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One of the reasons American history is hard to teach

…is because it keeps getting longer.

Of course, his lessons didn’t change on the day of the attacks, but once students started showing up who had completely forgotten about it — “18-year-olds who were about seven when 9/11 happened” — he knew he had to teach it. But there are only so many hours of instruction in the semester.

That meant he had to start making cuts in his lesson plans. Take Watergate. Once, he used to spend an entire lecture on the political scandal, but now, he covers it in 10 to 15 minutes. “The New Deal is another really good example,” he says. “When I first started teaching, I think I had three lectures on it.” Now he’s down to two, and that’s changed the way he teaches, too. “I try to do it differently so that I won’t overwhelm people with lots and lots of facts. And then they’ll be able to understand more history, hopefully, through only having to know a little less.”

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A month’s worth of the War of 1812

Check out this fascinating item from NPR on the differences between teaching the War of 1812 in U.S. schools and teaching it in Canada.  A teacher in Utah spends “a couple of days” on the war, with doses of the national anthem and Johnny Horton.  A teacher in Ontario, by contrast, devotes “three to four weeks” to it.

Three to four weeks!  As a pre-Civil War kind of guy, I’d love to have that much time for early American subjects in my survey classes.

Canadian units on the war aren’t just longer.  They’re qualitatively different, full of important victories and heroic characters like Laura Secord.  You’ve never heard of Laura Secord?  Don’t sweat it; neither had I, and I’m supposed to have a master’s degree in this kind of stuff.

Here are a few other items from around the Interwebs on the War of 1812 and the way we remember it—or fail to:

  • One reason our memory is selective might be because America didn’t come out of the war’s first two years looking particularly good.
  • Donald Hickey is editing a series of books on the war for John Hopkins University Press.
  • Baltimore kicked off the bicentennial with maritime festivities…
  • …and hosted a ceremony where reps from the U.S., Britain, and Canada buried the hatchet.  I’m still not forgiving them for Russell Brand.
  • Finally, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher and his students suggest that we should re-christen the conflict the “Second War of Independence.”  Not bad, but maybe we could add a little Hollywood-style pizzazz.  I’m thinking WI:2 or War of Independence 2: War Harder.  Too bad The Empire Strikes Back is already taken.

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Mississippi’s elected officials engage in a remarkable waste of time

From the Associated Press, with a tip of the hat to Way of Improvement Leads Home:

JACKSON, Miss. — Some House members want to ban Mississippi school history courses from promoting “any partisan agenda or philosophy.”

Sponsored by House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, the measure is supposed to keep history teachers or textbooks from indoctrinating students according to a particular partisan viewpoint.

“We’re trying to protect the history of our nation in its purest form,” said House Education Committee Chairman John Moore, R-Brandon.

Great.  Now who’s going to determine what constitutes the promotion of a “partisan agenda or philosophy,” and how do they go about enforcing it?  What would be the penalty for indoctrinating students—a fine, prison time, community service, a stint in a re-education camp?

The measure says in part that “public school history courses may not promote any partisan agenda or philosophy and may not be revised for the purpose of significantly changing generally accepted history to create a bias toward an ideological position.” The bill moves forward to the full House after being approved Monday by the House Education Committee on a 10-5 vote.

How does a teacher “significantly change generally accepted history to create a bias toward an intellectual position,” I wonder?  By informing students that the Soviet Union won the Cold War, or that the Constitution mandates a belief in God for all elected officials?

Oh, and get this.  The guy who’s sponsoring the legislation

said it’s a reaction to Texas disputes over what should be included in textbooks that climaxed in 2010. He said he’s not aware of any similar problem that currently exists in Mississippi.

If it’s not a problem, then why in the name of all the deities on Olympus is the legislature fooling with it?

Let me suggest that for a state consistently ranked at or near the very bottom in national assessments of education, biased history teachers should be the least of your worries.

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Getting oriented

It’s our first week back to class at LMU, which means it’s once again time to deliver my little beginning-of-the-semester spiel at the first class meeting.  I’ve developed a tradition of opening my survey classes with a somewhat crude metaphor.

Imagine that a complete college-level education in history is a big shopping mall, with a variety of stores that cater to different needs and tastes—Ancient Rome, the history of Nazi Germany, the American West, the history of women or warfare, and so on.  Students who decide to major in history, to devote their college careers to the study of the human past, get to go into these stores and spend some time browsing, trying on the merchandise and perhaps finding a few items that suit them.

A gen-ed survey course, like the ones I’m teaching this semester, is different.  In a first-year world history class, we usually don’t spend enough time on any one subject for students to get much of a feel on it.  Students thus don’t get to do much of what historians actually do, which is developing interpretations to answer questions about the past.  A survey course is all about getting oriented to the general contours of human history as a whole, just as the word “survey” in another sense denotes scoping out the general contours of a physical landscape.

If the upper-level elective courses are like stores in a mall, then a world history survey class is more like a mall directory sign, which tells you where the stores are located and what you can find in them.

This distinction is significant to me as a teacher, because it reminds me that I will inevitably have to make sacrifices in content due to the nature of a survey course.  But I explain it to my students because I don’t want them to confuse the experience of taking a survey course with the experience of doing history.

It’s a tragic irony that the very classes in which we’re able to engage non-history majors are the very same classes in which students don’t get as many opportunities to see what makes history so captivating.  In survey courses, there’s so much material to be covered that you can’t delve deeply into the kinds of problems and issues that occupy the attention of historians and advanced-level history students.  The students who really get to have fun with history are the ones who take the upper-level electives, and yet students who sign up for those classes have often done so because they already know how much fun they can have doing it.

I do my best in my survey classes to try to give students a taste of the discipline of history, even though most of our time will necessarily be spent doing the less appealing work of laying a foundation of basic historical knowledge.  But I realize that many of them won’t be inclined take a history class beyond the gen-ed requirements, and thus won’t discover that history is more than mastering general concepts and facts.  That’s why I spend a few minutes on the first day explaining my shopping mall metaphor.  The orientation that we do in survey courses is necessary and I try to make it compelling, but if possible, I want students to use my introductory class to find a few stores that intrigue them, so that when it’s time to take some electives they might consider going in for a closer look at the merchandise.

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Keep the doors open

I’m of the opinion that history departments need to be more open to the possibility that students may want to pursue career paths outside academia, so I’m pleased to see that this was one of the subjects of discussion at the AHA.

Professors need to avoid discouraging budding public historians, of course, but they should do more than that—they should be actively encouraging them.  They should familiarize themselves with the career paths open to non-academic historians and equip themselves to guide interested students along those paths.  To assume that all roads originating in higher historical education should end in a tenure-track teaching position is, I submit, irresponsible.  Jobs for history majors are scarce enough without mentors closing possible doors before their students can consider walking through them.

If academic historians are looking for ways to bridge the chasm between the ivory tower and the public, they should remember that  their classrooms are full of potential public historians.

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Stopping to smell the roses

I had to drop one of my adjunct gigs because of some additional responsibilities I was taking on, so the only college classes I’m teaching this semester are world history courses. I’ve been neck-deep in ancient history books for months, letting my to-read list on early America gather dust. I feel a little like an expatriate who’s lived overseas for so long that he starts to forget his own language.

