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We Are Knox...
Patrick Lyn '84
Senior Vice Pesident, Standish Mellon Asset Management
Knox College Board of Trustees
Majors: Economics and International Relations
Patrick Lyn grew up in Mandeville, Jamaica. After he received a degree in
economics and international relations from Knox, he pursued an M.B.A.
and master of accounting from Rice University. He has worked in the financial industry for more than 20 years, currently serving as senior vice president and managing director of client service and marketing at Standish Mellon Asset Management Company, LLC, in Boston, where he lives with his husband, Craig. He is among the youngest members of the Lincoln Douglas Society, which recognizes donors who have given $100,000-$999,999 in their lifetimes, and joined the Board in 2008.
Why did you decide to go to college outside of Jamaica?
I went to my high school guidance counselor and chemistry teacher, Sherman Rosenberg, when I started thinking about college. I told him that I wanted to go to school in the United States, particularly a school in the Midwest. "I know where you've got to go. You've got to go to Knox," he said. "My cousin and nephew went to Knox. It's a terrific school, and you'll fit in perfectly. You need to apply."
I ended up applying to a lot of ACM schools, including Macalester and Carleton, but he kept telling me to go to Knox, and I did. And here's the funny thing -- I've since found out that Mr. Rosenberg is my fellow trustee Diane Rosenberg '63's cousin and the "nephew" he was referring to was Diane's son, Robert Rosenberg '81. It never occurred to me that Sherman and Diane were related!
Why the Midwest?
I wanted to go somewhere completely different from where I grew up. Having studied Midwestern geography and written a paper on the Midwestern "Bread Basket" in my geography class, I knew it was flat and that it had four seasons -- totally different from warm, tropical Jamaica. The West Coast seemed too far away. The East Coast seemed too built up for me. And the South was just too close to home.
Why did you ultimately end up choosing Knox?
I loved the whole experience of applying to Knox. It was entirely done by mail -- this was in the early 1980s, when you didn't have e-mail, and you certainly didn't have the Web. But I just got such a feeling of warmth from the folks at Knox that when it came time to decide, I went to Knox. The interesting thing is that four Jamaicans came to Knox the year I entered, and all four of us came because of some connection to Mr. Rosenberg -- three from my high school alone, which is quite a feat when you realize there were only 28 people in my graduating class!
Did the College live up to your expectations?
I went to Knox sight unseen. I arrived in Galesburg for the first time at 9:30 at night and was met at the airport by Knox folks. My plane was two-and-a-half hours late, and I had no luggage. But, again, everyone was so welcoming. They picked me up, took me to Knox, and put me up for the night. The next morning, I opened the window, looked outside, and thought, "Oh my god, this place really is flat as a pancake." But I was so overwhelmed by how warm and friendly and welcoming the staff was, the faculty was . . . basically, everyone that I met. I never regretted my decision.
What was it like to be an international student at Knox in the 1980s?
The year I came to Knox was the start of a strong international community at Knox. The College had more international students than in previous years. We created a really strong International Club and founded International Fair during my sophomore year. We decided to hold the fair in January because it's cold, it's dreary, and people are going to be really interested in something that's all about fun and food and music. It's still held in January today.
I was very involved on campus in other ways, too. I was in the Admission Suite my sophomore year and spent my junior year abroad in France. I had a column in The Knox Student. I was a DJ on WVKC, and I was also on Honor Board. I always tell folks to get involved. Find something that you love to do. That's how you'll really get the most out of your college experience.
What is your favorite Knox memory?
One of the ways I made it through Knox and having really good grades, being involved in so many things, and having an active social life was that I realized that I had to study on Friday nights. So every Friday at the end of classes, I went to Seymour Library and would stay there until the library closed. I'd be in the carrels on the second floor studying, and there'd be these parties at the TKE house and the BETA house -- you'd hear people yelling, and there'd be music. And that's truly one of my favorite Knox memories -- sitting at the library and looking out at all of these people having a great time. It may not be what others would consider a favorite memory -- but it's key for me.
Who was your favorite professor?
Sue Hulett is one of my favorite professors because she and I share diametrically different points of view on politics, but when I was at Knox, I remember how much I enjoyed debating with her and how much I respected her intellectually, even if I didn't agree with her, and I leanred so much from her.
How has your Knox education impacted your life?
Nothing prepares you for life like a liberal arts education. It teaches you to think, it teaches you to reason, and it teaches you to question, but in very logical, reasonable ways. In addition to that, a Knox education fosters independent thinking. Thinking outside the box is what I learned at Knox. That is the thing that has made me successful in my career.
What do you enjoy most about serving on the Board?
It makes me come back to Knox three times a year. It's hard to make yourself come to Knox on a regular basis when you don't live close by, except for Homecoming every five to 10 years for a Reunion. I've really enjoyed coming back to campus, seeing a lot of my old professors, and just being on campus and having really good memories, plus meeting all the students and seeing how different yet similar they are when I was at Knox.
What is the greatest strength that you bring to the Board of Trustees?
I am the first international student to serve on the Board. I certainly bring a different perspective and provide the Board with a diversity of opinion. Secondly, my career has been in finance and investment management, and those two areas are key to Knox's future success. Knox has been extremely fortunate to have some very strong hands on the financial rudder the last 10 years from President Roger Taylor '63 and Tom Axtell, chief financial officer, to fellow Trustees Joe Glossberg and Ralph Walter '69. All have helped Knox chart a course towards financial impregnability. There is still a lot of work to do, and I want to help.
Most of the volunteer work you've done for Knox has been with the Office of Advancement, such as being chair of the Knox Fund Steering Committee. Why is this area important to you?
Even though I was an international student, Knox provided me with financial aid, which is one of the reasons I was able to attend. And I knew so many other folks at Knox who were able to attend because they were getting financial aid. It is very important to me to be able to give back what I receive. Early on, I decided that giving to higher education would be one of my focus areas for life-long giving, and I've just kept that up.
Why do you believe Knox alumni should support their alma mater?
I often tell people that wherever they are, whatever success they've had in their life, Knox is a part of that. I ask people to think about their time at Knox and realize that their education was brought to them, in part, by others who gave back -- people who gave money to buildings or the endowment or operating expenses. Among the hurly-burly of the day to day, it's easy to say, "I'd rather buy myself a bright and shiny new thing instead of give to Knox." But everything we have today was made possible, in part, by Knox College. Now it's our time to give back. We need to help the next generation have that Knox experience.
What do you believe is the greatest challenge facing the Board today?
Fundraising is clearly the greatest challenge facing the Board and the College. For an institution of our size and aspirations, we need to find a way to continue to achieve financial impregnability and to build our endowment. We have buildings that are in significant need of attention. We have an endowment that doesn't generate nearly enough revenue to pay the fabulous faculty and staff at the levels they should be paid.
Where would you like to see Knox in 10 years?
I'd like to see Knox continue its historical mission of bringing education to historically underserved communities and to continue to keep the high quality, high touch faculty-student interaction that we have today, but with much better resources. If I came back to Knox 10 years from now and saw that every building on campus has been renovated and updated, that we had new buildings and new facilities where we need them, and if Alumni Hall was a beautiful, functioning gateway to Knox, I'd be thrilled. To get there, we need to raise a lot of money.


