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With Tricks of the Trade generating a hefty 15% damage increase, and too be frank the added threat has no meaning anymore to really worry about, (can you remember the last time you managed to pull threat off a tank in an end game raid?), a long standing ploy with rogues has been to swap tricks back and forth during a boss fight to boost their dps. Which was why I was kind of embarressed the other night after downing Saurfang when the other rogue asked in raid chat if I had been giving him tricks. Because I hadn't. I assume that he had been giving me tricks as I was top of the meter on that fight by around 750dps. I hastily whispered him my apologies and then spent the whole of the fight of Rotface trying to give him tricks whilst running around with yucky slimes chasing me, which was damn difficult I can tell you.
But this tricks swapping has always confused me, and here is why. In my old guild, back in the day, when we were running Ulduar and Trial of the being bored out of your mind, there were a few other rogues in the guild who alternated between coming on runs with myself being the constant. It was around this time that tricks came into vogue with being raid swapped in this way, and I clearly remember the first time I ventured to ask one of the other rogues if he wanted to swap tricks with me during the run.
He flat out refused. As did the other rogue. And with no door left ajar for any sort of discussion on the issue. I felt that I had made a terrible social indescretion, like getting drunk when you're 16 and attempting to make out with your hot first cousin in front of your relatives. It leaves you with a clear feeling of never wanting to go there ever again. But in my courageous attempts to improve my game play I decided to ask in every PuG if the other rogues wanted to swap tricks.
"Would you like to swap tricks for this fight?"
I appreciate the no. Sometimes they just ignore you and you're left wondering if they missed the whisper or if they are purposely ignoring you and if you ask them again they'll scream obscenities in your general direction. So you stand around like the poor schmucks at the grade 10 school dance who are never and I mean never going to get asked to twirl around the room.
So when our other guild rogue asked me this the other night I was mightilly confused. Had I been right all this time? Was it all the other moron rogues and not me? But now I didn't do it when I should have done and I'm in trouble again! ARAGHGHGHHGGHGHGH!
And I still don't understand where to go with this because I just know next Sunday I'm going to whisper him if he wants to swap tricks and he's going to ignore me and go dance with somebody else.


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In Reply to: Spiral out of control posted by Smokey Stover on September 04, 2008 at 15:37:
: : : Where does the term "spiral out of control" come from? From my understanding, the faster something spins the more in control it is (like spinning tops, bullets, or footballs).
: : Spiralling (moving in a spiral - a circular pattern of geometrically increasing diameter) is not at all the same thing as spinning. That said, people do say spinning out of control as well. As your example of a stable rapidly spinning top winds down, the gyroscope effect fades and it does go all over the place wildly - slow spinning is still spinning.
: ........
: Spinning out of control is not something one usually says of, say, a football or a bullet, since the spin is in those cases an important means of control. One can, of course, spin out of control, especially if you are driving a car on an icy road. Professional drivers sometimes use the term "spin out" to indicate a sort of rotary change of direction while skidding around uncontrollably. Sometimes, but not always, the vehicle will actually spin.
: Spiraling out of control is a common metaphor used in talking about trade or economic conditions, as when costs and prices "spiral out of control." The spiral is usually upwards, although there can be a downward spiral of profits or productivity.
: It might be useful to see what the Oxford English Dictionary thinks "out of control" means.
: s.v. "out-of-control" (adj.), they give this example:
: "1943 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 38 231 Extreme irregularity in work-flow shows up as an *out-of-control point on the range chart."
: But why "spiral"? I imagine that some particular economic writer, in reference to inflationary periods, especially during or after World War II (that is, following the Great Depression), found it a useful figure of speech for a general and gradual, but uncontrolled, rise, with the figure of a spiral suggesting the way an airplane might achieve altitude or a road might wind round a mountain to get to the top, except for the out-of-control issue. In any event, it captured the imagination of other writers for the same reason, and has retained its utility in economic writing. Spirals in general do not have any obvious terminus, so it's easy to imagine them as being out of control.
: A spiral does not have to have increases or changes in the radius of the rotational movement. A spiral binding, for instance, is not out of control at all. But this is not the kind of spiral that we first think of. At least in my case, the word spiral tends to convey the idea of an increasing radius for the circular motion.
: One of the examples cited in the OED describes an actual spiral, thus:
: "1979 Nature 14 June 622/1 Viscous drag on the planet's orbital motion would then lead to a spiralling into the stellar core." That sounds rather out-of-control, but when one is referring to the movements of stellar bodies, control by humans is not an issue.
: The emphasis I have given to economic writing does not mean that the metaphor is applied only in this field. You might easily find expressions like, "His irregular behavior kept getting worse, spiraling out of control until he had to be hospitalized for his own safety."
I always thought it came from the field of aviation. I experienced "spinning or spiraling out of control" myself once, in a simulator at the Smithsonian after I let my son take the controls for a while! If the term comes from shortly after World War II then the image of a plane spiraling out of control toward the ground would be familiar to newsreel watchers and others who were eyewitnesses.


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HOTSEAT- Star professor: Why Thornton wants to see red
For the average college professor, one of the hardest parts of the job is keeping students' attention in the middle of a long lecture. But UVA physicist Kathryn Thornton is not an average college professor.
"Anytime their eyes glaze over with equations, I can always offer a story about when I was in space," she says.
And Thornton has quite a few celestial tales. Before she became UVA's associate dean for graduate programs in engineering, she logged over 975 hours and 16 million miles in space– the most ever by a woman– as a crew member on four NASA shuttle missions.
According to Thornton, her journeys into the great beyond began with being in the right place at the right time– right here in Charlottesville where she was working as a physicist at the U.S. Army's Foreign Science and Technology Center (now the National Ground Intelligence Center).
"I saw an announcement that they were selecting the next group of astronauts, and I figured all they could do was say no, so I applied on a lark," she says. "I figured it was the most exciting job in the world."
On November 22, 1989, she found out just how exciting that job was when she lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida with the rest of the crew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Thornton describes the experience as one that literally changed her world view.
"The Apollo astronauts described the earth from space as a fragile earth," she says, "but I saw a powerful earth. There's a lot of energy in the atmosphere; you could see lightning anytime; you could see the ocean turning; you could see volcanoes as tiny little pimples. I thought maybe we're the ones who are fragile."
As profound as that experience was, an even bigger thrill came in May 1992 on the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Endeavour when she performed her first spacewalk. While the crew ultimately accomplished its mission– repairing and deploying a telecommunications satellite– Thornton's first experience outside the shuttle was not without its rookie mistakes.
"I was getting ready to pull a switch to release the satellite," she explains, "and I had my other hand holding down the button on my microphone while I counted down. But because it's zero-g, in order to pull the switch, I had to push against the shuttle with the other hand. So mission control heard me stop counting at three. For a moment, they were a little concerned."
Having retired from NASA to teach at UVA in 1996, Thornton admits it's been occasionally frustrating for the last 10 years watching NASA from the sidelines.
"Right now, we're not exploring space," she explains. "But I'm excited about the potential of life in the past or in the future on Mars. I'm not sure if life exists there, but we have to go because we've never been there before."
And, much as Thornton enjoys her work at UVA, if NASA needs an experienced space traveler to walk the red hills of Mars, they don't have to look any further than the red clay of Virginia.
Age: 54
Why here? It's a great place to live and raise a family.
What's worst about living here? The ebb and flow of traffic on football weekends.
Favorite hangout? The Kennedy Space Center. Even if they won't let me strap in, I love hanging out within sight of a space craft.
Most overrated virtue? Are we talking Ben Franklin or Buddha? I would say "Dispassion– indifference to pleasure and to pain." A very wise person once told me, "If you can't do your job with passion, you should find another job."
People would be surprised to know: I took a poll of my staff. They say people are surprised that I am more "down-to-earth" than they expect.
What would you change about yourself? I wish I were more outgoing.
Proudest accomplishment? I have an award on my desk from AAA for helping to establish a new frontier in emergency service: Approved Aeronautics Repair in Space, after the Hubble Service Mission. I'm an honorary AAA technician who only works in zero-g.
People find most annoying about you: My every-afternoon popcorn habit leaves a delightful aroma in the office– if you like popcorn.