We’re getting to a point in these courses that I both anticipate and dread—the classical era. I like it because it’s interested me since I was a kid, before I was really into “history” as a discipline; I dread it because in a survey course you generally don’t have time to get into the details, and the details are the fun part when it comes to the classical age. It’s a period that threw up more than its share of compelling people and incidents—Marathon, Syracuse, Alexander’s march to India, Hannibal crossing the Alps, Antony and Cleopatra, the fall of the Roman Republic, and all the rest of it.

It’s all very well and good to pooh-pooh dramatic narrative, but most of us who get into the history business did so because at some point in our lives we got caught up in the stories. I can’t tell you how many students of the Civil War have told me that they owe their obsession to Bruce Catton; I’ve never heard anyone tell me that an analytical monograph is what set their imagination on fire. At some point, budding young historians must (in the Apostle Paul’s phrase) “put away childish things” and learn to enjoy theory and analysis, since a love of dramatic episodes and colorful characters won’t sustain a career in history. But the fact remains that it’s just such episodes and characters that create historians and history enthusiasts.

Now, this brings us to a maddening Catch-22. Survey courses are full of potential history enthusiasts who are susceptible to the lure of these incidents and characters, but they’re also the very history courses where it’s hard to indulge in such things, because there’s so much material to get through. It’s hard to stop and smell the roses when you’ve got to cover everything from the Neolithic through the Renaissance. The pressures of time and the knowledge that storytelling doesn’t constitute history combine to make many of us reluctant to meander along these pathways in survey classes. When it happens, it’s often in spite of our attempts to avoid it.

That’s what happened to me the other day when my lecture went off the rails during my afternoon class. I got sidetracked in the Greco-Persian Wars and went off on a tangent, and my students actually enjoyed it. They were sitting up and paying attention. In terms of imparting information it was my least successful lecture of the semester so far, but in terms of student engagement it was my most successful. Maybe I should be guilty of dereliction of duty more often.

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Bits and pieces

One of the mainstays of history survey courses are collections of primary source excerpts that profs assign to supplement the textbook. The excerpts are invariably short, since the only practical way to expose students to a wide array of important primary documents is to cut them up into tiny little bits.

I’ve secretly wondered much students really benefit by reading these little snippets.  When it comes to shorter works like the Declaration of Independence, the excerpt system works pretty well.  But some longer sources don’t take to dismemberment.  How much insight can you really get from a few out-of-context paragraphs of Ben Franklin’s autobiography or the Lincoln-Douglas debates?  It’s like driving a golf cart through an art gallery at top speed while trying to catch glimpses of the paintings along the way. You can assign longer selections of fewer works, of course, but that’s a trade-off.

That’s the thing about teaching a survey course.  It’s all about trade-offs.

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Lessons… And Not Just For My Students

Two weeks went by very quickly, even if the days were long.  Even so, I feel that the knowledge I have gained and the experiences I have had in this short period of time have definitely helped shape my approach and attitude toward teaching, and possibly me as a person, too.  Coming here, into an unfamiliar setting, teaching at a school full of strangers and then coming back to live and go to class with a different set of strangers was daunting.  I was uncertain about what to expect, and my uncertainty only grew when my mentor teacher told me I would be teaching a class this week.  I prepared myself as best I could, looking over the information I needed to teach, making a lesson plan, and controlling my anxiety over teaching in front of a group of kids I knew next to nothing about.  I was scared, and to be honest, I didn’t really want to do it.

Well, today I gave my lesson.  Not once.  Not twice.  I taught three different classes.  The lesson was a test review for the students’ last test, which is tomorrow.  I had to cover a lot of information, from the Enlightenment through the Scientific Revolution, and on through the American, French, and Latin American Revolutions.  I had to end with the Industrial Revolution.  That’s a semester’s worth of information to teach in a class that has been cut short already by morning testing, in a building with no AC on an eighty-something degree day in front of students who I had only known for a few days.  I didn’t even want to be there, so imagine how they felt.  However, as soon as I started, I was fine.  I had planned my lesson well, and was comfortable in my knowledge.  I was able to guide them through most of the information they needed to know for the test tomorrow.

So I survived three lessons, right?  Wrong.  I did more than just survive them.  I learned from them, and adapted my teaching style.  As I ended each lesson, my mentor teacher gave me feedback, telling me what the students did or did no respond to, what they seemed to like about my teaching and what seemed to turn them off.  By the time my third lesson rolled around, I was almost letting the class teach itself.  They were connecting one historical event and effect to another, and all I had to do was give a little bit of correction or prompting here and there.  The notes almost wrote themselves.  I felt like I was really able to get through to that class, and that they took a lot away from the lesson.

I had talked at least a little bit with almost all of my students, and talked to the class as a whole comfortably as well.  I asked them to help me give them a good lesson, and I really think they took that to heart.

If I could put a face to my feelings...

Eventually, my terror at the idea of teaching relative strangers evaporated, turning into a crazy adrenaline rush when I realized that I WAS TEACHING!  I also realized that these weren’t total strangers I was teaching, and I had been building relationships unconsciously from the beginning.  I knew names, faces, and who to make sure had enough time to copy notes.  When three o’clock rolled around, I got cut off with about ten minutes of class left.  I was reluctant to leave because the class was being so awesome, but I left and let Ms. Kendrick take over.  I must have had the biggest, silliest grin on my face

when I was leaving the building, because the security guard couldn’t stop laughing at me.  I had faced my biggest fear about teaching, in possibly one of the toughest environments I might ever face it in, and I had overcome that fear and taught effectively.

My experience with Ms. Kendrick taught me a number of things.  Not only is it important to believe in myself and my abilities, but it is also important to believe in my students and their abilities.  Just because they don’t respond to a certain method or persona does not mean that they are unwilling or unable to learn.  In any classroom, urban or otherwise, it is important to be more than just a voice in the background like Charlie Brown’s teacher.  And finally, something as simple as noticing a student, or asking if they understand, or asking if they have anything to add can show them that you care about their ideas and opinions, and when they understand this, they will be engaged in your class.  I know everything will not be as easy as these students (yes, these problematic, troubled, urban students made it easy!) made it for me, but I have some knowledge and experience to work with now, and help me overcome obstacles in the future.

When I realized that I wanted to stay and finish my lesson today, that was when it clicked for me.  I really do want to teach.  I think I am going to love what I do, and I’m excited for my future as an educator.

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  1. jaimekatz says:

    First of all, to be honest the only reason i’m actually reading this article is because I was scrolling down for an interesting title when a terrifying picture LITERALLY JUMPED OFF the screen and I almost fell off my chair. I might have nightmares tonight.

    But anyway… i think it’s so great you have found that passion for teaching and had the chance to actually teach. Knowing how tough it is to teach lessons for an elementary audience, i can only imagine how hard it is to teach secondary. So hot dog, mad props to you. And the fact that your mentor teacher gave you instant feedback, that sounds like something that will really be useful in the long run. I completely agree, that this experience has only made me more excited to be a teacher in the future but I think a great deal of that is because of how amazing these few weeks have been, which sounds similar to your case. I’ve heard a lot of people being really intimated by this whole journey and who have decided then and there to only teach in suburban districts. Hearing how wonderful your experience was, do you think you’ll want to teach in an urban school? Just curious.

