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Tim's Fifth MLB Anniversary (9/12/2011)
On September 12, 2011, Tim had a rough afternoon. He fell on the playground at school, banged up his knee, and had to go see the school nurse:
No fun.
But don't you worry, things were about to turn around for young Tim. Today was his Fifth MLB Anniversary and we were about to have an awesome evening of baseball at Camden Yards.
You might have noticed that Tim had a little turtle that he has been bringing to games the last couple months. His name is "Shelly" (yeah, he's a boy!). Tim got Shelly at the Baltimore Aquarium the day after Kellan's first birthday and he loves that little turtle like crazy.
On our drive to the ballpark, Tim devised a plan revolving around Shelly:
First, he wanted Shelly to get his first baseball at the game. Second, he wanted to get a player to sign the ball for Shelly. I told Tim we'd do our best to achieve these goals.
The first goal would not take long. I bought cheap (super cheap) but good (really good) tickets on stubhub, but they were not "season" tickets, and we were running late and arrived after the ballpark opened and Avi Miller was already inside the ballpark.
So we were stuck in CF-RF for about 10 minutes upon entering the ballpark.
We wandered down into section 90 to see what was happening. A few moments later, former-Mariner Chris Jakubauskas…
…saw me put on my Mariners jersey. Jak ended up calling to one of his Orioles teammates who had a baseball. The teammate tossed the ball to Jak and then Jak waved and then tossed the baseball to us.
Thanks, Jak!
Tim promptly declared that this baseball was for Shelly:
The last couple minutes before the rest of the ballpark opened to non-season ticket holders ticked by ever so slowly. But finally we were permitted to make our way into RF foul territory and around home plate. We were going to head down the foul line toward the LF foul pole. By this time, the Rays were hitting and the Orioles had all exited the field. As we past third base and the infield dirt, the batter hit a soft grounder that rolled to a rest in the grass behind short stop. Rays pitcher J.P. Howell ran over from shallow CF, grabbed the ball, waved to us and made a long throw our way.
Thanks, J.P.!
Mere seconds after gloving the ball, a familiar voice came from behind us, "That's J.P. Howell." It was our friend and future
Orioles Fan Hall of Famer Avi Miller.
Avi knew it was Tim's fifth MLB anniversary. Although he was wearing a Rays hat…
…, Avi announced that he had brought a Mariners hat in honor of Tim's anniversary. Very kind, Mr. Miller.
The three of us walked down the line toward the foul pole and a Rays batter hit a grounder down the line and directly to the on-field usher (Tom) who was standing directly in front of us. Tom grabbed the ball and turned and gave it to Tim. Big thanks, sir!
Avi headed back out into left field and Tim and I stayed put. It was an unusually small BP crowd. But after hanging out in foul territory for a bit, Tim wanted to head out into LF as well.
As Tim and I circled around the foul pole, a batter hit a baseball to the wall just below us. There were really no fans anywhere around us. When Juan Cruz walked over to retrieve the baseball, I said, "Hey, Juan. Any chance we could get that baseball?"
Cruz looked right at us with a odd (but otherwise indescribable) expression, and then turned and walked away without saying a word.
So, we headed out to section 186. Not too much was going on. We chatted a bit with Matt Hersl. We chatted a bit with Avi. At one point, Avi asked if we knew a player's name…
…it was Juan Cruz. I told him that I was pretty sure it was Juan Cruz, but he'd given us a really weird look earlier so maybe I was wrong. Hmm…maybe I'd call him the wrong name?
Nah…I looked in our little book where I record all sorts of stuff. Yep, Juan Cruz had tossed us a baseball earlier in the season…and my list confirmed that his name was, indeed, Juan Cruz.
Eventually, someone hit a laser line drive homerun directly over our head. I jumped for it and it probably sailed less than a foot over my glove.
Like two seconds, I heard someone yell (at us) from the field. It was Juan Cruz! I was utterly confused. He was probably 2-3 sections over toward the LF foul pole. He held up a baseball and pointed at us. I wasn't sure if he was looking pointing at us or someone else. Tim was standing directly in front of me. In fact, I had my hands on his shoulders as I looked at Cruz with a confused look on my face. (A little backstory, I am incredibly terrible at deciphering what people with accents are saying, and Cruz is from the Dominican Republic, but for some reason it sounded like he was yelling with a thick southern accent). He yelled
something that was completely indecipherable to me:
Cruz – "BLAH, BLAH, BLAHHHH!"
Todd – (confused) What!?
Cruz – "BLEE, BLAH, BLAHHHH!"
Todd – (even more confused and not even sure if he was yelling at me or someone else!) "What!?"
Cruz – "BLEE, CAH, BLAHHHH!"
Todd – (really embarrassed by this point) "What!?!?!?!?!"
Cruz – (pointing at Tim directly in front of me) "BEEEEE CAREFULLLLLL!!!!"
Ah, ha. Finally, it all made sense — he didn't want to hit Tim with his throw!
Todd – "Oh, okay!"
And then he threw me a strike.
Thanks (and sorry), Juan!
After the baseball from Cruz (already our fourth of the day), the main highlight of the rest of BP was that James Shields made a ridiculously awesome catch, leaping high over the wall in LCF to pick off a would-be BP homerun.
Wait, there was another highlight during BP. Tim got his picture sitting in one of Camden Yards' two orange seats (the one where Cal Ripken, Jr.'s 278th homerun landed), and then Shelly got his picture in the Ripken orange seat too:
Wait, again, there was still one more highlight of BP. At one point, Tim and I were chatting with one of the Orioles regular leftfield ushers (Miss Kelly). After attending a bunch of O's games over the last couple years and hanging out with Avi and some of the
other LF regulars, Kelly clearly recognized us. But I was pleasantly surprised when she actually knew Tim's name! "Wow," I thought to myself, "If an usher knows us by name, I guess we are officially *quasi-Camden-Yards-regulars!" I like it!
After the Rays cleared the field, the extremely small crowd of BP-goers cleared out of LF except for us, Avi and one or two other guys. There were tons of BP homers strewn about the ground in the Orioles' and Rays' bullpens.
After a while the pitchers, catchers, and coaches headed out to the bullpens. Former-Mariners pitching coach and current Orioles pitching coach was kind enough to toss us a baseball from the Orioles bullpen.
Thanks, Rick!
Adair also noticed our Mariners shirts and stopped to chat a bit. He asked Tim who his favorite player is (Ichiro) and his favorite pitcher (Tim faltered, but then agreed when I suggested Felix Hernandez). I told Adair the story of my mom getting one of the Rick Adair prank t-shirts that Ken Griffey, Jr. had made during spring training in 2010. He got a kick out of that.
