; Army of Missouri [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Unknown
Description: Maj. Gen. Sterling Priceĺs march along the Missouri River was slow, providing the Yankees a chance to concentrate. Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, commanding the Department of the Missouri, proposed a pincer movement to trap Price and his army, but he was unable to communicate with Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, commander of the Department of Kansas, to formalize the plan. Curtis was having problems because many of his troops were Kansas militia and they refused to enter Missouri, but a force of 2,000 men under the command of Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt did set out for Lexington. On October 19, Priceĺs army approached Lexington, collided with Union scouts and pickets about 2:00 pm, drove them back, and engaged in a battle with the main force. The Yankees resisted at first, but Priceĺs army eventually pushed them through the town to the western outskirts and pursued them along the Independence Road until night fall. Without Curtisĺs entire force, the Yankees could not stop Priceĺs army, but they did further retard their slow march. Blunt gained valuable information about the size and disposition of Priceĺs army.
Result(s): Confederate victory
CWSAC Reference #: MO023
Preservation Priority: IV.1 (Class D)
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A man got a call one day from his doctor. The doctor said, �I have some bad news and I have some terrible news. Which would you rather hear first?�
The man said, �Give me the bad news first.� So the doctor said, �The Lab messed up your tests, and when they redid them, they found out you only have 48 hours to live!�
The man exclaimed, �What could be more terrible than that?�
The doctor replied, �We tried all day yesterday to get a hold of you, but your phone was busy!�
Is it just me or is time going by really fast? Can you believe we are already in September? It just seemed like yesterday was Christmas. I turned 46 a couple of days ago, and I have people who are 20, 30 and 40 years older than me who say, �Wait until you get to be my age. Then time will really go by fast!� If that�s the case, my head will probably be spinning!
Because time does go by so fast, it ought to make you and me move with urgency to do God�s work. I am particularly concerned about people who put off making Jesus their Lord and Savior. Some people think, �Oh, it�s no big deal. I�ll go out and live life up while I am young, and then, when I get a few years on me, I�ll turn my life over to Jesus.� What if that time never comes?
Paul, in writing to the church at Corinth, says in 2 Corinthians 6:2 � For He says: �In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.� Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (NKJV).
So many people procrastinate making important decisions in their lives. The word �procrastinate� comes from a Latin compound word: pro meaning �forward,� and crastinus indicating �of tomorrow.� So � procrastinate � means to move or put something from today until tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow).
The greatest decision you and I have to make is whether to invite Jesus Christ into our hearts, and make Him our Lord and Savior. Sadly, too many people are procrastinating making that decision. All of us know we are going to die one day. Hebrews 9:27 says � And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment (NKJV). I guess a lot of people think they are going to live forever on this earth. But the truth is that life is short, and none of us know when we are going to be headed to eternity.
David Jeremiah, from his February 24, 2012 Turning Point devotional writes: �Most things in life that need to be done � pay the bills, paint the house, change the oil in the car � will allow for a few �tomorrows� before they absolutely have to be done. Why? Because if you die before you get the house painted, it will be an inconvenience for someone else, but not the end of the world. But there are other things in life that don�t allow for such putting off since they have eternal ramifications. Most importantly is one�s own decision regarding Christ. When we die, next comes the judgment. After that, there will be no tomorrows, do- overs, mulligans , or second chances when it comes to salvation.�
You can get by in this life if you procrastinate about some things. But hear what I am about to say � choosing to put off a decision to make Jesus your Lord and Savior is not one of them! Today, if Christ is not your Master, will your confess your sins before Him, and ask Him to come into your heart? Don�t wait until tomorrow � tomorrow may never come. It won�t be long before each of us will go into eternity. Which direction will you be headed? I pray that it is towards Jesus.
Jimmy Black is pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Shelby


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Ford Falcon. Rain spots added in post.
Grille detail. 1956 Chevrolet.
Rear lights on Ford street rod
Head lamp. 1940 Plymouth.
1940 Plymouth in black and white.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Gainesville, Florida.
Durgha slaying the buffalo demon. 10th century. Sandstone.
Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas.
Amitayus buddha. China. Gilt Bronze. 18th century.
Stone Head of Bodhisattva. Norther Qui or Sui Dynasty. 6th century.
Gandhara region between Pakistan and Afghanitan. Seated Buddha.4-5th century.
Ganesha. Patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom
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The Abduction of Europa.
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Last month we talked about WordPress and why the demand for WordPress websites is only going to grow. That's why it's so important to get started now and be at the front of this trend.
Today, I'd like to have Conrad Feagin – the founder of LearnWebDevelopment.com – explain why WordPress is so impressive and popular. But, first I have an announcement…
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When all the seats are filled, registration for this bootcamp will close and the next opportunity will be in 2013. Don't get stuck on the waiting list. Instead, get started now and start the new year as a WordPress web designer – with clients!
Now, back to Conrad…
Conrad here, from LearnWebDevelopment.com.
I get this question all the time: What's the deal with WordPress?
There are literally dozens of reasons I recommend WordPress for new and experienced web designers, but I typically point out just a few:
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- WordPress is built search engine friendly which means you (and your clients) can rank high in the search engines with very simple optimization.
- Clients love WordPress and they're requesting it more and more often. This means a bigger client base for you.
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White gazpacho has been something of an enigma to me ever since I first learned of its existence. Thick, rich, and creamy, it seemed the absolute antithesis of the light but bold, veggie-packed tomato gazpacho I already knew and loved. Both are chilled soups, but the similarities ended there. Like the differences between spring and summer, it can sometimes be difficult to discern where one ends and the other begins, but it's as clear as night and day when viewed from a distance.
Deceptively light and refreshing, the paler version of this old school soup is far richer and more satisfying than such a simple preparation would lead you to believe. Perfectly suited to warm, muggy days, but still hearty enough to hold an overwintered appetite in check, it's the best thing for days betwixt and between two (or three) seasons. I could hardly do such a classic, straightforward recipe as written though- Especially not when the short-lived white asparagus beckoned from nearby grocery shelves.
Rather than using stale bread or green grapes to make up the bulk of the base, I opted to feature the subtle flavor of these precious blonde stalks. Standard green asparagus could make a fine substitute in terms of flavor, but naturally, you'd end up with a green gazpacho instead.
For added flair, freshly plucked violets or other edible flowers are completely optional, but instantly liven up the otherwise monochromatic color palate with style.
White Asparagus Gazpacho
- 1 Pound White Asparagus, Ends Trimmed
- 1/2 Cup Sliced or Slivered Almonds
- 1 Small Shallot, Diced
- 2 Cloves Roasted Garlic
- 1 Medium Cucumber, Peeled and Chopped (Seeded if Necessary), Divided (Reserve 1/4 Cup for Garnish)
- 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
- 1/2 – 3/4 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 Teaspoon Ground White Pepper
- 1/4 Cup Avocado Oil or Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1/2 – 1 1/2 Cups Vegetable Stock
- Truffle Oil
- Additional Slivered Almonds, to Garnish
- Bring a large stockpot full of water to a boil. Dunk in the prepared asparagus very briefly, for about 1 – 2 minutes, in order to blanch.
- Drain and immediately immerse the stalks in an ice-water bath to cool them down as quickly as possible and arrest the cooking process. Drain once more and roughly chop before tossing the pieces into your blender.
- Puree the asparagus along with all of the other ingredients, except for the oil, water, and garnishes. Once smooth, slowly drizzle in the oil while the machine continues to run, to emulsify the mixture.
- Repeat this process with stock, adding enough until it reaches your desired viscosity. Note that if you make this soup in advance and store it in the fridge, you will likely need to thin it out further after it sits.
- Serve immediately or chill for a more refreshing, ice-cold soup, and top portions with the reserved chopped cucumber, additional almonds, and truffle oil, if desired.