    • Sam B says:

      I’m glad to hear you are excited to teach as well. And as far as where I teach, to be honest I’ll go wherever I can find a job. However, I do feel that without this experience I might not have that outlook, and would not be as comfortable with the idea of teaching in an urban school.

  2. Emily C says:

    I also taught lessons as well and looked at my results the same way that you did. Learning from your mistakes is key. I think that you are never done learning and when you think you are you need to get yourself back in check. I think that with new materials, standards, and generations you must always be learning. If you are no longer learning than you are likely to be making the mistake of not adapting to your environment. Which I have learned is key when teaching. You can write lesson plans and have ideas of the way things should go all you want but as teachers we will be constantly be thrown curve balls. We will have to adjust to the student’s question that cought you off gaurd, the mental state of your students, suprise fire drills or assemblies.
    I am happy for you and your discovery about your future today. Many students think they want to do one thing with your life, but that changes when they are thrown into actually doing that job. Fortunatly because in order to learn to teach we can not just go to classes and learn theories and teaching styles, we must simply dive in and learn from our mistakes. Because we are exposed at an early age we quickly learn that we truly are ment to do this or that it may not be the correct path. This discovery also made me very excited and anxious to become an educator. I have even cought myself wishing away my college years just so I can do what I love every day.

    • Sam B says:

      I definitely agree with you about diving right in and adapting. It’s true that we can only get a certain level of preparation from courses, and we need to find out how WE teach, not how others would suggest we teach.

  3. Ashleigh M says:

    Sam, I am so happy that you had a positive experience teaching! The very first day I met you, I immediately thought that you have the potential to be a great educator. You have such a fun, joking, personality, which I think students definitely need, especially in a rigorous classroom setting. This was also evident when you performed your skit tonight. I wish you the best of luck in the future. One suggestion I have for you, is don’t wish your college years away ;) College will be over in a blink of an eye!

    • Sam B says:

      Thanks Ashleigh, good luck to you too. And believe me, if it was an option, I would probably just stay in college forever.

  4. Hali C. says:

    hi sam! i’m so impressed by your story!! i’m so glad that you were able to overcome this brick wall! especially in an urban setting as you said, if you can do it here, u can do it anywhere! i also think it’s a good thing that you had 3 chances to present your lesson plan so that by the third time, u have it down and you definitely know what you are doing. also as you said in your entry, just because students are not listening at the said moment, it doesn’t mean that they are unwilling or unable to learn. i feel like this is a lesson that a lot of us have learned these two weeks and its definitely one that will stick with us forever. keep on smiling and good job on our skit today!

    • Sam B says:

      Yeah, I definitely had that “if I did it here I can do it anywhere” feeling. I know there will be different challenges in different schools and settings, but some will be more difficult than others.

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    Hailing not from a Latino background (as his name might suggest) but from the far less sunny North of England, the irrepressible D.Ramirez brings his decades of production prowess to this sharp new EP on Great Stuff. From his days making big crossover hits that destroyed both dancefloors and the charts, to his rebirth under this very pseudonym as a tribal house monster, and later as one of the biggest guns of the electro house era, he's always been a force to be reckoned with.

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    _Lunahood_ kicks us off in a very laidback surrounding, the drums intro in a breaks style and then slides into a 4/4 groove. The deep vibes ooze out of this track in abundance particularly through the bass and chords. Big stabs of synth weave in and out and an unexpected yet extremely effective piano melody comes through while on the break those deep synths add more melody. A truly amazing slice of deep tech house and definitely one that will be picked up by many.

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Sources say Karen Davila has yet to decide on her next move after being annihilated from ‘TV Patrol.’ Karen dismissed rumors she’s joining ‘Pilipinas, Win na Win.’

To give way to Julius Babao, Henry Omaga Diaz was removed from the late-night newscast ‘Bandila.’ He has since been given a ‘morning’ assignment.

Ces Drilon, the significant other of a Presidential Communications Group secretary will remain on ‘Bandila.’ This info was leaked to the press even before an official announcement was made.

The popular children’s show ‘Batibot’ is also making a TV comeback via TV5. Remember Big Bird on ‘Sesame Street?’ Rumors say ‘Batibot’ will have a similar female character. To give you an idea of how she would look like, right click here.

Light Bites
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

President Aquino to Mar Roxas:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the null votes.”

President Aquino to Interior Undersecretary Rico E. Puno:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the guns.”

Vice President Jejomar Binay to “brod:”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the defense lawyers.”

Supreme Court to UP Law:
“How do I love thee? Let me copy some ways.”

Mai Mislang to Vietnam:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the pogi.”

Gabby Lopez to Noli De Castro:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the cash.”

Congressman Kapalmuks to pork barrel:
“How do I loot thee? Let me count the ways.”

CBCP to LBTG Rights advocates:
“How do I loathe thee? Let me count the gays.”

Exec. Secretary Paquito ‘Jojo’ Ochoa to Vina Morales:
“How do I love thee? Let me drink to that!”

ABS-CBN to Willie Revillame:
“How do I loathe thee? Let me count the suits.”

First Philippine Industrial Corp. (FPIC) to West Tower Condominium residents:
“How do I ‘leak’ thee? Let me count the pipes.”

Karen Davila to ABS-CBN:
“How do I leave thee? Let me count the offers.”

Hayden Kho to Vicki Belo:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the surgeries.”

Councilor Shalani Soledad to President Aquino:
“How do I spite thee? Let me count on Willie.”
“When television is good, nothing is better. When it’s bad, nothing is worse.”
~Newton N. Minow

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– Masakit. Baka sundan ko ang aking mister sa TV5. 51.22%
– Mag-iisip muna ako. Relax lang. 26.13%

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Makati Gas Leak
Independent experts from UP discovered that the petroleum pipeline operated by the Lopez-owned First Philippine Industrial Corp. (FPIC) was the REAL source of the gas leak at the West Tower Condominium in Brgy. Bangkal, Makati City. When the leak was first discovered, Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay was quick to absolve FPIC of any wrongdoing. The reports didn’t say though if FPIC officials were Binay’s fraternity brothers.

Briefly Noted
Three months ago, this was the headline:

To Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras:
“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”

Hostage Incident
A hostage incident took place in Brgy. Bangkal, Makati City Thursday afternoon. The crisis was swiftly resolved mainly because the police were able to control the media.

Travel Warnings & Security
Six countries have advised their nationals against traveling to the Philippines… specifically to Brgy. Bangkal, Makati City.

First the United States. Then, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain. And now, France. What have we done to you? Did we say that your wine sucked? Did we say that men in your country didn’t look good? Did we say that crossing your streets was the easiest way to die? How dare you!? How could you treat us like this when you’re not even Vietnam?!?

On Thursday, an irked President Aquino said reports of imminent terror threats in the Philippines have “no adequate basis” and “were blown out of proportion.” A day later, he confirmed “the assassination plots on several of our security officials and two ambassadors.” Ano ba talaga?

Amid reports of terror threats in Metro Manila, the Light Rail Transit is now on Alert Level 3. Meanwhile, President Aquino is on Red Alert Level 10.

