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How great leaders inspire action.
Great talk by Simon Sinek:
All organizations and careers function on 3 levels. What you do, How you do it and Why you do it. The Why is your driving motivation for action. The Hows are the specific actions that are taken to realize your Why. The Whats are the tangible ways in which you bring your Why to life.
The problem is, most don't even know that Why exists.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Start with "Why"
How great leaders inspire action.
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Cloud Computing Explained
We are heading toward Cloud Computing. About one year ago I published a posting about this trend. But what is Cloud Computing at all? Does it replace the SOA and EDA hypes? Answer on this last question: No! Cloud software takes full advantage of the cloud paradigm by being service oriented with a focus on statelessness, low coupling, modularity, and semantic interoperability.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST - has defined Cloud Computing. This definition perfectly matches my own vision and awareness. I think it may be worthfull to share this vision. In this posting I'll add two of my own pictures to support the understanding.
First of all, to understand Cloud Computing it is very important to understand the viewpoint of IT-services from a layered perspective. The picture below is a simplified version of the model I've always at hand in my daily practice and which I published before on my blog.
IT-delivery offerings in the market tend to concentrate on each of these layers. Each layer provides services to the next higher layer in the stack adding abstraction and value to its lower level layer. This is a move-away from the stove pipes where every application relies on dedicated solutions throughout the stack.
(Honesty demands to mention appliances, which are hardware stove pipe boxes for the sake of - very - high performance requirements. The consumer of the services should however be unaware of these lower level implementation strategies.)
When you understand this layered view, you will be able to understand Cloud Computing. NIST defines Cloud Computing as follows:
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models.Essential Characteristics
On-demand self-serviceService Models
A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service's provider.
Broad network access
Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).
Resource pooling
The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.
Rapid elasticity
Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.
Measured Service
Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.
Software as a Service (SaaS)Deployment Models
The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider's applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email). The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user-specific application configuration settings.
Example: Google Gmail
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations.
Example: IBM Cloud Burst
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls).
Example: Amazon EC2
Private cloudThank you, Peter Mell and Tim Grance! In return feel free to reuse my pictures...
The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Community cloud
The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Public cloud
The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.
Hybrid cloud
The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds).


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Living With Parents Can Lead to Financial Independence
There are more adult Americans age 34 or younger sleeping in their childhood bedrooms now than at any other time in the past 30 years, but it can lead to more saving in the long run. Quentin Fottrell reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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Like I said on Twitter, here's the post about the dashboard I created using Tableau, a BI visualization software. I've been hearing good things about Tableau from different people and from the social networks. A couple of friends from Twitter encouraged me to try it and see if I like it.
I'm impressed! And I only used the Tableau Public version, a free low-level version of the software. I'm sure I can do more powerful visualization with its full version.
This is my first taste of Tableau. I found it very interesting. And I heard it's fast if you're feeding a lot of data. I couldn't test that because I'm only limited to 100,000 records in the Public version.
I'll be digging into this. But for now, take a look at this interactive dashboard that I created. I'd say it's not bad for the first try.
Some info on the data set used in this "first try" demo:
Name of data set: "Aircraft Wildlife Strike Data"
Description: "It contains Information Regarding wildlife strikes on aircraft either in the air or on the ground."
Source: Data.gov
I'll be writing about this dashboard in detail in my upcoming posts. I'll be doing a step-by-step on this. So standby for that.
I embedded the dashboard below but it doesn't fit very well. Go to the Tableau Public website instead to see the whole dashboard. Link here.
Here are some notes:
The dashboard shows the total number of wildlife-related aircraft incidents per state in the last 10 years (2002-2012). If you click a "dot" (representing the total number of incidents in that particular state) in the Symbol Map (top left-hand graph), the two other graphs will show corresponding data. Drilling down, if you hover on a "green bar" (representing total cost of repair per state for that particular year), you'll see the bottom graph changes to show month-to-month patterns (months corresponding to the year in the green bar).
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Iran has strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria, underling the need for disarming terrorists operating in the Arab country.
"We strongly condemn any use of chemical weapons, irrespective of who used them or their victims," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday.
Dozens of people were killed in a chemical attack in the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday.Iran is saying that its ally Syria has complied with international resolutions on getting rid of its weapons of mass destruction and therefore couldn't have been guilty of the horrific attack in Idlib.
