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A Christmas Wrap-Up (Part 2)
Continuing with the end-of-year holiday tradition here at RSBS, it's time to separate myself from my imaginary girlfriend (NSFW) and ask the interns to lock my office door so I can get down to the meaty reflection of what was the RSBS year 2011. Additionally, I must begin the sad, fiery purge of Albert Pujols memorabilia. For those of you who went to public schools, you know that maintaining a fire within a small, confined room may cause ill-fated side effects, so before I start to look like Bert the chimney sweep, let me get to it…
First of all, no year would be a good year without you, the dear RSBS reader. THANK YOU, for your readership. THANK YOU for your emails, your tweets, your comments, Facebook shares and FingerTagging! And THANK YOU for continuing to make writing about the baseball-politico world a treat for us every single day.
Like my riveting and oft rousing colleague, Mr. Krause, I too have been very impressed with our special correspondents. For me, nothing says sweet Miggy-I-Love-You quite like Mark Piebenga's His Game Is Like Waves. It presented Miguel Cabrera in a new light — that of teacher, and, considering how much Mark has taught me about what life should be about, I continue to find its lesson fitting (and helpful!).
And though I often refer to Mr. Johanna Mahmud as "the man who introduced me to the glories of the Deftones" and "the guy who schooled me on the NBA and proved why I should be madly in love with Derek Rose", I still have room to refer to him as "the guy who writes Setting the Mahmud"! Dude puts the "tit" in titillating with every piece. The last article he wrote was inspiring, if only because he found a way to get a naked Yu Darvish, an ugly sweater wearing
Johnny Matt Damon and a crying Paula Deen all in one place; but, like Al, I have to admit that there's real brilliance in his Theo-fied Arthurisms. Still, I'm a sucker for equating dead people to the performances of Adam Dunn and Miguel Tejada. Good work, good sir.
Meanwhile, no year-end applause would be complete without a nod to my longtime friend and confidant, Mr. Allen Krause. Known for his cynical twists on the political establishment and undying love of all things Detroit Tigers, it has been a pleasure to write on his wing. Sometimes he's so "on" that he finds literary genius in imagery. Indeed, that endearing Krausian wit is often highlighted by rational thought. Sometimes it points out the un-fact-checked obvious, other times it gets serious, with a real call for responsibility. And, just in case you think Mr. Krause's Libertarian-bashing makes him a soulless, automated Obamatron, this reflective piece will convince you otherwise.
But when it comes to knockin' 'em outta the interwebs park, I have to kowtow to the RSBS Presents series. The brainchild of Mr. Krause, RSBS Presents has enlightened us on the finer points of fandom and how to stay classy while reminding us that, ultimately, positivity has upside during times of turmoil. But the best of them all was learning how to score a Republican. And here I thought it involved finding Jesus and quoting Alex P. Keaton.
Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukkah and long live King Kwanzaa!


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VANCOUVER — Are all those folks struggling mightily to afford a Lower Mainland lifestyle really richer than they think? Statistics Canada believes so.
Widely reported new numbers show B.C. residents have the highest net worth in the country. No big surprise. That's mainly because of real estate holdings that have surged in value over time.
Subtracting debts from assets, B.C. families had an average net worth of $691,300 in 2012 — compared with a Canada-wide average of $554,100.
British Columbians are Canada's oil sheiks, only instead of petroleum assets we own overpriced homes.
In 2012, family units in the province — both individuals and families of two or more — held 17 per cent of Canada's net worth despite having just 13.6 per cent of its families.
Statistics Canada's recently released Survey of Financial Security affords those interested a delicious peek inside the normally locked vault of family finances.
And so, we learn some 53 per cent of British Columbians' family assets are attributable to a principal residence and other real estate holdings.
Canada wide, the comparable share is lower, at 44.5 per cent.
Alas, mortgages on those real estate assets account for more than 80 per cent of B.C. families' indebtedness, 77 per cent for families across Canada.
In B.C., 61.6 per cent of families owned their homes, and 18.4 per cent also held other real estate. But 35 per cent of them held mortgages on their main property; 32 per cent also held mortgages on their other real estate.
Figures for Canada are quite similar on this front. But differences become more apparent with scrutiny of the size of families' mortgage indebtedness.
The average mortgage on a principal residence held by B.C. families holding mortgages was $242,000 as of two years ago.
Keep in mind, that figure represents the average size of mortgages across the province. Just imagine how onerous the mortgages in the city of Vancouver would be, if singled out? Unfortunately, data is provided only by province and nationally, not by city.
Among all Canadian families with mortgages, the liability averaged quite a bit less — $166,700.
As has been reported, people in this province are the most indebted in the country, but their debts to date have been manageable with foreclosure rates and bankruptcies modest by national standards.
And it's reassuring to know, even after high housing costs, B.C. families are socking away other assets.
For example, they hold an average of $145,600 in stocks, while families elsewhere have an average $164,800 in stocks.
For all the talk of well-off British Columbians, the truth is most of us feel like churchmice after deducting housing costs from the family budget.
And it is important to remember all the British Columbians out there without real estate holdings and those, especially in Vancouver, with little hope of acquiring any, given the sky-high prices. Even teardowns and fixer-uppers have grown out of reach.
My veterinarian, owner of a successful west-side practice, emailed recently to say young professionals like him "are left with a choice between living in a 300-square-foot closet, moving to northern B.C. or renting for life."
And among those who can claim ownership, more than a third have mortgages to pay off.
Remember, too, B.C.'s median household income lags behind many other provinces. Stagnant job growth and weekly wages also are hampering people's view of themselves as well off.
British Columbians, the richest folks in Canada? Only some of them. And only on paper.