Due to stricter baggage inspection, there have been long queues at LRT and MRT stations. But queues outside lotto outlets are still longer.

Mall owners are reportedly concerned over reports of imminent terror threats in the metro. To give you an idea of how concerned they have been, this morning, the Gokongweis evacuated the “snake” out of Robinsons Galleria.

Following reports of terror threats, security has been beefed up around the metro. And people from all walks of life are taking it seriously. For instance, in Makati Avenue, prostitutes are now asking for at least two IDs from customers.

Intelligence reports say Islamic terrorists are targeting San Juan City. According to San Juan Rep. JV Ejercito “extra-precautions are now being implemented” in the area. The police have been supplied high-powered rifles, the residents have been told to be vigilant, and his mom, former actress Guia Gomez, now city mayor has been advised to act like one.

This just in: Malacanang has issued a travel advisory ahead of next week’s APEC Summit in Japan. The advisory bars Asst. Sec. Mai Mislang from taking the trip with the President.

Robredo Out Soon?
Earlier reports say President Aquino is removing Secretary Jesse Robredo from the Department of Interior and Local Government and appointing him as head of an agency tasked to oversee informal settlers – something that was so appropriate since Robredo has always been treated by the president as an informal settler at the DILG.

Less than 24 hours after being quoted as such, President Aquino denied that Secretary Robredo was on the way out… apparently because his “relocation site” has yet to be established.

Lozada Out of Nuns’ Care
NBN-ZTE deal whistleblower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. is reportedly leaving the care of a group of nuns. Soon, Lozada will no longer be an informal settler.

Pacquiao’s Endorsement
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid whom Manny Pacquiao endorsed emerged victorious in the recently concluded US midterm elections. Observers say Pacquiao’s endorsement was a huge factor in Reid’s win although it also helped that the senator didn’t attempt to discredit his opponent by releasing manufactured psychiatric reports.

La Greta’s Undies
Interviewed on ANC, actress Gretchen Barretto explained that she would never ever wear cheap panties because she was “always ready.” She didn’t say though if she’s ready to explain why her lips are the only part of her face that move.
“I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, “Say something funny then.” I told them I had just graduated from flying school.”
~Ahmed Ahmed

Barranda Out, Fullido In
From a very reliable source: Model Phoemela Barranda who hosts the showbiz segment ‘Star Patrol’ on TV Patrol will be replaced by Gretchen Fullido starting Monday, November 8. Ouch!

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– Rated K 12.7%
– Wala sa dalawa! 36.68%

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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey by Linda Greenhouse (Times Books, 258 pages, $25.00)

The day that former president Lyndon Johnson died, January 22, 1973, Justice Harry Blackmun announced the Supreme Court's 7-to-2 decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion throughout the nation. The media led with Johnson's passing, while Blackmun, in his diary, noted “abortion ﬂak,” including protests from three cardinals and the Vatican. Picketers and police protection greeted him the next day in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As Linda Greenhouse notes in her perceptive portrayal of Blackmun's career, “the rest of Harry Blackmun's life had begun” -- as did our abortion wars.

Supreme Court opinions are collaborative in nature (7 to 2 is an impressive consensus), but as Blackmun's once-comfortable majority dwindled, he increasingly personiﬁed the ruling. Militant opponents inundated him with tens of thousands of letters denouncing him as a baby-killer. He conﬁded to a Catholic priest and longtime friend, “It is hard to believe that some clergymen and sisters can indulge in such abuse and still profess to be workers in the vineyard.”

Blackmun left a prodigious amount of documentary material, and Greenhouse has used it with rare intelligence. She excavates a ﬂesh-and-blood character from Blackmun's published opinions, a lengthy oral interview, case ﬁles, correspondence, and fragmentary notes that amply reveal his personality and the workings of his mind. Greenhouse offers us a nuanced account of the impact of Roe v. Wade within the Court and a clear understanding of Blackmun's long journey to the rejection of the death penalty. The papers also provide a probing revelation of the half-century relationship between Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger, its deterioration, and its signiﬁcance -- for both the men and the Court they served.

Supreme Court justices have often disappointed their patrons. The judiciary's extraordinary independence, providing insulation from political reprisal, affords a rare opportunity for intellectual candor and honesty in a public position -- just as the Framers intended. After the lame-duck John Adams named John Marshall chief justice in 1801, the newly elected Thomas Jefferson complained that the Federalists had retreated to the judiciary to batter down the works of republicanism. He vowed to name his own ideological soul mates. Jefferson had three appointees, but all proved ideologically compatible with Marshall. President Theodore Roosevelt named Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1902, and the next year Holmes dissented in Roosevelt's ﬁrst trust-busting case. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had nine appointees, and yet the Court found itself divided by often acrimonious discord and dissension. Dwight Eisenhower lamented that choosing Earl Warren was his worst decision. Like so many others, Blackmun will be remembered as a judge appointed in a president's own image, but through the years he used his independence and intellect to evolve in wholly unanticipated ways.

Nominees today are vetted with everything but a saliva test. Unlike in the past, it has become virtually axiomatic that Supreme Court nominees have previous judicial experience, as if their earlier positions were audition camps. The number of unanticipated surprises is likely to diminish. Appellate judges, with their independence, establish track records less likely to be altered when they enter the “marble palace.”

Following the Senate's rejection of his ﬁrst two choices for the Court in 1970, Richard Nixon trumpeted Blackmun as a judge with a “strict construction” philosophy. Strict construction has been code language for reactionary objectives from its ﬁrst appearance with Jefferson's abortive attempt to prevent the establishment of a central bank in 1792, through the convolutions of southern apologists for slavery and segregation, down to the present. In practice, the Court has to give a broad construction to the Framers' language to ensure a “living Constitution.”

Ironically, Nixon had condemned strict construction in 1962, blaming it for the Court's enforcement of the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment in a New York school-prayer case. But seven years later, our serial political opportunist -- now anxious to appeal to Americans alienated by judicial rulings on racial equality, church-state separation, and the rights of the accused -- revived strict construction.

Blackmun's record as an appellate judge proved quite solid, albeit somewhat pedestrian, and his Senate hearing lasted less than four hours, during which he assured the Judiciary Committee that he would not hesitate to disagree with his boyhood friend, now Chief Justice Burger. There were no hostile witnesses, and the Senate unanimously conﬁrmed him, 94 to 0. Blackmun was 61. His mother warned him that his relationship with Burger would inevitably change. Mothers know best.

Then–Assistant Attorney General William Rehnquist had ably and perceptively reviewed Blackmun's judicial record. “He does not uniformly come out on one side or the other, though his tendencies are certainly more in the conservative direction than in the liberal,” Rehnquist wrote. “His opinions are all carefully reasoned, and give no indication of a preconceived bias in one direction or the other.”

When Nixon's press secretary described Blackmun as a strict constructionist, the judge responded that he did not work according to labels but “tried to call them as I see them.” Undoubtedly he saw himself as an advocate of “judicial restraint,” a term ﬂexible enough to accommodate a broad array of justices across the political and legal spectrum, from Hugo Black to Black's great antagonist, Felix Frankfurter. It used to be axiomatic that justices deﬁed easy pigeonholing. The Washington Post presciently commented that Blackmun's “opinions and reputation indicate that he is a conservative with an independent mind and sensitivity to new ideas.”