The United States and its allies were quick to accuse Syrian government forces of carrying out the attack. The Syrian army said, however, that "it has never used them (chemical weapons), anytime, anywhere, and will not do so in the future."
The Iranian official said that the catastrophe was not the first of its kind in Syria, warning that dealing with the tragedy based on double standards, rash judgment and propaganda purposes and using it as a tool to level accusations against others and reinforce the political demands of certain sides would prevent addressing the root causes of such disasters.
Qassemi said the Syrian government had voluntarily dismantled its stockpile of chemical weapons under the supervision of the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), stressing that it was now time for disarming terrorist groups in the Arab country.
"Considering the transfer, stockpile and use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Syria, the Islamic Republic of Iran has always believed that despite the disarmament of the Syrian government through its full cooperation and under the supervision of a joint representative of the UN and the OPCW, ignoring the need for the chemical disarmament of terrorist groups has been a major flaw in the country's chemical disarmament process," the Iranian official said.
Similarly, Iran also says that it has complied with international resolutions on getting rid of its capability of building weapons of mass destruction.
Meanwhile, Iran's ally North Korea, which does have nuclear weapons, has been threatening other countries with a nuclear holocaust and is testing long range missiles that can carry such weapons. Like Iran, North Korea had also signed an agreement to stop its nuclear weapons program and to allow inspectors free access, and like Iran, North Korea breached that and many other agreements.
Iran's client Syria and its ally North Korea provide the blueprint for Iran's own ambitions to build and threaten the world with weapons of mass destruction while pretending to the end to be compliant with international law and demands.


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This is a question posed to me in private communication by this user.
Given a scheme $T$, let $\Gamma (T) = Mor (T, \mathbb{A}^1)$ be the ring of global sections. Note that there is a canonical map $\phi : T \rightarrow Spec (\Gamma (T))$.
Is $\phi$ a closed mapping onto the image, ie. is $im\ (Z)$ a closed subset of $im(T)$ for all closed subsets $Z$ of $T$ ?.


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This example shows how to create and minimize an objective function using Simulated Annealing in the Global Optimization Toolbox.
We want to minimize a simple function of two variables
min f(x) = (4 - 2.1*x1^2 + x1^4/3)*x1^2 + x1*x2 + (-4 + 4*x2^2)*x2^2; x
The above function is known as 'cam' as described in L.C.W. Dixon and G.P. Szego (eds.), Towards Global Optimisation 2, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1978.
We create a MATLAB file named simple_objective.m with the following code in it:
function y = simple_objective(x) y = (4 - 2.1*x(1)^2 + x(1)^4/3)*x(1)^2 + x(1)*x(2) + ... (-4 + 4*x(2)^2)*x(2)^2;
The Simulated Annealing solver assumes the objective function will take one input x where x has as many elements as the number of variables in the problem. The objective function computes the scalar value of the objective and returns it in its single return argument y.
To minimize our objective function using the SIMULANNEALBND function, we need to pass in a function handle to the objective function as well as specifying a start point as the second argument.
ObjectiveFunction = @simple_objective;
X0 = [0.5 0.5]; % Starting point
[x,fval,exitFlag,output] = simulannealbnd(ObjectiveFunction,X0)
Optimization terminated: change in best function value less than options.FunctionTolerance.
x = 1×2
-0.0896 0.7130
fval = -1.0316
exitFlag = 1
output = struct with fields:
iterations: 2948
funccount: 2971
message: 'Optimization terminated: change in best function value less than options.FunctionTolerance.'
rngstate: [1x1 struct]
problemtype: 'unconstrained'
temperature: [2x1 double]
totaltime: 4.0772
The first two output arguments returned by SIMULANNEALBND are
x, the best point found, and
fval, the function value at the best point. A third output argument,
exitFlag returns a flag corresponding to the reason SIMULANNEALBND stopped. SIMULANNEALBND can also return a fourth argument,
output, which contains information about the performance of the solver.
SIMULANNEALBND can be used to solve problems with bound constraints. The lower and upper bounds are passed to the solver as vectors. For each dimension i, the solver ensures that lb(i) <= x(i) <= ub(i), where x is a point selected by the solver during simulation. We impose the bounds on our problem by specifying a range -64 <= x(i) <= 64 for x(i).
lb = [-64 -64]; ub = [64 64];
Now, we can rerun the solver with lower and upper bounds as input arguments.