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Network: HBO
Episodes: 29 (half-hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: February 15, 2009 – November 17, 2013
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Danny McBride, Katy Mixon, John Hawkes, Andrew Daly, Ben Best, Jennifer Irwin, Steve Little, Ethan Alexander McGee, Bo Mitchell, Sylvia Jefferies, Craig Robinson, Luke Bigham, and Will Ferrell.
TV show description:
This comedy TV series follows a burned out Major League baseball player who returns to his hometown to teach physical education at his old middle school. While it's not biographical, show creators do admit to being inspired by John Rocker, a former Major League relief pitcher who played for several different teams.
Kenny Powers' (Danny McBride) future looked bright when, at age 19, he left Shelby County to become a big-time baseball pitcher. Yet here he is now sleeping on his brother Dustin's couch after his pitching slowed down and his obnoxious behavior picked up. While he looks for a way to regain what he lost, he's filling in as a P.E. teacher at his old middle school.


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Dutch Stunner: O's Keiichiro Nagashima Powers Past O's Joki Kato to Take Men's 500m Title at Speed Skating World Cup
Oakley speed demon Joji Kato charged into the 500m Heerenveen finals as the clear favorite at the Speed Skating World Cup in the Netherlands this past weekend. But fellow Oakley speed skater Keiichiro Nagashima had something else in mind. Despite Kato's domination of the season opening meet last Friday with a 34.85 second finish (the Olympic Bronze Medalist's eighth career title), the 500m race on Sunday saw Nagashima power past his countryman for a 34.97 second finish for the victory.


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Sick. So heavy.
best song on the ealbumDigging: Mumdance and Pinch - Pinch B2B Mumdance
Digging: Mumdance and Pinch - Pinch B2B Mumdance
video is already goneDigging: Grief - Come to Grief
Digging: Grief - Come to Grief
What the hell, this was fast.
It wasn't the best thing ever, by the way...
"best song on the ealbum"
lol wut
Digging: 68 - In Humor and Sadness
Digging: 68 - In Humor and Sadness
damnit what the fuck is sumerian doing get your shit together
"best song on the ealbum"
So, if you saw that video you're a lucky fecker. Unless someone ripped it and is willing to reupload it.
It best be awesome
Crossburner destroys
one of us is the killer and when i lost my bet are best on ealbum.
wish i couldve seen this video, they wrote something about this in their fb
""best song on the ealbum"
Erm, When I Lost My Bet?
The video had a really similar theme to the When I Lost My Bet video (also some high contrast/saturated images, similar gore). It was also similar to NIN's Closer video but not nearly as good. I also remember a lot of Puciato singing scenes, there were instruments to but I don't remember faces.
Video deleted. WUT.Digging: Rise Against - The Black Market
Digging: Rise Against - The Black Market
from their facebook:
Everyone that saw the "One of Us is the Killer" video today...you may have seen a version that will never be seen again. That version was accidentally not the final edit. The final actual video will be posted around 10AM tomorrow morning Pacific Standard Time.
damn it
Paranoia Shields, Understanding Decay, When I Lost My Bet and Hero of the Soviet Union are all betterDigging: Naked City - Radio
Digging: Naked City - Radio
Nearly every song on the album is better, but it's a really well executed "softer" sound so respect for them finally pulling that off.
So, soft song = bad, hard song = good?
no it's definitely one of the best songs on the album. probably second only to crossburnerDigging: Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Digging: Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Prancer / When I Lost My Bet / Understanding Decay / Magic That I Held You Prisoner / CROSSBURNER / and The Threat Posed By Nuclear Weapons are all 5 stars for me... If i had to choose a best? It'd be a split between When I Lost My Bet and Crossburner (which is fucking flawless)
Fantastic song, good video.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley touted Tuesday the potential widening of the main road through Odenton, as part of an effort to push for funding of infrastructure projects in the state.
In a blog post Tuesday, O'Malley highlighted one major infrastructure project from each county in the state, and specifically mentioned the widening of Maryland Route 175 from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Maryland Route 170.
He described the project as "a real project that will create real jobs."
The state and county partnered with a developer for the , but work on improvements further east into Odenton to Route 170 has not begun due to a lack of money, county and state officials have said.
In his proposed budget for fiscal year 2013, O'Malley included a request for $19.3 million for intersections on Route 175 near Fort Meade.
Local officials and business leaders have pushed for the road widening since thousands of new jobs were added to Fort Meade as a result of base realignment and closure (BRAC) activities and other expansion.
O'Malley made the blog post one day after announcing he would on to gasoline in order to pay for transportation upgrades in Maryland. O'Malley said his plan would result in more than $600 million for transportation annually.
O'Malley's plan recommendation differed from that of a Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation Funding, which called for a flat 15-cent increase in the gas tax phased in over three years.
"I understand that a modern economy requires modern investments, and if we are going to protect our recent progress and move our state forward, we have to be honest about the choices we face," O'Malley wrote.


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Pink Hibiscus in Sunlight, originally uploaded by Rima_B.
Pink Hibiscus in Sunlight, originally uploaded by Rima_B.
रजनीगंधा फूल तुम्हारे, महके यूँ ही जीवन में
यूँ ही महके प्रीत पिया की, मेरे अनुरागी मन में
अधिकार ये जब से साजन का हर धड़कन पे माना मैने
मैं जब से उनके साथ बँधी, ये भेद तभी जाना मैने
कितना सुख है बंधन में
रजनीगंधा फूल तुम्हारे, महके यूँ ही जीवन में
यूँ ही महके प्रीत पिया की, मेरे अनुरागी मन में
हर पल मेरी इन आँखों में बस रहते है सपने उनके
हर पल मेरी इन आँखों में बस रहते है सपने उनके
मन कहता है मैं रंगों की एक प्यार भरी बदली बन के
बर्सू उनके आँगन में
रजनीगंधा फूल तुम्हारे, महके यूँ ही जीवन में
यूँ ही महके प्रीत पिया की, मेरे अनुरागी मन में
Thats the title song from the Hindi movie Rajnignadha (1974)
Rajnigandha or the tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is a perennial night-blooming plant thought to be native to Mexico.
It is a prominent plant in Indian culture and mythology. The flowers are used in wedding ceremonies, garlands, decoration and various traditional rituals. Its Hindi name is "Rajnigandha" which means "night-fragrant" (rajni=night; gandha=fragrance). In Bengali, it is called "Rojoni-Gondha", meaning "Scent of the Night". In parts of South India, it is known as "Sugandaraja", which translates to "king of fragrance/smell". In Tamil Nadu it is called as Sambangi or nilasambangi and traditionally used in all type of garlanding especially in south Indian marriages.
In Singapore it is called Xinxiao which means "that on which the moth rests". In Indonesia it is called "bunga sedap malam", meaning fragrant night flower. In Cuba it is called "azucena" which is the name given to amaryllis in Mexico. In Iran the tuberose is known as "Gole Maryam" ("Mary flower") and the oil extracted from the flower is used as a perfume.
I've watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! Indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless! – not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"
Such an apt poem!
You can see the proboscis part of a butterfly's mouth. This whip like organ serves as it's tongue and can suck nectar out of flowers. It is also a very sensitive organ and communicates a lot of information back to the butterfly.
Figurine Art, originally uploaded by ReemaS226.