After Adair left, another Orioles coach (or a guy who at least seemed to be a coach) came over and started talking to some fans and signing some autographs. We decided to put Tim's pre-game autograph plan into action. It worked perfectly, and now we are proud to say that Tim's little turtle Shelly is the proud owner of a baseball from Rick Adair bearing a personalized autograph from Orioles Hall of Famer Scott McGregor:
Nice! Thanks, Scott!
It was getting close to play area time. But we hung out for a few more minutes. Eventually, Rays coach Jim Hickey entered the visitors' bullpen:
There were still probably three BP homers laying in the grass. Avi asked Hickey for one and he responded, "You're too old!" He then turned and weakly tossed a ball in our direction. But it didn't clear the fence and it bounced down into the stairway that leads from the back of the bullpen down to the bullpen bathrooms. His second toss was on the money.
Thanks, Jim!
Interesting side note, someone else later tossed the other ball (the one that Hickey failed to get over the fence) to Avi.
That was it for our field-area pre-game festivities. We're typically pretty good at getting 1 or 2 baseballs during BP. But due to the incredibly small BP crowd, we amazingly came away with six baseballs! It was pretty crazy.
Aside from a game in 2010 when we got 10 baseballs (including 7 easter eggs), we had never gotten more than 7 at a single game.
Interestingly, we had come into this game sitting on 191 baseball since Tim's first game. Coming into the game, I did not even consider the possibility that we would have a chance to approach the 200-plateau at this game. But with six baseballs in our backpack, I began to wonder. I jokingly told Avi that *all we needed* was to get 3 baseballs during the game to hit 200.
There was still no way I thought it could happen, but in the back of my mind, I thought it would be pretty cool to do it because Tim had gotten his first baseball on September 12, 2006 and his 100th exactly one year earlier on September 12, 2010. How cool would it be to hit 200 on September 12, 2011? Pretty cool, was my thought.
But enough with the wild speculations, we had a play area to get to.
Tim started out by posing for (another) picture with one of the big bird bobbleheads (this time with his trusty companion, Shelly):
And then he played like a mad man:
As play areas go, Camden Yards is always a fun one. Lots of things to do and not too crowded to have fun.
As game time approached, we grabbed a hot pile of nachos…
…and our awesome $5.00 tickets from stubhub:
Actually, that view is from row four of section 10, and our seats were actually about 10-15 feet to the left in row 4 of section 12. Anyway, the seats were awesome, and there was a constant possibility that the ballgirl would catch a foul grounder and give it to Tim.
I mean, check this out:
The ballgirl was sitting just on the other side of the guy in the blue shirt and blue hat. She did get a grounder early and gave it to
the son of the guy in orange directly in front of Tim in that last picture. But we didn't stick around in these seats (we need our freedom to move around!) long enough to see if she'd eventually give Tim a foul ball.
Here's an interesting picture:
I took it because the Orioles' first base coach's last name is "Kirby," and that is also the name of our awesome black lab (interesting fact: my wife and I met at a dog park thanks to Kirby!). The picture is also interesting because it shows home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi. Cuzzi has given us a post-game baseball once before. Hmm…I wondered if he might do it again. We'll have to wait and see.
The Rays got on the board first in this game. In the top of the third inning, the Rays scored three runs on a 2-RBI double by Ben Zobrist and an RBI single by Sean Rodriguez.
Despite the awesome seats and very real possibility of getting a foul ball from the ballgirl, Tim wanted to roam. And so, we roamed. First, we tracked down the highly accessible Orioles Bird:
Then it was time to grab a 5th Anniversary ice cream helmet. We decided to head out to LF:
Here is a panoramic view of Camden Yards from our very, temporary seats in section 80:
When Evan Longoria stepped to the plate, I sent Avi a less than prophetic text declaring that I was about to catch Evan Longoria's homerun (note: Avi, in fact, caught Evan's first homer of the 2011 season). In reply, Avi mentioned that he was sitting a couple sections to our left; over by the bullpens. So, after Longoria failed to hit a homerun to me, we relocated to section 86, where Avi delivered on his promise to wear a Mariners cap in honor of Tim's 5th MLB anniversary:
Over the next several innings, we sat in a lot of different seats in section 86, but here is just one of our short-time views of the ballpark from section 86:
We spent a lot of time during the game hanging out by the Rays bullpen.
Right below us during a big portion of the game, was Rays bullpen catcher Scott Cursi:
That hyper-crazy look on Tim's face was induced by a three-pronged attack on his senses – chocolate ice cream, chocolate sprinkles, and chocolate sauce! Only on his MLB anniversary!
I had no clue what Cursi's name was, but Avi did and he passed on the info to me and Tim. Had it stuck in my brain a little better, it
might have paid off in a big way. In the bottom of the sixth inning (with the O's trailing 4-1), Orioles catcher Matt Weiters hit a homerun that was hearing almost right to us. But it was a tiny bit to our left (toward centerfield) and not quite far enough to reach us. The homerun landed in the Orioles bullpen, bounced over the wall into the Rays bullpen, and right to Scott Cursi. We were literally the closest people to Cursi at the time. I wanted to ask him to toss the homerun ball up to us, but "Scott" just couldn't get off of my tongue. Before I could recall his name, he rolled the ball back toward the bullpen bench. It rolled past the bullpen and to a police officer stationed at the other side of the bullpen. The cop set the ball down against the back wall of the bullpen for a few seconds. Eventually, one of the players gave him the "it's okay" sign, and he tossed the homerun ball to a fan above the bullpen. Shucks!
At one point, Tim went down a couple rows and visited with…
…Avi, Flava Dave (glove on head) and Tim Anderson (Markakis jersey). In the picture above, Tim is taking great joy in pointing out the Dora the Explorer backpack in the Rays bullpen.
So, late in the game we were still sitting on 197 lifetime baseballs. I continued to tell Avi in jest that "all we need is three more balls
before the end of the game" to reach 200! But it wasn't looking it was going to happen – and why would it? I doubt we have ever got three baseballs after the start of a game before – certainly, we have never gotten three baseballs after the seventh inning stretch.
But this was Tim's Fifth MLB Anniversary! Magic was in the air!