Whom do you admire? John Young and Bob Crippen, true space heroes who rode the first Space Shuttle into orbit, and Jane Smith, wife of Challenger pilot Mike Smith, who handled a very public personal tragedy with enormous dignity and grace.
Favorite book? Longitude by Dava Sobel
Subject that causes you to rant? The war in Iraq!!
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Traveling with my family to interesting locations around the world
Biggest 21st-century creep out? I can no longer carry toothpaste on an airplane.
What do you drive? Dodge minivan affectionately called the "Mothership"
In your car CD player right now: An eclectic mix put together by my daughter: James Brown, Jimmy Buffett, ZZ Top, etc.
Next journey? To Durant, Oklahoma, to speak to 8,000 children of the Choctaw Nation
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Me? No way– that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Regret: I wish I had learned to play a musical instrument when I was younger.
Favorite comfort food: Good Tex-Mex. My favorite vegetable is jelly beans– especially Jelly Belly Sours.
Always in your refrigerator: Milk, Diet Coke, and yogurt
Must-see TV: Grey's Anatomy and Boston Legal
Favorite cartoon: Doonesbury, Family Circus and Cathy
Describe a perfect day: Sleeping late and having nothing to do except what strikes my fancy.
Walter Mitty fantasy: One of my fantasies is that NASA will recall the first Hubble Space Telescope Service crew, including me, to do the final service mission next year– it would be like Space Cowboys meets the Hubble. Until that crew is officially announced, I'm anxiously waiting by my phone.
Who'd play you in the movie? Movie?! I want the real thing!
Most embarrassing moment? Not interested in reliving it.
Best advice you ever got? "Stress is only self-induced. No one can do it to you."
Favorite bumper sticker? "The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
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December 05, 2006
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
Last week I cooked dinner for Parent-Teacher Interview night. Among the desserts that I prepared were Baklava Muffins and Roxanne's Millionaire's Shortbread, both from Nigella Lawson's How To Be A Domestic Goddess. Obviously both were edible, they're sugary baked goods, how could they not be? But both of them were flawed.
In the case of the Baklava Muffins, they had a filling which consisted of butter, sugar, cinnamon and walnuts which was also supposed to be sprinkled on the top of the muffin. That was all well and good, except that it ended up on the bottom of the muffin cup, even the 'topping' sunk to the bottom. The muffins were tasty enough, but a pain to eat. The top half of the muffin was light and cakey but underneath was a non-cohesive mass of sugary-nutty filling that had to be picked out of the muffin cup. It just wasn't a solidly constructed muffin. And as for the taste; it was good, but the name was misleading. I would have more likely called them Walnut-Honey Muffins as opposed to Baklava Muffins. You can't recreate baklava in muffin form, or at least Nigella can't.
As for Roxanne's Millionaire's Shortbread, the shortbread base was good, but I had problems with the subsequent layers. I thought this caramel layer would be easy for me, it was just condensed milk, syrup and butter mixed together in the microwave. I didn't have to use a thermometer to determine just the right amount of heat so it seemed easy, mix and done. Not so much. I used as big a bowl as I could reasonably fit in my microwave and this stuff repeatedly boiled over, making a lovely mess. I lowered the heat and kept whisking, trying to achieve that light golden brown colour Nigella told me about. I got to the point of what seemed like the right colour, but the texture was weird. I hoped that maybe when it cooled it would be alright. That problem never resolved itself and the caramel layer was somewhat grainy. The top layer was just chocolate, it should have been fine. This recipe calls for a ridiculous 12 ounces of chocolate. I (surprisingly) reduced the amount of chocolate and that was probably for the better as these bars are very difficult to cut. The chocolate solidified into a thick layer that resisted being cut through. Often it would crack and straight lines were few and far between. And while I was trying to hack my way through the chocolate layer, the caramel decided to ooze out the sides. Once again, I'm not saying they weren't good, they got eaten, but they definitely didn't reach the level I thought they should have.
And now that I've had some time to think about the outcome of my baking, I've got a bone to pick with Nigella "The Domestic Goddess" Lawson. I feel like she's purposefully leading me astray. She smiles pretty and tells everyone they can be a Domestic Goddess but she doesn't mean it. She's not unlike a certain sister of mine, wanting everything for herself. But in this case instead of sticking me with the wonky Santa while she keeps the good one, she sticks me with the wonky baking while she showcases her masterpieces. I don't know how I got on the Nigella bandwagon, I've never really even watched her show. I guess I just got sucked in with the pretty pictures and promises of becoming a Domestic Goddess. And that's the way she wants it- for everyone to think they can be just like her but for no one to actually be able to achieve it. Because then she wouldn't be special. If everyone had the title 'Domestic Goddess' it wouldn't be nearly as impressive. For example, if I introduced myself as 'Domestic Goddess Brilynn,' I'd most likely get a response like: "Pffft, you're a Goddess? Who cares? So am I." It's as a result of this that I've come to the conclusion that Nigella bakes with one recipe, but publishes another. When Nigella bakes, her Baklava Muffins are probably an exact replica of baklava, but in muffin form. Mine are doppelgangers. They might resemble the original, but you know there's something not quite right with them. Bringing you back to the Santa's, mine was obviously the doppelganger. You knew he was a Santa, but what was up with him? With all the similarities between Nigella and the Sister, it leads me to ask the question….
The likeness between the two is creepy. Very creepy… (Cue Twilight Zone music.)
Here are the recipes if you'd like to give them a shot. If you're good at tweaking and modifying recipes these could be a challenge for you.
Nigella's Baklava Muffins
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup flour + 7 tablespoons flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 cup buttermilk + 2 tablespoons buttermilk
1/2 cup honey
Preheat oven to 400F degrees. Mix all the filling ingredients together in a small bowl, set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and sugar. Mix the egg, melted butter and buttermilk.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and add gently mix in the wet ingredients.
Fill 12 muffin cups 1/3 full, add a scant tablespoon of filling, cover with more muffin mixture until 2/3 full. Sprinkle any remaining filling on top of the muffins. Bake for 15 minutes.
Put the muffins onto a rack to cool and drizzle with honey (it may be easier to drizzle the honey if it has been warmed first).
Roxanne's Millionaire's Shortbread
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
¼ cup sugar
1 2/3 cups unsalted butter
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
4 tablespoons light corn syrup
12 ounces bittersweet chocolate
1 9inch square pan or similar, greased and the bottom lined with parchment or wax paper
Preheat oven to 325F.
Put the flour and sugar into a bowl and rub in 12 tablespoons of the butter, clumping the dough together to form a ball. Press this sandy shortbread mixture into the pan and smooth it with either your hands or a spatula. Prick it with a fork and cook for 5 min, then lower the oven to 300F, and cook for a further 30-40min until it is a pale golden and no longer doughy. Let it cool in the pan.
Melt the remaining butter in the microwave (in a large microwavable bowl) for 2-3 min, then add the condensed milk and syrup. Whisk the mixture well until the butter is thoroughly incorporated. It's ready when it's thickened and turned a light golden brown. Pour this molten toffee evenly over the cooled shortbread and leave it to set.
Break the chocolate into pieces and melt it in the microwave. Pour and spread it over the fudge mixture (the less you touch it the shinier it will be) and leave to cool. Once set, cut the caramel shortbread into pieces. The squares can be stored in the fridge to keep them firm, though if it's winter that shouldn't be necessary.
Makes about 24.
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I've heard other bloggers with your problem with Nigella (Sweetnapa for instance), and I suspect it is from the bad conversion in the American translations of her recipies. I use her 'original' (published metric) measurements and have never had problem with her recipies (I even tried my hand at a divine chocolate cake that had been doomed by other writers). Before you give up on Nigella try to find a copy of an 'untranslated' recipie.
p.s. loved your crepe post the other day.d.s.
- 3:48 p.m.
- Asha said...
OMG!! Both are sinfully delicious Brilynn. Those parents and teachers are lucky to dig into all these:))
- 4:11 p.m.
- Sara said...
Brilynn, that is the funniest thing. Thanks for making me laugh out loud today, I needed it!
- 4:21 p.m.
- Becky said...
You are hilarious. I've had the same problem with Nigella's recipes before. What a wench.
- 5:04 p.m.
ahah funny Brilynn but sorry to hear too. I do not have this problem because I have none of her books ;-) To tell the truth, I was never inspired to buy them, too many others I preferred over hers ;-)
- 5:46 p.m.