[x,fval,exitFlag,output] = simulannealbnd(ObjectiveFunction,X0,lb,ub);
Optimization terminated: change in best function value less than options.FunctionTolerance.
fprintf('The number of iterations was : %d\n', output.iterations);
The number of iterations was : 2428
fprintf('The number of function evaluations was : %d\n', output.funccount);
The number of function evaluations was : 2447
fprintf('The best function value found was : %g\n', fval);
The best function value found was : -1.03163
Simulated annealing mimics the annealing process to solve an optimization problem. It uses a temperature parameter that controls the search. The temperature parameter typically starts off high and is slowly "cooled" or lowered in every iteration. At each iteration a new point is generated and its distance from the current point is proportional to the temperature. If the new point has a better function value it replaces the current point and iteration counter is incremented. It is possible to accept and move forward with a worse point. The probability of doing so is directly dependent on the temperature. This unintuitive step sometime helps identify a new search region in hope of finding a better minimum.
Sometimes we want our objective function to be parametrized by extra arguments that act as constants during the optimization. For example, in the previous objective function, say we want to replace the constants 4, 2.1, and 4 with parameters that we can change to create a family of objective functions. We can re-write the above function to take three additional parameters to give the new minimization problem.
min f(x) = (a - b*x1^2 + x1^4/3)*x1^2 + x1*x2 + (-c + c*x2^2)*x2^2; x
a, b, and c are parameters to the objective function that act as constants during the optimization (they are not varied as part of the minimization). One can create a MATLAB file called parameterized_objective.m containing the following code.
function y = parameterized_objective(x,a,b,c) y = (a - b*x(1)^2 + x(1)^4/3)*x(1)^2 + x(1)*x(2) + ... (-c + c*x(2)^2)*x(2)^2;
Again, we need to pass in a function handle to the objective function as well as a start point as the second argument.
SIMULANNEALBND will call our objective function with just one argument
x, but our objective function has four arguments: x, a, b, c. We can use an anonymous function to capture the values of the additional arguments, the constants a, b, and c. We create a function handle 'ObjectiveFunction' to an anonymous function that takes one input
x, but calls 'parameterized_objective' with x, a, b and c. The variables a, b, and c have values when the function handle 'ObjectiveFunction' is created, so these values are captured by the anonymous function.
a = 4; b = 2.1; c = 4; % define constant values
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In his magnificent recording of "America the Beautiful," Ray Charles distills the essence of American popular music in his patented style. In order to overcome the familiarity that prevents us from hearing the words of such songs, Charles begins with the song's relatively unknown third verse on martial sacrifice — the verse that seems particularly appropriate today:
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
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Be nobleness
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A special thank you to all our forces whose service has brought this great day to pass.


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Look like serie will became monthly from this episode.
Now that would be interesting. Not sure I could handle a return to a breakneck publishing pace after so long.
Well this is an interesting news! And hopefully the monthly resuming will come. My girlfriend ain't excited though (still haven't succeed in converting her ) I talked about the slap scene for weeks! My money on a switch to Guts crew. Now the question is : one last episode on the sea with Elfhelm on the horizon at the end or more likely Elfhelm in the middle and a punch at the end? (That is if we have a switch to Guts) Either scenario, I'm just glad to have my favorite series back!
I've gone back and forth on it for a few months now, but I think it'll be focused on Guts' side of the story. While it would seem natural to ease into the Skellig sighting, I wonder what the major action would be for this coming episode. We've already had a kind of summary episode in 331, reviewing the current circumstances of each character, and alluding to the coming changes. So then for me, that leaves whatever getting close to Skellig will involve. Perhaps they'll start noticing strange things in the sea, sky, etc. leading to comments from Schierke, leading to the inevitable and long-awaited LAND HO. Miura has accomplished feats like that in a matter of pages though. So I wonder... (as always).But of course, let's not get too excited about that possibility if we get another Falconia episode instead I've long been the guy trumpeting how interesting it would be to learn a little more about the circumstances behind the scenes at Falconia -- particularly about those guards who were found unconscious, and of course the aftermath of Rickert's slap on those closest to Griffith.
Not sure our podcast production rate could keep up, either
This is interesting. What caused such acceleration? it's been 2-3 EPISODES for a year last few years.
it's been 2-3 episodes for a year last few years.
So I think it's more likely that he took this past year to build up a bulk of episodes, which when spread across a longer release period (once per month instead of twice), means he can more easily regulate the release pace according to his own working schedule.TL;DR: Maybe he created a backlog during the break, which he can slowly exhaust while continuing to work at his own pace.
