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Are you stumped? You tried flirting, or joking around and laughing at her mistakes, but nothing is working. She won't notice you. This article is going to help you with that. No worries, we're here to help you!
1Take care of yourself. You're never getting anywhere without a "few" good looks. Use Oxy or Proactive if you would like to clear up your skin, and don't eat a lot of sugar. Sugar causes the build up in pores, (Creating pimples) as well as not washing your face. Use deodorant and a little bit of Axe or another type of body spray. With body spray though, the rule is, "a little is too much". Don't use too much body spray (that is a huge turn off). Comb your hair; wear clean clothing and anything else that makes you feel better about yourself. If you feel good, girls will know it.
2Be confident. You're special, and you know it, so, show everyone else that you are not afraid to strut your stuff. But now, instead of wondering if you are expressing yourself enough, you now need to ask your self, "Am I being cocky?" No girl likes a know-it-all, full-of-it, jerk. The easiest thing to do, is to be confident, but know your place in life. You'll get higher in life, if you have humility.
3Get her attention. Does she like animals? Leave a cute stuffed animal on her desk, or if she is not from school, leave a cute present somewhere she will notice it. Girls love it when someone knows their interests, and takes them into account. If you're uncomfortable with giving her a gift, try asking her about the topic she's interested in. For example, if she's into animals, like the example above, maybe say to her, "Did you hear about the new zoo opening this weekend?" If you're still uncomfortable doing that, talk to your friends when you're near her about the topic that she's interested in.
4Get closer. Ask her if you two can study together, or if she'd like to grab an ice cream later that night. Use any excuse you can to get close to her. Most girls like it if you make the first move, so do just that.
5Don't laugh at her. Laugh with her. Girls are sensitive to their own flaws, if you make fun of them, she won't get that you are trying to make her laugh. She will only know that you are being mean. If you've hurt her by accident, apologize by saying something like, "Sorry, I didn't mean for it to come across that way." or "Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." and look at her apologetically. If she doesn't get over it immediately, don't get mad at her or clobber her with apologies, instead give her space to forgive you and flash her apologetic glances so she knows that you still care about her. When you think it's the right time, say sorry again and ask if she'll forgive you. If she doesn't, then it's either not the right time or she's not the girl you thought she was.
6Make her feel special. She is a nice girl, and you like her. Express your feelings, tell her she has beautiful eyes. Write an anonymous letter, and post it on her locker. She's great, let her know that.
7Make your move. When you and her are alone, look her in the eyes, and tell her that she is beautiful. Ask her if she feels the same way you do. If she does, ask her if she'd like to be you're girlfriend. If she does not share the same feeling, oh well! Rejection is a small bump in the road of relationships. Think of it this way, if you didn't know that she doesn't share your affection, you would've wasted all of your precious time on her. Maybe she'll change her mind or you'll find someone else. So just relax.
8A great end, or a new beginning. If you got the girl, be happy, you're a new person, but, if you didn't, show everyone you can get back on your feet. Have fun with your friends, and maybe, find a new interest. Have fun, and don't hold grudges.
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- Smile. Always, girls can't resist a smile.
- Make the first move and text her first. Girls love it when a guy does that, it makes them feel special. If she's interested she will reply back and text you first the next time. Show further interest by texting her in the evening, just don't send her a message at 2am or she will think you're a stalker.
- Look extra nice the day you decide to ask her out.
- Hygiene is key. No B.O! Yuck!
- If there's anything you don't like about her, but there are more good things about her than bad, try to overlook the bad things.
- Hold eye contact with her more than you usually would sometimes, but don't overdo it because this is a major turn-off.
- Don't insult her, even if you are joking around, and especially don't tell her that she smells bad, is fat, is ugly, or is dull and boring and unkind.
- Try not to make it too obvious that you like her, because you need to confirm that you like her by saying it directly to her not indirectly.
- Don't crowd the poor girl. Give her some space.
- Girls are very good at taking and noticing hints, so don't make it obvious that you like her, as it will make you look really desperate.
- If she shows signs of discomfort with the gift you give, or things you say, stop. They may not be as nice as you think. She may feel bad, because she does not feel the same way as you.
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For years, seniors in the wind ensemble at Henry M. Jackson High School have selected a favorite piece of music to play during commencement.
For last month's ceremonies, the 17 students chose an instrumental version of "Ave Maria," which they had performed at a school concert in December 2004.
But their choice was vetoed by Dr. Carol Whitehead, superintendent of the Everett School District. Instead, the ensemble played a selection by British composer Gustav Holst.
Now Kathryn Nurre, an 18-year-old who played alto saxophone in the ensemble before graduating, is suing Whitehead, claiming the decision violated her First Amendment right to freedom of speech. She believes "Ave Maria" was nixed by Whitehead because she felt the song was too religious for a school-sanctioned event.
"It was our graduation and it was our choice to pick the piece, and we didn't think they should be able to tell us we couldn't," said Nurre, who filed the suit at her mother's suggestion. "I was all for it [the suit] because I didn't know there was anything I could do."
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, is the latest in a string of recent controversies involving religion at graduation ceremonies, and it is likely to add to the voluminous debate about the place of religion in public schools.
In Nevada last month, Foothill High School officials cut the microphone on graduating senior Brittany McComb when her valedictory speech deviated from a pre-approved script and mentioned God and made references to biblical passages.
In Russell Springs, Ky., a federal judge last month ruled a student "chaplain" elected by the senior class could not deliver a prayer as part of commencement ceremonies because it would constitute state-sponsored speech.
"We're in a culture war, and anything to do with religion in schools is scary for administrators," said Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va., who has written extensively on religion in schools.
Cognizant of cases like the one in Kentucky, where schools have been sanctioned for pushing religious points of view, Haynes said educators may try to stave off controversy by not allowing any speech, or music, that might be perceived as religious. The U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear public school districts should not promote religious points of view.
Kathryn's mother, Vicki Nurre, said neither her daughter nor the other members of the Mill Creek school's ensemble — who unanimously voted to play "Ave Maria" — were trying to make a religious statement.
"The kids had no agenda when they picked the piece," said Vicki Nurre, of Bothell. "It was a piece they loved, it was a piece they played well ... they were shocked when they were shot out of the water on this."