In the seventh inning, Scott Cursi gave a baseball to a Rays-fan Dad who was celebrating his daughter's first birthday game (hey, if it was also her first game, she has a great MLB anniversary!). After he tossed up that baseball, I called down, "Hey, Scott, it is not my boy's birthday, but it's a really special day for him. Any chance he can get a baseball too?" Cursi responded in the affirmative. Then he walked over to his equipment bag (bullpen catchers always have a bunch of loose balls in their
equipment bags!), pulled out and examined two different baseballs, and then tossed one of them to us.
Thanks, Scott!
I was super-excited. Could 200 actually happen on Tim's MLB anniversary? We relocated down by Avi and the guys next to the Orioles bullpen. Avi had seen us get the ball from Cursi. "Just two more!", I reported!
In the eighth inning, our buddy Chris Jakubauskas started warming up for the Orioles…
…he was pitching to Orioles bullpen catcher (and Avi's chum) Ronnie Deck. Avi was optimistic that Deck would assist us in reaching the 200-plateau on Tim's MLB anniversary. When Jak threw his final pitch, he walked off of the mound without waiting for a return throw from Deck. Ronnie jumped to his feet, and I yelled out, "Hey, Ronnie, can we get the baseball, please!?"
Ronnie took 2-3 almost exaggerated running steps toward the bullpen bench, and then stopped on a dime, spun, and tossed us the baseball over the fence.
Holy cow, I thought, this might actually happen!
We knew what had to happen. "We're heading to the umpire's tunnel, I announced to Avi, Flava Dave, and Mr. Anderson!
Luckily, this was one of the least attended games of the season. The crowd was particularly sparse with the O's trailing 5-2 going into the ninth inning. The ushers were checking tickets and we were able to take the ideal seats beside the umpire tunnel:
As the ninth inning progressed, Tim and I chatted with the guy who sits beside the tunnel and punches the buttons that displays the pitch information (speed and kind of pitch). I tried my best, but I failed to correctly decipher a single pitch.
As the game drew to a close, I kept waiting for kids to storm the tunnel area, but it wasn't happening. Finally, Mark Reynolds struck out to end the game…
…and Phil Cuzzi walked back to the net behind home plate. After the field crew quickly opened the entrance to the tunnel, Cuzzi stayed put. He was waiting for his three colleagues to join him before he exited the field.
The mustachioed usher on the other side of the tunnel had brought a little girl down to make an attempt for an umpire ball. But the little girl and Tim were the only kids in sight while Cuzzi waited for the other umpires. I looked around expecting a flock of kids to run to the tunnel. It never happened.
As Cuzzi ducked under the net and entered the tunnel walkway, it was just the little girl and Tim who were waiting for him. I could not believe it. Our 200th baseball seemed like a guarantee at this point.
First, Cuzzi placed a baseball into the little girl's hands. Next, he turned around and spotted Tim. He reached out and placed a beautiful, rubbed up gem of a baseball into Tim's (actually Kellan's) baseball glove.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. Cuzzi!!!
On the fifth anniversary of Tim's first baseball, and the first anniversary of our 100th baseball, Tim held up his glove with a smile and displayed our 200th baseball:
I truly could not believe it. Aside from the 7-easter egg fluke game in Cleveland, we had never got nine baseballs at a game. It was like the baseball gods were smiling down on Tim trying to make his 5th MLB anniversary as special as possible.
Mission accomplished, baseball gods!
As the fans filed out of the stadium and the relievers made their way to the dugouts, Tim got a post-game photo with Flava Dave:
And then we spotted a couple Rays players lingering along the foul line wall. He headed over there and Tim autographs from
and Tim's picture with rightfielder Brandon Guyer…
…and third basemen Russ Canzler:
Before heading for the gates, we got a final Father-Son Camden Yards picture by the dugout:
When I looked back at the field on our way up to the cross-aisle, I noticed something funny – Brandon Guyer had jumped the wall and was standing with the fans (who I suspected were his friends and family) in the seats:
On the way out, we stopped on Eutaw Street so Tim and Shelly could say good-bye for the offseason to Ken Griffey Jr.'s deep RCF homerun maker:
And (okay, that other picture wasn't the *final* father-son picture), I took a parting shot of Tim and I on our way out of the gates:
It is always sad when we know we will not visit Camden Yards until the next season.
Tim said his respects to Babe Ruth…
…and then we called it a night.
It had been an amazing…
…Fifth MLB Anniversary for Tim.
September 12th is quickly becoming one of my very favorite holidays!
|2011 C&S Fan Stats
|29/5 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|19/8 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs, Angels, Indians, Reds, Giants, Tigers, Yankees, Marlins, Pirates; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels, Mets, Indians, Yankees, Phillies, Braves]
|23 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (3), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1), Reds (1), Tigers (1), Marlins (2), Braves (2), Rays (3), Pirates (1)).
|91 Baseballs (16 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 8 Orioles, 5 Umpires, 2 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 6 Phillies, 2 Mets, 6 Rays, 8 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 2 Easter Egg, 1 Glove Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 5 Angels, 4 Indians, 2 Giants, 1 Tigers, 6 Marlins,
1 Pirates)
|13/4 Stadiums [Tim – Camden Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park, Comerica Park, Yankee Stadium, Sun Life Stadium, Turner Field, Tropicana Field, PNC Park; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, Citizens Bank Park]
|18/9 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez***, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders, Chad Durbin, Russell Branyan, Brandon League***, Brendan Ryan, Mike Cameron, Brandon Guyer, Russ Canzler; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders, Tony Sipp, Chad Durbin]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|21 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino, Aroldis Chapman, Jack McKeon, Brandon League, Jaime Navarro, Brendan Ryan, Dan Cortes, Josh Lueke, Blake Beavan, Jamey Wright, Jack Zduriecik, Carl Willis, Tom Wilhelmsen,
Casper Wells, Mike Cameron, Brandon Guyer, Russ Canzler, Scott McGregor)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|9/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird, Mr. Redlegs, Gapper, Slider, Sebastian (U. of Miami), Homer, Raymond; Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|3/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington), N.L. East (Citizens Bank Park, Shea Stadium, Citi Field, Nationals Park, Sun Life Stadium, & Turner Field), A.L. East (Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Yankee Stadium (1923), Yankee Stadium (2009), Fenway Park, Rogers Centre, Tropicana Field); Kellan – N/A]
|2 Line-up Cards (Royals vs. Rangers; Indians vs. Orioles)
|*includes Spring Training**divisions where we have seen each team play a home game.***2011 All-Star


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Whenever I see this picture, I think of "The Scotsman" from Utah State University. It is not the formal fight song, but has been used as a song from the university for over 90 years.
Show me the Scotsman who doesn't love the thistle.
Show me the Englishman who doesn't love the rose.