- Jenny said...
OMG Brilynn! You are hilarious and I am so glad I added you to my daily reading blogs!
And I agree, I could never get into Nigella Lawson either, I don't get the appeal of her.
Btw, I have a recipe similar to hers with the caramel and chocolate, one that uses the condensed milk as well, but I skipped the microwave last time I did it and used a pot on the stove instead. It gave me more control and allowed me to make it darker and thicker than the microwave could, so it actually tasted like caramel! Want me to dig it up and send it to you?
- 7:54 p.m.
- K and S said...
Sorry to hear that these recipes didn't turn out, that must be so frustrating. I think converting metric to US usually gets everything all jumbled. I would try an all metric recipe of hers too.
- 8:57 p.m.
- Helene said...
Girl, you just crack me up! I think there had to be a mistake for the muffuns: 1 cup of buttermilk for 1 1/2 cup of flour seems too much liquid, thus not offering a sturdy base preventing the filling to sink. Just my thought. The woman never got me interested...who lives like her?
- 9:26 p.m.
lol @ your Nigella comments :D
i have issues with her recipes, haven't tried them though, but her savories just don't seem flavorful enough to me :) I also keep wondering why she seems to want to undress the viewer with her eyeballs ... am i the only one who picks up on that...? it's quite the topic of conversation in my home!
re: the sinking to the bottom of the muffins... my mom has had that happen with some coffee cakes as well... i've read that tossing them with flour is supposed to help?
having said all that... those pictures still look beyond tempting :D
- 12:20 a.m.
I quite like Nigella's recipes, but the problem with the filling sounds like the one I had with my first batch of jam doughnut muffins! Sorry neither recipe worked quite well for you, but thanks for the notes - I'll have to bear them in mind if I ever give these a try!
- 6:37 a.m.
- Lis said...
As per usual, my eyes are misty and my cheeks have that lil strained hurt from laughing so much.
I've only made one cake from her Feast book - it was delish, but it didn't turn out like the beautiful photo of hers.
Becky - I about spit my coffee out when I read your comment "What a wench." hahahahaa!
- 7:18 a.m.
- The Cookbook Junkie said...
I think Nigella might not be the only one pulling these shenanigans - I have to wonder about Martha's recipes sometimes too.
There's a recipe for Millionaire's shortbread on my blog too. It's similar but uses a stove top method. I've made them several times and they've turned out well even when there were user errors.
- 9:15 a.m.
- wheresmymind said...
I have to admit...I love clumps of sugary goodness in my muffins so I would've been a happy guy
- 9:42 a.m.
- Edith said...
Hi, I have been a silent reader of your wonderful blog. Can I have your permission to link your blog to mine? Regards.
- 11:04 a.m.
- foodiemama said...
omg those baklava muffins look heavenly...i am scared i'd eat all of them!
- 11:11 a.m.
- Edith said...
thanks so much.
- 11:20 a.m.
- na said...
I love nigella, but have my own little problems/gripes with her. The biggest being how expensive her cookware is! How can any domestic goddess afford to buy what she asks for basics such as napkin rings and aprons, let alone her cooking range! hahaha! Keep up the awesome work though Bri, these still look lovely. <3
- 10:12 p.m.
This is such a funny post! I can't stop laughing (again!). I can see the likeness...
My friend, who's a Chef, warned me of Nigella's book. There's even a known instance that one of her recipe in the book was missing butter or something. I can't remember well now which one. I do have one of her book 'feasts' (which i got free out of a bundle of books i ordered) but never actually attempted to make anything out of it yet.
Brilynn, but you are a domestic goddess... :)
- 5:47 a.m.
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I've made the the Baklava muffins twice so far. They are delicious.
It's an impossible task to stop eating them hot from the oven !
Greetings from Brazil,
- 9:36 a.m.
- Libbycookie said...
That shortbread looks heavenly, no matter what went wrong! I'm tempted to try it, but I'm not a very precise cook...I smell disaster already...
- 1:17 p.m.


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Thursday, May 10, 2012
I don't care at all
I often find people who are indifferent to their family, but not often active rejection. Even if you don't care for the present generation, it is hard to see how this antipathy could spread to former generations. How do you go about hating your ancestors? I suppose if you really, really didn't like northeastern Arizona you might be somewhat upset with your ancestors for moving there, but their origin is obviously not something that can be changed. As my Grandmother used to say, "you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family."
So what do you do when you encounter someone who is either apathetic or worse, antagonistic towards his or her family? What if the person is a relative? In one instance, one of my Great-grandmothers was an avid genealogist. However, in her later years, it appears that she also suffered from dementia. As a result, the family associated her unusual behavior with her genealogical efforts and none of her next two generation descendents were at all interested in genealogy and seemed to be opposed to any active interest in the subject. Even though by religious mandate, they felt compelled to submit Family Group Records to the Archive File, very little else was done in the way of either discovering more information or preserving what had already been done.
Maybe the man I talked to had a very disagreeable relationship with his parents or grandparents and that led him to reject the family as a whole to the point of apparent antagonism.
What do you do when you find this type of attitude among relatives, that is, people that not only refuse to cooperate and provide basic information but also go to the extent of active persecution? One way to handle this situation is treating the family member or members like they were huge rocks in the center of the genealogical universe that need to be plowed around. This situation is the polar opposite of the family member that has genealogical information that they will not share, but the effect is sometimes the same.If you have a relative that won't help, for whatever reason, you need to realize that there are multiple sources from which the records and information can be obtained.
Personally, I face the whole spectrum of attitudes. There are plenty of relatives around who are in a state of benign neglect with respect to records. When they are ready to share, I will be there to obtain the information, meanwhile I will keep an open mind and wait them out.
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What do you do? Exactly...work around them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2015 at 8:39 AM
I, too, have encountered this in my own family. After spending countless hours almost nightly for a long period in the library scrolling through rolls of microfilm and digging through records I was excited to share my new knowledge with my family. I got lukewarm responses. Continuing my research and learning more I gladly shared what I learned until once my father cut me off with a expletive filled line told me he didn't know who I was even talking about. Of course I didn't know them either as they had been dead for many, many years, but I was learning our family history. My siblings responses were along the lines of "cool" and after a while I was discouraged and have for the most part dropped it all together. I no longer share anything I discover now, it's just for my knowledge. I would like to be able to share with my family but their lack of interest frustrated me too much. I know not everyone cares but it would seem they could at least act interested.ReplyDelete


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SEC M5: 12.10.12 EditionPosted by Brian Joyce on December 10th, 2012
- Camp Cal, as coach John Calipari affectionately termed his boot camp with the Wildcats, is more about thinking than it is conditioning. "For the next two weeks, we'll be going at least five of the days three times a day," Calipari said. "I'm fine. I'll be exhausted, but what the heck. The whole point is to help these young people think differently. They've got to think differently than they're thinking." The change in thinking hasn't yet made its way into the full 40 minutes of game play, although the Cats were victorious over Portland by 28. "I had to coax them into playing," Calipari said. "I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't be on a guy, 'Play, scramble, stay down.' What? What is that, strategy? I mean, that's basically how I'm coaching right now." The Cats are still making mistakes made by inexperienced teams, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has reviewed the Wildcats' roster. They have two more home games over the next two weeks before meeting Louisville in the Yum! Center on December 29. Three weeks is a long way away, so expect Kentucky to look significantly improved by the time its intrastate showdown with the Cards roll around.
- Another SEC guard has been suspended, and this time it's LSU's Anthony Hickey. LSU coach Johnny Jones cited a violation of athletic department and university rules as the reason for the suspension. "We will cooperate fully with the Athletic Department and University on the matter," said Jones. "There is a responsibility that comes with playing college basketball. If a player doesn't take care of his responsibilities, then he loses the privilege of being able to play. We look forward to continuing to focus on our upcoming game Tuesday and our three-game road trip that follows." At this point, there is no timetable for Hickey's return to the court. The Tigers are 5-0 with Hickey in the lineup, fueled by his 10.2 points, 5.2 assists, and 4.0 rebounds per game. However, this is not the first time the point guard has found himself in trouble.
