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February 7, 2006
College classroom text or reading materials can fall into a number of classifications from scholarly to experienced-based. Bringing a text's author to the classroom can add context, new information, and a chance for interaction that merely reading the pages of a textbook can never equal.
Students in Michelle Pittard's Education 302 class are enjoying a unique opportunity in their "Teaching Adolescents in the High School" class. The six students are interacting, via Blackboard on the Internet, with Leslie Baldacci. Baldacci wrote a book about her own classroom experience in Chicago, Inside Mrs. B's Classroom: Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side.
The McGraw-Hill book is in its third printing and details Baldacci's first year of teaching after a long career in journalism for United Press International and the Chicago Sun-Times. Baldacci left journalism, taking a two-thirds pay cut, to teach. She continued to teach at Arthur Dixon Elementary School where she started her second career in 1999, the year that inspired the book. But she has since returned to the Sun-Times.
One focus of the Wabash class is teaching in an urban setting and integrating multi-cultural diversity issues into the course, Pittard explained. The students will teach a two-week period in Montgomery County schools this semester. Later in the spring, the students will be going to Chicago to observe classes and possibly participate in teaching at inner-city schools.
A Purdue graduate student, Harvey Minton, team teaches with Pittard.
"Harvey recommended the book," Pittard said. "He uses it in the course he teaches at Purdue. It seemed a perfect fit since we're doing the Chicago experience."
Baldacci was unable to schedule a campus visit so Pittard set up a discussion thread for her students to interact with the author.
"It was impossible for me to drive three hours to Wabash in dicey January weather, so Michelle found the solution in technology that made it possible for us to communicate honestly and intimately, in a timely fashion, online," Baldacci said.
The author has been struck by the students' questions. "I am always inspired by the commitment and insight of future teachers," she said. "Even before they get to the classroom, they have a clear sense of purpose that will be their backbone throughout their career."
For the students, the interaction has been a dose of reality.
"It is hard for most of us to picture what it is going to be like stepping into an inner-city school when we grew up in rural Indiana," said Morgan Nolan '07. "Her participation gives us that perspective to ease some of the tensions but also help prepare us for the worst and the best.
"Her views are special because they provide an outsider's view in the Chicago School System, which is the perspective most of us will be seeing. We also look at her contributions as a great way for white-middle class Americans who struggle to enter into a multi-cultural setting where racial issues create high tensions."
Chris Serak '08, the only sophomore in the class, agreed her background explanations have been a real plus. "It helped me to gain a firmer grasp on her thoughts about education and how teaching has influenced her life."
The students' reactions were exactly what Pittard had hoped when initially contacting Baldacci about participating.
"I think any time you can connect to the author of the text you're using in class, it adds value because then the person and experience seems more real," Pittard said. "She's been very candid online about answering questions. She's given some insight to the students to what it's like to go into a very racially diverse setting as a white female. She's coming from what we would describe as a pretty privileged background and that's where our students are. That's who they are."
Ashley Stephens '08 said reading the book has helped prepare the class not just for a visit, but possible teaching careers in urban areas. "While the courses in Teacher Education are meant to prepare students to teach and do a good job, I think having the opportunity to talk with individuals who have been involved in the profession can be very helpful."
"Being able to talk to Mrs. Baldacci is a very special opportunity and hopefully it will help me and my fellow classmates become even better teachers."
Baldacci has enjoyed the experience as much as the students and has been impressed with the dialogue.
"I was struck by the different backgrounds of the gentlemen," the author said. "They understood the applications of education in all of their fields, from political science to psychology, and the nature of their questions revealed the level of their understanding of the role of education in social justice. They were honest and revealing. I look forward to meeting them in person to continue our dialogue."
Pittard hopes the class can meet with Baldacci while in Chicago. She also hopes to bring the author to Wabash for a possible speaking appearance.
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Taste of Country Unveils User-Friendly New Mobile Site
A new mobile version of TasteofCountry.com will make keeping track of the latest country music news easy on the go. The fresh look debuted this week. Fans with newer model mobile devices, including phones and tablets, will be able to scroll through top stories, reviews, lists and features that are hot on Taste of Country.
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These pieces, that inform a reclaimed style, are now highly popular among collectors and interior designers. This volume celebrates the engineers who shaped the industrial aesthetic as the unsung heroes of modern design and showcases their creations. By discovering ways to work iron and steel into functional forms, luminaries such as Bernard-Albin Gras, George Carwardine, Jean Prouvé, and Édouard-Wilfred Buquet sparked a revolution in the way we think about our built environment. Chapters on lighting, seating, tables, storage, and curiosities - describe the major innovations and designs from the period and include stunning photography depicting these objects in homes, workshops, factories, and warehouses. Meticulously curated, this elegant book is an informative style guide and source of inspiration for how to live with industrial design.
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Last week I listened to a guided meditation that asked me to think of times in my life that I felt "in the moment". It took me a few seconds but then it came to me. Whenever I am in nature, I feel myself get lost in just being. My list of things to do disappears as I enjoy the sun on my face and as my body experiences all the sounds and colors around me. This feeling of "being in the moment" is why I love my morning walks. Even taking the same path each day brings something new that allows me to focus on what is happening at the time. This feeling of "being in the moment" is also the main reason I like being in nature with my family - it allows me to totally soak them in right then and there without worrying about anything else.