Show me the true blooded Aggie from Utah
Who doesn't love the spot . . .
Where the sagebrush grows!
Here is a version of it caught by ESPN for your viewing pleasure. You have to be patient to get to it as the broadcast proceeds: ESPN Scotsman. You can see some other videos of the Scotsman from this link. Listening to it and remembering my experiences with the crowd still makes my hair stand on end. Here are a couple of the other chants: Aggie Cheers. This includes the Scotsman, I believe, and Winning Team/Losing Team. The later two chants arose after I graduated in 2005 but show that Aggie spirit is still well and alive.
It was not until we arrived in Scotland that we saw the marvel that the Scottish Thistle really is! Look at the size of this thistle compared to Amanda, who is 5'6″. Growing up in Idaho we had what we call Canadian Thistle, but it rarely reached half this height.
Legend tells that the Scottish were protected by the thistle when conquerors came upon them at night and hoping to attack in stealth. Unfortunately the conquerors were thwarted by the mighty thistle as it caused some of the men to shriek in pain and alerted the clansmen of the impending attack. It has been used as a Scottish emblem since the 13th century. I wonder if the English used the rose for the same reason? I do not think the Aggie will find the sagebrush to be of the same value, unless it is the delayed response of the morning after when the ticks are discovered!
At any rate, when in Scotland, stop and smell the thistle (as you can see Amanda doing). I can admit, I love the sagebrush, and I definitely love one of the spots where the sagebrush grows: Logan, Utah.

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Pete Coors endorses Maes; Buck doesn't
Former GOP senate candidate and beer magnate Pete Coors endorsed Republican gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes today, while U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck did not move beyond an earlier endorsement.
"Colorado deserves fresh leadership committed to lower taxes and creating an economic environment that will solve budget issues and create jobs," Coors said in a release from the Maes campaign. "Dan Maes will deliver that leadership to our state."
Other Republicans, however, aren't taking such a strong stance, especially with former GOP congressman Tom Tancredo running as a third-party candidate.
Republican senate nominee Buck was given a chance to comment on the governor's race at the Glenmoor Country Club today, where he spoke at a Rotary Club meeting. A neutral question was lobbed his way, asking for any opinion on the gubernatorial situation.
"No comment," Buck said.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Enqueing all types.
From: TP Diffenbach (rockbox_at_diffenbach.org)
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Can you get your mom to play a .cfg gfile before playing a book playlist?
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>Easy. When an mp3 is loaded, read it's associated cfg file, if any. To
I think we're overcomplicating a very simple idea: when the playlist
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Junior guard Russ Smith will leave Louisville early to enter the NBA draft, according to his father.
Russ Smith Sr. said the Cardinals' leading scorer "did it all" during a college career that culminated with Louisville's 82-76 victory over Michigan on Monday night for the NCAA championship. That title, two Big East crowns and an all-conference first-team selection this season completes a resume he said made it easy for his son to move on to the next level.
Smith's father said his son will announce his decision in the next week.
The 6-foot-1 Smith averaged 18.7 points this season, including 22.3 in six NCAA tournament games. But he struggled in the Cardinals' title-clinching victory, missing 13 of 16 shots and finishing with nine points.
Nonetheless, Smith Sr. said, "he's going."
"Last night didn't bother him," Smith said Tuesday. "Even if he had gone 20 for 30, he just wanted to win. He's happy for the guys that stepped up when he was struggling. That's how I taught him to play."
Calls to Louisville's athletic department were not immediately returned. Cardinals players returned Tuesday to campus from Atlanta but coach Rick Pitino, members of the basketball staff, athletic director Tom Jurich and several administrative staffers went to New Orleans to watch the Louisville women play Connecticut in the NCAA final.
Smith has not hired an agent but his father said he plans to have input into that decision. His departure would likely leave Louisville without three starters from the championship team; guard Peyton Siva is graduating and 6-10 junior center Gorgui Dieng is expected to enter the NBA draft as well.
Nicknamed "Russdiculous" by Pitino because of his wild and unpredictable play, the slight but agile Smith provided plenty of highlights for the Cardinals -- along with questionable shot selection. Before hitting a bump Monday, he was playing his best basketball this season. He averaged 25 points and three steals in the first five games of the tournament.
His father insisted those are signs he's ready to take the next step.
"At this point, there's no other reason for him to come back," Smith said. "He's had two sound years and did it all. He could come back next year but it might jeopardize his health. You've got to strike while the iron is hot."


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In 2008, Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott was on top of the world. Literally. He had a cushy seat atop one of the world's largest MMO developers, and he – you know – went to outer space. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Until today.
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Reliability, sustainability, economics, safety – these are the corner stones for selecting the next ULT freezer.
Long-lasting instruments require high-quality parts and reliable working conditions. The two-cascade cooling system of Eppendorf freezers provides high sample safety.
Sustainability and economics
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WENATCHEE, Wash. — Washington's apple crop held steady at 113.3 million, 40-pound, fresh-packed boxes, an increase of just 110,000 from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1.
While prices and exports have slipped from a year ago, when domestic sales are taken into account they are still relatively good given the size of the crop and increased competition from a year ago, industry officials say.
The crop remains the second largest ever, after last year's record 128.2 million fresh boxes, and is competing with larger New York, Michigan, Canadian, Mexican and European production.
"At this stage of the game we're in OK shape," said Dan Kelly, assistant manager of Washington Growers Clearing House Association in Wenatchee.
"You always want to do better, but overall we're good," he said.
As of Dec. 1, 28 million boxes had been shipped compared to 31.5 million at the same time last year and 25.3 million two years ago, he said. Sales are still clipping along at 2.7 million boxes per week and should remain at that level into spring, possibly peaking around 3 million per week in January, he said.
With more competition, prices have fallen for all five top volume varieties compared with a year ago, but season-to-date average prices are nowhere near in trouble, Kelly said.
Red Delicious has slipped the most to $17.57 per box on Dec. 3 compared with $22.74 a year ago and $19.24 two years ago, he said. The $17.57 may be getting close to the break-even price for growers, while the other varieties are well above break-even, he said. Gala has held better at $23.61 compared with $26.48 last year and $22.78 the year before.
Prices are likely to firm up in January as poorer quality fruit is sold out and East Coast competition wanes, he said.
Exports are down 10 percent from a year ago at 8.4 million boxes as of Dec. 1 compared with 9.4 million at the same time in 2012 and 7.8 million in 2011.
"Nobody expects us to beat the numbers of last year. We have more competition from everywhere," Kelly said. "Last year, everyone was down but us."