- The Arkansas media is calling for Mardracus Wade to be more aggressive on offense after the Hogs lost to Michigan in Ann Arbor by 13 points. Wade scored five points on just five shots from the field despite playing 34 minutes. Wade has the third best effective field goal percentage on the team, but is ninth in percentage of shots and is 10th in percentage of possessions. The Razorbacks could have used his help on Saturday. Wade is extremely effective at getting to the free throw line (76.3% free throw rate), but Arkansas didn't shoot a free throw until six minutes left in the game. Mike Anderson's squad has lost four of its last five contests, with three of those losses away from home. The Hogs are typically very strong at Bud Walton Arena, and they begin a five-game home stand on Saturday. That should give Anderson time to work out a few of the kinks.
- Who loves statistics? We do! And so does John Clay of the Lexington Herald-Leader who provides us with 20 stats you need to know from Kentucky's win on Saturday. A lot of good information here about the Cats' recent performances including a snippet about the play of freshman Alex Poythress. Poythress has scored in double figures in seven of the first nine games of his college career, including his 15 points on Saturday. Most importantly, he is 13-of-17 from the field in the last two games, including three of four from beyond the arc. Poythress' efficient play has put him as an early member of a prestigious grouping that Luke Winn often refers to in his power rankings called the 70/50/20 club. Only four players possess membership at this point in the season. The club is reserved for players who shoot an effective field goal percentage of at least 70 percent, play in at least 50 percent of available minutes, and take at least 20 percent of his team's shots when he is on the floor. Poythress is shooting 72.2 percent, playing in 73.1 percent of available minutes, and shooting 21.5 percent of the Wildcats' shots. He joins Belmont's Ian Clarke, UC Davis' Ryan Sypkens, and Syracuse's James Southerland as the only current members. With efficiency numbers like that, Poythress can't shy away from the basketball as he did against Notre Dame.
- Tennessee's Skylar McBee's jersey will hang in the rafters at Grainger High School after he scored 2,362 points during his high school career. McBee was honored Saturday when his number four jersey was retired. "I'm very proud of where I come from," McBee said. "And it's an honor that all these people back home think that highly of me that they want to retire my number. It's very humbling, and it means a lot to me." McBee started as a walk-on for Tennessee, but was given a scholarship by previous coach Bruce Pearl. The guard is averaging 7.3 points per game for the Vols this season in his senior year.


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A gentle month, says George Isobar.
That's how Morenci's climate observer describes the past month of weather. Light on the rain, light on the cold, nothing even close to snow.
"To say it was light on the cold is an understatement," Isobar said. "It was a remarkable 7.2° above average for the month in Toledo.
"Every year we hear a report that it's been the warmest or one of the warmest years on record, but even among those warm years, 7.2° above for a month is really a lot. I suppose we'll pay for it this winter. Things often tend to even out."
The high of 89° Oct. 8 wasn't quite a record-setter, Isobar said, but it was mighty close.
"We had a really unusual four days from Oct. 5-8 in which the daily average was about 20° above what's expected that time of year."
In Morenci the temperatures were 87°, 88°, 87° and 88°. After that, Isobar said, the temperature moderated, but there were still six more days in the 70s, including one day as high as 78°.
Only seven days were below the average, and none by very much. Oct. 12 proved to be the most abnormal, with a high of 53° and a low of 34°.
A low of 28° was recorded in the morning Oct. 28 and 29. The temperature dipped into the 20s on three occasions.


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Spoiler alert: the secret ingredient is chocolate malt powder.
Sorry, did I give that away too early? My dad always told me to play my cards closer to my chest. But I was just too excited to keep my secret to myself.
I've been meaning to make these cookies for a while, ever since I spied a giant bottle of Ovaltine for sale at my local supermarket. Do you guys remember Ovaltine? The chocolate malted chocolate milk powder that has the ability to turn a boring old glass of milk into an amazing drink akin to a chocolate malt? Adding Ovaltine to my milk was the only way my parents could get me to drink an entire glass of milk when I was a little kid.
Ironically, now that I'm all grown up and actually appreciate the taste of milk, I've started to realize that I'm vaguely lactose intolerant. Funny how that works out, right? This is especially bad news for me, since I've been known to chug bottles of chocolate milk after intense workouts (I'm not crazy — chocolate milk is one of the best recovery drinks you can drink. Trust science!). Not to mention I just bought a giant bottle of Ovaltine powder. What to do, what to do?
And that's when I came across the Pioneer Woman's recipe for malted milk chocolate chip cookies. Holy cow. Problem solved. What if I just substituted the recipe's use of malted milk powder with Ovaltine… in other words, chocolate malted milk powder?
I imagined that if I had picked up this cookie at some random barbecue or party, I would definitely realize that these cookies have a special ingredient. Immediately after biting into my first cookie, I could tell that it had an extra something something. It reminded me of childhood summers spent sweltering in the sun and taking long bike rides in the hot hot heat. Maybe I wouldn't be able to put a name on the taste, but I would definitely spend the rest of the time figuring out what on earth it is as I reached for my second cookie. And third. And fourth.
Let me save you some time now, lest you find yourself at some random party eating delicious chocolate chip cookies wondering why on earth they taste so damn good.Ovaltine — it's the secret ingredient that's about to blow your chocolate chip cookie experience out of the water.
Ovaltine Chocolate Chip Cookies
Special Equipment
- parchment paper or a Silpat mat
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup Ovaltine or other chocolate malted milk powder, unleveled
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees (F).
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and Ovaltine until well-combined. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Take your time — a good creaming process normally takes around 5 minutes on medium-high speed.
- When the butter and sugar are ready, turn off the mixer and use a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Turn the mixer back on to low speed and beat in the egg and vanilla, making sure to beat until just combined.
- Once the egg and vanilla have been incorporated into the sugar mixture, add the flour/baking powder/salt/Ovaltine mixture all at once and continue to beat until just combined.
- Use a rubber spatula to stir fold in the chocolate chips.
- Line baking sheets with parchment — this is super important as the cookies have a tendency to stick to the pan. Use a 1-tablespoon cookie scoop to place batter on to the baking sheets, making sure to separate the cookies by 3 inches (the cookies spread while baking).
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until edges begin to brown. Generally, an 8-minute bake produces cookies with a soft and gooey center, while a 10 minute bake produces crunchy ones. Allow to cool on baking sheet before transferring to a cooling rack.


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The Occupy protests in California and elsewhere have dwelled on the sins of the richest 1 percent among us. But they've said relatively little about the so-called 99 percent.
The Public Policy Institute of California has filled in that gap with a new report showing that the middle class -- categorized as households with incomes between $44,000 and $155,000 annually -- to less than half of all families. A generation ago, 60 percent of California families were middle income.
What's changed? The recession has hurt people across the income spectrum in California -- but it's been particularly tough on people who make less. Cuts in jobs and hours account for much of the decline, the report says.
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What could this mean politically? Declining incomes means that it may be even more difficult to convince Californians to vote to tax incomes at higher rates, as some ballot initiatives propose to do. But it also provides an opportunity for political leaders who can devise policies to put more money into people's hands, and figure out ways to make it easier for employers to give people more hours and more jobs.
Easier said than done.


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From Lexington, Kentucky's NBC affiliate this afternoon:Five Clay County officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers were arrested Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges accusing them of using corrupt tactics to obtain political power and personal gain.
The 10-count indictment, unsealed Thursday, accused the defendants of a conspiracy from March 2002 until November 2006 that violated the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). RICO is a federal statute that prosecutors use to combat organized crime. The defendants were also indicted for extortion, mail fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to injure voters' rights and conspiracy to commit voter fraud.
According to the indictment, these alleged criminal actions affected the outcome of federal, local, and state primary and general elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006.
Having now reviewed the indictment, as linked above, here are some additional details on the alleged conspiracy which included election fraud though the buying and selling of votes to be cast in a certain way, with the aid of one of the defendants who served as a poll worker during the Early Voting period. Also, at the polling place on Election Day with aid of poll workers, drafted as both Democratic and Republican judges, to elect a slate of candidates --- some of them bribed --- the conspirators would manipulate the votes of "qualified voters" at the voting machines themselves.They also appear to have done a considerable amount of buying votes. And they've done this for several elections.
Many of the voters, it seems, had no idea that their votes were manipulated after they'd left the touch-screen voting machine. While the Early Voting scheme involved finding voters who might wish to be paid to have their vote cast a certain way, the Election Day scheme, carried out in primary and general elections in at least 2004 and 2006, was accomplished by taking advantage of a "feature" on all DRE (usually touch-screen) voting systems and "voter unfamiliarity with new voting machines."