Standard green asparagus could make a fine substitute in terms of flavor, but naturally, you'd end up with a green gazpacho instead.
For added flair, freshly plucked violets or other edible flowers are completely optional, but instantly liven up the otherwise monochromatic color palate with style.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 216 Total Fat: 20g Saturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 17g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 539mg Carbohydrates: 8g Fiber: 4g Sugar: 2g Protein: 5g


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PrioritiesNovember 10, 2003
Necessity forced the abandonment of software solutions in favour of hardware; a router got bought. A router with sticky-uppy thingies, to be more precise. Yes, we have discovered 802.11 (wireless) and oh is it good. Sitting on the couch with an Airport-enabled iBook (which is increasingly becoming the weapon of choice chez Shea) and a good pair of headphones tuning in to a radio station from a timezone a whole day removed while writing one's latest tome on Cascading-something-or-other is a most agreeable way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Increasingly I find the weekends, prior reserved for the catching up I swear I'd do mid-week, are becoming more about the exploring of new and just getting-the-hell-off-the-screen. Sitting in a coffee shop without wireless and playing an old-fashioned game of Scrabble one November afternoon while sipping the new festive specialties feels right. Putting ten or fifteen kilometers on the old rubber soles and trying out new sushi restaurants and pizza joints means spending that time doing things off-line instead of on-. Taking these precious two days a week to keep life in check, meet new people, and try new things breaks up the otherwise routine.
And that's what it's about really, finding balance and figuring out what matters once you strip away the distraction. Sure, I saw that movie and built a wireless network this weekend. But I'm far more satisfied after stewing a largeish pot of soup (using frozen stock leftover from Canadian Thanksgiving), meeting up with Matt H. over lager, discovering a new organic produce grocer, enjoying my wife's company, and all the other little things that made it far more interesting than the five days preceding.
What did you do — offline — this weekend?
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I think it should be noted that "chez Shea" is rather fun to say aloud.
Which gives everyone a rather sad view of what constitutes "fun" at chez Marcotte, but I digress. ;)
I took a walk around Sheffield Park Gardens:
I've can't remember anything like the colours there now—perhaps it's something to do with the the long Summer and mild Autumn we had this year.
I was taking some photographs and a very old man passing said, "Look carefully: you may never see it like this again."
Ah, the weekend is definitely my escape from the online world into the real one. Since I spend nearly every waking hour during the week in front of a computer (job + freelance), I rarely do anything other than check my email on weekends.
This past weekend was particularly enjoyable:
Friday night: Went to my favorite cigar bar/jazz club in St. Augustine FL, enjoyed one of the best cigars I've ever had (Arturo Fuente Maduro, Churchill. About an hour and a half smoke, highly recommended), downed a few pints of Guinness, and listened to a great local jazz band, the House Cats
Saturday: Spent the day helping my dad drop the engine and tranny back into a 93 miata after helping him rebuild it off and on for the last few weeks. I'm still sore, but I draw a tremendous sense of satisfaction from physical labor, especially working on cars. After a shower, went to see the new Matrix movie (no comments. make up your own mind about it), then met a good buddy of mine out at Jacksonville Beach to just hang out for a while.
Sunday: Slept almost until noon (haven't done that in years), got up, cleaned up the apartment, did some laundry, got some exercise, watched some football (The Jaguars finally managed to win a game!), watched the Simpsons, and capped the night off by watching "28 days later", which was about what I expected, and really quite enjoyable.
Saturday started off with a technology slant but ended with an incredible Joshua Redman concert, good thai food, and then an old friend's party until 3 or 4. Sunday was lazy, spent sleeping late, eating decadently, napping, and reading.
So true. While the novelty of new technology continues to bring me simple pleasure, life can be so much more enjoyable with out technology staring blankly back at me.
I took the cold and sunny weather as a sign that it was time to cover the drafty windows and doors for the upcoming winter, sought closure to The Matrix trilogy via Revolutions and most enjoyably, caught a great local band and a microbrew with a dear friend on Friday night.
Dear Lord, nearly nothing until Sunday. Because my weekdays are usually kept pretty tight, I find that the weekend is the only time I have to get work done on my publishing system, not to mention the odd round of Diablo.
Sunday, however, I went to church, practiced with my budding band, and enjoyed an evening with my family, without a single worry about what I'd need to do the next day.
Friday night: fireworks then clubbing till 5 am, fantastic night
Saturday: woke up at 3:15 pm! went shopping for paint and skirting board for son's bedroom, popped into office, Processor fan had died at 8pm Friday so PC was resetting itself every second or two, luckily all of the hardware survived and a new fan/heat-sink solved the problem, did a bit of work, went shopping for fireworks, went and set them off with the kids, had a few beers and watched crap on tv
Sunday: worked on son's bedroom and came into work for a bit
Great weekend all in all, more eventful than most.
well, my main pc was busy pretty much all weekend encoding a whole selection of 20+ minute movies i made into mpeg2 for later dvd burning, so it was out of action for any serious work most of the time. what did i do ? nurse a damned hangover on saturday (a few pints of guinness followed by 5 giant glasses of hoegarden do not mix well, let me tell ya). sunday was mainly covered by my other half insisting on going for an early christmas shop (yes, being dragged from shop to shop, although halfway through i did manage to escape with the "i'll meet you back here in an hour" routine), and subsequent food shopping. heck, even a trip to a local DIY superstore was crammed in…
oh, and speaking of wireless: i do have a 802.11g network running here in the house, but only to avoid lots of cabling. my main machines are upstairs, hard-wired to my linksys access-point/router, but the wireless shares the adsl connection to my girl's pc downstairs (thus avoiding the drilling of holes, cable shafts, etc). i do have a crappy old laptop, but haven't got a pcmcia card for wireless for it yet. it's on my christmas shopping list though…particularly once summer hits, i want to be in the garden surfing the broadband connection. i've also toyed with the idea of keeping an old, battered machine under the stairs or something, with shedloads of harddrive space and a wireless card, as a file server (possibly running a web/ftp service, so i can get to my files from work if required)
happy days indeedy ;)
This was a rare weekend where I didn't actually turn my PC on until some time Sunday.
Friday night; went to the Toronto Comicon, stalked comic book artists Tony Harris, Phil Jimenez, Kevin Maguire, and Marshall Rogers. Lots of fun was had by stalker, stalkees seemed to enjoy the dialogue as well.
Saturday; Best friend/business partner and wife came down from London to my wife and I. Went out for ice cream, saw that movie (hated it), went home, had a light dinner, played craps for fun.
Sunday; Went out for breakfast, went for a drive around town, had late lunch out, said goodbye to friends, went to coffee shop with my wife and had a delicious hot treat, came home and did a tiny bit of work on my computer.
Out of the 56 hours from Friday night until Monday morning, I only spent about 4 of them on my computer. Not bad.
Saw two movies (not including, you know, 'that' one). Brought oven-fresh cookies to the picket line. Rounds of mochas; couldn't sleep after. Argued: science fiction novels vs. Haruki Murakami and so forth. Cleaned house. Petted cats. Flipped off an auditorium full of impressionable children and unbalanced adults. Arrived at the record store half an hour after it closed. Watched the eclipse. Slept well.
that is all well and good, but one question:
802.11b or 802.11g?
or in apple terrms, airport or airport extreme?
Weekends are good for baking. Making bread is a good way to spend Sunday afternoon; more fun than using a bread maker anyway.
Of course, this weekend I wasted Saturday trying (and failing) to get Syncato http://www.syncato.org/WK/blog/508?t=page to work (I'm sure I will manage eventually…). Then I spent Sunday realising I should have done something useful on Saturday, and trying to understand some of the simpler parts of Particle Physics.
At the weekends, my family are my priority. I have a 2 year old daughter, a 7 month old son (literally my mini-me) and a wife who I can't wait to spend decent time with. The pain of being freelance is the guilt you feel when you're not working, but my family soon make me forget about it.