I found a very different and creative decoration on a wall of a hotel at Mahabaleshwar, India. There were these metal figurines hanging on the wall and this creeper with pink flowers had grown all around them.
Walking through difficult
twisted paths
I stumbled upon this flower girl
A smile bloomed upon her face
and spread across like a butterfly
A familiar stranger to me for years
was sitting right beside me
Her fragrance sweeping
through my soul
lighting up the dark sad holes
No! she was not that beautiful
Shakespeare would write
no poem for her
But she had the beauty of purity
Purity that stirred and healed you
Purity that made you feel safe
Purity that could be seen
by the blind
and heard by the deaf
Like the flowers she dearly loved
She tried to dance even in pain
As the flowers sing in the wind
and the rain
Even her twinkling tears were pure
Pure like the early drops
of dew on petals
And in her eyes you could
see love
oceans of love that
would never dry
In her eyes you could
see the world
and know she would
never let you fall
I wanted to give her tulips
And make her promise
there would always be a smile
on her lips
But I couldn't,
I am sorry I couldn't
Leaving all the fragrance
and beauty
Surprisingly tears came to me
Even today on lonely
starry nights
I try to smell her fragrance
in the air
Pure, honest,
unselfish fragrance of
the sweet little flower girl
who herself was a flower.
The flower girl by BIKKI GAUTAM


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The New York Giants indicated that running back Brandon Jacobs will not practice on Wednesday as he continues working back from a knee injury. Jacobs has not practiced or played since October 2 and was inactive this past Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. If he is unable to go in practice this week, it would seem likely that he will be inactive once again this Sunday.
The Giants face the Bills this Sunday and then have a bye week in week seven. It would appear the Giants will likely rest Jacobs through this week and into the bye, thus getting him ready to return in week eight against the Miami Dolphins. After that Dolphins game, the Giants face a tough slate including the Patriots, 49ers, Saints and Packers.
For this coming week, Jacobs absence means another week of Ahmad Bradshaw carrying the primary rushing load. Against the Seahawks, Bradshaw finished with 17 carries for 58 yards. The Giants found themselves in a bit of a funky game as it was a sort of back-and-forth affair. The Giants relied more on Eli Manning and never really got the run game going. Let's hope for Bradshaw's sake that they learned their lesson and operate bit differently this Sunday against the Bills.
For more on the Giants, check out Big Blue View. For more on fantasy football, check out Fake Teams. Follow @sbnationfantasy on Twitter.


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QUA Group
QUA's products include Q-SEP® Ultrafiltration membranes with a cloud point precipitation process, which incorporates high-strength, hollow fibers with uniform pore size distribution and deliver superior performance.Their FEDI® (fractional electrodeionization) stacks have superior hardness tolerance and a dual voltage process that allows for a higher flexibility and ...
United Initiators, Inc.
A century worth of experience makes us an innovative market leader in high-grade peroxide chemicals - in research, production and services. Each step in the world of remediation also means taking a step with our products. True to the motto `Driving Your success` we will take you to the top.
Climatronics Corporation
Climatronics Corporation is a leading manufacturer of weather sensors and instruments and large integrated environmental monitoring systems in the United States. For over 35 years, we have been dedicated to producing the highest quality, state-of-the-art equipment, and through continued excellence have established ourselves as one of the leading companies in this field.
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BREEZE® modeling software predicts the impact of air emissions, fires, and explosions. Air dispersion models such as AERMOD/ISC and CALPUFF include many productivity-enhancing features such as fully integrated GIS capabilities. BREEZE Incident Analyst and LFG Fire/Risk products are used to analyze numerous accident scenarios including dense/jet gas releases, LNG ruptures, ...
The Hilliard Corporation - Star Systems Filtration Division
The Hilliard Corporation has evolved from a one-product business into a special applications engineering company serving customers worldwide. Our filtration systems are sold under the trade names of Hilco and Star Filters. Star Filters provides durable, efficient sludge dewatering and process filtration filter presses worldwide. We have the fabrication flexibility to meet ...
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BioWater Technology is a company focusing on development of sales of innovative technologies and solutions for biological treatment of water and wastewater. Products include but are not limited to: MBBR, IFAS and Package Plants. We have offices in the United States and Norway and partners and representatives around the world. We provide Combined Fixed-Film Activated ...
Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S
Brüel & Kjær is a world leading manufacturer and supplier of sound and vibration solutions. We help our customers solve their sound and vibration problems – from measuring traffic noise and vibration in car engines to evaluating building acoustics and performing quality control. We have customers in a wide range of fields, including automotive, aerospace, consumer goods ...
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Shredding systems & refrigerator recycling. With 1-, 2-, and 3-shaft machines, Erdwich offers here a vast range of disintegrators. As part of complete systems for processing refrigerators, hospital waste, paper, wood, synthetic materials, rejects, domestic and industrial waste etc. these machines will convince you by there precision and reliability in the hard industrial ...
Implico Group
As an international consulting and software company with some 200 employees, Implico supports numerous companies in optimizing their business processes. Founded in 1983, the company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and has subsidiaries in Malaysia, Switzerland, Romania and the US.By choosing to specialize in specific branches of the process industry, Implico has ...


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Markus Ferber MEP to present MiFID report to EP ECON Committee
Markus Ferber MEP will present his report about the Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) to the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. The European Commission put forward the MiFID directive, which is key to regulating agricultural commodity derivatives that fuel global food price volatility, last October.
24 April, 2012 - 25 April, 2012
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Fire departments across the country have less than one month to apply for the Life Safety Achievement Award, announces NASFM Fire Research & Education Foundation and Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company.
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Fire departments across the country have less than one month to apply for the Life Safety Achievement Award, announces NASFM Fire Research & Education Foundation and Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company. This national award recognizes both professional and volunteer fire departments whose fire prevention activities reduce fire fatalities in their local communities.
Fire departments are there every time someone in the community needs help and makes the call. We need you to support and recommend your fire department to receive the Life Safety Achievement Award. Help us recognize the brave men and women who put their lives on the line every day, said Alan Clark, assistant vice president of Special Investigations for Grinnell Mutual,in a recent YouTube video.
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Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science &Technology sweeps 2012 TEAMS competition
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High school students from Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology swept both grade levels of the 2012 Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics and Science competition, recently hosted by the University of Georgia.
Under the coaching of Lindsey Stamm, both GSMST teams in the competition won first place in their division. The 9th and 10th grade level team competed against Tucker High School. The 11th and 12th grade level team competed against Dunwoody High School (2nd), Fernbank Science Center (3rd), Mountain View, Cross Keys, Tucker, Stone Mountain, and Miller Grove high schools.
The TEAMS competition features high school students (grades 9-12) participating in teams of four to eight members, using real-world applications of math and science to solve some of the most current engineering challenges. This year's challenge focused on, "Engineering Healthier Lives." There were two parts: a 90-minute, 80 multiple choice question session and a 90-minute, open-ended, four-question session.
Alexis Sulyma, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Program Director for Northrop Grumman awarded the 2012 Northrop Grumman Scholarship to Mountain View High School. The scholarship provides funds for team registration to the event.