Essentially, they tricked voters into leaving the 'booth' after pressing the "Vote" button on the ES&S iVotronic. That button, does not actually cast the vote, as one might think (and as these voters were told), but instead, it brings up a review screen of the voter's "ballot."
Instructing the voters that they were done, the conspirators then, after the voter had left, would change the voters' votes as they saw fit, before finally pressing the "Cast Ballot" button.
I can't get clear information on which politicians were on the "slates" these fuckers worked from. One of the officials indicted was a Democrat. But I discovered that this county's represented by Cons on both the state and national levels. And here's a bit of interesting food for thought:
Early this morning CNN was making the point that there was scant interest in today's election in Clay County. Today 649 Democrats voted (32%) and 2,569 Republicans voted (19.6%). Hillary took 85% of the Democratic vote and McCain took 74% of the Republican vote. On the Senate side Lunsford got 48.5% of the Democratic vote and Greg Fischer got 26.2%.If that Dem was attempting to help get Dems elected, he did a piss-poor job. He was probably in it for the money more than the power - it's hard to believe a deep-red county could muster enough Dem candidates with the requisite power, money and questionable ethics to make it worth his while otherwise.
That said, Kentucky Democrats gave a corrupt Zell Miller type quasi-Democrat, Bruce Lunsford, their nomination for the U.S. Senate, virtually guaranteeing another term for an even more reactionary and more corrupt Mitch McConnell.
The point isn't so much partisan anyway. It's the fact that this was so easily done, and for so long. Cons can scream about Acorn all they like, but the real danger to democracy comes from election officials pulling these sorts of breathtaking dirty tricks, not a few nobodies who turn in fake applications so they can get paid without having to work, or the occasional dumbshit who votes twice. Those things are fairly easily caught, and they're too small-scale to make much difference.
This kind of systemic fraud, on the other hand, is some serious shit indeed. And it's something to remember the next time Cons dismiss election fraud as a non-starter while screaming to high heaven about voter fraud.


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"The Great River" by President Scott R. OlsonDelivered Aug. 20, 2012, by President Scott R. Olson as part of Winona State University Welcome Week.
Download the PDF version of "The Great River."
The day before Kelley and I started working at Winona State, we were at an AASCU conference in Santa Fe. Not too far from the hotel flowed the Santa Fe River. Anybody here been to Santa Fe? What's your assessment of the river? The Santa Fe River flows the way a raindrop flows down a filament in a spider's web.
But I've seen real rivers!
Back in 1995, I had co-written a Young Scholars grant proposal funded by NSF and they sent a group of us to a conference at Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont. (Michael is often depicted holding a flaming sword.) I can't remember now if this was one of those PKAL Kaleidoscope conferences, but if not it was along those lines – the pedagogy of science. You know: inquiry-based methods. Do any members of the faculty here use inquiry-based teaching?
The workshop wanted to expose us to new methods, and the pedagogy focused on the Winooksi River. We were divided into teams. My team's assignment was to measure the "surge" of the river – the amount of force or power the river exerted. We were given a tape measure, tennis balls, and a stop watch. We timed the ball over a certain distance at the surface, then created neutral buoyancy and timed it at different depths in the river. We compared our notes afterwards with others who were logging flora and fauna, testing pH, and so on, and drew conclusions about the river from a multidisciplinary perspective.
We learned a lot that day. If knowledge was the sword given to King Arthur, then it was like the Lady of the Lake was lying in the Winooski River, and she handed us a little symbol of knowledge, a sword, a little Excalibur, not only to learn about the river, but to learn about learning.
The life of the mind is often associated with water, but that's another story.
The Santa Fe wasn't much of a river. The Winooski was impressive, but I hadn't seen anything yet.
This is the great river. By "this is the great river," I don't mean the Mississippi per se, I mean that we are the great river. Learning is a river, and we are that great river, great at being that river, and we have been, are, and will continue to be great.
The less figurative among us will note that we are certainly in the river – we are certainly a part of the river – and that's right. Most of you know that Winona is actually in the Mississippi River. Once upon a time, there was a lot more water here. The Mississippi was deeper and wider. As the glaciers melted and the flood waters receded, the sediment piled up here, hundreds of feet above the original river bottom. The island that is Winona is part of these sediments. And the valley is still forming. Rain and wind and ice still move the sandstone and siltstone.1
Water formed us, carved us out -- and like water we have formed and carved out an unparalleled force of learning. Water forms and carves. Learning forms and carves.
We and the river have joined forces. We and the river are one. With our friends in the community, we and the river together forge the future of this place.
But I don't only mean literally that we are in the river or on the river … I mean figuratively that we are the river. If you don't believe that we are the river then you need to revisit the Science Lab Center atrium , where you can see the water molecule above you, see the sediment carved out around you, see your fellow river creatures swimming amidst the islands while dreaming of the stars.
We're not just "a" river – we're "the" river – the great river! We are a force, powerful and good and independent, that carves out a pathway of knowledge in the wilderness of ignorance.
In Arthurian legends, water is associated with leadership and with wisdom. The water is the knowledge. The Lady of the Lake confers a symbol of that wisdom and leadership through the sword. And we do the same. This university is like water, and we offer symbols of knowledge throughout the journey, like diplomas. No one is predestined to hold this knowledge – it is a gift to all.
If you know your Arthurian legend, then you know that in many tellings of the tale, the sword Excalibur has a message etched on its blade. What embodiment of wisdom would be complete without a message? And so it is for us. An arm clad in "purest shimmering samite"2 holds forth the sword from the water, and here is what is inscribed on its blade:
Nos sunt communitas
Nos sunt discentium
Nos meliorem mundi
Translated into English, the inscription says:
We are a community
We are learners
We improve our world
This has two meanings:
- The community within: those of us who study and work at Winona State.
- The community without: those whom we serve in the community and across the state through partnerships, service learning, volunteerism, and so on.
Let's talk about the Community Within. We need to seek a common understanding of our purpose and direction. This will help us continue our leadership role. How do we do that? How do we promote the best possible community within? Here's how I believe we do that:
- Sharing Governance – the best ideas are out there, not in here. Together we will find them. I've only had three really great ideas ever and one of them was to marry Kelley and another was to move here.
- Promoting Transparency – we owe it to each other to be open and honest.
- Embracing Dissent – I believe in the utility of the Hegelian dialectic: truth is revealed through the encounter of different diverse perspectives that synthesize. Disagreement is not just okay … disagreement is essential! According to the research of Charlan Nemeth at UC Berkeley, creativity is enhanced by debate and disagreement.3
- Honoring civility, even amidst dissent -- it's okay to challenge ideas, but it's not okay to attack people. No ad hominem attacks, please. This is not easy but we have to get this right!
- Valuing Diversity – this is a challenge for us, something the HLC recognized as a weakness. If we believe in the marketplace of ideas and believe in dissent and debate, then we need to have different voices and perspectives around us. In addition to a strong moral component, diversity has a strong practical component.
But what we know from the NSSE and A2S Education Trust data is that all of our students do not have the same experience of Winona State. For example, while our six year graduation rate for European-American students is 55%, for African-American students the rate is 32%. We can do better.
So, to ensure the highest quality of our undergraduate experience, we need to focus on access, success, and completion of all students, but given the differential, especially of underrepresented students. Every Winona State student should feel welcomed and supported and have full access to the excellence we offer.
As we build community within, we need to conclude many searches for leadership positions. We have a lot of interims at the moment. I'll look forward to conversations at the Meet and Confers about how many searches we can do in one year and how best to order them. My goal is first to resolve the question of the two Cabinet-level interim positions, then move on to the Dean-level interims and beyond. I hope to get the major questions resolved by the end of the next cycle of Meet and Confer and get some of the searches started soon thereafter.
Hopefully we can attract some strong interest because you have already built a great community here.
You chose this path because of your passion to improve our world and your belief that education improves the world better than anything else. You chose the most noble path ... helping others to achieve their dreams. So, what are OUR hopes and dreams? In the next few weeks I hope to begin conversations on campus about our hopes and dreams, to use them as a basis for envisioning where we will flow.