Went skating twice, raked lots of leafs in the garden, and does watching hockey count for being offline? :)
By watching hockey I mean in television. HNIC to be precise.
some serious online & offline work….
on saturday night, took my little computer over to our friend's house; while he & the sig. other puttered around with various ancient computer parts (256 mb apple hard drive, anyone?), I finally installed mt-blacklist and cleared out my backlog of reading.
spent most of sunday digging and raking and such, trying to get some plants set before winter. didn't finish, alas, mostly because I took a bunch of plants from a neighbor who had too many daisies & gladiolas. a lot of pickaxing through sod; now my arms are sore.
Saturday, I saw -that movie- with my best friend and his mom, who are more like my brother and our mother, and my girlfriend. Oh, and secretly coveting the new Dark Tower Series book by Stephen King.
Sunday, I spent 13 hours playing my favorite video game. How pathetic am I? Oh, very.
Being the father of a 3 month old, my online time has dwindled to a fraction of what it was B.A. (Before Alec). Which is a shame, because my web site is now generating sufficient enquiries for me to be spending a lot more time on freelance work.
And as for online gaming…sigh. Now, I just download the patches to stay up to date–one day I'll be back to fighting it out with the best of them!
i dusted off my brushes and did some painting: http://thraxil.org/nodes/4801
→Friday: Saw "that movie" and thought it was much worse than "that other crappy movie" from a few months back. Luckily it only cost me $7.50 and not $13. Walked around in the bitter cold of Toronto with friends.
→Saturday: Saw The Rheostatics play an instore performance with my brother at Soundscapes record store. Quite an intimate affair as it's a rather small shop. Saw the lunar eclipse.
→Sunday: Visited my grandmother. Forgot to water my mother's plants (again) as my parents are away on vacation and it was the one thing they entrusted me to do… the plants will all be dead by the time they get back I'm sure.
Haha, I spent this weekend enjoying the company of a few friends in the good old college town of State College, PA. I highly recommend The Saloon, where you can get these great drinks called Monkeyboys.
Fill up a pitcher (yes, pitcher) with ice, pour in 4 liquors about halfway up the pitcher. A splash of apple flavored liquor and/or 20 other flavors, some club soda, a handful of cherries, and one straw and you're set for an hour. Happy hour 8:00-10:00pm equals $5 of pure heaven. Three hours later you'll swear the Penn State Lion is out to get you; four hours later, everyone turns into Britney.
It was good to be a college student again.
A strangely computer-less weekend for me as well.
Friday: Banquet for World's largest campus ministry rubbing shoulders with local bigwigs making sizable contributions (compared to my measly spare change).
Saturday: Sleep in; Clean house; Birthday dinner with family; Ironically, a few games of Scrabble.
Sunday: Church; Pot luck; Haircut; Nap; Finally arranging the wedding album (4+ months late from a June 28 wedding).
Its weekends offline I think my wife loves me the most. :)
I couldn't agree more Dave.
I hardly ever touch a computer on the weekends. Maybe the occasional e-mail check or browsing the latest posts on a few sites, but no prolonged exposure to anything related to what i do at work.
Especially since the birth of my son (http://baby.jeremyflint.com), I have spent less and less time on the computer at the house. It's also a major factor in why I don't take on much freelance work.
An example:
Almost a full month ago, because of a billing snafu, my DSL account was cancelled. I haven't even renewed it yet. Why pay for what I don't use. Dial up works just fine (even though it is AOL) for checking e-mail once in a two day stretch.
Weekends are for things other than work.
Friday - did loads of washing up; cooked dinner for my wife, a youth worker, who was working until 9.30.
Saturday - slept in until the cats' meowing got frenzied enough (about 10am). Fixed friend's computer (someone had put the mouse in the keyboard port and vice-versa). Wine-tasting (church social event) in the evening, followed by visit to friend's fireworks party (it being the weekend after November 5th). Bed by 12.30am.
Sunday - Remembrance Sunday service at church. Had to carry rather large and heavy cross, making my shoulders ache. Straight to Clarks Village outlet centre to exchange item of clothing. Ate burgers. Watched Saving Private Ryan on video in the evening - most appropriate for 11/11. Went to bed reeling from the sensory assault.
It's a great point you make, Dave.
Having suffered flu for a couple of weeks recently, returning to work last week having spent the previous two at home in the quiet, comforting company of my wife and 9-month-old daughter, it was a genuine shock to the system. So we were already planning our weekend by Monday evening.
We all (my daughter, wife, parents-in-law and myself) went for a walk around The Bishop's Palace in Wells–a delightful town just down the road from us, which is steeped in history;
It's the perfect anti-work place–nothing but lush greenery all around, as far as the eye can see, interspersed some stunning buildings that have stood there for longer than I could hope to imagine. Plus it was market day too; what better way to escape the daily grind of technology than bartering over the price of a bag of fresh, home-grown courgettes?
Although my recent break wasn't a holiday, my personal "holiday success yardstick" is returning to work, and finding the mouse and keyboard awkward and quaint for at least a day or so. Never fails to bring a smug grin to my face…
Ah..balance! Dave the Zen master!
Come to think of it, I didn't touch the computer this weekend. And even better, I didn't have second thoughts about it either.
On Saturday, we enjoyed the Spring Pageant in Adelaide. The countdown to Cristmas has officially began. Christmas in summer is something that really feels odd to me. Anyways, it was quite a show with a lot of beautiful floats. Not on par with the Rose Parade in Los Angeles (Pasadena) but a good show indeed. The business district was completely abuzz. The night was marked with a visit to a Spring fair just near our place. There were rides, food and an awesome fireworks display to mark the end of a special day. The close proximity of the fireworks show, made it a very special experience.
Sunday we visited the Morialta Falls Conservation park which is less than a mile away from my place. We had a nice little picnic, played some frisbee, a bit of soccer, and had a nice time all around.
It was one of the best weekends I have had in the longest.
When not working on (and flubbing up) the scoring system for ReUSEIT!, I was replacing the outside light fixtures with something other than the cheapo builder's grade units that have been there since the house was erected; pounding teflon glider-thingies into the chair and table legs for the kitchen dinette so that, when pulled or pushed across the ceramic tile, they don't make an awful SCRRAAAAWWWWKKK!! sound; replacing the (once again, builder-grade) faucet in the half-bath with a shiny new faucet; washing the dirty leaf-stained sand. leaves, and rainwater out of my daughter's sandbox; and other mundane household chores.
Oh, and dinner out Sat. night (babysitting courtesy mom-in-law) with my wife, my cousin, and her husband at a quaint little restaurant that serves, among other things, ostrich and venison. I had the pork tenderloin. Mmmm…
Enjoyed the visit of my mother and sister (she hadn't seen the 'new place' yet). They also brought the dining chairs they wanted to get rid of and that we can use so eagerly.
Made a nice and spicy Indonesian dish that me and my girlfriend enjoyed together. We also spend 4 hours shopping which got me a warm sweater. Then we watched two DVD's of which one was "Dancing in the Blue Iguana". It did not dissapoint me.
I managed to not think about work.
This is so true. Lately I have been working so much (job+freelance+ personal projects) that I have been speding way too much time behind the screen.
I forced myself to take the weekend off a couple weeks ago and I read The Da Vinci Code, which was good, but I felt so guilty.
I really need to get out more. ;-)
Music. Friends. Football. Girls.
My roommate had a show and played some great Music. I played some tunes later for a Girl.
Went to the home Football game with Friends… It was cold and ugly, but worth it.
Overall a successful offscreen performance. Cheers.
(hey, does it show that I'm doing my morning web reading? ;-))
I did what most people would dream of: had a walk around Versailles (yes, *the* castle) at night, then a walk around Paris the next day. For those who may feel like looking into an atlas: Le Sacr� Coeur, Beaubourg, Le Louvre.