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HOUSTON – After trading for Mac Kandji on Wednesday, the Houston Dynamo made it clear that they are not done looking for options to bolster the forward position.
One player that has spent the past two-and-a half weeks attempting to show the Dynamo that he is part of the solution is Darryl Roberts. The Trinidad and Tobago international and 2007 Toronto FC Supplemental Draft pick has been in Houston since the start of preseason camp and is currently with the team in Los Angeles for four scrimmages against MLS competition.
His goal while out west is to show what he can do against the kind of competition he hopes to go up against come March.
"There's some pressure when you're on trial to perform quickly, but you try and keep your nerves and show them as much as you can when you get the opportunity," Roberts told MLSsoccer.com before leaving for LA on Tuesday. "It's an important week for me to show, not only the coach but my teammates as well, that I can match against these guys."
For Roberts, showing that he belongs will involve one thing: scoring goals. Houston have searched much of the offseason for a proven scorer, which is something the 28-year-old has shown a knack for in his past two stops.
Roberts has spent the last five years in Europe, stopping for a year-and-a-half in the Netherlands with Sparta Rotterdam and the last three in Turkey with first-division club Denizlispor. In 114 appearances combined, the 6-foot-1 striker tallied 41 times.
Now out of contract, Roberts is hoping that his next adventure comes in MLS with the Dynamo. Roberts, who started his professional career with the Carolina Dynamo of the PDL in 2006, speaks highly of the family atmosphere at the club and is happy that his brief return to the United States has alleviated some of the obstacles he faced in Europe.
"The first thing is the cultural difference and the language," Roberts said about being in MLS. "When I went in on the first day in Holland and in Turkey, there were different languages being spoken. Here, the guys are as a unit and it helps with everyone speaking English; it's certainly a plus for me."
Roberts started and logged 61 minutes in Houston's first match in LA on Wednesday, a 2-0 victory against the Montreal Impact. With three matches left, he is looking to show the coaches that he can answer the bell against quality competition and hopes to extend his stay in Houston.
"I think all along we wanted to see him play against MLS teams," Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear said on Tuesday. "That's what you're going to face weekly. Now you get to see how well they do when the defenders are better and possession is tougher to maintain. For someone like [Daryl], this week is very important."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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The eastbound U.S. 36 off-ramp to Wadsworth Parkway will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday through 5:30 a.m. March 3 so crews can complete ramp construction. Traffic will be detoured to Church Ranch Boulevard, but alternate local routes are advised, according to an email update on the U.S. 36 Express Lanes Project sent last week.
Other detours and delays to expect this week in connection with the project include:
Today through Friday:
• The westbound U.S. 36 off-ramp to Sheridan Boulevard will have a left turn lane restriction, Feb. 24-28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., for bridge excavation work. One turn lane will remain open.
Today through Sunday:
• Eastbound U.S. 36 off-ramp to West Flatiron Crossing Drive closed nightly from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. today through Thursday and from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. Friday through Sunday for median and storm drain work. Traffic will be detoured to Interlocken Loop. • Single lane restrictions in both directions of travel on U.S. 36 between Sheridan and Federal boulevards. Eastbound restrictions will be from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. for wall construction, barrier locations, grading and paving. Westbound restrictions from 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. for median barrier demolition and installation, grading, paving and concrete hauling.
• Nightly single lane restrictions from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on eastbound U.S. 36 from the Uptown Avenue bridge to Sheridan Boulevard for dirt hauling and paving.
• Nightly single lane restrictions from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. in both directions of travel on U.S. 36 from 88th Street to the Uptown Avenue bridge for dirt and concrete hauling, paving, striping, temporary barrier placement, surveying and repairing potholes.
• Single lane restrictions from 9 p.m.-5:30 a.m. in both directions of travel on U.S. 36 from the 88th Street bridge to Foothills Parkway for striping, pothole repair, barrier installation and survey work.
• Lowell Boulevard will be reduced to a single lane for approximately a quarter-mile in each direction under the U.S. 36 bridge from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Flaggers will be on site.
• Delays at the eastbound U.S. 36 off-ramp to Sheridan Boulevard and the Sheridan Boulevard on-ramp to eastbound U.S. 36 from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. for installation of temporary traffic signals.
• U.S. 36 in both directions of travel will be closed from 10 p.m. March 8 to 7:30 a.m. March 9 from Interlocken Loop to McCaslin Boulevard for utility bridge demolition. To view the detour route, go to us36expresslanes.com. Motorists are advised to use alternate routes or to plan additional travel time to navigate the detour.
For more information on the project, go to us36expresslanes.com.


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Did you know that the Pirates of the Caribbean, one of the most iconic theme park attractions of all time, was originally going to be just a walkthrough wax museum at Disneyland? How lame would that have been? Thankfully, during the upgrades to the park for its new New Orleans Square, Walt Disney got caught up in the 1964 New York World's Fair where the animatronic characters the Disney parks are famous for were developed.
As a result, the concept for the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction was radically evolved into what became one of the park's most popular attractions. And let's not forget, had Disneyland pursued its original concept and the pirates never became a hit, we might have been stuck with a Johnny Depp Country Bear Jamboree film instead. [YouTube via Boing Boing]


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I see you removed answered questions from Talk:Main Page. I think we can archive it instead of deletion (similer to what they do on wikipedia) and I have no clue how to do it though. Kindahero 22:43, 30 March 2012 (EEST)
- Yes, archiving would probably be better. I was just looking to remove some clutter! GregLucas 22:54, 30 March 2012 (EEST)
Thanks for the new templates and clean up. did you edit all template categories by hand.? I think we better start writing some bots for doing all renaming and for common tasks. I don't know yet how to create them yet. -- Kindahero 11:09, 4 April 2012 (EEST)
- Yes, I did it by hand. Agreed this is something we may want to automate as the wiki grows!


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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Recovery and Rest
I'm not really thinking too much about Twin Cities Marathon. It will come and go. It will be a fun run that I always like to take part in. No planning necessary. I'll jump in the car that Sunday morning, run and be back home for lunch. I'm not really thinking too much about the Glacial Trail 50K/50M the week later, either, although I should figure out exactly where it is, how much driving time is involved.
I'm thinking about Javelina Jundred. A 100 miler that I am going to run while my family is doing the Minnesota Deer Hunting thing. This year Troy is old enough to take part in the great MN tradition.
The RD of Javelina told me that I can drive my car right to the park and spend the weekend. There is a campground right at the entrance to where the park is, where the race is taking place, and I can sleep in the car there. I am not going to haul a tent along. I think the backseat should be sufficient.
The course is a 15 mile loop; you know how I LOVE loops! Only one drop bag is necessary!! Yeahoo! I'll be able to see the front runners, the back of the packers, oh, the fun! The race is a Halloween Dress Up Party! As if a 100 mile run wasn't fun enough, I'll dress up for it as well :) Oh, and get this: it is in the Phoenix AZ area. It will be nice and warm in AZ as the cold air begins to penetrate MN. Don't you want to join in on the fun?
On the recovery front; I'm feeling great. Still kind of tired. I haven't been sleeping well. Steve is a huge snorer and it is getting to me. I notice that the lack of sleep is causing great tiredness.
I ran 30 miles this week, slow and easy. Two sessions on the stair stepper and 1 session lifting. My gym is moving to a different location so has been closed this weekend, otherwise I would have been lifting today.
This next week I am beginning to coach two new groups of runners. I'm sure looking forward to it! One is a beginning group and the other is a 'beginning II'. We'll focus on speed workouts, hills and longer runs. I can't wait!
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Oooooo dear lord the snoring.
I have one of those too.
We have tried nasal sparys, breathe right, pillows, humidifiers, you name it. The only things that works is my "gently" ( I use the qutoes in jest, I accidentally rail him a good one once in awhile) pushing his head to the side so he gets off his back. Usually this wakes him up and he rolls over and looks at me. I would fake sleep, after 8 years of sharing a bed together, I finally admitted what I have been doing, His eyes got real wide and he said I KNEW IT!!!!
All bemoaning aside, he should have testing done at a sleep center, it can be life threatening if he has long periods of apnea, more so for men, so if it's getting worse, he should look into it. They whole tonsillectomy surgery has mixed results with the snoring though, but doesn't hurt to be educated!
P.S. What had worek is one dollars worth of earplugs from Target. Kind of a pain to get used to, but it's better than him having whiplash!!
- Diane said...
I've run a handful of marathons in a supergirl costume that includes a belt, the "S" patch I pin to a red top, a LONG cape, and, the best, red felt "boots" that fit over running shoes. I was just looking at it in my closet the other day wondering what I should do with it. If you're interested in it, let me know and I'll pass it on! Here are some pictures:
Congrats on all your accomplishments... I continue to read your blog, but don't ever comment.