Those conversations are not only for the Community Within, but also for the Community Without. They have hopes and dreams for us, too. After all, "Winona" is the first word in our name. We are known nationally for civic engagement and service learning. The world out there craves to work with us, learn from us, partner with us. The world out there is wise to see us this way!
So we need to be a part of this community, this beautiful Winona community, serving it every way we practically can, learning from it as it learns from us. And this commitment should not stop here. We already serve Rochester well. Can we serve it even better? And that's still not where it stops. Minnesota is counting on us. America is counting on us. The world is counting on us. These are all our community.
As I learned from the diversity of flora and fauna in the Winooski, rivers are a community. My question is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will community flow next?
We are Learners
Part of what makes us such a powerful force for good is that we are the "People's University" – we belong to everyone. We are great at what we do! And this is not mere self-assertion. (Michael's name means "who is like God?" and his sword is a sword of humility!) We know this objectively and through external validation, such as:
- High NSSE scores
- An affirming HLC review
- Powerful Persistence Rates
- Leading Graduation Rates
- Strong enrollment despite declining high school student numbers
- Strengthening financial position, with the worst fiscal challenges apparently behind us and Winona State prospering more strongly than any other state university.
The drought is behind us.
So, what is our essence as learners, and where does the river flow next? We are already superb at the undergraduate experience. Therefore, we must extend the promise of our excellence in undergraduate education, and remain the best by innovating with quality in mind. We must ensure that students who come here are able to succeed here, regardless of family wealth, ethnicity, gender, or anything else.
We must ensure that we remain technology leaders. This has been one of our defining attributes and it needs to remain so. By carving out technology as a marker of distinction we have set a high bar for ourselves, and we must remain national leaders in a high-speed, evolving technology environment. Technology helps us find the answer, but it isn't the answer itself. And therein lies our ultimate victory. How do we compete with TED and the Khan Academy and iTunes University? According to Roberta Ness, we can provide something more than content: we can provide context.4 We can coach students to learn how to learn, to adapt, grow, and innovate. This is not just about technology, though technology is a powerful tool. This is about creating a robust learning environment.
Our commitment to sustainability must continue. Our theme house just opened. If you ever doubt its importance, please meet the students who are living there. Our commitment to civic engagement and volunteerism must continue. Our students are beloved, and we are too. These markers of distinction must continue to define us even as we look for new ways to innovate and express them.
At the undergraduate level, students must have a grounding in the liberal arts and sciences regardless of their major. I believe that there is no intrinsic conflict between liberal studies and the professions. Each has its place in this academy. Employers tell us that they value both. The professions are how we make our living, and the liberal arts and sciences tell us how to live our lives.
We already offer outstanding graduate education in selected areas. We have shown we can do this with high quality and without damming up the undergraduate mission. We must seek out a few select, distinctive, high quality, relevant and responsive graduate programs that meet the needs of Minnesota and that can be delivered in ways that best serve students. I think some of these are already in development, and others are being imagined.
We must reframe the way we think about learning lest our river stop flowing. Let's say we already provide the finest learning experience that is. Let's not ask "do we provide the finest education that is?" but, given our constraints, let's ask "do we provide the finest education that can be?" Because we are learners, we should not rest on a verdant shore, at the end of the trail, even though we have surely earned the right to do so, but we should put the boat back in the river and go exploring again. Only in doing so will we remain the leaders that we have been.
In short, being a "Community of Learners" means doing everything we can to deliver the highest quality education with the highest value – the best deal in Minnesota, and the best investment in the future that a person can make.
Rivers learn. So, my question is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will learning flow next?
We Improve Our World
This means that we are willing to improve inside and out, first improving how and what we do, then using those improvements to help build a better world. I suppose that there are three counterproductive ways to think about improvement, innovation, and change:
- We are powerless, nothing we do matters, so change and improvement are not possible.
- We have power, but we need to blow everything up and start over from scratch.
- We have power, but we are already the best at what we do, so change is bad.
Let's look at each of these.
We might think that we are powerless to do anything. We were blessed with fantastic performances of "King Lear" this summer at the Shakespeare Festival. In Act I, Scene II, Edmund makes fun of those who feel powerless and blame their fate on others, in particular fate imposed from above:
Edmund: This is the excellent foppery of the world,
that, when we are sick in fortune,
often the surfeit of our own behavior,
we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;
as if we were villains … on necessity;
fools … by heavenly compulsion ...5
Many folks feel this way these days. Maybe some of us feel this way. We have come through very challenging times, times when budgets were slashed and our common future drawn into doubt. But how could we of all people believe that we are powerless? Of course as individuals and together we sometimes lack power, but isn't the very core of our enterprise the belief that education transforms – that learning makes the world better, helps improve our world? Isn't this a core shared belief for us – that wisdom is the gift we bring?
Our budget picture has improved considerably. There are opportunities to reinvest. We have a Chancellor who invites us to be distinctive. We have the people of Winona, Rochester, and others behind us, willing to help. We are not powerless.
Or, we might think that we should utterly abandon the past, start over, re-route the river like the "Mr. Go" (MRGO) canal in New Orleans. We don't know a lot about the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, but we do have this wonderful quote from him …
That phrasing is kind of cryptic, so here is how Plato rephrases Heraclitus:#
All things move and nothing remains still.#7
Everything changes … and you cannot step into the same stream twice.
Here is a vision of a river we do not want to be: constant, ceaseless reinvention.
Change is certainly a constant and appears unceasing, but change is never purely chaotic. Some changes can be predicted, like the decline in birthrate in industrialized countries, and what that might mean for enrollments. Given how excellent we are, Winona State has no call to blow things up and start over! So much of what we do is best-in-class that we need to honor our traditions. Improvement at Winona State cannot mean the abandonment of all we have been. Heraclitus's river is chaos. And some climatologists think that re-routing the Mississippi through Mr. Go brought chaos to New Orleans.9
Or, we might believe that we must not change a thing: that we should repeat what we always have done and preserve tradition. This is the opposite perspective from Heraclitus. I don't understand much of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, but I know he is playing with repetition. The opening sentence says:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a
commodius vicus of recirculation back …10
"Commodius vicus" seems to mean "vicious circle." Here is a portrait of another river we do not want to be. Joyce is true to his word because the novel itself is a vicious circle … the novel ends …
A way a lone a last a loved a long the …11
... which loops back to the beginning …
A way a lone a last a loved a long the … riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore …
Here's another example of that thinking from the Bruce Springsteen song "The River":
I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young#
They bring you up to do like your daddy done …#
We'd go down to the river#
And into the river we'd dive.#
Down to the river we'd ride.12Here, the river represents repetition, not change. In this view, we are condemned to do what those who came before us did. But that's not right, either. We did not become who we are by staying in place. Three of our great markers of distinction—digital technology, sustainability, and civic engagement—would not have been our markers 20 years ago.
So, I want to encourage us to think of our great river neither as powerless, nor as chaotic, nor as repetitious. Is that the choice? Either we are powerless to do anything, or we are obliged to do everything, or we are condemned to repeat ourselves? There's always another way.
And right here in Minnesota we have an example. Does anybody remember the old Paul Bunyan-land on the corner of Highways 371 and 210 near Brainerd? They used to sell a book there full of Paul Bunyan tall tales, printed by the folks at the Brainerd Daily Dispatch. I still have a copy. In one of these stories Paul's lumberjacks are frustrated when floating their lumber downstream. Rather than flowing down to Winona, the lumber keeps coming back to the same spot because it's a circular river – it just flows in a circle. (This is Paul Bunyan meets M.C. Escher I think.) So, Paul takes a huge shovel, scoops out the middle, and makes "Round Lake" which is just a few miles north of Paul Bunyan-land toward Nisswa.
We are not powerless. We can change the world. We can bring innovation without bringing chaos. And that change can move us forward in new ways while also respecting our traditions. We can preserve the past and make something new. Rather than thinking of change as a straight line or a circle, in terms of metaphor, how about change as a helix? A river empowered, preserving its shape and traditions, but also innovative and new. Always moving forward, yet also always returning to familiar parts of the curve. Innovation plus tradition.
We preserve our cycles and rhythms, we preserve our way of doing things, but we always strive to make things new and fresh, like a river. We can do things that are new while preserving our traditions. We can go about things the way our forebears did – with integrity, passion, community commitment – but we can change and grow too. These are not in conflict. These go side by side. We can innovate and improve not because we have to, but because we are so strong that we choose to!