Blackmun ended his career in 1994, lauded and viliﬁed as the most “liberal” of the justices, but its beginnings certainly did not point in that direction. His earliest opinions were undramatic and workmanlike; most notably, he sided with the government in the Pentagon Papers case, and appeared very much as Burger's close ally.

When Burger became chief justice in 1969, Blackmun told him, “[M]y support is yours for the asking at all times.” He told FBI agents investigating Burger's background, “[D]on't assume that his attitude will be the opposite of Mr. Warren's.” He insisted that Burger's politics had been “in the liberal tradition and not in the conservative tradition. His era will not be a status quo one. He will incur criticism and opposition not unlike that of Chief Justice Warren but of a different kind.” Maybe the source of the rift was that Blackmun discovered he really did not know his old friend.

Greenhouse understands that ideology alone does not explain their eventual estrangement. Blackmun and Rehnquist always maintained cordial relations, as Blackmun did with every other justice. As for Burger, Blackmun wrote, “I do not know what he expected, but surely he could not have anticipated that I would be an ideological clone.” After several years, Blackmun no longer viewed the chief justice as his boyhood friend, but instead found himself at odds with a vain, petty, and embittered colleague. Substantial professional differences certainly made the rift more than personal: Burger's shadowy role attempting to avoid a direct confrontation with the president in U.S. v. Nixon; disagreements about affirmative action; and, most important, Burger's steady retreat from Roe.

Blackmun voted with Burger in nearly 88 percent of closely divided cases in the ﬁrst ﬁve years, but in the next ﬁve, he joined with the more liberal William Brennan nearly 55 percent of the time, while his agreement with Burger fell to almost 46 percent. In the next ﬁve years, the ﬁgures shifted to nearly 70 percent with Brennan and only 32 percent with Burger. From 1986–90, his votes with Brennan and Thurgood Marshall increased to more than 95 percent. And thus the journey for the “protégé” of Nixon and Burger -- an unanticipated journey, by any measure.

Blackmun surrounded himself with able law clerks, many of whom prodded him to new paths, and he confronted strong, opinionated colleagues, including Rehnquist, Brennan, and Lewis Powell. Greenhouse's work with Blackmun's papers, however, reveals a man charting and always in command of his own direction throughout his tenure. He used his independence to foster his own development. When asked if the assignment of Roe was good or bad luck, Blackmun thought it fortunate, for he understood what his evolution really was about. “I think one grows in controversy,” he said. He realized “it was not the fortuities themselves, but the responses they evoked from him, that shaped his life,” Greenhouse concludes. “He became Justice Harry Blackmun.”

Stanley I. Kutler is the author of The Wars of Watergate.

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FFA students take on responsibility

FFA students take on responsibility

The Baxter Bulletin Staff Writer

When the last bell rings, most Mountain Home High School students feverishly head for their cars, but the day isn’t over for Future Farmers of America (FFA) members.

They feed cattle, clean the barn, wash and blow dry cows, brush fur and let the animals out for some exercise.

“It’s a big responsibility,” said Douglas Banasiak, 17. “You’ll see us here on the weekends, all day.”

The students are spending this week getting their cattle ready for the spring show at the Baxter County Fairgrounds. Several FFA members in northwest Arkansas will converge on the fairgrounds Friday and Saturday to show off their best animals.

The Mountain Home group is taking 10 animals to the show.

Dry weather hurts hay farmers

Dry weather hurts hay farmers

The Manatee Herald

EAST MANATEE – It’s a great time for baling hay, but not necessarily for growing it.

So says Phyllis Gilreath, county extension agent for Manatee County, in reference to the winter-spring drought.

As if to underscore the point, the shock waves from heavy trucks rumbling between Bradenton and Arcadia on Wednesday raised dark billows of powdery soil along the shoulders of State Road 70.

About a mile south of the highway, near the DeSoto County line, Al Robinson was in his element.

Cows join cars in ethanol line

Cows join cars in ethanol line

Professor touts fuel byproduct as livestock feed
By Jenni Glenn
The Journal Gazette / FortWayne.com

Attendees listen during the Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference.
Photos by Janelle Sou Roberts/The Journal Gazette
Marvin Abbott, Wayne Stockland and Gordie Jones talk at the DD Ingredient Distributors Inc. booth.

The ethanol plants being built in Wells County and other locations around Indiana will produce more than vehicle fuel.

Manufacturing ethanol also creates a byproduct that can be used to feed livestock. Adding that byproduct – called distillers’ grain – to a dairy cow’s diet can encourage the animal to eat more and produce more milk, a dairy science professor told the audience at the Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference on Wednesday.

Activist Group Conducts Indiana-Ohio Anti-Agriculture Training Sessions

Activist Group Conducts Indiana-Ohio Anti-Agriculture Training Sessions

Animal Agriculture Alliance news release

The Animal Agriculture Alliance (Alliance) has learned that professional activists from New York-based Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) offered to lend citizens in Indiana and Ohio one of the organization’s five ”UVHounds”, portable monitoring devices that use ultraviolet light to detect things like hydrogen sulfide and ammonia in air. The extremist group lends the monitors exclusively to activists who plan to sue agricultural enterprises — not to activists who are just curious — because the devices are expensive (about $30,000 each).

Ohio Beef Newsletter available

Ohio Beef Newsletter available

The April 26, issue # 484, of the Ohio BEEF Cattle letter is now posted
to the web at: http://fairfield.osu.edu/ag/beef/beefAprl26.html

I saw orchard grass coming in head over the past weekend! ‘Nuff said . .
if our grazing “plan” isn’t already in full swing, we have a lot of
catching up to do. This week’s letter focuses on pasture management.

Articles this week include:
* Maximize the Use of the Spring Grass Surplus
* Why Do We Make Hay?
* Water: Second Only to Oxygen
* Baled Silage Can Mean High Quality, Timely Harvest
* “Grass Finished Beef” Pasture Walk
* Weekly Roberts Agricultural Commodity Market Report

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From plate to pen

From plate to pen

Spring brings an outpouring of culinary memoirs for readers to digest
By Stephanie Shapiro
Baltimore Sun Reporter
Originally published April 26, 2006

Whether they write of the rarified realm of a megawatt restaurant, the cheery domain of a Midwestern kitchen or a childhood hearth left behind, authors have pounced on food’s deep-seated power to summon the past or bring a seminal experience back to life.

Livestock the bright note in South Dakota 2005 farm income

Livestock the bright note in South Dakota 2005 farm income

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) _ Much stronger livestock prices offset
lackadaisical crop prices and crop production last year, according
to farmers participating in a management program.

Livestock sales in 2005 accounted for nearly 53 percent of farm operating income, while crop sales accounted for nearly 29 percent, said Roger DeRouchey, program instructor with the Mitchell Technical Institute’s Farm/Ranch Business Management program.


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Celebrating the VIII Noche del Vino with D.O. Valencia.

And the band played….