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Maybe it's because I'm a lectionary preacher, but when I start to work on a sermon I start not with an idea or a theme, but with the Bible. That's what I did when I was getting ready to preach at the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia recently. The theme was "A time for extravagance" but the text was Luke 7:36-38, so instead of pulling from the files my sermon on John 12:1-8 (which was all about extravagance) I started fresh with the text from Luke 7.
I'm glad I did. I learned things I would have never learned if I had simply preached that other sermon. But one of the things I learned is that this story from Luke 7 is different from all the other stories in the Gospels about women anointing Jesus. That story from John 12:1-8 for example is a story about Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, anointing Jesus' feet with a pound of pure nard—a very precious perfume. There's a similar story in Mark 14:3-9 about a woman who comes to the home of Simon the leper, breaks open an alabaster jar of nard, and pours it on Jesus' head (not his feet). Matthew uses this same story in 26:6-13 with very little elaboration on Mark's version. Again it is an unnamed woman who pours "costly ointment" on Jesus' head.
The stories in John, Mark, and Matthew are all stories about women anointing Jesus with costly perfume or ointment as a way of preparing his body for burial. The story in Luke 7, however, is about a sinful woman who comes to Jesus while he is eating at the home of Simon the Pharisee (not the leper). She bathes his feet with her tears, wipes them with her hair, covers them with kisses, and massages them with ointment. It is a scene of shocking intimacy. There is no mention of expensive perfume, no reference to preparing Jesus' body for burial. This woman does what she does to express her gratitude for the forgiveness she has received from Jesus. It is a completely different story, about a completely different woman.
But you wouldn't have known that if you had been at the BGAV meeting. Almost everyone who stepped to the pulpit to preach or offer an interpretation on the theme talked about this woman who poured expensive perfume on Jesus' feet. They tossed the details of these four stories together as if they were one, talking about how this woman named Mary, who was a sinner (probably a prostitute), poured out ointment or perfume or something expensive on Jesus' feet (or maybe it was his head) and the fragrance filled the room.
Did it? And does it matter?
I think it does. While the stories from Matthew, Mark, and John might be lumped together under a single heading—"A woman anoints Jesus with expensive perfume in preparation for his burial"—the story from Luke needs a different heading altogether, something like—"A sinful woman pours out her gratitude for the gift of forgiveness." The point of this story is different from the others. The characters in the story are different. The details don't match up. To treat it as if it were the same story as those others is to twist its meaning into a shape Luke would not recognize—it is to do violence to the text.
You can tell I feel strongly about this. Maybe it's because I've heard too much "biblical preaching" that isn't biblical at all. It doesn't begin or end with the Bible. It is simply some preacher cloaking his thoughts and opinions in bibical language or using one verse of the Bible as a springboard into a sermon that never touches on that verse again. Maybe the next time you listen to a sermon you could ask yourself some questions: "Is it faithful to the text?" "Does it communicate what the biblical writer was trying to say?" "How much of it is simply the preacher's own opinion?" And if you're writing a sermon, of course, take the responsibility seriously. Take the Bible seriously.
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ORLANDO,Fla. – Before his first staff meeting with teachers at Englewood Elementary, a then brand-new principal had to dish out a hard dose of reality.
"I had to actually show them, here are the points for the school. When we looked at the score we had to realize we were an F," said Dr. Rahim Jones, who is now in his second year at the helm of the south Orlando school.
Englewood's grade was reported by the state last year as a D even though the school had only achieved enough points to earn an F due to a safety net protection put in place by the Board of Education.
"From that point forward we had to realize there's a sense of urgency we need to have here because this is not the story we want to talk about Englewood," said Jones.
And the standing of the school was evident with students too.
"One of the kids came up and hugged me and said. I'm so glad you are here. I don't want to be at a D school," recalled Jones of an interaction with a fourth grader.
The provision that allowed Englewood to report a D grade when it had actually achieved the points of an F school was implemented this school year. It prevented schools from dropping more than one letter grade from year to year.
As a result schools like Coquina Elementary school in Brevard County, which earned an "F" level of points, is reported as a "B" school for 2013 since it reached "A" status in 2012.
Jones decided to attack the 2012 school year at Englewood like they were an "F" school. The strategy paid off.
Englewood earned a solid C, with 467 points, when anything between 435 and 494 points will earn an elementary school that letter mark.
[READ: School grade scale | Orange County | Seminole County | Osceola County | Volusia County | Brevard County | Lake County | Flagler County | Marion County | Sumter County ]
The points are calculated based on student achievements in reading, math, writing and science as well as annual learning gains for each student, and the progress of the lowest 25 percent of students.
The latter, according to Jones, makes it more difficult for schools that are performing at grade level to move their grade because so many of the students are already performing well.
"When you have enormous contradictions like that where those students are performing very well yet their school comes in as a D or an F, or you have other facts on the ground that show you that the school is really doing well, it makes everybody in the school: the parents, the teachers, the community doubt the validity of the system," said Kathleen Oropeza, an education advocate from the group Fund Education Now.
The Orlando mother has two children that attend Blankner School, a K-8 school in an affluent area outside of downtown Orlando.
She said the board of education's decision to allow a one-letter-grade drop protection for a second year in a row was hypocritical.
"I think it was rotten to exempt 150 from that F status, but doom 107 schools to the F status knowing that it was clearly a flawed system," said Oropeza.
During the July conference call where board members approved the emergency provision, they argued over the validity of the grading system as a whole.
Sally Bradshaw, the former chief of staff for Jeb Bush, questioned letting an F school become a D or C "simply to preserve the self esteem of the adults in that district?"
Another board member, Kathleen Shanahan, referred to the model as "statistically irrelevant."
"The chairman of the board of education, Gary Chartrand, and several others stated clearly that we are not even sure we are measuring what is real. If you can say that in a public meeting then I think that's a wakeup call that some reflection on what you are doing to the state of Florida is in order," said Oropeza.
Jones said administrators, teachers and even parents need to approach the situation with honesty about where the school actually stands on the grading scale if anyone wants true change to happen.
He recommended that parents look at whether or not their child made a year's worth of growth to measure the success of the school.
The one letter grade safety net was applied to elementary and middle schools. High school grades for 2013 will be released in January.
Board of Education members did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this story.


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Names of Prince George's godparents released by palace
- List of royal mentors includes old friends%2C college pals and cousin Zara
- Royal fans already gathered outside the chapel
Prince George's godparents will include old family friends, a royal cousin, college pals and loyal staff, but not Prince Harry or Pippa Middleton, Kensington Palace announced today.
The 3-month-old royal baby is to be christened later today as Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge in a private ceremony for close family and friends in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace.
Although speculation about the godparents and the guest list — expected to be around 50 — has been rife for weeks, the palace released the list just after 9 a.m. London time, six hours before the ceremony, which will take place in the gilded environs of the intimate Chapel Royal, built starting in 1540 by Henry VIII.
The royal guests will total only five: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince Harry, Also there will be Duchess Kate's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, and siblings Pippa and James Middleton.
The godparents chosen by Prince William and Duchess Kate for their first-born son breaks with royal tradition because they include non-royal friends rather than foreign royals, as with, for example, the baby's grandfather, Prince Charles, and his great-grandmother, the queen.
The venue for the baptism into the Church of England also broke with tradition: It was last used for a royal christening, that of William's cousin Princess Beatrice, in 1988. William, Charles and the queen, for example, were christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.
The godparents are:
• Oliver Baker, who attended the University of St. Andrews with Will and Kate.
• Emilia d'Erlanger, wife of David Jardine-Paterson, who attended Marlborough College (high school) with Kate and also is an old friend to William. D'Erlanger introduced Will and Kate.
• Hugh, Earl Grosvenor, the son of the Duke of Westminster.
• Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who served as private secretary to William, Kate and Harry from 2005-2012 and continues to serve part-time as principal private secretary and equerry, and whose son was in the royal wedding.
• Julia Samuel, wife of Michael Samuel, who was a close friend of William's late mother, Princess Diana.
• Zara Phillips, wife of Michael Tindall, William's cousin, granddaughter to the queen, daughter of Princess Anne the Princess Royal, who married rugby star Mike Tindall in 2011 and is pregnant with her first child.
• William van Cutsem, a childhood friend of Will's, son of Hugh van Cutsem, one of Prince Charles' oldest friends who died a few weeks ago. Will is godfather to van Cutsem's daughter Grace, who was in the wedding.
Meanwhile, it was raining heavily in London today but that didn't stop royal fans, some outfitted in colorful gear, from gathering outside the chapel early, some as early as days before. Beneath a blue tarp, seven die-hard royalists slept overnight on the sidewalk in anticipation.
"My future king knows I've been here all night," Julie Cain, 50, of New Castle, said. "It gives you a sense of pride."
Sitting in lawn chairs set up across from where the queen will enter the christening, and adorned with Union Jack paraphernalia, these well-wishers have followed royal family events for decades.
"This is a historic moment," said John Loughrey, 58, of London, a self-proclaimed "Diana super fan." "Princess Diana will be giving her special love today."
Decked out in a Union Jack suit, Terry Hutt, 78, spent hours this morning stringing British flags to the barricades across the street from St. James's Palace. Hutt, who spent 12 days outside the Lindo Wing awaiting Prince George's birth in July, has followed every royal event since he met the late Queen Mother Elizabeth at age four.
"I'd like to think that I've become a royal family godparent of sorts," Hutt said.
Susanne Hallwarth, 53, of Northern Ireland planned a visit to see her son so it would overlap with the christening. She's attended each of the royal events since her son began working in Buckingham Palace around the time of the royal wedding.
"They're wonderful; I'm such a big fan," said Hallworth, who's a civil servant. "It's a once in a lifetime chance to be with four generations of heirs at once.
Contributing: Kim Hjelmgaard, Stephanie Haven in London