Wonderful sightseeing.
I've been living in the Paris area for four years now, and can't seem to get used to the beauty. Still walking around with my nose up and smiling like silly. ;-)
And yesterday, which is a holiday in France, WWI etc, we went to Le Jardin des Plantes, into the zoo. I stood, appalled, amazed, wondering, in front of orang-utans for what seeems like a long time. They sure looked bored.
You're right. I'm also in get-away-from-a-screen mode. We tend to think that everything is orshould be internet-related, and forget real life somehow.
Went raving in London for the first time in 2 months (the longest its been for years) ended up meeting some fashion designer who would like me to do some work AAAAARRGGHHH! It just wont stop!
I am learning CSS and how to make style sheets. I think this is a great site to understand how powerfull that css really is. I have had problems with the external style sheets seperating from the pages it is attached to? I have the files all in the same place in the local and the romote sites. the files display on my harddrive fine then as i upload them they lose there formating from the css page. Any and all ideas will be used. I have asked my teacher in the class i am takeing and he is not sure what is happing? Is there a any reason the style sheets are seperateing .
I reserved a hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia through http://www.bratislavahotels.com and then travelled there from Vienna, Austria for a weekend. Wonderful old town I have to say…
Yes, weekends used to represent serious print/web production time for freelance, but spending time with my children seems to be more important to me recently.
They're only young once.
Oh, and the IBook is a great 'mobile mac' solution. Truth is, the Powerbook logic board is only 33 Mhz faster, so you can have a really fast processor, but if you don't have the proper bussing, it's mostly neglible in terms of speed increase. Just max out the memory on that IBook and you have a pretty nice machine.
Saturday was the first time that I went out in 6 days, the other 5 were spent in bed beating down a nasty bout of flu. Feeling quite perky on Saturday I decided to travel to a nearby shopping centre to complain about my Kodak DC4900 camera which was playing up. A short conversation later and the purchasing of some special Duracell batteries saw me buying lunch for my Mother and I while I contemplated donating my Kodak to the Mothership and purchasing a new camera for myself. My resolve to persevere with my Kodak lasted 10 minutes when my eye caught the Canon A80 and G5. The A80 won.
I've recently gone wireless. My two PC's upstairs are hard wired and my laptop wireless. I did contemplate going completely wireless but it took nearly 8 hours to get my WAP going so I decided not to mess about any further.
There's something decadent about surfing the net the the bathroom (just for testing purposes!), my next challenge will be how far down my street I can net without losing my connection.


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Icelandic volcanic ash halts thousands of flights
"…Herbert Formayer, a meteorologist with the University of Vienna, said that "as the dust particle would stop the sun's rays to the Earth for such a long time, it would also cause global cooling."…"
I have never been shy about the bogus insinuations and Climategate… oops, I guess they also forgot to insert "natural events"… seems like "divine intervention" to me.
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CHICAGO -- Coming off a sweep of the New York Yankees, the high-flying Orioles were grounded by a last-place White Sox team on Tuesday night, halting their upward swing in the American League East with their first loss in five games.
Seeking to go a season-high 12 games over .500, Baltimore (47-37) was stonewalled by Chicago starter John Danks -- who held one of baseball's best lineups in check over seven-plus innings -- with O's starter Jason Hammel serving up a pair of pivotal homers in the 5-2 loss at U.S. Cellular Field.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- Coming off a sweep of the New York Yankees, the high-flying Orioles were grounded by a last-place White Sox team on Tuesday night, halting their upward swing in the American League East with their first loss in five games.
Seeking to go a season-high 12 games over .500, Baltimore (47-37) was stonewalled by Chicago starter John Danks -- who held one of baseball's best lineups in check over seven-plus innings -- with O's starter Jason Hammel serving up a pair of pivotal homers in the 5-2 loss at U.S. Cellular Field.View Full Game Coverage
The defeat, in front of a crowd of 19,746, coupled with Boston's win puts Baltimore 3 1/2 games back in the AL East. It also marked the sixth consecutive start Hammel has allowed at least one home run as the 29-year-old, who has given up four or more earned runs in three of his last four outings, continues to search for his impressive 2012 form.
"The home runs are killing me this year," said Hammel, who is tied for second in the AL with 18 homers allowed. "That's the bottom line."
"I don't know how to answer [why], just balls up in the zone that are getting hit out this year that weren't last year. That's just the way I'm going right now. Mistakes are being amplified."
Hammel, trying to become the first AL starter to reach six road wins this season, struck out seven and matched Danks early. The right-hander didn't allow a run until Gordon Beckham's fourth-inning single and took the mound in the seventh in a 2-1 hole after Conor Gillaspie sent a 1-0 fastball an estimated 375 feet into the right-field seats for a home run in the sixth. But the White Sox put together a three-run frame, highlighted by Adam Dunn's two-out two-run homer, to snap their five-game skid.
"The game plan with Adam Dunn is to make him aware of the outer corner, but he's obviously trying to pull and jerk it and hit a home run," said Hammel, who had Alejandro De Aza 0-2 before hitting him with a pitch to put a man on. "[Dunn] somewhat dives, has an open stance a little bit and you can get in on him with it off the plate and in. And that one was barely off the plate and up, and that's a ball he can handle."
Dunn's homer marked the 10th long ball off Hammel in his last six games, and is a recurring problem for an inconsistent Orioles rotation hoping to be bolstered by Tuesday's trade for Scott Feldman. The Orioles, while hitting their fair share of homers, have given up 115, which is tied for most in the Majors.
"Of course," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of wanting that number to improve. "I think the big thing when you look back at stuff like that, how they got on base before they hit it. Solos don't do much to you. It's what happens to set up those multiple runs."
"Ham, if that's what some people remember [about the game], I look at how well he pitched up until that home run to Dunn there. It's something that you try to cut down on, but I try to dwell on the positive where he's concerned. I thought he pitched well enough to win tonight."
The O's first run off Danks came on a homer, with Brian Roberts ambushing a first pitch with one out in the third inning. Roberts, in his second game back off the disabled list, put Baltimore on the board with his first home run since April 13, 2011.
"It's good to see him just in this clubhouse and in that lineup," center fielder Adam Jones said of Roberts, who also made an excellent play in the field. "All the hard work he's put in, it's good to see him back. He's a big lift for our team, not just on the team but emotionally."
Added Showalter: "Brian doesn't take anything for granted. He's taking each day as a great opportunity."
Nick Markakis and Manny Machado followed Roberts with a pair of singles, but Danks got J.J. Hardy to fly out and Jones to pop up to quash the threat. The White Sox southpaw went on to retire 13 of the 14, scattering six hits en route to his second victory.
"Obviously, those guys [Chris Davis and Machado] are having tremendous years," Danks said. "One through nine in that lineup, I think I made a comment to [Chris] Sale in the middle of the game about how that lineup doesn't let off. It's tough. You got to be, careful is not the right word, but you got to be smart with everybody in that lineup. Obviously, there were some mistakes that they hit. For the most part, I got away with some stuff, made some pitches when I needed to and guys caught the ball behind me.''
The Orioles didn't get a leadoff man on until Markakis delivered his second hit of the night with an eighth-inning single to chase Danks. After Machado walked, Hardy grounded into a double play off reliever Nate Jones, and Adam Jones singled in Markakis to pull the O's within three. But that's as close as Baltimore would get as Matt Thornton retired red-hot Davis to end the frame.
"He's been around a while," Roberts said of Danks. "He knows how to pitch and with guys on base, he seems to get a little tougher. He used his changeup more, and he's got a good one. I think as much as anything he's good at disrupting your timing, mixing up hard and soft, and he did a good job of that tonight."
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TORONTO, November 15, 2012 - The proverb that "it takes a village to raise a child" may not be far from the truth when helping kids struggling with their mental health. As a parent, teacher or friend of a young person dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, bullying, or other form of mental health challenges, one of the most important things you can do to support them is connect them with others, helping them to build a circle of trust.