How do we do this? Looking only inward is good for preserving traditions but not for innovation. We have to look out as we look in. Improving our world means a willingness to partner with those whom we serve. Where appropriate, this means partnering with our community, with K12 schools, with businesses and industry, with nonprofit organizations, with our colleagues Southeast Tech and RCTC and Riverland and other sibling institutions.
If we take diversity seriously, then we must partner in ways that help us serve our students in the ways they most need to be served. We can absolutely do this without compromising our quality and identity here at home in Winona. This is one way of improving our world.
We should be the most respected and valued partner in higher education: "we love to work with Winona State!" just as I've heard so many of you say, "I love to work at Winona State."
Look around you and please never take any of this for granted: This beautiful campus, this beautiful city, this beautiful state. We benefit from these in untold ways. We have a duty to honor and preserve them, stewarding the next 150 years. All that we do here is possible because of the river, both the figurative river and the literal river. You built this: you, the river. The purpose of normal schools was to change the world through education. That was there from the beginning, and that hasn't changed. We are, at heart, still that normal school, still changing lives every day through education.
Rivers improve our world. So, my question for you is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will "improving our world" flow next?
The river has left its mark on this valley. Humans sometimes leave a mark, and sometimes leave just a marker. On the Island of Santorini there is a relic from 2,600 years ago, a 1,000-pound Volcanic stone with this message carved on it: "Eumastas, son of Kritobolos, lifted me up from the ground."13 Who was Eumastas? Who was Kristobolos? Who knows? All we have is the marker. Or think of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias":
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay #
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,#
The lone and level sands stretch far away.14
All that's left around that marker is just a dry, sandy waste – not a fertile valley. Markers of nothing. Signifiers with no signified.
Will we leave a mark, or a marker? 150 years from now, will our descendants look back on us and wonder who we were and what we did? Or will they look back on us and say, thank heaven for those Warriors! Thank heaven that they improved the world that we inherited!
The river left its marker and left its mark, and like Winona State the river is still here. We will both be here for a long time to come. As you know, there's a statue on the mall called End of The Trail by James Earle Fraser, a Winona native. You'll see this same image on the cover of the Beach Boys album "Surf's Up." As usual, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks are writing about water! Trails might end at the edge of the river. They don't end because we have no place else to go. They end because we are at the riverside, and the river can take us to places far beyond this trail, places we haven't even imagined. The end of one trail is the beginning of another trail.
The surf is up again – the river is ready to roar. It will sweep away ignorance. It will make the valley green and fertile. And we can make a paradise of learning here between these bluffs.
The river invites us to explore, to learn. Mary Shelley describes learning as precisely this type of adventure in her novel "The Last Man":
I have chosen my boat, and laid in my scant stores. I have selected a few books; the
principal are Homer and Shakespeare. But the libraries of the world are thrown open
to me … and in any port I can renew my stock.15
We can go anywhere.
You have chosen the noblest profession, all of you. Whether you teach in the classroom or provide frontline service to students or maintain these beautiful buildings and grounds, or sit behind a counter or desk or on a tractor or stand behind a lectern or with a rake or broom in your hands. You have chosen the noblest profession: helping others realize their dreams, helping others put their boat in the river and explore. Each of us does this. All of us do this together.
It doesn't matter what job you do here – we are all part of the river and we all help students realize their dreams. We all do!
You're all part of the river …
All the professors are part of the flow,
Service faculty, with all that you know,
Student Affairs, Advancement, and Res Life,
(I live in Lourdes Hall with Kelley, my wife)
Office assistants and student workers
In ITS there sure are no shirkers.
GMWs, Facilities crew,
What do you know? Administrators too.
Somsen, Gildemeister, Kryszko, Minné,
Maxwell and Pasteur, now what do you say?
Phelps and Krueger and Wabasha and Stark,
Gathering down at the river, and hark!
Every student who's willing will ride
With us together in this rising tide.
All of us together, every IFO, ASF, AFSCME, MAPE, MMA, MSUSA, ABC, 123, Do Re Mi, Baby you and me!16 We are a community, we are learners, and we improve our world.
What great place will community discover next? What great place will learning discover next? What great place will "improving our world" discover next? If our thoughts and passions and beliefs and actions align, we can flow anywhere we want to go. If our minds and our hearts and our spirits and our hands work together, we can achieve anything.
We are the great river. We can stand in the Science Lab Center atrium and feel a part of it – surrounded by water molecules and sediment, creatures of that clean, deep, strong force. You know, nationally there is a drought. Nationally, more than half of all counties are without water, the highest proportion ever. But not here. Here, the valley is green. Here, the river is rising. Here the water will wash away all the pain, wash away all the hurt, wash away the ignorance, wash away all the dreams unfulfilled. Warriors, trouble the water!17
The river is rising with hope. The river is rising with abundance. The river is rising with opportunity. The river is rising with wisdom. The river is rising with dreams. So, come on students, let's go down, let's go down, let's go down! Let's go down to the river today!18
As for the Lady of the Lake: The Lake is Lake Pepin. The Lady is Princess We-No-Nah. She lives! She jumped into Lake Pepin from Maiden Rock but she lives, like us she became one with the water, flowing downstream, making her home here, where she waits. We-no-nah offers knowledge like a flaming sword to all who seek it.
Despite all the adversity, knowledge lives. The sword of knowledge is truly magical. According to Thomas Malory, it's "… so bright in the eyes of the enemy that it gave light like thirty torches."19 The flame of knowledge here in Winona burns so brightly that the water doesn't diminish it – in fact, the water acts as a prism and beautifully refracts Winona's knowledge in hundreds of ways.
Wade in the water and the Lady in the Lake will greet you … the sword of knowledge lies in her hands, in Winona's hands, in the water … waiting for you to claim it, knowledge yours for the taking! Look at the top of our logo – the "Flaming W" – and you will see its brilliance. 150 years? That's nothing! "Til every river it runs dry … 'til every star falls down from the sky …"20 We can do this together. We will do this together. Knowledge is a river, powerful, ageless and new. We're a community of learners and, like a great river, we improve our world.
1 DeBruyckere, A., Kroeger T., and Annexstad, J. (2000). Minnesota geology. Unpublished webpage located at http://www.hutchk12.org/geo/mngeo/index.html.
2 A reference to the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" for Provost Nancy Jannik.
3 Nemeth, C. (2012). Creative problem solving: Outsiders, dissenters, heroes and rogues. Unpublished presentation at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.
4 Ness, R. (2012, July 15). Leadership for a new age: Creating and sustaining an innovative campus culture. Unpublished presentation at the AASCU Summer Council, Santa Fe NM.
5 Shakespeare, W. (1608). King Lear. Act I, Scene II, Line 58+.
6 Heraclitus, Praeperatio evangelica, 15.20.2
7 Plato, Cratylus, 401d.
8 Plato, Cratylus, 402a.
9 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Undated). History of MRGO. Document at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website.
10 Joyce, J. (1939). Finnegans wake. New York: Viking Press, p. 3.
11 Joyce, J. (1939). Finnegans wake. New York: Viking Press, p. 628.
12 Springsteen, B. (1980). The river. From the album The River: Columbia Records.
13 Sweet, W. (1987). Sport and recreation in ancient Greece. Oxford University Press, p. 105.
14 Shelley, P.B.. (1818, January 11). Ozymandias. The (London) Examiner.
15 Shelley, M. (1826). The last man. Online PDF edition at http://www.freeclassicebooks.com/Shelley%20Mary/The%20Last%20Man.pdf. Pp. 614-615.
16 Olson, S. (2005, August). "Our train." Unpublished speech, with a reference to the song "ABC" by the Jackson Five, written by Mizell, A., Perren, F., Richards, D., and Gordy, B.
17 A reference to the African-American spiritual "Wade in the Water."
18 A reference to the Appalachian spiritual "Down to the River."
19 Malory, T. (1990). Book I, 19, from The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, Ed. Vinaver, Eugène, 3rd ed. Field, Rev. P. J. C. 3 vol. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20 Springtsteen, B. (1985) "Janie don't you lose heart." B-side of the 45-rpm recording "I'm going down." CBS Records.


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for a while now I noticed that the Junk Mail Filtering function does not seem to operate correctly.