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Labelle, Rydén, van de Sant; Slattery, Cutlip, McKern; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorale,
McGegan. Text and translation. PBP 04 (2)
Handel's vast operatic output, still an undifferentiated mass of music only a generation ago, has now become familiar repertoire onstage and on recordings. (Even the early, obscure Almira was revived in New York last season, by Operamission.) Atalanta, it turns out, has its own unique place among the operas. There is no complicated opera seria plot; in fact, there is virtually no action. It wouldn't stand up to the sort of intense staging that Orlando or Ariodante can bear. It is nothing more than an Arcadian idyll, made up of shepherds and hidden love. The two main characters are in disguise for nearly the entire three acts. Atalanta was created as a wedding divertissement, designed to end with fireworks and bonfires. It is more of a celebration than an opera. Three trumpet players, prominent in the overture, take a two-hour nap before waking up the timpanist for the extended finale, where there is an unusually large amount of choral participation. The royal couple onstage is given a happy ending, and so by extension is the royal couple in the audience. The ideal experience of Atalanta would involve a warm summer night and a cold poached chicken. Giulio Cesare it is not.
This live recording, taken from two performances given by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Berkeley in 2005, features two strong soprano soloists, but Atalanta was not one of Handel's Cuzzoni–Bordoni prima donna showcases. Meleagro, sung by Susanne Rydén, was originally a castrato role. Rydén sings the first part of her Act II aria "Si, mel raccorderò" with such delight and assurance that we don't wish for a lot of changes on the repeat, and indeed she does only the lightest rearranging. Rydén's Meleagro also gets to sing "M'allontano, sdegnose pupille." Of all the times Handel wrote an aria with the accompaniment of only continuo and a single violin line, this is one of the loveliest. Dominique Labelle sings Atalanta, a skilled huntress who bags a wild boar in the first scene. Labelle is very touching in the B section of "Lassa! Ch'io t'ho perduta," where the vocal figuration depicts a bird caught in a snare, and her performance of "Se nasce un rivoletto" is ingratiatingly sung with a light rhythmic freedom. Only on occasion, as in the repeat of "Bench'io non sappia ancor," is it difficult to hear how her ornamentation is meant to make the music more expressive.
The alto role of Irene finds Cécile van de Sant in a fine partnership with conductor Nicholas McGegan. Irene sings one of those turtledove simile arias, in which McGegan's fleet violins show great delicacy on high notes, and a flouncy aria of indignation, also well seconded by the strings. The male roles are shorter and less rewarding, but Philip Cutlip has liquid Italian diction, a nice approach to legato and a delightful non-aggressive approach to high notes in his entrance aria. As Nicandro, he is given an extra aria in Act III in place of Meleagro's "Tu solcasti il mare." The booklet notes are silent on this change, but it is good to hear Cutlip again. As Aminta, Michael Slattery is so eager to "act" his first aria that he goes over the top and becomes cavalier of pitch. He strikes a better balance in his second. Corey McKern's Mercurio arrives at the end of the show, all pretense of music drama having been abandoned, with a burst of energy. McGegan finds a breezy, lilting quality for the opening of Act II, and he avoids pomposity in the bloated finale. It's a discreet Vouvray rather than a White Zinfandel for the end of the operatic picnic.
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Attention all eco-minded architects, designers, and green building professionals!
Are you interested in charting the future of sound, sustainable living? Now is the perfect time to get involved – the C.L.E.A.R. Village Lab is looking for talented and progressive thinkers from every profession to come together at the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Barcelona in Autumn 2009 to co-design a real-life eco-village. This exciting program offers the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in sustainability to create a green development from the ground up that you could live, work, and relax in.
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The Etna Lady Lions varsity volleyball team soundly defeated the Burney Lady Raiders 25-11, 25-16, 25-5 at home for the squad's third victory of the season on Tuesday.
The win was a silver lining in an otherwise challenging season for the Lions.
Etna has dealt with losing two players to serious medical issues and having to constantly shuffle the lineup due to injury during the course of the season.
On Tuesday, the Lady Lions had only eight girls able to suit up because a player fell ill before the start of the contest and could not take part.
The good news heading into the game was that Catie Schott was back on the court for the first time this season after being out with an extended illness.
Head coach Linda Berry commended the team for being calm and focused despite losing a player right before game time.
"We've learned this year to roll with the punches" she said. "I'm really proud of them."
Emma Morris had nine kills, six aces and five blocks for the Lady Lions. Victoria Gamache had six aces and 18 digs for Etna. Elida Pelayo finished with 18 digs and Molly Schaefer had five kills.
Etna looked sharp from the start. After Burney had cut the lead to 11-9 in the first set, Etna scored the next 10 points as the Lions cruised to the 25-11 victory. Etna had little problem winning the second set and crushed Burney by 20 in the final set.
The Lions improved to 3-15-1 overall and 3-6 in the SCL. Burney fell to 0-11 in the SCL and has not yet won a gane this season.
Etna next plays on Thursday versus Modoc at home.
Etna High Varsity Volleyball: Lady Lions earn SCL home win
The Etna Lady Lions varsity volleyball team soundly defeated the Burney Lady Raiders 25-11, 25-16, 25-5 at home for the squad's third victory of the season on Tuesday.


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SAVANNAH - Attorneys for Savannah celebrity chef Paula Deen and her family run enterprises on Thursday asked to move a lawsuit filed by the former general manager at Uncle Bubba's seafood house to federal court.
The action moved the case filed by Lisa T. Jackson from Chatham County Superior Court to U.S. District Court based on federal claims contained in an amended suit filed April 20.
The case has been assigned to Judge William T. Moore Jr.
Jackson claims in her initial suit that she was the victim of sexual harassment and a persistent pattern of racial discrimination in the workplace at Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House Inc. on Whitemarsh Island. The restaurant is operated by Deen's brother, Earl W. "Bubba" Hiers.
Her initial suit filed before Superior Court Judge Louisa Abbot steered clear of federal claims, relying on alleged Georgia law violations.