"At Kids Help Phone, kids often turn to us because they
need help, but they don't want to worry their parents,"
said Sharon Wood, president & CEO, Kids Help Phone, and
a mother to two teenagers. "As a parent, we may feel
that our kids should confide in us about everything. But in
reminding them that support can come from a variety of sources
including: family, friends, neighbours, and organizations
like Kids Help Phone, we are helping our children become independent
and resourceful."
According to the 2012 RBC Children's Mental Health poll, 63 per cent of parents would like to think that their child would approach them about mental health issues but according to a companion poll of youth who visited the Kids Help Phone website, children are more inclined to confide in their friends (50%), rather than a mother (30 per cent), a health professional (22 per cent) or a father (10 per cent).
"Many parents and children don't discuss mental health concerns," said Dr. Ian Manion, psychologist, executive director of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. "Kids who suffer in silence can obsess over simple issues that can quickly become unmanageable. Parents who have regular conversations with their children about feelings and behaviour are more likely to identify potential concerns early."
The RBC poll found that one significant barrier to early intervention, diagnosis and treatment of a child's mental health issue may be perceived stigma. An overwhelming majority of parents agree that children with a mental health condition are stigmatized among their peers (84 per cent) or among adults (76 per cent).
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For the child who is not ready to talk, a wealth of kid-friendly, age appropriate information is available at kidshelpphone.ca, Kid's Help Phone's interactive website. By visiting the site with the young people in their lives, parents and teachers can start a conversation on the challenges youth are facing today, and together get to know the resources and tips that are clinically endorsed by Canada's leading online and phone counselling service for youth.
The RBC poll showed that while parents generally agree that the biggest issue facing children with mental illness is not stigma but access to information and services, most still believe that the stigma is significant enough to warrant a way to access information on the subject anonymously.
"Kids Help Phone is available to all young people in Canada, no matter the situation, question or concern, online, by phone and, in a limited pilot service, by live chat on computers and smartphones," added Wood. "Kids turn to us because they know we don't ask for their name, we don't trace calls or IP addresses. They can say whatever is on their mind, we won't judge and we'll always help them find a solution that works for them."
RBC Foundation's $1 million investment in Kids Help Phone is the largest gift ever by the Foundation in support of child and youth mental health in Canada. RBC Foundation's support represents an early, important contribution to the new funding necessary to build live chat counselling to a full national service, available free of charge to young people in distress anywhere in Canada.
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The RBC Children's Mental Health Parents Poll was completed online from July 19 to August 3, 2012 using Leger Marketing's online panel, LegerWeb, with a sample of 2,568 Canadian parents with at least one child under the age of 18. A probability sample of the same size would yield a margin of error of ±1.93 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
Kids Help Phone commissioned a companion poll to the 2012 RBC Children's Mental Health Parents Poll asking 115 youth visiting the Kids Help Phone website, who they have or would speak to about their mental health concerns.
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Emily Rogalski, a neuroscientist at the Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, researches aging and dementia and is the lead author of a recent study that illuminates these differences.
For example, special MRI scans have revealed that a SuperAger has a cortex -- or outer layer -- that is thicker than the typical 80- to 90-year-old. Also, deep within the brain, a small region important for attention is bigger than even in the brains of middle-aged participants.
The findings of the study were recently published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Here is an edited transcript of what Rogalski, who has been at Northwestern since 2008, had to say about preserving brain health:
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A: It wasn't so long ago that we thought you were born with all your brain cells, which will eventually die. Now we know that it's possible for brains to change and to make new connections and neurons, which has changed the way we think about brain development and aging.
Q: So what have we learned from these cognitive SuperAgers?
A: We now have research suggesting that keeping your body and brain active is certainly helpful to the brain cells. If good nutrition, moving and stretching are good for our body, the same is true for the brain.
Q: So do you mean doing something like crossword puzzles will keep us sharp?
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Q: Does a positive attitude have any effect on the brain?
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We don't have a cure (for dementia) yet, and medications are limited. So we're constantly asking: How do we help in the here and now? What are solutions to improve quality of life? Because a dementia diagnosis doesn't mean that life stops.
Q: Can brain decline be reversed?
A: It's possible to change connections. People (with brain injury) can recruit other parts of the brain to take over. For example, language is housed in the left hemisphere, but people who have had a stroke may recruit some of the right hemisphere to help out. We know the brain is remarkably plastic. ... and can be changed and modified. ... But right now we can't regenerate those cells that are lost ... and we have a long road ahead of us.
Q: Are more people getting Alzheimer's ... or are we just getting better at diagnosing?
A: We have an uphill battle for a few reasons. We've gotten really good at helping people live longer, with more cures for heart disease and stroke. So our life span is increasing and the biggest risk factor for Alzheimer's is age.
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Q: Northwestern created a test that doctors can use to evaluate patients' cognition that requires participants to identify famous faces. But many of the noteworthy folks were unrecognizable to Americans in their 40s to 60s -- such as James Cagney, Martha Mitchell and Emperor Hirohito.
A: Yes ... they were outdated. We replaced some of those faces with Oprah, Muhammad Ali and Bill Clinton. But there are some people -- like Albert Einstein -- who stand the test of time.
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More Teachable Moments (unedited)by Wabash faculty and staff • October 21, 2005 Share:
We asked Wabash faculty and staff members to recall some memorable moments from their time here over the past 10 years.
"We suffer together, we rejoice together"
The most moving moment of my six years here came as Jeff Espino '03 jogged on to the basketball court. He had returned to Wabash and the team after successfully battling a brain tumor, inspired and encouraged, he said by the Wabash community. The noise from the crowd was deafening.
We learn together, we suffer together, we rejoice together. And Jeff surely demonstrated for us all that "Wabash Always Fights."
Assistant Professor of History Rick Warner
More moments from Professor Warner:
Our approach to comps in History reflects changes in the field over the past generation: dates are less important than themes, connections and human experience. Whose history is more important, Louis XIV or the peasant Martin Guerre? Should students know about US Grant and not about Sojourner Truth? Because of this, direct content questions and facts, while they are asked in orals and expected in writtens, are not the primary focus of either oral or written comps. We want to see to what extent our students have mastered the tools of an historian. We are also interested in seeing them make connections beyond a couple of regions (say, the US and Europe). So we tend to ask questions in both written and oral comps that measure the theoretical, practical and international historical abilities of the student.
In orals, I usually know within several minutes if the student has a chance at distinction. If this is the case, I move away from the historical content questions and push very hard on historiography and theory, as hard as I would with a master's student. They have to earn it! I remember well the oral exam of John O'Neill. David Phillips was there as third chair, and a temporary guy in English. John was never known for short answers, but he rose to the occasion and fired back quick synopses of every historical thinker I could come up with. He was equally impressive in English, and ended up with double distinction the two majors. He went on to grad school at University of Cincinnati and I believe is trying to get into Harvard to study Celtic History.
You asked for other stories. One that I tell fairly often is about my initial job interview here. I was decked out in my black suit, a bit nervous but bemused by the people I was meeting. One student came up to me and thrust a two page paper at me that he had written. He wanted me to comment on it!
I thought, my God what do they teach their students here?
That professors are available 24/7? (Obvious answer: yes.)
Dutifully, I read the piece and gave him my frank appraisal. Now that I've been here a few years, the story is not at all surprising... unless I'm telling it to someone from another college.
"My best C&T section ever"
Three moments come to mind:
1. My best C & T section ever:
Sometimes it just all comes together. I'd had a brilliant C&T section in the Fall of 1995 that I thought no other section could ever top. In the Spring of 2002 I got lucky and got the group that topped them, if only just.