Not quite. While 2013 was a big drought and 2015 has been empty so far, 2014 saw 10 releases (Berserk & Gigantomachia) and 2011/2012 both had seven episodes.Sounds plausible to me, and I also think he may have finally worked out all the stuff he needed to storywise, and can therefore get on with things.
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2009 Bordeaux — An Outstanding Vintage: Powerful, Ripe, and Concentrated
An excellent vintage of ripe, solid, full-bodied wines with the color, tannins, concentration, and structure for the top wines to last for decades. If there is any criticism, it is from lovers of cooler, more classically styled vintages, who found some wines to be overly alcoholic and lacking in freshness and acids. But for those who prefer classically styled wines, there are the 2010s! These are solid, beautiful wines built for the long haul, and between the two back-to-back great vintages, each with its own signature style, there should be plenty for everyone. The only real downside was the prices, with the 2009s setting records and the 2010s promptly breaking them.
A cold, lingering winter kept the vines quiet and slow to start, with plenty of rain in January and again in March conspiring to delay bud break. Cold temperatures in the end of March kept things moving slowly, with Right Bank Merlot under way in early April but Cabernets on the Left Bank just starting. But, all in all, it was a pretty good start to the year.
There was ample rain in April, a warm spell in the middle, and more rain towards the end of the month, but May and June were warm and sunny — well above average in total hours of sunshine. But on May 11th, a violent hailstorm came in from the Bay of Biscay, through Cognac and Bourg, through the southern Médoc, including Cantenac, Arsac, and Labarde in Margaux. Another storm hit the next day on May 12th, tearing through the Entre-Deux-Mers and into parts of Saint-Émilion. These two storms were very damaging; not since 1935 was there so much damage reported.
Flowering was early and took place in pretty good conditions. It was completed by June 14th, which is normally the mid-point. It was pretty consistent overall, portending a good-sized, early harvest. June finished warm and sunny, and it was a good a good start to the summer. Hot, dry, and sunny, with even heat building up without the searing peaks of hot years like 2003. Warm but even-handed, and just enough sprinkles of rain from time to time to keep things moving along. A few warm spots in August caused a little stress, with some impediments to ripening. Overall the healthy, ripe crop didn't require too much thinning or vendange en vert.
Veraison took place between last week of July and the third week of August, early but by no means record-breaking. Threats of rain kept growers antsy, but the storms mostly petered out before reaching Bordeaux, and dry whites were harvested in very good conditions. A few showers on September 2nd through the 4th, and then again on the 15th, 18th, 19th, and 20th actually helped to relieve a little stress on the vines, and there was basically no rain from September 21st until the end of harvest.
Merlots were picked in warmer conditions that held until October 9th, Cabs in a cooler week after October 12th, and harvest was pretty much completed by October 16th.
The warmer-than-average temperatures through the end of harvest sealed the deal, and the only drawback was a late addition of sugars in grapes that were already particularly ripe, resulting in higher alcohols in some wines.
Strong "buy" recommendation for the reds for those who can afford them. Power and ripeness is the name of the game, with fruit and richness that make make them a bit more approachable earlier on than their nervier, more classic 2010 counterparts.
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- Melissa said...
This is really pretty! I actually don't have it, but I do have Pure Ice Private Show which is a much cheaper dupe.
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- GelaNails said...
I also felt the same kind of let down. It wasn't anything specific, but it was there. It is very pretty, but something is missing.
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Thank you for slaying a lemming.
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This was a must have for me and I finally gave in and paid the $14 for it. That is the first time I ever paid more than $8 for a polish. That was 6 months ago, and I have worn it once. It was super chiptastic and although absolutely gorgeous on, it was not an easy formula to apply, I didn't like the little brush or cap at all, and just haven't used it since. So it sits in a drawer of other polishes gathering dust and slowly separating. Sad story but true.
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Wabash Rally Comes Too Lateby Howard W. Hewitt • November 15, 2008 Share:
Wabash College couldn't wrestle the Monon Bell away from the DePauw Tigers Saturday, falling 36-14 on a cold and damp Saturday afternoon. The Tigers picked off four passes and dominated the first half to close their season at 8-2 in the 115th battle for the Monon Bell.
Wabash (9-1) will need to regroup for the NCAA Division III playoffs next Saturday. The Little Giants will learn their opponent Sunday afternoon when the Division III playoff brackets are announced. The all-time Wabash-DePauw series is now tied at 53-53-9.