In her amended suit, Jackson asserts federal law claims, presenting a jurisdictional issue, Deen's action contends.
The action, agreed to by all of the defendants including Hiers, contends the proper place for the suit is federal court at Savannah, according to court documents dated Friday.
Included in the action are motions by both Deen and Hiers to dismiss and strike large portions of the case.
Jackson, who worked for Hiers for five years before leaving Aug. 19, 2010, complained of "violent behavior by Bubba Hiers, violent behavior that included sexual harassment as well as racial harassment, assault, battery and other humiliating conduct" on herself and other employees she managed.
The suit contends the conduct occurred "nearly every single day Ms. Jackson came to work over five (5) years."
Attorneys for Deen and her enterprises, which include The Lady & Sons Restaurant, deny the allegations and charge the litigation is designed to damage Deen's reputation and value of her businesses.
Jackson's attorneys could challenge the move as improper and ask the federal judge to send the case back to Superior Court.


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Today, Tikkun Olam hosted Natan Sharansky for a visit in the Coexistence Track. For those who don't know, Sharansky is the Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, a former member of Knesset, and probably most famously, was imprisoned in a Soviet work camp for 9 years for his activism in the "Refusenik" movement -- trying to enable Soviet Jews to escape and make Aliyah. Today he visited the Coexistence group in their apartment to hear about the amazing work they're doing, and to visit one of their volunteering places. Read more about Sharansky here.
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Question: I have asked my local bishop to have all the parishes restore the St. Michael Prayer after all Masses. I have not heard from the bishop and wonder what I can do to see this practice restored.
— Diane Siereveld, Hamilton, Ohio
Answer: Your desire to pray this prayer is understandable and good. The prayer can, in fact, be said. However, perhaps a little history and context is appropriate to understand why it fell away in the early 1970s.
Historically, the liturgical movement that began in the 1940s and continued through the Second Vatican Council sought to re-emphasize the Eucharistic liturgy by distinguishing it from some of the devotions that had grown up around it. The hope was to emphasize participation in the Mass as the greatest devotion.
Among the devotions that attached themselves were a number of prayers said after the dismissal from Mass, which included the prayer to St. Michael.
Liturgists of the time sensed that lesser devotions after the greatest devotion somehow implied an inadequacy in the prayer of holy Mass.
Whether or not you agree, that was the thinking at the time, which led to the elimination of many, if not all, devotions immediately after the Mass.
That said, you and fellow parishioners are not forbidden from praying certain prayers and devotions after Mass, even with the priest. It is best, however, to allow those who need to depart to leave before the beginning of devotions. Otherwise, people feel trapped, and the instruction that they may go is lost or reduced in meaning.
Please also be aware that while the St. Michael Prayer is an important prayer, many others also insist on other devotions for similar reasons. Thus some pastors are reticent in fostering such public devotions, since requests tend to multiply. So, pastoral discretion is needed, and solutions will vary from parish to parish.
Question: We learn that God loves us unconditionally. But then why is there hell? That doesn't seem unconditional.
— Peter Smithers, via email
Answer: Perhaps you would agree that if someone loves someone else, that love would not include him forcing his will on the other. And while it is certainly true that the Lord wills to save everyone, he does not force us to accept his. God is not a slave driver, he is love and love invites us to freely accept his offer of an eternal relationship.
While some think that everyone wants to go to heaven, generally they have a heaven in mind of their own design. But the real heaven is not merely a human paradise; it is the Kingdom of God and all its fullness. In heaven is celebrated: Charity, worship of God, truth, chastity, forgiveness, esteem of the poor, humility, etc. And yet there are many who reject some or all of these values. Why would a loving God force people to enter into the eternal place which celebrates things they reject?
Hence, the existence of hell is not opposed to God's love. It is in conformity with the respect necessary for our freedom to accept or reject the relationship of love. Mysteriously, many come to a place in their life where they definitively reject God, and the values of the Kingdom he offers.
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Long ago, when the world was full of pay phones, important guys wore pagers and people wrote dead-tree emails called letters, there was a fabulous contraption called a typewriter.
Long ago, when the world was full of pay phones, important guys wore pagers and people wrote dead-tree emails called letters, there was a fabulous contraption called a typewriter.
Many people believe the typewriter went extinct years ago. This is not so. Typewriters are still among us. And so is one last place that sells and repairs them:
Stockton Typewriter Co.
"Believe it or not, there's still a lot of typewriters out there," said Jim McLemore, co-owner of Stockton Typewriter Co.
To hear McLemore talk, he almost doesn't believe it himself.
"I'll be honest," McLemore said of his business, which he runs with his son, Jimmy, and his brother, Joe, "I thought it would have been gone by 2000. But every year, it just keeps going and going and going."
McLemore's out-of-the-way shop on Union Street houses two businesses. The main one, A-Tec, sells and repairs office machines - 21st-century office machines.
But also still going is Stockton Typewriter Co., which marks its 100th year in business this year (some sources say the company was founded in 1916. We never wreck a good centennial, though).
Anyway, circa 1913-16, an L.P. Monaghan pawned his diamond stickpin and opened a shop on Market Street impressively stocked with three typewriters.
Stockton's population was about 25,000. Woodrow Wilson was president. Every office, and many homes, boasted typewriters for creating professional documents.
Typewriters - bless them - had good points and bad points. They were as heavy as an armchair and equally inert. Their delete process, called an eraser, or Wite-Out, was curse-under-your-breath tedious.
But typewriters never got spam, or viruses; they never crashed and obliterated all your work. Plus a nice bell went off when you typed to the end of a line, telling you to hit the carriage return.
True, every year or so they sort of gummed up and jammed, especially if you dropped something into them.