Washington exported a record 40.5 million boxes of apples from the 2012 crop and is on pace to reach 36 million to 37 million this season, said Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission in Wenatchee.
"We're predictably comfortable so far, but being off 10 percent is not good," he said. The commission is the industry's export promotions arm.
Mexico and Canada are Washington's largest apple export markets and their continued role is important, Fryhover said.
Mexico normally takes 10 million to 11 million boxes annually but hit 13.6 million last year, he said. Canada averages 5 million to 6 million and last year took 6.35 million boxes, he said.
Thus far this season, Canada is at 1.2 million boxes and Mexico is just getting started at 1 million, he said. There's a 40-day mandatory pest-control cold treatment for U.S. apples heading to Mexico, so sales will ramp up significantly before Christmas, Fryhover said. Exports to Taiwan will increase in January for the Chinese New Year and, if China reopens soon, that will help, he said.
Shippers are "cautiously optimistic" about the season, given more competition and a large crop, Fryhover said.
"We have a few more lower grades pushing down prices, but premium prices are good. We have more larger fruit and it has to have a competitive price to move quickly," he said. "Things are better than several weeks ago when it looked like we would have a 120-million-box crop."
The crop's current standing at 113.3 million boxes is up .1 percent from the Nov. 1 storage report, down 5.5 percent from the Aug. 1 forecast of 119.8 million boxes and down 11.7 percent from the record 128.2-million-box 2012 crop.


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Steak with whisky? Lamb and mint sauce? Banana pudding? Or completely Vegan? The menu for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is a closely guarded state secret, but one thing is assured, it will be very British. "We wouldn't really go into any of the specifics for the big day but we always concentrate on showing off the best of British produce, so your bets are safe on that," said Mark Flanagan, chief chef for Queen Elizabeth II. Over 300 guests have been invited to the evening meal and dance to be hosted by Prince Charles on the evening of April 29, hours after the couple wed at London's Westminster Abbey.
While there's been no official word on the menu, it may be not too hard to guess what the royals might be eating, after all, many of the dishes have been on the menu for hundreds of years. Legend has it, for example, that the Queen only allows one cake to be made at Buckingham palace, a rich chocolate sponge and ganache recipe that dates back to Queen Victoria. And speculation is that, given young William's fondness for eating out, a celebrity chef might be making an appearance. But, according to the man who cooked for William growing up, it isn't likely the young prince and his bride will be serving guests many trendy menu items.
Chef Darren McGrady was a chef at Buckingham Palace for 11 years before he became Diana's private chef in Kensington after she split from Charles."I think they'll have as the first course some sort of salad with a terrine. I know that one of the most popular is the Gleneagles Pate, which is like a terrine of smoked trout, smoked salmon and smoked mackerel pate".
Gleneagles Paté
"For the entree, I would see Gaelic Steaks, Tenderloin Steaks in a Whisky Mushroom Sauce, or an Organic Lamb from Highgrove", the farm of Prince Charles.
Beef Tenderloin with a Whiskey Mushroom Sauce
In 1986, a Rack of Lamb with Mint Sauce was cooked up for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. McGrady, who has also been personal chef to the queen, speculated on "a Banana Flan, a sort of sugar paste and creme patissiere inside with sliced bananas and apricot jelly" for dessert. "When I cooked for Prince William, his favourite dessert was banana flan," recalled McGrady. "Whenever he came over at weekends, he would ask for banana flan. The queen likes it, and he still does."
Banana Flan
The unmissable "fruitcake" will then follow. Steaks, fruitcake, tea biscuits: the meal will be as British as possible, admitted Darren McGrady. However, according to a report that came out on April Fool's day, it's quite possible that the menu could be entirely vegan, following the Queen's review of the multi-cultural nature of the Royal Wedding guest list. Because there are so many guests from different cultures with different religious and ethical dietary requirements, the most sensible solution is to go totally plant based to avoid diplomatic embarrassment with a Hindu dignitary eating beef or a Muslim Sultan eating pork. So the Queen's head chef, Mark Flanagan, is now working on a 100% vegan royal wedding menu but still with a 'best of British' theme. But as Chef Flanagan admits, the menu has still not been set, and could change at anytime. One thing is for sure, Flanagan and his staff are determined that every mouth-watering morsel will be perfect for the future King of England and his new bride — the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!
Gleneagles Pate
Makes 8 to 10 servings
2 pounds smoked salmon, thinly sliced and divided
1 pound smoked trout
6 sticks (1 1/2 pounds) unsalted butter, softened and divided
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill
1 tsp lemon juice
1 pound smoked mackerel
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh chives
Line a 1-pound loaf tin or pâté terrine with plastic wrap, overlapping the sides. Take half of the smoked salmon and line the sides and bottom of the loaf tin. Overlap the top edge by about 2 inches so that the salmon will fold over and cover the filling once it is in place.
Remove and discard the skin from the smoked trout, and then place the trout in a food processor and chop finely; add 2 sticks (1/2 pound) of the butter to the processor. Blend again until smooth and add the chopped dill and lemon juice. Carefully spread the trout mixture into the loaf tin on top of the smoked salmon and smooth the top. Place the loaf tin in the freezer for 10 minutes while you prepare the second layer.
Clean the food processor bowl. Remove and discard the skin from the mackerel, and place the mackerel into the food processor; chop finely. Add 2 sticks butter and blend until smooth. Take the loaf tin from the freezer, and spread the mackerel mixture smoothly on top of the trout layer without disturbing the trout layer. Place the loaf tin in the freezer for 10 minutes while you prepare the third layer.
Clean the food processor bowl once again and place the remaining smoked salmon into the food processor and chop finely. Add the remaining 2 sticks of butter and the chives to the processor, and blend again until smooth. Remove the loaf tin from the freezer, and spread the smoked salmon on top of the mackerel. Smooth the top.
Fold the overlapping pieces of smoked salmon over the top layer of the salmon spread. Cover the top with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight, or for at least 4 hours, until firm.
Remove the loaf tin from the refrigerator, and lift off the top plastic wrap. Invert the terrine onto a cutting board and remove the loaf tin and additional plastic wrap. Slice the terrine into 1-inch slices. Serve on salad leaves as an appetizer or slice the terrine into fingers and serve on crackers as a canapé.