2011 was an `excellent´ year for DO Valencia in more than one way. Firstly of course the summer was long, dry and not too hot, something which generally was true across Spain and led to yields of high quality fruit…..so the wines had the potential which seems to have been met to make the top qualification as in 2005 and 2000.

Then , of course, you can say that selling 45 million bottles of wine is no small achievement. 56 million litres of wine were produced, some 6% more than in 2010. Much of this wine has been exported with China leading the way, but sales to Russia, Mexico and Brazil have also increased which is just as well given that home consumption in Spain has fallen over recent years even if it has now steadied a bit.

Under the Palms…..

And then there are the numerous awards being picked up by bodegas for the excellent wines they are producing.  As the DO are keen to point out their wines have garnered awards at competitions in Brussels, Bordeaux, London, Berlin and of course at Biofach, the German competition for ecologic wines. Murviedro continue to lead the way with the other big bodegas such as Gandia and La Viña being joined by smaller bodegas such as Torre Oria, Arraez, Enguera, Baronia de Turis, Los Frailes and Zagromonte ( Torrevellisca).

DO Valencia is made up of very different wine-producing sub-zones from the dry whites of the Alto Turia, largely made from Merseguera, the Valentino with bodegas such as El Villar producing a range of wines from the lower Turia valley, Moscatels from around Cheste, Turis and Montroy as well as the Clariano, producing excellent wines of all varieties ( including exotics such as Viognier and Gewürztraminer from Xativa to Font de la Figuera.

White Tempranillo from Arraez.

The Noche del Vino is held in the Botanic Gardens in Valencia, a mature haven of cool breezes in a city now feeling the start of the summer heat. Under specimen palms ( amongst others) some 33 bodegas representing the sub-zones set up their stands and generously dispense their wines commencing with an initial session for professionals from the restaurant and hotel trade, the press, bloggers and caterers who are then joined  by the public.

Early in the evening whilst the heat is still at its worst dry whites are the refreshing option and we started with excellent fresh, fragrant whites from the Co-op San Pedro Apostel from Moixent, the second of which, a pure P.X., is a big favourite. Also from Moixent we tasted the Cullerot 2011, Pablo Calatayud´s  new vintage of the four variety blend made in terracotta amphorae which is only recently bottled. This has all the fruit flavours and body of it´s predecessor but needs a little more time in bottle yet.

Clos Cor Vi is a new enterprise from Luis Corbi also of Moixent. Here he is making a pure Riesling, fresh and with good acidity, a pure Viognier, fuller with a  good fruity body and a blend of the two from new varieties to the area.

Mar de Sao is the white from  40 Grados Norte, the bodega in Fontanars which shares space in Torrevellisca´s bodega, another fresh easy drinker from a young operation. This was followed by the pure Tempranillo Blanco  from Antonio Arraez in Font de Figuera, curious but very pleasant to drink with a rose gold colour!

Bataller, Presenting wines from Castelló de Rugat.

Also amongst the whites tried were Belda´s Verdil, the lovely Alturia from Buñol ( an aromatic  blend of Malvasia, Merseguera and Moscatel) ,  D´Alba ( a dry moscatel from Bataller of Castelló de Rugat ) Bressol ( the Merseguera from Alfonso Sanchez in Siete Aguas) and the Mersegueras from Alcublas and Titaguas.

As the evening cooled it was time to try some younger reds.

We started with Setze Gallets, Pablo Calatayud´s blend of Garnacha, Monastrell, Mandó and Merlot , where he has experimented with the  packaging producing a tetra-brick as well as a traditional bottle! A fruity medium bodied joven style it is an easy drinker.

Dominio de los Pinos from Fontanars produce a tinto barrica from Tempranillo, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon , fruits of the forest and jam blended into an easy drinker with four months in oak.

Also from the Clariano, we re-visited the Cup de Cup from La Casa de las Vides which I reviewed in my last post.

Other reds worthy of mention were the Bressol Merlot from Sanchez Zahonero, Rafael Cambra´s Bonhomme, the 1920 from Baronia de Turis and the Argentum from Torrevellisca.

The Noche del Vino is of course also an opportunity to chat to producers and other acquaintances from Valencia´s wine world. It is also  the opportunity for the winners of awards selected by the D.O. to receive them publicly and Sylvia Cases, journalist and presenter did a sterling job announcing the long list of those selected this year whilst the Agriculture Minister Maritina Hernandez handed out the certificates etc.

The Belda stand.

Above all it is a very pleasant evening which provides the ideal opportunity to try a huge range of the excellent and diverse wines from Valencia´s biggest D.O. and its growing number of quality producers and varieties of grape! Long may it continue.

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Now all that's changed with the Segway tours. Segways are those strange contraptions you've seen downtown, traveling in packs with helmeted people steering them. The look is very Star Trek. What makes them so remarkable is the way they defy gravity. Why don't they fall over? Can they fall over? If I rode one, would it fall over?

Sarasota was the first town in the country to have Segway sightseeing, and our tours, I'm glad to report, are still the gold standard. The reason? Downtown Sarasota turns out to be the perfect place for a Segway tour. The topography-flat as a board-is ideal, the traffic, both automotive and pedestrian, is manageable, and the sights to see are just interesting enough to hold your interest without being so interesting that you forget you have to balance your Segway or you will topple over.

Your Segway tour begins with a driver's ed class, and I must say, everyone in my group picked it up pretty quick. The secret to staying up has something to do with gyroscopes-each Segway has five-and as long as you keep it balanced you're fine. If you lean forward, you go forward; if you lean back, you go back. To hold still you sort of "tread water."

Training takes about 20 minutes, and by the end of the lesson we were going backwards and doing slaloms around orange cones set in the parking lot. It was great fun, and Tom and Janey Jacobson, who run Florida Ever-Glide Tours, exude confidence and security, even when I panicked and starting heading toward a Buick with no idea of how to stop. (They say they'll take people in their 80s if they still have their faculties.)

Then it's off, off to the sidewalks and alleyways of downtown Sarasota. The tour starts in my old neighborhood, Laurel Park. This is one of the oldest parts of town and has great old houses that Tom tells stories about. We saw the group of cottages that belonged to the famous Doll Family (circus midgets and Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz) and old Judge Early's house. He was a former mayor, and, before he died about 10 years ago, the world's oldest living Eagle Scout. His two-story Dutch colonial is a Sears kit home.

Then we traveled down Oak Street to see the oldest garage in Sarasota. Oddly enough, it was very interesting. Also included: Burns Court, where the SARASOTA Magazine building was pointed out ("There's my window!" I said, letting go for a moment and immediately regretting it; my Segway began to lurch, greatly amusing Jerry Roucher, who happened to be passing by); the Towles Court artist colony and Hawkins Court, tucked away and virtually unknown, with its original brick pavement and Key West-looking houses. Some of these homes are old, dating back to the 1920s, and some are brand-new but built to blend in. They're the ones that cost $600,000. In fact, discussion of escalating real estate prices constitutes a great deal of the tour's narrative, which in Sarasota means you're on a good tour.

The only problem with the Segway tours is that they have just one itinerary, because once you've ridden one, you want to do it again. I'm trying to convince the Jacobsons to offer a Segway obstacle course, where you can ride a Segway for an hour or so just for the fun of riding one. It would be like miniature golf. Believe me, if they had Segways at Disney World, it would be the most popular ride in the park. And here's a hint for those new downtown apartment dwellers: Segways are the perfect way to get to Whole Foods and Sarasota News and Books, and they only cost $4,000.