"A lot of them have to do with stuff stuck in it," said son Jimmy, the office manager. "Change, paper clips, food. Macaroni."
Despite these service needs, you would think Stockton Typewriter Co. would have gone under in the 1980s, with the advent of personal computers. Every other typewriter business did.
But a certain irreducible nucleus of typewriter users remains, durable as a 1960 Corona with heavy-duty case.
"Believe it or not," Jim McLemore said, "most people have one: banks, trucking companies, insurance companies, realty. People who have to fill out legal documents."
Another user group: senior citizens. Luddites who refuse to get computers.
"We have a couple elderly customers, we go to their homes and repair their typewriters," Jimmy said. "One of our oldest ones is turning 99 next year."
Encountering a 99-year-old pecking on a typewriter in this day and age gives young Jimmy a time-warp sensation. "It's kind of shocking," he said.
Jimmy, being 24, gets razzed by his friends, all of whom own Androids or iPads or other modern QWERTYs. "None of them have ever used a typewriter."
Some people have never heard of typewriters. McLemore's dad, Jim, encountered one recently on a service call to a local business. A young man.
"I said, 'I'm from Stockton Typewriter.' He says, 'What's a typewriter?' "
I told him, 'It's a computer with a keyboard and a printer, but no memory.' "
"He said: 'Oh,' " McLemore recalled.
But while typewriter businesses close, typewriters refuse to die. Owners have to get new ribbons somewhere. And repairs.
"People come from Sacramento, up in the hills, Sonora ... I had two people come from San Francisco in the last two months," the elder McLemore said.
So Stockton Typewriter Co. stays in business. The McLemores plan to throw a 100-year celebration this summer.
Perhaps they will recite the doggerel given them by grateful typewriter owner T. Hedger.
It reads, in part,
Some say the typewriter is pass�,
And that you must compute today.
But now and then you can detect,
Someone who still will hunt and peck ...
In searching for that ribbon thread,
I asked, but got blank looks instead.
Then, just before that fatal date
I thought computer was my fate
Resigned to be a mental wreck
I stumbled on good old A-Tec!
Though I'm computer illiterate,
I'm not the first that they had met!
The poem is typed, of course.
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Octomom Reported to be Going Back on Welfare
The Octomom, Nadya Suleman, is going back on welfare until she can get back on her feet... or on her back.
TMZ reports that "Octo" has once again applied for Government Assistance, after she blew thru her porn income savings with rehab in October.
Nadya, and her 14 kids will reportedly be receiving around $1,800 for food, $1,000 for emergency cash, and Medi-Cal benefits for Mental and Dental issues. (I hope the emphasis is on "mental").


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Happy Hallowe'en everyone! Hey, I've heard there are some cities that held trick or treating last night - smart! Most of us have the spooktacular happenings tonight, which makes for a dragging school morning tomorrow - yep, that's when things will REALLY get scary!
We have done most our house decorating, and I will post some pics later when finished. You really get the full effect when the blinky skeleton lights are going, though. And, when you walk by our noisy gargoyle and skeleton head that shriek with motion. Hee. Joke was on me one year, though, when I left our skeleton head switched "on", and walked past it in the middle of the night - almost passed out!
We didn't get to as much pumpkin carving this year. Really, whoever began carving pumpkins was some kind of nut. Well, the carving isn't so bad. It's the hollowing out of those squash-beasts! Good heavens! Not fun. Anyhow, here is our masterpiece this year, our puking-pumpkin, or as our older daughter says "he's so PRO" (that's the hip word apparently), so he's our "pro-puking-pumpkin". Again, joke was on me this year when I found cat puke on our bed comforter just after carving this pumpkin. oi! Like I didn't have enough going on yesterday to then wash a comforter! Anyhow, we'll probably do some Mr. Potato Head pumpkins later today, I've shown those before. Easy, and unlike the carving pumpkins, it's actually fun rather than work!
As for the food, I am definitely making some Pumpkin Cupcakes today - will try to get a pic up later. Yummy! I think I'm making these for myself, since, after I pillage through our girls treats, there will be little to nothing there I will break open (I don't dig candy, and all the chocolate is dairy). I'm also making a big stew of sorts for dinner, a Fusion Coconut Lentil Soup, to warm us up before heading out in the cold. I've been tweaking and tinkering with this recipe for quite some time now, and just about have something I really love. Tomorrow I might get to making some Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream with the leftover canned pumpkin I have in the freezer and fridge. So, I thought I'd post the recipe for you, maybe you can make it for your Hallowe'en festivities today! Hope you enjoy. :)
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Students Question McBride in Classroomby Jim Amidon • March 3, 2011 Share:
Wabash freshmen taking the Enduring Questions course had plenty of questions for author/musician/screenwriter James McBride when he spoke with them about his bestselling book, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
The book spent nearly two years on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Wabash's freshmen have been reading the book, so the opportunity to hear from the author himself led to thoughtful questions about McBride's family, his identity, and even money.
In turn, McBride gave some thoughtful advice to the students, who are nearing the end of their first year in college.
Two pieces of advice were both simple and honest:
"Learn how to fail," the Oberlin College graduate said. "The Color of Water is one of my few successes. Most of my work has been a failure. But I've learned to forget my failures and move on."
An obvious devotee of the liberal arts, his other piece of advice seemed to come straight from Center Hall: "What you really need to do at this school is learn to think," he said.
The Color of Water is McBride's tribute to his Jewish mother, Ruth McBride Jordan, and her 12 children. McBride told the Wabash students and their teachers that the "itch" to write the book started during a collect phone call he made to his mother because he didn't know her maiden name (Shilsky). "That sparked my interest… which became an itch. I wondered, 'Where is my mother from? Who is she?'"