Lesley Moffat, the school's band director, recorded the wind ensemble playing "Ave Maria" and gave a copy to the school's principal, Terry Cheshire.
Cheshire, in turn, gave the recording to Whitehead, who rejected the choice of "Ave Maria" because of "her belief that the piece is religious in nature," according to the suit, even though no lyrics would be sung or printed in graduation programs.
Several composers have written versions of "Ave Maria." The most well known is the version penned by Franz Schubert in 1825.
The version selected by the Jackson High School ensemble was written in 1964 by Franz Biebl as a choral arrangement for a German firefighters' choir.
The perceived religiosity of the piece derives from the lyrics, which in Biebl's version were taken from a prayer that is recited daily in the Catholic Church.
The Jackson High School wind ensemble planned to play an instrumental version of the piece, however.
Vicki Nurre contacted the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal foundation based in Charlottesville, Va., that presses hundreds of cases each year that involve questions of religious freedom and free speech. The organization attracted headlines in the mid-1990s when it assisted Paula Jones' sexual-harassment lawsuit against President Clinton.
W. Theodore Vander Wel, who has handled Washington state cases as an affiliate attorney for the Rutherford Institute for 15 years, was enlisted as local counsel and a complaint was assembled within days of the graduation ceremony.
Mary Waggoner, a spokeswoman for the Everett School District, wrote in an e-mail: "Neither the district nor Dr. Whitehead have been served regarding the lawsuit so there is nothing to be said about it." A Seattle Times reporter e-mailed a copy to Whitehead's assistant Wednesday at the assistant's request.
The issues addressed by Nurre's lawsuit fall into a tricky area of constitutional law, said Haynes, the First Amendment scholar.
Various Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that public schools cannot promote religious points of view, or include religious activities, such as the reading of a prayer, at school events, Haynes said.
At the same time, other decisions have established that if one or more students voluntarily decide to express their religious views in a paper or speech, it would be a violation for the school to censor them.
Because the Jackson High School students selected "Ave Maria" on their own, Haynes said it is highly unlikely any court would find the school district should have prevented it.
The fuzzier question is whether Whitehead was within her rights to forbid the playing of "Ave Maria."
"They may allow it, but do they have to allow it?" Haynes said. "This is not entirely settled, how much power a school has in this kind of situation."
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From February 2001 to March 2002, two federal grand juries alleged, Gary McKinnon, 36, of London, exploited a known security problem with Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 to break into 92 computers at NASA, the Pentagon, and more than a dozen military installations in 14 states.
Using software available on the Internet, he hacked into system administrator accounts, deleted files and accessed "sensitive" information, said McNulty, of Virginia. The attacks culminated in a February break-in that shut down 2,000 computers at the Military District of Washington for three days, officials said.
McKinnon hasn't been arrested, but McNulty said his office is working with Britain's national high-tech crime unit to extradite him to the United States. If the British courts agree to send McKinnon here, he'd be the first person to be extradited to face hacking charges, said John Lynch, senior counsel at the Justice Department's computer crime unit.
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The case should send a message to computer hackers, McNulty said. "You cannot act anonymously on the Internet," he said. "If you hack us we will find you. We will prosecute you and we will send you to prison."
McKinnon is charged in Alexandria with seven counts of computer fraud and in New Jersey with one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer for a 2001 break-in that forced the shutdown of the computer network at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, N.J. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum of 10 years on each one. He couldn't be located for comment.
The case "shows the far reach of computer crime and law enforcement's commitment to tracking it down," said Ralph Marra, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
McKinnon's accused of scanning more than 65,000 computers, seeking systems where administrators had failed to install a protective patch to the Windows program that had been publicly available for years. Once in, the hacker would exploit weak security to access individual accounts. He also installed a commercial software program called "Remotely Anywhere," that allowed him to tap into the systems and use the government's more powerful computers to scan other computers for weaknesses.
"The lesson we learn from this one and every previous one that we just don't heed is that you've got to be vigilant. You've got to scan for vulnerabilities and fix them when you find them," said Mark Rasch, senior vice president of Solutionary Inc., an Omaha, Neb., computer security firm. "Check to make sure the doors are locked."
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The hot streak is likely to continue. After nearly a decade of spending billions to upgrade with superfast fiber-optic cable, cable operators will see as much as 20% revenue growth this year by using their wires to sell more phone service and introduce digital TV, says UBS Warburg analyst Aryeh Bourkoff.
Ann Miletti, co-manager of Strong Capital Management's stock and opportunity funds, likes cable operator Comcast Communications' ability to generate hefty increases from the poorly run AT&T (T ) cable unit it bought last year. Cox Communications (COX ) cable's leading provider of phone service, is best-positioned to take market share from the telecoms while signing up new customers in Phoenix and Orange County, Calif., she says.
Cablevision Systems' potential to tap free-spending customers in the New York metropolitan area lured S. Basu Mullick, a portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman Partners Fund, to the stock. Beaten down by heavy debt, Cablevision rebounded 34% this year by announcing sales of its theater and retailing assets. Still, at $22.55 a share, Mullick figures its customers are valued at $2,700 apiece, a 30% discount to industry leader Comcast's $3,500-per-subscriber value. As a bonus, Mullick says Cablevision could be a takeover target. The likely buyer: The cable unit AOL Time Warner (AOL ) plans to spin off later this year.
Cable's hot prospects have also buoyed News Corp. (NWS ) Larry Haverty Jr., vice-president at State Street Research, says its Fox (FOX ) News, which overtook CNN (AOL ) in the ratings this year, is catching up in ad sales as well. He also likes the cost discipline at its movie studio and TV stations. It doesn't hurt that Fox's movie studio has a hit in X2: X-Men United.
Strong upfront ad sales for Viacom (VIA )'s red-hot CBS and MTV franchises make Viacom the choice of some investors, including Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Rief Cohen, who projects a 12-month $56 a share for the stock, which trades at $45.88.