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TEACHERS USE OF A DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM FOR GIFTED STUDENTS by Christina Marotta-Garcia A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2011 Copyright 2011 Christina Marotta-Garcia
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|Teachers have the responsibility to educate a diverse group of students in heterogeneous classes. One way in which teachers meet this challenge is to differentiate the curriculum to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of each student. One particular group of students in need of a differentiated curriculum to maximize learning potential is the gifted students. America"s gifted students are not being given the chance to develop their talents to their fullest capabilities (Dixon et al. 2004). The problem that has surfaced throughout this study can be viewed through two different perspectives: concerns pertaining to teachers" ability to connect theory into practice and concerns pertaining to accountability. It is evident, due to the current era of accountability, that teachers are under pressure to raise test scores, resulting in a focus on underachieving students. The quality of general education and gifted curriculum is at risk due to primary concerns with minimal competency (Hockett, 2009). However, the GATE standards (2005) recommend that all gifted students receive a differentiated curriculum that focuses on depth, complexity of content, acceleration, and novelty. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the type and degree to which teachers of the gifted differentiate curriculum in heterogeneous classrooms. This mixed methods study consisted of a survey followed by an observation of teachers who taught a gifted cluster of third through fifth grade students in a heterogeneous classroom. Various tests were conducted and the data analyzed to determine a relationship between what the teachers reported they used to differentiate for gifted students and what was actually observed taking place in the classroom. The results from the Spearman"s Rho test found a correlation of -.570, which indicated a negative relationship between what the teachers reported in the surveys and what was observed in their classrooms. This negative correlation may be due to the challenge teachers face when applying theory they have learned in professional development training into practice. Educational researchers and professional developers need to understand the dilemmas and choices teachers have to make when applying what they have learned into practice (Battey, D. & Franke, M., 2008). Additional research is needed to support teachers of the gifted in the ability to bridge the theory to practice gap, resulting in an optimal learning environment for our most capable students. Gifted students have as much right to have their unique academic needs met as students anywhere else on the talent scale (Stanley, G., 2002).
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|TEACHERS USE OF A DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM FOR GIFTED STUDENTS by Christina Marotta-Garcia A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2011 Copyright 2011 Christina Marotta-Garcia


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Defendant is permitted access to plaintiff's social networking accounts as part of discovery in personal injury case.
Romano v. Steelcase Inc., — N.Y.S.2d —, 2010 WL 3703242 (N.Y.Sup. September 21, 2010)
Plaintiff sued defendant for personal injury that allegedly caused her to lose her enjoyment of life. During discovery, plaintiff refused to voluntarily turn over the contents of her Myspace and Facebook accounts. So defendant filed a motion to compel plaintiff to consent to having Facebook and MySpace turn over all current and deleted content from the accounts. (That consent was necessary because without it, the sites would violate the Stored Communications Act.) The court granted the motion to compel.
The court found that the information contained in the profiles was "material and necessary" to the case. In drawing its conclusion, the court dispensed with any notion that a user's privacy settings should affect the analysis. Denying defendant access to the information, the court found, would not only go against New York's policy favoring liberal discovery, but "would condone Plaintiff's attempt to hide relevant information behind self-regulated privacy settings." Plaintiff had put her physical condition at issue, so it was fair for defendant to get evidence that may contradict the assertions of injury.
The court rejected plaintiff's argument that disclosure of the information would violate her right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment. Fatal to any assertion of privacy was the fact that plaintiff had voluntarily made her information available on the sites. The court looked to earlier New York cases dealing with email to find that plaintiff had no expectation of privacy in the social networking data.
And the court made a sweeping declaration about the state of online privacy that is worth noting. Quoting from a law review article, the court observed that in the social media environment, "privacy is no longer grounded in reasonable expectations, but rather in some theoretical protocol better known as wishful thinking."


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DreamcastUK wrote:There hasn't been some lessons learned with this tournament.
No more toy racer tournaments lol , tournaments will be completed on the day they started instead of a course of three months
Ha Ha. I was thinking about doing something similar with a dreamcast game and was wondering how it worked out for you. I will be home in a week and be setting up a DreamPi. I was totally addicted to Toy Racer. I was pretty high up on some of times for the tracks.
I see that Dreamcast Live has a leaderboard for the Toy Racer tracks. Does it automatically update when I play/connect online with Toy Racer? Or is there something else I have to do to upload the times?


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Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA's "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as "a deftly transparent demonstration of new media's ability to manipulate our perceptions of time." The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
United We Stand
December 10- January 23rd 2006
Gallery Blows 0100101110101101.org Cover and Reveals Movie Hoax
From the people who convinced the entire city of Vienna that Karlsplatz, one of Vienna's main squares, would be renamed Nikeplatz, 0100101110101101.org presents a new hoax and launches an ad campaign for the fake movie, United We Stand (Europe Has a Mission). The show consists of giant movie light boxes and posters, various ads the group has placed in magazines, a website complete with a moving metal ballad theme song, and a slide show of a fictional poster campaign. The premise of this movie is as absurd as you might expect: In the year 2020 the US declares war on China, sexy Europeans note their disapproval and file some paper work.
But, a good concept alone can not make a show, and United We Stand, is lacking in assets. The gallery is too sparsely hung and in need of additional advertising materials. Among other things, the website promoting the movie lacks a trailer. One could speculate that perhaps the group was not completely ready when they hung the show in December as suggested by the postcard decal covering the original October date. What the project really needs to take off is write-up from a duped source such as cinematical.
0100101110101101.org - United We Stand - VIDEO
United We Stand (2005, 35.5MB, 4:06 min.)
'United We Stand' is a project by Eva and Franco Mattes from -0100101110101101.org.
The project is a non-existent, fully EU - produced Hollywood-style blockbuster movie that was promoted in public spaces all over the world through city-scale urban installations and viral communication tactics. at postmasters gallery, NYC, until January 21, 2006
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) will be 25 years old in 2006; Turbulence will be 10 years old. Despite the expansion of our projects, the acceleration of our support for net artists, and the valuable resources we provide in our networked_performance blog and New American Radio archive, NRPA has seen a decline in its operating support. As a result, much of our hard work forgoes compensation. Of equal concern is the dual role our server is forced to perform: archiving work produced since 1996 and supporting new commissions that require cutting edge technologies and later versions of its current software. It's time for a new server!
We need your support. Please help us preserve our archives and support emerging artists and technologies. Numerous Turbulence artists have generously donated DVDs, CDs, archival prints, T-Shirts and more. Choose from this impressive array or simply make a donation today.
Condition of Emergence
D>Art.06 is the ninth edition of Australia's premier screen and digital media arts festival. This year's festival will feature new and experimental video and web art as well as works using mobile technologies presented in a month-long program of screenings, a forum and an exhibition at the Sydney Opera House Studio and Exhibition Hall in April 2006.
Under the theme Condition of Emergence, dLux media arts is now calling for works in the following categories of D>Art.06: D>Art.06 Screen: Experimental video works with a maximum duration of 15 minutes; D>Art.06 Web: Online works suitable for exhibition in a gallery environment; D>Art.06 Locative/Mobile: Artworks specifically made with or for mobile technologies. The nature of the artwork may range from video to games to locative and social networking applications.
All works submitted must have been completed in 2005 or 2006.
The call for entries closes on February 18th 2006. Any entries not received by this date will not be accepted.
For more information, detailed entry conditions and to submit your work to D>Art.06, please visit http://www.dlux.org.au/dart06