Segways have empowered me as a sightseer. No longer is something too unusual, too expensive, or too scary. With this in mind I recently took a helicopter tour, one of those offered by Bill Cooper at Florida Suncoast Helicopters over at Jones Aviation; and I must say that seeing the town from that height makes you understand it in a way you never have before.

At first I was worried that Sarasota would look too "blah" from the air. Nothing to look at but a bunch of roofs, like Dayton. That proved to be anything but the case, however. Never has our town looked so opulent, with its wide white beaches, the blue-green water, the endless canals dotted with yachts. And the pools-swimming pools everywhere you looked. At this level, while flying low over the keys, you have a new understanding of all the money that's here. Everywhere you look, a new waterfront mansion.

The helicopter tour is good for tourists, but I also highly recommend it for anyone doing business here. The Chamber of Commerce should use it to induct new members. Any realtor who hasn't taken it is nuts. It's like looking at a living map.

And speaking of realtors, you can even see sharks out in the Gulf. They are surprisingly close to the swimmers; but Robin, our pilot, told us with a chuckle that they hardly ever attack unless you kick one accidentally. Gossips will also find much of interest on the tour. Did you know that Caren and Dick Lobo raise pigeons on their roof? Or that Frank Folsom Smith swims laps in the nude?

If you're like me, your biggest concern is, how scary is it? Not scary at all, I'm glad to report. I had never been in a helicopter before and had no desire to go, but now I'm a convert. The physical sensation is exhilarating, and you're so close to the ground that you feel that if the rotors stopped turning, you'd glide gently to the ground, which come to think of it, probably isn't the case. But as a way to see Sarasota, it can't be beat.

Florida Ever-Glide Tours; tours depart 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. and last two hours; $59 person, snack and drink included. Information: (941) 363-9556. Florida Suncoast Helicopters; half-hour tours cost $75 person, with a three-person minimum. Information: (941) 355-1259.


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Preserving Sarasota’s architectural heritage has never been more successfully accomplished than with Guy Peterson’s renovations to the iconic Revere Quality House. A classic of the Sarasota School, it was built in 1948 to showcase the use of Revere copper products in postwar housing. But its greater accomplishment was to define a moment in the history of architecture, when new ideas were everywhere and Sarasota was teeming with brilliant minds like those of Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell, the Revere House creators.

Time and remodeling had taken its toll on the house when Peterson took on the project several years ago. Even worse were the economics of the situation. The acre lot the tiny house stood on was now prime multimillion dollar Siesta Key real estate. How could it be preserved in a way that made economic sense?

Peterson and builder Pat Ball came up with the solution of making the original house the guest house for a new 4,755-square-foot home that would be the epitome of modern Sarasota luxury. The result is a museum-quality work of art—two houses that speak to each other, separated by the years but united by the timeless language of classic modernist design.


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Don't leave town without experiencing these iconic attractions.

Circus Sarasota’s Dolly Jacobs

Circus Sarasota’s Dolly Jacobs

Go to the Circus! In 1997, Pedro Reis, a 25-year veteran circus performer, and his wife, Dolly Jacobs, a celebrated, world-class aerialist and daughter of the legendary clown Lou Jacobs, created Circus Sarasota, a one-ring, European-style circus. Expect amazing performers from around the world. Circus Sarasota's winter performances, "Under the Big Top," are Jan. 25-Feb. 15, 2013 ( and shorter summer performances are at the Ringling Museum. (941) 355-9335.

Siesta Key drum circle

Siesta Key drum circle

Drum Circle on the Nation's No. 1 Beach: Named the Best Beach in America last year, Siesta is also famous for sugar-white sand. Every Sunday before sunset on Siesta Key Public Beach, the calm of dusk is broken by the rhythmic pulse of bongos, drums and maracas. It's the weekly community drum circle and it lasts long into the starry night. Bring chairs and blankets and join the circle—or sit and enjoy it. At the pavilion between Lifeguard Stands 3 and 4 on Siesta Public Beach.

See an FSU/Asolo Conservatory Play: The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training is a celebrated three-year graduate program. Second-year students act in four Conservatory productions every year—and the plays are guaranteed to be dynamic, edgy and engaging. This year's season continues with The Aliens by Annie Baker (Jan. 2-20, 2013); Stop Kiss by Diana Son (Feb. 19-March 10, 2013); and Candida by George Bernard Shaw (April 9-28, 2013).

Selby Gardens' Orchids: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens' orchid research program is world-renowned. Many of the orchids they study are housed in the Tropical Conservatory where, in the lush rain forest atmosphere, you'll find at least 75 gorgeous and rare varieties from 38 countries. It's Mother Nature's garden party. 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota; (941) 366-5731.

Visit Snooty the Manatee at South Florida Museum: Born in 1948, Snooty the manatee eats 90 pounds of veggies and fruits every day, is nearly 10 feet long and weighs 1,215 pounds. Over the years, this chunky chap has greeted more than 1 million visitors at his home at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton. 201 10th St. W., Bradenton; (941) 746-4131.

See You Later, Gator! American alligators hang out at Myakka River State Park ( all year round—but the best time to see them is in early spring during mating season. Take an airboat tour of the river—and see them from a discreet distance or get up closer on a kayak on a guided Myakka River Alligator tour with Adventure Kayak Outfitters (

Drive from St. Armands to the tip of Anna Maria Island: Gulf of Mexico Drive is a 45-minute jaunt past postcard-perfect stretches of sand and surf, from the well-manicured north tip of Longboat Key, down the length of that island, and continuing to the charming beachside towns of Anna Maria Island—Bradenton Beach, Holmes Beach and the city of Anna Maria. At drive's end, you'll find a funky pier where the Rod and Reel restaurant hovers over the waves. Reward yourself with a pitcher of ice-cold beer, a fresh fish sandwich, and a killer view of Tampa Bay and the Sunshine Skyway.

Stroll Historic Burns Square: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, downtown Sarasota's 15-block enclave of 1920-style cottages, bungalows, shops and restaurants is ideal for window shopping and strolling. Experience first-run foreign and independent film at Burns Court Cinemas, a three-screen art house cinema; dine under the sprawling splendor of a banyan tree at Owen's Fish Camp; and find rare treasures in the many galleries, and antique and consignment shops.

Watch the Skies from the Museum: The John and Mable Ringling Museum's new Joseph's Coat is a "Skyspace" created by artist James Turrell. Strictly speaking, it's an oculus—a window, looking up to the sky. In Turrell's design, the aperture works as a lens, projecting an image of the sky on the floor. At sunrise and sunset, high-tech LED lights change the color of the space. It's one of Turrell's largest pieces and one of the most technologically advanced of its kind in the world. Like the original Joseph's coat, it's a sublime, grand, awe-inspiring celebration of many colors. 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota; (941) 359-5700.