Participating students heard several UGA speakers during the day including Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, dean of the College Of Education; Dale Threadgill, Director of Faculty of Engineering; Charles Kutal, associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; and Wanda Stitt-Gohdes, professor and associate head of the COE's department of workforce education, leadership, and social foundations.
The fourth TEAMS annual event, which was held at the Driftmier Engineering Center, was organized by John Mativo, an assistant professor in the COE's department of workforce education, leadership and social foundations; Chi Thai, an associate professor in biological and agricultural engineering and Nancy Vandergrift, a program coordinator in the Office of Stem Education. They were assisted by Hope Zimmerman, a teaching assistant in the COE.
More than 14,000 students across the country participate annually in TEAMS competitions. Questions are aligned with national education standards. UGA is one of two sites hosting the competition in Georgia. The other site is at the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology.
TEAMS competition site sponsors include Northrop Grumman, UGA's Faculty of Engineering, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Office of STEM Education, and the COE's department of workforce education, leadership and social foundations.
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PALO PINTO – In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wittliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – to visit a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways.
Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. The photographer captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in the exhibition "Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy."
The Palo Pinto Old Jail Museum will present the exhibition, beginning Thursday, Sept. 26, and running through Oct. 29. Created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, the exhibition of photographs is presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities and made possible in part by an NEH "We the People" grant.
The exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.
The Old Jail Museum is open 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Thursdays-Saturdays. For those who need further information or want to arrange a visit outside these times, call Ann Reagan at (940) 659-2555.


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For months, I've had a note on my calendar to write about the visit of President Benjamin Harrison, 110 years ago this week. It probably wasn't any big deal, but I rarely pass up any excuse to write about Knoxville in the 1890s. It was a booming, energetic town that thought of itself, earnestly, as a "metropolis" and succeeded daily in convincing its 30,000 citizens, all of whom lived more or less downtown, that it was.
It surprises me every time I look at it. Even though it was a time before skyscrapers and airplanes, you can pick a date at random in the 1890s, look it up on microfilm at the library, and find something dramatic, whether it's the cable car to the cliffs across the river, or a wild gunfight in the Bowery, or a description of an electrical illusionist at Staub's Theater.
And I don't doubt that Benjamin Harrison, though remembered mainly as our last bearded president, must have had something interesting to say that week in 1891. But I never made it over to the library to look it up. That pencil note, "Benjamin Harrison visit, 1891," seems like the least relevant thing on my calendar this month.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the 1972 Southern Airways hijacking scare, when the hijackers shot the co-pilot and threatened to crash the plane into Oak Ridge National Laboratories. Since then, the News-Sentinel has run an interview with one of the ex-hijackers, who, I was surprised to learn, is now free and living in Knoxville.
Reader Sharon Webb wrote to inform me that her friend William Robert "Billy Bob" Haas, the pilot of that plane who talked the hijackers into allowing him to land the plane safely in Cuba, died about seven months ago, suddenly, of a heart attack. He was 72, and was at the time Vice Mayor of LaGrange. He had been a commercial pilot for about 30 years before retiring in 1988. One of very few American pilots with any experience with suicidal hijackers, he had written a book about his ordeal called Odyssey of Terror.
Mrs. Webb's husband, Paul Webb, was on duty in the tower at McGhee Tyson throughout the 36-hour crisis. She adds that First Officer Harold Johnson recovered from his gunshot wound and is now a pilot for Northwest Airlines.
After that column I wrote about the deep roots of the Arab community in Knoxville, a subject on which my colleague Joe Tarr expounded more fully in a cover story last week. In my column I remarked on the fact that in a 1936 guide to Mediterranean communities in Knoxville, author Dio Adallis refers to the local Arab community as "Syrians," though the ones we know about were actually Palestinians.
Jim Harb, a descendent of one of those original families, wrote to explain. When his family came over in the 1920s, he says, "the effects of European nationalism had not impacted on and divided that part of the world, and so, for most all of the people of the Levant, they considered themselves 'Syrians,' because the major influence and economic power of the region was Damascus." Levant, a word you don't see much anymore, describes all the land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. "As I was growing up," in Knoxville, Harb continues, "I was told that I was a 'Syrian,' then, after the war of 1948, a 'Jordanian.' Later, with the nationalism that was sweeping Palestine, which was a clear reaction to Zionism, we all came to identify ourselves as 'Palestinians.'"
I never knew that.
For nine years I've been fairly strict about keeping this half-page devoted to local history, particularly the history of city-limits Knoxville. It's always my excuse for not doing a lot of driving to other counties, which, in my 15-year-old car, can be a tenuous proposition. But this time I can't help observing, just because I haven't noticed anyone else do so, that sometime this week Ronald Reagan became the oldest man ever to have held the office of president of the United States. He was already the oldest president, of course, when he was in office. Now he's also the oldest ex-president.
Of course, you could argue that he's not altogether still here. They say he doesn't know that his daughter has died, or that his airport was closed for several weeks, or why it might have been.
In living so long, though, he has ruined one of my favorite ironies. That in spite of everything we've learned about fitness, nutrition, and medicine, our longest-lived president had always been John Adams, who spent most of his 90 years and eight months in the 18th century, when bloodletting was the favored therapy for several varieties of ailments. Reagan is now technically older, even if Adams' mind held out longer.
There's still enough data about presidential lifespans there to make you scratch your head. Jefferson lived to the age of 83. Madison, 85. John Quincy Adams, 80. Jackson, 78. Martin Van Buren, almost 80. Our first 10 presidents, who had all died by the time of the Civil War, lived on average seven years longer than those who died of natural causes in the 20th century.
Maybe it's just a fluke. It's hard to argue that, in those days of fatback and corn whiskey, and a scarcity of treadmills and exercise programs, they lived healthier lifestyles. Maybe, in those days, the minority of American children who reached a presidential age were stronger than the average baby to begin with.
I'll jot down my note about Benjamin Harrison's visit on next year's calendar and see if it works in better then.
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Fans of illustrator Mary Blair will cherish this never-before-published treasury of her Golden Books, which includes material that hasn't been in print in decades.
"I Can Fly" is here in its unabridged glory, as are "Baby's House," "The Up and Down Book," and "The Golden Book of Little Verses."
Many of the finest pages from "The New Golden Song Book" are included, to round out this collection. All of the original artwork has been digitally reproduced.
Academy Award-winning animator John Canemaker — author of "The Art and Flair of Mary Blair" — wrote the foreword for this book honoring one of the most beloved illustrators of our time.
Mary Blair (1911-78) is revered in both the children's animation and illustration industries. For nearly four decades, she was involved with many important Disney projects. She created the concept paintings for the animated films "Peter Pan," "Cinderella" and "Alice in Wonderland," and designed the 1964-65 New York World's Fair exhibit "It's a Small World." Blair illustrated only a few picture books, but they include one of the best-loved classic Little Golden Books: "I Can Fly."
Ages 3-6.
Originally published by Knopf in 1976 (with illustrations by Jacqueline Chwast), this poem, — an exuberant celebration of hand-me-down clothes — is just as relevant and accessible today as it was 30 years ago.
Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman offers a bouncy, fun-to-read-aloud text and a refreshingly agreeable, resourceful protagonist who likes old clothes for their "history" and "mystery."
Illustrator Patrice Barton brings new, contemporary life to the poem, with an adorable little girl and her younger brother playing dress-up, making crafts, and happily treasuring their hand-me-downs.