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The second quarter was largely the difference in the Bell game when the Tigers twice picked off Matt Hudson passes and scored three touchdowns.
The game opened by Wabash marching downfield with Evan Sobecki running the ball, but had a blocked field goal end the drive with nothing to show for it. DePauw wasted little time going at the Little Giants and picking up three points on Jordan Havercamp's 25-yarder.
The Tigers took command late in the first quarter by picking off a Hudson pass and returning it 30 yards to set up the game's first touchdown. Spud Dick hit Chris Gasbarra for the score, 10-0. Steve Valdiserri then picked off Hudson on the first play of the next Wabash drive to set up the Tigers up again. They went on a long drive of 10 plays for 60 yards with Jon Ellis scoring from a yard out to make it 16-0.
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"The biggest problem is we turned the football over on offense and we couldn't stop them on defense," Coach Erik Raeburn said. "Their quarterback had a huge day and he was great on third down or we were terrible on third down. We just had an awful second quarter and dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of."
Tiger junior quarterback Spud Dick hit on 24-of-29 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns. Hudson threw for 262 yards on 25 of 43 attempts but the second quarter picks were the game changer.
"Kody kind of lost his footing (on the first pick) and I maybe put the ball a little bit high, and the kid picked it off," Hudson said of the first interception.
"On the second one, they rolled coverages and I thought I was going to have to thread it in there quick. I threw it before Kody turned around and we just weren't on the same page. On the third one, they started rolling in different coverage over to Kody's side. They only had three down linemen and thee linebackers so they basically had eight guys playing the pass which at that point we're down 16-0 and I made just a bad decision on throwing.
"It was a bad day, bad day all around."
If the Little Giants were hoping to re-group at halftime, DePauw dug the hole a little deeper on its first possession moving the ball 52 yards in eight plays with Dick hitting Alex Koors for a four-yard score to make it 30-0.
The Little Giants got on the board with a 69-yard drive and Hudson carrying the ball 15 yards for the touchdown. After Rich Lehmann sacked Dick and recovered the fumble, Little Giants struck again. They moved the ball 39 yards in six plays with Evan Sobecki carrying from two yards out to put a stir back into the big Wabash crowd, making it 30-14.
DePauw was able to add a 42-yard Havercamp field goal before Wabash's last realistic hope had expired. The Little Giants moved the ball to the DePauw nine and on fourth down Hudson executed a beautiful bootleg and appeared to have free sailing into the endzone. But Kyle Sherer caught Hudson by the foot to trip him up and end the Little Giant comeback.
"I thought we had it," Raeburn said Hudson's run. "I was looking to see if they were going to drop off in coverage. I thought we had them for a score and next thing they have him on the ground. I was watching the weak side safety and I thought we had it. Their guy made a great play."
The Little Giants played hurry-up most of the fourth quarter with a final interception and easy DePauw score closing out the game.
"They didn't make mistakes," running back Evan Sobecki said. "It was halftime and Spud Dick was 13 for 16. He played a great game. He didn't make any mistakes today. Their running back ran well, held on to the ball and didn't turn it over. That was biggest thing, they kept the ball from us."
Ellis had a net 100 yards rushing on 37 carries to complement Dick's passing game. The overall statistics were closer than the score might indicate. Wabash out-gained DePauw 341-304 in total offense, had more passing yards 262-227, and 79-77 yards rushing.
The interceptions and conversions were the difference in the game. DePauw converted nine of 14 third downs compared to Wabash's four of 11. Wabash failed on three fourth down conversion attempts. DePauw scored all five times it entered the red zone while Wabash was just two of five.
Bryan Watson and Josh Gangloff led the Wabash defense with nine stops each. Rich Lehman and Chad Peterman had eight apiece.
Raeburn was left after the game to reflect on his first Bell experience and getting ready for next week.
"It's a great atmosphere," the coach said. "If you're a coach or player at either of the two schools you have to cherish and feel pretty fortunate you get to take part in a game like this. I can't imagine there is any other D-3 school and their players who get to play in these type of games."
The Little Giants will learn their first-round opponent Sunday and whether Saturday's loss cost them a home playoff game. "We certainly would have rather won and go into playoffs with some momentum," Raeburn said. "Hopefully this will put an edge on our guys. They're mad and disappointed and they'll work real hard this week and hopefully correct some of our mistakes and get back on track."


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