Banana Flan
Serves 6
4 ripe bananas
½ cup apricot jelly
For the filling:
5 egg yolks
1 egg
1 ½ cups milk
½ cup heavy cream
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup of cornstarch
pinch of salt
1 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
For the pastry:
6 ounces sugar
14 ounces butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 lb all purpose flour
To prepare the pastry: In a food processor add the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla paste. Pulse until smooth and then add the flour. Tip out onto a floured surface and mix to form a smooth dough. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Roll out the pastry to about ¼ inch thick and line a 9 inch flan ring. Refrigerate for about 45 minutes. Blind bake using baking beans to hold the shape of the paste until the pastry shell is firm and golden brown. Remove from the oven, remove the baking beans and set aside.
To prepare the filling: In a heavy saucepan bring the milk and cream to the boil. Put the rest of the ingredients in a large bowl and whisk together.
Pour the milk over the egg mixture and whisk and when the milk is incorporated pour the whole contents of the bowl back into the pan and return to the heat. Continue whisking the pastry cream until it thickens (about 4 minutes) and then remove from the heat and spoon into the baked pastry shell.
Slice the bananas into ¼ inch discs and arrange neatly on top of the warm filling. Bring the apricot jelly to a boil in a small pan and brush over the top of the bananas.


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Banks faces 44 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
March 2, 2013 -- New charges involving two different alleged victims were filed against a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met through ChristianMingle.com.
Sean Patrick Banks, 37, a former Navy sailor of Del Mar, Calif., was arraigned Friday on new charges, stemming from an alleged rape of an intoxicated person in 2009, as well as a separate incident in which he allegedly attempted to dissuade a witness from talking to police.
Banks was arrested on Feb. 11 and charged with rape by a foreign object, residential burglary, and forcible rape stemming from an encounter with a woman he met through ChristianMingle.com in November 2012.
Authorities said Banks used a fake name on ChristianMingle.com to contact a woman he allegedly raped in November. Banks is also suspected of using additional aliases, such as "Rylan Butterwood" and "Rylan Harbough," to contact women on the site.
RELATED: ChristianMingle Date Rape Victims Sought by California Cops
"These charges are very defensible from our point of view," Banks' attorney, Gretchen von Helms, told ABCNews.com. "We believe the facts will speak for themselves and they will exonerate him.
"These charges are from two different people," von Helms said. "One alleging [she and Banks] had drinks together and she had sexual encounters that she said were not consented by her.
"It's rape by intoxication," she said. "It's in a date rape setting of having a consensual date versus a snatch and grab."
Von Helms said she did not know if the alleged victim met Banks on ChristianMingle.com.
With respect to dissuading a witness, von Helms said those allegations were made by Victoria Kinney, a contestant in the Miss California 2012 paegant who met Banks through ChristianMingle.com.
"She's never had any physical contact with Mr. Banks," von Helms said. "She had a talking and texting relationship only."
Von Helms said Kinney alleged she may have been Banks' next victim, "although she has never said what the words were that caused her to react in such a manner."
Kinney's attorney, Daniel Gilleon, said that while his client had never met Banks, the two had communicated online through ChristianMingle.com and had plans to go out to dinner. But before they could, Banks told her he had been arrested in connection with a sexual assault.
Gilleon said Banks told Kinney not to speak to police if they contacted her, but if she did, "she was required to first tell him," he said.
Gilleon said his client is not seeking damages, and that Kinney, a devout Christian, just wanted to encourage other women who may have been victimized by Banks to come forward.
"She really feels that she has some level of duty to make a statement that would encourage other women to come forward," he said.
At his arraignment on the new charges Friday in San Diego Superior Court, Banks was ordered taken back into custody and held without bail.
Von Helms said she and her co-counsel Jan Ronis had not been provided "the actual verbiage in order to be able to dispute or contest" the new charges made against Banks.
"We said we have people's opinions. 'I feel scared, I feel dissuaded,'" she said. "We don't have the words that made [Kinney] feel this way."
A felony bail review is scheduled for March 6, and a preliminary hearing will follow on March 26.
Banks faces 44 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
Requests made by ABC News to San Diego Deputy District Attorney David Williams III for comment were not immediately returned.


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A new open-source social web service called identi.ca challenges the conventional approach to microblogging and offers some potentially significant advantages for end users. The identi.ca web site and its underlying Laconica software platform, which were created by WikiTravel founder Evan Prodromou and his company Control Yourself, could be the alternative that many disillusioned Twitter users have been looking for.
Microblogging services are emerging as an important medium for communication. These services—which enable users to share succinct messages with groups of followers—fill an important gap between instant messaging and e-mail. The appeal isn't immediately evident to the uninitiated, but many users have found that microblogging provides easy access to useful dialog that wouldn't emerge spontaneously in any other setting.
Although microblogging offers much value to end users, the concept comes with serious implementation and monetization challenges that aren't easy to solve. Twitter, the dominant service in the microblogging arena, has become a victim of its own success. Twitter's developers haven't been able to scale the service to accommodate the rapid growth of their user population and the ecosystem of third-party applications built on top of the service. The consequence has been feature failures and frequent outages that frustrate users and disrupt conversations.
Numerous copycats and competitors have attempted to supplant Twitter as the number one service, but most have encountered the same problems or failed to gain sufficient traction. Although greater choice and competition in the microblogging space could be beneficial for consumers in many ways, the downside is fragmentation. Despite the fact that almost all of these services offer rich APIs for third-party development, they do not offer any mechanism to facilitate interoperability—they are, fundamentally, walled gardens. Microblogging services today face the same kind of balkanization that occurred when instant messaging services entered the mainstream in the 90s, necessitating the use of multiprotocol clients.
An open solution
Identi.ca offers a new approach that could potentially resolve the scalability and fragmentation problems that are seemingly inherent to the medium. The solution, says Identi.ca's Prodromou, is the software platform Laconica, which implements the OpenMicroBlogging specification, a simple open protocol for facilitating interoperability between microblogging services. This opens the door for a federated messaging model where users from different microblogging services can seamlessly interact with each other through this software compatibility layer. A particularly significant advantage of this decentralized approach is that it will help to naturally balance the user load across multiple services, reducing the potential for scalability problems.
Another attribute that differentiates identi.ca from other services is that its code base—Laconica—is entirely open source and distributed under GNU's Affero General Public License (AGPL), a copyleft license for web software that requires site operators to provide source code to end users. Anyone can take the identi.ca source code and set up their own competing microblogging service as long as they continue to make their source code changes available to everyone.
Adoption of the open-source model is accelerating development of the Laconica software and encouraging third parties to set up their own Laconica-based services that interoperate with identi.ca, thus distributing the load and enabling individual operators to innovate within their own sandboxes. Although deployment isn't easy yet, a growing number of users have successfully installed Laconica on their own servers and hooked them into the talk on identi.ca.