After earning a master's degree in journalism from Columbia, McBride put his polished reporting skills to work researching his mother and her history. Included in that research were many interviews with his mother, who was often reluctant to tell her own story. "Sometimes she wrote down the answers that were too painful," he said. "It's hard to interview your mom!"
On the topic of family, McBride gave the students an assignment: "Go home an interview your parents and your grandparents. Learn about the kinds of struggles your grandparents faced; you'll value that later in your life… When they die, their memories die with them, and with them a piece of you."
As students continued to ask questions, McBride answered with sound advice.
"There will always be someone bigger, stronger, and smarter… but nobody can be better at being you than you."
On Identity: "You probably shouldn't worry so much about your identity in this world, but in the next."
On leading a good life: "If you really want to lead a good life, the best thing you can learn to do is to understand others."
On being in a racially mixed family: "When I was growing up, we were mixed. But I think our poverty was a bigger issue than our race."
When asked about having money after growing up poor: "I think people who are chasing money are chasing the wrong thing. Chase happiness."
McBride also took note of the morning edition of the Crawfordsville Journal Review newspaper and its story of 77-year-old Wayne Newhart, who after retiring joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Ghana. "He said those years in the Peace Corps were the happiest years of his life…. Money doesn't buy you happiness; it just pays the bills."
He was also asked about the role faith has played in his life: "For all of my education and successes in life, I attribute it all to what God wanted me to do." He also said, "What ever your identities are, it's important to have some kind of belief… I think it's important to have some sense of religion in your life."
On being in touch with the world around you: "If you really want to be a success in school, you ought to start to watch TV (news) and read the newspaper; you should pay attention… Words can change the world in a positive way."
Finally, when answering a question about how he feels about people who do not live their lives with an open mind, McBride told the story of traveling on an airplane with some bandmates en route to a concert. When one of them made fun of an Orthodox Jewish child, McBride got into a huge argument with him. They ended up being late to the gig.
He told the Wabash students they would have classmates who choose not to do the right thing, but that they should try to lead by example. "At some point in your life — maybe not here — you will have the chance to step up and show who you really are, and when you do, you will show who your parents and grandparents are, too."
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advice for the undergrad on the C grade
one day last week, i had a rather interesting chat whilst on a popular medieval fantasy MMORPG (bet you can figure out which one). as i got pwnd just outside the Westpark Workshop the conversation turned to how to decide whether or not to go to grad school. in itself an excellent question and posed in quite an interesting social venue.
that being said, the one thing that has stayed with me is a curious intricacy of my friend's timetable. my friend has to take a dreaded freshman course during senior year. it is one those 'prep' courses where i believe you only get 1 credit and you have to listen to different speakers every week and do a fair amount of composition. the issue is that m friend put it off, but the class is a requirement. no exceptions.
"When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."or recieve a BFA as it is.
i am curious as to what the reaction from my teaching colleagues will be to the advice i freely offered. i told my friend to be blunt and honest with the professor.
i am a senior, i am here to fulfill the requirement, and i want XX for the grade.i find it liberating to have a student say "I want to get a C, that is my objective." i know right from that moment the amount of time to expect that this person will put forward and i know the amount of time i should spend on counseling the student. the goals are clear.
one thing that i learned from the past year is that while teaching undergrads at the state level, i will be extraordinarily lucky if 15% of my students want to pursue 'my type' of career in the fine arts. i will still require myself to teach at a high level, the work will still be geared to the para-professional who truly wants this as their career. the damned fact is: that it is hard to be in this profession. so if a student sets the goal with me and they want to try to hit 85% of the material with some aptitude, well hell yeah let's hit it. a C shows aptitude, not mastery and it is a fine grade. however, if you want a professional mark then step to it.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Wine With Clothes
As HoseMaster of Wine, I spend so much of my time here hosing all the fools and hypocrites in the wine blogosphere and the wine world that I don't often get to show off my impeccable taste in wine. And you know I have impeccable taste in wine. It's easy to tell. I mean, really, how many other people out there can stick their nose in a glass of wine, take a small sip, swish it around in their mouth and then come up with "89 points!?" This takes years of experience! It only sounds ridiculously easy, but, trust us, we who review wines, it ain't. You may disagree with "89 points" after you buy the wine and it sucks like a bucktoothed lamprey, but I'm the expert, my friends say so, and I have a blog and a keyboard to prove it. And numbers can be confusing for novices. They ask stupid questions like, "What's the difference between an 89 and a 90?" Forgivably ignorant question, but ignorant nonetheless. The standard answer is "I liked the 90 slightly more than the 89." The actual answer is "Ad revenue."
But I do have kind of a soft spot for what is known as the monthly Wine Blogger Wednesday. I enjoy this like I enjoy Jay Leno's Jaywalking spots--it's like wallowing in a warm ocean of human imbecility and misinformation. Nothing but laughs. Like someone will propose writing about wine and music pairings. And, can you believe it, they all do! It's not enough to just match wine with the appropriate food, now you have to pick the right music to accompany the wine. What about clothing? I know, let's blog about how what you're wearing affects the wine!
I opened a bottle of Frei Brothers Reserve Chardonnay. It was pretty good with my stonewashed denims, and maybe even a little better with Lederhosen, but when I put on my merkin and a codpiece, the wine just sang. In a falsetto, but it sang.