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For those who may not have heard, there is training for SQL Professionals called SQL Cruise. You can find more info here.
There is a bit of interesting news for an upcoming cruise. There is a contest asking you to elaborate your mad SQL Skills and how you saved the day. The contest is sponsored by Idera. Here's the problem as I see it with that contest though. In order to participate you have to enter through Idera's facebook page. I'm not a fan of that site. I don't have an account and I won't be signing up – not even for SQL Cruise. For any of you who are interested – enjoy and good luck. Believe me, I was stoked about the contest until I read that blurb about having to submit via Facebook.


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A well-kept fiscal secret
Bloomberg News published a new round of polling data last night, most of it relating to the economy and the larger fiscal debate. The results are largely in line with expectations – most Americans prefer President Obama's debt-reduction plans over Republicans', and would like Congress to delay the sequester to avoid hurting the economy.
But there was one question in the poll that struck me as especially important: "Let's turn to the federal budget deficit. This is the amount the government spends that is more than the amount it takes in from taxes and other revenue. Is it your sense that this year the deficit is getting bigger or getting smaller, or is it staying about the same as last year?"
I put together this chart to help highlight the Bloomberg results. A 62% majority believe the deficit is getting bigger, 28% believe the deficit is staying roughly the same, and only 6% believe the deficit is shrinking.
In other words, in the midst of a major national debate over America's finances, 90% of Americans are wrong about the one basic detail that probably matters most in the conversation, while only 6% – 6%! – are correct.
For the record, last year, over President Obama's first four years, the deficit shrunk by about $300 billion. This year, the deficit is projected to be about $600 billion smaller than when the president took office. We are, in reality, currently seeing the fastest deficit reduction in several generations.
And yet, 90% of Americans don't believe the demonstrable, incontrovertible, entirely objective truth. It's worth pondering why.
Public ignorance on this scale is, to my mind, understandable given the political conversation. Literally every day, Republican officials proclaim that the deficit is spiraling out of control, threatening the fate of Western Civilization As We Know It. The media often fails to play a constructive role, with news organizations playing along, telling the public that the deficit is necessarily a bad thing, and that policymakers have a responsibility to address it immediately.
Indeed, for the typical American news consumer, I imagine there's an assumption that comes alongside the fiscal debate: "The deficit must be getting bigger in a hurry, otherwise it'd be stupid for Washington to invest so much time and energy on this issue, instead of other pressing matters."
But the facts are the facts, even if only 6% of the country is aware of them.


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Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson
When noted collector Ron Pratte consigned his Tucker #1043 at this past weekend's Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, there was speculation that it could achieve a new world record for the famed make. Tucked within the auction company's 5000 Series, or best-of-the-best, the Tucker didn't just surpass the old record of $1,127,500, it completely smashed it with a final tally of $2.915 million.
Accordingly, the Tucker community is brimming with excitement, according to Mike Schutta of the Tucker Historical Foundation.
My E-mail has not stopped since Saturday. The price was pretty amazing. This sale changes everything with the Tucker. It marks the end of the hopes of many wanna-be Tucker owners. The price of a Tucker is now out of their range. It also will bring in a new group of buyers that only buy the very best. There are only 47 cars left and I believe as many as 30 owners will now have to take a look at their Tucker and ask do they want to continue to own it or would they rather be living on a beach in Maui. Remember, there is still a guy out there that was bidding against the winner of this auction and was willing to pay over 2.8 million to own a Tucker. I know several owners that will take that in a heartbeat.
Final hammer price on the Tucker was $2.65 million. A 10 percent buyer's premium brought the total sale price to $2.915 million, making it the top seller at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale event.
As for the rest of the Ron Pratte-consigned cars discussed earlier, they all hit the sold column. The 1947 Bentley Mark VI with coachwork by Franay was second to the Tucker during Barrett-Jackson's week-long sale, with a total sale price of $2,750,000. Another $225,500 traded hands for Pratte's 1957 De Soto Adventurer convertible, while his pair of 2007 Shelby Mustangs (coupe and convertible) sold for $90,750.
It turns out Ron Pratte consigned a total of 15 vehicles; all sold, and only one sold as a charity auction item. The rest of the Pratte fleet and includes a 1957 Chevy Nomad, which sold at no reserve for $80,300; a 1969 Ford Mustang 428 CJ, which sold at no reserve for $79,200; a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 428 SCJ, which sold at no reserve for $99,000; a 1967 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III, which sold at no reserve for $126,500; a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible, which sold at no reserve for $158,400; a 1937 Ford Custom Woody, which sold at no reserve for $154,000; a 1941 Willys Americar Custom, which sold at no reserve for $198,000; a 1968 Shelby G.T. 500 convertible, which sold at no reserve for $220,000; a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 custom, which sold at no reserve for $1,000,000; and a 1969 Chevy Camaro SS Baldwin-Motion, which sold at no reserve for $275,000.
For more results from the auction, visit Barrett-Jackson.com.


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Student or Learner
I'm wondering if staff members, contributors and administrators have come up with a UsingEnglish book. Like a book that summarizes or contains every detail about grammar, style, usage, puctuation, and all. Or a book that contains pretty much everything in this forum/ask-a-teacher. I think a book made exclusively by UsingEnglish would DEFINITELY help learners of English especially those who don't have computers or those who don't have time to surf the net in other countries. And people won't have a hard time picking the best grammar/English book in a bookstore considering that there are more and more publishers and writers who really are not good in English, hence, learners get confused and they don't know which book is really good and credible. Some are deceiving. Some books have incomplete information. Some just have good covers and lay-outs. I guess coming up with a UsingEnglish book is the best idea.