Although identi.ca has a lot of potential, it's still lacking in the maturity department. Some must-have features like SMS integration aren't in place yet, and it isn't widely supported by third-party software programs because the official API is still under development. Some of the features missing from identi.ca at launch have been added by its hard-working developers. In recent updates, the system gained a replies tab and an integrated search tool for finding users and messages. Other features include an instant messaging gateway, OpenID support, RSS feeds, and FOAF user relationship descriptions.
The developers say that more features are coming soon, and the IRC channel on Freenode is buzzing with activity. The official API is being specified and some unofficial techniques discovered by myself and others make it possible to programmatically interact with the system and build largely functional client applications.
It's too early to say whether identi.ca has what it takes to topple Twitter and avoid the scaling problems it has faced. There are definitely a lot of unanswered questions about whether it can achieve profitability (one possible monetization strategy would be to build branded Laconica services for major companies that are trying to tap into the Web 2.0 phenomenon). Regardless of whether identi.ca manages to achieve success in the long term, the concepts that it brings to the table are very promising and will likely shape the future of the microblogging ecosystem.


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Portraits of the Common Man in the Time of Upheaval
What is a just punishment for an elderly and frail dictator like Hosni Mubarak? It doesn't take long for the residents of the Egyptian provincial town of Tanta on the Nile Delta to consider an answer. "Let him be treated in our local hospital!" is their suggestion. Then, the former Egyptian head of state could finally experience for himself the catastrophic state of medical care in the country.
In his new book, Karim El-Gawhary offers solid political background information, peppered with humorous glimpses into the everyday life of Arabs – without prejudice or filtered through Orientalist spectacles – proving just how well he has mastered this journalistic mix. The Middle East correspondent of German and Egyptian background works for Austrian television and radio as well as numerous other German-language media.
In contrast to many past analyses of the Middle East, which frequently portrayed the region from the bird's eye view of 'realpolitik' and strategic policy analysis, El-Gawhary's "Diary of the Arab Revolution" allows individuals to speak their own minds – people with cares and concerns, who cope with their often difficult lives through hope, creativity, and humour.
A modern-day political fairy tale
El-Gawhary's detailed observations at the very start of the Arab revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya are all the more remarkable when one considers the breathtaking speed at which events took place at the start of 2011. Apparently iron-clad authoritarian systems collapsed like a house of cards. Dictators were ousted from power at an interval of 14 days. The international Middle East correspondents were left sitting on their suitcases and hardly had time to catch their breath before rushing off to cover the next event.
And they were flabbergasted by the organizational talent of the democracy movements in Tunisia and Egypt and how peaceful the demonstrations were conducted. "What took place seemed like a modern-day political fairy tale with the power to inspire just about everyone," says the Cairo-based journalist reflecting on his impressions and feelings at the time.
El-Gawhary's publication is not a book in the typical sense of the word. It is much more of a chronological compilation of newspaper articles, blog entries, transcribed television and radio broadcasts, Tweets, and Facebook postings that he wrote during the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The book allows anyone who is interested to once again experience the events as they happened.
With a nod to Star Trek, it's almost as if he says "Scotty, beam me to Tahrir Square!" The texts are framed by short explanatory passages on background to the events and on the course of the revolutions.
Strong emotions of critical self-reflections
This allows El-Gawhary free reign of his personal emotions. After years of constant negative headlines, he relates how he was moved to tears as people gathered their courage and shook off their fears to risk their lives and fight for democracy.
A political scientist and academic expert of Islamic as well, El-Gawhary also admits his misjudgements in the book. He never expected, for example, that the dictatorship in Libya would fall too. He viewed the regime of Muammar Al-Gaddafi as a "bulwark of the suppressive regimes in the region – an Arab version of North Korea."
El-Gawhary's entries end in April 2011. His concluding comments, written in July 2011, bear the tongue-in-cheek title "A look into the Arab crystal ball". Questions as to how the Arab world will develop in the future, whether democracy will finally establish roots, whether the Islamists will gain the upper hand, or whether we will merely see a change in the leadership elite are wisely left unanswered by El-Gawhary.
Nonetheless, he is certain that from the very start, the Arab revolutions were genuine and did not require any instigation from outside. He is convinced that support from Western intelligence agencies was not required to entice people on to the street to protest against their dictators. El-Gawhary's thesis is that the Europeans managed to "slip in" to the military conflict in Libya. He views the NATO bombings as not having been primarily motivated by interest in Libyan oil.
Only one thing is certain for El-Gawhary: In the coming years, the Arab world will be "a work under construction". It will be politically more erratic, more chaotic, and, as a whole, more unpredictable. The USA and Europe now face the challenge of rethinking their relations with Arab countries from the ground up and building them anew.
Nerve-wracking ups and downs
The "Diary of the Arab Revolution" takes readers along on an adventurous trip back in time to the nerve-wracking ups and downs of those days of revolution in Tunisia and Egypt in January and February 2011 – including having to be constantly "brought back down to earth".
Once more, the reader can experience the extreme mood swings, at times rejoicing to heavens and at other times sunk down to the depths of despair, repeatedly torn between the hope of a quick end to the dictatorship and the fear that the authorities will put an end to the revolution by shooting the demonstrators. Particularly striking and also a sign of the quality of El-Gawhary's reporting is the fact that even the transcriptions of his live television channel surfing make for an exciting read.
In parts, it is apparent that the book was written in considerable haste. In light of the numerous persons cited and the many locations and street names, it would have been truly helpful if the author had included maps, a timeline, and a name register. Yet, despite all this, the reader should clearly keep in mind the nature of this project. It is a diary, a document of the times, nothing more and nothing less.
The beginnings of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia are described in more than adequate detail, but the reader should not expect an analysis of the deeper, underlying social causes of the upheavals, nor a detailed justification of the thesis that France and NATO "slipped in" to Libya. Whoever wants more has to read other books.
But those who choose instead to defer to the diary format and its limitations can await an exciting and moving journey back in time to the start of the Arab revolution.
Martina Sabra
© Qantara.de 2011
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
El-Gawhary, Karim: Tagebuch der Arabischen Revolution (Diary of the Arab Revolution). Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna, September 2011


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Not long ago I screened a copy of Death and the Civil War, which premieres on PBS Tuesday, Sept. 18. Based largely on Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering, the show explores the implications of the tremendous loss of life (to the tune of over 700,000 dead) during the costliest war Americans have ever fought on their own soil.