This celebration of creativity, imaginative play and beloved hand-me-down clothes is fun and kid-friendly, with an underlying message of recycling and re-use.
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Renowned paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker and paleoartist Luis V. Rey combine forces in this hardcover omnibus of three dino-centric Picturebacks, available for the first time in 3-D.
The dynamic dinos in "Dinosaurs!", "Prehistoric Monsters!," and "Dino Babies!" have always looked like they could jump off the printed pages — and now they can.
Watch as a spiked stegosaurus tail whips off the page and scores a direct hit into an allosaurus, or a pack of raptors leap onto the back of an unsuspecting tenontosaurus, or a squealing baby titanosaur hatches from an egg and is greeted by its giant mother.
Complete with a pair of 3-D glasses that fold into a reusable storage case, "Dinosaurs: In Your Face!" makes a great gift for kids who like their science with a little action.
Dr. Robert T. Bakker is one of the most respected vertebrate paleontologists in the world. Often credited with starting the "Dinosaur Renaissance," he is curator of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Luis V. Rey is the winner of the 2008 Lazendorf PaleoArt Award — the most prestigious international award recognizing achievement in paleontological scientific illustration.
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The rich stew of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' creations — SingleEarth, vampires, shapeshifters, Tristes, the Bruja Guilds — are at full boil here in the story of two 20-ish young women trying to outrun their very different pasts, and figure out where they fit in and who they might become.
Each has landed in a more "normal" place and each wonders if, like a tattoo that can't be covered up, they can ever really fit into "normal."
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Filled with Post-its, journal entries, grocery lists, hand-drawn comic strips, report cards, IMs, notes, and more, "Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick" is the sometimes poignant, often hilarious, always relatable look at a year in the life of one girl, told entirely through her stuff.
Jennifer L. Holm is the author of three Newbery Honor Books — "Our Only May Amelia," "Penny From Heaven," and "Turtle in Paradise" — as well as the Babymouse and Squish series, which she collaborates with her brother Matthew Holm.
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For 20 minutes during an hour-and-a-half-long rally in Webb University Center at Old Dominion University, former President George Bush talked about his life, his military service and his family - and his eldest son. While his own political days may be over, Bush was on campus campaigning for Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who is seeking to follow in his father's footsteps as president. Bush served as president of the United States from 1988-1992.
Joining Bush on stage were Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, former Virginia Gov. George Allen, U.S. Sen. John Warner, and retired Navy Adm. Jack Cavanaugh.
"What we need is a value-based presidency," Bush told the crowd of more than 1,200. "We need to have a respect for the presidency, respect for service to this country... We need duty, honor and country."
What matters most to him these days are family, faith and friends, Bush said. He recalled with pride the day in November 1998 when both of his sons were elected as governors of the second and fourth largest states - Texas and Florida.
Bush talked about the need for service to country, which he first fulfilled as an 18-year-old who joined the Navy during World War II. Bush was stationed in Virginia Beach during the war.
"I salute those who serve in the military forces," he said. "The service changed my life, much the way it did for George W. when he joined the Army."
Bush described his son as a compassionate conservative who is strong enough to withstand the arrows that come with presidency.
The former president even talked about his 55th wedding anniversary and his parachute jump at the age of 75. "My wife said that she hadn't seen a free-fall like that since the elections in 1992," he joked.
Bush's visit was made possible because of Old Dominion Board of Visitors member Ron Villanueva's involvement with Virginia's George W. Bush for President campaign.
"The State Republican Committee was looking for a venue in Virginia and Ron knew they wanted to come to Hampton Roads," explained John R. Broderick, vice president for institutional advancement at Old Dominion. "This gave Old Dominion University the opportunity to host the rally."
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The Greater Little Mountain Coalition (GLMC) is composed of sportsmen's organizations and concerned citizens who want to see Little Mountain's rugged and sensitive landscape continue to support abundant wildlife and fish populations. But with over 50 percent of the area currently leased for oil and gas development, the future of this great landscape is uncertain.
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An American soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians, was evacuated from Afghanistan,relocate the sergeant, whose name is kept secret, made commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF), General John Allen .Where it will be delivered to the sergeant, not reported.
Until now, sergeant, staged a massacre in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, was detained on the same military base where he served. In accordance with agreements between Washington and Kabul, he could only be brought before an American court.
The U.S. military on the night of March 11 left the base, where he served, and then went to a nearby village, where he opened fire on Afghans sleeping. Almost immediately after the incident, the shooter was arrested. It is possible that a soldier could commit a crime while intoxicated.
The incident also sparked a new wave of anti-American protests in Afghanistan. Participants of the shares, among other things called for judge of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, making the process open.
Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama promised Afghan President Hamid Karzai to thoroughly investigate the incident and punish the guilty. The Pentagon did not rule out that the murderer awaiting execution.
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Adding to the catalog of TransWorld Skateboarding's video legacy, the publication announced its latest and 25th full-length video, entitled Perpetual Motion, will premiere at the TWS Skate Awards night, slated for February 27, 2013, at Hollywood's Avalon Theatre.
A film by Chris Thiessen and Jon Holland, the video will feature Silas Baxter-Neal, in addition to a numerous other skateboarders, including Julian Davidson, Jimmy Carlin, Walker Ryan, Josh Matthews, and Tom Remillard. Baxter-Neal is a recipient of Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" award; Baxter-Neal has been described by Transworld staff member, Oliver Barton, as a "all-terrain demolition unit."
In an ESPN interview with filmmaker Jon Holland, who has been with TWS 17 years come this December, high points of creating Perpetual Motion include "Filming Silas doing some ridiculous moves in Portland, doing the Zoo bomb, and just getting to know and skate with Josh, Jimmy, Julian, Tom and Walker. I'm stoked to point a camera in their direction and witness their skating firsthand. They all rip."
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German scientists have used optical fibres to send a timing signal from one of the world's most accurate clocks over a distance of more than 900 kilometres.
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Thursday, 26 April 2012
Researchers say they have designed a tiny crystal that acts like a quantum computer so powerful it would take a computer the size of the known universe to match it.
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Titanic director James Cameron has resurfaced after descending to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.
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An Australian company is poised to take advantage of growing frustration at the limitations of GPS.
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Last year's Nobel winning physicists have devised ways of studying graphene at the fundamental level of the electron.
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A set of pristine meteorites has provided fresh support for the notion that the chemical ingredients of life came from outer space.
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Niagara Gazette — Dear Mainland Spell-Checkers — Here's our quarterly critique of media grammar, starting with TV, which we normally excuse as spontaneously accident-prone.
Bill O'Reilly Tuesday trashed an entertainer called Madonna, possibly named for a long-ago Niagara Falls girls' high school.
In a political rant during a performance, she invoked President Lincoln and Dr. King, concluding that they had "not died for nothing."
O'Reilly took her to task for the double negative.
Actually, her grammar was correct. She might have said "they died for something," but that wouldn't have the impact. That's the sort of precision they taught at Madonna High.
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Whoa! Holy clicks Batman. On Saturday 101 people looked at this blog. 101! That's the most clicking I've gotten in one day to date. I average about 50 views a day, which is probably peanuts in the blog world, but which boggles my mind on a daily basis.