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2011 has had more blockbuster AAA video game releases than any other year ever. It made this year's voting process extremely difficult – even just narrowing it down to the nominees was a monumental task. After much deliberation and a painstaking staff voting process, here's PlayStation LifeStyle 2011 Game of the Year.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an epic in every sense of the word. Bethesda has crafted an open world with fantasy rife throughout. The game's magic isn't in the sorcery, the tale, or even the combat – Skyrim is about freedom. Skyrim is what you make of it, and what you take from it. Whether you're a mage, a knight, a thief, or some sort of combination of it all, no two quests are alike, and no two experiences are the same. Skyrim's world is as unforgiving and brutal as it is beautiful, and every inch of it is begging to be explored and conquered.
Today, most games are done and over after 8 hours of gameplay. With Skyrim, you could play for 100 and have barely scratched the surface. It's flawed in many ways, but the wealth of content and variety is more than enough to award it with the 2011 Game of the Year award.
Runners Up:
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Portal 2
- Batman: Arkham City
- LittleBigPlanet 2


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Nearly one week since a 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Napa, the city is back up and running.
Wineries and businesses are hoping tourists continue to show up this Labor Day weekend, and one popular hotel is enlisting help from Southern California.
A chance to snap a picture with the Stanley Cup brought hockey fans out to the Westin Verasa hotel.
"It's just exciting for it to be hockey, and that's my the sport I love and being able to help Napa and my fellow citizens," Napa resident Evan Darlington said.
The hotel was yellow tagged after the quake but is now back open with a limited inventory of rooms.
The former San Jose Sharks general manager and current Los Angeles Kings GM owns a ranch in Sonoma.
He donated time with the cup as part of an earthquake relief effort.
"Since the earthquake, we turned it now into a little bit of a fundraiser," Westin Verasa Napa General Manager Don Shindle said. "So, we're asking people who are to take their picture with the cup to donate $5 at a minimum into the cup, and the actual LA Kings will match all of the donations and all of the money will go to the Napa earthquake relief fund."
Napa officials estimate that 95 percent of the restaurants are back open.