It's not enough you display your poor taste in wine, you have to mix it with esoteric music too? Oh God, I can just see it now. These dorks taking not only their own wine into a restaurant, not only their appropriate Riedel stemware (Riedel--the MG of wine glasses), but also their iPod with the music best suited to their 96-point Australian wine (A Flock of Seagulls, or Olivia Newton-John, which is more gooey?). Yeah, yeah, music affects your brain waves, but these folks don't exactly have the stuff of tsunamis in their skulls. They've barely enough to drown a mosquito.
Like most of you, I drink a bottle of wine every night. I try to drink interesting wines. After so many years as a sommelier, there aren't very many wines I don't have some appreciation for. I don't get free samples any more. I don't get tasted regularly on expensive Napa Valley Cabernets or flashy Burgundies or esoteric Italian wines, but the upside is I also don't have to taste all the manipulated and manufactured crap that desperate wine reps hope will end up by-the-glass so they can make the payments on their bar tabs. Now I just drink. Here are my impressions of a few of the wines I've tasted in the past week or so. Remember, friends, comedy is easy, wine descriptions are hard.
I have this thing for Tannat. Don't know where it started, with some bottle of Madiran I had a long time ago, but now, I seek them out. For me, it's To be, or tannat to be, that is the question. (OK, new Wine Blogger Wednesday idea--wine with Shakespeare! To paraphrase, What fucking fools these mortals be.) Neil Collins is the winemaker at Tablas Creek in Paso Robles, but Lone Madrone is his own label. Neil also has a thing for Tannat, there is even a bit planted at Tablas Creek thanks to him, so when I stopped at the Lone Madrone tasting room on HWY 46 W a few weeks ago (his were some of the best wines I tasted that trip--Paso has a lot of wineries, but very few actually worth tasting at) I was hoping there would be a Tannat to taste. And here it is, Tannat, in its gigantic glory. Man, this stuff is darker than Dick Cheney's soul. Darker than a spelunker's wet dream. Darker than the negative of a Johnny Winter photo. I love good Tannat (and Tannat is a pedigreed grape--Tannat is to Uruguay as Malbec is to Argentina, as Carmenere is to Chile, as Gruner Veltliner is to the Land of Stupid Sommeliers). Tannat is like Petite Sirah with some actual complexity. The 2005 Lone Madrone begs to be decanted, but there isn't enough oxygen in Scarlet Johansen's lungs to open this baby up. I gots Scarlet fever! Inky and brooding, very late in the evening it starts to get blueberry and cassis flavors, dark chocolate, a bit of briariness. And always the tannins. This wine is about as subtle as a lie from Sean Hannity's lips. And don't miss Lone Madrone's 2006 Roussanne! Fantastic example of this wonderful grape.
"Breggo" means sheep in the strange lingo of Boontling. As the farmer said to the lonely shepherd, "Leggo of my Breggo!" Breggo is a relative newcomer to the Anderson Valley scene, but, wow, are their white wines good! I stopped at their tasting room on HWY 128 to get some of their Pinot Gris, but it was sold out. I bought this Gewurztraminer instead, and now I wish I hadn't been so damned tight and bought a few more. You can list the Gewurz worth drinking in California on one hand and still have enough fingers left over to give me one. Navarro, Fogarty, Arista...now add Breggo. This '07 Gewurz had everything. A beautiful nose, filled with lychee and apricot and peach and flowers, a sensational, slightly oily texture (there may be some residual sugar here, but it only added to the impression), and a long, almost Vendange Tardive finish. I know Breggo is sold out of this wine, and they should be. I'd be wary of buying the '08 because of all the wildfires in Mendocino that year. Every wine up there has the possibility of smoke contamination. And when there's a fire in Mendocino, even the Breggo get the munchies. Break out the Fritos and sheep dip!
There's been a lot of buzz about this estate nestled in the hills above Alexander Valley. The owners are certainly throwing money at it like Obama at a banker's convention. They hired Ulises Valdez, Phillipe Melka, Emily Wines, and even a winemaker! I call this the New York Yankee approach to the wine business. Looks great in the preseason predictions but can all this overpriced talent create a winner? For years folks have tried to make a sensational Cabernet based wine in Alexander Valley. Jordan made the appellation famous and graciously set the bar very low. If it were limbo no one could beat them. In recent years it has been Huckleberry at Stonestreet and Verite attempting the feat (Robert Parker aside, Verite is about as interesting as a James Laube column, only easier to buy, if you can afford it), as well as Lancaster, whose wines have definitely improved under David Ramey's consulting. But Skipstone just might be the real deal. The 2005 is damned nice wine, 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and the rest split between Petit Verdot and Malbec. This is still one of those work-in-progress wines, but for a first release it's pretty impressive. It already seems to have an identity, a nice seamlessness, a vividness to the fruit, a loamy richness that speaks of the vineyard. I liked it very much, and it was worlds better the second day, which is always a good sign. If the wines improve over each vintage, Skipstone just might be the Bordeaux blend that puts Alexander Valley on the map. Or maybe they could trade for Michel Rolland and a player to be named later.
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- Matt Reid said...
Shocking! You liked a wine. I don't remember trying the tannat (was it that good?), but I thought that Lone Madrone's Nebbiolo was the only one from California I've ever had that was worth drinking.
I enjoy the Breggo line up, too.
Don't know Skipstone. Maybe if I find a couple of hundred bucks lying around....
- August 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Well, at least we now know what thrilling developments come from a prescription medication and wine pairing, Wine & Music Pairing Wednesday! Let's take two of the most subjective things on the planet, smash them together and post our findings. What goes better with almond flavored "Champagne", Jane's Addiction or Nat King Cole...or a better question, who gives a shit?
I had to Google that just to see if you were yanking our chains, (sighing) it's real. I was going to check out some of the posts but then I remembered, I didn't care.