It was the dream C&T section. It had a superstar at the top in the brilliant but modest Nick Dawson, matched insight-for-insight by Caleb Brown. But the depth and quality of the supporting cast is what distinguishes the best C&T sections, and everyone in this section contributed. No matter how hard the material (and we did some doozies for C&T that semester, including Nietzche, Schliermacher, and Wagner in addition to classics such as Malcolm X and MLK), someone--Matt Arroyo, Erik Kroger, Ethan Kuhn, Brandon Peacock--would have an original take on the material, others would take it up, and fifty minutes always seemed too short: the discussion took off, sparkled, and let me sit back and be one of the co-learners.
In fact, the discussions that semester were so consistently good that it's hard picking out a single moment from them, and in fact the defining moment came at the end of the semester. It wasn't when my co-grader and I exchanged grades on our sections and this group was five to seven points better, across the board in both our scores, than his. I almost expected that. It was while I was grading my finals, and Joe Day called. He was wondering if any of my guys had answered a particular "paired ID", because none of his guys were doing very well with it and he was having trouble imagining what a good answer would look like. I read him one of mine (OK, I cheated, it was Nick's, but he'd taught the other guys). I hadn't even finished before Joe said, "My best student couldn't even understand that answer, never mind have written it!"
I can't claim credit: like I said, I got lucky. For the record, here's the complete honor roll. If you read this, guys, let's pick a text and have a reunion discussion, shall we?
To Matt Arroyo, Sean Baylor, Caleb Brown, Nick Dawson, Dean Fox, Erik Kroger, Ethan Kuhn, Dan Matusik, Sean McNulty, Alan Patton, Brandon Peacock, Jon Scott and Paul Stephens. Thanks.
2. Spring 2001: A Mighty Championship
I've been managing the Faculty Staff IM Softball team, under the guise of my softball alter ego "Ozzie" Morillo, for the last ten years (except when I'm on sabbatical). The name I've given the squad, the Mighty Faculty Staff Softball Team (MFSST, or Mighties for short) is often tinged with irony, and among the staff the team is probably better known for the email updates I send out during the season than for our exploits on the field. It's always fun-a great way for faculty and staff to get to know each other and have fun with students. And in fact, we've usually been pretty good, but are usually prevented from going farther in the playoffs by schedule conflicts or a really good fraternity team.
But in 2001, we had a deep squad who all showed up all the time, and we pounded the students. I mean pounded. This team never trailed after any half inning the entire season, outscored the opposition by a combined 106-38, and won the only Faculty Staff IM softball championship in living memory.
My moment came at the end of the championship game. I'd organized and "managed" the team through the season, but I was a bit player on the field'Äö?Ñ?Æas I said in the final report, "My smartest move was limiting my own playing time!" Still, the whole team presented me with a softball marked "8-0" and signed by the whole team. I damn near cried.
For the record, the Championship Day Mighty Lineup:
CF Haas; SS: Warren; RF: Howell; DH: Timmons; SF: Hoffman; 2B: MacDougall; 1B: Bost; LF: Heinhold; 3B: Harris; C: Weaver/Morillo/Lynch; P: Day
3. Spring 2002: Inflammatory Cartoons
OK, this one I'll claim some credit for. On February 21, 2002, The Bachelor printed a cartoon of mine. An African American student posted it on his door. Someone burned it off his door. Two weeks later (after Spring Break), The Bachelor printed my follow up. It too got burned off an African American student's door, and as a result "sparked" (ha ha) a major campus discussion about race relations, culminating in an all-campus Chapel on the topic. The power of cartooning, and a moment I'm proud of.
Professor of History Stephen Morillo
"Like the Voice of God"
In the early 1950's Professor Vic Powell recorded Dean George Valentine Kendall reading Shakespeare's Sonnets in a sound booth in Center Hall. In 2003, I took the tape to Purdue to have it migrated to a CD.
As soon as I got to my car, I popped in the CD. Kendall's voice was like the voice of God, rich and deep and wise. Just right for the man Byron Trippet described as the most civilized man he ever knew.
Elizabeth Swift, Archivist
"A little crazy"
It has been a remarkable time for the business office, with more building projects and more purchasing than any time in the College's history. In one short period we had the second phase of the science building, Trippet Hall, the Malcolm X Institute, and Sigma Chi all going on at the same time.
It gets a little crazy when you have all those projects going on at once, but it's nice to see it all come to fruition-faculty happily teaching in the buildings, and the students learning there.
Director of Purchasing Tom Keedy '77
Four moments come to mind:
Jeremy Robinson '04 telling me he'd turned down various job offers to teach in an inner-city school in Chicago; Nick Myers '05 saying he'd postponed taking his scholarship to Yale so that he could teach English in Honduras for a year.
Professor Joy Castro, in Chapel, reminding our students of the rules of civility in conversation and getting a standing ovation from them.
The Delts, quietly walking to the Senior Bench one night and writing messages on it to their lost brother, Tony Lobdell '05.
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Bill Placher '70
The faculty-student connection
Recently, the various strands of my experience at Wabash came together as I read a report on the Wabash curriculum by Wabash President Louis Hopkins, published in 1931. President Hopkins describes the centrality of the teacher-student relationship to Wabash's academic program. The tremendous advantages of these close personal relationships, he notes, far exceed the disadvantages of remaining small.
There is so much that takes place at this "small" College that it can make ones head spin. I greatly appreciated the reminder that the close and personal faculty-student relationship is at the core.
Associate Professor of Speech David Timmerman
"A Signal Moment"
I was inordinately proud of Professor of Theater Jim Fisher and his brilliant and courageous production of Angels in America. There was considerable opposition to this from some sides, but Jim and his cast forged on and brought a significant and elegant production to the College.
That was a signal moment for me in the College's ability to deal with a controversial play and indicated to me a major moment of intellectual maturity on the part of our community.
Professor of Classics Emeritus John Fischer H'70
"The Catch"
I can't think of Wabash without thinking about athletic director and coach] Max Servies '58 and the stories and Wabash history I've learned from him.
And speaking of great sports stories: The Catch [Jake Knott to Ryan Short to Kurt Casper] to win the 2001 Monon Bell Game has to be one of the best. It brought the Bell back home after a five-year vacation and really allowed the alumni to embrace Coach Chris Creighton.
Associate Director of Alumni Affairs Mike Warren '93
Never cease learning from our students
I was the impetus behind the classroom-based research project in the senior teacher education curriculum in 2003, so I was especially nervous about how students would handle this demanding project during student teaching, which itself is very demanding.
I learned a lot about Wabash students and their work ethic during that year. I believe that good teachers never cease learning from our students, and working with that group of seniors (Class of 2004 seniors Jacob Pactor, Matt Storm, Bubba Stultz, Mike Roark, Chris Anderson, and Robbie Boles) exemplified this tenfold for me.
Presenting our work with Jacob, Matt and Bubba at a national conference was the highlight-I was completely blown away by the students' insight and their ability to discuss their learning in sophisticated ways.
Visiting Assistant Professor Michele Pittard
"Great Joy"
At the Campaign for Leadership kick-off in September 1998, the end of my first month on campus, I was struck with the love of the College expressed by two gentlemen I was seated with-graduates from the mid-1930s.
Four years later, I felt great joy for Johnny Warren and Todd Bertrand-both four-year advisees of mine and members of my first freshman tutorial-as they gave the 2003 Commencement Addresses. In that tutorial group, we learned and grew together. It was a special group of students.
More from Professor McDorman
--We were in the second week of classes in my first semester at Wabash--fall 1998--when a Public Speaking student (Randy Widener) came into my office before our 9:00 a.m. class. He was a freshman and a little nervous about adjusting to Wabash. He entered my office rather wild eyed and with black paint all over his hands. In a kinetic, almost wired, fashion he related to me how he and his pledge brothers had painted the bench the night before and then stood on guard until 7:00 a.m. He asked me some questions about the class, told me a bit about himself, and apologized for "bothering me." I told him he should come in to see me any time, whether it was about class or just to talk. He seemed surprised by this and told me how different it was from high school. Before leaving my office he turned to me, with a wide grin and his painted hands in front of him, and said "this college thing is going to be great." He was right, it has been.