Who are you people? And what is going on with the sudden jump in views? Did someone send out some email referral love? (My stat counter shows no new referring websites…) I demand that you reveal yourselves so that I can shower you with rose petals and kisses.
But seriously folks, you know so much about me, and me, I know so little about you. You read my drafts and your comments make me smile. I've seen a few other bloggers do this, and I think it'd be fun to give it a try. Tell us who you are in the comments of this post. Not like your name and address who you are, but a little something something to quench my (and perhaps other readers') curiosity about the company we are keeping together in this virtual place. Do you write things too? Do you like chocolate cupcakes? Are you a submarine captain? Is your favorite color purple? Do you live in a sweet little shack? Do you sing when you're cooking? Can you play the singing saw?
Both fictional and non-fictional responses encouraged. My stammering curiosity awaits fodder. And as always thanks for reading and commenting and filling my writing life with more than a computer screen. Click click click clack!
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I found you because your most recent post about nannying popped up in my google alert for "typewriter". I now follow you, because you seem like a kindred soul and I kind of wish I could steal your life.
I am Julia Eff. I'm 18, live in the economic black hole of Detroit (one budget cut away from being Thunderdome!), I have a passion for retrotech and could be classified as 'goth' although I think I'm more of a gothy, grungey, punk-metal hybrid creature. I like wearing tiaras to work at my shitty editorial assistant job at the shitty paper. I make zines and drink too much tea and I love your blog. Hi. :]Comment by the unsinkable julia eff 02.01.10 @ 8:34 pm
You got about 57 unique viewers when I 'stumbled' your Beware The Typewriter post. Check out StumbleUpon.com – it points traffic to various topics from all over the world.
I hope that someday I'll write something as stumbleworthy as your adventure.Comment by Matt (Geeky Traveler) 02.01.10 @ 8:39 pm
hey. so I'll start. started reading your blog after someone posted it on wagendorf.de. your blog always comes up when I search for some wagen-related stuff on my browser, cause I bookmarked some text here.. i like your writing alot, and share your excitement for exploring abandoned buildings and interesting sperrmull and dumpsters.
So I pass by quite regulary.. probably it brings back the good old platz-spirit. sadly, I don't live in my wagen anymore (at least at the moment) but in an old house that other people probably would refuse to even squat, so I too experience everything you write about winter, chopping wood and frozen veggies in the kitchen.. I miss wagenlife though..
I don't write (for the public) and do not blog, but I draw and paint and craft.. trying to avoid wage-work whenever possible and work to improve my creative skills in crafting and designing nice stuff to make a modest living. never want to work for bosses again. until now I am quite good at it for the past seven years!
whenever I get a homepage running I'll pass you a link. keep up your nice work here. see'ya.Comment by hey 02.01.10 @ 8:44 pm
you know i'm singing when i'm cooking!
think i read saturday as well, cause a couple of days my firefox-update-scanner-add-on was finally updated. so maybe your counter counts also, when my update scanner looks daily on your blog to check if there is something new?
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Hallo Nikki,
I'm a student of history and journalism (not so far north from your place). Some years back I somehow got interested in how expats perceive Germany, what they like, what drives them crazy etc. Particularly Americans, of whom there are/where many in this area (mostly military). I remember talking to an American soldier on the train to Frankfurt a few years back; he had just come from Iraq and was looking for an apartment outside his base; I pointed him to an expat website for advice.
Anyway, I found your blog through an expat blog directory. Most of these blogs are written by students or by women either married to a German or accompanying their husband on a company assignment, so your blog sure sticks out. I like your writing and much of what you have to say about the environment, consumerism etc. Your way of life is quite interesting too and I asked myself if I could possibly pull off something like that, maybe minus the dumpster raiding.
I hope you'll keep writing and won't be intimidated by loads of strangers visiting your blog! (In that case you probably shouldn't have started a blog in the first place)
Hi Julia! Hi Matt! Hi Hey! Hi Anton! Hi Jan! Thanks for all the responses. It is fascinating to know who is perusing these pages. (And no, Jan, I am not intimidated by the idea of lots of people reading my writing, just rabidly curious as to who said readership is.) Matt: It seems you may be responsible for the huge jump in views then. Consider yourself showered with rose petals and smooches. As can anyone else who spreads the good gorilla word. Google searches can be so random. I never would have thought that the word typewriter would pull up that bit about nannying.
At any rate, glad to meet you all. Oh and hey, Hey, there'll be a post with some abandoned building pictures up tomorrow.
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I found you on someone's blogroll. Can't remember who. But I've become a regular reader because you're something a little different in the travel blog world.
#1: You can write. Really well.
#2: You're writing from the heart. It's not jazzy marketing SEO crap; you're not trying to monetize or get attention.
#3: There aren't enough punks/DIY kids writing about travel/living in a foreign country. I'm tired of corporate escapees. Not that there's anything wrong with them; they're just way over-represented. And I can't really relate to them.
So keep up the good work girl. You should really submit some pieces to travel websites, and make connections with more bloggers. You deserve a way bigger readership!Comment by Lauren Quinn 02.03.10 @ 2:23 am
Great – now I have to explain why I am coming home covered in rose petals and lipstick marks. AGAIN.
Just kidding, keep up the great work, you totally have fans from all over the globe.Comment by Matt (Geeky Traveler) 02.04.10 @ 7:07 am
I live in California, work in a sex shop, run a new [travel] photography blog, dream of pissing off to Berlin and living around the corner from the Cupcake bakery in Friedrichshain, and found you from Lonely Girl Travels. HiComment by Naomi 02.11.10 @ 12:01 am
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The first annual Hope for Hearts craft show is Sunday May, 20 at and admission is free.
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- is a theme amusement park that re-creates turn-of-the-century Iowa. Features include Main Street, River City, Last Frontier, and an Iowa farm. Also offered are a variety of rides, top-name entertainment, animal shows, stage shows, and shops. The park is open from May to September. I-80 at Hwy. 65.
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- is the site of the Iowa State Fair, the Heritage Village, the State Fair Museum, and the Aquarium Center. The fairgrounds host a variety of events during the year.
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Prairie Meadows
- is Iowa's only horse racing facility offering peri-mutual betting on thoroughbred and harness horses. The track is open Wednesday through Sunday from mid-March through mid-November. I-80 at U.S. Hwy. 65. Altoona Iowa.
State Capital Building
- features a 23-karet gold dome marked by four smaller domes. Completed in 1896, the building houses the state legislature, the law library, the governor's office and the State Supreme Court. Attractions include paintings, statues, a collection of war flags, and a display of dolls dressed in the inaugural gowns of Iowa's First Ladies. E. 9th and Grand Ave.
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In the cathedral-like setting of Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas, Olivia Leigh Perry and Jonathan Scott Pelts were united in the covenant of marriage on Friday, Jan. 6.
Rev. Russ Whitfield, Washington D.C., officiated the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Perry of Highland Village, Texas. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Pelts of Bluefield, W.Va.
Music was provided by the Marcus High School String Quartet, Brian Piper, pianist, and Isaac Wimberley, vocalist and guitarist.
The bride was attired in a strapless Pronovias gown adorned with intricate lacing detail complemented by a chapel length train.
Attending the bride as Matron of Honor was the bride's sister, Amanda Allen of Highland Village, Texas .