- August 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Matt,
Thanks for posting. I actually like a lot of wines, way more than any winemaker I've ever met has liked. I just don't review that many wines because, frankly, no one cares. And, yes, the Tannat was that good. I didn't get a chance to try his Nebbiolo, and I agree with you, if it is good it's the only CA Nebbiolo worth drinking. Neil is a terrifically talented winemaker and probably hates almost everything he tastes.
My Gorgeous Sam,
Let's start our own Wine Blogging Wednesday! But we have to do it HoseMaster style--naked and drunk. I'll be drunk.
I love you so much, My Darling Sam
- August 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Can I at least have a smock?!
- August 10, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Any blogger worth his or her salt (and have you seen the prix of fleur de sel recently?) would know that Lone Madrone's best wine is the aptly named "BARFANDEL." You can assign any score you like to this wine, but I'm not sure what the point is, frankly.
If Gallo starts importing Macon for the Frei label, will that be their "French Frei" wine?
- August 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Matt Reid said...
Glad to hear it, Ron. I agree that Mr. Collins (I don't know him) is a great winemaker. On the same trip I visited Tablas Creek. Went in wondering why I should pay Cal prices for Rhone wines, rather than just buying Rhones. Left with a bunch of Tablas wines, and the answer. I hope for Mr. Collins's sake that he likes most of the wines he tries!
- August 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My Gorgeous Sam,
I love it when you're shy...A smock it is, maybe even a smock turtleneck.
Anonymous 1,
Yeah, I tasted that Barfandel. Actually, I tasted it and then retasted it about five minutes later, like any good Barfandel.
Hey Matt,
Send me some free samples. I promise to review them, but not necessarily positively. Or whatever you bloggers say to get free wines..,
- August 10, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Hosemaster, Sir,
That's why they say the Barfandel wine has such a lonnnnnng aftertaste. It's also why, I think,. they charge you twice what it's worth.
- August 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Anon 1,
Well, you know what bulimics say, What goes down, must come up. Same with wine pricing, by the way.
- August 10, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- Wines for the People said...
You've got the lingo down, Mr. HMW. At least, that's what I've said and I've gotten one free sample so far. But hm... I didn't ask for that one.
Anyhow you'll have to wait a bit. My own wine is still hanging on the vines (first vintage is 09, in other words), and hyping the wines I make for a living is not in my job description.
- August 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM
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- August 12, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
Wine For The People??
Has this name not been used twice already? The old Wine and The People in Berkeley back in the radical heyday of that town, a wine supply store and wine label run by Peter Brehm and Dennis Kelly.
And Wine For The People is a brand out of Colorado.
Man, the people are really getting to be important.
Here are other labels about to appear--
--Wines Of, By and For The People
--Hear No People, See No People, Taste No People
--Wine For The Peeps
--Pinot Power To The People
--Parkerized For the People
- August 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM
By the way, please have that winery rep pictured above deliver me a bottle of Lone Madrone Tannat. There are times when I just have to have a sample.
- August 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Have your people call my people.
Be careful, you won't be able to get the stains our of your pants. From the Tannat, I mean.
- August 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM


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Beautiful, luminous and sexy, Eva Mendes has been working consistently for a decade. Her supporting role as Denzel Washington's girlfriend-on-the-side in "Training Day" (2001) put Mendes on the map and she continued to woo male fans with action offerings like "2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003) and "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" (2003).
Mendes' pop culture presence rapidly grew out of proportion to her actual on-screen time and she became a favorite fashion model, Revlon spokeswoman, and a boon to the animal rights cause PETA when she posed nude in an advertisement that claimed the actress would rather go naked than wear fur.
Regardless of the hype surrounding the starlet, Mendes proved that she had real acting talent, offering up increasingly well-received performances in the hit comedy "Hitch" (2005) and the comic strip-based crime drama "The Spirit" (2008). With over a dozen film credits to her name and an increasing number of successful business ventures, the tough trailblazer emerged as an important role model for the growing ranks of aspiring Latin American entertainers, who can play high comedy or the femme fatale with equal determination.
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Question: When you read the script for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, what was your take on the character that they wanted you to play?
Mendes: I came from a place where I just didn't want to judge her, and I thought, "I don't want to play the cliched, stereotypical prostitute on drugs" thing and neither did Werner who wanted her with elegance, which I thought was such an interesting direction.
Question: Were you able to relate to her in any way?
Mendes: No, I can only relate to her survival instinct. It's like – we all have a survival instinct and we all do what we need to do to survive. Thank God, my life has never been that extreme, where I have to do something that extreme. Yet, we do what we have to do in life and I actually understood when she made that turn, and I understood why she did it.
Question: Tell me about working with Herzog. I mean, here's a guy whose entire career has been about taking risks. First of all, were you surprised that he was interested in doing this? And do you think that he was able to give it a very different bent to if it had been directed by an American?
Mendes: Oh, yeah he's Werner Herzog. He's been on my hit list forever. And – you know, nobody can do it like this, because when I first read the script – it's not like the script jumped out at me, but I knew, under the direction of Werner Herzog, it was going to have its own mark, because if you look at the story – I mean, it's a pretty out there, crazy story. But in anyone else's hand, it wouldn't have been as powerful. And it certainly – you know, I think Werner just puts his stamp on things. And to me, that's so exciting. Because I know for a fact that I'll never do another film like that. Like, there is not going to be another film like that. Because he's just – he's such an individual. He's so unique.
Question: In fact, I'm wondering whether or not you would have been as interested in doing this had this been directed by anyone else.
Mendes: Not at all, absolutely not. I would have read it, and it would have gone to the "no" pile, and been like, "No," to be totally honest
Question: I thought Nic was really extraordinarily out there in this. Did you guys work anything out beforehand? Or, how did this relationship manifest itself on set?