In the dealmaking game, few top John Malone's Liberty Media, whose collection of assets includes Discovery Channel and Starz Encore. Malone has simplified his often-confusing corporate structure, buying back pieces in his company held by minority shareholders. That has helped boost Liberty's stock by 20% this year. Ajay Mehra, a portfolio manager at Columbia Management, figures that with more than $5 billion in cash, Malone could have his choice of income-generating media plays he can buy at distressed prices. One deal the Street could cheer is Malone's likely bid for Vivendi Universal (V ) entertainment unit, which includes its profitable cable channels.
The year's biggest wild card is the Federal Communications Commission's June 2 decision to allow increased consolidation in the media industry. If Congress or the courts don't block the ruling, media investors will be looking for takeover plays. That could keep the spotlight on media shining into next year as well.
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The 232-unit Fat City Lofts project should not be built across the street from Solar Turbines, the chairman of the city's downtown redevelopment arm ruled Tuesday.
Kim Kilkenny, board chairman of the Centre City Development Corp., said the project at Pacific Highway and Hawthorn Street is not compatible with the industrial use at Solar to the west.
"Neither the general plan for the community plan establishes the proposed residential project as a land use that must be approved as a matter of right on the proposed site," Kilkenny said.
Instead, Kilkenny said the priorities for downtown development and larger citywide preference for "economic prosperity" override the allowable residential zoning at the former night club site that opened in 1941.
Jonathan Segal, project architect and partner with the GLJ Partnership development company, said the decision will be appealed to the Planning Commission, which has the final say.
"Throughout the process, we felt CCDC would not approve our project due to political pressure," Segal said.
He said the developers will put their faith in the Planning Commission "which has traditionally acted in an unbiased, impartial and most pragmatic manner."
Segal was alluding to months of campaigning by Solar and its supporters against the project. CCDC meetings have been filled with Solar workers, community and business leaders and others. There's also been a coordinated letter-writing campaign from local politicians and others with many messages with identical wording.
Long-time downtown observers and CCDC staff say they cannot remember a similar lobbying effort to defeat a downtown housing project.
Also unusual was the approval process. Legally, it is the CCDC president who normally makes this sort of zoning decision, but without any president in place for several years, the CCDC board delegated Kilkenny, who worked for both developers and politicians, to weigh both sides. The CCDC had voted 4-2 on Jan. 25 to oppose the project.
The project first became controversial last year when historic preservationists urged that it be redesigned to save all or part of the 1940s Top's nightclub, a landmark on Pacific Highway since just before World War II.
But when Segal redesigned the apartment complex to accommodate part of the building, Solar stepped in to warn that allowing apartments so close to its factory just to the west could trigger higher emission standards that prompt its closing and perhaps threaten Solar's continued existence in the state.
Kilkenny cited three reasons for denying the project:
•The developers had no inherent right to build apartments on the site because the downtown plan designates its area for "recreation/visitor/marine" uses and does not "expressly identify residential" as a permitted use.
•The city's general plan includes a policy favoring "base sector uses that provide quality job opportunities" — meaning companies that export products and services. Kilkenny concluded that Fat City's presence "would result in increased regulatory burdens" and jeopardize Solar's "continued operation of this existing base-sector use."
•One of the downtown community's plan objectives is to "minimize incompatible land uses that reduce the quality of the neighborhood environment." Kilkenny noted that the site is subject to "substantial volumes of traffic" on surrounding streets, bounded on the east by railroad tracks, on the north by a storage facility and on the south by a car wash.
In rebuttal Segal and his partners have argued that no one has filed nuisance complaints against Solar in at least 20 years and mixing uses and a noisy, congested environment is the mark of an exciting downtown neighborhood.
CCDC officials have conceded that zoning and land-use designations are confusing in this area of town and proposed updating the communty plan and zoning rules to clarify what is and is not allowable near Solar.


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Dialogue, Not Monologue
When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some.
- 1 Corinthians 9:22
Our world today is full of religious people, but they don't use that word to describe themselves. They use a different word: spiritual. They will describe themselves as very spiritual and then will add, "But I'm not into organized religion."
Statements like this can become a segue for sharing the gospel. As believers we can say, "Really? I am a spiritual person too. In fact, I am really into spiritual things, and I want to talk to you a little bit about some really important spiritual truth I have discovered."
This isn't compromising. Rather, it is simply using understandable language to build a bridge so you can talk about your relationship with Jesus Christ.
When the apostle Paul addressed the men of Athens, he said, "I notice that you are very religious in every way, for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: 'To an Unknown God.' This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I'm telling you about" (Acts 17:22–23).
Paul didn't say, "Hey, what you are doing is legit." He simply used language they could understand to connect with them about the most important message. Evangelism is a dialogue, not a monologue. You ask a question, and they give you an answer. Then you respond to what they said. They say something, and you say something.
This is what Paul was talking about when he said, "Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22). One of the best ways to reach someone is to just listen.
However, we must never lower our standards to extend our reach. Don't compromise your message, but try to establish a dialogue.
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Facing the health worker crisis in developing countries: a call for global solidarity
Mohga Kamal Smith (a) & Nina Henderson-Andrade (a)
There is no doubt that health workers are the cornerstone of functioning health systems. Chronic under-funding of health systems in developing countries has led to the current health worker crisis, which threatens the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. In recognition of this, WHO has devoted The world health report 2006 to health workers. (1)
WHO calls for national leadership supported by global solidarity to face this crisis. The report notes that wage ceilings should not constrain workforce expansion and recommends that a status of exception be accorded to public spending; it exhorts donors to ensure immediate and long-term financing — with emphasis on support for the health workforce coordinated and aligned with emergency national strategies — and rich countries to enhance the adoption of ethical recruitment codes to manage migration.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduced structural adjustment policies (SAPs) to induce economic stability. These policies led to cuts in public expenditure that diminished governments' ability to expand and maintain infrastructure, to provide necessary supplies and equipment, and to train and sustain competitive salaries for the workforce. (2) To exacerbate matters, the World Bank portrays health workers as lazy, inept and prone to absenteeism. (3)
According to the report, the global deficit is nearly 4.3 million health workers: a critical shortage is faced by 57 countries, 36 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Paradoxically, these shortages coexist with underutilized talent. The cost of training health workers to eliminate the shortfall by 2015 is calculated as US$ 136 million per year for an average country. The additional cost of paying health workers once the shortage is met is estimated at US$ 311 million per country. Resource-poor governments are reluctant to take on such commitments without clear support from the international community. The report therefore urges donors to undertake immediate financial investment and sustain it over the next 10 years. While the report recognizes that inadequate salaries play a pivotal role in the fatal outflow of health workers, it does not analyse the major causes for such failure so its recommendations do not take account of them.