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Flow Helps to Turn Wounded Warriors into Certified Waterjet OperatorsSeptember 1, 2013
Flow Intl., Kent, WA, via its partnership with Workshops for Warriors, announced that the first class of Flow-certified waterjet-cutting-system operators has completed a 2.5-day training course at the Workshops for Warriors facility in San Diego, CA. According to the organization's website, 87 veterans have graduated from its programs with a 100-percent placement rate, and another 241 veterans are currently in training. In January 2013, Flow provided the facility with a Mach 2c waterjet-cutting system with Dynamic Waterjet taper control, HyPlex Prime 55,000-psi pump and FlowMaster intelligent control software.
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COLETO, BATTLE OF. The battle of Coleto, the culmination of the Goliad Campaign of 1836, occurred near Coleto Creek in Goliad County on March 19 and 20, 1836. Originally called "the battle of the prairie" and "la batalla del encinal [oak grove] del Perdido [Creek]," it was one of the most significant engagements of the Texas Revolution. The battle, however, cannot properly be considered as isolated from the series of errors and misfortunes that preceded it, errors for which the Texas commander, James W. Fannin, Jr., was ultimately responsible. The most exasperating decision confronting Fannin was whether to abandon Goliad after having fortified it, and if so, when. He had already been informed of Gen. José de Urrea's advancing Mexican army by Plácido Benavides, after the defeat of Texas forces under Francis W. Johnson and James Grant at the battles of San Patricio and CreekAgua Dulce. The Mexican advance caused the Texans to abandon the port of Copano, thus making Goliad considerably less important strategically, as Fannin knew. He had received word that the Alamo had fallen as well. Still, he continued to fortify Fort Defiance, as he christened the La Bahía presidio, and awaited orders from superiors to abandon the site, knowing also that a retreat would not be well received among his men, who were eager to confront the Mexicans.
More immediately consequential to the battle of Coleto was Fannin's dispatching Amon B. King's men and then William Ward and the Georgia Battalion to Refugio, a move primarily induced by the activities of Carlos de la Garza and his rancheros, who were operating as advance cavalry for General Urrea. Not only did the decision to send Ward and King into Urrea's known path dangerously divide the Goliad garrison, thus reducing by about 150 the men Fannin would be able to bring against Urrea at Coleto Creek, but the move became the main reason Fannin waited so long to abandon Goliad. He refused to do so until he learned of King and Ward's fate, even after he received Sam Houston's order to fall back to Victoria. Since King had taken the Goliad garrison's wagons and teams with him to Refugio, however, Fannin delayed his retreat further, awaiting the arrival of Albert C. Horton's men from Guadalupe Victoria, who were bringing needed carts and twenty yokes of oxen garnered by army quartermaster John J. Linn. Accounts are not in agreement, but Horton apparently arrived by March 16. In addition, by capturing virtually all of Fannin's couriers sent to find King and Ward, Urrea learned the details of the Goliad commander's plans and schemed accordingly. Fannin, however, was unable to find out his opponent's true strength or position, though on March 17 Horton's cavalry did discover Col. Juan Morales approaching with the Jiménez and San Luis battalions, 500 veterans of the battle of the Alamo whom Antonio López de Santa Anna had sent from Bexar to reinforce Urrea.
Fannin finally learned of King and Ward's defeat in the battle of Refugio from Hugh McDonald Frazer on March 17, but he still did not order the retreat to Victoria until the next day. March 18 was spent instead in a series of skirmishes between Horton's cavalry and Urrea's advance forces, which by then had reached Goliad. Fannin, thinking the fort was about to be besieged, kept the garrison on alert and attempted no retreat even that night, the result of a council decision based on Horton's observations. During this delay the oxen, which were to be hitched to the carts made ready for the removal to Victoria, were left unfed.
At last the Texans began their retreat, by 9:00 A.M. on March 19 under a heavy fog. Fannin insisted on taking nine cumbersome artillery pieces of various calibers and about 1,000 muskets, though he neglected to take enough water and food for more than a few meals. The carts were heavily loaded, the hungry oxen were tired and unruly, and progress was slow. Urrea, expecting to lay siege to the fort, was unaware of Fannin's departure until 11:00 A.M. But the Texans forfeited about an hour of their lead while crossing the San Antonio River; a cart broke down, and the largest cannon fell into the river and had to be fished out. Another valuable hour was lost when Fannin ordered the oxen detached for grazing after the column had proceeded about a mile past Manahuilla Creek. Jack Shackelford, Burr H. Duval, and Ira Westover protested this stop, arguing that the column should not rest until reaching the protection of the Coleto Creek timber. Shackelford particularly noted his commander's contempt for the Mexican army's prowess and his disbelief that Urrea would dare follow them-an assumption apparently common among Fannin's men.
Urrea had quickly left Goliad without his artillery and the full complement of his force in order to narrow Fannin's two-hour lead. Mexican sources indicate that he set out with eighty cavalrymen and 360 infantrymen. He discovered through his mounted scouts the location of Fannin's column and that the rebel force was considerably smaller than supposed, information that prompted him to return 100 infantrymen to Goliad to help secure Presidio La Bahía and escort the artillery ordered to join him as soon as possible. Horton's approximately thirty cavalrymen served as advance guards on all sides of Fannin's column. The unalert rear guard, however, which included Hermann Ehrenberg, failed to detect the Mexican cavalry. Meanwhile, the Texans had scarcely resumed the march after resting the oxen before another cart broke down; its contents had to be transferred to another wagon. Fannin then sent Horton to scout the Coleto Creek timber, now in sight, when the Mexican cavalry emerged from behind them. Upon overtaking the lumbering Texan position at about 1:30 P.M., the Mexican commander ordered his cavalry to halt Fannin's advance toward the protective timber. Fannin set up a skirmish line with artillery while the column attempted to reach Coleto Creek, about two miles distant.
Perceiving the danger, he then formed his men into a moving square and continued toward the closer timber of Perdido Creek, which was less than a mile away when the Texans were overtaken by Mexican cavalry. Caught in a valley some six feet below its surroundings, the Texans were trying to get to the more defensible higher ground about 400 to 500 yards distant, when their ammunition cart broke down. While Fannin called a council to determine the feasibility of taking what ammunition they could and reaching the timber, Urrea, seeing his advantage, attacked.
With little water, and situated in an open prairie covered with high grass that occluded vision of their enemy, Fannin's men made ready their defense. Their hollow square was three ranks deep. Each man received three or four muskets. Bayonets, rifles, more than forty pairs of pistols, and abundant ammunition complemented this arsenal. The San Antonio Greys and Red Rovers formed the front line; Duval's Mustangs and others, including Frazer's Refugio militia, formed the rear. The left flank was defended by Westover's regulars, the right by the Mobile Grays. The artillery was placed in the corners (except when moved as needed), and Fannin assumed a command position in the rear of the right flank. In addition, an outpost of sharpshooters formed around Abel Morgan's hospital wagon, which had become immobilized earlier when an ox was hit by Mexican fire.
Soon after Urrea's cavalry managed to stop Fannin's retreat, the Mexican general amassed his troops and attacked the square. The rifle companies under Morales assaulted the left, the grenadiers and part of the San Luis Battalion charged the right under Urrea's direct supervision, the Jiménez Battalion under Col. Mariano Salas attacked the front, and Col. Gabriel Núñez's cavalry charged the rear.
Sources differ widely about the numbers of men involved on March 19. Fannin defended his position with about 300 men. Urrea wrote that he had eighty cavalry and 260 infantry at the time the Texans were overtaken, a figure confirmed by Peña, who also stressed that most of the Mexican troops were Alamo veterans. Many Texas sources give unrealistically high numbers for Urrea's pursuit force. Clearly the Mexican general set out with only a small force of veteran troops to ensure catching Fannin, and left orders for a larger force, including artillery, to follow and aid in battling the Texans once they were caught. It seems likely that Urrea had between 300 and 500 men when he overtook Fannin, and after receiving reinforcements by morning, March 20, he had between 700 and 1,000.
The battle of Coleto lasted until after sunset on March 19. The Texans made effective use of their bayonets, multiple muskets, and nine cannons; their square remained unbroken. Dr. Joseph H. Barnard recorded that seven of his comrades had been killed and sixty wounded (forty severely), Fannin among them. The Mexican general was impressed with both the "withering fire of the enemy" and their ability to repulse his three charges. Ironically, Urrea retired because of ammunition depletion. His casualties were heavy as well, though accounts vary widely. He then positioned snipers in the tall grass around the square and inflicted additional casualties before Texan sharpshooters were able to quell these attacks by firing at the flashes illuminating the darkness. Ultimately, the Texans under Fannin suffered ten deaths on March 19.
Fannin's men hardly felt defeated and anxiously awaited Horton's return with reinforcements from Guadalupe Victoria. None came, however, for Horton was unable to cut through the Mexican lines. William Ward and the Georgia Battalion, defeated in the battle of Refugio, were close enough to hear the Coleto gunfire during their retreat to Victoria, but were exhausted and hungry. Urrea knew from captured couriers that Ward and Fannin would try to rendezvous at Victoria, so with the aid of Carlos de la Garza's men, he kept the Georgia Battalion isolated in the Guadalupe riverbottom until they surrendered. At the Coleto battlefield, Urrea posted detachments at three points around Fannin's square to prevent escape and kept the Texans on stiff watch throughout the night with false bugle calls.
Fannin's position became critical during the night because the lack of water and inability to light fires made treating the wounded impossible; the situation was made even more unbearable by a cold and rainy norther. The cries of the wounded demoralized everyone. The lack of water, which was required to cool and clean the cannons during fire, also guaranteed that the artillery would be ineffective the next day, especially considering that the artillerists had sustained a high number of casualties. Furthermore, ammunition was low. A council among Fannin and his officers weighing these facts concluded that they could not sustain another battle. The proposition to escape to the Perdido or Coleto creek timber under dark and before Urrea received reinforcements was rejected, since after much debate the men unanimously voted not to abandon the wounded, among whom the unwounded all had friends or relatives. They therefore began digging trenches and erecting barricades of carts and dead animals in preparation for the next day's battle. By the time this was completed, the Mexican position had been reinforced with munitions, fresh troops, and two or three artillery pieces from Goliad. Urrea placed his artillery on the slopes overlooking the Texan position and grouped for battle at 6:15 A.M., March 20.
After the Mexican artillery had fired one or possibly two rounds, Fannin was convinced that making another stand would be futile. Another consultation among his officers produced the decision to seek honorable terms for surrender for the sake of the wounded, and to hope the Mexicans would adhere to them. Fannin's men apparently drafted terms of surrender guaranteeing that they would be considered prisoners of war, that their wounded would be treated, and that they sooner or later would be paroled to the United States. But Urrea could not ratify such an agreement; he was bound by Santa Anna's orders and congressional decree to accept no terms other than unconditional surrender. He made it clear to Fannin in person that he could offer only to intercede on the Texans' behalf with Santa Anna. The extant document of capitulation, signed by Benjamin C. Wallace, Joseph M. Chadwick, and Fannin, shows that the Texas commander surrendered his men "subject to the disposition of the supreme government"; but Fannin apparently did not make this fact clear to his men, since survivors' accounts indicate that the Texans were led to believe they were surrendering honorably as prisoners of war and would be returned to the United States. This discrepancy is significant only in light of the ultimate fate of Fannin's command. Nevertheless, traditional Texan renditions inaccurately imply some insidious conspiracy in the surrender episode.
Those Texans able to walk were escorted back to Goliad. Texas physicians were made to care for the Mexican wounded to the neglect of their own men. Many of the Texas wounded were not transported to Goliad for three days; Fannin himself was left on the field for two. Urrea, meanwhile, continued his advance to secure Guadalupe Victoria, from where he wrote Santa Anna recommending clemency for the Goliad prisoners. One week after Fannin's surrender, however, Santa Anna bypassed Urrea and ordered Col. José Nicolás de la Portilla, the commander at Goliad, to carry out the congressional decree of December 30, 1835, that captured armed rebels must be executed as pirates. Fannin's entire command, together with William Ward and the Georgia Battalion, was shot in the Goliad Massacre on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836.
Although the battle of Coleto is usually considered meaningful only as a prologue to the massacre, it does have separate significance. The sequence of events underscores the tragedy of Fannin's inability to make timely decisions crucial for success. This disadvantage was worsened by his disrespect for the capabilities of his enemy and a reluctance, common in the Texas army, to coordinate campaigns. Urrea, by contrast, showed skill in staying alert to Fannin's plans, keeping the Texans inside the presidio an extra day, pursuing and catching them by taking advantage of every opportunity, and isolating Ward's men near Victoria while successfully battling Fannin's command at Coleto Creek. Still, the Texans, though most were relatively untrained volunteers, obeyed their commanders and withstood the onslaught of seasoned enemy troops. The intensity of this battle produced heroism on both sides.
The battle's greatest significance, however, remains bound up in its consequences. Urrea's victory gained him greater esteem in the army but also incurred the jealousy of other generals, especially Santa Anna, who had only recently suffered through his difficult victory at the Alamo. Ironically, the triumph caused overconfidence among Mexican leaders, who, like Santa Anna, now believed the campaign against the rebellion to be nearing a successful conclusion. Finally, it was the Goliad Massacre and not the defeat and surrender at Coleto Creek that soured United States opinion against Mexico and gave Houston and the Texas army the second half of the rallying cry that inspired victory at the battle of San Jacinto: "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" The assumed location of the Coleto battlefield is now maintained as Fannin Battleground State Historic Site by the Texas Historical Commission and is near Fannin, Texas (once called Fanning's Defeat), on U.S. Highway 59 between Goliad and Victoria.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Going Pee
The decision to go pee wasn't made easily. I knew that by stopping, it meant unpacking all the gifts, getting the chair out, then repacking the chair and the gifts around it. But sometimes one makes a decision out of pure necessity. I'm getting older - and everyone knows there is a reason older men never wear beige pants. So, I had to go, we had to stop.
Joseph helped Joe get the gifts out and then the chair out. I hopped in and we went into Walmart. I went straight tot he bathroom, Joseph went straight to MacDonalds. All was accomplished. We headed back to the car, him full, me dry, the world was good. I then got into the car and sat and waited while the chair was reloaded and the gifts, which had been moved from the trunk to the body of the car, were moved back to make space again.
A creeping sense of guilt took me over. When they got back in the car I said, to myself in a stage whisper, 'The only time I have difficulties with having a disability is when it inconveniences others.' I said it and I meant it. All the work it took to get the chair out and then in again at that moment bothered me. I don't take the work that my disability places on Joe's shoulders, and in this case Joseph's too, for granted. The words were out of my mouth and in the air.
All Joseph said was 'What?' with a kind of incredulous tone of voice. Joe never said anything. I knew that I'd made them both uncomfortable. I'd placed on them the feelings that I imagined they were having, I'd made them both into people they weren't. Neither, clearly, had been as bothered by stopping as I thought they might have been. My issue became their issue. That wasn't fair.
I wonder if sometimes I, and maybe others, imbue into the world attitudes that aren't there. I wonder if we off load our own feelings into the way we perceive others feelings? I wonder if sometimes I am the source of the attitudes I perceive around me. I try to be 'jouranlistic' in how I see the world, but I wonder if that's even remotely possible. I don't know. But I do know that I got this one wrong and made others uncomfortable. I'd invited others to my pity party and they didn't come.
Maybe a car stuffed with wrapped presents had another gift that didn't need unwrapping.
5 comments:
- Shan said...
Yeah it's not as big a deal as you think. Everybody needs a bathroom stop sometime and some of them are going to be damned inconvenient! My husband has a kidney disease and can't drive for more than about an hour before he's busting at the seams. Once we were crawling down the I-5 passing Seattle at 5 PM on the day before Thanksgiving...just think about that for a second. There we were, on the freeway at a dead stop, three lanes and two hundred meters from an exit that would lead us straight into downtown. "I gotta go. I'm so sorry, but...I gotta." We looked around the car for a water bottle he could fill up - nothing. Amazingly we managed to creep across the three lanes of traffic and along the shoulder to the exit, and around downtown long enough to find a Starbucks (.7 seconds) so he could go. It added forty minutes to the trip, all told, but who the hell cares? What - I want him to blow his kidney transplant or get an infection, just for forty minutes?
This is why we surround ourselves with people who love us.
- 10 December 2011 at 11:38
I support a woman who uses a walker, and sometimes a wheelchair (depending on how she is feeling on a given day) to get around. When she gets in and out of the van, we use a step stool to manage the gap from the ground to the seat. Aside from her requiring some help to get in/out of the van, she also struggles with pain due to arthritis on a daily basis.
Without fail every time she gets in and out of the van, she looks at me and says, "The things I go through to go places" and I smile and say, "You are a woman with places to go and people to see, so you gotta do what you gotta do!" Then we both chuckle and go on our way.
The other day we were making our usual banter while getting in the van, and she looked at me and said, "I know I complain about doing this, but I'm not going to let some pain and discomfort stop me from doing what I want to do!"I looked at her and smiled, hoping that I too would have this positive attitude should I ever be in such a situation. Before closing her door we both chimed, "Places to go, people to see", at the exact same moment. We both laughed and drove off to our destination.
I sometimes think of how often I decide not to do something because I am too lazy to get myself up off the couch and out the door; and yet here is this woman pushing herself, mentally and physically to do so every day. It kinda puts things into perspective.
- 10 December 2011 at 12:53
sometimes I am able to comment to your posts instantly. These are the times the ideas,thoughts and feelings in your posts are sorted in my head too and I can take a clear position.
Other posts you are writing are very very difficult. They get my world and my feelings jumbled until I dont know what to believe and think...
This post is one of those posts as well as the post about the differently human (Thanks Inspector Lewis). I was glad that you mentioned that you did not feel confortable with any of those lables.
Basicly they both make me rethink why I sometimes feel unconfortable around other people. While the biggest issue of my disabilty is that I sometimes feel like my head is exploding and my lung and my heart hurts and that makes me slow. And not the discomfort of being slow and not working fast enough and slowing others down or taking up resources from able bodies persons.
Very very difficult but good to rethink this thoughts. I am glad others feel that way too. And I am glad you voice it.
- 10 December 2011 at 16:17
- Displaced said...
Hey Dave,
I think you are really on the money about putting our/your attitudes onto others. I too try to function as an unbiased observer but I know that I too fail.
The way a person describes their assumptions about another person's attitude says FAR MORE about the describer than it does of the subject of their description. Phew...
I try to assume that most people are just trying to do their best.
As regards the help we/you receive from others I think we/you need to remember the gifts we give in other ways. the emotional balance we provide, the insight... there are many many ways to give! Many many ways to share the load.
- 11 December 2011 at 05:33
I do not use a wheelchair but I do hate to inconvenience people. Recently my sister asked me to help her select an online gift for her friend. I was able and happy to do so and even paid for it since I have a better income than she and felt I owed her for something else. She was not pleased and said, "can't I do anything for you?". It made me realize that we need to let others do things for us. It makes them complete and connected to us. It's love. I bet that's how your family feels too.
- 12 December 2011 at 08:53