Mendes: I kind of know how Nic worked, even though Ghost Rider was such a different film. I get it, and I know his work ethic, and I just know him. And I think that with this film, we just found the tender moments. We thought those were really important. You know, we understood, these people are together through a commonality of pain. They're in such pain. And we found those moments that every girlfriend and boyfriend have. Just not in our extreme situation. But – you know, like, when he finds his spoon, I think that that's just so sweet, when he's telling me about the spoon. I mean, that's something that can be in anybody's relationship, you know? Those moments of intimacy, yet these two people are just so extreme.
Question: Was there a lot of rehearsal? Or was there any improv at all?
Mendes: No rehearsal, and a lot of improv on Nic's part. But on mine, because – which is funny to say, I'm the stable one in the relationship, which I loved. So I had to be more the straight man and in order for Nic's craziness to work, I had to kind of be more of the straight man. And I think Nic does a brilliant job – I love him being this out there and crazy, like, Vampire's Kiss and Wild at Heart. I love those performances. So, this is reminiscent, to me, of those.
Question: You and I have been speaking for a number of years now. What impresses me about you is that you go out of your way to, within yourself, push the envelope. Is it hard for you to find the right envelope for you to push?
Mendes: Oh, yeah. And it's hard because you ask me this question, and I want to tell you the honest answer. Yet I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, you know? But the truth is, it's extremely difficult to find good material for women out there. And without even bringing the ethnicity into it, there's a lack of meaty, layered, flawed female roles out there. And a lot of times what I'll do is, I'll be home and I'll watch an old Bette Davis film, or Joan Crawford, or even Marlene Dietrich. I mean, what a time in cinema for women. They had so much to do. You know, I saw Mildred Pierce the other day, and I was like – Jesus! I mean. And this was back when women were supposed to be suppressed, and it feels like for me, these last few years, and especially these last couple years, with the financial situation being what it is – nobody's doing these little movies with these flawed characters. And that's why I'm so happy promoting Bad Lieutenant right now. I'm so happy that this film is out there, but I'm looking for the next one. And it's just very hard to come by. And I've produced. I've produced a little film last year that comes out in DVD next month. It's called Live, and I'm also in it. It's a small, small, film, very, very small, tiny budget. But I'm very proud of that. But – you know, the truth is, it's so hard to come by. So for me, I have to keep thinking of, "Okay, what can I produce? Can I collaborate with a writer?" And meanwhile, I want to work, because I love what I do. And I really do try to make every character I do – I try to make her off the page as much as I can, and give her a little bit more than what she originally had.
Question: How are you able to successfully avoid being a "movie star," as against being an actress, and being sort of a victim of tabloid journalism, and dealing with that side of fame? Does that come easy?
Mendes: It's not easy, but it's something that I take great pride in, because I'm very, very private. And it's very difficult to keep privacy in this disgusting celebrity-obsessed society right now. I really don't think we need to see people buying fruit in the grocery store. I just don't think that that's relevant or fun. You know, it's one thing, seeing somebody at a premiere or something, but I just think it's out of control. And what I try to do, I make a conscious effort every day to go to places where you can sort of pick spots where you aren't going to be seen, let's say. Or, you're less likely to be seen. And that's important to me. I'm not saying it out of an annoying, like, "Leave me alone," kind of way. I want to control certain images of myself out there, because I'm an actress first and foremost. And if you know what my daily routine is, and you're privy to that, and you know details of my personal life, you're not going to buy me when I'm in a theater, and I'm acting like a World War II pilot or something. You know what I mean? It's going to be that much harder for you to divorce yourself from my personal life, and really – you know. And I love what I do. I love the craft of acting. I love movie-making. And I want to protect that, you know?
Question: You obviously have a sense of humor, too and I'm interested that you did Adam McKay's next movie, The Other Guys What was that experience like to you? Was it nice to let loose for a change?
Mendes: I can tell you that that was the best time I've ever had, in my life, on a film. Best time I've ever had.
Question: Who do you play in that movie?
Mendes: I play Will Ferrell's wife, and a doctor, thank you very much. [LAUGHTER] And I've never felt so encouraged to be free, and to let it out and let it rip. And to improvise. Again, experiences like Bad Lieutenant and Last Night, and things like We Own the Night. Love these dramatic experiences. Want more of them, but as far as fun goes? The most fun I've ever had has been on this set on these guys that I just finished, this film.
Question: What else are you doing that you're particularly excited about?
Mendes: You know, I'm excited for all three of these things for different reasons. I'm excited about Bad Lieutenant, because it's completely something different that is completely outside-the-box film, and has got its own thing going on completely. It's like a piece of art, to me. It really is. It's almost like a piece of abstract art, when you go to the museum and you see a Picasso, and you can't quite pinpoint what it is, but you know you're attracted to it, and you accept it as art. I'm excited about Bad Lieutenant for that reason. With Last Night, I'm excited that I'm working on a film that was written and directed by a female that really delves into relationships in a very deep and profound way.
Question: And you play whom in that?
Mendes: I play the woman. It's me, Keira Knightley, Guillaume Canet, and Sam Worthington and we all play "the other person," do you know what I mean? Without giving it away too much, we all play the other person, to other people. So, it's a true foursome, in a sense.
Question: It's Miramax. It's an indie.
Mendes: It's Miramax, exactly. It comes out in March. And then my summer film with the guys, I'm excited for that, because I get to be funny. I've never been encouraged to really been an idiot, and be funny!
Question: Well, not on-screen, anyway.
Mendes: Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Well, every day, yeah, in my personal life, but yeah, not on-screen, ever, so how fun.


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