--I remember getting a sense of the history, tradition, and magnetism of Wabash at the Campaign for Leadership kickoff in September 1998--the end of my first month on campus. Of course there was the big tent, the festivities, and a moving pictorial that chronicled the people of the college, but I was most struck with the love of the college expressed by two gentlemen that I was seated with--graduates from the mid-1930s. They had more than 60 years of lived history with the college and it was clearly dear to them. One wrote to me the next week and sent me a speech that had been delivered on campus about Edmund Burke.
--As the College prepares for significant changes, I can't help but think that I was fortunate to arrive at the college at a time of great leaders and teachers. President Ford and Dean Ditzler, who arrived in my second year, have cultivated the college as well as her students and faculty. And I feel like I was fortunate to learn from the likes of Paul McKinney, Peter Frederick, David Phillips and many others about what it means to be part of the Wabash culture, what it means to be a professor here, and about the history of the place.
--In some important respects the faculty C&T trip to Mexico in January 2001 was a defining moment for me. Not only did I learn a great deal and see wonderful sites--the Cathedral, Gaude Lupe, Teotiuhican (and definitely Temple of the Sun), Temple Mayor, Chamula--but I learned so much about my colleagues as 18 of us went on the trip. Talking to Peter Frederick, walking with David Blix, learning with Brenda Bankart, it was a quite an experience and one that in some strange way made me feel like a true part of the faculty. For me, the enduring moment of the trip is the Church in Chamula that we visited. It was a day of worship and it was a scene unlike any I had ever experienced. The pine needles and leaves covering the floor, the smoke from and smell of the incense, the candles, the children, dogs, and chickens, the coca-cola and tequila concoction along with empty cola cans and tequila bottles, the chanting, the offering of gifts, and the surreal mixing of symbols that were so far from anything I had ever experienced and yet, with the Santa Clauses, lights, and Hallmark like chime playing assorted Christmas songs, there were familiar aspects too.
--The joy I felt for Johnny Warren and Todd Bertrand--both four-year advisees and members of my first freshman tutorial--as they gave the 2003 commencement addresses. That tutorial group from 1999 (class of 2003)--Johnny, Todd, Chris Miltenberger, Jake Knott, Ryan Short and so many others--it felt like we learned and grew together. It was a special group of students
--The excitement of students when I've told them that essays we co-authored were accepted for publication.
--Having great support from David Timmerman and great departmental colleagues in Jennifer Abbott and Thom Vaughn.
--Watching Jake Knott throw four first-half touchdowns to Ryan Short during the first-half of the 2002 Monon Bell game.
--"The Catch" from the 2001 Monon Bell game.
--Being greeted at the door by President Ford at the 2003 Holiday party and then being caught off guard when he congratulated me on receiving tenure. It created an instant feeling of jubilation, relief, and numbness.Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Todd McDorman
Double Dutch
In the summer of 2003, 15 scholars from theological graduate schools across the country gathered outside my office in Hovey Cottage to see if they still "had it in them" to jump rope! The bricks of the Alumni Terrace were singing with the clip-clap of the two ropes as the women-and a few men!-sported their skill at "double dutch." I gave it a try but couldn't get past the first couple of hops without missing!
These professors were participants in the Workshop on Teaching for Pre-Tenure African American Faculty, one of the annual summer programs put on by the Wabash Center. Their ability to enjoy this traditional activity was testimony to me of the hospitable space Wabash College has become for hundreds of religion faculty since the Wabash Center was founded in 1996, and of the rejuvenating effect it has had on their careers and sense of vocation.
Lucinda Huffaker, Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
"Keeps me coming back"
My best moment comes once a year, each spring, on opening night of the senior art majors exhibition when four years of effort-hard teaching and hard learning-comes to a pinnacle and is presented to an anticipating public. The pride that is apparent on each student's face is the reward that keeps me coming back for more.
Professor of Art Doug Calisch
"So much I would miss"
In December 2004, I gave the final Cultures and Traditions lecture of the semester, and a few days later I received a Christmas card signed by the Phi Psi sophomores thanking me and saying how much they enjoyed it. Although by itself this may seem a minor event, over 46 years many such moments have made a deep impact on me.
I retired officially a few years ago, but I hate to give up all connections with students, because there is so much like this that I would miss.
Professor of Religion Emeritus Hall Peebles H'63
Outpouring of gratitude
I've reached the late middle-aged point in my Wabash career when one may start to wonder what it all means. Witnessing and experiencing the recent retirements of my friends and mentors Bert Stern and Peter Frederick helped me see how two wonderful professional lives were lived and then evolved into new stages. Both have moved on to fulfilling new teaching experiences, Bert's in Boston, and Peter's at a college on tribal lands in Washington state.
Yet seeing the outpouring of love and gratitude from former students and colleagues when they retired, and hearing Bert and Peter's eloquent and moving reflections on their academic lives, helped me see what a life spent teaching at Wabash could mean.
Their passion for ideas, for art, for justice, and for people not only kept them young-even after 40 years of teaching-but made everyone around them feel vital. And while I miss their daily presence, their effect is still strongly felt.
Professor of English Warren Rosenberg
A deeper feeling for Wabash
A single moment that for me captures a deeper feeling for Wabash and its people came after my only son, Jeff, died. Sometime in the spring of 2001, Professor John (Akare) Aden came by my office as part of his transition from student/alum to colleague in the history department. After acknowledging how hard it must be to lose a son, Akare said, "You have many sons."
I cry every time I recall it.
Professor of History Emeritus Peter Frederick
Celebrating Scholarships
The first "Celebrating Scholarships Luncheon" took place in Spring 2004. As I mailed and emailed invitations to more than 700 students, living benefactors, and parents, I realized how many lives the scholarships touch and benefit in just one year.
Coordinator of Donor Relations Marilyn Smith
Transformed the way we teach
From the immersion learning trip to Italy with John Fischer's Roman Art and Archaeology course:
Jim: Hey John, what is that over there?
John: Child, those are the Gates of Rome. It's a good thing we got you out of Pig Nipple, Indiana, as soon as we did.
Immersion learning trips have transformed the way we teach and the way our students learn in a way more powerful than any building or program I can imagine.
Director of Public Affairs Jim Amidon '87
Chapel Sing
As I look back on my first year back at the College, I recall most clearly the Chapel Sing controversy in the fall [when the Sphinx Club determined that "Old Wabash" would be sung, not yelled.] I was impressed with the passion of our students regarding this "tradition" and was intrigued by the various definitions of that term. I can remember being pulled aside by one of my former professors one day in the midst of the "change" fallout. He told me: "If we do something here once, it's an event; twice, it's a tradition; and more than four years, it has happened here 'forever.'"
I learned that a student's perspective of history is based on his four years here, and I've had to remind myself of that as we've discussed other issues throughout the year.
Associate Dean of Students Mike Raters '85


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Will Sheehey scored 19 points to help No. 1 Indiana defeat Ball State 101-53 on Sunday.
Jordan Hulls scored 17 points, Cody Zeller scored 15 and Christian Watford had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Hoosiers (6-0).
It was Indiana's largest victory margin in a 21-game series that began in 1934. The Hoosiers' previous largest victory margin against the Cardinals was 43 points in 1946 and 1983.
It was Indiana's first game since winning the Progressive Legends Classic with victories over Georgia and Georgetown in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Hoosiers already had been averaging 86 points per game before shooting 61 percent from the field against the Cardinals.
Majok Majok scored 18 points and Jauwan Scaife added 11 for Ball State. The Cardinals (2-2) were coming off a 20-point loss to Indiana State.