One of the most salient facts about this bloodshed was the degree to which the country was unprepared to deal with it. Nineteenth-century Americans had particular notions about what constituted a "good death," but the war forced men to come to terms with the prospect of a sudden, horrific, and ignominious end to their lives. Neither of the two contending governments were adequately prepared for the number of losses either, lacking standardized policies or an infrastructure to handle the identification, removal, and burial of the corpses. Nor was there a systematic effort to ensure the provision of prompt and accurate information about their fate to loved ones back home. This absence of a comprehensive official effort in the war's early days forced private organizations and individuals to fill these roles, seeing to the burial of dead comrades and writing letters to their relatives.
There was improvisation and change on many levels. On an immediate and practical one, embalming grew in popularity to answer the desires of families to have soldiers' bodies shipped home for burial. The horrific death toll exacted by the war's larger battles prompted the creation of national cemeteries. Congress began authorizing the acquisition of land for burials near major battlefields in 1862, but with the establishment of a national burial ground at Gettysburg the following year, the issue of soldiers' internment became a matter of civic responsibility and public sentiment.
In fact, the growing awareness that the public owed something to the war dead and their families contributed to important changes in conceptions of the proper scope of federal activity. In some cases it took the advocacy of private individuals to accomplish this; after losing his son to the war, Henry Bowditch called for the creation of a proper ambulance service, and Clara Barton worked to locate information on the missing at the request of distraught families while advocating for greater government attention to the dead and their loved ones. This growing sense of national obligation, along with a fear that Union graves would be neglected or desecrated by hostile Southerners, led Montgomery Meigs to call for a comprehensive survey of U.S. war burials, many of which had been haphazard affairs conducted by comrades as circumstances permitted. Official requests for information on graves brought forth a deluge of written testimony, and surveyors eventually located and documented thousands of Union interments across the former Confederacy. The national government oversaw the relocation of over 300,000 of these bodies to national cemeteries, one of the largest federal programs undertaken up to that time. The war had changed the relationship between the government and its soldiers and citizens as the scale of bloodshed led to a developing notion of a debt owed by the nation to those who gave their lives for it.
This official effort did not encompass Confederate dead; instead, Southern women responded to federal neglect of their soldiers' graves by organizing their own volunteer efforts. They tended to the graveyards of Rebel soldiers in Richmond and saw to the repatriation of Southern bodies to their native soil. Both North and South developed postwar traditions to perpetuate this sense of obligation to the war dead, but there was thus a sectional difference in the level of government aid available in seeing to the disposition of bodies.
Death and the Civil War covers additional topics not discussed in this review, such as the manner in which Lincoln gave meaning to the war's dead in his dedication speech at Gettysburg, the loss of life in contraband camps, and Alexander Gardner's photographic exhibition of battlefield casualties. (The photos themselves are utilized to chilling effect throughout the program.) It's a documentary that manages to be comprehensive and intimate at the same time, conveying something of the scale of death created by the war while offering glimpses of the ways individual Americans lived out the experience in their own words. By making connections between the battlefield and the home front and by exploring the war's impact on religion, race, and memory, it brings some of the questions of the new military history to public attention. It's both informative and sobering, offering us an utterly unromanticized look at a war which resolved important issues at the heart of American history, but only at a fearsome cost. It's well worth your time, so tune in Tuesday night if you get the chance.


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DARRINGTON, Wash. - Families coping with the loss of friends and neighbors sought comfort Sunday in church services, while crews searched for more victims of the mudslide that buried the mountainside community of Oso more than a week ago.
Many of the dogs that have been essential in the search will take a two-day break, rescue crews said. Days of working in the cold and rain have taken their toll on the animals, and officials say the dogs can lose their sensing ability if overworked.
"The conditions on the slide field are difficult, so this is just a time to take care of the dogs," said Kris Rietmann, a spokeswoman for the team working on the eastern portion of the slide, which hit March 22 about 55 miles northeast of Seattle and is one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
Dogs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that arrived more recently will continue working, said Heidi Amrine, another spokeswoman for the operation.
Late Saturday, authorities revised the number of people believed to be missing from 90 to 30, while the official death toll increased by one, to 18, said Jason Biermann, program manager at the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management.
Officials have said they had expected the number of missing to change as they worked to find people safe and cross-referenced a list that likely included partial information and duplicate reports.
Authorities have said they recovered more than two dozen bodies, but they won't be added to the official tally until a formal identification is made. Underscoring the difficulty of that task, Biermann said crews are not always discovering complete remains.
Crews have completed a makeshift road that will link one side of the debris field to the other, significantly aiding the recovery operation.
They have also been working to clear mud and debris from the highway, leaving piles of gooey muck, splintered wood and housing insulation on the sides of the road.
Searchers have had to contend with treacherous conditions, including septic tanks, gasoline and propane containers. When rescuers and dogs leave the site, they are hosed off by hazardous materials crews.
The slide dammed up the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, causing water to pool up on the east side. The river cut a new channel through the mud, but the rain has raised the water level nearly a foot, Rietmann said.
In at least one place, the water level got so high that it covered areas that have already been searched, said Tim Pierce, leader of Washington Task Force 1, a search-and-rescue team.
"At this point, there's no point in searching (that area) again until the water drops back down," he said.
Rescuers should get some relief soon. Conditions were improving Sunday, and mainly dry weather is forecast Monday through Wednesday in western Washington.
The size of the debris field is also smaller than initially thought, officials said Sunday. After review and analysis, geologists have determined it is about 300 acres - just under half the size of an earlier projection of one square mile.
Away from the whirring chain saws and roaring bulldozers, many residents of nearby Darrington sought comfort in church services before another week of recovery efforts.
"I can only compare it to a hot, hearty meal after a very cold day," said Slava Botamanenko, who works at the hospital in Arlington. He said he spent two nights there to be sure he was available for work after the mudslide blocked a road.
All week, a steady stream of people has stopped in to pray at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God on the edge of town, said Lee Hagen, the senior pastor.
"At a time like this, everybody knows they've got to have God's help," he said.
Steve Huot, lead chaplain for the Arlington Fire Department, said he is seeing people in various states. Some are in shock, while others have begun to grasp the reality of the disaster. Many are exhausted.
"It's more about listening right now. You need to encourage them and maybe change their focus to staying busy for the group, for the team," he said. "You might need to drive them into something productive and make sure that they feel a sense of accomplishment and contribution."


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Infielders/outfielders: Nick Castellanos, Don Kelly, Kevin Russo, Matt Tuiasosopo
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