The World Bank and other donors have actively pursued market-based restructuring of the public sector in poor countries, often imposing these reforms as conditions for their loans. Sanders et al. (4) state that public health services have been dangerously compromised through rationalization of staff.
Failing to learn from the failures of SAPs, and despite most poor countries having achieved broad macroeconomic stability, the IMF continues to insist on punitive and ill-conceived restrictions on public spending. Unrealistic ceilings on the public sector wage bill result in poverty-level wages and the restriction of recruitment of health workers at a time when Africa is in desperate need of more workers to combat acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other diseases.
Though its official policies recognize that "traditional market responses are not usually effective when applied to human resources for health", (5) the World Bank's answer to the crisis is to introduce competition between workers for better salaries and working conditions, rather than to focus on enhancing the ethos of public service through more and better-paid workers participating actively in service reform.
Donors also play an important role in the health workforce crisis. For decades, most donors accorded low priority to spending in the health sector in developing countries: (6) their support was limited, short term and unpredictable, focusing on projects that ran parallel to the national systems and did not fund recurrent costs such as salaries. Meanwhile, government budgets suffered from a lack of adequate domestic resources, coupled with debt services, aid conditionalities and unpredictable aid with delays or even incomplete disbursements.
There have recently been some positive changes. Overseas development aid is expected to rise by over 60% between 2004 and 2010, with aid to Africa being doubled. (7) The debt cancellation promised by the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 will release vital long-term resources to be spent on key workers: Zambia is already using savings from debt reimbursements to the IMF to support salaries.
On the migration of the health workforce, the report calls for "cooperative agreements" and "ethical recruitment practices" to protect the rights and safety of migrant workers. The investment that sending countries forego in the outflow of their health workers has been termed a "perverse subsidy", estimated to be in the region of US$ 500 million annually. (8) Migration needs to be sensitively managed, however, so as not to infringe individuals' right to move freely. The WHO report is timely and represents much needed evidence and clear recommendations. Unless governments and donors make a strong political and financial commitment to implement a double strategy of shorter and long-term solutions, the crisis is likely to worsen.
- The world health report 2006 – Working together for health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2006.
- Homedes N, Ugalde A. Human resources: the Cinderella of health sector reform in Latin America. Hum Resour Health 2005;3:1.
- Making services work for poor people. Washington (DC): The World Bank; 2004.
- Sanders DM, Todd C, Chopra M. Confronting Africa's health crisis: more of the same will not be enough. BMJ 2005;331:755-8.
- World Bank 'Human Resources are Vital', available from: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHSD/0,,contentMDK:20190580~menuPK:2389336~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:376793,00.html
- Périn I, Attaran, A. Trading ideology for dialogue: an opportunity to fix international aid for health. Lancet 2003;361:1216-9.
- Fiscal space and sustainability: towards a solution for the health sector. High Level Forum on the Health MDGs, Paris, 14–15 November 2005 http://www.hlfhealthmdgs.org/Documents/FiscalSpaceTowardsSolution.pdf
- Human resource development programme: NEPAD health strategy. Midrand, South Africa: The New Partnership for Africa's Development; 2003. Available from: http://www.nepad.org/2005/files/documents/115.pdf.


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Religious Liberty
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." As enshrined in the First Amendment, religious freedom includes two complementary protections: the right to religious belief and expression and a guarantee that the government neither prefers religion over non-religion nor favors particular faiths over others. These dual protections work hand in hand, allowing religious liberty to thrive and safeguarding both religion and government from the undue influences of the other.
From our foundational work on behalf of conscientious objectors to our historic defense of John T. Scopes during the infamous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, the ACLU has been the national leader in the struggle for religious freedom. Building on that near-century of work, the ACLU employs an integrated strategy of litigation, public education, and advocacy to protect religious liberty.
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- 81%Eighty-one percent of Americans say the law should not allow companies or other institutions to use religious beliefs to decide whether to offer a service to some people and not others.
- 3,5003,500 groups make up the American religious landscape.
- All AmericansThe ACLU vigorously defends the rights of all Americans, from Christians to members of minority faiths, to practice their religion.
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Recognizing the importance of religious freedom, our founders enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution a guarantee that the government neither prefers religion over non-religion nor favors particular faiths over others. Religious freedom thrives when the government stays out of religion; matters of religious belief should be left to individuals and faith communities, not to governments or political majorities.
Public schools should not be in the business of promoting particular religious beliefs or activities, and they should protect children from being coerced by others to accept religious (or anti-religious) beliefs.
With increasing frequency, we are seeing individuals and institutions claiming a right to discriminate—by refusing to provide services to women and LGBT people—based on religious objections.
The right to practice religion, or no religion at all, is among the most fundamental of the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
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Eye Drainage
Eye Drainage
Small to large amounts of drainage and different types of drainage may be caused by irritation, a foreign body, or infection. The drainage often collects on the eyelashes and dries, causing the lashes to become matted together. The eyelids may also swell during the night. Once the matted drainage is removed, the swelling usually decreases.
Eye infections are usually caused by a virus or a bacteria. In some parts of the world, eye infections may also be caused by fungus, parasites, or other organisms. Drainage occurs with almost every type of eye infection, such as pinkeye (conjunctivitis).
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HarperStudio editor Julia Cheiffetz raises an interesting point about the sorts of men Malcolm Gladwell finds remarkable, or at least remarkable enough to write about in his latest book, Outliers—that point being that they're all, well, men. "Bill Gates, Mozart, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Beatles are among Gladwell's subjects," Cheiffetz writes after reading a review of the book in O Magazine. "But what about Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Tina Brown, or Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo? What about Oprah?" But this isn't a case of being mad at just one author:
"Since the publication of The Tipping Point we've seen a proliferation of books that present a single, shrink-wrapped idea as a means of understanding the world at large: books like The World is Flat, The Black Swan, The Wisdom of Crowds, The Long Tail… [A]ll of them promise access to a club whose sole activity is the exchange of ideas; all of them promise, however covertly, to make us feel smarter. And all of them are written by men."