The Cardinals were outrebounded 42-29 and shot just 31 percent from the field.
Sheehey, a junior forward, missed his career high by two points.
Indiana's Maurice Creek scored a season-best nine points in 14 minutes. He averaged 16.4 points as a freshman in 2009-10 before suffering a season-ending broken left kneecap. Thirteen months later, he was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right kneecap, ending his season again. He missed last season with a ruptured Achilles' heel.
The Hoosiers improved to 20-1 all-time in the series, having only lost to the Cardinals in 1937.
The game was close early, but Indiana went on a run when Sheehey and Creek entered the game. A breakaway dunk by Zeller put the Hoosiers up 28-13.
The Hoosiers shot 64.7 percent in the first half to lead 50-19 at the break. Indiana missed four of its first six shots before making 20 of 28 the rest of the half.
The bench scored 20 points on 8-for-10 shooting before the break. Sheehey, a reserve, scored 11 points and Creek scored nine off the bench in the first half. Indiana held the Cardinals to 5-for-25 shooting and forced 10 turnovers before the break.
After establishing its inside game in the first half, Indiana went to the perimeter early in the second half. A 3-pointer and a free-throw-line jumper by Hulls bumped the lead to 64-23, and a three by Victor Oladipo pushed the lead to 44 with 14:35 to play.
A 3-point play by Austin Etherington in the final minute put the Hoosiers over the century mark, and the remaining fans gave the Hoosiers one of the loudest cheers of the night.


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"And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." Revelation 5:10
Suggested Further Reading: Mark 14:32-42
Jesus said, "I will take the cup of salvation;" and he did take it—the cup of our deliverance. Bitter were its drops; gall lay in its depths; there were groans, and sighs, and tears, within the red mixture; but he took it all, and drank it to its dregs, and swallowed all the awful draught. All was gone. He drank the cup of salvation, and he ate the bread of affliction. See him, as he drinks the cup in Gethsemane, when the fluid of that cup did mingle with his blood, and make each drop a scalding poison. Mark how the hot feet of pain did travel down his veins. See how each nerve is twisted and contorted with his agony. Behold his brow covered with sweat; witness the agonies as they follow each other into the very depths of his soul. Speak, you lost, and tell what hell's torment means; but you cannot tell what the torments of Gethsemane were. Oh! the deep unutterable! There was a depth which couched beneath, when our Redeemer bowed his head, when he placed himself between the upper and nether millstones of his Father's vengeance, and when his whole soul was ground to powder. Ah! that wrestling God-man—that suffering man of Gethsemane! Weep o'er, saints—weep o'er him; when you see him rising from that prayer in the garden, marching forth to his cross; when you picture him hanging on his cross four long hours in the scorching sun, overwhelmed by his Father's passing wrath—when you see his side streaming with gore—when ye hear his death-shriek, "It is finished,"—and see his lips all parched, and moistened by nothing save the vinegar and the gall,—ah! then prostrate yourselves before that cross, bow down before that sufferer, and say, "Thou hast made us—thou hast made us what we are; we are nothing without thee."
For meditation: Creating us could not have been easier for God—it took just a word. (Genesis 1:26,27). Making us right with himself could not have given him more trouble. The work of salvation was terribly hard for the Lord Jesus Christ, but he completed it. It would have been absolutely impossible for us.
Sermon no. 10
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My most recent furniture piece I made based on the fact that I am in a semi-transient state, hmm word choice? I guess I'm trying to say that I'm not completely rooted down yet, as in I love my little apartment but soon I may want to actually buy my own place instead of just paying rent every month which in all honestly I'll never see again. So that means yet another possible move in my future. (BTW I despise moving, I never fail to lose something important.) So far I have moved a total of 8 times in the past 5 years, which is highly normal at my age, going back and forth to college. But that means that my furniture had it quite rough, almost all of my wooden tables, chairs etc had to be replaced after this last move. Amazingly, my Ikea bed, which is "wrought iron" survived though all 8 moves and is still standing tall and study. I digress, wasn't I supposed to be talking about wood or something?


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This week, the Los Angeles Times has invited me to participate in a daily on-line debate (a regular feature they sponsor called "Dust-Up") with V. John White, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies. Monday, we debated off-shore drilling. Today, we debated the T. Boone Pickens' energy plan. Tomorrow, we'll debate nuclear energy. Thursday, the issue is the future of the automobile. Friday, the topic is what America's energy economy will and/or should look like in a generation. While our exchanges won't be in the newspaper's print edition, I'll take the on-line exposure.
So far, I don't think John has laid a glove on me. In the off-shore drilling discussion, John has a hard time differentiating between electricity markets and transportation markets. To say that we should rely on wind, solar, or whatever – and not oil – is to say that we should rely on batteries to run our automotive fleet. Well, that would be great, but until some pretty big-time breakthroughs occur in battery technology, that's not going to happen. Regarding T. Boone Pickens' energy agenda, I'm still waiting for a concrete argument about why markets "fail" to produce all the investment dollars that this supposedly worthy industry needs.
Tomorrow's debate will likely produce few sparks. I'm against nuclear energy subsidies and don't think the industry would survive without them. Thursday and Friday, however, will be more interesting. I don't have the faintest idea what sort of personal automobiles will be on the market in, say, 2030, and even less idea what the energy economy of the next generation will look like. I suspect, however, that John thinks it's all rather obvious where energy markets and technologies are heading and that he has the perfect master plan to most efficiently accelerate all the big-time changes that history has in store for us.
Saying "I don't know" to questions like these is never that good of an idea if you want to dazzle people with your wisdom and insight. On the other hand, it's hard to marshall the argument that "the oil age is over and the age of genetically modified gerbils on treadmills is coming" (or whatever) and then say that the government needs to do something to get us there. Well, if its so inevitable, then why must government act at all? We'll find out if John can manage to resolve that tension in what will likely be his argument.


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Loyola coach Charley Toomey
Eastern College Athletic Conference Loyola vs. Fairfield, Friday Loyola stormed out to a 7-2 lead and held a 13-6 advantage over Denver in the early fourth quarter of their semifinal. But Denver rallied, scoring seven straight goals to tie it. A collapse of this magnitude would have been catastrophic emotionally for the Greyhounds. But Scott Ratliff, a long-pole midfielder, scored off the opening faceoff in overtime. The win sends Loyola to the final today against Fairfield. It also ensures the 'Hounds a home NCAA tournament game May 12 or 13. Fairfield coach Andy Copelan is a former Maryland assistant under Dave Cottle. He is one of the sharpest young minds in the business. His Stags won a nail-biter with Ohio State on Wednesday night. The 'Hounds won the regular-season contest, 8-6.
Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun
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I don't know about you guys...but I love the Super Dragon and Davey Richards team, and the lastshow established them as angry, arrogant badasses. I'd like to see PWG bring in some teams that could potentially "knock them down a peg" after the beating they laid on Los Luchas.
So I'd like to see them face the likes of:
Jack Evans and Roderick Strong
Necro Butcher and Toby Klein
Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli
Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero
Any other ideas?


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Getting into one of these situations is not uncommon. Sometimes packages aren't packaged properly and you end up with a broken package which refuses to fix itself.
If you try:
sudo apt-get -f install
You will get a message like this:
Unpacking replacement vlc …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc_1.1.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libxcb_screen_plugin.so', which is also in package vlc-nox 1.1.0-1~ppa1~maverick
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace vlc-nox 1.1.0-1~ppa1~maverick (using …/vlc-nox_1.1.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement vlc-nox …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-nox_1.1.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/anevia_streams.luac', which is also in package vlc 1.1.0-1~ppa1~maverick
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
For reasons why this happens see point 7.6.1 from the debian policy manual
The fix for the problem is pretty easy if you know what to do:
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite <filename>
eg. sudo dpkg -i –force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-nox_1.1.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
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