Bridesmaids included Michelle Moore of Washington D.C., Jess Jeremiah of Chattanooga, Tenn., Sheryce Butkowski of Little Rock, Ariz., Linksey Strickler of Denver, Colo., Stacey Hoksbergen of Denver, Colo., and Sarah Williams of Verona, Ky.
They were attired in black strapless tea length gowns of her own selection. Each attendant wore hand-crafted jewelry by Dora Mae Jewelry and Designs.
Serving the groom as best man was Chris Stern of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Groomsmen included Aaron Skrivan of Seattle, Wash., Cole Nickell of Aiken, S.C., Chris Novikoff of Madisonville, Tenn., Jeremy Bryan of Bluefield, Va.., David Pelts of Huntington, W.Va., and Daniel Pelts of Bluefield, W.Va., brothers of the groom. Complementing their black tuxedoes, the groomsmen wore black and white gingham neckties that matched the shirt design of the groom.
Ushers included Zach Van Dyke of Orangewood, Fla., Lucas Pratt of San Diego, Calif., Jake Schrimsher of Orlando, Fla., Brent Perry of Clovis, N.M., and William Perry, brothers of the bride, and Scott Allen, brother-in-law of the bride.
Lorraine and Myles Allen, niece and nephew of the bride, served as flower girl and ring bearer.
After the ceremony, the bride's family hosted a reception at "Party Off the Grid," the restored Dallas Power & Light, circa 1900.
The groom's cake, designed and made by the groom's cousin, Sarah McElmurray of Blytheweood of S.C., was in the shape of Africa.
After several hours of talking with friends, and dancing the night away, the couple departed with a sparkler send-off.
At the conclusion of their week-long honeymoon in Cancun, the newlyweds have returned to Nairobi, Kenya, where the groom is serving his second year as Technical Director of Academies for Ambassadors in Sport.
The bride is completing an internship with Tumaini Counseling Centre, as a part of her graduate counseling degree.


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We have spent our adult lives in higher education and write about it.
Regular readers of our column know that we are unabashed fans and supporters of the humanities and the creative and performing arts. We believe that the world's thorniest problems will not be solved—nor will our nation be secure—without an understanding of ethics, cultures other than our own, and what it means to be fully human. And we have seen first-hand that students who complete liberal arts degrees have deeply satisfying—and productive—personal and professional lives.
Such reassurances, however, may not be enough to satisfy high school seniors, undergraduates, and their parents. We hope the economic value of a degree isn't the only reason young people come to college, but we recognize that it's a big reason, and increasingly so in the wake of the global recession and intensifying global competition. Given the cost of a college education, moreover, we understand why so many parents and students want to know which majors are most likely to result in jobs with high incomes.
We'd love to point to data indicating that majors don't matter in employment, starting salaries and lifelong earnings. But facts are stubborn things. Last January the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University published Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings, and in mid-October the U.S. Census Bureau released a pair of briefings based on data from the American Community Survey, and the two studies reached the same conclusions. Individuals with engineering degrees, they indicate, experience lower unemployment and make more money than graduates with any other major. Undergraduate majors in computer science, mathematics, statistics, business, life sciences, and physical sciences are next in line. Liberal arts majors are at the back of this pack.
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There is a lot more, however, to this story. Liberal arts majors actually do just fine, with incomes far in excess of the median in the United States. And many of them, like the Cornell graduates surveyed in 2009 (download here), are as satisfied or more satisfied with their lives as their classmates in other disciplines. For them, to quote an English proverb, enough is as good as a feast.
The liberal arts, moreover, also serves as a preferred pathway to rewarding and remunerative careers. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), medical schools accepted 43 percent of the biological sciences majors, 47 percent of physical sciences majors, 51 percent of humanities majors, and 45 percent of social sciences majors who applied in 2010. "Admission committee members know that medical students can develop the essential skills of acquiring, synthesizing, applying and communicating information through a wide varietyof academic disciplines," the AAMC states.
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The American Bar Association agrees: "The ABA does not recommend any undergraduate majors or group of courses to prepare for a legal education. Students are admitted to law school from almost every academic discipline." A study by a Chicago State University professor bears this out: the top ten majors with the highest acceptance rates for law school include philosophy, anthropology, history and English. Both organizations advise prospective applicants to choose majors that interest and challenge them, work hard for excellent grades, develop their research and writing skills and make the most of the opportunities that come their way.
These statistics remind us how important it is for students to major in what they enjoy most and what they're best at. When they do so, they're more likely to excel in their classes and enhance their career options. Those who complete post-baccalaureate study will enhance their chances of eating their cake and having it too, with prestigious, high-paying jobs and, equally important, from our point of view, fulfilling work that allows them to make a difference in the world.
And so, when students and parents ask, "What can I do with a liberal arts major?" the right answer, grounded in the evidence, is "A lot. A whole lot."
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Thank you for this, one of the more sensible things written on liberal arts relevance. I've posted some similar thoughts at Are the Liberal Arts Relevant? and linked to this post as an update.
"We believe that the world's thorniest problems will not be solved—nor will our nation be secure—without an understanding of ethics, cultures other than our own, and what it means to be fully human"
You can't get to that point without the engineers and scientists developing solutions.
Or picture the world populated with only LA majors – if that's possible.
The problem I find is many LA grads are unctuous individuals with little to add to the discussion.
But still, how many times have you heard – I didn't want to put the time into engineering – I was an LA major.
Much of the record of liberal arts grads in the outside world can be explained by factors that have nothing to do with the education they received there.
As I found when I attended an Ivy League college, theses schools draw the bulk of their students from the social and economic groups most likely to succeed in the first place. It helps that many of these graduates of all economic strata have a strong 'soft' infrastructural support when they graduate: supportive families, and a place to stay near the large job centers where you can pick and choose (more than otherwise, anyway) among a range of entryu -level and internship opportunities.
You've even supposed to work your parents' friends and colleagues for opportunities. That's what the jobs counselor told me at Williams, clearly assuming that these will be managers and professionals instead of warehousemen and gas station attendants.
As an exercise, try tracking the young people from favored groups who instead of attending a top-tier college go sailing around the world. (A surprising number of these.) They tend to end up in the same stratum as their parents too.
I'd like to propose that liberal arts become a bigger part of the engineering and science curriculum.
The overwhelming majority of engineers I know cannot write a few simple sentences explaining the what, why, and how of their activities. Neither can they [apparently] understand a few simple sentences.
Don't get me started on critical thinking skills which are also conspicuously lacking.
It's not limited to engineers either. Many of our "managers" are similarly deficient.
A few course along these lines – which the LA curriculum is well qualified to provide – could work wonders for all.
In a covertly communist nation yes. But you can not deny the fact that the arts as of late have been only a parasite unto freedom. Liberal arts lock step with the communist culture of liberal America are what is killing humanity.
Freedom is wholly abandoned. Liberalism is the abandonment of freedom, humanity, life & the human soul. In order to enslave humanity under your desire to drink our blood. This is the damn living via parasitic corruption.
Today there appears to be a future in it. However, though conservatism is almost wholly nullified, without voice, identity, a coherent agenda, & a long list of similar dysfunction, it is in fact the only viable way a society can exist.
This nation is about to be annihilated financially. Americans know that obama brings further decline & romney brings a nose dive to a horrific crash.