We're not entirely convinced—right off the top of our head, we thought of Susan Faludi and Naomi Klein in the "explain-it-all" category—but we did find Cheiffetz's distinction between "storytellers" and "big thinkers," and the suggestion that these two types of writing might play out along gender lines at least as far as what sells, intriguing. Things aren't really that binary—the reason Gladwell enjoys such a powerful reputation as a big thinker, for example, is that he's an expert storyteller, and while Mary Roach gets credit for her quirky stories, her books are just as issue-driven as his—but it's when you start trying to think about why such a stark polarization feels wrong (or right!) that you start getting a nuanced consideration of an issue like this.
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Fagen Pharmacy Completes
Fagen Pharmacy Completes
Phone System Upgrades
We have completed the installation of our new phone system at all locations. This system replaced the patchwork of old equipment we had in place at many locations that we acquired through acquisition. The phone system allows users to enter refills directly into our pharmacy system and allows store-to-store calls over the Fagen network.


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Many of our military personnel returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been traumatized by their experiences in the warzones. While the majority struggle with their experiences, most will not go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is an anxiety disorder that develops as a result of a traumatic experience and involves symptoms of vigilance (i.e., being extra alert and aware of surroundings); numbness (i.e., having difficulty feeling emotions), and re-experiencing (i.e., flashbacks and nightmares).
We have evidence-based treatments for PTSD that work. These include behavioral therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy or exposure therapy and medication therapies. Treatments have demonstrated success, yet there is no cure for PTSD. Many individuals in treatment work through their symptoms so that they are no longer severely impacted by them. Yet, symptoms sometimes flare up again in the future.
We have institutions set up to work with returning military personnel to treat their PTSD. Much of my work deals with individuals who have had difficulty accessing treatment and working with the institutions designed to help them. Some of the difficulties are self-imposed (For example, it can be hard to admit that you are struggling and need help. It can be even harder to admit that someone who was never at war could help with symptoms developed in war.) Some of the difficulties accessing care are about the system.
Having difficulty accessing help does not help our military personnel in need.
Yet, in my work, I'm starting to hear a new theme.
Here are some reasons why dogs might help individuals with PTSD.
The best part is that it doesn't seem to matter if the dog is a Pit bull or a Chihuahua or a plain old mutt.


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From Mission Hospital's aging facilities to Charlotte Street's troublesome traffic, proposed and potential development plans in two different sectors ruled conversation during a breakfast meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners on Friday, Sept. 6. (Photo of Mission Hospital's Brian Moore by Caitlin Byrd)
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As part of an ongoing effort to speak with North Carolinians about Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed changes to the way the state's Medicaid program operates, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Aldona Wos and N.C. Medicaid Director Carol Steckel will give a presentation about the plan in Asheville on Monday, April 22. This presentation is intended for the provider community, and will be held at 11:30 a.m. at MAHEC Education Center at 121 Hendersonville Road.
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text: Where I live sweet potatoes are 18 cents a pound this week for Thanksgiving, down from nearly a dollar a pound, thus a very good time to get some in the freezer for future reference. Here is a quick, easy way to freeze them. Choose the biggest ones. Put them all in a big pot, cover with water, and boil until you can stick a fork or paring knife into them. Drain. Let them cool. The peelings will then slip off easily. Mash them with a can of crushed pineapple. They mash so easily that you don't need any special equipment---even a big spoon will do. Freeze in quantities suitable for your meal. You can then just zap this or if you are a marshmallow person you know what to do.


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…Wait, is this a back to school article? No! It can't be, it's too soon! July isn't even over yet!
Alas, but it is true. Back to school starts earlier every year, and I have fallen victim to it. Which means you have to endure it as well. Be strong, dear readers. I promise, this will be worth your while. You'll actually learn something about the 3DS, Wii U and even DSi eShops if you do.
Downloadable is the latest rage, don'tcha know. Nintendo's eShops have proven themselves purveyors of untold goodness. Well, maybe not the Wii U eShop so much, but still. While most back to school shopping has you looking at pens, pants and pricy computers, this little segment is more lighthearted. We're going to look at things you need for your 3DS, DSi and Wii U instead. Besides, if it involves games, it can't be totally educational.
If you're heading back to school, you want to start with some advantageous programs on your 3DS or DSi. That's where Petit Computer and Rhythm Core Alpha 2. Petit Computer is a unique piece of DSiWare that lets users create and run BASIC programs on their 3DS or DSi. You can learn valuable computer programming skills and share your work with others, or just grab the app and download other peoples' work for some free homebrew games and apps on your handheld. It'll set you back $7.99.
As for Rhythm Core Alpha 2, it's a music creation tool. It is an extraordinary music program that lets people create songs with music loops, pattern creation, solo creation and such. You can probably tell I'm out of my depth. It's a really complex piece of software for a 3DS application and people who do know what they're doing and buy it are capable of some really amazing things. Here, watch this video, showing a song made by Lucky Button Pusher in Rhythm Core Alpha.
As you can see from the video, he's not only playing a song he pre-recorded and created in Rhythm Core Alpha. He also goes into Solo Mode to put in solos on the fly, by tapping the notes he wants on the touchpad with the stylus. For $9.99, you can start dropping similar beats.
Of course, if you want something that could actually improve your thinking and processing skills, you may want to go for Brain Age: Concentration Training instead. It isn't technically educational. Instead, it's a game that's designed to help people improve their concentration skills via a series of eight "devilish" exercises. The goal is to get people more focused on what they're doing. There are some other, supplemental brain training and educational exercises, but the overall goal of this $29.99 3DS game is to help people stay centered on whatever task they prioritize. I don't know how effective it would be, but it couldn't hurt to grab it with your other back to school items. Maybe even play it throughout August, so when classes really start in September, you'll be prepared.