I get a lot of spam from the Far East (Korea and that), don't ask me how it started, but, there you go, has been going on for some years.
All the time when they come in, I select "Ban sender's domain", that is practically the only thing I can go by, as they come from the Orient and the subjects contain all sorts of characters that don't make any sense.
Anyway, one domain that has been banned a lot is "yahoo.co.kr", but it (and others as well) keeps coming back.
I was wondering whether that is down to Barca, or whether it is due to the spammers using forged domains and email addresses.
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When children won't tell and adults don't ask, tackling the issues of sexual assault within a community becomes impossible, but former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur Atler says there is still hope for healing and prevention.
When children won't tell and adults don't ask, tackling the issues of sexual assault within a community becomes impossible, but former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur Atler says there is still hope for healing and prevention.
As the keynote speaker for The Healing Place's second sold-out Celebration of Courage Luncheon, Atler encouraged attendees to become advocates for victims of sexual assault and molestation in order to help them heal.
The Healing Place is a rape crisis center in Hendersonville that provides counseling and legal services to men, women and children following rape, sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
All services of The Healing Place are offered free of charge to its clients, which in 2013 included 2,057 hours of evidence-based mental health treatment with a 95.6 percent success rate.
Tuesday's luncheon helped The Healing Place raise more than $33,000.
Executive Director Angie Alley included a copy of the North Carolina Council for Women's Sexual Assault Statistical Report for Henderson County from July 2012 to June 2013 in the luncheon's program, and asked supporters to look at the numbers before them.
"I see that sexual violence makes no distinction between, age, race or gender. I see 1,065 of our neighbors, friends, coworkers and children dealing with rape, date rape, marital rape, child sex abuse, incest and sex trafficking," Alley said. "I see that only 15 of the victims we saw in person were violated by a stranger. Ladies and gentlemen, 96.8 percent knew their offender."
In Henderson County, the top two types of offenders were family members and acquaintances, and 134 victims were under the age of 12.
Atler spoke to a room of more than 200 community supporters of The Healing Place at Kenmure Country County Club, sharing her story as a victim of incest. From ages 5 to 18, Atler was assaulted at night by her father more than 600 times. She said that as a child, she believed she was truly living the American dream and had disassociated that part of her life from her daily life.
"I split into what I call a 'day child' and a 'night child,'" Atler said. "As difficult as this is for most people to believe or understand, until I was 24, I — the day child — had no conscious knowledge of the night child. During the days, no angry or embarrassing glances ever passed between my father and me because I had no conscious knowledge of the traumas and the terrors of the night child."
As the night child began to be hurt more and more, Atler said the day child felt the need to excel and outperform to make up for the pain the night child was feeling.
It took many years for Atler to fully uncover her abuse as a child. She struggled to accept what had happened to her and how to move forward. On top of her many successes in life, she has gone through bouts of panic attacks, and at one point her body entered paralysis.
She later realized the paralysis was triggered by her daughter's 5th birthday — the same age she was when her abuse began. Atler to this day said she cannot go to sleep without medication because of the fear of what happened to her when she would go to bed.
Atler said there is hope, however. She said many would call what she went through fromt he ages of 45 and 50 as having a nervous breakdown, but she said it was her way of recovering.
She said victims must have the ability to recover and for that to happen, they need to be able to feel like they can speak about their assault and not be silenced by shame.
Atler said she will continue speaking out against sexual violence until the day she dies because of a statistic that says 14-year-olds comprise the largest number of sex offenders of any age group, and the age of their victims is usually 5 years old. She noted the significance of the victim's age.
"Twelve-, 13-, 14-, 15-, 16-, 17-year-old boys and girls have a normal, natural sexual curiosity and there is nothing wrong with that, but there are long-term consequences if they are sexual with a younger or less powerful child," Atler said. "But they don't know that."
When a child learns to drive, Atler said children and their parents spend hours talking about it and training for the skill.
"How many hours do we spend talking to our teenagers about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate as they grow into their sexuality?" Atler asked the audience. "It is critically important that parents sit down and talk to their children."
Atler offered a paragraph from her book for parents who did not know how to begin the conversation. Parents need to ask their children if they have ever been touched in an uncomfortable sexual manner because otherwise they won't tell. She said that by telling, by talking about it, healing can begin.
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Ga. Pastor Affirms Exclusivity of Christ Ahead of Easter
Stop believing the lie that you can earn salvation or your way to heaven, said the pastor of a Dallas, Ga., megachurch on Sunday.
Speaking to thousands at West Ridge Church, Brian Bloye stressed in his sermon that "nothing outside of Jesus will work" and that the only way to be truly forgiven and receive eternal life is to trust in Jesus Christ as your savior.
"Your salvation is not based on you" but rather on "what Jesus did," he told the congregation and those watching online.
His sermon on salvation is part of "The Last Words: 7 Sayings of the Cross" series leading up to Good Friday and Easter. The series, which focuses on Jesus' last moments on earth, kicked off just as Lent began last month.
Bloye acknowledged that the exclusivity of salvation in Christ (that there's no other way to salvation apart from Jesus) is "very offensive to many people." In fact, people around the world are being persecuted and killed for professing Jesus as their savior, the pastor noted.
But there is no other way than through Jesus, he emphasized.
One of the thieves who hung on the cross next to Jesus realized this truth as he neared death and asked Jesus to remember him in heaven.
"I'm inspired by the courageous faith of this thief on the cross," Bloye said, noting that the man recognized Jesus as the son of God publicly in front of onlookers who were mocking Jesus.
The thief "realizes that forgiveness is hanging on the cross next to him" and "he can't die without it." He thus "repented and placed his faith in the only one who could save him from his sin and he gained eternal life," the Dallas pastor preached.
Crucifixion was reserved for the worst of criminals as it not only caused excruciating pain but also was intended to be humiliating. While it is not specified in the Bible what the thief next to Jesus was crucified for, Bloye pointed out that he likely committed a grave sin. Yet still, Jesus willingly offered salvation to him even as he was dying.
"Salvation is a gift from God," he added. "There's nothing we can do to earn salvation ... not even on your best day.
"It's all Jesus."
"There's nothing, nothing, nothing you can do to have God love you more or love you less," he highlighted. "He already accepts you fully."
Quoting evangelical Pastor Erwin W. Lutzer, he noted, "The thief's forgiveness reminds us that there is more grace in God's heart than sin in our past."
Bloye further emphasized that Jesus was never too busy for lost people, even as he himself was dying on the cross. With that, he added, "There is no reason for us to ever be too busy to take Jesus to lost people."
West Ridge Church is a fast-growing church with three campuses in Georgia. With neighboring towns recently hit by tornadoes, Bloye made it clear to his congregation that West Ridge is not about the church building or anything else that can easily be destroyed. Rather, "what this church is about is people and it's about Jesus."
West Ridge plans to offer its help to the community devastated by the tornadoes in the coming weeks and months.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Just helping a friend
I often get the opportunity to observe children at play and learning to cooperate with each other. Today, one of our girls was playing in dollhouse and some of the boys in block center wanted to use the family vehicle from the dollhouse. A small disagreement began. I hesitated to step in, I just watched for a moment letting the group sort it out themselves. They managed to come to some sort of bargain, so I wandered away.
When I came back to see how they were doing, the boys had all the dollhouse furniture loaded on all the trucks and big cars they could find. They also managed to have most of the dolls from the dollhouse. Grace was busily gathering extra furniture that had been missed and generally giving direction to the boys.
"We're helping Grace move. She wants to move closer to her grandma, so we're using all our cars to move all her stuff!"
"You have to have a big truck to move the kitchen."
"I'm being really careful. You have to be really careful when you move stuff so stuff doesn't get broken."
This was such a great moment to watch.
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Oh, I love this! What a wonderful solution, and all their own work!ReplyDelete
Nice illustration of learning cooperation. I've seen things like this from some of my students.ReplyDelete
Ayn, Sneak a peek at http://lindaoconnell.blogspot.com. tell others too. I'll be posting preschool materials on Wednesdays.ReplyDelete
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This passionate story had a very special twist. The heroine goes out with a special mission to seduce the hero and will she be successful in her mission?
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Overheard conversation between Anna Campbell and Diana Carrick (heroine of MY RECKLESS SURRENDER),
"Why did you have me do uh..um... that...and that...," asked Diana, shocked.
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