Mitt Romney is directly responsible for Americas hard left turn because he concedes all to liberals. Which overall brings conservatism now to the lowest it has been in a long time, through it's own ignorance.
But you can not deny the infinite truth. Liberalism is wholly decline. & conservatism is wholly true power, freedom, & success.
The human soul desires to be unbound. Americans desire to live free. Liberalism will destroy us. & then we will rebuild minus them, i.e. you.
I very much doubt that any liberal is happy. Parasites never escape the infinite truth that they subsist on their own damnation.
Conservatism is infinite. Liberalism is tyranny & finite lies.
I have to say that I love the way you use facts and evidence to support your hypothesis. Examples, too; you used a lot of those. Excellent work.
If you're trying to say that going to a wholly socialist government necessitates the abandonment of liberty, then your thinking is flawed (it can lead there, but there is little evidence to suggest that true socialist governments necessarily end up that way).
If you're trying to say anything else at all, then please find a way to say so–without using hyperbole, conjecture, and imagery entirely devoid of substance.
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So the takeaway here is that liberal arts majors can:
(a) eloquently express why they've been convinced they do not need much
(b) get into grad school pretty well
Your are article makes for a touching against all odds "Rudy" screenplay. But let's not encourage kids to go to college and rack up huge debt, only to find themselves unemployable. As you correctly pointed out in your article, "We'd love to point to data indicating that majors don't matter in employment, starting salaries and lifelong earnings. But facts are stubborn things."
Let's give our kids practical advice that will put them in the best position to enjoy a good quality of life. What will be your advice to the over half of all liberal arts graduates that can't find a job – go back to school?!
There is no arguing that the world could use more understanding and compassion. And, if that comes from studying humanities and other liberal arts, then let's encourage kids to enroll at the "University of Udacity" or the "University of Coursera" or even Khan Academy.
You said "Let's give our kids practical advice that will put them in the best position to enjoy a good quality of life."
We spend about a 1/3 of our life working. So, what we do for a living should be part of this equation. We cannot compel people to go into STEM fields just so they can bring home a steady paycheck and get those 2.5 kids in a 4 bedroom house with a nice yard for BBQs…and a puppy.
Real innovation and self-satisfaction comes from the pursuit of something that is personally important and psychologically viable. There's no nobility in going to work as an engineer every morning just to give your family a good foundation, while hating every minute of it.
Students who major in music or fine arts should expect tough roads ahead. We should be teaching them that they have to prove their worth to society, rather than teaching them that if you major in STEM fields, you're set for life.
It's not so uncommon to meet out of the infinite number of students that you could possibly bumped into the Main streets of America and even in other places who is having a tough time choosing the field that he wants to spend the rest of his life studying and in the latter time spend time working as he finished his chosen field.
On my opinion, as the world goes so fast now, some grads were employed to the field without any relation to their education. People are flexible this is the common reason I have stressed out. As this article indicates of majors' does matter, well I have two answers which would be maybe yes and maybe no. Maybe yes when luckily you have come to the company where highly needs your field and on the other hand maybe no because there were millions of grads who had worked in different firms without have been applying the major they have studied from universities. It depends upon the person I guess and on his luck maybe.
In choosing the degree that you are gonna be facing in the coming years of your life after you finished studying it, you have to make sure that you are choosing it wisely without anyone forcing you to do so.
More importantly what you are in the future depends on the kind of degree you would have to take during college years and the kind of major you had would explain your expertise so therefore this is important.


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The death of a Carroll County man in an industrial accident is being investigated by the Galax Police Department and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry.
Benjamin Lee Hancock, 37, a maintenance worker at the American Mirror plant on East Stuart Drive in Galax, died July 23 when he became trapped in a piece of the factory's equipment and suffocated, according to Galax Fire Chief David Hankley.
Fire and rescue personnel extricated Hancock from the machine, but could not revive him.
HILLSVILLE — An Alabama woman was charged with a driving under the influence after crashing her car over an embankment in Hillsville on July 20.
The incident occurred at approximately 7 p.m. last Sunday on U.S. 52, approximately one-tenth of a mile north of Hanging Tree Road, according to a report filed by Virginia State Police Senior Troper K.D. Blackburn, who investigated the accident.
HILLSVLLE — Vanguard Furniture will open a manufacturing plant for upholstered furniture in Carroll County in August, which could eventually create more than 200 new jobs.
Carroll officials announced plans Tuesday for Vanguard's plant that will occupy the former Parkdale Building at the Carroll County Industrial Park.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in a news release that the Hickory, N.C.-based Vanguard Furniture will invest $550,000 to establish its first Virginia household furniture upholstery production operation in Carroll.
CANA ― First responders were called to a single vehicle accident in Cana on Wednesday afternoon, which resulted in injury after a vehicle rolled over.
E-911 dispatch put out a call to 1346 Old Piper's Gap Road at approximately 3:44 p.m. on Wednesday, reporting that a person had been ejected from a vehicle, sustaining injury.
INDEPENDENCE — Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today, Wednesday, that Core Health & Fitness LLC, a leader in developing and marketing advanced strength and cardio equipment for the fitness industry, will invest $2 million to expand the former Med-Fit operation in Grayson County.
A news release announcing the deal said that Virginia successfully competed against California and China for the project, which will create 250 new jobs.
At its height of production, Med-Fit employed around 100 people at the plant.
HILLSVILLE — A witness' testimony in the murder trial against Matthew Steven Jones was heard on Monday as part of an evidence suppression hearing at Carroll County Circuit Court.
Jones is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Desia Rae George, 33, of Fries, who was reported missing on April 16, 2013. Jones was reportedly the last person to see her before she disappeared. She was found dead beside a road in Grayson County about a month later.
INDEPENDENCE — Former Med-Fit Systems employees are being called back to work at the reopened Nautilus plant in Independence, but company representatives and Grayson County officials said no details about the fitness equipment facility's future could be released before Wednesday.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe's office was set to announce the sale on Wednesday.
For the full story, see www.galaxgazette.com Wednesday morning or pick up Wednesday's edition of The Gazette.
Update: Sheriff J. B. Gardner has confirmed by phone with Shaine Scott Eckrote's mother that she knows where her son is and that he is okay. "Mrs. Barkley wanted to thank everyone who was involved in locating her son," the Sheriff said in an email to The Gazette.
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating the disappearance of 20 year old Shaine Scott Eckrote of Patrick County, after members of his family reported him missing from the Kanawha Valley Arena area, in Dugspur.
A Wytheville couple was arrested and charged with the theft of electronic equipment at the Galax Walmart on July 16.
Thanks to numerous tips received after the Galax Police Department shared security camera photos on its Facebook page, Jessica Lynn Sexton, 21, and Joseph Smith IV, 23, were charged with grand larceny and petit larceny by Galax Senior Police Officer John Reavis.
A police report said tips identifying the suspects were received within the first 30 minutes of the post.
Galax police investigated property damage at three locations that occurred the night of July 11.
The athletic track and a stop sign at Galax High School, the tennis courts at the Galax Recreation Center, and the skate park on South Main Street were vandalized with spray paint.
Officer Chris Hines investigated and has charged a single adult and will be seeking juvenile petitions on two Carroll County youths resulting from the investigation.
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