But back to school preparation isn't all about programs that are useful or that will make you smarter. It's also about getting something that will keep you busy during this last month of freedom. That's when you need games like Ace Mathician and EarthBound. I know, one sounds like edutainment and the other has you flumoxed, but let me assure you that both are perfect eShop grabs for anyone who'll be heading back to class soon.
Ace Mathician</i. is actually a neat little puzzle game. Players have to help Ace the koala reach fruit. The problem is, the platforms in each level are arranged in a way that makes it impossible. Enter the equations! Players can alter a mathmatical equation that appears on the touch screen, and doing so will change the position of the platforms on the top screen. People don't have to solve any math problems. All they have to do is alter the problem to change the world. Think of this $1.99 game as a way to decompress after a tough algebra class. While there are wrong answer in school, there is no wrong answer in Ace Mathician. Anything you do will change Ace's world, though there are some equations that would be best to use to "win."
As for EarthBound, well, think of it as a last hurrah. I'm sure many of the people reading this grew up with the SNES, and grabbing Earthbound on your Wii U would be a good way to make you feel young again, before you have to head back to school and start growing up and becoming an adult. And, if Earthbound is new to you, then think of it as a lesson in gaming. This classic RPG is quite influential, after all, and helped shape many games. Playing it is a way to learn what gaming was like in the good old days.
Don't let all this back to school talk scare you, though. You've still got at least a month of freedom ahead of you. Relax, kick back, and enjoy these summer days.


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It's Monday, and Monday means back to school in our household. We homeschool, so despite the snowy weather, we have school all through the winter. This year we're incorporating Ms. Thang into our school routine. I've been coming up with preschool learning activities for her whenever she shows an interest in doing school. I'm trying to share these with you to show that preschool learning activities don't have to be high dollar or elaborate.
Ms. Thang will be the big 0-3 next month, and she's been showing a lot more interest in doing school activities. I indulge her interest by coming up with preschool projects for her to complete one or 2 days a week. Today our preschool learning activities focused on the letter P and the color pink. Pink is Ms. Thang's favorite color, so she was very happy with today's preschool projects. When she got up this morning, Ms. Thang promptly put on a pink shirt, and to be honest, that was the entire inspiration for all of our preschool learning activities. I didn't want to change her clothes. Call me lazy, call me an opportunist, or call me a smart cookie for not fighting with her. Whatever you want to say, that's how I made the decision.
I started out by clipping lots of pictures from an old seed catalog. This was mostly to save time since I didn't have my prep done ahead of time. I cut out pictures of several different colors, not just pink. I thought it would be a good sorting activity for Ms. Thang to pick out just the pink ones for her collage. She happily went about the task of picking out the pink pictures and using a glue stick to adhere them to a sheet of paper.
While Ms. Thang was busy with her collage, I drew a big letter "P" on another sheet of paper. I then used a pink sheet of craft foam to draw and cut out a curly tail and a snout. I keep craft supplies like this on hand for just such a project. When ms. Thang completed her collage, I showed her the big letter "P" and told her that this was the "puh" sound that you hear at the beginning of words like "pink" and "pig". I then said, "Puh-puh-pink. Puh-puh—pig. Do you hear the "puh" sound that starts those words? This is the letter that makes that sound." Kids are very literal, so it's counter-productive to tell them "P is for pig" because they might actually believe that P is literally the symbol for "pig" rather than the symbol for the sound that makes the "puh" sound. I then asked Ms. Thang if she would color my "puh" pink for me. She did so. Then I helped her to glue on the googly eye, curly tail, and snout. She thought her "puh-puh-pig" was very funny.
I also gave her a coloring sheet with the letter Pp on it and 4 pictures of things that start with "P" to color. Our other preschool learning activities are just coloring, and we will read aloud several times today. That's it. I think that's plenty of structure for a 2 year old to deal with in one day. She will have access to drawing and coloring materials all day, and there might be play dough and her pretend kitchen to entertain her. Preschool projects really don't have to be expensive or hard! Have fun and let me know what you come up with for your little ones!


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|Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1991 / Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1991
Exchanged in the Preparation of "Between Missourians"
Editor Bob Flanders asked John Bradbury of the advisory panel to correspond with Jerry Ponder about many details of the Ripley County writings; this after Ponder and Flanders exchanged initial letters in the fall of 1990. The resulting three-way correspondence constitutes both a running discussion of and commentary upon the Ripley County writings. It also reveals something of the difficulty of researching and writing good local history. Excerpts from that correspondence follow.
Ponder to Flanders, October 1, 1990
Enclosed are two articles, THE BURNING OF DONIPHAN, and THE WILSON MASSACRE, both Civil War stories concerning Ripley County. They are submitted for your consideration for the upcoming Civil War issue of OzarksWatch. They are the result of several years of research.
Flanders to Ponder, October 10, 1991
Thanks for your submission....As an historian I admire the painstaking work that you have put into assembling the details of the war in Ripley County. I think you provide a valuable window on the nature of civil war upon the Missouri-Arkansas border.
We will assemble a small advisory board of professional Civil War experts to advise us. We might ask for their advice about your [articles].
Ponder to Flanders, October 14, 1990
...Please feel free to edit either or both of the articles "The Burning of Doniphan" or "The Wilson Massacre,'' so long as the factual integrity of the articles is not compromised. If I can help in any way, please let me know.
Bradbury to Ponder, November 27, 1990
Bob Flanders of OzarksWatch asked me to drop you a note. I've been consulting editorially with him on the upcoming Civil War issue of the magazine and he's given me copies of your articles...for review. I'm impressed with the detail in your studies. The operations of the 3rd Missouri State Militia Cavalry and the subsequent execution of Major James Wilson seem to me to be striking examples of the mutual retaliation which so often characterized the war in the Ozarks.
...Did you base your research on local traditions, or did you discover a cache of Confederate records? ...Since allegations of atrocities are always controversial, citations would be especially useful for the number of civilians killed [at the Christmas affair], Wilson's responsibility in the matter (was the massacre the result of an order by Wilson, or did he lose control of his men?), and also the major's own unusual demise at the hands of the Confederates. I'm...struck that Timothy Reeves's command acted as a local constabulary, which was also part of the mission of the [Union] Missouri State Militia.