Dig into a Slice of Pie at Yoder's: What makes a Yoder's Amish Restaurant's pie so yummy? The secret is in the crust and the fresh fruit fillings, ja! The late Amanda Yoder, who founded this Sarasota institution with her husband, Levi, said that for years. It's still true today. Yoder's pie repertoire includes more than 25 mouthwatering varieties. 3434 Bahia Vista St., Sarasota; (941) 955-7771.

Jungle Gardens’ parrot show

Jungle Gardens’ parrot show

Sarasota Jungle Gardens (3701 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota; 941-355-5305) offers two reptile shows a day. No alligator wrestling; just fun facts about Florida's native dinosaurs. Plus you get to hold parrots, feed flamingoes and walk through lush tropical plantings. There's a kids' playground, too.

Getting Around

Sarasota Pedicab Company offers bike cab tours of downtown Sarasota. (941) 724-2244.

Florida Ever-Glides offers guided Segway Personal Transporters tours of downtown Sarasota. (941) 363-9556.

Sarasota Trolley features 34-seat, open-air vehicles with traditional oak wood interiors. (941) 346-3115.

SRQ Trolley provides a variety of tours and special-occasion uses, including city, bar hopping and holiday tours. (941) 538-1414.

Siesta Island Trolley offers two 25-passenger, open-air trolleys, and two 34-passenger, closed-air trolleys. Extras include catered trips, tours of holiday lights and pub crawling. (941) 915-3232.

For more standard modes of transportation:

Sarasota County Area Transit: (941) 861-1234.

Yellow Cab of Sarasota: Servicing areas in Sarasota County only. (941) 955-3341.

Regal Transportation of Sarasota: Specializing in door-to-door luxury sedans and SUVs to airports in Sarasota, Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg and Miami. (941) 351-2547.

Prime Time Limousines: Offering sedans, vans and limos for transportation to regional airports and other locations. (941) 792-3400.

Biking Around Sarasota: For detailed information about Sarasota's bike paths and lanes, check out the Sarasota-Manatee Bicycle Club at


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The Future of Offline Web Applications

W3C has received 27 position papers for a workshop on November 5th on the Future of Offline Web Applications, which are all worth a read if you’re interested in Widgets, AppCache, and Web Apps in general. They are all quite short (1-2 pages) but packed with useful insights into the current state of web apps.

While the primary topic is “offline web applications” this also covers the general area of installable web applications – so W3C Widgets gets a lot of mentions here, as do Google’s CRX format and Mozilla’s OWA format, though as a paper from Telefonica notes:

“These new manifest format proposals are precursors to fragmentation on the Web and we believe action has to be taken to avoid it”.

(Although most people seem to agree that a proliferation of packaging and manifest formats for web apps is unhelpful, we don’t seem to be able to escape XKCD 927)

Another point worth noting is the range of devices being considered; for example Toshiba and LG are concerned with apps for TVs as well as tablets and mobile.

However, the main focus of the papers is offline applications, and a paper from Google sums up the current state-of-the-art:

“The last few years have seen the specification of a handful of offline enabling technologies along with nascent implementations from different browser vendors. That set of enabling technologies include, LocalStorage, WebSQLDatabase, WebIndexedDatabase, WebFileSystem, WebWorkers, and ApplicationCache. Support for these is fragmented and where implementations do exist, critical components are not mature or stable enough to rely on heavily.”

The number of offline options for web applications has ballooned from storing a few kilobytes in a cookie to a wide range of storage-related specifications; the most well-known of which, LocalStorage, has quite a few implementation problems (which has prompted comments from some browser vendors that they’d prefer to deprecate or remove it – before its even had major takeup.) So clearly there is a lot of work to do in this space, whereas the area of web application manifests and packaging (aka Widgets) would seem unproblematic by comparison.

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2 Responses to The Future of Offline Web Applications

  1. Luisa Miguel says:

    Hi Scott Wilson,
    Thank you so much for the last posts, specially the one about “Offline Web Apps Workshop Position”. I had the oportunity to read your article for the W3C Conference to be held in USA soon and was impressed with the potential of the widgets applications and liked to know about the future web widgets ecosystem possibility that can be redescovered in a different perspective by the interested users. I’m not from this field of action or studing directly in this theme, but everytime I read more about your research work in this space, I get more and more interested in this matters! So, it’s been great to learn so much with you in every blogue post you write.

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star wars fight (2 player)

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player2- arrow keys move 1 sky attack 2 force push 3 low attack

player1- a & d move s attack space spin attack

player1 is proply better though player2 has aq long light saber and the abbilty to jump.

player1 is faster and is in a better possition to fight.

this is not finished as health is not taken of when hit can some1 download it and finish it please

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Recent art :D OHYESNYA ART ~

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Some art! :D I havn't like posted anything decent in ages >.< So here you go!

1. Ashfur ~ I was in a drawing Ashfur mood :D

2. Bubble ~ I entered him in a fursona creating contest, so please don't take him! :c

3. Random wolf fox thing I entered in another contest, please don't steal him either ~

4. Swimming blue wolf :D

5. Failed poison Lion ohyesnya ~

6. I like this... better late than never? xDD

7. You can tell he took a minute to do. xD

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ATL 1Lipscomb has been sending a team to Atlanta since 2000 and this spring will find yet another group serving those in need in the Atlanta area. Partnering with Atlanta Inner City Ministries (AIM), the team will be led by junior Elise Halterman and will undoubtedly be a meaningful Spring Break experience.

Students going on the trip will find themselves spending a week in Fulton County, home to one of the highest poverty rates in the United States. Having been on the Atlanta team before, Elise explains that even though these kids live relatively close to us, “They have very different struggles than I have had. I mean, there are 3rd grade girls who deal with daily neighborhood violence.”

The team will spend their time working for AIM, an organization that focuses on reaching out to ATL 2the impoverished adults and children in the community. Through Bible studies and various other volunteer efforts, trip goers get to build relationships with those in the area. Halterman describes her experience with the evening Bible study in the past, “We rode a bus into government housing neighborhoods and spent time with the kids.” She also explains that she would like to focus more on that particular activity this spring as she feels that there is much potential within the Bible study context.

There are several other Atlanta organizations that past teams have worked with, including “City of Refuge” where team members served meals. “Sitting down and hearing the stories of the regulars is a really cool experience,” Halterman remembers. When asked why she has a passion for Atlanta, she says, “There’s so much despair in our own country. People think of missions in different countries, but there is so much need here.”

ATL 3So, what kind of people is she looking for? “I’m searching for those who are looking to serve,” Halterman says simply, “Any talents and abilities are welcome.” She stresses her hope that the team will be one closely knit as she believes that a united front can have a big impact on those who watch, “One meal may not change a life, but seeing how we work together to serve may change how someone views Christians.”

International mission trips may intimidate many students who are only comfortable speaking English, but this one lacks the feared language barrier, something that Halterman thinks may be appealing to students still in search of a Spring Break opportunity. Never been on a mission trip before? Halterman welcomes the inexperienced when she sums up her criteria, “Experience isn’t needed, just the willingness to learn.”

Want to learn more about the Atlanta trip or sign up? Contact leader Elise Halterman: eehalterman@mail.lipscomb.edu,or watch a trip promo video here.

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One University Park Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37204 missions@lipscomb.edu | 615.966.6049 | Ezell 238