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UH Manoa chancellor appoints climate commissionUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU - A 15-member blue-ribbon panel that includes top scientists and environmental experts of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa will study the impact of climate change and global warming on Hawai'i, and recommend strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Hawaiian Islands and from the Manoa campus.
"I am appointing the Mānoa Climate Change Commission as a means of demonstrating our commitment to action that mitigates climate change and its consequences for Hawai'i," says Interim Chancellor Denise Eby Konan.
"Temperature increases and consequential sea level rises will have a particularly drastic impact on Hawai'i's ecosystems and standards of living. Our Mānoa campus has a special responsibility for leadership in this area because we possess both the needed scientific expertise and cultural affinity with our natural environment," she said.
The Commission Chair is Lorenz Magaard, Director of the International Center for Climate and Society, Executive Associate Director of the International Pacific Research Center, and Professor of Oceanography in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.
Commission Members include:
- Denise Antolini, Director, Environmental Law Program, and Professor of Environmental Law, William S. Richardson School of Law
- Roger Babcock, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
- Makena Coffman, Graduate Student, Economics
- Gordon Grau, Director of Sea Grant College Program, and Professor of Zoology, College of Natural Sciences
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- Kim Kido, Undergraduate Student, Engineering
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- Peter Mouginis-Mark, Interim Director, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, and Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
- Richard Rocheleau, Director, Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute
- James Roumasset, Professor of Economics, College of Social Sciences
- Thomas Schroeder, Director, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Associate Professor of Meteorology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
- Kapua Sproat, Acting Director, Environmental Law Program, and Visiting Assistant Professor, William S. Richardson School of Law
- Terrence Surles, Researcher, Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute
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PLASMONIC ENHANCEMENT OF CATALYSIS AND SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION by Wei Hsuan Hung A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MATERIALS SCIENCE) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Wei Hsuan Hung
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