Enclosed...are copies from the Richard G. Wood-son papers regarding the capture of Centerville. We acquired a few of Woodson's papers earlier this year from a collector in St. Louis .... I don't believe that the reply to Woodson from Fisk's adjutant was published in the OR ....
I'll recommend that OzarksWatch consider combining your articles for publication ....
Ponder to Bradbury, December 2, 1990
Thank you very, very much for your letter of November 27, 1990. I was especially pleased to hear from you. Believe me, the information you enclosed really made my day!...The letters put a somewhat different light on Colonel Woodson of the 3rd Missouri Cavalry.
Your comments on the two articles I had sent Dr. Flanders were well taken. I have added notes and am sending copies to Dr. Flanders and to you. Those articles were written for a newspaper so had no notes ....
As with any Confederate history in this area, "tradition" has to be used for much of the research. I do try to weed through what is around and use only what seems factual. There can be little doubt that the Christmas Day, 1863 Wilson Massacre, happened. Only one of the soldiers killed has been identified, as both Union and Confederate initial reports are missing. Of the 112 captured, practically all were wounded, an exception being one of the regimental surgeons. Twenty to twenty-five of the wounded died between Ripley County and St. Louis or soon after arriving at St. Louis. All of those captured have been identified and death dates are known for the ones that died. Even though some did die they were processed in to the St. Louis prison and are found on National Archives Reel 598-9972, giving disposition or, if dead, the place of death and date
The civilians killed are in the same category as the Confederates killed on the spot and few names have been found. In my own Ponder family we know of 5, four women and one child, killed there. A couple of the King family were also killed as was at least one of the Dalton family. Those killed were buried in at least three cemeteries and last month all three were named Confederate Unknown Soldier Cemeteries by the Veterans Administration. Monuments have been received and are to be put up soon by the VFW.
1 feel reasonably sure that the massacre was the result of an order by Major Wilson. Atrocities all through this area are attributed to his actions and he did have a policy of little regard for civilians.
Early in 1862, Timothy Reeves raised a company of men in Ripley County with the understanding that they would remain in the area for the protection of the people within the county and would not leave. The company was formed from members of the 1 st Division, Missouri State Guards, who did not stay with General M. Jeff Thompson or did not join regular Confederate units.
General Hardee moved his Headquarters from Pocahontas to what is now Currentview, Missouri, where the Military Road crossed Current River. The name then was Buck Skull, Arkansas, but a fort was built there on the Missouri side, called Fort Current-view, and that name stuck after the war. General Hardee moved to Greenville in Wayne County for a few weeks to prepare for an invasion into Missouri, but pulled back when General Pillow refused to participate. After Reeves' Company was raised Hardee left the area and Reeves' Company was moved to Kentucky and their aim to stay in Ripley County was shattered. They were only in Kentucky for a month or five weeks and, because of deep feelings, were moved back to Ripley County.
In the meantime, Ripley County was without any protection. Reeves' neighbor, William Righter, intended to raise a company to replace Reeves' men, but I guess it got out of hand and overnight became a regiment. According to Righter, he never received a Confederate commission, but was commissioned a Colonel by General M. Jeff Thompson ....
...From all reports [Righter] was a man I would have been pleased to meet. A true southern gentlemen and when he gave his word he would refuse to break it, so [after his parole in St. Louis] he took no further part in the war. Also, true to his aim, while he was in command, the 15th Missouri Cavalry did not leave their home region.
By late 1863, Timothy Reeves had consolidated his Company of Missouri Scouts with the 15th Missouri Cavalry and was promoted to Colonel by the Confederate government. Why they agreed to take part in Price's Invasion in 1864 and leave their home area I cannot say, but they did.
I might mention about the battalion of the 15th that lived in Butler County at a place called Coon Island, a few miles east of what is now Neelyville. Coon Island was reached only by a long ride through water in the Cherokee Bay Swamp and was a low island completely surrounded by swamp with extremely dense growth of trees and vines. Many families from Butler and Ripley Counties moved there and remained during the war, living almost normal lives. The men were formed into at least 3 companies under the overall command of Captain George Thannisch until his death in January, 1864 ....
The Civil War and local history have always been of deep interest to me. I have been researching the Civil War locally for about eight years now and hope to eventually get a book out on the war in Southeast Missouri. I have recreated most of the Confederate units active here--a very slow process ....
P.S. Almost forgot. There was one other thing I wanted to add about The Wilson Massacre. l...stated that on Christmas Day, 1863, members of the 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment and their families were having Christmas Dinner at the camp. There were soldiers from two other units there: Shaver's Arkansas (37th AR) and the 1st Arkansas. Men from those units became Companies P, R, and S of the 15th Missouri Cavalry it seems....[Sol those present for Wilson's Massacre and some of those captured were from Reeves' 15th MO Cav, Shaver's AR Cav, and the 1st AR Cav. Others, home on leave from other units were there, too, but 1 think they were a small group ....
Ponder to Flanders, December 2, 1990
There are a couple of places where 1 could not complete the notes....Our library here is closed for several days for "Earthquake Days," but the [Abijah Johns matter] can easily be found by checking the index for The War of the Rebellion under "Captain Abijah Johns."
Captain Thannisch and two enlisted men had taken corn to a grist mill--probably at Doniphan--for grinding into meal and were returning to Coon Island in Butler County. They stopped at a spring in Turkey Pen Hollow, southeast of Doniphan near the Military Road, and were surprised by Captain Johns' detachment. Captain Thannisch tried to escape, but became tangled in wild grape vines and fell from his horse and was shot on the spot. The entry in The War of the Rebellion states something like, "Killed two bushwhackers near Cherokee Bay."
Bradbury to Ponder, December 21, 1990
...I told Bob [Flanders] after I'd looked at your notes that you had about convinced me that an atrocity took place at Doniphan, and that Wilson's death was indeed retribution. However (and I'm playing devil's advocate here), a few points occur to me. There might be something more on Wilson and his motivations, especially if he is considered responsible for other questionable incidents....Does his compiled service record include such charges? Should Wilson have warned the Confederates before charging into [Reeves's camp]? They were, of course, soldiers, and unless Wilson had good scouting in advance or other intelligence, could he have known that there was nothing more martial going on than soldiers and their families having Christmas dinner?
I'm also struck by the fact that there was a greater number captured than killed. Given the relative numbers, and Wilson's neglecting to mention civilian casualties in his report, could it be argued that Wilson simply lost control of his men when the shooting began, that his unit killed a number of civilians before it could be gotten under control again, and that Wilson was embarrassed enough to omit this significant detail in his report? It certainly wouldn't be the first case of an officer putting a bright face on things in order to protect his men (and his own reputation).
If they exist, you might quote from Shelby's orders to courtmartial Wilson and his men, and from the proceedings themselves. Peterson's address in 1906 is forty years after the fact. I know he gathered information from a number of veterans, but the fact that he calls it the "murder" of Wilson indicates his point of view. I wonder if Shelby was thinking of the massacre, [or of the] burning of Doniphan when he ordered the courtmartial. When you say that the "consensus" is that the 15th Missouri Cavalry made up the firing squad, was this Peterson's conclusion?
...It still seems to me that you've got a particularly striking example of tit for tat as it went on during the war in the Ozarks. A lot more research on the local level like you've been doing needs to be done in all areas before we can truly understand what went on in this region during the war.
Bradbury to Flanders, January 28,1991
...Jerry's appraisal of events hasn't changed as a result of my playing devil's advocate. As he points out, some questions will probably never be satisfactorily explained....I wish there were more details on Major Wilson's background and political motivation. There are enough questions about what really happened at the massacre that I'd be wary of portraying him [simply] as some kind of trigger-happy beast ....
Ponder to Bradbury, February 2, 1991
I was pleased with the notes you have compiled for the two Civil War articles. I have no date for James C. Steakley's "The Story of Price's Raid." At the very first of the report he indicates that it was several years past since the action took place and in another place stated that about 20 years had passed. No doubt it is dated, but I don't have the date.
On the estimate of those killed during the action on Christmas Day, 1863, I base that on several things, but others have estimated the number as about half of what I listed and there seems to be a lot of question about it. I can quote from the interview made by Dr. John Hume questioning Mrs. Wash Harris in October, 1889: "A bunch of them Yankees sneaked up on Reeves men while they was at Christ[nas dinner with their families and shot into the bunch killing and wounding about all of them 35 soldiers was killed and 62 of their wives and children was shot and killed and the Yankees captured a lot of soldiers and took some of the old men to the prison at St. Louis...." Mrs. Harris was quite old in 1889 when she made her first interview with Dr. Hume and older during a second interview about 5 years later, but practically everything she has mentioned that can be checked, is accurate ....
My mother grew up less than 3 miles from the massacre site and later taught at three schools very near the site. She collected information from residents about the history of the area, including talking to many of the survivors of the incident. She estimated the deaths of civilians at approximately 60. People in Doniphan estimate the number much less and, as a theory only, I could guess that since about half of those civilians killed were buried at Doniphan, they have taken the number buried in the Old Doniphan Cemetery as the total number of civilians killed and have not taken into account the ones buried in other cemeteries. At least three other cemeteries were used--the Old Ponder Cemetery, Union Cemetery, and the King Family Cemetery.
Major Wilson was responsible for the burning of Alton and the two raids on the Irish Wilderness on the Oregon-Ripley County line. His report dated Oct. 28, 1863, from Pilot Knob, states that he left there Sept 29, going to Alton. He described the two Irish Wilderness raids, one by Capt McFaden and one by Capt Rush. Wilson left a garrison at Alton and went as far south as Evening Shade, Arkansas, returning to Alton. After his return to Alton, Wilson stated that he sent part of his command to Patterson with prisoners and moved the remainder of the command to Thomasville on Oct. 21. According to eyewitness reports in Alton, Wilson broke camp at Alton and moved out, leaving a small group behind who fired the buildings and rode away. [Apparently to cover up his responsibility]. He wrote...in his report, "Learning that Alton had been burned since our departure, we hoped to intercept the rascals by traversing the northeastern portion of Oregon County, but in this we were unsuccessful."
About that same time a [Union] captain based at Houston, Missouri, was the subject of an investigation for burning 30 houses in Northeast Oregon County. I don't have a copy of the OR and [so] can't give exact references. As I recall, Major Wilson was implicated in the investigation.
Colonel Woodson, on the other hand, seemed to be a stern commander, but fair in his dealings with the residents of the Confederate regions of his command. On one occasion he complained to General Fisk that members of the [Union] 2nd MSM were guilty of misconduct. On Aug 27, 1863, Gen Fisk ordered Lt/Col Hiller at Cape Girardeau to reprimand Major Joslyn's command for plundering and pillaging in Ripley County and to make a full investigation. There were other examples of Woodson's fairness in the OR. I have a note that after the Wilson Massacre, Col Woodson left Pilot Knob at once for Ripley County to take command from Maj Wilson to insure safety of the prisoners.
As to Leeper. A quick scanning through the OR will show his personality. His outlook changed from month to month. I think he may actually have been afraid of war. That may have been the reason for the brutality.
Reeves name was [indeed] "Reeves", but spelled many ways in military records or church records as well as the census. I really believe he was a concerned commander interested in the safety of the residents of the counties represented in the 15th MO Cavalry Regiment. The only "bad" report I read on Reeves before Price's Invasion was on Dec 19, 1863, when Capt Leeper reported to Gen Fisk that Reeves had got a Colonel's commission and [was] conscripting every man between the ages of 18 and 45 years and [would] have 1,000 men. That was more or less supported in the diary of Dr. Brooks I sent earlier.
The [information concerning] graves at Jefferson Barracks of the six Confederates executed to avenge Maj Wilson's death were new to me. Thanks a million for sending that. Reeves was detained after the war' s end and was to be executed for Wilson' s death, but was released and permitted to work as a minister...for the Cane Creek Baptist Association. I have been unable to find anything on a hearing, a release, or a parole/pardon. Some information is located at the old courthouse at Jacksonport State Park, Arkansas, but gives no details ....
Do look forward to talking with you, John. Thanks very, very much for all of your help with the notes.
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